Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 215, Decatur, Adams County, 11 September 1948 — Page 1

BXLVI. No. 215.

RUSSIANS BREAK OWN BERLIN BLOCKADE

ick Drivers Ike On East ■st Is Broken Krike On Boeing Krplane Company |K Also Settled lly United Press east coast truck driver* K broke wide open today on I ion's term, and MH> me I ended their long strike Boeing Airplane company ihington state. there was scarce hope for ent of other strikes that ft.ooo west coast maritime x. 5<>,000 Detroit auto », 15.0ftft California oil reemployes and l.tofl Mlnnegrain processors ssentative* of 13.00 ft strik'L truck drivers at Mew ffered yesterday to reduce emands for a 25 cent hour boost to 17% cents. Seattle local of the Indet Aero Mechanics Union overwhelmingly to return k at Seattle’s two Boeing More than U.Sftft workI been on strike for more >ur months. They accepted mpany's contract offer, Ina 15-cent hourly wage In They had struck for 3ft Jan Francisco, the CIO oremen's Union announeit members had almost ously rejected an employmand that union officers noii-communist affidavits. Iso turned down the em"final offer" for settled their dispute. shore chief Harry Bridges ced the union was wil Ing line negotiations, but emsaid they would remain nless union leaders signed n-cominunlst declaration* Earl Warren appointed* P. O’Brien to act a* slate ator to conserve the Me* dwindling supply of gaao- ■ and oil In the face of an Be day strike by the CIO UnitBfiil workers. ■bout 1,50 ft workers at Stand- ■ Oil’s plant near Richmond ■ to discuss a posslb'e hack-to-Kk movement. The union struck- ■ a 21 cent hour y increase The ■tpanies are clinging to a 12- ■' offer. ■<> further negotiating session* scheduled to the AFb gra'n ■ •-sing strike that ha* hafle.l fltr milling at six big firms Id ■ twin cities. ■ meeting between the union ■ management with Gov LuthI Voungdabl broke up without Bulls yesterday. The union inflated it would accept a 15-cent Br raise which settled a Duluth flnd handlers' dispute But th • Br.Panles stuck to their 12%B' offer. frifty thousand automobile and ■ly plant workers were idled w the fourth day as result of a like by 170 Briggs body p'altt Brker* who sought navment for ■ 15-cent "make ready" time hetTsra Te I'sae Sixt linior Police Club In All Day Hike I fourteen members of the Junr police club left hesdquarter* I » o'clock this morning on atx ■ 'lay bicycle hike Their route b’ north on the old river road f- and Mrs. Boh Railing are in large of the group. [wo Under Arrest h Kidnap Charges [Fort Wayne. Ind, Sept 11—(t*P> Mtate officiate conferred today f’h federal authorities regaiding Indianapolis youths held In the Mnaping of Roger Conover. 19. prlngfleld. O Willis Ray Bryant. 11. and Rob- « P Musgrove 19. were turned let to federal officials after their tpture In Conover's car near Mon*vUle. police said No charges ♦re entered against the pair Conover trdd police be was over»wered by two men near Springeld Thursday He said the men me his cir Into Indiana and then 'leased him near Portland. Ind 3sr robbing him of 111. a watch. • a camera WEATHER Fair tooth. partly cloudy Nerth today. Pair tonight and Sunday. Warmer.

