Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 239, Decatur, Adams County, 9 October 1948 — Page 1

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MARSHALL ENROUTE HOME TO SEE TRUMAN

. IjAiny Sain To i lAfter 2nd ? ■ Os Series |fleveland Gambles i K Steve Gromek To •feat Braves' Ace flfleland. Oct 9 - (VP» - The “ ( |..v. land Indians gambled l(, a little in csl but her boy 'Hamtramck. Meh. hopin’.’ !el3e c ould chop down the Boston the third straight I the c hing starter was *4 ’icek who oiv e worked as in a meat market ZjVhe became one of the better ii the American Jeanie ■ k had a pretty big job cut lyßii For h h pitching opponent 1 a r armed Johnny Kain, the IfgAr Heston righthander who . k the Indiana in the firm g3ltit the series with a 1 to 0 XHp •■" ’be redoubtable llob'.v . jfl note Sain was going again. I*o'' ll '"ldxmakers made the X even money affair — the d vet in the series that the cere on the same keel with T in the betting marts ■ ( leveland still remain gK ■' ' *" win ~H‘ M, ‘ r ' I p| ere weie some bookies |1 he's at 2 to 1 that they take the next two games. < the competition up I five games. K: ’bete was a possibility that j HHilIkM tie a postponement. | tiie forecast was for and cool weather with a However, it began Jt {jAfeiortlv after yesterday's 2to ’/ '• “ ntl showers 'lljKp through most of the night | !.<• Boudreau, who |)wS used Gromek in almost a I figured that the Polish liov have just what took to the Braves' hit famine who won nine games Ml oKm three during the season mainly tor just such spot RghMra!. es as today s game Inn HI vear he lead to sit on the 31 oKe. *h;|e the three othei hid Lemon. Bob feller, and Bearden were the Idg wigs I wigwam •mvk c ollies throm.'ii fol the 14B 1 ' •l' , ‘ 'td'ls would be I aIS favor of 'hem winding It up I lflfiret., l || feller in the mopping on Sunday. I I, “* ~rav‘ ‘* didn't figure to IdHanythlng better than Sain 24 game winner who rode I■M' I '' the national league all sea who had the Indians eat ■ t|Klt of his big right palm tn his I against them I Billy Southworth in th.it there Was no reason to his I were the best hitting c lub I 9 ,T “”*■''*' I wet Scalpers Run I Bo Short Demand On 1 Wor/d Series Ducats IW'-land. Oct 9 - (CP) _ I ’■d series ticket scalpers ran I W *H 'ft apathy for the se. I W« r »igiit day today, and an gSg wholesale un oading of at list price or less up Imminent. ■ J9‘* sellers still w.re holding ■ (jr *25 for SC 25 tickets, but ■ IM *•’’’* finding few takers yesterday's black market W 1 scalpers were unloading “W pasteboards for 2. and one gave away 25 shortly game time. f„ r tomorrows game Jw •Te In demand, but the pro W°t>a' scalpers were holding in the hope that prices could higher yws, Sons Observe W’munion Sunday •”>er< and sons of St Mary's W h a”end the 111 o'clock W Sun day morning and rec eive • Communion in a body at St church JT Tuesday evening the Knights •olumbus will observe Colum ■ wt ’h a dinner for members gMrue.., , t th „ K of f . ha(l Rmi S*Btions should be made immed *• *aa stated. Ile WtATHER | ■ Clearing and eli a htly warmI i ralr tonight and |W"*>t’ Ceeler tonight.

