Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 241, Decatur, Adams County, 12 October 1946 — Page 1

KdJV No. 241

WAIT TRUMAN DECISION ON MEAT FAMINE

Kry Liner EJhes, ' wo Brew Hurt And A r Crew Members Ape Miraculously I Huron. <> > 12-(UP)-A gK,,,, mist that blotted out MB. ■ Wa-hmgto-t< National Mam-d to lay for the n.ir’d of .1 tally loaded \| i ii"' luxury lln ' -r J UM| south of here. ■p;„i and <o pilot of the of Eastern's famed ail <t dually Injured, oilier "* ■ < r»-w members _j ; ;»• - ng.-r* including ■ injury. BHplaii". "load'd with late Ku!-. en route from Ho x, * York Although alx Hm,n<| ns .<-dul--. the pilot H<j that all wan well" an he K, dwcend I r hi- scheduled land init. minutes later, the luxury craxhfns aid bumping uneven terrain of an Groveton, Va. It rolled Mn it« ba< k and burnt into Puiengeru aa id the 4 the s-ven women aboard A-afenink Airline* and the civil Kth.c adnuniatrati.il have ..n inv*-»: igati-'oi to deter"ia. t < iuh" of the plane’s crash y... • a scant half hour le-fore the liner ira-ii--*'. and less than H nilm away. an army ff-ST bad crashed and exploded Va Ail five soldier■inis were killed. M army withheld their identlnotification cf next ’he Eastern luxury liner. Mili<i>*<J their way along the Areas the paMengeiw scrambl A u f“ty There were tonfli t among the eye-witnesses ■ xho was hero of the incident Purser John Jchnston Abreu ofitti th. haiehways just A :h *‘ t'axh and personally ■iM ( l>e women out of the A With the passengers oafe. A'on d.iahi J through the flames ■ aKg.-.l the injured < tgw memA pi! it ( apt Joe M rria and coBl' K Zepemich, both of MlB“tu safety. Bb*: paMetiger* told a story of ■ a middle-aged Home, Ga., drugB c - 11 Elliott, Mashed at a B rovering a hatchway with ■pt. knife until he had opened g** lar B'‘ enough for a single B*Wr to scramble through f iotl - I' was ~ald. was the last •mer to leave the plane. He ■ »li«e, morever. that he lost t"’ in cash and a 827.996 check r flames, but gave no details r®* ot the passengers, all from, rast. required hospitalization. HM crash of the arny military ”■ army off!-lais said It wou IK wry from Richmond. Va.. Andrew* Field, Md.. Its home * The pilot tried to land at «»r Field army air field near ■ but traffic conditions made B a landing impcaslble. Mh Confesses tying Mother Ravine, u„ Oct. 12.—(UP)— Maynard Grieb- * bßn,ln s birds and saw , # ? er Peking com for the u lßrn «M from the cornand PO»ce said ,h *' n ’ that "someH* ,nto h, » " Hberrtn M ' her w,,h 22 I tteai *“ d wou *** d h er left « ’** * hortl3r *herwards rvsied ? blood W!,<n he was U5 ° He ,<,ld | • * , *” i mo “ey from ir ?b»2 P 0 af,er he shot I Mm*i ° f ,he ‘hooting will h sajj a,a,n ‘t him today, offis:0o’ m RATUR t MADINGt *W a- « ,I:## ' l»M.w 1 J o4 ** and teeight. • utg, n,y cl#ttd » ‘nd net

