Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 65, Decatur, Adams County, 18 March 1946 — Page 1

fcSv. No 65.

ADDUCTION IS RESUMED AT G. E. ’LANT

■nds 01 ■ployes ■ll Out Walkout SRiBl ' ssues ■MBmihl.'.l IT-* MpßsH ’• 1 M<»t«T* j' 4 th»-ir pro"■l '■' ‘" i '" li ,i " l ’ |||||K ...aim.- work and ~|.|a.n<il in the lllllß's fjrn. machinery gfLB. . 4..: - dispute, i.I from ■gBL 1 M,„f of them ap 1 h 'H \.,r. | rontllllle ESST un'il lo<ai plant ■■■>., l.ihulati-d ill Ki - There ■S|M '" 'or.il Motors uIo. al union ' ' Sa “ Fra ’" is ■feSK :.,ri«ty .li-pute* K|K-. idle in <l)hHp|K the nation The ■ ■OKs-l k> ' l " " ,l ‘‘ an “ K Sj! Flal " ,!ay |K||HrL-'-. W,IH nettled hut < lined I'.ll bay and machine >'* i9r ’- KjK at two plant* of ■gRM* 1 'Oi'titn. nt KtyjK- U. ■ . tided The ■BH 1 ' 1: " l loodm lion ■Mn?.ii.i South H.-n I HK<h- i 'y la. plant* |l||i|^E,..i 1 - to nettle the ||||K Kle. trie strike w '‘ r, ‘ ■E9|K--ii'ie-i Tuesday. ■BHI !.-.■■ <•< ait.nnst two ||||||Mj ' ' : " I ' l ' ,s ||||||M> r.-inov.-d at Local CIO llllllßl'' ■ W.ak.'t*. unions ■Hr;- " i "" n " <:■ "• Iv al Til.- ..nd ■HM and th- (heidii. il Mot..!- .ontio-t.-o k to woi-k ||||||l ail!" 11-' th.. )75,0<H1 ■■M ■ M.< ini'ati Where WIsiBM >'■■■- 2. r.iiiimn b> ■liman Young BaFort Wayne Decatur |? 'ln By Death FWf-i'K f.,,. y r . e lO .. B * l '" ~r Herman A SggglHa n..l|ve of this city. MMy' l ' l . al fl.- Methodist IKB Wa>n " >“‘ !d ■Rg fiernooo at 1:30 o’■pj&lp hi.ieiin and Sons fun ■ lhal cii y. with the -Miller officiating l '"' '-"“i llftjal ? " li “*’-' 1 an illness of K’'*®’ 1 ' 1 »»* aifributed to IB3B*' "'*‘ r Ear" ■' < ‘• r *enh<»u*e on KB' t'ear Fort Wayne. ■g|®e»ideti. ■ 4! " r '*•* 3 me!n l>a!11 * l-utheran h aid of that ' h "’ide, th.. h(l m, anii Mrs Helen '’ F| * Joan &!&■" hl ' ( ‘ r r>..‘ " f Port Wu yn®; fe »■'',. *~"' ,hr ‘’ niftere, (OB '' a ‘'Ja. Mrs. Lvdla IMIK. " Jlll,a Kirhaeh. C’*-?"*' ''"’'hers, " ,r Hl »key of (),.(, a . feiSK '' Hiakey of *• I ’^B T Ti T e 7 RMOMETER j W-RE READINGS « K 44 ' ■ ’ 4S ■SIB'' -- 47 K r 'i’ l,r ” n, 9 h ‘- 00. Km. ” 6r, ““ «''y

