Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 223, Decatur, Adams County, 21 September 1948 — Page 1

JxLVI No. 223.

UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETS IN PARIS

Hurricane Hits Florida Keys

■ole Island lain Os Keys I By Storm ■lorida East Coast ■Vinter Playground ■et For Hurricane Kmi. Fla. Sept. 2! — (VP) • aiie growing in power hit West and the whole Island gK Florida keys today and the *K,.' Mireail imported hurricane uunhl lash Miami this alter -tortu s power im reused to per hour and turned ■. northeast from Key West toFlorida mainland and .Mia hurricane force winds of 60 per hour whipped through ■lt. wn Miami and .Miami beach 11:20 a m. y West, home of the sprawling naval air and sea base where Truman has hi* "little House." taught the brunt of at 10:30 ton. when wind rose to 11« miles per hour. its power, the weather Ku reported, delaying the arrlv the hurricane winds but asa longer stay when they do »rrt ,-ales covered an area 300 it. diameter atound the whirla eat her bureau said the hurwas expected in .Miami this or early tonight and progress northward tonight. West, a city of 17,000, was for the storm. hurricane had paused in the straits during the early today for "regeneration becontinuing It* march on Flor The weather bureau reported its present course the humwould hit the Florida mainat the .southwestern shores of ■ -rglades. far to the west of Mni Miami. Miami Beach and the Florida east coast winter was boarded up and set I I urs T« !•*■» Sis) ■49 License Plates ■b Delivered Here and truck license for 1949 were delivered today Essex. Decatur auto IIbranch manager. The new have white numerals on a k tround. being the colors of University. ■>• passenger number* for ■"< county start with 5*3501. Mtl< numbers start with 113701 M trailer numbers start with 63 ■ The new plates have been Mad in the rear of the auto libranch building and will not M>n sale un il after the first of year. Bra wrry Go-Round In ■Christmas Season For City's Kiddies M 1 * 1 hildren of Decatur and till* Micuuiiy will have a merry-go Mid thrill in the middle of winter ■ year as plana were completed My for Decatur merchants to ■‘""t the pre Christmas treat for ■h* merry-go-round will be set ■shout two weeks before Christ ■ in the business dlnlrii t and all ■dr-n will receive free tickets Decatur merchants The re ■ division of the Chamber of •mer e is sponsoring the enter ■■ent. ■di.itors who have been con ■* n * the various retail stores in ■* ,ur report that they have not ■ **-*" ,or nwd down for financial for the project. Complete M* will be announced as soon a* ■ •oliciiors have reported. Rote ■ Bolthouse, read committee Mr-xan. xtated today. B Weather ■Cloudy W ith occasional show- ■* "srth and scattered showers M" ‘hunderstorvns south toWednesday occasional M®*«rs east portion and di■imahing etoudinoea west. Moif south portion.

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Japanese Typhoon Death Toll Is 541 Tokyo, Sept. 21 — (VP) — luist week s typhoon took 3 toll of 541 lives and caused 555,000,000 worth of damage, Japanese government and press reports said today. Over 600 persons were missing and 200 others injured Seventeen ■ thousand houses were damaged. Says Espionage Evidence Ample For Indictment Declares Evidence Os Committee Is Ample For Action Washington. Kept 21 (UP)— Rep John McDowell, R , I’a, said today he believes house spy investi gators have assembled enough evidence to indict three persons for espionage. Two of the three. McDowell indicated. had access to some highly recret atomic Information during the war. These two are Americans, he said. He said he did not know whether the third person is an American. McDowell said all three have testified before the committee. A reporter asked if McDowell's position was that he would propose to the full house unAmerican activities committee that it recommend to the justice department that the three he indicted. 'That I* correct,” McDowell said The committee has heard many witnesses in Its Investigation of espionage activities by alleged Communists and those sympathetic to the Soviet Union. Several of those who have testified are sclent ists wht) were employed during th» war by the army's atomic bomb project. The committee may issue a re -tort in a few days, depending on vhether open hearing* are held McDowell told reporters the group ■irobably will decide Friday whether open healings will be held He had said earlier he hoped this decision could be made tomor row. The only members present at to lay s session were McDowell and -Hep F Edward Hebert. D . La The first witness to testify today was Joseph Weinberg. nu< lea> rhysiclst at the University of Minnesota. During the war Wein •>erg was employed in the radiation laboratory at the University of California and came under the jur ■■diction of the army's Manhattan district, the atomic bomb project I Tare To Fwee Three) 6ov. Dewey Follows Truman To Colorado Hits Hard On Peace Theme In Addresses En Route With Dewey. Sept. 21 —(UP)--Gov. Thomas E. Dewey the Republican presidential nominee. followed President Truman into Colorado today to talk about the same subject -development of western resources. Dewey speak* in l»enver tonight at 8:30 p. m CDT Paul Lockwood, the New York governor's secretary, said the candidate would talk about "our land a* the basic source of our country's mat-rial strength That was the same subject the president used in hl* Democratic campaign speec h at Denver yesterday He accused the Republicans of "undercover sabotage of the west” and attempting to turn the country back “to the day when the west was an economic co ony of Wall Street.' Ixa-kwood said Dewey "will dis cuss the need to conserve our natural resources and to develop our coun'ry for the future ” "He will pledge an admlnistra tlon that understands our land and water problems and that will keep our country strong as it works eamevtly for peace In the world. " Lockwood said Dewey hit hard on the peace theme in three speeches which iTaea To Paa* Threat

