Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 228, Decatur, Adams County, 27 September 1947 — Page 1

XLV. No. 228.

RUSSIA DEMANDS WITHDRAWAL OF TROOPS

jkislanceTo pices Shows Koine Results ■ 1I Sporadic Buying I Resistance Shows ||Rome Price Cuts E By United Press resistance by houseagainst the high prices of KT meat and butter showed its influence on sales statistics and Bradstreet reported that HKunnr "discrimination against priced foods" during the pact os "sporadic” but "generally g enough to halt the spiral in MKe lines." K,. report said that housewives m ( . pausing up butter, eggs and K meats in favor of poultry, he , and inexpensive canned X feme new reductions in retail Her prices were reported yesterday At New York, chain stores Kpped their prices two cents to ablut 84 cents a pound. Ht Washington, meanwhile, top jgjl culture department officials Hight ways to force the nation’s Hn markets to tighten their margin requirements for speculators. It las reported that the department ask congress for authority toprder a higher margin precentagi on grain purchases. She labor department reported Kay that for the first time since 1942, clothing prices dropped onehalt one percent from mid-June to uly. The department attrlRed the drop to special sales, Ripetltive markdowns and a genii return to cheaper lines of ■thing. ■lost of the price reductions were In New York. ■iowever, the labor department sale the "voluntary" 15 percent ■t boost which went into effect in June increased rents an average of 0.7 percent by mid-July. Other ■t-of-living items followed the upward trend of rents, it said. ■resident Truman's call for an intensive food conservation drive appeared to he having little immediate effect. It appeared that his special committee to enforce the ■vement would have to sell the idea to American families through a thoroughgoing advertising and ■blicity campaign. Hfhe CIO came up with its own I Jttar: for dealing with high prices European relief. The sevenprogram was submitted to I President Truman’s council of econadvisers by CIO president Murray and other leaders. PyAmoug other things, the union Milled for elimination of all grain margins, a special congresEjoual session to reestablish price I an I rationing controls, and a pro|Jam to build 1,750000 (M) homes : 4 year for 10 years. |||At the same time, AFL president ■’illiam Green endorsed Mr. TruRau s waste less’ domestic food ■ogram, but said the "real rem|B> lies in greater production by HE>or and management. H -—o psf 4 Reminder, Do Not Forget To Change That Clock you get to Sunday school an K“ r early tomorrow morning, it ■ Probably be because you forK, one important little item. | -urn your clocks back an hour S“ ghl at midnight—for the city times opeations under a censtandard time schedule then, ■ er a summer of "fast time” ■servance. j It really doesn't make any dlf7 heTl y ° U tUrn the Clock ■ on R ht. so if you don’t want Untll m *dnlght do It bet ° re y ° U g 0 t 0 hed - But ■“ forget or you Will be an , ear ' y on all appointments ’ day - f ■’TWRi Contractor Killed y Hit-Run Driver iark i r" ap n is ’ Sept ' 27 -fUP)luruck ‘ S . roofing contractor, was tear hi “k kHled by a hlt '™ car r r hl 2 ko me last night. . WEATHER I w,rmef today, to- | 9 * and tomorrow.

