Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 9 January 1948 — Page 1

Vol. XLVI. No. 7.

STASSEN CHARGES MILLIONS IN PROFITS

Palestine Invaded By Arabs

2,000 Arabs Cross Borders Info Palesfine h Expeditionary Force Invades Palestine " From The Levant is c Jerusalem. Jan. 9 —(UP) — Arab 1 ’ expeditionary forces perhaps 2.000 strong invaded Palestine from the levant in a number of border crossings today and stormed scattered Jewish towns in the face of strong resistence by British army and Jewish defence units. Reports from the northeastern tip of Palestine said some 800 Arabs swarmed across from Syria at S am. today and laid siege to the settlements of Dan and Kefar Szold. British soldiers from border posts and Haganah groups converged on “the area and engaged the Arabs in f fighting on a scale not*made clear iimmediately. The British were reported firing into the ranks of the ..Arabs with light artillery. Responsible sources in Beirut re- ! ported that about 1,000 Arab volunteers struck across the frontier from Lebanon during the night. Advices from Beirut said the invaders were intent bn wiping out the 12,■OOO or so Jewish settlers in the .■Safad and Tiberias districts, the Unortheasternmost in Palestine. The Arabs planned to sweep aI cross the Palestinian thumb jutting ■to ttie northeast, and cut off the in- ■ habitants before aid could reach ■ them from other Jewish centers, ■ Beirut dispatches said. ■ While there were references to ■ the march of the Arabs in a proIclaimed holy war, early reports of I the invasion suggested that it was relatively limited scope and purlpose. | While the Beirut reports of the strike from Lebanon were short on detail, United Press advices from Metullah, at the extreme northern c tip of Palestine, gave a better picture of the action there. ■' The invading Arabs were dressed in Syrian army uniforms. They invaded in motorized formations. One stopped outside Kefar Szold, three miles below the northern border, and attacked the village, made up predominantly of American Zionists, at the foot of a sloping hill. * Another band advanced on Tel El Kadi and set fire to the pumping station. The Arabs who converged on Dan. the bibical town .marking the northernmost bound- • ary of civilization as it was known _ then, struck at a settlement on the outskirts and wounded two. • The Jewish settlements sent ur- • gent appeals to Haganah forces at neighboring centers. Reinforce'ments were dispatched to the scene, arriving about the same time as did British troops sent from Metulla. One group of Haganah reinforcements was ambushed by Arabs at ; the village of Chasas. One Haganah man was reported killed and three wounded. The British wheeled up light ar- ' tillery and were reported to have desroyed several houses across the border in Syrian territory. Accounts from the scene of battle said the British repelled the first wave of Arabs to cross the frontier. Women and children in 1 the Jewish settlements were herded quickly inside their houses as the fighting went on. Haganah troops were reported fighting side-by-side with the British. I Officials in Palestine said they had no details of the fighting. Reliable sources said the invaders (Tur" To Page 3. Column 7) o Booth Funeral Rites Sunday Afternoon Funeral services for Mrs. A. D. - Booth, who died Thursday, will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Mon- - roe Methodist church, with the Rev. W. L. Hall officiating. Burial will be in the Zion cemetery at Honduras. Friends may call at the Zwick funeral home after 7:30 o’clock this evening until time of the services. 0 WEATHER Mostly cloudy and cold tonight and Saturday.