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Stern Gang Members Escape Jaffa Jail Tel Aviv. Oct 9 (CPi — A score of Stern gang members arrested in the roundup of suspected assassins of Count folke Bernadotte escaped from Jaffa jail today after overpowering their guards. There was no fight. Prison authorities said the Sternlata attacked their guards and seized their weaiums during the visiting hour, when their relatives were present for a Rabbath visit. Gov. Dewey May Accept Truman Labor Challenge May Finally Discuss His Labor Views In Detail Monday Night By United Press Gov. Thomas K. Dewey may decide whether he should take up one of President Truman's chief cam-1 nalgn issues — lalstr policy In his speech at Pittsburgh Monday night Sources done to the GOP presi-1 dentlal nominee said Dewey hasn't decided upon the subject of his Pittsburgh address Hut there were reports that he was inclined to accept the president's challenge and discuss his labor views in detail Mr. Truman, meanwhile, ended his campaign swing through the northeast to go hack to Washington tof a personal foreign policy conference with secretary of state George Marshall The secretary, raring" ba k from the I'nited Nations meeting in Paris, was to give the president an up-to-the minute appraisal of the status of American , Soviet relations In his campaign speeches. Mr Truman has come out for repeal of the GOP sponsored Tdft-Hartley a<t and has charged that the Republican party would pursue an anti labor policy if Dewey Is elected. It was expected that Dewey would reach a final decision on the issue of making a major labor ad | dress during day long conferences in Albany. He returned to his slate capital last night after delivering a blistering a’tack in New York City <>n the administration's housing policies. Other political developments: Wallace — Henry A. Wallace, the progressive party presidential candidate, now on a swing through the northwest, sent identical telegrams to Gov Dewey and President Truman demanding that they give "clear and unequivocal" statements of their views on Germany. Israel and Franco Spain. Wallace will speak today at party rallies in Aberdeen and Tacoma. Wash He will then fly to Seattle. Lewis — CIO and API. supporters of President Truman predicted that the Cnlted Mine workers indirect endorsement of Dewey will have no effect on the election Warren — Speaking in Duluth.’ « Tara T« I’aar sist I Two Slightly Hurt As Auto Leaves Road Two Decatur Ladies In Accident Friday Mrs Ruth Hollingsworth and Mrs Martin Welland of th’» city es caped serious injury in an auto mishap last evening when the Hollingsworth car skidded across I'. S highway 27. about two miles south of Fort Wayne, and crashed into a telephone pole The Decatur women were returning from lndlana|Mdls. where they had attended the state convention of the Pythian Sisters. Both were delegates from the Decatur chapter Mrs Hollingsworth was driving She delivered Mrs Alma Myers of Warsaw to the bus station in Fort Wayne and was on the way home when the accident occurred Presumably, the Hollingsworth car ran off the berm on the west side of the road The pavement was wet and in the attempt to get back In the traffic lane, the car skidded and shot across the high way. striking a telephone pole The auto was severely damaged The women were taken to the St Joseph's hospital Mrs Welland received a bead cut. near the right eye Mrs Hollingsworth suffered from bruises They were able to return home last evening

5 Medal of Honor Winners Greet The President

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A DAISY CHAIN of handshakes forms as President Truman is greeted at Jersey City, N. .1 . by five Congressional Medal of Honor winners, all from Hudson county. From left: Steve Gregg. John Meager, Truman. Nicholas Dresko. Frank Burke. Frank J Barth. In a speech beckoning the labor vote the president warned against "a return to reactionary government."

13 Men Ordered To Take Physical Exam Take Pre-Induction Exams Next Thursday Thirteen Adams county men In the upper age brackets will be given pre-induct ion physical examinations in Fort Wayne next Thursday. local selective service officials disclosed today Leaving by bus from the Decatur library, temporary quarters of Adams county board one. tbe sel«M'te«Hc will take mental tests at the Fort Wayne federal building and physical exams at the Methodist hospital of that city, reports from Fort Wayne Indicated Final pre-lnduction processing will take place at Baer field Ijocal draft board members recently completed the classification of 100 men in the higher age groups of registrants. It was emphasized however, that first inductions will not take place until early next month Meanwhile. Lt.'Col. F. Lyle Summers, state selective service director. advised college students in the eligible age group not to appeal for a postponement of induction until they have actually been ordered to report for induction. At Indianapolis. Lt. Col Summers stated, '"rhe fact that a student may have received a questionnaire is no indication he will necessarily he ordered to report for Induction.” He conceded that it is probable most single nonfather. non veteran registrants between the ages of 19 and 29 will receive such an order Safira Home After Pardon From Prison Honky-Tonk Dancer Is Home In Toledo Toledo. 0.. Oct. » -tt'Pi -Patricia (Satire! Schmidt, the 23-year-old honky tonk dancer who spent 18 months in a Cuban prison for slaying her married lover, was back home with her father today, unde elded about her future However, she left little doubt she would return to show business eventually "All I want to do for a while is just rest and recuperate." she said "I am considering a number of contracts But first I must rest ’ However, she emphasized that she would never appear on the same bill with the widow of John lister Mee. the Chicago socialite she shot on a yacht in Havana harbor. "It's perpoaterous." she said Miss Schmidt was released from Guanabocoa prison In Havana Thursday She had been pardoned by out-going president Ramon Grau San Martin after serving less than 18 months of a 15 year sent •nee. *• She arrived in Toledo last night for a reunion with her father. John Schmidt, whom ahe had not seen since Sept 19(7. when he visited her in the Cuban prison Mlm Schmidt was wearing a clinging black dress and a sliver fox neckpiece when the stepped off the plane She ruebed to her father and embraced him tearfully before greeting other relatives waiting for her at the airfield She said life waa “pretty rough" cTara TW l*M» Fear!

