Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 189, Decatur, Adams County, 11 August 1948 — Page 1

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KRAFT FOODS PLANT WORKERS ON STRIKE

■dams County Budget Total ■5225,110 ■ Total Exclusive Os 1 Hospital, Highway Il And Welfare Funds 1949 Adams county budget, of Adams county hospital. highway and ilir , departments. totals K*nio. carrying with It a 49 levy on each SIOO of assexs property, compilation of the form by Thurman I. Drew auditor, reveals. fall when the budget wax for 1948. it Included the estimate of expend! IK,. The difference be. ween jp . naled 136.000. which wax in the county's 59 cent y.jr 1949. the hospital's budget peen separated from the » and a levy for the differ <>r estimated deficit is plat in the summary of to he raised. sB ('..rrparetl with the current lev for the county and the wel department, the proponed '* three cents higher the current levy. The com of the rate structure ■ 1948 1949 rate 59 49 hept. 13 15 (included tn county) .... 11 ■ Total 72 75 2 Real Estate Assessing ■ Ob* of the largest items in the ■»•;: y'< budget for next year is ■, tsttmated cost of assessing ■m. Mtate tn 1949 The Indiana But* 'ax board has placed this ■rimat,* at 126.160 County as ■m-c Albert Harlow prepared an ■mimate of $25,500. Under the real estate assessors will be 11 per diem. |B The assessing of real estate Is from the annual asses of personal property inven hves'ock and grain. ■ A separate budge* Is mode for ■ku purpose, figured at 16 per for the assessors The ■unfits for teal estate appraisers placed at 8 per diem. ■ Ths cost of real estate assess ti estimated as follow* In the ■B'n«n«hlp- Union. $960 Root ■AW''. Preble. $1,090; Kirkland y- Washington. $5,200. (this ■•Mil hecitur real estate) S' ■»•-*• ll"’0: Blue Creek. s*?o--■X'tox. Il 100; French. D-’O ■fc"ford H *00; Wabash. $2,400 ■Merton |B2O. ■ Th* commissioners budget, in in the county's incorpor ■»’•• 110,090 for bridge repair* ■**' year The commissioners ■•iaries will he SSOO each next ■**’ the 1945 'aw chan-inc P ■hten * jx-r ,|j em |, a gj g formerly ■•"• Hut ahont $470 a vear M-p 1 ’ burial of soldiers, sailor* ■•'l marines their wlv»« nnd wld efimsted at 9*009 The contributes $75 toward ■** burial ■ The aann nrlatlon for Irene ■J* amtoriurn la listed st 17.000 '■» •» *“ Increase of 96.000 A |F* Mllents reimburse the co”c BE ** '>■» sanatorium's mon’hl' ‘ “tnmiasionerH Included ■t***- »» increase of SI,OOO Hr 4-H clubs for 1249 Win U* Rerks, treasurer of the Ad county 4-H clubs and exten M ** whibits. Inc . asked that the ** Increased Mr Gerke ■**l that 279 boys and 418 girls ■7* ’“tolled In 4-H clubs for Sgt' mr. compared to ?08 )«>y» ■* «• tiris this year ■s. *** °*’ ut V Increase officials, in filing their lE^*** 1 '»»«*•«• seek I® •" chief deputy salaries to ■ r * t * ll ' minimum of $175 per ■ ZL comnwred to the current of sih a month *■ H. C * Mr,h<u wa Repair W?* commissioners decided not J >t»n spy extensive repair of rho °** building The pro ■F **•* »»• brick and stone ■k* * cleaned by sand blsstln- ■ ..burned down The cotnml* HCT* "*•< $2,000 for repair ■ k **“’•“« of metal cornice on ■ '““rthouae The custodian's ITWse T« Pn-r- Sts I 11 a WtATHtR cleudy tonight and B *"***‘Tirgtuj* "* Meh eh,n ’*

