Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 139, Decatur, Adams County, 12 June 1948 — Page 1

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OBART CREIGHTON IS GOVERNOR NOMINEE

Li Leaders Lpl G. E/s Le Increase Lt Percent Pay [crease Favored; Lloyes To Vote u York Jm- >3—The G * n L. rh - company * eight per ' ,in r««-»- off-red for L W ion employ-" *»« «‘” 7 fndil y night by the l-a<l <!lt cio t nii-d Electrical (ißion - * 10" tn-mber Goner Lpu ronf-r-me board, as d»y« of debate, voted to — th? company’* offer >,y union member*. [ tue nation * largest manur. o f electrical products. * making the offer that It amount to a raise of from 1 10 more than 15 cent* an tierage take home pay of ptw now in |55 99 weekly. ST Mid. pstghurrh. IE announced taewiy *f'- rejection of a prnt wage hike offered Je-aghoune Electric Corpor I for 7'<*» employe*. The I tin reported demanding 11 iu hour S»s York I’E president L> J Htfgerald. commenting » decision to accept the r aid General Electric ha*. Me 17 weeks, supplied the jnkif among industry in the bi against granting urgentlypt »a< e increases. IP campaign of I’E worker* St nhop* and communities, p; out the true facts ret: wages, price* and profits M in reversing the position 5» mmpany ” ta-nd hailed the agreement ► important step forward for »3 IMS" but said It does not »the problems of workers in I'swerpaid bracket*.” kjlinn said the local* would in acceptance by June 25. I» d.mpany said the Increase 6 become effective today and 11* contract, subject to ratitet would extend to March JP A single reopening or ► during the agreement’* life pared. ♦ k lew contract doe* not carlie previous maintenance of Ihnhip provision, the comI md. hut provides for the I checkoff for employes who Ifcr it. litaounced that “appropriate ► and salary adjustment* are of being developed with 1 wnpany’s non-union em- * nd with the many other b which represent the rest nttployes “ * began negotiations with the last March 2. but they *”»’« broken off after GE tn grant a pay boost on •fend It would lie inflationists agreed to take anoth- ** at it* stand, however, af- ** General Motors settlement ißttounced This called for “ f *nt hourly wage increase *her adjustments tied to *' »f loving Indeg. F«»id ft held tn Its belief that Mitd round of wage inH ** wrong " * Serqeant, Wife •I" Mane Crash Ind . June 12—(VP) *dies of an army sergeant •Ife killed in an airplane l” Fairbanks. Alaska, were l arrive here today. T? Brantley, ft. , student I?**' 111 * College, was notli . ’’tetram that his parT *V Rr wm|e Brantl „ T w-, ‘ w »- 3*. eraahed and JJ ’heir plane. • crew chief and engl n-, P* lr hanks army base MJ* J**’* ,b * adrvlce at *“ Ihree-year hitch In Weather afaudiweas today beginning north*o* * ****• afternoon and hej* central and I o, . Sunday partSomewhat apeier

