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Mine Run RUN piodutrt ol a Kilns be nos an qntnililT kind not olaoRwd a msdls? thouabt ai Diction ary LINTON DAILY CITIZEN Printed in the Heart of Indiana Coal Fields in the Finest Corn and Fruit Belt, and in the Finest Trading Center of a 40 Mile Radius THE Weather Fair and cool tonight with light to heavy frost. Cloudy warmer Tuesday. (By Shot-Firer. Substituting for Mine-Runner) This column wishes to take emphatic exception to the way in which a report was written last weekend by the Bedel a1 Coal Mines Administration, which said that tile average coal miner and his family live in and that conditions in some mining towns arc a disgrace. The report made by the CMA, as described by press association dispatches, was written in general terms, lumping the good conditions the agency found with the poor conditions.

Tile result was that the report, carried in practically every daily newspaper in the country, gave the impression that if you were a coal miner or a member of a coal family you, ipso facto, were living in The'survey covered 260 mining areas in 22 states. The report said that found that 92 percent of the homes were of flimsy wood construction. Water supplies in nearly half the areas surveyed were found to be polluted and in 60 percent of the communities there were no facilities for garbage collection. Only one of ten company-owned houses had bathrooms. In the homes owned by the miners or rented from other parties, only three out of ten had lf you look closely enough you will see that much of the preceding statement applies to company-owned homes, but tile average newspaper reader will not lead that closely and will think that statement applies to any home of any coal miner.

SIX PAGES LINTON, INDIANA, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1947 VOLUME XLVII. NUMBER I ll Manslaughter Is Begun; Jurymen Are Selected by Attorneys; Begin Evidence. ACTION IS RESULT OF FATAL MISHAP A Case Opens today. The case of the State of Indiana vs. Raymond Francis Greene, 22 years old, of Worthington, on a charge of manslaughter, opened today in the Greene circuit court at Bloomfield with the jury being selected and with opening statements made by attorneys.

Greene is charged with manslaughter in connection with an accident which took place on Bec. 18. 1946 on state road 67 one and one-half miles south of Worthington. In the accident Maiy Goad, of Boonville and Pleasant H. Williams and Sherman Galli- BLOOMFIELD TRIO OVERCOME BY GAS Mrs.

Ava Ockerman and daughters Maxine and Joan of Bloomfield are recovering today after having been almost asphyxiated Sunday. Mrs. Ockerman and her daughters were returning from Indianapolis when they became ill. They came to the Freeman Greene county hospital where it was found that they were al! suffering from carbon moxoide poisoning. After receiving treatment and staying in the hospital overnight they were taken to their home in Bloomfield today.

HOBBLE SEIS NEW HAT GOES IN THE RING PREMIER OF HALY DESCRIBES VIEWS U. S. Participation Said to Be Guarantee about Prevention of War in Interview Today. LEADER IS SOLEMN ABOUT CONDITIONS COMMITTEE LOPS anion Driver Competes in Races Sunday at Scottsburg. it is the custom and tradition that mine families shall exist in squalor, it is time for that custom and tradition to be abolished" the report continued.

That statement is not qualified or modified in the slightest. It constitutes a indictment of any coal residence and living con- Hatfield, Leslie A ditions and with that statement Mussel I Rhodes, Connu Leon nubble of Linton, driving his Hispano-powered race car on the half-mile flat dirt track at Scottsburg, yesterday broke all previous' lap records at the track with a 27.33 qualifying time. A good field of cars and driv- Bill Cantraip who Mrs. Lutie Goad of Boonville was seriously injured. Greene Is Indicted Later, on March 7, a grand jury returned indictments of manslaughter and operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated.

On May IO, Greene entered a plea of not guilty. This morning, after some dis- cushion about prospective jury-1 ha" lap he ran out ol gu men, the jury to hear evidence us AT NEW Jefferson Day dinner, Senator Tom Connelly mire. President Truman will be the D.mocrat sttnd- ard-bearer in 1948. With Comfily at the speakers table are tary of Commerce W. Averell Harriman (left) and Charks BL fever chairman of the New York dinner.

