Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 150, Decatur, Adams County, 25 June 1948 — Page 1

I XI-VI. No. 150.

DEWEY, WARREN HEAD REPUBLICAN TICKET

tVewSo/f Coal Contract Signed

1 1 Steel In nd To Sign lew Agreement 9sj A Day Increase ■ Granted Miners In Hew Coal Contract Jun** *1 L Lewi* und a I the soft |K industry except «l«e "’**»*• "’‘lay *tgh-d “ «•'» a<r**emenf HL., u, !--. iiK-nt will »»••«•«»me July 1 I' provides: A H “ ,la y *“*** !n, r * a ’“‘ unim employe. in Increase of 10 cents u • ..perator contribution* to |K ,-;„n welfare and retirement !K : .-ca-uit the total payment ,ent« ton. BH: All o her terms and condi „• the IT watte agreement in the 1948 contract, 'he union shop provia S Steel Corp refused to -hr new agreement because union shop provision The Kt (hop ia regulated by the law and prohibited y regulated by state ;n Viremia Tennessee and parties said in a Joint |Hli th- inn-rest* of promoting in the bitumiiip'ia coal and t<> cause a cessation mpt runs.int bickering that has the Industry during the Kg ye«r the committee deems to be a respectable ■1 msonahle one tatter what the feelings of (ide were about the law the fund they have decided (roperate with each other *o u they can in operating It ■mW HfV statement said the new "i« predicated upon the i‘cn <d normal businesslike between the operat mine workers." Kb«e> who signeu the agreerepresented (ilO.OOO.Oflfl tons usual soft coal production (ieel companies which re to sign own mines that 10.000.000 tons a year M Moses, chief negoti for V s. Steel and other coal mines owned by steel walked out of the Mwtstlnr session with Lewis »« not going to sign the he told reporters "I tot In agreement with what on in there." ■2* agreement headed off a Bp* that had threatened to shut |V*' th* nation's vita) coal fields ■» aoath operators were generally that the higher lalmr costs kave to be added to the H” ~f ‘■<’•l tn the consumer ■**”’ M Moses, chief negoti■P [#r U. S Steel Corp , and SB’’•'<a l<-d captive mines, said HT* ,#r r»ase» are "Inevitable as • "ash of thia agreement '* He make it dear whether the 'osl prices would also S ,T ”’ T " Fiver f Knight Rites Pepperell, Mass, services for Fred Knight. EC ‘*° wn h »mess maker of this ■F ’ill he held in Pepperell ■J* probably on Monday. Ij»w ■T* who made local ar KJ***®'* announced today may t>e viewed at the |T',' n<l r> * B ,un *r*l home un ■L " ‘Ms svenlng The casket ■L* shipped to Pepperell, ar,h*r» sometime Sunday A K Knight lives in that K M burial will be there. It ■* 'Ue4 K?*J* i *ht died at Roanoke MT* 1 ’ Bl|th ‘ H*™ •" Man, hen Kg' H. he catne to Decatur in 1 * U ™«* Bs?/ 1 **ewdy: continued ■Z* ** rather humid to- ** Saturday: local tHund 0 Hows fs ■ *’•»* •* atate Sat-

