Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 51, Number 186, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 19 September 1949 — Page 1
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Russia Agrees
To Meeting On Austrian Treaty WASHINGTON, Sept. 19. (U.R) The State Department announced today that Russia has accepted a U. S. proposal that deputies of the Big Four foreign ministers reconvene in New York Sept. 22 to take up again the Austrian peace treaty question. The Department said the Big Three Western ambassadors called on Acting Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Moscow after the Big Three ministers, meeting here, had formally expressed hope that Russia , would agree to reopen the Austrian question. "The acting foreign minister of the Soviet Union accepted on behalf of his government the proposal already ma'de for the resumption of the meetings of the deputies on the Austrian treaty convening on Sept. 22 in New York; and assured the three ambassadors that the Soviet deputy would participate," a Department announcement said. The ambassadors handed Gromyko parallel notes amplifying Ihe Big Three communique, which stressed' the importance attached by the West to an early Austrian tieaty. The announcement said "the outstanding points of difference were outlined" at the meeting between Gromyko and the ambassadors.
In 1943 Russia, -France agreed that been conquered by was not a Nazi ally that at conclusion
Austria s status would ,te- - reaffirmed by a "treaty of hidependence.". . , . " .. A .
But the foreign ministers and
Britain and Austria had Hitler and They agreed of the war,
Dairy Show Tickets Go On Sale Here Plans were announced today by the County Extension Office for the advance sale of tickets to the International Dairy Exposition October 8-15 at Indianapolis, The Sullivan County Farm Bureau Co-Op is purchasing Sullivan County's allotment of 750 tickets. , Five district chairmen throughout the county are assisting with the actual drive. These men are Norman Koenig, Haddon Township; Mason Taylor, Hamilton Township; C. W. Kester, Fairbanks Twp.; Fred F. Bays; Gill Township; and Lowell Hale, Cass Township. Tickets are then being resold to farm implement stores, feed stores, Dairy Herd Improvement Association members, directors of the Artificial Breeder's Association, and other individuals interested in the dairy industry. In the advance sale the tickets will be available for 40c, which will be a saving of one-third since they will cost 60c at the g&te. It is hoped that everyone will cooperate 100 in the sale of tckeits for this big event October 8-15.
Cripps Rules Out
Steet Strike Looms As Ching Begins Efforts
Noland Rally Draws Crowd To Shakamak
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Pay Raise, Cut Social Spending LONDON, Sept. 19 (UP) Sir Stafford Cripps today ruled out any possibility of general wage increases and promised no cuts would be made in defense and social service spending as a result of the devaluation of the pound from $4.03 to $2.80. The Chancellor of the Exchequer appeared before 400 re
porters for cross examination ! the people in the district and of I
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A large and enthusiastic crowd of Democrats from Sullivan, Clay and Greene Counties, attended the rally for Representative James E. Noland, of the Indiana Seventh District, at Shakamak State Park Saturday night. - Congressman Noland was the
UAVV Sets Strike Legion Meeting
Deadline Aaainst! Here Attracts
Ford Company
DETROIT, Sept. 19 (UP) The CIO Unite3Auto Workers today set a strnce deadline of Thursday, Sept 29, against the Ford Motor Company unless fourth-round economic demands are met. UAW's President Walter P. Reuther gave Ford notice of in-
principal speaker for the occasion j tent to cancel his union's contract and he talked about the needs of at that time.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19. (U.R) CIO President Philip Murray said todav that a nation-wide
sleel strike will begin at midnight Iceland was the' latest
Saturday unless the steel com- "ounce a decision to devalue, its nnmioc coffin Voio anH nnw" rn krona to its established
their deputies have been unable ' the basis of the recommendations w'th the pound.
less tnan Zi nours after he an
nounced the devaluation which precipitated the most critical situation in international finance since Britain went off the gold standard 18 years ago. Winston Churchill, leader of the Conservative party, asked the Labor government to recall Parliament from its summer and autumn recess not later than next week to consider the devaluation crisis. Cripps showed determination to hold the line: against a spiral of Inflation which almost certainly would bring a general election before next summer, with the Laborite regime at stake. Is Confident The austere financial secretary appeared confident that devaluation of the pound and establishment of a new relations between it and the dollar would help the entire world. As Cripps spoke, the round of adjustments of other currencies to the new, situation : continued.
