Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 165, Decatur, Adams County, 15 July 1947 — Page 1

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roman's Veto If Tax Bill Is ikely Friday " Measure's Fate May Be Decided On Same Day; May Sustain Washington, July 16—cup iTruman's veto mes2jre on tho revived Republican •ome tax reduction bin prob ly will be sent to congress iday, the White House said I [The final fate of the mca'.ure ■ky be determined the same day The house, acting Aral, ia ex ' cted to override the veto But • senate seems OWtaln to susfi*n the veto by a two vote mar »n and thus hill the bill again two-thirds Majority of both the case and senate is necessary to act a bill over a veto. .Other congressional develop|mto: Royalty The house was set to te on a bill to net up a spm ial "reman commission empowered Are disloyal government work s after an FBI investigation _ onsorn of the measure preLted speedy approval The —nato will act on the hill late is week or early next week “-Special session — The house „ ard a suggestion that congress <et In special session In OctoW. Rap. Chester E. Merrow, R.. — H., said a asocial session iuld be held to consider the —irshall plan for European re Cry ‘and “to deal with ques of foreign Policy exclusiveHit Truman and era agreed yesla no foresee facial session | the nation's tgeet oral operators told a ngressionai ggmmlttee that the w coal contract conforms to o 15-cent hourly wage raise Horn and should result eventlly tn "move ogsLat leas cost." e wItMM. George M Humph said it was "only reason ■Mo" to expect that higher -<ces will he adjusted downward idually. ~4J. 8. Aid — Gen Robert E ood of Sears Roebuck t Cold a congressional economic kmmittee that tho United States Mould atop moat of its aid to ■ rope because “western Europe ■ largely finished." He said the ■ly way the continent can solve m economic problems is for 00®,flfi0 to SO.fiOOOOo British mans and Dutch to migrate Pewbore. Wood once headed I America First committee. Foreign Relief — The special use committee on foreign re -f will be one of the "strong t" congressional ifoups ever . up. according to Republican i’4srs. The GOP steering com "ttee established the group to IKb inventory of American wts and determine foreign ief needs. I<x>sa)&:l4Mh"4Mtase Republican ategistb have shaken down --jir legislative docket to a ndful atgjjfa* bills. Among r» measures iadoded are uniation of tho armed forces, poll t abolition, and a foreign aid propriatlon. .Oconomlc — president F2arl (Turn To Page 6, Column X) i —w — ill Tabulate Bids 4r Church Building ’to decision has been reached on a e received for the proposed new Iding of tho Union Chapel Evanical United Brethren church, it of Decatur, a member of the * Iding committee stated this rntng. Bids for the new struc 0b to replace one destroyed by • last December. are still being slated, the committeeman said. - ® rthur Byrnes New onroe Principal utter F. ByrftM, tor tho past j years principal of the Jeffertownship high school, has been nod principal of the Monroe high 001, succeeding Orville Blue, o has accepted a position as ncipal at Paragon, near Martinadarvln Snyder, of New Caatlo. I succeed Byrnes as principal at tersou. Snydefc will receive his ster*s degree at Ball State colo at Muncie thia summer. WtATHtR V Partly cloudy tonight. Gontrelly fair Wadtooday although vanner portion.

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Sees Coal Contract To Mean Lower Cost Large Mine Owner Praises Contract » ———— Washington. July 15—(UP) — George M. Humphrey, one of the< nition's largest coal operatorsi isid today that the miners* new wage Increase conforms to the 15-cent hourly wage raise pattern and should eventually result in "more coal at less cost.” The chairman of the Pittsburgh Condkidstion Coal Co. told the joint congressional economic committee there Is "nothing wildly inflationary or grossly unreasonable" In the 81.20 a day wage boost recently granted John L. lewis' United Mine workers. Recognising that coal costs already have been increased 75 cento to |1 a ton, with some coal prices alresdy boosted, Humphrey declared: "If the cooperation which has been promised by the miners’ union Is realised —and it Is much more apt to do so by satisfactory mutual agreement than by strikes and government controls —increasing production and increasing efficiency will surely mean more coal at less cost." "It is only reasonable to expect that these higher prices will gradually l>e adjusted downward when as a result of this agreement It becomes apparent that production will continue and a supply of coal will tie currently available," he said. The coal man testified after the National Association of Manufacturers asserted that prices have kept "well in line" since the end of price controls last year while production "most certainly has gone up." And Gen. Robert E. Wood, board chairman of Sears Roebuck A Co., said that his company's fall catalogue shows a small reduction in prices for the first time In seven years. Two Purdue Students Are Fatally Shocked Lafayette, Ind- July 15— (UP)— Two civil engineering students at purdue university were fatally shocked yesterday while Pleasuring the height of an observation tower. Walter P. Brown, 21, Indianapolis, and John C. Roeder, Carollton, Ky., received the fatal shock when a metal tape waa blown agalnat a high power line near tho tower at Ross Camp 11 miles southwest of Lafayette.

