Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 51, Number 182, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 13 September 1949 — Page 1
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WEATHER FAIR AND COOL Indiana: Clearing and coaler tonight. Fair and quite cool Wed-
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SULLIVAN DAILY TIMES TUESDAY, SEPT. 13. 1949.
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(By United Press) Wintry winds whipped the Atlantic Coast today from Boston to the Carolinas, 10 days before summer officially ends. Weathermen said the eastern storm was "characteristic of the winter time northeaster type," despite relatively high temperatures. Midwesterners wore galoshes and heavy coats as winds and a cold front from western. Canada brought rains and dropped temperatures to record lows for the season. ; The cold front headed eastward toward a collision with the coastal storm. Umbrellas, almost forgotten during the record drought tlrat plagued New Yorkers during the early summer, appeared by the thousands in New York, Philadelphia, and Boston streets. They bobbed in winds which at times reached 50 miles an hour. .
Telephones went dead along the North Carolina outer, banks in a gale which hit the coast from Hantucket to the Virginia Capes. Tie gale turned southward and headed for Georgia. Weathermen warned seamen that winds, heavy seas and above-normal tides would plague the area all day. litorm warnings flew from the Virginia Copes to south of Boston, and small craft warnings were hoisted on Chesapeake and Delaware Bays. Great Lakes sailors likewise watched winds that forced the hoisting of storm warnings over Lakes Superior, Michigan and Huron, and small craft alerts were posted over Erie, Ontario
trnd St. Clair. Stock farmers in the Midwest began planning for the big "fail . lun" that will send their fat animals to the big terminal stock-
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. .yards. Heavy Rains. In Nebraska, rains were raising
the level of small creeks and riv-. crs. Around Odell in southeastern Nebraska, farm families were clerted for high water, and one
amily was taken from its home
by horse and wagon. i ' - At Sibtfx" City," la.J'lieaVy rain
MT. SUMMIT, Ind., Sept. 13 (UP) Two bandits locked a bank cashier in a vault today rd robbed the bank of around $3,000.
They .entered the bank on r ruse nearlv an hour bpfor" i was scheduled to open for busi-
v.-o; ord fornp PprhJer P'rr Shiveley, age 60, into a vault ' pistol point while they scooped up money from a safe. "This is a stickup." one said "Wheres the money?" . - The gunmen fled unnoticec 8nd Shiveley was locked in thf vault more than an Hour before he was found unharmed.
The robbed bank was a branch
of the Citizens State Bank o New Castle. Ind.
Cashier Gilbert JJewitfr-Trf-tlir psmrt tnk'saiathe bandits got
all the money , on hand. He said i it was " only - "elgaret money"
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Work Hard For Opening Game Sullivan's -Golden Arrows, light as usual and without adequate reserve strength, are working hard to get ready for their opening football game of the reason against the Hatchets do M in Washington. The game, to ba played on Allen Field Triday night, will begin at 7:30 o'clock. Coach Bill Jones had been working his boys twice clay unlil school began last wee', ind his'week they are takin. a pracLice a day. The coach paid that, the team would be in govi condition for the first gamj against "he Hatchets. Losses toy graduation have hurt 'he Arrows. Ben Wernz, All'falley end. and Cnlvn HH?etiek, All-Valley back, are both one. Hilgediek carried the. Arow offense last year, and he 'lip task facing the oacl.es is to 'ind a replacement Lr:se Four However, the losses that hav hurt more have been unexpected. Four boys, all expected to be regulars this year, have moved 3way. All of them were linemen, vhere they were badly needed. Terry Haynes and Renny Wright, both of whom would have been back for the 1950 season. moveH mt of town, Haynes to Ohio and Wright to Greenwood, Ind. Sanord Cnrter and Alabam Kirch'er, who might have been the
starting ends, are gone, too. The backfield seems pretty
veil set. Vaino Grayam and Red McClure, lettermen from last year, will start at quarter and
"ullback. Frank Brown.-' a iuni.n.
ind Skio Oldham, a senior, seem
o have the inside .rack pt the
halfback spots. Larry Karris, t
oDhomore. is nracticing at both
quarter and half back.
