Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 285, Decatur, Adams County, 4 December 1946 — Page 3

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Admitted: Don \eschl.man. route 1; Mr* Harve I.aFa nt am* Monroe route I; Georg.- I. N<-uierhouc.-r. Fori Wayne; Holier! Linn, < ash town, Penn. lilHink *ei| Donald lieineke, Milwaukee. Win . Mia. Arthur Sprun Ker und baby ui I, Herne; MrPeter Swartz. Geneva mute iiLarge Shipment Os Hogs Leaves City One of the largest .Ingle xbi|> merits of hogs in recent yearn left Decatur yesterday, aoordmx to F. J. Schmitt of the Kuhiier "lock yards here Mr. Schmitt reported that three semi trailer load, of the animate, averaging 2X,o<m pounds per load, were taken to the Mum ie yarda of the company under the supervision of Hugh ILiyburn. company repre tentative. — 0 Decatur Principal Attends Conference Principal W. Guy Brown of the Decatur junior senior high school has returned from the two day Purdue conference for high school principal*. held at Turkey Run. Education in the modem social and economic world was the theme of the meeting, attended by some of the nation's leading educators

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CLUB CALENDAR Society Deadline, 11 A. M. Phones 1000 — 1001 Wednesday Historical duh, Mrs. W, P Robineon. 2:30 p m Pal lota XI business meeting, Elks home, a p m. Ladles Shakespeare club. Mr« Lois Black, 2 30 p tn, Thursday So ('ha Rea, (Tiriatmas party. Hotel coffee shop, 6 45 p ut Ever Ready class of Methodist • hutch, Mrs Paul Edwards, 7:30 P m. Pleasant Dale l«adles Md society, church, all day. I<adies Aid society of Christian 1 hur< h, Mrs. Henry Ll< htenstelner, 7:30 p. tn. The Ave Maria study club will n.eet at the home of Mr- Raymond Kohne Friday evening at eight o'clock W M \ of Nuttman Avenue I tilted Brethren church, Mrs. Emma Johston. 7:30 p m W 8. ('. 8 of Monroe Methodist church, church annex, 7 p. m Women's .Missionary society of Pleasant Grove church. Mrs Clyde Harden. 12:30 p m Missionary society of Bethany Evangelical I'. B church, 2 pm. Women of the Moose, Moose home. 7:30 p in W. F. M 8. of Church of Nara tone, Mr anil Mrs. lam Hoe, 7:30 P m Presbyterian .Missionary society, church. 2;30 p m. Friday Ave Maria Study Club. Mrs Ray mond Kohne, x p m. Civic Section (hriutmas Party. K. of P. Home, 6:30 p m. Saturday Rummage sale of Missionary society of Bethany Evangelical ('. B church, church basement, x a.m. to 12 niton Rummage eale of Ladies Aid *ociety of Presbyterian church, church b.isement, s a.m. to 5 pm. Monday Music department, Mrs Sephus Jackson, 6:30 pm Firemen's Women* Auxlliaiy. Mrs. Herman Dierkes, 7:30 pm. Dramatic department. Mrs. Felix Maier, X pm. Literature department. Mrs. J F Sanmann, X pm. Art department. Ml»s Mildred Worthman. X pm. Junior Women depaitment. Mis* Betty Melchi, X p m. Canning Chicken Chicken should nut be fried be fore canning, for the brown crust becomes hard and <!y and may de velop a disagreeable flavor.

