Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 218, Decatur, Adams County, 15 September 1948 — Page 1

I XLVI. No. 218.

ANTI TRUST SUIT FILED AGAINST PACKERS

115 American I fcldiers Die Iji Korea Crash i .■ 30 Others Injured I I When Korean Train I I Hits Troop Train ■ Koren Sept 15—tl'I’) — I oir al* w * l ' l ' hat 3& K,. r dll soldier* were killed ■K vl in.' injured la-1 night ; 1K... a speeding Korean train | ■ J.she-1 into th*- r " ar " f “ * tall,Ml train so mile* south of - - IBo: the sn Americana injured. ' M sere hurt seriously. Identifi- . IHnoii w;« ini oinp.ete. but it wa» a I were enlisted men wreck also killed one Koand .njured 45. four of them ■ ■Part.al report* on the trash it was the worst diwan <,,r \merican occupation for «ince they landed In Korea eye-witness "aid the crash |Ks canoed bv inefficiency anti <>f proper safely measures, no soldier* and Arneri HLr military government ern were riding in the last coaches of a troop train w .-,| the Liberator" traveling Pusan to Seoul ■ ■The 'rain developed engine and stopped at Napnln repairs after de ays that it to lie more than four I ■nr- of the passenger". Melhorn Flushing. N 5 a millgovernment employe, said ■K,,. .asualty toll would have been IHuher except that a number of I men left the train th stretch J Peary »si>i he was one of those ■jo left the train He heard an train whistle, he said, ano Hi -he train from Mokto ap on the same track BB' l realized that the Mokto era- on the same track but there was some kind of ■ block svstem." he said "The tr on plowed in'o the ba< k tli.- Lib ra'or te'esc oping the ■|l e- imated that about half were killed or injured. W* them out on the tracks a« a- .mild extricate them the wreckage K 3 'An Iri-h Catholic priest and nro'ev ,nt chaplain who were did a fine job of helping the reriously inlured living and eive them comfort ■ I I saw no evidence of salattage my - minion there was no parI c Tiers Tn Page Klgbtt ■ LATE BULLETINS I Frankfurt. Sept. 15—(UP) I I —An American air force jet ' I I tighter plane, an FBO Shoot- ■ I mg Star, esploded in flight I I today near Furstenfeldbruck I I Airbase in Bavaria, killing its K I Pilot, air forces headquarters II reported. I It was the third fatal crash ■ I of an air force PBO in the II oast three days. Two days I I Ago. two other Shooting Star II airmen were killed in crashes ■ I "«»r Kaufbeuren, Bavaria. ■ Today's crack-up involved ml one of a three-plane forma- ■ teen on a routine training II flight An air forces spokesI I man toed parts of the e« ’ ■ P'oded plane damaged one of the other craft I Washington. Sept. 15 — ■ Army secretary Ken- ■ I "eth C. Royall said today I troops will be used to load I Avmy cargo on the Pacific I I eoast wherever the army is I “"Able to hire men or con- *'** for the work. S Murder Charge || Against Young Wife B Hammond. Ind. Sept. 15 - (UP) Htn Pol “* ’ oda l r planned to file a I ,harK * MAiaat Juanita I 1 k mother who fatal ■ J shot her husband because he ■ •« too jealous " ■ r *»nis Noel. 27 died early today ■ • nun dA In the neck and shoulder ■ "J’ ’**‘•l Mid her husband was ■ of her actions, and even ■ 10 »«l ter visit with women . . Weather I J a ' r ,o "'Bht m Thureday. | warmer northwest tonight end I " »orth and central Thureday.