Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 114, Decatur, Adams County, 14 May 1946 — Page 1

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RESIDENT MOVES TO AVERT RAIL STRIKE

May Resume Food Rationing

Recommend L Return IHecessary I — o Lies Indicates Kfioning Os food L Be Necessary Littton. May H- H’P) ~ E|« ntabiliz*-r Cheater IW E today h* will recommqgtl E hi rztionlng if if appeWz Es it necessary to assure Ep il*trihuti<m of our food E\t borne and to meet forEid commitments. H mention*-1 meat, dairy pro- ■ snd possibly bread among | vhi-h might be %tloned. wh (00 a t’.ewn conference E- shorts Ro ahead with Eg If practical requireKull f ,,r !,ul emphaalz- ■ certainly hope It can be E|o« taid the next 80 days ■ >ll whether a return 10 L u is necessary, If no. he |br would to recomlW l, nd to ■font Truman. |«r**l *i*h former preai- ■ Herbert Hoover bL'it volun- ■ rationing could do a fflC-at J toward solving tje food Kilm mid there would be no ■ip going ahead with a J - ■f program unlens "the peoL* i need for It and want n* inked bow soon he felt sri for rationing would be-ippgr>-nt ||a fc.yjrl it mlßllt Herminel in the next month b basis of expected crops lb meat supply. hut he P the need * **u'M be deter- ( better In about 60 gays. sift pointed oat. that after a ion in made. It would take I two months to put rationno »6ect. S**-n'. ztigar In the only oa the rattun list. head it ratioir-d. it wjptld e tint time such action ha* taken in thin country. boning powers are containi th» ueconn war powers act lliflflieduled to expire June Eren»ion IcglslatlAn- in «i in conntnn. liowlen said •H congress would soqn exib act. Requisition Wheat Htlttgton, May 14 — (UPl—twnment announced today it will requisition 25 percent l”*» «teat crffiChat is de *t to xGffn e>Vator*. * Kriculture department kiiixel that the wheat would b requisitioned directly from im *e»»r, when a farmer dellv•best of the 1946 crop to an lor. 59 percent must be Hold •fiotely rather than stored ’if the farmer. The govMt will one-half b ’beat sold, or 25 percent wheat delivered to elevaD Resented a n<>w effort M export, and the 1 drastic action to date. airriculture departrft-nt •vrlcans would get 15 per;t" bread than nornte& be*Jliis Jfty and July of nest? I’m To fag, g Column «t ’• neanor Rebout Puty County Clerk ‘ Bsuor “ ’he offices of county clerk w L TrOS,B,>r ’ *’ a * bCRn ap ’ y*Puty county clerk. Mr. j"*rt znaoonced today. fjUh""' 41 rep ' afM Mr*. Fern k. *'• wtl ° had lieen serving Rt iL* r * Troutner has tak■a k * desk duties, formerly Mrs. Itehout, Ki*.! ™«*MOM«TtR T’RATURt READING! .% , * —- 52 a, J ** 60 I*. ,*UTH|R *’th little change »'|ht

