Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 163, Decatur, Adams County, 12 July 1947 — Page 1

►I. XLV. No. 163

U.S. SIGNS AID AGREEMENT WITH TURKEY

ienate Meets jfodayToAd )n Tax Bill Unusual Saturday Session Called To Speed Tax Action Wsshiagtoa. Jaly epublican leaders called the mate into an unusual Saturday Melon today tn •• effort to com iete congressional action on th.•vised OOP income t.x n-duc on bill. Chairman Eugene D Millikin. a c ., Colo., of the aenate finance ommittee said lie intended to old the upper chamber in session ito the night, If gocessary. to get w measure thrangh The house already has approved le bill to cut personal income ixes by from SO to 10.5 percent —.artlng Jan. I. Senate pannage is [insured. But several proposed ...mendments have *® *'•’ 'taP‘»'«d ‘f first. * The aenate vote on President roman's promised veto shaped up thecrucial tout on the issue It “'rohabiy will come best week Administration forces now apeared to have ggough votes lined ' pto sustain the veto Their count (imbed to S 3 when Sen William - anger, R., N. D. indicated he ■ould vote against overriding. —hie would be one vote more than _»e necessary minimum to sustain 94 senators were present. Bene. Wayne Morse. R.. Ore. ohn L. McClellan. D. Ark., and haptgan Rerereomb, R. W. Va., (fared amendments Morse's onld authorise a tax cut but at different rate from the GOP bill lie proposed cut would become tfective only if a decline in naonal income and employment 'ere threatened. McCfollnn's amendment would stand to married couples in all taten the •o-emlie.l community roperty benefit that permits spilling of family income for tax pur ones. Rlvercoruh’s would raise the xemptlon for a married couple Dm 11,900 to either 91.250 or 1.500. Republican leaders were confl--'ent all the amfßdmeuts would be Refected. Othbr ecmgresslonal develop--1 rants: Universal training —The house ules committee will not act this on the universal military wining legislation, according to hainnan Leo E Allen. Since lien’s committee must clear all Illa for floor consideration, his ronuncement apparently put th.teaaure la moth'bails for another ~~ Wool- President Truman appar - atly has won his batile with con rose over wool import fees. ■"teairman Clifford R. Hope. R. ana., said his house agriculture n pmmittee had decided to take up nmediately a oom promise senate aw cigaret tax, and ail state govart program. Labor tew -legislation softenthe Taft-Hartley law's res trie ■[on on political activity by labor J nions has been introduced by em.. George D. Aiken. It. Vt . nd Carl A. Hatch. D. N M They reposed to continue the prohibition on political "contributions" labor unions, but to do away Ith the ban Mt political "expenditures’’ by unions Rent control*—Chairman Jesse '.‘’Wolcott, R.. Mich., of the house anking committee which drafted io recently-enacted rent law, sugeatod that tenants refuse to pay $ percent increases unless they ml they are testified. lethany Men's Club 4eets Monday Night A/ Tho Bothany men’s club of the lUthany Evangelical United Breth’en chart* will meet at the church lotetey eraning. opening with a upper at 6:33 O’clock. Dr. Tennyi So Guyer, former minister and .ayor of Celina. O. Hated as one f the 10 beet speakers in Ohio, ill address the club. -o WEATHER M Partly cloudy with little Ji change In temperature today, tonight and tomerrew.

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BULLETIN Washington, July 12.—(UP) —The White House said today that President Truman will send to Congress nest week a message proposing a comprehensive program of flood control. Press secretary Charles G. Roas said the President's proposal would encompass the entire area between the Rockies and the Appalachian mountains. He declined to speculate on the costs or on the period of time in which the proposed program woula be carried out. Marshall Plan Conference Is Opened Today

Bevin Tells Russia And Satellites Bid To Parley Remains Paris. July 12 —(UPl—British foreign secretary Ertfert Bevin told Russia and her eight satellites today that the “door will remain wide open" for countries of good will to change their minds and Join the Marshall plan. Bevin was unanimously elected chairman of the Marshall plan conference by the 16 countries ct western and southern Europe at their opening session. He quickly started organizational procedure. In an obvious reference to Soviet pressure that forced the satellite* to reject invitations. Revin said he regretted that "some European countries are unable to attend.” "In reading the news I am sure they regret it as much as we regret their absence. But we fully understand and express our sympathy. "The ”oices of all countries here and outside of Europe are raised to assure that the door will remain wide open to those with good will who want to contribute to the gootl life of Europe.” The opening session lasted slightly more than one hour, then adjourned until 4 p. m. Sunday. A working committee was set up to prepare a confer ence program and report tomor row. French foreign minister George* Bldault welcomed the dele gates with a sharp retort 'o Soviet attacks on the conference. He said the purpose was not to form an anti Soviet bloc but to "put an end to the state of eco(Turn To Pas* 5. Column 61 »