Speeding Charged To Truck Drivers Two truck drivers. M. 8. Barlett and Charles J. Wood, both of Xenia. 0., were arrested by city police officers at 5 o'clock this morning on Thirteenth street. They were elated to be arraigned on speeding charges before Mayor John B. Stulta In city court late this afternoon. —o Four Fatally Burned In Missouri Home Mother Committed To Insane Hospital Salem, Mo., July 15.—(UP)—A 40-year-old expectant mother who set fire to the gasoline-soaked beds of her family, totally burning her husband and three of her four children, was committed today to the state mental hospital A fourth child, also seriously burned, was given "a chance” for life by attending physicians at a. St. Louis hospital. The Dent county coroner's jury found late yesterday that the woman. Mrs. Muri Dunlap, “in a fit of insanity" poured gasoline over the beds and set fire to them Sunday night. , Sheriff Floyd Nash, who took the woman Into custody shortly after the fatal blase, said she was Incoherent and that she had no realisation of the tragedy. Dunlap told police before he died that he was awakened about 9 pm. Sunday when his wife poured gasoline In hie face. He said that before he was fully awake, she lit the match and touched It to the bod In which he and Donald wore sleeping. He said ho could not recall what happened afterward but that tho nut thing be knew he and tho bey were out in tho yard. "We could hear tho other chll(Tera To Page t, Column D

Marshall Bids For Support Os Aid To Europe Secretary Os State Issues Warning At Governors' Parley Salt Lake City, Utah. July IS. —(UP)- Secretary of state George C. Marshall left with the nation today a tacit warning that failure to help out "traditional friends’* abroad would risk their loss to the Russian-dominated world. It was Marshall's strongest bid yet for public support for his plan to send U. 8. economic aid to European nations that will cooperate In reconstruction. The secretary of state told the 39th annual conference of governors here last night that the United States clearly stands at the "turning point" in ita relations with Europe. Then In a closed executive session he told the governors some things that left them grlm-faced. The executive session lasted 35 minutes. When It was over, Marshall walked swiftly to a waiting car which took him to the airport. The governors, following him from the room, declined to divulge anything he told them. Vail Pittman, white-haired governor of Nevada and himself a newspaperman. said it was agreed that what Marshall aid "would be kept in the most strict confidence—and the best way to keep a confidence Is to say nothing at all." Gov. Earl Warren of California said Marshall gave them the background for some of his conclusions. "The secretary just spelled things out for us a little better and a little clearer." Warren said. Observers felt that the secretary of state's confidential placing of his cards on the table tor tho assembled governors was the main purpose of hie trip here. However, in bls earlier address. Marshall said bluntly that the time has come for the United States to make up ita mind what It intends to do for its friends. "Either It must finish the 'task of assisting these countries to adjust themselves to the changed demands of a new age,” he said, “or it must reconcile itself to seeing them move in direcllons which are consistent neither with their own traditions nor with those of thia country.” If Europe’s remaining free counTurn Tn Pare I. Column S)

Taft-Hartley Law f X Bans To Be Defied r I „ AFL Plans To Defy Law Restrictions Utica, N. T.. July 15.— (UP)—* AFL President Wllliam Green Mid today that the AFL will defy the Taft-Hartley law testrlctlons on political expenditures and activities by labor unions with "an organized political campaign on a scale never before attempted." In a speech prepared for delivery before the annual convention of the New York state federation of labor, Green said: "Let me tell you here and now ' that the American Federation of Ijtbor and all Ito affiliated organ!- ’ satlons will be proud to defy that section of the law because it is an 1 indefensible invasion of our basic constitutional rights as free Ameri- ’ can cltisens." CIO preeident Philip Murray last ■ week defied the ban by publishing in the CIO News an endorsement of the Democratic candidate in today’s special congressional election lr< Maryland. Oreen, proclaiming his defiance of the political provisions of the new law, announced the following threefold AFL campaign: 2. “We are going to unite our , combined strength and resources in , the greatest political battle ever waged by organised labor in America—a battle that wir be fought i retentleeeiy until every member of Congress who voted for this monstrous legislation Is defeated." 2. A court fight to have the TaftHartley law declared unconstitutional. 3. Negotiation of new contracts "which will shield labor from at least some of the disastrous effects of tho now law." Green i lted the now United Mine Workers (AFL) contract as “an outstanding example ot bow this objective can be suecoMfully woe."

