Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 37, Decatur, Adams County, 13 February 1947 — Page 1

LXLV. No. 37

SEEK STRIKE-CONTROL ACTION BY APRIL 1

[irate Passes Ills To Hike Sachers' Pay ||schooi Teacher And IKabor Problems Are ® Ktudy Os Assembly P** l - 13 —(I P) — |H|n.|i.<*i.i l-gi-lalure consider'd |K.j t.-,. l>< i and labor problem* 4 dull morning newton, und by or dory, debate or con |K, rk v. the senate panned unnu,i.|y two of four bills earfor enactment to mine of teachers. the -atne time, the house facjH;l possible Republican caucus ■ pending labor legislation. K a bill that would net up a salary scale beginning £■(> ohi and extending to 13.800. on the length of service the training period of the ■ h, r , The prenent mimlmum salary in 11.200. jlm> panned another bill re the pn-nent interpretation HB teaching unit*, on which tub fund payments made by the to local school unit* are Both bill* advanced to house. in the house. Hep Hientand of the house la Et committee said he had been Mproached by party spokesmen wanted .in immediate caucus * :nl ' representative* on the question. |Kiii iliest.iiid said he had not de K-t whether and when to call pHtiuoi* |HAcpon speeding the teacher pay Ka-nre- nearer to enactment a * groups favoripg the highe: K.h-r 1 1 -*)' schedule accepted a ■* politic al philosophy incora fundamental “home observed by housewives M.ts 4 result, teachers in the Mate may get their salary in Mr.,..! jnd bical communities may ■"■lW- «uore funds, all without ic+d foi levying new taxes. ■ ia-s’islators today had the assurof Governor Gates and adminMiration leaders that Indiana's woes will tie solved by allotment* to state deand tommission* ■ h'P Jess Andrew. R., West ■ IBI rh *irinan of the powerful ■""'*' ways and means committee ■ent further when he suggested appropriations to state be cut five percent. ■ Andrew predicted such an over ■> ’lash would save some 14.500,’k* l could lie used for other M*rpo»es. such as Increases in ■•rlters salaries. ■ ilates felt there may be even ** r savings and that perhaps entire pay increase problem ■ hiking leathers salaries could ■ solved he said, would obviate ■k need for passing a house bill x a 2ft t<> Jo percent surtax ■L®* wo’* Income tax rate to * fund for teat hers salaries ■£ Joint legislative educational gptnitee recommended yesterday ■ ’ 1 l *a< hers' salary increase. ■ «Uiag 1417, h e raised by such ■ ‘«rtax. Minimum* would be ad y*'-* ,rom H.200 to 11.800 un- 1 Kv P r "P<wal. which the com * Ki B*n A. W. Rsf R ' “I" 1 will between |12.500.0<hl ■•lls.toft.ftoo annually. ■wi-T committee Indi ■T « •onto ask the house ways B- ■r‘ a *'‘ n ' (Om| nittee tomorrow K«t re ’* ih * rro ** inc ° me tax I p »«* (Column <) Scouts Attend I mc oln Pilgrimage B'-i Bcoitt rrom *** ***Ht ‘ t '■ lrh,ea «“«* sssfctant annua!

