Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 36, Decatur, Adams County, 12 February 1948 — Page 1

01. XLVL No. 36.

COMMODITY PRICES CONTINUE TUMBLE

"f Senator Asks s ■:»or Probe Os Swarf Profits fill . Asks Investigation I | Os Speculator Who 0 H Netted Thousands 5 . 0 Washington, Feb. 12. — (UP)— 0 ■ la wheat-state senator today called -Bor investigation of Chicago specu8 E. T. Maynard and expressed It wonder whether “all grain traders PT ifiMre not working together now in j downward plunge of the mar--4 ■Ket." j Maynard made upwards of $300',0 by selling short in the grain 2 break. Sen. Milton R. 0 R„ N. D„ said “I person- — think his operations should be 6 I I Youn& voiced this view at a | ISenate agriculture committee hearas another senate group, in- ' speculation, considered _ ■■ailing the Chicago trader before it I Biext week. A house committee is looking into Maynard’s :ck n^^fc ct jvities. What the congressmen ri s to discover is whether anylre I |l)ody made any money in the marj Htet slump because he had inside about government buyplans. HT ■ With the house meeting on roubusiness and the senate in [ tnuil tomorrow, congresIBsional developments included: r Trimming and junking—Some looked on the grain J Band food price decline as a good for trimming foreign aid i ■ requests and junking all proposals ; ■for price controls and rationing. I Solution? —A delegation of cone ' pressmen and others asked presi- , Truman to help them bring oil prices. Mr. Truman, D., -■Mo., told them the best way to do that would be to elect a DemocraI ■tic house and senate to replace * the present Republican-controlled I ■ congress. I I Diminishing returns —Stacey L. I ■ Angle, treasurer of the Minne- ■ apolis-Moline Power Implement | ■ Co., told the house agriculture I ■ committee that the commodity | ■ markets are not the only ones hav- | ■ ing a tough time. He said gray I ■ market trading in farm machinery \ ■ “is rapidly diminishing” because I ■ demand is lessening. The commit- | ■ tee is investigating sales of scarce I ■ farm machinery at prices higher II than those listed by mdnufactur- ■ ■ ers. I The grain market bust was proI ■ ducing considerable effect in conI I gress, particularly among those I ■ considering foreign aid. J Sen. Kenneth Wherry, R., Neb., I B a leader of the senate “revisionist” I ■ bloc, said the market break “will I B require revamping and downward I B revision” of funds for the Euro-, ( I pean recovery program (ERP). ■ Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, R„ t I Mass., a member of the foreign I relations committee which is iput- ■ I ting ERP in legislative form, said ; I he is going to ask the state depart- ; I ment for revised spending estif I mates in the light of the price I I trend. > Meanwhile, cither GOP leaders f > I who have never looked with favor : g on administration requests for I I Price control and rationing, hail- | I ed the market break as the clinchj I ing argument. s There was no indication that I | GOP leaders considered the market I I slide serious enough yet to change | I their minds about cutting taxes I I substantially and continuing rent ■ controls. I o II Scarlet Fever In Jefferson Township I Berne, Feb. 12 — Adams county | I health authorities are guarding [ I against an outbreak or epidemic of ! I scarlet fever following the disclosI are that three families in French ■ I township, west of Berne, have been i I Quarantined because of this disI ease. The families are those of HenI ry Gerber, Joe Mailer and Robert I Gelow, all neighbors. Children in I all three families are ill with the I disease but so far their condition IB is not serious. 0 WEATHER ' Partly cloudy north and mostly cloudy south portion tonight. Colder. Friday mostly cloudy with occasional light ■ rain or snow southwest por"Ta tlon.

