Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 227, Decatur, Adams County, 26 September 1947 — Page 1

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lonian Urges operation On Md Problems Team To Fulfill JBJss Waste Drive —— —— Sept. 26—(UP)— H^K en t Truman today wns together a blue ribbon “team” to help out his request to Ameriwaste less food so hunnations may leant will include the labor, and commerce departin addition to backing-waste-less drive, they also charg'd with doing everypossible to keep the lid on Truman said yesterday that Bill the resources of the governI will be mobilized behind ■the job of keeping down prices funneling food to friendly na■tions abroad. labor department, it was ■learned. will be responsible for to get labor unions to foreround of wage increa■ses which would tend to boom ■ nri« ; The unions also will be ■asked to swing behind the food program, primary assignwill be to clamp down on speculators who have been Bblaßed by some officials for ac■ciuating the recent upwar- 5 ■Sd in grain prices. It also educate farmers in more Khh livestock feeding methcommerce department. ■through its contacts with busipresumably will try to get io pare prices wherever ■fpoiible. industry also will be to step-up production Bpto iut inflationary pressures, there were these developments in the foodI price field: An agriculture department said there would be plenE ty of food for Europe if houseI wives could find some way to the edibles that now go into garbage pail. He said the avI eAge family wastes 15 percent food it buys. The bureau of labor statis- | tft reported that average whole | sal- prices of farm products and I f®ds hit a new postwar peak last ■■ek. The bureau's commodity ■Hee now stands at 158.1 percent the 1926 average. 18 3 - Charles Luckman. head of president’s new citizens food disclosed that he will in Washington Monday to up his White House headHe said the committee ■V ! hold its first meeting WedLuckman is president of Bros, with headquarters in Mass. | B 4 ' The state department was keenly disappointed at |^B* e administration's decision to I ty to ship only 470,000,000 bush|B S grain because of the poor ■f rn crop. The department was l®bunting on shipments ranging io 600.000,000 bushels. cit'zens food committee expepted to ask Americans to gdopt the same belt-tightening g>easures used in 1945-46 when Housewives were asked to cut lB ae ' r Purchase of wheat products ■ Iff 1 percent. i ~~ — I >ames Lee Funeral ISaturday Afternoon B Funeral services for James P. ee ' w ho died Thursday, will IBh x d at 1:30 P- m - Saturday at IK, , ome ’ near Monroeville, and Br 2 O'clock at St. Mark's LutherBT° c “Urch in Monroeville, with bur- ■ a in the IOOF cemetery at MonMroevilie. ■ Surviving are the wife, Salina; ■htmi Sons; two da, two ■nJ?? 3 ' includir) 8 Ross Lee of ■n 0 Catar ' and two sisters, Mrs. WllI F Decatur Ma MrS ' Flossie Brown I WEATHER I I A" - and contin ue«i cool ton'flht with heavy frost north . scattered light froat south. I ® atu rday f. ir w .

