Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 84, Decatur, Adams County, 8 April 1948 — Page 1

I vJ. XLVI. No. 84.

OUR KILLED, SCORES HURT DY TORNADO

llwis Facing i |reaf Os New Court Action ■Southern Operators Keek injunction To ■Force Bargaining ! April S ,l ’’’ ~ f I , ,i. today wan confrontI Kr • threat of still another a, I K . it!;>-:n <oal operators as c t: announced it will ask th<*| Kt..: la "t relations board to; I ■ . ouri injunction forcing I an,! the I’nited Mine workwltTi them on thel dispute. ~read', is under court or appear Monday anti show Khe -Itould not be cited for con ■ r - (or failing to call off the 25■Lee” oal strike - as directed ■ p-tl.-ral Judge Matthew .Melast Saturday night Kj.ap.i also had ordered Lewis tie teal operators to bargain; ■y...,; 'a:th in an attempt to setwalkout. ■.< E Moody, president of ■ x-rlit-r'. - oal producers assoc K.r -nd I MW representatives K. -d flat’,, to re. ognize the ..n a- bargain!!..; agent for coal operators. ajand .idiial members of the assoca «- overed under McGuires J:er They have delegated their ■-••in. iiv powers to the associaMn Th- t MW contends that the. i itioti cannot bargain for the .£> ividual operators because the ■ irators signed individual conwith the union last year. ■j'-’.r. c Gall, conned of the a«■ria’ioti. will go before the labof later in the dav and ask it ■ *•••'» i oiirt injunction requiring bargain with the associa■lt an injunction is Issued. Lewis !>e required to recognize th- £ i.cion as bargaining agent for sou hern opeiators. '|Ka* th,- strike entered its 25th tii- nation’s rteel production Jbd-r way and the possibility of ow.-r brownout*’’ loomed ■n- . o .-rnment already lias an r.i! >.oi ojierations to one half normal early next week” beof the strike. Sfers t... 1 Idas! furnaces raised pro-pe. t of deep cute In autoKt'‘'i’- production The automotive ■«- -aid production will drop by than 3 000 cars and trucks week and that a further hretned certain next week ■ "' ,i, a mi,-, government labor ex >peculated on the chance ■at 1., ais might order the striking ■in-rs lack to work this week In -ftor: to forestall contempt of action. -«They -act the government had ■>’ 1.,-wis on the spo’ •yesterday it obtained a court order di to explain next Mon-| "■>y Why he han not obeyed an earlK order to end the 25-dav old ■ Federal judge T Alan Goldsbor■sh -aid la-wis would go on triaf| K '"’’'•"•Pt next Wednesday If KT '* nn ot give a satisfactory exat the Monday hearing Smrfa government experts bethat Lewis might escape conmpl Proceeding* if < oal pruduc--0°” re *" me * by Monday He would face the prospect of a wtif* n *’ and a possible jail sentence. er . if the atriko goes on and ■<»'*mpt < barges are passed K Ju<lire Gl, ld*horough ■W ""“'••'np' case once before and ■ b *» and hi* United Mine K'-f-r. 4710.000. They were fined r . * n ' ,r| ng the judge’s order to ,trik » l»te in 1940 ■ »/an»h!!s. representative of Jl*' ■'’’"•wuniotpand soft coal oper ■a r ‘ ,nt 'nued their court-order negotiatkma on tl* pension dis ■d * whl<h »<» the walkout Hut ■Li’ were no 4n <l th#- Kovd»rnmeni took ni*w W’ to conserve dwindling coal 33 -2 T4rn T " *'•<» Five, ‘ M•’ ' — ■ Weather ■ F «'r and sealer tom 9 M. ■ nsw?'? I" - B 9 2 h Heavy treat In central 1 t meet I ’ southeaet peetl.n*. Friday, I I v ”"* nerthweat.

