Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 98, Decatur, Adams County, 24 April 1948 — Page 1

L'-ItLVI. No. 98.

IECATUR MAN IS KILLED IN OHIO ACCIDENT

Heers Union Hd Protests Ice Tactics |Mls Investigation I J 'Brutal' Police ? W acks On Pickets s 'p rii 21 (i 1,1 R “ iph M.-i.l-'tit of the striking |!•oßtkihith.UM- Workers. today ..t,. v -uc-r.il Toni Clark brutal and wanton breaking up I picket lines at Kansas r;.,rk to ■demonstrate h tn -üb-taiee than simply I "Writ, made his plea to Clark lgK, lP > strikers gathered to huge funeral pa Cic-arcio, KSV*!,.. ua« crushed to death |»r to stop a truck i'HSeii'crmu an Armour plant the PackWorkers union attended meeting Hight where urged to Ki|Bf>rm in their strike d«e and to turn for (’lea Kp|Hfim<’r.il lodav The proc es «< to wind past strikers were Injured when police inovPd th- pickets at Kansas City union headquar the street from the packing plant. were taken to hoeThey included two women ®e.tiie < aptaln bjii Dublin. the 100 police of the melee, said today that invaded the union hail pickets had seized him hint through the door ■. frank Carlson of Kansas Topeka that he was grievgalerne like that is very had he ; announced at Chicago that the union would appeal injunction issued bv Leonard C. Reid to limit at the Chicago plant of and Md announced last night that to issue the injunction » i d permit only 10 pl< kata lof the Armour plant gatere. at one of those gates that was killed. The union has lany as 75 men and women t duty at each gate in the ilar order was Issued yest Kansas City shortly after Ing there. District judge H. Renton issued a ternrder restraining the union nsss picketing at the plant •Junctions were issued as spresentatlves and off!Swift and Co., and Armour prepared to meet next ith federal mediators in t to settle the strike. i and Co. asked concilia • all off (Ke meetings on that they would only give >n a pretext "for prolong•trike." Cudahy officials I Mid whether they would violence continued at ruck meat plants. Chicago era atilt looking for Rus at. 25-year-old picket ac■hooting a police officer *»*• week. at Fargo. N. D.. the PackWorkers union postponed •hat had been called for gainst the Union stocklien Chinander. union field tatlve from South St. Inn - said the work stop- *• Postponed indefinitely 'duest of federal mediators further negotiations. ■|' * Fire Results I Department Call wremen were called to the com--econd and Monroe streets 16 15 am today when an «, rement truck, driven by IF ,Urv *r caught fire Robert ■ " "’• rrh «' drubbed a K. ** ,n «'»'»her and put out the ■ before firemen arrived

