Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 268, Decatur, Adams County, 13 November 1947 — Page 1

lyjxtv. No 268

COMMUNISTS RIOT IN FRANCE AND ITALY

Europe For Aid By Kases, Goods f tI Suggest Uranium, 1 Critical Material J Be Paid As Reward ™ I fflLton, Nov. 13,-(UP)- ■.'♦ e foreign policy spokesmen 1, “ ’ proposed that Europe pay ■ s a id with strategic bases, ■LalL terlals and uranium ’ the E urce of atomic energy. ■* At the same time, secretary of II JLfrOP W. Averell Harriman |MK that this country hold out plan aid as a reward to nations when and HgSwree themselves from Com-B-""‘st domination.” S CW 1 ' n Arthur 1L Vandenberg - Bu Mie of ,lie senate roreign BuSg committee evoked from state department official testiBjnonv that “higher realms” of the ■sdniiisißt ’ ,n already are conslin Uranium for i- BT. 8. fid w Vander >erg in canvassing the PBHirdHli'' of a return on the 3 ■jLf.rinftc' European aid program BrtMrnay cost this country as J HBKg, ■ $20,000,000,000 in four ■waWemvked that part repayztWnCTt fight be sought in the form tc ore from the Belgian Phillips -f the state de-■-»artmei international trade pol- | HK- said this country was f not only in Uranium ■tajte ( flier sciir<-f materials needOMKiild in, strategic stockpiles. members at the •■feirlA aid hearing Immediately <hiiilii-s with suggestions Bforothf forms of repayment. -■ Sen. Alexander Wiley. R„ Wis., —■urged '.hat this country acquire Ktrategi: bases and airfields, parKletilarl' in the Caribbean region. tßhni.blenry Cabot Lodge, Jr.. R„ ■Mass> and Alben W. Barkley, D., Bky,ngvsted that Europe pay for ■American aid with raw materials ■in shor- supply here. ■ Vandenberg said the committee want full information on the ■ton level” repayment discussions ■Plililip said were goimj on before Kpprovl . the $597,000,000 emergency relief program for France. , flßatrin and Italy, or the longerI/■MW Marshall plan for western ■M|ean reconstruction. E I Fears Price Boost <).. Nov. 13.—(UP)— ■Sen. hobert A. Taft, R„ 0., said Bodny hat approval of the full ■Katshii I plan for aid to foreign ■tountn- s would cause serious price ■increases in this country. 1,1,1 !be senate RepubliBcan poh y committee, said the Marfchallblan should be held to a point nid rec iuire a great in the present rate of exRnnn unced candidate for the ■Rcpub an presidential nomination fear said president Truman’s to be put before a special E BB3 * 011 ot congress, starting Mon■“By, was still “hazy.” if he believed that there To Paup 5. Column 1> ■■L ‘— O ■Automobile Damaged ■By Fire Wednesday Kften en were called to Jefferson ■■Fourth street about 4:30 ■>cocf \\(.(] lles( j ay a ft ernoon t 0 ex . ■ « (icnp to the vehicle. SBte, ena P Qr ker ' n California Tena Edington-Parker. 75, ■Su^ r DeCatur resid ent, died - Eha^ y at North Hollywood, Cal. ' Worp 0 ? include a s °n. Alvin of ' Hollywood- a niece. Mrs . ( 1 D J nger ’ an d a nephew, ■wal Ba H Cker ’ hotb of For , ■bee wi er rst husband was < ■tar nian ngt °, n ' Wel! known Deca- < ■tgo, " 10 died many years j funJ !1 be broufiht t 0 the * Kohli'' a L a , home earl V Friday j eem et b e U r r y ial WiU be ‘ in * weather' J )■ "ig Iti'p’r"’ clou dine»B to- 1 IT *4 riZT* CIOUd > ’ .BKMhI followed a 8 tem P era - 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

