Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 198, Decatur, Adams County, 21 August 1948 — Page 1

I. XLVL No. 198.

ORDER U. S. RIOT SQUADS TO KIDNAP AREA

I 1 jjlecafur Legion Ilaces E. Chicago I" Opener Today Locals Out To Avenge Defeat In Finals Last Season; Begins At 1:3O Drawing the 1917 state chainpion wball leam for the opener of (he icrfcan Legion state baseball irnament, which starts at 1:10 s afternoon at Worthman field, »bat Decatur entry dld-but Molly es. manager of the local entry ,-s his aggergalion "will be in •re fighting for the title." tecatur and East Chicago square in the first game. The same two ,m* met in the final game of the 17 tourney and East Chicago! urged the champ by H decision e Decatur team will lie trying to •n the fount. rhe second game of the Saturday rgrani will get underway at 4 lock and will match Fortville ilnst Evansville The winners of ■he two Saturday games will meet afternoon at 2:30 o’clock ■or the stale title. ■ I Cates at Worthman field will lie Mnpeii a half hour before game time ■nn !«>th Saturday and Sunday and ■there will he no advance sale of-■t-.kets Admission will be 50 cents each session. B|| Indications are that record —Hcn.wds from Decatur ami northern ■lndiana will witness the games The ® ■l.egion league is regarded as one ■of the best amateur leagues in the' ■state ■Begin Dismantling 101 Kraft Machinery Milk Collections Being Shunted Elsewhere I Work of dismantling the machin i B ry at the large Kraft Foods plant | ■ in Decatur has begun and the ina B rhim-ry, much of it new. will be ■ ihipped to other Kraft plants ■ t'lrmighout the nation Several B Kraft executives are assisting in ■ ta> allocation of the machinery KI Company officials stated that ■ while they would have no final | ■ I lan* to announce for several day* , ■ then farm customers in this au-.i ■ would be taken care of and at least ■ for the present the regular i idler B turn routes are being maintained B Milk which formerly came to the ■ l*«atur plant to be made into ■ ihe-se is now being trm ked tn linn 9 tington and Kendallville, and mm* ■ is luting lost. K What disposition will be made nt ■ I 'he large modern building on South ■ W,m tester street remained an open B question. A recent addition to the ■ build ng made it one of the most B modern dairy manufacturing plants B in the nation. ■ It was learned from an aiithorda B U'e source that Krait ofticials || would meet some time next week. I B wither in Chicago or Fo.t Wayne to B make plans for disposal of the teal B estate here. I Two County Youths In *1 Auto Accident Unhurt I Two Adams county young men. I Tom Coffee. 1«. of Decatur, and j| William Reichert. Jr.. of near Monll foe escaped injury when an autoll mobile owned by William Reichert. Il Sr., and driven by Coffee left the. II road and plunged 10 feet down an II embankment northwest of Decatur | II B *«t the Lewton bridge. | The mishap occurred about 11 11 o'clock Friday night The car struck I I * tree and etopped rolling about I >• feet from the river, l-oose gravel I ••• blamed for the accident Dam j| Me was estimated at about |4OO J f'offao and Raichert. Jr. were the II oß| y occupants of the car. Two Scalded By Boiling jluice At Cannery ■ Berne. Ang 11—Two men were H burned, one badly. In two scpar ■I »te accidents at the Limberlost I fanning company in Geneva II Ruarei Veach, plant manager wa« ■ the moat seriously burned and i* g • Patient at the Jay county bos I 9“*l at Portland A large pipe ■ "staining hot tomato Juice I ttroke. scalding Veach badly on I legs and feet Gera'd Marlow I •• employe at the plant, was I burned leaa seriously

