Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 225, Decatur, Adams County, 23 September 1948 — Page 1

MARSHALL VOWS NO U. S. COMPROMISE

Irida Storm Bars Out To ft Last Night K Deaths, Heavy Koperty Damage iHLnc" By Hurricane Knl. Fla. Sept. 23 (UP I — I began mopping up to I usK’’*'' a h| °* 'it 'ous I 'h»t caused 12 death* • ...ftrHl over *5,000,000 in dam K:h-i‘ its birth in the Carlb- | of t'uha four day* ago I whirling storm roared, out Effifife.-. last night after elsshiug I Cuba and wandering over I ihKoitliern half of peninsular tor two devastating days I ftl" P tn the hurrh ane center I I toiSik l ’’ ,H ■ n|l,vln K northeast- | trail out ovtr the Atlantic nnd I speed and intensity weather bureau here dubb hurricane oxcart I ' because of its leisure y isive the slow movement of the ..liter merely gave the winds more time to tremendous damage on and crops and leave sev in Cuba and the dead in worst damage in southern Florida was to ripening < eb-ry. cabbage and sugar dft The loss already was eat I sited at |3.<>uo.ooo and could in an hour winds. e the interior fruit produc {(■regions missed the worst of outer winds blew IV per gft of the grapefruit crop from tMtr.-e., some oranges ami tangftes were scarred anil "weak” jft fell to the ground ox cart spec ial first did <M»r<>r ■ in Mantanzas Province Qffb where seven persons were and more than 60 injured reports disclosed that {■families were honiele s after Too homes and other buildwere destroyed. estimates placed damage at more than in Mt>- l .irrii-iine picked up power S Mt moved over op<-n water i moved In on the Island city | v West and coasta' Ever < lty Wa'er was still knee in the latter town after the Av.t river overflowed Into the a coast gnard p ane re- | 1 many homes damaged exI numerous trees uproot I ■men ial rains accompanied [ widow as it struck the area I Inland lake Okeei ho I eight-inch dcAvnpour put I of fertile vegetable and pasture acres under I nibbled at sparse grass ifttlng up out of 20 Inches of I covering lands around the I ■- Drainage canals overflow ’■»>'" the rich sugar cane fields I cane stalks were twisted I hen' by the wind*, but thev I Sa. ,l " r ’ f ** ,e<l nMI month if I ft* is no more rain IHe. Hi Light ■off Announced I Marlene Laurent, daughter ft 1 r “nd Mrs George l-aurent, J* 1 " »‘»rth Fifth street, has been ■e.i editor-in-chief of the D. C. i J Light. publication of the De Catholic high school, for this ■thers appointed to the staff ate J<» Grallker. co-editor: Hon ft s 1111111 feature editor. Thomas ft 1 !- associate feature editor; ft' l Gillig. sports editor: Fred W 1 ”" hlag. associate sports editor ■Pre-m Teeple, editorial write: ft* 1 * -Murtaugh, associate editor U* fllef Thoma* liriede. photoMary Jo Grallker, Jac l|ft’ ,n Teeple, illustrators: Mar : Heimer Martha Laurent Dor ' 1 i*n>«n. Mary Alice Braun, reader* Donald Schmitt Phil I *«■*•«• James Patent. Wili am lift 1 Thomas Miller and Thoma* ljW* r 9 ' l »«Hi«ing managers Na ImW Branson. Joan Heimann Pat fSE M * y * r M * ver o » Lteft 14 " Robert Gage and Max Pe l^ft 00 - rirculation managers | I WEATHER I ■ F *tr tonight and Friday: | yet nued cool north and con [ ft* •"< • little cooler near the Ift 9 rt ** r tonight.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Annual Halloween Event Is Planned Ferd Klenk Is Named As General Chairman Plans were made Wednesday night at the Chamber of Commerce rooms for Decatur's annual Call! thumpian parade, to be held here Monday night. November 1 The event, sponsored by the retail di vision of the Chamber, will be stag- . ed a day late because Halloween . falls on Sunday this year ( Ferd Klenk. of Arnold and , Klenk. is general chairman for the . big event, which draws thousands of spectators and participants each year Will Howers, veteran parade manager, will have charge of the . band division this year Awards In . this division have been raised and . a record number of high school bands and drum corps is expected First award will he *SO; second. . *80; third. 130 and fourth |2O. All bands that participate and fail to place in the first four places will I receive an appearance award of 110. This plan is new and it is believed will induce many bands to march in the parade for the first time. R C. Khinger will have charge of presenting the awards, all of which will be cash. Clarence Ziner will be general parade chairman and he will be assisted by George Laurent as marshal Dr. Joe Morris will huve charge of the walking participants in the parade. He also will revise the award list to make more entries possible. A total of *IOO will be giv- j en in prises to Individuals and groups this year. This amount la almost twice as large ax any other year, and Dr. Morris said he would have his list of awards ready for publication in a week U R. Zintsmaster will have charge of the new automobiles in the larade and he stated that a majority of the local dealers would have new model cars to show George Tricker has been named chairman of the floats division. It is planned to have only commercial floats this year, with no Individual awards Several local concerns and factories have agreed to enter floats Roger Kelly, of Kelly Dry Cleaners. will have charge of securing the judges for the various awards and also the construction of judges stands and the placing of the judges along the line ot march Dick Heller will have charge of publicity The parade will be held promptly t at 8 o'clock this year, so that all participants and spectators may attend the annual Lincoln parentteachers fall festival at the Decatur high school gymnasium A (Tsrs r» Peg* Twm Henry Wallace On Month's Air Tour New York. Sept 23 — il’Pl — | Henry Wallace, progressive party presidential candidate, left today on a month's airplane campaign tour that will take him to the midwest. soutji and far west. His first speech will be in Toledo, O. at 8 pm. (CSTi. — High School Pupils Plan Chicago Tour 150 Students Plan Visit On Wednesday Foresaking the classroom for the great social studies laboratory on I the outside, more than 150 Decatur junior-senior high school students i will take an all-day trip to Chica- j go's cultural high spot* next Wednesday. The field trip's agenda Includes visits to the Field museum, the aquarium and the lakefront railroad fair The excursion is under the supervision of faculty members Deane Dorwin and Ixiwell Smith, and principal W. Guy Brown Bleary-eyed students will, board the 8:08 am CST Erie train at Decatur and arrive at Chicago's Dearborn station before 8 o'clock. The ( Field museum and neighboring aquarium will occupy the students for the next four hours, and the railroad fair and its spectacular pageant will take up the afternoon , The students will leave Chicago at: I 1:10 p m and arrive ba< k in i»e catur at 9:«» p m Classes as usual will be held for students who eUy behind Students < on the trip will forage for them- < selves so far as meals are concern ■ ed. and they will have considerable < freedom of action while they visit I the vartons places of interest. I

