Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 15, Decatur, Adams County, 19 January 1948 — Page 1

Vd|XLVI. No. 15.

BARUCH URGES MUTUAL DEFENSE ALLIANCE

lei Supplies Kindling In lid Weather ■emperatures Rise ■lowly In Midwest, told Grips East By United Pi:-'s ■b-zero cold gripped the east■states today as freezing tern■tures ate deeply into the na■s dwindling fuel oil supplies. K the midwest, temperatures S s iowly, but not enough to K the critical shortage of fuel communities. Mold weather prevailed today Ki the Tennessee and Ohio Kr valleys eastward over the ■die Atlantic states and northKward into New England. ■t Washington, D. C., the U. S. ■ther bureau isued a special ■etin which said the cold ■ther reached down into the Kral Gulf states. Georgia, the j Ko’inas and northern Florida. Hmong the coldest spot in the ■on was International Falls. Kn.. on the Canadian border, Kre a severe shortage of fuel ■ heating homes has brought ■dship to hundreds of families, ■t was 28 degrees below zero at Hernational Falls, i-embia, N.D., ■d Craig, Colo. Khe east had its share suh•o weather, however. It was 27 ■ow at Bellefonte, Pa., and MoSinnon, Pa., 26 below at Kane, 25 below at Binghamton, N. K and Etorrs, Conn.. 21 below at ■bany, N. Y„ 20 below at CaKan. Conn., and Arlington, Vt„ ■d 16 belor ot Hartford. Conn. ■The temperature at New York ■ty early today droped to 7.2, the ■west of the winter. ■Temperatures were inching up■rds in the south which was hit ■ a freak snowstorm that cover- ■ the cotton fields of Dixie. The ■ercury rose to 39 suddenly at ■lanta, yesterday, melting snow ■d ice that had caused what pole be’ieved was the "slowest ■lice car chase in history” Sat■day. Streets were so slippery Kat a squad car and its quarry ■ept along at 25 miles an hour. I Catholic priests prayed with ■eir parishioners in southern lalifornia yesterday for rain and 10l weather to break a long ■ought that threatened the Rate's $625,000,000 agriculture inlustry. I Their prayers were answered lartially today. The mercury popped to the lowest levels in |7 days. No rain was in sight, lowever. Temperature fell to 64 legrees at Los Angeles where ley rose to 87 nine days ago. I Although south winds had brok In the back of the bitterest cold pave the midwest and east has |elt in several years, tempera lures were rising too slowly to Assuage the fears of city, state Ind federal officials worried about |he nation’s meager supply of fuel 111 and short supply of heating ■as. I The situation was critical at International Falls, Minn., which buffered the worst shortage of oil. I Mayor Don Hodgon charged shat plenty of oil was available In the country but that a few (dealers holding large supplies pere holding out for exorbitant prices. I He said a Muskogee, Okla.. Mea'er offered to ship 10 tankcars [to International Falls at 25 cents a gallon wholesale. A St. Paul dealer, he said, offered 15 truck[loads at 21 cents a gallon. Retail 'Turn Tn Pnpn 2. Column 4) — o Father Os Decatur Lady Dies Today [ Charles Nelson, 63, father of Mrs. E. D. Stocksdale of this city, died this morning at 6 o’clock at nis home in Muncie. Death was attributed to heart trouble. Surviving in addition tn Mrs. stocksdale are five other children uneral services will be held in uncle Wednesday. WEATHER Mostly cloudy and light ’now east, south and extreme northwest portions tonight. u ’sday Increasing cloudiness * ith light snow northwest port°n. Little change in tempera-

