Decatur Daily Democrat, Decatur, Adams County, 31 March 1947 — Page 1

No. 76

BILL WOULD BLOCK TELEPHONE STRIKE

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Mine Stoppage To Have Little Effect Slight Effect Seen On Other Industry Pittsbiirgh. March 31- <VP» I The l‘. S. Kt eel corporation said today it might have to bank eight ; blast furnaces during the six-day mining holiday ordered l>y John L. Lewis, but other industry spokes men predicted the stoppage would i have little effect on production if all miners go back to work next week. The 400.000 soft coal miners, j members of the Vnited .Mine Work ers tAFLi begin their six-day holt-1 day tomorrow an a period of : mourning for the 111 victims of the Centralia mine blast last week. The holiday will have little es . feet on the volume of coal mined I since Holy Week Is normally a low production period. However, the holiday will be oh-' I served by 4.000 workers who man roke ovens for I'. S. Steel in Fayette county and the corporation may have to close eight blast fur • nares as a result. The workers, are member, of the I’MW closing of the blast furnaces would cut the firm’s production of pie iron by 20 percent, a spokesman said. Actually, very little coal pro duction will be lost by the holi- 1 ' day. Tuesday is John Mitchell day. 1 •n contract holiday celebrated to commemorate establishment of the eight-hour day in the mines under the former I’MW president. Borne, miners stay out of the pits on Holy Thursday and Good Friday. Saturday is an optional work day. Since it h the day before Faster, few | miner-' Would be. expected to work. Thus Wednesday would have been Hie only day ot full production. I'nion leaders said plans fur the local memorial services for the vic tims of the Centralia disaster re { quested by Lewis in declaring the, moratorium had not < rystallixed j Spokesmen for the steel industry! said the shutdown would affect them very little if it end* on schedule. Maintenance workers, such as pump tenders, will remain in the qtits during the memorial stoppage and the mines will be ready forj speedy resumption of production when the miners return tin Washington, chairman Fred A. Hartley. Jr.. IL. N J., of the house labor committee, said if the stoppage was prolonged, lie would amend an emergency bill he planned to introduce today to give <Tyrn T<» Paffi* 4 Column 4> —<> Burns Are Fatal To Indianapolis Woman Indianapolis. Mar 31 tl’l’i — Hurns received in a fire Feb. 2-'> proved fatal today to Mrs. Hose Wallace. 71. She was warming herself at a coal stove when her dress caught fire. 0 Mrs. Charles Shoaf Dies Sunday Night Funeral Services To Be Wednesday Mrs. Margery Katherine Shoaf. M, wife of Charles Shoaf, residing four miles east of Monroe, died at 5:30 o'clock Sunday evening at the Robert law hospital in In dianapolis. She had been In fall ing health for six months, and underwent a brain operation last ■ Tuesday. She was born in Adams county May 27. IM<. a daughter of Simon and Sarah Murray Myers, and was a lifelong resident of the county. She wa* married in Craigville March 17. I»2L She was a member of the St Paul Christian Vnion church. Surviving in addition to the husband are her mother, who lives I In Fort Wayne, one sister. Mrs J Porry Smith of Fort Wayne and a brother. Hubert Myers of F n Wayne Funeral services will bo bold at 1 pjn Wednesday at the home and at I:3C o'clock at the St Paul Christian Caloa church with the Rev. L A Middaugh official tag Burial wUI bo la the fJocatur e.mw tory Tbs body will ba removtui