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Wholesale Price Os- 1 Coal To Increase 1 Q *- Washington. Muy II (t'l'i ; The wholesale price of coal is now rjX." Thw OPA announced that anyone buying more than five tons of coal mint puy present celling prl<e. and also agree to pay any additional amount* the ol’A ,-v.y add Io the price tug, This. ‘Hid the OPA, will take care of ary necessary retrffSctlvn *:al price rUe that result* ft om lhef X'fsltf-sJ .Mine work* 'w current negotiations for a retroactive pay Increase. o — Seek To Avert Expiration Os Draft Tonight Senate Committee Votes To Accept House Amendments WasbAigton, May 14 tl'l’t Th*' aeffale military affaits committee voted unanimouHly today to accept House amendments to £>* draft act In an attempt to keep the measure alive after the midnight deadline. The House amendments would Jan the drafting of fathers and teen age youths Senate acceptance of the amendinfonts would avert expiration of lhe draft tonight and prov'rte a 45-daJ pension until July 1. Sen. Edwin C Johnson. Lt. <’«»l. told re|M*rters that none of the committee members were entirely satl/lPd with the Hoim- uuiendmeiits However. JohtMuii added that they agreed to ask senate acceptance of Hie House provisions to "keep the system alive.” Favorable action by the K-nate on the House amendments would avwn the ne.-d for a joint senate House conference and send Che extension measure to President Truman's desk for signature. Committee chairman Elbert Thomas, I). I'lah. told the senate that his committee Hater will pr*-s> for a longer oktenshm of seh-ctive service without the House prohibitions. Thomas said It wth important to continue the draft law. even with the House amendments, to preserve provisions for: 1. Veteran benetits which unin* luded in the present law. 2. i’resldential war powers, Mich tO plant seizure authority, now included In the preseuf law Meanwhile th*- White House an-noflTK-ed that Pywfdent Trtinvja will issue ait executive order pre serving th*- selertiv*- gervice machinery If cOßgress falls to vote an extension. Sjcii an order could not authorize indm'lPtm, but would (Turn To Pag* 2. Column •>

Hit-Skip Driver Sought By Police Parked Auto Badly Damaged Lust h,ght q -Ocity police are searcha bit-skip driver, who left the, scene of an accident in the 10«0 block on West Adams street lust night, chief Ed Miller stated today. /»,

The bit-skip dffrer, presumably proceeding Aest on Adams street, drove over on the left side of the street and crashed into a parked car, owned by Warren Kleinkttoht, Chief Stiller said, q Damage to'th'g Sleinknight car was estimated at IlhO. most of It< being inflicted on the left frottt side of the parked vehicle. Extensive damage to the Kleinknight car indicates heavy damage to the hit-skip vehicle, also, chief Miller said, and it was deemed unusual by police that the other auto could he driven from the scene of the crash. Officers are looking for an auto with a damaged front end. which left the seen® of **> e cra«ii approximately JO: 30 p. m

lowans Line Up For Bread To Go With Butter L" B-jBEIMii!— MI J MIIiLI JL Jm H IE e ■ M it> ; • J *1 WB 1 w nF ■ i I Ml Mt 3. RIVALING THE EASTERN BUTTER LINES, residents of lies Moines, la. ar.- in bread lines like th* one almve, formed when a shortage of pastry goods hit th*- city title to a strike of 2**» members of the Ila bet y and Confect lon.*ry Workers local union. The strike started after lit*- A F. of I. bahwev *!*■ nianit-'il a * ent -an hour wage boost, and th*/ bakeries offered ' cents

Fort Wayne Picket Line Is Attacked Lincoln Highway Is Blocked By Pickets BULLETIN Fort Wayne. Ind, May 14— (UP)—lndiana state police today cleared a highway of 100 automobiles manned by AFL construction workers but refused to intWVene in a labor dispute with CIO wilted electrical workers at tM Phelp»Oodge plant. Fort Wayne. Ind , Mav U H’P) Forty five Indiana stat*- tro*q»*-rs were on their way to an assembly point tiear Fort Wayn- today, on orders of Gov Ralp.i F Gates for possible Interceselon in a labtw dis--1 put*-. Gates ordered moblHwtion of tho troop*-t* when Allen county sheriff Waltsi C. Adams teb-grti(*h cd tl» governor for aid in ck*a> ing a highway be said was blocked W l°'J a iff imabiles manned by AFL contdriiction workers The VFL union smttabere tried to I break through a ph k*-t line established by 2<t<» memljers of the CIO united electrical w**;k*rs lit the I’help*-Dodge plauL Tint AFL sought to reMJine iJutk on con sf-ffijtion of a half *-onip!*-ted building. Gates issm-d an order at Indianap*di“. directing «tat*» poll**- Supt. Austin R Kllliam l» the mr-ic fktfn the tfgonl*F P‘*s' -‘iea. 26 mifaifo from Fort Wayne. Stair police eaid Hi*- 45 troopers ha 4 been ordered io an assembly po'Tfi't to further instructions. Adams told the governor that I*. S. highways 21 ami 30 were bk»*-k-He said the situation coul<J, be(■oine "completely out of (-(jffirol within minutes." Gates pßtnned to have the troopers clear tin- highway* and then "stand by In case they might be needed for further protection of life and properly should viokW-e flare e and get beyond control." Q John Gojack. priwldenl of I' E r. M. W. district nine, charged! the AFL intentional hrotherhoad; workers witli signing an illegal contract for production worker* with Corp, for lhe unfinlsh'-d plant. "Th*- fact that the motorcade attack on the picket line was led •— - ■ (Turn To Pag* 9. ColicJnr 7) O Speech Students On Lions Club Program

