Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 197, Decatur, Adams County, 20 August 1948 — Page 1

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(an’t Go In, Red Secretary Told V —-.- j ’ QL *3919 ■Lm 1 m r /©k V< I IgljLjf / 1' -. '” (y JW// < 1 -*-< ! jß'n I . i y* x4 *'O BA <•- i mF . -- -I" ' uKK 1W x V I J Tr’*\ - M- & ’ a 7 ' "p*?* •_ « *£✓'**'' j >C< ZINA IVANOVA, secretary to Soviet Vice Consul Zot I Chepurnykh In New York, talks anlmatecily to Michael Mertel. assistant administrator at Roosevelt hospital, as he refuses her request to visit Mrs. Oksana Koaenkina. Ruslan teacher injured seriously in an escape leap from a consuate window Mertel holds a box of roses the secretary brought for Mrs. Ksenklna. Reporter listens.

Reds Gathering U. S. Info, Might Be Used In Attack

Topeka. Kann.. Aug. 2ft--H’P) 'Russian intelligence agents are pumping U. 8. businessmen for strategic facts which could be used in planning air attacks, sabotage. or invasion. This was confirmed today by army officials in Washington after information first was obtained by the Vnlted Press here that the Russians had launched an information hunt in three mid western cities vital to the I'. 8. militaryindustrial machine. Investigation in Washington revealed that the Soviet quest is not confined to the midwest. It is being energetically pushed throughout the country. The disclosures here involved Wichita. Kans., Sati Antonio. Tex , and Rockford. 111., all of which are surrounded by key military and munitions installations. The information sought is seemingly innocuous—highway and railway maps, telephone directories, scenic photographs, industrial brochures, business and agricultural yearbooks All of it is more or less public property but. Amerl <*n Intelligence officers pointed out. it is precisely the kind of ma terlal an enemy's "total espionage" machine wonld want to assemble The Japanese perfected this kind of espionage before World War 11. and the L'nited States made devastating use* of It in plotting strategic bombing attacks in the last conflict. It is the kind of information. V. 8. authorities said, which is essential to "order of battle" reports- reports used in nlanning air attacks, sabotage, or Invasion. The Russian information search Is being carried out by thinly-dis-guised "fronts" in Europe Public utility officials. Chambers of Com-

Fractures Arm When Aulo Turns Over Monroe Street Mon Pinned Under Car l-*o Romer. SS. Writ Monroe street *u injured Thursday night *t «:JO o'clock when the automobile he wan driving near Bobo ■ruck tome loose gravel and turn •d over, pinning him In the car. Bogner received a tracture 6f the l»ft arm. about four inchee below the shoulder The injured man wae brought to •he Adams county memorial hospital by Sheriff Herman Bowman who was called to the scene by neighbors* Bogner told the sheriff that he was driving about 50 miles an hour when the ear struck some fresh gravel and left the road It turn •d over and landed In a corn field Bogner was pinned underneath Calls for help were futile for •boat an hour but finally a motor l»t beard Bogner and with the all of several neighbors, he was pulled from beneath tbs car. He was brought to the hospital about S o’clock. Damage to the automobile was •Minuted at about l*0« by tbo •heritt

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merer, and industrialists in Wichita. San Antonio, and Rockford received letters, most of them from the Soviet zone of Germany, seek , ing what the army called "basic in telllgence information of strategic importance to all potential enemies of the t'nlted States." The requests reached such a . peak that In a secret order dated June 7, 1949. the army ulertisl all of its public information officers to watch for them. More than 80 Chambers of Commerce in all sections have received such request* Most of the letters received in the thre,- midwestern cities came from individuals or inxlitulions in Soviet Germany, a large percentage of them from the Ix-ipzig area Wichita, a Wheatland city of 200.00<>. is the site of Boeing Aircraft's No. 2 plant where most of World War Il's B 29 bomlters were made. Beec hcraft and Cessna air craft factories are situated there The city is the center of one of the world's largest oil and gas regions The air force's Smoky Hill base is 100 miles to the northwest San Antonio received Information requests from Austria and Switzerland An "Austro American Sc* iety" in Vienna wanted a copy of the San Antonio red lioolt—a directory of business firms. A Swiss "Journalist'' sought photographs of "interesting scenes of the San Antonio area ” He wax writing some articles, he said. The Texas city Is the site of Fort Sam Houston, fourth army headquarters Nearby a<* Randolph Field. Kelly Field, and BrcMiks Field, key air force c enters The Leipgiz museum asked the Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. for directories of several southwest cities for the years 1920. 1930. 11 am Tn l*nae «!«'

