Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 294, Decatur, Adams County, 14 December 1946 — Page 1

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|rrn Bureau's Lidl Train Lid Today ■ At Least Eight Are ■ Injured ■ly Wreck In Utah M.. u », City. Dsc. H-<fP> ))•• Spec- ■ train, carrying W i„,ui| l | delegates from bureau federation con- • . t Sin Francisco. collldwith • fr,,| « h ' ,ra,n o! here early today K H»t ,rs ,os ron ' K, , k > t;t t.' aboard were y, boll pifal attendants here MTL Other report a sail more hurt, but none deid l,irn,:in “ ,M,ar, l ,h, ‘ ■* Kid he believed about 40 y.. had injuries ‘more ser ruts and bruises." took eight persona ■Jp Lake City hospitals. first old. K, mln. known na the Farm special, bft Friday from where the nation bureau federation hud lis invention the paat week Miner, of the Marling Valley Morning Star. K the undent occurred about El tn MST. The train was Eg ’( hours out of San FranEbe <aid. It wan carrying E| and Louisiana delegates convention. ■frrunn V A Marlin told me Etbey saw the freight from a Ege hut thought It was on Kri-hy Union Pacific tracks." Eger told the I'nited Press added that as the pasEr train rounded a slight E the crew realized the Ek heading for them on Kame single track." Foehner Killed. ■fertiD said that it was too late E>P and 'l |< ' trains smashed Ktor. Foehner said. nrtm suffered slight cuts and Ln when he jumped from the ■> heavy passenger locomo Kns badly damaged and the Lr freight engine, pulling a L of empty cars from Salt Kt City to the western Salt K county copper plants was Led wreckage. ■TV special's baggage car and ■r first of 12 pullmans were de■M and thrown on their sides Ifr baggage car was badly baplM, hut the passenger car ■fcM comparatively little dam- ■ II L Anderson. Eagle Lake. ■L riding in the last car of the Ll. said that almost all of the were caused when the p bureau delegates w<(-e from their berths. |A L Walton of San Francisco, ►♦r on the second pulltnan. P "’only two of my passengers pt very seriously hurt, almost of them were banged r I 1 fleet of busses were sent to fttene. on the open, alkali flats P»«t of the Salt Lake City p*t. to bring the delegates on M>lt Lake City, where they P 10 board a Denver and Rio western train and conP* tb»ir trip home. pe State Board wnbers Appointed Dec. 14 - (UP) — f * '"V’t'bers of state boards toF i * w reappointments made by r”wr Gates. l~** appointed Avery B. Weav- • 'alparaiso newspaperman, to "Ur four year term on the state •* f»f public harbors and term ■p* sovemor alao appointed Dr. E. Fisher. Sullivan, for a *y«ar term on the state board and examination In Dr. 0. K. Hllty, Fort 7* four-year term on state •> ot dental examiners; Horace Abbott, Indianapolis, five-year 08 state board ot public emfatlremgpt fund; William •fcaardson, Indianapolis, three■l*rm on board of the soldiers' filers' monument BIC * T< i - ‘

