Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 30 January 1947 — Page 1

. XLV. No. 25

■ommunicalions Ire Disrupted ■ Ice Storm ■All Long Distance ■ Phone Service Out ■North Os Decatur iK, ; r>i>r»a- hfng cold wave, fore,y weathermen. waft expected LB, ‘t Id further incovenlencc .-comfiture to residents of W ni and community, which |K -.mi fa- .-d "isolation by ice." atur itrit-lf was al'fln .tijoyiiU above freezing temp S UI .« I hi- morning, an ice siege iHpii'.ible to that of about three ■t, azo threatened to again a majority of the communconnections with other W, Ahl <-h firmed on utility lines. H. limbs. walks and streets K|"' late Wednesday left the night and early mornißk - I 'he mercury began rising ■1 * here. however-enpecialb JK .nid west.-the icy conditions even wo.se and throughout the city was expected to lie •cle;,; il >ne connections with w ..m and other pouts north . :.e. of the Citizens Tele|K. ....no ny stated this morning all long distance lines to Fort were down -in addition to al others. A line to Herne and to Bluffton were among reported to have escaped f.-i.-typ.- service from I nited t> the Daily Democrat was <lt: ipted by ice on the lines. |B < Pettibone, city light de-oip.-rintemlent. said that Be azain numerous lines and IB*' broken down by the ■gic d the Ice but that the de Mt-,.-:. workers had high hopes dama-te would nth equal that I m the other ice seige. of a heavy snow. B>b* w.-.ither and strong, shifty ■de wo'ried utility officials aqd ■er residents, however - s am Bentz of the offices Sri. riff Herman Bowman said early hour this morning that ■oit- mt traffic conditions were * - it.-l that most mads in the I were reported to slippery-1 ■l 'h'l conditions north and west i ■tin- ' "> were said to be extremM hazardous. |M)hss.-s man ! out of the city at IB*’ I' h,,11r Ktday were still tun- : almost on schedule and ap-1 |®w>tlv had been little affected. Electrical Storm tB-'-' "i-ht's electrical storm was LB ~" u ’ l “ a l ° r ,he season and i IB’’ "• the most freakish in reM' Xeers. B* ' , ’ ,Z| "X rain earlier Wednesilk a, t>- noon kept up throughout ot the night, inc teasing In inat various Intervals and |B" ln "’ r,ni "cntly whipped by strong winds. |B’ , ‘ in « 'he night, lightning and : accompanied the rain, mak |B I'l" tminenal appearance in this, month. HB*L*22’ itM ’ n ’’ however that ■■(Turn T. p agr •_ Column 3) . —<j ■egion Members To Bttend Dull Rites uniformed Legion inemlfers gB ** kw| to report at the AnjerlBB 1 L * slon home at 1 o’clock Fri |B X a, " rn °on to attend funeral ■ f or the late Floyd A, n ~ a I James Ehler Wins Blralorical Contest f Winner At Catholic I School Elimination ■ James Ehler will represent the IB’ 4 '" Istholic high school in I ■„. Xd * m » roun,Jr oratorical B V »»t. sponwired by Adams Post |» Amertcsn youth won the elimination !■,**' *’ school, held yester 1 ■ »tudenu and faculty K, U high school and Kr 3nd srades of Moul 4 ***'* * cfco ° l IB wr c„ lllfc , Uau w J W dsrlc. ntm-wj i jOt "**** were; 0. Imw* Hl<& |