Two members of the speech class at Decatur junloreenior high school, taught by Deane Dorwln. will appear in a special program the Decatur Lions club in |tu weekly meeting it the Knights of Pythias home st 8:30 pre Mr. Dot-win will be in chnrgo of th* program

ONLY. DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, Moy 14, 1946.

Methodist Conference Will Open On May 26 Th*' annual North Indiana Methodist conference will I**- held at th*- First Methodist church In MishaWska the wwk of Muy 28. concluding with the reading of a> pointim-nts Sunday, Jan*- 2. It is expected that Dr. M. O Lester wtll I**’ returned as pastor of the Dec atur church, as the quarterly conference of the I*h-,il church has r**que»t*-d his return f t the fifth year. Legion Will Observe Memorial Day Here Annual Observance Planned In Decatur Adam-* post 43. American lag ion, lias launched plans lor tinannual observance of Memorial Day, to b*- stag**! in D**mtur on May 30. Tit*- local |»osZ customarily stages a short program on Mem orlaJ Day morning, during fhlch tribute is paid to th*- memory of deceased veterans in all branches of service. | Dwight Sheets, lo* al post tnem--1 her, has been named general chair man of the evsCtt by post commander Floyd Hunter and a number of (-wnmittee members to wo k with Mr. Sheets in nynklng filial 4*t-rangemefitH are to be named soon. year. It was recalled, the services in th* foUoweijt by the Lions club horse sh*fw In nfe* evening, gave citizens a full day In commemoration of th*- annual holiday. Memg»t,al anuual memorial sef* ices of the post.jfteld on th*- Sunday previ(& to Memorial Day. will be held this vftir at the Zion Luther an church on May 28. Aijlth JJ*Rev. Paul Schultz delivering th*memorial sermon. Arraiig»qfents fo/®the event artbeing made by J. Henry Faurote. post chaplain, and commander : Hunter. Members will at the I .post home day and attend services in a body. Comma ntb-.r Hunter also announced rfwappolntment of A. J. <£tak*-r, Charles Weby and Harry Martz to a flag committee. Carl H. Mies us post baseball chairman, William Tutewiler as post bowling chairman. Deane Dot win, local high school coach and for u number of years coach and manager of the form, er Juyior Legion baseball team, spoke to the i*osi members last night relative to the organization of a junior Leg! >n teain this year. Plans for the team are now underway. Glllig. of the local post, is distrk-t chairman. T. C. Smith, *post membership chairman, reported 935 members enrolled In the local organization at present.

