Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 158, Decatur, Adams County, 6 July 1948 — Page 1

Vol. XLVI. No. 158.

"CAPTIVE” COAL MINES CLOSED BY STRIKE

Death 101 l Is Over s 600 In Nation A1 Traffic Fatalities ™ Lftad Violent Death Tpll Over Holiday By United Press - More than 600 persons died in ae'lde.'it* during the IftMWtfc Os Jury weekend, nearly qosHJV teat year's toll, a surrey ! ibowod today A state-by state survey showed hat at least 620 persons died M violently from Friday evening • mtn nUdalght Monday. Highway atalftiea totaled 283, far above 1* he national safety council's pretoliday sredii tlon of 235. In adr" lltlon, 191 persons drowned, five •ere killed by fireworks. 10 died a airplane accidents, and 131 died n miscellaneous mishaps. l£P Traffic deaths and drownings rare as iaavy r.s last year when :u >3B persons died violently during (s three-day Fourth of July holilay. hut fewer persons died this ••er <n miscellaneous accidents. Highway fatalities totaled 275, g , This year's toll was expected to >« increased later by deaths of tersojia Injured critically in traf1c accidents during the threelay period California lad the states thia |R"«ar in Ute number of violent /Jaa’hs It had a total of 54. Inlading 27 highway fatalities and 1 drowning* Michigan had. 41 paths. ‘Pennsylvania 38; New > ( fork. *4. and Texas 38 An estimated 3Q.090.000 automo<Mkon the move during '’"•he totlMay Beam at tbs want ■ * 9 ” l on record were re-| ortad on main highways between _it!as and resort areas. Railroads. us rentes snd sir lines reported hat their excursion facilities I zees taxed to capacity. A beat wave « which covered inch o< the nation added to the ongeetion at beaches and reorts. Two di townings which claimed | A Iva Itstt each were reported in ULoototePa and North Dako'a Five at Hammond. A.. whenFtheir fishing boat capt. and five other youngsters | rowned in Brush Lake. N. D.. Bhen their boat capsized about feet from shore. democrat Reporter Recalls Statement By Gen. Eisenhower pM| A Dally Democrat reporter who ■Biferviewed General Dwight Eisen F’tewsm feat May said today that he ran “certain the general is sinin his refusal to seek poiitL Wai office" Blkm Bernstein, who joined the Mteemoernf staff last week after ser■jng with United Press in New W«s told by General Eisen NpAtwer. wjneant what I said in that rJilitef rafttaing to run for public of I Meant it with ail my heart ■ | The reporters at the press confer I hee hated to admit it. Bernstein >1 lid. bat thev all were positive from I so general's appearance, manner 3 nd words that he really did mean | |wo Ohio Motorists V lifted For Speeding F |t»» Ohio motorists were each V and costs in justice of the f ■Httfrirt Monday on speeding IRMBfad G Mess of Dayton. O. Bns charged by police with drivKjf dCtelles per hour through a Etttoa light at Nuttman avenue Ed IMb street Earl Percaw of Ss-MtStaf 0.. was charged by the driving « miles P" on 13th street. Both cases 'Knsa ap In the <ourt of justice f theKssce Floyd B Hunter ..MmH M. Magner Is LlMHsd Fellowship 'fatowOß M Magner of Decatur has Btented an all-university tel«f 11 OM at Indiana Univer | ty for (graduate study tn chemi* 7. Mntner received both the B S decrees from Indiana Uni"X.frMif in 1343. WIATHBR I 7|<. Far, warm and awmsd to-

