Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 98, Decatur, Adams County, 25 April 1947 — Page 1

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Senator Ball Lks Puroe 01 ■Labor Movement I Asks Unions Liable I To Penalties For I Unfair Practices t V"-’’* ,o ’ tS ‘ he , -f "coon squads. K»n<l "* r,l,,n . ■ L propo«-J d " Hnz ’ Pn3 “’ d ?‘ ■’J u w legislation «” amtnd * K union.. Hable to penF. for unfair labor practice. ■ L r « amendment would punish laLforipinKihreat... false promK. or fal 1 * statements in organKot campaign*• Kviisr congression.il developK«ts: |tuh The national association ■t !naaufa<tur<‘« asked the senate E™. the house tax reduction bill. KoMEMI of mdustial organLtiotni a’ked the senate to ■L,.. it first to give low income Croups mor.- relief. Harry iK. Kiphrey. Jr. of the NAM’S Kwrw-nt fiance committee conKeitel that taxes must lie cut. as K th* house bill, in middle and K» r bracket! to keep venture Ki-»1 flowing Stanley H Rutten Kr' I'lo re-ear her complained K: the house measure would help Kue who least need help. ■ Miration A Catholic and a Irwbftertan clashed at a senate K/c.iiHonimitt-e hearing cm fed Kxl support for education. Rev. H.utti E Mc Manus of the nationK Catholic welfare conference Knr' 'iiego.e umetit should help Kirch and other nonpublie Kl.,'. pay for e-sentia! school HerKi- not including teac hers’ salK,- Hut Rev Frederick Curtin Kti-r of the Knoxville Presbyter K.hur.-h tn Pittsburgh said I'. 8. Kid >hould >o* confined to public Khool< If the government puts up Ker for pharo hiiil schools he Kid. it sill “arouse, or at least Ksikrn the Protestants of Amer- ■ I'aificatii.n Rep Clare E Hos Ku: R. said he woutd ank PresiKn: Truman to tel) th" joint chiefs Kt .tiff to turn over to the house K>» 'r.e .-xpenditni.-s committee K*"' ct.ents redly -how K 1 -’ ■ d<-»ire. io reduce the marK*'"r?« to pared, statue. Marine K"’* have- expressed fear Kbt . proposed unifies'ion of the Kcr.-d fi.n", would jeopardize the ■u u,. as a combat organization ’ a *tl he would ask the Krr»N-M for the pape-s In order ■»find out whether these fears are ■Kill'd ■ Rw. Chairman Jesse P. WolK* l of the house banking commitK* irwiic ted overwhelming house B? 1 *"' 4 ul le Kl«lation to bold ■»k»t present levels at least until K’ "t" 1 us year. His commit- ■* itself yes’erday and to extend .ent control until ■ H with no inc rease in pres- ■*< ■ «*damatlon - House RepublicMed for passage before night- * ,| "’ lr economy - Inter-’-Pirtment appropriations bill **»t«rn congressmen, ■7 ,w * "ported willing to in- ■?“.‘ ome of ‘h* funds earmarked Ki. ’ < ** rn reclamation proKm ch J** ,hp Columbia basin K*., 1 ‘ • Big Thompson pro* sci Carriers Will |N*I Here Saturday I “‘♦dctTcAeeting I T ’b Held Here I and »>.. i ■Mg ww*t l FUra mail carriers ■ b « ae»ti ß r*. Sa " ,r,lay evenl »K ■Mag, di * 0 ,h ‘‘ northeastern ■*»l a,« u‘- thM ”’ of ,he na ’ ■«n ***»■ of inter car■•taotb'T" 1 * WHI b * held a{ ,h « ■ u »ith.’T ‘ >pw,in « 4:30 hr a ‘ period, folI *' * :B ° o c,ock ■ l° nal offi <*r of the ■ i A? ,t * ” Blark ' H* 11 WwmTo trtct ""*‘‘>‘■•>l. I X **'d!lc». r „ ,h * mating. ■L*’ f( * the 1 ’■ ,eC ‘ ed and d «i»« tL m r“. ng win ’* k ** ‘•die. auJm nM " wo? ‘“’'HaT Os the ■**Mi.. I ho,rt a I “**’« \ ban '‘ Uet ■L? 0 * 1 '« 10<0 w,n act Ifc? 8 “ PrH ld T* ,, ° , J Haro,d 4 st ar,d M *