Orders Probe Os Brutality Cases McNarney Orders Thorough Review Frankfurt, May II - ri'l’i Gen Joseph T. McNarney. Euro pean thvah-r commander, today ordered a thorough review of th* LicUßeld brutality cases "from the ilay th*- first complaint was r*-c*-lv*-d.” "1 am detenolned that no one who may be culpable will escaftfo being brought to justice." MeNarney said in an Interim r*-p**rt on the progress of the trials. The cases Involved charges that offi*-*-r» an I men were brutul t.» American military prisoners at th*- army's t'Mh replacement de pot stockade at Lichfield. England. McNamey said that an Investigation mad*- by Maj. Gen. John T. lif-wls, western zv*-a (ommatider. revealed "mishandling" ami "failure” on tVc- part of some Intermediate commanders to "recog nlze tit* seriousness of the situation." He addvg that lhe offkrrs In charge also neglected to direct a complete investigation of Uttlulity complaints and to take "prompt corrective and punitive action as required." As a result, M( Narney said he has dir?4-'ed his inspector genera! to undorfak*- lhe review of all I i-ases of the trials as occur red from June, 1914, to the pres (font tint*-. The Inspector general also was ovdeiwS to "closely ob-pi-rve” th*- continuance of the I (turn To Pis* 2. <’olm)*; 1}

Boy Scout Camporee Io Be Held In June Annual Camporee At Shrover Lake —® Plans for the annua! Boy Scout (■amp-re*, to lie held Jun*- 1 ami 2 at Shrover lake, were announced today I* |O< larenc* Ziner. county campaign acllvllios chairman, following a meeting Inrtfb-rne last qight. O Mr. Ziner presided over th*- session In the of Lloyd Cow emt, county Scout chairman Steve Everhart will act a« tampma.tter. Sherman Stucky **f Hennas his For* Wayne, area Sq-out ex*-cutlv<-. as recorder. Checkin tkme will be held Saturday morning. June I. from 7:30 until 9 o'clock a movie will be *hown Saturday evening. Thy. Scouts will be returned to th*city Sunday tn®rnlng to attend services at a church to be named later This will b* followed by a potluck dinner for Scouts and rela(Turn To Pag*- 2, Column 7)

Calls Representatives C) Q lO® Labor, Management To Conference Over Strike

Truman Urges Agreement On Service Unity Asks Army And Navy Reach Agreement On Plan By End Os May i Washington. May 11 ft" Ft—t — President Truman has asked the ayAvy ami navy to agree on i| (iniliifttion jlfain for *h* armed forces l.y May *j. tJIn White House illsclosed today. Press darretary Charles (I. Hoss sai I "very r.ooil progress toward unification” was made at a cone f* r*-iic*- yesterday between the president, th*- secretaries of war and navy ami the chiefs of staff. | "The provident asked them *,4>l list their points of agreement and ami he as)|*(l the two secretaries to get together and have all flies*- differences ironed out by May ill.” Hoss said Hoss explained Mr. Truman ma t*- no demand and laid down no ultimatum, but expressed a hope that the Inter-service different *s on unification could be * h-.«.--d up speedily Th*- senate SHlitary- affairs cpm mittee has approved a bill to n.erg*- the armed services under a single secretary for common i defense, with separate divisions I and secretaTSes for the army, the nary ami the air forces. Th* army favors this plan. Ibe navy opposes If Koss said *. "very cooperative attitude” was displayed by both services an I that secretary of var llobert P. Patterson ami secretary of navy .lames Fortrstal expressed willingness to Work together. Patterson and Forrostal arranged to meet today to work toward .Mr, Truman’s May .11 goal Streamline Army WashiZUtofr. Llay II - il’Pl - Tin- war said today that its firm major reorganization since 1942 will streamline the arnw. reduce costs, decentralize supervisory operations an! put th*- emphasis where it belongs—oil research and a strowft air *T>i(u T-> l-.ik’.- t. *"">lumu W u — - Missionary Speaks At Catholic School Former Prisoner Os Japs Speaker Here Life on the island of Guam in the Mariannas and ordeals cn-*-..lMtei*W after th*- Japs attacked I end tool* over th*- island were re luted this morning to studamts of the liecalur Catholic w-h****!. gra les Th*- Rev Xavier Marquette, OF M . Oft. Bonaventure MiOffstery, Mich, and one of t!ie first Amedkin missionaries in Guam, was the speaker °The Rev. Marquette was fSK,-tA. to Guam in 1939 as one of h' Jfroup replacing Spanish mission arles in charge—a change made at the request of th*- I' S. labor d*T»artment. 9 Th*- Rev. Marquette laud»l ‘he na<e ( hamorro peddle of ttuam. describing them as kind, hospitable, friendly and almost chili* llitf—a people who have no fear of death ami whose primary way of existent* is through lisliing® 8 With fish and rice as their main diof, most of them resided in huts, he sail. The missionaries and natives "couhl see the war coming for years,” he declared. 1 His internment at Kobe and Osaka lasted three years and eight months and followed a slxday period in the hills and jungle i before his capture. Five days in the hold of a ship enroute to Japan during which | 1 (Turn To Page t, Column 4>