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Republicans Differ - Over Major Issues — Lincoln Addresses Echo GOP Discords Washington. Feb. 13 — (UPI— A coast-to-coast burst or Lincoln's birthday oratory by top Republicans echoed the GOP discord in congress over two major issues —taxes and tariffs. They agreed that the federal budget must be balanced, the pub--1 He debt reduced and income taxes 1 cut. But they differed on the method and amount of tax cut. ' And there was sharp cleavage on the tariff question. The Republican party trotted ’ out some of its top-ranking talent 1 and presidential candidates for speech-making from Boston to ■ Los Angeles—with no stop*, how i ever. In the Democratic deep south. In the lineup were Harold E. I Stassen, the only avowed candi ; date for the 1948 Republican , presidential nomination: Hen. Rob- > ert A. Taft of Ohio and Gov. . Thomas E. Dewey of New York. II who haven't yet admitted they are 1 gunning for the presidential prize; Republican national chair--1 man Carroll Reece, and Sen*. Leverett Haltonstall. Mass.. Homer . Furguson. Mich., Henry Cabot , Ixrdge Jr.. Maas.. Kenneth Wher- , ry. Neb, Edward Martin. Pa.. George Malone. Nev. and Owen Brewster. Me. Sen Arthur H. Vandenberg. Mich., and Gov. Earl Warren of ‘ California—two GOP dark horses 1 for 1948—did not speak ' Taft, addressing West Virginia Republicans at Charleston, spelled out In more detail than the rest his views an taxes, tariffs, labor legislation, war powers and other problems. <sn taxes, he said Republican* propose to cut federal expenditures by |4.000.M»f»,0T»0 or |5.(t00,OOft.OOO this year "and more next ' year." He said this will make It 1 "possible to lighten the tax burden by a sum equal to 20 percent 1 of the personal Income lax yield. or I3.soft.onfl.otto. and still devote two or three billion dollars to the reduction of the national debt ” Taft shied away from any talk of a 20 percent across-she Itoard tax cut as proposed by chairman Harold Knutson of the tax writing bouse ways and means commit tee. And he reiterated that any tax cuts should not become effective before July I. Haltonstall. speaking at Los Angeles. said "we all want our taxes reduced . . but most of u» are willing to continue to pay high taxes until we are confident that our federal budget Is Italanced and our governmental expenses are cut as low as they can Im cut. Then we can see how much present revenue we should allocate to payment of our debt and how much tax reduction we can provide. I believe we should have first thing* first." Haltonstall cautioned against trying to cut taxes at the expense of the armed forces Lodge voiced similar views at (Turn To Page 7, Column 4) 0 Urges Groups File For Exemptions Few File Here For Mortage Exemption Auditor Thurman I. Drew today called attention to the fact that a number of churches and fraternal organisation* have failed to file mortgage exemption* In hi* office. t'nder the law the exemption* may be filed at any time between January 1 and March I of each year. Os approximately 150 churches, lodges, ete- entitled to file for the exemption* only 32 had filed up t* a late hour today auditor Drew stated Rocretariee or presidents of the board of trustees or some other rank Ing offfeials customarily file th. egemptiou*. the auditor mat

Gas Shortage Fear Looms In Great Britain I „ President Truman Orders Survey Os Possibility Os Aid I Ixtndnn. Feb. 13— H'Pl—Prime • Minister Clement Attlee told the • house of commons today that e Britain had made gains In the :. fight to overcome the power ft emergency but that anxiety now was arising over 'losslble gas 1 shortages. t Attlee revealed that the drastic r emergency controls on power had t> saved ”B.ftflfl tons of coal from ’• Monday through Wednesday. I> slightly Improving the general position. !• The saving yesterday was i- 25.300 tons, compared with 24.250 » the day before, and a government '■ spokesman said that the “crltteul '• drop In coal stocks has Itern arrested." However, he that ? the ;>o«itiou "remains dangerous." ■ Attlee *aid power savings were ’• 33 percent Monday. 3fi percent • Tuesday and !<.7 percent yesterr day. • Coal stocks at the major power '• stations now are about sufficient • for nine days consumption under • normal weather and without restriction However, at six main 5 Ixindon power stations there is f still only enough coal for a • week's use. As Attlee spoke a dingy fleet > of nearly Iflfl coal ships with 1 about 200,0011 tons of coal was t making Its way south through the r English channel toward the coalr short south of England areas Attlee said that 12 ships carry- • ing 24.000 tons of coal reached I- London in the past 24 hours All England. Scotland aipl t Wales were included In the re • rtricted power area today for the • first time. Jail terms were autht orlzed under defense law* for per- . sons failed to turn off their lights. > Order* Study » Washington. Feb. 13 — (VPI — President Truman today ordered < a study of emergency actions this I country might be able to take to 1 relieve the severe British coal t shortage. • Mr. Truman announced that he ' bad directed Capt. Granville Con ■ way. coordinator of emergency export program*, to determine • how quickly and In what quantity ' coal could be landed at British i port*. i "This government stand* ready I to do everything within its power J ~Turn T<> Fag* 4 Column 7) Arrest Muncie Man r For Alleged Breakin I Berne Store Scene Os Robbery Attempt Clarence Albright, 34. Muncie, was living held in jail here today after allegedly breaking Into the Habegger Bros furniture store in Berne at an early hour this morning. Albright was brought to the jail here by sheriff Herman Bowman, after he was apprehended by Berne night policeman Alfred Zumbrum Zumhrum said that he found , Albright near the furniture store about 3 a. m today as he was making his regular round* After finding that the building had been broken into, he placed Albright under arrest. Sheriff Bowman said investigation failed to find anything missing from the ' store, hut that the office had evidently been ransacked Entrance to the building had ; been gained by breaking a door panel on the south side of the structure. The fttore is located on the weat side of federal road tl near the northftrn edge of the Berne corporation limits. Bheriff- Bowman said that Al bright had denied entering the bU He "expressed the ballet tbai