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Reminder, Remember To Set Up Clocks Don’t forget to.net up the clock an hour tomorrow at midnight, or before you retire, if you expect to be on time for church services Sunday morning. Satirday at mldnlgh' this city, along with Herne. Monroe, Geneva. Fort Wayne and nearly all other citiee in the area, will begin a daylight saving » hedulc*. which wilt be- followed until the last Saturday In September. 0 Four British Die In Blast At Tel Aviv Five Other British Soldiers Missing In Palestine Blast Jerusalem, April 15.—(UP)— Four British policemen were killed and five more were missing today when their billet at the Sane na army fortress at Tel Aviv was blown up in an outburst of "warfare" by the Jewish underground. Authorities believed the blast which rocked Tel Aviv was the first major hlow in a “vendetta" declared by the Irgttn Zval lA*umi for the hanging of four Irgunists and the sentencing of four more, two of whom cheated the gallows by suicide. At least a score of persons were injured in the Rarona explosion, in addition to the dead and missing. Gen. Sir Alan Cunningham, the British high commissioner, called an emergency conference with army and police- officials. Cuntilngham was expected to declare the Jewish city of Tel Aviv a "controlled area." In effect isolating some 200.000 of its residents from the outside world. The re-imposition of statutory martial law in Palestine was expected at any time. The army and police were strengthening their precautions. The new outburst of violence began with an abortive kidnaping. Five presume irgunists broke into the Park hotel at Tel Aviv and seized Morris Collins, a British subject living in Egypt. They re leased him when they discovered ’ he was Jewish. Cunningham was reported with out confirmation to have warned the Jewish agency that the first kidnaping of a Briton would bring a declaration that the entire city In which it occurred as a "controlled area." The underground had warned | after the execution of Dov Gruner and three other Irgunists that it' would retaliate by hanging l*f' British officers for every under-yp-outider executed. a Clandestine radio broadcast regulations under which Britons would be "tried” by the underground, listing provisions for death sentences.” 0 Continue Testimony In Ex-Solon Trial Evidence Is Given By Bonk Employes Washington. April 25.-(UP)— The prepetition in Andrew J. May’ll corruption trial today presented hank witnesses to identify. $11,134.07 In drafts and checks purportedly paid to the former Kentucky congressman by the Garsson munitions combine. The government charges that May sold bls services to the 178.000.000 war contracting firm for 163.000 at a time when he was chairman of the house military as-: fairs committee. May's counsel contends that he never received any money from Garsson for his own use. < oncernlng two ll.ootf checks, the defense said they were "purely campaign contributions." In today’s questioning of witnesses. the defense sought to show that the checks identified were paid to the Cumberland Lumber Co. of Prestonsburg. Ky.. a firm with which the Garsson combine had dealings. The government has charged that May and his codefendants used the lumber com(Turn Tn P»ge 1. Column il WEATHER Rain ending central early tonight, and south late tonight Clearing Uturday with higher afternoon tempereturee.

