Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 4, Decatur, Adams County, 5 January 1946 — Page 1

VOL. XLIV. No. 4.

28 DIE AS TORNADO SWEEPS EAST TEXAS

Electric Union ; Heads Meet To ( Set Strike Call Notion's Essential I Industries Facing Work Stoppages By I’m .1 I’; Top government official* held I hurried conference* on Inlwr demand* for higher wages today ax threat* of woik stoppage* In essential Iftdttsfrle* wen* pushed toward the *trlke stage. ’A total of ITS.eoo r. s. workers were idled by strike*. with more 1 than 2,008,000 other* acheduled to C join them within the next two Week*. In the moat pressing and far- ( reaching disputes: I. Officers of the Inlted Electrieal Workers (Clot meet today to set a strike date, probaldy Jan. 14, for foa.oOo members employe ! by General ■ectric. Westinghouse '* atftl General Motors' appliance division. , S> The labor department announced ft thee day mediation conference in Chicago next week. - which It hoped would avert a 2 strike of 381,0n0 AFL and CIO 7 meat pocking workers, called for Jan. it. 3. A fact-flnding board for the •tee! industry will begin hearings Monday between the IT. S. Steel Corp, and the l ulled Steel Workers, (CfOh Whose 700.000 memhers are slated to walk out Jan. 14. • 4. Approximately 250,000 tele1 phone operator wen* being polled on whether to go out in sympathy with 17.000 striking Western Electrie employes In every ease, atrlke action was called to bolster demands for wage Increase* approximating 30 percent AnnoMteMneei of the meat packing mediation conference came last night after the Amalgamated Meat Cutters tAFLi "implored” Praaid.nt Truman to pre-! vent the Wlkout which would ’ halt the flow of fresh meat to the z nation's butcher shops. Officers of the AFL union ear Her authorise.! their 135.«™» members to Join the walkout called by Its CIO rival Ad mint at rat lon officials, mean while, studied the possibility of . heading off strikes in the meat and steel Industries by increasing manufacturers prices while bidding the Hee on retail prices. Unlike the situation in the General Motors dispute, the steel and • packing union* have not stipulated that any wage increases must not result in a rise In prices. The government officials met as leaders of tb« three biggest CIO unions mapped strategy in their campaign for a 30-percent wage increase In the steel, automotive, and electrical manufacturing Industries. | Some of the union leaders were | (Turn Tn Page S. Column 5) . Equipment Stolen From Wrecked Plane — authorities were trd-ned 'today that sevc-raF valuable fffetißO «f equipment have been ■-rohis rise airplane lu-longing - to of ihii fit;-, which to Wells county last Wed ' the death of Bruce ’ iStffSfKp*"->■*old Lane aster * townehsp Mot SS i '".man-Ter of Mc-C->mb field here, where the plane wa* kept, state.*, that arrMgffiMM*. were being made to bring the ■recked plane back here as won as a truck could get Into the field. MH'imb also stated that Inskeep had been flying for about a year and a half and while he had accumulated 25 houm of flying. only *ix hours had been recorded In the plane in which h® crashed. S T’T I, "“— ° DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER TEMPERATURE READING* 8:00 a. m 40 10:00 a. m. lUOO a. m. -4« Mi WEATHER Partly cloudy southeast and mostly Ipoudy wlth occasional •howere north and west today. Cloudy with occasional showers tonight and Sunday. Unseasonably mild.

