Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 236, Decatur, Adams County, 7 October 1947 — Page 1

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ilion Marks n Meatless |l|sday Today I Resident Truman I tlading Nation In I Jitial Observance ■* 7 (UP) Truman set the pace American public today in nation-wide observance meatless Tuesday since iworw War I. |^H was learned, meanwhile, and “butterli f «"ldays also have been sug■L Mr.. Truman’s new food |^H tt ee. The idea has been at least for the time I Aft" Ugh offers of voluntary Ifoopjation in the drive to save lan extra 100,000,000 bushels es Europe poured into the ■ Wiliti House, responsible officials ■ said [the first real test of the ■ progrs" is yet to come. 1 wy said the campaign still ■ h W new 10 expect 100 percent I publii observance. The full esIfectiveness of the drive can be IgMged only after every American ■ has been impressed with the im- ■ portalice of his efforts, officials I Ths) president set the standard B sliicli he expects the nation to I follssw when the White House ■ scwuled cheese souffle (for and broiled salmon steak Eaorßnner today. ft For eggless and poultryless ■Thursday. the president will have Bg Sncheon of peppers stuffed ■ wit# rice and mushroom. The K|r will feature baked ham. || It also was learned that the || 1. Was told that the baking ■lndßtry is moving to stamp out [consignment selling. Under this bakers — to plug their I products — deliver more bread I tlirf retailers actually need. I Th® then take back the day-old I loafs which usually are wasted. I ■ Debated at length the wisof linking any promise of | l°w|r prices to the food saving for fear it might ■ Was informed that meat- | less and poultryless days were j tQnmended after earlier proto ask housewives ,to W an across-the-board 15 perI <U ' * n l ’ le use I V ''W junked. ■ Heard secretary of agrieul- ' Clinton P. Anderson describe the agriculture department ®ying to limit the weight of SMI co >ning to market. This would be done a federal bonus on lighthogs. J Was informed by Anderson any return to so-called grey HB<l by hiking the flour extracB rate would be of doubtful Be as far as saving grain is Luckman. ■ chairman of citizens food committee, also ■tTnrn To Pae-» 5. Column 6) • I ~ 0 ” — ®st 0/ 'Meatless' ■Tuesdays Has Little Effect Here Today first “meatless Tuesday," *ar c . ated , by President Truman, -■little effect in Decatur today, disclosed. restaurant contacted in ■ survey had at least one meat W he nienu for the noon luncheon and most had a variety from ■® h the customer might choose. n me, however, may not have ■ ample time to prepare for a •Vtless meal on such short noS 81n ce the president’s Sunday JN speech. the homes, it might well have a “meatmore,” instead of a Tuesday. B check of several butcher shops osed not only that meat sales g® U w t 0 normal- but in most ■ 8 butchers reported heavier ■ than usual this morning. WEATHER B. eloud y tonight and Wahr' S u ay ’ * few » c »ttered Waht showers .n d , omewhat