Wage Increase Pact Agreed To By GMC, Union 15-Cent Hourly Wage Increase Expected To Set Patterns » Detroit. April 25.—(UP)— Officials of the United Automobile Workers (CIO) were confident today that the 15-cent hourly wage increase agreed to by General Motors Corporation would set the 1947 wage pattern in the entire automotive industry and would Insure a year of full production unhampered by major strikes. The agreement, which provided a liberalized vacation plan In addition to the wage Increase, was reached last night and will be signed today. It covers 220,000 hourly-rated employes of General Motors and runs until April 28, 19«. Both the Chrysler and Ford Motor Companies, the other members of the big three of the automobile Industry, were expected to agree to similar pacts. The contract provides: 1. An II Mt cent hourly Increase effective immediately providing the contract is ratified by May 5. 2. Six |iaid holidays for employes with more than six months seniority. Wages for the paid holidays will account for the other 3% cents increase. 3. Employes who do not take vacations will receive extra pay on the following basis 40 hours pay for employes with one year's seniority: 60 hours pay for employes with three years, and 10 hours for those with five years' seniority. 4. Workers called in for duty will be paid for a minimum of four hours instead of three. The contract was expected to set the pattern for all KOO.UOO of the nation's automobile workers. The agreement was reached after two weeks of negotiations during which the UAW scaled down its demands from 23Mt cents to 15. The company estimated the raise was equivalent to a 15-cent increase. However, Walter P. Reuther. I’AW president, said the union estimated it was "equal to i a little more than 15 cents.” Holidays for which the workers will be paid are New Year's Day. I Memorial Day. July 4. Labor Dav. Thanksgiving Day and Christmas. (Turn To I’age «. Column 7) 0 Gordon Harvey Will Leave Decatur G. E. Transfer Engineer To Fort Wayne Plant Gordon Harvey, engineer at the Decatur General Electric plant , for the past two and one-half years. In being transferred to the company’s Broadway plant in Fort Wayne, effective next month. It, was announced today. Mr. Harvey's new assignment will be as assistant section engineer of the lamp ballast section. He will work largely on the development of new and improved apparatus required for operation of the expanding variety of. fluorescent tubes used in domes tic and cotnmerlca! lighting. Following his graduation as an electrical engineer from Ohio State University In 1931, Mr. Harvey entered the test course of the General Electric at Schenectady. N. Y , as a student engineer. Several assignments led to bis transfer in 1936 to the fractional horsepower motor engineering division at Fort Wayne, in which division he remained until the current I transfer to the transformer engineering division. Mr. Harvey has been active in civic, service and church organizations during his short residence here He served as chairman of the club service committee of Rotary, loyal knight of the B. P. O. Elks, chairman of the organizing committee of the Talk of the Hour club and president of the Presbyterian men's club. He is a member of the Masonic lodge and the Fort Wayne engineer’s club, and the American Institute of Electrical Engineering. 4'oming to Decatur during the critical housing shortage, the Harveys moved five different times, before establishing a perm sneut reeidence here when they built a new home at 651 Mercer avenue. The Harveys have two sons, Johnny and Jimmy.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, April 25, 1947

May Wants No Camera Play

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Former Congressman Andrew J. May of Kentucky ducks to avoid cameraman as a cab whisks him away from U. S. district court in Washington following recess in war-contract conspiracy trial of May, Henry and Murray Garsson and Joseph Freeman.

Expected Building Boom Not Realized Anticipated Spring Construction Drops By United Press The anticipated spring boom in housing construction has failed to develop In many cities, a stirvery showed today. A spot check of representative areas showed that: 1. In many cities the number of dwelling units begun so far this year was less than in the same period last year. 2. The price of finished dwelling units has increased about 20 to 25 percent in the last year. 3. The high cost of materials has slowed construction. 4. In general, municipal housing agencies and programs have I been ineffective. In some cities, the number of units completed so far this year was less than in the first quarter of last year However, some of the cities reported an increase in the number of dwelling units completed. Most of the units under construction. the survey showed, weresingle family homes. Few apartment buildings were being built The construction industry was confronted with only a few strikes. Most contractors and industry sources blamed the slow rate of building on high material costs: The survey showed these conditions: Chicago-The number of new units begun dropped 31 percent in the first three months of the year compared with the same period of 1946. New York Units completed in the first quarter of this year totaled 1.955. compared with only 288 in the corresponding period of 1946. New York appeared to be enjoying more building activity! than other cities. However, units, begun in the first three months this year totaled 5,103. compared. ~ (Turn To Page 3. Column 7» Arrest Berne Youth After Wreck Here Reckless Driving Charge Filed Here A traffic crash at Adams and Thirteenth streets about 10:50 o'clock last night resulted in the arrest of a Berne youth, police chief Ed Miller reported today. Elbert Stuckey. 19. of Berne, was to be arraigned late this afternoon in city court before Mayor John B. Stults to answer to a charge of reckless driving. Officers Robert Hill and James Borders, who investigated the accident, said that the Stuckey auto, traveling west on Adams street, failed to stop for the preferential highway, federal road 27, and plunged into a Kroger semi-trail-er truck, parked on the west side of the highway. Damage to the Stuckey car was estimated at 1250 and that to the truck at flso. Stuckey and three other Berne youths. Thomas Sprunger. Bill Kmlck and Vaughn Schindler, escaped serious injuries. Prosecutor Myles F. Parrish lodged the charge against Stuckey today, upon an affidavit signed by the arresting officers.

