Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 180, Decatur, Adams County, 1 August 1947 — Page 1

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DUTCH ACCEPT U. S. MEDIATION OFFER

|Ksevell Son ft'd Hughes S' Contracts ■commended By Kott Roosevelt Kainst Experts — (UP) — invest were to■wlKß’ *"'" y a!r,raf ' <•<’»»< toliowaid Hughes on <ifisiiieii<lation H, d.-'pite < <>nt I ary recoin by air expert* lb H Arnold ,iK Oliver P Echols, retired. in the gave the testimony to a defense Investigating subHe said that Arnold, air forces chief, issued order photographic planes on , E »•«. said Arnold told hint to plain* the day after Echols mended for a second none he bought himself had ordered that | “M&rther action" be taken on photoplane. | Bsyoung Roosevelt. son of the inspected the Hugh I »■*’ alul re ‘ omm ended its pur- | ehaflas the only one already de and suitable for photograiHuson asked whether Roose seen the plane fly when S' M^Kom mended it Echols said he said Roosevelt will at hearings Monday and may then .... I committee is Investigating g| contract for P-11 plant* awarded Hugh I Ml ■well a. an > 18,000,000 award ? to Eu-hes and Henry J. Kaiser giant plywood flying boat I Bptt Roosevelt's name was into public hearings for t ie as these other develop occurred: ■lught* in Hollywood said he -■ ask the justice department | toMtermine whether Sen Owen I '»®nv.- tig.iting committee, has with Pan Ameri I w Meyer, a publicity J twHm.l party thrower tor Hughes. I »lEred In the hearing room but J leave to go to a hotel | sleep. I before the Roosevelt I vWB K< hols revealed. Arnold or | that the army stop diverting I for the Hughes plane, I Si E*”' i,H ordered progress discontinued. J Bauson aeked Echols If this t *K^ l,ot norma,, y” * he *‘ nd I Eols replied, "normally.” I ■pertheless, on Sept. 3. 1943. I 'Bd issued a verbal order for I hase of 101 Fl Us j said Meyer would test afternoon. I Bs'fr was not hi* usually ebul > when he appeared in the I hearing room. He said. ”1 I W’> slept for three days — I’m I K Homer Ferugson. R . Mid:., E -38^ urn T " s - Column St » jW- o I Stnator Bricker Is Bain Threatened threatening Phone Kalis Are Reported I Kmb'**. O. Aug 1.-(UP>- | w ia,e * of Ben John w Br!rk ’ I wK h ° ei "’ ai> * a •■••••• nation in I *K lngton nearly two weeks ago. I jK'*"' 1 ,<M,a r that three phone | w * re received at Bricker's J home last night in which ‘ ‘ W alier threatened "to get him ” !■ , Jhorltles said they believed j y aller *•• a demented person El ral, * r waa a woman. Mrs K Day. mother of Mrs Bricker, woman called three times ‘'■V the dinner hour. She first for the senator, then for his Bricker, who was preparing a * ,at * Republican rally. JE* ot «« to the phone. Mrs. II '■ In Canada. tell that son-in-law of yours snin C to get him and this maybe," Mrs Day quoted ■“"rn To Page J, Column 7)

