Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 306, Decatur, Adams County, 29 December 1945 — Page 1

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Les Due To Burn Today L Moscow ■ Explain Details ■ Big Three Meet ■ Truman, Solons ■jm.-on Dec. 29 — (UP) — ■*, <>f Mate Janie* F. ■j'-ofiirn- from Moscow today ■Jjjj dofail- <>f the biR three ■*,. to an expectant PrealK' c, ■»<■» ha' confused con ■y. plane wa* si-heduled to ■ n Wa-himtton sometime as ■ tn (ST The plane was to ■ vtMundlan.l last nlsht but was delayed by bad ■f, until 5:26 a. m. thia mor- ■ i’irxpnti-d to confer durKp day With Preaident Tru- ■ C>i is vacationing on the ■>,- river In the presidential ■ viUiamsburg. Kjnr.zn Tom Connally. D., te f the senate foreign cela|(oamlttee also hoped to talk Byrnes today Other coma members wanted Byrnes to (Bra a private report on bls it meeting with British forternary Ernest Bevin and fe.- foreign commissar V. M. pr. tjWt Thursday night's formMraxiqtie failed to answer I questions about the powers lyopMed fourmember conn I Tokyo and the 11 member a»t-ra commission In Washt They purtii uiarly wanted kr to what extent Russia. Kh her veto powers on the it! aad commission. would be to afect Gen. Douglas Macr'» rale of Japan. ty also wanted the inaide fra why the communique fallh mention ban or Paleatine, te thing congressmen were * of was that this country !m sirs away the secret of •*’’> itomii without congressS ‘moral. * Arthur H. Vandenberg, R . i “H he bad been told by ■*« department that ail plans atomic energy would ®«iiied t<> congrrnm for final Uni. hy disclosures regarding the u ' bomb should be part of a Nd* Plan for adequate worldI inspection and control," he “*t>!*rr. a Republican leader affairs, called at the 1 Mwtment yesterday and ‘■rumpanied undereecretary 2 “ Ih-an Acheson to the *•* ’o see Mr. Truman r~ Bll8r R'» atatement did not. **; eliminate congressional ■* nty over some aspects of .7* 0w agreement. «f n« are confused abcut "• " the communique,** said **rati< member of the senrelations committee, rotary undoubtedly will 7®” berw * <•>« commit- . ly l u * sll about it.*' * _ violently ocnbn'tTi °us on the results M h ®** t * s S *'' l ' esa ' r L the national farmers h ® U. 8. Soeisltat party. « James G. Patton of the » - s ~a hailed "the accord r He aaid it could bet»fh?k ,Orlr “ victory as any VoTJ° F -. a T. ,c,ory w orld unHy.” ! had" veteran aoclal•in' l, *" o,,nc *d the agreeWrong language h, Munich" and a “total _ liberty and justice" Price Announced n - (VP| ~ h ... ' n Prtc * Administration mJ**** • ,o - cent b °«-‘ » tniu , of coa ’* coi ‘ e anrt hJI I* 1 ? j,n ia-. 4 ."• lnf reiw“ is to comfor higher cost of t 00, ATUR < BtADINM too * m * . 33 - — ” t •*M.? EATMeR •fctoJ' M **trei today, not y •stroma north, gun A cloudy. Mild tempera-

