Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 269, Decatur, Adams County, 13 November 1948 — Page 1

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MP UN LEADERS URGE RERUN SETTLEMENT

[or Ports Bled Up By M Strike Il Longshoremen tike, Embargo Led On Freight ■ York. Nov. 13 - (UP) - A ■of 45.000 AFL longshoremen K rv major port on the AtlantK (ia rd out of business today. | walkout, which began officI, 12 01 a.in., virtually com- ■ the'tie up of all shipping on ■tlantic and Pacific ooasts. ■tnjslioreinen on the Pacific ■have been on strike for 73 I V.S. ports open were those on ■if coast and that part of the L seaboard south of HampEads, Va. Eight embargo already cut off Kort shipments to Boston and Erk and was expected to be ■ed to the entire eastern seafl Monday. Mayor William I rer of New York was hurryI me from a California vacation I !e an active part in settling I spute. I walkout of all AFL longI nen from Portland, Me., to I ton Roads was an extension E wildcat strike which has Ep the ports of Boston and ■York for three days. Eph P. Ryan, president of the Eational Longshoremen’s Aston (AFL), called the strike [the men overwhelmingly re- | a new contract providing a E hourly wage increase and I benefits. ■as the first time in the his|f the union that a strike had ■sanctioned by top union officprevious strikes had been con[to wildcat walkouts. |t strike cut off all shipping, ■lng vital Marshall plan aid kropean countries. Only U. S. | ships, carrying supplies to ■ overseas were moving. ■y ocean liners have been div[to Halifax. Special boat trains [bringing passengers to New [ Shipping men feared that ■ion of ships to gulf ports ■ bring about an extension of [trike to that area. ■ 28,000 Gulf of Mexico longInieii were expected to sign a ■act with gulf shipowners soon. Kill longshoremen usually foljtbe lead of east coast dock[ers but union leaders said they io! anticipate any strike at this Ire was some speculation that ■dent Truman would intervene r walkout but officials pointed pat he already had done every- ■ possible under the Taft-Hart-pw to avert the tie-up. An inlion under the labor law had boned the walkout for 80 days, hired last Tuesday. I that time the union negotiatMunittee had accepted the 10I offer from the shipowners, ft I thia offer that was turned ► hy the rank and file. Ryan r the strike officially after it e'ident the men would reject r o** longshoremen have rep to their original demands for pent hourly wage increase. . potianons between the shipr" and the union have been r D0,( an d no future meetings r scheduled. However, Cyrus r head of the federal mediaparrice. said everything pos- ■ would be done to settle the P* He indicated that an early pF would be made to get the I w together for a conference. P* «tike caught some 200 vesI •ew York harbor. About 60 r® * We fcatly to sail. Many | 1 «r» To si,, n Representative re Next Thursday e of the area rent L at tl >e Decatur post Thursday from 9:30 L * M pm. to conduct interr* W control for the conjT” eonnty' rest kl Wtm MDOuaced today by L Pah tr** director-attorney Wayne office. I c . weather L *9 taday, preceded by E " extreme east and Wtt «i W *" ow extreme f this forenoon. end somewhat