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Farmer Killed When Truck Hits Tractor Brownstown. Ind . Seot. 15 (VP) — Allmrt Hildebrand. 72. Dudleytown, was' killed late yesterday when ihe tractor he was driving onto Ind. 250 from a field near his home was struck by a gravel truck British Term Soviet Charge In Berlin Lie Denies Officers Os Britain Permitted Soviet Flag Defiled Berlin. Sept. 15 — (UP) — A British official spokesman denounced as a lie today a charge bv the Husslan commandant hero that British oflicials stood idly by whi e Germup demonstrators deti ed the Soviet flag at an anti communist rally last week. The Russian commandant. Maj. Gen. Alexander G. Kutikov, de manded that British authorities punish the “fascistic bandits*' who were involved at the rally of 300.000 Germans. Kotikov. In a letter to Maj Gen K. O. Herbert, his British coun-ter-part here, blamed the British for the disorders He held th"m responsible for the desecration ul the flax and of a Soviet war memorial at the gcene of the demon Stratton. A British said the charges "bear little relation to the facts." Instead of comp.al'iIng of British Inactivity, he said. Kotikov "should have been aupremaly grateful to them for protecting hl* troops " ■ The title and style of Kofikov’s letter is a piece of calculated self Inflation." the spokesman said. He noted that Kotikov styled himself "commandant of Berlin" but addressed the British com tnander as "garrison commander." "It seems probable that this b intended to convey the imprescion that Ihe British commandant han no jurisdiction over the city is a who'e. and that the Russian ■ommandant is reserving that position for himself," the spokes man said. U. 8. tlr force headquarters an nouncecl that two American air men who parachuted from a C-47 on the Ber in run Into the Sovle--one' ye-tcrday were safe. Cap' Kenneth W Hlaker of Lincoln. Neb., was back at headquarter c Russian authorities bad returned him to Icorder guards in nortnern Bavaria Lt. Clarence Hteber, of Mobile. Ala . was in Berlin. Both suffered minor hrulses. Kotikov charged that the German demonstrators defiled a memorial to Soviet war dead and a' so the Soviet flag in the presence (t'ara To Pawe *!«• Mrs. Edwin Howard Dies Last Evening Heart' Attack Fatal To Decatur Woman Mrs Margaret C. Howard. 74. wife of Edwin 8 Howard, of 513 West Marshall street, died sudden 'y of a heart attack at 7: JO o clock Tuesday eveping at Delphos. O. where she and her husband had been visiting ft lends since Sunday She was bom In Wells county Aug 11. 1874. a daughter of Philip and Frances Hartman Drum, and was married to Edwin Howard Aug 8. 1H»1 The family resided on a farm in Kirkland township until three years ago when they moved to l»r catur Surviving in addition to the husband are a daughter. Mrs Anna Lobsiger ot Decatur; four sons Chester I. Howard of Decatur. Mer rift W, Joseph B and John E Howard, all of Fort Wayne; 13 grandchildren: four great-grand children, and a brother. P Henry Drum of Decatur One son. one daughter, three sister* and two brothers are deceased Funeral services will be held at 1:30 pm Friday at the home, and at 2 octock al the Pleasant Dale church to Kirtland township, the Rev Kenneth Timmons officinting Burial will be in the Pleaaant Dale cemeterv The body will be removed from the Zwirk funeral home to the reaidence. where friends may call after 2 pm Thursday

