Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 128, Decatur, Adams County, 29 May 1948 — Page 1

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kKilled In ■ago Fire ■Morning A I I Sjen Others Hurt | ®Second Fire In I *ne Neighborhood ■ May 2!* Il'l’i — Six K£Sj u r.-l . ntica ly today in ■ rt rbkt r.-'-il through an old ■ tNsOO'" 1 ' apartment building on ■ (HIV 1 **”’ *' d *‘ ;l ft. rwanls. second |fiwk' r '' ! through a similar B in the same neighbor- ' Kited''•• !l 1 ,, ls, ’t>‘ < *'*•'■'• injur second blaze. fire commissioner An ■ MtK J Mu l.niey Haiti there apKl»jK no ronn *‘' , *<M» be- ■ ’••di' l "’ f ' n ’* * ,uf '* >nl t,i *‘ KidMaL-f making a routine in for signs of argon. ' w, ' r ’ -Mund a mile of each other and ... Hired three ■ fl! ‘' UP »« quit klv ■ “even dead and injured in their beds The ■ n|M fire was discovered early B irß for a'l but one of the ine«.ape by leaping from or the MBH fire in whi< l> six persons Hdßv. < on South t'abfoini. ■ she other was on West street ■ s at St Aritbony's B said that l.yle Leslie |K i»- limited m<ui in the B 9®"" a'.-rnie blaze wan no' Ml,vlv ‘' "likens w.i BWK " '"'i fr '"" auffoca '•■■■ of the lipper floor of KKw ilrting JMBBK » .'nd four veai old B fire a'tmg with Frank & ' "" ■ wner of the buildin ■ '■WK ri, lh'haii about 4-7 a six ■ year old girl and a boy 11 ■ T®tner were searching for the of tpe California avenue ■whit ii apparently was spread I volatile fuel su< h ■ -lid the Kendall avenue ■ itu'e started from I caused by a faulty buddings were almost to avenue fire was estimated in the Kendall ■ **ti'" a' IIO.OM. ■ <rowds gathered in Cali B av. nue when the first fire o'l' aboil! 3 a m Th«-v had returned to bed when fh> l-roiight them out for the blaze ■ V|e injured in the second fire H as Ixmnie Alfreds ?. I B ’^B if e Mary. 21 their son B - and daughter. Diane ■ Ineordini ■ Wtaatio Ineordini 31 amt Ida B ■ ’"it Mrs Alfreds were he'd hospital Several were ir B ‘ on, lition ami the baity »»» listed as B. »?i ri ' ,ri * ald ,hal • tn| * ar i" and B 1,11 "rdini saved themselves ■ Br > ’ :ipl;it ' from upper story win B firemen fought through and flames to res. tie Jose K Ineordini who was found B’®**"" 1 ’ from smoke California avenue fire was K.3B "'‘‘red In a garage at the BBB nf '■ "*loon on the first floor building '» v » r nkeeper a wife opened BKr*‘ r ,|oor * nd "•* ’be flames 'h< garage shooting up a <>nr wall o f the apartment *»»* the initial alarm a' m CDT building was a mass I by the time fire apparatus I Fir" Inspectors ttelleved ma f have been fueled by | Wbne or o , her (nna|nmab | e [ ’*°red In the garage . "f the victims were found i second and third floors ' Bal ‘ T To p. r , Thmi weather cloudy today and to Q 1 L Cootor tonight and and central today. Turn.stroma south thia IW“e"oo-> Tomorrew partly Slightly warmer CM>rt"

