Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 203, Decatur, Adams County, 28 August 1947 — Page 1

No. 203.

p W || Bong Veteran , JllsMoAod Ikes Own life ■ slays Young Bride ■ And Father Before •Committing btJicide ■ hel byville, Hl., Aug. 28.-(UP) ■ .Id Mton, 22-yeatold war who' shot to ffeath his K (tl aged bride as she tried to ” M on roller skates, then killK lja and funded ins rife '. iu j h is wife’s-young brother, X fotrid dead early today at his ■Xer's fartnlhortie. he apparently a suicide. A ■elton killed his 16-year-old \K Jacqueline last night, wound- ■ -.... brother Walter Knearem. M a: ,,i then drove from the roller Kring rink wMre bg them ■the home of his father, Earl, 60. drove a war surplus Jeep. said he carried a 4£ fey pistol and used ■ the shootings botfr at the rink H the farmhouse where he killhis father and wounded his SitU' as she tried to protect her ■ . posse, heavily armed against K possibility of a clash with Hei- 1 ■ found him on the floor of a ■ n: of the farmhouse early ■/ believed he had killed him- ■ shortly before they searched His body still was warm. clothing was wet. apparently running through high grass underbrush.- . Helton a fillet wound in the head. arid an pistol was found near his Sbldy. "■fcq & die in the series of «ss Jacqueline, whom HeiniarrieJ five months ago and whom tie ijtorreled recently. said that a private of from 15 to 20 persons was circling the floor at the Ward Rink on the north side ■ town when Helton appeared ■|# 9:45 p.m. CST. Mln- walked onto the floor with ■ pitM in his hand. Guests fell Jacqueline saw him, and to try to get away. |Hhh' roller skates hampered hei Helton fired two bul■ts into her chest. She died in- ■ Milt-: brother Walter ran to her Helton apparently believed Iwy was trying to “rush" him, shot the lad as he knelt behis sister. Hl&e was rushed to the nospital, where his conMKtion was critical. At one tim<! hospital attendant erroneously to police that Walter was Kad. After the skating rink shootings, drove to his parents’ home. of police, deputies and got on his trail. father, 'Earl,' 60, was in on the first floor of the when the youth arrived. ■ Helton shot him to death(£is he to rise from his bed, fired twice at his mother, gr‘ r She was struck ®e In the hand and once ■ the arm. attempting to wrestle gun from her son’s hand. ■ I!rs ' Helton's wounds were not and she was reported in condition at a hospital today. |B Authorities larned that Helton his wife had been separated ■out two weeks and that he had recently with his par- ■ ts ' ' '* ’Bit" Bl Ttley Helton was . an. over- ■ Bas armyweteran hut thSJ M had ■ ot been in combat. > it * — ■—°—■— b JAbandon Attempts ■° Recover Bodies M Rattle, Wash., Aug. 28. -(UP)w ■«empts to recover the bodies W marines killed in the crash of ■ transport plane on the south ■«J°ma glacier of Mt. Rainier ■ abandoned today. E I <i, naval district said the "* will be left undisturbed a■sir? e wrecka se of the plane. |B, . ‘ een mountain climbers re■r ,e yesterday from a survey of K '■ crash area. They said that ■iun i. r T l5B '°° se d by melting ice Bre" them Hke “artillery ■»r ii that removal of the bod■hp ni b* extremely hazardous. !on a craf,bed Dec. 10 while ■ seattU fr ° m DieS °’ Cal ” WEATHER B r.u rt,y clou dy tonight and d jy U ’ y ’ 8li 9ht<y warmer Fri-

