Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 141, Decatur, Adams County, 16 June 1947 — Page 1

,V. No. 141.

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■nan Orders ■ Probe Os ■al Safety jßglMen Killed In W Bay Plane Crash, K west Disaster *’• ** I’ l K. fth Ml« I”-.’ |„ navigation may h.iv|lfefeggi| i’.mn-ylvai.ia <'. !■ I .il .1, that took >'t Inca KnnV it was ha-tm'l to ptobc O<* the Him- <’:• ill.-llt 1 111 ""I"' 1p..., .all investigation it t-. matter of air safety on .■M expressed deep < o>. MKBBH ||, appointed a spe< lai jBSHof inquiry which begins James M Landis of who « t ,H»rneil chairman of the ■ hoard, said he plan at.tmiinci- preliminary fin I the I’CA investigation ■ moon. Meanwhile h* comment. ■ K<>- learned, however, that HjjMnvestigators at the scene Sg.IJK wreckage were inclined to a theory that faulty alt I ■|K were responsible for the jfiSfJ crash. The four engined crashed i.Gs'.ifoot mountain when l»een 111 investigators were report the last commttnlca the Capt ha<> Wi ’ l * f,,, ‘ ral air ,raf , Hf®l»tr<dlers to see whether he his position. H ■; l-'t p. m., EDT Friday Stark '‘estimate I" ho wa Martinsburg. W. Va., he was given n contact M clearance for his approm h This meant he see the ground and was *BB]WgU v ' lu ' <■>> instruments He HBfti the Arcola Radio range. now one about 10 BB south of Herndon. Va , par the Washington rant” apparently began E* >te descent. If he was fly an indicated speed of iso «■ an hour and letting down rate of .'IOO feet a minute. Mjl theoretically would have feet. Tills would have a safe altitude for crossing BBlast harrier before Washing investigators reportedly he encountered heavy KB winds and may not have as far as he estimated the Blue Ridge mountain BBi» was the case and assutn ■■ he continued his descent, it ■B ho Hie explanation for tin that cost 50 lives. In were overlooking no ■■ibilities William l< An assistant chief of the safety Investigation bureau that groups probing the include specialists on MT 1 ’ propellers, airframes. ■B roi *- radios, meteorology operations. ■ 12 Men Killed Vt, June 16 ct p. mkß National guardsmen brought ,r " n ’ ,h< * rocky summit of mountain today the BB of 12 men who |Bf w|l>n their B-29 superfort. ■B ln * rainworm, smashed into a l,9mifoot peak J^B* 1 Donald .Miller, directing MV na,i, ’ r ‘ al kward company, said BB< spilled over a area by the force of ■I four engine army plane s Im with the mountain and the »'“ n K explosion which follow big ship hit the fog-blank P ** lt earl -* Sunday morning routine training flight from |^B* hur *h to Bedford, lass earlier it had circled W oVer Springfield In « heavy downpour, Its landing |B/ ** ar <hlng for an emergen m ***■ j ■— — — B WEATHER F * ,r ■"* Tueeday, Q ’"•what warmer Tuesday.

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20,000 Homeless In Midwest Flood Area Critical Conditions Seen On Mississippi By United Press Thousands of discouraged Ottumwa. la, residents waited today for flood waters to recede from their watersoakod homes. And Mississippi river towns braced themselves for the new flood spilling southward. Rain-swollen rivers overflowed their hanks in Nebraska. Missouri and Illinois. In the four-state corn belt area 20.000 persons were homeless and 1,500,000 acres o’ rich farmland were covered with water. Damage to property and crops soared to an estimated S4O- - The crest of the rampaging Des Moines river flooded farmlands In southeastern lowa, as it rolled southward toward Keokuk, where it empties into the Mississippi. Army engineers said flood waters draining out of lowi and tributaries farther north would .bring a second big flood to the central Mississippi valley beginning sometime Wednesday or Thursday. The engineers tentatively estimated that the Mississippi river would rise just as far beyond flood stage as It did last week, when thousands of persons fled from flooded farms and rivertowns. In the DesMolnes river valley floodwaters swirled up to rooftops in Otturnwa. hardest hit of the flood stricken cities, and threat ened the city’s water and power systems before starting to recede yesterday. Ten thousand of Ottumwa's 30,000 residents had fled from their homes. Waiting in evacuation centers today, some said they didn't want to go hack to their damaged homes. "We get flooded out every time there’s a flood,” said Charles Jackson, who was sheltered in a school house with his wife and five children. "I'm going to find a place where we'll be safe from the river.” B. E. Dunham, whose south side home was flooded a second time said. "Folks here won't be out of debt for 26 years because of this tragedy.” At Chicago fifth army headquar(Turn To Page .*>. Column fit O Two Persons Injured In Three Accidents Weekend Wrecks Are Reported By Sheriff Two persons were hurt in three auto crashes throughout the county over the weekend and early this morning, sheriff Herman Bowman's office reported today. John W. Mankey, 112. of route two. Decatur, and his wife. Clara. 83, suffered bruises and a severe shaking up about 4:30 p.m. Saturday when the car In which they were riding collided with a truck The truck driven by Edward Berryhill, 61. of Lafayette, and loaded with hybrid seed corn, was moving east of federal joad 224 through Magley when the Mankey auto pulled onto the highway and was struck broadside. Deputy Sam Bents, who investigated. said that the Mankey auto was shoved about 60 feet up into the Edward Kolter yard, narrowly missing the porch. The injured were treated by a physician. Berryhill was unhurt. Damage to the truck was estimated at 1500 and that to the auto at 1700 by deputy Bents. No one was hurt about 8:15 a m. today when cars driven by N. R. Belling. 27. Fort Wayne, and Eddie Mattox. 16. of Decatur, collided at Monroe and Thirteenth streets. Sheriff Bowman, who investigated, said that the Mattox auto was struck as the driver started to turn west off federal road 27 bypass. as both drivers were enroute south. Damage was estimatA car. owned and driven by Urban J. Becker, 38, Celina. (L. was dsmaged in the sum of 1100 about five miles north on federal road 27 at 7:30 am. today when (Turn To l ags 3. Column 6)

