Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 209, Decatur, Adams County, 3 September 1948 — Page 1

J Vol. XLVI. No 209.

SCHUMAN FAILS TO FORM GOVERNMENT

I l*s, Former Bident Os &hs, Dies Resigned President ■ Czechoslovokia Dies This Morning Prlfß*- Sept. 3 (IP) — Dr Bittrti Benes. who resigned ax pTMItaX of Czechoslovakia last June HUli'i than become a Communisf figurehead. died today in embitter*-'! retirement and xeclu*Death came to the co-founder and I perennial president of ('zechoxlova kto atß:l‘» pm GMT (loin ain GST) In his suburban villa In SellmovffUsti south of Prague lie wax At his bedside was his wife, who tpltt h“,l accompanied him Into -Ffnße And out again to help lead CMCMtlavakia along the path of a democracy. Outsid- the fenced in grounds of the villa stood only a handful of I perrons. mostly newsmen who had waited dhys for word of his death A dffMD police and plainsclothesjnttof the Communist government Bene# hated kept close talm on any elvtaut" who tarried outside the Doctots said Benes hail been suf tarlnfftoma circulatory ailment But <lo'' friends lielieted hitter dtolllMionmerit over the ease with Which the Communists took over thACPUi-'iy to which he had dedi eatenhis life was more than a ion cause of his death. Hi had been ill situ e the Com sßßr*' bloodless resolution of Feb,. 17. His condition took a turn for the worse last Tuesday and J|lHro|giii he slipped into a loiua UMI Which he never recovered RB I, had been at hi* villa since lbatKl>-tiil February day he swore hl Hut new Communist government and.lrlth tears in his eyes, strode ;, ? 'lK|tr from the pi evidential pul Prague. It Was disclosed •onlv cesterdav that Ben <-x. helpless in the face of CMMHiiiiist strength, nevertheless OB tjto' Februaiy day hurled this bold I def I at Communist premier (Clement Gottwald in a speech re ••’’RM ,or newsr(>el * "Not; al! of the Czec hoslo.ak pecpk desire the destruction of ii MMwracy. but you gentlemen and the |arty led by you desire that I should by my signature destroy y in Czechoslovakia and betray the promise, dear not only BBK to the whole nation. lies in the words, president Übßtoi we will remain loyal doing this solely to prevent tkedh'il war with whic h you threat es nke. and which you are capable Ot*Un ■ ashing However. I believe the Cx>‘< hoslovak people will un d#ra|amf my act and that on the tbutloceastern, a majority of them will [prove that the methods you UM Are foreign to them, and that ®®B'bao- underestimated the mor CiKkturlty. the loyally, and the Dwwßriatfc effort of onr people The world nevei heard or saw * Bums utter those remarks, how t ®UfT They were deleted by the COAUnumst rulers of Czei hoslova a lime. Benes remained pres perhaps hopeful that the .dMeboslovuk people would turn Bta* 1 their new rulers Obit the showdown came whet dlttwaid presented the new ComMMat co.istitu.ion rublier stamp ttby the Communist parliament OWUd in U single-list vote, to I f are Te Pear "Is I ■BHzens Telephone Twicers Reelected of the Citizens ’H^B* on * company were told Thors tty Bight that the numlcer of instru■Mil* in use has more than doubled is the past 11 rssri The annual stockholders meeting tt|yd the news that 4.7011 teleptabos were In use on June 30. XML as compared to 2.330 in Jan IM7. A gain of 411 clients Mr Hits year was also reported Th- present officers of the com NM were reelected at the meet MThey are Loo Yage-. pres.deut *. > Hite, vic e-president C E Utt treasurer; A. K. Voglewede. v|(ftpresident and general toun Mm end C. D khenge,, secretary anlgeneral manager WEATHER H Fair tenlgh’ and taturday: ■K little cooler central and ttothwest pertiens tonight.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

