Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 221, Decatur, Adams County, 18 September 1948 — Page 1

XLVI. No. 221.

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liman Opens Impaign Tour I lowa Today Campaign Bid for Nation's Farm j/ote Seen Today I route with President Truman, , jjj _ (UP) — President Tru- , after getting up in the middle he night tor a peace meeting i a midwestern Democratic y leader, entered lowa today to ea major campaign bid tor the Mt'« (arm vote. I bis way to Dexter, la. the ident was up enrly at his mid I campaigning. I 2 a m.. sleepy-eyed and clad ajamax, he awoke on his train bicago to greet Jacob N. Arvey, ago Democratic leader who It o get Gen. Dwight D. Eisenrr the Democratic nomination the presidency. Arvey said he led the president luck. f ti 20 am., the president had e two brief rearplatform adaes from his train to trackcrowds. In both, he continued attacks on congress. t It i 15 am., he told a Rock IsJ, 111 , audience of about 2,000 l the last congress was an inpneiit of "special interests — fked by the most terrific lobbies history." Irossing then into lowa with forr Sen Guy Gillette of lowa ord. the president told about hl persons al Davenport, la., t the people of lowa are "sufInz from the same thing as the lof the United States —” the h congress. He said the Deniottn would win in lowa Nov. 2. 4 IS the train left for Dexter. It lowa City, site of the Univer ) of lowa. Mr Truman lambsstcongresa for failing to pass leg ktron which he said he recomnded to relieve crowded condib> in colleges. the president's uaughter, Margarappeared on the train platform receive a Isiuquet of red roses *m the university chapter of her lurity. Pi Beta Phi. Chapter pres mt Julie Ferguson, Shenandoah, , presented the roses to the smilI .Miss Truman. the train left lowa City at 7:23 A group of Illinois Democratic litiriaas. led by Arvey. boarded ) presidential special as it stop il In a aide track at Chicago be- * moving from the Pennsylvania the Kock Island lines William Boyle, representing the mocratic national committee, it them. Boyle led the group rough the oak dining room down e long corridor of the president's mured car. He tapped politely at r. Truman's bedroom. Tae president arose and admitd them He sat on the edge of I bed and talked for several minis. When Arvey came out. he said at the ' president and I just exlanged greetings and I wished the evident lack." He aa.d the prenimt thanked the group tor staying i so late to meet him. "He looked sleepy and I felt like heel for getting him up." Arvey kid. It was the first direct contact be»*en the president and Arvey h<e Immediately after the Philsblphia convention In which Arvey »>l urged that Mr. Truman retire I favor of Gen. Dwight Eisenhower Arvey later returned his alle•wee to Mr. Truman when Eisen°»rr eliminated himself from poliTwrw Tw Were Five) services Are Held or Owens Infant Graveside services were held *rly this afternoon at the Decatur emetery for Kathaleen Marie '•ms. stillborn daughter of Lee • d Irene Owens Ixirn at 1 am. to- »• the Adams county memorial ■•H’al The Zwick funeral home •udat'ted the services, with the »» D H PelJett officiating Surviving are the parents, the un dparents, Mr and Mrs. Virgil *»P»r and Mr. sad Mrs. Grover ►wees of Convoy, O-. sod the groat Mr and Mrs. J A. of Convoy. ’ Weather - Partly clsudy and continued **"" »«*iy, with scatt« red ‘“•wer, north |h(e f, r . noon fair and warm.

