Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 202, Decatur, Adams County, 26 August 1948 — Page 1

Vol. XLVL No. 202.

GERMAN REDS SEIZE CITY HALL IN BERLIN

Findings From Spy Probe To s Justice Dept. ■House Committee To Moke Progress Report Saturday Auk. 26 (Upi — Art-HHHioiiiil ('ommunist hunters ■Hd today they will push their Mar )i to a conclusion and then turn over their findings to the jus <**P Br,menl for action. annoum emeu' was made by ■■wriuaii .1. I’arn'-ll Thomas of the itnAmericun activities coni HMitee. The committee met in closU< Session for two hours to map its ■Bt moves in the Communist spy said the investigation Ay be long, however, althollKll the desires to wind up tile as quickly as possible. Ke said the committee will issue (■progress” report on Salm day on thus fur. I Thcj committee also said ii bop to question in < lowed session on I day J. V. Peters, the shadowy ;ed former head of the Comist underground in the United as. ■ters will appear before an im ration board in New York Mon for a deportation hearing. The mittee will serve a siil>i>ena on there and ''might” question him lew York on the same day. le committee announcement made after a closed session which it mapped plans for the step in determining which is tile ‘damndest liar” in America At>-i Hiss or Whittaker Chambers ®Ttie Hiss Chambers wpolied?" ■to>- of the investigation appeared !■ nearer a conclusion Chambers. Communist and now a agtt.or editor on Time Magazine, •ys Hiss was a member of the (Smimunist "elite” group in Wash official, says Chambers lies ■ Committee chairman .1 Parnell R„ N. J . said the interim ■ogress report will be drafted by sumcommlttee beaded by Hep. Karl E. Mundt. R.. 8. I* ■ He stressed, however that the re will reflect the views of the MBllol*- group. ■ Thomas said ommittee has plans for further open hearings aktil Sept 7. At that time he said, new Investigation will begin h will include: ■ 1 Revelations on a new espionage I 2. Hearings on the case of Hr. Mfdward I Conduon. director of the of standards who has been eused by the committee of being Hone of the weakest links in the ion's atomic security. Condon denied the charges. J 3. Cases similar to the Hans EisBer case Eister was reported as an Communist. I 4 The "attempted infiltration of into certain negro or I Thomas said that there are still to be heard on the Hiss tiers rase. I Aw the house unAmerican activit Mes committee began Ils strategy Rep Richard M Nison. R told newsmen every effort be made to trace the full his ■ory of a 19-year-oid ford roadster Hnvolved in the case He said it may the key to who told the truth ■ the boyish-looking Hiss or the es-Communist ('numbers I Chambers, now a senior editor ■> Time Magazine, has accused of being a member of an H'ellte" corps of pre war Commun (Twa Te rase Twet jLocal Man's Sister Spies At Fort Wayne I Funeral services will be held at ■ pm Friday at the Wilson funeral ■home In Fort Wayne for Mrs Frank ■pmapaugh. SS. who died Tuesday as ■ter an extended Illness The Rev ■ciyde V Moore will officiate, with ■ burial In the Scipio cemetery at ■llarten ■ Survivors include the husband. ■ three brothers Jack Friedt of Da■catar. Clifton and Edward Friedt ■of Fort Wayne, and three sisters. ■ Mrs Alma Cunningham of Fort ■ Wayne. Mrs Georgia Shirlev of ■ Monroeville and Mrs Minnie Allen ■of Flat Rock. Mich WEATHER Fair tesigM and Friday. Continued warm and rather

