Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 135, Decatur, Adams County, 8 June 1946 — Page 1

XLIV. No- 135.

iARITIME NEGOTIATIONS

Bier Bread ■e Planned * i ■Government IHE Pions Increase Hfc'cod Prices To BE (Jp Production ■K' !> I" .uiminlHli.itioi) ■K* . r .l" ‘"' " l * >,j .|l <»»•• ‘■'•Hl „n .fi"i' "> ’"‘‘l’ "1' I' r " ii wan l<arnc<l today. !|Kh'\ ;"’k" ! " iin l,l ‘ l ■I. ,y. lIUH lIOCII il|l ■■ . np\ . • ■! flu axrli iilturc . 1' i '" 4 '' n rollM •‘ |M ’ K oil'- "'lit a dozen |M\, H ulinoiineed "aHH).. :i. ,|<i|.- of ■“• M week. ' Ilf m, . < : 'll.' ITiollMlH'-. |H !:4 ti .if l'i' “d supply wax |B yfi.rday by <•< |H, .... . z. i i h-xter Bowles mail bitsin<*M« '11..! Ilf government Im r.i'.ofiinK short on-ad |Kk. !o r- 'ail shoes. Rationmay '»• |>lai ed into effet t .i IH m i-» miller- and o’ taker*. have in-eii asking for |Kt I i'Kif nil lease for several They < laini that Ol’A . li.h li.-ld down the price by giving them higher on pantry good*. id'A -.poke-man said that |Kr- u.-iny ••'■eallz.ea" that ■■ne.f -aIV Io in< reaxe bread m order to keep many bak |M r 1 •*"•* •"* r, a*e .uppiies A price Increase a loaf on rye bread in April. i.ffiie of economic xiabiliz -aid that Howlett' statement m--an that the government M a. ration bread at consumer Any ‘oiinitmer rationing in. done voluntarily by re gM'i m. .I'.- d about a possible maikei m bread, la»t week ■fili'lti. t pi n e control boa ds out how bread Huppllea di 'ribttted throughout M 8 o! .’>7 districts reporting, 93 0.iu.1 the bread shortage wo se tn the last two in 7'i itercent of the dixtthe shortage watt xald to be or amte" In 65 percent, already are limiting of loaves !<• one per custom ■eiliiiy ( ,n|y io regular ciislP.|<« 5, Column 5) ■ t, |obash Youth Kilted ■Three-Car Crash ■»ta-.h, Ind. June S—- ■* »w planned today for liar■Miiey. )6, Wabash, killed in a Brest accident last night. Bih-y was a passenger in a car Bn by Jack Overman. They Mr towing another auto steered Bi’try Jacoby and both vehicles Bi->| with a machine driven by Bli Amber, 25. on V. 8. hlghB ■’*. west O s the city. ■" 'hree drivers, al! from Wav' »*re injured aerioualy. ■ 0 Bobe Hoosier Meat Food Shortages Btanapoita. June g-(VP>-The B* 1 "' 81 ’ eongresslonvl food com B” l<Mlay Pfitared to Invest IB ’he Hoosier meat and food hy Rep. Gerald Land u, B B<l ' ,he tronp will question of Indiana meat B rr *'«ry Iniere-iU In a hearing ■ •I'Wfain The aeaslon Is one B ’*'**• of midwestern meetings to formulate GOP nation■M pohey fJ,“ OCRAT THIRMO*iItTtR li^ PIRATURE RIDINGS r»».« :::::::: 78 ~:9» ». m 77 WtATMRR •ttly cloudy and continued 2 1 <«day with widely ecat,,7 tounderehower north and fi ' and cooler north, teludy with ocattered J*’*to’towero south toni ß ht. * * tolr and cooler with todnderehowero extreme """ Sunday.