First Release Made Today Os Draft Figures Five Million Young Men Registered; 11 States Unreported Washington, Sept. 23 —(VPi — Selective service headquarters disclosed today that 5.208.683 young men In 37 states and territories registered for the peacetime draft between Aug. 30 and | Sept. 18. Eleven states have not yet reported. draft headquarters safe! in its first release of the draft registration figures. It added that of the registrant*. 1,368.401 were reported by their > state and local boards to be ' single, non-veterans, non-fatherx j 18 through 25 years of age. From this group will eventually come the approximately 250.000 men the army needs to bring its strength up to 780.000. The reporting states and the District of Co'umbia resisted 5.022.813 men. of whom 1.265.218 • were unmarried The territories of Alaska. Hawaii. Puerto Rico and the Virgin Island* registered 186.250 men of whom 90.187 are single. Selective service said that some ol the heaviest population areas like California. Pennsylvania. Illinois. Ohio and Michigan have not yet reported. Other state* from whom selective service is awal'ing the final figures are Ixmirisna. Maine. Nevada. North Carolina. North Da kota and Texas When these reports are In, some sources believed. She tota' registration will be nearly 9.600.000 young men. The army a'readv has called upon the national munitions board to have selective service draft 10.000 men in November and 15.000 In December. It is believed that these two first draft calls will exhaust the aval'able* In the 25 and 28 year old groups In this draft, the older men will be called first but the 18-year olds will not become liable to the draft unti' they reach 19. Plan Commission To Meet September 30 Zoning Ordinance Planned For City Preliminary action toward presenting a zoning ordinance to the city council will Ire taken at a meeting of the Decatur plan commission, to Ire held Thursday night, September 30. it was announced today. Formal notice of the meeting will bo sent to each member in the next few days by Ralph Roop, secretary of the plan commission. Ijiwrente V. Sheridan, consultant for the local group, was in DeI catur Tuesday making a final check on the use map which engineers from his office have laid out and the map will be presented to the commission for study at the September 30 meeting From this use map. Mr. Sheridan stated, a rough sketch'of the pro posed ordinance will be made and after the proposed ordinance U written, the commission will hofa public bearings. The purpose of the zoning law Is to regulate building of homes, business houses and manufacturing plants In Decatur. According to commission members, it Is the first step in building a master plan for Decatur. Copies of the use map will be made and will be available before the public bearing. The map shows how every foot ot land in Decatur is now being used. Commission members believe that iTsrs Te Psge Twe> ■■ ■ ■ I - ■ 49,500 Indiana Men Eligible For Draft Indianapolis. Sept. 23 — (VP) — Some 89,500 Indiana men are eligible for call in the peacetime draft. Hoosier selective service director F Lyle Summers said today Summers said that was the number from among the 222.291 of draft age men who registered between Aug. 30 and Sept. 11 who can be called up for physical examination prior to possible Induction into the army- I