to an-
his desire to serve them
best of his ability. Mr. Noland did not discuss the issues of the day. Rather he stuck to the needs of the people and the best way those needs could be serve3. The Congressman was Introduced by Lieutenant-Governor James A. Watkins, who served as master of ceremonies for the meeting. Miss Theodora Kelly, court reporter for the appelate and supreme courts of the state, was present and she also said a few words. Matt Welch, of Vincennes, district chairman, and Mrs. Mildred Hitch, of Princeton, district vice-chairman, were also introduced and spoke briefly. The county chairmen and vicechairmen from the three counties were introduced by Mr. Watkins. A large crowd from Sullivan County, including Hubert Sevier, county chairman; Mrs. Essie Fuller, county vice-chairman; Fred F. Bays, former state chairman,
and John Knox Purcell, prosecut ing attorney, attended the meet ing. " "'' " " Y
to agree on terms of the treaty, iof President Truman's fact-find-
ana Austria has remained under I ing board
age
Death Takes Mrs. Susie Morris Mrs. Susie Reagon Morris
81, passed away this morning at
I o clock at the home of her step-daughter, Mrs. Charles Bostick, with whom she had made her home for the past four years. Surviving are the step-children, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bostick; one brother, Tom Bodgers of Sullivan; two sisters, Mrs. Rhoda Glover and Mrs. Nora Sysbesma of Terre Haute; three foster sons, Willard Booker, Harold Wilhoit, and Elmer Henry, all of Terre Haute. The body was returned to the residence at 401 North State Street Tuesday. Funeral services will be held at the residence at II o'clock Wednesday with continued services at the Church of Christ, 12th Street and 8th Avenue in Terre Haute Wednesday afternoon at 1 o'cock Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery.
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Murray laid down that ultimatum at the opening of a unionmanagement peace conefrence called and sponsored by Cyrus S. Ching, director of the Federal Mediation Service.
Merchants Game Is Rained Out The Ranes-O'Daniel and Mer
chents game that was scheduled
for yesterday had to be cancelled on account of wet grounds.
Next Sunday the Merchants will be hosts to the Commercial Solvents in what will probably be the last game of the season depending on the outcome of the league playoffs. The league all-star game that is scheduled for the Sunday following the end of the series between Holscher Motors and the Prison has been selected to be played at Pavilion field. The playoffs are three best ut of five, with Holschers holding a one-game win over the Prison.
ASSISTANT HOME
AGENT LEAVES Miss Jean Godfrey, who has been assistant home demonstration agent in the county agent's office, has resigned her- position to resume her studies at Indiana State Teachers College.
Rejects Pay Raise. The Presidential fact-finding board recommended Sept. 10 against giving the steelworkers a fourth-round wage increase, but it proposed insurance and pension benefits that would cost the steel companies 10 cents an hour for each employe. Murray, who heads the CIO
steelworkers, made it plain he was not demanding an
mediate grant of the welfare recommendations as the price of peace in the industry. But he said the steel companies must agreed to negotiate on those recommendations now. "Of course, neither party is bound by these recommendations," Murray said. "It is a false issue to assert this at the present time. The real question is whether the parties will accept the recommendations now they 'have been rendered by the board ai
the basis for a prompt settlement." , Reject Recommendations. He said the companies "thus far have rejected the board's, recommendations as the basis for settlement' Murray accused the steel com
panies of trying to "go through the motions of collective bargaining without reference to the board's report and recommendations." More than 70 steel companies were invited to the meeting here, but only 37 were represented when it began. The industry delegation was headed by Benjamin
F. Fairless, president of
Steel Corporation. Ching opened the conference by telling union and industry representatives that the mediation service wanted to .be helpful. "We have no Dower to force anvbodv
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Then he asked "anybody who has anything to say" to start talking.
France tensely ' awaited an anticipated devaluation of the franc, which was expected to be relatively small. Italy seemed likely to fall in line. Informed quarters at The Hague said the Dutch cabinet had decided to devalue the guilder in relation to the U. S. dollar. ; "No one in . their wildest dreams could think there is any possibility of the rate going lower," Cripps said, disclosing he had chosen a rock bottom price. He said it was quite clear" that the recessi6iy?n'Jthe United States was diminishing. But his hope for improvement in ihe British situation, he said,, was
that ! not dependent, on that.
lm- "It is quite impossible to ssv
what is going to happen,"' he said, until all the other countries decide what they ar going to do about their currencies.
DIVORCE CASE IS CONTINUED A divorce suit filed by Roxie Kelsey against Bryan Kelsey has been continued to Oct. 3, 1949, in the Sullivan Circuit Court. Joe Lowdermilk is sitting as special
judge in the action.
