Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 266, Decatur, Adams County, 10 November 1948 — Page 1

BfcLVL No. 266.

tHARGE SOVIET SATELLITES AID REBELS

Demand Bb-Jewish fece Parley Hmand Voiced In ? Bounty Council H Soviet Russia Nov. 10 - (UP) — RusIk. taiiatided at a closed meeting United Nations security todav an early Arab-Jewish to settle the strife f.JL Mil' l ' of Russia calle(1 on MLncil to order the Jews and EJ negotiate, either directUL rough the acting Palestine HL, for the UN. for "the esbbliliiieiit of formal peace." move amounted to a of a new.proposal by the Kflfr r [)r. Ralph Bunche, for a EjoJarmistice in Palestine. press officer announced proposed major changE in [the Bunche plan. They would it into a full fledged peace of an armistice. soviet posi ion clashed with ■ Britain. France and probEy [he United States. But it was likely to get enthusiastic by Israel. I Fall de ails of the meeting were public. When the session Live and a half hours broke up. Edelegates of Britain. France and Erti, : stalked cut in obvious anremainder of the debate on felßunche plan and the Soviet deK will be in open meeting, ofKik announced. The first public Kilin2 was not expected to be Keld before Friday because of other going on behind the I TV security council already was factions on the next Palemove when Malik made his Liwas brewing behind the in private nego'iations and ■tel meeting of the security was a new plan by Bunche. a UN armistice in Pale 5 separating the Arabs and ■k by a broad no man's land, and ■n: reduction of armed forces, other was a security counModer for the Jews to withdraw Bmd newly won teritory in the Kept, together with a British pro- ■ to order the Jews out of their ai qusit'.ons in Galilee. United States declined to the British proposal on |Wii official sources reported, only "sympathetic of the Bunche armistice I Arrest Observers Kifa. Nov 10 - (UPI — United P*t: - truce headquarters an-B><i-d t iiay that Israeli police I ted two UN observers on : front in South Palestine, servers were seized yeslile watching a Jewish atIgyptian positions at Iraq- . 23 miles south of Tel nouncement said the obroceeded to the spot with Ison officers upon hearing ?. and refused to leave liaison men suggested area was too dangerous, later, it said. Jewish mille arrived, arrested them, ■re To Pace Throe) Renamed To I Committee polis. Nov. 10 — (UP) — Gates said today he had >n three members of the man state budget commitfen. Marker Sunderland, democrat, was named yea- • succeed Walter Vermilerson. as a member of the e. Vermillion, also a Demted to be replaced. Gates idded that he would ask l»ers of the old committee uis expired Nov. 2 to serve Bw committee. They were ert Heller. Decatur DemoSta'e Sen. John Kendall. Republican. WEATHER easing cloudiness to’lth rain or anew northportion late tonight, •y mostly cloudy with ‘ snow north and light »uth portion ending by afternoon. Not much in temperature.

