Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 200, Decatur, Adams County, 25 August 1947 — Page 1

j XLV. No- 200.

■5 Generals iKoreaLash K Red Actions ■ Charge Defense Os ■ political Groups Wfostile To U. 5. ■..., Aug . K - (up) - An ■jJn-Soviet word battle WT* , o s drumfire clip today HF” , Gen Albert E Brown WLI tB Russians with dell political groups m South which were disloyal to the Ktnent and hostile to sthe Kted States. , . ■7 broadside by Brown before E| joint commission followed® E. rV a statement by Lt. Gen. K/r Hodge accusing the SovKrf supporting North Korean ■ w . guilty of "seditious acBries ainigd at the destruction K coKituted gevccnihejit. M. )8W an d order in the AmeriKtaione." ■fee is U. S commander in ■orea and BrowiFis chief of the ■merican delegation on the joint ■ommission which is bogged,, K n in its efforts to devise a Kmional government for Ko- ■ Brown accused the Soviets of Kng to usurp the functions of ■be joint commission, Kelt guest status in the U. S. E- e by ignoring the dictates of Kgimon courtesy, raising indisEminate charges for propaganda Eposes, and throwing up a K. ke screen to hide certain ■bategic blunders by@me Soviet Elation. ■ Brown's statement was in re |jy to one by Col. Gen. T. F. Ktikov, chief of the Russian ■•legation, last week accusing E Americans of carrying out Eogroms" against democratic Emuts in South Korea. ■ Brown said Shtikov. in releas■g his statement without conEting the American delegation, L "attempting to usurp the Kaetion of the joint commission" Ean action which properly ■mild hare been taken only hy Mutual agreement. , I CThe Soviet delegation overEks the fact that while in ■oath Korea it actually is the ■nest of the South Korean gov■erement and ofe foe United ■States,’' Brown's statement said, should follow the noting ■dictates of common courtesy in Btaaducting its business." I "Persecutions” I London, Aug. 25—(UP)— For|«igr. minister V. M. Molotov of iJassia was quoted by the Mos. ■ raw radio last nigift as saying Itaat American "persecutions” in ■Koreawmust be stopped. I The radio said the United ■States anc’f Russia had agreed Itu they must start anew in ■tieir attempts to devise an indeKttdent government *or Korea. I An exchange of letters between ■ secretary of state George C. Marliiiall and Molotov was broadcast I In® Moscow. Marshall propos- |‘ J th* joint commission in Iwou! repott on progress to date bd the Soviet?) and Americans w consider what to do next. Molotov did not object, but Earned that before any agreehwt could be reached, the U. S. ktupation authorities must stop leftist leaders in South (Turn To Pa g « 5- Column~<) Eichenauer To 'Meh At Lincoln ? r8 ; Raymond Eichenauer of DeOlth/n te6n adde<l the staff Lincoln school for the 1947Wah?'? Was announ c«i today by MhiTp Eic!leilauer will succeed R T a . mOnd Gould - who has naseiil t Dted a one ’ year leave of bachelor °, complete work on her th. sl ' ’, arts degree at Manlit form 00 ege " rs " Eichenauer, M, „ rothy will Mis Grst g ra de classes. kte n emni BrV A '' Ce Be ineke has «wpai w ed Gu as Becrci «-y to Mgh gfhr i Guy Brow “t the X, Krick°sh lt WaS announced by CMroniste- SUcceed3 Mr « -Paul s , t L tormer Vil *‘ nia •feral Vo * o h ® d the Position for 'hi^XeT U 8 tO her mRP " WEATHER thii aft',?? thunders bower« and ”°’ n and central se er north° r ''° n * > < ”” th: Ta «day fair ,t ‘tt«r.7 rtly Cl ° Udy Wlth Muth thundershowers C ‘ ntra ' and

