Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 231, Decatur, Adams County, 30 September 1948 — Page 1

ft(LVI No. 231.

I tUSSIAN SOLDIER FIRES ON GERM AN CROWD

Debate Is ■erway On I Bm Control West Powers Warn Kited States Has iflfficient Bombs f | Sept. 30--CUPI T!<- | fl ' S'u'e- alone h.-s a'omh- '<• I war and Hppealed to *1 taß N't " 11 ** as ••inbly to in .1 j» . ;a for ’>!<»> king inter J ‘Otittol of atomic weap J States join* <1 fan I aft'ft asking the genera! a«sem of (m •”* t<sa tolun for international eon IW# i atomic weapons, am! Uns 'ions to The offer still stands, the announced. , fN IS assembly's political opened debate on the sful two years of effort wB. atomic energy ronimii devi ea control system it--I Sla es and Can.idle tai* l " I, '*“ l jtodd the IN debate on atom ami on the eve of debate 01 the Berlin < risl , the French (JKnci-t party issued a sens*sta . ment which said: [de of Erance will JHrd never wi I. go to war the Soviet Union" "{to iimtiiiinist s'atement. de agjKci the instigators of war* ■dfiert nd notice that the peo ■ag tt France could prevent thmß.li of an "imperialistic" var. 11* pledged the French com party to <!<> everything it mK to prevent the “instlgat A alio'her war from putting sgK criminal plans indo es 'a Introduced a re-olu ■Kallmc for usembly approv r), ( . Mnerican atomic plan n? eiu li individual melt: 1 MW" ' M’ress a willingness to ? its sovereign'y enough u the plan work 4 t St A <1 L. McNaughton, atomic bomb expert I tiit-d States is the only itAi in possession of atomic Itoß- at least in any amount dBl- .»f being used for atomic w * O'.ilifu allot) left open th--wAili'v that Russia might Mto some bombs, and that Mb and Canada. America's NMers in the original atomic nMrt. might have some too western powers carried tljAmmi. dispute to the >nn MM floptical committee, and ttMgh it to the general assem b the trank purpose ot o pressure Russia ■ its opposition to control proposals the two years of debate I it.-i energy commission I Lav- -at on the com Fourteen have approv I S propose'*. Only ]ML th- Ukraine and Poland t'fks for the American 'on said the a'omlc com n had reached an impasse i«, U es involved followed 'Oerwhelming vo'c on !.» -SM 1 ' Hi- American plan would mN hr' k the deadlock. with yielding said the American peo peace and real world for all. and for them and their children They I.'" a temporary monopoly powerful force for go-el but rather long term tn control of it for BB* lul • ,ur P < >‘'* only Hut they more than peace They Prosperity and a better life the peop es „f the world' atomic debate started dur I JB» lull in the Berlin crisis II The security II "'ll open debate on Bet II ,!if dominating issue or ■ IR h ' h * **'" <a ,w * Ru *> ,ia ,o 3 |B un ' on a c harge of inc-nuc inc [S t'ea<-. next Monday aft-r || ■B’"'I''** 1 ''** "f depression was B 1 * , ** r * by a Washington I I ' nt °f Sen. James Ea t II ■ 'Twrs T« Pssr Klabo I ■» weather y Cloudy tonight and I to —* liMl * c ®° ,,r ,0 ' | K®** •"* • little warmer

