Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 29, Decatur, Adams County, 4 February 1947 — Page 1

XLV. No. 29

Direct primary gains

Ifish Bill To Knit Tenure !1 President Mouse Committee Two-Term ■Presidential Limit * F ' ,b 4-fUPi — kIB I •"'* a, " na today EBSE, ~| , 011-titlltionill r.mendI wouM ,nakp ,h *’ late | jK; *i I!.velt the only presi- | . r to serve more than two the house judiciI ■( to limit presidential tenure B Republican leaders I H they would try to -tart house | u the measure by Friday. ~t’.r congressional fronts these developments: \ suggestion by* Bernard M II that Russia may still be I atomic secrets convinced I senators the military should I ■ more authority on civilian 1 W 'neri-y commission others new attempt to put the | 1> .i« k in control of the atomic administrator Ivan I objected to GOP proposals I ntiol new housing rents He I tenants in new housing would ■ JHv *. it piotection against soat o: Four Hemoenators lined up behind i rent controls I Chairman Robert A Taft R . I * ai ' l ,liM K,,,,at '' 1a ,,,,r commit ""s’ l '' investigate means of .g-.JK--.1 ' I lls r prodm tirity. pus I JM;. . oh boons or profit shar a * ~v‘ ‘l , " p (l * inditei peace. i M Chairman lx*o Allen. R. 111 . 1 Sr. i,..i iM - inies committee pro I .1 Otnpr graduated in I lax reduction plan to meet | Mr*, imns to a2O percent ac rosstax cut. | B Sec retary of State George C I Br'-t*.*!! pledged himself and Truman to cooperate I 'ongress in carrying out a foreign policy He ■ ' by momi-ed to cooperate ■-K h the house foreign affairs ■ I ■ 11 ■ ihlicans said President would have to give mon* B nation for his request yes I Bday tor extension of three war icowers. House GOP promised a thorough re■]B* “f tic*- administration's "great ■ complex." E Wfatt s labor peace observations ■ at a committee hearing mH* l "' ll R E. Hutchlnsc.n. vice ■ <>f Chrysler Corp., urged *o abolish labor "monog B'"" and ban absolutely Indus ■ B_* ld “ l,ar «aining. » W h “ - r "*' n K controversy over HB* 1 ' *as aired anew before the* ■ ■^ a '" l,anlt,n * committee. Sens |3""‘ I! McCarthy. R . Wis.. and E Bbcuglass Buck. r. Del thought ■ ■ ( ' tl!ri,llillK new homes would ■B** 5 more homes available BM* ■ irsi " l objected, however, and ■B'" on to „ay h,. thought that EMt y fla * general rent increase By." 1 ' 1 Im unwarranted." He con- ■ ,h “* *» "I* weeks beEs J in 'onsidering "hardship" gW' t ' increase petitions and that 4 **"' a month to six weeks to such requests. K 9 ~ jjecoturites Hope I for Break In Cold Recaturite* today looked for!*r? *'° ’ t,,Wljr ri,ln « ‘""I*" ”, ‘“morrow after last night |K '‘-Uy s blizzard like weather H.,,, ' <,rnt>anled temperatures !■ n< n ' - * r the aero mark Kr'ld*? i*"*’ hiKh * a J r * were reSB Ja * " lip,M ' r ’ r >« ’his vicinn,Urh ‘ ro ’ h, « »»» exper- “ * larnu « r « ra thU morn WMtk ’‘ x « wae< ’ ‘o Kecxm, n ‘ < ‘“ Low are reports In the .rea Vgrlern rn “ rninK !rOm ( °" r abOVe ****

