Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 202, Decatur, Adams County, 27 August 1947 — Page 1

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BRITAIN’S FOOD RATIONS ARE SLASHED

Ifeflmerican Idey Is Near * |o Compfetion U Argentine Defeats BUnitd States Plan, [■For Requirements Hetropoliß, Brazil. Aug. 27 '-<y P) KUntina defeated the United ■ ■ today in at? interameyican ■jference fight over the r * uire ’ to be Jjiposed on an Amertaggressor state under the new ffi.' -oheric defense t.jpatjfc t ■ United States had fought to a clause in the treaty which ■r'vidPd that as soon as the tre'afy was,invoked the aggres- ■ 3 tate must return to the statq& ■o prevailing before the outbreak ■ trouble. ■Argentina ’had opfOsed includHk this clause in. the treaty and ■e ftrgt)tin& view jyon ouY over American position. Instead of the requirement into the Katy the conferencemerely adopt- ■ a separate., resolution express- ■ its Sentiment i» favor of such Kion. The separate,resolutioij.reKjv°d unanimous approval. action camtf as the con■enee drafted the final treaty to unite ■publics $ defense against agfrom the Arche to the ■gets. Arthur Hp’Vanderberg, R.. ■eh., had led the fight for indisputed provisitjg. in ■ treaty. He told the full com■tteAtoday that not Mt return to ■e "status quo ante helium” would ■eeze any advantage an aggressor ■i gained and that this be determining factor in a ■he said thaA sh*pensioil*s? hos■ities which is obligatory under ■e treaty inevitably tflt’eateni® to ■re an advantage tq, the aggressor, ■ate .unless is forced to' ■turtfio the point from which the ■tack started. -<$ ® ■ Colombia sponsored an amendment which would have made the ■tide read that the “contracting .in consultation will urge ■niericatl states in conflict to sus■nd hostilities and restore matters ■ status"quo anift” El nut Colombia finally agreed to a ■eiican proposal for ‘a separate ■solution outside the treaty. Thg Evolution said "that the commii■e interpreted the article as mea/j---■g that the consultative meeting ■ust decide as an initial point .yp of conflict on the restoration ■ the status quo ante ■ There was almost unanimous that the treaty can be ■ady for signing by next Monday, ■ssibiy by Saturday. The formal ■gning date hinges upon arrival of ■resident Truman. ■ A’fg’entingj decision lastg night ■elding to the overwhelming ma■rity view on the treaty's scope ■rtualiy assured completion of the ■inference's wogfing phase by to- ■ The three main committees of gj/ conference were Spected to up their work before ailghtleaving only the formality jnf ■Proval of their job by. the ftftl ■inference. &S ■ The only apparent possibility' of B. *' eb was ’ n the drawing of bounda ry of the hemisphere ■ c “rity region," with the major ■ s ue raised in the Antarctic and E°™ era Atlantic islands. ■ e military sub-committee was ■” e ‘ Dg to try to draw a line to ■ , 8 Z the desires of Argentina ■ t “ Ile to include the Antarctic, ■ ,* e as Argentina’s request to K ? tbe Falkland and Sandwich ■■ends. ■>rtt. ma3or problem involved the ■ "-coming visit of President Tru- ■ - Nearly everyone agreed that Br,. . e^ y Could he ready for sign- ■“ b ’■ the latest by next Monday, ■ R,n° SS u bly by Sat ufiay. tbe Brazi!ians want Mr. ■ay c * ( nere f° r tbe na tional holi■We th»» J' Tbe Prospects now E ~ M r - Truman would come Eer th 6 mid<i,e ° r nej t week, Kraziii 6 Conterence doses if the ■ould h nS - Can be persua <led that it to try to proI ITui^ r e Page 7, QUumr/t) [ M 0,.. weather I Thurad/ f,lr toni Oht and I ‘”"l>«r,t yp . s Llttle Chan « e ln

