Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 83, Decatur, Adams County, 8 April 1947 — Page 1

Hol. XLV. No. 83.

MEHRY FORD DIES SUDDENLY LAST NIGHT

■xpress Hope lor Half To |phone Strike 11 Negotiations Still f I Underway In Effort 11 To End Phone Strike fHjObing'" l ’' 'l' r r> * M .oncliator .x pressed that mt. phase <»r ■d tu'Uy HU' “ K,,l that "’•'tU-mont ■K.I iuv- '<• fnerally up |Kab> before ’>!»- two-day-old could be ended. ■■ :< ,s,-rnrn. »t offi< lais pinnod lr hop- for » countrywide SH-a k asr.-ment on nego SK. 011 , h< r.- I" t '•■" Ameri |K of Telephone Worker# ■ th,. Allots Uh T. l. phone an I fSw-rapU Co. ' rhlH un,on ’* lh *‘ ■Knruni lotiu disiaiu e affiliate Klthe National Federation o’ Worker, which I# ton the strike. MKt Vd.-ral conciliator Peter G. told reporters as negotia|K. resumed today that we are th.d a settlement will be ■Shttia’.-d in lons lines today." SK U : John I Moran, president .he long distance union and of th. NFTW'S 49-mem ’ |K policy committee, made it that more was involved. |K.f.. : . to. ..ast lisrnp' ..f lone distance and non-dial orvire can be ended, Moran |K> th. XT’I’W policy committee have -o approve any proposcontract between A T. A T |H) hit affiliate. one of -he things the pol fiS commit'.-.- will want to know would l»- applied to the rest country." |Bw< would not call off our unless the rest of the unions are satisfied that would get a similarly satisproposal." White House reported. that President Tru is watching closely the tieHHhlions here and elsewhere the H^Vr.-dd. -niial press reporter K"- 1 - i; Hoss .aid Mr Truman not been What you’d call in with secretary of la ■B b-wis It Schwellenhat h on telephone situation ■ hut he *- What is going on." * 4 ’ undeistood that Schw.-I H|Hl>a<h had asked the president refrain f r , ini personal interin the strike at least tonioirow If Mr Tru does take a hand later, it .KB* assume I he would make a BB^ plea for a truce or sug ' of presidential j ITo Pace 4,Column «), o . ve Wage Boost setion Workers unty commissioner In reudon Monday appoved a y county political leaders r »ages for precinct workr the new scale, inspectors i’e |l2 ant | gg expense r traveling to secure balI clerks and judges. 19 friffs, ig, en d a u workers »'• at 75 cents per meal. 9«e IGA store was awarded months’ grocery contract i">ty home The other bldWl'i Market. The com- » authorized the redecorarepainting of the ladies • at the courthouse. WEATHER rain thia afternoon '9M. ending early Wedmorning. Thundershowsouth portion thio af•id early tonight. Some•rmer tonight Cooler «y. i I ls&

