Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 241, Decatur, Adams County, 13 October 1947 — Page 1
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On assembly rejects soviet proposal
grants To Food Saving Modified rL liHßsfry To Ask ! Fv Committee OiiiJoMpodify Demand j Bulletin JM Jj«Lton. Oct. 13 —(UP) Truman today re- ' -1 the governors of the 48 wß° j° in the " war on hun setting up state wide ?■ 1 3® at,on P r °9 rams - i* l ■ 1 ■ 11 ' ’ 13 —ll P > fta -mSKv: . -1.1 •(r.llll industry !W| 3SMo ( |;,y ask President citizens to nmdiiy its demand ,i Wi i-L* Honal restaurant industry i '''l mW' ■■onnnittee said the in|\l ililsttSfiii cooperate in the over--11 ail drt> t" save an extra 100,000,'N\| Os grain for Europe. )R[||l Bnt |Kai t some modifications in ✓ I the Wu.c" were necessary to I prevent individual injustices. >pl(l HeW'i ,he re( l uest for modifi ’ I cation ®vould be discussed with i l food committee chairman Charles I I noon. I tateß Wilain declined to say exactly on. I what« :lll ?es the restaurant peoI pie will request. '3l | Hepdicated. however, they 1 .. I would like to use wieners, sweat ™ I breSMand other meat by pro®iuctsl>n meatless Tuesdays and ...l to usejegffs in the preparation of "■Ci at'nw Jt'md.s on poultryless Thurslid J days. I The pestauarnts also want to I put Beater emphasis on longer t ■ range food saving steps such as I improved sanitation. Wilson said hi)M muc l* | ess food is wasted in a lUifl cle«Bestaurant. I n a ' so disclosed that the '"I restaßfa:.' people and the food rommijt' v are working on a con- ]. I servßm emblem to be displayed i's |by pu#b eating places cooperat- | ing ini the drive. Those which . J did nol comply could not display I'Di’l the enhtlem. thus focusing public ... I opiniorj on such establishments. “ I The {decision by the restaurant jfi'l peop&lcanie as the food drive | hummed into a union threat to | obtain la court injunction to prej I veid M a <’°-<lay whiskey-making I distillery workers union I raisedJits threat as Charles Luck- , | maoßhairman of the president’s JO'I foodKrive, scheduled an afterto decide when begin the GO-day ’I" I pmdßtion holiday. r -I Joseph M. Jacobs, counsel for I I * le W on - sa 'd in San Francisco ilO'l had wired President Truart® masl K D protest such a shutdown. Itt | ■id the union had notified 'J||l they would lie sued I f° r f I ' P;ll 'b of contract if they I closed. I Union president Joseph O’Neil I union did not want to I blOc l foo(i conservation but that \ I t * l '’ whiskey holiday would °f material help. rfl aJnt na! ' nna l distillers institute I '^B e 'l that a shutdown would i,i ."sß*' 1011 * 30.000 workers. More I ,hd ßk a lf of the bigger distiller- ° —have agreed ' lo '“ day and Luckman exothers to say yes today. / I Lutlnian will meet with beer | flg* rtl To Page S. Column fit • — oI s eam en Adrift I Are Rescued j|% Honolulu. t. h„ Oct. 13 —(UP) patrol boat today resseamen, adrift on power|>i^W li J'esweepers for 20 days in , near tiny Palmyra atoll. sea frontier reported I did F Were in sood health and l« ! l need medical attention. patrol craft reached the I 11n**L ,eePer ’ dr *rtt n g in the sea 1 1® p , Ini ' es east and northeast of I daW? a ' ab ° Ut 2 anr fHST ) tO- - until i a PParently lay alongside I ?.b3) ay^^b t e f° re taking the men I I 0 wea ther { air ton iflht, cooler north I ’ f cen tral portions. Tuesday 'I ’Sit and mild.
