Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 265, Decatur, Adams County, 9 November 1945 — Page 1

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PARLEY ENDORSES COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Attlee To Address Congress Tuesday Washington. Nov. 9 — tl'pi — Senate source* said today British Prime .Minister (’lemmt Attlee would address a join: session of congress at II io a. tn. CST Tuesday. Attlee arrives here tomorrow for talks with President Trutnan on atoini" energy. Call Windsor Mass Meeting Os Union Men To Discuss Strike Against Ford Motor Company Os Canada By United Pres* Leaders of 2<’,000 striking CIO United Auto Workers In Windsor. Ont, Issued a cull today for "every union man In Windsor” to attend a Sunday mate meeting to discuss the strike against the Ford .Motor (o. of Canada. The (all was Issued a* the strikers awaited a statement from Henry Ford, 11. youthful automotive president, which might i-iw the way toward reconciling differences with 10,000 striking employes in ti.e company's Winduor plant. Spokesmen representing the Ford strikers and 10,000 CIO mem hers who staged a sympathy walk rut issued the meeting call 11 all CIO. AFL and Canadian Congress of i-abor members in Windsor. Strlky 1 eaders eaid they would outline the progress of the Foid nr guUations at the meeting. Meanwhile, the Dominion representatives had cancelled al! plans for further meeting with either <ld** and awaited a promised telephone call from Ford. Wallace Clark, personnel manager for Ford of Canada, promised an offkial statement on tlw confeience Iretween Ford and Dominion peacemakers ' soim-tim*- after .1 pin " J. c. McCullagh, chief con. il a tor of the Canadian labor department, said krsurs in the GO-day work stoppage ha I been "narrowed” after a two-hour confrren'e yesterday with the head of the big auto empire. In the UAW’s Detroit stronghold, acrosH the river from Winds >r, union officials resumed negotiations for a 30 per cent blanket wage increase and awaited government action on u complaint of unfair labor practices agilnst gener(Turn To Cage 2. Column 1) O

S. S. Convention Sunday, Monday Closing Services At Decatur Church The program for the annual Adams county Sunday school convention, to be held Sunday and .Monday, was announced today. The opening session will be held at the Pleasant Dale Church of the Brethren in Kirkland township Sunday afternoon at If o'clock. Speakers at this session will be the Rev. (J, Lawrence Lawlor and the Rev. John Emhien, director of Indiana child evangelism fellowship. Special music will be presented during the program. The Sunday evening service at 7:30 o'clock will be held at the First Mennonlte church in Herne, with the Rev. Emhien as the principal speaker. A feature of this service will be a Thanksgiving pageant. The closing programs Monday evening will be held at the Firs’ .Methodist church In this city. A banquet will be served at 6:30 p. tn., particularly for the young people. The Rev. Russell Weller, county young peoples superintendent. will preside as toastmaster and brief remarks will be made by the Rev. Reginald Shepley, pastor of the First Baptist church of Warsaw. The Rev. Shepley will deliver the principal address at the closing service at 7:30 p. m., immediately following the banquet. Special music will be presented and a chalk demonstration will be presented by Mrs. Irvin 8. Younger.

Tax Reduction Bill Is Signed By President New Tax Measure Becomes Effective First Os January Washington, Nov. ft — (I'Pt — The White House announced today that President Truman last night signed the 1946 income tax bill, giving the nation a fS,93<V 000.000 tax cut, the first in 16 years. The new measure becomes effective Jan. 1 and applies to 1946 Income, It Is not retroactive. It provides savings next year for both individual income tax payers and corporations. It was rushed through with the Intention of easing the financial burden of reconversion from war to a peace economy. Individuals. particularly low paid workers, can expect to have a little more take-home pay. President Truman wants corporations to spread their tax savings between raises for present employes and expansion »o create more jobs. Here, briefly, are the principal provisions of the law: Individuals — alsmt 12,000,000 low paid workers among present taxpayers will lie left off the rolls entirely. All others will get some reduction. The total cut for Indi viduals Is es'imated at $2,644,000,000 Corporations — will benefit by repeal of the excess profits tax effective Dec. .31 and a slight reduction in normal and surtax rates for 1946. Total cut is estimated a* $3,136,000,000. Motorists the $5-a-year automobile use tax is repealed effective June 30. 1946. This is the expiration date for the tax payment stickers now on windshields. Repeal of the tax will save motorists an estimated $140,000,000 next July. Veterans — exempts service pay of enlisted personnel from any tax during the war years. Commissioned officers get three years to pay any back taxes on their service pay. Social security -the present rate (Turn To Page 2. Column 3>