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Hannegan Quits As Democrat Chairman Sen. McGrath Is Named Successor Washington, Sept. 27 —(UP) — Robert E. Hannegan of St. Louis resigned today as national Democratic chairman and announced that Sen. J. Howard McGrath D., R. 1., has been designated as his successor. i Hannegan has been in poor: health for many months. Hie announcement said his physician had directed him to limit his activities. Presumably he will retain hie position as postmaster general. McGrath 45, is a former governor of Rhode Island and a former so-licitor-general of the U. S. He resigned from the latter post last October to accept the senatorial nomination. Hannegan also announced that Gael Sullivan had resigned, effective immediately, as executive director of the Democratic national jommlttee. In that capacity, Sullivan has been actively directing the national committee in past months luring Hannegan’s illness. Hannegan called a meeting of the national committee in Washington Oct. 29 to chooee the date ind place for the 1948 Democratic national convention. This meeting also will formally elect McGrath as Hannegan’s successor. McGrath, a Provdence R. 1., at.orney, served three terms as gov;rnor of Rhode Inland beginning in 1940. He resigned as governor In October, 1945, to become solicitor ’eneral. After holding that poslion for one year, he stepped out for the senatorial nomination. He is a veteran party worker, a former vice-chairman and chairman of the Rhode Island Democrat----e-committee. He was chairman of he committee on permanent organization of the 1944 Democratic national convention in Chicago. Hannegan’s statement announc.ng his resignation said: "My physicians have directed me to limit my activities. I have accordingly suggested to the presilent that Sen. J. Howard McGrath of Rhode Island succeed me if ajreeable to the national committee. The president indicated his approval of senator McGrath." At the same time, Hannegan ■ailed the meeting of the Democratc national committee at the May.lower hotel here on Oct. 29. Hannegan said his resignation will become effective at the time •he committee convenes its meeting. o Terre Haute Man Is Indicted For Murder Terre Haute, Ind., Sept. 27 —(UP) — A Vigo county grand jury late vesterday returned an indictment ■harging Arthur E. Parker, 47, with second degree murder after tn all-day investigation. Parker, a former convict, last week led police to the spot where he said he buried parts of the dismembered body of Mrs. Lillian Johnson, his landlady. He said she died of injuries received in a fight with him in 1943. o » Democratic Women Select Mrs. Lose Elected President At Annual Meeting Mrs. Charles Lose, of this city, is the new president of the Adams county women’s Democratic club. Mrs. Lose w r as elected to the position Friday night at a meeting of the organization, held in the Knights of Pythias home in this city. She succeeds Mrs Elmer Beer of Berne, who served in that capacity during the past year. Mrs. Augusta Dubach, Berne, was named vice president; Miss Beulah Augsburger, Berne, secretary, and Mrs. V. J. Bormann, Decatur, treasurer. During the meeting Mrs. Walter J. Krick entertained yith vocal numbers and Carol Sprunger of Berne with several accordion solos. Mrs. R. D. Myers, of this city, delivered an interesting address concerning woman’s citizenship.” The meetthg is expected to be the final one this year.

Russians Will Continue Fight On Free Press Extend Campaign To Next Spring's Geneva Conference Lake Sussese. N. Y„ Sept. 27. —(UP) —Russia wants its campaign against “warmongering” extended at next spring’s Geneva conference on freedom of information. At a meeting today of the social committee of the United Nations general assembly, Russia pressed for adoption of a recommendation for the radical revamping of a list of basic principles of a free press suggested by the UN economic and social council for consideration at Geneva. High up on the Soviet list was a call for "the exposure of warmongers and the organization of an effective fight against organs of the press and other agencies of information indulging in incitement to war and aggression.” The Soviet proposal also called for the exposure of Fascism, the elimination of bribery of information organs, and legislation against “untrue and libelous statements.” It asked the United Nations to recognize at Geneva that full freedom of information could not exist unless the "broad masses of the people” had at their disposal the resources for setting up their own information media. Renewing a fight it waged through the debate in the economic and social council on plans for the Geneva parley, the Soviet proposed that the Mongolian peoples republic be included among those invited to attend. Furthermore, Russia moved to reverse still another recommendation of the economic and social council by asking that the right to vote at Geneva be extended to non-members of the UN who were invited to attend. The Russian proposal was put before the social committee yesterday by Soviet delegate V. A. Zorin, but debate was put off until today. Zorin, echoing the blistering charges poured out by Russian vice premier Andrei Vishinsky before the full assembly last week and repeated at a news conference yesterday, said to the social committee: "There are warmongers on the loose in the United States, Greece and Turkey who prove the essential necessity of action against warmongering." "Full freedom cannot be obtained,” Zorin went on, “while the organs of the press are owned by the persons who reflect the ideas of the monopolies and reactionary financial forces." o Believe Gov. Gates Is Losing Influence May Face Showdown Os Career In 1948 Indianapolis, Sept. 27. —(UP) — Hoosier Republican wondered today if Governor Gates is losing the influence that carried him steadily upward in his party to the Indiana chief executive’s chair after a 25year political climb. As GOP editors and party leaders mingled with the rank and file at the 70th annual fall outing of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association, much of the corridor talk centered on the 1948 gubernatorial race. The general opinion was. that Gates, the Columbia City attorney who grew from a small-town politician to the state chairmanship of his party and then stepped easily into the Governor’s chair, faced the major showdown of his careen next year. Some thought the Governor was as powerful today as he was in 1946, when he is said to have railroaded the state GOP convention into nominating William E. Jenner for a U. S. senatorial seat Jenner later won. That, perhaps, was the climax of his career of party leadership—when Jenner won a strong preconvention fight against the forces driving for renomir.ation of Sen. (Turn to Page 6, Column 6)

