Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 51, Number 172, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 30 August 1949 — Page 1
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VOL. 51 No. 172
UNITED PRESS SERVICE
SULLIVAN DAILY TIMES- TUESDAY. AUG. 30. 1949.
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Far East Talks To Be Held In Washington By Richard S. Clark United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Aug. 30. (UP) The Foreign Office disclosed today that the chief of its Far Eastern section would fly to Washington next week to join strategy talks paralleling the three-power financial negotiations on Britain's economic plight. M. E. Dening, top expert on Far Eastern problems, will arrive in Washington Sept. 6 to assist in talks between Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Bevin and Acheson were expected to review the situation in China and other eastern regions in talks linked with the British financial crisis. The British delegation to the Anglo-American-Canadian financial talks will submit the proposition that British" expenditures to support non-Communist governments in critical areas are linked closely with U.' S. policy to contain Communism. Some reports indicated that Britain might ask for U. S. help On such fronts. New Element. The new element, was injected into the forthcoming economic conference as Britain's top delegates held last minute talks on a cabinet plan for dealing with the dollar problem. ' Sir Stafford Cripps, Chancellor ' of the Exchequer, returned to his desk at the Treasury for the first time since he left for his rest in Switzerland weeks ago. He conferred with his ranking experts. Bevin, who will sail with Cripps tomorrow night aboard the Mauretania, met with his staff at the Foreign Office.
The four-hour cabinet talks yesterday put an end to rumors that the cabinet was aligned
against Cripps on the devaluation
; issue. Informed sources reported
that the split, If one ever existed,
' vanished in the course J of the
Vneeting, tyith Cripps' view donv ihant. V
The reported agreement amounted to a willingness by the
British to talk devaluation, but not to cheapen the pound unless that was part of a broad program
with compensating concessions to
Britain for immediate losses in
volved.
Golf Pairings Are Announced
The pairings have, been made
for the Elks golf championship of Sullivan County. These matches
should be played on or Sept. 5.
The pairings are as follows: J. Steele and L. Frew; J. Anstead and R. Billman; C. Smith and R. Henderson; C. W. Lucas and J. Anderson; N. Fisher and M. Enochs; S. Brown and A. Page; T. McCann and F. McVickers; A. Reed and C. Engle.
Van Horn Hamstrung Fund, Says Bridges CONCORD, N. H., Aug. 30 (UP) Sen. Styles Bridges, R., N. H., neutral trustee of the United Mine Workers welfare fund. said today Operators' Trustee Ezra Van Horn tried to
'hamstring" the fund.
City Schools Opening Dates,
Assignments
jp
The Senator who draws $35,000 annually as trustee, niach ihe statements in reply to a charge by Van Horn that Bridges and UMW President John L. Lewis had established a fund tliat vas in danger of collapsing. Bridges sided with Lewis in
defending the fund which he described as a "belated attempt to lighten the suffering of those
American (mine) workers." "When Van Horn blocked every move to allow the fund to
function, I voted with John L.
T.ewis to break ho- tie so the
fund could, do its job," Budges said.- "I have certaiilv not always agreed 'vi'vi everything Lewis has done in running the United Mine Workers but that is
none of my business. Lewis runs his union but this fund is completely separated." Bridges, who has been criticized for holding the job as trustee while serving as U. S. Senator, said he "will take any amount of personal and political abuse to help the one fund of which I am trustee to function as it was intended and should work."
All pupils of the Sullivan Citj
.Schools will report to their re-
Bridges also charged that Van spective buildings for enrollHorn attempted to block the jusejment, class organization, am' of the fund for the "humanitar- textbook assignments on Wed-
ian purpose for which it was set nesday morning, September 7, a'
8:30 a.m. All pupils who were not in the Sullivan City School; at the close of last year, or wb' are attending Sullivan school: for the first time this year, ar to report to' their respective building principal at 1:00 p. m on Tuesday, September 6. Al members of the school faculty will report at 9:00 a. m. Tuesday
septemoer e, in tne library a the high school.