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Jury Commissioners Prepare Jury Box Jury ciininisslonor* Rcy Mumma and Edward Berling have j repared the 1846 jury Imx with the names of 144 freeholders, representative of the 12 township* in the county. The name* will Im* tasad In filling the grand and petit furies when th<* panel* are to be fl’led for the new term of court. — o— Chinese Agree On Program To End Civil War / sa. ■ Unity Conference Os Rival Factions Sets Up Procedure Chungking, Jan. 5— H’Pl—The national government and the communists have agreed on a procedure for ending hostilities In China's civil war and for restoration of communications, it was announced tonight. Detail* of the suspension of hostilities an I restoration of communications will be worked out Immediately. K. C. Wu. minister of information, announced. The unity conference delegated Chou En Lal, communist leader, ami Chang Chun, goverrvir of Szechwan, to meet and work out the detailed plan. Wu said that Chou and Chang probably would issue the actual ceasefire order after conferring with Gen. George C. Marshall. Wu's statement indicated that Cftou and Chang probably had been designated by the communist* and national government respectively to serve with Marshall on the three-man arbitration committee which will seek to resolve China's differences Marshall met with Chou today and later lunched with Marshal Chiang Kai-Shek. Marshall does not intend to visit the communist center of Yenan, it was learned. Meanwhile, a democratic league spokesman said the organization had advised Marshall that hostilities should cease before opening of the consultative assembly, sqfie luled Jan. I#. He said reorganization of the government should be by participation in troth policy making and egpciitlng branches by leaders of ail parties and non partisan member*. He also recommended that national assembly delegate* should l»e elected anew by all parties and that armies should be nationalized and reduced. (Turn To Psge 4. Column *1 —— -—O — Hearing Date Set For January 11 Suit For Receiver Hearing Date Set Hearing on the application for appointment cf a receiver in the suit brought by Ed, Joseph and Mae Berlins against Raymond C. Becker, scheduled to be heard in Adams circuit court thia morning, waa s®t for January II at 9 a.m. The hearing wa* set by Judge J. Fred Fruchte after an appearance for the defendant by Frank W. Gordon, of Gordon. Edii* and Thompson. H. H. McClenahao represents the plaintiff* in the suit to dissolve a partnership accounting and appointment of a receiver. The divorce ca»e of Deloria MeCagg against Earl McCagg wa* net this morning by Judge Fruchte for January 12 at 9 a.m. after the defendant filed an answer and crosscomplaint w ging cruel and inhuman tre. -ent, averring that he wa* forced to go to restaurant* to eat his meal* and that the plaintiff wa* carelero and negligent In her care of their child and was frequently angry and quarrelsome. In hl* craM-compiaint he asked for custody of the child. Award Judgment Judge Fruchte awarded a Judgment of 12.504 In the claim of Jacob Barger against the Sim Barger estate. In the estate of Arthur Andrew* the report of the Inheritance tax appraiser was submitted and the court found the net value of the estate to be *9,557 and no tax due.

British Wife Arrives With Triplets On “Queen” Ok . w ‘ Bk ft"' • SB ” . I » MRS. ROBERT GLASS. British wife of a former U. S. soldier now living in South Bend. Ind . is shown with her Infant triplet* and soldiers of the famed 82nd Airborne dlvsion as they all arrived alxiard S, S Queen Mary al New York City. Left to right are I’fc. Christ Schirmer with Schaun Gia**, I’fc. Roliert Smart, stephen Glass; I’fc Howard Martin. Robert Gia**, and Mr*. Gia**.

Charles Lalollette In Senatorial Race Seeks Seat Now Held By Senator Willis Indianapolis. Jan. i—(UP) — A Three-way race shaped up today In Indiana for the Republican senatorial nomination Rep. Charles M. LaFollelte. Evansville. tossed his hat Into the ring last night at a dinner he staged In Vanderburgh county. The in cuinbent. Sen. Raymond E. Willis, Angola, whose .*eat MFollette seeks, previously had I’.dicated he would try (or a second six-year term. Indiana state GOP chairman William £. Jenner. Bedford, has not yet announced his candidacy. But most political observer i expected him to become the third aspirant for Willis' post. Thvo. a triangular brittle between three candidates of widely differing political philosophy loomed to add lest to the !»••» political campaign Follette. known among both and Democrats as a liberal, and a self-termed "radical was expected to gain h’s chief from organised labor. Heretofore, union leaders have frowned on most GOP candidates. Willis la a known conservative He heo the backing of a majority of Hoosier GOP newspaper publishers, as he did in 1940. Jenner could count on the support of the elate Republican organization LaFollette. who is completing his eerond iwo-y-ar term as congressional representative from the eighth Indiana district, announced l»l»* candicacv for the senatorial nomination in a formal statement He said he entered the race on the basis of a speech made last Dec. 13 in congress. LaFollette said he would not "play it safe” by first seeking renomination to the lower house. This paved the way for wide-open contest among Republicans for the congressional nomination In the eighth district. Should he fail to be nominated at the state GOP conven lon next summer. favFollette said, he would refuse the nomination for any other office and would not ho a candidate of. any other party. p_ Escapes Injury In Collision Os Autos Ruraell O. White, 35. Fort Wayne, and former Decatur resident, escaped injury about 2 am today when the car he was driving crashed into the real- of a parked auto, owned by Harry Moyer, also of Fort Wayne. Sheriff Leo Glllig, who Investi- ' gated, said that the accident, occurred when Moyer stopped along the highway to fix a flit tire. The White auto overturned after the collision and was badly damaged.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, January 5, 1946.

