Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 53, Decatur, Adams County, 4 March 1947 — Page 1

j. XLV. No. 53.

IIRGE SENATE TO RATIFY PEACE TREATIES

Bathers' Pay Ske Restored ||y Committee fl House Ways, Means ■ I Committee Backs 11 Down From Slash ,rr ’ ’ u ,|„i committee ii.li.iie-. t epresenpurse to pave ~w salary seal* BB* ' ' ' 1 hi, ” i h hack-1 <l<»wn n a "> '•? tt.lino.. »a- to have been • •••;u her salaries |K,„ a ••uniiiin:ii of a > p;,r .... |,a ...I by tip- senate, the |M in th. powclful house there it was fl ,|,.| th*’ appropriation This meant the her. woiihln ' much an a. th. y asked for bill out of commit.am- ip for second reading approved with the. t ..tnniitt... member ■Kthe apprapria th.- < ommittee prevtoday. tin- novel - pa. k cigaret bill .tntiv.-d an effort to kilt of a highly <on Be--., closed shop bill ; .-i.t hi' tiiea.ure in tiie face H i; .di. .n- tn.it it would no' for ref.-rendum on the ' ■ by knock - the voter favoring a ..Iso indicate where m..m i .boule! entne from to (or 11. -'or.i'ion of the full appro BUfY .on. .i, some 390 teachers .mniitt.e's action ithe appropriation r.tatv Ib.b.-rt If Wyatt ol -i.o. tea. her- assca la MO.I he had seen the latest ■■tneii'lni. nt and hat it put the t«< k in th.- shape it was in r I.CI- and the Repule .-ommittee to agreement.” Bi ! ' ' c V c.oiernor Cat.-s said In- r. ttular pi’ess conference W * slide the policy committee Wyai' .cgre.nl on a pay in tax l.indiiig <>n the legisla cirar.-t tax bill came up in for second reading, and HV*' Hurd Horst R.. Peru, tried gH>'.<:n.’,d I by removing the tax 3,1,1 ’instituting a clause |H fT'im To n att . ; Column it mMK o V- Os C. To Honor ■Wear Members i Program Is Planned f Here On April 25 |H dir Knights of Columbus are Bw ’ ,iriltl|f to honor the men who been members of Decatur No 864 for the past 25 ■ evening at the regular " f ' he M” 1 ' Tuesday ■? pni 15. was selected as the Hirf" 4 *'* ***** f " r °h»erv*nce 9uarter century night 't'om- ■!*?”'** werF a))WJ riampd lo Jan ■’ h - Program ■ K»lph J Rnop and Edwarl Case M r .“ l, * mw i chairman and co ■?**"“ for •** other members are: Ralph Fred Bashars. Carl Gei■wL.2 ,Mrt ‘’* Richard ■ Fre/u*?"’ I - eon « r '! Merer Hp ' Hah * n Lengerich. ■Lm J 0 *' Jeroas * Heimann. * *""**"* awl Herman M " ***• «***»•<

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

' First Donations To Red Cross Listed The first list of donations to the Red Cross fund is published in this issue of the paper. Contributions from the rural sections and a few from local organizations total 1179.50. The county's quota in the drive is tt>.s2o. and the campaig* was laun last Saturday. —t New Violence In Underground Palestine War Jewish Underground Declares War To Drive Out British Jerusalem. March 4 -<l’P) — The Jewish underground declared a war of ever • mounting ferocity today to drive the British out of Palestine and opened it with a battle of gunfire and crash of expletives which drew blood in several a.altered sectors Two British service trucks were blown up, causing seven casualties. A band armed with small arms and grenades attacked an army camp at Hedera, between Haifa and Tel Aviv. Two soldiers were wounded. Grenades were hurled fr.mi a black limousine into a Haifa military camp The Irgun Zvai Leumi radio broadcast the delclarallon of hostilitiesm an order of the day from Irgunlst comm ender. Nenahem Belgin. oaid this was the l>eginnIng of a struggle which "will be fiercer and fiercer eve y day until the British quit the country." On the third day of martial law in the holy land, the British milltaiy command tightened up regulations in Jerusalem's security zones Emplacement were sa ml bagged afresh, ahd lutrbed wire entanglements were reinforced An anonymous telephone caller warned that the British security zones in Jerusalem would be attacked soon. An underground band struck into one of the zones Saturday to blow up an army officers' :litb. killing 1« The new attack bearing the strongest military imprint was that on the army maintenance carps camp at Hedera. Th.- underground forces deployed in orange groves nearby stru>-k soon after midnight. An hour - long skirmish end.-d with the attackers withdrawing Three British soldiers were injured when t heli aimy tru«-k hit (Turn Tn Page Z. #*«’-!n|" 0 P-

