Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 201, Decatur, Adams County, 26 August 1947 — Page 1

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INDONESIA ACCEPTS UN MEDIATION OFFER

Lest 33 For/* letiesiOiiy Os Lian Priest • ■ Arrests Follow Up ■ Charge Communists I WarringTOn Church Trie ß igoslav press® reported today *,, persons hav#>en arresfc in connection with the beheadof a P riest and ,he brutal |tiM of another in Istlfc SunJ he arrests followed a charge Msg r. Antonio Santin. bishop Trieste, that communists in tria had opened "war”Wm llircil activity in connection ith the weekend outbreak in e 'Sgoslav-occtuued territory. The Yugoslav news n S aid those arresteff would , tried in the peoples court. A virtual communications ban Bs by Yugoslav ithorities. mJßlng it impowible r persons in Trieste to facii tens and learn®the condition Msgr. Jacob Ukmar who sufred a fractured Jkull and kidBy injuries in communist mb attatiwjn "Which iro Buselicn was beheaded. Yugoslav agency e attack ellegation thSV tones had been hidden in the tlfrey of church here Buselich »s conducting ■finnation The ones, the Yugoslav agehd'F al- I fed. had been hurled at "partan peasants">-ho wage trying t participate in the church serTiiis account said the trouble tarted whe® some of the peasnts were oraided because the partisans and. yotßis iho participated* iff 5 building the oath not i enter the church. The Giornale Triste said ediKially today "the pnly lie way for Christian worship i Yugoslavia to continue is to we it redescend into the cataontbs and hope for resurection. “It Is a great pity the deletes of the American churches te®o longer in Yugoslavia: ruv ould see for .jJiemselves tow the value of Tab's Asserts of freedom of worship and espect for religious institutions.” Saljin said the outbursts of antllerical violence in Yugoslav-occu-isd Istria were links in a camtign agaiffis church influence in ngoslavia. A few hours after the decapitaK®f one priest was disclosed, Yieste newsjjjpers reported the iscovery in an Istrian wood of the mtilated body of Fath& Kristian, iri’h priest of Golazzo. The priest disappearedjtlast week. e Press reported, speculating that * was kidnaped as ,ije was returnW rom giving doctrinal instrucat Mune. Thr vict.fi of the beheading was 11 er Miro Buselich. Croat assist- “ " rector of the Pisino semtn- • "antin said a communist mob “eked the church at Lanischie «re Buselich was conducting "hrmation ceremonies, cut his* off with two slashes of a big and beat Msgr. Jacob Ukmar, ata r”* prießt B P e cially deleirmae $ t '* e P ° pe t 0 con d»Ct conatnations. uti-cle'ri S , aken by reports of the * that Vi ° lenCe ’ Santin charg - Nations' / againSt con " semi t and cned> “ whom 31»all the children*?' (Tur _ n jro Pago 5. Column K) secf ec t or d Entries In’ 1 * ,nd| ana State Fair T 8 : Aug - 26 ~~< up ) - for SUte fair> opening rXa elghMay stand ' *HI HI clasL * number of entries in Purse. ° m Peting so.- a record i'S! 818 K Said that Bome s’- 5 ’- tting from S • bad enter ed every--8«1 hulls pastries to beauts2BoZo d C ° mPete rU ‘ Mo.ri WEAThe * nijht. w C '°H dy and cooler tO- - anri dr,e,d ’y partly y ’"d aiiuhtly warmer.

