Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 173, Decatur, Adams County, 24 July 1947 — Page 1

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bP Mapping lalegy For Ingress End Adjournment Rush Jo Prevent Action bn Truman Measures ■■hinston. July 21 — (UP)— felM ,ri leaders of the house Kenate were railed into sea■today to map their strategy ■h< last three days of the Bps-oonal calendar. Ly were set to work out an Krnment resolution and GOP Linen indicated they favor■quitting sine die. leaving ■dent Truman the sole right Ell congress back. PreviousKlin Republicans had talked K recess resolution under E they could have reconven ■ingress on their own. Os the 12 regular appro ■mi bills for fiscal 1948 were ■ waiting final action on Capi■Hl. along with three supple ■al money measures. Barr E last-minute snag, however, lof the bills can be sent to ■white House today. They ■ th.- appropriations for the ftulture department and for ■endent offices. ■o slated for final approval L was the army-navy uniflk bill. In the rush for adknent. at least five bills rafted by President Truman ap Lt destined to gather dust I the January session. These Lied legislation for urflverjmilitary training, admission Im.oOO displaced persons, Inftmerican military coopera I Increased federal minimum ft and long-range housing. Ke Republican leadership was ■mined to push through beJ Saturday bills freezing the Ll security tax and continuIthe subsidy program for copI lead and sine. ■er congressional developIp: Lestigatlons — The senate Re■can policy committee gave the In light to several proposed inh> investigations, including Inlex into housing and prices pt Hartley — Chairman J. Par[Thomas, R.. N. J., of the house Bierican activities committee Ik! that an allegedly Communistrolled CIO nnlon be penalized ir the Taft-Hartley labor law. mas recommended that the ed Food. Tobacco and AgriculI Workers (CIO) be deprived he protection of the national r relations board. UlB — The senate labor comes appeared ready to okay forSen. Abe Murdock, D.. Utah, a seat on the national labor lions board. Sen. Joseph H. , R., .Minn., and Sen. Aarthur Watkins, R, Utah, said they Id fight Murdock's confirmation the floor. JP Economy — The Republieconomy drive will wind up i a reduction of some 53.000,>OO in President Truman’s 1948 let requests according to preindications. Some GOP leadcontend that together with ir economies in government ations, this will mean a total ng In this session of congress bout 15,000,000,000. nlveraai Training — A house mittee accused the war dement of exceeding its authorin trying to build up public sup--1 for universal military training, executive expenditures subimittee charged that the departit used its funds illegally to note UMT legislation. lood Control — Speedy senate (Turn To Page S. Column 4) O — tmer Local Pastor es In California Rev. A. H. Saunders, 59, who 1 pastor of the First Presbyter‘hurch In Decatur following first World War, died a few > ngo at his home in San Jose, The Information was re’•d from a clipping from a San •cisco paper sent to Mr. and •- J- L- Kocher by their daugb •••■ Helen Kocher, who rein there. Saundens was ftinister here •he early twenties. After ieavhere he served in a number of rches in the mid-west and then a call to the Seventh ®“e Presbyterian church in maclsco. He was pastor of •r»t church of San Jose a num- “ y®ars, retiring two years •**wo of ill health. —O Pair . , * nd Slightly warmer •"'IM and Friday.

