Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 153, Decatur, Adams County, 29 June 1948 — Page 1

■nLVL No. 153.

BERLIN OFFICIALS APPEAL FOR UN RELIEF

(port 3.155 lib Toll In |pan Quakes ■Allied, Japanese ■Officials Rushing ■Help To Victims ■ June 29 (UPi —Gen. ■",, M»< Arthur * headquart ■L,.rf<l t'">ay Oiat 3.155 per ■ ;„«t their lives in Fukui a* ■fHult <’f yesterday * <ll«#»nr'fi'juake and fire. ■L j<t of the dead included an ■^, r! i non dead for devastat ■hkoi City •!<»•• figure* Included the toll in a« well as the prefer ■i capital headquarters also disthat 7 752 persons were ~ injured and 30,721 build- ■ damaged Os that num were burned. ■ reput from United Press K corespondent Peter KalisK now in Fukui, said that the ■kN still were continuing, but Kus n<> further damage K*, of the quakes were Strong to I* felt !n Tokyo 250 Km away Experts said minor always followed a big Kkitalule Allied and Japanese ■nit rushed food and medicine ■ hkui in an attempt to check ■pu.i'le outbreak ‘of disease Ku the survivors of the dis Kit aecond night after th* Kp-ime to the city and many Kr sommuni'les lu the three Krtores fronting the sea of Ku the sounded were stretch ■ut tn the streets and workers K etre digging for victims Kpd under the debris. Km*o<h of homeless men. Km and children wandered Kg the ruins in search of food K shelter. ■UH headquarters announced Kt i la-trus k convoy of supplies K personnel was on the way K Osaka to Fukui, while two Ki were on the way from Kara with medical supplies K covernment In Tokyo sped ■Srtxes to the quake area to Kat an outbreak of typhoid. ■Mtery and tetanus in the proLal capital, now devoid of ■hr and sanitation. |ft» Americans also allowed the ■mment to ship 1,275 metric |n of rice to the disaster area Ihdlysrippled telegraph and ■ communications prevented Kase and authorities p retting a full picture of the ■Her area. ■Allied headquarters quoted K Gon Joseph M Swing from p« aa saying disaster teams feted JI bodies In Fukui The ■to treated moo persona for In■ha. It of whom were hospital rlued on the figures above the P st the area In which these ■nltiea occurred, it is estimatBn moat there were 4.000 CSSpiss. Induing injuries and In the entire earthquake Btoter area." Allied headquart ■ add. Fukui and Ishikawa preF»ral authorities Issued an urgto the ministry of welfare ITekyo for 57.000 pieces of »•* SOooo dishes and cook I ntsaaUs. and 20,500 blankets r ’h* qaake sufferers. *F- Benjamin A. Click. New < *• Tenn., of the Far East airP»w over the quake area ** ahitsde of 500 feet. He resighting moat of the dam- ' concentrated In Fukui City ■tte area to the north. were large hn'es In the “••vs and the roads north of ™ ’here the garth had open he said. "Some of the ’srs covered by landslides ' Mmi City, families stood J** streets besides piles of * household goods, bedding ' r ‘°' hM they had salvaged w»« tn the afreets with to go" ** »<»d he saw an eight to * Krt h of railroad north of "completely demolished Brand was opened up In w “4 sections of the track *• Fwwe r»wl WtAYHtR •"< cooler tonight. By obetsrsrs southeast XT* **• evMtog. Wed-X-T* •♦•’♦ratty fair and less XT* w *th moderate tom-

