Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 117, Decatur, Adams County, 17 May 1946 — Page 1

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INAL EFFORT MADE TO AVERT RAIL STRIKE

&| Deadlock JjheJruman Award Seizure ■ jjfthnr. Management Proposal Os Arbitration M.iy !• * Il I** ■K,,. Tr.Hiur - frilitlc-*** >-rr 'h' I’»iik < <>ul dispute* him today toward govern<>f the mines. rfl^L ( . rr n.r,i' l.iiior official* con|||,v K.iw no other course. |^V, k ,-- ulii-errainty HfVicc* Would r ,’<>v> rnnienl settle»ffort., Mr Truman * own llt find a solution hit a fh.it the dispute he sub-y,-terday when hi* SK,| f„ ,i:bi!t.i’:mi wan rejected mBLa «ide». ■Kon hour- after he made the flKriiM'ol mine workers (AFLI, fiß|r cal John I. Lewis. president te th» White House that ■ Him authority to submit to ar'hr Mine time, Charles O'spokeaman for the mine op |Hn negotia'ing committee, ■Hi*! Mr Truman a letter say industry »a« willing to ar ■L only wase hour luxuex. It ■Hem willing to arbitrate other inuiliiing Lewis' (legmud |0: wo n imt< i tit payroll levy ■Bm.- ! union controlled wel Truman's preoeewpittkrn HiL-im** imnienl threat of a HB«id strike was expected to consideration of the enfil He still has nine days ■B r< etpirutioti of the two-week SMrsbhh sent the miners hack M uj, w ,.,. k 'he I'MW ami the operatto he waiting for a the government. SB* rnrermnent official ( lose to Wotutious expitaaed doubt attempt would he made the negotiations, which have collapsed twice in a nve tho welfare fund, also doubted that negwould succeed if th«-y coined. flfl^' 8,1,1 government ■W™ w a solution of th<» dis«t officials with the belief 3I!L* llllri ' migh{ 0,r,,r ,hp " n| y Mr. Truman has made SB/‘ of Ns seizure powers lk * war ended. a decision on seizure It HF ' l ' ' hal Mr Truman's lab|Ks '■ »<mld be mulling over I®,'””'”** plana of settlement Bk„ r " por,er! ' la«< night that » House .ecretary Charles (1. had not abandoned SK.?; y ’’rment and had asked 0 Mem to stand by for mKL.!?" 1811 m3 '’ p his arbitration , aJ R n^. d “ y morn,n IC after |HL" ’ ,,ld h,m ’hat »n’ p T" Wo!l,rt M «* K * rt lr rM ‘ dent ’» alarm was j®,;;"' " ’“hwqitent statement HL. h> na ' ,,,n »•« >n "<lesmL -/*herause of the re- ' ’he time set for a A"o. / ru,n a , » was Rivet! the front both sides. jfr’Domoged When W n n *° By Horse ■B run ,nto homes ev8 w hile, but when a |Hu. Into an auto—and a Bh n.,'"', , h»‘-‘hat's somep * n,><) ’his morn IBhi,. ’ . Riverside '«>tHl and stated acroM l»t tsimJ??' pu,l,n « » buggy. 1 IT nv.- 1 uni{<t<l into a parked HI" , , y ’’avoid Fisher, em--18.,. " npa rby garage. Some reported, WwAL r „ TURE READINGS W> . ' 4« 4« iflhHti W **™*R »- J e J Buty * ith occasional jHLft 1./ ‘hw-deretorms toW tUu* 8 tu . rd * y ’orenoon. Part afterncon, p * tton Mpte, Eaturdty after-

