Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 80, Decatur, Adams County, 4 April 1946 — Page 1

XLIV. No. 80.

In council ends Iranian-soviet crisis

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Red Cross Campaign Goes Over The Top Goal Is Exceeded By Latest Reports The lied Cross fund has gone over the top! Traveling on the momentum of the last week of the drive, contributions received up to noon today put Adams county over the goal line with the announcement that the total had climbed to Sil,(07.30. The quota was Sli,(oo. C. K. Uell. chapter chairman and Clarence Ziner, county drive chairmkn. Jointly announced the reaching of the quota, based on incomplete returns. Final reports from Geneva, the city of Decatur and from 7> rural one-mile squaie sections are eapected to send the total above the 112.U60 mark. Red Cross officials stated. This morning. Mrs. Ruth Hollingsworth. secretary in the lo< al home service office, through which all reports are cleared, had donations of SIMM.IM. A report from Earl M. Webb. Berm- chairman, of an additional 5153 21 from that place, sent the total above the quota figure. The county chapter participates In 56 percent of the net proceeds of the drive, the balance going to the national chaptvr of the Red Cross. The national drive was for 1100,000,000. The local chapter uses Its funds in maintaining the secretary's and home service office. the extending of financial aid to returned veterans and their families, and being cf service in any emergency or disaster. l.yman L. Hann was ( hairman of the township organizations and had more than 300 workers enrolled in the rural solicitation army. John Halterman was chairman of the Decatur area. Both chairmen urged the volunteer workers to complete their canvass Immediately. do that the drive could lie cloned and final reports submitted to the county (ommlttee. Adams county has met every quota of the war years and in moat cases oversubscribed the fund from 10 to 50 pqrcent. In IMS the people donated more than 321,<*00 In the war drive.

, . I -O— — Stephenson Loses Latest Legal Fight « Ex-Klan Leader Is Remanded To Prison Noblesville. Ind.. Apr 4—(UP) —D. C. Stephenson lost another rouud io hi* long fight for freedom today when special Judge Cleon Mount overruled his petition for a new trial hearing an.i ordered him returned to Indiana state prison. Mount ordered the former Ku Klux Klan leader sent back to prison at Michigan City "within the next few days.” Mount said hi* refusal last month to grant Stephenson a new trial "closec the case" and there was no occasion for today's hearing. Stephenson bad filed a petition for reconsideration of Mount's decision. Ths ruling climaxed a 13-month long legal battle by Stephensqp to win a new trial. He was convicted more than 20 year* ago of the murder of M'*s Madge Oberboltter. a statehouse employe. Mount sustained a motion by Frank Coughlin of the state attorney general's office to return Stephenson to prison. Stephen■ion has been in Hamilton county Jail since February. 1945. Stephenson, visibly affected by the declsldp, told Mount that he “had no more motion* to file." It marked the end of hl* 39th attempt to win freedom. Meanwhile, bls 40th try was already underway. He circulated petitions several week* ago in an effort to win a pardon from Governor Oates Judge Mount ordered Stephenson to follow provision of a 1946 state law In obtaining funds to pay for hie latest appeal when the former klansman indicated be could not meet the legal coats. Mount said Stephenson should appeal to Indiana public defender Prank Greenwald for funds. Stephenson himself ha* handled much of the legal procedure Involved In his long and unsuccessful fight. He bat repeatedly (Tern To Pigs I. Columa I)

Death Toll In Monday's Tidal Waves Now 98 At Least 94 Others Reported As Missing And Presumed Dead Honolulu. April I (I’Pl The overall death toll in Monday's tidal wave* stood at Ph today, with at least M others still missing and presumed lost and more than 450 injured. Navy and army offi< lais in charge of search operations in the hardhit Hawaiian Islands area continued to send surface craft and flying boats out to luck for possible survivors but they were doubtful that any of the missing could have remained afloat this long Eighty seven were known dead In ths- territory of Hawaii. I<* ws-re killed In the Aleutians and one In California. At least Pl others are still missing in the Hawaiian Islands, presumably either pinned beneath wreckage ashore or swept to sea and drowned An estimated lu.ouo homeless refugees were being cared for in the islands by military and civic relief agencies. Federal housing director J. Stowell Wright and Gov. Ingram Stainback both set In motion programs for quick release of building materials and surplus military supplies to speed rehabilitation in Hawaii where property damage was unofficially estimated at betw.-en 510.V00.000 and (20,000,000. At San Francisco, legkmal I’SO headquarters revealed that one t'SO club was completely destroyed and three other* badly damaged in the Hawaiian Islands by the tidal waves. I SO regional director Harold H Allen said loss to UtO in the Islands was estfmu ed at lioo.ooo. (Allen said the Hilo USO club was completely washed away, while the Mokuleia and Punaluu clubs, where hundreds of thousands of servicemen spent leisure hours during the war, suffered severe damage and loss of furniture. All furniture in the Kailua club on Hawaii was washed out and an eight inch layer of sand was deposited on the floor. Alien said. ‘ None of the 33 USO overseas personnel stationed in the islands was Injured," Allen said.) The series of tidal waves stirred up by slippage along the fault line on the floor of the north Pacific In the Gulf of Alaska rolled over thousands of miles of ocean to crash on the shores of the territorial group, the Aleutians, the Alaskan Peninsula, the United States, as fur south as Chile and west to Japan.