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Purported Threat On Bevin's Life London, Oct. 13 — (UP) — Scotland yard epecial branch officers were understood today to have placed an extra guard on foreign secretary Ernest Bevin after a purported threat against ins life. Details of the purported plot to assassinate Bevin were unavailable. The special branch, a criminal investigation division of the yard which handles affairs of international intrigue, never talks about itn work. 0 — CIO Chieftain Asks AFL Join Politics Move Joint Program For Political Action Urged By Murray Boston, Oct. 13.— (UP)— CIO I president Philip Murray appealed to the AFL convention in San Francisco today to join with the CIO and railroad brotherhoods in an imI mediate joint program for political action. Murray's appeal was read from the platform at the opening session of the ClO's own 9th annual convention. Concluding his summary of the CIO program for the past year, Murray told the more than GffO CIO delegates that he wanted to send a message to AFL president William Green. In it, he said, the AFL, CIO and railway unions had “common enemies” which never before had ♦ worked so vigorously against them. Enactment of the Taft-Hartley act, he said, showed the strength of those enemies. Conceding that there were differences between the AFL and . CIO over organic unity, Murray expressed confidence that “structural” disagreements could be ironed out, but said those differences should not be allowed to common political action. Recalling that the CIO had previously proposed a joint program of political action, he said the organization now urged that concrete steps be taken “to form an immediate joint program for effective political action on the local, state and national level.” ( At San Francisco, the AFL al- ! ready has Set up its own political action group independent of the CIO. Earlier, Murray had leveled a general indictment against the 80th congress, condemning it specifically for its action on the Taft-Hartley law, the portal-to-portal pay act, rent control and its failure to enact housing legislation. He urged delegates to work next year for the largest voting registration in the nation's history. “That’s the only way these probcan be answered,” Murray (Turn To Pag-e 4 Column 4) Frederick Bauman Is Taken By Death
Funerql Services Tuesday Morning Funeral services will be held Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock at the Yager funeral home in Berne for Frederick Bauman. 81, Berne resident, who died Saturday at the Adams county memorial hospital, where he had been a patient for one month. The deceased was born in Canterburg. Switzerland on March 13, 1866, the son of Hildebrand and Anna Sutter-Bauman. When he was about 16 years of age the family came to this country and settled on a farm in Monroe township, where he spent most of his life. Surviving are a sister. Mrs. Henry Hirschy, near Monroe; three brothers, Peter of Berne. Adolph and Albert of Decatur. The parents, five brothers and a sister preceded him in death. The Rev. H. H. Meckstroth, pastor of the Vera Cruz Reformed church, will officiate at the services and burial will be in the St. John’s cemetery, Vera Cruz.
Bomb Explodes In U. S. Area In Jerusalem Consulate Compound Scene Os Bombing, Two Persons Hurt Jerusalem, Oct. 13 —(UP) — A bomb exploded in the compound of the United States consulate in Jerusalem today, slightly injuring two employee, and police blamed it on the Arab underground organization, Jihad. As the bomb exploded, more than 2,000 Arabs of the Syfian - Lebanese armies, including atmored units, were reported to bfe maneuvering along the northern border of Palestine. The Jewish detense army Hagana alerted its men ae far south as the center of Palestine. Police suspected the Jihad bombed the U. S. consulate in reprisal for the United States announcement of its support on Saturday of a proposal before the United States to partition Palestine into Arab and Jewish states. The Polish embassy wae bombed yesterday —, a few windows were broken — and the police blamed the Jihad and said the motive was the same. A few windows were broken in the U. S. consulate and the consulgeneral’s dining room was slightly damaged. The two injured employes were cut by pieces of flying glass. Both of the injured employes were Palestinian women. Consul William Porter said GO or 65 staff members were in the buildipg when the bomb went off. Consul general William MacAtee was not near, but Mary Elaine, his daughter, was painting in her studio in the building. She and her mother were shaken but not hurt. Police arrfested two Arabs they found sitting in Mamillah cemetery in front of the consulate, but they did not believe those Arabs were involved. Police said the bomb probably was homemade and it was too weak to do much damage. As evidence of this: the door directly in front of the blast was damaged only slightly. The consulate is in a 24-year-old, three-story, Arab-style building. Police armored care ordered by radio to "drive to the nearest consulate,” indicating that further attacks were feared. The Syrian-Lebanese forces, part of the seven-nation Arab army the Arab league had threatened to throw against the Jews, were so close to the frontier that Palestin(Tarn To Page 4 Column 6) o Injuries Fatal To Henry Ellenberger First Traffic Death Os 1947 In County Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Berne First Mennonite church for Henry H. Ellenberger. 67. who died Saturday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock of injuries sustained Friday night in an auto-truck crash. The Rev. O. A. Krehbiel, pastor of the church, of which the deceased was a member, wil! officiate, and burial will be in the M. R. E. cemetery. He is survived by two sons. Harry, at home, who was also injured in the same crash, and Arley of Ceylon; four daughters. Mrs. Mabel Gallagher of Dayton. 0.. Mrs. Nina Farlow of Berne, Mrs. Clyde Cook of Ceylon, and Helen, at home: six grandchildren: two brothers, George and Noah of Berne, four sisters, Mrs. Chris Beer. Mrs. Caroline Schenbeck and Mrs. Ferd Steiner of Berne, Mrs. Fred Studler, Vincennes. Mr. Elk... jrger died of a skull fracture and other injuries, whi<*h he sustained when the auto in which he was riding collided with a truck, driven by Robert Scott, of Geneva, route two. The accident happened in the town of Berne and resulted in the county’s first traffic fatality (Turn To Page 2, Column 8)
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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, October 13, 1947
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THREE LEADERS of the Arab League are shown as they met in Aleya, Lebanon, and recommended “military precautions” in case the British evacuate Palestine. Their resolution started Arab troop movements toward the borders of the Holy Land. Pictured (1. to r.) are: Jamil Mordam Bey. Prime Minister of Syria; Hadj Amin Husseini. the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, and Riad es-Solh, Lebanese Prime Minister.