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Sen. Tait Launches Unofficial Campaign Colls For Election Os GOP President Columbus, 0., Aug. I.—(UP) - Sen. Robert A. Taft pitched his unofficial campaign for the Republican presidential nomination today on a complete denunciation of the Democratic administration, including its "befuddled foreign policy." In a nationwide radio address last night Taft attacked President Truman as a prisoner of CIO and new deal elements. The addressdelivered a few hours after Taft was endorsed by Ohio Republicans as their favorite son for the presidential nomination-was a review of the OOP dominated first session of the 80th congress. But tt was filled with a scathing criticism of President Truman. Taft called for the election of a Republican president In 1948 who would support a congress "which for the first time in years" had done things "because the people themselves have wanted them done, and not because some ‘must’ legislation has been transmitted from the White House.” Taft’s address was made before some 1.300 Ohio Republicans whom he told he would not make a decision as to whether to seek the presidential nomination until after a western four to see if the people supported his policies. He said he would make up his mind In October. ' Taft said criticism of the 80th congress, work came from Communists, the CIO, new dealers and "modern planners who really do not approve of congress at all and who believe in government by the executive.” ”... The list of important laws adopted has not been equalled by any other congress." Taft said. “We have had before us the job of clearing the wreckage of the war and of the w<tw deal before we can begin to build.” He blamed most of the unfinished business on lack of cooperation on the part of the President. He accused the President of adhering to what he called the new deal doctrine of "spending, spending, spending," and “taxing, taxing, taxing." He accused the President of failing to keep his promise to cooperate with the Republicans and cited as examples his veto of the labor and tax bills. “The labor barons and the President fought every reform except the moat trival,” he said, "and they were determined there would be no labor bill of any kind.” “The Democrats have fought just as bitterly against every effort to reduce expenses as they have against tax reduction.” Taft added.

Leroy E. Elzey Dies Thursday Afternoon Funeral Services On Monday Morning Leroy E. Elzey. 70, veteran employe ot the city street department. died at 3 o’clock Thursday afternoon at his home, 319 North Eleventh street, after a nine months ilness or carcinoma. He was born In Decatur December 15. 1876. a son of Richmond snd Delpha Ann Elzey, and was a lifelong resident of this city. He had been an employe of the city street department for the past 30 years. He had never married. Surviving are two brothers. Roscoe Elzey of Decatur and Edward Elzey of Geneva. Two brothers and two sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be held at 10 am. Monday at the Nuttman Ave. United Brethren in Christ church, the Rev. C. N. VanGundy officiating. Burial will be In the Decatur cemetery. The body will be removed from the Gllllg A Doan funeral home to the residence, where friends may call after 4 p.m. Saturday. 0 WEATHER Fair tonight and Saturday. Somewhat warmer north portion tonight Rielng temperatures Saturday.

20,000 Air Force Men Form Insignia ; M. • ■ ■■■ ’• iB KJX\'<jL *. * : •■'* Z >WE - - sgw iaAWSUttaWP < iWt, * • - JIB THE ENTIRE PERSONNEL—2«.'Kio men—of the Indoctrination Division. Air Training Command, lank la nl Field. Texas, forms a living insignia of the U. S. Army Air Forces for Air Force Day. Aug. ,1. Design took six Weeks to make, cost 14.5*10, used 30 miles of rope. Photographer used a special lIU-f<M>t lower. <Copyright National Photo and News Service)

Young Boy Is Slain By Former Convict I Sex Criminal Held In Chicago Slaying Chicago, Aug. 1— (UP) — Psychiatrists attempted to lesri) today how a mud urge drove Joseph Bartnyak, 27. to strangle three-year-old Charles Bradley just nine days alter Ills release on jjood behavior from a year in prison for a sex crime against another child. State's attorney William Tuohy said he probubly would'seek the death penalty for Bartnyak. a slim, wiry factory hand who was dishonorably discharged from the navy for fotging leave papers. Dr. Harry Hoffman. Illinois state alienist who probed the mental procesaes of sex-slayer William <l. Hcirens last year, said he did not heileve Bartnyak’* and Heirens' cases were identical. ”1 am going to make a detailed study of Bar:nyak's mentality today hut off-hand I would not say he was driv-n by the same urge ar Heirens,” Hoffman said. "Heirens ruffered from a sex urge. This appears to be some othdr sort of •irive-to-kill.” Barjnyak confessed late yesterday that he stole the handsome little troy from the middle class home ot his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Bradley, as the boy’s father chatted with neighbors on the front porch. Bradley had checked and found tils son sleeping peacefully just 15 minutes before Bartnyak stole the child from his bedroom. The boy's mother works night*. Bradley called her from her work after the child disappeared. Bartnyak said he found the hoy sleeping nude, because of the Intense heat Wednesday night. The boy stirred tut never completely awakened. said. Bartnyak said he ‘talked to the baby and petted It” while carrying him through an alley to the rear stoop of a house across the block. “After a few minutes holding the baby. I was seized with a desire to choke him." he said. “He was stlting on my lap and I put my hands around his throat and choked him." The chPd'a body was found under the steps where Bartnyak placed him -