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Schwellenbach Rites Are Held In Seattle Seattle, June 12 tl'l’t—Funeral service* for secretary of labor iz-wis B. Schwellenbach will be held today in the Trinity Episcopal chu-ch h-rt> Service* also wer« h»dd in the national catl>*drul in Washington yesterday The body was then put aboard a special plane, which arrived here last night River Reaches Third Crilical Cresl In West Crisis Is Unabated In Flood Areas In Pacific Northwest Portland. Ore. Jun- 12 il'l’t Flood waters today engulfed the huge Portland Columbia airport swept over 2.1H10 homes in north Portland and threatened the $43.OOO.tmtf Reynolds aluminum planut The Columbia river rea> h»-d a third critical crest along it* lower reaches, bursting new dikes and pushing brown water over a vast expanse of North Portland . A wave of water, whipped with whitecap*, coursed through a 2"" foot break in the Peninsula drain age dike Th.- water sept over a 12-mlle. H.ooo a< re strip of rich farmlands, dairies, glof course* and suburban homes in the North Portland area The crisis was unabated through out the Pacific northwest. At Wenatchee Wash the Colombia buckled tile city’s pumping station and left the I2'*"t rewtdents with only a single day’s water supply. Work crews labored through the night to tap an alternate res-rvoir Army engineers said the Colinnbia river dike at Richland. Wash . near the government s atomic energy plant, wa in “critical condition Army plane* flew 100.000 sand hag* to Richland at the request of officials of th'plutonium works At Ixtngview Wash the < olum bta rose six tenth* of a foot above the June 1 crest, sending it to the highest mark sine.- th- I' l l flood stage. la-vees were holding, but 1.200 men worked in three shifts to hold ba< k the water At Trail British Columbia, rest dents ran out of sandbags a* the upper Columbia rose steadily. The Roval Canadian air force had been scheduled to deliver 15.000 bags Friday afternoon but wa* unable to take them in Miss Harriet Beer Dies This Morning Funeral Services Monday Afternoon Miss Harriet May Beer 19. died at S 55 o clock this morning at her home in Monroe after an illness of three month* of uremic poisoning A graduate of the Monroe high school, she was employe.l by the Itecatur Industries until she became ill in Mari h Born in Adams county May 2*. )«29 Mis* Beer »»* a daughter of Williert and Bella Zuer< her Beer The family lived in Be-atur untH five year* ago. when they moved to Monroe She was a member of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed chunh of thia city . Surviving in addition to her par ent* are five sister* Mrs So*h Hirachy of Monroe Mr Cheater Feasel of Ohio i v Mrs. Richard Nolan of • I*" villa. Mrs Norman Ruu.-k of M - county and Mrs Edgar < lem '• Monroeville four brothers. Glen Rockford O . and Pale. < he.ter and Gerald Beer all at home; and a <randmother Mr* R-mtna cher of Bente One sister «nd one brother preceded her In deatK Funeral services will be held I M p m Monday at the home and at 2 o’clock at the a** B ’“ gellcai and Reformed '^ ar, the Rev William C. FeMer offUiatinc Burial will be in the «RF centMery at Berne The body will be removed from the Zwick fun eral home to the residence in M. n roe this evening

—' ■--- -II -- - ■ • .... — I Dike Break Floods Portland Airport T'ff n 'rtf < IO ■-*. ■ , A NEW BREAK in the dike on the Columbia river near Portland. Ore. can be seen (arrow 1! where the swollen river boils through to floral the Portland Airport (arrow 2t and th- golf course and farms between Crest of th- flood is expected over the Weekend.

— Rev. Denis Schmitt Ordination June 16 To Celebrate Mass Here Sunday, June 20 The Rev lienls E. Schmitt, S. J-. son of t|ie la'e Mr. and Mrs. Dyoni* Schmitt of this city, will lie ordained to the priesthood , Wednesday morning hy the Most i Rev Paul C Schult*, it. I>. archbishop of Indianapolis, at West Baden College. West Baden Spring*, the tlieologate of the Chicago province of the Society of Jesus <Je»uitsi. Father Schmitt iis i.ne of a < lass of 20 to be ordained by the ardildshop. He will celebrate his first solemn high mass at St. Mary's church, here. Sunday, lune 20. at 10:U am. The iiewly-oi'daln*d Jesuit, youngest Os the nine children, is , the fourth member of his family to have embraced a' religious vo- ! i cation. Hi* brother, the Rev Sim-on M Schmitt is pas'or of , SS. Peter and Paul's church. Huntington. Si fr Magdalene of the Sacred Heart, his sister, a nun iof the Order of Our l-ady of Mount Carmel (Carmelites), is sub prioress and mistress of no- ' viceg at the Carmelite Monastery at Terre Haute. Hi* brother John, known in religion a* Brother Theophane Schmitt. CSC. is a brother of the congregation of the Holy Cro*« of Notr« !»ame. and is at present Io adm«*ter of Gilmour Academy. Gates Mills (Cleveland) Ohio. Francis J SchmiH. Hubert P S< hmltt. and Al l>. Schmitt, all ! of this city, and Joseph H Schmitt of Ft Recovery. Ohio, are also brothers of ’he newly ordained priest One sister. Mary Gertrude. | ‘ died in 1922. Father Schmitt wa* l*»rn in De- > - catur January 10. 1917. and attended S’ Joseph's grade achool . ami Decatur Catholic high school • and St Joseph’* College. Rensselaer In 19.15 he entered the Jesuit Order at Milford. Ohio. After completing the two year* of novii tiate. and two year* of classical studies there, he spent th* followI ing three year* pursuing the I coarse of philosophy at the Jesuit philosophate at West Baden The , u*ual three years of teaching , following the course in philosophy were spent by Father Schmitt as a memler of the faculty of the Vniverslty of Detroit high school. ' Detroit. Mich. Since September. IMS. he has l»een enraged in the ’ study of the«dogy at West Baden , College , Members of the family and rela f tlvea will attend the ordination ceremonies Friday morning , Father Schmitt will celebrate mass at th* Carmelite Monastery. Terre Haute for his sister, who will lie unable to attend the ser- , vives either at We*t Baden or Decatur, since, according to th* •trie’ rule of the Carmelite*, the nun* tn their observance of per ’ ne’aal c’olnter are never ab»*nt r from tfeeir monastery i Officers of Mate At the first solemn high ma** . to be offered here done 80 at St ttuvw T» Pea* ••*»