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New Senate Drive To Draft Teen-Aged President Truman Rebukes Congress Washington, May IT.—il'pj A new senate drive to draft teenaged hoys was touched off today by president Truman's order for conscript lon of childless men 20 through 29 years of age. Renate democratic leader Allien W. Barkley. Kjf„ announced he will ask the senate to take up a teenage draft bill early next week. The senate military affairs committee scheduled a meeting Tuesday to pla* support for legislation atithoriiing consr) Union of the IE-and 19-year olds. Including SO.000 students already found fit for service. Teen agers were exempted from the draft fit the recent stop-gap extension of selective service until July 1. The new ptoposals would draft them after that date, and take the pressure off older me*. President Truman, in a stinging rehnke to congress, late yesterday stepped up the maximum draft age from 2« to 29 In an effort to save the "near wreckage" of the seldctlve service system and make up for tho loss of teen-agers. Mr. Truman told a new* conference that he had signed the emergency draft extension reluctantly and only because “conditkms would be worse without it.” He pointed out that the act kept Intact the draft machinery and preserved the veterans reemployment rights. The president sahl he had been informed by selective service dlrvclor JI Hershey Rial the teen age ban would reduce men under 26 who could he inducted each month from .15,0110 to approxiritttely 5.000. Most men in the 26 through-29 category already have seen armed service or have heen deferred on physical or occupational grounds. Selective service said the president's raising the draft age will increase available manpower by only about 13,000 men, with perhaps one-halt of these unfit for Induction. The 20 through 25 year dane. it was estimated, would yield about 69,600 additional eligible draftees. Seven-Foot Coal Vein Discovered In Canada Victoria, H. C., May 17-(VPI-Dlscovery of it seven foot coal vein with a potential producing capacity of lOtyMIO.WO tons has been re ported in the Peace River district 40 mile* north of Hudson Hope. C. Spokeamen for the Fort St. John board of trade said the vein covered an area of approximately 42 square miles and estimated Its value at f 1,000,000,000. o Boards Appointed By Judge Fruchle Tax Board Members Announced Today Appointments to ’he county hoard of review and the Adams county tax adjuuljnent board were made and announced today by Judge J. Fred Fruchte of the Adam* circuit court. Appointed to* tho board of review are Dea Fryba<k. Democrat and Harry Dailey, Republican. Krnest Wortlunan a* county assessor; Thurniatt I. Drew as county auditor and Roy Price as county treg•tutor are all ex-officia with Mr. Worthman and Mr. Drew* automatically serving as chairman and secretary, reapedively. The hoard begins its 2H-day session on June .1 at the court house, reviewing assessment* and hearing objection*, if any, to awessments. Judge Fruchte named the following a* members of the tax adjustment board: C. F. Bucher, Decatur; John Crist, Monroe and Elmer Baumgartner. Berne, all Democrats;. Ernest Reicheldeffer. Geneva. Republican. The county council will name » member of its group to the group, the township trustees will select (Turn To Pegs 4, Column 7)

Conference Os Big Four Ends In Deadlock I r Secretory Byrnes, j U. S. Delegotion Enroute To States I —— I Paris, May 17— <l’P> —Recre- . tary of state James F. Byrnes and hl* delegation left for Washington In a U. S. army plane today to te|| the American people ( why the big four conference fallByrnes said when the one month recess began last night that he was not discouraged. He hoped the next session June 15 i would reach major agreements, • although the past three weeks' talks have only heightened the i deadlock between Russia and the , western powers. Tho American delegation took off from Orly airfield at 11:03 : a. m. (6:03 a. m. EDTt In a transr port command C-54. I A few minutes earlier V. M. ( Molotov departed from Hour- > get airheld for Moscow, where he , will report to Premier Stalin. Ernest Bevin left tho same airfield for Ixmdon. Byrne* wax arcompanlml by Ren, Arthur Vandenberg. R., Mich., and Sen. Tom Connally, D.. ' T«„ who have served a* official observers. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery and James Dunn. Byrnes' ' deputy, saw them off The conference between Molotov and Stalin was expected to lie 1 one t>f the most significant devel--1 opments of the nne-month recess t in the foreign ministers confert I ence. Byrnes and Bevin learned’ I during the pant three weeks that ■ no amount of oratory or persuasion could make Mplotov deviate i from Stalin'* instructions. • I With the western powers holdi Ing firm against Russian demands. they looked to Stalin for a possible change in Soviet taci tics which might allow the June ' 15 meeting to succeed. There was little real optimism that the ministers would devtoe singly, or through diplomatic channel*, the means for unity ' which they failed so thoroughly to find around the Luxembourg palace conference tall'e during the past three weeks. The ministers went home in a grim moral, with only minor acrompllshments to show for their hard bargaining. Their only concrete accomplishments were a revision of Italian armistice terms. (Turn T<» Page ♦, Column 5) o —— Three Bids Received For New Fire Truck Low Bid Submitted By Macklin Service The city boatd of public works ami safety today had under advisement awarding of a contract for furnishing Decatur a new fire truek, after receiving three blds late Thursday aftgruocn. The Macklin Super Service, of thia city, represented by O. W. P. Macklin, was low bidder, offering a Mack fire truck for |HM»«I92 and a number of extra Items which flrefijhters have sought amounting to 110.952.72. Next lowest bidder — bidding complete—was the Mldw«»t Fire and Safety Equipment Co., Indiana polls. Their bld on a BiUfalo truck wax 611.072. The other bld of 613.956, was Submitted by the General Fire Truck company of Detroit. ThM bld, however, wax subject to any price boos’ that might lie permitted by the OPA before delivery. The low bld listed the following txtra items: three-man cab, 200 gallon iMMister tank, 200 feet booster hose, 50 feet of aluminum ladder, two CO2 extinguishers, a phomalre hip pack and oeveral others. The blds were received and opened by city clerk-treaxurer H. Vernon Aurand. "Mayor Joon B. Stults told bidders that their offers would he taken tinder advisement and a decision mad* known soon. Proposals for the new truck were decided upon by city otflciala when the two old trucka now In operation ware deemed unreliable In affording adeeshate fire protection.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, May 17, 1946.