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, August 1, 1947

Seven B-29's Finish Record Flight Today Washington. Aug. 1 — (UP) — Seven gleaming army superfortresses. winging 7.000 miles from Tokyo, landed at nearby Andrews field today in a record-lireaking flight climaxing the air forces 40th anniversary celebration. The sky giants swept over the Washington monument in the national capitol 34 luturs after taking off from Tokyo at 2 a. m. L’DT Thursday. Actual flying time was 30 hour* and 5 minutes. The flight also represented a new achievement In radio transmitting and receiving. The strategic air commond inaugurated its new global strategy ill the use of radio. For the first time in history the planes kept in continuous radio contact with Andrews field strategic headquarters even when 7.000 miles distant. Eight planes took off from Tokyo in the mass flight. But al tne one stop made at Anchorage, Alaska, one of the ships dropped out because of engine trouble. It resumed the flight alone at 2:11 a m. EDT today, seven hours after the flight of seven left. For the most part of the flight tile ships encountered good weather with brisk tail winds. But over western Canada they tan into a severe electrical storm and one ship was struck by lightning. It was not damaged. The superfortresses soared in majestically high over the Washington monument and then circled the capital for almost 30 minutes before landing at Andrews field. Buuittn anxiously about the big planes, which blasted Tokyo and other Japanese cities during the war, were the fast jet-pro pel led P-80 shooting stars. A flight of 23 P-80's picked up the 11-29's over Martinsburg, W. Va. and escorted them to Washing ton. The flight war the longest and fastest massed flight ever made by the AAF. The one-stc; i 000 mile flight highlighted the air forces 40th anniversary celebration. Over Chicago Chicago, Aug. 1— (UP) — A (Turn To Pag* i, Column *)

Hot Weather Due To Return On Saturday Three States Hit By Freak Storms By United Pre** The temperature started climbing again today throughout most of the nation. The U. R. weather foretaster warned that the cool air which brought relief to the midwest yesterday wa* on it* way out. He said the mercury would be back In the 90'* by tomorrow. Freak storms hit three states, and two cities were (seed with severe water shortages. A pilot reported he saw hail last night between Rowling Green and Old Hickory. Ky A tornado with 60 mlle-an-hoor wind* struck Buena Vtsta, Va. near the famed natural bridge. One person wa* killed and three slightly injured. A small tropical storm gathered In the Gulf of Mexico and it was expected to hit Brownsville. Tex., late this afternoon In Carbondale. 111., the city water supply wa* critically short for the third straight day. Mayor John I. Wright said the water plant couldn't purify enough water »o meet expanding Industrial and domestic demand*. Air conditioning was cut off in some Dallas. Tex., office building* because of a water shortage. The temperature has been above 100 in Dallas for a week. Themercury climbed to record highs in the south and southwest yesterday. It was 93 in Ixiulsville. Ky., and the hottest day of the summer. At Alva. Okla., the mercury dropped to 111 yesterday. It had been 112 the day before. Los (Turn To Pag* «. Column 7) 0 Army B-25 Crashes, Two Men Survive McChvrd Field. Wash.. Aug. 1— (UP)— An army B-25 crashed and burned 11 miles east of Kelso. Wash., early today hut two men survived by parachuting from 10.000 feet, fourth army air force officials announced. The army said the Kelso police chief O. C. Clark reported that one of the survivors said four men were aboard. The survivor was a Sgt. Tass, Ft. Lawton. Wash. He reported that he and the bom Iter's crew chief Sgt. Mathews, baited out at 10,000 feet. Tass, a passenger on the plane said he was uncertain of the fate of pilot and co-pilot.

