The Alexandria Times-Tribune from Alexandria, Indiana • Page 1

PUBLIC LIBRARY! Alexandria -rr tiest little City In Indiana5 6' of Rock' Wool and Aladdin Mantle limps Founded December ,10. J885 VOL LXII1 No. 87 Phone 180 ALEXANDRIA, INDIANA, THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1947 United Press Leased Wire 5c 15c Per Week SET UNIFORM MAY DAY BRINGS THE NET OF IT ALL DEMONSTRATIONS All the News from Everywhere Especially Edited and Digested by The Times-Tribune from United Press and All Our Other Snorcea New Contest Held On Campus McMINNVILLE, Oregon U.Rk Something new has been added to life on the great American campus. A contest for the babes of student papas and mamas, no less. Llnfleld College at McMlnnville, Oregon, held Its first baby contest during chapel hour yesterday.

Enthusiasts predict the idea will catch 8 MINERS DIE IN HOOSIER MINE BLAST Spring Hill Shaft Mine Near Terre Haute Is Scene Of Worst Disaster Since '41 SUGAR PRICES Dep't of Agriculture Takes Over Rationing Assignment Uniform dollar and cent retail celling prices on BUgar, by community pricing areas, become effective on May 1, 1947, It was announced today by C. Bennett Bindley, Regional Sugar Executive for the Sugar Rationing Administration of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. This action, said Mr.

Bindley, is designed to achieve more effetive price control on sugar at the retail level. The prices will he uniform by store groupings throughout Indiana. The celling prices In Indiana for 1. 2, 5, anl 10 pound sizes of granulated white sugar and for the one pound size of brown and confectionery sugar are as follows for small Independent stores. Beet or cane bulk, 1 ll.

$.11 Beet or cane, bulk, 2 lbs. $.22 Beet or cane, bnlk, 5 lbs. $.55 Factory packed paper bag, lbs. $1.09 Cloth bag, 10 lbs. $1.10 Brown, carton, 1 lb.

$.12 Confectioners, cartoh, lib. $.12 10 Chain stores and large Indepen dent stores will continue to compute their own ceiling prices on the basis of cost of acquisition plus per eent- i age mark-ups. Such prices, however, may not in any case exceed the prices listed above. There will be no pricing posters as under the previous community prlc. ing progTam, declared Mr.

Bindley. The cost of reproducing and printing posters containing only a few items, he said, makes such a plan impractical. He suggested that housewives and retail merchants clip cut and save these price lists as their guide. WORRISOME WOOS-WOOH INDIANAPOLIS (U.R) Irate west Indianapolis residents are threatening to take action against the loud "woos-woos'' they say ihav been making life miserable for them. The "woos-woos'1 come from the Allison plant, a division of General Motors, where jet eagines are being tested.

At a protest meettiwr last night, residents ef the, area said the noise Is vlbratmgftheir" rattling1 windows and tickling their feet when' they try to sleep. Clarence Rupp has returned from a visit with his daughter, Mrs. Fl ank Browning and family, in Junction. Texas. Mrs Madge Wiseman, of Anderson, visited here last evening with lier father, Roll Humphrey Mirs.

MarionWUson was dianapolis visitor today. an In. 1 "it A Speaker for Friday evening's meeting of the Klwanls club will be Edgar L. Casey, news editor of the Times-Tribune. Mr.

Casey will speak Informally on the general BUbject of newspapers and their development, especially in the Americas. HOOSIER FLOODS White and Wabash faivers Pass Flood Stage Today INDIANAPOLIS, May 1 (U.P..V-The first of May came to Indiana today along with floods that left many farmlands knee-deep In water. Heavy rains churned most'Hoosler rivers, among them the Wabash and White, above the flood stage, causing at least one drowning. The Federal Weather Bureau said the rain would continue through most of the state until at least noon today, but that there Is no danger of serious floods as yet, However crop damage Is expected to be extensive. Fred Baiting, a 62-year-old mill operator, was drowned In the rain-swollen Blue River at Fjreeport, His rowboat capsized as he tried to dislodge a log jam near the mill's water wheel.

