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VOLUME LXIV. NO. 85 SEYMOUR, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1946. PRICE FOUR CENTS LEWIS WALKS OUT ON With ninety-three percent. of Jackson county's total crop land signed up under the agricultural conservation program for 1946, this county is among the highest in the state, This announcement was made by the county chairman, Will -R.
Isaacs, following tabulation reports prepared after April 1, which was the deadline for the filing of farm plans. It is apparent that Jackson county farm owners and operators expect to earn all of the money allotted to Jackson county under this program. The 2,445 farm plans fled covered 249,236 acres of farm land. This is seventy-nine pricent. of all farm land in Jackson county.
The same farms, with a total acreage of crop land of 149,200, reaches nineey-three percent. of Jackson county's land which is classified as crop land. These farm plans show the intention of earning slightly more than $143,000.00 by means of the thirteen approved soil conservation practices for the county. Plans Inspected, Approved. Individual farm plans were inspected and approved by local and county committeemen last week, and notices of approved practices -for the -year are being sent to farm owners this week.
Because of. extremely favorable weather for at least an early start in farming, it was consider: ed important to get these out immediately. The use of liming materials is still the largest means of money under this plan this year. Approval has been given to the use of more than 38,000 tons of limestone and farm plans indicated an intended use of over 85,000 tons this year. $57.000 for Liming.
According to present intentions, the use of liming materials should earn Jackson county farms slightly more than $57,000.00 this year. The use of fertilizing materials in the spring and fall will bring some the harvesting of clover and alfalfa seeds and the use of green manuring crops approximately $10,000.00 each; farm drainage and the establishing of new pastures or re-seeding of pastures about $3,000.00 each; approximately $1,000.00 for dams for livestock water, and smaller si'ms to contour. cultivation the. establishment or waters ways. The total amount of Jackson county's original budget for the year was approximately $95,000.
Pay Increase Asked. Most County Crop Land Is Signed in Plan Jackson Conservation Program Covers Total Of 249,236 AcresCovers All Allotment Kokomo, April 10-(P) The board of school trustees has a request from Kokomo teachers for salary increases of $2.22 a day plus $50 a year for teachers with master's degrees. It was presented by the Kokomo Association and the local American Federation of Teachers. Pre-School Well Baby Clinic Here Friday. A baby clinic for well children of pre-school age will be held Friday- afternoon at the Jackson County Health Center, located on the second floor of the Penney building at Chestnut street and St.
Louis. avenue. hours will be from 2 until 4 o'clock Friday afternoon. The clinic was postponed from last week because of the county-wide immunization program against diphtheria al and smallpox which is now in progress. Townships Plan End of School No Spring Vacation Is Planned- -Many to Adjourn on May 8 The end of the 1946-47: school term Is only about a month away for many Jackson county schools and plans already are being made for the end of the school term.
Although some surrounding counties are planning for township public schools to be closed on Good Friday, April 19, for one day, thus giving the students three-day week end vacation, no spring vacation will be held by township schools in this county, it is understood. Although James. H. Tatlock, county superintendent of schools, was out. in the today visiting some of the township schools and could not be reached for a schedule of the closing dates of the schools it is understood that many of the township schools will adjourn for the summer vacation on Wednesday, May- 8.
Plans, for commencement exercises and other year-end activities are expected to be made. soon. -Spelling Contest Saturday. The annual Jackson county spelling bee will be held in Brownstown Saturday afternoon with one contestant entered from each of a majority of the schools of the county. The general is invited to.
attend. the spelling. bee, which will begin as. soon as the contestants register at 12:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon. Illegal Sales By Grocers Charged Local grocers and general storekeepers learned today that- they must hire registered pharmacists or throw out any poisonous products they might have on their shelves.
The State Board of Pharmacy, supported by an 1899 law, according to an Associated Press dispatch, ordered the store keepers to employ or quit selling "any chemical, drug or medicine which is poisonous, or which contains poison." This would include iodine, mecurochrome, disinfectants and headache remedies, it was learned. William L. Miller, board inspector, said there had been five convictions under the year-old law within the last three weeks. Violations, he said, "had been widespread," but the board intends, "to give each violator a fair warning before prosecuting." Immunization Against Smallpox Is Advocated After West Coast Outbreak While members of the Jackson County Medical Society, Mrs. Margaret Ellen Horstman, Jackson county health nurse, and members of Parent-Teachers Associations who are assisting, continued the task of immunizing county children against diphtheria and smallpox, it was announced at Indianapolis today that the Indiana state board of health has recommended to all Indiana residents who have not been immunized within the last five years to consider immediate vaccination.
