Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 126, Decatur, Adams County, 28 May 1947 — Page 1

ES(LV. No. 126.

lOTE DOWN INCREASED TAX EXEMPTIONS

Khali Is Hess Today way Trial Blrtime Army Chief I Jstoff Testifies •-KH Bribery Trial today in the May ■ ■ i'i"> "' ,l . KaX-, . • kK ” i,! "'"" a, ' s nn h shells in 1945 a | had testified that E*B>' ' r‘*an»l»>>*’ fur hik li alinv I in a gray unit, iMr3 ‘.I nirt and dark blue for minutes. At . barely audible. ■ 3,., Aa, time chairman of 'i'll house military asKjrf : <<> defendants are H.-nry Murray Cars i of munitions firms y millions of do’lors in war H ISI ti'iiont charges that j al least *53.000 from contract ■ W ! ' l ' l l "'"' I’lodiK-ed at a’d show ihat with the war de in effort to block cutGarxxon firm contract! Ibt inch shellsss J Margiotti. counsel for rasons. conducted the denterrogatlon of .Marshall, rd Marshall when he first I contact with May. tall replied that he bethe first contract was in fter he became chief of |e said he saw May "very fly" when he appeared bebouse military affairs comalso met him on several Hie war department. ■ Marshall then 'old of two secret meetings in 1944 to which K* •»' Gen Dwight Eisenhower Hnri&ln vl.uk t la k- who hud been secretly from the war I for strategy conferences. Multi asked if the needs of L department had been dis- ! at these meetings. Marshall I that he recollected they I you discuM the eight-inch kith Mr May?” chief proseWilliam A. Paisley asked in lamination bve no recollection of such Ission with Mr. May directly. I have discussed the eightcell before groups in 1944.'' I you discuss it in 1945 with ay or any groups?" >n‘t think so.” had testified that he teleI war department personnel n 1945 to pass on complaints the Gantson* about a cutin the eight-inch shell const their Batavia Metal ProCo. May said he acted Itern To Page 1, Column 6> — 0-, ert H. Heller Is is Club Speaker Kent Legislative Ei Discussed Heller, of this city, representative . of Wells counties, was Tuesday evening at meeting of the Lioms Knights of Pythias '*■ discussed several Posed bills which at r attention during the of the legislature, in * dealing with local labor. entioned that the bal•late general fund was illy depleted and said discussion had been mcerning a boost in > and gasoline taxes, attention to the clga*«t. which becomes eflimt of July. Herman «rg was tn charge of

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More German Camp Officials Executed Two-Day Execution Is Completed Today Germany, May 28. - (UP)—U. H. army hangmen finished the two-day execution of 49 Mauthausen concentration camp doctors, guards and officials responsible for thousands of tor1 ture deaths today by hanging 26 men on Landsberg prison's twin gallows. The 49th man scheduled to die, Otto Striegel, received a temporary reprieve two hours before his execution hour. His only comment was. “why?" All but one of the 26 men hanged in today's three-and a-half hour death parade and the 22 executed yesterday will be buried in a common grave gouged out by an army bulldozer In the shadow of the prison where Adolf Hitler wrote “.Mein Kampf.” Relatives of the 48th man claimed his body. The bodies were placed in plain wooden coffins as they were removed from the black gallows. It was the greatest mass execution carried out by the army. All 48 men hanged yesterday and today were convicted of murders and tortures at the Mauthausen camp. S. S. general August Eigruber of Linz. Austria, once the gauiei ter of Oberdonau. was the most prominent on today's death list. During the trial at Dachua he was quoted ax saying of Russian prisoners at Mauthausen, “all these swine will have to be finished." Fr've Mauthausen medical experts convicted of gruesome experiments on prisoners were executed today. They were Dr. August Blei. 53: Dr. Friedrich Entrexs. 32; Dr. William Henkel. 37; Dr Eduard Krebsbacb, 52 and Dr. Waldemar Wolter, 38. Among the charges on which they were convicted were sexual perversion, castration, forced Intercourse. lethal injections and "experiments" to do away with their victims. All the executed men and (Turn To Pago 7, Column 4) — — o Decatur Girl Hurt When Hit By Auto Barbara l.itterer. 4. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Lltterer. is in the Adame county memorial ho* pita! suffering from injuiies sus tained when she was struck by a local taxi, driven by Jay Minch The girl may be suffering from a light brain concussion, hospital attaches reported this afternoon. The taxi driver told chief Ed Miller, who Investigated, that the girl darted into the side of his auto, ax he was driving on High street shortly before noon today. Charles 0. Hobrock Dies Tuesday Night Funeral Services Friday Afternoon Chai les O. Hobrock. 75, retired farmer and a lifelong resident of Adams county, died at 8:30 o'clock Tuesday evening at his home, .ll'* North Tenth street He had been in failing health for several years of complications, but seriously ill only one day. He was born in Root township March 29. 1872. a son of Henry and Sophia Christ ianer-Hobiock. H« had lived in Preble 50 vears, moving to Decatur two years ago. He wa B a member of the St. Paul's Lutheran church at Preble. He was married to Magdalena Bienz February 8. 1917. Smvlvlng in addition to the wife are two brothers. Gust of Hoagland and Theodore Hobrock of Root township. and one sister. Mrs. Louise Getting of Fort Wayne. Two brothers preceded him in dea b. Funeral services will be held at 2 pm. Friday at the home and at 2:30 o'clock at the St Paul Lutheran church at Preble, with the Rev. O. C. Busse officiating Burial will be in the church cemetery. The body will be removed from the Zwick funeral home to the residence, where friends may call afte' 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon-

