Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 256, Decatur, Adams County, 30 October 1947 — Page 1

No. 256.

GOVERNOR OF OREGON DIES IN AIR CRASH

■eminent In ■ a ‘ nst faking Firms ■ Cho'ge Conspiracy ■ To Monopolize Sale ■Of New Securities 30 —(UP) charged 17 r , banking bankers :I wiltl ■■ SB®., ecu*-’ I o’ii ’. ( lark SK. . anti-trust suit in ■bwßork. Himu-d principally a r . IV ■L yri to monopolize the secitrS^Ku- restricting. tonSollMg and fixing the P r,ces ’ conilitions upon which SLi j are sold. .. period, accord■LT Clark ’he 17 firms managed totalling admit UH percent security issues handled syndicate methods. Kuhn Co,: Eastman. Dillon &- JI J,'. Ar ’ loldhs ■ : 1.-liman BroSmith w Co.: Glore. Co.: While Weld & Co.: - c- Boston Corp : Read & Co. Im-.: Blyth & ,<• Webster Securities Harris, Hall & Co., Inc.; ■id L':.ion Securities Corp. bankers, in general, new securities issues the corporation, and security dealers asking th■port br-ak up the alleged mono■llie md restraints, accused the ■trns f illegally agreeing: |B. T eliminate competition themselves. ■2. Tn '■lnuiiiute competition of ■other investment bankers, and of potter pr-s;-- live purchasers of se■iarit such as insurance comT preieiit, restrain, minimize ■and discredit the use of competi■tive bidding, private placements, ■Ke: purchases and sales in the of securities by issuers. Tu idiminat- competition in issued offered at combidding and to circumvent and federal regulatory orrequiring . mnpetitive bidding. T and control the and financial activiof issues. Tn preserve their relationwith issuers for whom they [B ‘ b nan< ’> a l advisers or from ."-lumn 4) ■ I - ” g|UTf BULLETINS ■ | March Field, Cal. Oct. 30.— HE twin-engined army ■pombef with five men aboard ■r as been missing since 11:20 IPST) yesterday on a |B' hedu!ed 50-mile flight behere and Burbank. Cal., BE* au announced toBE be plane an A-26, was staOned here temporarily. It was ■ Biggs Field, Tex. Aboard ■T' the crew, pilot Maj. John H. b ? ICh ' T/S 9 t - T - M obley B. vt E. L. Kyle, all of B c 98 Flsld: and Passengers ■ «• Batholomew P. Tenore, I L?u ille ’ N - Y - and Lt. Wil- ■ Muller, Paterson, N. J. ■ Str^ 0 ’ 1, . Oct - 30.—(UP) — ■ that no h' ndlCat ' Oris arose today ■ here k American embassy ■ Stani.i d received w °rd that ■ oppo sit aw Mik °aJwyk, Polish ■he haa 9h embassy official said ■ lajcyk'/°? noWledge of Mik °- ■ r e f USed . Whereabout s now. He ■ fi cial|y l° h anSWer ' even unof - ■ ba SSy y h * h ' n ask * d the em- ■ safety. been assured of his B ■ ——o- _ >- ir

