Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 275, Decatur, Adams County, 20 November 1948 — Page 1

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INE ARE DEAD IN GREAT PLAINS STORM

Wipeline Skis Hurl jßline Explodes , f U r Seymour Last |Kht, Seek Cause ' !>. Ind.. Nov. 20 - (UP)— sought today to learn the ■K an explosion on the big KHural gas pipeline that ingß persons and spread fire acres of farm and exploded last night sKasts that were heard 25 ay . it was believed at first Eb little inch pipeline, which fiFB the big line at less than Ml'B also had blown hut firegK, found the smaller pipe occurred at a booster |Knation One engineer said *F^K ve d a 24-inch valve blew ■Kning gas a distance of 150 egas. he said, may have by friction as it shot broken men were at work in the station at the time of the |K Fourteen required hospiand four were kept over night. BK r . rews began work before replacing broken pipes. to restore service on little inch lines by the pumping station was it was necessary to bywreckage with both line*. |KI( of the 1.470-mile line, from Texas to .New York in operation. All gas was KB east of Medora, Ind. shot 300 feet into the air reported seeing the the fire as far away as as the flames burned nearby fields. Firemen fire under control with- ■ Hfl farmer said the explosion and blew the door frame at his house a mile pumping station. Williams, a safety engintransmission firm, estidamage at more than $2,half of i' in gas and the damage. |Bworkers in the pumping statheir way over a 10topped with barbed wire. the first policemen on the N Eugene E. Perrigo Seymour state police post, burning gas made a noise locomotives with all jets open.' to scream to be beard from the flames." he said BBhlasts and fire spread over a tract of land on which the station was located. Beineke. an oiler employTexas Eastern, was one of He said from a hospital |B Seymour that it was "the |Bkorrible and loudest blast I surrounded by fire in a Beineke said. "1 ran BBdoor but couldn't get out. IF Jy' was a * all of fire in front of tried another door and ran ■*' yard. The wind was blowagainst my back. a second explosion came me down. I got up to »ard the fence. I didn't ■Wwuld get over it. I tried and I tried again and someto run and just ran attd ■‘ hjSB fields for two miles, all 1 could feel the heat. We to get out - ■'departments sped to the | ■ ,T,r *T. P.„ Three, JbM Housing For Approved ■UI _■ it. Nov 20 — (VP) — fusing administration >odav approval of a 30st WZ'“? Ußinf P’oJect in HamWar " 'eterans H Adtrector R Earl Pet aBE ; P ro >t would be called SWT/ >rilen 'Partments. Inc. I’ a ' 165th St and Alwill consist of six BBT," nßtur «« containing 30 room, each W,ath,r c ®ider today and wßr w. with ** cw north t 0 Mrtly c ’ oU(j y an d

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Commission Giles Needs Os Schools Huge Increase In Hoosier Enrollment Indianapolis, Nov. 20 — (UP)— The Indiana school study commission reported today that $150,000,000 for new classrooms alone was needed by 1950 to meet the mini- , mum requirements ' for handling huge increases in Hoosier public school enrollment. It forecast an enrollment increase of 231,000 pupils in the'next few years. The commission reported through its executive secretary, Robert H. Wyatt, that 5,000 new classrooms were needed by 1950 and another 2,000 by 1961-2. At a minimum cost rate of approximately $30,000 per classroom, said Wyatt, it would mean expenditures of $150,000,000 within the next year or so and another $60,000.000 within the next decade. I*he report also pointed up the prevalence of outdoor plumbing, common drinking cups and poor health and safety conditions in Hoosier school buildings. The report acknowledged that one of Indiana's biggest school problems now is "how to provide classrooms and teachers for the almost 160,000 additional elementary and 71,000 additional high school pupils who will swarm into Indiana public schools in the next few years.” "Skyrocketing enrollments and Inadequate building facilities coupled with a serious shortage of elementary teachers were among the major issues that commanded the attention of the commission throughout an eight-month survey of the state's public schools,” the report said. "Many elementary schools are already overcrowded and elementary classes are too large now for best results.” it added. "The present unsatisfactory conditions will become much worse in (he next five or six years unless a substantial program is started immediately." The commission suggested several steps to meet the/emergency: 1. Provision should be made to include S3OO per classroom unit for capital outlay purposes as part of the minimum foundation program. 2. Consideration should be given the possibility of providing a substantial emergency appropriation from state funds for school plant construction. 3. The constitutional limit of two percent on school bonds should be increased. The report said that "health and safety conditions in many of Indiana's nearly 2,500 public school buildings are none too good.” It said almost one-third of the schools have outdoor toilets. Water must be carried to 146 schools. Common drinking cups are used in 46 schools. Seventy-nine percent of the "original structures" of Indiana school buildings are of "non(Tara T" P»ae Five)

