Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 246, Decatur, Adams County, 18 October 1946 — Page 1

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Predict Heavy Frost Throughout Indiana By United Prets A heavy frost throughout the I entire state of Indiana was pre I dieted today by lite f X weather bureau. The noon bullet ii hy the weather bureau in IndianapoliH raid: clearing and colder tonight with heavy frost in ull portions Nearfreezlng temperatures in Northern Indiana early tomorrow. Saturday general )y a little warm* r. —— - <>•- — - OPA Increase Is Granted On Jams, Jellies Six Million Dollar Poke Taken By OPA At Sweet Tooth Washington. Oct IS — (I Pi OPA took a Itl.Otio.bOo [Hike at the nation’s sweet tooth today by raising prices of jam*, jellies, pre serves and apple butter. The increase will be a cent a pound on apple butter ami two cents a pound on the other OPA estimated th<- a* tion. necessitated by higher costs to industry, would boost the nation's annual food Hill by 16,000.000. OPA also granted a 35 to to percent increase on men's low-price plain white print cloth and lawn handerchlefs and a 2.4 percent boost on work gloves. The price of bronze and copper lrse< t screen cloth used to protect homes, hospitals and some business establishments. went up 13.5 penent. Meanwhile, OPA continued its rapid fire decontrol action? In line with President Trumans speedup policy, uml officials esti mated that ceiling on almost all major foods and many commodit les ami services will Im* off ity Nov 1. They ruled out early dm out nd, ho.wever, on rents, building materials, new homes, autos and other acutely scarce commodities. Tin major foods which they feel may remain under control after Nov. 1 include oranges, bananas, flour and flour products and of course, sugar. Ceilings were removed today from harness and parts, saddlery and riding equipment, whips and crops, collar pads, saddle pads and blankets. hor.*>e blankets, saddle trees, stirrups, nose bags for feed ing animals am! turf goods. All industries were not entirely sold on OP.Vs announced policy to speed up decontrol. A Washington representative of the restaurant association said his industry was going ahead with its decontrol petition, even though OPA ft ••»- pected to consider restaurant prices in its widespread Nov. 1 decontnd action The petition will Im- filed about Oct. 30. OPA expects few other formal industry petitions between now and the first of November. OPA officials are still in a huddle with the agriculture department over the decontrol of flour (Turn To Page 4. Column S) Two Autos Stolen Here Last Night Police Also Report Additional Looting 1 Two autos were stolen from I parked positions in downtown ftecatur last night, police chief hd 1 Miller repotted today. An auto, owned l>y William 1 Heim, was reported stolen from the K>o block on North Second ’ street shortly after midnight last . night. The car Is described a> a ; 1940 green Ford coupe, with license plates numbered 521.400. i Officers Koy Chllcote and Robert [ Hill were notified of the theft A gray 1938 Ford coach, with red wheels, anti bearing license ; plates numbered 52P.494. was re- , ported to officer James Borders as stolen from a parked position on Madison street near the American Legion. The theft was reported alwut 6 p. m. Thursday by the owner. Richard Burkhart. Decatur route 6 Owners of both vehicles had left ignition keys in the car, chief Miller stated. Bernard Hain, of North Sixth street, reported to officer Sephus Melchi yesterday that a thief or thieves had entered the garage of hia home and had stolen fishing tackle, valued at 165. The loot included two rode, two reels ' (Turn To Ml* * Column I)