County Council In Two-Day Sessions Service Officer Need Is Debated The fate of the Adams county service officer’s post for 1948 rested today with the county council, following the first of a two-day session of the council. Representatives of groups for and against a continuance of the office appeared before the council this#!) morning when the officials met to consider more than $49,600 in special appropriations for various ofices during the remainder of this year. It was pointed out, that regard’ess of any decision announced by the council at this time, no appropiation could be made for the ofice until next year, since it was Ot included in the 1948 budget. Representatives of three local organizations appeared before the council to ask re-instatement of the office. They were: John L. DeVoss, who acted as chief spokesman for he groups, Severin H. Schurger nd Lewis L. Smith, all of the merican Legion; Carl Gattschall, Robert Siting and Robert J. Mackin of the Veterans of Foreign ,Vars; William Noll and Ernest ’orthman of the Loyal Order of loose. R. W. Pruden, representing the ix committee of the Decatur Chamier of Commerce, appeared to proest the re-instatemen* of the ofice. Mr. DeVoss and other members >f his group cited the need of the >ffice, declaring that service officers of veterans organizations ere too with regular ernploynent to handle the work; .that hey and other agencies were not nullified to administer the duties it the office, because they were tot well-informed and not in conact with the veterans aaminlstraion. Members of this group declar--3d that the cost (the office asked for an appropriation of $2,872 to . vhich one cent on each SIOO valuaion would have been added to the county levy, raising more than 3,000) was a minor Hem in proportion to the amount of benefits that could be derived by some 4,000 ur 5,000 veterans in the county — ompared to benefits received by >thers from higher rates of taxation. Mr. Pruden declared there was no further need for the office and that “he amount should be pared from he levy. He said the tax cornmitee of the C. of C. believed the duties could be adequately handled by ither agencies and directly by VA epresentatives. ® The council announced no decison. Henry Dehner, president, said hat the matter would be given ‘consideration.” The council was to consider tolay and rule tomorrow on the following appropriations: Clerk’s office, per diem, $75 and or clothing for insane, $450; welare department for dependant iTuin To Page 7, Column 5) O Jelmar Douglas Dies Mere This Morning Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon Delmar Douglas. 74. farmer residing four miles southwest of Willshire, 0., died at 7 o'clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. He was born in Adams county Oct. 26, 1873, and was a lifelong resident of the county. He was married Sept. 19, 1906, to Edna Kerschbaum. He was a member of the Trinity Evangelical Unit e_d Brethren church in this city. Surviving in addition to the wife are one son. Ivan Douglas of Van Wert, O.; two daughters, Mrs. Kenneth Bargahiser of Mansfield. O. and Mrs. Theodore Hudson of Quincy, Mich.; one brother, E. D. Douglas of Chicago, and nine < grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the home and 1 at 2:30 o’clock at the Trinity Evan- < gelical United Brethren church, 1 with Dr. C. E. White and the Rev. < Earl Bragg officiating. Burial will be in the Willshire cemetery. The 1 body will be removed' from the 1 Black funeral home to the residence Friday afternoon, where I friends may eall after 4 P.O,

Boy Slayer Awaits Trial In Jail School .a I Safe" - TWELVE-YEAR-OLD Howard Lang (center-foreground), bites his pencil as he listens to teacher Roscoe J. Reed during school classes in Chicago’s Cook County jail. He will remain in the county jail until his trial for the brutal knife-s’.aying of his playmate, seven-year-old Lonnie Fellick. ■ “— ■■■ ■.... ■ ... ... ——— .1

Says Wheat Export 3oal May Be Met Europe Grain Need Critical By Spring Washington, Nov. 13—(UP)— A source close to the grain export urogram said today there was a good chance of hitting the 500,000,POO bushel wheat export goal despite the gloomy winter wheat outlook in the drought-ridden southwest. But, he said, hungry Europe will suffer eventually from any sharp cutback in U. S. production. He said it might become a question of whether to reduce exports this crop year (July 1947-48) or next (1948-49). If so, he predicted ‘hat next year’s exports would take ‘he biggest cut. He said Europe's need for grain will become extremely critical this spring just before the harvest. He said any serious slash in shipments then would be risky. He conceded that 1948 wheat nrospects could decline 40b,00(1,900 bushels from this year's record hig)h production of 1,406,000,000 bushels. But he said this still would permit export of 500,000,000 bushels by June 30, and another 250,000,000 bushels during the next 12 months. Agriculture officials believe a 1,01)0,000,000 bushel wheat crop still is possible, but emphasized "there is no way of knowing how great 1948 wheat production will be.” Latest reports showed that the drought extended over an area which produced 300,000,000 bushels of winter wheat this year. More than half of that wheat area on Nov. 1 was not even seeded for next year, the agriculture department reported yesterday. And, in part of the seeded area, the seed lies in the dust, unsprouted. Agriculture crop experts refused to give up hope, “if rain comes this week,” one official said, "all of the crop will be planted. Farmers in some areas still have another month for seeding.” The weather bureau said there was no prospect of rain in the dry area—at least for the next four days. Initial Expense Account Is Filed Ziner Is Initial Candidate To File The first candidate in the recent city election to file an expense account in accordance with the state election law was reported today. Clarence Ziner, unsuccessful Republican candidate for city councilman, today filed a statement at the offices of county clerk Clyde O. Troutner declaring he had incurred no expenses in conducting his campaign. All candidates in the election are require'd to file a list of expenses or a statement saying they incurred no expense, if such was the case. a, December 4 is the final day for filing the accounts or statements, according tQ law. December-19 is the final day set fey law for any candidate to file a ' petition for a recount.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, November 13, 1947

