Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 109, Decatur, Adams County, 8 May 1947 — Page 1

s XL V. No. 109.

ONG DISTANCE PHONE STRIKE SETTLED

llholic High, Lli Grade bduale List I. trc Dome Faculty ■Member To Speak At ■Exercises June 6 ■ **" ~~ ■for graduation al the K ta ti»oli* high ■'V grad- rs 'he « K announced t.alay by the ■' * M«zr .! J Seimeta. pantK'dary' - uth ’lt Church and t indent <d 'b- ! ‘ <h,M ’ h ’' and K unt». principal ■L „ nlll rr ar.- H led lie gradllK J the Bill' s, hoo ’ " Bd ’* " f in addition, three ETemen will " ■ diplomas. ha'l>* “>"”’ , “’- d K high whooi requirements HL),I. examinations. « Kffl,;,cement exerctae* tor ■L high school and grade HLu .juates '..i1l '* held in ,he K|. k .hool auditorium Friday ■ June 6. K, Rev John I O'Brien. proK of religi- nat the I niveniity of Ke l»t"e •""* a nOted “ u,h " r HwT'-r. w' ll deliver th* comaddress. Hie itradiiateii are an follow*: ■ High School Keph Braun. Rhhard Braun. KT Braun. Margaret Brlte. K» Coffee Thomas Costello, Carl Ker Alice Geimer. Helen Gel- ■ ime Heimann. Justine Hei K Juan Jauregui. Eloise Keller,, K Kohtte. Mary Ellen Lengerich Knne’h I-"*!''' Mildred Loshe. K llh> deilier. Joseph Meyers, ■ e Meyers. Robert Meyers. K>> Miller. Huth Monnier. Jane Kk'. Cletus Rumscillag. Mary Kitt. George- Sorg. Robert K> Patricia Titus, Thomas VIthree ex-servicemen who K completed theii high school y are John Schultz. RoK Strigm»-yer. and James Fail- ■ Eighth Grade Khyd Braun. William Braun. K*»< Coffee. Richard Coyne, K* Ih-Bolt, Charlene Eyanson, ■ Eyanson. Vincent Faurote, Gage, Maurice Gase, Ann Alice Geele. Eileen Geimer, K*®" I’s' 1 ’ 5 ' Gil** 1 Mwiu Homan. Joseph Jauregui, K 1 -* Ka> Isabelle Kintz, DorMs n- Te .-a Kohtie, Thomas ■Mfr-r. John Lange. Margaret Phyllis Omlor, Christina K 1 li-hn 1 i-hn tie l iman. Pauline VilJames Vogel wede. ■H o ■tie Damage Done ■ Fite Here Today Mtmm were called to the Brant ■•r company shortly after 1 Mt'rfay Cushion* on a wrecked ■i cab, parked in front of the ■**” place, presumably caught ■ Inttn a carelessly tossed cig- ■/<•*> or match Little damage V Hersh Funeral ■ Garrett Friday ■j*™ l service* for John ,B. M* tak » of Clinton Hersh of ■ who (lied Tuesday night. ■ “?••* »t 2:30 pm. Friday at K . tSt * funeral home at Garrett. SB *ria| | D Cedar Chapel ceme- ■ ’ “’T*’!* 'I addition to the ■ thia city are the wife. Resdaughter. Mrs. Dale GepA ’ b,, ra- and a brother. ■* Herrt of Avilla. ■UTf BULLETINS M, r • ~(UP)wprgme court today re■r*! t IM< -d«y effort to save K. i. ra ** cis ,ron ’ • second ■J, bouiiiana’a electric ■S? !! ,y ? ~ ,up )- G«n Mta? C, *F »»'d tonight K* J. r T ,foopi wou,d be ■k" * "*«»Mry to enMkfrL. e MtiOn Os <•*»- Kfc G,rm «'’ farmer® a. > the rattening and ■I ** 'Hulationt ,na Friday. ConBsC*" n,bl ' e°ol- - * «• IL« noro,: * nd B :, M Muth