The Wabash was beyond flood stage at Wabash, Latayatte and Terre Haute. XiwW The White early today reached flood stage at Anderson and Seymour. Residents in lowlands along both rivers prepared to abandon their homes should the rises continue. At Wabash, the Wabash River was expected to rise to 16 feet, four feet beyond flood stage and at La fayette to 19 feet or eigh( feet lie yond flood levels. The White River was less turbul ent with its waters not expected to go more than one foot beyond flood stage at various points Flood waters from Sal? Creek washed out traffic on Indlaua 4JK) between Bedford and Shoals.

A section of (he road some 10 miles south west of DedfoVd was repofVd inundated to an Impassable depth In Davles county, farmlands slowly were being covered by the stead-ilv rising While River A good portion of Knox enmity fields also were under water Ft Williamson. Weather Bureau chief iii Indianapolis, said some good floods are in store for us Hut he added that tlie situation as et as llo( serious The Indiana Kami lime. mi reported (lie stale's oat one of Indiana's principal a 'ii I' in at products was hard hit BAND, CHORUS TRIP ASSURED Tag Day and Solicitations Raise Funds For Students High school students, members of the band and chorus, are assured today of making the journey to Bloomlngton Saturday to take part In the State Music Festival and competition, an honor earned by their showing at Union City recently, when both groups placed In Division I for superior performances there A Tag Day. held last Saturday, with eight of the students offering the tags for sale, netted $100.40 for the trip, which will cost about $200 Solicitation of busines houses and Individuals In addition to the Tag Day receipts raised almost JM0 more, guaranteeing the trip to Indi an? University. Members of the Band Hoosters uh took the lead in efforts to raise the fund for the trip Prospects seemed dark st first, when It was thought that, despite then- fine showing in their appearances to date the students might not be able to make t.he trip.

However, Alexandria seems to be behind their youngsters, and their music students In particular so that the trip Is now possible MAY DAY BRINGS III Most Elaborate Celebration Is Staged In Moscow's Red Square for Premier Stalin By United pre Thunderous cheers for Premier Stalin flooded Red Square in Moscow today. Huge forces of Russian military might and workers paraded before Stalin in a celebration which set (he pace for May Day labor holiday demonstrations all over Europe. Stalin stood above the of Lenin and accepted the salute of the Russian people. Huge military machines rolled down the streets. Planes dromed overhead.

Workers carried huge banners and flags. Athletes performed in the sion. The city was festive and gay. But underneath the gayety was a grimmer note a note of warnlag to the world. It, was the order of the Day issued by Armed Forces Minister Buganin.

Buganin, according to Moscow Radio, told the Russian people that they must maintain fighting preparedness. Then Marshall Budenny told the crowd that Russia is struggling for a stable democratic peace and close international co-operation. He said It Is necessary for Soviet armies to master Stalinite military science and perfect their military and political knowledge." Although the Moscow celebration was the most elaborate. It was not the most violent. In Trieste, well-armed civil and military police units patrolled the streets as pro-Italian and pro-Slav labor groups began approved demonstrations.

Demonstrations were orderly this morning. Bui last night 33 pro-Slav demonstrators were when bombs were thrown Into a torch-light procession. A spectacular demonstration is on in France where busines and industrial activities shut down for the day. The labor demonstration is considered important since the coalition iwwsmM Ramadfer IS having dUBtfaltles oa wage -issues. Italy, too, has a celebration, with the Communist controlled Italian Federation of Labor taking the lead.

German workers are celebrating with speeches and parades. But Dritish trade unionists will postpone their demonstration until Sunday in accordance with custom. And in Japan, a balf-mllllon workers inarched through downtown Tokyo in a parade featured by banners more sober In tone than, those carried last year Nine American B-29's just arrived from the United States flew over the workers as they cacked the Imperial Plaaa. Two large red banners flew over the speakers' plataform. 200 Delegates Attend District Meeting of Royal Neighbors In Alexandria Wednesday Approximately 200 delegates from Itoyal Neighbor lodges in the 25th district attended the district meeting in Alexandria Wednesday Tho nieelinp was held lu K.

of P. hall, Soutli Harrison street registration at 2 o'clock Business sessions and committee reports followed the after-South Harrlsson with registration at 6 followed by a public pro. gram I-arry Campbell entertained with two pianio solos, frs Paul Lewis gave vocal solos as did Miss Way Ire Mrs. Moggie Reeder drill captain of the Anderson Rroup, closed Ihe program with selections on the piano The rngular lodge meeting followed at 8 o'clock with a Memorial service arranged by the Marlon lodge. Gilman lodge presented a play Mrs.