Nobel Prize Awarded To French Author Stockholm, Nov. 13 —(UP) — The Nobel prize for literature w’as awarded today to Andre Gide of France. The Swedish academy announced the’ award to Gide, the eighth Frenchman to receive the Nobel prize for literature which first was given in 1901. The prize carried an award of 146,115 Swedish Kroner, $40,693 at the curren rate of exchange. O East, West Coasts Battered By Storms < — Millions Os Dollars In Property Damage By United Press High winds buffeted the Atlantic and Pacific coasts early today in the wake of storms which caused millions of dollars worth of property damage. The interior of the country was generally fair and rather cold, with the most frigid area centered in northern Minnesota and North Dakota. Grand Forks, N. D., with a reading of six degrees below zero, was the coldest spot in the nation. Yesterday’s storm in New r England was described as the “worst northeaster since the 1944 hurricane.” The highest official wind velocity was 78 miles per hour registered off Black Island, R. 1., but unofficial reports from Cape Cod in Massachusetts said the wind reached 90 miles per hour. The New England storm lasted 12 hours, starting with rain that flooded cellars and tied up communications and transportation from New Jersey to New Hampshire. The rain on the highways ’ater turned to ice as temperatures dropped. Two fishing vessels sank off the coast of Massachusetts, but all hands were saved. Two persons were mislng aboard a 50-foot cabin cruiser which was caught in the "■ale. The 10.000-ton freighter Patrick S. Mahony, broke from its moorings at New York City during ’he storm and drifted aground after smashing a small motor cruiser. The battleship New Mexico, which was being towed to drydock, was cut loose from tugs 28 miles off Fire Island and was drifting out to sea early today. One of the three tugs was buffeted badly by the waves and was escorted to shore by the coast guard. In southern California, winds reached velocity of 56 miles per hour in the mountains and 22 miles per hour in downtown Los Angeles. A light fixture and reflector at Monogram studios was blown over and actor Leo Gorcey was hurt slighttly by the falling equipment. One boat was blown out to sea at Santa Monica where winds of 52 miles per hour were reported The wind and heavy rain caused partial cancellation of L<js Angeles county’s helicopter mail service. Cold weather continued today in the northern portion of the nation from Colorado eastward. Temperatures hovered near zero at Evanston, Wyo., where a seven-man rescue party was trying to Teach two fliers whose, plane crashed in the mountains last Saturday. The winter wheat belt in Kassas and Oklahoma which is badlf in Turn To Page 2, Column 7)

Indianapolis Woman Murdered In Home City Truck Driver Under Questioning * Indianapolis, Nov. 13. — (UP) — A city truck driver was questioned today about the death of Mrs. Mary Lois Burney, 39. who was shot and killed in her bedroom yesterday after a struggle which upset furniture in her fashionable home. The truck driver, Robert Austin Watts, 25, was arrested last night in connection with an attempt to attack another housewife, Mrs Harriet Stout, 28, who lives about a half mile from the Burney home. Watts is a driver for the city asphalt plant and neighbors said they saw a truck trimmed in yellow or orange in the driveway of the Burney home yesterday shortly before the body of Mrs. Burney was discovered by her husband, Hershell, 47. head of a food brokerage firm. City authorities said that some of their trucks match the description of the truck seen in the Burney driveway. Police said they were checking Watts’ fingerprints against those found in the Burney house and on a butcher knife discovered in Mrs. Burney’s bedroom. Sheriff Albert Magenheimer said Mrs. Burney was dressed in a nightgown and robe and apparently was surprised by the prowler shortly after she finished break fast-. She is believed to have died sometime before noon. A shotgun shell was found near the bed, and Magenheimer said he believed Mrs. Burney had fired at the intruder once and that he (Turn Tn Pacta 7. Column 4) 0 Stassen Urges Farm Income Guaranteed Would Guarantee Minimum Income St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 13 —(UP) — Harold E. Stassen said today he ’bought American farmers should be guaranteed a minimum income so that farm families never again can be “bankrupt, evicted and brok--en.” In his first major statement on agriculture, the Republican presidential hopeful told a home-town nress conference he thought the guaranteed farm income should be one of five broad principles included in a long-range agricultural program. The other four were: Top priority to maintenance and expansion of soil conservation and reclamation programs. Improvement of electrical, health, highway and community center services available to farmers. Development of decentralized industries and enterprises, “related to the product of the soil and to the market of the farmers," in the nation’s smaller communities. Assurances now and "through our future trade policiesupf markets abroad” that the areas in which we are now giving food “do not exclud- , our agricultural exports at a future time.” Stassen referred to his proposed (Turg To Pa>e 7, Column 5)

