Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 213, Decatur, Adams County, 10 September 1946 — Page 1

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Two Are Killed In Auto-Truck Crash Indlauapolia. Sept. 10—(UP) Two persona were killed today in the collision of an automobile and a semi-trailer truck near here. The victims were 11. C. Newmatt, 44. and Miss Catherine West, 32. troth of Noblesville. Two other persons were injured. Mrs. Roscell Weaver. 32. Noblesville, wa* in a critical condition at an Indianapolis hospital. — • Yugoslavia In Agreement To Pay For Lives Country Balks At Paying Indemnity For Downed Planes Wasliinxton. Sept. 10 — (UP) — Yugoslavia has agreed tentatively to pay indemnity for the five American Ilves fbst last month when Yugoslav fighters shot down two unarmed IJ. S, army transports. hut is still balking on compensation for the lost planes, act Ing secietary of state William L. Clayton announced today Clayton said, however, that Yugoslav hesitation to pay for the planes Is far from final. He told a news conference that only oue preliminary discussion on the question has taken plate between U. 8. ambassador Richard C. Patterson, Jr., and the Yugoslav government He said he hope* (fee question would be worked out. The Hate department previously announced that It would consider the case closed if Yugoshivla agreed to pay indemnity for 'he lost lives and plunes. At one ti:n<* R threatened to put the rase he fore the United Nations security council, but Yugoslavia fulfilled all other U. 8. demands. Clayton saH he could not dis close at this time the amount of the American Indemnity demand But he said it already has been presenter! Io the Yugoslav government. Yugoslav fighter planes shot down Iwo U- 8. army planes, me on Aug. the other on Aug lit. Subsequently, Marshal Tito expressed regrets and promised the action would not be repeater!. Clayton also deplored the action of members of the lnternati.mil Longshoremen's Union in refusing to load relief ships for Yugoslavia because of the plane incidents. He said he was sorry to nee a union take the matter into Its own hands. He said it seemed to him that it was a question which should he decider! by the United (Turn To Paa* 1. Column 4) 0 BULLETIN Crystal City, Mo., Sept. 10. _ (UP) — The bound and weighted body of a young woman pulled out of the Mississippi river today was identified as that of Mrs. Irene England Easing, attractive 26-year-old divorcee and member of a prominent East St. Louis, HI., family.

home to hi* mother as a souvenir, along with hia ticket. He wondered whether or not Goering was auper*tltiou». Goering sat In chair number IS. Pfc. Howell Is with the ninth airborn diviaton and ia atati >ned at the Rhine-Main airport, being rebuilt seven miles from Frankfurt, Au-Maln, Germany He has been in service since September 5. 1145, and overseas since December 17. I»4S His parents received a long distance telephone cal. from him early this morning. The call originated from Switaerland. where he is on an 11-day tour toward Rome. Italy. The youth talked to hl* parent*, hlo grandparent j. .Mr. and Mr* Ed Whitright, and his uncle, Pete Whitright, during the call. Pfe. Howell la kho nr,t P«man| from Decatur who is reported to have attended any session of the war crimes trials in Germany. |

