Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 235, Decatur, Adams County, 5 October 1948 — Page 1

B(LVI. No. 235.

IURRICANE HITS HAVANA, SEVEN DEAD

KV's Security Council Votes Berlin Study

■I Public Airing ■ted By 9 to 2; Asia To Boycott ■bate By Council Ort. -- The Nations security council, hitter objections of Rusd|K<| today bv 9 to 2 to she a airing to the Berlin disdelegate Andrei Vish- , e.li.itely ailliollll■ ed that SHU w .11 boycott the councils the issue. the floor Immediately at I vote by which the council I to plat e the Berlin crisis „;!■ the western powers ami on its agenda. Vishlnsky Soviet delegation wishes that it will not participate >K>-i ■,orations of the sei urity not immediately clear. whether Vishinsky actSSoulil walk out of the counas Soviet delegate Aod®<liotii>ko tliil in 1946 on the Issue, or would remain in but refuse to take disc {jKi<.i:>-<i after adjournment as he would attend tocouncil session or partiIn future council debates, said Jovially: Ht will depend upon my "'I bare not left the Unitaßw statement is clear on that fiM the Soviet deputy foreign replied "We are not ta||M tl "‘ 1 ntted Nations We to refrain from partici in the Berlin <ase only." "ißiilau delegate Dmitri Man ■J immediately made an an .ent similat to Vtahinsky's. had been the only which voted with Russia placing the Berlin questhe agenda. Vishinsky ami Manuilski in their stats after makoernen s. ami \ d-legate Juan Bramuglia. t the count tl. immediatniietl the session until to morning H^Bi' .-si had foreshadowe<| thboycott ol council discus M*>f 'he Berlin question In his yesterday when lie m.im il that consideration |H '*' a violation of interna agreement!. the chamber. Vlshinski BB|r 'f queries from reporters ■BB whether he ami Mann Iski mMI attend tomorrow's session ||Mi Will see that tomorrow " «■ set urity council lineup of against ti e Soviet I nion MM*- I kraine was China. Brit SB« ' 'mted States. Pram c. Sy- * u "ada Belgiim '* 1,1 all ~le members except Russia satellite had been the principal OB' today Just as he was yes In a speech in somewhat t“ii-h than h.s pyrotechnics he accused the I S and France of seeking to SB * Ing four foreign ministers £■*- and repeated other chaig ■M had made previously. Bigure Available Wote Registration JMhty clerk Edward F Jaberg declined io estimate of voters registered | November ! general elec I 3^B‘ n( e reports of some 25 de I have not been re I ''*' rk " ‘Cmained open ISB* * ,n ,o * p ni v, “ n ' ia '- I■“ f " r r,,e,,i ' r » ,lon Howe.er I SB**'*’ I’* 1 ’* “ W hl * * t,ff wa " I W* "'‘'•'■taxed with '.(«• oft It.. I jB *’ has lieen the case In I 5B r '"' r '' election years A tent IS® f ' rUr ’' ° n ,ou, " > registration I T * UI b * released tomor | ® WEATHER 1 ■’•udy tonight: Wednesday •’y cloudy and warmer.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

PTA Speaker Ihep *•» l 'ls

R. Nelson Snider

R. Nelson Snider To Speak To PTA South Side School Head Here Thursday R. Nelson Snyder, principal of the Fort Warne South Side high school*, will be the guest speaker at the opening meeting of the LinI coin-parent teachers association, to be held at 7:30 o'clock Thursday i evening at the Lincoln school Mr. Snyder has achieved con* i siderable fame as an outstanding educator, speaker and humorist. ’ and the local organization considers itself fortunate to secure a man 1 -of his ability to address the sea- . son s first meeting. He has chosen as his subject: "Security " l Programs outlining in detail the . events of the coming year will be ' distributed, and these will be dis-' i cussed at the business session , Robert Ijine will report to the group the plans being made for entertaining the crowd at the fall ’ festival on Nov. 1. The membership enrollment campaign is progressing satisfactorily and from the enthusiasm and cooperation being displayed by De-1 ! catur citizens, it is ezpected that | the number of members will equal 1 or even exceed the record achieved 1 last year. Following the meeting there will be a social evening at which cider I and doughnuts will be served The j public is invited. i. Creighton’s Mother i i Dies This Morning II Mother Os Governor Candidate Is Dead 'I Warsaw. Ind. Oct. 5 — (UP)—, ’ Mrs. William H. Creighton. 7». ■mother of Hobart Creighton, the ' Republican nominee for governor of Indiana, died today while her ' son flew from an interrupted cam--1 palgn speech at South Bend to be at her bedside. | Mrs. Creighton died in McDonald hospital here She had been in the hospital since a fall July 31 fractured her hip Three days ago she was out of bed for the first time and apparently recovering Her dea’h was unexpected. Her son was addressing a small " group in South Bend when word came that Mrs Creighton was in a critical condition Creighton left the meeting immediately, got in a plane and hurried home He arrived 5 minutes after Mrs 1 Creighton died at 10:13 am. ’ Creighton's headquarters can- ' celled appearances he was sched- , uied to make at Hartford City and ’• Marion tonight and said substitute 1 speakers would be sent. ’I Friends qpid that Creighton of 1 ton visited his mother in the hoop-] ‘ Ital between tripe on his strenuous campaign for governor Mrs. Creighton and her husband lived on a farm near Atwood, only half a mile from the big poultry farm operated by Hobart and hie (Twee To Paa* Uta»