Move Made To Tie Aid Plan To UN Action ,1— Vandenberg Change Would Allow UN To Cancel U. S Action •*— By Vnited Press A move was made today by Sen. , Arthur 11. Vandenberg. It . Mich.. Ito correlate President Truman's i Greco-Turkish program with the machinery of the t'nited Nations. Vandenberg's proposal was designed to meet widespread criticism of the Truman doctrine ax I bypassing the Vnited Nations. An j initial step to meet this criticism was taken Friday by Warren It. Austin, V. S. delegate, when he laid Mr. Truman's proposals bei foie the I’N security council. Vandenberg presented amendI raents to the American plan under which it would be subject to cani cellation by a majority vote of tither the security council ot the VN general assembly. The general assembly will meet ' a bout a month hence for a special session on Palestine which is expected to broaden to include debate of the whole eastern Mediterranean sphere. Including Greece and Turkey. Vandenberg also proposed that the floo.Ano.ooo halt communism program carry a clause making it I subject to cancellation on the request of the Greek or Turkin* government “representing a majority of the people of either muh nation'' and giving the president discretionary authority to end the program if its purpose has lieen accnmpllklied or Is found impossible of accomplishment. Other deve'cpmet.>: Hep Fred L Crawford. R. i Mich., told the house foreign as i fairs committee that the Vnited : States should demand that Kus sia disarm tinder penalty of atomii bombing if she does not comply The Vnited States, he said, should use its atomic liombs “without 1 compunction whenever our orders arc defied." i Costa G. Couvarls. who identi fied himself ax a former I'. S agent in Greece, told th< i senate foreign relations committee that the American program would I result In the extermination by force of "a large soclion of the Green population.'' (Turn To i*•»<•* ?. Column 3) Si. Mary’s Church Plans Holy Week I Annual Holy Week Services Planned The schedule of special services and masses during Holy Week at St. Mary's Catholic church was announced today by the Very Rev Mxgr Joseph J. Seimetg. pastor There will not he any service Tuesday evening On Holy Thursday the high mass will be at 7:30 o’clock, on this day the church celebrates the institution of the Holy Eucharist ' and procession with the Blessed Sacrament to the repository on the side altar will take place fol lowing the mass In the afternoon there will lie private devotions and adoration ' before the Rleaaed Sacrament From 7 to 8 o'clock in the evening there will lie a prayer hour. The mass of the pre sanctified will be said at 7:30 o’clock on Good Friday morning. From 12 to 3 o’clock hi the afternoon the three hours will lie observed, with i < >ngregaiional Way of the Cross at 12:45 and 1:45 p. m.. followed ! by the blessing with a relic of the true cross The Good Friday ser j mon on the crucifixion will be l.’iveu at 7:30 o’clock In the even Ing by Magi. Helmets. The blessing of the Raster Ore. holy water and pascal candle will start at « o’clock Saturday morn Ing followed by a high maaa at ,7:30 o'clock. Lent ends Saturday noon The mass** on Easter Sunday morning wUI bo at 5:3«. a high | maos. 7;to. 8 and H H There

OHLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, March 31, 1947

Customs Men End Tour Os Duty ft ~-T LEANING ACROSS A DESK in New York City. Sgt Clinton Green accepts a gun from one of hundreds of Customs Patrol guards who are being laid off In-cause of a 33.500,000 federal budget slaxli The dissolution of the division, a seventy year-old organization, will mean that 1.570 port and bonier patrolmen will be dismissed.

Continue Probe Os Plane Crash Sunday Berne Man Slightly Hurt In Plane Crash Civil aeronautics authorities were teported continuing their investigation today info a plane crash Sunday afternoon, in which a lighi Piper Cali plummeted to federal road 27 near Coppesx Corners, after its undercarriage stru< k telephone wire- adjacent to th.- highway Milo Lehman. 30. pilot of the badly emashed light plane, walked away from the wreckage hut was taken to th-- Adams county memorial hospital heie and then released after treatment for minor cuts about th face and a severe shaking up Investigating noli. «• authorities said l.ehinau presumably wax flying extremely low in an easterly dire, lion -lightly north of the Coppens Corners lute .ection when the • rash occurred. Tiie said witnesses told them fa-hman's plane dragged on the utility wires about 20 feet above the ground, flipping the plane upr.ide down to the rock asphalt highway. Lehman crawled from the pilot's seat of the plane and wax able to walk away from the scene. Tiie left wing of tiie plane was practically torn off. the propelle. was •lamaged and the cabin section of Hie craft was battered. Sheriff Herman Bowman and deputy Sam Bentz. State police of- • Turn To Page I. Column S)

