Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 241, Decatur, Adams County, 12 October 1948 — Page 1

XLVI. No. 241.

■ENOUNCES RUSSIA FOR BLOCKING PEACE

Miners Seek New Wage Boost

flne Workers fl Demand New page Increase | Convention Takes | flood In Framing I lew Wage Demand rinnati, 0., Oct. 12 —(UP) United Mine Worker* 40th mtion today adopted a lh round" wage policy callor a general pay boon, shortork week. increased royally and other improvem nu. i convention's wage wale littee did not spell out the led demand, but it referred to r»' president John L. Lewis a national policy committee utlona which would reduce work week to 30 hour*, ine the royalty payment to the fund from 20 to 40 cents boost annual vacation pay ||oo to 1200. lengthen the lon from one to two weeks j the paid lunch period from inutes to one hour, and re cos operatdr* to pay for all je«. equipment and much o* lining work not now compen I committee recommended the convention avoid spelling he demand in detail In order re Lewis rhe widest po«siblc de in the 1949 coal wage Nations. convention reaffirmed his for a national bituminous t such as lias been in effect IMS. union, which along with th< of organized lalior lias re ItA' I tliree general increa-es the end of the war. is thi ■fl ,lll! nraatiization to frame its round demands for 1949 opened today's final see the convention by offering a new try to unity the ■ fl.-: American labor move EW mid the United Mine Work lonveniion that the union be glad to urge and join be<ome a part of a unified movement’' de-plte the fall ■ flof previous attempts becaust ■flth.- lack of wisdom and un fling attitudes of some lead '|y named none. |Bi«;iHrii» is before u« and the ■ 1< sill) unsolved." he said ((invention voted him author try invention also adop'ed a reao tiflon wishing the InTypographical Inion ■ success in their worthy' against the Taft Hartley in fljfl li<>n aimed to destroy condi IB that the Internationa! Tvpo Union has built up.” ■ Bl"pfi"n of a wage policy and ‘'"’•'tig speech will wind up gfl long meeting of 2.900 dele IB the only big floor fight of gfl (<inv-ntion. la-wis yesterday SB overwhelming approval for ■ ■(ii>-« and initiation fee increa gfl*.fi-l St keeping < hiselers off ■H| 11 0'.000.000 a year welfare fund r this program effective ■J* 1 '“itivtion fees will go up fl HO to |SO and dues from 12 B 4 per month. Wiped out are • Turw Tn Paar Flset flnual Farm Bureau fletinq On Thursday Jr' annual membership meeting ■' ’dams countv Farm Bureau J 1 * h ‘ , d at 790 nm Thursday Jfl* "erne andi'orfam The prfn- ■> "-Her of business will l>e elec ■ "f officers. ■ M Hull President of the Ind ™ Farni Bureau Cooperative »i Inc. win he the Brin W«n<akar The Verv Rev Marr < q *ltn*t» nastor of St Marv’s asl 0 ' 1 ' rh "f'’h. will give the Invo | jf" Th * *•»'•» quartet will music and a com ■fl" V sing will (h. held All mem Hr urged to be present II W«ATMM c<ar *’ M ' t, » eloudy to- ," <l WM " t * 4> v: tittle ■■J"* temperature except IE-*' »" southwest