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Candidate RSI Severin H. Schurger Severin H. Schurger Announces Candidacy Seeks Prosecuting Attorney Position Severin H. Schurger, well known Decatur attorney, today announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for prosecuting attorney, 26th judicial circuit, in the May primary election. The first person to announce for a major political office, Mr. Schurger also is the first to enter the race for prosecuting attorney. Mr. Schurger is a graduate of the Decatur Catholic high school, class of 1928. In 1940, as president of his class, he was graduated from Indiana law school. He was admitted to practice before the Indiana supreme court in 1939 and received his bachelor of law degree from Indiana University in 1944. Two years later he was admitted to practice in the federal courts and is a member of the American, Indiana, and Adams county bar associations. A candidate in 1942 for the nomination he now seeks, Mr. Schurger was inducted as a private in the United States army in 1941. He reverted to the enlisted reserve in November of that year and was recalled for active duty in 1942. Following a period of training, he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the corps Os military police in October, 1942 and for 18 months served in various capacities with the MP here and overseas. He acted as adjutant, company commander and executive officer in the 735th military police battalion. He was on duty in London, England, where he worked with the civil police in the world's largest city in criminal investigation work, similar to the duties i found in the prosecutor’s office. Mr. Schurger is 38 years of age and is married to the former Miss Madeline C. Alig of Indianapolis. I They have two children, Severin G. (Turn Tn 6 * — Council Approves Service Officer Vote Appropriation To Continue Office The county council, meeting in special session Saturday, approved the additional appropriation sought for continuing the office of county service officer in 1948. An amount of $2,872, asked by the office for salary and expenses, was approved by the council late Saturday. Dwight R. Arnold, a World War II veteran, has been serving in the capacity of service officer The council last September voted to abolish the office, but at the request of several organizations, indicated they would reinstate it and appropriate the money early this month. The office assists, in various ways, veterans of all wars, their families and dependents After learning of the council 1> latest decision last year, Mr. Arnold dared that he would remain in the office upon the assumption that the additional appropriation would be aP Th° e Ve council during its session also approved an amount of $5,000 Xh'by the county highway d. partment for a new truck and I snowplow.

Gandhi Breaks Fast, Leaders Pledge Peace Indian Spiritual Leader Ends Fast After Pledge Made New Deihi, Jan. 19. — (UP i—New hopes for peace in India were raised today after Mohandas K. Gandhi broke his 122-hour fast at noon Sunday upon the promise of Ind San leaders 'they woul(d seek peace. The frail, 17-year-old Hindu spiritual leader ended his fast by sipping a glass of sweetened lemon juice at 12:32 p.m., yesterday, the only thing he had taken except water since his last meal at 10:30 a.m. Jan. 13. Present at Gandhi’s side when he broke his fast was Indian minister of education Malauna 'Abul Kalam Azad, other cabinet ministers and Hindu, Sikh and Moslem leaders who pledged themselves to peace. Gandhi announced his decision to break his fast after 200,000 residents of New Delhi signed a peace pledge. “We hereby pledge resolutely to do all in our power to promote the sense of security and amity for the greater good of the Indian dominion and maintenance of our newly-won freedom.” the pledge said. Before breaking his fast GandhJ extracted pledges from political leaders that they would follow his program granting safety to Moslems in India, which he announc-i ed Saturday. Gandhi’s fast won: 1. Indian agreement to resume suspended financial payments to Pakistan. 2. A promise by all Indian officials to promote better relations between the dominions.

3. Permission by the New Delhi population to permit Moslems to walk the streets in large numbers for the first time since last September. 4. Evacuation of 117 seized Moslem mosques in New Delhi, taken over by refugee Sikhs and Hindus. 5. A promise of better relations from the Pakistan Sind assembly. 6. A promise by extremist Hindu leader, Rashtriya Sevak Sangh, who has been causing the major portion of antl-Moslem trouble in New Delhi, to abide by Gandhi’s peace proposals. Another provision was that Hindus and Sikhs refrain from invad(Turn To Pasr» K. Column 8) 0 Mrs. Ida B. Magner Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Will Be Wednesday Mrs. Ida Belle Magner, 79, well known Adams county lady and widow of the late Willis Magner, died Sunday at 3:20 p.m. at the home of her daughter. Mrs. John Gage, three and one-half miles southeast of Monroe. Death followed a serious illness of one year. She was born in Union township Oct. 12, 1868, the daughter of Jesse and Christine May, and was married to Willis Magner Oct. 10, 1886. He preceded her in death two years ago. They had resided for a number of years at 10:15 South Winchester street in this city. After the death of her husband, she made her home with the daughter for the past 18 months. She was a member of the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church. Survivors include the daughter and a son, Harry Magner of Fort Wayne; nine grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Three daughters are deceased and Mrs. Magner was the last of a family of nine children. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the Trinity church, with Dr. Charles White officiating. Burial will be in the I. O. O. F. cemetery at Monroeville. The body may be viewed at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, January 19, 1948

General Eisenhower Attends Church Service I (few I tog’B A. r. *****~~ <Rlil ft/ ” ¥ jjyKKI u GENERAL EISENHOWER, making his first official visit to Philadelphia, attended a brief service at Christ Church in honor of Benjamin Franklin, prior to receiving the Poor Richard medal. An unidentified woman surged through police, threw her arms around the Army Chief, and planted a series of kisses on his face. Bernard Samuel, (center), Philadelphia’s mayor is shown restraining the kissing woman. Gen. Eisenhower is seen at right, laughing widely.

