Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 30 January 1946 — Page 7

MXLIV. No. 25.

IEW ATTEMPTS TO SOLVE LABOR CRISIS

Bin Accuses Kian Break ■1942 Treaty Ker Wrangle As Hsia Refuses To ■| With Iranians J.in (UPt —For|K,.. Ernest Bevln acKjSjl Hu «1.1 before- the UNO .otiniil today Os break pnwi-r treaty of 1912 Iran'* sovereignty |K, h<- *al<l looked like "the of an ajran-aKion." t|l .ty council hearing on Soviet dispute devela bitter wrangle of faKuc'ion* after Iran offered HK,’..,’.- with Russia. but only BH M c retained jurisdiction. Soviets refused with a appealed to Soviet vice cornmi**ar Andrei Vishinwithdraw hla objection to jurisdiction. anti KH Vitditnsky as a< knowiedg |;.| -i.cn* blocked the o( Iranian, security ■H ;n the \i> rluiijall crisis ■M \ ,-li.n-kv -.iy- the Soviet ■B . .tti:ii.in<l stopped these BK-ar.i they were stopped." |B| cried Then what la EMr> n.-irot !t,. about If 'hey then Die Soviets in on the treaty" (among Britain and Irani. ft Stc-ttinfus, Jr. of ■E .-.d an’ urged that the ■Hy > at least keep the ..tiatton* between |M and Iran under obaerva BHc-- anil China fell in behind ■■l 811,1 Stettinius. Even the SB ib-hita:.-, Zygmum ModHBki. agreed with the anti jIS point of View that the disHM left on the council during the pro|H>»ed I ■Bl t> Makin of Australia. SBr «>f tie security council. gß* ‘l"aking for Australia KB"- thought the case ought g,■ j"’ l1 ’ "it 'lie agenda until a really want to promote ■B Betin said, "hit If I may frankly, when thia sltua ■Bti.-iopeii it, i ra n, it did not BB ih like a war of nerve# IfS' 11 ' 1 l"<’k to us like what ■B Litvinov, former Soviet SB* minister described as the SBr-g of an aggression." bluntly rejected an ■V by .-(eyed Hassan Taqtll■pß of Iran to the security PB 1 Iranian Soviet |B*'-r«y In its hands, said Iran was ready S|Bdiii.g t (( negotiate, as sugH !>y ,h “ itusalans Monday, 88->’ «n condition that the stain jurisdiction. ■9 ’b* Iranian government and sincerely wants direct Vlshinsky said, "we to accept, jim thu I^B 8 ’ "t placing the negotiathe aegis of the seKW, ‘•”‘n<’tl would make a sicEy it. Xo!” statement brought B| <llma * ’he first political ’’ T " ’’*«* 3. Column i| FB Clothing Friday — I — ■BL??”**; city chairman of the K lo 'hmg drive to lie con- £■ >, ■ , ' Kl “ y a,l “ ,rt fßh< con!rlb “‘e open . ,or *”tnen, men or KB hat ’ 10 ’he drive. Y” n<,< * at>tM ,n ■ that ;?* “ M He “'•« H a i,um?' h ‘ nS ’ led ‘fremur homes, i^l C r R ft A A T T, THCRMOMtTt " * RATu * e readings ■ ■ » ■■ P*Bp- m. w H w fl w '*^ |R L f esTt/**” "« M tß* flurr 'A cha "oi"o f B ThurM. dUr " 9 n '° ht ■"* r ■" «xtr71 r tg. l”Briy '? * " or *h- Strona re. - nol 7 d,y morn - ; B**t J' 0 "’ "*« above •b»v t wtroma