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125 Chinese Burned To Death On Ship Hong Kong. Feb 4-1 IT)— At leant 125 Chinese died today when the 2.0f»0-ton river steamer Halon burned at a Hong Kong dock shortly before a scTednled departure for Canton. Firemen still were searching the gutted hull for icodles, and tl)c> toll was expected tn rise. — Truman Lashes Pole Break Os Election Pledge New Ambassador Is Told Bluntly Os . Broken Pledges Washington. Feb. 4 — (t’P) — President Truman, in an unusual action, told the new Polish ambassador bluntly today that the Polish provisional government had broken Its pledge to hold free elections. The president macle his statement to Josef Wlniewic-x at their first meeting as the ambassador presented his credentials at the White House. t'aually. the exchanges of remarks between the* president and a new ambassador an* routine pleasantries. But this time Mr. Truman, recalling the polish government's pledge to carry out the Yalta and Potsdam agreements on free elections, said curtly: “It is a cause of deep concern to; me and to the American people that the Polish provisional government has failed to fulfill that pledge "The government of the United States has not lost interest in the welfare of the Polish people. It Is with this in mind that I offer to you the cooperation of the officials of this government." The last paragraph emphasised that the United States would con tlnue Its diplomatic relations with Poland. But it also made* It plain to the new ambassador that this country’s primary interest Is In the Polish pc*ople rather than in the new government. The Polish election*, were held on Jan. 19. The communists won The elections have been denounced by the United States as unfair and held under intimidation and coercion of the opposition “> government bloc. Despite the president’s unfV ually sharp remarks, he accepted Winiawlcz as “ambassador extra ordinary and plenipotentiary of the republic of Poland. This would appear to recognize him as the representative of the new Polish government, despite the U. S. attitude toward the elections, and to allow to pass Into history the old Polish provisional government of national unity.

To Work Two Shifts On County Drag-Line Heavy Demand Made To Use Equipment Two eight hour shifts are to be t-inployd by the county surveyor * office In operating the drag line crane for dredging, surveyor Virgil F Bowers Informed the county commissioners Monday. Heavy demands for the drag line have resulted In the antra working hours, he said At present the equipment is being operated by one crew working eight hours and overtime, he said The drag-line, purchased In August, has been used In Union township continuously, whether permitting, be said The fourth ditch Is now being dredged Four petitions for ditch clean Ing were filed with the commit stoner* Monday and will be referr-

Russia Balks Compromise On Disarmament I Russia Denounces American Plan As Leading To Delay Lake Success. N. Y.. Feh. 4 — (I’Pi—The United States offered a compromise today to break a Soviet-American deadlock over disaimament procedure, but Rus:la immediately balked. The new conflict broke out less than two hours after the security council resumed disarmament discussions after a two-week vacation intended to help the delegates work out a behind-the-scenes agreement. Warren Austin of the United States proposed that the security council take up atomic control immediately. The council also would establish a commission to plan the junking of all weapons except those for mass destruction. These mass destruction weapons would be outlawed under the atomic energy commission, but the council would have to set up a committee to decide just what is a mass destruction weapon. As soon as Austin described the plan. Gromyko took the floor to denounce it as "absolutely unnecessary ” Defining mass destruction weapons, he predicted, would lead to wrangling that would delay all disarmament action for three months. Gromyko did not charge directly the United States with stalling, hut repeated time and again that the American (dan would' only cause delay. Speaking in Russian from notes, he insisted that the security council itself liegln working on concrete disarmament details. Commissions arfcl sulr committees, he said, were not needed. Gromyko cautioned that the world will not judge the security council by its words or by its methods, but by its results in achieving disarmament. Austin also proclaimed a desire for worldwide disarmament, promising that the United States would move along the road to disarmament "as fast and as far as our fellow members on the U. N. will travel with us." His exchange with Gromyko* however, left America and Rus(Turn Tn Pxa* t. Column K) — Kitson Reappointed Home Superintendent Frank Kitson Named To Four-Year Term

The Adams county board of commissioners In session at the courthouse late Monday reappointed Frank Kitson as superintendent of the county home for a fouryear period. His new term begins March 1. 1947. Mr Kitson was first named to the position in October. 1943. succeeding Sam Reinhart, who resigned. Mrs. Kitson. who has l»een serving as matron of the institution. was renamed to that position for a similar period The commissioners also award ed several contracts after receiving blds. Contract for furnishing a combine to be used at the county home was let to Steffen Implement company, which submitted a bld of 11.447.29 on a John Deere combine, to be delivered in time for the harvest season. The other bidder was the Mollenkopf Biting company, which submitted a proposal of 51.549.01 on an International combine Burk Elevator was awarded the contract for furnishing fertiliser on a bid of SM.M per ton. The other bid of 524.50 was submitted by Herman Geimer of Union township . Burk Elevator was the wIF bidder on three carloads of prepared stoker coal to im by the county The bid was 51® P«

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, February 4, 1947

Off On Special Food Mission : 1 JV .*** z Sk FORMER PRESIDENT HERBERT HOOVER, right, and his assistant. Hugh Gibson, former U. H. ambassador to Belgium, board a plane at laiGuardia Field. N. Y-. for a trans Atlantic flight that will take them to GeTtnany and Austria on a special food inspection mission to U. S. occupied areas.

