Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 305, Decatur, Adams County, 29 December 1947 — Page 1

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[XLV. No. 305.

IRUMAN DOCTOR REVEALED SPECULATOR

Lan Lashes ■lilnflation lawre By GOP Wil Sign Measure Bermed Inadequate B o Halt Inflation Bshingto' 1 ' Dec - 29 "7 ■ bli ,. a iis hurh-d charges of “pol- ■ I'r.-iilrin Truman today statement that their antiBp till was -pitifully inade- ■ _ but that lie was signing Bivay mi a better - than-nothing Bocrats rallied to Mr. TruK. defense, and the flurry of al i,| r ,,unter-eharges made <-l«»ar that responsiH; fur high prices would he the H] issue in next year’s election Kalgns. K. president announced his deK, l(1 sign the Republican — ■sored substitute for his 10- ■ anti-inflation program in a ■gly-worded statement last ■t Wattiam that continued in■n tarried the danger of a “ser- ■ depression." he again asked ■ rP <s to authorize standby and ration controls to ■ living costs. ■ie white house said Mr. Tru- ■ would formally sign the GOP ■sure sometime today. ■e president said in his state■t that he was "disappointed” ■»•<- had passed such a “feeble" ■ h said the public should not ■ed to believe that it would eith■edure living costs or keep them ■ going higher. ■use Republican leader Charles ■alleek and chairman Jesse P. ■ott. R.. Mich., of the house ■king committee snapped |>ack ■ the bill, together with powers ■ president previously held, was ■tate to bring prices down. ■ prices are not brought down.” ■ott added, "it will be the fault ■the president and not the eon■s." ■olcott said the president's relit for price-ration authority was ■red by politics. And as for Mr. ■man's warnings of a depression, ■ott said he saw no reason why ■ country should not enjoy rea■ble prosperity for the “next ■ to seven years." , ■e Republican bill contained! ■ three non- - controversial sea- ■ ofMr. Truman's 10-point proBn and authorized him to use ■ntary methods in carrying out ■ others. ■e provisions requested by the ■idem will: ■•Extend for one year, until Feb. ■ 1949. government controls over B rts of such scarce vital com■ties as steel. ■ Extend controls over transporfor a similar period. ■ Authorize expenditure of sl,■W during the next six months ■Promote voluntary saving of food ■ ■feed; encourage increased farm yition in non-European foreign ■tries; and to restrict use of ■by distillers through next ■wry. ■be bill authorized use of volun- ■ ®«thods to achieve these goals I o president’s program: Alloca- ■ of scarce commodities to es- ■ al users; restrictions on specutrading on commodity exP^ es and sale of livestock and f tr > at we *"hts which would as- ■ •Tiirn Tn P qa - p R Column 71 I O ftfict Legion Head r ns Club Speaker f a ®es K. Staley, fourth district £ ander of the American LeL, 11 be the speaker Tuesday r nin ? at 6:30 o’clock at the dins meeting of the Decatur Lions L.°^ e held in the Knights of I as home. Mr. Staley, a member £,°’. !ner commander of Adams Rb rm "I, city> address the F the topic “American Legion Services.” LJJ' Knapp, local gasoline EL’ be in charge of the FeraUt?' 1 * ntroduce the Ipeaker. L a] 1 emS ° f ‘ rnportant business L tin ° I>e discusse d during the M aii accordin g to club officials, members are urged to at0 I WEATHER “""ewhaT 9 c,oudiness and Tu esdav warm er tonight. !i oht m ° 8t, y cloudy with dr, We north° r BUflht free 2i "3 e "orth portion. C