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Resigns • I * IS - The Rev. if. J. A. Bouman, above, has resigned as pastor of the St. John’s. Lutheran church, north of Decatur, to accept a charge in Sheboygan, Wis. Rev. H. J. Bouman Resigns Pastorate Accepts Offer Os Wisconsin Church The Rev. Herbert J. A. Bouman has resigned his position as pastor of the St. John’s Lutheran church, north of Decatur, it was revealed today. Rev. Bouman has accepted a position as pastor of the Immanuel Lutheran church at Sheboygan, Wis., where he will go after concluding his service here the last of this month. He will be installed there Suriday, November 2. The St. John’s congregation voted TO ask the Rev. E. T. Schmidtke, pastor of the Zion Lutheran church at Friedheim, to take charge of the meetings to call a successor to Rev. Bouman. The Rev. W. Vogel, retired, Fort Wayne, will be asked to conduct the services during the vacancy. Rev. Bouman ca’me to St. John's five years ago from Geneva, O. For the past four years he served the 10 congregations comprising circuit A of the Lutheran church as the official visitor. Rev. Schmidtke has been named his successor in that capacity. Rev. and Mrs. Bouman have two sons. James, 14, a sophomore at Concordia high school, Fort Wayne, and Thomas, 7, a second grade student at St. John’s Lutheran school. 0 — Democrat Thermometer Is Back Into Action “Old Faithful” went back to work today. The Daily Democrat thermometer, inactive since the heat wave “got it” a few weeks ago, has been repaired and is once more “telling the temperature” from its perch in front of the newspaper office. 0 Advance Plans For Halloween Parade Annual Parade Here Friday, October 31 Plans for the annual Callithumpian parade to be staged here Halloween night, Friday. October 31, are rapidly being furthered, Chamber of Commerce officials said today. The parade will be started at 7:30 p.m. that day from the jail yard and will be composed of bands and various costumed participants. More than S2OO in prize money will be awarded winners in various events, to be announced in detail at a later date. Will Bowers is general chairman of the event. Gregg McFarland, Dr. H. V. DeVor. Robert Helm and Clyde Butler have been' named, ■parade marshals. Thurman I. Drew will serve as announcer for the event. Other committee members appointed by the Chamber of Commerce board of directors: Prizes: R. C. Ehinger, R. W. Pruden, Herman H. Krueckeberg and John Halterman; publicity: Clarence Ziuer, Ernest Karlen. (Turn To Page 5. Column 6)

UN Rejects Russ Proposal To Curb Press Reject Proposal To Force World Press Expose Warmongers Lake Success, N. Y., Oct. 7 — (UP) — The United Nations overwhelmingly rejected today a Soviet proposal which would have imposed on the world press an obligation to expose "warmongers” and to campaign for eradication of Fascism under threat of punishment. It was the first of several anticipated efforts by Russia at the UN general assembly to accuse the United States of warmongering and to get the world to take action against alleged "instigators” of a new world war against Russia. The defeat came in the UN general assembly’s social, cultural and .humanitarian committee. The only vote was 34 to 6 with absentions.

The Soviet proposal would have required a maximum of government control of the press. It called for .legislative action in each country to punish owners of newspapers who disseminate “untrue and libelous” statements about other nations and would deprive persons engaging in “warmongering” of the rights of freedom of the press. Pakistan, the world’s newest nation, today denounced proposals to divide Palestine between the Jews and Arabs and said that large, rich and prosperous states like the United States could, if they wished, solve the Jewish problem by accepting immigrants. Sir Zafarullah Khan of Pakistan ppoke for two hours in the UN general asembly’s special Palestine commission. The delegate of Pakistan was the only speaker in the Palestine commission. His lengthy dissertion in defense of the Arabs prevented the first spokesmen for the Soviet bloc from declaring their position. There have been indications that the Soviet bloc, after three weeks of silence, will support the general principle of partition of Palestine between the Jews and Arabe despite Arab threats to start a middle eact civil war. Sir Zafarullah indirectly and sarcastically criticized the United States for its previous stands on the Jewish question and on Palestine. The U. S. delegation here still maintains silence on the par(Turn To Page 3, Column 5) 0 SIO,OOO Suit Filed For Death Os Girl Damage Suit Filed In Circuit Court A SIO,OOO damage suit was filed in Adams circuit court today as an aftermath in the death of Judith Ann Baker, five year old duaghter of Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Baker of 803 North Thirteenth street. The suit was filed by the father of the little girl, who died September 5, 1946, the day after she was struck by a car driven by Leo H. Roe, who is named defendant in the action. The suit, filed by D. Burdette Custer as attorney for the plaintiff. charges that she was struck with such speed and violence that her body was thrown a distance of 80 feet. It charges that she was severely, critcially and horribly injured, suffering broken bones, contusions and loss of blood, and that she died in the local hospital early the morning after the crash. The suit avers that the defendant could have avoided hitting the child had he been proceeding at the lawful rate of 30 miles per hour or under, but that, he was negligent in not keeping a proper lookout and in not yielding the right of way. the child having arrived at the point of impact at the crossing first; that he was negligent in not swerving his car to the west: that with reasonable diligence he could have saved her life; that he was driving Turn To Page 2, Column «)

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, October 7, 1947

Asks Brewers’ Support In ‘Diet’ B"- ' > g? W gggElO F ’ ■ W 3S| IS a . w tOWijE ft i *• ■- ft BP* B * : . uft jrgiMfffMib .lw'aSSsa. ' -Sy “ 188 HI ’ CITIZENS’ FOOD CONSERVATION Chairman Charles Luckman (left), and Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson (seated center), seek support of brewers John A. Berghoff (right), Fort Wayne, Ind., and E. V. Lahey, New Bedford, Mass., in hacking up pledge - to cut down on use of grain by distillers.

