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By John L. Steele ' ? United Press Staff Correspondent t-y ; WASHINGTON, Oct. 3. (UP) The Senate Judiciary f Committee today approved Judge Sherman Minton's appointment to the U S. Supreme .Court after reversing an earlier
ucciaiuii can linn 111 iu leswi. - S The nomination of the former New Deal firebrand Sena- he win make in this Part of lnd
Craig Attacks Communism In Hymera Speech George N. Craig, of Brazil, the national commander of the Am
erican Legionf ' attacked Com' munism in his talk for Veterans Night of the Hymera Miner Pic
nic last Friday night. Although the weather was cola
a large crowd atttended to hear the new national commander
make one of the few speeche
tor from Indiana was okayed by a 9 to 2 committee vote. It :jana
I now goes to the Senate fo'r confirmation. : ; The vote came after the committee reversed its decis
ion of last week to call Minton for questioning about .. his
In addition, the Rev. Tom Jennings, county .veterans affairs officer, ; received a medal from
views on the late President Roosevelt's 1937 Supremo Court Mr. Craig 0,1 behalf of the stew" l "nackino- nlan " The reversal vnto was OtnH fWimiHfco onJart-Norris Post 197 .of . Shelburn
packing plan." The reversal vote was 9 to 3. Committee ao-
i proval came as the Supreme Court opened its new term. '
iiiiuwi, wjiu was namea, to succeed the late Justice Wiley i B. Rutledge,' waited down town e s the, committee acted. He had I ( xpected rigorous questioning, tut with three additional Democratic senators voting today, the call never came, . Instead,. Acting Committee - Chairman Harley W. Kilgore, . IX, W. Va., released a letter ,! from Minton protesting the call for testimony. Minton said , it j raised a "serious question': of . propriety": since he : might be questioned on . "highly controversial" matters on which he might have to rule later - as a Supreme Court justice. Not Satisfied Sen. Homer Ferguson, R., . Mich., walked angrily out of the ; committee room saying "No, I'm ' not satisfied" with the committee - action. , ' He wanted to question Minton r.bout his stand in favor of Mr. , Roosevelt's plan to revamp the court, his role in a Senate lobbyiag investigation and his sponr rorship of a bill . some critics j thought would curb a free press.
i Ferguson declined to say
1 whether he would fight con- , firmation of the nomination on the Senate floor.
The committee last week had
Indiana Traffic Death Toll 6 OverWeenend (By United Press)
Indiana's week - end traffic death toll, moderate despite ideal weather for autumn motoring, claimed victims from 3 to 90
years old today.
: ' At least six persons were killed
Saturday nd.Sunday, ranging in age from Jthree-year-old Marilyn Parker of Wichita Falls, Tex., to 90-year-old John Hildebrand, Wayne County retired farmer. ' The little girl was killed Saturday when an automobile hit her as she ran into a Vincennes street. The car was driven by a physician, Dr. Robert Moore. . Hildebrand stepped into the path cf a car driven by. Mrs. Martha Beck, age 24, Sharon, Pa., as he got off a bus near his Centerville home. Willaim Moody Graves, age 29, Indianapolis, was killed and his wife, Fannie, injured seriously when two automobiles collided on Ind. 67 near Fortville. Jesse Otto Miller, age 66, Rollins Prairie, was killed tirhnn on
Justice Department source. -He- automobile hit him as he walked had been scheduled to tesWat along U. S. 20 near his home ' - 9:30 a. m., CST, but stayed away Don Bartman, age 20, Nap'pa--apparently on Kilgore's 'in- nee, was killed when his car side-
""""'' swipea anoiner on u. a. b near
Minton, in Ms Letter, recalled Plymouth.
, xoted 5 to 4 to call Minton for
kestioning--h unusual J action , m considering appointments to
the nation's highest bench. But
Democratic Sens. Estes Kefauv-
ciy Tenn., Frank P. Graham, N J., and James O. Eastland, Miss.
who were absent last week were
present and voting today. Early Consideration
Kilgore said he did not know when the nomination would be
.taken up in the Senate. There
were indications that the ap
pointment would be pushed to fiive the court a full panel of
judges at the earliest opportun ity.
