Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 199, Decatur, Adams County, 23 August 1948 — Page 1

XLVI. No. 199.

HREE AMERICANS RELEASED BY RUSSIANS

■lied Envoys I Conference lilh Russians ■U S. Ambassador ■And Anqio-French ■ Envoys At Parley | Moscow, Aug. 23—(UP)— Kremier Stalin attended toKight's conference with west Km envoys at the Kremlin. K|i>»h ■»'. Aug. 21 — (VP) — PreKr Josef Stalin wax believed to KiHi-nilinz an important conferK* with envoys of the western K,-r- at the Kremlin tonight. and Kend of nearly four weeks neyot K»n« <>n the Berlin blockade and K*r Orman problems appeared at | The meeting began %t 9 pm ■pm CDT) with U. S. ambassador ■alt>-r Bedell Smith, British spec- ■ envoy Erank Roberts, and ■eni b ambassador Yves Chataig■*ii representing their nations ■Olfu rally, the meeting was to be Mh Soviet foreign minister V. M ■ulotov. as the others in the serie* ■ir h liegan late In July have been ■ Inn there were strong indication* ■st Stalin himself was attending |»< as he attended a previous r 01l ■retire on August 2. and that this light be the climactic conference I the series in which the western Ktvoys have sought some settle Lnt of differences with Russia lv<- Herman questions. . lit was noteworthy that the con ■rente began at 9 p m. — the same Iniir as that of Aug. 2 which StalI attended. The Russian premier ■ known to have a custom of hold Its important meetings in the late lirii.ng hours. This Is a late hour lan conferences with .Molotov llotie have begun. I The western envoys had prepar Id long and carefully for tonight’s Inference, spending several days In urgent consultations and in re ■errinc. questions back to their re Ipe. live capitals in order to be cer I Tara To Paar Twel frazil Minister Is Leaker Here Sunday I The Rev. A. C. K. Gillander. of Brazil, delivered the sermon at the komltig service of the First Preslytwian church Sunday. A crowd bat completely filled the auditor■m attended. Rev. Gillander. who brved as a chaplain in the World ■ar 11. and has been pastor at Bra - Bl lor 13 yearsi gave an Interestsermon based on present world Itmdltions and the future of this ktomic age. He and Mrs. Gillander lame here Sunday morning from lUarsaw, where they have bean k'hiing. and returned there during Ihr afternoon. gearings Are Planned or 'Small Business' • * Washington. D. C.. Aug. 23 - (( Pi • The house small business com ktlttee today planned hearings in a Atzen midwestern cities this fall on tomplaints of the “little men" of •*>» business world. •'hairman Walter Ploeser. R . Mo •a»l one of the hearings would be •*« at South Bend. Ind . on Sept. ■s« Ploeser said the committee would Jh’estigate the complaints that the •tnall business men feel they are *•■» «iueexed out by "tnonopolutic' t rai | e practices. Uren Gerber Badly 'Wed In Accident torso Gerber. 1 •year-old son of Mrs. George Gerber, of De- '*•' rmite wai [ n serious con at Adams county memorial “’••’•'si today, having undergone a fcajoT internal operation following •traffic accident In Allen county Ssadsy Pad details were available thia tf '*n»oon concerning the serious •rcident. It was learned that four ***-Usd youths, Leroy Peters. Car Worthman. Robert Mankey ••>» Gerber lad. were driving in * automobile which collided at a '“"airy Intersection near Poe with I ♦* driven by Harve Mankey of **" Eralgvlile The Gerber boy appersatly the only person set injured in the mishap WCATMCR r »ir and continutd hot to- "'•*< and Tuesday. Afternoon ‘‘"•Mrotures M to M degrees.