Heavy Food Waste In Restaurants Related Four-Eight Ounces Os Food Per Person Chicago, Oct. 7 —(UP)— Enough food for more than a million persons is wasted in the nation's public eating houses every day, restaurant operators said today. The restaurants serve about 62,000,000 meals a day, and the national restaurant association estimates that from four to eight ounces of food are wasted daily on each person patronizing America's 157,000 eating houses. Through President Truman’s food saving program and a campaign of their own to supplement the government plan, the case operators hope to cut that waste by more than 75 percent to lees than an ounce per person. The restaurant men expect that the two conservation plans will save about 3,000.000 pounds of food ft day. Each person eats about three pounds of food daily, so the savings would feed around a million people, i A spokesman for the restaurant association said that by following Mr. Truman’s request to eave a sllcfe of bread the people who dine out could save 4,000,000 pounds of bread every day. “The average restaurant patron eale a slice and a half of bread with each meal,” the restaurant spokesman said. “By just giving , up that extra half slice he would, in effect, be saving a slice.” Directors of the national restaurant association voted in a meeting at San Francisco to cooperate with the president who had askTurn To Page 2, Column 1) O Geoffrey F. Morgan Speaks To Students Special Assembly Held This Morning Geoffrey F. Morgan, nationally known speaker and assistant to the president of the Aircraft In- ! dustries Association, was the speaker this morning at a special assembly in the Decatur juniorsenior high school. Students of that school and the Decatur Catholic high school heard the address in a program in charge of principal W. Guy Brown. “What’s The Use?” was the topic of Mr. Morgan’s address, dealing with the importance of education in building character, courage, courtesy and culture. Mr. Morgan is well known for his work in the fields of education, having served as a school superintendent; in writing since he has written numerous magazine articles; in government since he served in the California state legislature, and business by virtue of his association with the aircraft industry. He has addressed hundreds of Chamber of Commerce groups, service clube, universities and high schools.

Gary Church Badly Damaged By Flames Gary, Ind., Oct. 7 —(UP) — A Gary landmark, the First Presbyterian church, was swept last night by fire. Flames destroyed the interior of the Gothic brick building and shot 75 feet into the air, attracting thousands of spectators. Large stained glass windows were shattered by the heat, and the churc|i interb (• was charred hy smoke and flames. The Rev. F. W. Backemeyer, pastor, estimated the damage at 190,000. ;o Communists Weaken In France, Italy Latest Soviet Move Weakening Party Paris. Oct. 7 —(UP) — The Communists were believed today only to have made it tougher for them-, selves in France and Italy by setting up their nine-nation “information bureau” to torpedo the Marshall and Truman plane and etop western democracy in Europe. The Communist parties of 1 France and Italy were the only ones outside of the iron curtain to be let in on the scheme. This was taken to mean that the governments of France and Italy would be the first targets of the “information bureau.” At the same time, it became clear that the Communists had ruined their chances of getting back into the French and Italian governments as members of a coalition. Getting control of key cabinet poste has been a favorite Communist method of capturing governments “legally.” ‘ The Communists are major parties in France and Italy. France’s other two major parties, the Socialists and popular Republicans, issued official statements saying that the Communists had taken away any doubt that they were servants of Russia. Italy’s Christian Democrat Pertnier Alcide De Gasperi handed the Communists in his country their biggest setback since the end of the war by winning three successive votes of confidence in the assembly Sunday. He had put the Communists and leftwing Socialists out of his governit|ent five months ago for stir(Turn To Pagr 3, Column 5) 0 LATE BULLETINS Washington, Oct. 7 — (UP) — The national labor relations board ruled today that top officers of the CIO and AFL need not file non-Communist affidavits and financial registration statements before their unions can participate in collective bargaining elections under the Taft-Hartley lay. Cincinnati, 0., Oct. 7 —(UP) — The American Newspaper Publishers Association today filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board here charging the international Typographical union with unfair labor, practices violating the TaftAartley law.

