Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 225, Decatur, Adams County, 24 September 1945 — Page 1

OL. XLIII.. No. 225.

HEW STRIKES CALLED FROM COAST TO COAST

||| Japanese funds Frozen |y MacArthur Sweeping Financial Order Seen Step To ! Secure Reparations I Tokyo. Sept. 24-(UP). --Wen K.ugla* MacArthur today froze Kuanese fu"' l " h,,m< * R ’"’ Knud, stripped newspapers and K w , agencies of government Kntrol and banned research into Kiomir power. I The freeze order wa» another ■d a series of step* which eventuEly will enable the Allied XUI" me command to control the re Japanrae economy and prel( the imperial governm«oit n realising anything from Its en empire. i an eight-point directive blue* Hing Japan’s post war domeseconomy, he also ordered rt control of wages, prices rationed goods, halted ail airIt. naval and other war prolion, and urged maximum outof civilian necessities of I. clothing and shelter. he orders put into effect some he major policies outlined for an by President Truman in directive to MacArthur, g The general’s sweeping finanI rial order was seen as a step toward securing reparations from Japan and toward thwarting attempts of Japanese war profiteers to unload their wealth in an effort to escape war guilt trials. President Truman directed that reparations would lie secured in part through the transfer of Japanese property outside the home Islands. MacArthur's financial order specifically directed the government to amend Its laws to .prohibit: 1. Export to or import from any foreign country of gold or silver coin; gold, silver or platinum bullion; currency, securities, rhwks. bank drafts, bills of exchsnge, powers of attorneys, proxies. or any other evidence of Indebtedness or of property ownership. J- Transactions within Japan I in gold or silver coin or gold, silver or platinum bullion. 3- Transfer of . assets abroad owned or controlled directly or indirectly in whole or part by any person Within Japan. < Transfer of property which now or which has been since Dec. '• 1941, owned or controlled by any person outside Japan. 5 Transactions In foreign exchange. •MacArthur said the orders were aimed "at freexlng traffic in cur-t'-iu ics and all negotiable assets within the country which will in ’urn facilitate the fingerprinting "f the nation's assets here and abroad.” In his new press directive. MacArthur ordered the government forthwith to eliminate state-cre-■led barriers to dissemination of ■ews and to ’ remove itself from ■irect or ludirect control of newsPapera and news agencies.” i’he government w aa ordered '» strip (he heretofore official nomei news agency of all special privileges B nd make it subject to Column •) Attends Investiture Os Msqr. John Nadolny The Very Rev. Msgr. Joseph J. Mlmeta. pas’or of St. Mary’s * ,ur< ’h’ attended the investiture of •he Very Rev. Msgr. John F. Na"y ' 1 ’ ag, o r St. Paul’s church « Fort Wayne yesterday. 7® Most Rev. Bishop John F. « ,> n ' bl,,ho P ol Fort Wayne, delated and gave the -ermon. rt” service was largely attended r prelates, priests and members of the parish. °A* OC ’’ AT THERMOMETER J on MPERATURE R EADINGi .l”’- m ‘ 70 •v*OQ 1. m 71 „ WEATHER . Tl *°* t,y «>o«dy tonight and .. *7®r w, *h showers and “ , •••» and south portion tonight, and south and toJb2° rt,# " Tu *«i*y. Cooler and south and central Hrtlone Tuesday. '

