Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 58, Decatur, Adams County, 9 March 1948 — Page 1

M XLVL No. 58.

MAC ARTHUR AVAILABLE FOR NOMINATION

I Administration I Again Urges No I |x Slash Now -I S BAverell Harriman Says Inflationary ■Pressure Strong Washington, March 9 — (UP) —| The administration stated its no-i ta®-i ut-now views again today, ■ee.retary of commerce W. Averelli Harriman told the senate financ committee that taxes should not be reduced while inflation still igkith us. Biiid. he asserted inflationary I J® 6 ' - ures continue strong. ■But a majority of congressmen a veto-overriding major- | ity - agreed with the U. S. Chamber of Commerce that a tax cut is i chamber told the senate comj mittee that a tax cut would be “the bhst insurance available against a recession.” ■The committee is studying the I I billion tax cut passed by the se. GOP senators plan to trim cut to $4.5 billion. They hope ioing that to get enough votes iverride the tax-cut veto which •ybody expects from President man. r hile the senate continued des on foreign recovery and the se discussed pay and training of mized reserves, the congressiontews budget included ater than they thought — U. S. tary authorities in Germany onger believe the world is safe n war for at least 10 years, t was the gist of a report from rnse secretary James Forreetal he senate armed services com* tee. These authorities aren’t prefflfccting war soon; they just don’t ■ll that the 10-year guess is much Stood in v ’ ew of recent happenings. K Single package — House GOP leaders rejected, at least for the ■me being, the plea of secretary of State George C. Marshall that oth,'*r aid programs be kept out of the jßhiropean recovery bill. Marshall ■personally asked speaker Joseph ■V Martin, Jr., to consider the HKP Still apart from others in the inter- | asts of speed. f I “Loafing” —The house appropriaSpoils committee accused the internal revenue bureau of “loafing Km the job,” the job of being to taxes. It also charged the Ktureau with “glaring inefficiencKes." The charges accompanied apof a $1.9 billion bill to run treasury and post office in sisKal 1949. I Return — Rep. A. L. Miller, R., oaid he believes Gen. DougMas MacArthur would come home ■within two weeks if invited to test■ify before a congressional commit■tee on Japanese problems. I Cleanup — H. J. Anslinger, head ■of the narcotics bureau, told the ■house appropriations committee ■that Gen. MacArthur had “cleaned ■up" Japanese narcotics smuggling. I Atomic — Chairman David E. Li■lienthal of the atomic energy com■mission said the country cannot ■ tolerate work stoppages at atomic ■ plants or plants which supply them. ■He testified before the joint con- ■ gressional atomic committee which ■is studying labor policy for the ■ atomic energy program. 0 I Chairman Os Local Cancer Society At Meeting In Capital • Roy Kalver of this city, chairman of the Adame county cancer socI iety, attended a state meeting of ■ cancer society officials at the ColI umbia club in Indianapolis Mon- ■ day. The meeting was to prepare I for the annual drive for funds in I Indiana and also to outline the I year’s program. Indiana’s goal is set at $325,000 I for 1948 and Adams county is exI pected to contribute $1,500 of this I amount. Decatur’s share of the I $1,500 already has been raised in I the amount of SI,OO which is part of I the Community fund and the balance I of SSOO will’ be raised in other I Parts of the county. William H. Ball, Muncie manuI facturer and president of the state society, presided at Monday’s sesI sion, which was opened by an ad- ■ dress by Gov. Ralph Gates. Many I prominent physicians and other I Hoosier citizens interested in the I control of cancer addressed the I gathering. More than 200 members I of county societies were present.

