Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 214, Decatur, Adams County, 11 September 1947 — Page 1

XLV. No. 214.

-- ■ - * —" Won Facing j iord Retail * led Prices I prices For Nearly 111 Basic Products i ||re Zooming Higher \ ; [ lago, Sept. 11 -(UP)- The hogs and wheat soared to Lwlalltime highs on Chicago ex : Xis today, while in two other i cities CIO unions began a drivil to combat spiralling food chops on the hoof also set ->w all-time high at Omaha. Neb J where hogs sold for $32 a breaking the prerecord of $30.75 set yesterday. II Hq ( | and elude.- hops -old for £5 Hq per loindred pounds al Ciiie Ksfllhi Aorlii .c la n.-ct moat pack-jKeH'*-r <»n the (’lma'.’o board Ilf W al l,. September wheat jumpbß -- x4 a hitshel. and December K sold for $2.87. ill Kese were the highest prices || ■ paid for wheat for delivery I inßeptember and December. and oats, however, failed A to W yesterday's record prices. glßime steers at the Chicago ML sold for $35.50 per hundredI weight, a new high for 1947. The I pAious high for the year for beefI steal m the hoof was $35.25, set I yelerday. g gMt Detroit, locals of the CIO ■ United Automobile workers set up S-ery stores in union halls to sell to members at cost. A local ■Resenting Ford Motor Co. emM|es earlier this week bought ■on worth of canned goods and dut the entire supply in a few hours. a local representing 16,000 vorkens at Briggs manufacturing- impany authorized the expendH[e of SIO,OOO to open a grocery in the union hall. Union ofMals said the local would carry everything but perishable foods. The groceries will be sold at cost by union officers serving a«3 groeery clerks without pay. |3lt Toledo, 0., the joint CIO I council voted to begin mass picketing of food stores "to display the feelings of the American worker." No date was set, however, for the ■rt of picketing. Previously, ■usewives formed an organization ■own as “housewives, Inc.,” and ®an a “chain telephone” campaign to persuade their friends to ■ycott high priced foods. ■The record hog price at Chicago topped the previous high of S3O ■ hundredweight set last Feb. 25. ■g prices generally were 75 cents ■her than yesterday’s average. ~ for nearly every basic including some of those HHed in the manufacture of clothU thing, shot upward on exchanges MM*oughout the country yesterday. ■ Mew record highs were establish■B for wheat, corn, and oats. Hogs H hit new all time highs at Sioux J (Sty, la., and Omaha, Neb. I RSeveral livestock markets re9Brted all time highs on hogs but analysts said meat prices ■B U ' d r<?ally skyrocket when >he effect of the poor corn crop ■ ■felt by the nation’s stock raisers. I ■Several experts predicted that g ■tuldn’t occur until next year, They reasoned that the °f eorn would force many farf° se N their cattle, hogs and •mep at short weight early this ■ That would increase the supply ■ff meat during the fall and winter. * trading to depress prices or at |R a3 f hold them steady. IB But the big pay-off on the corn ■^S° rtage wou!d com e in the spring, short-selling of stock this IBfJ make them scarce later on Q nii ,he Prices will zoom, the exI Perts said. George R. Dressier, spokesman F B" , national association of meat E° a lers, said he could not “subhoe to the claims that there’s >ng to be a terrific meat shorte.” Livestock population figures as ’ Know them from the departint of agriculture are not alarmhe said. “After all. the tarns must keep producing. They o just close their farms.” 6 there was any reason to resume food rationing f n Said he considered it “unfair Knu mere,y at foods as the ■>»ly commodity which is rising.” B-ear I Bteady TiSe ln prices this shown by Dun | I 'Turn T„ Pag . p 2 . f^fumn 5) WEATHER I she ° Btly cloudy w, th thunderI w e T rS n ° rth and extreme i «..? po '; 8 toniflht and I dav ’J’' 1 * oUth P° rt 'ons FriI l»ni.JX ■" d

