Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 80, Decatur, Adams County, 3 April 1948 — Page 1

No. 80.

AMERICANS SNARL RUSSIAN RAIL TRAFFIC

||wis Leaves ■ike Status It To Miners i letter To Members s Wilts Decision On To Miners I BULLETIN I Kkzihmgton. April 3—(UP) — |^K> iK )ent Truman ordered »»■ || tyntf joneral Torn C Clark free a! court injunction b r f ak the soft coal strike. »■— ——— f A 1, I.cwiz today put It Up to t'm-.-d Mine Worker* to they want < <*li 1 Je-day-old ‘•trike or! to * another long} 1 members of the union in VX.I. #•• Ills March 12 letter' ■ not any suggestion or direc-I B to quit work ■ i;.,» repeat.” Iz-wi* said. | you ate not no*' under anil UK been under any orjj-i ■ lire, t .ns or suggestions. *x My. ‘ or implied from me. or ■Lt ff.e union nth »ri> to cease fft . o. . ontmue to I ease work ■ protein to the president dis Bering <■» •* •’( ***** i ■;< or trait ■At tar as 1 kno» t! is still the Bpretu light and pririlcg* of fa er: •• 11' rens to l oatinue to fl Snise the right of free speech freedom of assembly" fthe I'MW president* new lett wss disclosed as the WTdte ju-.. »n reported ready to seek injunction against continuation the strike I'nlon officials who released t loto-r tocMsod comment on tether it was s signal to return work Monday Operators puirht that it could ba inter-H.-d both ways—retnm to work continue the strike Lewis asked the union members meet and discuss a series of 12 ents including President Truth * Inquiry into site Soft coal -ik», that haee occurred slate trch 12 Any action or declsiot which u may now care to take." Lewis id "continues to be entirely • tour oao d»»*rsr.ina4ioti Witht din 'ion of any character Im me or from any of your ernational officers." the strike began tn a dispute rr pensions tor the miners, wis t ints to put into effect a a month pension to he fin.ri by the union's we'fare and 'lrameßt fund . Operators claim t ■ is too much Turn To Pag- JHvet

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New Tax Cut Law Wa.hinrton, April 3—(UP)— new tax/ut law in tabloid: Effective Date All provision* retroaetko to »n 1. but actual benefits won’t ’ felt until May I. Tha lower ithholdfhg rate* start on May 1 efunds of excess withholdings ■om Jan. 1 to May f will not be led'- until after final 194 S re tm I* filed in 1949 What The Law Doe* I Increase* personal exemption* ■<>m present J 500 to 3800 ' Extend* to married couples in 11 state* the community-property rtvllege of splitting their income * fax purpose*, thus ensuring ’■•r taxe* for many Grant* an additional 1600 per“fal exemption to anyone who Is ver 45 or blind f uf* taxes J2B percent on intaxes between 34(H) and 3100- - and five percent on Income over 3100.000. IneraMM from |soo to 31,000 “* ">sxfmum standard deduction w contributions, etc. Appiie* the community property •ynclpie to estate and gift taxes "nlttlng husband and wife to " tift* for tax purposes and to " “•» their joint estate its Ef*et About 7.400.000 taxpayers will be '•sped from the tax noils. The ret «•< substantial P*e government will iose year' in revenue a 0WtATHtR ’ with little change In ’•2*r«»e* today. Partty t ’ y IM warmer tonight and

