Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 301, Decatur, Adams County, 23 December 1947 — Page 1

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ITASSEN CHARGES NAMES ARE WITHHELD

Ids Nation In Danger ■Recession [fconomic Council Ejects Ideas Os [onger Work Week Ehington. Dec. 23. (UP)— Ration will be flirting with K roUS price breaks” and rein before the end of 1948 if Rends on increased production ■ !0 combat inflation. | s warning signal was hoisted ■... President Truman’s coun■economic advisers, which also I t ed the idea of a longer work ■its second report to Mr. Tru- ■ the three-man council listed I other needs for putting the ■ nl v on an even keel: ■Many industrial prices must ■ down. ■High profits in many seg- ■ of the economy must be re- ■ w hile profitability should Established in others. ■Extremes in wage scales ■ 1 be corrected, so that the ■roes are brought closer to■er ■There must be a better balI of income among sections, Ips and individuals. ■re is no formula for stable ■tions and maximum producI the council said. But it told ■essmen that “real price common" is the most important, ■is means “the lowest price ■stent with a fair return in a I. economy rather than the ■st price that the traffic will ■ In an unstable economy,” it ■e report, designed as backlad for Mr. Truman’s economic ■age to congress on Jan. 8, ■ opposed a 44 or 48 hour It week. It is evident that we cannot all I longer hours and thereby end lent shortages,” it said. ■ council said many indusI are held back by material luges. others already are on ■round-the-clock basis, and in |rs a longer work week would In higher dividends rather than Ir prices. ■e council did not make any lific legislative recommenda|s and did not touck on the Sent debate over anti-inflation Imls Instead, its report was a lly academic discussion of how ■thieve “maximum production.” I recommended: I That labor and industry get Ither to end “restrictive prac- ■” on output. I A better distribution of goods She "lower and middle ranks.” I “Economic arrangements” to fide 1,500,000 . new homes an■ly for 10 years. I Government aid to rebuild p and cities. I Better education and health [nutrition programs on a “mass pction scale.” I o pms Post To Award I’d To First Baby Itas post 43, American Legion, hgain give a $25 war bond to [first child horn in the new year I* Legionnaire, it was made R today. Legion officials anpced that the bond will be preRd to the father or mother of [child, providing that he or she r good standing with the local [Legionnaire parent of the first ■' liOrn in 1948 j s asked to notiI e post, by telephoning com- . Charles Morgan at 1424 or [ e parent should be prepared 'e the attending physician verL. e time of the child’s birth. 18 the second consecutive year 1 p award has been made. En Closed Wednesday, ursday For Holidays ;w e ,,^ en ' Dee atur’s youth cen- . ' ’ e dosed all day WednesI " Thursday, both this week tan ? eane Dorwin, supervisor, |>. C ' e to day. Regular hours iChrt=? SerVed on other da y s ot ■ ’tmas holiday, Mr. Dorwin Pam WEATH£ R to " iflht and •"ight y ’ 80mewhat colder

