Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 22 January 1948 — Page 1

Vol. XLVL No. 18.

TRUMAN OPPOSES HOOVER RECOVERY PLAN

Nazi Documents Show Russians' Amity To U.S. ■Captured Documents i ■Given German Fleet K Jan. 22 — (UP) j jjuji foreign office documents capI turetl by the UnPed S'ates include ~»■> intuitions to the German anibasin Moscow to thank the Sovfor "valuable assistance" ,/T . given the German fleet IV io before Russia !>e. ame a e n German on the Russian Artic fiMEKch tile Nazis were abandoning \ lise neW bases had become in Norway. was one of the 260 Nazi tori igu office documents published last night by the state department aiß relating to Soviet-Nazi relations In 1939-41. Some oi the other dftuments included Nazi versions ■ . Alleged seer”* agreements beRussia and Germany in 193941. including plane — before the ■viet-Nazi break — to carve up the Eurasian-African continent into Spl eres of influence for the axis HKwers and Russia. K. The German version cf a purRussian claim that in midi«o. the British offered to recogRussian dominance in the 1S! jjiikans if the Russians would help restore the old balance of power •against Germany. Joisef Stalin, acding to the German acount, ■ cj egorieally rejected the alleged British offer. g® Memoranda of conversations gtj between the highest Soviet and Saz: oficials during which they k ■|Ht>-n were said to have expressed determination to drive Britain and j IK- United States out of Europe. ■Kia and Africa. ■4. A discussion between Adolf ■I aKtier and Japanese foreign rainister Yosuke Matsuoka. in which Hit’S lei said "Germany considered war J the United States to be undesirable, but it had already been ine|uded in its calculations.” The document alluding to Soviet IV aHssistance to the German navy was 1Y Sept. 5, 1940 — more than •• I >ii.e months before Russia entered ■e war. It was a routine German tivfi MSR 1 ' - 11 office instruction telegram _ ■■> the German ambassador in MosI « v ' ll sa , IS “The navy intends to abandon base on the Murman coast, as h are now available in Norway, find ■■lease inform the Russians of this ZoA* ■ ecisiun a »d. on behalf of the govof the Reich, convey our liy, ■Khanks for valuable assistance. In |Kddition to the official note, the in chief cf the navy intends to express his gratiare in a personal letter to the yoA of the Soviet I The “Murman coast” is the term iUT- the Artic coast in the area of IJj. — the only ice free port the area which later became faas the end of the convoy SS6 'Turn To Page 2. Column 3) Q temperature Skids eiD ■ % ero Mark Here H Again This Morning ap! Temperatures in Decatur slipped ■° zero again during the night as city and community was held ■tightly in the grips of the latest i ■cold wave. Reports from early risers indicatthat the temperature about 6 p. clock this morning was zero and the mercury slowly climbed . f t(> 2 above about 7 a.m. I By 10 o’clock this morning mer- | Bcury in the Daily Democrat ther--IRT ■■ nio ineter had pushed upward to 8 -c 5 ■» above and was believed still going I | UP ' ITS Th 6 weatherman dashed all lV e 01>es of a break in the cold wave j ■ onight by predicting even colder . along with snow flurries, I ■ according to his early morning foreto . nd I I o — Weather Im Snow south and partly cloudy W< j "orth with a few snow flurries hear Lake Michigan tonight. w ° to three inches of snow llke ly in a narow belt exteme iIH *? Uth p ® rtion ' cold to>l’ Eih n 'Bht. F a j r anc j continued cold Friday.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Chamber Speaker - - v - ■Wyb & - < W ill ft Paul V. Barrett, Findlay, 0., will be the principal speaker at the annual meeting of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce next Monday night. Annual C. 01C. Banquet On Monday Paul V. Barrett Is Principal Speaker More than 100 reservations already have been made for the annual Chamber of Commerce dinner, to be held Monday at 6:30 p.m. at the Masonic hall, it was announced today by the committee in charge. Paul V. Barrett, director of personnel for the Ohio Oil Co., Findlay, 0.. will be the guest speaker. Ticket reservations can be made by non-members of the Chamber, it was announced, and may be made by calling the Chamber of Commerce office. R. J. Holthouse, retiring president, said that a capacity crowd was expected. Mr. Bauc*t has charge cf the company”s 6000 employes who are scattered over 20' states wherever producing, pipeline or marketing activities are carried on. He is a graduate of Grinnell College and has done graduate work at lowa State College and Ctyiicagto UnivtespiUy 1 . For many years he has been active in community affairs, having served as President of the Findlay board of education for three years, director of Findlay College, president of the Findlay Rotary club and district governor of Rotary International. At the present time he is (Tunrn To Page 2, Column 2) o Rural Education Institute Theme Teacher Institute Here On Saturday Progress of rural education and improvement of rural schools will be the main theme of the annual Adams county teachers’ institute, to be held Saturday at the Lincoln school. The program for the event - been arranged with this thoug in mind, according to Lyman L. Hann, county school superintendent Dr Shirley Cooper, the main speaker of the institute, is recognized as one of the nation s leading authorities in rural education fields. He is serving at present as assistant director of rural service in the rural education department of the national education association. Practically all of the nearly 100 teachers in the township schools of the county are expected to attend. and invitations have also been extended to teachers in the Berne and Decatur schools. Mr Hann appeared before the county extension committee in its recent meeting and invited all persons interested in rural education to attend. Principals and rtownship trustees were also urged ‘o extend the invitation to these leaders. The institute will open at 9.10 a m and may be continued after lunch, if the group desires, Mr. Hann said. A discussion period will climax the morning session.