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tool Air Welcomed Throughout Nation ® Warmer Weather To Return To Midwest By United Press A welcome mass of cool air shovetjfe the remnants of the nation’s heat wave over the Atlantic ocean today antr the entire northern half of the United States enjoyed moderate temperatures. The weather warned, however, that temperatures were rising again over the northern Rockies. Warmer weather was expected in the Widdle west before the end of the week, but forecasters satoL they “hoped" it would drawn out or as severe"' as 1 the spell which smothered the ration during most of August. Temperatures were more titan 20 degjaes loWt-r yesterday over mosti&f the middle west. but the east coast continued to swelter in temperatures above 90 degrees. The Arizona desert again was the hottest place in the United States with Phoenix reporting 105 and Yuma 101. Elsewhere in the nation. Little Rock, Ark., had 97, followed by Jacksonville, Fla., Oklahoma Tity, and Brownsville. Tex., all with 95. Miami reported 93 degrees a< New York City, Philadelphia and WasJjjpgton 92@ At Des Moines, la., wtjare the mercury soared to 99 Sunoay, th# high yesterday was 76 and at jMjiwaukee the temperature dropped from a high on Sunday to yesterday’s 72 degree maximum. Cloudy and cooler weather was forecast for the north Atlantic coast states today, and temperatures there were expected to We back to normal by thundershowers accompanied the break in the heat, wave in the middle west bringing sum stantial g. moisture to* parched crops, imrlicularly in %e hardhit area of southern lowa and northern Illinois. Crop experts feared that’ the rains coming so late-night give little aid to the corn, Amt general optimism, brought on by the break in the weather and the rains, sent' all corn future prices on the Chicago board of trade down the full eight-cent limit permitted in a single session yesterday. Renewed buying recovered some Oi the early loss later 'n the day. Further Improvement® In Bohner Condition ffftll further improvement was reported today by Adams county memorial hospital attaches in the condition of Donald Bohner, 17, Fort Wayne, who was injured in an auto-motor bike crash last Friday night. He is partially conscious, it is reposted, for the first time since? the accident. Legion Declines To Take Appeal Action ® Asks Support For Universal Training Adams post 43. American Legion, Monday night declipgj. to take action on an appeal of We local police force for ita support in the proposed instituting of a police pension plan in Decatur. The post accepter! ivhd approved a report A from the postg,ex<?Gutive committee? in which it was that no action would be taken because of the Legion’s policy of refraining from entering political debates or issues. Retiring post commander T. C. Smith, in giving a convention report, urged the local post’s support of the universal military training bill declaring that it “is the only means of keeping out of war.” Fourth district commander James K. Staley called attention of members to a fourth district meeting, to be held September 4 at Auburn. Hugh Andrews, »st athletic diector, presented a trophy won by the post baseball team in state Legion competition.

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President To Renew Battle On High Prices • a President Truman To Renew Plea For Voluntary Slashes Aug. Hu— UP) — President Truman soon will renew his “moral pressure” campaign to talk prices down, sources close the White House said today. " The president’s plea for voluntary price cu» by business, large and small, will go h<id in-hand the present intensificatTOn of the justice department's antitrust campaign, it was learned. A federal grand jury investigation of real estate practices here was understood to Tie the takingoff point for a lower housing costs by ending monopolistic pra«s£es throughout the entire housing industry. The jijiateice department's antitrust drive is expected to extend to other cost-of-living industries. Gasoline is already under attack with grand juries here and in Los Angeles digging into industry pricing practices. jjkt tfre same time the president’s council of economic advis : ers is working on an exhaustive study of the effects of the British F "dollar crisis” on America’s export trade. Administration economists do r.ot expect the full effect of Britain’s reduced buying to cause important price reductions here this year because domestic demand is likely to maintain the upward pressure. U. §. foreign trade began to fall With not only Britain but Latin African and other countries! 5 unable to «>y u. s. goods beJßuse they don have dollars, the decline is expected to increase. by recent price tnin steef, automobiles and materials, Mr. Tru(Turn To Page 5. Column KI O Jurors Drawn Here I « For Circuit Court e September Term To Open Next Tuesday ®Names of members of the grand and petit juries for the February term the Adams circuit court, which"" opens here next Tuesday, were drawn today by the county jury commissioners this morning. Cal named as temporary^commissioner by J. Fred Fruchte to serve in the absence of Roy E. Mumma. He is the Republican member. DemiS&ratic member is Ed F. Berling and Mrs. Clytfe Troutner acted for her husband. thgfe,pounty clerk and exofficio memßer. Twenty-fouj: names were drawn for the petir panel, 12 of which are needed, and 12 were drawn for the grand panel, which has six members. The grand jury names: Minnie Schug, Berime; Emanuel Joray, Hartford; W. H. Neadstine, Blue Creek; Rachel Lindsey, Jefferson: Christian Zehr, Jefferson; Cecil Shaffer, Union, Ralph Derrickson, Jefferson; Warren Harden, Union; W. E .Uffeiman, Preble; Waldo Neal, Geneva; James C. Frank, Blue Creek and August Selkg ing, The petit jury: Charles J. Cook, Wabash; Harlo Miller, St. Msjw’b; Gertrude Holthouse. Kirkland; Harvey I>rick, Wabash; - John Johnson, St. Mary’s; Albert F. Galltneyer, Preble; Reuben GePke, David Hinkle, Hartford; Fred Schulte, Decatur; Ervin Fuelling, Union; Flossie Feller, Hartford; Carl Nuerge, Preble; Brayton Pyle, Jefferson; Austin Gilliom, Bferne; Edna Lenhart, Hartford; James Moser. Berne; Fred Wolpert, Root; August Heimann, Washington; Bryson Fetter, Jefferson; Vera Owens, ..Decatur; Victor Ulman, Union; Charles Hocker, Decatur; Virgil Dick, Kirkland: Eva Johnson* Blue Creek.