Minton, who once sat in the
Benate alongside Mr. Truman
fiwaited committee action elsewhere in the city, according to a
that during the New Deal era ha was assistant majority whip, and as such y strongly support
ed" administration -measures
the plan' to increase the size of the court included. "". ' , :
Record Open Book : In his letter, Minton said his
record as a Senator and . Court of Appeals. judge was an open book.
Kilgore backed Minton up. He
said that only three justices-to-
be have been called before the committee in recent historyall since 1933 Frankfurter, Jus
tice Robert II. Jackson and Minton. '
for his outstanding work aftei
the tornado that struck Shelburn last spring. That work and 'hit work ; in connection with the flood at Evansville last spring won Mr. Jennings a gold medal
which Mr. . Craig also presented.
The Legion head told the
crowd that in a capitalistic democracy every man has the .right of free bargaining. ,
"You as miners," he said, have the right to elect your man
vO sit upon a board that sits down
at tables with capitalists and
bargain together.'
"You don't have to work un
less you want to.
"Communists belong to the
state and work when the state says they must."
This country was brought forth
by the life blood of many, he
continued, so you could have
freedom and rights to . bargain with whom you chose. You can not do that under Communism
and you would be foolish to try, he concluded. Large crowds attended the
four nights of th e picnic, al
though the cold weather held down the crowds at the Thursday and Friday night sessions.
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- The above picture shows Ed J. JTehn, Publisher of the Evansville Courier; and Kenny Lamb, Ha4don Township 4-H Club member and exhibitor of the Reserve Champion calf at the Tri-State Calf Show held at Evansville, Saturday, September 24. The picture was taken immediately after the calf was purchased by Mr. Fehn at the price of 75c a pound. This calf was also
Grand Champion of the Sullivan County 4-HClub Show and was
Indiana Champion at the Tri-State Show.
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Scouting !n Sullivan County Is Available To Many Boys
:r The program of Scouting has
been available to the boys of j Sullivan County almost since its f inception in 1910, For the past several . years J. A. Hankins has
headed the district administar-
ftion in Boy Scouting and' has 5 Spent much time and ' effort to see to it that every boy of , the county would have the ppportuniy, of participating in this character building program. The Boy Scout Troops and Cub Packs of Sullivan ' are in the capable hands of Scoutmaster Earl Engle and Cub Masters Rev. H. G. Weisbecker and J. Harold Pirtle, both of whom have had many years experience
in serving the youth of our city. Scout units are established in nearly every community in Sullivan County., Troop 56 in Merom
led by Roy and Paul Terrell; .Cub Pack 58 in Dugger led by
Marshall Evans; Troop and Pack 54 of Carlisle of which Robert Price and Rev. A. W. Stoneburner serve as leaders. In Shelburn Jack Taylor is the Scoutmaster of Troop 52. A Troop and Cub Pack in Farmersburg is directed by Jack Hawhee, James Riggins and Wayns Weddle. The Boy Scouts of America, in, an unprecedented . move made Scouting available to many more boys, hot only of Sullivan Coun- , ty, when on September 1, 1949 ,the age entrance to Cub Scout-
ing, Boy Scouting and Explorei Scouting was lowered by one year. Boys are having to wait to become Scouts until units, with qualified leadership, are established. Sullivan County is a big dis
trict of the Wabash Valley Coun
cil with headquarters in Terre
Haute. Clay, Putnam, Parke
Vermillion and Vigo counties in
Indiana and Edgar and Clark counties in Illinois make up the
council territory. '
The Wabash Valley Council furnishes program and training
10 r the Cubs and Scouts of our
counxy. Already me scouts are
becoming proficient in first aio
and compass skills to take part
in a council planned program
entitled, "Hidden Valley," an adventure program that is to hap
pen this fall in an undisclosed
territory which will - challenge
the camping, iirst aid and com pass skill of the Scouts.