Rioting Marks Pacific (’oast Oil Strike

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AMID SWIRLING CLOUDS of teur-gus loosed on attacking strikers, police at Richmond, Cal., form a line to meet attacks by oil-workers who stoned an automobile convoy catryinx non-striking workers In o the refineries. Tbe photographer who made this picture. Howard Robbins, was badly mauled by irate strikers

Truman Says Special Session 'Useless' No Congress Session To Curb High Prices Washington. Sept. 15 — (UP) — President Truman said today It > would Ice "useless” to call another special session of congress to curb: high prices. The president said another special session would only give the Republican-dominated congress an other chance at "a repetition of the 'do nothing' performance” of the recent extra session. Mr. Truman's statement was made in a letter to mayor Frank H. Eggers of Jersey City and mayor* of It) other Hudson county, N. J , municipalities. President Truman said the rem edy to high prices "lies in electing a Democratic congress in Novem ber.” His letter was in answer to a proclamation signed by the 11 New Jersey mayors condemning con-1 cress for failure to pass legislation to coinhat high prices. It asked the president to call another extra see sion. President Truman said that the New Jersey mayors had put "the blame for the heavy burden placed m the housewives of the nation exactly where it belongs — on the Republican dominated 80th con gress." Election of a Democratic congress in November. President Truman said, was the only solution to the price problem Extinguishes Fire With Ice Cream Cone Ontario, Cal-. Sept. 15 — (I’P) — policeman Alfred Bolsta could boaat today of putting out a fire with an ice cream cone. Boluta was cruising the streets when he saw a 16 year old driver pass in a hot rod. its back end blazing as Banting gasoline sloshed from the gas tank. The officer jammed his cone into the tank opening and put out the fire. Six Parties Appear On November Ballot Only Two Parties Have Full Tickets Six political parties will appear on the November ballot In Indiana. Gov. Ralph F. Gates has notified county officials Tbe part lea will appear in this order: Republican. Democratic. Prohibition. Bociallst Ijibor. Progressl-e. an.l Socialist Only the Republican and Democratic tickets include candidates for all eleven slate positions The Prohibition party has put up nine can didates on the state ballot, the Socialist Ijxbor party seven, the Progressives eight and tbe Socialists seven. Tbe southern rtetee rights party has been barred from the Indiana ballot. M nor party candidates who hope to divert some strength from either Hobart Creighton or Henry Schrick er in tbe gubernatorial race,are <Twrw T» Page Serra I

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, September 15, 1948

Lions Club Meeting Held Last Evening J. Jerome Yager, and bis brother. Luther Yager, both of Berne, presented movies and a talk at Tuesday night's meeting of the Lions club. Thurman I. Drew was in charge, laist night's meeting, at the K. of P. home, was the first regular club meeting ot the season Sen. Taft Answers Truman's Charge Declares President Encouraged Defiance Cincinnati. O. Wept. 15—(I'Pt —Sen Robert A Tatt charged today that President Truman had eiuouAcgeil ''open deflam-e" ot the Taft Hartlev labor law. Taft, co-author of Ihe law. made the charge In answer to Mr Tru-' man's accusation that he was guilty of an "entirely improper" attempt to "put the heat" on the national la lair relations lata rd regarding the Chicago printers' strike. The Ohio senator said "President Truman's charge only shows that we bare reached the sill) season in po'ltlcs.” The Republican said that the president's accusation was “merev an attempt to curry favor with the labor bosses who control the labor publicity 'o which he I* looking for help in the election." "The president says he does not expect to interfere In Internal sffalrs of the NLRB." Taft said "If he finds that any branch of the executive department I* falling to do its duty, it h his duty to call them to task.” "The truth is that President Truman, by the veto message accepted so larxelv from the communist sympathiser Le,- Pressman. and by other public statements. has encouraged the open defiance ot the law now engaged tn hv soiM' of the more radical al>or bosses,“ Taft said. Taft declared that he had not charged that the NLRB had neglet ted Its duty in the Chicago case and "only urged prompt action if they thought there was a proper case on the facts” Everv congressman has the doty of taking a matter up with tin executive department "when c I see 1 ■ Paa' ••* <

Free Merry-Go-Round Rides Here Christmas

Children of tbe Decatur trading ares will have a new kind of surprise during the shopping period fast before Christmas, it was learned today. A full fledged merry-go-round will be aet up in the business section of Decatur and free ride* will be given to all children for a pet tod of a week or lu days The plan is betas worked out by tbe retail committee of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce and com plete details will be announced soon Merchant* are studying several plana used by Ohio commun Itias. bat ft has been decided to bring the merry-go-round to Decatur and the ride* will be free Ticket* for rtdee probably wUI he given out by local merchant*