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, September 23, 1948

Sweat Out Pam’s First Surgery Az p 1 W ■at ■SI 1 k ' La ni H AS SURGEONS at Chicago's Cook County Hospital performed the > fir«t of three delicate operations on 23-m<mlh*old Pamela Ltimpliere , to correct a bladder malformation, her parents, Mr and Mr*. Fred Lamph>re *h together in the waiting room downHtairx. The child's 1 plight, ami her parents' difference*, verging on divorce, over whether to operate, brought national attention to her case A Chicago judge effected a reconciliation between the couple, and the operation followed. I

I ———— Arrested For Theft At Atomic Project i Chicago Man Seized For Document Theft Chicago. Sep'. 2.1— (I Pi—John , : Robert ( been arrested here on charges ot stealing <llagrarnn and documents ! at the Loa Alamos atomic energy ( project while employed there. the FBI disclosed today. I.epman la the non of a well todo Chicago milliner, lie wan taken Into custody at the Belden Stratford hotel here, and held for arraignment before I*. S commissioner Edwin K. Walker. lie was indicted yesterday by a I U. 8. grand jury at Santa Fe, N M. Specifically, the charges against him were those of destroying government property, and emltext'einent. . The FBI disclosed that !>>pman • was in the army from 194.3 to ■ 1946. when he received an honor- , able discharge lie was assigned to !>»s Alamos . In 1944. the FBI said it with ) held other details. I Jack Arnold Welfeld. assistant , district attorney, said that exam (nation indicated that Leprnan J took the documents for his own . study and that there appeared to t lie no foreign agency involved. (Tara Ta Pase Fleet Two Russian Planes Endanger Transport Stunting On Line Os Flight Charged 1 Berlin. Sept 23 (IP)— Two Russian fighter planes c losed in on ' an American transport Tuesday. ' endangering It by darting within six feet and stunting along the line of flight, it was learned today The Yak fighters flew In next 1 to the IT. 8 army liner flying from Berlin to Frankfurt and for a time 1 kept so near it that those aboard could plainly see the face of one of the Russians Those aboard the transport said one Russian fighter drew within six feet of the American plane, set a course alongside It. stayed for several minutes and then peeled off and began doing acrobatics The other plane remained slight ly under and behind the transport Informants reported American and British airmen fly Ing the Berlin run frequently have reported Soviet harrying laities but no such close approach to a transport had been disclosed here tofore In Berlin Itself. German police re moved all newspapers and period) cals licensed by the western pow (Tore Te Peer Five)

