Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 185, Decatur, Adams County, 6 August 1948 — Page 1

■vol. XLVI. No. 185.

KAYS VITAL URANIUM SHIPPED TO RUSSIA

■Senate Passes ■Housing Bill; llniman Rebuff fl presidential Plea fl On Slum Clearance, I Housing Is Rejected ■ Washington. Auk. 6 — (UP) -r, .'-’. with <he GOP leader H tl , firmly in th«* saddle. today a rebel committee and .1 housing hill designed to private builder* '■ The vote was 48 to 38. H p., jf. action, the senate reject ■reshl'-nt Truman n plea for a program at the spe< ial that would inc lude public tiott and slum c learanc e H T'|<- House passed a housing bill B 9i , h similar to the final Senate Differences will be work Hri .cut in conference. ■ Republican leader* still were Hi-nr..' at adjournment of the spe «»»i>ion tomorrow if possible Hndr goal came nearer with the Hv-Pe action on the leadership ■ approved housing bill Instead of ■ th* Tift Ellender Wagner long H'tr.r- bill okayed by the banking Hccmmittee and Mr Truman. ■ other development* in the ad Hjuumment drive: ■ ■ The senate banking committee Hkd down a last ditch effort to ■ to* Mr Truman wage and price Hrantrol* It approved instead an Haiti inflation bill limited to mild Hrontnds in hank and consumer ■ '■"fit The house ha* panned a ■ titular bill ■ 1 Despite a idea by Gov Thom Hi- E Dewey a senate nubcommit Ht« turn*! down a proposal to Hllherallte the displaced pernor* ■ ii> by changing the eligibility Milts. Zg ! The senate foreign relation* ■ cwuulttee again deferred action ■". 'h. international wheat agree Hunt H lithe HOP leadership decides to H »•» up ac tion on displaced per Hwr.c and the wheat agreement M">! might find It possible to ad ■ ;<m tomorrow Approval of the ■tonferenc-e version housing and H'Mit-<ontred legislation will clear Hth« decks. H The senate housing bill is keved ■ ramly to stimulation of private ■ '•••hng effort* through increases ■'t housing loan guarantees, par HticsUrly in the lower cost efild* ■ Mare the vote Ren Robert A ■ T»ft R o, told the senate it had ■ letter take leadership measures on ■ kith housing and price* or risk no ■*> isl session action at all ■ Taft promised to push for slum ■ 'inranee and public housing a aeit year. ■ Sow it s either the narrow house Hhil or nothing. Taft said It look ■*l as though the *enate would fol ■ io* his advice. • ■ The house stood by. awaiting ■ ►fat* action. But It* leadership ■ Mi-ated that if the senate approv ■f 4 While housing and slum dear ■“'’ the bill would be ditched in ■ >»» house a* it was before ■ in the face of this threat even ■*n Robert A. Taft who helped ■ •rit.-. the original T-E-W housing ■ said he would vote for the ■ '’’mpmmise "in the interest of ex action." H ' , ‘' ,,n »hlle. the house approved ■ “’iinflation measure went before ■■’ senate banking committee ■ /airman Charles W Tobey R . N ■ “ and others promised to stiffen H* MH. but the chances were it ■ ’“uld reach the senate floor with ■*' alight modifications There ■* u ao chance that the committee write in President Truman s ■ kuposa.s for wage-price controls ■ * rationing. fl Arinr Republican lender Ken ■ h 8 Wherry of Nebraska said H - M'peful that congress can go tomorrow But Taft thought fl. a ° r * llk,ly ,hBl «djournment M/’ I*' 1 *' be postponed until Tuesday H* Tuesday. ■ j*eit Week Clean-up | w «ek For Decatur ■ ?”' ••ek will be clean up week M s . Jo,ln Do * n ,<xUy ■ </** rt *P*rtment employes will M?/ Un cans and rubbish left in Mt.'V®*" ln beginning Mon ■* I WEATHER | sZ** *" d *•*' U " , « M I **Mr and warmer.

