Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 177, Decatur, Adams County, 29 July 1947 — Page 1

JTjTxLV No. 177.

I;AISER TESTIFIES IN CONTRACTS PROBE

With Festival Bns Complete ■ Next Week Hinual Festival To Ken Wednesday And Include On Friday plans for the second you'll to v week, August 6. 7 and . | h:il |>. last night meet *3K. all festival commit event will be officially Wednesday «K| * |> m with a pet par .10.-U.-d by >, Jinn ill prize-, will lie pa It I. Ipa tits ill tile parade tu non commercial float winners, Mr Bowers said I battle Will lie held at I dB in pterions to the pat ,|. pal linen' members !». • "'-I y " I’oi Hand Monroe. Monroe p 3H Bluffton and Herne will the to on Monroe street between / and Fourth Streets. Jildg poultry ami rabbits will ted after the para ie II exhibits will go on disthe junior-senior high tefll that night also. jMgiug of dairy cattle, ached iMli begin at H> a lit on the jjKc- day. will continue t|Khoui the day. Thursday Events of hogs wil 1 begin at I in uid continue through with the sale at ■ l A program of eiit.-r '* it a platform on Third near the high school will at 8:30 p. m. Cliff lai magic show will feature Man l,y Schieferstein. ami lines of Harmony. Fort m>- ‘"hired sextet, in addition music and singing. Beef Sale Friday of beef calves will rH Friday morning at 1" a tu . by the beef sale at 6 3U always one of the festival's The dress II will climax the I; of I II i lull, rural youth members. Giri Scouts and youngsters of tin- city no expected to take part affair. o ■ Parade To Open Blival Wednesday All Youngsters Are Bnvited To Attend youngster in the coun invited to take part in the Will Bowers, event said today, relative to Parade which will officially I W Hie annual youth festival |BBB Wednesday. August 6 at * B “ kiddie has a pony. dog. turtle, lamb. pig. have you. he should begin ■ Plan for dressing up the I Ey* l " l entering him in the par he asserted. than SIOO in prizes will I lv en participants in Hie pur i|| " r Mow ‘‘ r * declared, and It ■ W'd"'l that the event will lie E ‘Blai'K'-st in history. |J| addition to the pets the fol ■ prizes will be given for I B‘°"m>er<ial floats: first I secoijd. 115; third, fourth, $5. will assemble in the 1 3 L ar<) 81 730 p m - ,har n,gh ’- an< * manh from B W* ,0 >? *‘<‘ond street, north on 1 jB 11 ' 1 ,0 Monroe, east on Mon 1 jß ,r ’ north on First to an ’> west on Jackson Sgß io Second, from where they return south to Jefferson and disband. MM ° - ■ WEATHER ' r ' era| ly fair and warmer .nd Wedneeday.

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Truman Returns To Washington Today Mother's Funeral Held In Missouri Grandview, Mo.. July 29 tipi President Truman, looking somewhat more rested and able to manage a slight smile, flew back io Washington today to plunge Into the mass of work piled oil his desk following Hie end of the congressional session. After another night of seclusion spent at his "summer White House" in Independence, the chief executive drove to the Grandview cottage, from which Ise yesterday burled his 91 yearold mother, for a 3'i-mlnute visit with Miss Mary Jane Truman. Ms sister. As he entered his plane at the Grandview airport. Mr Truman doffed his double-breasted gjray suit coal and sat down with some papers before him. apparently going right to work His plane took off for Washington at t:M a m it’ST 1. The flight was expected to require between four and five hours. As Mr. Truman shook hands with a few old friends an I relat ves at the airport, he appeared somewhat refreshed after the strain of the funeral He man aged a shadow of his well known smile at times. His wife. Mrs. Bess Truman, and his daughter. Margaret, accompanied him to the airport. They will remain In Independence .Miss Mary Jane Truman and tils brother. Vivian, also accompan led him to his plane. White House press secrelqry Charles Hoss said there were betw’eeti 100 and 200 bills awaiting presidential action Also. Hoss said. Mr. Truman will have to make recess appointments of two NLRB members and its general counsel The appoint ments he made were not confirmed by the renate before congress went home Vivian Truman said it had not yet been decided whether his sister would live with his family (Turn To Page Z, Column 4> o