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Graduate Exercises Held Friday Night Catholic School Exercises Held "You are going through a new door to life. Vse your mind only for truth, your will only for good." the Rev, William Faber told S 3 graduates of the Decatur Catholic high school last night at the school uudltoriu.n. The Rev. Faber, professor of philosophy at St. Francis college and head of the matrimonial court of the Fort Wayne diocese, spoke at the annual commencement exercises, attended by a crowd which completely lilted the school auditorium. "We are In this world to know God,’’ the speaker a-sorted "God must be in every thing we do. Nations are conquered not so much by might, hut by ideals in the minds of one person or another. We mTist turn our minds to God "A man trying to use his will for anything hut g<snl Is like a man playing tennis with a butterfly net," The Very Rev. Msgr. Seiineiz. church pastor, before presenting! the diplomas, spoke briefly to the graduates urging them to lie j grateful Io be grateful to par ents. to teachers and all those who! made their education possible and admonished ihdm to use I heir I learning to the best interest of; themselves, the school, the church and country. Ix-e Gage, former marine. Tom Lengerich and Robert Schmitz. I former soldiers, were lauded by Msgr. Selmetz for having served their country and still completed their high school education. Gage and Lengerich personally received their diplomas, while B<hmits's mother. Mrs Frank fU-hmitz, received his In addition to presenting dip lomas to the high school graduates and the 39 graduates of the eighth grades, Msgr. Selmetz announced a list of awards. Celeste Geels, daughter of Mr and Mrs. Joseph Geels and Robert Koors, son of Mr and Mrs. Joseph Koors, maintained the highest scholastic average for the four years, the former with 93.5 percent and the latter with 92.4 percent Recognition was given Mildred Golmer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Geliner. for having maintained a pei feet attendance record during her six years in Junior senior high school. Scholarship awards were announced as follows: Indiana University: James Hess, son of .Mr. and Mrs. Peter Hess; Marian col lege at Indianapolis, Marian Sorg. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Sorg. and St. Teresa college, Winona. Minn.. Patricia Yotk, daughter of Mr and Mrs. Paul York. The Catholic Press association award for outstanding work on a school newspaper went to Joan Bierly. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. Remy Bierly. and Berniece Kintz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Kintz. • In the eighth grade awards, win (Turn To Pass 5, Column 1)

Court Closes For Summer Vacation Next Court Term To Open In September Today was a husy day In Aadins circuit court as attaches prepared tor the closing of court for the summer vacation period. Judge J. Fred Frucht? made a number of entries in estate cases today—the last day of the April term and the final day of court until next September 2. when the September terin is opened. Attorneys gathered in the court room this morning to take action in the suit Involving the Country Club. In which the sale of the land Is asked to meet outstanding obligations. The divorce case of Mary Hairlick against Vivlence Halflick wax also Hated on the docket for action. A dozen or more estate case cards were ready to he presented before the court. This Will be the first actual vacation period for court attaches in two terms, since only a weekend separated the February and April terms

Battle Os Brooklyn’s Meat-Hungry Housewives E Mt I ' Orel trap® 1 THE BUTCHER AT THIS BROOKLYN MEAT MARKET is on the 10-ing >'tul of a battle with housewives as! hey grab for a choice 1 .ut flic \nl In BH J think- Io - looking a: ail the eager neat buyers, he should cast J eye his front to see bloc ks long line, right. ptospe-. tive c ustomers edge their way to the shop Needless to L, say, the butcher's small supply of meat didn't last long. S’- -

Restore Order In i Seething Naples I Monarchist Riots Continue In Italy Rome. June 8 (UP) -Italian: troops and police restored order In seething Naplce early today after a night of rlotoiM Monarchist attacks on police headquarters, the) ■ ailroad terminal ami a radio station. Dem snstrations and homblngs In Naples, Pisa. Rome. Palermo and Bologna were last-minute protests against the electoral overthrow of King Hmn’uert 11. Royalist sources said the King might fly into exile in Portugal today. Three persons were dead anti scores wounded in Naples. Sixty demonstrators were arrested last night when mobs stormed the pule lie building with atones, sticks and hand grenade*. The Italian news agency Ansa reported that police l.roke up u Monarchist demonstration at the American copulate In Palermo, Ficlly. A number of persons were wounded, it said, during a piutest against alleged irregularities in the national referendum that ousted King Humbert il. Ali mb was thrown agaityt communist headquarters In Boolog ha. the Ansa agency reported. Pope Plus Nil received Humbert in a farewell audience a! the Vat lean last night while the rioting progressed in Naples. The Vatican newspaper Observatore Romano called it a "pate-nul cotivertat ion.” The Pontiff received llumliert In his private library. The king left the Vatican l»y a different door to avoid ans public demonstration such as that earlier In (he day out side the Quit Inal Palace. Naples, long a Monarchist strunghold, was in a turmoil. Monarchist posters ami speakers urged the city and ail Southern Italy to secede from the central government of Rome and form a aeparate kingdom. A meeting of |>olitlcul party and civil leaders appealed for calm and proclaiming the Indissoluble unity of Italy. Monarchist party leadens said the riots were perpetrated, not by their members, liut by uncontrolled mobe. Monarchists sent a telegram to Admiral Ellory Stone, chief of the allied commission, asking secession. Tank reinforcements from Rome (Turn To Psge 5, Column !) 0 Scouts Broadcast On WOWO Tonijht Decatur Boy Scouts attending the two-day camporoe at Franke park in Fort Wayne along with Scouts from eight other northern Indiana counties, will he heard on radio station WOWO at 7 o'clock tonight. The Fort Wayne broadcasting station announced a special program yesterday. The affair Is the annual Anthony Wayue council camporee and a number of Decatur and Adami county Boy Scouts are attending.