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

91 st Birthday Spent In Hard Day At Work New York. Aug. 21—I UP) - ■ George Gru. who observed his ! 91st birthday yesterday by working eight hours in his ■ Brooklyn law office, said there is • nothing like work to keep a man j alive. "If I stopped working for so , mm h n« one day I'd die," *aid ’ ■ Gru. who is the oldest practicing lawyer in New York state. He began his career in 1878 as a clerk in the law office of Alexander Hamilton, Jr., grandson l of the first secretary of the treasury. Wage Committee Parley Fizzles, I Discord Flares Board Os Works Now Has Problem Os Pay Scale On New Project The wage committee, which met i Friday afternoon In a second effort to set a wage scale for workmen on the proposed addition to 'the Decatur light plant, failed to agree and under the law the minimum wage scale will now he set by the board of works. It is necessary to set the mini ' mum scale before the specifica'(tions can be completed and bids for the construction received The board of works, composed of Mayor John Iman, city attorney Role ert Anderson and councilman Joseph Krick held a preliminary (meeting Friday evening, but will not formally adopt a wage scale until early next week. It is believed that the wage scale will range from about tl.lt an ! hour for unskilled workers to 12 «M>; an hour for skilled workmen, i These figures are merely the mini ! | mum which can be paid It was i pointed out. and there is nothing | to beep the successful bidder from . paying more as long as it Is above' the minimum. Friday's meeting between Call Yost, representing the city. Ira 1 Bodie, representing lalatr. and a i representative of the state labor 'department, broke up after it was I evident the proposals were too far apart, to ever come to an agreement. Figures offered at the meeting were not made public but it is understood that Mr. Bodie proposed a considerably higher rate for common labor and also for, some of the crafts. It was learned this morning that the works board probably, would set the figures at an in ; between amount, somewhat higher than the Yost proposals and low er than the Bodie proposals -■ — I Plan Swimming Classes At Berne Pine Lake Berne. Aug 21 Miss Sally Bag ley. a certified fled Croat water safety instructor, will give instructions for beginners 10 years of age and under, at Pine latke starting Tuesday, lugust 24. Classes will be held for two weeks. Tues day through Saturday, at 100 p m

— Rash To Be Installed As Local Legion Commander

Lawreuce Rash. Decatur mail carrier, will I* installed < otnmandar of legion Post No. 43 in servIces scheduled to he held at the local post home Monday night at g o'clock- Arthur Russell, of Ken dallvilie. newly elected fourth distj rict commander, will be in charge. Mr Rash. who succeeds Charles I Morgan, will l>e the first veteran of Wortd War II to command the local post Other officera to be Installed are R C. Hersh, first vice commander. Hugh Andrews, second vice commander; Robert Ashhaucher. third vice commander; Fred Schamerloh. fourth vice commander The Rev 0. C. Bnsee pastor of the St. Paul s Lutheran church, ban been appointed chap lain Lunch and refreshments will be served at the close of the program

Probers Hoping Peters Will Be - Climax Witness Mystery Man May 'Crack Open' Soviet Intrigue Investigation Washington, Aug. 21—(CP) — House investigators hoped today that the mysterious J. V. Peters will prove to he the witness who finally will "crack open" their ! ' Soviet spy inquiry. Peters, whAse exact where j about* are unknown, has been ' named as the former leader of the ! communist underground in the United States. The house unAmerican activities committee has drawn up a suhpena for him. Peters is now free on 25,000 bond awaiting a deportation hearing. He was arrested In October under a 1918 law which forbids aliens to belong to an organizej thm that seeks to overthrow the I government by force and vloI Jence. U. 8. immigration commissioner Watson Miller said he does not have the authority to produce Peters for the committee IDsaid he can call the man only for I a deportation hearing But Rep, Richard M. Nixon. R. ! Cal., a committee member, said that Miller intends to hold such : a hearing within a week or so. I He made it clear that the com-! mitte wil serve its suhpena on him al that time. If. of course. Peters is located : before the hearing, committee I members said, the committee sub-' I pena will be served on him with out delay Committee members raid they believe Peter* has Information that would "bring us to the real heart of the Soviet spv case" lint i they conceded that like previous witnesses he might refuse to talk. Members said they thought he (Tara T« r,-* Five) Gls In Hoosier Colleges Fewer Survey Shows 15 P. C. Drop In Veteran Rolls Indianapolis. Aug. 21—(UP)— I The ranks of war veteran* in Hoosier colleges and universities are thinning out. A survey showed today that the number of World War II vets en rolled this fall will be approx! ' mately 15 percent lower than last year. The United Press learned from registrars of 15 state schools that ex-servicemen will he scarcer on I the campuses during the first sem-, ester of 1948-49 year than the same •term of the 1947 48 year. The decrease, which th* survey ' showed would fall somewhere be I twl»en 12 and IS percent, compares j with approximately a three percent drop In the 1947 fall enroll rnent from the 194« fall registry tion of veterans at the same 13 schools. The achool-by-school survey also showed that the number of mar ried veterans ranged from 20 to «•> ’***• •Mwel

11 I ' wi I >»' J \ HH ’* '. ’. ’ll l I 1111 -■I 1: 1 M I LAWRENCE RASH

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, August 21, 1948

President Starts 9-Day Cruise I 1 lO HIS BRIEF CASE bulging, and with some of his top-bracket advisor* aboard, president Truman board* the presidential yu< lit Wil liam.-burg at the Naval Gun Factory pier in Washington for a 9-day cruise on Chesapeake Hay and the Atlantic. His cruise will combine rest with preparation for “kick-off" of his campaign for re-election.