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Religious Teaching In Schools Illegal U. S. Supreme Court In Ruling Monday Washington, March 9—(UP) — Some 2,00'0,000 children in 2,200 communities attend religious classes during school hours with the cooperation of public schools. The legality of such religious training is now wide open to attack. The supreme court ruled yesterday that religious education in public schools is unconstitutional. The court's lone dissenter, justice Stanley F. Reed, said the majority opinion was so sweeping that it could forbid schools from excusing children during school hours to attend religious classes at their own churches. A concurring justice, Robert H. Jackson, said the decision could include a ban on classical art subjects, such as literature or architecture, that touch on religion. Justice Hugo L. Black, who wrote the majority opinion, didn’t say how far it went. He merely stated that no tax-supported public school system can aid any religious sect any way. The wall between the church and state erected by the first amendment to the constitution “must be kept high and impregnable,” Black said. The court’s decision specifically struck down an eight-year old instruction program in Champaign, 111. The program allowed students to attend, with the written permission of their parents, half-hour weekly classes conducted in public schools. In writing the majority opinion, Black rejected" an interpretation of the first amendment advanced by Illinois in the Champaign case, and by representatives of the Catholic church in public statements in recent months. According to their view, the amendment was intended “to forbid only government preference of one religion over another, not an impartial governmental assistance of all religions.” “After giving full consideration to the arguments,” Black declared, “we are unable to accept . . . these contentions.” In its busiest day of the present term} the court handed down another decision which is expected to affect seriously Michigan’s effc forts to root out crime by a “one-man-grand jury” system. The system has resulted in the wholesale jailing of officials in high office found guilty of corruption. The court ruled that the power (Turn To Page 2, Column 8) 0 Court Orders Estate Properties Be Sold Estate Bequeathed To Local Churches Real estate -nequeatlied the 13 churches of the city by the late Kathryn Jackson has been ordered sold by Judge Earl B. Adams in Adams circuit qourt and the proceeds divided between the churches. In a partition action pending in court here, the court found that each of the churches is entitled to one-thirteenth of the estate and that all of the interested parties, excepting Curtis should share in the estate. Mr. Zimmerman was tenant on an involved farm and had been named as a defendant only because of any interest that he might have. Samuel D. Henschen and Fred J. Adler, named as appraisers by the court, reported the following values on involved property; land near Curryville, $12,500; lots in Curryville, $175; a lot in Decatur, S9OO. Each of the appraisers was allowed $5, and the attorney in the suit, Ferd L. Litterer, SSO. Sharing in the estate are: First Methodist, Bethany and Trinity Evangelical United Brethren, First Presbyterian. First Christian, First Baptist, Church of God, Nuttman Avenue United Brethren, St. Mary’s Catholic, Church of the Nazarene, Missionary, Zion Lutheran and Zion Evangelical and Reformed churches.

Arabs Attack Jewish Colony Near Ramallah Several Hundred Arabs Driven Off By Sharpshooters Jerusalem, March 9. — (UP) — Several hundred Arab troops attacked a Jewish colony near Ramallah under cover of a heavy fog early today, but were driven back by Haganah sharpshooters after an eight-hour battle. Alert Haganah scouts were credited with saving many lives in the colony—Ataroth, on the main Jerusalem-Ramallah highway. Haganah sources said the scouts spotted the Arabs creeping toward the settlement. The Jews, settled in reinforced stone houses, stood by openings until the Arabs approached within rifle range. Then they fired a heavy barrage, forcing the Arabs to retreat. The Arabs regrouped outside the village and poured machine gun and mobtar shells into it, but caused no casualties, according to Haganah. Arab casualties were not known. Jewish political parties, meanwhile, agreed today on a 32-man council to govern a Jewish state, as the British prepared large-scale evacuations from the Holy Land. Approximately 2,000 British troops and several hundred civilians are scheduled to leave Palestine aboard the S. S. Samaria, due today at Haifa, government sources announced. British officials were told yesterday their families must be out of Palestine by the end of March. The proposed council, which must be ratified by the United Nations, has been formed on the “broadest basis, Hirsch said. Os its 32 members, 12 presently are members of the Jewish agency, 14 of the Vaad Leumi (Palestine National Council) and the remaining six of small political parties, settlers' and women’s organizations. 0 Grain Prices Fall Again In Chicago Soybeans Fall Full Eight-Cents Limit Chicago, March 9. —(UP) —Grain prices fell again today on the Chicago board of trade. Wheat, corn and oats dropped sharply for the second straight day, at the opening. Soybeans fell the full eight-cent limit. Hog prices at Chicago appeared steady with yesterday's lower levels, but other markets throughout the midwest reported prices 75 cents to $1 a hundred pounds lower. At New York, top grades of beef in the wholesale meat market sold 50 cents to $1 lower. Poorer grades of beef, however, were strong to higher. Veal was steady to $1 higher and pork was steady to $1 lower. Meanwhile, at Washington, government labor experts predicted | that President Truman would take action to postpone a strike of CIO packinghouse workers scheduled for next Monday. Under the TaftHartley law, the president could declare that a meat industry shutdown was a “national emergency.” At the opening of the Chicago grain market wheat was % to 4% cents a bushel lower. Corn lost 2*4 cents to 7% cents. Oats dropped % to 3 cents. All of the major commodities except crude rubber took a sharp drop yesterday with grains leading the descent. The trend was transmitted to the stock exchange which closed fractions lower. Hog prices dropped 25 cents to $1.50 lower at the big cornbelt stockyards. It was the biggest general drop since Feb. 13 when the big break that started Feb. 4 finally was checked and a gradual upswing began. The commodity markets set the pattern for the level of the nation’s cost of living. The national association of pur(Turn To Page 6, Column 7)