97 Signed Yesterday In Peacetime Draft Men born in 1924 were registering today for the draft. A total of 97 signed up yesterda: at county! selective services headquarters in; the Decatur library's first floor' auditorium. Men born tn 1925 will sign up Saturday and Tuesday. Resumption Os Spy Hearings Delayed Week Probe Promised Os Charges Employers Favor Communists Washington. Hept. 3 — (UP! — The house unAmerican activities committee today put off untl Sept. 15 its resumption of open bearings into communist e.-pion ige. The hearings hail been ich»duled to start Sept 7. The announcement was made y the committee's chief invest!ga’or. Holier! E. Stripling He said a subcommittee headed by Hep. J. Parnell Thomas, chairman of the ftiP. committee, will told closed sessions next week to nrepare for the open hearings Other members of the sulicomnittee ure Heps John McDowell, R„ Pa., and Hichard 11. Vail. It.. 111. Stripling said the postponement will "afford I lie subcommittee and the staff an opportunity to complete necessary work " He said Hie open hearings will last at least three weeks. Thoma* has already announced that the next series of hearings sift include: Completion of the commit tee's investigation of two alleged wartime Soviet spy rings and one alleged prewar communist underground set up among federal officials here, 2. Exposure of a third Soviet spy ring among government employes. 3. A hearing in the case of Dr Edward U. Condon, national bur eau of standards director who hat been Moused by the committee >f being "one of the weakest links” In the atomic security ■hain. * 4. Resumption of hearings In to communbt activity in Holly wood. The last were he'd in Or ober. 1947 5. Investigation of attemp's of communists to infiltrate negro ii sanitations. « Airing of charges that for•ign communists have been able •o slip Into the I nlted Stales through lax border regulations. Stripling said the subcommittee will hear witnesses in next week's closed sessions, lie would not identify them. Promise Probe Wasihngton. Sept. 3 — (I'Pi — A house labor subcommittee j uromhed today to dig Into char ges that some employers in the t r«rw To !•■«» sis • Pastor Candidate Speaks Here Sunday Rev. Gillander At Presbyterian Church The Rev. A. C. E. (inlander, pas tor of the First Presbyterian church at Brail, will deliver a second sermon at the First Presby terian church in rfscatur Sunday moving at !<' 30 •’dock. it was announced today by the pulpit committee. The local church has been with out a regular resident pastor for the last several months, and Rev. Gillander will deliver his Sunday sermon as a candidate for the local pastorate Letters announcing the Sunday church services were mailed to all members of the Decatur church today and the letter also contain rd a call for a congr.gal tonal meet Ing September 15 , The public is invited to attend the service* Seaday and the pul pH committee has expressed the hope that all members will attend Work on remodeling the parson age just south of the Presbyterian church on Mercer avenue to progrowing and will be completed •arty In Octobar. Th* church also will undergo a complete redecorating program the rirat' two weeks th October

German Reds Move To Seize I j Berlin Control Move Openly Today To Seize Control; Confabs Continue Berlin. Sent. I-(UPI— Communists moved openly to seize the Berlin City government t<tday as the big four military governors continued conferences to settle the east-west currency dispute and agree on lifting the Soviet surface blockade of the German capital. This evening two meetings of political importance were taking place in the city. One was seeking, within the hounds of agreements reached at the Moscow conference*. a settlement in the cold war between the Russians and the western allies. The other appeared designed to cause new confusion and ill feeling. The first was at the allied control authority building, where {he four military governors were work ing fast and reportedly making good progress on plans to establish the Soviet eastern mark as Berlin's only currency, and lift the 76-day-old blockade. The other was at the Berlin city hall, in the Soviet sector, where Communist members and sympathizers among the city assembly met and formed what they called "the Democratic bloe of Berlin." They apparently sought > to usurp the functions of the elect- < ed city assembly, which is pre- | dominantly non-Commitnlst. Communist demonstrations twice i have broken up scheduled city as- | semhly meetings, and the assembly called off another attempt to meet today because Maj. Gen. Alexander Kotokov. Soviet commandant In Berlin, refused to guarantee police protection. / The Communist "rump' meeting , was held instead. In the usual as | semhly room, and the Communists , acted on mattejpwhlch legally fall ( within the province of the assem , < turn Te I'sae Slst ( — ( I 148 Pupils Enrolled ' Al Pleasant Mills ; Lunch Program Will , Be Started Tuesday First day enrollment figures for the Pleasant Mills elementary and , high school were set at 143. priori- ( pal Clifford L. Prlbble said today , Ninety-three student* were en , rolled in the first eight grades and r 55 signed up' for grades nine through 12. | The school lunch program will , be in operation Tuesday, the first t day of classes. Mr. Prlbble an s nounced. Mrs. Laura Davis and , Mrs Myrtle Daniels will serve as ( cooks. t Mr. Pribble. who comes to Pleasant Mills, after a career in t Bunker Hill. Warren. Hartford r City and Francesville, also dis- , dosed the faculty members for e the coming school year. Mrs Alma Brayton will teach grade* one and two; Mrs Jesteen Cole will teach grades three and four; and Mrs. Harriett Mill* will teach grade* five and •tola the upper six year*, the teachers will be Eloise Andrews Albert (’oppeas. Thelma Hendrick* John Bauman. Philip Dolby and France* Frey. Teacher* at the Bobo school were also announced. Ruth Rig don. previously of Ohio, will teach j grade* five to eight, and Myrtle Clement* will return to teach the first through fourth grade* Service Is Topic Os Rotary Speaker Lews* Harper, manage? of Bag service, lac., prerated an inter , eating discussion on eervlce at the j weekly meeting of th* Decatur Ro- , tary club Thursday evening at the , K. of P. bom* The speaker, who to chairman of i the club’s vocational service com t mittee. chose as bis topic. "Service , I* my business." strewing the value at service in all business and pro- t sessions Max Markley, of Blaffun. Rotary group representative, spoke t briefly, announcing preliminary i plana tor an intercity meeting plea t ued for October 1