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Begin Registration iOf Men In Six Weeks President Truman Signs Draft Bill Washington. June 25—(UPt — fxical draft boards will begin registering men within sig weeks and the first drafters may be in uniform by late September, government officials said today Selective service machinery meshed into gear in the wake of Presld- nt Truman's signing late yesterday of the 19 through 25 draft law The president is expected to issue a registration proclamation shortly. Mr. Truman alro wi'l appoint a national director of- selective service as well as atate directors The top Job probably will go to Mai. Gen Lewis B Hershey who supervised the drafting of millions of Americans during World War || Selective service officials estimate it will take about six weeks •o set up the t.OOft-odd local boards throughout the country Registration of men IS through 25 will begin as soon as the boards are organised. Under the 9C-,’av clause in the new draft act. inductions can get under way Sept 22. Actually, they could start earlier if the president should declare a national emergency However, this is considered un'ikelv unless there are some unusual developments on the international aceno. Enlistment of JS-yearolds ia exported to begin within the next few da vs Those who volunteer will serve one year In the armed forces and then put in six years lit the reserve In this way they will be exempt from the 21-month draft. Many details of the draft, including what camps will I* reopened or expanded, will be disclosed by army secretary Kenneth C. Royal! probably on Monday. By signing the bill into law. •he president put an end to the flood of enlistments In the nation al guard and reserves by men seeking exemption from the draft The unprecedented rush to re cruiting offices during the past five days boosted the guard over Its authorised strength of 341.000. and put naval and marine reserve outfits close to their manpower (Tarn To Page *eve*l Young War Veteran Dies In Air Crash Trafalgar. Ind.. June 25 —(I’Pl A 20-year-old world war two veteran was killed when the private plane he was piloting trashed on the Keith llurkner farm one mile west of here last night. The victim was identified as Verne A. Orr. son of Mr and -Mrs John Orr of Cloverdale, in Putnam county He had been working on the Buckner farm The plane was rent ed from the Bargersville airport. Rev. Lengerich To Fort Wayne Church Named Assistant At St. Patrick's The Rev Vincent who was ordained to the priest hood on May 22. has been appoint ed an assistant at St Patricks Catholic ebun-h in Fort Wayne effective June 29 The appointment was announced todav by Most Rev Bishop John F NolL D D.. bishop of Fort Rev Lengerich, who la a son of Mr and Mrs Clement Lengerich of southwest of the city, succeeds the Rev. John W Daniel*, who ha* been transferred a* an assistant at St Joseph* eburch. Fort Since bi* ordination Rev Ungerich ha. been enjoying a vacation with hl* parent* He celebrated hi* first solemn high ma*, in St Mary s church in thia city Sunday. May !1 Rev. Lengerich completed hi* theological studies at St Heinradla Seminary and was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Noli. ,

Russia Lifts i Ban Against Rail Traffic I Russian Turn-About Made On Shipments Moving Into Berlin ' Berlin, June 25 (UP)-— Russia • made another of her bewildering i turn-abouts In cold war strategy • today. Allied official* in Helmstedt, on the border between the British and .Soviet gone* of Germany, an- ■ nounced that the Soviet commander al .Marienborn. Russian > Ixiundary control point, had said > that freight shipments to Berlin from Ue west could be resumed I Monday. The Russian action reopening the allied route to Berlin came i after a series of Soviet blows apI parently designed to force the western powers clear out of the . German capital. The Russian moves had seemed near to achieving that end. The Russian decision to permit resumption of rail and road traf sic from the western rones of . Berlin would lift the threat of starvation from some 2.flflfl.fl<n) , Germans in sectors of the capital which are under American, British , and French control. It also would relieve any Immediate pressure on the western allies to withdraw their military and . civil establishments — totalling some 30.t»s) persons from Berlin Earlier Russian orders had halt »d all traffic from the west into and cut of Berlin except by air. and the aliiet had admitted they could not possibly supplv the Ger mans in their sectors of tho capital by plane. It had seemed likely that the Russian threat to starve Berliners in the western sectors ultimately would force the allies to quit Ber •in entirely, turning the city over to Russian control. Both U. R. and British sources had admitted tha: Tossibility. .No confirmation was available In allied quarters here of the Helmstedt report, but there seemed no reason to doubt that it was true. The Russian actiqn closing the border was taken by the Soviet (Tara Ta l*a*e Twa I Egyptian Spitfire Fires On UN Plane Protest Filed With Egypt Government I Rhodes. June 25 — (UPI — An i Egyptian spltrire fired on a United . Nations Plane over Palestine at . dawn today and hit It 12 times, headquarters of UN mediator Count Folke Bernadotte of Hwe ien charged in a protest to the Egyptian government. A spokesman for Bernadotte said the mediator's headquarters lid not know what type of UN plane was attacked, or whether more than one Egyptian spitfire fighter was engaged in the attack The incident was believed to have taken place over Negba in - 'he Negev area of southern Pal | eatlne. (At Tel Aviv, tbe Israel war 1 Office charged that Egyptian spitfire* violated the truce by bombing two Jewish settlement* on the I southern front, and abo refused i passage to a replacement convoy I bound for the Negev. I Bernadotte's headquarters al«o ' filed a protest with the Israel i government over tbe action of the i Jews in refusing to allow UN obi *er v ers access to the area near 1 Nathanya. diamond center on the I Mediterranean coast between Tel Aviv and Haifa. Nathanya was the scene of an attempt early this week of Irgun Zval l<eumi dissident Jewish for i ces to land arm* and men There was tome fighting In the area as regular Israe'i troops of Haxanab. , the Jewish armv. drove off th* t Irgunlst landing vaa**l Th* vaa- , m| the Altaian*, later was de stroyed by fire In Tel Aviv harbor.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, June 25, 1948