Budget Group Holds Initial Meeting Today GOP Calls For Drastic Cut In Federal Spending Washington, Jan. f? -- (UP) — The joint congressional budget committee holds its first meeting of the year today amid Republican demands for cuts of up to $5,000,000,000 in President Truman’s new proposals for federal spending. Chairman John Taber, R., N. Y., of the house appropriations committee said a reduction of that size in Mr. Truman’s $39,668,000,000 budget would enable congress to adopt the GOP tax-cutting bill and still lop $4,800,000,000 off the national debt. The house wap in session but the senate was in recess until tomorrow noon. These were the developments: Taxes — Chairman Robert A. Taft, R., 0., of the senate GOP policy committee said he’s all for the $5,600,000,000 Knutson income tax cut bill, provided government finances “will support it.” However Taft and otner senate leaders shied away from any firm commitments until they know how much the government is going to spend in fiscal 1949. Marshall plan — Many Republican critics of the Marshall plan looked with favor on the “Hoover plan” to extend only limited aid to the hard-pressed countries of Europe. The new proposal was outlined by former president Herbert Hoover for the senate foreign relations committee which is, considering European aid. Speculation — Edwin W. Pauley challenged GOP presidential hopeful Harold E. Stassen to prove his words — or eat them — tomorrow when the two men have their showdown on speculation before senate investigators. Stassen said he would be “fully prepared.” He accused Pauley, special assistant to the secretary of army, of cashing in on “inside” information in his commodity trading. Dirt — Rep. Albert J. Engel, R., Mich., charged that the army's budget officer covered up army “dirt” from congressional investigators. And he said army secretary Kenneth C. Royall not only condoned the action but rewarded it. Engel accused Maj. Gen. George C. Richards, the budget officer, of doing “everything in his power” to keep his house subcommittee from getting information on their inspection trip in the China-India theater. . Petrillo — The house labor committee is going to poll members of the American Federation of Musicians (AFL) to see how they feel about James C. Petrillo’s ban on record-making. Committee chairman Fred A. Hartley, Jr., R., N. J„ said the poll will be taken “with or without” Petrillo’s consent. RFC — Jesse H. Jonee, longtime director of the reconstruction

(Turn To Page 2. Column 3) O Officers Installed By Red Men Lodge Installation Held Wednesday Evening Installation of officers for J 948 for Pocotaligo Tribe number 2(73, Decatur chapter of the Improved Order of Red Men was held Wednesday night at the local lodge rooms. Jake Hodle was installed as sachem, which corresponds to president. Other officers include: William Merriman, senior sagamore; Eulae Dull, junior sagamore: Bert Ralston, prophet; Harry Hebble, clerk of records; Howell Duff, keeper of wampum; B. F. Breiner, first sannap; A. N. Hilton, second sannap; Walter Butcher, guard of wigwam; Charles Cook, guard of forest. Three trustees also started serving terms for the new year. They are B. F. Breiner, Walter Butcher and Fred Scheimann. Mr. Hilton, member of the local lodge, also is groat junior sagamore of Indiana and Is in line to be the chief officer of the lodge in the state next year.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, January 22, 1948

Whitney Back On Truman Track A. F. WHITNEY (left), president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, leaves White House with Gael Sullivan, executive director of the Democratic committee after pledging full support of his union to President Truman in 1948. Two years ago Whitney called Truman a “political accident,” and threatened to spend $7,000,000 of his union’s funds to defeat him.