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Air Force Day Is Celebrated Today Greatest Air Show Is Staged For U. S. Washington, Sept. IS—(VP) — The V. S. air force turned the length and breadth of the United States into a single, vast theater today to stage Its greatest air show before millions of awea Americans. President Truman called the air force day demonstrations a manifestation to the entire world that "a nation secure in its own trength” is determined to "maintain the cause of peace." Thundering onto the continentwide stage from a string of bases g. retching from Japan to Germany were s<) B-29 superforts. the battle-tested mainstays of America's strategic air power Their targets were 25 cities at which two panes each were scheduled to land between 8 am snd 5 pm.. CDT after flying nonstop missions ranging up to 5.666 miles. While the superforts showed the public how‘an attack could be launched against America through its polar and ocean approaches, live B-36 superbombers — the world's largest—were beginning intensive. nationwide shuttle flights, covering several hundred cities. It was not the air force's day vlone, however. It was also th* first anniversary of the armed services unification act. Defense secretary James Forrest*! said it was an appropriate time for "all members of this military team . . to congratulate each other on their unification for the common good.** The 829 flights got underway st 9:10 a. m. CDT yesterday when two superforts rosa from the rhnway at Keflavik internal tonal airport, Iceland. They headed for West Paid) Beach. Fla., where they were to turn toward Pittsburgh's municipal airport for a scheduled 8 a. tn., CDT landing. Their 4.555-mlle flight was to be the first to land. laist are two B-29's Vying i.tto Boise. Ida., on a 1.507m11e run from Goose Bav. Labrador, via Tampa. Fla, and El Paso Tex. cTern T» P««r Tbrrei Mrs. Harvey Tinkham Dies This Morning Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon Mrs. Vernota L. Tinkham. 55. wife of Harvey C. Tinkham. died at 8:12 o'clock this morning at her home in Blue Creek township, one mile south of Salem. H ie had been 111 for three years. Death was attributed to a cerebral hemorrhage. She was I corn In Van Wert Conn ty. 0., Oct. 28. 1892. a daughter of William and Irene MontgomeryHakes She was married to Harvey C. Tinkham June 1. 1910. She was a member of the Salem Methodist church. Surviving are the husband; six sons. Wilbur of Berne. Albert and Melvin of Decatur. Woodrow of Ge neva. Hel>er of Portland and Morris of Willshire. O.; one daughter. Mrs Etola Hiti of Roanoke; nine grandchildren; five brothers. Walter Hakes of Elkhart. George. Charles and Harrison Hakes, all of Decatur, and Raymond of Fort Wayne, and two sisters. Mrs. Ada Hower and Mrs. Rhuey Hllyard, both of Decatur One brother and one sistei are deceased. Funeral service* will be held at 2 p.m Tuesday at the home and at 2:30 o'clock at the Salem Methodist church, the Rev Seth Painter officiating. Burial will be in the Tricher cemetery The body will be removed from the Zwick funeral home to the tesideuce Sunday afternoon. New Train Schedules On Erie Railroad New train schedule on the Erie railroad, to go into effect Sunday September 28. simultaneous with the change-over to standard time, warn disclosed today Following 1* the revised schedule Westbound No 1. 4:Si am . reg ular stop; No. 5. 1:15 p.m.. not a retulsr stop: N<> 7. 9:05 p.m.. reg ular stop Eastbound No I. 1:30 am., not a regular stop; No 8. 12:55 p.m. not a regular stop; No. 2. 9:89 p m . regular stop.

Clark Assails Sen. Ferguson As 'Meddler' Bluntly Suggests Michigan Senator Mind Own Business WaKhington. Sept. 18—(VP) — Attorney general Tom Clark sug gested bluntly today that Sen Homer Ferguson. R.. Mich., mind his own business and let the justice department handle all communist and espionage cases. In a sharply worded reply to Ferguson'a cha'lenge that he prosecute all known communists In and out of the government, the attorney general said: "I would appreciate it if you would quit trying to claim credit for the work ot the federal bureau of Investigation and the department of justice, and keep your political activity out of the field of serious prosecution of offenses under federal statutes ’ Ferguson, who is chairman of a special senate Investigating committee. said yesterday that the justice department has sufficient evidence In its files right now to proceed against communIris in six major cities. He named Washington. San Francisco, fxes Angeles. Denver. Salt Ifake City and Data*. / Hinting broadly that his department is already preparing to seek indictments against communists in some of the cities mentioned. Clark criticised Ferguson for disclosing "most confidential criminal matters." "Your indefatigable desire for headlines in this regard." Clark told the senator, "la very detrimental to the porsecutlon of Im portant cases." Other justice department offi dale said U. S. attorneys are ready to go before federal grand juries in several cities, perhaps next week, to seek indictments against a number of al eged communists once employed by the government. They will be charged. it was said, with concealing their communist affiliations .to remain on the government pay-, roll. Meanwhile, a bouse unAmerican activities suitcommittee took a weekend recess in Its secret investigation of Red spy activities The group has promised to reveal a “shocking chapter" in communist atomic espionage activities within the next few days. Assures Scientists Washington. Sept. 18 —(VP) — President Truman has assured eight leading atomic scientlafk • Tara Ta Pssr Five) - -A. Four Men Are Killed As Train Hits Auto Four Men Members Os Softball Team Homer, HI.. Sept. 18 —(VP) — Four members ot a Lawrenceville, 111., softball team were killed early •oday when a* Wabash railroad •rain struck their car at an intersection here The four men were en route from Lawrenceville to Maywood. 111., to play in a state softball tournament •oday and tomorrow. Killed were Arthur Randolph “ond, 23. route 1. Lawrenceville; Raymond Balding. 31 ville; Gerald D. Tingley. 22. Darwin. and Roy 8. Milligan. 23. Lawencevilie. The four men were members of he Lawrenceville Veterans of Foreign Wars softball team Milligan tnd Tingley were pitchers. Pond a catcher and Balding was team captain. Engineer John Kendall of Cisco. HL. said the train, the Detroit Flyer. enroute from St L>ul« to De•roit. smashed into the car at more than 7e miiee an hour Tingley, owner of the car. was driving at the time of the accident Nine other men and three women traveling with the team were In two cars ahead of Tngley's Champaign county coroner W. F. I .ampkin said witnesses told him the car appeared to slow down for the crossing and then speed up again. The accident knocked the Lawrenceville team out of the tourna moat. Pond waa the team's only catcher Milligan and King ley were the team's only pKcbors

