Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 276, Decatur, Adams County, 22 November 1947 — Page 1

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® — — tan Rejected LAmier Os trench Cabinet I Nation Assembly I Rejects L eon um lAs Notion' s Leader - - '■ formally acIB a commission to ig a French governBjJgfox 22 IVP i— Robert popular Republican t' COBS' lered today an urgent. Kiiiential -equest to accept the j H the fourth repubof the national assenthad rejected Leon ■EgL,. Telegraph agency reho had accepted, but Ks was Senied.) Vincent Auriol, trying o, the ale governmental tiie headlong rush Jfej|b..a.l-'li between Com He Caullists, confer IpML poiltical leader aftei a rter conference Kith AUlicm said lie had been ask®to Sept the premiership and Stogrfa 1,1 confidence from B. ggßii iv ■L wai finatice minister in the Kedomiaa 1 Socialist coalition Kvurmneii that resigned WednesKy. The first two men to see Kriol jßfe Pierre Mendes-France K forme premier Paul Reynaud, Kncial experts. MendesKa.iee S*id the "present situation MM and demands quick de■Befora[he offered the premierKip to iScliuman. Auriol tried to men to accept it. Both Aused for "reasons of Kakh.” I ■ Therwc m Andre Marie, radical ■odalist minister of justice in the Krigned cihinet. and Yvon Delbos, Ko a fttl al and former minister i strikes, which Kd Hat least 75 1.000 men ■■vmi! Industrie, began to in Paris. Fourteen MB S lulls’-',m ilers went out Tim Care de Lyon. M|Ma!:ds - Marseille - bound was closed today. HmmMi quarter of the normal Mk running in and out of ■HjMX'■■: and puli'e announcMHHpi:' had ent the telephone the forts of Rosny and MMS>in the working class BMRtf Montreuil. strikes and lack of a ■Oderate leader in the government Speared to be leading the country ■ iehoidown between Comrnun- | DeGaullists. ■ The.resu.’ of such a showdown had warned, might ilium mid his predecessor. B* *Mody civil war. Speculation lT' ? ‘^f aris tliat the assembly ■Wjissolve itself and call for t Mediate new election, so that ( cou ' ( l decide the issue. t ' le const -itution, a new will not be held until next E, a? ' ®” the assembly could, jby rW' majority, dissolve itself IM the constitution to profor an election at once. ■~J|® midst of the worst crisis L "M e en d of the war, the min- |’ rjr of interior announced that s amis caches had been disF°' I M around Bordeaux. Four "en- arrested and charged five machineguns, 15 ► and other arms and t'° n . I MjSO.OOO workers were still strikes, into r ~ ■he first violence was introSeveral hundred i^M5 d to fi&ht their way into E***'* in Paris, where only -part f S Wol ~hers had obeyed the Tn Pagp s. Column I) Lit —° « f rRS J utz Funeral On pnaay Afternoon Ltz B i' al Services for Albert Amkletdh 1111 Grove - originally schediciiv S' Mon day, will be held SunLnnEc™ 0011 at 2 oc i oc k at the Pteti|? rOVe Evangelical United church, it was reported Fernet . " ’ al will be in the MRE » ron , !' The body will be taken he ager funeral home to L vuj u DCe thia evenin g and may T d ‘here after 6 p.m. |Weather nlaht r° day and in the « a * tojJL ’ der nort hwest and exMjjja.. ( , W t eSt tb ' B afterr 'oon and PM V 8 ate tonighj. Sunday M> cloudy and ffither cold.

