Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 73, Decatur, Adams County, 27 March 1947 — Page 1

XLV. No. 73.

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■use Moves I Cut Bill |gr Passage Late Posses Bill Kr Continuing Os Wartime Controls March 27 <VP, ~ ■K. k , -,.r- ' fir**’ tax personal l< vies 20 t<> f..t nearly 50.0«»0.tl0<l ■■,..„,< roll'-'l toward easy BWp.--.u- ,oda > MB th. |;- •* i*-H‘ -■»• majority had MBbfti.r.- the final vote was to HH down a Ih-tnot ratie move |^K |( th., lull hack to the house MB.nd 1 f,,r r, ‘ |t u.is obvious the Re■Bp H'tl.l do this with no ■> -. on the most important r . yi-t to reach the floor of ■ house of the 80th congress JK. >0'1'.l”l '<> ta” '' afl r ,hl * I lli then Coes to the senate, it faces probable revision. >’ »il> "P ’’resident Albert J Engel. R . Mich., Democratic opposition nt pre vote debate that .{K. x 1,111 would give greatest to the rich. ( . Other developments also congressional attention; lontrol — Commander K K s,arr of ,he v,> **”■ an(, of Wars proposed, and chair jjfil ,| Parnell Thomas of the 3e unAinerican activities com I&,. agreed, that the times call (Wnrtiing control of the atom!-' to the military. Senate lead meanwhile, said a vote on E Lilienthal's appointment Xj.| the present civilian atomic commission might be de until mld-April. _— Siti-rhivr activities — VFW Starr endorsed measures to the Communist party. The K,, n activities committee. jKiMele got a house go-ahead to its inquiry into subversion The senate by voice |Mpa--ed and sent to the house Ml to .oiitinne for three months I ' • l.t l till •• < ollllols certain s-ar< <• foods anti comThen it took up n sped Kill on sugar rationing These would expire Monday ■nft The house armed aerv- ■ <onitmtti’e unanimously ap a bill to keep draft data In Bi office of selective service after the draft law dies on The senate has voted to the record* in local Imards — Undersecretary of ■*.<> A I. M Wiggins told a committee that a house- ap bureau funds would mean W«* of SOuo.Otm.OOO in tax col■km* In addition to having to ■ revenue agents if the cut goes ■ugh Wiggin* said other pro ■hl reduction* in treasury ap ■.nations would (1) result in increase" in smug■g and i2i k.-ep the secret serv- ■ from giving the President and ■ family “.atfactory protection " disaster - A house resolu ■ by Rep Charles W. Vtirsell. i ■ 111 would set up a five man | Tn Pm* 1. Coin ma 7) Byers Infant Dies This Morning Sue Myer*, fivemonth old ■thter of Mr. and Mrs Ralph of four mile* northeast ■Berne died at ft am. today at ■ Adam« county memorial hospi- ■ aft.-r a short ilkiew* of pneuB**' Burrl 'ing in addition to the ■Mts are five brothers and B*»* R< *enury. Allen, Rita. ■** and Saadra. and the giand- ■*'’ Mr*. Alpha l)«vi» of Gen* ■ »nd Mose* Myer* of Berne ■ brother i* deceased ■■tieia! service* will Im* held at B*. Ba,ur <> a > al the Mt Hope Bm De#r wl,h burial in ■ Hope cemetery The body B , removed from the Zwlck ■•rai home to the residence Fri ■ •‘tenkxm. 8,.. WEATHER *"•* ’•“** portion this f »m" d, ’~' S ** rtw S *** «***“•

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Senate Orders Probe Into Mine Disaster Coal Administration Is Primary Target Washington. March 27.—(UP) The federal coal administration was the primary target today of a senate investigation Into respon Nihility for the Centralia, 111., mine explosion. Chairman Hugh Butler. R . Neb., of the senate public lands committee. said he hoped to appoint a special subcommittee sometime today to undertake the investigation. The committee wants to send its own investigator to the scene without delay, he said. The senate authorized an inquiry by Butler’s committee late yesterday at the request of Sen. C. Wayland Brooks. R., 111., who pointed out that the mine was under the control of the federal government At the request of senate Demo | cratic leader Alben W. Barkley, the investigating committee was instructed to determine whether negligence of state, local or corporation officials was a factor in the explosion. Brooks raised no objection to Barkley’s request, but Republicans supporting his demand made it clear that they believed the federal coal administration must first absolve itself of responsibility. That agency, under supervision of secretary of interior J. A. Krug, has been in control of the mines since they were seized by the ' government in a labor dispute last I May 22. Sen. Styles Bridges. R. N. H.. referred to Krug as an "arrogant bureaucrat" and told the senate that he had "direct responsibility" for the explosion. Bridges based his charge on the report of a federal mine inspector. Frank Perz. who had reported hazardous conditions last November in the Centralia Coal Co., mine No. 5, where the blast occurred. A spokesman for the coal nd ministration reported that navy Capt. N. H. Collisson. mine admin I istrator. had written H. S. McDonald. president of the company. j Nov. 3C to ask compliance with the Perz recommendations. McDonald replied immediately ' it was said, that he would try to comply and would order necessary new equipment. 0Special UN Session Likely On Palestine _ _

