Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 229, Decatur, Adams County, 29 September 1947 — Page 1

LV. No. 229.

IRUMAN HOLDS PARLEY ON AID TO EUROPE

,lNwe Against Iteulation On fain Markets * IHLding Exchanges '»■» Steps Hoped To °®iurb Speculation P'W -—- Uy United Press Truman met with leaders today to ags high prices as the big exchanges took action ■ t h e government hopes will curb speculation. Chicago Kansas City, and exchanges set up a scale which would inmargin requirements five bushel every time grain j nc r P ase 10 cents over last M The action was far short of the request that mar■tin requirements — down payI Bwents-be doubled to 33 1/3 per■cent of the total selling price, government sources hoped it ■ynnl. end to steady the market. grain is an important key nation’s economy, grain K eventually affect the prices ■of Amost all commodities. EBB other price developments: and Gamble Soap Co.. of lb percent in the price ■of »H its soap products, but rethe price of Crisco vege■tabte shortening three percent. ■ h spokesman for the meat inpredicted that New York-,-ould be back to $1 a pound. Ts heot before the week is out. the announcement of margin prices wheat fi> went up the 10 cent limit Chicago. Kansas City and Most of the buying by houses purchasing cash after reports circulated the government had taken iW'uplan undisclosed quantity o f grain. Kranis, president of the I national meat industry council, ■ sail the dip in meat prices last <■ week probably would not last ■ lias! Wednesday. sold for 89 cents a pound ■ in New York over the weekend. ■ but Kranis said his prediction for return of sl-a-pound beef war partly on the fact that hindquarters sold at a recwholesale price of 58 cents ■ a pound on Saturday. conference of CIO agricul- ■ turil workers at Detroit urged ■■. Truman to reconvene confor the express purpose of ■:j®toring price controls. | of the Food Agricultural and Allied Unions (CIO) represent- ■ ■ 5,000 workers in Michigan. lOk West Virginia and KenHScky passed the resolution at ■ the close of a two-day meeting. the same time, Rep. Clifford Hope, R.. Kan., a member of ■ the house agriculture committee that a return to price ■ wntrols without wage and profit would result in a “colos■Bl black market.” I gHe said that if Americans “can BBercome their hysteria on farm l^g’ ces and food costs, they will that these prices are a irt of the general price situa>n. that national income has ineased more rapidly than food sts, and that Americans today consuming 17 percent more g_ |’od per capita than they 'did in | Pre-war years.” I I Hopc - doubted the “advisability” IH? a s P e cial session of congress If is ' )ecause “congressional |»mmittees sent to Europe to food and foreign policy lems have not yet completed tasks.” He said that during the regular ■? 81dn next spring congress u set up a four-point proIf™ 111 to ‘ allocate scarce food Bt?.® eB, (2) curb speculation on and cotnmodity exchanges, | (Turn Tn P al , o s r olllmn g) I 0 I WEATHER I . colder ton 'oht with ‘ ®, t 0 heav y frosts south and I . al Portions. Clear with I 'finishing; winds tonight. I I nZ y faiP and co”' ’ ’ nnw P ° rt '°" a ’ Cooler south 1 | Portion.

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BULLETIN Trieste, Sept. 29 — (UP) —Three men were killed and 12 injured today when the United States destroyer Douglas H. Fox hit a mine off Trieste while on a routine trip from Venice. The mine blasted a hole in the stern of the destroyer’ below the waterline. One man was killed instantly. Two more died while another U. S. destroyer was racing to the assistance of the Fox. Four of the injured crewmen were reported in a critical condition. o Seven Traffic Deaths Reported In Indiana Two Women Killed Near Fort Wayne By United Press State police reported seven traffic deaths in Indiana during the weekend. The victims were: Donald Johnson, Jr., 3. South Bend. Charles Dutton, 37, Indianapolis. Mrs. Elizabeth Allman, 83, North Manchester. Florence Allman, 46, North Manchester, Robert Kojovit, 21, South Bend. Edward J. Cover, 42, Peru. Mrs. Addie Snyder, 75. Centerville. Three-year-old Donald Johnson, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Johnson of South Bend, was crushed to death when he fell under the "wheels of a truck while playing near his home. The vehicle was driven by Steve Benko, 39, Mishawaka.