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City On Daylight Time At Midnight Tonight at midnight Decatur moves up its clocks one hour to observe daylight saving time until the last Saturday in September. The change Is expected to be made with little confusion. Changes in bus and train schedules have been previously announced. 0 Compromise On Draft Approval By Forrestal Senate Compromise Proposal Approved By Administration Washington. April 24—(UP)- | The administration today endorsed a senate compromise plan to merge the draft and universal military training. Under the proposal, IS and 19-year-olds would be trained in the regular army instead of In a separate UMT program. Defense secretary James Forrental said the compromise is ac-l ceptable to him. Rut he urged in i a letter to the senate armed aervkes committee that it be "super ' seded as stum as possible by a program of universal military training." Advocates of the merger plan pointed out that it would save the coat of a separate UMT arrange ment with its own camps and other installations. The plan calls for six months of training In regular army camps and another six jQpnthn of alternate military training, either In school. In the national guard, or elsewhere Roth the house and senate were in recess for the weekend, but there were these developments: Industrial mobilization- The admlnistratihn's plans for mobilizing industry In the event of war will come under study by the senate's new super-investigating committee. Chairman Homer Ferguson. R.. Mich., said his group wanls to find out whether the executive branch has been on its toes In this respect. Condon The house unAmerican activities committee was criticized for its handling of the Dr. E. U. Condon case. Clifford J. Durr, retiring member of the federal communications commission, said the committee already has “convicted" the noted atomic scientist, of disloyalty, even before his hearing Durr said “sentence has been pronounced -publicly on his reputation.” Palestine Three senators have endorsed a national emergency conference on the Palestine situation. Rens Dennis Chavez. D., N. M. Charles W Tobey. R . N. H.. and Wayne Morse. R.. Ore., said the key to the solution of the Holy Mnd problem "lies In building an American-pattern democracy In Palestine.” ERP The 10-man congressional “watchdog" committee on the (Turn To Page Ms) - o Girl Slightly Hurt When Struck By Car Monmouth Girl Is Hurt Last Evening A four-year-old Monmouth girl was injured, not seriously, last evening when she was struck by a car in that village The girl is Maria Clark, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Clark and the car was driven by Donald Colter. 40. of rout* three. Decatur. Colter told deputy sheriff Sam Bentz, who investigated, that he was unable to avoid striking the child when she walked Into the side of hie car while crossing the highway, A doctor’ was summoned and the girl was treated for the injuries at her home. She suffered a head laceration. injured left hip and right kDM. Deputy Bentz indicated that bis in*, estigation held Colter blameless The child was crossing the highway. fol Io wing her mother, who had thought she remained ou ’ba other side.

Fuel-Starved Industry Getting Coal Again Eg! ’ v "if. I COAL 18 BEING SHIPPED to fuel-starved industry again, with miners back ai work Jones A Laughlin Hleel’s towboat, The Vulcan, pushes a line of loaded coal barges down the Monongahela river from California. Pa., to Pittsburgh, Pa . first coal to come down river since pension walkout.

Renewed Fighting In Palestine Is Feared Fate Os Jerusalem May Be Decided Soon Jerusalem. April 21 — (UP) — The chairman of the resident United Nations commission. Pablo A* carats, was on his way to Lake Suecom today to report to UN headquarters that the urgency of the faleoilne crisis can i>e measured only in hours. Azcarate left amid growing signs that big scale fighting might break out in Palestine liefore the United Nations had time to act. “I am going to Lake Success to try to impress the UN that the urgency now cannot lie measured in weeks or even days, but only in hours.” Azcarate said Indications mounted, and predictions in military quarters kept pace, that the fate of Jerusalem might tie decided in the firsst week of May. or at least the pattern might lie set for a decision. Among the signs were: 1. British preparations to pull cut of Jerusalem all British civilians who want to leave by May 1. 2. The start hy the British of the erection of new barricades around the Russian compound in the center of the town into which the remaining army units were expected to withdraw the bulk ol the army Is out of Jerusalem by May 1. 3. The dispatch to Geneva by plane of two women mem liens of the UN party, and plans for the entire male inemtiership to leave tor new Instructions" 4. A report from Walter Eyetan. political spokesman for the Jewish agency, that Haganah forces "are on the move, and will not lie quiet until May 15." None here doubted that Haganah would try to seize key positions controlling the city the minute the British withdraw Into the Russian compound. Minor indications were seen that an international police force for Jerusalem could lie set up sixm. No official statement had been made But a British sergeant said he and 2<W other Palestine policemen bad volunteered for international police service. o I. U. Center Opens Summer School June 14 Summer echtiol will liegin at the Fort Wayne center of Indiana University June 14. Floyd R Neff, dlrec'or. announced. The session, lasting 10 weeks, will end August 21. Students enrolling for the summer term may carry as many as 19 semester hours or they may carry one. two or three subjects, depending upon the course chosen. Mr Neff explained All classes will he held at the adult education and public service building, at 1136 South Barr street. All courses carry regular university credit Enrollment for the usm mer term will begin May 1 and continue through May 11. Students sa rolling after June 21 will be pen aiized for tote enrollment.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, April 24, 1948

