Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 252, Decatur, Adams County, 25 October 1947 — Page 1

No. 252.

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Kident To Fight ■ Inflation — — ? Borket Prices Sag ■oLer Demands For Itlgress' Action ■K..- suppoUers claiin*^Kn(l ■<>;><• the high price commodity inarkPresident Truthat Congress comir.n and the high cost of ■L,. plans to bring prices with tlie peoples’ incompres iden' told a radio audXK night he would propose special session here Nov. 17 a program with living costs, inflaHBand high prices. He said legislation is ne- -|’ rul nan also revealed stopK||f O r<-ign ami occupation-area ■Rji::- plans which may hike RL session emergency aid KT,. nearly $1,000.(100,000 -v io Marshall plan exthereafter. Republican reaction BK h.. president's 17-minute was chill b#t cautious. |K Republicans objected that made no specific recfor dealing with critical domestic situation. Ralph E. Flanders. R.. Vt.. that the GOP leader--9M work out its own legislative "so that we can be off BBrav.i.’-a when congress reconpresident said the United could lead the world to and plenty, but Republican to the whole special SCsproject has been frosty and j^Kicts;y hiotile. It appeared that and his congression- * QI l l !11 -nioii w-c.. leaded towarl collision on foreign and BKnjestii' policy There were indiRepublicans may demand agreement to a M tax tut as the price of voting foreign aid. president spoke only in, terms, leaving industry. n^B r and the speculators without ■M>u 1,1 ' v,| at his bust-the-priee-recommendations will be. |HR:L''c was widespread specu- ■^■ n that they would embrace of scarce v \tnd basic’ |By i|l ’" iili, ‘s. higher market marand renewed opBB’i’ l,l t( > 1948 income tax cuts possibilities already have BH'-"' commodity markets hard prices have been falling. of critical commodiwas suggested by Mr. Truto rbhgressional leaders who |B "-'h him at the White House |W rh ursday. But Sen. Robert A ■S' R- 0., is warning that such MK al ' f ' n would incite black maroperations. Truman obviously intends congress to go far beyond Program of voluntary lineSB 1 "” or price reducing. He said ntary action by all of our gS' ‘ was a main reliance of our enterprise system. iwor's Program For gB 1 ' Scouts Planned of the Anthony Wayne tlle Boy Scouts executive r ee announce the pro- ?° r 10CaI Boy Scout * for the ■fc’X? of 1947 and 1948 at an County district meeting NoKLI U WaS ann °uimed today Kg... g , n mestin S of the area « at Fort Wayne. T ayne ra ®eting was at■“iu y c L! °r d » CoWenS ’ Eno 1 F um Phrey and Se m iner of this city, and IB>gram Wlll ex P lai n the BKv e h n „°j 6 Adains county exeBX V m r o Which inc >udes memH Decatur 6 " 673 ’ Berne ’ Monroe 1 XT 1 place of the county ■ next w 2 e aan °unced the first is in A vearr °und proBn- e ma king ior Adams Sbb «iv C ° UtS ' accor, Ung to

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European War Dead To Arrive Sunday New York, Oct. 25—(UP)— The bodies of 6,200 American servicemen, first to be retuyied to this country from European burial grounds will arrive in New York tomorrow aboard the army transI port Joseph V. Connolly. The day has been made a day of mourning by both city and state officials. Memorial cervices will bb held in many churches and a , civic memorial will be eonducted !in Central Park over the casket on one of the returning war dead. —oMore Russian | Press Attacks i Promised U. S. Tit-For-Tat Policy From Soviet Press Told By Vishinsky Lake Success, N. Y„ Oct. 25 — (UP) — Mere and sharper Russian press attacks on the United States were promised by Soviet officials today for as long as American newspapers attack the Soviet Union. The. tit-for-tat policy was outlined for the United Nations general assembly by Soviet deputy foreign minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky last night in the course of a new assault on the United, States for permitting “warmongering” aimed at Russia. Capitalizing on growing support for some kind of United Nations aetjon condemning war propaganda, Vishinsky complained to the 57 United Nations in the politicaland security committee that almost daily many American newspapers were publishing “disgusting cartoons attacking leaders of the Soviet Union.” He raised the subject in replying to charges by Australian foreign minister Herbert V. Evatt that the Russian press was harm‘ing international relations with its recent barrage of cantoorvs and articles denouncing American officials, including president Truman and Gen. Dwight D. Eis(Turn Tn Pae-p 4 Cnlnmn 7)