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Recreation Program Adopted By Trustees Trustees Accept McMillen Offer A county recreational program, financed jointly by the McMillen Foundation and levees on the townships, will get under way September 1 In Adams county. A unanimous vote of township trustees present at Saturday's meeting approved the plan, whereby the McMillen foundation will assist in financing recreational development beginning September 1. The townships will effect a two-cent levee next year to further the plan. Eleven of the 12 township trustees were present at the meeting, and the vote of the absent trustee is awaited. The recreational plan was taken up through the townships this year due to the time which would have been necessary to get petitions through the county council. The McMillen Foundation recently submitted an offer to help pay the expenses of such a program In Adams and Allen counties over a period of two and one half years. The foundation, under the offer, will donate 14.000 annually for thia inaugural period A committee has been set up to supervise the workings of the plan, along with representatives of the foundation. Committee members are L. K. Archbold, county agent; John Stoneburner. Washington township, chairman of the board; Charles Burdg. Union township. secretary of the board; Charles Fuhrman. Preble township, treasurer of the board; and Lyman Hann, county superintendent of schools. This committee will soon consider the appointment of a director for the project wfro will work In all communities of the county. He will make arrangements and give training and help so that the projects can be carried out and new ones undertaken. It was emphasized that the plan will be decentralized, with activities located wherever facilities exist in the county, rather than in one or two centralized locations Among guests at the trustees' meeting who advised the members on the plan was Garrett Eppley of Indiana University. The trustees also learned that between 8 and 10 teaching vacancies exist in the county for next year, mostly in high school combinations. Driver's Examiner To Be Here On Wednesday Harry Essex, manager of the Decatur auto license bureau, announced today that The state driver's license examiner will be in Decatur Wednesday afternoon from 1 to 4 o’clock, instead of on Thursday mornings. All persons wanting beginners' permits and operators' licenses for the first time are asked to call at the license bureau on Wednesday afternoons. Henry L. Getting Dies Monday Night Funerol Services Thursday Afternoon Henry L. Getting. 53. well known Adams county farmer, died at 11 o’clock Monday night at his home seven miles north of Decatur on federal highway 27. He had suffered from a heart ailment since last November Born March 21. 1885. be had spent his entire lifetime on the same farm. Ho was a member of the St John's Lutheran church. Surviving are his wife. Adelinds; four sons. Psul. Clarence. Henry O. and Arnold, all at home; two daughters. Dorothy and Bvelyn Getting, both at home; two sisters. Mrs Theo Scheuman of New Haven and Mrs. Lydia Reese of Preble township, and one brother. Carl H. Getting of Harlan. Funeral services will be held at 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon at the house and at 2;M p.m. at the St. John's Latheraa church, the Rev W T. Vogel officiating Burtai will be ia the church cemetery. Friends may eali at the residence after I o'clock this eveni.ng.