Retail Meat Prices Back Under Control Report Little Meat In Butcher Shops Throughout Nation Washington, Sept 10 —(UP) Retail meat prices went back ( under OPA ceilings today — and housewives were told that gloomy predictions of a grave new meat iamine may well be "overly pesxlmlstlc.” OPA's new ceilings reduced meat prices from their recent levels, but averaged 3% cents a pound higher than the ceilings on June 30. when controls lapsed The 3% cent increase means housewives will pay alrout (600,000,000 more for meat a year than under June 3t> prices. A total of 267 cuts of beef, pork, lamb and mutton were covered by I the new price ceilings. OPA has taken no action yet on putting new ceilings on meat dishes servei by restaurants. Many butcher shops greeted the first day of the new ceilings with little meat on their counters. It was the result of heavy buying by housewives in anticipation of dwindling supplies with the return ot price control. Government officials admit ted frankly that meat would be scarce for a month or so. But one agriculture department official said ' gloomy predictions of a famine H’ may be possibly over pessimia- | tic" because it is too early to know lu>w severe the shortage will be. At any rate, the government is not thinking alarnt restoring meat rationing. Arvai Erickson. OPA meat price chief, told the United Press he expected the meat situation to he "much improved In the last three months of this year" "During July and August.**when there wax no price control abnormally large numbers of cattle and hogs were shipped to mar- | ket," he said. "Some were uni mala held over from June in anticipation that price control would end. Some came to market in August instead of being held to September because of the Imminent reestablishment of price control. For this reason supplies will be abnormally short for a time" Receipts Drop Chicago, Sept 10—(UP)—Catlie receipts in the nation’s 12 largest markets dropped to another new low today. The department of agriculture said the deliveries were the lowest on record for Tuesday. They were more than 50 percent lower than yesterday. An estimated 18.200 saleable cattle arrived at 12 yards today. Receipts yesterday in seven of the markets were 33,375 head. Cattle receipts on Tuesday last ' week were 20,000. A year ago (Tu'n Tn (•»»<• V Cntomn (> oBurg Womack Dies Suddenly Monday Retired Policeman Is Taken By Death Burg Womack, 69. former Decatur police officer, died suddenly M inday evening at the home of a daughter, Mtw. Elisa Gause, Orland, where he had been visiting for a few days. He was born in Greensburg. Ky.. August 9. 1877. and had made his home in Decatur since 1922. The family resides at 816 Line street. He wax a member of the Nuttman Avenue United Brethren church. His wife, Rosa, died July 17, 1945. Surviving are two daughters. Mra. Ray Eicher of Decatur and Mrs. Gause; two sons, George . Womack of Decatur and Woodson | Lee Womack, with the army at Fort Worth, Tex.; one brother, Richard Mybmack of Logan. Utah; one sister. Mrs. Ida Ogg of Decatur; a half-sister. Mrs. Adoß>h Baumann of De-stur. and seven ' grandchildren. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Ths body will be brought to the Zwlck funeral home I in this city.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, September 10, 1946.

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MR. AND MRS. JOHN J. BECKER of Woodlawn, N. J., welcome their 12-yesr-old son. Heinrich, ax he arrives In New York from a Yugoslav detention camp, where he had been hell during the war. The parents came to America In 1939, leaving the boy with his grandparents, and the reunion shown here was the family's first in seven venr*.

Legion Officers Installed Monday T. C. Smith Is New Legion Commander Tom C. Smith. Central Soya com pany chemiat, and veteran of World War f. waa installed an commander of Adame Post 43. American legion, during ceremonies at the pout home Monday night Fourth district commander Fortest Ilogetw, of iJtCrange, served as installing officer, amlsted by sheriff Dwight Hofstetter, fourth district adjutant, also of UGrange. Mr. Smith succeeds Floyd H. Hunter, who served as commander during the punt year. Both com mauder Smith ami past commander Hunter made short talk* following the installation services. Other officers Installed last night are; Charles Morgan, first vicecommander; Russell Wetdy. second vice commander; Hurth, third vice commander; Hugh, Andrews, fourth vice commander; , William Linn, finance officer; Tilman H. Gehrig, adjutant; Dee Flyback. Ed Bauer, and Joe Ranh.; trustees. Lawrence Hash and Hugh Andrews are World War II veterans., Other officers are World War I servicemen. Following Ihe meeting a lunch eon was served in the post duh rooms. Commander Smith stated following the meeting that he would announce all committee appointment soon. Area Rent Control Representative Here A representative of the Fort Wayne area rent control office at Fort Wayne will be at the Decatdr post office on Thursday. Sept. 12 from 9 a m. until 3 pm.. It wa«i announced today. 0 License Youngsters To Operate Scooters Indianapolis, Sept. 10—(UPi— State police said today that five persons died in the first seven months of 1940 in traffic accidents involving motor bikes or scooters driven by unlicensed children. State police chief Col. Austin K. Killian said that the youngsters were required to undergo the regu-. lar beginner’s license trial period.' They must also be able to post financial security in case of any accident involving |25 or more damage, he said DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER rtMPERATURE READING* 8:00 g.m. .... 70 10:00 a.m _ — 71 Hsm 71 2:00 p.m. .......... 73 — WEATHER Clearing and cooler tonight. Wednesday sunny and cool.