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Grand Jury To Probe Officer's Slaying Shelbyville, Ind., Dec. 14 —(UP) — A grand jury will h«< selec ted Monday to hear evidence in tb« slaying of Indiana state troopei Herbert W. Smith, Dec-. 5. Four teen-agers are being held In Shelby county jail on open charges In connection with the slaying. They are William F. Price who confessed firing the shot that killed Smith; William V. Johnson and their girl companions, Vers Hornheck and Mary Ruth Ward. Fight livens Bilbo Hearing At Washington Former Mississippi Solon Tosses Punch At Witness Friday Washington, Dec. 14—(VP)—A one-punch fight between two Misslsslpplans prompted official precautions today against further brawling among witnesses at the senate- committee investigation of the activities of Sen. Theodore 0. BIIImi, I). Mias. The senate war investigating committee is studying charges that Bilbo accepted gifts from war contractors. Because of yesterday s fracas, beginning today the committee will keep opposing witnesses widely separated and a policeman will be stationed In the hearing room at all times The fight was a short-lived affair between former Rep. Rosa Collins. D.. Miss., and Robert Gandy, Jackson. Miss, insurance agent, at the close of yesterday's session. Collins. CH. lunged at Gandy and knocked him to the floor, upsetting the witness chair and throwing the room into a turmoil. A policeman who had been stationed outside the room separated the pair before any serious damage was done. The attack occurred while Gandy was testifying about what ha<l l»een done with >25.000 in checks made out to Bilbo by F. T. Newton, a .Mississippi contractor. The fight broke up the hearings for the day. Gandy will resume his testimony at today's session - 0 GE Club Christmas Party December 22 Fine Entertainment Wil! Feature Party The annual Decatur G.E. Club Christmas party will he held at the Decatur junior-senior high school auditorium Munday afternoon. Decemlier 22. at 3:30 o'clock. A sparkling, brand new stage show will feature 'his annual party for the Decatur General Electric company employes and their families. Opening the program will be the G. E. Club choir and its famous songs of Chrlstmastide. Next to appear will be Tommy Hunt, of Portland, a 16-year-old master magician. who features not only the usual rabbit, card and flower tricks, but the super-magical "live doll sleeping on air.” steel rings a lamode, and many more feats. Following the youthful magician will lie the “Harmonairea.” radio station WLW's famous radio singers. laist on the program (but not least* will lie Santa Claus. With Gladys Ewell singing a welcome. Santa will arrive, with six assistants. to dtatribute candy, oranges, peanuts and gifts to every youngster. Tickets will l>e distributed by the foremen, starting Monday. Seating capacity at the auditorium will be limited and employes arc- urged to obtain their tickets at once Soya Co. Officials Behind Wrecked Train Colin 1. Finlayson, plant manager of the Central Soya company in this city and company officials from Fort Wayne, were riding the Broadway Limited Pennsylvania train a few hours behind the Golden Tr*“ n * ,e P aßHen F er tra,n wh,ch was wrecked near Mansfield, Ohio, yesterday. Mr. Finlayson, Dale W. McMillen. Jr., vice-chairman and Robert Flecber. president and Lawrence Nelson, chemist of the Central Soya company, were enroute to Fort Wayne from Harrisburg. Pa. Their train was detoured over the N. Y Central lines to Waterloo, arrivini home several houra late.

Committee Selects New York Site For UN Capital

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THIS IS AN ARTIST'S conception of the world capital of skyscrapers in the heart of New York City the site selected by the 54-nation permanent headquarters committee and recommended to the I N \ general assembly. The committee voted 33 to 7 toaccepl the offer of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., of the h |8.500,MM) site.

' Public Invited To f Christinas Program s School Program On Sunday Afternoon ( Two features in Sunday aftert noon's Christmas program at the " Decatur junior-senior high school, , beginlnng at 4 p. m., were made * known today. t Church bells to be heard during p the play. “The Christmas Miracle” s are actually those of the First Methodist church here Clarence I Ziner. assisted by W. F. Beery, . made a recording of the church . bells ringing recently — expressly for us«* in the play. j. The other is a large cellophane I "church window," made by the i. members of the art class as a part of the stage "props." .Miss Kathryn p Kaufman supervised this and other ,t work of the art students. The ean tire school is taking i»art in the '. presentation. -. In addition to the work of tho s art students. Amos Ketchum has h directed work done by the Indusi. trial arts classes, l.owell Smith is supervising the lighting. Miss Mildred Worthman the costuming pre pared by the home economics classes; Miss Helen Haubold is directing the musical organizations taking part and Dab- Hoss is coaching the dramatic portions of tlie program. Principal W. Guy Brown today extended a cordial invitation to the general public to attend the event. — 0 ! Discuss Forming Os I Talk Os Hour Club p K # New Club Discussed At Meeting Friday e■" - * Formation of a "Talk of the ( Hour Club" In Decatur was seen as a iMissibllity today, following a meeting of the city's civic and so- , dal leaders, held Friday night at I the public library building. k The meeting was called by Clarence Ziner. president of the Decan tur Chamber of Commerce, for the „ purpose of discussing the matter with the civic leaders. More than a dozen sororities, service clubs, t etc., were represented at the meetI) Ing. . Miss Ayldene Wilson, of Chicago, ’ a representative of the Redpath , Bureau, a firm which arranges for the various programs staged by other Talk of the Hour clubs B throughout the nation, spoke to the group last night. B The club customarily embraces „ some 150 or more members, holders of dual tickets selling for >6 each. This ticket admits two persons to each of the five programs given throughout the winter season. Most prominently known speakI- er appearing on the Talk of the n Hour club program is Drew Pears son. nationally known commentate or and columnist. a No definite decision was made I- last night at the meeting, the repli resentatives choosing to submit >, the question before their respective clubs at the next meetings. I. Miss Joan Wemhoff was named t temporary secretary of the group e which attended the meeting, a 0 t WEATHER r Considerable cloudlneee today through Sunday with no g Important change In temperature.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, December 14, 1946