Anti-Truman Move Crumples Under Refusal » Eisenhower Flatly Refuses To Accept Any Nomination Washington. July 8 — (UP) — General Ike's statement that he could not accept th® Democratic presidential nomination this year all but wrecked the stop-Truman movement within the party. President Truman’s nomination next week to a full White House term of his own now is regarded the moat likely action of the Democratic national convention in Philade phia next week. Eisenhower's statement left scores of big name Democrats out on the longest political limb this country has seen since Theodore Roosevelt bolted the Republican party in 1912. There .still are plenty of antl-Truman votes to block the president's nomination In Phl’adelphla. But the antiTruman leaders have no single candidate upon whom they are likely to unite. The south is expected to balk at nomination of supreme court justice William O. Douglas who Is the candidate of out-of-office new dealers organized under the name of Americans for Democratic Actlor. New dealers and conservative southern Democrats had just about gotten together on Ike when the general bowed himself out last night. They now have a scant week to get together on another candidate. And they are not likely to make It. Elsenhower read the weekend reports of the booming pre-con-vention campaign to make him the Democratic presidential nominee and took himself out of the contest. His Columbia University publicity office issued a sta'ement which recalled Ike’s letter of last January disclaiming political plans. To that the general added “I shall continue, subject to the pleasure of the university trustees. to perform the important duties I have undertaken as president of Co'umbla. I will not. at thin time, identify myself with iTsrs Te Paar Five I Accident Toll Light Here Over Holiday Three Persons Hurt Over Long Weekend The long holiday weekend took a comparatively light toll on Adams county highways with no fatalities reported and only three persona hospitalized. The three traffic victims are Dorothy Buuck. 12. who suffered a neck Injury; Allan Buuck. 8. whose right arm was fractured; and their father. Arthur Buuck. whose chest and back were injured The Buacks were taken to a hospital in Fort Wayne, their borne. The Buuck automobile collided at 8:30 o'clock Sunday night with one driven by Cecil Foor, of 218 8. First street. Decatur, at the Aber schoolhouse. Sheriff Herman Bowman placed the blame for the accident, in which property damage amounting to 1550 was incurred, to high brush and trees which obscured vision at the crossroads Visibility difficulties were also the cause of two other weekend mishaps. Late Monday night an automobile driven by Ray Leltz of 1915 W Monroe street. Decatar. crash ed into a parked car owned by Burton L. Louth of Fort Wayne. Letts said he was blinded by oncoming auto lights when the collision occurred, and damage total Ing 2775 was reported to police. An automobile driven by Herbert Lyons of 333 Stevenson street. Decatur, and one driven by Cart Striker of 814 Washington street. Decatur, collided one mile north of the eity at 7 pm. Sunday, with damage estimated at 1500 report ed to the sheriff's office Both cars stopped at an intersection sad Lyons, who claims to have been blinded by the sun on his wind shield, started again without see I Tore Te Cm' Twe>

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Ike's Statement No Surprise To Truman Truman Returns To White House Today Aboard Truman Train. July 8— (UP) — President Trumans top aides said today that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's statement came as no surprise to the president. Told of Eisenhower's statement that he cou!d not accept the presidential nomination. Mr. Truman was reported to have said: “General Elsenhower is an hon orable man." Presumably. Mr. Trumcn referred to Elsenhower'a statement several months ago in which the general said he sought no political office. .Mr. Truman had feit from the start of the Elsenhower boom that the general was sincere in disclaiming political ambition. As one presidential assistant put it. "the boas believed Elsenhower the first time.'* The president was informed of Eisenhower’s statement last night as his train pulled out of St. Louis bound for Washington. Mr. Truman had retired for the night, but when t r ld of the news he replied, acocrdlng to his physician. that Eisenhower Is an "hon orable man ** The president was hastening back to the White House for lastminute strategy conferences with bis political lieutenants before the Democratic party opens its national convention at Philadelphia next week. Mr. Truman’s train reaches Washington tonight. He is ex-' pected to review political develop ments since his absence, and to confer with J. Howard McGrath. Democratic national chairman. The president and his party are returning from Bo3var, Mo., where he and President ilomulo Gallegos of Venezuela participated in the dedication of a statue of Simon Bolivar, national hero of Venezuela. Mr. Truman’s only public reference to politics yesterday was in a rear platform appearance at Springfield. Mo., when a local dentist egve him a sl'verplated German pistol. When someone in the crowd suggested that he might use it “at the convention”, the president said he did not think that would b« necessary. He said he would "wait for the campaign " Mr. Truman put in a hard day at Bolivar yesterday. With the mercury pushing 110 degrees in the sun. he went through a long ceremonv Involved in the presentation of the bronze statue of Simon Bolivar to the little Missouri town. Appropriations Are Reviewed By Leavell Charles E Leavell of Winchester, field representative for the state board of tax commissioners, was here today reviewing the additional appropriations allowed by the county council In< luded In the list was the 239. 000 appropriation of state clgaret tax for the highway department. Commissioners In Monthly Session The county commissioners met In July session today at the auditor’s office The morning was devoted to the cheeking and allowing of bills. Few Items were listed on the calendar, bat It wee expected that a commit toe would appear before the board.