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.30,000 Harvester Workers On Strike Plants Struck As Contract Expires Chicago, June 29 (UP)— More than 30.0(h) members of the CIO United Farm Equipment workers struck today at 12 plants of the International Harvester Co. Gerald Flelde. International pre•ldem of th,- union, said the strike began at midnight with expiration of a 3('day extension of the union's contract with the company. Picket lines were set up at all struck plants, he said. The walkout was called after a last-ditch negotiations meeting failed to affect a settlement. Company and union representatives met all day yesterday and last night. Despite the start of the walkout, the negotiations continued under the direction of a federal lalwir conciliator. The union had announced acceptance of an 11-cent hourly wage Increase offered by the company last week to all four union* representing It* 80.000 production workers st 21 plants. But the union rejected contract changes proposed by the company, on ground* that the change* would nullify the wage raise. The strike involved plants at Chicago. Auburn. N. Y Richmond. Ind.: Canton. Fast Moline, iftek Falls and Rock Island. 111.: and Louisville. Ky. The company said it wanted to change the allowance rule for niece work and the payment of union stewards for investigating grievances • The union claimed the piece work change would wipe out the 11-qent per raise. The company denied that pay reductions would result from the proposed contract changes The company said It also wants to change the provision which (Turn Te Fear Twal Cub Scouts Present Act At Scout-O-Roma Thirty Decatur Cub Scouts will take part In the Scout-O-Rama. to be held at the Fort Wayne Speedway Wednesday evening at 8:30 o'clock Transportation for the Cub* is to be provided by their parents or den mothers. The Cubs are asked to report al the north entrance of the Speedway by 7:30 p.m. Robert Helm and Paul Handier will Ire in charge of the hoys, who will present an act dur ing the entertainment. Lawrence Rash Is Legion Commander Annual Election Is Held Here Monday Lawrence Rash, a Decatur mall carrier, was elected commander of Adams Post 43. American Legion. Monday in moderately heavy voting. He will succeed Charles Morgan in the post Rash was the victor in a tightly contested three-way race. de.’est Ing Russell Weldy snd Gilbert Burkey. The following Legloanaires gain ed office in uncontested election* Clint Hersh, first vice-commander Robert Ashbaucher. third vicecommander Fred Schamerloh. fourth vice-commander. William Linn, finance officer; and T. H. Gehrig, adjutant. Hugh Andrews defeated Elmer Darwar hter in the contest for sec „ n d rice-commsnder. snd Elmer Schultz was elected trustee, sinning over Clarence Stevens All offices except trustee have year term, while trustee Schultz will hold office for three years Eight men were elected del* gates to the stste legion convention They sre Hugh A"4r**» Robert Ashbaucher. A. JV. J. Bormann Dee Frybsck T H Gehrig Floyd Hunter «»4WII Ham Unn ( ommsnderelect Rash was automatically named delegate The following candidates were elected alternate delegates James Boeder, the Her O C Bn.se Don Cochran. D Bardette Custer MH* Margaret Eiting. Henry Knapp, ymet, Noack. Arthur Schemerloh Frank Schumacher end T. C. fiaith New Officer, will be tlie last meeting In new dletri.t commender.

Policeman Dies In Kansas City Shooting Bit MORGUE ATTENDANTS cerry the body of e shoo’lng victim from a Kansas City home where police, investigating a report of a disturbance, were met with gunfire from the house. Patrolman Floyd Montgomery, 29. tell mortally wounded in the street at the spot being examined by the officer at the left. A negro man and woman were killed and another negro man was injured In the exchange of shots.

London's Wildcat Strike Called Off Leaders Calf OH Strike At Docks London, June 29—(UPi —Leaders of the London's wildcat dock strike called It off today and urged the 19.(i00 strikers to go back to work tomorrow. The strike strategist decided to call it quits after the government had declared a state of emergency. The move gave the labor cabinet sweping powers to break the strike and replenish the country's dwindling food supplies. The first breax came when between 2,500 and i.oou strikers at 'he Surrey docks shouted down a strike committeeman and voted xlmost unanimously to go back to work. More than 5.000 striker* attending a mas* meeting in Victoria Park approved a proposal to go back to work tomorrow, providing there would lie no victimization I nion eadvrs a ready had giveft •hat assurance , Fewer than 50 strikers voted ixalnst the recommendation The vote came as the cabinet met to take over powers greater than those of wartime under the state of emergency. King George signed the official proclamatlM of the emergency at a special privy council meeting in the palaca of Holywood House in Edinburgh last night. The government still had not issued special order* in council detailing which powers it was assuming The government may decide such order* will he unnecessary as a result of the vote of the strikers. More than 1.000 troops went back Into the docks for the second straight day to unload food ship* Thirteen ships, most of them carrying frozen meat, were being unloaded. a Rev. Welly Returns To Decatur Church Missionary Church Coll Is Accepted The Rev Herald J- Welty, pastor of the Decatur Missionary church, ha* accepted a call, issued by the congregation, to return a* pastor of the local charge, it was announced today Rev Welty assumed the local pastorate in September of tost year Shortly after hi* arrival her*, the new church home at Dayton and Tenth streets was completed. Attendance at the services in th* new church ha* more than doubled. Rev Welty stated The missionary pastor, recently elected secretary treasurer of the Decatur ministerial association. I* . gr.du.-e of the Fort W.yae Bible institute. . Hi* first charge wa« at Flint. Mich. after which he served four years a* pastor of the Woodburn Missionary church He then mov ed to th* chureh at Ontario. Calif, whers b* »»• located when be ff» cepted th* call to the Deeatur charcb.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, June 29, 1948