County AAA Heads Will Be Elected County officers of the AAA were | ( to lie mimed today in a meeting of township AAA committeemen and officials, held in the AAA offices on South Second street. 0 Countys Tax Bill Higher Next Year * Table Is Prepared By Taxpayers Group Adams county taxpayer will be expected to pay 1734.4k® In 1947 In real estate and personal property taxes, a table of '.evlen for the 92 counties In the state prepared by the Indiana Taxpayers Association reveals. The 1947 tax bill Is >169.916.70 higher than the current bill of >565.569.30. Lust fall when the budgets were prepared the total was >780,876 61. By action of the county council, the amount was pruned to >760,191.53. The county tax adjustment board did not make any reduction. The state tax board reviewed the proposed levies to be collected In 1917 and the estimated amount for governmental expenditures was cut to >734.486. a total reduction of >46.390.61. 'lndiana property taxes to be paid in 1947 will amount to >141,862,943. Albert H. Cole, Peru, president of the Indiana Taxpayers Association, stated. Only six counties will levy bws property taxes next year, Mr. Cole pointed out. They are Blackford. Clark. Daviess. Fayette, Ohio, and Owen. The other eightv-aix counties will experience increases ranging all the way from >l9l in Brown county to >3.901.170 in Marlon <-ountj', >2.432.425 In Lake county, >l,555,954 in Allen county and >1,082,758 in Vanderburgh county. 0 Clubbing Fatal To 85-Year-Old Man Terre Haute Attack Suspects Are Held Terre Haute. Ind., Dec. 14—(UP) — An 85-year-old man died today a week after he and his aged wife were attacked by robbers, and authorities considered murder charges against two suspects. The victim was Edward R. Hayne, who police said was clubbed by two masked intruders a week ago today ia his farm home near Burnett, Ind., north of Terre Haute. The robbers took >BO after beating Hayne and Raping his 80-year-old wife. Chlorine . Hayne died In Union hosfital. a few hours after Richard E. Bennett, 24. and Joe E. Hill, 40. Burnett, were remanded to Vigo county jail under high bonds after a preliminary hearing on charges of robbery and criminal attack. Prosecutor John Jett said Bennett was arrested soon after the robbery. Jett said he was given a lie detector test and that he confessed the robbery and Implicated Hill, a negro. Hill was accused of i raping Mrs. Hayne. Hill's bond was set at >50.000 and Bennett's at >25.000. Jett said Hayne'a death would be investigated. He added that if it was learmsi death was due to the clubbing, more serious charges would be filed against the men.