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Lobaugh Repudiates Murder Guilt Plea Fort Wayne 'Killer' Requests New Trial Fort Wayne, Ind., Oct. 30 —(UP) — Ralph Lobaugh, 30, under sentence to die in the electric chair Feb. 9. today said he “just had a stubborn spell” when he pleaded guilty this week of murdering three Fort Wayne women. “I didn’t kill them,” the former Kokomo factory worker said. In a statement to his attorney he repudiated his plea which led to the imposing of the death sentence by judge Robert Schannen on Monday. In court Monday. Lobaugh listened without protest or emotion while Schannen sentenced him to be electrocuted. He answered “yes, I did,” when a deputy prosecutor asked him if he killed the women. “I guess I just had another one of those stubborn, crazy spells,” said Lobaugh. explaining his latest repudiation. Since his arrest last June in Kokomo, he has baffled authorities with conflicting statements and several repudiations of confessions of the rape-murders during 1944 and 1945. Judge Schannen said Lobaugh’s repudiation would not affect his sentence. “As far as I’m concerned he has pleaded guilty,” said Schannen, “and has been sentenced to die.” His attorney, Robert Buhler, said he would ask governor Gates to commute the sentence to life imprisonment so the case could be studied. Lobaugh, in his jail cell, requested a new trial. Buhler said if Lobaugh persisted he was innocent, a new trial would be sought. Lobaugh had been granted a sanity hearing in December but waived the right to it and entered his guilty plea. Two psychiatrists who examined him earlier had found him sane but “emotionally unstable." The three victims of the rapeslayings were Wilhelma Haaga, 38, Anna Kuzff, 22, and Dorothea Howard, 32. 0 Adams County 1948 Budgets Approved County auditor Thurman I. Drew has received word from the state board of tax commissioners that all 1948 budgets of the various taxing units in Adams county have been approved as recommended by the board representatives during recent hearings here. - 0 Stalter Services Held Here Today Graveside services were held this afternoon at the Decatur cemetery for HAI/C Milo Stalter, the second of the country’s war dead to be returned here for burial. Services were conducted by Dr. M. O. Lester, pastor of the First Methodist church, with military rites in charge of Limberlost post, Veterans of Foreign Wars. 0 K. C. Planning For Future Activities Chicken Dinner To Be Held Wednesday Details of several forthcoming activities of the Decatur council, Knights of Columbus, were announced today by lodge officials. A joint communion for deceased members of the council will be held Sunday morning. All members are asked to meet at the K. of C. hall at 7 a.m. that day and march to the church in a group. Members of the Fourth Degree are to wear full dress. The mass will be celebrated by the Rev. Ignatius Vichuras. council chaplain, at 7:3ff a.m. The regular meeting of the council will be held Monday night at 8 o’clock. Plans are being completed for the annual ehiicken dinner for members and their ladies, to be held Wednesday night at 6:30 O’clock. Ralph Kriegel and Leonard Meyer are co-chairmen of the event. Detailed plans will be announced later. Tickets for the dinner are now on bale at the K. of C. hall at $1 per person.

New Contempt Citations Are Voted Today Ring Lardner, Jr. One Os Hollywood Writers Involved Washington, Oct. 30 —(UP ) — i House investigators of Hollywood Communists issued more contempt-of-cohgress citations today as “hostile" film figures continued to refuse to say whether they) were Communists. The new contempt citations were voted as the house unAmerican activities committee prepared to produce "surprise testimony” that Hollywood reds engaged in “Abomb espionage.” This testimony, the committee said, will “cite date, time and place” of the alleged aspionage. Earlier this week eight Hoilywood writers, directors and producers had been labeled as Communist party members and tagged with contempt of congress charges. Those cited today were: Movie writer Ring Lardner. Jr., accused by the committee of holding Communist party card No. £7IBO. Film writer Lester Cole, charged with being card holder No. 47226. In previous contempt citations, the committee members present had voted to recommend that the full committee adopt an "appropriate resolution” asking the house to approve the charges. Today’s citations asked “that appropriate action be taken immediately.” That might mean the charges would be submitted to speaker Joseph W. Martin, Jr., for action in advance of the special congresional session scheduled for Nov. 17. Lardner was the day's first witness. Like eight other so-called “hostile” witnesses before him this week, Lardner refused a yes-or-no answer to “the $64 question” — are you a Communist? The 32-year-old son of a famous writing father wanted to read a statement, but the committee denied him permission to do so because he would not say whether he was a Communist. “I could answer the question,” Lardner said, “but if I did I would hate myself in the morning.” Committee investigator Louis J. Russell testified he had found a Communist party card. No. 47180 issued to “Ring L.” He said that (Turn To Page 7, Column 7) 0 Local Man's Brother Killed In Accident Clarence Fosnaugh Killed Wednesday Clarence Fosnaugh, 50-year-old Wells county farmer, was killed late Wednesday afternoon when he was thrown from his auto as he was enroute home from Bluffton with his wife and daughter. The fatal accident occurred at the intersection of state roads 116 and 316, three miles east of Bluffton. As Fosnaugh attempted to pass another car, he lost control when he went off the highway berm, his auto rolling over several times, throwing him to the pavement. The car landed upright, crosswise on the pavement, directly over his body. Death was caused by internal hemorrhages. The victim’s wife. Annise, 53, and a daughter, Miss Glennis Fosnaugh. 20. escaped with minor injuries. Surviving in addition to the wife and daughter are five sons, Herman and Victor, hoth of Berne, and Joe, Dale and Roger, all at home: another daughter, Miss Bonnie Fosnaugh, at home; six brothers, George Fosnaugh of Decatur, Charles. address unknown. Clinton, in Illinois, Homer of Fort Wayne, Frank of Bluffton and Edward, in Iowa; and two sisters. Mrs. John Dubson of Seymour. 111., and Miss Stella Fosnaugh, in lowa. Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at the Jahn funeral home in Bluffton, with burial; in the Six Mile cemetery. Friends may cal! at the funeral home until time of th® services,