Camp Krietenstein, a Boy Scout camp owned and operated by our Wabash Valley Council,
is available the year around for fccouts of this district and every
district of the Council to use
Last May,' Robert Gouckenour
was elected chairman of the Sul
livan Boy Soout District and is
currently planning with his com
mittees to make Scouting avail
able to the many boys who are
just waiting to become Scouts.
Turns Into Train
ONTARIO, Cal., Oct. 3 (U.R) Seventeen Air Force men
and their girl friends were killed when their G. I. bus driver
heeded a shouted command to
turn left" and drove in front
of a highballing passenger train, a survivor said today.
The dead included 11 airmen,
five girls, and the chaperone who accompanied them on a
beach party from March Air Force Base, It is believed there were 22 passengers on the bus.
Five persons were Jisted as
injured, at least one t in serious
condition.
The train, the. Union Pacific's
'Pony Express." slammed into
the bus at 73 miles an hour as
Engineer A. A. Hall of Los An
geles slammed on the brakes in
in attempt to' halt it.
The impact tangled the bus
wreckage on . the front of the
engine and torches had to be used to cut it away. Some victims were impaled on the en
gine. Mangled bodies, legs and
arms littered the right-of-way for 500 feet. ; :
The bus, en route back to the
March Air Base, was on a side excursion to return the1 girls tc their homes at Ontario and Up
land, Cal., after the day's outing
at Corona Del Mar, a nearby
beach.
Railroad officials said the
warning signals at the (raae
crossing were still operating
when they arrived to investi gate the crashl
Sullivan's Golden Arrows won their second game in two years from the Black Cats cf Terre Haute Gerstmeyer Friday night by a score of 13 to 6. It was the first victory in the Western Indiana Conference for the 'Arrows this fall and it was the first conference loss for the invaders. A good-sized crowd at Sportland Field saw the Arrows score twice, and then hold of r the bj&. Cats in the last period.- In the closing seconds Skip Oldham intercepted a Siler pass on . the
Arrow 7 yard line to halt the last
threat the Cats could make. The
Arrows didn't even have time to
run a play after the intercep
tion.
It was a' close ball game all the
way. Neither team could score in the first two quarters although
the Arrows" made two threats. In the third period a 34-yard dash
by Red McClure through his left
tackle put the Arrows out in
front. The, Cats came right back
and drove for their only touchdown.
i Brown Scores
Acid Fog Leaves P.U. Trailer Camp LAFAYETTE, Ind., Oct. 3 (UP) Life at a 'trailer camp here returned to normal today as the wind routed a lung-searing sulfuric acid "fog" laid down by a leaking tank car. ; ( . . 6iga .Fwimi-itailroad i. .officials explained that the tank sprang a leak and the acid dripped onto
a hot journal box under the car, spreading the deadly fume blanket across the trailer camp. Reports of the "fog" sent police squads speeding to the scene
jwhere they awakened the sleep
ing residents and . helped them flee from the valley. No injuries were reported. , , About 100 families, most of them students at Purdue University, were evacuated to a hilltop for two hours until the fumes cleared from the area.
Two squads of police cars (from Lafayette and West LaI favettp. a nriest and a nnlirf
Then, early in the last stanza surgeon patrolled the camp to
warn the sleepers.
Welfare Board Seeks Certified List Of Workers The Sullivan County Welfare Board has requested the State Welfare Board to prepare a certificate list for naming a permanent welfare director a'nd visitors, it has been announced here. The board named Miss Frances Sinclair last week to serve until sucn a list is prepared. Last June 1 Sullivan County was changed - from Class I. to Class V on welfare . and .'that change made all certified lists obsolete. It also changed the qualifications for a director here, as "well as raising the salary list for both the directors and visitors. '. . Under the new classification a person must take an examination to qualify for the post. Some ot the other ' requirements are ten years within the past thirteen years of progressively responsible, fulltime experience - in the field of welfare work, education, public health, public service, business administration, or a profession, three years of 'which shall have been in a responsible supervisory or administrative capacity. Two years of high school education may be substituted for one year of regular 'general experience. Accredited college training may be substituted, on a year for year basis for regular general experience. . ( completion of graduate train:na which came in social welfare work may be substituted on a year for year basis for regular supervisory or administrative work with a maximum substitution of two years. The state requires that a director have two years residence in the county but that will be waived if no qualified person can be found in the county. It is not known now when the examinations for certifications
will be held.