Hope For Russia To Join Trusteeship Lake Success. N. Y.. Mar 27 — (UP» — Delegates to the nine-na-tion United Nation* trusteeship committee hopefully kept a candle In the window for Russia today a r they began to formulate rule* for supervision of an estimated 15,000,000 people unable to govern themselves. The council I* the only major UN agency shunned by the Rusalana but they have failed so far to join *i» international organiza tlons affiliated with the world organization They are the f<»od and agricultural organization, the International labor organization, the I’nited Nation* educational, scientific and cultural organiza lion (UNESCO!, the international (tank. the international monetary funl. and the provisional inter national civil aviation organization. The Russians have served notice also that they will have nothing to do with the projected inter national, refugee organization and they have avoided all preparatory session* for the coming Inter national trade organization UN secretary general Trygve Lie said there was no question that the trusteeship body conld operate legally without Russia, one of its five permanent members. Ue also heightened anticipation of a special session of the UN general assembly “very soon" to take the first step m Britain s P»an U toss the Palestine situation to the UN. Lie said he was ready to poll •h- *« Uai*ed Nations on a special session as soon as Britain requests it. A majority must sp

Big Four In Deadlock On 1 Austria Pact I I Marshall Balks At Property Seized In Austria By Germans Moscow, Mur. 27—(UP)—SecreI trry of state George C. Marshall s insisted today that the I nited States could not he a parly to a > plan under which property seized by the Nazis from Austria after the Anschluss could now be considered German and subject to seizure by Russia as reparations. Marshall implied that the Russians already had taken that action in their zone of Austria. Soviet foreign minister V. M. Molotov again rejected Marshall’s original proposal that the deputies | formulate a definition of what i* I a German asset in Austria. The big four finally adjourned | its ISth session after considering | a French compromise which was watered down further by a Molotov amendment but there was no agreement on any part of this asset issue which is holding up all progress on the Austrian treaty. Marshall vigorously opposed a Soviet proposal that Yugoslavia and Italy be invited here to discus* the report of the financial commission on Trieste. Marshall said it would lie a waste of the council’s time. Molotov finally dropped his plan and accepted a suggestion by British foreign secretary Ernest Bevln that Italy and Yugoslavia he sent copies of the report and allowed to submit their views in writing. Most of the session was devoted to fruitless debate over the technical question of German assets in Austria. Marshall concluded by saying that the United States felt very definitely that to remove a large segment of Austi%>n industry [ from Austria would nullify the pledge the big four made in the very first article of the proposed Austrian treaty—that they were unanimously agreo-d to establish a sovereign and independent Austria. French foreign minister Georges Bidault sided with Marshall on this issue, as did Bevln. They did (Turn Tn )’*«* »- Column «) O— — Muncie Man Killed Near Hartford City Hattford City. Ind.. March 27 _(VP»— John Nelson. 65, Muncie, was killed today when the car In which he was a passenger collided with another machine near here. Tillman Randolph. IS. and Charle* Richardson, both of Muncie, were seriously Injured

Township Trustees Will Meet April 2 ll— 11 ■ ■ Officials To Plan For Public Meeting The monthly meeting of the trtl»tees of Adams county will be held Wednesday. April 2. at the offices of the county school superinten dent's office, it wa* announced today by Lyman L. Hann, superintendent. During the meeting, a time and place for a special meeting of the trustees, to be open to the public, will be decided upon. At this latter meeting, which the statute provide* must I* open to the public, the trustee* will consider the formation of a county school corporation. The recent legislature enacted legislation which provide* that up on a two-thirds vote of the township trustees It la permissible to Incorporate the school townships into a county school corporation. The act does not affect the respective civil township*. Mr. Haun pointed oat. merely giving control of the school townships to a county school corporation, under the supervision of the township trustees' board TM April 2 meeting will open

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Decatur, Indiana, Thur sday, March 27, 1947

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IN NEW YORK'S hi*torl<- City Hall, Trygvle Lie (center), secretarygeneral of the United Nation*, sign* the deed for property bordering on Manhattan's East river which John D. Rockefeller, Jr., I* preKcn'lng the world organization for permanent headquarter* Mie. Representing hi* father, ohn D. Rockefeller 111 (right) I* pre*ent at the transfer, a* is Mayor William O'Dwyer.

