Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 102, Decatur, Adams County, 30 April 1946 — Page 1

■Tv No. 102.

|AVY VESSEL EXPLODES IN EASTERN PORT

'ew Coal Strike Is Ordered

■Shortage (rilical L Strike I At Midnight Lt Ordered By L Workers L rnlted Pres* ■ itrik* of •®f* coal m,n ’ lord<-r*<!I or d<-r*<! today. making ■krtaf* *» p ” more Edinc Iff.** o workers **» E r of strike Idle acres* Eukly AmerlEn were off their John KtpHiv*- Mine Worker* Cpld 111, issued teletailing a strike Eht tonight after their E« with operator* beEiwW on wage tie- ■ The I’MW said IS.MO L <top work In the Illi|ro*l lelds. ■i*hin«t<>n negotiation* I in the atrike of 400,000 ■nr Worker* IA FL) and ■o raliroad and union Eire* reported "some | in attempting to avert ■ide strike net for May ■l|> *O.OOO employe* of ■tolmer* company were |i< worker* at the Went I UCronne. Wi* , plant* ■ their job*. 1 Lewi* and the soft coal I tHutnwl contract talk* I A minate meeting yes- ■ which both aide* were |r>Ainc a “real effort” to Loti'h lon* walkout. In of labor Ix-wi* B ■biih said ls»th I>wis I operator* appeared ■ dim u>* the main issue*. ■ of the nation’* major I and two big brotherIt’ behind closed door* Itrond consecutive day in Ito come to an agreeIrfore President Truman ■ The union* previou*Ijtctci a* wholly inade- | fact finding commission kdation for a 18-cents It labor developments: I torernment relinquishfci of the meat plant* of iive“ packer*, which ped Jan 26 after a pro|bor dispute • Hudson Motor Car Co. f it was recalling 8.500 F worker* laid off a b> by a strike at the MidP Product* Co.. Clevep Midland walkout ■B8. conciliation «erFed into a dispute ber’rtiand, 3re„ dockwork[reployer* which ha* tied Ptmnt activities. F worker* called on I T Conard. VAW vlc> fioeiert pressure for l T “ P*e« i. Column 7) r 1 a |e Bulletins — » • F City, Mo m April 30— Pwevtivaa of the AFL L st ’ Wor ‘ union revealed r“ m “indefinite helidown all terminal ryy* t" the nation wa* r”' i *'*tion a* a move to rain tuppiiea for do"tilling, r"” 0 "- April 30—(UP)— bMr,< I ""mended wage InL, * **"*• •" hour for L »f the non-fer-P > 'Muetry. fcj? eßMoM ®' TtR l?* TUR| "EAWMGt k < [ — go V •• - 73 W| athir k wht M,lh portion IWlim,. portion* ll**— tonight. L ” thpwer* Wed-