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Wholesale Food Price Index Shows Increase New York. Nov. 10 - (UP) —| The Dun & Bradstreet. In -., whole- ■ sale food index in the week ended ! Nov. 9 rose 3 cents to $6.39. after j having dropped 59 cents since Sept, i 14, the agency announced today. | The index for the latest week compared with $6.36 in the preced-! ing week and $6.89 in the same | week a year ago. Housing, Rent Control Bills Are Promised Democrat Leader In House Says Housing Situation A 'Mess' Washington, Nov. 10.—(UP)— , Rep Brent Spence. ]).. Ky.. who will guide President Truman's economic program in the house, today promised top priorities for low cost housing legislation and a rent control bill “with teeth.” Spence, who is slated to head the house banking committee in the new Democratic congress, told the United Press that rent controls should be extended for at least a year beyond their present exniration date. March 31. He said he was also determined j to hold early hearings on housing legislation because the “housing situation is in a mess.” He said i 1 the measure would be based on! the Wagner-Ellender-Taft longrange housing bill with emphasis on lowcost dwellings. “The way things are now. 90 percent of the houses built sell for ! over SIO.OOO— beyond the reach of most <?f the people who need hous--1 ing." he said. “And only 15 percent of construction is in the field of 1 rental housing." Spence declined to say just what ' kind of “teeth" he wanted in the I rent bill. He said he did not want to commit himself pending hear- ■ ings on the recommendations of rent director Tighe E. Woods. Woods said yesterday he would ! ask congress to extend the rent 1 control law for 12 months and to I plug up what he considers three of ■ the most glaring loopholes. "There are many inequities in the present law." Spence said from • his home in Fort Thomas. Ky "It does not protect the people ' that need protection. We've got to extend controls but 1 don’t want > I to be specific at this time on how I long. At any rate. I'm convinced now the extension should be for not less than one year." “j Well-advised senate Democratic (Turn To Pmse Three! State Democratic I Solons In Caucus Seven Democrats In i Initial Conference Indianapolis. Nov. !'• (I Pl—i Two young men who still were in , grammar school when the new ; deal was born in 1932 joined five I other Democratic congressmenelect today in their first meeting ’ since the Nov. 2 election - The seven Democrats, flush with ’ the election victory that gave them numerical superiority in the HoosI ier delegation to congress for the first time in 10 years, meet here today to talk over plans for serving in the 81st congress next January. Rep. Ray J Madden. Gary, was . the only veteran among them The rest were newcomers and three of them were 35 years old or younger. James E. Noland, who won the seventh district seat in the house ' from Rep Gerald W Landis, was ’ a 12-year-old boy the summer Franklin D Roosevelt was picked ? to head the national ticket in the 1932 election. ’ Edward H. Kruse. Jr., winner over Rep. George W. Gillie in the ‘ fourth district, was just getting f readv to enter Fort Wayne s South 1 Side hish school, at the age of 13. ! Noland, now 28. and Kruse, just - turned 30. and 35 year-old John • Walsh of Anderson, winner in the fifth district race against Rep For•est A Harness, helped to reduce the average age of Indiana's con gressmen. Walsh was in In lana University law school when Mr.! Roosevelt first came to power These three young newcomers, all World War II veterans, are ex pected to sit quietly and listen as Madden tells them and three older (Twru Ta PWIW *"•'

Lutheran Hour Rally Here Sunday Afternoon

||k * • \ - JhJH' i Rev. Edgar P. Schmidt

Lutheran Hour Rally Sunday Afternoon Dr. Walter A. Maier Speaks Here Sunday Sharing the rostrum with Dr. Walter A. Maier at the Lutheran hour rally in the junior-senior high school auditorium Sunday afternoon will be the Rev. Edgar P. ■ Schmidt, pastor of the Zion Lutheran church of Decatur and the ; Rev. Ernest T. Schmidtke. pastor of the Zion Lutheran church at Friedhsini. The two county clergymen will act as liturgists. Rev. Schmidtke is spiritual advisor of the Decatur zone of the Lutheran laymen's league, which is sponsoring the rally Sunday. At the Wurlitzer organ, installed especially for the rally service, will be Edgar Nordbrock, teacher and music director at Emmanuel Lutheran church. Fort Wayne route 7. He will render a number of organ selections and accompany the assembly in singing. Special choral music will be provided by the Concordia high school girls' glee club of Fort Wayne, under the direction of Miss Olga Hvizdak. Following is the program for Sunday's rally, which will begin promptly at 2:30. Prelude: "Ein Feste Burg." C. iC. Engelbrecht: invocation: hymn by assembly "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God:" scripture reading: choir anthem "Praise Our God Who Reigns In Heaven." Bach-Til-linghast: scripture reading: hymn by assembly—“ The Church's One Foundation:" The rally day address, by the Rev. Dr. Walter A. Maier, speaker of the Lutheran Hour; choir anthem—“ Let Us Rejoice All Ye Faithful." Graun-Saar; announcements: organ offertory- "Offertory in E." Theodor Dubois: offering for the Lutheran hour radio broadcast: general prayer and the Lord's prayer: the benediction: the postlude —"Postlude in F," Alexander Guilmant. The public is invited to attend the rally, for which no admission will be charged. Stale GOP Senators Called In Session Seek To Keep Upper Hand In Assembly Indianapolis. Nov. 10 (I PI The 28 Republicans in the new Indiana state senate were called todav into what appeared to by an emergency session to thresh out how they could keep the upper band in the upper house in the 1919 session of the general assembly GOP state chairman II Clark Springer and Sen. John W 'an Ness of Valparaiso, majority lead er and president pro tern in the 1947 session, called the meeting foi noon tomorrow in Indianapolis. They said there was “no definite agenda" for the conference But it was obvious the Republican senators expected to waste no time developing a program of strategy moves to protect themselves in the face of a Democratic majority in the house and a Democratic gover-nor-elect. The GOP has a 28-to-21 majontv in the senate for the 1949 614ay session But the presiding officer is a Democrat —Lt. Gov.-elect John Watkins, who presides in an ex officio capacity outlined by the stale constitution. Under senate rules, the presiding officer appoints senate committees. (Tara T« Page Tw»>

