Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 51, Number 171, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 29 August 1949 — Page 1
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WEATHER FAIR Indiana: Fair tonight and Tuesday, not much change in temperature.
VOL. 51 No. 171
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SULLIVAN DAILY TIMES MONDAY, AUG. 29. 1949.
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Dying Hurricane Is Moving Into New England NEW YORK, Aug. 29 (UP) A dying hurricane lashed the metropolitan area with winds up to 70 miles per hour today and " drove on toward New England. Power lines were knocked down throughout New York, New Jersey and parts of Long Island. Storm, warnings were posted from Cape Hatteras, N. . C, to Block Island, off the northern tip of Long Island. The weather bureau in New York said warnings probably will be put up along the New England coast to Eastport, Me. . Heavy Damage The storm, which caused an estimated $60,000,000 damage in Florida, would give the entire Eastern seaboard a taste of its fury, the weather bureau said. The storm center reached " a point just west of New York City shortly after daybreak and swept the Manhattan and Long Island areas with 70 mile an hour gusts and sustained winds of 55 to 60 miles an hour. Power lines were reported to be down in numbers of New Jersey shore and Long Island communities. In the East Bronx, all available workmen of the Consolidated Edison Co. were summoned to repair a power break. The storm, which worked toward the north along inland areas after striking Florida last Friday, appeared to be abating as it moved up the coast, the weather bureau said. The storm center moved at about 30 miles an hour. The hurricane already had caused four deaths in Florida and Georgia, left hundreds homeless, and caused millions oi dollars damage in its 1200 mile drive from the south. - Four persons were reported as missing in Delaware Bay near Cape May, N. J., in the storm. The Coast Guard said the four Were aboard a 28 foot fishing 'skiff, : ' ' V'" V;---
War On Flies
Declared Here
The Sullivan Lions Club in cooperation with the County Hardware has declared war on flies. Through the courtesy of the Sherwin-Williams Paint Company a supply of DDT sufficient to do an effective job has been secured. This DDT is on hand at the County Hardware and is free for all who wish it. The only thing that is asked is that the DDT be used. The DDT will be available t:n Tuesday and Wednesday. Get it and use it Flies are carriers for polio and one of the best ways to prevent that dread disease is to kill the carriers. VGet your DDT on Tuesday and Wednesday and use it.
Atiend Jaycee Training School David Giles, president of the Sullivan Junior Chamber of Commerce, James J. McCoskey, Harold Dodd, ,and Dr. Noble Sevier attended a state Junior Chamber of Commerce leadership training school Saturday and Sunday at Indiana University. Keynote speaker for the affair was Philip Ebeling, of Dayton, Ohio, a past president of the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce and presently the president of the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce and presently the president of the Ohio State Bar Association. Dean Gavit and Dr. Chenoweth, both of Indiana University, were other speakers for the school. ,
MARRIAGE LICENSE The county clerk, has issued marriage license to tfie following persons: Ann Marlene Dudley of Sullivan, and Irvin L. Raley of Sullivan. Patty Anne Small of Bruceville, and William Lloyd Morris of Sullivan. Velma Francis of Annapolis, HI, and Raymond Richards of Annapolis, 111.
Seek Assailants In Robeson Riot PEEKSKILL, N. Y., Aug.' 29 (UP) State Police sought today the assailants of 11 persons injured in an anti-Communist riot that broke up a scheduled Paul Robeson concert Saturday night.
uetectives naa lists oi names
of persons reportedly involved in
the fist-fighting, stone and bottle
throwing between 300 to 400 war
veterans and the 150 persons assembled to hear the Negro baritone. However, no one had been brought in for questioning, troopers said.
Robeson, who never reached the concert because the fighting began before his arrival, demanded yesterday an investiga
tion to determine who gives
"orders to the American Legion
and Vetf-aus of Foreign Wars. "I am hot going to be frighten
ed by any Legionnaires," he said at press conference in New York.
"They had better be careful." Robeson said state and Federal officials should ' look : carefully
into the activities of the Legion,
VFW and Ku Klux Klan.
