Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 43, Decatur, Adams County, 20 February 1946 — Page 1

No 43.

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Indianapolis Drug Store Holdup Victim Indlanapolte. Feb. 3< Two band 11« held up the proprietor and five < UHtoinem of the Kempon |>mg etore la«t nisth) and eacipwl with more than |MO Proprietor Wifeon Seumon. 42, told police the handlta hrandlahed puna, robbed cuntoiner Kenneth Wood of H7 and the store of more than ftttt, and herded the vlctima in a hack room while they fled In an automobile. 1 ■■ o New Battle On Wages Looming In Coal Fields Mine Workers Heods And John Lewis In Washington Confab • ——-— Waahlnglon. Feb. 20— (I'Pt — District preaidenta of the I’nltel Mine Workers aaaemhled for a conference with John L. la*wis today amid growing apeculation over the probability of a new wage fight in the coal fields The union officially described the session as a discussion of questions—national, state anil local —resulting from the i’MW's reaffiliation with the American Federation of iatltor. There was no doubt, however, that the wage | question would be canvassed informally. Formal wage demands must come from the union's 200man policy committee, lienee a meeting of that group would l*e the signal that Ix-wis was ready to leal a new wage drive. Authority to call such a meeting rests with Ix'Wls. I'MW Vice president John O'Leary and secretarytreasurer Thomas J. Kennedy. The belief was current in laltor circles that it was a question of when rather than whether the I'MW would serve wage demands on the coal operators this year. . There has been no official reaction from the I'MW yet to President Truman's npw wageprice policy, -although led a long and violent fight against the wartime little steel wage stabilization formula. While the new policy Is morflexible than the wartime formula, government agencies have given no Indication as to how mit'h room it would leave for mine wage increases. The policy was more explicit about industries in which a postwar wage pattern was set. The miners might argue for wage increases to follow the pattern of "related industries** or to (Turn Tn >’:«• S. Column 3> Two More Red Cross Leaders Appointed Added Solicitors Named By Chairman Two additional leaders In the Red’('rows campaign to get undmway in D catur and Adams County March 1 were named today by Clarence Zin- r. county chairman of the drive The Rev. John W McPheetcrs. Jr., pastor of the First I’r -liyterlan church in this city, was named by Mrt-. Zlner as chairman of a campaign to canvass churches in the county. Preliminary work of the solicitation has already been started by Ri v. McPheeters. In his other appointment. Mr. Zlner named Felix Maier as chairman of industrial solicitation. John Halterman, city chairman, previously announced his workers in business and residential setttons of tl* city and Lyman L. Hann, as township chairman, has laid the foundation for the drive in rural areas. The county's quota is fll.W —■■■—o Local Lady's Brother 1$ Taken By Death Funersl services were held Tuesday at Elm Grove. W. Va.. for Peter J. Finnigan, brother of Mrs., William Murtaugh of this elty. who died laat Friday at hU home In that city, following a stroke. Mrs Murtaugh attended the funeral. 1

House “Laying” Machine Sets ’Em l-p In A Day S übMlSkb wWtL V Uw* Tflßby ■ *- « W _ W " SHOWN IN OPERATION at Washington, It <’, is a giant house "laying" machine, that erects a two bedroom house tn alumt 24 hours. The contraption backs up over prepared framework with windows an I doorways “spotted" and pours concrete over the form. When It moves away presto! a twobedroom house. It has just been announced that ex-servicemen at la» Tourneau Technical institute. Longview, Tex., will make master machines like this one soon.

I Vets' Employment Bureau Organized Vincent Tanvas Is Appointed Chairman Vincent Tanvna, di*charged ar-, my air force* pilot, lx chairman of a newly form <1 G. E. veteran*' . employment bureau here, following an initial meeting, held Tuesday night at the headquarter* of Local 924 union. Jame* K Stat y was named *ec-| ret try with Willian .Merriman.' Arble Owens and Anthony Murphy forming the top committee of the organization, designed to aid vetoian* with a small scale! • mployment setup. The bureau will be located in the Ixx-al 921 headquarter* above the Mirror Inn. An employment bulletin board will be *et up in th hall for the use of the veterans. The committee issued an appeal* for local business house* and Arm* having va-timi* type* of employment. regardless of th ir tern porary nature, to telephone 16M and leave their name at the headquarters. thus giving v teran* preference in the employment. G. E. veteran* wishing to participate In the plan, are asked to poet th ir name* on the bulletin board, along with their address and telephone number. Leader* of the movement estl-1 mated that more than 100 v ter an* a-:e affected. First Aid Contest i j Is Held By Scouts Announce Results Os Annual Contest Results of the annual Adams county Boy Scout first aid contest, hell Monday night at Berne were announced today by Scout officials. Ten patrols of four troop* par I tlcipated, with eight receiving an A rating, qualifying the eight for the district contest, which will Inheld at Fort Wayne in March. Members of the patrols and the patrol rating, follow: Troop #1 Swallow patrol—Neil Thoma*. Nonnan Stingely. Gene Ziner. Gerald Schultz. Dan Freeby and Dwight Sheets. A rating. Fo» patrol — Don Mac Lean. Dave Mac Man. Norman Leonardson. Herb Kltson, Ralph Bollinger and Sant Gilbert. A rating. Hounds patrol—Kenneth Grant. Grover Odle. Jim Lake. Kenneth i Nash and David Whittrldge A I rating. Troop 62 Crow patrol—Roger Gentle. Jim Cowens. Dick Hott and Larry Nagel A rating Eagle patrol — Medford Smith. (Turn To Pago 2, Column 1)

