Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 268, Decatur, Adams County, 12 November 1948 — Page 1

LVI. No. 268.

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■ies Peace Ksion To Be . ■ To Russia iHcretary Marshall f Slys Move Is Only I ■viet Propaganda Xov 12 — (UP) — Sec-1 state George C. Marshall ■ fatly toda- that the United HBi. eiib-sidering sending any to Moscow. gxßi‘ all said > e P° rts of P rOR P ec ’ «. , e direct talks between Presiand Soviet premier grew out of a “very Soviet peace offensive, secretary of state spoke at conference of American this morning, but specithe remarks should not be to however, the U. S. delethe United Nations genErijseinbly partly lifted the ban. fferfreleased remarks which they Ejldlould be attributed to Marsh- ■ mw hall said the “peace mission" Entires in the Russian press EjJlntended only to weaken the of the United States in the cold war. H* Msaid the Kremlin had lost its campaign in this sesthe general assembly hevast majority of the UN ■mlined up solidly behind AnieriEst: assessment of the facts and of the world situation. ■ Wan almost global review of strategy in dealing with Marshall said the I ■friar, r,f Soviet propaganda efforts K|..se general essembly probably of the reasons for Stalin’s charge that the west is tryunlease a new war. holding his first press in almost two months. notice that the United States to continue the Beras long as there is any for W Kropean recovery — In spite of from the Soviet bloc and Communists, the program Hbhtade far great than realized. — He has not talked ■ witt Mr. Truman in any way about from the cabinet, although still harbors bis often exdesire to get out of govern ■s®t service. Marshall has not yet ■■de ant arrangements for return Washington. The U. S. still looks to ■ (■neutral powers in the security for suggestions on ending The source emphasized the problem is in the hands of security council, but did not ■ ■ neat otherwise on conciliation Kwts now being undertaken by general Trygve Lie and Atlantic defense — The ■tt|e is approaching for more im■J® mt discussions on plans for the U. S.. Canada and the western European nations in a treaty. The negotiations will take place soon. — The U. S. is undertak- ■ I Tarn To l>nr S»lrul ■thur L. Berning |M Bock In U. S. |B* r and Mrs. Fred C. Berning. of pecatur. have been noti|V 5v the department of the army ■»' the lardy of their son. Pvt. |Btliur L. Berning, who was killed ■■action in Luxembourg Jan. 27. has been returned to the for burial. body will arrive ( here later funeral services and burial The family resides on U. S. |HP**y ’7, j Ugt north of the en county line. Ifr McPheeters Is »>eaker At Rotary )r Chester A McPheeters. pa-tor ’** Metropolitan Me'hodist Detroit, was ' the guest |W*ker at the weekly meeting of Deca’ur Rotary club Thursday Dr. McPheeters is the for the annual Spiritual BVPhasis meetings, which are beheld by the Protestant church ■ of the city this week The Rev T*"* 18 c Fellers was chairman o’ B 1 • K WEATHER tonißht ,nd Saturday. M ■»7* f ‘* 9 northwest in after- ■ la" 8r «*aninj. Net much ■ ''nje In temperature.