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Discuss Successor To Robert Hannegan Sullivan, Anderson Leading Candidates Washington, Aug. 25—(UP) — President Truman and Robert "E. Hannegan will meet within the next 48 hours to discuss a successor for Hannegan as chairman of the Democratic national committee, it was learned today. * Present plans are that the meeting will not-be announced. There is a good chance that a more or less final decision will be made. There are two leading candidates—Gael Sullivan, vibrant, energetic executive director of the Democratic national committee, and Clinton P Anderson, easy--going, politically wise secretary of agriculture. Hannegan is understood to favor Sullivan, who also has support within the White House. Other administration elements are backing Anderson. Hannegan. who is due back from a Hawaiian vacation for the highlymeeting, is definitely going tosquit his post as Democra-J tic chairman for reasons of He ahas been suffering from; hypertension which required surgery. This has left him physically unequal to both the political job and the . postmaster generalship.,; He is not expected to quit his role as nation’s chief postman immediately, although traditionally that job has gone along with the party chairmanship. V backing for Sullivan, an intense young Irishman from Providence, R. 1., who <gut his political teeth in Chicago's machine politics, is seen in the fact that he was responsible for bringing Sullivan to Washington as an assistant postmaster. It was Hannegan’s idea to put Sullivan in the post of executive director, where for ».Jie last <six months he has been virtually running the party machinery due to Hannegan’s illness. ®, Anderson is recognized as an easy-going, hand shaking tyjsesSut politician with long practical has gone down the line for the Truman program.£ His value is enhanced by the fact that he is a former member of congress who, like Republican national chairman Sarroll B. Reece, knows the legislative end ’ of the political problem. I •» ®__o I Local Lady's Sister Is Taken By Death : ■ Rarkison Funerals Rites Wednesday . — <«» Mrs. Harriet Ann Parkison, 64. Ossian, died at #1:25 o’clock l Sunday afternoon at the Clinic hospital in Bluffton, where she . had been a patient since August 13 - She was born in Decatur but ' had resided in Ossian for more ’ than 40 years. She was a member of the Os- . sian Methodist church. Surviving are the husband. H. C. Parkison: three daughters, ’ Mrs. Martha Hedges and Mrs. i Paul Johnson, both of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. George Bowsher of EOssian; four sans, Harry, on the east .coast, Frederick, tof Muskegon, Mich., Raymond of "'-Toledo. O. and Robert of Fort Wayne; four sisters, Mrs. Roy - Runyon of Decatur, Mrs. Hugo [ Ferner of Omaha. Neb., Mrs. - Raymond Crist of Monroe and ' Miss Nellie Lammiman of War- - ten, O.; four brothers, Harvev Lammimanof of Atlanta, Ga., John 1 of Bay City, Mich., Lewis of To--5 ledo, O. and Charles of Waynef dale, and five grandchildren. ’ Funeral services will be held ■ at 2 p. m. Wednesday at the Os- • sian Methodist church, with the ' Rev. L. I. Sommer officiating. Burial will be at Oak Lawn 1 cemetery. Friends may call at ’ the Elzey & Son funeral home s after 6 o’clock this evening. T o • ! Bohner Is Reported ’ Slightly Improved The condition of Donald Bohner, 17, hurt Friday night in an automotor bike crash here, was reported by hospital attaches today as slightly improved i He has failed to regain consciousness, however, since the time of the accident —about midnight Friday. He Buffered a basal skull fracture when the motor bike he was riding was struck by sn auto.