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Housewives Forced To Slash Budgets Husband's Paycheck Won't Buy Extras By United Press The average American housewife ran barely stretch her husband's paycheck to pay for food, clothing and housing and usually must dip Into the family's savings for any extras, a United Press survey Indicated today. Housewives in cities across the country said they had to trim their | budgets of every luxury under today's inflated prices. A choice steak, a fancy dessert, ’ or an extra suit for dad means they must sell a bond saved dur--1 ing the war or watch that much • money < hacked out of their bank 'i book. ' j They said the recent wave of buy1 era' strikes hadn't, helped the situation but they still were hopeful that retailers eventually would he r forced to mark prices down to hold their business. ' A New York housewife said she had to return to her old job as telephone operator, even though • she has a family of five. In order to supplement her husband's sal- • ary. "They say there's a boom.*' she ' said "Where is it? My daughter's school tuition has doubled in the ' last two years I spend $35 a week • for food alone where sls used to *' do." 1 The wife of a midwest rallroaiL worker said she had cut out meat 1 from the family menu entirely anti • was serving "a ltd of fish." Once a week they have chicken. ‘ i 'We don't dip Into our savings." ' she said, "(or the simple reason r hat we haven't been aide io save .anything In these times" ’ A lais Angeles lalairing man's r , wile sail! they hadn't had bacon in i the house for three months and i she has now stopped using any meat at all since housewives start ’ I ed thelf liuyeis' strike. » The commerce department report|ed from Washington that prices are getting higher faster. It said • the area of soaring prices has ( lure to I'nar I not City Os Huntington Opens Celebration t Os Its Centennial , Huntington. Ind . Aug. 23 <1 Pt \n event that Huntington has 1 been expecting for 1«e years openled here today. ’• An aerial laimbardment. sirens. 1 ringing churi h bells attd all the ’1 other mdse the 17.1MH1 citizens could drum up heraied the opening of 1 Huntington* centennial week. ' The emphasis during the weekr long festivities will be on the past. 1 with two organizations spearhead--1 ing the participation of the citizens ! < "The Brothers of the brush," all approximately wealing king beards, and "the Sisters of the Swish." I gar tied in replicas of HM' year old j , lothlng. were on every hand to aid i in the fun making. Four Youths Report Auto Is Fired On Mistaken Identity By Farmer Blamed I Sheriff Herman Bowman was • conferring with prosecutor Mvles ■ F Parrish todav concerning just what to do in the strange ease of four teenaee motorists and the gnn-totinr farmer Kenneth Beck. 17. Ralph Berk. 15 James Tapp. 17. and Jerome Dangler. 11. »'• <* Decatur, were , visiting some of the Beck a rela I tires three miles southeast of Dr ‘ catur on V. « ” ,h * ’** . _,t about 3:30 p m Sundav after ' noon the lads decided to drive to - Fort Wayne • 1 Finding themselves going In the wrong direction, thev turned into , the driveway '* «he idnev i home, where they turned their r auto around. When they saw Hague looking at them pecnliariv , the driver shouted. "Thanks for , letting US use your driveway, mis i ’"a thev drove out. they t<dd the ( sheriff. IMwe pumped shotrifl. r nellets into the rear of the car • rh-w rot part wav down th* hl hbefore one of their rear tiree Z”t complately Rat. ftogn. «• renorted to have told the sheriff be j^ wn , who had been "annoyinc him on r tcant nights