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English'Transport Crashes, Six Dead Liverpool, Eng.. Nov. 12 — (UP) — Six persons were killed when an air transport plunged through a dense fog into the Mersey river last night. One passenger survived. The plane was bound from Dublin to the Isle of Mann, but was diverted front its course by the fog. Communists Order Paris General Strike * Communists Call On Workers Unite Against Government Paris, Nov. 12 —(PU) —Communist leaders called upon France's 20,000,000 workers tonight to unite against the government and ordered a 24-hour general strike in Paris for tomorrow. The Communist call for. united actiop followed the arrest of two Communist deputies yesterday during a four-hour battle between police and Communist-led demonstrators .near the unknown sold'ers' tomb. Ninety-five police were injured in the battle of iron bars. pav.*iig stones and gunfire. One demonstrator was reported wounded by a police bullet and about a scor> of others also were injured. The French Communist party issued its appeal for a united workers’ front in a manifesto protesting the government “acts of illegality and violence." ""fSirious dangers threaten our country," said the manifesto. “We have the right to defend our Republican liberties. We have the right to defend France’s security, independence and peace. “Let us unite as we did in 1934 to bar the road to fascism . . . French men and women: by our union and our action we can and must ensure that the last word (rests with France and the republic." The manifesto accused the government of using fascist methods and “terrorizing and organizing pogroms against Communists. “The Communist party calls on all workers-Communists, Socialists, Catholics. Republicans of all shades and all patriots—to unite to protect the acts of illegality and violence of the government, which is making a bed for General DeGal(Turn Tn Pnire Two) Republican Senate Pledges Cooperation State Republican Senators In Caucus Indianapolis. Nov. 12 — (I P* — The Republican majority in the state senate was pledged today to, a “policy of cooperation" with the Democratic administration. After a three-hour closed caucus yesterday, the 28-member GOP majority suggested that the two narties cooperate on appointment of al’-import“nt committee members in both houses. i The Republicans control the senate 28-21 and will name com mittees there while the Demoera’s will appoint committees in the house. I The GOP sena’ors suggested they be given the right to name their own minority members in •he house and that Democrats have the same right in the senate. Sen. John Van Ness, who was re-elected senate president pro tem and maiority leaedr. said this would lie “for the best interests of the citizens of Indiana. A statement by the senators said: “Recognizing the need for co-1 operation between the two houses of the legislature, since one's majority is Republican and the other Democratic, the Republican ma tority in the senate expresses the hope that a spirit of cooperation between the two house* can he' worked out on the question of appointing members to committee* in the two houses” With Democratic Lt. Gov.-olert John Watkin* presiding in the senate, the Democrats on the surface appeared to hsve the right to name committee chairmen under presen’ senate rules. But Watkin* won’t be fnangur(Tore Te I’M' ■*»•»

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Interest Growing In Union Services Spiritual Emphasis Week Closes Sunday Interest continues to grow at the nightly Spiritual Emphasis meetings, sponsored by the Decatur -ministerial association. Dr. Chester A. McPheeters, guest minister, spoke to another large crowd at Trinity Evangelical Uni’ed Brethren church last night. Tonight’s service will be held again at Trinity church and the Rev. E. E. Isenhower, pastor of First Christian church will preside, and Dr. Gerald Jones, pastor of First Methodist church, will have charge of devotionals. The Rev. H. J. Welty, pastor of First Missionary church preaided Thursday night and’ introduced Dr. McPheeters. Prof. Paul Halliday. Jf Manchester college, had charge of the singing and Rev. Isenhower had charge of devotionals. • Crowds this year have been larger than usual and it is expected that all attendance records will be broken the last thre nights of the services. The same opening hour of 7:30 o'clock will be observed tonight, with the first half hour being reserved for choral and ccngregational singing. Saturady night the meetings will be moved to First Methodist church and Saturday night wi 1 be designated as youth night. The Saturday attendance is expected to set the record for the week and plans have been made to use the Sunday school room of the Methodist church along with the regular church auditorium. The final services of the eightday program will be conducted Sunday night at the First Methodist church and at that time Dr. McPheeters will deliver his final address. Seek Extradition 01 Alleged Slayer Fort Wayne Suspect Is Held In Denver Denver. Nov, 12.-(l’P)-lndiana authorities today prepared extradition proceedings against a Denver grocer indicted for murder in the 1945 rape-slaying of a Fort Wayne. Ind., woman for which another man already has been condemned to die. Police took Robert C Christen. 36. into custody early this week on a telegraphed warrant naming him as a suspect in the slaying of Mrs. Dorothea Howard. 31. Charles Dodson. 30. Memphis. Tenn., an exsoldier. was indicted at the same time on the same charge. Christen operated a drug store in Fort Wayne and came to Denver in August. 1945. with his mother after selling out. He was connected to the Howard when his fingerprints and picture were sent to the federal bureau of investigation after his arrest here on a minor larceny complaint. Two Fort Wayne detective*, inspector Bernard L. Garmire and detective Sgt. Howard Walker, said they would seek speedy extradition of Christen to Indiana Ralph Lobaugh. 30. already has been sentenced to die for the slaying Lobaugh "confeMed” the slaying then repudiated and appealed his case to the Indiana state sa preme court. His execution has ( T«r« TuVaae Seveal