Decatur, Indiana Tuesday, March 9, 1948

U. S. Women Slain In Indo-China ML ♦ * lilto- ■ adh dL. 9 11 ■ ■ FTM U. S. consular officials at Saigon, Indo-China are investigating the killing and burning of two American women employes, Lydia Ruth James (left-, of Hillsdale, Ind., and Mrs. Jeanne Skewes (right) of San Francisco. Their bodies, each with a bullet hole in the head, were found under their burned-out jeep on a little-used road about three miles from Saigon airport.

Additional Workers In Red Cross Drive Workers Aid Annual Drive In Decatur Additional workers to assist chairmen in the 17 residential zones of the 1948 Red Cross campaign in Decatur were listed today by Kenneth Runyon, city drive chairman. Following is a list of the additional workers: Zone I—The Mesdames Nellie Morrison, Weldon Baumgartner, Norman Kruse, Fred Hahnert, Ralph Smith, Amos Ketchum, Clarence Smith. Donald Jefferies, Vernon Custei, R. C. Hersh, and Ora McElhaney and Miss Clarice Anspaugh. Zone 2—Mrs. Harry Essex and Mrs. Joe Hunter. Zone B—Mrs. Wesley Lehman. Zone 9—The Mesdames Sephus TJckson, Carl Smith, Frank Bohnke and L. E. Archbold. Zone 10—The Mesdames Phil L. Macklin, Dean Byerly, G. R. Bierly, Jack Brunton, Chet Kleinknight, Lowell Smith, William Keller. Maynard Hetrick, and Hubert Zerkel, Sr. Zone 11 —The Mesdames Robert Freeby, Herman H. Krueckeberg, Harmon Gillig, Harry Dailey, G. D. Mac Lean, Kenneth Runyon and W. P. Harper. Zoffe 13—The Mesdames Alva Buffenbarger, Earl Butler and John Bayles. Zone 14 —The Mesdames Charles Kent, Harold Baughn, John Beery. Zone 16 —Mrs. Clyde E. Drake. The above named persons are assistants to previously named chairmen. In some of the smaller zones, chairmen have elected to conduct the respective solicitations without aid. ft. District Dentists To Meet Wednesday Dinner Meeting To Be Held in Decatur Members of the Isaac Knapp district dental society will meet in this city at the Masonic home Wednesday evening at 6:30 o’clock. Dr. Joe Morris, local dentist, in charge of the event, said that it will be held in the forjn of a dinner and social meeting. Dick Mills, well known Indianapolis lecturer and humorist, will speak during the program, to be attended by dentists of the association, their wives and dental assistants. Some 75 persons are expected to be in attendance at the affair, the only social event of the society during the vear and one which has become an annual meeting in this city. Members of the Order of Eastern Star will prepare and serve the 6:30 p.m. dinner. Dr. Fred Patterson, also a local dentist. Will act as toastmaster during the dinner program. 0 Weather Fair north and partly cloudy south portion tonight; colder; Wednesday partly cloudy, little change in temperature.