Mrs. Allman and her 46-year-old daughter, Florence, both of North Manchester, were killed when the younger woman turned her car into the path of a truck near Fort Wayne. Police said truck driver Ted Custer of Fort Wayne was uninjured. At Hammond, Dutton was crushed to death beneath a 10-ton load of leg makeup. Three hours was required for five tow trucks to pull the cases of cosmetics from Dutton’s body. Johanna Dutton, 30, the victim's wife, told police their panel truck was sideswiped by a tractor-trailer unit which she said ran a stop light. The larger truck then struck a

(Turn Tn Pae-c 2. Column 4) Mrs. Louise Beavers Dies This Morning Funeral Services Will Be Wednesday Mrs. Louise A. Beavers, 65, resident of Kirkland township practically her entire life, died at 6:30 o’clock this morning at her home one mile south and three miles west of Decatur. Death w’as caused by complications and followed a long illness. She was born in Oak Harbor, 0., Sept. 14, 1882, a daughter of William and Christine Valentine-Adler. She was married to S. Middleton Beavers Oct. 24, 1906. Mrs. Beavers was a member of St. Luke’s ‘Evangelical and Reformed church, and the Eastern Star of Decatur. Surviving in addition to the husband are a daughter, Miss Lucille Beavers, at home: one son, Harry of Washington township: two sisters, Mrs. James Brown of Kirkland township and Mrs. Leo Engle <Jf French township, and four brothers, Fred Adler of Kirkland township, Carl of Washington township. Daniel of Denver, Colo., and William ctf Grand Coulee, Wash. One brother preceded her in death. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the home and at 2 o'clock at the St. Luke’s Evangelical and Reformed church, with the Rev. H. H. Meckstroth officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. The body will be removed from the Zwick funeral home this evening to the residence, where friends may call until time of the services.

Haifa Police Headquarters Is Blown Up 10 Are Killed As Jewish Underground Blows Up Building i Jerusalem, Sept. 29 — (UP) — The Jewish underground blew up the five-story Haifi police headquarters building today, filling 110 Britons and Arabs and wounding 54 persons in the worst blast to wreck Palestine since the King David hotel bombing 14 months ago. Responsible quarters attributed the explosion to the Stern gang, believed to be acting in reprisal for the seizure of the refugee ship Despite Saturday and deportation of the 450 Jewish immigrants to Cyprus. Dead in the greatest blast of battle-scarred Haifa’s history were three British police. four Arab police, two Arab civilians, one of them a 16-year-old boy, and an unidentified persoh who was blown to bits. The dynamiters drove a truck up to the security fence around the police headquarters building on King’s Way. A make-shift crane of 12-foot iron bars hefted the barrel containing the explosives from the truck over the fence. Released, the barrel rolled against the building, where it , exploded a little later. The blast wrecked the building, ■ sent fragments of shattered glass ■ > flying for hundreds of yards, and : shook the whole city of Haifa, i Shops along King’s Way were wrecked, and plundering cost the shopkeepers more than $1,090,000 . according to the early estimates. (Turn To Page 3. Column 51 1 0 City Is Returned To Standard Time Little Confusion Is Reported On Change There was a bit of confusion. ; A few were early for church I Sunday morning and today at least one or two office holders ■ thought for a time they had arrived an hour ahead. But for the most part Decatur’s switch from daylight saving to central standard time at midnigh’ Saturday was made without much fanfare or trouble. Saturday night tavern visitors still were given the extra hou' of grace, since clocks at mid night were set back to 11 p. m and the places of business had another hour to go. Beginning tonight, however, they will close an hour earlier and most will open an hour earlier. Sunday afternoon pleasure 1 seekers and motorists were quick 1 to notice that darkness “arrived an hour earlier” and evening golfers undoubtedly had to “hurry up” those last few holes. School students and their parents, especially those in rural areas observing the “fast time,” welcomed the change this morning since the sky was light when they arose. Boys and girls with “chores" to do before breakfast and the school bus ride were especially appreciative. Downtown Decaturites were just a bit “mixed up,” too, this morning. Although the courthouse clock had been moved up. in one instance a shopper could see three much-used timepieces on the main street marking a different hour —but one clock was apparently stopped. o Anti-Cholera Vaccine Is Flown To Cairo Cairo, Sept. 29 — (UP) — AU. S. navy transport command DC-4 arrived today with enough anticholera vaccine for 200,000 people. Besides 1,200 pounds of vaccine, it carried 8,800 pounds of other medical supplies. Eleven new deaths raised the .toll the epidemic has taken since I it started to 81.