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Speaker UK .. IL jWMr. 4 Bishop Grant D. Batdorf, Dayton, 0., official of the Ohio Evangelical United Brethren churches, and nationally known minister of the gospel, will be the guest speaker at the Spiritual Emphasis week services opening in Decatur Sunday night at 7:30 o’clock at the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church. The meetings are sponsored by the Decatur ministerial association. Gen. Arnold Slated To Give Testimony Lamqrre Hurls Lie Charge At Meyers BULLETIN Washington. Nov. 22 —(UP) — Gen. H. H. (Hap) Arnold, wartime chief of the army air forces, today branded Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers as a liar who had “disgraced his uniform and rank.” Washington, Nov. 22 —(UP) — Gen. H. H. (Hap) Arnold, wartime chief of the air forces, was caleld to testify today as senate investigators prepared to wind up their hearings on the love life and monetary manuevers of Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers. Arnold was Meyers’ superior officer when the cigar-chewkig major-general was in charge of I buying warplanes for the army, and his name has been brought into the testimony on several Occasions, Witnesses have linked Arnold with the pigeonholing of an anonymous letter accusing Meyers of having rolled up a fortune of between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000 on devious deals during the war. Meyers himself testified that the air forces boss knew all about his speculation in government bonds and his aircraft stock holdings, but did not object, to them. He sail, too, that Arno'd was the man who gave him the green light to buy photo-recon-naissance planes from HoVard Hughes, despite objections from his technical advisers. Arnold, who like Meyers is now retired, arrived in Washington from his California home last night about the time another principal witness was leaving. The other witness — Meyers’ chief accuser, B. H. Lamarre flew to Dayton. 0., to spend the weekend with his wife, Mildred. But before leaving, the 35-year-old bookkeeper denounced Meyers as a “liar” and a “snake.” Lamarre. his face flushed, w r ent to the witness chair as soon as Meyers had finished his long defense in which he blamed all his troubles on an “unfortunate love (Turn To Pl?’ o. Cot„mn St o — Friendship Train Load Grows Steadily Breadbasket Special In Chicago Tonight —< Ft. Madison, la., Nov. 22 (UP) The “Breadbasket Special.” the nation’s second friendship train, chugged into the Ft. Madison freight yards in three sections today with 175 cars of food for Europe’s hungry snaking along behind the powerful engines. The train was laden chiefly with “fuel foods,” wheat and other cereals from the southwestern grainraising states. It was scheduled to move across the Mississippi river into Illinois this morning. It appeared that the Breadbasket Special would be the largest of the friendship trains thus far. The first train, which originated at Los Angeles, only had 85 cars by the time it reached the Mississippi river at Clinton, la. The train will arrive at Gales(Turn To Page 5, Column 7)