Annual Halloween Parade Next Friday Big Callithumpian Parade October 31 Plans for the big Callithumpian parade to be held here Friday night, October 31, in observance of Halloween, have been completed, it was announced today. The announcement was made by officials of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, sponsors of the annual event. The parade will start from the jail yard, corner First and Adams streets, at 7:30 o'clock and all paraders are asked to meet there one half hour before parade time. The event is under the general direction of Will Bowers and other Chamber officers and members. More than S2OO in prizes will be awarded winners in the various divisions, including floats, bands, costumes, comic strip imitations, etc. Members of the Chamber have been distributing posters advertising the event, in various surrounding communities and one of the largest crowds in the history of the event is expected to attend. 0New Church Organized In Berne Community Berne, Oct. 25—A new church known as the Grace Brethren church has been organized in this community. The minister is the Rev. G. L. Lawlor, former pastor of the Bethel Brethren church. The new church is using a large garage on the William Smitley , ?; farm southeast of Berne as a temporary place of wmrship but plans to build next spring. Blaine Bafley is Sunday school superintendent and an attendance of around 75 people is reported, <©)

Stewardesses Killed In Utah Air Crash. gBIBBBKTSB^'^BL' I j.-.x j ■w ■ jßr x jw H '-X' Bbl I w Jf L / J® BHk bt Shirley E. Hit,key, Manhattan Meach. Cal., (left, Assistant Chief Stewardess Sabina Jocwick (center) of Burbank, Cal., and Helen E. Morrissey of Los-Angeles, who. with 47 passengers and the two pilots were killed in the crash of a postwar luxury airliner near Bryce Canyon, Utah. Stewardesses Hickey and Morrissey were the regular crew of the aircraft, and Miss Joswick was making a routine check-flight with the plane. (International Soundphotos.)

Annual County S. S. Convention Planned Two-Day Conclave November 2 And 3 The annual Adams county Sunday school convention will be held Sunday afternoon and evening, Nov. 2. and Monday evening, Nov. 3. The Sunday afternoon session will be held at 2 p.m. at the Monroe Methodist church, the Sunday eveing service at 7:30 o’clock at the First Mennonite church in Berne, and the closing session Monday evening will be the annual fellowship banquet at 6:15 o’clock at the Geneva school gymnasium. The Rev. A. L. Brown, of Winona Lake, art author of Sunday school materials and familiar with Sunday school problems, will be the principal speaker at each session. Departmental conference on children’s, young people’s and adults’ problems will be the feature of the Sunday afternoon session. The Monday evening banquet is for all young people, pastors, Sunday school superintendents, teachers, officers and friends of the Sunday schools. The dinner will be served by the ladies of the Geneva Methodist church. Tickets, priced at $1 per plate, may be obtained from Miss Frances Burkhalter, of Berne, county secretary, or Earl Chase, of Decatur, vice president. Reservations are to be made by Thursday, Oct. 30. An exhiltit of Sunday school materials, literature and helps for the Sunday school teacher and worker will be featured at the convention. Music from the various Sunday schools of the county will be featured at every session. 0

November 3 Final Day To Pay Taxes Rush Reported At Treasurer Office With the deadline rapidly approaching, Residents of Adams county today began flocking to the offices of the county treasurer to pay their fall tax instalment. Little more than a week remains for taxpayers to make the payment without the addition of the delinquency "penalty and collection charge. Monday, November 3, is the last day under the law for the fall installment to be paid without becoming delinquent. Although many more persons have been calling at the office in the past few days, treasurer Roy L. Price and other attaches of his office expect the usual concerted rush next week and on the final day. The office will be closed for several days after the deadline to permit attaches to complete the records. 0 WEATHER Scattered ahower* with little Change in temperature today and tonight. Tomorrow partly cloudy and a little warmer. ■(