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Pres. Truman Nol To Call GOP Congress Await New Congress On Chinese Request Key Wast. Fla.. Nov. 13 — (UP) —' President Truman has no intention of calling the Republican congress into special session to provide iiiwe assistance for China, aides said today. They said the administration will i wait until the Democratic congress is seated Jan. 3 before taking any action on the request of Chiang KaiShek’s government for additional arms and ammunition. Sen. Styles Bridges, R„ N. H„ urged yesterday that Mr. Truman summon the legislators back to Washington immediately. The chairman of the congressional “watchdog" committee on foreign aid expressed fear that the Communists would take over China “lock, stock and barrel" unless more American aid were sent at pice. Bridges' proposa’ got little attention at the southern White House where Mr. Truman and his staff are enjoying a two-week vacation. The president with Mrs. Truman, daughter Margaret and sbme friends planned to visit historic Fort Jefferson in the Gulf of Mexico today. Keep Legal Weapon Washington. Nov. 13 — (UP) — President Truman will keep a legal weapon to deal with John L. Lewis, even if the Taft-Hartlev law is repealed. administration officials said today. These officials said the Democratic congress will write into any new labor law a provision for dealing with strikes that affect the national health and safety. There have been suggestions that any new labor statute set up a voluntary "cooling off” period and fact-finding procedures, similar to those in the railway labor act, when a strike threatens to bring about r a national emergency. However, Mr. Truman is expected to ask for some power — presumably authority to seek an injunction —against any union which i refuses to use the voluntary proceI dures before striking. Lewis, president of the United Mine workers, j has defied the Taft-Hartley law in . his fights with the coal mine own- [ ers. Injunctions and the threat of I injunctions from a federal court, i however, hale been used successfulI ly to keep tje miners at work. I f Four Teen-Agers Are Killed In Accident L Brookvill*. Ind.. Nov. 13—(UP) , —Four teen-age youths from In- | dianapolis were killed last night ' when their borrowed car smashed 1 head-on into a truck five miles east | of Andersonville. The victims, identified by papers on their bodies, were Charles Morjton, 16, John Cory. 16; Henry I George, 17; and Robert Linzie, Jr. | The truck driver. Delbert Mosier, also of Indianapolis, told state police the car. believed driven by i Morton, rounded a curve on the left side of U. S. 52 at high speed, and struck his truth head-on. I Three Rail Unions Accept 10-Cent Hike All Os Operating Unions Take Boost Chicago. Nov. 13. —(FP1 — The railroad industry moved another step closer to labor peace today as three more key unions accepted a third round wage increase of 10 cents an hour. Top officers and general chairmen of the brotherhood of locomotive engineers, the brotherhood of locomotive firemen and enginemen and the switchmen’s union of North America decided to accept the railroads' offer late yesterday But the nation s rail network still fares the threat of a strike by 16 unions representing 1.000.000 nonoperating employes. However, all of the "big five", operating brotherhoods, composed, of the men who really run the trains, had agreed to accept the 10cent offer. Prior to yesterday s acceptance by the engineers, firemen and switchmen, the order of railway conductors and the brotherhood of railway conductors agreed to the 10-cent terms last month. Acceptance was voted by the engineers. firemen and switchmen after a twoday closed meeting at(Tara Ta Paar Flvr)

UN Mediator To Order Truce For Palestine Dr. Ralph Bunche To Order Demilitarized Area In Palestine Paris, Nov. 13 — (UP) — The United Nations mediator for Palestine, Dr. Ralph Bunche, today will order the Israeli and Egyptian armies to establish a demilitarized “no man’s land" between their armies in the Negev, it was announced officially. A seven-nation subcommittee of the security council approved Bunche’s plan today, and the American acting mediator prepared to send his instructions immediately to the warring factions. His order will establish “truce lines” which would keep the Egyptian forces and those of the Jewish state separated uhtil a more permanent settlement could be developed. It was believed here that the order would be fully acceptable to the Egyptians, but it generally was taken for granted that the Israeli would not conform to it. Israeli leaders have said that they will not give up an inch they hold in the Negev, the desert area of southern Palestine, except to a superior armed force. The exact outlines of Bunche’s plan still had not been announced. But there were strong indications that it would call for the Israeli io withdraw from considerable areas of the Negev which they won swiftly in mid-October fighting which allegedly was touched off when Egyptian guns opened tire on an Israeli supply column. It was believed that the Egyptians would be directed to hold approximately their present lines, and the area from which the Israeli would be told to withdraw would be designed as the demilitarized “no man's land." Bunche’s order, when it goes to the two nations later today, will provide major test of security council authority in Palestine. If the Israeli refuse to withdraw according to the plan, the security council sub-committee is authorized to study possible punitive measures against the Jewish state. These measures could involve economic and political sanctions and even the threat of the use of armed forces against them. « Communist Strike In Paris Fizzles Non-Communistic Unions Ignore Call Paris, Nov 13 - (UP) — A Communist ordered 24-hour general strike in Paris crippled transporta- • tion services and deprived the cap- | ital of newspapers todav but otheri wise had little effect. j Non-Communist unions ordered their members to ignore the strike order, and by noon it was evident that only a small minority of Paris workers had heeded it. The strike was called by the Communist union of Paris syndicate in protest against alleged police brutality in a bloody battle on the Champs Elysees during an Armis'ice Day celebration. Two Communist deputies were arrested. The Metro or subway service was cut to three or four trains an hour. They were manned by non-Commun-ist crews. One line was knocked I out entirely. Only about 10 percent I of the normal number of buses were running. The s’reets were clogged with cars and bicycles, and with hund- . (Tars To P«ae Tbrrrl Prepare To Extradite Christen For Trial Denver. Nov 13 —(UP) —Indiana authorities prepared today to exI tradKe Robert C. Christen. 36- ■ year-old Denver grocer, to Fort Wayne. Ind., for trial in the three-year-old murder of Mrs. Dorothea , Howard * The Indiana officers, headed by Bernard L. Garmie inspector for the Fort Wayne police department, were unsuccessful in attempts to I talk Christen into waiving extradition

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• Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, November 13, 1948

To Close Week’s Services

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Rev. William C. Feller

Rev. Feller, pastor of Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, will preside at the closing services of Spiritual Emphasis week Sunday night at First Methodist church, and Rev. Gillander, pastor of First Presbyterian church, will have charge of devotionals. Large crowds have attended all sessions.

