Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 57, Decatur, Adams County, 8 March 1948 — Page 1

L XLVI. No. 57.

CUT U. S. GOODS SHIPMENTS TO RUSSIA

Finns Agree To Discuss Pact

Io Negotiate |r Pact With Soviet Russia ■ Finland Agrees To I Stalin Proposal On ■ Russo-Finnish Pact Rlelsinki. March 6 —(UP) —Presi- ■ t Juho K. Paasikivi announced Kay the government has agreed ■ Marshal Josef Stalin's proposal ■ negotiate a Russo-Finnish friendship and military pact. ■Paasikivi said he had recom■nded negotiations begin in MosKt was understood the majority ■ Finnish parties, who did not ■nt to negotiate a military alliJjcp, proposed the Moscow site ®r fear Communist demonstrajons might be touched off during tny conference here. ■The government’s decision was Jiade at a momentous cabinet meeting today. It was understood ■grarians and Social Democrats |eld out against negotiations to | the end. ■ Paasikivi then sent a note to Jloscow through the Russian ambassador here. ■ His announcement later today Indicated he had confirmation Moscow had received the note. I A government spokesman said Finland would appoint a joint Government-parliament delegation Io handle negotiations. I The first violence of the Russian treaty crisis occurred yesterday ■when Communists broke up a |neeting at which Ernesti Hentu■en, leader of the small radical ■arty with 3,000 members, spoke ■gainst the treaty. I The Communists also tried to Kick and beat Huntenen. Six pertons were arrested during the disorders. Police at first said those ■arrested were Communists. I Later a police spokesman cur■'ected this. He said those arrestled were Hentunen’s bodyguards. ■They were arrested by mistake, he ■said, and no Communists were ■taken into custody. I The violence, first in the crisis lover the Russian pact, broke out ■when Ernesti Hentunen, leader of Ithe small radical party with about 13,000 members, tried to speak to la crowd of 5,000 people in the [Helsinki rail station square late [yesterday. Hentunen attacked the Russian [proposal, bringing laughter from [the crowd with his pointed remarks. The laughter stopped suddenly, however, when a dozen Communists leaped to the platform and assaulted Hentunen. Hentunen cried for help and [police guarding the platform stepped in. They whisked Hentunen from the scene in a police car. The 'Police chief took the microphone and ordered the crowd to leave quietly. In 15 minutes the square was deserted. 0 Five Men Killed In Navy Plane Crash Olathe, Kans., March 8 -*(UP)— Five men were killed and one man was seriously injured when a navy airplane crashed and burned yesterday while taking off to return a kroup of marine and naval reservists to their homes following a week-end training trip. Navy officials identified the dead as Lt. Jack M. Rothweiller 25, Palmyra. Mo.; Seaman Ist class George E- McGee, 21, Belton, Mo.; aviation °rdanceman 3rd class Lawrence J. Smith, 21, Harrisonville, Mo.; Lt. Oeorge N. Freeland, 25, Sedalia, Mo.; and aviation ordnanceman 3rd class Elvin C. Robinson, 21, Lincoln, Mo. All were navy or marine corps reservists. The sole eurvivor, Lt. (JG) I. J. Wyatt, 25, St. Louis, was said to be improved today, although his condition remained critical. — 0 WEATHER Partly cloudy and colder tonight. Snow flurries near Michigan. Cloudy with slowiy rising temperatures Tuesday.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Schricker, Janies Pull Out 01 Race Withdraw In State Gubernatorial Race Indianapolis, March 8 — (UP) — Followers of the governor nomination races in both of Indiana’s major parties etill were staggering today from the week-end withdrawal of Lt. Gov. Richard T. James and former Gov. Henry F. Schricker. Late Saturday, James was nominated as vice president and treasurer of Butler university and said he would accept the job when it is offered him next Wednesday. That would mean his withdrawal from his announced candidacy for governor, subject to the Republican state convention next summer. It also would mean he would vacate his state elective office. At the same time, Schricker .shattered the growing hopes of his backers that he would be available for another term as governor. He informed the Indiana Democratic editorial association, which was meeting to organize a draft movement in his behalf, that he could not be induced to accept the top spot on the state ticket. When James quits as lieutenantgovernor and withdraws from the GOP gubernatorial race — it was a foregone conclusion that he would — it will leave house speaker Hobart Creighton of Warsaw as the lone candidate for governor on the GOP side of the fence. But it will have more implications. Politicians already were saying the withdrawal prospect had strengthened the position of Sen. William E. Jenner, R., Ind., who has been considered a certain candidate for governor although he never has announced or said he would. On the Democratic side, Schricker’s final decision on his availability apparently paved the way for strengthening the position of Harry McClain of Shelbyville, former state insurance commissioner and one of two candidates for governor. The other is Walter Bybeck of tfrown Point, former Lake county clerk. The draft - Schricker movement, which has ebbed and blossomed alternately over a period of many months, reached its climax a week ago durin the Jefferson-Jackson day i urn Tn Pnire 2. Cnl.imn Ki 0 Local Man's Father Dies In Wisconsin Edward Karlen, 85, father of Ernest Karlen, manager of the local plant of the Kraft Foods Co., diedunexpectedly Sunday at his home in Thorp, Wis. He was a native of Switzerland but had lived for manyyears in this country. Survivors include three sons and one daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Karlen left for Thorp shortly after receiving the death message. Funeral arrangements have not been made known here. • 0 Marie Koller Named As Nurses Official Former Decatur Girl State Vice President Miss Marie Kolter, daughter of Fred E. Kolter, of this city, is the new first vice president of the Indiana State Nurses’ association. Miss Kolter was named Saturday during the final session of the association’s convention, held In the Claypool hotel at Indianapolis. The former local young lady has long been active in association circles and in the nursing field. She was graduated from the Methodist hospital at Fort Wayne in 1935 and later received more schooling in Brooklyn, N. Y. She served as a nurse in Fort Wayne hospitals, before being named a public health nurse about 10 years ago, a position she still holds. She resides at 1431 Spy Run avenue, Fort Wayne. Miss Leona R. Adams, Indianapolis, was re-elected president of the association.