Paralyzed Vet To Testify I T”' jjijr'" L EfrwKy ■ wse fl fl fl MF W-ffiHCTHnfc 1 oMI’ jui SGT. FREDERICK SMEAO. a paralyzed war veteran who wax elected I sjHikexman by his comrades at Birmingham Veterans hospital In Van N’uys, Calif., is shown a* he arrived in Washington, D. C„ to testify at hearings to revise an unfair regulation under which vets lose a part of their disability compensation payments when they are forced ' to enter hospital* for treatment. Airline personnel assist Rmead to ■ a waiting wheelchair as his nurse, Mary Hellen Hunt, shown In background, who is accompanying him on the visit, descends from the 1 plane.

UN Defers Action ; On Albania's Bid Council Accepts American Proposal New York. May 17—(UP)—The United Nation* security council today unanimously adopted an American proposal to defer for two month* action on Albania’* long pending request to Join the UN, which Hussia supports and the I'nlted Suite* and Great Britain oppose. Meanwhile, Russia today handed the council'* Nulwommlttee Irvestigatlng Spain a document which reportedly Hated example* cf -close cooperation between the German and Spanish general stair* during the war. The document was expected to be made public later today. In voting to set up procedure for processing new membership applications the council overritlerf a protest by Australia that it was Infringing op the right* of Hie UN general assembly, which . has the last word on admitting new members. The council adjourned at 1:13* | p. m. (EDT) without setting a date for Its next meeting. The Iranian question, however, Is (Turn To Page 4, Column 5) o Massacre Os War Prisoners Charged German Colonel Is Accused In Court Dachau, May IJ—(UP) —Col. Gen. Sepp Dietrich wax accused In court today ot handing down ’an order which led to the Nazi massacre ot between 538 and 749 American war prisoners and 90 Belgian civilians during the hattie of the bulge. Dietrich, commander of a German tank army in the Ardennes battle that began in December. 1944. and Wi other elite guardsmen pleaded not guilty to the charges of “killing, ill treatment, abuse and torture" of the unarmed Ol's and Belgians. Lt. Col. Burton Ellh of Mariposa. Calif., chief prosecutor, told the court that the njassacre was carried out under a blanket order of merciless reprisal which Dietrich passed on to hl* officers. Adolph Hitler cleared the way for unlimited ruthlessness In the last desperate bld by the Nasis to stave off defeat. Ellis said. Hitler told hi* commanding generals at Bad Nauheim on Dec. 11. 1944, five day* before Marshal (Turn To Page 4, Column I)