Holthouse Funeral Held This Morning Final Tribute Paid To Decatur Resident Final tributes were paid to Norbert R. Holthouse, paymaster ot the Fort Wayne plant ot Studa bafc- r Corporation and well known Legionanire, In religious and military rites held this morning. The Very Rev. .Msgr. Joseph I’. Sennetz, pastor, was celebrant ot the requi m high mass at St. .Mary's Catholic church at 9 o'clock. Msgr. Seimelz also delivered the sermon and conducted the religious ceremonies at th.- grave. Legionnaires trom Post 43 of the American Legion, in this city. Fort Wayne and other cities attended in a body The uniformed m tnbers of the color guard and tiring squad from Post 43 escorted the funeral party to the church and attended the service*. Military rites und<r the leadership of Floyd Hunter, post commander, Henry Faurote, chaplain. Ed Bauer, and Elmo Smith were held at the Catholic cemetery. Out of town guests included .Moth- r M. Una. Provincial of Midwest province of the Sisters of Holy Cross; Sister .Mansueta ot St. John's hospital, Anderson; Robert Voglowetie, Chicago; Al Volmer, Toledo; Irvin Heider, chi t accountant of the Studabaker Corp., Fort Wayne; William Dowling. Gary; Pfc. John Terveer of Marquette, Wis„ Mrs. James Eifler. Patsy Uhl and Mrs. Dick Uhl of Toledo. The pall bearer* were. Theodore F. Graßker, James K. Staley. Adrian Baker. J. L. Ehler. George Uurent, Hugh ffolthouse. Charle* Weber, Arthur Klelnhenz. Mr. Holthouse, a son of .Mr. Wiltp'lmina Holthouse, died Monday night following an extended tilnet*.

ONLY. DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, November 9, 1945

Hometown Honors Naval Hero RSI ’•r / " IK ht THfS SCENE In the plngry school auditorium, Elizabeth, N J., shows Adm. William F Halsey, commander of the famous Third Fleet, lieIng presented with a scroll by E. L. Springer, headmaster, during the city's homecoming celebration in honor of the admiral who was born In Elizabeth. The por'rait. left, chows Admiral Halsey, who graduated from the school in 19n0. as the star of tin school's football team.

Postwar Air Fleet Os 5,000 Airplanes Doolittle Discloses . Air Forces Requests Washington, Nov. 9 — (UP) — Lt. Hen. James H Itoolittle disclosed today that army air forces want 9 postwar fleet of 5.000 combat planes ready for instant use, 400,000 officers and men. plus an air national guard "as large as the states can stand." The air national guard would provide a million titan reserve. Doolittle toldfthe senate military affairs committee. He was testifying in support of an Independent air force within a single department of national defense. Doolittle said Hie air force had not been aide to put these recommendations before ((ingress formally because it does not have Independent status. He noted that the navy already has its postwar plans l>efore congress. Under 'he present system the army force plans presumably would lie submitted later as part of the overall army program for all brain lies of the army. Itoolittle disclosed air force sug gcsllons at the i(-quest of Sen Burnet R Mayltank, D. F a committee metnlicr. He warned that the United Stales Is vulnerable to at'ack through the polur regions and that it is no longer safe for Americans to study maps by the mercator projection, which shows polar areas much larger 'tian they really are. He said the U. S. Is now build Inga plane with twice the range of the B 29 but that we have “no monoply on aircraft" of that range. He urged unification of the armed forces with more emphasis on air strength. The battleship, he said, has been “obnok-M-ent for 20 years and obsolete for 10." He said the aircraft carrier had reached the peak of its usefulness and now is "going into obsolescence.” "The carrier," he said, "has (Turn T-> Page .*. Column ") o Dinner, Meeting At Moose Lodge Tuesday Adams Lodg- 1311, I-oyal Order of .Moose, will hold a stag night program Tuesday evening, opening with a dinner at 6 o'dock. The Portland degree staff will initiate a large < Uim of candidates at the regular meeting at x o'el ck A prominent Fort Wayne lodg-memla-r is also s< h-dult d to speak at the meeting. A amoker and other entertainment will lie held following tin meeting. Ixxlge offkdals al*o announced the organization L-, distiibuting copie* <f French Quinn's "Short, Short of Adams County” to each member l>y applying to the ais'ietary'a otf.ee. Th ■ De-atur patrol will taka part In the Armtetlee Day parade at Fort Wayn ■ Sunday.

