Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 225, Decatur, Adams County, 24 September 1947 — Page 1

XLV. No. 225.

Os Food Prices Drops I past Week [Rome Retail Prices IB) ro p, Easing Strain limn Family Budgets i;: By United Press . & Bradstreet’s index of food prices dropped 21 in the last week, while a iff, hy ’hiited Press showed I■ . that l'»w >' grocery counter t K in many cities had eased of the strain on the house HK's budget. e Dun & Bradstreet index ■p,j to $6.91. ending a fourK increase which boosted the lijgrt to an all-time high of $7.12 Mk before last. Price declines | TO '- recorded on flour, wheat, H r ye, oats, barley, beef, bellies, lard, butter, beans, Ha'toes. rice, currants, steers,. K< and lambs. ! Hhe wholesale price of cheese, Konseed oil, cocoa and prunes I wnt up. while coffee, sugar, tea. peanuts, eggs, molasses, and sheep were unchangKeanwbile, a spot check of f -tentative cities showed that prices on a selected group |of principal foods had dropped Hn the past week the price of | Inr ter, eggs, hamburger, roast K and pork loin have dropped 5 slihtly in some sections. How■er, prices are still far above Hise of Sept. 3 when many fwl desale market prices soared highs and started the ■flation spiral on a new whirl I awards. ■she price of butter was down | fn n one to four cents a pound, | tie survey showed, and eggs ■re fallen on as much as 14 ■rts a dozen in some cities. I Bacon increased slightly in sevBJal places, but dropped as much ■lO cents a pound in other ■ies. ■The price of ribbed, roast beef Bopped 21 cents a pound in some ■ties this past week. Pork loin ■ices were down as much as 11 Hnts a pound. Hamburger prices Here steady in most 'cities. ■Meanwhile, in Washington, the ■riculture department said ■ere was far less danger of a ■pression now than after World ■ar I. However, the department Hid it would be rash to dismiss He possibility of a depression al ■gether. ■ The department added that itBe Inflation does burst and ■use a depression, it probably ■mild be short lived. The natBnal economy would recover Bpidly to higher economic lev■s than in the pre-war years, it lid. The nation still waited for resident Truman -to announce is new food policy, especially i respect to food exports. In ibicago, a federal grand jury ontinued its investigation into Igh meat prices. The drop in retail food prices robably was due to two reasne: (1) generally lower markets Ince Sept. 3; (2) a surge in huyr resistance. In New York, for example, buyr resistance against egg prices 148 been particularly strong, hiring the past week the price ‘ eggs has dropped from 99 to 9 cents a dozen in some stores. ~ —oounty To Receive lids For Groceries The county commissioners at uelr regular meeting on October 6 t “ reeeive bids for the furnishing groceries and tobacco at the '° UDty home for a three months eriod, beginning October 1. •peaks To Lions On a 9e Experiences rnh° hn ,. Doan ' son of M1- ' and Mrs. u M. Doan, of this city, was Woot? eaker Tuesda y evening at the of the Decatur ‘ * cl *>' held at the Kni ghts of rrthlas home. riviTa related aB interesting and iervlr escril>tion of his duties while linn “ g „ as a page at ‘he last seslion of Congress. 0WEATHER Cloudy south and east, clearSo V°? hWest por ‘* e "» tonight. cooler tonight. d?v ’ nd cooler wlthfJS Thur,day "'» ht

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Congress Leaders Called By Truman Hold Parley Monday On Food Questions Seattle, Sept. 24 —(UP)—Congressional leaders have been called to the White House next Monday to confer with President Truman about “the food Question,” Sen. Robert A. Taft. R., 0., disclosed here today. Taft, chairman of the Republican policy committee, told reporters he had received a notice from his secretary ;ft his office in Washington. He added, however, that he would be unable to attend and would finish his current western tour which was scheduled to end at Casper. Wyo„ Oct. 2. Taft said he had consulted senate president Arthur H. Vandenberg, R., Mich., by telephone and that Vandenberg would attend, representing the senate Republican leadership. The Ohioan said he would be available the following Monday, Oct. 6. if Vandenberg thought a meeting of Republicans was desirable. Asked it lie thought the president wanted to discuss calling a special session of congress, Taft replied he did not know. He said the invitation sounded as if it involved both domestic and foreign food Questions and that he thought it primarily involved the Marshal plan. The domestic and foreign food situations are interlocked, he said. Asked how he thought the country felt about the food sup ply situation. Taft answered: “I think the attitude of the country is the same as ours, wanting to be shown and to do what is right when we know what is right. We want to be helpful in the European situation.”