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Intensify Hunt For Atom Bomb Photos Hunt Started After Three Vets Seized Baltimore, Oct. 12 (CP) —The federal "bureau of investigation pursued a nationwide hunt today for photographs of atomic secrets. The hunt was begun following the arrest of three former servi kemen who allegedly tried to sell such photographs to a Baltimore newspaper. The trio — George W. Comer and Miles F. Deuln-nheyer, both of Bel Air. Md.. and James It. Hike, of Chattanooga. Tenn., a former army captain—were free on Irail totalling 13.0U0 pending a U. H. commissioner's hearing on Oct. 23. They were charged with trying to sell the photographs — taken from Tinian island, the army’s wartime atomic bomb air base — to the Baltimore News-Post. They set a price tag of 17,000. The newspaper's representatives turned them in to the FBI. The arrest set in motion a hot rearch for any similar photographs which might Im- in circulation and within (s hours, copies were picked up in California, North Carolina and Texas. In its original announcement of the arrests, the FBI in Washington said the photographs were of the atomic bomb itself. Later, the FBI said the photos were not of the Irnmb but of material relating to It. Nevertheless, it added, this fact doe.i not lessen the seriousness of the case. The three men were arraigned before S. commissioner Ernest Volkart on charges of "unlawfully publishing a photograph of a piece of classified vital military equipment without first obtaining permission from the commanding officer of the army air forces on Tinian island " Comer was alleged to have obtained the photographs while serving with the army air forces on Tinian In the Marianas island. (like, still in his army captain's uniform, questioned the meaning of "publishing" as used in the formal charges but Volkart told him "that is a question for the court to decide." Actually the photos were never printed In the newspaper and the word "publishing" was used In a legal sense. ■ o- - ■ Aged Widow Burned To Death In Home Princeton, Ind.. Oct. IJ—(UP)— An aged widow who lived alone aiw burned to death today when 'ire destroyed her home. The victim was Mr*. Martha Ella Davis. 83. Her small house buret inta flames in the early hours of the morning, and Mrs Davie died in the fire before neighbors and . I remen could rescue her. 0 Mrs. Clara Anker Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Monday Afternoon Mrs. Clara E. Anker. 43. wife of Ben Anker, and a former resident of Decatur, died at 4:15 p m. Friday at her home. 1435 West Third,street. Fort Wayne, after a two years Illness of complications. She was born In Adams county December 30, 1902. the daughter of Christian and Barbara Bueh-rer-Bleberich. She was married to Ben Anker February 16. ’922. The family had lived in Fort Wayne for the past five and onehalf years. Surviving In addition to the husband are two sons. Arthur and Walter, both at home; her mother, living in Vinita. Okla.; one sister. Mrs Bertha Hoffert of Ligonier; and four brothers. Otto Bieberich of Adams county. Edward of Vinita. Okla., David of Indianapolis and Clarence of Danville. N. J. One son and two brothers are deceased. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 o'clock Monday afternoon at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p m. at the Zion Lutheran church, with the Rev. Paul W. Schultz officiating. Burial will Ire in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p. m Sunday.

Predict Draft Calls Will Be Resumed Jan. 1 Halt Induction By Selective Service Effective Tuesday Washington, Oct. 12 — (UP) It's unlikely that the army will extend its draft holiday beyond Jan. 1, war d'-purtment sources huid today. The army cancelled all inductions yesterday for the remainder ot the year, effective Oct. 15. Calls for 20,000 men in the last half of October and 15,000 men in November had beep scheduled. The suspension was ordered because enlistments — spurred by the army's huge recruitment drive have been greater than expected. aud probably will pass the 1.000.000 mark early next week. The army reserved the right, however. to resume the draft If enlistments do not maintain its str-ngth at un adequate level. Local hoards were instructed not to <all men for induction or for preinduction physical examination after Oct. 15. Men called to report on Oct 15 still must do ' | so. j The army said it would require 40,000 men a month to maintain its strength at 1,070.000. It had 61.750 volunteers and 25,000 inductees during September War department source* said the army probably would resume draft (alls after Jan. 1 and contlnue them until the selective ser- , vice expires March 31. 1947. , gave these reasons: 1. The draft increased the in- ! centive to enlist and with no draft the voluntary enlistments are ex- . pected to fall off sharply. 2. About 49 percent or 480,000 of the 992,648 volunteers are in for short term enlistments. Os these 270.000 will be discharged by : June 30. 1917. 3. Voluntary enlistments always slow down around the Christ- ' | mas holidays because men like to ' j he with their families.. 4. Economic uncertainty and food shortages on the domestic front th.it have encouraged reen(Turn To Page 5. Column I) -— o - New Meat Ceilings Effective Monday 1 ■ ( Announcement Made By Indiana OPA * i I Indianapolis. Oct. 12—417 P) — Cuts of meat which ercsped new ceiling price controls when popular meat items went under OPA ceilings Sept. 10 will come under controls next Monday. The Indiana district OPA announced today that the new prices, moat of them higher—as much as 1(1 cents—would become effective Oct. 14 In small chain and small independent stores in 88 Ho sier counties. Veal prices went up the most. . The OPA said thie was due to re•l”ced packers' and handlers’ margin* of profit. The new prices te effective in No. 1 and 2 retail stores except those in Warren, Benton and Newton counties, which are in another OPA zone. The price celliqg scheduled, compared with the old, Includes: V'eal—loin chops up from 46 to 56 cents a pound; rib chops up from 41 to 49: shoulder chops up from 30 to 36; round steak cutlets up from 48 to 57; sirloin steaks up from 3S to 45: rump and sirloin boneless roasts up from 51 to 60; round roasts up from 48 to 57. Beef- 10-inch rih cut up from 41 to 42 cents a pound; sirloin up from 53 to 54; round, bone in. up from 53 to 55; standard rib roast, up from 41 to 42; rump bone roasts down from 36 to 35; boneless round roast heel down from 41 to 40. laimb and mutton-loin steaks and chops up from 77 to 78; shoulder down from 51 to 53. Pork -sugar cured loins down from 39 to 38; smoked chops down from 47 t? 46: bacon, up one cent on various grades and types; Canadian bacon, down from 87 to 86; plates and jowls up from 19 to 30.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, October 12, 1946