QueNtion Neighbor In Slaying Os Four Children

HHBT Lem I A aft- Sb A ■■ IF*' / J EH | J! RETURNED FROM TOLEDO. 0.. where he wax arrested. Oliver Terpenning (left). 16, is being questioned In Mich., by state police probing the fatal shooting of the four children of Mr. and Mrs. William Smith (right) of Imlay City. Mich. Shown with the Smiths are their 17-year-old daughter. Ella Mae, who discovered the childrens’ bodies in the wmalx near their farm home, and their in year-old son. Orville. Victims of the bizarre killing are Barbara. 16; Stanley, 14; Gladys, 13, and Janet. 2.

Plan Observance Os Memorial Day Suspend Business Here For Holiday Decatur and community today prepared for the annual observance of Memorial Day on Friday. Practically all business will be suspended, with stores remaining closed throughout the entire day. No mail deliveries will be made. The bank and ail public buildings will be closed. No edition of the Dally Democrat will l>«- printed that day. The official portion of the celebration is to be staged jointly by Adams post 43. American Legion, and Limberlost post 6236. Veterans of Foreign Wars. Ceremonies honoring war dead will actually begin at 9 a m . when all veterans are asked to meet a' tin- legion home, from where they will go to the two cemeteries for graveside rites Transportation will be furnished those who do not have cars. After the graveside services they will return to Liberty Way. where a parade will be formed of members of both posts. Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts. Brownies and the Decatur Catholic high school band, along with color guards and rifle squads of the two veterans' organizations. Tlie parade will move down Second street to Monroe street and then to the east bridge over the St Mary's river, where rites paying tribute to naval dead will be staged. The paraders will move back to the peace monument on Liberty Way and there a Memorial Day Turn T<> Page 2. Column 7) Plan Waler Safely Courses In Decafur Plan Life Saving Instruction Here At a water safety meeting held at Red Cross headquarter* laat evening with C. I. Finlayson, chairman. plans were formed for the following Red Cross water courses to be held here this summer: Junior life saving course which requires 15 hours of instruction, tor boys and girls, age 12 to 16 years inclusive who are in good physical condition; tentative date for classes July 14 to 18, three hours each day from 8:30 to 11:30 am. Senior life saving course which Is open to men and women, boys and girls who have passed their 17th birthday and can pass the preliminary swimming requirements. Requires 17 hours of in struction; tentative date for this class Aug. 11 to Aug. 15 from 8:30 to 11:30 am Beginnef and Intermediate Courses will also be available. Mr. Finlayson, through the aid of hia qualified Instructors, Intends to ""Turn Tu Paa* 3, L’ulumn 7)

OMLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, May 28, 1947

NO PAPER FRIDAY In accordance with annual custom, the Decatur Daily Democrat wilt not publish an edition Friday, May 30, which Is Memorial Day. Lisi Bible School Faculty Members I " — Annual Bible School Will Close June 6 — Tlie complete roster of faculty members of the Decatur daily vacation Bible school, which opened this week for two weeks of Instruction, was announced today. i Mrs. Russell Gwens Is dean of the school, with Mrs. Ray Heller ax assistant dean. The xchisd is sponsored l>y the Decatur minis terial association, with the various ministers leading devotions ' each morning. Classex are held daily. Monday through Friday, from 8:15 to II a in, for children from 4 to 15 i years of age. No classes will be held Friday ' because of the Memorial Day holiday. A short meeting of the teachers will be held Thursday morning after the clone of the regular classes. Closing exercises for the school will be held Friday evening. June 6, at the Lincoln school, where all classes are held. In addition to the exercise*, exhibits of work done at the school will be on disp'ay. The complete list of teachers is ax follows: Nursery Department Mrs. R. S. Burnett, superintendent; Sara Krick. Carolyn Burnett and Beverly Lister, helpers. Kindergarten Mrs. John Beery, superintendent Mrs. Paul Brewer, teacher: Nancy Krick. Mary Anne Gwens, Donna Klrchenbauer and Myona Hicks, helpers. (Turn TO Page *. Column 5) 0 Two Men Held For Sugar Theft Attempt Fort Wayne. Ind., May 28 — (UP) — Two men were In jail today under 35.000 bonds each in connection with an attempted theft of more than a ton of ougar from the warehouse in which they worked. Police last night arrested Russell L. Hyndman. 22, and Wilbur Screeton. 27, after they discovered Hyndman in the coal chute of the warehouse Screeton wa* arrested later at his house Hyndman'* automobile, police Miid. was piled high with 100-pound sacks of sugsr on the warehouse loading dock. 0 WEATHER Moderate to heavy rain* north and central portlone tonight, ending early Thursday afternoon. Scattered shower*, and thunderstorms extreme south portion Thursday. Continu'd cool.

Ford Company Offers 15-Cenf Wage Boost Wage Hike Proffered Production Workers Detroit. May 28. —i UP)—The Ford Motor company today offered its production employes a 15cent hourly wage Increase and announced a 16 percent pay boost for all salaried workers earning less than 31.006 a month. r The provision for salaried emjrioyes. however, excluded 3.B(w> striking foremen since the fore r men's association of America has . terminated Its contract with the company. f John S. Bugas. Ford vice preslr dent and head of the firm's negot- , iating committee, said the company had offered to renew Its pre- . sent contract, amending it only to ( provide for the 15-cent hourly Increase. The pact would become r effective May 31. As an alternative, he said, the , company offered to make a new contract effective June 15 and Inr xert in the current pact any r amendments agreed on through • collective bargaining by that time I Both proposals, in effect, amount- • ed to extension of the present contract with wagp increase I amendments. However, the alternative left (Turn T* Pure 7. Column 4) I , President’s Mother I Is Much Improved I ■■■' ' — Truman Considers White House Return Grandview. Mo.. May 28 — (UP) President Truman said today that his mother had improved to tho .point where he wax thinking about returning to tlie White House Mr. Truman said he could give no definite time for his return Io Wadliington. but It was under consideration The chief executive felt better about his mother’s condition than at any other lime during his I2day vigil at , her bedside which began the i morning of May 17. leaving the Muehlebach hotel In Kansas City for his mother's house today, the president said she wax "feeling pretty good." He got up early and made hix usual telephone check with his sister. Mary Jane Truman "She's holding her own.” the president said. "In fact she had 1 the liext night since I have been here." Asked whether he was plan t;lng his return to the White House, the president said "If she continues to improve. I'll return bf soon as I can." Asked If he thought he might leave here before the week-end. the president said “it is possible, but 1 isn't give a definite answer. I hope her condition will be such as to permit it."