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Convicted Murderer Is Executed Today Siox Falls, 8. D, Apiil 8 —(I P) George Sifts. .14. a convicted murderer who broke jail mid killed two law office ><. dim) in th- electric chair «-url today with a grim joke on his lips. As hr sat hooded and strapped in the electric chair waiting for the first surge of electric current. ! Silts told the warden and a crowd of 40 witnesses: "In my experiences this Im the first time authorities ever helped I me escape prison." j 0 Senate Debate | Is Opened On Truman Policy Vandenberg Opens Battle For Senate Approval For Aid By United Press Sen Arthur 11. Vandenberg. R.. Mich., launched the fight today for senate approval of President Truman's new foreign policy doctrine with indications P would win over-‘ whelming senate approval. Vandenberg led off senate debate i upon the plan to grant 1400,000.000 to Greece and Turkey to build them into bulwarks against Communist expansion in the middle east. He characterized the iwlicy as one of "calculated risk" and challenged the Soviet contention advanced Itefore the United Nations security council by Andrei Gromyko that the United States plan would undermine the United tionsVandenberg advanced the view that the UN was not able to handle the Greco-Turkish situation. Gromyko has proposed that the program, shorn of military aid and eliminating Turkey, be operated by the UN. Vandenberg said that the United States and Russia should make a determined effort to solve their persistent difficulties adding that either Soviet-American relations must he improved with full respect for "fundamental freedoms" or the two nutions must accept the (Turn To Page 5, Column 7) o Mrs. Minnie Reid Dies Monday Night Former Decatur Lady Dies At Fort Wayne | Mrs- Minnie Barkley Reid, 74. . widow of the late Thomas M Reid. I died at the home of a sister. Mrs. R. C. Parrish. 4316 Pembroke lane. Port Wayne, last night after a several months illness. A native of thia city, Mrs. Reid was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Levi Barkley. She attended the Decatur schools and following. her marriage to Mr Reid lived here many years, later moving to Fort Wayne. She became HI several months ago while in St. Petersburg. Fla. and returned to Fort Wayne for treatment She wag a member of the First Presbyterian church of Decatur and a 50-year mepsber of the Decatur Order of Eastern Star. Survivor*# include’ one brother. William Barkley of Fort Wayne, and four slaters; Mrs. Lulu Shroeder, Toledo: Mrs. Nellie Boyles. Los Angeles: Mrs. Tessa Rose and Mto. Ethel Parrish, Fort Wayne. Funeral services will he held at 1:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon at lhe Klaehn funeral home In Fort Wayne, with the Rev. Carl G. Adams olficiating. The body will then be brought to this city for burial in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o'clock this evening. Know What You Want - - Get It! You don’t know what you’re missing — in chances to buy. rent, loan, sell, fix, trade — if vou overlook the classifieda! Read them daily in this newspaper to benefit by them often.

More Miners Ignore Lewis' Safety Strike More Miners Stream Back To Coal Pits To Bolster Output Washington. Apr. 8 — (UP) — I Coal production increased substantially In some major bituminous fields today as more miners streamed back to work on the second day of John L. Ix*wls* "safety strike." At the same time. I>-wis in telegrams to each UMP district "confirmed" the policy of resuming production at each mine as soon as federal mine inspectors certify it safe. In effect, this telegram also | served to confirm the policy that brought about the safety stoppage i —that Lewis desired UMW miners not to work in mines Until they are Inspected anew and certified as safe by the government Itself. "This office expressed gratlflI cation that production yesterday of re-examined anti recertified mines an I strip pits was substantial." I-cwis' teleggam said. "I confirm the policy of Immediate resumption of production at each mine as fast as it is ! rectified by federal mine inspectors as being in conformity with 1 the federal mine safety code." Although slated in reverse, the ’ telegram gave the first direct public word from to the i miners that he believerl they, should not work In a mine until It has been re-certified by federal inspectors. But it appeared that an increasing number of miners were not waiting for this. All signs inlicated that coal production on the second day of the strike would he substantially greater than the 3ft percent pro(Turn T<i Psge S. Column 7) o —— —— Juries Drawn For April Court Term New Court Term To Open Next Monday Names of members of the grand nnl petit jury panels for the approaching April term of the Adems circuit court, which opens next week, were drawn late Monday. Twelve names were drawn for grand jury service, six of which will form the panel. The 12 drawn: Sarah Roth. Berne; Alfred Busick. Root; William Ander son, Preble; Vern Linker, Preble; Victor Bierly. Kirkland; Fanny Trout. Berne: Harry Sprunger. Monroe; James F. Halberstadt. Sr., St. Mary's: David Zehr. Decatur; Otis Shifferly. St. Mary's; J. E. Scott, Root: John Burk. Wabash. Twenty-four names were drawn for the petit panel. 12 of whom will serve. Those drawn: Adolph Hanni. Monroe: Laurel Mattox. Monroe; Lewis Yake. Kirkland: Mathilda Peters. Pre Ide: Lewis Haines. Bt. Mary's; Walter Reppert. Preble; Theodore Graham. Hartford; Harold E Warthman. Decatur: Edna F. j Moser. Berne; Jesse U Eckrote. Hartford; Louis Drake. Union: Charles Fuhrman. Preble: Ruth E. Lehrman. Union; William F. Kukelhan. Union ; William A. | Greenfield. Jefferson; Frank Orn dorff. Jefferson: Clara Passwater. Decatur: Kenneth Ohler, Root; Rosa Zaugg. Blue Creek; Raymond Yoder. Hartford; Charles Adams. Jefferson; Clores Oberli. Berne; Emma Eicher. Wabash; Zelma Foreman. Blue Creek. The names were drawn by jury commissioners Ed F Berling and Roy Momma, both of Decatur, and Mrs. Elnora Bebout. deputy county clerk. A jury trial has been scheduled for the third day of the term. Wednesday. April Iff. The case is that of Charles Dinger vs Confection Cabinet company, which was previously set for the past February term.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, April 8, 1947

Henry’ Ford Dies Suddenly ■■■r— j —. ..j. —— ;> Mm Henry Ford, world famous automobile manufacturer, died unexpectedly Monday night of a cerebral hemorrhage nt his home in DeatlMirn. Mich.

