Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 270, Decatur, Adams County, 15 November 1947 — Page 1

. No. 270.

ROMAN TO ASK CONTROL OF MATERIALS

Malt Export Os A-Bomb Aids

sJfalral jfcteblished I Atom Group HB Commission i Q JLs Absolute I Controls Liishß oll ’ Nov ’ 15 —(UP) — B n >-"v commission toab>"lutf controls over from <lay count ‘ ?' 'actin’ l ?u»’i |S ' which might E jg|L r country produce or f/ nuclear energy. ■L cAtnission issued a regula- !& next Thursday ' pr0 ‘ license requirements ■ mini the shipment abroad of Kr twiliti 11 or industrial e or PL.mXci.minent of any kind ■odnction of uranium-235, any other “fissionK e ma>ial-” Bberefnh‘ ,ion was sweeping and ■ inclusive !t meant that this gntfryXa • tightening already over its indusE< atemic “know-how” which, Ertfrotn the scientific principles Elved, is its No. 1 atomic “secBt" Kt rec«lb : the recent assertion ■ Maj.fc'm Leslie R. Grovesn Eu ffi e head of the U. S. atomic Eject, ftai unless other countries ■L.M her with the necessary Echines and instruments, it Eld take Russia 15 to 20 years ■ product atomic bombs. —. But the new regulation did not E mjely with industrial maKwy fold engineering equipment ■ the kind used in the commisE's Oak Ridge (Tenn.) uranium Ed Hanford (Wash.) plutonium ft also < .ivered such instruments ■ labroti'ry research in nuclear ■yairs, las "cyclotrons or other article (Accelerators.” ■The other appeared particularly Knificant in view of recent RusEd hints that the USSR has pro■ced or may be on the verge of Educing the atomic bomb. But ■commit ion spokesman said the ■uing of the new regulation had ■thing Ito do with the Russian ■He out that the commis■on anno im-ed in October that it Ki preparing a new export license fcalatlor. That was weeks before ■Heßreign minister V. M. Molo■v's recent assertion that the Bomicbcmb secret had “ceased to ■The most recent Russian rumor, here, was a Paris-via-RfllWfia Moscow report that the ftvieti had exploded a 13.2-pound ■Perimental atomic bomb in Siyeked whether its export regulaBmea: that overseas shipment ■cydotrons and the other equippnt ’involved would be banned, r* commission said only that it P” judge each license applicaon its merits. But an informed ■■lndicated that the decision ■ wst cases would be no. now, export controls of FW Te been exercised over the included in today’s order I’ ■State and commerce departthe new regulation will F Bhen existing controls,” the Puiitifcion said. K^’ Jires licenses not only for f ■F rt ~ or Production or transof the materials inL , bu ’ a ' 90 licenses “for all ■Bture, production, transfer, of suctl equipment r ln «|the United States.” ——o—H Rent Director |® re Next Thursday BBresentative from the Fort L'l area ren ‘ office will be at r ■at ur p Ost offjce on Thurg _ i Ens L ® rview People with prob-1 ■Lf ative t 0 reat control. His i |p.a, >Urs wlll be from 9 am - t 0 jB ' WEATHER and S ( now in extreme north Br toni 9ht and rain in k L| de ?? r endi "g evenM X °"' Bht Tomorrow klature " ttle eha "9‘ >"

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BULLETIN Washington, Nov. 15—(UP) —A former attorney for Howard Hughes testified today that Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers sought $50,000 from the planemaker in 1944 during contract negotiations as a down payment on a proposed postwar job with Hughes. Rain In Wheat Lands Raises Europe Hopes Argentina Offers Proposal To Send Wheat To Europe Washingion, Nov. 15 — (UP) — Officials today found signs of hope for feeding Europe in two developments thousands of miles apart. Rains came to the droughtstricken U. S. wheatlands In the southwest. Ard Argentina suddenly offered to knock down the high prices of its wheat in ex* change for a chance to buy transport equipment. Both developments came as congress prepared to convene in special session to consider stopgap aid to Europe and the longterm Marshall recovery plan. Officials were cautious in their conjment. They said that the rains, if widespread, could mean the production of 150,000,000 bushels of wheat next year that otherwise might have been lost. Assurance of a bigger backlog, they said, probably would permit bigger shipments now of available grains. They expressed “interest” in Argentina’s conditional proposal to sell its grain at “prevailing world prices,” but hoped it did not mean that the $5.90-a-bushel price for Argentina wheat would be included in striking an average. The weather bureau reported that general moderate rains had brought “considerable” relief to the southern winter wheat belt which has been plagued by drought conditions for months. It added that there was a “good possibility” of further rain during the next few days. The agriculture department has warned that planting has been “seriously delayed” by the dry spell and that some fields already seeded in the dust need rain to germinate. , Argentina's offer was disclosed by U. S. ambassador James Bruce at a news conference in Buenos Aires. He said he was forwarding it to Washington with a (Turn To Pae-" 5. Column 5) 0 Republicans File Election Expense Statement Is Filed By County Chairman Republican county chairman Harry Essex yesterday filed a statement of expenses incurred in the recent city election with county clerk Clyde O. Troutner. The statement lists expenses of $409.35, including costs of advertising in the Daily Democrat and Berne Witness, hauling voters, wages of registrars, etc. The statement also lists contributions from various persons, total- : ling $4lO. Major contributors include: Mr. Essex, 4100; two dona- ' tions of SSO each “friends,” Roy ■Price, $25; Dora Mae McCullough, S3O; Ferd L. Litterer, $25. and others ranging from $5 to S2O. The Democrats have yet to file a statement of expenses which that party 'incurred. To date only one candidate has filed an expense account as required by law. He is Clarence Ziner, GOP candidate for councilman, who declared he had incurred no expense.