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Promoted * ' ” ' ‘I ■* * Ernest Karlen ■ Karlen Is Promoted j By Kraft Foods Co. Manager Os Decatur Plant Is Promoted Promotion of Ernest Karlen, manager of the Kruft F<*>d» company cheese factory in this < ity. to head of quality and production |control for dried *iik powders in Kraft midwestern division. ha* been announced by D. W Spicer, i division milk plant production manager Ralph Burke, a native of [>e. i.itur superintendent of the Ikecatur plant s u-t evils Mr Karlen a* ( man veer. Mr Karims has been with Kraft for 20 years Me started with the 4-empany in 192 k as manager of the Sharpsville. Ind. cheese factory and was moved to Kendallville as manager of the Kraft caramel, plant in 1934 In IMS he was made I manager of the Decatur factory Karlen will work with plants pro ducina milk powders in Michigan J Indiana Illinois. lowa and Ken-' tacky, offering expert advice and I counsel on quality control problems He will continue to makej | his home in Decatnr. although hi* work will center at Kraft inter-j I national hwadquertyrs in Chicago Mr Burke has been with th* • company 11 year*. During thlsj ; time he ha« held successive post tions at the Decatur plant a* chese maker, foreman and super intendant. In Decatur, hoth Karlen and Butke have been active in chic affairs Mr Karlen is a director of. the Hotary club, was secretary of the highly successful dairy day held March 4 in Adam* county and wks co-chairman of the A-H. fair test August Mr. Hurke was bern and educat ! ed In .Adam* county He is a mum-i her of the Lions club and Is chairman of the industrial committee of the Decatur safety council.

K. Os ?. Winner To Speak Monday Night —— Kristine Striker Is Local Winner Min Kristfhe striker, local entrant in regional Knight* of Pythias speeah touted will speak here Monday night at the K of P home The address hy Mist Striker Will begin at X pm and will be open to ttie public without charge School students have been extend ed a special invitation to attend A musical program will lie presented by members of the Decatur junior - senior high •' hool band, under the direction of Albert Selle meyer. Miss Striker will represent the Decatur lodge in a regional speech contest to be held at Ossian at a date to be announced later Iler topic is "The debt of the modern world to ancient Greet e Myles F Parrish, chancellor com ■nanrfer of ttje local K of P lodge will be in charge of the program Decatur Ministers Will Meet Monday The Decatur ministerial association will meet Monday morning at 10 o'clock at-’he Zion Evangelical and Reformed church.

74 Candidates For Graduation At Decatur High Annual Exercises Will Be Held Here Thursday, May 20 There are 74 candidates for graduation al the Decatur junior-senior ■ high school this year. Walter J. t Krick, superintendent of city school*, announced today. The 17th annual commencement exercises will tie held st the local l.ichool on Thursday. May 20. The ' speaker Mid program will l» announced later. Mr. Krick stated. • This year’s .lass is five short of | the 79 who were graduated from De.atur high sibisd last spring. ( The candidates for diplomas are: Joan Audrewa. Wanda Colleen ' Badders, Ronald Lamont Ballard, Rru< e Karl Boughman. Thomas K. Haylen. Morris Gene Blocker, Charlen W. Bollinger. Norman L. Burnett. Donald Bruhnegraff. lion- ’ aid Wilson Chronister, Durotby I Awn Cottrell, Jagies A CoWegs, ■Jane Gaynell Daily. Uliian Grace DaVU Kenneth E. Durbin. Dwight E Egly, Herman I. Everett. Richard Wayne Eeasel. Evelyn fan Be Fisher. Jack Thomas Fisher, Dorothy Gene Haugh. Norman Wayne Fosnaugh. Robert G Frank- < lin. Bill W. Gaunt. Roger L Gentis. Evelya Marie Gerke. George F OilI bert, lesiald Erwin Grant. Sue Kathryn Harper. .John Grant Heller. . James Herbert Helm, Coastauce ' Mari* Hill. Mett, .1 HollingswortJl, Duane Lacy Holtnee. Everett Hutfcer, Jr. Ralph T. Jackson. Kenneth Dale Jennings. Richard E King, Ira William Kingsley, Phyllis Adsir , Kkaft. Helen Marie Krueckeberg. Norman Kruse. Jr, Norms Collees ■ Lammert. Owen Itale l.au'ensch- ! leger. Haymond James Lehman I Legora Alverta Markle. Edsal 1 Jaaies Mattas. Eileen Huth Meyer. David Bari Moore, Phyllis Joan Morrison, Doyle I, Myers. Robert ’.Keith McAlhany. David Lloyd Fo| I lock. Joan Reinkins Anita Mae Rentz. Jack BeynoMa. Gordon Lee Rfce. Kenneth Lester Roop. Norma Jvatl Ruck. Bosnia i.ou Schh-fersteLi, Anna Louise 1 Sfhvarts. Robert B. Sheckley, An na belle Mae Shaffer. lionaid Wayne Slusher. C. Medford Smith. Chester Wayne Sommer. Karlann Striker. Donnie Ixiu Suntan, Evelyn Jane Summers, Roberta Joann S wager. M June Teepie, Marcella 1 Mae Walters, Jacquetine Mae War ren. Norma Jei»n Wilson