34 Vets' Training Programs In County $2,885 Monthly Is Paid To Veterans There are now a total of 34 approved apprenticeship and “on-the job" training programs in opera tion In Adams county, it was announced today by Dwight 11. Arnold. county service officer. One or more veterans are taking training in each of these places of Itpslnesa, he said Mr. Arnold al*o announced that during the first six months of 1947 a total of 4,403 services were rendered veteran* of all war*, and during the past 13 months a total of 7.489 services were rendered. Veterans taking the apprentice and onthe-job training In the county receive about 12,885 per month federal government aid. he said, and federal payments to veteran* on disability pensions total 5821.60 per month. The report was made hy the local officer in answer to a request from the state department of veterans affairs, which declared that 35.000 Hoosier veterans visit the various county offices every month. It cited the foWowlnß board categories of service, in reviewing the vital role played by the offices: housing, earning a living, military benefit*, educational information and personal affair*. Seventy-five percent of these requests for veterans assistance can be handled by no other agency, the department declared Calvin Sprunger To Reject Nomination Berne. Ind. July 29 - Calvin Sprunger, who wa* nominated last week hy the local Republican party as Its nominee from the middle ward for town trustee, has withdrawn his name. He Is employed by the Centrsl Soya company at Decatur and said his work parents him from accepting the nomination and making the campaign.

Indonesian 'Air Force' Bombs Dutch Dutch-Held Towns In Java Attacked By Raiding Planes Batavia. July 29 (UP)— The Indonesian "air force." in its first combat operation, liombed two Butch-held towns in Java today, the Indonesian radio announced. The targets were Semarang on the north coast, and Salat iga, in eastern Java. The raids presumably were carried out by one or two planes The Indonesian radio at Jogjak aria, with a big-time flourish, said the raiding aircraft evaded two Dutch fighters and i eturned to base without damage. The broadcast eaid pamphlets as well as bombs were dropped on Semarang. Today’s Dutch communique reported two oil well fires in the Socony-Vacuum fields at I’endopo. 100 miles inland from I’alembang on Sumatra. The communique quoted Standard Oil officials that the blazes were “of fairly mild Importance" as they were ou the edge of the oil fields. The Dutch communique also reported Indonesian sniping and sabotage of telephone and power lines around Tegal on Java’s north coast. An Indonesian communique said Republican ground troops sheet down two hutch fighter planes at Mantoep, 25 miles west of Mod east Java Indonesian soldiers, the communique said, now control the north Mantoep area, and had killed "many" hutch troops. Aneta, the Netherlands news agency, said the Indonesian air raid on Semarang was carried out by a single plane. Aneta said the Japanese • manufactured plane dropped two light (Turn To Page 5. Column S> o Charge Embezzlement To Lady Postmaster Chicago. July 29 -(UP)- Mr* Irene Cinnamon. 30, said today she embezzled 1598 in postoffice funds entrusted to her as postmaster at Steager, 111. "to defray some household expense*." Mrs. Cinnamon pleaded guilty to embezzlement charges when arraigned before IT. S commissioner Edwin K. Walker yesterday. She was held to the grand jury and released on bond of 1500. 0 I. U. Plans Housing Expansion Program Alleviate Critical Housing Shortage Bloomington. Ind.. July 29 —(UPI —lndiana University officials said today that a 14.500,000 housing expansion program will be launched immediately on the campus. President Herman B. Wells said the project. consisting of a student dormitory center and two student-faculty apartment buildings. will alleviate the critical housing shortage at I. U. Nearly 700 married students are on a waiting list for housing. Announcement of the program was made after construction firms agreed to maintain present wage rates until the project Is completed. Wells said the two apartment buildings will be constructed from Indiana limestone and will each contain 79 efficiency and 38 onebedroom apartments. The new dormitory unit wil include four residence halls and a dining room, accommodating 1,028 students. “The agreement between the university and the Bloomington building trades unions to proceed with thege buildings under present wage rates." Wells said, "might well set a pattern of cooperation which might do much to relieve the paralysis of the building industry." entire project will he financed hy a bond issue. Weils said no public funds would be used. Only 2! percent of the university’s Turn Te Pegs I. t’«iueiu •)

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, July 29, 1947

Bored With It All / v K § LITTLE DOES this tiny tot cure that Mrs. Trevor Devls seeks to determine bluest eyes among the participants in a Uis Angeles baby contest. Nap time is nap time*

