Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 51, Number 193, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 28 September 1949 — Page 1
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WEATHER CLEAR AND COOL
Indiana: Clearing and cool with scattered frost tonight. Thursday
fair and cool.
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Churchill Says Devaluation Is Disaster
R. H. Shackfsrd United Press Staff Correspondent . LONDON, Sept. 28 (UP) Winston Churchill denounced devaluation as a "disaster" today and demanded an early general election to give the British people a chance to oust the Labor government. . "The hour is grave," the Conservative leader and wartime prime minister told the House of Commons. He ripped into the socialist regime with all the vigor of his famous wartime speeches. Cheered wildly when he rose to speak on the second day of debate on devaluation, Churchill said three things called for quick elections the financial crisis, the party conflict, and the atomic bomb. "Over all there looms the atomic bomb which the Russians have got before the British, though happily not before the
Americans," he told the tense i Cnarles Schenk, president of the
Harold Pirtle Honored Tuesday
Harold Pirtle, Sullivan, R. 5,
was honored Tuesday night, Sep
tember 27, by being crowned
wheat king of Indiana. This
crowning was held in connection with the area wheat meet'
ing held in the Junior High School auditorium at Vincennes.
Charles Stevens of Iglehear Bros., Inc., Evansville, presented Mr. Pirtle with a $100 Hamilton gold watch. A beautiful trophy was presented to O. K. Ander
son, county agent, which is to be
kept in the Sullivan County Extension Office for one yeai Thi trophy will have Mr. Pirtle'i name placed on it. This is thr first year that a Sullivan County farmer has ever won the contes' ad had a record yield production. . Mr. Pirtle told those presen' at the meeting, what practices h used to produce 57 Vz bushels of Vigo wheat per acre. The main talk of the evening was given by Dr. Earl Butz, head of the agrcultural economcs department at Purdue University
House and the jammed galleries. Churchill placed the full blame for Britain's plight on "what he called the socialist government's squandering of the country's resources. - "We are brought to the verge of national and international bankruptcy," he said. "The blunt, hard, simple conclusion remains devaluation cannot be a good thing, and we have suffered a serious disaster." He said he would have set the pound free on the world markets to find its own level.
icknell Clerks
Vin Hours Battle BICKNELL, Ind., 'Sept. 28 (UP) Retail mercants admitted today that their bid to stay open Thursday afternoons and later on .Saturday nights to "cater to the .farm trade" had failed.
terday extending for -another j'aar a contract with a clerk's union which provide 'that stores close at noon Thursdays and 8 p.m. Saturdays. The merchants, members of a trade association, had demanded that the United Construction Workers' Local affiliated with ihe United Mine Workers make the Thursday closing optional with individual clerks and extend the Saturday closing hour to 9 p.m. The merchants had offered to pay time and one-half for extra hours the clerks did not want to work. Pirkptins at some' stores last
week forced a few to close and others to operate with skeleton trews.
Southwestern Indiana Wheat Im
provement Association, wachairman of the meeting. J. B Kohlmeyer and Phil Connelly o Purdue University, discussed th results of the area contest. H. R Lathrope, wheat specialist, madt a report on the various demonstration and fertilizer plots carried on. in, 1949. Mr. Stevens presented award? to all the county winners in ihe area and each received $15.0f cash award and a certificate.
Eugene Johanningsmeier, Jefferson Township 4-H Club member and county 4-H winner in the contest, was presented a certificate and cash award.
MARRIAGE LICENSE A marriage license has been issued by the county clerk to Delia Veva Ranard of Dugger, and Clarence Alumbaugh of Sullivan, R. 5.
