Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 209, Decatur, Adams County, 5 September 1946 — Page 1

5buJV No. 209

IVE-YEAR-OLD GIRL IS KILLED BY AUTO

Nation's Ports Ke Tied Up By pipping Strike

G>nment Seeks i)Mrately For mAs To Settle ■Bime Strike F Iff bulletin N. ~ ..-•M. A p.cket *•* » hot the American stores IM." Mr * th * ,ir * t ZKi e s violence in the New Jertey truck ■| x United Press shipping atrikss in LM'i t.i*tuiy fled up vrtieeh jA ■ .... *a.k.n.t overallsLggK\..r labor developments ■&, coming on top of a liKy " A *’ l - ,ruck Jr!v ‘ Km York its worst com-Sffog-jam in history. tgK. : .., I.i'i i disputes doxe-J ■Bh ..i No-walk. Conn . gB).. Loh Angelas Heraldgjff. pu'iil ration and |gKl 11 shut oft ■•lectrfc pow. consumers in the area. ■SB shipping strike, the govsought desperately for a ending the walkout. The not scheduled to begin I EST) today, but houna deadline sailors t>egaa ships In every port. lfftr:k- was called by two the -tailors' union of . and the seafarer* in union. It directly afiwljtoE.i 41.000 employes, but and CIO unions reprerest of the nation's workers pledged Ttfftrlk- insulted from the board’s refusal to Sin full wage iicreaaes of and the seafarers inrespectively. ut. .ii .d American raila general embargo 8 ■ freight shipments to U 1 ff. a« government officials »ffl to keep eeseutlal cargoes s ißmove 1.1 troops overseas, a means to end the Ar 111 Trl,tnan a»id the marl‘‘l“»t;on Sill! is In the Rff th- labor department, hut act personally if the carried to him. jWuckdrivers' strike at New It* fifth day, brought gW* food supplies and dwind Rff" 11 ' of consumer items MB troni l-K takeup to stoves IlßcAatk. 338 striking teachto attend classes on B3|. day yw! -day They car jy campaign for higher «al |ff Gov. Raymond Baldwin of the Idtteriuws of the Off/"*'- education commla|ff: Alonso e. G.-ace ordered By ll 10 r «tnain closed until Iff 7) ® Enlist Here Regular Army s,s Xorlh Fi,lh 11 Mu,her ' 4l9 North W”4»t. and Carey Knittle. *’ •’ALatur. have been acff ,Or enlistment in the U. 8. 11 * w »»nounced toJ ,h * Port Wayne recruiting T G* n - to charge of SB!* “• *••». said today ffP WUI b * « ’h* Decatur Iff *** Wednesday from K ’ 9m ,0 "emit men for Iff nd reminded prospective Iff muat tiff ??’ r J. 0 Octob * r 5 “» re■Mt* f 1 UD<!£r ,b * 0 * ■ a!." TURt RI *OINGB S Z;: — « Mhm - 71 W * ..... 86 ff, WMtiwr ■ mmi* l>W * toK S «ng con.

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At Least 18 Die In Crash Os Airliner Two-Year-Old Boy Is Survivor, Two Other Passengers Missing I 1 Elko, Nev, Sept. 6—(UP)-A twin-engined DC-3 Trans-Luxury Airliner, flying from New York to Ban Francisco with 21 aboard, crashed into a hill and caught Are today, killing at least 18 persons Rescue workers pulled 18 bodies from the wreckage. A two-year-old boy survived. He was taken to the Klko general hospital. Two other persons were missing and presumed dead. The surviving child was a blueeyed, blonde boy. He suffered severe bruises and chest Injuries, but hospital attendants believed he would recover. The plane crashed at 1:17 a. m. PST while approaching the airport of this desert town. It struck the crest of a bill two and a half miles west of Elko, split open, and buret into flames Sheriff Charles Smith directed the rescue workers, who took the bodies into Elko as soon as they could be removed from the wreckage. The plane had left Newark. N. J., at noon EOT yesterday and was scheduled to land at San Francisco at 9 a. m PST today. Only slight patches of ground fog showed over Elko when the pilot cslled for landing instructions. He apparently came in too low over the prairie and hit the crest of the hill. Witnesses reported the plane bounced about lUO feet after striking the hill. It hit the ground with a loud crash and fire immediately broke out. Then- was no explosion. Bodies, plane parts, baggage and gear were scattered "all over the prairie,** a witness said The two engines were torn loose and were found more than 100 feet on either side of the crumpled fuselage. The nose and forward part of the plane soon became a mass of charred, twisted, smoking wreckage. Second In 15 Days Moline, Bi., Sept. 5-(UP)—The crash of a Trans-Luxury Air Lines plane at Elko, Nev. today was the second major accident for the Charter Service company within the past 15 days. On Aug. 21, a DC-3 operated by (Turn Tn Paee 6. Column 71 ——-O Decatur Lions To Entertain Teachers All Public School Teachers Guests All of Decaturs teachers, men and women, will be guests of the Decatur Lions chsb at the weekly meeting next Tuesday at 6:30 p. m. in the Knights of Pythias home. Robert Day, clt»b president, said today that arrangements are now underway for an entertaining program. A prominent speaker Is to be secured for the program which will be directed by Walter J. Krick, city school superintendent. Mr. Gay also stated that a special effort wiii be made to have every member of the club present at the meeting as a part of the local club's participation In “100 percent week". Lions clubs throughout the nation are marking the week by endeavtSHng to have 100 percent attendance at their respective meetings. The selection of the speaker for the meeting is expected to be announced within a day or two, Mr. Gay stated.

