Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 187, Decatur, Adams County, 9 August 1948 — Page 1

i o l XLVI. No. 187.

WESTERN ENVOYS CONFER WITH MOLOTOV

*erlo Refuses estimony In ipy Inquiry Refuses To Answer Questions, Pleods Constitution Rights W»*hington. Aug. 9 — (UPi —• tjtor wartime govern UM official. today refused to jpit nr deny that he knew Elizt Bentley. who has accu* i him of being a Soviet spy prrlo and Mina Bentley dja Hikally confronted each other ■ n open session of the house BAmerican activities committee HIM Bentley has identified trio at the head of a wartime triet <py Tina operating in the Btion'K capital. Committee counsel Robert E hiplinit ordered the two to stand bJ face each other. -Mr Perlo. do you know Miss hetiey’’ Stripling asked. -Ob advice of counsel. I stand lmy rights under the fifth prtdment to the constitution mi refute to answer that ques be on the grounds that It might red io incriminate or degrade p.’ Perlo replied. Then he sat down. brio, cool and lanky, already ad taken constitutional refuge l previous questions by S'riph< He refused to admit or deny hat he knew a "Robert A. Oragm" and had refused to admit r deny membership In the commit! party. The 34-year-old witness war Me arriving on the stand due to I latt minute shift In committee tat The first witness called n< Alexander Koral. nfystery nt who wan questioned by a abeommittee in New York. Moral appeared with Joseph km local attorney, who extawd that Koral's regular at mey. Leo Prager, was unable ahe present this morning, lie api*ine<l that Prager took the irong plane In New York early tay and landed In Boston inuad of Washington. After » r#( recss*. Perlo was called to b Hand Aithourn it was not brought out I today's testimony. Perlo left imminent work in 194®. while »waa employed by the treasury tripling asked how he had geten his job with the treasury hrlo replied that it followed an Strview wi h Harry D. White, baer assistant secretary of h treasury. Kias Bentley has identified rtitr at an Informant for one of b communist apy rings. Somebody told me that var- * people had recommended me * Mr Whi’e and suggested tha' dotild go around and se him.” said Hr added that he could not re•wber who that "somebody" *• the committee resumed b hearings, acting chairman t»r! K. Mundt. R.. S. D.. aakerf *•» department permission to ■"Iob the two Russian teach b iavo ved in New York's cloak **»«er mystery. *•9l said he wants to sub- *** Mrs. Oksana Stepanovna “•"kina and Mikhail Samarin <T«vw T« f> BB „ Twtl bdteyes Outnumber Hoosiers Among 192 Reppert Students J 1 * 4 * 200 students from 31 ** «re attending the Reppert J*® 1 auctioneering and lireJudging, itw as announced ?" 0 tops the list with JI st" ** l Indiana is second in J*">- with 30 Hoosiers register Hliaoia is represented by U I ‘"’i Teaaeeaee also ran. with Missouri and Pennsylvania 19 students, and Georgia * "bhigan sent nine students southern states are re nt the school, and theit make up almost 40 P* r the enrollment Total en J’**- M disclosed by Reppert * satboritise today. is net at . WEATHER "v* ft*--*- • mmri /***** Warmer Tuesday "**sd thundershowers near °*' l ° rtver Tueeday after-