Dewey Gives Views On Foreign Affairs States U. S. Must Play Leading Role Enßoute With Gov. Dewey. July 12—(UPI—Gov. Thomas E Dewey told Rocky Mountain Re publican leaders today that the Inited States must play a leading role "in the battle to work out the international situation.” The New York governor expressed hia view* on foreign affair* at closed conference* with Colorado GOP chieftain* who reportedly lean towards Sen. Robert Taft of Ohio for the party presidential nomination. The Colorado leader* indicated agreement with Dewey'a stand, hut they declined to pledge any of the state’s 13 national convention delegates to hia campaign. “We felt it was too early to diacuaa candidate* but we told him he was very popular In this section of the country." Colorado Republican atate chairman William L. Lloyd said. “Dewey was very strong In Colorado in the paat and ia still foremost In the field of candidate*. He and Taft are in the same relative position In Colorado as they are throughout the nation. Colorado la wide open and will remain so until after (Tare T* Pa« ». *♦•■**■ »>.

New Union Chapel Church Building oKI ’wwjt we • ' JST b J rll l fflMt' bit. It 1• - -l: XfigJKMZ Pictured aix»ve ia an architect's drawing of the proposed new Union Chapel Evangelical United Brethren church, to be built northeast of Decatur, replacing the structure destroyed by fire last December. Bids on construction of the church were received Friday night and are being tabulated.

Estimate $251,000 Savings In County Figure Savings On New Tax Cut Bill Indianapoli*. July 12— (UP)— The Indiana atate Chamber of Comment! total Hoosier* today what passage of the proposed federal Income tax reduction bill would mean to them. The Chamber aaid congressional committee estimates placed the total saving* to Indiana Individual taxpayer* In 1948 at more than 972,006.000. The Chamber urged In a resolution adopted earlier thia week that the tax reduction bill be passed. “That would reduce the total t;ra burden in Indiana by an amount about equal to that which would he saved taxpayers by repealing the state gross income tax, the nex cigaret tax. and all atate government property and poll taxes." the Chamber said. The gross income tax now yields about 955,000,000 a year, the income from the cigaret tax was estimated at 99.000.000 a year, and property and poll taxes collected for state purposes are more than 96.500.000. It* statement today listed by counties the estimated savings that would lie effected in Indiana in 1948 if the reduction bill became law. They included: Adams. 9251.000; Allen, 94.488.000; Bartholomew, 9437.000; Blackford. 9269.000; Boone, 9336.000; Casa. $688,000; Clay 3327.000; Gibson 9369,000; Green 9382.00(7; Howard. 9961,000; Huntington, 9563.000; Jay, 3306.000; Kosciusko. 3453,000: take. 37,184.(100; ta Porte 31,209.000; Marshall 3460.000; Marion. 316, 879,000; Miami 3505,000; Noble. 3396.000; Porter. 3504.000; Poaey, 3217.000; Putnam. 3308.000; Tippecanoe. 31,399,000; Vigo, 32.306.000; Wabash, 3507.000; Wells. 3241,000; White. 3254,000; Whitley. 3283,000. Oldest Member Os Congress Is Dead Rep. Mansfield Os Texas Dies Today Washington, July 12.—(UP) — Rep. Joseph Jefferson Manafield. D.. Tex., oldest member of congress and a veteran of more than 30 years, service in the house, died at Bethesda naval hospital today at the age of 86. Confined to a wheelchair In recent years. Mansfield was admitted to the hospital on April 9 for treatment for a circulatory ailment. Dr. George W. Calver. Capitol physician, aaid death waa due to hardening of the arteries complicated by Intestinal obstruction*. Despite his infirmities, the elderly Texan had played an active rate in the affairs of the bouae where he was serving his 16th term. During the late Democratic control of congress, he was chairman of the house rivers and harbors com(Tara Ta Page t, Celiuaa 1)

OHLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, July 12, 1947

Building Collapses, Eight Escape Unhurt Lafayette, Ind., July 12—(UP) — Authorities today investigated the collapse of a three-story brick building which nearly trapped eight persons as it fell yesterday. Four workmen and four employes of a fish market and feed store fhd into the street as the rear section of the structure collapsed. None was Injured. Damage to the building, equipment and merchandise was estimated at several thousand dollars. —— o Six Negroes Die In Georgia Prison Riol Seven Convicts Are Wounded In Georgia Anguilla. Ga., July U—(UP)— Order was restored today at the Glynn county prison camp here as official* began an Inquest into the bloody riot which killed six and wounded seven ot a group of 2? disgruntled negro convicts. The mass shooting came as the climax to a rebellious afternoon of aitdown strike, pleading by camp superintendent H. G. Worthy and finally an escape attempt by the 27 rebellious prisoner*. Coroner J. D. Baldwin of Brunswick, was in charge ot a county inquest. Maj. A. C. Williams, head ot the state prison department, meanwhile, sent two investigator* from Atlanta-to the camp to conduct a probe tor hl* department. Worthy said the men. 22 ot them newly arrived from the camp at Kolkston. were on a 51-man highway detail when they cursed at guards and “sat down on their shovels.” The warden ordered all men refusing to work brought back to the stockade enclosure for questioning.

The 27 prisoners liegan milling around as soon as they came In from the road and refused to allow gjtard* to take out five old prisoners believed to be ringleaders In the disturbance. Worthy said. Two count policemen at the camp on a routine inspection Joined four guards and Worthy In attempting to quiet the convict*. Sensing trouble, the officers radioed Glynn county police chief Russell B. Henderson at Brunswick. 14 miles away. When Henderson arrived. Worthy told the coiivlet* he was "coming In the enclosure to get the five old prisoners and the foolishness better atop." “The god damn warden better stay out." Henderson quoted the convicts as answering. Several of them were brandishing Iron bars and sticks. Worthy went in and headed for Willie Bell, a ringleader in the revolt with another old prisoner named Willie Brooks. “Bell lunged Jor the warden. Worthy pulled Ria gun and shot Bell In the leg and then It started." Henderson said. “The other negroes broke In all directions. The guards fired rapid-fire for about a minute with their shotguns and rifles.” Three of the convicts were kill ed as they scrambled under a house adjoining the stockade. OTura Ts F*a* t, Celama t)

Ex-Convict Sought As Woman's Killer Young Mother Slain At Marion, Ohio Marlon, 0.. July 12-(UP»—Po-lice sought an ex-convict today a* IXMsibly the tall, gaunt stranger who dumped the ravished, nearlynude body of a young mother in a country churchyard, then sped away after tauntingly giving two passersby hia license number. The victim was blonde, blue-eyed Mrs. Zora Hes* Gorbe*. 25, divorced mother of three children. Coroner E H. Morgan said she apparently wan killed by a sadistic sex maniac, who pulled her legs up behind her back and tied them to her neck with a cotton clothesline. Two brothers. Charles and Harry Yeager, saw the tall, dark stranger in the churchyard They were on their way home from wotk early yesterday when they saw a womans body lying near an automobile They did not realize she was dead, but whetr the man acted suspiciously they went to the telephone the sheriff, When they returned. they found Mrs. Gerbes' laxly. The man had disappeared. The two brothers had taken the license number of the man's car. They said it was either a 1933 or 1934 Chevrolet. They said the number. an Ohio tag. was Q-4846. Authorities cheeked the tegistration and found that the address on It wan fictitious. The tag was Issued in the name of E. D. Young. Authorities believed the name was fictitious. However, the description of the man in the churchyard tallied with that on the automobile eglstration form. Police immediately ordered a statewide search for the convict, said to have a similar name, who (Turn Tu Pag* ». Column 6) Four Are Arrested On Traffic Counts Speeding, Failure To Stop Charged Four persons were arrested hy sheritf Herman Bowman late Friday and this morning on traffic violation counts. Clem Kuehne. 30. Mansfield. 0.. was charged by the sheriff with driving 65 mile* per hour through the village of Preble. He was arrested about 5:30 p.m. and paid a fine of 98 30 to justice of peace Ernest Stengel. John D. Haldon. 42, Delphos. 0., was charged with driving 60 mllqs per hour through the same village a short time later and H. W. Bowden, 52. Alliance. 0.. was charged by the sheriff with driving 65 miles per hour at the same location. They both paid fines of 38.30. Woodrow Rigsby. Fort Wayne, route three, was arrested by the sheritf about 1:15 a.m. today for tailing to stop fer a preferential highway. The sheriff charged he drove across state road 124 in the town of Monroe without stopping Rigsby will be arraigned before Justice Stengel to answer to the charge at a latar date, the sheriff stated.