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Formulate Plans For Big 4-H Show Here All Youth Groups Os County Invited Plans are quickly materialising for the biggest 411 dub and youth week show ever held in Adams county. The event will be held in Decatur the week of August 5 and a group of interested people met last night at the office of county agent I* e. Archbold to help formulate the preliminary plans. All youth organization* in the county have been invited to join the 4-11 clubs In the many event* < f the week and a number of clubs and groups already have signified their intention* of participating. Pat O’Hara. Indiana rural youth leader, attended last night's session and expressed the opinion l.iat the Adams county show would receive national recogni-! Hon because of the unique plan being advanced by Mr Archiadd and his associates. Tent* will be Madison street, east and west from Second street, and also on Liberty Way. A large stage will be erected on Madison street between the Reppert building and the Linn Clothing store building, where many public events will be held. Wednesday night. August 7. will In* designated a* club stunt night and each entry will be given a time to perform on the stage. Winners of these events will be sent to the district stunt rrtght meet at Bluffton and the district winners will got trip* to the Indiana state fair. Game* and contests will be in vogue Thursday night. August 8. and awards will be made to various winners Following this program. the east part of Madison street will be blocked off for folk dancing, and other forms of recreation. On Friday night. August 9. the public auction sale of prize beef calve* and barrows will Ite held on Liberty Way. This always is an interesting event and it is believed that this year's auction will top all previous year* Many other features including such events for the young people as treasure hunts for hard-to-get items of food and clothing and sight seeing trips are being planned and when the official program is announced later in the summer, the local committees state the show will be crammed full of activity for the youth of Adam* county. Representatives of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce attended last night's meeting. The Decatur organization is cooperating with county rural youth leaders in the week's activities Commercial booths advertising various farm and agricultural products will be erected. The location of these booths will not be (Turn To Ps«» 1. Column 4) Clean Up Week Will Be Launched Monday Cooperation Asked Os City Residents The annual dty-wide clean up week will be launched here next Monday and continue throughout the balance of the week. Mayor John B. Stults and Phil Sauer, city street commissioner, who will supervise the work the city trucks In making pickups, stated today that all plan* are com plated. Residents are asked to collect all trash and rubbish; to place It In containers along the curb or in the alley*. City trucks will begin pick ups on Monday and canvas* the entire city until the rubbish Is collected Mayor Stults also issued a statement, urging iooperation In a program of beautification. Including lawn* and homes, where possible He urged that owner* of lots have weed* and tall gras* cut; that unsightly tra»h pile* be removed and other »teps taken to re move ”*ye sores."

UN Group Is Named To Sift Franco Spain United States Will Offer Confidential Documents To Group New York. Apr 30 — (VP) — Confidential document* which the Vnlted State* will submit to the Vnlted Nations subcommittee investigating Spain coqfain hot I* damning and sympathetic evidence alsnit the Franco regime, it wa* learned today. The I'nited States has a voluminous store of doccimt-nts about Spain captured in Germany A few wet.» made publicearlier thl* year in the- I’. S. state department's white paper on Spain. "Favorable" evidence is expected to deal with the period of the war when the Axis was on its way to defeat and when Generalissimo Francisco Franco tried to sit on the Allied side of the fence. Details of the Information American officials will ppesenf 10 the security council's first investigating committee were not revealed The spec ial five nation subcommittee, created Icy the I'N security council late yesterday, got to work immediately and held it* first meeting within a few minute* after it was formally voted into existence by 10 of the 11 council memtier*. Only Soviet Russia, still denouncing the plan to seek more facts about Franco, abstained fiom voting But Russia agreed to waive what it still considers it*, right to veto such a preliminary inquiry The Spanish subcommittee’s first business session will be held in secret tomorrow afternoon. It then will receive evidence- already In the hand* of Hie I'N secretariat Both I’. S. security council delegate Mrtward U Slettinlus, Jr., and British delegate Sir Alexander Cadogan have promised to submit evidence. I’aul llasluck, scrappy Australian. former history professor an I newspaperman, will be cbair(Turn To I’ag* Column 1) —o Bread Consumption Reduced In Decatur 25 Percent Slash In Output Is Reported Decatur today is consuming approximately 25 percent less broad than ha* been customary because of the wheat situation and its resultant flour shor’age. a survey disclosed today.

Roy Stewart, of the Stewart Bakery, disclosed today that production at their plant and deliveries to retailers have been reduced up to 25 percent This plan has been inaugurated rather than that of eliminating one or two deliveries each week, -.tich as is being done In Fort Wayne. James Wall of Wall's Bakery stated that since his bakery is not producing bread no distinct effect ha* bec-n noted there, althougn he anticipated reduction in flour for use in pastry manufacturing, etc. Although loaves are Iming quickly grabbed from s'ore counters, to date no complete sellout has been reported here. It was reported that the city of Foit Wayne wa. "sold out” last Saturday at 5 p. m. •'Out-of-town’’ bread distribution to local retailers has already been cut from 25 to M percent. It is believed. It was reliably reported that the Geneva Milling company at Geneva. manufactuw-rs of a popular brand of flour, is considering reduction of milling operation* to one day per week in the near future. To d«t*. It I* reported, that company b*i been operating on a full week ba«l*.

