Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 201, Decatur, Adams County, 25 August 1948 — Page 1

Vol. XLVI. No. 201.

U. S.JUSS CONSULAR RELATIONS SEVERED

Chambers And Hiss Face To Face Al Probe Contradict Each Other At Hearing On Spy Activities Wash Ington. Aug. 25 (UP) — Accused and accuser each I other In a lammed ami lense hearing room today, ami calmly contradicted each other before house Red hunters necking to find out which was lying. Bafor> they testified, chairman I J. Prfhn-11 Thomas of the tinAmertcan activities committee publicly told Alger Hiss and Whittaker churn hers that one of then* "certainly" wi I he "tried for perjury ' Their first contradiction was , on the question of when they last ! mw aa< h other. 1935 said Ilian. 1938. said Chambers. Chambers, ex-communist, lias accuse d Ilian, former high-rank Ing Mate department official, of , being a cell leader In a prewar roamunist underground here. Hiss- has sworn Chambers lied Today, publicly confronting each'other for the first time, they were not asked in the first hours •hoot tlie communist charges. The c immltiee was trying to pin down lust how Well they k':"w each other -and just when in pant years. With committee investigator Rdkart Strip ing shooting the t|tiMlons while the witness stood and the spectators craned for . ward first Hiss ami then Cham liers identified each other. the 43-year-old Hiss, slim »dd*b. l yi sh looking, and the pud ' gjr,?47 year-o d Chambers appear OdFoutwprdly calm Hiss Is now the 20.0000-a-yroy president of | the Carnegie Endowment for in farm. tonal Peace. Chambers. I rhos<- Income also has been esti •MU' at $20,000 a year, is a sen ; tot* editor of Time magazine .jBI-k testifying first, identified CMpnbers a* a free lame writer iktlhad known us "George Prostoy* in 19.14 or I»3S. lie had givent similar testimony in a secret (■bion at New York. Hiss salt! he last saw "Crosley" nOOi'- time in 19.15 to the heal of i his recollection When his turn I OMi». Chambers dec'ared lie met ■8 In t ripling questioned Hiss about Ms failure to identify Chamler* fhnto pictures shown to him during early c'osetl sessions of the I Committee Hiss contended he tohl the committee the "face was not unfamiliar" lie denied Zripling's assertion that he had ited he had never seen Chain Wrs before. ■stripling then a <ked Ills* to ■scribe the circumstance* tinder Which he first met “Crosley." ■ Hiss replied that "according to »v best recollection” Urodey •me so his office in the senate building where Hiss was counsel for the Nye com Wtlttee investigating the muni Mons industry. ■ "To my nest recollection." Hiss fcid. “I would think ? must hav» !• • n in the late win'er of 19.11 o' ■te ear'y winter of 193'.." ■ "lie -.'presented himself as s ■ee la- r magazine writer wbc ■as preparing a series of article, ■bout the committee investigaBon.” Ilins said. ■ Ilins added that it was "one o' ■iy duties" to give the press in ■ormation and guidance on th< Committee's activities I Stripling then asked ahout the ■ r rang>-ment Ilins made for sub ■easing hie apartment to the <Tara T« !•■-•» Wise I 570,000 Damage In Indianapolis Fire I Indianapolis. Aug 25 — ft’P) — ■ire broke out In a paint room at ■he United Engineering company Cere today, quickly spread through ■the plant and caused estimated ■damage of $70,000 Foreman Otis Pecker said the ■daze swept through the rear of the ■milfling and into a new shop area ■>e said all 23 persons working in ■be one-story block plant got out BaMg. Decker Mid the Are had damaged I valuable precision tools and markj laary and a shipment of radio parts I ia storage Firemen said the blaze apparently started with spontan I eons combustion of paint chemicals I