Nation's Auto Death Toll Up 19 Percent 33,000 Motorists Killed Last Year Chicago, Feb. 4.-(UP)-The nation's automobile death toll jumped 19 percent last year as 33.900 motorists were killed on the highways and city streets, the National Safety Council reported today. Only two states. Arizona and Maryland, were able to claim reduced automobile fatalities. Arizona's deaths dropped 17 percent and Maryland's, four. Council statisticians estimated the automobile and taxicabs toll for 1946 at about 2.9 per 109.000.000 (M» passenger miles. The air transport passenger death rate was approximately 1.2 persons for the same mileage, while that for railroad and bus travel, not officially computed as yet. figured to be about .16 and .17 respectively. The council, in its annual report on accident casualties, also disclosed that one out of every 13 persons in the U. 8. suffered a diablfaig injury in IM|6. one hundred thousand persons were killed in accidents. The air transport death rate p<*r 100.009.000 (Mi pa-senger miles in 1946 was the same as that of 1939, but a decrease of 43 percent from 1945. The total number of persons killed in crashes of scheduled planes was 107. including 75 passengers and 32 crew members. The number of passengers killed in 1945 was S 9. including 12 crew members. Deaths from all types of accidents increased by four percent last year, the council said. A total of 10.400.000 (Mt persons were injured last year. All accidents recorded cost the nation 55.600.000.000 (Bi. the council said. The 1946 accident death rate was 71.4 per 100.000 persons, the council said, l-ower rates have been reported for only five years since (Turn To Page 3. Column 41 fl

Further Steps For Safety Patrol Here City School Board To Aid In Program Further steps toward the formation of a school student safety patrol were taken here last night In the meeting of the city school board, superintendent Walter J. Krick reported today The school board agreed to co operate with a committee from the Decatur Lions club, which la sponsoring the formation of the patrol The committee met with the school board last tight to take preliminary steps toward conducting a survey to learn needs of the petrol and selection of patrolled areas Officials of the yatnr CsdboHc and| BfekCifl to nB

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Cut Industrial Gas Use In South Bend South Bend, Ind-, Feb 4-(UP) The Northern Indiana Public Service Company today ordered a 50 percent curtailment in the use of g-as by 12 industrial consumers In the South Bend area. A company Kpokesmi.n Mid the curtailment, brought . Imut by weather and the failure of a supply source in the Calumet area also would affect "other communities went of South Bend tn the Calumet." — o Declines To Hear Critical Evidence County Board Acts On Counsel Advice Acting upon the counsel of Ferd L. Lltterer. county attorney, the Adams county Itoard of commissioners in session .Monday at the courthouse declined hearing evidence concerning criticism of the Adams county memorial hospital. Prosecuting attorney Myles F Parrish appeared before the board with John M. Brown, of west of Decatur, who, he said, wished to relate his experiences while his two daughters were confined at the institution, suffering from diphtheria. In response to prosecutor Parrish's opening statement, Mr. Litterer said that he ha i investigated the law concerning such mat ters and learned that "th** county commissioners shall appoint the member** of the hospital Imard of trustees, which shall supervise managetnen'” of the institution He said that he advised the commissioners not to hear the witness “since authority lies not with the commissioners but with the hospital trustees" and suggest ed that the prosecutor lodge a formal protest with the luiard and •'lf unable to secure satisfactory results resort to the courts in mandamus proceedings.” The prosecutor contended that "authority lies with the commitsioners since the power to appoint (the trusteest carries with it the power to dismiss” and "that the matter was one of a moral nature and not of legal fiction." He said that "while I have no personal de sire to persecute anyone, my me fives in this matter have been

prompted by one of righteous indignation among the peoples of Adams county.” He asked the commissioners to hear the witness. whose testimony he said would substantiate criticisms by the recent grand jury and refute published reports that such criti cisms are "unwarranted and might be attributed to two or three individuals ” Harry Knapp, secretary of the hospital )>oard of trustees, who tTura To Pag* 4. Column O Two Gl's Killed In Accident In Japan Yokohama. Feb. L-(UP) Two American soldiers were kilted and tl persons. Including six Gl>. were injured

