Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 24 February 1947 — Page 1

XLV. No. 46.

TATE SENATE PASSES ANTI-PICKET BILL

J pl Banning JI rial Suits Wars Senate | Benatc Judiciary I Bommittee Votes I Kpproval Os Bill E Feb 21 <l'l’l Btfi ,a,v E .j,;,f.v.-<l .1 hill <» '•«< port -uitw lnlinuiii Al- x.il«l<-r ji.l th" might fol oil E IK the house is H< lIOIIIII< <I I rS a similar measure. only would /W'* ~»• pending claims of near- | K; hut would (ul.il W ■Bar suits in the future. ■ , .eigressional develop--1 Five officials of the I >■ : “ k Allis Chalniei sCo told I Kr- there is 11 communist I ■ column in the labor move 1 tha' want- to undermine the ■ ■ Sen Robert A Taft. R. E armed forces expend! ■ Sac ',<■< immended in President E tjlin.lll budget should nut than 10 percent A legislative budget resoI mF" reportedly would < lit them S ■wly 2" percent. E ' spokesman for attorgeneral Tom C. Clark sail the w HKj, <■ <!< partment has received HK complaints against chairman Rjfcignate David E. Lilienthal of -■B.Jfe a'omii energy commission therefore has not made any of the nominee E TO- <•' 'l'* former TVA chairman *E W' ' <'|- <I him of being s .ft' K ■tjanl communism. | Ht'-h-f The house foreign a

committee today asked for l‘r.-l'l«-n' Herbert Hoover to on President Trumans ■IKu. .• '..• 000 000 tor foreign iFSb®. ! Ml Hoover has just coni investigation for the of European food needs chairman ('hnrles W To "f 'll* senate banking commit said control must ■ hut Io- doesn't care whether 1 ■ B'’A lives to administer it. He ■ .1 banking subcommittee I Ifinish .i bill next week to ex i'ii controls beyond Hie I nt .lune .Tn expiration. Son ■ it Russell. I), (la.. called I * abolition of OPA and transfer its rice, rent and sugar <on , I fa to other agendas. ■ ■ltefuitees — President Truman k congress to permit tills to join the international i organization Pointing 'hat there are still I.OOO.OtM' ■Bsplacerl persons in Germany and Italy, he said the must be functioning July ■ I Draft—The White House said |S' Truman's recommendations to < <n whether to extend draft will be coming alone ■■'Tlr The present act expire' en universal training will no' ready until late spring. the House said. o jEJeHerson Day Diners ■Vill Hear President m Washington. Feb 21 —H'PiTruman will deliver “an message to the American in a Jefferson day speech 5. the Democratic national announced today >’ said Mr Truman would add ■Ma" h< ■ , ‘‘ rrer * O!i ,la T dinner here ■V" d ,h4 ' his speec h will l>e broad ■ *• to other Jefferson day dinner* B.y ,u «i*but the country and I'. 8. I Late Bulletins t Chical, Feb 24.—(UP>—A M'snwtda lu#lr b | >ck market '"B. believed to include mem- * ,h » «»d Capone syndi- ‘‘‘ "**• hM b,,n un- « r ' M '»atiofi by a federal grand “ > and federal efficiale work- ! PMt • ,B **••*•• «r conditions of the utmost it was team'd today. | tl*2**’ f **- *■ - (UP>government announced te**or weuld b< re.naTTr** iB ***

DECATUR DAIIX DEMOCRAT

Urges City Aid In Legislative Fight Municipal League Assails Governor Mayor John II Stults today received a wire from Indiana municipal authorities, asserting that Gov. Ralph (lutes has control of legstation in the state assembly, which '•j deemed "part of a secret movement to wreck cities." The telegram urges the mayor and the citizenry to "exert every influence" on the lawmakers and Gov. Gates in demanding passage of house bills 278 and 223 and senate bills 38.149 and 315. all aimed at breaking up an attempt on the part of the state administration to "choke cllic.* to death with centralization and taxation.” The wire, signed by W. Vincent Youkey. secretary of the municipal league, declares that, "promises broken; bills stalled again; dire consequences in many Indiana cities unless financial aid granted. Only asking return of part of ever increasing millions taken from cities by state. Time short but righte6us battle for survival of local government can be won if you fight and fight hard right now.” In regard to exerting Influence upon the lawmakers it urgee "remind them, wiie them, telephone them, nee them" in demanding passage of the bills mentioned previously It concludes, "come to Indianapolis if possible This is etlll a government of the people."