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Firemen Fight Rooming House Blaze

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FIREMEN battle a Chicago rooming house blaze in which one aged man was killed and five other persons were injured. The leaping flames quickly enveloped the three story brick building and forced a number of people to jump from the upper stories into fire nets below-. About ten others were carried down ladders by the fire fighters.

Mayoral Nominees Launch Campaigns Interest Grows In City Election Here First tangible evidence of the approaching city election Tuesday, November 4, can be seen in Decatur now- with both nominees for mayor opening their campaigns in an official sort of way. Both John B. Stults. the Democratic ihcumbent. and John M. Doan, the Republican aspirant, have had candidate cards printed and have opened active campaigns for the office.

While no candidates for councllmanic posts have reportedly begun distributing cards, it is known that several have begun “electioneering" in a semi-official manner, at least. Meanwhile, the voters’ part in the election is also progressing. At the offices of county clerk Clyde O. Troutner, registration and transferring of registrations has increased considerably in momentum. After one or two newspaper stories last week, voters began calling at the office to qualify before the October 6 deadline, set by state election laws. 0 Local Churches Join. Communion Sunday World Observance Is Planned Sunday Many Adams county Protestant churches are 'joining in the world wide communion service, which will be held next Sunday morning in churches in every Christian nation of the world. Local churches are making an extra effort to have every member present at the service, and visiting committees of the various denominations already have started calling on church members, urging them to attend some service next Sunday. The service is an annual affair among the various Protestant groups of the world and each year a special' effort is made to increase attendance at the Sunday morning Decatur ' and Adams county churches joining in the movement will have announcements concerning their own programs in the Friday and Saturday church announcements appearing in the Daily Democrat, and members are re(Turn Vo Fas* 5, Column 8)

Two Men Killed In Bus-Auto Collision Effingham. 111., Sept. 2!f — (UP) — Two men were killed and 21 person injured, four seriously, late last night when an automobile col llded with a Greyhound bus on a highway one mile east of here. Police identified the dead as R. F. Clark and Clarence Rickelman, both of Effingham. Both were occupants of the automobile. The injured were taken to St. Anthony’s hospital. All but four were released after receiving treatment for minor injuries. 0 Farm Residence Is Destroyed By Fire Ora Ratcliff Farm Destroyed Saturday An oil-fed fire completely destroyed a two-story house, all of its contents, a garage and several outbuildings at the Ora K. Ratcliff farm, southeast of Decatur. Saturday evening. The blaze was presumably started from a fuel oil stove. One version of the fire’s origin reported that Mr. Ratcliff w-as filling the oil tank and another said that an automatic jet failed to function properly, causing the blaze. Mr. Ratcliff could not be reached for a statement. The blaze started in the home and the building was quickly enveloped in flames. The fire destroyed all contents, moving from room to room in rapid fashion. All furniture and fixtures, clothing, except that being worn by members of the family at the time of the blaze, were consumed. in addition to a large quantity of canned fruit and foods, in the basement and upper floors of the home. The fire spread to the garage and a few outbuildings before it could be checked by firemen from Decatur and volunteers from the neighborhood. Firemen did succeed in saving the granary, reported to have been full, the barn and its contents and one outbuilding. A regular fireman and driver, Burt Ralston, along with four members of the Decatur volunteer fire department, answered the alarm here at about 5:55 p.m. Saturday and remained on the scene for hours, fighting the blaze. The contents of a water tank was used for the most part in battling the flames. An estimate of the damage could not be secured from any (Turn To Page S, Column 6)