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Mayor Confined To * Home By Influenza The epidemic at cold* and influent*, sweeping the community the past few day* ie no respecter of peraona Mteat to be confined to hi* home la Mayor John ll Htults. who ia reported suffering from an attark of the "flu.” It la not definitely known whether or not hie condition will permit him to attend the regular meeting us the city council Tueaday night. Coal Operators Lash Proposed Welfare Fund Charge Proposal By Union Attempt To Create Huge Funud Washington. March 18 -tl'Pt— Bituminous mine operators today demanded protection against wild cat walkouts and told the t’nlted Mineworkera (AFLt that it was “vitally important” to avert a nationwide coal atrlke. Htating the Industry's case before the sii day old wage conference. operators spokesman pro tested against unionization of mine foreman. They charged that the union proposal for a company-financed CMW welfare fund waa an attempt *<• establish “a vast treasury” to strengthen the union and "build a social government within our public structure" Charley O'Neill, spokesman for the operators' negotiating committee, opened the management case hy pointing to labor disputes in other major industries and asserting that it is essential that a coal wage agreement Ire reached without a work stoppage. He submitted these four demands: “1. Suitable guarantees by the union against wildcat strikes and slow-downs in production. “2. A redefinition of qualifiestions for vacation pay. "3. Elimiration of pay for lunch period. “4. Substitution of eight hours for seven hours a day and W hours for 35 hours a week as the point at which overtime payment begifi*.** An operators' spokesman said that the proposal for a revised work week did not contemplate reducing the pay which the miners now receive for 40 hours. • O’Neill said the Industry was asking guarantees against wildcat strikes because there had been 3,939 such walkouts between April 1 and Dec. 31 last year with a resulting loss of 29,442.524 tons of coal. Harry M. Moses, president of the H. C. Frick Coke Co., a U. S. steel suhjldiary, and spokeuman for cap (Turn To Psgs I. Column <) o Three Ordered For Active Induction Will Leave Tuesday For Active Service Three Adams county young men will leave here Tueaday for Indianapolis and Induction into the U. 8. armed forces, attaches of the local selective service board announced today. The three are: Paul Kamman, of Geneva; Vernon Henry Macke, of route two. Decatur, and Elgene Fred Hoile of route one. Hoagland. Another group of the county's selective service registrants will leave for Indianapolis on Thursday. March 21 to take preinduction examinations. Mrs Vrcile Chase, board clerk, stated. Names of these registrant* are not made public until after the contingent leaves. In accordance with selective service regulation* Simon D. Neuenschwander. of Berne, route two. will leave on March 20 to report for duty at a “conchie camp” In Luray, Va.. It was also announced. Neuenschwander. who has been placed in a 4E c lassi Heat ion having objected both to combatant and non combatant training, passod a pr&tadsctlcs ggaHisHtten some time ago.

Russia Denies Any Intention To Seize Land —- • No Intent To Seize Foreign Territory; British Study Plan Ixmdon. Mar. 18-(VP)—Rus *ia disavowed any intention of seizing foreign territory today after Britain look the stand that the question of Soviet access to Iranian soil could not be raised until Russian troops leave Iran. A Moscow radio commentator referred to Russia's cardinal task as "consolidation of the country's defense capacity and equipment of Its armed force* with the latest weapons" and added: “The accomplishment of that ta«k will be a firm guarantee against the violation of peaceful endeavors of not only the Soviet people but of all peace-loving nations.” The broadcast closely followed an assertion by a Britlsli foreign office spokesman that Russian troops would have to he withdrawn from Iran before the matter of Soviet negotiation for Iranian oil resources could be opeeed. The spokesman, however, tacitly confirmed that the British are studying proposals for Internationalization of control of Iran's oil which would presumably break the present British monopoly of Iranian oil an I give Russia access to a share of the production. The British suggestions indicated that settlement of the Iran crisis might be worked out under some plan under which Soviet troops would withdraw from Iran ar pledged by treaty in return for a pledge that Soviet oil desires would Im* met. The foreign office spokesman hinted at this possibility by noting that "the subject of international oil control Is swamped and blocked by the fact that Soviet troops are remaining In Iran in breach of the treaty." "This treaty violation Is the crux of the whole matter and It may be assumed that this Is the iMue which will be raised before the security council," he said. The foreign office spokesman said Britain has not been notified by Iran that she intends to place the issue before the security council. However, it was under stood in London that the t’nlted States will present the case If Ban doe* not. Reliable sources said that Soviet experts were negotiating secretly with Premier Ahmed (Turn To Page ». Column 4> - — Mrs. Lucy Hoffman Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon Mrs. Lucy Anne Hoffman, 77, lifelong resident of Adams county, died at 12:30 o’clock Sunday morning at her home, four miles south and two and one-half miles west of Decatur Death was caused by complications and followed an extended illness. She waa born In Adams county March 28. 1««7. the daughter of Dan and Elizabeth ShlfferlyZaugg. She wan married to Jonas H. Hoffman. October 17, 1889. and her husband died December 27, 1942. She was a member of the St. Luke's Evangelical and Reformed church at Honduras Surviving are three sons: Harry Hoffman of Jackson, Mich.. Martin of Monroe and Otto of Washington township; three daughters: Miss Clara Hoffman, at home. Mrs. Harrison Andrews and Mrs. Charles Fisher, both of Washington township: 14 grandchildren. three great-grandchild-ren; a half brother. Dan Stepler of Decatur and a brother and one slater are deceased. Funeral services will be held at 1:15 P-«n- Tuesday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 o'clock at the churfh at Honduras, with Rev. H. H. Meckstroth officiating. Burial will be in the Zion cemetery. The body may be viewed at the Zwick funeral home until time of the services.