Nine Violent Deaths Reported In State By United Press —' IndiutiMs fast-mounting 1947 traffic toll, boosted last week when 29 persons were killed in three days, was hiked again this weekend in another wave* of accidents. At least nine persons were killed Saturday und Sunday, three of them in one accident wnen an automobile hit a tree* near Fort Wayne. At Fort Wayn« yesterday, an auto hit a tree, killing William lacisure. 19. aud Cleo Bold, 19, Fort Wayne, and Elizabeth Jean Carey. 19. Columbia City. Two other o<citpaiits of the c-ar wen injured. , t o World War Veteran Dies Os Pneumonia Lonnie Spears Dies After Short Illness

Lonnie B[rears, 26, son of Willard A. Spears, of Monroe, and a veteran of World War 11. died early Sunday morning at the home of his father after a week's illness of pneumonia. The war veteran, a resident of Indianapolis, where he was a service station attendant, was brought to his father's home a few days after he became ill He was born in Herksville. Ky . the son of Willard and Frances Spears. His mother preceded him in death. Surviving are the father and stepmother; his wife; one son; one brother. James of Sturgis, Mich; one slater. Mrs. Maxine Watkins of Herksville. Ky.; four halfsisters; a halfbrother, two stepbrothers nnd two stepsisters. Funeral services will be held at 1 pm Wednesday at the lx>benstein funeral home in Monroe and it 2 o'clock at the Mt. Hope N'azarene church, with the Rev. Ralph Merritt officiating Burial will be In the Mt Hope cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services . ■ IIIISW (| 1 ' Four Children Burned To Death At Anderson Andenson. Ind.. Feb. 21 —(UP> An explosion and fire which killed fop motherless children of a Chin ese resaurant owner and burned wo asdits perkmaly was Investigated today by anthoritlee The dead were the children of Harry Choo. M. owner of a duwatewn case They were 8000 Ung. I; Baek Wit*. 4; JkmJa. «. and Harry. Jr, T Own and hb father. Poon (Tun. 81 were berr.ed so o*rMy IMP rwwm ast (Ml what happened

Changes In Decatur G. E. Works Officials mW fc « —— W HH Mr 1 ■ W fcphiafcl jFy K W**WE a Hbbl f . Russell Owens John F. Welch William L. Heim John F. Welch, of Fort Wayne, recently appointed assistant plant manager of the Decatur (J. E plant, assumed his new duties today. Russel Owens, veteran employe of the Decatur works, has l>< <-n named general foreman of the plant, succeeding William L. Helm. who Ims taken a sick leave from his dm les. *

New 6. E. Assistant Plant Manager Here ■ # Owens' Appointment Is Also Announced John F Welch, whose appointment as assistant plant manager of the Decatur works of the* General Electric company was announced recently by K. W. loinkenau. manager of the Decatur plant, assumed his duties at the local plant today. Mr. Welch comes to Decatur from the product quality division of the Fort Wayne works, where he* served as geheral supervisor of inspection for two years. He succeeds Joseph W. Globig. who resigned recently to accept an executive position with the Sawyer Electric company at l-os Angeles, Calif Mr. Lankenau also announced this morning that Russell Owens has been appointed as general foreman of the local plant, succeeding William L. Heim, who has taken a sick leave- from his duties. Mr. Owens began his employment with the* G. E in February of 192» at Fort Wayne as an auto math- screw machine operator, transferring to the then new plant in Decatur In August of the same year. He was appointed foreman of the* machining section In 1937 and became assistant general foreman of building one in 1946. Mr. Heim an employe of the G E. since 1912. came to Decatur when the local plant was opened In 1820. and had been general foreman since* 1942. He plans to establish his residence at his cottage at Adams lake for a long rest and later to do extensive traveling.