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, October 9,1948

USES Representative Here On October 20 Through special efforts of Locai 924 t'ERMWA (CIOL and its national representative. Elizabeth Moore, arrangements have been made with the V. S. unemployment office to have a representative at the city hall In Decatur Wednesday. Oct. 20. The i'SES man will be at the hall all day Wednesday to register unemployed workers for unempjpyment compensation. — Gales Continues To Blast At Schricker Schricker Pledges Reduction Os Taxes Indiana polls. Oct 9 —(VP) Indiana Republican campaign strategy continued today along a new tack in which Governor Gates liammers at Henry Sc hricker and Schricker'* gubernatorial foe pounds away at state and national issues Gates delivered his second major campaign speec h at laigrange last night He blasted again at former Gov. Sc hricker. the Democratic nominee for another term as chief executive, just as he did a' South Bend earlier this week Hcfba?t (’relifhton. the GG)P gubernatorial nominee, resumed his Interrupted campaign at Shel byville. Again he steered dear of personalities and confined his talk largely to the national communism issue. It appeared that Gates was sent Into the campaign to heckle Schricker and let Creighton con tlnue his discussion of issues without delving into name-calling tactics. Schricker, speaking on a Lmlsville, Ky. radio station after tour ing Clark and Floyd counties all day. again pledged a reduction of Indiana taxes He said the GOP state administrations boast of a bigger state treouury surplus than ever before was due to Increases in property and liquor taxes and the new dgaret tax Gate* accused Schricker of giving paroles to 12 men convicted in connection with strike violence at Richmond in 1941 and sentenced to 99-day terms He said Schricker paroled the men as "essential to war industry" but there was noth ing In the records to supiport that contention. "Will he Ignore the decisions of juries it he Is elected again?" Gates asked John Watkins of Bloomfield. Democratic nominee for lieuten-ant-governor. also spoke about taxes In a talk today at Berne He said that "GOP leadership in Indiana is synonymous with high general property taxes " Watkins said charts showed that everv time taxes were high the Republicans were in control Creighton's speech was the first since his mother died at Warsaw early this week He speaks at a Porter county rallv near Valpa raiso today, while Schricker. after attending the Purdue-Michigan football game at Lafavttte. moves down to Frankfort for a night speech At Linton. R«p Gerald W Landis. R . Ind . predicted b« would be resleetod over Democrat James «Tere T» race Fsevi

Automobile Dealers Charged With Fraud Charge Operation Os Confidence Game Edwardsville. 111. Oct 9 (VPi Two automobile dealers were c harged today witli defrauding customers of nearly 33.min.iHm in down payments. State's attorney V. W. Burton obtained warrants charging Robert ’L. Knetzer of Edwardsville, and Arthur F Kramer. Jerseyville, 111. witli conspiracy to defraud and operate a confidence game Burton said a study of Knetzer'* records showed the two men bad worked together while mushriMim ing their auto businesses into multi million dollar enterprises that collaps <1 when customers began demanding their cars or return of their down payments Kramer was arrested at his home last night and brought here for questioning by sheriff Dallas T Harrell Knetzer promised an Edwardsville newspaper by telephone that be would return soon Hi- refused to say where he has been since he disappeared Tuesday ex cept to say that io* is "in Illinois " Knetzer and Kramer became famous throughout the midwest for their flat offers to sell cars at list price to anyone who would put up « (nrs Tn Tn— Vc« c Halloween Pranksters Again Active Here I’re-llalloween prankster* Fridav night turned off many of the city's street lights for the second time this week Defying official statements that offender* would be prosecuted, and that tampering with the master switch is extremely dangerous, the unidentified vandals threw much of the city into darkness around 10:30 pm Officer Robert Hill, acting police chief while Jamis Borders is on vacation, warned that any person c aught in the act'of tampering with the easy-to-reac h power switch will lie haled into court on a disorderly conduct c harge. Five Men Arrested On Narcotics Charge Charge Dope Sold Illinois Students Chicago. Oct. 9 (VPi - Federal narcotics agents today mapped their next move toward smashing a |sii.ihhi narr-otica ring that they charged was selling dope to Illinois high school and college students. Five men were arrested last night in what Robert W Artis, superintendent of the Chicago nar> cotica bureau, said was the first of a series of raids to break up the ring. Artis, said one of four men arrested here waa a former featured drummer with Harry James' dance band He said a fifth man was arrested in Springfield. 111. and told a reporter "don't be surprised if some of the men turn out to be big-time musicians " The former Harry James drum mer. Michael Scrims 31. waa trailed here from Springfield where he allegedly sold aarrotics to students while playing in a dance band. Artis said