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

To Hire Engineers For City Projects To Take First Step In Biq Improvement The first step in one of the biggest financial and public improvemens projects ever to lie undertaken by the city, mill lie taken this evening when meml-ers of the board of public works and safety, headed by Mayor John 11. Htults, selects the consulting engineers for the sewage treatment plant, interceptor sewer and other sewers contemplated to relieve present sewers and provide drainage for new areas. The board, which is composed of Henry B. Heller, city attorney and Joseph Brennen. councilman, In addition to Mayor Htults, was authorized by the council two months ago to employ engineers for the proposed sewage disposal plant and other sewers planned g for the city. A year ago the stream pollution lioard of the state board of health ordered the city to correct and abate the pollution of the waters of the St. Mary’s river with raw sewage from Decatur. The mandate at that time stated that the work should be done by October 1 of this year. However, In view of the manpower and material shoratge problem, the order was not pushed. In a conference last week with state authorities. the city officials were informed that they should go ahead and employ an engineer, before any consideration would be given to an extension of the mandate. At least eight firms are being considered by the itoard. three of whom seem to have the inside track. These are. Bevington. Taggart and Fowler of Indianapolis; Charles W. Cale and Son, South Bend; Charles H. Hurd company. Indianapolis; Don Leases, War saw; Russell B. Moore company, Indianapolii:; H. B. Stegg and Associates, Indianapolis; Ness F. Zurbat-h, Fort Wayne; A. K. Hoffer, Fort Wayne, and Censoer, Townsend and Associates of Chicago. It was indicated that the board wax considering Consoer, Townsend and Associates, Charles 11. Hurd, and Ness F. Zurbach, in the most favorable light. The financing of the three-way propect is one of the largest problems to be considered by the city. While no estimate has been given, it is believed that the combined job will cost more than 1250.000, a part of which would be defrayed by direct assessment against proper tins benefited by sanitary and storm sewers. - Following the employment of engineers, preliminary plans and estimates will be prepared and submitted to the city. Engineering fees range from five to seven and one-half percent. Mayor Htults stated. Charles E. Sullivan Dies This Morning Funeral Services Here On Wednesday Charles E. Sullivan, 70, a retired salesman, died at 9:15 o’clock this morning at his home, 122 North Tenth street. Death wan caused by a cerebral hemorrhage. He had been ailing for the past three years and bedfast for three weeks. He was born in Mansfield, O„ July 9, 1975, the son-of John and Julia I’ixier-Huilivan. but had resided in Adams county for practically his entire life. He was a member of the Union U, B. church. Surviving are the wife, formerly Luella O. Crabill; one daughter, Mrs. Gail Dunifon of Fort Wayne; one foster sister, Mrs. Alice Bier of Indianapolis; a granddaughter, Mrs. Ellen Htults of Decatur; two grandsons, T/Sgt. Jack Dunifon. in India, and Eugene Dunifon of Fort Wayne, and one great-grand-daughter. Beverly Kay Htults of Decatur. Four brothers are dedeceased Funeral services will be held at 2;30 p. m. Wednesday at the Zwlck funeral home, with the Rev. J T. Trueax of the Church of the Nazarene officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p. m. Tuesday.

Urges Senate To Refuse To Name Acheson Nebraska Senator Lashes Campaiqn To 'Smear' MacArthur — Washington, Hept. 24 —(UP)— 1 Sen. Kenneth S. Wherry, It., Neb., today called on the senate to sidetrack the nomination of Dean Acheson to be undersecretary of state and charged the existence of a ‘ smear” campaign aimed al ousting Gen. Douglas MacArthur ax occupation chief in Japan. “We seem to bo -confronted with an oranized campaign to remove General MacArthur,” Wherry protested in a senate speech opposing confirmation of the Acheson nomination. He opposed the appointment on grounds Acheson issued a need-, less ‘’rebuke” to MacArthur last week in a press conference comment on occupation policy for Japan and MacArthur’s estimate that U. H. occupation forces probaldy can be cut to 200,000 within six months. Last .Saturday-Wherry submitted to Acheson a dozen questions i ( entering around the controver-' sial press conference statement.. He requested public answers by today, saying his course of action on the nomination would lie determined on the basis ot Ache son’s answers. Acheson replied this morning, and Wherry termed the reply •entirely unsatisfactory." The reply consisted of copies of the Potsdam proclamation, the White House statement of occupation policy sent to MacArthur Aug. 29 and made public Saturday and a stenographic transcript of Acheson’s controversial press conference statement. Acheson did not answer Wherry’s questions one by one, but said in an accompanying letter that Wherry could “test the correctness of my statement” by examining the enclosed documents. The transcrapt showed that Acheson had commented he was “surprised that anyone can foresee at this time the number of forces which will be necessary in Japan.” It also quoted him that in carrying out occupation policy, ‘the occupation forces are the instruments of policy and not the determinants of policy.” Wherry charged* that the “smear” campaign against Mac(Turn Tn Pass I, Column 5) Borders To Apply For Policeman Post Former Police Chief To Ask Appointment James M. Borders, former Delator police chief, who recently was discharged from the army. Intends to apply for a place on the police force. Mayor John B. Htults stated today. Mr. Borders enlisted In the army in December, 1942. at the close of the mayoralty term of Forrest Elzey, who appointed him chief tour years previously. Following speccialized training m the military police department of the army in thia country, Mr. Borders went overseas and served in North Africa, Italy and was in France when the war ended. Mayor Htults stated that Mr. Borders would be given a policeman’s job, although no appropriation was available at this time for employing an extra man on the force. Under the law, former policemen and firemen who entered military services, have the privilege of applying for reinstatement to a place In the departments within 60 days after they have been discharged from the army. Mayor Htults stated that the formal application had not yet been filed by Mr. Borders, but that the former chief had spoken to him of his intention to seek an appointment as a policeman In the army. Mr. Borders h»!d the rank ot sergeant and was known as a special agent, serving in civilian clothes in the European theater of the war. t

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, September 24, 1945.