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Club Speaker H. E. Schenck, president of th» Indiana Farm Bureau, will be the principal speaker at the weekly meeting of the Itecatur Rotary club this evening at the K. of I*. home. E. W. Busche. of .M inroe, a Purdue ’’.Master Farmer” and chairman of the boa id of the First State Bank of this city, will be chairman of the meeting. Wartime Excise Tax Extension Is Voted House Passes Bill To Continue Taxes — - Washington, Jan. SB—(UP)— The house yesterday passed a bill to continue indefinitely the high wartime excise taxes amounting to 11.130.000,000 a year on furs, jewelry, liquor and other so-called luxury Hems. These also Include taxes on some not-ao-luxurious things like teTephone service and railroad and bus tiekets. House passage of the bill, asked by President Truman, was the first major legislative act of the new OOP-controlled congress. The measure now goes to the senate. There was on effective opposition to the excise tax extension. But Rep. Albert J. Engel. R.. Mich.. sharply criticized his own party's leadership for proposing to cut personal income taxes across the board. He said it might cost the Republicans the 1948 election Rep. Walter A. Lynch. I).. N. V-. member of the tax-writing ways and means committee, charged the Republicans with making cam paign promises about tax reduction ’’and already excuses for the non-fulfillment of those promise* are being made.’* A roar of laughter greeted a comment by Rep. Alme J. Forand. D.. R. 1., that the Republicans were like the "tnan with a mouthful of hot potatoes who can't make up his min<! whether to swallow them or spot them out." Chairman Harold Knutson. R„ .Minn., of the ways and means committee- sponsor of the 2« percent Income tax cut plan—grunted audibly at this sally and said with a tone of disgust: "Fine language! ’’ -O -- County Council Is In Special Session School Head Salary Boost Is Main Item The county council approved the IL3OO salary boost for Lyman L. Hann. county echool supsrintondont, by a 4-2 margin. Henry Dehner. IjOon Neuenschwander, Chris •tahly and Julius Schultz voted in favor of the raise: C. J. Jones and Otto Hoffman against It. William Kruetzmann, who is ill. was absent. The approval required a two thirds vote. The county council was in ope dal aession today, considering additional appropriations totalling 13.0 M. . Major Item in the appropriations was one of 11.300 asked by the county school superintendent as a salary boost authorized last Sep tember by the township trustees oCthe county The Item, which would raise the supertatednent • salary to f« 300. was denied by the council last fall when the 1»47 budget waa made up and a salt to maadate the raise was started by ths school headCounty attorney Ferd L Utlerer WHS wMfotbtedlr beinc aabmltted tor

CIO Assails Government In Portal Suits Judge Picard Hears Arguments On Portal Pay Suits Dispute Detroit, Jan. 30— (UP) — The | CIO today accused the government of trying to clamp "slave i Htandards” on American workers by attempting to "atomize” labI or's portal pay suite. In a brief filed with federal judge Frank A. Picard, the union ! ticcused the justice department of using legal "legerdemain” to deny ! labor 15.000,000,000 in , back pay ■ claims. Picard is hearing further arguments in the suit in the portal pay controversy—the Mt. Ciethens (Mich.l Pottery Co., case. The supreme court upheld Picard's previous ruling that the company's CIO workers are entitled to pay for walking and makeready time. The high court then instructed Picard to compute how much of that time was compensable. The CIO, filing its brief as a •friend of the court.” attacked the justice department for asking Picard last week to throw the Mt. Clemens case out of court. The department contended that most of the portal-to-portal time claimed was not compensable because It Involved trifling tasks. The CIO said the justice department had presented a “novel for- , mtila" whereby the claims of a ! worker could Im* split into minute fractions and each eliminated as trifling. "The process of atomizing thead claims under the department's formula Is made effective not merely by segregating each category of work but even hy breaking up each Item," it agid. Picard expected the hearings to !be completml today but said he would not hand down a decision for several days more because he needed time to study ail the arguments. The National Association of Manufacturers also has asked i him to throw out the case. The CIO contended that ail the portal to portal activities involved in the Mt. Clemens case must be considered in the aggregate The test, it said, is whether such ac livities are ’casual and spasmodic. I or recurrent and regular." Adoption of the justice department's theories, the CIO said. 1 “would go far toward the application of slave standards to i (Turn T<> Page Z. Column 5) 0 Boy Scout Banquet Here Next Tuesday Sponsoring Groups Honor Boy Scouts The annual Decatur Boy Scout banquet will be held at the Ma sonic hall Tuesday evening. February 4. at 6:30 o'clock, with more than 176 Decatur men and boys expected to be in attendance. The annual banquet is conducted each year hy the sponsoring organizations of the three Decatur Boy Scout troops to pay tribute to the youths for their achievements In Scouting during the preceding year. Organizations sponsoring the troops are: Rotary club, troop 61: Lions (dub. troop 62; Adams Post <3, American Legion, troop 63. The Rotary club will dispense with the regular weekly meeting next Thursday to attend the Scout banquet with the Lions club and the Legionnaires. Sylvester Everhart. Adams county Boy Scout commissioner, today requested members of the Rotary and Lions clubs who will not be able to attend the banquet, to notify their club secretaries by Saturday noon in order that reservations may be made for the dinner, which will be served by the Eastern Star. Feature of the program follow Ing the banquet will ba the show Ing ot moving pictures of the ac tivplaa of Decatur Boy Scouts last summer Theae pictures will HOl on |y the anaual north trip but will aIM, W ' LTvas HOT-, of FW« Wnyae