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Left-Wing Unions 1 Walkout Foreseen Unions Dominated By Reds Splitting Washington, Sept. 30 - tl'P) Veteran CIO leaders said tcslay that a walkout by Communist-con-trolled unions is inevitable. They said the split was hastened |by two developments yesterday. One was the naming of a special i •ommit'ee by CIO president Philip Murray for a showdown on alleged Communist ac tivities by the NewYork City CIO council. The other was the blacklisting by the- atomic energy conimisslon of the United Electrical workers and United Public workers, bo h CIO left wing unions. The split could come at the Portland. Ore. convention of the CIO in November, latcor sources said. Only a sudden and complete reversal of Soviet Russia's foreign policy can prevent or halt what one CIO off! lai said appears to be "an 'inevitable and logical break." Thus far the left-wing unions ! have denied any intentions of seceding from the ('IO. Itui in nine months they have taken two lopsided beatings in the CIO executive board on the endorsement of Pres idem Truman and support of the the European recovery program. They have lost ground in the national maritime and transport work ers unions. And more than 100,000 members have swung away from them to right-wing CIO unions Oddly, the split may be provoked by the CIO rightwingers. This could happen if Murray’s special committee recommends expulsion of the New York Chy CIO council If such a step were upheld by the executive board and the convention.' the action would have the appear-, ance of the right wing ousting the leftwingers CIO leaders regard the New York "trial*' as a precedent - setting case on which a final left-right break will hinge Murray set Oct II as the date to start hearings on the barges against the New York council. He named three rightwing union piesidents to the committee. They are O A. Knight of the oil workers. Joseph Froesch ot he glass workers, and Martin Wag ner of the chemical workers Mui ray and other top CIO lead ers maintained a tight-lipped silence on the atomic energy commission's Ida- klisting of the electrical workers and the public workers But privately some of them fell that the action the most d a tic cTurn T«* t’sae Sevesc Mrs. C. C. Brown Funeral Thursday Funeral services for Mrs C C Brown, who died at the home of a laughter in Findlay, o. Tuesday light, will be held at 2 o’clock Fri-, day afternoon at the United lire thren <' crch in Rockford, O George Dent Crabbs Is Taken By Death Noted Industrialist Native Os Decatur George Dent Crabb-’. 73. Cin-1 innatl. Ohio. Industrialist, and a descendant of two prominent pioneer Decatur families, died yesterday in Rockingham Memorial hospital, Harrisof-ngg. , Va.. where he had been a patient | since Sept 21. Mr. Crabbs was enroute from bls summer home in Franconia. : N. H. t«» Cincinnati and hs-l stopped in Harrisonburg to visit with frien-la. Listed in *'Who's Who in America.'' Mr Crabbs was president of the Phi lip Carey Manufacturing Co . a direc tor of Proc tor « Gamble: the Cincinnati Union Terminal Co., the Cincinnati Freight Railway: the Cincinnati Gas and Eec ric Co. the Delaware Floor Products Corp. and the Federal Reserve Bank 1 of Cleveland. Early county histories do not list his name, ami 'Who's Who" Joes not give the name of hfs parents. Bryon H. I>nt and Joseph L. Crabbs were early settlers here, both prominent in bu- Ine s and political circles Mr Dent had a daughter. Mary L. who married D|vid Crabbs The elder Mr. Crabbs developed one of the residential sections in this city more than a half century ago.

