Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 255, Decatur, Adams County, 29 October 1947 — Page 1

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RSHALL plan includes outright gifts

fcarHysleria Beds Is Mom Threat ICivil Rights Groups MKrts On Findings Truman iLiAton. O ct - “® —(UP) A I M-ffWal committee said today E“astam of near-hysteria” over MKommunists in this counESens the freedom of other HKg ut it called for zealous, exposure of “real Corned real Fascists.” Commendations were preMM President Truman by a Ennittee on civil rights which last December to sur- ■ the condition of human freeF and! equality in the United BtosßCharles E. Wilson, presiKgKeneral Electric Co., headcommittee. in its 178-page ■Krtßlsc recommended a series fsteps to protect the rights of fcn-oes and other minority groups, spurge ongressional enactment lan Inti-lynching law, eliminaL of the poll tax. passage of a fcnanet/ fair employment pracfa act and the withholding of Keral aid from any public or fcateagency which practices dis■Bttion or segregation. |The (committee defended the fat of Communists and “native feists" alike to have their say Wore the American people, proBed th- people know who is talk■Btheni. and why. Ilfte principle of disclosure” |is advocated as “the appropriate fewdeal with those who would fevor| our democracy by revolufaor by encouraging disunity and the civil rights of some Bb put teeth in the “principle of Hfare,” the committee recomfated that congress force all H| which attempt to influence HK opinion to disclose through H|atic registration such pertiBBaets about themselves as the of officers, sources of funds, ■fcitures and the purposes of |Mr." luman was informed by the that “public excitement - has gone far fatal" the dictates of “good judgHand calmness.” Pptate of hysteria now threat- , ■o inhibit the freedom of Miu- democrats,” the report ■ as committee warned ; ■fr' an emotional abridgement pc traditional American right Be speech. ■ 0 — B Scout Roundup he Next Saturday Birl Scout roundup will be held pla.-ina - Nuttman park Saturgas the climax to the Decatur •vance of national Girl Scout ■ The Scouts are to meet at 9 ■at one of the following places, ■e library, Methodist church, S' or the IGA 1 f 011 highway 27. A chili dinner ' B ie served and each Scout is 1 B*l to bring her own table ser- ’ B I —— o I so Sta/fer Body ! pfurned Here For > Services Thursday , body of HAI/c Milo Stalter, 1 0 Adams county’s war dead * e returned here for burial, ar- 1 shortly before 1 o’clock this * won on the Erie railroad and le aen (he Zwick funeral he casket will lie iD Btate there ’ J”’ 0 Pm. today until time „.. grav «side rites in the De- 1 ‘ cemetery at 2:50 p.m. Thurs- 1 the •°' Lester win officiate 1 iof i?A V “ eS and the local Veter- 1 ct m m, reign Wars Post will con- 1 re? r '!“- fs of th W Color guard and offidy fr<ir» e »u° St accom Panied the i t funeral n ' ailroad stati on to 1 chief pettv h o °fr e afternoon > »tes n »v„ y ff r °’ the Unite<l f rt. . served as military es- | _ fr ( Parti WEath ER sight* y cloudy ’nd cooler to- ] i P . hUrßday »•»' ’ I