Charge Shortage Political Issue ; f<mßb hb THE CIO PACKINGHOUSE WORKERS' UNION charges that cattle are being kepi off the market by "meat" speculators for “political considerations" as part of a wholesale attack on price ceilings and to combat wage demands of the packinghouse workers. Ralph Helstein, right, president of the union, and ’x-wis J. Clark, secretarytreasurer, display a photo in Washington, I). C.. showing hundreds of 1 head of cattle in a midwest feed lot. where they say a survey reveal- 1 ed six to eight hundred thousand head are grazing on feel lots own- I ed by large packers.

Charge Shortage Political Issue

Three Die In Sea I Fire On Freighter — Rescue Ship Takes Off Eight Injured Stockholm. Oct. 12.—(TP»—Life. 1 beat* of a rescue ship today removed eight injured persoris from the fire-ravaged Swedish freighter Kristlna Thorden. which wallowed help lessly in the stormy North Atlantic < with three of her II passengers > dead. i The Norwegian American liner f Stavangei fjord broke a radio silence thin morning to report the transfer of eight wounded from the . 5,*00-ton Kristina Thorden. aboard which Walter Heiberg, former <’ S. , naval attache at Stockholm, and two Finnish otlldentK died I The probability of a greater . death toll was indicated. The . Stavaugerfjord radio said her staff doctor and a nurse. who hail been put aboard the stricken vessel, had hopen of laving the lives of moat ot the seriously injured passenger*. Early details of the dramatic rescue some soo miles went of Scotland said the Stavangerfjord's llfebaata were trying to carry food, clothing and medicines to the Kristina Thorden. The seas still were heavy, the storm showed sign- of abating. (Turn tr»> Paa- 3. Column X) \ Plan Den Opening Later This Month Teen Age Canteen * Opening Is Planned Deane Dorwin and Steve Everhart, Decatur high school faculty . members, who have had charge of the Den, local teen age recreation i center, will supervise a crew of I volunteer teen age workers In ■ cleaning up the building next week , in preparation for the opening of the winter season of the Den later . this month. The organization, which U spon i. sored by the Decatur Woman's club, i is open to all teen age youths of Decatur and there ulso L a special i membership for junior high school < pupils. Membership tickets are being printed now and will be on wale in the next few days. Mr. Dorwin announced. The dues are 60 cents a year and only members arc permitted In the building. Mr. Dorwin slated that the opening date and time schedule would l»e announced in the next few days as soon an the membership cards wert* ready for distribution. The building will be cleaned, the interior painted and all equipment will be cleaned and Inspected in preparation for the opening. All teen agers who have been mem iters ot the organization and who desire to assist in making the r urns ready have been asked to contact i either Mr. Dorwin or Mr. Everhart

Improve Railroad Crossing In City Work is progressing rapidly on 1 I the Improvement of the Mercer] avenue cnsising of th-* Erie rail i road. It was rep tried today The work was started about a week ago and traffic has been rerouted! out Winchester street for the most! part while the r**pairin? Is under-1 way. — o Clerk Is Held For Theft Os $725,880 Stole Huge Sum To Regain Girl Friend Chicago, Oct 12 -III’) A 130-g-week clerk, led into a police trap by the. girl he loved confessed the theft of 1725.880 today and agreed to return to Miami. Fla . “to face the mueic." Elmer 8. Hurt. 22. a corsage b.x tucked under his arm and a brace let and diamond engagement ring in his right hand coat pocket, was seized on a downtown street corner when he kept a date with the girl. At the detective bureau. Hurt burst into solm and confessed taking the money in an effort tj win buck hie fiancee, who had broken her engagement to him “1 loved her that tnucn.” he said simply. Hurt led police to his hotel room c.nd a drop-adlme railroad stathn locker, where they recovered nearly 129,000 in cash and M 87.000 In money orders which te admitted stealing from an American Expri-w Co. branch In Miami. The money orders, police said, were negotiable anywhere in the world. Police eaid Hurt talked freely of the embezzlement and had ex pressed willingness to sign extradition pajters and return to Miami, where hi* will be charged with embezzlement. grand larceny and theft. A hearing probably will take nlace Monday, police .laid, and then he will be turned over to Miami authorities. Hurt, a former pharmacist's male 2nd clatw, who was awarded the bronze star for gallantry at Okinawa. returned to Chicago last week and mapped a cimpalgn to regain his fiancee's love He invested in a full outfit choes. suit, coa' ami hat—and iMtught a new engagement ring and a bracelet and then called the girl and arranged for a date. She had been contacted by bonding company agents after Hurt's disappearance fr*m the Miami American Express company office and notified police. They were waiting yesterday when the youth stepped up briskly to the girl on the street corner. He took off his bat. "Long time no see," he began Then, he felt heavy hand* on his shoulder and turned to face two policeman “I'm sorry." the girl said, he; eyes brimming with tears. She turned and »M tone (Turn To Psge I, Column 7)