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Three Men Killed In Army Plane Crash Castle Rock, Colo. Sept. 11 —(UP) The wreckage of a plane identified tentatively as a miseing (’-47 cargo plane was found on Spruce mountain today. All three crew members were dead. The big plane crashed into the mountainside during a thunderstorm last night. Army officers at Lowry field near Denver tentatively identified it as the C-47 with three men aboard which was overdue on a flight from Hobbs field, N. M„ to Hill field, Utah. •‘ \ . o AFL Head Says Rival Unions Should Unite Unions Must Unite To Defeat Backers Os Taft-Hartley Act Chicago, Sept. 11—(UP)—The naiton’s two great labor organizations, the AFL and CIO, must unite immediately if they are to defeat congressmen who voted for the Taft-Hartley act, AFL president William Green said today. Green said he did not- think the two union groups could "make a success of one thing by cooperating and working together, if we’re out fighting somewhere else over something else.” He said the matter of setting up one powerful organization for the nation’s 12,000,000 union workers would be discused at today’s session of the AFL executive council’s regular quarterly meeting here. AFL and CIO officers have agreed already that the merger is “absolutely necessary” and that it is only necessary to “JKork out the details.” However, he said. CIO officers . kiseem to have changed their minds.” “We want to meet with them again to find out whether they’ve repudiated the agreements we reached in our meetings with them last May,” he said. Green did not indicate whether he had contacted CIO. officers to arrange for new merger negotiations but said he was anxious to bold such a meeting. He made his statements at a press conference at which the AFL executive council released a statement calling for a meeting of the "big four” nations to avoid a break in international relations. The council charged that the United Nations organization had' become “almost impotent." It said “deterioraiton of international relations has reached such alarming proportions that an eventual break appears inevitable unless strong and construc(Turn To Page 2 Culnmn 4> Mrs. Clem Colchin Dies Last Evening W — Funeral Services Saturday Morning Mrs. Clem Colchin, 59, a lifelong resident of Adams county, died at 8:35 p. m. Wednesday at the Adams county memorial hospital after a three weeks illness of complications. She was born in Adams county August 7, 1888, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Oinlor. /She was a member of the St. Mary’s Catholic church and the St. Mary’s society. Surviving in addition to the husband are two sons, Cedric Colchin” of Sturgis, Mich., and Robert Colchin. at home; two grandchildren; five sisters, Mrs. Ed Rumschlag. Mrs. Nick Braun, Mrs. Fred Ulman. Mrs. Carl Steigmeye.r and Mrs. Casper Miller, all of Decatur; four brothers, Hubert. Ed and Lawrence Omlor, all of Decatur, and Herman Omlor, of Fostoria. O. One daughter is deceased. Funeral services will be held at 10 a. m. Saturday at the St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz officiating. Burial will be in the Cathilic cemetery. The body will be p removed from the GilligfSfc Doan funeral home to the iWidence. route 4, Friday morning. The St. Mary’s society will meet at the residence at 8 p. m. £P day to recite the rosary.

Jewish Refugees Arrive In German DP Camp ...... * I * 17 j. d ’ ' ~-x- m ’ jiBBIF iBL. / .r NISSEN HUTS form backdrop at Poppendorf, Germany, Displaced Persons camp as some of the 4,300 Exodus 1947, Jewish refugees, disembarked at Hamburg, arrive for internment in the British occupation zone. The refugees were transported on three ships from Haifa, Palestine, where the British captured the Exodus 1947. when the Jewg tried to run the blockade.

Says Atomic Wars Would Destroy Man Nobel Prize Winner Warns Os Dangers Chicago, Sept. 11 —(UP) — A series of atomic wars would wipe out mankind by planting tiny delayed action “bombs” in the bodies of persons not killed directly by the nuclear blasts, a noble prizewinning scientist said today. Dr. H. J. Muller, professor of Zoology at Indiana university, wrote in the bulletin of the atomic scientists that radiation from atomic explosions cauees thousands of mutations, or changes, in the genetic system of all persons in the vicinity. “A avst majority of mutations are harmful,” Muller said, “and damage enough could probably be done if there were a world-wide misuse of atomic energy, to result in the genetic dying out of a number of people to several times more than the population of the earth. “These would be scattered over so many future generations that they would not effect drastically any single generation. "If, however, the exposure to the radiation were repeated in this way generation after generation, it could in time succeed in destroying the human gene system beyond recovery.” Muller won the Nobel prize last year for his researches into the effects of X-rays in mutations and on the Gene system as a whole. He explained that the Gene is the portion of the body structure which determines whether children will resemble the father or the mother, and determines the physical characteristics of the body. “When an atomic bomb is set off in a large populated area and kills 100,000 people, enough mutations may have been implanted in the survivors, living on the fringes of the explosion, to cause at least as many genetic deaths as the original blast. “In other words, there have been planted hundreds of thousands of (Turn To Page 2. .Column 4)

One Woman Dies As Two Buses Collide Driver Os Stalled Chicago Bus Lauded Chicago, Sept. 11 — (UP) — Quick action by the driver of a stalled bus apparently saved several persons from injury today In a two-bus collision that killed a woman and hurt 24 other persons. Robert Williams, Chicago, driver of a Sheridan Road limited bus, told police his bus stalled and he was getting passengers off when he saw another bus coming at his vehicle. Both had teen fully loaded with rush hour passengers. Williams jumped from his bus and shoved some of the passengers away, but could not move them all. ® Mae Lofstedt, 19. a clerk, one of the whom Williams was unable W reach, was killed. Five of the injured were described as in serious condition.

