Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 201, Decatur, Adams County, 26 August 1946 — Page 1

XLIV. No. 201

. S. - YUGOSLAVIAN TENSION IS EASED

Kotov Makes |er Attack ■Australia ■hes Australian ■posal To Scrap Korotions Setup Hi wk 26 -(l'Pi-Russtan K imnW-r V. *• Molo “” K Australia today of tryinK Krrmin*' ,hP “" !l,ori,y of K M ,. ionf< r« n< <• and the Khm. nt <>f peace In Europ*. K 'o carried th* conference H>- f if,h K whm he laxh' d out at an Kun proposal to "wrap" K„r plans for reparation* Vfiomania and -H up a new K,on* commission to decide K>u. Kkinr the Australian proKo discard the plan to klvo K |.iw.oo<r.oon of reparation* Klomania and set up a spa■reparations commission to K the matter. Molotov Kt: Ky an araressor could supKurh a proposal. I douht Ksr the Australian delew- ■ really represents the AusKn people " ■rune who agreed to the AusK. proposal, Molotov charg■will strike a Mow at the es■hment of peace in Europe.” Ke Australian delegation opK no 1 only what Is reasonable ■sM-jble, but takes Step* to ■raise the authority of the Hr ronference and establish- ■ of peace in Europe," he Kotors denunciation of AnsK came after Yugoslavia had Kerrd with the conference a Hsl demand for |I.;MW,W6 Kurstions from Italy, a sum ■me« as great as the big four ■hl Italy should pay Russia K Yugoslav demand was disKl with the issuance of more ■ !*< proposals for amend ■« to the big four's treaty Bh, Klgium introduced amendlit is prohibit all five former ■ Mti Hite cMitliles from on■sg in any research on the ■ hoah The Belgians point Im< that the treaties contain Hihliioas against such things ■«*lfpropelled or guided mis- ■ hut did not forbid cxperl■b with atomic energy. ■kilotov's hour long attack on ■ Australian reparations pro- ■ for the Balkans came in the Bm economic commission. He •M*d the big (our reparation • for Romania, in effect a con'h* annlstlcs terms •Wing that Romania pay Rus- ■ in goo«|« worth 1300,000.000. jMtralia contended that the f* question must |t'*«aa!as>d In the light of (“"la’s ability to pay and ■* ln Im> ma< le by countries f the Soviet Pnlon. The Proposed, therefore, i? * *l* ( 'ial reparations coml"°" •» set up. [“"“‘Proposed that the Cut. . * ** Cllnn roquirlng ' ° r *P ar ‘tlons In *' ,,Un<h rwh,r ,han ,n **>'" said such Lia fn ' ni *°uld leave RoLt Briuta h h?* an<l ii» whtfh *“* Pound*. Mm T" “ SUgXtst T.* n,4n —_»*t. claiming that it *«* «■ Column <> Killed As *° TraintCollide * S-t «-•»», *«. ' ""road * ,nd Hod - Uy two’S* k,,,ed Ul<H heart M"*ni«r trains <* EX* "it BBd a han Mark branch com ’ > «r* Mw, iTt*** wr ®ck were Uh My haw. K ndk,, * d ‘h»t ?.*** hot det2L f J”’ BCC| ' Idy wermlned immedl«AOIN*» — » —*