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Approves Loan For UN Headquarters Washington, Aug. 11 — (UP) — Reaffirming America's faith in the United Nations, President Truman today approved a $85,000,000 loan to finance the world organization's headquarters in New York City, The president signed the legislation at a ceremony attended by secretary of state George C. Marshall, top I N officials, and congressional foreign policy leaders. "The loan demonstrates our faith in the future of the United Nations." Mr. Truman said, "and expressed the welcome which that organization finds within our country." Babe Ruth Is Reported As Critically 111 Baseball's Former Home Run Ruler In Critical Condition New York. Aug. 11 — (UP) — Bslte Ruth was reported in critical condition today at Memorial hospital. The hospital issued the following bulletin on baseball's former home run king: "Rabe Ruth's temperature has again risen. There are pulmonary complications. Condition critical.” Ruth has been In Memoria' hospital since June 24 when he was admit'ed for what his doctors termed "a checkup.” He has left the hospital several time* since then -once to go to . Baltimore for a benefit baseball game and another time to attend •he premiere of a motion picture of his life story. However, after each ou’lng he returned to the hospital, rather than to his New York apartment Suffering from a throat ailment which gives him almost unbearable headaches. Ruth first enter ed French hospfal In New YorkNov. 28. 1948 He remilned for (tVrs T" Wwwe V(r4i(» Youth Is Drowned In Tippecanoe River Winamac Ind . Aug. 11 — (I PI Funeral rites were planned today for Robert Howard Roe. 17-year-old son of Mr and Mnt. S. Roe. Lucerne. who drowned yesterday in the Tippecantte river two miles south of here. Authorities said he drowned while trying to rescue •wo companions who had wandered into deep water They were brought to safety but Roe collapsed from fatigue. Sgt. Floyd Andress Funeral Saturday War Veteran's Body Returned For Burial Final tribute will be paid Saturday to another of Adams coun y-, war dead when services are hed for Sgt Floyd Jerome An jrcss. son of Mr and Mrs. Wil Um Andress of Hartford town vhlp. Services wil be held at 3 P «” Saturday at the Yager funeral EL. in Herne with the Rev Karl Taul*r offhlating BurlawUl be in th* »RE Herne Amerhan Legion post «8 wlll conduct military rite. •« the <rave The body will ,n Decatur Thursday night and wil home Where friends may ca l as tar Friday morning Sgt Andress died May 29. 1944. wounds received in action with J g force* in Italy during the march on Rome A graduate of the Hartford h * r h •Chool. the veteran entered ser Xe Nov 22. 1942. and waa sen* X... *r« '•« Africa. Bair. <« ’ h * h ** " head and la I’**/ Surviving 1“ •<*'•“»" J* warent* are a brother. Robert An 4rMt of Portland, and ,«r* Mrs John Toung and Mrs maria Studebaker boUi of Blue township. Mrs G|« MrBr< 4. of Portland. Ml«a Veen Mae AtUrM* of .ndtanapolis. and X Do.r; Rom Andr~ at home

Formal Dedication Ceremonies Os New Union Chapel Church Sunday

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Little Damage From Electrical Storm Decatur Residents Awakened By Storm Thunder rocked the city and ‘ightning emhlaxoned the sky early •his morning as a brief but severe electrical storm awakened thousands of slumltering Decatur resilient*. Electric service In many areas was disrupted tor op to ten minutes as fuses blew out on municipal light and power transformers. Some telephone lines were put out of commission, but the ritixens Telephone company reported that all damage was repaired by noon. No phone or power lines were reported down. Rainfall was measured st .41 Inch. Peak of the storm came between 3:45 and 4 am., the concensus reports said, and many residents were suddenly awakened by icolta of lightning which seemed to be hitting dose to home Neither the fire, police or sheriff's department received any calle for assistance. The Fred Colchin home, at 117 Kaat Rugg street, waa hit about 3:45 a.m.. and the fop of the chimney was knocked off. One of the Colchin children, sleeping in a metal bed. was shocked by the blast, but was not injured seriously. No reporta of damage in farm areas received. Residents on Adams street near Fourth reported that lightning struck four trees in that vicinity, setting them on fire. A witness Mid "it looked as It s barrel ot hot embers bad been dropped on the trees. They shot up In Barnes." Barkley Is Invited To Speak In State Wsshlagton. Aug 11—(UP)— Sen Albee Berkley of Ksatucky said today he is unable to give a definite answer now whether he will be able to address the Demo cratic editorial association at French Uck. Ind., oe Aug. 23. The Democratic vice presidential nominee was invited to make the address by Ira Haymaker. Indiana date Democratic chairman who called on th* senator at hi* offkje Barkley said he would giv* Hay maker a defiait* aaewer later Barkley Is scheduled to attend a meeting ot the inter parliamentary union in Rom* in early September but he has not said definitely whether he will make the trip. He U an American delegate to lb* meetiag

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, August 11, 1948

The dream of the congregation will be realized at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon when the new $40,000 Union Chapel Evangelical United Brethren church, three and onehalf miles northeast of Decatur, will be formally dedicate<l to the service of God in inspiring ceremonies presided over by Bishop Fred L. Dennis, B. D., D. D.. of Indianapolis.