60 County Farmers On Tour To Carmel Study Artificial Ways Os Livestock Breeding Slity Adams county rarm men and women made a tour by bus to rhe Indiana artificial breeding as-| sedation farm near Carmel. Ind. Thursday. They also visited the Conner prairie and Lynn Wood farms The tour was organised and conducted by Robert Berning oft the Adams county artificial breeding a*o- lotion. At the hull stud farm. Mr. P. I. Higlev demonstrated the actual handling of the bulls and conducted the group over the farm He mated that all bulls on the farm were 100 per cent proven by damdaughter comparison and that their liulls represented ’ per cent of all the known top bulla of the country tn the Jersey. Guernsey A Hob ' stein breeds. I Frank De I* Croix. Extension dairyman of Purdue University atated that over 5".0W cows in Indians would be bred artificially this ye*r •“d •B** Pur<lu * expected the number to Increase rapidly, from year to T**AU but 2 of the county's it Town ■ • ships were represented on the tour. 1

'GET OUT OF COUNTRY,’ U. S. TELLS SOVIET CONSUL GENERAL

Ex-New Dealers i Won't Testify At House Probe 3 Accused Reds Refuse To Answer Questions Os House Committee BULLETIN Washington, Aug. 20 — (UP) — Immigration Commissioner Watson Miller today refused to produce J. V. Peters, alleged former chief of the American communist underground, sought by the house unAmerican activities committee as a witness In its spy inquiry. Washington. Aug 20 (I'Pt -» Three former new deal lawyers, j accused of membership in a pre- ' war Red underground, refused today to answer the questions of i a house subcommittee. The subcommittee chairman said they refused to answer on grounds of possible seif lnc-rimin-ation and on grounds that the committee was illegally established. The three witnesses were John I Abt. Ijeo Pressman and Nathan Witt. All now live in New York Abt and Pressman are active in ‘ the Wallace third party. Pressman formerly was general coun sei of the CIO. They appeared before Rep ' Richard M. Nixon. R.. Cal., acting as a one-man house unAmerican activities subcommittee, in c’osed session. Nixon said that the testimony of the three did not varv. "Each witness refused Io testify and answer questions on ’ grounds of self-incrimination and other grounds which they claimed to be constitutional grounds,*' i he said. They all declined to admit or deny acquaintanceship with Whittaker Chambers, senior editor of Time magazine and a reformed communist. Chambers has charg ed all three with membership In prewar communist ce'ls operating among federal employes. The l witnesses were interrogat ed separately But each was accompanied by Harold Cammer. a New York attorney. Cammer i'l'mss Tn Paar Civet Rotary Hears Talk By John Carmody Agriculture Dep't. Representative Speaks John Carmody, former Decatur sugar company executive, now with the department of agriculture. Farmers Home Administration. was the speaker at the regular weekly meeting of the Decatur , Rotary dub at the K. of P. home : Thursday night t Mr. Carmody explained the opei rations of his deportment, which specializes in loaning money to worthy people for the purpose of buying and equipping farm homes The Farm Home Administration specializes in making loans to peri sons who have not yet established their credit with local hanking in stltutions The speaker emphasized the fact that his department was not <in competition with local lending organizations, and that as soon as a borrower had established bis credit locally, the loan was trans , ferred to a local Institution All loans are passed on by a lo< al committee before they are consid iered by the government Special attention is being given to requests for loans by war vet erans. Mr. Carmody said. He praised the ability of Adame conn ty borrowers to pay and said that during the IS years he had been connected with the federal organization. Adams connty patrons had not defaulted in any Inatanee. Don Norqosst. local represents tive of the Farm Home Administration and s member of the local : Rotary club had charge of the I meeting and Introduced Mr. Car ‘mody. *