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Schricker Defends Clemency Record Poses Question For G. 0. P. On Paroles Indianapolis. Oct. 12 — (UP) — D>-mocraiic gubernatorial nominee Henry F. Schricker had an answer today to some Republican-posed questions. And he also had a question for the Republicans to answer. While Schricker last night explained his own clemency record as one where "justice was tempered with mercy," he posed a query for the GOP: What about the Ott Workman parole case? Schricker was accused hy GOP eaders of paroling too many prisoners during his previous administration as governor He said in a talk at Richmond last night that he had replied previously to the charge. In Fort Wayne last night. Governor Gates renewed his public luestioning of Democratic foes. "I have no apologies whatsoever to make with re pect to my clemncy record," Schricker said at Richmond, where he and other Indiana Democrats were to welcome President Truman this morning Schricker replied to a charge that there was a "mystery” about his action in 1941 in commuting he sentences of 12 men involved in a strike at Richmond industrial plant. They were sentenced to erve 60-day terms. He explained his action by saying that "some ot the defendants had entered or were alxiut to enter mili ary service and most of the others he d key positions i~ important war production.** Schricker added that the striaers "had to pay fine* anyway.” “A number of other condderatlons, involving serious misconduct and destruction of property on the part of certain law enforcing officers also influenced my decision.” he said. This was an answer to one of eight questions asked by Governor Gates during two speeches last week Schricker also threw a barb at the Gates administraiion for Its record In the Ott Workman parole case Gates revoked Workman's parole after he was paroled from a life sentence at the state prison in 1945. "According to newspaper reports. there li enough scandal and political manipulation In this case to Hl', a book." said Schricker. The former governor a'siy demanded to know why public die fender Frank Greenwald. Gary, discharged a year ago by the state supreme court, "escaped punish ment for betraying a public trust." Meanwhile. GOP gubernatorial candidate Hobart Creighton said (Tara Ta Fwae Four* 13 Men Slated For Exams On Thursday•Name 13 Slated For Pre-Induction Exam IXM-al selective service officials todav released the names of 13 Adam* county men scheduled tn take nr*-induct|on physical and mental teat* In Fort Wayne Thursde*. They are: Waite’ J Roon. Norman Philln* tnsenh Weber. Max Johnson. Ralph Holder. Vemefl Hsbegrer and James Strickler. Jr. all of Decatur; Walter Betbold Decatur route 1: t>wla Ellerdlna. Decstur route 2 o«nl Schur Monroe route 1: and Vtrril Cleo Morningstar. Marlon L Smith and Marvin Sprunger. all of Berne The men will leave bv bus from the Decatur nubile library Thursday mornlne and will take mental examinations In th* Fort Wayne federal building Then they will r«ee|ve their pre-indnetinn nhyslcals nt Fort Warne's Methodl«t ho*nltai. Final nroce*sing will take place at Baer Field immediately prior to induction. Ixx-al selective service officials nointad out that no quota of draf teen has b«en set for Adams county Fort Wayne reports last week said 134 men from thia area will undergo pre-lnduction esama during October prior to the first in ductkms next month

Truman Again Lashes 6.0. P. Farm Policies Says 80th Congress Put U. S. Prosperity Into 'Grave Danger' Enroute With Truman, Oct. 12 —(UP) — President Truman campaigned across Indiana today declaring that the noth congress put the prosperity of the country "in grave danger." "What a (won that congress hat been to the grain specclator*." the president declared in his opening Hoosier speech to an audience of from 1500 to 1800 at Richmond. "They made a killing when the congress did not do the right thing by the farmer " He referred to the adminisira tion's charge that the 80th con gre*s fai'ed to provide the com modify corporation with adequate grain storage facilities. This, ac ' cording to administration spokes men. has forced farmers to sei’ their products at the conveniencr of speculators. Unless they vote Democratic on Nov. 2. the president added, the "same old mossbscks” will be in control of the government next year At Greenfield, the birthplace of Jamas Whitcomb Riley, the presi dent paid his respects to the late Hoosier poet. Then he told his trainside crowd that the first thing the 80th con gress did was to "take a crack at the farmer." He said he had "al! I could do” to keep the 80th congress from cutting such programs as rural electrification. price supports, school lunches and soil conservation measures. Mr. Truman told his Hancock county crowd that the farmer iju*l like anyone else he become? fat and lazy” with prosperity and doesn’t go to the polls to vote. - That was what happened in 1948. he added. The president who make* » ma lor farm at Sprlngffeld. I 1., tonight, discu sed rural prosperity first at his Ric hmond stop “The Republican congress hit at the prosperity of every farmer «I era Ta !■•<» Slat Initial Town Hall Meeting Held Here Free Enterprise System Is Lauded j John H. Stambaugh. Valparaiso farmer and Indus.riali t, told a "town hall' audience at the Deca tur high schoo. last night that 'the United States wi.l never suf fer runaway inflation as long ar we can produce under a fre - enterprise system.” Mr. Stamhaugh was the princi pal speaker at the first of three meetings for farmers and bust nessmen sponsored by the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, the State Chamber and the Adams county Farm Bureau His subject was "Democracy, or your life." and he examined the true mean ing of the democratic way of gov ernment Speaking before a sparse but enthusiastic audience, Mr. Stam baugh pointed out that conditions In China. Great Britain and Rua sla are eloquent answers to the -rgutnent that government control Is a substitute for production In curbing Inflation Agriculture and buxine s as the principal beneficiaries of the free enterprise system must take the lead In a concerted program to resist the controls which can only lead to a discip Ined economy, be urged. Mr Stambaugh contended that farmer* and businessmen have an obligation to take part in potties "Don't be an Independent voter." he declared Select men to run for office under outr twop f-ty system and then be a partisan In seeing that your political party eloet* its ticket and accepts the responsibility of good govern(Tore Te Fege Fl*«>

