Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 64, Decatur, Adams County, 17 March 1947 — Page 1

XLV. No. 64.

BOUSE TO RECEIVE TRUMAN AID MEASURE

Mis Mandate Smered Into Bed Mar. 20 ; BHI — *W®irects Lewis To KKoncel His Threat | Es Another Strike >Bld'll"-" 1 - I March 2" it-* man-1 ,ln>-< John I. L*-wis to hi** another V ■„>. <<ial Urik" on April 1 until March *«■»">' 1,,, ‘ r, " ,r ' > ~r,,' r ,f---n- <!<• ">•' IS Workers will be fined 13. I IK m-'-a'l of 'he $700,000 '<> I || le K-dUl'll » U■ M it '. riK- < oil" ruled against an( i the <>" March fi ■ Brmally '!>•• court* formal ESiia'<-< are not handed down after decisions «K uni .-<! That would have; ■ K March 21 in the Lewis case ■j» today- a*'ion 'he high court effect days 'hat* -' onlin.ity procedure followed. now recall by March .IX notice for a new strike of ri ,<t to.il miners midnight ’SSL ’1 if he fails to comply Btßf.il i ' fine arainst the will assessed. If he doc* hB I ' l, "‘ fln ‘‘ |M "*' ,u< '* a *” |Kn«i under the high court's dec ■ Uphold* Firing Mar 17 tl’Pl |Bn*| supreme court today upheld of 'he civil service tom fire communists nnd ; travelers" from the gov-1 d,., lined to review the case ' of the war manpower com who was discharged in on orders of the commission findini: "a reasonalde doubt" loyally to the I'nlted Stales ■ ■ iwiteduian appealed after the ■ •tg .j| district court and the I’ S ot appeals here refused to ■M>-: hi?, reinstatement ■K- jnueii that tin- order for his ■Anis-al solely her ause of his po vi< ws violate! Iris consti ■ I'ti.iliiiati said that the "loyalty used by the commission to Mil ermine which employe or apfor government jolts are to the communist patty ■S- was a direct violation of ■n<'l i't> To I* ir» J. Column It I W’ ons C' u b T° s ee ■tom Bomb Movies SHlffi'i.d I’ S navy movies of the bomb test at Bikini atoll in ■ > Pa. die Will Ite shown Tuesday at the regular meeting of I Decatur Lions cltth in the of Pythias home. 89T!..' movi.. w.|| in' hide ehots bn i>y 'he more than 50 cam■H kv u—d in photographing the Fll ' f ont the time of making preta'iotis, through the blast and .tps of damage afterwards ■i I,Jil Han. her of the local Gen b ‘ .b e trie plant, who arranged ||K *''■ i'" movies here, will in charge „f lhH p ogram. "Still ■ ~f particularly intereMtliig will also !>e shown BB — o 1 ■' o Hiechty Child Dies Bunday Afternoon ■Jwry Stuart Liechty. 11-month ■•son of Mr and Mrs. Gordon ■*">'y <>f Heme, died of cerebral ■•nmgitis Sunday afternoon at the ■“"is county memorial hospital ■’rrtving in addition to the parents I." three sisters. Itmh Doris and ■“’•jo le, and a brother. Curtis. a* hum*-. HFuuera! wl || )m . held a , Tuesday 3t the Flr , t Menchtfrth in Berne, with the I£ r b 1 '’ 1 ' Kr *hbiel officiating If , * 4 - * !•> the MRE cetne IK?.. !,od >’ »as removed from | K ***’ r f “neral home to the re* ■ nee (hi* afternoon. fi'S 0 11. WEATHER M- * r>lly ~ir ‘•"‘••’t «nd TuasUfctrJ? C * Pt f ° r ** ! * W *•**••• »" | Kt la tanight. a tlmX. Mwth por