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New Turn Reported In Atomic Spy Hunt Public Hearings May Be Delayed Washington. Sept. 11 tUPI—House invcs'lgator* said today their atomic spy hunt has taken . a "new turn" which may force ■ postponement of public hearings now set for next Wednesday. But members of the house un- ' American activities committee refused to discus* the new evidence supposedly turned up during ultrasecret hearings of the past week. One member said, however. the hearings have uncovered a situation "which can he de- I scribed as 'grave'.” The forthcoming public hear- i ings have already been postponed ■ once They were originally schedu'ed to begin lust Tuesday . A subcommittee, headed by Rep J. Parnell Thomas. R„ N. J . has been investigating alleged I Soviet attempts to steal U. S atomic secrets during the war Four witnesses who helped in the development of the atom bomb tvs'ified secretly before the group yesterday. They were led bv Lt. Gen Leslie R. Groves, (lie retired arthy officer who was In charge of the army's Ismth-hui'ding Manhattan project during the war. He absolutely refused to discuss his testimony. Thomas declined to identify the other three witnesses. He said, however, that one is a scientist who was called in "as an expert witness to examine certain documenta connected with ftie atom liotnb and this- espionage case." Thomas said that a prominent midwest co'lege professor and a Pennsylvania communist organiser will appear before a (dosed session of the subcommittee on Tuesday He refused to give an i Furs Te Pace Sts I Spanish Class For Adults Is Proposed if sufficient Interest is evidenced. I a class in elementary Spanish sot | I adults will be inaugurated at the Junior-senior high school. W Guy Brown, principal. announced today I The proposed class would be I taught by Mrs. Ltierax. and would be held evenings, for the convent erne of the adult students A nom Inal tuition fee would be charged All those interested in joining such a class are asked to come to room ij>os In the high school on Monday I evening at 7:30. Mr. Brown said. Hazel Banta Appointed To Adjustment Board Mrs Haze! Banta of Geneva has been appointed a member of the Adams county tax adjustment board, replacing Luther Martin also of Geneva The appointment was made by Judge Earl B Adams of the Adams circuit court The tax adjusters meet Monday at the county audi 'tor’s office to review local tax rales and make any adjustments they deem necessary , —... e.— Pfc. Ervin Avery Funeral Wednesday War Veteran's Body Returned For Burial i Final tribute will be paid to a deceased Willshire. O . war veteran 1 Wednesday, when funeral services |are held for Pfc Ervin Avery, kill ed In action with the United States iarmy in France Jan It. 1945 Services will be held at 1:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the Black funeral home and at 2:30 pm at the Methodist church at Willshire. O The Rev G. M. Sill will officiate, assisted by Rev Bissell Burial will be in the Willshire cemetery, with the Willshire lx* ion Poet conducting military rites The body will arrive in Decatur late Monday evening and will be taken to the Black funeral home where friends may call after 10 am Tuesday. Pfc. Avery was bora la Willshire April 14. 1221. a eon of Herbert and Fern Hileman-Avery. He entered service at Daytoa. O. in October of 1»42 and after receiving training at Camp Barkley. Ky. was sent over ’•ffurvlvlng In addition to the par ents are a brother. Calvin Avery who Is attending school In Rom*. Italy, and a sletor. Mies Mary Anu Avery, at borne

Russia Raps Marshall For Parley Refusal Lashes Refusal To Attend Parley On Italian Colonies Ixmdon. Sept. 11—(UPI—Russia attacked I'. S. secretary of state George C. Marshall today for his “refusal” to attend a big four foreign ministers meeting on the Italian colonies but agreed to participate In a meeting of leaner representatives starting Monday | in Paris. In a Russian reply to the U. S. broadcast by radio Moscow, the : Soviet government said the, American note of Sept, s concern- ; ing the Soviet-proposed big four meeting was "arbitrary and Iliadi mixsable ." The Soviet note charged Marshall with violating the Italian peace treaty, "according tn which, the question of the fate of the former Italian co'onlea was to be considered bv the council of foreign ministers before Sept. 15 of this year." Despite this, the Soviet note said. Russia will "not object" to what was described as an American proposal that representatives of the big four foreign ministers meet next Monday to consider the quest ion The American note saying that Marshall couldn’t attend, bift would send a representative, 'means that the secretary of state refused to take part In the council of foreign ministers," the Soviet note charred. Moscow said Rovlet AnxhasMdor Alexander Panyushkin in Washington had been Instructed to present the Russian reply in the U. S. government Copies of •h<- note also are being sent to Britain and France. Moscow said Juvenile Home Head Ousted For Actions Admits Intimacies With Two Inmates Indianapolis. Sept. 11—(UP) — Edwin 11. Lowell. 39. superintendent of a county juvenile detention center, admitted today that he was intimate with two teenage girl inmates to help solve thrdr emotional problems Lowell, under tlft.OOU bond on ,i rape charge, signed a short statement for police confessing relations with a girl 15 and another 17. He said the o der girl was up et to the point of running away." "She asked that I have re a tions with her in order to avert rouble," Lowell said Lowell, a social worker with a good record for many years, was supervisor of a boys club In Chicago between 1934 and 1942 and was a field director for the American lle<l Cross In Hawaii and the Midway Island* during the war The father of two children waived preliminary hearing In a magistrate's court. Maj Robert A. O'Neal, state police executive officer, said Lowell asked permission to make x statement after he was subjected to a lie detector test at the Insistence of Char es H. Boswell, chief probation officer of Marion county juvenile court. “We insisted on a full Investigation so as to either determine his guilt or clear him of the charges." Boswell said Ixiwell was fired from his job Immediately. Ixtwell said he was Intimate with the younger giril whl'e be Investigated a rumor she had approached one of his subordinates with an offer of sexual relations Lowe'l was questioned after Gov. Ralph F Oates relayed to Marion county authorities and state 0011-e a report from Mr« Xd lalde Mhman. superintendent of the Indiana girls' school, an Institution for delinquents Mrs. Lehman said several girl* tran*ferred from the juvenile center to the school imp lcated Ixvwell Police said four girls former'y held in the eent»r were qneetion»>d Twn denied Lowell molested tehm Two others said he "kissed" them. Lowell Is a native of Rhinelander. Wls