Stella Hysong, Noble Grand, of the local unit was official hostess. lIra Kathryn French was program chairman TWO TIMED TOWN GREENSBURO. Ind UPJ Clttaens of Orenburg aire" going about their daily business on fast Daylight Saving Time but th Wurtoufce tower clock Is ticking along tjrfwly on Central Standard TltD While the city officials voted the fast time, the County Commissioners are not scheduled to c4fnstder the time change until thif May meeting Mr and Vfrs Jack Ftaaier spent Wednesday evening in Anderson. THE WEATHER TODAY Clearing and cooler tonight, except continued cloudy extreme north portion. Generally fair and rather cool Friday Keep You Better Informed.

WORLD-WIDE LONDON'S STRIKE of dock workers is expected to end tomorrow Some of the workers are straggling balk to work. Workers in Glasgow are expected to accept a government proposal to end their strike. THE ARAB STATES haven't giv en up their fight to force the United Nations Into a showdown on Palestine. Arab leaders have not an nounced future strategy, but observers say they might try to force to day's session to add a debate on Palestine independence td the proposed agenda-. THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT is in the process of reorganization following the resignations of the cabinet.

President Ramon Grau San Martin has ordered a new cabinet formed by promoting the subsecre-tary of each department. POLICE OFFICIALS in Buenos Aires say Vittorio Mussolini is planning to become a resident of Argentina. They say he has fingerprinted at police headquarters, and ne has filed personal data with police preparatory to establishing a permanent residence. Vittorio serv- Mi He A mlttft in tha Ttnlfnn All. THnmas his father, Benito Mussolini, Was waging war against Ethiopia Police say they have orders to say nothing about Vittorio because It Is what they call "a matter in the jurisdiction of the Foreign Office." STATE DAMAGE IN yeetqrday's wind, rain and electrical storm at Logan-sport has been set at $50,000.

A building of the Boyer Fire Apparatus Company was demolished and several trthers unroofed. Scores of trees aad utility poles were blown down. SOME 1400 AFL teamsters have struck at Indianapolis, tielng up freight shipments In and around the city. They are seeking a 33 cent an hour wage boost. EVANSVILLE'S MAYOR, Manson Relchert, has obtained a State Supreme Court order temporarily stopping the grand jury Investigation of EVansville's city administration.

Raichert's attorneys won an order stopping the probe at least until May 9th. and forcing Judge Nat Youngblood of Vanderburg Circuit Court to accept Relchert's petition for dismissal of the grand jury. Relchert accused the grand jury of prer judlce, but Judge Youngblood hail refused to permit filing of the mayor's petition. oo CITY OFFICIALS at Evansville say they have petitioned the federal government for 580,000 to repair streets damaged by wartime traffic City Engineer Melslnger nays the streets were damaged when the city allowed tanks, heavy trucks and similar vehicles to travel on (hem during the war emergency o- -o ONE OF INDIANA pioneer newspapermen. James Casey, has died In a San Jose.

California, hos pltal after a lengthy illness He was 74 years old. Casey had lived In San Jose since his retirement In 1934. A native of Clarks Hill. India na, he was editor of a county weekly at Colfax, Indiana, and later worked on newspapers In Lafayette tnd Crawfordsvllle. Services will be held tomorrow at San Jose.

THE DEATH OF Mirs. Minnie McConnell. one of the central figure's In Dupont'a mercury and old lace poison case, has been blamed on heart and liver ailments. Mrs. McConnell died a few days after Mrs.