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BULLETIN Chicago, Aug. 25—(UP) — The American Federation of Labor decided today not to support a presidential candidate, but an independent group was formed within the big labor organization to support President Truman. 16 Men Die In B-29 Crash At Hickam Field Four Crew Members Escape Death When Big Plane Crashes Honolulu. Auk. 25 (UP) Six teen of 20 crew members on an i Okinawa-bpund 11-29 were killed last night when the big plane lost [an engine and crashed in flames al Hit kain Field, it was announced i today. Four men were rescued from; the flaming wreckage and taken to the army's nearby Tripier hospital. The crew included 111 inlist ed men and four officers. Witnesses said the Superfortress exploded while sliding along I in a ground skid, scattering wreck i j age for a quarter of a mile and smashing two power substations. The plane was one of a group making a mass flight to Okinawa Its -starting point was believed to have been Spokane, Wash j Names of the dead will be reI leased later today. The crash, worst in Hawaii aviation history, occurred within eight minutes after the plane took off for Kwajalein with a gasoline load of 7.000 gallons. Egewittnesses said flames shot up 500 feet when the plane exploded aud bunted. Air force personnel were unable' to explain how four of the crew, survived the crash. They said all 1 were aide to talk and two of thej survivors were even found walking after the crash. It was believed these two either jumped from the escape floors a split second before the crash or were thrown clear of the flames The only piece of tile huge plane left intact was the towering tail section. — furniture Arrives For Draft Office Furniture for the county draft office is lieing stored in the corridor of the court house, awaiting instructions from the board members as to its permanent location The furniture was delivered yesterday by a truck from Chicago The driver informed county officials that Decatur was the last stop and that he hud delivered similar equip ment to counties along the route. The furniture consists of a desk. It* s'raight hack chairs, a typewriter. several metal fi'ing cabinets and a swivel chair. The draft board has not yet obtained an office Itegistra lion of men 25 years old will begin next Monday in the Chamber of Commerce room in the library building. Dr. L. N. Dailey Dies Unexpectedly College Music Head Is Taken By Death Dr. L. N Dailey. 71, a native of \dams county, died unexpectedly Tuesday of a hea-t attack at Yank ton, S D.. according to word reeived here today. Dr. Dailey, who was Iwvrn in St Mary's township, bad been head of the Yankton college conservatory of music since 1904. He previously had server! as director of music in Sugar Grove. Pa. and studied for two years in Germany before accepting the Yankton position. He was a son of the late Davis and Elmira Dailey. Surviving are his wife, the former Miss Clara P. Swain, dean of wo men at Yankton; two half sisters. Mrs Kenneth llutler of Decatur had Mrs Fred Reynolds of Fort Wayne: an uncle. James Dailey of Decatur and a number of nieces and nephews Funeral services and burial will be held at Yankton Thursday. WEATHER Fair and continued het teI night and Thursday

Russ Teacher Calls, Cancels News Conference ' / Wil ’ < ' J K ■’ll ♦ BE AFTER INVITING newsmen and photographers toiler hospital room for a "news conference." the lirst since her spectacular "leap to freedom" from the New York ItitMsian Consulate. Mrs. Oksana Kosen Kina, made it for "photographers only" after the above picture was made. Reporters, assembled to near the story behind her leap, were not permitted to see her