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Truce Is Reached In Labor Dispute Truce Announced At Benton Harbor Plant Renton Harbor, Mich., July 24. —(UP)—Company and union officials reached a truce early today In a dispute which erupted Into violence at the Remington-Rand company plant here yesterday and brought emergency units of city and state police streaming Into the area. The temporary agreement, announced after an all-night meeting, ended threats of a new flareup of fighting between CIO United Electrical Workers who attempted to end a strike at the plant and others who battled to halt the back-to-work movement. Police were forced to use firehoses and billy clubs to subdue the fighting unionists. A half-dozen pickets were hurt, though none seriously, and three were arrested. The fighting climaxed two days of tension which had existed since Remington - Rand reopened the plant Monday after being strikebound since June 23, and invited strikers to return to their Jobs. Capt. W. L. Babcock of the state police announced today that the company and union had agreed to leave the plant closed temporarily “in order to prevent violence, trouble or possible bloodshed." He met in a nightlong session with management representatives headed by R. 8. Anderson. Reming-ton-Rand executive from Ilion. N. T., district UEW director John Gojack. Rerrien county sheriff Erwin H. Kubatb and prosecutor Joseph E. Killian. Babcock said the union, which previously had announced that fts many as 2.500 pickets would be on duty at the plant today, had agreed to suspend mass picketing temporarily. As a result, he added, some <0 state police rushed here to aid sheriff's deputies and police from Benton Harbor and neighboring communities will be withdrawn. No wage negotiations were begun during last night's meeting, but both sides indicated they would got underway “In the very near future." Anderson, however, added that "we are in no way surrendering our rights" and hinted that the plant would be reopened shortly whether an agreement was reached or not. The local plant, employing 557 workers, is one of seven Reming-ton-Rand units strikebound since June 28 over UEW demands for a flat wage boost of 15 cents an hour or 11-M cents an hour plus six paid holidays a year. Workers have rejected a company offer of seven cents and six holidays. Municipal Swimming Pool Reopens Today The swimming pool at water works park was opened again today, following the shutdown for cleaning and repairs, Harry Dailey, pool supervisor, announced. Expansion Joints in the pool were caulked, in addition to a thorough washdown of the walls and scrubbing of the floor. Mr. Dailey stated that the Red Cross swimming lessons would be resumed next week. Cool weather has deterred children from using the pool this summer, although on a few of the warmer days about 400 visited the place. Bad Check Artist Identified By Photo t Forger Is Sought By Indiana Police A check forger, who recently passed two bogus checks in Decatur, has been Identified as Carl Piatt, wanted by the Indiana state police for a number of similar offenses. police chief Ed Miller stated today. Local victims of the forger positively identified Piatt from a photo shown them by chief Miller and sent here by state police detective Frank Jessup, assigned to the case. Piatt. It Is charged, cashed checks for 5134.62 each at two local taverns last week. Each was written on a Chicago bank, on the account of the Great Lakes Dredging Co., and made payable to James Peyeite. A “check protector" had been used to designate the amount of both checks. Piatt endorsed each check with the signature of James Peyette.

Study Plan To Organize For European Aid President Studies Proposal For World Trade Organization Washington, July 24 — (UP) — President Truman told a news conference today that he is considering a proposal that this government set up a trade organization to purchase supplies for European rehabilitation. Mr. Truman gave no details of the plan. A reporter said he understood that through the world trade organization this government would purchase all food supplies to be used for implementation of the Marshall plan for European economic recovery. The president's only comment was that it was under consideration. The plan was understood to have been suggested to the cabinet by secretary of agriculture Ciinton P. Anderson. In an otherwise listless news conference there were these developments: 1. The president said he had not heard anything about reports that secretary of navy James Forrestai would be the head of the unified armed service. Mr. Truman said he would announce his appointment when the time comes. 2. He had the same answer for reporters who wanted to know about a report that James M. Mead, former Democratic senator from New York, might succeed Robert E. Hsnnegan as Democratic national chairman. 3. He was asked for an opinion on how much cooperation there had been in this session of congress between the executive and legislative branches. The president said his plea for cooperation had been realized to some extent, but he would not ray how much. 4. Mr. Truman challenged the assertion of several reporters that he had promised to remove credit controls himself if con-' (Turn To Page 5. Column <) O To Explain Police Pension Plan Here The police pension plan will be explained here Monday noon tn a special meeting of city police and city administration leaders. The mayor, city counci I men and other city officials and intereated per sons have been asked to attend the session." Robert Burns, police chief at West Ijtfayette. where a pension plan Is in operation, will be in the city that day to discuss the matter. Police officers here have been seeking the pension for some time, asking the council to approve the plan as set apart from tue ordinary city pension plan. 0 Two Local Pastors To Leave This City Trueax And Steiner To Leave Churches Two Decatur pastors are leaving their charges in this city within the next few weeks, It was revealed today. The Rev. J. T. Trueax. pastor of the Church of the Nazarehe here, will leave about mid August to accept a pastorate In the church at Anderson. It was reported. The Rev. Lyle Steiner, pastor of the Decatur Missionary chwrch. will also leave the local pastorate. It is reported that he will leave about September 1. No announcement has been made concerning his new charge or the pastor who will succeed him here. The Rev. Steiner was out of the city today and could not be reached for a statement. « The Rev. Trueax will tie succeeded by the Rev. Ralph Carter of Farmland. The change in pastors will be made during the annual district assembly of the Nazarene churches, to be held In niid-August at Marion. Both of the local pastors leaving the city will be honored Friday noon in a dinner meeting of the Decatur ministerial association. to be held at Swearingen's. The Rev. F. H. Willard, retiring president of the association, will preside over •-• meeting.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, July 24, 1947

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ARRIVING IN WASHINGTON, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Millard. Des Moines, la., bring petitions to Congress from iowans urging passage of Truman program for fiool control in the midwest.