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BULLETIN Welch, W. Vs.. Aug. 6 — (UP) — Five men were killed and eight others injured today in a slate fall in the No. 11 mine of the New River and Pochohontas Consolidated Coal Co. at Capels near here, the state mines department reported. Report Stalin Demands Voice In Ruhr Rule Russia Retreats In Berlin Battle Over Currencies Moscow, Aug. 6—(fPi—Generalissimo Josef Stalin was understood today to be demanding a I voice in control of the industrial Ruhr a* Russia’s price for lifting the Berlin blockade. Control of the Ruhr would give the Russians veto power over production policies of the huge steel plant* and other Industrie* which the western power* hope will provide life blood for the Americanfinanced recovery program in western Europe. Sta in's demand for a voice In the Ruhr regime was understood to be the major Russian condition for what was described a* a re-examination of the entire German problem There was every reason to M<nme that elimination of the Berlin b'oekade was the major condition of the western powers before agreeing to another foreign ministers council meetitff on Germanv. C. $. ambassador Walter Bedell Smith was understood to have received new instructions from Washington and It was assumed the British and French govern tnent* also have Instructed their envoys on the nest step to take In 'he negotiations. Advice* that the wes'ern governments were prepared to reply to the Russian suggestion* were under Mood to have been given ' the protocol division of the soviet foreign ministry lltFreete Funds Berlin. Aug 6- (I Pt Russia re rea ed in the battle of Berlin currencies today, offering to unfreeze some of the western zones blocked fund* after American i sources threatened to bring In i western marks to meet the emergency. The unfreezing order, effective todav. permitted the Berlin city assembly to withdraw 25.000.000 eastern marks to meet immediate payrolls for 210.000 civil emp'oves. Charles Gifford. British deputv finance chief, said additional withdrawals will be authorized (Tarn Tn I’nrr Five)

Boss Crump Bealen In Tennessee Vote Political King's Long Reign Ending Nashville. Tenn. Aug. « -lUl’' Ed Cramp* 30-y»ar reign a* king pin of Tennessee politic* appeared at an end today as nearprimary »“ e ll '™ f„ P( < commanding leads In the race* for governor and U- «• ator Crumps own candidates were UkinK b.<H>e.ting* They were £ hind almost everywhere In the ~.te except in Khelhy <"ounty (Memphis), the •hit'haired lead, er -s home stronghold, and their margin, ther. were not going to be enough to overcome early defi “nep Estes Kefauver and former Gov Gordan Browning. XmP fo-Fht most bitterly in an X-. ~"’P*£' hHd ’ d 'reX for wn.tor and governor respec “’Jin Tom Stewart, today «>■ ceded the Democratic nomination for V « senator Wlth foTincumX Tom Stew , rt totalled .nd Judge l.yhn A Mitchall. Crump. eh ® with Tote * , ... n la th« go»«rn<’ r ‘ t o gave Browning 2*7..54 t 154,859 for Crump-.upported Got. Jim MeCord