Reports U. S. Aid To Turkey Vital President Truman Reports American Aid Proves Success Washington. Oct. 5— <t’P) — President Truman reported to congress today that the "conspicuous auccesa” of American aid to Greece and Turkey has bulwarked the middle east "in the interest of world ; peace." In his first really optimistic report on the Greek-Turkish aid projects. Mr. Truman said American assistance came "at a critical junction In the history of the struggle for peace." American aid to Greece, the pre sident said, was designed to sup port the right of a free people to have a government of their own choice, and to lay the groundwork for their economic rehabilitation. "These objectives have been met notwithstanding the intensification by the Communists of their campaigns of violence, sabotage, and calumny." Mr. Truman said "The conspicuous success ot this program in enabling the people of Greece to meet the military and economic crisis which confronted them, and In supporting the Turk ish determination to remain inde pendent in the face of externtfl pressure, has contributed significantly toward stabilising this strai tegic area of the world In the | interest of world peace " The president's report covered the first year of operations under the t4OO.*ou.<WHi program, through June .30. It noted that congress had approved an additional *225.0u0.0UV for military help to the two nations. and other funds for economic purposes. Two Found Dead In Gas-Filled Kitchen Vincennes. Ind . Oct. 5 — (VPl—- — said today they found two dead men and two unconscious women when they forced their way into the gas-filled home of Ray Kerns here last night The men were identified as Kerns. 33. a bartender, and Henry Hunter, almut 40. an aircraft employe* The women were Mrs. Mary Kerns, wife of one of the victims, and Miss June Drake, a waitress. Set Organization For Food Train County-Wide Group Named Last Night A county-wide organisation for the Christian rural overseas pro- | gram Thanksgiving food train was ; completed last evening by a group of 25 interested persons in a meeting in the Methodist church annex ! at Monroe Homer Arnold, well known Kirkland township farmer who Is the county chairman presided He was named at a district meeting held In this city last month The following persons were named last evening: E W. Bnscbe. Monroe. vice<hairman; Avon Burk. Decatur, secretary: Earl Canton. Decatur, treas urer Arthur R. Holthouse. Decatur and Simon Schwarts. Berne, publicity directors. Township chairmen. Victor Bleeke. t’nion; Verne Linker. Preble: Hugo Boerger. Root; Charles Backhaus. St Mary's; Russell Mitchell. Washington; Fred Adlers Kirkland: Loren Heller. French; Edward Rice. Monroe: Charles Burkhart. French; Henry Rutnnle. Jefferson: Harve Ineichen. Wabash : Roy Poorman. Hartford Co-chairmen for three town ships: Rev Otto Busse, for Preble. Root and Tnlon: the Rev Ignatius Vichuras. for Kirkland. Washington and St Mary's; the Rev OMn A Krehbiel. for Monroe. French and Blue Creek: the: Rev. Clayton Rteele for Hartford. Wahash and Jefferson. E W. Baumgartner, district chairman, explained the purpose of the grain train, which will travel through Indiana gathering wheat, soybeans or corn for the hungry of Europe. The state CROP organisation has asked for wheat and soybeans which wi'l be shipped overseas and 1 <fwra Te Pace Twe»

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, October 5,1948

‘Villains’ Os Berlin Blockade

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RUSSIAN LEADERS rorponsib'e for the current Berlin him-kude and swords-points state of Russo-Allied affair* are shown in Berlin In this hitherto uupubli hed photo. Officer with airplane is the leading Soviet air expert. Maj. Gen, G A Alexanderov. He is exp.aining his theory of how a Soviet fighter plane collided with a British transport in April west of Ber In. Cigarette smoker is Berlin It Schdarnov. member of Mar lial Vassily Sokolovsky's policy committee and believed to be the hatchet man picked to drive the western powers from Ber.in. He is believed to be the real power behind Sokolovsky and the man who engineered the blockade.