Father Os Marooned Flyer Aids In Rescue

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HAPPILY EMBRACING his son, Dr. Robert Dykes, Jr., (on horseback), is Dr. Robert Dykes, Sr., near s Gilbert peak in Utah as rangers bring the younger Dykes and his wife (left foreground) from mountain peak where their plane crashed, marooning them for six days.

Warns Os Danger Os Economic Recession UN Study Cites Need For Foreign Loans Lake Success, N. Y„ Nov. 15. — (UP)—A United Nations economic study predicted today that the United States will suffer an eco- ■ nomic recession next year unless congress votes additional foreign loans. The recession could turn into a full-blown depression that would affect much of the world, the report said. The study was made by a group of neutral economists working for UN. At the request of the UN economic and employment commission, they attempted to spot the economic danger points in north and South Aimerica, India and Europe. The 86-page report, prepared under the direction of Michal Kalecki of Poland, said the United States faces a “drastic” drop in its exports because Europe no longer has the dollars with which to pay. The decile in foreign buying in the United States, the report said, would lead to American unemployment. This trend, the report added, could be met by foreign loans that would enable other nations to continue to buy American goods. The report also indicated that lower taxes might help keep up American purchasing power, and thus stall off unemployment. The report said that during the last half of this year, the over-all supply of goods in the United States already has outstripped over all demand. “There is already a serious probi lem of a recession during the next year (in the United States),” the report stated. “A recession may have a seriously depressing effect on business investments in fixed capital ... a serious depression instead of a , mild recession may well be the . result.” . The downward trend could be , slowed by the so-far unsatisfied demand for building materials and ■ automobiles. The report caution* . ed, however, that high building I costs might discourage home build-1 ’ (Turn To Page 5, Column 1) Ask Police Aid In Search For Youths Decatur city police were asked . early this morning to aid in the I search for two runaway youtlhs from Ohio. The youths were report- ■ ed to have been seen get off an Erie train last night and enter the ■ railroad station. The report from Ohio authorities, listing them as ; runaways, was Mt received until ■ about 4 a.m. today, however, chief l Ed Miller said. The boys were reported to be carrying suitcases.

ONLY, DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, November 15, 1947

I County Ministers Will Meet Monday Berne, Nov. 15 —The monthly meeting of the Adams county ministerial association will be held in the First Missionary church here, Monday at 9:30 a m. The Rev. Ira Wilson Fantz, pastor ofthe Salem Evangelical and Reformed church at Fort Wayne, will be the speaker. o Receives Letter Os Thanks From Greece Donald DeArmond Is Recipient Os Letter Some time ago when a shipment of clothing was sent to warsufferers in Greece, a slip containing the name of Donald DeArmond. oi route five, Decatur, was placed in a jacket pocket. Now Donald has received a letter of thanks from a war widow in Greece, and an ex-soldier, who also expressed his appreciation in behalf of the widow. The letter from the widow, signed only “Daphno,” tells of receiving the blouse and says in part. “May God bless you with health, wealth and happiness. You should be very proud of your American heritage and the generosity of Americans —you have saved barren Greece from many ills and even now from those terrible Communists who have killed my husband and left me with four children. Even today the Communists want to control and enslave us -but the gigantic power of America will help us bring this struggle to a successful con(Turn Tr> Png-p K. Column 3)

Two Friendship Trains Speed To East With Food For Europe

Chicago, Nov. 15 —(UP) — Two friendship trains rolled out of Chicago over separate routes today, moving eastward toward the New York loading docks where they will deliver about 160 carloads of food for Europe next Tuesday. The original train was split in two at the nation’s railroad hub here so that it could touch at more points in the east and permit a greater number of Americans to add their contributions for the old world's hungry people. After a five-day journey from the west coast, the train chugged into Chicago last night with 83 cars streaming behind the engine. Contributions from Chicago and the surrounding area added 20 more. Many high officials were among the crowd of 4,500 persons who watched the train pull into the Northwestern railroad’s terminal

