Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 17 February 1948 — Page 1

Vol. XLVI. No. 40.

DENIES COLLUSION TO RIG MART PRICES

■Demands Aid ■Funds Drawn I From Surplus I Senate Committee I Moves To Safeguard > Tax-Cutting Plans | Washington, Feb. 17 — (UP) — fl a senate group today moved to ■ safeguard GOP tax-cutting plans fl by requiring that 3 billion of profl posed foreign aid spending be fl drawn from this year's government fl surplus. I The senate foreign relations comfl mittee wrote that surprise stipulafl tion into the European recovery fl program. Then it approved, 13 to fl 11,I 1 , a bill to authorize ERP expendifl tures of $5.3 billion tor the 12 fl months starting April 1. ■ The action came after Sen. Jos- | eph 11. Ball, R., Minn., had declared fl congress would have to choose befl tween the $5.3 billion aid .plan and fl the sizeable budget cut which Refl publicans proposed in order to I make room for income tax cuts. I The aim of the foreign relations I committee was to ease the impact I on next year’s budget of both the I foreign spending program and any I tax reduction bill that is finally I passed. I With both houses and senate I transacting only routine business, I committees supplied the bulk of the I day’s news, including: I Rents — Both Republican and ■ Democratic senate leaders called I for action on a 14-month rent conI trol extension plan instead of the I temporary 30-day extension proI posed by the house. Democratic I leader Alben W. Barkley and ReI publican policy chief Robert A. I Taft said the senate ought to go aI head and act on the long-term exI tension by it® banking I committee yesterday. I “Blood bath” — Gen. Douglas I MacArthur told the senate that I Japan will be drenched in a I “blood bath of revolutionary vioI lence" unless the concentration of I economic power there is broken up. I “Double-dealing” — Rep. Noah I M. Mason, R., 111., accused the state I department and the British foreign I office of “double-dealing” on the Partition of Palestine. Both, he said, are trying to nullify the United Nations partition decision. UMT — The senate armed services committee deferred action on universal military training. Similar legislation is buried in the house rules committee. Rubber — The house armed services committee approved a bill rewiring the government —for national security reasons — to hang °n to the 38 synthetic rubber plants still in its possession. Gs 50 such Plants built during the war for about $700,000,000, the government has sold 14 surplus. Hollywood — Rep. Carroll D. Kearns, R„ Pa., blamed a jurisdictional strike which long has been Plaguing the movie industry upon the movie producers. He said the Producers were locking out members of one union in favor of members of another. Raid — Sen. Elmer Thomas, D., Okla., accused the senate speculation subcommittee of “raiding” his business manager’s office to get information about his commodity transactions. Kingfish — The name of Huey Dong, the late Louisiana kingfish, was heard again in congress in con(Turn To Page 2, Column 8) O Former Local Man Won GTs Freedom Ja,mes Dawson, Indianapolis, attorney, who successfully defended a Hoosier GI for murder, aesault and neglect in an English court Monday, is a former Decatur resident, it became known today. The defendant in the case was Billy Burk Edwards’ of Indianapolis. Dawson is the son of Mrs. J. M Dawson and the late Rev. J. M. Dawson, and resided in Decatur when his father was pastor of the First Christian church here. He attended public schools. He has two sisters residing in Decatur. They ar e Mrs. Charles Magley and Mrs. Bussell Acker, Dawson was sent to England by tnoney raised by Indiana friends of Edwards. The case received wide Publicity in papers in this country- — — WEATHER Pair and continued miid toni Sht and Wednesday.

