Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 265, Decatur, Adams County, 10 November 1947 — Page 1

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MARSHALL OUTLINES EUROPE AID PLAN

hnan Hints Ld Os Further y for Greece I First Report Sent ICongress, On Aid I To Turkey, Greece t i. N° v - 10—< UP) " PIL Truman told congress American aid has saved ■ILm economic collapse and £»r free, but warned that the Kin remains “grave” because ■E nil ,,i Communist guerrilla he hinted that furto Greece will he necesthat embattled Balkan “fertile ground for EL ideologies.” BE? Truman painted the stillMLure in a letter transmitEJ congress the first report on HfeO.OOOAW Greek-Turkish aid Congress voted the aid bSw <IOO to Greece and £IOO,H 3 to Turkey-last May after E'fruman’s historic stop-Com-speech in March. KhEeport. prepared by the state said that reconstrucfn Greece “has been hamper■tbfcontinued guerrilla activity Kjch the Greek government had conclude last summer. ■■ it added bluntly: can <<'■ restored, there reason to be optimistic Ent the recovery of Greece. If K not restored, there can ■Bt B jbis connection, the report RL "continued support of the KLm by Greece's northern and the diversion of ■B' troops from large-scale ofwarfare to the static devillages resulted in an K worsening of the military Ki Hr said chief reliance in restormust be placed on “the Kttio:. by the United Nations Kera assembly of a commission can effectively seal the Ktk order" against help to the from Albania, Yugoslavia Bl*. Truman, hin.ting at more SpKor Greece, said that “since Sa tin - when the amount of asm eded was determined, Mm have been several unfavor■fcJerel.ipnieiHs wlimh materialboth programs, but most that for Greece." Bfe .sted droughts which have Shred the Greek cereal harvest; activity; intensification operations, which have transfer of funds Sfe t le economic to the military and rising prices which jyt r-duced buying power. difficulties which hamper MB 1 ' c,lss of this program must he said. “ContinuaBF marginal subsistence only real progress toward |Mpr v will provide fertile Mtan for totalitarian ideologies.” Truman said the main purT„ P„ ep . I c nllimn fi) ■M <i Jy-oca/ Campaign B^ Cr Contributions 1 |To Friendship Train B 7 711 campaign will be made Sr !er condensed milk for the ■M[ shl h Train, which will arMM - r ’ rt Wayne Saturday mornBE I . then proceed to the east u 'ith car loads of food from ■B 6 ’* 1 and across the country, BM™Pped to Europe. -F rai townß hi the area joined movement and contributed Hot condensed milk or monev » fnendship Train, but due to M.. ° t ' me ’ was deera ed inlaimeh a Pr ' er ,' in(ilvi( h'als, church or Bttn or Kanlzatlons, who k ‘,° nt ( r ? bute condensed milk K\ ntan . tbe hUngry ot Europe. e, 6 Junior Cha mber of K ar-nn, jaycees) Fort Wayne, to tV°, take their donat ‘on Kil„ j. be fre isht cars which ° traln When tt B- Wea ther Son X" W# * pßrt!an thi « E? m °Stly d .2 n ‘ ire State t°K»on. C m end ' n 9 Tuesday af»X" w r er to - Tuesday Bnd Centr *'

