Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 267, Decatur, Adams County, 12 November 1947 — Page 1

irZv No. 267.

MARSHALL URGES EARLY ACTION ON AID

Lend tabor p| Voice In »d Jo Europe iiw her t ° Demand fly firffinizcd Labor Be I Full Voice city. N. J-. Nov - 12 — IL—Wwai' l ' I’. Reather, presKL’K),,' United Auto workers ■|EflE)ii demand a full voice labor in the adminlB sr ! "BLj al) y government plan |Fto Europe, a high union today. Kifttimrinati' said the request will he made to the ap■|H| congressional committee Pt president Truman. ttLitlier. re-elected as head of the R biggest union, told a reE9K p r(, »< ra ” l “ ia what 1 said he in my report." There, BSK‘] a ; l( >r must participate in which develop and ini Enent the Marshall plan —a Eery rtei’” ■Keuthe' said that he may make ■ further statement on his program when his landslide election ■ thermion’s 11th convention is Ertifled officially. He said "a Ky eJem and definite" foreign resolution will be submitted Egtheflonvention Friday. This is Ejected to deal in some detail with E WAlmll plan. Esecreta of state George C. MarKdl has asked congress to apEpriate $2,657,000,000 through Ext Jun- 30 for western Europe ■ Astro:.. stand in support of the Earshall plan is assured in view E the smashing ant i-Communist Etory scored by Reuther personEiy and by his candidate over secEary|tre;Mirer George F. Addes, Elon so .t <es said. Reuther won reKeetion with 5,502 votes out of ■BB3 rlcorded. ■Emil ,'lazey of Detroit, Reuther unhorsed Addes in the fcestlcontest of the convention Edes. in office since 1936 and lead■of the anti-Reuther forces who Supported by Communist eleEents, received 2.572 votes. Mazey Ka|ith 4,820. gto.|er fl wed to complete his ge»p o: the four top union offices fisday in ousting vice-president R. ■ Thonias. *hom he defeated for ■Bkidency 19 months ago, and ■frpre- -dent Gosser of Toledo and Livingston of St. Louis. 18 regional directors making ■ the[rest of the legislative exeE^ ve [board will be elected toBSorrow afternoon. ■ Some sources said Addes may ■t® for one of the vice-preslden Btet in a surprise, last-ditch effort B stay in a top union office. Reusaid ile wou ld fare no betthan he did in his race for reBtTurn To Page 2. Column 4) k ■ ——° local Man's Sister Is Taken By Death | Buisy Brushwilier ■J es At Capital LB Daisy v - Brushwilier, 47 ,° f . A,l>ert w - Brushwilier, E USineSSmall ' d ’ ed Tuesday |,‘W on at 3' 20 o’clock at Citv t'u* *' Indiana Polis. ■■death was attributed to comar'S!n S from an injury E,. sered 35 years ago in a SL" 11 a ree - She had been parser,.I Pai ’ alyzed ever since the inf“'F a8 sustained. jere the brother Edict.?’ 0 ° ther bl ' ot hers, DonKilan ‘ IC ° the ' IU ” and Dou S las ' „ a sißter ’ Mrs - John City. rdafT 1 Services wlu be held I® at 10 o clock at an ■Wai win* f Jnera l home ana M^ 111 be in Hartford City LX!7 Sh 7” ler left early this rW'o tor Indianapolis. Bowman f e ™ rn s To Duty ST*' Hermaa Rowman was Pleleasl tOday ’ foll owing K count “ lght from thl Kheriff J nem orial hospital, ■i Uv er : ent treatme °t Kd 8 injury - at the bos-