Soviet Russia Flays Justice Department Act Protests Demand On Russian Delegates Register As Agents . Washington. Oct. 18 tl'Pi The Xovif-t embassy today accused the Justice department of adding difficulties to "establishment of < ulturul ties between us and the people of the Pnited Ktutos." The embas-y descrltH-d a justice department demanil that Russian delegates to the Slav congress in New York register as foreign agent as being "compatible neither | with the personal dignity of thesei outstanding people nor with the elf respect of the country which they represent." The Soviet attitude toward the! Justice department action wamade known by Miehail X. Vavilov, I first secretary of the Russian embassy, at the pres* conference It was the third press conference at the embassy since December, 1941. As a re-ult of the-Justice department's demand that the delegates register as foreign agents. Russia recalled the 17-member Soviet delegation to the congress. Throe disrates from other countries. however, went ahead and registered. They included two Bulgarians and one ('tech. Rev. Frantise< k Flala, the latest to register. The Justice department contended the visitors wen» not bonda fide delegates but were guests of American delegates. The group had claimed diplomatic status. Vavilov tol<| the press conference that in recent years I'. X. sources repeatedly have proposed visits to this country by Russian representatives of M'ieiiee, literature and the arts with a view to "strengthening of friendly relations between the American and .Soviet peoples.'' Many such visits have taken place and I'. X scientists and other* have been invited to Russia, he -aid. But the justice department's action. the embassy said, is not compatible with efforts to im-| prove cultural relations between! the two countries “One can only regret,” Vavilov said, "that outstanding representatives of the Soviet Republics returned to the Soviet I'nion with bitter feelings of disillusion and hurt." Vavilov was aaked whether Americans going to Russia had to register, lie said they did not adding that visitors to the I'. X X it. were granted fr*-edom of move(Turn To l , .ig* C. Column 4) 0 Invite Farmers And Laborers To Meeting Special Invitation To Townsend Speech A special Invitation to farmers and laborers Is being issued hy Democratic county chlrman O. Vizard to attend the Democratic rally next Wednesday night at 8 o'clock at Decatur junior-senior high school aduitorium, at which time former governor -M. Clifford Townsend will be the principal speaker. Mr. Townsend is the Democrat candidate for I'nlted Xtates senator and will speak on national Issues. He has long been known as a friend of the farmer and laborer and during his administration as governor of Indiana, he demonstrated that loyalty by sponsoring constructive legislation for both of these groups. Mr. Townsend has been a farmer and school teacher all his life and at present he operates two farms, one in Blackford county and one in Grant county. He was county superintendent of schools in Grant county for more than 10 years. When Townsend served as lieu-tenant-governor of Indiana he was commissioner of agriculture and during his tenure of office, the Indiana state fair was operated at a profit for the first time in 25 years. It was in the third year of his operation that the state fair was acclaimed she greatest agriculture exhibit in the nation. Townsend Is well versed in the problems of the fanner, laborer and small merchant and his ad dress hero is awaited with Interest. He Is opposed in the general election by William Jenner, form(Turn To Fags J, Column »)

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, October 18, 1946

Happy Birthday For Skippy JI -i* ’ SKIPPY ROMANO, plucky Boston youth who waged a successful fhree-year fight against a rare and usually fatal disease, blows out his birthday candles for his brother, "Pudgy" Romano, and friend, Rita Buttaid. Nationwide contributions a year ago financed expensive medical treatment for Xkippy who then seemed doomed to death. Now he is able to feed himself and play with toys for tinfirst time in his life.

Help Permitted To Leave Nazi Prison Nuernberg Prison Revelation Made Nuernberg, Oct. 18—(IT’i —A channel of communication between Hermann Gm-ring'a suicide cell-' block and the outside world was disclosed today when German employes of the prLion said they had been permitted to leave It daily Sime Oct 6. German help armn.l the cell block in which Goering killed himself had l>een understood hereto fore to be limited to the pi Ison. But today spokesmen for the 21 employes in cell bl<M k C told correspondents that the restriction had been off since 10 days before the executions. On Oct. 6. the employes eaid, they were allowed to leave the prison f.r the first time since they accompanied Col. Burton ('. And rus here from Mondorf. Luxembourg. They exchanged their prl- | soiier of war status tor that of I voluntary hut confined contract j laborers. They have been permitted to leave daily since then, they said While army officiaiu altachei! no special significance to the coming and going, so fur as couid lie learned immediately, it admittedly opened up a new line of speculation it the contact with the outside world Security officials revealed tli.it the Nazi war criminals were collectors of potential suicide instruments throughout the 10 months of their trial. A glass via! was found Jan. 31 in the cell of JoJachim V *n Ribbentrop. A security officer did not say what it contained, if anything. A summary of discoveries during the dally searches of the cell showed that guards found everything from paper clips to rope. I'. X. officials denied that Goering’s body bore any scratch or other sign that the poison capsule had been concealed under the skin of hie abdomen. The denials were entered by Lieut. Charles R«ska, Nuernberg prLon physician, ami Col. B. C. Andrue, prison commandant Andrus admitted, however, that he had not made a thorough personal examination of Goering's Irndy. However, both Rosk i and Andrus flatly denied reports which had (Turn To 4’age 9. Colunin •»