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, November 10, 19 48

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Japan Guilty Os Aggressive War On U. S. 1 War Criminality Tightens Around d Japanese Warlords 1 Tokyo. Nov. 10— (UP) A web * of proved war crimmals tightened around at least some of 25 Japanese warlords todav when an 11-na'ion 8 tribunal convicted Japan of conr spiracy to wage war and labeled 8 Pear! Harbor an unprovoked act of e aggression. The interna'ional court struck the most telling blow of the five ■j i days of reading the 1.200-page ver “ diet in the trial of Hideki Tojo and ! his colleagues when it ruled that the prosecution had proved its n charge of conspiracy. The decisions in the cases of the individual defendants were exnectI ed late this week or early next. Sir William Webb, the t hies jus ice. I had read more than SOP pages of t the document which ended with the fate of the wartime leaders of Japan Observers who had lis ened to the five days of reading were wag j ering that Tojo would be sentenced s to death on the gallows, along with ■ some other ardent militar.sts among j the defendants. They figured the . Japanese diploma's would get oti i lighter. 3 "Criminal in the highest degree" was the finding of the court on 3 counts of the indictment charging r conspiracy to wage aggressive war r For the first time the Jananese » attack on Pearl Harbor was eon . detuned legally. The court also gave -. one of the dearest ami most su- - cinct summaries so fag of the pl.it- > tinz and exectl’ion of the atta-k ? which plunged the Pacific into wa ; The scheme was conceived as - early as the slimmer of 19tu the court found It therefore overruled a ] defense plea that the atta< k was i m>t a long planned move but a man eitver seiz« d upon a: the last min ute. The Japanese navy began training for I'earl Harbor in May. 1911. the tribunal decided. In the last days of the troubled peace ill the I’a. ili ■. the Japanese gove, linient carried on peace talks n Washington as a cover for military preparations generally and tie blow at Pearl Harbor in par ieular. While the American and Japanese . diplomats could not agree, the ; court held. Japan wanted to avoid I a tipoff on the impending attack i ami carried on under the guise of I the "peace mission" to Washington. r headed by Saburo Kurusu. i Then on Nov. 26 the Japanese fleet set out for the Hawaiian Is ; lands. At a conference Nov. 3'>. the ( Japanese leaders decided that the delivery of their final note tft the > Uni ed States should not be allow (Turn l« 1»«l 600 Attend School Night For Parents Six hundred parents and guests attended back to school night at the Deca’iir junior-senior high ' school Tuesday, and principal W Guv Brown called it "the best parents' night this school has ever . had “ Mr. Brown cited ’he heavy attendance as "a splendid manifests “ t:on of community interest in c.ur ‘ schools. " The annual fall concert of the junior-senior high school choir, which preceded activities ex- ‘ pressly for parents, was warmly re • ceived by the audience.

