Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 238, Decatur, Adams County, 9 October 1947 — Page 1

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Bjfeny Persons iSMOpposed IfJood Drive mJ UH -—- IEI W Haas Eliminated . "m W Menus J°c day ■ x 2min f j • ■B luqhout U. ■>. Pitts _ to i] gaH Mij fnited Press :ilIS ’l RHoajwi' 7eP - charEed by Preß *' ‘Wj. with a major share appoint, in >l |e llrive t 0 e27 i.xTXid eliminated eggs today es in the voluntary cam- • n»lrtfe> help feed Europe. But t -andom questioning of house- « wives in IS scattered cities indim°st oi them were dis ’ > I eggs and P° u ' try !0 " s l/ day teftccordance with the presiyw of the housewives inter“eggless, poultryless would help their budIjSMonie said they already had 111 callfl ll 0,1 esfis be, ’ auße of t,lp {?/■ ' it'dh ated. however, J, M ttJSlfeie still were many perI sons Who opposed the program. , 'l'hcif X>pi>osition was summed up i in that words of one housewife ' wholla !. "we’ve already done enoughs for Europe." flah'nited Press questioned as «J /jflKsewives in 18 cities. SevrM ontyttven promised to cooperate withfthe food-saving program. Seventy out of 85 restaurant proipX priefls said they would comply. AtfOmaha. Neb., four out of five jousewives said they were IV going along with the program. The liftli said that “we did plenty during the war and I feel that ttS other countries haven’t done all theylou’.d ." Two restaurants at — .-wife efused to strike eggs | fromftheir menus. They said egalwre their biggest breakfast A restaurateur at Salt Lake E City Baid much the same thing. I “If we didn't we might just as fluil ”W lose the doors ’” he sa,d ’ Salt Lake City restaurI ant operator, however, said “we j won't serve poultry or eggs unfl less iwe have to meet competlI It AtlMinneapolis, four out of five 1 house ives questioned said they I were! going without eggs and I poetry today. The fifth said I breakfast was her husband’s ■ I “tnaii meal.” and that he would SI I gefcggs every day. 8 ■ Sh' Louis, one housewife I said the food program was | Hilly “1 can't see how we can I eofcrve anything," she said. I A New Orleans restaurant ownfl er fed that “we have eggs and | »e plan to sell them; we can re"**g our menu later and do like I ■ks,” I Katthew Bernatskl, MinneapoI estau rateur and a noted aud. I thotitv on food, said going with>ut I and poultry was “a very I W teurish approach to the proba I lent.' Previously Bernatskl had I give wholesale approval to the „ I drfvi to cut bread consumption, I and had criticized the nation’s y I Wain-ant operators for wasting • jy hat effect the “eggless | Thursdays” would have on the | Pric>- of eggs remained to be | O' ,rn T " Pa!rt ‘ ?■ n’otumn 5) | 609 Parents And I g Teachers Enrolled I In Lincoln P. T. A. • ;^F' dt h the amazing enrollment of ? Jg P a rents and teachers, the Lin- | Win school P. T. A. will hold its ; soneral meeting at 7:30 | tonight in the school audi- | tHum. j| J®*" o intensive membership drive I : W° ducted the pupils of the s •K'ool has resulted in the largest I X° !lment !n the history pf the I HF ani2 ation, being six times bigIw than last year - When the come tally is made, the room bring- | , “ 1 ‘ most members will be H yarded a General Electric radioII W^b° erapb COl nbination. 11 th p ReV ' D ' Wissler > pastor of I th- FlrSt Evangelica! United BreI th' 6n cbllrc b °f Fort Wayne will be ’ W® principal speaker at tonight’s II &n 6t . and b® comes with the I Ik™ tatlOn ° f belng an inspiring, 1 lf®° rOUS and highly interesting I thi= Urer The complete program of I »m„71 ar S actlviti ®s will be dis’kJ th» Ud and dlscuss ®d. Following lßferv^ e t ting ’ refres hments will be by the hospitality comip.it-