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Decatur, Ind ipna.. Tuesday, April 3C, 1946.

Price Increase For Rye Bread Announced Wiwhlngton, April 30— tl’P> Tlw- Of’A today announced a price increase of two cents a pound on | rye bread. The increase will remain in effect until June 30. 25-Year Treaty For Disarming Germany Urged Russia Indicates Willingness For Studv Os Treaty Paris, April 30 (I’Pl-lltwsla ha* Indicated willingness to place the Americ an 25 year treaty for German disarmament on the big four conference agenda. It was learned today. |M>*slbly In return | for concession* to the Soviet point I of view,

Foreign minister V M. Molotov, it was learned, ha* indicated to rec-relary of state James F. Byrnes that he does not intend to oppose putting the American plan on the schedule for discussion. However, it wa* understood that be hoped to obtain some concessions for the Russian viewpoint in return The nature of the eoncesions was not Indicated. Molotov was said to lake* the view that all parties lo the conference should lay their card* on the table a* early a* possible so that conferees will know just how many tough questions must he settled and what those question* are. He was said to believe that this would make it pns*ible to tackle Hie easier questions while solution of the more diffic-iiit problem* is being worked out. As an example of relatively Simple problems Molotov was said to have cited Hie partiilon of the* Italian fleet. It had appeared earlier that the American proposal might go on the shelf temporalily because of Soviet object lons. Byrnes, it was learned, sounded out some members of congress on iii* 25-year treaty plan, including members of the senate military affairs committee. He told the senators about the plan at the Him* be testified in support of Gen. Dwight D. Elsenhower's program for maintenance of a strong American military establishment. The ministers today are expected to take up the question of Trieste and the Italian-Yugoslav frontier. Foreign delegations are begin(Turn To Page 4. Column 71 First'War Baby' Arrives Next Week Decatur Vet's Son Enroute To States Adams county’s first "war baby” —that I* the first child born to a ! local servh <*inan and bi* foreign war bride — is expected lo arrive In the I’nited States about May 6. He is Calvin Coolidge Springer. Jr., nearly one-year-old son of Calvin Springer ol this city and hi* English war bride, Elizabeth Springer. Mr*. Springer and son are scheduled lo arrive at New York City on the SS Parker on May r> and from there proceed to Decatur, where she will rejoin her husband. The Decatur youth was married in January. 1945, while serving with the U. S. army in England, lb- is the son of Mr and Mr*. John Springer of 334 Line street. He was discharged two weeks ago at Camp Atterbury, after serving three years and two months, two and one-half years of which were spent in the ETO, including Germany. Austria, England. France. His rank was that of a privste, first class. The ex-soldler *•«* employed at the former Los* Bro*, firm here before he entered th* service.