Two Air Crashes Take Heavy Death Toll «. ev - —naw TOP PHOTO Rescue workers search the shattered wreckage of the DU 4 Capital airliner which flew Into a woo led slope jilst IO« yards from the Virginia West Virginia state line, while enroute to Wash ington. All 50 persons aboard. Including the crew of three, died in the rending crash and fire which followed. LOWER PHOTO—Wreckage of an army superfortress wax strewn over the face of Hawks mountain near Springfield. Vt.. when the plane tailed to top the 1500-foot peak during a blinding rain storm Twelve army personnel lost their lives in the crash.

Explain Functions 01 Plan Commission Explain Duties At City Council Meet Functions of a city planning commission will be explained Tuesday night at the regular meeting of the city council, Mayor John B. St tilts announced today. The general public, and especially members of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce and other vitally interested persona, are urged hy the mayor to attend the session. H. 11. Morgan assistant director of the Indiana economic council, and Henry B. Steeg. experienced city planning commission engineer, both of Indianapolis, will address the meeting. Mayor Stultz said that this portion of the council meeting will begin about 8:30 p.m. and that the regular business part of the council meeting will be started early In favor of the latter session. The formation of a city planning commission which would direct among other things the drawing up and enforcement of a city zoning ordinance, has been under discussion here for some time. 0 Autos Collide Al Road Intersection Ohio City Woman Is Brought To Hospital Two persons were hurt, one requiring hospitalization, shortly after I o'clock this afternoon in a two-car crash one and one-half miles northeast of Decatur at a county road Intersection. Mrs. Lloyd Klracofe. 50. Ohio City, 0.. suffered a head Injury when she was thrown against the windshield of the car she was driving. She was taken to the hospital for treatment. She Is not believed seriously hurt. Paul wiseman. 32. of Decatur, route three, although thrown from his auto In the accident, escaped with cuts and bruisea about the Turn To Pal* 3, Column I)

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, June 16, 1947

St Louis Strike Proposal Rejected St. Louis, June 16 — (UP)— Striking AFL bus and street car operators Imlay were reported to have rejected a U. S conciliation service proposal to end their walkout that has left St. Umis without maw transportation for the j>ast three days. Th<- executive board of the union was said to have decided to turn down the offer on the grounds it was not comprehensive enough to include all points in dispute with the Public Service Co. 0 Flag Day Speaker Warns Os Communism Annual Exercises Are Held Saturday Warning against Communism and all other subveislve forces, the Rev. R. S. Miller in his flag day address at the It P. () Elks lawn Saturday, urged a greater rcopect !<».' the American flag and that which !a symbolises. "I wonder if wo are worthy of this flag." he said. "I wonder If too many of us have not forgotten those sacrifices made In protection of this flag and that lor which it stands.” "A great many have Invested in this flag Many have died. Many more nearly died in Ila defense There are still 42.000 in hospitals from this last war - and yet so many of us have forgotten them," declared the speaker, pastor of the Geneva Evangelical United Brethren church and a World War II army chaplain The Rev. Miller lashed at the Communists in the nation, quoting one of their leadera when he said before a < ongressional representation,” “We have only one flag — that la red.” "They are not worthy to live under Old Glory and Its protection those kind of people, I say move them out.” Three Groups Participate Three organizations — the B. P O Elks, the locsl American Legion post and the local Veterans of Foreign Wars post — participated In the rlrtw held Saturday even Ing (Turn To Page t, Column 6)