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bulletin Klamath Falls, Ore., Oct. 29. —(UP) —A plane with Gov. Earl gnell, secretary of state Robert S. Farrell, Jr., and state senate president Marshal! Cornett aboard, was missing in the rugged southern Oregon country today. The plane, piloted by Cliff Hogue, veteran pilot, took off from the Klamath Falls airport at 10 p.m. Tuesday for the Kitterage ranch in Warner Valley, about 70 miles east of Klamath Falls. The party was due at the ranch at 10:30 p.m. 0 i Citations Are Handed More Film Figures House Committee To Continue Probe Os Hollywood Reds Washington. Oct. 29 — (UP) — House investigators handed out more contempt-of-congress citations to “hostile” film figures today and declared they would not let "Hollywood glamor” or “pressure groups” stop their search for Communism in the movies. Committee chairman J. Parnell Thomas, R„ N. J., charged that “powerful influences” sought to divert the committee from the investigation of Reds in Hollywood. But he said the committee could not be “intimidated or influenced.” Latest witnesses to be removed from the stand and charged with contempt by the house unAmerican activities committee were: Writer Samuel Ornitz, who held Communist party card No. 41.886 under the name of “Am O,” the committee said. Director Herbert J. Biberman who held card No. 47267, according to ±he committee, and had 19 Red affiliations. , - The were cited for contempt for refusing — as four others had previously — to answer the question of whether they were Communists. After Biberman and Ornitz, the third witness of the day was writer Emmet Lavery, serving “third and last” term as president of the Screen Writers Guild Ornitz wanted to read a statement to the committee but was denied that privilege. Tn refusing a direct answer to what committee counsel Robert E Stripling has called "the $64 ques(Turn Tn Page fi. Column 6) O — Parents Entertained By Scout Troop 61 Cite Activities Os Rotary Scouts Members of Rotary troop No. 61. Boy Scouts of America, entertained their parents at a party last night at the Scout cabin in HannaNuttman park. Gray Paddock, assistant Rotary Scoutmaster, presided at the session and gave a brief history of the Rotary troop, which will be 25 years old next month. Mr. Paddock briefed the activities of the local troop and stated that the organization now boasted seven Eagle scouts, including the first one ever named in Adams county, who is Dr. James Burk. He received the high honor in 1929. In that same year, Dr. Burk attended the world jamboree in England as county representative. The Rotary troop now has four patrols, with a membership of 31 boys. Paddock stated*, and in the past year 58 merit badges have been awarded and more than 180 first and second class tests have been completed. Following Mr. Paddock’s talk, investiture ceremonies were held for five new Scouts. Games and refreshments ruled during the balance of the evening. In one contest the Swallow patrol was declared the winner of an IQ examination. Refreshments, including doughnuts, candy, nuts, coke and cider were served to the 60 persons attending.

Faints As Jury Frees Her In “Scissors Death.”

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Irene ZZawistowski, 16-year-old high school girl who, during a heated argument, hurled a scissors at her sister. Adeline, 18, killing the older girl, is carried in a faint from the inquest hearing in Chicago after the coroner's jury of six men returned a verdict of accidental death. The jurors heard Irene, on the verge of collapse, moan over and over, “I killed her!" ... I didn’t mean to do it ... I killed her!” The six-inch scissors blade pierced Adeline’s breast and she died in the arms of a doctor. (International Soundphoto.) »

French Communists Battle With Police Most Ominous Sign Since Liberation ✓ Paris. Oct. 29 — today regarded the battleFbetween 15.000 Communists and several thousand police last night as the most ominous sign in France since the liberation. It was feared that such fighting would increase and spread over the nation with the situation drifting straight toward a showdown between the Communists and anticommunists. Neither side showed any sign of backing down. Last night's fighting started only a few hours after middle-of-the-road premier Paul Ramadier, pleading for his government before the national assembly, had warned that if the country is split into two camps: “there will be civil war and it will be the ruin of France.” The Commuists congregated on the Avenue Wagram, on Paris’ west end, to break up a meeting "for people oppressed by the Soviets,” which was called by Gustave Gautherot, a prewar senator. Police beat them with clubs and rifle butts down the avenue into the Place de Ternes, where mounted Republican guards broke up the crowd. Fourteen truckloads of regular army troops stood by with machineguns to take a hand if the Communists refused to go. At least 20 demonstrators were hurt and a few police were wounded by pieces of pavement that the Communists pulled up and threw. Several demonstrators were arrested as they beat at police with clubs wrenched from wooden barricades. Ann Blackman, 20, a New York magazine writer, said a policeman hit her on the head. Richard Dale, an Acme newspictures photographer from Oklahoma, also said the police beat him. The Communists newspaper ■ L’Humanite today called the fight a “bloody clubbing” and denounced Ramadier as “the protector of th* anti-Soviet rabble.” f .... o Speech Class Gives Lions Club Program The speech class of Decatur high school, supervised by Deane Dorwin, discussed the Marshall plan at the regular meeting of the Decatur Lions club at the K. of P. home last night. Don Grant, a member of the class, presided as chairman of the discussion. Leading the negative side fn discussion were the Misses Sue Harper and Margene Bauer and on the ' negative side were Byford Smith and Jack Heller. Following the ' five-minute speeches, a general discussion was held. Several other members of Mr. 1 Dorwin’s class also attended and took part in the discussion. Guests included the fathers of three of the participants, Ed Bauer, Lowell Harper and Dick Heller. The father i of the fourth speaker, Lowell i Smith, is a member of the club, and i he also was present.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, October 29, 1947

