Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 170, Decatur, Adams County, 20 July 1946 — Page 1

yOUIIIV No. 170

SECOND SOLON LINKED TO PROFITS PROBE

■lock k BnuedOn Measure Boycotts Prices Coßnued In U. S. July conferee® met in a final desperate effortK bt-<-ak 'heir ll» p -<lay decontrol provisions thsßl’A revival hill. ‘ ,l! rP!! ' s’slemate mem-~«|iri-H«eil pessimism < hances for reaching compromise without r>their respective bodies instruction®. 'MM stumbling block to an ■K.■< rm-lit conlinues Io cell members’ rejection to oil meat, poultry, dairy wheat tobacco and petK Democratic leader AlBarkley. Ky. reportedly another plan designed lhe d iff cremes on com .I. controls Barkley willing to unveil his gM]|M proposal before placing it 3Mtiie conference. 'Io- meeting began. Sen. MM a Taft. R. 0. said ho «mK<> particular promise" of reaching an agree■M t ailed the situation conferees were •getting fast ” He said the 14 did not want to send back to the senate and f'" instructions except ns resort.” S Kenneth Wherry. D. Neb. of of the amend exempting foods from any controls, said he hoped the MBBr n ‘ '■ wouW **”'• ,h< * n,< :> k '<> the house for I if lh< house were given unity to vote on the > wr '" ,n Into the senate i 111 ,pai ” a i , i ,r,,v, ‘ decontrol amendment | Little Effect Noted ® By United Press Biim.-rs’ boycotts protesting . food prices continued j the nation today but K in scattered instances I wa * n0,p, l I B 1 ’ 0,1,1 n,p «’ packer signiI of the Imycotts. G I '* r l’ r,, *idcnt of John Mor- > Co. at Ottumwa, la. said | *®n prices are abnormally I people can discriminate in ■ . i )ar( ’ ha *” l ’- or huy suiisti ; nr do without." I ’hat manner." he sail, "we #Mve more effective price con--7B ttl!>n any OPA < ’ an P rom ’tlIwß in a thousand years." prices continued to hißh above former OPA prices in many communial RaHlmore, Md., pork was Wt from 49 to 55 cents a Sd. compared to the OPA ceil*®nf 36 to 40 cents Reef and formerly 33 to 38 cents, 4 at 69 to 85 cents a pound. 31 and lamb were as high as •ents over OPA ceiling. butchers said they a Plentiful supply of beef B r " r ' l To pa«» S. Column Tj <■ 1 ' "0 — Barley Howell Dies I Marion Hospital i Barley Howel), a former rest- ‘ W of ,h,s ‘’Ky “nd father of S »>■•* Howell, died Friday eve > B a ‘ 5 15 Pm. at the Marlon • B' ral hospital, Marion, of com I • a ’*°ne LSirvlvors include hie wife, the ; •‘-r Bertha Kitty, the aon. and I ■ e,an,, *" n - Pfc- William K. W'll. now stationed with the 5 1,1 ** ,raall,urt - Germany. Fun j W services will be held at the ■"'•in Marlon .Monday atternoon ■ 30 Pm. KritL OCRAT ™X’”*OMETtR B Zr RERATURE WKAOINGff ■JV"’ - 70 ' B.m. wrw : ■ am - - -a 72 I WEATHER ■ “rtly cloudy and collar to- ■ y with scattered thunderr. W,r * «m‘h. Clearing and ■ ,r Bunday fair.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Assessed Value Os Property Increased Boost Os $666,771 Over 1945 Valuation The net assessed value of taxable property In Adams county climbed to 829,354,432, an Increase of 8666.771 over the past year, tabulation® made by Thurman I. Drew! county auditor, revealed today. Decatur's net valuation shows an increase of 8148.268. reaching a grand total of 86,462,048. The above valuation totals are net after mortgage and soldiers* exemptions were deducted, and Include the state's 1946 assessments of railroads and other utilities, which were received at the auditor's office yesterday. The state's assessments dropped from 88.648,705 to 83,577,545, a decrease of 871,160 from the 1945 totals. .Mortgage exemptions dropped from 8L025.055 to 8969,560. while soldiers' exemption® increased from 836.367 to 8*7.407. The net valuations in the 12 townships, which also include the 1946 state assessments, follow: Blue Creek. 81,219.504 00; French, 81.356.783.00; Hartford. 81.374.557.00; 978.00; Kirkland. 81.535.425110; Monroe. 82.363.803.00; Preble. 81.* 729.832.00; Root. 82.242.826.00; St. Marys. 81.550.903.00; Union. 81.249.234.00; Washington. 82.f4I.O98.OO; Wabash. 81.728.168 00; The valuation In the towns are: Berne, 82,114,121.00; Monroe. $186,076.00; Geneva, 8590.45H.00. The railroads lead in the slate's assessments on utilities. The Erie railroad company has the highest assessment of any taxpayer in the county. Its net asressment being 8*97,483.00. This is a de« rease of 8201 over last year's assessment. The Pennsylvania railroad is assessed for $759,505. The Nickel Plate (Cloverleaf) Is assessed for 8671.593. The next highest assessment is tiiat of the Indiana Service Cor(Turn To Page S. Column 6) Henry B. Heller Judge Pro Tem Henry B. Heller, local attorney, will aerve an judge pro tem of Adams circuit court next week during the absence from lhe city of Judge J. Fred Fruchte. Judge Fruchte stated that judge pro tem Heller would sit on Wednesday and Saturday mornings from 9 o’clock until 11 o'clock for the regular transaction of court mat ters. During the rest of the week, he will be available for emergencies. o Commissioners To Take Sealed Bids Will Receive Bids At August Session The county commissioners will receive sealed blds on four car loads of coal, filing cabinets in the clerk's and auditor's office and for the construction of the Wechter bridge in Blue Creek township, at their monthly session Tuesday. August 6. Prepared stoker coal is to be delivered to the county home. Jail, garage and court house. A car load will lie furnished to each building. Al the county clerk's office, steel document files are to be furnished. Including ladder and track for those elevated above hand's reach. Every file In the office Is filled. Clyde Trout ner, clerk, informed the commissioners at their July session. Hteel filing cases are to he furnished in the auditor's office, specifications for the equipment being on file at the office. The description on the improvement ot the Wechter bridge In Blue Creek township, reads: "Re move and replace east abutment; replace present superstructure with new 75 foot low truss type bridge; install new seat and mud wall on west abutment. An appropriation of $19,485 has been made tor the construction of the Wechter bridge Appropriations of $1,250 for the clerk's office and S6OO for the audUor’s office equipment, were also made | by the county council.

