Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 51, Number 183, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 14 September 1949 — Page 1
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VOL. 51 No. 183
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SULLIVAN DAILY TIMES WEDNESDAY, Sept. 14. 1949
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Ho-Pac Strike Settlement May Be Reached Soon
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 14. (UP) Prospects for settling the six-day Missouri-Pacific Railroad strike brightened today after negotiators agreed to take up the 282 grievance cases that caused the walkout.
Negotiators were scheduled to begin direct talks on the grievances at a session this afternoon for the first time since the strike began last Friday. A spokesman for the 5,000 striking engineers, firemen, trainmen and conductors said they were ready to negotiate "either one by one or in general principle' on the grievances that involve $3,000,000 in claims by operating employes. The Terminal Railroad Associa
tion here reported the strike has ! Mexico, California fruit farms caused a drop of about 3,000 cars San Francisco, Calif., Portland a day handled by the terminal i p-; Idaho potato farms, SaH
County Farmers On Western Tour
More than 240 Indiana farm people boarded the second special
Golden West Caravan train in
Indianapolis Sunday morning, September 11, at . 10 o'clock
(CST) for the start of a 12-day
all-western tour of 8,000 miles
This educational tour is the sixth sponsored by the Indiana Farm
Bureau since the end of World
War II, according to Glenn W
Sample, Farm Bureau informa
tion director, in charge of ar
rangements.
Sullivan County is represented
on the current tour by the following persons: Mr. . and Mrs. Paul Lambeth, Mr. and Mrs Walter Latshaw, Dr. and Mrs. S. E. Lindley, and Mr. and Mrs. Scott Willis. Among the places to be visited are: Carlsbad Caverns, the Grand Canyon, San Diego, Calif., Old
which has laid off more than 100 employes since Friday. "I don't know what the company may be coming up with," said R. E. Davidson, spokesman lor the unions. But he and company spokesmen agreed that "progress was made" in preliminary
Lake City, Utah, Colorado Springs, Colo., and Chicago. In addition, special agricultural features have been planned, including a visit to three Texaf ranches, climaxed 'by a chucl1 wagon dinner, California frui farms and packing companies
laiKs sponsored by a volunteer Idaho potato farms, and Utar citizens' committee of St. Louis irrigation farms, officials. . Last August 14 to 27 a similaMeanwhile, residents and in-! tour, over exactly the same rail-
ausmes in towns along the Mo-'road route, was conducted fo'
255 Hoosier farmers. So popular
. xjac's 7,000-mile rieht - of - wav
complained that the 'strike was affecting their daily lives and costing them money. , Farmers at Batesville, Ark., complained that they had to hire trucks to ship in chicken feed, cutting their profits. The American Stove Co., St. Louis, telegraphed President Truman that "with orders on hand for next six weeks production.
was this-tour that the second trip was arranged for September.
Hoosier Corn Crop Ahead Of 3easoh
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 14. (U.R) The Hoosier corn crop was
may have to close factorv imlw ahead of the season todav and
prospects continue very good to excellent, the weather bureau's
crop bulletin said. '
Crop statisticians at Purdue University and the Department
Missouri Pacific strike is settled.
rt-e urge you to take prompt ac-
aon;
Other manufacturers sent similar messages to Mr; Truman and , lo Missouri legislators, i
Shelat 11
LiJoy Crovr59r
Oies At ihelburn
Roy Crow, age 59, of burn died at his home o'clock Tuesday morning.