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, February 13, 1947

Everything Frozen But Price

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AFTER NEGOTIATING Arctic weather through the Baltic sea from England, these new cars bound for Stockholm from the I' S. are well wrapped In ice a lata rd the British steamer ‘Albano."

Campaign Against Overtime Parking Rigid Enforcement Starts Here Friday A campaign to enforce the lien on overtime parking in downtown Decatur will begin Friday morn Ing. it *a» announced today by Mayor John B. Stull* and police chief Ed Miller One hour parking limit* will lie in effect on Second afreet from Jefferson to Jackaon atreeta and on Monroe street from Flrat to Third atreeta. "Red” ticket*, coating the violator 11 each in "cafeteria court." will lie issued by the city police beginning tomorrow, chief Miller stated. The campaign will also cover double parking. Motorist*, however. for the moat part have been cooperative in observing the double parking ban. Mayor Stults said. Moat violations in this manner occur near Jefferson and Jackson streets on Second. An ordinance concerning the parking time limit has been in effect here for a number of years. Recently, however, police have been issuing mostly warning tickets. Chief Miller said that members of the force will be instructed. henceforth, to issue only "red" tickets. "Unloading sones ’-small areas marked off to permit loading and unloading of passenger* by pleasure cars and merchandise by small (Turn To Page t. Column I) Red Cross Campaign Assistants Named Decatur, Berne And Geneva Aides Named Phil Sauer, county chairman for the U 47 Red Cross, drive, announced the appointment today of associate chairmen for Decatur Berne and Geneva. John Halterman, local shoe dealer. will be the chairman for thla| city. Earl M. Webb, superinten dent of schools, will be the Herne chairman and Harold Schlagenhauf will act as Geneva chairman. The drive will be launched In this county and throughout the natioo on March 1. Mr. Saner staled The Individual chairmen will name their aasiataata and solicitors Adams county's guota te M.4H. es wkWk tMW is*f«rte i

G. E.-Union Parley Opens February 17 -Contract negotiation* lietween the General Electric company and the United Electrical. Radio and Machine Workers of American tCIOt will open in New York February 17. the Union, said today year. lin New York, the union indicated it would seek an increase of at 1 1 least 2> cents an hour r I —g — — • | Lincoln Day Dinner I .Held Last Evening I Fort Wayne's City Attorney Is Speaker — "We phould try to correct er- ■ rors when shown as errors and i adopt new views when they are I shown as trie views" i This is one of two philosophies of the Great Emancipator which Walter Helmke. Fort Wayne city attomev. declares people of the r United State* should follow, especially during this postwar period to save the nation from > disaster Mr. Helmke was speaking before an overflow crowd in attendance at the annual Lincoln Day dinner in the Knights of Pythias home Wednesday evening. Urging the weighing of new philosophies in national and international problems, the speaker asserted that "It i« possible those who have believed the nation can ' insure peace by remaining within itself may follow the lead of sevI era! prominent senators who have seen the necessity of also fnsurj ing the peace in other countries." "If it is true that the world has I ’grown smaller,’” he declared, i "some of us may have to change our viewpoint regarding international problems.” Flaying those who "continually ; say that ’we are going to have an-! other war in a year, two years, five or 10." Mr. Helmke called upon the people to follow another of Lincoln's philosophies This he said is "If you intend to work stay where you are." taken from a letJ ter the late President wrote to j his brother. "More work and less fretting about another war will do much toward a rapid national ■ recovery." he asserted Productivity of the nation during the war bi concrete evidence of what can be accomplished "when wo actually work." he stated, in closing. he appealed for the "carrying on of the great heritage left us by Abraham Lincoln" Harry v**** Adams county GOP chairman, was in charge of the