New York Digging Out Os Big Snow All Non-Essential Traffic Is Barred New York, Dec. 29 —(IIP)—All non-essential traffic was barred from the streets today while 19,000 workmen struggled in subfreezing temperature to clear away Friday’s record-breaking 99,000,000-ton snowfall. Mayor William O’Dwyer, who flew back from a California vacation to direct handling of the emergency, said only trucks carting food, medicines and newspapers and funeral cars would be allowed on the streets. All other commercial trucking, including railway express deliveries, was banned. The main traffic arteries leading into the city have been cleared. Subway and commuter trains were operating near normal. Many local buslines still were halted, although those on main avenues were functioning. Flight operations returned to normal as more runways were cleared at La Guardia and Newark airports. At least G 5 persons have died as a result of accidents and overexertion in the east coast storm area since the 25.8 inches of snow fell. Food, fuel and mail deliveries in New York were irregular, but few cases of hardship were reported. The most serious fuel shortage developed late yesterday when Thoracic hospital in Brooklyn reported its supply exhausted. Police and sanitation workers rushed fuel trucks through drifts isolating the institution and refilled the hospital's empty tanks. Police received 492 requests for fuel, and snowplows cleared the way for fuel trucks in response to the appeals. In some areas, where milk and bread trucks were unable to reach isolated shopping centers, the trucks parked along arterial highways and housewives bought the produce directly from the drivers. It was estimated the cost of the snow removal would run as high as $7,000,000. American Priest Air Crash Victim Karachi, Pakistan, Dec. 29 — (UP) — An American Jesuit priest, the Rev. Father J. G. Sloan, was among the 23 persons killed Saturday night when an Indian air liner crashed in flames outside Karachi. The plane, a Dakotah transport, was carrying 19 passengers and four crew members. Officials of Father Sloan’s mission at Patna identified his badly mutilated body and claimed it. He was buried in Karachi.

Mexican Couple Is Returned To Gary To Answer Charges Os Grand Larceny Lake county police officials arrived here Saturday afternoon to return to Gary a Mexican couple from Decatur to answer to charges of grand larceny. Alberto Gonzales. 44, and Juanita Macio, both living at the same address in the Homewood Addition, are the two. They were apprehended Friday night by sheriff Herman Bowman on a warrant issued in Lake county. Officials from the northern county did not know the details of the charges. Gonzales, when apprehended here, admitted having some trouble with Mrs. Macio’s aunt in Gary over the possession of some phonograph records. Gonzales was only recently released by Gary police after being apprehended here by sheriff Bowman on a kidnaping charge. The charge there was dismissed when Gonzales claimed that he had been keeping an eight-year-old son of Mrs. Macio for several years. He told police that he had lived wlih Mrs. Macio for five years (before her marriage to Harry Macio, complaining witness in the kidnaping count. Mrs. Macio and the boy both returned here, upon lonzales’ release, to live with him.

Blast Rocks Market Place At Damascus Touches Off Fierce Gun Battle, 15 Are Reported As Killed Jerusalem, Dec. 29—(UP) —A barrel of explosives went off with a shattering roar in the thronged market place at Damascus Gate here today, touching off a furious gun battle which authorities said left 15 persons dead. The tar barrel of explosives was rolled from a taxi into the market place. Authorities attributed the bold assault to the Irgun Zvai Leumi’s "black squad,” exacting reprisals for Arab attacks. Twelve Arabs— three of them women and one a child—were reported slain by the blast and in the battle which followed. Also slain were two British constables and one Jew, described as one of the attackers, according to the authoritative count. Armored cars swarmed to the scene and joined the battle, while royal air force guards supported them with covering fire from the roof of nearby headquarters. The milling crowd of panicstricken Arabs, armed with everything from pistols to machine guns, fired haphazardly in all directions. More than a score were wounded. One of Jerusalem’s bloodiest outbreaks of the monthlong hostilities following the United Nations decision to partition Palestine featured new flareups of violence in widely scattered sectors. Early reports of the day’s bloodshed listed at least four other persons killed, in addition to the casualties at Damascus Gate. A correspondent who witnessed the violence at Damascus Gate said a big tar barrel filled with explosives was rolled from a taxi into the crowded market place. At the same time the attackers sprayed the market place with machine gun fire. Arabs, believing the police were responsible for the subsequent shooting, kept them at bay. A gun battle of considerable scope ensued, and Turn Tn Pn up ? Column 7)

Storm Halls Rescue Os B-29 Survivors Rescue Is Blocked By Arctic Blizzard Nome, Alaska. Dec. 29 —(UP) — An arctic blizzard with 40-mile winds that sent temperatures plunging to 3(f degrees below zero blocked the rescue today of four known survivors of a B-29 who have been marooned on desolate Mt. Serpentine, 100 miles north of here, since Tuesday. Air force officials said they would attempt to set up a base camp at the foot of Mt. Serpentine four miles from the wreckage and direct operations from there. They hoped for a break in the storm so they could attempt an aerial rescue today but the brief arctic day—four hours—made any such attempt hazardous. Aerial rescue attempts were called off last night after a series of mishaps to both air and ground parties. The worst accident occurred when a C-47 tow plane and glider carrying dogsleds and troops were forced down 60 miles south of the crash scene. An air force ski plane made a daring rescue of the ground glider and transport troops. Paratroopers jumped to the aid of the four—and possibly more — survivors of the crash yesterday. They carried medical equipment, tents and emergency rations. One of the paratroopers was a doctor. The weather was so bad that the parachute team was unable to radio how many survivors were found in the bomber's twisted wreckage. The report that four and possibly five of the B-29 crew survived the crash came from bush pilots who (Turn To Page 2, Column 4)

