Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 134, Decatur, Adams County, 7 June 1948 — Page 1

yi. No. 134.

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Heads Ministers jg [ft flk [ Rev. Wm. C. Feller Rev. Feller Heads I Decatur Minislers Elected President At Annual Meeting The Rev William C. Feller, pastor of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church of this city, today mtns elected preaident of the ' Decatur ministerial association for IMS-49 at the annual election and business of that group The Rev. Ralph A Carter, pastor of the Church of the Nazarene, was named vice-president, and Rev J. H Welty, pastor of the Decatur Missionary church, was elected secretary-treasurer. All newly elected officers will , serve for one year. The group also * ‘received reports from the Bible . achfufl which closed last week and which was the largest ever held in Decatur Rev. Feller, the new president is . serving his alkth year as pastor of the local Evangelical and Reformed church. He also is the president of Decatur Rotary club ( Plans for the year will be made . at the next regular meeting of the . association Each year, the mem ber churches Join In a week of i united church services, usually held at two or three churches in different sections of the city i - - • <i Dilatory Tactics On UMT Assailed Chicago. June 7— tl'Pi — Universal military training legislation has been kept from the house floor for 11 months by dilatory'' tactics. James F. O'Neill, national American commander, charged yesterday. In a radio address. O'Neill said Rep E Allen. R . 111. chairman of the house rules committee, "disqualified himself as an authority on national aacurity matters and should have the good grace to withdraw" from the committee's leader ship. — » ' Review Board Opens > Its Annual Session Start Checking Os Assessments Today The county board of review convened this morning in the county assessor* office, with the two | court appointed members begin- > ning their duties. County assessor Albert Harlow . Is chairman and Thurman I Drew, county auditor, secretary of the l board Norval. Fuhrman, county I treasurer. Is a member at the , board by virtue of his office ! The appointed members are Msa . Matilda Selletr.yer of this city > and Mrs Harold Owens of Root I township . 1 The members started the check Ing of assessments and later this i week will fit the date* on which . hearing* will be held It is he I duty of the board to review the I eseeeaments correct mistakes or add omitted property to the assessnt quit* Although there is a lir »* creaw in the total of meats on real estate. Mr. liar, said that final figure* would no bo released until after the board had checked aU th. aad compiled all personal property valuations

Lewis Resumes Court-Ordered Contract Talk Says Coal Contract Talk Revived Only Because Os Court Washington. June 7 (VPIJohn L. Lewis resumed wage talks under court order with the soft coal industry today, charging he was "shackled" and under "duress." Lewis told union and industry) negotiators that he had revived the soft coal conferences only because he was ordered to by federal judge T. Alan Goldsborough. The mine workers, said, have no wage proposals to make "at present" hut they "expect improvements." He asked the operators to make the first contract proposals But he made it clear that the new negotiations will deadlock unless the operators guarantee pension payment* to aged miners from the 194" welfare fund. Lewis and his united mine workers negotiating committee met the operators at 10 a.m. (CDTi. “As representatives of labor, we sit here under attainder," Lewis told the conference. "In reverse." he told the coal operators, "your limbs are unshackled.” Lewis broke up contract talks three weeks ago when he refused > to bargain with the southern coal producers association. The government went to court last week and got an injunction from judge Goldsborough which : forced la-wis to reopen wage talk* with the association and the entire industry to try and get a new contract by June SO, when the present one expires. "We attend this conference only through duress." l-ewls said. "The intemperate Judicial sanctions imposed upon us were uttered upon the premise of an oppressive and Iniquitous statute (the Taft-Hart-ley act I. "This statute constitutes the first major throat of Fascist tyranny in this Republic." Lewie said the I'MW "at present" has no wage proposals to make. But he added: "Assuredly, the mine workers expect improvements.” He asked the coal operator* to make the first new contract pro<Turn To Page »•*> o Trustees Conduct Routine Business Few Vacancies In Teaching Staffs Lyman Hann, county superintendent of schools, cleared hi* desk Saturday immediately following the regular monthly meeting of the county board of education. and with .Mr*. Hann left early Sunday for a trip to the west <oa*t. He will be away from hl* office until July 1. .Mr. Hann stated that in hi* absence, all children desiring work permits may get them front either Walter J. Krick, superin tendent of the Decatur m bool*, or i E. M Webb, superintendent of the Berne schools Permit* are necessary for school children who plan to work during the summer month*. The board of education disposed -of only routine thisine** during the Saturday session All tru* tee* reported on their school do*i ing* and announced that there were few vacancies in the teaching staff* of the variou* townahip schools. _ The county superintendent * of , flee will be open during Mr. Hann's absence to give out routine in . formation, but not for the transi action of any business Fred Kolter. bailiff of the Adams circuit court, will receive the mail and .newer inquiries. Mr Kolter * of flee is adjacent to the court room Mr and Mr* Hann will visit In Kan*a*. Missouri. Arizona and California and while at San FranI ci*co they will attend the national meeting of the American Red Crore They will return tn this city .boot June M-