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Refindty Explosion < w Whiting, Ind., Au^2B— (UP)— One man was and three others injured today when two ftltandard Oil rtjApery stills exploded and a series of two fires. The second fire, whichtbroke out i a few hours after the crtjtrinal ex- | plosion,;-v’as brought miner control sooff The 00U barrels of gasoline daily arid loss of their output was regarded as serious to mid western consumes who hhve built up brewing demand for Ill, W ■ ' Q-C Griswold Asks Greek Leaders Form Coalition American Aid Head Urges Government Be Formed At Once i Akens, Aug. 28 —(UP) — Dwight Griswold, head of the American aid mission, today urged Greek leaders to quit arguing and fcWi a broad coalition to keep “any foreign powjp’ from seizing control of the Greek govenment. Premier nate Constantin, 1 Tsaldaris anntSiced that he will seek to form a government today even if he canfltjlt win cooperation of rival factions. Griswold, who has been reconcile the claims of Tealdaris’ Populists (Royalists) and Themistocles Sofoulis, Liberal party leader, called a press conference to make clear the American P9sition. “We came here to neutralize foreign aggression which started be-1 We we arrived.” he said. “We are only interested in seeing a government in Greece with which we can do our job effectively.” He said t< American mission, wants “to see all elements united, keeping any -foreign power from taking controtw the Greek government.” While Griswold spoke, reports arrived from Jannina that army troops and 500 guerrillas had been clashing since 5 a.m. near dorina. The guerrillas had been .marching southward twffard Mount Agrafa with (Munitions and cattle to supply rebel bands in the hills of centnjjpGreece. Divergent demands by party leaders during the night upset an earl- ■ ier announcement that a broad coalition would be formed under a neutral premier. The Populist party and a faction led by Sophocles Venizelos, Panayotis Canellopulos, and Sp|’o Marchezini listed widely varying ; conditions under which they . would paricipate in the cabinet fortlfaijim. The Populists insisted that they pick the premier and that th® new cabinet consist of the same party representation as the outgoing government, with the same propor(Turn To Pa^^p ol " rnn 4 ‘ Circuit Court Term Opens September 2 Courtroom Closed Here For Cleaning With fSe opening of the Septemter term still several days awaW activity in the Milams circuit court picked up considerably today. The new term opeqj) Tuesday, September. .2. Three new sms have been filed and several minor entries made by Judge J. Fred Fruchte. , Carl Gattschall, doing business as the Walters Plumbing and Heating. has filed suit to foreclose a mechanic's lien,., against Philliip and Alvena Dolby, demanding $375. The Southern Automatic Music p Co. has filed an account suit ’ against Tusin “Bud” Hudson de- • manding S2OO, and OrvaM,enhart has a possession suit against Dowelßhinger. The courtroom is closed for sev- ■ eral for cleaning under the dicourt bailiff Fred Kolter and custodian John Bixler. Return dates in a of cases Lave been set for the openIng dav of the new term. L Jefferson Teaching Staff Is Completed® Berne. Aug. 28 — Edna Count • ne y ? o f Elnora, has signed a coV : tract to teach home economics and I English in Jefferson highQchool i this season. Thte complete the Jes- < ferson faculty, according to Bray- I ton Pyle, township trustee. /4

Navt-Marine .Jet Speedsters Decorated n(Heell1 1~- *B/’’' '"7'®'"' ■ ' “’'-'V" • W.i*’ 'i| * BI inr FKT * ; Mfc. ' ■JiSL > I'"" - e. • i • ■ - v vW"" ' i COMDR. TURNER FOSTER CALDWELL, Jr., U.S.N., who flew 640.7 miles an hour, and Maj. Marion E. Carl. U.S.M.C., (right-center,#,wuo flew 650, to set two world speed records in jet-propelled “Skystreak" planes five days apart, were awarded gold stars in lieu of second Distinguished Flying Cros•ses by Air Assistant Secretary of Navy John Njchola Brown at the Navy Department in Washington. Witnessing the ceremony were the flyers' wives; Mrs.-iL'aldwell (left) and Mrs. Carl.

Smith Ouster Fires State House Feud Charges And Counter Charges At Capital Indianapolis, Aug. 28 —(UP) — A tempest in the state house over the firing of Lewis B. from the state financial division may strengthen tire foliation of the Republican “92 Crab,” some political observers believed today. The Governor’s office and other parts of the state house were in an uproar as changes and counter charges were ffurled between Smith's dffice. Governor Gates, state police, state auditor Alvin Burch and state GOP chaiftian Clark Springer. On the sidelines, secretary of state Thomas Bath said he had signed statements-Sfrom Maj. Robert O'Neal, police executive officer, and detective Capt. John Barton that they- were “approached” by Smith “abosf 90 days ago.” The statements said S«»ith offered to arrange for bribes of SSOO a month for each of them if they would tip the operator of the Chesterfield Club in Hendricks county about police raids. Smith, dismissed as director of the state financial responsibility division late Tuesday, charged that he was the victim of dictatorship.” He denied trying to the police officers, but said he was fired because he helped organize the new “92 Club” composed of GOP county chairmen without, the sanction of the administration. Meanwhile, seven person A-de-scribed by Smith as “key personnel” in his office, resigned in a body in protest of the “unfair" treatment of Smith. Victor Walmer of Marion, recently resigned head of the small loan division in the state department of financial — « Turn To Page 2, Column 7) "d' — ■ ~ —° Five Uninjured As Auto Hits Abutment & Driver Blames Loose Stone For Accident jMvaWlecatur young people escaped serious injury last night when their car slid out oWmntrol on road and into a cement abutment. Sheriff Herman Bowman, who investigated, said thij, driven by A. 18, of this city. a Other occupants of the car were: Harold Bohnke. 17; SamW Gilbert, 14; Lester Sautbine, 14 Efnest Sautbine, aged two. The accidcijX, occurred on a county road neW' Monmouth about 9 o’clock last night. The sheriff said that the driver he (pst control of car on the loose :t®e- @ It cement bridge abutment. turned around and skidded about 50 feet/i&fore careening into a ditch. No one was badly the car was badly damaged, "the sheriff stated. He estimated thf damage at $550. The auto is owned by Herman Decatur, of the driver.