Drive Planned Here I To Aid Coatesville Daily Democrat To 1 Lead Local Drive The Decatur Daily Democrat ha* accepted the invitation of Eugene Pulliam, publisher of the Indianapolis Star and other aewspaper*, to conduct a k>etil drive to raise fund* for Coatesville the Indiana tow# struck by the tornado on Good Friday The state goal I* 1100.000. The money will be used to finance the • foTowing project* In the stricken - town « Rehaildipg of town's electric power distribution system. Rebuilding of Coatesville tele • phono system. 115.000 Rebuilding of the public library. 120.000 Repairing of street*, sidewalks ■ and the city building and the r planting of trees. 17.000 As Mr Pu'liam explains, the reason for the Indiana drive is. “Hoosiers are good neighbors.” . R I* not a Red Cross drive i The Red Cross has a'ready al > located up to 51.6M.M0 for relief and aid to the stricken and home- . less families Even In rose* • where home* were destroyed and . the owners cannot replace the house*, the Red Cro*a will assist In financing the projects All re Ref work food, clothing and Shelter will be provided by the Red Croes Those who wish to contribute to the Coatesvil e fund, are aaked to send their donatlona to the , Decatur Daily Democrat The total will be forwarded to the — 1 (Turn To Page Four!

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, April 3, 1948

Tension Mounts On Italian Election Violence Increases For April 18 Vote Rome, April 3 — tl'Pt — Violence and high feeling in the Hal ian election campaign we* on the Increase today as the country went into the last two-wack stretch before the balloting April 18. The Biachinegun ■•laying of a Sicilian labor leader yesterday was followed Imo. night by a bomb' and pistol attack on a Communist meeting in the Naples arva in which seven Communists were injured Hhtgeuio Reale a member of the central committee of the Communist party and one ot Italy's two delegate* when the cominfotm was organized in Warsaw last Septesiber, wuh addresHins a rally at Soin»ia on the Vesuvian Mloptui east of Naples when the meeting wu* attacked Police said a number of unkaowu person* threw one bomb and opened pistol fire ou trucks used by Communist supporters to attend the meeting The attack was short, police said, and tha assailant* fled before the crowd could react. the Injured were rushed to hos pltuls in Naples Several other antl-Communlst meetings broke up last night when listeners booed th» speakers. Giorgio Almlrante. a represents tlvs of ths Fascist Italian social movement, was booed off the platform at Arezzo. In a leftist- controlled area around Florence Paolo Capita. Italian minister of merchant marine. w»« heavily booed at Venice hut finished hie •peach as did another Christian Democrat speaker at Forli, south of Bologna. A monarchist In Florence, bow over, was so strongly jeered he cut hie Addie** short - One Injured, One Arrested In Wreck Auto Crashes Into Parked Car Today Dee pergoa was Injured and another arrested as result of an auto, i crash on West Adam* street about 4:50 o'clock this morning Injured vat Harold Murphy. 37. of this city, who was taken tn the Adams county nu-m<>ria! hospital for treatment of facial and hoad Iterations, follovtaff the accident Splintered glass from a car’s windshield wa» removed from his forehead and he was released after treatment Harold Keller, tt. driver of the car tn which Murphy was riding was charged with reidcle** driving! hv officers Robert Hill and Adrian Coffee They charged the car. driven by Keller And owned by Jerome Reed, of Decatur, crash i Turn To Pa«e Flvwi