India Is Placed On Full War Footing Hyderabad Second City Surrendered New Delhi. Sept 15 -(UP) —lndia was placed on full war footing today with a public safety ordi name giving the government iscwer to requisition and mobilise resources for the invasion of Hyde rabad. The new ordinance reactivates the defense ot Indian regulations which lapsed at the end of World War 11. It was believed the stringent measures were taken to cope with any emergency, including an invasion of India by Hyderabad troops. An Indian army spokesman said Indian troops have captured Rajasur. 85 mile* west of Hyderabad city and are advam Ing along th* main road toward the capita! against slight opposition The spokesman also said that Aurangabad, second city of the princely state and home of some 2.000.U0U Moslems, surrendered 'in tact and without loss of life" to In dian troop* Auanrgabad is in the northwest corner of Hyderabad The Ist Indian armored division met only "negligible resistance" in advancing from NaldniK to Ra jasur, the s|>okesnian said He claimed that Rapasur marked the halfway mark in the drive to seize Hyderabad city and its main mill lary camp. Secunderabad The southern column advancing toward* Suryapet has been slowed down by attacks from regular army troop* and is still three miles from the town, the spokesman said He *aid Indian troops captured 4“ < I'sra T« I’sae sis > Maine Results Not Accurate Barometer Chicago. Sept 15 — (UP) — The saying as Maine goes, so goes the nation' Is not accurate, historian* said today According to the experts, the voting in Maryland has Iteen a Itetter barometer of the voting In the rest of the nation. In the 16 presidential elections since 1884. Maryland has voted with the nation's majority every time During the same pe<>od. Maine lias only a 5o per cent correct record — eight out of the sixteen

with purchases, and in order that more children can be accommodatIt will be necessary for each child ed. rerides will not be |>ermltted to await his turn, regardless »»t the number ot tickets he might have The equipment will be rented from tbe Floyd Gooding Amusement Co Mr. Gooding has in or 12 Ohio cities where the plan has worked successfully for tbe last several years The location of tbe merry-go-round will be annoum ed soon, committee members stated A sub-committee of tbe retail group called on merchants today and secured enough pledges to sign the contract to bring the equip ment to Decatur during the holiday season

Government Files Suit Against Packers; Asks Four Firms Dissolved

Submit Colonies' Disposition To UN Big Four Disagree On Italy Colonies Paris, Sept. 15 (I’P) — The big four finally agreed today to submit their disagreement regard ing disposition of Italy's former African colonies to the I'nited Nations general assembly. After two days of futile bickering, including one session which lasted nearly all night, the representatives of the I'nited States. Russia. Britain and France got together on the text of a joint letter to Trygve Lie. I'N secretary-general, asking him to cgibinit the question to the general assembly at It* meeting which begins here Sept. 21. The colonies question automatically had Itecome the problem of the I'nited Nations at noon today, an hour or more before the big four represeniattvea agreed on ine letter to Lie Tile Italian peace treaty provided the I'N must consider disposition of the colonies unless the big four agreed by noon today. But the effect of the joint letter was to insure that the question will be p!a<e<l on the agenda for the meeting beginning next week, rather than being delayed until some later session Support of the big four will insure the necessary majority to place the issue on the agenda at this late date Soviet deputy foreign minister Andrei A. Vishinsky. who had argu ecl al length against any reference in the letter to the fact the big four are in complete disagreement on disposition of the colonies, won his point. The letter to Lie contained no such reference. The big four meeting ended al 115 pm Paris time c6:15 am. CDT). and Vishinsky planned to leave almost limned.a’ely for Mos cow He attended briefly, however a luncheon given by French foreign minister Robert Schuman for the delegates and the Russian, British and American ambassadors. Premier Henri Queuille also attended Jesse J. Hurst Dies Early This Morning Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon Jesse J. Hurst. 62. well known Decatur resident, died at 1:45 o'clock this morning at his home 316 North E eventh street. Death was caused by bronchial asthma, hi* condition having been seiious for the past four month* One of the city's leading brick masons. Mr. Hur«t bad worked on 1 obstruction of several of the city's major buildings. Born in Decatur July 4. 1866. a son of James and Mary Fisher Hurst, he was a lifelong resident of the city. His father was Deca tor's lirst fire chief. Mr. Hurst was married to Miss Tillie- Walker Sept. 13. 1806 Ho was a member of the Trin ity Evangelical I'nited Brethren church, and fraternally. wa» affiliated with the Improved Order of Red Men and the Knights of Pythias He was a member of rhe voluntoer firemen for several year". Surviving are hl* wife; his mother; four sons. Arthur. Vernon and Carl Hurst, all of Decatur. and Ralph of Bloomington one daughter. Mr*. Ralph Bechtol of Van Wen. O.; 13 grandchil dren; one great-grandchild; » brother Ed Hurst of Decatur, and a sister. Mrs Franci* Katterheinrich of Mishawaka One daughter, one sister and four brothers preceded him In death Private services will be held at 11:80 a m Saturday at the home, and the hodv will then lie in state at the Trinity Evange leal I'nited Brethren church until services at 2 p m. the Rev E. E Bragg 'officiating Burial will be In the Decatur cemetery The body will be removed from the B ack funeral home late Thursday afternoon to the reaidence. where friend* may call after 7 p m