Churches Open Joint Services Sunday Night Spiritual Emphasis Services For Week In Local Churches The annual Spiritual Emphasis week, with 11 Decatur Protestant churches and the Union Chapel Evangelical United Brethren church east of Decatur joining in the enterprise, will open Sunday night at 7:30 o’clock at Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church corner Madison and Ninth streets. Services will be held in j four different local churches throughout the week, and they will - start each night at 7:30 o’clock. - The public is invited to each serv--1 ice. Bishop Grant D. Batdorf, world ’ traveler, who has preached in every state in the union and who ■ holds seven earned and honorary degrees from a number of American colleges and seminaries, will be the guest speaker at the eight services. Bishop Batdorf is affiliated with the Evangelical United Brethren churches of Ohio and is a resident of Dayton, O. The noted visitor was born in Lickdale, Pa., and was graduated from Millersville State teachers college. He then studied at Lehigh University and the University of Chicago. He received his BD degree from Bonebreak Theological Seminary at Dayton and the M.A. and Ph. D. degrees from Illinois Wesleyan University. Later, Bishop Batdorf was awarded his DD degree at Otterbein University and he received an honorary LLD. degree from Lebanon Valley College. He served i pastorates in Allentown, Harris- ■ burg, Reading and Lancaster, Pa., I and then came to Dayton. He servs ed for a time as acting president of Bonebreak Seminary at Dayton before becoming an official of his • church organization, when he was : made a bishop in 1929. : Bishop Batdorf has made sev- . eral trips to Europe and recently addressed the Methodist EcumaniI cal conference in Springfield,-. Mass. Professor Paul Halladay of Manl Chester college, who led the community singing at the services last i year, will return again this year ’ to direct both the choir and the i congregational singing. Prof. Halliday has asked that all people interested in being in the union choir meet with him Sunday flight at 6:45 at the Trinity church, where plans for the week will be made, i The Rev. F. H. Willard, pastor of Bethany Evangelical United - Brethren church in this city, will preside at the opening service Sunday night, and the Rev. William C. Feller, pastor of Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, will have charge of devotions. * The week’s services will be held at Trinity church on Sunday and Monday nights and then will move to the First Christian church for Tuesday and Wednesday nights. ('Turn To Page 5. Column 8) _© German Fiancee To Arrive Here Sunday Howard Foreman's Bride-Elect Due Miss Nina Beyel, German fiancee of ex-army sergeant Howard Foreman, of near Decatur, is expected to arrive at Baer Field, Fort Wayne, Sunday night in the last leg of her trip here to marry the local man. Miss Beyel, to whom the former army sergeant became engaged while he was serving with the U. S. occupational forces, felt Frankfurt, Germany this morning at 5:30 o’clock by plane. • She is to arrive in New York City Sunday noon and then leave later in the afternoon for Baer Field. Foreman and Miss Beyel plan to be married on or near Christmas Day. Sgt. Harold Hakes today looked hopefully for the arrival of his German war-bride, Ruth, and their infant son. Sgt. Hakes was informed in a telephone conversation with his wife that she and the boy might arrive in Decatur late today. They have been in the states for several days, following their arrival on the S. S. General Stur-; gis, but the baby was confined in a hospital after he became afflicted with diarrhea. Sgt. Hakes and his bride were married while he served with the army in Berlin. 9

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, November 22, 1947

Preside At Opening Service Sunday

IM Rev. William C. Feller

Rev. Willard will be the presiding pastor at the opening night service of Spiritual Emphasis week at Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church, corner Madison and Ninth streets, Sunday night at 7:30 o’clock. Rev. Feller will have charge of the devotions at the meeting. Pastors of the 12 cooperating churches will take turns in participating in the service.

National Aviation Clinic Ends Today Act On Proposals To Rebuild Air Power Springfield, 111., Nov. 22 —(UP) — The annual national aviation clinic winds up its 1947 session today with action on proposals that congress put the rebuilding of American air power at the top of its agenda. Sponsors contended the long range Marshall plan for aiding Europe and universal military training will be ineffective if the nation invi’tes attack by allowing its air power to disintegrate. Also to be considered at the final I session was a proposal to create an independent inspector’s office within the armed services “to prevent the wasteful expenditure of monies.” Rsponsible to the secretary of national defense, the inspector would have the duty, among others, of “seeing to it that no monies are wastefully or unnecessarily expended on any items whatsoever, including the purchase of private automobiles or airplanes.” The proposed “bill of policy” would emphasize that wasteful expenditure of appropriatioss "will retard and ruin our efforts” to maintain “effective striding power against any foreign aggressor.” In the military field, the clinic already has adopted proposals to expand aircraft production fourfold to reach 5,780 planes annually, to put aircraft procurement on a long-range basis to enable efficient planning, to work out a comprehensive industrial preparedness program and to strengthen the air reserve forces. Government financial aid has been requested for heilcopter and private plane research and development, construction of 16,000 landing strips at small communities, extension of helicopter mail service at large cities, installation of landing aids at airports, development of gliders and soaring planes, installation of ground markers along routes traversed by personal planes, solution of all-weather flying problems, expansion of U. S. weather bureau services, arid promotion of the air freight industry. In the international field, the clinic has urged congress to finance sufficient ocean weather ships (Turn Tn Pa 9 P « F». Polunin 5) o One Person Injured When Autos Collide Two Others Unhurt In Accident Friday One person was hurt and two others escaped injury in a two-car crash, just north of the Adams-Al-len county line on U. S. 27 about 10 o’clock last night. Calvin Bauman, 19, of this city, is in the Adams county memorial hospital, suffering from a head injury and a laceration above the left eye, sustained in the accident. Hospital attaches reported today that his condition was not serious, as if was at first thought to be last night after the crash. Bauman was riding in an auto operated by Richard Cramer, 21, Decatur, route three. The two i young men were enroute to work at Fort Wayne when their car and one driven by Charles Chilcote, 20, Decatur, sideswiped on a bridge. The Chilcote auto, enroute south, (Turn To Page 6. Column 6)