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, October 25, 1947

Legion To Observe Navy Day Monday Plans have been completed for the observance of Navy Day at the American Legion home during the regular meeting of the post Monday night. Movies of submarine warfare will highlight the program, to be held . as a part of the meeting, beglnj nlng at Bp.m. that day. H. Vernon Aurand, of the post naval affairs (Committee, is in charge of arrangements for the program. Luncheon and refreshments will be served ri 1 following the meeting, e o • Eisenhower Attends ; College Homecoming i Star Attraction At Kansas State College ’ i Manhattan Kans., Oct. 25 —(UP) . —Army chief of staff Dwight D. ’ Eisenhower, back in home coun- » try after a long absence, was the star attraction today for the Kan- , sas State College homecoming. On a flying respite from his . Washington duties. Eisenhower > participated in homecoming activ--1 ities of the school his brother, Mil- . ton, heads as president. , Some of the more optimistic ■ Kansas state students looked upon - General Ike as “the luck” which . might bring State’s ailing footi ball team its first victory this ) afternoon in 22 games. Eisenhower will watch the Kansas State- . Nebraska homecoming clash. ) Soon to become a university - president himself, at Columbia, - Eisenhower this morning reviews ■ an hour-long homecoming parade ! of floats. Later he will address the Kansas State student body on America’s responsibilities in the world today before this afternoon’s football game. The General opened his homestate visit yesterday by turning the first spadeful of earth at a solemn ground breaking ceremony for a $275,000 All-Faith Memorial Chapel in honor of Kansas State's war veterans. After a 3 hour and 39 minute trip from the nation’s capital in his • four-engined transport, “Sunflower 1 II,” Gen. Eisenhower told a crowd i of 2,000 students and visitors on 1 the college campus that the white tone chapel would be an import- ; ant factor in “promoting happiness” among undergraduates. ■ Soldierly and silent while faculty ■ leaders quietly explained the development of the Memorial idea and project. Eisenhower broke into a wide grin when he was handed a gilded spade. He drove it skillfuly into the ground and dug a . sizable divot. After Milton Eisenhower turned the second spadeful of dirt, the General responded to photographers’ pleas for more pictures. He spaded his way through several more poses and finally cracking: “It looks like we’re going to put in the whole foundation.” At a dinner banquet last evening. 'Eisenhower said the Memrtriajl Chapel was “a tribute appropriate to men whose victory was won by spiritual greatness as much as by weapons and combat skill.” ® To Page 3, Column 7)

No Relief In Sight For Drouth Areas No Rain Forecast Before Wednesday By United Press The United States weather bureau in its extended weather forecast today saw little relief in the next five days for the drouth parched mid-western wheat lands or fire-blackened New England. The bureau said there would be “little or no rain” before Wednesday. The danger to the winter wheat crop continued to increase and forest fires blazed all over the northern part of the nation during a day in which only a few light showers fell in scattered areas. Government 'farm experts foresaw steadily mounting wheat prices and an increasing difficulty to fill the world's food needs, unless relief comes to the wheat belt within the next two weeks. The drouth has already forced farmers in Kansas. Oklahoma, and Texas to delay wheat drilling. Farms in southeast Nebraska and most of Kansas are behind schedule. The experts worried about the delays since wheat planted after Oct. 10 usually does poorly. New fires flared up in West Virginia, New York, Wisconsin and throughout New England. In New England more than 200 fires had taken 19 lives, caused morb than $25,000,000 damage and left 5,000 homeless in a five-day scourge that saw at least six communities virtually levelled. (Turn Tn Par® R. 7) — o Distilleries Close At Midnight Tonight Close Down To Save Grain For Europe Washington, Oct. 25. —(UP) — Most of the nation’s distillers were scheduled to close down at midnight tonight to save grain for Europe as continued drought in the winter wheat belt threatened the entire food export program. The 60-day whisky-making “holiday” was not expected to have any material effect either on retail liquor supplies or prices. Industry sources said the distillers would have ample reserves to carry them through the shutdown. President Truman’s food committee, which demanded the action, was unable to say exactly how many distilleries would he affected. It was estimated that up to 95 percent of the nation's whis-ky-making capacity would close down. The weather bureau, meanwhile, saw ilttle hope of any rain for the heat-ridden winter wheat belt during the next five days. Agriculture department experts said the coming two weeks wiU be critical for next year’s wheat crop. Unless there is some relief, they said, it may be "impossible" for the administration to reach its goal of exporting 5?0,000,000 bushels of grain to the hungry nations during the winter months.

