Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 76, Decatur, Adams County, 30 March 1948 — Page 1

XLVI. No. 76.

LEWIS BOWS TO FEDERAL COURT’S ORDER

Return Bodies Os Four War Dead To States ■Four Adams County ■War Dead Returned ..Oto U. S. For Burial hodi-s of four more Adams |v World War II hero dead .. x ;>f t ?-<l momentarily to ar rft. in Now York from overseas for reburial. Striving are Ihe bodies of: WILLIAM SHEETS, son of . M Sheets. 919 South WinSKitpg street. Decatur: '•Mr' l - S,,KL,,Y M 3m of Everett E Faulkner Sr of and a former resident of ■jliST I.T WAYNE M MATCH husband of Clara M Match of Berne, and »ECCNI> I.T RE I LAI! I BARK daughter of .Mrs Jacoh & 703 North Seeond street. ■■io. I S army transport Robert yMßiirns is bringing the bodies of A; Sheets from the I'. S mllltery iMhetery at Eplnal. France: those Faulkner and l.t Matchett the Henri Chapelle Belgium while the body of l.t |Kk!ey is being return on the ■AT John MeCarlev from the S military cemetery at BiosFrance. Killed In Action Sheets Was killed in action on November 15. 1944 ■ hat! been In France about a before his death, going the previous October He service with the army In st ( amp Farnin. Tez and Fort N C He attended the Mon-B-ville high school and before en'■■lng service was employed at Schafer Wholesale company. A y-’h-r. Tl 5 Robert Sheets, also in France. include the parents brothers Robert at home. Cle.-n, stationed in Nuernberg :' Richard and Buddy at wnr three sisters. Mrs. R C Warren and Betty of latke Park, (b. and Elizabeth at home Killed in Germany ■l'lil Faulkner was killed in ac (• in Germany on October 12. while serving with the fir-' in the northern part of that He was graduated from high school and was em !>v the Wayne Pump Co.. In Wayne before entering serv■He entered the army in JWrm - training > Fort Benning. Ga He went in June. 1944 and saw ■■r-.n? in France. Holland. Bel and Germany A brother Faulkner, who served in ETo with the air forces is now 4^' ; - ! ng In this city. The brother •d parents Mr and Mrs Everett are survivors Served With Patton Matchett. son of Mr and ■> 'A liter Matchett of Jay C'oun was killed November 2, 1941, serving with Gen Patton and hird army in Germany He J ’he army In April. 1941 promoted to sergeant b< lieutenant In March. 1944 i "rT’iL h ** ld r ."** par * nu w w «idow. th* former Clan daughter -f Mr and Mr* fit> »er s death Dias | R graeee ■B'" Barkley, who died in France > July 27. 1944 WM tfce fj rgt f county woman to lose her ,■* io World War II while serving HT\,' >wntry ,M a graduate Monroeville high school and of ! - u, heran hospital nurses' Q*'""' »”ort Wayne She was a member of the Adams coun s|f memorial hospital before en 11,8 ,r mv nurses' corps in y"*' 19,3 »nd being called to tlvr duty June 1. 1943 After Hf* 11 'lining at Fort Knot. Ky 4b 'Turn To Page Tso) j® o Weather I *a<n extreme north and show- ■ to thunderstorms in south ■ pert,on tonight. Warmer. WedI nesday rain ending north see- [ by early afternoon. Cooler ■ '* <- ’ , *sday afternoon.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Greek Army Begins Spring Offensive American Planned Offensive Started Salonika. March 30 (I'Pt Greek army troops supported by I waves of fighter-bombers Jumped , off before dawn today in the first' | stage of an American planned i I sjtilng offennive against the guerril jla forces of Gen Markov Vafiades >' The atla< k was launched against | 600 rebel* in the Krous i mountain i area near Kilis, 23 miles north of i Salonka and 25 miles south of the Greek Yugoslav Bulgarian border junction f American and British officers accompanied the Greeks into battle as observer* Reliable sources said the offensive was planned cotn > pletely by the •.tnericans. f Reports of the fighting were lack Ing up to mam local time. At the same time it was announced that between H».<l&t> and 30,000 new recruits would be called up soon to replace older men in tharmy's national defense corps battalions. The national defense corps has , been assigned the task of guarding. ,' towns ami village* in guerrilla nr J eas to free the army for the spring I offensive Dwight Griswold, head of the American aid mission to Greece. 1 said the first 15. mm recruits wou'd be called up Immediately, trained for two months, and then sent out as replacements. Another 15.000 probably will be called up later. Griswold said, ' and perhape still more will be called up 1 later' The mobilization plan was proposed by Amaric an advisers to the ‘ Greek army ami approved by the ’ L’. H sta'e department, Griswold I said. ! The opening gun of the spring offensive is against guerrilla forces i on the eastern slopes of the Var- . dur river valley, an ancient Balkan Invasion route. ); Pedestrian Killed (Near Evansville /_ II Evansville Ind. Match 30 I (CPI- A 58-year-old negro pedestrian wav killed in a traffic accident | on V S 41 north cf hex- laG night. The victim was Thomas Jeffrie* of Evansville I’olfce said he wu struck by a cat driven by Dr Wil-, ' liam T. Scholl. Evansville, while ( trying to cross the highway Scholl, a demist, was not held 1 o Admits Throwing Man Into Canal Indianapolis. March 3*> tl'l’i Authorities today investigated a 32-' i year-old construction worker with a criminal record who admitted throwing a man Into the Indiana I polls water company canal and club--1 bine him when he tried to crawl out. D 1.. Morris Indianapolis, told 1 police he though Curt’.* Richardson ’ also of Indianapolis, was dying when he threw him into the ,-anal j ' Richardson's body wat recovered | rom the canal Sunday. Cub Scout Dinner Held Last Evening Over 300 Persons At Annual Dinner ' I Mor* thkfi p*n*<>n< a*tend*«l i ■ : at th* Lincoln m ho<>; laat night The rowd of i ‘l'he Cub pack, their parent? and I I relatives. Scoutmasters and Scout- ' I ing leaders. ' A 3«- mlnuete show of magic by ’ Marvin Crouse. Fort Wayne magi' ' lan. featured a program which fol lowed the potluck dinner in the[ 1 school gymnasium Numerous Cub awards were' made and an investiture-' eremonv > 1 for tMtUrfoot Cuba was held A | ' movie of Cub and Scout activities., ' taken last summer climaxed tbCj • evening program Herman H. Krueckeberg acted as toastmaster d,ionz the dinner pro gram P. Bryce Thomas. Cubmast- j er: Robart Xwlek. Paul Hancher. John Hatterman and Robert Helm j were members of a committee in charge of the affair, hold under the I auspices of the Lincoln PT A. sponsors of the pack