Following the pre-enrollmen'
of last spring, all first grader have been assigned to elementiry buildincrs bv hotificatior from the office of the Superintendent of Schools. No other first grader, whether he be one who failed to enroll in the
spring or one who has just mov
ed into the community, will be
accepted at a grade building un
til enrollment has beon firsl
made at the office of the Superintendent. Children who will be six years of age on or before January 1, 1950, are eligible fo? enrollment in the first grade ar
beginners. Children who arc
seven years of age must attend
public schools under the Com
pulsory Attendance Act.
Assignments Cther pupil assignments ar as follows: Elm Park Last year's pupil' will report at Elm Park except Mrs. McKee's fourth graders who were promoted to the fifth grade These pupils will report to the Junior High Grade Building. Junior High Grade Building All pupils of last year will report to the grade . assigned at Junior High Grade Building except sixth graders p)motei to the seventh' grade who will report to the Junior-Senior High School. Old Gymnasium All last year's pupils will report as directed on their last year's report
Bulldogs Working
For Opening Gam
V
Coach Gabor Takals c: the Dugger Bulldogs has been working for the pa ;t two weeks whh twenty-seven boys from last year's squad. A number of additional toys are expected With the opening of school. There is a complete rebuilding to be done before the nponing
game with University ' High cf
Bloomington on Sdpt. 9. Left over from last year's Bulldogs which lost only orui game art three linemen Hii't, Olson and Carr, and Brewer the only returning backfield lettennan.
The other positions will have
"B" team
Vel Insurance J Dividend Blanks ..) Application blanks for . the Decial $2,800,000,000 divider-d vhich the Veterans Administra'ion has declared on National Service Life Insurance ' became available to more than 150.000 Indiana vatenms. of World War 11 starting - Monc'av.
August 29.
Thousands of vetcrani are ex Mvited to throng distribution -vnjpe rliirjnf the fi'rri Hnvs nt
the offering to secure their ap-
the mail. More than 95 pf r cent f all p.x-sfwirmen end wnmen vho served in World War II can anticipate sharing in the diidend. ; 4 Blanks will be distributed It VA offices, postoffices and the leadauarters of all service organizations. M. D. Cummins, Tndiana regional VA Manager, said the regional office in Indipnnoiis mailed out 1,100 packages containing more' than 300,000 blanks over the week"d to have them on hand in VA offices and the local offices of service organizations throughout he state when they opened Monlav morning. Indiana postoffices will have an equal number of blanks available, distributed broueh their own channels. Wallace B. Blue, officer-in-"harge of the Terre Haute VA office at 120 South Seventh Street, said specal arrangements were being made to handle the anticipated flood o2 applicants.
Truman Finds Some More Work For Congress WASHINGTON Aug. 30 (U.R President Truman today. out lined more work for Congress whfch wants to go home. The President called Chairmar Adolph J. Sabath of the Hous Rules Committee to the White
House and said he- wants actior, at this session on pending legislation to:
Create a fair employment practices . committee, expand Socia Security, create a national science foundation, set up a publu
works planning program, gran statehood to Alaska ar.d Hawaii
and provide for a resident commissioner for the Virgin Islands Sabath said afterwards that he told Mr. Truman he will "try tc see what can be done" when thi House returns from a vacation eiu. 21. A few House members had to stay here to hold routine sessions every three days. The first oi these was held today. It lasted only 10 minutes, the shortest session of the year. 1 Meanwhile, a House expenditures committee took off on a 40 day "fact finding" tour of Asia. But Rep. Alvin E. O'Konski, R.. Wis., refused to go along because "Congress spends too much time worrying about other countries and not enought time for the welfare of our own people." When the House resumes fulltime operations, it will have to act on four appropriations bills now in conference committee. A compilation showed that the Congress, when it finally :o.pletes work on the appropriation measures, will trim between $1,-
accideit 165,000,000 and $1,500,000,000 off j
President . rruman s iudu Dua get estimates.