62-Cent County levy Fixed By County Council Reductions Made By County Council In Most Os Budgets The 62-cent rate fixed by the county council as the county's levy on taxable property, payable in 1947, will produce approximately I 1M,997. (A) toward budget exjiendltures of 8253,930.00, approved for next year. Thurman I. Drew, auditor, stated today. The council pruned 116,269 from the 8270,199 budget submitted to it during the two-day session which ended late last evening. No changes were made in the budget for the Adams county welfare department, but the rate was cut from 16 to 14 cents on each ■ 8100 of taxables. The budget totals 8169.880 and the 14-cent rate will produce approximately 838,722. State and federal government contributions defray more than 75 percent ot the expenditures of the department, which contributes to old age pensions, care and support of widows and their children and medical assistance for Indlgents. The combined levies total 78 cents, compared to 55 cents this year. Tbs county's genera! fund rate Is 40 cents and the welfare department's is 15 cents this year. Decatur's Rats 03-27 With the fixing of the county's and welfare department’s levies, the rates which apply to taxable property in Decatur now total 83.27 on the 8100. Thia le an lacrease of 84 cents above this year’s 82.43 rste. Msny Estimates Pruned Only seven of the budgets screened by the councilman escaped change. In these cases every item was approved and the , i equested appropriations were left intact. They include, county surveyor. 815.618; coroner. 8523; health officer, 81.304; prosecuting attorney, 83.170; county Jail. 83,650; county, service officer, 82,650; circuit court. 810,690. Reductions were made in the other budgets, the council having acted Tuesday in deleting the per diem allowances from the appropriations for county officials salaries beyond next March 31, when the law authorizing the extra payments expire. The budgets submitted and the amounts allowed by the councilmen for operation of the county offices, including salaries, are; Clerk. 88,905, 87,925; auditor. 87,990, 87.410; treasurer. 84,080, (Turn IT<> Page 3. Column 4) o Declares Greece Is No Threat To Peace ( ■ I Greek Spokesman Answers Ukraine United Nations Headquarters. Lake Success. N. Y.. 77ept. 5 — (UP) — Vasslli Dendramis, spokes- I man for Greece, today told the United Nations security council I that It was not Greece but "other 1 countries” which threatened world peace. Replying to charges of the Ukraine that Greece and Britain through her troops In Greece are threatening peace and security. Dendramis claimed that the charges resembled those which ■ Italy made on the eve of her at- a tack in 1940. Greece, he said, was a champ- t lon of peace and democracy in the < Balkans. ‘ "Greece by tradition," he said, t “Is imbued with moderation." Dendramis characterized the op- r ponente of the Greek regime as t ’’anarchists] who had not yet t “washed thp blood from thetr i hands" from the civil war of last t December. He said the Ukraine charges t came with ill grace after the i praise which Moscow gave to t Greece for its resistance during the war years. • "The Greek people le thus Justl- t fled today In feeling a certain I bitterness." he said. He charged F that Rusala had favored Greece's F neighbors and had undertaken a I "war ot nervaa.’’ •

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, September 5, 1946

On A “September Morn”