Over 14 Millions In last evening's issue the | "teen" of fourteen was dropped ' from the sub heading on the artl-1 de which dealt with the bond record in this county during the war years. The error made the line real, "Over four million in bonds are bought." It should have road. Over FOURTEEN 1 Millions in Bonds are Bought. Purchases by individuals, business concerns and corporations from 1942 to December 31. 1915. amounted to 514.333.000. Serviceman's Wife May Apply For Aid Clarify Eligibility Os Veterans' Wives A serviceman's wife may apply for maternity care and care lor her baby, under the emergency maternity and infant care program, even after 'her husband has been honorably discharged, promoted, or demoted, provided she was pregnant during the period when he was In one of the four lowest pay grades of the services or was serving as an aviation cadet. On the name basis, she may apply If the husband and father is a prisoner of war. missing In action, or dead. This clarification as to who Is entitled to care tinder the government’s emergency maternity and Infant care program was made today by Dr. Robert E Jewett of the Indiana state board of health, which administers the programl tinder plans approved by the children’s bureau. I’. S. department of labor. The new Interpretation. Dr. Jewett explained. Is In accord with a recent congressional recom-' mendation designed to extend the : benefits of this program to wives i who fail to make application for themselves and their Infants before the status of their husbands Is changed. Heretofore t:he application for care had to be made while the serviceman was in one of the eligible grades. Now all that Is required to establish eligibility i« proof that the wife was pregnant while he was in one of the eligible grades. The Infant In these cases Is also eligible for full care during his first year of life. Similarly. if the father of an infant whose mother did not receive care under the program was in one of those grades at any time during the Infant’s first year of life, the Infant's eligibility for care under the program la established The greatest effect of the new policy will be in bringing infants of discharged servicemen under the program for the full year In which the infant Is entitled to care. The new reflation also clears up a matter about which some confusion has existed, that is wthether widows and their infants are eligible. Under this interpretation (Turn To Fags 5, Column •)

Fatal Plane Crash Being Investigated No Statement From Investigator Here l«eon I! (.anguay. Dearborn. Mich . member of the aafety bureau of the U. S. aeronaut! »<I latard was here Friday to Investigate the fatal airplane crash in Wells county which took the life <-f Bruce i Inskeep. 13. late Wedn< s«lay after noon. lamguay would give no statement at this time, because of a ruling that all findings must be filed with the aeroniuth-rfl board In Washington and the . --suits released from that city. Following the prol»e. th- wrecked plane wan released to the owner. Robert Reber of this city. Robert McComb, manager of McComb field, where the plane was kept, stated that aa soon as it was possible to get to the scene of the crash with a truck the plane would ' be brought to Deratin'. It Is believed that the tail assembly and parte of the engine of the PT 19 Fairchild Trainer can ’ i»e salvaged The baianr** of the ship, however, is completely wrecked, The original price ->f the plane was |9.tum Languay questioned a number of people in th* 1 vicinity of thwreck to ascertain how low the young pilot hail been flying prior to the fatal mUiap. A 'Himber of people residing near Craigv'lle also were questioned. <i Spends Weekends In Adams County Jail Local Man Sentenced On Contempt Charge Lawrence’Bullinger. 30. Decatur factory worker, will s|e-nd his next few weekends at the Adams county jail as a result of hie appearance before Judge J Fred Frucht- in Adams circuit court. Judge Fiiii-hle sentenced the man to serve a lo day jail sentence and then decided upon 'he novel method of serving it in order that It would not interfere with his work The sentence was meted out for contempt of court, after the court reminded Bullinger that lie was ♦ 152 in arrears In his «ut port payments in the divorce action brought again.!! him by l-ee Anna Bullinger in. June of 1945 The court reprimanded the man for falling to comply with the order and not abiding by his promise to pay up the lagging pay ments aa he had promised. Judge Fruchte called attention to the fact that he had only paid 123 since last Heptember The weekend incarcerations are (Turn To Pag* 4, Column I) 1