L. 6. Letterman D.A.V. Commander
.The Disabled American Veterans met Tuesday evening for their oreanization. meeting and
the following officers were elect
ed for . the. coming year: - Com mander, L. B. Letterman, Sr.
vice-commander, Bob Orr, Jr.;
vice-commander, Arthur Thom
son; treasurer, Paul Woodard; chaplain, Paul Hayden, and Tom Jennings, Adjutant.Service officer. The chapter decided to hold a "Forget-me-not" drive on Saturday, November 5th throughout Sullivan County. The next meetirlg will be the
third Friday in October at the
Sullivan Legion Post, 7:30 p.m. , i
Vishinsky Hears Yugoslav Blast Russia.
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WHILE YUGOSLAV MINISTER of Foreign Affai's Edvard Kardelj (left), delivers a fiery address before the U.N. at Flushing Meadow, challenging Russia to prove to "Marshal Tito and the whole world" that she "Wants peace, Andrei Y. Vishinsky, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs arrow-left) listens in grim silence. Following Kardelj 's blast in which he also branded the trial of Hungarian Communist Rajk a "sordid fabrication," Vishinsky left the meeting, pleading indisposition. :v (International Soundphotos.)
Cold Weather
Moving South
HOSPITAL NOTES
Admitted' Sept. 27: Mrs. Leota Hunt of Shelburn; Mrs. Lois Wence of Sullivan, R. 4. Admitted Sept. 28:, Frank Linnell of -226 West Giles Street; Wilbur Monk of Sullivan, R. 2. Dismissed Sept. 27: Jerry Phegley of Carlisle, R. 2; Price Wilson of 419 North Main Street.
:rom Canada
, CHICAGO, Sept. 28 (UP) I'he season's coldest weather will coot down from Canada tonight o put an end to the growing season in much ef the Midwest, weatner forecasters said. " The weather bureau said that temperatures as low as 15 to 20 were expected in Northern Illinois and Iowa. Forecasters said there isn't much left in the way of crops to damage except some late vegetables. Corn farmers, in fact, should welcome the frost since it will kill the corn and allow it to dry, they said. , Car owners in. Illinois are safe, the bureau said, but motorists in Northern ; Wisconsin and Minnesota may have to go out
for some anti-freeze.
The cold mass moved across
the Dakotas last night sending
temperatures downward as low
as 20 in Pembina, N. Dak.
""Cloudiness in Michigan will
keep temperatures ' there slightly above the frost level, the iorecasters said.
By Friday, thermometers over
most; of the Midwest will begin to edge upwards again.
"Nothing unusual," the fore
casters said, "just typical fall
weather to put a little frost on
the pumpkin.
Minton Hearing Revives Fight
To Pack Supreme Court In 1937
Bv Lvle C. Wilson
United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. 28. (U.R) Political wounds long since healed began to throb today because Judge Sherman Minton was
invited to appear at his conven-
ton introduced in the Senate back in 1938 which generally was held to threaten violence to the Constitutional concept of free press and speech.
The Supreme Court bill, of
which Minton was a foremost de
fender, was proposed to Congress
ience before the Senate Judiciary by the late fdr on Feb. 5, 1937
Committee to tell how he feels It was dead and buried in the now about the Supreme Court fnes 0f the Senate Judiciary Cornpacking bill of 1937. Imittee roughly four and one half Onlv 20 Dresent Senators were months later after the bitterest
here during that famous fight. Of political row since the Senate the judiciary committee which ; scuttled the League of Nations
voted 5 to 4 to summon Minton, ! nearly 30 years ago. only one was in the battle. The' The bill would have given Mr
committee veteran is Chairman Roosevelt a chance to name some
Pat McCarran, D., Nev. .1 Supreme Court justices. It would
Jndee Minton is President Tru- have increased the number of
man's nominee to the Supreme Court to succeed the late Wiley B. Rutledge. Usual procedure in promoting a Federal judge is for the judiciary committee to recommend his confirmation without a hearing. That is doubly true of a nominee who also is a former Senator. Judge Minton was a swashbuckling New Dealer when he represented Indiana on Capitol Hill. " ' Sens. Homer Ferguson, R., Mich., and Forrest C Donnell, R., Mo, raised the questions which