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, July 15, 1947

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Alexander von der Lust, (left) a student at Princeton University, and Ernest D. Wollis, now a Chicago photographer, are being held by the FBI on charges of wilfully and unlawfully removing atomic bomb documents from the Los Alamos, N. M„ testing station. The men were assigned to the atomic station while serving as sergeants In the Army. Von der Lust was arrested at his home in Mt. Lebanon, Pa., and Wallis was taken into custody In Chicago.

Find Indiana Youth Dead Along Highway Body Found Today Near Silver Lake Warsaw, Ind., July 15—(UP)— State police combed the lake area around here for a “tall blond man" who was seen with Robert Adams. 19, just a few hours before his body was found early today on a road near Silver Lake. Police found Adams' new motorcycle with an empty gas tank this morning just 15 miles from where Mr. and Mrs./ William Conrad. Marlon, said they ran over his body. Conrad said he hadn't seen the youth, who apparently was lying in the road, and had dragged bls Itody several yards mangling it. Police believed Adams was dead before he was struck by Conrad's car. Coroner Leslie Laird of Kosciusko county had not yet completed his Investigation, but police salt!' Adams had probably died of a broken neck. ’ They said he might have been run over by another car while hitch-hiking after he ran out of gas. The absence of |BO or 5100 from Adams' wallet, however, resulted In the search for the youth's last known companion. Officers said they found only 92 cents in his wallet. George Crune, Adams’ stepfather. said he had the money in his wallet on Sunday. Crune. who lives at Beaver Dam, said his stepson had visited him and then gone back to his own home at Beaver Dam Lake.

Seaway Approved By Senate Group St Lawrence River Project Is Favored Washington, July 15.—(UP)— A senate foreign relations subcommittee announced today it had approved legislation to authorize construction of the St. Lawrence seaway project. Subcommittee chairman Alexarder Wiley. R.. Wls., reported that he and Sens. Bourke B. Hickenlooper. R.. Is., Carl A. Hatch, D., N. M.. and Elbert D. Thomas. D.. Utah had recommended approval of the bill. Sen. H. Alexander Smith R , N. J., voted to report the bill to the full committee "without prejudice," he said. The bill Is not on the list scheduled for action in the remaining days of this session. The subcommittee estimated that the cost of completing the seaway and the related power projject would be |720.000.00|. of. which the United States' share would be 5490,000,000. The bill calls for self-liquidation of the project through power sales and collection of toll charges on passenger and freight traffic. In its report, the subcommittee said the preponderance of evidence "shows beyond doubt that the St. Lawrence seaway and power project would contribute materially to tho defense of North ‘America.” It oaid that In any future war, the St. Lawrence project, “as a medium ot tiansportatlon apd an abundant supply ot power, would (Turn To Pago i. Column 4)

Rent Representative Here On Thursday John E. Williams, representative of the Fort Wayne-Decatur rent office, will l>e at the post office on Thursday, July 17, to interview people with problems In regard to rent control. Hie office hours will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. o

Many Stales Report Added Relief Costs Serious Financial Problems Are Posed By United Press Many state* reported today that they were facing serioua financial probiema because of increases in the number of relief cases, reflecting a rise in postwar unemployment. Twenty states reported that relief cases increased. Nine others reported that the number of persons on relief rolls had dropped or remained at last year’s levels. Information from other states was Inconclusive because of seasonal employment trends, population ahlfta. or the absence of any direct state aid program. Almost all states reported that relief expenditures were higher per case, because higher living costs have made larger grants to individuals a necessity. States reporting increases In the number of cases Included: Arkansas. Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware. Georgia. Idaho. Illinois, Louisiana, Minnesota. Nebraska. New Jersey, New Mexico. North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota. Tennessee. Virginia, and Washington. Those reporting fewer cases: Arizona. California. Maryland. Montana, Pennsylvania. Utah and Wisconsin. Michigan and Missouri reported that the number of cases stayed about the Mme. Fiscal problems confronting many states were typified by Nebraska. where the relief program is financed mostly by liquor taxes. The number of cases Increased from 34,988 In May. 1946. to 37,974 In May of this year. The revenue from the liquor taxes, meanwhile, decreased. This made it necMsary for Nebraska to use property tax funds for relfei administration for the first time. In Virginia, a report by a special commission assigned to study the state’s welfare program indicated that funds available for the fiscal year which began July 1 will be inadequate by about 1575.000. Many qualified persons were being kept from the relief rolls because of the shortage of funds. Many states reported that the number of cases had risen not only because of unemployment, but because many persons who formerly lived on allotment checks from servicemen had applied for relief. The biggest Increase In the num(Turn To Par- 4 Coluir- J) g Grover Brown Rites Wednesday Afternoon Funeral aervices for Grover C. Brown, who died Hunlay at his home, 914 Russell avenue. Fort Wayne, will be held at 1:30 p. m Wednesday at the home and at 2 o’clock at the First NaMrene church, with the Rev. N. B. Herred officiating. Burial will be in the Eel River cemetery. There are a number of relatives residing in and near Decatur.