t r >ir n i ” t •* • - Decatur G. E. Aeolian Choir Sing For Technicolor Film

Lights! Sound! Camera' Action! Minn* only a star like Gable or Garbo, but with much of that Hollywood and Vine atmosphere the world famous movieland "came" to Decatur la«t night for! a brief spell Under the blinding kjelg lights, of the movies. Decatur** Gai'lesj and Garbo* blinked unseemingly, while they sang for their first “big-time" flicker. The scene was the auditorium of the Decatur Catholic high *chnr>L The "actors" were the member* of the Aeolian choir of the Decatur General Electric whose prowess in the music world ha* been cUpibiag by leap* and bound*. A director, cameraman, sound men and all the others that go to make up a modem movie were from the Raphael Wolfe studio* in Hollywood The voices and faces of the chblr member* are to be seen in a technicolor film, produced hy the Wolfe studios for the General Elec - tric company throughout the United States and la a commercial release, showing the various de partments of the company at work Throughout the film. Che choir furnishes the background music even to the point of emulating in

(andidate ■K 1 i w—JI BT KA '• H. M. Gilhg I' Harmon M. Gillig I Coroner Candidate 1 Seeks Democratic i Nomination In May Harmon M Gllllg. incumbent' county coroner, announced today: that he will I* a candidate for r>- 1 i nomination to the office on the Democratic ticket in the May prl msry i Mr Gillig l« H'>w serving the second year of hi* term in the office having been elected tn November. 194 H. and assuming the I duties on January 1. 1947. Mr GilMg is prominently known > in the city and county and has i been engaged in the operation of I tb« Gillig a Doan funeral home ' here for years He is married and th* father of 1 five children: Mrs Helen Keswn ('eJins <>.: Mrs Ruth Bolinser i i Fort Wayne; Richard. Fort I Wayne: Robert. * student in ari j Indianapolis mortician's school. | an I William a student at Decatur ( , Catholic high school , Mr Gillig has long been an ar five worker and supporter of the! finely. | Close Schools For Teacher's Funeral >. , Classes at the Lincoln and tin fs -anir junior senior high schools, will be suspended Monday mom J j Ing in tribute so the late Grace, I Coffee, teacher at ths former j L school for many years • Funeral service* for the teach ! t er. who died suddenly Friday ■ ( morning, will !>» beH at 9 a m .j Monday at the St Mary's Catholli ' chun-h. the Very Rev Msgr. J. J. RelmeU off?, iaii/u- Bur!<ii ♦•’III be In the Decatar Catholic cemetery Mies Coffee’a body will lie In ‘‘state at the Zwlck funeral home from 2pm today until tun« for , the services Public school stu dents will return to class as usual Monday afternoon.

a musical matinee the factory hub bub. Then for several minutes in one portion of the film, thu choir <-an be seen as well as heard Voices of the choir were reeord!ed earlier this week at radio station MW'WO Studios in Fort \Vayne , and will be synchronized with the ( film Ister Accompanied only by i a piano, th® choir will be enhanced by the music of an orchestra to I be "dubbed in" later. Stephen Pasternack!, of Hollywood. who wrote original music fop the film and Gail Papenhangh. the director, were on hand last night. David Embler. Bern*, the choir director, and John Welch assistant plant manager here, as j si»ted in the local "takes ' and in preparation* A dazzling background. typical nt Hollywood* ' "colossal ” and "sijpendoua" adjuetfves was erected on tk> audi ' torium stage for the filming This morning, choir members realized what screen stars meant ( when they talked of long, gruelling' hours liefore the camera Th» "■hooting” started at 7:lu o'clock last night and ended in the wee small hours this morning-shortly before 1 a m. to be exact IWhen Decaturites will be able to see the movie was today's unan swered question