Bi-Partisan Leaders Os Congress, Government Advisers In Conference

Man Confesses To School Girl Murder Girl's Body Found Near Norton, Ohio Marion, O„ Sept. 29 — (UP) — The state highway patrol said Ray Sheppard, Prospect, 0., signed a confession to the slaying of Roxie Ann Green shortly after the 16-year-old brunette’s body was found today near Norton. O. Patrol officers said that an attempt had been made to rape the high school girl. Her body was found in a badly battered condition in a field on a farm. The girl, daughter of Carl Green, farmer, of near Prospect. 0., was last seen walking toward her home after attending a football game Sept. 19. A Ford car was seen in the area at about the same time and authorities feared that she was forced into the ear. The girl’s shoe, purse and hair ribbon were found near her home the morning after she disappeared. Marion county sheriff Leßoy Retterer's office said Sheppard, 28 was arrested last night. Officials said he had been under suspicion for some time. He was taken into custody after a drinking bout, according to the officials. County commissioners last week offered a SSOO reward for information leading to finding of the girl. Businessmen and citizens of Prospect were to meet tonight to discuss increasing the amount of the Reward. (Turn To Page 5. Column 7) ——r— O Employes Refuse To Cross Picket Lines

Chicago, Sept. 29 — (UP) — Day shift workers refused to cross picket lines at two Chicago plants of the International Harvester Co. today and an estimated 5,800 men in the tractor divisions were idle.

A spokesman for the United Farm Equipment Workers (CIO), said the pickets represented about 400 maintenance men who have been negotiating since April on a new contract and who accused the company of "stalling.” o Michigan Solon Is Visitor In Decatur Cong. Paul Shafer Visits Here Sunday Congressman Paul W. Shafer, representative from the third Michigan district, visited in Decatur Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ehinger. Mrs. D. M. Hensley and Mrs. Veda Orff. Accompanying Congressman Shafer were his wife, her mother, Mrs. Maqk, Mr. and Mrs. David J. Hensley of Bronson, Mich., and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Centlivre of Fort Wayne. The veteran Michigan congressman and newspaper publisher was reluctant to talk politics except to say that he believed both major parties would get together on a tax relief measure which would be acceptable to all at the next session of congress. Congressman Shafer is a member of the sub-committee on small newspapers and also in the group which has the job of leasing air bases for the United States in foreign countries. He has made several European trips and his committee also has visited all of the South American countries. Although he is a staunch Republican and third ranking member of the Michigan delegation, he is a personal friend of President Truman and served on a joint committee with the president when he was a member of the United States senate. Congressman Shafer and his party returned to his summer Turn T« »> Column 7>

U. S. Protests Red Attacks On Greece Policy U. S. Objective To Prevent Communist System In Greece Lake Success, N. Y.. Sept. 29. — (UP) —The United States today protested “persistent and gross Soviet calumnies” leveled at the Truman doctrine in Greece and said that the U. S. objective was to prevent imposition of a Communist economic system in that “I can understand,” U. S. delecountry. gate Herschel V. Johnson told the UN’s political and security committee in the debate on Greece, “why the USSR, representing another economic system, is disturbed by our action in Greece. “But I ask why the Greek people should suffer because the Soviet Union cannot impose its system on that country.” Johnson said the major U. S. motive in Greece was “development of an economic policy which we consider sound.” Johnson's statement was " the first time that a U.S. official has so bluntly stated that the U. S. objective in Greece is to combat Communist ideology since President Truman announced his doctrine to congress.