Republican Leadership Sets Target Date For Senate To Take Action

Defense Rests Case In Kidnapers' Trial Judge Swygert Rules Out Death Penalty Fort Wavne. Ind.. Feb. 13 (VP) Federal Judge Luther M. Swygert *aid today in federal court that he would not submit the question of punishment to a jury trying the kidnap and motor theft case of Henry Black Jr. 17. and Albert Webster. 14. Swygert** decision rule* out possibility of a death penalty for the two young negroe* if they are found guilty. The defense rested it* case after testimony of two doctors who »ald lioth defendints were mentally Incompetent of judging right from wrong. . Black and Webster never took the aland In their own behalf, and tile case was expected to go to tile jury thi« afternoon The defense never brought testimony to directly oppose state inents by the prosecution's witnesses that Hie two Nashville, Tenth, juvenile* held tip Mr. and Mrs. Alfred M Sherrick on a lonely highway, raped the elderly lady and beat her 83-year-old husband. Th" prosecution rested it* case late yesterday, and the defense immediately began its fight Defense attorney* sought to trace the squalid upbringing of Itoth defendants with the testimony of their first two witnesses Mrs. Hiney Bradley, ample and kindly mother of Black, told how "Junior" had never been "like other children." and how she reared him and his two sister* on the H> a week she earned a* a domestic In Nashville. (Turn To Pag- 7. (*«di|>nn 7) o To Arraign Alleged Forger Here Friday Forgery Charge Is Filed Here Today Alfred E. Zumbrink, 35, oftcharged forger of counterfeit check*, is exjtected to be arraigned before Judge J. Fred Fruchte In Adams circuit court Friday to answer to a count of forging a bogus check at the Hutton Jewelry store here for |34. The charge was formally lodged against him by .Myles F. Parrish, prosecutor, this morning. The lawfirm of DeVoas A Smith ha* been employed as counsel for the defendant Zumbrink was arrested Wednesday afternoon by police chief Ed Miller boom after he gave the allegedly worthless check to Jesse Sutton, proprietor of the local store. The check was drawn on the First State Bank. Is>ued to A. E. Zumbrink and drawn on the I acount of a Frank Moore, accordi Ing to the affidavit Deputy Sam Bentz of the offices of sheriff Herman Bowman this morning received a telegram stat Ing that A. E Zumbrink I* wanted in Pecos. Texas on a forgery count, i Sheriff Dwight Raudenbush of Celina. Ohio, in Decatur Wednesday said that be Is also want<-d there and in four other Ohio counties Zumbrink. according to police, ha* a long record of larceny and worthless check charge* against him in FBI files. County Ministers Will Meet Monday Tbs Ada_»* county ministerial

Wealthy Man Is Sought For Wife's Murder .1 I l i Woman Killed Today At Columbus, Ind., Ex-Husband Sought * Columbus. Ind . Feb 13 (I'Pi r A wealthy. retired war con- ‘ tractor's divorced wife wae slain today, and a search for her forr mer husband wa« centered in KenI tncky. The victim. Mrs. Ruth dark, > Edman. 38. an attractive Journalism student at an Indianapolis t' night school, was found shot to I death In the home of her father. - Nate ('lark, 69 Clark also was wounded by ehot gun blast* he said, i were fired by Mrs. Ed man** for mer hu*l>aud. Dave Edman. 4<>. an 1 i electrical contractor who relative* .] said made a fortune on govern I nient contracts during the war Edman and hi* son, David. Jr., j H 17, were missing from their nearby | . home when police sought Edman > for questioning In the shooting. Houns later, the boy was **■>' ’ stepping out of hi* father's auto- > mobile In downtown Coluiilbii* f Police said he told them he took .'hi* father "to Kentucky" and then | i returned to ('<duml>u* I The youth wa* believed to have - told police at what city in Ken- ■ lucky he left Edman, but jtolice refused to reveal the information > |H*nding further questioning. They said he told them hie fa ther awakened him early this morning and asked him to drive, him to Kentucky. Two police officers, alerted to watch for the boy and his father, saw young Edman step out of hi* automobile. They arrested him and t’>ok him to police headqttar ter*. | Edman was named by Clark as his attacker, hut the elderly man. dazed by the shooting, was unable to tell police about the shooting (Turn T« Page -1 Column It File Incorporation For Yost Company Articles Filed At Recorder's Office I Article* of incorporation have been filed at the county recorder's office for the Yo»t Construction company. Inc Calvin Yost, president Besides Mr Yo«t the Incorporator*. directors and officers of the company are. Mr*. Calvin Ynat. vice president, and Robert Yost their son. secretary treasurer Th" latter is completing hi* engineer ing course st Purdue university He served In the army and wa* commi**loned a lieutenant in the army air corp*. The company does general con I Rtruction work and operate* the d large *and pit and reudy-mlx con crete plant northwest of Decatur on the river roid Within recent years, following the death of A. V. Yost, a brother ! of Calvin Yost, the company was operated a* an Individual enterprise Prior to that time it Was a < partnership between the two Yost j brothers. Mr Yost is widely known as a contractor aud has constructed { many of the important bulldins* I In this city. He was th* general i