Lewis Reiterates Demands For Health And Welfare Fund As Miners Return By United Prezz President Truman moved U*day to avert ,i threatened taut s'trlke, and moM of the nat.W-* 4*m.m**t Htriklng soft *oal miner* went back to their mtd*-i a two week truce. Mr Truman called rejvz-s*nfa-fives of railroad laltor ami man.*!* men! to a <-onfen-n**• **•• th*- Mrik*threaten*-*! for Saturday. Officials o! five railroad broiliei lionTh were asked to attend tlfWiugh only two union* th* trainmen and lovunotive engineers w*-r» Involved in th*- Satfrfilay strike call Thr uvesidt-nt has ettid Utgt he was * *>n«*id*-i lng seizing th*- car rlei*. imJ A F. Whitney, president of Hie brmhertmorf of railroad trainmen, has indicated Hutt th** move would not * h<-< k the walk * out. - At Itetrolt th*- Waym- county circuit I'ouit honed an injunction pto liibiling tin- AFL t- am-ti-i ■ uui >n from attempting to oiganizz- the county's i;.mm JndepcndKt food dealer - Pr*«*id*nt John L. Lewis *»t' 'he AFL I'nfled, Min*- worker-- relief i*i*-d his d<-mande for a jUv.mm.mjff a year health and welfare fund, lompany finath-ed and union ad-mini-tered It*- -.ild ••si.ildl«kc*i>ea* of the lund wan precedent to mnk tug i contract " . j ; j». <-pt for some Ur•**••» miners I In ib*- soft coal fields * f Penn-yl- | vanla. Kentucky ami Vl.ib.ima. xirik*-™ returned io th*- pit- prorg)tty under order* Ivom united swine workers i AFLt President John I. Lewis. They were joined in a similar tZMce arrangemeni hy 1 *,*»**• striking member* fit tl-e provr* - sive min*- workers union tn Illinois Limited coal .-pcppli* began moving almowt imtn*-dl<k-ly, under gov erntnenl priority *mie:«, to utlli I|r*. railroads, hospital- .itul food processm* other Indu'-ri--.- will be piloted »oal aftei ess -nti.i' n -i---have been supplied IVmouts. instituted in “Mural major cities a* a r*ji*irt of (foe eoal shorlqge, reinAlm-d. in *-ff*-< t, a* did Ua- 2.1 percent * ut In rallioaX passenger service A freight cm bargo was lif'.-d how* v*o along with a :<*-.u*ml *ut in pa-**engei train servvn- * h*-dul* -i tomor row Hopes for reaching an agn-eni* fol liefore th*' May 21 expiration of th*- 11 am lose aftt-i etift coal operators jjj.*-ed to |:!.mm.*tm saw ilieptrfH ov*-riim*- Mt <di*- first major break since negotiations W,gun In mhl March The;-.- appeatPd Hill*- |lrospe*t, however, that a contra* t /4<ild In- by the Wedm-sday deudlln*- set by President Tij«tnaii \fter wUniTfig the ba* k pay s«ttlement, Lewis 'followed up Ifosf night with a demand lor 4*4.**mi.twin a y*-ai levy on the industry to finance a ininei*’ w. If ire, <un|L Th*- proposal, .* switch from his demand(jf*r a coal tonnag** royißjcy to support th*- fund. *alled for a Heven ptyhwiit a-ts>-ssinent on min*puyrol?i>to covzg cost* the fund Operators bad no Itnrnnflla* omment. O I MW iepre»entat>-. un derstood to hatV b. n sent to western and other billmil fields In bling r.-bell/ OUS in f£i.> wlfrQLefjii’ ‘Turn To’”?'* K«* fi. Column ♦>) I o More Food Demanded By Japanese People Tokyo, May 14 HPi A mar l*lot occurred this afternoon at East Gate of the Imperial Palace when n»4re than 2.800 Japamw*-. soon- of Hjfttn avomen carrying bailtai strapped to their ba* ®*, stag cd a five-hour sitdown strike demanding mor*« food Th*- demonstratons, many of whom waved red flags, demanded an answer from Emperor Hirohito to their demands Sunday which Included the release of allegedly hoarded foodstock* of the imperial household.