Second Rabies Death Reported In State Indianapolis, April 24 — (UP) — The second Indiana rabies death since 1945 was on state Iwiard of health records today. Sherman Sausamann. Jr., 16. Claypool (Kosciusko county), died yesterday in Riley hospital here. He was bitten by a mad dog five weeks ago and became 111 Wednioday at Claypool high school. g California City Is Rocked By Explosion Standard Oil Plant Rocked This Morning El Segundo. Cal.. Apr. 24 —(UP) —A tremendous explosion rocked the Standard Oil pant here early today. Fire broke out almost Immediately and lighted the sky for miles around All streets In the area were blocked off and police warn ed residents of the area to stay indoors. Witnesses said the blast centered In the cracking plant for high test gasoline. They said the lerrifli" shock came about five minutes after a wanting siren sounded. Police said 20 persons were treated for burns. Authorities declared a state of emergency shortly after the explosion. The telephone company said it could not get calls through to the city. Firemen were fighting to keep the flames from reaching nearby butane gas tanks. Few persons were in the plant when the explosion occurred and there were no reported dead although ambulances streamed to 'he scene. Standard Oil representatives said the explosion was caused by a fire that broke out In the gas treating ut ' at the center of the plant. Tbe tire set off a gasoline tank. The officials said they did not know how the original fire started. El Segundo's fire chief called Los Angeles to ask for help In "protecting the city.” All firefighting equipment that could lospared was sent to the scene from Hawthorne. Inglewood and other South Bay cities. The flames and blast aroused thousands In the area. Police and sheriff's officers were mobilized to keep order The warning signal sounded before the blast was credited with helping to keep casualties low Police said it probably gave workers in the blast area time to escape ——- ■ -♦ "" - ■ WEATHER Parity cloudy, warm and windy today. Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow with occasional showers and thunderstorms tomorrow and northwest tonight. ,

Continue Probe In Reuther's Attack Police Claim Negro Is Not Telling All Detroit, April 24—(UP)—Police said today that Nelson Davis, a negro Communist who reportedlv boasted he knew who tried to as sasslnate president Walter P. Reuther of the United Automobile Workers (CIO), was not telling all he knew about the shooting. A hearing on Davis' petition for freedom on a writ of habeas corpus was to resume at 11 am. circuit Judge Author Webster late yesterday continued It until today to allow authorities to question Davis further. During th* night police questioned both Davis and the mysterious “Mr. X" who claims he heard Davis say he knew who fired the shotgun blast that seriously wounded Reuther in the kitchen of his home Tuesday night. They said “Mr X” had given them "valuable Information,” and then charged that Davis, a 52-year-old minor UAW official, is not telling all he knows. He has been able to prove, however, that he was at his Job at the Ford plant when the shooting took place. No charge has been placed against him. Reuther was reported in “generally good condition” at New Grace hospital, where he was taken after being shot. Dr Barnes Woodhall, an authority on nerve injuries who was called in for consultation, said "the handling of the case has been superb In the face of an injury (Turn To Page Five) Plans Italy Role In Recovery Plan Gasperi To Form Special Ministry Rome. Apr. 24—(UP)—Premier Alcide De Gasperi Is planning to create a special ministry to han die Italy's ro'e In the European recovery program, political quatiera said today. These sources said Ivan Matteo Iximbardo. former New York bust nessman who walked out of the communist-dominated leftwing socialist party two months ago. was considered first In line for ap pointment as recovery minister Iximbardo wss Italy's Grat «P“ rial minister to Washington after the war. He has a wide acquaintance in Washington and a deep knowledge of United States bus! news methods Creation of the new ministry Is expected to be announced when De Gasperi completes reorganization of his cabinet In view of elec Hon results. De Gaspari conferred with four of bls ministers late yesterday in (Turn so Paa' Flve>