(Infraatioad on of Evansville, were killed, anders, including drove the half-mile at 28.bz, Church Smith, at 28.97, and Cliff Griffith at 29.54 seconds. Because of rain, however, the qualifications were halted and a new race date was set for May 11. One week ago in a 20-lap feature event at Franklin, Hubble led the field and lapped all but two competing cars, but with a in the case was selected. I he jury is made up of the fol owing: Tula Reid, Guy George Carr, derson, Btook- tiiis column disagrees. With the coming of mechanized deep mining and strip mining, the coal miner who needed only a little shirt and big passed shire, Harvey Vernon Dobson, Clarence Martindale, Burl Morrison and Herman Ball John O.

Moomaw, Greene county prosecuting attorney, is prosecuting the case and Paul Hay- from the coal production picture. wood, Bloomfield attorney, is aper a rock punctured his gaso line tank. Two ago, having made the fastest qualifying time, Hubble held the poll position at Mitchell, only to be unable to compete, because of a blown head gasket. These races are sanctioned by tile Midwest Dirt Track Racing association. report a boy was born by Ceasarian section to Mrs.

Phyllis of Lyons. He bas been named I LUY Lyn. A girl has been born to Mrs Bob Moody of Indianapolis. A boy was born to Mrs. Pauline Holder.

Mrs. Mary Kelly has been admitted for medical treatment. Claude Chambers of Bloomfield underwent major Coy of Sandborn underwent an appendectomy. RESIDENT EXPIRES Charles A. Reagan Dies at Worthington This Morning.

Charles Aaron Reagan, 64 years old, former coal miner and railroader, died at 6:30 this morning in his home at Worthington. Mr. Reagan was born on April With coal cutting and coal loading machines costing into the thousands of dollars and with strip mining shovels and coal preparation plants costing hundreds of thousands, mine operators fnUod that men of more than average intelligence and ability were needed. It was, and still is, to trust an illiterate with equipment valued at thousands of dollars. The modern-day coal miner is a progressive, intelligent, hardworking individual.

He makes un the backbone of the citizenry of several Indiana cities and he is found in rather large numbers in Linton. When the average pay of the coal miner became in the neighborhood of $275 a month and when some coal mine started receiving from $600 to $800 a month the chaff was removed from the industry. Your modern coal grandfather or great-grandfather may have come from Europe and may not have been very much of a linguist for a few years after arriving in America, but he lacked nothing in native intelligence, and his gradsons and great-grandsons have adapted themselves readily to the American way of doing things. They are now your average citizen and communities like Linton are proud of them. This column cannot admit that the average coal miner in Linton, or Clinton, or Bicknell, or Petersburg, or Terre Haute is living in Most of them have modern or semi-modern homes, with electricity, natural gas, water and modern sewage disposal facilities.

Most of them have good automobiles. The schools their children attend are as good as any in Indiana and Indiana ranks above the national average in educational status. All of the cities mentioned have hospital and medical facilities as good as any found elsewhere in Indiana. There have been no epidemics of any consequence in any of these cities for years. If the average coal miner in Indiana is living in then so is the average railroader, electrician, plumber, carpenter, bricklayer -and tile Shot-Firer.

Here lie the bones of Melvin Tread softly, all who pass; He thought his foot was on the brake, But it was on the gas. Patient at dentist office: Are there many cavities in my teeth, doctor? Doctor: Girlie, there are so many that every time you talk I hear an echo. tomorrow. presenting Greene. This morning the defense refused to accept Granville Gentry as a juryman and he was replaced by OU Hatfield.

The prosecution set off Kenneth Mattox and Anderson of the regular jury panel and Charles Hanson was brought in to replace Anderson. The prosecutor also refused to seat Mr. Anderson. Presentation of evidence in the case was begun this afternoon. 0 IT BUSI Mrs.