Police Fight Bloody Battle i With Pickets Violence Flares In Financial Workers' Strike In New York New York. March 30 ti'Pt Ciulrswinging police fought a: bloody 15-ininute battle today with, dozens of striking financial work ! ers who piled themselves In a human barrier at the entrance of the New York stock exchange. The picketing strikers sought ‘ vainly to prevent brokers from reaching their offices for the start 'of trading in the world's largest . financial Institution Forty pickets, several of them I bleeding from head wounds, were . dragged fighting Into patrol wagons anil taken to the Old Slip police station, while emergency squads of police rushed into the area to wrestle with one of th<> worst traffic Jams in the history i. of the congested Wall Street district Women fainted in the crush I around 'he Iz-shaped stock exchange skyscraper as thousands of | workers poured from subway entrances at the peak of the morning rush hour when the first vol(Jence in the twosluv strike against the sto,|k and curb exchutltSes broke out Fighting started when pickets! resented the arrest of a girl picket j , for disorderly condui t in refusing! to move away from the exchange! entrance As though at a signal j some .30 other pickets of the fin- : ancial employes union lAFI.. 1 rush «d to the entrance and lav down ' before it. Some lay on their stomachs, some on their backs, j some on their sides. Among them was a woman in a fur coat who screamed that she! would no' be moved • Police began dragging the dem ; onstrators anay but as one was j milled out of position another took] i his place. Clubs beg.m swinging ! One woman was bleeding heavily as she was pushed into a patrol 1 wagon. A detective suffered a j (Turn T<» Pa<«* OMeeting Wednesday On Forming Jaycees Decatur Young Men Invited To Attend Whether Decatur will have al Junior chamber of Commerce wiUj be determined at a meeting W»*t . nesday night at 7 30 o'clock at the city hall. William Coffee, local insurance representative, stated I today. Ail young men of Decatur ' are invited to attend the meeting I Mr Coffee has been acting as I temporary chairman of, a local » group interested in a Decatur unit I i,f the organization Andrew | | O'Dwyer. Fort Wayne, president of j th»- Jaycees of that city, and a group of voung Fort Wpyne bu*i | •less men will attend the organiza tjon meeting here Mr Coffee stated that In the last 10 days he had contacted a number! >f local young men and he beli'-ves! I that the sentiment here Is favor-. I able to a junior Chamber It is, expected that about 25 or 30 local; ■ten will attend tomorrow's see | ' sion i i . . > 1.-! I•; ,! t j posed group does not conflict in I ! any wav with the regular Chamber! ’ of Commerce and it differs in one I ! respect, in that a Junior member! I does not necesMrily need to own. a business to be eligible to mem-i bership All young men of Decatur are Invited to the Wednesday! ' night meeting. Two Autos Badly Damaged In Wreck No one was injured but both ve-1 Melee were badly damaged when 1 cars dri» n by Walter Grewe. Os-1 stan. and Mra Ether Myers. Decat J nr, collided six miles northeast of Bluffton. Wells county sheriff Ed ! Grsden rejs-rted Monday Acording , to the sheriff, the Grewe auto at- - tempted to cross V. 8. 224 in the path of the Decatur vehicle, owned I by Robert Parrish.

