Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 222, Decatur, Adams County, 20 September 1947 — Page 1

L xLV. No. 222.

| $. Leading losing Fight In UN Veto fl Russia Serves Blunt I Notice Os Veto Use II To Avert Revision ■united Nations Hall. Flushing ■ y Sept. 20.—(UP)— The United ■L and most of the other ■n ; teil Nations fought an admitted- ■ losing battle today to get modb ■cation of the big Power veto in K security council. ■ The veto itself in the end will deKat their efforts even though upKards of 40 of the 55 assembly Kembers want to make drastie Kanges or abolish the security ■until veto completely. But these ■dons hope talk about the veto ■ill mobilize world opinion further Ka.nst Russia's excessive use of it. ■ Despite almost universal con■mnation of her “abuse” of the ■n veto, the Soviet Union served ■lunt notice that she will use her ■to—as the charter allows—to kill ■y proposed change in the se■urity council rules. ■ Soviet delegate Anerei A. Gro■nyko, who has used the veto 20 ■ imes m less than two years to ■tymie the desires of the majority, tde that plain in a preview last Bight of the main bout yet to come Bver the veto at this year’s assembly. ■ Russia's opposition to any tamBering with the veto is so strong ■hatshe made a futile attempt to Bat she made a futile attempt to Biking about it. The 14-nation Beering committee ignored RusKia's threats however and voted Line to two to recommend inclujsion on the agenda of an Argentine proposal for calling a special Il’N conference to revise the veto. ■Russia and Poland voted against, ■two other big powers who have ■the veto—France and China —reIfuseil to vote, as did India. — But the efforts of other nations -the U. S. included—to liberalize the veto will be just as futile as Russia’s attempt to block discussion of it. After a lot of bitter talk, a special conference probably will not be called. And if it is, the Soviets have a veto over any proposed amendment. The United States is leading the rampaign to modify the veto after being one of its staunchest defenders for two years. But this tountry is using it to dramatize the security council paralysis caused by Russia with no hope whatever that anything can be done about it.' Instead the U. S. will seek to set up an alternative to the security council—a permanently-sitting (Turn Tn Pasn S, Column 41 0 Geneva Lad Badly Injured By Wagon Berne, Ind., Sept. 20 — Robert Fravel, 7. son of Mr. and Mrs. William Fravel of Geneva, was seriously injured when he was run over by a wagon hauling a load of tomatoes. The lad tried to climb on the wagon while it was in motion. It was being pulled by a tractor driven by Harold Long of Geneva. He suffered several fractured ribs and possibly internal injuries.

Sunder Infant Dies At Hospital Today Larry Elbert Guilder, six-months-old son of Ross and Lois Essex-Gunder, of Monroe, died 8t 10:30 o’clock this morning at th e Adams county memorial hospital. Surviving in addition to the Parents are the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Essex of Monroe and Mr. and Mrs. Faye Gander of Fort Wayne. The body *as removed to the Zwick funeral home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. a o- 1 First Contribution To Save The Shades' th Th .® first loca l contribution to Ina- Sa ' e the Shat^es ” project In mana, a campaign to establish day 3 * 6 Par ' t ’ * aS re P° ne d here toHer man H. Krueckeberg, cashr of the First State Bank in Der. reported this morning that Lrt° nt ™ Uti ° n of sl ° llad been ed ■> h e local bank has been namceivor ° n . 6 ° f the despository remav r. S ° f the tun d- Contributions na - v be made there. WEATHER Generally fair ant | continued rm today, tonight and tomorrow*