Margaret Ann Wiley gave J4 lg83 in clay county, the son birth to a son by Ceasarian sec- 0jr and Angeline Haviland tion this morning. He has been named J. Marc. On March 5, 1904 he was mar- Mr Mary Knowles of to Mary Albright and they route 2 has been admitted for began housekeeping in Linton, medical treatment. He was a Mrs Ava Ockerman a Worthington and John of and held membership in the Red admitted for I Men's lodge in Linton.

member of Church of Christ to the solution of both international disputes and Italian internal problems. believe American participation in European and Mediterra- ean affairs will serve to consol'- dat peace arid agreement among free independent the gaunt, 65-year-old premier said in reply to a question about President international aid program. American activity seems to me a guarantee against a new Defends Truman As if seeking immediately to 1 answer a major criticism against the Truman policy, De Gasperi added, believe that American influence is good for the development of democratic life in Eu- rope. I consider United States i tbc participation in things European as within the framework of the MERCHANT GROUP WILE MEET TODAY An important meeting of the 1 Linton Retail association will be held at 5 this afternoon at the local public library, leaders of the association announced today. They urged all members to at- I Department Figures Are Slashed Pi Percent by Congress Group at Capital Today.

MINE INSPECTION SUMS NOT PARED WASHINGTON, April 21 its sharpest economy axe to date, the house appropriations committee today chopped 43 per cent off the funds asked by President Truman for the ior Department. It voted to give the department $183,649,313 for fiscal 1948 instead 1 of the recommended The total included $27,110,800 which congress is required by law to give the department each year. The threat of a major steel strike Omitting these funds over which the committee had no discretion, this spring, with its disas rous th(? sjas.b was neariy 50 per cent. feet on other industries, was STEEL na WILE SIBP STRIKE; 15 CENTS GRUNTED ROME, April 21------- Premier Alcide de Gasper! said today that continued and increased United States participation in European and Mediterranean affairs would be guarantee against a new De Gasperi, leader of the Christian Democratic Party who heads the Italian coalition gov- I eminent, viewed the world situ- St I I IO BL I) KU I I IL, 11 ation pessimistically in an inter- 1 view with the United Press. He PITTSBURGH, April 1 saw American action as the key Firms Come to New Decision Yesterday at Pittsburgh; Roosts to Re PORTAL TO PORTAL eliminated today with the negotiation of a 15-cent hourly wage increase for the employes of the industry.

The unprecedented two-year agreement, which is retroactive to April I and runs until May i 1949, was reached yesterday between Philip Murray, president of the CIO and the United Steel Workers, and officials of the U. S. Steel Corporation. The agreement provides for a wage increase of 12 cents an hour, or $1 in a day. The remainder of the raise will cover elimination of inequities by hiking hourly wage rates and improve- i meat in vacations.

The matter of wages may be reopened after one year by either party. The contract will be approved by the of which daughters Maxine Bloomfield were treatment Sunday and dismissed He is survived by the widow. United Nations, United States is a De Gasperi received me in his large businesslike office in the FIELD TRIAL PLANS Divorce Is Granted; New Suit Filed; Licenses Are Issued. Annual Spring Running to Be Held at Dugger April 25, 2b, 27 The Dugger Field Trial Association, today announced plans for its annual spring trial which will be held at the trial grounds 2 miles south of Dugger, April 25, 26 and 27. Headquarters will be in the Dugger hotel.

Drawing for open stakes will be held in the Dugger hotel Thursday evening and for membership stakes on Saturday evening, it was said. Entries will close at the time of the drawings. Horses will be available the Association stated. Stakes and the order of running will be as follows: Friday and Saturday, open, all age entry fee open puppy, entry fee open derby, entry fee 70 divided 50, 30 a 20. Sunday, membership shooting dogs, entry fee membership puppy, entry fee $5.00.

All dogs eligible to run in membership stakes by owner joining club, membership fee 50c. There will be three courses, 30 minutes heat. Entries may be mailed to Welker Goodman, secretary, Dugger route 1. One divorce was granted, a new case was filed and three marriage licenses were issued today and last weekend in the Greene circuit court at Bloomfield. Hazel Irene.