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THE ATOMIC AGE lias not changed the pastime of little girls who must do some before-breakfast addition to ready their copy hooks as well uh their apples for the teacher

Ceiling Prices Back On Wholesale Meals OPA Exposes Plans Os Black Markets Washington, Sept. 5—(UP)— Celling prices were restored In the wholestle meat industry today aa OPA exposed plans for renewed black market operations after retail meat ceilings return Sept. 9. OPA enforcement chief George Moncharsh aaid vast caches of meat were being held In storage In New York and Chicago, apparently to be unloaded on the black market if meat becomes scarce after Sept. 9. The owners of the meat are known, Moncharsh said, and will be nabbed If they make over-ceiling Mies. Wholesale meat ceilings which went Into effect today are 25 cents higher per hundred pound* on beef. veal. pork. l » mb and mutton than they were on June 30. OPA expects to announce the new retail ceilings Saturday. .Moncharsh warned all would-be meat price violators that it's "not a good gamble" to do black market business. He said OPA already has 2.500 investigators on the job of tracking down meat violations and can get more If needed. In revealing the meat stocks being held in New York and Chicago. Moncharsh said the quantities were so great that they couldn't pckMibly lie sold before Sept. 9. And unless the owners sell at overcelling prices after that, he said, they will “take a licking" since the meat was bought on the free market at inflated prices. Moncharsh said his ugenta will make their biggeet drive against the 100,000 butcher shops of the country. Butchers found violating ceilings will be given a choice of revealing their black market supplier or being hailed into court. “Each butcher must make his (Turn To Page 5. Column 1) o— —.... ■ Docket Is Called In Circuit Court Today Attorneys Present As Docket Called Calling the docket occupied a major portion of this morning's activity In the Adame circuit court. With Judge J. Fred Fruchte on the bench, members of the Adame county bar association attended the session, held to make entries In numerous cases. A number of suits were dtarn iased or left off the docket by the court for the lack of prosecution. Others were set for trial and appearance was entered by the attorneys in some. All of this morning's entries were to be listed on the respective docket csrds late today by Mine Berni ece DeVoss, court reporter. Members of the county bar association present in the courtroom this m'-rnlng: Earl B. Adams, John L. De Voss. O. Remy Rlerly. D. Burdette Custer, Henry B. Heller. Ferd L. Litterer. Nathan C. Nelson. Lewie L. Smith. Myles F. Parrish and Severin H Schurger.

Tractor Struck By Train, Man Is Killed Metamors, lud.. Sept. C—(UP)— William Trotter, 25, West Union, O, was the victim of an accident yesterday when the tractor he was driving collided with a New York Central train at a crossing in Franklin county. Trotter was kill- . ed instantly. » o I Hep. May Offers To : > Present Testimony I — ’ Invites Committee To Kentucky Home ' Washington, Sept. 5 — (UP) — ' Rep. Andrew J. May. D.. Ky., today offered to testify at his home ( In Prestonsburg. Ky.. on his deal- ‘ ings with the Garsson brothers' 1 "paper empire" of war contracting ' firms. In a letter to chairman James M. Mead. D.. N. ¥., of the senate war investigating committee. May said h« has recovered slightly from the heart attack which prevented him from testifying before the war profits Investigation as scheduled July 2<. "At the present time I am able to bn out of bed a short time in the morning and the afternoon.’ May wrote from his Kentucky home. "Should your committee desire to conduct further examination of me I would be very happy to meet with a subcommittee here in Prestonsburg now. per your desire as expressed in a recent news release, or at any later dale as determined by my physician In formal session iu Washington.'' May accompanied the letter with a copy of the prepared statement which he said would have been read to the senate committee on July 28 "had there been an opportunity to do so." The statement vigorously defended hie conduct which, he claimed, was at all limes designed to aid the War effort. At no time, May claimed, did he ever have "any financial interest in any war contract" of the Erie Basin Metal Product Company or the Batavia Metal Products Compsny, key firms in the Garsson combine, "or any other concern." May conceded that he had been Instrumental in organizing the Cumberland Lumber Company in his home state for the Oarssons. But he said he was prompted only "by a sincere desire to aid all parties, seller and buyer, and to i create a lumber Industry iu my district, and not for monetary gain.” Attached to May's statement was a balance sheet of his tran- 1 sections with the Cumberland 1 Lumberland Lumber Company. According to the figures, he had ' paid out 129.293.38 from his own pocket and bad received in return I 128*3407. “I neither asked for nor re- I ceived any compensation or fee for < anything I did . . ~” May said. 1 "My Interests in this transaction < > were twofold — to help a man get 1 lumber badly needed and at the same time to provide local em- < ployment for people in my dis- i trlct." I He explained that he had ad- I vanced money at various times to I | ■ (Turn Te Pag* *. Column 4)