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Man Loses $1,500 To Polite Gunman New York, Sept. 20 —(UP) — John Milano, 21, told police that a gunman robbed him of $1,500 while he was waiting for a subway. Then the bandit waited with him until the next train arrived, put him aboard and waved goodby. Milano got off at the next station and summoned police. o Truman Back From Trip To South America Completes 10,845 Mile Trip, Returns To Capital Today Washington, Sept. 20. —(UP) — President Truman returned to the capital today, fit and ’ ready to plunge into the home problems of high prices and the international problems of relief for needy Europe. The presidential yacht Williamsburg carrying Mr. Truman from Norfolk, V., on the last lap of his 10,845-mile trip to South America slid into' its dock at, the navy gun factory here at 7:45 a.m. EDT. At the White House awaiting Mr. Truman was a three weeks accumulation of work which had piled up during his first real vacation since he took office in April, 1945. Mr. Truman’s calendar has purposely been cleared of appointments for today and Monday so the chief executive can give all his attention to the' events which have taken place since he left Washington. He will get a fill-in on *the international situation Monday from secretary of state George C. Marshall who will make a special trip here from New York where he is heading the U. S. delegation to the United Nations assembly. The President began the last leg of his 10,845-mile trip yesterday, leaving the battleship Missouri at Norfolk. Va., and boarding the Williamsburg for the cruise up the Potomac. A, light mist was falling as the President was piped over the side of the Williamsburg at 7:58 a.m. EDT. The President, sun-tanned and hearty, was in a particular jovial mood. He waved and grinned to about 50 persons who had gathered to watch his arrival. “It was a mighty fine trip,” Mr. ((Truman said. "But you don’t really appreciate your own country until you get back.” Then as photographers and newsreel men maneuvered to take his picture. Mr. Tnunan turned to them and sai%: "Where have you been —out with Taft?” This brought a roar of laughter from the crowd. Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., O„ is on a speech-making and political pulse-feeling tour of the west. Mr. Truman was followed ashore by his wife and daughter. Margaret. (Turn Tn Paare 5. Column 1) O Truck Loaded With Peaches Piled Up Sheriff Takes Over As 'Fruit Peddler' Sheriff Herman Bowman assumed a temporary job as “fruit peddler” about 11 o’clock last night when a load of 230 bushels of peaches was strewn about federal road 33 one mile south of the city. Earl A. Sanders, Benton Harbor, Mich., driver of the truck carrying the peaches, told the sheriff that when a cat ahead of him slowed down, he turned out to avoid a collision. The truck rolled completely over, spilling its contents along the highway and in the side ditches. Sanders authorized the sheriff to sell the peaches, while he made arrangements to move the wrecked truck. Sheriff Bowman sold about 140 “bargains” at $1 per bushel. He estimated the damage to the truck at $1,500 and thE contents’ loss —excluding the part he sold for the driver —at S3OO. Sanders escaped with a slight injury of the left leg, although the cab of the truck was smashed by the forward shift of the load of peaches. The wreckage was not cleared away until almost 4 a.m. today when sheriff Bowman returned to this city.

Hurricane Lashes New Orleans ul Bt w ■BwitfßNW US I Wil THE TROPICAL hurricane which lashed across the Florida peninsula with gales of 100-miles an hour, struck with undiminished fury at New Orleans. Following the pattern laid down across Florida, the howling wind toppled super-structures from build,ings in the heart of New Orleans. In the upper picture a downtown street is qhoked with debris and three cars are damaged by wreckage from a huge air-conditioning unit, blown from the top of a building. In the lower picture, taken on New Orleans’ famous Canal Street, the street is completely blocked with wreckage of the huge steel framework of a radio tower. The giant tower was torn from atop a nearby building and plunged to the street by the 104-mile-an-hour wind which lashed the city for 90 minutes.

