Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 155, Decatur, Adams County, 2 July 1946 — Page 1

VOL. XLIV. No. 155

■fail Stores Aiding Line ■ainsf Rise Prices Moo From Monday Mgh Quotations By United |9Kuiil stores generally held the rising nrlce* today an of cattle and hogs flood livestock mat tot»i of OPA controls. £s the rattle and hog raisers' fKbd their Mock to market price* from their highs of yretar■L the livestock trading pens. the biggest of the market*, early hog re3utf were I®- 000 - which was 15.than received yeaterdayi ■Ki.om* more than were brought Friday -the lust full day under OPA price cell ' gauM (rattle receipt* Increased by' Oil to a total of 9,6**. Thai wan more than were received early top for hog* in Chic-. |IK a hundredweight, a.30 under yesterday'* bent Immediate effect ot the and rattle to market wan Ire more meat for American .dHMT table* before long, blit Chlc-j kyard* sources reported of the big picking XtjjjßMt were not buying hogs in that price* would come (Be of the big four of the meat ■Bing Industry. Wilson and Com announced that it had limit•d ■mount* of meat products on MIMMI hut that these would con to he offered al celling KMI. Wilson statement asserted the price of meal will be tally lower than it ha* on the black market If live marketing* increase and ■K supplies return to normal ■Knei*. New York. Robert II Waaon. of the National Assoc la Manufacturer*, aald that HEielief that the end of the OPA mean the beginning of chaoißan flat lon la "Just damned non HSanufaiturera will produce EBa and they will have to compeie With each other, forcing HUBb* down inntead of up." WaMSMId. IBban while, there were only ujaSered report* of sharp boost Price*. MB Scranton. Pa., a food marih-t ■M butter at Ph cent* a pound, over the OPA ceiling, and flKtr* stood in line to gel It. consumers found ■■t prices up 6 to 8 cents a furred by administration warn B|| of stiffer price rise to come |HeHoum* of Representative* apHBed temporary legislation rethe office of price ad until July 20. But 9Shg Senate opposition threatenJK> block the hill for at least a Bfeittered reports of sharp rent prompted the governor* ■Alabama. New Jersey and Mass-Km-u* to freeze rental* at the ■kOPA levelfl. Ifrr. Robert D. Blue declared ||H a * ta,e of existed Kwa an, l asked that OPA rent mBLoI provision* continue to Ite OhArved. HU proclamation was In of a request, not an ord- ■ other states, some governors IjM th * y tiu<l not * ,,< h ‘ ,n, ‘* r ’ ten< ‘ y others called meetings to the situation. ML lx>* Angeles city council to hold rents at the June ■Klevxl The Chicago real estate aß| advised Its members not to - |Ki rents for two weeks. price on staples comgrain, livestock and cotifMMkPtirted upward. ■Berts predicted that the price inevitably must be reflected CYfcrn To Page 4. Column 7) 4MmoCRAT THERMOMETER SgqtMMRATURE READING* *7*o a.m. ................ ** )0:0( a.m , J& - - 70 E;*o p.m 80 WEATHER Mb tonight and Wednesday; fttUnsr Wednesday.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Freedom Is Denied To Alleged Slayer Habeas Corpus Writ Denied To Heirens Chicago. July 2— (UP) — WilI'am Heirens, 17-year-old University of Chicago student held In the kidnap-slaying of Susanne Degnan, appeared before criminal court Judge Harold 0. Ward today and heard that authorities were reaily to file 19 charge* of various crime* against him. Ward, after hearing aa*l*tant district attorney James V. Cunningham de»crihe the charge*, quashed a writ of habeas corpus ftic-l by James Coghlan. Heirens' attorney. And Heirens. disheveled and complaining of a pain in hi* head, wa* led ent of the courtroom and back to Ma cell. Cunningham said that the charge*—one of assault with Intent to murder, three of assault with intent to kill, and 15 of burglary—were being prepared and that their formal filing could begin within an hour of hla court appearance. They were expected to he lodged before the end of the day. Blate's attorney William Tuohy, who attended the hearing, aald he expected that a “good, stiff bond," would be asked for Heir•ns when the youth appears tomorrow In felony court before Judge Matthew T. Martigan. Chargee will lie filed formally today but Heirens will not again appear in court until tomorrow. He has maintained his innonence of all charges except the at* tempted burglary for which he was arrested last Wednesday. Meanwhile. Miss Evelyn Peterson, Caldwell, la., and her slater. Mrs. Helen McDonnell, Independence, la., appeared today before a grand Jury. Miss Peterson, a former army nurse, has identified Heirens tentatively as the man who fractured her skull In a South Ride apartment last October. . In addition to the Degnan murder, police said Heirens had been connected with at least 19 crimes, including rohberleo, shootings and assault*. Chief of detectives Walter Storms said he was convinced that the huyly. Maladjusted college student was the prowler who had been causing a "reign of terror" on Chicago's North Side during the past two years. After four days of almost around • the ■ clock questioning. Heirens had admitted only one crime—the attempted burglary In which he was arrested last Wednesday. At the end of a gruelling seven h tur session which ended at 2 a. m. qCBT), Heirens showed signs of strain but continued to deny knowledge of the Degnan case. "It looks pretty bad for me, but I was not there” he said. Police listed a* new and dam- ! aging evidence pointing to Heirenr' guilt:

1. A federal bureau of investigation report that a print of Helrena' *efl paisa matched a palm print on the 320,000 ransom note left by the kidnaper of slx-year-(Turn To Page 4, Column 0) 0 Mrs. Peter Heiman Dies Monday Night Funeral Services On Friday Morning Mrs. P. J. Helman, who would have been 66 years old on July 3, died at her home south of Decatur on Mud Pike, at 10 o'clock last night, following an extended Illness. She had been bedfast for five weeks. Mrs. Heiman was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bents and was torn In Columbia City. July 3, 1500. Rhe was married to Peter J. Helman. Adams county farmer, on Feb. 3, 1889 Surviving are the following children: Mrs. John Mattes, Mrs. Paul Re pine. Fort Wayne; Mrs. Joseph Welakettel. Coldwater. Ohio; Mrs. J. Frederick Berger, Jackson. Mich., Mrs. Othmar Wannemacher, Cloverdale, Ohio; Phillip and Robert of Decatur; Raymond and Dorothy st home. Brothers and sisters who survive are. Ralph Bents, akron. Ohio; Mrs. Theo. Lengerich, Mrs. Mary Meyers, Mrs. Harve Shell. Frank. Charles. Lewis, Samuel and Theodore Bentz, all of Decatur. Fourteen grandchildren also survive. Mrs. Heiman was a membor of St. Mary's Catholic church sad al (Turn To Paas », Column ?>