Congress Committees To Hear Eisenhower Frankfurt, Nov. 9 (UPi (leu. Dwight It Elsenhower Is leaving forth- United States today or tomorrow, weather permitting, to appear before congressional committees. it was announced today. Eisenhower will return Nov. 2.3, repor'ed. Brig. (<en. T J Davis, assistant chief of staff, is accompanying him. First Cold Wave Os Season In Midwest Sharp Temperature Drops Are Reported By United Press The season's first cold wave, accompanied by blustery winds, moved across the north plain states and into 'he Great Lak ■* region today. Freezing temperatures were reported as far south as the Texas Panhandle and the mercury tumbled to 13 below zero at Glasgow, .Mont., coldes* spot in the nation. Dickinson, N. D.. shivered in a low of 1.3 below zero, and other subzero readings were recorded throughout North Dakota. Minnesota and northern Colorado. Chilling blasts and wind gusts up to S' s miles an hour wrecked sign boards and toppled trees as the frigid wave sped south and east from western Canada, headed for the New England states. P< mbina, N. D , was blanketed with nine Inches of snow, and other North Dakota and Montana towns reported snow two to eight Im lies deep Sixteen Inches were piled up in the mountain passes of Montana and Idaho. The federal forecaster at Chicago promised little immediate relief, warning that the cold snap would las' until Sunday, when temperatures would recover slightly. then dip again. Winter was here to stay, he said. Chicago residents basked in a springlike 70.2 temperature yesterday tinltl the tempera'urc plunged 15 degrees in 50 minutes and fell to 37 degrees hy mid night. The mercury was expected to drop to 15 degrees by nightfall in the windy city. Similar sharp timpcra'ure chsnges were pre dieted for Nebraska. lowa, Kansas and Missouri. (Turn T«> P.ia» •olumn 7) • o Lad Injured Here When Hit By Truck Billy Deal, < Ight-year old son of Mr and Mrs. Paul ,M. Deal of thfe-s city, was rcport-d recovering today from injuries sustained Thursday morning when hit by a city truck driven by PhD Sauer, city street commissioner, at the Five Points Intersection. The |ad darted out from behind i tru-k Into Sauer's path, the corn mishioner t Id pol e. The Deal boy suffered a fractured rib aud minor cuU and bruises.

