Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 192, Decatur, Adams County, 15 August 1946 — Page 1

XLIV. No. 192

STRIKE TIES UP GREAT LAKES SHIPPING

■man Sends Lgeslions' I Holy Land Lite House States iggestions Made L No Formal Plan Ihington, Auk. 15-(UP)-Khii.' House »«•<• Km- Truman had made ‘ cerKiW’ii'ins" to the British Kneiit for solution of the Kfii. problem, hut that they L. constitute a formal plan. L s secretary Charles G. ■ told reporter* Mr. Truman Lm to the Brltlah govern- | through state department L|* "certain suggestlona to L, wn Into the dlscusslona of ■aleMlne problem which he ■it would be helpful." K has not proponed a formal I Rom nald. L criticized "uninformed Kpents add gossips” which L.l were not contributing to ■ solution of an “explosive | remarks followed shortly ■hed reports from London ■he president had asked cer■changes in British approved I for federation of Palestine, bed whether Mr, Truman ■ejected the federation pro- ■ Ross would say nothing I But he commented that I had been “a good hit of ■atlon and irresponsible ■tents" In connection with Valentine situation. ■s said Mr. Truman's sug■ns would not lw> ma le pub- ■ present. He also declined ■gle out any specific stale- ■ or story and Identify It na ■ample or irresponsibility. I In Conference ■don. Aug 15— (UP) —Col I secretary George Hall met fchaltn Weizmann. president L World Zionist organization, ■(her Jewish agency leaders I for a conference which In■d sources said examined Idem Truman's counter proIn for Palestine. |r meeting was the second Len Hall and the ailing pnann In two weeks. I was considered significant jthe meeting occurred the day I Mr Truman's reply to the bh government was received I Reliable sources have Indi- ■ that Mr. Truman's proposwere a compromise between ■ British partition plan and a I formulated by the Jewish k British Jewish negotiations | held in the colonial office r threats of new violence ■<d Palestine. A second con■nt of 615 Illegal Jewish refuI was expected to be shipped I Asia to Cyprus today, ffusalem dispatches stated I the "telephone terror" was P nui, ig. Anonymous calls F n Z that the municipal buildland central post office would Mown up sent occupants scurF Into the streets. Exchange parph said It was the second flng to the post office In 21 rW strict telephone censorship I begun In Jerusalem last k. the agency reported. I dispatch from Famagusta, reported the death of two ■ren who were among the I Jewish refugees transferred •Haifa to a detention camp F/Prus Tuesday. '7 Veteron~H(irt Airplane Crash •* Castle. Ind. Aug. 15—(UP) >'»ung navy veteran who crash- * 'raining plane into a house F*** r * to *n. ’"d • y««’t®rday was injurlw in the fy county hospital here today. 'Her. G|„n Thalia, was taking lying lesson In a Cub plane, i h * into an unoccuI nouse on the outskirts of HagTHE nMOMETRR werature READING* • m - 70 ■' m 71 r " — 71 WEATHER .to L el ’“ -X «•"»•••« with ' northeast perarm p,rt *y cloudy, ■ r "’ end humid.

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Warning Issued Os Price Control Need Abandonment Means New Wage Demands Washington. Aug. 15 —(UP) — The price decontrol board today faced an administration warning that failure to restore price controls on essential food Items would bring new demands for higher wages. Chairman W. Willard Wirtz and Phillips L. Garmon of Hie president's wage stabilisation board said In a letter to the price Ixiard that present government wage control policies will have to be revised unless price ceilings are restored on meat, grain und dairy products. The warning was sounded as the Iward convened Its final hearings on whether to allow meat, grain, dairy products, soy beans mid cotton seed to remain free of price controls after next Tuesday. Unless the Ixiard acts by then, price curbs automatically will be restored Wednesday. Representatives of consumers mid the dairy industry received lime to air their views today on prices for dairy products. Consumer spokesmen were led by CIO president Philip Murray. Charles W. Holman, secretary ot the National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation, and other industry leaders told the board that return of price controls on dairy items would bring back the black market. Under questioning by board member George H. Mead. Holman acknowledged that he "did not know of any" black market In fluid milk. But. he said, the black market formerly had taken 75/to KO percent of th** nation's butter. ' Another Ixiari member, Daniel W Bell, suggested that Holman's own testimony Indicated that milk producers "were better off" under <>l*A than now. Holman said the old OPA ceilIng plus thi- subsidy was slightly higher than present price for wholesale butter and milk. But. he added, milk producers "don't want to be slaves to the federal government. We want to return to a free economy." They said the lioard would ho unable to prevent a second round of reconversion wage rises through the reopening of 70 per-