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Special Session To Cost 6.0. P. Votes Failure For Stand On Prices, Housing , By United Press Many Republicans admitted privately today that President Truman ’won at the special session of congress, hut they count on the < ommunfsts-in-Washington inquiry to even up the political score. These GOP senators and representatives expressed belief that the party's failure to take a strong stand on prices and housing may cost them some votes in their bid for reelection. But they are confident that Gov. Thomas K. Dewey, the Republican standard bearer, won't be much worse ott as a result of the political" session. The "bad effects,” if any. will be confined to the congressional races, they felt. Sen. Irving Ives. R, N. Y., a member of Dewey's inner circle, said the GOP candidate will outline his own program between now and election time and will campaign on that rather than on the record of the MOth congress. However, senate Democratic whip Scott W. Lucas, 111., insisted that Dewey can't dodgi the record of the Republican • controlled congress. He said Mr Truman's jcolltical stock is "definitely on the upgrade" and has been ever since he was nominated. Many Republicans look to the Communist spy inquiry, now Being conducted by the house unAmerican activities commltt-e. to make up for whatever ground they may have lost at the session. They expect the investigation to support their claim that the Roosevelt-Tru man administration winked at Communist inf filiation of the government In other political developments: Wallace — Henry Wallace acknowledged that Ins old political enemy, President Truman, is right on one point that the Communist spy investigation is "a ted herring.’ The progressive party presidential candidate said in New York that the hearings are "designed to distract the people from their real problems which the congress failed to solve." Labor Jack Kroll, national director of the CIO political action committee, criticized both Gov Dewey and Wallace at a ( incinnatl political rally. And he left little doubt that the labor group will endorse President Truman in the near future. "Labor." said Kroll, political rally, and he left little men with little minds who sit bohind little black moustaches waiting to see which way the wind Is blowing." Kentucky — Republican* Sen John Sherman Cooper and Demo ; ratic Rep Virgil Chapman will bat tie it out for Kentucky’s senatorial post in November. Returns from Saturday’s primary showed that Chapman defeated hi* nearest rival. John Young Brown, by some 13.0<i0 vote*. Cooper had a lit to 1 edge over his only opponent. Silas A. SulTennessee — Democratic boss Ed Crump said be won't support the Republican state ticket in the election. despite the fact that hl. own hoices were resoundingly defeated (Tara Ta Pane T*«t Jacob Heath Dies Suddenly Sunday Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon Jacob M Heath. 7i Adam, coun ty farmer died unexpectedly at g 45 o’clock Sunday morning of a ■' ■*, X of hl. sisterinlaw. Heath, .mehslf mile went of Bobo, where he resided o * John H. „‘ d " (M “* "I X'TL" I -’ •* “• l '" b " V.lt.a *r**~ MT.*•'“■ .nd reded him in death Funeral servicro will «* he U m * * rh £ M IZalieal United Brethren Bobo Evangelical in . a with tha k church, with Eddy ofnciatlnz rrl rnd. may call rx’zs’Usrt- — 7 o'clock thia eveniM

Expect Truman To Sign Price, Housing Bills Special Session Os Congress Adjourned Saturday Evening Washington. Aug 9 — (UPI — ' President Truman probably will sign* ‘reluctantly’’ the GOP price and housing bills, but blast con--1 gres* for inadequate action in hoih fields, informed sources said today 1 .Mr. Truman's political advisers i believe he ha. a "tailor-made'' campaign issue in the failure of the GOP-controlled congress to grant more than token action on his program at the two-week apei rial session that ended Saturday ■ night One presidential associate re--1 ported that Mr Truman is worki ing on a scathing statement ' charging the Republican congressional leadership with irresponsl--1 bility. Sen Robert A. Taft, R.. 0., ' GOP policy committee chairman, stood by In his office waiting to I issue a rebuttal before resuming his vacation in Canada ' On Mr. Truman's desk were hills covering only four of the 19 ' points he had asked In his open- ' ing message. They were measures to restrict Instalment bu»- ' ing. tighten bank credit, provide for government aid to private home construction, and authorize : a S6s.onn.nno builldng load to the ■ United Nations. Mr Trumi.n was reported readv to sign into law both the price snd housing bills on the ground •hat "they won’t help much, but they won't do any harm " 1 In hl* own anti-inflation proI gram. Mr Truman had asked for authority to relmpose wage-price ! controls, allocate scarce IndusII trial roods, tighten up on rent 1 control, regulate the commodity exchanges, relmpose the wartime 1 excess profits tax, and ration 1 essential consumer goods. On housing, the president had annealed for approval of the Tafti r lender Wagner bill, including Its provisions for public housing I and slum clearance. Instead. • conrress approved a mea«ure 11bI erallzine federal loan guarantees i In an effort to encourage private . hnl'ders to put up more low-cost > hou’lng There was talk fcom Republicans and Democrats alike of an--1 other special session Bn» a* of now it is Just talk Taft told a (Tsn Te Pawe Twe» Labor Leaders Laud Tobin Appointment I Maurice J. Tobin Secretary Os Labor ' Washington. Aug 9—(UPiSpokeamen for all branchea of organized labor today praised the 1 selection of Maurice J. Tobin as secretary of labor But Tobin wasn't sure he wanted the Job The former governor of Massa chusetts and mayor of Boston said be will visit President Truman "within the next few days" and talk it over. He must choose between the cabinet post and a chance to run again for the governorship. “I am not unmindful." said Tobin, "of the honor conferred on me by the leader of our Democra i tic party, but I am atill a candl- ■ date for governor of Masaachu i setts.” Officials of tbs AFU CIO and the Railroad Brotherhoods ad , mined they were surprised by the President's nomination of Tobin. But they commended his "good labor record." and said they are con , fldent he will make aa excellent secretary of labor.” If he accepts Mr. Truman sent Tobin's nomi nation to the senate shortly before , It adjourned Ra|urday night Demo erotic leader Al ben W. Barkley pleaded for confirmation without the formality of a committee hear ing. but Sen Robert A. Taft. R. O. demurred However, the Pros! dent can give Tobin a recess appointment under which he will collect his HS.WB-a-ysar salary The labor department post has tana vacant since tbe g death of Lewis B. Schwsllsebach la Juno. <