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Two More Held In Atom Bombs Theft Ex-Soldiers Seized For Picture Theft Santa Fe, N. M„ Oct. 9. —(UP)— Two former army photographers were held today on federal charges of stealing highly secret photographic data from the Los Alamos atom bomb project. The men, George Wellington Thompson, 42, of Riverside, N. M., and Ernest Lawrence Paporello, 29, of Albuquerque, N. M., wire stationed at Los Alamos during the war. U. Everett Grantham said that both men were arraigned before United States commissioners yesterday. The federal bureau of investigation said the alleged thefts occurred before the atomic energy act went into effect and during the time the army was still in full charge of all security measures connected with the laboratory. Therefore, Paporello and Thompson were charged with stealing government property—carrying a maximum sentence of five years imprisonment. $5,000 fine, or both —rather than under the stiffer penalty provided by the atomic energy act. Thompson pleaded innocent to the charge of stealing government property, but pleaded guilty to a second count — removing records from a government agency. After his arraignment at Los Alamos, he was brought to Stanta Fe where he was held under SIO,OOO bond. Paporello faced similar charges, but did not enter a plea when he appeared at Albuquerque before U. S. commissioner Owen J. Mowrey. His hearing was postponed by Mowrey until Monday, but he also was held under bond of SIO,OOO. Grantham said he believed the postponement was ordered after Paporello asked for services of counsel. J. Edgar Hoover, director of the federal bureau of investigation, . who announced from Washington yesterday that the two had been arrested said that all the stolen property had been recovered. The arrests of Thompson and Paporello brought to five the number of former soldiers charged with stealing confidential information, mostly photographs, from the Los Alamos project. All of the cases were separate, with the men accused of stealing secret material individually. Those arrested earlier were Alexander Von Der Lust, Princeton undergraduate of Mt. Lebanon, Pa., who pleaded guilty and raceivTurn To Paere 2. Column 6) 0 — Saturday Religion School Is Cancelled The Saturday religion school of the Zion Lutheran church has been cancelled for thia week because of a funeral in the congregation of the Rev. Karl Hofmann, vacancy pastor. Classes will be resumed the following Saturday, October 18, at 8:45 a.m. 0Prepare Community Fund Budget Friday Budget Committee Meeting Scheduled The 1948 budget of the Decatur Community Fund. Inc., will be prepared Friday afternoon in a special meeting of the budget committee, it was announced today. Walter J. Krick, chairman of the group, has called a meeting of committee members for 1:30 p.m. that day at the First State Bank. Budgets of the various activities will be studied at that time and then presented to the Community Fund for final approval in a meeting at 7:30 O’clock Monday night at the bank. The budget will vary some from that of last year, it is known. Funds for the USO, for which $1,200 was earmarked in the 1947 budget, will be missing. It is also reported that a request for a "cancer drive” is to be submitted for the new budget. The budget in 1947 totalled sll,4RI Itetns ’Tv addition to that of the USO were? Teen canteen, $2,361: Girl Scouts, $1,000; Boy Scouts, $1,400; recreation equipment, $1,500; Salvation Army, $1,000; operating expense, $500; reserve for contingencies, $2,500. Carl C. Pumphrey, president of the corporation, will preside over, the Monday night meeting, I

Denounce Move For Partition Os Palestine Jewish Spokesmen Hit Suggestion As 'Delaying Tactics' Success, N. Y„ Oct. 9. — (UP) —Jewish spokesmen today denounced as “delaying tactics” suggestions that the Zionists and the Arabs try again to reach an agreement on Palestine outside the United Nations. They pointed out that time and again during the last 10 years a settlement of the Holy Land problem has been sought in such negotiations affd that the whole issue was tossed into the United Nations when the last attempt under British auspices failed in London. These spokesmen could see no useful purpose in another attempt now except to delay a decision. The formal suggestion for such a conciliation attempt was made by Dr. Hector David Castro of El Salvador, and there were reports that the