Sheriff, Prisoner Killed In Accident Excessive Speed Is Blamed For Accident Sayre, Okla.. July 24.-(UP)— Sheriff Ray Boston of Montgomery county. Illinois, and a prisoner he was returning to face embezzlement charges were killed last night In a car accident near here which officers blamed on excessive speed. Former city clerk Roy Brashear, 48. of Litchfield. 111., was being returned to face 11.000 embezzlement charges at Litchfield when the sheriff's new-model automobile collided with a semi- trailer truck on U. 8. highway 56 at 9:15 p.m. Boston. 42, had taken Brashear Into custody at Douglas, Ariz., after the former city official had been placed under arrest there by local authorities. Troopers L. L. Kelsoe and Earl Glenn of the state highway patrol said both Brashear and Boston were dead when they reached the scene only a f®w minutes after the crash. Seriously Injured was Boston’s driver. Nick Steve Fudoli, 27, of route two. Hillsboro. 111. The driver of the truck. Dennis J. McCorley. of Orange, Tex., was not injured. “We were cruising eastward on 66 west of Sayre when the car passed us at a high rate of speed about 9 o’clock," trooper Glenn reported to Oklahoma City patrol headquarters. "After the car had gone by. I remarked to Kelsoe. ’if he doesn't slow down we’ll be seeing that car again"’ The troopers stopped In Sayre a minute or two. then headed on eastward on the heavily-traveled Chicago-to-California arterial highway. They came upon the wreck(Turn T<» Psge 2. Column 41

Efficiency Os Police Radio System Related To Officials

A two-way police radio system In Decatur and Adams county could be operated at a surprisingly low cost and with invaluable efficiency, county and city leaders were told last night in a special meeting at the Chamber of Commerce offices. Officer James Hull, radio tech nician of the Indiana state police at Ligonier, detailed estimated costs, plans of construction for greatest efficiency, etc. The overall cost of installation officer Hull estimated at 54.850. Under a proposed plan the cost to the county would be about 52.750 and that to the city about 52.100. Under this plan, the two taxing units woqld share costs of the fixed station installation of 52.200. Car units, costing 5650 each, would be installed in two county cars and the city police car. Remote control units would be (totalled at both the city hall building police office and the sheriff’s office in the courthouse. Officer Hull pointed out, after conferring with the leaders, that less than four cents tax levy in the city and about one cent in the county would pay for the Inatallation and about 5300 maintenance. shared equally by the two units. Based on an average “life span” of the system, the cost would

C. C. Membership Total Is Now 198 A monthly bulletin issued today by the Decatur Chamber of Commerce lists the total membership in the organization at 198. Some firms carry multiple memberships, according to the huletin Q Cab Driver Is Slain In Burglary Attempt Indianapolis Man Killed Last Night Shelbyville. Ind., July 24—(UP) —Charles W Wright. 24. an Indianapolis cab driver, was shot and killed by authorities today during an attempted burglary. Wright, who was seriously wounded In an argument at Indianapolis last year, was surprised inside a filling station at 2:30 o'clock this morning. He was attempting to Jimmy a safe. He dived head-first through a rear window and refused to heed orders to ball. Four officers fired a half-dozen shots and saw him “throw up his bands, as if he had been hit." However, he kept running and escaped. Authorities searching for him the rest of the night and shortly after daybreak found his body inside the Shelby Lumber Company, which is about 100 yards from the scene of the shooting. Coroner C. J. Price said Wright probably died almost immediately. He had been struck by one bullet. It entered his back Just below the heart. Wright had been arrested five times by Indianapolis police on reckless driving, malicious trespass and assault and battery charges. He also was turned over to Jpvenile authorities several fTiiFfv T'»

i actuaiy be less than 5500 per year r for the two units. He suggested f $l5O to 5200 be set aside by each - unit for maintenance. j Operation of the system could ■ be shared by the two law enforces ment agencies, it was pointed out. For instance, with each having a remote control unit, the system s could be operated from the sherl iffs office during the day and from r the police station at night, he suggested. He suggested that the i transmitter and antenna be In- . stalled at the courthouse to afford i maximum signal strength, which ) he said would easily reach out 24 miles without "dead spots ” Such a system would link the , two departments closely, affording maximum protection for the citizenry. Instant response to r police calls, concentrated traffic . patrolling, rapid ambulance, fire . and other emergency service, es- . flcient linking of the two departi ments with state police and even Ohio authorities In the apprer hension of felons, speedy location ( of missing persona, and many mon* services to the public would re- ’ suit from the Installation, he said. He proposed a newly perfected . IM megacycle FM transmission. , perfected against "dead spots” and static Interfsrenes * “Decatur Is practically the only H (Turn Te Pegs 3. Column 4)