Receive Word Os Grandson's Death Mr. and Mrs. Florian Gelmer, 111 N. Fifth street, today were notified of the death of their grandson. Billy Gelmer. 16 monthold son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Gelmer of Redlands. Cal. Detalla of the baby’s death were not given in the message. The mother is a daughter ot Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Meyer of Redlands, formerly of this city. North Dakota 60? Control At Stake Primary Election Being Held Today Bismarck. N. D.. June 29 (UP> —North Dakotans voted toduy In an election which will decide cqntroi of the Repub'ican party Jn this stste. Congressmen Wl'liam 1-ernke snd Charles R. Robertson, and Gov. Fred Aandahl were under heavy attack from a three-way coalition of opponents. The once powerful non-partis-an league, now reduced to holding only a mattering of state offices besides the senatorial seat held by Sen. William linger, hoped to regain power through its alliance with the political action arm of the strong North Dakota farmers union and organized labor. Robertson and Lemke, imth of whom got their political starts under the league, were opposed by a former congressman and North Dakota's first woman candidate for congress. The league chose former Rep. Usher L Burdick snd Mr*. Agnes Kiorlle Geeian mayor of Enderlin. N. D.. aa it* endorsees for the GOP congressional nominations. Aandahl'* Republican organizing committee state administration was under heavy attack for failure to provide better road*. Opposing Aandahl in hi* bld for nomination to a third term was Ervin Schumacher, a Drayton. N. D.. potato grower and league endorsee. Neither Sen William Unger or Milton R Young wefe up for reelection this year. There were no contest* on the Democartic ticket. , The blt»er fight between the ROC and the league coalition was expected to produce the largest voter turnout in any primary for the peat ten years. At least 2tw>.0«0 voter* were expected to cast their ballot* before polling place* dosed at 7 p m. Several controversial measures added spice to the election cam iTs.s s-ewe -reel Henry W. Somers Is Taken By Death Henry William - Somers. 17. for mer Ossian resident died Mondsv at a Warsaw hospital Surviving are a daughter. Mrs. Delve Staltrr of Fort Wayne: a son. Russell »< near Kingsland, seven grandchlk rea and !• great grandchildren On • soa. Dr L. E Somers, former Decatur physician. I* deceased • Funeral service* will he held at 2 pm. Wsdaesdiv at th* Elzey ft Soa fuaeral home in Oseian. with tmria} in Oak Lawn cemetery at Ossian.

Three Os Youthful Bandits At Large Girls Appeal For Bandits Surrender Chicago. June 29-(UPi— Two teen-aged gnn molls, whose bandit boyfriend* have eluded one of Chicago's biggest manhunt*, pleaded with them by radio today to give themselves up. Meanwhile, police searched northern lllinol* and the nouthern Wi*con*in resort area for three young bandits still at large. The fourth member of the gang was seized yesterday.' The gang held up a suburban gambling joint Saturday and shot] two policemen in a wild chase in a stolen car. The radio appeal was made over a local station by Dolores Ander son. 17. and Shirley Fredendall. 19. who bragged to the neighbor* that their boyfriend* were “tough guys." Dolores' appeal was addressed to/Jerry Mnacek. 21. "1 want yon in one piece, darling not n million." Dolores said "I will stick by you. Jerry, and no matter how long it takes. I'll always be around when you need me." Shirley made a similar appeal to George Mudra. 23. She promised to wait for hltn. and asked him to surrender for her sake. Both girls are bleached blondes Both are stenographers and both were proud of their trigger happy boyfriends. But when |>ollce seized them, the girls quickly "squealed." They gave police the names of the bandits and told what they knew of the gang's activities. The third bandit at large Is Ernest Fllbab. 21. The one captur ed yesterday is Jerry Malek, 27. ■ Taro Ta l*aee I wal Body Is Found Os Young Missing Girl Body Is Found In Abandoned Quarry Oregon. 111.. June 29—(UPi — Searchers today reported they have found the body of Mary Jane Reed. 18 year-old telepbou* oper ator m I**l ng slme last Thursday when bet escort on *n automobile ride was shot to desth In a lonely lover's lane near here. The l<ody was found in an abandoned alllca quarry south of here. Coroner Fred Horner of Ogle couniv left for the scene He said that he had received the report from a searching party, and that he did not yet know the cause of the girl's death. She last was seen Thursday night when she had a date with Stanley Skridla. 29. a line repair man Shridia's body waa found in a ditch near his parked car oa a lane near here. He bad been shot five time* with a 32-caiih*r pistol, sppsrently aa he stood In th# road. The girl had disappeared A search was begun at once by county and state authorities and by. volunteers. Sines early Fri- ■ Twrw Te Tea» Twet a