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

CIO Claims Victory In Chrysler Pact 13-Cent Increase Granted Employes ( Detroit. May 29 -il'l’t The limited auto workers (CIOI claimed a "resounding victory" today in winning a 13-cem <m hour wage Increase to end the 17 day strike of I 73.00 ff Chrysler Corp employes. The union said ’ the ln<-rease should not cause a rise In car prices. It < lalmed Chrysler could pay the increase, cut prices $l2O per car and still make a six percent profit The third round wage agreement. reached last night, ended the strike at midnight. Chrysler officials said production of Chrysler. Dodge. Plymouth and Deftoto passenger cars and Itodge trucks probably would get underway in about a week. The company said an inventory must be completed and that consider able damage occurred when the strike startl'd because steam power plants were shut down suddenly instead of slowly The Chrysler agreement differed sharply from the General Motors' contract reached last week in that it included no cost-of-living provision In addition to an 11 cent increase, the GM contract provided that wages should rise and fall according to a cost of-llv Ing index. The Chrysler agreement extends the old contract until Aug 1 195<t. but provides that either partv may open it once for wage revision after June LI. lf»4X 'Mystery' Ambulance Run Checked Here Newspaper attaches, authorities and a number of interested residents In and near Decatur were searching today for the answer to a "mystery ambulance mn" about 10:30 pin. Friday A check with city police, sheriff’* department, fire department, three !o<ul ambulance operators and other siren-equipped vehicle owners tailed to solve the puzzle Those who saw the vehicle said it was a Ida. k ambulance It presumably came into Decatur, siren screaming, from the no theasL and moved southeast on Mercer aven Ue. A check at the hospital shows it made no emergency run there either n Warren Packer Pays Federal Court Fine Fined For Shipping Unfit Tomato Juice South Bend. Ind.. May 2» -11'1’1 —A Warren. Ind. pa< king company executive, ai-cused of shipping tomato juice unfit for human consumption, was among eight persons under penalty today for federal law violations Charles A. Shuttleworth, opera tor of the Salonlie Packing Co., was fined lino on each of four counts of violating the pure food and drug act He and the seven others were penalized in northern Indiana federal court yesterday by judge Luther .M Swygert Sophocles Platis. 51. East Chicago. was sentenced to serve two years in prison when he pleaded guilty to a charge that he stole a trunk from an interstate shipment Platis was accused <>f changing labels on a trunk valued at IHtooO by a Fort Wayne couple which owned It. and trying to claim it in Washington Alvin Weiss, operator of the Mongo (Lagrange county* Truck Ing Co., was fined 1150 when he pleaded guilty to a charge of vio lating Interstate commerce regula tlons Eugene V. Elx 32. Fort Wayne was sentenced to a 3*emonth term on his plea of guilty to a motor theft charge Harvey lae Fisher. 27. Dayton. 0.. was sentenced to a year and a day for a postal theft. Three members of an auto theft conspiracy ring broken up last fall were sentenced Henry Joyce. M. Roeth Bend drew s three and one-half year term. James Warren. 23. South Bend two and one half yearn, and John Bownes. 25. South Bend described as chauffeur of the ring. i> month*. I

Shipyard Flooded In Pacific Northwest mo; ■ | . • b r Sl. r BP ’ f" ; W V- '. , * i AN ELECTRICIAN, protected hy a rubber nait. waden from power post to powt < ultlna out electric fransform* r* an the Willamette river completely ifiuudaten the Portland, ()r»*a<Hi shipyard# llampaKing floodwater# from' rivers in four Northwest stales and In southwestern ( anada have taken a toll of 15 live# and inillion# of dollars in property.

City Prepares For Holiday Observance Practically All Os Business Suspends Decatur's and the community'* j twoday commemoration of Me- i mortal Pay starts Sunday morn- i Ing and end* Monday night with . < return to normal routin'' on I Tuesday morning Since Memorial Pay fall* on Sunday, the official < ommemora•lon of the event cornea on the 'allowing day Practically all bu*lnes* will be tut pended Monday, with only theater* and perhaps a few confectioneries and reatauranta open Even tavern* will be cloaed under state law All public offices. the bank, the •tost office and other* will lie lowed The Pally Democrat will not publish that day. in accordmce with annual custom. No official celebration will lie staged Sunday, with the annual Memorial Pay services of the American Legion. Veteran* of Foreign War* and other war veteran* coming on Monday The ceremonies will start alaiut 9 a. m with rite* at grave* in he two Pecatur cemeteries. following by a tribute to naval dead it the east bridge over the St. Mary’* river and the Memorial 'tai address at the peace monu<T»rn T-- I'n- Threci O Report injured Boy Slightly improved The condition of Ronald Murphy. 13-year-old Peiatui boy critically hurt Wednesday night in a bicycleauto crash near this city, was reported to lie "slightly improved'' oday at the Adam* county memorial lyispital He I* suffering from a banal skull fracture Mrs. Clyde Troutner Resigns As Deputy Resigns Position With County Clerk I County clerk Edward Jaberg today announced the resignation of Mr* Maxine Troutner a* deputy , -Jerk, effective today. Mr*. Troutner resigned her post to devote full time to her duties with her family as a housewife , Clerk Jaherg stated that his -laughter Donna Jaberg. will sue- I eed Mr* Troutner in a few day* , after completing her freshman , rear at Ball State teacher* col- - lege. Muncie Mr* Troutner has served ag •» attache In the clerk’s office for several year* She served a* regie-1 ( tration clerk during the tenure of her husband. Clyde O. Troutner a* county clerk, and then became deputy clerk when Mr Jaberg took office. < Mrs Eileen Andrew* ta the other i full-time attache of the office She 1 hold* th# position of registration I clerk. . ’ •< 1 •