The state board said persons not immunized in the last five years should consult with their family physician about the advisability of immediate vaccination. The step was taken by the board after it had been informed CONFERENCE County Over Quota in Red Cross Drive Three More Townships Exceed Goals, One Lacks Only NickelField Turns in $443 Jackson county has gone "over the top" in the 1946 Red Cross Fund Drive, it was learned today from county Red Cross authorities. Although some townships have not yet turhed in complete reports, the total contributed in Jackson county now stands. at $13,715.00, well over the county quota of $11,250.00. Three additional townships have exceeded their quotas, the reports have revealed.
Vernon township, which had a quota of $900, has turned in total of $1,063.80. Kelso Briner is township chairman. Carr township, of which Mrs. O. O.
Shortridge is chairman, turned in $722.65, compared with its quota of $700.00. Two Over Previously. Pershing township, with a quota of $200, turned in $232.97. Wayne Goble is township chairman there. It was previously announced that Jackson and Brownstown townships had exceeded their quotas.
If Grassy Fork township had turned in one more nickel, the township would have reached its quota of $200. Listed in the county Red Cross office here i is a contribution of $199.95, just five cents less than the township's quota. Freeman Field turned in a total contribution of $443.76 to the Red Cross Drive. Capt. Lawrence B.
Krogh was in charge of the drive at the field. The drive was judged a very successful one and leaders are endeavoring to round up the final reports from all of the townships in order that the campaign may be officially closed. Stanley Z. Owen, of Brownstown, is county drive chairman. Lutheran Aid Group Has Dinner More than seventy-five members of the Lutheran Social Aid Society, including several guests, enjoyed the monthly meeting of the organization held Tuesday night at the Lutheran Club, opening with a dinner served by members of a Ladies Aid unit of the church.
Walter A. Kreinhagen, president of the organization, presided the business meeting. The invocation was given by the Rev: B. E. Streafert, the Immanuel.
Lutheran Church. John H. Conner, publisher of The Daily Tribune, addressed the group following the business session. Mr. Conner spoke of the importance of understanding and cooperation in meeting the challenge of the future in world affairs, pointing out that such unforty-seven-derstanding and cooperation also are necessary in local, state and national relationships as well as in international affairs.
Mr. Conner was introduced by Maurice Lange, chairman of the April program committee. Other members of his committee were A. H. Droege, Louis Brand, Ervin Kasting, Harlan Bobb, Gene Waldkoetter and George A.
Kasting. Weather Records Here are official MoDERN and unofficial OIL IS KIOWN BY for weather records for THE MILKMEN the day. Seymour The NEETS p. m. temperature reading is from downtown mometer.
and is unofficial. All othreadings are from the records of Mrs. Willard N. Everhart, government weather observer. here, and are official.
Temperatures: Official minimum. today 45 Official' maximum Tuesday 60 Reading at 2 p. m. 54 River stage: 3.7 feet Flour Rationing In Balance as Plan Studied Anderson to Decide Today If Millers Are To Cut Sales 25 Percent-Situation Tense A flour rationing plan without coupon worries for housewives hung fire today as the government took another careful look into the wheat situation made tense by widespread hunger abroad. Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P.
Anderson said at Washington he expected to decide during the day whether to put into effect an order requiring millers to cut their sales of flour to bakers and retailers by twenty-five percent. The cabinet officer disclosed to a news conference Tuesday night that he had ordered officials in his department to prepare such an order, the Associated Press said. Should it be issued, it would have the effect of rationing supplies of flour to bakers and retailers, but not to consumers. Officials have explained that machinery for consumer rationing of these products could not be set in motion in time to help out during the current food crisis. Anderson's desision may well hinge on a report scheduled to be issued by the department's crop reporting board at 2 p.
m. (CST) today on stocks of wheat on farms April 1. Supplies Low. With commercial supplies at abnormally low levels, the government and millers must look. to farm stocks for the bulk of all export and domestic requirements until the new crop starts moving to market in June.