Rev. F. H. Willard

Former Senator Davis Dies In Washington Washington, Nov. 22 —(UP) — Former Sen. James J. Davis, a Welshborn immigrant who came up the hard way from steel puddler to legislator and cabinet member, died early today at the age of 74. The famous “puddler Jim” of Pennsylvania Republicanism had been confined to the Washington sanitorium in nearby Takoma Park, Md., since late September. He was suffering from a kidney ailment. Capital Buzzes With Eisenhower Rumors Washington Puzzles Over Appointments Washington, Nov. 22.—(UP) — This capital was speculating today that the administration finally became a little bit fed up with General Ike. Maybe not. But why did President Truman name a successor to General Eisenhower so long before the chief of staff has indicated he would retire, and then remark that when the change took place would be up to Ike? Washington is puzzling over that one like crazy. Gen. Omar N. Bradley was named by Mr. Truman yesterday as General Eisenhower’s successor. He rejoins the army Dec. 1 and takes a month’s leave. Thereafter, in effect, he will be standing outside Ike’s office waiting to sit down in his chair. There doesn't seem to have been any emergency, either, in filling Bradley’s spot as administrator of veterans affairs. Carl R. Gray, vice president of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, will succeed Bradley, but not until about Jan. 1. The only surface explanation of the early Bradley announcement was that he wanted to make an inspection of military establishments around the United States before taking over (Turn To Page 3. Column 7) O Two Men Convicted Os Slaying Officers Face Death Penalty In Hammond Deaths Rensselaer, Ind., Nov. 22 —(UP) — A jury in Jasper circuit court today returned a verdict of guilty which carries a mandatory death penalty for two Indianapolis men who killed two Hammond, Ind., policemen last Jan. 11. The 12-man jury deliberated four and one-half hours and reached a decision which meant death in the electric chair at the Indiana state prison in Michigan City for Robert O. Brown, 37, and Frank Badgley, 49. Brown and Badgley, the latter a surly defendant who screamed during the long trial that “I am not getting justice,” had charged that the state’s case was built on circumstantial evidence. Special judge Robert E. Thompson set Dec. 2 Tor sentencing. He also set that date to hear arguments on a defense motion for a new trial, a motion filed along with a motion for a mistrial immediately after the verdict was read. The men accused of kiling John J. Gerka, 36. and Donald B. Cook, 21, who were shot by the occupants of a parked car as they walked up to investigate it on a Hammond street. A third policeman was wounded by the gunfire. A large crowd, including rela(Turn To Page 3, Column 8)