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, June 7, 1948

Family Joins Truman On Tour ft I ' t J d MR*. TRUMAN and daughter. Margaret, join the President as his special train leaves Otuha on his tour of the West. The first lady and Miss Truman arr./ed from Kansas City shortly before the Pnsident’* departure.

County Republicans To State Convention Headquarters To Be At Claypool Hotel Adami countg Republican* are making final arrangement* to attend the Republican *tate conven•ion at the fair ground* in Indianapoll* Friday. The convention proper will start Thuraday night With district convention*, at which time national convention delegate* and atate convention officer* will be named. Harry Easel, county Republican chairman. *aid that Adam* county would have beadquarter* tt the Claypool hotel. Nine of the 10 elected delegate* will attend the conclave. Richard Carl Hammond will he unable to attend. It waa announced, and Mr. Essex will vote hi* proiy. The other delegate* are Cal F Peterson. Cal E Peterson. Charlo* Fuhrman. Floyd A»py. Arno* Burkhalter. and Clifton H. Sprungcr. Adam* county will cast It* vote* on machine number 11 with delegate* from DeKalb ahd Whitley counties. The fourth district. which ha* 148 delegate vo’e*. will hare three machine* Allen county voters will use machine number 10 and the balance of the county delegate* will use machine number 12. The fourth district delegation will be seated together on the north side of the coliseum and about two-third* of the way back from the platform. Allen county, with 72 vote*, lead* the other countie* of the diatrlct in number. Mayor John Doan, of this city, i* the appointed official In charge of machine number 11. Recauae the machine* are bet Turn To Purr St* I Decatur Firemen Take Two Firsts Annual Convention Is Held At Bourbon Decatur firemen captured two first places in contests at the annual convention of the Northeastern Indiana volunteer firemen's association, held at Bourbon Friday and Saturday. The Decatur department copped top honor* In the water battle and the truck race, while bluffton won the hoae laying contest. Berne firemen took first honor* a* a unit marching in the Saturday afternoon parade. The New Haven high school band was awarded first parade prise and the Berne school band second Fifteen member* of the Decatur iepartment and several member* of the ladle* auxiliary took pari In the Saturday parade and 1< of the Decatur members attended the annual banquet Friday evening The 1:M» convention waa awarded to Portland, and will be held the first Friday and Saturday in Jana AU present officers of the association were reelected

Weekly Band Concert Wednesday Evening The weekly bund concert of the Decatur high school hand will be given Wednesday night at 8:IS o'clock at the courthouse ramp, instead of the usual Tuesday night concert. A. M. Sellemeyer. director, announced this morning. The band will hold a practice at 7:15 o'clock Tuesday evening in the music room, followed by a band party at 8:15 p in. — — —o —-— Reinforced Dikes Holding In Oregon Encouraging News In Oregon Floods Portland. Ore. June 7 (I’Pt — Array engineer* sent out the good news today that the Columbia river had reached at least a temporary crest here and might even recede very slightly today. Hut. the engineers warned, they could not say that this was the final crest rolling down the mighty stream that ha* sent two floodtides down upon battered <ommunities in the past fortnight. Reports from upstream were encouraging. The Columbia dropped one eleventh of a foot at Pasco Wash., and the Snake river, a main tributary, fell four tenths of a foot in 10 hour*. The encouraging reports heartened thousand* of weary troop* and volunteer* *till battling the (Turn To Page Hist — *lll.. ■" Election June 25 On School Merger Special Election In French Township A special election will be held in French township on Friday, June 25. for the purpose of determining whether a majority of the legal voters favor a consolidation of the schools In that township with the schools in the town of Berne The legal notice is printed in today's paper, over the signature of Ell Graber, the trustee, and member* of the advisory board, namely W. A. Preadorf. Menno Augsburger and Alfred Hlrschy The poll* will be open from 7 am to 7 pm daylight saving time. The voting place is at the Election school in precinct 20 of the township. It is the only pre- i cinct in French township. The result of the referendum will determine the action of the elected officials in the school proposal Trustee Graber said there were about 375 voter* In the township and be urged every legal voter to cast his ballet on election day Preliminary resolutions toward the consolidation have been adopt *d by the Berne school board and the French township advisory board. Final determination will rest with the voter*. Mr Grhoer explained