Taft also was asked about a Democraffc national committee challenge t'or him to debate with Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney. D., Wyo.. on the responsibility for the high cost of living. Taft said the Mutual Radio network had offered several dates for the debate but that he was unable to accept any of them and had offered instead to debate Oct. 6. 0 _ Boy Charged With Attack On Teacher South Bend, Ind., Sept. 24 — (UP)— Assault and battery chargee were on file today against a 14-year-old schoolboy accused of striking his teacher after she reprimanded him. Miss Hazel Calvert, 47, a teacher in the Oliver school here, suffered a sprained wrist and an arm bruise, police said, when the youth leaped over several chairs and desks and attacked her. Charges against the boy. whose name was not dfeclosed, ( were filed in juvenile court. Boy Scouts Planning Winter Activities Meeting Heid Last Evening By Leaders District and troop Boy Scout executives met at Berne Tuesday night to lay plans for the winter activities of the seven Adams county Boy Scout troops. Clarence Ziner, county chairman of the organization, presided at the business session which followed a fish dinner, which is an annual event. Representatives were present at the conference from the Decatur, Berne and Monroe troops and a new troop organized at Geneva recently was represented by its executive officers. Sylvester Everhart, district commissioner, and Dr. Ray Stingeiy of Decatur and Sherman Stuckey, Berne, neighborhood commissioners gave reports on their official activities in the scouting program. Joe Saunders, Fort Wayne, assistant scout executive of this area, delivered an address outlining proposed winter activities. Mr. Saunders also praised the Adams county district officers and stated that troops from this county again led all others in number of boys attending the Big Island camp the past summer. The dinner and meeting were held in the Marine room of the community building at Berne. The complete fall and winter program for the seven troops of Adams county will be announced soon, Mr. Ziner said today.

U. S. Ready To Begin Work On Marshall Plan President Summons Cabinet To Meeting On Food Situation Washington, Sept. 24.—(UP) — Acting secretary of state Robert A. Lovett said todhy that all appropriate facilities of the United States government “are fully mobilized” to begin work on the Marshall plan which was prepared in Paris. Lovett also told a news conference that President Truman will make a statement "in the near future” on the 16-nation report which estimated requirements during the next four years at $22,440,000,000— $15,810,000,000 of it from the United States. Lovett’s statement was made as Mr. Truman summoned his cabinet to a special meeting on the foodprice situation. The cabinet also may discuss the Marshall plan. The White House disclosed that Mr. Truman will hold a news conference tomorrow, presumably to announce plans fdr combatting high prices and helping hungry Europe. Mr. Truman also may discuss with his cabinet the question of whether to call congress back into special session. Lovett disclosed that some European experts who drafted Europe’s reconstruction requirements under the Marshall plan are being invited, to come here early next month to discuss their work and give further information on the Paris report. He said ‘secretary of state George C. Marshall is transmitting the report to Mr. Truman. From other reliable sources it was learned that some top administration officials believe Europe’s “stop-gap" economic requirements before the end of the year will require congressional action. These sources did not say whether a special session would be needed, but that presumably was what they meant. The emergency stop-gap aid program, which is linked with the domestic food-price problem, is separate from the Marshall plan. Meanwhile, it was learned that a survey prepared for Mr. Truman (Turn Tn Pasre 2, Column 3) o To Resume Railroad Hearing October 16 Discontinuance Os Trains Is Opposed

Delegations from Decatur and other cities and towns along the Pennsylvania railroad line from Fort Wayne to Richmond are again expected tA attend a hearing at Winchester on October 16. The Indiana public service commission has announced that it will continue a hearing on the railroad's petition to remove two day passenger trains on that day. The hearing, a continuance of one held several weeks ago, will begin at 10 a.m. The Decatur Chamber of Commerce, local business men and interested persons, including members of the law firm of DeVoss & Smith, who represented many of them, are expected to be present. Bqrne, Geneva, Monroe, Winchester and other communities along the line are also expected to be represented. The fact that the Winchester courthouse courtroom, scene of the hearings, was packed at the first meeting is considered evidence of the amount of public interest. Many here object to the removal of the two day trains, which would eliminate much express and mail service, in addition to passenger service. 0 Associated Churches To Meet Here Sunday Lowell Smith, president of the recently formed organization, “The Associated Churches of Decatur," has called a meeting of pastors and representative® of each church, to be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the pethany Evangelical United Brethren church on Winchester street. The final election of chairmen will be held and Association plans will be discussed. Pastor® are urged to contact representatives of their churches and request all to attend.