City Bus Line Service To Be Continued Here Announcement Made Os Continuation Os Bus Service in City It looked brighter for continuation of bus service in the city today, with the announcement by T. E. Carman, of New Castle, owner of the Browning Bus Line company, “that local buses will continue in operation at least to the close of city schools, and Indefinitely in the future, if patronage warrants.” Mr. Carman has taken over operation of the buses and has named Gene Houser of New Castle as general manager of the Decatur line. John Reeves, who has been operating the local line for the past several weeks, did not close his optloij to purchase the line. Mr. Carman said. Mr. Reeves made the announcement last Saturday that bus service would be discontinued. “Patronage has been fairly good and although the business hasn’t been profitable in recent weeks, we believe use of the buses will increase,” Mr. Carman said. “We are going to give it a good trial," he said. Mr. Carman also operates the bus line in the city of New Castle and What is known as a crosscountry line between New Castle and Noblesville. His company also maintains bus service between New Castle and Hagerstown. “For the present you can say that the local buses will continue to operate indefinitely. Until the close of school the regular schedules will be maintained and if patronage increases the buses will remain in service next winter,” Mr. Carman commented. The bus line was established here last September. Many people use the service. The line makes 72 regular runs to the north and south parts of the city, in addition to five special rurfs to accomodate school children and factory workers, Mr. Carman explained. Bus service is available over a 17-hour period, with regular runs scheduled every half hour. On the special school children’s run, 125 children are transported In the morning, and about 50 each at noon and in the afternoon, Mr. Carman said. 0 Mrs. Anna Worley Dies This Morning • Funeral Services To Be Wednesday Mrs. Anna Marie Worley, 76, a native of Decatur, died at 9:30 o’clock this morning at her home near Celina. O. Death was attributed to complications. She was born in Decatur Feb. 11, 1872, a -daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Gross. She was first married to Charles Geimer, who died in 1902. She later married Abraham Worley, ‘and he preceded her in death in 1936. She was a member of the Immaculate Conception church at Celina. Surviving are three sons, Leo' and Raymond Geimer of Chicago Heights, 111., and Edward Geimer, with whom she made her home; two daughters, Mrs. Frances Geimer Becker of Chicago Heights and Mrs. Marcela Worley Ploof of Flint, Mich.; two brothers, WiX liam Gross of Fort Wayne and Tony Gross of Gary; one sister. Miss Rose Gross of California; six grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 9:30 a.m. (EST) Wednesday at the Immaculate Conception church at Celina, with the Rev. Albert Gerhardstine. officiating. The body will be brought to the Decatur Catholic cemetery for burial, and mayObe viewed at the cemetery from 10:30 to 11 a.m. Wednesday.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, March 8, 1948