David Terveer Signs To Coach Commodores Former Net Star At Catholic High Is Named New Mentor i (Photos on Page 6) David Terveer, gradua'e of St. Joseph's college. Rensselaer, and former basketball Mar of the De catur Catholic high school, has signed a contract a* coach of the Decatur Commodores for the 1948-48 school year. Formal announcement of the signing of the new mentor for the Commodore* was made today by the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz, pastor of St Mary's Catholic church and superintendent of the Catholic schools. Terveer, son of Mrs. Prances Terveer of West Madison street, had previously signed as coach at the Wren. ()., high school, but j was granted hl* release by the Wren school officials when the I opportunity from hl* home-town school was offered. The new coach graduated from the Catholic high school In 1942. after starring for four years on the Commodores, during which period he was one of the team's high scorers. Terveer attended St. Joseph's for one year Immediately after gradua lon and then joined the army air forces, where he served for .12 months during World War 11. Following hl* discharge, he returned to St. Joseph's, where he wus graduated In June of this year, majoring in history in addition to physical education. During his wartime service, he played basketball with air force teams at KeeMer Field and at the Stockton army air base. In addition to hi* coaching duties at the Catholic high school. Terveer wil also serve as physicsi education director am! may also Instruct in other subjects. The Commodores’ schedule for the 1948 49 season has not been completed, with a few tentative dates yet to be definitely set by the Rev. Igna'lua Vlchuras. as- ( ram Ta Page al* I Township Relief Levy Is 20 Cents Washington Twp. Levy Is Increased A levy of 20 cents will lie necessary for the Washington township poor fund. John Stoneburner, trustee, was informed by the county auditor today. I’nder the law. the township must reimburse the county for the number of Inmate* maintained by the county home at the rate of s’.’»<* per week There are 18 person* from the township residing at the county home, two of whom par their own weekly board. The levy will produce approx! m.gely 119.650. which will cover this Item and al»o other township poor relief I’ems. Mr. Stoneburner stated The 20-cent levy and the three-cent levy for the town 1 ship fund apply to property in the city of Decatur, which means an Increase of eight cents over the current levies in these two funds. The township's budget, aside from the poor relief levy for next vear. is one cent lower than the 1948 rate. The proposed levies are: town •hip. three cents; special school 37 cents: tuition fund. .17 cents; 'lbrarv fund, four cents; rural recrea’lonal fund, two cents. Including th* 20-cent poor relief lew. the total rate is 11.03. The townshin's valuation In the civil area, which includes Decatur. is 19.432.453. and in the school township. 32.740.633 Leo Ehinqer Named To Precinct Post F. (Dutch! Ehinger. local insurance event and for many years active In political circles In Decatur and Adama county, has been annotated Democratic precinct com fehteetnan In Doeatur 3-A precinct. Gerald Vlaard. count* chairman, announced todav Ehinaer succeeds Richard Macklin, who recently moved from the precinct

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, August 6, 1948.

Missouri Governor Candidates -Irak. w Forrest Smith Murray Thompson MISSOURI’S CANDIDATES for governor are Democratic State Auditor Forrent Smith and Republican House Speaker Murray Thompson. Bo h are primary nominee* by wide margin*.

10 Persons Killed As Planes Collide Civilian Trainer Hits Navy Plane Hollywood. Fla . Aug. C — (UP)— The navy announced today that lit persons were killed when an R4D transport plane collided with a small civilian trainer and crashed in the South Florida muckland* near here lust night. Medical officers determined that only 10 t-odies were recovered from the flaming wreckage instead of the 11 reported by the Florida highway patrol. Naval authorities said the condition of the bodies, some badly mutilated, was responsible for the miscount. The victims were all men. the navy said A fragment of a Wave's uniform rejtortedly found at the scene earlier hed led to the belief that a woman might have been the lltli victim. All persons aboard the military plane were killed. But the two occupanta of the small plane —a student pilot and his instructor — leaped out when the collision tore one ving from their craft and para chuted to safety. The navy ship, a twin-engined transport of the DC-3 type, was coming in for a reffieling landing at Miami on a routine flight from Norfolk, Va.. to San Juan. Puerto Rico when lhe crash occurred. Lt. CM DR. J. G. Pendergraph flew here early today from the Norfolk naval air station to investigate the crash and attempt to identify the bodies John Hackett. 21-yearold student pilot and Thoma* M. Poe. Jr., hi* Instructor, escaped death when they parachuted out of their small Ktearnian trainer after It collided with the navy plane Both suffered cut* and bruises. They apparently were struck by pieces ot flying debris from their own plane as they leaped clear. The two planes »pun to the (Tara Te P*«e Sl«>