Blockade Russian Zone Control Center, Prevent Russians From Entering

Lisi Voting Places For City Precincts New Locations fn Several Precincts Locations Os the six volingt place* lu Decatur will he submitted to tlie Adams county controls stoners for tlieir approval at the regular maeting Monday, it was announced to lay by auditor Thurman I. Dre* Several new location*. Including those nt the threa new Decatur precinct*, are in the list: Following is a list of the preI cinct boundary line*, followed by I the name and location of the got- ' ing p'ace 1 A South of Erie railroad and i east of Line street to city limits: Mcßride's Welding Shop on Grant street, one block west of High' •tree!. 1-B Smith of Adam* and west side of Line street to city limits; Frstik Krick’s garage. Elm street and Pennsylvania rallroa I If' North of Erie railroad.' east side of IJih- street and south• >f Adams Adam- county jail • A North of Adams, cast side of Fifth street south side Monroe street. ea«t including Stratum place; court house 2 B - North of Adams, vast of loth wuth of Monroe street, trit iof Fifth street; Flru statkin 2C North of Adonis west of |h|h south of Monroe street, west !to city limits Worthman fir’d I boas* 3 A-North of Monroe, east if Fifth street to Mt Mary’s river; : county highway garage. ’. B-'North of Monroe west of : Fifth, south si Ic of Short street, west of Seventh street, south et Dnyton: Ftauhigere construction offl< a on north Seventh street M' West of Filth, north sidr Short street, east ot Seventh.! north of Dayton C rbet's Impte ' ment *tr.r»- ~ o Huntington Police I Nab Check Forger Alleged Physician Taken In Custody A state-wide alarm Issued earlier t his wx-k by sheriff Herman Bowman last night trapped 'Dr" Charles E Lamb. 27. u( lowa City, lowa — and nipped a fraudulent cheek spree that reached the Unndred* of dollars Huntington city police nabbed Lamb in a hotel there, after hrhad issued three fraudulent ■he< ks In that city — and after getting his description in news papers and over police radio given by the local sheriff They telephoned sheriff Bowis an to ernne and get Lamb last "rening. but when he arrived there refused to surrender the fugitive. In li< atitrg they wanted to press charges in that city. tamb admitted to sheriff Bow man and deputies that Im- issued a fraudulent check In Decatur and two to a Monroe man. rang ing from ttr to |35. He also admitted under >|Uea tfonine to passing several more in Ohio while accompanying the Monroe man. an implement salesman Most of these were Written for 150. He admitted, too tn issuing two for <2* each at a Fort Wayne hotel and one for |so to a Fort ' Wayne restaurant All were Irawn on the J*>wa City tows ; bank. Lamb, who posed as a physician here and In Fort Wayne admitted *fo the sheriff last night that his medical experience was HgjitM to serving in "the medical corps 1 in the navy” and two years of pre- ' medical training In lowa. When lamb'i checks started "bouncing” here Tuesday, sheriff Herman Bowman who Thmemher <Tffrn 4Tu I’agc Four!

President To Sign European Aid Bill Today 1— — I Congress Completes Action Friday For European Aid Plan Washington. Apr 3 — (t’Fi — President Truman was rapectedi to sign the kti.098.000.00b global aid bill today, launching tha most far rea< hitig peacetime projei t of it* kind In I’. S. bistory. The signing »a* to lie witness<*d by congressional leaders who pushed the 'cold war" legislation through the house and senate In >onv month's time. State department official*. Who have been working for months on the foreign aid program, sail they would have machinery set up by Monday to get large-sca'e relief • rolling to the free nations of Ear ' j ope In addition to tha European recovery program, the hill includes aid to Chins and military assistance to Greece and Turkey By presidential order the state department will direct the multibillion 'lollar anti-i ommimist program for 3o days, by that time It is evpeeted that > permanent administrator wi I have been *pIMiinted by the president and i on ' firmed by the sena’e. Paul G Hoffman, preridegt of Studebaker Corp, la being m»n ' Hotted prominently for the I2b.nuos.year post. Congress gave final approval to the measure yesterday with nearunanimity that showed plainly its fear of Soviet Rus'-ia’s intention* The house okayed the compro mise hill by a roll call vote of i 311 to 75 The senate approve I , It by voice vote and without d<i bate a short time later. Final action came one mouth r and one day after congri-M began I It* historic dehate, and one day past the April 1 deadline original ty set by the president The Mar •hall plan phase of the program, i whir h starts Monday, will begin exactly 10 months from the day It* was proposed at Harvard Cnlver . «ity by secretary of state George r. Marshall I Duly probably will lx- at the hogil ot the list for speedy aid Cose behind will be France, \us- ( tria. Sweden. Norway. China. Gre»« e and Turkey — all under | severe communist preausre No' breakdown has been wiade of dol ♦ Turn To Fr. - <> Today Is Deadline To File Candidacies ' f Clerk's Office Open Tonight For Filing i dates to file official declarations ! n the offices of the county clerkbat up to a late hour thir. morning there was no concerted rush of last minute office-seekers It is considered likely, however •hat some will take advantage of ttie office being open this after-1 noon and tonight until 9 o'clock to file I’p to noon today, voter* had inly two primary races to look 'orward to the contest* for the Democratic nomination* ot judge vd rongresgman. and neither narty had 1t« ticket completely* fHled I .at eat to file: Ervin L. Fox. Republican, for joint representative. Harmon Gillig, Ixemocrat. for county coroner. E E Winans, for Denne ratlc precinct committeeman. South St MdPy'a: Roe Dickerson, for ixetnocratlc precinct committeeman. Ge Seva A; James D Brown, for Democratic precinct committeeman, South KlrUaud