Stimson Receives Service Medal

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AS HIS SMILING WIFE LOOKS ON (center), retiring Secretary of War Henry L. Hlim".on Is shown being decorated with the Distinguished Service Medal in the White House grounds ity President Truman. Shortly after, the Stimsons hopped a plane for New York.

Bitter Senate Fight On Jobs For All Bill Waqner Asks Senate Reject Amendments Washington. Sept. 24 (UP) Chairman Robert F. Wagner, D.. N. Y., of the senate banking committee asked the senate today to reject any amendments which might cripple the administration's jobs-forall bill. The measure, dcsignixl to set up machinery for government planning against depressions and widespread unemployment, comes up for debate In the senate tomorrow. “Unemployment and the fear of unemployment are deadly threats to American social institutions and to the American way ot life." Wagner said in a pre debate report He added that the committee iconvinced that passage of the bill “without crippling amendments, will inspire business, labor, agri culture, and above all, the men and women who fought and won the war. with a new confidence in America's ability to fight and win the peace." The bill was cleared by the banking committee on a 13 to 7 vote, with senators considering It split on the extent to which the government should pledge federal spending to promote prosperity. A coalition of Republicans an I southern Democrats, who termed the bill a fraud, prepared to stage a bitter fight on the floor to modify the measure. They were armed with a measure that would strike out of the bill Its provisions for government spending and substitute Instead a program of public works which could be expanded at need. Hen. Robert A. Taft, R„ 0.. who drafted the amendment with Sen. George L. Radcliffe, D., Md.. predicted it would pass. The bill before the senate declam that everyone is “ent 1)I'M to the opportunity” for a good, well paying job. To back up that promise it directs the president to submit to congress each year a projected national budget on probable numbers of available jobs and workers. If the budget indicates unemployment, the president is directed to submit a program of job-stimulat-ing government spending to congress. Taft predicted that congress (Turn To Page 4. Column S) Lonq Distance Phone Calls To Be Speeded New York. Hept. 24-(UP) The Beil Telephone magazine reported today that within ten years long distance operators will be dialing calls to any telephone in the United Hta’es without help from local operators. It will be a step toward the ultimate goal ot “dialing anyone anywhere in the United States or perhapu anywhere In the world juat as simply and promptly as you dial the telephone of a neighbor," tho magazine uaid.

Petition Filed For Hospital Addition A petition wax filed with county auditor Thurman 1. Drew this morning, asking the county cominisxionerx to call a special election on ’he proposed addition to the Adams county memorial h'»-pi-tai, to be Imilt in Wabash township. The petition sets out cost of the proposed addition a' $95,500, and bears the signature of 348 petitioners. Thirty Youths Leave For Physical Exams Two Groups Leave Here This Morninq Thirty Adams county young men left this morning for Indian apeilx, where they will l>" given pre-inductlon physical oxumina (ions under selective service. of the total. 13 were in the regular pre-induction call, and 17 were in the group of previously rejected men sent for re-exatnina-tion. In addition to the 30, one youth, .Samuel 11. Schwartz, a conscientious objector, was sent for final type examination prior to assignment to a civilian work camp. Donovan Clair Burroughs was leader of the entire group. Other members of the regular call were: Kenneth Earl Yoder. Vernon Henry Macke, Roy Leon Sprunger, James Henry Nussbaum, Deltner Frederick Thieme, otto Walter Anton Thieme, Richard Eugene Roe. Othel 1.e,. Wliitacre, Robert Lester Singleton. Vaughn Leroy King, George Edward Moody (transferred from Elizabethtown. Ky i. and Glenn Truman Sheets (transferred from Cincinnati, O 1 J.-sse Joe Corral, Jr., was transferred to a Chicago board. Members of the re-examination group were: Hollis Dale Bonifas, Robert Junior Hchnitz. Robert Dale Schrock, Richard David Green, Richard Howard llunxold, Arthur Dale Habegger, laiuis Clark Landrum, Melville Charles Barber, Howard Elmer Baumgartnrr, Harold Max Hwyigirt, Norman Wayne Steiiry. Robert Lewis Welker, Max Ellis Andrews. Roy Herold Bleeke. Donald Wayne Teepie, Donald Richard Fegley and Donald Ray Fifer Chris Walter Zuercher wax transferred to Los Angeles, Calif., and Max Edward Johnson was transferred to Bloomington. o Hoosier Bond Quota Set At $165,000,000 Indianapolis, Sept. 24 —(UP) — Hoosiers have been assigned a $165,000,000 war bond quota in the final victory loan drive to begin Oct. 29. Eugene C. Pulliam. Indiana war finance committee chairman announced today. Pulliam said that this would be the sta'e'a lowest quota since the second war loan drive in April, 1943, The drive will close Dec. 8,