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Panama's Assembly Rejects Occupation Rejects Agreement With United States Panama City, Dec. 23—(UP) United States troops continued to occupy 14 military liases on Panamanian territory today despite I the national assembly's unani- | mous rejection of an agreement making the occupation legal. Climaxing two weeks of stormy debate, the 51-member assembly ended a nightlong meeting shortly before midnight by refusing to ratify an agreement for occupation of the bases defending the Panama Canal signed Dec. 10 with the United States. “The agreement is not inspired by the principle of juridicial equality’ of the contracting states nor does it subject itself to the normal practices of international law and the spirit of inter-Ameri-can defense,” the motion said. Deputies burst into cheers and sang the national anthem when the chairman announced that the note rejecting the agreement was unanimous. Waiting crowds, including hundreds of students, cheered and danced in the streets outside the assembly. Behind the assembly’s action was a strong anti-American feeling that has resulted in several demonstrations, one riot in which 33 persons were injured and U. S. action restricting all off-duty soldiers and sailors to the 10-mile-wide Canal Zone proper. Despite the vote, well-informed observers said there was not like ly to be any-change in U. S. occupation of the bases. They said the situation was likely to be one of an “uncomfortable status quo.” It is believed unlikely that Panama will make any direct demand for the Americans to leave the bases. Since the agreement has been rejected, and therefore can never be legalized, it is possible that a new agreement may be negotiated. o——————— Truman's Yuletime Message Wednesday Washington, Dec. 23. —(UP) — President Truman will deliver his yuletide message to the nation tomorrow and then begin a typically American Christmas celebration with his family. The President will speak at treelighting ceremonies on the south lawn of the White House at 5 p.m., EST. His message will be broadcast over all major radio networks. 0 Physician Killed In Auto-Train Accident Richmond, Ind., Dec. 23 - (UP) Dr. J. J. Harcourt was killed last night when his auto was struck by a Pennsylvania railroad train at a crossing northwest of Richmond. Robert, young son of the doctor and a passenger in the car. was not seriously injured. 0 — Lions Entertain Children Tonight School Students Present Program Lincoln grade and Decatur juniorsenior high school students under the direction of Miss Helen Haubold will present a musical program at the meeting of the Decatur Lions club in the Knights of Pythias home this evening. Club members will bring their children to the meeting for the annual Christmas party and Santa Claus will make his appearance to distribute treats. Students participating in the musical program: Lincoln school — David Halteiman, Anita Smith, Charlotte South, Billy Hancher, Janet Lane, Michael Beery, Dan Krueckeberg, Judy Locke. Harold Sommers, Bill Zwick, Phil Deßolt, Jeanne Schultz, David Ellsworth and Jimmy Burke. Junior -senior high — Marge Bauer, Sue Harper, Alice Langston, Jane Dailey, Medford Smith, Dan Freeby, Marcus Foreman, Don Grant, Sarah Krick, Joan von Gunten, Barbara Anspaugh, Eddie Jilttax, Bill Kingsley, Gordon Rice and Eileen Bieberich.

Truman Signs Measure For Foreign Aid ) Signs Emergency Aid Fund To Four Foreign Nations Washington, Dec. 23.—(UP) — President Truinan today signed a bill appropriating $540,000,000 in ’ emergency aid for France, Italy, Austria and China. ) The funds were contained in a $914,286,500 supplemental appropriation bill approved by congress I last week. Also included in the measure ’ are appropriations of $340,000,000 for army occupation costs and rq, 1 lief in U. S.-occupied areas of - Germany, Austria, Japan and Korea; $32,011,000 for four major 1 western reclamation projects, $500,i 000 for relief of Hopi.and Navajo J Indians and other items for federal 3 needs including travel expenses for - members of congress in the emer- ■ gency session which ended last 3 week. The foreign aid phase of the i appropriation measure carries ■ $522,000,000 in stop-gap aid for 1 France, Italy and Asutria and i $18,000,000 for China. The administration originally - asked $597,000,000 for the three -western European countries, but nothing for China. 1 Oongjress subsequently authorized $597,000,000 for the four . countries but when it got around 1 to voting actual money it cut the | figure to $540,000,000. > _0 Predicts Holiday ! Death Toll Os 400 3 j Chicago, Dec. 23.—(UP)—Four , hundred persons will be killed dur- ' ing the four-day Christmas holiday, the National Safety Council predicted today. Ned H. Dearborn, council president, said the death toll could be lower than the council’s estimate if both drivers and pedestrians were extra-careful. , o r Elberson Renamed I To Beverage Roard 1 Other Actions Taken By Commissioners James Elberson, retired gasoline dealer, was renamed to the Adams county alcoholic beverage commission yesterday during the special meeting of the county [ commissioners. Mr. Elberson’s current term of one year expires on February 2, 1948 and he will begin his new • term on that day. Henry Dehner, i appointed by the county council; I. Bernstein, appointed by the mayor, and a state member form the board with Mr. Elberson. The commissioners approved an increase in the bond of the county clerk from SIO,OOO to $15,000 due to the added amount of money handled in the office with increased business. They signed a contract with R. F. Smith, state veterinarian, to conduct a “spot check” for tubercular cattle next year. The ■ testing is done every three years. ’ A sum of $1,500 was appropriated ■ for the test next year. No cost is ’ assessed the owner of the cattle. Persons wishing a check for ’ their cattle may place their application on file at the offices of the county agent or auditor. A contract for three cars of 1 stoker coal, delivered, was made ' with the Burk Elevator at $13.25 per ton. A contract for groceries ’ and tobacco for three months at the county home was made with the Berne IGA store. The board ' approved issuing bonds for about ’ sll,ooo—the balance in the Weidler levee, over one-half of which ' has been paid in cash. The board officially approved , boosting the salary of the matron at the courthouse from $640 to j S9OO per year. The annual re- , organization meeting of the com rnissioners will be held at 9 a. m. on New Years Day with John W. , Blakey assuming his on (Turn To Page 5, Column 4)