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, May 29, 1948

Plan Day Camps For Brownies, Girl Scouts Mr*. R (' Hersh announced today that the day camp of the Brownie* will start June 7 and the camp for the Girl Scout* will open June II All girl* between the age* ot 7 mid 15 and who are not Scout* are invited to attend the day camp. 0 Rath Workers Vote For End Os Strike Riot-Marred Strike In lowa Is Halted Waterloo, la., May 29 (IT) Striker* at the Rath Packing Co ■ plant tore down their picket shack* | today alter voting to end a riot- ■ marred walkout that w n conducted j for It* last nine days under the: eyes of the lowa national guard. I'nion and company official* disagreed. however, as to the terms under which the 4,500 union employe* would return to work for the first time since March l<>. I'nion leader* said the employe* would not go back to work in the big Rath plant until Tuesdsy, because of the holiday weekend National guard officer* said the guard unit* would be removed from the Rath plant "very soon." They have lieen here since the rio’ the night of May U during which a striker was shot and killed by a non striking Rath employe. The union voted to end the strike at a ma** meeting last night after company and union represeiitaiives bad met for three day* I’nion leader* said the menilier* voted to return to work under their pre-strike wage contract, plu* a nine-cent hourly pay ralso. Ifcit A. T Donnell, company secretary, said that was Impossible because the former contract "w is terminal ed May 3. as a result of the strike." Donnell said the company had offered the union an interim contract, I including a nine-cent Increase, un-; der which striker* could return ! pending agreement on a permanent j (Turn To Page Kitt — o—. Funeral Rites Today For Blount Infant Funeral services were to be held at 2 p in. today at the Black funeral home for Jackie Blount, stillborn non of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Blount, of Decatur route 3. The child was Irorn at the Adam* county memorial hospital Friday. The Rev F. H. Willard will officiate, with burial in the Ray cemetery near Monroe. Surviving In addition to the par ent* are a brother. Robert Allen a sister. Lavina Daisy, and the grandparent*. Mrs Helen Castel of Tifton. Ge., and Mr and Mrs Jess Blount of Decatur. — o High School Band To Hold Rehearsals The Decatur high school band will hold a rehearsal at 9 a m. Monday before the Memorial Day parade The band will also hold ■ rehearsal at 7 pm Tuesday prior to th* weekly hand concert on 'ije courthouse ramp.

Wallace, Thomas Denounce Red Bill Candidates Assail Proposed Measure Washington. May 29 (VP) i Two presidential condldate* — I Henry A. Wallace and Norman ■ Thomas today denounced the ! Communist control hill a* a "declaration of war" on American rights and an action to make "martyrs” out of Communist*. Wallace, third party presidential candidate, said hl* party would defy the Communist-* urblng hill lif it became law. He said it "reek* with hypocrisy" and destroys the basic guarantees of free speech < and free assembly. Thomas, perennial socialist parity candidate, said the Mundt Nison i bill actually would be a "blessing to Communists." He *aid it would make them martyr* and I* a "dangerously mistaken way'' of dealing with the party The senate judiciary committee heard the views of Wallace and Thoma* The committee i* considering the bill which would put tight new restrictions on the Com munist party. It would force the party to sever alleged ties with ItusNla and make it mandatory for the party and Its member* to register with the justice department Although Thomas opposed the hill, he delivered a slashing attack on Communism. With Wai lace waiting to follow him. the veteran so< ialist leader said Wallace's party is "strongly influenced" by Communists although Wallace himself "Is not a Communist." Charging that the house-approv-ed bill "reek* with hypocrisy." Wallace said it purports to guard against dictatorship, yet "makes the attornev general of the Cnited States a dictator over every orga 'Turn T'i Pag- Three! o Indiana Solon Is Nominated Judge No Special Election Is Seen Necessary Indianapolis. May 29—(IT)— If Rep. Noble J. Johnson's nomination a* associate judge of the V. S court of customs and patent appeals in approved and he accept* the post and resigns his seat In congress, there will be no special ejection to fill his unexpired j term That wan the word from Gover ; nor Gates today, when he was told of President's Truman's action in naming the Republican congressman from the sixth Indiana dint i trict. Gate* explained that congress In i tends to adjourn within the nest i • ouple of we*>ks. presumably until . the new congress meets next Jan uary. Therefore. be said, a spe ctal elect ion would be unnecessary Rut sixth district Republicans would bold the key to Johnson's successor on the GOP congre* sloaal ba|(ot nest tall. Johnson ' (Tern To Page Three) • c »