Bumper Corn Crop Affecting Prices Initial Price Cut Is Announced Today By I'nlted Pre** The bumpt r 1949 corn crop! maturing in field* throughout the ' midwest had Ils first effect on | price* today. The A. E Staley Mfg. company I reduced price* 36 cent* a hundred l pound* on bulk wtareh and syrup*. , Company official* said the price induction resulted directly from ! a break in cash corn price* last weekend when the bumper crop ' was assured. The company, which processes corn and soybean products al ils Lecatur, II , plant, said it prob ably would cut price* further i when the presently indicated I ».ew crop price* materialize." ■|«ast years short crop advane ed corn prices to all time high*.' a company announcement said ■ The present uncertainly ot availability of old crop torn, until the new crop comes to market, continues to dominate thecurrrilt, cash corn price*.” Many expt rts in the nation * j food Industrie* have predicted that this year s big crop eventually will tend to shove prices- particular y on meat -downward. Most of litem, however, beleive hat it will not have a material affect on the family budget until text spring Market expert* at Chicago, meanwhile, predicted that the current heat wave blanketing most of the country would have a tendency to reduce meat price* They reasoned that people eat iTera T* Page •»»»•> Pay Boost Ordered By General Motors Increase Given On Cost Os Living Pact Detroit. Aug JS—(VPl—Oenerel Motors corporation ordered a | three-cent hourly pay increasel today for worker* effee ' tive Sept. I. under term* of the company's "cost of living" union contract. The pay Itoost was ordered automatically as the department of labor's cost of living index leached a new all time high of 173 7 percent of the 1*35-39 average The contract signed earlier thi* year between UM and the | (IO I'nlted Auto Worker* tie* th* pay rata to the index IK addition to the 265.000 hour 1- worker*, the corporation* .k.oOO salaried employes will get a 126 raise during September a* •heir cost-of-living adjustment for! the past three monlha. This, amount will he raised another ; (IS to a total ot 61" in December to cover the period from Sept I to Dec 1. The General Motor* labor contract Is the only one ot its kind in the heavy industry fled Onto the contract, a quarterly ad justment of wage* and salaries In line with the rise or fall of the price index is required

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Decatur, Indiana Wednesday, August 25, 1948

Municipal Pool To Close Next Tuesday The Decatur municipal swimming (tool, located ut the rear of the city ' plant, will be closed for the season after next Tuesday. August 31, it was announced today by Harry Dal > ley, pool supervisor, and Mayor !John M. Doan Complete Lists Os Teachers Announced Public, Catholic Faculties Listed Complete lists of the teaching staffs at Decatur public and Catholic schools were released today by officials of the schools. Fol lowing is a complete list of the ! faculties, Lincoln School Bryce Thomas, principal; Gladys! Chamberlain and Ituth Petrie.l kindergarten: Rosamond Gould. I Elizabeth Peterson and Kathryn Dorwin. first grade. Vera Harris Florence Haney and Mury Lee Carl!. second grade; Georgia! Foughty, Kathleen Harris and ! Georgia Morri*, third grade: Jahn Il Parrish and Matilda Sellemeyer. fourth grade. Opal Sprunger and Vera Van Buskirk, fifth grade: and Glennys Koop and Hubert Zerkel, Jr., sixth grade. Miss Gould is returning after a leave of absence during which she achieved her A. B degree at Man j Chester college. Mr. Zerkel, who formerly taught in Kirkland town ship. Is a graduate of Earlham college and a former Decatur high s< hool athlete Junior-Senior High W. Guy Brown, principal: Mer rltt J. Alger and Harry Dailey.! science and mathematic*; Hugh J Andrew*, mathematics, Deane Dor win. English and social science: Sylvester Everhart, physical train ing and drivers' training: Joan | Cowens, laitin. Spanish and Eng llsh: Helen llaubold. music: May I nard Hetrick and Arnold Conrad. • commercial; Kathryn Kauffman. Amo* Ketchum, industrial arts; .Eleanor Pumphrey. librarian; I tale W Ross and Catherine Weidler. I I English: Albert Sellemeyer. band director: IcOWell J. Smith, social ! studies: Marjorie Rose, home economics: Rebecca Walters, gills' i physical training; Robert Worth man. eoach and phy*ical training instructor. Mias Cowens, the new language t teacher, is a graduate of Miami ' university, Oxford, O. Miss Ros*, the home economics teacher, is a graduate of Bowling (.teen state normal school. Bowling Green. <> Four teachers attended Indiana university during the summer I They are Mr. Conrad. Miss Fnm phrey. Miss Weidler and Mr . Wort toman. Walter Krick, superintendent of the public ncbools. has announced the entrance requirement* foi klndergrnten and the first grade Pupils must have reached the age of five before Sept 15 to enter kindergarten, or the age of six by the same date before they ma) enroll in the flrat grade. Mr Krick iTwrs T* r*a* Seven) •