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Battle Lines Form On Anli-Sfrike Bill Bill Makes Unions, Employers Liable Washington, Jan. 30 fUPi HMM Republicans and southern Democrats were lining up today in support of a sweeping antiWrite* bill introduced hy Rep Francis Case. It. S. I>. The bill would make labor unions and employers equally Hable under the law for violations of i their contracts. It would also pro- . vide a 30-day no-strike cooling off ; period in major disputes and nut- ' law violence by union plcte <s. i Case asked the rules committee to allow hla bill to lie offered on i the house floor as a substitute for the lalior commit!* 's weakened ’ version of President Truman's fact-finding bill. Rules committee members believed bls revest . would be grant d. a move that would pracoipltate a bitter hoor battle. Meanwhile, chairman Ira Mohser of the national association of ' manufacturers presented to the * nate labor committee an eightpoint program to stabilize labor relations and » "prevent future strike epidemics." The committee is considering fact finding legislation. 'Mosher said the fact-finding precedin' nhould lie reserved for special disputes if It Is to remain effective. Its primary job. he «aid. should he to focus public opinion In disputes and not to make specific wage recommendations. He said wages should be decid d through collective bargaining. Mosher also endorsed the principle of union responsibility and suggested voluntary arbitration where the parties cannot agre-. The house labor committee's fact finding hill would authorize Mr. Truman to set up fact-finding panels in serious labor disputes. It would not. hower r. grant his request that the hoards have subpea* powers or that labor be forbidden to strike for a 30-day period. House Republicans pointed out thet the substitute introduci <1 by Case closely follows the, labor policy statement adopted recently by OOP leaders in Chloagc Influential southern Democrats end teeLd the bill and predicted that other aoutherne-s tAntld probably go along with it. Foes of anti-strike legi-latiin were generally reluctant to comment before studying the Case bill further. However. Rep. Vito Marcantonto. A. U P-. N Y.. said it "would wipe out all of labor gains in the last tie years." New Cold Wave In Midwest Tonight By United Press A new cold dave. accompanied by strong winds. Is moving down from central Canada and will cover most of the midwest by nightfall, the weatherman said today. Bub-sero temperatures and moderate snow blanketed Kan t sas. lowa and Nebraska during the night, with blizzard conditions reported In the southeast corner of Nebraska \ Town Hall Meeting Here This Evening Local Union 924 Conducts Meeting Arrangements have been completed for the town hall meeting to be held tonight at the Decatur junior-senior high school under the sponsorship of Local 921 UKRMWAtCIOt.it was announced today by Robert Rice. International union representative here. William Sentner. vice president of the. International union, will be the main speaker and Mayor John B. Htults will preside, Mr. Rice previously announced. Union officials here have egpressed the belief that approximately 2.M10 persons will be in attendance at the meeting. Invitations have been extended, they said, to business and professional men and women, farmers and company officials. The local union also announced today that 1< members have been assigned to work In the victory | clothing drive to be conducted bore Friday,

Truman Asks Approval Os British Loan President Urges Prompt Action To Speed World Trade Washington, Jan. 31 — tl’Pl, President Truman today a«ke<| emigres* to app or the 33.750.000.’ 000 loan to Great Britain to enable her "to move aide by side with the United Blate* toward the common goal of expanded world trade.” Such expand d world trade, the President told eongres* In a tong* awaited message, “Means expanded production, consumption and employment and .rising standards of living everywhere." Th" loan would provide Britain with a 13.750,000.000 “line of credit" bn which she could draw until 1961 to flmlnce purchases of American goads and fill other nerds for dollars Repayments would begin In 1951 and interest would be 2 percent. The Interest, however, could be waived in years when Britain's exports did not provide her with enouidi dollars to meet the payment*. Th agreement also provides that Britain I* to pay |H50.000.000 in settlement of lend-iease aid already received. Her total repayments of principal thus would be f 1.100.000.000, although the new cr dlt would be 13.750.000.000. The lend-lease settlement is not subject to congressional Approval. s The President urged prompt action on the loan, which was initialled by r presentatlves of the two nations Dec. fi and approved by the British parliament a few •lays later. The loan carries with It British gov rnment to remove restrictions upon trade as well ns th* ending of the sterling area system. This means that the alms and rules of tihe Rretton Woods agreements will be mad - effective sooner than believed possible, the President said The financial agreement, lie continued. pr elude* the possibility of economic controversy between the two countries. Mr. Truman said that the loan represented another phase of Intel National uconomic cooperation, whltth has been advanced by such other acts as the Brotton Woods agreement, the ratification of the United Nations organization, support of the United Nations food and agriculture ormnization. coop- ■ ration in the United Nations relief and rehabilitation administration. widening the reciprocal trade agreements act. and expanding the (Turn Tri Page !, Column St

