Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 196, Decatur, Adams County, 20 August 1946 — Page 1

XLIV No. 196

ROTESTS YUGOSLAV FIRING ON PLANE

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Four Youths Pass Army Examination ■ Four of th« fire Decatur youth* who txtk final rxaminatlonn at Camp Atterbury yesterday, after enlisting In the U. S. army, were auccesnful in main* the tent. It wan reported here today. Those who parsed the exam are Carl Kolter, Jerry Ketchum. Bill Whittredge und .Melvin Taylor, son of .Mr. and Mra. Roy Taylor of Ninth street, whose name was omitted from .Monday'* list. 0 Uniled Stales Stales Position On Dardanelles Informed Source In Indication Russian Demands Rejected Washington. Aug. 20—(ITPl— Acting secretary of state Dean Acheson said Imlay that the I'nited Slates has sent lluseia a note stating the American position on Soviet demands for military btiaea In the Dardanelles, strategic gateway 10 the Black Rea. Contents of the note will no! be made public until noon tKSTt tomorrow.

r But Informed source* said fliie • gwernment has rejected the Humr iiian demand*, contained in a recent Soviet prop<wal to Turkey that the » two countrien share defense of the • straits. Riixela also proposer! that i control of the Dardanelles be vestt ed only in Black Sea powers. I Russia had eent, the state departi meat a copy of Ila note to Turkey. ) Acheson declined comment on contents of the note, lie aaid only ■ that it acknowledged the cuurtwy I of the Soviet government In giving ■ the United State* a copy of it* - note u> Turkey and net forth I'. S. reaction to the llun»la>i proposals. i In apite of Acheson a reticence i on the content* of the- note to ’ Moscow. it wan known to opp.ise r Russian demand* for revision of the Dardanelle* regime which k would leave it* control 'n the band* ’ of Black Sea power* only and ■ would enable Russia to ohare with 1 Turkey In It* defense. ' The American poaltbn on the 1 Dardanelles quest ion reportedly wan worked out Thursday at a ' white bouse conference called hy f President Truman. It was attend--1 ed by acting secretary of state ' Dean Acheson. secretary of war 1 Robert P. Patterson, secretary of i (Turn To Page 3. Column 4) 0 ' inmates Os Nursing 1 Home To Hospital Indianapolis. Aug. Kk—(UP)— ' All the inmalM of a private nursing 1 home where police found pat lente ’ shackled to Ited* have been moved ' Io a county hospital, authorities said today. 1 The former operator, Mm. Mar 1 garet Colvin, faced charges of ‘ operating a nursing home without a 1 license, malicious mayhem, and as ' vault. ' Carl Adler Escapes ta jury In Accident Auto Crashes Into ; Bridge Last Night ! Carl Adler. »4. Kirkland township, escaped serioun Injury shortly befare 11 o'clock last night when . hi* ear sideswiped a steel bridge, ' two miles west of Coppes* Corner on state road 124. j Adler told police authorities, who I investigated, that his auto was . forced Into the steel bannister of ( the bridge to avoid a collision with an approaching auto, traveling at ’ a high rate of speed. He said the other auto did not •top after the crash and continued west Adler, who wan driving east, •aid that another motorist chased the fleeing auto and was able to ••cure a partial identification. The Adler vehicle was hadly damaged en the right side and the bridge bannister was torn away. The driver escaped with a shaking up. Sheriff Leo Olllig and deputy Sam Bststs Investigated th crash.

President, Vacationing, Talks with Candidates ' ■ ■ --IHr IW I if z< r ■ Ipßl tX C ? r ? 1 ..y 1 I L y j innii'.A 1 *lll iiiM II iBr~ ; - '■ ■ . U ABOARD the White House ya< ht off Quonset Naval Air Station. Ithode Island. President Truman ( hats with J. Howard .McGrath, left. 8. solicitor general who Is a Rhode Island senatorial candidate, and Gov. John Pastore, right. The president Is vacationing alxiard the yacht.