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Only 23 Days Flour Supply NowInU.S. y Housewives Faced By Likely Severe Shortage Os Bread Chicago, May 14—(I’Pi —Afxiut 23 days' supply of flour stands between Am*-/S.an housejgivea and a bread VKirtage of -abforeseeable duration mid intensity, n spokesman for *yje of lhe nation's L.rgest mills eNUfnmed today. Th*- spokesman, attending (he , millers* national federation convention. asked to remain anonymous "for business reasons ” "Mv customers the flourmen-— Might no! jdi** such optimistic Elements abouT flour stocks.” Sic said “But trade reports ind:*a’e ther«> must be 20 to 21 days flour o'n (h*- helves, of wholesale's and retailers.” "But," ho sail). 'Ch*t»*- won't bo much more whore that cam** . from ” He pointed to an announcenzfopt by a milieu national federation official tfwt most of the nation's 2.500 flour mills would fag closed, f<u- lack of wlu-at by June 1. Harvesting of the new wheat <iop will begin in mid-Juno, he said, but onlv southwestern mills will ge( IrtUßediate relh-f. "And. maybe it won't be Inrtnedlate. There's Do govertMlient bWni« ogi tip- n*-w * rop Suppose th*- farmer holds onto hH wheat hoping for another price ceiling increase?” Th*- '-jiohesmun said "nobody — not * v*“K th*- government — can predict” how severe the bread Shortage will be. "It, w-ftl b<- spotty," h*- said. ••Rftm*- sections will he fan worse than other-* Sum*- area may not bi- liffeclfod.*' The farmer Is the key to the entire pb-fiir*-, he said. "If he (ontitiiies to feed the same terrific amount of grain So his livestock. we won't be ah**- to timet foreign comin>'tm»-nt-He -lid trade reports Indicated this wh*-at flour bread ftutlowJi: Hotisewitrqs probably have mor*- wheal 'han norma! on their kitchen reports indicate some hoarding;'"nxMiy bought 58p. sacks in 'l**T- h and early April Flour retailers ojs the average probably have a 12-11 day supply. Wholesalers eight to I*< day . upply generally. Millers -shutting down general- *»" 1 W 11 1 (Torn To P.iss- 2. Column Q * Decatur High Plans ° o For Summer School Annual Session To Open Here May 27 0 Plans for fire opening the annual summer school program at the Decatur junior-senior high # were announced today by Guy Brown, school principal. Mr Brown, who launched the • program hen- early in WorldCVar 11 to aecommodßpe youths Hable to enter the armed forces before high school education. said that school will o|>en on Monday. May 27. A, full semester credit will be given in the subjects offwed. Including American government. American literature, sociology, business English and others If a sufficient demand is noted. Classes will be held Monday through Friday from 7 a. m. until 12 o’clock noon, to enable students to hold ipart time jobs If thdy desire. The school will be open to students of all schools in the count) and to ex servicemen.