Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 58, Decatur, Adams County, 10 March 1947 — Page 1

r o |. XLV. No. 58.

GOVERNOR THREATENS SPECIAL SESSION

■resident To ■resent Greek i ■light To U. S. — ■ 11 On Air Wednesday; Mlilienthal Gains II Committee Approval T. nuun will '•■II con d*- "■ b-.lst.-t <;r.-w- , h> . r I' '» *!>•'»*’“ K l|t -4 «-r■K,, WI.H- u ' JBK,!, Mr Tnilll.it> |iren*etlt<wi the ■K-* to .. -ip;*rli-an group of 13 and «•''■•*"■ m,*mb(-rs believed '•• >■!»'»* '" ,<l l!l ‘‘ 1 ■Komen '*>-» 'He-- h,v, ‘ ■E arms and money to keep it* iht: l -'tinoini-t •-oierii K<4nx , ~ ■■uter the ...nfeten.e one of the ■Kteree hinted that th.- I’resi ■E' ' v, ' n " ,or ” ,l,an J-Se nub mill which official .-* had i'lC.ll. led h- would re for Ilrr. k issue nv rsh.KhiWprl Th< ‘ committee voted S! to ap'hf ' new cominis "■k Sen John W. Bricker. II . K..-,.f Kill fil*-* showed l.llien named of <|iie-t(<>»• title * oininissionei jobs. '.nations Rep. Everett M ... ,| cut in treat. ......f'l.. funds with the de. la that Iteniorratic critics using the same old new deal Th- It.-publicans want th- appropriation to (12. |K f..r the next fiscal year of their drive to trim IS. from President Trit budget v-terans asked congress to federal benefits for 201.00 b n.-.-ssitate increase in E^' jr ' h rman J.-s-e P Wol predicted that the house bank committee would follow the mmltt.e s lead in approv extension of sugar rationing price . oiitroi to March 31. 1945. pay The senate jitdlci Er I*' 1 *' h-t.slatmti to outlaw virtual ' J,,s htr back portal to portal The bill would thro* out ft, mtu 1.00. mm in pending ■'fr ‘ ;! W claims. ships Rep Willis W. H . Cj|. said he will ask I^^Bkislnt am directing the maritime to build two supet f “ r 'he north Atlantic trade Mid they would be “superior < ‘ n> other ships' afloat as big ■ Queen Mary and Queen ‘but considerably fast EE He guessed the cost at about ' for each ship. hater er President Truman told ■E*" '""cressmen about Greece to he pledged them to secrecy White House press secretary G Homk said the Presi » address would cover “the in the near east.” not Greece. T,r " T " '•■«* t'rZtJ’mn t) ■Pecatur Youth Named |E S Congress Page H Do. n 15 f)efa , ar hl(th W and son of .Mr and ■ M ""an of this city has been ■E*** " r “•PresentatHes by conW>»<ma n George Gillie, effet tlqvrP '" ’’ *•’ announced today by lEwn Essex. Adams county Re chairman. KJ; 'oc»l young man will serve mon,h '' «•> 'h- -ongrews K 4 attend regular high school ln w “*lntton. I), c. each WUI work on "»* l * 10 ses ‘ ion untll — i _ W»ATM»R httt! f Tueatfay. | | c*M|» ia temperature.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Case Workers End 438-Day Strike Harvester Announces Reduction In Prices Racine. Win.. Mar. 10—((TP)— ! The outlook brightened for equipment harried fanners today with the end of the 4W day strike iat the J. I. Case Farm Hquipment I company. Case employees, members of the CIO United Automobile Workers ('noin. voted #27 to 448 last night to accept the company's latest offer, which included wage in i creases averaging 25 cents an hour, new grievance machinery and improved vacation allowances. The settlement at the two Ra cine plants officially ended the company wide walkout which liegun Dec. 2d. 1*45 Racine. Bur llngton. la . Rockford an I Rock Island, 111. It also indicated an end to the farm equipment short age which has |.lagtted the nation. The J. I. Case settlement followed an announcement last Saturday that the International Har veater company planned price reductions which would have farm ers 120,000.000 annually The reductions. the company said, were based on the premise that there I would be no more strikes, no In crease in coat of raw materials, and satisfactory settlement of ! present contract negotiations. Farm leaders haile-l the week end developments as the removal of a major bottleneck that has kept farm production cost high. The Caso settlement left the strike at the Aliis Chalmers farm equipment plant at West Allis. Wls., the only major postwar labor dispute still unsettled. The Aiks Chalmers strike, involving C.Shft workers, began April 30. HMfi. The company has continued operations, however, and company officials said that a majority of the workers had returned to work The Case strike originally involved 3.500 workers here, hut many of these were wartime employes In excess of the normal complement ■ ■—o — Will Confer Tonight On County Hospital Representatives of the state department of health will inert in Decatur tonight with the Adams county memorial hospital staff, county commirtsloners and officers of the Adams county society. The meeting will be held at the hospital at 7:30 o'clock, but the nature of the meeting was not announced.