Battling To Avoid Chinese Civil War Desperate Attempts By U. S. Mediators Nanking, Aug. 20— I UP) —A last effort by the two United States mediators to avert open civil war in China was ludieved in the making today as the country's 138,MMM (wut < ommunists sprang to full "war mobilization" for the avowed purpose of crushing Generalissimo Chiang KaLShek's nationalist armies. IT. 8. ambassador John Leighton Stuart returned to the capital after conferring at executive headquarters in Peiping, and Gen. George C. Marshall, special American peace envoy, was flying hack after two 30-mlnute closed sessions today with Chiang at Killing. The alert sounded through Communist areas by the Kalgan radio amounted to the first declaration of war In the DLyear history of the nation's civil strife, but government circles still clung to the hope that some peace moves might In* found which would check the growing conflict. It was believed Ambassador Stuart would plunge Into conversations with the Chinese (’ommunists, allied by Gen. Marshall when he arrives. Just what new steps Marshall might have in mind were not known. However, it was known that two days ago he telegraphed Communist leader Chou En-laii informing him that the Kuomlngtang government was planning to widen its scope and asking Chou If the Communists would submit names of candidates for the reor. ganized government. It was reported reliably that Chou replied negatively, claiming Chiang's government had not yet accepted Communist-set conditions for this reorganization. Communists now maintain, it was understood, that government reorganization not only shuuht In' carried out through political consultations. but also settlement must coincide with a halt In hostilities.

Thin-spread national army forces in north China suffered a new setback along the Tientsein-.Mukden railway—their ''lifeline" to Manchuria—when the line was cut by Communists who derailed a passenger train 20 miles north of Shanhalkwan, where the great wall (Turn To Page 2. Column I) o— —— William Klenk Rites Wednesday Afternoon Funeral services for William Klenk, retired farmer, who died Monday morning, will he held at 1:30 p.tn. Wednesday at the home of a son. Ferd. four and one-half miles east of Decatur, and at 2 o'clock at the Immanuel Lutheran church, with burial in tho church cemetery. The name of a son. Carl Klenk. of Toledo. 0.. was unintentionally omitted from the list cf survivor* published in Monday's edition of the Daily Democrat.

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Indiana Man Killed By Filipino Guard Greentown, Ind, Aug. 20—(UPt - Mrs. Mildred I- Hammond was Informed today of the death of her son. David E Juliu*. who was killed Aug 5 while inspecting Filipino guards in Luzon. The war department said he wae shot by one of the guards. 0 Truman’s Vacation Trip Turns South President Abandons Northern Itinerary With President Truman at Sea. Aug. 20—(UP)—President Tru man today scrapped his tentative vacation Itinerary and fled the brisk New England weather for "a journey to nowhere" farther south in the Atlantic. Shortly after leaving Quonset Point. R. L. at 7:15 a m. (EDT) on what was expected to be a cruise into the Cape Cod area, it was disclosed that Mr. Truman had decided against staying along the New England coast. Instead, he ordered the presidential yacht Williamsburg to fake a southerly course, with no specific destination yet. "At the moment it's a sort of journey into nowhere." White House press secretary Charles G. Ross radio-telephoned reporters aboard this escorting navy attack transport Weis*. "It's just a vacation and he (Mr. Truman) can frolic around In the Atlantic ocean if he wants to." Asked the reason for the change in plans, Ross emphasized that the original itinerary, which was

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Mexican Offers No Excuse For Slugging Veteran Policeman

BY 808 BHRALUKA (Staff Writer) "I don't know why I did It. 1 didn't even know the guy. honest." A dark-haired Mexican lad —not a lad. actually, for he In 38 yearn of age and the veteran of four Atlantic World War II Invasions, wan epeaking. "I can't understand why I did it - it's Just when I get to drinking. I guess, I did it once in Van Wert m> they tell me. ‘ He was Pedro Morales. Pedro ie an American-horn Mexican. His birthplace is in Kansas. He lived pretty much of an ordinary life there, according to hfei story, and then his mother died. His family "broke up.'* according to his own words. He "didn't have anything against •Seph’"—ln fact, he didn't even know him and still doesn't today—except for those meetings at the jail—“after I sobered up." Morales wss in the Adams county Jail In Decatur when I talked to him late Monday afternoon. He's not a “tough guy,' he made no effort to Imprtus us- Leo Gillig (the

Plan Resumption Os Drafting Men Here Draft 'Holiday' To End In September The* Adams county selective service board has started preliminary plans for resuming the drafting of men Into the armed forces, it was revealed today by board attaches. No definite information haz been received here a* to the age of registrant* to Im* summoned first, nor as to the quota the board will be expected to furnish, attaches said. The* board is starting to prepare a list of registrants 19 through 29 year old*, who will be available for the first calls in September, when the "holiday" ends. The last group sent from Adams county to active service left more than two months ago, at. laches recalled. A group was sent in July to lndiana|M>lis to take final physical examinations. None of these who passed the test succesafully was called into active service because of the holiday. The board has been instructed to start preparing the lists of 19 through 29yearolds and has been informed that if unable to fill quotas from this group it will Im* asked to reach Into the older age group. Fathers, of course, have been exempted from all calls, as well as various types of occupational employes. The "draft holiday" proclaimed Icy the* federal government 'luring July and August brought alcout •he local board’s biggest "slump” in drafting iluvu It was begun in 1940, previous to the last war. While no denite gurlles have been released, Icecause of censorCTcirn Tn Pare 2. Column 4)