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Pres. Truman To End Vacation Wednesday Key West. Fla.. March 17.—(I'Pi —The White House announced today that President Truman's Florida Vacation will end Wednesday afternoon. White House pres* secretary Charles G Ross said Mr. Truman had "greatly lienefited' 1 - from his stay at the U. 8. navy submarine base here. o— — Bodies Os 11 Leading Nazis Were Cremated Bodies Os Goering And 10 Other Top Leaders Cremated (Copyright. IM7, by Vnited Pres*.) Frankfurt, March 17.—ft'P) — The bodies of Hermann Goering and his 10 fellow- Nazi leader*

were cremated on the day of the maun execution last Oct. 16 and the ashes sifted Into a at ream at Munich—birthplace of the Nail party. Thun, for these 11 topflight Nazi* at leant, the road ended where It began after a cataclysmic cycle of destruction. Five months and a day after the Nuernberg executions and sul-' clde of Goering, the I'nited Press was able today to reveal how the bodies were disposed of. The U. S. army had dropped a curtain over the events following the Nuernberg hangings. It had Might to preclude any possibility of furnishing a "shrine" for any Nazi fanatics who now or in the future might worship at the place j where their idols last reposed. Now the word has come that ( photographs of the dispersal of the Nazi ashes are being offered for sale in the I'nited States. And so the secret, unveiled by I’nited Press correspondents in four Ger man cities after weeks of checking, no longer is a secret. In the Ostfriedhof area of east Munich is a German civilian cemetery and a gray stone building l<> feet wide and HO feet long. It Is j as high as a three-story house, and is surrounded by a six-foot stone wall which contains the chapel In the basement is a gas oven for cremation. Eleven Itodies were cremated there last Oct. 16. The oven could handle only one coffin* at a time. The wood was heavier than that In the normal; German cremation casket. It took all day to do the job. It was 11 pm. before th" cremations (Turn To Psge &. Column 0 Mrs. Orlen Fortney Dies Saturday Night Funeral Services* Tuesday Afternoon Orlen Fortney, and a lifelong real-, dent of Adams county, died at 6:36 o'clock Saturday evening at her home in Pleasant .Mills after a five months illness of a heart ailment. Rhe was born in Rt. Mary's township October 15. 1879. a daughter of Henry and Mary, Strickler-Jackson Rhe was a memlter of the Pleasent Mills Baptist church and the Women of the Moose Surviving in addition to the husband are her step-mother. Mrs. Ida Jackson of Piqua. O.: four sons. Harry Fortnev of Decatur. Frank and John of Pleasant Mills and Rtrtseil of Sturgis. Mich.: two daughters. Mrs. Ralnh Izme enberger and Mrs. Harold Daiah. both of Pleasant Mills: one brother. Herbert Jackson of Zanesville. O.: two sisters. Mrs- Otis Martz of Dunkirk and Mrs Raymond Mansbn of Piqua. O : Ove grandchildren and one greatffrandchild Funeral services will be held al l:M p. m- Tuesday at the home end nt t e'eleek at the Plaaaant Milla Baptist ehureh. with burial at Plaaaant Milla.

UN Commission Probes Greek Border Incidents

yri UML. lOtfi m ‘i -i SB® * B 9 ' ■MHWBgaiBaM. -"Wl 'i K < H UNITED NATIONS commission sent to investigateiborder Incidents in Greece arrives in motor convoy at Polyghyroa. acocmpanied by a motorized military escort of Greek troop* in Polyghyros anti other western Macedonia towns, the commission is seeking the guerillas story on the terrorridden incident*.

Margaret Truman In Radio Debut Sunday First Performance Is Well Received Detroit. Mar. 17—(UPj - Mar garet Truman was to return to Washington by plane today after launching her professional singing career in a nationwide radio broalcast last night. The American Broadcasting system estimated that 15.00ft.00ft persons listened to Miss Truman, the first child ot any president to seek a professional career. Her first performance was received favorably by the majority of music critics.' many of whom said the 23 year-old singer needed additional study before starting on the operatic career she had dreamed of for 10 years. Miss Truman said she had no immediate plans except "to ge' a little rest." She talked wiih her parents by a threeway telephone hookup last night—the president at Key West. Fla . and Mrs Truman in Washington — and then said laughingly "they were just as relieved as I am that it's all over." Her parents like the perform anse. she said, "but of (-ourse. they're a little prejudiced" Dr Karl Krueger, director of the Detroit symphony orchestra with whom Miss Truman appeared es a guest star on the "Sunday Evening Hour" (ABt’i said. -'I was very happy and proud to have pre sente i Miss Truman at her debut I think she will have a great career." The studio audience was limited to some 3ft newspaper critics, (Turn to Page Column