Netherlands Announces Willingness To Accept U. S. Mediation Offer

Record Wheat Goal Set For Next Year 1948 Goal Set For 75 Million Acres Washington. Aug. 1— (UP) The agriculture department today set farmers a 1948 wheat production goal of 75.hott.tnt** acres, highest in history. The department conceded In an official statement that the goal was too high for "normal peacetime conditions." But II said tha* these were not normal times "Irecause the need for exports to meet world food conditions continues urgent." The 1948 goal Is larger by 4,300.000 acres than the recordbreaking 1947 goal. Agricultural experts said, however, that it was extremely doubtful that 1948 production would equal this year's record crop. Actual acreage this year—77.7OO.MW acres — exceeded the goal and the yield. 18.0 bushels per acre, was unusually high. The 1947 crop is estimated at 1,435,551.000 bushels. Under nottnal weather conditions Hie 75,000.000 acre goal for 1948 would produce a crop well alsive 1.000,000.000 bushels. The average 1942-40 yield (16.3 bushels per acre) would produce j. 221.000.000 bushels. In announcing the goal, the department took occasion to re1 mind farmers that wheat prices would be supported by the government at 90 percent of parlt;. The average price of win at on July 15 was 82.14 per bushel, a. compared with the support price of 11.83. The department also announced a goal of 2.300.000 acres for rye, 347.000 acres more titan this year's indicated acreage. For potatoes, the new goal was 2,370,000 acres, altout the same as this year's indicated acreage "There's no danger of a 1948 surplus as long as the world situation remains like It Is,” a department wheat expert said. Taxing Units Wait State Valuations Fixing Os Budgets Here Is Postponed Officials of taxing units in Adams county were waiting today for the valuations of utilities, railroads. etc., from the state, before proceeding with budget work. All units have been delayed In preparing 1948 budget estimates by failure of the state valuations to arrive at the expected time, It was reported today 4 The valuations were to have arrived at the offices of auditor Thurman H. Drew by the first of this week. At a late hour today, however, they had not been received. At least two units-Decatur city and Monroe town councils were to have met tonight to complete budgets and compile the new levy. Unless the valuations arrive, however, the meetings are expected to be postponed. It was pointed out that last year's valuations could be used, but budgets would have to allow for the possible difference either way. 0 Mrs, Marv Mueller Is Taken By Death Mrs. Mary Mueller. 76. a native of Adame county, died Thursday at her home In Fort Wayne after a long illness. Surviving are her husband. Gustave: five children and three sisters, all of Fort Wayne Funeral services will be held at 2 pm. Saturday at the Wellman funeral home in Fort Wayne, with burial In Prairie Grove cemetery.

Violence Flares In Riot-Torn Tel Aviv Today Violence Flares At Funeral For Five Slain Jews Today Jerusalem. Aug. 1 (UP) — Violence flared anew today at the funeral of five slain Jews in riottorn Tel Aviv and in Jerusalem where one Jew wa* killed in a bombing attack on a gun post guarding the Hampshire battalion barracks. A police armored car plunged straight Into a crowd of Jews attending the funeral of five of their number killed in wild rioting at Tel Aviv last night. A number of Jews were injur<-d. The enraged crowd tried to seize the occupants of the car. who were reported by witnesses to be British police. The driver eped off, while other police on the scene fired shots into the aid until the car was out of reach. A little l>efore the Tel Aviv flareup. four Jews charged a gun post at the Hampshire barracks in Jerusalem, hurling explosives over the barbed wire barricades. They fired a burnt from a neighboring garden to distract attention British guards answered with gunfire which riddled one of the attackers. A second Jew was captured. First reports said several persons were wounded, seven of them seriously. A girl was among the wounded. The population of the all-Jewish city of Tel Aviv turned out en mass for the funeral Thousands of persons there did not go to work today for fear of further outbreaks. Nerves and tempers were frayed The funeral of the two British sergeants found hanged to an Eucalyptus tree near Nathanya yeeterday was held at Ramleh. a war cemetery, with full military honors.