Jesse Leroy Shaffer Is Killed This Morning As Automobile Overturned

Union Negotiations With G. E. Recessed No Definite Date Is Set For Resumption Pittsburgh. April 24 — (UP) — Negotiators for the CIO I nited Steelworkers went home today to try to gel a “substantial” wage Increase from companies other than U. S. Steel Corp The negotiators late yesterday were instructed to try for wage hikes from the "little steel" and fabricating companies despite the fact that U. S. Steel, traditional wage pattern-maker of the Industry, has refused to rais3 the pay of Its employes. The negotiations will cover at least 500,000 workers in 6t»o companies. In addition, the negotiators were instructed to seek 60 to DO day contract extensions if agreement is not reached on wages within the allotted contract time. The union's wage and policy committee Instructed the negotiators to continue the fight for "adequate plans of social insurance" throughout the industry. The rejection of wage increases by U. S. Steel led to recesses in the negotiations of Westinghouse Electric Corp, and General Electric Co. with the CIO United Electrical workers. No date was set for resumption of negotiations. In New York. UK president Albert Fitzgerald charged Westinghouse and GE with "callous refusal to meet the cost of living needs of their employes." Mrs. Herman Witte Dies At Fort Wayne Mrs Emma Witte, of Fort Wayne, died Friday at her home Surviving are her husband. Herman; a daughter. Mrs. Helen Gerke: a son. Erwin. at home: five sisters. Mrs Ida Schoenherr of New Haven. Mrs. Minnie Koenemann. Mrs. Marie Kukelham, Mrs. Lulu Tieman all of near Decatur, and Mrs. Pauline Behrman of Fort Wayne, and two brothers. Gustave and Emil Schueler of near Decatur. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 pm. Monday at the Roden beck-Pook funeral home and at 2 p.m. at the Bethlehem church, with burial in Concordia cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 pin today.

William T. Garwood Dies This Morning Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon William T. Garwood. 77. retired farmer, died suddenly of a heart attack at 5:30 o'clock thin morning at his home two and one-half miles south of Willshire. O. He had been in poor health for some time but death was unexpected. He was born in Adams county Dec. 17. 1870. a son of Alex and Mary Banta-Garwood. His wife. Mangle, died in 1941. Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Flo Zlzelman of Rockford. 0., Mrs. Mary E. Ireland of Lima. 0., Mrs. Opal Smith of Willshire and Inez IJtts of Jefferson. O.; one son. Virgil Garwood of Cleveland. O ; and two brothers. Frank Garwood of Decatur and Joe of Wiltahire. Two sons, three brothers and two sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be held at 4 pm Sunday at the Zwick funeral home, with the Rev. Walter Marks officiating Burial will be In Lennox East cemetery near Jes ferson, O. o Indianapolis Woman Is Killed In Crash o Indianapolis. April 24 — (UP) — Mias l-ols Grayson Pitman. 26. Indianapolis, was killed and six other persons were Injured today when two automobiles collided on a south side street

Marshall Flies To Washington From Bogota Returns To Tackle Palestine Problem, Map Other Strategy Washlngotn. Apr. 24 —(UP) — Secretary of state George C Marshall returns today to grapple with the weighty International problems that have piled up since he left for Bogota. Colombia nearly i< month ago. Marshall took leave of the interAmerican conference at Bogota yesterday and was expected to arrive in Washington by plane sometime this morning. He stop ped off for about two hours last night at Balltoa. Canal Zone, where he conferred with Lt. Gen Willis It Crittenberger. com mander-in-chivf of the Caribbean Sea frontier Well-Informed sources said the secretary's abrupt decision to leave the conference before It officially closed was not prompt ed by any new crisis In world affairs However, several import ant foreign policy matters were said to require his attention at the earliest possible moment These sources believe Marshall also felt that he could appro priately leave Bogota since the important work of the conference has been completed He presum ably felt the conference windup cou'd be handled by state depart ment experts on fait In-American affairs. The Palestine problem is at the top of the list of problems Marshall will fa<e United States plans for working out a truce in the Holy Land, and this country's efforts to arrange a trusteeship government have met with little favor In the United Nations. Sep arete Anglo-American talks on Pa'estine have shown no pro gress. Other foreign policy proldems on which Marshall will have to make decisions or recommends tions soon, include" 1. The form and amount of military hacking to he provided the five signatories of the Brus seis pact. This problem Is under i active consideration by the ad -I ministration, and may prompt re vival of wartime lend lease 2. Soviet efforts to drive the I •Turn To Page Four! o Decafur Man Freed In Bluffton Court Robert W. Johnson Acquitted By Jury Robert Wayne Johnson, of this city, was acquitted late Friday In Wells circuit conri at Bluffton of a charge of assault and battery with Intent to commit rape. The jury, after deliberating only one hour, returned with the not guilty verdict and the notation “hut we re<omm*nd that the court reprimand both parties for their unbecoming conduct ” Johnson was charged wjth assaulting Mrs Dorothy Howe in her home at Kingsland on November 25. 1947. The trial required only two days and the jury was selected Thursday morning in a few minutes Prosecutor Joseph Eichhorn reptesentsd the state during the trial, while the law firm of Decker. Galilean and Hamilton appeared as defense counsel Byron K Jenkins, of the ?ay circuit court, served as special i mdse In presiding over the trial Previous to the trial he overruled >a motion to quash the affidavit.