Invading Arab Armies Are Reported Within 15 Miles Os Tel Aviv

Security Council Os UN Studying Propositions To Bring End To War Lake Success. N Y.. May 29(i’P* —Informed sources doubted that either the British or Russian | plans for dealing with the Pales . tine crisis would survive the 1 nit ' <'d Nations security council votes I on the Issue today France stood l>y with apropos al for salvaging at least a tease fire arrangement to halt the warfare In Jerusalem While Jews have surrendered the mlle-square old city to the Arabs, some I'N member" Still hoped to stop the lighting In the rest of the Ho'y City. The council convened a morn Ing meeting and prepared to vote first on Russia’s American-backed proposal for strong intervention It would declare the Palestine war a threat to peace nml hold the •hreat of sanctions over the side that defied it The Soviet plan had only five of the necessary seven voles wlp-ti the council gathered. Belgium and Argentina. who possessed the only votes wh|< h could save the Russian proposal were reported wavering until the last Even if it got seven votes. I’N officials were not certain that Great Britain, frantically opposed to I'N action <>n behalf of the fewfsh state, would refrain from vetoing It. Second on the docket was Brit | ain’s plan for a four week truce during which the Jews and Arabs would be invited to negotiate, while shutting off the supply of soldiers and arms into their re speclive areas of Palestine. Israel considered the British Dian a deliberate attempt to wipe out Its existence Russia assigned • Turn To Page Mix* Fred Driskill Is Taken From Hospital Fred Driskill, of south vest of Berne, who suffered frautures of Imth legs when the tornado las* March demolished a barn in which lie sas working, has been dismiss , ed from the Adams county memorial hospital, where he has been a patient since injured o Stassen Urges Bill To Control Reds Says Present Laws Are Out Os Date Peoria, 11'.. May 29 —• 4EP* Harold E Stassen said tislay that the ’’firth column activities of the communist party ” must be ruled Illegal to Insure the security of the world Staaean Is touring Illinois seek ing support for his fight to win the GOP pr*-sid)-ntla> nomination Speaking before 2(*o editors and publishers of the Illinois Press Association conference at the Jes ferson hotel last night. Stassen said that present laws for control 'ing communists are “out of date” But he said that the MundtNixou hill now liefore congress •hould be amended "Io meet any •Incere objection based upon the -onstitulional bill of rights." He said the bill should be pass ed at thia session, however, as a "wise step for America itself and because we are looked upon a* no'lcy leaders In the free coun tries of the world " “It would also help to demon st rate to the ru'ers of Russia that we will not permit a continuance of the tacltcs that l»etrayed Caes-hoslovakia." he said "America and all the free conn •ries should realize that the best process for the future peace and ry wdrftn nf men demands >hg| the rifth eolumn activities nf the rnm m*»ni*t party around tbs world, which aru to ohvloualr directed • Tumi To Page Flvgj

— f Troops, Coast Guards Called To Flood Area 20,000 Homeless In Northwest; At Least 15 Persons Drowned Portland Ore. Mav 29 il'P* ; Army troop* and coast guardsmen rushed to aid thousands of volun ' teers today In a battle against fliMals whi. h drove 2O.4WM* person* from their homes in Washington.| British Columbia. Oregon. Idaho and Montana Officials said the flood situation was turning into a full-scale disaster as mountain snows melted and churned rivers and streams into unbridled torrent*. They warned that the worst was yet to come. They said the catastrophe would reach a crisis Tuesday when fhxidwaters will in vade downtown Portland and rise 15 feet over flood stage at Van coiiver. Wash, and Vanport City. Ore Gov C A Robin* of Idaho said he would •ys lare a state of enter ’ geni-y in 10 northern Idaho coun ' ties today. This would enable fed I •■nil and state aid facilities to he used to combat the crisis The flood was the worst to hit northern Idaho in 51* years, official* said Transportation and riverside in dustrics wen- crippled throughout the Pacific northwest Farmer*! lost inestimable millions of dollars worth of crops and property At least 15 persons have drown ed Gov Mon C Wallgren of Wash ington Rummonml the national guard, and provincial attorney general Gordon Wlsmet called out the British Columbia militia to as sist the Red Cross in flood relief and help civilians sandbag over flowing rivers The coast guard moved two cutters and a fleet of auxiliary craft into the Portland Vntwouver, Ixmgvlew Kelso area for rescue patrol* along the Columbia and Willamette rivers The Columbia ami Willamette, rising toward their highest < rests since 1994. toned 3.000 persons from their homes in the Portland Vancouver area Engineer* anticipated a crest that would flood the Portland union station, wash over lower downtown streets and halt a net • Turn To Psge Throe > O - - ——- Four-Power Council In Berlin Al Odds East-West Friction May Break Council Berlin. May 29 il'P* The four-power Kommandaiura governing Berlin ended a 15-hour session In complete disagreement today timid an atmosphere of east-west antagonism that indicated it may soon •■ease functioning altogether “We are running now only from meeting and it won't be long until we stop altogether, " one western delegate said. The breakup already has spotted meetings of one section of the Kornmandatura, the four power public safety commission, mainly because of Russian anger ever sestern charge* that Han* Schubert, chief of police in the Soviet sector Berlin, has a long criminal record Col. Frank L. Howley. American commandant of Berlin. *upported the western charge today by presenting the Russian commander with a detailed four page statement citing th* criminal records and offense* of 1< German police qfticiaU and employe* of Russian ■ occupied • Turn To fairer»