100 Are Killed In Rioting In Bolivian City Attempt To Murder Bolivia President Results In Rioting Arica. Chile, July jo.-(fp)— Border reports from La Paz today ria id 100 persons were killed and 150 wounded in the Bolivian capital during a revolutionaiy outbreak climaxed by the wounding of three high officials In an attempt to assalinate President Gualberto Vlllarroel. Bloody rioting broke out Tuesday In l.a Paz. according to advices from tin* capital. The government organ M Cumbre said the "sule verslve movement" wax masterminded from Santiago and Buenos Aires, evidently by Bolivian exlhw in those capitals. The President had the support of tile army and police. Iragmentury reports seeping ever the frontier said. I'nofficial accounts said Villarroel, prompted by the wholesale bl<MMk«hed and his own narrow escape from a hall of bullets which splattered a platform on which he was speaking, had decided to shake up lhe government. Th<» new regime will be composed entirely of army men. the report said, indicating the |H4islbilily of a virtual military coup. Vlllarroel was speaking to a crowd which gathered around the government palace when the shooting occurred. The crowd apparently had gathered before the palace to protest agaitwt government policy which would prompt the violence and terrorism. Suddenly a rattle of gunfire came from the crowd, the bullets showering the bah-ony platform where the President stood. Wounded were Col. Julio Pinto, acting foreign minister and one of the ".drong men” Vlllarroel had gathered around him: Gen. Francisco Barrero, army chief of staff; and Lt. Col. Lukt Arce Pacheco, pnwi detilial aide. All were on the Im!(Turn To Page 4, Column 3) —— o Rev. Cavanaugh Is Notre Dame Prexy Elected President Os U. Os Notre Dame Norte Dame, Ind.. July 20 — (VP)--The Rev. John J. Cavanaugh. C. R. C., 47-year-old vice president of the university «>< Norte Dame, today was elevated to the presidency of the famous Catholic school for men. Cavanaugh, a native of Owosso Mich., the home town of Gov. T. E. Dewey of New York, succeeds the Rev. J. Hugh O'Donnell. C. S. O'Donnell was president of the university and Cavanaugh wa* vice president since 1940. Announcement of the change In administrators was made at the conclusion of triennial meeting of the I'nlted States chapter of the priests of the congregation of the Holy Cross, the religious order which conducts Norte Datne. The provincial council elected to the vice presidency as Cavanaugh's successor the Rev. John H. Murphy. C. S. C., superior of Moreau seminary at Notre Dame since 1943. The new administrators were elected for three-year terms. The Rev. Thomas A. Steiner. C. chapter, also announced numerous S. C., provincial of the controlling other appointments. Cavanaugh has been associated with Notle Dame since 1917. In his early years, he was private who headed N. Dame the late Rev. secretary to another Cavanaugh John W. Cavanaugh. The two were not related. The new president once served as secretary to Henry Ford's private secretary, and. later was associated with the Rtudebaker Corp, at South Bend, Ind. Murphy Is a native of Racine. Wis. He was a graduate student in a Rome Blblcal institute when war broke out in 1939. Other appointments announced (Tura To Pago 8, Column 1)