Johnson joined British delegate Hector McNeil in denouncing the representatives of Russia, Poland, Yugoslavia and the two Soviet socialist republics of trying deliberately to “sidetrack” the UN with irrelevant accusations in the political and security committee. Polish delegate Oscar Lange jumped to his feet immediately to remind Johnson and McNeil that he has not yet spoken on the Greek question and therefore could not be guilty of their accusations. The first break in the western front was submitted by French delegate Yvon Delbos who challenged the U. S. and British charges that Yugoslavia, Albania and Bulgaria were guilty of aggression against Greece. He said there was no evidence to support such charges but admitted they had done nothing to prevent guerillas from crossing the border. Denounces Article Washington, Sept. 29.—(UP) — Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith. U. S. ambassador to Moscow, has bitterly denounced as “wantonly libelous” a Soviet article which com(Turn Tn Pag-o ?. Palumn 5) — Set Tax Hearings Here October 22 State To Conduct Budget Hearings State tax board hearings on the budgets of the various taxing units will be held at the Adams county courthouse Wednesday. October 22, Auditor Thurman I. Drew today received official word from the state tax board concerning the date. The communication states that hearings will begin at 9 a.m. that day for the following units in order: Adams county and the 12 townships. Beginning at 1:30 p.m. the following hearings will be held in order: Berne civil. Berne school corporation, Berne library, Geneva civil town. Geneva library, Monroe civil town, Decatur civil city. Decatur school corporation. Decatur public library. Officials and taxpayers during the hearing may give information on items in the various budgets, that, in their opinion, should be reduced.

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Study Possibility Os Stop-Gap Help To Europe Without Congress Session Washington. Sept. 29 — (UP) — President Truman today held an extraordinary meeting with congressional and administration leaders and one conferee — Sen. Scott W. Lucas, D„ 111. — said afterwards that Mr. Truman saw “no way” to finance emergency aid to Europe “without congressional action.” Asked by newsmen whether the president was going to call a special session of congress, Lucas said ‘‘he'll have to tell you about that himself.” The White House promised a statement on the meeting during the afternoon. Mr. Truman met for two hours and 35 minutes with bi-partison congressional leaders and top administration advisers, including secretary of state George C. Marshall, to discuss whether there wa« any way to rush stotrgap aid to Europe without a special session. Luea«s said afterwards that, according to Mr. Truman, “there is no way to get relief from the ex-port-import bank or any other source without congressional action.” Lucas said the senate and house foreign relations and appropriations committees would be called into meetings as soon as possible. He indicated that a special session would depend largely on what comes out of those meetings. House Republican leaders Charles A. Halleck of Indiana eaid Mr. Truman will “undertake certain actions” as a result of today’s White Douse conference. He said no agreements were made. Asked if there had been “a •meeting of minda." Halleck replied, “I wouldn’t say so.” Mr. Truman told a news conference last Thursday he hoped to be able to provide stop-gap aid to Europe without calling a special session if possible, but that he was open-minded about calling the legislators back. Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg R., Mich., .president pro tern of the -senate, was asked whether the president’s statement would be a “mutual statement.” “No," he said, “it is something he is working out.” Eleven eon-greseional leaders and six administration advisers went into conference with Mr. Truman promptly at 10 a. m„ EST. Secretary of state George C. Marshall came here from the UN general assembly meeting in New York to outline the desperate European food situation, which he said must he relieved before the end of this yeai- if the continent is to avert “intolerable hunger.” It was generally understood that Mr. Truman believes a minimum of $500,000,090 in stop-gap aid is needed to tide over Europe during the next four months. France and Italy mainly are in need of such aid. One of the major problems confronting the conferees was how to provide immediate aid to Europe without forcing domestic prices higher. The emergency aid is separate from the long-range Marshall plan (Turn Tn Page 3. Column (D O Much Cooler Weather Forecast In Indiana Indianapolis. Sept. 29 — (UP) —- Hoosiers, particularly in the northern- part of the state, faced real weather today. a«s the weather bureau forecast that it would be “much cooler tonight with frost •likely in the north portion.” Paul A. Miller, chief of the Indianapolis bureau, said that lowtemperatures ranging between 32 and 35 degrees could be expected in the extreme north tonight with Indianapolis and southern . Indiana slated to -see the mercury a t 38 to 40. Miller said that a new “cold front” was expected tg blanket the state early Tuesday, and freezing temperatures, or at least frost •ould be expected then.