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, August 9, 1948

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THE THREE PILOTS pictured above and a crew of 16 set a new non-stop 5.120-tnl.e speed record flying a B-29 from Furstenfeldbruck. Germany, to Marshall Field. Kansas. In 23. hours and 50 minutes. The flyers, left to right, are Capt. Walter Abbott, Des Moines, la.; Lt. John Gaffney. Akron, ().. and Capt. Ho ly Bartlett of New Macon. Ga. .

Chicago Gambler Gangland Victim Fear New Outbreak In Illinois Killings Springfield. 111.. Aug. 9-IUPI— A Chicago gambler’s blood-splat-tered body was found along a highway outside Springfield today, and state police feared the killing might be a new outbreak in a recent series of Illinois gangland killing*. The body of fxmnard Giordano. 35. Chicago was found three feet off highway 66. less than a quar-ter-mile from the "Wishing Well." a Sangamon county night club at 9:46 am. this morning by Harry Snodgrass, who was enroute to work. State police identified Giordano They said be had been using thq name Manard Danno in Springfield and was a "tableman” at the Pad. a roadhouse northwest of Springfield. Lt. jonn Stuper of the state police said he did not know whether the slaying had any con nection with the recent killings of Bernie Shelton or George (R«D Smyth. He said state police would check. He did say it "look* like they are doing a lot of eliminating.” Sangamon county state s attorney John Curren said he would "question everyone connected with gambling In Springfield.” City police expreaeed tears last week that Springfield might be«Twr* Te Tape T»»l

Texas Women Launched On Meat Buying Strike

Dpllas. Tex.. Aug. 9.—(UP)— Texas women today began a oneweek strike against their butchers in an attempt to force meat prices down. The movement, begun here, also waa being carried on by housewives in a hundred or more cities across the country. Reports on Immediate effects of the "meat strike" varied. Women who sat at their telephones conducting the campaign said many homemakers were shying away from meat counter*. Some butcher* reported that business was failing off. But other women doubted the strike would do much good and many butchers said the “petticoat rebellion'' had little effect on sale* Meanwhile, the lady who started th* big fight ‘ wa* listed as a canaalty. Mrs R. D. Vaughn, the pep*>ery 71-year-old women * Chamber of Commerce president who first suggested an organized meat strike, was under a physician's car* with a sore throat. i “Pre just been talking too muck on the telephone to gat tbie orga aisod.” she said She Mid her backer* would be

15 Persons Injured When Bus Hits Auto St. Ixxuis. Aug 9 — (UP) — Fifteen persons were recovering today from injuries suffered when a crowded suburban bus collided with an automobile and bounced into a building yesterday. The bus left the road when the driver. Forrest Sander*. 32. was thrown to the floor by the collision. Soviets Seize U. S. Military Governor Reported Ambushed By Russian Soldiers Frankfort. Aug. 9 — (UP) — Lt S. F Turner. U. S. military governor of Bad Kissingen. and an official from Berlin were ambushed by two armed Russian soldiers Just inside the Soviet zone last Thursday. Turner's office reported today American officials have had no word cd Turner and Rowland M. Meyers, member of the civil affair* branch of the military government, since their chauffeur saw them be ing escorted down the road, accord ing to Turner's office. The chauffeur reported that Turner and Meyers were checking crops on a routine in*i>ectlon trip They were on foot near Bad Ki* sfngen. 65 miles east of Frankfurt, when the two Russians appeared from a clump of wood* and seized them. The German chauffeur said he managed to get the car turned 11 tarn T» Psa- *•«»

watching markets this week "to see just bow many women buy meat.” It appeared that some women were of little faith. Mrs. Richard Mcl-eroy. wife of a Dallas farm machinery salesman and mother of two children, said she hoped It would do some good "but I doubt It." “It seems like a lot of fuss and feathers to me." she said "My butcher told me it suited him fine be wa* going to give hi* em ploye* some time off until his customers gtt meat-hungry again.” But Mro Herbert Deshong. wife of a public relations man and mother of on* child. Mid she didn't "need any campaign to stop me from buying meat " “I stopped a long time ago." she Mid "For th* past three weeks. I've been shopping for canned mmt special* for my son. Dennie My husband and I eat vegetables and like them. At least he doesn’t holler too loud.” Mrs JamM O Dennie said her famll, is fond of meat but eh* wa* going “on otrike" because “we just can't afford It" "It's a lot woro* now than when iTwru Tw rn*e Twa>