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Judge Goldsbor ough Order Is Dissolved Injunction Against Miners Is Dissolved Washington. Nov. 10 — (UP) — j Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsbor- : ough today dissolved the court order which required John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers to bargain with Southern Coal Producers Association. "This is the kind of an order I like to sign." Goldsborough remarked. On two other occasions he fined Lewis and the union a ’otal of $4.93#,000 for refusal to ! obey his orders to call off nationwide coal strikes. The supreme court reduced the I first fine of $3,510,000 to $710,000. The second levy of $1,420,000 is j being appealed by the union. Withrop A. Johns, assistant gen- ! oral counsel of the national labor relations board, requested dismissal of the injunction. He told Goldsborough that the union had •(implied witli the • order to bargain with tlie southerners and a contract had been negotiated. "Since then there has been no refusal to recognize the Southern Coal Producers Association." Johns said. We'ly Hopkins, general counsel for the union, concurred in the motion for dismissal. Goldsliorough issued the injunction last June. Lewis and the union nego fating committee al that time bad refused to seat Joseph L. Moody, presidt nt of the southern association, in a national wa>*e conference. When Lewis walked out. Moodv filed unfair labor charges with 'he labor board alleging refusal to bargain. Under the Taft Harley law. a union is required to bargain Robert N. Denham, labor board general coun el. exercised his authority to seek a court order requiring a union to bargain Goldsliorough issued tne injunc- : tion re'uctantly and only after a personal attempt to mediate the li-pnte between Lewis and Moodv Lewis complied immediately with the order. Truman And Barkley Confer In Florida Sparks Sacculation On Big Decisions Kev West. Fla . Nov. 10—(UP) President Truman's reunion with Vice President-elect Alhen W. Barkley sparked new specula tion today that big decisions about the government are in the making The only official news from the southern white house was that Mr. Truman and Barklev were en iovine a vacation in the warm Florida sun. But it was inevitable that much of their time here would be devoted to discussion of •'dminis ra’ioti policy and changes in the cabinet. About the only missing memtiers of the Democratic hieh command wer» Ren Sam Rayburn of Texas, who will lie speaker of the house when the Democrats assume control of congress in JanuT-. and chairman J. Howard Me Grath of the Democratic national committee McGra’h is due in todav and Ravhnm snon thereafter Rarkl“v. who arrived bv plane from Washington late yeeterdav. insisted he came down to the d ura Ta I'age Tna!