Wins “Walking Man” Contest J' L MRS. FLORENCE HUBBARD, 68-year-old widow, a Chicago department store saleslady, who won approximately $23,000 in prizec by identifying as comedian Jack Benny “The Walking Man’’ in a radio contest Saturday night. Her success caused such jubilation in her neighborhood that police were called to handle the huge crowd which gathered outside her apartment.,

Legion's Oratorical Contest Here Friday Zone Contest Here On Friday Evening Facilities for handling a large crowd at the zone 2 finals of the 11th annual high school oratorical contest at the American Legion home here Friday night, were being completed today. Lewis L. Smith, zone chairman of the event—the first of its kind ever to be held in this city—stated today that special invitations have been extended high school students, social and civic organizations and clubs and the general public. The contest is scheduled for 7:45 p.m. that night with Miss Margene Bauer, of Decatur, and Carl Vernerder, Huntington, representing the fourth and fifth districts, respectively, as contestants. The event is sponsored by the American Legion with the support of the Indiana state bar association and the state department of public instruction. Chairman Smith cited the worthiness of the project and called attention to its purpose—“to create interest in and respect for the basic principles of our form of government. “Therefore, all orations will have as a basic theme the constitution of the United States,” he stated. “This contest is a phase of the Legion’s national Americanism program and Indiana’s participation in this contest is another assurance that the Legionnaires are truly accepting their responsibilities and duty in promoting the program of our national organization.” No admission charge will be made for the contest, open without cost to the general public. 0 Frank Parrish Rites Held Here Sunday Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon for Frank Parrish, well-known Decatur business man. A short service was held at the house at 2 o’clock and at 2:30 o’clock services were held at the First Methodist church. Dr. Charles White, pastor of the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church, read the scriptures, and Dr. M. O. Lester, pastor of the First Methodist church, delivered the sermon. Decatur Masonic and Knights of Pythias lodges also took part in the services. W. Guy Brown had charge of the Knights of Pythias services at the church and Walter Lister had charge of the Masonic rites at the graveside. FredJ Bloemker, of the Ft. Wayne Scottish Rite choir, sang. — ®

I BULLETIN Honolulu, March 8 — (UP) — The first of a flight of 10 B-29 superforts landed at Barbers Point air base today, but at least one of the big bombers still was unreported and another was believed to have turned back in an attempt to reach the mainland. : o Gram Prices Drop Limit In Chicago 1 Corn, Wheat And Soybeans In Drop Chicago, March B—(UP8 —(UP) — Corn, ’ wheat and soybeans dropped the 1 limit allowed for a single day’s I trading on the Chicago board of ■ trade today. May and July corn futures both ■ dropped the eight-cent limit. May sold for $2.16-% a bushel, and corn . for July delivery dropped to $2.02% : a bushel. May wheat dropped the full 10 I cents to $2.34% a bushel. Traders were at a loss to ex- • plain the sharp break, but they ■ eaid that weakness in corn for de- ! livery in May led general selling ■ of all grains. ■ There was no specific factor affecting corn prices, but May corn ! last week had risen 38% cents a i busel from the bottom hit in raid- . February. i The hog market opened weak to i $1 lower at Chicago, and 50 cents • lower at Indianapolis. Grain traders said there was api prehension that the government • might reject the bids on flour sales > received from mills. The production and marketing administration will announce late today whether > it will buy any flour on the basis of the bids. Traders said the favorable weather in the winter wheat belt improved crop prospects and also tended to push prices downward. o Two American Women Killed Near Saigon t■■ ■ - I Paris, March 8 —(UP) — Two ■ American women were* killed yesterday near Saigon. French Indoi China, the French press agency re- ■ ported today. I The agency identified the women ! as Jeanne Skewes, director of the 1 United States information service in Indo-China, and Lidia Ruth f James, secretary to the American i consulate, in Saigon. > Both! were shot and killed about i 7 p.m. while driving a jeep on the I road from Saigon to the airport, i They were a little more than a > mile from the city when they were . shot, the agency said.