Meet With Soviet Foreign Minister For Three Hours

On Problems In Germany

17 Violent Deaths Reported In State Auto Mishaps Lead Indiana Death Toll Indianapolis. Aug. 9 — (UPi — Seventeen per*on* died in Indiana during the weekend in traffic accidents, tire*, drowning*, and other tragedies. Automobile mishap* again took the largest to'l, a* at leaat nine person* were victim* of highway acclden'.s. Three died of burns, one drowned, one man committed suicide, two were *hot to death, and one man died of injuries received in a fail. One of the Mhooting victim* was Earl William*. 53. Terre Haute, who was killed by a shot gun blast at Terre Haute Saturday after an argument with another man. At Anderson. 14-year-old Jame* Gahimer was shot accidentally while he and a group of boys were target shooting with a shotgun. Volney M. WP'lams, 71. a carpenter. died at Bedford of Injuries he received it. a fail from the roof of his home. Clarence Holder. 65. a disabled Spanish American war veteran, leaped into a well at hi* home near Boonville to commit suicide, state police said. The fire victims were Rtephen Harris, two. Indianapolis, burned in a lire at his home: Stanley Hensley. 45, Indianapolis. who died of burns sustained In an explosion a thin wife'* home, and Mrs. Edelle Crawford Ijiwslesx. 49. Columbus, who was fatally burned in a fire at her home Saturday Cpl. Nathaniel S. Jones, 19, Gary, drowned in Clear Creek tyear latl’orte Saturday while swimming. The traffic victims: William Montgomery. 37. Indianapolis. killed when his car left the highway in Dearlmrn county. Donald A. Bays. 20, Niles, Mich., and Ode'l B. Garnner. 25. South Bend, killed near I-a Porte when their auto hit a truck. I'at*le Byers. 19. and her sis IT*.« te t-eae iwti Renew Efforts To End Dayton Strike Company Turns Down Two Point Proposal Dayton. 0.. Aug 9-(L'Pt — Mayor Ixtuis Ixthrey renewed his efforts today to settle the 97 day old strike at the Unlvia la*ns Co. after company officials rejected a two point proposal acceptable to the United Electrical worker* (ClOi. • Union leader* promised "there would be no mas* demonstrations” at the plant, scene of much violence between police and pickets The mayor said there would be "very few nolice. perhaps 10 nr It." on hand when the workers returned Only two Ohio national guard observers remained of the 1.200 troop* which lApt peace and order here last week. City officials conferred with leaders of other Dayton unions who said they were "very anxious to end the strike" and wduld help arrange another meeting of Unlvls company and union leaders. The UE. after a meeting last night. I«*ue«l a vtrtiolic statement at Uni vis president M H Stanley The UE officials said Stanley “forced" the company to rejec t the settlement offer. The UE also Indicated It would keen the strike in effect if no settlement resulted Stanley said that the "company saw no reason to continue sessions with a union which has been de certified" by the national labor relations board He said that workers were being hired to fill the vacancies caused by UE members remaining on strike