Confirmation Rites Held Here Sunday Bishop Noll Gives Sacrament Sunday Impressive rites of the Catholic church marked (he confirmation ceremonies at St. Mary's church Sunday afternoon as the Moat Rev. Bishop John F. Noll, D. D.. of Fort Wayne, imparted the sacrament to a class of aliout 130 children and adulta. Tlte confirmands and their sponsors proceeded to the sanctuary of the church, where Bishop Noll administered the sacrament Bar* Iler, the children marched from the Catholic school building to the church, where pews were reserved for them and their sponsors. Bishop Noll conducted a short examination among the children, asking them question* pertinent to confirmation and the reception of the sacrament. Bishop Noll also made a short talk to the congregation on the Importance of being confirmed and how the sacrament imparted spiritual graces to become Christian soldiers in the ranks of the Lord. Russia's opposition to religion and Catho Deity was also mentioned by the bishop. In bls instructive discourse Bishop Noll was assl«ted by the Very Rev Magr. Joseph J. Seimeta. pastor, and the latter's assistant. the Rev. Ignatius Vicharas, during the ceremonies Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament wu givtm at the conclusion of the

Lewis, Union Fight Request For Mandate Oppose Government ,Bid For Immediate Mandate By Court BULLETIN Washington, March 10.— (UP)—The supreme court today declined to rule immediately on whether ite mandate directing John L. Lewis to cancel hie April 1 coal strike notice should be issued at once as requested by the government. Washington. Mar. 10— (I’Pt John L. Ix-wis and the United Mine Workers today opposed a government request for an immediate supreme court mandate directing them to withdraw their strike notice within five days. Welly K. Hopkins. I'MW attorney, filed formal opposition to the government's request with the supreme court. He said the action was taken “not for rtie pur (tore of delay but that justice may be done.” "The public interest will not in any manner Im* adversely affected by allowing the normal and reasonable time for the consideration and preparation of a petition for rehearing." Hopkins said. The supreme court ruled last Thursday in a sweeping 7 to 2 decision that Lewis could not void his contract with the government before the courts have determined whether he has that right. It upheld a SIO.OOO contempt of court fine against Lewis and reduced a 23.500.000 fine against the union to 1700,000 on condition that the March 31 coal strike call be withdrawn within five days after the court's final mandate is issued. Normally, this mandate is issued 25 days after the decision is ant ounced. The government is asking an immediate mandate, which would force l<ewls to cancel his strike call before the week is out. Hopkins noted that under the court rules Lewis and the union (Turn Tn Pave (. Column ’O

Traffic Takes Hine Lives In Indiana Two Men Are Killed By Hit-Run Autoist * By United Press Traffic accident* claimed at least nine lives in Indiana during the week-end Two men were killed whenj struck by a hit-run car In f*ake county. Two others of the victims were pedestrians. For the second straight weekend the death toll did not include any fatalities caused by railroad trains. The dead were: Luren J. Ritenour. 22. Whitewater. 0., killed when hU car left U S 2A and hit a tree near Elkhart. Fred Petrik. 78. killed at San Pierre when struck by an automobile as he walked across a street. Paul Seman. 51, and John Janov, 55. East Chicago, killed by a hitrun automobile at Whiting. Jacob Myers. «5. Medora, killed when a truck hit him as he walked along a road near Medora. Warren C. Furlong. 19. Detroit. (Turn To Page 3. Column 7) Sen. Barkley's Wife Dies This Morning Washington. March 10 —(UP) —Mrs. Alben W Barkley. «5. wife of the senate Democratic leader, died today after g long illness Death rc*uit<*d from heart disease She had been iii for more than four years She died at the family home hete At her bedside was the Kentacky senator aud a daughter. Mrs Max O*Reli Truitt at Washington She also leaves s son. David Bark ley of Pmluchah. Ky . and another daaehtor. Mrs. Douglas MacArthur IL wife of the nephew of Gen DouglM MocArtkur.

OMLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, March 10, 1947

A Senior In A Junior College § le. nA NOT MISSING A TRICK as*he attend* a < lass in anatomy and ch. inistry at San Francisco Junior College is James George Nicklen. 7». a former plumber and seaman. Bespectacled and liearded. Nicklen Is shown with Rebecca Akana and Anna Dotneeus (right». two or his younger classmates—at least tin years younger.

U. S. Army Calls In All Military Scrip Orders Crackdown On Counterfeiting Frankfurt. March 10 — (UP)— The American army cracked down on worldwide conterfeltfng of its military scrip today by giving occupation personnel a maximum of nine htairr to surrender Its current scrip for a new iasue. Gen. Joseph McNarney said the! scrip conversion period “in Germany and throughout the world" was part of a U.‘ S. treasury, state and war department measure Io strip “hoarders” of illegal scrip. He *aid the three departments were "insist'-nt on devising a system of currency which can be used by authorized personnel at army facilities throughout the world.” .In Tokyo. Gen. Itotiglas MacArthur's headquarters said the mesMure was to frustrate counterfetiting and "mitigate the increasing tendency on the part of local populations to regaid this currency as legal tender." i A small scale finaclal panic gripped foreign nationals in Japan soon after the announc, ment was made Many of them. Tokyo reported, were caught flat footed with thousands of dollars of scrip which will be worthless. I McNarney said new scrip would lie issued and warned that surprise call-ins might Im* expected in the future until counterfeiting was whipped. First reports said the army's financial trap snapped shut on European counterfeiteis with initial success Nine persons were arrested in (Turn To l*aae J. Column «•

Local Soldier, Stationed In Japan, Lauds Red Cross Work

“It is a great organization as far as we fellows overseas here are concerned.' This is the timely assertion of Pvt. Owen C. Wemhoff. now serv ing with the U. S. army in Japan, concerning the American Red Cross, which today is in the midst of its 1947 membership campaign "Being a G. I. from Decatur and having read your name in the paper as chairman of the drive. I thought I would drop you a few lines on just what the Red Cross means to us." Pvt. Wemhoff wrote to Phil Sauer, county (hairman of the Red Croaa drive. "For instance." he continued. “I wish you could have seen us arriving here at Camp Render on Christmas Eve after 15 days aboard ship We ware very downhearted and blue and then on Christmaa Day the Rad Cross put on n wonderful Uttto show for us "They had small Japanese children and other Japanese put on a real Ckrtatma* program It really \ -a

Spore Stomp 11 Good For 10 Pounds Sugar Washington. .March 10 <UP> The office of pt Ice administration announced today that spun* stamp II in ratio i books will l»e---come good on April 1 for 10 pounds of sugar. Stamp No. 53. now good for five Itounds of *ugar. expires March 31. OPA said that barring unfore- ! seen circumstances, it will be poai slide to make another 10 pound stamp valid on July I. o — Raise Bread Prices In Several Cities I Wholesale Price Os Butter Falls M *1 IIH Bv United I'tesu The price of bread was raised in several major American cities, chiefly east of the Mississippi, today as the price of wheat from which bread flour is made continued its rise. Most bread price rises were confined to one or two cents a loaf. Meanwhile, tile wholesale price of butter was falling off at Chicago I and New York from three to 1 slightly over four c**pts a pound » ——an—— — Higher In Decatur Retail bread prices were increased one cent per loaf in Decatur this morning, as forecast late last week I Such changes on the wholesale market usually are followed quickly by retail price changes. Early wheat prices at Chicago wen* three to 5 % cents higher. (Turn To I’age ( Column ••

cheered us and helped make it ( seem like Christmas They also 3 had presents for us and each one ( was just as anxious to get a pre , sent as if he had lM»en at home. "It is like visiting your relatives 1 when the Red Cross is over here. > Such things make a fellow feel 1 that he is not forgotten. I have < also seen many of the thing* done, by the Red Cross workers, such as wrapping packages for us. send ing telegrams home and letting ' parents know how we are getting ' along I “Not long ago they supplied our entire battalion with heavy wool \ sweaters Many people get the , wrong idea on the Red Cross and as one of the G. I.’a. I would like | to say that the Red Croaa in truly i a friend of G. I. Joe. “I want to with you all the sue i ceee la the world in your drive ' And I believe it to time that peo I pie should know exactly bow we < feel sboat this great organisation.'