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Very Light Snowfall Reported Here Today Winter must be here. Early risers reported a snowfall this morning — although it was a very light one and lasted little more than a few minutes. Temperatures at the time were above the freezing mark. Howard Hughes Testifies At Senate Probe ■ Says Gen. Meyers Sought $200,000 Loan From Hughes Washington, Nov. 10. —(UP) — Planemaker Howard Hughes testified today that Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers, wartime air force procurement officer, tried to borrow $200,000 from him during contract negotiations. Hughes told the senate war investigating subcommittee that he turned down the request. He thought “it might be open to improper interpretation.” He added that he did not think Meyers considered the proposition "wrong” or “Improper.” The subcommittee is investigating $40,0(10.000 worth of war contracts awarded to Hughes, west coast manufacturer and movie producer. It had heard earlier two versions of a $50,000 loan proposal involving Gen. Meyers and Hughes. Neil McCarthy, former Hughes attorney testified that Meyers tried to borrow $50,000 from the planemaker to finance the purchase of -government bonds. Gen. Meyers denied this, saying it was the other way round —that Hughes wanted him to accept $50,000? Hughes’ version today was virtually similar to that given by his former attorney, except for the amount. According to the testimony, no loans in any amount were actually made by Hughes to Meyers. Hughes said that Gen. Meyers became “very bitter” toward him because he did not get the loan. When Hughes was asked by subcommittee chairman Homer Ferguson, R., Mich., who else besides Gen. Meyers he had considered to be his friend in Washington, Hughes replied: “Possibly Jesse Jones” (then federal loan administrator). Hughes also: 1. Denied Gen. Meyers’ testi(Turn To Pac-o ?. Column 3) ff Swygart Funeral Services Tuesday Young Decatur Lady Is Taken By Death Funeral services will be heldl Tuesday for Mrs. Deloris Jean Swygart, 19, who' died Saturday morning at the Adams county memorial hospital, five hours after the birth of a son. Services will be held at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the Nuttman Ave. United Brethren church, with the Rev. Gilbert A. Eddy officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. The body has been removed from the Gillig & Doan funeral home to the Deloyd Garwood residence, 716 Line street. Mrs. Swygart was born in Ohio Dec. 25. 1927. a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clark, but had lived practically her entire life in Decatur. She was a member of the Nuttman Ave. United Brethren church. Surviving in addition to the infaht son are her husband, Richard Dale Swygart; her parents; another son, David: three brothers, Robert, Roger and William Clark, all of Decatur, and a sister, Edith, also of Decatur. o Sheriff Undergoes Hospital Treatment Sheriff Herman Rowman is expected to be released from the Adams county memorial hospital in a day or two after undergoing treatment for a leg ftljury, sustained several years ago when he was struck by an auto in Berne.

Hollywood Send-Off For Friendship Train

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V —- v-w —— ——.— —— — A ROUSING SEND-OFF is accorded the “Friendship Train" as it prepares to leave Los Angeles for the east coast, loaded with gifts of food for hungry Europe. Film star Red Skelton (arrow), one of the many film celebrities on hand for the occasion, addresses the rally. The train will make stops along its route to pick up additional foodstuffs donated to Europe. It may exceed 160 cars by the time it reaches New York.

Student Day Sale Here November 22 C. C., High School Sponsors Os Event The annual student day sale in , Decatur will be held Saturday, No-I vember 22. it was announced to-1 day by officials of the Decatur I Chamber of Commerce, co-spon- I sors of the event. C. of C. leaders and juniorsenior high school officials are now completing plans for the sale. High school students are assigned to participating stores as clerks, and wages are turned over to high school funds. A complete list of the participating retail stores and names of the students will be released for publication later. Chamber leaders also announced today that the official Christ-, mas opening will be held in retail stores on November 21. All stores are asked to have buildmgs and display windows appropriately decorated by that date. Christmas trees, to be placed in flagpole standards along the curbs in downtown Decatur, have been ordered and are to be erected on December 22. It was also announced that Santa Claus will make his appearance on downtown streets December 6 and 13 from 2 to 5 p. m. and from G to 9 p. m. to distribute candy to the kiddies. o Lobaugh Taken To State Death House Maintains Innocence In Three Slayings Fort Wayne, Ind., Nov. 10—(UP) —Ralph Lobaugh, who can’t keep his mind made up about murdering three Fort Wayne women, today left for the death house of the Indiana state prison. As he left with sheriff Harold Zeis Lobaugh maintained his innocence of the three crimes. He said he hoped attorney Robert Buhler could get a commutation of his February 9 electric chair sentence. Buhler said he was working on a petition to governor Ralph F. Gates asking that Lobaugh's death sentence be changed to life im prisonment. Lobaugh admitted five months ago in Kokomo slaying Anna Kuzeff, Dorothea Howard and Wilhelma Haaga. Subsequently he retracted and reiterated his confessions alternately. Two weeks ago he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to death, but then he changed his mind again and said he was innocent. On the eve of his removal to the state prison Lobaugh told reporters that he would write an auto(Tum To Page 3, Column 8)

