Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 204, Decatur, Adams County, 29 August 1946 — Page 1

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To Slash Non-Home Building In State Chicago, Aug. 2!> -IVP> A new civilian production udmlnlstration directive will nla»h non home construction fi.IM.IWO |M) weekly In Illinois, Wisconsin mid Indiana, It was disclosed today, Elmer E. Canfield. CPA regional executive officer. Haiti the order ieduced from 25 to 3o percent a combined quota of 51,~x0.000 set last May far the trlelnte area. — Q CIO Denounces New Livestock Price Ceilings

Charge Anderson With Yielding To Industry Pressure Washipgton, Aug. 29—(I'l’i— The CIO tmlay denounced the new livestock price ceilings as a "disastrous blow" to the American people and tacitly calle-l for tho ouster of secretary of agriculture Clinton P. Anderson for de creelng them. Chairman John Thornton of the ClO's cost of living committee charged Anderson with yielding Io industry pressure in ordering higher livestock ceilings than favored by OPA. The prices mean that new retail meat ceilings will be m cents a pound higher than June 30 levels for beef ami 2'4 cents higher for pork. “We believe Anderson's reck lees step demonstrates his unfit ness for office." Thornton said. “Jt climaxes a long series of Incidents in which Anderson bad acted as mouthpiece for profiteers." The moat Industry also was dissatisfied with the new ceilings, but for a different reason. The American Meat Institute said the ceilings were lower than those obtainable an a free market and hence might lead to a return of (he black market. The OPA. which had favored even lower livestock ceilings, was required by the new price control law to comply with Anderson's order within 10 days. OPA said it was postponing the effective date of the new livestock ceilings from today to Sept. I to enable it to rearrange price schedule* in compliance With the secretary's ruling. The wholesale and retail ceilings will go into effect as originally scheduled—Sept. 5 for wholesalers and Sept. 9 for retailers. The CIO committee said It had been squarely behind OPA In Its tight to restore livestock ceilings as close as possible to June 30 levels, and demanded to know whether President Truman had approved Anderson's higher scale. "With milk and dairy products

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Youth Receives Bid To Make Ocean Trip Harker Undecided On Extended Trip Mln today Jack Harker, IS-year-old Decatur high school senior, was to decide finally whether or not he will take a four to six weeks ocean trip beginning Tomorrow. Some time ago Jack made application to a church groun which has been Mending ship loads of cattle to war refugees in Europe to go along on one of the trips. About a week ago be received word that hk( application was approved and this morning he received a telegram, asking him to report at a New Windsor, Maryland seaport ready to leave for Europe tomorrow. Upon bls ability to make final preparations as well us train con■MgUOM which would take him to New Windsor before the ship leaves rested his chancca of making tho trip. Jack la the son of Mrs. Wilfred Habegger, of this city. Four other youths from Decatar had previously made application to take a similar trip sometime ago hut did not go. Jack’s exact destination Is not definitely known, but he expert* it to bo Poland or Greece.

Tornado In The Making, But Not Serious f FN^^^BSFKTSfiiu^UH^UUBHR KibP — CAMERA photographs a tornado In the making oi.er Baltimore. The waterspout, seeming to rise out of the harbor, was short lived but did toss one small building fid feet and lift the roofs off several others in its area.

Reports On Walther League Annual Camp Annual Outing Held At Camp Limberlost A total of 265 children attended the ninth Indiana district Walther League summer camp at Camp Limberlost. Ijßlrango. Herman H. Krueckeberg. of this city, camp manager, stated today. Mr Krueckeiterg was assisted by a s'aff of minister*. Lutheran edttca 'rs, recreational and musical leader* during the two weeks’ camp. Mrs. Krueckeberg was an assistant manager. Children attended the camp from a wide area and registration during the first week totaled 125. The second week attendance Increased to 140. Members of the staff during the first week Included. Rev. Rupert t'ffclman. East Chicago, dean; Rev. Arinin Born. Detroit, lecturer; Ml** Agne* Etzler, Convoy Ohio, girl'* counsellor; Arnold Stoppenhagen, Fort Wayne, assistant manager; Karl Krudop. Fort Wayne, recreational leader; Ml** Emma L. Ziegler. Hamilton, and Rjchard Bockstiegel, Cincinnati. lifeguards; Frances Griebel. Fort Wayne, nurse. Rev I'ffelman conducted a Bible class every morning and Rev. Born lectured on the topic. "A Christian Personality." Rev. J W. Acker, of Hammond. Mi»* Etzler and Mr. Stoppenhagen. each spoke on various phases of Christian knowledge and service. Mis* Anna Brauer, of St. Ixtttis. who recently returned from Europe. *poke on world relief. The afternoon and evening program* were under the direction of Mr. Krudop and each day's activities closed with vesper services.