UN Political Committee Makes Charge; Move By Russia Is Voted Down

Several Killed In Waler Tank Collapse Today At Least Five Dead, Several Injured At Riverdale, Illinois Riverdale, ill.. Nov. 19 —(UP)— A 39.000-gallon wooden water tank i smashed through the roof and into I he basement of a six-story cold storage warehouse today, killing several workers and trapping others. authorities reported Cornelius Dore, deputy coroner, said that at least five persons are reported dead and several others injured. At least five persons are in how ’ pitals. Dore said. Firemen in Riverdale, which is # just outside tlie southern city limits of Chicago, said they were first ' informed that a boiler exp’osion in ’ ihe basement weakened the tank ' supports and let it drop onto the 1 j roof. ■ • Other reports said, however, that a 15-foot-long girder collapsed witii e out warning, leiting the tank fall. | '■ Ambulances from Chicago! s Heights. Dolton. Chicago, and firedepartments from nearby commtin- ■ ities were rushed to the scene. r Wi nesses said that the tank came down along the north side ol I tlie building. It crashed through I tlie steel ceiling oi a loading plat form, one witness said, smashed a ( | 20 by 20 foot hole in the building and smashed a maintenance office , into tile basement i Awi ness said that the contents ■ of the tank, which supplied the (Turd To I'agc Three) Farmer's Almanac Sees Long Winter Durham. N. II . Nov. 10 — (UP) I The Old Farmer's Almanac, which I has forecast the weather fol 157 j ' years, predicted today lliat this win , I er won t be as cold as last. But it ' will last longer into March am I ■ there will be frequent storms o! i rain and sleet as well as snow i which will create unusually b y con • ditions." : Farm Bureau Head Opposes Sales Tax I I Higher Gross Income Rate To Pay Bonus Indianapolis. Nov 10 <1 I’ l Hassil E Schenck, president of tlu Indiana Farm Bureau, today recom mended doubling the present gross income tax rate for a period of three years as the best method to finance a state soldiers bonus He said a sales tax. which proved most popular in a referendum would "place an unfair burden on the farmer and the laboring man Schenck, as head--of Indiana s largest farm organization, usually is considered spokesman for th< , i majority of Hoosier farmers Hi-I t address before some Fant I Bureau members today opened the organization's 3"th annual convex tion. . The farm leader said that the , gross income tax should be doubl ed for only three years so Hie tax t would stop automatically without legislative permission "We cannot ignore the results of the referendum on the soldiers bonus." he said, referring to the referendum held last Tuesday in, which Hoosiers voted overwhelm inglv in favor of a state bonus "We live in a democracy and the ’ will of the people must be con ' sidered." he said "We must re | member, however, that, if enacted. | it creates a sl42.tttt».ta»'t bill that | must be paid by- Indiana taxpay. I ers ” "Any exemption from takes which would normally be paid by > soldiers as a means of rewarding them, must be definitely out he . said "This would reward the rich 1 ( Tara To Pace *•»»

Presiding Officer Rev. Dwight R. McCurdy Rev. McCurdy, pastor of the Church of God of this city, will preside at the Wednesday night 'I .-ervices of Spiritual Emphasis week at the Fir t Chi i-ti in church. The Rev. F. 11. Willard, pastor of Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church, will have charge of devotional*. Tlie meet ing will start at 7:39 o clock.

Hold Third Session Os Church Service Spiritual Emphasis Meetings Continue Despite inclement weather ami several conflicting local meetings, a good sized crowd attended the third night s session of Spiritual Emphasis week, sponsored by the Decatur ministerial association at tlie First Christian church Tuesday night. Dr. Ed Harrison, pastor of Wayne Street Methodist church Fort Wayne, was the guest speak er. Dr Garrison was substituting for Dr Chester M< I’heeters. who delivered an address in Philadelphia. Pa last night ami returned to Decatur today Dr Garrison was intioduced by the Rev Lawrence I' Norris, pastor of I Ilion Chapel Evangelical t'nited Brethren church The Rev II .1 Welty, pastor of First Missionary church in Decatur, had charge of devotional*. Prof Paul Halliday, head of the music 1 department of Manchester college, conducted the special music and also Hie congregational singing Serve es will be held again at First Christian church at 7 u clock tonight Dr Mi I’heeters will again be in the pulpit The Rev Dwight McCurdy, pas tor of the Church of God in thicity, will preside at tonights serv ii es and the Rev. ,F II Willard pastor of Bethany Evangelical Vnit (Turn l» I’aise Twer Doubl Cast On All Lobaugh Confessions Doubt Cast After Jury Indictments Fort Wayne. Ind . Nov I'* rfpi Authorities said to lav • hey are ■still investigating" twr of the three murders confessed by Ralph larbangh ladi.-oigh. who fao s a dea’h sentence, alternately has tonfess ed and denied all three slayings He has been granted four stays of execution while his lawyers fight for a new trial Doubt was cast on al! of lav hough's confessions earlier this week when a grand jury indicted two other men for one of the slayings larhaugh had admitted Robert V. Christen. 3S. and Char fat IM-Ison. ."!•». were indicted by th" Allen county grand jury for rhe slaying of Mrs. Dorothea Howard. Lotaugh. in one of his confessing moods, pleaded guiltv in lune. IM7. to the slaving of Mrs Howard. Anna Kuzeff and Wilhe! I I era le l’»B» T»«l