The Rav. Benjamin F. Smith. D. D., of Warsaw, superintendent of the St. Joseph conference, will also attend the ceremonies. He wlll speak at the afternoon and evening services. Kver since the congregation determined to build a new house of worship, replacing the little frame structure which was destroyed by fire n December. 1948, the pastor, the Rev. D. H. Pellett, and members have looked forward to the dedication of the semhEngllshGothic style edifice. The new church Is on the original site where a chapel had stood for the past 108 years. The church Is complete, except for the pews and pulpit furniture, which will be installed later. Pews and pulpit donated by the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church in this city and Forrest Chapel church. In Whitley county have been refurnished and will bo used until the new furniture arrives. letters, signed by Rev Pellett. Mrs. Mary Drew and Miss Janet Brown, a committee on Invitations, have been sent to members of the congregation, inviting them to the services and to a basket dinner at 12:15 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Work on the new church was begun In a ground breaking ceremony on July 21. 1947. followed by the comer stone laying on last Octolxer 19. The new building Is practically fireproof. Constructed

Decatur Leaionnaires To Attend Convention Eleven Decatur l-eglonnalres will attend the 13th annual convention of the American Legion, department of Indiana, to be held at Indianapolis August 14 through 17. The local delegates are Charles Morgan. outgoing commander, James Staley. Fourth district commander, L. E. Rash. Incoming commander. Dee Fryback, Hugh Andrews. Robert Ashbaucher. T. H Gehrig. A. J. Baker. V. J. Bormann. Floyd Hunter and the Rev. Otto Carl Busse. Butchers Say Meat Strikes Hurt Sales New York Business Off 50 Percent By United Press Some butchers admitted frankly today that organized price strikee were hurting their bualnesa but many claimed that canturner resistance already had cut sales to thx bone. Irving Heit, proprietor of th* Sheepshead Foodland market In Brooklyn Mid the New York strike "la effective, all right.” "There's no use staying open." he Mid. "All butchers ought to close down until prices drop. “I've been operating at a loss for the last three month*. People can't afford to buy so they only come in once a week anyway. Price control and rationing I* the only remedy." He Mid tral less has fallen 50 percent since the strike rarted two days ago. The manager ot the Kingsway meat and poultry market In New York reported a 20 percent drop Mrs. Bess Sniderman. chairman of th* Detroit committee to combat high prices. Mid butchers reported their Mies off as much as 50 percent since the committee began striking with the support of civic groups, veterans organ I tations and labor unions. She Mid housewives were planning to extend the bo/cwtt to ml'k purchaees. Some Minneapolis butchers Mid their sales fell off yesterday but they believed aa all-day rala kept customers away rather than th* meat strike Butchers and housewives at Los Angeles agreed that it was too early to tell whether the meat strike had affected husinees One packer, however, reported that bacon prices were being rale<Tw»w T» P*n* Twe,

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’ of brick in shades of red. it has a concrete basement under the entire building and a concrete first 1 floor. Fire resistant shingles cor- ’ er the building. 1 A modern heating system, which convey* warm air from an oil 1 automatic furnace through holes 1 in the concrete floor, has been Installed 1 The church contains a main ' auditorium which will seat In excess of 190 person*. Two Sunday ■ school rooms can be opened into 1 the auditorium, providing spate ■ for another 100 persons. In add!1 tion. there are* five Sunday school ’ looms In the basement and on the 1 first floor. Pastor Pellett and member* of 1 the congregation frequently have ' expressed their appreciation for 1 the generosity shown by members 1 and others In donating to the • church's building fund. Including 1 <T*ra Te Feue Tw»l

U. 5. Request For Releases Ignored Disclose Russians Ignore U. S. Notes Washington, Aug. 11 — I UP! — State department officials disclosed today that Russia, while de mandlng the return of a Soviet achoolmaster. has ignored a U. 8 request for release of more than 200 claimants to American citizen ship. These officials said this country made its request in a formal note to .Moscow on May 28. 1947. The not* never has been answered. Authorities hinted strongly that the Ruaslan* may be reminded of thia when the state department replies to the Soviet ambassador's demand for releas* of schoolmaster Mikhail Ivanovitch Samarin The teacher has appealed to U. 8 au thoritiea In New York to keep him from being sent home. "The contrast of Soviet methods and ours In with respective foreign national* is highlighted by thia latest episode." one informant MidTh* American position In the case, it was Mid. is that Samarin wlll be permitted to stay In the United States If he so choose*. Similarly, this government wlll not object to the return 'o Russia of a second teacher. Mrs. Oksana Stepanovna Koaenkina, if she want* to go home. Soviet ambaaadar Alexander Panyushkin accused the United States on Monday of abetting the "abduction" ot the two teachers who nre on the faculty of x school for children of Russian diplomats in New York. The ambassador demanded th* return of Samarin who la hiding out in the New York area, and who is elated to testify later this week at the congressional spy investigation. Th* American note of May. 1947 pointed out that U. S. citizens or alien* were "freely permitted" to go to Ruml*. and that they could voluntarily relinquish citizenship if they wished. » Then it noted that the following categories of persona in Russia, "notwithstanding all their personal <Twrw Te Paar Vl**| Decatur Jaycees To Meet Tonight Th* Decatur Junior Chamber of Commerce will meet ut ?:M p.m tonight at etty hall. Jayeee preaident William Coffee ha* announced Important business will be taken up tonight, and members are urged to be present.