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Wife Confesses To Hack Saw hAurder Chicago, Aug. 28 —(P)— The wife of an escaped inmate of an insane asylum confessed today that she killed him with j hammer, cut his body up with a hack saw and threw the pieces into the ctifte ago river. tis Mrs. Anna Sosnowski, 60, surrendered to polfce a few hours aftej - parte of tire body had been identified as those of her husband. She said she married him two years ago and “finally got tired” of his drunken rages. 0 Urge Huge Fund For Scientific Research Board Reports To President Truman Washington, Aug. 28 —(UP) — A special presidential board called today fw mobilization of the nation’s brafris uAd cash in a 10year drive for world scientific supremacy. It told President Truman that by 1951 the r »ation must be prepared to Spend at least $2,000,000,000 annually for scientific research — double what the United States will spend for science this year. The board pointed out that Russia now is spending about $1,200,000,000 for research development. Stressing that the “troubled state of the world” gives urgency to its recommendations, the board said: “The security and prosperity of the United States depend today, as never before, upon the rapid expansion of scientific knowledge. It may reasonably be sal# to be a major fact in our national survival.” Mr. Truman backed the findings of his.gSpecial scientific resdStch board ’hs essential in protecting “out*riiiemocracy from the dangers it faces in an uneasy world.’feHe said the boundaries of scientific knowledge also must be pushed back to asure full production and tull employment. The report is the first ot a fivevolume survey by a board headed by White house adviser John R. Steelman and established by presidential order last October. Tuning Abe atomic age scientist “the indiWensible warrior” in time of conflict, it said scientific W the key to the peacetime battle against poverty and disease. A The board recommended that congress asked to underwrite a program next year keyed to these basic steps: 1. Establishment of a national science foundation 4sthorized to spend from to $250,00(®00 annually ®- in support of basic research alone at colleges, universities and other institutions. 2. An all-over spending program which in 10 years would reach at least $2,000,000,000, federal government footing Miout onehalf thrill. Q 3. Establishment of a comprehensive and wellSncreased research program — both theoretical and applied -©lnvolving a “research triangle” of industry, universities and the federal government. 4. Bolstering the nation’s educational system to insure that trained .manpower no longer serves resource” in pushing back the walls of scientific knowledge, gy Pave 2; Column 3)

Indiana State Fair To Open Tomorrow Record Attendance Expected This Year Indianapolis, Aug. 28 —(UP) — A record number of livestock and poultry entries continued to pour through of the Indiana state fairgrounds today as exhibitors, fair officials and concessionaires made last-minute preparations for an estimated record number of visitors to the fair, which opens an eight-day stand tomorrow. Fair officials said they tttpected para admissions to to# the 750,000 mark. Last year there were 627, 573 paid visitors to the fair. Thd 250,000 reduo/d price tickets placed on advance sale were sold out in five days. Orvall G. Pratt, sec-retary-uj)a.nager of the fair said, much raster thaa they have ever been sold previously. ■' Visitors will see some 4.000 prize porkers competing for prizes in 360 different classifications. The record hos. entry forced the fair I management to construct some 400 extra pens in ?%e swine barn, bringing the total number of pens to 1,376. enthusiasts will have a field of nearly 500 stallions, mares, geldingsij fillies and colts to look over. In addition, harness race fans will have six afternoons of grand circuit racing. Top events on the one-mile fairgrounds oval will be the horseman stakdfe for 2-year-old trottiffs, on Labor day, and the Fox stake, for ->year-old pacers, Tuesday, Sept, 2. For poultry fanciers, more than 4,000 chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, guineas, rabbits and pigerifcs will be on hand. Blue ribbons will be awarded in 1(12 classes of chickhens. 47 of pigeoMM and 22 of fabBoys and girls will reign for the first two days of the faij, with free entry for those uiWter 12. (Turn Tn Pr?p 2 Column 7) Indid Realtors On Conspiracy Charges Washington Grand Jury Takes Action a # Washington, Aug. 28. —(UP)— A federgA gsind juy here was ready to<ft;y current housing costs. The grand indicted the Natiqpal association of real estate raS local affiliate on charts criminally conspiring Fix commission rates on real At th®same ti»? general Tom'® Clark nled a civil antitrust suit against both real estate groups. The suit asked cancellation of rules of the organizations alleged to fix uniform commission rates. • Clark aidyg W®re tightlipped about their pians for the fßxt phase of the grand fury’s housgyt investigation. Burthe jury's authority permits it to look into every phase of real estate operation, ®inclu<s,ng n&w constniicyon and buildiwg retrials, toseeJif higlT. (Turn TOjPafe 2, Column 5)