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Decatur, Indiana, Satur day, June 8, 1946.

Double Funeral For Fire Victims Today Double funeral services will be held at 3 o’clock this afternoon at St. Mark’s Lutheran church at Van Wert. 0., for Dr. and Mrs. Edgar E. Snyder, who lost their Ilves in the LaSalle hotel fire in Chicago Wednesday morning. Dr. Tullimm. . president < f Wittenberg college. Springfield, will officiate.

Commander Os Camp Atterbury Improved Strict Secrecy Kept On Shooting Details Camp Atterbury. Ind., June 8 —(UP)—Army spokesmen today i raid the condition of Col. Ernest A Bixby, Camp Atterbury oommanding officer hospitalized with ' mysterious gunshot wounds, was "very satisfactory.” but maintained strict secrecy on details of the "accidental shooting.” Col, John E. Brannan, post executive officer, said u complete . report of the Incident was at fifth I service command headquarters in Columbus, O. Bixby’s wife. Mrs. Martha Robertson Bixby, was also a patient In the hospital ”as a re- , suit of nervous reaction." Brannan said .there wax "nothing ser- , ioux” almut her condition. ‘ Col. John E. Hatch, who was made acting post commander after Bixby’s removal to the hospital, wax himself hospitalized today. 1 Col. Brannan, now ranking offi--1 cer. at the camp, said army phy- ’ siclans "wanted to dear up an 1 illness of Hatch's through rest." He said the illness apparently was contracted overseas. He • said there was "absolutely no I connection” between Hatch’s III- » ness and the Bixby case. Hatch anonunced yesterday I that Bixby was shot “accidental- • ly” In the tiny, cottage near the post headquarters where he and I his wife lived. His wife was I present at the time. Hatch said. t Hixby was admitted to the hosi pita! Wednesday morning and Mrs. Bixby entered the hospital . the same evening, Brannan said today. , The affair has been shrouded . In secrecy since rumors that both . the colonel and his wife were shot floated around the camp. It , was later learned that Mrs. Bixby . had not heen shot but suffered from "nervous reaction." Bixby has been Atterbury commander since June 13 after serving as commander of an artillery division which landed on Normandy beach In 1944. t ■<)... I Fort Wayne Man To 1 Head Indiana Elks i t Michigan City. Ind., June 8— (UP) Paul G. Jasper. Fort Wayne, I today headed the Indiana Elks • lodge as newly-elected president. » Ejections were held yesterday I at the opening se -don of th >rgauir zatlon'a three-day convention. More » than 1,000 delegated registered for the conference.

LaSalle Hotel Fire Death Toll Now 60 Investigators Seek Cause Os Disaster Chicago. June 8 (UP)—The death toll in the LaSalle hotel fire ; rose to 60 today ax investigators still sought the cause of the disaster. The 60th victim was Mrs. Ann Paulnkls. 24, Waukegan. 111., who died In a hospital early today. At a five-hour hearing before > the city council yesterday. Aid i ermati John J. Duffy blamed the I extent of the disaster on "the - : hotel's negligence.” ! Be charged that there was a de- ' lay In calling th? fire department ■ because the hotel “feared unfavorj able publicity,” and urged that the persons Involved be summonad to testify before a grand Jury. At another hearing before a I "blue ribbon” coroner s’ jury, hotel employes said they had received no written instructions on what to do In case of fire. Employes disagreed on whether there had been a delay of 15 minutes in notifying the tire depart- ' ment, ax charged by fire depart--1 meat official*, Duffy said he was informed of a case In which the assistant manager of one of the city’s large hotels had been discharged "because he had the audacity to turn in a fire alarm without permission from hlx superior*." "It’s high time wo determine whether a hotel has the right to put its r> potation above human life," Duffy assered.