ONLY DAILY NEWSFAFER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, March 18,J946.

Spring Comes To The White House ■ * ' jjbf r ■ likin' K * BkWßri * * OUT FOR A STROLL In the White House grounds, President Harry 8. Truman slops for a moment to sniff a magnolia blossom. His calmness about the international situation has done much to allay the rising belief that a break may occur between the U. 8. and Russia.

New Labor Dispute At Kokomo GE Plant Reestablish Picket Lines In Dispute Kokomo, Ind., March 18 —(UP) — More than 800 United Electrial Workers, who ratified the national wage Increase agreement Saturday, reestablished picket lines at the General Electric company plant today In a new laln>r dispute. The union's f-ocal No. 936 ratified the 18 ‘4-cent wage increase agreement and ordered -Its members to return to work tihs morning. William Anderson, local union business agent, said that the employes reported for work but were told by company representatives to go home. The company said it previously had asked the worker* not to return until company supervisors called them. The union agreed to call the workers away from th< plant if the company would certify that they were entitled to unemployment compensation. Anderson said the management refused to certify the workers. Picket lines, which functioned during the long G-E strike, were set up again. 901 Complains Fort Wayne, Ind. March 18—(U P) IxJcal 901 of the United Electric Workers (CIO) complained today that the Fort Wayne General Electric work* management had failed to live up to the “Spirit and Intent of the national strike settlement " The local union protested, at a upeclal meeting of picket captains and steward* yesterday, that man ager M. E. Lord of the Fort Wayne plant had refused to admit all workers to their jobs this morning. Local president Merle Bennett said the employe* wero asked to wait to return to work until supervkrors summonded them. He said laird had rejected union proposals for resumption of production In a "crude attempt to discredit union leadership and divide (Turn To P»«e 1. Column •>

Lenten Meditation (Rev. E. O. Kegerrels, Monroe Methodist Church) “HAVE MERCY UPON US” “Your faith has saved you; go In peace" Luke 7:80 (Moffatt) The attitude of Our Lord toward sinners Is far different from that expressed by ordinary men. Jesus' attitude Is characterized by love and mercy. HE LOVES THE SINNER AND OFFERS MERCY AND PARDON. Ordinary men have the opposite tendency and many religionists hate both sin and the sinner This they can not do once they understand Jesus' estimate of sin and his love for the sinner. This was the content of the talk at table when Jesus was a guest In the home of Simon the Pharisee. Jesus loved the woman who "was a sinner." Simon dispised her because he felt superior and could not understand that God loved her. Because Jesus knew God loved all mankind equally, saint and sinner alike he had mercy on that woman. He believed God was willing to take the human soul, which was infected with sin, and make It new and young and clean again. He did what he saw God doing. He loved the sinner so greatly he went to the cross, was crucified, to convince the human soul of the love ot the redeeming God he represented. When the human soul realizes this truth, and surrenders to the spirit of the ever present living Christ In the world today. It will know "the Bon of Man came to seek and to save that which was loot”: and »h»t h» came net Is vain. MERCY IS AVAILABLE. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy."

BULLETIN Washington, Mar. 18 — (UP) — Bernard M. Baruch will be nominated tomorrow by President Truman to be the American member of the United Nations commission atomic energy, ■ ll— ■ i — -1 »■■!! — in— i -• — Kentucky Man Slain By Two Hitchhikers Louisville Man Slain On Road Near Paoli Paoli. Ind., March 18 (UP)— James J. WHHatna, 32. LouisvHte. Ky.. was shot to death today by two hitchhikers on a U. 8. high way while his wife sat In an automobile nearby. Williams* companion. Marvin Skagg. 23. also of Ixiuisville, described the assailant us men of medium hulld, weighing about 170 pounds, and wearing dark clothes. Skagg was beaten on the head with a revolver butt while resisting the men Indiana state police barricaded highways in the area, seeking the men and a borrowed automobile they took from Williams and Skaggs after the shooting Police said they w re told that the slaying occurred near William*’ Hranded automobile, in which bis wife. Skagg'* wife and two other persons were sitting. The shooting occurred as the Ixiuisvllln men returned to their stranded car in an automobile they borrowed from a Kentucky relative They had hitchhiked to Louisville when their car broke down neffr Paoli as they drove home from a week-end holiday in Bloomington. 111. Returning, they picked up the hitchhikers near New Albany, ind They believed the men also had had car trouble, Skegg said. As they slowed, down near the stranded car. one of the hitchhikers drew a revolver and ordered Skaggs and Williams to get out. The Louisville men attempted to wrest the gun away and In the scuffle William* was shot twice (Turn To P»«* i. Column 4)