Truman Seeks Illinois Coal Miners Votes Says Republicans Nailing Consumers To Wall By Greed 1 En route with President Truman. I Kept. 30 I UP) President Truman told John I. Lewis' unpledged ccal mlnets in southern Illinois today that the Republicans have lieI guu *to nail the American consumer to the wall with spikes of greed '* In an aggressive bid for support from “on the fence** coal mlneis. Mr. Truman, arrived at Mt. Vernon, 1 111. by train from his native Missouri and made a winding. I!-mile automobile flip through the mining and farming regions of southern ’ Illinois. ' In a stop at Carbondale, he charg- - ed that "big business is rubbing i its hands in the hope of having another boom-and-bust spree under a 1 Republican administration.** “They are in the same greedy i state of mind that brought the i rash of 1929 and the Hoover de- ■ pression,'' he said. "Then Wall Street had the spree and the people had a headache that lasted for years. Are we going to let that hap--1 pen again 7" > Mr. Truman accused the Republicans of spreading "malicious untru h“ in their < ampaign "propat ganda" by implying that “there is no real difference between the Democratic and Republican parties." “You are about to choose not merely between the Democratic and , Repuidlcau parties, but between ' two diferent kinds of government.' i he said. He denounced the Taft-Hartley ' law and charged that the Republicans 'cut and hacked away" at the i rights of workers. In a stop a' West Frankfort, he laid a wreath on a war memorial and in a one-mine, linpromtu talk he said "I just passed the biggest coal mine in the world, where they turn out l.tun) tons of coal an hour. 1 That a really some mine." He referred to the Chicago, Wilmington and Franklin coal com (Turn Tn I'nsr l-'.labl* Classify Draftees In Upper Age Group Board Classifies 100 Registrants Members of Adams county selective service board conferred Wed I nesduy night and completed the , classification of lim registrants in , the upper age groups Classifies ; tion cards will be mailed to these men within the next few days. All registrants who are single, non fathers and non veterans between the ages of 19 and 2-'>. and who do not have physical or mental handicaps which would prevent their inductions, will automatic ally receive a 1-A classification, board spokesmen explained However. m*n who are placed in 1-A and are not satisfied with the board's appraisal will have 10 days after the mailing of the classification card in which to submit additional evidence High school students whose aca ! demic records are satisfactory may appeal for the postponement of their Induction until their graduation or until their Nth birthday College students may have their inductions postponed until the completion of the present academic year, selective service authorities said Farmers, ministerial students and other single non-veterans who may be entitled to deferment must make appeals for change of their 1-A classification, submitting evidence to the hoard of a basis for reconsideration of their cases I Discuss Settlement Os Ban On Recordings New York. Sept 30 — (UP» James C. Petrillo, president of the American Federation of Musician*. (AFL). notified recording com pan ies today that he would meet with their representative* Tuesday to discuss settlement of the union's ban on the manufacture of phonograph records. The ban has been in effect since Jan 1.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, September 30, 1948

Sister of Teacher Arrives for Reunion i on to o ! - yaga .. to Xi' w •—' . */ ■ ! I I I’ V W ■HHBtoU&f , T3MBiMHEE!W?janABfc*KO3toJLJiI MRS. EUGENIA ROBERTSON, widow of .1 British army officer, and 1 si’tc-r of .Mrs Ok’Slla K is<-akin:c ll.»- H'l- iaii sc-hool tc-ac-hc-r Who leap d to freedom flom a window of the Nc-w York Rii’o-ian Consulate. pii-Hes through tin- door of LaGuai Ila airpot' on her ariival from abroad. She has not se.-n ler -i -ter for many years and now pans to teke Mrs Kosenkina Im k to England because "the Russians might get her In the United Sta'*1 ________

Edith K. Roosevelt Dies This Morning Teddy Roosevelt's Widow Dies Today Xrw York, Sept il’P> Mrs. Edith Kermit t’arow Roo veil. widow of president 3heod>re Roosevelt. died quietly ill her sleep today in her home. Sagamore Hill, near Oyster Hay. Long Island Mr* Riosevelt died an she had lived She shunned p.iblli ily throughout her husband's < ■ treer and lived in seclusion after his death. "A woman's name should appear in print b it twice." she once said, j "when she is married and when she is hurled ." She was S7. Mrs. Roosevelt married the famous T IL in lx>ndon on December 2. Jsml. after the death of his first wife. Mrs Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt. in l-'l Funeral services w.ll lie held Saturday. relatives said It had not been determined whether they would be private or public. Mrs. Roosevelt died in her sleep about 7 a in. her son in-law, Dr Richard Derby of Oyster Hay. said that she fractured her hip in a fall 4Turin Th I’ngr Wrtnui Chicago Trip Great Treat For Students Pupils, Teachers Spend Day In City Things were back to normal at t! • Decatur junior-senior high school today as 191 students and six fatuity members returned to the three R‘s after an eventful day In Chicago "It was marvelous . the opportunity of a lifetime There wasn't a hitch anywhere along the line The teachers felt It was the biggest dav’s teaching they'd ever done." W Guv Brown, principal, jubilantly declared today Three Erie railroad coaches were reserved for the DHS group, which was accompanied by W M Bumgerdner. Imai Erie agent The students visited the Field museum, the Shedd aquarium and the great railroad fair under the suspires of the social studies department Cloudy but pleasant weather In the Windy City befell the party, and the faculty was impressed w’ith the excellent conduct of the students. who were left to their own discipline A sizeable crowd of parents and friends appeared at the Decatur railroad station at 9.49 last night ta welcome ba> k I the travelers.