United States—which has deliberately been delaying announcement of its position—was informally sounding out the possibilities qf another Jewish-Arab conference. Jewish spokesmen denied that they have been approached. There appears to be an overwhelming majority of the assembly in favor of partition of Palestine between Jews and Arabs. But there is likewise almost unanimous agreement that such a decision would have to be imposed by force. Thus, the major question is: “Who will bell the cat?” Now that Britain has announced its intention to withdraw from Palestine, no other nation wants to take on those onerous duties. And the United States would be reluctant to assume it even jointly inasmuch as such a decision would probably give Russia voice in that vital middle eastern area. The Palestine debate continued in the special assembly committee with Syrian delegate Emir Adel Arslan accusing the British of “flagrant ingratitude” toward the Arabs and warning that creation of a Jewish state in the middle east would be “dangerous, especially because of the alliances it might (Turn To Page 2, Column 8) — _oBritain Again Dips Info Gold Reserve Replenish Dwindling Supply Os Dollars London. Oct. 9 —(UP) — Authoritative sources said today that Britain had sold $80,000,000 more of its gold reserve to the United States to replenish its dwindling supply of dollars. It was the second time in three weeks that Britain had dipped into its gold reserve, the last defense against economic collapse. Britain sold $80,000,000 worth of gold to the U. S. for dollars on Sept. 15. The new sale was believed to have reduced the British gold reserve to about $2,240,000,000. The exact total is a government secret. Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton said last month after the first gold sale that the reserve was worth $2,320,000,000. Sir Stafford Cripps, the new minister of economics, said yesterday, however, that he could disclose only that the reserve totalled between $2,000,000,000 and $2,400,000,000. These authoritative sources said the sale was consummated by moving gold held on British account from one vault of the federal reserve bank of New York to another vault and crediting this country with an equivalent amount in dollars. To replenish British gold in New York, the government shipped $4,000,000 worth of gold to the federal reserve bank of New York on the liner Queen Mary, which arrived there yesterday. • 0 Some Damage Done In Truck-Auto Collision Some damage was done about 12:30 a.m. today, police reported, when an auto driven by Roy Bleek,2o, of route four, Decatur and a truck, owned by the Crider Lumber company, sideswiped on federal road 27, north of the AdamsAllen county line. The driver of the truck was not identified.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, October 9, 1947

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TWO-YEAR-OLD Kenneth Seymour is kissed by his sister. Edna, as he is released from New York hospital after recovering from nephrosis, kidney disease which has 1-3 fatality ratio.

Patrolman Rescues Pastor From Gunman Findlay Preacher Is Rescued By Officer Findlay, 0., Oct. 9 —(UP)—A sharp-shooting state highway patrolman felled a gunman in the aisle of a church here today as he struggled with an aged minister he was holding as a hostage. The gunman, identified by police as Leonard Johnson, 27, of Detroit, was taken to a Findlay i hospital with two bullet wounds I in the back. Police chief Leo McKinley Larkins said the gunman held the Rev. John Knox at gunpoint in his church for more than an hour while patrolmen and police tried to argue him into surrendering. “He threatened to kill the minister if we tried to use tear gas,” the chief said, “and demanded we get him a car and let him drive away with Reverend Knox.” , Highway patrolman R. C. Vanderveen finally crawled through a side window of the church, creeped on hands and knees between the pews, and fired two shots into Johnson's back as the gunman struggled with the minister. Reverend Knox was unhurt. “He toppled right on top of me in the aisle,” the episcopal minister said. (Turn Tn Paen 5, Colijmn ——o Geneva Man Is Badly Injured At Factory Berne, Ind., Oct. 9 — Edwin T. Moser, of Geneva, an employe of the Dunbar Furniture company, had both hands badly cut when he had them pulled into a hand saw while at work. The tendon was severed an the middle finger of the left hand and he hae the hand in a cast. He will be unable to work for several weeks. 