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Reveal Banker Asked Gangsters' Transfer House Investigates Four Men's Paroles Chicago, Sept. 26 — (UP) — An official of one of Chicago’s largest banks, acting through President Truman’s former senatorial campaign manager, was disclosed today to have sought the transfer of two Chicago gangsters from prison so that they could be closer to their homes. The disclosure wa<s made at a house subcommittee investigation into the parole of four former henc men of the late scarface Al Capone who were released after serving only one-third of their 10year sentences. They were convicted in 1942 of extorting $1,500,000 from the motion picture industry on threats of calling strikes and creating labor violence. As the hearing progressed, Daniel Lyons, chairman of the U. S. parole board, was recalled to the witness etand and said he'would act to revoke the paroles of the four gangsters “if evidence is uncovered that they have perpetrated a fraud on the parole board.” Rep. Clare E. Hoffman, R., Mich., chairman of the subcommittee, disclosed that Paul Dillon, St. Louis attorney and former senatorial campaign manager for Mr. Truman, had sought the transfer of two of the four gangsters. Hoffman made the disclosure shortly after Dillon walked into the hearing and announced that he was willing to testify. He had not as yet been summoned. The four Capone gangsters involved are Paul (the waiter) Ricca, Philip D'Andrea, Charles (Cherry Nose) Gio. and Louis (little New York) Campagna. Hoffman read into the record a memorandum from the files on the cases of Ricca and Campagna. The memorandum, dated May 25, 1945, was signed by Frank Loveland. deputy commissioner of federal prisons. It said in part: “Paul Dillon, an attorney and formerly a campaign manager for President Truman was in the office today to see Mr. Bennett (James V. Bennet federal prison commission) but in his absence he was referred to me. “He stated that he had been requested by an official of the continental bank in Chicago (presumiTurn To Page K. Column 6> O To Participate In Preaching Program Two Local Pastors Will Participate At least two Decatur ministers will participate in a national preaching program on Columbus Day. October 12, it was announced today. Announcement of their participation was made by Spiritual Mobilization, an organization upholding the belief that "freedom is in peril in America” and who “believes it is the bounden duty of followers of Jesus to champion it against Communism. Fascism or any stateism.” The Rev. John W. McPheeters of the First Presbyterian church and the Rev. Carey R. Moser of the First Baptist church are listed among 25,000 ministers of the nation who will discuss from the pulpit the subject “Perils to Freedom.” The Spiritual Mobilization organization has headquarters in Los Angeles. Chicago and New Itork and is directed by Dr. James W. Fifield, Jr. The announcement stated that other pastors of the city and community also will likely participate in the crusade. Mrs. Frank Eiting Dies Last Evening Mrs. Frank Eiting, 87. died Thursday night at her home in Minster. O. She had been bedfast since suffering a broken hip last fall. Her husband died two years ago. Mns. Carrie Ehinger Is a sis-ter-in-law of Mrs. Eiting, and there are also several other relatives living in and near Decatur. Funeral services will be held at 9 a.m. Monday at the Minster Catholic church, with burial in the Minster cemetery.

Congressional Heads Differ On Aid Plans Some Leaders See Special Meet Os Congress Needed

Washington, Sept. 26.—(UP)— Congressional sources split today on President Truman’s chances of scraping up any substantial stopgap economic aid to Europe without calling a special session of congress. One influential Democratic spokesman, who asked not to be named, doubted it could be done because, he said, no government agency has the available funds. Some officials believe it will take somewhere around $750,000,000 to tide Europe over until congress acts on the Marshall plan. Sen. Owen Brewster, R., Me., believed it was possible to extend stop-gap aid without congressional action. He said the money might be provided by the export-import bank or by diversion of other government funds. Brewster said he thought one of the President's reasons for calling congressional leaders to the White House next Monday was to find out if they would object to such steps. Mr. Truman told his news conference yesterday that his mind was still open on the question of a special session. He said he had asked the legislative leaders to meet with him next week to explore all other ways of getting stop-gap aid to Europe. Secretary of state George C. Marshall will return from the United Nations sessions in New York to sit in on the Monday conference. Secretary of agriculture Clinton P. Anderson and secretary of commerce W. Averell Harriman also will attend. Brewster and the Democratic spokesman agreed that the Marshall plan faced tough sledding in congress In its present form. Brewster said some senators "are looking askance at the Marshall plan in view of the British loan experience”—an obvious reference to the fact that the loan is almost exhausted while Britain's economy remains seriously upset. The Democratic source predicted congress would approve "considerably less” for the Marshall plan than the $15,81(7.000,000 requested from the United States. He also expected congress to vote money on a year-to-year basis and to insist on supervision of the spending. This spokesman said he favored a provision requiring European nations to help themselves further by boosting their taxes. He said France was now assessing lower taxes than the United States. o Many Local Voters Ineligible To Vote Urge Registration Before October 6 Many Decaturites will be ineligible to vote in the city election, November 4, unless they call at the county clerk's office within the next 10 days and qualify, clerk Clyde O. Troutner stated today. Less than 100 persons have registered or transferred their registration in the past few weeks. Hundreds have become ineligible for various rasons. Mr. Troutner said that the total vote for president from both tickets in the six Decatur precincts in 1944 was 3,277. He estimated that more than 4,000 could vote if they are properly registered before election time. October 6 is the final day for registering or transferring a registration, under the state flection law, he reminded voters. Those who have to register or transfer include women who have changed their name by marriage; persons becoming 21 years of age; those dko have moved into a new precinfTjglhose who failed to vote in the ™t two elections.