Military Aid Pact With Turkey Designed As A Guarantee Os Freedom

Tentative Program For Youth Festival Annual Festival To Be Held In August A tentative program for the annual Adams county youth Dwtival. to be held here August 6. 7 and 8, was announced last night by Ernest Karlen and Robert Helm, cochairmen of the event. The prog.am: August 6 10 am. Dairy cattle judging. 8 p in. Opening parade ft pm. Poultry ami rabbit judg Ing. August 7 10:00 am. Hog judging. 8:30 pin.—llog sale. 8;50 p.m. Platform entertainment. August 8 10:00 a.m. Beef cattle judging. 6:30 p.m. Beef sale 8:30 p.m.—Dress revue. Name Chairmen The appointment of Robert Berning of noith of Decatur and Carl Pumphrey of tills city as co-chair-man of entertainment wae also announced by Mr. Karlen. The livestock exhibits will be placed in tents on Madison street Liberty Way around the courthouse. Exhibits of the rural youth organisation, the Boy and Girl Scouts will lie placed in a tent on Thiid street in front of the Decatur Junior-senior high school. Entertainment and the dress revue will lie staged on a platform at filial location, also. Part of the expenses of the event, sponsored by the Decatur chamber of Commerce, will be defrayed by the publication of a catalogue, describing the various events, etc. This is to be distributed to every home in the county. under present plans. Plans for the festival were furthered laet night in n meeting of several committee chairmen, held at the Chamber of Commerce office. Those present included: Mr. Karlen and Mr. Helm. Mrs. C. I. Finlayson and Mrs. Clinton Hersh, Girl Scout chairmen; L E. Archbold, county agent; Mr. Berning, Will Bowers, parade chalunen; Herman 11. Krueckeberg. finance chairman, and It. W. Pruden. Chamber executive secretary.

Amelia Augsburger Dies Friday Night County Official's Wife Dies Suddenly Mis. Amelia Augsburger. 68, wife of county commissioner John Aug* burger, died suddenly at 8:15 o’clock last night while attending a home economies meeting at Lehman park In Berne. Death wa* attributed to a cerebral hemorrhage. She wa* lx»rn in Adam* county on May 13. 1879. the daughter of Christian and Malena Arnold-Ash-baueher, and wa* a lifelong resident of the county. She wa* married to John Augsburger on June 9, 1904 Surviving, beside* the husband, are four children: Homer Aug»burger of Berne, Mr*. Ra ymond Cox of Bluffton, Beulah at home, and Norman of Purdue university; two brother*. Arnold Ashbaueher of Bluffton and Orlando of Toledo. Ohio; two slaters, Mr*. .Mary Klopfenstein of Bluffton and Mrs. Jeff Augsburger of Linn Grove; three grandchildren. A brother and two sisters preceded her In death. Funeral *ervice* will be held Monday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the home, three miles west of Berne, and at 2 o'clock at the Vera Cruz Reformed church, with the Rev H. H. Meckstroth officiating. Burial will be in the Vera Crus cemetery. The body will be returned fiotn the Yager funeral home to the residence this evening and may be viewed there after 7 o’clock.