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Threaten Reprisals If Lewis Is Jailed Pennsylvania Coal Miners Are Defiant Pittsburgh, Dec. 4 • lITPI -I Western Pennsylvania miners, angry over th»* conviction of John I. Lewis, accused the federal gov ernment of trying to smash the I'nlted Mine Worker-* union today and threatened reprisals If their militant chief Is put In Jail. In the tap rooms and general stores, and on the street corners of the coal towns, they talked loudly. defiantly, and vowed they wouldn't return to work "until Lewis tells us to." In the big. rough, mining city of Cniontown. Tony Miller, a worker at the Phillips mine of the H <!. Frick Coal and Coke company, condemned the government's action as "the poorest method they've ever tried to get us ba< k to work." Another miner warned that “an economic revolution will bit the country" if Lewis is punished "No matter what happens now we won't go back to work until Lewis tells us to," said another. "The government can break our treasury, but they won't break our union," said Nazy Zupanlo, a worker at the Westland mine of the Pittsburgh, Consolidation Coal company. Canonsburg. “If they punish l*ewis, all labor will come out on strike," he added.

Warn Merchants To Watch Bogus Checks Hoosier Merchants Are Given Warning Indianapolis, Dec. 4 (UP) Hoosier merchants must watch their "P'S" and "Q'S” before cashing checks during the Christmas shopping rush, the Indiana bogus check committee said today. ' The rush of early holiday shopper* will make it easy for forgers of operate unless merchants take proper precautions," sail state police rapt. Hubert A O'neal. chair man of the largus check committee The organisation. sonsored by the Indiana sheriff's association, the Indiana association of chief* of police, the V. 8 secret service, the FBI, and the Indiana state police, was formed recently to combat the state's annual |l.W»."00 loss due to worthless checks. The committee recommended that taverns, store*. filling st a lions and other small businesses refuse to cash checks fee strangers who fail to offer positive identification O'Neal said that many pupetw. generally accepted a* identification. were not wholy reliable These included hotel credit cards, bank hooks, business or lodge cards, cat owner's registration or driver's permits, or social security card* Merchants were advised to look for signs us tampering or mutilation of ci edent ials presented The best identification, the group said, is the genuine signature endorsement of a tellable customer — n 33 Billion Passengers In lIMS, more than 23'4 billion pas sengers rode the street cars, trackless trolley coaches and gas buses that make up the nation's urban transit lines.

250 Barrel Oil Well Drilled At Noblesville Noblesville, Ind, Dac 4 tPPI A new oil well, lirgest of 20 drill •■d here recently, was producing 2&<) barrels of crude oil daily today The well was dr.lied y<*terday on the farm of John Owen, a Texas oil field owner. The well penetrated Lti.3!l feet before oil was found 0 — Colleges Dominate Two Slock Shows One Grand Champion Is Shown By Purdue Chicago. Dec 4 (HPI Three agriculturally minded college sttMMl head and shoulders over the nation's cattle ami swine raisers today as they displayed two grand championship ribbons and one reserve grand championship trophy won by their entries in the Inter* national livestock exposition Oklahoma A. A M. college of Stillwater, Okla, took the prixe plum yesterday when its 1.370 pound Scotch shorthorn steer, Royal Jupiter, ambled away with the supreme award of the weeklong show the grand championship for steers This was the third time in the exposition's 47 year history that a shorthorn has received tophonors. The reserve championship in the steer went to Wyoming Challenger Standard. another shorthorn, owned by the University of Wyoming at The Wyoming entry tipped the scales at 1.070 pounds. Both Itoyat Jupiter and Wyoming Challenger Standard will draw the major share of attention Thursday when the prize winning steers of the exposition an* auctioned for general sale. The third college to claim a grand champion yesterday was Purdue University at laifayette. Ind, which saw its 222 pound Hampshire judged premier barrow of the show's swine department. The exposition, first since the war. continues today with judging in the hereford, shorthorn und Ab-erdeen-Angus breeding classes and In several sheep lireeding classes