Say Women Keeping Veterans From Jobs Resolution Adopted By Disabled Vets South Bend, Ind.. June B—(UP) -The disabled American veteran* organization, meeting in a two-day state convention, today adopted a resolution attacking employment ot women on night jobs. The resolution asserted that women employed In industry, especially on early morning shifts, are keeping war veterans from their job. State commander Earl J. Snyder said the organization would ask the state labor department to enforce a statute governing the working houre of employed females. The vets’ statement quoted a law forbidding employment of girls and women between the hours of 10 p.m and 6 a m. The veterans also asked for higher gross Income tax exemptions. The DAV legislative committee was instructed to draft legislation for presentation at the next etate general assembly Increasing tax exemptions for disabled veterans from 31,000 to )2,500, hvafijvllle wao chocen as the site for the 1947 otate conference. Also In session yesterday and (Turn To Pag* s. Column 1)

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CIO Union Heads Proceed With Preparations Por Strike Next Saturday

Bread Shortage In Nation Grows Worse Supply Short, Many Families Eat Cake By United Press Many housewives let their families eat cake today—because they couldn’t find a loaf of bread. As the bread squeeze grew progressively worse, the government took steps to ease the shortage. The OPA said that bread prices next week would be hiked about .me cent a loaf to match the higher price ceilings on pastry goods. Grocers have maintained that separate price celling* have diverted flour Into cakes, cookies and pastries. No shortages of the latter were reported, but bread lines continued to form at groceries through out the country. At many cities housewives bought bread early In the day or not at all. At Milwaukee acting director Charles Rtanke of Milwaukee’s Washington Park zoo said food supplies for non-carnlvorous animals wax endangered by the diminishing flour stock* from which a specially-prepared bread is linked. The zoo’s monkeys, fiephants. deer and rhinos and other animals eat 400 pounds of bread daily, he said. At Cleveland the Montana Flour Mills Co. received an emergency grant of 40.000 bushel* of government wheat to be ground immediately for the city’s bakers. Two of the city’s largest bakers said they would he forced to close next week without such relief. At Philadelphia, where bread supplies are reported 40 percent below normal, the OPz\ investigated reports of a black market In which 12-cent loaves are selling for 15 cents There was no shortage of cake or sweet pastries. Cases In Salt latke City protested that lack of bread would force them to close, but OPA (Turn To Page 4. Column 7)

Renew Efforts To End Allis Strike Meeting Called By Federal Conciliator Milwaukee, June B—(UP)8 —(UP) Company and union negotiators meet today in a renewed effort to settle the 42-day-old strike at the West Allis plant of the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. The meeting was called by Maj. Jam<M Holmes, federal conciliator who recessed xeltiem oit conferences Wednesday and announced that no more were scheduled The negotiators had failed to agree on any major Isauew in three day* of bargaining held under a threat by secretary of labor Lewis I!. Schwelienbach to recommend government seizure of the farm equipment and general machinery plant if the strike were not settled. Holmes called thq rm etlng after E. F. Ohmian, chairman of the company negotiating committee, had sent him a telegram demanding that negotiations be rrautned. Robert Ruse, president of striking CiO united automobile workers local 248, announced that the union has appealed to Milwaukee circuit court an order of the Wisconsin tmploymeut relations board directing local 248 to stop mass picketing. The company late yesterday announced that it was giving a 13-A4 cents hourly wage increase to employes who have Joined a back-to-work movement at its strikebound Norwood. 0., plant. A company spokesman said that more than 300 workers have returned to their Jobs at Norwood Leaders of striking (TO united (Turn ToTngr e o | unin

Army Colonel, Wac Wife Held In Jewel Theft Confess Stealing Million And Half In German Jewels Washington, June R — (UP! Military police today hunted an army major, a corporal and about half off 1.500.000 worth of German crown Jewels stolen from a lead lined box hidden In a tunnel underneath historic, 100-room Kronberg castle near Frankfurt. Search for the two men and the remainder of the Jewels followed disclosure by the war department that a honeyntmning army colonel and hlx Wac bride had confessed to the theft, and had turned over about 50 percent of their loot. They were arrested In their bed early Monday morning at Chicago’s hotel, less than 4R hours before It was swept by fire. The honeymooners were identified by the war department as Col J. W. Durant. 36. Falls Church. Va,. and Wac Captain Kathleen B. Nash Durant. 34, Hudson. Wit. Col. A. C. Miller, director of the provost marshal general’s criminal Investigation branch, expected arrest of the major and corporal momentarily” Their names were not disclosed. An army source said that the Durants were brought here from Fort Sheridan. 111., by plane early today. "Colonel Miller Immediately took them away to an undisclosed destination,” the source said. Al Fort Sheridan. 111.. It was I reported without confirmation late last night that a "third army member” wus being held with the Durants for Investigation. The provost marshal’s office said early today, however, that there "wax nothing further on additional arrests.” The jewels. Including rubioa. emeralds, a diadem of diamonds and pearls, and a Jewel encrusted Bible, belonged to the former ruling House of Hesse. Although they are hunting the major and corporal, army officers made It clear that the actual jewel theft wax committed by the Wac captain. If proved. It would give her the dubious distinction of having staged one of the larg(Turn To Page 5. Column 7)