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Institute Speaker M Dr. Jolin R. Emens, president of Bail State Teachers college, Muncie, will give addresses at both morning and afternoon sessions of the Adams county teachers* institute, which will he held in thia city Wednesday. Teachers Institute Here On Wednesday Rural Schools Open Formally On Sept. 3 Hans for the annual Adams county teachers institute, to Im* held at the Lincoln school auditorium, henon Wednesday are complete, Lyman L. Hann, county .*chool superintendent In charge, announced today. Dr. John Emens. president of Ball Mtuto teachers college, Munde. will be the main speaker at the institute, delivering addresses al the m miing and afternoon seaion a. All teachers In Adams county are expected tn attend the annual event, which yreecdes school opening. Mr. llunn announced that a meeting of all county school principals will Im* held Tuesday after noon at 2 o’clock in his offices in the counhiuse to plan for the school opening Dale Decker of Kirkland township and .Merritt Beck of Hartford township ure two new principals who will Im* in attendance at the session. Orville Blue, principal at Monroe high school, has also resumed his past there after u year's absence, in which the position was filled by Charles Hinton. The official opening of the rural schools baa been set for the day after the Institute. August 29. Classes - will begin on Tuesday, September 3. ——p Officer's Slugger Given Prison Term Mexican Sentenced To State Penal Farm Pedro Morales. 38, who on Aug ust 18 slugged officer Sephus Melchi of the city police force without provocation, wilt go to Putnamville this week to begin serving a 80-day penal farm sentence. Morales was meted out a fine of ISO and costs In Adams circuit court by Judge J. Fred Frunchte Saturday, after he had changed a not guilty plea to one of guilty on a charge of Interfering with an officer. Morales, a veteran of several ETO Invasions, was given a “break" by the court when Judge Frunchte entered the proviso in bls 60-day sentence, reducing it to 30 days—ls at the end of that period he could secure admittance to some veteran's hospital. Morales, a Mexican, said that hi> bach was Injured when he was thrown from an army tank during battle. He at least partially blamed this injury for his “spells" during which he became involved with the law a number of times. During a hearing conducted by the court, he admitted he had no logical motive for striking the inllce officer, saying only that he “had been doing things like that." A sister, who had previously engaged the service of a lawyer to defend him when be entered a not guilty plea, also testified. (Turn To Pago », CeUtaa «)

Bitter Fight Is Raging In Chinese War Bitter Fighting Is Reported From 10 Chinese Provinces — Peiping, Aug. 28 — (I'Pi — China's long developed civil war gained in proportions and momentum toduy. Bitter fighting was reported between communists and nationalists in ten different provinces from northern Manchuria to central Shansi. (Jen. Lin Piao'a communist troops reportedly have begun en* | circling Tlehling, 33 miles northeast of the important Manchurian rail center of Mukden. Nationalist reinforcements were being rushed from Mukden and Kaiyu- * tin in un effort to halt the communist drive. (In Nanking. communist ; rpokesman Wang Ping-Nan said ' a protest was being made to flen. George (’, Marshall, special i American peace envoy, concerning an alleged "secret deal, he- | tween Premier T. V. Soong and Howard C. Peterson, assistant H. S. secretary of war. The communist New China news agency sail the "deal” involved selling the central government surplus United States war materials. Wang said such a move would violate China's sovereignty and prolong the civil war. He said Marshall would he asked to transmit the protest to Washington.! The Increased tempo of hostilities was reported to military quarters in Peiping. A spokesman said "fierce fighting” was in progress In ten provinces, extending from Manchuria to Shantung snd Shansi In central China. Fighting zones were reported in Jehol, Chahar. Liaoning. Huiyuan, Kirin. Kiangsu. Honan. Shantung. Shansi, and Manchuria. Dispatches from Mukden said the communists had been attacking railway lines in Kirin province "for some time.” Some sections of the railway north of Taoiaichao. 90 miles northwest of Kirin city reportedly have heen destroyed. Chinese newspapers In Nanking saltl both nationalists and communists were massing troops for a large-scale battle at Cheng* teh. capital of strategic Jehol province, gateway to Manchuria. Heavy fighting was reported also in southern Shansi, where communist troops were believed to have*, smashed through the western gate of llouhslen. 100 miles southeast of Taiyuan, capital of Shansi province. The newspaper Ta Kung Pao in Nanking said that Chiang KaiShek had agreed "in principle" to a proposal of General Marshall's which might ease the situation In northern Kiangsu. The newspaper said Marshall had proposed a reduction in Chiangs (Turn To Page 3. Column <•> 0 — Students Registered For School Opening School Term Opens In City Next Week Registration of student* at the Decatur junior-senior high school was begun today In the offices of W. Guy Brown, school principal—in preparation for the opening <* classes on Tuesday. September 3. Seniors, who were working today and unable to register, are asked to report to the principal’s office tonight between 8 and 9 o’clock. Juniors will register Tuesday from 9 am. until 3 p.m.. sophomores on Thursday and freshmen on Friday during the same hours. Eighth graders will register at 8 a.m on Saturday and seventh graders at 10 a.m. on the same day. No registration will bo held Wednesday, because of the teachers institute to he held here. Meanwhile, plans for the opening of the city’s public schools are progress ing rapidly, under the direction of Walter J. Krick, city school superintendent. Registration at the Decatur Catholic schools will be conducted Friday. in preparation for the opeolng of the now school term on Wednesday, Rentomber 4.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, August 26, 1946.