United States And Five Other Friendly Nations Reveal Government Plan

Weekend Rains End Drought In County Extended Dry Spell Broken By Rainfall i One of the longest dry spells in the history of Decatur and Adams county was ended over the week end with a general rainfall, expected to prove an inestimable j lawn to farm and garden crop* in the county. Herman Meyer, local precipitation observer, reported a total of .78 inches of rainfall from Saturday morning to this morning at 8 o'clock. Report* from over the county indicated tha' Sunday's soaking rain was general. Fair weather is forecast Tuesday, with little change in temperature. General In Midwest Chicago. June 7 —(UP) —General rains this weekend ended the midwest's longest dry spell in history, the I’. B. weather bureau said today. Farm experts said the dryness had lasted long enough to retard crop growth. In some cases, they said, the rainless period had eliminated the possibility for bumper crops. Rain which began Friday swept the entire midwest except southwest lowa, the bureau said. It fell In ''enough quantities" to replenish parched soil, the report said. Heavy At Logansport Indianapolis, June 7— (CP) — Indiana’s three-week drought was at an end todav Heavy rains fell over much of the state yesterday, and many areas received benefit from lighter thundershower* Weather observers at Txigans- ■ (Turn T» Page Fleet O— Plan Street Repairs Here During Summer Inspection Trip Planned Tuesday Mayor John Doan. Floyd Acker, street commissioner and Harold Owens, representing Meshberger Stone Co., will make a tour of all city streets Tuesday, it was an nounced today. The Inspection trip will be the preliminary step in launching an intensive summer street repair program Many of the local streets already have been repaired, and the more dangerous ruts, made by the winter freezes and thaws and heavy traffic, have been filled with stone and surfacing material. With the fund* available. Mayor Doan stated most of the streets could be put in good condition. However, engineers have told the city officials that several of the street* need sealing coats. Thi* process Is expensive and would MCOMitate additional street improvement appropriation* Mr. Acker ha* a crew of city workmen available for the repair ■work and with more than tZ.oow received from the state clgaret tax. it I* believed by city official* that almost all of the local streets will lie ir good condition soon. City officials and represent*, tlves of the Northern Indiana Public Service Co. have reached an agreement over the repair of North ■ Third street where it wa* nece* ■ary to dig into the street to lay new ga* lines. Gas company employes will immediately level off the excavation* and replace the stone After the dirst ha* time to settle, probably late in the summer or early in thefall. city employe* then will replace the brick. The cost of labor will be assessed to the ga* company Th* brick*, which have been re moved, will be cleaned and stored in on* of the city storag* building* until time to replace them. * e