Housewives Vowing To Continue Strikes Determination Dying In Two Cities, Report By United Press Housewives throughout the country vowed today to continue their organized price strike* into a third week to prevent the meat Industry , from panning new price boosts on to them. The drive to force priie* down lor at leant hold the line -wan reported to be dying out. however, in Philadelphia and in Tulsa But elsewhere the clamor for ! price relief was unabated The chairman of the league of women shoppers at Minneapolis said "we are fighting to the fin : i»h." Denver price strike leader* said they would ask women to i remove meat from their menu* three days each week "until price* 1 return to OPA levels." Ix>* Angeles women aaid they ("need the boycott more than ever" in view of high livestock price* which threaten to push the retail prices even higher. .Mrs Minnie Golden Ohio presii dent of the women-for Wallace group, said the organization would extend its meat strike to Aug. 2* . because "we have no choice with I prices still climbing." The movement was still growing ■ln New York state, with organiz ed groups fighting the cost of living spiral at Binghamton. Syra mao. Albany. Schenectady. Troy, ami Glen Fall* Buyer resistance strengthened this past week at Jacksonville. Fla. where markets said they were ' selling hardly any meat" i But there gtill were no definite .signs that the price strikes were I having the desired affect Some major stores in Camden. ,N. J., cut prices 60 percent but {others in the city were unaffected Butchers at Dallas. Denver. Des Moines, and a few other cities reported that their sales reduced i but they blamed the slow business on hot weather rather than on the ' price strike* San Francisco dealers said sales i volume slumped last week but ■ ha* now returned to normal Many leaders in the price fight were asking their followers to buy cheaper cuts of meat rather than to eliminate all purchases. Moat butchers agreed that was the best way to knock the top off the price rise. They said that If customers would concentrate on buying the cheaper cuts of meat which are the most plentiful, prices on the scarcer cuts would drop WiATHKR Generally fair and warmer today. Increasing eievdlness with widely scattered thundershow ere tonight. Sunday partly cloudy, sealer.

Weekend Negotiations Scheduled In Harvester Strike; Pessimism Rife Chicago, Aug. 21. — (Ul’i CIO United Auto Workers and Inter-i national Harvester company officials scheduled weekend nezotla . tions today but officers of the firm; said they had little hope for set Hing a strike by 21.000 UAW em pleyas. Officials said that mute of the "big problems' in the dispute had been discussed. The strike began last Tuesday. Air Force Probing | Fatal B-29 Crash 17 Killed In South Dakota Air Mishap Rapid City. 8. D. Aug. 21 (Ul’i — Air force officers today investigated the crash of a B-29 which ploughed into the ground on a take off and killed it* 17 crew members and passengers. The huge ship crashed and burned 500 yards from the end of the runway yesterday at the star* of a routine training flight Bodies of the victim*, most y "new" B-29 crewmen, were badly charred. Medical officers found it difficult to identify them Official* withheld names until next-of-kin are notified Capt Tom Segler. public rela lion* officer, aaid the plane dipped It* left wing as it raced along , the runway, nosed over, ami then plunged to the ground The ship flipped over on Its back When It hit the ground and • burst into flame*. Mrs larwrence Tietz, a farm , woman who saw the crash, said J a "hig thing" fell from the plane’s wing Rescue teams said a flaming engine probably dropped off The plane, taking off on a north runway, crashed on the Tietz , farm between the barn and house Mrs Tietz said she saw the ship I bearing down on the house and , ran outside The plane took off at approxl mately 5 p. tn. (CSTI Rix of those aboard were air , force passenger*, official* said The other* were regular craw menil>ers. making a final flight to qualify a* full-fledged B-29 air men. 1 Most of the plane * air force unit, the 29th bomb group is in { England The group was among the flrat wave of B 29* which flew there earlier this vear 1 Col. Albert T. Wilson. Jr .. commander of the 29th bombardmen! wing, arrived here Thursday Io assume command Segler raid the crash was the ftrat fa'al accident since the Rsnld Cl’v wartime base was reactivated tn Anrtl. IMT. Th* base site of the world’* ••reset aimlane haneer. I* one of •hree strategic medium bomber I bases in the nation.