Goshen Student Is Killed By Train Goshen, Ind., Oct. 29 —(UP) — Richard Cook, 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Cook and sophomore in Goshen high school, was killed last night when struck by a railroad locomotive. Witnesses said he tried to run across the tracks in front of the engine. 0 Driver Instruction To Start Next Week Auto Presentation Made This Morning The institution of the drivers’ training course at the Decatur junior-senior high school was given a preliminary launching this morning in ceremonies at the school building. W. E. Brant, of the Brant Motors, Inc., donors of the auto to be used in the course, presented the keys to the car to Walter J. Krick, city school superintendent, before a group of school, city and law enforcement officials. Mr. Krick said that plans were being made now to begin the ■course next week and students are being enrolled. The course—covering actual driving instructions via use of a dual set of controls in the auto —will be offered to junior and senior students of The school, in addition to a few underclassmen, 1 who are 16 years of age or older. The car will be used only in instruction, complying with regulations as prescribed by the Chicago Motor club. Lanes for the course have been marked off on Fourth street adjacent to the school building. The course will be taught by Sylvester Everhart, a member of (Turn To Page fi, Column 71

Labor Heads Say Cooperative Groceries Boon To Members

By United Press Labor unions which set up cooperative grocery stores to reduce their members’ weekly food bills agreed unanimously today that the idea was a success. Managers of union-sponsored stores in ten cities from California to North Carolina told the United Press that the ventures were accepted enthusiastically by members wherever they were tried. The greatest savings were reported from Hawthorne, Cal., where the labor unions joined farmers in the area in establishing a produce market which is open only on Saturday, They said the direct producer-to-consumer prices were about 40 percent lower than at regular retail stores. More than $9,000 was sold last Saturday. At the opposite end of the s»a’e was a report from Evansville, Ind., where the CIO United Automobile Workers union operates a grocery store in the union hall on Friday nights and Saturday mornings. The store handles only staple products. Local retail stores in Evansville

McGrath Installed As Democrat Chief. ! Hannegan Predicts Democrats To Win i BULLETIN Washington, Oct. 29 — (UP) — Philadelphia was virtually assured today of being the site of the 1948 Democratic national convention when San Francisco withdrew its bid. AVashington, Oct. 29 —(UP) — The Democratic national committee today installed Sen. 4.- Howard McGrath of Rhode Island as national chairman amid party predictions that President Truman and a Dem- • ocratic congress will be elected in . 1948. Robert E. Hannegan, forced by ill health to resign the top party post, told the group that “the record of the Tilth congress in control of the Republican party would alone be sufficient to assure the triumphant re-election of President Truman and the election of a Democratic congress.” The committee delayed until late in the day a choice between Philadelphia and San Francisco as the site of next summer’s Democratic! convention. Sounding what may prove the keynote of the Democratic campaign, Hannegan added: “The 80th congress has kicked the lid off the smoldering fires of inflation and has released a conflagration of rising prices, which Still threatens to consume the substance of the American economy. “On the important issues of housing. minimum wages, medical care and social security, the Republican leadership has shown a callous indifference to the needs of the people.” The committee approved a dele(Turn Tn Page 5, Column 7)

undersold the union store on soaps last week, and canned goods were two cents cheaper at the UAW store. Walter V. Hayden, editor of the Evansville CIO newspaper, said the union considered the experiment a success however, and that it planned to work with civic groups in establishing a permanent cooperative store for labor and the general public. At Detroit, where the “unionsponsored store plan originated, both the Briggs Body local 212 and the Ford local 400 said the idea had proved a “huge success.” Kenneth Bannon, president of the Ford local, said that 99 percent of the items sold at the store are priced 25 percent lower than similar items offered at Detroit chain store groceries. “We have worked out the plan so that we have a smooth running business,” he said. “Members may leave orders for case lots on Monday and Tuesday and pick them (Turn T» Pag» I, Column 7)