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IL Accepts Plan For Atomic ControL First Government To Accept Proposal Lake Success, N. Y., Aug. 27 — gUP)— The United States annow&sed today unqualified acceptance of United NaKons plans to subject the atomic energy facilities and activities of all riShons to strict mipervi&am and management by the wo£d atomic control authority. <he United States becgjne the srst government to accept vlie proposals as id down in a plan de-1 vised by experts of X °f the 12 nat&ns on the-UN atomic energy commission. Russia was the’only country who.se experts did not participaftjr s.Fredgrick -fl. Osborn &puty t tfeleg&e, said the principles »apd rules laid down by the experts represent the osiy hope fSdini “effective security” in the atomic age. (i Osborn*sg£d there was “a wide gqlf” between the concept of strict ‘ concept of national atomic jlevelopin which the Internati&nal atomic authority would serve only a<3 an inspf%tor for violators? This second concept, he implied, was tlfc one favored by Tfiissia ; while the nations of the lfnation commission endorse the for- • mer. # •* i “In the mind of the America!/ delegation,* he sai<& •“this gulf tnarkri the deference between es- . fective security cn the one hand and the extension of national rival- . ries in the atomic field on thet , other.” w Osborn's acceptance of yie work- . ing papers in the name of tty? #fts announced at 3 meeting of the compression sittjjjg as the control committee. It w’as the opening speech in the first formal debate of the papers. ® ' The plan would give the world atomic agency the right to super1 vis®manage and in cases > own <haterials for atomic energy as well as nuclear fuel itself and facilities for making arid • the I ?ino£Jier principle galls stir a 1 quota “eystem vXSfh •Itould write ■ into the proposed 1 atomi<treaty the amounts of atome — ’ATurn To Pag® 8.. Column 7) U —-sNew York Heady’ * For Legionnaires *> I '<■ ! Annual Convention . To Open Thursday New York, A’Sg. 27 —(UP)—The policy mindful of what happened* ,/,p 1937, anchored the Empire State '■ to Fifth today. ' The American Legion was injown ! for its 29th annual convention. ! Hotel were stripped of ' furniture Sftid drapes. Arfytflling that could be lifted by three men was moved out. Rooms were furn- ' ished with only the barest neces- ' sities. and maids were instructed to leave pillows on beds oijjy at 1 night. Extra hotel detectivft patrolled the loobies and corridors. nailed down Times Square. 1 The Legion’s service committee assigned 1.600 volunteers, picked ! from visiting Legionnaires, to police the convention and keep the 1 celebration.-,from becoming “ob--1 scene and ' destructive.” Police 1 commissioner, Arthur W. Walland- ■ er extra patrolmen 4° 1 cover the mid-Manhattan area 1 where the activities, r and hi-jinks will take pla<sb C 1 Although the convention doesn’t ' begin until tomorrow, tens of thou- : sands of visitors- already have ar- ' rived and the hi-jinks has begun. > Legionnaires with water guns and electric canes patrolled the • streets, frightening the pretty girls. It was announced last night that ’ President Truman would not speaks s at the convention. ’ Gen. Dwight IX -Eisenhower will make the principal address and de- - liver the President’s message. Ber- ' i nard Baruch. America’s elder statesman and former U. S. representative on the United Nations atomic energy commission, will be the principal speaker at a dinner in -be Waldorf Astoria tomorrow night,