Riots Mount In Apparent Concerted Plan To Wreck European Recovery Plans

Ukraine Elected To Security Council j To Succeed Poland First Os January * ~ i United Nations Hall, Flushing. N. Y., Nov. 13.—(UP)—The Soviet Ukraine, Russia’s hand-picked candidate, was elected to the United Nations security council by the general assembly today to sue-; ceed Poland on Jan. 1. The election, a rebuff for the western powers, was converted into a formality by the withdrawal of India from its long fight for the disputed 11th council seat. Argentina and Canada already had been elected to replace Brazil and Australia for two-year terms but in 11 ballots prior to today neither the Ukraine nor India drew the necessary two-thirds majority f or the third council vacancy. The Ukraine got 35 votes, India got two despite its withdrawal and 15 countries abstained from voting. The abstainers were believed to include the United States and Great Britain. India’s Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pan- ' dit spoke after the final ballot to explain her withdrawal from the 'ong fight and to attack the UN’s big powers for depriving the Asiatic and Pacific world of its one non-permanent seat on the council. She said seats on the UN’s peacekeeping agency were being doled out “on the basis of some arrangement privately arrived at between some of the powers,” and said T ndia was opposed to such “parti‘lon of council seats by secret diplomacy.” Mrs. Pandit said India decided to withdraw when it became apparent s he long deadlock might not be solved at this session, leaving the security council with 10 members. The western powers had backed T ndia for the seat after Czechoslovakia, their nominee from eastern Europe, served notice it would not (Turn Tn Pae’'' 7. r *nliimn 6) — 0 Probe Holdings Os Air Force Officers Senate Group Turns Probe From Hughes > Washington. Nov. 13 — (UP) — ’-enate investigators were told to lay that a high air force officer polled his procurement officers luring the war to find out how nuch stock they held in aircraft nanufacturing firms but that no nvestigation was made because he holdings turned out to be mall. The testimony was given to a senate war investigating subcom nittee as it turned from its Howrd Hughes investigation for p ook at the contract relations beween the air force and other manufacturers. First witness was Col. William Nuckols, an air force public re'ations officer and a former newsoaperman. Under questioning he lisclosed that in January. 1943, he heard ’’rumors” that air force ifficers had large stock holdings 'n aircraft companies. ?<uckols said that in view of he rumors he wrote a memorandum to Gen. George E- Stratemeyer, then chief of air staff on Tan. 7, 1943, suggesting that the air forces have the Associated Press make a survey to kill the rumors. This suggestion was not carried out. Nuckols said that a week later Stratemeyer himself wrote to 10 air force procurement officers, all colonels or above, asking confidential information on anv past .and present holdings of aircraft securities. In the letter. Stratemeyer said the data would be used “only (Turn 'To Page 7, Column 6)