File Remonstrance To Proposed Levee Commissioners To File Remonstrance The c.o unt y commissioner* through county attorney. Ferd L. Litterer. will file a remonstrance against the proponed levee in Wa hath township. It was made known today, The commissioner* decided upon the action Monday in their regular meeting at the courthouae after being informed by the drainage commissioner* for the levee that the county wa* to be assessed the sum of |2.IW for the levee. The commissioners' record disclosed that when permission was asked by Fred Weidler and others to construct the levee that they had “explained the levee would be constructed at the expense of the lindownera affected.” the commissioner* stated. Their record* also show that the petitioners said an IMoot road waa to be built on the levee with (Tu'n Tn Paa* !. Column B) Automobile Dealer Is Killed By Train New Cantie. lad.. Marell 4 —<UP> - Claude Format 4». a Hagerstown automobile deele; • wa* killed last night when the car ha

Truman Cites Friendship Os UA, Mexico President Truman Places Wreath On Mexico Monument Mexico City. March 4— (VPi— President Truman, departing from schedule at his own request, laid a wreath today on the monument to the Ninos heroes (heroic boys), a monument to the Mexican Cadet Corps which died to the last man In defending Chapultepec Castle against an American attack in 1847. The President's gesture emphasized the inter American good neighborliness which he reaffirmed in a speech last night as "the application of democracy to international affairs." Both he and President Aleman referred to the Mexican war <»f 1847 in their speeches last night, and Mr. Truman added, "we have learned the hard way that peace is best at home and abroad with our neighbora.” The monument to lost heroes Ninos is in Chapultepec Park near the castle which the Cadet Corps so gallantly defended against a superior V. S. force on Sept. 13. 1847. The Mexican youths fought to the bitter end When only one man was left. Cadet Lt. Juan De lai Barrera, he wrapjted himself in a Mexican fiug and threw himself over an 800-foot cliff. Mr. Truman, accompanied by foreign minister Jaime Torres Bodet and I'. S. ambassador Walter Thurston, went to Ninos heroes after first laying a wreath on the monument to the Mexican independence at 10 a.m. it was the first stop on a day of lavish sightseeing after last night's address at a state banquet in the National Palace, in which Mr. Truman said the American Republics already have achieved the unity "in substantial measure that the world as a whole must achieve.” From Ninos Heroes. Mr. Tru(Turn to Page S. Column Z) O- — William Buuck Dies Suddenly On Monday Funeral Services Thursday Afternoon William Buuck. 67. lifelong resident of Preble township and prominent retired farmer, died suddenly Monday at his home onefourth mile north of the Friedheim Lutheran church His liody was found in the chicken house at the farm shortly before noon Death was attributed to a heart attack. He was born in Preble township February 11. 1860, a son of Ernest and Sophie Kleinschtnldtßuuck He was marriel April 28. 1905. to Louise Schroeder. He was a member of the Friedheim Lutheran church. Surviving are the wife, five daughters. Mrs. Lena Ostermeyer. Mrs Hilda Roehrs and Mrs. Adelinda Fuhrman, all of Preb'.e township. Mrs Edna Keuneke of Fort Wayne and Miss Lorna Buuck. at home: two sons. Herman of Fort Wayne and Alfred of Preble township: one sister. Mrs. Minnie Roendke of Milwaukee. Wls : one- brother. Chris Buuck of Fort Wayne, and 13 grandchildren Two sons, five sisters snd three brothers preceded him in death. Funeral services will lie held at 1:80 p. m Thursday at the home end at 2 o'clock at the Friedheim Lutheran church, with the Rev E T Schmidtke officiating Burtal will he In the church cemetery The I tody will be removed from :he Zwlck funeral home to the residence, where friends may call after 7 o'clock thia evening WCATHKR Cloudy toniffM: followed by rain or anew in esteems south. , and enow io oesrterel ponwwe wodrnKdsy. ouerspreadmq esteems north portico »U W«»

OHLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, March 4, 1947

Hold Husband In Detroit Killing BF a wy BW* ♦ at ii t j Kkc . ■»? ~X Mrs. Leona C. Painter William Painter DETROIT POLICE are questioning William Painter. 48. estranged husband of Mrs. fa>na ('. Painter. 32. who was found in her Motor City home beaten to death. According to police she had been criminally assaulted.