During the socond week, the staff assisting Mr. and Mr*. Krueckeberg. wa» composed of Rev. Walter C Maas. Indianapolis, dean; Rev. Armin C. Oldsen. Valparaiso, lecturer: Miss Agnes Etzler. Convoy, girl's counsellor; Henry Krudop. assistant manager; Miss Emma L. Ziegler. Hamilton. Richard Bockstiegel. Cincinnati and Miss Jean Curtner of Hammond, lifeguards: Frances Griebel. nurse: Paul Foeliter. Fort Wayne, music director. Rev. Mass conducted the morning BHde class and Rev. Oldsen lectured on "A Christian Personality.” Rev. W. E. Meyer. Ohio (Tu— Tn P»(T* 1 Pttiswt S‘ Record August Cold Wave Over Midwest Chicago. Aug 29—(UP)—One of the coldest spoil* on record for August moved out of western Canada across the midwest today. A chilling air mass sent temperatures tumbling to as low a« 23 degree* at Mather, Wls., and other low thermometer readings over the grea averaged from 30 to sft degretw. The fr. S- weather bureau In Chicago said the cold "nap would continue until Sunday with generally clesr skies.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, August 29, 1946,

Shortage Os Nurses In Riley Polio Ward Indianapolis. Aug. 29— tl’P) — The Janies Whitcomb Riley hospital at Indianapolis, Indiana's only children* hospital, today faced a critical shortage of nurse* In its polio wards. Miss Mary Peacock, director of ih<« Indiana university nurses, training school, said only two registered nursfti were available for polio ward duty yesterday. She said 13 of the h -spital's 4fl polio patients were in a "critical condition.” — o Rural Schools Open For Fall Semester Decatur Schools To Open Next Tuesday School bells rang again in Adams county today as hundreds of students flocked to the various buildings In the county's rural school system to officially open the 194647 term. Today s program in the schmd* consisted mainly of registration and organization of classes, which will begin next Tuesday. After iwlay, students will be at liberty until the opening of classes. Public schools in Decatur and Berne will also open next Tues day. while the Catholic schools in Decatur will open the following day. Wednesday. Final plans for opening th* schools were made Wednesday in group meetings, which concluded the annual Adams county teachers institute, held in the Lincoln school auditorium heye under the direction of Lyman L. Hann, county school superintendent. Dr. Emens Speaks "A feeling of belonging, a sense of achievement, security and selfconfidence, love and affection from adults and associates are among tho major needs of children." Dr. John R. Emens, Ball State Teachers college president, told Adams county teachers Wednesday afternoon in a closing address at the annual teachers Institute. Spi-aking to more than 100 members of the county school system's faculty. Dr. Emens, prominent educator who recently assumed the Indiana college post, declared children also need "freedom from feelings of guilt, rhartng With others in making decisions and a better understanding of themselves and their environment." "Growing up." he said In explaining the title of his second address of the day. "is a continuous process from the cradle to the grave; hut it In conveniently divided into periods, such as infancy, childhood, adolescence, youth, adulthood. *4o’ and old age. "Teachers and parents need to have more and more Information about the growth process, maturation. and development Dsta from psyology. medicine, anthropology, physiology, mental hygiene and (Turn To Page 3. Column 9)

