Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 168, Decatur, Adams County, 18 July 1947 — Page 1

E|. XLV. No. 168.

HOUSE OVERRIDES TRUMAN TAX CUT VETO

Muse Group Votes Billion ujreign Aid ■Full 400 Million ■Greek Turkish Aid Ivotcd In Measure y K'a-idni'ton. |i,iy ..B appropriations coni J K.... today voted the adminislin an ail iitional 11.353,024.1 H for foreign relief. in< ludlng j too mill turn requested for ■ Greek Turkish aid program however, ■ 11 s iiiiii.iiiiO the projected $350,H.oiki post UNRRA relief pro for Poland. Italy. China. Austria. Gt) ece and K.,t,. It left little doubt that aitioti w»» aimed at benefits it' ir k-d for the communist countries of Poland S Hungary Kim relief funds were included bill carrying a total of |LK.iw.iiM in supplemental up Kpriations for the current fls K year The house will debate * K bill this afternoon and prob shoot It to the senate by K|Khe bill was $312,173.0X1 less ■K, Ho- administration had ask The proposed foreign relief was cut by $ 177.475.000. a cut of $175,000,000 war department request "1 K 5.000.000 for relief in the of Germany. Ja Austria and Korea. ■gjK’ormer President Herbert appeared before the com personally to urge approv of tile full war department

In making the |lß.#oO.oo# cut the liberated countries pro im the committee said that hl* amount re preached the tn intended to go to certain untries which have not shown disposition to comply with the quirements of the act authorizr the appropriation.” The committee did not name »■ countrlen it had in mind but esumably referred to Poland id Hungary. The authorization t requires that the relief replents be advised that the sxh came from the. United ate» and that no part M it be ven to persons other than those tended. The remaining item in the four irt foreign relief program a quested appropriation of $73.l.Obo for U. 8. participation in e International refugee organ! lion—was trimmed by the com Ittee to 571.024.000. In backing the army request 1*25.000.000 for Germany, Auxla. Japan and Korea, Mr. Hoovtold the committee that If the II amount were not appropriat I now. It would have to be done ter. And, he said, it would be Mter <o do it now because it ould enable the government to iy food and other relief supies on a long-term basis. The committee took the posl>n however, that the program ®uld be considered on a 12onthg basis rather than on a -months basis as the army had commended. The committee made it clear lat It was approving the |400.W.MH) Greek-Turkish aid proram with reservations. The committee was not . . . tTiirn Tn Page 4 Cnlumn SV - 6 Boy Campers Are umed In Explosion Petoskey, Mich., July 18.—(UP) ■Sisteen boy campers were burnI »t nearby Torch lake last night h *n flre resulting from an explo--0,1 swept the launch on which '•1 were preparing to leave for B evening cruise. Ten were hospitalised, some with frond and third degree burns, amp counselors John Campbell. «ington. Ky. t and William Brad<’*,taa. Kan., nad Peter Der- *■’. Newport, Ky.. hurried the boys ■ >ne flaming craft to a’oid a pote 'ragedy. The boat was cut from shore and permitted to —— 0 ■ wiathbr Clearing and eeeier tonight e °*'

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Denham Nominated To Administer Act Chief Administrator Os Taft-Hartley Law Washington, July II.—(UP)— Robert N. Denham, chosen by President* Truman as a chief ad mlnlstrator of the Taft-Hartley labor law. said today the new act Is a boon to both labor and management. "The law has a well-defined place In the labor management picture," said the 52-yearold lawyer whose nomination to the $12,000 a-year post as general counsel of the national labor relations board goes to the senate today. “It Is not nearly so had as It has been painted by Its opponents," he said. “I feel that ft will do a great deal to benefit both labor and Industry.” In addition to Denham, the president was to seek senate confirmation of J. Copeland Gray, a Buffalo, N. Y„ Republican, and Abe Murdock, former Democratic senator from Utah, as the two new NLRB members provided by the Taft-Hartley law. The three present board members- Paul M. Hertog, John Houston and James Reynolds- were reappointed by Mr. Truman. Herzog will continue as chairman. The appointment of former Sen. Murdock was acclaimed by Democrats and Republicans alike on capital hill where he had served in the house and senate for 14 years. But the solons were unfamiliar with Gray and Denham. A little-known lawyer who has been serving as trial examiner for the board, Denham is the President's choice for a post which labor experts describe as the most powerful labor-management position in government. A native of St. Louis, he worked as a cowpuncher in Texas, practiced law In the state of Washington and came to the nation's capital early in President Roosevelt’s administration to assist in reorganizing the national bank setup He stayed on here. Joining NLRB as an examiner in 1938. He has held this 13.100 a year job ever since. Denham has been a life-long Republican. Under the Taft-Hartley law. he will function almost Independent of the board and will Initiate all proceedings under the new act.