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Graduate Speaker eoM-W K '4 is? The Rev. John J. O'Brien, profeasor of religion at the I'nlver alty of Notre Dame, will deliver the commencement address a, the annual graduation exercises o.‘ the Deeatur Catholic high school Friday. June B. Oklahoma Senator Wounded By Solon Freshman Legislator Held For Shooting Oklahoma City, May B.—(VP»— From a jail cell a young state representative said today that he shot and wounded an aged state senator because he 'thought" the senator drew his pistol first while they stood talking on the senate floor yesterday. Authorities said they would file formal charges of assault with intent to kill today against Rep. Jimmie Scott. 34. freshman legislator and marine veteran of 30 months in the South Pacific. From a hospital bed where he was reported in “good condition" from a flesh wound, Scott's victim. Sen Tom Anglin. 04. said he drew his 25 calibre automatic from his pocket, but only after he was shot and fell to his knees on the red carpet of the senate floor. The gunfire which sent some of the senators and chamber hang-ers-on sprinting for the exits and diving under tables, was attributed to a hometown feud between the two pistol-toting legislators. Each of the participants accused the other of attempting to kill him and each said he couldn't understand why. Anglin, oldest member of the senate in point of service, is a member of a Holdenville law firm which was handling a property settlement for Scott's divorced wife. Mrs. Scott, who charged gross neglect and was divorced April 26, said she and Scott had talked over the property settlement with Anglin in a visit to his law office last Saturday. She said there was no animosity displayed between the two men at that time, or in the past. “I can t understand it." she said, (Turn T* Page <■ Column 41 o Margaret Truman's Concert Debut Set National Concert Debut On May 20 Pittsburgh, May U.-(UP)- Mar garet Truman, daughter of the President, will make her national concert debut in Pittsburgh May 20. It wag announced today by Tom Heeg|e. manager of Beegle concerts. Miss Truman, 23. the first child of any President of the United States to seek a professional career, made her national radio debut last March 16 when she sang with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Critical opinion of her soprano voice ranged from ''pleasant" to "extremely talented." Her studio audience during her radio debut was made shout 30 music critics. Her appearance here will be the first time she has ever appeared before a "real" audience. Her singing teacher, Mrs. T. J. Strickler, said she believed Mar garet's voice would be "much, much batter" than it was when she made her debut in Detroit.

Regulation Os Union Welfare Funds Voted Senate Votes For Legal Restrictions On Welfare Funds Washington. May R.—(l’Pi— The senate today voted. 48 to 40, to regulate union welfare funds. The action was in the form of an amendment to the senate labor bill. It stemmed from John L. lewis’ demands for a Iff-cent-a-ton royalty on coal to establish welfare funds for his United Mine Workers. The vote represented a victory for Sen Robert A. Taft. R., O. He had suffered an unex|*ected defeat I yesterday when the senate reject‘ted an amendment to restrict In-dustry-wide bargaining Taft today urged legal restrictions on union welfare funds to prevent their use as "war chests" by labor leaders. He also urged a congressional study of such funds, looking toward further restrictions. Other congressional developments: Universal military trninig/ Congress soon will be getting • President Truman's recommenda > tions on universal military traln- > ing. He H aid he expects a report - soon from his advisory commission on the subject and will try ■ to get its plan through congress at this session. Social security — Chairman En- . gene D. Mllllkin of the senate finance committee predicted that . congress again will freeze the , social security payroll tax at the present rate of one percent each > on the employe and employer. Appropriations—House Republican budget-slashers hit back at r administration officials who chargi ed that the cuts would seriously 1 endanger vital government funeI tions Rep. Karl Stefan, R, Neb. described the protests as a "pre- [ pared program of smearing." Greek-Turkish aid — President ! Truman's $400.000,M10 Greek Turkish aid program reached the showdown stage in the house. That . chamber was preparing to vote on i a number of restrictive ambnd- ; ments. Final action on the stop- > Communism measure is not expected before tomorrow. Meanwhile, it was disclosed that , the Republican economy bloc will go easier on war department military activities than predicted One I congressman predicted that milli tary appropriations probably will i not be cut more than 1300,000,000 ■ (Turn T.> Page «, Column t) II —o Railroad Man Found Dead This Morning Traveling Auditor Is Found Dead Here A man identified as William A. Ralph 44. of Vermillion. 0.. was found dead about 8 o’clock this morning at the Frank Schmitz home. 213 South First street, where he had rented a room. Credentials in hi* possession listed his occupation as a traveling auditor for the Nickle Plate railroad company. Mrs. Schmitz first notified officials this morning when he failed to respond to a morning call, which he had asked f<rr at 8 a m. When deputy sheriff Sam Bentz arrived, he found Ralph on the floor of his room. Sherif Herman Bowman and coroner Harmon Gillig were also notlled and continued the investigation Into the death. After a preliminary examination. coroner Gillig said death was probably due to a heart attack. Mrs. Schmitz told authorities that she and her husband heard a noise from Ralph's room during the night and It is believed that he fell to the floor at that time. He told the Schmitz family last evening after renting the room that his wife was employed in a hospital in Vermillion and that the couple had no children. The body was removed to the Gillig A Doan funeral home, pending word from relatives.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, May, 8, 1947