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Jewish Forces Seek To Get Supplies To Beleaguered Troops In New Jerusalem Cairo. May 29 — (VP* — High W*b source* reported t<»day that Arab armies invading Israel had speared within some 15 miles of Tel Aviv from the southeast and within six miles of Natatiya. the Jewish capitsl* coastal outpost to the north. Authoritative Arab reports from Amman suggested that Trans- ■ Jordan and Iraqi forces In twin , lab* at the rich coas'al plain I around Tel Aviv were trying out I 'he chances for a pin< er push against the Israeli capital. I’nits of th»- Arab Leffion tnoved into Lydda and Rain'.eh. the Fam 1 man di«pat< he* said, taking ov«-r from irregulars who had lieen holding tlie twin bastions southeast of Tel Aviv and neighboring Jaffa Pushing on beyond the LyddaRamleh area. the U-gionnalre* were reported to have reached positions 12’z mite* from Jaffa i and a lltt'e farther from Tel Aviv ’ That would put them in the border area of the state of Israel, if ’ no* across the frontier The same sourc"* reported that I Iraqi troops striking westward ' from Tulkarm were only six miles I from Natanya. 2<* miles north of J Tel Aviv That would put the Iraqi spearhead about half way I through the coastal strip claimed by the Jews fur their new slate The Arab la-giotmaires were re ported to have wheeled northwestward from the area of Iwit run There the Jew* and Arab* bad been locked for nearly a i week in a crucial battle Th» Israeli forces massed there, in eluding an entire armored brigade with air cover were struggling to ■ rasli through the Arab blockade with sui'plles for bard pressed defender* of the new city of Jerusalem I’nilod Pre- * correspondent E lav Simon reported from Hiilda near l.alrum *lim t the Jews threw •■very available gun. armored car • till plane into the battle lie said signs were abundant that the first big armored battle of the Palestine war might be fought there Bui the word from Amman was disturbing to the Jews in its pos silile signifb am e If the Arabs were ab'e to turn away from the Latrun battlefields and move toward Tel Aviv, they would be In command of the situation Arali irregular* under Fawzi El Kuwakjl who commanded the opening phases of the liattle for Palestine, were reported moving north to bolster and Syrian forces there. Already the Arabs had s<-ore<l a major *ymboli<- victory in l>eat ing down the last Jewish resistance In the old walled city of lertisa'em At once they turned on the new city plastering it with explosives in apparent preparation for a full scale onslaught Th- Jew* reported that they captured the Arab village* of .Muharrah and Kaufakha. east of • Turn To Pace Mis) OAmish Bishop Has 101st Grandchild Berne, May 29 — A baby girl was born yesterday to Menno and Fannie L. Schwartz of north of Berne This in itself is only routine news but when the baby made it* appearance it was the 101st grandchild for Joseph A. Schwartz, retired farmer and bishop of the \mish church of this community This is belived to be a record for thia area The mt grandchildren do not Im lude great grandchildren or great great grandchildren, of which Mr. Schwartz also claims over IM. Bishop Schwarz has 10 children living, all married. The 101 grand children would mean that each of the Bishops children has an average of 10 and one ten'h child Dr Amo* Reusser. veteran local physician. delivered the Ist set of the Bishop* grandchildren f •