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, October 30, 1947

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Charges of conspiracy may be placed against Robert K. Kenny, counsel for 19 Hollywood screen writers, actors and directors, and I Alvah Bessie, one of the four movie writers cited for contempt fol- ! lowing refusal to answer question of whether or not they are Com-' munists at. the House un-American activities probe of Hollywood Communism. The committee is investigating report that Kenny advised witnesses to refuse to answer questions. (International)

Interest Mounts As City Election Nears Precinct Inspectors Will Meet Saturday Preparations for the city election next Tuesday were being brought to a close today by workers. candidates and interested parties. Precinct inspectors are to meet Saturday morning at 10 o’clock at the county courthouse to receive final instructions for handling and tabulating the ballots. County clerk Clyde O. Troutnerl will instruct the workers and distribute supplies to the inspectors.! He stated today that about a ’ dozen absent voter ballots have been sent out or voted in person at his offices. Saturday is the final day to vote by this method. Canvass board workers, who will make the official tabulation of the votes in the courthouse, are to be named in the next day or two. These will be named by the clerk and the two county chairmen. Meanwhile, candidates are making a final bid for the support of the voters. Distribution of candidate cards, newspaper political advertising and in the case of the two mayoralty aspirants, house-to-house canvassing, mark the last few days of the campaign. While some political leaders predict little more than a light vote Tuesday, there are those who claim that favorable weather may result in a surprisingly large number of ballots being cast. ff — Reports Conflict On Council Election Concensus Krick Is Elected By Default Conflicting reports have been received in this city concerning the election of councilmen by districts, it was learned today by checking leaders of both political parties. Several days ago, Gerald Vizard, Democratic county chairman, received a telephone call from William Steckler, Democrat member of the state board of election commissioners, saying that the five highest councilmanic candidates would be declared the winner. Apparently the Steckler opinion was for cities which nominated all their candidates at large without setting out councilmanic districts. The latest word from the election commissioners appears to be of the opinion that the candidate in each district who receives the largest number of votes from the entire electorate is the district winner and the candidate at large receiving the largest number of votes from among the candidates at large is the winner of that contest. It was pointed out by local leaders that the newest interpretation Turn To I’Htfe 2, Column 6.)

Parking Is Banned Here During Parade Police chief Ed Miller stated today that no parking will be permitted on Second street from Jackson to Jefferson street from 6:30 p.m. Friday until after the Callithumpian parade. Motorists are urged to remember the ruling and refrain from parking in this area. The ruling is issued to permit unhampered movement of the parade through downtown Decatur. All plans for the event have been completed. Will Bowers, parade chairman, said today and with the prospects of favorable weather a huge crowd is expected to parti ! cipate in and witness the parade. Wholesale Prices On Food Show Drop No Decline Noted In Retail Prices By United Press Wholesale prices on food dropped last week to the lowest level since early September, but housewives said today the decline had not! been reflected at the nation's gro-l eery stores. t Dun and Bradstreet reported that last week's wholesale index dropped 12 cents from the proceeding week. The index fell to $6.78, the lowest since Sept. 2, when it stood at $6.71. Last year, after the first full week in which all price controls on meat had been abolished. the level was $6.34. Declines last week were noted in flour, corn, rye, oats. beef. hams, bellies, lard, cottonseedoil. eggs.] potatoes and hogs. Prices went up on wheat, barley, currants, steers, lambs, and butter but cheese, sugar, coffee, tea, cocoa, beans, peas, peanuts, rice, molasses, prunes, milk and rasins were unchanged. Retail prices on items which dropped in the wholesale index had not been lowered in moat grocery stores aaross the nation. At New York, where wholesale butter rose 1% cents per pound yesterday for a total increase this week of four cents, retailers boosted butter prices two cents a pound. Dun and Bradstreet’s daily weighted price index of 30 basic commodities moved up slightly yesterday to 288.60 from 288.55 the previous day. Other food and price developments: Washington — The citizens food committee set in motion a nationwide “grass roots” campaign to win the support of farmers in the drive to save 100,000.0'00 bushels of grain for export. The program called for the creation of statewide "livestock feed committees" to formulate specific plans for each individual community. Willmar. Minn.—James G. Patton. president of the National Farmers union, praised President Truman's action of combining inflation control with aid to Europe, but said that controls must be. applied to “all commodities in scarce supply." rather than to farm produce prices alone