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, December 23, 1947

Chennault Takes Chinese Bride lb.'. ■-'s/ ■ Ml rW ’ JOs - ■ w a • :JL w IwaßOwßK 1 wl w wwl •- Os W - jls IlKii \ r ® ißi i 3 HONEYMOONING in Shanghai are Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault and his Chinese bride, the former Anna Chan. The 57-year-old wartime chief of the gallant Flying Tigers, who was divorced last year by his first wife after 25 years of marriage, is operating an airline network for the Chinese relief and rehabilitation administration. The 28-year-old bride has been a reporter for China’s Central News agency.

37 Persons Die In German Train Wreck 300 Injured As Two Passengers Collide Frankfurt, Dec. 23. —(UP) —At least 37 persons were killed and 300 injured when two passenger trains jammed with Christmas travellers collided last night near Neuwied in the French zone of Germany. German railway officials reported today. Officials said both locomotives were derailed and one coach was destroyed. The hospital at Neuwied, on the Rhine eight miles north of Coblenz, was filled with injured and three hospital trains were rushed to the scene. Both trains were crowded with holiday travelers but German railway officials said there were no allied nationals among the 37 bodies found in the wreckage. The collision occurred in a driving rain at 6:30 p.m. when the Munich-Dortmund inter-zonal express rammed into the fast Frei-burg-Dortmund express. Officials said the two trains sideswiped each other as they raced along converging rail lines. French troops were called out to help the survivors. Ninety-eight persons were reported injured seriously. Hospital trains evacuated (Turn To Pas? 2. Column 5) 0 Michael S. Essner Dies This Morning Funeral Services Friday Afternoon Michael S. Essner, 86, lifelong resident of Wells county, died at 9:55 o’clock this morning at the Wells county hospital in Bluffton following a stroke suffered Sunday. He was born in Jefferson township, W’ells county, January 6, 1861, a son of Theo and Ann Margaret Fisher-Essner. He had never married. A resident of one-half mile north of Tocsin, he was a member of the Tocsin U. B. church. Only survivor is a sister, Mrs. Delilah Trullender of Tocsin. Four brothers and one sister preceded him in death. Funeral services will be held at 2 o’clock Friday afternoon at the Jahn funeral home in Bluffton, with the Rev. Floyd Bright of Craigville officiating. Burial wilj; be in Elm Grove at Bluffton. Friends may call at the funeral home after 6 o’clock this evening.

NO PAPER THURSDAY In accordance with annual custom, the Decatur Daily Democrate will not publish an edition Thursday, December 25, permitting employes to spend Christmas day with their v ..fapiilies.. . ♦ o — Lake, Recreation Ground Is Planned Conservation Club Plans Poe Project Plans for the construction of an 18-acre recreation ground and artificial lake at Poe were announced today by L. R. “Rudy” Meyer, president of the Country conservation club. Land for the area, lying immediately northwest of the village of Poe, is owned by C. F. Bucher, well known Decatur metal and furnace contractor, and is to be leased to the conservation club for $1 per year. The conservation club will have supervision of the area upon its completion, expected some time in the fall of 1948. The artificial lake will comprise about 11 or 12 acres of the area and will be formed of water shed from neighboring farms. It will be constructed to permit draining of the lake, if required. In addition to the lake, which will be available for swimming and fishing, picnic grounds, outdoor ovens, a recreation ground and a shelter house are to be constructed. The grounds will be open to the public upon completion. Mr. Meyer said that it is hoped the area will be available for picnics and swimming by next fall and that the lake will be stocked to permit fishing the following season. Lucius Somers, prominent Allen county farmer and legislator, will furnish much of the dirt to be used in construction work, including that for a spillway and dam. 120 feet wide. 18 feet high and 200 feet (Turn To Page 2. Column 3) 0 Straw Vote Opposes Berne Consolidation Berne, Dec. 23 — Results in a straw vote being conducted in Montownship among the township taxpayers, by Howard Gilliom, Monroe township trustee, on the school consolidation plan, reveal that 555 cards were sent out. So far only 302 have been returned. Os this number 221 express themselves -in favor of a four township consolidation plan; 81 favor consolidating with Berne and 10 want no consolidation whatsoever.