First Human “Shot” From Plane r— ■ ■■! ■ ■■■! !!■ n tn anwwww -w — ' "W 1 ” CT y j bl j|| w ENTERING A P-61 PLANE at Wright Field, Dayton. 0.. shortly before he became the first human to be shot form a speeding plane by the newly developed pilot ejection seat Is First Sgt. Mwrence lambert, Berkeley, W. Va. Lambert tested the safety seat, developed by the Air Material Command, at an altitude of 6.000 feet.

Record Shipments Jam Stockyards Farmers Rushing To Beat OPA Ceilings Chicago, Aug. 26.—(UP) —Farmers rushed unprecedented shipments of cattle ami hogs to major midwest stockyards today in advance of the deadline Thursday for restoration of OPA ceilings. Extra police were assigned In Chicago to cope with block-long lima of livestock trucks which by morning had dumped 39,000 cattle and 15,0<M) hogs Into sprawling stockyard pew. The Chicago run was the biggest since 1934, the year of tho drought, a stackyard official said. Across the midwest in nine major markets, farmers eent morn than 139,860 cattle and 71.000 hogs to packinghouse*. The rush to beat OPA ceilings resulted In predictions that the United States will be short of good beef and pork by October. "The farmers are clearing out their stock, most of It light weight, ahead of the right time, to make money at three prices," one stockyard official said. "We’re short of pork now. and we’ll really feel It In Oct oiier." A department of agriculture spokesman said: "we're eating now what we should be feeding. What are we going to do later” Prices were beginning to drop, although the maikets were not yet established. In Chicago, hog* dropped 12 from Saturday, and II to |5 from Friday's record highs. In St. I*ouis, hogrt were about |2 lower in early selling. Bidding was much lower in Indianapolis. Stackyards in Fort Worth were jammed. Trucks piled up at the entrance to the yards and long lines blocked nearby highways. Near record receipts were expect, ed in Indianapolis. An official said: "we probably will have one of the (Turn To Pags 4, Column 6) 0 Ex-Supreme Court Justice Is Dead Washington. Aug. 26.—(UP) — Funeral services will be held in Elkton ,Ky., Thursday tor the late James Clark Mcßeynolds, former supreme court Justice. Mcßeynolds, the most unyielding conservative among the court's "nine old men" in ths early days of the new deal, died Saturday night at the age of 84. Death was attributed to a breakdown la the gastro-intestinal system, bronchial pneumonia and "a falling heart." Mcßeynolds .retired from the court Feb. 1, 1941, after waging a bitter fight against early new deal l>olitical philosophy. He voted against the constitutionality of all the early Roosevelt legislation, aud issued the only dissent against tho TVA.

Six-Yeor-Old Girl Is Killed By Car Kokomo, Ind., Aug. 26 -(UP)— Judy Ann Statler, six yeur old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Statler, Kokomo, was killed y ret erday wheu she darted Into the side of an automobile driven by Jack Gerhart. 21, Kokomo. „ _> Gerhart, police waid, drove hie automobile up on a curb to avoid hitting the child, blowing out two (ires. 8 Minor Food Items Freed Os Control To Restore Livestock Ceilings This Week Washington, Aug. 26—(UP)— Twelve minor food items wenfreed from price control today while QPA and the agriculture department made final calculations on the soon-to-lM* restored ceilings for meat. OPA officials hoped to announce early this week the now meat prices at all levels of trade. The announcement must come before Thursday, when price ceilings on livestock are scheduled to go into effect. Ceilings for meat sales In retail stores will become effective Sept. 9, The prices will be lower than those now prevailing but higher than the old June 30 OPA ceilings in the case of lamb and beef cuts. Black and white pepper were among the 12 food Items taken off the price control list by OPA today. The others were: Canned clam broth: canned sauerkraut with pork; domestic sweet and sour chutney; imported and domestic processed meat and fish sauces except those containing more than 30 percent tomato; Chinese fortune tea cakes; imported and domestic canned plum pudding: malted milk tablets; and dehydrated sugarcane fiber. A much longer list of decontrolled food products is expected to be Issued by OPA next weekend. Under the new price control law. OPA must remove controls on all foods except those which the agriculture department finds are still scarce. Other Items expected to he deconi roiled in the near future probably this week—are undergarments of pure silk. Also on the agenda for OPA action this week is announcement of the procedure by which industries may apply to the agency for price relief under the Barkley amendment to the new price control act. The amendment guarantees Industry the same profit received In 1948 over and above current cost of manufacture Officials said OPA Intends to Interpret the amendment very strictly to allow no more price Trura To Page S. Columa I)