Monthly Collection Os Paper Saturday The monthly waste paper drive will be conducted in Decatur. Preble and Monroe on Saturday, beginning at 10 a.m. Residents are asked to have papers flattened and tied in bundles along the curias in time for the pickups 0 State Salaries 01 Five Men Held Up State Auditor Says Payments Illegal Indianapolis, Apr. 25 —(UP» — Five state employes who served in the Indiana general assembly, may have to sue for their salaries or resign as legisaltors to obtain their pay checks, auditor A. V. Burch sail! today. Burch told the United Press he ; was iiolding up the state salaries ! of the five as "the Indiana con stitution prohibits anyone pom being employed on two state jobs at the same time.” Burch met with Governor Gates late yesterday to discuss tile matter. Gates later said he had no comment "liecause I have no controversy with the auditor on this matter." Butch told the governor he Im pmindtd the payroll cheeks of the five legislr’ors. He said he would not permit the five lawmakers to draw any state pay for th<- next two years unless they formally resigned from the general assent bly. Gates asked Burch if a written decision by the attorney general would be satisfactory "An opinion is not enough.” Burch said he told Gates. 'Only a court decision can clear this matter up in the minds of the peo ! pie of this state." Meanwhile. It was learned authoritatively that attorney gener al Cleon Foust met with Gates and was readv to issue a second I formal opinion on the question which centers around the following section of the state constitu-j tion: "No person holding a lucrative office or appointment under the United States or under this state shall »m? eligible to a seat in the general assembly, nor shall any person hold more tlian one lucrative office at the same time.” Gates said that while he had no commenl "I will add that I reappointed the five legislators to their state jobs only after the attorney general told me it was proper to do so." It was belelved that Foust's written opinion would uphold the governor and contend that the spirit of the state constitution was not violated Most of the five lawmakers Involved would not comment on the controversy. However. Sen. Clyde Black of Loganspori. who also is secretary of the slate flood control commission, said: "I'm not worried." Jl-urn T«» Paa* I Column X> I —o — William Hoffman Is Home From Hospital William Hoffman, proprieter of the Palace Bar here, who was badly Injured March 22 in a three-car auto crash near Fort Wayne, which claimed two lives, has been returned to bis home in this city. He had been confined in a Fort Wayne hospital since the day of the accident