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Order Union Answer Government Charge Violation Charged To Printers Union . Indianapolis. Aug. 26 — (UP) — The AFL Typographical union was directed today to answer by Sept. 7 a government charge that it violated a court order to obey the TaftHartley law. Federal judge Luthern M. Swygert ordered a sworn answer by iO p.m. i Sept. 7 and set 10 am. Sept. 15 for a hearing at which the union and | its four top officers must show cause why they should not be found guilty of contempt of court. The printers' International union, president Woodruff Randolph and three other officers were accused by the national lalmr relations board of violating the law In defiance of an injunction issued by Swygert last March 27. Swygert ordered the ITU to make answer under oath to the NLRB petition. which was filed yesterday. He ordered the union to admit or deny each allegation specifically or answer the petithiii by affirmative defense. "If good faith requires that they neither admit mai deny any of the allegations." Swygert said, 'they shall set forth In detail the reasons why they cannot do so. “Or. If gtaai faith requires that they deny in part or qualify their admissions of any allegation In the petition, they shall specify so much of It as Is true and deny or qualify their admission only as to the remainder." The Injunction directed the union to stop making certain demands on the nation's newspaper publishers which Robert N. Denham, general counsel of the national labor relations board. Itelleves are Illegal. The injunction will stay in effect until the full labor laiard has a chance to rule whether or not the union's actions actually violate the law. But Dennam believes the union has continued to make allegedly Illegal contract demands on the pule lishers despite the injunction. The demands center on the closed shop. In a petition filed with Swygert, Denham charged that the union and its officers have continued to demand closed shop employment, even 'hough closed shop contracts are barred by the Taft-Hartley act. Denham also accused the union of using various ''illegal" devices to keep the closed shop and force newspaper publishers to discriminate against non union labor. In addition, t'ennatn said the international union and its officers have "encouraged and sanctioned” printers' local unions to violate the law "in clear disregard" of the court order. The four union officers named in the government's petition were Woodruff Randolph, international iTwra Ts Fleet Two Traffic Wrecks Reported To Sheriff Autos Are Damaged, Occupants Unhurt Two traffic accidents on federal highways near Decatur Wednesday night took a property toll of |«ftti. hut all passengers escaped Injury, sheriff Herman Bowman reported today. A heavy truck fully laden with | tomatoes ripped the right side of an automobile driven by Otto W. Ixdpnitz. of Indianapolis, on V. 8 224 In Preble shortly after 5 o'clock Wednesday evening. The track was undamaged but the Leipnitz car suffered 1400 damage MipnlU was attempting to make a left turn off IT. 8 224 onto a county road An auto coming in the opposite direction caused him to stop, blocking his westbound lane. The truck, driven by Lloyd Cook, of Bridge Farm. 111 . could not stop in time to avoid plowing i Into the rear of the stalled auto Cook swerved to the right, but not’ sufficiently to avoid raining the right side of the liefoultz machine An automobile driven by Kenneth W Fry. of Monroe attempt ed to pass one driven hy William Noll, of Pleasant Mills, at 11:2* pm Wednesday on federal route 33 four and one half miles south east of Decatur However, a traek waa headed the other way and Fry veered back UHo his tone In doing ao he smashed into the rear end of the Noll car. Total damage te mishap was estimated at |2W.

Western Power Envoys Ready For New Parley New Directives By Governments Given To Western Envoys Moscow, Aug. 26 — I UP) — Envoys of the western powers have received new directives from their governments and are ready for the next Kremlin meeting in the series of conferences on Berlin and other German problems. IT. 8. ambassador Walter Bedell Smith. French ambassador Yves Chatalgiieau, and special British envoy Frank Roberta have applied to the Soviet foreign office for another appointment with Russian foreign minister V. M. Molotov, It was learned today. They are standing by to await a summons from the Krernlin. and II waa regarded as possible that the next joint meeting might be held tonight, although tomorrow was seen a| a more probable time. The western diplomats have clarified certain points of confusion resulting from their four hours and 45 minutes meeting with Molotov and premier Josef Stalin Monday night, it was said They are now in full accord as to their position in the next conferences. Smith, ( hataigneau and Roberts were reported to have worked this morning at the tetter's office in the British embassy on the draft of a new memorandum to lie presented to Molotov and Stalin. Residents Swelter In Blistering Heat Hot, Dry Weather Is Boon To Crops