Forecasters See Heat To Continue No Relief In Sight At Least Two Days Chicago. Aug. 25 ll'l’t Fore ! caster* today predicted that the i late summer heat wave will scorch I most of the nation at least two more day*. I Hot winds from the southwest I pushed the mercury over the 100 degree mark in some Great Lakes ; are** yesterday, and high humidity i added to the discomfort C. S. weather bureau forecasters here said there would be no significant cooling for at least lx hours. A mass of cool air I* ex pected to move from Canada into Minnesota and Wisconsin Friday ior Saturday But the weather men ' said it was too early tn say how i sixin the rest of the nation would I get relief. i The hottest spot in the country yesterday was Blytht, tai. with I Itt’i degrees High midwestern temperature* were Marquette ' Mich., lol; lai Crosse. Wis., 10l ; and Milwaukee, 100, the highest In eight years. Chicago reported a high of 9X Minneapolis, 9X; Omaha. 97; Oklahoma City. 94; and Little Rock. Ark . 91. At New York's La Guardia Field the top was s'! In contrast, the coolest tempera Hire in the nation was recorded at I I tare Ts Par." *t«l Teacher Institute Here September 1 Rural Schools To Organize Sept. 2 Teachers from the Decatur pub lie and parochial schmds. the Berne | si hool* and rural schools throughout the county will attend the teachers institute at the Lincoln ! school Sept 2. one week from to j day. Dr. William Dern. of Newport. Ky„ will lie the featured speaker, and Forrest V Carmichael, of Indianapolis, will talk on Hie teachers' retirement law Dr Gerald Jone*, minister of the lie < atur Methodist chur> h. will offer the devotional Entertainment will he provided by Miss Helen Haiiliold and Mrs W. J Krick, who will sing a duet, and Freeman Burkhalter, who will render a violin solo. Discussion* will he held, of pur ticular Interest to teacher* in the rural schools Package* of *up plies for all rural school* may he secured after the institute at the county rural library room The rura! school* will meet Thursday morning. Sept 2. to orga nize classes and make other ar rangement* for the school year School buses will make their reg ular trips on this day to pick up the student* Regular < lasses will start Tuesday. Sept 7. with a full day's schedule of work on tba formal opening of the fall term The fiecatur school will open , Tuesday. Sept 7. ,