Declares Arab, Jewish War To Resume Friday Bernadotte Makes Last Minute Effort To Maintain Truce Cairo. July 8 <UP I—Arab- Jewish warfare in Palestine will be reaumed Friday, a high Arab league official said today an Count Folke Bernadotte, the United Nations mediator, arrived here for lastditch efforts to bead off a renewal of the conflict. (Tel Aviv reported that Bernadotte. in a prens conference before leaving there today to fly to Cairo, said he had asked the Jews and Arabs to give a definite answer by tomorrow to his proposal to extend the UN truce in Palestine for another four weeks). Bernadotte said that he had received personally from Israel foreign minister Moshe Shertok at Tel Aviv today the Jewish state's reply to his peace proposals. Asked whether the Jewish answer rejected his settlement plan, he replied: "The door Is still open." But Arab leaders, who were to give their answer to Bernadotte's latest suggestions tonight. Indicated small hope that the peace in Palestine would continue even a moment beyond the 12 noon CST Friday expiration of the fourweak UN cease-fire. Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha, secretary of the Arab league, said flatly that the Arabs would accept no prolongation of the truce Assam made his statement after a meeting of the league's political committee, and concluded with the assertion that peace negotiationa "can continue for six months while fighting is going on.” Bernadotte, the Arab league sec retary said, was appointed media tor in "order to find a solution for the Palestine problem and not to make a truce.” The UN mediator was due to arrive in Cairo from Tel Aviv today and will meet with Arab league members tonight. , May Apply Pressure Lake Success. N. Y., July 8— (UP)—The United States and Great Britain were expected today te apply diplomatic pressure to tTura Tn Pas* Pt»»» Film Star Carole Landis Is Suicide Takes Overdose Os Sleeping Tablets Hollywood. July 8-(UP) Film Star Carole Landis, 29. who committed suicide in her luxurious Brent wood home, left no clues to indicate why she had taken her life, authorities said today. Friends said the glamorous star. In the middle of her fourth divorce, had seemed restless and dissatisfied Miss I-andts killed herself yester day by taking an overdose of sleeping tablets The t>ody of the willowy actress a faint smile on her face, was found at 3 pm. by actor Rex Harrison. Harrison, married to actress I Jill Palmer, said be knew tso reason for her death, and nothing in her Montery-etyle Brentwood mansion told her secret. Miss Landis, who'd been swim ming. dining and lunching daily with Harrison the past few weeks, had him over to dinner Sunday night. They dined alone, and parted at 9 o'clock. Pollre estimated she swallowed the tablets about four hours later. Her body was found near the doorway of her bathroom overlooking Santa Monica Bay Her head was pillowed on a brown leather jewel case and her long hair fell casually to the round neckline of her white lace blouse. Her gold-oandaied feet were tucked under her unmussed blue and white chocked skirt. She wore an oversixed St. Christopher medal and a gold wristwatch, engraved **C. L.” ia her left hand she bold a satin ribbon, tattered with the Lord's jAayer. and a white envelope holding a single white pill Written on the envelope was a doctor's proscription "red-qukk <Twre Te Pea» Five*