Senate Committee Urges Congress Rush Approval Os Europe Stop-Gap Aid

Big Four Leaders In Parley Tuesday French Crisis Hits Solidarity Hones { London, Nov. 22. —(UP) —The French government crisis blasted today most American hopes that the western powers could present a solid front against the Russians at the crucial big four foreign ministers meeting which opens Tuesday. Both American and British sources used the utmost caution in commenting on the possible effect of the French crisis upon the ministers conference. But behind their guarded comments was utmost concern that the crisis would keep the west from putting its “best” foot forward when It tries to get the Russians to accept the western plan for the future of Germany. Secretary of state George Marshall, anxious to set up a provisional government for all of Germany, is bracing himself, after preliminary talks with his advisers, for any surprise maneuver by the Russians. There was not the slightest hint that Marshall will be prepared, in case of failure here, to try to set up a provisional government for western Germany alone. But he will be under heavy pressure to do so from Gen. Lucius D. Clay, the American military governor, and others from Berlin. A month ago, American officials were confident that France would add its zone to the American-Brit- . ish zonal merger. They were doubtful now. in view of the crisis and Gen. Charles De Gaulle’s rise to power, of what France would do. It is said authoritatively that the French problem is of the gravest concern to the Americans, and if Is sufficiently serious to raise doubts in the minds of the Americans as to what they can do if this meeting of the foreign ministers council fails. • The refusal of the French national assembly to give Leon Blum a vote sufficient for him to form a new government just four days before the council meets created the greatest uncertainty. The failure to create a new French government before the (Turn Tn Paern R. Column 4) 0 Some Republicans Critical Os Taft Criticize Attacks On Truman Program Washington, Nov. 22. —(UP) — Sen. Robert A. Taft, the Republican party’s chief senate spokesman on domestic policy, "crossed off” one of President Truman's anti-infla-tion proposals today but indicated willingness to press for early action on another. Taft, a target of some criticism in a senate Republican conference yesterday because of his attacks on the administration program. ■ told reporters he thought one of Mr. Truman’s 10 points could be ignored because the administration fcould offer no way to cary it out. He was referring to the President’s request for measures to encourage the sale of livestock and poultry at weights which would promote the most effective use of grain. Secretary of agriculture Clinton P. Anderson told Taft’s housesenate economic committee yesterday that the proposal was formulated before it was known that Mr. Truman would ask for price control powers. The revival of controls on installment buying appeared to be the first of the administration requests that would be ready for senate consideration. Chairman Charles W. Tobey, R., N. H„ of the banking committee said a bill for that purpose could be ready by Dec. 1. Taft said the economic committee, which makes recommendations but cannot draft legislation, also could report on installment buying controls by Dec. 1 if Tobey wished. The law putting curbs on installment buying of consumer goods ex(Turn To Page 6, Column 8)

U. S.Russian Palestine Plan Is Before UN • Revised Plan Aimed To Meet Objections From Great Britain Lake Success, N. Y.. Nov. 22 — (UP) —A revised Soviet-American program for the partition of Palestine was placed before the United Nations Palestine committee today, touching off a final UN drive for a solution of the Holy Land problem. The revised plan was intended to meet all of Great Britain's objections to previous partition proposals. It set the stage for full debate on partition and the rival Arab demands for an independent. Arab-controlled Palestine. The UN security council, meanwhile, convened (10:45 a. m„ EST) to reconsider the UN membership applications of Italy and Transjordan, which Russia previously vetoed. The general assembly asked for new votes on the two applicants immediately so that, if approved, they could be admitted to UN before the current assembly session ends, probably next week. The altered Soviet-American plan for partition called for Great Britain to end its rule of Palestine and withdraw its troops from the Holy Land on any dates which Britain selects, except that they shou’d not be later than i next Aug. 1. The previous SovI iet-American plan provided that i the f,wo (jates must be approved by the UN security' council and a special UN commission on j Palestine. The new plan also would allow : Britain to end its mandate and withdraw progressively from Palestine. continuing to rule Britishi occupied areas, but handing over I the evacuated areas to the proposed UN commission. Stricken from the previous Soviet-American plan was a requirement that Britain cooperate with the UN commission to establish the new Arab and Jewish states which would be carved out of Palestine. Herbert V. Evatt of Australia, chairman of the 57-nation Palestine committee, ordered day and night meetings today, and planned extraordinary sessions tomorrow to speed a decision on Palestine. The outcome still was in doubt. Partition proposals must win a two-thirds majority for assembly (T’l r n 'T'n PiP" > ' (?) o Decalur Plans For Holiday Observance Suspend Business Here Thanksgiving Decatur looked forward today to the annual observance of the Thanksgiving Day holiday next [ Thursday, in observance of the landing of the Pilgrim fathers in this country. Practically all business will be suspended here for the day. with only a few confectioneries, theaters, service stations, etc, remaining open as usual. The banks, the post office, aH public offices will be closed and the Decatur Daily Democrat, in ac- ; cordance with annual custom, will not publish an edition that day. The event will also mean a fouri day holiday for the school children of the city, since they will be dismissed from classes Wednesday afternoon for the balance of the week. I The religious note of the occasion will be marked in a series of Protestant church services, beginning Sunday nighl' at the Trinity Evangelical United Brei thren church. Some of the youngsters will have a special treat Thanksgiving night in the annual dance, sponsored by the local American Legion post. • •

