Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 199, Decatur, Adams County, 23 August 1946 — Page 1

XLIV No. 199

■st Prices Beef. Lamb, |r, Trucks ■ding Materials M In Barrage Os K Price Ceilings Aug., 23.—(UP) O PA. vkorh.ng to me«t 7Kgrf«lior«l deadline for ,od,y * u,hcr ’ aßucsti on P'P». roofing, brick and other ■llt«ti«l*■,,1 prices of paiiengor •pctcrc/ci?. bus »nd .nduSwere .ncrtMed 2'? Hreatet for other items during the day «• the fulfilled the congreeK directive to make ad ■lente under the Wherry within 30 days renewal of the price Auk 23.—(UP)— racing against u con-dc-adlloe for adjustEM h f consumer k.hhlii prices. ■ u|ipe<l ceiling* on trucks jKr.p.<i<-'i other price boost ■ ,„w-ring Hour .mil building BE early next week, the price j* j» expected to give housegjV th.. s 4 i| new, that the new on lamb and beef will he K c.-nl* higher than the OPA jHin effect on June 30. flour prices will go up a hundred pounds to- ■ )I’A does not anticipate the I till lie passed on to consumI I the form of higher bread fl act, price officials hope a re- ■ pennya-loaf increase on ■ price* can he rescinded as ■ a* the agriculture departrevokes a limitation order Mln; millers. Ma stepped up its price acMpt: durable goods sine* only remains for it to meet a deadline to wipe formerly absorbed by unler the old OPA ■ The Wherry amendment diMt that costs lie passed on to Milling materials—also achedMfor price action today—are Mnly major consumers durable M Items remaining on which Mttnents must he made under Ktnendment. lievisions alreaMve l*en rude on such thing* •" hanira! refrigerators, vac- ■ cleaner*. and Irons. ■*' and higher truck prices, an- ■(><! today, will cover higher ■ and materials costs. OPA ■ They include Chevrolet, M*' Ford - GMC - and White •’ The highest boost was ■ f»r a 2*4 ton GMC truck. ■* Prf‘<* ceilings also became M'* 1, ’<*iay on tank car sales Kegel able oils and fata -the ■ r ingredient in shortening ■salad oils Retail costs, as a ■J* of the action, will be an•fed later. Th( .y w j|| Mire on Hept 9. ®r-‘ housewives will pay for • probably will he six or seven » pound above June 30 re- ■ ,***- The beef rise is ex- ■* to be at least a penny a fr' -attou that iamb and beef g* 1 ’ out that subsidies •« will go up came when OPA gP ’ market basket items M* ll '•* renewed. ■ hies Paul Porter has an- ■ 122 ha L B '‘* n, * at ■ effective Hept. 9. y*** llll * the bureau of labor KT? that meat K? H " I * fhM ** ,n ,h * E B * Aug. 20. Round • *'»•»»»»*» «> ■7* p oy Seekers I , To Have All Information Ready ■ J’"' 1 * * ,ollln A’*orth. execuof lw " Rpd Ei lhn 7 " h ; r ' veterans Key JXt rT Ued tmal R isfonLu he ’ ( ‘ ,eran h »»*- r ; MoX‘ 00 • T “ l,Me » he " ■ S «“• much ■ *b»n ot RtbslJS?* l * «* ■»’llhow ' reporl to f*»« •raltabh infor ' Rwion Z- 0 ’*“#•<• the |* »ets hsv> ?*’ U WM sta,,!d E* Wleatfon reir in *hlch to L“ ««*”y ~ ~ fight; 9n*j| f ß<wd toI** 8 iiwZTu»^ Wi!y <B,r