It was the hanging of the sergeants by irgun Zvai l.euinl that evidently Inflamed tempers at Tel Aviv to the point of prompting the outbreak there last night Eight armored cars sped through Tel Aviv, spraying oullets into (Turn To Pntto « Column 2* O Appropriations Are Approved By Council The county council, meeting in the second day of a special session. today approved more than 815.000 in additional appropriations. Item* were approved as asked by tlie various county department*. —p Start Work On New Union Chapel Church Excavation Started For New Building Construction of the new 830.000 Union Chapel Evangelical United Brethren church, northeast of Decatur. wa* begun Thursday. Excavation for the basement of the new church was started by Yost Construction Co.. Inc., which holds the contract for that part of the construction. The church is to be bulit three miles northeast of Decatur on the site occupied by the old church building, destroyed by fire last December. Church official* and members hope to have the new building completed late this year. Meanwhile, the congregation is using the former Dent schoolhouse, located nearby, as a meeting place. Ground was first broken for the new chureh recently in ceremonies held by church leaders.

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Indonesian Forces Put Torch To Two Java Towns To Slow Down Dutch Advance latke Saccess. N. Y.. Aug 1(IT) — Netherlands "gladly" actepted an American offer to ra**llate the Indonesian dispute today and Great Britain promptly moved to toss the case of of the United Nations security council pending ‘be outcome <if the U. R. maneuver. Dutch Ambassador Eelco N. Van Kieffens told the council his government accepted the American offer of its good offices, effective when discussions show "how best those gmsl offices can o*-t le effected.” Great Brit tin's Valentine v. latwford deciare.l that "this would obviate action by the se- ■ curity council at this time.” He asked delegates to scrap an Australian propoeal for an immediate ceasc-»ire t.rder and UN intervention iu the fighting between the Dutch ant Indonesians. The United States proposed I however, that the security <toun I til should Issue an immediate I cease-fire request to both side ' of the undeclared war ami tel them to settle their difference* I peacefully. * Acting American delegate Iler I schel V. Johnson said the counci could take such steps without weighing the merits of the casr and without "prejudice to thi legal or moral rights of anybody Involve I." With Russia reported ready to insist on strong UN intervention I in the conflict. Johnson proposed that Hie council avoid discussing the Dutch claim that the council has no right to interfere in the case. "My government might decide tin- Netherlands is right." he asserted. “but it is taking no stand on that matter now." Both Britain and Belgium Indicated qualified support for the Dutch argument. They warned the council against hasty intervention in the fighting between Inlonesiati Republicans and the Dutch. Johnson submitted formal amendments to an Australian proposal under which the council would brand the .’adonesian cotti flict "a breach of peace" and would call for an immediate end <tf fighting and resort to the at' titration clauses of the DutchIndonesian agreement. Fire Two Towns Batavia, Aug. 1 —(UP)—lndonesian forces put the torch to two central Java towns today to slow a Dutch drive on the Indo nesian capital of Jogjakarta. A Netherlands communique said great flames were leaping Into Hie sky over the southern port of Tjilatjap und the inland i town of I'oerwaket to. A Dutch motorized column by passed the two towns as It cut Java in half and turned Tow Kglscxjakaita. 75 miles away Tjilatjap was a potential supply base for the Dutch forces, but Indonesians were reported to have smashed oil storage tanks and set them ablaze. The Dutch also feared port installations were damaged Racing along at the rate of 25 miles a lay, the Dutch column which started front Tegal on the north coast pushed through Banjoetnas and on into Kroja. south coast station on the main railroad leading into Jogjakarta. Turn Tn Page t. Column «> o — Monthly Waste Paper Collection Delayed The waste paper collection, scheduled for Saturday, has been postponed until a later date, it was announced here today. New Golf Course A sketch and description of Decatur’s new nine bole golf course Is printed In this issue on page 6.