Alert Police For Violence In Oil Strike California Police Officials Alerted Before Refinery By United Press Police were alerted for more violence in the California CIO oil strike and the AFL truck drivers strike threatened food and milk sup piles at New York Peace officers at Richmond. Cal., gathered before the Standard Oil refinery to prevent recurrence of a picket line battle yesterday in which nine persons were hurt severely enough t<> be hospitalized and score* of others suffered cuts and bruises. More than 2,000 CIO oil workers and longshoremen participated in the fight to keep independent union maintenance wotkers out of the plant Negiotiations continued between the six struck oil firms and representatives of 15.000 CIO oil work ers but no progress was reported At New York, a number of wholesale houses whic h supply independ ent groceries were shut down when liuckers of local 282. AFL International Brotherhood of Teamsters, refused t« make deliveries. Shipments were also baited between yard* and piers of the New York Central and Pennsylvania railroads Drivers of local 807, with 4.700 on strike, halted deliveries ot <aidboard milk containers from the American Can company to dairies because American Can refused to IciHcst its offer of a 15-cent hourly wage Im tease to the union's demand of if-'x cents. Dairies had only a two-day supply of containers laical 282 is demanding a 25-cent boost for its 3.ii00 striking members Meanwhile. 3.300 Newark truckers went trac k to work under an agree ment for a 15-cent wage Icoost and hospitalization benefits. Striking west coast maritime un ions told members that anyone pas sing a picket line to work army ships woufd be considered a strike bleaker. However, the army said 38 melt applied for maritime jobs yester <Tura Tu Psar tllabo Asserts Attendance Officer Mandatory Statement Refuted By Superintendent Lyman L. Hann. Adams county school superintendent, tcslay em l.hutically tefuted a statement in Tuesday's Democrat that the position of county attendance officer is not mandatory, and explained the county board of delay in naming one Fol'owlng is the text of Mr Hann's statement "At the August meeting of the county Icoard of education I reported that it was not certain that Mr Mallonee would lie ible to start on hl* duties at the beginning of the school term, but that ( had 'io other applicants for the position. A motion was passed unanimously that action on the matter of an attendance officer hr postponed until It was learned definitely whether the attendance officer could serve this year "Shortly before the first of September Mr Mallonee reported • hat his physician had approved his coming back to the office I contacted some of the trustees, since the September meeting had been postponed to September 11. and It was their opinion that It was the intent of the board that be should begin work as soon as be was abe. This action was approved by formal and unanimous vote at the meeting at Berne last Saturday. "As to the appointment of an ■ Twru Tu Fane »es»«l