Wayne Knotts, a junior, and
Bob Banks, a senior, will proba
bly be the starting ends Friday night, although Tom Cooley, a
Six Cases Are Venued From Local Court
V.F.W. Protests
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sonuiica
Concert Plans
CHICAGO. Sept. 13 CUP)
bix motions tor cnanges ci AU law abiding Chicagoans' venue from the Sullivan Circuit. were asked today to allow Negro Court have been granted and the,iSinger, Paul Robeson to appear county to which they will be here peacefully : for concerts sent named. has scheduled beginning Sept. 3. In addition, two other motions , Arthur G. price executive sen
ior cnanges 01 venue uave ueeri.
filed and approved. The selec-
retary RiuVits
tion of the court to which these jzatioT1
two cases win oe sent nus nou been made. ' -'.' The Hickory Grove Coal Mine Corporation suit against Raymond Rigg, et al, has been venu- j ed to the Clay County Circuit! Court. '..'.'. ' ' f
The Hickory Grove Coal Mine
Corporation suit against
L. Smallwood and Irene Smallwood has been veauedf '"to the Clay County Circuit Court. The Hickory Grove Coal Mine Corporation suit against Andrew Jackson Walters has been venued to the Clay Couv,. Circuit Court. The suit filed by C. A. Llcyd and L. J. Lloyd, domg business oc thf. Citizens Gavie against
Garland Wonders has venued to the Greene
rironit Court.
A suit filed by . Lucille Weilj against George Jones and James Lucas has been venued to the Knox Circuit Court. It is expected that the county will be selected in the other twj cases in the near future. j.
of the Chicago Civil Congress, said his organwould sponsor the four-
day visit. Robeson, whose recent
appearances have been marked by rioting, will sing at least three concerts, Price said. ) Within a few hours of the ' announcement of Robeson's intended visit a Veteran's of Foreign
Eugene 1 v,r
sievenson. ine governor was lurged to use his "high office to ifrustrate in all ways possible, this dastardly attempt of Paul Robeson to further the cause of
Pwnmunism in Illinois." Price asked that Robeson be
allowed to appear "without incident from hoodlum elements." The time and place of only one
veen ''concert has been set, according
Courityfto- Price, because his group is
' having trouble" renting hails for
the ' appearances. Robeson will appear at several meetings other than the concerts, Price said.
Report
teel Company Accepts
Basis For Pension
aimn
g; Strike Postponed
"Yutinued on Page 6, Col. 1)
flooded Perry Creek and drove above 20 persons from their
homes. Riverbottom lands were since little was kept there, and flooded at several Iowa points, i estimated the amount at between
In East Arkansas, driving rains $2 500 and $3,000. soaked a posse of 200 men who State Police said, however,
searched from dusk until after they learned midnight for a two-year-old boy, taken in bills
Douglas Martin, who wandered ination. ' . away from his parents while they They said Shiveley's plight picked cotton. Their way lighted was discovered by William Ruth-
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SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 13 fUPI Twelve Air Force crew-
only $1,600 was ; men Wh0 parachuted safely from of small demon-' a flaming B-29 Super-Fortress
by lightning flashes, searchers found the child in a cornfield, shivering and scratched, but otherwise unhurt. The cold front that swept down from the Canadian Rockies moved across the Midlands at 20 mph, "comparatively slow for a front , of this size," forecasters said. It was on a line with Green Bay, Wis., and Rockford- and Peoria, 111., at dawn and was due to hit Chicago within two hours. Floods Feared. When the cold front collides ' with the eastern storm they will form a single storm area which will sweep northeast, "pouring heavy rains driven . by strong winds across " eastern Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York and the New Eng-v land states," a forecaster said.
A heavy belt of rain fell at the southern edge of the cold air mass, extending from southern Illinois southwestward into eastern Oklahoma. Advance, Mo., had 1.70 inches of rain during the night and McAllister, Okla., had 1.85 inches. Some flooding was feared on the Delaware and Big Blue Rivers in Kansas. Snowfall which laid - the first blanket of white across some Great Plains and mountain localities ceased last night as the . skies cleared behind - the cold front.
erford, a patron, who entered the bank soon after the holdup
and saw scraps of paper on the floor near the vault door. They were notes written by Shiveley and pushed under the door. The holdup occurred at 8:20 a. m., 40 minutes before the bank's opening hour. Police and bank, officials had trouble getting the vault open to let Shiveley out. But he was in no danger from suffocation. Hewitt said the vault was ventilated. Wore No Masks
Hewitt said Shiveley describ
ed the men as - "clean looking
and rather well dressed." They
wore no masks, he said. One
-wore a felt hat ana tne oxner was bareheaded. One was stqck-
ilv built and the ' other rather
tall and slender.
It was raining when the ban
dits entered shortly after 8 a. m
The street outside was deserted.
Shiveley was alone in the bank. Before they left, I the bandits cut telephone wires. Police said
one carried a knife while the other brandished a German
Lueer pistol.