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Sen. Taft Invades Stassen Stronghold Invades Minnesota On West Itinerary St. Paul, Minn., FeJ>. 12—(UP) — Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio today invaded Minnesota, the stronghold of his arch-rival for the Republican presidential nomination, Harold E. Stassen. * The co-author of the Taft-Hart-ley labor law arrived early enough to breakfast with a group of the state’s leading Republicans, including Gov. Luther Youngdahl. His itinerary for the 24-hour stay here did not include any conference with Stassen, Minnesota’s former governor. Taft will hold a news conference after the breakfast and then will attend a private luncheon given in his honor by Kay Todd, president of the Lincoln Republican club and the top Taft booster in these parts. The Minnesota GOP committee will have a two-hour reception for him this afternoon before he addresses some 1,100 Lincoln day diners who will pay $3 a plate to hear the speech. Taft’s wife, who has accompanied him on both his stump tours of the west and midwest, was scheduled to address a Kiwanis club luncheon. Although Stassen and Taft were not scheduled to meet, Stassen rolled out a red plush welcome mat for the Ohio senator. Thus Stassen let it be known that he was the king pin in Minnesota Republican circles. Stassen has managed to have it noised about that he would derive more pleasure from beating Taft for the nomination than from victories over any other candidate. — — Os Three Die As Cottage Is Burned

Wauconda, 111., Feb. 12 — (UP) — Firemen today blamed a stove explosion for a fire which killed a family of three and destroyed a four-room frame summer cottage in which they were living at Slocum lake, near here. The dead were Irwin Castleberry, 36. his wife, Nora. 33, and her daughter by a previous marriage, Darlene Eatinger, 5. Fire chief Philip Foerlke said the entire cottage was in flames when firemen arrived. o Miss Margene Bauer Oratorical Winner Wins Annual Legion Contest Last Night Miss Margene Bauer, of the Deaatur junior-senior high school, will represent Adams’ county Friday night in the district oratorical contest sponsored by the American Legion. The contest will be held at Legion post 47 in Fort Wayne, with the winner representing the district in the zone and, if successful, state contests to be held at later dates. Miss Bauer, who had previously been declared winner of the contest at her school, was acclaimed victorious last night in the county contest, held at the home of Adams post 43, American Legion, and sponsored by that organization. She was adjudged the winner by a group of out of town judges, whose identities were not made known. Marlene Laurent, who represented the Decatur Catholic high school, won second place in the county event. Cash prizes of S3O and S2O were given the winners by the local Legion post. Edward Jaberg, county chairman of the contest, was in chafge last night. , 0 Public Library To Close February The Decatur public library will close all day Monday, February 23, in observance of Washingtons birthday, Miss Bertha Heller, librarian, announced today. The closing is in keeping with the usual custom of Washington’s birthday observance by state, county and city officials.

Nation’s Top Scouts Report To President Truman ..■> * lasi /Wl I . -wb IwMßSip -' * • . twfcf f 1 rSI I "W. : " •• 9-' la i V TOP-RANKING SCOUTS from each of the nation's 12 regions visit the White House in Washington to report on their organization’s activities to President Truman as a climax of national Boy Scout week. In foreground are Richard Goodrich (left), California, and James F. Mclntyre. Massachusetts; while standing (from left) are Dale Gallagher, Colorado; Morris L. Frye, Oklahoma; Joseph E. Melton. Louisiana; Jack Brader, Pennsylvania; Daniel L. Soss. Washington; Truman; Myron T. Shervheim, Minnesota; John C. Wyatt. Jr., North Carolina; Thomas C. Sage, West Virginia; \Raymond W. Schwab, New York, and Karl Young, Wisconsin.

World Prayer Day Observance Friday City's Observance Here Friday Night Decatur’s observance of the World Day of Prayer will be held at 7:30 o’clock Friday evening at the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church. The local observance is conducted by the Decatur council of church women and is a part of the world-wide observance, sponsored by the united council of church women. Dr. Andrew Esperson, pastor of the First Baptist church in Fort Wayne, will deliver the sermon. Theme of the Decatur observance is “the world at prayer.” The program for Friday night’s meeting is as follows: Organ prelude—Harold Mumma. Call to worship. Invocation — Dr. Gharles E. White. Hymn—“ Jesus Calls Us.” Call to prayer—Mrs. John Doan. Vocal solo—Mrs. E. Tumbleson. Introduction of speaker—Mrs. Dwight R. McCurdy. Sermon —Dr. Esperson. Mixed quartet —the. Rev. and Mrs. William C. Feller, Mrs. L. A. Holthouse and Leo Kirsch. Presentation of projects—Mrs. C. E. Bell. World representative — Miss Claire Gayle, B. W. 1, Jamaica. Offering. Hymn —“In Christ there is ‘No East nor West.’ ” Benediction—the Rev. F. H. Willard. Organ postlude—Harold Mumma.