German Officials Appeal For United Nations Help In Present Berlin Crisis

Dewey, Warren Map Campaign Strategy GOP Presidential Nominees Confer By Vnlted Pres* The Republican presidential ticket held it* first post-conven-tion strategy huddle today. Gov. Earl Warren of California, the vice-president lai nominee, motored with hl* wife and three daughters from New York City to the Pawling. N. Y.. farm of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. GOP preslden tlal candidate. Dewey and Warren expected to spend the day discussing the fall campaign. In Washington. President Truman called bls first news conference in more than a month for Thursday. He probably will be questioned closely about political developments. Including the announced plans of antl-Trurnan Democrat* for a caucus just before the Democratic convention opens in Philadelphia on July 12. Third party candidate Henry A. W'allace moved today into Maine after a two-day campaign swing through New Hampshire. He was telling audiences labor is being made the "goat" of spending for the cold war. Corporationa. Wallace said, are making four times as much profit aa they made during World War 11. Pennsylvania Democratic delegates to the Philadelphia conveni tlon held a caucus and state chair- [ man Philip Mathews predicted Mr. Truman will curry Pennsylvania in the November election. The 74-vote delegation Is com mitted to support the president for the Democratic nomination. The Warren-Dewey meeting was he'd in the seclusion of the Dewey farm home. They were understood to be planning an especially Intensive campaign in the so-called border states of West Virginia. Kentucky and Missouri. Congressional fights there are expected to be close and local GOP leaders want help from the party's standard bearers In Washington, speaker Joaeph W. Martin. Jr., predicted the Republican* would pick up DemoiTwrw Te Paar Ft»»l Crack Streamliner Reported Derailed Report Super Chief Derailed On Curve lax Angeles. June 29—(l’P> — The Santa Fe railroad today said Its streamline pa«.«-nger train, the Super Chief, had been derailed on a curve near Winslow, Aris. The rai'road said it had no report of injuries. The super speed train left the rail* on a curve near the Winslow roundhouse, the announcement said The four-unit dleael engine rolled over on it* aide, taking with it the mail car mail storage car. and a baggage lounge car. Behind thia were four pullman •are. derailed hut upright. One nul'man waa listing, hut did not •oppie over. The accident occurred at 9:25 s. m. The Super Chief left here at 9 o'clock last night en route to Chicago, where it waa due at 1:45 p m tomorrow. The heavy locomotive ploughed into a row of parked automobiles near the roundhouse tracks. Santa Fe officials said, smashing several. Communication* into the Ari tone city were lammed, and reports came out slowly. Interest Lacking In Concert Series Interest ks the proposed community concert series Is not sufficient to warrant the program In Decatur, according to a report this morning from Robert Lans, president of ths chamber of Commerce, following a meeting held Monday night.

