Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 277, Decatur, Adams County, 24 November 1947 — Page 1

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L Evidence Liearfhed pen. Meyers Le Department . ILlines To Reveal Lotion Nature ■ Lmston. Nov. 24 -_(UP)f.'w department, it was K today, has bolstered its erand jurv case against t« Bennett E. Meyers with 1 rdence" dug up independt its own investigators. E is declined to reveal the I” I *. the information but K was apart from the evil uncovered by the senate fLsiigating subcommittee tits inquiry into the generf' u„ns while be was buy Elanes for the governE department planned to go F [e deral grand jury here f' k to seek criminal indict1. against Meyers. Its case completed but under [ was a series of charges f. total maximum penalties tjiiii in fines and 39 years Linnient. ~ . Kters dapper. 53-year-old ofIwto holds the distinguished L medal and the legion of E” was accused before the L ( committee of reaping Ethan $131,000 from his undE g wartime connection with firm of Avia[flKtric Corp.. Vandalia. O. Lk the hearings. B. M. LaL ‘dummy" president of the [testified that he “kicked Et huge part of his salary to Ers. then a top procurement Lin the air forces. Meyers L the charge, and said it [prompted by his four-year [tfair with Lamarre’s wife, k senate hearings closed Way with retired Gen. H. H. Li. wartime air force chief. Btine that Meyers, on the iof the evidence, was a liar, tan-apple” and a disgrace to I aliform. Chairman Homer jim. R.. Mich., then turned i the case to the justice detent. Sere was no official indicaiis to the specific charges i justice department would it against Meyers. But on ibuis of the senate hearings, irtment experts said unoffii that indictments may be id on a wide variety of allegtrimes. te said these might include Jar fraud (maximum penalty, W fine and 10 years in pris- ; perjury ($2,000 fine, five R'i subornation of perjury, 1W fine and five years); extol. (SSOO fine and one year): •Piracy to defraud (SIO,OOO 1 and 10 years); bribery, W times amount of the bribe 1 three years); and income tax ® ($5,000 and five years on ieomt.) 1 these charges are filed and m upheld in court, Meyers «l face a maximum penalty of in fines and 39 years in 15 Most of the fine would 1 ,rom the $200,000 Meyers M? tried to obtain from v* M| i plane maker Howard Patr» «. c n i, ]mn g) | O—tlines Call To Church i^ Was rece ' ve( l here late Sun»t from the Rev. Karl H. pastor of Savior Luth'c Wi at Bad Axe, Mich., ™jt»at he has declined a call tlie Lutheran J Ol Decatur. Jacobs, chairman of the t tod Se ®' ) ' y of Die local church, •üblJ -^ at a meetin K of the be held in the near Hidatp e L end a call to another Uj. . e P as torate has been nr * th® resignation last , the Rev ‘ p aul W. skn’-JL^ cept a west coast alparaiso university. tiow weather *th ii o h» tOnißtlt and Tuesday tin ‘ ,now n °rth and light W ‘" ow # °uth portion *th We j t ea 'nning extreme hMeold. * tOniaht Bome ’ der tonight.

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Spiritual Emphasis Week Opened Sunday Services Continue Nightly This Week Tonight Time: 7:30 o’clock. Place: Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church. Presiding: Dr. M. O. Lester and Rev. G. A. Eddy. Sermon: Bishop Grant D. Batdorf. “The Christian Church” was the subject of the sermon delivered Sunday night by Bishop Grant D. Batdorf to an overflow audience at Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church. It was the opening session of Spiritual Emphasis week ip Decatur, a program of union church services sponsored by the Decatur ministerial association, in which the 12 local Protestant churches are participating. It was one of the largest union church meetings ever held in Decatur and it was necessary to seat part of the large audience in the halls leading into the church auditorium. The Rev. F. H. Willard, pastor of Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church presided at the opening session, and the Rev. William Feller, pastor of the Evangelical and Reformed church had charge of the devotions. The huge audience joined in opening the service by singing five songs, led by Prof. Paul Halladay of Manchester college, who will have charge of the music during the week. A 14-member choir also sang several verses of the songs and Prof. Halladay sang “How Lovely Are Thy Dwellings.” Harold Mumma presided at the organ. Prof. Halladay, who also was in charge of the singing last year, issued a call to all who like to sing to become members of the union choir. All men and women who desire to become part of the •choir this week have been asked to meet at 7 ’ o’clock tonight at Trinity church. Bishop Batdorf, who has preached in churches of every Protestant denomination in 34 states of the Union and Canada and Mexico, gave a brief history of himself at the opening of his sermon. “The Church,” Bishop Batdorf said, “is the symbol of Christ. It was built by Christ on an indestructible foundation. It is divine and it is human, like Christ.” “No other religion of the world has a church,” he continued. “Other religions have temples and shrines, but not churches.” He continued by describing how the human body encircles a spirit, and then said “Christianity is also a spirit, and the church is the body of that spirit.” He compared the church to a household, and likened all Christian religions to a single family under the name of church. “No church has a priority on faith,” the Bishop said. “Different sects have been organized to promote some basic truth of Christianity, which certain people felt was being neglected, and therefore a new denomination was originated, but basically all churches are the