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Waste Paper Drive Saturday Morning The monthly waste paper collec-1 tion by the Decatur Boy Scouts will I be made Saturday morning. The Scouts will start their pickup at 9:30 a.m., and the citizens are asked to have their waste paper, securely tied, placed on the curbs or other easily accessible places to facilitate the collection. 0 G. 0. P. Trains • Big Guns On i Truman Plan 1 ; Charge Legislative Program Would Lead ; U. S. To Bankruptcy i , Washington, Jan. 9. —(UP) — . The Republican leadership in con- . gress trained its big guns on the , cost of President Truman’s new legislative program, charging it . would take a budget of $50,000,000,- . 000 and lead to “national banki • ruptcy.” In their attack on some of the i spending policies outlined by Mr. . Truman in his state of the union > message, GOP leaders found some > support in southern Democratic | ranks. Chairman John Taber, R., N. Y., ; ; of the house appropriations com- ■ miftee said the administration proi posals would “create more infla-, , tion, increase prices beyond all - control and make a tax reduction > impossible.” Chairman Robert A. Taft of the ’ senate Republican policy commit-; ; tee accused the Presfdent of tak- • ing a “Santa Claus” approach that would inevitably lead to “national, i bankruptcy.” He estimated that ; i Mr. Truman’s program would hike i the federal budget by $10,000,(TOO,i 000 a year. In the Democratic camp, Sen. Walter F. George of Georgia said I the $6,800,000,000 down-payment ■ asked for the first 15 months of 1 the Marshall plan is “too high.” ! And chairman Harry F. Byrd, D„ ■ Va., of the joint congressional eco--1 nomy committee said that unless rigid economy measures are imposed soon, the country is “headed straight for disaster.” While the budget controversy seethed, the senate met to discuss 1 routine business. The house was in ' recess until Monday. These were the principal developments on cap- , itol hill: Taxes —Speaker Joseph W. Martin, Jr., R., Mass., predicted house passage of the Knutson tax-cut bill before the end of the month. He set Jan. 29 as the most likely . date. Social welfare —Sen. Robert A. ; Taft, R., 0., promised that senate ( Republicans would push their own . social welfare program as a sub(Turn To PafiTA 5 Column R) O Water Main Leak 1$ Stopped Last Night Two Streets Flooded By Leak From Main I I A leak in a city water main, I which flooded Mercer avenue and i Oak street for more than 24 hours yesterday, was stopped last night about 10:30 o’clock. II A crew of city water department I workers, under the direction of superintendent Ralph E. Roop, finally managed to repair the burst < pipe and stop the flood of water ’ pouring up into the streets. ( A city fire truck was used to t pump water from a nearby hydrant, thus relieving pressure at the damaged point sufficiently to per- f mit workers to make the repairs. , Several futile attempts were ( made to plug the damaged portion , before the fire truck was utilized, f Barricades, set up by city police and state highway crews on Mer- t cer avenue, remained at the scene , today to route traffic around the I scene. 1

Don Gas Masks To Rout Brazilian Reds » ' WRHh W’-il f I ■Bl/* "W Srlo -aWt gr K> lb l hmmShl 01iik..., BRAZILIAN POLICE in Rio de Janeiro are shown as they put on their gas masks midway in a twohour pitched battle with communists barricaded in the plant of the newspaper Heje. Forty workers were arrested after the battl which began when police attempted to break up a meeting being held in protest against outlawing of communism and withdrawal of mandates of all communist-elected officials.

Fear Buffeted Ship Near To Capsizing Seas Pound Russian Ship Carrying 800 Tokyo, Jan. 9 —(UP) — Eyewitness reports from pilots flying overhead said today that the Russian motorship Dvina appeared to be in imminent danger of capsizing and spilling her 800 passengers into the Pacific ocean. The ship was being buffeted by i mountainous seas. Water already ! stood six feet deep in her hold. The pilots said that a rescue! ship apparently had taken the' Dvina under tow but that she was | wallowing in the troughs of the huge waves. Lt. L. J. Fitzsimmons, Bloomfield, N. J., piloted a B-17 rescue plane which flew over the stricken vessel. He said Russian patrol boat No. 30 “appeared” to have secured a line to the waterlogged Dvina. Fitzsimmons said that "at times ' she appeared close to turning i over completely.” ' Forty to 50 persons were hud- ; died on the bow and fantail of■; the Dvina and the ship appeared i to be in an “extremely perilous" situation, Fitzsimmons reported. i Only two lifeboats were seen ] hanging from her davits, leading 1 to speculation that some of the i passengers or crew might have I abandoned ship. Rescue ships havq been fighting to save the Dvina’s passeng- i ers since the vessel flashed her

first SOS on Wednesday. Faint signals from the Soviet vessel did not. however, indicate whether anyone aboard had taken to lifeboats. The Dvina said that her battery power was exhausted and that another foot of water had entered the hold, flooded with five feet for 48 hours. Fitzsimmons said the Dvina was 100 miles off the southeast tip of Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost island. But to reach Hakodate, the nearest safe harbor, she would have to be towed almost 200 miles. —o Probe Tampered Railroad Switch Jonesboro, Ind., Jan. 9 — (UP) State police today investigated a tampered switch at the New York ; Central railroad’s south siding here that last night derailed a speeding, northbound passenger train. Three crewmen and one passenger received minor injuries in the W'reck, which toppled the engine on its side and derailed the mail, baggage and passenger cars of the three-car train. “There is definite evidence that the switch had been illegally opened,” state trooper Sgt. George Daugherty said after making a preliminary investigation.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday January 9, 1948