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Also Pleads For Early Action For Marshall Plan As Grave Crisis Grows Washington, Nov. 22 — (UP) — The senate foreign relations committee solemnly called on congress today for immediate approval of the $597,000,000 emergency foreign relief bill to avert “political chaos” in France, Italy and Austria. In a report unusual in its urgency, the committee said recent Communist - inspired riots in Italy and the grave cabinet crisis in France have made it imperative for congress to act at once on the stopi gap aid measure. The current turmoil abroad, the ' report said, “demonstrates once again that there are forces actively I at work which are using hunger and ; cold as a means of creating political disturbances and confusion.” I The committee headed by Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg, R., Mich., warned that unless food, fuel and • fertilizer are provided quickly, “the > twin specters of hunger and cold . attended by political chaos would . threaten western Europe.” The foreign relations committee . also pleaded for early action on the four-year Marshall plan for European reconstruction which may I cost as much as $20,000,000,000. But it emphasized that a vote for the emergency bill would not obligate | members of congress to support the controversial long-range plan as > well. The foreign policy recommendation was issued to back up the committee’s recent unanimous approval of the food-and-fuel bill. It came in ( the wake of the French national assembly’s refusal accept aged Socialist leader Leon Blum as pre 1 mier, thus leaving France leader s less. 1 The senate Republican leadershij 1 has pledged itself to an all-out effort to get a final vote on the r stop-gap aid bill by Thanksgiving 1 day. Debate will open on the senate • floor on Monday. The house foreign 1 affairs committee hopes to send legislation to the floor early next ' week. I The senate report hit obliquely at - plans of another congressional - committee to “screen" foreign aid (Turn -~u- o z. Column 7) 0 ’ Decatur Ministers Will Meet Monday The Decatur ministerial associa- , tion will meet Monday morning at 10 o’clock at the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church. Bishop Bat- ’ dorf will be the guest speaker. ■ Annual Student Day Sale Is Held Here The annual student day sale. ■ sponsored jointly by the Decatur 1 junior-senior high school and the ’ Decatur Chamber of Commerce, was in progress here today. Students of the school worked in the respective participating stores today, with their wages going to the school's activities funds. Many of the participating merchants offered special bargains to mark the sale. Q Eight Persons Killed In Romanian Crash Prague, Nov. 22.---(UP) —Eight ' persons were killed and 18 injured > when a Romanian airlines plane in : flight from Bucharest to Prague ■ crashed yesterday at Jicln, while i trying to make an emergency landing in a fog, it was announced ofi ficially today. 1 After the crash, the plane caught ■ on fire and burned three hours. • Among the injured were Alfred Davidson, an American who lives I in Paris, and Aried Grigorescu, I Romanian minister in Prague. 0 1 Brooklyn Payroll Is Taken From Manager i — t New York, Nov. 22.— (UP) ’ Louis Fineman, president of the s Jansa Woodworking Corp., picked up $1,561 in payroll money at • his bank yesterday and was escorts ed by a policeman through the ■ streets of Brooklyn to his plant, i At the plant door, the policeman - left. When Finenrtti reached his ! office, inside the building, two i bandits appeared and took the l money. They escaped in the com--1 pany car, which Fineman had parked outside.