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Nazi Industry Heads Tried As War Criminals American Tribunal Hearing Trial For 24 Industrialists s. « #, >■ Nuernberg, jAug. 27—^JP)— The United States opened the war crimes trial of 24 I. G. Fapaen officials today with a charge ithat they were the master builders”*/ Adolf Hitler’s army and were? largely responsive for the second World War. , “These the men who made I £he was possible, and they did it because they to conquer,” Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor, chief prosecutor, told the AmeSjcan. tribunal hearing the ®£al. . The executives of the vast Farben confine went on trial in the courtroom where Herman Offering and the -other government leader£> &; were convicted. It was the first major” test of war criminaMty in the of industry. “ They indicted iast May 3 on charges .of fanning, preparation, initiation and waging Qf warSl of aggression and invasions of <sther coiKitries; robbery and spoliation: slavery,and mass imurder; membership in ’£he criminal S§ police* and epnspirto commit crimes, peace. '■*' '. /'Taylor, in opening the case, branded the topdogs of the world* wide industrial as “jjjagSciansfe who made the fantasies of Mein Kompf come true." "Thet- were thfe ,of the state secrets of the thirS reich," he told the court. “They were the master builders of the Wehrmacht. Th®y ls,ew every detail of the intricate and engine <£. warfare. and ffatihed its growth with the pride of architects. ’'"The crimes with’ which*’thesfl men are charged were not committed in a rage or under the stress of sudden temptation. They were ndt sSps or lapses or ? otherwise welt ordered men. ® “Outdoes not build a stupendous war machine in a fit of passion flor an Ausphwitz factory ' during* a passing spssjs of brutality.”;* Thg, reference >. was to the | Auschwitz concentration camp, where Farben IJjd a branch factory, a synthetic rubber _' ! plant w'here the slave labor was subjected to‘-atrocities w'fAch caused a turnover of 300 percefift in a year. Taylor saifi Farben worlftd out a maze of more than cartel agreements, its ©very mOVe made in with the Nazi government and designed to (Turn To Pasre 8. Column 7) o— * Seek Addition To * City Police Force i C. C. To Request New Appointment The Decatur Chamber of Commerce is planning to ask the city of Decat© to employ another po-lice-officer for 1948, authoritative souftes reported today. Members of the finance committee of the Chamber have indicated they will make the appeal w@n the state tax board conducts us hea,sjp.g;'?)n the 1948 city budget. Ae Chamber will make the appeal despite the fact that the new eiiudget has_ been set up and approved byt?’ttJ3 city council, the source reported. ® Memberstjof the finance committee had originally planned to make the request Monday night before . the council approved the budget in its present The council hearing on the budget had been concluded before the arrival of the committee, however. Six regular members make up the present city police force. C. of C? leaders indicated that they Believe the addition of a new member would aid in different handling of the proposed new two-way po-r lice radio. The present force is made up of chief Ed Miller, Adrian Coffee, Sephus Melchi, James Borders, Robert Hill and Roy Chilcote. Grover Cottrell is serving as merchant policeman.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

piscuss Coming Legion Election ||Kh " • .._ T J I --i MN NEW YORk'sfor the national Legion convention. Perry Brown (right) Legion defuse chairman of Beaqffiont. Tex., discusses his •ajnuidacy for national commander of the veterans' group with Warren Athlon. Stocktoiv Cal., past national commander and universal mmtary training Committee chairman. *

T" August Heal Wave On|y Grim Memory • Normal Weather Is Midwest Forecast tiy United Press t - Thegkugusf heat wave was only a rathir grim mertfoty today after the last, remnants were driven (Kit. to sea. The weather bureau reported thg,t warmer weijthet*which moved into the Dakotas yesterday ’tVQUId travel eastward today, but it w® not expected to continue for any great length of time. “RememUer summer is dot over.” ,the Chicago forecaster “This warm weather is oflly normal sumnlfel’ hea|. It will Ij.ot be like.tke recent, heat wave.” A series o' driving rainstorrtfs the east coast* as the mass ot.'hot air which roasted the nation for more than a week "finally moved eastward over the A<antic .Ocean. •■ New Yorke City had one of the worst rush-hour subway sliarls in 19 years jjestej|jas> when the rains ’came'ehortly after the temperature began to drop from a high of 91 degrees. e The storm poured 5.42 inches of rain over in the first two hours. The temperature dropped 1 ®! degrees. During the period. Hundreds of thousands of hofftgrut£iing workers, drenched by the were stranded on subway platforms as. flooded stations and disrupted power plants halted some trains and slowed others. Lightning hit 2 trolley cars in BrocJtlyn and 28 persons were taken* to'hospitals but police safd none was injured seriously. Phoenix, Ariz.. continued as the hottest spot in the “lation yesterday with a tQmpefilture of lff6. _j». (Turn Tn Paitt 5. Column 4) . W o®* Madman Slayer Is Sought In Chicago —< Portions Os Man's Body Found In City Chicago, Aug. 27—f?IP) —A killer, believed to be a madman, was hunted by police today after portions of a man's body wpjre found along tße Cbjcajo rivet in the slum and industrial Goose island area. The victim, whose body apparently was cut up with a power'saw, was not identified. Police said he apparently was a laborer forth« hands were rough and calloused. The body segments, were found yesterday. ClifforJ Ma'hgiewicz, 21, a utility rpan foV soap works, found a newspaper-wrapped package lying on a wharf adjoining the factory. The wharf is almost directly bridge which carries North avenue, a main-traveled thoroughfare, across a branch of the river. The package contained two feet, (Turn To Pago 2, Column 5)