Members of the Legion, VFW
and two other veterans organiza
tions staged an anti-Communist
demonstration -near the picnic
scene of the Saturday night con'
cert. The riot flared before the concert got underway and in the fighting that followed, several
automobiles were damaged and
overturned, and 11 persons in jured.
Shelburn School Buildings Okayed
The State Fire Marshal Department has okayed the use of the East Ward and the West
Ward school buildings in Shelburn, Walter Thompson, Curry Township trustee, said today. An inspection of the two buildings was made on August 25 by Bert J. Westover, director of the administrative building council, and R. E. Oliver, construction engineer for the Fire Marshal Department. Because of the extensive damage to the high school at Shelburn it is planned to use the top floor of the East Ward school as a high school. Mr. Thompson said that bids for the reconstruction of thf
high school would be opened at
his office on Sept. 6.
Schricker Says No To Senate Race, But May Change His Mind
FRENCH LICK, Ind., Aug. 29 (UP) Politicians today weighed the importance of Governor Schricker's "thumbs down" remarks in connection with rumors he may rim for theU.S. Senate next year.( The Governor told members and friends of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association last Saturday night he "never expects to be" a Senatorial candidate. "I haven't been conscious of making noises like a candidate," the Governor said in a speech at the concluding banquet of the editor's week-end outing. Schricker made the statement
h in answer to speculation that he
might oppose Republican Sen. Homer E. CaDehart in 1950.
"I am in no sense a candidate land never expect to be," he said. A But observers remembered his I position before the 1948 gubernaf torial campaign when he said he
would not be a. candidate for
L
second term as governor. He war later "drafted" for the job and
said it would be his last public
office. Before the editors concluded their two day session, pot-shots were taken at Capehart and Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan. Ohio , State Auditor Joseph T.
Ferguson, the main speaker, said
Capehart advocated inflation control by" voluntary action of business leaders, then raised the prices of coin phonographs. v He said a $50 price boost on Capehart's coin phonographs may go "a long way toward paying for those $50,000 Republican barbecues that Capehart will campaign with in 1950." Schricker said Vaughan, Mr. Truman's aide, should resign to save the administration embarrassment. "There's no reason why Mr.
Truman should be embarrassed
by a playboy who wants to deal
in deep freezers," the Governor
said.
Ten Killed In Accidents .-. Over Weekend
(By United Press) State Police said today a cartruck collision near Washington yesterday which claimed the lives of a soldier and his two teen age girl companions was the worst in a list of weekend traffic accidents increased by rainy weather. Ten persons were killed on the
highways as two days of rainy weather made the roads slick and cut down visibility.
State Police said the three
young people were killed when their car collided head-on with a truck on U. S. 50 east of Washingtton yesterday. Floyd Ketchum, age 24, Bloomfield, Betty Jane Harmon, age 17, and Virginia Witsman, age 15, both ol
Odon, were killed in the crash.
W. E. Clay, age 48, Houston,
Tex., driver of the truck, was
not hurt but a 15,000 pound compresser being carried on a trail
er was knocked off by the impact. He said the vehicles met in a culvert and he couldn't swing his truck to avoid the oncoming
car. A blinding rainstorm was to blame for the death of Curlie C.
Foster, age 16, Glezen, who was
killed yesterday when the car he was riding in skidded into the path of a truck on U. S. 40 near Straughn. Mrs. William Jones, was in critical condition at the Henry County Hospital at New Castle, as a result of the accident. John B. Clark, age 72", Parker
City, was killed yesterday when he was struck by a bus while walking along Ind. 32 near Parker City, Randolph County. C. E.
Troutamn of Muncie was driving the empty bus when the mishap occurred. Ralph Kratzer, age 48, Muncie, died in St. John's Hospital, Anderson, yesterday from injuries
received Saturday in an accident at Fortville. , . - - .