Mold Bus Driver x ffer Accident CHESTERTON, Ind., Aug. 30 (UP) The driver of a Greyhound bus was held today while
oolice investigated an
in which three persons wero killed. Edwin Curtis, age 27, Chicago, the driver, was detained at a State Police barricks after a truck driver who witnessed the accident said that the bus was in
the middle of a foir lane high- I
way when it collided- head-on
with an -automobile - laid' yesti("0&rge-A.- McDonnell,, age J73,.
Waueflias! Testifies; fells Snat Investigators He Got Political Contributions For His Help
George McDonnell
Dies At Shelburn
day. . Killed in the auto were Lill-
cards at Old Gymnasium exceot iam MJ Mlntyre, age 63, South
those promoted to the seventh Bend. Ind., and her husband, grade from Miss McKinley's sixth ' Archie, age 67, and O. F. P.ey-
Junior-Senior High All pupils in grades
to be filled from the
J of last year. A lot of spirit hss
been shown in the fight for starting positions but it is evi
dent that the team will be con-
Coach Takats and Assistants " , : J Ick Osborne and John Irons have1 ? facult? llst atnd their re" been working the .quad hard in .?f,ctlve assignments are a.
luuuwa.
grade, and these will report to thp Junior-Senior High School.
School seven to
twelve, inclusive, will report to I the auditorium at 8:30 a. m. on
nolds,, age 92, Chicago.
One of the 32 passengers on
the bus, Esoleme Monnier, age Mrs. Blanche Wyman and Miss 49. New York Citv. was taken to i Georgia McDonnell. both of
. - -
order to determine the best boys for the starting positions. The Bulldogs will be starting
their second season under
before lights. The field has been con
siderably improved since last i
Supervisors and Special Teachers Beverly Blewett, Girls'
k. uiemens, Arc ana iiiemeniary
Music: Wilfred Perigo, Instru-
year by the addition new sets of bleacher.
of
Legion Calls Meeting Wednesday A meeting of the Sullivan American Legion Post for Wednesday night has been called by Sonner Faught, post commander. The meeting will be .held at the Legion Home at 8 p. m. Wed-
Paul Taylor, president of the ' nesday. Important business will Sullivan Retail Merchants Asso- be discussed and all members ciation, said today. - are urged to be present.
STORES OPEN THURSDAY AFTERNOONS Beginning on Thursday, Sept. 1, Sullivan's retail stores will remain open all day on Thursdays,
llrep,mental Music; Malcolm Pigg.
vet. Training in Agriculture: Ralph Woodward, Vet. Traininf in Agriculture. Junior-Senior High School Harry C. Gilmore, Principal; Lee French, Vice Principal, Health & Safety; Alice Medsker, Clerk; Paul Asbury, Social Studies, Guidance; Beulah Chappelle, English; C. N. Creamer, Indus-
the Clinic Hospital at Michigan
City, Ind., and treated for minor
injuries.
The . truck driver, Gerald
Warner, age 39, Lansing, Mich., said the bus, en route to Chicago from Toledo, O., had just passed him when it hit the auto;
State Trooper James A;. McKoe aid that Curtis was held on a icroner's order pending an in
vestigation.
Continued Cool,
Weatherman Says
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 30. (U.R)
(Continued on Page t Col. 4)
oys In Blue Bearing Up Under
Strain Of G.A.R. Encampment
By Boyd Gill
United Press Stat, ccrresp&ndent INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 30 (U.R) James A. Hard, age 108, the oldest Union veteran of the Civil War, trimmed his own whisk- - ers' with an electric razor today and said he was feeling fine. "I'm in tip top shape," said Hard, of Rochester, N. Y., one of six old soldiers attending the 83rd and last encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. He awakened early, had an alcohol rub and was wheeled down to the hotel coffee shop for a hearty breakfast of wheat cakes and sausage. The other five, too, said they were shipshape.