Bridwell was granted a divorce today from OU Bridwell. She also was given the care and custody of four minor children. Iva Bredwell today filed suit for divorce from Roy Bedwell. Marriage licenses were issued to: Richard Douglas Pickett and Gladys Alma Wascom, both Worthington. James Tannehill of Indianapolis and Patricia Harbin of Linton.

Pfc. Owen Vernon Tilford of the IT. S. Army and Phyllis Ann Potter of Linton. Ho has Worthington; two sons Lee Reagan of Coal City and Ralph C.

Reagan of Indianapolis; one sister, Mrs. Ethel Trinkle of New Goshen; eleven grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. today. Mrs. Donna Hasler of I ry gave birth to a son.

been named Michael Lee. A girl has bsen born to Mrs. Wilma Stevens. She has been named Connie Faye. Sharon Graves of Linton route 2 has been dismissed.

Mrs. Dorcas and baby taken to the Myers Funeral home been taken to their home 1 Worthington, where, it was Bloomfield rout 2. I announced, friends may call. 3 r0U' Funeral services will be held Jack Coleman of' Sullivan ha. (ft 1:30 Wednesday after- been dismissed.

Mrs. Hazel Sexton has been taken to her home in Jasonvill. Janice Hair was taken home today. Jake Kent of Jasonville has been released. Nina Noel of Worthington has been released Phillips.

69 years old. former re- hp, home in Jasonville bident of Linton, who died at taken to her home in Sa(urday mornlng Mrs Kila Burris of Jasonville I his home at Shelburn were held this afternoon at the McHugn I u- Mis. Ma Viminale Palace. In a smart Mrs Rosetta Rhodes of grey flannel suit and horn rimmed glasses, he looked much younger than his 65 years. He removed the glasses during most of the interview and gestured constantly with a colored pencil the 175-man wage an.d policy committee of tile steel union today and will be signed The contract also reduced smart I pay differentials and established a severance pay program in the industry.

Pay Suit Dropped In return for the new contract the union dropped its $500,000,000 portal-to-portal in the Italian manner. As he ran against the corporation his long fingers through a shock Benjamin Fairless, president The body of the deceased was Qf bJack haif onJy flcckcd with of U. S. Steel, estimated the wage grey, exhibiting warmth and wou cost the firm courtsey, he seemed to present a $75,000,000 annual and promised maximum contrast with Benito Mussolini, who was running Italian lives only four years ago. noon at the Funeral home and burial will be made in the Fairview cemetery at Linton.

OSCAR IMI FILIPS DIES AT SHELBURN Funeral services for Oscar W. ATT E. Services Are Pending for Mrs. Mary Mees; Expires Today. has been transferred to the Methodist hospital in Indianapolis.

Mrs. Harold Berns of Linton route 3 was taken home today. June Ferguson of Jasonville has been taken home. Mrs. Gladys Sims and baby have been taken to their home in Elnora.

Mrs. Mary Shoptaw Mees, 91 years old, passed away at 8 clock this morning at her home in Worthington, following a I BURUD OI WEDL TO MEET TONIGHT A meeting of the Linton Inter- Church Council will be held at 7:30 o'clock tonight at the Salon Evangelical and Reformed church, leaders announced today. Solicitors for the Religious Educational fund are to meet with the Council to receive final instructions. Solicitors from College Hill, Northwest Ward and Northeast Ward schools are to meet at the Reformed church and those from the Central school building are to meet at -o'clock tonight at that school. Funeral Services Will Re Beld There Wednesday Afternoon.

Sarah Etta Strahle, died at her home in Coalmont at 12:15 o'clock this morning after an illness of a few weeks. The survivors include the husband, Melvin Strahle, three sons, Herschel of Jasonville, Richard of Terre Haute and Sherman at home, a daughter Mrs. Violet Crowe of Coalmont; three grandchildren, a sister Mrs. Grace Fisher of Ft. Wayne, and three brothers, Guy Puckett of Jaynesville, 111., Richard Puckett and Walter Puckett both of Jason- vi Ie rural route.

