Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 233, Decatur, Adams County, 3 October 1945 — Page 1

voTxLII!., No. 233

CHICAGO WINS FIRST WORLD SERIES GAME

fijy To Ask ■rease For Iwer Bracket S o Petition Public Service Commission for Boost In Rates , v of !»••< through the ~, pui.iu work* iin<! safety. ~.ii of Indian.i. f«»r an injK. . t,.. i.,*i bi.u k* lof 1,(1.-, which well- i-s---m September, jH, ...! m the petition that up with expelled powet It Wil! he n-ce-sary fol .spend at least 4*"".- ... W mat hinery. equipment "i.'inenis at the plant IH. .. h. dnle of rates is known primary rate schedule.'' K,i-trial, available to any conwho has an electric load of oi more, with a load factor Jft-r than 50 percent. At presc.mral Soya < ompany. ele.tri. power til the only customer the requirements Re- ■■. the totieial Electric comjX applied to be put on the rate schedule. M addition to the demand aßye- <>f 41.50 per KW for the Mi in" KW. SI per KW for the gK inn KW and 50 cents per 101 for all over 200 KW. the X. * charges start at 2.05 cents ■ KWH for the first 10 hours aAi- maximum demand. 'JM|.' present schedule then Amis to two cents per KWH far next 20 hours of maximum nine mills per KWH for M in-xt 100 hours; seven mills ■ KWH. for the next IMH hours five mills per KWH for nil hours of the maximum deMd ' *'>■ proposes to Increase last step-down from five mills |Hsix mills on ail over 360 hours demand In the case the city has to furnish the and convert the phase lines, the lowest rate be seven mills per KWH. 1 Reason for Increase petition, which was filed ■h the council last evening and by that body, states: from time to time since ■d si hedule of rates and charwas so approved the demands needs for such electric energy all purposes have increased at this lime the plant is Buz operated at its full capacity Border to serve all Its patrons Mtlitdinc the greatly increased ■mauds of said commercial in ■strse-c Unit to continue to oper■r said plant so as to furnish electric energy to meet ■d supply the present needs and ■tn.ntds therefore it will require ■f purchasing and installing of ■w and additional machinery yi <‘<iulpment and improvements WF’ing at least (300,000; that W l ' r adding the cost of such addi y“-‘l machinery, equipment and Bprovenients to the present capiB) investment the returns from I ITurn To Pag*. 4. Column <) Konvov School Girl Is Struck By Auto B iiut.i Elaine Smith, six-year Id Bughter of Mr. and Mrs. Orval ■tnitii, of Convoy, o„ was reportV improving today as the Adams ■unity memorial hospital, whore B'' was brought late Tueoday asBrnoon after being struck by an B'b" in front of her home. I ,l "' child had aligh.>-d from a ■ bool bus and started across the B*'" 1 when she was hit by the car. w' 1 " suffered a bad fracture of P“ right femur, a deep cut on the B'k of her neck, an injured nose P n, l numerous minor cuts and ►’uses. I DEMOCRAT thermometer i TEMPERATURE readings •:oo •- m. 40 I ’0:00 a. 44 «oon .. 50 2:00 m 58 WEATHER •if and not so cool In northwest portion and west-central but ‘‘•“•red fight frost In northeast nd easVcentral portions tonight, hureday Increasing cloudless and warmer.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Back On Council Adrian Burke, who was recently discharged from the army, will lie re-elected to the city council at a special meeting on October ft, the post being vacated by him when he entered the service in July. 1943. His wife was elected to till the vacancy. Last evening Mis. Burke tendered her resignation to the council in favor of her husband. Mayor John B. Stults stated that her request would be followed. Mr. Burke served in Italy for more than a year, lie was elected to the city council in 1942 and took office in January. Ift43. Council Approves Engineer Conrad Chicago Engineers Hired For Survey The contract which the board of public works ami safety signed with Consoer. Townsend and Associate*. consulting engineers of Chicago, to mak«- a survey ami prepare preliminary plans for the sewage disposal plant, interceptor sewer and additional storm ami sanitary sewers In the city, was approved by the council last evening. W Brunkhorst represented the Chicago firm The contract provides that immediate steps shall lie taken in making the survey. The city is obligated to pay the engineers a sum equal to one percent of the total estimate <>n the combined sewage treatment and sewer proprets at the time the preliminary plans are filed with the council. The total fee at the completion of the work is five and one half percent of the actual cost of the project. The plans will probably not be ready until the end of the year. Mr. Brunkhorst advised the council. Work on the sewage treatment plant will not begin until next spring, it was stated. The sewage treatment plant is being planned because the stream pollution board of the state board of health ha > ordered the city to stop emptying raw sewage into tin- St. Mary * river The location of the treatment plant will he left up largely to the engineers. Mayor Stults said. With the sewer projects, including the possibility of a cross-town storm sewer and the building of additional sewers in the northwest part of the city, the sewage disposal plant and interceptor sewer (Turn To Page 4. Column 4) • Globester Delayed By Engine Trouble Guam. Oct. 3 it'Pl—The Air Transport Command’s (Hobcstc:returned to Guam today when engine trouble developed 315 tnli-’S out on the flight to Kwajaleln The Cs4’s passengers transferred to another plane to continue the flight around the world. End Price Controls Soon As Possible Chicago, Oct. 3 —(UP) The nation’s manufacturer* had assurances today that price controls will be abandoned as soon a* they have served ’heir purpose in the war against inflation. -The quicker we can Increase production, the quicker we can get rid of our controls," Chester W. Bowles, price administrator, told a meeting of the Illinois manufactureiw' association last night. "Wl’h plenty of goeds in the stores, supply and demand will do a better job of setting prices than we can ever do.”