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Dr. Wynekoop Released From Prison W JSSR? I * ' IKE — ,||g > KKKKKFM Jib :JKKBB , WALKER WYNEKOOP, Sr., Chicago businessman, looks concernedly upon his frail and ailing mother, Dr. Alice L. Wynekoop, 76, as they leave the Illinois Women’s Reformatory at Dwight. 111., Sunday (Dee. 28) following her release. Sentenced to 25 years for the 1933 Chicago murder of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Rheta Gardner Wynekoop, Dr. Wynekoop, who has a heart ailment, was released on good behavior after serving 13 years and 9 months. Dr. Wynekoop and her son are pictured in an ambulance which rushed her from the reformatory to the Wesley Memorial hospital in Chicago.

Tall Blames Truman For Price Increase Saddles President With Price Blame Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 29 —(UP) — U. S. Sen. Robert A. Taft Republican presidential hopeful, pointed today to the disclosure that President Truman’s personal physician had been speculating in grain as another moving cause, emerging directly from the present administration, for rising prices. When he learned that the latest list of grain speculators, released today by agriculture secretary Clinton P. Anderson, listed Brig. Gen. Wallace Graham as having been ■peculating in 50,000 bushels of wheat last September on the Chicago market, Taft said: “The president has listed grain speculation as one of the causes of rising prices. “Now we fihd that the worst kind of speculation, speculating on a certainty. is right in the middle of the administration. “Like every other substantial cause of rising prices today, the moving cause comes directly from the administration itself.” Taft speaks here tonight and in St. Louis tomorrow night. He indicated that he would touch on market speculation in tomorrow night’s address. His statement relative to the disclosure of Graham’s name on the list today followed discussion at an /Turn Tn 5 Onlnmn o Auto Wrecked After Kidnaping Reported Former Convict And Woman Are Injured Springfield. 111., Dec. 29 —(UP)— X former convict and a Springfield woman were injured in an auto- > mobile wreck today an hour and al half after authorities were informed hat he kidnaped the woman and | ♦orced her sister out of their car at gunpoint. Police said the man was Howard ?. Elston, 24, Springfield. A passing motorist found Elston and Mrs. Jharles Northrup, Springfield, in in overturned car on the old Jacksonville road 1% miles west of here and brought them to Springfield hospitals. • Authorities said a revolver was found on Elston, whom they described as a former convict. Earlier Mrs. Charles Lindquist, Springfield, sister of Mrs. North-1 rup, told state police that an armed man forced her out of the car and drove off with Mrs. Northrup after hailing them on state route 4 near Auburn this morning. Mrs. Lindquist walked into Auburn and called state police. State police and county authorities set up a road blockade but failed to find Elston until he wrecked the car. (Turn To Page 2, Column 3)

Bread Prices Boosted One Cent Here Today Bread prices increased another cent in Decatur today. . | Retail merchants began selling j both local and out-of-town bread, for 17 cents per loaf this morning after receiving the boost from manufacturers. ———; 0 — Third Party Threat Likely By Wallace To State Position In Address Tonight Washington, Dec. 29. —(UP) — Henry A. Wallace is expected to threaten a third party presidential candidacy tonight in a move designed to gain control of the Demo-1 cratic party or wreck it. Wallace is billed to state his position in a 15-minute radio address (Mutual Broadcasting System) from Chicago at 9:30 p.in. CST. Sources close to Wallace said flatly he would announce his willingness to run for the presidency next year on a new “Progressive" party ticket. If Wallace qualifies his announcement it probably will be to say he will lead a third party movement unless President Trumar changes administration foreign policy, especially toward Russia. The former vice president and commerce secretary long ago broke publicly with the Truman administration. None knows better than Wallace that a third party presi dential candidate next year could not be elected. Wallace is the champion of the left wing, including the Communists, and votes for him for president largely would be won from political elements which otherwise might be expected tc support Mr. Truman. A vigorous Wallace campaign in a few key states almost inevitably would as sure Mr. Truman’s defeat next year against almost any Republi can nominee. Wallace’s political strategy began to unfold months ago. More than a year ago he was fired from the cabinet for publicly repudiat ing the administration's firm policy toward Russia. Since then he has become increasingly the spokesman of the left wing. Last September in Detroit Wallace told a labor rally in Cadillac Square the time had come to begin building third party machinery to force the Democratic party “to go liberal” in 1948 or take a beating. He urged labor to build its own political organization, precinct by | precinct, ward by ward, district by district and state by state. He said the first objective of this labor political machine would be to obtain control of the Democratic party. But he added: “If you have such machinery and are not heeded, you will still be in a position to put a farmer-labor party on the ballots that will assure all Progressive voters a clear cut choice in November 1948.” ft (Turn To Page 2, Column 4)