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Five Hartford City Persons Injured Hartford City. Ind . April S (t’l’i Five employes ot the Hartford Novelty company were in the hospital today Hitffering from in-1 iuries received in att elevator shaft | accident yeaterday. Injured were Hill Beagon, Mr* Hoiiert M Thomas. Mr*. Charles Stump. Mrs. Merrill 1.. Bokier and Mis. Fred Crockett. A kix worker leaped to safety a* I a cable on an elevator broke and I sent the car’plunging 20 feet.’ o Truman Asks Added Funds For Air Force Preparedness Drive Picks Up Momentum In Congress Today Washington. Apr. s — (VP) —, I The nation's stepped-up military i preparedness drive picked up momentum today. President Truman sent to con- . gress a formal request for an ex tra 1725.000.900 with which to build up the air force. House leader* promised quick action on th- request. Appropriation* committee sources hoped an air force money bill could lie put before th- house next Tuesday. Navy secretary John L. Sullivan disclosed, meanwhile, that Mr. 'Truman soon will ask congress to; boost merchant ship construction i funds from 139.500.000 to 1100. | nin.AfM) for the fiscal year start-, Ing July 1 He told th- house merchant marine committee that the additional sum* would be "only a drop in the bucket to What we would need If we were getting Into a war.” He added: "I don’t think ■ we are. I hope we won’t." I The money asked by Mr Tru- : man for the air force I* part of I the added 13.000.000.000 which the administration want* to strengthen the national defense establishment It would increase the fiscal IM9 defense budget to 114,000,000.000. Both hou»es and many commit tees were in session. Congres-, sional new* inc'uded: Blame —Sen Guy Cordon. R.. Ore. blamed the fact that tax era-' slons are running around |5.000.000,000 on the Whi’e House — beI cause the budget bureau would not let the treasury ask for-more money with which to hire ag-nt* -The treasury is asking a senate appropriations subcommittee for enough money to hire 10,000 additional internal revenue agents Money Th- house passed and sent to the seqgte a cbmpromise (Turn To IMac- Hight, 0 Plan Publication Os Fair Directory 4-H Directory To Be Published Here Plans were started Wednesday for the publication of an Adam* county l-H fair directory similar to last year* publication The book will be »pon»ored by the Dw jeatur Free Street Fair association and >, C. I Finlayson Ik chairman of the committee in charge Mr. Finlay«or’ ftiFt Wotlfc4sday w iRi hl* committee including H W Pruden. Herman Krurkeberg. Glen Hill and Oick Heller, and plans were started for the lolicitlng of advertising publishing and distri buting of tha catalog Final plati* for the solicitation of advertising will be made at a second meeting of the committee next Wednesday- noon, chairman Finlayson »aid It is the present plan for a Committee of 15 or 20 bujjnesj men to sell all advertising for the hook in a one-day drive. The annual catalog include* all current Information at-'Ut the Adams county 4-H clubs, their sponsors, and Ihis year the bnok will also contain general fair information It villa be mailed to every rural home In the county and to all 4-H members in Decatur, Monroe. Berne and Geneva. Other distribution will be made by var *loua fair enmoittees