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Hope Mounting To Avert Steel Strike Higher Steel Prices Reported Necessary Washington, Dec. 29 — fi'l’i Hope rose in government < I de* today that the steel strike threatened for Jan. 14 may be averted Civilian production administrator John D. Small said yesterday that "we would be in a men* all over the country” if the.e should be a eteel strike. The department of commerce is sakl to have completed a survey showing that higher steel prices are necwoairy because of higher production costa. An award of higher prices might break the current impasse la-tween the U. S. Steel Corp., industry leader, and the united steelworkers (CIO) and set a pattern for the entire Industry. The company ha* refused to consider wage raises without a price boost. The union has set Jan 14 for a nationwide steel strike unless its |2a-day wage increase demands on the industry are met. Meanwhile five I’. S. Steel Corp, subsidiaries were directed by the war labor board to grant severance pay to employes permanently displaced by the closing of leas efficient plants. The companlns Involved are Carnegie-11l Inois Steel Corp. American Steel and Wire Co.. X'ational Tube Co., Tennessee Coal, iron and Railroad Co., and Columbia Steel Co The WI.B also recommended that 44 latke Superior iron ore mines make severance payments to employes permanently laid off In warexhausted mines Unions regarded the decision as an expression of national policy favoring the inclusion of severance pay clauses in contracts. It was the first time l:» the WLB's four year history that it has ordered a specific severance pay plan. Its policy heretofore had been to approve plans agreed to by the parties but never to Impose a plan Under WSB rules the little steel formula, which during the war limited wage raises to 15 percent of January. 1941. levels, will be virtually tossed out the window along with wage brackets. Instead the WSB will grant raises tit to compensate for higher living costs where straight time average hourly earinngs are lea* than the recently estimated 33 percent living coat increase. (2t to correct inequities between plants and lit (Turn To Page *. Column 2) ■ Father, Son Form Partnership Here Robert Ashbaucher Is Partner In Firm A father and non partnership ha* j been formed to operate one «f the city's most successful business concerns, announcement being made today that Robert H. Ashbaucher. recently dischargetl from the. navy, will .be associated with his father. A. R. Ashhachef in Asbbaucher'< Tin Shop. 116-16 N. Fkrst street « Mr Ashbaucher. the elder, established the tin shop, furnace, roofing, air conditioning and allied lines In 1915. In the past 30 years It has been developed into one of the substantial mercantile business concerns in DecaturFollowing 37 months of service. Robert Ashbaucher was honorably discharged from the navy on Nov. 12. with the rank of metal-mlth. first ctoss. H« served at Bunker Hill aviation training center. Norfolk, Va.. Jacksonville and Miami. Fla. He attended Purdue university in 1936 and in the following year took a course in winter air conditioning in Chicago, and was employed in his fathers business before entering the navy in October. 1942. In addition to the tin shop and sheet metal departments. Ashbaucher’s have the dealership for Majestic furnaces. Janlirol ga# fired furnaces; Will-Burt domestic and commercial stokers and DuoTherm oil burning units. They have the agency also for Ktarnlt- Ruberoid asbesto* and asphalt roofing and siding products. The cotnpeny is expanding. Ba personnel and several <*aftamen (Tttrß t. page i/columu *> *

Truman Seeks Extension Os War Power Act Further Extension Will Be Demanded From Congressmen ! Washington. Dec 29 (I’P) ' Congress will he confronted with 1 a blunt demand by President Truman tor a further extension of ' the second war powers act when It returns from ita holiday, va<aHon next month. Mr. Truman made the request ' >estetday In signing a six months extension of the act which is the principal sounc of the government's authority for its rationing, allocation and priorities programs. 1 Rep. Earl ('. Michener. tR. 1 Mich.) high-eanking member of the house judiciary and rules commit tee. said he was confident that congress would agree to the president's request if he could show a need for a further extension. ! "I am sure Mr Truman will have - no ditfllculty in getting congress- • ional approval of further controls ! If he shows they are needed in the |Hil>llc interest." he said. "The administration-backed bill 1 I asked for a one year continuance . of this authority, but we felt that a six-month giant was preferable. This Is not a situation which requires long time authority to per- : mlt planning. Congress will be in session and can legislate as the need* demand when the end of the six month extension approa< hi es The President said that recon- . version demanded the continuance of the war jiowera act. “although , on a steadily decreasing scale.” "We know," he said, "that our economy will be planned with nta- , jor war-lnrrn shortages six months from now and that the government must have the means of dealing with these shortages. "There must, therefore, lie further legislation to cover the period after June 30. 1946 " The President said the extension should be approved by congress as soon as possible "so that industry and the government will know a far In advance as possible the laws under which they are to operate, and can plan accordingly." Michener said he presumed Mr Truman was primarily concerned with the control* the act gives the civilian production board to grant priorities and allocate scarce materials The war powers extension bill was one of more than 60 measures signed by Mr. Truman following his return to Washington yesterday from his Missouri Christmas celebration. V-12 Program Is Extended To June 30 Washington. Dec. 29 (UP) - President Truman yesterday signed a bill extending the navy's college officer training program, known as V-12. until June 3*B. Discuss Plans For Permanent Airport Plan Meeting Here Friday, January 11 Col. Clarence Cornlah, director of the Indiana aviation commtaion. will Im in Decatur January 11 to meet with a local committee to discuss plans for developing a permanent airport In Decatur, it was learned today. Robert McComh. of McComb field, is acting as the-lalason officer and stated that a committee would be named soon to meet January It to discuss preliminary plans. it m known that the state commission plans to sponsor a number of strategic airports over the state and it is the hope of th* local committee that one of these field* may he placed here. The local committee will he selected as a tempurary group, it is understood, snd In all probability plana will be discussed hy them to organlxe a permanent committee.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, December 29,1945

Abducted By Jail Fugitives m -- ’ i .. HORACE PARRISH,' postmaster at Sandusky. Mich., and Helen Scblllinger, postal clerk, are shown with the bed sheet bindings they were ' tied up with Ity two men who abducted them and left them bound anil gagged in a tourist cabin near Pontiac. The two identified their ale i ductors as J. C. Vyse and Charles Townsend, who broke loose from the i Saniliac county jail a short time earlier.