Longshoremens Strike Ties Up Most Shipping Number Os Workers Idled By Strikes Swells To 490,000 By i’nili-d Press A break in the oil strike appeared near today, but a new walkou' of longshoremen in the New Ybik Harbor swelled the number of American workers Idle in labor dispt tes. A high official of the emigre* i of industrial organizations dfsclos •d at Washington that the execu tlve board of the oil workers union tCIOt had decided to accept the I government's formula for ending the strike of oil workers. The CIO source -.aid the union would tall off strikes against companies which also agree to the government's arbitration plan Oil company representatives have been ieported ready to accept tit--proposal for halting the walkou: which ha* cut ott a good share of the nation's gasoline supply. Both sides had until I p. in. (EST) to reply to Secretary of 1..i bor Lewis Schwellenbach's ptopetal for getting the gasoline plants running again Approximately 30,000 dock workers left their jobs despite effoit-s of the AEL longshoremen's association to return them to work pending further contract negut ations. Elsewhere, strikes curtailed coal mining in Pennsylvania, Ohio. West Virginia and Kentucky, oil refining In 12 states, lumliering in the Pacific northwest and atiio manufacturing in Ik-trolt. The number of workers idle iu labor disputes across the nation swelled to ttto.mm The coal strike forced the government to limit soft coal shipments to essential users in four eastern districts and to order diversion of every possible 101 l of coal to docks <m the Great Lakis Northwestern states are dependent for their winter fuel on coal shipped through the Great larkc.-. which will be closed to navigation within nim- wcelyi. More than 106,000 bituminous coal miners were idle. They refill.ed to cross picket lines set up by foremen who are seeking recognition for their union affiliated with the united mine worker*. The New York City longshoremen’s strike was the second with (Turn To Page 4, Column 5) __ . o — 1 Reinstate Borders On Police Force City Council Votes For Reinstotement The city council in session last evening voted in favor of reinstating James M. Borders on the city police force, following his formal application for an appointment. Mr. Borders was discharged from the army on August 23. after serving In the military police department of the army since December 12. lIH2. He Is a former, chief, being appointed by the for titer Mayor Forrest Elzey. Mayor John B. Stults stated that he would reappoint Mr. Borders and that in all probability a plan would be worked out with Etl Miller, police chief, to place the returned veteran in charge of traffic. The luuncil also received two petitions for rural electric line extensions, which were referred to the electric light committee and the superintendent. They were, Daniel D. Rhoades, in Williams, and Elmer L. and Edith E. Bowers, in Monroe township. Allen county. The petition of Amanda E. Ward and others, for & light on St. Mary* street, midway between Walnut and Fifth, streets, was referred to the committee, Ralph E Roop, superintendent of the water department, explained an offer that the federal and state governments extended go municipalities in making a survey of the potential water resources In their respective communities. Mr. Roop advised that suck a sur(Turn To Bale 4, Column B)