Martinsville Feed Company Destroyed Martinsville, Ind.. Sept. 10— (UPi—Flames fanned by a strong wind today destroyed the Bram h Grain and Feed company building and routed several hundred paI tients from a Mineral springs sanitorum across the street. Damage was estimated at more than Mo,ooo In the feed company fire. The Martiiinville sanltorlum. largest of six mineral spring health centers in t.ie city, was seriously threatened but not damaged. — Fall Drive Planned By Community Fund Start Annual Drive For Funds Oct. 28 The fall drive of the Decatur Community -Fund. In< will b<staged here during the week of October 28, it was announced today following a meeting <>f the organisation’s board of directors. The organisation will soon contact all participating agencies, asking them to submit their budgets for the coming year, and an estimate on the drive goal will (lien be made. General chairman of the drive will be Harold Grant, local coal dealer, who will be assisted by members of the board of directors. Carl ('. Pumphrey, president of the group, was in charge of last night's meeting, held in the First State Bank building, during which preliminary plans for the drive were made. o Pump Million Gallons 01 Wafer Here Daily New Well Is Planned To Insure Reserve Water superintendent Ralph Roip of the city water works, stated today that the plant was pumping an average of one million gallons of water every *• hours. Had It not been for the deep well drilled east of the city on land purchased by the city from the Teepie estate, the city would have had a water "famine,” Mr. Hoop stated This well is producing about 285 gallons of water per minute and Ir being pumped every day. Wells in the south and north end of the city are also being pumped constantly. Mr. Roop state!. The water works committee of the city council is planning drilling a new well, so that the city will have a reserve. Engineers from the state conservation department are making a survey on the static water flow and level In and near Decatur, the Central Soya Company of this city also cooperating with the municipal utility in conducting the survey Mr. Roop said.

Settlement Os Crisis To Wage Stabilization Board; Ships Stalled

Budgets Unchanged By Adjustment Board State Tax Board To Make Final Review The budgets and proposed tax levies for 1947 of the various tax Ing units In the county. Including the city of Decatur, will be submitted to the state board of tax commissioners for final review and decision. Thurman I. Drew, county auditor, stated, following adjournment of the Adams county tax adjustment (ward. The local board did not make any changes In the tax rate as submitted to them and unless the state board orders changes, the levies an set by the local taxing units will staud. In all probability the state board will net a dale for hearing or. the budgets and proposed levies, at which officials representing the respective uniin will be summoned ‘ to appear before the stale field examiner. " The tax ad juste: s adjourned lat • yesterday afternoon, after meeting during the day and reviewing the budgets. o f ; Former Local Man Exposes Diabetic Institute Fraud Robert E. Johnson, author and special feature writer for the Indianapolks Star, posed as a diabetic sufferer under th<- mime of "Robert Cook." and entered the Kaadt Diabetic Institute at South Whitley, receiving two days’ treatment and i |3o worth of medicine. The Star launched Johnson's: story in t inlay's liwue. under the I . streamer headline. "Diabetic Cure , Expos.-d" The article dealt with - Johnson's exjierleiice at'the Kaadt Institute and charge.! have liveni filed against the place hy the stale medical association. Johnson i-s a son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Johnson of west of the < ity. A graduate of Indiana University, he has written several artlcleu for leading magazines, in addition to his newspaper work. 0 I Vacancy Filled In Kirkland Faculty Mrs. F. H. Willard Is Hired As Teacher i Mrs. F. H. Willard of Decatur has assumed her duties ax music and art Instructor In the Kirkland township high school. It was announced today. Mrs. Willard, wife of the pastor of the First Evangelical church In this city, has been employed to fill the vacancy existing in the teaching staff at Kirkland. Bhe| will teach three days each week The new teacher Is a graduate of Butler university and John Herron Art institute of Indianapolis. Vacancies in the teaching staffs at Kirkland. Pleasant Mills and Monmouth high schools had been reported to Lyman L. Hann, county school superintendent, at the beginning of the 1946-47 school term, which opened last week. Meanwhile, the offices of the county school superintendent are busily engaged in compiling preliminary attendance reports Ireing I received from the various rural ' schools Service Office To Be Closed For Week The office of the county service officer In the courthouse will be closed for about a week, beginning Wednesday, when Dwight R. Arnold will go to St. Joseph hospital in Fort Wayne to submit to an opera-, tion.