President In Denver On Campaign Swing idHl Bn J rb Ea rMUKJ Xl IBM Tin *1 ■ "f?—■MjßZ - «-*• -- # PRESIDENT TRUMAN wave* to cheering throng* along Denver’s 10th Street on hl* arrival In Denver. Mr. Truman made a major address from the steps of the state capitol at noon, and spoke twice at other gathering* Icefore leaving the Colorado capital.

Democrats Planning Rigorous Campaign Thorough Canvass Os County Planned Democratic candidates for local offices started into action Monday and made plans for a thorough canvass of Adams county at a meeting called by Gerald Vizard. Democratic county chairman, at local headquarters. All candidates for county off!■es were present an., expressed optimism Chairman Vizard presided and urged each candidate to join with the organization in making sure that all voters are registered. The county was divided Into tei- ions and a thorough canvass prior to the November election will be made Several candidate* ilso gave short talk* and plans *ere made for opening of headtuarters to the public and also for a series of township meeting*, at which time all candidates will be introduced. A Hit of all Democratic politicil meetings, which will start early in October, will be announced «M>n. it wa* learned A joint meeting of candidates and the r egular county organization will l>e held soon and 'following that meeting a series of township and •ounty-wlde meeting* will lie held. Rev. Mattias Nack Dies At Huntington The Rev. Mattias Nack. 78. OFM. guardian of St Felix .Monastery at Huntington, died unexpectedly Monday at the monastery Father Nack wa* ordained a Capuchin priest in Jun*. 191)9. The office of dead will lie conducted Wednesday, followed by a requiem high mas* Burial will lie in the monastery cemetery. Israeli Imposes Drastic Penalties •New Regulations On Terrorist Activity Tel Aviv. Sept. 21—(UP)—The Israeli government made public today a series of emergency regulations providing sentences ot five to 20 years for participation in terrorist activities In Palestine The new reguhtions. al men primarily at the outlawed Stern gang as a result of the assassinstion of Count Folke Bernadotte, also proride one to five year* imprisonment for membership In a terrorist organization « Sentence* up te three years, or a fine of• 1.000 pounds (54.000), are nrovlded for anv person found ruilty of supporting terror iat organization* The drastic penalties to stamp out underground activities In the new Israeli state were made public as officials disclosed thst 320 members of tbs Stsrn gong now (Tars Ta l*as» Fawr)