100,000 Children On School Vacation Teacher Strikes, Shortages Cause By United Piths Nearly 1OO.(M)O school children in four state* were on vacation today ae a result of teachers' strike* and a shortage of coal. Several thousand more were scheduled to brain Christmas vacation* this weekend to cotiorrve dwindling supplies of fuel School* in Denver were cloned for the duration of the coal strike, riving 50,000 children and I.MOO teachers a holiday. The children were urged to keep up on their homework by the radio. f'laMte* were conducted over the majority of the city's Mat ion*. Another 30.000 pupil* were out In St. Paul. Minn, ae a result of the strike of 1.100 API, teachers over wages In Shamokin. Pa., a strike of |«| teachers to enforce demand* for a s3oo bonus and a salary increase left 2.400 children with time on their hands. In Michigan 3.500 children have been sent home because of the coal famine and lt.ooo more were scheduled to begin early Christmas vacations this week end when schools will < lose in lainsing Sen. Wheeler Lashes Southern Operators Washington. Dec. 4. (I'Pl Sen Burton K. Wheeler. It . Mont , said today that if southern coal operalor* a>e blocking settlement of the

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li-day old co.il strike, "they should lie condemned "On the basis of reports of the actions of southern operator*,", the senator added. "It would seem they do not want a ■ettlement of this labor dispute." 0 Madison County Man is Soybean Champion Lafayette, Dei 4 1 record breaking yield of 36 bushels tier mle today brought George M. Schell, fto yeir old Madison county farmer, the title of Hwetlvr eoybean champion for 1946 A recheck of records In the Pur dm- University agronomy depart ment, headquarters fi the «<>yIn all yield contest, hosed the best two am* of Schi ll s ten acre field topped the lie-t p'eVlilU* yield ill the H.nte-I which was 619 bushel* per acre produced by Eugene Gwaltney, Delaware county. In 1945 -i h— Trade tn a Good lown — Decatur W MTW J* • WaMOHOMB — 0

B > c’W Ip ''W-'" DR. RUOOIFH HMMANN. who was Instrumental in development of the V-2 rocket. Is shown at Wright Field, Ohio, where he la one of a group of German Oentlsts who voluntarily came to the United States to do research work. (International) * —o — LEWIS FINED (Continued from Cage U ary injunction was still liefore the couit He asked for a decision on that request as soon as the contempt case ended. AFL counsel Joseph A. Pad way. one of Lewi*' ciuinsel. commented on the Rovcrnnieii' fine recoin mendation by saying there was no evidence to show damage of |3.sih>,ihh/ "Fin lings or imposition of pen allies cannot be founded on imagination." he said • Railway asserted that the pm (Mised line would be cruel and inhuman." Padway said there was no slmi lar case on record except one in which the dei-lshm w.i ultimately reverted He argued that the record made In the present < use di I not siis tain the civil contempt verdict and that the critnin.il contempt finding violated the constitution

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French Parliament Rebuffs Red Leader Communist Fails In Bid At Premiership Paris. D** 4 it Pi 1 liid liy communist leader Maurice Thorez ftp the pretnlurshlp of France failed today when he w.i unable to win a majority of votes in the na Honal assembly, Thorez name was the only one prmented to the assembly How ever, lie failed to Win the premier ship when he did not obtain the 310 votes m*<es-ary for a majority in tile clumber Thorez could mu 'er only 25* votes. 51 voles short of what waneeded He was supported by lioth communists and *o< laliste but It

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' wus Indicated some of lha social- , ista may have *Wi«lain«-I or voted ugslnst him in the secret ballot. Since the communists and Mclal* mt* together do not muster a majority of the assembly it was liec- • *«ary for Thorez to win the .upport of the left republican union iie.id'd by Edouard Het Hot in <> der to be elei ted •i Two Young Children Are Burned To Death Kokomo, Ind. Itec 4 tl’Pt--Douhh* funeral ecrvlc-s were arranged today for the two children of Mr und Ms Paul Abney who were burned to death in a home I fire The victims were S.*ndra Lee, two. and Paul. Jr. one month They db-d when the two room home in which the children and their parents live*! caught fire and was enveloped in flume* Ite fi*>- the tni'ther <ould t.ummon aid.