Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 271, Decatur, Adams County, 17 November 1947 — Page 1

y. No. 271

RUMAN ASKS POWER TO IMPOSE CURBS IN WAGES AND PRICES IF NECESSARY

E Step Up Etilies In pee, Italy Bfear Overthrowal ■j)fJGovernments In BEufopean Nations Nov. 17-(UP)—A new (niiiiiiiiinsi ic<i strikes KWdenionstrations spread IKS Ftraiice today, stepping which threatened the government of premier Paul Ramadier. government, seeking KHL C;| l!lt ' mn'est Which was as a communist winter undertook to break a strike at Marseille Kit Bops and sailors. ni F miners were on Bike in the Has ,)e Calais area France. Eleven thou■L were out. and officials fear,,f 1.-II.IKIII would be Kpomnr lists called a big dem at Le Havre to protest KiJ in. reused street ear fares. Kicekio'eii in from nearby Ejo help the local forces Kintaii: order. A strike of all KL>t jar workers was called at the Mediterranean naval leaders continued a Kid of conferences amidst re■L 3 that Paul Reynaud. last Enter >f the third republic beBK the Petain armistice cabinet. ■ soialist Leon Blum might Ku! a new government. ■ Charges Coup Koine Nov. 17 (UP)—Pietro Ktiglt a HOMO Qualunque par- ■ depu l . charged in parliament Kay that the < mnmunists would Hteni] a coup d'etat in Italv,” ■d demanded to know what Pre-1 Eerjilride De Gasperi’s govern ] Kn®ntended to do about, it. ■his question was promptly ■feelchnl. P.ut the communists Kd ■wily announced that thov ■retrying to overthrow De Gas■rt as a symbol of American aid, ■fed We expected Io step up their Kwai- of riot, vio'ence and ■tth ,o end. T n 13 days, it ■a Whed every city and town ■ any size in Italy. ■it Bready had come dangerous- | revolution. The fear that K pnimunists might be ready ■ j new phase of their camBfcn was enhanced yesterday by mysterious explosion ■ two days in ammunition dumps Krfeilan. Kfilat was the focal point of the ■mdc- The explosion at Vige- ■ io |T- niiles southwest of Mitwo soldiers, injured ■aiffim. of other soldiers and and was believed to ■ Te T illed several others. Three there was a mysterin a dump at TesoKH miles east of Milan. Togliatti, leader of the fcjT’l* communist party, second outside Russia, and Pie- «'■ nni. *'' S 'eTtwing socialist ■ *[”' To Porn fi. r„h lmn 8) Held Today KStede Infant ■■da Lou Steele, infant daughA ’ !hert G- and Helen LehrrE eel( b °T 109 North Tenth died at 3 a. in. Sunday at county memorial hosshe was born at 5:30 Other survivors are r< Carolyn Kay; the grandMrs. Carolyn Lehrman of KpT , v ld Mr - and Mrß - Edwin 1 van Wert county, 0., and ■ F-grandmother. Mrs. Cathernwnstedt of Decatur. IT?', Se J vlcaß w ere held this Kh th L‘ he Zwick f,,ner al home, EL, 6 p ar ' Hofmann offiUr al Wfts in the Decatur ■ WEATHER C '° Udy ton '(Jht and ■Kra ■ Colder east and I ■ Portions tonight.