Plan To Recall Woman Spy To Witness Stand Lomokin, Family Book Passage For Passage To Sweden Washington. Aug. 23 — (UP) — House investlgutoiu revealed today that Elizabeth T. Bentley, confessed ex-communist spy. will be recalled to the witness stand to outline wartime efforts of Soviet agents to "blueprint" American industry. They said her story will lie told next month after the house unAmerican activities committee ends Its investigations of alleged Red Infiltration in the government and turns its attention to industrial espionage "Miss Bentley has considerable information on wartime Industrial espionage." a committee member said. Meanwhile, the committee renewed efforts to determine which of two key witnesses Is lying. They are Alger Hiss, ex-state department official, and Whittaker Chambers, and admitted former Communist who now is a senior editor Os Times Magazine. Chamliers has accused Hiss of membership in a pre war "elite" Red underground. Hiss has flatly denied the charges, describing them as "complete fabrications." Rep. Richard M. Nixon. R , Tai., acting as a one-man subcomml'p-e. arranged a series of closed sessions for today and tomorrow to question secret witnesses on the Ilian-Cham hers confroversy. Lomakin To Leave New York. Aug. 23 — (I'P) — Soviet consul general Jacob lae niakin booked passage for Sweden "quite soma time liefore" his recall was demanded by the U. S. government. a npukesmaiTfor the Swedish American line disclosed today, Iznnakin engaged a suite on the HS StiK-kholm. scheduled Io sail al noon Saturday I from pier 97. North ami W. 57th St.) for an eight-day (Turn Te Paar Tw«i lions Will Resume Meetings Sept. 1 Picnic, Softball Game Are Planned The Lions club will resume its weekly meetings with a picnic and softball game at Worthman Field on Septemlier 7. D. Burdette Custer. program chairman, announced today. Meetings were suspended during July and August and following the ball game, the attendance record may drop to a new low for the fall months. Thurman I. Grew, publicity chairman, opined However, every care and conaideration will tie given to the player members and ample opportunity afforded the 70 Lions to take their place on the field during the five Inning game. The committee, with due conaid erat loti for "casualties," has arrang ed for Lions Bob Zwlck and John M. Doan to have their ambulances parked at the field. Dr. Harold Zwlck. physician member of the <lul> will lie on duty" troughout the game, the committee announcea The men are requeated to appear In clothing suitable for the occaa lon at 5 o'clock. A short business session will be held during which George l-aurent will give a report on the results of the Lions conces rions held al the street fair. Gerhard Schults, newly elected club president, will be in charge of the meeting. Jauregui Funeral Tuesday Morning Sharon Kay Jauregui. 10 and onehalf month old daughter of Robert and Bernice Jauregui, of Decatur route 1 died at 11:30 o'clock Sun day morning at the Adams county memorial hospital Daath followed a week s Illness of complicatloM. Snrvivfns in addition to the parents la a brother. Bobby Rufua. One brother in deceaafd. Funeral aerrlces will be held at 10: M a.m. Tueaday at St Mary's CathoUc eharch. the Rev. Ignatius Vlchuru official lag Burial will be la the Catholic comet ary The body waa removed thia afternoon from the Black fuaerai home to the reel deuce.

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Riot Squads Patrol Berlin ■« rikvte* ' < i.-.moe • n ’ K* i(iq V, ..team » IMK ■Ml' J ' J ... I —jr; B • I KKH ** i Jb ! ‘ Ju ML g y j JU *JHbvHBk 1 H w-' A STRONG GUARD us I'. S. Military Police stands at the limits of the American sector of Berlin ami riot squads patrol the zone fol i lowing a sweeping < leumip of black marketers in Potsdamer Platz. Four raids by Rus-iun miliary recently, in which two German pof Ecemen were stabbed and Ixa'en. brought almut Hie riot patrol

Omer Reusser Named Draft Board Member I Appointment Fills Local Draft Board Omer Returner, a World War II . veteran or Berne route 2, has been i named to rill the third position on I Adams county selective service board 1. vacated by the resigna . lion last week or Vlctgr I. Stuckey. i Mr. Reusser Is head of the pay- ; roll department or the Dunbar i furniture company. Berne, and secretary of the Berne Chamber of Commerce His father was killed In action in France during the first World War. Mr. Reusser will serve with Ralph E. Roop, board chairman during the recent war. who is city engineer and superintendent of the municipal water department, and Walter J. • Bockman. Decatur Insurance and real estate man. and also a former board member Although first registration will ' take place throughout the nation one week from today, final plans have not yet materialised on where ' Adams county youths will go to sign up for the peacetime draft During the recent war the first ’ floor of the Itecatur library, now ’ occupied by the Chamber of Com merce, served as draft board head ' quarters, but it Is nbt known whether that office will be the new board's home. Warns Hoosiers Os High Properly Tax I Urges Citizens To Attend Hearings Indianapolis. Aug. 23 (VP)— . The Indiana taxpayers association today warned Hoosier property , owners they will have themselves ! to blame for "the highest property taxes in Indiana’s history" unless . they attend local budget review hearings I Harry Miesse, chairman of the > association's Imard of directors, called attention to a series of meetings to Ire held Aug. 23Sept 13. "Vnder the Indiana plan" Miesse said, "clt Isens are entitled to attend any preliminary or final meeting where budgets and rates 1 are given official consideration " School board rates will he fixed by city and town boards on Aug N. Miesse said He added that 1 final badget action for city coun die and town hoards was slated 1 for Aug. 3#. by township ad visor y * boards Aug. 31. and by county councils on Sept 73. Miesse said county adjustment 1 boards would meet Sept. 13. and 1 cltlxeaa "shoold attend those meet- * Inga and object to any Items they deem excessive or needless " 1 The taxpayers' association official said taxes collected this yesr CTwrs Tw t ass Tww>