(Turn To Patre •. Column 7> o , District Os Columbia Rent Act Extended Washington. July 18.—(UP)— Congressmen, government workers, and others who rent homes in the nation's capital apparently aren't going to be troubled wltn any "voluntary" 15 percent increase In rents. Both the House and Senate have passed legislation to extend the present District of Columbia rent law from Dec. 31 to next March 31. The measure now gore to conference to get agreement on a Sen at e amendment t o safeguard rights of subtenants.

Report Guerrillas Forming New Force Greeks Report New Forces In Albania Athens, July 18.—(UP)—Guerrillas in northwestern Greece scattered today under heavy strafing attacks from Greek aircraft, but a fresh guerrilla force was reported forming in Albania. Greek war minister George Stratos said the new guerrilla force was sighted behind Lake Presba. at the juncture of the Albanian, Yugoslav and Greek frontiers. Greek aircraft, meanwhile, shot up the guerrillas which the Greek government claimed invaded Greece from Albania on Sunday The air ministry announced that 800 guerrillas, presumably Including those turned back from the gates of loannina (Yanina), were spotted near Zagoria. Greek fighter planes, the air ministry said, raked the wooded area with machinegun fire. Pilots believed they inflicted “heavy casualties.” The Greek army reported that Turn Te Pate 8. Celuien

Succession Bill Signed By President Bill Makes House Speaker Martin As Heir Presumptive Washington, July 18 —(UP) — President Truman today signed <i bill which makes Republican speaker Joseph W. Martin, Jr., his heir presumptive to the presidency. The new law specifically puts the house speaker next to the vice president in the line of succession to the White House post when the president becomes unable to serve. Alter the speaker comes the president of the senate. Since there is now no vice president. Mr. Truman having left that post when he succeeded to the presidency on the death of the late Franklin D. Roosevelt. Martin is the next In line. The Massachusetts Republican will continue In that role until tne term Mr. Truman Is serving out expires on Jan. 20, 1949. At that time, an election having intervened. the country will have a vice president again. The house speaker will then be No. 2 in the line of succession. Under the old law, the secretary of state was next In line to the vice president. White House secretary Charles G. Ross was asked If secret service agents now would be assigned to protect Martin. He said he knew of no such plans. The secret service Is not required to protect the next In line to the presidency, but the law Is sufficiently flexible to permit It. Mr. Truman received secret service protection when he was vice president. Thus far in U. S. history, the vice president Is the only officer in the line of succession who ever actually moved up to the presidency. That has happened seven times. The new law was President Truman's own idea. He first proposed It to congress in 1945 when a Democrat, Rep. Sam Rayburn, Tex., was speaker. Under the old succession law, the secretary of state was next In line after the vice president. But Mr. Truman argued that the place should go to an elected official. He favored the house speaker for the No. 2 role, rather than the senate president., because representatives servo two-year

(Turn To Page 2. Column 5) 0 Rotary Comilfee Chairmen Listed President Feller Lists Appointees Rotary President William C. Feller has appointed two members of the standing committees of the Rotary club for the coming fiscal year. The alms and objects committee, the titular committee in the formation of club activities, Is composed of chairmen of six of the principal committees. These members are: William C. Feller, chairman, Louis Jacobs, Colin I. Finlayson. Clarence Ziner, Enno W. Lankenau and J. Ward Calland. The chairmen of the committees are: club service, Colin I. Finlayson; program. W. Guy Hrown; classification and membership, I*eo W. Kirsch; fellowship and attendance, Cal E. Peterson; public information, Pete Reynolds; Rotary Information. Clarence E. Bell; sergeant-at-arms. Ray F. Lefts. Vocational service, Enno W. Lankenau; employer-employe relations, Max Schafer: trade association*. Avon Burk. Community service, Clarence Zlner: boys work and youth service, Carl C. Pumphrey; rural-urban acquaintance. L. E. Archbold; community needs and advancement, Arthur R. H. Holthouse. International service, J. Ward Caitand; international contacts, £■ W. B use he; international forums, Fred 1. Patterson.

OHLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, July 18, 1947

U. S. Aid On Way To Greece I . n > \ lAi\ y-*' BOUND FOR GREECE, flour and crates of food are loaded aboard ship at Staten Island. N. Y. This is part of a $35,000,000 shipment of food and vehicles promised under American aid program.

Immigrant Ship Is Seized By British Record Number Os Jews Aboard Ship Jerusalem, July 18. —(UP)— British warships pounced on an illegal Immigrant ship carrying a record number of about 4.500 Jewish refugees off Palestine today and seized it after a bloody battle with tear gas. steam and fuel oil. A Jewish radio report from the refugee ship said one Jew was killed and 25 were Injured. An officii British statement said three British sailors were injured, but neither side sustained fatalities. The ship, renamed "Exodus 1947" by the refugees and formerly the President Warfield, was being taken to Haifa, the port from which uncertified refugees customarily are transshipped to Cyprus. The hoarding party of the royal navy ran into perhaps the most desperate resistance yet put up by a shipload of refugees trying to run the British blockade. Both sides resorted to tear gas, and the refugees were reported by the British to have turned live steam and fuel oil on the sailors. Damage to both the refugee ship and the British warships was acknowledged officially. Radio reports from the ship said one British naval vessel deliberately rammed it, smashing a hole In the hull. A British naval communique announcing the seizure said "damage Turn T<> Page 2. Column 4>

Senate Committee Approves Seaway Delay Consideration On Floor To 1948 Washington, July 18 —(UP)— The senate foreign relations committee today approved the longdebuted St. seaway project hut postponed consideration of the measure on the senate floor until next year. By a vote of 9 to 4 the committee approved a resolution authorizing President Truman to implement the 1941 CanadianU. S. agreement for a Great Lakes-to-the-sea waterway. BiV it stipulated that the navigation phase of the project shall be made self-liquidating through toll charges. Committee chahman Arthur 11. Vandenberg, R.. Alch.. told newsmen the committee will report the bill formally during the first week of the new session In January. Minority members expect to (Turn To Pago 4 Column 6)

Hit-And-Run Driver Given Prison Term Peru, Ind., July Ik (UP) Wil liam Dunbar, 38, today began a two-to-21-year prison term for the hit-and-run traffic death of Arthur R. Tracy, 65. Silver la»ke Dunbar pleaded guilty to Involuntary manslaughter. He admitted speeding away from the scene of the accident. Tracy was struck and killed as he crossed a street last Saturday night. State and Peru ptdice traced the death car through a broken headlight found at the scene of the accident. o.. — Nation's Meat Price Outlook Is Confused Anybody's Guess On Next Fall's Prices Washington, July 18 (UP) Agriculture department officials said today it is "anybody's guess" where meat prices are going next fall. Normally prices decline 10 to 15 percent In the fall ax meat sup plies Increase seasonally. But that "normally" is the joker that lias the price forecasters tearing their hair: 1947 has not been a normal year. These are the unknown factors that are confusing the outlook: 1. The size of the consumer pocketbook and how close a grasp the housewife is going to keep on her food dollars. 2. The size of the corn crop and the price of feed. If employment stays at the present record of 60,000.0Wi the pocketbook will remain fat. With plenty of dollars, housewives are grumbling at present high meat prices but paying them. Meat Is being consumed as rapidly as It is produced. There is little indication that consumer resistance will be stronger next fall. Officials consider the feed picture much more complicated. Continued large exports of grain are assured. These will tend to keep all feed prices high, increasing the cost of livestock production and the price of meat at the grocery store. A short corn crop, which now is indicated, will aggravate feed price worries. With feed supplies smaller and prices high, however, farmers may be expected to market more livestock than usual during the next few months. An ever larger Increase In meat supplies than usual would bring a corresponding larger drop in retail prices. The bureau of agriculture economics’ latest survey of the meat situation outlines this prospect: Beef— A decline in consumer spending and In the demand for heef would accelerate the customary decilen In prices during the (Turn To Fags ». Column 4)