Fire Chief Lists Chief Fire Causes Preventive Moves Listed By Chief Fire chief Cedric Fisher today outlined the chief causes of fire, preventive measures, and firefight-' Ing information, as pari of the na-« tlonal observance of fire preven-1 tion week Chief Fisher said the primary causes of fires are: 1. Careles* smoking. 2 Smoking in bed 3 Children playing with matches 4. Clothing ignited by open firenlacea and bonfires 5. Kindling fire with kerosene 6 Careless handling of inflam-' mahle liquids t'sing his experience of trouble spots which have frequently been! •he cause of fires he has been call■»d to extinguish, chief Fisher Hat’d these important way* to prevent 'lre: "Keep electric cords free from -(brasion; don't overload lines. When through with oily rags throw • hem away. pile them in corners or boxes Don't clean clothe* with gasoline or any other inflam- j triable liquid ’Don't leave matches around where small children can get them. Make sure all cigaret and matches are out before throw ing them away " When fire does break out. here are the steps to be used in fighting it until the fire department arrive*. according to chief Fisher: "Get everyone out and keep them out; don't let them go back in to get 85 they left in the sugar bowl «T«rn Tw I’nitr T****

Boys Town Choir To Sing In Decatur November 17

The advance sale of tickets for Father Flanagan's All-American I I Boys Town Choir concert In this I city. Wednesday. November 17. will be to the homes, because "Boys are j significant of the home and every : parent and child should be given ! the first opportunity to hear them." Mra J. F. Sanmann. chair man of the arrangements, announced today. The sale of ticket* will begin the latter part of this week. There will be no reserved seats ’ In the bleachers or on the floor. The appearance of the world famous 50-voice choir is being sponsored by Alpha Delta chapter of Pal lota Xi sorority and will be given in the Decatur junior-senior high school auditorium Mias Betty Melchi. president of the local chapter. and Mra Ned Johnson, corresponding secretary, have been assisting Mrs. Sanmann in the ar rangements. Members of the sorority will personally contact families to offer , them tickets I j The reputation of the Boys Town r as the country's out- , standing boy-choral group under « the capable direction of The Rev F Francis Schmitt, has been earned f in two nation-wide tours with roe- F certs in KM leading musk halls < throughout the nation More than

Aged Man Is Burned To Death In Home Indianapolis. Oct. 5 — (UP) Warren Johnson. 86. wa* found burned to death In his home yes--1 terday. Firemen said Johnson, a blind man. apparently walked into the middle of a blaze they said wa* caused by an oil stove explosion. Repair Work Moves On Ceylon Bridge Election Work Pay Remains Unchanged Phil Hauer, county highway sup- ' erintendent, informed the county roniinissioaerK before the member* adjourned la*t evening that work on the repair of the Ceylon bridge ■ was progressing rapidly. The bridge may be opened to traffic yet this week. Mr Bauer said The Yoat Construction company has the general repair con tract Salaries of election board worker* will be the same In the November election as it was for the primary. The commissioner* set the per diem at 82't for Inspectors; judges and clerk*. $9: sheriffs 86 The maximum for meals was fixed at 83. The commissioners will again ! lease the county garage at night i for storing busses of the Decatur Bus company The rental is 815 a month for the first bus and 81<» a month for additional busses A committee composed of Samuel 'C. Schwartz. Christ P Schwartz and Amo* Graber, of Wabash town , iTwra T« l*nvr T»»ni

Rav. Francis Schmitt ISO.ano people enthusiastically ap plauded the su-voke Boya Town choir on its 1946 and 1947 tours When the choir made ita debut in St Paul. Minn , two yeura ago. Father Flanagan’s boys sang before the largeet audience ever to hear a boys' choir in the United Statee. and have continued to thrill (Tara Te Pa*» Twei