Lottie Lockman was acquitted of attempting' to poison her. The McConnell death certificate was filed "by Drs. Cook and A Whitaitt. A 27 YEAR OLD escapee from the Indiana Reformatory has been captured at Terre Haute. Authorities say they will return the escapee.

James Hutchlnga of Terre Haute, to Pendleton. He escaped last November while serving a 10 to 25 year sent-ance. RALPH BERTHC HE IMPROVES Word was received by friends here today that the condition of Ralph Bertsche, who, with Mrs. Bertsche, has been spending the winter months Tuscon, Arcona, Is much Improved. He writes (hat ha has been dismissed from a hospital there after a fifteen day sojourn, and that the couple expects to return to their Alexandria home soon.

To Save You Time, Yet NATIONAL STEEL PLATES manglng off the cars of a sidetracked freight sliced through t.wo passenger coaches of a passing Pennsylvania Railroad express train near Huntington, Pennsylvania, early today. Four persons were killed and at least 34 others injured. Another freight piled into the wreckage and Its locomotive and tender were overturned. AN ATTORNEY for 15 striking telephone unions, Henry Mayer, predicts in New York that the national phone walkout will end at 3 M. CST with the company meeting demands tor a six-dollar-c-week raise.

MORB THAN 879,000 workers in the basic steel Industry are at work under new wage contracts today. But 14,000 CIO employees of the Inland Steel Company In Chicago walked off their jobs at midnight when their old contract expired and negotiators failed to gree on a new one. About 75,000 CIO United Steel Workers have gone on strike against the John Roebllng and Sons Cable Company at Trenton, New Jersqy. A company spokesman says the rejected the "15-cents-an-hour in crease accepted by other steel workers, Or 0 itf WASHINGTON, representa tives of tha AFL and CIO are beginning talks which they hope will lead to a merger of their 13-mllllon menv bers into one labor organization Today's discussions will bring CIO President Philip Murray and united Mine Workers chief John Lewis together in friendly negotiations for tha first time since their historic split in 1941. oo THJS UNITED STATES Chamber of Commerce ends Its 85th annual cenvention In Washington today.

OnVof Its last actsT expected to be a 'resolution- in favot of bahWng'sWl ondary boycotts and sympathy strikes and of modifying the closed shop. IN NEWBURYPORT. Massachus etts, merchants backing the 10 per cent price cut plan" meet tonight to decide Whether to continue the anti-inflation drive beyond its 10-day trial period. One spokesman says the tradesmen will not favor keeping up the drive unless it is influencing communities throughout the nation. THE WRMER general counsel of the Treasury, Randolph Paul, has advised Congress to go slow in cutting personal income taxes.

In testimony before the Senate Finance Committee, he opposed House legislation to cut most taxes 20 per cent and urged Congress to take time to overhaul the entire tax program. THE HOUSE will vote on a serie3 of amendments to the rent control extension bill this afternoon The members also will decide on a Democratic motion to return the measure to committee for revision, oo THE TWO-J3AY TOTAL of death reused by four tornadoes over a wide-speard area is 25. This morn Ing, heavy storms are continuing in the southeast, with high winds lashing Atlanta. Georgia. Two liviM were lost In the tornado which struck in the farm country northwest of Dallas last nglht.

And at Fairmont North Carolina, damage Is estimated at one-mllllou dollars in tho tornado which struck the town yesterday-One four-year-old girl was killed and an estimated 200 persons are homeless. SPORTS CHIEF STEWARD Jack Meban of the Indianapolis Speedway says time trials for the) 1947 rate will start at noon Saturday, May 17th. The trials will lot Ix hour The fastest car 6n tiie first day of qualifications wins the coveted pole position in the 500 mile classic. A minimum speed 115 miles per hour is required to qualify. THE CLEVELAND INDIANS have scheduled a three day tryout tamp at Ames Field in Michigan City, Indiana, Tryouts will be held June 2nd through June 4th.

Cleveland seout Wally Laskowskl says only players between the ages 17 and SI will be eligible, and they must be out of high school. THE HOME AND HOME football aeries between Purdue and Notre Dame will continue, at least through 1949. Notre Dam athletic director Frank Leahy mad the announcement. Notre Dam at Purdue next October llth. In hold on campuses across the country.