Personal Physician Is Revealed Speculator In 50,000 Bushels Os Wheat

Ex-ltaly King Dies In Exile In Egypt Victor Emmanuel Is Taken By Death Cairo, Dec. 29 — (UP) —Seven days of mourning in the court of Egypt was proclaimed today for Victor Emmanuel 111, former king of Italy who died yesterday in exile in a rented 10-room villa on the outskirts of Alexandria. He was 78. The ex-king's death was attributed officially to arterio sclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, complicated by pulmonary congestion which set in Christmas day. At his bedside when he died were Queen Helen and two of their four daughters. His son, former King Humbert II of Italy who succeeded Victor Emmanuel and reigned for less than a month before going into ! exile in Portugal, was summoned to Cairo to help make funeral I arrangements. J King Farouk of Egypt, who offered asylum to Victor Emmanuel in May, 1946, ordered the roya’. court into seven days of mourning. It was understood that Farouk would order a state funeral for the former monarch, probably in Alexandria. Victor Emmanuel ruled Italy for 43 years, a span covering two world wars. The turning point of his reign came in 1922 when he refused to permit Marshal Pietro Badoglio to fire on Musso Uni’s followers and' stop the black shirt march on Rome. When Mussolini came to power he shouldered the little king — Victor Emmanuel was barely five I feet tall —into the shadows. Victor Emmanuel rebelled against Mussolini in 1943 and sur rendered as much of Italy as he could into the hands of the allies, T'um Tn Pqg-p o Column »

Predict Less Meat Available In 1948 12 Pounds Less Per Person Next Year Chicago, Dec. 29—(UP) — The Xmerican Meat Institute'predicted oday that in 1948 each American vill have to be satisfied with 12 ■rounds less meat than he ate this year. Per capita meat production, how ?ver, will be five pounds above the nrewar average, the institute said This year the average American ate 156 pounds of meat, the larges* per capita consumption in 38 years In a year-end statement, John F Krey, chairman of the Meat Institute's board of directors, said ‘hat this year's meat production totaled 23,200,0'00,000 pounds. He estimated next year’s production at 21,500.000.000 pounds Next year, he said, animals will be sent to market at lighter weights,- because of the need for conserving grain. There will be less “finished” beef for choice cuts of meat, Krey said. Krey did not mention prices, but he said that “consumer purchasing power for meat is expected to remain at a high level in 1948.” Krey. who is executive vice president and general manager of the Krey Packing Co.. St. Louis, said that "confusion” confronts the meat packing industry because of the threat of renewed rationing and price controls. He warned against “liquidation of livestock” to save grain. “Even now, when this country is engaged in a program to supply food for hungry people abroad, livestock production does not reduce the food grain supply to any appreciable extent,” he said. (Turn To Page 2, Column 4)

Greeks Charge Foreign Lands Aid Guerrillas Charge Neighbors Os Greece Sending Men And Equipment Athens, Dec. 29 — (UP) — A spokesman for the Greek general staff charged today that about one-fourth of all the guerrillas fighting government forces in northwest Greece had been sent across the frontier from Albania and Yugoslavia and another 10 to 12 percent from Bulgaria. Three-quarters of the guerrilla light armament came from the countries north of Greece, the general staff spokesman said, as well as all the guerrilla heavy armament. The campaign by the leftist forces under Gen. Markos Vast hlados “is being aided most ener getlcally” by Greece’s northern neighbors, the spokesman. Col Constantine Vlackos, charged. He said the Greek army had spotted unidentified planes flying over Greek territory from time tc time, “and we have every reason to believe they parachuted things’ to the guerrillas. He listed alleged locations of guerrilla training and assembly camps across the border, includ ing one at Corizza. Albania, near the frontier, two in Yugoslavia five in Bulgaria and two addition al auxiliary camps in Bulgaria. Eleven military hospitals werr listed as being used by the guer •■illas. Among them were two ir Albania, soup in Yugoslavia am' ’ive in Bulgaria. Units from 10 to 12 battalion' of the rebel forces under Gen Markos Vafthiades, chief of thf newly proc'aimed communist gov ■'rnment, have been identified ir ‘he fighting, the army informan' reported. Col. Constantine Vlackos mad* the charges against Greece’ 1 neighbors in the name of th* Greek general staff. The Soviet dominated countries of Albania Yugoslavia and Bulgaria He nortl of Greece, and the Epirus flghtinj zone stretches along the Albaniai (Turn To P’iro 2. C*nlnw»n 2)