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, July 20, 1946

Just Call Them “Freckles” 7 \ ba AUGUST GUARDING, 11. shows his pride at being crowned king of freckles In the 11th annual contest sponsored by New York City’s Children's Aid society. The queen Is Eleanor Connors. 10. and her 58 freckles per square inch top August's by eight.

4-H Club Winners Selected Friday Demonstrations And Judging Held Friday Demonstrating and Judging activities of Adams county 4-H girls proceeded yesterday la spite of lhe extreme heat. Fifteen demonstrations had been prepared by the various clubs for the county contest. "Sloppy Sue Can be beautiful," a demonstration presented by Eienor Meyer and Deloria Bultemeyer, of the St. John's Smiling Juniors 4 H club, was selected to represent Adams county in the district meet to be held Thursday. July 25. at Columbia City. Coleen Wagner of the Monroe Busy Bees club, demonstrating "A lunch with a Punch.” was selected as first alternate. Also receiving an "A” rating for demonstrating were Ruth Graham end Maxine Dubach, who demonstrated making a spring apple pie. Judging contests in four projects were going on at the same time as the demonstrations. Twenty-four girls from 14 clubs judged In clothing. They judged school dresses modeled by two sets of twins, Sara* and Nancy Krick and Jean and Jane Barber of Decatur. A class of slips for Judging and a true and false test were also used to test the girls' judgment. Gwendolyn Rice of Monmouth placed first and Kathleen Kauffman of Hartford was second. These girls will Judge clothing at Columbia City. June Teepleof (Turn To Par* 4. Column S»

Pearl Harbor Probe Report Due Today Expect Blame Fixed On Two Commanders Washington. July 20—(UP)— The congressional Pearl Harbor Investigating committee planned tn give congress today its detailed report on the naval disaster of Dec. 7. 1941. Reliable sources said nearly a week ago that eight of the 10 committee members had agreed that primary blame for the debacle falls on the army and navy commanders stationed in Hawaii when the Japanese struck. The two minority members, both Republicans, disagreed with the finding on the ground that officials In Washington hear some of the responsibility, these sources Mid. The committee's report, a result of the eighth and most exhaustive official Inquiry into the Pearl Harbor attack, was expected to be released to congress and the public late today.

Four Men Overcome By Heat On Friday Four men. overcome during Hie extreme heat Friday, wen- released from the Adams county memorial hospital this morning after they showed considerable improve-metit The victims were AliiOt Studler, •of Monroe street; William Flag, of ! Madison street; Jamas Bowersack of Dixon, 0.. and Raymond Shellenberger, of Monroevllb- route 2. — -0 ———— Severe Heat Wave Broken Last Night Heat Wave Cracked Here By Showers Intermittent showers, starting Friday evening and lasting throughout the night and early Saturday, broke the most severe heat wave which Decatur and Adi ms county have experienced this summer. Temperature readings dropped several degrees in a few hours Friday evening. Friday was one of the hottest days of the current season and one local person, Al Studler, was overcome by the heat. He was taken to the Adams county hospital. Thermometers read from 90 degrees upward to 96 degrees late Friday afternoon. The rain was accompanied by some lightning and thunder but the amount of rainfall was small In most parts of the county, and streams were so low that they did not rise any great amount. The rain was welcomed by local homeowners whose luwnp had been scorched by lhe heat of the lest 10 days. Gardens and fields were badly In need of the rain, which still was reported insufficient in most pari* of the county No severe electrical storms were reported. The skies remained overcast most of Saturday morning with light rainfall at Intervals. The temperature at 9 o'clock Saturady morning as recorded on the Dally Democrat thermometer was 70 degrees, a drop of 15 degrees from Friday morning at the same time. Cooler In State By United Press The back of the summer's worst heat wave was broken in Indiana today. Cooling breezes swept over the state from the northwest after two days of the highest temperatures of 1946. Thundershowers washed the atmo»ph<fe last night, and cloudy skies kepi the mercury from rising after dawn today. The temperature reached an official 100 degrees in Terre Haute yesterday, and one or two degrees lower in other representative Hoosier cities. The top mark In Indianapolis was 98. tying an all-time July 19 record set hi 1930 Showers proved a boon to farm crops snd gardens, thirsty for (Turn To Pigs », Column I)