Meat Decontrol Issue Is Squarely Up To Truman; Decision Expected Soon

Break Looming In Nationwide Maritime Strike Marine Engineers Clearing Way For Easing Os Strike By United Press Government officials weie optimistic today for at least a partial settlement of the 12-day <ild shipping tie-up. but no progress was reported in strikes in the film. 1 power and transit Industries. CIO tnarlpe engineer- cleared ‘ the way for an agreement In the maritime dispute by yielding on , their demand that any settlement | reached with Gulf and Atlantic operators be extended to govern-ment-controlled ships in tlie Pacific. T)i<- other striking union previously had given in on the same issue. In view of the union's reversal, federal conciliators expected to resume negotiations quickly and end the trike. In the other major labor develop inents: 1. A strike of 5.500 hot'-l employes curtailed service .it 18 Washington hosteiries. including several lioastlng < ablnet uieml>ers. congressmen and top ranking gov- < rnment officials among tlielr clienteles. 2 Violence was renewed in the btormy Hollywood film dispute when police riot squads, swinging night sticks, cleared a path through massed pickets outside the techincolor laboratories, arresting 40 strikers 3 The strike-boiiiid Chiciig-i. Aurora and Elgin railroad, servit’g 21,000 daily comniuters. Informed employes it would meet union demands if it wa. able to obtain a 10 percent fare increase. 4 Negotiation' were stalled in efforts to end trans|*ortation strikes in Chicago, Columbus. (I, and Tacoma, Wash. 5. The Ford Motor Co. shut down all assembly lines for tho weekend because of steel short age* and warned of future layoffs it a weeklong strike of crane operators at the company's river rouge plant in Detroit is not settled. 6. U. 8., company and labor representatives met in an effort to head off a threatened strike of 1.500 Indiana utility workers, (Turn Tn Page 3. Column ?> 0 Earl Ray Haines Dies This Morning Heart Attack Fatal To Farmer Today Earl llay Haines, 57. Adams i county farmer, died suddenly .of ' a heart attack at 7 o'clock this morning at hl- home ne-:i Geneva He had not lieen ill and death was unexpected. 1 He was born in Rossville. <»., 1 June 13. IM9, the son of Benjamin and Ida Taylor-Haines. <»n January 31. 1917, he was married to Elsie Hannon. Surviving in addition to the wife are one son. Doyle Haines, at ' home; three daughters. Mrs. Glen | Übutzenheiaer of Monroe. Mrs. ( Gale Runyon of Hartford town- | ship and Miss Jean Agnes Haines, at home; his mother. Mrs. Ida , Haines of Berne; four brothers. Russell ot Monroe, Virgil of near , Berne. Ix*wls of Decatur and Marvin of near Monroe, and two sis- ( tern. Miss Esther Haines of near ( Berne and Mrs. Clarence Fleet- i wood of Noblesville. Three sisters died in infancy. < The body was removed to the 1 Yager funeral nome at Berne, t Funeral arrangement* have not . fatten completed.