The body was taken to the McClanahan Funeral Home in Jasonville and later returned to the family residence. Funeral services will be held from the Coalmont Church of God Wednesday afternoon at two with the Rev. Fred Puckett and Rev. Sam Edmunds officiating. Burial will be made in the of cemtery at Hymera.

CONDITION SAME The condition of Mrs. Mary Collins who has been seriously all at her home here most of the winter is reported to be about the same. Major and Mrs. Emil Serbousek and Mrs. Joseph Lomax of Memphis spent Saturday with Mr.

and Mrs. Virgil Bledsoe. Major Serbousek has just returned from two years in Korea. thur of Terre Halite, James of Indianapolis and John of New Orleans. and several nieces and nephews.

I neral home in Shelburn and burial was made in the Westlawn cemetery. Mr. Phillips was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Marion Phil- three-month Hines lips.

He had left Linton several Mrs. Mees was born at Little years ago. Surviving are the Cincinnati in 1856, the daughter widow, Mrs, Keziah Philips; two of William and Susan Holder Mrs. Harry Dixon of Tor- Shoptaw. She had spent lier cure Haute and Mrs.

Ira Morris of tire life in Sullivan and Greene Palestine, three brothers. Ar- counties with the exception of a short time when she lived in Illinois. She was a member of the Methodist church at Cass. In 1874 she was married to John B. Asher and they became the parents of four daughters.

Mr. Asher died in 1887. In 1901 she was married to John Mees, who passed away in 1904. She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Pearl Pirtle of Sullivan route three; four granddaughters, Mrs.

Leo Shelkett of PORT MIJGU, April 21 bf)mb NaVy permitted them Terre Haute, Mrs. Laura Bays of Navy revealed today today to describe what they saw. Worthington, Miss Onieta Pirtle that it has the greatest guided Tbp Germans invented the Gf Sullivan route three and Mrs. missile in the history of war- bomb and coupled it with a pulse Theora Lamb of Phoenix, fare. I jet engine invention stolen from eleven great-grandchildren and It was a three-ton flying bomb thp united States.

The result was two great-great grandchildren. the V-l buzz bomb, 5,500 of The body was taken to the My- which were fired across the Eng- ers Funeral home in Worthing- lish channel and almost wrecked ton and will be returned to the London. Now the U. S. Navy has family residence Tuesday morn- taken the German composite and jng.

made it many times more effec- Funeral arrangements had not tive by equipping it for remote been completed today hut are to control by radio. be announced later. New Radio-Guided Bomb Is Displayed By Navy that his company would attempt to absord it without raising the price of steel. The agreement covers 140,000 I employes of the operating subsidiaries of U. S.

Steel and Wire Company, Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation, Columbia Steel Company, Nat-! ional Tube Company and the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company. Other basic steel makers, employing 360.000 workers, were expected to accept the of the contract as they have in the past. However, non-basic steel companies, employing an additional 360,000 workers, may put up a fight against accepting the overall terms of the agreement. It also was expected to strengthen the 15-cent hourly wage increase policy pursued by the CIO in other industries, and to have a quickening effect on the negotiations in the automobile and telephone industries. The United Electrical Workers has accepted a 15-cent increase from Westingtonhouse and General Motors and GM has offered the CIO United Automobile Workers a similar increase.

Fairless said the new agreement boost average wages to from $1.32 to $1.47 an hour and would increase average weekly wages from $52.50 to $58.50. For its vast projects, the reclamation bureau was allotted only $62,717,600 of the $145,952,200 recommended a 58 per cent cut. From a percentage standpoint, the cut in Interior Department funds was the biggest voted by the committee in any of the three major appropriations bills it has acted on thus far. It trimmed the treasury-post office bid from $13,285,302,721 to $12,388,029,971. But the $879,272,750 the biggest in only a 6L per cent saving.