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Democratic National Convention July IT Washington, Nov. 12 — (UP ) The Democratic national committee announced today the party’s national convention will begin July 11 in Philadelphia — wnere the big task will be to select a running mate in 1948 for President Truman. Both the Democratic and Republican national conventions will be held in Philadelphia. The Republican convention will open June 21. Britons, Jews 3 * ; Fight Pitched ; Battle Today 5 British Troops And I Jewish Underground Battle In Palestine i Jerusalem, Nov. 12 —(UP ) — Hundreds of British troops and Tewish underground members fought a pitched battle in a ,fori >st between Haifa and Tel Aviv toi day, and four Irgun Zvai Leumi > members including two girls about i !6 years old were killed. 1 Two men and one girl were i wounded seriously and, a number • if other were injured in the hour--1 ’ong fighting with machineguns, isles and other arms. The Irgun- ’ sts were training in the forest, and • he troops moved in to break up the 1 group. ! A British constable was killed and three others were wounded in ’ i separate outburst of violence at . Haifa. Snipers shot them from the roof of a nearby building. An official announcement reportng the death of the four Irgunists ’ n the battle mentioned no BritE sh casualties. The statement said the Jewish • ouths had been "receiving instruc- > ions in the use of a variety of weaions.” From the captured and the ■odies of the dead, it said, troops > emoved three bayonetted rifles, wo pistols, a carbine and six grenr ides. The troops seized a quanity of s .mmunition, rifles, pistols and i renades cached inside a house. Directly after the fighting, a youth was captured as he tried to 1 scape through an orange grove. ' He fired on troops when chalieng- ■ id. ' A number of persons were wounded, some seriously, in the fighting lear the villages of Raanana and Herzelia, midway between Haifa nd Tel Aviv. The British captured number of Irgunists. ’ The constables were sitting in a rowded Kingsway case when they vere fired on from the roof of a aearby house. The attack followed by a few mintes the sentencing by a Haifa nilitary court of two Stern group members to 20 years’ imprisonnent for carrying firearms, ammunition and two bombs. They were Liahu Daham, 17, and Haim Eckhauser, 22. 0 Return Glendening Body For Burial Bryant Sailor To Be Buried Saturday The body of Everett Glendening, formerly of Bryant, who died early in World War II while serving with the U. S. navy in the Pacific, will arrive in Geneva Thursday morning at 11:40 o’clock. Limberlost post, Veterans of Foreign Wars of Decatur, will be in charge of military burial rites Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Gravel Hill cemetery at Bryant. The body of the Jay county sailor will arrive on the Pennsylvania railroad and will be escorted from the station to the Hardy & Hardy funeral home in Geneva by the VFW color guard. The casket will lie in state at the funeral home until time for the services. The Bryant man was a veteran of both World Wars and served in the last conflict as a chief electrician’s mate aboard a battleship Details concerning his death were not available here. e

Meyers Says ; Hughes Asked ; Aid On Movie, — s Asked General Use influence To Have Sexy Movie Shown Washington, Nov. 12 —(UP) — Retired Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers testified today that Howard Hughes offered to give $150,000 to the Catholic Legion of Decency if Mewers could get the industrialist’s sexy motion picture "The Outlaw” released in New York City. Meyers, former air force procurement chief, told a senate war investigating subcommittee that this “charitable” offer was in addition to SIOO,OOO the retired general was to get for himself. The Legion of Decency, which analyzes movie morals for the benefit of Catholic church members, had strongly denounced “The Outlaw” j is obscene. And New York City ofg ficials on the same grounds had , rnnned its showing in the metropolis. i The subcommittee Is investigatt mg $40,000,000 worth of plane contracts awarded to Hughes during 3 .he war. Meyers’ activities in be- “ .ialf of “The Outlaw,” a starring vehicle for buxom Jane Russell, got into the inquiry as a result of ’ previous testimony about alleged j financial overtures between the 3 planemaker and the onetime chief if the air force materiel command. Earlier, Meyers testified that: 1 1. He and his family bought $4,1 300,000 worth of government bonds 1 on one percent margin during the 0 war, making a paper profit on one specific deal of $90,000. Total act- ■ uai profits were not brought out. s Hughes had testified that Meyers - .ried to get $200,000 from him, at 4 time when plane contracts were i .mder discussion, for these margin - leals. But Meyers said it was the - Jther way around — Hughes offer--3 d him $250,000 but he turned it 3 .own. , Meyers told reporters later he (Turn To Page 5. Column SI o I Decatur C. Os C. To : Elect Six Directors Nominees Are Listed r For New Directors i i Nominees for positions on the 1 board of directors were announced today by the Decatur Chamber of t Commerce nominating committee. t Six directors are to be elected ( December 3, under a Chamber bylaw providing for an increase oi three members, making the board of directors total 12. 1 The nominees: ’ Retail division: Cal E. Peterson, clothier, and Carl Gerber, food r market proprietor; manufacturer’s ( division: J. K. Gunther and J. J. Thompson, both chemists at the Central Soya Co., Inc.; member-ship-at-large; John L. DeVoss, attorney; E. W. Lankenau, General Electric plant manager; Dr. Harold Zwick, physician; Robert Gay, service station proprietor; William Lose, Jr., bank teller; Robert Lane, shoe merchant: Lowell Harper, manager of the Bag Service, Inc., and Glenn Hill, insurance agency operator. Voting will be done by mail and ballots will be mailed to all mem- ! bers in good standing. Candidate names may be added to the ballot, if 10 or more members in good standing present a written petition to the secretary of the Chamber not later than five days before the election. Mother Rescues Three Children From Flames Indianapolis, Nov. 12 — (UP) — • A mother rescued her three children from their burning home at Glenns Valley today and her brother was burned as he tried vainly to put out the fire. Mrs. Rosa Irelan, 24, was awak- ■ ened by smoke and flames. She saved Wank, age two; Judith Ann, 14 months, and Ralph, Jr., five. Her brother, 18-year-old Earl Doty, who lived next door, tried to extinguish the flames after the rescue. He suffered burns on his head and arms. s