Senate Votes Amendment To Marshall Plan—Urges U. S. Fight Aggression

Four Nations Begin Parley On Palestine Invite Britain And Secretary Os UN To Discuss Problems New York, Mar. B—(UP)—The United States, Russia, China and France launched one-week emergency talks on the Palestine dilemma today with a unanimous decision to bring Great Britain and United Nations secretary general Trygve Lie into the deliberations. In a 77-mlnute first meeting, delegates of the four powers also appeared agreed that they must plunge into a full discussion of whether the present Palestine trouble threatens world peace, as well as a broad range of other questions growing out of the Holy Land situation. American, Russian, Chinese and French delegates convened for what was described as “an extremely informal” talk shortly after 11 a. m. at the Park Avenue headquarters of Soviet deputy foreign minister Andrei Gromyko. A member of the American delegation, speaking for all four powers. said after the meeting that the consultations would be resumed on an informal basis late tomorrow. Meeting under the shadow of a British boycott, the four big power representatives decided quickly to invite British representatives to tomorrow’s meeting. Since Great Britain already had served notice it would not participate except to provide information about the Palestine mandate, it was presumed that the invitation was being extended on that basis. The four -delegates — Warren Austin of America, Gromyko ot Russia, T. F. Tsiang of China and /Turn To Pae:** 3. Column 4) o Ten Delegates To Slate Conventions Precincts Listed By Election Board Both the Democratic and Republican parties of Adams county will send 10 delegates to their respective state conventions, it was revealed today. 'The revelation was made after an apportionment of precincts to the districts, made by the county election board Saturday. The law provides that a party may send one delegate for each 400 votes cast for secretary of state in the 1946 election and one delegate for each fraction of 200 or more Votes. A review of the 1946 votes disclosed that the Republicans cast 3,867 votes and the Democrat 3,806 in that election or a difference of 61 votes —not enough to add another delegate to the Republican total. Three precincts, the new C’s in Decatur, bring the total to 37. The apportionment was made by election commissioners Lewis L. Smith. True Andrews and county clerk Edward Jaberg. Following is a list of the names and number of precincts in each district and the total vote in each: Dist. I—Decatur1 —Decatur 1-A, 1-B and 1-C (3), 386 votes. Dist. 2—Decatur 2-A, 2-B, 2-C and 3-A (4), 388 votes. Dist. 3—Decatur 3-B and 3-C (2), 388 votes. Dist. «4—North Preble, East and West Root, South Preble. East (Turn To Pagre 2, Column 5)