Small Communities In Palestine Are Ravaged By Tornado; 150 Hurt

Allies To Supervise Japanese Elections Postpone Election Date To February Washington. Jan. 5 <UP) Japan'* tlr«t election* slnr-e the war <lll be closely supervised by allied occupation for<ev it wa* learned today. It also was disclosed that the election dale ha* bee® postponed by the government. The election* probably will not he held l»ef ire Mointime in February The election* originally were set for early thl* month. They now will not lie held until Gen Douglas MacArthur ha* set up the necessary arrangement* for free election* and ttnde*iralde persons have ber*n eliminated from Japanese politics. Military government offi< ial* in Japan. Il wa* said, are screening I - ■■■..roily »!! :*** '!!;|; — ..I;.!;.:.,-, - and their platform* They also are deciding how Japan shall lie divided for the elections and meth<mls of (tollclng Hie campaign and voting MacArthur l<*»k a big step in laying the groundwork for free election* It) hl* latest directive purging men and organization* wliicii have promoted aggression Source* he e expected premier Shidehaia to weather the immediate elorm If hi* cabinet fall*. MacArthur simply would see that the em|M>ror call* for a new cabinet a* he did when the Higashi Kun I cabinet collapsed o Jap Planes Ignored Manila 'Open City' Gen. Homma Blames Jap Naval Bombers Manila. Jan s—itT’i Japanese bomlmr* ignored Gen Doug la* MacArthur's declaration of Manila a* an open city, witnesses testified today at the w„r crimes trial of Lt. Gen Masahara Hom ma. Two witnesses. Ihiti Bell, an American radio announcer, and A. L. Valencia of the Manila Daily Bulletin staff, toll the I', s military tribunal there wa* no question about the Japanese knowing of the declaration. They said they attended a conference in MacArthur's headqt(prters Dec. 26. 1941, saw a copy of the declaration and heard it broad cast at frequent interval* in the Japanese language They said they heard radio Tokyo admit the same evening that the broadcast declaration had been received. Valencia testified that the next day he saw Japanese itomlter*. flying singly, drop iMtinb* on the walled city and port arcs, killing |o persons, lie said then was no anti aircraft or tighter plane opposition. More Itomber* returned the fol lowing day and blasted Inter-island steamers in the Pasig river, he saidDefense counsel for Homma. commander of the Japanese for ce» in the Philippine* In 1941-42. indicated in cross-examination of an earlier witness that Homma would blame the Japanese navy for the bombing*. Lt. Col. Michio Kitayama. Hom ma's communications officer, said that navy planes, which had carried out early strategic bombing* In the Philippine*, attacked Ma (Turn To Psge Calumn 1) o - — Decatur Ministers Will Meet Monday The Decatur ministerial association will meet at 9 30 o'clock Monday morning at the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church. The Rev. F. H. Willard, pa«tor of the First Evangelical church, wi'l have charge of the devotion*.

To Halve U. S. Force In Europe By Mid-Summer To Slow Discharge Point Requirements Os American Army Frankfurt. Jan. 5 <l'Pi Gen Joseph T M< X'arney eaid tixlay that the American force in the En- ' ropean theater would lie reduced by next July from It* pre.» nt fJlfi. mm men to alsmt 3<m».(hh». at which strength It will remain indefinitely McNarney. commander of I' ts. forces in Europe, sketched for the firot lime in the makeup of the American army to handle the longterm <>< < up.ition .is-Unm*-! i I'' ' 7 b-rmain Mobile armored task *orce* numbering some 3*.000 troips will range the American zone In armored car* a* the mainefay of the !'. S <m < upalion force* In addition to the mob'le police force, the occupation army will consist of three infantry division* totaling about 45,mn> m«n. an air force, 12 light tank battalions and supporting service, and administrative echelon* By July Hie total force will l>e <itt by mon- titan half, to remain more or le»* static. McNarney >«ald. He reiterated th.it American -oldiets Would Ite Kent hotn • a* fast .«* possible, but emphasized that the repatriaiioti wouid th-iwnd on the fulfillment of responsibilities. In Germany, rather than availal* ility of shipping Slow Point Cut Washington. Jan 5 i|'P> Army discharge isdnte requite meat* will la- lowered mo*c slowly from now on and occiiputl u need* rather than shipping will d«‘L*r ( turn To Page 2. Column «l Weed Control Meet Here On February 1 Trustees Invited To Attend Meeting An invitation was issued to all Adams county township trustees, at their meeting thi* morning, to attend a hearing on weed control to ite held In Decatur February in the Adam* ein ult coiit t room O la-e. extension iHManist of Purdue I'nlversity an i head of Hie commission appointed by the governor to hold hearings and draft a new weed control law for Indiana, will preside. The invitation wa* extended by L. E Archbold. Adam* county agricultural agent and Robert II Heller, joint representative of Adam* and Wells counties Mr. Archbold stated that the hearing would be open to all Adam* county farmer* and also to farmer* of the fourth congressional district, and he urged the trustees to bring a number of farmer* from their respective townsliip* with them The present Weed cont nd law in Indiana deals only with the Canada thistle and under the law the trustee administer* the control. It is the desire of the commission to frame a new law which will deal with the control of all common weed* in the state and also to devise a mean* of administering the law. The hearing to lie hel l here will he one of a series to lie held throughout the state on weed control. Mr la*e will preside at the hearing and it is expected that several other members of the state commission will also be present. Arrsngement* for the meeting are being made l»y Mr. Archbold, and he stressed the fact that all citizens of Adams county are wel--1 come to attend.