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United Nations Day Set Oct 24 j \ /<A 1 x > vMJ s m SI B n . I MMEa* - Il IN A WHITE HOUSE LAWN ceremony President Truman gives to Harper Sibley of Rochester, N. Y., chalrmuti of the national committee for observance of United Nation's Day. a proclamation setting Oct. 24 as date of observance.

Put Off Campaign Tour Into South Western States On Political Slates Washington. Sept. 11 —(Ul’i — President Truman and bls Republican presidential rival. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, apparently are putting off campaign tours Into the deep south until the very last minute Except for the swing that Gov Ifarl Warren. GOB vice presiden Ito! nominee, ha* lined up from Sept 15 to Oct 15. most of the early campaigning will be in western state*. Warren will make stops In 33 states covering virtually every set tittn of the country -except the deep south. Republican headquarter* had no comment on when either Dewev or Warren would under take a southern tour. Dewey's first trip, opening at !>e* Moitte*. la. Sept. 28. will h*. com ent rated in the west and middle west. Mr. Truman I* also preparing for a twoweek tour of western states later this month He tn* la ignoring the south for the present. Original Democratic strategy cal’ett for the president to go south first, but this suddenly was changed in favor of a short Michigan trip followed by the western jaunt. Republican and Democratic spokesmen deny that there I* any special significance in postponing their southern invasions But Republicans obviously feel that 4 twrw T« Faoe •!»! Man Jailed Here Has Long Police Record Collins' Record Is Received By Sheriff When James Qpllinft. Erie railroad worker from Pittsburgh. Pip was arraigned on a charge of ve hide taking, he steadfastly denied ever having been arrested for any thing more serious than public in toxlcatlon He was sentem ed to 9<> days at thO Putnamville state pens' farm Tuesday, and was committed Thursday Collins' police record for the past three years was received by the sheriffs department thia mom Ing from the Indiana state police bureau of identification It does not mention any charge of public Intoxication. But if doos list six thefts of suto mobiles, convictions on petty tar cony, grand larceny and first de tree larceny, and two escapes from the Allegheny county. Pn. work house Two of CoiliM' auto thefts Involved taxicabs in Pittsburgh In addition to seven convictions in his native state. Collins ha* opposed the law tn Buffalo and RecheUer N Y.. and Fort Wayne, the report revealed fflnee December 194 k. Collins has been sentenced to more prison time than the time which has elapsed tTara Te Pass Mst

Questionnaires Are Sent To Single Men Single non-veterans who signed up for the draft last week have re coived questionnaires In the mail, and will he expected to return them completely filled out by Septem her 19. Mrs Elmer Chase, county draft board clerk, said today. A total of 543 men registered here the first week, and a total of 9ftl were on the roster up until to day. Twnnty-one-yaar-old* have their lust chance to register today. M«n horn in 1922 wilt sign up Monday and Tuesday of next week Schricker Hits GOP Aid For Dixiecrals Scores Republican Aid To Dixiecrats Logansport, Ind . Sept 11 H'l'i Henry F Schricker. Democratic gubernatorial nominee, scored Re I üblit ans last night for aiding the states' rights party in it* effort to get on the Indiana ballot for the November ele tion* In an address before second distrit t Democrats, the former hoosier governor said the a< tion of GOP officials was a "shameful example of the depth* to which some men will go In an effort to acquire a temporary political ad vantage." "The states’ right* party." Schricker said, "declare* brazenly In Its platform that it i» in favor of discrimination upon a basis of rare, creed and color " "Knowing this, the Republican Hute headquarters admittedly helped the states' right* party by preparing petition* which contain ed thousands of forged names, even the names of detent people long dead " Schricker said it wa* "a scheme to bring bu< k the Insldiou* modern counterpart of the Ku Klux Klan to Indiana politics " Inconsistent Jeffersonville. Ind . Sept It Il'Pi Hobart Creighton, the Re publican nominee for governor, said today that inconsistent ies In the Democratic state and national platforms "amount to outright Insults to right thinking people" Creighton spoke at a Clark cour.tv GOP rally. He praised the state compulsory arbitration law for labor disputes in public utilities as "a sensible, down-to-earth law.” But he said the Democrats "picked on thi* law as a target for rabble rousing speethe* " "The proof that It Is a good law is the fact that Jt has wsrked to the satisfaction of workers and managemant alike every lime It has been tried." Creighton said He charged the Democrat* with using "worn out trick phases" as "new deal tactics the Democrats tried to shove down the throats of Indiana voters four years ago" They will bo repudiaad far worse In November than they were In 1944." ho said