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, September 3, 1948

Strike Hits West Coast Docks

1 1.-1 F £ if II jUKr ; * AN OVERFLOW croau of Han Francisco loiigxtKircinrii lanix the street outside a union meeting, to hear their leaders tell them to "hit the bricks" In a strike which lx expected to lie up wext const aMppinu for four months. The strike, threatened for xeveral months by the do longshoremen, actually began al midnight Wednesday, when the men began leaving their Jobs.

City Prepares For Labor Day Holiday Most Business Will Be Suspended Here Many local residents who work [ a five day week will take to the I highroads tonight on their last summer outing, the long lutlsir day weekend. Those who must work Raturday the uptown bust nexs establishments will remain open until ft pm. as usual will have Sunday and Monday tree for the annual celebration. The local General Electric plant will be closed Saturday. Sunday and Monday Approximately one half of the Central Soya company's employes will have to come to work ax usual Monday, since xeveral of that firm's departments will be carrying on operations Postal deliveries will not be made. City and county offices will be closed, although local police and members of the sheriff's staff will be patrolling the highways for traffic' offender*. Mo«t retail business will be suspended Monday. Only theater*, restaurants, confectioneries and taverns will be open. The First State Bank and the public library will be closed, and the Daily Demo crat will not publish an edition on the holiday. Many resident* are expected to trek to Indlanajioll* for the state fair, which opened today. With the I weather man's blessing, many others will go to the lakes for that cTwra Te Psae Tssi

Shapely Brunette Sheds Clothes On Capital Roof

Washington. Sept. 3 — tl'P) — A curvesome brunette nonchal vntly stripped to her skin on the ■apitol roof just below the dome oday and said she wanted to take x sunbath To police who Imtted in she dentifled herse f ax Dorothy P., dmitb of Malone. N Y. She lookid to lie about 30. A startlsd bookbinder in the «#ute library watched her disrobe ontslde his workroom window. After removing the lact gar meat, she tossed a num tier of ob jeeta from her handbag, inc tiding rome coins, over a railing to the capitol steps l'« feet below The bookbinder Walter U» scott, went oat on the roof and tried to persuade her to put her clothes back on She demurred, explaining “! want to lake a sun bath " While they talked. Linscott said, she picked up a vanity case and lipstick from a pile of articles Humped from her bag and care fully refurbished her makeup

NO PAPER MONDAY Following annual custom, the Decatur Daily Democrat will not publish an edition Monday, Sept. 8. which will be Labor Day. Two B-29's Meet Maneuver Trouble No Deaths Reported In Two Superforts l-ondon. Sept. 3 - il'P) Two American H 29 superfortresses met with disaster today within a few hours after large sc ale joint BritishAmerican maneuvers Imaan but e therewere no reports of any deaths The xuper forts were among »0 11-29# taking part in the maneuvers which were to include a simulated attempt at a knockout blow on lamdon Both lleveloped trouble over the Netherlands A re|»ort from Flushing. Holland, said that 11 I’. S crewmen alsiard erne B-29 battled vainly for 30 min utes to extinguish a fire aboard their plane and then parachuted All were reported to have survived but there was no report as to whether any were injured Almost simultaneously c ame a report by radio that another suiterfort was in difficulty over Schevig nak. on the hook of Holland The pilot radioed that he was seeking to reach Britain Three or four men of the crew were said to have para chuted, and there* was no further report immediately concerning them There was no information us to (Tara Te Pane Tltere*