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Mrs. Hugh Andrews Renamed To Board Judge Earl B. Adam* of th- I Adams circuit court has reap j pointed Mrs. Hugh Andrew* a member of the Decatur library lioard, for a two-year term, ex i tending Io June 10. 1950. — Truman Says Slalin Politburo Prisoner President Switches To Foreign Issues Eli Route With President Tru Iman. June. 12 —tl’Pi President, Truman switched abruptly from domestic to foreign Issues today in preparation for his speech on Soviet-American relations at Berkeley. Cal. The President may have Indi rated th* tenor of hl* *pee< h at Eugene. Ore. last night when he told a crowd gathered about the rear platform of his train that marshal Josef V. Stalin was "a i prisoner of the polltburo." Recalling hl* meeting with Stalin at Potsdam in 1945. Mr Truman said: "I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I liked old Jo* ’’ The crowd laughed "But Joe." the President added, "is a prisoner of the pollthuro He can't do what he wants to. He makes agreements, and if he could he would keep them. But the people who run the (Russian l government are very specific in saving that he can’t keep them " Speaking more seriously, th* ' President said: "Some time or other that great country and this great country angoing to understand that their | mutual interests mean the welfare i and peace of the world as a, whole.” Th* President’s remarks about Stalin were not new. He made u similar statement In April to the Washington meeting of th* American society of newspaper editors However, at that time Mr Truman said It in confidence and reporters were instructed to treat it a* off the record. There was no indication why the President changed his mind ahout talking publicy about Stalin. But newsmen accompanying him interpreted It to mean there would be more al*»ut Stalin In hi* address at the I'niversity of California this afternoon. Another theory was that Henry A. Wallace, third party president ial candidate, has been insisting that it was possible to reach an agreement with Russia Much of Wallaces strength is on the west coast. The President told a crowd at ’ Albany. Ore. that the country was not getting the truth about hi* administration “through the press.” He said the public needed to know the truth about how the presidency operated His office could be handled properly, he said, only if be received the cooperation of the congress and bis constituency. “And I’ve gotten neither one." sTard Te Pea*

Estimate 150 Dead In Sunken Vessel Danish Steamer Is Victim Os Sinking Copenhagen. June 12 —(I'Pl — Danish navy divers reported to day that the liodies of an estimat ed 150 men. women and children were pa< ked In I lie MUbmerged caliins mid engineroom of the coastal steamer Kjolienhavn. which strui-k a mine and sank in |o minutes off the coast of Jutland yesterday. The diver* said most of the bodies were in saloon* mid cabins - just below tile surface, the farthest point they were able to reach j before the water readied them The mine blew a hole 3u yard' square in the l>ow below the water line, divers reported, letting the water in so fast that more titan a thin! of the passengers and crew were trapped below d< i-k* The divers said some victim' who tried to Struggle out of sub | merged compartments Itecame entangled in the propeller* ami were chopped to bl’s by the blades, which continued to turn as the ship went down. The I'nited Steamship com patty, owner* of the vessel, said no more survivors have been found other than the 261 persons rescued yesterday. Nineteen Imhlies have been recovered. I liver* | later* today will begin the task I of bringing the other bodies to the surface. Tile ship is resting on the hot-1 torn in the uui'*t waters of the Kattegat 10 miles east of- the (T«ra To I‘Hsr Flv»v Republicans Back After Convention Leaders Os County Party Return Home Adams count v Republican lead ers returned home today after a hectic two days of conventioning at Indianapolis. County chairman Harry Essex served as vice-chair-man of the state convention, being one of 11 in the state so honored. The convention closed at about 9 o'clock last night, after naming Hobart Creighton. Warsaw poultryman. a* the GOP candidate for governor on the second ballot. After giving a majority of Its votes to Walter Helmke. Fort Wayne attorney, on the first ballot, it is believed that almost all of the, Adams county delegates voted for Creighton Voting machines were used at the convention and all tielegates voted secretly. Mavor John Itoan served as election official of one of the machines Because of the lateness of the hour, many of the Adams county delegates did not return ho.ne until this morning The fourth congressional district I* not represented on the state GOP ticket •>!* year. However. It was pointed out that Governor Ralph Gates, who will retire In January, is a fourth district pro duct.