Couple On Crutches Begin Honeymoon BROWNSBURG, Ind., Sept. 19. (UP) Mr. arid : Mrs. Jimmy Wilson honeymooned on crutches today. Twenty-two-year-old Jimmy, a polio victim since 1944, married Mary Jane Purdue,' age 21, who was stricken by the dread disease in 1941, Saturday night. It was a sundown ceremony at the Methodist Church. The marriage climaxed a romance which began in 1945,
when both were patients in the
Rotary Convalescent Home in Indianapolis, an adjunct of the Indiana University Medical Center. The couple didn't plan a wedding trip until next summer. Then they planned to go to Wisconsin for some fishing. Jimmy is working as an apprentice watch-maker now, having completed a vocational rehabilitation course. Jimmy is about ready to take his examination as a licensed, watchmaker, and will open his own watch repair shop. if he passes it.
A strike of Ford's 115.000 Dro-
to the i duction employees would shut
down 33 plants across the nation, idle tens of thousands of other workers in . a short time and choke off production of 6,340 cars a day. Cancellation of the contract meant a strike under the UAW's traditional "no contract, no work policy." However, there was no breakoff in negotiations and settlement of the UAW's pension, health insurance and other demands' still was considered, likely before the strike deadline. Termination of the contract, extended on a day to day basis since July 15, was taken as a bid by Reuther to strengthen his hand at the bargaining table. . It was the first crack in the curtain of secrecy that has surrounded negotiations since early last week. Reuther is seeking companyfinanced $100 pensions for workers over 60 with 25 years experience, a health insurance program and a fourth round wage increase. Ford reportedly lias offered a
fpension and health program bas
ed on recommendations of the presidential fact-finding board in
the steel dispute.
Big
Audience
The Seventh District American Legion meeting held in Sullivan over the week-end was a huge success from all angles, local Legion officials reported today. The crowd that heard Frank Jessup, department vice-commander at the Legion Home Sunday afternoon was about as lare as could be handled. Mr. Jeisup spoke on the activities of "front" organizations and of the danger they constitute to the American way of life. He told the large audience that
their main point is violence
while the American people are peace loving. He said that the' constitute the biggest danger to our government. Large crowds lined the streets Sunday afternoon to witness the parade that was a part of the district meeting. There were seven bands Md six floats entered in the line of march, along with the marching Legionnaires. The Midland High School band won first prize in the band contest and the Brazil L3gion band was second. Jasonville's high school band won third priz. First prize for floats went Ho the Sullivan G.AJl. floar, with Boy Scout Troop 55 winning second prize. The polio float
entered from Meron won prize.
third
Hog Prices Drop
As Farmers Unload CHICAGO, Sept. 19. (UP) The price of pork-on-the-hoof dropped today as the heaviest run of hogs and cattle in nearly a year poured into Midwestern stockyards. The heavy supply marked the opening of the fall marketing season and government analysts predicted that meat prices probably will decline at neighborhood butcher shops this fall and winter.
Hpg prices opened 25 cents ttvi
$1 lower at the major Midwestern markets. Cattle prices were steady a; the opening.
Union Rejects
MoPac Settlement ST. LOUIS, Sept. 19. (UP) Union officials said today that their "rejection" of an offer to settle the 11-day-old Missouri Pacific Railroad strike left the door open for further negotiations. The officials, representing 5,000 engineers, firemen, conductors and trainmen, forwarded their
'reply to a railroad proposal to
ena the strike and let a special Presidential board decide the controverted . grievances which caused therflvalkout. Details of the reply were not disclosed, but R. E. Davidson, spokesman for hte union negotiators, said it wasn't an "entire rejection." Cotton Belt trains, meanwhile, operated normally over tracks used jointly with the Mo Pac. The Cotton Belt Saturday obtained an injunction against picketing of tracks between Thebes, 111., and St. Louis.
Walkou
in notes
Welfare
t Closes Pits
t lotndut
Payments
MARRIAGE LICENSE
The 12 Midwestern markets received an estimated 136,000 cattle, 17,000 calves, 56,000 sheep and lambs and an estimated 74,000 hogs. A week ago today the
terminals received 59,000 hogs. I Betty Frakes of Sullivan, and An Agriculture Department Charles Butler of Sullivan, R. 1, spokesman said the run was the have been issued a marriage largest since Nov. 15, 1948. I license by the county clerk.
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 19. (UP) John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers closed the nation's soft and hard coal fields today in a "no welfare, no work" strike. No formal walkout call was issued, but the miners quickly closed virtually all pits in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Utah and Wyoming, field reports showed. All of UMW's 480,000 members were joining in the protest to the suspension of welfare fund payments resulting' from refusal of operators to continue 20-cent a ton royalty
payments into the fund until Lewis agrees to a new waga contract.