John F. Stine Dies Thursday Evening John F. Stine, 89, of near Tocsin, former Wells county recorder, died at 6:45 p.m. Thursday at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Garth Woodward, with whom he made his home; a sister. Mrs. Margaret Lesh of Bluffton; four grandchildren and five great-grand-children. Funeral services will be held at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon at the 4 Elzey & Son funeral home in Ossian. with burial in the Oaklawn cemetery at Ossian. — Rebel ITU Member Hits Union Tactics I Akron Printer Gives i Testimony In Case t Chicago, Jan. 9—(UP) —A “re- , bel” member of the International , Typographical Union (AFL) said . today that the Chicago ITU local , could have preserved its closed < shop at six Chicago newspaper j plants for another year without going on strike. < Reese J. Highfield, Akron, 0., ( said in an interview- that ITU local 182 avoided a strike against the Akron Beacon-New's and held its closed shop by signing a con- ( tract before the Taft-Hartley law , w’ent into effect last Aug. 23. “The Chicago local could have i done the same thing,” he said. Highfield is the leader of a dis-

sident group of ITU members at- ; tempting to wrest control of the i union from the administration of i president Woodruff Randolph. He was a witness before an NLRB hearing into a publishers’ complaint that the union had en- ‘ gaged in unfair labor practices, i < Highfield set off a commotion at : the hearing yesterday when he pro- < duced seven copies of the union’s 1 journal which the NLRB had ■ supenaed but the ITU had refused < to produce. t He criticized Randolph's admin- - istration for attempting to force t publishers to let the union post . “conditions of employment” in i their shops rather than sign for- ] mal contracts. By so doing, the 1 union hopes to set itself beyond the Taft-Hartley law’s jurisdiction and 1 ' thus hold its traditional closed 1 I shop which was outlawed by the 1 act. Highfield said the Akron local ] kept its closed shop for another s year simply by reopening its contract for discussion of wages only t before the law became effective. i As a result, he said, the local t obtained a wage increase of $8 1 a week for day workers and $9 a 1 week for night workers. The con- 1 tract runs untiLSept. 30, 1948. 1 “If we went along with the In- t ternational’s policy of not signing i a contract, we’d throw the whole i (Turn To Page 6, Column 7)

Youth Is Killed By Robbery Companion Police Say Slaying Appears Accidental Quincy, 111., Jan. 9 —(UP) —'A Mansfield, O„ youth was shot and killed at a hotel here early today by his |een-aged companion in a "Peoria’ robbery, who claimed the shooting was ah 'accident. In a signed confession, Richard Grubaugh, 17, admitted shooting Leroy E. Miller, also 17, in a hotel room where they had come after robbing the Koren Jobbing Co., Peoria, of S2OO and four guns yesterday. Quincy police Sgt. Frank Tushaus said “the kids apparently didn’t know how to handle the guns” which they stole. Investigating officers said the shooting “looked like an accident.” After the shooting, Grubaugh tried to hire a taxicab to take him to Peoria, but when he found he did not have enough money, he asked cab driven Robert Peacock to take him to the city limits. Peacock drove to police headquarters instead. Another youth, Robert Livingston, 16, who admitted his part in the Peoria robbery, was in the (Turn To Paso 6. Column 5) 1 o Salaries Withheld By State Auditor Dual Office Holding Charged By Auditor Indianapolis, Jan. 9. —(UP) — State auditor A. V. Burch said today he was withholding more than $23,000 in wages from five state officials he said were “dual office holders.” Burch said all of Indiana’s general assembly members — except the five who hold other state posts —would receive their regular, quarterly salary payment of S3OO on Jan. 15. It will be the first payment under provisions of a law passed by the 1947 general assembly. Burch has refused to pay, since last March, five legislators headed by state Rep. Glen R. Slenker, R., Monticello, who is also a public dommission Counselor. Burch said he was withholding some $5,560 from Slenker. The other legislators, the positions they hold, and the amounts, which Burch said he had not paid them were: Sen. Clyde R. Black, R., Logansport, secretary o.f the Indiana flood control and water resources commission, $6,379; Rep. E. C. Weller. R.. Dales, director of the PSC’s motor vehicle department. $4,143; Rep, Beecher Conrad, R., Petersburg, state board of (Turn To Page 6, Column 5)