To Launch Campaign For 6en. MacArthur Conference Today To Start Campaign i Milwaukee. Nov. 15 —(UP) — Delegates from 11 states met today to form a national organization to win the 1948 Republican presidential nomination for Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who has not said whether he wants the job. The conference was scheduled to start at 3 p.m. in the Plankington hotel, the legal address MacArthur has kept throughout his army travels. The hotel also is the headquarters of the Wisconsin MacArthur for president organization. Today's meeting will be held just nine days before Harold Stassen, former Minnesota governor, begins an intestified campaign here to win the GOP flagbearers’ job for himself. Joseph Choate. Los Angeles, chairman of the California MacArthur for president committee, said he would read to the delegates a letter he received recently from MacArthur. The letter was a reply to one Choate sent the far eastern commander, urging him to declare himself as a presidential candidate. MacArthur did not answer Coate’s entreaty directly but “outlined what our next president should stand for,” Choate said. "The general’s letter could very well be incorporated as a major plank in the 1948 GOP platform,” he said. “I think Republicans everywhere will be very interested in what he has to say.” Although MacArthur has never said whether he would accept the candidacy, Lansing Hoyt, leader of ''Turn Tn Pae> G. Column 3)

i here. Many of the people who lis- • tened to the speeches and watched , the proceedings were from Chicago's heavy foreign population and knew that the food on the train would help their relatives abroad. Later in the evening the train was cut approximately in two. One , was hauled around to the Union station and the other was taken to the New York Central terminal. i Fifty-four carloads of grain, flour, spaghetti and other foods were sent out on the Pennsylvania line at six minutes after midnight The remaining 49 cars were hauled ; out behind a powerful New York Central engine two minutes later. Crowds assembled and bands blari ed at both departures. Stops In Fort Wayne Fort Wayne. Ind., Nov. 15—(UP) , —The Pennsylvania railroad sec- , tiongfcf the friendship train was I ... . — (Turn To Page 5, Column 7)

To Ask Congress Grant Power For Control Over Steel, Other Materials

China Aid Problem Tossed To Truman Vandenberg Tosses Plan To President Washington, Nov. 15 —(UP) — Senate president Arthur H. Vandenberg today tossed the hot-po-tato question of American aid- to China directly into the lap of President Truman. Vandenberg told a reporter that although he favored some form of emergency aid to the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-Shek, the responsibility for drafting a specific program rested squarely with the administration. The new prompting for assistance to hard-pressed China came as a house veteran of missionary service in that land urged that the U. S. send arms and military advisers immediately to Chiang in an , effort to whip the Communists. Rep. Walter H. Judd, R., Minn., charged that a “red cell” in the state department consistently has tried to discourage such help. Meanwhile. Vandenberg’s senate foreign relations committee completed its hearings on the $597,000,000 i emergency aid bill for France, Italy and Austria. MemVers planned to rush the measure to the senate floor by next Thursday. The senate Republican party 1 committee . has agreed to give "complete priority” to the emergency aid program. ,In other foreign aid developments: o— November Term Os Cpurt Opens Monday Jury Trials Slated For Trial In Term The November term of the Adams circuit court opens Monday for a nine weeks’ period with Judge Earl B. Adams on the bench. It is likely that one or more jury trials may be held during the term, since they have been carried over from preceding terms. One expect-1 ed to be tried next Tuesday has , ben continued, however. Petit and grand jury members have been assigned to the panels, after their names were drawn by the jury commissioners. Prosecutor . Myles F. Parrish has also indicated that the grand jury will be summoned during the term. The new cases have been filed with return dates set during the . new term. In the one, C. W. and . Enid Kent have filed suit on a promissory note against Robert DeVore. The demand is S4OO. D. Burdette Custer is plaintiffs’ counsel. In the other, Patty Ann Fox filed complaint for divorce from Robert Wayne Fox, charging cruel and inhuman treatment in that he has an uncontrollable temper and mean disposition, cursed her and threatened to kill her. They were married June 29, 1946, and separated November 13, 1947. She asks custody of a child, one year old. Ed A. Bosse is plaintiff’s counsel. In the damage suit of Richard Hendricks against Eva Stapleton, appearance for the defendant was entered by Barrett, Barrett & McNagny, Fort Wayne. 0 Auto License Office Closed Wednesday The Decatur auto license branch will be closed all day Wednesday as those in charge will attend the branch school to Be® held at Fort Wayne. Due to changes in laws and new methods of issuing licenses, it is imperative that the manager and his 1 assistants attend this school, it was stated.