One Girl Killed As School Bus Wrecked Vehicle Overturns When Brakes Fail Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 13, —(UP) —A 5-year-old girl was thrown from a careening parochial school bus today and her head crushed when the vehicle overthrned after the brakes failed to hold it on a hill in the southeast part of the city. The girl killed was Pettie Hapke. She was one of about 30 children riding in the bus to classes at the St. Louis parochial school. Three other children were taken to the general hospital for treatment of cuts and bruises. They were Kathleen Wahlen, 11; Kenneth Hardrick, 6. and Albert Harbiger, about 8. None was hurt seriously. Joseph B. Doherty, 23, driver of the bus, said the brakes failed to hold as the bus rolled down the hill. “I tried every way I could to make that corner," he sobbed, “but it hit the curb and toppled over.” Capt. Eldon Burgard of the police traffic and safety bureau said that an investigation revealed a broken brake-line on the bus. Neighbors took the crying children into their homes until a second bus arrived to take them on to school. In the overturned vehicle were school books, lunch boxes and sacks and here and there a jacket ol - sweater, some of them spotted with blood. 0 Six Persons Killed As Train Hits Auto Lack Os Warning Signals Blamed Muncie, Ind.. Oct. 13. —(UP) — Police blamed a lack of warning signals today for an automobiletrain collision which killed six persons en route home from a college homecoming celebration. The automobile was struck by a Nickel Plate railroad passenger train on a grade crossing at the edge of Muncie yesterday. Authorities said the crossing was not marked and there were no blinkers or other warning signals on the side from which the car approached. They said the driver, Joseph L. Jackson, 42, Anderson, Ind., apparently could not see the train because visibility was blocked by several coal cars standing on the track. The dead were Jackson; his son Richard, 19; James W. Huff, Marilyn Wilson, Horace Saunders and Beatrice All were believed to be about 19 years old. All were from Anderson. The victims had attended a homecoming football game SaturTurn To 2, Column 6)
Girl Scouts, Brownies Will Register Saturday Registration of all Decatur Girl Scouts and Brownies will be held at the Lincoln school auditorium, beginning at 9 o'clock Saturday morning. 0 Five Drowned As Liner Rams Rock Three Children And Two Women Drowned Powell River. B. C.. Oct. 13.— (IIP) —A diver prepared today to recover the bodies of three small ' children and two women who were drowned when the Canadian passenger liner Gulf Stream rammed a rock and sank off Mystery Reef 10 miles north of here Saturday night. Diver George Unwin hoped to find the bodies of Mrs. George K. Elliott, Vancouver. B. C.; her adopted son, Lyle Frederick Hudson. 2; and her nephew. Douglas Lipsett, 3, and those of 18-month-old Jeannie Pavid and Mrs. S. 1 Fleck, both of Rfuge Cove, B. C. Mrs. Elliott, the two hoys, and Mrs. Fleck were trapped in their cabins as water poured through a hole in the ship’s hull. The Pavid baby was swept from her father’s grasp as he tried to save her and his wife. Harold Pavid and his wife escaped. They were among the nine passengers and 22 crewmen who leaped from the broken ship and clung to a slippery rock until rescuers arrived. Seven of the surviving passengers and three crewmen were being treated for shock, exposure and minor injuries at a Powell River hospital today. The others did not require hospitalization. They were rescued by two fishpacking boats from Dinner Rock, the same rock that broke the Gulf Stream’s back. “It was all over in 10 seconds,” said Capt. Jack Craddock, Vancouver. Second mate Ray Ketzhem said the crash occurred at 8:20 p.m. (PST). He said the ship was on course but was fighting a “heavy swell that must have pulled us onto the rock." Pavid said “there was a slight jar, as though we had hit a submerged log. Then a series of jars and the bow of the boat rose high in the air . . . all the lights went out and the water started coming in. “I smashed the window with my Turn Tn Pa sth 2. Column Bethany Men's Club Meets This Evening The men’s club of the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church will hold their monthly dinner meeting at the church this evening at 6:30 o’clock. The Rev. C. P. Mass, pastor of the Berne Evangelical United Brethren church, will be the guest speaker.