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Rural Schools Open Annual School Term City Schools Launch Activities Tuesday *' i Approximately 2,500 children of school age officially opened the 1947-48 school term today when they reported to the rural schools of Adams county. The grade school students were expected to be registered, secure information concerning book lists, etc., and then return to Uteir homes. Students of the seven ikiral high schools of the county worked out tlteir programs with teachers and principals of th» respective institutions before returning home. On Tuesday the students will be; gin actual classwork for the conning eight and one-half months term. Os the estimated. 2,50 ff students, about 150 will attend the five parochial schools in the county, Lyman L. Hann, county school superintendent, said today. Some of these schools mark a nine months term, or longer. This is done in order to observe the required number of hours and still teach religion along with the regular cl a s»es. Classes will be opened at the Decatur and Berne public schools next Tuesday and those at the Decatur Catholic schools will be started on Wednesday. Scores of Adams county teachers received final instructions and made last minute preparations for the opening during the annual teachers’ institute, held Wednesday at the Lincoln school here. @ _o_ Kenneth Nash Thanks Friends For Messages Kenneth Nash wishes to thank the many people who remembered blip while he was a patient at Colonial hospital in Rochester. Minn., where he underwent an operation for closing an artery at the top of his heart. Friends remembered him with cards and greetings. Recuperating from the operation, Kenneth finds it impossible to personally acknowledge all the letters and good wishes extended to him. His mother, Mrs. Hershel Nash, beamingly said. “They have been so good to Kenneth.” The lad was up town yesterday. He intends to start to week. '<7 0 Unions Threaten To Boycott Labor Board Hint At Refusal To Sign Any Affidavits Washington, Aug. 2$ —(UP) — The AFL hinted today that its top national officials may join CIO leaders in refusing to sign nonCommunist affidavit*' under the Taft-Hartley act. Such a move would constitute a major boycott of the national labor relations board by the nation's two biggest labor organizations. Under the new law union officials must sign the non-Communist statements beftffe their unions can get Wagner act protection under the NLRB. It would bar all AFL — as well as CIO — national and local unions from using the board's services. Robert N. Denham, iiew board general counsel, has ruSsd that under the act the top national officers of both AFL and CIO must swear they are not Communists if any affiliates would use board services. The AFL and CIO together claim 13,000,000 — principal Clients of tffe NLRB. that the 15-member AFTvexecutive council might refuse to sign the afidavits came in the weekly AFL news service %bich said the council would deits course at a meeting in Chff'ago Sept. “While there Whot the slightest suspicion of a Red tinge among the membership of the executive council. a fundamental principle is 111in tire filing of such affidavits whicWmakes the decision .wither a weighty one,” (Turn To Page<@ Column 2)

Wildcat Coal Strikes Spread Sin Yorkshire I Threaten To Knock Props From British Drive For Economy London, Aug. 28 — (UP) — Wildcat coal strikes spread through the Yorkshire fields today. leaving between 10,000 and 15,000 men idle and threatening to knock the prop? out from Under tlie governmi-nt's back-to-tlie-wall drive to revive Britain’s im:economy. Five thousand more Yorkshire miners walked out today in defiance of their government and their union and in sympathy with 140 Grimethorpe colliery workers who aref£) protesting increased work quotas. The strikes left 12 pits idle and the national coal board estimated that 82,000 tons of coal had been lost to the nation since the start of the spreading wildcat walkouts on Aug. 14. A huge boost in British coal output is the key to the wlteje British industrial recovery plan. The walkout started when miners refused Lo accept a new assignment of coal face areas which would increase their work quota. W President Will Lawther of the national union of mine workers denounced the strike as “disgraceful’* and “sheer anarchy” but the movement was gaining momentum in the northern fields. The grim news from the grimy coal areas accompanied a barrage of press attacks on the government, laid down by some of the government’s hitherto staunchest supporters and charging that the new austerity plans were "too little ...and too late.” A national coal board spokesman said the number of strikers probably would grow swiftly as successive shifts joined their fol low workers. - On Aug. 9 there were 718.800 coal miners registered on tiie board’s list. Lawther said neither the miners union nor the coal board could tolerate strikes in govern-ment-owned mines. The laborite government had laid to cairds on the table, and they spelled the skimpiest fare on the dining table in all of British history, not even excepting the grimmiest days of th< war. After Sept. 7 the British family of four will be able to buy only 80 cents worth of meat a week — about three pounds of beef or four pounds of lamb. Otherwise it will be salads, nonrationed (Turn To Page 7. Column 6) o — -35 Persons Die In Norway Air Crash All Aboard Plane Killed In Crash Loeddingen.. Norway. Aug. 28.— (UP) —A Norwegian airlines flying boat smashed into fog-shrouted Klubben mountain outside this village high above the Arctic circle today, killing all 27 passengers and eight crew members. One of the passengers, a Mrs. Jess, was listed as an American but gave her address as Borkenes, Norway. Most of the passengers on fatal O^ioTromso flight were Norwegians? Two Czechonewspapermen were aboard. Rescue parties of road workers found burning wreckage scattered down the mountainside. There was ■ no sign of An airline representative said i the a British-built Short SunderlantFhad not been overload- ; ed. He indicated that weather ditions rather than a structural fault caused the crash. The airline i uses flying boats rather than land : planes along this rocky northern. 1 coast because landing fields are Fjords. ' ©