persuaded the Democratic-controlled committee to . summon
Minton, Ferguson and Donnell
said they wanted to hear his pre
sent philosophy on the composition of the Supreme Court and, also, something about a bill Min-
Wholesale Food Price Index Drops NEW YORK, Sept. 28. (UP)
The Dun & Bradstreet wholesale food price index dropped another
five cents this week to $5.67, one
cent above the 28-month low es
tablished on Feb. 8, the agency disclosed today. The index has now dropped 18 cents in the past two weeks. Last week's 13-cent drop was the widest break in over seven months. In the corresponding week of last year the index stood at .6.70, 15.4 per cent above the current figure. s 1 The index is the sum total of the price per pound of 31 foods at wholesale, In the latest week ended Sept. 27, nine of the foods advanced, 12 declined and 10 held unchanged. ' , l Prices of flour, wheat, corri,
rye, oats, barley, sugar, coffee- aniiu
tea advanced, while beef, hams, lard, cottonseed oil, cocoa, beans, eggs, potatoes, steers, hogs, lambs and butter declined. Remaining unchanged were bellies, cheese, peas, peanuts, rice, molasses, currants, prunes, milk and raisins. . ' . .
men on the high bench, and Senate Majority Leader Joe T. Robinson of Arkansas killed himself
in the effort to get that astonish
ing legislation through. Minton was second in command of administration troops. He charged that ailing and incompetent Justices were refusing to resign although they scarcely
could work because they
4-H Club Leaders
Meet Tuesday
Sixty-five 4-H Junior Leaders,
adult leaders, and 4-H parents,
were present at the regular
monthly 4-H Junior Leaders
meeting held at the Fairbsnks
High School Tuesday night, September 27.
The meeting was opened w'th
the 4-H pledge and pledge to the
flag. Group singinu was led bv
Jacqueline Crew. A panel dis
cussion, "Planning Your Local
Achievement Program" was he'd
with Jacqueline Crew, Pansy Ruth Chambers, Marilyn Sproatt, and Sara Sue Phegley, partici
pating and Mrs. Faye Spiece, home demonstration agent, act
ing as chairman. The movie. "Where The Road Turns Right" was shown. Refreshments were served by the Fairbanks Junior Leaders. The next meeting of the 4-H Junior Leaders will be held at tibit Hall in Merom on October 25th at 7:30 p. m.
Methodist Men Planning Supper The men of the Sullivan Methodist Church are planning a supper for Wednesday, Oct. 19, to be given at the church. The supper will be followed by a social and recreational program. Committees for the supper have been named. Glean Morgan is
chairman of the food committee
and other members are Bob Rose, Clafence Skinner, and George Walters.
The members of the room committee are Burdge,' Monroe Griggs, Strawn and Johnson Bell
program committee are the nev. E. E. Aldrich, Tom McRoberts, and William ihompaan.
Cut In Salary Raise For Top Officials Seen
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28. (U.R) Sen. Ralph E. Flanders, R., Vt., protested today against a plan to scale down pay raises for key government executives below the levels endorsed by President Truman. But despite objections by Flanders and others, the plan appeared to have the Senate votes needed to substitute it for the more generous pay scale approved by the Senate Civil Service Committee for top level officials. The Senate planned to debate and perhaps vote on the bill today. The committee measure would raise government executive
salaries, for 240 jobs,, with a ceil
ing pay of $25,000 going to cabinet members. They now get $15,000.
Thirty - four Senators were sponsoring the substitute to raise cabinet salaries to $22,500 with a $15,000 ceiling on other jobs, except for five in the White House. Senate Leader Scott W. Lucas, D., 111., conceded that critics of the committee bill had the votes to block it unless its supporters agreed to more modest increases in the government salary scale. Hence, he was willing to accept the substitute. After disposing of the executive pay bill, the Senate planned to take up legislation to raise the pay of post office workers. The bill would increase pay checks for postmasters, carriers, and other employes a total of $61.-000,000.