Cotton Congressmen Angered At Bowles Government Order Irks Southerners Washington. Apr. 4 — (UP) — Southern congressmen, anger«-d by the government order for higher margin payments on cotton futures, today declared open warfare on economic stabilizer Cheater Bowie* and the OPA. Bowles directed the OPA and agriculture department to issue the order yesterday in a move designed to check speculative price increases on raw cotton and prevent a boost in low-price clothing. It call* for higher and uniform margin requlrementa for traders buying cotton on a future delivery basia. Cotton atate senator* charged that increaaed margin requirements would ruin both small mills and small farmer*. They said they would strike back with: 1. A fight to liquidate OPA. or at least curb it* powers, when legislation extending It* Bfe reaches the chamber. 2. An attempt to write Into pending minimum wage legislation a ban against "tampering” with present margin requirement. Home cotton bloc member* said they understood secretary of ag(Turn To Pag* i. Column 4)

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, April 4, 1946.

A Plug For Safety ' >r " «X- I ’Ft ‘ 5 .S A; *»sr< .f f. /j»£-FOUR-YEAR-OLD PAUL BOTZ of Etna. Pa . has his first experi* nee with the law. when Et..a's Chief of Police * X ,o " out a traffic summons for illegally parking his Jeep *«> ’ A fire uluk Paul's "Jeep" was built by his father. Conrad Rotz, and is equipped with a two-pedal drive, headlights and a real horn, which once was a doorbell.

Favors Broadening Os Social Security Would Include All Gainfully Employed Washington. April 4—(UP) — Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace today recommended a social security program that would Include all gainfully employed persona and especially email businessmen. He presented hi* view* to the Horae Way* and Mean* committee at a hearing on legislation to broaden the coverage of old-age and survivors' iniurance benefit*. Urging extension of the program to group* now excluded, Wallace said "MM-lal security provide* a mean* of acquiring, during the per iod* when one can werk. a selfrespecting right to maintenance when one cannot work." "Universal coverage I* the only Democratic way," he *aid. "There I* no more Justification for the exclusion of some section* of our population from the advantage* of social security than there would be for their exclusion from the advantage* of public education. "To be of full utility, the pro gram muut furnMh protection against all major rl*k*. including disability a* well a* old age and death." Wallace said the United States can afford a broadened and more adequate social security program, and that employers who do not pay their share of the costa of group ItMtirance and pension plans "pay for them in term* of a les* efficient and less stable labor force.” (Turn To Pag* 4, Column 7»

Peasant Woman Os Lidice Tells How Nazis Took Children Away

Prague. April 4—(UP)-Jsrmlta Nova, a ruddy psaaant woman from Lidice, bathed her little daughter Alenka on German ordera and sent her away with the other village children In a bus. Mr*. Nova and the other women of the martyred village-not knowing that they already were widow* at the hand* of Nazi execution ■quads -believed the German promi»e« that they would see their children again In two days. That was June 12, 1942. Yesterday Mr*. Nova, staving with dry eyes at Karl Hermann Frank, the Nazi "Protector" on trial for destroying Lidice, said that her little girl had vanished So had acore* of Other Udice children. "Never." she replied, when the Judge at Frank's trial asked her if she had heard anything about the four-year-old girl since *he waved to her a* the bus drove away. Her volc< speaking unpolished peasant word*, carried her story above the sobs of courtroom spectators. •

BULLETIN Washington, April 4—(UP)— The senate today accepted a coalition backed amendment to the minimum wage bill raising th* legal minimum from 40 to 60 cent* an hour. —— ■ o Fort Wayne Lawyer In Congress Race Walter Frederick in Democrat Race Walter E. Frederick. Fort Wayne attorney, today announced hi* candidacy Tor congress from the fourth congressional district, subject to the decision of voter* at the Democratic primary May 7, Frederick L« the first Democrat to announce for the office. The candidate served for two years In the uavy and participated in the Invasion ol Iwo Jima. le Nhima. Okinawa and in the first landing in Tokyo Bay. He returned to the practice of law in Fort Wayne last January. Mr. Frederick is a graduate of Indiana University school of law and ha* been set Ivo for a number of yean* in Democratic politic*. He served two year* a* president Os the Allen county Young Democrats club and has been active In the Fort Wayne and state Junior chambers of «• >mmerce. He 1* a member of the Trinity English Lutheran church at Foil Wayne. Allen county bar association. Indiana stan bar association. Navy club. Izaak Walton league and the Odd Fellows lodge. He 1* a member of the Anthony Wayne Memorial commission.