New Breach In Berlin On Food Administration Soviet Efforts To Seize Food Control Brings New Breach Her in. Aug 9—(UPI— Soviet effort* to seize con'rol of all food rationing and distribution in Berlin spilt the city food administration today In a new east west breach within the rank* of the municipal government. The city council authorized It* food administrator. Paul Fuellsack, to move with hl* staff to new quarter* In one of the three wentern sector* ot Berlin. The council met for two hour* In special *e**ion Io deal with the crisis brought on by a Soviet order barring all employe* representing the western sector* from the food admlnistra'ion bui'ding in the Soviet sector. Briti*h authorities had advised the council that it should not reiognize any right of the Soviet* to bar western sector employe* from the administration head quarter*. The police department already was Mplit between the ea*t and the west. Officers appointed by the council had moved their head quarters from the Soviet sector to the west. A police "war” appeared to be going on between the factions Communist-controlled police were reported arresting western sector police at their homes in night raids. American reports said a num her of raids were carried out In the Soviet sector Saturday night hv communist police under the direction of the chief of the criminal division Those arrested had deficit com munlst order* to lake direction* from communist police chief Paul Markgraf and had gone to work for Berlin po'ice chief Johannes Stumm. who has set up his office In the American sector. Although the nolle* were working In the western sectors, thev were forced to maintain their homes and families in the Soviet sector because of the housing shortage. These reports said communist police invaded the western police men's homes late at night Those already in bed were taken away without Iteing given time to dress. Stumm confirmed that the com munlsts had started wholesale arrests of his officer*. Hr demand (Tara Te I'aae Twe) Charles N. Brown Is Taken By Death Funeral Held Today For Geneva Resident Funeral services were held this afternoon at the Geneva Methodist church for Char es N. Brown. *O. well known Geneva resident, who died Saturday afternoon at the Adams county memorial hospital. The Rev Paul laxcan off! cia'log, with burial in Westlawn cemetery at Gengga In failing health for several years, Mr. Brown had been seriously ill for the past month. Active In political circles practical'y hie entire ,IW*. he served as a Democratic precinct committeeman at Geneva for more than a quarter of a century He waa employed for a number of years aa a state oil inspector. Surviving ar* Ms wife. Cora: a son. Frank of Edmonton. Canada: two daughter*. Mrs Dorothy Farrar of G*n*va and Mr* Elizabeth Heller of Pontiac Mich.: five grandchild ran. two great grandchildren, and a brother. George, ot Richmond

Price Four Cents

U. S. Ambassador W. Bedell Smith And Colleagues In Kremlin Conference Moscow. Aug. 9. —(UP) — U, 8. ambassador W Bedell Smith and his Anglo-French colleagues conferred for three hours and 10 minutes with foreign minister V. M. Molotov at the Kremlin tonight on the German crials. ( The western envoys went to the British embasay as soon as they left the Kremlin for the usual coordination of ideas preliminary to drafting reports to their respective capitals. Smith declined to comment. In keeping with the ironclad secrecy imposed on the series of talks between western diplomats and Soviet government leaders. Including Premier Josef Stalin. The American ambassador said he was very tired He was beginning to show the strain of nearly two weeks of Intense and sustained consultations with fellow diplomat* and Soviet officials. The envoys went to the Kremlin at 4:50 p.m. (9:50 am. EDT) and (he meeting hroke up at 9 p m. Tonight's meeting was the third of the American. British and French diplomats with Molotov alone. Tht last was Friday pight. when they talked for three hour* at the Kremlin. Rigid secrecy still was maintained over the series of meeting* U. S. ambassador W. Bedel Smith. French ambassador Yvcl ('hataigneai* and Frank Roberts, special British envoy, met at the American embassy preparatory to the expected visit to the Kremlin. They have met daily «lnce the renewal of contact* on Germany with Soviet leaders here A week ago tonight the envoys talked for two hours at the Kremlin with Premier Josef Stalin. laist Friday night they went again to the Kremlin and talked for threp hours with foreign minister V. M. Molotov Fear No Agreement Ixmdon. Aug. 9 (UP)— Whatever optimism existed today over the prospects of another big four meeting wa* tempered drastically by fear that the east and the west never could agree on Germany. Some of the most influential officials In the governments of th* western powers felt that way The best they hoped for waa a palliative which might prevent the situation from deteriorating to t|ie brink of war and disaster for the whole world Such an attitude, which may appear hopeless <>n the surface, waa based on these undisputed facts: 1. The west never will voluntarily abandon ail of Germany to Russia to become another Soviet Satellite 2. The Russians never will give up esstern Germsny if the prospect Is that a united Germany might join the west against the east 3. Unfortunately there is no "third way" for Germany except tn remain divided between the east and the west. Th* real straggle between the east snd the west is over the control of all Germany. And casting aside all ideological factors, it Is a fact that the western powers are trying just as hard to re<-reate a Germany that will be on their side as the Russians are trying to create a Communist Germany that will he in the Soviet camp. As for federations. Germany with Its vast resources, technical < Tar* Te l*a«e *(«> Boy Scouts Continue Trip On North Outing Decatur Boy Scouts and (h* adult leaders, cooks and assistants, arrived safetly at Charlevoix. Mich, ai 7:3* o'clock Sunday evening, according to a lelegrtm received by IJoyd Cowens, county Boy Scout chairman, from Steve Everhart, scout commissioner end director of the outing espedition Th* s- out* and members of the parv left Decatur Sunday morning From Charlevoix tha party ferriee over te •eater Island, where camp will be established.