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Three Nations Are Charged As Aiding Gteek Rebels; Down Latest Russ Move ‘ Paris. Nov 19 — (UP) Th* i United Nations poli'ica! commit--1 tee today formally charged three Soviet 'satellites with aiding the Greek rebels, and then voted down a Russian move to force United States troops to leave Greece. By a vote of 48 to 6. the sSnation committee, splitting square- ' ly between tlie Soviet/lind western I blocs, charged Yugoslavia. Albania and Btygaria with threatening 'lie peace ifi the Balkans by aiding the Greek communist forcei of Gen. Markos Vafiiides. and told the three powers to end it. Then a Russian counterproposal to order withdrawal of till foreign troops and military personnel" from Greece was vo'ed , down. 3s to 7. only the Soviet bloc I na'ions supporting it. Adoption of the Russian reso- ’ lution would have meant that tlie ' present fairly large American milij tary mission Io Greece would . have had to leave Wtat strife-torn country. U. S officers and men have been aiding tlie Greek government forces in planning operations against the rebe's. Befor' tlie vote on tlie Russian ! resolution. Yugo lav delegate Ales 'Beider attempted in tlie commit-, , 'ee to prove that the United States 1 and France blocked I scenes gffort to find a more con I eiliatory settlement of the Balkant ! dispute. Beider said that private conI filiation talks had been arranged ' tenta'ively bv Mattric • Cottve De Murville of France and were to ' i have brought representatives of i the I' S . Britain. France. Aus- ' tralitt and Yttgo li'via together a f i few days ai’o in the offices of 11. Jy Eva't of Attsira'ia. president I of 'h' I N general assembly. But I' S delegate John Foster Dulles Pebler (harged, sz tltlled .| »b< plan bv insisting that the poi liti, al committee vote first on Jflie tough re (dutlon condemning J Greece's comm'tltist n ighbors. . I ||« -a d t'oeve De Murville joined II with Dulles in this move. i The resolution charging the i three Russian sate) ites as threat i 'o Balkan peace also txtended th" . i life of the I N special ( oinmik*i >n o'l the Balkans H NSCOID for at ! least a year The vole came after the toughl .st and lonce-t fight the Soviet bloc ever lias waged again-t a I N proposal. Right tip to lit'' ''time for voing the committee ' chamber resounded with cries by : Slav delegates that the action would only worsen the unhappy . situation in the Balkans I The vote was is t. 6. The Sov- ■ ict bloc voted solidly against the resolution. Tlie majority was more than sufficient to assure the sT«ir«» T«» BULLETIN Washington. Nov 10—(UP) —The agriculture department today boosted previous estimates of the 1948 corn croo to a new record high of 3.649.510.COO busheU. Public Offices. Bank And Post Office Will Close Armistice Day Ci’y. roiinty and federal a I ; CS Tern will he all hut suspended Thursday in commemoration of Xmiisti'-e dav City hall and the J -ountv court house w U Ite closed. . I with the exception of the Decatur •Hili e de-cirnon', whi h will carry ' m as iisita' No postal deliver) * J w II t-e made except special delivI' erv The First >’.t'e lank will sus- ■ ■pend Imsiiiess operations. Mila tn . time of the signing of the World War ! a n istice 3# years f ago. vollevs will e tsr-d by squads of linei i m Lesion and Veterans , <>. F reicn W.- s tremhe-s Chn- ’> i'ells will t'll at’l fact rv vbis'les 1 ill ill ‘ !• kviu Fi.i‘ o’ - 1 ■ -er-art- eol the end «t ost hties in The Daily Democrat will publish jas usual.