Yugoslav Premier Tito Complies To Ultimatum In Airplane Incidents

Resume Great Lakes | Strike Negotiations Part Os Strikers Returned To Jobs Detroit. Aug. 28 — (I’l’t — <>ne thousand workers on 20 railroad ferries operated on the Great Lakes returned to work today as the striking National Maritime Vnlon (CIO! resumed negotiation* with more than half of the I" shipping companies involved in the 12duy-old shipping strike. The men voted to return to work yesterday as the I’nion prepared to reopen settlement talks along the lines of an agreement by which some 200 striking seamen returned to work on 17 Bethlehem Transportation Company and Standard Oil of Indiana ships. Previously the NMU had announced that negotiations would open today with Ford Motor Company and Nicholson Transit Company of Detroit. Talks had begun previously with Inland Steel and International Harvester Co. Resumption of operation on the railroad ferries released six I’ere Marquette boats in Ludington. Mich., and three in Detroit, three Wabash nouts in Detroit; two Grand Trunk and Western bouts in Milwaukee and one in'.Muske gou. Mich- ail five Aun Arbor railroad boats in Frankfort, Mich The railroad had branded tlie strike of ferrymen illegel liecause they are under the jurisdfitiott of the National Railway act. I*. D Harvey, u representative of the National Mediation Itoard, said the railroads had agreed to open talks in 3o days on the question of a hour week and other concessions. First settlements In the shipping strike were reached on the basis of a compromise of the NMU’s original 10-hour week demand to 48 hours, as against the average 66 hours.

Defies Court Order, Local Woman Jailed Given Sentence For Contempt Os Court A Decatur young woman spent the weekend in jail as result of having defied a court order which gave her former husband permission to visit with their five-year-old child. Late Saturday morning In Adams circuit court, Mrs. Deiorls McCagg was sentenced to five days in jail, three days ot the sentence being suspended by Judge J. Fred Fruchte —on a contempt of court count. In his affidavit for a citation, the local lady's former husband, Earl McCagg. charged that he went to her home on August 16 to visit their child, in accordance with a court order giving him that privilege from 6 until 8 p.m on Frldaya during the month of August. Ills affidavit charged that when he had the child. Jerry Lee. in his arms and started to take him out to his auto to viait another youngster, Mrs. McCagg attempted to prevent him from doing so. He averred she struck him. pulled his hair and attempted to take the boy away from him. Cited into court for falling to (Turn To Page 3, Column 3) 0 Marine Recruiter Here Each Friday A U. 8. marine corps recruiting sergeant w!H be at tho Decatur post office each Friday afternoon. It waa announced today. All young men between the ages of 17 and 25 are invited to call tor information. Attention was drawn by the recruiter to the fact that the G I bill of rights will be withdrawn after October 5.