Frank looked at her shawl-clad head, then stared unemotionally at the floor. "My husband, my father and four brothers were shot at LidIce," she testified. Then, with a new flare of anger in her voice, ahe looked straight at the Nazi and said:: "On Good Friday, 1944. I saw my 88-year-old mother led into a gas chamber at Revensbruck." Mrs. Nova described how German police rushed Into the little Czech mining village at dawn on June 10. 1942. roughly awakened all the families with order* to dress and come to the schoolhouse. "The women were separated from the men and taken in truck* with the children to Kladno," she said. "Wo didn’t know what had happened to our menfolk. "After two days at Kladno we were told to bathe the children for a trip. Ths German* promised u* we would see them two day* later. We didn't know we would nev(Turn To Pag* 2, Column 1)

Postpone Consideration Os Issue To May 6, Date Set For Russ Withdrawal

City On Daylight Time For Summer To Move Up Clocks Saturday, April 27 Decatur, along with a major portion of other cities in Indiana, will begin operating on a "daylight saving” schedule midnight, Saturday. April 27. At that time all clock* in the city will be moved up one hour and the city will carry out the fait-tline schedule until midnight of the last Naurday in September, in accordance with a city ordinance. It will be the first time that Decatur has operated on a daylight program since the summer of IV4I. The one-hour fast schedule Is not new to the citizenry, however, qlnce "war time"—also one hour faster than central stan dard time was observed In all communities from April. 1942 until Hvpteniber, 1945. Although It has not been brought to the attention of the county commissioners as yet. it Is presumed that the board will take some action in a special meeting on April 15 relative to moving up the court house clock during the summer months, it Is recalled that one or two boards of some years back voted to keep the clock on standard time, despite the fact that all other city clocks were moved up In the last two or three years before the war, however, the court house clock was also set up one hour.

The daylight time will bo observed thi* summer under term* of an ordinance passed by <Hy council In May, 1940 after a referendum vote was held in (.onjunctlon with the May primary that year and the citizenry voted In favor of the fast time It will be recalled that the state election board ruled at that time Ihui the balloting must be done separately, so city officials provided for special voting places outside the regular primary precinct Ixmlhs. Then in April, 1942. the city council in accordance with a request from the federal government adopted "wartime." which was effective the year around. After V-J Day, the city and most (Turn To Paso 2. Column II 1 ■■ " im I '■ "-o "" **"" * ■ « - District Firemen Meeting Is Held Berne Department Host To District Representatives of the Decatur fire department attended a district meeting of the Indiana Industrial and volunteer firemen association, held at Berne Wednesday night. More than 100 firemen from this district were in att»ndance, with ail towns in the district represented. Joe Lump, fire chief for the Car-negie-Illinois steel works of Gary, presented motion pictures of fire hazard* In Industries and demonstrated tho dangers of electric fire hazards In the average home. An actual demonstration was given on a burning oil pit, with the latest and varied equipment used (Turn To Page 7, Column 3) State Traffic Toll Continues Increase Indianapolis. April 4— (UP) — Indiana's traffic toll continued to surge upward last nun th when 83 person,* were killed In 71 fatal accidentia, Col. Austin R. Killian, superintendent of state police reported today. The March death toll represented a 41 percent increase over the 59 fatalities reported in March last year, Killian said. Motor collision* In February accounted for 89 deaths

Pope Appeals For World Aid In Food Crisis Urges Rich Nations To Institute Food Rationing As Aid Vatican City, April 4 - (UP) — Pope Pius appealed today to th# nations rich in resources to institute food rationing to help ease the threat of world famine. The Pope broadca.it throughout the world over the Vatican City radio his views on the global food crisis. "A small, even insignificant, rationing In the richest countries would do so much to help the situation.'* the Pontiff said He singled out Argentina and Brazil especially as among the countries which could help In the crisis. But he cast hi* appeal on a broad enough plane of material wealth to Include the United States. "W« are looking now toward the I countries of Latin America.” the Pope said. "Their hearts have alI ways been open to calls for eharlI ty. Argentina and Brazil have seen their landrf respond plentifully to tlioir toll, and thus they are fully able to re-establish the equilibrium of the food situation. "We don’t doubt that the peoples who have shown so much spirit and courage will act with the same d< termination to save the peoples from starvation" The Pontiff Said all po-uiible transport must be made avails Ide for the shipment of food One fourth of the world's population is threatened with starvation. the Pope said - .... n Clerk's Office Open Saturday Afternoon County clerk Clyde O. Trout nor ( announced today that hl* office would remain open Saturday afternoon, instead of closing at noon as Is customary on Saturday for the court homo- office*. This is being dom», he Mid. to accomodate any candidates, who niuy want to tile declarations on the last day—Saturday, April 6 Mr. Troutner reminded voter* that Monday. April s |« the last day to register or transfer a registration