Demands Assembly Vote Gasoline Tax Hike Or Face Special Session

Six Persons Die In Fires, Explosions Nation Is Swept By Flurry Os Fires By United Press Six persons were dead an I damage was estimated at more than 13.0410.1KH> today from a flurry of fires and explosions that swept the nation Sunday. An Indianapolis rooming house fin* took the lives of three men. John Moore, 45; Ralph Dehoff. 2k. | and Bernard Callon. 42. Fires routed hotel guests In York. Pa . I Philadelphia and Gary. Ind. Two explosions that wrecked the Cities Service Co. booster station near Blackwell, Okla., claim ed three lives. The victims were Ralph E. McCormick. 3S. an oiler; j Doyne H. Powledge. 31, an oiler and Carl Daniels. 45. an engineer Company officials sail the blasts occurred when the natural gas line gave way under severe pressure and the gas was ignited by hot metal in the plant , Gas was cut off from industrial users in parts of Oklahoma. Kansas and Missouri. Service was continued to home and cornmer , <-!al consumers from other linos Witnesses said the second exphtsion occurred in the air. send Inga pillar of white* flame high Into the air and illuminating the entire town The compression station was i said to have been the largest of Its kitrl In the United States and was located on the 2<i in< h pipe line which carried an estimated 240.A00.n0d cubic feet of gas daily ftom the Hugoton field of Kansas and Oklahoma to users through < ut the midwest A tobacco warehouse and five business concerns were destroyed earlv Sunday bv a fire which ravageil a downtown business section of Danville. Va . causing an estimated loss of n.non.nno. The flames started in an auto supply store, but the cause of the b'aze not determined. The ware house, belonging to the Virginia Carolina company, was stockel with inn.noo pounds of dried tobacco. Also destroyed were a restaurant, hardware store, truck ti rminal and barber shop One Auto Accident Reported By Police Automobile Theft Is Also Reported One accident, a stolen car. a court arraignment and the Issu anco of several “red" ticket* were reported today by poll e chief Ed Miller from the weekend city police blotter. Damage was estimated at IISS about 4:30 pm. Sunday when cars driven by Harlan Lltner.so. Jackson. Mich, and Mslir C. Hines. 1 35. Fort Wayne, collided north of the intersection of Thirteenth I street and Nuttinan avenue. The accident occurred as the Hines auto etopped and the other vehicle struck the rear end of thej Fort Wayne car No one was knit Officer Adrain Coffee investigated Car Stolen Peter D. Schwartx of Monroe stroot reported to police about 4:IS a m. Sunday that his car was stolen from a parked position at 1131 Wttrt Adams street. The vehicle W described as a 1938 green Dodge four-door sedan, liearinff 1947 Indiana plates numbered 521.385 Police are pressing at least one good clue to the identity of the thieves. Chief Miller reported continuously giowing cooperation among motorists bars is observing traffic laws and overtime parking rogulattoos. (Tara To Pag* L Column 4)