Senate Defeats Attempt To Increase Exemptions On Personal Income Tax

Snowstorm Lashes States In Midwest Threatens To Mar Memorial Holiday By Vnlted Press A snowstorm blew Into the middlewest today only 48 hours ahead , of Mie first summertime holiday | A foot of snow full on the street at Alliance. Neb. stalling motor' traffic. Tree brandies cracked under the weight of the wet snow, and Alliance natives said they never had seen anything like it. The spring snow blew down from Canada, and It threatened to mar the Memorial Day holiday for millions in the midwest. The U. S , weather bureau at Chicago said it | would remain cold in the north | centra) states until Saturday. Snowfall ranging from a trace to 12 inches was reported in Nebraska. lowa. South Dakota. Wyoming and Colorado "There has been nothing like this In my memory, and I've been here 30 years,” said Ben J. Sal-' lows, editor of the Alliance Timex- : Herald. The U. S weather bureau said today wax the coldest May 28 in Des Moines, la . since 1894. The mercury dropped to 39 degrees there, and the snowfall over nearly the entire northern section of I the state was the coldest in lowa ' history. At 10 am. CRT a heavy snow * was falling at Sioux Falls. S D ' snow also was spread over northI ern Nebraska and northeast lowa The temperature at Sioux Falls had dropped to 24. Snow was predicted for most of today and tonight for most of the storm area Flurries were predict(Turn To page 7, Column G - o Harvey I. Tieman Is Taken By Death I — Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon ■■■l — ■ Harvey L. Tieman. 59. of Fort Wayne rural route 9. St Joe Center road, and a native of Adams county, died at 3:15 pm Tuesday at tlie Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne after an Illness of two weeks. An employe of the Fruehauf Trailer company at Fort Wayne. | he was a member of St Peter's Lutheran church in Goegleln and American Legion post 330 in NewHaven. . Surviving are the wife, Clara: two sons, with the army, and Elwood, at home; a daughter. Alice at home; his mother. Mrs. Louise Tieman of Adams county; two brothers. Harold Tieman of Adams county and Charles of Allen county, and a sister. Mrs. Ida Bleeke of Cedarburg. Wis. Funeral services will be held at 2 pin. Saturday at the Roden-beck-Pool funeral home in Fort Wayne and at 2:30 o'clock at St. j Peter's church, with the Rev. Henry Abrams officiating Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p in. Thursday o Franz Von Papen Is Seriously Wounded Nuernberg. May 28 -(VP)rFranz Von Papen. former N«zi diplomat now seating a prison term at Regenxbicg. was reported today to have been attacked and wounded seriously In the hospital ward of the prioon by a former SS officer Wednesday. i Von Papen. 69. is serving an eight year sentence imposed by a i German denazification court. He was one-of the three defendants I acquitted at the Nuernberg war , crimea trial.