'Kidnaped' Mother Reveals Story Hoax Police Term Event Just Family Affair Weymouth. Maos . Jan. 30—(UP) —Mrs. Betty Reader. 25. mother of three children, returned home with her husband today, convinced that a kidnap hoax wasn't funny. The attractive mother of three children was found In a Quincy. Mass., case last night, frightened by the wide publicity and six-state police search set off when she telephoned a nelghtcor's home Monday night to tell her hraband she wa* being kidnaped. “For Goda sake call the police.” Mrs. Reader had screamed Into the telephone, then hung up. She got plenty, of p-illce. They questioned her for several hour* after locating her last night and she left police headquarters very subdued. Police did not reveal where she spent the night after Inventing the kidnaping atory for her husband. “It was just a family affair.” said police chief Edward F. Butler, who added that no charges would l>e filed. Capt William F Mclntyre of the Quincy police, who led the questioning of Mrs- Reader, said she was "a little discouraged" with domestic routine. Her Husband works night*.

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Kidnap Confession A Hoax FI e w ■ J/ rmßKSfe:' i / lit w W- Im 7'5 1 STATE S ATTORNEY William J Touhy. of Chicago, han revealed that the purported confession of Theodore Campbell, left, and Vincent Costello, to the kidnap-murder of Suzanne Degnan was a hoax designed in an effort to sell their story to newspapers.

Norwegian Accepts UNO Nomination Secretary General Os United Nations London, Jan. 30 — (UPI — Trygve Lie. Norwegian foreign minister, today accepted nomination as secretary general of the United Nations, UNO officials announced. Lie returned from Oslo today to be- present when the UNO assembly formally ratifies the unanimous nomination by the security council yesterday. Ilia tided at Croydon airdrome. Lie's nomination probably will he considered by the assembly on Friday. Compromise* negotiation* between Russia and other hlg five m-mbers leading to Lie's nomination for the highest UNO post almost overshadowed th- IranianRussian dispute, which th- security council faced again today In its second session of the week. The security council had before It a 95-page document covering Iran’s hill of particulars In >,iipport of its claim that Russia was Interfering in Iranian affairs. The Iranian delegation also was understood to have* prepared another “very long” statement of its position. Fourteen specific’ cases In which Iran charged Soviet off! cials interfered with Iranian officials' freedom of action were cited in the long document. Several of these dealt with alleged Soviet restrictions against the Iranian army. Th- document also cited six cases in which the Iranian delegation vharged that Soviet authorities “Illegally arrested" Iran lan citizen.* on Iranian soil B alleged that Soviet authorities were conjiuctlng mining operations in northern Iran contrary to their rights.

Harvester Offer Is Rejected By Union Keep Up Bargaining Over Wage Problem Chicago. Jan. 30- -(UPI— Collective bargaining continue d between the CIO united term equipment and metal workers union and strikebound International Harvester Co. today atter the union had rejected a compajty wagt proposal. Gerald Fielde. union representative. said the company offer was "wholly unsatisfactory." but added that wage talks would continue. Tertfix of the offer were not revealed. The union rejected an offer of a 10 percent wage boost last October. A fact finding board investigating the Harvester strife’ adjourned its session yesterday to give both sMes time for direct negotiation. Fielde told the board that International Hartl ■ster's 1150.000. 000 postwar expansion program was evidence that the a company had made huge profits during the war. A company spokesman said that (Turn To Pag* 1, Column I)