0 Four Heifers Are Stolen Last Night Farm East Os City Visited By Thieves Sheriff Herman Bowman and deputy Sam Bentz today were leading a search for cattle thieves, who some time last night stole four Guernsey heifers from the W. M. Miller farm, east of this city. State police and Ohio authorities entered the search today when it was thought likely that the thieves may have gone into Ohio and will attempt to dispose of the stolen animals there. The theft was noticed this morning when members of the Miller family noticed corn strewn about the farmyard, some distance from their residence. Infestigation by the sheriffs department proved that the animals had been lured toward a truck with’ the corn and that a gate had been removed to aid in corailing the animals. The vehicle presumably used to transport the animals was tracked for several miles and authorities feel that they have some fairly important

Sen. Vandenberg In Michigan Hospital Grand Rapids, Mich., Oct. 9 — (UP)— Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg, R., Mich., « a patient in Butterworth hospital here, it was announced today. Sources close to the Republican foreign-policy maker said Vandenberg went to the hospital “for a checkup.” They said “no surgery is involved.” o AFL Labor Leader Dies At Convention Stroke Fatal During Convention Speech San Francisco, Oct. 9—(UP) — They may finish Joe Padway’s last speech today before the AFL’s 6Gth convention. Someone of the 700 delegates will have to put the unfinished part into the record because death halted the suave, fiery little AFL genera] counsel yesterday in the middle of it. When they get down to the last paragraph of the 21-pages devoted principally to a denunciation of the Taft-Hartley act, they will find Padway was still fighting—as he had all his fife—against “slavery" for workers — “involuntary servitude in violation of the thirteenth amendment.” “If this act is to be construed that one man may quit his job and be free from a violation of the act, but if two agree to do the same thing they may be punished, then it certainly violates the 13th amendment and reestablishes slavery in this country," he had written. “Any fair-minded person will agree that a careful analysis of this act spells nothing more or less than the return of slavery in these United States.” That was Padway’s valedictory. He was in the midst of the speech when he was felled by a stroke. His 35-year legal career in organized labor was a continuous fight against “involuntary servitude.” He argued the point in defense of John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers (AFL), when federal judge Alan T. Goldsborough fined Lewis and his union $3,510,000 for striking against the government and a court order last November. He told the supreme court much the same thing last, spring in appealing the arrest of James C. Petrillo, president of the American Federation of Musicians (AFL) (Turn Tn Pag-p 2. Hnlnmn 7) O Fire Drills Held By Schools This Morning As part of lhe observance of fire prevention week, the Decatur public and Ctaholic schools, in cooperation with radio station WOWO, held a fire drill this morning. The drill followed a radio address on fire prevention and the alarm bell was sounded over the radio and conveyed to various school rooms by the remote control systems. The drill was a part of the school participation in fire prevention week which is being sponsored by the city and a committee of local insurance agents. Other school participation this week includes the showing of motion pictures and additional fire drills. All students of the Catholic school had left the building within two minutes.