i sheriff) and I as we sat there I talking to him. He didn't brag alcout thewe four invasions. He didn't offer us a» an excuse the three times that he was hospitalized for malaria I called Sheriff Gillig and asked for perrniwion to speak to Morales. I wanted to know what kind of a fellow would walk up and "slug” a police officer, apparently without rhyme or reason. "Sure,” the sheriff said, and ■<> there I sat In the county jail cell block beside Morales. "i had been drinking ali day Thursday and Friday. I work at the local feed mill, handling those bags and they weigh about 100 pounds apiece. My back hurt tne und i guese I got to drinking." he said. He drinks whiskey—not beer or wine, most of the time, he said. ”1 gueaa I got too much. I remember walking into that place and seeing the cop." he recalled In talking about that Friday night. "No, I am not a cop hater." he answered a query. "It would pro(Turn To Pag* *. Column I)

Bristling United States Note Protests Shooting Down Os American Plane

Great Lakes Strike Negotiation Stymied Union, Companies Unable To Agree Detroit, Auv. 2» — I DPI —The striking CIO national maritime union said today that It had offered to reduce its demand for a 40-hour week to 44 hours on Great Lakes ships but that Standard Oil of Indiana had rejected It. Jack laiwrenson. NMU vice president. reported from a negotiating session with Standard in Chicago that the company clung to its offer of a te-hotir week, made before the strike began last Wedne«day night. Union chief Joseph Curran also reported from New York that he had turned down a proposal for a fit-hour week during negotiations with officials of Bethlehem transportation company. Curran said that Bethlehem's term provided for a 40-hour work week while ships were in port and for an overtime rate of 11.10 un hour. He said the company's offer was unacceptable. He planned to return to his strike headquarters In Detroit Thursday to step up his drive for support against Great Lakes shippers among the CIO I'nited Auto Workers and the CIO United Steelworkers. Apout 250 of the 400 registered vessels tarrying ore. grain, coal, fuel and passengers on the world's greatest inland waterway are manned by unorganized crew*. Hie union said, and a walkout of these seamen would cripple water transportation so vital to American industry Veil ’Standing’ By For Terminal Pay Application Blanks Not Yet Received Decatur and Adams county exservicemen who have Irnnds and cash coming from the federal government under the terminal leave pay act were ''standing by" here today, as reports of application blanks arriving in larger cities began growing. Local post office authorities and veteran leaders said today that no official copies of the application form had Iteen received in this city, despite the fact that Fort Wayne. Chicago, and other cities have already begun issuing them to veterans. These leaders say they do not expect Ihe blanks to arrive for perhaps as long as 3d days yet. Meanwhile, queries by veterans are mounting daily as they hear of the larger cities getting the blanks. A question concerning the sending of original discharge papers along with their leave pay application forms was to lie settled here today, when Informa, tion received from the federal government by Dwight Arnold. (Turn To Page 2. Column 4) 0 Polio Cases Traced To Two Summer Camps Chicago. Aug. 20—(UP)—More than 200 suburban yout gsters were under quarantine today after Id cases of poliomyelitis and two deaths were traced to two summer tamps from which the children returned last week. Kvaneton health commtaioneif Dr. Winston H. Tucker traced four polio cases to camp Wabaningo. a ln>y scout camp near Muskegon. Mich. Dr. Edward A. Pisacxek Cook county health director, traced five other cases to the cump. Csmp Wabaningo and nearby Camp Echo, operated by the Evanston YMCA, were closed last Week as a precautionary measure.