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

"Redskins” Are Coming Again: Campfire Here Wednesday Nighi

flemlMOfflit of the historic duy« when the Red Man gathered on the hunting grounds tu make who>pe<or wmoke the pipe of peace with visiting tribes or friendly whiteman, will be the out door campfire initiation of a class of about 25 candidates into the mysteries and nomenclature of the Improved Order of Red Men by Pocotallgo Tribe 203 of this city. In l.lnlgnr’a grove, w«st ot lie. atur, on Wednesday night. August M. Th scamp fire will burn us chieftalruv and brav.u from the Matthew. Indiana. Irllte exemplify the Red Man's degree work Io the lenderfoot clan-.. Htate and district chiefs will also gather here for the scenic setting and egempllfhatl »n of th« ritual which acquaints the tenderfoot with lite life of the nohle Red Man and instills patriotism In all members of the tribe. Coming from the Indiana twervatlon will lav Great Sachem Tom Berkley and Great KeKeper of Harkley and Great Keeper ot To Be Ordained The Rev. Argo Sudduth, pastor of the Wren V. B. in Christ circoH, tWren. Ohio, will be ordalnedi Sunday morning at 9:30 o'clock •t the Rockford, Ohio campground iMMce. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sudduth, of west of Decatur and has served as pastor at Bluffton. Fort Wayne, Wren and Van Wert. Ohio in addition to evangelistic work throughout Indiana and Ohio. Italian Approval Is Given Part 01 Draft First Os Treaty Os Big 4 To Be Okayed Parti, Aug. 23-(l'P)-The Italian political commission of the peace conference today approved —after four weeks of talking—the first paragraph of the preamble to the big four draft of the Italian peace treaty. It was the first paragraph of any of the five Hitlerite satellite treaties to lie considered and approved by any commission of ihe conference. The commission -which eventually will have to decide such controversial issues as Trieste and the Itaio-Yukoslav frontier—finally got down to work late this afternoon. But the commission immediately bogged down in another long debate—this time on the meaning of the words in the preamble. The .Netherlands delegate proposed an amendment to make the Preamble read that Italy "undertook" rather than declared war against the Allied and associated powers and the other I’nlted Nations. Soviet delegate Andrei Vishlnsky opposed the Netherlands amendment. New Zealander W. R. Jordan supported the Netherlands because he thought It more precise wording and it obviated the chance (Turn Ta Page 2. Column I) Decatur Men Awarded Trip To Windy City Bernard Staub and Russell Lai Fever. Decatur milk haulers, were i awarded a three-day trip to Chicago i as top prises in a haulers’ contest ' sponsored by the Krtfft Foods Company. They were accompanied by Murray Hedges. Kraft field man. ' In Chicago, the contest winners were taken on a conducted sighti weeing tour which ended with dinner In the Chinese quarter. While 1 there the group attended a broadcaat Os the WLB Bam Dance and watched the Chicago Cubs whip the Pittsburgh Plratee at Wrigley Field. Before leaving. »•»« » en were ■unit* et a Kraft luncheon In tbe Lake Shore Club.

polls. They will be uroeled by ■ Sachem B. F. Itrelner of the local I tribe and his brother, .1. M. I.Matr llndner. far muny years active lit Red Men circles. Instead of dues, Mr. lirelner collects wampum from memlH-rs as they contribute their bit to keep the kx-a) wigwam open and aid fallen braves In dis- • tress. The call han gone out to tribes in Northeastern Indiana and more* than 2<Mi tribesmen from ut least 15 hunting grounds (cities) are expected for the unique perform , um-e. The public will lie admitted within seeing distance, but beyond hear-1 ing distance, to the (.round, Mr. I Itrelner stated, so they might witness the (ampfire spectacle. The l.lniger grove |« two mllw west of the city and is reached over the lane leading from I'. H. Highway 221. Teepees will dot the grounds as the Red Men in full dress regalia move about and impart the tribe's worthy lessons ot th? evening. Adams, Wells OPA Offices To Merge Site To Remain At Location In Decatur W J. Pepe. Indianapolis, assistant district price board executive. OPA. and J. Free Fri-lnger. area price ls>ard executive, were In Decatur Thursday completing plana to extend the Decatur price area } of OPA to include both Adams and Wells counties, with offices in Decatur. Th? consolidation of the two count lew into the DAcatur area will tie effective Heptemlier 10. and the personnel of the local office will lie Increased by several persona. ! Mrs. Donna Fuelling will lie in 1 charge of the area office. The Decatur price panel anrf powibly some member* of the Bluffton panel will lie consolidated into an area panel to hear price violation eases in tbe two counties. Mr. Pepe said. Mr. Frisinger, who Is i formerly a Decatur resident Is the OPA representative In charge of this area. He also has jurisdiction in several other northern Indiana areas. The consolidations in northern Indiana are lielng made because of a reduction in the OPA budget made by the last coßgresu. Rent 'control in Adams county will continue under the Jurisdiction of the Fort Wayne office. It was learned, and the price Imard will have charge of wbokeale urn! retail celling prices. Paul Spuller Named Smart School Head Paul Spuller. Port Wayne, formerly of Adams county and son of the late Dallas Spuller. former trustee of Union township, haw been named principal of Janies H. Smart school in Fort Wayne, it has lieen learned here. Prior to his new appointment, which will be effective Immediately Mr. Spuller was principal of the Justin N. Study school In Fort Wayne. He has been connected with lhe Fort Wayne school system since 1937. Mr. Spuller succeed* Robert ('. Harris, who is retiring.