27 Graduates Are Listed At Catholic High Annual Exercises Scheduled June 4 For Catholic High The list of 27 candidates for diploma* -at the 25th anti'ial commencement exercise* of f»ecatur Catholic high school was released today by Sister M. Agnes, school principal. The graduation exercises will be held Friday. June 4. In the school audit, •jjum. Diploma* will be awarded by the Very Rev. Msgr J. J. Seimetz, pastor of St Mary’s church and school superintendent Eighth grad- exercises will also he held at the same time, it was announced The name of the «p«ak -r who will deliver the graduation addn-SH will be announced later. Msgr Seimetz stated This year’* exercises will mark j a quarter-century of continuous i operation of the Catholic high school and the 23rd year of those of the new building, which wa* dedicated In 1925. Following graduation exeylse*. i erection of an altar and moving of| sanctuary articles from St Mary’s: i church to the school auditorium! will take place. Church services will be h-ld In the auditorium dur Ing the period of raxing the church and the blinding of the new edifice on the kite of the historic Decatur landmark. Graduate List I Th- Catholic high school graduate nomlna-s arc: Norma Appeiman. Eugene Baker. Bernad-tte Braun. James Ehler. Henrietta Faurote. Agnes Gelmen John Gil Jig. Clet us Heimann. Eugene Heimann. Fred Heimann Maxine- Koller. i»onna Lou Kor I tenber. Kathleen Kortenber. James Kortenber. Leonard Lengerich. Richard Mies. Rose Noonan. James Roop Clarice Rumschlag, Donald Rum-«c-hlag. Richard Rumsc hlag. George Scheiner. Lois Scheiner. Kathleen Terveer. Donald Vogelwede. Arthur Wilder. John Zlnt*ina»ter Kristine Striker Is Oratorical Winner Wins District K. P. Contest Wednesday Miss Kristine Striker, a student of the Decatur junior senior high school, won the district oratorical contest of the Knights of Pythias lodge, held Wednesday afternoon at the Ossian high school. Miss Striker, winner of the con•est held by the Decatur lodge of 'he K. of P. organization, will now ’■-present this district in the tone contest, which will be held at New Castle high school Thursday. April 15. Winner* of five -Ji*tricta will compete in the New Castle zone contest, one of four in the *tatc>, with the four zone contest winners to rumpet- later in the statfinals Topic of th- Knight* of Pythias oratorical contest Is "The debt of thw modern world to ancient Greece." • * R. U Simon*, of the Jonesboro high school, wa* second !n ves’erday's district ewntest Fred Ratliff, of Magion. wa* chairman of the contest and C D. Weesner. also of Marion, district deputy of the fraternal organixation r wa* alsq in attendance.. Mis* Striker was arccrthpafli-d to Ossian by her parent*. Mr. and Mrs. i*ark Striker. Mrs. Martin WeFand. Gerald Rumple, and !>eane_ Dorwfh. speech instructor In the Decatur junior-senior high school , Joel Falb Dies At Orville Hospital e- - April 5 — Joel Falb. <5. of Orrvßle. Ohio, died at th ft hospi tai there* Tuesday following a stroke He was employed as a efr inspector on the Pennsylvania ralb road He was a brother to Mrs AP hert Zuercher of Berne Rites were held today at Orrville. , I

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, April 8, 1948

Furnace Confesses j[j William Drews, 60. (centerl of Stprgeon Bay. Wi* . is removed by Sheriff Hallie Rows right, and police Capt. Elton Carmody to the Door County jail following hi* confession to th- murder of Mr*. R P Cody, wealthy widow of Hint city. Mr*. Coly’s badly burned body wa* : found in the furnace of her home.

Additional Funds Voted Girl Scouts i S7OO Appropriation Voted By Committee The budget committee of th? Decatur Community Fund ha* approved an additional appropriation of 1700 for the Girl Scouts of thl* city, which will lie acted upon by the director* at the annual meet-1 Ing next Monday evening, it was I announced today The request for additional fund* ! which will Kring the Girl Scout* budget up to 11.700 for the calen dar year, was made by Mr*. <’. I Finlay ton. director of the organization. Fund* are required. Mr*. Finlayson said, to meet increased experktex in connection with the Scout training program and toaug ment the activities planned for next summer. Mrs. Finlayson said that opproxi mately 100 girl* would Im- enrolled in the troops thl* year The annual camp for Girl Scouts i* planned again for next summer at Hanna Nuttman par*. The election of three directors will take place next Monday even ing at the meeting to be-held at the teen-age canteen Carl c. i'umphrej. president of the Decatur Communitv Fund, will preside The annual budget will not be prepared until next fall, prior to the . Community Fund drive, which probably will be launched in October O "*— • Make Arrangements To Print Ballots Election Board Is Preparing Lists The Adams county board of elec tion commissioners today began the task of preparing Hats of caff dldates for printing of official and ’sample ballot*. Seventy-four different ballot* will have to be Arranged. slrtr* there are 17 precincts ami each precinct will nave a different comnptteeman candidate from each of the two parties. Thp candidates for delegate to the state conventions of the two parties will also vary. The 3? preparty. with each of the district* to cfjcta form districts for each be represented by a delegate. The certified list of candidates who filed at Indianapolis was re, cei*d today, thus elimtnati|MC the last barrier in the waj* of begin nlng y>rAaratlons tor printing.. The p'UWlng will be done, in the Decatur Democrat company job shop under the supervision of ’he election Paper fbr the printing is qj order ft was erroneously stated in last night's paper that absent voter's ballots are being sent by the clerk's office. Actually, only the applications are being mailed. r