Bulgaria Denies Charges By Greece Denies Seeking Os Territorial Gains SoGa. March 27 . —(l’l’)— The 1 Bulgarian government, denying I Greek charge* that it had territorial design* on Greece and wa* holding Greek hostagw. *aid today that such matter* weie none of the business of the United Nation* Balkan commi**ion Bulgaria's attitude wa* expressed in a letter from the Liaison officer. George Kouliahev. in reply to a reque*t by Mark Ethridge. American delegate on the commission for an answer to the Greek charge* Kotili*hev said the Greek charges of alledged fomenting of disorde:* in Greece "with a view to severing Aegean Macedonia fi<An Greece are ! absolutely groundless.” The denial wa* the first by any of the three countries bordering Greece on the north that they were seeking teriitorial gain*. It followed a long wrangle In a closed session of the commission yesterday between Ethridge and A. A. l-avrischev ot Russia over the coinmiaaions rights to hear nuch topics a* part of lb* inquiry into frontier incMent* Ethridge a*ked in a letter II days ago that Bulgaria. Yugoslavia and Albania give specific answer* to the Greek < harge*. o Seeking To Head Off Slated Phone Strike Serious Effect On Radio Seen Likely Washington. Match 27 — (UP)— Government labor official* today tried to develop a formula to head off the scheduled April 7 nationwide telephone strike which also may ehut off most radio program*. Assistant secretary ot labor John W Gibson conferred briefly with Edgar L. Warren, federal conciliation director. He also ached uled a meeting with Joseph Beirne. president of the national federation of telephone worker* (IND) which hae called the strike Informed sources said the government expert* are neeking a method to bring the union and telephone i companies back into negotiations The NFTW offered last night to maintain emergency service if the strike goes through It said however, that the offer was good only if the companies made no effort to assign management personnel to nou-tnanagement duties Union president Joseph Beirne Mid the NFTW had been pledged the support of lbs national association of broadcast engineer* and tectinkuuu (iND.I. The radio union Mid It would not work with "scabs” or perfo-m work not normally done. As NFTW eeokemßS* *»M thia -would kava a sertow** lapaet nym

UN Accepts Rockefeller Gift

Philippines Senate Votes U S. Agreement Manila, March 27 (UP) The agreement between the United State* mid the I’hlillppines Republic granting American military , bases in the Island* was approved unanimously today by the I‘hillippine* senate. It wa* learned that {an extradition treaty between the two countrie* will be rixned soon. o —— Clothing Prices Still Advancing Increose For 44 Straight Months Washington. March 27—(UP)— Clothing prices have increased for 41 consecutive month*, a record, government statistic* showed today According to the bureau of labor statistic*, clothing prices have in creased 80 percent since August. 1939. % The 44 month string began in June 1943. Previously, the upward trend had been halted briefly by President Roosevelt's "hold the line" order of April 1943 Meanwhile. BLS reported that the cost ot living index for February called the decline "small In contrast to the rapid advance of one and two percent a month during the last half of 1946 " The February index wa* 17.9 percent above that of February 1946. The decline wa* made posaible by a drop in retail food price*, which more than offset slightly higher price* for clothing, house furnishing*, rent, mlscellaneott* goods and fuel. Food price* dropped eight tenth* of one percent, and were 2.9 percent below last November's all time high. House furnishings were up six tenths of one percent; miscellaneous goods and services and rents rose one-tenth of one percent: and fuel, electricity, and ice were up two-tenths of one percent. Last month s increase in clothing price* was 1.1 percent. BLS refused to predict when the upward trend would stop. It noted, however, that scarce article* were now reaching the market in quantity and that there had been some improvement in quality. q — Red Cross Fund Now Over Mark Os $5,100 J. E. Ellsworth, section 13 chairman in Washington township, head* the list of rural solicitors in reporting the larged donations to the Red Cross Mr. Ellsworth's sestion contributed SSO to the fund The former high was $33 from section 17 in Monroe township, reported by Benjamin Maselln The Red Cross fund now exceeds |6. IM toward the $6,520 quoia. The drive and* Saturday and the workera are urged to complete their caavaswing aa/ make their final roporte. Osi: B«sr. coeaty dMirotaa aad townebip