Paul Baker, age 31, Terre Haute, burned to death near Greencastle Saturday morning after the truck he was driving collided head-on with another truck on U. S. 40. Baker's cargo of paint and varnish burned for several hours before it was ex
tinguished.
Carolyn Haste Weds William Lindley .
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Girl Scout Council Receives New Charter The Sullivan Girl Scout Council today received its 1949-50 charter from the Girl Scout National Headquarters in New York City. The charter authorizes the Sullivan Council to function as an official unit of Girl Scouts of the United States of America' for the next . twelve months. This is the first charter granted to the Sullivan Council under i new plan whereby charters arc ssued in recognition of yearlj achievement. According to Rev.
Homer G. Weisbecker, Council president, volume of member
ship, the number of volunteer leaders and the number of troops as well as the quality of the program for the girls comprise the basis on which charter.
are granted.
In a letter accompanying the harter Mrs. C. Vaughan Fergu
son, Girl Scout national president, congratulated the Sullivan
Council for its work of the prev-w
ious year and stated that the
iharter had been granted on the
basis of the council's annual re-
ort and its accomplishments
during the year. Mrs. Ferguson
pointed out that Girl Scouting is
a nation-wide ana woria-wiae youth movement with great potential power for the strengthening of democracy. She stated that the good work done locally
iy Councils determines the na
tional and international value of Scouting and said that she hoped that before long it would be possible for any girl, in any
part of the country, to be a Girl
Scout if she so desired.
At 4:30 d. m. Sunday. Aueust
21, Miss Carolyn Jeanette Haste,
daughter of Mrs. E. H. Haste.
2107 Washington avenue, Bed-
lord. Ind.. and the late E. H.
Haste, became the bride of William H. Lindley of Sullivan.
The couple was married in the
First Christian Church at Bedford with- the Rev. George L. Florence, pastor of the Sevmour
Christian Church, of f iciating,' Mr.
Lindley is the son of Dr. and Mrs. S. E. Lindley of Sullivan. Palms, baskets of white glad4 ioli, and branch candelabra were the setting for the double ring vows. The bride entered' the church down a white carpeted aisle. Miss Catherine Keach, or-; ganist, played "Because," "I T,ove You Truly", "Claire DeLune", and "At Dawning," in addition to the traditional wed-,
ding processional and recessional
During the exchange of vows, she played "The Lords Prayer." Miss Sharon Richardson of Terre Haute, the bride's room
mate at Indiana State Teachers
College, was maid-of-honor
Bridesmaids were Mrs. Kay Montgomery and Miss Harriett
ryree of Bedford.
Robert B." Campbell of Terre Haute was best man, and the guests were seated by . Robert
Newland of Bedford, the bride
grooms roommate at Indiana
University, and Lamont Dehl of Terre Haute, his roommate at
Indiana State Teachers College.
Carolyn's gown was of white
lace with a net yoke bodice. Seed pearls were used as trim on a
triple bertha and the sleeves. The
bodice was fitted and fashioned
with a basque waist. The sleeves
were long and extended into
points over the hands. The skirt fell into a traditional train.
She carried a shower bouauet
of white rosebuds centered with
a white orchid and white ma-
line.
The maid-of-honor and bridesmaids wore matching gowns of
orchid. The gowns were organdy over taffetta and were fashioned with a bertha and full skirt.
They carried cascading bouquets
Contributions For Shelburn Fund
Contributions to the Shelburn
Community Club Tornado Relief
Fund: Arthur E. Watson, Detroit, ,
Mich $25.00
Geo. C. Farr, Farmersburg,
R. R. 1 , 40.00
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Edward Mahan Funeral Sunday Funeral services were conductad Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'
clock at the Billman Funeral
chapel for Edward Burris Ma
han, 75 years old, who died al the home of his step-siser, Mrs.
Laura Lemmo'n on Sullivan R 1
Friday night at 6:30 p.m. Services were in charge of the Rev.
r. M. Jennings. Burial was in
the Webb Cemetery.
VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE PLAYER The ballot for the most popular player in the softball league appears in The Timed tonight for the last time. Deadline for casting your ballot is midnight Wednesday night with the trophy being awarded on Fridaynight As was done last year the trophy is being awarded by the Sullivan Junior Chamber of Commerce and donated by the K. B. Smith Jewelry Store. Shang Moore won last year. Voting must be done on the ballot that appears in The Daily Times. Name your choice and then either send the ballot to The Times or hand it In at Legion Field. Remember, all votes must be in by midnight Wednesday.
Boys In Blue Swap Stories At Encampment " By Boyd Gill
United Press Staff Correspondent
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 29. (U.R)
Six frail old veterans of the
Civil War sat in their wheel
nhnirs today and sDun yarns of
Ahtietam and Bull Run at the 83rd and last encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. : ,The six men, all over 100, were the only men in condition to at
tend the GAR's last meeting.
Only 16 GAR members survive
of the mighty armies that Gen. U S. Grant led in the war between the states. .
Over 400,000. : In the 1890's the Grand Army
numbered more than 400,000 men.
It was the first of the powerful
veterans organizations founded to maintain the welfare of the men who fought for their country and their survivors. During its peak of power, the GAR was influential in six Presidential elections. Long parades of "Boys in Blue" marked Memorial Day celebrations in every town. But every year since the turn of the century, their ranks thin
ned and today, only the six had the strength to attend the meeting. The Grand Army was being mustered out to eternity in the same city where it was founded 83 years ago. The six veterans were bearing up well under the strain of travel and excitement.. Four had travT eled over half the continent to attend. Commander-in-Chief Theodore A. Penland, age 100, Portland, Ore., said he was having "a wonderful time." Too Many Bosses. But Charles L. Chappel, age 102, Long Beach, Cal.. fussed that
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able.
Joseph Clovese, age 105,
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unt Mutoaranneu vitw,
ut On Display; Two Prober:
re Included In Signs
Harris Named Co-Chairman Of Red Committee Judge Norval K. Harris of the
Sullivan Circuit Court, and Paul Robeson, Negro baritone, have been appointed co-chairmen of a country-wide organization to oppose the conspiracy trial of top
Communist officials, a New York dispatch has stated. The commit
tee was named in New York.
Harris and Robeson said the
committee is composed of "public
figures of varied political and religious beliefs" who oppose the "attempt to try in a court of law a political philosophy, judgment
on which can properly be passed only by the electorate."
The announcement said the
committee will stage meetings, publish literature, sponsor touring speakers and raise funds in behalf of the Communist leaders on trial. There are eleven Communists on trial. A twelfth was indicted but his trial was postponed. They are all charged with conspiracy to advocate forcible overthrow of the government. Harris recently made a speech in Toledo, Ohio, in which he called the trial a travesty on Am
erican justice and criticized the4putting through the House the manna, In ...U:nU T. . J mrj; I c
was handling the case.
By Warren Duffee United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. (UP) Several photographs of President Trumanr one signed, and autographed pictures of two of his Senate inquisitors adorn the walls of "five percenter" James V. Hunt's office. The pictures include those of 31 Senators or former Senators and 35 House members. This was disclosed today when Roger Q. White, attorney for the ailing "influence salesman," threw open Hunt's plush offices for inspection by newsmen and photographers. The pictures include those of two members of the Senate subcommittee investigating five percenters Sens. Joseph R. McCarthy, R., Wis., and Margaret Chase Smith, R., Me. Both were autographed. '
une pnotograpn oi Maj. uen. Harry H. Vaughan, who will testify tomorrow in a climax to the five per center inquiry, was ' inscribed: "To My Good Friend, Col. James V. Hunt, with ail good wishes, H. H. Vaughan, Brig. Gen. U. S. A."
Army Engineers Will Be Probed, Sabath Predicts
Robeson has called Russia "the
country I love best" and stated
WASHINGTON, Aug., 29 (U.R) Chairman Adolph J. Sabath, D, III, of the House Rules Committee predicted today that the Army Engineers will be the ;:No. 1 target" of the forthcoming Congressional lobby investigation. "They operate the most powerful lobby in Washington and have been able to override President Roosevelt and President Truman," he said. "They are actually the indirect representatives of the power interests."