Benes Quits As President Os Czechoslovakia Paves Communists Way To Toke Over Last Major Office i'rugur. June 7—(VP) — President Eduard Bene* resigned today. clearing the way for the communists to take over the last major office in Czechoslovakia which eluded them in their coup last February. The resignation of Benes was announced officially toward the end of the day. Authoritative sources had reported earlier that, weary and broken In health, he had signed the document making formal hi* retirement from the Czech political picture when the communists «<M>k over. Informants said he had been unable to carry out his plan* to resign Saturday They reported that lately he had lapsed into long period* of unconsciou*ne*s. and was unable to move alaiut except in a wheel chair. He had been at hl* summer home at Seximove Vati south of Prague since the communist coup. The new communist parliament, elected eight day* ago in a singleticket communiat balloting, will elect his successor. Premier Element Gottwald, communist chieftain who engineered the February coup, wa* understood to l»e in line for president if he wanted the post. The second most likely choice wa* understood to be Zdenek Nejedly. minister of education in Gottwald's communist cabinet. Gottwald read a statement to the cabinet meeting In extraordinary session which disclosed the resignation of Benes, fit. a little more than three months after the communist seizure of power. Non-government officials who had seen B<ne* within the weak (Turn To P->re Bi«> Commissioners In Monthly Session Busy Calendar Up To Commissioners The county commissioner* had a busy calendar before them today as they met in June session, hoping to completu their business by evening. The morning was devoted to the checking and allowing of bill*. Beginning at 2 o'clock this afternoon. the commissioner* will receive sealed bids for a three-fourth ton troek for the county highway department Bids will also be received for supplying gasolln* to the highway department over a six months' period, ending Decern ber 31. Proposal* for furnishing grocer les and other suppile* at the county home will also be received A delegation of farmer* and land owners from Hartford. French and Blue Greek townships, was expected this afternoon relative to ditch and road improvement* Sheriff Herman Bowman ami James Border*, city police chief, appeared before the commissioners and asked permission to set the antenna for the polk* shortwave radio on top of the court house dome At prerent, it is located inside the dome At certain distance* from the court-house, th* radio strike.! a void and does not function It is believed th* higher elevation of the antenna will ovnrcome the difftfbltv in brondeaating from the sheriff and police cats to the r» reiving set la the sheriff's efftce

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Give Russia Notice Occupation Troops Will Remain Until Peace Is Secured Washington. June 7 — (t'P) — The Vnited States and five other friendly power* today revealed plan* for self-government in western Germany. >«ut »ervf-d notice on RtiKNia that occupation troops will remain there "until the peace of Europe is secured " A communique Issued jointly by the six powers again blamed Soviet policies forth- partition of Germany. liut held the door open to eventual Russian participation in the western plan for general unification of the former enemy state. The communique covered the recommendations made at the recent lamdon conference by representatives of the Vnited States. Britain. France. Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands It wa* released simultaneously at 5 am. CDT in < apitals of the six nations. Among other thing*, the representatives of the six countries called for filternationalization of the Ruhr and for steps toward convening a German constituent assembly in the three western zones "to prepare a constitution for approval of the participating states." But, the communique added significant iy : "The Vnited States. Vnited Kingdom and French delegates reiterated the firm view of their governments that there could not l>e any general withdrawal of their force* from Germany until the peace of Europe J* secureil prior consultation." A copy of the I.MWI word communique was sent by French authorities this morning to Hie Itusnian military governor in Berlin, Marshal V. Sokolovsky. The far-reaching plan for political an<i economic union of western Germany still I* subject to formal approval of the six governments. The I S. slate department already ha* expressed its general approval. Congressional action is not necessary. The agreement also: 1. Affirmed that "Germany must not again be permitted to become an aggressive power." 2. Recommended a rigid system of inspection to keep watch on German military activity. 3. Said the lamdon agreement "should facilitiate eventual fourpower agreement" with Russia on unification of Germany. 4. Predicted that the measures recommended would mark an important step in the reconstruction of western Europe, "ami establish- • Turn To l’«g- Three! O — - Mrs. Milton Smith Is Token By Death Mrs MHton Rmith. of Monroeville. sister-in-law of Charles Smith of thi* city, died Saturday after* noon at the St Joseph’s hospital lit Fort Wayne Funeral services will be held at 2 p m. Tuesday at St. Mark* Lutheran chunh. Monroeville. with burial In the Monroeville IOOF cemetery. — ....- .j — 30-Day Quarantine On Dogs Is Lifted Here By Officials The Isl-day quarantine on dogs In Itecatur ha* lieen lifted. effe<-- ' tive immediately, it w*« announced today by Mrs. Robert lauve. secretary nt the city Itoard of health. The 1 30-dav order, causing the canine family of the city to lw> confined to their home* or permitted on the s’reet* only on leashes, was put In force because of the rabies scare ’ throughout the state. Stray dogs, however, will be con- ' f(stated, city offkiais announced, and ail dogs must have identification tags Both county and city tags > are mandatory under stat* and city i laws. i The quarantine has been effecf tlve and few dogs were seen on local street* the last tour week*. Of- ' fieials pointed Mt that should another emergency arise th* quarantine would again berotpe effective. e