Council Candidates Elected At Large Five Highest Will Be Named Elected County clerk Clyde O. Troutner today Issued a statement here. Mmflnr to one given in other cor- ■ responding cities, concerning vot- ' Ing for councilmen in the city I election. Mr. Troutner said that election j officials here had interpreted the law to the effect that all council- ' manic candidates will run in the I election as councilman-at-large. Despite the fact that four are listed as district candidates, voters wilt cast ballots for any of the nominees, the five receiving the largest number of votes being elected. Both parties, a survey disclosed. picked nominees from the respective districts which they r> present — hut the fact has no bearing upon the manner of voting. Mr. Troutner said that some disagreement with this interpretation had been evident since a 1838 legislative act. but that Decatur and other cities had followed the same pattern of voting for all candidates as councilman-at-large. The interpretation will have no effect this spring, since Decatur will not have a primary due to lack of any contest for an office. An order for election supplies has been cancelled. —o Youths Questioned After Berne Brawl I Berne, Linn Grove Youths Questioned Nine youths. Ove from Linn Grove and four from Berne, are Involved in an investigation underway by sheriff Herman Bowman's department, it was revealed to- ! day. The youths allegedly were implicated in a brawl in a Berne i confectionery and officials charge * that after the Linn Grove lads went to their homo village, those from Berne followed and the scuffle continued. Ono of the Berne boys, it is alleged. jumped onto the running Itoard of a car owned by Jack Wall. 17. of Linn Grove: grabbed the steering wheel and forced the car Into a utility pole. Damage to the vehicle was estimated at alcout IBM). Sheriff Bowman conferred late today with prosecutor Myles F. Parrish concerning the incident and It was considered likely that the matter would he placed In the hands of Judge J. Fred Fruchte In Juvenile court. Officials said no one In the auto was hurt, but passengers in the car received a severe shaking up

Henry Ford Richest Mon Os All Time Detroit, April 8 (DPI Henry Fotd. the world's first billionaire, was the king Midas of all time. Ford started lite as a 12.50 a week mechanic and tiled with a fortune estimated at more than a billion dollars His wealth has . | never been equalled by any ruler or potentate in history. —o Make Re-Inspection : ' For Fire Hazards l ' .11. Deputy State Fire Marshal In Decatur ’! ! City fire chief Harry Stulls, ac- ; cotnpanled by J. Walter Bowyer, deputy state fire marshal from Indianapolis, today made a re inspection of the city's business ■ district for fire hazards. i The fire officials denied reports that three local business houses , had been condemned by the state department as fire hazards. i They said that. In fact, splendid I i' cooperation had been received ■ from the merchants since the ■, original inspection was made about seven weeks ago when nu-' merous hazards were located. i At that time, recommendations for repairs or removal of hazards i were made by the chief an I Ills assistants on the inspection tour. Chief Stults said that the offi i cials will insist upon the removal I of any wood construction within • the downtown fire zone and that ' the burning of trash has been • banned within the same area Search Relaxed For Mrs. Minnie DeVor Searchers for the body of Mrs. ! Minnie DeVor. believed to have drowned in the St. Mary's river, relaxed their efforts somewhat today. They apparently had little hopes that the stream will yield the body until the flooded river recedes, or perhaps until warmer weather arrives. The search has not been entirely abandoned. Sneriff Herman Bowman said, and dragging will he- resumed tomorrow The Fort equipment. Mw. DeVor has been missing since last Tuesday, April 1 Her abandoned auto, tracks to the I water's edge, a shoe* stuck in the mud have convinced authorities that she drowned Utility Heads Refuse To Attend Meeting Indianapolis. Apr. 8— (I'Pt — A special city council committee today was to meet with city cor- . poration counsel Arch N. Bobbitt i to c onsider contempt proceedings ■ against Citizens Gas and Coke ’ utility officials. The meeting was planned after the gas officials failed to attend a special council meeting Isst night to work out the flve-day-old, strike of CIO chemical workers at i the utility. |