Moscow Parley Opened Today By Big Four ' I Molotov Proposed ' Chinese Situation Added To Agenda i Moscow. March 10 <UP)--Soviet foreign minister V M Molotov in a surprise move at the out ’ set of the Big Four conference!' opening In Moscow pro|<osed today to add the Chinese situation to the'' Agenda of the council of foreign,’ ministers. The foreign ministers of the 1 United States, Russia. Great Bri 1 tain and France opened the Mos-1 cow conference, aimed primarily 1 at discussion of German and Aust 1 rian treaties, with an Initial see- ’ Mon of a little less than two hours Secretary of State George <’. ' Marshall reiterated before the 1 council met in Soviet house of avia • tion industry his demand for a Big Four treaty to keep Germany ' disarmed and demilitarized Molotov raised the question of 1 China at the Spadeworth gathering < of the ministers, declaring that they had agreed previously on ' the neiessity for a united Chinu He observed that the situation < there had not Improved, and pro I posed that It be studied at this I meeting ' Marshall reserved decision on < Molotov's propos.il until tomorrow ) He indicated in his remarks That I hf- might not approve unles. a representative of China sat in on ' the discussions The proposal < thereupon was carried over until i tomorrow. ■ The Soviets gave no advance t notice of raising the question of , discussing China here. , Great significance was attach ] ed to the Russian move. Inasmuch ( as Marshall returned from China after failing in a year's effort to • unify the Kuomintang and Coin . inunist factions. He was recalled , from China to become secretary j of state in January. Molotov warned his colleague* , that they all faced a "by no means t easy task" in forging the treaties f of peace for Germany and Austria In opening the conference hi , the newly redecorated house of ( aviation industry Molotov told hi* , associates that a sound basis for writing the peace of Germany had j been achieved at the Yalta and ( Potsdam conferencM .Molotov praised the work of the allied control council and the for eign ministers' deputies in London ( in their preparation of the preliminary drafts of treaties for Germany ' and Austria. Grover Hollingsworth 1 Dies Saturday Night — Adams County Native i Dies In Evansville Funeral services will he held ’ Tuesday aftenwion at Oblong. 11l for Grover Hollingsworth. 59. a native, of Adams county, who died , Saturday night at his home in I Evansville. I The deceased was born and reared near Geneva, but had*been gone front the county for the past 35 years He had visited here fre qucntly. the last time in the sum mer of 1945. Surviving, besides the widow. 1 are two daughters and three bro-1 there. The late Harl Hollings ' worth, former sheriff of Adams, county, was a brother ÜbUI resent ly when be moves! to Evansville, he and hU family bad resided tn Oblong. Mrc Rutb Hollingsworth, of tkiq city, a *i» ter in law es the dece»sed. and her daughter. Betty, left ihi, morning to attend the funeral.

Price Four Cents

House Republicans End Caucus Without Making Agreement On Gates' Demands Indiagapsilis, .Mar io —(UP)— A caucus of house Repuidis-ans brok<- up toslay without any agreement on Governor Gates' <l<-tnan<l that the legislature avoid a special session l>y raising the stale gasoline tax In .'ore midnight tonight. A second caucus was set for 3 p. nt., after a sub-committee was appoints* I to sillily ligutos prs*sented by Gates and questioned by some of the GOP nuilorlty representatives ft was learned. Gates, who this morning threatened to call a special ss*ssiifn If the house failed to pass u bill tnising ths* gas tax one cent a gallon, reitered hi- intentions befors* the caucus. “I can call one tomorrow, you know." hs* told the house Ri|tublicans. according to a reliable source. Those who questioned his fit*tires on th<* financial condition of the state highway department claimed that ths* department has "unknown surpluses" and could match federal roa I program funds v-i hoiit the n<*cet<lty of raising the gas tax from three to four rents a gallon But Gates was adamant, ft was learned Hs- tolil ths- legislators that if they passesl th'* hill without ths* gas tax increase clause, he would veto the measure ami it would mean a loss of 35.00A.AAA In stats- distributions io cities ansi counties That Is what ths* bill provided lieforo the remits* added tbs- gas tax increase amendment. Meanwhile, the senate killed the “community property" bill after a sonfs-rence committee aske I that flu bill be mads* a law Supreme < our judge James A Emmert, who said he was speaking as a citizen, s-ondemnesl the bill In a senate talk ami tin- senator* upheld a motion that the mca*ur< be (Histpmied indefinitely Emmert said the bill would "cause So years of litigation" in the courts and that the state would lose “untold millions' in f'.herifance taxes The governor saisl he was considering a spe< ial session after a conference with legislative leaders. The ca* tax hike bill was otis* or this* important issues remaining unsettled as the lawmakers reconvened for the final day The major problems fating th** legislators as they came back after a oneday test from last week's busy six-day grind were a bill raising the state gasoline tax. a community property bill, and a trtick weight and size regulating r*onsiire The rest of the issues, most of them of considerably more importance, were deflated longly and loudly and settled earlier in the session, which liegan last Jan ft. Among them were locgl option, liquor politics divorce, the primary vs <-on»* t»ion nominating systems. the Jttyearold Wnlf Lake park controversy, labor legislation. school feather salaries, the outlawing of the Ku Klttx Klan end other hate organizations, hnprove I health facilities, a three* cent sapack cigaret tax. and the (Turn To Paa* S. r«l'imn «» Late Bulletins Washington, March 10— (UP)—The supreme court today ru'ed that foremen and other supervisory employes are entitled to collective bargaining rights under the Wagner labor relations act. London. March 10—(UP)— The government opened criti* cal debate in commons jn its economic policies today with announcements that passenger train service would be cut 10 percent May 1 and aomaatie