Labor Leaders Hint At Possible United Labor Front At Conference

. - Announce Election Results Saturday Unofficial Results Will Be Announced The unofficial results of Satur day's special hospital election will be made known <m Saturday night, just as nttlckly as th.- inspedors report the vol" from t >elr respm live precincts, Thurman I. Drew, county auditor, who. by virtue of hU office, server as one of the electi (I eommi’i'-ione S The official canvassing of the vote will not be doti'- until Thurday. Nov. 15. as provid' d umh-r ill'law The provision regulating the <anvassing of the vole reads: "The votes cast at euih election 5.1.i1l lie caiivaesed .it the office of such auditor on the Thursday f dlowlng the election, and a <ef liffc.ite ot die votes ea»t for anil a-jatict sit i hospital, signed by th'- inspector, shall lie filed with rii' h auditor and by him eubmitted to tbe Imi.icl of ■ ommls-r- at tli'o next *•> sjon “ The two appointed elect! Hi commlssioners are C D. la-wton of this c ity and Harry Moore of G» n-va They met at the auditor's off > ■ tesiay and assisted in in-uing the Iscil'de and suppli*-- to the hi’P'-< toi s The Inspectors w<-r«- instruct ■! to make- their returns to the audlt : s office as i|ui- kly a,c possible after the polls close and the votes ar*- counted. \n unofflc'a! tabula thin of tbe recorded Vote will bmid'- ~t t ie au.-litor off -■ an I r<h-asi-d t<* the puldi- e tnclime Satiird.iy evening. Mr I' ew stat'd. 1$ Forum Discussion Is Held By Rotarians An open forum dis'iis-i hi <-n th.' lalxir management conf' .mce n .w on in Washington was held at tina■ eklv me'-tin : of the Di' .(1.11 Ito a y c'ub Thursday <•■,-.-niny Joe (llobig, cbairinaii of foe program committee, w i in c harge and Ray I i hZ. i lull Vice piesid'-nl. lOlldll' t ecl the meeting. o Abraham Habegger Dies This Morning Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon Abraham A. Habegger. 66, well known Bertie resident, died at -I o'clock this morning at tho Ad ams county memorial hospital. Death was attributed to influenza and complications. A retired businessman and far mer, lie was a lifelong resident of Adams county. il<- was a member ot the First Meiinoiiite < huri h al Berne. Surviving are the wife. Selma; ’he following children: Dr. Myron L Habegger, Mr*. Edgar L>*binan, Mrs. Earl fo-hman. Mrs. f'arl LugInbill and .Miss Dorcas Habegger. all of Herne, and Mrs. E. laircn Carmen of Cleveland, <> ; one sister, Mrs. Benhart la-hman of Berne; five brothers, Robert A. Habegger of Decatur. Jacob A.. Peter A. and Menno It., all of Berne, and Eli A. of near Geneva, mid eight grandchildren (Turn To Page Cidumn ."•> o Three Million Bond Sales On Thursday Indianapolis. Nov. 9 (UP) Individual war liond <sales figure* showed today that Hoosiers have purchased an average of more than $2 « 00,000 worth >f war laind-c om h day In (he victory loan campaign Three mHffon doliais in bond puiehaws yesterday moved the grand total to $17,200,000, or 15.7 percent of the $92,000.000 "peoples' quota." the Indiana War Finance committee reported.

14 American Fliers Slain By Japanese Graves Os Airmen Found In Japanese Military Cemetery Tokyo. Nov. 9 — (I I*i The graves of 14 Americ an filers, apparently executed only two days before Japan's first offer to surrender. have been found in a Japanese military cemetery at Osaka, the sixtli army annoum-ed today. The fa'e of the airmen, all of whom were captured after bailing out over Osaka last June, was pieced together from crudely marked wooden planks marking the graves and from evidence found in seven tiny, cement wailed cell', investigators said Intcrm-es In the same prison unidentified hy 'lie sixth army said the fliers had been tortured by the Japanese secret |mll»-<- daily for nearly two months before they left their (Oils blindfolded on Aug. X never to return The fliers were kept in cemen’ W illed cells where th") - Were so c-i-d io kneej for lone periods with I a bamboo pole hue kof their kll'-os They were marched daily to • ret police headquarters several ' bloc ks away. On the ir return they show' ll evidence of lllistreagnont, ■ fellow prisoners said. Tile Wi-'-d coverecl grave* Were ' found af'er a Korean informer told headquai tecs of tin- shooting I down of lx 829 crewmen, who | were brought in to prison the i next day. Nun- of the 11 fliers were ideti ' till' d tentatively. In only one • case, however, was th' las* name and rank given on the marking . . Two of the im-n died of wounds a few days after their capture. . officers said Two mon- were , Ilheraled later and ••-’»ii»»*•<! ih« I'nifed Stales llivos'igators said the five so it by tell cells of the prison where file fliers were held indi'ali’d at least Homo of th'-m had been alive only a few days before tbe Japanese surrender A calendar was found with the days • h»-< k> d off through Aug 7 Fellow intern' ' - said 16 of the fliers were march'-d daily to head i Tut ii I l‘ig' L' ' ‘lorn -i ' Decatur Stores To ! I Be Open On Monday Official Business To Be Suspended Retail btislne-.s will Operate (IM usual in Decatur Monday, the official holiday for Armistice day. a ( survey revealed today, although official offices will In* closed for . the day The Adams county court house, all city offices, the First Slate Bank and the post (jffic-e will be ’ closed for the entire day. it was announced The county au'o license bureau, ration board and ■ selective service office's will be closed in observance of the holl day No mall deliveries, except specials, will lie made Monday The Decatur Daily Democrat will publish an edition as usual on Monday afternoon With Armistice day November II falling on Sunday, the holiday will be observed Monday. Adams Post 43, American Legion. will hold its annual Armistice celebration Saturday night. Supper will be served from 5 to 7 o'clock, with entertainment from K to 9:30 p. tn., and dancing from 10 to 1. The party is limited strictly to Legionnaires, wives or sweethearts, auxiliary memtiers and husbands, members of the armed forces home on leave, and Spanish-American war veteran*.