NO PAPER TUESDAY Because of the New Years holiday. the Decatur Daily Democrat will not publish an edition Tuesday, January 1. G. I. Bill Signed By Pres. Truman I ' More Liberal Loan Education Benefits ‘ Washington. Dec. 29- (l’P> — Hundreds of thousands of veterans ' were eligible for more liberal loan and education benefits today under the revised G I. bill of right*. The President yesterday signed . without comment amendments to the lid.OiWt.OOl'.ft 0 bill to which I congress had agreed after week* I of argument. , The Veterans Administration , said an extra *ls monthly jiving allowance for G. I. students will Ite Included in checks for January, to be delivered Feb. 1 Subsistence payments are raised to *45 for single veterans and (90 for those 1 with dependents. ’ VA was ready, as well, with a new simplified form for loan upI plications, now made easier and more liberal. Maximum guarantees ’ on real estate loans are raised from *2.000 to 54.000 and approval by VA is no longer required In addition to broadening benefits. th* amendments knock out what some Ol’s called a legal Imm>by trap under which each veteran’s account would eventually have been deducted from a future bonus. Now the bonne -if any Is not endangered School officials fore«aw overloaded colleges by fall with a possible enrollment of *OO,OOO veterans. Dr. Francis J. Brown of the American c ouncil on eduiation sai l universities may lie swamped. Other changes in the bill; The term "reasonable value” I* substituted for "reasonable normal value" as a loan requirement Tim.’ for making a guaranteed loan is raised from two to 10 year* after the war. The existing 25-year age limit on free education — after which the - veteran had to show his training was interrupted is removed. Now > (Turn To !’•<• 3, Column 7) — -O To Announce G. E Strike Vote Monday The official tabulation on the strike vote taken yesterday by local 924. I’nlted Electrical. Radio and Machine Workers of America. CIO, employes of the Decatur General Electric Co., will he announci rd Monday, an officer of the union stated today. However it was unofficially reported that the vote was about 25 percent in favor of a strike unless , the demands of the union are met. The official count will be mad* public Monday as soon m the vote counting and certifying is completed.

Far East Advisory Commission On Way 40 Members Reach Hawaii By Plane Honolulu. D*c. 29--ft’Pi —Forty members of the far eastern advisory commission arrived here by plane late last night and were scheduled to leave for Tokyo early today altoard the I'SH Mount McKinley. Nelson T Johnson, former I’.S. ambassador to China and secre-tary-general of the commission, said the commission's work would be strengthened by the big three foreign minlsfcrs' .Moscow decisions. "Th* Moscow meeting set up specific terms under which our commission will operate," he said. Johnson said that the delegation would b« jnino'l by a Russian delegation. probably in Tokyo. "We will see to It that each delegation from the eleven countries making up the commission has a chance to see how the terms of the surrender are being carried out,” Johnson declared. He said the commission expected to return to Washington almut Feb. 15. In Washington the commission will determine the |u»liey under which MacArthur's directives are to be issued, Johnson stated. o - 11 - Soldier Rival Is Killed By Husband Army Captains Are Principals In Fray New York. Dec, 29 — (l’P> — ('apt. Eugene Dale, 29, died at 7;3t* a. m. (CSTt today from three bullet wounds inflicted yesterday by the husband of the beautiful blonde model he had hoped to marry. It was believed that charges filed yesterday against Capt. Archie Miller, husband of pinup girl Fay Hancock Miller, would f>e changed from felonious assault and violation of the Sullivan gun law, to murder Miller had confessed that he shot Dale. The shooting, which occurred in Mrs. Miller's apartment overlooking Fifth Avenue early yesterday. came after the blonde model had told her husband, who recently returned from the European theater of war, that she wanted to divorce him to marry Dale, Pacific war hero and survivor of the death march from Bataan Dale was sitting in the living room of Mrs. Miller's flat when the former Powers model Informed her husband, in a conversation In -the adjoining bedroom, that she had consulted her lawyer for a divorce. A moment later Miller ran into the living room with a German (Turn To Pago *, Column I)