Sabath played a leading role in
of 1
SPrJIiSclt siScliool Wins Contest
penenced on his trip. Albert Woolson. age 102. Du-
luth, Minn., felt "fine" when he
arrived, tie Borrowed a enitnr
from the hillbilly band that
greeted him and strummed a couple of bars from "B nffaln
Gals, Are You Comin' n t
night."
lobby investigation resolution.
Sponsored by Rep. Frank Buchanan, p., Pa., it called for a special committee to examine the Federal ageifcies and private interests seeking to Influence legislation - - .
Fair Tickets For 4-H'ers Available
All Sullivan County 4-H'prs
and leaders, who plan to en in
the Indiana State Fair. Thurs
day, Friday, or Saturday of this week, may eet free tir-tots
the County Extension Office, Court House. These tickets will permit
4-H'ers to enter the fair grounds any of these three days.
John L Robbins
Funeral Tuesday
Funeral services for John L.
Robbins, age 95, will be held at the Mt. Calvary Church on Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Bur
ial will be in the adjoining cem
etery.
Mr. Robbins died Saturday af
ternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the residence, 814 South 18th Street,
Terre Haute.
INJURED TEENAGERS ARE IjMPROVING
The three teenagers injured in
an automobile accident south of
Carlisle Thursday night are im
proving, attendants at the Mary Sherman Hospital said today. The
three are Miss Sally Jones and
Miss Shirlene Baccus, , both of Oaktown, and William Abrams, of Carlisle, ,R. 2.
FIRE NEARLY UNDER CONTROL MC CALL, Ida., Aug. 29 (U.R) Fire fighters expected to bring a major fire in the Payette National Forest under control today. Forest Supervisor John T. Matthews said the fire, known as the South Fork blaze, has not gained ground since Saturday. The fire was one of four in Idaho which destroyed 29,000 acres of timber in one of the worst outbreaks the state had ever experienced.
The special committee probably will be set up by Speaker Sam Rayburn, D., Tex., when the House returns from its present vacation, Sabath said in an interview. He said that it will per-
The Sullivan Christian Church form a "duty that should have Sunday School won their contest been undertaken lone ago."
wun innsuan churches in Wash
it was
ington and Terre Haute,
announced today.
The local Sunday School increased a slim lead they held going into the last Sunday of the contest with an attendance nf
Sabath explained that Rayburn has held up the appointment of the special committee because there is some possibility that the Senate may want " to make it a joint investigation.
528 at Sunday School yesterday jThat Question will be settled by Harold CampbeU, superintend-' the time House4 returns, he
em oi tne Sunday School, said,saia-
it was the largest Sunday School
attendance outside of on Easter Sunday for the-church. The local Sunday School won by about 75 points over the three month period with the Central Christian Church of Washington second and the Maple Avenue Christian Church of Terre Haute third. Washington turned out 494 for Sunday School yesterday while Terre Haute had slightly more then 300. The Sullivan church has the smallest member
ship of the three churches.
TODAY'S TEMPERATURES
The unofficial temperatures in
Sullivan today were: at 7:30 a.m 65 degrees
at noon 80 degrees cow also was killed.
The Congressional reorganization act requires lobbyists to register with the House clerk nd report their incomes and expenditures periodically. But Sabath said that the reports do not give the necessary information.
BLAME COW FOR MAN'S DEATH MOLINE, 111., Aug. 29 (UP) A cow was blamed for the motorcycle death of Gene Wheeler, age 19 and the serious injury of his wife, Barbara, age 18, of Moline. The couple was riding a motorcycle on the highway a mile east of the city when the cow walked from the side of the road in front of the cycle. The
Report Britain Will Seek Single Currency With U. S.
LONDON, Aug. 29. (UP) In- submitting it to the cabinet.
fnrmprt sources said today that
Britain may propose at the Washington financial talks a single currency for the United States,
Britain, Canada and certain oth
er dominions.