United Air Lines Plane Crashes And Carries 52 Persons To Fiery Death

Community Fund's Drive Opens Monday Kick-Off Dinner Is Held Friday Night “This is an age when we must keep youth instilled in Christian principles, friendliness and neighborliness,” the Very Rev. Msgr. J. .1. Seimetz. pastor of St. Mary’s church, a director and one of the founders of the Decatur Community Fund, state! in a talk before 150 men attending the kick-off dinner launching next week’s drive, at a pep session held at Swearingen’s last evening. “The Decatur Community Fund supplies the finances for playground developments and the support of those agencies which assist in building character in youth," Msgr. Seimetz stated. “From the enthusiasm shown here. I know you men do not need a pep talk. All we need do is to work unselfishly for the cause and with the community guide youth in Christian principles which were taught to us as children. Decatur is an outstanding city, so we must meet the challenge to help our boys and girls.” he concluded. Msgr. Seimetz complimented the citizens on their support of the Fund and stated that it was t'ne directors' desire to expand its services. “We should bu’fll more playgrounds for boys and girls under the teen age group.” he said. I Carl C. Pumphrey.' president of the Decatur Community Fund and chairman of the meriting, thanked the workers for their interest and service. "We have confidence that our goal of $11,300 will be met readily." he said. Drive chairman Harold Gran*| spoke to the volunteers, who will call on industry, industrial employe groups, business and pro(Tliun Tn Pipn 2 Cnlumn 5)

Youth Acquitted In Stepmother's Death Temporary Insanity Ruled In Boy's Case Martinsville, Ind., Oct. 25 —(UP) —The future of Richard Dale linel, 14, who was freed of first-degree murder charges in the shotgun death of his stepmother, was in the hands of Marion county juvenile authorities today. Imel, who was accused of slaying Mrs. Lillian Imel last March 18 as she sat sewing in their Indianapolis home, was found not guilty late yesterday by Morgan circuit judge Omar O'Harrow. O’Harrow said the boy was innocent by virtue of temporary insanity.He made the ruling after six pyschiatrists and physicians had agreed the boy was temporarily insane when he shot Mrs. Imel in a fit of anger. The case was sent here on a change of venue. The examiners suggested that Imel be placed in an institution—not a mental institution, because they agreed he was not now of unsound mind —and that he not be returned to the custody of his relatives. O'Harrow referred the case to the Marion county juvenile authorities because he said he had no legal right to order the boy to an institution. In Indianapolis, juvenile judge Joseph O. Hoffman said a “thorough study" would be made of the case and that reports of the doctors and psychiartrists would be examined carefully. He said a petition still was on file in Marion county juvenile court, charging Imel with delinquency. Hoffman added that the boy would be held on that charge pending a decision.

Forest Fires Still Rage In New England Three Major Fires Rage Uncontrolled, Add To Destruction Ttostop. Oct. 25 — (UP) —Three major forest fires raged uncontrolled in New England today, adding misery and destruction to a wedk in which flames caused 19 deaths, inflicted more than $25,000,000 in property damage and left some 6.000 homeless. Spawned in drouth-dry forest, occasionally kindled by a fifrebug’s torch, more than 100 smaller fires, all potentially dangerous, were scattered throughout the sixstate area where six communities have been levelled by flame. On Mt. Desert Island off the coast of Maine, where most of t\e once-beautiful resort of Bar Harbor was a smoldering ruin, fire ate through the Acadia national forest toward the deserted towns of Seal Harbor and . Harbor. Another fire-giant was on the loose in Washington county. Me. whipped by a constantly changing wind it twisted through the Machiasroque Bluffs — Whitneyville area, menacing the ghost town of Jonesboro which was evacuated late yesterday. Backfires from a dozen blazes in the blackened countryside south cf Waterboro, Me., merged into one inferno and crept steadily toward the New Hampshire border. Only "light, scattered” showers were promised for tonight. Though drenching rains were needed badly, “generally fail- and clear weather" was predicted for the next five days. So far, Maine had borne the brunt of the fires. Whole communities had been demolished. Thousands were homeless. Some 10,000,000 worth of property lay in ashes in the rubble-strewn streets of Bar Harbor alone. Two Year Old Child Drowns In Fish Pond Lebanon, Ind., Oct. 25 —(UP) — Edward Lee Helms, two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Helms, drowned yesterday when he fell in a fish pond at the home of Arthur Shirley, an uncle.