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Steel, Coal Strikes Costly; Hard Coal " Fields Are Reopening
Truman Drops Civil Rights Legislation
Wheal Banquet Tuesday Night
Farmers who have made reser
vations for the wheat banquet Tuesday night, October 4, are
urged to keep in mind that the banquet will begin at 7:00 P.M. at
the Davis Hotel in Sullivan.
Gene Easter, Sullivan County
Wheat Chairman, will act as chairman. H. R. Lathrope, extension agronomist of the South
western Wheat . Improvement
Area, will discuss the results of the variety test plots located in
several of the Southwestern Indl
ana counties. The township winners will be awarded certificates
and lapel buttons. ,
McUure tossed a long ona to
Bob Banks who caught it on the two yard line and was hit immediately. McClure got a yard, then Frank Brown plunged across for the" score, Grayam's kick for point was gone, and the Arrows had their margin of victory. '
The Arrows picked up 11 first
downs in the game to 14 for Tech. The Arrows had the ball
for 49 plays in the game while
Gerstmeyer ran 56 plays. With
Red McClure picking up better than half of it, the Arrows made
175 yards by rushing and another 37 yards by passing. Tech got 122 yards one more than McClure picked up by rushing and 24 more on the two passes they completed. . The "Arrows started out like they meant business. Sullivan received the kickoff, but couldn't gain and kicked to Tech. On the first three plays the Cats had a net loss of 5 yards, and they had to kick, the ball going to the Arrow 10. The Arrows began to roll and piled up 6 first downs
to take the ball to the Cat 14
where a fourth down pass by McClure was incomplete. Arrows Fumble In the middle of the second period after McClure had kicked to the Tech ,17, Farrar recovered a Gerstmeyer fumble on the first play at the Tech 18. The Arrows got five yards in the first three
plays and then on fourth down Tech recovered a Sullivan fum-
bje on the 3 yard line and the Arrows were stymied again.
In the middle of the third
period Smith set up the first Arrow touchdown when he recovered a Tech fumble on the Sulli
van 47. It took the Arrows three
plays to score with McClure''! runs of 15 yards and 34 yards
Gas masks were taken to the
area as a precautionary measure.
Ted McCann Wins Golf Championship Ted McCann defeated Crip Smith 1 up Sunday at the Elks Country Club for the club championship. In the closely contested 36 hole finals neither contestant was more than 2 up. Crip
Smith was 1 Up at the half-way
mark. Trophies will be awarded to the new champion and runner-up. '
HOSPITAL NOTES
Admitted Oct. 1: William. McCammon of Paxton; Barbara Wolf of Carlisle, R. 1;. Lulu
Williamson of 118 North Court
Street; Mrs. Shirley Hunt of 21(
West Giles StreetJohn Vale of
Shelburn, R. 1.
Dismissed Oct. 1; Mrs. George Rogers and daughter of 462
South Troll Street; Mrs. William
Carter of 722 North State; Mrs Mable Robbins of Sullivan, R. 5
Dismissed Oct. 2: Mrs. Juanite
Hayden of Fairbanks, R. 1 Dismissed Oct. 3: Mrs. neth Bedwell and son of
Lebanon. '
UMW Voles Out Protesting Miner . -
UNIONTOWN, Pa., Oct. 3
(UP) r George H. Livengood, a
Fayette County coal miner who filed suit to oust United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis as trustee of the miners' welfare fund, has been voted out of the union.