Charge Veteran Is Being Mistreated Probe Ordered By Local Legion Post Officials of Adams Post 43. America nLegion. last night began plans for probing into a report that a member of the organization is being mistreated in an Ohio veterans’ hospital. Unanimous approval of the post was given a proposal that commander T ('. Smith lie empowered to appoint and diepatch a committee of members directly to the hospital Io ((induct a personal investigation. Expressing indignant concern over the ieported mistreatment. Legionnaires of the post agreed to pay all expenses incidental to conducting a full investigation. Reports of the incident came from a local clergyman to comman-der-elect Charhw Morgan. The pastor said that a relative of the patient iiad complained to him and appealed for uid after a visit to the institution. The relative said, according to the pastor, that the local man had suffered a Idack eye and exhibited numeious bruises and injuries Inflicted about the face and body. The pastor, in turn, appealed to the lA-gion for aid in investigating the incident. Identity of the patient, a memlier of the local post and a World War 1 veteran who has been suf ferlng from a mental illness will not be revealed, at least for the present, for obvious reasons. Legion officials said. While it Is passible that the claim is unfounded. Legion officials said, and might be explained in some satisfactory manner they cited a ’recent case in which several attendants at a Marion veterans' hospital were convicted ot like charges. In event the chargee are proven, the committee will report hack to the local post, which will in turn make a complete report to the national administration at ‘Washington. D. C., demanding punishment of the offenders and a discontinuance of such treatment, Legion officials said. — <> • ■ Monroeville Man To Join Berne Faculty Berne. Ind., July 29 — Alonzo Nicodemus, a native of Monroeville. Is the new teacher for the sixth grade in the Berne schools. He Is 25 years of age and this will be hi* first teaching experience. He is now attending Indiana Central College, where he will receive his B. S. degree. Mr Nicodemus spent three years In the marine corps during the war. He is married and has two children. He succeeds Miss Martha Schttg. who resigned the post tlon E. M. Webb, superintendent of the Berne schools, announced today that school will reopen here on Tuesday, September 2, the day after Labor Day.

BULLETIN New York, July 29 —(UP) — Stocks broke sharply on heavy volume in the late afternoon trading today. Shortly after 2 p.m. the tape lagged 2 minutes behind the market and prices were down 1 to 4 points. Wheat broke as much as cents a bushel. Cotton lost $4.50 abale. London stocks closed weak. i -o Decatur Police To Seek Pension Plan I Plan Resolution For City Council 1 A resolution asking for the adi>j» ’ tion of a police pension plan will be submitted by the city police of fleers to the city council at an early meeting. It was announced today. The announcement was made folflowing a meeting of police officers , and city officials at the city hall. l in which Robert Burns. West Lafayette police chief, explained * the pension plan A foiir-cent tax levy would like ly be necessary In Decatur for the 1 first year, which would decrease yearly for the next year or two to ' set up the necessary reserve fund, he said After the first two or three years, a levy of two tenths of a mill would be necessary to maintain I the plan along with a deduction , of $24 yearly from the wages of each officer. At th(* age of 65 or after 25 , years of service an officer would automatically retire, according to I the plan, on a pension of 60 per . cent of his salary. In Ilecatur. under the present . wage of SIBO monthly, an officer [ would receive 1111 monthly pension payment. Any officer receiving the pension would be required, i however, to pay the full 25 year* i premiums. i One officer. Sephus Melchl. who • has served the force for more than 30 years, would be retired immediately if the plan is adopted He would, however, be required to pay the full 25 years premiums before receiving the pension. No other officer is in line for retirement for some seven or eight years. It was pointed out. thus a ' (Turn *Tn Pgs- X. Column X) O LaSalle Hotel Fire Brings $25,000 Suit i — Chicago, July 29 —(UP)— Thomas Nussey, 40. South Bend. i Ind, appraisal engineer, said to- : day he had shed th • LaSalle- Madli son hotel Co. for $25,000 for Injur- - les received In the l<aSalle hotel fire In June, 1946 The suit, filed in superior court t yesterday, said that Nunsey was still receiving medical treatment i for lung Injuries suffeied when he - was overcome by smoke in his sixth -floor room at the hotel at

