Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 211, Decatur, Adams County, 7 September 1946 — Page 1

LIV. No. 211

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Full-Scale Probe On At New Albany Governor Orders Complete Inquiry New Albany. Ind.. Hept. 7— (UP)—Tha Naw Albany gambling situation, blamel for the suicide of Mayor Raymond L. Jaegers and the knifing of a chamber of commerce official, was under investlgation today. Three Indiana state police detectives scoured the city under orders of Governor Gates that an Inquiry he made. Prosecutor Nicholas Ix*ist announced he would demand a grand jury investigation when circuit court convenes Oct. 1. The fuli-scaie Investigation followed the shooting of the 43 yearold mayor In his locked office Thursday, and the knifing a few hours later of secretary Dudley Jewell of the New Albany C. of C. Jewell is recovering In a bospiial. and James Htockdsle. 40. Democratic nominee for city constable, was freed on |3,500 Iwnd in connection with the stabbing. Col. Austin R. Killian, superintendent of the state police, said bin detectives would submit their report to him shortly. He added that the report would be available to a grand Jury. Meanwhile, the city had a new temporary mayor. Edmund K Scott, Republican member of the city council. Rcott will serve until a permanent successor is chosen by the council within the nett two weeks. The permanent successor will serve the remainder of a five-year term Jaegers began In 1843. Jaegers’ funeral will be held today, with fellow mayors of other Hoosier cities as pallbearers. Stockdale entered a plea cf not guilty yesterday to a charge of asMult and battery with intent to kill Before lhe slate detectives arrived. places where gambling allegedly occurred apparently were tightly closed. o Township Trustees In Session Today The township trustees of Adame county were In session shortly before noon today at th- offices of Lyman L. Hann, county school superintendent, in the courthouse. The trustee*! were expected to report on the opening week of the I*4B-47 school term and discuss other matters 0 David Ritter Dies Early This Morning Funeral Services Monday Afternoon David E. Ritter, 78, retired limbermat: and a lifelong resident of Decatur, died suddenly of a heart attack at 1:30 o’clock this morning at bls homt, 33u Line street. He was born in Adams caunty August 11. 1888, the son of Tobias and Susanna Ritter. Hi 3 wife, Dora, preceded him in death. He was a member of the Finn Baptist church. Surviving are three sons. Ralph Ritter of Decatur, Earl of Detroit and Carl of Lima, 0.; .and two daughters, Mrs. Marie Fisher of Decatur and Mrs. Blanch Merriman oi Lima, 0. The laat surviving member of hki family, he was preceded In death by seven brothers and ohe sister Funeral services will ba held at 3 o’clock Monday afternoon at the . Gilltg A Doan funeral home, with i the Rev. Carey R. Moser officiali Ing. Burial will he In lhe Decatur i cemetery. Friends may call at the , funeral home after 7:3# o’clock ’ thia evening. 1 Two 'Runaway' Tires Hazard To Local Man i i Bill Blythe, of Thirteenth street, narrowly escaped being struck by two "runaway" tires late Friday • afternoon while sitting in lhe 1 front yard of itb home. ' The tires broke loose from the wheels of a trailer, towed by an auto, aa the driver aped across the Erie railroad crosalng at Thtrteentb. One tire rolled down the highway into the yard and craahed Into a lawn chair near the local man. The other rolled up into the yard before losing its momentum and falling over The driver of the car, who was not identified, drove nearly to Borno before discovering hie trailer was running on the tiro-loss rime.