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Leads Forum IMB Fl B JL John V. Barnett, assistant research director of the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, will conduct a forum meeting here Feb. 23 on the reassessment of real estate and its effect on taxpayers. Forum Planned Here On Reassessments ' State Director To Conduct Forum Here A forum meeting concerning the reassessment of real estate and its effect on the taxpayers will be held at 7:30 p.m. on February 23 in the courtrooms of the Adams county courthouse. Announcement of the meeting was made today by Albert Harlow, Adams county assessor, and Robert Lane, president of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce. John V. Barnett assistant research director of the Indiana state Chamber of Commerce, will be In charge of the forum. All township assessors and their deputies are expected to attend and an invitation has been extended all interested persons and the general public. Following are some of the questions to be answered: “How will the 1949 assessments be made? “How will it increase or decrease my taxes? “Will it be a scientific assessment? “Who decides the method of evaluation for my property? “Why a reassessment of property in Indiana?” Mr. Barnett has been a member of the state staff since 1942, specializing in the field of state and local taxation and social security. Prior to that he served as statistician of the state welfare department. He was a member of the 1946 governor’s tax study commission. o Woman Injured In Aufo Crash Today Suffers Head Injury In Two-Auto Crash Miss Irene Owens. 25, Convoy, O„ route two, and a local abstract office employe, suffered a head injury this morning in a two-car crash east of Decatur. Deputy sheriff Sam Bentz, who investigated, said that the accident occurred on pavements made extremely slippery by the morning .frost. He reported that Robert Helm, 29 of route two, Decatur, had stopped on the highway for a school bus picking up passengers about 7:50 a. m. Miss Owens, driving behind ihe Helm car, was unable to stop quickly enough on the slippery pavement, to prevent her car from crashing into the rear of the Helm vehicle. Her injury is believed to be superficial. The other driver was unhurt. Deputy Bentz estimated damage to the Helm car at $125 and that to the Owens’ vehicle at $l5O. Miss Owens was enroute to her work at the Custer abstract office here when the accident. occurred. - o- — Assessors To Meet Here Friday Morning All assessors and their deputies from Adams county have been asked by county assessor Albert Harlow to attend a special meeting at 10:30 a m. Friday at the courthouse.

Grain Marls Apparently Stabilizing * Grain Markets Open Steady; Retailers Reducing Prices Chicago, Feb. 17 —(UP) — The grain markets opened steady today and appeared to have stabilized slightly above the bottom hit during last week’s big price break. On the Chicago board of trade, wheat was unchanged to 1 cent a bushel higher. Corn was unchanged to 3-% cents higher. Soybeans rose the eight-cent limit. Grains at Minneapolis and Kansas City were about the same. The government reported that it bought no grain or flour last week, but some traders believed the government soon would resume purchases for export. They believed this might send prices upward -again. The hog market at Chicago opened slow with lighter weight hogs selling 25 to 50 cents per hundred pounds, lower. Retail prices still were catching up with the sharp decline. Many grocers and butchers were just beginning to mark their price tags down in line with the adjustment which most economists agreed was necessary and healthy for the nation’s economic welfare. The Safeway chain of grocery stores at New York and the National Food stores at Chicago announced sweeping reductions. Safeway reduced 105 meat items from 2 to 10 cents a pound, marking chuck beef down from 55 to 49 cents, ribs of beef from 65 to 61. veal rib chops from 79 to 69, smoked hams from 59 to 55 and sliced grade A bacon from 75 to 69. A penny was lopped off salad dressing and mayonnaise in 8 ounce jars. Turn To Pave 2. Column 7) O Appoints Chairmen In Red Cross Drive Annual Campaign To Open Here March 1 Kenneth Runyon, city chairman for the Red Cross drive, which opens March 1, today named chairmen for the various divisions. A quartet wiii organize the business district, under the leadership of Joe Murphy, Phil Sauer, Roy Mumma and Adrian Burke. These men will apportion the up-town business district among the chairmen and store-to-store canvassing of the area will be made by volunteer teams. At the ’head of the industrial group will be 'Virgil Doyle, manager of the Morris store. Mr. Doyle will name his assistants and plan for the solicitation of donations from factory and industrial employes and management. The Rev. W. C. Feller, pastor of Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, heads the committee on :hurches. Mrs. Martin Weiland was named chairman of the committee for lodges, sororities, organizations and clubs. In the town of Monroe, R. J. Meyer accepted the chairmanship. A drive, separate from the township campaign, will be -made in Monroe. For the house-to-house solicitation. Mr. Runyon will name zone solicitors in the various residential blocks. These leaders will ask other volunteers to assist them in the canvassing of donations from those homes where one of the members is not included in the business or industrial drive. Adams county’s quota for the drive is $9,060, of which $5,100 is for the local chapter’s budget and is the quota assigned by the National Red Cross. ■Chainmen aud workers hope to complete the drive within two weeks. Last year and throughout the war years, the county’s quota was oversubscribed. Phil Sauer is county chairman of the drive and Lyman H. Hann is director of the township organization. Solicitors for every square mile in the townships have been nanv*’ Mr. Hann.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, February 17, 1948

Misspelled Mississippi To Stay 1798 MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY BRShxlO H M {'3 | I X, jtS MINUS THE FOURTH “S,” the name of the state of Mississippi will appear on new three-cent stamp to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the state’s admission as a territory. Back in 1798 somebody fashioned a seal for the territory and incorrectly spelled the name —a mistake that still remains.