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Monroe Centennial Celebration Off Reports from Monroe stated today that the centennial celebration, scheduled to be staged there September 16-21, has been cancelled. It was explained that the celebration wae too large an undertaking and that volunteer firemen, who were to have sponsored the event, were too buoy with their regular jobs to make necessary arrangements. 0 Jewish Refugees Camp Calms Down U. S. Congressmen Visit German Camp Poppendorf, Internment Camp, Germany, Sept. 11—(UP—Sixtytwo Jewish leaders in the battle of the Hamburg docks Tuesday were sent to Poppendorf today after being held in Hamburg for two days to give the refugee camps a chance to settle down. The 62 Jews who joined their fellow refugees here were taken into custody after the bloody slugging match aboard the Runnyinede P<rk. They had been carried bodily off the ship and sent to a Hamburg prison for a cooling off period. Special barbed wire enclosures wihtin the wiretringed Poppeie dorf camp eight miles northeast of Luebeck had been prepared for the prisoners. Camp officials said they expected no trouble, lut guards were alerted for any possible demonstrations. The dispatch of the Jewish ringleaders to Poppendorf followed an unheralded and “strictly private” visit here by three members of a special displaced persons committee of the U. S. house of representatives. The congressmen, on their way by air from Luebeck to Frankfurt, stopped over briefly to get a first hand impression of the camp now housing some 3,000 of the refugees from the Runnymede Park and Ocean Vigour. They also visited the prison in the Hamburg dock area where the 62 Jews were held under special guard. Thinking them to be Britons, the prisoners spat at them, and refused proffered cigarets. Two days after the last of the Jews were brought ashore at Hamburg, an air of relative calmness had settled over the camp. But the calmness had an undertone of sullen discontent. The more or less suppressed recalcitrance of the Jewish refugees was seen the most plainly in the thinly veiled dfefiance toward the British intelligence officers who were questioning the 3.000 refugees here. With careful uniformity the refugees were telling the officers that they were born in Palestine, lived in Palestine, and intended to return there. Another token of the feelings of at least some of the Jews was seen by members of a special displaced persons committee of the U. S. house of representatives who were reported to have toured the camp for a minute inspection yesterday. The committeemen offelw cigarets and chocolates to thee Jews. ft (Turn To Page 7, Column 1) S' « ®

University Student Slays Young Bride 17-Year-O!d Girl Slain By Husband Denver, Sept. 11. —(UP) —A 23-year-old Denver husband stood by his bride's bed last night repeating “till death do us part” from his marriage vows as he poured one slug from his revolver into her body to punctuate each word. Then, Denver University student Charles Geisler stood beside his dying 17-year-old bride for a moment before he turned and walked down the stairs He called a family friend. “I’ve just shot and killed Sue,” he said. “I thought you’d like to know.” Before he could hang up the telephone, patrolman Arils L. Burks entered and placed him under arrest. At police headquarters today, Geiser placidly chewed at a wad of gum as he told police his story. Geiser and Gertrude McNabb, young Denver carhop, were married 'Aug. 22 —three weeks ago tomorrow —after a month-long romance that began on the fender of Geiser's car when he stopped to eat at the roadside restuarant where the girl worked. After three days of marriage, Gertrude left and moved into an apartment with her 14-year-old sister, Sylvia. The younger girl was in the apartment last night and witnessed the shooting. , The slightly built ex-air forces mechanic said his wife wanted to have the marriage annulled. “She left because she didn’t want me any longer," he said evenly. Geiser showed nd remorse as he (Turn To Pajre 2. Column 4) 0 Receive Complaints Os Dogs At School Ask Parents Keep Pet Dogs At Home City and school officials today joined in a plea to students and parents to keep pet dogs at home while the children are traveling to and from school. Officer Adrian Coffee, speaking for police officials, said that several complaints have been received by the department concerning the number of dogs gathering at the various schools. Children’s pets naturally follow them to the respective schools and are permitted to remain at large, he said, and it is these animals that have caused the complaints. The dogs congregate near school entrances, start fighting and otherwise cause confusion around the buildings, he said. Some, rather than returning home after the child enters school, spend most of the day around the building waiting for his young master or mistress to be dismissed, he said. Officials stressed the fact that they have no desire to embarrass parents and students who have but asked their cooperation in Wntrolling what could become a nuisance.