First It’s Shoes, Now A Friend i H IT ■ ™ WERFEL, 6-yrar-old Austrian orphan, whose photo showing him clutching his first pair of new shoes made nationwide publications, turns up again and this time with a new friend. Red Cross Worker Opel Hull of New York shows W< rfel the popular picture as the two meet in Vienna.

Brazilian Court Bans Communists Communist Party Outlawed In Brazil Rio De Janeiro. May B—(UPl — ! Police squad* occupied the national and regional beadquarter* of the outlawed Brazilian Communist party today to' prevent protest demonstrations against the ban decreed by the supreme election tri■bunal I By a3to 2 vote the tribunal ruled that the Communist party was unconstitutional. The action affected the party's 200,000 registered members in Brazil and left in doubt the statuo of Luis Catloa Preste*. the party president. 11 Communist deputies and nearly 70 Communists in state legislatures. : It was Ijclieved that both congress and the supreme electoral tribunal would Im* asked to rule on the status !of the Communist leader*. At the same time president Eur;ico Gaspar Dutra suspended the ’ Brazilian federation of labor and 21 'regional lalwir organization* alleg<ed to be under Communist influence The Communist party wa* outlawed tinder article 141 of the 1946 constitution which forbid* the "organization. registration or functioning of any political party or association whose program of action run* counter Jo Democratic regimes based on the principle of the plurality of parties and on the guarantee of fundamental human rights." Piesident Dutra directed the c-ourto to start judicial proceedings (Turd To l'»g- 4. Column 4> — " ~ ' May’s Son Called To Witness Stand Government Begins Tracing Os Checks Washington. May B.—(UPI— The government, in a surprise move, today called a *on of former Rep. Andrew J. May. D.. Ky. to testify at his father's trial on charge* of war fraud conspiracy. The son, Robert V. May. was called to testify a* the government began to trace two checks of 81.000 each which had been cashed by his father. Oct. 13. 1944. in the office of the house sergeant-at-arms. The father I* charged with corruptly using his influence to get war contracts for the 878,000.000 GaFison munitions empire Dr. Henry Garsson. bi* brother, Murray Garsson and Joseph Freeman, the Garsson's Washington representative. are on trial in federal court. Young May said be did not an(Turn To Page 6, Column 6)

79 Graduates Mail Invitations Today The 79 graduate* of Decatur jun-ior-senior high school are mailing invitation* to thc.annual commencement exercise* which will be held Thursday evening. May 22. at lhe local school The engraved Invitations were reeived thki week aud the graduates started-to mail them vexterduy. o — Present Jewish Case To UN Committee Ask Palestine Be Made Jewish State l,ake Success. N. V., May 8 — (UPI The Jewish agency today (ailed upon for immediate relaxation of British restriction* on im[migration to the Holy Land. Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, spokesman for the agency, presented the Jewish case to the political committee of the United Nation* general assembly. He charged that Britain has violated the teunn of the mandate under which she ha* ruled Palestine through league of nation* sanction Silver told the UN that establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine would "serve as a great stimulus to lhe rebirth and progress of the entire near east withwhich the destinies of Hie Jewish national home are naturally bound up." Noting Hie "desperate urgency" of the problem of displaced Jews in Europe, Silver asking for "an Immediate relaxation of the restrictive measure* on immigration into Palestine" and an end to the British white paper policy of 1939 placing uevere restrictions on the entry of Jews into Palestine. He asked that the bar to imlitigation lie lifted immediately in order to “enable the deliberations of your committee of Inquiry and of the next assembly to be carried out in a calmer spirit, in an atmosphere of moderation and goodwill." Silver charged that the British (Turn To Page 6, Column 4) o Mrs. Dora S. Lawrie Funeral Held Today Funeral service* were held this afternoon, with burial in the Decatur cemetery, for Mr*. Dora Bchlickman-I-awri*. 53. a native of Adam* county, who died Sunday at Denver, Colo. The Zwick funeral home was In charge of the Mrvices, with the Rev. William C. Feller officiating She wa* born in Kirkland township August 2. 1893. a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Schlickman, and had resided in Denver for 30 year* She is survived by two Irotheiw, August Schlickman of Adams county and Martin of Denver. and two sisters, Mrs- Angie Youngquist ot Indianapolis and Mrs. John Williams of Denver.