Drought Looms Latest Threat I To Wheat Crop Drought Already Critical In Some Southwest Areas By Uncted Pres* . A drought threatened the wheat I crop from the Texas panhandle to i North Dakota today, mid farmer* feared that unices pl-ntlful rein fulls soon rhe golden grain need ed by flurope's starving Would be lost. \lready some wheat had bec-n lost, and even with 'h<' ruin there waa little hope- for the bumper crop predicted a few »hort weeks ago. Men who trade- in grain believed that If rain cl «>« not full within .1 week or two there may la- little wheat to ship I > Europe. The drought already was c-rllf-cal in some portioiM of the southwest. and the dust had Icegun to blow from the parched top soil of the great wheat fields of the north West. I’. N. meteorologist-* reported that th«- lack of moisture wa* critical in the area extending west from th-- BWith .Meridian to the Rm ky mountain* It I* thl- region that supplies most of the nation'.* surplus wheat. Crop analyst* and farmers reported the following conditions. Texas am! Oklahoma farmer* believed that “even a little" rain within the next two or three week* could save from 3o to so percent of what should have been a bumper crop The farmers, veteran* lof the dust bowl, were hanging J on. hoping for "one good lain ; Mtorm.” Crop analyst* bellev.-d that the harvest throughout th-- 15-eounty ! werft Texas region w >uld be at j least 50 percent of normal with 'or without more ruin. Farmees believed that a single heavy rainstorm might Icoost the Texas crop to more- than tlo.trn-.cicm bushels. The April I lorecar* who for a bumper crop of 75.iMm.miO bushel*. Kansas Farmer* of western Kansas already were abatiddhitcg some stand* of wheat. They were 1 plowing up Home- continuously (Turn To Page 2, Column i) Robert Zwick Head Os IB Association

Named President To Succeed Brown Robert Zwick, local furniture dealer and understakcr. was named president of the \dain* county luberc-ui *i>« association in Hu- annua! reorganizatio'i in-etlng at the Decatur junior-senior high school Monday night. Mr Zwick succeeds \V. Guy Brown, principal of Hi<« Decatur junior senior high school, who compiled an enviable record during approximately 30 years in the presidency of the association. Mr. F M. Webb of Heine wa* selected vice prcniden', Mrs. W. Guy Brown, .-cecretary and Dr Roy Archbold, treasurer. Members named to the executive beard are: the Rev Rolw«rt Hot v<-l, Dr. Janie* M Burk. .Mrs. Ernest Reicheldeffef of Geneva, John B. Stults and Walter J, Krick. Directors are: Charies Fuhrman. Mrs. Adolph Wcidler. Mrs. Xariffa Walters, R. H. Everett, L. L. Hann. Mm. Nellia CoppeM, Alice Michaels, Dale W. Ro**. Irene Kirchner. Mrs. Doris Fox. Irene Johnson, Rhe* Strayer. Helen Kenney, Mrs. Reichfeldeffer. Mr. Stutts, Tres*i<* Glftideiiing, Mr Krick, Dr. Burk and Rev. Hoevel. The uHtociation has been actively engaged here for year* in the fight against the disease of tuberculosis, financing the campaign will, h include* free <>inlcs with proceed* from the annual Christmas *<»al calc