(Turn To I’sge 2. Column 1) p Tri-State Students Protest Increases Angola, Ind., Aug. 15—(UP)— Students at Tri Stat** protested an announced stt percent hike In tuition costs which Increased the quarterly charge to 1120. Moat of the school’ll 500 students paraded through city streets laat night. They carried placards with messages opposing the tuition change. The incr*-a«o <1 cost wan announced at a student mass meeting yesterday afternoon. —— o Harvester Office Walkout Called Off Scheduled Strike Delayed For Week Chicago. Aug. 15 — (UP) — Offices workers who scheduled to strike today at six International Harvester Co. plants agreed at the last iniute to postpone the walkout until next Thursday to permit further negotiations. Officials of the United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers union (CIO) delayed the strike at the request of U. S. conciliation service commissioner* Benjamin Marshman and Thomas Cleland. The decision was reached after an all-night meeting at concllation services offices here. The union is seeking wage increases of 18‘4 cents an hour, and senorlty and vacation adjustments for office workers. There is no dispute between the company and Its 25.000 production workers, who also are represented by the UPEMW. Throe of the plants Involved in the dispute are in Chicago. The other are at East Moline. 111., Canton, 111., and Auburn. N. Y.

James Byrnes Answers Soviet Union Charge

Mispresentation Os U. S. Objectives Charges To Molotov Purls. Aug. 15. (UP) —Secretary | of State James F. Byrnes. Intervening In the Balkan treaty debate, today accused the Soviet union of misrepresenting American objectives In writing peace treaties for the defeated European nations. Byrnes reiterated that the United Stat«w seeks no territory or reparations from the former enemy states. He answered directly the earlier speech in which V. M. Molotov, Soviet foreign minister, accused "certain great powers” of geeking a monopoly in the Mediterranean, Imposing foreign economic enslavement on Italy and profiling as result of the war. The American leader spoke after Jan Masaryk, Czech foreign minister, who denounced Hungarian ilaims that Cx»-<-htodovakiu was mistreating its Hungarian minority. and K. B. Kissclev of ByeloRussia, who asked a fa r peace for "the new democratic Hungary" regardless of her pa»t ciimes. "We object to misrepresentation of our point of view," Byrm* told the peace conference. Byrnes criticized the Soviet union for claiming that other former enemy countries were more demo cratic than the new Italy, just )iecatMe they •harmonized'' their views more closely with Russia This was a reference to the fact that Molotov had condemned the present Italian regime. The Soviet foreign minister claimed Italy was continuing an Imperialistic foreign policy and hinted that tin- regime was unsatisfactory to Russia. Byrnes told Hie conference it was here to piomote a durable peace, not to add to dissension among nations. He paid tribute to Greece, rebut ting the denunciation heaped upon that country by the Soviet bloc He riald It was unfair that both conference members and an ex-enemy, Bulgaria, had criticized Greece. He called Greece "that small but great (Turn tlo Pag- 7. Column 2) 0 Huge Counterfeit Ring Is Smashed International Ring ls« Reported Smashed Frankfurt, Aug. 15 — (UP) - American and German police reported jointly today the smashing of an international counterfeiting ting in which three U. S. war department employes were arrested In Frankfurt. Authorities said the ring had headquarters in occupied Germany and Its tenades reached several European capitals. One official said that if all the leads In the case were followed, it would take every criminal Investigator in the European theater. Twenty-two Germans, one of whom was wanted by the French as a suspected war criminal, were rm-sled. They were accused of trafficking In counterfeit |SO hills end English pound notes. The three Americans arrested in the case were former soldiers. They were among those who complained recently that they had been held too long without any charges being made against them. Officials said that the ring, while spreading bills in Paris, Moscow, Frankfurt and Berlin, also dealt In black marketing and narcotics as sidelines. The alleged war criminal, a Frankfurt jeweler, will lie turned over to the French. He was trapped when Americans tried to buy platinum from him. The biggest cache of hills was found cemented Into a wall of a Frankfurt apartment belonging to one of the Germans. The amounts Involved In the whole case were not revealed. The Inquiry has been going on three months and still was not complete. The jailed Americans had not (Turn To !•*»♦ 1, Column 7)

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, August 15, 1946.