Hope For Settlement let re Steel Strike Deadlinelooms; Bargain On New Level Today
Postage Rate Increase Bill Expected Soon WASHINGTON, Sept. 28. (U.R) Americans faced a possible in
crease in postage rates today to offset a pending pay( raise for Post Office workers.
Chairman Tom Murray, D.,
Tenn., of the House Post Office
Committee said he hoped to have
ready for House consideration soon a bill to boost rates $125,000,000 a year. The Senate Post
Office Committee already has approved a similar measure. The House yesterday voted 332 to 2 to up the Post Office payroll by $183,000,000. The 450,000 postal workers would get $150 each, plus $100 'to $300 extra for some
in the lower pay brackets.
The Senate hoped to get around
to a similar, but less liberal, measure promptly. It would hold average raises to $100 and would up the Post Office's costs by $61,-
000,000 a year.
Murray said the Post Office ran into the red for $533,000,000 in theyear ended July 1, and, with the proposed pay raise, probably will ring up a deficit this year of
about $730,000,000.
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 28. (UP) CIO and U. S. Steel Corp., negotiators opened bargaining on a new level today with a company offer to meet the "money" recommendations of the steel board's pension-insurance formula, v Reports "of a "major" development came from industry sources as the conferees gathered. Hopes for a compromise settlement before the Saturday deadline for a strike of 500,000 basic steel workers zoomedAfter a two hour morning session, the conference recessed for lufich. The negotiators refused any comment ether than that the meeting would be resumed this afternoon.
u. s. bteel offered to pay the . D, t . . . . . : r six cento ner h..r nr maJBut insisted th employes also
wor' contribute.
for insurance, recommended by President Truman's fact-finders.
Yugoslavs Send Nine Hungarian
Diplomats Home
ArmedNonUnion Miners Working; No Interference
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 28 (UP) Heavily-armed non-union coal miners worked without interference from raiding .bands of United Mine Worker pickets today, but State Police' were fearful of renewed outbreaks of shootings. , The first volley of gunfire since the non-union diggers took up arms to back up their determination to work burst in the Northern Pennsylvania soft coal fields. A police-escorted truck convoy was fired on last night while transporting coal to Lewistown, Pa.
The. convoy, moving down Gnowshoe Mountain, was ambushed by a group of stonetnrowing pickets. State Police arrested one picket and routed
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Sept. the rest while the convoy con28 (UP) Yugoslavia stepped i tinned.
up the Balkan dispute- today- by k - -
dining Ronald Henry On the
MAN KILLED IN ACCIDENT
MARTINSVILLE, Sept. 28.
(UP) Archer Lambuth, age 54, Evanston, 111., was killed last night and his wife, Louise, was
did injured seriously when their car,
not want to give FDR a chance to put New Dealers in their places.
He had something there. He
charged Chief Justice Charles
Evans Hughes with political
trickery in maneuvering against the bill. Tempers were hot and the opposition led by Democrats
charged that the court bill ultl mately would destroy the Re public.
driven by Mrs. Lambuth, collided
with a big truck on Ind. 37 near here.
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. ancl Mrs. George Rogers of 462 South Troll Street, are the
parents of a daughter, Susan
Kav. horn Kentemhpr 2fith at thi
I Mary Sherman Hospital.
Purdue Trustees Lei Building Contract LAFAYETTE, Ind., Sept. 28. (UP) Purdue University's Board of Trustees approved yesterday a combined low bid of the George A. Fuller Co. of Chicago for four building projects on the campus. They include two additional units to the women's residence
halls, an addition to the agricultural chemistry building, an extension to the Third Street tunnel and the dangerous chemicals storage building. The board did not announce the amount of money involved. But it said the company's combined bids were $169,867 lower than any other bid combination. It added that
the bid for the two residence hall units was about 12 per cent lower
than bids received on the same
project last November.