Residents told police tney nv,
an automobile 1 they believiJ contained the gunmen speeding
north.
bomber minutes before it crashed and exploded, said today there "was nothing to it." "All we had to do was hit the silk. It was simple," one crew
man ?aid.r
The huge plane crashed yester
day in the rough hill area neir Calaveras Dam in northeastern Santa Clara County. All of the men landed with only mino.
scratches and bruises.
Air Force authorities were in
vestigating the crash.
Capt. Charles A. Grice, age 26,
pilot of the plane, said one of the
bomber's four engines started to
act up" just after take.iff from
Fairfield-Suisun Air Base.
Grice gave orders to bail ' out
when flames eruot-id from the engine cowling. The plane "started shaking apart," he said.
Two brush fires were touched ' control
off by the flaming craft, but turned.
both were brought under
DELEGATES TO MEDIC ASSOCIATION. Dr, C. F. Briggs, of Sullivan, and Dr.; C. E. Whipps, of Carlisle, are . delegates from the county to . the 100th meeting oi the Indiana State Medical Association to be held in Indianapolis or Sept. 26 to 29.
DICK BILLMAN " RESUMES STUDIES Dick Billman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dale Billman, will resume his studies at Wabash College, Crawfordsvllle. He will be a senior. .
TODAY'S TEMPERATURES The unofficial temperatures in Sullivan today were: .
at 7;30 a.m. . . ". 68 degrees at noon 69 degrees
Leach Named As Bureau Head
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 13. (U.R)
JMahlon Leach,1 Gary Democrat
anH a division director in tne
State Bureau of Motor Vehicles
was named todav head of that
bureau.
Leach succeeded Paul P.- Fry,
Linton, who resigned effective
Sept. 15 to enter private business. Leach's duties will begin Sept. 16.
Leach is a brother of Matt
Leach, former Superintendent of.
State Police. He has been serving as director of the division of financial and safety responsibility. The appointment was announced by the Secretary of State's of
fice, which said Secretary of State Charles Fleming was at Portsmouth, N. H., for ,the na
tional meeting of the Secretaries
,of State. ,
SPRINGFIELD, 111., Sept. 13 (UP) -r James Mulroy, executive secretary to Gov. Stevenson, said today the " governor can do nothing to prevent Singer Paul Robeson from holding concerts in Chicago this month. ''There is nothing the governor or anybody else can do to stop a public meeting," Mulroy said. "The governor has no such authority." Mulroy said Stevenson was out of town and would arrive here
late today. He said he received l' nmtnet frrm thp Vptprnns of
American envoys warned in st- joreign Wars in Chicago, asking
cret reports released today in.i tllat Stevenson "frustrate in all Western Europe is a pushover f f j ways possible" Robeson's schedRussian troops should the Soviesjj serias 0f concerts. . . decide to attack. ; , j ( h The VFW orotest followed an
ed Troo
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13. (UJ)
fenses of anti-Communist Europe uttve secretary of the Civil Right
can be turned to steel if America congress wrucn is sponsoring ine supplies the arms, as proposed by visit of Robeson, that the Negro President Truman. . singer be allowed to appear , ' ' ... "without incident from hoodlum The reports were made, public elements hv a sDecial . Senate committee . ..
which yesterday approved a 314,000,000 arms aid bill. .;' -
Yugoslav!
Invincible,
lito .Declares--.-By Edward M. Kory United Press Staff Correspondent BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Sept. 13 (UP) Premier Marshal Tito, declaring his country is an invincible fortress, has urged Russia to "clear things up" with Yugoslavia without use of bayonets, it was disclosed today. His remarks were made to a group of five miners Sunday and released by the government press office. . "Every working class is capa
ble of fiehting and winning a
new social order," Tito said. "Progressive ideas were never correctly disseminated, nor was
i social transformation ever brought about, bv bayonets, which can only enslave."
Tito repeatedlv payed tribute
to the Soviet Union as the "first country of socialism" but he warned the Kremlin that "our conditions today are, as they sat at the front, 'an invincible fortress.' "
"Therefore we must clear up
one thing for them that we are
building socialism in this coun
try and we say, just as Lenin once said in fighting Trotsky, that it is possible to create so
cialism in one country," Tito
said. '
Tito pointed to the Yugoslav
CommuniFt party peoples front, with 8,000,000 members, and warned that his regime could not
he toppled by outside . intervention.
tn Jmnir-i TTrpmlin charges
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 13. (UP) Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. today accepted the report of President .Truman's, fact-finding board as a basis for collective bargaining oh pensions and social insurance. "We are prepared to undertake at once a joint study of pensions with our steel workers unions in anticipation of bargaining on this subject next March 1," the company said, in a prepared statement. ' "With respect to social insurance benefits, we will negotiate with the union for the purpose of matching a 'mutually acceptable agreement," the company said.