Suit Is Filed Here To Set Aside Deed Asks Dissolution Os Partnership Samantha Young has filed a suit in suit in Adams circuit court asking that a ded be set aside that a partnership be dissolve*' and that a restraining order be granted to’keep defendants in the action from disposing of property Donald E. Young and Lelanr' Ripley are named defendants. The suit charges the plaintiff ithe owner of 60 acres of land ir B’ue Creek: that she transferred the property by deed to Donald Young in 1946, increasing a mort gage from S9OO to $2,800; that nroceeds were to be deposited a’ Berne under the names of both parties and that under terms o f an agreement she was to receive proceeds sufficient to maintain her in her usual living standard. She avers that Donald Young has made no accounting, that h<" i« an alcoholic and in October. 1947, executed power of attorney to Leland Ripley, who has sold over $2,000 worth of livestock and grain; that she believed Young violated the original agreement by agreeing to let Ripley farm the real estate in 1948; that Rip ley has an undue influence over Young and that neither will give her an accounting. She asks that the deed be set aside, that any rental agreement between Young and Ripley be dec’ared void, that the mortgage be declared a valid lien; that an accounting be required; that her partnership with Young be dis(Turn Tn Page 2. Column 5) 0 Selking Is Chosen County Chairman Annual Extension Meeting Held Here August Selking, Jr., was elected chairman of the Adams county extension committee for 1948 during the annual election of officers, held this morning at the Decatur junior-senior high school. Delmore Wechter was named vice chairman, Mrs. Holman Egley, secretary, and Winfred L. Gerke, treasurer. Henry Rumple was chosen as a director. At the session this afternoon the committeemen were to discuss a letter from the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, asking that the annual 4-H club show be held this summer in conjunction with the street fair. Reports from the township chairmen were heard this morning after the election of officers and a basket dinner was served at the noon hour.

Accident Victims Are Reported Improving The attending surgeon today reported the condition of Mrs. Mabel Liniger, critically hurt in an auto accident last Wednesday, as still improving. The condition of her daughter, Chloe, also hurt in the crash, is also improving. Both are at the Adams county memorial hospital. 0 Farmers Institutes To Open January 27 Six Institutes Are Planned In County (Pictures on page 4) Six farmers’ institutes will be held in Adams county starting January 27, it was announced today. The institutes, which are sponsord by township institute organizaions with the Adams county agriultural agent and Purdue univerity extension department cooperding, are held annually. Besides the hundreds of exhibits vhich will be shown at the meetngs, health will be the theme of he one-day events, scheduled for .11 parts of the county. The first nstitute will be held at Geneva on anuary 27. Mrs. E. Guy Collings of ainbridge and Merl I. Whorlow, 't. Wayne, Indiana board of health epresentative, will be the princip 11 speakers. Mrs. Collings is well known anong women’s organizations of the date and has been active in Indana state fairs for a number of /ears. Mr. Whorlow is health education consultant of the Fort Wayne branch of the state board of health. Officers of the Geneva institute are Donald Clark, chairman; Robert Gerber, vice-chairman; Holman Egly, secretary-treasurer. The second Adams county event will be held at Monmouth January 28 with the same speakers as headliners. The Monmouth officers are Gust Selking, chairman; Herbert Bolinger, vice-chairman; Mrs. Richard Moses, secretary; Mrs. Mart Brown, assistant secretary; Fritz Aumann, treasurer; William Selking, assistant treasurer. On January 29, two institutes will be held, one at Berne and the other at Kirkland. Mrs. Collings and Mr. Whorlow will be the speakers at Kirkland. Mrs. R. B. Miller, prominent North Manchester club woman and church worker and Robert Yoho, director of health education of the state board of health, Indiaiapolis, will be the Berne speakers. The Kirkland officers are Glen Girod, chairman; Alonzo Smith, vice-chairman; Jay Roach, secretary; Stanley Arnold, treasurer. Berne officers are Everett Rice, chairman; Orlando Lehman, vice- | chairman; James Fox, secretary; I Sherman VonGunten, treasurer. Two more institues will close ' (Turn To Page 5, Column <)