Receives Sample Os 1949 License Plates Harry Essex. manager of the local auto license bureau, has received a sample of the 1949 auto plates which will be used in Indiana . next year. The background is crimson and | the numerals are while. The word Indiana is at the top and 1949 at; the lad tom of thu plate The plates . are made of metal The colors are those of Indiana I'niverslty and Wa bash college. Mr. Essex said. Lamphere Baby To Undergo Operation Medical Experts Decree Operation Chicago. Aug 2.I—(VPI — Mis Irene laitnphere said today she was "perfectly satisfied” with the decision Os six medical experts who decreed that her 22-month old daughter. Pamela, should be operated upon within two months Pamela and her parents became the center of a conflicting storm of public opinion when Judge Walter O'Malley began hearing the divorce suit Mrs. laimphere. 21. filed against Pamela's father, Fred. 2.3. The couple had quarreled over Pame a's rare ailment She was Irnrn with her bladder outside her body and inverted The laimp here's doctors told them the condition had to lie corrected or the baby would die before she was five. But. they said, there was only a small chance she would survive the operation Lamphere wanted the baby operated upon but Mrs. lamphere was against it. They quarreled so bitterly over the matter that they finally separated In the divorce suit, both wanted custody of Pamela That meant that Judge O'Malley had the responsibility of deciding whether she should go to the father, and undergo the opera tion. or to the mother, who wou'd not risk It. O'Malley called six prominent doctors who examined the child , for 30 minutes yesterday and reached an unanimous verdict. They said. surgery should be completed in three states to re move the exterior appendage of the inverted bladder Dr. Karl Meyer. n<»ted surgeon and Cook county medical superintendent gave the baby a good chance for recovery. "The odds will he more than ninety percent in the child's fav or.” he said. "Twenty five years ago it would have been hopeless But with the life-saving drugs we now have, the morta'ity rate Is reduced to a minimum of two percent ** Meyer said the examination showed Pamela was normal and hoalthv in ever* other resnect He said the child's odd waddline gait would he corrected to "a con siderahle extent" by the opera «Tuee To r»<» Twei