338,000 Workers Idled By Disputes; Governor Intervenes At Detroit

Big Crowd Thrills At Aerial Circus Show Unmarred By Accidents Sunday No accidents marred the big air show at McComb field in the northwest part of the city Sunday afternoon and the program wax attended by a crowd variously estimated at 6,000 to 8.000. The show wax sponsored by Adams Post 43 of the American la-gion in the interest of aviation. Robert McComb, field manager, estimated that about 3,000 persons were on the field, inclu'iitu children and men in uniform win were admitted free. Hundreds of automobiles were parked oil Nuttman avenue and In fields along Thirteenth street (UH Road 27• and north and south of the airport. A continual stream of autos traveled federal roads 221 and 27, watching the air circus from the highway. The paid admissions to the show numbered alonit 1.000. Features of the three hours' program were the ’’Uncle Thud" comic flight stunts by Pilot McComb and the parachute jumps by Don Byers of Pleasant Mills and Doti Schaffer of this ity, noth army paratroopers who served in the European war. They ! jumped from the wings of tinplane al alxnil 2,tmtt f'-ct and were Instructed in the feat !>y Gene Rock, famed stunt flier of Fort Wayne. During the day 17 planes visited the field. Tiny came from Fort Wayne. Muncie, Auburn, Hunting ton. am! other nearby clijes, pilot Waiter Trent flew Stewart McMillen's Gullwing Stinson plane here sot- the exhibition. laigan Hensley, stunt flier of Huntington and a former navy instructor, also attended the show. R. if. Grundy. CAA inspector from Indianapolis, attended the show atid commented very favorably on the local exhibition. He stated that the rules and regulations governing such exhibitions were being obsei ved ami compli(Turn To page 5, Column 7) Returned Veteran Enrolled At I. U. Leo Ulmar Enrolls At State Colleqe Leo E. Ulman, who wax recently discharged from the army aft'-r serving 33 months. 19 of which were in Europe, left today to enroll in Indiana University”' at Bloomington Probably the first returned veteran in this county to further hi* education under the provisions of the G. 1. 'dll, Mr. Ulman, who was a sergeant with a C-47 Troop carrier unit, intends to enroll in the school of business at the university. Il<- lx the son of Isjo Ulman of this city. Prior to entering the army and foHowTne graduation from D® catur Catholic high school In 1941, Mr. Ulman took a year’s work in accounting at International Business College, Fort Wayne, The G. !. bill provides that veterans may continue their education. the government paying all tuition fees. The individual is allowed SSO If a single person and $75 a month if married In view ot his long service with the army. Mr. Ulman will probably he entitled to the maximum benefits provided under the veteran's bill He served as a crytographer with his unit. — Q 1 Grass Fire Results ♦ In Department Call The fire department was called to Thirteenth street and Nuttman avenuo at 3;30 o’clock Saturday afternoon to extinguish a grass fire, near the site of the new Hwearingeu dairy buildingi

Says Big Five To Compromise On Differences Dispute On Balkans And Mediterranean To Be Compromised London, Hept 24 (UP) Com-pe'i-nt sources predicted today that the Big Five foreign ministers will compromise their difference.-i over the Balkans and the Mediterranean, probaldy liefore their conference ends later this week. Those close to the conferees be lieved the ministers finally would agree on formula- .'.long these lines: 1 Russia will concede a measure of free opposPhui should be permitted against tin- communist government in Bulgaria and a somewhat smaller measure against those In Romania and Hungary. 2. The western Allie will agree to “ioken" Ruvian representation in *he administration of Italian colonies Huch Soviet representation would l»e “token" in that it would not permit Russia to develop a military base tn a sea the Mediterranean which Britain considers a vPal link in her lifeline to her empire. It did no Kcent lik'ly that Soviet foreign (ommi-sar 4. M. Molotov ever had expected t 11.1 ■ Rllh-i.t actually would win a base in the Mediterranean. Oil the Other hand. reaHstic memiaTs of tlie American deh-ga-ti ill never had expei’•*(! that Russia would buw ’o a demand tiia’ the Anglo-American concept of democracy be installed in the Bal kalis Sweeping demands by both RutsU and the western Allies on thee Issues probaldy were bused on tilhope they would result in at least “token” victories. Even the most hard-boiled n< go Haters knew they could not adjourn (he conference three or four days hence without some -emIdanie of agreement on the main Issues Balk.in and Italian peace treaties. The ministers were grimly aware that they wen- working in the sba(Turn To Paas 4. Column 5) - - —o — - Union Joining Not Forced On Veterans Not Prerequisite To Re instatement Washington. Sept. 24 (UP)--Veterans w tli re employment rights caunoi be forced to join a union to get their old jobs back, selective service ruled today In a policy guide to local draft boards, the agency also -aid th.it during the year in which a veteran is guaranteed his old job, IPs rights take precedence over any system of seniority. “Union membership or other conditions not enumerated in tli" law, may not be required of a veteran as a prerequisite to his reinstatement." the guide said. It also held that: In border-line cases, the question whether a former job was ! permanent should be resolved in i favor of the veteran. I fit determining whether It is im- ' possible ot unreasonable for* an employer to take back a veteraa, the effect on' third parties cannot be considered. It is the first time that selective service has publicly clarified the closed shop issue but spokesmen said the policy has been In effect for some time. In some cases unions and employers have agreed to waive the dosed shop agreement for the guaranteed period of one year.