Peace And Production Program Outlined To Congress By Adviser

Heavy Traffic Toll Reported In State Two Killed And Five Hurt In One Wreck By United Press Extremely cold weather kept many motorists at home during the weekend, but Indiana’s traffic death toll looked like a highway slaughter total for any normal midsummer Saturday and Sunday. Police records of traffic violence showed today that at least nine persons lost their lives from Friday night through Sunday. The worst accident was near Batesville on Ind. 46, where Donald Carel, 20, and Kenneth Nichols. 20, Batesville, were killed and five other persons hurt. A car driven by Carel tried to pass another auto and was wedged between it and a big truck, police reported. Floyd Sterrett, 42. Indianapolis, was kl’led when his automobile collided with a Pennsylvania railroad train at Indianapolis. A passenger in the car was hurt. Joshua S. Edwards, 67, Indianapolis, was killed and two other men were injured when two automobiles col’ided at a bridge on Ind. 67 near Mooresville. Edwards was a custodian at Broad Ripple high school. Jesse Tibbs, Jr., 18. LaPorte, •Bed Saturday In a LaPorte hosnltal 'of injuries received Friday night when his car hit a tree on U. S. 35. Elihu Bricker, 63. Muncie, died Sunday in Muncie of injuries susalned Sept. 25 when he was hit y a railroad switch engine.

Mrs. Eunice Rustin, 21, Ober* 'in, 0., died Sunday in a Muncie hospita'. She was hurt Saturday night when, a car,driven by the Rev. Russell P. Whalen, 24, Cin(Tunrn To Pago 2. Column 2) 0 Business Barometer Issued By C. Os C. Employment Drops, Payrolls In Gain A continued decrease in employment but a boost in industrial payrolls is reported for December, '947 in the monthly business barometer, issued by the Decatur Chamber of Commerce. With 1,740 persons employed in seven reporting industries during December, 1947 the barometer shows that this represents a decrease of 0.6 compared to November, 1947 and 3.9 compared to December, 1946. Payrolls last month in the same industries totalled $446,739 — an increase of 9.7 over a month ago and 16.5 over a year ago. Electric consumers in Decatur totalled 4,107 for the month, an increase of 0.4 over a month ago and 33.9 over a year ago. Gas consumers totalled 1,818 for an increase of 0.7 over the previous month and 15.2 over a year ago. Telephones in service totalled 4,534 for an increase of 0.7 over the previous month and 5.4 over the previous year. Direct poor relief in Washington township totalled $270 for 48 persons in 13 cases, a decrease of 26.7 compared to a month ago but an in crease of 14.4 over a year ago. Births during the month totalled 48, deaths, 10. These represented increases of 84.6 and 66.6 respectively compared to December, 1946. Carloadings for the month, both in and out, totalled 2,022 for a decrease of 30.1 compared to a month ago and a decrease of 6.2 compared to a year ago. * Railway express shipments totalled 2,695, an increase of 6.2 over a month ago and a decrease of 5.0 over a year ago. Postal receipts totalled $7,668 for an increase of 84.4 over the previous month and an increase of 1.6 over the same month a year ago.

3rd American Killed In Holy Land Clashes 65 Americans Join Jewish Forces In Fight With Arabs Jerusalem, Jan. 19 — (UP) — Jewish sources disclosed today that Arab-Jewish clashes have taken the life of a third American and that 65 American students, studying at the Hebrew university under the GI bi’l of rights, hrve joined the Jewish fighting force Haganah. The American vluim waSj Moshe Perlstein, of Brooklyn, a graduate of the New York rabbinical seminary. He was one of 45 Haganah fighters killed last Wednesday when ambushed by Arabs near Jabbaa on the Hebron road south of Jerusalem. Two Arabs were killed and six were injured when a band of Jews attacked the Arab village of Tamra north of Haifa early today. The attackers fired for 30 minutes with machine guns and rifles. One of the attackers was believed to have been wounded. Gershon Hirsch, a Jewish agency spokesman, said that the 65 students at the Hebrew university “insisted on their own accord” that they should be permitted to join Haganah. He denied that Haganah had used pressure to enlist the students. Previous requests for them to join had been refused by David Ben Gurion, chairman of the Jewish agency executive,!' Hirsch said. It was understood that the American consul general. Robert Macatee, was preparing a report for the U. S. state department on the action of the students. A convoy of 35 Jews, relatives i of the Haganah men kil’ed in the clash with Arabs last week, were escorted to Kefar Ezion to attend a common burial service. In another of its punitive operations, Haganah blew up a house in the all-Arab settlement of Ramleh, six miles east of Jaffa. There were no casua’ties. The house commanded a full view of the highway to Jerusalem, and! was reported to have been a snip-