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Takes Assistant Army Post i : i*|i Bjfc -yW / wHf Saw si ' * j WsK. 'f''' P to Ml ¥ w.WIHb • 't > , ' /hH i I 9 liA FAMILY of Gordon Gray watches as the Winston-Salem. N. C.. publisher and lawyer is sworn in as assistant secretary of the Army. Secretary of the Army Kenneth C. Royall (right) administers oath in Washington.

G.O.P. Governor's Parp Is idfi Oopn city bus Line ° fficiais here an_ nounced today that weekly passes for school children are being plac- — _ -,. . - ed on sale each Saturday. The pass\3.0.r. tdltonal es will be honored on echool days Outing Opens Today from 7:30 a,n until 4:30 pm I 0 Indianapolis, Sept 26-(UP)— UAffman CpnfPnrAfl Hoosier Republicans looked to IIUIIIIIUII JCIIIvIIUCU French Lick today for an answer to the question of who is the fav- T_ 4QA Torm orite for the Indiana governor Iv IOV"'l/Uy ICi 111 nomination in 1048. Political observers assumed that would be among the pertinent Given Sentence On topics discussed at the fall outing ParLloec of the Indiana Republican editorial KCCkIeSS MomiClde association, just as it was last wnliam H Schannen in week-end when the Democratic edi- . Al]en c]rcui t court at Fort Wayne tors met. morning sentenced William The fie d of GOP potentials in ” . H. Hoffman. 34. Decatur, to serve the governor race, however, was . ~ ... ~. 180 days at the Indiana state much bigger than that of the Demo- . . . j penal farm for reckless homicide, crats, and the Republican picture • . , » x , „ > I, v „ Hoffman was convicted of the therefore probably will not come into as clear a focus. c , harge a week ago f by a “ Al,en As the editors and party leaders c,rcult coUrt 2ury ° f headed for French Lick today for a an<l four wo ) me ”' y llO f °« nd him two-day outing, a United Press By reckless driving m causpolitical survey bore out specula- ng a wreck south of Fort Wa yne tion that Hoosier Republicans last March that clalmed the lives have many favorites fbr governor es ,wo ohl ° P e °P le - The survey also showed that Schannen ignored a recGov Thomas E. Dewey of New ommendation of the jury that the York seems to be the presidential sentence be suspended. After the potential that most of the Indiana sentence was passed, the defendGOP leaders favor and believe will ant - through his attorneys. Paibe nominated next summer to head rish & Parrish of t ort M ayne. the GOP national ticket. ti!ed a mo,lon t 0 modity the judK ' Sentiment and speculation in the "lent in conformity with the governor picture left a definite recommendation of the jury conimpression that Republicans cob- cerning the suspension, sider good their chances of keep- The judge overruled the moing the governor’s office in GOP tion. however, and ordered Hoffhands after Gov. Raiph F. Gates' man committed. term expires next year. Judge Schannen also imposed a Hundreds of editors, party big- fine of $250 and costs, as fixed wigs, and rank and file Republicans by the jury. will be on hand for the association The jury deliberated two and program, which features a Satur- one-half hours after hearing the (Turn To Page 5. Column ' (Turn To Page 6. Column 3)

Housewives Say Voluntary Food Conservation Plan Won't Work

3 By United Press Fourteen out of 20 housewives interviewed today by United Press said President Truman's plan for voluntary food con s er vat ion wouldn't work. The housewives — from a dozen representative cities — were chosen at random and questioned about their reactions to the president's two-point plea yesterday — waste less food and buy food more selectively. Most of them said high prices already had forced them to save the limit. Os eight hotel chefs interviewed, only two thought they could save more food and still keep the customers happy. One of these was the chef at the swank Waldorf-Astoria in New York City who said that hotel would return to the food practices whash saved 50 percent during wartime. Here are some comments from, housewives and chefs: Mrs. Joseph Lovejoy, New York City — I just saw the headline and

laughed. I haven’t bought any meat, eggs or butter for about two weeks. When you eat less meat you eat. more bread. I don’t even throw’ out the crusts. Mrs. Katherine Purdy, Dallas, Tex. — I went to the market the other day and asked for four pork chops. They cost $1.20. I told the butcher to put them back in the refrigerator and my family ate beans. Mrs. Milton Grouse, Kansas City, Mo. — I’ve been feeding my family hash since before last Christmas. 1 hardly need a garbage pail except for potato peelings. 1 haven’t been able to figure out away to use them because m'y family doesn’t like them. Mrs. Frank Domke, Detroit — my husband and ! both work and I don’t have time to fuss with leftovers. Mrs. Birdie Watson, Brooklyn —- with everything so darned high we fill in on wheat. We only get little pieces of meat instead of big onee. (Turn To Page Z, ColuqA' 3) 0 ®