Automotive Genius Dies Os Cerebral Hemorrhage At Home At Dearborn

I Marshall Breaks Up Soviel Filibuster Breaks Effort To Stall Proceedings —■ I— • Moscow. April 8. (UP) Secretary of state George ('. .Marshall tonight broke the Soviet fillbus- . ter In the council of foreign ministers after warning that if memI tiers continued "their discussion l of dlsagtoement" this conference would achieve nothing. Soviet foreign minister V. M. Molotov, who at first tried again to stall proceedings with the agenda, fin illy agreed to go ahead tomorrow with discussion of future German frontiers and disposition of the Ruhr and Rhinefund. For more than a week Molotov has blocked Anglo-American efforts to go ahead with general dis cussion of other Items on the agenda items yet untouched In more than four weeks of discussion. The impasse over procedure was broken at the end of today's fruit less 24th meeting at which the ministers went over the same 1 ground on division of powers beI tween the state and central gov- • ernments of Germany. At the end, when the ipiestion of ' an agenda for tomorrow's meeting came up. Molotov suggested that the ministers meet later in the evening and await u final report from the coordinating committee on issues already discussed British foreign minister Ernest Bevln said: "I want to ask Mr. Molotov whether hl-c suggestion is being made so we will not reach other points on the agenda If that is ITurti To Page •. Column 4) State K. C. Deputy Is Banquet Speaker 25-Year Members To Be Honored April 15 James W. Mallon, of Michigan City. Indiana >tate deputy of the Knights of Columbus, will be the principal speaker at the banquet honoring the quarter-century members of Decatur Council No. 864 Knights of Columbus, on April 15. The dinner will lie served at 6:30 o'clock in the K of C. hall. The Very Rev Msgr. Joseph J. Seimetz. pastor of St. Mary's Catholic church, will act as toastmaster. Plans for the anniversary ev<-nt were completed last evening at the regular meeting of the lodge. Ralph Remp and Edward Gase are co-chairmen of the meeting. More than 50 of the 25 year member# have received invitations to attend the banquet and program. Wives and sw-eethearts of the members also will be guests. Mr. Mallon is a well known attorney and has traveled through out the state in contacting Knights of Columbus councils. He is an able speaker. A social program, including dancing, will following the speaking program. F. J. Schmitt and Fred Baker are co-chairmen of the entertainment committee. 0 Wallace Opens Tour Os Western Europe April 8. (UP)—Henry A. Wallace arrived today for a tour of western Europe during which he said he would seek an international coalition of progres-j sive forces that "believe most heartily in the unity of the world on behalf of peace." Wallace, former vice president j and now editor of the New Republic. carried a setting of eggs for a British poultry experiment station as he stepped from a i pan American Constellation.

Truman Calls Cabinet Into Special Meet To Meet Wednesday To Hear Report On Price Conditions t Washington. April 8. (UP) President Truman has called a special cabinet meeting for to, morrow to hear a statement on general price conditions by Dr. | Edwin G. Noitrse, chairman of the council of economic advisers. White House press secretary Charles G. Ross, announcing the meeting, said tislay that the tele phone strike and the coal crisis did not enter "at all" into the speiial cabinet session. "it will be a general survey of price conditions," Ros# said As n preliminary to the con-! ference, the President met today with members of the economic council, which has been studying price trends for the chief executive. After this meeting. Norse told reporters that the current price situation is serious He said he gave Mr Truman a preview of what he will discuss with the cabi-1 net tomorrow. While there have been some price reductions, Norse said, there have not been enough of them to ( affect the cost of living and re move the pressure for wage ad justinents He said one big factor in the price situation is agricultural prices. "There is very little give there." he said, adding that In- hoped the 1947 crop production would relieve the situation materially. Mr. Truman said last month that he wished American business would see the handwriting <>n the wall and reduce prices. He recently expressed concern over high prices, tearing that if the advance continues inflationary (Turn Tn Page &> — o Bus Plunges Into River, Eight Die Eight Drown After Crash With Truck ... Seattle, April 8.-lUP)— Eight, Ims passengers were drowned last night, when a bus carrying 20 persons collided with an oil truck! and plunged Into the Dumtiniish ’ river on the outskirts of Seattle The truefc driver. TaVfokd Sinithee, 22. Seattle, was killed by . the collision He was the ninth victim. The bus bobbed on the water! for a moment and then sank nose \ down with *ts load of screaming passengers. Tlie bus driver, Melvin D. Ix»ng,' 22. Olympia. Wash., and It pas-' aengers were dragged from the river by passersby. All were dazed and shaken. The North Coast Lines luxury Ims was en route to Seattle from Portland. Ore. A heavy rain was falling. Eight miles from the Seattle terminal the bus skidded into the rear of the truck ami, swerved out of control. The bus careened 25 feet off the road, snapping a telephone pole, and plunged Into the river over a 15-foot embankment. T* truck spun around on the highway. I Some of the bus passengers es ■ ca|ied through the broken front windshield. Others clawed their way out a rear emergency door. I The main door wus jammed by a : piling on the river bottom. Harold Guggler, Seattle, a passerby, dove into the water and knocked a hole in the rear roof of the hue, which protruded from the water.