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No Verification Os Presence Os Submarine Pearl Harbor. Nov. 12 — (UP) — The United States navy today abandoned its search «Jr a submarine reported by one of its ships to be prowling near the Pearl Harbor 1 navy base. t “The search developed no verifig cation of the presence of a submarj. ine," the navy said. •J Both Parties Plan ,11 , For Veterans Bonus e! t Schricker Seeking Plan For Payment r 11! Indianapolis, Nov. 12 —(UP) — Democrats and Republicans, both ,f convinced there must be a bonus j for Hoosier veterans, were off in (1 ( a race today to get full credit for j. | their side. cl Both parties have accepted the | voters' • verdict in the Nov. 2 ref- >.' erendum that they wanted a bonus. ' And both had plans to do somen thing about it. t . Gov.-elect Henry F. Schricker I! sent out letters to a number of labor, veteran, and civic groups „ asking them to suggest a suitable ( plan for payment of a bonus. f Meanwhile, it was learned that j the Republican majority in the 1 state senate hope to steal the Democrats thunder by tossing a 8 GOP bonus bill in the hopper on • the opening day of the 86th gen1 eral assembly Jan. 6. ! Schricker in his letters said the j referendum result “must be and is regarded by me as a mandate 8 ’. . . to the incoming administration ' to take such steps as may be neces r sary” to provide a bonus. The Republican platform pledges ■ I the party to do what the people 1 want. And the 28 senators yester- ’ day agreed that they want a bonus. The senators hinted they would 1 send a bonus bill to the Democrai tic-controlled house and let the Democrats worry about how to raise the money. The Democratic platform flatly pledged a bonus. Schricker asked that the labor. 1 veterans, and civic leaders help “solve this problem.” Voters recommended that a sales tax be imposed. but neither party was expected to take an enthusiastic view i of this method. Sen. John Van Ness. R . Valpa- ‘ raiso. who was re-elected president ’ pro tem of the senate, said yesterr day that Republicans "won’t block ? a bonus bill.” ’' Later, however, it was underr stood. Van Ness suggested that the 1 GOP have a bonus bill ready for the first day of the session and the • senators agreed. t While the Republicans plotted. ! Schricker’s letters were on their I way. The governor-elect pointed ’ out that “it is obvious that because • of constitutional limitations the ■. state can neither create an indebt-; edness nor enter into any contract » lT«ra To P«we Tn<-“ r r Bluffton Pastor To ' Speak To Ministers 1 The Rev. O. Wayne Paulen. pas , tor of the First Methodist church of 1 Bluffton, will speak at a mee’ing of the Adams county ministerial as . rociation at the Pleasant Mills Methodist church. Rev Paulen attended the world council of church- ' es at Amsterdam last summer and ( then traveled extensively through 1 out Europe. He will speak on the effects of i the war on the live* of the people , as well as the damage to the countries and citiea. All ministers of ths 1 j county are ur o ed to attend.

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Special Session Os Congress Is Sough* Sen. Bridges Urges More Aid To China Washington, Nov. 12 — (UP) — Sen. Styles Bridges. R.. N. H.. today urged President Truman to 1 call an immediate special session ■ of congress to provide more aid for "desperate" China. Bridges said in a statement that I Mr. Truman should recall congress at once to receive the “real I facts" on China and to rush additional aid to the nationalist government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek. Bridges is chairman of both the sena'e appropriations committee 1 and the joint congressional 1 "watchdog" group which checks on the foreign aid program. He said the situation in China has become “so desperate that a positive and effective American aid program is urgently needed to prevent the communists from taking over (he whole of China lock, s’oek and barrel.” Bridges’ statement was made as Republicans stepped up a drive to demand a special aid-to-China congressional session and to put I Mr. Truman on the spot on that | issue. At the same time Bridges announced that he was calling his j “watchdog" committee together on Dec. 2 to consider both the European anti China aid programs. The Republicans themselves could call a special session of the present congress if their leaders should agree it was desirable. The house and senate could be called hack by the joint action of speaker Joseph W. Martin. Jr.. I senate president Arthur H. Van j denherg. and the Republican floor leaders of both chambers. The present 80th congress is Republican dominated. The Dem-j ocratic dominated 81st congress i | will meet Jan. 3. Although a group of Republican <'('(»•« 1 ** I’nur Tw»l Charge Monopoly To Six Corporations General Electric Indicted By Jury Cleveland. Nov 12 — (UP) — The federal grand jury here today re turned criminal'indictments against six corporations, including General Electric and Westinghouse, charring’ them with monopolizing the J10.000.000-a-year street lighting industry. Other companies named as defendants included: Line Material company of Milwaukee: Union Metal Manufacturing company. Canton. O.: Pacific Union Metal company. Los Angeles, and Holophane company of New York (with its main plant at Newark. O.) Two companies named as coconspirators on a lesser scale were the American Concrete Corporation of Chicago and the Taper Tube com nany of San Francisco. The indictments listed four separate violations of the Sherman AntiTrust act: conspiracy to restrain trade, conspiracy to monopolize, at- . tempt to monopolize and actual monopolization. The defendants B also were charg ed with fixing prices, allocating markets for themselves on non i competitive bids. The case grew out of a long, na tionwide FBI investigation and a <T»rw Te Pawe Seven)