Commander Theodore A. Penland, age 100, Portland, Ore., shaved himself with a safety razor as he does every morning. He walked down to a big breakfast of cereal, toast, bacon and
4 eggs and then paid a visit to the ' headquarters of the Women's Relief Corps, one of five auxiliary ,? organizations meeting in conf nection with the GAR encamp
ment.
I'm feeling mighty good," said
Albert Woolson, age 02, D'uluth, Minn., who also shaved himself. He had hot cakes, sausage and
prunes and said he was ready to attend whatever ceremonies were
on the program.
Joseph Clovese, age 105, Pontiac, Mich., dozed in a chair in his hotel room after a bath and
a big breakfast with two cups of
tea. Last night, after a strenuous day, Clovese was' taken to his room. "Guess I won't go to bed til 9 o'clock," he said. Told it was 10 p.m., he said he'd better get to sleep. , Robert Barrett, age 102, Princeton, Ky., was us late but feeling
rather "sprightly," associates said.
Charles L. Chappel, age 102, of
Long Beach, Cal., who fainted enroute to a reception last night, was snappish as he awoke from
a Long night's rest. But he said his collapse, blamed by doctors
on exhaustion from "overdoing," wouldn't keep him Irom joining his cronies in today's events.
ritish Oiler Tito-
Support In U. N. BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Aug 30 (UP) Great Britain is pre-
Dared to support Yugoslavia if
Marshal Tito decides to tave the
Yugoslav-Russian dispute before
the United Nations Security Council, reliable sources said.
The Yugoslav government was
understood to have been consid
ering such a step for rnore than
a week. '
The Yugoslavs, in their rote to
the Soviet Union on Aug. 20, offered the Kfemlin a settlement
in the spirit of the international
oblieation undertaken by both
governments."
The "international obligation''
referred to was the UN Charter.
responsible Yugoslav sources said
It was understood here that the United States "is not anxious to have the 14 month old dispute brought before the Security
Council now.
TAXPAYERS ASSOCIATION ADOPTS RESOLUTION The Sullivan ' County Taxpay-
The Indianapolis weather bu- ers Association in their meeting
reau's five-day forecast said to- of August 26th, adopted the folday rather cool weather would ; lowing resolution: "Be it resolved prevail in Indiana until this that the Sullivan County Taxpay-
week-end, when it "will become ers Association will test the le-
somewhat warmer. gality of any budget item pro-
Scattered showers were fore-1 posed by the officers of any tax-
cast for sometime' during the ing unit in the county that seems week-end. The bureau said rain-, excessive." Sullivan County Taxfall would average about one- payers Association, by Gault
quarter of an inch. Pleasant, President.
TODAY'S TEMPERATURES
The unofficial temperatures in
Sullivan today were:
at 7:30 a. m 64 degrees at noon 83 degrees
FILES SUIT FOR DIVORCE v
Mazie Tislow has filed a suit for divorce against Ray Tislow in
the Sullivan Circuit Court.
life-long resident of Sullivan
County, died at his home in Shelburn this morning at 2 o'clock. He was a retired farmer. Surviving are two sons, Charles and John McDonnell, both of Sullivan route; six daughters,
Shelburn, Mrs. Mary McDonald
of Detroit, Michigan, Mrs. Dorothy Loudermilk of Sullivan route, Mrs. Mildred White of Vinceflnes, and Mrs. Opal Marlowe of Gary; a sister, Mrs. Edna Peterson of Hymera; nineteen grandchildren, and three greatgrandchildren. The body was taken to the McHugh Funeral Home in Shelburn where funeral services will be conducted Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Burial will be in Liberty Cemetery.