Price Four Cents

World's Wealthiest Man Dies Suddenly In Storm-Isolated Home Monday Night Detroit,. Apr 8— (UP) —Henry Ford, whose automotive genius t reated a new Industrial era. died last night In a storm-isolated sule itrhan home lighted only by kerosene lamps anti warmed only by a I wood-burning fireplace. His grandson anti successor. Henry Ford 11. announced early today that the man who brought the motor cur into mass prtsluti tlon for the millions died suddenly and unexpectedly of a cerebral hemorrhage at 11:4ft p. tn. at , ' Fairplace," his unpretentious home in Dearborn. i He was 83. He was the world's wealthiest man. Son of a humble Irish Immigrant. he left an industrial empire ami an estate worth perhaps f l.OOft.ltOft.ftftft Torrential rains and a flood had tiisabled the Ford home's lighting and heating system and these same conditions hud caused the ( old man to tour stricken branches of his industrial empire. As Ford lay dying, the only heat provided his modest residence came from woodhurning fireplaces His wife. Clara Bryant Ford, whom he called his "inspiration” during their long married life, and a member of the household staff were with him when he died. Dr. John Mateer. of the Henry Ford hospital staff, arrive:! a half hour after Ford died. He said death was due to cerebral hetnorI lhage Voting Henry, president of ths Ford Motor company, announced I that all company operations throughout the world would suspend Thursday and that all flags v/oiil'l be flown at hnlf-staff until after the funeral. Death was unexpected to the* one-time farmer boy whose novel ideas and driving ambition ballooned a machine shop in his father's barn into a billion dollar world wide industrial empire Ford had spent yesterday afternoon in the vast River Rouge aut » plant and as Greenfield Village, a museum showplace and principal hobby of the ol:l man In his declining years, to survey the extent of the flood damage He told Ray Dahlinger. a personal aide, that he would leave early today to visit Flat Rock. Cherry Hili and other outlying Ford properties It entailed a 50-mile tour. "The persons who were with Mr. Ford during the afternoon said he had never looked better and that he was full of his usual cTurn To Fsge !. Column 41 O Injuries Fatal To Former Decatur Man Alton Bleeke Dies Monday Afternoon ——- | Alton F Bleeke. 41. former Decatur resident, died Monday afternoon at the Uitheran hospital In Fort Wayne of injuries sustained in an automobile accident In that, city April 2. Bleeke, treasurer and office manager of the- C. U. Schust Co., Inc., of Fort Wayne, died of a punctured lung, broken ribs and right shoulder, and other Internal injuries. He was injured when hi# auto struck another driven by Orville W EUenwood. aho of Fort Wayne, at a street Intersection. He was Ixirn In IXecatur. the son of Mr and Mra. Ferdinand Bleeke The famifer moved to Fort Wayne more than 20 yeara ago. Survivors Include his wife. Gertrude; a son. David; his parents; one brother, Edgtar L. Bleeke. and two alstera. Mie# Hattie Bleeke and Mrs. Marie Bohn, all (Turn ,T« Page 2, Column Q