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JUST AS BOXERS shake hands before the bell, British Undersecretary of State Hector McNeil (right) and Soviet Deputy Foreign Commissar Andrei Vishinsky cordially shake hands before McNeil mounts the UN General Assembly rostrum for blistering speech in reply to Vishinsky’s “warmonger” tirade.

Unions Must Obey Taft-Hartley Law Says Unions Can't Escape Provisions Washington, Sept. 24. — (UP) — The National Labor Relations Board served notice on unions today that their decision to by-pass the board does not exempt them from responsibility under the TaftHartley law. The new labor law makes unions, as well as employers, subject to penalty for unfair labor practices. Acting on this provision, NLRB general counsel Robert N. Denham filed these actions: 1. A petition for a federal court injunction to restrain AFL carpenters in Chattanooga, Tenn., from conducting a secondary boycott of a local store. 2. A complaint charging the international typographical union and its Baltimore local with refusing to bargain “in good faith” with a group of commercial printing shops. The petition for an injunction in the Chattanooga case merely seeks to restrain the carpenters from their secondary boycott until the board can pass on the charges. An NLRB decision against the two unions would be followed by “cease and desist” orders requiring the locals to discontinue the alleged illegal practices. These orders can be enforced through the federal courts. NLRB officials said the Chattanooga and Baltimore cases were the first of several designed to test the unfair labor practices section of the Taft-Hartley law'. They (Turn To Pae? 2. Column 5) 0 Preacher's Wife Stabbed To Death Found In Chicago Parking Lot Today Chicago, Sept. 24 —(UP) — A preacher’s wife was stabbed to death today in the parking lot of a large department store, apparently after she had surprised an automobile thief. The body of Mrs. Gracelyn A. Bush, 33, was found in the parking lot behind the etore shortly after the noon rush hour. A witness told police he saw a young man flee from the lot shortly before the body was discovered. Police said Mrs. Bush apparently had been on a shopping trip, and that she was stabbed in the left breast when she returned to her car. a 1947 Studebaker. Her bloodsmeared packages and purse were intact, police said, supporting' the theory that she ,was stabbed by a man trying to steal her car. Bloodstains on the front seat indicated that she had been stabbed while seated in the car. She apparently staggered .several yards from the car where her body was found. Despite the time of day the parking lot was not as crowded as usual because of the Jewish holiday. Mrs. Bush was, the wife of the Rev. Frances F. Bush. Bush, pastor of t seventh day Adventist church was called to the (Turn To Page 5, Column 7)

Calm Before The Storm

Resume Collection Os Paper Saturday Decatur Boy Scouts will resume their monthly waste paper collection Saturday morning, "Sylvester Everhart, Scout commissioner, announced today. Pickup of the paper will start at 9 a.m. Saturday, and residents are asked to have their bundled paper on the curbs in front of their homes. o_ New Tropical Storm Losing Intensity Winds Slackening As Storm Is Spent Charleston, S. C„ Sept. 24 — (UP) —Driving rains and gusty winds swept South Carolina today as a tropical storm which had crossed Florida and Georgia dropped in intensity and was no longer severe. At 10 a. m„ the weather bureau lowered all storm south of Brunswick, Ga. Small craft warnings still flew from Brunswick north to Cape Hatteras. At mid-morning the slackening winds of the disturbance > were centered 10 miles northwest of. Charleston but its force had been spent. It was still moving northnortheastward toward the Atlantic coast. The storm swept through Savannah, Ga., about 5 a. in., buffeting the city with 40 mile an hour winds but causing no damage or injuries. The disturbance, which generated winds of near hurricane force over Florida yesterday, diminished* in fury during the night. The storm, moving forward at speed of about 20 miles an hour, was expected to cross Cape Hatteras, N. C„ sometime tonight. Storm warnings fluttered as far north as Cape Hatteras, and winds up to 50 miles .an hour in gusts churned the Atlantic offshore. Savannah had been drenched by nearly four inches of rainfall in the past 24 hours, which made lakes of parks in the city’s south section. Barometer readings, falling steadily as the storm neared, had dropped to 29.59 early today. Two ocean-going steamers returned to port here. The master of the U. S. Stephen Smith, bound for South America, feared loss of a deck cargo in the stormtossed Atlantic. o BULLETIN Boston, Sept. 24 —(UP) — CIO Electrical workers after five hours of debate today overwhelmingly adopted a resolution designed to purge an anti-Communist faction from their union — third largest in the CIO. The vote was 3,817 in favor of the resolution and 596 in opposition. The resolution was directed against an organization known as “UE members for Democratic action" headed by national secretary - -treasurer James B. Carey. It said the group “had no program other than Red-baiting and disruption and no purpose save to capture for outeidere control of the union."