Make Preparations For Assessing Work Annual Assessing To Start Here Saturday Township assessor* and their deputie* trom the 12 township* in Adam* county met today in the office* of county assessor Albert Harlow to make final plans for the 194" aosessment*. Work of assessing will begin promptly by the workers on March 1 and is schedule*! to be completed, including all l>ook work, by May IS. Supplies and other materials, including schedules for various types of assessments, were issued to the workers by the asueasor during the meeting Revised schedule*. rates, etc., were also discussed In all but Washington township the respective township trustees are in charge of the assessing, aided by their deputies in Washington township, where an assessor ft elected, a staff of two or three men conduct the work. Mr. Harlow said that today's meeting will likely be the last one before the work begins, and that meetings will be held periodically after that date to ascertain how WtATHCR

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, February 24, 1947

Hog Prices Reach All-Time High Mark Chicago, Feb. 24. -<UPI— Hog prices reached an all-time* high of 828.5(,’ a hundredweight al the Chicago stock yards today The record price for the Chicago market was paid for choice hogs' weighing 240 pounds or less. The previous high of *27.50 a hundredweight was *<et shortly after the removal of price* controls last October and was equalled last week. Parking Violations Reported Decreased Police Continuing To Enforce Rules Enforcement of parking regulations continued in Decatur today wlth another heavy list of Saturday violations reported. Chief Ed Miller said today, however. that an unofficial survey revealed that a much smaller amount of violations was found last Satur-1 day than on the previous one. About a score of the "red" tic-1 kets are believed to have been issued last Saturday, in compartI son with about 50 on February 15 1 Tickets were issued by the city police force for various offenses, including overtime parking; parking too near a fire hydrant and in other restricted zones. The tickets cost the violator |L whk*i Is to be paid within 48 hours at the offices of the city clerk treasurer in the city hall building n Six Os Family Die As Train Hits Auto Muncie. Kans Feb. 24. tl’P)—■ fThe seventh and only surviving I member of a family involved in an automobile-train craah here was In serious condition t<>day in Providence hospital at Kansas City. KansKenneth Dale Hogan, about 3. waa the only member of the Arnold loseph Hogan family to escape leath when the family automobile was struck by a speeding passenger train at a grade crossing Sunlay.

Tftectefatc&M <l)r. M. O. First Methodist Church* “A SONG OF TRUST” Paa. 23:1 "The Lord Is my shepherl, I shall not want." The writer of the twenty-third psalm was a shepherd. He puts his song of trust in language with which he was familiar. He recognized that his sheep were dependent on him He also recog nited that he was depedent on Jehovah for the care and direction he needed 1 — Jehovah becomes a shepherd to man only a* man has a deep seated recognition of the Ixird anl a definite consciousness of Hi* attending presence. Benefits of God's care are not thrust upon us if we feel no need, fail to recognise our peril, or trust Him He draws nigh to us when we draw night unto Him. 2— The shepherd knows his individual sheep and their several needs. It is a comforting thought to realize that God does not bestow upon every person whether he needs it or not—the kind of a blessing anl give Identical direction. He deals with ua as individuals and according to our individual needs. I —The sheep need pasture—they need safety The shepherd knows these things and leads out to pasture and la tn the place of safety after the day is done This suggests bow Jehovah Will lead us ant to places of inspiration and soul stimulation 11 we will follow. Like* toe when danger assails there to a secret place of safety tn the sMtitcr of Wls lova. 4 —No want shall bafall at Th* will see

Dr. Elizabeth Burns Dies Sunday Evening Former Local Doctor Dies At Fort Wayne Dr Elizabeth Burns. 78. former Decal ur physician, died at 9 o'clock Sunday night while enroute to a Fort Wayne hospital She had been in poor health for several months and her condition became serious following a heart attack a few days ago. Dr. Burns was bofti In I’nior i township June 30. 1868. a daughter of Mr and Mrs. Clark Broth ers. After teaching in rural schools of Adams county an l Vac Wert county. 0.. she took her 'medical training at the I’nlvcrslty of Illinois, where she was gradu ated in 1802 After serving a years interne ship at Hull hospital hi Ghani paign. 111 . Dr Burns entered medical practice in Cbh-ago. movlnr to Decatur In 1911 where she wa* a practicing physician until 1926 , when she moved to Fort Wavne ' She was a member of the For' ,l Wayne medical society. th* i Wayne Street Methodist church ir I Fort Wayne, was for 53 years r member of the Decatur * liapte* of the Order of Eastern Slur, r | member of the Ben Hur ’odge I* : Decatur, the Fort Wayne Woman' ! club, and the Illinois alumn’ | association Only near surviving relative !• a sister. Mrs Laura B Stewar* !of Fort Wayne, who lived with I Dr. Burns. One daughter. thr<-< brothers and one sister precede*’ her in death. Funeral services will be held at 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at (Turn Tn !'»«<■ 2 C , ol<imn C> o — ■ - Winston Churchill's Brother Dies Sunday London. Feb 24 -(I’P) Major John Spencer Chur hill. 67. young er brother of the wartime prim* niin'ater. died yesterday. He was a senior partner In the stork broking firm of Vi<-k«rs Da Costa and a life long associate of his famous brother.