Greek Leader Still Seeks To Form Cabinet I Renewed Guerrilla Activity Reported On Greek Frontiers * Athens, Aug. 25.—(UP)— The j Greek government, plagued by a cabinet crisis, today reported that it had information of increased guerilla concentrations on the Yugoslav and Bulgarian borders in the past 24 fe hours. Premier - Designate Constantin Tsaldaris was working hard but thus far unsuccessfully to formg a new cabinet while reports were circulated by government agencies of new guerilla attacks. A series of minor clashes was ported, including a foray by guerillas at Neokastro, southwest of Salonia to whlcif 53 houses, a church and a school were alleged [ to have been burned and two civilians executed. Tsaldaris said he hoped to presentsthe new cabinet list to King Paul by 7 p.m. but other quarters were not so optimistic. Sofoulis declined to join the government unless he could have the premiership and a leading voice in the regime. Sophoclese Venizelos called on U. S. ambassador MacVeagh today. Venizelos is another liberal leader. It was unders-hrod the UiJited States hoped that the new Greek government would be more liberal than the last. The situation was hampering the American aid mission which works in direct -contact with the Greek ministries: * Details were lacking on a reported meeting last night of Tsaldaris and MacVeagh. It was assumed that Tsaldaris AmejJcan views on arising from hiSgSeatL-ti for a cabinet. N'ot A ably" >, the fall of the govern“headed by Demetrios Maximos Saturday came as the United States program of aid to Greece was shapingpup. It was here that the Tguman doctrine opposing the spread'of Comtrrunism'was getHng its first test in the field. Interaal strife topped the American-sup-ported headed by Maximos. The reported Tsaldaris-Mac-Veagh meeting indicated the Urlted States was getting a preview of the prospective neyfc government while it was processpof formation. Tsaldaris hit his first big snag when Themistocles Sofoulis, leader of the Liberal party, refused to cooperate in a new government unless he himself was premier, and was allowed to follow the policies of his party. Gen. Stylianos Gonatas leader of the national liberal party, which belongs to the populist group, waa repoe'ed undecided whether to cooperate witb.Tsaldarls. A Decatur Woman Hurt When Hit By Auto t Mrs. G. F. Eichhorn Hurt Saturday Night w Mrs. Rachel Eichhorn, of Mercer avenue, is reported ’recovering at the Adams county memorial hospital from injuries suffered early Sunday ,when she was struck hy an auto. City police said she was struck about 1 a.m. Sunday while crossing Second street at the Madison street intersection. Driver of the car v)hs Claude Foremen, 18, of Line street, who, police said, made a sharp turn-off Madison to proceed north on Second street before his auto struck the local lady. Mrs. Eichhorn, wife of Dr. G. F. Eichhorn, local veterinarian, reportedly suffered mostly from shock and a severe shaking up. ficials said she Is not thought to have sustained any fractures. 0 10 Persons Killed In Colorado Crash Littleton, Colo., Aug 25 —(UP) — Authorities today identified the 10 victims of the worst highway accident in Colorado history. The 10 persons the occupants of an auto loaded with tourists from Kansas which was smashed by a speeding train yesterday. Identification had been delayed because the bodies were badly mangled. •»

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Decatur, Indiana, Mo nday, August 25, 1947

Blast Wrecks Philly Office a ya*" " &SS FOUR MEN WERE INJURED when combustible materials in wall lockers exploded, causing the above wreckage in the Narcotic Squad room of Philadelphia’s police headquarters. Lt. William Leinhauser (left>, who was slightly hurt, goes through the debris with Patrolman Tom Prendergast. Chairs and desks were shattered by@the blast. @

Schools May Offer Course In Driving • Automobile Needed To Provide Course There is a possibility that a driver’s training class may be added to the curriculum of the Decatur high school during th® approaching term, stfperintendent of city Walter J. Krick said todaj?® The Dec&tir school city has followed the example of several others in this area in attempting to institute the course —but has been unsuccessful thus far, he said. Inability to procure an auto to provide actual driving experience for the students has caused the delay, he said, but efforts are being made to secure one in time to start the course —even after school opens. At present the school h»s a saf? driving© course included ' in the safety class taught at the high school, Mr. Krick said@ The institution also has a qualified instructor, Sylvester Everhart of the faculty staff, and a full line of other equipment needed, he said. It has been reported that autos were furnished other schools through the Chicago Motor Club AAA, with the school paying only for maintenance and abiding by other regulations. The matter has been under investigation! for sometime Mr. Krick said. - 3 —~ o_ 15 Miners Killed In South America Blast Buenos Aires, Aug. 25 -^'UFj' — Dispatches from the Roca Fortress area of Rio Negro province said today that 15 coal miners were killed by a gas explosion. After several hours of work, rescuers entered the shaft and found the bodies of the men killed by gas fumes or falling rock. o — : ® Two Auto Accidents Reported In County Craigville Man Hurt As Auto Overturned One person was hospitalized as a result of two auto clashes in Adams county over' the weekend, sheriff Herman Bowman reported today. ©■ “Carl Mankey, 23, Craigville. route one, suffered several fractured ribs about 11:50 p.m. Saturday when his ear rolled over at a curve one-half mile south of Decatur on Winchester street extended. Sheriff -Bowman said investigation disclosed the' young man was unable to keep his car under control in driving around the curve at a high rate of speed. The vehicle turned completely over. He was taken to the Adams county memorial hospital for treatment and then released. Cars driven by Lawrence Williamson, route three, Decatur and Keith Bailey, .Fort Wayne, collided at a county road intersection one mile south and two miles east of Monroe Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock. No one was hurt and only slight damage resulted; sheriff Bowman stated. e