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, September 21, 1948

Decatur Jaycees To Meet On Wednesday The fail and winter program of the Decatur Junior Chamber of Commerce will be out lined at a meeting ot thut group Wednesday night at 7:30 o'clock at the city hall, it wax announced today l>y William Coffee, prexident of the organization. Mr. Coffee stated that several proposed projects would lie discussed and plans will be made for a ssrles of fall and winter meetings and parties. Reports on the summer activities also will be made by various committee heads. President Carries Campaign Into Utah Blasts G. 0. P. On Land Reclamation En Route With President Truman. Sept. 21—(UP)—President Truman, moving his campaign from Colorado into Utah, charged today that the Republican chair men of the house and senate appropriations committees an- ignorant of the problems of western states. Mr. Truman, after criticizing the Republicans for reducing appropriations for reclamation pro Jscts at the last session, picked out as his particular target the Republican chairmen of the house and senate appropriation committees. Hen Htyle* Bridge* of New Hampshire, and Rep. John Taber of New York “What do thev know about the west?” he shouted. “I doubt that either one of them has ever been west of the Appalachian mountains "If the senator was out here on a jaunt or something, he prole sb'y didn't know what he wa* looking at.” The president appeared rested and refreshed after one of the longest Intervals between speeches snd public apearances since he left the White House In hi* 18 car special train last Friday In his brief platform apnearance st Grand Junction, he delivered his 27th speech of the arduous campaign tour to date. Mr Trutnsn told the wester.i slope Colorado town that he wa* et "one time hopeful that we could e-tab lsh a summer capital” In Co'orado to help educate some of the easterners in the problems of the west. After reviewing reclamation, newer and preservation of the soil as the "life blood of the west." the president told of thl < region'* "rolling sdvsncement' after the late president Franklin D. Roosevelt was first elected. Throughout the president's series of eight speeches in Co'orsdo. he urged his audiences to "study 'he record" and then decide for 'hemselves who shou'd lie elected Nov. 2. * The president began campaigning today at 7 a. m In Glenwood Sprints. Colo, after a nine-hour res' following his appearance last night at Salida. A crowd of several thousand turned out in the (Tara Ta F"s» Threat

Driver Is Arrested Following Accident Drives Auto Into Truck Last Night Wendell Wendler, 29-year-old Riverhaven Fort Wayne man who edges the seven f<*>t mark in height, was in the Adams county , jail today, prize possession of nuth l orltle* who scoured the countryside for him during Monday night's downpour One and one-half miles south of Decatur on U S. 27. an auto driven by Werstler collided with a Motor Express trailer-truck, at about 8 o’clock last night According to the truck driver. Edward Sharp. 38. of Chicago, Werstler came at him full force on the wrong lane, ran him off the pavement, and still crashed into the truck. The truck suffered 42" n damage and the auto was to a great extent demolished. Immediately after the accident. Sharp got out of the truck'* cab to exchange cordial!tie* with the other driver. He saw a giant figure leap a barbed wire fence and disappear Into a field Sheriff Herman Bowman sum ni<>ned deputy Bob Shraluka and numerous special deputies and the nocturnal search, aided by flare* and portable Npotlights. got under way. Meanwhile, cars lined up along the highway, attracted by the xize of the posse, the flare*, and the roving searchlight beams The sheriff, his deputy, and vol unteer Harry E Day found the car driver within half au hour, two fields distant from the highway, ap(T*>* i" •-■*? Five Are Killed In Kansas City Battle Three Policemen Are Included In Victims Kansas City. Mo.. Sept 21 -(UP) -Five persons including three police officer*, a negro gunman and a bystander were dead today as result of a series of gun battles touched off when officers answered a routine call to quell a disturbance. Two other policemen were wounded, one critically, in the affray Just before midnight last (light. Authorities were questioning George Bell. 33-year-old negro, to determine whertier he took part In the firing. Bell wa« captured early today after police threw a cordon around the Kansas City negro section Lt. Charles Welch of the homicide bureau said Bell denied that he was in the apartment where the shootings took place But Welch »aid three witnesses placed Bell there Bell’s brother. William. 34. was the gunman who died under police bullets The officers killed were Sandy Washington. 26. Charlie Neaves. 30, both negroes, and Charles Perrine. 46. white. Injured officent were Bill Wells. 34. snd Ksifter Burris. (Tars Te res* T««i