Republicans’ Presidential Nominee 9 -'-WK' X I -Ik M • It flßk Gov. Thomit E. Dewey

Stiff Penalties To Itinerant Workers Three Railroaders Given Heavy Fines Mayor John Doan and proecutor Myles Parrish stood firm today on their previous assertions that Itinerant workers would have to conduct themselves in orderly fashion while working near Decatur or pay the penalty. Both previously had said that they would not tolerate lighting. excessive drinking and other law violations. Three Erie railroad workmen from the railroad camp near Decatur pleaded guilty this morning to charges of public intoxication before .Mayor Doan, and the prosecutor obtained three convictions, after presenting several wltnes sea John W. Jarrett. 38. a Kentuckian. who was Just released from jail by sheriff Herman Bowman Thursday morning, got the stiffest penalty when he pleaded guilty. Because he had broken his prom ise and was a second offender. Jarrett received a fine of $5 and costs, amounting to SIS. and was sentenced to 60 days on the penal farm. The sentence was not suspended. J. B. Conner. 4». .s’ashvllle, Tenn., pleaded guilty to a similar charge and was fined $5 and coats and received a .to-day suspended jail sentence, when he agreed to leave town immediately. However. Conner will have to delay his departure for 15 days until he t lays out his fine and costs because he did not have the money Io pay the sls assessment Charles C. Whitten. Erie railroad camp steward, offered his cooperation with city and county officials and he testified for the state against Conner He has said repeatedly that he will not tolerate drinking and fighting among his employes. William Jacoba. 39 Great Falls. Mont., p'eaded guilty t 3 a charge of public Intoxication and was fined S 5 and costs and given a 30dav suspended sentence. Mayor Doan first ordered Jacobs to serve the first 1« days of his sentence, but when Jacobs testified that it was his first arrest and that he was willing to pay the fine, the mayor fold him he would suspend the sentence temporarily, but that he didn't want tn see Jacobo back in court The session,, lasted , about •an (Term Te Pane Sevewl

BULLETIN Washington, June 25— (UP) —The United States has protested to Yugoslavia against detention of five American soldiers and demanded their “early release," the state department disclosed today. Favor Recreation Project In County Meeting Thursday For Rural Program More than 50 rural leaders, heard Garrett Eppiey, Held recreational consulatant of Indiana University, explain how Adams county could set up a county wide recreational program under a county board of township trustees Thursday night at Decatur high school. Gerald Visard, former recreation director for the Central Soya Co. told how the McMillen Foundation would partlaly subsidise the program over a two and one-half year period. The leaders crystallised their thinking on the proposed recre ational project in unanimously adopting the following motion made by E. W. Busche and seconded by Henry Aschleman. "that the group go on record in favor of a recreational project, and recommend to the township trustees that they accept the McMillen Foundation offer and that they take the necessary steps to put the county recreational plan Into action, and further that the group go on record thanking D. W McMillen for his generous offer." Mr. Eppley, in his talk, said that an act of the 1947 Indiana general assembly made it possible for any county In Indiana to set up a rural recreational program, if that county was willing to pay for it. He •aid that he was a member of the state recreational committee set up under the act and that this committee desires to set up several demonstration counties. The McMillen foundation offer made it possible to Indude Adam* and Allen counties In the state committee plan. He further stated that the recreational program would be planned and executed by local volunteer groups under nominal guidance of a hired trained director Such a program should have, he estimated > Il2,o<s> annual budget The first two and one-half years the McMillen FoAdation would donate s4*oo annually. Existing <Tam Te Page Seveat