Slight Chink Appears In Blockade, Reds Run Mail Train Into British Zone

U S. Crop Harvest Largest In History Practically All Crops Thriving Washington. Sept. II tUPt Prospects were brighter today that the overall 194 k crop harvest will be the largest in history. In its monthly crop report, the Agriculture Department said that just about everything is thriving The department boosted its estimate of this year's record corn crop from 3.5m>,36:!.<ift0 to 3.529.RlS.ftOX) bushels The wheat crop, the second largest in history, was placed at 1.294.995.000 bushels. <172.000 bushels higher than the August forecast. The Ailgunt heat wave was hard on some crops, the report said, tint "elsewhere the benefits of sun shine and warmth outweighed such damage " In connection with the meat shortage, the report noted that a harvest of 134.000.00A tons of feed grains is in the offing Tills exceeds by nearly 10.000.00 it tons the record set in 194fi Cheaper feed grains will eventually mean an Increase in meat supplies Besides this. It said, farmers are raising tt near record quantity of grain for human constinipilon —"enough to supply domestic needs and provide huge quantities for export." A supply of fresh vegatablex at least one-tenth larger than last year will be on market counters I during the rest of 194*. the depart ment said But It said production of fruits is down nine percent from 1917 America Is United On Foreign Policy Republicans Warn Nations Os World New York Sept 11 - tl'l’t The Republican party reempha sized today its right to < rltlclze "many phases" of the admlnistra : lion's foreign policly But It warned other nation* that this would not affect U S po icy abroad "We shall be in Internal contra versv regarding many phases of | foreign policy," Sen Arthur H | Vandenberg said "But we shall ; not be in controversy over the basic fact that America l« united against aggression and against foes of freedom " Vandenlterg's statement follow ed a conference with <lov Thom as E Dewev. Republican pre«l dential nominee, and John Foster rmllex. Itewev's adviser on for ei-’n affair* Vandenberg flew here from Washington vesterdav for the conference He conferred with Dewev and Dulles for two hours 's«t night fhi'les la leaving next Friday for the Uniter) Nations meeting In Paris Vandenlrerr warned that it is "of the greatest importance that o’her nation* which do not under •land our political system should not he misted bv our political catnnaim »t home " "Begnr'lles of political differ ence« at home we are serving notice on the world that America is united to protect American r'rh's everywhere and throurh firmness <n the right to seek peace with iustlce for ourselves and the other neace lovine pennies of the world." Vandenberg said D*ratur Ministers Will Meet Monday Tha Daea'nr ninls'erlal associstlott will meet Monday moraine at Isl o'clock In the parlor of the Elon eVanawHeal and Reformed church All the ministers are urged to bo present for this opening meeting '

Berlin Crisis May Be Aired At UN Meeting Western Powers Are Preparing To Carry Issue Before UN Ixmdon. Kept. 11 ll'l'l - The western (towers are prepared to carrv the Berlin <ri*i* to the United Nation* If new talks tied to take place in Moscow fall to break the deadlock and the Berlin bltH'kade continues, reli aide re|H>it* said today. The three powers, and e pec tally the United States, consider the blockade to be a complete and dlre< t violation of article two of the United Nations charter, west ern official* said. This article ca ls on all member* of the Unit ed Nations to settle their dispute* by peaceful mean* "The blockade I* nothing more than coercion and mock* that sec tion of the charter." one western official said Dispat< he* from Moscow Indi cate that the western ena'<*» soon will seek another conference with Russian offii lai* and it was believed this mav turn out to It* a request for a showdown meet ing with Generalissimo Josef Stalin himself • It I* believed the western en voys. headed by I' S Ambussa dor W Bedell Smith, may point out Io Stalin the failure of th< four mi Bary governors in Berlin to reach agreement on the accord in principle hammered out In Moscow Berlin dispatches have indicat ed this failure wax due Io exce* tve llussi.in demands advanced by Marshal Vassily D Sokolovsky despite Stalin'* approval of th> accord in principle. Smith and his Ang'urFrench tolleague also may call Stalin'* direct attention Io the fal ure of Soviet authorities lii Berlin to halt the current wave of hooli ganiam and terror that has turned the German capital into a powder | keg. Should the next Moscow meet I ing* prove fruitless, it will mean ! that the western Allies have fail ed in direct negotiations with Stalin. Soviet foreign minister V M. Mo ofov and tn conferences (Turn T« I**** I'neri » - - II .. dbs ... —- Indiana State Fair Is Closed Friday Weather Prevents Attendance Mark Indianapolis. Sept II ll'l’i Weary exhibitor* and visitor* head ed for home today a* the Indiana state fair closed its gate* for an other year Fair officials said 54* 92ft persons visited the sprawling fairgrounds during the eight day stand But the final figure fell short by about 12. mm of last year's grand total Several days of bad weather wa» responsible for the drop, official* said Yesterday, on the final day 54.355 visitor* went through the turnstile* It was flying farmer aud Indianapolis manufacturer* day The highlight of the finale was the sale of the grand champion fat steer "topper ' for 1ft.370. setting a new record at the Hoosier expos! tlon The steer was that of 17 year old Gene Grubbs Covington, who took blue ribbons for It in the 4-H grand championship and also won the open class competition Buyer of the choice animal was state auditor A V lAirch. presl dent of the Burch Implement Works. Evansville He bought the 9x<t pound animal at Msu per pound The previous high paid here was |« mt in 194 C Last year s win ner brought 23 05. Flying farmers from 45 Hoosier counties dropped" In at the fair They Hew their planes to an air port and were transported by auto 'to the fairgrounds