Surviving are the widow, Hazel; one son, William Crow of Indianapolis; three daughters, Mrs. Martha Spicer of Indianapolis, Mrs. Dorothy Gammie and All's. Norma Shepard, 1 both of Terre Haute one brother, Vern Crow of Shelburn; three sisters, Mrs. Herschel Wence of Terre Haute," Mrs: Clydia Graham of Bourbon Indiana, and Mrs. Elsie Narrows of Terre Haute, and Ihree grandchildren. The body was1 removed to the residence today from the McHugh Fuaeril Home. Funeral services will be held at 1 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the McHugh Funeral Home with the Rev. Jack Anderson officiating. Burial will be in Lausman Cemetery near Oliver, Illinois.
of Agriculture forecast a corn
vield of 263.112,000 bushels, only
six per cent lower man last year s recor4-xrop. " 7" ' "
All reported that the majority
of the corn crop was safe from frost damage.
r "The tomato crop has been disanointing this year," said Paul A.. Miller wpnthpr hnreflii nhief "A
few areas report a near normal ihe Parade to be held at Kt n th ' ,.,:! xni .o'clock Sunday afternoon.
Noland To Be In Court House Here Saturday
The citizens of Sullivan Coun
ty are looking forward to the
arrival Saturday, September 17th of Congressman James A. Noland. County Chairman Hubert
Sevier has announced that Mr.
Noland will be in the rotunda of
the Court House from ten until Swelve noon to meet the citizens
)f this county and confer with
them upon any . matters or business they might have with the
government.
During the afternoon, Con
gressman Noland will visit the
various communities in the coun-
v in an effort to be mora iulh'
advised as to the needs of the people and the business, farm ind labor situation.
While he is one of the young
est members in Congress, he has during his first term, made an outstanding record of public service. He has intelligently and
courageously fought for tr e farmer, the veteran, the snu-U
business man and labor. VLi has !
been called upon many times to speak on national issues over ai national radio hook-up and has
Lso been invited tJ address thg, itudent body of many of the Treat universities of the country. On Saturday evening at 7:00 I'clcck a basket dinner sponsored v the Tiomocrats of Clay, Greene md Sullivan counties, will be 'ield at Shakamak Park.'honorng Mr. Noland. Addresses will e made by the Congressman md other distinguished Demoratic leaders, and a fine program of entertainment will be presented. All Democrats are invited to attend.
District L
Meeting To Be
Here This We
The program of the American Legion District meeting to be held in Sullivan this week-end is almost completed. Don't forget that everyone is invited to enter floats or bands in
2:00 The
weather and too much rain has,Paraae wui Iorm
caused slow ripening with much cracking and breaking." Miller added many "canneries reported sharply curtailed schedules because of. low receipts. Predictions indicated most yields of other crops were above average. Soybeans were reported well podded and some were already ripe. Production was forecast at 28,702,000 bushels. Other forecasts were oats, 57,720,000 bushels; hay, 2,231,000 tons; potatoes, 3,570,000 bushels; apples, 1,680,000 bushels; and peaches, 780,000 bushels.
AFFIDAVIT FILED AGAINST MAPLE John Knox Purcell, prosecuting attorney, has filed an affidavit against George M. Maple charging the issuing of fraudulent checks.
DAMA',GE SUIT
J CHANGE OF VENUE
A damage suit filed by Franklin Joe Ashba by his next friend Emma Ashba against Richard Lloyd and L. J. Lloyd doing business as the Citizens Garage, and Jacob Thomson has been venued from the Sullivan Circuit Court to the . Knox County Circuit Court. ' i
at the . Teen
Canteen and there will be three
prizes awarded "the three best bands and three best floats. First prize is $50.00; second prize, $35, and third prize, $25. All who wish to enter floats or bands are urged to contact Roy O. (Skinny) Thrasher of Sullivan so that they can receive their place in the parade. Frank Jessup, Vice Department Commander of Indiana, will be the speaker. Mr. Jessup, who is on outstanding speaker, was chairman of the Americanism program last year. He will speak at 3:00 p.m. Sunday. The public is urged to hear him and his
Connie Campbell IU Student Leader Constance Ann Campbell, 317 S. Main St., Sullivan, is one of 82 Indiana University student . leaders who this week are assisting the University's Junior (Fresh
man) Division in the orientation
of new enrollees for the 1949-50
school year , at I.U. New students on the- I.U. Bloomington campus are being given a series of extensive orientation tests, physical examinations,, speech and hearing tests, and are participating in guidance conferences with faculty and administrative staff members prior to the opening of the fall semes ter classes Wednesday, Sept 21. ( Miss Campbell and the othe? student leaders are serving ' aj campus guides during orientation week and are assisting in explaining I.U. history, traditions, rules and regulations to the hew enrollees. The student leaders
were selected on the basis of
their work in the leadership!
training program of the Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. at the University.