Red Cross Reports On Safety Classes Report Activities Os Summer Months C. I. Finlayson, chairman of the Red Cross water safety program, which was conducted at the city swimming pool and Pine Lake, Berne, the past summer, today made a report covering the activities. Seventy girls participated in the classes, with 29 passing the required tests The Decatur instructors w’ere Eugene Pettibone, Mrs. J. K. Gunther and Mrs. Walter Kiess. Patrolman Walter Schindler was the instructor at Berne. Following are the Decatur girls to whom certificates were issued: beginners class: Carol Koldeway, Ann Urick, Sara Frank, Eileen Luanna Davidson, Margaret Harris, Nanna Aurand, Sharon Kreisher, Janet Everhart, Susan Heller. Barbara Heller, Judy Gunther, Georgiana Mcßride, Dorothy Lambert, Rose Marie Meyer, Sara Brunnegraff, Marlyn Robinson, Arlene Myers, and Ann Ehinger. Intermediate class: Karen Stricker, Ann Deitsch. Charlene Murphy, Colleen Lobsiger. Bar b a r,a Voglewede Gloria Duff, Eleanor Abbot, Sheila Ahr, and Charlotte South. Also one boy completed the beginner class in swimming, Howard Michaels. * In the advanced swimming class there were two girls, Connie Hill and Dixie Hill. Certificates were issued to these girls from the local Red Cross office by Mr. Finlayson. Junior and senior life saving classes taught by Eugene Pettibone resulted in three junior life saving certificates and six senior life saving certificates and emblems issued to the following students: junior: Theodore Wemhoff, Dixie Hill and Roger Johnson. Senior: Phillip Thomas, Connie Hill, Ruth Holthouse, Karlann Striker, Walter Schindler and Robert Gage. At Pine Lake One class in junior and senior lite saving each was taught by Mr. Schindler. Those successfully passing and receiving certificates and emblems follow: junior, James Hedges and Paul Sprunger; senior, Vaughn Schindler, Sally Bagley, David Nussbaum and John E. Eichenberger. Assistants who helped in instructing the classes In Decatur, the Red Cross announced, were: (Turn To. Pago 5, Column 4)

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Grain Futures Drop On Chicago Board Chicago, Sept. 20 —(UP) — Grain futures tumbled again today on the Chicago board of trade. As the trading opened, May and July corn fell the full eight-cent limit. 0 Boom Schricker As Governor Nominee Denies Any Comment At ’Editor's Parley French Lick, Ind., Sept. 20 —(UP) —Former Gov. Henry F. Schricker was accepted today as the noncommitted Democratic candidate for another term as Indiana governor. He didn’t say he would run as attention centered on him at the fall outing of the Indiana Democratic editorial association. But neither did he flatly say that he wouldn't be interested in returning in 1949 to the gubernatorial chair he vacated in 1945. The ex-governor left no doubt about his availability when he answered “no” to a news reporter’s question to whether he cared to comment on reports that he would be a candidate and ignored a question as to whether he would be a candidate.

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Bill Brown Describes Hurricane In Telephone Talk With Mother

Speaking from his barricaded and boarded up home at Navy Point near Pensacola, Fla., William Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Guy Brown of this city, Friday afternoon vividly described the hurricane which lashed that city and other southern points. Mrs. Brown, with the aid of a cooperative Florida long distance telephone operator, was able to talk to her son by telephone—although the area in which he is marooned is without lights and water. The young Brown’s wife, Annis May, and child, have been Evacuated to the residence of relatives in Alabama and Bill, himself, stayed behind at their home, where he is employed in the post office. The storm struck Pensacola and Navy Point about 4 a.m. Friday in the full force of its lOtf-mile an hour wind fury—and at the time he talked to his mother the wind was

Some Decreases In Food Costs Reported Government Reveals Cost Os Living Rise By United Press New reports of cheaper prices indicated today that the family food bill may be teetering on the edge of a slide toward lower levels. The reports of lower prices combined with a plunging grain market to fire hopes for lower retail prices. It still was too early to tell whether the market trends and price cuts to some consumers would be permanent and would result in tapering food prices. At Chicago, corn sales on the board of trade closed yesterday at $2.46 a bushel, almost 20 cents ■below the high of $2.65-% set only four days ago. September wheat closed at $2.61, a full ten cents below Thursday, and 24 cents below the all-time high of $2.85 set Sept. 11. Butter, egg and livestock prices dropped sharply at many markets throughout the country. As grain prices edged downward. secretary of agriculture Clinton P.” Anderson conjectured that the drops were due to a sudden realization by traders that there is still a surplus of 300,000,000 bushels of wheat to toss on the mar(Turn Tn Paee K. Column <sl

reported to have a velocity of about 60 miles per hour. Bill, and others marooned in the building, have been able to keep informed on the hurricane by means of a battery operated radio. The rain, he said, “was coming down in buckets” at the time of the call. The waves breaking in from the sea were estimated to be 30 feet in height. All windows in home and buildings around Navy Point were, boarded up Thursday in preparation for the arrival of the storm, herald. The fact that Mrs. Brown, who, iwlth cither relatives here had, expressed grave concern over her son’s welfare, was able to “get through” with the telephone call has been considered almost miraculous in view of the vast amount of disrupted utility services throughout tha Florida area.