Washington Township Schools Open Thursday • —- John Stonsburner, Washington township trustee, today announced the opening of township* schools for Thursday. Classes will be organized Thursday, with regular classes Opening next TuesdsSr, September 2. School bus rrjjites will be the same as the trustee also including the high school routes to Monroe and Pleasant' Mills. Q_ Ford Motor Company Lists Price Boosts » © Lincoln, Mercury Prices Unaffected ® Detroit, Aug. 25 —(UP)—Prices on most Ford cars and all truck? jumped S2O to $97 today, boosting the qjice of the@most expensive Ford to nearly $1,500. F. 0.8. Detroit. @ Prices of Lincoln and Merely cars, manufactured by Ford, were not affected. • Henry Ford©!!, president of fiie company, announced the price increase and said the firm <s>uld no longer absorb the increasing production costs. “Tnra action has been dictated by the simple necessity of keeping Ford Motor company on a sowjnd financial basis,” he said. The Increase left only the Studebaker corporation, one of the smaller independent manufactures, still holding the line on prices. Roth General Motors and Chrysler, tw(i ‘of the largest manufacturers, increased their prices within recent weeks. Ford said th® new price increase would average 4.2 percent. It will boost the Detroit delivery price of the super deluxe eight-cylinder four-door most expensive Ford model, from $1,415.08 to $1,492.26. ® However, Ford said his corn‘d pany still would make “the lowestpriced six-cylinder tudor sedan an<7 six-cylinder three-passenger on the market. g The six-cylinder tudor. which was selling for increased to $1,133, an increase of $66. The six-cylinder coupe, priced at $17016. was boosted to $1,078, at $62 increase. Ford was the first producer to reduce the price of cars since the war when it announced a sls to SSO reduction last Jan. 15. Referring to that price cut, Ford said “at that r time we expressed the hope that our. .action, taken in the face of rising prices in almost every other part of the economy, would help to reverse "the trend.” “At least within the into industry this action bad the effect of rearding the upward movement of prices,'” Ford added. ,‘Slowly but steadily, howevter, the cost of things we buy to make our products has risen. Wages and salaries have increased.” 'Even as Ford announced the increase, the United Auto Workers (CTO) prepared to vote on a new contract that would cost Ford additional millions in wages. Ford said steel had cost the company an additional $5,000,00(7 alone so far this year. In addition, he said the company w r ould make 135,000 fewer cars and (Turn To Page a, Column 8)