Babies of students dads and moms paraded across the stage and were judged by a vote of the student body. While the contest was in progress proul mothers hovered in (he background and fathers in the audience tried to look nonchalant, or at least There were two kings and two queens selected, one set for young sters under one year and the other from one to four. They were crowned by college president Harry Dll-lin. 2 OFFICERS ARE WOUNDED TODAY Assailants at Jeffersonville Escape Atter Shooting JEFFERSONVILLE', Ind. May 1 (U.R Two city police officers have been shot at Jeffersonville, and neither are expected to live.

Captain Emerson Payne and Patrolman Paul Coleman were wounded early this morning; by two unidentified assailants. The gunmen escaped in an Aitmoblle bearing Kentucky license plates. Both Payne and Coleman are iu a critical condition at Clark County Memorial. Hospital in Jeffersonville. Attaches say they are not expected to live.

Both officers were shot in the face. The shooting occured In downtown Jefferson vlll around 4:30 yclock this morning Central Standard Time. A fireman on duty at a city fire station across the street heard the gunfire. He rushed a window, saw a gray or jjreen Pontiac with Kentucky -license plates speeamg away, ana ha ottuuuacarj lying In the street. Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio pence Immediately set up road blocks.

police unlet uoraon uirmore Bays the two officers were making their rounds In a patrol car and apparent, ly stopped to Investigate two meji seen in an automobile. Apparently, they were shot without warning. Mr and Mrs Stanley Martin have returned to their home in EaBt Lansing, Mich, after a visit here with Mr. and Mrs Dane Hoover, East Church Btreet. have had quite a shortage of leather, so the ipoorei class of people, and even some of the mure prosperous, wear the flat wooden clog with the cords that come up between the toes to hold them mi i.be foot.

Some wear a rubber soled canvas shoe Chat his th" hip toe separate, on the order of mitten The socks they wear are made on ihe same order Most of the women wear ilie long narrow skirted i -1 i i nr some type of trou1-'! few wear Western style dr or suit The laboring i la.ss of m. anything they can find Th. i Mb workers have Western suits Over here, hy saying Western style, they mean similar to wh.it e. have over here Stniesi the says i What do I do here I am assgln ed to Post Headiiu. liters with the title of Labor and Police Officer I control all the Japanese labor we use here on the the Post, and see to it that the post grounds are kept cleaned, the streets in repair, and about "umpteen'' other things that no one else wants to bother seeing about We are employing sbont 900 Japs a day now, and they are of all categories of workers, from an x-ray technician for the hospital elertric'-lans, plumbers and so on down to common laborers.

All maintenance nd repair is done bv Japanese labor, under out" supervisor I have an office force of one Army enlisted man. a Sergeant, and eight Japanese, six of whom can speak good English Two are female typ tstfl fthey are nothing to make Wanda worry i From the 900 ah 1 7r are used to operate a laundry for us, also a irv cleaning plant when it Isn't broken down The homes 'or our depend ents are quite nice They are new. Western design stucco some five and six room cottages, and some five and sjx room, four unit apartments The Army furnished them complete. r- Turn to Page 4. PUtae TERRE HAUTE, May 1 (U.R) Eight coal miners have died In the worst Indiana mining disaster since 1941.

Rescue workers brought up the elgth body early (his morning from the tiny Spring Hill shaft near Terr? Haute. The miners, most of them from West Terre Haute, were killed yesterday afternoon when a dynamite charge set off a major explosion in the mine's two-thousand foot passageway. They were members of a repair crew preparing the Spring Hill mine for a federal Inspection. The mine had been closed since the general safety "ahutdpwln (of April 1st. A ventilating system had been found faulty.

Physicians say that none of the bodies were burned or miutllated. This indicates that all eight died of poisonous gas or suffocation. The blast filled the mine with deadly car bon monoxide gas and smoke. Three members of the 11 man re pair crew, Adam Harmon, Frank Pangrazio and Everett Marshall, es caped unharmed. They were near the elevator shaft when the blast rolled through the mine.