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, February 20, 1946.

BULLETIN London, Feb. 20— (UP) —An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Paris reported that the wife of a Paris case owner gave birth to septulets—four girls and three boys—tonight and that all were alive. The dispatch gave no details of the reported multiple birth, which probably would be the largest number of live births ever recorded. o Stimulate Output Os Cheaper Clothes Price Adjustments For Textile Mills — Washington. Feb. 2« tl’Pl A new program for stimulating the product ion of lower-priced clothing was d>ilo*ed today by economic stabilization chief Chester B-twles powle* told the House Banking j committee that the Office of Price j Administration soon would make price adjustments for textile mills to "sweeten them up" and encourage them to go into lower pric ed textile,'. At the same time. h- disclosed, the civilian production administra--1 lion will help garment manufacturer* get supplies of the low pricied textiles through a system of j prioHtle>« He <lid not go into full details j but eaid the new program would i not only assure a larger supply of ; clothing but also would result in i improvement of quality. This disclosure preceded the leading of a telegram from Henry ■ Ford'll in Which l.e sa.d he would l.e "happy to appear bes-re the committee if there is really any public interest to lie served " Bowlc.t had charged Ford with [ making an ‘‘outrageous" request i last summer for a 55 percent In- ! crease in the price of new car*. | Fold's telegram admitted such an “estimated” had been submitted to i the GPA last July, but pointed out that thi>« wuh a month before GPA had announced any price regulations on new cars. Furthermore, Ford informed the committee, his company ha* not applied for any price Belief on Its ears since GPA ceiling* were established Ford reiterated hl* claim that the company wan euffering losses I of close to 1300 on each car. After the telegram had been PTurn To I'ags 2. Column C) O Final Rites Thursday For Arriaga Infant Graveside services will be held at 2 p in. Thursday at the Catholic , cemetery for Rodolph Arriage. son of Sgt and Mrs. Reynolds Arriage. stillborn at the Adams county memorial hc.ipital Tuesday night. The Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz will officiate. The body was removed from the Gllllg it Doan funeral home to the residence. North Eleventh street, this afternoon.

Remonstrance Filed Wilh City Council Petitions Against Improvement Plans One remonstrance wa* fil-ul Tuesday night with the city council against the proponed sidewalk and curb Improvement <»f Cleveland afreet. A petition for the improvement, 'signed by a number of affected property owners, was fll -d with the council sometime ago and tin- preliminary resolution adopted at the i February 9 meeting. The remonstrance, signed by C. E. Ilell. averred that the improveUnent I* not required by public need and that the cost exceed* the bene- , fits. If w.o referred to the street and sewer committee by th.- court- . ci! The remonstrance at least lentp rarfly deferred adoption of a - final resolution for the improve- ■ ment. A lilial resolution for a *imi i lar improvement on Stevenson street was adopted by the coun.ill and February 2 set an the date ' tor receiving bids. Ralph E. Roop, city engineer, HUggesled that bid* f-r the two improvements be accepted together if the Cleveland street proposal is filially adopted over the remonstrance declaring that eu< h an action might result in lonxlderald savings to the property owner*. Petitions Filed A number of petitions Were filed with Ho- c >nncil last night and referred to the proper committee* for action. A petition for a light on Oak street, signed by Tom Kit Mon and others, was referred Io the light committee and superintendent. Similar action was taken on a petition for a Jlght on the south side ■of Oak street, signed by Donald (Turn To I’aa* 2. Column O <» No Definite Action On New Fire Truck • Action Is Delayed By City Council The proposed purchase or a fire truck for the city of (>e<-atur wa* postponed to a later date. | following a in* ting of the city 1 council last night. Meeting In regulwr session at the city hall, the council examined descriptive circulars of several fire truck inanufactur rs. submitled by Are chief Harry Stulta. After a thorough examination of the circular* anti mime discus* ion. the council Toted to delay definite action for the pr sent Several member* of the regul-i wr and volunteer fire fighting force appear d before the council with Chief Stults to discus* the pro- 1 posed purchase