BULLETIN Havana, May 17—(UP) —The ' commander in chief of th* Cuban army announced today that govj ernment force* crushed a rebel- * liou* movement at Camp Columbia, the main military base in Cuba, early thi* morning. — o | Japanese Cabinel List Is Submitted Communists Attack New Administration Tokyo, May 17 (UP) Premier Shigeru Yoshida submitted a conservative list of cablnei ministers for emperor Hirohito'* approval today as communists attacked his new administration. Yoshida's cabinet was under stood to consist largely of memberg of the liberal and progressive partie*, both conservative organ!i xatlons. Baron Kijuro Sbidehara. Hw new premier* predecessor, was expected to become «■ minister without portfolio. The comfflunlst* began active opposition to Yoshida by sending * a ffve-tuiin delegation to the imperia! palace In protest to the emperor over the appointment ’ Imperial household authorities rei fused them an audience with Hirohito on rounds that the emperor could not discus* politics. Communist criticism was aimed at the conservative nature of the new overnment and at Yoshida's record. The communists charged (hat Yoshida was a militarist who contributed to Japanese aggression. The social democrat*, third ' largest party in t|» diet, were expected to support the communists as a protest against exclusion from the new government. A social democratic spokesman predicted the Yoshida government would be short-lived. He said it would have a difficult time trying to pass the new constitution draft In the diet session Just opened. 0 Extend Negotiations In Magnavox Dispute —— Kort Wayne, Ind., Mav 17 (UP) | —Negotiations between lh<« Mag- I novox* company and the United i Electric Workers (CIO) were extended today to a Jum 3rd strike i deadline I Chester Balaton, federal laltor ' conciliator, said the union membership had rejected a company 1 offer of ■ nine-cent Increase with 1 the remainder of the IHYi cent wage demand to be arbitrated. Membcm of local 910 of the I'ERMWA-CIO demanded a 10-cent increase payable now with the re! ’ malnder to be arbitrated.

Truman Calls Conference In Attempt To Prevent Strike; Order Embargo

Legion Plans July Fourth Celebration Fireworks Display Holiday Feature Adam* Post 41. American Leglon. is planning a resumption of the annual Fourth of July firework* display this year for the fltat time since before the war. post commander Floyd 11. Hunter announced today. Official* of the local post have bei-n assured by several fireworks manufacturers that *upplies will be available for such a celebration, Mr. Hunter said Present preliminary plan* call for a two to three hour dieplay to be held at the McComb airport on the night of July 4. Mr. Hunter said. The local Legion post, now nearing the 1.00(1 membership mark, hopes to stage one of the biggest displays ever held in this part of the nation, he asserted. Through arrangemen t with Robert McComb, manager of the airport. facllitiiM for parking hundreds of antui and thousands of persons witnessing the event without being endangered, will lie avail aide, he said. The local post expects to stage the display ca part of a celebration honoring veterans of World War 11. A committee has lieen at work for several weeks determining the feasibilitv of staging a uniformed parade of all World War II veterans. The parade wax proposed recent ly at a meeting of the Legion po*t and Edward Noonan named gen era! concensus of opinion among the new vet* concerning euch a parade Advocate* of the parade pointed to the fact that local n*ldents have never been given the opportunity of <o>eing War II veteran- hi uniformed drill or parade, (Turn To Page 2, Column 2) . M Gandhi Approval Os British Plan Seen Expected To Advise Acceptance Os Plan .♦•w Delhi, May 17 (I'l’t Informed aources *ald today that Mohanda* K Gandhi probably will advise the hll-ludia congress party to accept the British government plan on a trial basis. This expectation contrasted with reports from Moslem league quarter* that M A. Jlnnah probably would remain alool trom the pro-pO’-ed Interim regime although he may permit individual league members to join it. viceroy Waveli opened a series ot conterences with both congress party and Moslem h-ague members to explore possibilities tor establlshing the new regime. Lord I’gthwlck Lawrence, secretary or state for India, told a press conference that the British proposals were merely recomnot seek to impo-g them on India, mendations and that Britain would He declined to speculate on what will be done If the congrats or the league refuses to join In drafting an Indian constitution Gandhi said the announcement was the "most momentous one In the history of India" and begged his prayertime listeners to read the government statement 2*J times before commenting. By rejecting the Pakistan prliciple of a separate Moslem state, the British mission put a hard decision before Jlnnah, leader of the Moslem league. He has been vehement In his demands for Parkistan. There was some belief that Jlnnah eventually would accept the British proposals rather than precipitate bloodshed. ("ongres* party leaders objected to the provision allowing prov(Turn To Page 2, Column 5)