Russia Fires Another Blast At Yugoslavia LONDON, Aug. 30 (UP) Russia fired another blast in the war of nerves against Yugoslavia today, accusing the . government of Marshal Tito of "nvsh scandals and slanderous distortions" to mask a double-dealing policy of deceiving the Yugoslav people. The Moscow radio broadcast the latest Soviet note in seiipwhich has strained relations between the two Communist dominated states. , The Soviet note was in reply to a Yugoslav note of' Aug. 20, in which Tito's government rejected Soviet charges that it had negotiated with the Western powers for an Austrian pesce reaty behind the ba.c of he Kremlin.
Russian View "The new note of the Yugoslav government is an accumulation of fresh scandals and slanderous distortions, calculated to mask its own double-dealing policy and deceiving the people of Yugoslavia," Moscow told the
Tito regime. The Russian note was dated yesterday. On Aug. 20 the Soviets had threatened to invoke "effective measures" to - protect Soviet citizens in Yugoslavia. The Yugoslavs at the same time accused the Russians of double crossing Tito in his claims against Austria. "Detected in the betrayal of the- interests of the - Slovenes in Carinthia and the national rights of Yugoslavia by Irrefutable facts quoted in the note" of the Soviet government of Aug. 11, ,the Yugoslav government attempts to conceal the traces of its treachery and escape responsibility, taking recourse to its accustomed" lies and slanders," the. latest Moscow note said. Quotes Yugoslavs -It said the Tito regime long had been "living without convictions and working only on the instructions of its Western masters." '- The Russians quoted the Yugoslav government as saying Premier Joseph Stalin had guaranteed the Austrian frontier as it was in 1938. But it .quoted a letter from . Stalin to Chancellor Karl Repner of Austria in May, 1945, which said nothing of guaranteeing the frontier. "All this, is an invention and
lie of the Yugoslav goverhment," i
the Moscow note said. It charges that ' plots wer brewing, both in British quarters and in certain nationalist circles of Slav states, for a reshuffle of Balkan territory to form a "Danubian monarchy." Russie rejected all schemes for the division of Austria because "the principle of self determination should be applied to all nations," the note said.
By Warren Duffee United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. '30. (UP) Ma j. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan admitted today he had received political campaign contributions from Wilh'am Helis, race track operator, and John Maragon, two men he had given a hand in dealings with government agencies. President Truman's military aide emphatically denied, however, that Maragon had told him that Frank Costello, alleged New York gambling king, contributed part of the money. ' Testifying in the climax of the Senate's "five per center" investigation, Vaughan said he received "two or three thousand dollars" from Helis for-the 1946 Democratic campaign from other persons. The White House general said he had turned the money over to Roy Harper, Missouri state Democratic chairman. Vaughan also conceded that he probably used the President's name without Mr. Truman's knowledge or approval to help Maragon make a business trip to Europe in 1945.
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Mine Operators Stop Welfare Fund Payments . WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (U.R) Major soft coal companies were reported today "on strike' against the United Mine Workers' welfare and retirement fund. Industry sources said it was a "no contract, no contributions" situation something like Mine Boss John L. Lewis' "no contract, no work" policy of bygone years. The dir,'ite appeared headed for a decision in two weeks ar I could bring a shutdown in most mining operations. Hope For Settlement Government officials pinned their hopes of averting an "early autumn nationwide coal strike on a peaceful settlement of the steel wage dispute. A Presidential fact-finding board completed its hearings on that case in New York .last night. The problem over 20-cent a ton contributions from soft coal operators to the mine workers' welfare and retirement fund arises from the fear that the levy may not be tax exempt since the wage contract with Lewis has expired.