Danish Transport Crashes, 11 Dead . Airliner Crashes In Germany Today Frankfurt, Feb. 12 — (UP) — A Danish airlines transport crashed today near Giessen, some 35 miles north of Frankfurt, killing 11 of ‘he 24 persons aboard, United States army officials announced. The dead and injured, including three stretcher cases, were taken to the American hospital at Giessen, the anmy statement said. A Danish airlines had received a report that 12 of 21 persons aboard the transport were killed, but had emphasized that it was unofficial and subject to revision. The preliminary casualty report of the transport crash was issued by the home office of the company in Copenhagen. It reported that 17 passengers and four crewmen were aboard. The first word to the company was that all the crewmen and eight passengers perished. All aboard were reported to be Europeans. Company reports said (Turn irto Page 7, Column 6)

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Decatur, Indiana, Thurs day, February 12, 1948

County Attorney Reported Better The condition of Ed A. Bosse, county attorney, was reported to be improved today after being considered serious for some time. He has been confined in the local hospital for several days after being stricken with a kidney ailment, enroute home from Indianapolis. o Urges Following 01 Lincoln Principles Lincoln Day Dinner Held Last Evening Assailing "Washington dreamers” and calling upon the Republican party to follow the principles which he declared were laid down by Abraham Lincoln, the party’s greatest leader, Frank Millis, state treasurer and GOP candidate for lieu-tenant-governor, spoke here last night at the Knights of Pythias home. Mr. Millis addressed a capacity :rowd of Republicans in the annual Ldncoln day dinner, marking the nrthday of the Great Emancipator. The (speaker predicted that “an ra of 14 years is ended,” berated ilanned economy of the national democratic administration, and -ailed for the removal of war-time estrictions. , “The star of Republicanism is asending in the political heavens,” i.e asserted, in citing gains made y the party in the 1946 election. Touching briefly upon his interlatlonal policy belief, Millis said, ‘let’s not be fooled into thinking .ve can avoid another war by mindng our own business,” and urged ‘constant cooperation with the rest if the world to insure peace — but rot by giving-away our money.” A number of Republican city and county officials and those holding (Turn To Page 2. Column 4>

FORGIVENESS AND LOVE St. Luke 7:47 “Wherefor I say unto thee, Her sins, which were many, are fifrgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.” "I will not forgive!” Such represents the spirit that many people harbor against others. It is one of the most soul destroying attitudes one may have. Jesus laid much emphasis on a forgiving spirit, not merely that forgiveness may be granted, but that one’s soul may not be devastated by harboring unforgiveness which many times moves over into the realm of hatred. Jesus, took an outstanding case of a sinful woman. She had sinned against the moral law, but Jesus forgave her and the reaction on her own soul caused her to confer great honors on Jesus. Her joy turned into tears with which she washed the feet of Jesus. Then she wiped them with the hairs of her head. This reaction represents the joy of a forgiven soul, and the humility on receiving such an unmerited blessing. It is our privilege to pray and receive forgiveness. Then on receiving forgiveness our love will be demonstrated to God and man. And What is Jgfcve? , - “Ask not of me. love.’what is Iffve? Ask what is good of God above; ' Ask of the great sun what is light; • Ask what is darkmgs of the night; Ask sin of what be forgiven; Ask what is happiness of heaven; Ask what is folly of the crowd; Ask what is fashion of the shroud; Ask&’hat is sweetness of thy kiss; Ask of thyself what beauty is.”

6. E. Plants Join Fight On Inflation Series Os Meetings Started Wednesday The Decatur plant of the General Electric Co. has joined GE plants all over the United States in enrolling its employes in the fight to the finish against inflation. That concern started the battle several weeks ago with a drastic reduction in prices of its own products. With a motto of “Produce more; Buy Frugally and Put more Away.” E. W. Lankenau. plant manager of Decatur, and John McQueen, personnel manager of the Fort Wayne works, began the task of enlisting all GE employes and then their friends and neighbors in a battle against higher prices. At a series of meetings started Wednesday, Mr. Lankenau and Mr. McQueen explained the GE antiinflation plan to groups of plant employes and before the campaign is completed, all employes will have the opportunity of hearing the various phases of the program explained. A half hour picture production with colored slides also is used to explain the program. The campaign also includes letters written by executives to all employes explaining how they can take part in the great battle to bring prices down so that every employe may live better and save more money. Many banks throughout the nation have joined GE in the campaign and several other industries are planning similar programs to combat inflation. The First State bank of Decatur, through president T. F. Graliker, has informed Mr. Lankenau that it will support the GE plan. Foremen and superintendents of Turn To Page 5. Column 7>