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British Order Like Move Os Mail Train Dispatched Across Border Into Berlin Berlin, Sept II — tUPt — A chink In tin- Soviet blockade of Berlin appeared today when the British military government ordt red a mail train dispatched aero** the zonal border to the capital tonight. If the mall train makes the scheduled run from Hanover to Berlin, it will be the first rail movement dirts t to Berlin aim e Russia sea ed off the city nearly three month* ago. The Russian* ran a mail train from Berlin to the British zone yesterday Taking their cue from the Soviet. British authorities ordered a like run in the other direction. No one wa* willing to gue*s what would happen, or whether the token border crossing was a Soviet signal presaging an easing of the blockade After the Mos tow and Berlin four power conference*, rumor* |»r*lxted that the blockade would be lifted The propaganda campaign* accompanying the Berlin crisis turned up new reports of iitire*t tn the liusxian occupation zone of eastern Germany They said s.'H«t heavily armed Soviet zone German polte had been sent out Into the region around Berlin to d<-al with threatened, disorder* At the same time the Soviet propaganda chief in Germany. Col Serge Tnlpanov, called on Germans and "all antifascist*" to join the Soviet I'nion to prevent another war 'Those who do not want to become victims of a new war must he strong fighter* for democracy.’ he said Meanwhile, both British and American authorities In Berlin ordered military ami civilian po lice to take special precautions ig.iin-.t the possibility of disord -r* on sector borders during a scheduled communist demonrtra tion in the Soviet sector tomorrow The communist nress of iter in ha* publicized the scheduled demonstration a* a "monster" answer to the 3<'ft.t>tMt anti-com lUunlstx who gathered before th« relchstag 111 the British zone this week The German mail train that crossed the Russian Soviet zonal liorder veslerdav entered the I'.ritiNh zone at Vorsfelde. tn mile north of the Russian blockade point at Helmstedt British zone railway offi< lai* said The train was passed by Brills.* zone German rail offl< lai* ami proceeded to the town of Lehrte. near Hanover tn the British zone G It Thomson chief of rail tran*|H>rt for the British mili'ary government. *ald yesterday'* train wa* not the first "They have l>een arriving at erratic interva'*." Thomson said "They seem to come In a hole in the fem e fashion ” Thomson warned that arrival of the Berlin train yesterday should not give rise to hope* that the Berlin blot hade is about to be lifted "It I* hard to tell." he said "It la too early yet to forecast anything about the blot kade ” Despite the Soviet blta-kade. •he AnglmAmerican airlift hit a new record yesterday by flying in approximately 5,P00 tons of snpp'les under virtually perfect flying eondltt-ms They made 711 flights German pres* reports said that' Soviet authorities have tWdered the immediate arrest of any western sector tierman reporter* or tTurw Ta Paae «l«> Young Mother Killed As Auto Hits Truck Madison. Ind. flefft 11--4UPX — 4 mother was killed yesterday and her husband ami three-year-old hnv were In hired tn an auto-eiob|ie-tnick co'llskin Mr« Jean Th>-raall. 21. auffered ♦a’al ißlurlws when a ear driven by her husband Donald. 22. •mashed into a parked dump truck Thwir boy. Donald, wa* •er ton tly iuhirad