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, September 27, 1947

Take Posts As F ood Mentors 3F II “ w IMm i OKI ‘IHBhsEi Albert S. Goss Eugene Meyer MEMBERS OF 26-MAN committee of prominent Americans who will work out a food conservation program aimed at tightening the nation’s belt to feed foreign countries are Albert S. Goss, master of National Grange, Washington. D. C., and Eugene Meyer, publisher of the Washington, D. C., post.

No Agreement By Publishers, Union Conference Winds Up Total Failure Indianapolis, Sept. 27 —(UP) — The bargaining problems of the nternational Typographical Un:on and the American Newspaper Publishers Association loomed larger than ever today after a •jonference called to resolve their lifferences wound up a total allure. The publishers committee said he refusal of the union to back town from its “no contract, no•ollective bargaining policy,” 'Tasted its hopes for agreement. The ITU blamed the ANPA committee’s “lack of authority" o bargain “specifically” for the ’allure. Spokesmen for both tides had no comment on the posible repercussions on relations between newspaper publishers and union employes. No future meetings were schediled. The two groups had met 'or two days. During the session both sides nade proposals but all were rejected. The ANPA proposed a special ive-year conciliation contract be‘ween the ITU and the ANPA with a mediation board as a sub'.titute for “negotiated contracts” ar “conditions of employment.” ft was rejected by the ITU because it was based on compliance with the Taft-Hartley act and was “old fashioned, unworkable, and unwanted,” Randolph said. The committee headed by George P. Dale of the ANPA then asked flatly for revocation of the “no-contract” policy, which was adopted by the ITU convention recently in defiance of the TaftHartley act. It was rejected by Randolph who had forecast' fail* ure for the conference if the ANPA “urged us to sign contracts under the Taft-Hartley act.” “Since the only proposal offer(Turn To Pago 6. Column 4) 0 Heaviest Frost Os Season Last Night Only Slight Damage Is Likely To Crops The community experienced its heaviest frost of the season last night—but a general concensus of opinion placed the damage to crops very light. Farmers in some areas agreed that the frost was heavy enough to nip the corn, but declared it failed to create any extensive damage. Temperatures slipped to nearfreezing and many Decaturltes donnd topcoats and heavy outer garments for the first time this year. A bright sun at an early hour today quickly chased away the white cap on fields and started boosting the mercury in local thermometers. The weatherman promised warmer weather for today and tonight.

Steps Out Os Auto Into Peach Basket An unidentified shopper stepped out of his parked car on Second street yeeterday — directly into a basket of peaches a local merchant had on display at the curb. A tumble, a skinned leg. and some well-smashed peaches resulted, along with at least a temporary loss of temper on the part of the shopper. o Answer Is Filed In Country Club Suit Answer Complaint Filed By Executor Three defendants in the “Country Club suit” in Adams circuit court today filed an answer in two paragraphs to the amended complaint of Hubert R. McClenahan, as executor of the estate of Paul Schulte, to sell the real estate. The answer was filed by Calvin Yost, D. Burdette Custer and Vallra Custer, three of the more than 30 defendants in the action. Paragraph one dec ares that each of the three defendants admits the following allegation: ’That the defendant. Calvin Yost, holds a deed of conveyance for said real estate, absolute on its face.” It continues that each of the defendants “denies the following allegation, ’but which is a mortgage and given for the purpose of securing a loan of SII,OOO and should be found to be such, that rents, issues and profits have been received by the defendants. Calvin Yost, and should be cast up and taken into account in determining the final amount due upon his mortgage’ and also the allegation ’that at the time of the death of said decedent he was the owner in fee simple and in possession of the real estate’.” Paragraph two is a lengthy answer, declaring among other things the history of the land with its various mortgages; then states that ’the said Calvin Yost. Walter Bockman, Louise Hall and D. Burdette Custer met at the offices of the said D. Burdette Custer; that said Paul Schulte was present also; that at said meeting Louise Hall asked Calvin Yost to make a loan on the real estate of $11,000; that he again refused to make the loan; that he then and there made a proposition to Louise Hall in the presence of the others, that he would purchase the real estate for -the sum of sll,OOl. the purchase price to he applied to the payment of Hens against the real estate and the balance, if any. to be paid to Louise Hall, provided he received a good warranty deed and that he would immediately enter into an agreement with the grantor to sell the real estate back upon such terms as might be mutually agreed upon”— And that "the said Louise Ha’l in the presence" of the persons mentioned above “then and there (Turn To Page 6. Column 8)