Barefoot children in bathing suits. oldsters mopping their streaming brows and lethargic I dogs with hanging tongues were I a sure sign to city folk that the heat wave waa still undimmed in its fiery strength today. Farmers, though, were revelling In the favorable conditions. Corn was shooting upward faster than the mercury. Tomatoes were has tening toward maturity. And har- | vesting was going on under cloudless skits. County agent L. E. Archbold today said the hot. dry weather was a great boon to farm prospects in this area. The early ripening of the tomatoes arrests the possibility ' of a late blight, he said. The only possible liability of the hot spell might be some loss in the early varieties of soy beans If it doesn't lain until early next week. Mr. Archbold stated. It still will be okay with the farmers. Soft drink sales boomed In the city, and the municipal pool was playing host to capacity crowda day and night. Some sweltering residents were sleeping on their porches. Others just sipped cool drinks and envied their associates who were on vacation When a watermelon fell from s track on Second street. Daily Democrat employee rushed to bring It inside the office. Editorial and production workers and a dozen roasting carrier boys finish ed off the delicious discovery in a matter of minutes. Following is an hourly record of today's temperatures, as unof ficialiy recorded on the Democrat thermometer 9 aas -M 10 am. 9211 a.m. -SS. 12 noon 91. 1 pm.-M. 2 pm. «7. Roosevelt Grandson Stricken By Polio Ixie Angeles. Aug. 26 — (UP) — Curtis (Bussy) Dall Boettiger. 11. was treated today at Genera) hoe phgl for a mild caae of Infantile paralysis, ths same disease that crippled his grandfather, the tele president Franklin D. Rooeevelt. The youth, who as a child lived ia the White House with hie sister. Anna tSistlel Dall, and mother. Mrs. Anna Rooaavelt Boettiger. became ill during the weekend His condition waa described as "not serious” by Genera) hospital doctors, who confirmed the diagnosis ot Infantile paralysis.

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Rather Suicide Than Soviet MURIEL SHAFFER (left), American teacher employed in New York by Amtorg, Soviet trading corporation, to teach English to engineers, consular officials and UN officials of the Soviet. t<- Is a reporter how some pupils committed suicide rather than return to Russia, that the NKVD hounded them, tapped telephones? installed dictaphones. Two of her pupils were Mrs. Oksana Kosenkina and Mikhail Samarin. principles of the State department cause celebre.

Some Eastern Meat Markets Cut Prices Backlogs Os Meat Clogging Coolers By United Press Some hlg meat markets in the east Hlaxhed prices today in an effort to move backlogs of meat clogginK the coolers. Market analysts said the heat wave and consumer resistance had reduced demand S 3 that meat suppiles were beginning to pile up in warehouses. At Pittsburgh, one market cut prices on steaks to 69 centa a pound, lamb chops to 65 and sliced bacon to 55. Another reduced hnmbun) r from 54 to 39 cents. It advertised a "famous name brand" bacon for 35 cents or three pounds for *l. However, price cutting was not general. Small stores held their prices steady rather than take a loss to keep stocks moving At Washington, meanwhile, it was predicted that the government would have to underwrite a sup pqrt program of more than S 3, otw.ooo.oao to hold farm prices at high levels this year. Actually the government will spend only a fraction of the total guarantee but it could be obligated for a considerable sum If a major farm slump developed. Market analylsts at Chicago denied, however, that the government price support program caused the inflation in food price*. They pointed out. for example, that the support price on hogs is only alcout 116X5 and that hogs are Belling between 127 and 136.50 a hundred-weight. Steers would lie supported at alaiut 112.24 If a price support level were established cm them Actually. steers are selling from 13X.50 to *40.50 at stockyards. Milwaukee named an official city committee to investigate the high cost of living. The committee will meet once a week for five weeks to study the price of meat, potatoes, bread and other baker cTara Te Pea* Teal