Workers Returning To Plant After Ratifying Wage Boost Agreement

G. f. Workers In Good Humor Today As Strike Ended It WM Just like “Old Home Week" at the Decatur General Electric plant this morning. Backalapping. handshaking and greetings us "how ya' been?", etc., were prevalent on all sides as some of the estimated 350 to 400 worker* reported at the entrance to plant 2 before 7 a.m. Indecision seemed to be the chief thought upon the mlnda of a majority of the workers as they reported thia morning, torn between two requests. Some carried lunch boxes, sack*, etc, while others came to work empty-handed, after the company had asked them not to report tin tl) they were called by supervisors and the union asked all day shift workers to report in a body “I knew I'd get pretty hungry If I did go to work, so I thought I would be prepared." *a>d one work er, who carried a small sack of food for his lunch hour. The indecision of the worker* could be noted In the apparel of the women workers, too. Some were garbed in their customary slacks and low heels—some were "dressed up" In street dresses and high heels Alva Buffenbarger, one of the foremen, was the first worker noticed by this writer to enter the plant, going through the gate about 6:45 a.m. But then he carried a pass through the pic ket line aa one of a few supervisory worker* who had been allowed to enter and leave under terms of a contract between the company ui:d union. First of the workers began arriving shortly after 6 a m within an hour, hundreds practically blocked traffic past the entrance to plant 2. Robert Rtea, international union repr<wiitafive; Robert Miller, financial secretary of the- local union and Several Others were amonp* those noticed at the picket line, who Informed union and non-union worker; that entrance would not be made until promptly at 7 a m. A group of foremen and supervisory workers followed the first group of union employes Into the plant and after a few minutes the street and walk in front of the entrance were almost entirely de(Turn To Pag* 8. Column 7)

Jonas Fisher Dies Saturday Evening Funeral Services Tuesday Morning Jonas S Fisher, 70, died at 7 p.m. Saturday at lhe home of a niece. Mrs. Giles Porter, 122 North Fourth street, where he had made his home since laet June. Death was caused by carcinoma and followed an extended Illness. He wa«« born in Root township September 4, 1875. the son of the Rev William and Sarah Mallonee Fisher. He married May Merlca November 14. 1900. and on January 10, 1939. he was married to Maude 0' clack, who died April 17. 1945. He served with Co. B. 160th Indiana Infantry, during the SpanuhAmerican war and was a member of the Roseleraugh camp 17, Spa-nish-American War veteran*. Surviving are two son*. Glen and Frank Fi*her, u daughter. Mrs. Charles Parker, all of Warren. O.; two sister*. Mm. James Hunt and Mr*. Horace C. Butler, both of Decatur. and a brother, Dan 8. Fisher of Eaton. One child, five brothers and staters are deceased. Funeral services will be held at 10 am. Tuesday at the Zwick funeral home, with Dr. M. O. Lester officiating Burial will be In the Decatur cemetery. Adams Post 48 of the American Legion wIU conduct military rites aad Legionnaires will act a* pallbearers. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the gervtes*.

Missing Girl Is Found In Rooming House Milwaukee Heiress Found Near Detroit With Truck Driver Detroit, March 18 — (UP) •- Suzanne Froedtert. 16 year-old heiress miMing from an ezcluslve boarding school for a week, was found in a suburban roopilng bouse today with a 24 year-old truck driver. The girl wa» found with Ollie J. Williams. 24. Another guest at the house who heard a voice <-aliliig "Suh" somewhere on the premises, remembered a radio broadcast saying that a "girl named Sue” was mlselug and called police. Suzanne, the daughter of wealthy Kurils It. Froedtert. Milwaukee Malt company hiagnate, had been sought by Federal Buieau of Invet igat ion agents and police of three state* since «she disappeared March 1! from an exclusive Madison. Wls., hoarding school. Bhe said she met Williams before she left Madison Police said she seemed "quite taken in” by him. At Madison, police disclosed that Williams was divorced last December. He is the father of children two and three years old. Authorities aa id he had been missing since Tuesday from the home of hi* father where he had been living since bi* divorce. The rooming house where Miss Froedtert and Williams were found was in striking contrast to the glri;« home, H mansion overlooking laike Michigan in the exclusive Whitefish bay surburb of M' iuk<-e. Lt Ivan 8. Brown of the Highland Park deteciiVH bureau said the two were picked up on a tip from Hillman idle, 39, WliO 8114 94 was visiting friend* at the Highland park address when he thought he heard through a partition a voice calling "Sue." Idle. Brown said, remembered hearing on a police radio hr >adcast that "a girl named Sue wae missing" and called police "on a hunch." Brown said jhe girl at first Insisted she was "Sue Muer” and that she bad a social security card (Turn To Psm« 2. Column 6)