Dutch Seize Important Port Os Cheribon; Two Dutch Forces Cut Off

Slight Employment Drop, Payroll Gain Figures Released By Decatur C. Os C. Despite a three-tenths percent drop In the number Industrially employed In Decatur during the month of June, the payroll total showed a gain of 15.2 percent over the previous month, according to figures released today by the Chamber of Commerce. In June, industrial employment totalled 1.733 against 1.739 for the previous month and the payroll totalled 1430.680 against 5373,719. In June. 1946. a total of 1.819 were employed industrially with a payroll of |4ff1,918. The report shows gains in the number of electric, gas and water consumers and telephone subscribers. The figures: Electric consumers, June, 1947, 4,037; May, 1947. 4.022 and June. 1946. 3.017. Gas consumers. June. 1947. 1.747; May. 1947. 1,730 and June, 1946. 1,592. Water consumers, June. 1947, 2.010; May. 1947. 1.9996 June. 1946. 1.879. Telephone subscribers, June. 1947, 4.103; May. 1947, 4,078 and June, 1946. 3,817. Poor relief costs in Washington township totalled 5157 in June, 1947; 5219 In May, 1947. and 586 in June. 1946. There were 26 births and seven deaths reported in the city last month. Carloading in June totalled 1.763 a drop of 34.3 percent from the previous month and a drop of 21.7 from the same month last year. Railway express shipments, totalling 1.848 also fell off 15.8 from the previous month and 13.1 from the same month of last year. Seven industries reported in the Industrial employment and payroll figures, the Chamber of Commerce business barometer shows. Morehead Funeral Services Saturday Ohio Farmer Killed In Farm Accident Funeral services will he held Saturday tor Dorce Morehead. 66. well known farmer of near Wren. O„ who was killed In a farm accident at his home about noon Wednesday. Morehead, who operated the Morehead hatchery in addition to farming, was crushed to death by a steel cable attached to a buckrake he was operating with a tractor. There were no witnesses to the accident. The tragedy was discovered by Glenn Weaver, of north of Middlebury, who planned to assist Morehead In harvesting the hay. Weaver told Van Wert county authorities that he found Morehead’s lifeless body suspended upright between the tractor and rake, the steel cable operating the rake forks up and down tightly wrapped around his chest. It is believed the victim had attempted to make repair of a mechanical defect and that he was caught by the cable when it accidentally tripped. The accident victim was born In Willshire, 0., Sept. 20. 1880. a son of Mr. and Mrs. Mahlon Morehead. He is survived by his wife Myrtle, and one sister. Mrs. Della Swoveland of Wren Mrs. George Roop of Decatur is a niece-of the deceased. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the residence, three and one-half miles northeast of Wren, and at 2:30 o'clock at the Wren Evangelical United Brethren church, of which he was a member. The Rev. H. L. Smith will officiate. The body will be removed to the residence from the Gam-bie-Alspach funeral home this evening, where friends may call. * e Welding Equipment Is Damaged By Fire Firemen wore called to the Cloice Eicher residence on North Second street shortly after noon today when a welding outfit, owned by the local man, caught fire. Wiring and other parts of the equipment wore burned before the blase was extinguished.