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, November 10, 1947

County Offices, Bank To Be Closed Tuesday Offices in the county courthouse and the First State bank will be among the places closed all day Tuesday in observance of the Armistice Day holiday. O Siam Government Is Overthrown Sunday Puppet Under Japs Seizes Government Bangkok, Nov. 10 —(UP) — The revolutionary clinque that overthrew the government yesterday under the leadership of field marshall Luang Pibul-Songgram, puppet premier under the Japanese, began organizing a new cabinet and writing a new constitution for Siam today. It was expected that Songgram would remain in control of the new government. The communique announcing he had led a successful j and bloodless coup d’etat against i premier Luang Dhamrong Nawasawat said he had “been made” supreme commander of the armed forces. The new constitution, it was understood. will further consolidate his power. It will increase the power of the king, 19-year-old Phumibol Aduldet, who is studying in Switzerland. He has been discharging his functions through a two-man regency council, which was now under the control of the rebels. The new constitution also will replace the present two-house parliament — w’hich will be dissolved — with a one-house legislature. In any case, informed sources said, the at-1 titude of the United States will be all important, since Siam leans heavily on the U. S. for financial support and in its dealings with foreign nations. A few tanks rattled up and down the wide boulevards around the royal palace, one of the showplaces of the far east, but, according to the revolutionaries, there was no chance of their having to fight to retain control of the government. They announced early yesterday that Gen. Abdul DeJarat, the old commander-in-chief of the army, had fled in the first hours of the coup and was outside Bangkok organizing forces to suppress the revolution. But a later communique said an agreement had been reach-1 ed with him to avoid bloodshed, Songgram insisted that he had : led the coup to rid the country of' “corruption” and relieve the “difficult living conditions,” which he I said the former government had' failed to do. The revolutionaries, mostly army 1 and air force officers, struck at 2 ' a.m. yesterday. The premier was at a cMhice and received advance word of the revolution. He went through a back door just before a detail of rebels came in the front to arrest him. (Turn To Page 2, Column 5)

To Return Property To Nazis' Victims American Military Announces Plans Berlin, Nov. 10.—(UP)— The American military government today announced a far reaching law designed to return property worth an estimated 13,500,000,000 marks (about $2,700,000,000 at prewar value) to Jews and others victimized by Nazi discrimination. The law called for restritution of properties lost “through transactions under duress arising from discrimination because of race, religion, nationality, ideology and political opposition to national socialism.” Theodore H. Ball, military government finance chief, said 19,000 pieces of property were being held by his property control office for return to the rightful owners. The military government put the j ■ law into effect after the German legislature in the American zone failed to favor it. A. J. Rockwell, chief of the legal branch of the military government, believed the Germans disapproved of it because they feared the law would , prove unpopular. The law applied only to the. American zone and American-con-trolled Bremen. Rockwell said that no matter how many times the property had changed hands since it was taken by force or compulsion, it still Turn To Page 2, Column 7) — O Few Merchants Ease Installment Plans Most Hold Line As Controls Are Lifted By United Press Retailers, banks and loan companies, for the most part, “held the line” during the first week after the government lifted its controls on sonsumer credit, a survey showed today. Comparatively few merchants eased terms for installment plan buying. For this reason, plus shortages and consumer resistance to high prices, there was no rush I to buy and only nominal change in I total sales across the country. Government controls were in efl feet for six years and set the amount of down payments on most | things a man wanted to buy. These 1 ended Sunday, Nov. 2. Official ! regulations called for 33-% percent 1 down on cars and home appliances ' and 20 percent down on furniture ; and floor coverings. Balances in both groups were payable in 15 months. Many businesses said they feared a return to “easy payment, plans" might result in runaway in(Turn To Page 3, Column 5) 1