Cities Report Getting Queries From Overseas ! Underscores Army Warning That Reds Gathering U. S. Data Washington Aug. 21 fl'P)— Reports from all over the country today underscored army warnings that Russian Intelligence agents are combing the United States for data essential to strategic military planning. A United Press survey of Cham hers of Commerce and business men disclosed that suspect imiuiries have been pouring in from overseas to industrial center* wliich would be prime targets in event of war. Many of the communications were "suspicious” enough to war lant turning them over to the FBI or military intelligence. Ami one Chamber official said supplying the Information sought would be "like pin-pointing important tar gets to the Russians." A number of other*, however regarded the inquiries received as entirely innocuous. Army intelligence asked the commerce department here and bus! nessmen throughout the country to lie wary of Information requests from overseas, no matter how harmless they seem It did so after learning that inquiries of seemingly innocent origin, but fol lowing a set pattern, had been sent to more than 80 Chambers of Com ■ merce and to several score indus trial concern*. The bulk of these queries ask foi maps, information about terrain • and transportation, telephone com - inunlcations data, and Industrial facts of many kinds. Kuril Information. the army says, could find its way into "order of battle" plans for strategic bombing, sabotage, or invasion. The inquiries for the most part home from what the army calls thinly disguised Soviet intelligence agents in Russian satellite nations and Soviet Germany Many, however, come from friendly countries and may or may not be legitimate Several queries were sent to North and South Dakota which It was pointed out. lie on potential bomber router from across the Arctic. The army said vital industrial titles like Detroit, Pittsburgh and Chicago have been bombarded with inquiries. It said telephone com iiiunitatlons data have been sought from New York, Boston. Philadel phia. and Boston Chicago, Boston. Detroit, and New Orleans commercial and In tlustrial organizations reported, however, that they have received no request* of the kind the army warns against And a Chamber spokesman in Pittsburgh said so rnanv Russian "observers" visited his city during the war that the Soviets probably know all they want to know about this country's greatest steel center The commerce department dis dosed that the army asked it to turn over "samples" of foreign in formation request*. One such in-i quiry was a request placed with’ the U. S consulate at Hamburg. I r lerw Te l‘*«e •!*»

Boastful Young Killer Sobs As Death Nears Columbus. O. Aug 21 < CP>—• Valerian Lacier, received him lnt< Donald Frohner. IS. who boasted the Homan Catholic church and ped hl mlnto the electric chair. ‘ the youth said he was sorry he ped hi ininto the electric chair, killed William C Spleth. an Ashta went to hie death in Ohio peniten- hula. 0.. salesman Frohner killed tlary last night sobbing and plead Spleth in January, 194?. after the Ing for mercy. salesman had given him a ride on "Oh. God. have mercy on me." the highway. The youth was only the youthful killer moaned as 14 years old at the time guards strapped him into the chair "Tell the people I m sorry I ever At one point he became so started the whole thing." Frohner hysterical that the kindly prison said in repentance “. . lam going chaplain pleader! "Don. die like a to die I was baptized in the man" j<hur<h a few hours aeo ami I be Frohner kept up his masquerade lieve In God. It Is Cod's will that I ns the hardened killer almost until go to the chair the heavy wooden door to the "Guys like me go wrong because deathhouse swung open before of the way they are brought up I him ' *•" guided in life by the movies He had boasted to newspaper and other such things I had no men a few days before that he one to go to for advice I always wasn't sorry for the killing figured the easiest way out was to "111 be smiling when I sit down." try to outsmart the other guy “ he bragged Two guards and Father Lucier A few hours before the Mecu led the youth from bis cell at tlon, the prison chaplain. Father (tore Te rss» rivet