The first thought of the police wan that may lie the stripper planned to jump off the roof But she Insisted she just wanted “to rest ami get a *un bath " Blushing po Ice persuaded her to go back in ide the capitol but their efforts to get her to dreas were no Iretier than the l>ookhi nder's. Finally, an unflustered painter working in the corridor took the woman's suit and put it on her. winning the thank* of the police. At no time did the woman give any Indication tlxat she intended to Jump Rhe approached the stone railing **n the capitol roof only to throw her money and other objects — inc'.wdlng a receipt for 31 29 from the Washington YWCA—over It. The capitol officers turned her over to the women's bureau of the metropolitan police • The YWCA receipt, dated Aug 29. bore the name of Dorothy Smith Near the receipt also were I Turn Te Pea*

Government's Crisis In France Mounts, Schuman Resigns After Failure

Two Suits Are Filed Against Dixiecrats Seek, To Keep Ticket Off Hoosier Ballots Imlianagtollx. Sept. 3 (VP) Two injunction xuitx were filed agalnxt the Indiana xtate election board today In an effort to keep the Dixiecrat ticket off the Hookier ballot in November. One wax filed in Marlon < ircult court by Ralph E. Hanley of In dlanapolix. who charged that the states’ rlglilx party platform and principle* propoxed to “overthrow the form of government of thin xtate and nation " The other wax filed in Marlon xuperior court by Republican at torney Frank Beckwith In behalf of Re< « ie T. Avlngton. vice president of the Indianapolis Federation of Associated clubs. The siiits named Gov Ralph F. Gates, Edwin K Steers. Sr., and WJIIIam E. Sleekier, memliers of the state board, ax defendants. The board yesterday voted 2-to-l to allow the Dixiecrat national ticket on the Indiana ballot. Sleekier. the lone Democrat on the board, issued a minority opinion saying the party's aims and princi pies were In conflict wltii a new Indiana "anti hate'* law The law was enacted in I!M7 to bar the Ku Klux Klan and similar organizations from getting a foothold in Indiana. Hanley's suit demanded an Immediate restraining order to keep the state from including the Dixie crats on ballots about to be print ed. “The total effect of the states' rights party lx to set citizen against citizen, race against race, thus giving aid to those enemies of government who desire to profit thereby," the suit said Judge Lloyd Claycombe said he would act on the restraining ordei request later today Avlngton asked In his suit that a declaratory judgement be Issued on the validity of the election laws Involved in the dispute Violation Charged To Maritime Union Defiance Os Board Ruling Is Charged Washington. Hep 1 3 — (I'Pt — The national lalmr relations I oard today accused the CIO National Maritime I'nlon of con tinned vlo at ion of the Taft Hart ley act In defiance <>t a ls>ard ruling The board accused the ClO's seamen’s union of illegally demanding a union hiring hall in bargaining with the four Great l.akea companies. The board ruled on Aug l< that the hiring hall demanded by tne union violates the Taft-Hart ley's acf ban on cloned shop con tracts because it would force em ployerx to diacrintiiAJ** against ton union laltor. In hiring hall contracts employers agree to recruit new em ployes only through the union Despite the Aug 17 decision, th* Ima rd sail, the union persl«te<l In its demands for a hiring tall provi Inn in new Great laikes contracn. The hoard asked the federal court of appeals to order the an lon to obey the law bv abandon Ing efforts to get hiring hall clansea into its contracts The l>oard asked the federal court of appeals In New Y’tvrk to order the union to ohey the law in Its dea Inga with fonr Great latkes shipping companies Demand Declarations Han Francisco. Sept 3 — tl'P) — Went coast employ* re said to day they would not resume nego Hattons to settle the two-day-old maritime strike unless union off! cars declare the«n*e res aa non communlata CIO longshore chief Harry Rridgaa announced he would ash (Tarn To Pace atsi