Spiritual Emphasis Week Closes Sunday Tonight Is Special Service For Youth Young people of Decatur wilt be honor guests at "the seventh session of Spiritual Emphasis week at 7:30 olclock tonight at the First Methodist church. Special music for the occasion will be in charge of Prof. Paul Halliday and Dr. Chester A. McPheeters will have an address of interest to both the young and old. Another large crowd heard Dr. McPheeters at Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church Friday night and tonight, the meetings move to Methodist church, where they will be concluded Sunday night. The Rev. E. E. Isenhower, pastor of the First Christian church presided at the Friday night session, and Dr. Gerald Jones, pastor of First Methodist, had charge ot devotionals. Tonight, the Rev. John Chambers, pastor of Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church will preside, and the Rev. H. Weaver, student pastor of Nuttman Avenue United Brethren church, will have charge of devotionals. On Sundaj* night, the Rev. William C. Feller, pastor ot Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, and president of the Decatur ministerial association, sponsoring group of the meetings, will preside at the closing session. The Rev. A. C. E. Gillander, new pastor at the First Presbyterian church, will have charge of devotionals. Large crowds have attended each of the meetings and it is believed by those in charge that tonight and tomorrow tiight will break all at(Turn Tn Pniro Four! Farm Bureau Asks Price Protection Ask Law Governing Livestock Prices Indianapolis, Nov. 13 — (UP)— The Indiana Farm Bureau today asked for a federal law to prevent livestock prices from falling drastically while farmers are lined up at stockyards with their hogs or cattie. • • The 238 delegates to the bureau's convention (approved a resolution urging creation of a committee to study legislation to firevent more than a 25-cent fluctuation in prices during a one-day period. It was one of 48 resolutions adopted before the convention closed yesterday. The delegates also re-elected two vice-presidents and named seven delegates to the Amer-! ican Farm Bureau convention. The price fluctuation resolution pointed out that similar controls have protected grain sellers for years. “Fanners can lose hundreds of dollars when prices fall suddenly just because they picked the wrong day to bring their livestock to market.” said one delegate. Renamed as first vice-president was Larry Brandon of Auburn. Mrs. Russell Cushman of Fortville was re-elected second vice-president.: President Haasil Schenck still has a year to serve on a two-year term. The three officers qualify auto(Tm To l*a K e Fear)

Rev. A. C. E. Gillander

BULLETIN

Nov. 13—(UP)— Secretary of state George C. Marshall announced today that he had made no decision to resign from the cabinet Jan. 20. Marshall issued a brief statement as a result of a story in the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune today. It said Marshall “still clings to his original intention to resign from the cabinet toward the close of President’s Truman’s first term in office." Hoosier Democrats Plan Conferences Study Suggestions Os GOP Cooperation Indianapolis, Nov. 13. — (UP)— Indiana Democrats today delayed an answer to a suggestion by Republican senators for “cooperation” in the state legislature until they have "time to think it over." The Democrats scheduled three meetings next week at which the subject was expected to be discussed. The 28 GOP senators who will con'rol the upper house pledged themselves to cooperate, at least in the naming of committees in the legislature. But the Democrats, still flush over their sweeping victory Nov. 2, weren't ready to concede anything. “Naturally the Republicans want to cooperate," said one Democrat. “But we’ll have to think it over a while. We don’t have to go too far.” « • The GOP senators suggested ear. lier this week that an agreement be reached whereby they could name minority members to committees in the Democratic-house and the Democrats could do likewise in the Republican senate. The Democrats in the house andthe 21 senators will hold their! first caucus next Thursday. The | 11 newly-elected state officials will confer Monday and the Democratic state committee meets Wednesday. Ou' of these three sessions is expected to come the 4>asis of the Democratic legislative strategy. Gov.-elect Henry F. Schricker and state chairman Ira Haymaker will address all three sessions. The biggest immediate problem-patronage-also win be discussed. Job-seekers are jamming Heymaker's office daily. Rumors are flying about anointments to key positions in the new administration. So far. Democrats have kept quiet on their plans. Apparently caught without definite plans to handle patronage by the widespread Democratic victory, the par ty chieftains hope to work out many of the problems at next week's meetings.” Haymaker visited state' treasurer Frank Millis yesterday and told him employes in that office would be given 3«-day notices State auditor-elect James Propst and diaries Fleming, new secretary of state, have already said they will give workers at least two-weeks notice. But lack of qualified personnel to take over mahv key state Jobs at comoaratively low salaries mav force the Detnocra's to hat*t on to some GOP workers.