Vote Friday Night On Admission Age A vote will be taken at the meeting Friday evening of the Lincoln parent-teacher* association <>n the age at which children should be admitted to the city schools. Some parents have expressed dissatisfaction with the prwo-nt birthday - deadline of Sept IS and the pro-1 po»ed < hange to the Jan. 1 date. ' All parents are urged to altund I i and take part in the discussion and ' voting Parents who cannot be pre j sent are asked to send their sealed vo’es to the mee Ing Slate Educators To Talk To Lay Group Will Visit Decatur And County Schools The state educators who arrived here at noon today for a two-day visit of schools and consultation with city and county school official*. were scheduled to meet with a lay group at the junior senior high school at I o'clock this afternoon. Superintendent Walter J. Krick, of the De< atnr *< hoofs, w ill be host to the educators, who' are vNitlng schools in six Indiana counties In a study of methods and practices used in. the various counties. At S o'clock this evening, tjie visitors will be guest* at a dinner served by th- domestic science class .It the Itecatur high s.-hook On Friday the group, represent Ing'the Indiana tw-hool study com mission of the state teacher* association. will visit' township schools as the guests of L. I. Hann: county superintendent of schools. Friday afternoon, the educators will visit th« flernt; school* aa guests of F. M Webb, superintendent The educator* are. Mrs. Daisy M Jones, of Richmond; Joe R Craw. Nf*w Castle; Kenneth Howe Ball State Teacher* college; Glen G. Efe, l'i>jv«<r*ity of Wisconsin: Horace Huddle. Itrucevilje; aiwl Byron Westfall. Indiana State Teache* College. Terre Haute e -0 Confesses Trying To Wreck Trains Iji I’nrte. ma . April * —(FPI — V’S-year-old y<>Ti today confess* ed, to authorities that he tried to wrack several Mew York Cent raj trains near here last month. ’ The youth was ■ a igi • yesterday while attempting burglaries with another l*yM|r-old youth, police .<<d He told juvenlfp authorities that he placed rocu and ties on thei NYC tracks west of j-a Porte on March 17. 1* and 19 because he! warfled the excitement of a wrack.*' Police said railroad crews spotted the objects each time and no wrecks occurred.