Speaker Says Human Relation Improvement, Better Employe Understanding Industry Task

Improvement of human relation* and creating a better understanding among all employees I* a task that confront Industry, John Estabrook. puhlis relation* head and an assistant to M. E. Lord, manager of the Fort Wayne Work* of the General Electric Company, said in a talk before the Rotary club last evening. Mr. Estabrook, a former newspaper executive, who recently returned from the Pacific war theater. where he served as a major in the U. 8. Marines in recapturing Guam, used for his theme the worda of the song. "America, the Beautiful.” He pictured the unsettled conditions In this country which greeted him when he return ed from overseas. “As I read and listened, the more the wonder grew that men could bold so dearly this land ot opportunity and wonderous beauty with all Its freedoms that others abuse wo flagrantly," he statedProgress through research and Invention has baen great, the speaker pointed out. He mentioned that in 1100 lhe first G-E reaearch laMoratory waa established. Since that time marvelous invention*

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, August 23, 1946.

Sell Surplus Items At OPA Office Here Desks, Chairs, Etc., On Sale Thursday Notice* hove been posted for the eul<« of surplus property nt the Office of Price Administration In th? Ix-lund Smith Insurance Agency building on Monroe street next Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. The sale has lieen authorized by the War Astreta Corporation, which has supervision over surplus property sales by the government. The lot to lie sold Includes, tablet*, desks, chairs and other office equipment which may lie vit wed on the premise* after lo o'clock on the morning of lhe sale. 'lh? price i* set on each Item by the War Assets Itourd. The notice stains that the following may make purchases In the order named: Federal agencies; county and municipal agencies and other tax supporting institutions; World War II veterans, iandl -rd* or future occupants ot premises where stock is located, dealers and then private individuals. The sale will be conducted by J. Free Frisinger, Webster l«ake, laurd supervisor for OPA, 0 Kerosene Stove Blaze Brings Fire Department Firemen were called to lhe Roy Riffle residence, corner Grant and High streets about 5:10 a m. today to extinguish a blaze started by a flash explosion of a kerosene stove The stove and a chair were damaged. 0 Strike Notices Are Filed At 4 Plants CIO Leader Declares Legal Step Is Taken Chicago, Aug. 23-(l'P» Ralph Helateln. president or the CIO united packinghouse workers union. said today he had filed 30-day strike notices on behalf of workers at Swift, Armour. Wilson, Cudahy and many smaller independent meat packing houses. Holstein said however that the filing of the notices “should not be regarded as necessarily indicating that a strike will occur in the Industry." "ft Is a formal step taken in accordance with the requirements of federal law—the Smith-Connally Act," he said. He said the notices were filed after tbe union had "completed a full round ot negotiations with each of the big four packers." New contract negotktlons were opened in July. "Although no progress can l>e reported at this time, we are still hopeful that a satisfactory disposition of our difference* cau bo arrived at und that a strike can be avoided." Helstein said. "To date the paskers' proposals would deprive the union of all forms of security while at the same time imposing penalties designed to dwtroy the union. Theee proposals, in addition to taking away many benefits previously eni (Turn Tn Pa«e i. Cnl. tnn «»