Fiorella H. LaGuardia, Former New York Mayor, Dies Early This Morning

Hurricane Is Blowing Out Last Os Fury Worst Hurricane In Nation Since 1935 Blowing Self Out ' •» New Orleans. Sept. 20 —(UP) —The worst hurricane to hit the United States since 1935 was raining and blowing out the last of its fury or. the rich farmlands around Shreveport, La., today. Dying, it moved northwest about 15 miles an hour. At 5 a. m., EDT, the weather bureau said the storm —it had fallen out of the hurricane category — was 60 miles southeast of Shreveport. Gales of 30 to 40 miles an hour, sometimes reaching 50, were reported within 100 miles of the center. They once were 160 miles an hour. It was expected to move on across northeastern Texas and into southern Oklahoma, and gradually rain itself out. The weather bureau said that before the storm was totally gone, it might make itself felt as far north as Chicago, with winds up to 25 miles an hour and “plenty of rain.” The north edge was expected to reach the Chicago area, while the south edge extended far down into Oklahoma. Behind it, from the southeast coast of Florida to the southwest coast, up through the Mississippi gulf coastal region. New’ Orleans and central Louisiana it' had left a trail of devastation that may not be calculated for days. Damage in Florida alone was estimated at over $50,000,000. It was expected to be as much in Louisiana and adjoining states. It killed eight persons, injured hundreds, flooded big areas and laid waste thousands of acres of crops. As it dissipated itself, it beat opening boll of cotton into the ground over thousands of acres.

Biloxi, Gulfport and Bay St. Louis, Miss., where it hit early yesterday as a full-blown hurricane, were still isolated at last report. Radio reports from these resort cities told of huge damage from the wind and from giant waves swept out of the Gulf of Mexico and far inland. The naval reserve station at Gulfport radioed that at least .Tur- To Pai4« (>. Column 4) — O — May Assume British Occupation Costs Britain Asks U. S. Shoulder More Cost Washington, Sept. 20 —(UP) — Chairman Styles Bridges of the senate appropriations committee said today that if the United States were allowed to “run the show” in western Germany he would favor this country taking over the bulk of British occupation costs. The New Hampshire Republican made the statement as his committee met in emergency session. The committee will hear secretary of army Kenneth C. Royall outline the administration's plan for answering the British plea that she does not have enough dollars to pay half of the occupation costs in the Anglo-Ameri-can zone of Germany. Bridges told reporters that it appeared necessary for the Unit-' ed States to take over the major part of the occupation cost. “But one thing I want to be sure of before we give a green light to the plan is that we will be permitted to run the show if we are going to have to foot the bill,” Bridges said. “We don’t want to underwrite the British and still let them manage the occupation.” He said that be did not know w’hether a special session of con(Turn Pa«e 6. Column 5),

Dies Today ■O' ■ I kB IL HF > ■ jkSR ■ ' Fiorello LaGuardia legality 01 State Taxes Questioned State's Demurrer Dismissed By Judge Crown Point, Ind., Sept. 20 — (UP) — with the possible loss of most cf its revenue, the state of Indiana fought today to show the courts it had not taxed its citizens “without representation.” In a brief filed here by special counsel M. Elliott Belshaw. the state claimed that its gasoline , tax was legal even though the state had not been reapportioned since 1921. The state .constitution requires reapportionment every six years. Four residents, charged with < onspiracy to defraud the state of $45,000 in ’ gasoline taxes, claim the gas tax is illegal because the legislature failed to reapportion the state. A court decision holding the tax illegal would cast a shadow of illegality over the state’s income, cigarette, iexctsie and liquor taxes also. The four taxes furnish a major part of the state’s income. The issue probably will go all the way to the state supreme court for final decision. The legality question arose when the state filed civil suit against Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Coughlin, Fort Wayne; O. D. Barcus, Hammond, and Leonard Skaggs, Gary. The state said the four had attempted to beat the state out of $45,000 in gasoline taxes. Tho four protested. They claimed the tax was illegal since it was passed by the state legislature in 1943. Judge Harold L. Strickland of (Turn To Page 5. Column 4) O Barr Resigns As Justice Os Peace Geneva Man Quits After Many Years James- W. Barr, Geneva submitted his resignation a« justice of peace of Wabash tdwnship. a position he has held for many years. His resignation was mailed to the offices of county clerk Clyde O. Troutner. In submitting his resignation, the justice stated that he would turn over all books and records, after an audit is made, to his successor if one is appointed. The resignation of Mr. Barr leaves Wabash township without a justice and the county with only tw T o. Ernest Stengel at Berne has been serving as justice of peace of Monroe township for a number of years. Floyd B. Hunter recently assumed the duties of Washington township justice of peace, following his appointment to the office by the county commissioners. Mr. Barr's successor will also have to be named by the commissioners.