Gov. Earl Snell, Three Companions Found Dead In Airplane's Wreckage

Ramadier Wins Test Vote By Slight Margin Vote Os Confidence Given Premier By French Assembly Paris, Oct. 30 —(UP)— The I national assembly tonight reaf- ' firmed its confidence in the government of Socialist premier Paul Ramadier to cope with Frame's gravest politio-economic crisis ,since the war. By a slim majority the assembly voted confidence in Ramadier's streamlined coalition cabinet. The vote was announced officially as 300 to 280, with 18 abstentions. The tote of confidence averted, at least temporarily, a showdown between the aggressive Communist party and the anti-Communist forces of Gen. Charles De Gaulle. The assembly after heal ing Ramadier plead for unity which would prevent any division of France ii» to pro-American or Pro-Russian camps. He warned that such a split would threaten the life of the republic. It wad the seventh vote of confidence the assembly has given • Ramadier this year. And it was the most critical of all. coming when the Communists were clamoring on one side of the government and De Gaulle's new rally of the French people on the other. Ramadier's voice quavered with emotion as he pleaded with the assembly to save the life of his regime. “We demand,” he said, “that those who are for Frame and the republic vote for the government, and that those who are against us -or those who are hesitant —vote a gainst us, because the worst possible situation would be to remain i undecided. It is the question wheth- | er the country is to be divided inIto a Russian or an American camp, I or if there will be in this nation the will to collaborate with all nations." Ramadier stepped to the tribunal near the end of a long debate (Turn To Page 2, Column .1) O — Drivers Unhurt In Wreck Wednesday Auto Collides With Truck Near Decatur Gerald Geimer. 23, Decatur, route five, escaped serious injury last evening when his auto plowed into a brick entrance post and a utility pole after colliding with a truck, one mile east of this city on U. S. 224. Sheriff Herman Bowman, who investigated. said that Geimer pull ed his vehicle to the left in a t'u tile effort to avoid colliding with a truck, driven by Robert Kahn, 4.16 Niblick street, as the latter drove onto the pavement from a set vice station. The Geimer auto lightly struck the truck, owned by Elmer Hailer, and then when the driver noticed an approaching auto lu- was forced back to the right, the sheriff said The car struck the post in the Otto Baker yard and then the electric light pole, snapping it into two pieces. The high tension line was held up by the wires and partially supported by the wrecked auto until Tn Pa»e 2. Column 4) O Waste Paper Drive Here On Saturday The monthly waste paper drive of the Boy Scouts will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday morning, it was announce today and residents are a ked to have their paper ready along the curbing.

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Earl Snell above, governor of 1 Oregon, and three companions were killed in an airplane crash Wednesday.