War Hero Will Live Here 1®- * I ■a Al- I ' l jp ■ W HPto V• ' A: ) U, ■ y - I • -1 n * *IKk. : tw* I >nl HKk. ONE of the heroes of the war although his exploit was little known, Joseph Sorokay. 51. shown with his family in New York, has cornihome from France where he risked his life to thwart the Nazis. A sergeant in the first World War, Sorokay returned to France and married there. When the U. S. went to war he was picked up l.y the Nazis and put to work in an airplane factory. One day before delivery of 557 motors Sorokay blew up the factory, causing the deatli of 361 workers. He was sentencel to death hut he was rescued by the Americans. He will live in Washington state now.

Missouri, Kansas Corn Crop Damaged Record Rains Fall In Midwest States By United Pros* Record ruins fell on mtn-dried Missouri and Kansas cornfields today. nearly destroying a bumper bottomland corn < rop and heavily damaging thousands of acre* of hay Th<- rain area covered most of the midwest, but preeicpitallon was heaviest in Missouri .mil Kansas, where one river spilled over its hanks mid several ofners were at flood-tage. A fhxxl in the lower Osage river basin In central Missouri Inundated a wide area of «<>rn and hay fields. Other streams in w.-stern Missouri and eastern Kansas were limning at bankfiill and there were pros|H-< ts of minor fhxxling In iso laied areas with continued rain. Trains arriving at St. lamia w«-rc 3n minutes to seven hours late because of flotxls and washouts in Missouri and Illinois. Five inches of rain fell in a violent storm. The city police radio system was knock ed out for two hours by a bolt of lightening. Across the river in nearby Belle vllle. 111.. Richland (‘reek, flooded by five and one half Inches of rain, overflowed the main line of the southern railway. Residents of the lowland were being evacuated by boat. At East St. Louis. HI.. I hi* luiiilaville Ki Nashville railroad tracks were washed out. The Osage river was more than six feet above fhxxl level, and still rising. At Bagnell dam on the Osage, 1636 inches of lain had fallen in two days. .More than six inches fell at ('Union. Mo.. 3.11 at Columbia, and 2.53 Vichy. Northeastern Kansas corn fields, which had been abnormally dry. received soaking rains reaching a peak of seven Inches at Topeka. The heavy rains were confined to portions of Kansas and Missouri. but the rain area ran from southern lowa through north central Illinois, central Indiana and Ohio. Rainfall also was recorded hi northern Oklahoma. Arkansas and Tennessee. Scattered thundershowers fell on the Rocky Mountain area. North and South Dakota and northern Minnesota. Thundershowers were forecast for Illinois, Indiana. Michigan. Wisconsin, lowa and .Minnesota. Legion Convention To Open Saturday Indlanapolie, Aug. 15—(UP)— Some 10,000 delegates today were expected to attend the Indiana department of the American Legion's first postwar convent.on which opens here Saturday. The four-day aeseion will feature a reception for delegates recently returned from the war.

Fred Bowen Dies Os Heart Attack Funeral service* a ill be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'chx k for Fred Bowen, 57, Wilkdiire, ()., farmer, who died Wednesday morning following it heart afack which he suffered in Willshire Tuesday night. Mr Bowen wa- well known in Decalur and Ih-rtn- He is survived by his widow, Blanche; a son Laurel, of Willshire township; a daughter. Mis. Harley Browii of near Berm*: a brother. Fail, and a xieter, Mrs. Mae Nye, both of Will shire township. Funeral services will be li< Id al th- Willshire Meth odl-t church and burial will be in tin- Itix’kford cein-teiy. o Courthouse Flagpole Damage Is Revealed Ball Atop Flagpole Reported Damaged Courthouse attaches today were attempting to solve one of the building's most unusual mysteries all of which come about after Edward T Deßolt, hxal painter, was employed lo palm and repah the flagpole atop tin* courthouse. Preparing to start his work, the local painter found, much lo amazement of nearly everyone concern ed, that the ball on top of the fllig|xde has u long, deep d> lit on the very top Now. officials reasoned, it could n't have In-eii the result of prank stern who are wont to damage facilities in the courthouse rest room and other public buildings The ball Is up in the air about HU feet and tin* top dozen or more feet cue be negotiated only on the flagpole Itself. Painter Deßolt lis-erled he seem ed to recall some story about the ball being damaged by the tail skid of a low flying airplane. Or. he believe*, it might have hap pened In the contraction and ex pmisioti of the ball resulting front hot and cold temperature changes. Another county official believes hi' remembers when the |xde once fell and the ball struck the roof of the building. It was replaced without being repaired, he recollected. Regardless of the method in which it was damaged, the bail must be repaired. It I* rapidly deteriorating and birds have made a nest in the recessed top. Besides repairing the ball, painting it and the flagpole, the painter will repair the chain, which controls the flag on its mast. The chain was hrok<*n months ago, Mr. Deßoll, who lost his left hand some years ago in a hunting accident, scoffed at the purported danger in climbing to the top of the flagpole to make the repairs. A majority of the courthouse workers failed to share his attitude of nonchalance in such an undertaking, however, and are expected to watch the progress of the work with Interest. He expects to start It within the next few days