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, October 3, 1945

Hurl World Series Opener JSML II I E ' I ® Hal N’ewlumser Hunk Borowy

City Street Light System Is Defended City Superintendent Explains System Lester Pettibone, superintend ent of the diy light and pow< r plant, came to the defense of the city’s street lighting system, stating that tin- circuits wi re con trolled either by ’eb-ittic eye' switches or astronomical clocks. The electric eye switches are , foolproof, Mr. Pettibone stated. The lights click on with the first i signs of darkness, he said. It is : not unusual for the street lights 1 which are controlled by these , switches to turn on in the afternoon. if it is a cloudy day. the ■ superintendent explained Other circuit* are controlled by the docks, which are set accord ■ tug to the sunrise and sunset I schedule. With the change over; to central standard front daylight : saving time last week end. some i adjustment had to be made on the clocks, Mr. Petfilione said These docks should dick on llnlights between .1:3'1 and 6 o'clock, j i ( ST. he said Although an effort was made to i erect the multi-colored Christmas lights in the business district. Mr. Pettibone does not believe the dty Will be successful Itl gelling ’ the necessary bulb* to string the ' circuits. During the war the stringing of Christmas lights was banned .Many of the lights owned by the dty were damaged in 'he basement of the dty hall when water backed into the store room and so far it has been im I possible to get bulbs to r< place j the circuits. , Mr. Pettibone placed an order for 500 bulbs and was advised that the manufacturer could not fill it in time for the holiday season. If at all possible, the dty will be decorated, Mr Pettibone said, providing the materials can be oh-1 tained o — Gen. Yamashita To Face Manila Trial Immediate Trial Ordered For Jap Tokyo, Oct. 3 (I'Pi Gen To-’ moyukl Yamashita will be tried by an American military eommiss'on in Manila for the rape of that cap Ital and other “brutal atrocities and high crimes against the people ot the t'nited States and Its alites.' . it was announced today Yamashita. fo j mer commandei in the Philippine*, probably will be arraigned Oct. S. He was lod-' ed In Bilibld prison In Manila after surrendering to the Americans Sept. 5. Lieut. Gen Wilhelm D. Slyer, commanding the allied forces in the west Pacific, acting on the or dent of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, i has appointed a five-man commit;-j slon. Styer was directed to “pre ceed immediately'' with the trial of Yamashita. the "butcher of M i ; laya,” and conqueror of Singapore Yamashita wa* named in the. charges signed by t’ol. Alva f Carpenter of the war crimes com mission as "general of the impel - > lai Jap army, between Oct. ft. 1944 and Sept. 2. 1945 at Manila and other places in the Philippines." . The charge staled that Yatnashita “while commander of armed forces of Japan at war witli thi'i (Tun. To Pag* 6, Column 3)