Masked Rescue Crews In Area Os Fatal Explosion As Gas Hampers Efforts

Vole Salary Boosts For City Officials Mayor's Salary Is Increased To $2,500 The city council, meeting in special session at the city hall lust night, adopted an ordinance providing for salary laiosts to city officials, a- provided in recent legli/lation by the state assembly. The increases in most cases were based on the minimum of Hit percent, as fixed by the acts of 1933 which provides a floor under the ceiling set by the new act. The mayor’s salary, beginning in IMS under the new ordinance, will total |t.MO. Os this amount. f 1.440 will come from the genera! fund and $530 each from the water ami electric department funds. The maximum under the law for cities this size by 1940 census is fg.fflM, with a limit of II.SOO from file general fund and 1600 from each of the utilities. The present salary of the mayor is 11.350. The new ordinance also provides a salary of l«00 for -a city judge, as provided in the recent state legislation. Mayor John B Stults stated, however, that no definite decision has been reached as to whether a city judge will be ap-. pointed here. The salary of the city clerk-} treasurer is fixed at 32.500. whereas the position at present pays |2 1«o The maximum of |6oo from each of the utilities was allowed hut the amount from the general fund was set at $1,300. rather than the maximum of ll.SOtf. Tlie new ordinance provides alsc for the payment of $360 from each! of the two utilities for the salary) of the city attorney and S6OO from <-a< h for the salary of the city engi necr. Under the old law. the city i attorney is paid SSOO from the I general fund It boosts the salary of council-1 men from the present $li»0 yearly figure to the maximum of $240. as provided under the 1947 acts, and gives an extra SSO yearly to the councilman serving on the board of public works and safety. It provides also, as has been cus i ternary, for the payment of $751 to the county auditor for services to the civil city. 0 —_ Teachers Will Meet Here Monday Night New Legislation To Be Discussed Here Some 300 teacher* of Adam* and Wells counties will meet at the | Decatur junior-senior high school' auditorium Monday night at RI o'clock. Announcement of the meeting j was made teslay by Lyman I. j Hann. Adams county school sn-1 perintendent. who said that it I* I one of several In-ing sponsored by ■ the Indiana state teachers' asso i elation. Recent legislation. affecting 1 teachers and school*. Including salaries of faculty memlwr*. the r< w tenure laws. etc., will l»e discussed at the meeting Mr Hann stated. Burley Bechdolt. research dire< i tor of the aaeociation. will Im* the I speaker. All teachers, including those from the rjiral. city and town schools In both counties, have been urged to attend the meeting Canada's Newsprint Production Higher Ottawa. March 27 —(UP)— Canada produced 4.143J22 short } tons of newsprint in 1»44. trade minister J. A. Mackinaoa reported today. This eomnarad with 3.124.M3 1 uyejjk >W aadft>Mm la !»»

Pul Military Accent On Aid To Two Nations Military Value Os Dardanelles Given Stress By Patterson By United Pres* The Strategic aspects of President Truman * "Communi-m quar j antine" program came to the fore today with administration emphasis on the vast military im|H>rt ance of erecting a bastion at the Dardanelles. Secretary of war Robert P Patj terson stressed the military significance of the $4O0.OOO.<W»0 program in testimony before the house military affairs committee The military accent on the Greek Turkish proposal collided with a move by Henry A. Wallace to join administration foes who have advanced a counter plan which would bar the use of American funds for any military purpose in Greece and would ban any advance* to Turkey entirely. Patter-on declared that no1 where in the world could the United States make a more Im- ! portant military investment than ; at the Dardanelles and the eastern Mediterranean. "My opinion." Patterson said, "is that the area i* of strategic importance ami great value Money spent in that area will not be ml* directed " Patterson's testimony coincided with a preview from Turkey of what that government plan* to do : with the American aid A dispatch from Ankara said ' that already word of the Amerb in , plan* had strengthened the gov i eminent greatly ami hail weakened opposition element* The government, it was disclosed. propose* to use the American fund* to extend the Tut kish rail road system, buy m-w rolling stock oquip motorized division* and Ifuild some new highway* on which! the motorized troop* can operate These' measures, it »a» said.' whould enable Turkey to demobl Ilze much of its army of 1.0n0.000 mon. The Wallace pro|>o*al follower! i closely the lines of suggestions already advancer! by Sen*. Claude Pepper D Fla . and Glenn Taylor. D. Ida Similar sentiment* were I echoed by former mayor Fiorello larGuardia of New York before the senate foreign relations committee The Wallace program wa* out (Turn To Page i. Column 7t Utility Rates On Increase In State Indiana Consumers To Pay Higher Rate Indianapolis. March 27 (UP) Indiana consumer* are going to pay more for their basic public' utilities. Telephone, water and ga* rate* throughout the Mite are on the increase. And opponents to the trend ad mit that "there’s little that can be, done about it" Utilities are getting their rate Increases because of greater ope rating coMs due to the added cost* of labor and materials. Since the first of the year, the Indiana Public Service Commission . received 76 rate increase ap plications Os the 17 petition* already aired al public hearings, rate Increases wore granted in nearly every case j During the next three weeks, the eommlMhm will hold public hear I Ings on 17 rate tecroMe petitions. |