Two Highest Officials Os UN Urge Four Powers To Begin Immediate Talks

Lutheran Hour Rally Sunday Afternoon Dr. Walter A. Maier Is Featured Speaker Dr. Walter A. Maier, famous radio preacher, will be the featured speaker at the Lutheran Hour rally in the Decatur juniorsenior high school aduitorium Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The rally is sponsored by the Lutheran laymen’s league of the DecaturVan Wert zone. No admission will be charged, although an offering will be received to further the world-wide broadcasing activities of the Lutheran here by Herman Krueckeberg. 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 of Decatur. Organist will be Edgar Nordbrock, school principal and director of music at Emmanuel Lutheran church, Fort Wayne route 7. A Wurlitzer organ has been installed expressly for the rally. The invocation and benediction will be given by the Revs. Schmidtke and Schmidt. Choral music will be provided by the Concordia high school girls' glee club, of Fort Wayne, directed by Miss Olga Hvizdak. Following is the complete program for the rally: Organ prelude—“A Mighty Fortress," C. F. Engelbrecht. Invocation —"In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” Hymn by the assembly—"A Mighty Fortress," Martin Luther, 1529. The Lection —Psalm 2. Choir anthem —“Praise Our God Who Reigns in Heaven," BachTillinghast. The Lection —Matthew 28. 16-20. Hymn by the assembly—“ The Church’s One Foundation,” Samuel S. Wesley, 1864. The rally address—Dr. Walter A. Maier: “Time is short (1 Cor. 7, 291; “Go quickly, and tell (Matt. 28. 7). Choir anthem —“Let Us Rejoice All Ye Faithful,” Graun-Saur. Organ offertory— “Offertory in E," Theodor Dubois. The offerings; the rally day prayer; the Lord's prayer; the benediction; silent prayer: organ postlude—" Postlude in F," Alexander Guilmant.

China Communists Open New Assault Battle Positions Reported Obscure Nanking. Nov. 13.—(UP)- Chi nese Communist forces opened a new attack west of Hsuchow today, field dispatches reported, in an apparent bid to flank the stubborn Nationalist defenses of the Kiangsu rail hub and flood down along the approaches to Nanking. Late reports on the contused struggle over a broad stretch around Hsuchow said four Communist columns were trying to swing around government positions west of the city and push southward toward the capital. The columns were among those described as “completely routed" by government troops in the earlier fighting. Another nine Communist columns and three brigades were reported routed Jo-odd miles east of Suchow. The battle positions were obscure all around the strategic town which the nationalists call the “gateway to Nanking.” some 20fl miles to the southeast. They ap lieared to have shifted considerably in battles of the last few days, reported by the government to involve 1.000.000 men- the biggest engagement ever fought in China. Government reports from Hsuchow said Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's men still held the upper hand. But the conflicting (Tara Ta Page Mvl