Chicago Board Os Trade Has Sharpest Break In Its 100- Year History

School Students X-Rayed By Unit Will Return Unit Here During Fair The remainder of hundreds of Adams county junior and senior high school students moved through the mobile X-ray unit this afternoon at the Decatur junior-senior high school. Upperclassmen of the Decatur Catholic school were the last of these students to submit to the X-rays in a program sponsored and financed by the Adams county tuberculosis association in a campaign to further its battle against the disease. Later this afternoon, industrial workers were to be X-rayed by appointment and facilities of the $32,000 new equipment were to be made available to the general public. The equipment, sent here through the efforts of the county association, along with the state tuberculosis association and the state board of health, is manned by two former servicemen, Herman Lunne, Bicknell, and Albert Rund, Washington. Mrs. W. Guy Brown, secretary of the Adams county association, supervised the task of conducting the X-rays, assisted by Decatur high students. To Be Returned Association officials today stressed the fact that the unit will be returned here during street fair week this summer to offer its facilities to industrial workers unable to be accomodated during the current trip. The equipment will move to Kendallville tomorrow after X-rays are taken of Decatur Casting company workers in the morning. The X-rays are taken on a small 70 mm film, which is used as a screening method for the finding of active tuberculosis. The film will be read by an X-ray specialist and

(Turn To Page 7, Column 4) 0 Joseph Kortenber Dies This Morning Heart Attack Fatal To Decatur Fireman Joseph Kortenber, 57. a Decatur city fireman for the past 18 years, died suddenly at 3 o’clock this morning at his home following a heart attack. He had not been ill and his death was entirely unexpected. He first joined the volunteer firemen in 1912, and had been a regular fireman for 18 years. He was born in Decatur Dec. 21, 1890, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Kortenber, and was a lifelong resident of the city. He wa— married to Hazel Tumbleson, January 24, 1924. Mr. Kortenber was a member of the St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Holy Name society and the Knights of Columbus. Surviving in addition to his wife are seven children. Joseph, Mary. James, Kathleen, Tom, Barbara and Thresa, all at home; four sisters, Mrs. Frances Miller of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Elizabeth Parent, Mrs. Margaret Wolpert and Mrs. Clara Rumschlag, all of Decatur, and two brothers, Clem of Decatur and Dr. William Kortenber of New Haven. Two brothers preceded him in death. Funeral services will be held at 9 Saturday morning at the St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. The body will be removed from the Gil||jt & Doan funeral home to the residence, *414 Johns street, where friends may call after 7:30 o'clock this evening. The Holy Name society will recite the rosary at the residence after church services Friday evening.

Soviet Russia Hurls Lie At Great Britain Charges Falsity In Denying Rejection 5 Os Soviet Request Moscow. Feb. 12 —(UP) — The Russians struck another blow in the battle of the documents today by charging the British foreign office with falsity in denying that it rejected a Soviet request to take part in the examination of captured German papers. Barely six weeks after the end of the war in Europe. t|je Soviet government did ask for a part in the study of the Nazi documents, the official Tass news agency said in a dispatch datelined London. After giving its account of the application to join the other allies, Tass said these facts proved the falsity of a foreign office spokesman’s denial Tuesday that it ever turned down such a Soviet proposal. (A London foreign office spokesman said Tuesday he could find no trace of any indications .Russia ever proposed a joint four-power study of captured German documents. The Tass reference apparently was to the same proceedings at the office's daily press conference.) The Tass report closely followed the release here of the second installment of Russia's counter-blast against the state department's publication of Nazi-Soviet documents in 1939-41. Great Britain and France tried to use Adolf Hitler as a tool and by appeasing him turn his armies loose* on Russia, the statement issued by the Soviet information bureau said. The Tass report from London said the first Soviet installment had thrown “confusion into English official circles.” It reported on the foreign office spokesman's assertions as evidence of the confusion. Tass said Russian ambassador Fedor Gusev, on instructions from the Soviet government, applied to the British foreign office on June 19, 1945, with a proposal that — « (Turn To Psiv» 7. Column 4) Authorities Report Three Auto Wrecks