Northern Indiana And Illinois Are Struck By Storm Wednesday Night

1 —r— 11 "■ Hint Russia May Seal Zone Air Corridor Expect Britain To Demand Apology Os Moscow Over Note Berlin. Apr 8 — H’P) — Great! Britain i« expected to demand an apology from Moscow for the lat-1 est Russian note charging Britain with "provocative” aims in blain-j Ing Russia for the Berlin air -rash, a high official source said today. The RuMsian note, deliver-1 to! Lt Gen Sir Brian Rolierlitoll by i Russia’s Marshal Vassily D Sokolovsky. said the British version of the crash wa* a "defamation" and hinted that Russia might seal th- western al’.les' air corridor to Berlin. "It is apparent that Sokolovsky received new instructions front Moscow." the high official source said. ’He lia* changed bis tupei since Gen Robertson talked to Mm Monday night Discui-sions ar- in progress to transfer the incident to a higher 1-v-l. It Is exp«-t-d the matter will be dell witli on a government al level.” Soko’ovsky’s reply to the Brit ish not,-, printed in the Soviet army newspaper Taeglische Rund scliau. n iterated the Russian claim that the Berlin crash last Monday was caused liy a Hritl-d> transport which crashed into tintail of a Russian fighter. The British version said thRussian fiuh’er crashed into the British plane while buzzing It Fifteen persons were killed. 14 in the British plane and tin- Russian pilot. Both British and Amerhan authorities termed the Russian reply "insulting, provocative an I - - - - MB * .... iTurn T»« —- ——— Certified List Os Candidates Received List Is Received By County Clerk dounty ,-let|: tylward Jitlx-rs today received from th- secretary of state a certification •of candl dairy, for office*-. required to’file Je,duration* in. Indianapolis. The candidates: For Congress George W Gillie and David R Heaton. Republicans; Edward H Kruse. Fred W Greene- end Ches ter K. Watson. Democrats , For Joint Representative Ervin I. Fox. Republican,- and Robert H. H-ller. Democrat For Judge Ferd L Lltterer. Republican'. Myles F*.Parrish. D Burdette t’us ter atiu 1L R M (lenahan. Democrats. For Prosecutor Severin H Schurger. Js-m<* rat All other candidate*. wh< name* will appear on ballot* used here in the May primgry. were required to file lheir declarations at the Adams county clerk's office — TI- Tollowlpj • unirlbutlun* have been received at this newspaper office U»r the CtpHesvlile re-building find t Geo H A ■ Verna Sprague. , j Fred Rilderback. route 0. 1 I Decatur Insily Bento, rak .— 10 TOTAL ’•**•»< <’ojjtrlttutiun» received here wIH be forwarded to th- Treasurer* of the Coatesville Fund* •

New Pastor J ' I Rev. Martin Behling Will Install New Pastor On Sunday Rev. Martin Behling At Bingen Church Th- Rev Martin H Behling will Im- installed as th- new pnstor of th- St John Lutheran congr-ct tion at Blng-n at service* begin nlng at 7 o'clock on Sunday evening Rev Behling is a native of Mil wauk—. where he rec<-l,ed tils elementary education at Emmaus Lutheran school and Itegsn to prepare himself for the holy ministry Ly attending Concordia College for six year* II- completed his studh - at Con, ordia S-minary in St Ixiul*. trout which place he was graduated in 193fi. Heretofore hi* ministerial a tiv ity ha* been confined tn th- state of Illinois From February to August in 1935. be vicared with the Rev. Carl G M-nnicii- at Ch-noa, Wi* From 193 Sto 1940. he wa* spiritual leader of tin- St Peter Lutheran church at North Plato and tlie St Peter Littiienr chur-l, in Pinqr— Grove, Wi*. From 1940; to accepting th- call at St John's h- was pastor of St. Peter’s con grexatlon at Schaumburg. 11l With Mrs Behling, who Is also! a native of Wisconsin, and tiv'lr three sons. Rev Behling moved to !|te Bingen parsonage on April 1 In th- installation service, th’,Rev E J Schmidtke of FHedh-im <Turn To I' ,*•• *••' • . o Grand Jury Drawn For Circuit Court Drawn For Service During April Term Names of persons to he called for grand jury sen ice. if needed during tfce April term of court wlu< It <>;>ens Monday, were drawn today . Name* of 12 jw-rsons were drawn, hut only *Wt will serve. I'nless a specjnl session is caM-d by the pneetutor. however, the juror* will not serve The jury is by law to meek once each year to in■4>eet < minty Institutions •- mit this has already Le-n done. Ttw drawing made thi* motn ng by jury («>mmi*M<>nerg Ed' F Berltng and Jloy Murnma and’ county clerk Edward Jaberg. after the Im>x of nlt nt-s was refilled from lia- tax list*. The petit Jury list was drawn earlier In the wy-k .The grand jury Hut: Maude J. Abnet. Berne; Benjam in t Washington. Vinal Johnson.. Washington Henry Taggy. St. Mary's .Floyd HoblA. Blue Creek; Ambrose Burkm. Jefferson; Amo* 0L Walter, Colon: Ernent Anderson. Blue Creek; Jesse L. ! Eckrote. HartftjpL B. A Ire Tan. “liecatur. Madge Johnson. Conroe and Josephus Martin, Geneva.