Fort Wayne Murder Probe Is Postponed Special Grand Jury Session Is Delayed Fort Wayne. Ind.. June 16 (UP) A special grand jury session wan adjourned today until June 24 Io give the etale more time to strengthen Its evidence against Ralph Uibaugh. 30, who admitted slaying three women and then repudiated his statements. The grand jury convened this morning but adjourned immediately at tne request of prosecutor Alton L. Bloom. Lobaugh a week ago admitted the slajinga of Anna Nttzeff, Billie Haaga and Mrs Dorothea Howard and later signed detailed confeiions after a lengthy police investigation of his admissions. Saturday, however, he retracted his statements. Deputy prosecutor Everett Bloom said that the state's stronger evident e might involve bringing in out-of state witnesses. Meanwhile, Lobaugh. in his jail cell where be is held without bond, refused a Bible and hoped be would be called before the grand jury to substantiate his repudla tlon He was drunk, he said, when he told police he was a murderer. "But I wouldn't do anything like that. Anyone who would do them is craay — and I'm not crazy," he concluded. o Roth Infant Dies Early This Morning Stephen Eugene Roth, infant son of le’onard and Evelyn Ludy Roth, died at 7 a m. toddy at the Adams county memorial hospital, where be was born at 9:30 p.m Sunday. Surviving in addition to the parents are the grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. John Ludy of Berne and Mrs. Emma Beer Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the home of Mrs. fleer, second house north of the Spring Hill Church, northeast of Berne The body will be removed from the Hardy A Hardy funeral home to the Beer residence this evening.

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Says Radar Device Crash Preventative Would Have Halted Four Air Disasters Culver City, Cal.. June 16 lUPI Four of the pa>-t 19 days' elx airplane disasters would have been prevented by a little radar gadget he demonstrated here nix weeks ago. Howard Hughes said today. The four crashes took 127 lives. Tbe gadget is a radar altimeter that flashes a light and squawks a horn when a plane comes within 2000 feet of any olwtach. It makes Is impossible for a normally • operating plane to fly Into a mountain. ax four of tile six have done Hughes cited the deaths of 40 In an army C-54 crash In Japan May 29 and 25 more the same day in an Icelandic Airways crash In Iceland, the crash Friday night of la Capital airliner in the Blue Ridge Mountains with 50 dead, and the crash early yeute'day of a 1129 at Springfield, Vt . with 12 deaths. All flew Into mountain aides Only two could not have l»een prevented liy the Hughes radar altimeter, he said They were the crash in takeoff from laitiuardia field May 29 of a United Airliner and the sudden plummeting into tl*’ gt oiind tbe following day of an Eastern Airliner near Bainbridge, Md "If everything was normal with these other ships, as everything eeema to Indicate," the airplane designer and builder said, "then the device we have perfected here would have prevented them all. •'.Most crashes are of this type, and that’s why we designed the apparatus." The Hughes altimeter, which weighs only 16 p’litmlx and costs around 1100. thro we out a )>eam before and Itelow tbe plane. If any (Turn To Page t. Column 7)

New Trial Motion Is Filed In Case Albert Romanowski Seeking New Trial Attorneys for Albert Romanowski have filed a motion for a new trial In Adams circuit court, after a petit jury ruled against him in a damage suit On May 16 the jury awarded David J Thomas, colored, damages of 34.600 for personal Injuries which he allegedly received last year when the truck In which he was riding was struck hy Romanowski's auto. The accident occurred on Han na street in Fort Wayne, just after the plaintiff had left the Chocolate Bar tavern Thomas averred one of his legs is per manently disabled from Injuries received in the accident Vacates Strset Judge J Fred Fruchte ordered "West street.” located south of Adams street and near Thirteenth, vacated after ruling on a petition filed by Jean Lota and Fred Smith. Tillman and Annabelle Gehrig A miniature golf course is to be operated at the site by Clark W. Smith. DeVoss A Smith are attorneya for the petitioners, while Henry B. Heller represented the city of Decatur, defendants in the action. A petition to vacate a street In Geneva, filed by Everett Miller, was dismissed, as was the eject* ment suit of Beatrice Miller Black and ethers against George Womack and others Judge Fruchte late Saturday granted Audrey Straushaugh a divorce from Jesse L. Striuabaugh II R McClenahan represented the plaintiff and R Dempsey the defendant. He also gave Emma S Marsh a divorce from Ernest W. Marsh. (Turn To Bags 5, Column I)