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, August 20, 1948

Auction Students Bid Farewell To Decatur Dinner, Graduation For Summer Students "Goodbye, congratulations and good luck." These were the predominant words as the stud-ntx <>t Reppert's ; school of auctioneering departed , late this afternoon for their hornet ' after receiving a final word of ad- ; vice from Col. Q. R. Chaffee and certificates of graduation from the I school. Graduation exercises were held at 12:30 o'clock this afternoon at the K. of P. home for 194 students ; who completed the summer course I at the local institution. Col. Earl Gartan, veteran auctioneer and faculty member'of Greensburg. and Col. C. It. Drake of Itecatur, 111., divided honors in* presenting the ■ diplomas to the members of the fifty-seventh dans of the school founded by the late Fred Reppert und continued by his daughter. .Miss f Eleanor Reppert. Constant hard work in studying 1 salesmanship and the prevailing 1 prices of articles to be sold were the chief words of caution by Col. • Chaffee, as he congratulated the class mem hers and wished them well. i Miss Repiwrt announced that all i members of the present faculty would return next November 29 i for the fifty-eighth term of the • school which is tlie oldest contlnous auction college in the nation. The present class personnel came from 33 states and Alaska The graduation exercises follow - ed the banquet given by the school i for the graduating class, and were attended by the entire faculty. The dinner wax served at the K. of I*. home and the affair was presided ■ over by Col. Chaffee who intro--1 dined Col. Garten and Col Drake 1 for diploma presentations and short talks. Jaycees Sponsor City Swim Meet Decatur Boys, Girls To Compete Aug. 30 Decatur's first annual swimming meet, sponsored by the Jun lor Chamber of Commerce, will be held at the inuni, I pal swimming pool Monday August 30. it was announced today. The meet will be for boys and girls of Decatur and medal* will be given to the winners in the various classes There will be two divisions in both the boys' and girls' classes The junior classes will be those . boys and girls between the ages of 12 and 15 and the senior classes r will Include those from 16 to 19 ' years of age The first event of the meet Is • scheduled for Monday night at 7 • o'clock on August 30. and Mayor ' John Doan has agreed to ser-.e as ’ judge for the opening event Entries in all classes must be made to Harry Dailey, supervisor 1 of the municipal pool, by 6 o'clock 1 p.m. on August 26. After the en ’ tries are closed, a complete schedule wilt be arranged. If there are 1 too many entries In any one class. • It was stated, the races will be I divided into sections with the winners competing for the champion ship. Each winner besides receiving a medal also will receive the dtsig : nation of city champion for 1»4» i The Jaycees plan to make the 1 event an annual one and consider able interest already has been 1 shown I - 111 — Trout Season Waning, Next Year's Plans On The Indiana trout season will 1 come to an end on August 30. and state department of conservatlou officials in Indianapolis 1 today announced plans devised to improve Hoosier trout fishing 1 next year. Voder an annual contract, the department of conservation ’ transplanted 6.000 brown and 1 rainbow trout in Hoosier waters ' from the federal fish hatchery at Neosho. Mo. this year.