Hugh White, president of UMW District 12 in Illinois.
styled the walkout as "just an individual pretest against the
temporary cancellation of all welfare benefits."
In many fields, the miners reported at the mine entrances, then, dumped the water from their lunch buckets, the traditional strike sign, and returned home. The strike was "kicked off" by 8,000 Utah and Wyoming miners last Friday after Lewis bitterly assailed several Southern operators for withholding millions of dollars from the welfare fund. The strike sentiment quickly' spread- to Eastern fields, where the miners were, taking a long week-end under the three-day week imposed east of the Missisopi by Lewis when (the minrs' contract expired last June. Local unions met throughout the week end. In Western Pennsylvania, at least 12 locals took formal strike votes. In other locals, unofficial agreements to quit work were . reached" " " Pickets Leave Scattered pickets appeared in Pennsylvania, but they left the mine entrances when it appeared the no-work sentiment was solid. The walkout, if extended, will cut thousands of tons of coal from the nation's stockpile,, already depleted by the miners' short work week, strengthening Lewis' hand in the current negotiations. Lewis is scheduled to meet With Southern producers at Bluefield, W. Va., tomorrow and with Northern and Western producers at White Sulphur Springs, V. Va., the following day. - The welfare fund strike also closed Pennsylvania anthracits pits with 78,000 miners idle. With the winter heating season approaching, a continued walkout
, In these fields could seriously cut
Find Another Body In Hull Of Burned Steamer TORONTO, ept. 19. (UP) Another body was found today iboard the charred hull of the rteamer Noronic, bringing the toal known dead to 120. The government ordered the ;rew of the Noronic to a secret inquiry to check "all aspects" of the dockside fire. Questioning of the crew began is five divers descended again
into submerged sections of me Aarred huU of the 6,905-ton pleasure boat to search for bodies of 171 passengers still listed as missing. Officials doubted, however, that the death toll would rise much higher. Some 361 of the ship's 685 passengers were reported safe, with 34 in hospitals. It was believed that most of those unaccounted for had ' left the scene for their homes without reporting their escape. Only 29 of the 119 bodies recovered had been identified. The Canadian Transport Department, said its official investigator, Capt. William N. Morrison, would interview officers and crewmembers Of the ill-fated vessel behind closed doors on "all aspects of the disaster." This confidential inquiry preceded a formal government investiation, to be open to the public, later this week, the department said.
Three other investigations to fuel supplies for householders.
determine the cause of the trag- Refuse To Work edy also were underway. They I in West Virginia,, largest of the were being conducted by the soft coal producing states, the Canada Steamship Lines, owner walkout spread rapidly throughof the vessel, city officials of 0ut the week-end and few of the Cleveland, and the insurance firm state's 118,000 miners were exwhich had insured the ship for n ia mi tnHau
(Golden Arrows Trounce Washington
MARGARET PATTON GRANTED DIVORCE
Margaret Patton was granted a divorce from Russell Patton in the Sullivan Circuit Court.
FrlFu' Bro.
REVIVAL MEETING Revival meetines started day jiight, Sept. 16, at the Gospel Mission Church.
Wade will bring the message each night. Services will begin at 7 o'clock. Everyone is welcome. Bro. Emery Dilley is the
pastor.
The Golden Arrows came back in the last half of their first football game of the season with the Washington Hatchets Friday night to chalk up a free-scoring 38 to 19 S.I.A.C. win over the Hatchets at Allen Field. For the first half it looked as though the Hatchets might win their first football game in history over the Arrows, but the locals, playing a much improved
United; brand of football in the last
half, soon built up a commanding lead.
The Hatchets had the advantage of one game under their belt, and they apparently used it to sharpen up both their offense and defense. On the other hand the locals made the usual firstgame mistakes and had to be content with a' 12 to 12 half time score. . . , Good Offense
The locals showed a three-man
backfield offense that rolled up
17 first downs in offense, while the Hatchets mustered 7 first downs. The Arrows completed
half of their 16 passes, and had one intercepted. ' Washington tried 6 and completed one, and that in the last minute of play.
The Arrows snagged one Hatchet pass. .
More than half of the first per
iod was gone before the Arrows
broke into the scoring column.
Gines kicked out of bounds to
the Arrow 21 yard line, and three plays later the Arrows scored.