Tito Reply To Soviet Purge I Is Awaited Denunciation Over Slavs' Leadership By Tito Is Aired I Prague. June 29.—(CPI— Marshal Tito was expected to reply 'oday to a blistering denunciation by the communist information bureau of his leadership of Ycgoslav com munism. ’ Mllovan Djilas. Yugoslav minis ter without portfolio and one of the four men named by the cominform. announced that an important statement would Ire issued in Belgrade some time today. The subject was not specified, but a reply to the cominform blast was indicated. The whereabouts and precise status of Tito were unknown. Early report* from Belgrade said first that he was at his summer home in Blend, in North Yugoslavia. A little later It was changed to a belief that he was on an island off the Adriatic coast. The cominform fired Its heavy artillery point blank at Tito and his fellow communist leaders In a statement published yesterday. It read them out of the eomtntorm. but concluded a long statement with a warning that they must get back on the party line or give way to a new leadership. Inevitably the statement prompt ed -loose speculation -that -something might already have happen ed to Tito, the Partisan chieftain who mobilized the communist* of Yugoslavia to fight the Nazi invad ers and became Premier after the war.. But there was nothing trust worthy to back it up. The cominform said that the cen tra) committee of the Yugoslav com rnunist party had "placed itself'out side the family of brotherly com rnunist parties, outside, the united communist front, and thus also outside the ranks of the information bureau. But it went on to apiM-al to the "healthy core" of the party to see that the leaders got track on the party line or else. In the face of what might have been an overt appeal to the Yugoslav communists to overthrow the Tito government, he was Ire lieved here to be firmly entrenched ■gainst any revolt. Djilas was believed to be one of Clara Ta Face Sts! Plan Farewell For Dr. Charles While Trinity Pastor To Leave Decatur Soon Decatur friends of Dr Charles E. White, paetor of Trinity Evan gellcal United Brethren church, will join in a farewell service for Dr. and Mrs White Thursday night at 7:30 o'clock at the church parlor*. It was announced today Dr White tendered hi* re*ignation recently and will deliver hi* final sermon Sunday. July 4 He ha* nnt yet announced hi* future plan*, but i* expected to do so Thursday. Member* of the congregation of Trinity church, all local minlater* and hi* many friend* of other churches are invited to take part In the Thursday affair. Roy Mum ma will preside at the farewell service* The Rev William Feller, paator of Zion Evangelical and Reformed church and president of the Deca tur minlaterial aaeociation. will give a short farewell message and Dr. White will make the response A solo by Mervin Taylor, accompanied by Hamid Mumma a. thg organ, also I* on the program. ‘ Dr White I* a paet president of the minlaterial association and daring hi* stay In Decatur he has been active In civic affairs aa well aa church program*.

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Relief Needed In Month, Appeal To United Nations By Officials Asserts Berlin. June 29 (UP(-German official* of Berlin today drafted an appeal to the United Nations for relief in the Berlin crisis "within the next month, or help will come too late." The extraordinary appeal, In the form of a letter signed by acting inaycr Frau lq»uise Schroeder and deputy mayor Ferdinand Frledenbtirg. will be taken before the "magistral" -the city council of Berlin for approval later today, and then will be sent to some United Nations power, possibly Denmark. While the city council w«« considering the appeal to I’N. British -police broke up a threatened antiRussian demonstration by 2.5<M) trade unionists. The crowd sought to march on the Soviet-controlled radio Berlin in the British sector, and British police aided German police in handling titMii. The crowd finally dispersed. Action of the German officials to bring the UN into the crisis came as roving ambassador W. Averell Harriman of the economic cooperation administration arrived in Berlin to confer on aid to western Germany. Harriman waa accompanied by Michael Forrestal. son of James V. Forrestal. U. S. secretary of defense Young Forrestal recently was appointed to the ECA staff for administration of European aid. An error in the announcement that young Forrestal was accompanying Harriman led to an erroneous report that the defense secretary himself was coming to Berlin Frankfurt army authorities first said that secretary Forrestal would arrive, and airport officials at Frankfurt confirmed that his name was on the passenger list. But two hour* later the army pre** office announced that the statement had been in error, and that it was his son who would arrive with Harriman No explanations as to how the mistake occurred were given. The draft of the appeal from the Berlin city council to the United Nations for aid said that Germans in the sectors of the capital controlled by the western power* face "complete physical exhaustion unless intervention ia forthcoming Immediately." Harriman wsa expected to remain In Berlin for some time to inspect personally the critical situation which has resulted from the attempt of Russia to squeeze the western powers out of the city by a starvation blockade. William Draper, undersecretary of the U. S. department of army, and U. Gen Albert C. Wedeineyer. chief of plan* and operation*. arrived in Berlin last night on a tour of inspection. The tension eased somewhat after a meeting between Gen. Lucius D Clay and Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky, together with the slight rasing ot Russian restriction* on interzonal travel. The Russians announced that German, with passes dated before June 19. when < urrency reform became effective in the western zone*, could cross the zonal border again. Interzonal travel for Germans only waa resumed at Helmstedt today After the arrival of barges from the British zone. British authorities reported that barge traffic was normal again But the rail blockade still was tn effect. British Mthoritie* announced that 200 of their control commission officers would leave Berlin for Frankfurt The move was part of a *<ffteduled transfer of part* of military government operation* to the west German capital The American aerial freight • service Into Berlin was operating near capacity today with the opening of a round-the-clock schedule. I More than Ito flights * brought i foodstuffs yesterday, and th* figI ur* was expected to go consider • Tnvw T« •*•** Tkreei