Price Four Cents

Federal, State And County Authorities Seeking Cause Os Tuesday Disaster Centralis 111. Mar 27 (UP) —- Masked rescue crew* reached the area of the explosion in Centralia < oai mine No 5 today and pushed forward to "make absolutely <-ertain" that none of the trapper! men Mill wa® alive The rescue effort* Mill were slow<-d up by < arlwm monoxide gas. but 16 more Itodies were found and brought to the surface enrly tolay. They were discovercd near where the explosion <s curred X.IMM) feet from the main . shaft, ami were badly mutilated. . i The latest company tabulation .' showed , Men In the mine at the time of the explosion 142 Bodies recovensl 33 Men still entombed 7*. 11 Rescued alive 31. • A rescue crew which went down Hie mine *haft at 7 30 a m CST . geoped through the murky tunnel* I Keeking more bodies Fred Up . pert, a mint* offh ial in < harge of , the rescue squads, sail the crew i would not return to the surface until about 3 p m He declined I , to reveal whether the men In the ■ mine had found more Ihmlß * or how far they had carried the .' Mearch. . The first laxly recovered was brought to the surfate Tuesday i night, shortly after the explosion ( lipped through the mine corridor* I 540 feet und* rgroun I Poisonous gas was so thick that not until 7 /(•’dock last night were any more . bodies recovereil sixteen were removed from the mine then. Charles Meyer, leader of one of lite rescue errws. said hi* squad bad reached the center of the blast area, but add«*d we’il keep pushing forward until we arc positive that none of the men still in the mine are alive" \* the wive.* ami children of the entombel millet* restltlieil their silent vigil at the mine tipple at dawn federal, state and {county investigator* sought tin* ■ ausi’ of the disaster Charge* that the mine wa* known to be dangeroil* cairn* | from several «our« e* A letter wa* made public which had Imen 1 a<nt mor« than a year ago by oflt ! rial* of the Imai milters' union to Gov Dwight II Gicen It chareeti that despite a previous in*|tection by state official*, the mine wa* unsafe, and asked the governor to "please save our lives ’ by removing alleged hazards Other disclosure* showed that a* recently a* last Week a Mate mine inspector posted a notice at the mine listing several alleged safety violation*. At Washington, the U S bureau of mine* acknowledged that gas hail lieen found in the mine "within rite last 30 day* ’’ Sen. Styles Bridges. R , N II . : c harged that an inspector for the bureau of mine* listed •• violai tion* of the* safety code in a rei port to Washington last Novern- ■ her. Meanwhile*, the senate* prepared (for an investigation of the dlsa*iter. Gov Green already had ord•*rel an investigation, and state 1 inspector* were a* the »cene* Rescuers last night found the* i victims lying as if they had fallien asleep" ami sail the men had i lieen killed by monoxide* gas. lolling through the low c eilinged tunnel* from an exploaiotl deep in • the mine. Emil Schuster of Sawyerville. 111., a slate trained rescue c rewman and a coal miner himself, said the re wa« little. If any. hope for the men still unaccounted for. Schuster'* rescue team brought up the blanket-wrapped Icolies of the only men found •<> far in the mine “After we had found these men fairly near the shaft we began to come ac ross more and more dri Uris as We wewi uS. “It looked as If a ryc kuw had come down those tunnels, iewring