Lad Murdered Four Playmates Just For Thrill I Calmly Confesses Shooting Os Four Children For Thrill I 1 I Lapeer. Mich. Mav 28. —(f'Pi — Oliver Terpenlng. Jr, 16 year-old farm boy who confessed he murdered four playmates for a thrill, said today he wax disappointed with the experiment. "I didn't get the thrill 1 expect ! ed out of It." Terpening told police who brought him to the Lapeer jail. "I'm xorry now that I killed them.” The xlender. narrow faced youth faced life Irnjwlxonment If convicted on the flrxt degree murder charge filed by circuit judge George W Dex Jardine. Michigan does not have the death penalty. Terpenlng calmly admitted to . officers at state police headquarters in East I.anxing that he de liberately shot and killed four qeighbor children of one family late Monday ax they picked wildflowers in the woods near his farm home The victims were Barbara Smith. 16. Stanley. 14. Gladys, 12. and Janet. 2. Barbara was considered his "girl friend." "I always kinda wondered what it would fee) like to kill somebody" he told Dr. Le Moyne Snyder. Michigan state medical-legal expert. "I even thought a lot about killing my stepmother, but never went through with it." A curious but orderly crowd of nearly 200 persons most of them I teen-agers—ailently watched Terpening's arrival at the Uipeer jail. : He wax arrested In Toledo. Ohio, ! yesterday when he hitched a ride I with an alert painter who recog nlzed him from a broadcast description. Terpenlng fled in his father's car before the bodies of his youthful victims were found. The car was found abandoned in Port Huron, Mich The farm boy told police he didn't want to attend the mass funeral to be held tomorrow at Imlay City for the four children. “I would be afraid to face their turn To I’.-ore 1. Column 4) 0 New Trial Motion Under Advisement Arguments Heard Today On Motion Judge J Fred Fruchte In Adams circuit court today took under advisement a motion for a new trialin the case of Charles Dinger against the Confection Cabinet corporation. The judge heard arguments of counsel on the motion this morning. A motion for a new trial wax filed by D. Burdette CiMter, at-i tourney for the defendant com-! pany. after an Adams circuit court jury on April 17 awarded the plaintiff >1.976 40 He had asked 32.000, allegedly owing him for |»opcorn which he had raised under contract with the company and for which they (Turn To Page 4. Column 7) Angola Man Heads District Democrats Fort Wayne, Ind., May 28 — (UPl— Harold M. Kelley. Angola, today held the post of Democratic chairman of the fourth Indiana congressional district He was elected at a district masting last night to succeed the late Joseph Suelzer Kelley is also Steuben county Democratic ciutlraiaq. i

Price Four Cents

House Votes Small Setback To G. 0. P. Economy Drive On Agriculture Fund Washington. May 28—(UPl — The senate- today voted 41 to 27 against increasing personal Income tax exemptions. The vote came on nn amend- | inent offered by Sen . John L. McClellan. D. Ark., to the Republican bill to cut personal inI come taxes 10 to 30 percent on ; July 1. Ifo proposed to Increase the ; indivldiial exemption from 3500 to 3750. He also would have given a "head of family" a 31-500 i exemption A "head of family" does not I get any Increased exemption under present law. but may get 3500 for his wife ax a dependent. McClellan said the increase in | exemptions would have given i more tax relief to the “low-in-i come wage earner who has to struggle to earn the necessities of life.” Driving toward passage- of the Republican tax reducing bill, the senate also defeated. 54 to 24. another amendment offered t»y McClellan which would have permitted residents of the 38 non- > i epnmunity property states to pay federal income taxes on a fatnßy-iiartuersfaip Itasis. The amendment was similar in most respects to one he offc-cecf yesterday which would have extended to mairiei couples in the 38 non-community property Slates the privilege of saving on their taxes by splitting their income Today's amendment would iiave permitted members of a family to divide the husband's income among all members for tax purposes. Sen Waiter F George. D , (la., joined Republicans In arguing that McClellan's proposal L'* family-partnership taxes should be left for consideration, in a general tax revision next year. Republicans hoped to send the Income tax reduction bill to President Tinman by next We Ir.exday Restore Cut The house tentatively put back 53.500,00« of the 383.427.742 which its appropriations committee had cut from the agriculturedepartment's fiscal 1948 budget This small setback in the GOP economy drive was approved 116 to I**9 It will be subject to a roll call vote on final pax-age of the bill The 33.50(*.000 would be restored to the- research and marketing i | togratn which is designed tee find new outlets for farm pro duce. Chairman Clifford R Hope or the agriculture committee, a Re* publican, sab' he hoped to get back 111 the bill nearly half the amount cut out of it. Before he(Turn To Page 4. Column 4) Free TB Clinic To Be Held Thursday Public Invited To Clinic At Library A tuberculosis clinic will be held Thursday at the Decatur library, ft was announced by officers of tho Adams county tuberculosis association. The clinic will t>e opened to the general public Persons believing they have symptoms of the diseaee are especially urged to attend the clinic for an examination. Doctors sre also invited to send patient* suffering from the disease for an examination. The clinic will be conducted from 10 am. to 3 pm Thursday and clinicians from the Irene Byron sanatorium at Fort Wayne will be in charge The clinlca are part of the association's prog tarn, financed by the sale of Christmas seals here each year.