Judith Ann Baker Dies Os Injuries Suffered When Struck By Auto

Council Action To Hospital Trustees 'Foreign' Patients Rate Boost Favored A copy ot the recommendation of the county council that out-of-county patients be charged a higher rale at the Adams county memorial hospital, was mailed today to the hospital trustees by Thurman I. Drew, county auditor. The hospital trustetw are scheduled to meet Friday evening and the council's recommendation will lie before them for consideration The county council. In allowing a budget of 8108.831, a reduction of 85.000 from the estimates filed, moved that the trustees set up a schedule of increased charges for ! out-of-county patients, aa one means ' of increasing revenue at the hospital. The 8108.831 budget Is 812.831 higher (han anticipated income for ' next year, making It accessary for I the taxpayers to contribute that amount toward hospital operation, the councilman explainer! The trustees estimated receipts at 896.000 and expenditures. 8113,831 for next year. The council lopped off 85,000 from the budget, without changing any single appropriation. The difference in estimated receipts and expenditures is about 13H percent. Various opinions were expressed over the council's action. One prominent physician stated. "No other city charges out-of-towners more for hospital service." Another citizen was quoted as saying. "Why not raise all the rates and make the hospital pay its own way, like It did before." A third person interviewed stated. "I doubt If th • Increase on out-of-town patients will balance the budget Why not reduce outlay," he said. This m the first over a span of about 10 years that the hospital has not offset expenditures! with a like amount of revenue. Prior to this year, the hospital has been breaking even financially, and no request for funds from taxation has been made. Increased operating costa for food, fuel and medical supplies and (Turn To Page 8. Column I) 0 Italian Aims Are Lashed By Russian Says Italy Plans Future Aggression Paris. Sept. 6—(UP)-Andrei Vlshinsky, Soviet deputy foreign affairs minister, today charged that Italy has a "diehard appetite for conquest and expansion" and hinted that Italy already is thinking in terms of future aggression. Vlshinsky'o slashing attack was made before the Italian, political commission of the peace conference. He centered most of his fire against Ivanoe Bono in I, Italian spokesman who presented Italy's claim on the Arieste dispute. Bonornl, said Vtahinsky, was the “obedient servant tor years of Fascist masters.” He raid Italian policy has been "based on hypocrisy and ambiguity." "How dare the Italian representative speak of aggression?" asked Visbinsky. "Who would be the ag gressor?" Vlahlnaky said the foreign mlniater'a decision on Trieste was based on sound reasoning Which met many difficult tea of the question and that new amendments on the point could not bo considered. "There ia a proposal to postpone this question one year,” Vlahlnaky said, noting a Brasilian suggestion to delay a settlement of the Trieste Issue. "We see grave danger In that. We think it should be re(Turn To Page <> Column 4)