Nation Is Warned Os Prolonged Cold Critical Shortage Os Fuel Mounting By United Press The U. S. weather bureau warned today that the cold wave sweeping eastward across the country was being “reinforced” by intensely cold air from Canada and would develop into the most prolonged spell of cold weather this winter. The prediction came as city and state officials throughout the midwest were making all-out efforts to combat a critical shortage of fuel oil that had forced the closing of many public buildings and caused families to double up with friends and relatives. “All we can see ahead of us is extremely cold weather for as far as we can forecast,” an expert at the Chicago bureau said. He said that the frigid weather was being formed in the Canadian Yukon from which it rolled southwards into the United States. “Some parts of central Canada are down to 50 below zero today and the cold air already has pushed the mercury down to 30 below in some parts of the upper Mississippi and Missouri valleys,” he said. “The leading edge of the cold wave crossed the Ohio river valley early this morning and should arrive at the Atlantic coast either tonight or tomorrow. “It will cover most of the southeastern part of the nation and may even push far enough into Florida to endanger the citrus fruit crop again.” Light snow was forecast for scattered sections of the middle west and east today but no serious storms were expected to develop so long as the temperatures remained cold. The New York weather bureau reported that 37.6 inches of snow have fallen in the New York metropolitan area this winter, the most since 47.1 inches fell in the winter of 1904-05. Safety officials feared the prolonged cold would raise the nation’s toll of 92 deaths attributed directly or indirectly to the bad weather. Seventy-four persons died in fires caused by overheated stoves and furnaces during the past nine days. Sixteen others froze to deatA and two died of over-exertion. The worst tragedy occurred yesterday when a mother and her four children died in a fire which destroyed their farm home near Little Falls, Minn. Officials said the fire that killed Mrs. May An(Turn To Page 2, Column 3) o Flasher Beacon At Berne Intersection The Indiana state highway commission today announced that flasher beacons will be set up by the state at the intersection of U. S. 27 and state highway 118 in Berne. New flasher signals and flasher beacons were approved by the commission in several Indiana cities, including the one at Berne.

Additional Gas Tax Is Received The first additional gasoline tax distribution check has been received here in the offices of the county auditor, it was announced today by Thurman I. Drew. The check totals $4,727.46 and is in addition to the regular quarterly payment check, which amounts to some $27,500. It is not definitely known whether the check represents a quarterly or semi-annual payment. Last year two cheeks, both received later in thq, year, totalled more than SII,OOO. Amount of the regular quarterly payments, as well as the additional payments from surplus is dependent upon the amount of gasoline consumption in the state and the resultant tax. o Army Seeks Cause Os Terrific Blast Explosion Shakes Three-State Area Savanna, 111., Jan. 22. —(UP)— Army investigators searched through the of an antitank mine storage magazine at the Savanna ordnance depot today, seeking the cause of a terrific explosion that shook a 30.000-square-inile area in three states. No one was injured in the blast, although the concussion wave rattled windows and shook walls more than 100 miles away. The depot is one of the world's largest ammunition dumps. The explosion did little damage outside the depot other than to break a few windows. Officers refused to say how bad the damage was inside the reservation. The army clamped a tight lid of secrecy over the early stages of the investigation after releasing bare details contained in the official report of the commanding officer. The depot is located 10 miles north of here on the banks of the Mississippi river. “An igloo magazine containing anti-tank type mines was destroyed at 2100 (9 p.m. CST), 21 January, “by an explosion of unknown the Tepoijt said. “Nq casualties, but considerable structural damage to other magazines. No resultant fire.” The blast was felt as a severe tremor along the Mississippi river and residents as far away as Peoria. 111., lowa City, la., and Chicago, all more than 100 miles from the plant, reported hearing the blast. The explosion was so powerful that it registered as a light tremor on the seismograph at Loyola University in Chicago. The depot, which also houses a small-arms»plant, is used to store bombs and many other types of ammunition. It covers a 13,0(70 acre area and is believed to be the largest of its type in the world. Houses at Savanna. Hfhover, 111., and across the river at Bellevue, la., were badly shaken by the explosion, but a preliminary check by police disclosed that the damage was confined to shattered windows. Three plafce glass windows (Turn To Page 2, Column 3)