High School Band At Bluffton Fair Today The Decatur junior-senior high h< bool band appeared several j i me- at the It uffton rtreet fair today, in parades and concerts Parades at iiihiii and 7 p m. and concerts at I 30 and a !<• P m kept the young musii lans busy in their .radltlotial visit to Bluff tou's celebration For the pa t Iyears. >-x< ep' during the war. the DHS band has played at the | B.uffton fair Congress Candidate Speaks At Meeting County Democratic Leaders Meet Hero Edward II Kruse. Jr. Demo j cratic . nlldate for congress from | the fourth district. Wednesday night tliscus-ed the • ITect v of the I aft Hartley labor law. the rec ord of th« sot ii congre s. parity 1 prices and the international situ ation at a dinner m* . ting of conn ' ty Itemmratlc leaders at the K. of P home here Sev< ntv committeemen. vice commit eemen and candidates at tended th" meeting After Mr Krue's talk the partv workers settled down to planning campaign strategy for the county Each < andida'e for county office was introduced and spoke briefly. Keg) trat ion of all voters by , the October I deadline was em pha i.T.lly urg'-d. A sound truck wi I tour the county Saturday with an authorized registrar In i order to make a many voters as |»>ssib e eligible to go Io the polls ' in November The truck will visit (•• neva. Berne and Monroe Satttr day afternoon and wend Its way through Decatur str eta Saturday evening Announcement was made of the opening of <-oun’y Democratic f headquarters in the K of P. home Countv chairman (Jerald Vizard -aid that the headquarters would b- open after noon from today until the I lection Drowned Mon's Body Is Taken From Lake Bedford. Ind. Sept SO —II’PI— The iMidy of Albert Itubush. 39 year old Indianapolis fire < aptain who drowned Sunday, was recovered from Greenwood lake, near th* Crane naval amtnun.tion depot, yesterday. Itubush apparently suffered a heart atta k and rapsized the boat in which he went on a fish Ing trip with three inmpanon*. i authorities said