No One Is Injured In Auto Accidents Three traffic accidents, one within the city, were reported today by city and county police officials. Cars driven by Robert Roop, 18, Decatur, and Charles Burrell, 76, route three, collided about 8:50 o’clock this morning at Monroe and Third streets. Damage was estimated at $l4O, but no one was injured in the collision. The accident was reported to officer Adrian Coffee. Damage was estimated at S3OO when an auto, driven by H. M. Schumacker, 32, Hartford City, and a truck, operated by Harry Booth, 49, Grand, Rapids, Mich., collided on a bridge three and one-half miles south of Berne on a bridge on U. S. 27, The accident occurred about midnight. Sheriff Herman Bowman, who investigated, said the auto started skidding on the icy pavement and slid into the truck, which had stopped when the driver noticed the motorist had lost control of his vehicle. No one was hurt, however. driven by Doris Sprunger, of®bar Monroe, and Harry Johnson, Berne, were involved in a (Turn To Page 7, Column 6)

Price Four Cents

Soap Manufacturers Slash Prices Five Percent; General Decline Forecast t Chicago, Feb. 12 — (UP) The big soap manufacturers cut prices five percent today as a direct recult of tumbling commodity prices and the sharpest break in the Chicago board of trade’s 100-year history. Robert P. Boylan, chairman of the board of the New York stock exchange, said the markets ently have started a general decline which he predicted would last two years. In a speech at Atlanta, Ga„ Boylan predicted no sudden and spectacular crash. But he said many large industries and investors are getting ready for a depression. Meanwhile. the commodity slump was viewed in congress as the death blow to proposals for renewal of rationing and price controls. Sen. A. Willis Robertson. D., Va.. a member of the banking committee, said the price break "proves price controls are not needed.” Sen. Carl Hatch, D., N. M.. said that "if prices level off, there will be no price control this session.” Three of the big soap makers, Lever Bros., Proctor & Gamble and the Werk Soap Co., announced five percent reductions in wholesale, prices. The price cut applied to all soap products made by Proctor & Gamble and Lever Bros., and to Werk’s bar and granule soaps. All three companies said the price cuts were made possible by the decline in price of raw materials—fats and oils. The grain markets were closed today on Lincoln's birthday, but statisticians at the Chicago board of trade disclosed that late yesterday the price break in corn, wheat and other grains had broken all records. Never before had prices dropped so swiftly in a single month. The nation's major stockyards were open for business despite the holiday. The .hog market showed a mixed trend. At Chicago hog prices were steady to 50 cents per hundred pounds lower. At Omaha they were $1 lower. But at St. Louis they were up 25 to 50 cents and at Kansas City they were steady to 25 cents higher. A total of 35,000 hogs werd shipped to the major livestock terminals today. 10,000 more than yesterday, but the number still was unusually small. Livestock ‘experts said farmers still were holding hogs off the market to get the. price going up again after the major break early this week. The time-yellowed record books of the board of trade showed that not since 1898, has there been a comparable decline, and yesterday's market break surpassed even that one. On May 10, 1898, wheat for delivery in May sold for $1.85 a bushel. By the end of that month, it had dropped 60 cents to $1.25 a bushel. Since Jan. 16 of this year, May wheat has dropped 69% cents a bushel from an all-time high of $3.06% to yesterday’s closing price of $2.37. The markets were closed today in observance of Lincoln's birthday. The present price break surpassed the 1898 record despite the fact that wheat now is limited to a 10-cent daily loss. In the hectic 90’s there were no limits, and it was possible for a single trader to control the entire market. Two severe depressions have failed to send grain prices down as fast as they have plunged since Jan. 16. Since that day, May corn has dropped from an all-time peak of $2.70% to a low yesterday of $2.05% —a loss of 65% cents a bushel. This surpassed even the 1898 break in corn. breaks occurred in 1920. and 1933, when the board (Turn To Fa«e 7, Column S)