I Government “Insiders” Charged With Profit Os Four Millions In Grain

;17-Year-old Youth 1 Saved From Gallows Governor Wallgren Commutes Sentence ’ Walla Walla, Wash., Jan. 9— (UP)—The family of Joseph Henry Maish cancelled his funeral arrangements today. The 17-year-old high school football player was saved from the gallows last night just 66 minutes before he was scheduled to hang for the knife slaying of a pretty class mate. Gov. Mon C. Wallgren commuted Maish’s sentence to 99 years in prison. He ajready had died a thousand deaths while waiting for the noose. The frightened youth had spent what he thought were his final hours sobbing and praying in his cell. He was bordering on nervous collapse when guards dressed him in gallows garb as midnight, the ! hour of execution, drew near. I At 10:54 p.m., he was led into | the office of warden Tom Smith and told his sentence had been commuted. “My God. my God. my God!” he cried. He was half-carried, limp and trembling, back to his cell. Wallgren, under pressure from private individuals, clubs and j churches, telephoned warden Smith from the governor’s mansion at Olympia even as prison officials * Were "making last-minute preparations for the execution. “I have ordered the death sentence of Joseph Maish commuted j to imprisonment for 99 years,” the governor said. A jury at Vancouver, Wash, ’ convicted Maish. He had stabbed to death 17-year-old La Donna Toscas, a girl whose name he didn't know, after he entered her home on the night of Dec. 21, 1946. At ' the prison chaplain E. T. Allen said Maish was the most repentent prisoner he had ever encountered. The jury made a specific recomi i (Turn To Pag"© 5. Column 6) , 0 Service Restored To Light Patrons l At Least Temporary Service Given All A tired repair crew at the Decatur light and power department smiled today as reports were confirmed that all patrons, both city and rural, had at least temporary power service again. The men had worked the clock around almost constantly since the sleet storm January 1. Lester Pettibone, superintendent, said that he believed every line was back up, at least on a temporary basis. Many broken poles 1 were set back up, and these will ! have to be replaced soon by new ones, but the work will be done without halting the service. In accomplishing the almost impossible job. Mr. Pettibone stated 1 that many Adams county farmers organized crews and assisted the utility employes in resetting the poles and making the wires ready for stringing. The city power superintendent said that he desired to thank the many volunteers who made the job easier and he also paid tribute to the regular employes who sacri- ' ficed their holiday hours off to restore power service to the patrons. Long distance telephone service north of Decatur is still out, but Citizens Telephone Co. employes and an extra crew are hopeful that service will be restored soon. Hun- ' dreds of telephone poles will have ' to be replaced, but the work started immediately after the storm. Many rural phone connections will be out for some time, it was reported, but the work will be done ’ just as quickly as is humanly possible, according to Charles Ehinger, "manager of the local utility.

Seek Missing Truck Loads Os Explosives Secret Palestine Arms Ring Broken Up By FBI Agents I-1 r 3 | Freehold, N. J., Jan. 9 —(UP) — | Two trucks, each carrying enough . I illegal explosives to level a city, ! were sought by police of eight 3 states today, after a secret Palesr tine arms ring was broken with seizure of nine men and 120,963 t pounds of explosives. ,1 FBI agents captured eight of s the men and 71,900 pounds of exs plosives—described by army au--1 thorities as cyclamite, 6% times e more powerful than TNT —at a lonely New Jersey farm. A truck o and driver with 49,063 pounds I more of cyclamite were seized in (1 Park, N. J. Police said that two more truck e loads of the explosives were known to have been obtained by d the organization yesterday from the Seneca Ordnance Works, Ron mulus, N. Y., a war surplus depot, d An eight-states police alarm was h sent out to intercept them. t[ The more than 60 tons of cys clamite seized was in addition to i- 65,000 pounds of TNT captured last week aboard a Palestine- ;- bound freighter in Jersey City, j Charles Lowy. owner of an exe press company upon whose farm the cyclamite was discovered, was i, arrested and held in $15,000 bai’ 1 after pleading innocent to charges i- of storing explosives without fe t 'icense. It was at one of Lowy's e warehouses in Asbury Park tha* t the truckload of 25 tons of cycla i mite was seized last night, t Zimel Resnick, a member o’ . the emergency council for Pales - tine and a friend of Lowy’s, said he would attempt to raise the ex press company owner’s bail. Res nick said he knew of an organiza tion called the American Friends of Haganah (the Jewish under ground army in Palestine) bn' denied he was a member of thgroup. The other eight men arrested all employes of Lowy, were: Hv bert Pond, 29, of Syracuse, N. Y.' Harry R. Sessions, 29, of Nort’ Stockholm. N. Y.; David Chand ler, George Evans. Edward Rob ■’ inson, Charles Bond. Major Dav ' and Angelo R. Tettilo, all of As ' bury Park. ' Pond was the driver of thr f truck seized in Asbury Park. Hr 1 pleaded innocent to a charge o' ’ transporting explosives. ’ Sessions, truck driver arrested (Turn To PaKf 2. Column 4) —O’ ; Myles Parrish To : Head K. P. Lodge i Named hancellor ’ Os Decatur Lodge ! Myles F. Parrish, .local attorney r and Adams county prosecutor, is the new chancellor commander of t Kekionga lodge 65, Knights of ’ Pythias. Mr. Parish was named last night 8 to the position, succeeding Orrin Stults, who held the office during the past year. Other officers named last night 8 in the annual election, held as a t part of the lodge’s regular business 3 meeting: vice-chancellor, Ralph t Kenworthy; prelate. George Rum- ■ pie; secretary, Kenneth Runyon; s financial secretary, Fred Kolter; - treasurer, W. F. Beery. Charles Beineke was named mass ter at arms and the retiring chans cellor commander, Mr. Stults, was s chosen master of work. The newly elected officers will be , installed at the next meeting, Thursday, January 22 at 7; 30 p.m. 1