Several Shots Fired By Russian Soldier In U. S. Sector Os Berlin Today

Enlistments Delay Draft Inductions St. Louis. Sept. 30 (UP) Increased normal enlistments have permitted a delay in draft law indue ions until Nov. 1. Maj Gen Louis It Hershey said today. But a state draft director may set his own date after the nation al call Nov I. if he makes his state- quota, Hershey added. Hershey said local conditions n.ac requite adjustments by stat* diai’t directors Girl Is Acquitted 01 Killing Father 16 Year-Old Girl Acquitted By Jury Wheaton. 11l . Sept .'hi tl'l’l Frances Korbelik. Ifi. was a quitted today by a circuit court of charges of murdering her father Tile leidlct fieeilig the high school junior was returned after judge Win G Knoc k had ordered the jury to bring bac k that decision The judge had sustained a de lense motion to rule out a confes sion signed Icy the girl shortly after her fathei's body was found He based his decision on the tac t that "a girl of such tender years did not fully unders and her constitu tional rights " The body of her father. William Korbelik. In. was found last Muy : in the .aseinent of his home at iTrlState Village, seven miles south of Hinsdale. 111. The body had been hidden undvi a pile of boards since the shooting in the living mom of the home Jan 1" In her earlier Catement to police. Frances said het fathec came home Intoxicated and raped her after a- using her of “running around with boys. As she prepared to leave the 1 >unty jail. Fram c-s said het plans were Indetlnite. "I m going to finish my high Clara Ta I’aae »*i*ai Plan Participation In Overseas Drive Meeting Monday On CROP Plans Here Blatts for the Christian rural overseas program drive will be pro mated at a county meeting next Monday night at the Methodist church annex in Monroe. Homer Arnold. Adams county chairman announc-ed tcslay A week agee a district meeting was held at the county agent s office Elmer Baumgartner. Berne hanker, presided at the meeting and Mr. Arnold was named county chairman i'articipaticen in the Thanksgiving train which will c arry grain for the hungry in Europe, will he plan tied at Monday's meeting The public is Invited tcc attend the meeting Letters have been I sent by Mr Arttcdd to representa lives of church groups, grain dealers. farm organizations and news papers inviting them to the meet ing Soybeans and wheat are listed by the state CROP ccffic-e us the 1 grains needed. Ilccwever. corn can be donated ami preweeds from its sale used to purchase the n>quired grains Stern Gong Leaders Captured At Haifa Haifa. Sept 30 lUPI The two top men in the outlawed stern gang, suspected assassins of I N mediator Count Ftilke Bernadotte, were captured here early tcslay Nathan Friedman Yelltn. chief of the Terrorist gang, was arrested by Israeli police in a private house where he had hidden since the assassination Hi« principal aid*. Mattityahi Slioutlovitz. was arrested In another house in Haifa's Arab quartan

Dewey To Announce His Foreign Policy No U. S. Disunity On Foreign Policy En Route With Dewey. Sept llti ' (Ul'i Gov Thomas E Dewey, with an indirect jihe at (’resident • Truman, today promised a govern > nient "which will work with the ele« ted representatives in congress and not go around abusing them " It was an unnitstaKanic* c hallenge of tlic fact that I'r*--icb-nt Ttum.cn has been c ampulgning from coast i to coast, arguing that the Republi can c ontrolled Moth congress was one of the worst in the nation's histot y The <l()|’ White- House candidate made the statement to an audience of approximately 25tm at Idaho Falls. Ida . as he began his barn ' storming tour ac ross the southeast ent part of Idaho While on Ills c ampaign spec la) train lief ween platform appear ances. Dewey was preparing ic new I Republican declaration on U S foreign polic y to be delivered to night in a major speec h from Salt lack*- City There was no doubt that it ! v.oulcl lie buttressed by the 1 lose I contact he has kept with the Paris negotiations on the Beilin crisis. Dewey lu d the groundwork so ( the speech last night with a warn ing to any "dictator or trigger hap ' py militarist'* that the political campaign would not divide (lie I S c With obvious reference to Prescient Truman he said that ' they must not assume that because a ' person in position of high import anc e is going around preaching dis unitv that we are in fart divided The American people are unit eel against totalitarian aggression ' re ardless of who wins the Novem her election, he said Speaking from Great Falls. Mont . th*- Gt)P candidate said: Let me semi this message from Great Falls to Paris and beyond .Paris through the lion curtain Tlie Republican party in engaged in this c ampaign for the express pur pose of bringing our people closer together so that they can realize their great future and find peace witli honor iti the world Mid let no dictator or trigger happy milltar ist anywhere make any mistake about that purpose." Earlier, m a brief speech at He lena. Mont . Dewey served notice that regardless of political differ I etic-es the American people stand with ro k'ltkc- firmness tn their de llura lu I’aae Tho> Peter Maddox Dies Wednesday Night Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon Peter C Maddox. ML retired far titer, died at I" o'clock Wednesday night at St Elizabeth s hospital in | Lafayette after a six weeks illness 1 He was born in Morgan county . 11l . Oct 7. 196t>. a «on of Thomas II and Caroline Gaines Maddox He lived in Illinois until 1942 when he moved to a farm east of Dera I tur. followin', the death of hit • wife. Martha Jane. Nov 11. I'tlti. . he had lived with his children 1 He was a member of the Union , Chapel Evangelical United lireI thren church, east of Decatur Surviving are six son*. Harry K Maddox of Decatar. Newton N of Flint. Midi. Warren It of laxfavette. Frank S and Thomas H both of Battle Creek. Mich, and Edward W of Chicago, one > daughter Mrs Helen lauiise Mey 1 era of Pittsburgh Pa 14 grand I children right great grandchildren and one sister. Miss Ida M MadJccx of Jacksonville. 11l Two f brothers and two sisters are de- .• ceased • Funeral service* will be held at 2 pm Saturday at the Union Chapel Evanecllcal United Brethren I c hurch, with burial in the Decatur cetneterv Friend* may < all at the ■ Zwi> k funeral home after 2 ptn |Fnday until time of ’lm *ervfc*a