On a fifth project, the K. H. Kettlehut Co., Lafayette, was low
bidder for construction of a $37,' 150 brooder house.
The board also appointed Alfred W. Kettler, Fort Wayne, to
the Board of Directors of the Ross-Ade Foundation to succeed
Charles W. Cole of South Bend, and re-elected Mrs. John Van Ness of Valparaiso as a member
1 of the Foundation board.
State Tomato Yields Are Poor
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 28. (U.R)
Tomato picking has been com
pleted in some areas and the
yields are poor, the weather bureau reported today in its weekly crop bulletin.
Showers and cool temperatures
were blamed for the "unfavor
able" condition of the tomato
crop.
But corn is in good to excellent condition, the report said, drying
rapidly and most safe from frost, Soybeans also are good to excel
lent with yields as high as 40
bushels per acre.
Temperatures ranged from the 80's down to the week's low of 33
at Paoli.
accusing Hungary or peace treaty violations and expelled
nine Hungarian diplomats from
Belgrade.
Marshal Tito took direct
charge of the Yugoslav end of
:he quarrel by accusing Russia 3f following the old Roman rule if divide and consuer in efforts to bring Yugoslvia to heel. Tito personally authorized in
his position as acting foreign
minister the expulson of nine
Hungarian diplomats from Buda
pest
Bluntly he told Russia in a
major policy address that Soviet "rattling of arms" and "digging of trenches" created no fear among the Yugoslav people.
The Yugoslav government said
that . Hungary violated peace
treaty provisions by cutting off reparations payments to Yugoslavia.
The Balkan peace treaties pro
vided that Hungary should pay $100;000,000 to Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. The two coun
tries decided later to divide the reparations, $70,000,000 going to tugoslavia and $30,000,000 to Czechoslovagia. Hungary halted these payments in September, 1948, the Yugoslav government said, and axpelled the Yugoslav reparations committee after prolonged irgument.
More Gunfire
A few minutes later, however, another band of pickets opened fire on the trucks from hiding places along the roadside. One bullet punctured a tire, but none of the non-union drivers was hit.
'I Other bands of roving pickets toured the Western Pennsylvania coal fields, but remained a healthy distance from nonunion operations which bristled with armament. The non-union miners, angered by constant picket raidings, carried deer rifles and revolvers to work this morning. They were grimly determined iOt dig coal and openly vowed to wse theic guns if necessary to halt, the mine-closing raids. .... .. v Reduced picket activity also was reported in the West Virginia, Ohio and Illinois soft coal fields. Forceable mine-closing activity had previously been stepped, up, prompting state officials to predict "serious bloodshed" if the raiding continued.
(Federal Mediation Chief Cyrus S. Ching was expected to announce from Washington at 2 p. m., CST, that government labor mediators are ready, if need be, to step into steel contract negotiations in an effort to get a settlement before the strike deadline. Informed sources said, however, that Ching would not personally reenter the negotatons nor would he call any new bargaining conferences in Washington if current union-industry talks fail.)
Small Pay Ralie
Speculation arose that a small wage increase to offset the enployes contributions was the
key to settlement, of the dispule. This -was regarded as "within the framework" of the board's report.
Industry sources said U. S. steel's offer was marie at a sooc-
ial bargaining session last night
The offer opened the way for
"give-and-take" negotiations. '
uoiti tne company, ana union
negotiators were tight-lipped ?; they entered the conference room with less than 62 hours remaining before the strike deadlincBut the "high optimism spread ranidly through' steel company offices. Observers pointed out that if U. S. Steel's insistence on em
ploye- cnntrinii.tion to rensiri"!:
was solely a question of "principle," even a one cent an houi-
worker kickin could bring the
much-sought settlement. To Set Pattern. While the steel board recommended against a general wag:
i increase, it also specified that
(pensions and insurance should
be entirely company financed.