Maritime Union Strike Threatens To Halt All Great Lakes Commerce

Poisoning Probe Is Cloaked In Secrecy . i I— State Police Report Case 'Wrapped Up' DuPont, Ind.. Aug. 15— (UP)— Investigation of Jefferson counly'a eerie "arsenic and old lace" deaths was cloaked in secrecy; today as police announced that they had "wrapped up” the < ase against Mrs. Bottle laxkman, 62. motherly housekeeper suspected of poisoning several elderly per-1 sons. State police detective Graham Tevis, in charge of the Investigation. sail there no longer was any need for Mrs. Lockman to take a He detector test. "Our (ase is wrapped up.” Tevis said. “We have enough evidence to clinch the case and bring Lottie laxkman before the October term of the grand Jury. Meanwhile. Mrs. Mamie Mcf'ont el), 52. suffering from poisoning. t<xik a sudden turn for the worse, raising the possibility of an "indefinite delay" In tin- arraignment of Mrs. Ixx'kman. The plump widow has been (barged with attempting to poison Mrs. McConnell and with feeding a fatal potion of mercury to her mother-inlaw. Mrs. Minnie McConnell, 75, who died a year ago. She also is under suspicion In four other deaths. The stricken woman was to have been one of tile chief witnesses against Mrs. lax'kinan at la r arraignment on murder char"es tomorrow Mrs. .McConnell's husband. Forrest, said he now would ask for mi Indefinite delay. At the insistence of Mrs. !<ockman. authorities had arranged lie detector tests for members of the dead woman’s family. The inspect had refused to undergo a test herself until other possible su pects had been examined. (Turn T<> Pair* 2. Coluiun 5) o Slate Taking Over 'House Os Horrors' Red Cross Nurses Take Over Control Indianapolis. Aug. 15 tl’l’i American Red Cross nurses under the direction of a stale mental health official today assumed con tnd of a private nursing home wer ■ police found aged patientchained to bed- In a Saturday afternoon raid A court order yesterday enjoined Mr Margaret Colvin the owner, front operating the establishment. Dr, Clifford 1,. Williams, director of the Indiana council for mental health, was named receiver of the private hospital. The 29 patients, some of them mentally ill. were to he transferred to a Marion county ho.-pital as soon as possible. The state will provide bedding and medical care. Prosecutor Sherw<xxi Blue, who led the first raid on the “house of horror." accompanied Dr. Williams to the near northside hospital late yesterday. Mrs. Colvin surrendered possession of the two story brick house without protest. Authorities arrested her son, Herschel Colvin, listed as business manager of the home. "We will get all of the patients out of the home just as soon as possible," Williams said. Blue and police said mental patients were shackled to their beds and showed signs of oth«-r mistreatment. Authorities release,, the patients during the surprise raid, last Saturday but Mrs. Colvin, released on bond, returned to the home and resumed supervision until yesterday. Judge Einsley W. Johnson issued the Injunction against the Colvins after he learned they operated (Turn To Pjku 5, Column 1)