Don McClure began the march with five yards over right guard, '
and then Skip Oldham hit the
same spot for four yards. Frank Brown, playing his first varsity game, broke over his own left guard and with the aid of two beautiful, blocks sprinted 70 yards for the touchdown. The try for point was no good and the Arrows led 6 to 0. The Hatchets came right back and marched down the field after the kickoff with Gines making the last 30 yards on an end run to tie the score. Their try for point failed, and the score was 6 to 6. McClHire Scores
With Vaino Grayam tossing two to Bob Banks, one .for 49 yards and the other for 19 yards,
the Arrows' went right back into the lead. McClure got the touch
down by going through the center for the last two yards. Again
the try for point was no good, and the Arrows led 12 to 6. But five plays after the next kickoff Washington had moved
back into a 12 to 12 tie. Gines
scored again plunging through
center for the last eignt yards. That was the way the first half went. i
The Hatchets received to open
the second half,, and after pick
ing up a first down and moving into Arrow territory. Gines kicked out of bounds on the Arrow 4
yard line. The Arrows, forgetting the passing attack that had worked well in the second quarter, proved they also had a running attack. , . Oldham Runs With Skip Oldham bearing the brunt of the drive, the Arrows moved all the way down the
picked up 2 and Oldham hit the line for 10 to move the ball to the Washington 16, Brown's nine yards and six by McClure set the
stage for Oldham to plunge that last yard for the touchdown. When Grayam passed to Banks for the point, the Arrows led 19
to 12. . The fourth period opened hot
and heavy. On the first play of
the period McClure caught a Gines pass and ran it back to the Washington 19. Two plays later McClure picked up 15 more and a touchdown, and the score was 25 to 12.
The Arrows, apparently, let down for a moment, and Gines ran the kickoff back 90 yards for a touchdown, and the Hatchets were back in the game, 25 to 19.
Scores Again
The Hatchets couldn't gain and
field for a touchdown. Skip got had to kick, the ball going out
14, then 15, then 11, then 17. That i on their own 39 yard line. Old
put the ball on the Washington ham got 4, and then McClure
43, where a penalty moved it back five yards. Brown got 5, McClure hit for 6, Oldham picked up 4 and McClure picked up 3 more for a first down on the Hatchet 31. Oldham got 5 more, McClure
went around his left end, cut heck beautifully, and took it
over for the score, making it 31
to 19.
That was all for the Hatchets,
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Thirty Injured In Railroad Wreck
More than 30,000 miners in Illinois and Indiana refused to work under what one mins spokesman called the United Mine Workers' new "no pension, no work" policy. A few workers showed up for the first shift today, according to
mine officials, but they left when
shift failed to
NEWTON, N. C. Sept. 19. (U.R) A speeding passenger train of
the Southern Railwav Dluntreri off
its tracks early today and Newton 1 the rest of the
Hospital estimated 30 persons j show. were injured, several critically. In Illinois. 23,000 members of
The diesel engine and four cars'ine unnea Mine worsers failed
derailed and careened into a 12- i to work. In Indiana, 8,500 miners foot ditch as the train approached refused to enter the pits. Tho
the station here. , miners reiusea to woric r.eeaus3
Most of the passengers escaoed their pension fund payments. n?i
serious injury because four Pull
mans on the end broke loose and continued down the track.
The train was bound from Sal
isbury, N. C, to Asheville, N. C,
with sleeping cars from New York.
COURT CALENDAR
The court calendar for the
week beginning Monday, Sept.
19th is as foljows: Monday, Sept. 19 Motions and rules; Kelsey vs. Kelsey; Banfield vs. Banfield. Tuesday, Sept. 20 State vs. Powell; State vs. Walters. Wednesday, Sept. 21 Ravellette vs. Ravellette; Mayfield vs, All- Points Van Lines, Inc. Thursday, Sept. 22 Nichols vs. Ohio Oil Company (two cases). Friday, Sept. 23 Moyer vs. Moyer.
Saturday, &ept. Z4 noes vs.
Boes; Pinkston vs. Pinkston;
Moore vs. Moore.
been halted. John L. Lewis, UMW president,, stopped pension payments last Friday becau?' coal operators had refused to make their payments to the UMW fund. '
Strike Unfair One management spokesmen in the Southern Illinois fields said "the strike is particularly unfair to Illinois operators.' He said "we've kept up our welfare fund payments' and have money ready now for th next
installment" which is due Thurs
day. Along with other mine
operators, he indicated that nono
of the Illinois mine companies
are withholding payments, ,even
now that a strike is underway.
TODAY'S TEMPERATURES
in
The unofficial temperatures Sullivan today were: ,
at 7:30 a.m. 80 degrees
at noon-.. 74 degrees
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