Dr. Arthur H. Girod Opens Offices Here New Physician Is Located In City Dr. Arthur H. Girod will open hi. office at hi. home. IM W. Monroe street this weekend Decatur's newest physician announced today. A Kirkland high school gradu ate in 1939. Dr. Girod completed his pre-medic and medical studies at Indiana University, receiving his M D. degree in 1944 He aervrd a year as an Intern in General hospital. Indianapolis. From 1945 to the fall of 1947. Dr. Girod served as a captain in the •imy medical corps and saw aer vice with the army of occupation in Japan. Korea and Okinawa. Returning to the state* last ceptem her. Dr Girod took a refresher course at General hospital and .pe dallied In Industrial surgery Recently Dr. Girod purchased the C. C. Langston residence on West Monroe street He Is mar ried and la a member of the Ad am* county medical society Dr Glroc H a sen of Mr and Mrs Milton Girod, well known residents ot Kirkland township.

Reports Decrease In State Traffic Deaths Indianapolis. Aug 6 — (UP) — Ktate police said 'oday that iloos ier traffic- fatalities were almost 15 percent under 1947 during the first seven months of this year, but warned that "the most hazardous driving months are ahead.” State police superintendent Robert Rossow said fatalitieH'to Aug 1 totaled 513. a drop of 89 from 302 at that point in 1947. Tennessee Tom By Election Violence National Guard Is Alerted For Duty Naslnille. Tenn, Aug. 6 — (UP) A battalion of lhe Tennessee* national guard today was alerted for possible riot duty in strife-torn Polk c ounty, and one company wa* ordered to mobilize Immediately and move near the county line. Two men had been killed and four wounded, two critically: in violence which accompanied yester day's Tennessee primary. Ktate adjutant Gen Hilton Butler said the entire first battalion and lhe headquarter* and service company of the 278th regimental com bat team hud been alerted The battalion s machine gun com pany. stationed at Athens, was or dered to mobilize, move to Uleve land, and await orders. The batta lion. Butler said, ha* a present strength of aliout 150 officers and enlisted men The headquarters and service company is stationed at Cleveland and other units are located at Etowah. The battalion only la*t month completed a tweeweeks period of field training at Camp Campbell. Ky. Gov Jim McCord also ordered «tate safety commissioner Lynn Bcrmar to rush 30 state highway patrolmen to Benton. Ktate adjutant Gen Hilton But ler said McCord ordered the guard company made ready for immediate riot duty on the request of Polk county sheriff Brouton Bigg*, of Polk county Bigg* advised McCords office that the situation was becoming serious. Bigg* said he had received reports that an "armed mob" I* forming In the area of Ducktown and Copperhill and is pieparing to move to Benton. Polk county is next to McMinn county, where two year* ago a veterans' group fought a battle of ballots and bullet* to oust *u -cessfully the Paul Cantrell Democratic political organization J. Ward Calland Is Rotary Speaker J Ward calland. of this city, managing .director of the crop Improvement division of the National Soybean processor* asociation. was the speaker at the weekly meeting of the Decatur Rotary club Thursday evening Mr Calland presented an interesting discussion of his duties as director, telliag his experiences while visitlM various soybean plants and research chemists throughout the country. C. I. Fin layeoa. deb president, conducted the meeting