(Turn Tn Pas-n fi. Column 4) o Canned Food Drive For World's Needy St. Mary's Parish Conducting Drive A canned food drive for the hungry people of Europe and the Near East will be made this week in St. Mary’s Catholic parish. The cans will be accepted at the Catholic school from 8 to 11 in the morning, and from 2 to 4:30 each afternoon, except on Thanksgiving day, through Saturday. Glass cans will not be accepted, as they cannot be shipped overseas, women of the St. Mary’s society, who will be in charge of the reception center, announced. Clothing is not wanted in this drive, it was announced. The canned food drive is being conducted by the war relief service of the NCCW, and authorized by Most Rev. Bishop John F. Noll, in churches of the Fort Wayne diocese. Donors are asked to make their contributions early this week, so that the cans can be packed and shipped overseas.

Over Million In France Now Out On Strike Schuman Completes New Cabinet, Faces Major Difficulties I Paris, Nov. 24 —(UP) — The Communist - dominated general confederation of labor started closing all French ports today and postoffice wonkers in Paris struck, piling new complications on the seemingly unsurmountable difficulties confronting the new premier and his government. More than 1,00,000 workers were striking as the new government scheduled an emergency meeting, even before it was confirmed by the national assembly. Postoffice workers voted by a narrow margin to strike. The main postoffice was closed and occupied by strikers. At least six branch offices were shut. Civil service workers in Paris were threatening to strike. Railroad officials estimated that a trainmen’s strike had halted more than 80 percent of long distance traffic. Traffic was reported normal at the Gare De L’Est and Gare St. Lazare stations in Paris, but at Big Gare Du Nord, police chased pickets off and took over the station. At Le Havre, 5,000 dock workers struck and government authorities said they would assure the unloading of food and perishable goods. Dock workers at Bordeaux and La Rochelle did not report for work. At Bordeaux, they threw picket lines along the waterfront. Marseille, France’s major port, has been tied up by a strike for nearly two weeks. Robert Schuman, a popular Republican who became premier on ! Saturday, completed his cabinet just before midnight. It has not received a vote of confidence from the assembly, but Schuman was confident that it will when the vote is taken tomorrow. He ordered a meeting today to consider the fourth republic’s greatest crisis. As the strikes spread, mobile guards in steel helmets and full battle kits guarded strategic points in Paris. Authorities were ready with a carefully prepared security plan, if the Communists started an uprising. They indignantly denied (Turn To Page 7, Column 3)

Augusl Lengerich Dies Sunday Night Funeral Services Wednesday Morning August Lengerich, 66, lifelong resident of Adams county, died at 11:20 p.m. Sunday at the Adams county memorial hospital after an extended illness of complications. He was born in Adams county March 7, 1881, a son of Bernard and Antoinette Lengerich. He was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Knights of Columbus, Holy Name society, and the Third Order of St. Francis. Surviving are his wife, the former Ellen Rumschlag; seven daughters, Sister Mary Redempta and Sister Mary Eymardine, both of St. Mary’s Holy Cross, South Bend, Mrs. Herman Loshe, Mrs. John Brite, Mrs. Glenn Straub, Jr., Mrs. Carl Mankey and Mrs. Eugene Bender, all of in or near Decatur; six 'sons, Arthur, Clarence, Julius and Richard, all of in or near Decatur, and Robert and Raymond, both at home; 12 grandchildren; three brothers, Theodore, Henry and Joseph, and a sister, Mrs. John Meyer, all of in or near Decatur. One son and one brother are deceased. Funeral services will be held at 9 a.m. Wednesday at St. Mary’s Catholic church. A solemn requiem high mass will be celebrated, with the Rev. Lawrence Heiman of St. Joseph’s college, Rensselaer, as celebrant; the Vew Rev. Msgr. J. H. Seimetz, deacon, and the Rev. Ignatius Vichuras, sub-deacon. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery The body will be removed from the Gillig & Doan funeral home to the residence at 5 o’clock this evening. The Holy Name society will meet at the home at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday to recite the rosary.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, November 24, 1947