Meat Supply Increases In City, Prices Vary Widely

Although price* on meat, lard and other fat* and oil product* were steadily mounting here a* everywhere else In the nation to-day--with the lifting of OPA ceil-lllf*-—the chief fact noted in today’s retail store* was a state of confusion. For instance: Butter had l>een steadily rising for the past several day* and in one instance a lady reported purchasing a pound for 11.01, Yet, thi* morning a local market manager reported a drop from 97 cent* a pound yesterday to 90 cents a pound today. •'People are ju*t refusing to buy It—as I see it," he declared. "We haven't been able to 'push' our* and if we don't get it moving pretty soon, we may have a lot to apoIl." Meat Going Up Retail meat prices se* med to be

BULLETIN Orleans, Ind., Oct. 18—(UP) —Four persons were killed today when a Monon passenger train hit their automobde at a crossing near Orleans. Two of the dead, a smalt i girl and a man, were unidentified. A Mitchell mortician said the other bodies were identified tentatively as those of Hubert Terrell of Mitchell, and his wife, Effie. _ —g. Soybean Prices Soar After Ceiling Lifted Report Few Buyers On Chicago Board Soybeans of n*H more than 14 penent moisture were quoted today at |2 8O per bushel by the Burk Elevator company, an In < reuse of 19 cents over the top ceiling price, hut about 20 cents less than yesterday's peak price Few buyers were Interested in the punhase of beans - it the Chicago board, it was Hlated. Ceiling prii »M <>n soybeans, oi! i and meal were removed this week and prices akyrocketed toward new levels in yesterday’s trading of these coin modifies Number 2 old coin was quoted at 12.25 per 100 lbs. by the local elevator Following tin- H-movai of Ol’A piices la««t June, corn price-* rea< lied as high as 43 a bushel. New corn will coin* into tin* market about November 1. an I It M likely that prices W‘ll be adjusted in keeping wl'h the new supply Elevator men and soybean pro cessor* referred to the market as chaotic during the past few days The rainy weather has flowed up the combining of soybeans ami in Gie meantime the market may adjust itself. With storage epace for five million bushels of soybeans at the Cential Soya company's plant. De catur enters the p.clur* a* * »'' of tile largest soybeans markets in tlie country. No statement was made by officials of th- local soybean and feeil p.o<wsing plant as to market conditions and purchase of the product. However, many car I ;ads of beans from the 1946 crop have been shipped to t.iis city ami stored at the local idle.

steadily mounting im tl:e price to the retailer" from the packers jumped lit one instance pork < hops, which sold ter 76 cents per pound on Tuesday the day after the president lifted control* went up to 93 cents per pound yesterday Yet. in one stdre it wm reported jtork chop* sold at 55 cent*. The aveiage price on hamburger seemed to l»e about 50 cent* per pound—that on beef liver a similar figure In Fort Wayne, it was teported, pork chops w***e bringing 11 per pound in several store*. Smaller packer* have heen able to get their meat supplies and the ((tore* buying from them had ample meat supplies on hand One large market here t day had only pork chops—at 93 cent* per pouud- excluding cold meat*, chickone. fish, etc. This market had received no meat aupr-lle* since the ceiling wa* lifted