Jones and Laughlin was
Reports from Ambassadors Daj vid Bruce in France, Lewis ;-W Douglas in England, James C Dunn in Italy, and Charles U. Ba in Norway were unanimous in th" assertion that Western European armies now could not stop a Rusi sian move to the west. ' I
Two Children Die In Fire
MUNCIE, Ind.,, Sept. 13 (UP) Two children died today and two others and their mother were suffering from burns as the result of a fire that destroy-
But they said that with tim ed their home last night. and American arms these force The dead were Richard Hamwould be able to hold the liro mer, age 6. and his brother, until support arrived . from thi Bobby Joe, age 2, sons of Mr.
Country, under terms of the Atj and Mrs. Bernard Hammer.
lantic pact.
YOUTH DIES IN ACCDDENT
Their six-month-old sister
Milah June, and brother, Bernie. age 3, were in Ball Memorial Hospital with serious burns Their mother, Doris, age 24, also was burned when she ran back int.- the .flaming house to savi
LEBANON, Sept. 13. (UP)Buford Bohannon. afie 19, Ind:
anapolis, was killed today nort Bobby Joe.
of here on U.S. 52, when he lo:j The fire occurred as the fam-
of his car and it ovei "y slept. Apolice squad car saw The overturned car wi the flames and patrolmen waken-
con- struck by a truck driven by Ca ed the family and helped rescue
trol by forest service firefighters. I Risher, age 25, Medaryville. I them.
Xopier Snaiches Man fom Sea.
;fliP I ' , 1 v ' : &4ffrt
that he sold out to the capitalis
tic West. "We invite the'm to come and see, to come here and attempt to find any information of what they are saying," he said. "We are opening the doors wide to
everyone who wants to come and
honestly to see what is being
done and built. ' ' '
Fire Damages Famous Pier At Atlantic City
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept. 13. (UP) A general alarm fire swept the Boardwalk end of the famous million-dollar pier here today but a low tide and a favorable gale wind enabled firemen to keep it from spreading. . A 33-foot Navy crashboat, outfitted as a fireboat, was called from nearby ,Absecon Inlet to help firemen fight the fire. The boat ran aground, however, about one-fourth mile from the pier and was unable to lend assistance. Three persons, who lived in apartments at the seaward end of the famous pier, were trapped for a time but firemen managed to erect ladders from the beach and brought them to safety. Discover Fire. The fire was discovered by Patrolman Harold McBride as he passed the entrance of the pier while walking his beat. The flames, whipped by the strong wind, were snooting from windows in the ballroom by the time the first firemen arrived. The 175 firemen first concen
trated their efforts on keeping
Mrs. Sarah Peck Funeral Held
Mrs. Sarah Peck, wife of Frank.
Peck, formerly of Sullivan, died
at her home in Greencastle beptember 10th, after a short illness.
Funeral services were held
Monday afternoon at the Church
of Christ, Greencastle. Brother J. S. Johns of Indianapolis, con
ducted the service, assisted by Brother Lowell Manchester of Greencastle. Singing was by the tl8 N. State Street Church of Christ quartet, Mrs. Vlica McMahon, Mrs. Eleanor Wyman, Jesse Griggs and Riley Pirtle. Interment was at Mace Cemetery, east of Crawfordsville.
She was the mother of Clyde
Peck, formerly of this city, now
of Traders' Point, Indiana.
Several from Sullivan attended the funeral service.
the namesfromT5rea-amg-t"0th e widely-known wooden promenade and the numerous buildings on the shore side. But a shift in the wind ended the danger of the fire spreading shoreward. A low tide enabled firemen to walk out on the beach far enough to play high pressure hose lines on the seaward side of the flames. At the height of the blaze, the famous race-horse sign which stands about 200 feet high above the ballroom collapsed. The huge steel frame of the sign toppled backward, collapsing the roof of the ballroom .building. Confine Flames. After battling the fire nearly three hours, firemen were able to confine the flames to a 150-yard section of the pier adjoining the Boardwalk. The ballroom, lobby and entrance to the pier were destroyed along with a rolling chair concession and a bingo hall flanking the! main entrance. Firemen estimated damage to the pier would exceed $200,000. John Eveler, operator of the rolling chair concession, said 41 chairs and other equipment worth an additional $25,000 also was destroyed.