Queen Elizabeth's Sailing Prevented Walkout Ties Up Big Luxury Liner Southhampton. Eng.. Nov. 20.— (UP)—Four hundred crew members walked off the Queen Elizabeth here today and prevented the world's greatest liner from sailing on a trans-Atlantic run. The walt-out came an hour before the 83,000-ton Gunard line vessel had been scheduled to sail for Halifax on New York, where striking longshoremen had tied up the port. Efforts of the line to reach an agreement with the seamen were unavailing up to the time that the changing tide made it certain that the ship could not sail today. Crewmen who walked off the vessel held a protest meeting on the dockside, appointed a strike committee, posted pickets, and sent a delegation back aboard the liner in an effort to persuade the remainder of her crew of 1.500 men to walk off too. • Then they sent a cablegram to Joseph P. Ryan, president of the International longshoremen s association (AFL) in New York, sayIng - . “Crew of Queen Elisabeth refuse sail to Halifax until strike situa tion is clear in New York. Is onr effort helpful r

Bernadotte's Plan Favored In Principle U.S. Favors General Principles Os Plan » For Settlement Paris, Nov. 20 — (UP) — The United States favors the general princip'es of the Bernadotte plan for Pales'ine as a "basis for negotiations" for an Arab-Jewish settlement, Dr. Philip Jessup. American delegate, told the United Nations political committee today. But Jessup, speaking to clarify the American position on the. Holy Land, withheld any flat endorsement of the Bernadotte blueprint such as was given originally by secretary of state George C. Marshall. Britain is supporting in full the settlement proposal of the assassinated UN Palestine mediator, Count Folke Bernadotte, apd has been seeking American support for the same stand. Jessup said that the U. S. opnoses any reduction in the size of the Jewish state of Israel from that established in the original UN partition plan, unless the reduction is “fully acceptable” to the Jews. But Jessup said also that if Israeli desireg to keep some of the land it has wrested from the Arabs in Palestine fighting, they must “offer an appropriate exchange” in nego'iatlons with the Arabs. The Bernadotte plan would have changed the pattern of the original partition first approved by the UN a vear ago. tn that it would have given the Negev desert area, originally assigned to th“ Jewish state, to the Arabs, while giving Galilee, originally assigned to the Arabs, to Israel. Israeli leaders hare said that they will not give up the Negev, stra'egic and possible oil-rich area of southern Palestine, without a “hloody fight.” Jewish forces now control both the Negev and Galilee in northern Palestine. Jessup's statement in effect torpedoed British hopes of pushing through the Bernadotte plan as a design for permanent Palestine settlement. The American position appeared to be one of hacking Israel in her claims to the (Turn Tn Pflve Five)

Church Services For Thanksgiving Union Services At Church Os Nazarene 'Union Thanksgiving services under the auspices of the Decatur ministerial association will be held next Wednesday evening in the Church of the Nazarene. Marshall and Seventh streets. The Rev. Ralph A. Carter, pastor, will be chairman. The service will begin at 7:30 p.m. The program, which was released by the ministerial association today, follows: Congregational singing. Scripture and prayer, the Rev. A. C. E. Gillander, pastor of the First Presbyterian church. Offering. Special song, the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church youth group. Message, the Rev. John E. Chambers, pastor of the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church. Benediction. Dr. Gerald Jones, pastor of the First Methodist church. Special services will be held at the Zion Lutheran church at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and at 10 am Thursday. The Rev. Edgar P. Schmitt, pastor, will conduct both services and the mixed choir and the male chorus will sing special Thanksgiving anthems at both services. At St. Mary's Catholic church. Thanksgiving high mass will be held Thursday morning. Decatur Ministers Will Meet Monday The Decatur ministerial association will meet in the parlor of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church Monday morning at 10 o'clock.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, November 20, 1948