Heirens Fails In Attempt To Take Own Lite Confessed Slayer Attempts Hanging r In Cell At Chicago Chicago. Sept. 5— (UP) - Wil- ’ Ham Heirens, confessed triple slayer, attempted to commit aul--1 dde by hanging in his county jail cell early today [ Heirens made the suicide at--1 tempt only a few hours Moro he ■ was to appear in court to hear 1 himself sentenced for the slayp mgs of six-year-old Suzanne Deg- ' nan. Frances Brown, an ex-W’ave, and Josephine Ross, a widowed housewife. 1 The 17-year-old killer tried to r hang himself with a sheet during r n changing of bis guards at 1 a m. t Sheriff Michael Mulcahy said , Heirens was left alone for only a » minute when he tied the sheet . to a bar near the top of his cell, r twisted it around bis neck, and ( stepped off a coll bunk. l A guard saw him hanging almost immediately and cut him down, Mulcahy said. As a result, t Heirens was not harmed, and he was prepared for the sentencing . today as scheduled. "I had been expecting some- ' thing like this,” Mulcahy said, "and I had given the guards ord- ' era not to leave him alone for a minute." ' The sheriff he suspended 1 the four guards Involved for giving the youth time to make the suicide try. He said that two guards stationed outside Heirens' cell in the Cook county jail left their (mats and went Io the door of the cell block to meet two other guards who were to relieve them. In the few seconds intervening Heirens made the futile attempt to rid himself of what he has called his "had side," or alter ego. George Murman Heirens previously had expressed a wish to die to free himself of Murman. who he blamed for his hideous crimes. One of the two guards assigned to watch Heirens war stationed in a corridor outside his cell. This guard was locked inside the corridor. The second guard was stationel outside the locked entrance to the corridor. Heirens appeared calm despite the experience. His lawyers were permitted to visit him a few hours after the suicide attempt, and ho talked earnestly with them. (Turn To Pkgs 1, Column 4) Hartford First To Report Enrollment JL 1 Hartford High Has 99 Pupils Enrolled Merrit Beck, principal of the 1 Hartford high school in Hartford 1 township today became the first ( principal or teacher in the rural school system to make first week ( school enrollment reports. Mr. Beck's report on the six- , grade high school was received today in the offices of Lyman L. < Hann, county school superintend- | ent. i Enrollment at Hartford high i totalled 99. divided as follows; 1 seventh grade, 25; eighth, 11; I frashmen. 17; sophomore. 18; -Jun- t for. 17; senior. 11. Other schools are expected to * report before the end of the week. 1 Mr. Hann stated. No unofficial reports have been 1 received at his office which would * Indicate the size of this year's i* rural students body, but It is ex-1J pected to compare favorably with 1 other years.

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Driver Exonerated By Police Os Blame For Fatal Accident Yesterday Afternoon lujuries received Wednesday afternoon when she was struck by an auto proved fptal thin morning to Judith Ann Baker, fiveqroar-oM daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Baker, of 804 North Thirteenth Street. The child died this morning at 8:40 o'clock at the Adams county memorial hospital, where she had l»een confined since shortly after Hie accident at 12:20 p.m. Wednesday. The attending physician said, this morning that the girl sustained a cerebral hemorrhage, a compound fracture of th* right, hip, fractures of l>oth bones in the lower right leg. a fractured pelvis and probable internal injuries. The girl was hit by an auto, driven by Roe. 30, of Monmouth. Roe told police chief Ed Miller, who Investigated the accident, that he child had walked nearly across Thirteenth street as he was driving north In that vicinity and first noticed her. He said that as he neared the child, she suddenly turned about and started back, and that he was unable to avoid striking her. The child wm t eported to be returning from the H. J. Mdig reaidence, where who had been visiting The Ladig residence is kcated across the street from the parena! home of the victim Sb» was taken to the hospital In a private auto immediately after the accident, where examination reveah-d the aerl lusneM of her injuries. Chief Miller said today that hiv Investigation exonerated the driver of all Idume Funeral Sunday Judith Ann Baker was Iwrn in Decatur November 12, 1940, tho daughter of Philip and Kathryn Smßlsy-Baker. Surviving in addition to the parents are a brother, Philip. Jr , and n al;'er. Sharon K.iy, both at home; and the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Alva Baker und Mm. J ano Smitley, all of Decatur. One brother preceded her in death. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon at the home und ut 2 p m. at the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, with the Rev. William C. Feller officiating Burial will be lit tho Decatur cemetery. Tha body will lie removed from the Black funeral home to the residence Friday afternoon, and may be viewed after 7 pm. »■ .'■M'. ***o '*■** 1 ' 1 w Policy Speech By Byrnes Due Friday Imporont Speech Slated In Germany Berlin, Sept. 5— (UPi —Secretary of state James F. Byrnes today arrived in Berlin by plane from Paris on an inspection tonr ot Germany preliminary to an important declaration of American policy to be made at Stuttgart tomorrow The American secretary was accompanied by Sens. Arthur H. Vandenberg, R . Mich., and Tom Connally, D„ Tex., and expert state department adviaera on Germany. Leaving routine peace conference debates to his subordinates, Byrnes planned several days’ first hand study of the world’s major diplomatic problem — the future of Germany and the relations of the big four In governing the defeated enemy. In Berlin, Byrnes will be the luncheon guest of Lt. Gen. Lucius D. Clay, deputy American military governor. In late afternoon he will leave Berlin on a special train for an overnight trip to Stuttgart. He will address American occupation officials at noon Friday. <Turs To Pag. 4. rtntums ?»