Storm Spreads Death, Injury, Destruction In Capital Os Cuba

10-Cent Hourly Wage Hike To Railroaders 175,000 Employes Granted Wage Hike Chicago. Oct. '» — (TP) The. nation's railroads and two unions' representing 175.000 operating employes agreed today on a 10-cent ' hourly wage increase, the second time in history that a railroad , agreement has been reached on a' national scale without government! intervention. The railroads and the Order of Railway Conductors and the Brotherhood of railway trainmen agreed on the compromise wage Iwost late yesterday The unions originally demanded a 25 percent pay raise Negotiations between the railroads and the unions began Sept. 14. Last year the same two unions reached an agreement by direct ■ negotiations with the railroads \ That <ontract granted a IfrH cent hourly raise which became the pat-1 tern for the entire industry. I Yesterday's agreement was the . first break in the third round wage between the railroads i and 21 union* representing 1,400.000 II rail workers Daniel P. L(a>mis. who headed the railroads team of negotiators, said bargaining talks were contin uing with representatives of three other operating unions representing engineers, englneme an<l fire me. and switchmen These unions' demand the differece between the 15 *4 cents awarded them as a se< olid round increase and the 30 per cent they had demanded. Negotiations broke down two weeks ago between the railroads and 16 other unions, representing about 1,000.000 nonoperating employes doing shop, maintenance and clerical work. The national railway mediation board has Interven , ed and is trying to effect a settle , ment in separate meetings with the' railroads and unions in Chicago. The nonoperating unions ask a reduction in the work week from 48 hours to 40. with no pay,cut, a 25-cent hourly wage increase, lime and a half for Saturdays and double ' <Turw Th I’aar Twet Price Youth Dies Early This Morning Funeral Services Thursday Afternoon Danny Clayton Price, son of | , Mr. and Mrs. Roy L Price of | j «outh of Decatur, and a first , I gra<le student at the Pleasant I I Mills school, died unexpected'y I at 1:15 o'clock this morning at tne Adams cjiunty memorial hospital. The five-year-old hoy. who had taken part in a number of horse shows In this area, became slightly ill last Tuesday but was able to return to school Friday He became 111 again Sunday and when his condltiion grew serious .Monday night, he was brought to the hospital. He was l«»rn in Decatur Oct l<». 1942. a son of Roy L an I Margaret Hudson-Price Hi* father is a former Adams county I treasurer and his mother is president of the Adams county | home economics chorus. The boy wa* a member <>f the Pleasant Mills Methodist church. Surviving in addition to hi< parents are two brothers. Jimmv D an<l Gerry K Price, both at home, hi* paternal grandparent* Mr. and Mrs James E. Price of Rockport. and a great grand i mother. Mrs. Mary Price of I Rockport Funeral services will lie he d at 1 30 p. m. Thursday at the home and at 2 o'c'ock at the I Pleas*nt Ml la Me'bodi*t church the Rev Ralph John*on official Ing Burial will he In the Decatur cemetery The bodv will bremoved from the Zwick timers'< ' bom* at 7:30 thi* evening to the residence, two and one-half miles southeast of Decatur on T 8. 1 highway 33.

Lewis Assails Truman Record As President I Makes No Reference To Gov. Dewey In Convention Speech Cincinnati. <).. O?t. S—(UP) — I John L. Lewi* today criticised President Truman as "a malignant scheming sort of Individual who is dangerous not only to the United Mine Workers but dangerous to the United States of America ” "It devolves upon you." Lewis told the opening of his union's 4<db convention “to decide whether he is to be a future president." The 2.80 b delegates shouted “no" . They applauded almost every critical reference made to Mr Truman during his opening address And there were nmnv in the 25 uninter ■ rupted minutes that consumed most • of Lewis' speech. i "Harry Truman is totally unfit for the position" said, "his principles are elastic. He Is careless with the truth He has no special knowledge of anything He ! is a malignant scheming sort of ini dividual who is dangerous not only to the United Mine Worker* hut dangerous to the United States of II America." I Lewi* made no reference to Mr Truman's Republican rival. Gov Thomas E Dewey The miners' boss said that Mr Trivial) prosecuted the union for twice striking against federal court orders and recommended big fines ' "because he was too cowardly to ! send me to jail ” “I was wishing." Lewis said. I "that if Harry Truman had to have 'his isiund of flesh from thia union ' 'hat he would take It from me. not I you that he would put me In jail, which is what a white man would have done rather than roh you " Lewis said that "Truman didn’t care" how many men would low eyes or die In mining the coal to , pay the 82.130.000 fine* imposed { upon the union and it a president in I 1946 and 1948. Lewis charged that Mr Truman vetoed the Taft Hartley labor law only "for the record of thi* cam paign " He said the president did i not try to have his veto sustained by the congress He accused "too many AFL and j CIO leaders" of running to the (Tiara Ta I'aae Tw»> Town Hall Meetings Planned In Decatur Farmers, Business Men Are Invited * John H. Stambaugh, president of the Stambaugh farm equip ment company. Valparaiso, wil' l,e the featured speaker at the flrat of three town hall type meetings for farmers and city businessmen to lie held in Decatur under the auspices of the Indiana state Chamber of Com l.ierce The meetings. s<heduled for October 11. November 4 and l>ecemlier 2, will emphasize the interdependence of agriculture and other business, the rea*se*sment of rural and urban real estate scheduled for 1949. and. school p ant efficiency as related to the tax problem. Mr. Stambaugh will speak negt Monday at the Decatur high | school auditorium on "Democrac y ' —or your life." He was president of the Valparaiso Chamber ’of Commerce from 1939 to 1941 and a director of the associated retailer* of Indiana during the same period During the war he served as staff officer for the chief of ordnance and as director of the office of materials and facilities for the war food administration He is the owner of a dairy farm and dairy, and at present i tTwsa Te I’age Two,