Decatur Rent Area Is Being Surveyed Study Feasibility Os Rent Decontrol In accordance with Its established iMillcy of abolishing wartime controls In any area where they are no longer necessary, and to carry out the mandates of congress. the office of price administration x>f the offke of temporary controls is conducting a survey in the Decatur OPA rent area to determine whether an improvement in the local housing situation makes it feasilde to decontrol rentals at this time Similar examinations of the situation in rental bousing have been conducted periodically since the beginning of federal rent con-; \y<d. Area rent directors have made regular reports to the Cleveland regional office concerning decontrol possibilitlM. Robert G. Mlban. OPA regional rent representative, is in Decatur to consult local public official*, newspaper editors, company exe entires, and other leaders in the community to obtain information ax to the local housing situation which will be helpful to the reg tonal office in determining whether rent control should be continued or whether pressures on rentals have sufficiently subsided to mak>; decontrol reasonable. Obviously.' the rent representative will be unable to obtain the views of all interested persons, and any person or group desiring to express an opinion as to the feasibility of discontinuing rent control locally lx requested to communicate with Henry J. Zetser. regional rent executive. OPA-OTC.l'nion Com merce Building, Cleveland. Ohio, who will give due consideration to all opinions received (Turn Tn Page 2. Column «>

(Dr Chailex E White. Trinity Evangelical I'nited Brethren Church) "THE BREVITY AND FUTILITY OF LIFE” "Lord, make me to know mine end. and the measure of my davy what It is; that I may know how frail I am " —Psalm 39: 4 All people who arc of discerning minds and who take their existence seriously, often are kei nly aware that life is very brief We may live ten. twenty five, fifty or seventy-five years, and it passes so quickly. Most of us can remember when we sat upon our father's knee at home and perhaps remember our parents as young people. Now. for many of us all that is past Not only have our fathers finished their work, but we find ourselves in mid-ilfe. Little wonder that the Psalmist said on another occasion: "Your life is as a vapor that appeareth for a little while and soon vanisheth away " , Too often we think and act as though this mortal life lx all there is for as. But when we listen to the call of l>*nt and follow the Epistles and Gospels of the season, we are again reminded that Our Blessel lx»rd died to make us free. The sou! of Christ, we are told by the sacred Scriptures, wax made an offering for us. that through faith In Hix offering upon the altar of the cross, we may live eternally. Death Is the gateway to eternal life, is the teaching of our Christian Gospel Hence, amidst the futility and brevity of life we may be assured of something better beyond the grave. Perhaps the brevity of life Itself causes us to think seriously atyi long for eternity In Christ. “Lord, teach ns to pumber our days, that we may apply onr hearts unto wisdom” is a worthy prayer offered by the FwUtuiit After ail. those of us who are In (he best ot health and circumstances ask the ques ion of the axes: "Je there another IlfeF" Saint Paul answer*: "We know that if onr earthly house of this tabernacle ware destroyed, we have a huildtnr of God. an house not made with baud a eternal*,y in the heaven* - Above all wo hoar the voice of Our Bleaeed Lord AU IM* I U the will ol Him that seat me that every sm whkh veeth the Btm. end beiievetb on Him. may have eUrnal life and I will rol«e W» -B •« the test dw