Red Cross Campaign Continues In County Donations Os Over $2,000 Are Reported Solicitation at th* Decatur General Electric factory started today to highlight thia week’s portion of the 1947 lied Cross campaign Supplies were furnished to the plant last week by Fells Maier, indikitrial chairman of the campaign. and the drive was scheduled to open this morning. To date on Industry, the Schafer company with a total contribution SHI. has reported the <-ompletion of Its solicitation. With the drive In full swing, a total of 52.1J5.77 was deported late I Saturday afternoon in the offices jof the Adams county chapter of the j Red Crows by Mrs. Ruth Hollingsworth. executive secretary Officials of the chapter and respective drive chairmen today reiterated their convictions that the campaign here will go over the top and exceed the M. 120 quoU given the c»uaty

OKLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Mo ndoy, March 17, 1947

Ex-Veteran Receives Check For Two Cents Much has been written recently aliout ex-servh e/nen receiving a 5cent terminal leave check and yesterday one reported getting a 3-ceitl check from the federal government. But lEdwin H. "Spot" Kaufman, city auditor, can top them ail. He lias received a check for two cents, along with a |4uft terminal leave bond He said he had no intentions of spending the, two cents, hut prefem to keep lhe uncashed check as a memento of his service in the army. 0 MacArthur Proposes Japan Peace Treaty Urges Early Action By Allied Powers Tokyo, Mar. 17— tl'Pi —Gen Douglas MacArthur proposed today that the Allied powers quickly write a Japanese peace treaty, withdraw all their troops Immediately after its signature and turn over control of Japan to the t'nited Nations. "Conditions presently are ripe to initiate peace conversations." the supreme commander told a foreign correspondents' luncheon. "After the peace treaty, the control of Nippon should be entrusted to the Allied nations" MacArthur urged an end to the "economic blockade." Its effects on Japan are more deadly than the atomic homb. •>< said. He proposed an immediate reparations settlement. "The present economic strangulation of Nippon is worse than the atomic bomb." the supreme cmtnianler told the foreign cordub. He said lt_ threatens to endanger millions of Japanese Ilves MacArthur In a rare public appearance surprised the correspondent* by answering question* for publication. Hi* answer* disclosed his Idea* on the future of the defeated country.

His recommendations included: 1. Withdrawal of all Allied •roops from Japan as soon as the (Turn To Page J. Column •) * Order Arrests Os One-Plate Drivers • Indianapolis. March 17. —(CPI— Troopers at the 10 Indiana state police posts today were ordered to continue arrests of drivers displaying only one license plate on their vehicle. Col. Robert Rmsow. state police superintendent, aaid the only exceptions were motorcycles, trailers. semi-trailers, house cans, farm tractors and special farm machinery. all of which must display a single plate while in operation Fines up to 1500 or • sentence up to six months, or both, may be meted tc violators. Roeeow warned

Nine Persons Killed As Train Hits Auto Nine Young People Killed In Illinois West Frankfort. 111.. March 17— (TPI Police said today that the | driver of the car in which nine i young persons were killed in a train accident Sunday had apparently speeded up ill an effort to cross an intersection ahead of a ' switch engine f Frank King, fireman of the slow ' iy moving engine, said the driver appeared to have seen the engine | and tried to slow down, but "saw that wouldn't work and tried to ' speed up again.' He said the car was traveling about Cft miles per hour as it approached the crossing. The victims were Wilma Fern Arnett. 20. West Frankfort tele phone operator; her sister Goldia Leah Arnett. 19; Peggy Williams. 1R: Thelma Vineyard. 18; and John Gaddis. 22. all of west Fr ink fort; Samuel l.eo t'offell. 21. «on of the chief of police of nearby Christopher. III.; Randall Harris, 24. Christopher; Mike Pttskar. 22. Valier. 111., and Howard Nlldett, 0 24. Christopher. 111. Police did not IcHrti who was driving the car. The crew of five on the engine, operated by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad, escaped injury. C. R. Gurthie. the engineer, said the car wa* "folded like a tin can that's been la-at around in a game of shinny One man was part way out of the car. They all look'ed dead. We didn't tom k them. I It wa* horrible." The victim* were returning from a night club when the accident (Turn To Pag* Col ;tnn 7> Surveyor Warns On Unauthorized Order Land Owners Given Warning By Officer

County surveyor Virgil F. Bowers today reminded fanners and all rural land owners that his office had no authorised deputies j In the field. This warning came from the county surveyor, after he received several reports, he said, ’lint men purportedly carrying the authorization of deputy surveyors ordered ditches cleaned Surveyor Bowers aaid tint only* deputy John W Tyndall of his offices in the courthouse uad the authority as a deputy to order the ditches cleaned. In al least one instance, be said, the unauthorised person ha? supervised the cleaning of a ditch by his own men after the landowner had failed to abide by ’his order.'* Coot of the cleaning had than boon lodged against the owner un lawfully. Mr Bowers stated.