Five Men Killed In Army Bomber Crash Tulsan. Okla. Jan. 30 <UPI ■ Five men were burned to d-ath last night wh-n a twinengined army boml- r t rashed in the Verdigris river bottom four milra northw-st of Cat >osa. Okla. The crash apparently occurred about 9,30 pm. but the plane was not reached until nearly 11 o'clock four of the bodl-s were burned heyond reiognitlon. Hopkins Funeral To Be Held On Friday Nature Os Illness Termed 'Obscure' New York. Jan. 30 lUPI Funeral service* for Harry Hopkins, one of th- late President Roosevelt's closest advisers, will be held at 2 pin Friday at St. Bartholomew's Epiecopalian church (Park Avenue and 50th Street I. The Rev George Paul T Sargent will be In charge of the services. Burial plans have not jet been announced. HopkilM died yesterday at 11:35 a.m. at Memorial hospital, a f’’W hour* after it was announced that his condition wa* serious but not critical. The h epital announced that the nature of his illtn-sr wa* "olutcute" and could not be determined until further examination. He had been under treatment for 11 weefce. Hopkins had suffered from stomach ulcers and other ailment* for years. Hopkins' third wife, Mre. Louise Macy Hopkin*, was al his Imdside when he died. He aluo was survived bj» two sons ity his first murrlagt*. David. 30. and Robert, 21. and a daughter by his second marriage, Diana. 13. A thlnl son by hi* first marriage. Marine Pfc. Stephen Hopkins, was killed In the invasion of the Marshall inland*. Hopkins also leaves two broth,ere. Dr. Lewis Hopkill*, of Ta<o inn. Wash., and Emery Hopkins of Seattle, Wash., and a sister, Mr*. Ada Aime of New York Hopkins' first wife, to whom he was married in 1913, was Mrs. Ethel Gross of New York. They were divorced in 1929. He then married Mk«s Barbara Duncan. She died in 1937. In 1912. he married Mrs. Macy, forme. Parte editor of Harper's Bazaar. After President Roosevelt's death last April. Hopkins stayed on as presidential adviser to President Truman and made a trip aboard «»> a apeciai diplomatic representative. He retired from the government in July and took the post as impartial ( hairman of the garment In dustry. The last time he wax in the White House was to receive a distinguished service- medal from the President in September, 1915. 0 Youth Takes Dare, Drowns At Gary East Gary. Ind.. Jan. 30—(UPt— A playmate said "I dare you." so Tarl Singer and Robert Corbett, both eight year’s old. scampered across the thin Ice of Deep river. The to* gave w<y and Carl I drowned. Walter Johnson, who lives nearby, isacued Robert.

Number Os Strike-Idled Declines As New Efforts Made To Settle Disputes

Says Navy Warned Os War Imminence Ex-Naval Officer Tells Os Warning Washington. Jan. 30 tUPi Capt. A. 11. McCollum, tormer naval Intelligence officer, said today he warned the navy big i command on Dec. I. 191). that war was imminent and received assurance that orders had lieen sent "fully alerting the fleet* for war." Six days later the Japanese caught U. 8. defeitdeia napping and came close to wijilng out the Pacific fleet nt anchor in Pearl liarlair. McCollum was .chief of the Far Eastern section of naval Intelligence here at the tine He told the <ongrendonal Pearl Harbor in veatlgating committee that lie delivered hl* Dec 1 warning to Adms Harold It Stark, tl.eii chief of na val operation*; Richmond K. Turner, then chief of navy war plans; Theodore 8. Wilkins m. then chief of naval intelligence, and other high officers. "I was given categorical assurances by Adm. Stark and Adm Turner." McCollum told the committee, “that warnings fully alerting the fleets fur war had iteen sent out Hit fears, McCollum testified, were occasioned by til-* fact that naval intelligence had lost track of Japanese naval units which later were revealed to have been part of the striking force headed for Hawaii. McCollum also told the committee that he never eaw any evidence that Japan made use of it* so-call-ed "wind* code" indicating war with the United State* before Pearl Harbor. He said he saw only one message ill the week before |»ec. 7, which might lie interpreted as an execution of the code. But. he added, it used languages which would have indicated a break with Russia rat Iter than the United States. It finally wa.r interpreted, he »aid. as a genuine weather report rather than a code message. There has been some mystery as to whi'fh'er Japan ever iMed the code it had set tip for keeping iiei emissaries posted on the atate o{ relations with the United Stat-*, Great Britain and Ru»*ia.