Evidence Os Bomb Damage Grows Hourly Five Ships Sunk, Half Os Test Fleet Revealed Damaged Off Bikini Atoll. July 2—(UP* —Operations crossroads scientists have determined that the atomic bomb exploded In Bikini lagoon was "somewhat less powerful" than the bomb exploded over Nagasaki last year, V|ce Adm. W. H. P. Blandy announced today. The bomb used at Bikini to determine the effect of an atomic ■ weapon against navy ships — an effect thus far gauged In terms of five ship* *unk. six wrecked and half the entire fleet of 73 ships damaged—was of the same tvpe as the Nagasaki missile That bomb devastated 10 square miles of the Japanese city. Although less powerful than Its prototype, the Bikini bomb, according to Blandy. was said by task force scientists to he a "perfectly normal Nagasaki type homb." . "It was more powerful than the bomb exploded over New Mexico and more powerful than th* Hiroshima bomb which killed 80.000 persons," Blandy said. Evidence of the cataclysmic fury of the atom tomb swelled as hoarding parties for the first time got close enoqgh to thd target ships in Bikini lagoon to see the damage wrought in Monday’s cosmic blast. Crews with scientific equipment moved cautiously among th" stricken ships today to measure the damage. Secretary of na.’y James Forrental in a radio broadcast from shipboard said It was "too early to draw specific conclusions." but that he held a "broad and genera) , opinion that there win still be navies in the world." Like a man bleeding internally. the guinea pig fleet appeared Ip much better shape from a distance than from close up. Every passing hour brought new evidence of the magnitude of (he destruction. Shortly before noon today, the Japanese cruiser Rakawa, shredded until It looked like a floating fadoga. upended and sank with a bubbling gurgle beneath the new still waters ot the lagoon. A few hours earlier Vice Admiral W. II P. Blandy announced that the mortally hurt destroyer Anderson had Joined the transports Gilliam and Carlisle and (Turn To Page 3, Column C) 0 No Drastic Price Boosts Reported Grocery Prices Are Not Yet Increased Still no drastic increase In cost of living was reported here today as the city moved into Its second OPA less day A price rise was reported on only one more Item and this was not ’ Universal. Boitied beer jumped from 15 to 20 cents per bottle late yesterday afternoon throughout most of the city's taverns. The boost applied only to "home" and not to "premium" beers In most cases. At least one or two cluhs did not participate In the increase of price on "home" beers, holding at 15 cents. Essential food Items remained at the same price levels, insofar as could be ascertained here today. A statement was received here today from the branch manager of the Kroger Stores in this area in which It was declared that the stores "will maintain present prices despite expiration of OPA." A similar statement was issued to the United Press wire service carlier yesterday by the A & P stores. Independent grocers here, contacted In a survey yesterday. Indicated the same policy. Meanwhile a survey disclosed that most landlords were also "standing by." to And out what : course congress would follow In banning rent control or replace- , Ing the celling pirces and regulations. In only one or two Instances vere rents In Decatur raised after the lifting of the rent control and legal minds expressed a doubt that the higher price could be collected before the controls were restored by the federal government.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, July 2,1946

Families Tense As Bomb Dropped r-v -'-jar —an — LfijHVHIMk J THE ATOM BOMB was just being released as thia picture was made in a New York broadcasting studio where families of the pilot, Maj. Woodrow Rwancutt, and the bombardier. Maj. Harold Wood, listened to the broadcast from Bikini atoll. Left to right are Mr*. Ralph Rloan, Hemstead. N. Y., sister of the pilot; Mrs. Carolina Rwancutt, Wis.. pilot's mother; Mrs. Jennie Wood. Bordertown, N. Y., mother of the bombardier. Behind them are Keith Rloan and Donald Wood.

NO PAPER THURSDAY In accordance with annual custom, the Decatur Daily Democrat will not publish an edition Thursday, which is July 4. 0 Believe Compromise On Trieste Likely Russian Delegate Eases Up Demands Paris, July 2—. (UP) — With a l*ig (our compromise on Trieste apparently within sight speculation centered today on the possibility that the proposed 21 nation lull dress peace conference may to split Into two sessions. It was suggested that the first session might to held before the United Nations general assembly meeting In New York in Septem tor with a second session following the New York meeting. Thia auggeitlon wa» advanced Ity observers who believed that the time remaining would be too short for a full dress conference to complete all the details of the peace treaties for Italy and the Axis satellites. Another alternative would be to start the full dress conference in Paris and wind It up In New York concurrently with the genera! assembly meeting. Secretary of state James F. Byrnes conferred at length today with Vice Premier Edouard Kardelj of Yugoslavia on the impending Trieste compromise. The foreign ministers were r.greed on the toundary between Italy and Yugoslavia — the line proposed by the French — and their differences over Trieste seemed to be narrowed down so that little danger remained of a failure to reach a final comprotniae agreement. Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov of Russia opened the gate for the spurt of progress by the ministerial council. Backing down from his hitherto adamant demands that Yugoslavia get all of Venezia Giulia, he suddenly agreml to the French proposed frontier, to which America and Britain already had assented, end to the permanent Internation*)|Mtlon of Trieste. The proposed international zone is a shallow area running from Dulno, roughly 12 miles northwest of Trieste, to Cittanova D'lstria. approximately 25 miles couth-southwest of Trieste. The agreed border line runs from the Austrian frontier near Villach, east of Travisio, Just west of Caporetto, Just east of Gorlzia and to the proposed Trieste internationalization zone east of Monfalcone.