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Thur sday, January 30, 1947

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INTERPRETED as a move to cement good relation* between 'he Unite I Ntates ami Mexico. President Truman will fly to Mexico City for a three-day visit in March with President .Miguel Aleman at the latter’s palace Date of the trip has not been announced, but it will be followed by a visit hy Aleman in the White House.

Teletype Service Is Disrupted By Storm Wednesday night's rain and ice storm caused complete disruption toiay of teletype service to the Decatur l>aily Democrat, th (refore tlie lack of up-to-the-minute stale, national and international news coverage In today’s edition. The storm broke all communications between Decatur and Fort Wayne, through which the United Press leased wire is routed to this city. It is hoped that service may be restored In time for regular news service to our readers by tomorrow.

Complete Modernization Os Schafer Store Now Underway

While providing for complete store-wide modernisation. enlarging of floor apace and the opening of a basement department, one of the most attractive store fronts at the retail establishment, which the Schafer Store building. North Second street, when improvements at th retail establishment, which was founded in 1874. are completed. Daniel B Schafer, store mana ger, described plans for t*<e modernised and enlarged store which was founded by his grandfather, the late pioneer merchant. Fred Schafer, and expanded by hjs father. Chalmer C. Schafer. Styled for the post war era. the store will be geared to meet the ever-growing demands upon Decatur as a progressive shopping center and to contribute to the development of this market in the future. Occupying the first two floors and a room 40 x 85 feet in the basement, the retail divisions, including the hardware department, will lie departmentalised with an array of new merchandise spread over approximately 21.000 of the store's 34.000 square feet of floor apace. The third floor will be utilised as a storage and wareroom, A complete redesigning and m6dern streamlining of the build ing's first floor exterior will be effected when the extensive Im provements are made. There will be two entrances to the store and the Second Street outside etalrway entrance will be closed and enveloped In the new front. Extending across the entire Mfooi frontage fir>l r,oor wili be a facade of sparkling, lustrous, plate aM

St. Mary's River Near Flood Stage Heavy rains Wednesday and Wednesday night have sent the St. Mar.' s river to near flood etage. Herman Myer, precipitation observer. stated this morning Total rainfall In the 21-hour period ending at 7 o’clock this morning was 1.24 Inches. The St. Mary’s river, which stood at 5.95 feet Wednesday morning, had • swollen to 12.46 feet at 7 am. today Th? river's flood stage in 13 feet, Mr. Meyer stated

canopy of the most modern type, will extend four feet from the building and over the sidewalk. Steel eye-beams jutting from the structure will support this canopy, which in modern architectural design replaces the irksome awning. Tilting slightly upward this marque-type protector will shelter pedestrian and window shoppers against rain and sun. it was explained In completing the ensemble of a modern store front, a gleaming neon sign spelling "Schafer's” will stretch across the building expanse and vie for eye-appeal along the city's white way. The basement room, entrance to which will be by a center stairway from the first floor, will be devoted to housa furniture, rugs lamps and Uhles Carpet will cover the floor. The south' room on the first floor will house several departments. including various electrical appliances, coal and wood burning range* and heaters, kitchen furni ture, sinks, cabinets and new merchandise which the store will carry for shoppers. The large north room will departmentalized for the hardware and farm tool sections, paint, sporting goods, houseware, luggage. wheel goods and toys. . Mr. Schafer stated that bleachoak tables and shelving had already been purchased for the china department, which will fee ture a wide variety of the latest patterns and styles la china and glassware. The entire secund floor, now used fc. furniture end other house (wld merchandise dta>*y. vIH be rev Mined for the bed room and bedding departmeat. and 4lntag >niftfifltilF crnlf'tj o ,