Demands United States And Britain Withdraw Men From Foreign Soil

One Jew Killed In Refugee Ship Fight Vessel Boarded By British Naval Party Jerusalem, Sept. 27 — (UP) — One Jew was shot to death and seven others were wounded today in a 20-minute battle aboard the tefugee ship “Despite" when a British naval party intercepted and boarded the vessel trying to run the blockade to Palestine. The boarding party was working its way toward the ship’s bridge when a group of refugees armed with crowbars cornered a British sailor. The sailor fired five shots at his assailants, killing one and wounding two. Five other immigrants suffered head wounds from swinging clubs ’n the short-lived resistance to the bluejackets. One British sailor suffered a broken finger in the affray, according to an official British statement. It was the second official account of the boarding. The first had said it was carried out without resistance. After 20 minutes of scuffling on the deck of the Despite, formerly the Farida, the sailors gained the bridge and had the ship under control, the official statement reported. Two British destroyers towed the vessel, the first to arrive in Palestine waters since the boarding of the exodus 1947 on July IS started a battle in which three persons were killed and scores injured. Royal navy patrols spotted the ship in the Mediterranean before dawn and reinforcements immediately left Haifa to intercept her. She was expected in Haiti about 8 p. tn. The British hardly will allow the immigrants to disembark. There was no indication whether they would be sent to Cyprus or back to Germany, as the exodus 1947 passengers were. Police and soldiers hunted through Palestine for the bandit gang that held up a Tel Aviv bank yesterday, killed four policemen and escaped with SIBO,000. Q Gandhi Says War May Be Forced On Hindus May Be Only Way To Halt Persecution New Delhi. Sept. 27—(UP)— Mohandas K. Gandhi. who has spent most of his life preaching peace, said he believed today that a Hindu war against Moslem Pakistan might be the only way to stop Moslems from persecuting Hindus and Sikhs in their new dominion. He said in the address that follows his usual daily prayer meeting that the Indian (Hindu) dominion might "have to go to war” against (Moslem) Pakistan, unless the Moslem dominion corrects "its proved error." Violence in the Indian subcontinent since it was divided into dominions has not been a onesided proposition. Moslems have slaughtered Hindus and Sikhs by the thousands in Pakistan. Hindus and Sikhs have murdered thousands of Moslems in India. Yet Gandhi said that he would not rest until every Hindu and Sikh driven from Pakistan had been returned to his home “with honor and dignity.” He said in his address last night that he had been an enemy of all war. "But if there is no other wav to obtain justice from Pakistan, if Pakistan persistently refuses to see Its proved error and con(Turn To Page 5. Column 6>