Livengood was expelled from
Local 6308, Newcomer, Pa., yes
terday on charges of dual unionism and resorting to civil courts
before exhausting his rights in
the courts of the UMW."
The 54-year-old miner, who
asked the Federal court to take over , supervision of the $100,000,000 a year fund, also accused
Lewis' and Trustee Sen. Styles
Bridges, R., N. H., of malfeasance
in office.
Local President Frank Kufta
said the -charge of dual unionism
resulted from Livengood's ac
tions in helping to organize the left-wing national miners union
in 1929. Kufta said the vote for
Livengood's expulsion was unan
imous on both counts.
Livengood, who announced
last week that he was having his
home guarded, said he sought
to "get racketeering out of the welfare and retirement fund and
to protect the workers in the future from the uncontrolled administration 1 of this fund." He
also accused the trustees of us
ing their positions as a means
of wielding political power.
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MARRIAGE LICENSES
By J. Robert Shubert United Press Staff Correspondent PITTSBURGH, Oct. 3. ( UP) Anthracite miners returned to work today, ending1 a two week work-stoppage, but the nation's labor picture remained dark with nearly 1,000,-
000 men idled by steel and coal pension strikes.
lhe 78,000 hard coal miners went back to work in the
eastern Pennsylvania fields to relieve a growing coal short
age along the eastern seaboard. The men were ordered back by United Mine Workers officials in fear that a prolonged strike would kill off the anthracite market. Re-opening of the anthracite mines will not ease the shortage of soft coal and prospects for early settlement of the contract disputes in steel and coal are not good. i v
Every business and industry in the country eventually will be affected if the strikes in the two basic industries continue., ' . Government officials said they were virtually powerless to ease the spreading impact. The strikes,? occurring simultaneously for the first time in history, packed the greatest single wallop ever dealt the American economy. Both strikes, which cost nearly 900,000 steel and coal . wcrkei3 $11,000,000 a.day in wages, start-
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ernment intervention in the coal
dispute appeared unlikely, i but Federal Conciliation Chief Cyrus Ching was expected to, try . to mediate the steel issues' again sometime this week., ' ,. Losses Are High The three-day-old CIO United Steeiworkers strike was costing; the steel industry an estimated $20,000,000 a day. The soft coal ' industry was losing $10,000,000 daily in business as a repult of the two-week-old United Mine Workers strike. - ' - ' CIO President Philip Murray's strike call brought out 514,000 steel workers in 24 states and choked production to less than five per cent of normal. Some 500,000 fabricating plant employees are scheduled to join the walkout by 'November if their companies fail to meet the union demands. -' . The only bright spot in" the otherwise gloomy labor picture was the scheduled return to work today of Pennsylvania's nearly 80,000 anthracite miners ! and 21,000 soft coal diggers in states west of the Mississippi. They were ordered back by UMW Chief John L. Lewis to save coal markets and provide heat for American homes. But the other 380,000 miners were still on strike in the . soft coal fields. Might Se:e Mills 'rhere was speculation in Washington v4hat President. Truman might resort to provisions of the Selective Service act to seize the steel mills if the strike becomes a national emergency. Some government officials believe it highly unlikely that Mr. Truman will invoke the Taft-
Hartley Act in view of his . past criticism of the law and the-iact that he held up the strike 77 days without getting a peaceful settlement, Ching has used his powerj twice to intervene, without success, in the steel dispute. He has not used these powers yet in the coal dispute because he figured it would be of little benefit.
By Lyle C. Wilson United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. Oct. 3-(UP)
President Truman agreed withed over Pensiorl disputes.
nis Congressional leaders today to drop requests for civil rights legislation at this session and aim for consideration of a fair employment practices bill early in the next. ' The President's decision was
disclosed by Senate Majority
Leader Scott W. Lucas of Illinois,
after the. regular Monday legis
lative conference at the White House.