Declares American Aid Sorely Needed To Keep Western Europe Going

Murray Gives 0. K. | To Sign Affidavits Says Unions Free To Abide By Act Atlentic City, N. J., Nov. 10— (UP)—Clo president Philip Murray today gave the United Auto Workers (CIO) a clear signal to sign non-communist affidavits under the Taft-Hartley law. “Any union which believes that its interests can best be served by qualifying under the law should feel free to do so.” he said. “Each union can do so without violating any national CIO policy." He did not mention, in his 75minute spech, that he personally has refused to sign the affidavit as president of the United Steel Workers. Opponents of auto workers president Walter I’. Reuther have based their whole campaign of resistance to compliance with the law on Murray's personal stand. Reutherites predicted an overwhelming victory for their position when the issue comes to a vote late today. Murray told a news conference afterwards that “I have no intention of signing” the affidavits. ' He said his union is preparing the papers for a supreme court test of the national labor relations board action in throwing out cases of the steel workers last ' week for non-compliance. In an address frequently interrupted by cheers and some scattered booing, Murray also demanded that tlie special session of congress enact “reasonable, practicable price controls." a federal corporation excess profits tax, the Harrima'n committee recommendations for aid to EurI ope, and repeal the Taft-Hartley law. He was cheered when he told ■ the auto workers 11th convention that their union “is no business (Turn To Pasre 3. Co>”rr:n 7) U Jurors Are Drawn For Circuit Court November Term To Open Next Monday Grand and petit jury panels for the November term of the Adams circuit court, which opens next Monday, were drawn today by jury commissioners Roy E. Mumma, Ed F. Berling and Mrs. Clyde O. Troutner, deputy county clerk. Twenty-four names for the petit panel were drawn, 12 cf these to serve. Twelve were drawn for the grand jury panel, six of these to serve if the grand jury is called. Following is a list of names drawn for the petit panel: Glen D. Stuckey, Monroe; Henry Getting, Root: Arilla Danner, Blue Creek; Marion McClain. Geneva: Phillip B. KAilili, Monroe; Ivan Stuckey. Wabash; Matilda von Gunten, Monroe; Ed Whitright, Washington; F. F. Ayres, Blue Creek; Jacob Kaehr, Kirkland; Lester Grile, Geneva; Catherine Eicher, Wabash. Jacob Longenberger, Monroe; Homer Winteregg, Monroe; Robert Yergler, French; Ernest Spencer, Hartford; Herman Aeschliman. Kirkland: Willis Lehman, Wabash: Dale A. Harvey, Monroe; David Elberson. Hartford: Ben Siting, Washington; Martin Kirchner, Kirkland; Arolyn P. Culer, French; Andrew Reynolds, French. Members of the grand jury panel: Albert Tinkham, Blue Creek; Ben Duke, Decatur; John Affolder. Preble; Eugene Snow, Wabash; Thomas Flynn, French; Ella Reef, Jefferson; Fred Adler. Kirkland; Otto Peck, Preble; Thurman Wolfe, St. Mary's; John Yager, Decatur; Clarence Shephard, Geneva and Cora Sprunger, St. Mary's