Overwhelmingly Rejects Plan To Oust British, U. S. Troops In Greece
Present Budget Here For Community Fund Study Committee Budget For 1948 The Decatur Community Fund budget will, he submitted to the directors of the civic group at a meeting to be held at 7:30 o’clock this evening at the First State Bank building, Walter J. Krick, budget chairman, announced. The committee has recommended appropriations totaling $8,3G0. These include. Boy Scouts, SI.GGO; Girl Scouts. $1,000; recreational activities and playground improvements. $1,500; The Den. $2,200: Salvation Army. SI,OOO and Adams county cancer society. SI,OOO. The latter agency made a drive last spring and raised a little over SI,OOO. Robert J. Holthouse, president of the society, petitioned that it be included in the Community Fund so that a separate campaign would not be necessary. National and state branches of the cancer fund share S6OO of the SI,OOO quota, the balance being used by the local chapter through the schools and in distribution of literature in the fight against cancer. An allocation of SI,OOO was made to the Salvation Army, a’though no request has yet been filed by the state organization for incorporation in the Community Fund. Heretofore the Community Fund has contributed SI,OOO to the Salvation Army and the agency has not conducted a separate drive. Carl C. Pumphrey, president of the Decatur Community Fund, will preside at tonight’s meeting. The annual drive will be made this month. The naming of a chairman to conduct the drive will also be made at the meeting, it was statI. (Turn To Pa" 0 4 Column 7) 0 Barkley Funeral Services Tuesday Jacob C. Barkley Is Taken By Death Funeral services will be held Tuesday for Jacob C. Barkley, 68, jof 703 North Second street, who ! died Saturday morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. He had been ill for years of complications and bedfast for the past five months. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the East Liberty Evangelical United Brethren church, four miles south of Monroeville, of which he formerly was a member. Dr. Charles E. White and the Rev. J Dwight McClure will officiate, with burial in the IOOF cemetery at Monroeville. The Zwick funeral home will conduct the services. The deceased wae born in Union township Jan. 31, 1879, a son of Simon and Sarah Miller-Barkely, and lived in Union township until his retirement from the farm in 1943, when the family moved to Decatur. He was a member of the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church. Surviving are his wife, formerly ‘F.lva Mae Neidlinger. whom lie married June 8, 1961; three daughters, Mrs. Xariffa Walters of Decatur. Mrs. Iris Meyer of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Ilda Brown of Indianapolis; two sons, Ivan V. of Monroeville and Lawrence E. of Convoy. O.: three sieters. Mrs. John Wybourn of Sturgis, MichMrs. Freeman Walters of Decatur and Mrs. Calvin Turner of Van Wert, O.: 13 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. One son. one daughter, one brother and one sister preceded him in death. The daughter. Miss Beulah Barkley, died while serving with the army nurses’ corps in France.