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Communications Are Crippled Following Disastrous Tornado Through East Texas Palestine. Tex., Jan » fl’Pl—• Twenty Itodies had been accounted for and at least tdx other* were reported dead today from tornndoe* which cut a disastrous pato across east Texa* At least I .It* person* were Injured and an undetermined number missing after the high wind* ravaged small communities In the area of Palestine and Nacogdorhe*, fid mile* to the southeast. The known dead included 12 in the Palestine area, six at NacogI docJte* and two nt Clawson, a sawmill community near Lufkin. Two of the dead at Nacogdoches were re|M»rted to have iteen brought, to mouttua'le* there from Appleby. a small community in mile* , ne"’h of Nacogdoches. In addition. "Five or six” negroes wen* re|H>rted killed when thn storm struck and detnoli-hed a -;' game was In progress at Shiloh I Nt. Paul In la-on county, southwest of here. Acc((m|>atiied by Torrential rain, the tornado last night blasted a . destructive path l<m to 2<»i yard* , wide and more than 18 mile* in an area southeast* of Italia*. Storm crippled communication* I rednet-d reports «f damage to a tri( kle Rescue crew* worked In blackout condition* after failure , of electric ligjtt and power line* , in some of the communities stricken Hardest hit was the little towrt of Southview three mile* south of Palestine There nine were known to have died when the torn idn swept throng!) the village and left only *hc walls of a few home* standing. A Na< ogthe he* police officer estimated that "more than par perMtn* were Injured there Thirty or more iiersons were hospitalized at Palestine, where eme gency fnci ilitle* were set up in a sanitarium, ..— Cleveland Papers Idled By Strike Cleveland. Jan. ’> tl'Pl Member* of the pressmen's union (A. F of L i today struck at Cleveland's three daily new*paper* Tin* men who run the h gli speetf prpso-s walked out aft-r they refused t o publtehe; - offer ot |IU.S(I weekly wage increa«e« The union ask* (I for a 114 84 increase f uni I the C|i-relaf«l Pre**. Pla n Dealer and New* > ” City Rate Petition Is Set For Hearing I State Commission To Hold Hearing f The hearing on the city’s petition to adjust the i-ls« tri, rato - charge* in what I* known a* fho 24 hour demand industrial sched- ! (lie will be held at the state house . in Indianapoii* on January 23, tho public service commission of Indiana ha* announced Several months ago the conn- ' rll authorized the change in the ‘ schedule of rate*, affecting thw ' last two brackets, which proposed ' t r ;at the tive mill per KWH he Increased to six mills, where the 1 customer furnished the transfor--1 mars, and to seven mill* per KM'H 1 where the city utility provided th« transformers. The Central Noya company I* . the only customer using the rate schedule, hut the Genera! Electric company has applied to he placed I on It The schedule include* a de- , mand charge for kilowatt hour*. . phi* a rate charge for electric energy used City offl* ial* and customer* affected hy the change will attend I the hearing, which will be held at 2 o'clock In the afternoon in room 401 of the state hou*a-