Indianapolis Woman Is Traffic Victim Indianapolis, March 9 —(UP) — Mrs. Jestsie Crouch, 67, of Indianapolis, injured 10 days ago in an automobile collision, died in St. Vincent's hospital here last night. 0 Walter Helmke In Race For Governor Fort Wayne Lawyer Tosses Hat In Ring Fort Wayne, Ind., March 9 — (UP)—Allen county Republican chairman Walter E. Helmke last night said “I would like to be governor.” He announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for governor of Indiana after fourth district committeemen overwhelmingly endorsed him at a meeting. This morning he left for Indianapolis to establish campaign headquarters. The Fort Wayne lawyer had been mentioned for the nomination, but the withdrawal of Lt.Gov. Richard James probably quickened his decision to join the race. Helmke, who is 49, is the second northern Indiana Republican to enter the gubernatorial race. Robart Creighton, Warsaw poultry raiser and speaker of the house of representatives, is the only other formal aspirant to the nomination. “I suppose the simplest explanation of my move is to say frankly that I would like to be governor,” Helmke said. Political sources here said that Helmke could get the support of Gov. Ralph F. Gates, who has not taken any public stand in the race. The governor, however, has conferred with Helmke within the last few weeks. Helmke said he wasn’t being besieged by a statewide draft movement, but that he had "many friends” who. would like him to run. He was city attorney for 13 years in the administration of mayor Harry W. Baals until the Democrats took over with Henry E. Branning Jr. a few months ago. Jenner Replies Indianapolis, March 9 —(UP) — The Indiana Republican editorial association, which first demanded that Sen. William E. Jenner renounce any gubernatorial aspirations he may hate and then demanded that he resign from the senate, had a reply from Jenner today. But the answer, given in a telegram from Washington, was noncommital about Jenner’s intentions and it rejected both demands. Jenner broke two weeks of silence on the first IREA ultimatum when the executive committee of the editorial association sent him another message calling on him to quit Washington. Jenner told the editors he would be guided only by his conscience and the lessons of political experience in decisions affecting his political future. He said he would be “totally bewildered” if he tried to reconcile his duties “with all the consistent and inconsistent exhortations to which the press now implores and now commands me to respond.”

Agrees To Accept G. O.P. Nomination If Offered; Truman Also Candidate

GOP Regulars, Angry Southern Democrats Seek To Block OH MacArthur, Truman Washington, March 9 — (UP) — Republican regulars and rebellious southern Democrats maneuvered today to put the freeze on the presidential candacies of Gen. Douglas MacArthur and President Truman. MacArthur and Mr. Tuman announced they were willing only a few hours apart yesterday. Many congressional Democrats put an immediate chill on Mr. Truman with reactions most remarkable for grim silence or predictions that he would be licked in November. A few Democrats uttered halfhopes that MacArthur would turn out to be a Democrat and maybe run for them if they could block Mr. Truman. But the general is a Republican. GOP party leaders shied away from challenging MacArthur. But most of them are convinced now they have the November election in the bag. Many are not as eager as some months ago to top their presidential ticket witn a lot of military glamor. There is some rank and file MacArthur support and he has a national following as a military man but the greatest political asset he and general Ike possessed ie fast disappearing. That was the fear among many Republicans that they could have a hard time defeating Mr. Truman this year. But MacArthur has some powerful newspaper support, Col. Robert R. McCormick of the Chicago Tribune and William Randolph Hearst. MacArthur’s big political test will (Tui-n To Pa»e 6. Column 7) O Farmers' Banquet Held Monday Night Purdue Management Leader Is Speaker Citing production as the only solution to the nation’s and the world’s problems Dr. Earl Butz. Purdue farm management leader, ast night called for unstinted cooperation between labor, business, agriculture and all other groups. Dr. Butz delivered a stirring address at the Pleasant Mills high school before some 300 persons n attendance at the annual Adams county farmers’ banquet. The speaker was introduced by Elmer Baumgartner, Berne banker. Others who spoke briefly luring the program included T. F. Graliker, Decatur banker; L. E. \rchbold, county agent, and leadets of the five-acre corn club and dairy herd improvement association. Awards Are Made Five-acre awards made last night: Orval Alt, whose 98.1 yield was highest in the club; Ronald Yoder and Sylvan D. Habegger, all silver medals in the adult division. Franklin J. Graber, whose 97.9 yield was high, a silver medal and Martin J. Graber, Jr., bronze medal. both in the junior division. DIA awards were made as follows: - Ben Mazelin, bull medal; R. Myers and C. Short, silver medal; Harry Lehman, Ben Gerke, Reuben Schwartz & Son. Edwin Nussbaum. all bronze medals. Guernsey breed awards were made by Pete Lehman and Holstein by Rolandus Liechty. Elect Officers Orval Alt was elected president of the corn club. Other officers are: Hugo Bulmahn, vice president; Ben Mazelin, secretarytreasurer; Sylvan Habegger ant Edwin Reifsteck, directors. Sheriff Herman Bowman aided in directing traffic at the scene and controlled the large number of cars that jammed parking facilities at the school.