Employes Walk Out Today As Wage Negotiations On New Contract Bog Down

Hospital Budget Totals $166,525 11-Cent Tax Rate Asked By Trustees The trustees of the Adams county memorial hospital have filed a budget for 1949 totaling $188,525. with estimated income from patients and hospital services of $128,000, leaving a balance to be raised through taxation of $40,525, figures released at the county auditor's office reveal. The difference between income and estimated expenditures will require an 11 cent tax rate, based on the county's $35,323,159 valuation. Increases in salaries, supplies, food, medicines and general operating expenses boosted the budget above last year's sl3i.oon total. At that time income was estimated at $105,000 for this year, leaving a deficit of approximately. $26,000. However, for the first six months of 1948. income amounted to $65.000 and operating expenses were $71,000. or on the basis of only a $12,000 deficit for 1948, the auditor explained. The various appropriations asked by the trustees are listed as follows: administration, $8,400; supplies, sl.2sff: miscellaneous. $1,825: dietary salaries. $11,000; supplies (utilities) $4,300; food. $20,600: laundry, salaries, supplies, $6,650; housekeeping supplies. $2,000; plant operation. $2,000; supplies, fuel, light and power. $5,400; maintenance, repairs. buildings and equipment. $2,750; drugs and medicines, $16.500; other supplies, including plus ters for use in orthopedic work, casts, adhesives, gauze, cotton dressings, etc., $16,500. Salaries of nurses, $58,000; Xray supplies, $1,450; miscellaneous supplies for X-ray, $800; labors tqry supplies. $300; equipment including $4,000 for new X-ray machine. $7,350. Esplanation Os Budget Trustees Harry J. Knapp and Earl Colter addressed the following letter to the county cotnmis stoners. In explanation of the bud(Tura Ta I’ssr Six | Lt. James Christen Funeral On Friday Soldier's Body Is Enroute For Burial Decatur will pay Its last respects Friday to First hu James B. Christen, son or Mrs. Alice Christen ot Winchester street, who was killed in the services of his country during World War 11. Lt. Christen, a transport pilot with the U. S. air force, waa killed when his plane crashed over Sicily July 11. 1943, as he was carrying supp.ies to the Allied troops on Sicily. Final tribute will be paid to Lt. Christen at services Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Black funeral home, with the Rev. E E. Bragg officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. with Adams Post 43. Ameri can Legion, conducting full mill tary rites at the grave. The body wi I arrive in this city Thursday night, and will be taken to the funeral home, where friends may cal latter 10 a. m. Friday. Lt. Christen entered the army air forces as an aviation cadet Sept 4. 1941 and received hie wings aud commlsison In May of 1942. He waa a graduate of the Decatur high school and an employe of Stolts Home grocery at the time he entered service. Surviving in addition to his mother are nine brothers and sisters: Mrs Keith Fields of Port Isnd. Mrs Marvin Jones and Mrs Myron Ralston, both of Van Wert. O. Daniel Christen of Decstur. Mrs. Kenneth Rauseerman» of Fort Wavne. Mrs Leo Fan rot* and William Christen, both of Deeatur. and Harriet and Robert, both at home.