Mrs. Emma E. Koos Dies This Morning Funeral Services Friday Afternoon Mrs Emma E. Koos 93. widow of the late Jacob Koos, died this morning at 6:30 o'dock at her home. 331 North Fifth street Death wax attributed to compli<at ions Her husband preceded her in death last Friday Mrs. Koos had been in ill health for the past year and bedfast since August of last year. She was liorn near here on June 23. 1902, the daughter of Washington and Polly Zimm*rmanSteele. She wa* married to Jacob Koos on March 22, 1993. She and her husband resided on a farm one mile east of Decatur until 1931, when they moved to this city. Surviving are a son. Harvey Koos of Decatur, two daughters. Mrs. Alice Warner of Chicago and Mrs. Essie Harvey of near Monroe; a brother, Dayton Steele 'of near this city, nine grandchildren and two great grandchildren. A son, a brother and sister are deceased. Funeral services will lie held Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Zwlck funeral home, with, the Rev. J T Trueax officiating. Burial will he in the Decatur cemetery. The body may be viewed at the Zwlck funeral home after 2 p m. Thursday until time for the services.

Youths Reveal Confession To Kidnaping Hoax Hoax Perpetrated In Attempt To Sell Story To Newspapers Chicago. Jan 30 'I I’t Two youths who admitted making telephone calls to the home from which slx-year-old Suzanne l»er: nan wa-< kidnapped and slain were "virtually eliminated" today ns sas pects in Chicago’* most brutal crime. State's attorney WilLam J Tuoliy said Vincent I Rocky > Ci nteHo. 19, and Theodore Camplo'll. 19. had 10-en able to give a satisfactory account of their act vlti-a last Jan 7. the night of the killing. Tuohy *ald thu’ Campbell had been released, ami C alello would be turned over to the stat- parole board as a -possible parole viola tor. Costello formerly bad been an Inmate of the state reformatory on a charge of armed roola-ry Tuohy asserted that the. story Campbell told police yesterday, accusing Costello and a hird man of the slaying, bad Iteen a hoax pe;pelrated by the pair tn the hope of selling their story to newspapers. Campbell had aid he was hi on the kidnap plans, laid a week nt advance, but ha I not gone along the night of tin- crime. Tile lioya were cleared of suspicion. Tuohy aaid. after word was received from the Federal Bui-an of Investigation that their handwriting did not resemble that on a |2n,niio ransom mite left at the Degnan home, and that their finger prints did not match those found on tin- notTuohy said that the youth*, acting as “amateur reporters," had tele phon-d the D-gnati home th- day of rhe kidnaping in a misguided attempt to obtain i new* tip Costello said h" otic.- bail Iteen paid 15 hy a Chicago newspaper for telephoning a tip on an elevated accident on the no,-th side Earlier. Campbell had named Cisrtello and a third unidentified man ns Suzanne’.- ablu-tor* and *aid he Jimi called th- Degnan home be. aII sc be doubted Costello* story of the crime Costello iiad denied any knowledge of th- kidnap plot. "We were able t<> find nothing on which to hoi I these kid* any longer." Tuohy said, li- said polii(Turn T« I’it a- 2. Column i)