Democratic Editors Name Kerr Speaker Selbyville, Ind., Aufe. 27 —(UP)' — FdFrner governor , fitobert • S. Kerr of Oklahoma the s anthial fan outing of the “lijdiana. Democratic editorial association to ,be held*at French Litk S#pt. 19-2 ft president Marion T, Ayers announced today. *?.. * , The former Oklahoma governor t Will be principal speaker at the r qjgint banquet, most important event on the twoday program, Ayers sSid. i ■’ °“7r > Teachers Institute I • ' Is Held Here Today. 5 —2 Dr. Principal Speaker ! ’ ~ ” s “We demand the unusual •of - today's *bqf*e. and girls amj we ' must have unusual teachers,” ' Dr. Stewart W. McClelland told the scores of Adanfs county s teachers assembled today at tlxe 1 Lincoln school here for the anI nUal county teachers’ institute, s "We are tiptoeing on the ■ of greater than *ever before; living in .the f most extraordinary . ?> perial .in 1 world history and we are having ■ difficuEty teaming our ' children to adjust themselves,” f declared ■ She former president of Lincoln s MemdUal univ(s-sity at Harlot • gft'e, Tenn., ••now in of 1 Laie Qgjnegie courses jpr the I state of Florida. ’ “We must pry ourselves fapm the selfish® to the’tinselfish. from ■ <he usual tQ the unusual,” lie declared. rp Dr. s< McClelland lashed at the 1 cIS theory "self preservation is the llrst law of nature,” asserting that "great ssen never thought*'oj their ow,j, preservation” and that .they practically forgot themselves into immortal- - ity.” lamented the f&ftt that .American youth is learning the doctrine “the worJd owes me a living.” “The world doesn’/t owe him a living, nor .does it owe us a living. He Owes the world Sf. 1H& and we owe the world our lives,” he stated. He cited the of the American -youth as’gthe nation’s great “secret weapon” in winning World War II and declared that the teachers needed to instill this spirit into®, the youngsters |Jo ©arry <she pation through the corfEi’ne years. ® Late this Dr. Me(Tarn To Store Open Thursday FoP Schoolbook Sales With the opening of£jchool only a few days off, the Holthouse drug store announced today that the stwe will be open Thursday afternoon until 5 o'clock for the. sale of school books only. house istore is the only Decatur store handling school books and the Thursday afternoon opening is being dene as an accomodation to parent's of school children.