Presbyterian Church Elects New Officers Annual Election Is Held Last Evening Trustees, deacon* and elders were elected at the annual congregational meeting of the First Presbyterian church held last night in the church at five point*. The meeting followed a supper attended by 85 members of the church. W. H. Me, Charles loingston and Mrs. C. D. Teeple were elected to three-yoar terms a* elders of the church. Four deacons were elected at the meeting. Clark W. Smith and Richard Macklin were named by the congregation to serve threeyear term* and John DeVoM and Robert Frisinger were elected to ‘serve two-year terms as deacon* The number of deacons was increased from the present six to Car) C. Pumphn-y was elected eight by action of the congregation, trustee to serve for a three-yea! term and Vance Hudson wa* elected to serve for a one-year term It was the largest congregational meeting held by the local church In the last 15 years. The Rev. J. W. McPheeter*. Jr., is pastor of the chunffi.

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Byrnes Resolution Adopted; Both Iran And Russ To Report On Troops Leaving New York. Apr 4—(UP)-Tha United Nations security council inded the Iranian-Soviet -|risis today hy postponing consideration of tho Iranian situation until May fl—the date by which Russia promised to have all her troop* out of Iran. Co). W R Hodgson of Australia, who had denounced the council for falling to make a complete investigation and for holding secret meetings, was the only dissenter. Hr abstained from voting Russia was still absent from th*- council table so the vote was ’» to 0. Council procedure does not call for a count of those against. After adoption of the resolution and hearing statements by councP member* And the Iranian delegate, the council adjourned until 3 p m., EST. next Tuesday when I* Will begin a study of It* rules of procedure The resolution, proposed by secretary of state James F Byrne*. give* the council the right to reopen the Iranian case any time before May 6 If necessary and to put It at the top of tho agenda And Hodgson also served notice he was reserving the right to call for a complete investigation of all the fact* in the Iranian case before May 6 "If we believe the fact* Justify ” Under the Byrnes' resolution, both Soviet Russia and Iran are called upon to report to the council on May 6 whether Red army l oops have left Iran as promised. After tho vote. Iranian ambasrador Hussein Ala told the council the people of Iran "accept tho Soviet letter of yesterday as » mark of faith that Russian troopsi rill be withdrawn.” Ala. whose country has been before the security council twlcs with complaints against Russia during the council’s brief HDtime. told the council members b« hoped he'd never have to return. ••But—if necessary—l will return with the highest confidenco Ip tho council." he said All of the members of tb<* (ouncll—except Hodgson —worn relieved and elated that tho worst crlsl* In UN’s history wa» over A week ago it had threatened the existance of the United Nation* when Soviet ambassador Andrei A. Gromyko walked out. Now the door Is open for Gromyko to return to his seat which has been vacant for five sessions since last Wednesday All of the council members except Hodgson contended that tb<* council had weathered Its crucial test well and fulfilled its mandate to the people* of the world. Speaking sharply and with flushed face, Hodgson took exactly the opposite view. "Thi* ca*e was a challenge to tho council and In Australia's r pinion the council failed to meet It." he snapped, glancing a‘. Byrne* on his rlghi — the man who led the fight agaln*t Russia and was the architect of the solution of the crlai*. Nailent point* of the Byrne* r<solution were: 1. Recognition of the Soviet promise to withdraw its troops (Turn Tn Pare t. Cnlumn 4) 4,165 Hoosier Vets Borrow On Gl Bill Chicago. April 4— (UP) —Th« Veteran* Administration branch office reported today that 10 BK<» Ultnoi* and Indiana veterans ha< borrowed (39.72k.0b0 under the Gt bill of rights. The VA. which guarantee* half the loan up to (4,000. made loan commitment* on 10.080 home*. 238 farm* and 5»2 bu*ine**e« tn the two *tates. In Indiana 4,1(5 veteran* were guaranteed (7.401.000 for bom*loans; 91 veteran*. 1113.000 for farm loan*; and 233 vetaran*. (334.000 for businesses