Truman Receives First Xmas Seals 2' It 3 Mk -ISi 9 SKI xt® % J ‘ .CWww I ■ PICTURED AT THE WHITE HOUSE, Secretary of Commerce W. Averill Harriman (right) presents the first sheet of Christmas seals of the 1947 campaign to President Truman. The Chief Executive urged wide use of the seals to aid the National Tuberculosis Association in its great work of combating the dread disease.

Increase In Grain Production Asked Call On Farmers To Boost Production Washington, Nov. 24.—(UP) — The government called on the nation’s farmers today to produce about 9,000,000 more acres of grain crops next year than were harvested this year. Secretary of agriculture Clinton P. Anderson announced the national goal of 356,000,000 acres for 1948. The goal included 296,000,000 acres of cultivated crops and 60,000,000 acres of hay. Anderson said the suggested goals would require a “heavy drain on our already strained soil resources.” But that is inevitable, he said, “if this nation is to provide a good share of the food needed so desperately by hungry nations abroad.” “Farmers must take all possible precautions to guard against irreparable damage to the land,” Anderson said. “In the years to come, there will be an urgent need for greatly accelerated conservation.” While the grain goals remained high, reductions were suggested in the number of grain-consuming livestock. Next year’s goal for production of poultry and eggs, pigs and cattle were far below the wartime level but still slightly higher than average for five prewar years. “Livestock goals will not provide all the meat needed to fuflill demands, but they represent maximum deemed possible in order to save the greatest amount of grain,” the agriculture department said. (Turn To Pase 2. Column 3) 0 Mrs. Savilla Gross Is Taken By Death Funeral Services To Be Wednesday Mrs. Savilla Gross, 91, of 1604 West Adams street, died at 11:15 o’clock Saturday night at the Adams county memorial hospital. Death was attributed to complications. She was born in Home county, 0., Sept. 23, 1856, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Hammond. Twice married, she was preceded in death by both husbands, Henry Springer and Levi Gross. Surviving are two sons, David Springer of Andrews and John Springer of Decatur, and one daughter, Mrs. Rose Lehman of Fort Wayne. One son and one daughter are deceased. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Black fun-gj-al home, with the Rev. Carey R. Jjoser officiating. Burjgt will be in «fee Salem cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o'clock this evening.

Colder Weather Is Predicted In State Indianapolis, Nov. 24 —(UP) — State police issued a traffic bulletin today warning motorists that four to five inches of snow has fallen in parts of St. Joseph and La Porte counties. More snow flurries in the north and colder temperatures over the entire state tonight were predicted by the weather bureau. Forecasters said temperatures would drop to as low as 20 degrees. Turkeys Plentiful, Relatively Cheap Fowl Best Buy For Thanksgiving Dinner Washington, Nov. 24 —(UP) — Turkey should be a comparatively good buy for your Thanksgiving dinner. It is plentiful and relatively cheap, as things go these days. So are the trimmings. Official figures indicate that turkey will cost about the same as last year — between 49 and 61 cents a pound, depending upon where you live and where you shop. Larger birds, as usual, will be less expensive. Last year some turkeys, weighing more than 20 pounds, sold as low as 39 cents per pound. And once again some butchers will be offering halves and quarters of these giant- sized turkeys for the cock with the small family or the apartment-sized ovenz Roasting hens should be another good buy. .They are expected to sell for between 55 and 59 cents a pound. Poultry of all kinds will be a far more economical holiday food than a roast. The bureau of labor statistics lists rib roast as selling for 64.8 cents per pound on the national average, compared with 55.9 cents last year. Comparative prices show that meat in general is about 15 percent higher than last Thanksgiving time and about 80 percent higher than during the days of price control. Pork — made more plentiful because of the shipment of hogs to market under the grain conservation program — is best meat buy. It is about 20 percent cheaper than in mid-September. Beef is slightly lower, too. But the Increase in turkey production — it is now 4.1 pounds per (Turn To Page 7. Column 3) O Hog Prices Decrease Sharply At Markets Chicago, Nov. 24 —(UP) — Hog prices dropped sharply at mid-west-ern stockyards today, as the largest number of hogs in nearly two years were put on the market. An estimated 117,000 hogs were offered at 12 large terminal markets. This was the largest one-day supply since Jan. 2, 1946, the U. S. department of agriculture reported here.