■■ i • —————— Abduct 4 More Berlin Policemen From U. S. Zone

Lomakin Packs Bags After U. S. Ouster Leaves In Week For Russia With Family New York. Aug 21 (UP) An air of mystery surrounded activities at the Soviet consulate today where consul general Jacob Lom •kin was preparing to leave for home Aug 28. Lomahln's plan* to sail on tliq Swedish-American liner Stork holm were revealed by the steam ship line last night. ie*s than 24 hours after the U S. state depart ment d'-manded his recall However, the steamwhip line said passage was booked for la>m akin and hl* wife and two chil dren several days ago. Indicating that possibly the Russian gov ernment had planned to call him to account for his handling of the case of the fugitive Soviet teach er* Swedlnh-American line officials sail larmakln would leave New York next Saturday for Gotelrore Sweden, traditional route for Soviet offir lais returning to Mo* cow. Meanwhile. Mrs. Oksana Kosen kina, the 52 year-old Russian school teacher who brought about Ijomakin’s downfall bv JumiHnr »rom a third storv window at th* consulate was reported to lie Im proving at Roosevelt hospital “She is sllghtlv better, though she Is still Hie critical list." attendant* said Doctors said she would have to have several operations a* soon she I* well enough Hospital authorities refused to consider Lomakin’* proposal to allow two phvslclsns of his own *hoo«|ng Io examine th* woman tgxmakln nam°d 'wo doctor- •*« terdsv. hut the hn«p|tnl re<-**'’ to lot th°m «e« Mrs Ko’enkln--hecau** they were not surgeonr a* specified Tountess Alexandra Tolsto* who gave Mrs Kosenklni refit"* st Reed farm. Cottage Valiev N V . visited th* ll'tl* teacher for t> short time ve*’erday “Mrs Kosenkln-t w»« too 111 to see anvone e’se" th* citontes* said "But I told her not to get exdted The coitnle** said Mr- K.-»«*" kina inked to «ee an easter” orthodox priest and **•* arranged for the me'ropolltan Theopolis to see h*r todav Police •frenr’hened the tmard around Mr*. Kosenklna "as a nrec»ution«rv me»*nre" In view nf the state department's mote In onstfng Isimakln Ano'ber defective was assigned to the hospital to help screen vis lt<»r« asking to see Mr* Kosenklna The detec'fve iolned the detail o' | foes patro>men. three detectives,* ! noticewoman and a police lieu i tenant on duty at the hospital

Price Four Cents

Top Military Police Authorities Confer In Effort To Halt Soviet Kidnapings Berlin, Aug 21— (UP) —Russian military police kidnaped four more German policemen from the western sec-tor* of Berlin today, and United States military authorities appeared to be preparing to resist any further Russian raid* into the American sector. Col. Frank Howley, U. S. com--1 mandant In Berlin, ordered three | riot squad* of American military policemen to duty tonight In the I area border between the Russian and U. S sector*, where the kidnaping* have occurred The squad* consist of about 25 men each, anti all will be fully i armed Plans for entrenching the riot squads In the area, especially near the Potsdamer Platz, which is Berlin s Times Square. were drawn up at the seen* by top ml'lfary no lce authorities The plans were approved by Howlev and hv Rav Ashworth, American public safety chief. There appeared to be every reason to suppose that the U. S military wottM violently resist anv new Russian attempts to abduct German policemen or civilians from the American sector A 'otal of nine German policemen have been kidnaped by Soviet military po'h-e from the American sector Three have escaned. hut the other sly still were he'd. The two alelm’ed todav were beaten, and one was stabbed before being dragged across tbr lioondary Two other German po’D-emet wi re kidnaped today from the ad mining British zone and they too still are mi-sing Brßisih and \merlc.in author!He* sent violent protests to Russian commanders, and th* British strengthened their mlllatrv notice pr<-<*"iions in line with tmerlc-in moves RuMKian army authorities meanwhile charged that the American <-*i»or was » “ganister haven" similar »<• »h" '’’'l 'l* v * nt -ago and «»!'< It "must and will he cleared of its fascist and crim ln«| element " I - s provnst marshal Col W \ Ftlck made a close Inspection of the border area and mapped i Turn T«» Fit*! 'Don’t Touch' Label For Dads, Husbands Issue Regulations To Local Boards Washington. Aug 21 ll'Pt Selective service official* today prepared to t«ll local draft Ixiards that there’* a "do not touch" laltel on father*, husband*, ami nine other categories of men The national draft organization a« te.l on order of President Truman who issued an executive order yesterday deferring the 11 categories from military »vrvlce under the new 19-through-25 draft. A *|M>ke«man said that it wa* a matter of mechanics to transform the 3<t page executive order into new regulations These will he printed by the government printing office, baled and shipped by freight to ail >if the state offices "This will take from a week to 10 days." the spokesman said "Each state director will receive enough of the new regulations to supply ea< h of his local board* — there are about 4.000 such board* in the country. "They should arrive liefore the ’ registration of potential draftee.i Is carried out between Aug SO and Sept 18” Army sources have indicated that they will ask selective service to issue its first call on Sept 2. There will he. draft offh i.<ls ’ said, a 40-dav period between the draft call and the delivery of the draftee to • specified army camp That would mean that the first 1948 draftee wow'd don his nnl'(form the first week In November (Tara Ta l-age S’aatl