Miss Bentley Tells Pay-off For Spy Work Russian Embassy Secretary Paid Out $2,000 For Services Washington, Aug. 11—(UP)— Elizabeth T. Bentley said today that Anatol Gromov, first secretary of the Soviet embassy, gave her $2,000 and told her she had been awarded the Red Star for her services as a spy on the American government. Miss Bentley told the house unAmerican activities committee that the pay-off took place on the NewYork waterfront on Oct. 17. 1945, while she was under surveillance by FBI agents. At that time, she said, she knew Gromov only as "Al.” Miss Bentley has been the No. 1 witness in a congressional investigation of alleged Red under grounds and Soviet spy rings In the Capital. She said she made periodic trips from New York to pick up wartime military secrets gathered by various government employes for Russia. At the time of the Russian payoff. which has been confirmed by the FBI. she had renounced the Communists and told the FBI her story. But she waa pretending still to be working for the Reds. Before she returned to ’the stand, the committee: 1. Announced that a subcom inittee will go to New York tomorrow to question two Russian citizens—teacher Mikhail Sama rtn and his wife—who have re nounced their homeland and of sered to tell what they know about Soviet designs on the rest of the wort**. 2. Heard Henry H. Collins, Jr.. former government employe, deny he ever was an "agent of a for eign government.” Collins refused on constitutional grounds to say whether he is a Communist. Whit taker Chambers, former Commun Ist now employed by Time inaga zine, had testified a prewar Red underground here met In Collins' apartment. Collins insisted he did not know Chambers. But he refused to say whether the under ground met in his home. Miss Bentley told the committee that "Al" had informed her in 1944 that the supreme praesidium of the USSR had awarded her th» Soviet Red Star. But at first, she said, he only showed her a colored picture of the decoration clipped iT<n Ta ••*«» Klcbtl Mrs. Martha Fugate Dies This Morning Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon Mr*. Martha A. Fugate. 89. real dent or Adams county for most or her life, died at 9 o'clock thia morning at the home of a daughter. Mrs. Blanche Krick, of Ypsilanti. I Mich. The deceased was born In Darke county. <>.. but moved to Adams county when a small child The family lived on a farm near Mon roe until several years ago. Her husband. David F Fugate, preceded her In death a numher of years ago She was a member of the Monroe Methodist church. Surviving in addition to the daughter are a foeter • daughter. Mr*. Glen Rtraub of Paterson and two brothers. William and Cheater Eatell. both of Morrow. O. Funeral services will ba held at 2:M pm Saturday at the Moaro* Methodist church, with hartal In the Pleasant Dale cemetery The body will b* brought to tha Zwtck funeral home, where friends may call after 7:39 pm. Friday antil time of the services

Price Four Cents

Approximately 60 Employes Strike; Emergency Meeting On This Afternoon For the first time In two years, labor unrest flared in Decatur today. Approximately 60 employes of the local Kraft Foods company went out on strike as wage negotiations. which had I>een progressing since May 1, completely bogged down. Some 50 pickets paraded before the bulk cheese plant on Winchester street, and it was learned that management has been locked out of the factory. Since the first contract Icetween the company and the CIO Food. Tobacco. Agricultural and Allied Workers of America, local 93. was signed four years ago. nothing but harmony had existed in labormanagement relations at the plant, it was stated. An emergency meeting was called early this afternoon, and Kenneth Hlrachy. internallonal representative of the union, and plant labor leaders were scheduled to confer with management on the conduct of the strike, and possible conciliation. Ralph H. Burke, local plant manager. could not Ice reached for comment ecn the strike, but other representatives of (he company said the walkccut came as a complete surpriae. Federal conciliator Cheater Ralston. of South Bend, has Iceen c alled in on the case. Union representatives said they followed to the letter procedure outlined in the TaftHartiey labor law by notifying the government of the Impending walkout. The union alleges that management's contract proposal would cut net earnings a cent an hour. The proposed contract would provide for a s<ent hour!/ wage hike, but would eliminate the paid lunch period. a union spokesman reported. Although the previous contract terminated July I. work had been going on during the negotiaton period until this morning The workers got their last paycheck Friday night. Clerical and other non-un-ion workers either failed to report for work this morning or were locked out of their offices, it was learned. The CIO union whic h Is In power at the Kraft shop is the same organization as that of the Central Soya workers. No County Levy For County Home Upkeep Townships, Revenue From Form Pay Cost The Adams county home, haven for some 40 Inmates, will receive all its 1949 income from the township trustees who will pay $390 year for their keep, and from revenue from the sale of products raised on 'he farm. Thurman I. Drew, county auditor, explained following compilation of the county'a budget. The home's estimate of operation expenses for next year la $21,740. which Includes salaries, wages of extra help, heating and lighting, clothing and food for the inmates, and general farm operationa. The bulget reveals that the home wlll receive $14,800 from the township trustees In the cate of Washington township, which Includes Decatur. the income from this sourcu la Hated at $6,240 Income from the sale of produce, not used at the home. Is estimated at $7,000. Mr. Drew said, which, with the board and lodging account from the trustees, will square the operating costs Consequently, the cost of caring for the Inmates falls on the respective townships and levies will be mad* for this purpose In Washington fownshtp. poor relief rate will be Increased from 12 to 16 cents on each slo* of taxable* Other townships will levy In a similar manner for those committed from their area to the county home Among Items In the home's budget are salary of superintendent. $* matron s*<•“: canned goods. 12.9 M; bakery products. SI.2M, farm machinery S2.OM.