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S — I Eventful Day For Papa Bray

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JOSEPH BRAY (right), the “dust-bowl Lothario" who left his wife ' and 10 children in his tumbledown home in Bell Gardens. Cal., to ; elope with a comely baby-sitter, Betty Jo Roberts (left), is shown in Phoenix. Ariz., prosecutor’s office just before he was sent ba<i home.fln Bell Gardens, Bray’s wife awaits his arrival; and relifP authorities are waiting, too. He narrowly missed more trouble, too, when it was found Betty Jo was 18-years-old. instead of 16. as earl--1 ier reported. Betty Jo is being held for Colorado authorities on suspicion of violating probation from the Colorado state industrial ; school.

l Safe Driving Urged By Sheriff Bowman — a Safety Campaign Is Planned In County ‘ ® b “With the opening of ©school - ofest days away, sheriff Herman » Bowman today urged motorists of the county to participate in a > safe-iljiving campaign. "Beirthning this week hundreds f of youngsters 4 n Adams bounty ■ will begin trawling to and from * their school classrooms,” he said, I "and it is the duty of every motorist to exercise special care and caution to insure the safe 1 movements of these children. “Special c;®e. should he used when drivings the vicinity of a school, a crosswalk near a scWSSi or In an area it is known the children will be using in reaching g their classrooms.” he said. Sheriff Bowman also warned motorists against illegal passing of school busses, calling attention to the law requiring all vehicular traffic to stop when a school bus is motionless it#: reor discharging passent gers, , "Every effort will be made to prosecute violators of this law. as well as at§) other traffic regulai tions.” he stated. i He pledged the cooperation of lis department in an attempt to i keep traffic accidents at a mini- > mum, especially those involving 9 schoor children. © ) “If even one child is saved • from death or injury in a traffic I accident, time and effort spent ’ in the safe driving campaign will Turn '■W7" Pnarp 2. Unlumn 1 i

Rumors Persist U. S. Building Huge Underground Fortresses

BULLETIN Washington, Aug. 26 — (UP) — The war department announced today that it would make public no information abeut construction work near Albuquerque, NV M.jj because operations there ®“fall in the category of re.strit'ted data dJSwer the atomic act of 1946.” 1 ® e Albuquerque. N. M„ Aug. 26 — , (tsp) — Reports persisted, . that the army was digging atomic , bo.tn.lr assembly plants and stor- ■ age dumps underground but offi- , dais Refused to deny or confirm the jftories. I were based mainly , on a Denver newspaper story which said hundreds of commeri cial airplane passengers had sighted excavations on a mountainside near here. , The mountains in this area , would be likely sites for underground strongholds if the govern- ■ ment actually ,i; had such a proI jcct under way.

® i Lincoln, Mercury Prices Increased Detroit, Aug. 26 — (UP) — The Ford Motor Company today announced list price increases ranging from SB6 to $229 on Lincoln and Mercury cars and Ford station wagons and convertibles. The announcetnapt by less than 48 hour's' disclosure that prices on Ford passenger cars and trucks had been boosted s§o to an average increase « 4.2 percent. Clarifies Rule On School Beginners New Trustees Ruling In Effect Next Year County acfi°°l superintendent Lyman L. Hann toc&y issued a statement clarifying the beginning school age in the rural schools of Adams county o Mr. Hann said that me current ruling of the township trustees requires a student to be six years of age besom- January 1 to start in the first (trade for the 1947-48 term, which begins this week. ® A new ruling of the trustees, which requires that a student be six years of age before the school term opens, does ftot become effective until next year, he said. Some confusion has been reported concerning the ruling, he said, with a few people erroneously be- ! lieving that the new regulation becomes effective this year. Mr. Hann also rspiinded residents of the county that all children cmi pelled to attend when ! they becoiue sevn yars of age. safd - £

Robert Bissell, head of an AlI buquerque advertising agency, claimed today that he had flown over a large excavation being dug by me army. He charged fthat army intelligence offiders confiscated pictures tak® of the diggings. % Officials of the Miami. Okla., chamber of commerce said engineers planned to use old lead and zinc mines in northeastern Oklahoma as munition* storagV dumps. .. The army declined to comment on the reports but hinted that a statement, might he coming from Washington soon. Col. Henry Hassis U. S. ,army engineers said “if would be anything yr? the published report, the war department would have tqggive our the information. Despite official silence, the fact remained that the army recently let a $10,000,000 contract for "permanent roads and hous(Turn To Page 2, Column 1) T