Soviets Kidnap 7 Police From U. S. Berlin Zone Round Up Hundreds Os Civilians In Black Market Raids 1 Berlin. Auk 20—<1'1’1 Reven • I German policemen from the Ameri can sector of Berlin were report- f 1 eel kidnaped by Russian soldiers 1 today, and 600 to SOO German civil- 1 ' - hens were rounded up In a series of M Soviet blac k market raids. | An announcement by American '! public safety officers said the seven policemen were kidnaped by ’ Russian officers and soldiers "at _ gun point." ' Three of the German policemen escaped from their Soviet captors ( and returned to the I' S sector. but four, including district police { chief August Hoppe, were reported , still missing. e The Soviet black market raids and kidnaping* came as an after • math to yesterday's violence In ■ which conflicting reports said one to four persons were killed and 1 eight to 30 injured when Soviet r sector German police fired over • the sector boundary at alleged i black marketeers i German police in the American s sector reconstructed the kidnap i Inga in this way: At 11:15 p.m. <6:15 am. CDT). .German police of the Soviet sec I, tor. supported by about 10 Russian ‘ soldiers, raided an alleged black *> market at the Americ an Russian I border In downtown Berlin, near •i the scene of yesterday’s shootings German police car from the ■American sector arrived at the 1 scene, hut was said to have remaineel on the American side. Two Russian officer* commandeered the car and its six occupant* The officers then demanded that I Hoppe meet them for negotiations i The Russians have complained repeatedly that black marketeers i have fled into the American and British zones when their hideouts »i in the Russian sector were raided | Hoppe was summoned and when 1 he arrived, the German police said he wax hustled across the street | into the Soviet sector and driven away Three German police broke awav 11 then and ran deeper into the I' S , sector, but the other three were) , taken into the Soviet sector. Col. Frank Howley. American | commander in Berlin, blamed the Soviet blockade for precipitating the Incident but he said the Com- ’ i munist police were carrying out ! legitimate activities at the time The firing attracted many Ger i mans The area was buzzing with an angry mob of 4.000. The crowd ' stormed into the Soviet sector and ' ripped down the Soviet flag and Communist party banner from district headquarters of the Social Ist unity (Communist) party head- ' quarters. ■ ■ 11 Geneva Man In Serious Condition After Fall Carl Scare. 40 of Geneva route ' 2. is reported in a serious condl tion at the Adams county memor ial hospital following a fa'l onto a concrete floor at a local manu--1 j factoring plant Thursday noon i Scare fell from a scaffold on which he was working, landing partly on hit head He wa« taki en to the hospital in the Zwick ambulance and his condition today Is repor'ed to )* serious Exact extent of the in lories had not been ascertained thia afternoon No Protests Filed On Rufus Inniger Drain No objections were filed to the benefits assessed hy the viewers and engineer in the proposed Im . provement of the Rufus Inniger drain in Monroe township The hearing was held today hr Virgil Bowers, county surveyor, and a number of land owners ap peered

Lomakin Stripped Os Authority; Government Rejects Russian Charges

Day's Good Deed Brings Citizen Trip To Hospital Chicago, Aug 2o (Cl*) Nelson De Bree, 39. Kalamazoo. , Mich, saw a crowd chasing a man through the Loop yesterday shouting "stop that thief." De Bree tripped the man as he raced by. Police took the alleged thief to jail. Bystanders took De Bree to a hospital with a broken leg

Tobin Blasts Taft-Hartley Act ~ whicr Ar j ‘ A LOT OF BOOTLEGGING and dealing undei th- tabb between mnaagemem and labor lias resulted from the Taft Hartley law. lacbor Secretary Maurice Tobin tells reporters at 111- first press con fcrc-ncc- in Wa-liington ax a new Cabinet member Tobin says the ac t’s closed shop han "is a l,h>w at unionism "

Husbands.. Fathers Deferred From Draff Young Farmers Also Exempted By Truman Washington. Aug. 2>f— tl'Pr — President Truman today deferred all husbands and fathers from the peacetime draft lie also ordered deferment of all I men in industry whose jobs are necessary to the national health safety or interest And he said young farmers who market "a substantial quantity" of essential foists also shall be deferred Mr. Truman also directed that in classification of draft resist rants there shall be no discrimins , tlon because of race, creed or color, or because of membership or activity in any organisation "Bach such registrant shall re-1 reive equal Justice." Mr Truman decreed For the most part the Presl dent's order re-created regulations that applied to the draft in World War II Classifications generally will follow the World War II pat tern. Mr Truman ordered that class! fication of draft eligible* be carried out In the spirit of the law , passed by congress The draft law Mr. Truman noted, says that "in. a free society the obligations and privileges of serving in the arm-I ed forces and reserve components thereof should be shared general ! ly. in accordant e with a system of selection which is fair and just and what is consistent with the maintenance of an effective na 1 tiona! economy " WEATHER Fair and warmer tonight; Saturday partly cloudy and warmer, with increasing southI erty winds.