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See Hope For Some Grain Price Break Any Drop Likely To Be Only Temporary Washington, Sept. 11 —(UP) — The state department today threw another jarring note into the world’s critical food supply situation by disclosing that this country will have at least 10 percent less grain available for export this year than last. The state department’s announcement was made amid these other developments: 1. Sen. Ralph E. Flanders, R., Vt„ urged the Chicago board of trade to boost its margin requirements from 40 to the full 100 percent in corn and wheat dealings to halt speculation and spiralling prices. 2. Agriculture department officials saw some hope of a break in grain prices when the droughtbit corn crop hits the market in a few weeks. But they wouldn’t say whether it would affect retail food prices. 3. Flanders, who is chairman of a joint congressional sub-com-mittee investigating prices in the east, indicated his committee didn’t think much of a return of price controls. Meanwhile, Flanders strongly criticized the grain dealings on the Chicago board of trade. “The grain situation is now out of control,” Flanders said. "It is a general feeling that this is a speculative rise. The government does not have the power to control grain speculation. The suggestion is that the board of trade itself ought to put a damper on that part of the price rise attributed to speculation.” Meanwhile, the agriculture department did not commit itself on whether it expected rising grain prices—now at an all-tiihe peak—to continue Hsing until the corn crop gets to market. And the department did not say what effect a break in grain prices would have on retail prices. But officials said privately that there is almost no hope that food prices will drop below their present high level before next summer. Any drop in grain prices likely will be only temporary and will be followed by new Increases, they said. (Turn To Pagr 2. Column 5)

Back-To-School Move At Gary High School Prospects Brighten For Ending Strike Gary, Ind.. Sept. 11 —(UP) — Seven hundred papite appeared for classes at the Emerson school today, and school authorities said prospects were “a little brighter” for ending a student strike against the admission of negroes. The back-to-Bchool movement left 1,000 of Emerson’s grade and high school students etill on strike. Members ot the school football team met with Jack Gilroy, director of physical education for the Gary public schools, to discuss the possibility of returning to classes if their football schedule was reinstated. At Tolleston school, across town from Emerson, attendance was normal. A 16-year-old Tolleston student, who was arrested on charges of agitating for a strike at his school, was released and returned to classes this morning. Picket lines formed outside Tolle6ton yesterday, but police and school authorities broke them up. Only about 50 of Tolleston’s 400 students stayed away from classes. Authorities said this was a normal absenteeism rate. City officials warned that they would prosecute all students who had not returned to their classes today. Adult leaders of the (strike also face arrest. Only about 500 of Emerson’s 1,750 students reported for classes yesterday. The Emerson strike started Sept. 2, the Jjrst day of the fall term when of the Rodents Turn Pag® 2, Column 7)

Bevin's Bid For Lend-Lease Is Disavowed British Officials Say Bevin Proposal Not Official Plan London, Sept. 11—(UP) —British officialdom disavowed any responsibility today for foreign secretary Ernest Bevin’s suggestion that the Unite! States revive lend-lease aid to save Britain from ecoonmic ruin. For the second time in a week, < fficial quarters showed no inclination to catch a hot potato Bevin heaved their way. The first was his proposal that the United States gold hoard at Fort Knox be re-distributed. Admitting that his gold proposal had not turned out to be popular, Bevin told visiting American Legionnaires last night that the tenewal of lend-lease would suit him as well as share-the-gold. The foreign office said today that Bevin’s speech had been extemporaneous. He had not even given the office any advance indication. it said, that he intended to address the Legionnaires. Along with the treasury, the foreign office declined any comment on the situation. Informed Whiethall sources said it was another case — like the gold —in which Bevin was just thinking out loud. They said Bevin was desperate in his quest for some means by which Britain can get mote dollar aid. and apparently was giving vent to every idea that popped into his mind. The informants said Bevin had not consulted his government colleagues fotmally about. the, proposal, and doubted he had mentioned it to U. S. ambassador Lewis Douglas. Some authoritative quarters feared Bevin’s speech might cloud the issue at the very time Hugh Dalton, chancellor of the exchequer, was engaged in talks with John W. Snyder. U. S. secretary of the treasury, on Britain’s economic plight. The Daily Herald, organ of the labor party and as such close to the government, said Dalton was seeking permission to draw on the remaining $400,000,000 of the American loan. It was frozen when Britain suspended convertibility of sterling into dollars Aug. 20. The Herald said the thawing, coupled with the $456,000,000 in Import cuts already announced by the government, would reduce the gap between Britain’s (Turn Tn Pup-e 2 r?nhn«»n 7)