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Three More War Dead Returned For Burial To Arrive Tuesday On Army Transport The bodies of three more men, whose names are listed on the honor roll of Adams county’s hero dead of World War II will arrive in the United States Tuesday and will be returned to this area for burial. They will arrive in the United States aboard the USAT Robert Burns, which carried war dead whose bodies had been disinterred from European burial grounds. The three are: Cpl. Robert Barnthouse, son of Mrs. Otto Gase of 1225 Elm Street, who was killed in action jn Belgium January 21, 1945. Pfc. Alva Myers, son of Mr. and MJrs. Adrian Myers, of Decatur, route six. who was killed in action in Germany on March 3, 1945. Pfc. Joseph L. Poffenberger, son i of Mr. «and Mrs. Dwignt Poffenberger of Bluffton, who entered service while residing in Decatur and was killed in action in Germany March 14, 1945. Cpl. Barnthouse was a graduate of the Bluffton high school and entered army service in October, 1941. He went overseas in June, 1942, and was reported missing once in the previous North African campaign, during which he was among the first American troops to land on that continent. He served in the invasion of Tunisia, Sicily, Italy, South France and North France and continued with the troops into Belgium and Holland. He had been awarded the Purple Heart. Surviving, besides the mother, is a sister, Mrs. David Schott, also of Decatur. Pfc. Myers attended tlie Pleasant Mills high school and was employed at the Decatur Casting company before entering service early in 1944. He went overseas in September of the same year. Surviving, besides the parents, are the following brothers and sisters: Georgia, Edna, Minnie. John, David and Judith. Pfc Poffenberger entered the army in June, 1943 and went overseas in May, 1944. He was previously injured in action. He was born in Bluffton and attended high school in that city. At the time he entered the army he was employed in Fort Wayne. Surviving, besides the parents, is a sister, Mrs. Elmer (Turn Tn paee 7. Column 5) 0 Britain's Stand On Palestine Assailed Russia Says Stand Hinders Solution Lake Success. N. Y„ Nov. 24 — (UP) — Russia accused Great Britain today of ‘working against’ a solution of the Palestine prob’em by the United Nations general assembly. In the closing phase of debate on the Holy Land’s future in the 57-nation UN Palestine committee, Soviet delegate Semyon Tsarapkin said Britain’s “categorical refusal to bear any responsibility” in the transformation, of the territory from mandate to Arab and Jewish states “leaves no doubt” of decision “to work against a settlement.” Tsarapkin said that because Great Britain brought the matter of Palestine before the United Nations it was bound to support the assembly's final plan for a solution. Britain’s “peculiar attitude” on Palestine is “incorrect, harmful and dangerous and might involve serious consequences." to tfle UN, Tsarapkin warned. Tsarapkin joined U. S. delegate Herschel Johnson in defending the legality of a United Nations partition of Palestine. Arab states opposing partition (Turn To Page 3, Column 7)