End Os Draft Brings Memories Os Registering 9,000 Names

Tonight at midnight some 9.00(1 men of Adams county will lie privileged to do something they may have been wanting to do for years ton* their draf' card- into the furnace. No longer will they lie required to wad their billfolds with those little ca ds which proclaim the fact that they registered for selective service — and the others that say 3-A. 3-B. 1-C and of course, that ail mportant 1-A. The ’draft.” officially known as the selective service act.” end* at midnifht tonight So here, as every where else in the nation, the draft stops. If any youth becomes 18 years of age today he is still required to register — but it i» sort of a superfluous gesture, since the draft dies tonight. There's been a "lot of water over the dam" at the dtafi board offices in the Decatur public library buildlag here since It was first started in October, 1949. Three men - Ralph K. Roop and Roy E Mamma of Decatur. O. N Smith of Berne - war- appointed to the draft board oa October I. 194*. Thai was to the days of the "one year uccordaaoe w‘U the aetoctiva aervjre act pae

Local Lady's Sister Dies In Michigan Mrs. Alice \r<her. 82. sister of Mrs. George Wemhoff ot Decatur, died at I p m Sunday her home in Midland. Midi Mrs. Wemhoff will h ave Tuesday t<> attend funeral • ;ervi< ex. which will lie held at Midland Wednesday — Traffic Death Toll Below 1946 Figures 4,510 Killed First Two Months Os Year Chicago. March 31 (I’Pi The national safety council announced today that 4.510 persons were killed in traffic accidents dur ing the first two months of this year. The February figure alone was 2.1t0. The council said th" tot ,1 was encouraging, despite it- size, sot three reason* 1 Tiie two-month toll ix 17 percent below the figure for the first two months of 1949. and !!• per cent under the same period in 1941. wh<'n traffic death* hit an alltime high. 2 The decrease wax accomplished despite greater automobile mileage 3 The mileage death rate (death* per HIO.OWI.uOO vehicle milesi in January wax the lowest for any January since such record* • Turn Tu Page '■>. Column «»

Nelson at that time, was the first clerk of the board. Delmar Dai" Girod, familiarly known as "Pete." I was the first Adams county man to ■ ibe accepted for “the one year I training.” Then along came the war and Pete, as well as score- of others drafted duilng the meantime, found their one year "etretched” throughout the years of the con flict When the draft board first started here, there were two files of eight drawers each, containing names of the registrants. Now. as the draft Imard preparr s to < lose, there are eight file- of 32 drawers all full of natnnr Os the estimated 10.«09 registrants including men up to 81 years of age, there are almut C.raui still ••active.” Remember the “national loiter les." the ”g<dd fish bowl.” the teiin "pre-Pearl Harbor fathers*” First age limits were 21 through 35 and they were not to serve out side contineatai U 8. After Pearl Hariior — December 7. 1941 — the age limits went from 18 through 44 and men up to 94 were anted to rectetar There ware alx reeteira ttoaa to iH, torses’- e? 'be**