Governor Os California Chosen Running Mate To Governor Thomas Dewey

Charge Fraud In Court Suit . To Stop Sales SEC Charges Fraud In Connection With Federal Court Suit Washington. June 25 -(UP)-— The securities A exchange commission charged today there is “prltna facie" evidetsce of fraud it: connection with a federal court suit which indirectly stopped sale of a slo,(M)fl.on<) Kaiser Fraxer corporation stock issue last February. The commission filed suit in district court here aimed at de (ermining whether Cyrus Eaton. Cleveland Investment banker, was connected with the action filed in Detroit which halted the Stock Issue. Specifically. SEC asked that two attorneys who represented Eaton's firm be compelled to answer questions asked of them during the commission's investigation of the abortive attempt to sell the stock. The commission tharged that the attorney*. Marvin C. Harriaon and Allan Hull, had refuaed to anawer the question* on the ■ grounds they Could not be forced to divulge privileged communications between lawyer and client District Judge T. Allan Goldsborough directed Hull and Harrison to appear July * to show cause why they should not be compelled to anwwer the questions. The commission said that during its investigation, it had directed Harrison and Hull to answer questions "on the ground there Is no privilege where there Is a prima facie showing that the communications were made in connection with a perpetration of a fraud or other illegal act and (Tarn T" C*ae *evew» : Says Dewey Victory : Conservative Win p Democrat Senator i» Gives Truman View Washington. June 25 (UP) A Democratic senator who confer * ( red with President Truman this " morning said the chief executive regards the Republican nomlna r tion of Thomas E Dewey as a victory for the "conservative eler ment" in this country Sen James E Murray. D.. Mont. n said Mr Truman "seemed to " think" that the Dewey nomination t as the GOP presidential candif date "was an illustration of how ' the conservative interests of this M country were in complete control and dominated the actions of the Republican convention” t Murray said he also got the "in- ’ ferenre" from Mr. Truman that the Republican platform was 11 "nothing but a reiteration of promises they failed to carry out in t the past." Mr Truman expressed similar ' sentiments in other conferences I during the morning, although most | of his callers professed not to have discussed politics with him. * Mifrray called on the President primarily to urge a unified flood control and reclamation program ( in Montana t Resume Efforts To Bring Rail Peace Washington. June 25-(UP)— The White House resumed *fI- forts today to bring labor peace I- to the railroads John R Steelman. |. assistant to the president, tched r. uled a new conference with head* e of the three rail union* t. This wa* the thud macceaalve ■ day of White House conferences d in the case The preceding cong frrencea this week ended without progress

Running Mate iSI 9 % ""I nS&A A ' Gov. Earl Warren Ford Union Demands Flat 14-Cent Boost Other Demands Made In Counter Offers Detroit. June 25 — (UPI —The CIO United Auto Workers I nion today countered the Ford Motor company's offer of 11 to 14 cent* an hour increase for ink.Oflfl pro duction employes by demanding a flat 14 cents, pin* 14 cent* an hour in other benefits The counter-demand was presented to John 8. Bugas. Ford vice president in charge of Indus trial re’atlons. by the union's nat lonal Ford negotiating committee, headed bv Ken Bannon, UAW director. Bannon's committee had rejected Ford's offer which Bugas made Monday In order "to come to an agreement as promptly as possible” in view of settlements with •he union by General Motors Corporation. Chrysler and most independent auto makers. Ford proposed to give the 11cent increase to worker* making 'ess than 11.50 an hour and 14 cents to those earning 11 50 or more. Bugas said that the 11-14-cent pattern should cover all economic demands. The union promptly rejected the company proposal. However. Bannon presented a 2g-c*nt "package" today. The union told Bugas that It agreed that "a prompt settlement of issues in our current negotiation* is highly desirable" and noted that it bad scaled down original demands of 30 cents an hour, plus another 2o cents in benefits Most other companies sett'ed for 13 cents an hour. “The proposal leave* no more room for hope for 'hor»e trading' and represents the Mcrifice the (Tara Ta Page ivtai lay Corner Stone Oi New School Sunday Plan Ceremony At Friedheim School The corner atone of the new achool building of Zion laitheran church, route 1. De,l«tur. (Fried helm* will be laid Sunday afternoon. The service will begin at 2:30 o'clock and will be in charge of the Rev E. T Schmidtke. pa* tor of the congregation. The church choir, under the di reclion of Herman F Nielsen, prin clnal of the school, will sing an anthem. Rev Schmidtke will deliver tbe sermon. Ground breaking ceremonies ■ were held the early part of March 1 and completion of the building Is . expected by November The Bu! tlmeler Constrnctiou company ha* i the general contract The firm of Pchlmeyet and Fohlmeyer of Fort i Wsvne la the architect i Member* of neighboring congra gallon* have begn invited to attend Th* wrvlc* la open to the public •