May Ask Poultry Taken From Food-Saving List, Storage Supplies Large

Approve Rent Boost For LouisvNlo, Ky. Approval Expected To Start Protests Washington, Oct. 9 —(UP) —Rent director Frank Creedon today approved a five percent rent boost for Louisville, Ky., landlords in the first action of its kind under the new rent law’. Creedon upheld the recommendation of the local Louisville rent board. The Louisville board, composed of two realtors, two lawyers and a banker, made its recommendation two days after Creedon, in response to protests that the board was not representative, asked Gov. Simeon Willis to name extra members to represent tenants. Approval of the increase was expected to stir up a storm of protest. One group, the Washington chapter of Americans for democratic action, had objected to the increase even before it was granted. It had urged Creedon to disapprove the Louisville boost on the ground that it would “seriously jeopardize rent control for the I entire nation.” Rent officials said Creedon’s adproval was based on legal advice under which he is expected to approve almost automatically almost every such rent-raising recommendation that may be made by local boards now being set up in every rent-controlled community. Announcing his approval of the Louisville rent boost. Creedon also okayed recommendations of five other rent advisory boards Four called for continuation of present rent ceilings, the fifth for decontrol of Lawrence county. S. D.. with the exception of the city of Spearfish. Boards recommending continuation of controls at present ceilings were in Charleston. W. Va.; Du-luth-Superior, Minn.; St. Petersburg, Fla.; and New Castle, Ind. 0 Juveniles Held For Halloween Damage Seven Boys Seized Here Last Evening The first roundup of pre-Hailo-ween celebrants by city police was reported today by chief Ed Miller. Seven Decatur boys, all juveniles. were apprehended by officers James Borders and Adrian Coffee last night when they answered a call to West Jefferson street. They first nabbed three of the youths. The trio denied any implication in a series of destructive acts in the neighborhood and declined revealing the names of their accomplices. They were afraid “the others would beat up on them,” they said. Later, however, after questioning, the three broke down and named the other four boys, who were then apprehended and held for questioning. The boys have been released to their parents, pending further investigation. chief Miller said. Chief Miller and sheriff Herman Bowman have both issued repeated warnings against vandalism and destructive practices in pre-Hallo-ween celebrating. Both warned that prosecution would follow apprehensions in an effort to curb the early start of the celebrants, as well as extensive damage yearly resulting from such practices. One of the youths apprehended last night is now on parole from juvenile court in a theft offense, chief Miller said. 0 Monroe School To Aid Food Program Berne. Ind., Oct. 9 — Arthur Byrnes, principal of the Monroe high school, announced today that the Monroe school lunch program will cooperate with President Truman's request for meatless Tuesdays and no poultry and eggs on Thursday. Mr. Byrnes said other food will be substituted but the pupils, nevertheless, will have plenty to eat.

2,100 Pupils And Teachers Escape Fire Spectacular Fire Sweeps High School In Philadelphia Philadelphia, Oct. 9. —(UP) —A spectacular three-alarm fire swept through the tower of the Benjamin Franklin high school today but the more than 2100 students and teachers escaped safely from the building in five minutes. When flames shot from the tower 120 feet above Broad Street the alarm rang through the fourstory school. Although the 2100 students and 56 teachers believed it was a routine fire drill, they sped down the 32 exits to courtyards leading to the street. The fire broke out at 10 a.m. in the tower which comprises the sixth, seventh and eighth floors, and quickly engulfed the big dome observatory on the top. When the first firemen arrived on the scene two other alarms were turned in, bringing almost all . firefighting equipment in the central-city section and attracting hundreds of spectators. The flames, which started in an elevator shaft, on the sixth floor leading to the observatory, were kept from the five lower stories used as classrooms. 0 Courthouse Offices Will Close Monday The county courthouse offices will be closed all day Monday in observance of the Cplumbus Day legal holiday. The bank will also be closed that day. ______o Funeral Friday For Local Lady's Niece Funeral services will be held Friday for Mrs. Herman Gresley, niece of Mrs. Elizabeth Hodle of this city, who died Monday at the home of her parents, M’\ and Mrs. Charles Brouwer, three miles southwest of Monroeville. Surviving are her parents, her husband, one daughter and one brother. Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Brouwer home and at 2 o’clock at the Marquardt Lutheran church at Monroeville. Burial will be in the lOOF cemetery at New Haven. 0 W, C. Chrislianer Dies Last Evening Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon William C. Christianer, 84, a retired farmer, died at 6:50 o’clock Wednesday evening at his home, five miles north of Decatur, where he had lived his entire life. Death, which followed an illness of six months, was attributed to senility. He was born in Root townshp Feb. 3, 1863, a son of Chrstopher and Margaret Knapp-Christianer. He was married Nov. 30, 1894, to Wilhelmine Weitfeldt, who preceded him in death Feb. 24, 1919. He was a member of St. Peter's Lutheran church. Surviving are one son. Oscar Christianer, at home; four daughters, Mrs. Sophia Zelt of New Haven, Mrs. Ida Fuelling of Root township, Mrs. Clara Scheumann of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Lydia Doctor of Allen county; one brother, Henry Christianer of Monroeville; 18 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. One daughter, one brother and two sisters preceded him in death. Funeral services will be held at 1:3(1 p.m. Saturday at the home and at 2 o’clock at the St. Peter's Lutheran church, with the Rev. Karl Hofmann officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The body will be removed from the Zwick funeral home to the residence this evening, where friends may call aftsr 7 p m.