First Light Fr»st Reported In State Indianapolis, O« t. 3 II P) The i northern and central portion* of ] Indi.in.i had their first light frost ! laet night. The Indianapolis weather bu-n-au reported that temper.ituie-i ! were lowe-t lii tin- northern ar«u. ■ wheie South Bend I’-gister, <1 33 degrees and Fort Wayne and Mari on 31. The liidiaiiapoliil low was I" degree-. Frost in th'- n-ntral area i was believed insufficient to damiage crop* Big Store Os Sugar Discovered In Java May End Rationing Sooner Than Usual Washington. Oct. 3 ill’) Civilians may lie able to throw their : ration booke t.way sometime tu x' j -pring This prospei • was held nut today by Secri-.iry of Agrl> allure i Clinton P Anderson a- he di.s< !<*■ •d the discovc y of 1 .GiHt.mi" ton* of Japanese s’ored susat in liberated Java pur* The American hare of this un- ‘ expected stockpile is likely to be in- b-aet Toii.iimi tons about I" ' pound* per person if evenly divid ed among thcjjiopulation. Anderson said ft wa* enough to tnak ■ pos sible the eii<l of sugar rationing many tnon'hs earlier than anti Ipated. (>ff|. al oi lain illy f ared that ’sugar rationing would In neeessa-y Ithrough I!H6 With the Midden discovery of the large stocks in Java, and tJie prospect of even tnote in other Pacific area-. Anderson indicated that sugar coupon* may be i torn up when ’lie Cuban suga' - crop i. hat vested next spring. The rationing of fats and oils, ineatn and the few other foods still on the ration list I* expected to end by Jan. I or -horily therenf- | ter. Shoe*, the only other Item for which ration booke are now used, I are expected to become ration free ’within week* Bakers, candy maker* and other industrial u*e.» probaldy will have ’ tlo-jr *ugar qu i’;u* liberalized alt most Immediately as i< -tilt of the i sudden improvement in supply. Andeition said the lava sugar would be assigned to the Allied nation* pool for allocation to member nations by the combined food board. The I'nited Stao-e normally gets about half of the poob'l -up ply He said it was ent rely likely that even more sugar will be found in ’he interior of Java, on Formosa. the Philippine- and poseibly the Japanese home island* — -—lO Section Hand Is Accident Victim Peru. Ind. Oil. 3 I I'Pi Ri’es ■ were arranged today for Fred <>. j Poor, a section hand employed by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad who was killed yesterday. A small electric rail ear struck a dog anti overturned, injuring Poor fatally iand hurting three other employee. BULLETIN Washington. Oct. I—(UP) — Acting Secretary of State Dean Acheson, again denouncing Argentina for repudiation of her international agreements, today called so postponement of the inter-American conference scheduled for Rio De Janeiro Oct. 20.

Cubs Blast Detroit Ace From Mound, Score 9-0 Victory In First Battle I .... •

War Bond Staff To District Meeting Thi-odoro F. Gralikir, enmity i hairm.m and other mi-mbe n of the Adam county war bond staff, a II attend i district meeting in Fort Wayne tomorrow evening at the Chamber of Commerce build Ing. Plan- will be launched for the victory bond campaign which open* Oi toiler 2!». Eng. n- E Pulliam. sta'e chairman and other member* of the India:)., staff, will attend. Adam county', quota iti he victory drive I* |!l77,loo o Byrnes Leaves By Plane For United States Seeks To Salvage Wreckage Os Big Five Conference London <i> t '. 11 Pi Se< 'r.-taiy of State Janie. F. Byrm left by plane foi ih< I’nited S'•' <■* today alt. i ri-vealing Him h.wa- attempting to Kalvage Hie wreckage of the Big Five conference with a compromise formult for (trailing Balkan pein- ti’-ille Byrne* hdd a press i iinferi ||. e that Soviet Foreign Commi-sai V. M Molotov had agreed in prim ipl • to the i oinpromise, but had to con -ult the Kremlin before giving h final word. Britain accepted t ie plan Molotov was scheduled to leave Britain momenta- ily ■ Freni II for eign minist' r George Bidaitll md Chinese- foreign minister U.rr: Shih Chieh also w n expected t • I b-ave for their homelands durin : l the day. I Tin' American piopos.il uill* fir ' the l'n:t'd state Hit .1 and B.; tain to dial! tin- Elllopcitll pete treat:'- and then submit them so. consideration Io peace lOlllei-n-I res of all nations who h contributed to the Alliisl victory Byrnes said Io- believi il Fimt. e and China the othvi two ;--rtt cipatiis in the foreign miliist-i's confereliie would a<< ep! th" comptomi.se. Rtl-'ia had stymied jtlie confer'io " by adamantly de maiiding that the big three d» I r(Turn T<» Paff® Column 4) Avengers Os Balaan At Camp Atterbury Seven Adams County Men With Division Seven Adams lOUllty men wellim luded in the 3Mh tCyclom t division, known a* 'the avenger* of Bataan," which arrived at i Camp Atterbury yesterday to aw ail discharge. They are I’’--Isidore A Kaluza. Sgt Harold F. Sir.ihm. T 5 Arlliui I. Poling and T Alfred Itiiin • hlag. all of lie lalur. Pfc. Low'll B Noll and Sgt. Luther A Sovine. of Pleasant Mill*; T Sgt Hugh It. Beltler. BerniHome To Indiana , Camp Atterbury. Ind. Oct. 3 It'Pl Throughout the Pacific war. Hoosiers followed the battle activities of the 3Mh (Cyclone! division, because it was the outfit with the greatest niimbi r of Indiana im n in World War II Today. Hoosiers watched the boys of the 3Sth come home to the state they left a* Indiana national guardsmen Io join the regular army. Vanguar-ls of the 3Mh shoved un< xpectediy into the Atterbury separation center yesterday. Among three trainloads ot troops were 1.152 highpomt men of the Cyclone division. About 670 of them were from Indiana. The fliat trainload crossed into ITurn To Pag* 4. Column 4)