UN Council Fails Again To Agree On Governor For Trieste Territory

Britain To Crush Fascism Revival Orders Stepped-Up Drive On Fascists London, Sept. 24—(UP)—A high government source reported today that the government had ordered a stepped-up campaign to crush a revival of Fascism in Britain as manifested in recent mass meetings in the slum area of the London east end. The government source said the home office had directed police to watch closely London meetings and similar ones in Liverpool and other industrial centers where followers of Sir Oswald Mosley, the British Fascist leader, have been active. “The police have been instructed to record carefully the statements of the speakers at these gatherings with a viw to prosecution of persons guilty of incitement to violence against the Jewish community,” {he spokesman said. He said the existing laws were sufficient to deal with the situation, in the government’s view, and that the new campaign was directed at “closer application of the existing law."

The campaign was described as resulting from pressure by the labor party and complaints from nonpolitical groups “who are increasingly concerned over the nasty situation in the east end.” The law against incitement to violence against public law and order is of broad scope, the source observed. "The mere holding of Fascist beliefs is not ground for prosecution. but active anti-semitism is,” he said. "The law gives consideration to where a statement is made —that is, a flagrant anti-semitic statement made publicly in an area where there is a Jewish population is grounds for prosecution.” Heretofore, he said, police had been concerned mainly with the maintenance of order at the meetings. Now. however, they were under orders to record the proceedings. “These notes will be handed over to Scotland Yard,” the informant said, “and if grounds for prosecution exist, they will be forwarded to the director of public prosecution. “The protection of the Jewish community is the main factor.” o— — McMillen Starts Foundation Fund Donates $1,000,000 For Public Projects Stewart W. McMillen of Valley Farms, south of the city, is one of the incorporators and directors of the McMillen Foundation, to which his father, Dale W. McMillen, Sr., of Fort Wayne, has donated more than $1,000,000, for support of public projects in Fort Wayne, Allen county and Indiana. Announcement of the filing of the organization’s charter and receipt of the gift from McMillen was made by Fred B. Shoaff of Fort Wayne, a director of the Foundation. The charter enables the Foundation to donate these funds for charitable public welfare, educational or scientific research projects in this city, the state or any of its municipalities or political subdivsions. Mr. Shoaff announced that the Foundation was organized at the suggestion of Dale W. McMillen, Sr. Since its inception in July, Mr. McMillen, chairman of the board of Central Soya Company, Inc., has turned over more than $1,000,000 in securities to the organization. Directors and incorporators of the Foundation besides Mr. Shoaff are S. W. McMillen, Mrs. Mary Jane Crowe. H. W. McMillen, and D. W. McMillen. Jr., all children of Mr. McMillen. The directors are charged with administering the funds and determining uses to which both principal and interest shall be put. Mr. Shoaff said that such donaTurn To Page 2, Column 6)

Four Die, Near Score Missing In River Crash Oil Tanker Collides With Freighter In St. Lawrence River Masena, N. Y., Sept. 24 —(UP)— The coal freighter Milverton collided with a fully loaded oil tanker in the Saint Lawrence river today, killing at least four crewmen and injuring more than a dozen others. Two of the dead were identified. They were William Robertson, Toronto, Ont., and F. Dobson, Montreal. Two other bodies removed from the Milverton were unidentified. Fifteen or sixteen others were reported missing. Surviving crewmen of the tanker said "some of the men just disappeared in the explosion.” Both ships were beached near Crasper Island and were still smouldering, police said. Customs officials said the freighter, registered out of an Ohio port, was moving down the river toward Montreal. All the crew members of the tanker were said to be in critical condition at hospitals in Ogensburg, Massena, and possibly several in Canadian hospitals across the river. Thoise able to talk said it is “impossible to identify the missing men.” The taker was reported to had a crew of 35 or more-men-Six of the injured were removed from the tanker at Waddington, N. Y„ and taken to Hepburn hospital at Ogensburg. Three others were received at Massena hospital. Police at Waddington said that others probably were taken to hospitals in Cornwall and Brookville, Ontario. From scattered reports of crew members, the coal barge apparently heading up the river crashed into the tanker which was proceeding down the waterway toward Montreal. Huge billows of black smoke '.Tur-' To Page 6. Column 4) o Two-Year-Old Girl Is Traffic Victim