City School
Legion Council Elects Officers The County Council of the
American Legion held its regular
monthly meeting Tuesday night at Dugger, and the following officers were elected for the com
ing year: Ernest Edds, command
er of Carlisle Post, was elected
county commander; Stanley Jewell, commander of Carlisle Post, was elected vice commander; Tom
M. Jennings, adjutant service of-.
ficer; Louis . (Speed) Johnson,'
Carlisle Post, was elected chaplain. ! A. L. Lumley7 district representative of the USO, made a short to lk and Charles Parks, immediate past commander of Sullivan Post, was elected as county chairman for the USO. A. O. Grossman, district representative of the Department of Veterans Affairs of Indiana, was the main speaker and spoke on, the advantages of having a county service officer and what veterans were, entitled to. After the
meeting
were served and the Countv
Cr-uncil was invited to meet at the Hymera Post for their October meeting. Attendance at the Legion meetings in the last two weeks has increased greatly and it was noted in the county meeting that not only delegates from the "posts were present, but . Legionnaires from all over the county came. These meetings are open to the Legionnaires, although voting is restricted to delegates only.
Enrollment Reaches 1257
Opening day enrollment for
the citv schools was 1,259, J. Al
lan Campbell, superintendent of
schools, announced today. This year's opening day enrollment is
42 larger than last year s opening day enrollment. It was 1,217 last
year.
The enrollment shows the
steady increase in the number of pupils in the city schools since
the low point in the number of
pupils reached in 1946. That year 1 200 pupils enrolled in the schools. In 1947, 1,205 were enrolled. Mr. Campbell said that the in
crease could be expected to continue for the next few years at about an annual increase of 50 pupils.
The various schools had the
following enrollment:
Elm Park School . . . 124
Old Gym School 247 Junior High Grades ........ 347 Seventh Grade 113 Eighth Grade . , 112 Ninth Grade 84 Tenth Grade 90 Eleventh Grade 64 Twelfth Grade ... 78 The total lor the .junior high is 225 pupils and the high school enrollment is 316 pupils.
Lewis De
Fund?
and
kolas Get
Below Freezing
emperatures
By United Press The season's first cold wave, which forced plainsmen in the Dakotas to don mackinaws, bore "down today on the East Coast, where a pea soup fog disrupted air and sea travel before it abated. i The fog began lifting slowly
after cutting visibility to a ci'.y
was .over , refreshmentfAlpck in NewJYork and ground
ing all planes at Jbaiiuavaia x ieia for two hours. The ion, whi'.h covered the coast from Boston to Philadelphia, also weatheredin Idlewild and Newark airports
in the New York area
loss lift
EH
ayments;
ay Call
elieve
rike Over
Welfare
Miner
Fund
Arrest Suspect In Mt. Summit Bank Robbery NEW CASTLE, Ind., Sept. 14. (UP) An 18-year-old bank robber suspect surrendered to police today; a half hour after he was "flushed" from the home of a friend by FBI agents. , ' Police said Chester L. Wethington surrendered near the New Castle High School without using: the German Luger pistol with which he was armed.
timely message.
Several hundred guests are ex-! special jrice provide! they pected from over the 7th district ' purchased before going to
on
Tickets On Sale .Tickets for the Sullivan-Washington football game to be played at Washington Friday night have been placed on sale at the high school and at the News Stand, H. C. Gilmore, principal of the high school, said today.
iicKets ior pupus ars . given a
are the
NEW CASTLE, Ind., Sept. 14
(UP) Police and FBI agents to
day hunted an 18-year-old armed bank robber whose knifewielding companion was captured last night.