Committee On Elections Refuses To Recommend Nominating Convention

91 Million Dollar Budget, 40 Percent Increase, Given To Gov. Gates Today Indianapolis. Feb. I — (UP) — The Indiana state budget committee today re<-ofnmenled to Governor Gates a 191.217.622 budget for the next two years, approximately 40 percent higher than the budget for th-** present biennium At the same time, the commit tee suggested to the governor that new state revenues should be created to add about |9.000.mm a year to the state general fund Otherwise, tile committee said, the stale would be unable to retain a f30.0<“'.0»0 working 1 balance through the fiscal years 1947 and 194 k. State budget director Ros< «>e I*. Freeman handed the recoin mendations to the governor He did not specifically recommend the additional revenues but said they v i'.’ necessary to keep the working baiaitct at |’ I ‘o<m.oOo, a level considered satlsfai ■•*. y. Without additional sources of income not now provided in the budgetary setup, the general fund balance would drop to about lll.oiu.ima by June :io. )!♦••». he said. The committee recommended a budget of 656.172.622 for state i.oarls. commissions, departments, institutions and schools for the next two years. That compared with 116.579.110 in the budget for 1945-46. The new budget included personnel costs l6.oiHt.uoo higher than the present biennium, money for a 15.00a.000 contribution to the state teacher retirement fund, and increases for operational expenses at state universities and other state institutions The 19J.000.000 figure included slightly more than 122.000.000 for state we'fare department fund* and more than 52.000.000 for the state police department fund Budgetary Items for new building and repair to existing structures at state institutions were omitted because the committee anticipated that by 1919 a total of some 122.600.000 would lie realized from state excise taxes get aside solely for that purpose

Two Youths Unhurt As Aulo Hits Train Blame Other Wrecks On Icy Pavements Two youths esca[*»*d Injury when their auto rammed Into the side of a moving freight engine about 9 39 o'clock last night in Decatur The crash occurred st the Nutt man avenue crossing of the Pennsylvania railroad. The car was driven by Robert Teeple. 17. of route five. Decatur, accompanied by Ri< hard Braun. 222 North Seventh street The auto was badly damaged Two other traffic ao'idents were blamed on weather conditions, chief Ed Milter reported Norman Geiger. 29. of 3>» Winchester street, said rain imparted his vision and caused him to crash into a larked car. owned by Everett Faulkner, in the linn block of Nuttman avenue about 9 30 p m Monday Officer Robert Hill estimated damage at $75 Slippery pavement was blamed today by chief Miller for an accident about 6:15 am. at Monroe and Thirteenth streets when a car driven by Ruth Yost. 19. of this city, slid into a truck, owned by the Brown Trucking tomp-ny and operated by Howard Pursley 22. Fort Wayne The track was making a left turn into Monroe off