Urge Thieves Os Atom Data Be Prosecuted Sen. Ferguson Asks For Prosecution Os Former Sergeonts Washington. July 12 —|l'Pt Sen. Homer Ferguson. IL. Mich., today urged immediate prosecu lion of two former army ser geants accused of stealing atomic bomb data, lest a go-easy policy "open the gates" to further leaks. Ferguson, a member of the senate judiciary committee, told a reporter that the Justice de partment should move at once against the men accused of tak Ing secret atomic information from the l»* Alamos. N. M , bomb plant in 1946. A former prosecutor and judge himself. Ferguson laughed off suggestions from a Justice department spokesman that a trial in open court would force the government to "reveal the very thing it has spent millions to keep secret." With other senators, he main tained that federal court action would not necessarily Involve publication of atomic secrets and that even the stolen material, reportedly photographic negatives. could be shown briefly to n Jury without feat of dire con sequence*. Sen. Edwin C. Johnson. D Colo, a member of the joint con atesslonal atomic energy com mlttee. branded the justice de partment warnings an "alibi" He said that in the Los Alamos case al least a portion of the stolen material could safely be made public in a court action Johnson and Ferguson expressed belief that the former sergeants might be subjected to court martial proceedings Ity the army If action in federal court were found Impracticable. Though the men have been dis charged from the army, the theft occurred while they still were on active duty.

Youth Fatally Shocked While Carrying Ladder Vincennes, hid.. July 12 (UP)— Paul B. Nolting. 21, wa* shocked fatally yesterday when an aluminum ladder he wa* carrying through an apple orchard struck an electrical wire 0 Man Thought Local Forger Is Jailed Given Prison Term At Jackson, Mich. A check forger, given a 7-14 year prison sentence at Jackson. Mich., ha* been tentatively identified a* the man who passed one or two bogus check* on Decatur mer chant* several month* ago. The man. George King, alia* Lawrence Kruger and George Spencer, was arested at East Lansing, Mich , on the bad check count. "George Spencer" is known to have cashed at least one check In Decatur for nearly 3200. It wa* reported that 15 warrants from Michigan cities and a score or more from Indiana will be placed a* retainer warrant* against the man. when he is released from prison. • Sheriff Herman Bowman is cheeking further with authorities In an effort to positively identify the man a* the one wanted here on the bogus check count.

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Pact Designed To Guarantee Turkey Against Pressure From Soviet Russia Washington. July 12 —(UPI— The United States, hi another move to implement the Truman doctrine, tcwlay signed the 3100,OOO.ttOO military aid agreement with Turkey to guarantee her ' free-dotti and independence" against Russian pressures. The agreement, signed in Anlara, said the project com plied with the basic principles of the United Nations' charier, and "inaugurated an auspicious chapter" In relations between the two countries. It added that the project would give Turkey's security forces the strength to "protect her freedom and independence and at the same time to continue to maintain the stability of her economy " Though the Turkish aid pro gram—like that of aid to Greece --has been approved by congress, no specific appropriations have* yet been made. Some congressmen have stan*d their belief that the administration has not just I fled the |4»o,o«fi.«(W» total requested for the Greek-Turkish aid projects The accord was signed for the t'nlted States Ity American Ambassador Edwin Wilson, who will administer the program, and Turkish foreign minister Hasan Saka. All of the 1100.000,060 envisaged in the program would be spent for military equipment, training anil related (purposes such as rehabilitation of the Turkish railroad system to permit swift movement of troops and supplies. This is in contrast with the 50-50 division of the 1300.000,000 Greek aid program between military ami civilian projects. A provision specifying that American press and radio correspondents be permitted to ob serve ami report fully nn the program carriel the qualification —"insofar as may be consistent with the security of the two countries." Turkey agreed to provide American officials with complete data on use of the funds. Non*of the money can he used to make interest or principal payments to any other foreign government. Details of the program have not been worked out. A state (Turn To Png" S. Column 11 - . One Man Killed In Fire Al Syracuse $600,000 Fire At House Trailer Plant Sytacuse. Ind.. July 12 —(UP) The Ixxly of an unidentified man was found today In the charged wreckage of a bouse trailer manufacturing plant which was destroyed in a 1600 fire early today H. L Spencer, president <4 tha Liberty Coach Co., confirmed that the Inxly was found hou e after the fire but he saifl "we don't know who it is " Employes of the company were all accounted for, Spencer said, leading to a possibility that the victim was a burglar or trespasser. Cause of the blaze wa« undetermined. Spencer said It started in a warehouse. spread to a paint shop and started the plant's Infra red drying system in operation. The 360-foot one-story cement block building was in ashes In 90 minutes, he said. Some 30 to 35 house trailers on the production line were destroyed and tons of material In the warehouse was lost. Spencer estimated the loss at between 1500,000 and ftOA.OO*. He said firemen saved a paint shop nearby, thus preventing explosions