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'Little Flower' Os Politics Dies Os Cancer Today In Home In New York New York, Sept. 20. —(UP) — Fiorello H. LaGuardia, the fiery little flower of politics, died of cancer of the pancreas at his home at 7:22 a.m. today. He was 64. The fighting liberal died in his sleep, having never fully regained consciousness after falling into a coma Tuesday night. It had been apparent for many hours that death was near. A doctor dashed to a hospital early today for a special drug in a futile effort to extend his life. Shortly before 7:30 a.m. his personal physician, Dr. George Baehr who had been at his side all night, stepped to the door and motioned to a group of newspaper reporters on the sidewalk outside. “Mr. LaGuardia passed away at 7:22 a.m.,” he said. “His family was at his bedside.”

That included his wife, Marie, his adopted -children Jean and Eric and his sister-in-law, Mrs. Elsie Fisher,

Dr. Baehr said funeral arrangements would be completed later today. Messages of condolence poured in. Mayor William O’Dwyer said the city, state and nation lost a great man. “I fully believe that his unselfish devotion to the people and his untiring and energetic efforts to promote public welfare contributed to a great extent to his failing health,” O'Dwyer said. The street was deserted except for the reporters and a lone policeman who had paced in front of the two-story fieldstone house all night in a chilled, windswept raffn. The skies cleared shortly before dawn. Traffic had been stopped on the dead end street. The only sound was the wind in the trees and the rattle of acorns falling on the roof of the quiet house where the fiery little flower of politics lay dying In his latest bulletin issued be fore midnight, Dr. George Baehr. LaGuardia’s personal physician, said, “the former mayor has been sinking for the last hour or two.” The former mayor had never regained full consciousness since he collapsed Tuesday night. Dr. Baehr went to the home LaGuardia called “Villa Marie” after his wife at 7:30 p.m. and remained throughout the night. Dr. Meyer J. Karsh, Or. Baehr’s consultant who had spent the day at the house, returned last night shortly after Dr. Baehr’ announced that LaGuardia’s condition was critical. Dr. Karsh left at 12:05 a.m. He had no statement. Dr. Karsh returned to the house at 4:40 a.m. He remained there until 5:10 a.m. when he left saying he was going to Jewish Memorial hospital t<i get a special drug. “He is still in a coma,” Dr, Karsh said. Also at his bedside W’ere his wife, Marie, his daughter, Jean, 18, and Paul Moss, former commissioner of licenses. Always “Critical” Fiorello LaGuardia once told his wife:: “If I ever stop being critical of things, you can shoot me.” That utterance was a key to the character of the man who was born on New York’s lower East Side, grew up in the rawhide atmosphere of early Arizona and South Dakota, rose from enlisted man to air corps major in the first World War, cut his political teeth as a fighting liberal in congress, and rose to full stature as the most colorful —and perhaps the most controversial —mayor in New York’s history. LaGuardia was "critical of things” to the point of exasperation. and the thing he hated most was injustice. In 1937, long before most of the world had awakened to the meaning of the Hitler regime, the Nazi press was calling LaGuardia a “boob, procurer, gangster, blackmailer, cheap brain, lout, and well-poisoner.” That was because the mayor of New York had termed Hitler a “browri-shirted fanatic” and suggested placing an effigy of him in a “chamber of horrors” at the New York World’s Fair of 1939. Despite his stormy character. LaGuardia had a quality that made his public love him. To New York’s AThtu Ta ■Pass »> Column Q ®