Bill Introduced Today Would Permit Truman \Resort To Injunction

No Opposition To Date In Primary April 6 Deadline For Filing Candidacies If the city of De. atur is to stage a municipal primary on Tuesday. May U. there will have to be a candidate officially file hi- declara tiott this week for an office which already lias an aspirant. With April f> officially desig noted as the final day for .1 candi date to file hi- declaration in th" i-oiinty clerk's office, a check of the records today disclosed no con tests as yet ami the "skip election law." provides that no primary is ne<exs.<ry when there are no contexts. Early today the records show that the Democrats have a candi date for all city offices to be fill ed. excepting two that of <Ollll cilman. third district (which includes territory west of Fifth street and south of Madisotlt .<nd ; for clerk-treasurer. The candidates who have filed declarations on the Dcmocrathticket: for mayor. John It Stults; for cotimilmen first district. Adrian Biirk< . second. Dorpliu- I. Drum fourth district. Joseph Brennan, and for < ouiu-ilmati at large Alfred K lb avers. (ill the othiT side of the ticket, the GOP party ha.< only one noml nee He is II Vernon Aiirand for clerk-treasurer, one of th<- of ficies without a Ih inoi rati< aspi rant Demoeiiith le iders here have mentioned the name of at least one man. who may announce for the couneilinanii post, hut liave nd , van<"d 110 one who would declare for the clerk treasurer’s noinina tioll oil that ticket Republican • leaders have inti mated thei may have one or two more candidates for offices-one recently mentioned as a mayoralty aspirant but at noon today no one bail officially declared on that ticket. Meanwhile, county election officials. to whom the burden of handling the election was shifted at the last minute by the leglsla Hire, have begun to prepare for staging the event in event a contest does develop on either tiiket Red Cross Campaign Is Over Top Today County Fund Likely To Exceed SB,OOO The Red Cross fund slid over tiie top today, contributions of |<>.679.91 being listed at noon at the home service office. Clarence F, I Bell, chapter chairman, 'announced ' The county's quota wan |fi.s2<» and indications are that when final report- are tabulated the donations will exceed Iti.tHW. M Bell -aid Herne also went over the top. word being sent to the local office by E M Webb, chairm in. that contributions theie would exceed ll.mm. This esima'e is not in< lml>d in today’s report. Many of the workerr were mak ing their reports today to Mrs Ruth Hollingsworth, executive -ec •etary. and it is believed that all will have completed their canva-s-i ing of territories by this evening 1 The drive ends tonight The nation ; al budget wa- SgO.OfUt.OM. Chairman Phil Saner, for the j county. Lyman I. Hann, townships, and John Halterman. l*e<atui. all reported fine response from their respective ateas and predicted that every unit would go over the goal line by the time final reports were compiled The local drive was laum hed eon currently with the naitonal appeal The local chapter shares 52.1 percent In the proceeds from the couaiy drive and national hredquartois wUi Mietre 47.9 poreent

No Government Opposition To Mine Closing Six-Day Period Os Mourning Planned For Mine Victims Wa hington. March 31 <• I’ l The t-ov. t nuieiit offen d no <•!> position today as John I, Lewis imitiO)) soft coal miners prepared to quit work at midnight for a sixday period of mourning for the 111 victims of the Centralia 111 mini disaster. Secretary of interior J A Krug, operator of the government-held mines. declined to challenge Lewis’ right to call the tinpn<<dented stoppage, and ranking Re- , publican- said emigres- would not j interfere \t the same time. however, there were signs that both <on gross and the exe< utlve branch of the government would take steps to improve mine safety Krug Issued a statement saying he would semi the senate soon n report on overall -afety conditions in American soft coal mines. Reports from tin coal fields in dicated some scattered grumbling at the loss of several days’ wages, but even the grumbler- were r« ady to heed la-wis' call A government official said coal produi tioll this week would have I b.-en less than half of normal even without the Stoppage Tomorrow i Li traditional mine hoi day In ad '.lnion many iiiim-r- -lav oft Holy Thursday ami Good Friday and ~bM-nteeixm usually' runs high on the Saturday Iw-fote Faster Krug who wa« ac< used by Lewiof having ••murdered th. 11l Centralia miners through "erimins! liegligem e.’’ made no referem •• 111 his statement to th. I'nitcd Mine Workers chief. “Tiie tragi< explosion at Centra Ha. 111. mine .No 5 has claimed 111 vi-thus, leaving their iM-reaved families without their support Kim- -aid ' My sympathy for them is too profound t<> permit me to debate or to gloss over their misery by engaging ill any press lollt rovers v over the catastrophe or Its causes " He said Die facts would l» ! known u|Hin coinplctioti of severalj inve-tigatiotis ..ml that he would‘ send them at om •• to a senate .ilb < (Hiimittee investigating 8 disaster iT iin T - t'ag.' *• Column .1 0 - High Court Upholds Treason Conviction Fother Os Wartime Saboteur Loses Plea W.ishington. March 31 fl’PI | The supreme court today upheld !the treason conviction of HanMax Haupt. Chicago He is the I father of om- of the wartime Nazi -alHiioura who landed in Florida I from a Gentian submarine in Jnue j 1942. Jtt-tice Roliert II Jnckson read the court's s to I dwision Justice F .ink Murphy dissented Haupt appealed to the high tribunal after the seventh circuit < ourt of appeal- affirmed his con-. viction. Haupt was sentenced to life imprisonment and a fine of Ilfl.OOO for shielding and aiding hi« , son. who made bis way to his father's home in Chicago after landing in Florida from Germany. The circuit bad previously reversed a death sentence conviction against Haupt Hotbsrt Haupt, the son. was •xnated in Washington alone with tire of Ml Mlow Mbrnrere aftw,