Naval Destroyer Escort Solar Sunk By Terrific Explosion At Navy Depot

FBI Moves Against Meat Black Market Government Steps Up All-Out Drive By Vnlted Press The government's all-out drive against the black market and a shortage- of feed were expected to lay to force more meat* into b-githnato channels to relieve the current shortage which some dealers said wa* the worst since Pearl Harlxcr Home area* were entirely without meat. Others reported that retailers wen- getting only 2<» to 25 pen-ent of the normal supply, with the remainder going to the tdm k market The federal bureau of invest I ration entered the meat picturefor the- first time today as the government stepped up it* drive-.* Government action included: I Addition of 400 Investigators to the 450 already on the DBA meat enforcement staff to force compliance with the slaughter control order issm-d last V.ec-k 2. The’ b*BI began checking* slaughterers' claim* for subsidies The- FBI agent* will look primal Uy for frau i. Major packing plant* were returned lasi midnight to private management by the- government which seized them during -the nationwide- packing house strike. Packer* said, however, that they could not. compete- with black market operators buying livestock alwive OPA ceilings The drive by New York t’ity police and health department in-'spec-tors against thr black market was showing result* Retail markets were- barren of lieef. but the department of agriculture (Torn Tn Psge Z. Column tl — .. o . Philip B. Carper Drops Dead Monday Prominent Retired Farmer Drops Dead Philip B Carper, 71. prominent retired farmer, dropped dead of a heart attack Monday afternoon t-t his home, three ami one-half miles southwest of Decatur. Although ailing for the- (cast two year*, his condition was not aregarded as serious and death was unexpee tc- I Mr. Carper had been in Decatur on business earlier in the afternoon and died while walking from the barn to the- house at his farm. He was Icorn in Seymore-. 111.. September 9. 1R74, but had reaidecc In Adams county for the- past 37 years. He formerly operated the- Farmer's Elevator at Eighth and Monroe- streets, which is row the Cash Coal Fred A- Supply He was married to Alice Bercaw January R. 1*99 He- was a member of the Brethren in Christ. Surviving in addition to the wife are* six sons: Phillip B of Syracuse; Maurice V., Herbert D. and Robe-rt I Carpenter, all As Chico, Calif : Jesse L. of Reo Vista. Calif, and Jerry O Carper of Norristown. Pa; two daughter*. Mrs. Anna Grisel of ik-ca-tur and Mrs. Thelma Gladrn of Monterey, Calif.; four brothers. George* of Auburn. Eugene of Ligonier. Guy and I'lysses Carper, both of Seymore. III.: two sisters. Mrs. Anna Kobe! of Rock Island. 11l , and Mrs. Clara Power of Harden. Mont.: 14 grandchildren and one- greatgrandchild. <>t»daughter, three brothers and two sisters are* deceased. Funeral arrangements have not been completed, pending arrival of the* daughter from California, but the services will be held at the Antioch church, with the Rov. Russell Weller and the Rev. Jacob Hoptetler officiating Bur1 (Turn Te Pegs 2, Column 4)

Plot Revealed To Assassinate Gen. MacArthur —— Allied Intelligence Officers Discover Assassination Plot Tokyo. April 30 tl’P) A plot to assassinate Gc-n. Douglas MacArthur in a burst of hand grenades and pl’tol tire during a giganticCommunist May clay < elc-bratlon May I has been discovered Icy .ill fed headquarter* intelligence- off leers, it was announced officially ■ today. Col W I T Creswell, command' ing supreme allied headquarters civil intelligence section. aid. iiowevgr. that there wa* no clefin It* connection 10-tween tin- plot and the celebration, except Insofar a* the* celebration would have provided an opportunity for theassassins. A headquarter* announcement raid !' S and Japanese military pcdlce were searching for the alleged ringh-ader. Ilideo Takayamii, youthful mc-mlo-r of the Japaue.e overseas pcdicc* force, on a tip from a fellow plotter whom Tal.ay ■ tuna un*ucc-c***fiilly tried to fudo*c on. I Takayama's would he accomplice, now recovering in an American army hospital from tin- eff I eel* of the* imMsoii. told allied Intelligence officer* four days ago that Takayama had accumulated 104.900 yen (about $7,000) Io tinunce the assassination. The tipster, who wa* not oilier wi*c* Idemifled Icy allied headquarters, said Takayama and fellow plotter* had planned to kill MatArthur with hand grenade* and pistol* during the- May day <<-le brat ion* lie* -aid Takayama planned to aiho k tlie supreme* allied eoimiiaii der while the latter wa* en route from his headquarter* to hi* home in the I' S. embassy He Imped to escape in the confusion of tin* May day celebration which is ex peeled to attrac t 250.000 persons The- tipster will Ite released and under the watchful <■>•<•- of I’. H military police who also will Hr(Ulate through (he crowd* tomorrow in an effort to locate Takayama. "Otlu-r known plotter* are still at large, but an- being rounded up." a headquarters announc <■ im-nt said Creswell -aid he- believed (Turn Tn f’acte l. t'cdumn 7) Contingent Leaves For Physical Exam