Byrnes Speech Opens Battle Over Germany Indicates U. S. To Fight For Freedom For German People Paris, Hept. 7— (UP) —A high American official today described secretary of state James F. Byrnes' German speech as a bold notification that If there is to be a "battle for democracy" In Germany, the United Stales is in It to the end. The American official, one of Byrnes' closest advisers on Ger- ' man policy, Implied that the battle between east and west over Germany was on. He said he thought Byrnes' forthright state- ■ ment on American policy had a ' better than 50-50 chance of avert- * ing a complete breach between * the Soviet Union and the Anglo American powers. The Moscow radio broadcast a I summary of the speech under a Berlin dateline It made no comi ment. ‘ Some diplomatic circles, anticipating a violent Soviet reaction as well as bitter French reaction to some parts of the American pol i icy. wondered if the speech may - not have crystallized the east- - versus-west breach. These observers believed both - sides were determined to restore * Germany in the form of their own i Ideology, and to stick lo the end in the diplomatic, economic and j I political battle. Il was a sharp contrast to one year ago. Then even in the state , department there was support in f some quarters both for the nowdead Morgenthau plan to make Germany an agrarian state, and . the plan proposed by former un- j . dersecretary of state Sumner ) I Welles for dismembering Ger many into many states. Even the late President Roosevelt leaned strongly toward dismemberment, of Germany at one time. Military and diplomatic' men in charge of United States policy In Germany were jubilant about i Byrnes' speech. After months of ~ failure, frustration and futility, fl they were happy that Byrnes at II last had defined American policy jin detail. For the first time he has: f I. Set forth American policy , cn Germany's frontiers. 3. Served notice that he would not revise upwards the Potsdam reparations agreement. 3. Promised that the United States will stay iu Germany as long aa any other Allied occuplng ! power. It was Byrnes' statement on the last point that made the men on the ground in Germany happiest. One American official described (Turn To Page 4. Column 7) 0 Bluffton Policeman I : Is Suicide Victim ? I Rollin Gaunt Rites * Sunday Afternoon i • Funeral services will be held 1 Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at I the Epworth Methodist church In ’ Bluffton for Rollin "Peck" Gaunt, 1 38. Bluffton city police officer, who 1 died Thursday night of a self-in-I fileted bullet wound. While tbe motive for the till--1 cldal act was not definitely established by authorities, members of 1 the family said he had been de--1 spondent because of ill health. 1 The shooting occurred about ’ 3:45 p. m. Thursday when he took r his wife and five-year-old daughter ’ In his auto to a street at the edge « of the business dlslFTrt. He parked the car. walked to a nearby yard and shot himself three times with his .38 calibre police revolver. Only one shot look effect, passing entirely through his head. He died in the Wells county hospital , about eight hours later. r Surviving are the widow, tbe t former Rachel Bay; two sons, t James E.. In the navy and Urry. at home; the daughter, Rebbecca > Ann; the mother, Mrs. Phillip i Schlefersteln of near Decatur; a t sister. Mrs. Helen Pierson of * Lynn; two half-brothers. Klone » Gaunt of Fort Wayne and Wayne ■ Gaunt of Adams county; two stepI brothers. Marlowe and Thurman t Schelfeijteln, and a stepsister i Mrs. Al Geimer. all of Decatur. The Rev. Homer Studebaker will i officiate at the services and bur- > ial will be In the Bluffton comet- - ery. Member* of tbe city, county i and state police agendo* will act as pallbearer*.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, September 7, 1946

AWOL Gl’a Held For Kidnaping Ki few ’ ■ i I \ -.A rBE

CLARENCE FRED KRUMMERT, left. Pittsburgh, and Frank Valentin Famular. Jersey (Tty. N. J„ are led to a police car at Richmond, Ya., where they are being held for the kidnaping of 17-year-old Ruth Teague of Hulphur Spring*. Tex. AWOL from Camp Hood, Tex., the pair admitted the abduction of the young girl. Ml** Teague eluded her captor*, when they went into Richmond filling station, and Mate trooper* captured them when they overtook a car which the (Il's had hi jacked.