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Over Hundred Hurt; Key West Reports Hurricane Not As Severe As Feared Havana. Oct. S—(UP)5 —(UP) - Hurricane winds reached 130 mih-s an hour spread injt.Ty and destruction through thia Cuban capital city of 500.000 persons i early today and then headed for I Florida, where they were expect- * ed to strike Key West by noon. At least seven person*, including two children. were killed here, and scores were injured. Property destruction and damage 1 ran into iinestirnatcd millions of 1 dollars. The casualty tolls were * 1 rising as shattered communica--1 j Hons slowly were being reestab ’ lished Hospital* reported at 9 30 a m ‘ (hat they had at least 100 injured * person*, seven or more in serious * condition. Other scores received first aid for minor injuries and were released Passing Havana at almut 6 a. 1 tn. the hurricane was headed * north-northeast at about 15 miles an hour, with southern Florida. 1 still not recovered from a 825,000,000 blow a short time ago. 1 directly In its path. * (In Washington, a weather bureau advisory said that the 1 hurricane, described as "very severe." will drive through most of the Everg'ades-Okeechobee area ' land along the coast as far north as Jupieter. Fla. tonight, if It continues on its present course, t Belen college observatory here reported that winds averaged 100 to 110 miles an hour at the height of the storm, with gust* r . up to 130 mile*. | In downtown Havana. police ( opened fire on small gangs of ( looters raiding smashed store*. No casualties were reported, ■ however, and the looting was not , w idespread. ! Power was out in much of the , city. Three river* flooded their tanks Transportation was parI alyzed for several hours Rubb'e and fallen trees barred many streets Culm's radio stations almost , without exception were off the I air because of rntenna collapse* and power failu !. President Ramon Grau San Martin. presidentelect Carlos Prlo Socarra*. and Maj. Gen Genovevo Perez Damera. army chief of staff, made a personal inspec'lon of the damage In the heart of the city, and directed plans for re'lef and rehabilitation. Hits Florida Keys Miami. Fla . Oct. 5 -(UP) — A hurricane, leaving at least al.dead and millions of dollars in property damage, swirled out of Havana and hit the Florida keys -hortly before noon today. The outer gales of the storm blew In gusts through Miami's •treets as 100 mi'e-an hour wind* headed for the winter playground for the second time in 14 days. Full force of the hurricane was expected here before spm At 12:30 p m EST the weather bureau here said the storm center had passed a little to the »ast of Key West. which had steady winds of 75 mph and gusts even stronger It was described is "very «mall but Intense" as It headed toward the Cape Sable roast of the peninsula The storm was following the ns’h of the 125.(w»n.00n hurricane which ’or* through Florida's citrus and vegetable be't two week* , (Tars Te I’sa- Wist John Watkins Soeaks At Berne Saturday John A Watkins, editor of the Bloomfield Democrat, Democratic candidate for lieutenant-governor, will be at Beroe from 9 to 11 am. Saturday, and will sneak at a public rallv during that time Watkins, a war veteran, served for some time as military governor of the district of Bamberg. Germany. and is viro-prea'dent of the ! Indiana Democratic editorial aeaocia'lon. Edward Kru*e. of Fort Warne, candidate for coo treas. ; fourth diatrirt. will alto speak briefly