Ex-Army Officer To Succeed LaGuardia Gen. Lowell Rooks Named UNRRA Head Washington. Dec. 14—(UP)— .Maj Gen. Ixiwell W. Rooks* took over UNRRAW far-flung operations today under a mandate to clean up :he agency's remaining relief programs as rapidly as possible. The former U. 8. a>my officer was elected to succeed Fiufello 11. late yesterday by the 48-natlon UNRRA council, capping a five-day session in which l>oth the United States and Russia won major concessions. Int Guardia was honored with the highest civilian decoration this nation tan bestow the medal ot merit- for his exceptional services to the United Nations The medal wm presentetl by acting secretary ot state Dean Acheson. The United States won its point that UNRRA* remaining relief programs should Im* kept flexible to permit changes In the amount ot relief distributed to individual countries. Russia won the right to force another council meeting next spring If It wishes. In a resolution reaovling the differences between the two big powers, the council urged that existing relief program* be (leaned up as soon as possible. It left to the council's nine-nal.on central committee the Issue of whether programs will be altered. UNRRA still has about >626,000,000 t.M I in money and eupplles slated for distribution to war-deva«tated countlies. It is scheduled to wind up its operations in Europe by .March 31 and In the Pacific by June 30. 0 State Compensation Fund Drive Launched Indiana AFL Seeks Fund For Benefits

Indianapolis. Dec. 14 — (UP) — The Indiana AFL launchetl Unlay a drive for the creation of a state fund for payment of workmen's com pen nation Itencfli*. At a meeting of the executive board of the Indiana state federation of labor, members agreed to ask the 1947 state legislature for Itassage of a bill creating the fund, ference KTAOIN BHRDLU PYWF It was part of a legislative program to be recommended today and tomorrow at a biennial legislative conference of 300 AFL representatives. At present, workmen's compensation itayments are handled by employers or private insurance (Turn To Page I Column St —O Ex-Fireman Fined SSOO In Lottery Indianapolis, Dec. — (UP) — A former city fireman was fined *SOO today in connection with a *IOO,OOO lottery on the Indianapolis 500-mile automobile race last Memorial Day. Raymond T. Metcalf was charged with operating a gift enterprise. He pleaded guilty and penalised by a criminal court judge. Authorities said Metcalf and t George 11. Purcell, another former i fireman who faces a similar charge, failed to pay several prise winners.

James Byrnes Sets Off Showdown Battle Over World’s Troop Census

Troop Train Wreck ] Death Toll Is 19 i MiaMMMa ■ Official Probe Is ■ Launched In Crash Mansfield. 0.. Dec. 14 — (UP) An official Investigation was start ; ed today In the triple train crash 12 miles southeast of hero which • killed 19 (w-rsons - 15 of them soldier.. on Christmas furloughs before leaving for Japan — and Injured more than 30. The tracks at Coulter, 0., on the ( main Pennsylvania line between f Pittsburgh and Chicago, were dear ( ed but traffic still moved slowly , while workmen hauled away the j wreckage. Two freight trains plled up early yesterday, leaving a ( locomotive and seven freight cars' ( across a parallel track over which • . the Pennsylvania's Golden Tri- j angle, carrying mostly soldiers ( from Fort Dlx. N. J., was ( I speeding at 85 miles an hour. The ' flyer crashed into the freight . wreckage. Its two locomotives were ( derailed and the flrat two coaches. , filled with recently inducted draf- | ‘ tees, wore wrecked. ( Pennsylvania authorities said | the freight wreck was caused when . the first eastlsnind train was halt-. r ed because of a broken air hose,., ard the engineer of the second failed to heed a signal to slow i ( , down Within a few minutes the , ! Golden Triangle crashed into the ! wreckage. The dead included: 8 E. D. Krautblatt. Chicago. H James laiwery Chestnut, Oakf lawn. 11l M Kenneth D. Jones. Chicago. Leo W Pelekoudos, Chicago. | y Alfred Wong. Chicago. The dead, except four trainmen, j I all were soldiers. f The soldiers had left Fort Dlx p on Thursday enroute to the port t of embarkation at Camp Ntoneman. Pittsburgh. Cal., with a Christmas B stopover on the way. g -oMory Bilderback Will Is Filed In Court i- 1 -- p The will of the late Mary III! e derimck wa-, filed in Adams dri- cult court today. The will leaves j. all property to the husband. | John, after the payment of debts I d and expenses. DeVoss A Smith j are attorneys in the estate. il '—oJ Chrislmas Party Os y Moose Lodge Dec. 20 Entertain School Age Children Here