Relaxation both ways appeared
to be the compromise formula, industry sources said. . A U. S. Steel settlement nc doqbt would set the pattern for
the industry once more. Negot:
iations with the other major steel companies "marked time" awaiting a "break" from thr "big steel" talks. Bethlehem Steel, biggest of thr: independent producers, offered yesterday to talk pensions without prior money commitment;: and to set up a contributory insurance plan. The proposal wa. rejected by the union and negotiations recessed until after tc day's U. S. Steel meeting. Othe; negotiators in steel center throughout the country als awaited the signal from Pitts burgh.
LA GRANDE LOSES
LOTS OF WATcR
LA GRANDE, Ore., Sept. 28 (UP ) Police today sought some
one who spilled a million gallons cf water. The water came from a
series of mysteriously opened
tire' nyarants. rne reservoirs
water . level which had been
built after a ong period of
dought dropped two feet.
Indiana Apple Crop Is Good LAFAYETTE, Ind., Sept. 28. (UP) Purdue University horti
culturists reported today that
more than 200,000 bushels of ap
ples are available for sale in nine
county areas of Indiana this week.
Such varieties as Rome, Grimes
Golden, Golden Delicious, Red Delicious, Winesap, Turley, Stayr man, Jonathan and Northwest
Greenings are available in Delaware, Warrick, Elkhart, LaPorte, Lagrange, Knox, Morgan, Gibson
and Lawrence Counties.
Reliable Sources Give Many Dates Pieces For Russian A-Bomb Blast
DEMOCRATS PLAN DISTRICT PARTY
COURT FREES ,. . . . . '
MAN IN DEATH mshvillh, ina., sept. z&
SOUTH BEND, Sept. 28. (U.R) Ninth District DemoGilbert Sparks, age 38, was free' crats today planned a fish fry
of reckless homicide charges to-jand dance in Brown County day after Coroner T. C. Gorac- State Parg. President Kenneth zewski testified at his trial that "Dxitzer 6-f the Brown County Mrs. Liona Hoffman, age 73, Ar-' Democratic club announced the gos, died of pneumonia and notjprty would be held Friday night of injuries suffered when Sparks' with State Chairman Ira Hayauto hit her last Jan. 1. . maker among" the guests.
By Joseph L. Myler United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. 28. (U.R) Those shadowy characters known as "reliable sources never' were more fruitful. In the five days since President Truman disclosed that Russia has exploded the atom, these
possessors of "inside" and frequently exclusive "information" have reported from the various major capitals that: 1. The Russians exploded not one but three atomic bombs or tried to explode three bombs but
made only one go off, the others
being duds or accidentally set off an atomic explosion, ' not
realizing until the stuff blew up
that they had the makings of a
bomb or had a premature blast
of a batch of atomic explosives they hadn't meant too detonate or produced a second blast
after the one mentioned by Mr.
Truman.
2. The explosion reported by
the President took place in the Caucasus, in Transcaucasia, in the Crimea, in the Kara Kum
Desert of Central, Asia, in Far Eastern Siberia, in the Urals, in
Central Russia a little more ha'
1,600 miles east cf Moscow.
3. The explosion took place ii
August, 1946, in the fall of 191 on July 10, '1949, and last Sep;
14.
4. Russia succeeded in create
an atomic bomb in 1947, in 194i
last summer, this fall.
Out of the confusion of stor
les, reminiscent , of the Wor: War 1J days when Lisbon di;
patches quoted tales by Swedib
travelers as published in Swi newspapers, two official repor stood out:
1. President Truman's 14-wo;
statement that, "we hive ev
dence that within recent wed
an atomic explosion occurred 1
the USSR." 2. The Sent. 25 statement 1 Russia's official Tass agency th the USSR had the atomic bon in 1947 when, on Nov. 6 of th year, Former Soviet Forei; Minister V. M. Molotov said I: secret of the bomb had ceas to exist.
American authorities do r.;
believe the Tass statement. Th believe Mr. Truman was spea ing literally when he said "i cent weeKs."