Authorities Free Three Arrested Americans But Photographer Is Seized

Navy Gas Storage Depot Is Blasted Guam. Aug. 23 — H’P) A defective gunge was resbonalble for the explosion and (Ires that ripped through the navy's gasoline storage depot yesterday, official reports said today. Three navy men were killed and a fourth Is missing in the blast which shook the entire Island. The official reports said the guage permitted gasoline to over flow Into a ravine, where a spark from a jeep caused the first of six explosions. Ruth Leaves Estate To Wife, Daughters Refuses Estimate On Estate Value New York. Aug. 23 (I'P)— Babe Ruth left Ihe bulk of Ills estate to his widow and two adopted daughters, his attorney j revealed today The attorney. Melvyn l»weni stein, refused t to estimate the I value of the estate when he re vcaled the terms of the will. To Mrs. Ruth, the home run king left IS.ont) In cash, the In come from a trust he established In 1927. and all stocks, bonds, eash remaining, after inheritance taxes and househo'd effects. To each of his two .laughters Mrs. Dorothy Sullivan and Mrs. Julia Flander. Ruth left ss.ooii In cash and stipulated that they would receive the trust fond principal when Mrs. Ruth dies To his sister. Mrs. Wilbur Moherley of Baltimore Ruth left SIO,OOO in cash To his male nurse. Frank De laney. and to the Ruth household maid. Mary Reith, he left SSOO each. Ruth's wi’l, drawn up Aug 9 191 R at Memorial hosnltal just ti (Torn Th !•*««• T»»l Four Persons Hurt As Autos Collide None Badly Injured In Accident Sunday Four persons were hospitalized briefly Bunday evening after an automobile collision on I'. S 27 at the Bingen road, north of Decatur, in which property damage amount ed to S9M). An auto driven by Winfred James Cooper, of Mercer avenue, was In the center of the highwav intersection when It was hit squarely on the right side by a machine driven by Gaylord Heine, of New Haven route 2. Sally Jo Cooper. 10. was taken to Adams county memorial hospi tai with a badly bumped head, and Philip CAopcr, 8. was treated for head lacerations In the Heine car. Gertrude Kruckeberg. 19. suffer ed lacerations of the legs, manv bruises and a bloody nose, and Irene Kruckeherg. 14. was treated for lacerations of the legs and forehead All four were treated at the county hospital, and were released immediately after Neither driver was injured, and three passengers in the Cooper auto escaped injury Thev were Mrs. Cooper. James David Cooper. 11. and Keith Cooper. 7. Dam age to the Cooper machine was estimated at $525. and the Heine car was damaged Co the extent of $375 Sheriff Herman Bowman investigated the mishap Parked Auto Damaged By Hit-Run Motorist Art Braun. <>f 222 North Seventh street, reported to city police that his automobile, parked in front of his home, waa hit early Sunday morning by an unidentified car which left the scene before he could Investigate Damage to the Braun machine was estimated at i $25 Its froat left fendet was dam • aged

Seven Accidental Deaths In State Five Persons Die In Traffic Wrecks By United Press Seven persons died accidental . deaths in Indiana during the weekend Five were killed in traffic misi haps, one suffoi ated and one drown ed. Helen Alexander, 21, Chicago, was fatally Injured when her car went, out of control and overturned one mile west of Hamlet on I'. S. 30. Eight year -old George Lambert.; Rising Sim. was killed when his bicycle was struck by a truck drtv I en by Elmer Rickets, 42. also of Rising Sun. Citthorilles said the' youth died <>f a fractured skull. A fourmonth old baby, Linda KayFryar, suffocated at her home in : Indianapolis Sunday Authorities I said the infant, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Fryar, died when a pillow rolled accidentally over her I face It was the third such acci I deni in Indianapolis In four days. William Abbitt. 55. Spencer, was drowned late Saturday while trying to rescue his wife, two daugh ters and his slater In the White River near Romoiin The four were I brought to safety by Xbliltt's brotherinlaw lull Abhitt apparently > drowned when he suffered a heart attack or cramps, police said i Four Indianapolis youths were In- , jltred, three seriously, when their old model eoU|M> rammed Into a six truck convoy in Belleville on U. S 4t» Sunday. Authorities said their <-ar crashed into the trucks carry ing 120 migrant Arkansas workers, on a one-lane detour. Three of the youths. Drago Stale lovh-h. 17: John Brummett. 24. and i John lax khart. 19. were in serious condition in the Indianapolis general hospital. A fourth. Carl Jackson, was treated for minor Injuries and i hen released Ten year-old Jimmie Lee Rothgeh of Huntington wax injured fatal!) | (Tara T« l-aae Twai Angered Wife Chases Husband With Auto In the wee hours of Sundav morn ing. a middle aged man asked his wife to let him out of their car for a moment They were coming home from Willshire. (). und headed north on I'. S 33 alai.tt five miles from Decatur In a sudden fit oL anger, the woman chased him in the car He jumped the wire fence She backed up tile auto. The frivolities lontinued about an hour, a mused and shocked wlsnesses said "That waa about the 12th time lie answered to get out," the woman told sherit! Herman Bowman. No i charges were filed. Pfc. Dore Gallogly Body Enroute Home Body Returned To States For Burial The bialy of I’fc I hire M Gallog- ' ly. son of Mrs Hazel Gallogly. till Winchester street, has been re turned to the states for burial, the department of the army has an 1 nouneed The laidy of the Decatur war vet eran »»• one of 5.854 returned to thia country aboard the U. S army transport l<awrence Victory. ' I’fc. Gallogly died in Germany Dec S. 1944. of wounds suffered 1 in action with the American army 1 five davs earlier. The war hero, a graduate of the Decatur high school, entered service In February. 1943. and wax sent overseas in September of 1944. i He was a member of the Rrth I any Evangelhal United Brethren f church and was employed at the r Decatur General Electric plant at r the time he entered service • Surviving In addition to the i mother are two brothers Law t rance and Stanley Gallogly. and ■ two sisters, Mrs Cart Noll and Betty