Washington Congressman Linked To $2,500 Check From War Contractor

Slayer Recaptured Soon After Escape Convicted Killer Os Brother Nabbed Ixiulslana. Mo., July 20—(Vl’i — Howard leppert. 45 year-old convicted slayer of his brother, today was recapture-1 by Missouri authorities less than 12 hours after he and two other prisoners esca|>ed from the county Jail at Jerseyville. 111. leppert was awaiting sentence for the confessed slaying of his brother Frederick, a St. Izmls postal employe and Jursvyville fatmer. when he escaped. He and two AWOL soldiers from Scott Field. 111., held on charges o< burglary, pried a bar from their cell window and fled. City marshal Clyde Powers said he had l»een told another of the fugitives. Charles Ross Jenkins. 22. had appeared at his home here and had been persuaded by his family to surrender voluntarily Power said Jenkins was enroute back to Jerseyville with his mother and a brother. Missouri and Illinois police were alerted for lhe third fugitive. Paul E. Main. 17. of Cottage Hill. 11l leppert was recaptured as he x alked down a Louisiana street by officer Jim Wilson. The policeman Stopped him because he was acting suspiciously and leppert readily admitted his identity, Powers said The trio reached Louisiana by forcing a motorist. Gordon Borrow of East St. Ixiuis. 111., to ■lrlve them from Madison. 11l Borrow said he was not harmed. The fugitives left him, Borrqw said, after the battery of his car ran down in laiuislana. Borrow said that when the three men learned he had no money they treated him to a sandwich at an all-night stand in Ixiuisiana. Main was believed armed with a loaded German army pistol and an empty Belgian revolver taken from a desk in the Jerseyville Jail. 0 Plead NotGuillyTo Cruelty To Animals Two Men Arrested On Cruelty Charge William Rekeweg. Wells county and Webster Clifton, Ohio resident, arrested by sheriff Leo Gillig Friday on charges of cruelty to animals, filed in Adams circuit court recently by W. J. Goss. Fort Wayne, district humane society officer, through their attorney, Severin Schurger of this city, waived arraignment rnd entered pleas of not guilty this morning before Judge Fted Fruche. Both men were released on bond following the hearing. The men were charged with leaving 100 head of sheep and 35 head of heifers unkepl on a farm in Adams county for several days. The humane society officer who investigated the case charged that most of the sheep were ill and that the animals were without water for several days. The names of the two men were withheld Thursday when the affidavits were filed because they had not been arrested. Trial date for the two will be set later. -! -0 * Youth Killed When Run Over By Tractor Crawfordsville. Ind.. July 20— (I'P)—lnjurlXM suffered when he was run over by a tractor proved fatal yesterday to Drawin Townsend. 13. son of Mr. and Miw. Ben Tuwnaeiid. Veedersburg. He died in a Danville, 111., hospital.