i have com? forth and enumerable I material products have lieen produced to enrich th? live* of Amer--1 leans, the speaker outlined. Continuing he said, "How truly worthwhile it would he If the same successful approach could be made to our social and economic problems which are constantly featuring the news of the day -occurring and reoccurrlng as regularly as the tick tg ot tbe clock. When we speak ot progress, unfortunately we speak of advances made in the improvement and development of material things. If we were to measure progress in terms of the solving of our human problems, the relations ot man to man and groupc of men to groups of men, ours would be a very discouraging outlook for tbe future. Classes are still pitted against classes as they were tn feudal days—though the techniques of dispute have changed." Mr. Estabrook voiced his opinion that legislation was not the means of bringing about better understanding among employees, or between groups or trades classifications. He laid the task for this development before industry.

Mary Schmitt Winner Os Prize In Nation Wide Essay Contest Mary F Schmitt, daughter of Mr. und Mrs. Al D. H.hinltt, 421 Mercer Avenue, hu* been awarded third prize a 125 Saving* Bond, for her essay on “Frederick Ozanam, Christian Gentleman and Scholar," submitted in the nationwide con test sponsored by the Catholic School Journal. The announcement of th? award was made in the magazine* September Issue, which has Just been published. Miss Schmitt's essay was < ho* | en from over 1 !••(> submitted in j th? contest by ov.-r 45« partlclpat-1 ing high uchoois In lhe United: Stul< * and Canada. At the time the essay was submitted MiM Schmitt wus a Junior at Decatur Catholic High school. Hleter M. Fidelis, C. S A principal, submitted the essay to the con-1 twi sponsor*. Convict Trio Get 25 Year Sentences Climaxes Two Week Hunt For Escapees Pendleton. Ind.. Aug. 23 — (I'Pi Three convicts who escaped Aug. 12 and prompted a two week manhunt today began 25-year-sent-ences In the reformatory they fled. The trio. Charles Gilchrist. L‘fi. Rollin Hurt, and Frederick Ray mond John*, were all sentenced in Crawfordsville yesterday. Gilchrist was captured the day before. The other two were found in a barn near Crawfordsville earlier. Judge Howard Sommer of Mont gomery circuit court sentenced the three immediately on auto banditry and burglary charges Gilchrist was apprehended after a im-nille all-hour chase by police. He was driving a stolen car which was wrecked. The three lured a guard Into their cell and after knocking him unconscious fled over a reformatory wall. Reformatory superintendent Russell D. Moore said today that a guard on duty the night of the escape had resigned. Moore said (Turn To Page Column 4) 0 Newsprint Price Goes Up $7 Per Ton In U. S. Washington, Aug. 23—(UP)— Th* OPA today announced a |7-a-ton increase in the price of newsprint to prevent diversion of supplies from domestic to foreign markets. Th« increase applies to all newsprint aold in this country and covers sales back to Aug. f. The new ceiling price at 39 port citiqs is 174 a ton, with higher prices in other sections of the country to allow for frieght costs. OPA said it had three reasons for granting the Increase; ill to prevent diveivdon of newsprint from Canada, which supplies 82 percent of this country's needs, to foreign countries; (2) to prevent domestic producers from diverting newsprint production to more profitable lines of paper; (3) to allow for higher wage and materials costa to newsprint manufacturers since th? last increase was granted In December of 1945.