Polio Claims More Than 420 Lives Over Nation

By United Prtas Infantile paralysis ha* taken more than 420 lives this year, a state hy-state survey showed today The number of caae* reported throughout the nation totaled almost 9.000 Health official* of mo*t stale* renorted that the incidence of the di sease waa "normal" But many reported more caae* than last year, indie atlng that the dreaded cycle of paliomyellila was on the upswing la many area*. CaUfornia reported 91 death* *o far thia year, more than any other state Texas waa second with x 5 deaths and North Carolina was third with 93. But on the basis of population North Carolina's os'break was the worst. Case* reported there totaled 1.C70. compared with 1.72 X In pop alone California and I.IM in Texas The epidemic waa the worst la North Carolina's history During the peak of the outbreak, heavily stricken town* closed all theater*, churches and public gathering

No Official Report Os Polio Case Here Rumors were prevalent this week that Adams county, which has not had a polio case this year, was stricken again. A check of county and city health failed to find any record of a case, however. One Decatur doctor reported that a boy under his care was being diagnoMed. but that present findings were not sufficiently con elusive to list him us an Infantile paralysis victim. Summer Heal Wave Relief Is Delayed Movements Os Cool Air Now Delayed By United Press The summer's worst heat wave settled dowi| over the nation from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic coast today and forced t lousands of industrial worker* to leave their jobs. Forecasters who had predicted gradual relief from the heat late this week said that movements of ccol air down from Canada had been delayed They said that storms north of the Canadian (■order were pushing the cool air l-iass eastward Instead of to the south. At Detroit, more than 16.U0U automobile workers walked off the job or were sent home liecause of the heat. The walkouts affected Packard Dodge. Ply mouth and the Briggs body plant At Flint. Mich . 39 persons col lapsed of heat prostration while visiting the freedom train. In New York sta'e, a 12-vear-old trotter died during Hie Penn Yan fair harness races. The horse, a heat victim, dropped in its tracks a* the driver turned It toward the- stable after the race. In the nation'a capita', a group of boy* swimming in the fountain in front of the supreme court building were chased away by guards an the temperature soared toward a sizzlinK !•••• degrees «Tarw Ta P**e Sis)

places. In many towns children still were not admitted to public places, and a fourth of the state's sc hoots plan to postpone opening. About onefourth of the North Carolina cases were of the deadly bulbar type. Wisconsin was far down the Hat with only 127 case* reported this year, but the city of Milwaukee was in the midst of Its most deadly outbreak The city reported 106 case*. 14 of them fatal Health officers said the hulliar type caused mosi of the deaths Milwaekee health commissioner E R Krumbiegel warned parents, to keep < hildren at home He said the highest Incidence of the disease was among children under 12. The Milwaukee comity chapter of the national foundation tor infantile paralysis voted to bay hospital equipment, three oxgyen track* and a reaplrator It also voted to pay t£b cost* te bringing 19-M'-of-atate nurse* to Milwaukee and accepted th* offer of the Mas' (Tare Te r*«e ****■»