Russian Teacher Leaves Hospital « m .Jißk MRS. OKSANA KASENKINA (center), walking with a cane to support the leg she fractured in a leap from an upper window of the New York Russian consulate last August, leaves Roosevelt hospital in New York. The ex-Soviet school teacher whose spectacular jump to escape being returned to Russia became front page news, is accompanied by Dr. Eugene Watters and Virginia Muldoon of the hospital staff. She will live with friends in New York until fully recovered.

AFL Wants Marshall Out As Secretary Handling Os Foreign Affairs Criticized Cincinnati. 0.. Nov. 20 —(UP)-*-The AFL's 67th convention today prepared new moves in what one high official said has become g full scale offensive to get secretary of state George C. Marshall out of President Truman’s cabinet. On another front, the AFL executive council recommended es tahlishment of a super lobby to get the new congress to push through laws favored by organized labor. The convention p’oughed into its sixth consecutive full-day session in high anticipation of the visit late today of Vice Presidentelect Alhen W. Barkley. Barkley is expected to get an earful on the AFL's views on Marshall and domestic legislation ex-en though his visit is scheduled to be brief. AFL sources said they respect Marshall as a soldier and fully sun port his aid plan for Europe. But the labor leaders, who have played a big part in administration of that plan abroad, are dissatisfied with Marshall's handling of Russia and China, and with some phases of military government administrations in Japan and Germany. One official said the AFL hopes Marshall will be replaced by W. Aver el I Harriman, ambassador fn Paris for the'European aid program. AFL president William Green said he personally favors such a change. Others believe it could come by next Jan. 20 when Mr. Truman begins his new term even though the president has just said he wants Marshall to remain.

Plan Achievement Meeting On Monday The Washington township 4-H clubs will hold their annual 4-H achievement meeting Monday in the Lincoln school here. The urogram is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m.. and will include group singing, demons'rations by. club members, recognition of club members and a period of activity games for everyone. Closing the program will be an impressive candle-lighting ceremony depicting the spirit and purposes of 4-H work. The 4-H club leaders who will award club members with pins are Mrs. Russell Mitchel. Mrs. Alton Corson. Peter Lehman. Roy L. Price and Thomas Adler. Miss Anna K. Williams, home agent, and L. E. Archbold, county agent, will be present to asist In the program. County recreational director Dennis R. Nonnan will supervise the recreational activities.

Fort Wayne Girl Is Killed By Big Truck Fort Wayne, Ind., Nov. (UP)---Nell Rose Homilton, 9. wag] killed last night when her bicycle ran into the side of a big truck as she delivered newspapers. Driver of the truck was Don Miller, 27, Toledo, O. Insure Yield From New Rental Housing Government Insures Investment Yields Washington, Nov. 20—(UP)— The government today went into the business of insuring yield from investments in new rental housing. Under regulations issued by the federal housing administration, qualified investors in projects for rent can get a guaranteed return of 2-% percent. Returns can run higher, of Course. Where they run less, the government will put up the difference. The government also will guarantee an annual amortization charge of two percent. Raymond M. Foley, the govern ment's housing boss, said he looks for “substantial results” in new homes as a result of the extra incentive. He emphasized, however, that no spectacular developments should be anticipated. Response to the new housing aid may be slow. Yield insurance was authorized in the housing act of 1948. Regulations were issued today after months of study. Insurance companies are expected to be especially interested. Yield insurance is available to individuals, unincorporated groups, corporations, trusts, and other groups approved by FHA, It is usable only where no mortgage is involved Projects must be approved by FHA for economic soundness. Average rentals in a single project cannot exceed SIOO. and no rent above $l2O will be allowed for an individual unit. An annual premium of one-half to one percent of outstanding investment is charged. Youth Fatally Hurt In Freak Accident Wabash. Ind.. Nov. 20 — (UP)— Pierre Gaff. 18, of Roann, died yesterday afternoon of injuries suffered in a freak accident on a highway north of here Thursday. Cass apparently lost control of his car. authorities said. The car overturned and rebounded against the top of a small one-story house, and Gaff was hurled through the top of the car 40 feet over the [house. He'died at a hospital here.