Mother, Young Son Both Die Os Polio East Moline, 111.. Sept 23 — (IP) - A mother and her 21-month old son died of polio here within nine hours of each other. Mrs John Cygan. 39. was stricken Sunday. Her sou. John. Jr, < on- , tracted the disease Monday. i I Truman Campaigning r i Through California Urges Voters Toss GOP From Congress En route with President Truman. , Sept. 2.3 — tl'Pt President Truman campaigned through fertile central California today, warning of an economic “crash” unless the Democrats win in November. He appealed to trackside and city park listeners to toss the Re--11 publicans out of congress. And In > almost the same breath, he pleaded with his opponents to keep the tense Russian situation out of the i campaign The president left Oakland before dawn aboatd his 17-car specI .al train. He was scheduled to make at least six appearances before de-1 i llvering a major speech late tonight i at Gilmore Stadium in U»s Angeles. • He was getting rougher on the GOP at each stop, attempting to arouse westerners to what he con- j aiders a threat against their economic well-being If the Republicans j are not “fired" from congressional I control. In spee< hes at San Francisco and Oakland last night, the persideut predicted dolefully that if the Republicans take over in November, the national economy will “end up In a crash which would do nobody | any good except the Communists. ’ and I think that's what the Communists want.” Mr Truman told California Dem- ' ocratic leaders that he felt that the house unAmerican affairs committee was 'an American" itself. In San Francisco. Mr. Truman brought foreign affairs into his series of campaign speeches for the first time. But in the nest' j breath, he asked that this subject ' be kept out of the campaign discus- ' sions He said all factions should go to , the "water's edge' with “a united front" on relations abroad, particularly with Russia. As the president entered Oakland's lakeside park, be saw two large groups of pro-Wallace pickets. Bearing large signs, the pickets shouted, "we don't want war.” Earlier, on his arrival at Oakland. about 10 unidentified pickets carried placards near the station Their signa said, deportation of trade unionists now--who Is next?" And. "stop inquisition of Wallace supporters — America wants peace tTers Ts Fane Wist