Russian-Inspired Plan For Separate Rule Os Capital Soviet Sector

25-Year-Olds To Register Monday Start Registration In Peacetime Draft Twenty-five year old county men wi I register for the peacetime draft Monday as the Cham i>er of Commerce office in Hie public library, the first of ten age classifications which will sign up over a three week period. Registration will lie held ilally f.'oni Xa. tn to sp. m Men who become Ik after the initial registration period must sign up with m five days after their 18th birthday. But location of permanent draft headquarters lias not yet been determined Walter J. Bockman chairman of Adams county <ltt.ft board number 1. stated that men who cannot register on the prescribed dates because of serious illness. hospitalisation or confinement in an institution are lega ly required to register within five days after the hindrance to their registration ceases to exist He also declared that eligilde men who are out of town at cul lege or on vacation —on the dm* of registration may register at the local lioard where they are, specifying that their records be transferred to their home Isiard, Following Is the schedule ot legist rat ion as pris-lulmed by the president of the United States 1. Those born In 1922 after Aug 30 will register on Monday. Aug 30. 2. Those born in 1923 will reg ister on Aug 31 or Sept. I. 3. Those Itorn in 1924, register on Sept. 2 or Sept 3. 4 Those Isirn in 1925, register on Sept. 4 or Sept. 7. 5. Those Isirn in 1926. register «It Sept. X or Sept 9. 6 Those Isirn In 1927. register oil Sept. 10 or Sept 11. 7. Those Isirn In 192 X. register iTurn T« I’eae Severn Lamphere Child’s Parents Reconciled Brought Together By Woman Author Chicago. Aug. 26 tl'l’t- Mr and Mrs. Fred laimphere. young parents who separated when they disagreed over a serious opera Hon for their Infant daughter, were back together tislay because a woman author needed a happy ending for her story aisiut them Helen Bolstad. Chicago edltm of a confession-type magazine brought about the reconciliation at her apartment last night. Miss Bolstad said her magazine bad assigned her the job of "ghost writing” a lO.inhi word story, tell ing about the lamphere case in the words of the wife, 21-year-old Irene. The case came to light when Lamphurt, 24. sought a court order to force his wife to allow an operalion to correct a rare bladder con dltion in their 32 month old daugh ter. Pamela. A panel of six dor-tors appointed hy the court examined the infan' and derided she should be operated on within Co days. Both |iarent« a*rer-d to abide by their derision But they still were estranged and even the pleas of the judge couldn't bring them together again Miss Bolstad said she first not bed the chance for rer-on-illa lion last week, after she had talk erl to Mrs. latr-phere for eight hours to get her story Rhe said Mrs iurmphere ' seemed Very happy" whenever she talked about her life with laimphere laist night she invited the heres to her apartment, and after talking over their problems for 2-4 hoars they agreed to try again "We both came to the realization that Pamela needs both of her parents love and affection from now on." said Mrs Lamphere "Bygones are bygones ’

Soviet Vice Consul Sails For Homeland Teacher Says Leap From Consulate A Break For Freedom .New York. Aug 26 -tl'Pt — Soviet vice consul Zot J Chepur nykh. one of the central figures in the case of the runaway schoolteachers Mrs Ohsana Kus enklna. was eu route home tislay ■—the first Russian official to leave since the breah in Russo American consular re'ations Cliepurnykb. accused l>y Mrs Kasenklna of being her jailer at Hie consulate before her leap to freedom two weeks ago. unexpectedly hoarded the Russian steamship Marshal Govorova la>t right with his wife and three /anghters. Tlie Govorova sailed at 7:30 p. m. for Progreso. Mexico, and la-ningrad Five other Russians. < lerical workers formerly attach •si to the I'nited Nations, also were alioard as |iasvongers Tlie vice consul said he was glad to lie leaving heraowe "there i* no country in Hie world 'ike home” He said he thought the closing of the New York and San Francisco consulates by the Rev let Union was "for good ” Earlier yesterday. Uhepitrnvkh told reporters at tlie consulate teat lie was leaving for home by plane from laiGuanllu field Die day before he said lie was "in no hurry to leave." Consul general Joacoli lamia km, who precipitated the crisis over the runaway teacher. Is scheduled to sail Saturday on the Swedish Ami rican liner Stock holm. In San Francisco, tile Soviet consu'ate was closed to official business but the consul general. Konstantin Efremov, said he expected to remain In this country another "two months " Meanwhile. Mrs Kasenklna. the .'.3-year old school tear her whose case brought about the ouster of laimakin. told her own story at a press conference in Roosevelt hospital where she Is recovering from injuries suffered in her leap Shi- said that she jumped from the third story, window of the eon mlate in a desperate bid for free dotn. "I jumfied out of the window to escape.” she said. "I did not want I Turn Tn l'«s» Setenr Yugoslavia Accuses Romanian Officials Charge Advocating Os Tito Overthrow Prague. Aug 26 (UP)— Yugo slavla broke into open diplomat)! hostilities with Romania today with a heated note accusing Romanian officials of advocating the overthrow of the Tito regime Press dispatches said the Yugie siav note was handed to the Romanian ambassador in Belgrade The note was the latest flare-np In the mounting cold war between Marshal Tito and the Cominform It waa delivered against a back ground of recent reports that many high Yugoslav army officer* have Herl to Romania to set up an emigre government dedicated to Tito's destruction It demanded that the Roman lan government put an end to at tempts to evoke resistance against Tito in Yugoslavia which, it said, "essentially disturbs relations between the of both conn tries " It was expected that other Yugo Slav notes would be handed to Czechoslovakia. Poland and Han gary. all of which have been carryteg out a rising pres* campaign rTerw Te Pan* Sevver