Discuss Call For Lutheran Pastor Religion School To Be Held Saturdays Procedure for calling a new pastor at the Zion Lutheran church in this city was outlined at a meeting of the church voters' assembly Wednesday night at the school. The church is seeking a new pastor to fill the vacancy caused by the recent resignation of the Rev. Paul W. Schultz, who has acepted a position on the west coast for Valparaiso university. A number of nominations for pastor were received last night. Other names are to be added and the complete list will be considered at another voters' assembly next Wednesday at 8 p.m. The meeting last night also completed arrangements to open the Saturday religion school Saturday morning at 8:45 o’clock. The Rev. Karl Hofmann, vacancy pastor, will be in charge of the school, assisted by Theodore Grotrian, teacher at St. Peter’s Lutheran school. A committee was named to study the school setup and return recommendations if a change in time seems desirable.

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Denounces Phony Draft But Likely Would Accept Bid From G. 0. P. Party New York, Sept. 11. —(UP)— Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, prominently mentioned recently as a possible “draft” candidate fur the Republican presidential nomination, said today that "a man who has spent his life in military service should never enter politics and seek partisan office.” The army chief of staff refusjed to remove himself definitely from consideration for the presidential nomination, however. He repeated, in a press conference at Columbia University, what he had said yesterday in Washington: “There never has been a draft movement without artificial stimulus. I will be no party to anything artificial.” That appeared to leave the possibility that Eisenhower would permit himself to be drafted for the nomination if he were convinced that the draft movement were without “artificial stimulus.” Eisenhower, who will take over as president of Columbia University some time after Jan. 1, made his statement regarding the artificial nature of all previous draft movements at a formal press conference at Lowe Memorial library at the university. Cornered again afterward by reporters and newsreelmen, he expanded upon it to say: “I can only repeat that I will have nothing to do with partisan politics.” He then added his statement that a military man should never enter politics and seek partisan office. A newsman then asked him: "Now that you are about to be come president of Columbia Un( versity, should you be addressed as ‘General’ or “Mr. President.’?” Smilingly, Eisenhower -replied: "I shall always answer most readily to the name of ‘lke’.” Eisenhower, who was visiting Columbia University to “get some inkling of what is expected of a college president,” the job he will take over at Columbia sometime after Jan. 1, said he had about matte up his mind to “seal my mouth on politics.” So professional soldier,” hu “should take a political position. It is not good for the army or good for the soldier.” The general said the purpose of his visit to Columbia was to get better acquainted with officials of the university and to find a place to live when he moves here. “I hope to spend many happy years at Columbia,” he added. The press conference was held after Eisenhower arrived at the university about 10:30 a.m. in front of Lowe Memorial library. The conference was held in a small auditorium in the library, where Eisenhower spoke extemperanousely and then answered a half dozen questions by some of the 30 reporters present concerning his political ambitions. He stood up and said he guessed that was all. At this point a reporter interjected the question as to whether he would permit himself to be drafted for the presidential nomination. Eisenhower reddened slightly, put his hands on his hips, and then said that there had never been a draft without artificial stimulus, and that he would not stand for anything artificial. 0 Maj. Gen. Lerch Dies In Korea Seoul. Sept. 11 —(UP) — Maj. Gen. Archer L. Lerch, military governor of the United States occupation zone in Korea, died today of coronary thrombosis or the formation of a blood clot in the heart. Lerch. 53, suffered a heart attack two weeks ago. At that time he was taken to a hospital and his condition was pronounced grave. i—o One Man Killed In Truck-Bus Collision Princeton. Ind.. Sept. 11 — William Epperson, 50, UnionWle, Tenn., was killed and six persons y es *erday in a truckwf*<‘olßFion on U. S. 41. Bus driver Lane Stultz. Jte Princeton, and five passengeTT were treitwl at Gibson General hospital. W