They found the elevator in working order, rode to the surface and summoned help. But dense smoke held rescuers on the surface for more than three hours. Relatives and friends of the miners pushed against police lines throughout the early part of last ovenlng, hoping that some word would come from below, However, when the rescue crews finally returned to the surface, they told of finding all eight of the men dead. The Victims were identified as Calvin Wilson, the mine foreman; Steve Sommers, John Brown, Barney Riggs, Vera Earhart. Mark Gatea, Chauncey Blackburn and Desire Lete.

Lucian Bussierre, a 23 year old rescue worker, was overcome by dioxide gas while in the shaft and was revived at the surface by artificial respiration. Two federal mine Inspectors, William Gallaigor and John Bradburn of Vincennes. are at the mine now. in vestigating 'the cause of the blast. Plastic Surgery Is Popular In The Orient SHANGHAI U.R) In the land of the Orient, where saving face is Important, the plastic surgeons are doing a boami business.

Not that the Orientals have any (hing to hide, but for reasons which the occodental might consider Incidental For example, there's a Chinese legend that an ear which Is an inch of so larger than the ordinary, nienas Its owner will bo a millionaire So, if there's a plastic surgeon around who's handy at Increasing the area of an ear a million or bo dollars worth well, the Chinese don't mind lending destiny a helping hand Thousands of years ago, the Chinese fortune tellers derided that. In tho slang of the western world, your face is your fortune. The position of the eyes, for Instance, bodes good or evil Tho shape of the ears Indicates prosperity or proverty. and the size of each is virtually Important. There's another old legend that If the central bone of (he nose grows a fraction of an inch after the age of 40 then the owner Is headed for wealth.

It doesn't make any differ, ence what he started with. He might look like Cyrano de Bergerac or Durante the Important thing is the growth after 40 So a lot of the mid die-aged Chinese go in for nose op erations A wide mouth also Is a good sign for men. It means, according to the book of the fortune tellers, that such men will become wealthy and famous In their profession A wo man with a small mouth, on the other hand, is destined to marry a man who is rich and successful Thus It Is that In dhina, the plastic surgeons have their hands full changing faces. Mr. and Mrs Robert Tomlinson, of Anderson and Mr and Mrs.

Her bert 8ller, of Muncle, were guests last evening of Mrs Edna Danforth. North Garrison street. Mr and Mrs. Marvin Worley and Miss Jean Worley were Anderson visitors last evening. Former Alexandria Man Writes From Army Station at Kumamoto, Japan A letter from First.

Lieutenant William Fulk. former resident of Alexandria and a brother of Eugene Fulk. of the contracting firm of Fox and Fulk. was received this week by Edgar I. news editor of the Times -Tribune Bill is stationed at Kumamoto Japan, and his letter IN nianv interesting things about his work there, and about the try in general Willie 1.1 Fulk lived in Alexan dria.

he made his home with his wire Wanda, and their font vein old son, Mike, at 711 South Wayne street, in the home now occupied hy A .1 llnllinger an I his family. The F'llks were (iiite a. -live In the work cf ilie First Christian church, where Bill a member cr the omci.u hoard He was also active in the Veterans of Foreign Wars befoie reentering the Army after service in the National Cuard and in Europe during hostilities Kxierpts from hU letter follow Headquarters, 21st Infantry A 24. 7r San Francisco, Calif April 20, 1947 Hello Casey No. I didn't forget you entirely I have been waiting for the return of some pictures, but guess It is going to be a while before 1 get them back.

I will save them for the next time. I have been in Japan for over a month now. and I am beginning to like it better all the time Not that I would care to stay more than my 30 months, hut as b'ng as I am here for i hat long. I migh' as well like things I am now located at Kumamoto on Kyushu, the southermost of the main Japanese chain Our Army post about four miles out from the city and we have the 21st Regiment here, about 3500 troops The Japanese people are mostly agricultural there Is very little fac tory work here The effect of the war Is quite noticeable, especially In the dress of th people Thev.