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Parley Secretary Says All Working Committees Back Bargaining Right Washington. Nov !• ft'l*> Tno Labor -.Management conference today successfully navigated collective bargaining vhoafs which wrecked si similar parley after World War I I'onfeiem e ••< relary flcorge W. Taylor announced that all of the ma working commit lees, now e«plorlng bases for Indust lai peace, have fully endorsed ’he principles of collective ba gaining. Taylor recalled that manage. I men!'# refusal to accept a labor-propo-s d collective bargaining Resolution wrecked a labor-man* agement conference In 1919. Tayloi al-o told a n"W# confer, enie that moat of th< .mmlt’ees have reported progress in their work and that Home of them are getting down to lied rock In deal. Ing with their rpecltlc problem*. He o.iid the committee <m ogis* ting eollecllv • agreement* ' appear* to be in agreement" that there mu-I be Mime improved way to handle grievance# if no strike, no lockout Clausen ar to be written into collective bargaining contract#. He aaid the objective |a to minimize wildcat strikes arising from individual grievances. f What they are frying to do la t<> explore g neral principles rather than *|»e< jf|< formulae.’ Taylor said. The ...mmlttee on represrntat* lon and jitri ii< kon.il <|iie*tion», he reported. Is analyzing national labor r latlons board procedure to determine what changes, if any, might minimize strike The committee members agreed," he said. To cxplor possibilities of establishment and Im* provement of machinery for the '.•nt meat of jurisdictional dispute# within the union# them, selves,” Taylor's report on the work of other committee# Collective bargaining No specif?* report .xi ept that it I* "analyzing problem* ' Management # iglit to mati.igo del idol on procedure seeking to define aie.iM 111 whl-a then- |# likely to In conflict. Com illation service* decided to call witnesses It has already heard Edward Warren of the labor il • partment's conciliation service, and will hear John Steelman, member of tin president# advisory committee on conciliation, a* w- II as some mil men of the conciliation »rs I’ll e Initial collective agnements— It lias been discussing and has "mad < olisldeiaide progress" toward developing procedural rule# which to make strikes and lo< kout# a last resort in cases where a union amt company are bargaining for the first time. Meanwhile, labor I atler# hinted cautiously at the possibility of a (Turn To page i. Column it Late Bulletins Corpus Christi. Tex . Nov. 9— (UP >—-Twenty two officers and men were presumed killed today after two long range patrol planes collided in mid-air last night near Spoil Island in Corpus Christi Pay. naval officials announced. Os 21 men who apparently sank with the plane four bodies were recovered. One man who escaped later died in a hospital while five men survived. Batavia. Nov. 9— (UP) — Strong British forces moved into the naval base city of Soerabaja today to back up a British ultimatum threatening a full-scale attack unless Indonesian extremists surrender unconditionally. London, Nov. 9—(UP) —Prime Minister Clement Attlee took off in a C M Skymaster at 6:35 p.m. today for the United States, Ro* 10 Downing Street announced. Me is due in Washington at 8 a.m. (CST) tomorrow.