Because there has been heavy feeding of wheat to livestock in areas unable to get corn, some offcials expect the wheat stock report to show that remaining supplies are insuficient to meet sent consumer demands- and export commitments. In that event, the order curtailing domestic consumption of flour would appear to be hecessary. Meanwhile fresh pressure for more wheat for hungry areas came from director General Fiorello H. La Guardia of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. La Guardia planned to appear today before the combined food board -representing the United States, Great Britain, and Canada- insist that member countries allocate 350,000 tons more a month than the 275.000 tons now being granted UNRRA.
Farewell Is Set. For Rev. Burkart A farewell party for the Rev. Father C. W.
Burkart, former pastor of St. Ambrose Church here, will be given at 8 o'clock Thursday night at the St. Ambrose School Hall by the parish, it was announced today. Members of the parish and the public are cordially invited to attend. A short program will be presented.
The Father Burkart has been transferred to the Immaculate Conception parish at Rushville. and has assumed his new duties. He was in charge of the St. Ambrose parish here for the past eight and one-half years. Woman Asks Advice, Serious Fire Averted What might have been a serious fire or explosion was Tuesday afternoon when a resident at 115 West Brown street, noticing she had left 1 her unlighted gasoline stove turned on all afternoon, called the city fire department before she lighted it to start her evening meal.
John W. Morton, city fire chief, and Fireman Tom Bryant made the run in the small fine truck and advised her to empty the stove outside before she lighted it. The department made a run to 204 East Fourth street Tuesday afternoon on call received through the city police station I but found no fire. Rye Ceiling Price to Be Increased June 1 The ceiling price on rye will be increased four cents per bushel on June 1, it has been learned by. Jackson county, agricultural authorities.
The ceiling price on wheat was increased three cents per bushel last month. At the same time, corn was increased three cents per bushel, barley, four cents per bushel and oats two cents per got bushel, New USDA Wheat Purchase Plan Seller May Elect Date Of Market Price -To Speed Food- The U. S. Department of Agriculture announced, today that it will buy wheat from farmers, for immediate delivery to the Commodity Credit Corporation, at the market price on any later date seller may elect on or before March 31, 1947, Jackson county agricultural authorities point out. The department's offer is being made to speed the movement of wheat off forms for relief of the current -famine emergency 8- broad.
The offer to purchase will be open to farmers until July 1, 1946 unless closed at an earlier date by announcement, if CCC obtains enough 'wheat to All its requirements before July 1. Wheat eligible for purchase will (Continued on page 8, column 5) ty, a resident of Jackson county for twenty-eight years, died Tuesday afternoon at his home on Seymour R2, one mile north of Uniontown, after an illness of three years' duration. He was born July 17, 1865, in Ohio, the son of Peter and Dora Wilcox Greathouse, both deceased. He was married September 27, 1899, in Jackson county, to Maggie Cummings, who survives. He came to Jackson county for residence from Brown county about twenty eight years ago and was well-known throughout the county by a host of friends who mourn his death.
He was a member of the United Brethren Church at Brownstown. Besides the widow, he is survived by the following children: Mrs. Flossie Meitzel, Houston, Texas; Zephy Greathouse, Freetown; Mrs. Eva Lewis, Buda, Mrs. June Murphy, Tiskilwa, Mrs.
Maida Schildknecht, "North Vernon; Mrs. Louise Bode, Seymatron frene Spall; Audrey Greathouse, Mrs. Nora Wray and James Greathouse, all of Crothersville; Miss Roberta Greathouse, at home; and a foster son, Luther Sims, of Seymour. Twenty-six grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren also survive as de four brothers: Charles Greathouse, Columbus, John Greathouse, McNabb, Peter Greathouse and Hezzie Greathouse, both of Magnolia, and three sisters, Mrs. James Miksell, Columbus, Mrs.
Rachel Hatton, Vincennes and Mrs. Barbara Cook, of Seymour. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon from the Uniontown Church with the Rev. Walter Moseley in charge. Burial in the Uniontown Cemetery; Friends may call at the home one mile north of Uniontown atany time.
Aged County Resident Succumbs at Home Leonard Greathouse, age eigh- Mendell Rites Held Today at Aurora Funeral services for Mrs. H. 4 S. Mendell, mother of Harry Mendell, of this city, were conducted at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon from the Steir and Williams Funeral Home at Aurora with the pastor of the Aurora Presbyterian Church in charge. Burial was in Mt.