United States, Russia Agree On Palestine Reach Compromise For Terminating British Mandate ' I Lake Success. N. Y.. Nov. 10 — (UP)— The United States and Russia agreed today on a compromise tor terminating Great Britain’s mandate over Palestine next May 1 and partitioning the territory into Arab and Jewish states by July 1. The compromise was hammered out in a private four-nation’ meeting. After Russia abandoned its insistence on ending the British mandate Jan. 1 and altered its demand for a commission of the 11 UN security council countries to supervise the Holy Land for a year. The resultant agreement called for a commission of three or five small powers to represent the UN in the two-month period between the end of British control and the assumption of independence by Arab and Jewish Palestine slates, in that period, it was understood. Arabs and Jews will keep law and order in their own territories with their own militia, to oe organized along witli other organis of governi ment between now and the inde- ' pendence date. The United States, making two major concessions to tlie Russians, agreed to place the UN commission under supervision of the UN security council where the big five powers hold the veto. It also dropped its proposal to make Great Britain enforce partition rather than handing the repsonsibility to the UN. The proposed commission would be established by the general assembly but would be made “subor(Turn To Page 3, Column 7) o 12 Bus Passengers Made 111 By Fumes i Fort Wayne, Ind.. Nov. 10 —(UP — Twelve passengers were given hospital treatment yesterday after collapsing as they got off a Greyi hound bus here from Indianapolis. Bus officials said the passengers I became ill from carbon monoxide fumes from a leaking gasket. They were all released and continued on their way after a few hours. 0 Ambrose F. Shoaf 1' Dies This Morning Adams County Man Is Taken By Death | Ambrose F. Shoaf, 87. retired . farmer, died at 7:15 o’clock this , morning at the home of a son, Roy O. Shoaf, four miles southeast, of , Decatur, where he resided. Death, . attributed to complications, follow- . ed an illness of four weeks. He was born in Hocking county, . 0., Jan. 1, 1860, a son of John and Mary Shoaf, but had spemt practically his entire lifetime in Adams county. t His wife, the former Rosetta , Snyder, died Nov. 17. 1900. , Surviving in addition to the son - with whom he made his home are two daughters, Mrs. Gilbert Strick- - ler of Decatur and Mrs. M. F. , Shirk of Fort Wayne; another son. Floyd Shoaf of Willshire, O.; 14 grandchildren and 16 great-grand- : children. Two brothers and one i sister preceded him in death Funeral services will be held ; at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Zwick , funeral home, with the Rev. Dwight . R. McCurdy officiating. Burial will . be in the Antioch cemetery, south- ; west of Decatur. The body may be 1 viewed at the funeral home after 2 p?m. Tuesday.

Price Four Cents

Immediate Stop-Gap Cost 597 Millions; 16 to 20 Billions In Next Four Years Washington, Nov. 10—(UP Secretary of state George C. Marshall told congress today that the cost of preventing communist domination of Europe is $597,000,000 in immediate stop-gap aid. and $16,000,000,000 to $20,000,000.i'.Oo in well-planned help over the next four years. i The situation in Europe is ’grave,” ho said. And American aid is needed urgently to keep western Europe from going under. Marshal) said the alternative is “tragedy for the world” and loss of important freedoms to the American people. He also disclosed that a definite proposal to aid China will be submitted to congress later. Marshall appeared before the senate foreign relations committee and the house foreign affairs ommittee to make the administration's first formal presentation cf its European aid programs. Congress, he said, faces decisions of “momentous importance” and “fateful consequences”; decisions as important as “those of the war years.” Marshall said he could not guarantee "automatic success” for the program aimed at winning the cold war against Russia. But "I believe the chances of success are good,” he said. His statements to the congres sional committees answered Rus sian charges that the United States. through the Marshall plan, seeks to dominate Europe* and force its influence upon the world. * “This is certainly not the program of a country seeking to exercise domination or to influence unduly any foreign country.” he said. “. . . Tlie United States seeks no special advantage and pursues no sinister purpose. It is a proI gram of construction, production and recovery. It menaces no one.” Marshall said American aid should be in the form of both erants or loans. He revealed officially for the first time that we will require :ertain promises from the recipient countries. The United States. ’ he said, will want assurances ' hat the aid will be used effectively for recovery as rapidly as possible. Under the long-range plan, it will want commitments that the recipient eonntries will take steps to stabilize their economy; ’evelop their production, particularly to increase production of coal and food; and cooperate in reducing trade barriers. The immediate $597,000,000 of stop-gap aid would be for Italy. France and Austria. The state department understood that the I army will also ask congress for t an additional $500,000,000 to carry ’ occupied areas through next ’ lune. This will be in addition to • the regular appropriations made’ ■ 'ast summer. More than S3OO.000,000 of the deficit appropria- • tion will lie for the western zone I of Germany where the United ’ States is preparing to take over ! Great. Britain’s dollar expenditures. 1 This means that the total stopgap aid program apparently will 1 be $1.097,000.000 —the army half ? of which will run through June’ in contrast to the state depart- ’ ment's request for money through j March. On the 16 to 20 billion long- ; range program. he estimated nearly $7,500,000,000 would be , needed for the first 15 months . beginning next March. t Marshall did not go into detail I on the pmnosed China aid plan—- . either on the amount when he 9 expected to submit it to ; conr screes. But undersecretary of (Turn To Page 3, Column 8)