Marion, Ind., Sept 24 —(UP) — Judy Faulhaber, 2, was killed last night when an automobile in which she rode went out of control and left a country road. Her mother, Mrs. Marion Faulhaber, Jonesboro, was uninjured and Mrs. Hazel Glass, the driver, injured slightly. o Russia Asks Miners Step Up Production Pay Hike, Benefits To Miners Planned Moscow, Sept. 24 —(UP) — The government called on Russian coal miners today to step up production, and at the same time announced that they were getting sizable wage increases and insurance, pension, housing and educational benefits. The wage increase will be given in the form of bonuses based on length of service and ranging from 10 percent after one year to 30 percent after 15 years. (The dispatch did not specify any sums involved in the wage and ■benefit increases.) Sick pay was increased to 100 percent, and pensions to 50 percent of the final wage. Retirement can begin at 50 years for miners with at least 20 years service. Pensioners under the new decree will retain their full rights of hospitalization and rest homes for themselves and their families. They can purchase houses and property from the coal enterprises where they worked, or can retain for life the apartment in which they lived. They also can continue to send their children to the schools of the enterprises where they were employed The decree also provided for a 50 prcent decrease in thetuition fee for the children of miners.

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U. S. Resolution On Greece Likely To Ask Label Os Guilt On Balkan Nations Lake Success, N. Y„ Sept. 24— (UP) —The UN security council, faced by a rapidly growing Amer-ican-Yugoslav crisis in Trieste, failed again today to agree on a governor for the new free territory of Trieste. But the east-west atmosphere in the closed meeting reportedly was much more cordial than heretofore on this controversial issue and it was agreed that the big five will hold an informal' meeting soon to try to choose between the four candidates for the job. The three hour secret council meeting was in session when acting secretary of state Robert A. Lovett announced in Washington that the U. S. was protesting “irresponsible Yugoslav action" in the Trieste area which might lead to "most serious consequences." The choice of a candidate for the governorship of Trieste has boiled down to four men —a Chil can. a Belgian, a Norwegian and a Swiss. Major interest focused on the Trieste issue today as the U. S. delegation virtually completed its draft resolution on Greece which will probably seek to pin the label of guilt on Yugoslavia, Albania and Bulgaria for aggression against Greece. The United States will pres? to have the resolution placed high on the agenda of the assem bly’s political and security committee which holds its first meeting later today. The American resolution. | was learned, will be a composite of the two previous resolutions which the Soviet Union vetoed in the security council. The four main points will: 1. Blame Yugoslavia, Albania, and Bulgaria “for the attacks <lh northern Greece. 2. Call for creation of a semipermanent assembly border commission. 3. Request all four Balkan countries to agree to voluntary repatriation of refugees. 4. Suggest that Greece on the one hand and Yugoslavia, Bui garia and Albania on the othe* study ways of initiating volun tary transfer of minorities. Meanwhile, it was learned, selection of a European successor to pro-Soviet Poland on the UN security council is smouldering into an east-west scrap which may dwarf all others at this assembly. Unless a compromise solution is found —and none is in sight now — the consequences could blow the UN higher than a kite, veteran UN officials agreed. They shudder at what would happen if, failing an agreement on another eastern European country. the assembly election deprived Russia of even one supporter in the security council. Czechoslovakia is the only eastern European member that the U. 8. is likely to look upon with favor to replace Poland. But. the Czechs don't want the job. They Imve been squeezed enough betwemt the giants of the east and west. This behind-the-scenes "politiking” coincided with one of the most vitriolic public battles of words between nations on a friendly status ever heard by tlm oldest diplomats. Secretary geenral Trygve Lie, trying to narrow the big power split wiih his warning of UN failure and possible war, was coolly received and ignored within five minutes. None of the big powers, who were blamed by Lie for the present unhappy state of the world, commented formally. Privately the delegates of the big powers agreed with Lie’e charges that the split threatens the world but. in effect, said: "Who us? We aren’t to blame; it’s the other gny.” Soviet delegate Andrei Y. Vishinsky immediately renewed x his attack on the® U. S.; U. S. delegate Warren R. Austin replied in kind, and Argentina and a half dozen others on both sides of the scrap were hurling epithets with(Turn Tn Pane 6. Column 5)