Industry's Responsibility

“It seem* very improbable," he said, "that a permanent and acceptable solution to our human relations problem will ever come through legislation or any form of executive or Judicial mandate. Most attempts of this nature in the past have only served to create bitterness and more ill will, it is my thought that industry, which is home away from home 25 percent of the lifetime and 35 percent of the waking hours for better than one-fifth of our people, must assume a great share of the leadership if we are ever to temper the clevage* that now exist between group* and classes." G- E. Has Program Tbe speaker emphasized the need for "tolerance and undenstanding'* among workers and management, If America is to be waved from the scrap heap of “intolerance." He mentioned what the G-E Company was doing to help bring shout thia desired condition. "The General Electric Company has long been aware of Its responsibility In such a program. We (Turn Tu Page 3, Column •>

Aboard Military Plane Shot Down by Yugoslavs womiiw*** u- grrtr -r - • • 11 11 ’ f ■ M dtr V- > , J* r .^■EysA.'y*\ .... w? .. THESE THREE MEN were among those alaiard the United Slates military transport plane shoe down by Yugoslav fighters, acc ording to the European Air Transport .s.-rvhe. They are ('apt It H. t'laey*. pilot left' apt H F Schreiber, copilot, center, and ('apt. E. H Freestone, right. The incident ha* precipitated a grave international crisis. These are U. H. Army Air Forces photo* Serbs Accuse U. S,; Hunt Continues For 5 Airmen

Pastor Is Barred From His Church Seeks Legal Advice Before Next Sermon Herrin. 111 . Aug. 23 - (UPt The Rev. ('. C William* *aid today he didn't think anyone “ha* ' the right lo keep a person out ot the house ot God," but said he j would seek legal advice before i doing anything about a temporary I injunction barring him from his ‘ church. Th., injunction, issued Tuesday on application of three of the con gregatioti, prohibit* Williams and i three trustees from entering the Herrin First Apostolic church. “I don't think it i* morally or legally right." William said, "but I won't risk contempt of court by preaching in th? church Meanwhile a hearing was sche*l tiled for Monday on warrants sworn l>y the pastor against 11 of his flock charging them with "disturbing a religious meeting for the worship of God" during servi.e last Sunday. Tbe Schism began when Williams returned from bis vacation July sixth to be served with a notice of dismissal. He Ignored the notice and early In August held a meeting to elect new trits(Turn Tn Pairr I, Column »» ■ O Couple Fined For Hiding Orphan Girl Suspend Sentences On Contributing Charge South Bend. Ind.. Aug 23—(UP) — A young, unemployed couple arrested Aug 14 for harboring a 14-year-old run-away orphan girl were fined $l5O and costs in superior court today on charges of contributing to th? delinquency of a minor. Bobble Mayfield. 21. and hi* 22-year-old wife Margaret, said they had planned a home for Maida Edmonds who fled the children's aid society home in Mishawaka. Ind.. Aug 3. Police had made repeated searches of th? Mayfield one-room apartment and finally discovered Maida hiding in a mattress. A 30-day sentence for Mayfield and a four-month term for his wife was suspended by juvenile Judge J. Clifford Potts. Mayfield was put on six months probation and Margaret on a two-year probation period. Testimony at the hearing revealed that the Mayfields had met young Maida while working at the Mishawaka home as cooks. Authorities said the couple worked there for several week* then quit without notice. 0 Free Major On Cruelty To Veterans Charge Bad Nauheim. Aug. 23.—(UP) — Maj. Herbert W. Bluhm was acquitted by an eight man military court today of charges of complicity in the mistreatment of U. 8. i soldiers at the f Jchfield. England, detention center.