C-45 Training . Plane Crashes, t Two Men Killed ■ Air Force Trainer Falls Early Today Near Attica, Ind. Attica, Ind., Nov. 13—(UP) —A j C-45 air force training plane crash- ( ed near here today, killing two ( crew members, police announced. The plane left Chanute Field, , 111., early today for Bolling Field, Washington, D. C. The cause of the crash was not known. , Police chief Lavon Carson said two bodies had been found in the wreckage of the plane. He said he understood that the plane had carried only the two crew members. The crash occurred near a state highway, eight miles southeast of here. A farmer, who was not immediately identi ied, found the wreckage on his land early today. The plane, a twin-engined Beechcraft, left Field at 1:54 a. m. (CST) and had enough fuel for four hours and 30 minutes of flying. It had scheduled to arrive at Bolling Field at 5;29 a. m. (CST). The farmer said that he heard what he thought was thunder during the night. He said that when he went out this morning he found the plane. Authorities studied the possibility fog may have caused the accident. Two traffic accidents not more than 15 miles from the crash scene a few hours before the plane fell were attributed to fog. But Indianapolis airport weather bureau officials said ground visibility at nearby Terre Haute was 12 miles at 3:30 a. m., near the tinje the plane is thought to have crashed. The plane crashed on the John , Crawford farm, according to authorities at Crawfordsville. They said the wreckage was strewn over a field. State K.C. Secretary To Speak Here Monday i William Zahn, of Huntington. state secretary of the Knights of Columbus, will speak at the K. of C. hall Monday night’ on the Gibault Home for boys at Terre Haute. Mr. Zahn is making a tour of Knights of Columbus lodges in the interest of the Gihault Home, which is sponsored by the state j council of the lodge. John Kintz, grand knight, will be chairman of the meeting. Brother Os Decatur Woman Dies Friday Leyse Funeral To Be Held Tomorrow William Leyse, 77. lifelong resident of Wells county, died at 2:3<> pm. Friday at his home three miles south of Bluffton. He suffered a stroke Oct. 26. He was a member of the First Evangelical and Reformed church at Bluffton. Surviving are his wife, the former Bertha Kaehrn: three daugh- , ters. Miss Bernice Leyse. at home. Mrs. Everett Hare of Uniondale and Mrs. Jessie Dyson of Geneva. , one granddaughter; three sisters. , Mrs. Frank Peterson of Decatur. , Mrs. Albert Geisel of near Decatur i and Mrs. Jesse Shafer of Ossian and two brothers. Samuel Leyse . of near Decatur and Jake Leyse o* . near Bluffton. Funeral services will b» held at t 2:30 n m Sunday at the church in Blnffton. the Rev. Matthew Worih- . man officiating. Burial will he tn , the Kim Grove c®metery. The body . will be removed from the Jahn , funeral home to the residence this afternooft. -

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Lie, Evatt Joint Letter Asks Four Great Powers Meet To Settle Crisis Paris, Nov. 13 -- I UP) — The two highest officials of the United Nations today called upon Russia and the western powers to settle the Berlin crisis in immediate fourpower talks. In an unprecedented joint letter, UN secretary-general Trygve Lie and Australia's H. V. Evatt, president of the general assembly, urged the four great powers to begin immediate conversations looking to settlement of the cold war over the German capital. The two top UN officials sent their appeal to the Delegates of the United States, Britain. France and Russia, and urged them to send it on directly th President Truman, prime minister Clement R. Attlee, premier Henri Queuille and premier Josef Stalin. The note-told the four powers that "every day that the deadlock over Berlin continues, the danger to the peace and security of-all nations continues undimished.” Lie and Evatt carried their case for settlement of the crisis resulting from e Soviet blockade of the western sectors of Berlin directly to the opposing powers after indications that there was little hope for any early end of the dispute. Un delegates had taken it for granted that secretary of state George C. Marshall's warning yesterday against a Soviet “peace offensive” had smashed hopes for any compromise in the near future. I.ie and Evatt had been reported discouraged by what they considered Marshall's brush-off of their conciliation efforts, and it was understood Lie also had been advised by Argentina's Juan A. Bramuglia, who has led small-nation efforts to mediate the dispute, to steer clear of the Berlin issue. Tne two leaders apparently decided upon a las'-ditch direct attempt to bring the leaders of the four powers together and seek an agreement which would end the which has risen steadily for alfnost half a year. ' in their letter addressed to the four delegations, Lie and Evatt said in effect that a settlement of the dispute was possible if the big four powers really wan'ed one. By inference. they indicated belief that the western powers — the United States. Britain and France —should abandon their stand that they will not negotiate with Russia “under duress of the blockade.' The western powers have held tnat lifting of the Russian road, rail and barge blockade of the German cap! al must lie the forerunner ot negotiations to settle other matters in dispute, notably the question of circulation of currency in Berlin. Lie and Evatt said that “fear ot pn other war is crippling the effort of all nations to repair »he damage of the last war and return once more to the ways of peace.” "The work of the general assembly and of the United Nations as a whole in every field of endeavor is being delayed and undermined." cTun To P«se Five I Classes Planned In Religious Leadership The annual interdenominational school of leadership education, which has been sponsored by the i Decatur ministerial association, has been scheduled for January 4, 6. 11. 13. 18 and JO. Rev. F. H. ■ Willard, chairman of the commit- . tee on religious education an- > nounc-ed today. Five classes are being arranged which will give . valuable aid to officers and teach- . ers in the Sunday schools. r Classes far Sunday school superintendents. parents of scholars and » for those interested in audio-visual r education are being planned. It is expected that the faculty will it* I elude experienced instructors from i other cities. Detailed information - as to the classes, faculty and i place will be sent to the various r churchei in the near future. 1 Other members of the committee s are Dr. Gerald Jones and the Rev. John Chambers.