Key Union Ends Dispute For Increase; See Early End To Nationwide Tieup

Decatur Population Now Listed As 7300 23.9 Percent Gain Reported By State A population gain of 23.9 percent for the city of Decatur since the last official census In 1940 is reported today by the Indiana Chamber of Commerca. The estimate of the state C of C. lists Decantr's population al the present time as 7.300. as compared to the official 1940 government census of 5.861 persons. Increases Estimated Indianapolis. May 8. (UPI An average population Increase of 18 percent in 70 Indiana cities over the 1940 census was estimated by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce today In u survey made by individual chambers of commerce, all cities reporting listed increases ranging from five to 91 percent over the official census seven years ago. Prime factors accounting for the 'changes were listed as wartime migration to industrialized centers, the nation-wide increase in population, and the extension of the boundaries of some cities to include adjacent areas Cities covered by the survey included: a • Anderson, 53,00 ff. 28 percent; Bloomington. 25.000. 19 8 pct.; Columbia City, S.ihmi. 18.5 pct.; Columbus, 18,000, 53 3 pct.; Decatur 7.300. 23.9 pct.; East Chicago, 63,<AM). 153 pct.; Elkhart, 37.80(1. 13 1 pct. Evansville. 125,000, 29.8 pct.; Fort Wayne. 125,000. 5.6 pct.; Greencastle. 5,500, 12.8 pct.; Ham mood. 80,000. 139 pct.; Hunting ton |s.ot;<) 79 pct.; Indianapolis. 420.000, 8.5 pct.; Kokomo. 37.600. (Turn To I'ag- ", Column I, — — . _ Chinese Nationals Retake Three Towns Report Nationalists Restore Positions Nanking, May 8. (UPl—Nationalist troops, in a serie* of successful local attacks, today re captured three towns in the Taian area of Shantung Province and forced the Communists to flee from positions they held on the Taian Tawenko and TientsinPukow railway. According to an ttneonfired repo*', the Nationalists rapidly were restoring their positions in central Shantung to those prevailing before the Communist counter of fensive was launched a fortnight ago. Communist troops estimated at 50.000 took tip new positions on the eastern flank of the Tsin-Pn railway in the Mengyin area Gov eminent forces were converging on them from three sides. (attest Shanshi dispatches said that fighting was dying down in the southern part of the province and around the Taiyuan Chengtlng railway. Other Communists were reported attacking the Fengyang-1 Hainoy area, 55 miles southwest of Taiyuan The town of Feng j yang was said to be surrounded Communist troops In Manchuria appeared to be preparing for an-1 other attack in the Changchun-j Hzepingkai area. —o Tolk Os Hour Club Meets This Evening Charles Eagle Plume, Interpreter of Indian life and customs, will entertain members i f the Talk of | the Hour club at the Catholic high school this evening. Members may exctuinge their tickets with non members, it was announced Thia is ths third and last entertainment until next fall on the ciub'a program.