Hoover Recommendation For Congressional Cut In Fund Flatly Opposed

15-Year-old Girl Held As Juvenile Eight-Day Holiday Record Is Checked San Francisco, Jan. 22 — (UP) — Jacqueline Horner, 15-year-old Hollywood prodigy and actress who ran away from her piano practice, was held as a ward of the juvenile epurt today while authorities checked back over the events of her eight-day stolen holiday. The pert, attractive youngster, former star of the broadway production “Swan Song,” fought back tears when she told officers “I’ll run aw T ay again when they return me home.” But at other times she laughed as she described her escape from long hours of piano practice and stern parental discipline. She said she financed her trip by bus from Los Angeles with $32 gained by pawning a diamond-stud-ded, piano-shaped pendant given to her by actress Helen Hayes. She said she used some of the money for an upswept hairdo to make her look older. “And 1 was wearing a sweater, too,” she added. “I always look 19 or 20 in a sweater.” Police also held seamar. second class Wallace Wells. 19, whom police found early yesterday in a hotel room with Jacqueline, and Mrs. Gloria Jean Costello Miles, 22, a fori)) er night-club photographer, whom Jacqueline met on her bus ride to San Francisco. They were charged with violating the state welfare code which covers offenees involving minors. Wells was sitting on a bed in the hotel room and Jacqueline, clad in a white slip, was hiding in a closet when police found them. Both the sailpr and the girl insisted their relations had been proper. They had been at thp hotel together two days, registered as brother and sister. “I was just looking after her, like a big brother,” Wells said. Police inspector Joe Norton said he believed they were telling the truth. "They seem like nice kids,” he commented. , Jacqueline said she ran away from home because she was “tired of practicing the piano eight hours a day.” “I was tired of being exhibited like a trained animal,” she said. “I wanted friends my own age. I thought it would be fun to be on my own.” She said she left her Hollywood (Turn To Page 2. Column 4)

Former Treasurer Short In Accounts Shortage Reported At Covington, Ind. Covington, Ind., Jan. 22—(UP)— William H. Ramsey, former Fountain county treasurer said today he didn’t know what happened to the $4,814 reported on a shortage in his accounts. The shortage was reported by C. E. Ruston, chief examiner of the state board of accounts, in Indianapolis. Ramsey, who resigned Jan. 6. shortly after starting his second term as treasurer, said, “they are going to have to prove I took it. I am not guilty. The books balance, but the money isn’t there.” He served two terms as Fountain county sheriff before elected to the treasurer’s office. He was succeeded in office by his wife, but she was unahle to post the required $25,060 bond and the Fountain county commissioners finally named Forrest Kay of Attica. The report of the state board of accounts, signed by field examiners W. R. Fuson and A. Dale Dudley, was filed witik the state attorney general’s office by chief examiner Ruston for possible legal action. (Turn To Page 2, Column 3)

Longer Work Week Is Urged By AFL Leader Green Proposes Five Hours Longer Week At Overtime Rates Washington, Jan. 22—(UP) — AFL president William Green proposed today that labor and industry agree to lengthen the work week by five hours, to be paid at overtime rates, as a substitute for increasing existing straighttime rates. Green submitted hfs proposal to the senate banking committee in a statement emphasizing that his proposal would be workable only if congress adopted an effective anti-inflation program which would apply to other phases of the national economy. Charles E. Wilson, president of General Motors also has recommended the extension of the work week from 40 to 45 hours, but at straight time pay for the extra five hours. President Truman at his news conference today criticized Wilson’s proposal. Mr. Truman said he thought Wilson was living in 1890. Mr. Truman was not asked about Green’s proposal. Green said that recent wage increases had been offset by increased cost of living. But he warned that labor will be forced to demand new raises unless the upward trend in prices is halted. The elderly labor leader then reviewed President Truman’s an-ti-inflation program, listing those approved and disapproved by the AFL. If congress should enact a program recommended by the AFL, he said, he would push his longer work week proposal. “I recommend that labor and employers be called- upon to enter into voluntary agreements, made (Turn To Page 4 Column 8) q Harry Worden Dies Early This Morning

Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon Harry O. Worden, 44, lifelong resident of Adams county, died at 2:30 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital after an illness of one week. He was born in Adams county Aug. 31, 1903, a son of William and Charlotte Lord-Worden. He was married Dec. 12. 1922, to Emily Bracht, who died May 2, 1946. He was a member of the Salem Evangelical Reformed church at Magley, and was an employe of the General Electric Co. in Fort Wayne. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Richard Gerber of near Craigville, Mrs. Herb Smitley of Decatur and Mrs. Eugene Murchland of near Decatur; three sons, Kenneth, Raymond and Larry Worden, all at home; four sisters, Mrs. Clifford Brown and Mrs. Clyde McClure, both of Decatur, Mrs. Roy Kissinger of Chicago and Mrs. Fred Nolan of Syracuse; and five brothers, Carl of Geneseo, 111., Lewis and Wayne of Fort Wayne, David of Valparaiso and Richard of Craigville. One sister preceded him in death. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p. m. Sunday at the home fn Kirkland township and at 2 o’clock at the Salem Evangelical Reformed church at Magley, with the Rev. Matthew W’orthman officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The body will be removed from the Jahn funer al home to • the residence, where friends may call after 2 p. m. Friday.

Price Four Cents

Substantial Slash In Marshall Plan Funds Favored By Former President Washington, Jan. 22. —(UP) —• President Truman today flatly opposed the European recovery plan recommendations of former president Herbert Hoover. The president told reporters that he was not for the recommendations of the former Republican president who yesterday suggested that congress make a substantial cut in the $6,800,000,000 recommended by Mr. Truman for the first 15 months of the Marshall plan. Mr. Truman said he simply did not opprove of Hoover’s statement. He would not make specific objections, saying his flat disapproval would have to stand fop itself. As to the international and economic recommendations also made this week by Bernard M. Baruch, the president said he was pleased to read most of these recommendations. The president said he agreed with the Baruch recommendations insofar as Baruch agreed with his own recommendations to congress. Baruch proposed to the senate foreign relations committee Monday a U. S. defense alliance with Marshall plan countries in Europe and a rigid domestic economic program including wage stabilization, reduction of prices, no tax cut) for the next two years and an increase in excess profits taxes. Mr. Truman voiced his opposition to the Hoover plan in the midst of these other Marshall plan developments: 1. Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio and several other Republican congressional leaders rallied behind Mr. Hoover’s call for drastic revision of the European aid program. 2. William J. Donovan, former head of the wartime office of strategic services, testified before the senate committee that Russia has launched a world-wide “subversive war” which must be counteracted with a strengthened Marshall plan. Donovan said the Russians have established a world network keyed to “the saboteur, the traitor and the hidden enemy.” He proposed placing control of the recovery program in hands of the U. S. national security council. 3. Secretary of agriculture Clinton P. Anderson told the house foreign affairs committee that any cut in the food estimates under the recovery program would “endanger the success of the entire undertaking.” He was convinced that the United States could furnish the necessary food “without adding any extra strain on either our food supplies or on food prices.” Mr. Hoover’s views on the Marshall plan were contained in a 3,500-word memorandum submitted Turn Tn Page 2. CnVimn 6) Decatur Theaters Will Again Assist In March Os Dimes The Adams and Cort theaters will again co-aperate with thia year’s March of Dimes by permitting collections in their lobbies, it was announced today by Roy Kalver. Decatur Girl Scouts will be stationed in the theater lobbies as is their usual custom and patrons will be given the opportunity to contribute to the drive by dropping their dimes and quarters in the containers held by the girls. The collection will start at the Cort theater, starting tonight, and will continue for six days. The drive will begin at the Adams Friday evening and will continue for a week. Since the virus of infantile paralysis has recently been isolated more funds are needed than ever before, so that intensive research can be made to find a vaccin for this dread disease. Little Margaret O’Brien, child star, will appear on the screens of both local theaters and will make the appeal in behalf of the National Foundation for la* fantile Paralysis.