Pennsylvania Passenger Train Hits Road Grader Near Fort Wayne Today

Leading Grain Marls Bow To Truman Demand Increase Margin Requirements To Curb Speculation Chicago, Oct. 7.—(UP) —The nation’s leading grain exchanges increased their margin requirements on grains sold for future delivery to 33-% percent today, but spokesmen said the action was taken “with great reluctance.” The officials of the Chicago exchange yielded to President Truman’s demand for increased margins yesterday and the Minneapolis and Kansas City exchanges soon followed suit. It was expected that other exchanges would take identical action. A joint statement issued by the Chicago and Minneapolis exchanges said that the move would "neither alleviate nor correct” current high prices of grain, however. Margin requirements are initial payments for grain which is to be delivered at some future date. The purpose of marginal payments is to provide a guarantee that the buyer or seller will carry out his commitments. The President asked that the margins be increased so that speculative buying would be curbed. In his radio speech to the nation Sunday, Mr. Truman said that the amount of wheat bought and sold on the grain exchanges during the month of September alone was equal to nearly half the total crop this year. He said that much of that trading was "just plain gambling.” The boards of directors of the Chicago and Minneapolis exchanges (Turn to Pa?p A. Column 6) 0 Ex-GI Brings Babe Home By Airplane Says Wife Refused To Come To U. S. Greensboro, N. C., Oct. 7. —(UP) —Curtis Elmer Vincent cast a father’s anxious glance at his 10month old son lying squalling in an oversized hotel bed here today and then declared bringing the baby 4,0’00 miles by plane and train from London “wasn’t much trouble.” The 24-year-old shoe clerk for a local department store arrived bytrain from New York with the infant early today after taking the infant from his British bride “for a walk” in London Sunday. “I gave Van a soother to chew on and his ears weren’t bothered at all by the altitude on the flight to New York over the ocean.” Vincent said. “I took milk and dried foods with me when I left the state and he had plenty to eat.” Told that Scotland Yard had started a search for him when his wife charged he had kidnaped the child, Vincent shouted: "There was no kidnaping about it. My passport stated I was going to England to get my wife and child and return them to this country. “I arrived in London two weeks ago and found my" wife had left the baby in someone else’s care. When she returned, I offered her a home in Greensboro or Talladga County, Ala., where I originally made my home. But she refused to come to America.” The ex-GI, who married his wife Marjorie before the army sent him home for discharge, indicated his wife's absence when he arrived in London was the thing that him decide to bring the baby across (Turn To Page 3 ( Column i)