Scores Marooned In Big Storm As Temperatures Are Hovering Near Zero

See No Reason For Depression Fears Truman Leaders See No Reason For Fears Key West. Fla., Nov. 20—(UP) —Leaders of the Truman administration saw no reason today why the nation should fear another depression. That was the gist of what house speaker-to-be Sam Rayburn told reporters after a visit with President Truman at his Florida vacation retreat. It also was the theme of a statement that Vice President-elect Alben W. Barkley made to reporters *in 'Washington just a few days after the Democratic election victory. Rayburn said that it a depression comes it will be “man-made” and not the result of administration policy. A “man-made” depression, he said, would be the fault of “men who would scare the country into it.” Rayburn’s remark was prompted by a reporter’s statement that "a lot of people, including some in Wall street, are upset about the outcome of the election and whether you (the Truman administration) will lead us in the right direction.” I “There are some people in the United States who seem to enjoy being scared." Rayburn replied. "But with the huving power of this country at its highest and the people able to buy everything manufactured or grown, at a reasonable profit to the manufacturer or grower. I don’t see anything that anyone has got to be scared about. "Nobody can say the coun’rv is not nrosperous and in a healthv condition. If a major recession or (Turn Tn i»irp

Approves Revised Sewage Plans Here Final Estimate On Plans Not Received The Indiana stream pollution control board announced today that revised preliminary plans for sewage treatment facilities at De catur had been approved. A final estimate on the project, which will include construction of a sewage disposal plant on the west side of old U. S. 27 just across the north river bridge, has not yet been sub milted. The original report was approx' cd in 1946, but plans were changed Originally, plans were made for an interceptor sewer near the Erie railroad bridge and along the west bank of the St. Marys river to a point across from the Acker ce ment works, with a lift station lo cated at the latter location. The stream pollution control board, meeting in Indianapolis considered a progress report from Decatur which told of the acquisi tion of the new sewage treatment plant site, given to the city by jDale W. McMillen. Sr., founde) and board chairman of the Centra) Soya company. Engineers here have been ad vised to proceed with final plans and specifications. These will include a revision and expansion of the present sewer system within the city. Final surveys on the project were completed November 1.

Police Department Will Buy New Auto Decatur's police department is going to trade in its 1947 Ford pat rol car for a new model. Sealed bids will be received until 2 p.m. on December 10. according to a legal notice scheduled for publication Monday. The action follows by more than a month the purchase by the sheriffs department of a sleek black 1949 Ford to re-place a patrol car similar to the one now being I used by the police department.

Troops Seize Port Held In French Strike French Government Getting Tough On Red-Led Strikers Paris, Nov. 20.—(UP)— French troops and mobile guards today seized the waterfront of historic Dunkerque, which had been held by 1,500 Communist-led strikers for 72 hours. Most of the strikers had crept away from their barricades under cover of darkness after 3,000 Colonial troops and guards massed to oust them. The liberators of the port where 16 ships bringing U. S. aid to France were strikebound, made a number of arrests but there was no violence. Several hundred workers and fishermen w.atched silently while the troops and guanjp moved through the port installations in an hour beginning at dawn. They destroyed the barricades blocking the entrance to the docks as well as those within the installations. The action at the port where the allied armies were saved from the Nazis in 194(1 dramatized' the government policy of getting tough with the Communist strikers. Premier Henri Queuille had staked the life of his cabinet on the policy in a confidence vote set for Tuesday. The Dunkerque strikers barricaded themselves around the port gate in anticipation of the nationwide port and dock strike called by the Communist leadership for Mon day. The helmeted troops, armed with machine guns and backed by armored cars, were dispatched to Dunkerque yesterday. They delayed briefly their storming of the port gate defenses. Some of the strikers seen mov ing about the fortifications wen carrying clubs or iron bars, and others had stone or similar «mis siles in their hands. The national assembly, when Queuille demanded a , confidence vote in his government's handling ■of the nationwide strike move ment, was in week-end recess unti Tuesday.