11 Young Men Leave For Pre-Induction Eleven Adam- county young men i<-A shortly after noon today to take pre-induc lion examination* for entrance into the aimed force* through selectivc servi >- al Indianapolis. The y out ho left on i. regularly scheduled bus at 12 35 pin . instead <f on the morning bus. ao ha* been < ustomary. because of the change in bu* M-ltcdule*. Tin- meu will not return from the exam* until Wednesday al 5:3* p m. Both limes ..re d lyliglit Having Those who left i i the group are: Russell Thompson Stanley, Lete naid Janies Steffen. Samuel Franklin Cottrell, Dallas Dale Brown. Dwight Jonas Neuenschwander, Brict* Edward Hower. Sylvan Sylvester Hlrsctiy. Gordon Leroy Farlow, Maurice Frederick Heckman, Delmar Heckman and Dale Eugene Sapp Emanuel M Schwartz. IE. left for examination for cntranco to a conscientious objector camp

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Seven Navy Men Are Reported Officially Missing; No Figures On Dead Or Injured Leonardo. N. J.. Apr. 30 —<1 I’j A terrific explosion sank the r S S. Solar, a navy destroyer escort, *’ its pier at the naval ammunition depot here today, and seven navy men were officially reported missing, while a Red Cross official placed the number of injured at 150 to 170. The navy threw a cordon around the 380,000,000 ammunition depot at Earle, a short distance- from here, and gave net immediate report of the- numbe-r of dead. It said only that one- officer and six enlisted men w- re missing. Lt. Martin II Kelly, public relation- csfficer. refuevd to way whether any men were stiown dead, but said that eight were in hospital at Foti Munmoutt- N J- An Independent < h»-c-k by the f nitc-d I'r.-s* showed that nln-. all seriously injured, wen- in Fort Hancock hospital other hospital* in the area refused to -ay whether injured had been ic-<c-iv--d. staling that all information must come* fr.nn the navy kmbulanee* had be- tt summoned from all nearby fawn*, and the army had sent emergency medical teams to the scene, with Idwid plasma. The blast occ-irr-d while aintnun lion was le-ing unlo.-di-d fro-ti the ship The normal complement of a vessel of Ho- typos the solar in wartime U 220 men Member)* of th- ship’* crew, naIvy enlisted men from the di-pot and civilian employes of th-- d«p t were working on the solar and the pier when disaster struck First the re was a minor explosion which naval authorities lielieved gave -ome of the men enough warning to get clear Then camo a terrific blast that shook the ground in communities for mile* around and was felt | lt « far a* Belmar. N .1 . 22’" miles down the coast f:om la-onardo. George Barry, of the Asbury Park Sun. told tin- I'nited I’re a that the first minor explosion occurred aboard an I.ST (landing ship, tanks) which was moored aL tile pier near the solar. The Solar began to burn fieren(Turn To I’ags 5, Column «) Youth Scheduled For Arraignment Facing Charges Os Malicious Trespass Janie* Buinbal»ugh. 21. was to be arraigned before Judge J. Fred Fruchte in Adam circuit court Lit,, ihi* afternoon to answer to a charge of malic! ms trwpas*. Bumbalough allegedly attempted to into the Sutton Jewelry store early Friday morning 111- wife, Emogene. being held in jail here awaiting arraignment on a charge of receiving stolen property. She w.c* lodged in the county jail by Sheriff l.eo Gilllg I. ei night upon return from Columbus, where sir- was apprehended. Her two-year-old daughter was re-turned with her. Police chief Ed Mill -r and other authorities said tha* her entire wearing apparel when she was apprehended i* part of the clothing taken from the auto owned by Mr. and Mie. Brady Lutz at Anderson, North Carolina on April 10, Mr. and Mrs. Lutz, of Lakewood, Ohio, are remaining in the city for several day* in an attempt to recover their properly Officials -aid a package sent from here by Mrs. Bnmbaiougli to her home Ity express, which contained some of the items, is being returned. Chief Miller said FBI official* are ext»ected iii Uecatut today to Investigate Hie auto theft and may charge Bumbalougb with violation ot the Dyer act. chief Miller wm also Informed (Turn Te I’aga J, Column »)