The FBI said Chester L. Weth
ington, a New Castle auto plant worker, was "armed and con
sidered dangerous." His aide ir
the robbery yesterday of the Citizens State Bank of Mt. Sum
mit was Robert D. Wheeler, also
age 18, who was arrested as he
waited near Wethington's home
here.
Officials of the robbed bank, a
branch of the Citizens Bank ''pre. said $3,873 was taken, but
Wheeler said they got $2,034. He
had only $40 when arrested. Harry Shiveley, age 60, cashier of the bank, was forced into an air-conditioned vault after , the robbery and stayed there for nearly an hour before being released. The two men were identified, FBI Special Agent , Harvey -: G. Foster said, "as a result of intensive investigation." Foster said it was learned the robbers made their get-away in a brown, 1937 sedan "and by
of elimination the Ind-
By Charles H. Herrold United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. (UP) John L. Lewis, in a new strike threat, today urged the Cleveland Trust Co. to force the Island Creek Coal Co. to pay up its contributions to the United Mine Workers welfare and retirement fund. Lewis, claiming that Island Creek has been in default of its payments since July 1, warned that the firm's policy "may precipitate a social convulsion in the mining areas of this country." James D. Francis, president cf the Island Creek Coal Co., previously rejected Lewis' demand that his firm pay up
,'ts 20-cent-a-ton contributions.
US Steel Faces Strike Threat
Over Report
.n-M or, an whiph hroueht ' process
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iana otaie xunuc, incw vsur
Chief of Police Ross Scott, Sheriff
and this community is urged to turn out for the occasion. Every veteran and every organization who wishes is urged to participate in the parade. Mr. Thrasher will be glad to arrange a place in the line of march,
game. Tickets at the lata at
Allen Field will be one price for alf. regardless of a;n. Mr. Gilmore said that a 'hundred tickets for adults and a hundred tickets for pupils have been received. .
sub-freezing temperatures to the North Central stales was welcomed only by hay fever victims. It laid the pollen low, and stopped the sneezing. At dawn, the eastern edge of the cold air mass was moving across Harrisburg, Pa. Its southem border had already, hit the Gulf Coast. A new cold fron, meanwhile, was forming in the Pacific Northwest, causing extensive showers there, and .'ovecasters warned that it mignt cause a new cold wave to roll across the country. A hard freeze settled over the Eastern Dakotas early today and farmers had to break the ice in troughs to water their stock. Tne temperature dropped to 27 at Bismarck, N. D., 29 at Minot and Dekinson, N. D., 30 at Jamestown, N. D., and Aberdeen, S. D., and 32 at Watertown, S. D. . Chicago had a low of 42, coldest for the season and just threetenths of a degree above the cold record for the day set in 1923.
Shelburn Methodist Church To Observe 65th Anniversary Sunday
The Shelburn Methodist Church will observe its 65th anniversary on September 18th with a special morning worship at which two former pastors, Rev. C. A. McCullough and Rev. A. M. Couchman are expected to speak. A basket dinner will . be held at noon. The special day will be concluded with an afternoon service at which Rev. John Sutch of Loogootee, one of the young men who left this church to enter the ministry, will speak. Friends of the church are cordially invited to any part or all of the day. More than sixty-five years ago there was on the southwest corner of the crossroads at Currysville an old frame church bunding about sixty feet long and thirty feet wide, in which the Methodist people of that day used to worship in the oldfashioned way, no doubt, when Methodism used to shout and nobody became alarmed.
The farmers and miners of
that distant date : droe their horses hitched to wagons,' bug
gies, and sleds from miles around to this church, tied them to the hitching posts around the building, reverently took their place.0 inside, prayed and sang heartily and thoroughly enjoyed fellowship with God and man.