100 Guests Routed By Anderson Hotel Fire Anderson. Ind.. March 4—(VP) —A fire in a maid's closet routed 100 guests from the Milner hotel last night. Hotel employes who discovered the blaze on the third floor of (he fourrtory structure went from room to room notifying the guests that there wax "a small fire." The guests left in orderly fjxhion. Change County Home Room Into Chapel To Begin Work Soon On Converting Room Work at the Adams county homo in converting one of tiie rooms into a chapel for the in mates is t<> begin soon, the county commissioners announced today. The commissioners tna ( de an inI spectiott of the room Monday and received preliminary estimates of the amount of work from a local dealer an I contractor. It Is planned to construct a low er ceiling in the room, which will be finished with an acoustical materia! to offset th>- reverb, ra lions caused by the cement building. An altar is also to be built, when completed, It i“ expected that the chapel will seat about 75 or 8<» p> ople. The home at pres ent has only 43 inmates, but it I was explained - that customarily a church presenting Sunday services *end along enough memlw-rs to swell the congregation In the chapel :o as many as 75 or 89. The conversion was reeom-1 trended s)»me tun)- ago by a circuit court grand jury.

Marshall, Byrnes Urge Prompt Ratification Os Satellite Peace Pacts

Rural Carriers Buck Snow To Carry Mail Complete Routes But After Tough Battle They earned their money Mon day' That was the consensus of opinion all along the rH rural routes operating out of the Decatur post [ office. The six rural carriers! started out as usual Monday morn- ( ing. but before going far. they encountered all sorts of snow drifts. Many experiences were recounted by the six men One carrier at one time was forced to have three different tractors attached to his automobile before he was pulled through ope drift. Others found it necessary to be pulled l»y tractors and teams and in some instances the carriers and volun leers used shovels to clear a path. Some of the men reported that patrons served them with sandwiches and coffee after they had spent an hour or two forcing their way through unusually high drifts. Everyone of the six carriers operating from the local post office mad*- his route and the last man ( to return checked in at 6:B# c'clock Monday night I'nder nor inal conditions every man is in by aiaiut iwam One carrier, who baa a 60-mile route had to drive more than I<M» miles to reach every customer. | Mail was de'ivered to almost every patron In a very few Ins.tances where there was one or two houses on a side roa I. the mall was held up. but delivery was almost 100 pen-ent. it was reported. The main roads have l»*en opened today, but it is expected that some trouble still will be encountered on a few ride roads. All six < arriers checked In as u«ual this morning and start)d al new day. Those who made the enviable record Monlay were Hu-ie-rt Zerkei. route 1; Charles Maloney. route 2: Harry Frltzinger. route 3; Ray Smith, route 4. John S< hlef< rsteln. route 5. (rubstitut ing for Leland Frank, who is Illi, and Gerald Durkin, route 6 (Turn To Pags S. Column St Q Thomas Dague Drops Dead This Morning Funeral Services Thursday Afternoon Thomas J. Dague. 66. well known Decatur resident, dropped dead of ■ heart attack on Mercer avenue, only a few block from his Grant street home, about 5 30 o'clock this morning Mr. Dague. a retired carpenter, was enroute to the office of the Decatur Daily Democrat, where he has been employed for the past three years, when he suffered the fatal seizure He was born In Van Wert county. 0.. March 2. 1881. a son of John Wesley and Mary E Riley Dague but had resided in Decatur for 56 years. He was married to Clara E. Spuller September 29. 1929 at Fort Wayne H weas an active member of the Church of God. Surviving in addition to the wife are two brothers. James H. and Sidney Dague. both of Decatur, and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the Church of God. with the Rev Dwight R. McCurdy officiating, assisted by the Rev. Kenneth A. Hawkins of the Fort Wayne City Mission and the Rev James R Meadows of Decatur. Burial will bo In the Decatur cemetery The body will remain at the Black fun-