ONLY DAILX NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, March 30, 1948

I Strikers Picket N. Y. Exchanges Ji* ' ■ 'iwrr A BROKER. MM‘kinr to *nt*r th* N» w York Stork Exchange, find* the going tough a- striking no*inl>*rs of the ( niled Eiuancial Em|»h»yer (AFL)s a< < <»st him at -h»* <!ooi Th<* wmk’rH -f!u< k both Stock and Curb exchange* to enforce demand* for union *hop and higher uage*. Offi<*ialii reported “buMine** as usual

Wallace Says Russia Not Threat To Peace Assails Truman's Preparedness Plan Washington, Mar "" (UP) Henry A Waller* fold emigres* today th.it President Truman* preparedness program would net iff an armaments race leading in ev it ably to "unnei -esxary war’ Scoffing at the idea that Russia Is a threat to wot d peace. the hirl party prest iential candidate accused the administration of I manufat furinc an artificial <ll- , is" in an effort to "stampede eon gress and the people into accept] itiK universal military rrainingi tnd conscript ion ” "The security of the United States is not threatened." said I Wallace, "except from Washlngon.” In a statement prepared for de livery to the senate armed serv-. h*<<s committee, Wallace said: 'Remobilization. if authorize I ,v congress, will set off an inter national armaments race World, fears and tensions wi I increase ] Mobilization and counter mo iH ! zation will i-.sl to world war 111 The former vice president and cabinet member denounced tin : Truman defense program as "ex pensive wasteful, utibalani > d mid contradictory.'* It is intended Wallace said, “as I the means of staving off a deprt sioa." ■H the Torres! a I plan i» enact ••d," he said "the American p<-> pl* will have to pay higher pric< • for bread, mik and other essen rials all In the name of national security." Wallace rejected the idea that Russia is a threat to world peace "The most ardent advocate* of the unsuccessful, two-year-old gettough with Russia policy admit." lie said, ‘'that the Soviet (Inion loes not want war They even concede that the Soviet Union fears war "No nation actually threatens >ur vital Interests anywhere in the world No power would dare attack the I'nlted States." The remobl'izatlon program • Turn T<> Page Two* - —O — Radio Station Owner And Publisher Dies Phoenix. Arts, March St* —tl’Pi — Barridge D Butler. Sti. radio station owner and publisher, died today of Injuries he suffered Wed needay when he fell from a knoll In his citrus grove. Shock from the fall complicated a heart ailment He owned radio stations KOY In I Phoenix. KTUC in Tucson. Aria., and WLS in Chicago, and published the Prairie Farmer. Chicago, and I the Arizona Farmer.