Price Four Cents

Charges Four Big Packers Suppress Competition; Suit Filed In Chicago Chicago. Sept 15 tl’P) The government filed a civil anti-trust suit today against the nation's four biggest meat packers, and asked that they be divided into 11 smaller companies The suit charged Armour. Wilson. Swift and Cudahy with suppressing competition in the sale of meat and by-products The 3J-page suit also asked for an Injunction requiring that Armour and Swift each be divided into five separate companies, and that Cudahy and Wilson each be split into two separate firms. The suit charged that the companies violated the Sherman antitrust law by 1. Controlling the supply of meal which each company obtains for sale by controlling the amount of livestock each will purchase 2 Using uniform cost formulae for arriving at selling prices 3. Selling at "loading” instead of "delivered" weights 4 Selling at substantially identical prices According to the justice department, the four firm* slaughter 58 percent of all cattle killed In the I'nited States. 54 percent of the hogy. 68 |»ercent of the calves and 79 percent of the sheep In seeking to have the packers divided Into smaller companies, the suit asked that the big firms be dissolved, and that tbe smaller components be completely separat ed from control, management and stock ownership by the parent The suit also asked that the defendants and their subsidiaries be enjoined front determining among themselves the volume of livestock to be bought each week, and that they be restrained from buying a certain constant percentage The government asked that eac h of the four defendant companies be te<|ulred within a period of six months from the final judgment or decree in the case, to present their plans, programs and recommendations for dissolution and reorganizing The suit asked that Swift and Co. be divided into separate companies and comprising the following plants as follows Company No 1: Cambridge. Mass.; Smithfield. Va.; Evansville. Ind ; Des Moines, la.; Omaha. Neb . Montgomery. Ala ; Dallas. Tex.; and Denver No 2 Springfield. Mass.; Newark. N J ; Halstead. Pa.; Ocalla. Fla.; Marshalltown, la . St Joseph, Mo.; Watertown. S D.; Ft Worth. Tex . and lais Angeles No ;i Somerville. Mint*. Jersey City. N J.; Harrisburg. Pa.: St. laiuis. Mo. Perry, la; Atlanta. Ga ; San Antonio. Tex.; and San Francisco No. 4: Harrison. N J.; Cleveland. Chicago; Sioux City. la.. Winona. Minn Moultrie. Ga.: latke Charles. La. and Spokane. Wash. .No. 5: New Haven. Conn ; Brooklyn; Baltimore. Md . Nashville. Tenn.; Columbus. O . Savannah. III.: St. Paul; Minneapolis, and Kansas City. Kans. The justice department asked that Armour and Co. be split as follows: Company No 1 Jersey City, N. J.; Columbus. O ; Birmingham. Ala ; Oklahoma City. Okla Omaha: Grand Forks. N D ; and lam Angeles No. 2: Baltimore; Lexington, Ky.t Chicago; St Joseph. Mo . Green Bay. Win.; Hurson. S l>. and San Francisco. No. 3:New York. Atlanta. Ga.; Peoria. III.; Kansas City. Kans ; and St Paul No 4 Pittsburgh; Tipton. Ga . Eau Claire. Wis : Sioux City, la ; Fargo. N. D.; Ft Worth. Tex : Spokane. Wash No 5: Reading. Pa.; Memphis Milwaukee; Mason City, la ; lienver and Portland. Ore Cudahy would be split into two firm* as follows No I: Sioux City, la.: St Paul: Wichita. Kans : Phoenix. Aril . Fresno. Cal. and Los Angeles No J Jersey CPy: Albany. Ga ; Kansas City Kans: Omaha: Salt Lake City; f*enver and San Diego Wilson would be divided as fol • tare To f'su» at«)