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, November 12, 1947

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G. KSESHIZHANSKY (left) and Abram Joffe, top Soviet scientists who have participated in research work on nuclear fission, are said to have been among the witnesses of an explosion of a Russian atomic bomb near Irkutsk in Siberia. The story of Russia’s achieving a successfully exploded atomic bomb appeared in a Paris, France, newspaper.

To Call Grand Jury During Present Term November Term Os Court Opens Monday Posecutor Myles F. Parrish said today that the November term grand jury would be called into session in the Adams circuit court before the first of the year. Names of 1” persons were drawn Monday for jury service and six of these will serve on the November panel. The grand Jury is required to meet at least once each year to inspect county institutions, as well as investigate any criminal matters brought to its attention. Prosecutor Parrish explained »hat while the grand jury had met ’ast January, it was a "carry-over” session from last year and that the body would be required to meet ’his term. While all proceedings of the ' T rand jury are secretive and indictments, if any, are returned in true bill form with the names of the defendants secret until after arrests have been made, it is considered likely that several criminal matters will be investigated during *he session. The November term of court opens next Monday with Judge Earl B. Adams returning to the bench. Ferd L. Litterer, judge pro tern, has been serving during the court vacation the past two weeks. — John Knavel Dies Tuesday Afternoon I Funeral Services Will Be Thursday John A. Knavel, 79, retired laborer, died at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday at a Richmond hospital after a six months illness of arterio sclerosis, j He was born in Adams county j Aug. 2, 1868, a son of Henry and Sarah Jane Knavel, and was a lifelong resident of the county. His wife, Rachel, died in 1945. Surviving are two sons, Harvey of Sturgis, Mich., and Max Knavel | of Decatur; a half-brother, Howard Laughen of Sturgis, Mich.; four grandchildren and two great-grand-children. One son Is deceased. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Gillig & Doan funeral home, the Rev. G. A. ■Eddy officiating. Burial will be in the Ray cemetery west of Monroe. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening. 0o o j | New Serial | A new continued story, “Until | | Love Happens,” by Margaret | | Nichols, will start in the Sat- | I urday issue of the Daily Demo- j | crat. It is a fascinating story | | about a young girl’s fight for j | her happiness. The story starts | | Saturday, November 15. 6 0 o WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday; a few snow flurries near Lake Michigan tonight; no decided change In temperature. st

Truman To Deliver Message In Person Washington, Nov. 12 —(UP) — President Truman will deliver his foreign aid and price message in person to the special session of congress next Monday, the white house announced today. The president will speak at 12:30 p.m. CST to a joint session of the house and senate in the house chamber. o High School Speech Class To LaPorte I I To Broadcast Town Meeting Saturday Members of the Decatur high school speech class, under the tutelage of Deane Dorwin, left at 8:15 o’clock this morning for La Porte, where they will engage ir a town meeting of the air with members of the speech class o f LaPorte high school. The entire affair then will be rebroadcast over station WOWO, Fort Wayne Saturday morning at 10:30 o’clock Miss Sue Harper and Miss Kris tine Striker will be the speakers for the local school, and Jack Heller and Margene Bauer will be the alternates. All of the members of the class wil takb part in the questioning which follows the main speeches. The question is “Shall we adopt the Marshall plan?” Members of the class are: Miss Bauer, James Cowens, Tom Eich horn, Dorothy Flaugh, Dan Freeby, Roger Gentis, Don Grant, Miss Harper. Jack Heller, Patricia Karlen, Bill Kingsley, Legora Markle, Gene i Rennels, Medford Smith, Sally i Smith, Miss Kristine Striker, June Teeple, Joan VonGunten and Kar lan Striker. i The group will be accompanied by Mr. Dorwin and the following parents: Mrs. Lloyd Cowens, Mrs. Robert Freeby, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Striker, and Mrs. Dick Heller. The class also will visit the Kingsbury ordinance plant, which is located near LaPorte, and will return home late tonight. 0 India Withdraws Fight For UN Seat Assures Election Os Ukraine On UN Lake Success, N. Y„ Nov. 12.— (UP) —India withdrew today from the long fight with the Soviet I Ukraine for the 11th seat on the I United Nations security council. The decision, announced to the press by Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit of the Indian delegation, resolved in Russia’s favor one of the bitterest American-Soviet deadlocks in the UN general assembly. It assured the election of the Ukraine to succeed Poland on the council Jan. 1. Mrs. Pandit emphasized in her withdrawal that India is not accepting present geographical allocation of on the security council which she said "is so unfair to Asia and leaves such vital and* well defined areas without repre-j sentation In the council." (Turn To Page 2, Column 3)