Sinai Cemetery at Aurora. Mrs. Mendell, a native of Aurora, had been ill about one year and died Sunday night at the Milan, Clinic at Milan, where she had been receiving treatment for several days. The husband and five children survive, House Sets Quick Action On Draft Bill Measure Extending Draft Nine Months Given Top PlaceEarly Vote Expected Washington, April 10 (AP) The House leadership signaled today for double-quick action on a bill for straightaway continuation of the draft until February 15, 1947. Almost as soon as the House Military Committee decided in favor of this extension, the measure was given a preferred place on the chamber's calendar, with debate scheduled for Friday and Saturday and a vote hoped for before the week end recess.
The present law is due to expire exactly. in five weeks from today--May 15, and that space leaves with comparatively scant elbow room should legislative tangles develop. between House and Senate over details of the measure to be enacted, Indications were that the bitter battle which preceded the committee's 15 to 8 extended recommendation late Tuesday would be renewed on the house floor. But supporters of continuing selective service viewed with comfort the fact. that the House vote, when it comes, probably will be a roll-call and on the sole issue of extension.
Many members, they believe, are fearful of voting on the record in an election year against a proposal which army and administration have backed so strongly. Draft Holiday Favored, Some committee members had sought legislation extending the draft law for a year but suspending inductions for as long as six months. Had the committee recommended such a plan, the House might have avoided an actual roll-call on a straightaway extension as advocated by General Dwight D. Eisenhower. The draft -holiday proposals, however, were turned down several times- reportedly by "very close" votes- and the extension recommendation went through The question of pay boosts for the armed forces was left for separate action.
The committee wrote into the draft extension bill a provision that army and -navy monthly requisitions shall not exceed the actual numbers of men needed to meet the following manpower quotas by July 1, -1947: Army. navy, 558.000; marine corps, 108,000. And it recommended that those figures, presented by the armed services themselves, be made the July 1, 1947 ceilings on army, navy and marine strength. Recommendations. The committee also recommended: A limit of eighteen months on training and service of any per(Continued on page 8, column 6) Cortland Washington, April Postmaster 10 (P) The Senate has approved the nomination of Warren for the postmastership at: Cortland, (Jackson county) Ind.
Mr. Warren has been serving as postmaster at Cortland for a- bout one year. 25,000,000 Japs At Polls Today Women Participate in First Free Election In Lifetime of Japs Tokyo, April -TwentyGive million Japanese- -led by a surprisingly large number of women who lined up early at polling places- today elected a postwar government in their first free election in generations. The Tokyo, vote was between sixty-five and seventy percent of those eligible slightly higher than the confused and semi-restricted 1937 election but considerably less than the eighty-six percent under the Hideki Tojo coercion that marked the 1942 voting. A slightly higher trend was perceptible in several nearby rural communities.
-Limited communications and slowness of the election procedure prevented accurate reports from such key cities as Osaka, where balloting started slowly with only ten percent cast by 9 a. Polls opened a. m. and closed at 6 p. m.
This was a national holiday, to encourage balloting. Many women voters who asked for ballots were unable to vote because of mixed records and poorly coordinated registration, partially due to recent population shifts. U. N. Schedules Iranian Case Dismissal Monday New York, April 10 (P).
Members of the United Nations Security Council decided today to take up Monday afternoon Russia's demand for dismissal of the Iranian case- and word spread: that Poland had filed her formal request for council action against the Franco government of Spain. The decision on the council's next public meeting date was reached at a secret session called primarily to discuss the question of where the United Nations should establish its regular interim headquarters- at Hunter College in the Bronx or at a modern big factory building at Lake Success, L. I. First reports were that no decision was reached. United Nations delegation off-1.
cials today forecast almost certain defeat for Russia's proposal- that security council throw out the Iranian case, although a rough debate appeared in store with the United States and Britain opposing the Soviet Union. Iran's opposition to the Russian proposal was announced officially to the council Tuesday night, but it probably will not tackle the issue until next Saturday or Monday, Tito's Speech States Wish For Good Yugoslav-U. S. Relations Belgrade, (Delayed) (P) munist: Edvard Kardelj, second vice-president of the Yugoslav government, says that Marshal Tito's April 1 speech to parliament was "a statement of the sincere wish of our country to have good relations with the United In an exclusive interview with the Associated Press, short, stocky Kardelj-credited as one of the top brains in both the government and the communist party-said "the fundamental meaning of (Tito's) whole speech is our sincere desire to have friendly relations. with all countries -plus our dissatisfaction with events in Trieste and Venezia Giulia." Kardelj explained the background of the delay in U.