No Action Taken On Hospital Rate Recommendation Os Council Considered I Trustees of the Adams county memorial hospital at ill have under consideration a recommendation of the county council that out-of-county pat lent ii at the institution be charged a higher rate. It was reported here hl* morning. Member* of the board said this' morning that the trustee* In their I regular meeting Friday night did not take any definite action on the proposal. "We still have the recommendation under consideration." one member said. The recommendation was made by the council as a means of Increasing the hospital revenue, in view of an expected deficit of more than $12,000. While the board members declined stating that they had definitely decided against th» proposal, It was indicated that the members believed such a method would contribute very little toward reducing the deficit. "We. of course, will do everything we can to keep expenses down and try to operate the hospital as best we can, "a member stated. He pointed, however, to increased costs of foodstuffs, medicines, equipment, etc. Miss Florence Lichtensteiger, superintendent of the hospital, will make a survey in neighboring hospltalssoon in an effort to definitely ascertain “whether or not ■ our prices are in line," the member stated. 0 Kansas Cily Child Abducted By Maid 'Worst' Feared For Three-Year-Old Girl Kansas Cily, Mo., Sept. 7— (UP)—Police and sheriff’s deputies said today they "fear the worst” in the kidnaping of blonde, three-year-old Madeline Tobias, abducted by a maid who may be insane. The parents, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Tobias, appealed through newspapers and radio stations for the return of their brown-eyed little girl unharmed. The child's mother was near collapse and was under the care of a doctor. For 38 hours the parents had received no word of the missing child. Police were "greatly concerned over the lack of information since Madeline's disappearance." The child disappeared from the home of her well-to-do parents at ' C p. m. Thursday after neighbors had seen her walking with the maid. The maid had given her ; came as Mary Louise King, !*, when the father hired her four days ago. But police said it was (Turn To Page «, Column 8) "™

Killed As Fiance's Auto Is Overturned laifayette, Ind. Sept 7—(DPI— I Miss Kiva Delores Pride, 28, Indi anapolM, was killed yesterday when the car driven by her fiance. Floyd Herman. Komney, went out i of control and overturned. Miss Pride, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Spencer A Pride, Indianapolis, was to have been graduated from St. Elizabeth's hospital, Lafayette, t-hls fall. 0 Heirens To Prison To Serve For Life Young Killer Taken To Illinois Prison Joliet. 111., Sept. 7.—(UP)— There was a baseball game in the prison yard at the state penltentlary today Among the spectators was William Heirens. Kyear-old murderer. "He's just another prisoner." said Warden Joseph K. Hagen. “Prisoner No. 24109." Helrena, suicidal introvert who killed six-year-old Suzanne Degnan and two women, was brought hero late yesterday to begin serving a term destined to end when be dies in prison. He kissed his mother goodbye at the county Jail in Chicago and was brought to Statevllle penitentiary in chains with 18 other prisoners. The patrol wagon wan escorted by automobiles carrying deputy sheriffs armed with shotgun* On arrival he was taken to the diagnostic depot near the prison, where he was fingerprinted and photographed. He was given blue denim prison cloths and a convict barber shaved his head A* photographers took hie picture he tried to Joke. "After all this, It would be kind of funny If I were innocent|" he said There be was taken to a cell in the detention hospital of the main prison. There he will spend from one to three months under examination by psychiatrists and penologists. They will recommend the type of work he ahould be given to do. Before he left Chicago he was given an hour to talk to his parents. As be left his father patted his shoulder. His mother said: "He a good buy. Don’t ask for any special privileges." Both the moi her and father wept. A letter from stale’s attorney William Tuohy and cdef justice ' Harold Ward of the criminal court was sent with Heirens to the state penitentiary. It was written to prevent him from ever being admitted to parole. "It la the Intent and the desire of both prosecutor and the trial judge that William Udorge Heir- ' ens never be admitted to parole and that he spend the balance of his life In the Illinois state penitentiary." the letter said. A copy wse sent to the parole board.