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Stale’s Death Toll Is 12 Over Weekend Nine Os Victims Are Traffic Fatalities By United Press State police said today that at least 12 persons were killed in accidents in Indiana during the weekend. Nine were traffic fatalities, one man died in a plane crash, one was killed in a hunting accident and another was struck and killed by a train. The state troopers listed the traffic victims as: Lawrence Snyder, 30, Frichton George Dennerline, 77. Tipton Mavis Kirby, 15, New Castle Addison T. Chenoweth, 72, Fountain City Mattison W. Eckler. 80, Richmond Albert E. Cook, 42, Chicago Mrs. Angela Krusemark, Chicago Herschel H. Baker, 34, Portland Virgil B. Shelton, 42, Medora. Snyder died at Vincennes Sunday of injuries sustained Saturday night when the automobile he was driving collided with one driven by Nelson Tellingham, Edwardsport. The victim suffered a fractured skull. Dennerline was killed when struck by a car on U. S. 31 two and a half miles south of Ind. 28 in Tipton county. The truck in which the 15-year-old Kirby girl was riding was struck by a New York Central train on Ind. 103 near New Castle, killing her. The driver and another passenger were uninjured. Chenoweth died in Reid memorial hospital. Fountain City, after he was struck by a chr on U. S. 27 near his home. Eckler died in Reid memorial hospital, Richmond, Sunday. He was struck by a truck in a Rich- ] mond street. Cook, a Chicago commercial i photographer. died Saturday night of injuries received when his automobile left the highway, crashed into a utility pole and overturned near the LaPorte-St. Joseph county line. Police said he was traveling alone “at a high rate of speed" at the time of the (T»i>n Tn Php-p S. Column 7> O — Three Arrests Are Reported By Police Two Auto Accidents Here Over Weekend Three arrests and two accidents were recorded on the city police blotter over the weekend, chief Ed Miller reported this morning. Two men, Earl Williams, 27, of route three, Decatur, and Metodlo Pena, 21, of route two, Berne, were arrested about 7 a. m. on North Second street today by chief Miller. Prosecutor Myles F. Parrish lodged speeding charges against the two, upon affidavits signed by the chief, and they were to be arraigned in Floyd B. Hunter's justice of peace court late this afternoon. John Schultz, of near Decatur, was arrested about 10:45 p. m. Sunday by officer James Borders and charged with reckless driving. He entered a not guilty plea in justice Hunter’s court and his trial was set for Tuesday. It was charged that his auto struck two parked cars, one owned by Mrs. Justine Spangler, at 108 North Third street. One Is Hurt Robert Beery, 709 North Third street, suffered a head injury Saturday about 7:15 p. tn. when an auto in which he was riding, operated. by Arthur Franz, 21, Decatur sjruck another, driven by Emily Sheets, 43, Rockford, O. Officer Adrian Coffee, who investigated. said that the Franz auto struck the rear of the Ohio car, when the latter was bright to a stop on Second near M oncost reef for the traffic light. Damage was estimated at $l5O.

Spending And Incomes Zoom To New Highs Government Report Shows Records For Quarterly Period Washington, Nov. 17 — (UP) — President Truman sent his antiinflation program to congress today in the wake of a government report showing that both incomes and spending zoomed to record rates in the three months ending Sept. 30. The commerce department said rising prices were the chief factor that sent the total value of services and finished goods — the so-called gross national product — to an alltime annual rate in the July-August September period. The annual rate reached during that period was $232,0'10,000,000 as against $229,000,000,000 in the previous quarter. “The volume of business activity did not differ greatly from that reached in the second quarter," the report explained. “Most of the third quarter advance was due to the resumption of the price rise that had tapered off in the second quarter." The cashing of GI furlough bonds, wage increases and higher profits earned by people working for themselves also figured in the rise in incomes and spending. Economists said the jump probably was temporary and that the rate of climb would not continue as lyPersonal income in the third quarter hit an annual rate of $200,400,000,000. This was $8,100,000,000 (Turn To Page 2, Column 3) - 0 : November Term Os Court Opens Today Action Taken Here In Several Cases The November term of the Adams circuit court opened today with Judge Earl B. Adams making numerous entries in various cases set for the first day. In the will contest action of Rosella Baker against Cora Stuckey, and others, the defendant was ruled to answer. In the damage suit of George Gage, and others, against Stewart McMillen and others, the defendants were ruled to answer on or before November 28. Special appearance for the de 7 fendant for the purpose of filing a plea in abatement was filed by Shoaf, Keegan & Baird and Ferd L. Litterer in the account suit of Fred L. Miller against the Central Soya Co, Inc. The suit of the Auto Owners Insurance company against Harold Feasel was dismissed and the costs paid. The construction engineer filed a contract with the Yost Construction Co., Inc., in the William I. Journey ditch and bond in the sum of $940 was filed by the construction company. In the partition suit of Mary Adams against Chauncey Deßolt and others, alias summons for John DeBolt was ordered issued to the sheriff of Whitley county, return- . able December 8. Additional property in the sum of $1,516.39 was reported in the estate of the ,late Daniel Sprang. The court found the net value of the estate of Joyce Ellenberger to be $13,532.84 and no tax due. An adoption action was ordered transferred to the juvenile docket and several other minor entries were made by the court in estate cases, 0 Little Damage Done By Fire On Sunday Little damage was done about 4 p. m. Sunday when inflammable fluids in a pan in the Gulf Service station, corner Fourth and Monroe streets, caught fire. The local fire department answered the alarm.