Industry spokesmen said the companies are collecting the royalty in the regular course of business. All of them have made out checks to the welfare fund or set the money aside for payment only when the legal issue has been resolved.' Checks Not Sent But checks due the welfare
fund on Aug. 20 have not
military aide, resplendent in summer dress uniform, denied vigorously to Senators investigating "influence-peddlers" that he ever did anything wrong in his official role. Vaughan, alternately slumping in his chair and sitting up stiffly, testified as the investigating subcommittee brought near- a close weeks of public testimony in which the hefty general ha3 been linked ' with Maragon, James V. Hunt and other alleged "five per centers" and "fixers." In a prepared statement and again under questioning Vaughan said he had helped hundreds of persons ' in business with the government which he declared, was entirely legitimate. He said it was part Jt his job. He got nothing for his services except what the Army pays him as a general officer, he said. ,Vaughan's testimony about the -campaign contributions came out in questioning. ' -.' -
"Capt. Harry" At Legion Convention.
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sent, it is reported. Lewis,
has brought suit to collect pay
ments overdue a year or more from delinquents, is not expected to make such a move immediately against the big -producers who are withholding payments because of the lack of a contract. The Taft-Hartley and income tax laws require that a contractual relationship exist between an employer and union if employer contributions to a. pension fund are to be legal and tax deductible. Most of the member companie? of the Southern Coal Producers Association are understood to be holdine their contributions in abeyance. Some Northern companies and steel producers operating soft coal pits are also holding off. Negotiations on a new wage contract are at a standstill until conferences resume Sept. 14 at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.
Received Money Helis and Maragon, who turned the money over to him, were active in seeking materials for the Tanforan race track at San Bruno, Calif., during the postwar shortage of building materials. Vaughan admitted that ha had made an appointment for Helis with Housing Expediter Tighe Woods but denied that he had exerted pressure for anything but a quick decision, 7'one
way or another."
Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy,
Wis., asked Vaughan if he ever had received any money from Maragon "for yourself or someone else." Vaughan first replied that he had not, then added "oh, yes. . . campaign contributions." McCarthy referred to money collected from nersons involved
been jn njs race $ea
WAVING AND SMILING to a cheering crowd, P.esident Truman passes
en route to the Bellevue-Stratford hotel and his 'speech before the national convention of the Am erican Legion. A Navy patrol salutes "Captain Ha -ry" while the colorful "First City Troop," found
ed after the Revolution, brings up the rear as an escort.
Completes Nurses' Training Course
Miss Bonnie Alice McCrocklin.
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl L. McCrocklin of Hymera, has completed her nurses training at the Union Hospital in Terre Haute where she received the award for the highest scholastic and technical rating of her class. She began her duties as a nurse at the Mary Sherman Hospital Monday. Her sister, Mrs.
Philadelphia's City Hall , . ' . . o . 6
pital, is a nurse at the Freeman-
Greene County Hospital at Lin-
(International Soundphoto.) ton.
wno i Vaughan said he was "under the
impression" that Maragon had turned over . money collected from "Greek-Americans." The Wisconsin Senator then asked if it were not necessary under Missouri law to file the names of campaign contributors. "I didn't know the go-between the messenger had to file," said Vaughan. McCarthy asked how - much Maragon had turned over and Vaughan replied "probably not iver $2,000." Asked if there were not a single contribution of more than $1,000 from one individual, he said there was and identified the contributor as a George Skouras,. who was not otherwise dentif'H. Vaughan Intercedes In August, 1945, Vaughan interceded with the State Department io speed ' Maragon on a oerfume oil buying trip to a restricted part of Northern Italy. Documentary evidence in tha committee's hands shows thBt Mrs. Ruth Shipley, chief of the passport section, was given to understand that Mr. Truman wa3 "personally interested" in Mara
gon s trip. Vaughan confessed today that if Mrs. Shipley got the impression he said that, he probably did. But he added that Mr. Truman "never heard of" his efforts in behalf of the smooth-operating and fasWalking little GreekAmerican who claimed the military aide's friendship. The President, Vaughan said, "was not interested in any trip John Maragon ever made." Eut the record shows that Maragon got travel priorities of the . kind reserved for persons whose travel was "authorized by tue President."