Warsaw Man Is Choice Os Indiana Republicans As Jenner's Bid Defeated — - — — 1 ■' ’"" ' I

Congress Seeks Adjournment By Next Saturday Leaders In Senate Show Willingness To Meet Deadline Washington. June 12—(VP» — Senate Republican leader* today indicated a growing willingness to meet next Saturday’s ad iournment deadline on which the bouse lias been ill: istillg. Both house and senate s.lu-dlll ed unusual Saturday sessions In an effort to clean up "must" legislation. One GOP leader said the ad journnieiit date wilt depend on whether the Republican polity committee decides that the sen . ate should try to pass a civil I rights bill or the Mundt-Nixon communist-control measure. But i he intimated strongly that both are headed for a pigeonhole. The anti lynching bill was revised by the senate judiciary committee yesterday to meet some objections lint not to the extent that It could avoid a fill buster by southern liemocratic senators. The house ha* not passed an aiiii-lynchlng bill but ha* approved an anti poll tax measure That might le- <unsidered by the senate if leaders decide to press one of the civil rights proposals Sen Robert A Taft of Ohio, chairman of the senate Republican po'icv committee, suggest, d in a Philadelphia spee.-h yesterday that there is no point in con gress continuing in session because of the conflict II) views between It and President Truman “We had better adjourn now and appeal to tile people in November for a vote of confidence in the election of a president who will cooperate in our program*,’’ Taft said Each branch ticked off a major piece of legislation yesterday.

Tile senate approved a resolution calling for a stronger I'nited Na I’l'srs To Pnue Civet May Ask Injunction On Maritime Union Walkout Scheduled For Tuesday Night Wa*hington. June 12 -H'Pt A presidential fuel finding board i today cleared the way for the government to seek an Injunction ‘ ag/inst the threatened nationwide: maritime strike by reporting that ! it would tie up the entire shipping industry. The board said that “if the status quo can be continued, real and sincere collective bargaining may finally avoid the disruption " Six maritime union* have threatened to cal! their len.ooo members out on strike at midnight Tuesday unless their contract demands are met. A Taft-Hartley law injunction would prohibit the walkout for 80 days. An administration sjM.gesmnn • indicated the White House would ask the justice department to seek a federal court injunction against the strike either today or Monday The government will contend that a maritime strike would “imperil the national health or safety" The injunction probably will be nought in New York. San Francis co and Cleveland where the anion* have their headquarters. The fact finding panel delivered its report to the White House yesterady. It was made public today The i>oar<l said the strike would involve virtually all operations of American flag ships on the east. Gulf and Pacific coasta and a considerable portion of shipping on vTara T« Pee# Plvei

——— G. (>. I*. Nominee Hobart Creighton U. S. Air Forces May Be Involved 14 Koreans Killed As Vessels Bombed Tokyo. June 12 • tl’Pi The| f. S far east air forces admitted today that Tuesday’s bombing of I Korean fishing vessels In which 11 Koreans were killed and !»’ wound ed "may have involved far east air forces aircraft." An official announcement said that a practice bombing mission was airborne aliove the Japan r.ea off the east coast of Korea at tin-1 time tlie incident was teported to i have occurred "Strike photographs and mission reports are l.emg studied and a complete investigation is being made to determine whether these ainraft weie involved." the announcement said Earlier the Korean national police in Seoul re|*>rted the bombing wa* t arried out by nine foui engin ed aircraft l.earing the star and circle insignia of the I'. S air force Eleven boats were sunk in the 20minute attai k. the poll « said. An air force spokesman here said .* 11.. . ■■! I.ltt <> 1