Leaders Agree. Lucas said the President and leaders of both Houses had agreed to let the civil rights fight go over until next session. Lucas said it was agreed tlday that-4t was "very doubtfal that any prolonged discussion of civil rights in the Senate during the remainder of this session would be yeryl .helpful." ; ". .. But, Lucas added, "the Senate will definitely take up an FEPC
bill early in the next session.",
House Speaker Sam Rayburn
said that House Democratic
eaders will meet tomorrow with
tle Senate policy committee in an ' effort to determine when
(pngress can adjourn.
Lucas expressed the belief that
the Senate could complete the bulk of its work within two
weeks. He said he did not want
to guess on adjournment date
but thought it would come within two to three weeks.
The Coneressional leaders de
voted most of their meeting with
President Truman today to a discussion of pending- legislation.
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The following persons have been issued marriage cilenses
by the county clerk:
Freda Yates of Shelburn, and
Delbert Dexter of Schnieder, Indiana. Catherine Wells of Terre
Haute, and Heavin Madison of
Princeton.
Rupert Jhewlis
Dies Sunday
Rupert Thewlis, age 61, died
at his home, 444 South Stratton
Street, Sunday evening at
o'clock following an exended
illness. He was a coal miner. He
was born in Yorkshire, England.
Surviving are the wife, Amy; a daughter, Mrs. Jamvs Abramr
of Carlisle; three sons, William
Joseph Thewlis of Carlisle, Eric Thewlis of Paxton, and Paul
Thewlis of Rensselaer; a bro
ther, Wiliam Joseph Thewlis of
Yorkshire, England; a sister, Mrs
Sarahleen Healey of Flint, Mich and eight grandchildren.
The body was taken to the
Billman Funeral Home where services will be held at 2 o'clock
Wednesday afternoon with the
Rev. Jack Anderson officiating
Burial will be in Center Ridge
Cemetery.
Discuss Measures Rayburn said that if the House
gives clearance, the Social . Se
curity bill will be brought up tomorrow or Wednesday. If there
no immediate clearance the
bill will come up next Monday.
Lucas said he thought the final
big bill to come up for Senate
action probably would be the displaced persons measure sometime late next week.
The Democratic 81st Congress
is in its 10th month and a large oart of the President's program
is dead for this session. Today
marked the burial of the civil rights legislation.
ARCHITECT HEADS ECONOMIC COUNCIL
Mrs. Sadie McCord Dies Sunday
Mrs. Sadie May McCord, age
69, of Merom, R. 3, died
wary Sherman Hospital
o'clock Sunday morning. She was a member of the Church of God and the Royal' Neighbors Lodge.
She is survived by three dau
ghters, Mrs. Hazel Stutsman, with whom she made her hame, Mrs. Ruby Foutz of Carlisle, R.
2, and Mrs. Mary McKee of Sandborn; three sisters, Mrs. Carl in Kellog of Krowa, Kan., Mrs. Katherine Sheppard of Vin
cennes, and Mrs. Mandle Bedwell of Linton
The body was taken to the Schulze Funeral Home in Carlisle and was removed to the heme of the daughter, Mrs. Hazel Stutsman, this morning. Funeral services will be held at the Marfah Creek Church at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon with . burial in the adjoining cemetery,
LAFAYETTE, Oct. 3. (UP) George Wright, an Indianapolis architect, today headed the Indiana Economic Council. Wright was elected to succeed Stephen Ci Noland of Indianapolis in a week-end meeting. Other new of-
at the ! ficers were Kenneth Elliott, South
X 8:30 1 Bend, vice-president, and Mrsa.
George W. Jaqua, Winchester, secretary. , .
feEEKS DIVORCE AND CUSTODY Eva Oris MeCammon has filed a suit for divorce and custody of children against Garland MeCammon in the Sullivan Circuit Court.
MANY SEEK MARRIAGE LICENSES A total of seventeen marriage licenses were issued during the month of September. Earl Engle, county clerk, said today.
TODAY'S TEMPERATURES The unofficial temperatures In Sullivan today were: at 7:30 a.m. 62 degrees at noon : 66 degrees