(Turn To Page 6 Column 8) O Mrs. Vera J. Heller Dies This Morning Funeral Services Thursday Afternoon Mrs. Vera Jane Heller, 32, well known Preble young lady, died this morning at 6:45 o’clock at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Kleinknight, 1007 Adams street, Decatur. Death was attributed to a heart ailment and followed an illness of two years. Her condition had been critical for the past two weeks. She was born in Decatur July 27, 1915, and was graduated from the Decatur high school in 1934. She was a member of the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church. Surviving, besides the husband, John V. Heller, to whom she was married in 1936, are the parents; two children, Monty, aged 8, and Sherry, 6; the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Howard. She was an only child. Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the Black funeral home and 2 o’clock at the Trinity church, with Dr. Charles White officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. The body may be viewed at the Black funeral home after 2 p.m. Tuesday until time for the services.

Price Four Cents

Congress Speeding Work On Tax Cuts, Meat Rationing And Rent Control Bills Washington, Jan. 19. —(UP) — Elder statesman Bernard M. Baruch gave congress a peace-and-production program today. The silver-haired adviser of presidents testified on the Marshall plan for European recovery and he laid before the senate foreign relations committee a comprehensive plan calling for a mutual defense alliance of all nations, price rollbacks, no tax cuts, wage stabilization, a longer work-week and continued rent controls. Baruch said the United States must adopt a “bold and resolute” program to beat back the “clawing fears” of inflation at home and war abroad. Even as he testified, however, congressional Republicans acted to speed tax-reduction legislation. Congress also heard new appeals for and against extending rent controls. Two members of congress announced they were filing bills to set up a meat rationing system that would become effective when the president and congress deemed it necessary. And Republican congressional leaders sharpened their economy axe and prepared to go to work Thursday on president Truman’s $39,668,00G’,(rt)0 budget for fiscal 1949. With both senate and house in session, there were these developments: Taxes — Two cabinet officers, secretary of treasury John W. Snyder and commerce secretary W. Averell Harriman, opposed any tax reductions that would deprive the government of revenue. They said t such plans should be kept on ice until "inflationary pressures have subsided.” Baruch opposed tax reduction of any kind for the next two years.

Rents —Ray Sawyer, legislative director of AMVETS, urged a oneyear extension of the rent control law which is due to expire Feb. 29. He told the senate banking "ommittee that tenants who signed “voluntary” 15 percent increases last year also should be protected. But E. E. Brandscombe of Miami said rent controls were “the police state of the housing industry” and should be dropped. Meat rationing—Sen. Ralph E. Flanders, R., Vt., and Rep. Jacob K. Javits, R., N. Y., said they are filing bills to set up meat rationing machinery It would become effective whenever the president and congress deems it necessary. No provision is made for price controls. Food prices—Chairman Charles W. Tobey, R., N. H., of the senate banking committee attacked what we called the rigging of food prices by keeping supplies off the market. He charged that high prices of potatoes had been maintained by the government taking them off the farmers’ hands. Budget— Congressional Republican leaders called a meeting of the joint congressional budget committee for Thursday to begin conside(Turn To Page 2. Column 4) O Leadership School Here Tuesday Night The Rev. Newton A. Peck will be the chapel speaker at the leadership training school Tuesday night at the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church, under the sponsorship of the Decatur ministerial association. Rev. Peck, pastor of the First Presbyterian church at Ossian, also is Wells county president of Christian education committee. While it is too late to enroll in the various classes for credit this term, it* was pointed out by those in charge that all classes and the hapel exercises are open to the public at any session of the school. Classes are held each Tuesday and Thursday night at the Bethany church. Dr. M. O. Lester, pastor of the First Methodist church of this city, is dean of the school. This is the second week of the three-week term.