Flies Home From Paris For Parley; Opposed To Vinson Trip To Moscow

Probe Killing Os Chicago Politician 120 Police Assigned To Granata Murder Chicago. Oct 9 il'l’i A policeman reported today that he xaw un automobile speed away from the street corner where William John Granata. powerful behind-the-scenes liepubliciin politician, was murdered early yesterday. Patrolman Anthony Dykowski told his superiors that he saw a light green 1941 model sedan head-j Ing north on Wells Street from the Randolph Street intersection where Granata was slashed across . the head and left to die Dykowskl said he was just mak- j ing his 12 15 a.m. call box pull when the car roared by him. ran through a red light and continued <>n out of sight “There were two men in the car and it was obvious that they were trying to get away from something or somebody." he said "I tried to get the license number but couldn t because they were driving without lights '' Detectives said Dykowski's story was a "definite lead In the case They said tin- direction followed by the car Dvkowski described was the most obvious route a criminal would take In escaping from the loop The police department assigned 12'1 detectives and patrolmen to the case Imlay Granata was killed by someone who struck him several blows in the back of the head with som«. weapon similar to a machete or bolo knife He was found dying In front of his l<s>p apartment hotel Granata had just been dropped off by a friend after an evenjng of campaigning at various ward meet ings He stopped at a newspaper I stand and bought two papers He apparently walked around the cor tier anti across the street before his assailant sneaked up behind him and struck the fatal blows Bryant Youth Dies In Auto Accident Portland. Ind . Oct. 9 (I'Pl William Edgar Dale, IS, Bryant was killed last night when the cat in whi< h he was riding overturned south of Bryant, state police said 1 today Dale’s two brothers, riding with him. received minor injuries Stale G. 0. P. Rally Is Planned Oct. 16 Dewey To Speak At Rensselaer Rally Indianapolis. Oct 9 I PPI Governor Dewey's first campaign speech in Indiana at Rensselaer next Saturday was hailed by state I Republican leaders today as the signal for a statewide GOP rally Chairman II (' ark Springer, announcing the GOP presidential > nominee’s schedule that called for a speech in bouse majority leader Charles Hallock's home town, said Republicans were expected ; from all the slate's 92 counties Dewey was slated to arrive in Rensselaer by train at around 10:39 a m Oct. Ifi. He will be there a’sHit an hour. It was an nounced. and wi I speak in the St Joseph college fieldhouse The fieldhouse seats C.mm per sons. State party leaders indicated I' probably would lie the only speech Dewey would make in Indiana thia campaign, although he orig inally Was committed to attend "an Indiana picnic" and his ear Her campaign y>lans included a schedu'ed appearance at Evansville. "But thia probably will lie th>only campaign appearance of Gov ernor Dewey In Indiana Spring er said He added he had no* “given up hope'* that Dewey might cogae back again for a big meeting In Indianapolis or "some . i other industrial t enter '