Action Against Russian Official Taken At Direction Os President Washington, Aug. 20 — (UP) — This country today strij>|H , <l Jacob Lomakin of his authority as Soviet consul general in New York and ordered him to get out of the country for "abuse" of his |«>sition ami “gross violation" of detent standards of official conduct.

Hold Merryman Rites Saturday Afternoon Funeral services sot Mrs Jame* T. Merryman, widow of the late Judge Merryman, will be held at 2 30 o'clock Saturday afternoon from tlie Zwick funeral home The Rev. Dr (Jerald J Jones, pas tor of the First Methodist church, will officiate. Burial will be made In the lb- < atur cemetery. Set Wages For New Power Plant Workers Confer Today On Pay Rate For City Workers The wage-filing committee, ap I pointed to set miaimuin wage stan - dards for skilled and common la , iH>r. whl< h will be used in construe | ’ tion of the proposed electric plant I I improvement in liecatur. is hold I ing a second session late today In an effort to reach agreement It is necesary that minimum wage scales be placed !n the specifics lions of the proposed improvement. '>efore bids tan be twelve,! An] eailier meeting of the three man Committee failed to bring about I an agreement. Ira Bodie. Ileca’ur carpenter, is , la'tor’s representative and Cal Yost was appointed by mayo-' John lioan ' to represent the city A represent* Uve of the state department of la- • Itor i* the third member of the ‘ group, and can lie any represents five sent by the head of tha' department. Common labor and track drivers I were placed in the original pro ‘ pnaed male at SUS an hour, but it is understood that this figure has been reduced »übs>antially The law provides that minimum scales shall be set for all types nt labor I and that In the case of trades which are orgamted locally, the, stars Ta

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it also rejected as false from beginning to end charges leveled at this country by Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov and Ambassador Alexander 8 Panyushkin in the < a»e of the three Russian school teachers who refused to go back to their communist homeland. And the l'nited States denounced as "highly improper" the con- ' duct of "officials of the Soviet i government" who made the < barI ges It did not ask Panyushkin's I recall, but it did demand that !»makin get out of this country "within a reasonable time" White House pres* secretary Charles (1 Ross said the action against Lomakin was taken at the dire, tion of President Tru man The r. s rejection of Rusadag charges and It* diplomatic counterattack were contained in a note handed to the Soviet ambassador last night and made public today For the first time the l'nited States win taking the offensive ill the < axe of the three teachers who -ought sanctuary here rather than go home to what they fe>red would be execution or slavery Soviet officials had charged that the teacher* were "kidnaned’ ami forcibly kept from sailing for Russia as scheduled on July .'!! In diplomatic language, this country called those changes lies. It was the heaviest dip'omatic blow the l'nited States has struck against Soviet Russia since the two countries established relations in 1933 It was the first time this country had demanded recall of a high Soviet diplomat Th«- consul general In New York is perhaps the highest Soviet offiflal In the l’nited States next to the ambassador Russia maintains only one other consulate general In this country. It is at San Francisco Delivery and publication of the note left only one perfunctory act to be performed before |»m.ikin become* a mere private Soviet citizen in I’ S official eve* That was the revocation by Pres iTu— *•. r* ( , Floe) LATE BULLETINS Milwaukee. Aug. 20—(UP) — President Truman today promised the AFL International Typographical Union he woufel Investigate charges that Sen Robert A. Taft, R, 0. had called upon the national labor relations board lawyers to bring contempt of court proceedings agamat the union and its officers. Washington. Aug. 20 — fUP> —A converted B 17 bomber earring Gen. Hoyt 8. Vandenberg, air force chief of staff, landed safely at National airport today after one of its four engines failed over the Atlantic. Washineton. Aon. X — (UP)— President Truman today ordered the justice department to seek a federal court In function to head off a threatened east coast longshoremen's strike.

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