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Senate Completes Action On Tax Cut Expect Truman Veto Will Be Sustained Washington. July 15—(UP)— President Truman received renewed assurances today that the renate would sustain his forthcoming veto of the Republicans' revised bill to cut personal income taxes. The senate completed congressional action on the houseapproved bill by voting 60 to 32 to pass it yesterday. These 32 nay votes would be barely enough to sustain a veto if the maximum probable number of 94 senators were presen; on the teat. President Truman promised congressional leaders that he would send back the veto promptly this time. An administration source said he expected It Thursday or Friday. This source said this veto message would not be as "political" as the one that accompanied President Truman's rejection ot the first GOP tax bill last month. He said it would put more stress on the possibility of the United States having to increase expen dltures abroad. The roll call vote on final passage in the senate showed 48 Itepulilicans and 12 Democrats for the meausre, 30 Democrats and two Republicans —Sens. WilHam Langer. N. D.. and Wayne Morse. Ore—against It. One of yesterday's three absentees. Sen. Elbert D. Thomas. D., Utah, was counted as a sure vote against overriding. And an administration lieutenant said he believed one, and possibly two, of the 12 Democratic senators who voted for the bill , would switch auA Ituk up President Truman on the veto showdown However, senate Republican leaders would not concede defeat. Chairman Eugene D. Mllllkin of the senate finance com mittee said he believed Republicans had a “fighting chance" to win over the two votes needed to override. (Turn To Page 2, Column 4)

Atomic Bomb Blast Photo Is Displayed Ex-Army Sergeants Are Freed On Bond Chicago. July 15— (UP)— A photo of the first atomic bomb blast at Los Alamos, N. M., hung on public display here today even though the photographer who snapped the shot was charged with stealing it and 200 other secret pictures pertaining to the bomb. The picture was presented to the Chicago Woman's club by Earnest D. Wallis. 34. Chicago, one of two former army sergeants charged with stealing atomic information from government files The other former noncom is Alexander Von Der Lust. 24. a Princeton University student from Mt. Lebanon. Pa. a suburb of Pittsburgh. The two cases are separate but by coincidence the two men were both arraigned yesterday, Wallis in Chicago end Von Der Lust In Pittsburgh. The men were released on bonds of 110.000 each and the cases continued. Wallis’ hearing was set for July 24. Von Der Luft's was held over indefinitely. The picture hanging In the woman's club gallery here today was similar to many of the cuts published by newspapers after the first announcement that the bomb had been developed and loosed over Hiroshima. It was a picture of the bomb blast that ushered In the atomic age. Its mushroom cloud rising over the New Mexico desert. A sketch of the empire state building was superimposed on the cloud to show the relative heights. Wallis was the official army photographer who took the picture. (Turn To Fag* 2, Column i)

U. S. Opposes Interference In German Rule Gen. Clay Ordered To Oppose External Government Forces Washington. July 15—(UP) — The United States today ordered Gen. Lucias D. Clay, American military governor In Germany to oppose vigorously any attempt to impose any "external forms” of government on Germany. In a new basic directive on a new U. S. policy toward Germany. Clay was ordered to oppose “imposition” either of American forms of democracy and social organization or communism. "Your government believes." the directive said. ''. . . that the ultimate constitutional form of German political life should lie left to the decision of the German people . . . “Your government does not wish to impose its own historically developed forms of democracy and social organization on Germany and believes equally firm ly that no other external forms should lie imposed." The directive was issued jointly by the state, war and navy departments. The new directive replaces the crlginal one known as 'JCS 1067’ which was issued by the joint chiefs of staff to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in May. 1945. after Germany surrendered ( The new document reflects developments since tlie formulalion of the original policy as well as t ie failure of the big four to put Into operation the Potsdam agree ment which called for economic unity of Germany. It was issued simultaneously in Berlin and Washington. State department officials said li recognized the failures of the last two years to develop Ger many along the lines anticipated at the time of surrender as well as the failure of the Idg four to cooperate in Germany The directive indirectly took note of the "Marshall plan" for economic rehabilitation of Europe. it recognized that Germany must contribute to that plan. "An orderly and prosperous Europe requires the economic* contributions of a stable cuql productive Germany." It said. It added, however, that "necessary restraints" were needed on German production that prevents revival of destructive- militarism (Turn To Page I. Column 5)