Controversial Measure fr Faces Another Fight In Lower Assembly House

Name Rural Leaders In Red Cross Drive Appoint Chairmen In Rural Districts Lyman L Hann, county super intendent of school, chairman of the township ami town organizations for the 1917 Red Cross drive Ims named the chairmen for these particular governmental subdivisions The township chairmen are: Blue Creek, Charles II Myers; French. Loren Heller; Hartford. Ralph M Miller; Jefferson. Ralph Christy; Kirkland. P. J. Spangler; Monroe. Walter Lehman; Preble. Charles Ftihman; Root, Gustav Hchueler; St Mary s Otis Shifferly. I'nion. Ivan V. Barkley; Wabash. Harte Ineichen. Washington. Frank Braun The town chairmen are; Linn Grove, Mary Schlagenhauf; Monmouth. Helen Mahan. Monroe. Orville Blue; Pleasant Mills, .lean Marie Everett, Preble. Wilma Andrews. The drive will open in this conn ty and throughout the nation on Saturday. March 1 Adams county's quota is ♦«.42<», of which |3,iwm< Is earmarked for the national organization and J 3.120 for the county chapter The goal this year is less th in half of the amount raised in 194*1 *1 Urges Veterans To Reinstate insurance Dwight R A nold. <ounty eer vice <>!(;<■<••. t <l.i . in ,-• «! veteran:o call at hi- office for assistance in reinstating their national serrice life insurance Mr \in<dd al! ■d attention to that fact that .’resident Truman slum-d the bill -xtendlng the deadline for rein tating to August I. 1917 from the irevious deadline of February 1. 1947 Hundreds of veterans in th** ounty will now be aide to rein-1 tate their insurance without tak . ng a physical examination, he ; .aid. ami urged them to do so as I toon as pottlible to have the pro ' tection Veterans ami thei tie >endants wishing information on this or other matters pertaining 1 o veterans' affal s a <• asked to; • ■all at Mr Arnold's office on the •second floor of the <ounty tou t house „ „ -N— , .Q—.— — Three Auto Crashes Here Over Weekend No One Injured In Series Os Crashes So one wa, hurt but considerable property damage was done in a series of three auto t rashes it'side the corporation limits over the weekend, police chief Ed Milter reported today Damage was estimated at |25 when autos driven by Eugene Bas sett. 19. 72*' High street anti Stan ley Clark. 29. route one Decatur, collided about 5 30 ptn Sunday at Jefferson and Fifth streets Damage was estimated at *42 at 8:10 a m. today when cars driven by Luther Maddy. 32. 315 North Tenth street, and Arthur Wilder. 37. route four. Decatur, crashed at the intersection of Jefferson and Tenth streets Maddy told chief Miller that he was unable to stop al the inter-1 section when his car skidded on! the snoweovered street. Slight damage was done at 8:lt| p.m. Saturday when cam driven hy Mrs. Arnold Ostarmeyer. 23. of! route six and Arthur Schinnerer.j

Allies Round Up Underground Nazi Leaders Widespread Search Is Made In Allied Occupation Zones 4 Frankfurt. Feb 24 <IPi A! roundup of Germany s biggest :in dergroittid -line the war it band sparked by fanatical dreams of re surgent Nazism ami mass antiihila j tion of the, allies with a secret < germ weapon was reported pro grossing smoothly today Allied intelligence officers swarmed through the American and British occupation zones to root out the leadership of a synchronized Nazi underground deem ■ ed too dangerous to tiderate The widespread search was re- | ported impeded by "appalling' travel conditions as .1 result of' I recent blizzards. But for the second day the flying squadrons were on the go. Cnoffldal quarters suggested that the total arrests might top l.o< M| befor<> the manhunt wa 1 over The main weight of the hunt w:<s in the British m cupation zone The Nazi elements had entren* hed f'lem-elves in the great industrial ' stronghold of that zone, and in the port- of the north where sub verslve and dissident movements long have spawned and flourished British intelligence officers an nounced at Herford, headquarters of tho British <>-eiipation for.es Hi it the job was proceeding apace Official said arrests continued throughout the night They refits-1 e.| for the time being to give any figures on tin- number arrested In tlu-ir zone Nik'li infortnation. they said, might give aid to other mem hers stilt at large • The "big show” was in the llrlt-i ish zone, where the ring was or-1 ganized. an American spokesman! said Thirty one Nazis "the cream • of the lenders” in the American ' zone have been seized by Amerii can agents A few more were be- ! Ing sought (A lamdon Dally Express dl« patch estimated the total arrests for the two zones Would exceed I oiiii mostly in the British -e< tor \ l.iimlon Daily Mail dispatch from Hamburg siid the under ground leailers planned to wipe .< ut British with anthrax and plague bacilli In |w>wder form l. American interrogators began questioning the men in their hands I mostly former SH members. They i reported progress but withheld details. Highest ranking captive in . the American zone was Maj. Gen. (Turn T„ !•»«•> 1. Column 4i 0- _ _ Slightly Warmer Weather Forecast Biting Winds Cause Discomfort In City Prospects of slightly warmer weather tonight and Tuesday cheered Decaturites today, after they hail feared the return of blizzard like weather Striking with sudden ferocity Sunday afternoon, snow flurries whipped by a lashing wind pro waged another cold wave, but late today it iiad failed to materialize to any extent Mercury In local thermometers i took a decided tumble last night, however, and this mom 1 ng's low was reported at 12 or 13 degrees Snow flurrtex ccmtlnsM throoghont most of the morning hours, al though the sm mtenaitrently