2Vb Barter Os Rights Os Other Peoples; Pledges U. S. Efforts At Peace

Strike At Detroit Plant Is Settled Briggs Plant Guard Strike Ended Today By United Press A strike which idled 100,000 workers in the automobile industry was nettled today, and the government took preliminary step* to avert a ponxllde walkout on the nation'* railroads. At Detroit, a state lalmr mediator announced the settlement of a strike of 170 plant guard* at the Briggs manufactuiing company. The strike, which began Sept 8. had led to the layoffs of 100,000 worker*, after Brigg* CIO auto worker* refilled to cron* guards' picket line* and other plant* shut 1 down production because they could not j;et auto imdie* from Brigg* The guaid* hail sought Increased overtime payment for time spent daily in changing into uniforms, land asked premium pav for Saturday and Sunday work Briggs filed | charge* with the national labor relation* tioard charging the I'nitwd Plant Guards, and independent group, with an illegal wildcat strike. At Chicago, the national media tion istard mqt in preliminary session with leader* ot 16 unions representing l.OiMi.ttoo (Mi non-operating employes of the nation'* railroad* i Negotiations between unions and managements over union proposals for higher wage* and lower hour* I collapsed last week, and the unions have oidered a strike vote. Such a | walkout would not become effective for at leant 90 day*. Board uiemiier* will meet management lepresentative* later. Cyrus W Ching, federal media tion director, leave* today for the west coast, where CIO oil worker* and longshoremen are on strike His Washington office said he wa* going to visit west coast mediation service workers for the first time since he took office more than a year ago. At Washington, Ching's aide* said he will confer with members ot the mediation staff, laltor officials and businessmen. They said that he pro bably will talk with leader* of both (T«’~ lu I'asr T**l — Gov. Thomas Dewey Moves Info Arizona Six Speeches Are Planned In State Enroute With D#wey. Sept 23 ■ —(DPI —Gov. Thonm* E Dewey swept Into Arizona today in a whirlwind six-speech campaign to win the traditionally Democratic I state for the Republican party for the first time In 2o years. The Republican presidential < nominee scheduled rear-platform appearances at Winslow, Flag staff, Wi Hams. Ash Fork and Presco't during the day and a major speech tonight at Phoenix. ! Paul E Lockwood, secretary to , the New York governor, said the Phoenix xpeer-h would deal with 1 "the problem* of the southwest and some questions confronting the world in this atomic age** Although Arizona has only four electoral votes and Dewey is confident he can win the White House without them, he would like to make the Novemlier election a landslide if possible. The GOP last won Arizona in 1928 when former president Her- I bort C. Hoover carried the state against the late Alfred E Smith That also was the last time the GOP elected a governor of Ari zona Political observers also believed the six-speech schedule for Arizona may be intended to smooth over possible 111 feeling i in the s'ate against Gov. Earl Warren of Ca'lfornia. the vice presidtntial nominee, because of the Cc'lfornia-Aritona water fight The two states have been quar reling over the amount of water j each should get from the Colo- j (Twra Ta Page Sts I

— I Rules Pension Plans Subject For Bargaining U. S. Circuit Court Also Holds Non-Red Affidavits Valid Chicago. Sept. 23 (UP) — The 1 I*. S. circuit court ot appeals ruled ’ today that pension* plans are proper subjects for collective bargain ' Ing, and upheld the constitutional-' 1 Ity of non-Communist affidavits. ' The court upheld an older by the national lalmr relations Ixiard directing (but Inland Steel Co., bargain on pension plans. The company had refused to do so on ground* that industrial retirement plans arc not a bargaining subject under the Taft-Hartley act. The court al»o upheld an NLRB order, however, that the CIO Cnited Sleel worker* shail not be permitted to bargain with the com|>any until i s officers sign non-Commun-'lst affadavit* a* lequired by the I Taft-Hartley law The three judges comprising the court were unanimous in their decision that pensions are proper liar gaining topic*. But they split two to one on the question of whether the anti-Cominunist affidavit provisions of the law are constitution al. The case was regarded as a major l lest of the Taft Hartley law. Judge .1. Earl Major offered the opinion on the anti Communist que* tion. "In my view." he said, "the condition is a direct mid serious impairment upon the constitutional| right* of iioth the employes and the, unions. The rights of the former to organize. select a burguinlng agent of their own < housing and elect of fleer* of the union have been re duced to a iiieaningle** gesture.’ I'nder the Taft-Hartley provis ion*, he *aid, the employe* must select a bargaining agent "not of their own choosing but one which conforms to the pattern which con gress proscribes.'' The majority opinion was written I by judge Otto Kerner and concur ■ed in liy judge Sherman Minton Os the Communist i*sue. it said: "It is to l>e borne in mind that I the act was not passed because : congress disapproved of the view* and (relief* of Communists but he i-ause congress recognized that the practices of persons who entertain (Tara T» Pan*- Sts I Rev. Gillander To Accept Church Call | Presbyterian Church To Have New Pastor The Rev A. C. F Gillander. pas tor of the Brazil Presbyterian church, will arcept the call to the First Presbyterian church in Decat ur. it was learned today Rev. Gil-, ' lander attended the meeting Tuesday of the Fort Wayne Presbytery.. governing !>ody of the local church, and indicated that he would accept a local call provided the call was approved by the Presbytery Mrs. ('. D Teeple and Wilbur | Pe'rle represented the local congregation and reported to the Pres-'>>t.-iv the desire to call Rev. Gillander. The action was approved and Rev. Gillander wan invited to become a member of the Fort Wayne Presbyterv. He now is a member of the Indianapolis Pre* >»ytery Rev. and Mrs. Gillander have I three children and the Gillander* plan to move to Decatur the last of I October or the first of November. 1 Rev. Gillander probably will take charge of the pastorate the first Sunday in November Beside* Mr. Petrie and Mrs Teeple. Mr Teeple and Mr. and Mrs Wilson Lee also attended the ' meeting of the Presbytery at Ossian 1 Tuesday.