—- 11,1 " '■ ■ ' I House Group Favors Bigger Cut In Taxes Tentative Action Ot House Committee Favors Bigger Cut Washington, tut H P’ Taxpayer* were offered hope today of slightly moi. libera) federal income tax - relief than the administration ha* proposed for next y ai That prospect developed from fi-Ill.tlive aition of the !|>"l--- way* and me,ill* iiinimitlee. which initiates lax legi -l.ition It i x peels to i ollipl' t' roll-'deration of the adiiiinisii.ition s iraii-iti iii fax i i-i omni'tidal loti* today Ad ministration proposal- for H-pial 'of the i X'' - - piotit* tax on biisi lies* and eXi i*e fax cutback* *fill awaited > ommiliee a. turn The < omtniti'-'- I'li-it'-d tli«- administration- proposal yesterday for lep'-.1l of til" ibr.-e pell 'lit lloitn.il fax 111-te.ld It agreed oil ,1 sulistllule.. Will'll in effe.-t was equival' nl lo i> p. al of the norma! lax along Willi a oil'- p' " ' ll’ re- - dui lion in surtax rate* : Rep Frank Carlson. 11. Kall*, "fl'red 111" sllbsillul- If provided ■ for leh-ntion of tin- normal lax with • X'-mptioti- raised to surtax • exemption I'-V' I* and for lowering exisHiig surtax rales by four per i eni.ige point*. I ndei th'- present law. th. nor I ui.il tax I levh d ot; all tn-t iiu omc nt excess of JI"" f.o . .o li taxpay er. with no exemption* for si*pend'lit- The 111 t.'X allow 'X enipllolis of J U'" tor the 'axpay- l , uni <.o h d< pelld' IH Situ'■ Carl-oii's proposal would allow flayers ot the normal tax the same exemption* p. rmitted tho-o 111 Ulf,IX 1)1.Il kefs. If Would toll form with lie adllillll-f lat lot! recomtn> ndai"in in h-iiuh.iiz from | Hi. I.ix roll- about 12.00".oiio p. . son now übjei t only so lie n>'i Dial tax. T.iX|>.iy< t in ill" |)"--> of -inf ix br.ok'l- would lOlltillUe lo I'.'X ‘ th" tliri. p' r< . tit norma! t.n tTurn To I'age ®. Column 4> Adult 4-H Leaders Lions Club Guests Leaders Honored At Meeting Last Night \ditli I'-iidei* "f -lie \dams counts I II dub W. honored guest* at lie De. afur Lion,* club a he Weekly lllei-' ng "f ’he 'Tvl"" dill) Tuesday evening Walt'-r C Kolb or I'urilu • uni ; vi wiiy. -’a'" -.ip' vi-or of I H i hili work, wa* the principal -peak er .1 ihtt Blakey, Li >n« i lub mem i» i wa- ih i - in.ill of tie program ; and w.i* a--is'. I by the < i.imty e new home demon tra ."ti a- 1 tc Mi-- Anna lx WI! .im ■■ Tn- banquet table- were d<-coi • a i d wi'li I II < lb I 'llIT) tllrt and signs by Mi** Williams aid Mis* Clara L> n--. ■ h of (Imb • ounty agent'* office. ’ Mis Williams introduced the following women 111 b ade: - Mrs.. Roller Johnson. Mi*. Harold Loitz. I Mary Sim Ewdl. Mr . James Mor-es, Leona Bulleme.er. Mildred Worthman. Mrs Ed Selking, Mr*. John Steiner, Mis. Theron F»»ns'erm.ikei. Mrs Mice Howard. .Mr-. Lloyd Daniels. ,M: s. Homan I Egly, Mr* Clyde Jomx*. Rowena’ Miller. Jean f.auten-dt'eger, Mr* George Holston. Mi*. Ed.th Yoder , and Mis* Ruth Doddriifgi*. L. E. Archbold, county agent. Introduced the following men lead , ers: Martin Steiner. .1. IL Koorx.l Stanley Arno'd. Hoy L Price. Verl l.iutzenlieiser, Benj D. M.izelin. Floyd E. Myer*. Will Schnepf. Benj. Gerke. Melvin Werling and Lei'.er Sipe, |