Two Soviet Consulates Closed, Order U. S. To Close In Vladivostok

U. S. Officials Not Surprised, Alarmed By Soviet Decision To Close Consulates Washington. Aug. 25 ilT'i C. S official* were neither surprised 1 nor alarmed today by Russia's decision to close her two consulates here and to demand a shutdown of the sole American consulate in Russia. They emphasized that the action affects only consulates not em hassles und does not mean a breaking off of diplomatic rela tions between the two powers The principal j<d> of consulates is to handle trade and travel be tween countries und, officials poinl rd out. there ia little of either be tween the United States and Russia at present Secretary of state George C. Mat shall is scheduled Io hold a news conference at noon ami may com- > ment then on the Kussian action Diplomat l< quarters here hail been braced for some such Russian move since Inst Friday when the I lifted States demanded the recall >f Jacob luimakin. Soviet consul general in New York, for his con duct in the case of runaway Russian school teachers. State department officials made ’ it plain that tills government stands i :>n its previously • stated charge i that Soviet representatives were engaged in "highly improper" ion duct in the case of tlie runaway I Kussian i The Russian reply to the \merhan protest was delivered to the state department at almut ti pm. ICDT( yesterday by a Soviet em i bassy messengv'After making t. strong defensei of Lomakin's l otidm t. the note an nouiiced that Moscow was closing | its consulates in New York und I Sun Francisco und requested that the I lilted Stales do the sullle with its consulate in Vladivostok There was some question here tisrii Te I’sur I'lvet Miss Marie Koller Director 01 Nurses Important Post At Methodist Hospital Miss Alurie K Kolter. of Fort Wayne, daughter of Adams circuit court bailiff Vreil E Kolter. has been aptsdiited to the combined iHists of director of nurses and of the school of nursing at Methodist hisipital. Fort Wayne Miss Kolter was formerly suto-r visor of the Allen county nursing service News of the ap|>ointmeiit which will take effect Sept 7. wa» announced bv Methodist hospital superintendent Karl R S< hne< k j A graduate of Decatur high school. Miss Kolter received het , training at the Methodist Episco |>al hospital schiml of nursing She . has done graduate work in public health nursing at Indiana univers Ity. and at the I I' extension in Fort Wayne She is first vice prwai dent of the state nurses’ association and past president of north - east district nurses and a former , director of alumnae of the Metho dist schisd of nursing Miss Roller's new duties will in volve supervision over Krt students nurses and 39 graduate nurses She has been assis iated with the Allen county nursing service for the |>asi seven years Funeral Thursday For Hower Infants Graveside service* will lie held at I<> a m Thursday at the Dei a'ur cemetery for Ronnie and Donnia Hower, twin sons of Fre< h and Vel ma Avery-Hower, of Willshire. O Ronnie died shortly after birth ear ly this morning at the Adams coun ty memorial hospital, and Itonnie I died at io o'clock. Surviving in addition to the par ents are the Walter Avery of Willshire and Mrs Forrest , Ripley, also of Willshire Services will l»e condu-ied by the Zwtck tun i eral home, with the Rev E. E Bragg offi<iating

Reach Pact On Berlin Black Market Raids German Police For Both Sectors Reach Agreement On Raids Berlin. Aug 25 H'Pi Ger man police in the east and west *e< lor* of Berlin have reaihed an in formal agreement which I* expect ed lo end Russian kidnaping* ami 1 arrest*, it was reported today j The agreement provides that eitli : er police force must notify the otli er by telephone before conducting , a black market raid in the Isirder 1 line district of Potsdamer Platz, the Times Square of Berlin whenthe Russia American ami British : sectors meet The agreement was similar to in formal American proposals made to the Kussian* yesterday that police of all Ihi ve sector* cooperate in bla< k market raid* in teeming Pots , darner Platz so that wanted operat ors could not flee into n nearby ~ Zone The plan was expected to put a halt to Soviet forays into the lint ~ ish and American sectors ami to si lienee Russian < harget that the western se< tors were protecting "black marketeer* and gangster elements." The Russians had been expectstl to deliver their formal reply to the . I met lean suggestions today, Im’ ’ posipotted it until tomorrow It was hoped the plan would ■ tiring peace lo Berlin liefore the !<|ty assembly meets tomorrow to consider a tiumb-t of explosive is sue* Maj Gelt Alexander Kotikov. Russian < ommandei in Beilin, opened the Russian atta< k on to morrow’s session by <b-» taring that l.i tiuiulier of the assembly * recent decisions were null and void be i alise tliey violated Soviet orders Kotikov assert-d in a letter to the i otlticil that among these de . ISIOII* weir collin ll orders alleged ly permitting tlie introduction ot two cuirelicies in Berlin Others, Kotikov said were division id the police fori e between east ami West and establishment of otfii i-• foi the exchange of eastern amt western marks tine t'ommunist report said Sov irl members of the i. uncil intend i I ere Is I’sae »l»l Mrs. Minnie Venis Dies Last Evening Funeral Services Friday Afternoon Mr« Minnie Venis. 75. a lifelong resident of \dam* county, died at >, 15 o'< lock Tuesday evening al Ihe home of a brother John Broth er*, with whom she resided She had liern in failing health for five years Born Dec 22. 1*72. in Adam* county, she was a daughter of Os car and Sarah Brothers Her hus band. Thomas Veni*. died several years ago She was a member of the Trinity Evangelical I nited Brethren church Surviving are three sons. Ray and Merlin Venis. troth of Decatur, and Everett Venis of Anderson, four daughters. Mrs. Evangeline Eyanson of ttecatur. Mrs Floyd t ook of Waynedale. Mrs Jennie Amrine of Fort Wayne and Mrs Florence l-Airrman of Anderson. i two tirotherw. John and Charles Brothers, both of Decatur: three sister*. Mrs Lucy Shell of Decatur. Mr* James lYratcher of Fort Wayne and Mrs Kittle Daniels of - Bolmi. grandchildren and 21 great grandt hildren Funeral services will be held at - 2pm Friday at the Hlack funeral home, with the Rev G. A Edd‘ of- ; Be ating Burial will he in tbt De catur cemetery Friend* IW> call at the funeral home after 7 o'clock this evening