Soviet Spy Ring Is Smashed In Germany !• f ‘ 15 Germans Seized In Spy Connection if! *' Frankfurt, Aug. 29 — (UPi — i’ 1 , r j V. 8. headquarters announced to■day that counter-Intelligent-' n agents had arrested in Stuttgart . 15 Germans in what was alleged 1 to be a Soviet spy ring. Intelligence officers said all 15 of the Germans ranked high in .espionage activity and their lead- , er was one Walther Kazmarek. The arrest* followed nine month* of work In which the agents used various devices of detection Including recording machine* and undercover German informants. The agents cracked down on the ring when It tried to "regain contact with Russian agents and sent a courier Into tho Russian K zone.” according to the official report. The ring was described as havI ing operated within the “Freles J. Deutschland” organization, which ' was approved by the military i government. Kazmarek was quoted as say--1 ing in a signed confession that 1 he had received 5.000 marks r from Russian repatriation officers y last fall for reporting on American troop movements in the ' Frankfurt area '' (alter, he said, ho was In con--1 tact with a Major Droschin of the < Russian Intelligence. 0 Auto Production At Nash Plants Halted Refuse To Work On Autos For Export • Milwaukee. WK. Aug. 29 —(UP) tl—Nash automobile production was • hailed at plants here and at Ke • nosha. Wls.. today by what com- » pany officials said wa« an "unpre- ■ cedented" refusal of employes to ’ work on cars for export. Twelve thousand employes were • Idled in the Seaman body plant here • and the Na*h assembly plant at I Kenosha, company officials said. I The GIO united automobile workI er* local at the Seaman body plant > planned tentatively to Satur- ' day to consider full-scsls strike > action agaiiwt the '.ampany. R. A. De Vllieg. vice president In charge of manufacturing, said “we • are not negotiating because there I I* no precedent for this kind of • work stoppage and we really don't t know what tho next step would be." r The company charged that some • of the workers, "under pressure" , of the CIO auto workers union. . let car* with right hand steering > and leather lining ride down ast semhly lines without working on ■ them. i "This would quickly have caused . an assembly line pileup and made I junk out of thousands of dollars (Turn To Fags 3. Colcmn S)

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Heirens Attempted Suicide Revealed Letter To Parents Made Public Today Chicago. Aug. 29 <CPI William Heirens, 17. confessed triple killer, told his parents in a letter made public today that while held on suspicion of murder he made many plans and two actual attempts to commit suicide. The letter written by the youth in his county Jail cell while authorities w«re trying to obtain a confession from him. was disclosed by state's attorney William J. Tuohy. The letter was seized by jailers and never was mailed. In It, Heirens. confessed slayer of six-year-old Suzanne Degnan and two women, told of trying to tear open scalp wounds •offered I when he was seized, and of trying to gouge his eyes out. lie also wrote of saving 32 aspirin tablets which he intended to take in a single dose, and of planning to starve himself. In his letter he told of not eating for a period, hut authorities reported that he had taken nourishment all the time he was In custody. ’ He wrote that he Invented the fictional character of George MurI mgp. to whom he attributed his many < t imes Authorities had believed that Murman was a manifestation of the youth's split personality. Helren also wrote that he was aware of his sexual abnormality which led him to commit burgarly anti murder. He tried to overcome his criminal urges, he wrote, by "dating girls.” The letter, addressed to "Dear Mom amt Dad." was revealed as three prominent psychiatrists pre(Turn T<> Page 2. Column O o Arbie E. Owens Dies Early This Morning Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon Arbie E. Owens 47, veteran employe of the Decatur works of the General Electric company, died at 5 o'clock this morning at his home, 425 Mcliarncs street, after a six months Illness of Hodgkins disease. He had been employed as a toolmaker at the G. E. plant since it was established in Decatur in 1920, coming here from Fort Wayne. He was a veteran of World War I. enlisting with old Company A In this city, going overseas as a member of the 139th field artillery, and was later with the fi6th . field artillery brigade. He was born In Swaninggon, Ind.. September 15, lI9R, the son of Sherman and Augusta Van Horn-Owens. He was married in this city February 12. 1921. to Miss Genevieve Hebble. He was a member of the First Evangelical church, the Masonic lodge, and Adams Post 43, AmeriLegion. Surviving in addition to the wife, are two children Robert and Alice Owens, hoth at home; one sister. Mrs. Otto Hoffman of Decatur; four step-brothers. John and Fred McLaughlin of Elkhart, Grover of South Bend and Eldo of Champaign, 111., and one stepsister, Mrs. Ira Lovell of Elkhart. One brother preceded him in death. Funeral services will he held at 1:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the home and at 2 o'clock at the First Evangelical church, with the Rev. F H. Willard officiating. Military rites will be conducted hy the American Legion. Burial will he In the Decatur cemetery. The body will be removed from the Black funeral home to the tesidence Friday morning, and may be viewed after 2 p m. Friday.