Churchill Says U. S. Bomb Only Hope Os Peace American Stockpile Os Atom Bombs Only Deterrent To War Llandudno. Wales. Oct. 9—(l'Pl - tin y the American stockpile of atomic bombs offers hope of pre venting a third world war which > “seems to lie remorselessly ap- ; proaching." Britain's wartime pre ' mier Winston Churchill aald today in a pessimistic speech. The I'nited States, he warned. ' “would be guilty of murdering hit man freedom and committing sui cldc" if she were to agree to de stroy existing atomic bomlis in ac cordanie with any paper agree ment Churchill spoke in somber tones to the conference of the conserva live party, of which he Is the leader. here He turned the thunder of his rolling oratory upon the rulers of Russia, denouncing the "growing aggressiveness and ma lignity of the Soviet government mil its complete breaches of good faith." In an apparent reference to his ' repeated warnings before Wor'd War II against the increasing menaie of Hitler's Germany. Chun hill said with the utmost gravity: ' I hope you will give full con sideration to my words I have not always been wrong Nothing stands between Europe today and complete subjugation to comtnun i*t tyranny but the atomic bombs | in American possession ” "Bolshevik Russia." he said. 1 "already is heavily armed. and her forces in Europe far exceed those of all the western countries I put together” Even as Chun bill spoke Sir Hartley Shawcross, a British dele gate to the I'nited Nations, was telling the I N political committee lin Paris that reliable Information Indicates that Russia's army now is two and one quarter times Its prewar strength Rejecting a Russian proposal for one-third dis i armament by the big five powers within one year, he said that Brit aln w ill not be "bamboozled " Simultaneously, a sub-cotnmlt tee of the I’N po it leal committee was approving overwhelmingly against Russian protests a V S proposal for control of atomic energy Cnder the American plan existing atomic weapons would not be destroyed until and unless an adequate international control agency. With full powers of Inspec tion, were set Up. Chun hlll warned his party con ference and the world that If iTerw Tn rase Fleet Walkouts Cripple France's Economy Communists Lead Strikes In France Paris, (kt 9 H*P»— Striking French railroad men seized the station at Epernay on the Marne east of Paris today as spreading walkouts under Communist leader ship cut deeper into the nation's already crippled economy Premier Henri Gueuille recalled vacationing ministers of his shaky Coalition cabinet for an emergency meeting this evening to discuss the steadily deteriorating strike situa tion. The Paris newspaper Paris Solr said French Communists were working under orders of the Com- . munist international Information . bureau to spread strikes and dis orders The strike of 350.000 coal miners went into its sixth day with no new violence reported Outbreaks of fighting vesterday in Lorraine killed one striker and wounded scores lot strikers and government forces

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Report Secretary Os State Angered By Proposal For Separate Mission Washing'on, O< • 9 (I'Pl — President Truman and secretary of state George C Marshall met In urgent conference today to settle definitely whether a special “peace mission" should le- dispatched to Morrow ' The president cut short an eastern campaign swing and Marsha I flew home from the l'nite<l Nations meeting in Pari«. Mr Truman met Marshall at the airport and they drove to the While House together President Truman had proposed that chief justice Fred M Vinson be sent to Moscow to meet with Generalissimo Josef Stalin to try to settle American Russian differernes much as Harry L Hopkins . dl<l in 1945 when there was a deadlock over selection of a place to hold the I'nited Nation organization conference. Marshall reportedly opposed the plan, and forced at least a postponement. His discussions with the president were expected to produce a final showdown on whether Vinson should absent ' himself from the supreme court j briefly and go to Rivssia Newsmen had no opportunity to I question either the president or Marshall at the airport Photo 1 graphers had aleiut two minutes ’ to take pictures while secret ser- , vicemen kept back reporters Marshall looked grim and tired. ' i In contrast to the smiling, jovial | president I'pon the president's arrival at ' union sial lon. he had been asked it he had anything to say about his proposal to send Vinson to see Stalin "Not a word.” the president said. However, this was known the White House abruptly dropped pans for a radio broadcast last Tuesday night in which Mr Truman wus to have announced that he was sending Vinson to Moscow as his prexonal emissary to discuss the Berlin blockade Marshall reportedly brought alarut that change In plans. tine report billed the meeting an • a showdown between the President and his secretary of slate According to this version. Marshall felt i that such a mission by Vinson would amount to a repuliation of his (Marshall'si conduct of foreign affairs and cause him great • loss of prestige before the Coiled Nationsv But an administration source xald Mr Truman had never pressed the Vinson pro|H>sal on Marshall I that he dropped the Idea comi pletely when Marshall said he felt I the Berlin crisis should continue to be handled through the I’N This source firmly denied that Mr Truman and Marshall were at r odds He said today's meeting was araanged only so the President could get a progress report on the i'N deliberations in Pari* From this and other administration quarters came this version of the story Some of Mr Trumans White House advisers came to the conclusion that the time had come for an attempt to solve the Berlin crisis outside the I'nited Nations They discussed with Mr Truman the idea of sending Vinson to Moscow E to confer with Stalin Vinson was r approached and reportedly agreed r to go This took place without con- ’ sultation with Marshall or slate de- ’■ partment officials here II Meanwhile. Mr Truman talked with Marshall by Trans-Atlantic * telephone and teletype and asked his views on the protected mission I 1 Marshall objected according Io R s these sources, and Mr Truman ’■ dropped the idea According to another version of r ! the story, however. Marshall sue ■ r reeded only in gelling Mr Truman '■: to postpone the Vinson project un ’* til be c Marshall) could return here Ito present his full case to the ' President ' Tbe White House, in announcing ’ I that Marshall was returning from * Paris Io meet with tbe President. •* said the recall was prompted by * "no particular crisis" A state de • tTwew To Pass Fives