Heavy Meat Storage Is Reported In U. S. May Ease Shortage During Next Summer Washington, Feb. 17—(UP)— The nation’s meat packers and wholesalers are holding more meat in storage today than in any peacetime year since 1937. As a result, the meat shortage this summer —while almost certain to be bad—may not be quite as bad as the agriculture department predicted. In making up their forecasts, department officials said, they underestimated the amount of meat that would be “held off” the meat counter this winter and put in storage. But they said the improvement in the summer supply outlook resulting from this miscalculation is too small to assure any significant relief. For example, your share of the billion pounds of meat now in storage only amounts to about four and a half pounds. Normally, the pacaers and wholesalers hold out about 3.2 pounds per capita from the heavy winter slaughtering to store for distribution during < the summer slump in meat output. ( But with the impending meat shortage they figured it was good business to boost their storage holdings this year. The packers’ coolers were filled to 90 per cent of capacity and their freezers to 77 percent of capacity on Feb. 1. In Michigan they were filled to capacity. Private and semi-private warehouse coolers and freezers throughout the nation were three-fourths filled. The agriculture department reported yesterday that cold storage meat holdings on Feb. 1 totaled 1,010,000,000 pounds. Theoretically, that amounts to about seven pounds per capita. But agriculture meat experts figure that 2.5 pounds will never leave the storage pipelines. That represents what the trade calls its minimum “working stocks.” Even during the “meat famine” in October, 1946, when farmers stopped sending animals to market because of price ceilings, storage holdings never fell below about 1.5 pounds per capita. The heavier - than - anticipated stocks of meat that went into storage this winter don’t change the agriculture department's estimate that meat supplies per capita—for the year—will be 10 to 13 pounds below last year’s 156 pounds. “If we were making a new esti(Turn To Page 2. Column

Cental ‘'MteeUfatiM (Rev. Carey R. Moser, First Baptist Church) “The DRAGNET” Matthew 13: 47-52 This parable clearly depicts one aspect of the religious sphere of profession in our present dispensation. It is compared to a dragnet, cast into the sea. encompassing many kinds of fish. So is the kingdom of heaven in this sea of humanity. It is being populated with various types of men. who may be divided into two classes: good and bad. After the net is filled, the process of separation is begun—the good, preserved; the bad, cast away. Good and evil cannot, and shall not, survive together Each has its own recompense of reward. The good, or believers on Christ, shall hear the words. “Come, ye blessed of my Father, Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.” The evil, or unbelievers, shall hear the words, "Depart from me, ye cursed, Into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.” Thia parable hardly lends encouragement to the prospect of a converted world during this present age of grace. Nevertheless. iWshould spur us onward in proclaiming the gospel of saving grace* Uiat all who will, may hear, believe and be saved.

Restore Gas Service To Detroit Industry Detroit, Feb. 17 — (UP) — Major Detroit industries churned again today for the first time in three weeks and 150,000 (died workers returned to their jobs with the end of a critical gas shortage. Michigan Consolidated Gas company turned valves supplying 95 major industrial plants which had been shut down while gas was diverted to home consumption in the prolonged cold wave. oEight U. S. Sailors Lost After Sinking Shore Leave Launch Is Sunk In Harbor Hyeres, France, Feb. 17 —(UP) — French naval officials said today that eight American sailors from the aircraft carrier Midway are missing and feared loet in the sinking of a shore leave launch in Hyrees harbor before dawn this ■morning. The launch struck a signal pylon at the harbor entrance at 2 a.m. while carrying 160 sailors back to their carrier from a last night ashore at a casino. The midway was scheduled to leave Hyeres, on the Riviera coast 12 miles east of Toulon, today. Officials at the French naval base here said the crash drove a large hole in the side of the launch and it sank quickly despite frantic efforts to pump out the water. The commandant’s office at the French base said those missing were one officer and seven sailors. Naval parties still were searching for the bodies among the tricky current® of this rocky coast at Midday, 10 hours after the accident. Although first reports said that 40 sailors were missing, most of them were saved by other launches that sped to the rescue of the sinking boat. The Midway is one of a number of American warships that have been on a tour of Mediterranean ports. The accident occurred at 2 a.m. The launch was quickly swamped and itq passengers hurled into the water. The Midway was scheduled to leave Hyeres today.. The Midway is one of the top fighting ships still in commission in the postwar U. S. navy. She can carry 137 planes, including large bombers of the latest type. Normal complement of the Midway is 4,085 officers, men and marines. The carrier, completed in (Turn To Page 2, Column 8)