Long-Range Marshall Aid Plan Provides Outright Gifts To Europe Nations

Bands To Feature Halloween Parade Annual Halloween Parade Here Friday Seven or more bands are ex-1 pected to feature Decatur’s annual Calithumpian parade, to be Staged here Friday night by the Chamber of Commerce. Will Bowers, general chairman of the event, stated today that at | least five out-of-town bands and > ' drum corps, in addition to the-two I 'local bands, have agreed to take part in the parade. The high school bands and drum corps will be competing for prizes • of SSO, $35, $25 and $lO, respectively, for the fir< four places awarded by the judges. Prizes of $5, $3 and $2 will also be awarded winning drum majors. Nearly a score of other prizes, ranging from $2 to $4, will be; awarded individuals in various; divisions, including: best comic! strip character, tallest man or woman, best masked fat man or woman, best decorated boy's and girl’s bicycle, most original costume, most comically dressed pet, best trained pet, best clown, best witch, best ghost, best masked couple, best western equipped male and female rider and horse. The parade will form at the [ . jail yard at 7:30 o’clock, excepting' - horse and pony riders, who will as- - semble at the north side of the 1 Mackljn garage on First street. From the formation point the > parade will move north on Second ■ street to Jackson street, and then, 1 circling around on First and Third streets, will move back through the downtown area again and past the judging stands. Winners will be handed prize cards on the return trip and the ' cash prizes will be distributed at ! the Daily Democrat office, following the parade, upon presentation of the cards. Final plans for the parade were made Tuesday night in a meeting of all committeemen in charge of ythe event. Rain Forecasl For Forest Fires Area Rain Is Needed In Winter Wheat Belt By United Press The U. S. weather bureau said today that New England’s firemenaced forest areas will get rain within the next 24 hours, but it held out no immediate hope for parched sections of the midwest's winter wheat belt. Scattered showers were forecast for Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts where propertv damage from fires already is in the millions and more than a score of residents have lost their lives. A forecaster at Washington. D. C., said the New England areas were likely to get rain regardless , of the success or failure of the army-navy "dry ice” experiment , scheduled for today. B-17 bombers • w’ere to fly over woodlands and at- i tempt to “make” rain by scattering , dry ice into cloud formations. . New England's worst drought in 33 years caused the Connecticut ( river to flow backwards. Weather , bureau officials explained that the ] river is so low that with each tide ] the water flows upstream. f The weather bureau reported , that no appreciable rainfall was in sight for the nation's “breadbas- , ket.” In many parts of the mid- , west drought has retarded the win- , ter wheat crop and caused fears for the 1948 harvest. The rain now moving into New . England came from the midwest, : but a forecaster said it fell only lightly in eastern Kansas. Neb- ; raska and Oklahoma. Unless ade- , Turn Ta Pa<a 2, Oolama 1). •