Price Four Centi

Russian Move Does Not Mean Breaking Os Relations With U. S. Government Mo*, ow. Aug 25 tl'Pl Russia'* severani e of consular relation* with the I'nited Stales will not prejudice the present Kremlin talks on the Berlin crisis and the future of Germany, reliable sources here believed today. The Soviet press gave prominent display to the Russian note rejecting the American note in the case of Mr* Oksana Stepanova Kasenkina, but did not comment on it. The Russian note said the only two Soviet consulates in the United States, at New York and San Franclsio. would be closed at once, and directed that the U S in turn < lose Its only i onsulate in Russia, at Vladivostok It said also that the 1' S would not be permitted to open a consulate at Leningrad. Russia's greatest |sirt. n* American official* | have sought for two years to do American source* here were surprised by the definitive action of the Soviet government, which they regarded a* "drastli ” But reprisal* had been expected for the I' S note which demanded recall of Jacob laimakin. Soviet consul general in New York because of his activities in the case of Mr* Kasenklna. a Rus*ian school teacher who failed to return to Russia a* directed, and later jumped from a window il the Soviet condWate in an escape, attem to U S ambassador Walter Bedell Smith was not informed of the Russian action until this morning. He declined to comment, and directed all inquiries to Washington. Other American sources jsiinted out. however, that the Soviet move did not mean severance of diplomatic relations. since the Russian embassy in Washington and the I S embassy Itere were left as avenues between the two most powerful countries of the world Beet h nations have consular staffs in their respective embassies in Washington and Moscow .mil the mtrtnal duties of consuls will to- |»-rforme-d by them. These duties have been dec reusing steadily a* trade and travel between the two count ties ha* declined Some source* were inclined to view the Russian action a* a further step toward a return to the Soviet government’s -policy of almost complete isolation, a imlic-y which was altered during the war. Russia ha* been cutting down steadily tile (lumber of foreigner* ill the Soviet Union only about 110 American* are tn Russia now, for example, most of them emhassy staff worker* and their families At the same time, the number of Russian representatives abroad ha* tie»-n reduced In the case of the United State*, only about 15u Russian* are believed to be working 110-re in offl. ial and other < I are Tw I'aae Wevrai Erie Freight Train Derailed Today Near Tocsin, None Injured The locomotive, tender and six Ih>x< ar* of an eastltound Erie railroad freight Ira n were derailed shortly liefore noon today one mile west of Tocsin, temporarily snailing transcontinental rail traffic. No Injuries were reported in the mishap East and west bound tracks were blmked this afternoon as repair crew* tried to clear the right-of-way liefore nightfall. An Erie spokesman said train* which usually pass through Tocsin and Decatur. were lieing re routed through Fort Wayne. Cause of the accident could not tie officially determined However. it wa* reported that railroad crews had been repairing a small bridge over a creek at the point of the derailment One of 'he boxcars is reported to ha*a fallen down the embankment, hut early estimates on property damage were low