U. S. Shipping Paralyzed As Seamen Strike CIO Union Leader Declares Shipping Tieup Is Lockout New York, June 16 -tl'Pl An estimated 80.000 seamen staged sitdowns aboard Amernanflag ships in all major I* S ports to tlay, idling at least 2<>0.000 work ers and paralyzing most American shipping President Joseph Curran of the CIO National Maritime Union said the shipping tieup was "a lockout not a strike” The unprecedented sitdown began In New York harbor at 12:01 a tn. as contracts between east coast shipowners and three CIO unions expired with negotiations over union demands for 20 percent wage increases and a 40-hour week deadliM'ked Curran ordered the situation extended across the gulf coast and through the entire Pacific coast, at midnight local time, and told his men to "remain aboard all ships as long as possible hut to do no work. The Pacific American ahlpown ers association announced In Nan Francisco that it had reached a new contract agreement with the CIO union of ship clerks, checkers and supercargoes The agreement spurred hopes for quick set tlement of the dispute on the west coast where 32.000 men and 200 ships were Idle. Tankers, colliers, tugboats and both Great Lakes and river shipping were covered by senorate contracts snd were not involved. No foreign vessels were affected AFL maritime unions said they would not operate ships owned by struck firms and would respect CIO picket lines. The NMU said the work stop page simply was “a case of no contract, no work —a lockout in effect by the shipowners" Seamen on the beach staved there. Those aboard ship were Turn Tn I'sae 1, Column «) —a— — Ford Plant Resumes Assembly Os Aulos DeSoto Plant Is Idled By Walkout Detroit. June 16 (UPI The Ford Motor company resumed assembly of Ford cars at Its River Rouge plant today, but new labor woes Idled 2.56 ff workers at a plant of Chrysler Corporation's De Noto division Ford returned to assembly after a threeday suspension In the face of slowdowns by workers in sympathy with the 27 day old strike of the independent foremen's association of America The DeSoto walkout was the second in four days. A company spokesman said 85 workers In the material assembly department refused to work thia morning because the company would not rescind a three day disciplinary layoff of an employe accused of handling materials carelessly. The strike in the material assembly unit forced laying off of 1.900 final assembly line workers at 7'30 a m today, he said, and a half hour latec <75 press division employes walked out In sympathy. Earlier, prospects fur Increased auto output had brightened with resumption of River Rouge assembly and ratification of CIO United Auto Workers of new wage agree ments with the Briggs Manufacturing and Packard Motor car companies.

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Veto Message Says Tax Reduction Now Would Only Increase Inflation Pressures Washington, June 16— <UP>— President Truman today vetoed the Republican bill to reduce Income taxes |4 ooo.tmo imhi a year. Mr Truman told congress the bill represented "the wrong kind of tax reduction at the wrong time ' The veto appeared to kill all chances of tax relief this year for the nation's 48,5M,M<> Income taxpayers The house may override the veto. But the senate seemed certain to uphold the veto A twothirds majority <»f Ix»ih the house and senate is necessary to enact a bill over a veto. The house Will vote on the veto tomorrow; the senate Wedlies lay if there is any need for a senate vote. Mt Truman, denouncing the bill, said: "It offers dubious, ill apportioned and risky benefits at the expenses of a sound tax policy* and is. from the stan<l|M>lnt of government finances, unsafe.” The president described himself as "deeply committed" to the "right kind of lax reduction at the right time" The Republican measure would have reduced income taxes 10 3 to .to percent, beginning July 1, just two Weeks from now It also would have given an extra l’>oo exemption to ail itersons 65 or older The president in his veto message to the house said that tax teductiun now would only increase inflationary pressures "If these pressures are long continued and If essential readjustmenls within the price structure are long deferred, we are likely to Induce the very recession we seek to avoid.” he said Mr Truman said reductions in Income tax ra'es were not require! now to provide additiona* funds for business expansion The president called for immediate planning for what he < ailed a thorough going revision of the lax system He prefated tills by saying that If the bill Itecame law. certain provisions which he regarded a« inequitable would he frozen Into ’lie tax structure This he said, would delay the time when the government could make fair tax reductions In asking for an overall revision of the tax system, he said "we should conailer not only Individual Income tax rales, but also the level of personal exemptions and many other adjustments In the personal Income tax structure.” He also recommended consMt ration of changes in excise, gift, estate ami corporation taxes "Nucb a program of tax adjustment and tax reduction should be geared to the Bnancial and economic needs of this country.” he sai l "It will be an important contribution to economic pro-g-ess. "The timing of such a program Is highly Important to achlrsre economic stability, tn promote the Investment of capital, and to maintain employmen:, purchasing power and high levels of produc* tlon " Mr Truman was not aide to say when he thought the time for tax reductions would Strive. He said the time would come only when general inflationary pressures have ceased and the structure of prices Is on a more stable basis than now prevails." "How long It will take for thia point to he reached is impossible to predict.” he said The presid-nk described as a "fundamental objection* to the bill tax reduction provisions which he said would operate In-* equitably "H. R 1 reduces taxes In tbe high Income brackets to a grossly disproportionate eslewt aa Turn To Bago !, Column T)