A proposal for merger of the
sterling and dollar areas was believed included in a 15,000-word program for solution of this country's financial ills prepared by Cripps at his country home over the week-end.
The program was submitted to
two extraordinary cabinet meetings today for final government approval. Government ministers
cut short their vacations to at
tend. Some sources described the
meetings as the most important
since the formation of the Labor
government in 1945. . Cripps and Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin will take the lengthy document with them when they sail Wednesday for New York aboard the Mauretania. Cripps consulted Bevin on political aspects of the program before
The program was understood to be divided into two sections short and long-term measures. Informed sources said the short-term proposals include a $400,000,000 reduction in dollar imports this year, an increase in Marshall Plan aid to Britain and possible use of Marshall dollars to buy wheat in Canada. The suggested merging of the dollar and sterling areas with possible introduction of a single currency was reported to be part of the long-term program.
Other long-term suggestions
Prominently displayed on a small table in Hunt's inner office was a framed picture of President Truman with this inscription: "Best Wishes to Col. Jas. V. Hunt, Harry S. Truman.'' The photographs also, include several taken at the Potsdom conference, showing Mr. Truman, British Prime Minister Clemen'. Attlee, Joseph Stalin and others." These were not autographed. Wrote Hunt A third membor of the Senate
subcommittee, Sen. . Karl EX. Mundt, R., S. D., wrote Hunt a "Dear Jim" letter Nov. 17, 1913, thanking Hunt for his congratulations on Mundt's election to the Senate. ' Besides the Congressmen, the mass of photographs coutsmed those of many high-ranking Army officers and such government officials as .Housing. Expediter Tighe E. Woods and Veterans Administrator Carl Gray. The Senators include such leaders, of the Upper Chamber as Republican Leader Keanf.tn S. Wherry, R., Nebr.; Democratic" Whip Francis J.. Myers. D.. Pa :
Sen. Joseph C. O'MaHoncy. D.:
Wyo.; Republican Whip Levere.tt. Saltonstall, R., Mass., and Son. Harlev M. Kilgore, D., W. Va.,. a former chairman of ths old war investigating committee who recently described the five percenter disclosures as "'rotl."- ' House Members House members included Ptn ocratic Leader John W. McCormack, D., Mass.; the late Rep. Walter (Ham) Andrews, R., N. Y., who formerly headed the House Military . Affairs Committee: and Chairman Emanuel Celler, D., N. Y., of the House Judiciary Committee. During the week-end, Huntsubmitted an affidavit in which he denied ever using "improper influence" to help his clients. He said that the most he ever had asked Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan, the President's military aide, to do for him was to get tickets to the Army-Notre Dame football game. Mundt described the affidavit as following a "perjury-proof pattern" and being "highly inconclusive." The Senate . investigators, meanwhile, are studying Justice Department records tp see whether John Maragon, -White House hanger-on, was let off too easy when he tried to sneak perfume oils into this country.. Maragon is another principal figure in the five percenter inquiry.
Indiana Polio Death Toll 58
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 29 (U.R) Indiana's polio death total rose to 58 today as State Board of Health officials recorded three more fatalities and reported a case total of 568. The newest fatalities were Paul
Ross, age 19, West Lafayette; Ro-
were understood to be Dooline of bert F- Griffin, age 30, Howard
commonwealth resources, Amer- i County, and Henry Weil, age 37,
lean capital investment in the British colonies and lower Am
erican tariffs,
Indianapolis.
However, only four new cases
were reported today and no new
Food Minister John Strachey J counties were among those re-
and Fuel Minister Hugh Gaitskell not members of the inner cabinet attended the two-hour morning cabinet meetings. Their
porting polio cases.
Dr. W. C. Anderson of the state board said this year's polio toll in both case incidence and deaths
presence indicated cuts in dollar ( might exceed the year 1940 when purchases of food and oil may Indiana recorded 682 case and have been discussed. 79 deaths.