Vital Component Os Atom Bomb Shipped In 1945 As Appeasement To Russians

Radio Lottery Law May Ban Quiz Shows Commission Rules Against One Show Washington. Aug 6 tl'Pl — | The Federal Communication* Commission today gave the nation's quiz program* until Kept. 10 to come up with an answer to its own 364 question That question was: why should not the commission ban most of these programs as violation* of the radio lottery law’ The commlMsion yesterday issued < a proposed ruling to this effect Its < •cope was so broad that it would I banish from the air a good many I of the big-name guessing programs in which sponsor* give away av- ( erything from money to truckload* < of merchandise. i The major networks withheld comment pending a detailed study I of the propoKed ruling But it was 1 estimated that the edict, — if It i become* final will affect some 40 network "give-away" shows and i hundreds of similar program* air- i ed hy local stations throughout the country. i At present, network shows give < away about 3150,000 monthly in merchandise or money Radio in- ( dustry spokesmen said that new quiz programs, planned for this fall, would boost the annual giveaway to aliout 32,500,000. The commission said It* new rule will go into effect unless someone oan convince them that these programs do not violate the feder- | al communications act. No date | was set. . It invited all interested parties i networks, sponsor*, lota I sta i tion* — to file statement* or < brief* witli the commisilon by | Sept 10. The National Association of I Broadcasters, at it* last conven 1 tion. came out against programs < <Tara Ta F*ae Tbreet l Report Berne Youth Is Fleeing By Plane Bought Two Tickets For New Orleans Authorities at Baer Field. Fort Wayne, reporied this morning that John Henry Kprunger. 21- L year-old Berne man charged with j obtaining money under false pre- , tenses, and hi* blonde wife of three weeks flew to Chicago . Monday evening. The Kprunger* also booked air I passage from Chicago to New Or- ■ lean* out of the Fort Wayne tick | et office, and It is believed the hun’ed duo may have left the country. , If they went on to Mexico City . from New Orleans to dodge the Interstate dragnet alerted for them, their fare for the entire journey would be around 31t* (| . Ac- I cording to airline officials This would leave Kprunger 32700 of the money he allegedly "fleeced". | 1 Herman Wulliman. a Berne auto dealer, filed charges against Kprunger Monday Wulliman said Kprunger took him to a Greenvi le. 0.. restaurant, took 33.100 In hundred dollar hills. ' told Wulliman to "wait a half hour" while he picked up a 194* Buick he claimed he owned, and promptly disappeared After six hours of fretful waiting. Wulliman notified sheriff Herman Bowman of the alleged h swindle, and police authorities I throughout Indiana and nearby states were alerted Kprunger'* mother-in-law in Portland received a letter from him postmarked Fort Wayne on Monday; enciosßl wa» on* of the crisp 31" O bills. He Is believed , to have stored his get-away car. a 1941 Ford «edan. at Fort Wavne before departing by air for Chicago. In addition to the false pretense* count. Kprunger faces a contempt of court charge upon! arres' Recently divorced. he ( <Tura Te Tag* Sts)

Livestock And Wholesale Meal Prices Lower Retail Prices Hold High Level Despite Market Price Drops By United Press Livestock and wholesale meat prices Appeared to be heading downward today as new buyers strikes developed In many cities but the price tags on meat in butcher *hop* remained unchanged All livestock price* fell yester day at midwest markets Hog* and cattle dropped a* much as 75 cents a hundredweight. But steaks and chops still sold for about a dollar a pound when the housewife shopped at the cor-' ner store. At Ixjs Angeles, rib beef sold for 87 cents a pound, t bone steak for 3110 and pork chops for .95 Prices had held at those level* for the |>a*t week even though custom er* were turning thumb* down on those cut* in favor of fish and cheaper grade* of meat Price* also were holding at about the same level tn New York where consumer resistance has grown steadily although no organ ized price strike has developed In many other cities, however, housewives were *etting up organ ized drives to lick the meat price problem. Amarillo became the 14th Tex as city where women were carry ing on chain telephone drives re questing other women to stop buy ing meat until prices drop At Moorhead. Minn, where housewives were preparing a meat strike, only two women expressed disapproval One *aid that her menfolk worked hard and needed the meat. The other said she needed it for her children The Massachusetts consumers guild, with 2.000 members, launched a “buy no meat for two weeks" drive The guild president. Mr* Mary Hlggin* of Boston, warned that "the high cost of meat will i continue unless housewives stop buying at these prices " Mrs II Blain Lacy, wife of a l lMra T«o rnar Totsri Mrs. Alice Andrews Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon Mrs. Alice K Andrew*. 80 wife of M F. Andrew*, died Thursday afternoon at her home In Monroe She had been In ill health for the past five year* and bedtast for the last 15 months Khe was Itorn in Allegan. Mich . June 30, 186*. a daughter of Dr. and Mrs C. T Rainier, and had lived at Monroe since 1917. She was married to M F. Andrew* Oct 12. 18.89. Mrs. Andrew* was a memlter of the Monnie Methodist church and the Royal Neighbors dub Surviving in addition to the husband are three daughters, Mr* J (' Rich. Mrs. N L Hoffman and Mrs A D Crist, all of Monroe; two sons. Charles J Andrews of Ossian and Hobart C of Columbus. O ; eight grandchildren; six great i grandchildren, two sisters. Mrs Agnes Andrews of Decatur and Mrs Walter Rosenwmkel of Fort Wayne, and one brther, Charles Rainier of Pasadena. Cal. One son. Don W preceded her in death Funeral services will be held at j 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the Monroe Methodist church, with the Rev. W L Hall officiating Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery The body will be removed from the Zwick funeral home to the residence where friends may call after 7 o clock this eventing