Soviel Police Hold Missing U. S. Officers Military Spokesman Says Secret Police Hold Two Officers Berlin. July 20. (VP) The top American and Russian officers in Germany were understood to be conferring here today on the dis appearance of two V. S. army men who were reported to la* in the hands of the Soviet secret police. Responsible source* said Gen. Joseph T. McNarney and Mtimhal Vassily I). Sokolovsky were meeting to dfeu-uss the cae« of (’apt Harold Coldn of Newark. N. J . and l.t. George Wyatt of Oklahoma City. Report* of the conference at the highest level in this country followed prediction* by American officers that only Intercession in that category would liberate the army officers. Earlier tialay a military spokesman said Cobin aid Wyatt were eeized by the Russian secret police, who still ’held them despite the persistent efforts to negotiate their release. A spokesman for the army’s criminal investigation division eaid it had specific detail* which convinced authorities that Coldn and Wyatt were prisoners ol the NKVD or Soviet secret police The details were withheld for the time being in order not to impair any value they may have in any further bargaining witli the RutwiaiM for the rebase of the men. The spokesman said the CID (Turn To Cage 6, Column 6) 0 Fourth Os Bank Loot Found In Stolen Car Richmond. Ind . July 2<> tVl’t A navy veteran whose automobile was stolen and used in a bank holdup at .New Palestine. Ind, found one-fourth of the 815.600 loot In a paper sack in his recovered tar today. Durwood Wise, a Greenwood. In<l.. garage employe, was notified his car hatl been found. He started to drive it home. <>n a hunch, he removed the seats ftom the car. I'nder the front seat was a sa<-k. Between s3.mm and 84,000 in currency weie stuffed in it. 0 Marcellus Davison Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon Marcellus Davison, 72. Monroe township farmer, died Friday afternoon at his home following a heart attack. He had been In ill health for several years He was a member of the Salem Methodist church in Blue Creek township. Surviving are the wife, Nancy; two sons, the Rev. Relph E Davison of Converse and Albert of Pleasant Mills; three daughters. Mrs. Mildred Miller of Washington, Miss Helen Davison of Richmond. and Mrs. Cecil Schindler, a missionary In Africa: two brothers. Brayton of Fort Wayne and Elmer of Denver, Ind ; a sister. Mrs. Imsta Shady of Ossian, and seven grandchildren Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon St the Salem Methodist church, with the Rev. Seth Painter officiating Burial will he In Elm Grove cemetery at Bluffton. The body will be removed from the Yager funeral home to the residence Sunday morning.

Price Four Cents

Rep. Coffee States Check Is Merely One Made For Campaign Fund Contribution Washington. July 20 - (I'PI — Another congressman — veteran Rep. John M Coffee. I).. Wash.. was pushed suddenly and dramatically today into the middle of tbo senate war investigating committee's inquiry Into war profiteering. Sen. Owen Brawster, R., .Me., a committee member, revealed that the committee had in Its possession evidence linking the Tacoma. Wash, new dealer to a 82,5tm (he< k from a Washington war contractor. Although the check was made out specifically to Coffee's secretary. Paul A. Olson, Brewster said Coffee wrote a letter to th<> contractor thanking him profusely for the "slip of paper" and promising to "be alert” whenever his interests were involved Brewster emphasized that the Coffee incident had no relation whatsoever to the committee's prolie of a s7s.mm.<Hm mid-western "paper empire" munitions <<nnbine The committee yesterday siihpenaeil 71 year-old Rep Andrew J May. D. Ky.. to tell under oath what he knows about tho group. Brewster said, however, that lhe committee's prole- might be expanded immediati-ly to Include the Coffee incident. At Tacoma. Coffee -aid that the check made out by Tacoma war contractor Eivlnd Anderson was nothing more than a "campaign contribution." Coffee said that Anderson sent him tin- < heck in 1941. soon after tlie contractor was awarded a sl.ooo.mm contract for c.msfnittlon of a hospital at Fort Lewis. Wash. Olson. hi< secretary, said th.it the mere existence of the check shows that there was nothing unethical about it. He conceded that Coffee had helped Anderson obtain tile contract Imt said that "Illegal payoffs’ are made in cash. Legitimate campaign contributions, he said, are paid by personal check as in Anderson's <ase. May. chairman of the powt-rfnl house military affairs committee, maintained a stony silence on tho subject of his ordered appearance before the committee May merely said "thank you” tn the committee investigator who served the subpena on him yesterday afternoon in the house office building. Constitutional experts said that the Kentuckian could Invoke his constitutional Immunity ami simply refuse to testify. These experts pointed out, however. that May’s Immunity might lie short-lived. I'nder the constitution. they explained. May is Immune from court enforcement of the sttbpena only while congress is in session and congress I < slated to adjourn before the end of the month Army witnesses have informed lhe committee that May Intervened persistently on behalf ot the two key firms in the combine Erie Basin and Batavia Metal Products. Inc They quoted him as saying that Dr. Henry Garsson the so-called "brains” of the group as his "good friend." o— ——- Scheduled Railroad Strike Is Postponed Chicago, July 2“.—(VP) -Officials of the brotherh"od of railroad trainmen said today they had temporarily positioned a strike against the Illinois* Central railroad to permit the federal mediation board to continue effort*! at a settlement. ( The strike, which had been scheduled for 10 am. Sunday, was postponed to an indefinite date. Th* union said It had a list of 743 grievances against the line which eerves 14 midwest and southern states. In addition to supplying suburban train service to thousand* of Chicagoans.