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Use Russians' Own Harassing Tactics; American Railroad Shipments Resumed Berlio dfr 3 (I'P) —Ameri<an troops, using the Russians' , own harassing tactics, lilockaded ’he jjovie' roue rail control center in tjie American sector of Berlin I today and prevented Russian offi- , < yrs from entering. At the same time American fool train shipments to Berlin w«re resumed. The first Ameri can train since Wednesday artived at the Watuo-e station al 15 a m (1:15 a m CSTL It carried a norma! guard ot seven I’ S. soldiers !>’it u<> passengers The train passed the Rtm*ian checkpoint at MarfenlioVn without difficulty However air freight shipments from Frankfurt were continued forth« third day The ! first of 3o food planes, scheduled t<> leave at 1". minute intervals, took off front Frankfurt at dawn. The Russian rail control center, a hngn three-story red brick building cnl'ed the Reichsbahn, was suriounded by 30 V. g. mllii ’ary police with tommyguus last midnight The first Russian was turned I nway at fi 30 a. m bv Capt. Gvorgo Ca* ddy. Scotia. N Y . who aid he »A- under orders to prevent any Harlot sollier or civilian from entering the building. L' Col Eugene W Hilton, Los Angeles took over command of the guard detai-hmeat for the exiPeiteii morning rush of Russians reporting for work between s and 9 s m The guard was Im rea e«i 10 50 men The first group to arrive at 8’4.7 a in., was a Russian captail wj'h a driver and two arme< guards »«cort tip a truck with torsi for the Russian* who remaine | inside the building all night Hilton to’d the Russians to put the food on the sidewalk and that i German pdh • man would take i’ in Six I' H. so!d4.rs with tommv’giftis stood by as the fiwwi was unloaded from the truck A policeman was told to take the 'ood Intp the building The Soviet tru- k drove away without afay A *»•• ond group of 20 Russians. (Turn T t’.ia - Flci 0 Miss Margene Bauer To Regional Contest Legion's Contest Monday Afternoon M!tw< Margetie Bauer, Decatur's comely x-nins orator, goes after further laurels Monday when she will «<>:npete in the rej onal eliniinathgis of the national Ameriwan Legion oratorical contest. Mi-s Bauer, accompanied by her parent*. Mr and Mr*. Ed Bauer, and iter speech instructor at De- • atur junior scßtor high school, lieatte Dorwiu, leave Port Wayne Sunday by train for the mig ,-ity and the contest the followji - day. The first winner of the state Legion oratorical contest from ’!•** community. Miss Baue- will carry Indiana * banner In the nation U eliminations Previous to her victory in the state contest she had been declared the w nner In eliminations at her s-h0.,1 the county, district and zone The regional contest in Detroit is •>< heduled for 2 p.tu. Monday. Ml«s Bauer and her group will be quartered at the Dearborn hotel duiing their stay there SERIAL MONDAY "Far I-ore's Sake Only” is the title of the new serial story which will start In Monday's Daily Democrat The authoress Margaret Nichols, has put together a great novel involving th* story of two girls in love. with . the Mine man Don't miss th* »tart next Monday of this new and I -tory «