Grim Plan For Economic ® Survival Announced For i Great Britain By Attlee

Slate Offish Is Ousted By Governin' - s«Charge Attempt For Police Protection * » Indianapolis, Aug. 27 —(UP)— A high state (/ficial was out of job today aft&j* facing charges o? attempting to obtain police JTOtection for a gaming operator Lewis B. Smith, director of the financial responsibility division of the bureau motor wa9 ‘telieved of his job after . t®.ing. Gates, secretary of’htatei ThofTtas E. Bat?? an<? state police officials that “I have ffever K? my life taken a distjmest cent.” Smith was called on , the efirpet before Governor CMteg* where he was accused of interceding for » Jack Thorntgn in an effort to en s l able Thornton to reopen the Ches- ) ffefton social club at Clermont. ( Gaming equjpmiftt tiad been confis- - catad in two raids on the club. Smith denied tha chafges. , - ‘ r “I have nSgrer in my taken i a dishonest he said. “ThCse ' - insinuations are being macfc? by ti - cghple of Pleas Greenlee is state chairman of ~ tho Democratic party. ■w Also present *at Smith’s filing were Maj. Robert *A. O’Neal snd Capt? John J. Barton of tfie state police. ( Col. (Robert Rossow. state police superintendent, said he took the matter up wi£h the Governor after | receiving reports on Smith froril state fixioper officials. In signed statements, BartoijWd O’Neal said Smjth had offered to , split $1,500 a month for three months and $3,000 every month ‘ thereafter if the Clermont estaji- > lishment was allowed to operate without police interference.* Smith/ organizer of the stated county chairmerf ’“92 Clubs* said he would either another political job or private employment. No successor to Smith was named.’Smith is* jjlso chairtnan of the Wells county Republican Central Former Pastor's Wife Dies At Greencastle •’. Ptiends hereffiave Ffeceived word of the recent death of Mrs. J. D. Reynolds of (Jreepcastle.* wife of the tlev. Reynolds, 4. forint Decatur Methodist circuit minister. '?t>e body was taken to Toffcdo, O. for burial. /•! .% • o —„ Vi: Ife? Study Changeover For Counly Home ■ Meeting Held Today As State Capital * Representatives of Adams coun« ty were in Indianapolis today discussing a proposed changeover of the county infirmary to a welfare nursing home. Os finals said that in event the locaX m® qualifications and the plan approved by the® county comnussionera, maintenatjgaof the indigentS’at the county home' could be direct cost to county Those rg’er 65 years at the county Tffce would become eli- , gible foiWssistance from the welfare department. , The cost of maintaining thqrath- . ers at the heme would be taken ( from the countjtgind returned t<\ the township origin. ( The meeting in Indianapolte tttai day was attended by county home superintendents and other counts officials. @ % ~ F’raVi'k Kitson. superintendent of ' the Adams county home. an(£*Thurman I. Drew. Adams county auditor. were the f j'epresentatives from this county. H’hey wejye accompanied to Indianapolis Kitson and Mrs. Drew. J i»*'*

> Greek Crisis Is No Nearer To Solution Os Greece May Call Council To Seek * Break In Deadlock Athens, Aug. 27 —(UP) — The Greek cabinet crisis today app(sred no nearer . a «ol|/ion ’and King Pau) reported EWngly’ considering calling a council of the crown in an effort to break the Premier designate Constany.p Tsaldaris, giving up hfe efforts to fprm tjje k|j?d of coali'tiOT government o *"acceptable to the United States, was attempting to make up a cabinet exclusively of populist (Royalist) party members It was#doubted that such a” cabinet could win parliamentary ?ipprovnl. • The king conferred today with Tsaldaris and U. S. Am£as- - MacVeagh and outlined several possible solutions tg them. The icing also met wita several opposition leaders who,wen said to Have urged that summit a crown boutltil. . Ar> .Mnerican spokesman said that “every possibility is beingoexplored.” „ „ majority* PopuMst garty has abotft 40 of the. vote in parliament. A special sessior> was called for Thursday, it will then on the new • The dnly alternative iar TsaldarM was Mie surrender of tiis jnandate to form a cabinet to replace that ’of Demetli’os Maximos. which resigned Itt-st „ < Batuxia£. t , The main stumbling block in the way of’the formation o£ a broad coalititm government i was the .refusal of Themistocles Sdtoulis, Liberal party leader, to cooperate. Slbfoulis' stood fast on bis demands tfjat <ne Liberals have the premiseship and ministries 0$ war, public order, and justice. Tsa&taris • propoesjd a compromise, with “h neu(Turn Th) Page 5. Column a_ . Unions Sued Under. Tass-Hadley Law . • • • • .-w— ’ Suits Are Filed For Over Mi I Won Dollars ;*■, '* Washington, Aug. 27— (UP), — A survey showed today that labor unions face claims for SL--285,000 or moss? in damages Ji the first five suits ifiTed under tne - The miners, st eeiworkSfS Aland teamsters —three of |he nation’s most unions with com i national treasuries of $38,000400— are defendants Sa four of tlie suits. Z' ■*;, The latestwas filed yesterday in federal distrisg. court at «t tsburgh. W. J. Dillnei CT., Pittsburg, seeks stßs, OOfl damages from the Jeamstere (AFL) and their national Representative, Albert Dietrich. The company alleges work stCgipages in violation cFp contract/ Including the /so-@lled bee» war” over JIS’ with’WliS United £sfewery Workers (CTO). An AFL lawyer ®re said the claim will be coiUested. He said I an effort will be made t®test constitutionality of the act’s pr<r* visions ipntons liable for damages. ® Yesterday’s claim not the L largest made upder tme damage’ suit provisions of the new act in effect since its passage last June 23. A $500,000 suit was filed July 23i?in federal -pourt in New York by the Independent Fur Manufacturers Association Mgainst©the (Turn To Pago 7. Column 1). f-j