Puts Full Responsibility To Guide Troubled Land To Independence On UN

British Tel Aviv Bank Robbed Today British Policemen Killed In Robbery Jerusalem, Sept. 26.—-(UP) —A gang of gunmen held up the Bri-tish-owned Barclay's bank in Tel Aviv today, killed four British policemen in a wild shooting affray, and fled with $600,000 of which $400,000 was recovered. The bold holdup in the teeming heart of the all-Jewish city, one of the biggest bank robberies in the history of Palestine, was attributed tentatively by authorities to the stern group of the Jewish underground. The bloody raid on the gray fortress-like bank in busy Allenby Road ended an uneasy truce in troubled Palestine on the day that the Holy Land problem was coming before the United Nations at Lake Success. Two suspects were seized by police within a few hours of the robbery. A third, a 27-year-old Jew who was taken wounded to Hadassah hospital, was under custody on suspicion. Reports circulated that still other arrests had been made.

Army and police squads swarmed in force through Tel Aviv, checking up on pedestrians and mbtor traffic. Violence broke out in another sector of Palestine. One of the largest arms caches ever found in the country w r as blown up on Hamman El Pasha Street, near the Moslem Mosque in Haifa. The cache was in a building ostensibily housing a factory, and 'was believed by authorities to belong to the Arab underground forces. Diversionary explosions were set off in the neighborhood of the bank, and some even farther out in other parts of Tel Aviv, during (Turn To Page 5. Column 5) O Scout Honor Court Held By Rotarians Eagle Scout Badges Awarded Two Scouts Eagle Scout badges were pinned on David and Don Mac Lean by their mother. Mrs. G. D. Mac Lean, at the Boy Scout court of honor ceremonies held at the Rotary club last evening. Dr. Fred Patterson, a member of the court, made the awards, the highest to be earned by scouts. Eagle Scouters Norman E. Stingely and Gene Ziner, received the silver palm and the bronze palm respectively. Other advancements in scout rank were awarded to Matthew Harris, second class; Dan Thomas and John Thompson, first class. Scout merit badges were awarded to Tom Bosse, Bill Freeby, Herbert Kitson. Dave Mac Lean, Norman Stingely, Dan Thomas, John Thompson and Gene Ziner. Brief talks on scouting and achievements made by members of Rotary troop 61, were given by Steve Everhart, scout commissioner, Clarence Ziner. district chairman, Ray Stingely, deputy district chairman, and Gray Paddock. assistant Rotary troop scoutmaster. The program was presented by George Bair, chairman of recreation and camp facilities for the scouts. Mr. Bair introduced the speakers and presented Mr. and Mrs. Mac Lean, parents of the twin Eagle Scouts, to the group. W. Guy Brown, chairman of the court of honor, directed the ceremonies. Others who served on the court were Wilson F. Beery. Bryce Thomas and Arthur R. Holthouse. G. W. Sprunger of Berne was among the out of town visitors at the meeting.