Outlook For Settlement Os Phone Strike Gloomy In Latest Developments

Voluntary Price Cut Plan Is Spreading Spurred By Reports Os Public Buying By United I’ress The "Newburyport !•> percent plan” hopped across Hie tuition today, spurred by reports that the public was greeting the price reduction with a wave of Imying. The plan a I<> pen ent general retail price reduction on a 10-day trial basis—was in its fourth day at Newburyport, Mass., with these sales results; Women's clothing sales, up 2<»o percent over a corresponding day last week; houseware, up lib percent; men's clothing, up 100 percent; hardware. 45 percent; drugs and cosmetics. 4<? to 60 percent: jewelry, 4<» percent; children’s clothing. 75 percent; gasoline and automobile accessories. 100 percent; groceries, 35 percent, and liquor. 30 percent. "It's just like Christmas." said one department store manager. "The store's been crowded all day " There were warnings, however, that lM>tli the price reductions and revived Imying were artificial and woul I fail without a genera? wholesale price drop Some sources said the reductions were only spring clearance sales and the Imying only seasonal However, the program was pick-’ <*d up by scores of communities to give this picture: District of Columbia. Maryland and Virginia—A grocery chain announced 2o percent reduction In prices of most canned goods effective next week Butter prices cut again. New York—Spring Valley merchants adopt plan Peekskill met chants ask details. Massachusetts—Plan adopted in Brockton, population 63,000, and Leominster. population 23. OOtt Mattapan section of Boston pledged 15 to 25 percent price slash. Mayor James M Curley of Boston asked all merchants to cooperate. The "Newburyport” plan was sneaking into Chicago through the backdoor as Franklin Patk. a suburb, and the South Side Merchants association announced similar programs. First to respond to lite volun tary price reduction have been grocery stores, wearing apparel shops, furniture stores and others on Ho- retail level. A few manu (Turn T-> P;ik<- ('■•biinti l> — 0 — Sarah E. Johnston Dies This Morning Funeral Services Monday Afternoon Mrs. Sarah E. Johnston. 90. a resident or Adams county prac-1 tlcally her entire life, died al | 12:30 o’clock this morning at the : home or a daughter. Mrs. Roy s Jahn. 1337 Wabash avenue. Fort I Wayne. Death war. attributed to' heart trouble. She hud been ser iously ill for the past five weeks. | She was born in Illinois Sep-; tember 30, 1856. a daughter of John and Anna DeArmond Burk head. Her husband. John W. Johnston, died in 1931. Mrs. Johnston was a member I of the First Methodist church of: this city. Surviving are four daughters. | Mrs. Ada Martin of Decatur. Mrs Ed Arnold of Preble. Mrs. Jahn and Mrs. D E Grimm of Fort: Wayne; three sons, Tom Johnston . of Decatur. John of Fort Wayne and Elmer of Corunna. 18 grand children. 14 greatgrandchildren and three great-great-grandchil-dren. Funeral services will lie held vt j 1 pin. Monday at the Roy Jahn home in Fort Wayne and at 2:30 o’clock at lhe First Methodist church in this city, with Dr. M O. lister officiating Burial wiD , be in the Beery cemetery. The body will be removed from the Black funeral home to the Jahn , residence Saturxlay a/ternoon. where friends may call after 7 pm.

Marshall On Way Home To Report Parley Marshall And Bevin Assert Four Power Unity Is Stronger BULLETIN Washington. April 25 —(UP) —Secretary of state George C. Marshall will deliver a 30-min-ute radio report to the people on the Moscow conference at 8:30 p.m. (EST) Monday, the state department announced today. Moscow, April 25 ~(UP» —Both se< r?-tary of state George C. Marshall and British foreign secretary Ernest Bevin predicted today that the Moscow conferonce will prove a gr»-ater contribution to peace than anyone now believes Bevin told a press conference that he was leaving for home with a feeling that "four power unity is stronger than before the Moscow conference " Marshall left for Washington by air this morning expressing hope that the foreign ministers will yet succeed in establishing "peace In tin- world and in men's minds.'' "I imagine that later on when we look back on the work here, it will appear that we have done much more than we thought at the time." Marshall said. "I myself have always thought J would rather take a long time and have misunderstandings sort ed out anil get a good peace, than through faults and sloppy compromise create another turmoil.' Bevin “aid. "It has been a test conference," lie said. "One wondered before whether the four-pow? r arrange lin-nt would succeed.” Bevin will leave by train at midnight. French foreign minister Georges Bidaiilt also is going by train Marshall was the first minister to leave The silver four motored transport carrying the secretary and his principal advisers left the Moscow Central airport at 9:«1 am. iIJH am. ESTt after informal fare welis lacking the usual Soviet pomp. Tile same informality mark ed Marshall's arrival here more than seven weeks ago. The plane will make brief stops al Berlin and I’aris. Speaking Into a Soviet microphone, Marshall emphasized that American purposes in |»eace-mak-ing negotiations were "utterly sincere." "I am very glad to be going ! home." he said. "I am of course ! sorry that we haven't made more progress here But I imagine that ! later on when we look back on the ! work here, it will appear that we I have done much more than we ' thought at the time." He noted the great difficulties involved in writing the German (Turn To Fag* 3. CoIUMN «) 0 Warn On Short Cuts Across Railroads School Children Warned By Chief — ll ■ Police < hiet Ed Miller today i warned youngsters against using I railroad properties as "short cuts' enroute to and from school, especially at the Fifth Street crossing jof the Erie railroad An incident in which an unhlentifled youth narrowly escaped being struck by a tael train p ompted the (chief to is«iie orders against any \ one “cutting across" the Erie at I South Fifth He adivsed all children living in that vicinity to use Line street., which is a "through'' street and hao a grade crossing Chief Miller also announced today that Madison and Fifth street intersection has l>een added to the number guarded by the newly organized student safety patrol. The patrolmen “blossomed out” in tbeir new white raincoata and hat* for the first time today. t