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Decatur, Indiana Monday, November 17, 1947

—— — Map Plans For Special Session ■Bl '■•“■oST t ■ ’

MEETING IN A CLOSED SESSION in Washington to discuss the GOP policy schedule for the special session of Congress are Sen. Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio) and Senate President Pro Tempore Arthur H. Vandenberg (right). Sen. Taft heads the Policy committee.

Gov. Gates Pledges Crime Investigation Capital Residents Aroused By Crimes Indianapolis, Nov. 17 — (UP) — Marion county residents, aroused by a series of recent murders and attacks on women received word from Governor Ralph F. Gates today that “facilities of the stale” would be used to investigate crime conditions in the Indianapolis area. Gates' statement followed a mass meeting of residents in the north side area where Mrs. Mary Lois Burney, 39, was mysteriously slain Wednesday. A letter the group sent to the governor denounced county law enforcement agencies and claimed administration of justice had become a “travesty.” Several ministers also hit at what they called the "incompetence” of law officials. Robert A. Watts, negro city truck driver arrested as a suspect in the Burney murder, was still being subjected to six-hour questioning periods, part of the time with a lie detector to test his reaction. He was also a suspect in the Halloween eve knife slaying of Mrs. Mabel Merrifield, 68-year-old (Turn To Paere fi. Column 7) O Guests Dazzled By Royal Couple Gifts Two Million Dollars In Jewels Displayed London. Nov. 17 —(UP —Princess Elizabeth and Lt. Philip Mountbatten started the week of their wedding today with a display proving that they will start their married life as one of the richest twosomes in Britain, solely on the strength of their jewel gifts. The couple gave an afternoon party at St. James’ palace to show their wedding gifts. Dazzled guests saw at least $2,000,000 worth of diamonds, rubies, pearls, sapphires and emeralds shimmering in two big display cases. Five huge salons of Henry VIIV’s palace were jajn-packed with silverware, furs, rare furniture. paintings, books, blankets and the variety of offerings to be expected from an empire so diverse and far-flung. None tried to set an overall value on what was ranged around the royal scar’et reception rooms (Turn To Page 2, Column 3)

Complain Motorists Passing School Bus Trustee John M. Stoneburner of Washington township stated today that he had received several complaints from bus drivers that motorists had passed a school bus while it was picking up or discharging students. Sheriff Herman Bowman had been previously informed of the violations, but the drivers were unable to provide license uufnbers or descriptions of autos used in the violations. 0 Two Youths Sought For Rape-Slaying Wisconsin River Dragged For Body BULLETIN Withee, Wis., Nov. 17 — (UP) —A posse armed with tommy guns trapped two suspected slayers today in a lonely house among the Wisconsin pines where they were holding several members of a farm family. Madison, Wis.. Nov. 17. —(UP) — Squads of policemen dragged the Wisconsin river at two points today for the body of a University of Wisconsin student, slain by gunmen who raped his- sister-in-law during a harrowing twelve-hour ride. Janet Ann Rosenblatt, 19, a University of Michigan co-ed from Cleveland, 0., pointed out two bridges, either of which, she said, might have been the spot where two men dumped the weighted body of her brother-in-aw, Carl L. Carlson, 25, Superior, Wis., into the river. She said that she escaped Saturday from the two men who picked her and Carlson up as they were hitqh-hiking Ito Badger Village, near Baraboo, Wis. Carlson lived at the village with his wife and three-months-old daughter. He had come to Madison to meet the girl, when she arrived from Michigan to attend the Michigan-Wisconsin football game. Police began a state-wide search for Buford Sennett, 25, Richland Center, Wis., and Robert Winslow, 24, Owen, Wis., for questioning about the slaying. They were connected with the affair after police learned that license plates found on the blood stained automobile were taken from a car owned by Sennett’s father. The rape victim later identified photographs of Sennett and Winslow as the men who attacked her and killed Carlson. Both Sennett and Winslow were said by authorities to have police records. Both have been employed recently as farm laborers. (Turn To Page 6, Column 4)