Shipping Strike Appears No Nearer Settlement As Over2,oooShips Tied Up

Choice Meal Cuts I Increase Sharply New Retail Prices Effective Tuesday New OPA retail meat prices, effective next Tuesday, were announced today. Prices of T bone steak will be 17% higher than the price that was In effect Juno 30, J 946. Sirloin will la- up l*%. Pork chop* are up 28% and succulent spare ribs came up 27%. These are the increases In the Group 3 and 4 stores as designated liy OPA. These are the larger stores including the chain stores. When the prices of meat. In No. 1 and No. 2 which include small Independent stores are announced It will undoubtedly be found that there will he even a higher percentage of Increase. Briefly the prices are; All offal pfices such as livers, hearts, tongues, etc., remain the same. All sausage items such as wein- ' era, bologna, fresh pork sausage remain the same. All veal prices remain the same. Most pork prices remain the same. Prices for Group 3 and 4 stores are: Grade AA For- New % mer up T-hone steak 8.52 881 17 Sirloin steak .. .43 .51 I* Round steak 42 .51 21 ■ 7 inch ril> roast .34 .43 21 ! Rump roast 27 .34 28 Chuck roast .2* .38 24 laimb loin chops .. .5* ,74 25 l.amh rib chops .. .47 .59 28 la-g-O Lamb shoulder .... .35 .43 20 laimb breast .. . .20 .25 25 Pork Chops ... .38 .44 22 j Grade A sliced bacon .41 .45 9 Hpare ribs .22 .28 27 Pork Tenderloins .. .48 .57 19 i latrd 1» .23 22 o Records Broken As Slate Fair Closes Total Attendance Far Above Record Indianapolis, Sept 7—(l'P> Tents were folded today and hot dog vendors and 4-H exhibitors went home as the first postwar Indiana state fair ended Sala of a steer named Buster for 85,280 and a plump Durov-Jersey hog for BLBOO climaxed the eightday event which saw juat about every record In the book broken. Weary gatemen counted 827,020 paid admDiJlons last night before the gales closed for the last time More than 85.000 persons tramped through the entrance way yeater day to boost the total attendance far beyond the previous high of 493,000, set in 1941. The eight-day attendance figure waa easily a new record but somewhat below the most optimistic predictions of fair officials who promptly promised "bigger and better" things next year. An Anderson meat packer and a representative of the Kroger Grocery and Baking Company bid up the grand championship steer to 88 a pound yesterday to send 17-year-old Glen Carson home to his Union county farm with a 85,280 check. Canson’a 880-pound Aberdeen Anguss steer went to the Hughes-Cur-ry company at Anderson for conversion Into choice beef cuts. The animal won both 4-H and gold medal calf club class tltlos. Robert Miller, Topeka high school student, sold lib prize-win-ning harrow at 87 a pound, equalling the world record. Home 190 other blue ribbon winning eteers were sold at auction at prices ranging from 83b to 876 per hundredweight Mary Ann Burkett. Rochester, sold her reserve champion calf for 78 cents a pound. Fair officials, admitting thia year's educational and agricultural obow was a "hugb success," already were conferring on a proposed 8750,000 Improvement program. The project would Include remodeling of present installation* at the sprawling 218-acro plant and (Turn To Pag* *, Column l> •

All Os Greece Placed Under Martial law Greek Government Puts Whole Nation Under Martial Law I —• i Athens, Sept. 7— (UP) —The I Greek government today clamped the whole country under martial . law. reimposing the drastic provisions of "extraordinary law" , which had been relaxed for last , Sunday's referendum (A Greek spokesman In London \ said Premier Constantin Tsaldarls had been consulted regarding the ‘ move. He said that martial law had been Imposed only in northern Greece However, the Athens ' dispatch said lhe entire country was affecte.l.) The government decree suspends normal provisions of Greek ‘ law und enables the government to proceed under military powers - to make arrests and maintain ' order. The decree issued hy the cabin- > et provides for special military (ourts to try alleged “bandits." J Prior to the plebiscite it had lieen * applied only to northern and cenI tral Greece. • 1 Today's measure, however, apI plied to the entire country. I ; Greece had only been out from ; under the drastic law for nine l days, it was lifted two days be■/fore the referendum for the benefit of public opinion at home and I abroad. , The law authorizes police to ■ ( arrest anyone suspected of plan- , nlng to do anything which might , be regarded as "dangerous to pub- - j lie order" in the opinion of the , pbHce officer. Suspects are tried , immediately by military courts and sentenced lo exile on small islands, jailed or otherwise punished. The government has exhibited great apprehensions, particularly M a result of the "rocket reports" from Salonika British military quarters have characterized the rocket reports ax without foundation but the government fears, have not been allayed. The official explanation of the edict wax that what the government calls "communist bandit activity" is Increasing The government asserted that 100 communists had attacked the police station at the village of Leontarlon, tvear ladrissa. The police fled to the hills, the announcement said, and "bandits" looted the town. There were no casualties, the government said. Acting Premier Styllanos Conai tax told the United Press after . the cabinet session that the downing of a Greek airforce spitfire over Yugoslavia yesterday was "the official expression of what , we had seen in advance — that Yugoslavs have clalmfc our country." Conatas said the spitfire was armed. He said the armament (Turn To Page 5. Column" S) , p Public Schools Have Enrollment Os 1,091 Gain Os 24 Reported Over Opening Day Enrollment in the public school* of the city now totals 1.091, it was reported todsy hy superintendent Walter J. Krick. This is a gain of 24 from lhe enrollment of the opening day. The figure lx 1! less than was reported on September 17 a year ago, but no report waa made on September 7 in 1945. The total in tbe Lincoln school reached 614 before the end of the first week of school, 29 more than during the same period last year. Following is the enrollment by grades, as Hated by Mr. Krick: Lincoln School Kindergarten. 108. first. 115; sec. ond, 88; third, 97, fourth, 84; fifth, 89; sixth, 84; total, 814. High School Seventh, 83; eighth, 73; frenhmen, 80; sophomore. 87; junior, 77 and senior. 70; total, 450.