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, October 12, 1948

Denies Resignation Rumor

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SECRETARY OF STATE George C. Marshall, Ixiirdlng a plane at Washington National Airport, was emphatic in his denial of reports that he won d re-ign "That’s not the way Ido buslnes he told repor era a* be leit for Paris. He was accompanied by Lt Gen Walter Bedel) Smith. U S Ambassador to Russia (left) and Paul G. Hoffman. Et'A iiilnilnistraior

Dewey Asks Politics Kept Out Os Peace Bipartisan Foreign Policy Called Vital Uiuisvßle. Ky . Oct. 12 -tl'l’i Toy. Thomas E Dewey asked Ills opponents today to "keep politics tut of peace " "in this election year, the binartisan foreign policy is the only neans by which we can speak with I united voice in the crisis we face." the Republii an presidential candidate said in an address premred for delivery in Louisville's Lincoln park Dewey stopped here on his campaign tour of Kentucky and south•rn Illinois, following a major labor xilicy wpeech In Pittsburgh last night In that address he asked hat the "bunglers" lie "thrown out if office" .He continued In the same vein oday. denouncing the "clumsiness, 'he weakness and the wobbling o> he present administration ' "Peace I* not a Republican or a '■inocratic matter." he said He said the present world situa 'ion pulled the fight for "justice ind freedom . . . far above partisanship" Hr promised that the foremost aim of his administration would be world peace Dewey was caustic in bis analysis of recent Russian moves He tescribed the Russian leaders as i “band of fanatic Zealots . . . itrlking at the ramparts of freedom with all means short of war "They have already destroyed the free governments of 12 nation*. They are using fear, falsehixid. "i-onomlc and political sabotage, mob violence and treason all in accordance with a mad but calcu'ated plan fashioned by the polithuro in Moscow " "Thera is no doubt about it — ‘here is no secret about it." Dewey mid "It ia all based on principles which Lenin and Stalin have ad vertised to the whole world " There was little doubt that 'tewey** plea to keep politics out M peace was in reference to Preet lent Truman'p abandoned plan to send chief justice Vinson as a special peace emissary to Moscow Dewey came here from Pittsburgh where he outlined a 13 point labor polk-y to the nation iqst night. He pledged to raise the minimum wage law. to break the log jam in housing and "to make sure soaring prieea do not steal fixxi and clothing and other necessities from .American families"

Judge Clyde Carlin Dies Suddenly Monday Angola, Ind. Oct. 12 li'l’i Funeral services were arranged today for Clyde ('. Carlin. 78, judge of (he Steuben (.agrange circuit court for more than 25 year*, who died unexpectedly yesterday. He was preparing for the opening of the fall term of court yesterday when he collapsed with a heart ail ment. School Tax Levies v Approved By State Reductions Made In Two Township Rates BULLETIN State tax board representatives this afternoon reduced the Decatur civil city tas levy by three cents, from |’,23 to 11.20. reducing the Income from the proposed tas rate by approximately $2,400. The cut was made in the general fund levy. The Decatur and Berne school tax rates were approved hy repro--.entatives of the state board of tax conimi’.wioners ax they reviewed budget* and levies of local governmental units at the auditor's office today. The levies of the two school cities are. Decatur. II 38 and Berne. II 55. Superintendents Walter J Krick, of this city, and E M Webb, of Berne, appeared before the tax experts Ben Gallion and Charles lx>avell represented the state board W. T. Mints of the Indiana taxpayers as six-iation sat In at the hearings and conferred with the state representatives Two township rates were approved by the board during the morning session. These were the levies in French and Jefferson township*. In Blue Creek township, the tuition levy was reduced from 71 to (» cents A cut of seven cents was made in the Kirkland township cial schorl fund, with the inclusion of 11.2 M received by the township from the cigaret tax The rate was cut from 78 to 70 cents The Kirkland townshin advisory board previously eliminated the special slaking fund levy of 40 cents for next yaur. The township will have a balance of approximately 518.000 In this fund at tbs close of ths year. It was sxplaiasd , The Decatur civil city, the iTsra Te Fsge Tbr**>