Rescue Crews Digging Through Fallen Slate And Timbers In Mine

County Bond Head Expresses Thanks Urges Continuance Os Payroll Plans Today marked the end of nearly four service for Theodore F. Grallker ns county bond chair mint, and in concluding bi* wartime assignment, the chairman leaned a ‘thank you" to assistants. sale*tnen and bond buyers for the splendid help rendered the bond staff In all the loan drives. "I wish to extend my apprei ia tlon to every worker and bond buyer for the patriotic and tinsel fish help given during the Itond drives, which started early, in 1942. I Adams county made an enviable record by moot Ing every quota and In most cases oversultscrlbing each bond issue by 50 percent. "Many employers, including the industries ate maintaining the payroll bond purchase plan and I hope all will enroll and thus carry through with monthly investments In I'. S. Itonds. I urge a continuance of the payroll plan.” Mr Oraliker com hided The vli-toty hum drive has been oversulMcribed by 50 percent. Earl Caston, co-i-lurlrman of the bond •taff. announced. Total sale* may reach 11.500.000 The county's quota was 1977.itm Memlters of the luind staff, including the chairman and co-chair-man, served without pay and much of the local exjiense in connection with the drives was defrayed l»y the First State Bank. .... .... —o ———■— -— Theodore Dreiser Dies Last Evening Heart Attack Fatal To Noted Novelist Hollywood. Dec. 29 — tl’l’i — Theodore Dreiser, novelist and vigorous portrayer of the materialistic In American life, died last night of a heart attack. He was 74 Dreiser rallied from one Stroke yesterday but succumbed to a second attack His general health had been eg, -.-lien! At his bedside were Mrs Helen Dreiser, his widow, and two physicians. The fiery white haired writer came to HoliywiMid about lit years ago to supervise a movie version of Ills itest known novel. "An American Tragedy." Since then Dreiser had lived In semi-retirement and had publish ed only philosophic dissertations oti KOVeriiiilelit problems. He recently resumed his writing and had just completed ths second of two novels, his first in 2b years. One. "The Bulwark,” to be published next March, is J75.0U0 words, one of the longest written in the last 10 years. Tinother. "The Stoic." Is the last of a trilogy including "The Financier" anl "The Genius.” both in print. The tall, rangy awvnor's years of despair over the "hitter cruelty" of life were etched as deeply Into his appearance as into his writing. He gave up his early newspaper career because of the "brutalities" of everyday life. One of the first American real Ist* who rose to eminence despite derision by critics and suppression by publisher*. Dreiser's pun gent comments and unconvention al views oft .in brought him into tangles with other writers. He engaged In a fist fight with novelist Sinclair Lewis over a charge that Dreiser plagiarized material in a book about Russia written hy Dorothy Thompson, then lewis' wife. Dreiser also mixed with George Bernard Shaw. Irish satirist, when the American writer said In 1942 he would rather see Germans In (Turn To r»<* 3, Culutnu 7j.