10-Week Strike At Bloomington Ended Bloomington. Ind., July 2—(UP) —Six hundred employes ot the Showers Furniture factory ended their 19-week atrlke today and pre pared to return to work next Monday. Memtom of th- furniture work era union voted last night to accept a compromise settlement proposed by labor conciliators who met with representatives of the company and union several days ago The workerz agreed to accept a 13-cent hourly wage adjustment with a new tonus arrangement.

Suspend Business Here For Holiday Fireworks Display Feature Os Fourth Business generally will to suspended In Decatur on Thursday, July 4, as the city Joins with the nation in celebrating the first peacetime July Fourth since 1941. Most retail stores, offices and Industries will close for the ent're day. Exceptions to the closing will be restaurants, confectioneries, taverns, service stations and theaters. All county and city offices will be closed, as will the First State Bank. The Daily Democrat will not publish an edition Thursday Feature of the city's observance v.-il) to the colorful fireworks display at 8:30 o’clock Thursday nlqht at Hanna-Nuttman park, sponsored by Adams Post 43. 1 American Legion. This display is being resumed tfter a five-year wartime lapse, t nd Is the Legion's "victory celebration." In pre war years, the flreworks display attracted thousands of persons to Decatur, and this year's event Is expected to be no less of a drawing crowd. The show Is slated to last one hour.

The 10th annual picnic for Central Soya Co. employes and their families will be held all day Thursday at Run Set park, southeast of Decatur. Features of the plt-nle will to a barbecue lunch eon at the noon hour, door prizes, amateur contests, and games of various types. Special mush- will also to provided during the day. Livestock Pouring Into Major Markets Hogs, Cattle Pour into Stock Markets Chicago, July 2—(UP)— Hogs end cattle were pouring into major midwestern stm-kyards today. with early hog receipts at Chicago stockyards the iargeat since Jan. 9. 1945. Prices dropp ed 32 or more from the high of .Monday. Early hog receipts at Chicago were 19,009, up 15,000 from the I revlou* day and up 18.000 from last Friday, the last full day's opt ration* under office of price administration ceilings. Cattle receipts were 9.500. up 7.000 from yesterday and 8,700 Friday. Whether the sharp upsurge in receipts will continue was a matter for dehate among market experts. It was noted that the early top for hogs was (16 a hundredweight, aliout 82.50 under the tost prices of the previous day. The market was slow. Os eight leading midwestern markets, Indianapolis reported the largest hog receipts and Omaha the largest cattle receipts. Iqflianapolia had 20,000 hogs, as compared with 1.194 last Friday. and about 7,100 a year ago. The, market was uneven, and as much as |3 lower than yesterday. At a dozen leading western markets, hog receipts were 111,(Turn To 4, Column 5)

Senate Sidetracks OPA Temporary Extension As Passed Monday By House

Tax Boost To Follow Increase In Prices New Treasury Head In News Conference Washington. July 2.—(UPl—Secretary of the treasury John W. Snyder said today that If prices are allowed to rise with no further controls, "Il would be normal to expect taxes to follow prices." In .hi* flmt new* conference since taking office, Snyder said toth corporate and Individual taxes , would have to to raised if price ] controls were not revived and price ( levels were allowed to skyrocket. | He expressed strong hope, how- , ever, that congress would approve a Hatlsfavtory bill to revive the | rent, wage and price controta which i expired Sunday midnight. i Snyder said the adminlstrati >n | planned no new tax bill this year, indicating it would oppose any es- ,| fort to lower lax levels as long a* any appreciable element of Infla- , Hon continued to threaten the na ( tion'* economy. He *ald it would to "tough sled ding" to balance the fiscal 1947 budget, "but w«> will try and 11 am hopeful that we will make It." He said the terminal pay bill now before congreu* wa* one of the principal reason* a balanced bud get would to difficult to achieve. Bnyder said virtually all refund* of individual taxe* for the calendar year 1915 liad been com pietod by last Sunday. He said fiecal 1946 represented a materia! imroveinent in the na Hon'* fiscal picture. Snyder reported that the deficit i was less than 1h,000,900.000 ißt, compared with a deficit of almost ! |54,fiOO.OOO.OOO(Bl in fiscal 1945. Net receipt* were more than 143,000,900.000 HD. the second high-