Price Four Cents

House Committee Slated To Submit Bonus Measure To Legislature Today BULLETIN Indianapolis. Feb. 24—(UP) —The soldier bonus question today was shelved at least until the 1949 session of the Indiana legislature. In a special meeting to discuss three bonus bills pending before the 85th general assembly. the house ways and means <ommittee voted unanimously to report out, with a recommendation that it be passed, a bill calling for a 1948 referendum to determine if the people of Indiana want to pay their soldiers a bonus. At the same time, chairman Jess C. Andrews. R, West Point, said the other bonus bills would die in committee, thus delaying at least for two years a decision on the bonus question. Indianapolis. Feb 24 (I'P* Tin- Indiana *>«*nati* today pawsed by a Imre majority a highly cantroverxial bill prohibiting pickets from blocking the entrances to struck industrial plants. The vote was 27 to |f>. and the bill advanced to file house where lit faced another fight. Passage of the bill, nrfgiimlly ; ilesclibeil as tile ".inti mass pick- ' etlng" measure came during a busy session .1- the o.’.th getwral assembly moved within ’w<> v eeks of a ijom tniK-nt In other action Imlay: 1 Chairman Jess c indrew of the house ways and means committee pionit-eil the house that ' his committee would bring out a I so'dier bonus bill this afternoon 2 The house passed (he Kan- ’ kakee rlv> r p.i. l; bill, transferrins , *.'>i;*i nun front a tax fund collected for Wolf Laki- pack at Hammond 3 Th< house passed the Foil Wayne superhighway bill, paving* the way for a multi milllotidollar expressway through one of th<.state's largest cilie The controversial labor bill 1 would grant employer free ingress and egress a: strike-hound plants surrounded by pickets |i was passel after a bitter debate in which Sen Charles F Fleming. D. Hammond, shouted that this was 'a day of Infamy It* Incliana ' Hen Palmer I! Edgerton. R . Jonesboro, told the senate tha* GOP leaders approved the bill "because they believe it Is constructive and not anti labor." Fleming said he was glad Edgerton pm the GOP on record as favoring the bill Fleming called the bill "punf•lvc. restrictive vicious anil ahlilalsir ” N< n William (‘ Bates. R . New •t’mnv. frv’vh* the measure He -<d th,, cop majority was "go--e too f»r ’ In the house. Andrew said flat'e that his committee would report” out one of the- three soldier bonus measures after a special meeting nt 1 P m "Gentlemen " Andrew said ' when the house reconvenes at 2 p m you will have a iconus bill" The house* recessed for lunch after a busy morning se«. sion Andrew'- hand was forced on the Imnus bill issue when two Rcpublicans who introduced a measure sponsored bv the* Veterans of Foreign Wars Jan •"> tried t<» prv their bill ou’ of committee* Reps. Ralph G Hines. R. Portland. and John II Metford. It . Seymour. de*mandoet that their bill )te ordered cult of committee for a showdown on the house floor The motion was defeated, but Andrew first promised set ion “I am not saying we should or should not give veterans a bonus.*’ Hines ssM. "tret I heiievw the matter should come up far discasatam " The H lees Metford MU were lei