The annual Christmas party for school age children of Moose members will be held Friday. De- j comber 20 at 7:30 o'clock at the j Decatur Junior-senior high school, it was announced today A full program has been arranged for the party. Including the presentation of several free acta brought here from Chicago i and the showing of a motion picture, “Child City ” The movie depicts life at the Mooseheart home for children. Santa Claus will also attend the party ami distribute treats to the youngsters. > Sponsor Dance Officials of the local lodge also announced today that, they will sponsor a "Teen-Age" dance on January 2 at the Moose home. All teenage children of the county have been Invited as guests of the children of Moose members. The dance will begin at 8:30 p. m. and close at 12 midnight. k Hill Simindlnger and his Four Aces of Van Wert. Ohio, will furnish the music. o Sudduth Funeral Services Sunday Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Gillig & Doan funeral home for Robert W Sudduth, infant son of Mrs. Helen Sudduth, who died yesterday at the hospital. The Rev. J. T. Trueax will officiate and burial will be In the Decatur ceme- . . -a*

Tenement Fire Death Toll Is Placed At 36 Rubble Os Collapsed New York Tenement Yields More Bodies - — New York. Dec. 14. (UP)—A tomb of rubble from a collapsed tenement bouse slowly yielded Its final victims today Police set the count at 36 as firemen and house wreckerH picked away at the ruins for the last four "bodies. AuthorltliM thiu accounted for all the 92 residents of the six story tenement In New York's upper west side which crashed In an avalanche of brick, mortar and Isxlles early Thursday from th*weight of an adjoining wall of a burning ice house which toppled against it. The injured totaled 40. some of them firemen. Twentyseven ■‘till were hospitalized. Tomorrow, churches ot the neighliorliood will hold memorial services for the victims, most of whom had l»-en residents of the destroyed tenement house for yeans. Preparations also were made for funeral service*- -ome of which' will lie for entire families, and others for families with only one or iwo survlvois. These Included peter Sloan and his family of five ..nd the William Sampson family of three. Adolph Joseph Popper. Jr.. H, was the sole survivor ot his family ot five, and Andrew Biani card:, 5. was the only one left of , like family. I A crowd of relatives, friends and iielghbors watching while m<> >■ than 1(b) fhiremen and wreckers | sifted through (lie rubble heap dwindled etch time a Inidy was brought out. A few would leave as each new laxly was recovered. Ten children, ranging in age from 1 six months to 12 years, were among the retrieved dead. Two iioys, Joseph McCabe. 13. and Joseph Elio. 1<). who started a tire lit tlie abandoned he hotwe on Wednesday afterneon a fire which was followed by the c>>nflagration which undermined tlie nxM and ; wall—were found guilty of juvenile j delintiency yesterday by children's I court Justice Hub«rt T. Delany Deiany dismissed an arson (omi plaint, saying there was no proof | that tin- fire which tlie boy r ad milted starting tit the afternoon caused the Ice house wall to colI Turn To I’.ix- tin Brief Oklahoma City Bus Strike Settled -Oklahoma City. Dc< II (UP) Bns and streetcar service was ' resumed today after negotiators i settled a one-day strike by raising . both wages ai d fares. The city's s<»O trolley and bus op- ! eratora returned to work after accepting an offer by the Oklahoma Railway Co. for a 15-cent hourly wage increase. Jeff G. Crum Dies Early This Morning Funeral Services Monday Afternoon Jeff G, Crum. 87. a retired contractor. died at 3 o’clock this morning at 'he home of a niece. Mrs. H. H. High, where he made i his home. Death followed a month's illness. He was born in Ohio November . 30, 1859, the son of Daniel and i Elizabeth Diehl-Crum. I>ut spent practically his entire life in Kirkland township. He was never married. The last member of his family, he was preceded in death hy three brothers. Frank. David and Mathew Crum, and two sisters, Mrs. Melissa Roblnold and Mrs. Rebecca I i Wolfcale. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon at th* ’ Jahn funeral home in Bluffton wirh the Rev. H. 11. Mcckstroth . officiating. Burial will be in the I Zinn cemeteiy at Honduras. -I Friends may call at the funeral ' home until time ot the services.