Senate Committee Opens Hearings On Proposals To Extend Rent Control

Dairy-Veterinarian School February 5 Complete Plans For School Wednesday Plans have been completed sos the dairy-veterinarian echool to lie held at the Decatur junior senior high school next Wednesday, it was announced today by 1.. E. Archbold. county agent Everett Rice, president of the Adams county dairy herd Improvement association, will act as chairman of the event, Mr. Archlxdd announced. Another prominent speaker has been added to the program, he also announced. I’. I Higley, managing director of the American Scientific Bleeding institute, will upeak in the afternoon Hi- topic will be "Adams county's dairymen can have an artificial insemination program." Other speakers are Dr. (’ R. Donham and (J. A. Williams, luith of the Purdue university staff Miss Anna K Williams. Adame county home demonstration agent, will also appear on the program to demonstrate the cleaning of fhilkIng machines and other dairy equipment. Mr. Archliold stated today that nearly 4<m cards have already been returned li» Adams county residents. indictating that they will attend the school, and more are expected The morning session opens at (Turn To Page S. Column &l _O — Two Names Omitted From List Os Jury The names of Orval Jones and Arthur R Holthouse were erroneously omitted from the petit jury panel for the February term published in Wednesday’s edition of tile Daily Democrat o— — — Red Cross Warns Os Pseudo-Solicitors Red Cross officials today remitted citizens Hint official sol (citation In the 194" campaign does not begin until March 1-after rejtorts weite received concerning pseudo«<oli< iaors. Two young lads, aged about 10 or 11. are reported to have attemped a solicitation at the .Mrs. J. M Miller residence »ate Wednesday Mrs .Miller became suspicious and notified R<-d Cross officials. Wht*n solicitations officially get underway. contributors should establish the Identity of the soliclaors. officials said City Officials To Capital For Parley Meet On Plans For City Improvements A delegation of city officials was in Indianapolis today conferring with state officials and interested persons concerning numerous municipal improve ments and programs included in the party which left early Hhs morning are Mayor John B. Stults. police chief Ed Miller. city attorney Henry B Helier, street commissioner Phil Sauer. City engineer and water superintendent Ralph E Roop, light department superintendent L. C. Pettibone and auditor Edwin H. Kauffman Among other thine* Mavor Stultz exported to head a portion of the smop In appearing Itefore the public service commission regarding the pronosed new comldn ation electric light and power rates He also to dlacuss with proper authorities the new sewwe system here, which to io larlede a so waget real meat plant

Eight Deaths Reported From Freak Storms Midwest, Southern States In Path Os Freakish Weather By United Press At least eight death* were reported today as the elements unloaded vertually everything In the weather calendar on unsuopectlng residents of the midwest and t-oiithern states Three tornadoes, striking In quick succession, accounted for five known death* in the northern Arkansas. Southern Miaeouii region last night and caused uncounted thousands of dollars damage to crops, farm homes and livestock. A liMi-mlle wide belt of snow, freezing :ain and sleet moved across lowa. Northern Miwsioitri. Illinois. Wisconsin. Indiana and southern Michigan and thnateiied to continue with little let-up today. lowa was Idatiketed by the heaviest snowfall in four years. Robert William*. 35, and three memlters of his family were kill rd when a tornado demolished their faun home near Montier, a small southern Missoni I commun ity. last night. A son. tne sole survivor. crawled to a neighbor’s home, a quarter of a mile away, to report the deaths About 20 mile* to the south. Mrs. Charles imwson. 60, died and at least eix other iwrsous *e(g injured when a dOinlle-an-hoiii twister ripped through a residential section of Salem. Ara. Telephone lines into Salem, a town of 1.500 were torn out by the storm, but the Red Cross reported that houses in the putli of the tornado were razed Five houses caught fire, and a garage and two churches were rrwept off their foundations and demolished Another tornado, striking late last night, destroyed the farm home of Mr and M s Den Roberts near Hutton Valley, .Mo. The Roberts and three other persons were trapped in the demolished home but escaped with minor injuries 1 A freak thunder and lighting storm, accompanied liy sleet and snow, crippled transportation and communications in several mid west state- Numerous accidents were reported along ice-glazed highways. Airplanesi were grounded Bus schedules were drastically curtailed Telephone and electrical service to many areas was suspended. Perversely, old man winter played favorite on Columbus with a temperature of 61. Nt. Ixtuio. with 67. and Raleigh. N.C with "3. reported the warmest (Turn To Page ... Column it To Plan Red Cross Drive Here Friday Annual Campaign To Be Opened March 1 Plans for the 1947 Red Cross drive. whl< h will be launched here and throughout the nation on, March 1. will be formulated at a meeting at the local Red Cross office Friday afternoon. Mrs. Ruth Hollingsworth, executive secretary. announced today. Miss Bosse Kinsey, general field representative for Northeastern Indiana, will meet here with C. E Bell, chapter chairman and chairmen for the drive. Phil Sauer, of this city, has l»eeu named county (hairman for the drive. Ae has not yet announced the chairman for the Decatur orgaaiaaUoa. Lyman U Hann, county rapertntendent of schools, wUJ M. towuahip ehair-