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Striking Workers 4 Lash At Company's Implications Union Turns To Sabotage Washington. Apr. 25 — (UP)—• The striking national federation of telephone workers lashed out. today at "company Impll< at Iona” that union no-mlter have hnl a hand in the saltotage of telephone company propoity acrons the country. NFTW strike director C. W. I Werkau accused Bell System companies of trying to "discredit the union" by implying that NFTW memliers have been responsible for the destruction or crippling of telephone facilities. He said damage to company property was “not extraordinary . . . hut an everyday, year-round occurence." Meanwhile, the outlook for settlement of the strike chang>-d from hopeful to gloomy when renewed government activity fizzled out and the union strengthened its strike fund for a prolonged walkout. There were these developments ns the strike entered its 19th day 1 The labor department scheduled revived negotiations here !>«■- tween the American Telephone ATelegraph company's long distance depattment, the Southwestern Bell Telephone Co and their affiliated unions But federal ’ hopes fell when the Southwestern company said flatly it would make "no cash offer” to the union In the new conferences. The Western Electric Co. whh h was also asked to move its negotia Hons here under government sponsorship, had not yet replied to the department’s request 2. Assistant secretary of labor John W Gibson returned to th« capital from New York after an unsuccessful attempt to get th<> AT&T to make Its first wage offer to the NFTW Gibson drew ■i flat rejection from AT&T president Waller S Gifford when he suggested that the company make an offer similar to the 15-cent-hourly boosts granted electric, automobile and steel workers. John L Lewis' United Mine Workers (AFL) "loaned” the NFTW IlttO.tMHt. boosting to |161t.1 inn ihe total in loans and contributions received by the union's strike fund this week Strike leaders said the Lewis loan. "Ke gether with lhe substantial money pledges yet to come, fix us up for a long strike” I At I’hila lelphla. n strike call for 7 a m . EST. was issued to (i.nou members i>t the Pennsylvania Federation of Telephone Work? r employed in the mainten ante and plant department of the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania. The union Is not affiliated with the NFTW Defy Order* San Francisco. Apr 25 —(I'Pt— Two thousand telephone workers today d« fleil police orders to disband a demonstration against an injunction limiting picketing, and police officer < harglnu into the surging crow I made wholesale arrests of strikers whom they battled away in patrol wagons Officials at the city prison reported there were II women and , io men in the first patrol wagons. They wore Isioked on charges of violating a city ordinance making It Illegal for ilemoustrators to refuse to disperse on orders of a police officer. Police chief Charles Dtillea had ordered the strikers to end their demonstration in front of a telephone exchange which followed a mass meeting In the coliseum bowl. Police patrols charged Into the throng Several girls were knocked down In the skirmish that I followed. Strikers had attacked a coart injunction limiting pickets to six at local telephone offices as a I “ahocklng attack on the rights of , (Turn T<> Page #, Column 7) o— Anderson Condition Reported Unchanged Little change was reported today in the condition of Erv’n Anderson, seriously hurt Wednesday evening in a fall from the top of a local building He miffered fractures of the left elltow. (several fingers on the left hand and a crushed right hand, in addition to head and possible internal Injuries.