To/o, Former Japanese Premier, Six Others To Face Death By Hanging

Accuse Russians Os Preparing For War Charges Made To UN By U. S., Britain Paris, NAv. 12 — (UP) — The United States and Britain charged in the United Nations today that Russia is preparing for war. but warned her that the west never will accept “peace at any price.” Both Frederick Osborn of the United States and British minister of state Hector McNeil accused Russia of maintaining large armed forces and deliberately concealing their exact size while the western world disarmed after World War 11.•They were opposing in the UN , political committee a Soviet pro posal that the big five cut their armed forces by one third during the coming year. Osborn charged Russia with attempting to unleash world revoluI tion. Russia, he said, has at least five times as many combat troops as all of western Europe combinr ed. ’ Said McNeil: “We are willing to have peace with the Soviet Union any time she wan’s it, but we will not have 1 peace at any price. That is damned by our own experience." He presumably was referring to 1 the Munich agreement under 1 which Germany carved up Czecho--1 Slovakia while the west stood by. ’ McNeil asked why the Soviet ’ Union maintained an armed force • more than half its wartime streng’h while the United Kingi dom. for instance, reduced its • forces to less than one sixth their i wartime size. Osborn said Russia alone of all the nations is waging a shrill pro- ! paganda campaign, directed from I the Kremlin, to prepare the Soviet I people for war. He said that the Soviets are devoting 16 percent of their national income to munitions and the support of their vast military forces, as against 94 percent of the national income of the United States (Turn To Pure **K I — Laymen Sponsors Os Lutheran Hour Rally Dr. Walter A. Maier Speaks Here Sunday Officials of the Decatur-Van i Wert zone of the Lutheran Lay 1 men’s league will greet Dr. Walter j A. Maier when he arrives here Sun I day after broadcasting his nation wide Lutheran Hour program from the studios of WKJG. Fort \\ ayne. The welcoming party will be made up of Herman Kruekeberg Reinhard Werling. Louis Jacobs, the Rev. E. T Schmidtke. pastor of the Friedheim church, and the Rev. Edgar P. Schmidt, pastor of the Zion Lutheran church. The two clergymen will act as liturgists during the afternoon rally at the Decatur junior-senior high school Dr. Maier, whose radio sermons are heard by an estimated 20.000.000 listeners, is a professor of ancient languages and Old Testament interpretation at Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary. St. Louis. He received his Ph. D. from Harvard university and his LL. D. from Valparaiso university Dr. Maier’s popularity —he fill ed the immense Hollywood Bowl last month —is due to his down-to-earth application of the old gospel of the Christ crucified for the sins of the world. He pulls no punches in denouncing sin and evil in any form, and is an avowed enemy of atheistic Communism. The Lutheran hour rally here will begin at 2:30 o’clock Sunday ! afternoon. No admission will be i charged, but an offering will be i received to further the global ; broadcasting activities of the Lutheran Hour. After the rally those in the audience who desire to meet the dynamic preacher personally | will have an opportunity to do so