40,000 Miners In Pits Owned By Steel Firms Out On Strike Today

Indiana's Holiday Death Toll Is 21 10 Persons Drown Over Long Holiday By United Press Indiana today listed 21 persona who figured in vio'ent deaths during the three day Fourth of July weekend. Traffic accidents took 10 lives In seven mttrhaps. State police listed 10 drowrJngs. and a five-year-old boy died In a fall from a farm wagon. Drowning was the principal cause of death Monday. Six out of the nine persons who died violently ilsured in swimming, fishing or boating mishaps. The only accident In which two persons died Monday was a car and truck crash on U. S. 31 near Columbus. Walker Hudnall. 48. and his mother. Mrs. Arda Everetts. 65. both of Mars Hi'l, an Indianapolis suburb, burned todeath after the collision. Mrs. Alrneda Engelbrecht, 26. Kingsford Heights, died Monday of injuries she received Sunday near LaPorte, She was injured in the same accident In which Car) Erickson. 24. Chicago, received fatal injuries. The drowning victims yesterday included Floyd Miller. Jr.. 17, Fort Wayne. In Sylvan Lake at Rome City; Alfred Bridegroom. 23. Beardstown. Ind., in Bass Lake, and Gary Lee Bullock. 12. Boonvfle. who drowned in the Ohio river near Hatfield. Ind, The other Monday drowning victims were Albert Lencioni. 24. of East Chicago, who was drown ed in Cedar Lake, and Gene Frye. 18. Fort Wayne, who was drowned in Lake James. Both young men were boating with companions who were saved after their lumts overturned. John Campliell. 73. Gary, was drowned while fishing in a creek in Newton county Monday. A Sunday night drowning accident took the life of Roger G. Stafford. 42. of Warsaw, police said he apparently fell in the water while fishing in Pike Lake. Plan Reactivation Os Camp Atterbury Activate Indiana Camp During 1949 Indianapolis. July 6 — (UPI — Camp Atterbury, a sprawling army training post that housed as many as 40.000 men during World War 11. will be reactivated soon, the army announced today Indiana's two V. 8. senators and one Hoosier member ot the house of representatives anuounc ed thev had been assured a regj lar army division and “some draf tees" would be stationed at the big camp in south central Indiana Sens. Homer E Capehart and William E Jenner said the assur ance was given by army secre tary Kenneth C. Royail. They quoted him as saying Atterbury would be activated in the first quarter of 1949. They said between 12.<MM) and 15.000 officers and men would con stftute the comp'emen' of the camp At the same time. Rep. Gerald W. Landis. R.. Ind. announced he had a telephone call at his home in Linton from a high ranking army officer The officer gave Landia the same information as was received by Capehart and Jenner I nd Is said Brig Gen. Henrv L Collins told him the camp "deft ni’elv would have a division located there." But there was no information about what division it would be. * Announcement of plans to use Atterbury again after months of inactivity cheered eivic leeders in half a dozen or more cities and towns around the Mg cantonment — Franklin; Co'umbus. Martine vtlle. Seymour. Shelby rille. <Twre Te Pena

Noles Demand Blockade Os Berlin lifted Protests Sent By Western Powers To Moscow On Blockade By United Press The western powers carried the battle of Berlin direct to the Kremlin today, sending similar notes to Moscow demanding that the Russian starvation b'oekade of the German capital be lifted. At the same time, more trouble for the Soviet Union appearer) within the eastern European communist bloc, as Czechs demonstrated openly against the Red regime in Prague. Moscow broadcast, as If in answer to the increasing pressure s demand that Soviet pilots and Soviet plane-makers "raise still higher their skill and their readiness for combat." The United States. British and French notes on the Berlin crisis were to be handed to the Russian ambassadors in the three western capitals during the day. These were the developmenta; London—“ Similar" if not iden tical notes from the U. 8.. Britain and France demanding lifting of the blockade were handed to the Russian ambassadors In Washington. London and Paris Threepower conferences involving U. S. ambassador Mwis Douglas. French ambassador Rene Massig li, and British foreign undersecretary Sir William Strang continued. Berlin—The U. 8. and Britain continued to hurdle the blockade with hundreds of transport planes flying in food and vital supplies faster than tijey arere .being consumed in the western sectors. Prague—7o.ooo marcher* in a parade of Sokols —Czech gymnastic societies—through the streets of Prague turned the march into a demonstration against the communist regime. Under the eyes of communist president K'emcyit Gottwald, who reviewed the par ade. the marchers cheered the names of Eduard Benes, resigned former president of the republic, and the late Jan Masaryk. Czech foreign minister who was killed or -ommitted suicide after the communists came to power. The marchers waved and kissed American flags London — The Yugoslav regime <T«ni Te Fere Fuel 1,100 Indiana Coal Miners Are Idled Sympathy Strikes Reported In Strike Terre Haute. Ind . July 6—(UP) Some 1,100 Indiana coal miners were Idle todav as workers in the nation's "captive" coal mines struck tor a new contract. However. Indiana ofticlals o( the United Mine Workers union de >lared here that they had “not heard a thing" about the refusal of some hoosier soft coal miners to re•urn to the pits after the annual today vacation that was to have end •d today Officials of the Knox Consollda •ed Mining Co. at Vincennes said •hat 6<ta workers at their American mine no. 1 had struck in sympathy wfth the employee of the so-called "captive" mines The Knox pits are listed aa “commercial" mines Knox Consolidated American No 2 mine waa reported In operation, hut American No 3 was out. involving anot’ifer estimated 500 mines e Company officials said miners at the American No. 3 shaft told •ham fhey had stopped working because of "rumors" that one of their fellow workers had been killed or Injured In a mine accident Con(Tara Te Fs<» Five!