| To Prison MOWS.** •msg**’ J BW Archbishop Aloysius Stepmac, highest Catholic churchman in Yugoslavia, was sentenced to ifi j years at hard lalair upon convic- l tion on c harges of "grime" against the state" before .Marshal Tito's; government tribunal at Zagrab. Yugoslavia Nine other Catholic c lergymen drew . to 14 >ar prison terms in th" treason c 01-• laboration trial. Workers Voting On Ending long Strike — Tentative Contract Agreements Reached — Milwaukee-, ()<•' 72 tl'Pi — Workers at the- MCrosse, Wfs., and I,aPorte. Ind . plants of Al Ils Chalmers Co. vole today and tomorrow on agree meats design ! ed to end their lout: standing strikes against the farm ecitiipment firm. Company and union negotlat- j ors reached tentative- contract agreement- last night in separate, meetings at the two plants! Workers at Lal’or'e vote 10-iay on acceptance and laiCrossc- < m ployes vote tomorrow Seven Allis Chalmers plants have been bound by strikes since j early this yar Workers at Pittsburgh. Norwood. <). and | Springfield. 11l have returned to! work. Negotiations are still in - progress at the main works henami at the Boston plant The contracts promised at laiCrosse- and lac Porte would provide a 13c- cent hourly pay increase offered by the company, j With a live cent pay ooost grant-i ml last vear the I3>_. c ents brings i the workers Into line with the: "national pattern" of 18’* rents. This raise was accepted by unions at three other plants Robert Ludvik. president of the i CIO Industrial union 1424 at lai-: Crosse, sail the contract there would give the union an "Irrevocable- check-off system ” Ludvik said workers would not, be required to join tile union, but having once joined, would be required to pay dues as long as they worked for the firm. Be j raid the clause was "not quite as ( strong as a maintenance- of mem- ( bership system ” A\t Ln Porte, the tentative contract agreed upon by officers of local 119. United Farm Equip- 1 ment and Metal Workers Union ' (CIO), calls for an improved 1 grievance procedure, a more liberal vacation plan, and a revise! ' seniority clause. ' Ahout 1.4 W workers have been on strike since Mar. 14 at Ls- ' Porte. The LaCrosse strike, in- < volving 9UO employes, started ' April 30 Both plants manufac- < ture farm equipment. w

Price Four Cents

— Hottest Political Issue Os Year Left To President After Meeting Os Cabinet BULLETIN Wathingtan, Oct, 12.—(UP) —The Whcte House announced today that President Truman will tpeaic to the nation on the ttadization program at 10 p.m. EST., Monday night, Washington. Oct 12 — (UP) — Th*- hottest political Issue of the i year whether to remove price controls from meat —was squarely up to President Truman today. The question now is Mr. Trit- ! man' alone to decide, left up to him by hi* c abinet Many Democratic leaders feel that upon his decision may turn the outcome- of the November e lection*. The president gave no hint of his answer, but it will Ice delivered to the people in a nationwide radio broadcast within a few day*. It will not come, however. until lie has weighed all the evidence, probably not beforeMonday Best evidence see med to be that the president still in convinced tlie stability of the won- ' omy and the fate of hi party lie iin continuing controls. But this i would not mean he might not ! change his mind. Mr Truman gave up any week--1 end relaxation to give the prolebin his full attention and. if ho I decides controls should be kept. I presumably to work out away of easing the- meat famine. The president ha* only a short I time to flglireoiit away of getting meat liai k on the- table le-a* I than four weeks remain before ! 'lie November elect ions which will dee id. whether lei- party re ; tain* control of cotigres-. Meanwhile, price control lost I on.- of it- strongest advocates, lie p Wright Patman. D., Tex, who led fli<- fi.-ht to save the OPA bill las' June Patman said In a radio I- <>.u|e .i ' < Multi ill that helm I a Joel the Whit- House 1 and urged Mr Truman 4o lift controls from in--at for good. H<would not lisciose th-- pr.-'idcnl's reaction. Yesterday th- whole meat situation was rehashed in a 9<i-miii-nte cabinet meeting Afterward. .-<■< retary of agriculture ('lititon I' Anderson said no decision had been reached and that the question now is -xclusivley Mr Truman's. Meanwhile. Anderson delayed a decision on a petition by theOPA lie.-f industry advisory committee asking the removal of piice controls on cattle, calves, beef and veal He may decide today. Still open wen several methods of getting email quantities of meal Added together. they might take oft sot.'- of tli- tiressure Canadian or Argentine impor’s still are a possibility. High government officials also said a quarantine on Mexican cattle will be lifted before January Normally American ranchers buy abotii 500.(100 head of Mexican cattle a year for feeder purposes. The latest complaint of mea’ withholding was made hy John M Hoolier, president of the l-in-caster, Pa., livestock exchange. He said lOo.obtt head of cattle areheld in feed lots within a 20-mile radius of Omaha. Neb. —— o —■ — — Women Hurt, Window Broken In Scramble Indianapolis, Oct 12—(UP)-—A grocery replaced a show window today and m-varal shoppers treated cuts and bruises as a result of a scramble for scarce soap chips T-n minutes after 300 b>xre of the chips were put on the counter at the Kroger supermarket yesterday. the store was littered with broken glass, police were calming a crowd, and physicians were treating the injured. Mm. Ermal Frinklin. one of the shopper*, was treated for a cut on her knee, but she happily grasped a box Os soap chips while the doctor took two ztiuhes In the round.