Wildcat Strikes Deprive Thousands Os Families In Detroit Os Milk Supplies

Life Sentence For Slaying Ex-Wife Indianapolis. Feb. 2" Il’PI Odle Thomas. 31. faced a life sen-1 lence today in the slaying last summe. of his estranged wife, Wil-, lie May. 22. Thomas wa* convicted on a charge of fiiwt dr-uree murder last night by a Jury of 1" women I and two men Tin- Jury leeomim-ml <-d life imprisonment and Judge William l> Hain of M nion crlmi nal court pronounced eentenr-e Immediately - o Former Ickes Aide Refutes Boss' Charge Unable To Back Up Charges By Ickes On Edwin Pauley Washington. Feb. 2<t tl'Pt — | Former I'nder-ecretary of InterHot Abe Fottas said today he was: i unable to ba< k up r-harg s by his : ' erst wile < hies Harold I. h kes. ligaiiisl Edwin W Pauley The Senate committee, which I-* : considering Pauley's nomination, to be I'ml rsei i-etary of Navy, summoned Ickes' former sularrdiil ate to testify about an l< kes Pauley conversation fit September. I'l4l. Ickes had testlft <1 that Forta- . was present when Pauley, then Democratic national treasurer, made the alleged "raw propose tion" to him Fortaa said it was tru that both campaign contributions and the 1 tidelands suit we:r- mentioned In the conversation. But lie said he was unable from memory tn confirm or deny that the two stibj <ts were mentioned "<m a contingency basis." Fortas said he felt Ickes' integrity am! honesty were "of the highest order." But h refused to eXpre»s an opinion as to tin- a< (Turn To P*f» 2. Column l> o Decatur Lions Hear Two GM Officials Industrial Unrest Topic Os Discussion Two representatives of the <1 n eral Motors company spoke to the members of the DecaUir Lion* <-luh. meeting at tb Knights of Pythiac home Tuesday night, pres enting the company's side of the PAW-CIO strike at <JM (I .1 .Metzger, zone manager of fir Chevrolet Motor company, of ■ Indianapolis, and his assistant, i Fred Wieland. ap|>eared before the ■< luh. speaking and showing slide - films. In his address. Mr Wl land con tended that the strike "has b en made a national Issue involving government isdicy" and that "it has become obvious to us that wages are hut a pawn in what the I'AW-CK) admits and boasts Is a test caw -a text case In a monop olixtic grab for power, the first move to get its finger into the whole field of business management.’* He dechM- d that the union demand for *'a look at the itooks" is an attempt to learn predicted production schedules. * stimated »al<*s and profits margin, etc. This, he said, "leads surely toward tde day when union bosses ' under threat of shrike, will s«« k to tell US what we can make, when we can make it. where we can make it and how much w > must - Charge you, the public—all with an I eye (Mt how much labor can take * out of business, rather than on ' the value that goes into the product." I