Doubt Congress Able To\ Complete Action Before Deadline Os March 31

Russia Makes Bitter Attack Against Turks Oppose Proposal To Permit Turkey To Aid On Treaties Moscow. Mar. 17—(VPI Russia icslay injected the fir**t indirect , reference to President Truman's j new Greek and Turkish policy in 'to big four discussions in the course of a bitter attack against , giving Turkey a consultative voice _ j in drafting the peace treaty for Germany. The reference occurred in the course of a bitter attack by Soviet deputy foreign minister Andrei V \ ishinskv upon the American sug gent ion that small nations, including countries which did not contribute military force’s, be Invite! to form a consultative committee on the treaty

j Speaking In the deputies group ' studying the German treaty. V’ishinsky took oblique note of Mr Truman's proposals l>y quoting a 1 passage of Henry Wallace's at- - tack on the presidential plan in support of his demand that Turkey lie (tarred Vishinsky said that ’’an American polltlctan had admitted that Turkey grew fat on the war." The quotation wa* from Wai lace Vi*hinskv'« attack followed a barrage by the Soviet press with It i charged that the I’nile I States is trying to devise a German peace ' treaty foimula under which a western power majority could impose Its will upon a Soviet minority through "ni(-( iisini'-al voting " A commentator in the newspaper Pravda attached the Amerii can delegation as the big fmr foreign minister*, plunging Into their second week of negotiation*. ~'(Til' d Tn Page 1 Cnliimn II o 12 Dead In Latest Storms In Britain New Gales Expected To Add To Damage London. March 17. — tl’Pl — Fresh gales were predicted today for Britain in the wake ot a lft«-milean-hour wind and rainstorm Which left at least 12 persons dead and flattened buildings like war time bombing. Seven lighters were sunk nt i various place* around the coast 1 Efon'SJßlaxingJ.iehls. * •''* fbw.d"<l Army tank* and "ducks" were used to rescue inamoned person*. At one place a t woman wa* rescued an hour before *he gave birth to a child Renctie techniques perfected In the "blitz” days were revived hy tin hatted police squad* burrowing through the rubble of -mashed buildings for victims. Score* of peraon* were injured Driving rain during 'he next 24 hour*, predicted liy the air ministry. wa*. expected to worsen flood condition* along the Thames and other streams in southern England At Reading. 25 miles west of lamdon, wate|« from the Thame* I rolled through city streets a mile | from the river hanks. It was the ; worst flood there in 50 years . I The playing fields of Eton were waterlogged The college wa* closed and It* 1100 boys sent home The royal town of Windsor, across the Thames, was almost cut off by the flood water* A flee of 4<M> army trucks carried water to London'* east end. where flooded waterworks cut off normal supplies to more than 1.000,000 person* Radio amateur* (Tara ffls P*os z. Columa I)