Pacific Isle Secret Site Os Atomic Tests Research-Testing Center Is Planned For Atomic Weapons Washington. July 24 —(UP) — A Pacific mystery island — sealed off from the world’s prying eyes — was envisaged today as the nation's main secret proving ground for the newest wrinkles in atomic weapons. The project, It was learned, would give toii-drawer American personnel a tiny portion of the globe where super-secret weapons could be tested with a minimum chance of observance by outsiders Plans for the research • testing center were revealed almost inadvertently in a single sentence buried in a report of the fedetal atomic commixeion. It said: "The atomic energy commission is establishing proving grounds in the Pacific for routine experiments and tests of atomic weapons." Persons close to the atomic progiain eaid the tests would lie anything but “routine." These sources insisted that the motive behind the project was a determination to provide a proving ground not open to foreign observers or to inte~ested "spectators" of this country. The commission waa mum on the location for the project coul earned. One possibility appeal “ to be the new U. 8. mandated islands of the Marianas. Marshalls and Carolines. Many islands of this group are virtually uninhabited The commission's second bi- annual report made clear that a major portion of the atomic progiarn would lie devoted to development of new and more deadly atomic weapons — at least until such time as congress approves a world control plan acceptable to United Nations memliers. Presumably It is these anticipated developments that would lie tested in the Pacific. One hint al ! ready has been given congress by j Glenn L. Martin, airc-aft manu-; facturer. He told a senate committee recently that work was proceeding on a deadly atomic cloud. The army. too. has hinted at new-type "Buck Rogers" weapons. The commissions report also stated that: 1. Production of atomic liombs are continuing at a ra’e fixed by Pnwident Truman, upon the ad(Turn To I’aifw ft. Column fti Mayor At Conference On Traffic Survey Six-Man Committee Meets At Capital Mayor John B. Stults went to Indianapolis today to confer with a six-man committee relative to securing a federal traffic survey in Decatur and other cities. Mayor Stults became a member of the committee in the capital city several weeks ago when he and representatives of five other cities asked for the check. The six personally appeared before Governor Ralph Gates to seek the survey, which would lie conducted at federal expense. Mayor Stults indicated previously that he believed the survey would be staged here before the end of the year. A qualified engineer will make the survey, placing special emphasis on the city's parking and moving traffic problems. The surveys have been approved by Governor Gates. 0 Mary Jean Tricker Is Reported Safe Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Tricker. of near Decatur, reported to authorities today that their daughter. Mary Jean, reported missing since Tuesday night, has been located in Fort Wayne. They reported receiving a special delivery letter from their daughter this morning, informing them of her safety.

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Urge Marshall To Demand Mediation Os War; Threat To World's Recovery Batavia. July 24—(UP)-DutcX troops have occupied the north Java port of Cheribon, but Indonesian counterattacks in other parts of Java have cut off two Important Dutch forces. It was reported today. An Indonesian communique said Republican counterattack recaptured Samarana. Dutch supply base on the north coast, and an Inland town in east. Java. The communique claimed the recapture of Hamarang "means the destruction of the whole Dutch army" which left Hamarang In a southward drive toward the Republican capita) of Jogjakarta The Indonesian communique also said the recapture of Ix*wang cut off Dutch forces which it conceded have occupied Malang, in east Java, where the U. 8 19th air group was based during the war. A Dutch communique announced Netherlands forces entered Cheribon without much trouble, and Indicated that the Dutch offensive was going according to plan. The Dutch information bureau announced that censorship of news dispatches about the fighting probably would end soon with the understanding that correspondents would give Dutch army authorities copies of news stories after they were dispatched. Dutch troops led by armor raced 50 miles from Bandoeng In three days to occupy Cheribon. loading I point for the rubber and quinine I riches of the East Indies. The Dutch communique said bridges leading into the city were Intact. 1 and the Indonesian defenders put up "practically no resistance." Urge Mediation Washington. July 24.—(UP)-— Some of secretary of state George C. Marshall's advisers are urging him to demand U. 8. mediation o the Dutch-Indonesian “war" on grounds It is a threat to world economic recovery, it was learned authoritatively today. Such a proposal would indirectly link the situation in Indonesia with the "Marshall plan ” No decision has yet been reach- ! ed on what, if any. action the N. S will take Marshall’s advisers haw not been able to agree on what to rec ommend to him Those who deal with the Dutch In Europe are Inclined to be sympathetic with the mother country The men who handle affairs in the explosive far eastern areas have little sympathy for the Dutch The present "war." which the Dutch claim Is only "limited police action," came after the Dutch had received, according to some AmeriIcan officials, about 95 percent of all their demands upon the Indonesians But It basically Is a roionlal war The Dutch dislike giving up their prodominant political and economic position in the rich islands. The Indonesians, like most (Tiifn T'> ft. Column 0 Plan Re-Assessing Real Estate Here Tax Representative Os State in City Groundwork for the re-assessing of real estate in Adams county was being formed today in the county courthouse. Charles i.eavell, representative of the state board of tax commissioners. was here today to begin work of reviewing values during the past few years The work Is preliminary to reassessment of real estate to be done in 1947. Mr. Leavell said that the work now is being done, not to boost assessments, but to insure their equalization. Auditor Thurman I. Drew, with whom Mr Leavell conferred, said that an appropriation will be included in the budget from which funds will be, used to provide schooling for assessors. Assessors will be given a two or three day schooling in 1948 to prepare them for the real eatate assessing work to be done the next year, he said