Threat Os Red Riots Spread To Rome Today General Transport Strike Hurls City In Confused State By United Press The threat of communist violence spread to Rome today when a general transport strike threw the city into confusion amid spreading disorder from northern Italy to the tip of the Italian boot. The Italian outbreaks were paralleled by continuing troubles in | the French communist center of Marseille where mobile guards swept through the city in a seri ies of pre-dawn raids, arresting 82 persons believed to he instigators of violence. The Italian situation was more serious than that in France. The Moscow press suddenly gave the spreading disorders major attention and said that a “full-scale” workers movement against the existing Italian order was in progress. Outbreaks hit 14 more Italian cities during the night, including Cremona, Verona. Milan l , Florence. Foggie and Cagliari. More than 100 Italian centers have witnessed communist-led attacks, principally on right-wing newspapers and political headquarters. Nine persons have been killed in the 10 days of trouble. In Rome heavy reinforcements of police and carabineri guarded all the principal squares where thousands of citizens were stranded by the sudden transport strike. Police and militia have been ready for action several days in event the riots spread to the Italian capital. * In some Italian cities partisans joined in the outbreaks for the first time. Premier Alcide De Gasperi was under increasing (Turn Tn Pntro 4 O»lum*n 6) 0 Mrs. Mina Reppert Dies Friday Night Funeral Services Monday Afternoon Mrs. Mina C. Reppert. 62. a lifelong resident of Adams county, died at 11:30 o’clock Friday night at the Adams county memorial hospital. Death followed a cerebral hemorrhage suffered Wednesday. She was born in Preble township Jan. 26, 1885, a daughter of William and Sophia HilgemanBeineke. She was married in 1903 to Oswald Reppert and he died in 1915. Her second husband, Albert Reppert, whom she married Nov. 2, 1941, was killed in a traffic accident in 1944. She was a member of the Magley Evangelical and Reformed church and the laidies aid society of the church. She had lived in Decatur for the past 13 months. Surviving are a son. Clarence W. Reppert of Chicago, and one brother, Simion Beineke of Magley. One brother and three sisters preceded her in death. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p. m. Monday at the home. 316 North Second street, and at 2 o’clock at the Magley Evangelical and Reformed church with the Rev. John Mlchae’ of Bremen, former pas’or at Ma officiating. Burial will be in fliMagley cemetery. The body will be removed frlim the Zwlck funeral foomet to the,Residence Sunday morning.

Price Four Cents

Special Session Os Congress Will Open Monday; Push Drive Against Inflation Washington, Nov. 15 —(UP) ~ President Truman will ask for power to control the use of steel and other critical materials when he addresses congress Monday, sources close to the white house predicted today. A call for direct consummer rationing of food at this time is not expected. Neither will the president try to revive direct price controls. A request for emergency rationing power to use in event of a very short wheat crop next year is discussed by some of his advisers as a possibility. With reports from his cabinet and his council of economic advisers piled in front of him, the president this weekend will whip iato final form the speech he will deliver at 1:30 p.m. EST. Monday. Mr. Truman will appear in person at the opening of the special “foreign aid and anti-inflation” session which he called. Indications are that the president leans heavily toward recommendations by his council of economic advisers that such crucial commodities as steel, industrial machinery, coal, fertilizer and perhaps grain be brought under "allocation" control. The aim would be two-fold: to insure delivery to the “Marshall plan countries” and to combat inflation at home. Other anti-inflation measures which the president can be expected to urge are: 1. Control of commodity exchanges. involving federal power to set margins. This is now done by the exchanges themselves. .2. Restoration of installment credit controls, which expired Nov. 1. 3. Continuation of rent controls beyond next Feb. 29. 4. Restriction of bank credit by raising the legal reserve require- | ments of members of the federal reserve system. 5. Extension of export controls beyond next Feb. 29. 6. Maintenance of present income tax levels. House GOP leader Charles Halleck of Indiana said foreign spending is “one of the major causes of high prices.” Rep. Arthur G. Klein, D., N. ¥., said he would introduce legislation restoring price control, rationing and allocation powers to the president. Allocation of scarce basic commodities in the administration’s book, a source close to the white house said, would mean authority to set aside a certain amount of steel and other scarce materials for the .European program. It would also involve the government powers similar — but very much less than — those wielded by the war production board. o Three Townships To Meet On Wednesday Discuss Monmouth School Problems A meeting has been set for Wednesday night at 7:30 o’clock at the Monmouth school to discuss future possibilities of the school. Citizens of Preble. Root and Union townships have been urged to be present at the meeting. Lyman L. Hann, county superintendent. will be the chief speaker at the meeting. He will discuss and answer questions on the following topics: The need and advantages of consolidating the three townships; overcrowded conditions and laboratory facilities: Vocational agriculture and vocational home economics in school programs; * The taxing in relation to the situation. Leaders of the meeting have stressed its importance and declare it is of vita* interest to all residents, asking them to be present. , Special music will be presented and refreshments will be served following the meeting.