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No Americans Now In Russian Hands In 'Cold War' In Berlin Situation Berlin. Aug. 23 -lUP) Russian authorities today released three Americans they had arrested in the cold war. but almost simultaneously 10 Soviet soldiers kidnaped a German photographer in a sudden raid into the American sector of the capital. The Americano released wereL Thoma* Headen. 45, U. 8. military government official, a I former Kansas City and New York ni-wspaperman and once publlo relations adviser to Gov. Thomas E Dewey of New York, who waa arrested yesterday when he stepped Into the Russian sector of Berlin near the Potsdamer Platz, the area In which a number of Russian abduction* of German 'policemen occurred last week 2, Lt Sherman TAirner. Jr.. ; Council Bluffs, la., who waa seized by the Russian* Aug 5 when he wandered over the zonal border In northern Bavaria during a farm | Inspection tour 3 Roland M Meyers. Brooklyn. N V . who waa «elzed with Turner. Meyers is a civilian worker for the military government lie and Turner were released to American authorities at the border between the Russian ami American zone*, according to I'. S army authorities at Frankfurt. The Russians also released two of seven German policemen they had been holding after kidnaping them la*l week front the American and British sectors of Berlin <>n< was August Hoppe. German dial rict police chief of Kreuzberg. Il the American sector Soviet authorities thus still held five German policemen from the western sectors, a* well as the unidentified German photographer who wax seized today when Russian soldiers knocked down two German policemen in the American sector and hustled the cameraman over the sector boundary But no Anieri an* remained in Rmpiiati hand* And German authorities In the western set tors had released Franz Erdmann. German police official from the Russian sector, who was arrested yester day In the British sector. The British also announced that a jet plane and its royal air force pilot who made a son ed landing in the Russian zone last Monday, had been returned to Lubeck. 35 miles northwest of Hamburg in the British zone Ferdinand Fridenxburg. deputy mayor of Berlin, said at a press conference today that he will ask the western occupation powers to permit German police to use their pistols to resist abduction attempts upon them. Kidnaping of the German photographer. who was not Identified immediately, came when 10 Russian soldiers suddenly ran across Strescmann Street, near the Potsdsmer Platz which is Berlin's Time* Square, into American terri tory. Two German policemen who tried to tell the Russians they were on American soil were knockt rere Te !*■■* tssi LATC BULLfTINS Stockholm. Aug. 23—(UP)— Raliable sourcos said today that Count Folks Bernadotte. United Nations mediator for Palestine, will propase to the United Nation* general assembly in Paris nest month that the existence of the Jewish state a* Israel be recognized officially. Washington. Aug. 23—(UP) —The oir force wao given greater central evrer strategic air warfare at the conference of the joint chiefs of staff at Newport. R. U defence seerstary James Farrestal announced today The joint chiefs es staff gave the air farce the authority to decide what weapons it needs to carry out strategic air war- ' faro.