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Off To The (Campaign) Wars si?' 4 s !RE ll ■mF Tglr ■ ' ; ' •wit' SEN. ALBEN W. BARKLEY of Kentucky, Democratic Tunning mate with President Truman. Mees the chief executive ami his daughter. Margaret, ott on the President's 16-<lay campaign trip to the Pacific coast.

Union's Strike At Moline Plant Ended Violence-Ridden Strike Is Settled Moline. 111., Sept 18—(VP>— An official of the CIO Vnited Farm Equipment workers said today the union had agreed to call oft its vio-lence-ridden strike against the International Harvester company at East Moline Arvid Sheets, local union president, raid the agreement was reached during negotiation* last night He said the 3.M0 worker* will return to the plant at 7:30 Monday morning. Sheets said the company agreed to consider the union's demands for job re-classification, which caused the strike, and promised that none of the strikers would be discharged The picket lines which the union threw around the plant were scheduled to be drawn off this morning. Sheets said Fighting broke out at the plant yesterday when pickets tried to prevent police from escorting nonstrikers Into the plant. Lloyd Parnel. local vice-president, served notice to members Thursday that "we're going to get tough." Some 100 members gathered at each of the two plant gates yesterday morning. The violence began when more than 50 police tried to take nonstriker* through the lines There were fist fight*, and rock* were thrown. Five persons. Including Pamel and another union officer. Catherine Hall, were arrested on disorderly conduct charges Mis* Hall was accused of throwing stench bomb*. Th* strike began July 19 as a voluntary walkout and later was approved by the union

Hardship Is Ended For . Penniless Blind Man

Detroit, Sept 18—(I'P) —Hardship ended today for a penniless young blind man who set out a week ago to hitchhike from Portland. Ore . to New York for an operation which may raatore hi* ■igbt For the first time since he left Portland with a battered suitcase. 9 week's supply of sandwiches, and 87. Peddicord. 3d. sat down in a hotel room and ate a fall meal The producers of the "We. The People" radio program caught up with the slim father of two children after police in midwestem states searched for him to tell him he didn't have to hitchhike any more. Joseph Illegal, a Philadelphia businessman, offered to pay hia expenses for the rest of the trip, but Peddicord accepted Wa. The People*” offer to appear on their program ”1 still ean't quite believe it." Peddicord said “I mean that thi* could happen to me I thought this occarred oaly la hooka." Peddicord said he bad traveled

Peacetime Draft Is Closed Here Today Eighteen-year-olds have their last chance to register for the peacetime draft today at the library. Thereafter, young men must sign up within five days after their 18th birthday Eighteen-year-olds are deferred under the selective service plan until their 19th birthday. Bixty-seven men registered at Adams county lioard 1 Friday, and 45 men — the lowest day's registration thus far — signed up Thursday. As of Friday night the total of re Kistrants stood at 1,304, Candidates Battle Over Legislature Hoosier Political Campaign Issues Indianapolis. Sept. 18 — (VP) The Indiana election campaign fight between the Republican* and Democrats finally slipped out of the groove today that confined it largely Io a battle over former Gov Henry F. Schricker's clemency record. The latest Issue was "rubber stamp" legislatures. State Democratic chairman Ira Haymaker accused th* 1947 legislature of being "a stooge for*governor Gates" which enacted "law after law without regard to the wisdom Involved " Hobart Creighton. Schricker's Republican opponent sot governor, said in a Newton county GOP rally at Goodland that he knew from 16 years experience in the state legislature that If Democrats controlled the next general assembly "we Hoosiers will have nothing but a rubber stamp legislature." Earlier, the party leader* and candidates for high office battled over Schricker’s record of authorizing paroles during his 1988-5 term as governor State GOP chairman iT«r* To Paar Five)