Pope Assails i Imperialism As Threat To Peace Pope Makes Radio Address To World On Threat To Unity Vatican City. Feb 2" -il'l’i Pope Pius XII declared tn a radio address to the world to lay that "modern inip»-rlalism'* I* endang . i ' ring unity and enduring peaceamong all nation* "Modern imperialistic empires an* feeing maintained by forceami have no solid basis," thepontiff charged "Nm-h organisms, owing to their fragility, are ever more exposed to a breaking up ami to the creating of new frictions." The- |)ope delivere-el liix lireiad- ' cast from Vatican City linme-li-ate-ly after the solemn imposition ! of the- scarlet bereltas on 29 of | the- 32 Roman Catholic prelates present in Rome' for their eleva I tion to the college of cardinal* lie- haileel the choice of these I cardinals, drawn from 19 different nations wattereel around lite globe, ax fresh confirmation of ' the- ‘-super-nationality of the ' church." "The church embraces thewhole- of human soe-ie-ty." lie saiel "The church has never Intended to dominate the world not In the impe-rialixtie- sense- of the word i which lx being sometime* use-el " The pontiff said all nations to day are< farther apart than ever be-feere. eiesplte mo tern e-ommiini cations, and he d»-e-lare-d that the Catholic church is working for true unity "in the heart of nmti" "Without God ami far from God, there- ean be no true- unity among the- peoples of the- worbl he saiel “Many people look at the church ami ask what role it will play to secure peace- ill the World. Internal ami external The unity of the- < hiire h ami its xupemat lonal character have great Im portallce in the lives of all people- " The papal broadcast was delivered in Italian ami was xe-ln-luled for rebroadeast in German. Eng lish. French. Spanidi and Polish This morning the pope- re-ce-ived Joseph Cardimel Mimlszenfy of Hungary The Hungarian prim ate in a half hour audience gave the pontiff an account of the- delay he e-ne-outl'ereel in coming here- for the consistory. Minds-ze-nty saiel after his arrival yes te rday. a day too late for formal notification of his e-le-vatlon to th e-ardinalate. that the Russians would not permit him to leave Hungary in time feet the ceremonies. Seven Youths Leave For Physical Exams Contingent Takes Army Examination Seven Adams enuniy young men left Tuesday for Indianapolis mid pre-induct lon examinations for entrance into th I*. S armed tones. Donald Harold Harvey wax the leader Other members of the group are laiwrence David Gill lorn Claud largan Weaver. Avon Edward Klopf nxtlne. Frederick Milton Brough. Jr. Amos Bauman and Joseph Allen Dague The last named youth was transferred from Washington. D C. In addition, two others left for examination for entrance Into civilian work camps, under 4 E classifications as conscientious oh- > ctors. They »re Daniel M ■ Sehwartz and Amos Schwartz. The induction of four students was postponed They are Wilbur Rultemeler Robert Earl Mayer. Dwight L. .Marshall and William j Herman Lengerich.

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U. S. Strike Total Drops Under Million First Time In Month; Fear New Walkouts By I'niled Press A new outbreak of strikes deprived s« veral hundred thousand Detroit area families of milk today although flu- number of the nation's strike Idle fell below a million for the first time In a month Wilhat walkouts of I.l<M> CIO I'niled Dairy Workers against the Borden Farm Products Co. of Michigan, the I'niled Dailies and and Jersey Creameries < urtalled deliveries to all except schools I and hospital* The Detroit strikes involving demands for a 2" percent wage increase, came as the nation's xteelworkerx continued a back-to-work trek that cut to 99K.<mm* the number of I' S workers Idle Incause of work stoppages It wax the first time since Jan. 21 that the strike total had dropped below a million But new walkouts were threatened The major developments: 1. Two railroad brotherhoods threatened a nationwide rail strike within two week* The walkout would lie up :*•<>'• main line railroads 2 Member union* of the nat lonal federation of telephone workers voted to call a nation wide telephone walkout, but Hie federation promised to meet lh< companies "more than half way to avert a strike ' ! Reprexeiitatlve* of General Motors and the CIO I tilted Auto Worker* failed to agree on major ixxiiex in the 92 day strike of 175.1"*' GM employes I More than 300.000 CIO steel worker* still were on strike, although I'.omto had returned to work tinier new contracts provid inc is'a cent hourly wage in t reuses in line with President Truman's wage price policy 5 Twelve thousand CIO Elec trical worker* rejected proposal* l,y Westinghouse Electric Corp for ending their month long walk out il Economic stabilization director ch*- ter Bowles charged a demand by Henry Ford 11. president of the Ford Motor Co. with requesting what he termed an •'outrageous" p'-i<<-iit Increase in auto pri< ■■* A F Whitney, president of the Hioth'-rhood of la><''motive Engineers said last night that a rail strike wa* "a foregone ((inclusion." They said early return from an e|e< tion among .!<M'.tt<HV brothel hoc I meml"-rx showed almost Io" pen ent approval to the WILDCAT STRIKES proposed work xtoppag'Reprexelllatlve* of the two hrotheriiood* walked out of a negotiation confercniv last year after railroad operators refused to consider operational grievances along with wage demands Union leaders of the Nutioc-l* Federation of Telephone Work e| amhoriZ'-d the eXSeUtiVe board <o set a strike date hut to ' *(-( lire, if poxMilde. a peaceful and satixfiK lory settlement of all disputes." A strike by the federal ion,'* members would tie up telephone service in 43 states A parley between General Motor* and the PAW hroke up after four hours yesterday Federal mediator James F Dewey said meetings were "still harmonious" but admitted that little progress had been made (Turn To Pag.- J. Column 7> o - Joslyn Company And Union Sign Contract Fort Wayne. Ind. Fell 2<t tl’Pi The Joslyn Manufacture and Supply company signed a contract today with local 14 of the CIO united ateel workers which provided I*** cent hourly wage increase* and ended a strike which had Idled the mill and 325 employes since Jan. 21. Plant general manager la*slle S. Fry aa.d maintenance men were called to work immediately and that full production would be reIsumed hy the first of next week.