Security Council* Offer. To Help Settle Dispute Accepted By Indonesia #

Schools Will Open within Few Days Teachers Institute Here On Wednesday .* r Hundreds of Adams ccflKty’s children of school age will return p to classes in the next few days to begin the 1947-48 school term, bringing to a close the annual'summer vacation StuderUs of the rural schools, inWie rural high schools of the county, will be the first to go back to classrooms which they left last spring. Lyman L. Hann, county school superintendent, has announced that the rural schools will open Thursday — the day following the annual Adams county teachers’ institute. However, regular classes will not open until next Tuesday. Public schools of the city of Decatur will begin classes next Tuesday, ° September 2, the day following issjjabor Day, Walter J. Krick, city school superintendent, has announced. Last of the 'schools to be opened are those of the Decatur Catholic system. Classes there will begin on Wednesday, * September 3, the Very Rev. Msgr. Joseph J. Seimetz has announced. Practically all of Adams county's school teachers will attend the nuhl institute, to be held at the Lincoln school tomorrow. Dr. Stewart McClelland, presls>nt of Ligroin Memorial university at Harrogate, Tenn., will be the chief speaker during a full day’s program arranged by Mr. Hann. Teachers of the county school system are required to attend and invitations have also been sent to Berne and Decatur public and the Decatur Catholic school faculty members. .. :— • Legion Officers Are Installed Last Night Charles Morgan Is Legion Commander Names of committed appointees were announced today by Charles Morgan, newly installed ' commander of Adams post 43, ; >Ameriean Legion, following Monday night’s meeting installation. ® ; The new appointments: chaplain, Floyd B. Hunter; service olicers, JohiMj. DeVoss, Leo T. Gillig and Dwight R. Arnold: sergeant- . at-arms, Don Cochran; color L bearers, Arthur L. and William historian, J. C. Laureht: athletics. Hugh Andrews; Boys’ S®ite, H. V. Aurand; child welfare, Eloise Noll; employment, Julius J. Baker, Hersh, Dwight Sheets an® Lawrence Woodruff. MembSrehip: Decatur, Lawrence Rash; Monroe. Adolph HanniGeneva, Gilbert Buck; Margaret Eiting and Chester Bryant. National defense: V. J. Bor^ 1 mann; oratorical, Ed Jaberg, Earl M. Webb and C. E. Striker; pub- >■ licity, Bob Shraluka; Sons of Legion, P. B. Thomas; expansion , and stabilization, Ralph E. Roop and Lewis L. Smith; medical, Drs. John Carroll, Harold Zwick. Richard Parrish, Ben Duke and Harold V- DeVor. Grave Richard Mailandj© Leo Ehinger, Wilmer ( Raudenbush. Het® l y Yoder and Gilbert R. E. Roop, W. H. Gfflßm, William Lian, V. i J. Bormann, Ed Bauer. T. IF Geh- . rig, A. J. Baker, Robert Ashbaucher. D. B. Cuwer, J. C. H. V. Aurand. < ceremonies last , night were in charge of James K , Staley, fourth district of the Legion. Ip 5 addition tq'Mr. , Morgan the following officers'were (Turn To ». vv'iumn 7). .