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Austere Program Os Living Detailed By Prime Minister To Empire's Citizens r London, .usg. 27 —(UP)—Prime Clenlfent Attlee announced to the British people tonight plan for economic survival, food halting driving and » preventing f from traveling abroad for attendance at public anfe, ners was limited under the drasKic austerity program Imposed to gount.ry througw the eeor?bmic crisis. * sThe severe curtailments wej? adopted by the cabinet on premise that,no aid may be forthcoming. The action was forced by approaching exhaustion of the American loan. Tffae cablet order, annoijftced in a statement from No. 10 Down--, inij. street, decreed: Gasoline — ths? basic gasoline* ration i» abolished. Travel " — all 't’oreisn pleasure *trips, a FWod -*-■ meat ration reduced from 22 cents to 20 cents © wA. effective Sept. 7. station point values x»f.other foods to he revised beginning Sept. 14. . Each Britan s’tll be permijfced to buy 20 cents’ worth of meat a week. The weight of meat received • jor that sum* depetJts upon the quakty of the cut bought. x e Importation of certain luxury foods prohibited. .limitations on number of public ftihcheons and * attendance at them. Restaurants—food supplies cut • from 15 to 18 percent, e except to factory canteens and low-price 1 estaurknte.’ 0 ’ Prospects for renewal of Brit., ish-Soviet* trade talks. j reported, bv D&ndon newspapers, were wiped ‘out by a board triple spoksjna?) simultaneously Vijh Attlee’s announcement. The spokesman said. ’AjigloSoviet talks were stdTemated by* Russia’s refusal to pay more than half the $9,720,000 installment due Aug. 1 on* prepayment of t£,e 1941 and 1944 BJttish credits with Russia. • He aitiid Britain’s position was that,Russia’s signature on a new agreement could be wcPthless if it refused to live up to the present ona» ‘ Cuts in faod imports. ' new Hjnitatjusns on clothing purchases and possible travel restritst?on& figured prominently in public guessing on the program. Uncertainty as to the’scope of the •dolJa.r-saving program was reflected in the stock market. Industrial share l ® dropped in a quiet opening while gilt ..edged shares remained unchangedSpeculation on the government’s inkentionb centered on these measures: of more thai^.sso, 000,000 monthly in food purchases from Yhe United Stat.® »nd other dol--To Page 8, Column 8) —3~~—or Weatherman Gives Hoosiers Hopes Os peasant Weekend Indianapolis, Aug s s> : 27 —(UP) —W tomatoes, soybeans and other staple -’■tops in Indiana are “in gsnerafljj condition,” the ttldianayblis weather bureau said today @ T® bureatfe weejnry crop sum Snai”? said etate-wide rains and the rfreftk in the August heat wave i came in tirae to save most ** cultural profetets. Corn and tomatoes in the central part of=tne state were reported in better condition than in other jareas. An extendecrforecast gave Hoqshope for a pleasant weekend. Scattered thundershowers could be expected Saturday or Sunday witlta, cooler weather l ?n /he way Friday or Saturday, said. 0 The Inuiana forecast for today, tonight and tomorrow “fair north, partly clqudy south, with little chain;. iiK.t'emperature.” . &- 3 •