Renewed Holy Land Violence Is Continuing British Sergeant Killed In Ambush Os British Troops Jerusalem, Sept 10 — (UP) — The 250,000 Jews of T»d Aviv and two nearby townships were piac ed under "house arrest" to lay when British troops followed the trail of extremists into that area A British sergeant wax killed when troops of the king's own lluxsarx were caught in h machine gun ambush one mile south of Rax El Ein Hix death brought to xix the number of fatalities in three days of renewed holy land violence. As an aftermath of last night's raids on Tel Aviv mines were found today <>n the main roads leading out of Tel Aviv. They had been placed there to facilitate the escape of extremists who last night occupied the largest quarter of the city for nearly two hours In that time they blew up the public information center and the l home of the British security officer. Maj. Desmond Doran, killing tile officer. Two other British soldiers and two Arabs, one :■ constable, also Were killed. Cigar-shaped mines were found on all main roads today and a soldier wax injured seriously iwhen one exploded. The "house arrest" quarantined 1250,000 Jews in Tel Aviv Itself land the townships of Ramat-Gan and Petakhtlova. Armored cars sped through Tel Aviv streets, evidently preparing for a search of the city. Loudspeakers mounted in them notified residents of the curfew and told them to stay indoors. The six early morning explosions occurred at Nathanya. a diamond industry center halfway between Tel Aviv and Haifa. Truckloads of troops moving toward Tel Aviv crowded theJerusalem road A single plane circled above the city. Vaad Leumi, the Jewish national council, announced it would allot 64t)ff,000 to promote a mass illegal immigration movement Into Palestine It also reported the start of a non-cooperation cam paign against the Palestine government by Jewish officials. Police ami soldiers worked all night in the wreckage of Doran's home, which wax split in half by the explosion. Doran's wife and tTurn To Psgs 4. Column It

Decatur Meat Cases Are Bare, Future Supplies Highly Vague

On the door hung a sign “Clos- j cd —No Meat." Inside a little kitten playfully pawed the stub end of a ring of I bologna that had been tossed awav. That was all the "meat" | In this one. In another store a pound of bacon almost looked "lonesome" ' in the display case with about an I armful of luncheon meat* In a third store, the butcher was doing u rushing business — I selling the last of some smoked i sausage. In still another store, the owner took u* back to a lock er and almost proudly showed us some cuts hanging from the hook : But then with a look of chagrin, he declared he couldn't sell them until the OPA representative came around and stamped it — that'll be Friday, be thought. Yes. Mrs. Housewife—it looks as if you will be serving minced ham. pressed ham, ham loaf, bologna. etc. etc, etc,—lf you serve any meat this weekend. That Is. unless you are one of the more fortunates who have a

Price Four Cents

Only Reversal Os Wage Decision To End Strike; Power Strike Called Off By United Press Settlement of the nation's worst j laitor crisis In months was put up to the wage stabilization board today, as the maritime wilkout stall* ed shiping at exit water ports. Assistant secretary of labor Phillip Hannah reported at Washington that only a complete reversal by the wage stabilization board would end the shipping strike. Hannah made his statement ax he returned from conferences with etrlking AFL unions at San Francisco. The stabilization board, mean j while, was holding hearings to determine whether to rt consider its rejection of a wage raise granted the unions by the ship operators. "The strike tnreatened to spread a, the marine firemen's union ’tIND.) notified the board that ita members would join tn<» ranks of the strikers unless the board * ( hanged its decision on the pay boost. Because of the strike paralysis gripped the salt water porta of the I’nited States In New York, it was accentuated by a truck drivers’ walk ut which wax wiping store shelves dean of food stocks and slowly crippling industries. Chances for an early settlement of the trm k strike seemed dim as an AFL teamsters local union official in New York admitted that strike leaders had lost control over rank and file members. He predicted tin- strikers would take a week r two to "cool off” and settle down to negotiations. J. J. Bryan, president of the Pacific American shipowners as..in iation, called upon the board in Washington to approve |5 and |IO motif lily wage increases which it lias refused to grant Bryan said h>« believed that the increases were not Inflationary and that if they were not granted t'te present strike would continue and at least two more unions the independent murine firemen and the CIO marine cooks and stewards would join. Tlie maritime strike was in its sixtli day. and 3.MMI ships were idle. Tlie wage increases which were tb« crux of the dispute had been approved in negotiations between union* and shipping operatom. A third major strike among power employes i". the Pittsburgh area was called off today almost us soon as it began. Half an hour after the 12:01 a.m. power strike deadline, union president George L. Mueller accede! to an injunction issued against* the company and union to prevent !• strike In the Pittsburgh Industrial area. Mueller said he had recommended suspension of strike action un<Turn T<> Page 2. Collin.,, X»

i locker chuck full of the meat you purchased some time ago—or you are one of those whom we used I to call old-fashioned because you canned meat. If. after an early hour thia morning you were unable to purchase any meat in Decatur — ! other than the above mentioned "luncheon delicacies" you were much luckier than the writer, who must have used up a |1 worth of shoe leather "making the rounds." And we may regret using that shoe leather in such a manner. A thin half-sole might not make i such a bad ersats steak—if the present situation continues. When will we be able to buy goal old thick, Juicy steaks again? The answers from the butchers — those who should know, if any one does — were, to say the least, vague. They didn't know much more about it than we. And to think servicemen took a solemn oath to never again oat Spam.