Stalin Rejects Truman Appeal For Food Aid Urgent Appeal For Aid In World Food Crisis Is Rejected Washington, May 17 rt’Pt . Soviet premier Josef Stalin ha*, in effect, rejected an urgent apiteal by Presklent Truman for Russian help in the world food crisis, It wax learned today Stalin xald the American request wax too late. The tone of Stalin's letter has Irked President Truman, who told hl* news conference yesterday that the Vnlted State* wax doing ' more to help the food crisis than , any other nation It was learned also that both t'NRRA and the Vnlted State made similar appeals to Russia early this year. Mr Truman's appeals In Stalin to pledge the Soviet Union to help feed starving areas were made only recently after Russia hud failed to answer earlier appeals. Stalin's reply to Mr Truman was that little or no assistance from the* Soviet I'liion could t>.expected because the appeal wax made too late. Stalin *ald that if the appeal hail been nuyb- thre*- months ago the Soviet t'nion might have been in n position to help. Mr Tniman Is debating now whether to make public the exchange with Stalin, It was understood and in doing «» closing tip atty |M>HHlbility of a Russian change of attitude He also Is considering whether to reveal at the same time the nr gi’df appeals for food which were made to the Soviets a< early as last January At that time. It was understood. I’NRRA asked the Soviet I’nion for food but received no answer. The following monjh assistant secretary of state William Clay ion made a similar appeal in liehalf of the Vnlted States at the VNRRA conference in Atlantic (Tty. High government officials doubt (Turn T»» I, Column .’>) Good Will Tour Is Related At Rotary Peru Civic Leader Speaker Thursday This country's good neighbor policy toward Central and South America has been very effective in bringing about understanding and the desire to cooperate with the Vnlted States. William Welsh, civic leader of Peru, who was a member of the Indiana good will party to those countries, stated in a talk Itefore the Rotary club last evening Mr. Welsh was named by Governor Ralph F. Gates as one of the men who made the* airplane trip to the South American countries last winter. In the Interest of "selling Indiana, its people and prodiicts" abroad The speaker told of visits to Brazil Uruguay. Venezuela. Peru, Chile and Argentine He said that In every country visited, the jieoplc* Were (friends of the Vnlted Stales and wished to follow a policy In cooperation with thia country. Argentina Is the moat weaternIzed country, the speaker said, and despite that Peron, the new president, is not considered a friendly ally of the Vnited States, thc< people demand that coopcra- ' tlnn towards its be shown. The Peron government Is a military administration, run by the army, (Turn To Page 4, Column 7)

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Federal Seizure Os Railroads Planned If Efforts To Halt Strike Are Futile Bulletin Washington. May 17 — (( p)—President Truman today ordered government seizure of the nations railroads immediately af* ter being advised by uninn leaders that they could not settle their dispute with the carrier. Ry I'nlfed Press Railroads began preparation* today for a possible nationwide t trike tomorrow as President Truman made a final attempt to avert the walkout without gov- • rnment seizure. The Chicago. Burlington, and Qunlcy railroad was the first line Io take positive action In anticipation of a strike The Burlington declared an embargo on livestock and perishable freight which cannot reach its destlnn--1 Lon l>y noon central daylight I tlm<- tomorrow Other railroads with headquarters in Chicago were planning similar action. Preparations for a possiblo walkout were started as the president called union and management representative** to the While House for conferences Icegmning at 2:.lff p m. in a lastminute attempt tec prevent tho walkout scheduled for 4 p. m. (local timet tomorrow on all the* e lass I railroads Tlie office of defense transportation pe-rfected plans to take nominal charge of the railroads when Mr Truman gives the word. Heads ccf the brotherhoods that have called the thrlke withheld assurances that their men would work for the* government. Government ccffic lais hoped they would. The army prepared to take over about Imm large private airplanes to haul the* most essential freight if the railroads are tied up. .Most of that burden, however, would fall to the* truck lines, Mr Truman planned three separate conferences in the rail < rlxix. First he called A. F Whitney, president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, and Avanley Johnston, head of the locomotive engineers. These two unions called the strike far tomorrow over demands for a larger wage increase than awarded by the railway mediation board and for • number of < hunges in the operating rules. Next on the list were representatives of three other operating brotherhood*—C. J. Goff of (lie firemen and enginemen, W. H Fraser of the conductors, and T C. ('ashen, representing the switchmen. They have not called a strike, but also want more money. The president’s final cMiferetw was scheduled with J. J. I’elley. president of the American Railroad association, and four rallro.cff representatives who have been serving as negotiators for the industry D P. Ixcomls, W. T. Farley. H. A. Enochs and J. P. Parriah. The railroad and labor representatives were* expected to Inform Mr Truman of their inability to reach an agreement. If they offer no hope of a break in their deadlock. Mr. Truman waa expected to set in motion machinery for the government seizure of the railroads. Declare Embarpoee Chicago. May 17- (VPJ— The railroads began preparations for * possible nation-wide strike today as some lines declared embargoes on livestock and perishable freight. The firat railroad tc take tho embargo action waa the Chicago* Burlington, and Quincy line. Tho (Turn To Page S, Column •)

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