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War Veteran Killed Instantly In Crash Today; Companion Is Only Slightly Hurt Jesse Laroy Shaffer. 25. Decatur World War II veteran, was be. Ileved instantly killed about 4 a m. today (CRT) when the car he was driving crashed down an eightfeet embankment near Ottawa. Ohio. Shaffer suffered a fractured skull and his body was badly smashed and bruised, Putnam county authorities reported His companion, William Kahn. 21. also of Decatur, is in the Lima. Ohio memorial hospital suffering from a hip injury, but Is not believed seriously hurt. Both men were pinned under the wreckage of their car for about an hour before they were found by a passing motorist, accoiMing to Putnam county deputy sheriff Gahe Rue. who investigated the crash. Deputy Rue said that some difficulty was experienced in extricating the crushed body of the dead man from the car. lying upside down at the bottom of the embankment. The accident occurred on Ohio state road 65. one mile south of Ottawa The men were reported to lie returning from Toledo. O. Navy War Veteran Shaffer served in the United States navy during World War 11. He entered the service March 16. 194.1. and was dim harged Jan. 20. 1946 He entered as an.apprentice seaman and took his boot training at Great III. Later he served In both the European and AsiaticPacific theaters. Prior to entering service he attended the Liberty high school at Ohio City. 0.. but moved to this city where he was employed at the General Electric. He was the son of Carl Shaffer and Mrs. Myrtle ,hn. Known survivors include tue mother; a brother. Carl, ai d a sister. Annabelle. a local hlLh school student. Members of the family could not be contacted this morning since they all went to the scene of the ai-cident Harmon Gilllg of the Giltlg A Doan funeral home went tn Ottawa this morning to return the body here. Word of the accident was first received here about 6 o'clock this morning hy city policeman Roy Chilcote In a telephone call from the Putnam county sheriff's office. 0 Four Persons Killed In Freak Accident Load Os Loqs Rolls Into Path Os Auto Cobden, 111. April 24 — (UP) — A man and woman and two children were killed last night and threw other children were injured in a freak crash near here The family were returning to their farm home, about two miles north of here, when a load of logs rolled off an oncoming truck and directly In the path of the car. Paul A. Flamm, 45. driver of the car. and his wife. Francis 42, were killed instantly. Then- daughter. Mary, 5. died almost Immediately after the crash, and a son. Donald, 12. died In the Anna City hospital. Another son and daughter. William. 11. and Jean Ellen. 9. were Injured and a nephew. I Conard. 13, were in eerious condition in the Anna hospital. Police said the chain which held the logs on the truck apparently broke, sending the logs roiling over the highway. The family was returning home after attending the movies here when the crash weewr* ed Jesse Radford. Red Bud. driver of the truck, was on his way to Anna to deliver the load of logs to a lumber dealer The accident occurred on state route 51. about one mile north of here. Attendants at the Anna hospital (Turn Te Pago Sisi