Report Mutiny On U. S. Liner In Portsmouth American, Chinese Crewmen Reported Involved In Fight Portsmouth, Eng . Dec 29 tl'l’t American and Chinese crewmen fought with knives and axes aboard th<- l N liner Anna Dickinson here early today in a Hot which the captain of tin- ship blunt ly called mutiny. Till- cause of the, fighting, which i .-gcd for an hour or so ab tard the liner anchored In Portsmouth harlior, not revealed in the first official report*. The tiaels of the captain's ehargof mutiny, which early account* did not amplify, likewise lacked explanation. Tin- captain's name was not leartii-d Immediately. The riot broke out shortly after the Anna Dickinson arrived in the harbor at the end of a stormy passage ai-tWH the Atlantic. Portsmouth police lesiHitided to in emergency call and quieted the rioters. N. milMaiy police arrived later from Southampton and took charge in tin- first rep'trt of the fighting today, authorities did not metition casualties The figliting got out of hand soon after it started ~ls»aid the ship uiiihored in Portsmouth ha;lair. The captain signaled port authorities with a flash lamp and bv radio. The first signal said "immediate police assist ince required." A aecond message said "crew fighting with knives" Th-- messages were relayed to police beadquarters A party of 39 officers raced io Hie dockyard airl iMianled a *p<«-dy motor torpedo boat. They dashed through i driving rain and gale which loaned (Turn To Page S, Column 1> o Fog, Drizzling Rain Bring New Hazards Danger Os Serious Floods In Indiana Indianapolis. Ih-c 29 <l'l • Indiana motorists drove cautiously over icy streets and highway» again today, ae m-w Ice trout fog and drizzling rain spread over the countryside. The film of ice, coming just as the reads were lH>ginning to clear of snow and sleet from tw > week* of bad weather, was blamed for numerous accident*. In one. an automobile *tru< k a crowd of spectators who were gathered around the scene of a fitili ir wreck in Indianapolis. Six bystanders were hospitalized for shock and injuries. In another mishap occurring in tile Hoosier capital, four passengers on a city trolley enr were hurt wh'-n it skidded on icy pavement ai.d struck an automobile and a utility pole. Warn of Danger Indianapolis. Dec 29 <I'P) Hoosiers were warned today that serious flood* might come soon If heavy rainfall and alMive-freeilng temperatures featured the weather bureau. Chief engineer David H Harker of the Indiana flood control and waler resources commission, said that the Indiana rainfall far 1945 averaged 49.37 inches, more than 10 inchivi or 25 percent above the normal annual fall. More rain and a thaw would melt the rest of the heavy snow which has been on the ground for more than two weeks, Harker said. Ntreams already are high, be added. because of rain on Dec. 24 and 25.

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Nine Miners Taken From Blast Area Friday, One Dies In Rescuers Arms Pineville. Kv. Dec 29 (UP)— Renette worker* said early today that they expected •<» reach the remaining men trapped In the mino "liefore many more hours.” Joe Hatfield, I*. one of the nine ini'ii found in a barricaded sldo •haft yesterday, said the •ecoml party was only 30# feet away when an explosion < ul them off it 6:33 a m Wednesday. Hope was high that the remaining 22 men were alive However, Hatfield said the explosion seemed < entered w.teM the others were working Tin- re«cu- crews were digging through an almost solid wall ot fallen slate and timbers Eight of the first party of nino Were reported in go-xl condition Ity hospital attendant* today AH were suffering fr mi exhaastlon. The ninth, Albert Bennett. 41. died in hi* resctteiw' arms us h<- wa4 <arrled ’«m the mln« after 53 hours imprisonment In the dark, foul air «>f the shaft. Bud Townes. 54-year-old negro, was the hero of tiie party Townee, a survivor of the 1929 Kt Hie Island mine tragedy which killed six miners. directed th<- men n throwing up u barricade of shale to seal tho air in their »ide shaft and keep out p dsonou* gaae*. First traces of the I cpped men was their footprints on the dusty flisir of the main shaft Then the renege crew came to the barr.cade. In front of it wa* a note t-igned by Towne* which said "Nine miners in her 1 11 a. tn. Thursday." There were ether notation* that Townes had scribbled as Hie men w.i'ti-d for help they were suro was on the way Tin- rescuers tore feverishly at the barricade. Inside they found more footprint* and arrow* draw* by Townm pointing to the spot iT'irn Th i'iir '■• C'dumn m .mi,, Colter Brothers Sell Lumber Mill The Colter Bothers l.umlter ComiHMiy at Kendallville ha* been sold to tiie Holme- .McCormick Co., inc of Grand Rapid*. Michigan, effect Iv" next Tuesday. Mr. Hottie* will operate the plant Charlo* H Colter, formerly of thi* city who has managed the concern su<--cesafnHy since 193# annottnve* h« will take » much needed rest before de< Iditig hi* futwre plan*. Frank Jordan, who hue been associated wltii him is also retiring n Three Possible UNO Sites Eliminated New York Or Boston Headquarters Site London. I»ec. 29 (UP)—A sixnation inspection commission today eliminated three poaslble site* for headquarter* of the United Nution* organization Westhampton Beach in the New York area and Cape Cml and Springfield in the Boston area. The inspection group also added one area in the Boston district—the North Shore to those under consideration. The committee said it might ln*pect previously unmentioned Mites within the prescribed Boston and New York areas. The search for a spot to build the headquarters of the UNO wa* limited to the outlying areas of New York an-l Boston. The inspection group will learn Ixmdon Jan. 4 for the United States. It hopes to complete Its assignment within three reeks. Headquarters will be set up In New York and the itinerary mapped from there. The committee may pay a courtesy call to Washington.