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More Than 25,000 Commercial Mine Workers On Strike In Sympathy Move Pittsburgh. July 6—(UP)— The nation's “captive" coal mines, which supply fuel to the steel companies. were dosed today by a strike of 40.000 United Mine workers. and more than 25.000 miners in commercial pltr joined in a "sympathy” walkout. The strike centered in western Pennsylvania, where 27.500 "captive" coal diggers and 10,000 commercial coal miners had cut production to about one third of normal All mines of the nation's 10 biggest steel companies were shut down as the men failed to return from their 10-day vacation until they win the “union shop" provision which the steel companies have refused to incorporate into the 1948 contract. The western Pennsylvania coal operators association wired a demand to union chief John I* Lewis today that the United Mine workers “honor their <y>ntract' with the commercial mines, which have agreed to the union shop provision in their new contract. The strike picture in the commercial m Ines was confusing. While some men were believed to have struck in sympathy, many others were reported staying out ’ due to misunderstanding or to a desire to prolong their vacation. There were reports that commercial miners were preparing to return later today or tomorrow at several mines. Among the captive mines closed were those of U. S. Steel. Republic. Jones h l-aughlin. Bethlehem, inland. Youngstown Sheet A Tube. Weirton, and others. Production in western Pennsylvania dropped to one third of normal with 19 large captive mines and 30 commercial mines idle; and in central Pennsylvania about 2200 men had struck at 12 commercial pits. But men at five , central Pennsylvania commercial mines were preparing to return to work. More than 17 percent of West Virginia's 113,006 miners failed to return, and the number nf commercial miners outnumbered the captive miners. Reports showed 10.851 men idle in commercial pits and 8,846 idle in captive mines. Some 3200 miners failed to show ' up In the Virginia coal fields and 15 commercial mines were Idle. About 6.000 captive miners and some 3.000 commercial miners were idle in Alabama In addition there were several thousand men idle in Ohio and Kentucky. United Mine workers headquarters in Washington had no comment on the spreading walkout. An official of the national labor relations board said It was not likely that general counsel Robert Denham would act before tomorrow on the unfair labor practice i charges filed against the union by i the steel companies > U. S. Steel Corp., due to the 10i day miners' vacation and the lack of beehive coal, cut steel Ingot , production s.(hmi tons a day in the Pittsburgh district Eight and one , one half blast furnaces and 28 f open hearths have been closed . down and Bessemer production u at Youngstown. O was cut 50 per- . cent. Httahurgh Consolidation Coal r Co., largest commercial producer. 1 reported 14 of Its 17 deep mines 1 closed today All of its Strip , mines were working. I r Decatur Man Fined For Fireworks Sale a At least one Decatur citixen la sorrv today that he didn't relint qufsh the fireworks business to I other states over the Fourth Ha » Is Gerald F Murn’ngstar, of 222 r N Fourth st res’ who was fined 310 r and costs for selllnt firecrackers, K sparklers and the Ilka in defiance of Indiana law