Asks Emergency Congress Grant Authority In Case Voluntary Efforts Fail

India In Warning To Great Britain Asks UN To Censure South Africa Union United Nations Hall, Flushing, N. Y„ Nov. 17.—(UP)—India warned Great Britain today that “fur-1 ther deteriorations" of India’s relations with South Africa might force India and Pakistan out of the British commonwealth. Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit delivered the warning in a final appeal for UN general assembly censure of the union of South Africa for discriminating against Indian Nationals living and working in South Africa. Leaders of India, Mrs. Pandit declared. long have held the view that “so long as Indians were regarded as an inferior race inside ' the British commonwealth there ■ was really no room in it for a self • respecting India." Mrs. Pandit’s words were direct i ed at British minister of state 1 ■ Hector McNeil, chief of the British delegation, who sided with I South Africa in the assembly’s' sec- ■ ond successive argument over the ] issue. While the political committee ' neared the end of the Indian-South African fight, the assembly hel(J another day of full-dress sessions in the hope of ending the 1947 meeting by the end of the week. The future Palestine and the big five veto issue were still far from settled. Delegates adopted a schedule of day and night meetings in hope of winding up the session by next Sunday. Hamstrung by Great Britain’s nomcommital policy and differences between Russia and the United States, the subcommittee planning Palestine partition was pressed to work out a plan by (Turn To Patro G. Clnlumn 3) o Friendship Train Reaches New York I Initial Section Os Train Reaches Port New York. Nov. 17 —(UP) — The ■ first 24-car section of the foodi laden friendship train reached the i port of New York today and two , more sections approached the city ■ from the north and south, gatherl ing carloads of gift food from . Americans out to prove their geni erosity to starving Europe. A salute to the Statue of Liberty and a ticker-tape parade up Broad- ! way will mark the end tomorrow of i the cross-country relief drive that has gathered 169 freight cars of . food for shipment to Europe. A northern section of the train ' stopped at Buffalo, N. Y., last , night, where several hundred peri sons gathered to watch 13 addi- . tional cars be added. A southern section was to arrive at Harrisburg, Pa., this morning. . It had 53 cars of food when it left , Pittsburgh last night. A section of 24 cars from Pitts- ■ burgh arrived by Pennsylvania i railroad at Jersey City, N. J., last night and were being prepared toi day to be loaded on two railroad barges for tomorrow’s ceremonies at the Statue of Liberty. Tugboats, police launches and • fireboats will greet the food bearing barges while they circle BedH<|<Vs Island where stands the > Statue presented to the United > States 61 years ago by the French I people. , t After the celebration, the food (ITurn To PagW, Column 8)