Price Four Cents

Overshadows Other Labor Disputes As Conferences Slated In San Francisco By the United Press The nationwide shipping strike, overshadowing other labor disputes, appeared no nearer settle* ment today The Bailors union of the Pacific and the Seafarers International union, both AFL, claimed that 2.534 ships were tied up. Other labor developments: 1. The Strike of 37,000 New York City and New Jersey truck driver* forced suspension of wholesale trading in dairy products on the New York mercantile exchange. 2. The CTO American Newspaper Guild's strike against the lx>s Angele* Evening Herald and Express went Into its fourth day with both sides refusing to alter demand*. 3 The CIO National Maritime Union reached agreements with two more companies in Its threeweeks Great Lakes shipping strike, leaving only three companies still affected by the walkout. 4. The threat of a power strike increased at Pittsburg/ where company and union officlaln remained deadlocked on the question ot arbitration. New York lug boatmen were scheduled to join the maritime strike at 4 p in. (EDT) today but agreed to continue operating foot) bargex and railroad flat*. Government hope* for settling the shipping walkout rested in conferences to be held at San ' Francisco today between assistant secretary of labor Phillip Hannah and Harry Lundberg. 11 president of SUP. Hannah was ; instructed to a*k Lundberg to call i off the strike or to go to Washing I ton to attempt a settlement. Lundberg said yesterday that ' Hannah'* mission would be fruitless. The only solution, he said, would be for the wage stabilization Itoard to reverse its decision disapproving pay increases of from 82250 to 127.50 a month. The striking New York and New Jersey truck driver* have threatened to stop deliveries at New York's’ Fulton fish market, which would deprive the city of a daily supply of 750,000 pounds of fish. i The impact of the strike, combined with the shipping stoppage was felt In varying degrees along the entire Atlantic seaboard, but metropolitan New York was the most directly affected area. The suspension ot trading in dairy products came a* milk deliveries had been cut five percent below normal. Official* of the mercantile exchange said it was uncertain at present whether trading would be resumed Monday. oBeautiful Trees At Elks Home Are Being Trimmed By Experts Dent Baltzell. well known Adams county farmer and a former Davey tree surgeon. Is doing an excellent job of trimming the beautiful trees at the Elk's homo on North Second street. Mr. Baltzell is doin» the work alone. Schooled in th: Davey or> ganlzatlon. he usee the technique of the expert in scalding the majestic elms and other trees on the grounds, removing the dead branches and performing surgery where necessary The ground* contain American lindens, Norway rnanles, Chinese elms. American elm* and locust trees. A few ornamental pine* dot the back yard. Mr. Baltzell wax employed as a foreman by the Davey tree expert* and served five year* with lhe nationally known organisation. 0 Late Bulletins Washington, Sept. 7.—(UP) —President Truman today ordered an indefinite postponement of the third atomic bomb test scheduled for next spring. Paris, Sept. 7.—(UP)—Th* big fivs foreign ministers will most at 9 p.m. Sunday to discuss ths possible postponement of the general assembly of the United Nations sot **r Sept. 23.