Draft To Miss College Profs, Key Workers • Home Builders To Get Considerotion By Draft Boards Washington, Aug 23. —(UPt— Prospects of being drafted this fall eased up today for thousands I of key workers, college proses-! ' sors and building craftsmen. Selective service, at the request of reconversion director John Steelman, sharply modified it* tough deferment requirements. Heretofore none but registrants indispensable to the nation'* existence got occupational exemptions. Draft boards were authorized to give "most serious consideration" to occupational claim* of production and transportation workers, i home builders, and college and 1 university teachers. Previous provisions for the de-| ferment of some scientific slit--1 dents and r -search workers in ■ tlie physical sciences and engin-; i eering were also somewhat broadi ened. i Selective service had no estl--1 mate of the number of men that might now escape the draft, which will be resumed next month as-j ter a 60-day holiday. However, education officials had said that in the college field i alone thousands of young instruci tors faced induction this fall un- ! less th? regulations were altered. 1 , Housing officials had protested against the imminent drafting of skilled carpenters, plumbers and I ’ iTu.n T<> Pas* 2. Column it 0 French Police Nab Black Marketeer Paris Officials Hold Another Os Warners -I ■■ — Paris. Aug. 23-(l’P) Osc«r Warner, one of four American, brothers Implicated in an alleged International black market ring, wae arrested today by French po- ; lice. Police said Warner, a native of Newark. N. J., specialized In gold traffic, foreign currencies and I black market goods Two other brothers already have Iteen arrested in connection with what army authoritie* in Berlin > called a million dollar black market ring with "branch offices ’ in Berlin, Paris. New York and Shanghai. Police said Warner and his fa-| ther in New York. David Warner,; exchanged goods, the father send-j i Ing special merchandise to France and receiving French perfume*, optica! goods and lingerie. Warner had 7.000 German occu- 1 pation marks and a "considerable sum in foreign currency." police eaid. His hotel room held a stock ' at goods, mostly optical, valued at ' I more than 2.000.000 francs. 1

Price Four Cents

Washington, Aug. 23— Il'Pt — Official sounds said today that thia government does not deny Yugoslavia's right to get back the river boat* taken over by the I'. S. army when It occupied It* portion of Germany. These sources said the United States was holding the < raft until it receives some assurance of freedom of commerce and navigation on the Danube river. President Truman asked Rus- , Ma ami Britain at the Potsdam I conference to consider internationalization of such inland waterways as the Itanube. Ilfs request has been ignored thus far. By t'nited Press The American-Yugoslav dtsputo broke out afresit today when Marshal Tito's government, in evid. ent reprisal for a Washington ‘ threat to hale It before the I’nlted Nations, proposed instead to maka th" I’nlted State, the defendant ! in the undock Russia relayed a Belgrade report that Yugoslavia was accusing the United States of Illegally retaining Yugoslavia's fleet of Danube river boats. The I'. S. army -eized several score river vessels three mouths ago in a raid aimed at breaking up smuggling The Moscow radio said Yugoslavia * a letter to secretary general Trygve Lie of the United Nation- asked him to put on the security council agenda for Aug 31 the lw>at seizure charge against the United States The length of time the matter had been pending made it evident: that was no coincidence that Yttgo* -lavia reopened it while a 4*-hour ultimatum to Tito over the downing of American planes was pending American officials had received from Tito a promise to make up I for the downing of th»' two U S. army transports and to cease attacks on planes. A search was on for five persons aboard the second transport, shot down last Monday in the Yugoslav border area. On their fate apparently depended flu- sati isfaction of the U S. ultimatum. Seven Americans and two other 1 Itersons aboard the first transport: I forced down Aug !• were In OorlzI ia. Italy. They were released by the Yugoslavs yesterday, allegedly before ambassador Richard Patterson had handed to Tito ts copy of the uiUmatum A U S. army graves reglstra1 lion commission examined th<« wreckage of the plane shot down in flames near the Austrian fronti ier Monday. The Yugoslavs said (Turn To Paa* 2. Column 4) 0 Lawyer Waging Fight With Streetcar Firm Former Local Youth James M. Dawson, Indlananoliw attorney, waging the brisk legal battle against the streetcar company, U the son of Mrs. J. M. Dawson, of east of Decatur and resided hero about 30 years ago when hie father, the late Rev. JM. Dawson was assigned to a local pastorate. His mother is saving newspaper stories and pictures of her son's contest to use his old street car tokens, including one picture which shows him sans a coat sleeve after being forcibly ejected front a car. Attorney Dawson and nis wife ar* expected in Decatur Saturday to spend the weekend with the Decatur lady.