Price Four Cents

President Truman * Stops Order Last | Night To Increase t Ceilings At Once Washington. Jan. 30. — (UP)—• The senate hanking committee began hearings today on proposals to extend rent control beyond its June 30 expiration date, chairman Charles U. Tobey, R . N. M. ( said he lio|>ed the group would be ready to write an extension bill by thia weekend. As part of the evidence.” Toliey said, the committee will consider President Trumans request for rent control extension. It also will consider a bill by five Republicans to boost all rent ceilings by 15 percent immediately and end all control* April 30, 1948. Other congressional developments: 1. Sen Homer E. Capelmrt. R., Ind . said the banking committee, of which he is a member, would try to find the mysterious "higher up" who pushed the OPA to tho brink of ordering an immediate 10 percent boost in rent ceilings last night Tlie order was stopped by President Truman a few minutes before It was to have been issued. 2 Associates of Sen. Arthur N. Vandenberg. R . Mich . were hearing that he would turn down President Truman’s invitation to attend the Moscow conference to draft a German peace treaty. 3 industry spokesman asked congress to outlaw industrywide collective bargaining because, they *aid. it has choked off genuine bargaining l*etween workers and their employers The spokesmen a]>peared before the senate labor committee on proposed labor reI forms. 4. Sen. Homer Ferguson. R, Mich . said he soitld ask the senate executive expenditure committee I to investigate claims that former secretary of the treasury Henry Morgenthau. Jr . took official documents with him when he left the cabinet. Ferguson said he would propose any legislation needed to safeguard official records 5 Senate members of the joint congressional atomic energy committee a-ked Bernard M. Baruch to appear Monday to give his estimate of how many atomic bonbs ; this country should make while awaiting world controls to outlaw ! atomic warfare. Vandenberg and Sen Tom Connally. D. Tex . accompanied former secretary of state James F. Byrne* to most of the major peace making conferences, and Connally was understood to be willing to continue in that role for secretary of slate George C. Marshall. Vandenlterg's reported decision to decline Mr Truman's invitation waa said to be influenceci in part l>y his new responsibilities as president of the senate and chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. Air safety hearings continued l.efore the commerce committees of both the house and senate. Meanwhile, several airline pilots who wishd to remain unidentified st nick back at those who claim that ib-called pilot error is the main cause of recent air crashes. The pilots said part of the fault • (Turn To Page i. Column 1) High Water Threat To County Schools Moy Force Closing Os Some Schools Contrary to the situatfoa In many other counties today, a threat of schools closing In Adame county was not caused by ley roads, utility Hues and trees—but by flood waters Hchools la Alloa county were 'orced to close because of the haurdowa conditions of t'a» road* and tbs dancer ot stmtoata coming in contact with live wires had b«*e hlwa as vma, being al ruck 'ey leseeevwwn