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German Civilian Is Wounded; Military Patrol Os U. S. Is Forced Under Cover Berlin. Sept 30 (UP) Ono German civilian was wounded and an (meric an military police patrol was forced to take cover today when a Russian soldier firc-d into a small 1 rowel of Germans Inside the I S hw tor of Berlin. The Soviet soldier who fired several shots was one of three who c rossed the boundary ot the American sector about five miles south of Ternpelhof airdrome All were armed They escaped tiack into the* Russ.an sector after the shooting, and there was no explanation of their presence in tlie U. S. area. The Russian soldier fired into ihe German crowd just as a U. S. ’ military police patrol, summoned ' Icy German police report* of trouble 1 in the area, reached the scene. The Anietleans took cover an I did not fire Mier the shooting, two other Soviet soldiers appeared from a nearby woods, and all three then retreated into the Russian sector. The inc ident occurred about four blocks within the American sector, near its southern extremity First military police teport* had indicated two Germans were wounded It was the first outbreak of vio- ' lence involving gunfire in the Bar--1 lin area in some three weeks, and American authorities were not inclined io view it very seriously, although it was prestim«c| a routine protest to Soviet authorities would 1 be made. Lt Col. Thomas Lancer, of Madison. Conn, who became U. S. provost marshal here yesterday, took 1 command of investigation ut the* scene. Some weeks ago there were a l-umlcer of c lashes along the border when black marketeers flush--1 ed by Soviet raids scuttled across the boundaries into British or American terrltorv ami Soviet police followed them It was believed po-silde that todays incident was similar Just three weeks ago today one German was killed and several were wounded during a shooting affray near the Brandenburg gate the boundary Icetween the Russian and British sec tors — which resulted when an anli-Coniniunisl German trowel stoned a Russian jc-cp. I lie Russians imd entered the Ibitish sector to relieve the guard at a Russian war memorial near the ruined Reichstag building, where about .’too.o<><> anti Communist Germans were holding a big rally After the stoning. Russian troop and German police of tho Soviet sector fired a number of j shots into British territory. Today's Im ident appeared to lie lon n much less serious scale, however. and seemed to have little to do with the present war of nerves between Russia and the western powers over the German capital The nerve war had taken a new turn earlier today, however, when the Americ ans ontredb-d radio Rias, priti' ipal propaganda outlet of thn U S here was jammed William F Heimlich. Columbus, o. the station director, said after six hours of investigation that there was no doubt the transmitter was being interfeired with. We have not been able to establish whether the jamming is intentional or accidentiat" he said, "but there can be no doubt that the jamiTwrs tn Twet Auto, Street Cor Crash, Three Die Pi'tstiurxh. Sept 30 (UPI - Three persons, all deaf mutes, ; were killed early today tn a collision Icetween their automobile and a streetcar Two passenger* aboard the streetcar were injured slightly , Those killed were identified a* Arnold M Wilson. 24. the driver, of Pittsburgh. Joan Riddle. 23. hl* [ fiancee Kirksville. Mo.; and Clarence Fineran. Whi'ing. Ind and !, Sioux City, la - Thev worked a« a sales < rew and . recently had returned fieu the midwest The’r car Kire Missouri Illy ease plate>