Third General Assembly Convenes Amid Gravest Crisis Since World War

Head-on Collision Kills 12 Persons Crash Near La Porte Claims Heavy Toll Ijc Porte. Ind . Sept. 21 (VP)A head-on collision between two truck* In which 11 onion field workers were killed and six other* Injured lute yesterday, today claim ed it* 12th life. Robert Tweedie. 35. Ixigansport died in Fairview hospital hen- this morning The accident occurred a* a small open truck, loaded with worker* returning from an onion farm neared the intersection of U. S 5 and 2 on a straight stretch of highway five miles south of la< Porte. The truck, driven by Thoma* Fort. 22. North Judson. Ind. col lided with a huge semi-trailer truck driven by Tweedie, who was alone. The impact flung bodle* and debris into surrounding field* and alon* the highway. Robert R. Green, who saw the wreckage, said "it Icmked like a bomb had hit those trucks.” Most of the dead and injured were youths. Fort was killed Listed a* dead in the accident were: Shipley Salyers. 46. North Jud son. Ind Joseph Salyers, 16, North Jud ■on. Shipley's son Zane Salyers, 15. North Judson Shipley's son Mervin White. 2>*. North Judson Vernon White. 15. North Judson Mervin s brother Thomas Fort. 43. North Judson driver of one truck Mr*. Blanche Carpenter, about 10. North Judson. Thomas Fort's sister Joe Tlsciottl, 38. Toto. Ind Fred Teske. 22. North Judson. Pearce Richie, about 2<>. North Judson. Clinton Rudd. 19. North Judson Robert Tweedie, 35, laigansport The injured: Knoy Risner. 17, North Judson serious. Edward Risner. 15, North Jud son. Knoy's brother, serious. Miss Minnie Fisher. 39, North JudKon. fair. Jack Fisher. 15, North Judson Mis* Fisher's cousin, fair Ollie Rudd. 47. Knox. fair. Michiana Section 01 Church Meets Here Reformed Church Is Host Here Thursday Zion Evangelical and Reformed church will be host to the Michiana section of the Michigan-Ind-iana synod of the Evangelical and Reformed church Thursday. The synods of the denomination meet in sections in the fall of the year for inspirational purposes. From one to seven delegates from each of 50 churches in this section will he in attendance. Approximately 175 delegate* are expected to be present. The Rev Matthew Worthman. of Bluffton, president of Michigan Indiana, will preside at the meeting Registration will open at 9 atn . The opening devotional service will begin at 9:30 a m . with the Rev. Charles S. Hartman, pastor of St. John's church. Ft. Wayne. In charge. An address by the denominational representative, the Rev. Paul M Schroeiler. D. D. of Rochester. N Y., will follow. Other message* by the zonal representatives will be given during the morning session The Rev Ralph L. Holland. Th D.. Indianapolis, will represent the board of Christian Education Dr. W T Wickham, pres ident of Heidelberg College. Tiffin. Ohio, will represent the commission on higher education, and the Rev. Alvin Siemsen. Saline. Mich., will ■peak for the centennial program of Eden seminary Following the noon meal, whhh will be served by the women's guild of Zion church, the - outer- j <T«rs To Pm* Plv»)

Russia Demands All Occupation Troops Removed Withdrawal Demand Seen Part Os New Propaganda Drive Berlin. Sept. 21 I UP)-- Russia demanded immediate withdrawal ■>f all iM'cupation troop* from Germany and blockaded Berlin today as the center of ‘attention in the Berlin crisis shifted to Paris Gen. Lucius D. Clay left for Paris last night and the three western envoys from Moscow are scheduled to pass through Berlin today en route to the French capi tai The Russian withdrawal demand, published in the official Soviet army newspaper Taegliche Rund <chau, was believed part of a new Soviet propaganda campaign to win Gentian sympathy and embarrass the western power*. It compared Germany to Korea and urged German* to note the Soviet action in Korea. where Soviet troops are scheduled to leave by Jan I Taegliche Rund*chau attempted to give the impression that German independence would be just around the corner if the Soviet demand was followed, but Russian-control-led radio Berlin was more moderate Radio Berlin said Soviet forces "could” withdraw within one year after the peace treaty with Ger many was signed. Attempt* to reach four-power agreement on a German treaty, however, broke up last fall at the big four foreign ministers conference in Umdon The Russian attitude wa; con tained in a front page editorial which compared the Soviet occupa tion in Korea and Germany under the heading "A Model of Consistent Policy." It said the entire Russian foreign policy is based on peace and recog nltion of the national independence d all states. It claimed that the United States in both Germany and Korea, was attempting to turn its occupation tones into colonies for use a* ope ration base* around the Soviet Union. Indications were thut the Ru* rian demand was based on conflleme that Communist action i<iuads and Soviet-trained German militia easily could seise power in Berlin once troops of the western allies were removed Observers believed the Soviet demand wa* timed strategically to < t arn Tn I'sge *•»• Reveal Results 01 Chest X-Rays Here Under One Percent Reports Positive Two thousand eight hundred and six Adams county resident* received letters today which said "This is to certify that your miniature chest x ray was read by a qualified x ray spec ialist and showed no evidence of active pin moiiary tul>erculosis.“ Fort v one residents were not so fortunate They were told that the x rays they had taken during the last week in July showed chest abnormalities. and were urged to contact their family physician*. Os the 41. two show ed definite cases of tuberculosis. 24 showed suspected eases, and 15 wore found to have other chest conditions Mailing of the reports culmin ated a «ummer of intc nse work Ity the Adam* county tulierculosls association, which sponsored the campaign to have county residents x-rayed In the portable unit which was stationed In Berne and Decatur. Mrs W G Brown, secretary of the association, was pleased with | the results-happy that so many 1 tTars T» r«s» rivet I