Finds For Defense In Contract Suit Special Judge Gives Ruling Here Friday Judge William H. Eichhorn, of Bluffton, sitting ax special judge here in the contract suit of George W. Myers against Henry and Mildred Swygart. found for the defendants late Friday The suit was brought by the plaintiff, averring that he had purchased a farm from the defendants and made a down payment, but that they refused to comply with the terms of the Contract and complete performance In their defense the defendants contends that the plaintiff had "called the deal off" after declaring that a flaw in the abstract would result in lowering the price agreed upon. The court had heard part of the evidence at a previous date and then on Friday heard the remainder before giving his decision, in which he ordered that a sum of 11.100 left in the clerk's office be returned to the plaintiff. The case wax filed on January 27. 1945 and had been In litigation since that time.

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Immediate Threat Os AFL Walkouts Subsides; No Sign Os Imminent Break Washington, June 9—(UP)-— Deadlocked negotiations with (hipping operators spurred CIO maritime union leaders to proceed with strike plan* today while a more Immediate threat of AFL walkouts subsided. Although labor department official* were optimistic, there still was no sign of a break in the disputes Involving six CIO unions end one independent group which have threatened to strike on Pacific. Atlantic and Hulf coast i» week from today. The sailors union of the Pacific fAFL>. however, accepted an offer to resume negotiations with west coast ship operators at San Francisco today thus averting a threatened tie-up of hundreds of ships in Pacific ports More than gfl.noo AFL seamen engaged In brief work stoppages Thursday, protesting that their negotiation* had been suspended because shipping executives were In Washington to confer with CIO officials. Harry Lundberg. secretarytreasurer of the AFL west coast union, went a step further yesterday and ordered all AFL crews pot to sail. His action forced the ship owners’ offer to resume negotiations. As government conciliators continued their round of conferences. here was the CIO picture: 1. The national maritime union council (ClOt. continuing session* which began yexterday| went ahead with strike preparations. including plan* for spending its ll.OOO.twm Strike fund 2 Conciliators called .Pacific coast management reprexen'atlvea back Into conference with the marine cooks and stewards (CIO), the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association (CIO> and the Marine Firemen’s Union (Ind.) 3. The NMU and Atlantic coast operators were reported standing pat and still far apart on the key Issue of working hours. West coast waterfront employers and Harry Bridges’ longshoremen and Warehousemen Union (CIO) also were reported far apart on wages. in the negotiations thus far. th-* NMU dispute has been treated as the key to disputes Involving the •‘x other unions. The basic issue In the NMU ease Involves, the union's demand for a reduction In working hours. The union asked for a basic 44hour week at sea ami a 40-hour week in port in what It described ax Its final offer. The ship owners have refused to agree to a cut In the present 56-hour week. l/ilmr sources said government < fflclals had pressed the management group for a compromise offer That report wax denied by an authoritative Industry official. Union officials indicated that they were not optimistic about chances of a break unless the government offered a compromise or sought to negotiate a contract with the union itself Following a four-hour aeszlon last night between the NMU and east coast operators, labor deTfurn To Paa* S. Column I) Band Schedule For Week Is Announced The band schedule for next week, beginning Sunday, was listed today by director Albert Sellemeyer. High school liaml membeni are to meet at the Junlor-eenior high building at 7 p.m. Sunday to go to Geneva to participate la the World War II memorial ceremonies. Combined band practice will be held Monday at 6:45 p.m., followed by high school Irnnd practice at 7:30 pin. In the junior-senior high echool. The weekly bund concert will lie presented Tuesday night at the courthouse ramp at 8 p.m. On Friday, the lomuined band la to meet at the i; 6:45, from where the members will march to the B P. O. Elk’s lodge for the flag day exerclaea.