Currysville at that time was
practically surrounded by woods and not much was known of thr town, save that it boasted a coal mine, a barrel stave factory, pj.d
a railroad which passed through
it. The citizens of Currysville cer
tainly must have been proud of
their town, for as time moved on some members of this Methodis'
church decided that Shelburn, o
little town half a mile south wa?
a better place to have church
and made up their minds to move the little frame building from its
resting place at Currysville. to Shelburn. At this decision a
great wail arose and resentment
was 50 great that many of the members ceased to attend and
would not I be reconciled. But
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Robert L. Padgett and FBI agents were able to trace the car to Wheeler and Wethington." Wheeler admitted his part in the robbery, Foster said. He will be taken to Indianapolis for a hearing before the U. S. commissioner. Wethington was described as five feet six inches tall slender, with dark-brown bushy hair and gray eyes. He was wearml a light blue b'port jackot ard darker blue trousers vhen last seen, the FBI said.
Places Fourth In Judging Contest
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 14 (U.R) The membership of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
placed in an(j Enginemen have approved a
I proposed merger or tneir union
Miss Mary Frances Allen of the Snappy Sullivanites 4-H Club. Disced fourth in the State 4-H
Food Preparation , Judging Con
test, which was held at the State Fair Grounds Fridav. September 2. She had a score of 590 out of a
possible 600. She was tbn blue ribbon group.
There were sixteen participants with the Brotherhood of Locomo
in this contest from various dis- tive Engineers, it was announced tricts in the state. Mary Frances today. won the right to take part in the D. B. Robertson, head of the contest by placing second in the Engineers, disclosed the result of district contest, which was held,a reCent referendum among the at .Tom Haute m July. (union's 110,000 membership at
Mary Frances nasceen very ac- the Pennsylvania BLFE conven-
turn. He said committees of the two unions have been working
Lewis sent a telegram to I. F. Freiberger, chairman of the Cleveland Trust Co. board which represents the Hold en estate controlling the1 Island Creek and Pond Creek Coal Companies. Lewis said that Francis, who: directs the mining operations of bcth companies, "is at all times subject to your influence and
PITTSBURGH. SeDt. 14. -0J.R) "wpuhmvc 10 your wisnes.
CIO President Philip Murray Mr- Fiancis is now in behalf notified U. S. Steel Corp. today oE his companies defaulting upon that the United Steelworkers tl,eip corporate payments to the would not negotiate with the United Mine Workers welfare Company until it "promptly and 8r d .-etir-ement fund on all coal plainly" advises that it accepts rimed this July 1," Lewis said, the Presidential fact-finding I "He is also using his personal board's pension and insurance ard business influence to induce recommendations. . 1 other et.al companies to follow Murray, in a telegram to U. S. e same course. ., Steel President Benjamin F. Fair- I "Tie ageiegate default is subless, said that the union "in a , stqntial." Lewis said.
tie sam mat tne non-payment will cn.att a "tragic crisis" -in the aifiirs of thousands of men a id women." He asked the trust company to "exercise your great: influence and control of Mr. t Francis and his coal companies ' to direct him to abandon his mad policy of making war upon .nlins n:e;i aud dependent women.' He i.sid that the trust company derives its revenues frm th"e savings of men and w.imen who work in the industrial sections of C't-veland. 'I nm si-re that neither you nor .they wll condone, thjbrutal, savage' policy"" of Mr. "Francis, which may precipitate a social convulsion in the mining areas
of this country," Lewis said. , "Will you not, therefor. ad- . vise me that -you will direct Mr. Francis to honor his obligation!; to the welfare fund and forestall the 'distress that impends." Lewis Hiote to Frarc s yesterday Baking him to pay up the contributor to fh'3 welfar? -fund. He said that a jjr.tinustnn of non-payment th.-e?.tepe-.l "reactions deterrent to the con- . structivo progress of industry." Another way of. saying a
strike might be called. Francis telegraphed Lewi last night that his companies are not in default to the fund since there has been no contract between the companies and the union since June 30. Lewis made the telegram. Public an hour before the UMW wp scheduled to resume contract talks with the Southern Ccal Producers Association at Bluef.eld, W. Va. Lewis could close the ind.istry mtrely by putting into effect tha union's no contract-no work pol'cy. He suspended it when ths contract expired last June 30 by orderina UMW members o irpep on working regular shifts west of the Mississippi and three days a week east of the Mississippi "until further notice." There was no telling if - or when the "further notice" wolud be forthcoming.