Chicago Board Os Trade President Hotly Denies Charge Os Farm Leader

Melting Snow, Ice Raise Flood Threat Ohio River Swells Toward Flood Stage By United Press The Ohio river swelled toward flood stage today and Red Cross officials at Cincinnati, 0., asked eastern headquarters for 1,000 cots to accomodate residents who might be forced from their homes along the river. The mighty stream was rising toward an expected crest of 55 feet at Cincinnati. That is three feet above flood stage. It was expected to his flood levels at 7 a.m. today and crest 24 hours later. Some persons already had left their homes in the lowest sections of Cincinnati but army engineers said they did not expect a serious emergency to develop. They said they were keeping a careful watch on the situation. The flood stages were caused by the sudden warmth that enveloped most of the nation, melting snow and ice and jamming tributaries of the Ohio with run-off waters. Most of the danger was downi stream from Cincinnati. A flood wall was thrown up at Newport, Ky., but engineers warned residents that it could not protect them. Robert Edson of the Red Cross regional office at St. Louis, said he was keeping “tight liaison” with army engineers in case an emergency arose in the Little Egypt section of Illinois. Engineers and disaster workers were fearful that rain might add to the tumbling water filling streams throughout Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Pennsylvania. However, R. W. Brunk, forecaster at the Chicago weather bureau, said no precipitation was in sight “as far as we can forecast” (Turn To Page 2. Column 4) O Local School Board Member Dies Today Gregg McFarland Is Taken By Death Gregg McFarland, 48, well known Decatur resident, and treasurer of the city school board, died at 5 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital after an extended illness of complications. His condition had been serious for the past five weeks, and he was taken to the hospital Saturday when he became critical. Mr. McFarland was appointed to the school board by the city council in August of 1943, and had served continuously since that time. He was named board treasurer last summer. Former proprietor of a restaurant in this city, he had been employed as a salesman for the Wayne Candy Co., Fort Wayne, for the past 14 years. He was born in Decatur April 9, 1899, a son of Joseph D. and Ada Elzey-McFarland, and was a lifelong resident of this city. He was married to Velma Alfather Feb. 16, 1922. He was a member of the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church, where he had served as Sunday school superintendent for 15 years. He was also a member of the Decatur Lions club. Surviving in addition to his wife is one daughter, Mrs. Phyllis Zwick of this city. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church, with the Rev. F. H. Willard officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. The body may be viewed at the Zwick funeral home after 2 p.m. Wednesday until 12 noon Thursday, when it will be removed to the church, where it will lie in state until time of the services.