S. mecognition of the new Yugoslav Republic as involved the Republic's acceptance of all treaties of the Yugoslav government in exile. He added that the Republic had bound Leaves Until Welfare Fund Is Discussed UMW Group Placing Fund, Safety Conditions at Top of List, Operators Are Silent Washington, April 10- (P) John L. Lewis and a United Mine Workers committee walked out on wage negotiations with soft coal operators today and threatened to stay out until the producers agree to discussa welfare fund and improved safety conditions. The UMW president has put the fund and safety conditions at the top of the nine demands he has made in negotiations on a new contract to end the ten-day-old shutdown in the soft coal pits.
K. C. Adams, editor of the United Mine Workers Journal and union spokesman, told newsmen the UMW delegation found it "useless and hopeless" to continue negotiations under present conditions. There was no immediate comment from the operators, who stayed temporarily behind in the conference room. Adams added in a statement that the operators had blocked the miners' attempt to report disagreement to the full joint conference.
The statement continued: "Whereupon the mineworkers, seeing the situation useless and hopeless and that the operators would not discuss any thing in a serious vein on the health and welfare and safety proposals, withdrew from the meeting until such time as the operators show evidence they are willing to meet and discuss these things, which are just as important as wages and We are not going to let them bypass them." Releases Statement. -Lewis also released a statement which he had prepared for the wage conference and in which he indicated that he expected the operators to meet his terms eventually if the strike is prolonged. "We trust that time, as it shrinks your purse, may modify your nigg*rdly and anti-social propensities," he said. Lewis complained of what he said was the of "complacency" and asserted that their "senseless cupidity withholds from the miner the rewards of honorable and perilous exertion." Earlier the negotiations had been barely kept alive. Lewis, UMW president, asserted the operators' "attitude belies the making of a contract" because they insisted on talking about wages and hours heleco committe ing themselves on his demand for creation of a health and welfare fund and improved mine safety.
The operators said they had tried unsuccessfully to get Lewis to make specific pay demands, which "at the moment" was the only way. they could see tor write a contract, Brooks Rites to. Be Conducted Thursday itself to examine all such treaties "and was not able to give an answer immediately." Eventually, Karedel) continued, the Republic found all of. the exiled government's engagements Of the current Trieste situation, Rardelj said he felt "the allies are supporting an old aggression, in question of which our people have a full right to be satisfied." The recent treaty with Poland, an expected one with Czechoslov: akia and an older treaty with Russia did not imply the official said, a lack of faith in the United Nations. He Indicated that the treaties were protections against possible "German and Roman aggression" and that they would help "the immediate needs of reconstruction." Slav people never were aggressors, but we have been many times attacked," he said.
Funeral services for Mrs. Ella Brooks, age seventy, who died at the home, 611 Mill street, early Tuesday afternoon, will be conducted at 2:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon from the Voss Mortuary with the Rev. E. F. Shake, pastor of the First Methodist Church, in charge.
Burial in Garland Brook Cemetery at Columbus. Friends may call at the Voss Mortuary at any time. Mrs. Brooks, who had lived in Seymour for the past nineteen years, had been ill for eighteen years and had been bedfast for the past four years. by the U.S.
Public Health Service of a serious outbreak of virulent smallpox' on the west coast and that some cases had been reported as far east as Montana, the Associated Press said. The board said that although an outbreak may not occur in Indiana, the, wise course is to take advantage of protection afforded by immunization. Hundreds of county school children have been immunized against smallpox and have received the first shot toward 'immunization against diphtheria last week and this week in the county-wide drive being conducted by the health authorities. Many Seymour students at public and parochial schools were immunized Tuesday. Price Provision Out Washington, April 10- (P) The Senate by a vote of 41 to 33 today struck from the Veterans Emergency Housing Bill a provision to fix ceiling prices on existing homes at the first resale level.
The Senate agreed to restrict: price fixing. to rentals and any new construction. This was Indentical with the price controls approved by the House..