Says Emergency Program Should Be Approved This Month, Needs Are Urgent

Press Search For Liquor Loot Gang Red Panel Truck Is Sought By Police Police authorities today pressed their search for a red panel truck, which may have been used in the breakin and robbery at Hi’s Package Liquor Store some time Monday night. Police chief Ed Miller said today ! that he had received a “tip” that a vehicle of that description was seen parked in front of the store about 12:30' a.m. Tuesday. Night policemen Robert Hill and Roy Chilcote said, however, that everything appeared to be in a normal state at the store when they made “the rounds” about 2:45 a.m. State police officers William Spaneth and A. E. Epperson were tn Decatur late Tuesday, “lifting” fingerprints at the scene of the breakin. Chief Miller said that Herman Meyer, proprietor of the store, estimated his loss at more than SI,OOO in cash and bonds in the safe, the ' 'afe itself, approximately 37 cases of expensive liquor, a combination hotgun and rifle, shells for the tun and numerous valuable papers. While the breakin was the secmd of its kind here in a few days, chief Miller said that authorities re not convinced the two were :taged by the same men. Marks made in jimmying doors, ■tc„ vary considerably, he said. 0 ;erman War Bride's 7 aby Reported 111 Delays Reunion Os Sgt. Hakes, Wife The illness of four-months-old Wilfred Hakes has delayed the ’ong-awaited reunion of his father, Sgt. Harold Hakes and his German war-bride mother, Ruth, according to word received here. Mrs. Ruth Hollingsworth, executive secretary of the Adams county Red Cross chapter, has received word that the infant is confined in the Fort Hamilton hospital, near New York City. The child is reported suffering from diarrhea, an ailment prevalent among many youngsters accompanying their war-bride mothi ers on ocean trips to America. The communication received by Mrs. Hollingsworth, a telegram from the New York Red Cross, stated that Mrs. Hakes and her son had arrived there on the S. S. General Sturgis and that the baby was immediately taken to the hospital. The wire said that the time of the baby’s discharge from the hospital is indefinite. Thus the train trip of Mrs. Hakes and the baby from New York City to Decatur is postponed, pending the child’s recovery. Meanwhile, Sgt. Hakes is “sweating out” an application for an extension in his furlough. He had arranged to secure the furlough at the time when his wife and son would arrive in Decatur, but the furlough expires Friday. Sgt. Hakes is stationed at Fort Knox, Ky. It is expected that he will take his family there to establish a residence after the arrival of his wife and son. O Big Crowd Attends Armistice Program A huge crowd attended the an- ] nual Armistice Day dinner and I dance at the American Legion post 43 home here Tuesday evening and night. Hundreds were served during the roomWost officers and committee members were in charge. a ® •