® U. S. Advances Proposal For Security Would Cover Entire », ■ Western Hemisphere As Security Region Petropolis, Brazil, Aug. 26 — (UP)— The United States and four other nations formally proposed today to apply the Monroe doctrine to ® carefully defined "security region" which coxers the entire hemisphere. inclnmng Celada and Greenland. The proposal was made in a sub committee report of tij^ ! inter American conference which was agreed upon formally today and includes the basic formula for the new hemispheric defense treaty. The plan was presented to the 14-nation today provided the first opportunny for Argentina to react to the proposal. It draws a specific boundary aconsidered to be in the western hemisphe# and serves notice on the world that any attack inside this region from the outside will meet the immediate resistance of all the Americas. It is hoped that Canada will subscribe to the plan. if adopted the new dactriue will be ThA-act of Havana of ®4& and the Chapuitepec of 1945, in effect, established the Monroe doctrine on a multilateral rather than a unilateral basis. But tSfs is the first tithe it has been put into treaty form and the first time it has been extended to include areas outside the pan American system. At Panama in 1939 the-Americas attempted themselves off from the European war by drawing a boundary around the co-call-ed neutrality zone. But it started at the United Wtates-Canadian boundary at Passamaquoddy Bay in Maine and ran (Turn To Pag<@6. Column 6) o— — Local Man's Mother ® Is Taken By Deaflh MW. Della May Stahl, 73, mother of Mervin SMhl of Decatur/died Monday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Fred Heiniger, five miles southeast of Decatur. Surviving are eons, one daughter, two brothers and one sister. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Murray Shristian church, with burial & le Rockford Emmanuel cemetery. The body has beer, removed fi'om the Thoma funeral home to the Heiniger residence. ® Litlerer Serving As Judge Pro Tem I September Court Opens Sept. 2 ? Ferd L. Litterer, Decatur attorney, it serving as judge pro tem of the Adams circuit court this week, following his appointment Monday® Judge J. Fred regular jurist of the local triffinal, named the pro tem official yesterday and Mr. Litterer later th the & Under terms of the appointment, judge pro tem Litterer will hold court on Wednesday and Saturday mornings from 9 until 11 o'clock. This,»ip the final week of the annual summer vacation @r the cje» cuitQCourt. The September term officially opens next Tuesday and court attaches aesp engaged in making final preparations for the new session. Henry B. Heller served as Judge pro tem week.

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Colonial Powers' Attempt For World Court Ruling Over UN Right Rejected Lake N. Y., Aug. 26— (UP)—’rae United Nations security council rejected today an attempt by colonial powers’ to obtain a Wfld court ruling on the $UN’s right to intervene in the Dutch-Indoneteian conflict. A Belgian proposal to law the questioner UN jurisdiction before the international .M’urt of justice was voted down; after _ Russia, Poland, Australia and - China condemned it as a move - to delay pr prevent further UN > action fighting between - the Dutch and Indonesian repub- - Means. 1 Only four coul.tries'tfirthe pHir ed States, Britain, France and Belgium—supported the Belgian - resolution. voted against I it while Russia, China, Australia, 5 Syria, Colombia afd Jrazil ab- - stained from voting. The council thus asserted its ; right to take further steps in r the Indonesian dispute if its lat- - est intervention fails. W 1 Thp action established an important precedent for the ccran- , -;1, which doubtless will be cona fronted many times in the future 1 with cases of conflict between / independence-seeking colonial b peoples and the governments e which rule them. ® The vote came shortly after - the Indonesian republic formally accepted the security court, iti ] offer of its "good offices” to help - both sides iron out. their difjjir- - ences and end their conflict in > Java and Sumatra. 1 Once the Belgian proposal was : scrapped—killed by lack of mai jority support rather by : negative votes —Poland put into ■ formal language its dagaand for a renewal of the council's 26-day-old cease-fire order to Dutch and ’ Indonesians. f Poland’s Juliusz Katz-Suchy said Hurt council action oF Aug. 1. one side or the 1 other had brokex the uneasy 1 truce and plunged the area into hostilities once more. 1 The republic also aerated the council’s plan to have the career consuls maintained by six of the 11 nations on the council supervise conformance with the unsuccessful cease-fire order oZ Aug. f The republics’ acceptance of ‘ the security council’s compro- ■ mise@plan for ending: the hos--1 tilities in Java and Sumatra left ' the next move up to Nether- ' lands, which ®as expected to announce soon its Reluctant acceptanceftof the council’s offer of its “good offices.” Former prime minister Sutan Sjahrir of Indonesia gave his government’s answer to the seoffer in a letter t'o/g-, council president Saris El Khouri of Syria. (Tu?fi To Pace 5. Column 4) : — Mennonite Conclave To Cflse Wednesday Berne. Ind., Aug. 26 — The 31st sessions of tl® general W the Mennonite church headed ® into ita final two days today. The conference will be completed Wed- [ nes afternoon with . tion of the site tor the next confer- . ence. ® More than 1300 delegates and have@registere<j for the I conference so far. OF the 230 churches •which are members of the general conference, 197 are re- ! presen&yj a© the conclave here. More than SOO people are being • fed three times a day at the high 1 school gymnasium, ygljere a cafeteria has set tsp. The following important confer- ' etg:e boards were announced today: t Home mission Itoard Epp, J. J. Plenert. William ' Foreign Qiissionf.board S. J. GoerI ing. S. F. Pannebacker. J. J. Thies- ’ sen. Board of ’ trustees Jacob sFrentz, A. M. Ixtbreuta. J. W. Uni ruh. Business committee H. H. ©