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Sharp October Wind Sweeps Over Briqqs Stadium At Opening Os The World Series Score by innings: RHE Chicago 403 000 200—9 13 0 Detroit . 000 000 000—0 6 0 Today's Lineups Detroit Chicago Webb, ** Hat k. 3b Mayo, 2li Johnson. 2b j Cramer, i f l-owrey. If Greenberg, If Cavarretta. lb Culienbiue, rs Pafko, cf Yolk, lb Nicholson, rs Outlaw. 3b Livingston. <■ Richard*, <• Hughe*. ** Newhouser. p Borowy, p I'mplfe- Sommers and Pasta* ri-lla iAL': .lorda and f'onlan i .\ I. i Detroit. Oil : tl'Pt Tho Chicago Cub* tiiating Hal New* boiixi i, the major league's leadiniC pitcher this year Ilk" a cousin, bat* ted the lii-troit T ger* all over Bugg- Stadium today to win tint first game of Hu i'if.l Workl Ser* |i ttoii In hind the six hit pitching ot Fordli.im Hank Borowy Staitili'z out witii a bang. th‘t Cubs got to N'i wlioiiser. who won 25 gann s tn Di iio i * path to the Ameiii .in Li ague p« niiant, for four run* in the fit « inning, knocked him out in the third when they -cored three more time* and add* cd two mine for good m>-a-» lire off "lie of Hie three oilier hurl* < - i alb .1 on by man,if) ■ Sieve <>'• Ni .11 in a ven atfi inpt to still h'l thundei ing f'hh ago but*. Those four ill th" first wonbl i havi In ' n enough lor Fordham Hank, who u*ed to make lickl:n( Hi- Tigris .i routine matter when In w.i wall the New York Yank-i-e*. a io- til ntliid every ih-l'oit i In • at hi tioubb- in )lmo-t every innini; In . .iii-> of hi- w him-* and tho iX " itl) led h » Will! b th" Tig* >r* got off ii * -harp breaking i u , i).ill, Borowy bore <l< wn when lii iroii had no n on the baa* «nd that extra pre-sim- pulled b in out of *> v> al tigh: -potITu pl.iy by p! iv account foliow - Fir»t Inning ('iiu ago ILi* k grounded out, Outlaw lo York Johli-on -illgled ■ iff Wi l'b’s glove who Weill b.;< K ot ,-ei oiul to field the ball. Johnson stole St-I olid, lajwrey filed to ('r.itih-r. Johnson holding second. Caval retta bi-.it out a slow- grounde; ot *e<ond foi a hit. Johnson godig io third Jolin*on scored and Cavarretta went io sei olid on a pa <d I. I'.itko Was mt) !lf.oiialiy walked Nicholson tripl* •-I off th* light field wall. Cavari)iia and Pafko scoring Livington singled t<i i-liter. Nicholson scoring Living-ton was out trying io steal, ftii haul on to Mayo, I Foui run*, four hit*, no errors. Hi t roll Webb singled to h-ft. M.iyo -illcled lo Cetltl-I, Webb stopping al second Cramer hit i into .i double play. Ihighe* t<> John >u to ( avaieita, Webb going bi third Giei-nberg and Ctiih nhiiii walked, tilling the bases. '■)ik fouled to Cavan>-!ta. No run*, two hits, no error*. Second Inning < Chicago Hllgh> called out on sink' Borowy and Hack struck out. swinging No run*, no hit*, no el rots. Detroit (>ti<law fouled to Cav(Turn To Page S, Column 3) Let’s Make It A Good One! FIN A L Waste Paper and Tin ( an Drive SATI RDAY, (MT. 6 (Jet out every scrap of paper and flattened tin cans. City (rucks, and the Boy SeoutM will make the pick-up.