Reveals Brief Note To Roosevelt Saved Plans For Aircraft Carriers

Hughes Predicts Only Probe Result Will Mean Likely Ruin Ot Reputation Culver City. Cal . July 29 H’l’l Howa d Hughes predicted bitterly today that the only result of a senate investigation of his air plan infracts would be to ruin a reputation he spent years and "risked my life" Io build The milionalre manufacturer and movie producer, in his first interview since the investigation started, said it would uncover no giaft in Ids contracts and no flaws in his airplanes. One plane, the XF-11. is the lies’ in the world, lie said. "It's a beaut." lie said “It Is the most modern and best propellordriven airplane in the world, and furthermore It ie the beat plane of any kind with its range.” Hughes nearly killed himself last July when he crashed while testing the plain- The crash was caused hy a faulty propellor. He said the monster plywood fly Ing boat he built for the govern inent wae “purely a reaearch project," but "will do what it was designed to do. and Hie government knew what it was designed to do when it ordered it " "I was told to build it and I built it," he said The government got its llx.ttOO,000 worth, but he lost motley, Inadded. fl |,iioi;,mii) to Im- exact. "My contract called for a completed airplane at Culver city." Insaid ’’• moved it to the beach at my own expense, and ud Hie work *now being done is at my own volition and expense" The eight engined plane is Utldorgoilig tents before its first flight His much • criticized parties for army officers were not intended to clinch the contract but to main tain my com|H-titive position" in the aviation industry, Hughes said "If I hadn’t entertained. I’d have been behind the 8-hall,’ lie said "It was to keep the customer (Turn T<> I’m- Column SI 218 Now Enrolled In Auction School More Students Are Expected This Week Enrollment In the 54th semi-an-nual term of the Reppert school of auctioneering early today reach ed 218 and was still (limbing. Miss Eleanor Reppert. in charge of the school, reported that num her shortly before noon and said that more were expected before the close of the week First of the public auction sales is scheduled for Saturday after noon at 2 o’clock at a platform, corner Second and Madison streets They will he held each weekday night thereafter during the balance of the school term at 8 pin Student* gain practical expert dice at these sales, during which various sorts of Items are sold The school will close August 16. following commencement exercises held August 15 at 12 o’clock noon at the Knights of Pythias home Meanwhile today the second day of the term classes were well underway In the school at Bellmont park o Harvester Workers Taking Strike Vote Fort Wayne. Ind. July 29 — (UP)— Almost 3,000 United Automobile Workers (CIO) were scheduled to vote today on a strike against the International Harvester company. The members of local 57 began voting at II am at union halll. Spokesman Frank Wateon said the polls would close at II pm. Negotiations Ixigged down lietween company and union officials, and when the old contract expired Sunday the union heads said a rike vote would be held.

British Hang Three Members Os Underground Fear Two British Hostages Likely To Be Reprisal Victims Jerusalem. July 29 il’l’i Bri tisli authorities hanged three mem hers of the Jewish underground * today, and then began a grim wait i in the expectation that the under ground might kill two British host ages and dump their corpses in a ! public square within a few hours The Irgtin Zval Uuml under ground said in Jerusalem that the hostages, two British army ser geants. were "being executed " A little later, a telephone message from a purported Irgun represnta i five said that the sergeants would Jbe returned today probably dead British authorities felt Irgun would act in the most dramatic J way possible, probably by throw Ing the corpses into a fMiblic place Irgun also promised tin- greatest bloodshed the Holy Land ever has seen It started by blowing up a pill box in front of the Acre prison where the three Jewish underground members were hang ed A bomb wounded five per sons east of Tel Aviv, and an army vehicle was peppered with hand grenades in Jerusalem. The bodies of the three hanee I Irgunists were carried to Safad in ! separate police cars and delivered ito relatives for burial .it the foot lof ancient Mt Canaan cemetery : police guarded all entrances to the ■cemetery to prevent Irgun from | striking. All Jews were kept in i doors The three Irgun members were i hanged before dawn at tin- grim j old Crusader’s castle prison at i Acre. They were convicted of pal Iticipating in a raid on the prison | May 4. when many Jewish and Arab Inmates were freed, and some killed The hanged Irgunists were Mier Nakar. 21. a shoemaker and native of Jerusalem: Yosef Weiss, a Czech; and Avshalom llaviv. 20., son of a leather merchant Two younger members of the band drew (Turn T., I’nt,- ('..liimn :i o Indiana's Traffic Death Toll Mounts Five More Persons Highway Victims By United Press The sky-rocketing Indiana traffic death toll was five names long - er today, and the (thio river claim ; ed a sixth Hoosier by drowning. Beverly Hutto. 31. Tampa. Fla., was killed in Benton county this morning when a car driven by Mrs Grace Fischer. 21. also of Tampa, hit a bridge abutment and bounced into the back of a truck driven hy Itoscoe Williams. 39. Columbus. Ind Mrs Fischer and her infani son were taken to St Evizaheth’s hospital. Igifavette, Ind. with minor injuries, state police said Fred 11. Earhart. 35. Greensburg. Ind . and Clayton Palmer. 58. Korea. Ky. were killed In a two car wreck in Blackford county. Edward I*. Burke; 19 Chicago, died in Gary Mercy hospital after crashing through a fence on the Cedar laike-f’ook road In Lake county. Howard J Dynes. 17-month-old son of Mr and Mrs Denver Dynes. Columhus. Ind., died after being run over in front of his home. Alva Elston. 24. North Madison, Ind., drowqed while boating in the Ohio off Madison. His four companions swam to safety.