Author Suicide v W J I Ross Lockridge, Jr., brilliant young Bloomington, Ind., author and winner of the 1947 MGM award of $125,000 for his novel “Raintre County” whose body was found in the garage of his home by his father. Monroe county coroner Dr. Robert E. Lyons pronounced the death a suicide by carbon monoxide asphyxiation. Indiana's Leading Young Author Dead Ross Lockridge Is Found Dead In Auto Bloomington, Ind., March 8. — (UP) —The friends and neighbors whom Ross Lockridge epitomized in his best-selling novel, “Raintree County,” prepared today to bury him in the Indiana soil that he loved. Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Lockridge who took his own life Saturday evening by locking himself in his garage and letting the motor of hig car run as he sat in the front seat. He was 33. Lockridge and his wife, Vernice, had four small children. Mrs. Lockridge was prostrated by grief today. The official verdict of suicide was returned by Dr. Robert E. Lyons, Jr,, Monroe county coroner who said he could reach “no other legitimate conclusion.” He said death was caused by carbon monoxide gas. But neither Lyons nor Mrs. Lockridge could give any reason why the author should kill himself after slaving seven years to write the top selling novel which won a $150,000 movie studio award and was chosen as a book-of-the-month club selection. One friend said Lockridge recently had shown the kind of sadness "which comps when a person’s private life has gone.” The author had made many personal appearances and had been called upon for many business duties in connection with the salS of his book. He was reported to have been working on a new novel. Some friends said that Lockridge had appeared “nervous and under pressure recently.” On Saturday, however, he had seemed to be in good spirits, his wife said. He was almost gay as he started on a trip to the post office in the evening. His wife became worried when he failed to return. She went to the garage shortly before midnight. The doors were locked and the lights were burning. She could see the car through the windows. Mrs. Lockridge called neighbors Turn To Page 2, Column <)

Price Four Cents

Cut Shipments Os Scarce Industrial Goods; McKdlar In Plea To Warn Russia Washnigton, Mar. 8 — (UP) The senate today unanimously approved a Marshall plan amendment aimed at cutting off shipments of scarce U. S. industrial goods to Russia. The amendment, sponsored by Sen. William F. Knowland, R.. Cal., was accepted by senate president Arthur H. Vandenberg and approved after: 1— Sen. Kenneth McKellar, D., Tenn., called on the United States to serve notice on Russia that one more Soviet aggression in Europe means war. 2— Secretary of state George C. Marshall made an unusual personal appeal to house speaker Joseph W. Martin, Jr., for speedy congressional action on the European recovery program. 3— Sen. J. William Fulbright. D., Ark., withdrew his amendment to urge a United States of western Europe. Knowland’s amendment would embargo all U. S. exports to Russia and her satellites of goods whose supply is inadequate to fill the needs of the ERP. Knowland told reporters his measure would effect many products now shipped to Russia and which, he said, are being used to build up the Soviet military machine. One exception provides that exports of scarce goods could lie made Russia under authorizatioi of the secretary of commerce in order to obtain such commodities as chrome and maganese, needed here. The senate also unanimously approved a second Knowland amendment to require that 50 percent of U. S. recovery goods sent Europe under ERP be transported in American ships, to the extent that U. S. flag vessels are available to haul the cargo at market prices. Action on the Knowland amendments came after McKellar announced he had reversed his opinion on the Marshall plan anti called on the United States to “take the lead” in defending European nations still outside the iron curtain. The 79-year-old former senate president, said the communist coup in Czechoslovakia and Soviet pressure on Finland have prompted him to reverse his earlier opposition to ERP. He spoke out shortly after secretary of state Getorge C. Marshall and his top advisers personally appealed to house speaker Joseph W. Martin, Jr., for speedy ’< ngressional approval of the ERP. McKellar urged that American armed forces be put in fighting condition at once “with one distinct purpose in view. “That if Russia takes over another nation or attempts to do so. our nation will take the lead in defending that nation and all of the other free nations of Europe.” He said Russia should be put on notice that “if she undertakes to take over any more European territory we are at the service of these nations and will help them maintain their individuality and YTurn To Ph?p $ Column 8) Q_ _ Eight Indicted For Fixing Milk Prices Washington, March 8 —(UP) — A federal grand jury today indicted eight corporations on charges of conspiring to fix milk prices here. The indictment said that the companies violated the federal antitrust laws. Attorney general Tom C. Clark said that the grand jury’s action was the second major anti-trust indictment since the justice department began a nationwide investigation of food prices. The first was an indictment of dairies In the St. Louis area on price fixing charge#.

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