The 078,825,520 cut it made in the originally requested $1,763,412,000 for the Labor Department and Federal Security Agnecy represented a saving I of only about 4L per cent. Due For Action The bill is due for house action late this week. The bill will go I to the senate, which usually i i more liberal in voting money tor the Interior Department. Even before the committee dill its trimming job, the budge bureau already had cut the Interior original request by $56,500,000. The committee did not estimate the number of es that would have to be dropped, I but said the number would be The committee said its reduction of funds for reclamation was in accordance with President Tru- 1 man 1946 order on public works projects to prevent the government from competing with private construction for critical materials in reconversion.

WASHINGTON, April 21 (U.R) house appropriations mitee, remembering the Centralia, 111., mine disaster, today granted $1,625,000 for coal mine inspection and investigation and $1,148,000 for investigating mine accidents and bpcrating mine rescue cars. The items were contained in tho fiscal 1948 appropriations bill for the Interior Department. They were among the very few items in the bill which did not feel the economy axe. IECHERT BURIED TODAY Newberry Woman Dies at Home of Sister on Saturday. officially called the KUW-1.

The 700 naval and civilian scientists and personnel of this heavily guarded air missile test center call it the Loon. Here are some of the things it will do: the effective heavy bombardment range of the Navy from 25 miles, the extreme figure achieved against Japan, to 150 miles. Radio controlled, it can change its course in flight to seek out its target with deadly accuracy. Its speed is in excess of 425 miles per hour; its weight, 6,000 pounds; its cost $15,000. Newsmen Invited Seventy five correspondents, photographers and newsreel cameramen watched a demonstration last week of the radio-controlled Mrs.

Mary Ann Axe Wie! chert, 59 years old, lifelong re- i Bident of the Newberry ctwnmun- i ity. died at 11 Saturday I night at the home of her sister, Mrs. Sam Asdelt, in that community, following a lingering HI- Funeral services for Mrs. I Charity Arthur, 93 years old, of RITES CONDUCTED FOR AGED WOMAN Newark, who died Friday evening, were held Sunday afternoon at the Newark church, and burial was made in the Newark cemetery. Mrs.

Arthur was born on April Funeral services wore beld this afternoon at the Newberry Methodist church, and burial made in the Newberry cemetery, Mrs. Wiechert was born in the Newberry community, the daughter of John and Sarah William The Loon is subsonic, as was the V-l; that is, its speed is less than that of sound. Whether or not the Navy is working on a Loon designed to parallel the German V-2 which was supersonic is a matter Captain A. B. Scoles, director of tests, refused to discuss.

Also on the no-comment list was the question as to whether or not the original German inventors of the V-l and V-2 yvere helping build and test (Continued on Page Six) W. A. A. SURPLUS SALE TO RE CONDUCTED EVANSVILLE, April (U.R)—Scarce typewriters, office furniture and motor vehicles were set aside by the war assets administration today for sale to Indiana veterans April 23-24. A spot bid sale of WAA surplus vehicles also is being held at tho Naval Ammunition Depot, Crane, today.

13, 1853. A brother, Peter Cor- Simpson, She was a member nelius of Worthington, was the1 the Newberry Methodist church, only immediate survivor, Two husbands, Sam Axe ani The Jenkins Funeral home of Henry Wiechert, preceded her in Bloomfield was in charge of the death. arrangements. I Surviving are seven and John Axe of Switz CANCER CONTROL FUND City, Ralph Axe of Illinois, Solicitations for the Cancer and Robert Henry, Harold Control Fund, will be conducted Curt Wiechert, all of in the downtown business section all day Tuesday. Mrs.

Francis Hascman, chairman of the drive, asked today that all contribute and have donations ready to help this cause. Mi fbiirsri Inois, and two daughter! Beulah Wealing and Mrs. Dungan, both of Illinois. The Jenkins Funeral home Bloomfield was in charge of arrangements..