President Again Vetoes GOP Tax Bill As Unfair To The Low Income Group

669 Persons Drown In Bombay Harbor Loaded Steamship Is Sunk In Harbor Bombay, Joly 18- (UP) — A heavily-loaded steamship sank in Bombay harbor taking the lives of f.« 9 persons, including every woman and child aboard, shipping officials reported today. Seventy-two persons all men survived. The ship went down In a sudden tropical storm. The vessel was syamped by two gigantic waves that swept in without warning. No lifeboats could be launched. No radio cries for help were sent. The ship, the 510-tan S. S. Ramdas. went down yesterday morn ing. but the disaster was not discovered until many hours later when a fishing boat happened upon four survivors clinging to a life buoy. Rescue launches rushed to the scene, but found only an oil drum bobbing in a vast oil slick. Twenty-four hours after th« wreck, only 15 survivors had been found. In 1921, a schooner went down In Chinese waters and 1.000 persons drowned History’s greatest maritime disaster, the 1912 sinking of the Titanic by an Ice berg In the North Atlantic, took 1,517 Ilves The Ramdas. operated by the Bombay Steamship Navigation Co., was being used on a 45 minute ferry run between Bombay and Rewas, which is 11 miles across the mouth of Bombay harbor, on its fatal run. all its passengers and crew Were reported to be Indians. 0 Coke Price Increase At State Capital Indianapolis, July 18 (UP) A 12 a ton increase in the price of coke sold to dealers was announced today by the city-owned citizens gas and coke utility. The firm, which sells coke only to dealers, cited the higher coal prices resulting from the recent mine wage agreements as the cause of the increase. 0 Promotions Listed By Central Soya Co. Changes Announced By Board Chairman Promotion of personnel of the Central Soya Company. Inc., affecting several Decatur men. was announced today by I). W. McMillen. | chairman of the board. Wayne Zerkel, plant manager of the feed mill and processing j plant at Marlon, Ohio, since 1943. will be In charge of all new construction and rebuilding of the company's plant at Memphis. Tenn. The latter plant ws recently purchased by Central Soya Company. Inc. Mr. Zerkel is a former Decatur resident, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Zerkel of West Monroe street. 'Rural G. Rose, of this city, has been promoted from auditor in the local office to general auditor of all the company's plants, with headquarters in Fort Wayne. James R. Cowan, also of this city, who was formerly plant auditor at the company's Gibson City plant, replaced Mr. Rose. Albert J. Powell, formerly employed in the Decatur office's accounting department, and in the executive accounting, department, Fort Wayne, succeeds Mr. Cowan as auditor at the Illinois plant. L. Dale Myers of this city, a member of the accounting department In the Decatur office, has been named plant auditor of the Memphis plant Mr. Myers and family will move to the southern <Turn To I’aga 4 Culumn 3)

Hess, Other Nazis Sent To Berlin Prison Seven Nazi Leaders Transferred From Nuernberg Prison United Press Correspondent Beilin. July 18 (UPI Rudolph Hess and elx other Nazi leaders sentenced to prison in the Nuernberg war crimes trial were flown secretly to Berlin today to serve their time in the red brick Spandau prison. • The Nazi convicts came from Nuernberg in an army plane with black-out windows It landed at Gatow air field, in the British sector of Berlin, three miles from Spandau, the grim prison where the Nazis lodged their enemies in the days of Hitlerism. Official word of the transfer of the Nazis to serve out the sen fences Imposed at Nuernberg was withheld several hours. Correspondents were denied admittance to the prison Russian soldiers armed with submachine guns paced along sentry runs atop the 20foot walls. Other Russian guards motioned reporters away. The prison staff was Informed only last night of the impending arrival of the prisoners. The Nazis were brought to Berlin nine months after the hanging of io of their follow defendants and the suicide of an eleventh. Hermann Goering, on the eve of the mass execution al Nuernberg. Besides Hess one-time No. 2 Nazi who Hew lo Britain in 1941 and who was given a life aentence at Nuernberg, the prisoners were: Waller Funk, former economics minister and relihsbank director; sentenced to life. Erich Raetler, former grand admiral of the German navy, life Baldur von SMrach. former Hitler youth leader. 20 years. Albert Speer, former armaments minister. 20 years Constantin von Neurath, former foreign minister and "protector" of Czechoslovakia. 15 years. Karl Doenltz. former grand admiral, 10 years. Two years of good food and little activity at Nuernberg had fattened up the Nazi*. but the tough regime Imposed at Spandau was calculated to reverse the proceas. They will put in a 51 hour work week. Insofar as their physical condition permits, while subsisting on normal German prison rations. Their labor assignment will Include keeping the 71-year-old prl(Turn To Page 2, Column 5) — -- -0— ——— ■ - Break Ground Sunday For Church Building Services Sunday At Union Chapel Site The official ground-breaking service. launching the new church building enterprise of the Union Chapel Evangelical United Brethren church, will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the building site. located two and one-half miles east and onehalf mile north of Decatur. The pastor, the Rev. D. H. Pellett, will be in charge and the Rev. Melvin S. Livengood, D. D., pastor of the South Wayne Evangelical United Brethren church In Fort Wayne, will be the guest speaker. Dr. Livengood Is also the president of the St. Joseph conference board of home missions and church erection, and as such has a special interest In the building project. Congregational singing, brief messages from visiting pastors, the message by Dr. Livengood and the breaking of ground will be features (Turn Tv Pag« 3, Column $)