Say Marshall Is Opposed To Separate Peace Big Four Foreign Ministers Council Will Meet Tuesday London, Nov. 24. —(UP) —Secretary of state George C. Marshall is flatly opposed to all suggestions, for a separate peace with Germany even if the big four council of foreign ministers fails again to reach agreement, it was learned today. “Proposals that the western powers go ahead with the German peace treaty without Russia are fantastic,” officials close to Mari shall said. “Such suggestions are unrealistic and wholly inconsistent with the basic objective of American policy—to restore eventually all of Europe as a community of nations. “A separate peace would divide Europe forever. Our policy eventually should lead to the reuniting of Europe, as it has been known for centuries.” The big four meeting opens tomorrow afternoon. The delegates held final meetings among themselves today to plot strategy and tactics. A foreign office spokesman said foreign secretary Ernest Bevin would consult secretary of state George C. Marshall and Russian foreign minister Viacheslav Molotov during the day. Their consultations, it was understood, will determine preliminary arrangements for the opening sessions of the council tomorrow. Foreign minister Georges Bidault was expected to fly in from Paris before night. Dr. Karl Gruber, foreign minister of Austria, and Karl Waldbrunner. plenipotentiary min * ister for Austria, arrived last night. Radio Moscow reported that Marshall Vassily Sokolovsky, Russian military governor of Germany, was in the Soviet party. On Friday, he accused the U. S„ Britain and France of multiple violations of the Potsdam agreement. It was learned that Gen. T.ucius D. Clay, U. S. military governor in i Germany ( agrees with Marshall and opposes any policy which would create a formal break with Russia over Germany at this time. Clay, who arrived yesterday, now believes that after more than two difficult years of four-power occupation of Germany, time at long last is on the side of the wester* powers. 0 German Bride-Elect Arrives In Decatur Holiday Wedding Is Planned By Foreman Miss Mina Beyel, fiancee of Howard Foreman, arrived here Sunday night from her native home in Germany. Miss Beyel, who will wed the ex-soldier some time near Christmas, made the trans Atlantic flight from Saturday morning until Sunday night when she arrived at Baer Field, Fort Wayne. She was engaged to Mr. Foreman while the latter served with the U. S. occupational forces in Germany during the last war. He lives four miles south of Decatur. Sgt. Harold Hakes, who lives in this city, today was still anxiously looking forward to the arrival of his war bride and son. His wife, Ruth, and their four-months-old son, have been in the states for some time but have been unable to leave New York City because of the boy’s illness. He thought it likely that she 1 might start her train trip to Decatur today oi Tuesday.

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Republican Leader Says Congress Must Pass Stop-Gap Aid, Long-Range Program Washington, Noy. 24 —(UP) — Senate president Arthur R. Vandenberg said today this country must put western Europe back on its feet so as to help prevent “an ultimate conflict” with Russia. The Michigan Republican told the senate congress must authorize the $597,000,000 stop-gap aid bill for France. Italy and Austria and then follow it up with a multi-billion-dol'ar long-range program of help for the 16 \larshall plan nations. Senate passage of the $597,000,000 measure by Wednesday night is Vandenberg’s goal. House passage will have to come later because the house foreign affairs committee has not yet completed work on its version offthe bill. The stop-gap bill being debated in the senate is merely an authorization measure. Chairman Styles Bridges of the senate appropriations committee. which with its house counterpart will have to pass on money actually spent, accused President Truman of demanding a “blank check.” Both senate and house were in session. While the senate debated foreign aid. the house considered contempt citations brought against 10 alleged Hollywood communists by its unAmerican activities committee. With nearly a dozen committees meeting, congressional developments included: Prices— Both Vandenberg and Bridges criticized the price phases of the administration's duel price-foreign aid program. Vandenberg regretted that Mr. Truman “saw fit to tie this interim aid program into his anti-infla-tion message.” Bridges said the president was infringing on congressional powers in asking for hold-in-reserve authority to impose “selective” price-wage-ration-ing controls. * The administration made hew power requests. It asked Bridges’ committee for emergency authority to buy up entire farm crops, if necessary, as part of the fight to curb inflation while aiding Europe. And it asked the senate banking committee for permanent fTnrn Tn Pn»-- 3 Column St 1 Italy Reds Demand Industry Control Riots Failing To Shake Government Rome. Nov. 24 — (UP) —The communists replaced their campaign of riot and strife today with a demand that the government hand over control of industry to the “workers.” Luigi Longo, Italy’s No. 2 communist and cominform delegate, said, “if the government will not do it, the people will.” Officials said the purpose of the old and ■ new communist campaigns was • the same: to overthrow Premier - Alcide De Gasperi’s government. ' The new campaign — the communists called it a “new thrust’’ ‘ —apparently was hastily drawn 1 up when the riots that began 29 ' days ago failed to shake the De Gasperi government or make ’t 1 lose its head. ’ Some 7,0(10 delegates from all " over Italy held a one-day “congress of workers management, committees” in Milan yesterday with great fanfare to get the p “new thrust started.” Last night they issued an order of the day that ’bristled with faj miliaF phrases. ' It called for unification of “all democratic forces and movements 1n a big labor front of peace and 5 liberty” for “profound structural . renewal of Italian society to sub(Turn To Page 7, Column 4)