Price Four Cents

— Warns Russians Os Mistaking Patience For Weakness; UN Debate Is Opened Paris, Sept 23 — (t'Pi — Secretary of state George Marshall pledged the t'niled States today to do et-erything possible to end the - n'ernational tension, but he warned Russia that it would he a "tragic error" to mistake the patience of i others for weakness. Speaking at the start of debate in the I'nited Nation* general assembly. Marshall served solemn uotice that the present generation is threatened with another war. He vowed that the I'nited State* would refuxe to compromiae on essential principles, nor would the Americans barter away the rights and freedoms of other peoples. In an unmistakable reference to the Soviet bloc. Marshall criticized nation* which deliberately seal off their people from the rest of the world. Pointedly he added "It would he a tragic error if, l>e- ■ causa of misunderstanding, the patience of others should be mistaken for weakness." But Marshall's speech Netting the tone of American policy at the UN assembly wax generally conciliatory in tone. It contained no bitterne** or invective. lie admitted that all the I'nited Nation* were pledged to seek "accommodation" by which different people, cultures, economic and social structure* and |u>!itical systems could exist "without violence, subversion or Intimidations.” The speech was delivered against a backdrop of imminent decision* in the east-west crisis over Germany. Only last night the western (towers sent tile Soviets a "final” note, asking whether they accepted four-power control of Berlin On 1 their answer depended whether the , big three of the west would turn the Berlin crisis over to the UN for trial in the court of world opinion. Carlos P Romuio of the Philippine* opened the general debate with a warning that the danger of war "is real and grow* with every passing hour." Then Marshall spoke. He made these major point* on the general world ten«lon. 1 The I'nited States will seek in every possible way "in any appropriate forum" to settle the present world strain*. 2. "If we want peace we must settle the i**ue* arising out of the last war." 3. The world should make every effort to achieve "earty and just” peace settlements for Germany. Japan and Austria .Marshall made only pgssing reference to the European aid (■ an bearing his name, deploring that some nations opposed it — : some ' who seem to fear the return of stability nnd confidence ” When he finished, the Russian delegation did not applaud. Its . members busied themselves with papers on their desks while the rest of the assembly applauded In sharp contrast with Mar shall'* dispassionate appraisal of the world situation was a speech by the chief Polish delegate. Zygtnunt Modzelewski. the first Soviet bloc speaker. He bitterly assailed the western aerial supply line to Berlin, deriding it as a "fictitious air bridge.'" He spoke slightly of the "economic nonsense" of trying to supply Berlin with coal by plane. Modzelewski denied that the CN had any right to take up the Berlin crisis or any German problem. In his speech. Marshall made no specific reference to the Berlin crisis "The I'nited Slates does not wish to Increase existing tension." Marshall said. "It is its wholehearted desire to alleviate that tension. "But we will not compromise on ess-ntial principles We will tinder no circumstance* barter away the rights and freedom* of other peoples ” Ho appea ed to members «o find way* to lessen the world's tension and warned that the peoples of the world ate watchiag the (Tara Ta rape Twat