(Turn To Pag* 4, Column S) ' 0 Livestock Receipts Reported Heavy Here Livestock receipts In Decatur soun-d upwards here today, a check with the local markets revealed. With prices up at both markets, Kiiliner stock yards teported re-! ceipts three to f >ur times heavier and at Kennett, Murray & Co. | twice a* heavy. 0 Uphold Remonstrance To Proposed Drain Petition Is Denied On David Roth Drain The Adams county lommlsalonera. meeting In regular session late Monday, sustained a remonstrance against the dredging of the David Roth drain, soullieaa' cf Decatur,, and dismissed the petition. The toard found that signers of the remonstrance are owner* of more than two-thirds of the acreage affected by the proposal. Two petitions for cleaning ditchh In Union township with the new drag-line, recently purchased by j the county, were also filed with | the hoard. These are the first to be tiled since the new equipment wae purchased. The hoard also received the of- j ficial report from the state, apI proving the county home and coun- ' ty jail, following an inspection by a representative of the state welfare department. Auditor Thurman 1. Drew, secrei iary of the board, stated Balay that I the members had agreed to adveri tlse for bhk on the construction of the Wechter bridge in Blue Creek township immediately u|*on receipt of approval of the addition al appropriations by the state tax ' toard, If and when such approval is forthcoming. A petition was also received by the toard asking for the applies- ( tion of “black top ’ on fliree miles ' of a north-south road, located one mile east of the Wells county line and running north from state road 124. One mile of this road, running ' south from federal road 224. has already been “black-topped" and ; a petition was filed some time ago ‘ asking for such Improvement on 1 the remaining two miles. Imine- ’ ately siuth of the latter stretch.}

Governor May Issue Special Assembly Call Special Session If Congress Fails To Resume Rent Control Indianapolis, July 2—(UP) Gov. Ralph F. Gates aald today he very likely would call a special session of the Indiana state legislature unless congrem re-enacta rent con trol*. The governor said he doubted that he would make any decision today, but "I'll probably know Mimething definitely within 24 tours " Hi* statement followed an opin lon by Attorney General Jatne* A Emmert that the governor had no authority under Indiana law to Mt rent control*. Emmert held, however, that a *|>e<-ia! session of the general assembly could enact such a law. “I've been checking sentiment In Waehlngton this morning in an attempt to find out whether OPA will to re-enacted." Gates eaid. “I won't do anything temporarily to , cauee it would be very foolish for us to set up a rent control statute and then have a federal one enacted shortly after." latter, the governor received a telegram from U. 8. Hen Homew E. ('apehurt, R . Ind . saying he toliev<d that congress would pass rent ‘ control legislation. "I am confident that congress will son* paw legislation regulating rente for one year and make it retroactive to July I " the senator wired