Says Aviation Company Owned By Gen. Meyers Firm's President Says Company Given Wartime Contracts Washington, Nov. 17. —(UP) — Retired Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers owned an aviation company for which, as an air force procurement officer, he obtained a million dollars worth of defense program subcontracts, the firm's president testified today. Records of the firm were altered to hide the fact that Meyers i was one of its officers, the witness told a senate war investigating subcommittee. B. H. Lamarre, whose wife was secretary of Meyers when the of 1 ficer was an air force procurement officer at Wright Field. O„ trtld a senate war investigating subcom mittee. that he went to work as president of the Aviation Electric Corp, in 1940 to look after Meyers' , interests. In so doing he jumped from a S3B to S4O a week job he had had with Douglas aircraft. He testified that Meyers had put up all the money Aviation Electric i had and, through a dummy, owned 224 of its 250 shares of stock. Plane manufacturer Lawrence D. Bell testified last week that on Meyers’ recommendation he gave the company $1,053,000 worth of sub-contracts in 1940. He said Meyers told him the company at Vandalia, 0., was owned by “friends" of *the procurement officer. Meyers himself has told reporters that he had loaned the com- ' pany as much as $30,000 and that i this was his only interest in it. He i put up the money because he was a ] friend of the firm’s president. Meyers said. But Lamarre told ' a different story. Asked by subcommittee chairman Homer Ferguson, R., j Mich., if Meyers was the “actual i owner." the "boss" of the company, Lamarre replied: (Turn Vn Page 2. Column 3) 0 _ _ Young Couple Hurt In Auto Accident Injured In Freak Accident Saturday Mr. and Mrs. Orrin Crider, Decatur young people now living at Hamilton Lake, were injured Saturday night in a freak accident, involving several vehicles, on federal road 27 near the Nine Mile house. The car driven by Mr. Crider and another, owned and operated by Myron Lehman, Monmouth basketball coach, were involved in a minor collision along with another car. While waiting for the arrival of investigating authorities from the Allen county sheriff's office, a truck operated by Doyle Lee, also of Decatur, in an attempt to avoid striking another auto, veered off the road and struck the Crider car. Both Mr. and Mrs. Crider were brought to the Adams county memthen released. No one was hurt about 10:45 a. m. today when cars driven by John Kirchner, 73. Preble and Dr. Morton J. Freedam, 34, Peoria, 111., collided one-half mile east of Preble on U. S. 224. Sheriff Herman Bowman, who in(Turn To Page 2, Column 3)

Price Four Cents

Consumer Rationing Over Scarce Items May Be Renewed To Curb Living Costs Washington, Nov. 17. —(UP) President Truman asked an emergency congress today for authority to impose selective wage and price ceilings and to revive consumer rationing on scarce items to curb the cost of living. Mr. Truman sought those powers as club-in-the-closet persuaders. I He said they would be used only if failure of cojuntary efforts made them necessary. They were the highlights of a 10-point anti - inflation program which he said was urgent to protect the nation against an economic bust and, perhaps, catastrophe. The president asked for price ceiling authority over scarce food, clothing and fuel items, and for extension and strengthening of rent, control. He sought power to establish consumer rationing *of such items, emphasizing it would be on a "highly selective basis.” And he said if the government ' imposed price ceilings in specified industries, it should in all fairness have authority to prevent wage increases in the same areas. These wage and price controls and rationing were proposed for ] use on a strictly w’hen-and-if-nec-essary basis. But the president wants the aufliority now as a preparedness measure. Mr. Truman coupled his call for a stringent anti-inflation action ■ with a formal request for $597,000,0(70 of stop-gap aid to Europe during the next months. This request had been outlined previous■ly by administration spokesmen. Mr. Truman appeared in person before a joint session of the house and senate in the house chamber. It was his fifth appearance before congress since he became president April 12, 1945. Mr. Truman’s 10-point “immediate anti-inflation program”: “1. To restore consumer credit controls and to restrain the creation of inflationary bank credit. “2. To authorize the regulation of speculative trading on the commodity exchanges. “3. To extend and strengthen export controls. “4. To extend authority to allocate transportation facilities and equipment. “5. To authorize measures which will induce the marketing of livestock and poultry at weights and grades that represent the most efficient utilization of grains. “6. To enable the department of agriculture to expand its program of encouraging conservation practices in this country, and to authorize measures designed to increase the production of foods in foreign countries. “7. To authorize allocation and inventory control of scarce commodities which basically affect the cost of living or industrial production. “8. To extend and strengthen rent control. . “9. To authorize consumer rationing on products in short supply which basically affect the cost of living. (Turn Tn Pare R. Cnb.imn 4) Mother Kills Gifted But Unbalanced Son Aurora, 111., Nov. 17 —.(UP) — A mother shot and killed ’’her gifted but unbalanced son early today only a few hours after she got him released from a state mental hospital so he could spend Thanksgiving at home. Mrs. Laura Reid. 55, said she shot her son. Louis, 28, a former piano prodigy, because she feared he would commit a crime of violence. She said he had assaulted her twice and then threatened to “go downtown and get some one."