Price Four Cents

House Passes Bill For Extension Os Sugar Rationing; Oppose Rent Hike Washington March 31 tl'P) - President Truman could block a national telephone strike scheduled for next Monday by resort to federal court injunction under a house bill introduced today. The bill wax offered by < hairI man Fred R Hartley. Jr. of the ; house labor committee. It would waive anti iiijuiK tioti laws to per- • mil the President ami courts to act The strike will start at C. a.m. Am il 7 unless telephone unions and management settle their wage dispute before then Hartley hoped his bill, a temporary emergi-m y measure, would be enacted before the deadline. As Hartley moved to forestall what he said would be a national dixaxter. congress produced these other developments: Sugar—Tin- house approved a -enate house measure continuing the gov ernim-nt’s sugar rationing authority until (ht 31 The authority under pre-.-nt law would expire at midnight tonight The bill would guarantee individual consumers a minimum of 2<* pounds 'of ngar dring the next M-veiy months The senate -till must act Cents The seitaie hanking committee rejected a proposed 10 per rent rent in< rease Instead it ap proved a bill to contintie rent eon trol until Mar. Ii 1. 1!»4S. hut under a i|e< entralized ' home town ’ , tiaxi- Control would be transferred from Hie dying uPA to the 'louse expeditel Lilienthal The senate continu..J divided on a proposal to hold uii Divkl r Lilienthal'* nomination to lie atomi. energy torn mi ion i iiief pending an FBI . he. k of hi- fitness Foreign poli< y Hen Arthur 11. Vandenberg. R Mi< h introduced amendments under wMii< h the pro-po-.-1 <lreyk-Tiiikish aid program could I I'lled by majority' vote of Hie I'niteil Nations se< uritv eoiim il or general assembly Rus ia Rep Fre<| I. Crawford. R Mich proposed that this country force Rnssl.i to disaim by threatening to u-e tin- atomnbomb "even if this means war ' In i house foreign affairs committee hearing Crawfords proposal won "|mi percent” support from Rep Walter H Judd R . Minn Taxpayers Interna! revenue commissioner Joseph D Nunati. Jr told -enatorx he was amazed by flu- dishonesty of some income ■ tax payers He asked that a house reduction of |3ii.ooo.<mhi iii bureau fund- 111 re-tored to keep the tax ! enforcement division functioning. I Promotions President Truman sent to the senate tile flames of lieiit.-n int colonels to l.e pro. ' moted t<> colonel in the regular army Notably missing from the list wa- tiie name of Lt Col. James > \ Kilian Who last August was sentenced to lie reprimanded and fined |smi for permitting cruel treatment of enlisted men at a I di-< iplin.iry camp in England Contempt A federal grand jury I charged the joint antl-fasciar refugee lomiiiittee of New York ami its members with contempt of congress and conspiracy to prevent the house unAmerican activities committee from gaining ceas to the group', records Congressmen say the committee i. a Communistfront organization Highway A -enate committeo was told today that the I’. S. ptihlii roads administration is pay- • Turn T . Page f. Column 7» o Zion Lutheran Marks Good Friday, Easter The Zion imthrran church wilt obaerve Good Ftlday with apetiai •vealM xervUea. and Easter H«nday urttn c candlelight service and ih« ■ •Irbrailon of •ommuhtaa A class of 14 adttita toft Rw ehiMrwa was eutolenwd