Price Four Cents

Escort Carriers As Built By Kaiser A Factor In Beating Off Nazi U Boats Ib-nry J Kaiser revealed today that he scrawled a four paragraph note to the late Preshlent Roosevelt ill 1912 and thereby saved his plan for building a fleet of small aircraft sarriers to combat the Nazi submarine men ice Numerous of these escort car lien* -uhse(|uenily Were bllilX .(lid were given milch of the credit for con<|llel Illg the I ’ boats. The portly, balding west coast industrialist, sweating under movie camera kleig lights, testified before a senate defense in vestlgating subcommittee. The senators are Investigating airplane contracts granted to Kais .r and bis former partner, mil Bonaire Howard Hughes. To tell bls Side of tile story. Kaiser (ante artnel with a long prepared statement, which he said he pent a whole day preparing Tile collimillee refused t.i let him read it before submit i Hllg Io questions He accused the senators of denying the right I to protect him»e|f again* t a I sme.ir campaign In hi statement and in re ponse to (|U"-stion-. Kaiser said 1 He appealed to Mr ll<M»se veil on the escort carrier plan over the heads <>f top ranking naval officials who gave .( flat to" to the idea 2 powerful fores" in an.l out of the government gave a < lev. i mysterious ki .>fi* to his other pel plan to get around the submarine menace with an ' armada of woolen flying boats. He Intimated that he thought old 1 line aircraft manufacturers had t. hand in th< rejection Th.government finally ordered one .•v|.« t inietit.il model which wa* completed by Hughes and till la- not been flown :!. 11. did not appeal Io Mr Roosevelt ill behalf of his flying boat program because he cot the ' impiession from ' While House Se. retar.v that the president wa lot lilt, rested I He believes he was donbh- ( IdsseU by Grov. r Isieliing. war product ion board ainjl uft con sultant who came to the we-t coast from Wa hinglon to insp.-c his f.i.ilities for building cargo planes. 5. He did not a* charged by i former government official* who testified yesterday. high presure WPB chairman Donald M Nelson into the 41s.tUHi.oim con tract for an experimental eightengined cargo plane. Hughe and Kaiser originally, I formed a non profit organization Io build the first model of th« giant flying boat Kaiser with drew from the contract eight or nine months later Hughes fin ishel the plane, which still Is ejrthliound. and is now engaged jin testing It. Its first flight probably will take place this winter. Kaiser told the senatois that, top-ranking naval officials gave him a flat "no" on his ideas for the hahy carriers until Mr Roosevelt (hanged their minds Under careful questioning by Sen. Claude Pepper. D.. Fla . Kaiser also brought forth much of the material defending his war production record which was contained in his prepared statement. In direct te«tfmony. Kaiser said his flying Imat plans fell afoul of "a beautiful frame-up" H« didn't know "who in Washington" participated in the deal But. he testified, "they su< - ceeded.” Kaiser was especially bitter about Grover Loening. war production board former aircraft specialist who told the senators yesterday that Kaiser’s plans were “visonary and somewhat impractical ” "Do you claim that Mr double-crossed you?" Ferguson inquired “Yeah." a»ld JUlser. "1 think ha 4id"