President In Forecast Os Lasting Peace Observes Birthday •Anniversary With Optimistic Vews Washington. May 8 — (CPi Presidr-nt Truman observed his ' 63rd birthday anniversary today by forecasting that the world woul I get a lasting peace Two years ago today Mr. Truman jubilantly announced to Americans the surrender of Germany Today, he said that the United Nation* — the organization which grew out of tliat war —would effectually carry out its charter for preservation of world peace. Mr Truman told a new* conf< rence this country had overcome a lot of problems In those two year* and »ti!l faced many more. But the outlook now from his viewpoint, he said, was much Improved. And he still described himsi It - a** an optimist. Other point* touched on by flic president today: 1. He expects a report very l shortly front the special committee he appointed to develop i plans for universal military train ing ami he will attempt Io got this plan through congress this session. 2. He Indicated he has no present Intention to end the <pe ' cial Vatican mission of Myron (' I Taylor. lilm personal representative to the Pope, as requested yesterday by the Southern Bap list convention meeting in St Louis. 3. Mr. Truman again express 1 cd pleasure over the nationwide reaction to his appeal for lower prices. Asked whether we were over lhe peak of the inflation, he replied he never thought we were in an inflation and that what lie was trying to do was to prevent Inflation The president looked chipper and was smiling broadly when reporters filed inio his large < ir- \ cular office, greeting him with scattered (alls of "Happy Birth (Turn To Pag. !, t’oluinn ‘>i Two Men Killed In Helicopter Crash Government Officer Is One Os Victims Seattle. May 8 (UP>—Civil aeronautics authority ofticials today were investigating th* crash ot a helicopter which exploded in flight, ripped apart and plunged into Lake Union killing a govern ment official and the pilot here yesterday. The victims were Walter A. Storck, chief of the CAA private and commercial pilot section in Washington. D. (’.. and Angus Me- . Arthur, pilot for the Central Aircraft Co, of Yakima. Wash The crash occurred approximate ly 300 yards off the northeast ■ shore of the lake. The coast guard and city harbor patrol resumed dragging operations early tcalay In efforts to recover the bodies Herman A. Poulin, president of i the (’AC, said he would send divers down today to endeavor to recover the missing transmission and rotar hub of the ill-fated craft I to assist CAA officials in the In- , vestigation. Storck was in Seattle for a conference with regional CAA officials regarding proposed helicopter regulations when the accident occurred. Storck made the ill-fated fliffht to determine whether Me Turn To Pegs 8, Column •(

Price Four Cents

Pact Is Announced After Night-Long Session; Provide Workers' Increase Washington, May 8 — (I’PI — The 32 day-old telephone strike took its biggest jump toward a settlement early today when the key long distance union < n<i<-<L its dispute for wage Increase* of from 12 to $5 a week. Assistant secretary of labor John W Gibson, annoum ing the agreement after night-long ses slons at the labor department, said H foreshadowed an early end to til-ups involving 28 other affiliates or the National Federation of Telephone Worker* For the first time since tho strike began on April 7. the nation had good reason to hope for resumption of 'normal telephone service within u matter of days. The Ixjng Line* agreement, providing average hourly rai*e* of 11 cents, coverctl 2<umn member* of the American Union of Telephone Worker* and will become effective upon approval of the union's executive board ami the membership The leianl meets in New York today. John J Moran, union president, explained that the executive iioard Itself < onld terminal | the strike even liefore (nemltei ship ratlficallon become* i-ffee- . five Approval seemed certain but ' even then the long distance worker* will not return to work in any city where other phone 1 union* are *till striking The setlletm-nt meant weekly ItooNls of from 82 to 81 for long I distance worker* in all cities except Boston and Buffalo, where the top wilt be $5. The union , originally Nought 812 aero * thelioard Contrary to the long dlwtance union's original hopes, it* agreement with the American Tele phone A- Telegraph company did not include guarantees that the term* would serve a* a pattern for settlement with other Hell companies. But AT(6T spokemen indicated that most Belt companh-s probably would match it. The agreement wsv* signed liy union and AT&T negotiator* shortly after 'am <EBTI. climaxing a bargaining session that began a- 8:39 o’clock last night Gibson, oilier government conciliators ami union and company officials appeared exhausted a* they left the conference room with the long-sought agreement In hand Moran, president of the union, said he and other union negotia tor* were flying to New York at once to get executive lioard ac- : tion on the agreement at 2 p. m. (ESTI or shortly thereafter "If the term* of the tentative agreement are accepted the union will terminate the strike ami notify its members." Moran said "The strike will lie discontinued, when terminated, at the same time in all part* of tile country " He added, however, that it wa* the policy of the Long Distam-e Union to respect picket lines of other striker* The Icong-LUtes settlement came after 10 other NFTW unions and at least four independents had settled their disputes and as a back to-work move ment was taking shape across the nation. Twenty-eight NFTW union* '.Tur" To I’agr !.. t'uisi-on «» Alexandria Fire Loss Is $15,000 Alexandria. Ind. May 8 — (UP! | - Authorities today probed a fire which caused an eetimated damage for 815.000 to a 5 and 10-< ent xtore here last night The blaze broke out at the Danner Bros store, in the heart of downtown Alexandria. It destroyed the entire top Noor of a two story brick building. The flames were brought under control after two boon of fir* - fighUng.