Heavy Stock Shipments Promise More Meat For Nation's Dinner Tables

Byrnes Will Speak To Nation Tonight Urges Firm Dealing With Soviet Russia Wu-hington. iht 18 tl'l'i — Xecretary ot state James F. i Byrnes will tell th.* American people tonight that If the world Is to live in peace, the I'ni'i-d i States must deal with Russia [ with a policy of firmness temper | cd with patience. At the same time, it was learn cj, his nationwide broadcast will inuke dear Io Moscow and the world that the I'nitrd States cannot compromise her principles of fair play to nil nations large and small in writing pence terms Byrnes will speak from 9 to 9:30 p. m ('ST His address will In- broadcast by NBC and some mutual and independent station*. Ills 30minute sprei h w»* plan lied originally as a report on the recent 79-day I’ari- peace confer erne. But, as though to underline the overriding importam c of Russiiui rotations, Byjnos will devote the major portion of his •peeih Io that topic, diplomatic sources sail Tin- wiry. t'*7 year old secretary arrived here l*y plane yesterday from Paris. With a wave of his hand ami a broad grin, he repor'ed "much progress" al tin* peace < onferem e An hour later lie i went to the White House for a personal report to President Truman Tin* remainder of the day he spent at his desk revising the text of his foreign p<di* e addr**** drafted first in Paris In a brief airport press confei ence under she wing of President Truman's persona! plane. the Xacrel Cow. Byrne reiterated hope that public opinion will force m ceptance by the big four foreign ministers of the five treaty drift* prepared al Paris He was exnected to repeat that theme tonight as a reply to Soviet foreign minister V M Molotov's statement that many Paris decisions were unsatisfactory and that Russia would seek 'o undo some of the cons me work when the foreign ministers me. t Nov I at New York Meanwhile. President Tinman announced that he will a* com I pany Byrnes to New York tn ad dress the opening session of the I'nifed Nations general assembly next Wednesday Thereafter Pyrite*, will return io his desk until the big four foreign min Inters meet (Turn To 4‘age 4. Column 6) o Complete Plans For Democrat Meetings State Senator To Be Here Saturday Plans have been completed for two liemocratic political meeting**. Xeverin Schurger. chairman of the county speakers bureau, stated Xtate Senator Von A ipatt Eich horn. Wells county will speak al a meeting at in-mo< rati< head quarters in Decatur Saturday night ut 8 o'clock SFn Eichhorn will dicuss state issues and will give the voters his program for the torn ing session of the Indiana general assembly. Sen. Eichhorn is an interesting speaker and will have an address of interest to all. Mr Schurger stated. The public is invited to attend tin Thursday night. October 21. former Judge Clarence McNabb, Fort Wayne, a long favorite in Adams county. wiH be the principal •peaker at a Berne rally to be held at Berm* auditorium C H Mmn-1-man. Berne, will preside at the meeting and will introduce the speaker. The Berm* meeting was announced for October 26 with Fay Mas as the speaker, but the chunge was made to next Thursday night in order that Judge McNabb could come to Adams county. Judge McNabb, who is a vet eran campaigner, will speak on both national and state issues He has long been prominent in Demovrstlc political circles In the state and nation.

Army Planning Release Os All 1945 Draftees Order Discharge Os All 1945 Draftees By End Os Year Washington. Oct is <CP' The army e-nmated today H* ■ move to spee.l Up d-ihaige of, draftee* will save the nation ap-| proximately f'>o<nm imo bet seen now mid the end of the yrai Maj Gen W X Paul, wur de-1 partinen! director of personnel, said all draftees taken in during 1915 have been ordered dischurind arc* on terminal leave or enroute by 1 31 The order aff<* ted a j bout 235.000 men Allot tier 2'""' I ’"' horn*- for discharge. The army had 1.745.000 men on Sept 30. Paul said, mid will be cut down to I 31i'ooo on lie* 31 | ll** said thl- was a part of th*' drive to remh a goal of an allvolunteer irmy It mu-t he down to 1.07'1,000 by July 1, 1917 Reliable* army sources said the 1 speed up of discharges was an eeouomy move di*-luted by Presl dent Truman's effort to balame the- national budget Th<- military budget for the 1946 17 fiscal year is 57.263 152 40" The army estimates it will spend about |s.m;o ooce.miee but ■ays, part of the fund- were up preprinted under a previous finil budget The* army does not be lieve- if ran cut its expendit ll* much below IS.IUeee.IHHC I for t n tls* al pel nd ending next June !" This e-ti mate- is l>* seel on th*- present un s*-ttlee| iiiti*rnm'lon.il situation mid th** high <-o-t of malt tmnliu o* ciipafion troop. In foreign lands Xu retary of war Robert I" Pat te-rson minoiin* ed Him th.- m iny had passed its r*<riii'ing goal of I.on",nno volunteer-- on ent 7 lint hi- said the* army would require C'l'urn To Page I. ('eeluinn 4) o Rotary Governor Visits Local Club World Peace Hopes Stressed At Meeting Rolls 8 W*esn-*r. of limn ad govi’tnor of tin* I’iltli district Rotary Interniitloniil paiel In- of filial visit to the I eheb at its weekly meeting Thursday i*v.*niug The district governor stressed Rotary's fourth object internatlon al- sen ii i*. I'l his addr* ss to the |ii- at'ir i lul* Pointing to th*- grow th of Rotary d-.s'oig th*- nast . year when l"l lew dubs were* orgmiize-il throughout the- world. ’ Mt W* esner elteel the- value of the organization in promoting world friend-hip and a hope* for lasting j pea*** Renewal of I barter* to elllllH active in Europe* prior to tin* war was po i ted .lilt by the district governot as an indication "* toei hope- le-aders of the-e war-torn countries have in the Influe-ice of Rotarians in building for peace throughout the world Mr Weesner r* luted -onn of his experiences whil** attending tli*- assembly lor new Rotary ,-"v ernors prior to lust summer s convention of Rotary li termi" mill He told particularly of tit** ernor-elei t of ('zt*chosiovakia who. despite the* fait that hi- wife .mil daughter were stain by tin- Germans during tin* war. that I is entire fortune was ccmflsea'ed a-ui that he spent four years in n prison camp, he- has not lost tai'll in Rotary and has dedicated his life to the- furtherance of world pear e* The district governor particularly stressed that Rotary International is squarely behind the- I'tiRed Nations as the world's best hope for a lasting organization for peace The Rotary executive met with I Earl Fuhrman, president, and other officers and directors of the Dettum Tv Page I, Cviuuitc 7)