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Lumber Workers Out In Northwest, Other Disputes Brinq Idle To New 1945 Hiqh By United Press New strikes were railed front coast to coast today, and the num* her ot workers Idled by labor dis* put'*- rose to a new high for 1945. The latent developments: 1. Sixty thousand AFL lumber . workers went on strike In the Pa* dfie northwest, raising a threat to the construction of new homes. 2. fti New York City 15,000 ele* vator opera’ors and building ser* vice employes went on strike, Jeav* Ing thousands ot Manhattan work* era without eleva’or service in the world's tallest building'. 3. At Seminole, Okla, memltera of the oil workers International union (CIO) began iaking a strlko vo'c A strike in the area would aggravate the gasoline shortage* caused by other walkouts in three ot the nation's ,-ix major gaxolino refining centers. I The new walkouts, along with lexer strikes ;n other sections Os 'he nation, brought the total num* her of persons made Idle by labor 'trouble to 3M.000, 'be highest point 'of ihe year. 5. In Michigan. Gov, Henry F. Kelly intervened in the strike at th" Kelsey Have Wlie -l company, which has halted production ot Ford cars. Kelly ordered the chair* man of 'hi Michigan labor media* tion !e*ard to see what was holding up settlement of the Wheel com* pany walkout. At Detroit. Chrysler corporation off|<lal« asked for a wage confer* encc with reprcxenta’lven of 'ho united automobile workers union (('lot tomorrow UAW Chrysler loi alx have authorized a petition for a -trike vote. About 150.000 'employes would be affected by 3 Chrysler strike. The luttil'cr walkout was called following a breakdown in nego'ia* tion-. for a blanket minimum wage of sl.lO an hour for workers in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Mon'atia The employers have de* clin<tl 'o negotiate on an industry* wi<i<- lias’s, contending settlement should be made In each area. Hopes for -cttlemen* of th® spreading oil strike apparently hinged on a joint conference ot union and oil company officials, scheduled for tomorrow in Cbica* go with federal department of la* la»r conciliators. Mcmlterx ot the United Workers International I nion (CIO), whose walkout has brought critical short* ages to Detroit, Cleveland, Toledo, O. and Houston. Tex., "struck two additiona! Texas refineries yexter* day. Workers at the Magnolia plant at Beaumont bft their jobs at 4 am., and the Shell refinery at Houston went down at midnight. Operations In three of the na* Hott's richest refining areas— tbo Texas Gulf Coast region, the Calu* met River ba-in near Chicago and the Ohio-West Virginia section — w. ' ipplcd by f <. tnasx W%llC* out. Refining centers In California, Oklahoma and New Jersey as yet had been unaffected by the oil workers strike supporting demands for a 30 percent wage Increase. In lietroit, where automobile pro* duction already was limping he* 1 catr*e as labor disputes in 73 plants, a shutdown ot ali major bulk plants and refineries cut oft fuel oil supplies to industrial users. (Turn To Pars 5, Column 7) Truman To Announce Atomic Bomb Plans Washington, Hept. 24- (UP) — I‘rezldent Truman, according to the White House, expei ts to send to congro-s “fatrly soon” bls re* comtnendatiotM on the future - development and control and atomic energy. White House prw-s secretary Chariot G. Ross told reporters today the President ‘‘is not setting himself up svso’e arbiter, but will submit hb> ’•ecommenuationa to cungress.”