Italy Appeals For Change In Draft Treaty Pleads For Blame Os War Inclusion Placed On Fascists Paris. Aug. 2<» - I UP) —ltaly appealed to the peace conference today to credit the Italian people rather than the Allied armies with overthrowing Benito Mussolini's Fascism and wi;h IK month* of cobelligerence on the side of the Allies. The Italian political commission received u note from the Rome government pleading I hut the preamble of the Italian draft treaty he rewritten. It sought new word Ing to ruse the Onus of Italy's Fascism and collapse late in the war. Designed to lake the blame for Fascist Italy’s deeds off the present government, the pb-a was tor inclusion of a statment that Italy WUs "led by u Fascist regime" to become a party to the tripartite pact. The draft treaty said that Italy under a Fascist regime became a party to the tripartite pact with Germany and Japan, and declared a war of aggression ami entered Into the war with the Allies The Italian note contended that Italy never was at war wi'h Poland. Holland. Belgium and Czechoslovakia. Each of them declared war on Italy, a fact the note sought to brush aside as unilateral action. Poland and Holland at once denounced the Italian < lalm as completely unfounded The Italian also sought the elimination of the preamble refer ence to the fact that Italy "stir rendered unconditionally" They wanted to substitute a phrase that "Italy was the first Io break with the tripartite pact powers, acctpting the terms of an armistice ' They also complained that the preamble dismissed "too cursor (Turn To Page 4. Column 6) 0 Youth Confesses To Pointless Slaying Teen-Aged Girl Is Murdered By Youth Danville, 111., Aug. 20 — (UP)— Robert Beatty, 21, told police today that he fatally stabbed pretty Lois Nelson in a secluded lovers' lane early yesterday after she refused his advances and pleaded with him to leave her alone. Under questioning of assistant state's attorney John Unger and Frank J. Meyer, the slight, nervous youth admitted In a signed confession that he forced the Ift-year-old girl, daughter of a prominent Danville family, out of his automobile at the [>oint of a hunting knife Deputy coroner W. E Hackman saitl Beatty told questioners that "I guess I lost my head," savagely tearing off her clothes and repeatedly stabbing her when she refused to become intimate with him. Beatty said that she pleaded with him. promising that If he let her alone she would not tell anyone of the incident, but that he paid no attention to her cries for mercy. Hackman said. Autopsy confirmed Beatty's statement that he did not attack the girl. The youth's story follow rd his refusal for hours to give any reason for the slaying In his statement to police. Beatty said he had gone to a baseball doublehtutder with Miss Nelson and her father. Arvid Nel(Turn To Pag* 4, Column St

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Emphatic Protest Sent Yugoslavia For Forcing Down Os American Plane BULLETIN Rome, Aug. 20—(UP)—The U. S. army cancelled its flights over Yugoslav territory today and put the 88th division through its paces within sight of Marshal Tito’s troops as the result of the downing of the second American transport plane within 10 days. BULLETIN Belgrade. Aug. 20.—(UP)— An American military attache in Belgrade said today he had tried in vain to get from Yugoslav military authorities information on the disappearance of a U. S. transport plane yesterday. Washington. Aug. 20. —(UP)— The United .States has sent Yugoslavia a bristling note emphatically protesting the shooting down of an American plane over northern Yugoslavia, the state department revealed today. In. the note, this government reserved the right to claim compensation for plane anti personnel ami demanded that the Yugoslavs say whether they will give American aircraft the usual courtesies when bad weather makes it necessary for the planes to fly over Yugoslav territory. The note referred to an American plane forced down Aug. 9. Il renewed an American demand that passengers and crew who artnow able to travel be released Immediately. It normally would be assumed, the note said, that the Yugoslavs would help friendly aircraft who are lost over their territory rather than force them down. The note will be delivered in Belgrade today by I'. S Ambassador Richard (' Petterson. It pointed out a second American transport plane is missing en route to Italy from Austria "after having last reported itself under machine gun attack.” Acting secretary of state Dean Acheson announced at a news conference that the note was being sent He said the Yugoslav action was "an outrageous performI'tice,” and took the unusual step of permitting reporters to quote him directly Acheson said this was not the kind of matter which in normal circumstances and in other parts of the world causes friction between government*. Nobody. Acheson added, shoots down planes which are lost in the clouds and are trying to get home. Speaking emphatically. Acheson said that he could not conceive of such things happening over our Canadian or Mexican border. In reply to questions. Acheson sail) Yugoslavia had given this country no indication why she has shot down the planes. He could not say whether the United States had asked Yugoslavia for permission to fly over the small jut of land which Iles directly across the Vienna Rome route. The American note also scoffed at Yugoslav claims that their territory had been violated by American planes 172 time* between July Hi and Aug. X. The note said American authorities in Austria and Italy "report that only 74 flights have taken place between those dates and that operations officers have thoroughly briefed all crew* to use approved routes avoiding Yugoslavia.” The state department revealed contents of the note after congressional spokesmen demanded that Marshal Tito'* partisan government be brought to uak for firing on IT. R planes. Chairman Sol Bloom. D., N. Y.. of the house foreign affairs committee. said there was no question of war involved. Just "foolishness." But, he said, that foolishness had to be stopped. Patterson already had denounced the first attack on a U. 8. transport a* "wicked, inexcusable (Tura To Pag* I, Column I)