Mrs. Elwood Stevens Dies In Michigan Mrs. Elwood Stevens. 'll. former Decatur resident, died Sunday night it her home in Sturgis, .Mich., as cording io word received here today. Surviving are her husband and five children. Dale and Lloyd, both of Sturgis. Hugh of Eugene Ore ■ (2wool Jr., at home, and Mrs Ruth Ainmer of Sturgis. Funeral servh co will be held at 1 pm. lESTt Thursday at Sturgis, after which the body will be brought to thia city for burial In rhe Decatur cemtery. where brief services will be hold o ITU Abandons Fight Against labor Ad Willing To Resume Pact Negotiations Hammond, Ind. March 30. ! (VPI The AFL International Typography al uni o n reached I igreemetit today with tin- national I outline of i labor contract to be offered the nation's newspaper*. Th> ITT gave up ns fight tr> I oat the Taft-Hartley act II , tgreed (b resume negotiation* with • the union told newspaper puls j don the “no contni' t policy uni der which it had hoped to retain its ‘raditional eitised shop despite a! I raft-Hartley ban on such agree nents NLRB attorneys and ITT of-, flcials already had set up the outline of a contract which union locals will ask publishers to aeepl. The agreement- wa reached at t meeting here yesterday of Wood-, ruff Randolph, IT! president, tier-, par I Van Arkei and Henry Kaiser. ITT attorneys, and David F. Find-, ling, counsel for the NLRB. Van Arkei and Kaiser returned to Washington today and hoped to I "have something definite" In the form of a proposal to publishers. The union’s announcement did not mean that its strikes against, newspapers were ended It meant that the union was willing to enter j formal written contracts and was ready to ask newspapers to enter negotiations on that basis. The outline drawn up yesterday set up the broad provisions of a contract to be offered publishers jlt would run for a full year Herej tofore the union had insisted on a ■ 60-day termination clause on agree | ments as insurance against "ole ' jeytionable features" of the Taft- | Hartley act. The union set up its "no contract" policy at the annual con- * vent lon at Cleveland last August Under that policy the union asked (Turn To Pag* Five)

Mine Workers Chieftain Bows To Order, Appears Before Board's Hearing

Russia Charges U. S. Directing Spy Ring Moscow Says Leader Os Ring Confesses London, Mar “c (l’P> Radi"! Moscow charged today that Ru»-| ,ia had uncovered an American j directed *ky ring of former Ger-j ! man arrnv officer* operating out | i of westi-rn Germany. Austria a:idj j Sweden !o learn the seceris of lin- Soviet zone Moscow eaid the leader of the group operating in the Soviet zone had heesi <i<pturei and had ionfessed He wa* identified a* Col Gerhard Pinker!. former regi | mental commander of the Brandi enburg division. "He confessed he wa* a mem i her of an illegal fascist organization existing in the western occu I pation zone of Germany, consisting of officers of the former Ger man army who ar»- ts-ing used by ! the American intelligence service 1 for espionage in the Soviet zone. ! Radio Moscow said. "According to Plnkert’s testi-; tnony. the center of the organiza- ■ tien set itself the task of estal, lishiug contact with German I agents left in a number of coun ' tries luring wartime and for this purpose Intend* to utilize such ! countries as Aus'ria and Sweden., through w ith h it is possible to I conduct asp work," Mos<-ow *ai<l the c'-nter of the ', a'leged spy organization wa* 1 stablished first in Frankfurt but was transferred to Munich in thsummer of 1317 Its memlM-rs. Moscow said, were former officers of the German general staff.*' The head of that spy ring, the broadcast charged was Col Gen Franz Halder, for mer chief of staff of th- German Hal ler was imprisoned by th<Nazi* for ■ asp--, tej participation !!.<> ! It. a ... . -■ ■ . Hr ' i and !>'id wph mo t of tin. Getsnan, general staff in i ca*!’e near, Uniforms Received For Local Firemen Regular, Volunteer Firemen Uniformed For the first time in the history! as the department, all Decatur fire i men, r« ular and volunteer, haves uniforms. The uniforms, purchased through I Al Hrushwiller. local tailor, have ar I rived and w*ere being pressed today j before the tailor-made eu.ts were to | lie distributed to the four regulars ! and 16 volunteers Now De> atur's firemen will he j resplendent tn blue serge suits and seven-point caps, gray shirts and *o< ks. black shoes, w ine-colored I t’es The uniform coats bear a I shoulder patch insignia Fire Chief Cedric Fisher's unl- ; form Is distinctive being marker! with four ■ uff *tri|>e» that have al readv ear-led him the not disre spe>tful nickname of "admiral' The uniforms of assistant chief i John E. Meyer and the engineers t'tge Foor) Orders Federal Aid To Indiana Counties II Washlnzton. March 30 ~(CP> — The white house todav announced 1 ‘ tha* President Truman had ordered federal aid extended to five rounties of Indiana recently hit by I tornadoes The assistance. In the form of ' surplus property, will be provide*) ’ by the federal works admlnistra tion 1 I'rod.ient Truman acted on the ' request of Gov Ralph F Gates.