Long Heat 6 Wave .Broken In Midwestern States, Coo! Air Moving South

Tropical Hurricane * s Blows Itself Out Only Minor Damage i Galveston, Tex., Aug. 25—(UP) —A minor tropical Hurricane blegt itself out in the interior of Texas today after lashing Galveston and Texas City with high winds and rain. Coastal areas had prepared for a much stinger storm after it was first reported 150 miles southeast of here Saturday afternoon. The full fjrce was dissipated, however, as the storm center hovereTi off the coast for 24 hours. Only one person was known to have died as a result of the storm. Joseph M. Taber, Galveston, was electrocuted when he tried to move a live wire with a wet A fishing boat which leftwiouston for Galveston Bay Friday still was unreported at gulf ports. Auththe liglht skiff might have sunk in the The owners Reclined to identify those aboard. Meteorologist P. J. Naughton, in charge of the Galveston weather bureau, said that gusts were clocked at up to®7s miles per hour at the height of the storm. Hurricane winds are 75 miles per up. The winds roared into the city at about 4 p.m. (CST) after churning coastal waters into foaming breakers. a Ten minutes later electric power supply failed. Many of the 75,000 residents fled from their homes to sturdier buildings. © Only mlns damage was during the three and 15 min-’ utes the sfirm Isfeted. The worst appeared to be broken plate glass windows and unroofed® tjymes in the Galveston beach vicinity. High tides were reported from Galveston to the extreme western Louisiana coast. During the height of the storm breakers pofSded Turn Page 2. 7) 0 No Action Taken. On Transport Problem • — No Law Provides Hauling Students ® —— No action has beefl taken by the school city cißcerning a request by several Master Drive addition residents that transportation be furnished their children attending public School (officials said today that, while no official petition or reqngst has been filed with the school city, investigation has no ensts providing t&r such transportation. •> They said that the matter will be thoroughly investigated if petinon- | ed, but yaw exists authorizing of compe’i- ! ing such transportation—or for appropriation of any t?inds to finance Jnich a ventftre. Members of the school board have discussed and investigated the matter, after the request by the residents was published in the newspapers, it was stated. The request cited the distance children in the Master Drive addition are required to travel to and from classes and the amount of money residents are forced to; expend in event they decide against permitting their children to walk to school. School officials said that a survey failed to show any appreciably greater distance for children in that area to travel,to.classes than] in many other cases —and that it was less in some instances. . 0 *•' To Install Legion Officials Tonight A cafeteria supper, beginning at 6* o’clock this evening? will precede the annual installation of newly elected officers of Adams post 43. American Legion, at the local Legion home. Charles Morgan will pe installed as post commander, succeding T. C. Smith, during the ceremonies to be held as a part of the regular monthly business meeting, J- ■ -

Stale Violent Death Toll 10 Over Weekend ! & 4 —;—s® Three Persons Die In Airplane Crash Near New Albany By United Press Ten. persons succumbed to vio- ' lent aeaths in Indiana during the vzeekend. Three were traffic fatalities and three died in an airi plShe crash near New Albany. , A converted BT-13 crashed and on a farm near New Al- ' bany Sunday. State said the three victims were burned alronst beyond recognition. ®?he dead were James Cooley, Jr., the pilot; Katherbje Skipper Lundstrom, 23, and Melvin Goss, 22, alS'of New Albany. ! Polich said the thres took off ’ from Jeffersonville airport for a joy ride. Witnesses said the plane apparently went out of . phanged to the grourra and burst Tnto flames. ©Both passengers and the pilot were dead when their bodies were fecovred. Two brothers were drowned LaPorte Sunday when their , boat capsized while they were filing. The victims were Arthur T. Krug, 4’j| and his 40-year old brother August both of MichiI gan City. They were fishing on Lake Rydin in # SaPorte county when their bggt turned over. Another brother Rudolph, and ’t Mt- Arthur Krug. 38, in the boat, were rescued by fishertpen. 1 ®An auto accident near WiHtin--1 son Sunday tookgfhe life of William H.gMeyers. 52, of Indianapolis. other persons wetjg injured. the victim’s wife. Mrs. William H. Meyers. 50. ©a daughter, Mrs. William Gemmill, and Wade <g)>ok. Netxt s Castle, John Fulford. 70 ot®Paragaoh, was killed when jttruck by while walking along a highway near Martinsville Saturday. . ® Injttries received '"trafficaccident were fatal Saturday to Al Kimbel, 40, o.® Anderson. He died in an Andersoir hospital. The body of Charles Goodson. 15. South Bend. (j,was found be- ’ York Central road tracks in South Bend Sunday. ® The youth’s grandfather, (Turn To Page 2. Column 4) Miss Helen Davison i Dies This Morning Funeral Services® ® To Be Wednesday Miss Helen Gertrude Davison, i 42, died at 6:20 a.m. today at her |home three and one-half nrnes northeast of Berne after a four weeks illness of tuberculosis. She was born in Mercer county, i 0., July 5, 1905, a daughter of Marcellus and Nancy JohnstonDavison. and had never married. . She was employed as aS-nurse at , the Smith' Estab Riem tnond until she became ill. ; Surviving are her mother; two brothers, the Rev. Ralph E. JDavison of Converse add Albert Davison of Pleasant Mills; two sisters, . Mrs<,Leo Miller of Washington, D. C., and Mrs. Waldo Schindler, a missionary in Africa. - .Funeral services will be held at the Salem Methodist church, with the Rev. Seth Painter officiating. Burial will be in Elm Grove cem»tergiat Bluffton. The body may be viewed at the Yager funeral home in Berne after 2 p.nt Tueßday wnttl 12 noon Wednesday, when kt wiU be removed Co the church. Catholic Students « To Register Friday* Beginners and high school freshmen will register at the Catholic • school Friday morning, for the 1 fall term that will open Wednesday, Sept. 3., it was announced today, «o c