3.216 Qualified To Vote On November 4 Registration Total Announced By Clerk Registration reports compiled at the offices of county derk-Clyde O. Troutner today disclosed that 3.216 voters are qualified to cast their votes in the approaching city election. November 4. While no totals were available on each of the six Decatur precincts. clerk Troutner stated that it is known Decatur 3-A has the largest number registered. Nearly 780 voters are registered in that precinct, he said. Many persons eligible to vote next month failed to qualify, the clerk stated. In accordance with the state election laws, the lists were purged several months ago, and scores of persons whose names were removed from the registration list at that time failed to be reinstated, he said. Copies of the registration lists are to be given to each party chairman and sent to the respective precincts on election day. The various precinct workers will be named early next week by the two county chairmen.

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Seek Cause Os Fire Forcing Transport To Crash Near To Emergency Field Bryce Canyon. Utah. Oct. 25 — (UP) — Scores of investigators picket over chunks of aluminum, charred baggage and mangled bodies today, hunting the cause of a fire that forced a United Air Lines DC-6 transport to crash and carry 52 persons to flaming deaths. Air lines officials praised the pi’ot, Capt. E. L. McMillen of Balboa Beach. Cal., for his vain fight to keep the plane in the air just a half minute longer when * le might, have been able to land on the B”yce Canyon emergency aitstrip. Only one other disaster in the history of American aviation exceeded it for the number of lives lost. That was the crash of an airliner near Port Deposit. Ml., on May 30 this year when 53 persons were killed. Several prominent persons were among the dead in yesterday's crash, including Jack Guenther, managing editor of Look Magazine and former United Press snorts I writer. Clement D. Ryan, former I president of Montgomery Ward and Co., and Jeff Burkett. Chicago Cardinals football player. The story of McMillen’s fight i to keep the plane flying as flames ate into the tail section from the l.aggage compartment fire iwas told most dramatically in the three messages he sent within six minutes. "We have baggage fire aboard.” Ihe said at 12:21 p. in (PST) "We I afe coming into Bryce Canyon. We have smoke filled plane. Unable to put out fire as yet. Also do not know if fire is out.” The crew — and perhaps some of the passengers — apparently fought the flames for five minutes while McMillen struggled to maintain control of the plane. At 12:26 he reported: "Tail is going out. We may get down and may not. Best place we can." The fight went on for another minute. Then at 12:27: "We may make is. Think wV have a chance now. Approaching strip.” That was all. The plane crashed some time within the next five minutes, probably as McMillen was preparing to drop his landing gear to set down on the strip. Persons who saw the plane scudding low over them during those last few minutes said i' looked like a comet with a tail of smoke and fire. At 12:32 p. m. the Civil Aeronautics authority at Bryce Canyon air strip reported a fire a mile to the east. It was the plane. Mrs. L. L. Steed, who lives nearby, said tin- impact of the crash was like a truck had struck her house. She saw a huge plume cf smoke, similar to the atom bomb explosion, rear over the bill where the plane had disappeared. .United Air Lines president William A. Patterson praised McMillen today for doing “all possible" to save his plane. Volunteers worked in the (Turn To Pav» t Column 7) 0 Hammond Couple Are Plane Crash Victims Indianapolis. Oct. 25 —(UP)— A Hammond couple and the daughter of the Lafayette chief of police were among the 52 persons killed in the United Air Lines transport crash at Bryce Canyon. Utah, yesterday. The victims were Archie A. Murray. 52. president of the Hammond News Agencv; his wife. Lucille E.. 45. and Mrs. Vinton Soden. Los Angeles, daughter of police chief and Mrs. William F. Tavlor. Lafavette. The Murravs. parents of four «ons. were returning home from a business trip to the west. Mrs. Soden was on her way to to visit her parents.