Asserts Administration Withholding Names Os Commodity Operators

Foreign Newsmen Arrested By U. S. | UN Investigating L Two Arrests Here | Lake Success, N. Y., Dec. 23 — (UP)—United Nations officials today investigated the arrest by the U. S. government of a second foreign newspaperman to determine if there was any violation of the UN’s headquarters' agreement with I the United States. The second newspaperman to be taken into custody was Syed S. Hasan, an Indian correspondent of the People’s Age of Bombay, , the official organ of the Commun- , ist party in India. His arrest was disclosed late yesterday, 24 hours after Nicholas Kyriazidis, a Greek Communist newspaperman, was detained. The date for a hearing on the lease of Hasan has not yet been set. | Both men were held at Ellis j Island and Hasan was expected to be released on bail today. Kyriai zidis was scheduled for a hearing ■ this morning but it was postponed | to give authorities further time to i study the case. Hasan was detained on grounds that he had violated his student’s visa by taking a job as a newspaper correspondent. Kyriazidis was arrested after the two Communist newspapers he represented were suppressed by the Greek government. After they were suppressed he became correspondent for a Cyprus newspaper. His arrest was protested by UN secretary general Trygve Lie and the U. S. state department was looking into the legal question raised. In his telegram of protest, which was sent to U. S. delegate Warren iR. Austin, Lie drew attention to the following provisions of the headquarters agreement which went into effect Nov. 26: 1. The United States is not to Interfere with the movements of (Turn To Pasre 5. Column 4) O Aged Elkhart School Teacher Is Killed Elkhart, Ind., Dfsc. 23 —(UP) — \n 84-year-old school teacher. Miss Xda Beardsley of Elkhart, died yesterday of injuries she suffered when she was struck by a car Sunday night. Police said the car was driven by William Kercher. 18, Goshen. 0 Hilbert Thieme Is Critically Injured Is Injured Monday In Farm Accident A slight improvement was reported late today in the condition of Hilbert Thieme, 19, son of Max Thieme, of Union township, who was critically hurt in a farm accident Monday afternoon. The youth, confined in the Adams county memorial hospital, is believed to be suffering from a fractured skull and brain concussion sustained in the accident. Hilbert was reported to be walking through a narrow space separating a wagon and a shed when the team of horses, hitched to the wagon, moved forward. He is believed to have attempted to duck below the wagon rack, but his head was crushed between the rack and the side of the shed. ; He was brought to the hospital . in the Zwick ambulance and his ► condition has been reported as , critical since that time, although ■ he momentarily regained consciousl ness this morning. > Frank Straub, Decatur, injured t when he fell through a metal grats ing on Monroe street yesterday, is - reported to be suffering from three ; fractured ribs. One of the fractur- - ed ribs punctured ■ lung, according to reports.