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Gov. Earl Warren Nominated Today By Acclamation; Dewey Last Night bulletin Convention Hall, Philadelphia, June 25 —(UP)— The 24th Republican national convention today adjourned tine die at 1:30 p.m. EOT. Convention Hall. Philadelphia. June 25—(UP' The Republicans by acclamation today named Gov. Earl Warren of California to run for vice president on the ticket headed by Gov. Thoma* E. Dewey of New York. The choice was made wl'u surprising suddenness after Ariwna delegates decided to give up their plan to nominate Harold E. Stassen. The 1.094 delegates to this 24th GDI’ national convention whooped the straying. 57year<dd Californian into the party's No. 2 post and wound up their major business for another four years. They had gh*n Dewey the presidential nomination by unanimous vote last night on the third ballot, and they were pulling even doser together today. Warren made a brief extemporaneous acceptance speech in which he said he now knew "what It feels like Io be hit by a street car." "And before you have a chance to change your mind." he told the cheering delegates. "I want to say that I accept the nomination" He promised to join Dewey this summer and fall "in a greet crusade throughout the country to return this nation to Republican prlncip'es" He said he would work with Dewey for "a humane government, a frank government, an effldeal government." hi picking Warren for vice president, the delegates ratified Dewey's own choice of a running mate The New York governor conferred with party leaders throughout the night and for three hours todav before the decision was announced. The vice presidential nomination actually was offered to Warren at 4 a m. He did not immediately accept, and Dewey was reported leaning to Harold E Stassen. one of his hardest-hitting competitor* for the presidential nomination. Today's conferences produced general agreement <>n Warren, however, and the Californian was in. Four years ago In Chicago Warren turned down a chance to serve as Itewey’s running male. Dewey ran with John W. Bricker and lost to the ticket headed by the late President Roosevelt. This time, however. Warren sl owed himself to lie persuaded to take the post But he posed a condition-that. If the ticket win*, the vice presidency be turned Into "a working job.” Warren's name was placed In nomination by Tooxe. a delegate from Portland. Ore, Alabama yielding for that purpose Ariton* had planned to nominate Stassen, but by tbe time the nominating and seconding speeches for Warren were over, it had (hanged its mind. Convention chairman W. MarI Tara T« !•»■•- «(*> Bluffton Attorney Is Rotary Speaker Dwight Gallivan. Bluffton attorney. related some of his experiences with the FBI during the war vear*. before members of the Rotary club last evening. Mr. Gallivan served several vear* with the FBI He also told how Communist* worked in Cleveland among the labor union* In this hug* labor center, employing anproxlmat*ly 110.000 persona, a clique of n'n» Commnnlata nractlcallv (-oc'ridlad the anion*. Mr Galllv»n «aid Wilbqr Petrie wa* chairman of •he r>ro»r*m Attorney Lewi* L. Smith of thl* city and Georg* Thoma*, a former 1148, m*mb*r, were gu**ta •