Chinese Claim Smashing Win Against Reds Chinese Government Claims Communist Forces Are Routed Nanking. Nov. 12. —(PU) — The Chinese government today claimed its troops routed nine Communist columns and three brigades in a : smashing victory 33 miles east of Suchow. the vita) railway city guarding the northern approach to Nanking. The report of the victory, carried by Central Daily News, said ■ a seven-square-mile area around Changhuang was strewn with an estimated 3(1.000 Communist dead. Some 40.000 Communists were . captured and another 4,000 were disarmed. Central said. The rest ; were negotiating for surrender. The victory came after a battle that raged from noon yesterday until early this morning. Government . planes hammered all Communist . artillery positions in the area con- > tinually. stopping only when . ground forces said they wanted to disarm the defeated Communists. ( Meanwhile, the government de- . dared martial law in Suchow as other Communists continued their march on the city from the west. Despite government claims that the Communists were “totally routed” in a battle near Huangkuo, 50 miles west of Suchow. four columns under Gen. Chen Yi were reported by-passing government defense lines. The Communists were said to be ! moving south across the east-west Lunghai raidroad. At last reports, they reached the vicinity of Yungcheng. 40 miles west of Suchow. Meanwhile, along the eastern sector of the Suchow front, four Communist columns were checked in an advance along the Grand Canal. At Tsingtao the U. S. consulate advised American civilians to get out unless they had compelling rea(Turn Tn I’nae 15 Germans Hanged As War Criminals Landsberg. Germany. Nov. 12 — (UP) — Fifteen guards and officials at the Mauthhausen concentration camp were hanged today in another of a long series of war crimes executions. The Germans were convicted by a U. S. war crimes tribunal of slaying thousands at the notorious camp, including American and British par I at roopers. The mass execution brought to 185 the number hanged for war climes here. Fifty more were awaiting their turn. Escaped Murderer Is Sought In Area Local Authorities Alerted In Search City and county authorities this afternoon were hunting Eddie Griffith. 32. escaped murderer, who eluded Fort Wayne police early today when his companion was ar rested in a stolen car parked along the highway. The pair escaped last November 5 from the Washington state prison at Walla Walla, and both were serving life terms. When police questioned the pair in the automobile. Griffith ran away into dense foliage, where he could not be found. Early this afternoon local lawenforcement authorities were alerted to be on .the lookout for a 1941 Ford car. which may have been stolen by Griffith, alias Ted Jack tnderson. for his getaway. Griffith’s description: Brown hair, grey green eyes, fair complexion, slender build, age 32.1 height 5’ Id.’’ weight 158 pounds. I

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16 Are Sentenced To Life Imprisonment; Shorter Sentences For Remaining Two Tokyo, Nov. 12 — (UP) — The architect of the 1941 “day of infamy" at Pearl Harbor, Hideki Tojo. was sentenced today to death by hanging for his leading role in the Japanese murder of millions. The international war crimes tribunal which found the former Japanese premier guilty also as- ’! sessed the death penalty against 1 six of his co-defendants. gave life sentences to 16 more, and impos- ; ed shorter prison terms on two. All 25 of the Japanese leaders who figured in the longest trial 1 in history were found guilty in some degree. Japan as a nation df agressors 1 was damned by the 11-nation court 1 in perhaps the strongest terms 1 ever levied against a people. The Japanese were branded as slayers of millions in an aggressive pattern of conquest. Her soldiers even to officers rank were condemned as canibals and as perpetrators of every manner of outrage and torture. No date was set for execution of Tojo and his six conspirators ( in mass murder, but Gen. Douglas i MacArthur, supreme commander of occupation forces in Japan and the final court of appeal for the i condemned men. indicated that . swift action would be taken. In a statement issued within minutes after the sentences were pronounced, MacArthur demanded i that- all petitions in behalf of the . defendants reach him by Nov. 19, and he summoned representatives of all the allied nations to meet with him three days later to con- ,| sider the verdicts and sentences. Not one of the Japanese defendants spoke a word as they were paraded, one after another, into the dock to hear their sentences pronounced by black-robed Sir William Webb of Australia, the stern president of the war crimes court. They had no time to speak. The whole routine of sentencing took just 20 minutes —less than a minute per man. The guilty verdicts and the sentences against each man represented the majority opinion of the tribunal. But several separate opinions, while not read, were filed. Sir William himself in an opinion placed on record a charge that Emperor Hirohito was “the leader in the crime" of Japanese aggression and warmaking. He noted that Hirohito was available for trial but "had been granted immunity." The Indian justice of the court dissented entirely. In a 240.000w0rd word opinion, he said all the defendants should have been acquitted ami pleaded that the world neods "generous magnanimity and understanding charity.” French and Dutch justices also dissented in part, while agreeing with most of the majority findings. The sentence pronounced upon Toio was typical of the words In which the guilty men heard the judgment of their conquerors: "The accused. Toio. Hideki: on •he counts of the indictment on which you have been convicted, the international military tribunal for the far east sentences you to (Turn T»» Put* Alex Campbell Named Indiana U. Trustee Indianapolis. Nov. 1* — (UP) — \lex Campliell of Fort Wayne todav was appointed successor to the late William A. Kunkel of Fort Warne on the l>oard of trustees of 'ndiana university. The luiard recommended the annointment to governor Gates and the governor approved. Ca:npl>ell Is assistant U. S. attorney general and a 'ormer federal district attorney for the northern Indiana district He will serve the unexpired term of Kunkel, publisher of the Fort Warn* JournalGazette. whkh extended to Jan. 1. |1950.