United Stales Slows Flow Os Grain Exports Distillery Closing Hits Legal Snag In Ruling In Kentucky — Washington. Oct. 29—(UP) — : The United States, it was learned today, has slowed down the flow of grain exports to hungry Europe for fear of sending “too much, too early.” U. S. grain is being shipped to I Europe this month at only a slightly faster rate than the President’s food committee claims to be saving “extra" bushels for export I through its conservation program. Officials said the export slowdown was inspired chiefly by fear that the government would find itself short of grain when Europe needed it most, just before the harvest in late spring and early summer. Meanwhile, the 60-day nationwide distillery shutdown to save grain ran into a legal block. A Kentucky judge upheld a liquor sales agent’s suit to compel a disI tillery to continue producing and delivering whisky. Austin Fisher, committee vice-chairman. commented that the shutdown wa? strictly "voluntary.” Other developments: 1. The food committee rejected seven more requests for “exemptions” to the distillery shutdown. Fisher said only an “isolated few” of the nation’s distillers had refused to comply with Mr. Truman's request to close down last Saturday midnight. A committee source said they were three California distilleries. He declined to identify them. 2. The weather bureau reported that rain during the past week brought “general improvement” to part of the winter wheat belt, but said many areas hadn't yet received sufficient rain. 3. Chairman Charles Luckman predicted last night that the food committee would hit its goal of saving 100,000,000 bushels of grain for foreign relief by Jan. 1. But he couldn't predict when voluntary rationing and meatless, eggless and poultryless days would end. He said that was up to the President and his administration. 4. The food committee will an(Turn To Pa<e 7. Column 1) Cost Os Living To Reach New Peaks Average Prices At Retail Hit Record Washington, Oct. 29 —(UP) — The labor department indicated that today the cost of living—already at record levels—is headed for new peaks. The department reported that average, retail prices for the “basic” commodities bought by city families increased 1.2 percent between tnid-July and mid-August to a new all-time record. It said higher food prices were the “chief contributing factor" in the increase and added that preliminary reports indicate food prices went up another three or four percent from August to September. The department said that, in general, prices went up on all major living essentials, except house furnishings, from July 15 to Aug. 15. It said that by mid-August. average retail prices for the commodities bought by city families were 62.6 percent abifVe the 1939 average and 20.3 percent higher than June. 1946. just before most price controls were scrapped. (

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Acting Secretary Os State Reveals Hard-Pressed Lands Will Receive Gifts Washington. Oct. 29 —(UP) —■ Acting secretary of state Robert A. Lovett said today that the Marshall plan to be presented to the special session of congress Nov. 17 will include outright gifts for hardpressed European countries. This was the first official, on-the-record disclosure that the longrange plan contemplates outright gifts as well as loans to the 16 countries participating in the Marshal! plan. At the same time, secretary of the treasury John W. Snyder said the Marshall plan must be taken care of before tax cuts can be made. He said financing of the plan should be on a pay-as-you-go basis without unbalancing the V. S. budget. Lovett did not give any ■leeifie figures on the amount to be loaned or given away. He said decisions have not been made yet. But he told a news conference that the final decision will be made by Nov. 7 when the program is placed before the budget bureau. Disclosing a speed-up time-table on foreign aid, Lovett said the emergency, or stop-gap, aid pro- . gram will be ready for presentation to the budget bureau Oct. 31 and the long range Marshall plan soon thereafter. He said the state department will be prepared with full details on both for the senate and house foreign relations and appropriations committees when they meet Nov. 10. :Unofficial estimates place the amount of emergency aid at $1,100,OhO.OOO and the Marshall plan at $20,000,00h,000 over a four-year per- , iod. o — .... Russians Plan For Korea Is Attacked Termed Impractical By U. S. Delegate Lake Success. N. Y., Oct. 29 — (UP) The United States today i attacked as "impracticable” a Russian move to call elected rep resentafives of the Korean people before the Upitvd Nations for consultation before the future of Korea is settled. American delegate John Foster Dulles said all previous SovietAmerican negotiations had collapsed over the problem of who really represented the Korean people. He proposed that this question he passed on to the proposed United Nations commission for Korea. Andrei Qromvko of Russia, however. insisted, that representative Koreans must be consulted hero by the UN if the rights of Korean people are to be protected. Gromyko complained that it has “become fashionable not to take into consideration the views of people affected" by UN decisions. Dulles, speaking in the UN pol ideal committee, argued back that bringing Koreans before UN would delay Korean independence at least one year, particularly because of the difficulty of deciding which Koreans should be consulted. The United States and Russia agreed in 1945 to guide Korea to independence within five years, but have fai'ed to agree on a Koreans government whi«h should take oVer. Dulles said the Soviet proposal for consulting Koreans could 1* accepted onlv if amended to establish a UN commission to travel observe and consult in Korea. L. L. Hann To Speak To Colleop Students L. L. Hann. Adams county school superintendent, will speak Thursday night at Muncie before a group Os Ball State teachers’ college students. “The county unit’’ will be the topic of his address.