To Call Army For Publicity For Training > a r Object To Army's Use Os Funds For Publicity Campaign f - r Washington, Dec. 23. — (UP) — House propaganda investigators c will call the army on the carpet 1 again next month for its publicity ( campaign in behalf of universal military training, it was revealed 1 today. 1 Rep. Forest A. Harness, R., Ind., chairman of a house subcommit- ( tee set up to investigate propagan- ’ da in federal agencies, said the 1 group will begin public hearings shortly after congress reconvenes 1 Jan. 6. After an earlier investigation, 1 the subcommittee charged that the 1 army, in its campaign for univer- ■ sal training had violated a pro- 1 hibition against use of federal funds to influence legislation. The charges were referred to the FBI. Despite the fact FBf agents now are investigating. Harness said, the army has “definitely not” halted its publicity. ,He said officials freely admit the activity but defend it on the ground they are acting in support of national defense. “I am getting literally hundreds of letter—at least 100 a day—comnlaining about this activity,” Harness told a reporter. “I am not concerned with the merits of the legislation itself,” he went on. “But I am concerned with the fact that it is unlawful for any agency to spend the taxpayers’ money to make up the people’s mind.” Harness said that as a result of the earlier hearings the army laid off two civilians it had hired to travel and make speeches in favor of universal training. But he said activity “just as bad” now is carried on by army personnel. Two enlisted men from the army’s experimental universal training center at Fort Knox, Ky., have been detailed to travel at public expense, he said. The army explains, he said, that they speak 1 only upon local invitation. "The army has set up in almost every county advisory committees of civilians, who organize meetings and carry on publicity work in behalf of universal military training," Harness said. “The army still is sending out tremendous quantities of literature at public expense, in support of UMT. As far as I’m concerned that’s propaganda—or at least improper use of federal money.” Grand Jury Recesses : Until Next Friday County Institutions Inspected Monday The November term grand jury of the Adams circuit court recessed its session late yesterday afternoon 1 until Friday, when the jurors will ’ return to the courthouse. The panel had been expected to ‘ make its report to Judge Earl B. • Adams late Monday afternoon. 1 Inspection of the county institu- • tions was completed by the panel 1 yesterday, after a noon luncheon s at the county home, one of the s buildings inspected. i Prosecutor Myles F. Parrish, who - has been meeting with the panel; Judge Adams, sheriff Herman Bow--1 man and deputy Sam Bentz were :■ also in attendance at the luncheon, s The panel’s report will include e recommendation* following fnspec- •• tion of the county buildings and 1- true bills, if any, containing indictments in criminal matters.

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Anderson Spokesman Denies Charge Names Os 'lnsiders' Are Being Withheld Washington. Dec. 23—(UP) — Harold E. Stassen. Republican presidential aspirant, today accused the administration of deliberately withholding pertinent information about the operations of “government Insiders" in the commodity markets. He asked the administration to disclose at once whether present or former officials of the government. “including the executive department of the White Hou f se,” cleaned up in the commodity markets at the time of heavy government buying last winter. The White House had no immediate comment on Stassen's pew charges. But a spokesman tn the office of secretary of agriculture Clinton P. Anderson denied the . any names are being withheld. “The continued delay of the administration in reporting the operations of insiders in the commodity market during 1947 is inexcusable." Stassen said in a statement issued from his headquarters here. “The issuance of voluminous reports by the administration of normal grain trading on Oct. 31. 1947, and Oct. 31. 1946, and the withholding of precise information requested for weeks is obviously for the purpose of confus ’on and distraction," Stassen said. His statement was issued a daj after secretary of agricultun Clinton P. Anderson made public the first of a series of lists of commodity traders. Anderson hinted that Republican investigators may be disappointed if they expect to find ’’•overnment insiders on future Mats. He said the complete roster of speculators—estimated between 12,000 and 15,000 —will be released before congress convenes Jan. 6. But Stassen said the people will demand specific answers and "will not be fooled hv a shower of irre’evant statistics.” Stassen made the originpl "harge that government insiders were speculating in cominoditv markets and named Edwin W. Pauley, special assistant to the army secretary. Pauley subsenuently admitted to the senate appropriations committee that he had large holdings in grain and o»her commodities when he took the army post in September. He said he was liquidating them as rapidlv as possible. Pauley and Ralph K. Davies, wartime deputy petrbleum administrator and California' oil man, were the only past or present, members of the government whose names appeared on the list of 711 "blue ribbon” commodity traders released by Anderson yesterday. Stassen said the administration. if it wanted to. could “answer in 10 minutes from information the government has had in its possession for months” the following five questions, which he said represent “the key points the people want to know about the food situation: “1. In addition to Mr. Pau’ey. were there other present or former officials of the government, including the executive department of the White House, in the commodity market prior to the (Turn To Ps.£e fi. Column 41 1 ' / '■ (?> ■ * ■14;“ 1 fee

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