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German Communist Leaders In 'Rump' Session; Demands To Berlin Mayor Berlin. Aug. 26 (UP)—German communist leaddrs backed by thousands of shouting demonstrators seized the Berlin city hall today, ami set up a "rump" clly administration. The communist demonstrators forced cancellation of a scheduled n eating of the city assembly, then stormed the city ha'l in the Soviet sector ami held a "rump" session of their own in what apfeared to lie the first step of a Russian inspired plan for a separate administration of the Soviet twetpr of the German capital Three anti-communist parties promptly called a mass meeting tor 5 p. m (10 a. m. CDTt lit effort Io rally their forces iguigst Hie communist attack on the city government. But it was lielleveii non communist assemblymen and < ity officials would not return to the city hall in the Russian sector. Willie thousands of demonstrators outside city hall alternately sung the communist Internationale and shouted "Niedsr, Nleder" ("down, down"), an apparently we.lorganlzrd group forcsd the gateway to the building. Then they held a "rump" session of tlie assembly, attended exclusively by communist members. who are in a mlnoruy in the i-lseled body Karl Uttke. communist faction leader in the assembly. addressed the meeting, ami a list of communist demand? were drawn up to be presented t« acting mayor Ferdinand Friedensburg, n lion-communist Tlie demands Included one for a "unified city administration” under communist control. Socialist. Uhristian Democratic at'd Liberal Democratic leaders immediately called a mass meeting for 5 p m In the Platz Der Republic, In front of the old Reichstag building and just outside the Soviet sector. Informed German political leaders predicted that non-s-ommunlst members of the city government would not return to the city hall, and said ear y announcement to Inat effect could be expecetd. In cancelling the acbednlsd assembly meeting, non communii-V mem Iters had set no date for another meeting, and It appeared even liefore the communists selzra el'y liall that none would lw t.eld until the Berlin crisis was ended In one way or another It was believed that the communist forces, which were said to have been directed by Russian s-'eret police, would maintain -ontrol of the city hall and would seek to take over all reins of government This naturally would not be acceptable to the western powers for their sectors of the city, and a clean spilt be-'w*-en the Soviet sector and the remainder of Berlin appeared in the making. Police forces of the Russkin and western anctnrs were split apart aisiut three weeks ago. and there have lieen sartor border dashes since An estimated 14.000 Berliners turned out within a stone's throw <Tsra Te Pare Plsrl Traffic Resumed On Erie Railroad East and west bound passenger and freight traffic waa moving as usual over the Erie lines today after the derailment of a locomotive, tender and six boxcars between Kingsland and Tocsin shortly before noon Wednesday Only one track was In use today as crews worked on some 350 feet of wrecked track Traffic whbh had lieen detoured to Fort Warn* returned to its normal route at about 5 pm Wednesday after the wrecked cars were removed from the track. The train waa derailed near a small bridge on which repair crews had been working prior to the mishap Two of the six bldlv damaged boxcars rolled down the em hank mem. but no iajurtos were ivported la the