Five Survivors Os Vessel Reach Shore More Survivors Os Wrecked Ship Safe Manila, Dec. 29.—(UP)— Five more survivors of the wrecked Danish motorship Kina have reached shore on a small island near Samar and a motorboat has been sent out to find them, reports reaching Manila said today. The report was radioed from Calbayog, Samar, where the Norwegian rescue ship Samuel Bakke is giving shelter to 24 of the 29 passengers and crew of the ship who have been rescued so far. Five of the survivors, two with broken bones, are under treatment in Santo Tomas University hospital here after being flown from Calbayog Sunday in a U. S. navy seaplane piloted by Lt. Cmdr. William “Ace" Kauber, Beaumont, Cal. The survivors said three American women passengers, who "behaved marvelously” during the Christmas night tragedy when the Kina was dashed ashore in a raging typhoon, still are being cared for aboard the Samuel Bakke. The Americans are Miss Ada Espenshade, 33, of Chicago, and two whose addresses are unavailable, Mis§ Louise Rasso. and Miss Anne Malek. All three are war department civilian employes.

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Governor Os Utah Also Disclosed As Speculator, List Given By Anderson Washington, Dec. 29 —(UP) — President Truman’s persona’., physician — Brig. Gen. Wallace H. Graham of the army—was revealed today to have been speculating in 50,000 bushels of wheat on the Chicago market last September. Gov. H. B. Maw of Utah also was among .thope disclosed to have been in the wheat market. Their names were the most prominent in a list of 100 federal state and municipal government employes — including three agriculture department employes — who speculated or traded in wheat on the Chicago wheat market last September. Secretary of agriculture Clinton P. Anderson said that of the 100 persons, 99 were speculating in wheat and one xvas a so-called "hedger.” Hedging is a nonspeculative type of trading. Graham was listed as 30,000 bushels long and 20.000 bushels short on Sept. 17. He sold 10.000 bushels on Sept. 19. Disclosure that Graham was a speculator came a week after Harold E. Stassen. Republican presidential aspirant, challenged the administration to deny that government insiders — including "the executive branch of the White House” —were speculating in grain. Graham, who was a doctor i» Kansas City before the war and who now has his office in the White House, issued a statement saying he does not now have any holdings in the commodity markets. He said he had put money in the hands of his broker to invest and that he was not aware that he had wheat holdings until Oct. 7 — two days after Mr. Truman denounced “gamblers in grain.” Graham said he asked his broker ‘hen if he had any holdings in wheat *r any other commodity. When tol<j he had a "small hold- - sng." Graham said, he instructed his broker to sell "whether at a 'oss or a gain, as I did not wisli ♦o have any commodity transactions.” He did not say whether he had profited or lost. The White House declined •’omment. taking the attitude that ‘his was strictly Graham’s own business. Gov. Maw, a Democrat, was listed as holding 5000 bushels >ong on Sept. 17. He sold on Sept. 18. A "long” transaction is one entered into on the expectation ‘hat prices will go up. A “short” is one where the expectation is that the price will go down. A transaction involving both “long” and “short" dealing is called "spreading”—a method of dealing in which the speculator believes that differences between various future prices are too extreme and hopes to profit by balancing one type of transaction against the other. Under margin regulations prevailing in September, Graham would have had to have put up at least 30 cents a bushel margin on his net long position of 10,000 (Tur*’ Tn Pn s*o 7> O Merchants Sponsor First Baby Contest A list of merchants participating in the annual first baby contest for ♦he northern half of Adams county was reported growing steadily today. Merchants and the Daily Democrat sponsor the event by awarding numerous gifts to the first baby, born in the north half of the county of parents residing in the same area. >-• The 1947 winner was Daniel Hess, son of Mr. and Mrs Herbert Hess of route two. instead of Diana Kay Dellinger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Dellinger, as previous- | ly announced. Diana Kay was. the 1 1946 winner. ®