Big Four Seek To Ward Off Parley Failure Foreign Ministers Seeking Big Four Amity In Session Parle. Aug. 20 (CPl—The big four foreign ministers met at 4:2't pm. <11:20 a m. EDTt today for a vigorous attempt to fend off the threatened failure of the Paris peace conference. Secretary of state James F. Byrnes and foreign m'nisters Ernest Bevln. V. M. Molotov and George* Bidault assembled in Bidault'a office in a special search for big four amity as a requisite to peace conference progress. This was the first meeting of the big four as a ministerial e<uinell since their Parks seseions which laid the groundwork for the present peuco conference. Josef Wlniewicz of Poland resumed the Soviet bloc's attack on Australia a short time before 'he big four were to hunt way* to bridge the chasm between east and west. Condemning Australian repara tions proposals. Wlniewicz stated that some peace conference delegates appeared to be planning for future war an atomic war- instead of peace He said Just the reverse should be true. "We are planning for peace, not war—atomic war as some delegates here seem to think." The Pole's remark waa made in the Itallat, political commission. It was prompted hy a statement yesterday by Col. W. Il Hodgson of Australia referring to Italian feats that the proposetl cession of a frontier strip by Italy to France would endanger Italian security In case of war. Results and attitudes emerging from the big four meeting will be iiirtrument.il in making or break ing th<' 21-natlon conference. It has dragged through nearly five weeks of arguing and hostility with the scantiest result*. Everyone agreed that drastic action wae necessary if the conference was to succeed in completing treaties with Italy. Bulgaria, Romania. Hungary and Finland. Each minister was 'o be accompanied only by two advisetw and an interpreter. Byrnes’ team of advisers wan expected to be Sen Tom Connally, D. Tex., Sen. Arthur Vatigenberg, It., Mich, assisted by Charles A. Bohlen of the state department us Interpreter.

District Red Men Hold Meeting Here Majority Os Lodges Os District Attend A majority of the 13 Improved Order of Red Men organization* in northeastern Indiana were represented Wednesday night at the district meeting, held at Linlger'e grove, west of Decatur. A light shower and threatening skle* failed to lessen the crowd to any great extent, local Red Men officials in charge of the meeting, reported today. A score of candidates were initiated Into the organizatlnn during special ritualistic campfire ceremonies, exemplified by the local lodge degree team, assisted by representatives ot other ledges. Following the initiation ceremonies and business session, a luncheon wa* served at the picnic grounds and in the shelter house. Several state and district officers of the ordet were in attendance at the meeting.

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Soviet Opposition To Admission For Transjordan Cited By Four Countries Culled Nations Headquarters, l«ike Success, N. V., Aug. 29 (Cl’t — The Cnlted States. Britain. France and Australia today joined in charging Russia with attempting to set up Its own special rules for admission to the I'nlted Nations hy opposing the application of Transjordan on grounds Russia has no normal diplomatic relations with that country. Australia led the fight on tho announcement by Andrei Gromyko that he would blackball TransJordan on behalf of Russia, Oromyko's announcement came after the Cnlted States and Britain announced that they would veto the applications of Albania and outer Mongolia. The Transjordan row arose after Russia had supported the applications of Albania ami Mongolia and the United States and Britain opposed them. Sir Alexander Cadogan. Britain, took a position on Mongolia similar to that of Gromyko on Transjordan He pointed out that Mongolia had diplomatic relations with only two countries and lacked experience in international affairs. The debate on the membership application* was opened with a statement by I’avle Lukin. Yugoslav delegate to the CN. in support of the Albanian application Yugoslavia and Grewe, ranged pro and con on the Albanian question, requested permission of the security council to state their views in View of their Interest In Albania as their close Balkan neighbor The Greek case against Albania, charging the little Balkan state with repeated violations of the Greek frontier and failure t<» establish a "peace loving state," was presented last night. Today Yugoslavia replied, stating the exact opposite views and characterizing Albania as the first victim of Italian fascism in Europe The Yugoslav Greek skirmish was a preliminary to the big power fight over Albania in which the Cnlted States has warned Russia that an American blackball will be cast against Albanian membership if Russia insists on a security council vote on the Issue Britain, too. Is prepared to veto the Albanian request for l'N membership American spokesmen were busv today, seeking to explain that an American "negative vote” against Albania would not actually be a veto. However, security council rules provide that new memberships must be approved by the vote of all the big five on the council plus two more members. Hence a big power vote against an applicant automatically vetos the request. The American effort apparently was spurred by a desire to avoid being put In the same das* with Russia which has a number of times employed tho veto power to bloc security council actions to which the Soviet. (Turn To Pnc* ». Column •» n — —— Late Bulletins W ■ 111 • Washington, Aug. 29 — (U P) — Sen. Warren Magnuson, 0.. Wash., said today the United States will ask the United Nations in September to give this country the "sole trusteeship" of the Japanese mandated islands and other Pacific bases. Magnuson said “very reliable military sources'* had advised him that the United States would make the request when the US assembly convenes next month. London, Aug. 29 — (UP) — The colonial office tonight announced the commutation to life imprisonment of the death sentences given 18 Jewish youths convicted in Palestine of sabotage at the Haifa rail shops.