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Truman Stands Pat On Lilienthai For Chairman Os Atomic Energy Commission Washington. Fell 13 (CPI — The senate Republican leadership ' today set April I a* the target i date for senate passage of a ■ strike-control bill Sen. Robert A. Taft. R . 0.. fixed the date without mentioning that John L l-ewis* coal strike truce also ends on that day. Taft, chairman nt the senate labor and Republican policy committee*. listed labor in a fivepoint senate legislative program he outlined in an appearance at Columbus. O. By April 1. he also hopes the senate will have acted , on a portal pay ban. a two-term limitation on the presidency, war (towers anti tile budget There also were these congressional development* Lilienthai The White House served notice Vital president Tru- , man will stand pat on the disput- ‘ «d nomination of David E Lilieni that to be chairman of the federal | atomic energy commission Tw > Repultlican senators had asked him to withdraw the nomination. I'nlversal military training — I The veterans of foreign war* proposed to congress a program i which would provide the equivalent of one-year of peacetime 1 training for American youth There would be six months of bush- training and six months under any one of several optional ■ plan* to be selected by the trainee Aviation — Congress was told that bad-weather landing aids a' a number of airfields are operating unsatisfactorily and have not l>een completely installed despite what the civil aeronautics admlni Istratlon claims It al*o heard i that some air crashes have been | caused Indirectly by crying liable* or family quarrel* at pilots* home* An in*uran<e executive said these factor* create pilot fatigue and emotional strain which contribute to the accident* I Boxcar shortage The prewiden' of the Association of American Railroads said the answer to the present freight <ar shortage l*n’* more laws but more cars. Two eastern senators accused the west of hogging freight car* for crop movement while eastern Industrie* Buffer Rep Everett M Ditksen R . Bl . today assailed critics of the GOP-propo-o-d Ifi.tUWt.tMHI.(MUI 'budget cu' with the declaration that "people In hlch position* are looking for a painless kind of e<-onomy" Dirksen is a leader in the Republican drive to cut President Truman's estimate of federal expenditures for the fiscal year starting July I from |37.s*to.<M»n - <MM» to »31.5«Ml.tWl.fM>ft In a statement handed to reporters. Dirksen struck hack at secretary of war Rolw-rt P Patterson and *e< retary of navy James Forrestal for their criticism of proposed reductions in the president's budget for national defense Tile Repultlican budget expert* are reported to have earmarked Mr Truman's national defense estimates of || Lion (Wmi.mhi for a cut of about f 1.75f1.f14t0.1t00. In the house, meanwhile. a Dem<wrat and a Republican joined in a sharp attack on the proposed slash in spending by the armed forces. Democratic whip John W McCormack said the proposed cut would lead to "the false economy** that followed the first world war. Rep Edwin Arthur Hall. R . N. Y. told the house that congrsM (Tura To Paw* X. Column 7) —O —— .. G. Irving Lotz Dies Early This Morning Aaa Arbor Mich.. r»h. 11 (I Pi.ft