Discusses Plans For New Catholic Church Razing Old Church Begins This Summer Preliminary plans for the new St. Mary’s Catholic church were discussed by the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz, pastor, in a talk before members of the Holy Nam' society last evening. Msgr. Seimetz prefaced his talk about the church by reading a letter from Most Rev. Bishop J. F. Noll, on how the Bishop’s European relief fund was administered. A collection amounting to more than $l,lOO was taken Sunday in the local church for that purpose. Every penny is used to furnish shelter, clothing or food *o the stricken people in Europe, it was explained. New St. Mary’s church will be constructed of Wisconsin stone, with the colorful St. Meinrad stone used for the inside walls. The church will be of the modern English Gothic style, with two front entrances. A parsonage will be connected to the new church, joining the edifice at the west and extending westward to the Madison and Fifth street corner. The church will face Fourth street and will be erected south of the present building. It is estimated that the church and rectory will entail an expenditure of around $350,000. More than $150,000 has already been raised. Beginning next June, church services will be held in the auditorium of Catholic school building on Fourth street. An altar will be erected on the stage. Chairs, fastened together, will serve as pews. Razing of the old church will begin next summer and work on the new edifice will start as soon as conditions permit, it was explained. It is planned to use the bells which have called parishioners to old St. Mary's church since 1873 in the new church. Msgr. Seimetz said that he expected the Cincinnati architect to confer with him in the near future and that more definite plans would be known after drawings and specifications were available. o Dog Fund Balance Is Sent To State Unpaid Claims In Three Townships A balance of $128.40 in the dog tag fund has been sent to the state, personnel in the offices of county auditor Thurman I. Drew revealed today. Under the law, each of the 12 township trustees in the county turns over to the auditor all money in excess of SIOO in the dog tax fund and this totalled surplus is used to pay any unpaid claims in any of the townships. The balance is forwarded to the state. Turn Tn Pasrp 2. Column 7) O Convoy Carpenter Is Taken By Death •Jonis Wilson Mollenkopf, 63, a carpenter, died suddenly at his home in Convoy, O. Surviving are his wife, Velma; four children, Vainard Mollenkopf and Mrs. Glenna Rhoades of Tully township, Mrs. Eavdale Boyd of Fort Wayne and Geleah Mollenkopf of Lawson, Ky.; and two brothers, Clinton of Convoy and James of Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be held at 10 am. (EST) Wednesday at the Hertz funeral home in Convoy, with burial in the Convoy IOOF cemetery.

Price Four Cents

General MacArthur Likely To Campaign On Opposition To Russian Expansion Tokyo, Mar. 9 — (UP) — Gen. Douglas MacArthur agreed today to accept the 1948 Republican presidential nomination if it is offered him and observers believed he would campaign on a platform of vigorously opposing further Russian expansion. MacArthur is known to believe that direct man-to-man negotiations between the president of the United States and Premier Josef Stalin should be attempted. In the opinion of those who have talked with him, MacArthur would, if nominated, favor placing the American anti-communist piogram upon an immediate global basis. MacArthur’s views on leading issues, as expressed to numerous visitors in conversations in which this correspondent participated are as follows: 1. The greatest single problem facing the American people is that of relations with Russia. 2. This problem should not be considered insoluble by peaceful means. 3. Direct man-to-man negotiations between the president of the United States and Stalin should be attempted. 4. The United States should make it unmistakably clear that Washington is prepared to use whatever methods may be necessary to defend the American way of life. 5. There are some grounds for be’ief that Moscow would retreat if the United States declared its determination to use the strongest methods to prevent further Soviet aggression. It is anticipated here that MacArthur will be subjected to an immediate flood of requests that he return to the United States personally to expound his views jn various questions. That he will reject such requests may be considered certain. Those who know him are confident he means just what he says when he insists he has “no plans for leaving my post in Japan.” Should he be nominated at the Republican convention in Philadelphia in June, however, it is anticipated he might fly to America and address the convention before it adjourned. Regarding labor, MacArthur frequently has stated he favors a middle course with protection of human rights, whether those of employes or employers, as a primary consideration in deciding labor disputes. He prohibited the proposed general strike of Japanese gov(Turn to Page 6, Column S) O Former Editor Os Warsaw Times Dies Warfcw, Ind., March 9 —(UP) —• Funeral services were held today for Encel H. Dodge, 66, a native of Goshen and former editor of the Warsaw Times. Dodge died at his home here Sunday. He had been a newspaperman all his life, retiring in 1941 because of illness. o Legion's Donation Boosts Red Cross Campaign In County The Adams county 1948 Red Cross campaign took a decided boost today with a contribution of SSOO reported from Adams Post 43, American Legion. The local Legion post approved the contribution during the regular meeting last night, after hearing an appeal from Phil Sauer, county drive chairman. With this contribution it was estimated that the campaign late today would total more than $2,329.94, according to Mrs. Ruth Hollingsworth, executive secretary of the Adams county chapter.