Former Hoagland Teacher Is Killed Parents Are Former Decatur Residents Mrs. Frieda Leona Filbrum. 28, former teacher in the Hoagland high school, was fatally injured in the crash of two automobile* at the intersection of U. 8. high way 27 and state road 18 onefourth of a mile north of Bryant Bunday afternoon. .Mrs. Filbrum'* parents. Mr. and Mrs. Charley Winans, of near Fort Wayne, formerly resided in Pleasant Mills and Decatur, and have many relatives In this community. The victim's husband, Howard, and their 14-month-old daughter. Marcella Dove, who was sitting on her mother's lap. were not seriously Injured In the accident. They were enroute to their home at Dayton, 0., after visiting relatives In Fort Wayne. Roscoe Wayne Crawfiford. of near Hillsdale. Mich., driver of the other car, has been charged with reckless homicide In the Jay circuit court at Portland, where he waa lodged in jail after the accident. He was accompanied by his brother. Lloyd, neither ot whom was Injured. Funeral services will be held (Turn To Pegs I, Column I)

Price Four Cents

62-Day-Old Strike Ends, Picket Lines Withdrawn; Resume Production Rapidly Production st lhe Decatur Works of the General El ctrio company was resumed today aa the vanguatd of some l.fidO workers returned to their jobs for the first time since January 16. when the walkout of l-rtcal 924, i'ERMWA (CIO), was called. (Ate today, it waa estimated that approximately 175 worker* were back on their jobs many 08 these supervisory and maintenance workers, who w-re getting the plant ready for a return to normal production. Promptly al 7 a. m. today the picket lines, thrown up around the plant 62 days ago when the worker* staged the walkout in protest against the company's rej et ion of a 82 «p*r day wage demand. were removed and several hundred workers, union and nonunion. surged through the gates. Picket lines, under the supervision of Robert like. International union representative; Henry Stauffer, president of ixwal 924 and other officers of the union, stayed on duty until promptly at that Hour An estimated 350 to 400 workers reported this morning at the request of the union, although company official* had asked them not to report until they wer* called by their respective supervisors. A sign, hanging over the entrance to plant No. 2. which was used ns the main entrance thia morning, read: "The G. E. asks each employe tn wait for a call from his supervisor before reporting to work. This will l»» done as soon as possible. You tnay be sure of that M E. Lord, manager" Mr. Rice said, however, (hat at Saturday s meeting of the union, us which litne the settlement <>B the strike was ratified, all union mployes had been asked to report for work this morning. Three Dissenting Votes He said that a final tabulation of vote* ou the ratification of the settlement would show only three* dissenting votes out of approx!-mut-ly 4<W» It wa* understood late today that of the workers who had reported this morning, some had been placed on their jobs and others had been told that they would b called later, some as early as noon today. In a statement made Saturday, Men’ey E Lord, manager of tint Fort Wayne plant, said that an effort would be made to return all worker* within five to io days. Statement Issued The following statement waa Issued to this newspaper today: “Mr lx>rd announced Sunday afternoon that he had received (Turn To Pae. 1. Column 6) — —fi—— .I. Some Os Stolen Loot Reported Recovered Continue Probe Os Station Robbery Police Chief Ed Miller and Sheriff Leo Gilllg, who are leading an investigation into the breakin and theft at the Isl-Way service station Friday night, announced today the discovery of somo of the loot investigation proved, they said, that a cash register taken from the office of the station, operated by Francis Ellsworth, had been dumped Into a stone quarry at Wilshire. Ohio. A check, utility bills and a number of other Items, which had been kept in the cash register, were found strewn along the banka ot the quarry, they said. None of the approximately 850 in change, also Io the register, wm found Marks along the bank indicated the machine had been dump(Turn To Fags I. Ctflman 7) ~