Speaks Thursday iSaT RobuM Kazmayer, popular an alyst (■national and international affairs, noted world traveler, all thor and reporter. Is the first speaker on The Talk of Hour < lul> i programs. He will speak here Thursday evening a- th" t'aihdh high schcad auditorium Season I tickets for lhe five entertainments t scheduled 'his spring and n< x- ; fall may still be obtained from | Miss Joan Wemhnff or Gordon Harvey 40 Women Enrolled For Home Nursing Red Cross Classes Meet Twice Weekly Forty Decatur women are enrolled in the two Red Cross home nursing classes, which were or ; ganlzed last weel*> Instructions are given by Mis Harold Hoffman, registered mime of this city, at Red Cross head ! quarter* on Madison Street Mrs Roy Price is chai-tnan of the home nurses' division The lihul inembeix of the das ses. which meet on T ie«d iy and Thursday, Wednesday and Friday are: Mrs. Slewart McMillen. Mr* Clyde Jones. Mrs. Max Leona dson. Mrs. Paul llffyard. Mrs Clyde Drake. Mie Harold Thieme. Mis Waller Eicher. M s Lawr<-nie \n drew*. Mrs Charles Drake Mr* Itosettu Jackshn. Miss Alice Tumldeson. Mrs Charles Maloney. Mrs. Albert Davidron. Mrs. Ray Mertz. Mrs William Lough. Mrs Forest latke, Mrs M inda Ward. Mrs Harold Sautter. M«c Janice Slaybough. Mrs Jake Hostettler. Mrs Herman Krtieckelterg. Ml** (Turn To Psge 5. Column t» ( > . Louise Bultemeier Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon Mr* Louise Bultemeier. S7. widow- of the late Ferdinand liulte meir. died Saturday afternoon other home in Allen county, one mile southeast of Poe, after a long illness Death was attributed to senility She was bom In Adam* county July 211. I*s#. a daughter of Dietrich and Wilhelmina Schen-mann-Gallmeier Her huwhand died January 10. 194 R She was a member of the Friedhelm Zion Lutheran chur< h Surviving are five sons. August and Martin, both at home, laruis of Well* county, and Charles and Mwrence Bultemeier. both of county; three daughters. Mis* Bertha Bultemeier at home Mr*. Conrad Droege of Allen coun ty and Mr* Fred Stdppenhagen of Wells county: two brother*. August and William Gallmeier. both of Ad*m* county: a sister Mr*. William Schroeder of Allen county; 21 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren One son and one,brother are deceased Funeral services will be held at I M pm Tuesday at the home (Turn To*Page I. Column i> *

Price Four Cents

Sen. Lodge Pledges Full Support For Truman Plans To Aid Greece, Turkey Washington March 17 (I’Pi — Introduction of a house bill embodying President Truman’* s<<»«.ooo.omi anti-Commiini*m program in Greece and Turkey wa« expected late today But chairman Charles A Eaton of the house foreign affairs committee doubted congress could complete action on the measure by March 31 the deadline impoverished Great Britvln has set. for withdrawing British economic and military aid from Greece. Acting secretary of state Dean ’Acheson, however, received congressional assurance* of favorable action as Sen Henry Cabot Utdge. Jr. It. Mass., announced his full support for the President's program Also occupying congressional attention were these developments: Rents Temporary controls administrator Philip B. Fleming and housing expediter Frank R Cree don (ailed for extension of the present rent control system to June 3ft. 11HH They objected to a house bill which would end rent control March 31. I‘rtS. and transfer enforcement meanwhile from OPA to the court*. "Black" newsprint A senate small business subcommittee failed to track down rumored hordes of scarce newsprint said to be "kicking around" New York. After questioning dealers for more than an hour, committeemembers said newsprint appeared to be as hard to find as w.i- meat la-t spring. Spending The senate appropriatlons committee was said to favor a constitutional amendment, to forbid deficit spending in peacetime except when approved by a. three fifths vote of congress. Other congressional developments: Labor Republican hoit*e leader- wen- reported to be b.icking compromise labor legislation which would withhold Wagner a< i protectioti from workers who strike for a closed shop or industrywide bargaining It was described as a mtddle-of th" road course Itetween a complete ban on the two union demands and no legislation at all concerning them. Portal pay Chairman Alexander Wiley. R. Wl*.. of the senate judiciary committee «ii<l he expected the senate to pass tomorrow or Wednesday his committee's bill to ban portal-to |x>rtal par suits The senate resumed debate on the measure after a weekend re. <ess and Wiley forecast rejection of Democratic amendment*. Taxe* Republican meml»ers of the house ways and means Annmittee predicted that the bill to cut income taxes by Jo |ier< ent would have a co-amlttee okay by Thursday and house approval by Easter The 2” percent reduction would apply to ail Incomes up to S3(*2.unn a year It is opposed hy the admini-tration Budget Chairman John Taber of the house appropriation* committee slid the proposetl I4tm.. ftfto.ftoo Greco Turkish aid program would have only "slight" effect on (Turn T n Page -T Column «» Late Bulletins Chicago. March 17.—(UP>— A federal grand jury today indicted 13 person* on charge* o* possessing or passing counterfeit sugar ration stamp*, bringing to 70 the number indicted in the past 20 days of the investigation into a nationwide sugar black market ring. Washington. March 17.— (UP> —The agriculture department announced today that United States ard Mexican representatives have agreed on an SIBJXMLOOO program fee fighting foot and mouth disease south of the border. The prosram la subject to official nsgot.atien between the two government* before it I* fermelly adopted.