24 hours a day since he left Oregon. When hungry he knelt by his suitcase on the roadside and made a cheese sandwich He had sotne< pickles, he said, but they were gone after three days. His objective is the Columbia Presbyterian medical center in New York, where he hope* spec iallets can restore his sight if he can be admitted to the hospital on a cost-free basis. , "I want to he able to see again so I can provide for my children." he explained "My business (selling ties) hasn't been doing so well.” Peddicord was blinded by a refri gerator expioalon 11 years ago when he waa sn electrical engineering student He said similar cases of blindness had been cured He first attracted public attention when he arrived in Chicago with 92 cams and only a few of his sandwiches A kindly motorist IM him sleep tn his hotel room, hut Peddicord left town before he received word of Siegal * offer. A Chicaffo advertising man fur cTw*a Face Five)

Mass Arrests Are Made By Israeli Authorities In Search For Assassin

Two Hoosier Solons Are Sued By Union Union In Evansville Files SIOO,OOO Suit Evansville. Ind. Sept 1* -(VP) Two congressmen who directed a house labor committee hearing on charges of Communist-domina-tion of a CIO union were named by the union in a IIOO.OIW damage suit on file today. Reps Gerald W lusndis and Edward A. Mitchell. Indiana Republicans. were- < o-defendants in a suit filed by local 813 of the Vnited Electrical Workers union. and Mitchell conducted a hearing last week to determine if there were Communists in the local. The bearing was resumed today so that some of 29 witnesses who refused to testify last week could have another chance to answer questions. Other defendants named in the suit, filed in federal court, were the Servel and Seeger industrial plants, the Faultless ('aster Corp, and four individuals. Including Mrs. Katherine Bell, who accused certain members of the union of be Ing Communists when she testl fied at the hearing Mrs Bell Is a member of the local that filed the suit. The suit asked a test raining or der to prohibit the defendants from interfering with constitutional rights of the union and its members. to stop the defendants from violating contracts with the union, and to force the companies to rehire employes they fired after the hearing. The suit said that Mitchell and laindis were responsible for work ers being fired "without due process of law '' Co-plaintiffs included four union members who were fired by faultless officials yesterday, presumably because fellow employes refused to work with them Meanwhile, In Indianapolis, the office of Governor Gatos disclosed that 21 employes of an industrial plant where a strike prompted the hearing had written Gates a lauda tory letter for sending state police < Tarn To Page Three I Hoosiers Brace For Weekend Heal Wave Meanwhile, Cold Winter Forecast By Vnited Press Hoosiers braced themselves for a weekend heat wave today, despite the fact that wild geese have begun their pilgrimage to winter feeding ground* in the south The weather bureau expectevl temperatures around 9U degrees today and possibly tomorrow in a late September warm spell At Noblesville, townspeople re ported a large flock of geese flew over the town last night They said it indicated cold weather was near, in view ot the fact that last year's first goose flight was seen late in October. Hamilton county farmers pointed to another indication of a long cold winter. They said husks on the corn ears are long and hard Temperatures yesterday were higher in the northern part of the state than they were in the south and centra) portions. South Bend had a top of 90 degrees and a low of 67 last night, while Evansville's high was 87 and low 59. Elsewhere the highs and biws were 89 and 88 at Fort Wayne. 88 and 6o at Terre Haute, and 88 and 61 at Indiana polls. Navy Veteran Dies When Plane Crashes Princeton, Ind.. Sept. 18 — (L’P) — A light cabin plane stalled and crashed at Hull airport last night, killing a 27-yaarold navy veteran. The victim was Jarauld Dean Martin Witnesses said he was trying to land when motor trouble developed and the engine stopped at an altitude of 50 feet