United States Delegate Warns Rearmament Plan Speeded To Stop Russia

Train Derailed At Berne Monday Night One Man Injured In Pennsylvania Wreck Two hundred Pennsylvania rail road maintenance men today con- ' tinned their all-night efforts to I clear the G. R ic I right of way I on the north edge of Berne after the derailment at 7:30 Monday night of l.'l cars, a cal><H>’.e ami a locomotive. Ben Fuxene Johnson, of Lynn, who was fireman on the train, was under treatment at the Adams ounty memorial hospital today for I rcalp lacerations he suffered when he leaped to the ground. His fam lly was at his bedside Two other | 'rainmen. who remained on board : during the crash, were uninjured : Division superintendent John F lenry sped to the scene from ('in- ! innati to direct the work. Two I vrecker trains and the bleary-eyed j allroad workers were racing gainst a mid-afternoon deadline to lear the tra ks Meanwhile, pastenger and freight trains were beng re-rou'ed through Logansport, nd local freight runs were order’d cancelled. Mr. Henry said Two cats of coal and four cars >f soybeans were a complete loss. Mr Henry refused to comment on the cause of the mishap until an Investigation is completed. The train's engineer. George H. Vorndran. of Fort Wayne, was quoted as saying the northlxiund freight was unable to stop in time to avoid ramming into the caboose of an Inactive train on the same track. It was learned tliat the freight' was travelling at about 30 miles per hour at the time of the crash. I I but the scene of twisted debris: , bore witness to the terrific impact I t of the collision. , Approximately 150 feet of rail . was lorn up. and coal and soy j beans spewed forth from the lushed fl eight cars. The Imo motive lay on its side In feet from the tracks, next to the United Milk company plant. Berne citizen* crowded aitout the area las', night and today watching the workmen, with their bulldozers and cranes. di*|M>se of the batter ed freight cars and gnarled tracks One entei prising neighlmr s»t up a candy stand to supply the hungry onlookers Stale policeman Walter Schindler. sheriff Herman Bowman and a dozen railroad detectives kept order No Appropriation For Youth Center Funds Sufficient To Run Teen Canteen i The Decatur youth committee of I Woman's dub will not ask for an - appropriation from the Decatur I • Community Fund, to operate the youth center or teen canteen dur I ing the present school year, mem I , tiers of the budget committee of the DCF weffe informed today From funds made available for l the canteen's operation up to last June, the committee has a balance I of 51.(72 39. which the committee j informed the budget members - would be sufficient tn continue I. operations into next spring • The youth committee also in \ formed the DFC that the canteen ■ would be available for use two ; nights a week for Boy Rcout meeti ing* Troop* wishing to use the Den. as it is called, are asked to ■ '-ontact Deane Dor win or Steve > Everhart, supervisors of the youth i j center. The member* of the Woman's i club committee, which has spon- > sored the youth center since Its ini rept ion are Mrs Arthur R Holtbouse. Mis* Helen Haubold and r Mrs. Clarence Ziner > Budgets so far submitted to the ) Decatur Community Fund total > 57.20 b This doea not include office - and administration expenses or i conttagencies for uncollected pledgee during the year II The budget committee approved iTuvu Te rsav Fewri

U. S., Britain Protest Soviet Air Maneuvers Russ Authorities Warn Os Practice On 'Blind Flying' Berlin. Oct. 12 <UPI Soviet au'horities warned tixla/ that Russian military planes will practice ”blind flying" over the Berlin control zone, and American and British officials Immediately protested Notice of this latest move in the Soviet campaign to harass the An-glo-American air lift which supplies I the western sector* of Russian | blockaded Berlin was posted by the Soviet authorities with the four-1 1 power air safety center. It followed incident* yesterday In which Soviet fighters in formation circled a British transport on the Berlin run, and a Soviet fight er dived wi'hin 100 feet of another British plane. The Soviet announcement said that Russian planes would engage In "cloud flying and blind flying" In the greater Berlin area at alti-1 lude* of 3.500 to 10,000 fwet Mowt ■ of the hundreds of daily flight*, made by airlift planes are at levei* within this range. Russia is a signatory to four I power legulatlons which forbid such maneuvers over Berlin at less ; than 10.000 feet. The Soviet armv newspaper Tae ' gliche Rundscau said that the Bus sian road, rail and canal blockade !of Berlin will continue until "the illegal wist mars" is declared In valid The declaration obviously was] an answer to a statement by the. western occupation powers yester day that no negotiations would lxheld on the Berlin crisis until the blockade was lifted. "Actually there is n-> b!o< kade." Taegliche Rundschau said, "but as to lifting traffic restrictions than | can easily be arranged it the illeg | ally inaugurated western mark i» i simul'aneoiisly declared Invalid . During the summer negotiations i In Moscow and Berlin tailed to re-1 suit in a formula for accepting the east, or Soviet, mark is currency for Berlin‘Thus the latest Russian statement only pointed up the com pleteness of the deadhx k between Russia and the western powers Continue Blockade Washington. Oct. 12 <UPt The state department has been advised that it ap|x>ars certain Rus sia will try to continue the block ade of Berlin through the winter. | authoritative quartet* disclosed to day. . Altieri'an agent* in Europe have reported that there are strong in tTers To P*«r Fiver Record U S. Crops I Forecast This Year To Exceed All-Time Record Set In 1946 Washington, Oct 1." «UPt ’V. S farmers have raised some of, the greatest crops in history this : year, but the feat is expected to 1 reduce their Income* somewhat. That's the word from the agriculture department and Its top experts In its monthly crop report, yes terdav. the department said total I output ot farm pioducts in 1948*' probably will lie eight percent above the )94( all-time record Estimates of the record com harvest, which have been climbing since August, reached a peak of 3,335.OlMt.Min bushels Wheat was down a bit to 1.253.770.000 bushels But that still would be the second largest crop The de part ment increased Its estimates for rice, barley, busk wheat, flaxseed and potatoes The record com crop means that, meet ptodactlon will start climbiTars Te Peas Five*