Fields Again Defies House Probe Group Again Refuses To Produce Records On Surplus Sales BULLETIN Waxhington. Aug. 15.—(UP) —Benjamin F. Fields, roly-poly ex-convict who did a thriving buxineix in government surploi property, today wa» cited for contempt of congrexi for failing to produce requeued record* that would xhow who shared his profits. Washington, Aug. 15 il Pi i Benjamin F. Fields today contin ued to defy congress by refusing for the fourth time to prixlim record- that had been silbpena. d by a special house committee In vestigatlng surplus property. Tile committee has stated earl i ier that such Field s refusal would result in his being held In contempt of congress and his case turned over to th<- speaker of the house fur reference to a fei|<-ral grand jury. Fields told thu cuuttuiUee that he had already produced al! the rmnrds in hl* possession. The committee wanted additional records concerning a fee that he split on ii transaction in -urplns wire screenings. ■ls I had any other records I would he Very happy to ftirni-h I ili-iii to this committee." F.elds i -aid. "There are no records until j th- auditor set - them up "There are no transactions -n- --; tend in any book in connection with bronze wire screening Coininitt hairman Roger C Slaughter. It. Mo, carefully took Fields over th- entire ground covered by the committee sub pena. Fields had threatened to have the coilliniltee members themsel ves -itbpetiaed by a grand jury if it cit— him for contempt. Slaugh ter scoffed at the threat saying Fields had no sinh authority Following the conclusion of (Tam To P»«« '• Column «) o — Ask Continuation Os Fight On Hunger — General MacArthur Asks Production Washington. Aug. 15 —(l'Pt — President Truman's famine <nu rgency committee disclosed today that General MacArthur has asked the United States to continue its all-out fight against Lunger despite somewhat brighter food prospects this year. MacArthur’s message was radioed to Paul C. Stark, executive director of the famine committee. It asked Americans to step up fixxi production and continue food conservation In the home. Stark, who also directs the national victory garden program, added his own plea for everyone to can as niuch food as possible from this year's victory gardens. At the same time, the agriculture department revised its 1917 wheat acreage goals slightly upward. The new national goal is 71.72ff.000 acres compared with an original 71.7'f0.000, The agriculture department said about 70 percent of next year's suggested wheat acreage will be planted to winter wheal and the remainder to spring wheat. If yields equal those of the past few years, it would mean another hillion-hushel crop. Acreage goals for major producing states Include: Illinois (Turn To Page 7, Column 7)

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World's Greatest Inland Waterway May Be Tied Up By Strike Move Cleveland, Aug. 15. <UP) J<>” Curran, president <f the National Maritime union ICIO). said today that all Great Lakes ships with or.Mttlzed workers aboard hav •• -cased operation In answer to the strike (ailed at 12:01 a m. Curran, chairman of the strike strategy committee, said the NMI "stands ready to negotiate at any time on th- original demands, not on in xiified demands." The union first asked for a to hour week and preferential hirin', then modified Its demands to a II hour week. The union head -aid "we are going ahead to make this strike ltx> Ix-rcetit effective. I tilted auto workers, and steel workers havw i<*-potid*d." Curran said N.W representatives tow w.re nteetint with these two miauis t<> "s-e what kin<l of support we require." Curran raid all resources of the NMI'. which put il.ooo. aoi mto the strike fund, will be u-e.l. "The operators." h«- aid. "accept1 cd responsibility of th- strike when they refused to make Oil- counter proposal. I Curran said 15 ships Jx-tween Duluth and Buffalo are spread out. on the lakes now Crews are being contacted, he said, as they reach I port and leave th<- nssels. Curran -aid he would have f-<r ( Detroit thU afternoon where thNMI' would set up strike headquarters. At Detroit, sh oping was at a standstill as er ho- seamen .iml dock workers joined th- strike. A union spokesman said about 2’> I ships and all of Detroit's .'to docks , w-r>- tied up In Cleveland, port op-rationa I were almost normal. No v<-ss«-l< involved in the strike were In th-t Cleveland port and It was reported that < rows of otlict Bio were hot heeding th. NMI' app-al to join the strike. Th- union ha I.l'to members on strike. The walkout against 11 Hulk freighter and six tanker companies was crippling shipping on tlie lakes mid threatened to lit- up ••11 traffic oti th» world's greatest inland waterway, imdtding vital < argot-- of ■-•.aln for European relief. \lthotigj only i'l ship manned by NMI’ crews w-re involved in tin* dispute, pi. k< t line ate expected to tie up tn I- than "oo vessel.; wh < h normally transport vital car. goes of coal, oil. -feel and iron ore. Deck workers lx longing to tithe" CIO union-, including th- I'nitt-d Auto Workers, have pledged support by refusing to load or unload vessels involved in the dispute. .Members of th- \FL s. afar--r* union ,n Detroit also promised to join th- walkout, tying up threo (Turn To l*««. Column 7) o — Late Bulletins Washington. Aug. 15 — (U P) _ President Truman will sail from Washington tomorrow for a seventeen day cruise on the Presidential yacht Williamsburg off the New England coaat. the White Houae an- ' • nounced today. Washington, Aug. 15 — (U P) _ Walter Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers (CIO), said today that the union will reopen wage contract* where permitted to do so. He said they would be reopened to "protect odrselvee on the wage front if the government (ails to give us the protection we need on the price front." Moscow, Aug. 15 — (UP) —A hint that Russia might raise before the United Nations organization the matter of British military garrisoning in Iraq along the south border of Iran was published today in the newspaper Pravda.