Price Four Cents

House Polls 27 More Votes Than Needed To Override Veto By Pres. Truman Washington, July 18. (UP) — President Truman today again rejected the 14.000.000.000 Republican Income tax reduction bill, but ihis time the House promptly overrode hie veto. The House vote was 299 to override the veto and IDS against. This was 27 votes moie than the twothirds majority necessary to override. The Senate, howeve-, is expect-i-d to sustai., the veto late in the day This would kill the tax reduction bill for the second time In a month and eliminate all chance for enactment of a tax cut this year. In the House vote. 53 Democrats joined 23« Republicans in voting to override Voting to sustain were 105 Democrats, one minority party member and two Republicans Reps Carl Andersen, Minn, and Merlin Hull. Wls.. the same two men whose vote to sustain Mr. Truman's first veto a month ago supplied the two-vote margin by which the original bill was killed. In vetoing Hie reviv’d bill with its Jan 1 effective date. Mr. Truman repeated ills previous objec 'lons that it wa inflationary, un oiind and unfair to the low income group. And he rejected a brand new argument —the international crisis aimed try the recent sharper division between the Russian bloc and the West. Although the House overrode his decisoti. a veto sticks unless both the House and Senate override by two-thirds majorities. The Senate was expected to fall two voire shoit of the necessary two thirds. The House had sustained the veto of tlie first tax measure a month |ago by a two-vote margin, making :it unnecessary for the Senate to jact that time. Republican sfurkesmen charged Mr Truman with abusing flu- pres Identia! veto power for political purposes. National chairman Carroll Reece -aid in a statement that "apparently Mr. Truman is determined that his three and a half year tenure in the White House shall go down In history as the veto udministralion.” • It will be quite satisfactory from the Republican standpoint to have Mr Truman campaigning next year for a fifth te tn for the New Deal w ith the slogan 'Relief for everyone hut the American taxpayer"' House Republican lender Chartea A Halleck said Mr Truman had "resorted to abuse of the veto*power to thwart the will of the people ” Apparently, he said. Mr Truman wanted lo lie able to say in 1945. "now you can have tax relief.” Mr. Truman raised the international question without mentioning Russia by name. He said this country now was exposed to "greater risk" try the recent refusal of Russia and her European satellites to Join in the "Marshall plan" for Europe's economic recovery. In the same breath. Mr. Truman said the U. S. "national defense establishment still requires large sums.” The House began voting on the motion to override the moment the clerk completed reading Mr. Truman's 1400-word veto message. As soon as the reading was completed. speaker Joseph W. Martin, Jr., of Massachusetts asked: “Will the House on reconsideration. agree to pass the bill, the objections of the President to the contrary notwithstanding?" Chairman Harold Knutson of the lax writing House ways and means committee, author of tne original and revised measures, tlien moved that the House vote to override the veto. In nlovlng for the vote, Knutson said to the hushed House: "I want to say that we did try to get tax relief for 49.000,000 American people If this falls, we will have no alternative but to put the issue squat ely up to the American people in 1948." in his message, Mr. Truman denounced the new bill—-as he did the old one—as inconsistent with sound fiscal policy.