straightforward and forthright manner has abcepted the board's recommendations as a basis on which to conclude a settlement of the dispute." "I now request that you promptly and plainly advise me whether your companies are likewise willing to accept the recommendations of the steel industry board as a basis on which to conclude a .prompt settlement of the existing labor dispute between the union and these companies," Murray said. ' "Upon receipt of your affirmative reply :the respective representatives of the union and the companies can arrange promptly
for a time and place of a joint collective bargaining conference for this purpose," he said. Murray's telegram pointed out that the union sought an agreement before expiration of the present truce Sept. 25. His reference to the deadline- was an apparent renewal of the strike threat. In offering to renew negotiations, U. S. Steel made no allusion to the report of the fact-finding board. Murray said that President Truman had requested, in submitting the report, "an unequivocal reply from' the parties as to whether they accept the recommendations of the steel industry board as a basis on which to conclude a prompt settlement." U. S. Steel operating headquarters here confirmed receipt of the telegram, but a spokesman said the company had "no comment" at the time.
Railroad Unions Approve Merger
t've in the Food Preparation pro
irt in 4-H Club work in Sullivan County.
Mrs. Mary Sinclair Dies Near Shelburn
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Sinclair,
age 87. died at the home .of a granddaughter, Mrs. Mary Mor
ris, Shelburn, R. 1, this morning
at 9 o'clock following an extended illness. Mrs. Sinclair was
the widow of the late . Edward Sinclair. She is survived by four grandchildren. Mfx McGill of Detroit, M'ch., Mrs. Mildred Asbury 01 Mooresville, Mrs. Margaret Smith of Sullivan', and Mrs. Mary Morris of Shelburn, R. 1. The body was taken to ' the
DAYLIGHT VIEW of the fire-wrecked Atlantic Cixy million dollar pier, where a mid-night blaze servjceg wju se held Friday caused over $200,000 damage. The collapsed roof of the famous amusement pier lies in the smould- afternoon at 2 o'clock. Burial will erfng ruins. ' (International Soundphoto.) be in Center Ridge Cemetery. -
for the past two years -on plans
j to join the two organizations and
their insurance departments.
The BLFE chief said a similar referendum is now being conducted among the membership of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers headed by Alvanley Johnston but fnat ,the results
probably will not be known for 'two or three weeks. "If the two unions join forces, the merger will bring engineers, firemen and hostlers on practic
ally every rialroad in the United States and Canada under the same banner," Robertson said. Robertson said details of the merger, if it isapproved by the BLE, will be worked at joint conventions of the two unions.
DISMISS CHARGE AGAINST FOUR The State asked the Circuit Court to dismiss a charge of entering to commit a felony against Howard Matlock, Frank Lee, Carl Spice, and Norman Kraemer. The court dismissed the charge.
HAZEL BUTLER GRANTED DIVORCE Hazel M. Butler was granted a divorce from Alfred L. Butler in the Sullivan Circiiit Court.
UNDERGOES OPERATION Mrs. Gertrude Potter of Sullivan underwent a major operation at the Mary Sherman Hospital Monday.
KRAEMER FINED lv cmcurr court Norman M. Kraemer was fined $1 and costs in Circuit Court yesterday for public intoxication.
TODAY'S TEMPERATURES The unofficial temperatures
Sullivan today were: at 7:30 a.m 52 degree at noon 65 degrees
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