Federal Jury Indicts 10 In Black Market Black Market Sugar Ring Indictments Returned By Jury • Chicago. Mar. 4 (VP)—A federal grand Jury today returned indictments against 19 persons in Its investigation of a nation wide black market sugar ring and made new charges against several oth<rs who were indicted last week Merchants and "runners" or dealers In illegal stamps were named in the latest indictments as a federal grand jury under direction of V. 8. district attorney J. Alliert Woll continued its in quiry. Operatives have estimated that the ring's sale of illeclt sugar in volved millions of dollars Yancey Bridgeforth. Chicago negro indicted in January during earlier phases of the sugar invesI ligation, was charged in new in dictments which indicated that he played a major par) in the traf ticking In illegal coupons and It black market sugar ——— Also disclosed In the in lict ments was a story of a “double I cross" —the failure of a runner of the illicit stamps to make payment to one of those indicted who In turn shelled out 1900 of his own money to higher ups. uppar < ntly in fear of gang vengeance James (Big Jim) Winters, taxi cab operator on Chicago's south side, was named in new charges of possessing counterfeit stamps Winters also was named in indict irents returned late last month on charges of possessing counterfeit i tamps. A conspiracy indictment name? Frank Kendall. 42. Chicago Audi (Aleei Miller. 48. Chicago. Bride forth, and "John Doe" St John. 42. on four counts of possessing <I.OOO illegal coupons which were transferee I ultimately to St John It wax learned that in this trail suction Miller was charged with giving the stamps to St John, who gave them to a third party no' named The third person said lie would he back with the money, but did not appear. The stamps, valued at 81.599. then Itecame Miller's burden, and if was alleged that he paid S9OO of his own money to Bridgeforth and collect (Turn To Psge 2. Column 3) Rural Schools In County Are Closed Drifted Highways Keep Schools Shut Ant ijority of the rural nrhools In Adams county remained closed today because of road conditions a survey revealed this morning Memlters of the county highwaycrew. working under the direction cf Ralph Rice, county highwaysupervisor. continued their efforts to open all county roads through out the night. They managed to get a num iter cleared, but some still were blocked tolav when new drifts fell across the roads after the crew had opened a path Attaches of the offices of Ly man L. Hann, countv school saperinfendent. stated this morning tbst they believed nearly all schools remained c'o«ed ra'ber than take s ehaaee of having a bus. loaded with school ehiidraa stranded la a drift A pesslMWty of more saew ami

Price Four Cents

Charges Access To Important Patents On Atomic Bombs Given To Russia Washington March I (VP) — The nation's two foremost dipice mats today urged prompt xenaM ratification Os satellite peace treaties a» a "start <>U Hie road back to peace." Secretary of state George C. Marshall and former secretary James F Byrnes appeared before the senate foreign relations committee on the first of the World War II peace treaties—with Italy, Hungary. Bulgaria and Romania Marshall, who leaves for Moscow tomorrow to start work on the German treaty, said prompt ratification would mark a beginning In overcoming serious postwar disagreement facing the allies. Byrnes said senate failure to ratify the treaties would bring "absolute chaos" Senate approval seems certain Other congressional developments Atomic- bomb Rep J. Parnell Thomas. R . N. J., charged that the government has given Russia access to important patents that may give away technical processes Involved In making of the atomic bomb He said thi- was dona through systematic buying of patents by Soviet organizations. Thomas, chairman of the house committee on unAmerl>an activities. called for u congressional in-v'-xtizatloii lacbor The house labor committee was asked to write a law permitting employers to fire communists without running the risk of Itelng cited for unfair labor practices The request wax made by Eric Johnston, president of the motion picture association of America. There was only a slim < hance congress would write new lalair laws in time to cope with threatened < oal and telephone strikes next month l.il|)-nthal —The senate atomic committee finished its six week hearing on the nomination ot David E Lilienthal to be chairman of rttc V 8 atomic energy commission. Tiie committee mayvote <>n th)- nomination tomorrow, ('ommittee approval is generallyexpected But a long, bitter fight is looked for on the senate floor. Russia Rep Paul Shafer. R . Mich . demanded that the I'nited States take "some positive action'* to compel Russia to evacuate northern Korea and turn the government over to the Koreans. He said the Russians are trying to communize Korea. Congress also concerned itself with these other matters: Subversive activities A house unAmericAn activities subcommittee planned a New York trip tomorrow to learn if an undercover ring is supplying faked passports to foreign agents Chairman Richard M Nixon. R. Cal., said thw group would "follow through on leads'' uncovered in the investigation of Garhart Eialer. alleged top man among Russian sec ret agents In this country. (Turn To Page S. Column <> Late Bulletins Houston. Tex.. Mar. 4 ■— (UP) —At least two persons were missing and 16 injured today when the tanker Lyons Creek blew up in the Houston turning basin where it was berthed for repairs. New Delhi. Mar. 4— (UP)— Thirty persons were killed and 47 were wounded today in communal rioting In the walled eity of Lahore Dunkerque, Mar. ♦—(UP)— Great Britain and France rigned a MJ-yesr military alMance here today. t Foreign Minister Georges Bidault es France and Foreign