Legion Favors Loans For Vets’ Housing Direct Government Loans Are Favored Indianapolis. Nov. 20.—(UP)— The American Legion today recon) mended a federal law to permit di rect government loans to veterans who want to buy or build houses. The Legion executive committee also picked Philadelphia for its 1949 convention, rejecting bids of Miami and New York Extension of federal rent yon trols a year beyond their present expiration dale, as recommender by an economic commission. wa> endorsed by a committee, which also suggested a law to give vet erans preference for federal hous ing. Next year's Legion conventior will be the second in history sot Philadelphia, selected because oi "its central location." The committee broke all prece dent and decided to hold its an nuai spring session at New Orleans instead of national headquarters here. It was explained that New Orleans was to have been the 1942 convention city but was closed tc all public meetings when war brok» out because it was a port of entry Since that time, officials said 1 the Legion has grown beyond the convention capacities of New Or I leans. The southern city bid for the executive committee meeting instead.- J. E Snee. Raton Rouge La., a committeeman. proposed 1 New Orleans site be approved.

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Hundreds Os Rescue Crews Are Working To Free Stranded Trains And* Buses By United Press At least nine persons were dead and scores were marooned in snowbound houses and cars today in the aftermgth of a big storm that swept across the great plains from the Pacific coast. Hundreds of rescue crews worked to free trains and buses stuck in snowbanks while others fought through drifts to reach people trapped on the highways or in homes and schoolhouses. Temperatures hovered near zero in the storm area. The coldest spot Was Chadron, Neb., where the mercury was exactly zero. Dickinson, N. D.. and Sidney, Neb., reported six degrees above. MinotN. D„ seven above, and Akron, Colo., eight above. The dead included an unidentified middle-aged man found frozen near Springfield. Colo.; a man and wife killed in a crash on a slick highway near Montrose, Colo.; three men who died in a snowstorm in the mountains of Washington state; two men killed instantly in a headon automobile crash on an icy pavement near Willmar, Minn., and a farmer electrocuted in Louisiana when he touched a live wire blown down by strong winds set up in the south by the midwestern storm. Thousands of head of livestock were killed by the storm and many communities from Minnesota southwest through Kansas were without Rower, light or communications. The storm was losing its strength rapidly as it moved eastward across the Great Lakes, but weather forecasters warned it might •still cause considerable havoc as it neared the north Atlantic seaboard. Heavy snow fell in a broad area across the north central states today. Kansas state patrolman Kenneth ■ Nelson said an unknown number >f school children, marooned since Thursday morning in a school bus 12 miles west of Oakley, Kan., had .made their way safely to a nearby farm house. Nelson said Fred Reichecks. an ex-army pilot, flew a Piper Cub over the area yesterday and the farm family signaled him that they had the pupils with them. Twenty passengers marooned on i Denver-bound Greyhound bus near Colby, Kans., made their way o home at the town of Grain Field, four miles from where the bus (tailed. Nelson said. All were in ;ood condition despite being in the bus for 36 hours. At Delmont, S. D„ snow plows were fighting to reach a country ichool where 2u children were ma--ooned. Their bus stalled at the storms' height, forcing them to remain at the school. The Santa Fe's crack California .imited steamed into Cimarron, Kans.. 22 hours late. Winds that hit 70 miles an hour had stalled the train in a mountainous 'drift between Cimarron and Dodge City, 30 miles to the east. Other trains were up to 36 hours ' late on their tuns in the storm area. Literally thousands of automobiles littered midwestern highways. About 50 cars were stuck between Sioux Tails and Mitchell. S. D. 1 Thousands of head of cattle and ;heep died in the storm. Stockmen estimated that 1,000 sheep were lost in the area around Oakey. Kans., alone. At Dodge City. Kans., the snowy--1 white countryside was lighted wierdly throughout the night by he flares and torches of rescue xarties picking their way through f irifts in search of lost motorists. ’ Nearly every family in town had i refugee as a guest. Slim Hensley. Continental bus <ines driver, was hailed as a hero ' tor battling through the blizzard *o a farm home to get help for his 1 21 passengers when the bus stall--8 The passengers were so grate*ul they took up a collection for ’ Hensley's wife who is expecting a 6 baby. . Communications companies re 3 ported that wire service through (Twew T» Faa* Five)