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United States Urges Assembly Support Bernadotte Plans On Palestine Peace Pari*. Hept. 21 (UP) —The United State* urged th ■ • third general assembly of the United Nations todav to seek an end to Arab-Jewish warfare in Palestine bv supporting the proposals of the UN's assassination mediator, (’oiint Folke Bernadotte of Sweden. which provided for recognition of the Jewish state of Israel. U. S secretary of state George • C Marshall formally proposed acceptance of Bernadotte'* report even before the general assembly, meeting against a somber backdrop of expressed fear of another world war, had completed its organization. Arabs. Jew* and the 58 nation* of the UN. Marshall said in an* official statement, should accept Bernadotte's recommendations in their entiretv "a* the best po«*lble basis for bringing peace" to the Ho y laind. The general assembly convened In tile plush Palais De Chaillot overlooking the Heine amid the gravest crisis since the war. in which attention of most delegate* Pari*. Sept. 21 —(I'P) Australian foreign minister Herbert V. Evatt wa* elected pre*ldent of the I'nited Nation* general assembly toduv In a runoff ballot with foreign minister Juan llramuglla of Agent Ina The final vote was 31 to 20 with one abstention and six inva id ballots. The voting was secret, hut obviously the Russian bloc of six countries refused to vote for either of the candidate* who went Into the runoff centered upon the cold war between Russia and the western powers rather than on l<-**er problems such as Palestine On y three hour* after the assembly opened, foreign ministers of the United State*. Britain ano France were to tne<-| at tile Quat D'Orsay, possibly to agree on showdown action in the dispute with the Soviet Union which lias its focal point in the B«lin cri*i*. But Marshall seized upon the interest in and concern for the Palestine situation which followed the a**:i**lnation last Friday tn Jerusalem of Bernadotte to Issue a formal statement in which he said that the Swedish mediator's conclusion* regarding the Holy Land "are sound" and expressed hope that laith sides would accept them In the spirlf of fair compromise Bernadotte'* recommendations were contained in a 135 page report which reached the I'N almost coincidentally with news of his death. The report was made public yesterday. In btlef. it proposed recognition of ttie Jewish state in Palestine, u formal proclamation of the end of Holy laind hostilities, internationalization of Jerusalem under I'N authority. giving Negev to the Arabs and Galilee to the Jew*, a free port, at Haifa and a free airport at Lydda. and Arab self-determination as the government in I heir area of Palestine. In hl* statement. Marshall pointed out that no proposal for Palestine could satisfy all parties, hut he added that Bernadotte "canvassed *ll possibilities and proposed as hl* last contribution toward world l>eace a sound basis for settlement.” Marshall's statement was released In the midst of opening formalities of the general assembly. The temporary assembly president. Juan llramuglla of Argentina. opened the assembly in the theater of the ultramodern, flag l>ede< ked Palais De Chaillot overlooking the Heine. Before the leader* of Iwrth sides of a cold war which appeared to have rea< hed the showdown stage. Bramuglia said: "We are confronted with a threat of new and dreadful human conflict " Even as he rpoke. the foreign ' ministers of the western powers. if era Ta !*■<» Mil