House Favors Aid To Spain In Fund Plan Votes To Include Spain In Nations Aided Under Plan Washington. Mar. 3" -'CPi — The house voted today to include Spain among nations receiving Marshall plan aid from the E S The standing vote of 149 to 52: ■is technically suliject to conflr mation by roll call In-fore final ; h;»u*e passage of th'- JC 7" mat foreign aid measure. It appeared certain, however , that Spain will stay in th«- mea I sure a* finally approved The senate might take her out. how ever Inclusion of Spain was propose I by Rep Alvin F O'Konskl II Wis. H<- said Spain would be I come a battleground in event of war with Russia and should therI fore receive economic help from | this country. Reps Chet Holifield. D Cal and Jacob K Javtts. R . N 5 ; objected to O'Kosuiki'a amend njftnt. And at the stat- depart I ment officials felt Spain’s Inclu -lon would spre.nl ..'it > ti- i*ly thin the 15.8(10 fi'IO.OdO • "ni'li- ! for the Marshall plan A* both house and -.mate con Gdered foreign aid MU- the: w*r<* thMi* (t*v*fopnu'n' Tsxe* The White Hous.- Indi cated that President Trum in will jt j M.f'itax k and then veto it H* has untH r?i tlnijih* t»> ■ z’’ •a* in it- a n b and . ' an ;■ i Fhirnpe Greer*, and Turkey i wHI an China • I Pupils Io Present Program For Lions Lions Club To Hear Students Tonight A group of band students under the direction of Albert Sellemever! 'mm the Decatur junior-senior high school will present a musical nrogram tonight at 'he weekly meeting of the Decatur Lions: club The program will follow the linnet meeting at 6 30 p m lr> •he- Knights of Pythias home laiwell Smith, club member and: t teacher at the school, will be in --barge of the program The program and participating’ students: Trombone solo —Medfori Smith Accordion solo — Eileen Bieber Ich Saxaphnne solo— Fram e* Mor tin. Flu'e solo—Barbara Anspauzh Violin so'o—Carolyn Burnett Trumpet solo —George Bair Clarinet solo--Corrine Hill.

Price Four Cents

Court Order Issued After Mine Leader Ignores Subpena Issued By Board Wa*hingiop. Mar HID ! John L Lewis, bowing to a fedet i al cotirl order and the threat of another contempt citation, today I went before a presidenlal board itjl •-*< tgat ini- the It; day coal j strike The I’nin-d Mine KVorker* chief :rppekr(*l before the board 'X i 1* 54 p rn . C'KT six minutes he fore the dealline set in a cour 1 order Issued this niornlag !>/ federal judge Edward M Curran. The government got the court order after U-wis ignored a sub- ! pena Issued by the itoard directing him to appear Itefore it yesterday ,DJstf<»- lepartment officia's had ! said that if Lewis defied the court order they were prepared to ask for a contempt citation against ! him immediately Th- board, set up under the t Taft Hartley labor law, has heard all but Ls-w h- *f th'- penisoti dispute which led to the coal strike It must report to Pre-i dent Truman by milnohf Mi-r lay | Mr Truman then expect.i 'o instruct the justice department to get a court injunction compel! mr to cull th Htrin* h-wii • ’4 . h*;iri;fy romn with h ’’!■ l-il ' ' 1 Warn Residents Against Dumping Refuse On Roads County enfM-rintendent of highwavs Phil Sauer today warned res- > i blsh and cans along county roads. Mr Sauer urged ' "operation of mot- : orists and residents in keeping the I Mghwavs clean of all refuse and ! de- lared that numerous complaints ! are being received by his depart • ment Mr Sauer aleo de< lared that all I county roads except one. have been reopem-d to travel after !>eing made mpassable by recent storms ami ; heavy rains One road, near Bobo, on which i a culvert was washed out. has not been reopened, but workmen expect to complete this task within a short time, he stated Numerous ■ roads, reported hazardous because | of their eoqgy conditions, are now | in fairly good condition, he declari ed. I