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Claim Mysterious Witness To Break Case Os Communist Spies 'Wide Open' Washington. Aug. 6 — (CPI Rep John McDowell.* R-. Pa.. *aid ttulay that a "significant quantity" of scarce uranium metal —a vital component of the atomic bomb was shipped to the Soviet Union in 1945 to "appease” the Russian*. The shipment of uranium metal was In addition to 1.31)0 pounds of uranium compounds sent to the Soviet Union In 194.1, he said M< llowell disclosed the *hipment of the compounds yesterday before the house unAmerican activities committee of which he I* a member. McDowell told the house today that uranium metal I* a highly refined produce which existed before the war only in minute quantities He said that refining of the metal In significant quantities wa* a major step toward production of the atomic bomb He said he could also outline the facts of other shipments of uranium compounds to the Soviet Union during the war. Meanwhile, public hearing* in the capital's Soviet espionage investigation were in recess. The senate investigating committee said It was forced to dose the public phase bf its inquiry because President Truman had refused to give congress confidential loyali y Information on feder al employes The unAmerican activities cone tnittee hearings were In recess until a special subcommittee has Interviewed a mysterious witness whose testimony, member* said, will "break this wpy case wide open.” The aubeominittee planned to leave later today to keep a secret rendezvous wi h the mystery wßiles* at an unnamed place. The Hulx'ommitte did not leave last night, a* had been announced McDowell lis’ed these alleged wartime *hipnient* of uranium to Russia 1. On March 23. 1943. he said 2>>(> pounds of uranium oxide and 220 pounds of uranium nitrate were flown from Great Fall*. Mont , to Moscow He said the material was furnished by the S. W Shattuck Chemical Co. of Denver to Col. A. N Kotikov of the Soviet government purchasing commi*sion 2 On another unspecified <late. he said. 500 pounds of black uranium oxide and 500 pound* of uranium nitrate were shipped to Great Falls from Port Hope. Ontario bv the Canadian Radium and Uranium Corp From Great Fal's. he said the material wa* delivered to Kotikov McDowell xaid American intellicence authorities a* far as the house committee could determine, did m>t know the uranium had be<-n flown out of the country "After thev ( he Russians) got this last 1.000 pounds they came hac k and wanted 15 tons, hut bv tha' time somebody woke up. and so far as 1 know this order was not permitted to be filled." he said Meanwhile. chairman Homer Ferguson. R . Mich , of the senate committer said hl* group has reached a point where it can't continue public hearing* "because it is denied Information" by Mr. Truman The sena'e committee has hern t oncen'ratlng on the case of William W Remington, suspended commerce depsr'menl official who held a war production board job and later a naval ensign's commission during the war The house committee. meanwhile. kept secret even lhe names of the subcommlttse members •»- signed to interview the myttsry witness. Ac’lng committee chairman Karl K Mundt. R. 8 D told reporters that discovery of the witness represented “one of the moat impo’tant break*” In the group'* InveMlgs’ion of espionage artlvl la* He refused to describe the man het said: "Hia testimony, added to that (Tam Ts P«a» Three(