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—- JI Scattered Showers ® In Grainbelt Fail To Aid Crops—To Cool Off In State» By United Press The long heat wave finally was broken today after bringing death to hundreds, discomfort to millions and helping to ruin the nation’s chances for a good 1947 corn crop. While the rains ®ami cooler weather came for much of the crops. It depress prices on tUe Chicago board of trade iig, ber corn futures dropped the eight-cent limit permitted in a bday’s trading, and other grains Some of the losses , were recovered later. $ For a time, September corn, which hit an all-time high of $2.47 ®n Saturday, was selling fur $2.38V 4 a bushel® A cold airmass mov&d across ,tne border from Canada iiSio*he midwest and temperatures tumbled yesterday. The east still faced another day of,, hot weather, however. ®The Chicago weather bureau said in itg;£"3o a. m. (CST) forecast that the cool weather woiffd last “at least for two or three 1 days and possibly even longer.” The forecaster said that warm weather conditions developing in the northwest, but that it was too tell with certainty what the results would-be. ©Scattered sowers fell on the parched grainbelt of lie middlewest but weather bureau officials said the®rains were not general enough to give any great benefit 1 *®o the withering corn and truck vegetables. ® The hottest cities in the nation yesterday were St. Louis. Mo.. Burlington. la., and Rockford and Quincy, 111., al© with 103. Yuma Phoenix. Artz.. reported temperatures of 102. It was IgO®’ degrees at JClhicago; 99 at Des Moines, at Milwaukee. 1 Wjg., and at Grand^ 1 Rapids, <Mich.;®96 at Boston. 93 at Philadelphia. 92 New ig'drk and 9U at Washington,©D. C. Byway of contrast, at Cheyenne. Wyo„ where temneratures rose Site (*^§) 8 &? Saturday, the 9 - was a cool 58. ; downpour fell on Chicago’s south side yesterday. '& tying up traffic when water col- a lected in underpasses and ©highway tumfl&ls. More than 2,000,000 pedons flocked to the beaches in the New York City area to escape® the blistering heat yesterday and seasid,e and . mountain® resorts W -the & nf > r e Atlantic coast were <Towd®l with persons seek ' ing cooling bre(*zes. The weather temperatures today would equal or iQjrpass yesterday’s record readings in the North Atlantic coast states, .with scattered Lowers exto usher in cooler weather by tomorrow. everywhere in tne middlewest from the To Page 6, Column 8) — O Receives Notice 01 Higher State Rate @ » • Two-Cent Boost To Affect Local Taxes — County auditor Thurman I. Drew has received official notice from the state board of finance of the new 1948 state tax rate, he anw nounced today. g. The state tax /ate on each-. SIOO valuation will be 15 cents'in 1948— two cetfts than thff existing 13-cent, rate. 11 The boost was occasioned by the rise in teachers’ retirement rate, which win be six cents next , year. , A breakdown of the rate: Schooler,evenue for tuition, .0700: state board of ’agriculture, .0035; state forestry, .0065; tochers’ retirement, .0600; war memorial, .0100. The 'state poll tak rate Is unchgjngcd at $1.50, which includes 50 cents for school revenue and $1 for state revenue. The state rate will be added to the levies in the respective taxing units when they are officially listed.