Price Four Cents

Heaviest Friday's Shipment Os Year; Hog Prices Again Showing Increase By I'ultel Press Tin- heaviest Friday shipment of linstock thi year moved into he I'ig eoillbelt stoe kyards to- , etay. witli a promise of meat for | 'ln- nation's dinner tables n«*xt week Early hog prices, however, In* 1 Healed a sharp rise, although : I i>w much of tills would be reflee leel tn the retail price of pork * Imps and ha* on could not he de- * termined. Hog pric es rose to all time high ' levels Immediately after price i ceiling - were removed Monday. Ye t- rday an I the- clay before, however, they dropped sharply. I Today they w<u>* rising again. The American Meat Institute--ai*l th.it most meat-on-the hoof moving into the dockyards this week would reach retail butcher | shop# late next week. It takes ! between 1" days and two weeks . for a steer arriving at the- Chi- : * ago stockyards to leecome steak lon a New York dinner table the institute said The carcasses must he chiiled before- cutting and the- c uts must be aged, packers said Rome smaller pa< king houses, however, were reported shipping meat In*to retail c hannels with a minimum of processing to appe-tise* the..ppetite of a in* ict fami-he I nation Some me,i' from the early rim this we*ek probaldy will lee availald* for th*. Sunday dinner table The* movement of meat, how- | ever, was threatened by a railI oa*l jam which could slow up l|ta»th the shipment of livestock to I -naik- i and th* flow of dressed meat to * onsunier* 1 Railroad officials end meat pa, k* rs repor **d there was sc--I v*-i<- shortag* of cattle cars in i th*- west A high percentage* of unimal- marketed this week have* been -!lippe**l by true k. but ral - road transportation I* needeel for the long haul from the western I alig* s Butter Cheaper Chiia-*, Get 1* (I'l’t Hou*.* w i s u< ros- th** nation found butter -*-v**r.n * **nts < h**ap <*r a 'h* mtn* > gro* ery store to lay Th»-y also found a little* moremeat available? al bitt* her shops. At -..tin (i n the price of meat wa- high* r ami al others it had dropped. , , Retailers at many points re-poitc-d that * ustomel - Were getting choosy atamt high meat prices They refused to pay fl * pound and up. and h* slightly tn lensed supply of meat In many lilies was getting a * alm reception L"W* i bill!*-! pti* « - wi re traced to Hi*- break in the butter mark*" ye.let day Spot blitter !o-* 7 cents in New York trading yesterday and 2 to 3 i etits a pound here Today's trading, however, was steady. At t ill* ago, butter retailed 7 cents lower a' stores Ilf one* large* grocery chain, dropping from 91 to ' I cents a pound The drop (Turn T*. l-age- (. Column 7> Housewives Warned Against Peddlers High Pressure Soles Tactics Reported Housewives today were warned against Imus* to lmu«e* peuidlers, who an* "giving away" merchan*4ise iii their initial aalea approaih Paul M* Fan!, executive secretary of Hu* Decatur Chamber of Commerce, stated today that the Chamber had received numerous complaints in the past few days concerning the* activities of th>*w*i peddlers To gain entrance to a home, the peddler offers to "give items, sinh as children'* books, and then after a "high pressuresales talk" the housewife finds she ha* contracted to buy the articles. Tin* Chamber urged citixen* to learn whether or not the peddler ha* a liien»e as provided hy city ordinance, hut recommended that purchases be made from local store*, where quality of merchandise Is a»snred.