Great Britain To Pull Troops From Palestine Start Withdrawal Os 100,000 Troops Within Few Months London, Sept. 27.—(UP)—Wellinformed sources said today that Britain would start withdrawing its 100,000 troops from Palestine within two, or at most, three months, regardless of what the United Nations does. British colonial secretary Arthur Creech Jones served notice yesterday on the United Nations general assembly that Britain would give up the Palestine mandate 'and withdraw its troops and government forces at an early date unless the UN found a solution to the Holy Land issue. The well-informed sources said today, however, that the troops would be pulled out whether or not the UN reached any solution. They said that the UN action would determine the rapidity with which the withdrawal will be completed. Even if there is no UN solution and civil war is threatening in the Holy Land. British troops will still be withdrawn, these sources said. A foreign office source said that at most the troops would stay only a month or two at UN request until some new authority could be set up. If the UN reaches a solution ac(Turn To Paffo S Co'nmn' Ki One Man Is Killed As Trucks Collide — La Porte, Ind., Sept. 27 —(UP) —I Matthew Flash, 22, Union Mills, was killed yesterday when two dump trucks collided on U. S. 6 south of here. John K. Ellman, 21. Chesterton, suffered serious injuries. o Five Trainmen Hurl In Railroad Wreck Southern Pacific Limited Wrecked Salem, Ore., Sept. 27—(UP) — The Southern Pacific West Coast Limited passenger train was wrecked three miles west of here last night when an open switch separated the engine from the train and derailed nine cars. Five crew members, Ed Campbell Brakem, George Miller railway mail clerk, Curleey Stinson baggage clerk, and two waiters Fred Tooley and Henry D. William were hospitalized. Sixty passengers were uninjured when the 17 car train left the rails. The accident occurred at 11:55 p.m. (PST) near Pringle, Ore., on a siding leading to the Salem airport. State police said the wreck apparently was caused by an open switch. The engineer, Vivtory Partltil of Portland, said tho accident occurred as he approached the siding.' Two refrigerator cars, five baggage cars and a passenger coach were knocked completely off the track and one coach was thrown over on an angle. 0 Farm Accident Fatal To High School Boy Logansport. Ind . Sent. 27 —(UP) — Robert Hinkle. 15. Walton high school sophomore, died in Memorial hospital today of internal injuries suffered Aug. 11 when a tractor overturned with him at the south edge of Walton.

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Part Os Russians' Worldwide Attack On Anti-Communist Campaign By U. S. Lake Success, N. Y., Sept. 27 — (UP) —The Soviet Union sparked its diplomatic and propaganda offensive against the United States today with demands for removal of American and British troops from foreign soil and more violent charges of American "warmonger ing.” This was part of an expanded worldwide counterattack against the United States anti-Communist campaign in Europe and the United Nations general assembly. At the end of the first two weeks of the assembly the U. S.-USSR diplomatic war was at fever pitch. The objectives of each side were to completely discredit the other in the eyes of the rest of the world The two weeks debate has accomplished nothing yet, but it has clarified the tactics of each side. The Russians have three main points of attack against the U. S.: 1. Allegations that prominent Americans, especially John Foster Dulles, a U. S. delegate to UN, are “warmongers," and that the U. S is preparing for a third world wat against the Soviet Union. 2. Demands that the U. S. and Britain remove their troops frotr the world’s trouble spots—Greece Korea, Palestine, China, etc. A ; year ago the U. S. was pressing i Russia to get her troops out of I such trouble spots as Iran and | Manchuria. 3. Accusations that the U. S. is "running" the governments of western Europe and, through the Marshall plan, seeks to deprive those governments of their sovereignty through “dollar diplomacy." The U. S. policy, although less hysterical, is just as clear: 1. To convert the 55-nation gen eral assembly into a year-round organization which can take over problems which are stymied in the security council by a Soviet veto. The Russians claim the Americans want to abolish the council. The Americans admit they seek to bypass Russia’s veto. 2. To succeed in getting positive action by the assembly in the Greek case as an example of what the UN can do despite the Sovie* veto. The U. S. claims the life or death of UN depend upon this. 3. To suppress through having an overwhelming majority of votes every effort of the Soviets to increase their prestige or strength in the UN. Soviet deputy foreign minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky disclosed at an extraordinary 2)2 hour press conference yesterday—more than any other single event in recent (Turn To Paere 6, Column 6) To Inspect Proposed Limberlost Park Site Berne, Ind., Sept. 27 —Officials of the Indiana state conservation department have promised members of the Limberlost memorial association that they will come to the Geneva vicinity to inspect the proposed site for a state park and lake. Berne, Geneva, Port land and Bryant business men. together with Robert Heller, state representative from Decatur, called at the state conservation office at Indianapolis this week and also conferred with Gov. Gates and Lt. Gov. Dick James in connection with the propose:! park and lake. i Truck Gardener Is Killed By Car Gary, Ind.. Sept. 27 —(UP) —• Henry Bopp, 60. a Black Oak. Ind., truck gardner. was killed yesterday when he was etruck by an automobile Albert P. Koznicki, driver of the car. told authorities he did not realize he had struck Bopp until he noticed blood on his car a mile-and-a-half from the scene. He said he retraced his route and found the body.