Price Four Cents

Molotov In Demand For Final Action On Issue; Powers Pledge Disarming BULLETIN United Nations Hall, Flushing. N. V„ Dee. 14—(UP)— The United Nations general assembly today unanimously approved s resolution calling upon the security council to draft disarmament eontrofb and treaties and directing all nat(ons to reduce their troops and arms. United Nations Hall. Flushing, N. Y.. Dec. 14—(UP) The United .States' eleventh-hour disclosure that Its overseas armed forces have been slashed to less than 550.0 M troop* started the show* down east-west battle today over a world census of fighting forces. Soviet foreign minister V. M. Molotov demanded final action on the troops census issue early thia morning after secretary of state James F. Byrnes unvellel a partial inventory of America's troops nbroad. Before the historic session ended. Molotov. Byrnes and British foreign secretary Ernest Bevln pledged their countries unswervingly to the cause of world disarmament and said they bellevM | the long march toward this Ideal 1 already had begun. They urged the assembly t<l give quick approval to the dis* armament resolution which spells out the principles by which the United Nations hope tn reduce and perhaps some day eliminate arms and armies. Final aclton on th* disarmament resolution and the windup , of the scrap over a census were I the last major items confronting I stretch driving assembly delegates. They were expected to finish by Sunday at the latest tho first productive session of th*' , world parliament. The kickoff of the troops ren- - sus showdown came from Molo* : tov at 1:22 a m after Byrnes had made a partial report on U. S. overseas forces and Bevln had promise 1 to provide details at tho first gesture from the security council. Molotov said this was not tlie time nor place for such reports ll* said the assembly should <all for a formal census. Byrnes' partial listing of American overseas forces and Molotov's quick retort that a full census of overseas forces was Imperative actually was the signal for tho first dickaring over details of the UN disarmament program. Byrnes said America's armed forces abroad now include; china 19.000 men. aliout 15.000 of them combat troops "and roughly one-half of them aro under orders to return home" Panama About l.SOfl troops, not counting the Canal Zone. Iceland Ixss than 600 troops, none of them combat men. Azores — About 300 men and ' "not a single combat soldier among them " Philippines—96.ooo military personnel of which 30.000 aro combat forces, air an I ground, and of 1 these 17,00 tr are Philippine scouts, ' Byrnes, in his first appearance at this session of the assembly, did not give (I* tails about the U.S. occupation forces in the former enemy states. But he said most of the 550.00 i» American troops are in "Germany, Japan and the Japanese islands, Korea. An d ria and Venezia Giulia." Bevln stepped to tho spotlighted podium after the bantam like American secretary finished and announced that Britain's armed forces had been pared from a war- „ time high of 6.000.006 to “lean than a million" men. He said h(» '* (Turn Tn Pfi<* r » Column i ~ Buys Health Bond 1 The American I-eglon has ’ voted purchase of a >lO Health 1 ■ *—l- hon,,< officials ot vmMwBM t h e Christman P campaign in ♦ Adams county an- )• ' nouneed today, v niff fly All proceeds from ,lIP ,nnua * Christ- ' maß * pa ' * a ’ e * are J ; used In the fight t !U i o n tuberculosis *' Ywr CrctMliM an( ' to Provide 1 Marsstosis • e , cU « lc * ~ntl h oibewlse carry on c the fight against the "whit® 1.1 plague." The sale Is conducted d j by the Adams county tuberculoskl I association, • ’ -a to W • B). aMMb