Warnings Given At Safety School Here Railroad Official Speaks To Students Warnings against "-liortcutx" across track*, playing on railroad property and etweles* driving over ■ roesings were four <1 today to students of the public and Catholic schools The warning* were given by Lt J. Corry of tihe Erie railroad police department, during an address given as part of a saf 1y echoed conducted this morning at the junior-senior high school building. Lt. R V Brant. al«o of the railroad police force. Mayor John B Stults and city police chief Ed Miller were in attendance at the echool. Following Hz-adress hy Lt. Corey. a movie was shown to the students. depicting the hazard* to which young people are mibjectad when crossing railroad tracks. Principal W. Guy Brown of the junto:-senior high school wa* in oharge of the program. Faculty w of the public and Catholic schools wore also in attendance.

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Rumors Persist Os Imminent Break In Steel Stalemate; Million, Half Out By Unit d Press The number of strike-idled work* ers de< lilted today M new effort* were started in Washington and Detroit to solve the nation's labor crisis. Across the nation, th total num* b r of workers made idle by strike” dropped to l.fWm.mut for the flr*t time in I" days. The return of packingbouso workers to govei nmentsiperat'd meat plants this week, the end of the midwest truck drivers strike and the return to work of employ* es In -everal small steel planta cut the total of those Idled by strikes At Washington, a fact-finding panel was scheduled to meet late today to hear more urtniinentn over wage difficulties which < aitsed a 12-day shrike of CIO and AFIs meat handlers. Conferences also were underwny in the < apital between labor <l—- — ofll< lais and company and union sjsrkesman to dl-euss means of forestalling a strike by thw utility workers union (ClOt against three Ohio Power cotnpanien. The power strike, which would have cut off electricity from 2.51W).* mm (thio ami northern West Virginia residents, was set for !<slay but was )M>st|H>iied at the last minute. The utilities union demanded a 2<t p reent wage boo«t Rumors persisted that a break wa* near In the nationwide steel workers walkout The inagazliiH Iron Age said trslay that U. 8. Steel Corp would agree to Pr si* dent Truman's compromise offer of an Ix’-j <ent* an hour wage in-cr-ase if guaranteed a satisfactory price rise ’ The Pittsburgh Pr ss reported without confirmation that the U. S Steel Corp would offer the CIO united -teel workers an Ik’-i cenC an hour wage increase if It re<elv d an immediate 31-a-ton boost in steel prices Benjamin Fai'less. company president, denied the reports Meanwhile 'be -trike of 750 <hc> st el workers tightened Its grip on relted indii-tries. Ford Motor Co. announced the Impending layoff of 19.700 worker s Iteeause of th»» steel shortage. The company laid off 15.000 workers last Friday. Other hiboi development* in* eluded 1 Officials of General Motors Corp and the CIO united auto worker* azrewl to meet jointly with government mediator James F. Dewey. The meeting was aimed at *eltling the 71 day wags- walkout of 175.000 UAW memliera. 2 Wheeling. W Va„ utilities worker* postpon d a strike which would have plunged Ohio and northern West Virginia into darkness at 12 o| a m. today Conciliation meeting will be held Thursday in an effo t to avert another utilities trike which would cut off el ctric* Ity of l.n»Hi(hhi Kentucky and Virginia users. 3. Production was halted yesterday at the Caterpillar Tractor (Turn T<« Pags Column 5> . - -Q Selective Service Board Members Are Honored At Capital Three member* of the Adams county draft board wre among an approximate 3<N) persons hon* ored during ceremonies at Indianapolis today Ralph E Roop, local draft board member; Roy Muinma. former Imanl member and Earl B. Adams, who served as appeal agent of the board during Hr- war. were those from Adams County who received congressional selective servlco medals. O. N Smith. Berne, other meml»er of the original draft board fr re. who was to have received the medal, was unable to attend. Lt. 001. Llye Summers, state Governor Ralph Gates led th* ceremoniee.