Petrillo Pleads Not Guilty To Lea Violation Trial Set Dec. 15 For Music Czar's Alleged Violation — Chicago, Nov. 12 — (UP) — James C. Petrillo, president of the American Federation of Musicians (AFL), pleaded innocent today to a charge that he violated the Lea act by trying to force a radio station to hire unnecessary employes. Petrillo’s lawyer. Daniel D. Carmell. asked the court for an early trial and federal judge Walter J. Laßuy set the trial date "or Dec. 15, immediately after the case he is hearing now. Petrillo, dapper in gray, plead-, 3d innocent in an emphatic tone, >ut let Carmell do the rest of the alking. Carmell described 1 Perillo as “the savior of musical ulture.” In asking for an early trial, armell said: “We want to get this ease be ere the court and present the ct as soon as we can. Mr. Perillo and the union have been ittered around in the public ve. “Mr. Petrillo has saved the •nuslc industry and preserved the ive musician, which is important o the preservation of musical culire throughout the world. “Without Mr. Petrillo and his ’attle the nation would become latter-happy.” Laßuy was the same judge whe tismissed an earlier charge ’gainst Petrillo on grounds the Lea act was unconstitutional. He was overruled by the supreme tourt. The musicians’ union czar was irdered to appear on an amended criminal information. filed by U. S. district attorney Otto Kerner, Jr. It charged that Petrillo (Turn Tn Paep 2. Column 5) Funeral Friday For Mrs. William Clark Local Lady Dies At Bluffton Hospital Funeral services will be held Friday for Mrs. Treva Clark. 40. of DecaJur, who died Tuesday afternoon at the Clinic hospital in Bluffton after a long illness of cardiac insufficiency. She was born in Mercer county. O„ June 1, 1907. a daughter of Frank and Leah Saums-Garwood, and had lived in Decatur for the past six years. She was married to William Henrv Clark Nov 1 1924. She was a member of the Nuttman Ave. United Brethren church. Surviving in addition to the husband are her father, of Decatur; f our children, Edith, Robert, William. Jr., and Roger, all at home; four brothers, Lester and Walter Garwood, both of Dayton, 0., Ivan of Union township and DeLoyd of Decatur; two sisters, Mrs. Eva Brewster of Monroe and Mrs. Clarence Smith of Van Wert, 0., and two grandchildren. A daughter, Mrs. Richard Swygart, died last Saturday. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.ra. Friday at the home. 722 Line street, and at 2 o'clock at the Nuttman Ave. United Brethren church, the Rev. G. A. Eddy and the Rev. L. J. Martin officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. The body will be removed from the Zwick funeral home® to the residence, where friends may call after 7:30 o'clock this evening. ® •

Price Four Cents

Senator Taft Labels Marshall Estimates Os Aid Excessive, To Oppose Amount Washington, Nov. 12 — (UP)— Secretary of state George C. Marsha’! said today that the present estimate of $597,000,000 in emergency aid to Europe probably would have to be boosted if congressional approval is delayed too long. He said he thought the emergency aid program should he ap- ! proved this month and the longrange Marshall plan by early March. Marshall testified before the house foreign affairs committee after Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., 0., labelled as “excessive" Marshall’s estimate that an overall total of $2,657,000,000 in new funds would ne needed for foreign aid during the next seven months. Taft’ has said be is “absolutely opposed" io such a figure. He will testify tomorrow. At the same time, the White i House announced that President Truman would carry his fight for foreign aid personally to congress. Mr. Truman will address a joint session next Monday, when the special session convenes to consider the foreign aid price problems. The president will speak at 1:30 p. m. EST. Marshall told the house com mittee in reply to questions that he figures for the emergency aid program were "likely to remain constant” and not be subject to 'urther revision. He said the "immediate prob’em” was Italy which will be “at he end of the tether” by Dec. 1. He said France's funds for expenditures abroad will be exhausted bv Dec. 31. Meanwhile, secretary of commerce W. Averell Harriman told the senate foreign relations com mittee there were supply problems for some of the items in the emergency program but that he was “confident that the requirements can be substantially met." “In my judgment, the alternaives to meeting them are such is vastly to outweigh the supply lifficulties which they may represent,” he said. Harriman headed a 19-man jommittee which recommended 12,000,000.000 to $17,000,000,000 n long range aid under the Marshall plan. The coming battle concerned not the need for aid but the amount. Senate and house committees dealing with foreign affairs approved a report holding (Turn To Page 2, Column 4) Douglas DC-6 Planes Grounded For Probe Forced Landing By Airliner Tuesday Washington, Nov. 12 — (UP) — Virtually all Douglas DC-6 pas--enger planes were grounded today until investigation can turn tp the causes of two fires in flight in less than three weeks. The Douglas Aircraft company recommended that the $65,000,000 fleet of four-engine transports, including President Truman’s personal plane, the Independence, be emporarily withdrawn from service until all possible fire hazards can be eliminated. Coincident with the manufacturer’s recommendation, four airlines United. American, National and Braniff— announced independently that they were grounding their DC-6’s and substituting other ships wherever possible. In New York. Sabena. the BelRian airline, announced it had a grounded its three DC-6’s and would meet all scheduled with DC-4’b. J (Turn To Page 3, Column t)