Stassen Calls For Effective Program Marshall Plan For Europe Endorsed , Washington, July 15.—(UP)— Harold E. Stassen, a contender for the 1948 Republican Presidential nomination, is calling for a "well thought out, effective program" to demonstrate to Russia that ''Communists cannot successfully sabotage the American system.” The ex-governor of Minnesota, recently interviewed Premier Josef Stalin at the Kremlin, said Russian policy would not change for the better until Stalin and other members of the Politburo are convinced that this country is immune to any significant infiltration by Communlata. Stassen, who outlined his views in a radio message (NBC) last night, also strongly endorsed th* Marshall plan for aid to Europe. In his discuaaion on Communism. Stassen said government reports showed that 40 of known enrolled party members are In New York, making that metropolis the “center of Communist activity in the United States.” He urged President Truman and Gov Thomas E Dewey to work out a coordinated, bl-partiMn program to clMr up this "Communist center.”

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Urges UN Council To Drop All Other Business; Greeks Battle Guerillas laike Success, N. Y.. July 15.— (UP) —The United States warned the United Nations security council today that the smouldering Balkans dispute had become so urgent the council must drop all other business until It solves the case. Alarmed by reports of guerilla “invasion" of Greece from the So-viet-befriended country of Albania, the United States said the situation had become "a matter of genuine urgency.” American delegate Herschel! V. Johnson urged the council to devote itself steadily to the Balkans crisis beginning with this afternoon’s meeting, dropping consideration of the UN's global police force, the problem of Trieste and the impending Anglo-Egyptian debate until a solution is achieved Johnson withdrew an informal American demand that the council plunge immediately into the Balkans question at this morning's session after it became apparent that most delegates were prepared only for a scheduled discussion of the > UN global police force. Council president Oscar fringe of Poland promised to "t'-y to take care of the matter in the schedule for next week." Johnson said, however, that the United States government considered the Greek question so urgent in the light of serious reports from Athens that l>eglnning with the council's afternoon meeting the matter should remain the sole matter before delegates "until we have ichieved a solution." Johnston's warning signalled a move by the western powers to cut short the bitter East-West debate and force Soviet delegate Andrei Gromyko to veto or accept the American plan for longrange UN peace keeping measures in the trou bled southeastern corner of Europe. Encircle Guerillas Athens, July 15.—(UP) The government reported today that Greek trcHips had encircled more than 2,000 guerillas invading Greece from Albania, and a published report aaid American and British naval units were headed for Athens waters. Tlie newspaper Estla said that sizeable American and British fi«*et units, including aircraft carriers, were expected to enter Phaleron bay. ronie three miles southwest of Athene, sometime today. The report of Anglo-American na(Turn To Page 4 Column M) o

Parley Continues On European Aid Conference Adopts 16-Nation Setup Paris. July 15.—(UP)— Delegates of 16 European countries outside the Soviet sphere today completed the first stage of a joint recovery program with expected American aid under the plan of secretary of state George C. Marshall. The conference unanimously approved the 16-nation setup to draft a balance sheet of the recover)* needs of western Europe. It met in plenary session for the third time at the French foreign office. The organization will start meeting here at once. It was assigned to complete Its report for presentation to the United States by Sept. 1. The organization consists of the cooperation committee, on which all 16 nations are represented and which any country now boycotting the plan can join later; a small executive committee, and four technical committees on food and agriculture, power. Iron and steel, and transport. British foreign secretary Ernest Revin presided at the plenary session at the French foreign office. 0 Close Swimming Pool Here For Cleaning Harry Dailey, supervisor of tho municipal swimming pool, announced today that the pool la closed for several days In order to give the pool a thorough cleaning Announcement will be mads when tho pool will be re-opened. , •> ON— 111