Call Is Extended To Michigan Minister ' Call Extended Here By Lutheran Church The Rev. Karl H. Trautman. i , , aged 30. pastor of Our Savior Lutheran church at Bad Axe, Mich, was extended a call to the local pastorate Wednesday night by the voters' assembly of the Zion Lutheran church. The Decatur pastorate was left, vacant when the former pastor, the Rev Paul W. Schultz, accepted a position as west coast representative for Valparaiso university. A recent call to the Rev. W. G. Polack. of Baltimore, Md . has been declined. Church officials pointed out that ! Rev. Trautman also may not be available at the present time, but a church committee recently re ported very favorably on his ability. and it, is hoped he will accept the local pastorate. In Lutheran circles, a call is extended and the recipient, after consulting the con gregation which he is serving, may accept or decline the new position.' In many cases, the pastor does not' know he is being considered until! he receives the call. For these reasons, there is usually some de-! lay before an answer is received. ' Other matters discussed at last <. night’s assembly included financial reports, a report on parsonage repairs and redecoration, and a decision to favor the Lutheran child welfare association in Indianapolis with a Thanksgiving col(Turn T<» Pair- ? (’nlmnn 5) _ 0 Officers Reelected By Central Soya Co. Annual Meeting Is Held On Wednesday Officers of the Central Soya company were re-elected at the annual meeting of the company yesterday. Officers are: Dale W. McMillen, chairman of the board: Dale W. McMillen. Jr., vice-chairman of the board: Robert H. Fletcher, president: Harold W McMillen, George D Mac Lean. Norman F. Kruse and Wilbert E. Huge, vicepresidents: Edward T. Scheie, secretary and treasurer; Richard N. Allen, assistant secretary and controller, and Willard E. Hart, assistant secretary. Charles W. Crowe. Chicago, was newly elected to the board of directors. He fills a vacancy created by the resignation of D J. Bunnell. who has gone to Minneapolis to become president and general manager of the Northwest. Linseed company Mr Bunnell bad heert i m a e.-gc ■

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Two Other Ranking State Officials Die In Crash; Planned Hunting Vacation Dog Lake. Ore.. Oct. 30 —(UP) Forest rangers reached the wreckage of Gov. Earl Snel)’ 1 plane today and reported, thy Snell and his three companions | were dead. The searching party's report I was received at Lakeview. Ore.. Iby erle Lowden, supervisor of the Fremont National forest. The I message, transmitted by Chet Lyons, forest radio engineer with tiie search party, said: “Four bodies were found. There were no survivors.” The message said that the parly was bringing out the bodies. It confirmed that the Oregon governor, his immediate succes sor. senate president Marshall | Cornett, secretary of state Rob ! ert S. Farrell, Jr. amid pilot cliff Hogutie. 42. were killed in the trash during a goose-hunting va I ath Falls. Ore.. Tuesday night. Previously, the wreckage of the I plane had been sighted from the | air. and it was assumed then that it was the red-and-silver BeechI craft in which Snell and his 1 friends had taken off from Klarn- ! ath Falls. Ore.. Tuesda night. Official confirmation of the I deaths, however, awaited the ar- | rival of the search party at the I crash scene today In his message, which was inter rupted by adverse atmospheric I conditions. Lyons asked that the | next of kin be notified immediate I ly With the deaths of Snell and I Cornett confirmed. Oregon's next I governor will be the third in succession John P. Hall. Portland lawyer* and speaker of the state house of representatives. The plane's wreckage was sighted yesterday by pilot Robei" A. Adams, who identified it tentatively by its tail markings. The accident took place Tuesday night. 36 miles south of Lakeview. Ore. Hogue was flying the three men from Glamath Falls to Lakeview. 70 miles away, where they plan ted to shoo- geese He apparent ly lost his way in bad weather and darkness and the plane rammed into a pine tree eight inches thick The tree was sheared off as if by a lightning bolt and the plane splintered into bits. When the plane was reported overdue 10 hours later. Oregon authorities launched the greatest (Turn Tn Pa ire ". robimn (I o Frank Fortney Is Burned By Blast Radiator Shop Man Burned In Explosion Frank Fortney. 33. local radiator shop proprietor, is recovering at the Adams county memorial hospital from severe burns received Wednesday. His burns were received in a flash explosion of acetylene gas. while he was working in his shop on North First street. Persons working in nearby shops reported that the blast blew out several windows in the radiator repair shop, even pushing out some of the window sashes. Mr. Fortney was burned about the face, hands and chest His eyebrows were burned away and his bait partialy burned, it was reported. He was taken to the hospital by Richard E Meyer, working in the nearby auto paint shop. who. with several others, was attracted to the scene by the rumble of the explosion It is thought that a quantity of the gas was allowed to escape from a torch he had been using and had gathered near the tank on the floor When he Ignited the toidi the a. < umulated gas exploded.