AFL President Backs Truman Food Program William Green Says Real Remedy Lies In Output Boost By United Press William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor today endorsed President Truman s food deflation program as wheat prices climbed again at the big grain exchanges. Green, a member of a team appointed by Mr. Truman to persuade Americans to cut down on food waste so hungry Europeans may eat more and costs at home will drop, said, however, that "the real remedy" lies in greater production. “Every reasonable effort should be put forth by management and labor jointly to increase our production,” he said. The price of wheat at Chicago was up 4)4 to six cents a bushel. Other grains were up leaser amounts. Observers attributed the riee to adverse weather in the southeastern wheat l>elt is delaying planting the winter wheat crop and to frosts last night in portions of the corn belt. The agriculture department reported at Washington, however, ?0 percent of the corn crop in the 12 principal production states was "largely safe” from frost as of Sept. 19. This was compared with only 53 percent a week earlier. The price situation in the nation showed little improvement although an old-fashioned price war broke out in San Mateo, Calif., a suburb of San Francisco. In San Mateo, it looked like the good old days were back. T-bone, sirloin and New York cut steaks were selling for 59 cents a pound. Fifteen miles away in San Francisco the price was still sl.lO. Ground round steak dropped to 29 cents a pound and pork loins went for 59 cents. Market owners blamed the elash,es on buyer resistance and a grocery store strike in Oakland which threw an overload of fresh meat on the San Mateo-Burlington market. They plastered their windows with stickers advertising "below cost” meat. On the Chicago board of trade grain purchases increased sharp(Turn To Pagrp 5. Column 5) O Garbage Collector Cites Wasted Food Says Mountains Os Food Thrown Away Indianapolis, Sept. 26. —(UP) — A garbage collector said today he thinks its a shame the way people throw away mountains of food they pay high prices for. Paul L. Hutzler, president of the Modern Scavenger Service, Inc., said his business is booming—people are tossing out more food than they ever did before. “I'm not complaining,” he said. “I’ve got more work than ever. “But when you can find whole hams, big hunks of bacon and untouched loaves of bread in garbage palls you know it’s time for action.” Hutzler said it should be easy for most Americans to go along with President Truman’s food conservation plan. “During the war people were more conservative,” he said. “But now we're getting more garbage than ever before. “There's certainly room |or improvement in most garbage pails.” Meat, poultry and bread, Hutzler (Turn Ta Pag« 6» Column.

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23-Year Mandate In Palestine Quit By British; Pull Out Os Palestine Soon Lake Success. N. Y.. Sept. 26 — (UP) — Great Britain announced to the United Nations today it was quitting its 25-year-old mandate over Palestine and tossing to the UN full responsibility for guiding the troubled land to independence. Calling on the UN general assembly to bring about a settle ment of the Palestine problem. Arthur Creech Jones. Britain's secretary of state for colonies, told the UN that Britain plans to pull out of the Holy Land whether or not a settlement is achieved. The British government, he said, plans to withdraw all its troops and administrative forces from Palestine at an “early" date Creech-Jones served notice that Britain would not agree to enforce by itself any UN Palestine plan which failed to please both Arabs and Jews. Amid indications that the assembly would be unable to achieve a compromise satisfactory to both sides, the Briton warned the 55 United Nations that they must include in their final proposals for the Holy Land the means of enforcing them. The UN Palestine commission's majority recommendation for partition of Palestine into Aral and Jewish states already has been rejected by Arab spokesmen as an invitation to a third world war. The first comment by a Zionist spokesman on the British statement was: “this is the crowning moment of 25 years of British hypocrisy.” Creech-Jones. laying down Britain's policy before the 55nation political committee of the general assembly, summed up Britain’s stand in these three points: 1. The "United Kingdom government are ready to assume responsibility for giving effect to any plan on which agreement is reached betw-een Arabs and the Jews.” 2. “. . . if the assembly should recommend a policy which is not acceptable to the Jews and the Arabs, the United Kingdom government would not feel able to implement it. 3. “. . . then it would be necessary to provide for some alternative to implement it.” “His majesty’s government are not themselves prepared to undertake the task of imposing a policy in Palestine by force of arms.'' Creech-Jones declared. “Likewise, in considering any proposal to the effect that his majesty’s government should participate with others in the enforcement of a settlement, they must take into account both the inherent justice of the settlement and the extent to which force would be required to give effect to it.” The British declaration means in effect, that the enforcement of any UN plan for settling the Palestine problem would have to be carried out by a combination of forces from members of the United Nations or by an inter national force established especially for the job by the general assembly. Either alternative offered major complications. T)u‘ Palestine debate started a big day for UN during which Soviet deputf foreign minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky will hold one of liis rare press conferences and the Slav bloc will reply to the U. S. demand for strong UN assembly action in Greece to stop alleged aggression by the Soviet Union’s Balkan satellites. The United States was expected 1 to “play possum" on Palestine for some time — at least until most of the other directly interested nations have stated their position. Secretary of state George C. Marshall has announcATarn Te Paga Column 4»