British Seek Out Saboteurs Os Troopship Palestine Village Closely Searched In Hunt For Saboteurs Jerusalem. Aug. 26. —(UP)—Four thousand British troops carried out a house-to-house s**arch of the little village of Caesarea today In their search for the "frogmen" who last week sabotaged a troop ship in Haifa harbor. (Exchange telepgrah dispatches from Jerusalem said lite search centered around Sedet Yam. apparently a settlement adjacent to Caesarea. site of an ancient fort. The exchange telepgrah reports said Sedet Yum was 20 miles south of Haifa, the area in which Caesarea L* situated I Caesarea is a little fishing Village of 300 persons north of Tel Aviv. British troops under cover of darkness moved Into the town after It had been cordoned off. Palestine police boats off shore and royal airforce planes in the air supported the operation. ‘ The search was undertakes he cause It was suspected that some of the villagers were responsible for attaching limpet mines to the troopship empire Heyworsl in Haifa harbor lust week. The village, which depends for Ils livelihood on fishing, recently wa*< repotted as a disembarkation (roint for hundreds of illegal immigrants. The villagers were screened l>y the troops mojli aftor dawn. A security blackout was clamped over the urea but authoriti«« announced that a day-long search bad failed to find any incriminating evidence Sand dunes around Caesura, which was the scene of the massucre of 20,000 Jews by tlie Greeks in 57 8.C.. were strongpoints. Bren gun posts were set up on 2,000-year-old murble pillar* which are all that is left of the historic port. Powerful bulldozer* cleared the spaces between huts and leveled the ground in the seanh for arms and ammunition. The British also were using specially trained dogs which are aensitive to metal in their search for evl(Turn To Pugs 1. Column k> o * Early Symptoms Os Polio Are Detailed Aid In Detection Os Dread Disease Mrs. Annabelle Heller, secretary of the city board of health, in reponse to a request from the state board, today Issued a list of simple symptoms of Infantile paralysis or poliomyelitis to aid local residents, especially mothers, to detect the disease at an early stage. One case of the dlseuse has been reported in Decatur with John Brecht, local coffee salesman, confined at the Lutheran hospital In Fort Wayne. A second case, reported in a rural area near Decatur, has tailed to materialize, according to the attending physician, who said that his diagnosis bus failed to definitely establish the victim's illness as “polio." The symptoms as listed today by Mrs. Heller: First stage: For a day or two there may be fever, headache, weakness, sore throat, nausea or vomiting. Second stage: From one to three days headache, stiff neck and back, tenderness of muscles and prostra(Turn Tu Fags 3, Cslumn 6)

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American Officials Seek To Determine Fate Os Vanished American Airmen BULLETIN Belgrade. Aug. 26.—(UP)— The common grave of American airmen killed in the downing of their transport plane a week ago was revealed today to contain the mangled remains of only four men, leaving the fate of the fifth still to be determined. Washington, Aug. 26.—(VP) • Th« United States stood firm today In it* determination to demand United Nations action unless Yugoslavia makes satisfactory redraM for shooting down two American planes. indication* mounted, however, that the state department would be a ble to put th * case down ae a closed incident without re* course to the UN security council, us threatened in the American ultimatum demanding release of survivors of the two attack*. Tension In U. N.-Yugoslav relations eused materially l»y weekend developments in the dispute. Tho state <l«ff>ai tineiit announced that. Yugoslav premier Marshall Tito apparently had complied with the ultimatum and Yugoslav offlclain promhted full military honors for the funeral of the American* slain in Hie second attack. The department coupled its announcement with the Ntafcment. that it would reserve the right to decide whether to refer the dispute to the security council until further evidence is received and examined by secretary of etato James F. Byrnes .n I’aibt. At the same lime, it called attention to a provision in the ultimatum which said the future cmiras of the United States would Im determined in the light of efforts of the Yugoslav government to "right the wrong done." The United States thus indicated it was ready to consider the matter dosed if Tito cart lew out his promise to hult attack* on foreign planes and make* adequate amend* in the form of compensation and perhaps u formal apology. Official quarters, however, warn, ed against conclusions that the Incident already was as good a* closed. Tito himself may decide to g» to the UN. He has accused both the United States and Britain of invading Yugoslavia's sovereignty with "thousand*!'' of airplane flights over Yugoslav territory Intensive Search Belgrade. Aug. 26.—(UPi U. 8. officials, relieved by the week-end easing of the Yugoslav crisis, plunged today Into a determined effort to find out what happened to twit American airmen who vanished when Yugoslav fighter* shot down their C-47 a week ago. Col. Richard Partridge, U. S. military attache, said the Yugoslav army had promoted an iiitensiVti search of the mountain* where tho transport crashed in flames If examination of Hie mangled bodies found in a common grave at Koprivnik showed only three airmen were buried there. U. S. army graves registration workers were taking ui> the bodiM today. They were being returned to Belgrade with full •ilitary es* con provided by the Yugoslav army and were to In* burled here. Intermitted rain was expected to delay the exhumation aud trans(Turn To Page 4. Column 6) ,_g Two Men Killed In Crash Os Transport New York, Aug. 26—(UP)— American airlines announced today that Capts. Mclemore Elder and William Campbell Stehle, both of Memphis, were killed lest night In the crash of their transport plane during a training flight near Holly Spring*. Mias. Officials of the airline said the men were on a routine instrument training flight when their two* enginwi DC-34 came down in n wooded area. They bad left Mem* phis shortly after 9 pm CBT, •• «■*