- Great Britain To Refuse To Back Partition Refuse To Enforce Palestine Partition For United Nations Lake Success, N. Y„ Nov. 13 — (UP) — Great Britian lias decided to refuse to enforce the partition of Palestine for the United Nations as proposed by the United States and Russia, an authoritative source indicated today. Britain’s formal reply was to be delivered to the UN general assembly's Palestine partition planners later today by UN delegate Sir Alexander Cadogan. The British decision, formulated after long and careful deliberations by the labor government cabinet in London, threatened to throw a new and serious complication into thus far successful negotiations for dividing Palestine between now and the middle of next year. In a rare compromise, the United States and Russia agreed on a formula for partition but it hinges on British willingness to remain responsible for law and order in the Holy Land between the day the assembly decrees partition and May 1, when the 26-year-old British Palestine mandate would be ended. In the two month period between end of the mandate and July 1. under'the American ■ Soviet plan. Arab and Jewish militia and a three or five-n&tion UN commission would bear responsibility. A British spokesman said a formal statement based on the new instructions from 10 Downing street was now being prepared at British UN delegation headquarters. Q Wawaka Man Named Fair Board Member Roy L. Price, Adams county treasurer and a local Jersey cattle and Berkshire hog breeder, was one of the three candidates for the post of fourth district member of *he Indiana state fair board, during a meeting held in Fort Wayne last night. John Schmerhorn of Wawaka. was elected to the position. About 50 delegates from eight counties in the district were in atendance. Q Town Meeting Held 3y School Students Decatur Pupils At LaPorte Wednesday The Decatur LaPorte high school towni meeting of the air was held yesterday at LaPorte high school and will be broadcast from recordings over radio station WOWO Saturday morning at 11 o'clock. The speech class of Decatur high school, supervised by Deane Dorwin, made the trip and was represented in the meeting by Miss Sue Harper as the negative speaker and by Miss Kristine Striker as the affirmative speaker. LaPorte speakers were John Hart, affirmative and Bruce Richardson, negative. Sam Gifford of WOWO served as moderator of the program with Ed Reich, educational director of WOWO, in charge. The Decatur group attended a luncheon at the LaPorte high school cafeteria preceding the program. which was held at 1 o'clock. Following the program at the school, the Decatur group was taken on a tour through the Kingsbury ordnance plant near LaPorte. Local people who plan to listen to the program Saturday are asked to note the change tn time. The program will start at 11 o’clock Saturday morning instead of 10:SO, as previously announced.

Price Four Cents

Communist-Inspired Riots And Strikes Throw Marseilles, Naples In Turmoil By United Press Communist-led rioting and strikes in France and Italy today threw Naples into a turmoil of street brawling and tied up the great Mediterranean port of Marseille. Disorders in Italy spread down from the strife-torn industrial {area of Milan to Naples, where flying squads of police fought communist demonstrators with clubs, rifle butts, tear gas and warning shots fired in the air. More than a score of persons were injured seriously enough to require hospitalization as communist bands charged through the streets of Naples. They attacked newsstands and made torches of rightist newspapers ind resisted police who gradually broke up the bands of demonstrators. J Naples authorities called out 'loops to guard the city hall and government buildings. A crowd of communistts burst into' the Galleria Umberto and stormed the headquarters of the national monarchist party. Furniture and files were tossed from the balcony to the square below and set afire. Gallery guards finally drove off the dcmonsirators. Authorities in both France and Italy indicated mounting concern as the violence of the outbreaks mounted in an apparently con certed plan to wreck the changes >f the Marshall European recov ery plan and weaken the moderate governments t>f both France and Italy. In Italy, the street fighting throughout northern Italy was compared to the violence which preceded the rise of the fascists and Beuito Mussolini’s famous march on Rome. Six persons have been killed in three day's fighting in Italy. A score of newspaper plants have been bombed and burned and hundreds of persons injured. Today the trouble which prev'ously had been confined to north Italy spread to the south when hundreds of communist workers iowned tools and took to the streets, demonstrating in the orincipal plazas and burning right-wing news stands and newspapers. Italy’s interior minister *Mario Scelba was expected to‘speak to parliament today and make clear whether the government was prepared to employ its police forces n an effort to restore order. Both communists and extreme -ight-wing groups were involved n the Italian fighting. Commun'sts charged that the government ts Premier Alcide De Gasperi vas conspiring with the rightists n plots to murder and attack 'ommunists. While communist speakers in Milan called on the government o restore order they led their "ollowers in attacks on police tatipns. In the Italian parliament a parallel communist campaign was mderway in an effort to overhrow the De Gasper! government. Palmtro Togliatti. Italian ■’ommunist leader, in a signed editorial today called on Italy fTurn Tn P«p-a « Column 4) Republicans To Seek Recount At Frankfort Frankfort. Ind., Nov. 13 —(UP) Top Frankfort Republicans said today that a petition for a recount of the ballots in the b>ov. 4 general election would be tiled in Clinton circuit tourt by defeated Republicans (Sarles Layton and Phil Hufford. Layton lost the mayoralty race to Democrat Ralph Cheadle’by 24 votes, while Hufford lost his bid fctf city clerk to Arthur Ragers, Democrat, by. 20 votes.