30 Arabs Die In Attack On Jewish Colony Foreign 'Raiders' Are Reported Slain By Jewish Settlers _______ Jerusalem, Feb. 17 — (UP) — From 30 to 57 “foreign" Arab raiders were killed yesterday by Jewish settlers defending the colony of Tirat Tsevi, -in the Lake Galilee area little more than a mile from the Trans-Jordan border, reports from the north said today. An Official Hritish announcement on the attack, one of the bloodiest in the Palestine fighting, said that 30 Arabs were killed. Jewish casualties were set at one killed and two seriously wounded. A communique issued in Tel Aviv by Haganah, the Jewish militia, said that 57 Arabs were killed and three wounded while other Arab casualties were carried back across the border. Arabs and Jews clashed early today in the old city of Jerusalem. Three Arabs were reported killed and three British soldiers wounded seriously. Jewish dynamiters blew up an Arab house alleged to have been used by snipers. When a British patrol investigated, Arab guards opened fire from a rooftop post, wounded the soldiers. Haganah gave additional details of the fighting, according to the Jewish viewpoint. The communique said the first attack was made at 3 a.m. by a bdnd of 300 "foreign Arabs.” This attack was repulsed, but the Arabs regrouped and attacked again at 7 a.m. British forces appeared at 9 a.m. and captured a large quantity of Arab arms and ammunition, the communique claimed. There was no official confirmation of these claims. Tirat Tsevi, five miles southeast of Beisan, is just inside the proposed Arab state as delineated by the United Nations commission. It is practically on the Jordan river frontier with Trans-Jordan. Recent reports from the north (Turn Tn Paer#» 2. Column 3) O Russians Make New Attack On Allies Charge Conspiracy For Separate Peace Moscow. Feb. 17 —(UP) —Soviet Russia charged today that the U. S. and Britain conspired individually for separate peace with Germany and that France planned an attack on Russia from the middle east. These allegations were contained in the fourth and last in stallment of Soviet propaganda' attacks, issued since the U. S published documents on pre-war Soviet-German relations. The U. S. move for a separate peace, Russia said, was made in Switzerland in February, 1943, by Allen Dulles, brother of Republican foreign affairs adviser John Foster Dulles. The Russian charge said Dulles talked with a Prince Hohenloe proposing to join Germany in establishing a zone of safety in Europe against Bolshevism and Pan-S'avism. This, the Russians said, was a move for a separate peace. (In New York, Dulles said the Russian charges were “nonsense.” He said he dealt with the antiHitler underground as an officer of the OSS in Berne, but that he never took part in any negotiations similar to those described by the Russians.) The British move for a separate Turn To Page 2, Column 7)

Price Four Cents

Statement Is Made Before Agriculture Senate Committee; Charge By Sanders Washington, Feb. 17 — (UP) — Richard F. Uhlmann, president of the Chicago Board of Trade, hotly denied today that there has been any collusion among the commodity exchanges to rig prices. Uhlmann made the statement in testimony before the senate agriculture committee. The committee is interested in what caused the recent big brgak in grain prices. Earlier, the committee heard J. T. Sanders, legislative counsel for the national grange, charge that a "well-informed" group of professional speculators was “on the inside” and playing the commodity market up and down to the disadvantage of other traders. Uhlmann testified against and Sanders in favor of an administration bill to permit the secretary of agriculture to set margin requirements on the commodity exchanges. Uhlmann's denial of collusion was occasioned by a demand from Sen. Milton R. Young, R., N. D., for an inquiry by a senate subcommittee on speculation to determine whether there had been any collusion “to rig prices” by members of the exchanges. Young cited last fall's uniform testimony of exchange representatives on the need for a set carryover of wheat. "There couldn't have been any collusions.” Uhlman said. “1 got here late myself and other witnesses already had testified. We went asked, we did not volunteer our ideas on whether a margin was necessary." He referred to testimony before the senate appropriations committee last fall during the hearings on the interim foreign aid bill. That testimony resulted in setting a carryover floor of 150,000,000 bushels of wheat from the last harvest. Young and Sen. Harlan J. Bushfield. R.. S. D., la»3t week introduced a bill to eliminate the floor which, they charged, was partly responsible for the recent commodity price break. Uhlmann and Sanders testified after Sen. Elmer Thomas, D., Okla., charged that senate speculation investigators "raided" the office of his financial manager in an unsuccessful effort to "find some data on me.” Sanders said in his testimony that •here in a class of professional speculators, "who, being strategically located to market information sources, are well informed on the up to the minute grain situation." “As a rule,” he said, "this group manages to benefit far more than xny —by unjustified fluctuation in prices. It is to their advantage to play the market either up or down to their own advantage and to the disadvantage of other traders.” Sanders said that this group “beng on the inside and better informed otherwise, they naturally try to ake advantage of every proepecive fluctuation, even though this advantage may be selfish and unsocial.” (iTurn To Page 5. Column 8) O Monmouth Students On City Desk' Program Journalism students of the Monmouth high school will appear on he “City Desk” program over radio nation WKJG, Fort Wayne, Thurslay evening at 7:15 o’clock. Students to participate in the program are: Loren Brentlinger, 3ill Brentlinger, Gwendolyn Rice, Thelma Daniels and Jeanette Fuhrman. The program is sponsored by .he Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. o—Issue Tickets For Improper Parking Several "red” tickets have been issued by the sheriff’s department to motorists, who park in a restricted area in front of the courthouse. The area has been marked off by the state highway department and parking there is confined to cars of the department. The location was designated to afford the sheriff and his deputy speedy access to their autos.