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Sizeable Bloc Os Distillers Agree To 60-Day Holiday From Making Liquor Washington, Oct. 9 — (UP) — Agriculture department officials are considering the advisibilrty of asking the cltizerin food committee to take chicken off the foodsaving list, it was learned today. One official, who asked that his name not be used, said a final decision on any such recommendation will be made only after a “thorough review” of the amount of chicken in cold storage over the nation. "Even if we do find that cold storage supplies are sufficient, we wouldn’t want to make such a recommendation if we thought it. would hurt the food drive,” he said. The official said he did not know whether euch a recommendation would be broadened to include eggs and other fowl such as turkey, put he said he “guessed" that it would not. If cold storage holdings of chicken are found to be relatively hi|gh. it mighf be an aid to the food drive. Large reserves of cold storage chicken might discourage farmferi? from feeding live chickens, thus saving grain. Sen. Wayne Morse, R., Ore., said previously that the nation's warehouse.; are crammed with chickens. He said he could see no reason to ask housewives to cut down on fowl. In Boston, a special egg and poultry committee of the Boston Fruit & Produce Exchange said eggle>ss and chickenless Thursday was “ridiculous” and "unnecessary." The statement was made as American.? observed their first poultryless Thursday. The food committee, meanwhile, chalked up a tactical victory over whiskey makers when a sizeable bloc of the nation's distillers agreed to a 60-day liquor-making holiday. The others were expected to follow syit soon. 'Committee chairmdn Charles Luckman said 18 of the 39 dlstillere who met with him late yesterday had agreed to a complete 60 day “holiday" on the production of both beverdge and industrial alcohol. He predicted that the entire industry would be closed down within three weeks. Mr. Truman had demanded the action a«s part of his program to ship an extra 100,000000 bushels of grain to Europe during the critical winter months. Luckman said 21 distillery representatives did not tote on the shutdown. But he said they merely asked a 48-hour delay to discuss the question with their boards of directors. No one voted flatly against a shutdown, he said. The food chef said the whiskey shutdown .should save between 10,000,000 and 20,000,000 bushels of grain. In addition, he said, the distillers agreed to turn over to the government any grain stocks on hand or on order. Secretary of agriculture Clinton P. Anderson said earlier that the “holiday” should have no effect on whiskey supplies. He eaid the distillers have enough liquor on hand (Turn To Page 5. Column 6> 0 Fear Adams County Soldier Victim Os Japan Tidal Wave The local Red Cross service office has received a message from the war department, stating that the name of Pvt. 'Ernest Hindenlang, 19. of Monroe, was not listed on the current casualty list, from Japan. Fear has been expressed for the young soldier’s safety, since his parents. Mr. and Mrs. John Hindenlang. have not heard from him for five weeks. lit the meantime the parents received a letter from the quartermaster depot at Kansas City, requesting them to verify his address so the army could return personal belongings to his home. The youth was formerly stationed at Kansas City, before going overseas last December. The Red Cross sent a message to Pvt. Hindenlang, on advice of the war department, and a reply is awaited. The youth may have been a victim of the tidal wave, which struck Japan in late August. 0 WEATHER Fair and pleasant tonight and Friday, slightly cooler south portion tonight-