there is an established bombing I range in the general area "used by b<mil>ardm<-iit aircraft in carrying out live liomb training assignments." The spokesman refused to dis close which I S airbase the air planes t<s>k off from on Tuesday’s mission. Korean reports said the ainraft "came from the west and returned to the west.” But offb lais of Kimpo aii base near Seoul postively denied any of their plane-, were involved Overtime Parking Tickets Given Here Continue Keeping Traffic On Move las al police officers passed out several overtime parking tickets fids week in the downtown business section a* a reminder that there would be no let-up In the es , fort to keep traffic moving and give all people an opportunity to ■ use the uptown street* for business and shopping purposes. i Police officers spend several hour* each day checking automobiles parked on Second street, where the one hour restriction i« in effect. It was pointed out by - citv officials that the tickets are I given, not a* a matter of revenue but rather to keep traffic <>n the . move. As a result. It is pointed out , that there are parking space* available at almost any hour of I the day for those who plan to shop . or make a business < all Most |<M-al . merchants have established persona! parking spaces behind their I stores and offices r The drive will continue indefinitely. it was learned today, and I ail police officer* join in the marki mg of the cars, when they are on (the daytime shifts

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Creighton Selected On Second Ballot; Helmke And Burch Support Creighton Indianapolis. June 12—(I P) Hobart Creighton, .-x sr-hmd teacher leglsla’or, and poultry man who won't -tay down on his H<x« i* r farm, rode the crest of an antiJenner movement into the top 1 spot on the Republican state ticket today. Creighton won the GOP nomination for governor on the second ballot of a dramatic convention which last night climaxed one of itu'.iaim's most intensive intra party political struggles But it took a last minute pooling of delegates by three of thu four candidates to halt what appeared to be a sweep toward victory In the 10-hour long conven Hon by William E Jenner, the senator who would rather be governor. AII the suspense and tension built up in months of campaigning ami during balloting for 1" other s'ate offices hit a crescendo |u*t after the first gubernatorial I.allot showed Jenner ahead of the pack but lacking a majority. A f t' r a hurried conference in a corridor at the steaming fair ' grounds coliseum, the other two I candidates, state auditor Alvan V Burch and Fort Wayne attorI nev Walter Helmke stepped to the rostrum and asked their supporter* to switch to Creighton. That threw th.- convention and t.f.00 spectators into an uproar But the "deal" worked and when the second ballot was taken the 1 Warsaw paultry deal, r had 9:'.l I votes, 19 more than enough to ■ win Jenner picked UP 86 of the delegates who refused to go for the coalition but III* B*s vote* left him only a . lose second. Creigh’on. smiling and perspiring. stepped to the rostrum In *hirt sl.-eves to thank delegates 'from the bottom of my heart" and predict party victory in the fall .Miner joined him anJ waved to the < heering delegate* ’ I had an idea I'd like to lie governor of Indiana " he said. “I goes* it's Just not to be I love a good fight I lost till* one But

’ i'll ge» l>< rind the winner for a flop victory from the top to bottom " Sharing the limelight in victory was Goyernor Gate*. who fought against Jenner all the way. Creighton headed a ticket for , the fall • lection which included ' «<>me candidate* tagged a* proJenner Their success in early i nominal ion* baffled observer* trying to dope out the yiib-rnator-i ial battle in the face of victories j also for Home definite anti Jenner men. The -n "fill candidate* who carried the Jenner tag in more or les* degree ln< lllded Gilbert K. Ogle nominated for state audl < fiirn T«» l*N|tr V ferret Republican Nominees Indianapolis. June 12 (I’P* - Here i« the Republic an ictate ticket a* nominated yesterday in the Indiana GOP secret ballot convention For governor Hobart Creighton. Warsaw For lieutenant-governor Rue J. Alexander. Pine Village i incumbent and unopposed i. For secretary of state— Fred Ferrini. East Chicago. For attorney general Cleon H. Foust. Columbia City Hnrumlient*. For state auditor--Gilbert E. Ogles. Greencastle For state treasurer II Dale lirown. Indianapolis For supreme court judge Mart J O'Malley. Huntington iincumi bent and unopposed! ’ For appellate court judge (2* — , Paul A la-nnlngton. Muncie: I Frank Hamilton. Terre Haute Hu- . c-umlw-nt and unopposed*. For reporter of the supreme and appellate court* -Mr*. Fern Norris. Indianapolis (incumbent and I unopposed*. For superintendent of public Ini struction—Ren H. Watt. Noblesville <incumbent and unopposed*. a