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J Brazil's Han For Sending Dispute To Private Talks Is Beaten By Council Lake Success, N. ¥# Aug. 28— (UP) The United Nations security council rejected Brazil’s plan for sending the Anglo-Egyp-tian dispute back into private negotiations today by the narrow margin of on*, vote. Colombian delegate Alfonso Lopez, after announcing that he endorsed th#? principle of the Brazilian plan, dealt the killing blow by abstaining from the vote instead of voting for the reso lution. Russia and Syria., also abstained. Poland voted against the proposal, while six nations —one Short of the necessary majority —supported it. Delegates, surprised by the Colombian action and frustrated in their desire to quit in middav for a week’s.’Vacation, were called immediately into afternoon session to consider a new Colombian proposal calling for slightly strdijfeer council action in the case. Jfc,.' The Brazilian proposal would have recommended a resumpt©)! lof negotiations between Egypt and Great Britain on evacuation of British troops from the Nile valley and would have required noth parties to report pAgress beginning Jan. 1. Lopez’ new proposal would call for a resumption of negotiations with a view to “the complete evacuation” of British troops at ‘the earliest possible date.” It also would provide for: 1. “Mutual assistance” by Egypt and Britain to guarantee liberty of navigation on the Suez canal. 2. of the present joint the AngloEgyptian Sudan ““with due .re-, gard to self-determination of peoples and self-government. Soviet delegate Gromyke said it would be fruitless to ordei Egypt and Great Britain to sume negotiations of Egypt’s cetnand for imjuediate exaeuaiioj* cf British forces from all the Nile valley and termination of the predonlbiaiitly 1} itish i uie of the Sudan. Lopez said, hdwever, it was “improbable” that a new round of negotiation would fail. Lopez’ stand meant that the necessary seven votes — Brazil. China. Colombia, France. United States, Belgium aiji, Australia — would back Brazil’s proposal. That would it unless Gromyko used the’ great power veto. In a brief speech opening the decisive stage of the Anglo Egyptian debate, Gromyko did not say he would use the |jieat power veto to kill the Brazilian plan. His tone of voice and choice of weeds indicated he would not. A triple detail of UN guards was thrown up at key points in UN headquarters and at all) entrances to the council chamber I to prevent a repetition of the (Turn To Pag>> 7, Column ot * Q Mennonite Conference Concluded Wednesday Berne, Ind., Aug — The 31st session of conference of the church of North American Adjourned, Wednesday ifterWon after a week s conclave hufe; Fourteen hundred delegates and visitors fro© many different states. Canada sUtd several other foreign countries attended. As the conference ended, the following executive committee was announced to make plans for the next co'nference but (he site hat@ not yet been Chairman, J. N. Ohio; vice chairman, Olin A Krehbiel, Berne; secretary- am| twisurer, Walter H. Dyck, Goshen: J. M. Regier, Hillsboro. Kan; H. J. Andrews, Newton, Kan; E. G. Kauffman, North Newton, TJtn; H. A. Fast, North Newton, Kan; and C. H. Goering, Moundridge, Kaa © The fowwing committee were also announced on the final day: board of education- I. I. Friesen, L. L. Ramseyer, Erland Waltner; emergency board-Peter Dyck: and R. C. Kauffman; mutual aid Wtfrd-William Snyder; publication. board-Ellis Graber and Harold Gross. ® o