Favor Reinstatement Os Service Officer I John Moore Named Justice Os Peace In answer to a delegation from veterans’ groups and a lodge organization, the Adams county commissioners late Monday asserted that they would recommend the reinstatement of the county service officer’s post here at the next i meeting of the county council. Representatives of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars posts, the local Moose lodge and the Berne Legion post appeared before the commissioners during the regular meeting Monday. They asked that the $2,800 fund for the salary and operating expense of the service officer be included in next year’s operating costs of the county. John L. DeVoss of the Legion committee acted as spokesman. The organizations protested against the council's recent action in slashing the fund from the 1948 budget and circulated petitions asking for reinstatement of the office. The remonstrators declared that duties of the service officer cannot , be adequately handled by any other individual or organization in the , county. Appointed J. P. John H. Moore, well known Geneva resident will be the new justice of peace of Wabash township, it was announced by the commissioners. I The commissioners approved his ! application for the post and will recommend his appointment by Governor Ralph Gates. Moore will succeed James Barr, who resigned recently after many years in the office. The Berne IGA store was awarded the contract for furnishing groc- ; eries for the county home for three months and the Geneva Hatchery the contract for furnishing bottle gas for the new storage tank at the same place. The commissioners approved including the Stratton Place addition in precinct 2-A for voting purposes, the first time to be in the city election next month. ——iO Observe Father-Son Communion Sunday The annual father and son Communion Sunday will be observed at St. Mary’s Catholic church next Sunday. The fathers and sons of the pariish will attend the 7:30 o’clock mass and receive Holy Communion during the service. 0 Vote Registration Heavy On Last Day Last Minute Rush Jams County Office The customary last minute rush of registrants at the office of county clerk Clyde O. Troutner was “far beyond fondest expectations.” Shortly before 1 p.m. Monday when the office was reopened after the noon lunch hour, prospective registrants jammed the courthouse corridor and a steady stream treked into the office during the balance of the afternoon. At various intervals, several were forced to wait in the corridor when the outer offices became jammed with persons either registering or transferring their registrations. Although no figures were available yet today. Mr. Troutner said that a final check will show scores of registered yesterday—the final day to qualify for voting this fall. Attaches of the office immediately began the task of placing the registrations in the poll books in preparations city November 4. o

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Early Reports Say Three Others Still Missing In Wreck On G. R. & I. Division Fort Wayne, Ind., Oct 7 —(UP) — A Pennsylvania railroad passenger train smashed into a piece of highway machinery at a grade crossing near here today, killing at least two persons and injuring at least 13 others. The Allen county sheriff’s office said that two bodies had been found and identified as those of the train's engineer and fireman. Eight injured including passengers and crew members were in St. Joseph hospital and five others in Lutheran hospital here, the sheriff’s office reported. The hospitals said names of the injured were not yet available. Reports differed on the number of dead. State police said four were known dead and several train crew members missing and believed to be beneath the wreckage. They said six cars were derailed from the train. The accident occurred at 12:17 p.m. at the intersection of the railroad and the California road. The train was southbound. ' The driver of the highway equipment. which state police said was a dirt conveyor loaded with Id or 15 yards of gravel, was uninjured. |He jumped before the crash. Police identified him as Geno Fmoleke. The dead were Charles A. Perry. engineer, and L. M. Martin, the fireman, both' of Fort Wayne, the Pennsylvania superintendent’s office said. The injured fireman was Dennis Gerlock. also of Fort Wayne. The Ligonier. Ind., office of the Indiana state police said that the locomotive and six cars of the 11-car passenger train were derailed. “We know of four dead and one injured seriously.” an officer said “The firemen, engineer and a trainmaster are believed to be in the wreckage.” The accident occurred three mi’es north and two miles west of Fort Wayne on the Grand Rap ids and Indiana branch of the railroad. Police said the heavy road grader was crossing the tracks (Turn To Page 3, Column 0 o— Highway Accidents Kill Two In State

Five-Year-Old Boy Is Killed By Train Bv United Press Highway accidents killed two Hoosiers Monday, three more died in Indiana hospitals of injuries received earlier, a five-year-old boy was killed when he ran in front of a train, and a seventh Hoosier died when a cellar wall collapsed on him. Both of the highway wrecks involved farm vehicles On. S. R 56. near Brazil, Frampton Rockhill, 57, of Brazil, was killed when his automobile crashed into a tractor • driven by Wayne Parkins of Prairie City. Near Anderson, on S. R. 32, Thomas Burke, 21, rode his motorcycle into a wagon, and died shortly after he was taken to an Anderson hospital. Donald Ray Fair, son of ,Mr. aJU Mrs. Joseph W. Fair, ran in front, of a train near Markle. He was killed instantly. Louis C. Gifford. 35, died in Warsaw of injuries received when a cellar wall collapsed on him. He was helping Edward Davidson dig the basement for the new Davidson home in Inwood. At Indianapolis, a traffic accident on Saturday night claimed its second school girl victim. Miss Estalaine Barkdull, 15, of Anderson, died of injuries received in the two-car collision which killed Diana Hale, S 3, also or Anderson, (Turn To Page 5, Column 6»