Thousands Are Made Homeless By Hurricane Florida Counts Up Millions In Damage By Trooical Storm Miami, Fla., Oct. 13 — (UP) — Thousands were homeless today in southeast Florida as the second hurricane to strike here in less than a month left the highest flood waters in yeans and damage amounting to millions in its wake. The storm was located in a 10:15 a m. EST weather bureau advisory about 300 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras. N. C. It was moving northeasterly at about 15 miles an hour with highest winds still 60 miles an hour. Small craft from Charleston to the Virginia Capes were advised to Htay in port. Torrents of rain followed the storm as it passed over Florida’s east coast Sunday morning leaving rising floods that cent more than 2,000 persons fleeing from their homes to huddle in Red Cross shelters. Water swirled deep in the .streets of towns up and down Florida's gold coast area long after the compact but destructive hurricane whipped out to the Atlantic to blow itself out.. Comparatively little damage was done by the 70-miie winds, but the flood that followed wrought destruction estimated by city manager Richazd Danner at $2,000,006 tor Miami alone. He .said about 200 miles of streets in the city were a total loss. And in the everglades farm area just west of Miami great portions of the year's 18,000-carload vegetable crop and 100,000-ton sugar rop were ruined. Florida’s agriculture commissioner Nathan Mayo said the farm losses alone would run as high as ' $20,000,000. More than 40,000 acre. 3 were flooded in the state’s southernmost county, dado, and water from "knee to arm-pit high" forced thousands to scramble for safety to high ground and even to their own roof-tops. Drainage facilities were useless in the downpour as one Miami station recorded a rainfall of 1.38 inches in 10 minutes at the height of the storm. Worst hit by the floods was HiaTurn To Page 2. Column 6) O No One Injured In * Wreck Sunday Night Auto Leaves Road, Crashes Into Fence No one was seriously hurt about 10 o'clock laist night when a car driven by Victor Porter, 16. of this city, left the road and crashed into a fence, two and one-half miles north of federal road 224 on state road 101. Sheriff Herman Bowman, who investigated. said Porter told him the wheels of his ear “locked” and that the vehicle skidded on the loose etone, as he attempted to make a left turn. It mowed down a fence post and a length of fence before coming to a stop on a ditch abutment, where it hung precariously over a four and one-half loot ditch. The driver escaped injury, as did other unidentified occupants of the car, who had left before investigating authorities arrived at the scene. Damage to the car wins estimated at $l5O and that to the fence at about $lO. Sheriff Bowman is also investigating an act of vandalism near Pleasant Mills, in which an auto bowled over mail boxes at the McCullough brothers’ residence.
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Vishinsky Denies Comintern Revived By Russia During Turbulent Session Lake Success, N. Y., Oct. 13. — (UP)—The United Nations general assembly overwhelmingly rejected Russia’s proposal for ousting American and British troops from Greece today at a turbulent session marked by Soviet denials that the Comintern has been revived. Fighting a foredoomed fight in ' the diplomatic duel of the Balkans, Soviet deputy foreign minister Andrei Vishinsky took the occasion to denounce reports of a revival of the Comintern as “a night mare” inspired by “inordinate fears.” He defended the new Communist “information bureau” at Belgrade and said in effect that it was nothing compared to whaF the old Comintern used to be. Vishinsky’s remarks constituted the first official Soviet defense of the nine-nation Communist organ created this month, prefaced a series of ballots in which the committee majority scrapped the Soviet proposals for settling the bitter Balkans dispute. i The United States responded - with a sudden and bitter attack on the Soviet Union’s seven-year-old absorption of the three Balkan i countries. i Herschel V. Johnson of the United States, replying to Vishinsky’s 11 closing arguments about the cause of trouble in the Balkans, said that Russia deserved “great tri bute" for the way it has kept peac* iin Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. “Noboby ever hears of any trou Me there.” Johnson snapped. British minister of state Hector McNeil and Ukrainian foreign minister Dmitri Manuilsk. once the leader of the officially-dissolved i Comintern, also joined in the sud ' den flareup over the meeting of I Communist party chieftains in Po--1 land. When things quieted down and chairman Joseph Bech of Luxembourg pushed the committee to a vote, the western powers succeeded in rounding out their victory in the assembly Balkans debate. They won the first round last week when the committee set up a watchdog commission for the Balkans. The final round ended today in a flurry of votes which rejected Vishinsky’s proposal for having the UN withdraw American and British military personnel from Greece and at the same time supervise the use of foreign aid to Greece. The first part of the long Soviet resolution, which found the present Greek government and "foreign interference” to blame for the bad blood in the Balkans, was voted down 39 to 7, with 10 countries abstaining from the vote and one absent. 0 16-Year-Old Girl Is Accident Victim Connersville. Ind.. Oct. 13 —(UP) — A 16-year-old girl was killed and two other persons injured when the car in which they were riding crashed into a utility polle and a guard rail on Ind. 1 near Milton early today. State police said the victim was Bessie Callahan of Cambridge City. She died in a Connersville haspital. Charles Ross. 21. of Rushville, driver of the car. and Vera Van Dine. 23. Connersville, were injured. o Courthouse, Bank Are Closed Today The Columbus Day legal holiday was marked in Decatur today with little fanfare. Although there was no official celebration today, the Decatur council. Knights of Columbus celebrated the occasion last week.
All offices in the Adams’county* courthouse and the First State Bank were among those closed today to commemorate the legal holiday.