FRED LORETZ, amateur San Francisco fishermai, rests his;ad on his wife's lap on a Pacific Ocean beach where he was deposited by a helicop.er which iched him from the sea.. Fishing on a rock offshore with a friend, both were swept into the oceaiThe friend managed to swim ashore and coastguardsmen and police summoned crop-dusting helider pilot Ted Leopold who flew out (right) and effected the rescue. I (International Soundphotos.)
Crewmen fflssinq Mfer Train Wreck ST. LOUIS, Sept. 13. (UP) The Frisco Railroad reported today that three crewmen were missing after a freight train plunged into a creek 90 . miles south of here. Railroad officials said the wreck was between the towns of Seventy Six and Menfro, Mo. A company spokesman said re
ports coming from the accident
scene indicated that only one of the four men aboard the Memphis-bound train had been ac
counted for. The spokesman said
that Conductor Luther King was
listed as "safe" but authorities were unable to locate the other three.
The accident occurred on the Frisco's main line when a bridge weakened by heavy rains collapsed. Reports from the scene of the wreck said the locomotive turned over in the creek on the engineer's side and seven cars piled up behind it. The missing crewmen were identified as Engineer Quinton G. I Briggs, Fireman John A. Faulkner and Brakeman William N. Nunn, all of Chaffee, Mo.
Will Sneak At Church 01 God
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first of the five big steel companies to announce acceptance of the board's report as a basis for settling the dispute. Earlier, tha Republic Steel Corporation said it was "ready and willing' to .. join with the union "in a study 0? the whole pension problem." CIO President Philip Murravput the question of labor pee un to the companies yesterday will a "whole-hearted" endorsement of the boards finding? and.' unqualified acceptance of the 20cent hourly insurance-pension formula. Delay Strikes His CIO steel w.irkers uninn gave the ' companies until 12:01 a. m.. Sept. 25 to make up their'
minds. At that time, the union's . members will go. on strike unlessthe steel companies accept the . plan for employer-sponsored insurance pensions. A statement by Republic. President C. M. White said that his company favored . "the prin- ? ciple of social insurance antfpensions for employes." But he; pointed out the pension plan would require much study, . The steelworkers dropped demands for a' 12- cent hourly wage increase with "profound regret," Murray said. He said the demand was "completely justified," but. said he would ac-i cept the board's recommendations in the public interest to end peacefully tha -union's . dispute with the steel industry, " --' No Pay Raise The board suggested the industry finance a six-cent; an hour pension fund and a foMr-, cent an hour insurance plan, but refused the union's demand , for a general wage increase. The USW had been asking a wage-pension-insurance package program totaling more' than 30cents an hour. . r. In announcing the decisions of the union's wage-policy committee and the executive board, Murray also accepted the President's proposal to extend the current 60-day truce. This averted a strike which had been set for midnight toniuht. Government officials hoped the union's acceptance of the board's report would so: the pattern for labor peaca in the automotive, coal and electrical manufacturing industries. Showdowns in these industries are expected within the next 30 days. Against Report Some labor leaders expressed resentment against the board's report. Willnm Green, president of the AFL, described the report as a "disappointment" to the workers of the nation. He said the cost of a "practical, workable plan" for the steelworkers will be more than that recommended by the board. Alvanley Johnston, head of the independent Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, said the steelworkers settlement "is up to Phil Murray and his crowd. I have no idea how the rest of labor will react to foregoing the fourth-round wage boosts."
The Church of God, corner of Olive and Depot streets, will hold dedication services for their new building on Sunday, Sept.
18 with an all-day service. The Rev. C, C. Rains, state overseer of the Churches of God in Indiana, will deliver the dedication message. The main service will begin at 2 p. m. Dinner will be served on the grounds. There will he special music and singing. . The Rev. C. H. Standifer wrll also speak at the meeting. The Rev. Rains will be the
j speaker at services thai will begin Thursday night and continue through Sunday. ,
Seeks To Prevent Parking Meters INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 13. (U.R) Attorney James M. Dawson today filed suit to restrain the city bf Indianapolis from continuing installation of - parking meters downtown. Dawson charged Mayor Al Feeney and other high city officials "with acting without authorization of law." He filed a complaint for injunction and a temporary . restraining order in Superior Court. Dawson said he acted "as a taxpayer and in behalf of all othe? Indianapolis taxpayers." The city yesterday installed the first of some 542 meters sched-' uled to be set up on a trial basis.