Midwest And Stale In Grip Os Cold Wave Temperatures Drop 40 Degrees During Short Time Today By United Press High winds whipped up thick clouds of dust over the middle west today and drove the winter's worst cold wave eastward toward the Atlantic coast and southward toward the gulf Icy winds whistling in from Canada kicked up exposed top soil In the northern central states and showered jt to earth in the form of freak “dust blizzards” hundreds of miles away Government weather forecasters said much of the dust came from the “dust bowl" area of western South Dakota, stricken by drought in the 1930’if. The dust came also from Xorth Dakota, western Nebraska ami central Minnesota areas which were exposed liy a lack of snow • The dust descended on Wist insin and northern Illinois, staining deep snow drifts a dirty brown. In Chicago visibility was cut sharply by dust partit les mixing with swirling snow Desnite the dust, weather fore casters doubted that conditions presaged a return of the dust Imiwl which devastated midwestern farm lands in the early 1930's The cold wave was schedtthsl to reach the Atlantic and gulf coasts by nightfall Already tern peratures in the middlewest had dropped as much as 49 degrees in 19 hours. The coll wave was the second of the month and originated as an arctic blast out of the Yukon territory, where a continental low of S 3 degrees lielow Zero was reg istered The cohl was borne down from the Canadian itorder on an intense storm center whi< h pro duced blizzards during the night In ••ctlons of Minnesota ami Wisconsin. At Chicago the mercury plum meted from a high of II degrees at 2 p tn yesterday to one below at 6am a drop of 42 degrees The mercury skidded 25 degrees in six hours at Bismarck. N D (Turn T<> Page • ."obinin *•> — —— —o To Present Concert Wednesday Evening All Proceeds Go To Union Chapel Church The Rev H Austin Pellctt. pas tor of Ht James Evangelical United Brethren church at Pern, and we||.known a* a trombonist and baritone soloist, will give a concert In I»e<-atur Wednesday night at 7 30 o'clock at Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church. Madison at Ninth street, it was announced today by Dr Charles E. White, pastor of th** Decatur church Mrs Grace Hunter, organist at the Peru church, will act as accompanist for Rev Pellett. Wi offering will he taken and all proceeds will he given to the Union Chapel church building fund. The public Is Invited to attend the concert. Following is the program: Invocation The Rev. D. H. Pel ML TV Holy Nativity—i. The First NoeL 2 Joy to tb» World. tro«

Price Four Cents

Both Primary And Convention Measure Submitted To Lower House Os Assembly Indianapolis. Feb. I — (t’P) — The direct nominating primary bill gained ground in the Indiana house of representative!* Imlay When the house elections committee refused to recommend passage of a nominating convention reform measure. As a result of the committee meeting, both the primary bill and the convention bill were reported without recommendation to the house floor when the legislature reconvened at in a tn. House members accepted the committee rei»ort almost unanimously, and house speaker Holtart Creighton ordered the bills printed and advanced to second reading On second reading. posslMyt later this week, house memiiers have an opportunity to amend the bills. Then the bills would advance to third and final reading, at which time they would be brought to a vote Failure of convention proponents to obtain support from the I majority of the 12 member elections committee put the reform measure on the same basis with the controversial primary bill. Administration an I party leaders who have fought the primary measure tooth and toenail to make the Issue the biggest In the ' legislative session thus far failed to kill the l>ill ill a long call* us of house majority m**mlters last night di<l succeed at that time in getting the caucus to agree that the elections committee should return the reform bill to the house floor with a recommendation that it be passed The primary vs convention fight shaped up as the headline attraction in th** legislature today. Proponent- of the primary seek to return the state to the direct primary system of nominating state an I I' f< senatorial candidates, a system now used in every stat*- except three in the east since the late 1929'5, Indiana's two ma lor political parties have nominated their candidates in -late conventions A reliable source told the United Press today that Governor Gates said he would approve a I rlmary bill If it were amended to remove its plurality feature Tin* clause th*- governor objected to would give a nomination to any person getting more votes than one or more opponents. Gates was said to favor*substitution of a majority clause that woul I require the sm-cessful nominee to poll two-thirds of the total votes cast for hlm«etf and his opponents. This would return the primary a- It was known in Indiana before 192 S and would require all nomlnaHotw* not deckled by a majority vote to be referred to a ratifying state convention where a candidate would be selected Bills in* reusing th*- tax burden of Hoosiers, legalizing pari-mutuel Ix’tting at county fair harness ra< es and a measure suggesting a referendum on the veterans l»oI 6 lation introduced during afternoon session yesterday Reps Elmer Johnson. R. Pt in* eton. ami Omar P. Brown. R . Patricksburg. introduced a hill which would cut in half the fl.nis! exemption now provided for gross income taxation Two other representatives. William Hoatettier. R. Bloomfleld and Mart fenWh. R. Williams, offered a bill to provide a surtax on the gross tax It would range from fe to f.U penrat of the gross payable, the [ a “'^ ,ra