Mediator Slain Swedish Count Folke Bernu dotte. alstve. VN mediator for Palestine, was assassinated in Jerusalem Friday. Official Blames Israel For Killing Emergency Session Os Security Council Paris. Sept. 18—(VP)—A top Vni ed Nations official in Palestine today placed responsibility for the assassination of Count Folke Bernadotte upon the government of Israel, and accused it of a breach of the truce "of ut most gravity.” The charge against the Israeli government was made in an offi dal protest to foreign minister Moshe Shertok by Dr. Ralph Bunch*. American negro who is ptincipal secretary of the VN Palestine mediation group In an earlier report to the security council here. Bundle said tne ki'lers of Bernadotte were Jewish assailants of unknown id'-ntlty '■ Bundle was appointed temporary head of the Palestine truce commission pending action by the security council. The council was called into emergent y session to take up the Palestine situation. Officials said the big five might meet later to name a permanent successor to Bernadotte. Identification of the assassins as Jews, even though dissidents tTuea T» Fawe TWreet Driver Is Fined For Passing School Bus Authorities Crack Down On Motorists ' Passing a at hool bus while it is loading or unloading passengers I* unlawful, whether a driver is com ing toward the rear or front of the bus Harold Gray, of Celina. O. found that out rather painfully Friday afternoon when justice of the peace Floyd Hunter fined him 815 and costs, amounting to 821 50. Gray was arrested Thursday by sheriff Herman Bowman after a quick-witted school bus driver noted his license number Gray had passed the same bus Wednesday Hunter emphasised that future offenders, who endanger the life and safety of school children will he penalised to the full extent of the law Sheriff Bowman pledged his support In the effort to stamp out illegal school bus passing The sheriff pointed out that motorists, under the law. must come to a complete stop whenever the scheol bus displays It* stop sign That applies to cars going In the same direction as the bus as well aa to cars coming toward the I bus

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Stern Gang Boasts UN Mediator Slain For Carrying Out Orders Os British Jerusalem. Sept. 18 —(VP) — The Stern gang boasted today that its ashasslns killed Count Folke Bernadotte "because he worked for the British and carried out their orders.” The government of Israel ot(flawed the Stern gang and rounded up hundreds of its members. They were charged with incitement and conspiracy against the security of the state Four hundred Sternists had been arrested by early afternoon, and the roundup went on unabated. Its size suggested that the dissident band was being wiped out. The membership was believed to number only a few hundred. At Tel Aviv, where the jails overflowed with arrested suspects, tension erupted In a flurry of violence. Demonstrators atta< k<-d the Soviet ambassador's chr. ripped away its flag. and damaged It before police dispersed them. The assassination of Bernadotte bv Jews rocked the young nation to its foundations. A Tel Aviv dispatch called this “black sale bath" the Jewish sabbath — and said the government and the people agreed that the assassination might have the gravest impact on Israel. (In Paris, the Vnited Nations revealed that the ranking l'N official in Palestine, Dr Ralpk Bunce of the Vnited States, placed responsibility for the assassination of Bernadotte upon the Israeli government, accusing It of a breach of the truce of “utmost gavity") The government, throwing all ft* resources Into the manhftnt and its ramifications, posted a strong guard around the home of lames MacDonald. American delegate to Israel He called on foreign minister Moshe Shertok last night and told him that he had been warned to leave the country MacDonald reported that youths came to his (aide at a Ramat Gan case and told him "you are not wanted here" He told Shertok that he would leave for home at once if he were not wanted. Shertok assured him that everything would be done to guarantee his safety, and within 10 minutes his house in Ramat Gan outaide Tel Aviv was surrounded by mlli'ary police The Setrniat admission of the as-assination. a customary procedure after acts of underground violence, was made by Hazit Hamoledet. a ao-caded "splinter” group of Sternists They sent foreign diplomats in Tel Aviv a note reading: "We killed Bernadotte because he worked for the British and carried out their orders.” Michel Infant Dies Shortly After Birth Karon laiuiae Micuel, infant daughter of Mr. and Mra. Clarence Michel. 828 Line street, died Friday at the Adam* county memorial hospital, a few hours after birth. Surviving are the parents; a sister. Catherine, at home, and the grandparent*. Mr and Mr*. Samuel Michel of Decatur and Mr. and Mr*. N. C. Johnson of Sharon, Mi**. Two sisters are deceased. Funeral servlves were held al 1 o'clock this afternoon at the Gilliff & Doan funeral home, the Re*. Carey R Moser officiating Burial was in the Decatur cemetery. Geneva's Tax Rate Highest In County Berne. Sept. IS—The town o7 Geneva will have the highest 1949 tax rate in Adam* county. The total G-neva rate wi l be 9395. The part of the town of Monroe which I* In kfonroe township will be the nest with a rate of 83 72. Decatur-Washington Is third highest with a S 3 69 rate. The rata for the towa of Berne is 83 49 Monroe uwtuhip has the highest township rate with 13.88.