Price Four Cents

Stassen Says Pauley Was Chief Gainer In Speculation On U. S. Food Markets Washington, Jan. 9 — (UP) — Harold E. Stassen charged today that government “insiders” made more than $4,000,000 in profits by food speculation since the war and of this more than $1,000,000 went to Edwin W. Pauley. Other “insiders” named immediately by Stassen as he appeared before senate investigators in- • quiring into commodity speculation were Brig. Gen. Wallace H. Graham, personal physician to President Truman, and Ralph K. Davies, wartime deputy petroleum administrator. Pauley. California oilman, is special assistant to the secretary of army. Stassen declined to make public the name of any of the other government “insiders” he charged with having profited on commodity market speculations. However, he said he would be glad to give the committee in confidence the “leads and indications of a number” of “insiders” uncovered by his staff. Graham was scheduled to follow' Stassen as a witness before the senate appropriations committee. But he was not present when the balding 40-year-old Republican presidential aspirant made his charge. Stassen told the subcommittee that he hoped the investigation he precipitated by his Dec. 16 speech at Doylestown, Pa., would be followed through "thoroughly,” and added: 1 “If yon do, I believe you’ll find that administration insiders deal■ng in over $20,000,000 worth of commodities made a profit of more than $4,000,000,” Stassen then charred that Pauley did not make “full disclosures” when he was before the full "•ppropriations committee on Dec. 12 to explain his speculations. “At least there was an inference he lost $100,000,” Stassen said. “In fact, he made a profit of more than $1,000,000 approximately in the food and commodity markets since the war.” Stassen then added that others who profited were Graham and T iavies. Pauley, in his appearance before the committee, testified that when he was appointed to his "ost last September he began an Tderly liquidation of all his commodity accounts and it was on his stipulation that he took the umy post. But subsequently he disclosed ‘hat he did enter the commodity market after his appointment, but he said only to provide a “bonus” "or his employes. Graham also said that “frankly, I lost my socks” when his grain peculations were disclosed. Stassen, in referring to Pauley’s “inference" that he lost ’IOO,OOO, apparently referred to D auley’s statement on Dec. 12 ‘hat he had lost SIOO,OOO in promts that would have accrued if he had held onto his position in ‘he commodity markets. Stassen, whose testimony was under oath, appeared in the little 30-foot square hearing room eight minutes before his scheduled 10 a. m. (EST) appearance. Long before he arrived, a line (Turn Tn Pntr© 5. C'nlU’nn O Avon Burk Speaker At Rotary Meeting Avon Burk, charter member and founder of Decatur Rotary club, had charge of the weekly meeting at the K. of P. home last night. Mr. Burk told the life story of his first school teacher, who later became a famous doctor and missionary. She is still living at 80 years of age. Mr. Burk had hoped to have the noted woman. Dr. Parrish of Crawfordsville here for the meeting, but it was not possible for her to make the trip. It was the first Rotary meeting ir. three weeks, since Christmas and New Year s both fell on Thursday.