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Counties Bordering On Lake Michigan Hit; Terre Haute Area Also Struck Chicago. Apr B—(CPl—Both farmer* and townspeople in northern Illinois and Indiana today began < learing awuy debris left by a tornado which killed four persons and injured scores. The twister struck first near Urbana. Bi east central Illinois, and skipped northeastward on a zig zag course through Illinois an I Indiana counties which border Lake Michigan. Three persons 'were killed at Grant Park. 111., and one at Hebron. Ind. The dead were: Ralph L< bars-. 11. Grant Park. Fred Eng* Iking 55. Grant Park. Hi* wife. Bertha. 59. Cl-m Hri, ker. 26. Hebron The storm smashed through Hammond. Gary and Chesterton, Ind about 20 mile* .south of Chicago. it struck Coal City. HI., and moved eastwari through Manteno. Braidwood. Grant I'ark and Momenc,-. Eng-lking and his wife were blown 2«o feet from th-ir house by the twister. They were- sitting down to dinner when the storm hit. according to C. II Kile. Grant Park chief of police. Engeiktng died instantly His wife died in a Kankakee, ill., hospital early today At. Gary, eight p<-r*on* were hurt in a six block section The rorna Io tore the roofs from 25 iioine* 111 a housing project th--r<; injuring three person* slightly. Violent bail and rain which ao companled the storm increased the damage .Near laiwell. Ind . the twister 'o**,-d Theodore Matusak, a farm hand. 500 feet through the air. Hl* I,ack wa* broken. Five other person* were Injured when t lie ambulance speeding him to a Gary hospital collided wl’h a car rwenty homes and business place* were unroofed at Hammond. Ind Howard Wertz. Kankakee county. disaster chairman said at least 12 p-rsoris w. re injured In the Kankakee area He said res--1 cue teams were searching for adI ditional injured. W-rfz said file twister fnov-d huge transport t-ucks more than | a bloc k Many <>* the injur,*! I w- re trucker-,, h,- Ml I. . High wiads and lightning struck in Indiana as far south as Terre Haute Alex indria and Rob Roy in the -.inti ,-ast half of th- slat® T*<» hotn. and three buslne** a! TfITS I' J- ■ ore d:Ucaged by lightning, and several person* were- slightly Injured Wind danvn-,-,1 tin- hotel anl • ral hotge at Roti Roy and. flattened a grocery store and .a lioiiso at Alexandria . New York Central train*. In tlm Civ Mertown Porter area were delayed until fallen tree* and utility iiole* were fleared from the track*. 'Observer* *si,l the ylortn moved erratically.' liit'ing the- grounl and tbew rising inu> the air fpr long nell* as jt moved, across the countrvside Il struck tenth Holland and Fahim-t City in Indiana, on the outskirts of Chicago, causing extensive damage to roofs, window class and telm>li„no wires as it se.pt eastward. 'Turn T- ' c ■ ~t, * 1 * Carl Hann To Enter I. U. Medical School .<*arl Ifeng. of Indianapolis son ! of’Mr ’and Mrs.-Lymann L, Hann I of this city, ts one. "f the members t|-.*m> for the -ntertfl- Rill clqg*. 4<>f the 'df*ana university school of Ynedicine. ThFyla»s/>f , 142 members Is the largest in the school's history and was mpde from 7*l applicants. Most of the accented students are war 'le’erans Three lag* also ini eludes Robert L Bote son of,Mr. and Mrs Rufns of Berne. a »