Price Four Cents

Vishmsky Replies By Bitter Charges, Soviet Proposal On Atom Contol Loses Paris. Oct 12 tUPt—The United Slate* warned the Soviet Un- ' ion today that th* American rearmament program is being speeded to "May the heavy hand of Russia's constant drive for world power." U. S. delegate Warren Austin made this statement in a * pern It before the United Nations political committee, which was considering a RtiKslan proposal for immediate one-third disarmament l>y the liig five powers. Russian delegate Andrei Vishln*ky replied in a shouting, screaming speech of one hour and 57 minutes In which be made some of the bitterest charges ever heard in a United Nations meeti Ing. Austin had taken a leaf from Vislilnsky’s Ixxik liisteail of defending American policy, lie took the offensive He denounced Rus- - sis for blocking a la ting peace, creating a threat to peace, refusing to cixiperste in Hie UN. and frusiiating a settlement of the Ber In crisis. Admitting that the Uni'ed State* disarmed ' too tar and too test ” after World War il. Austin | said thii mistake was going to lie ; remedied liy a stepped-up rearmament program designed to protect .■gainst Russian aims of world * domination VMiinsky came back lighting Red fa< ed. waving his arm . pointing his~Tinger accusingly at western delegate*, frequency raising bis voice to a shriek, the prosecutor of the famous Moscow purge trials ! A*ser**d that Ru» ia will give no information about het J armed forces to the world until iand unless the I'. N disclose* tht size of her Sttx-kpile of atomic Iximli*. 2. Accused the western powers of "making believe" that they wanted to prohibit the atomic bomb, while ai-tua ly depending l upon this illegitimate queen ” | 3. Warned that "there I* a rei ply for every weapon, gentlemen I —don’t forget that —there Is a reI ply for every weapon" I Accused the western powers of plotting with Nazi Germany Io attack Russia In 1939 a Attacked John Fmter Dulles. Republican foreign policy adviser who frequently has been mentioned a* a probable choice for U S secretary of state If Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York 1s elected president next month He said I tulles’ New York law firm of Sullivan and Cromwell played a major part in building the war |x>tential of Hitler's Germany t> Denounced the delegates of the U S Britain and France for "transgressing all permissible limits' in their "unbridled attacks" on I Soviet Russia Even while Vishinsky was speak- , ing a sub committee of the political I committee was overwhelmingly approving the western [xiwers plan for international control of atomic energy, and rejecting the latest Soviet proposal* on thia question. By a vote ot 8 to 2. with India abstaining, an 11-nation sub-com-mittee favored a Canadian resolution which would suspend the work of the UN atomic energy commission until the big five and Canada could find that "there exists a basis for agreement on interna<Twr* Tw F*«» Ttireei Sen. Von Eichhorn Speaks Here Monday i. Von A Eichhorn, of Uniondale, ioint state senator from Adams. Walls and Blackford countiw. spoke at a meeting of the Democratic central committee and candidates Monday evening at party ' headquarters here Sen Eichhorn discussed campaign issues and attacked the record of the Republican administration Gerald Vizard, county chairman, headed a delegation of Democrats to Bluffton nt noon today, where Henry F. Pibrlrker gaberaatorial I candidate, spdke tolloaing a luocteeon