Doctors Lash Truman Health Insurance Plan Compulsory Health Insurance Rapped By Doctors Group Washington. Sept 3 (I'l*l I A group of doctors today denounced I’rexldetit Truman's plan for compulsory health insurance ax an attempt to place medical *are un der the control of politicians. The National Physicians committee said in a statement that such a program "under any name means the p<ditii-al distribution of health < are In the i'nited States " "This inevitably means the destruction of our American Inxti tutlonx. our freedom of enterprise system and the forfeiture of our American way of life." it said A system of compulsory medical insurance was one of the major objectives in a health program xulmiltted to Mr Truman last night by federal security adininls trator Oscar Ewing. Mr Truman promptly endorsed It. Ewing recommended a 10-year national health ptogram that would mean a federal ■ xtate - municipal government expenditure of over f 4.100,000.000 a year by IMO He told Mr Truman that this expenditure “can ultimately produce an annual return in national wealth of several times that amount.” Ewing devoted much of his report to answering charges of some doctors that compulsory health Insurance wtiuhl mean socialization of (he medical profession. He said voluntary health Insurance was hopelessly inadequate t'nless some form of compulsion lx Introduced, he said, half of the nation's population will not be able financially to provide themselves with adequate medical care. Mr Truman, who ordered Ewing to make a survey of health care last January, said the report "out lines broad objectives and definite methods for achieving them" And he said the medical health and compulsory Insurance pro grams he has submitted to con gress "would carry us far toward the objectives stated In this re port " Ewing did not say how the In surance program would be financed Presumably. Its costs could be met by some form of payroll tax The physicians committee said It would necessitate a three percent payroll tax and would cost tTarw Te l*aue Sweat Named Assistant Scout Executive John Ritter Nomed As New Assistant John Ritter. Chicago, has been named assistant executive of the Anthony Wayne area of the Boy Scouts of America, of which the Decatur troops are a part, and has started his duties in the four soot hem counties of the area Mr Ritter succeeds Joseph Saunders, who has taken a similar assignment in the southwest, after serving a« assistant in this area for several years The new exeeutive. who will have direct charge of all troops in Adams county, is married and has three children He stated that he would like to reside in Decatur, if housing can be found, because his work will be largely in the counties south of Fort Wayne Local Scout officials are busy this week contacting real estate operators la the hopes of finding a suitable home for Mr Ritter and his family The new executive has had several years experience in the Scout movement la and near Chicago

Price Four Cents

I DeGaulle Demands For Dissolution Os Assembly And New Election May Come Paris. Sept. 2 (l'P>— Robert Schuman resigned today ax premier designate and advised president Vincent Auriol that he has been unable in four days of desperate negotiation to form a new French government. It wax reported that Rene i Mayer, radh al Hocialixt finance minister in the first Schuman government and armed force# minister in the Andre Marie cabinet which toppled last Friday, might be Aurlol's next choice to attempt to form a government But hl# chances of success appeared none too good after Schuman * failure. The next move In the lengthening governmental crisis which began when premier Andre Marie's cabinet resigned because of unwavering Socialist opposition to the drastic economic reform prte gram of finance minister Paul Reynaud was not clear. But It appeared possible that the demands of Gwn Charles De Gaulle, free French hero and leader of the powerful Tightest rally of the French people, for dissolution of the assembly and new eleci tions might be pushed through Already the small independent . Republican party has tabled in the assembly a resolution calling for such a move, and De Gaulle has opened a <on* erte*l drive for support of it. Schuman's protracted negotiations finally came to an unsuccessful conclusion as his last hope for a satisfactory candidate for the post of interior minister in a new cabinet failed Francois Mitterund. Sc human s choice, was ordered by his party, the I'nlon of Democrat!® and Social reslstants. to refuse the post unless Schuman would agree to hold cantonal elections and partial national assembly elections next month This Sc human, a popular Republican refused to do. and he at tost wax forced to give up and report failure to Auriol Schuman handed his resignation to the French president at Elysee palace soon after 2 pm. (• am. EDT). Had Mltterand accepted the interior post. Schuman might have obtained a vote of confidence for a new government. But Mltterand would have been ptoi ed in the* position of having to deal with steadily mounting labor unrest at a time when bad feeling between the Communists and the followers of De Gaulle Is Increasing Schuman also had difficulty in finding any one for the post of minister of labor. No party wished to be responsible for labor policy at a time when workers were in an ugly temper over rising prices. There were more 24-hour walkouts in France today, similar to those which idled some 200.»o» workers yesterday Miners at Cermaux. railroad worker* at lax Roche Mlgennex. and building workers at Dijon left their joi*s for the day. And even as S* human was giving up. officials of the CommunistControlled General Labor t'onfideration tCGTI. the Non-Communlst Workers Force, and the Christian taibor Federation were meeting in Paris to agree on uniform wage increase demands All want about 33 percent Increases. but details of their dei mands differed slightly and they i sought to adjust the differences i De Ganlle has been reported to ■ feel that "third-force" or middle- : of the road government, such as i has existed under the recent Coalition cabinets, no longer is pos»lIble In France The Communist party has not i made n formal demand to head a new government, but has boon seeking a “Democratic Nnlon" roalhloa la which the Roctoltots , would be urged to join them There seemed no prospect of Scxialtet nccmptance of such a proposal