Gates would not say at what | level he would recommend that . lents to frozen He said It might to at Ol'A , ceilings, or "possibly 15 to 20 per i cent above these levels." The governor also revealed that he had summoned his economic council and asked it to make a survey ot how many people were being evicted or forced to pay exorbitant rents. "There may be no law now where by I can do anything, lint I will not ; stand by and let the people of ' Indiana be subjected io unscrupulous tactical by a few landlords," I Gates said. The governor said Be would take i no action on price controls "unless that situation got out of hand" -— -0— Court Fight On Here For Child's Custody Habeas Corpus Writ Is Asked For Child A bitter legal battle for the custody of a five year-old child, living in Kirkland township, was still underway In Adams c rcult court before Judge J. Fred Fruchte late this afternoon. The court Is hearing evidence In an application for a writ of habeas corpus issued late Monday upon a pet it ion filed by Attorney D Burdette Custer for the child's father. Charles Brayer, also of Kirkland township Defqpdants In the action are the latter's brother and sister-in-law. Henry and Viola Drayer. In the trial It was brought out that the child, Adella Irene, went to live with her aunt and uncle soon after birth, because of her mother's illness. The plaintiff contends that the mother of the child is cured of her Illness to the extent that she can properly care for the child, while the defendants contended in court today that she Is the only woman in the household and cannot walk ' without aid. The plaintiff contended in his l>etitlon and from the witness stand that the defendant* have refused to give up possession of the child. A number of relatives of toth families heard the trial and evidenced their intentions of testifying as witnesses when sworn in by the (Turn To Pag* 3, Column S)

Price Four Cents

Senate To Try For One-Year Extension Os OPA Acceptable To Pres. Truman Waehington. July 2.— (UP)- Re» ale friend* and bx* of OPA decided hulay to sidetrack a stopgap bill passed by the house and try Instead for a one year extension acceptable to President Truman. The decision was baeed on thn belief that an entire new price control formula can to handled in th« Senate almost a* speedily as the 29-day extension whipped through the house yesterday. Senate action is hardly likely before the end of this we«k, however, tocattse of the stubborn opposition of Sen. W. Lee O'Daniei, D . Trt . to even a temporary revival of any price controls. Under Senate rules. O'Daniel can singlehandedly block floor consideration of the house-approved stop-gap bill, or any other measure to extend OPA. until Thursday. The administration forces were encouraged by the house's thumping 288-to-<l vote for ul least the ’••day extension. They saw it a* evidence that an overwhelming majority of the house doesn't want price controls alMilishrd completely. There was widespread tollrf. however, that if the senate change* it into a one-year extension with congressional restrictions against air-tight price control, the house would gu along. Hen Robert A. Taft. R.. 0., chairman of the senate republican steering committee and a leader iu predicted the ,-onate banking com* ure Mr. Truman vetoed last week, predicted the senat ebunking committee could produce a new oneyear extension I*lll by Thursday

Senate democratic loader Allien W Hartley. Ky.. thought the committee could produce "an acceptable bill" by early next week. Hen. Kenneth S. Wherry. R.. Neb.. insisted that any bill to extend OPA go through the hanking committee and follow the regular parliamentary procc dur e. Ho stood ready to cooperate with O'Daniel against any attempt to rush a bill through under euspen* slot! of rules Wherry and Taft were determined there would be no revival of price control, without specific congressional restrictions along the lines of the measure Mr. Truman vetoed. Barkley bowed to the inevitable that the donate undoubtedly would insist upon imposing acme restriction*. He admitted tie Was Working informally on some compromise ideas but refused to dieclose detail*. Meanwhile, the government prico and wage stabilization agencies which technically died at midnight Sunday went ahead with plans for 1 limited operation. In anticipation I of new congressional authority. The wage stabilization board ' ordered regional office* to feMto rulings on all cases on which action was completed up to laat Saturday It ordered that no final acU ion be taken on 1.500 other pending cases unless congre-g gives tho ■ agency new authority. Price administrator Paul Porter in a radio-broad..no -aid that while OPA has no authority to enforce price ceilings, it does havit the duty to: J. Carry on proceeding* against (Turn To Page 5. Column 7) 0 - Ex-Fascist Judge Lynched In Italy Rome. July Z.-H'PI -A frenzied crowd at Bordlghera today eeized and lynched ('apt Mario Bramblla, former fascist judge who was released from prison under the recent amnesty decree. He had , returned to Bordlghera. where during the German occupation he ordered numerous partisan* executed Thompson Funeral Here On Wednesday Funeral services will be held at the Zwick funeral home at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon for Charles Thompson, who died at his home at Mansfield. 0. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. The body la scheduled to arrive at the funeral home at 1 o’clock tomorrow afternoon.