Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 277, Decatur, Adams County, 23 November 1948 — Page 1

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rS. PROPOSES PALESTINE CONCILIATION

■ Decision nina Aid ■peeled Mohall's Report . MTruman Likely gßSpeed Decision Nov. 23 (IP) IS/of state George (’. MarHft,serai vHiort to President EVw;is expected today to ■Rpa'cat decisions on aid touched on China and EK.',i. n policy problems dur- &■ hour-long meeting yesterthe president, and at a IK conference w'th the chief BR and the cabinet. The secreturn to the White to continue the general ER,,, 'press secretary Charles ,, . informants predicted ■K ure meetings would deal with possible United on behalf of the hardrlHlll.s<- nationalist governVP ,. despite Generalissimo |R Kai-Shek’s plea for U. S. was regarded unlikely that or administration forK meet the Chinese Com- <' would be forthcomPastors listed by |R familiar with the situation necessity (or a top-level reEK American foreign policy in review would take into the views of “friendhaving strategic in that continent. of the Commonthrough Manchuria in■i, ci-,,n:i to determine whethChina could be saved ■l, .-I. AmeiUan econotnaid. K-, in Europe and China to whether the United ■ could. in effect, extend the doctrine to china without American help too far to K - ■Lally. cons illations with conleaders to ascertain on ('liir.a, and the chanclarger aid project might congress next year. ■oil Much Corn Bear Spoilage Ridiana, Illinois Roy Have Big Loss Raim Nov. 23.-(UP)— Mil■<4 bushels of corn in north■onions of Illinois and Indiana R danger of spoiling, crop exR feared that the loss might millions of dollars. damage is being caused by, Rb moisture, which seeps Rfh the corn stalk and into Rub making it soft and rotten. Rj’w'atur. 111.. Lee Gentry of Reduction marketing adminissaid a few carloads of exmoist corn flipped to have sold tor as low as 27 ■ > bushel. K government has set the loan R ll »b<>ut $1.42 a bushel. But said some Illinois corn is Roist that the government has lo lend farmers money on R **id. however, that most of Rllinois spoilage has been conR to corn already picked, and ■ there has been comparatively R spoilage in the fields. RtP experts in both Illinois and Rm blamed the spoilage on Rfwlo- warm weather, when a Re"'! was needed to dry out Ron. Kj u - I niversity farm experts ■? *’• excessive moisture began Rbp* in northern Indiana two R* Bgo. not only in corn stored R b ’u*. but in the fields as for Purdue's small R* t‘rm said reports indicate R ’ m northern Indiana alone K .’j*' • million dollars. In *** Mill ' foJ ’ rot ■_ 54 i« progressing into the K^ h Illinois and Indiana. KiLT* , P * Tin « M hi ’ !h »’ R. '"ecbanical corn dryers R (v2t’2 were improvising B T,> ’*•** ••vea) ■r> we *ther K/?'" 9 '"' To "”"’row partR y and somewhat warm-

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MacArthyr Verdict On Appeals Wednesday Tokyo, Nov. 23 — (UP) — Japanese wartime premier Hideki Tojo and his 24 co-defendants will get Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s verdict on their appeals from war crimes sentences tomorrow morning, it was announced today. The announcement said the general expected to complete tonight his review of the sentences handed down by an international war crimes tribunal. They call for death by hanging for Tojo and six others. Major Bailie Is Shaping Up Near Peiping Government's Hold In Hopeh Province Is More Critical • Nanking, Nov. 23.— (UP)— A major battle between Nationalist troops under “ever victorious" Nationalist Gen. Fu Tso-Yi and Communist soldiers under Gen. Lin Piao shaped up today along a 50mile line between Peiping and Tientsin. The government's position in Hopeh province in North China became more critical when the Nationalists abandoned Paoting. about 90 miles southwest of Peiping. Six columns of Communist troops were said to be converging along the Peiping-Tientsin front. Lin’s soldiers reportedly reached the east bank of the historic Grand canal about 45 miles southeast of Peiping. Fu was said to have deployed a large force in Mataochen and Sossuwu west of the Grand canal to check the advancing Communists, whose primary objective appeared to be disrupting Peiping’s rail communications with Tientsin and the coast and to isolate the old Chinese capital. Meanwhile, central news agency reported two government columns heading north from Pengpu to reopen rail contact with Suchow smashed to within 16 miles of (Turn To Paar Seven I Two Brothers Killed As Auto Hits Train Veedersburg, Ind., Nov. 23 —(UP) — Two brothers were killed last night when one of them drove a car into the path of a Nickel Plate freight train trt a crossing here. State police listed the victims as Carl Keeling. 18. and his 14-year-old brother , Gordon, both of Veedersburg. Carl was said to be the driver of the car which attempted to pass another waiting at the crossing. on Ind. 31 The auto smashed into the train almost headon, state police reported. Council Refuses To Keep Service Office Appropriation For Office Is Rejected The Adams county council today destroyed the possibility that the county service officer be retained in 1949 by unanimously refusing to approve a special appropriation for that office. In eliminating the service officer's post, which has been filled since September. 1945. by Dwight R. Arnold, the councilman acted against the plea of 257 Adams county veterans. The veterans submitted petitions to the council Monday asking retention of the service officer for another year. Mr. Arnold continued in office through 1948 through the approval , of a special appropriation similar to the one rejected by the council today. The council’s approval last year was influenced by the appeari ance of veterans’ spokesmen and , petitions. All other special appropriations sought were allowed by the couni cil. They include 115.0 M for the , Adams county memorial hospital. $7,900 for the highway department and 6600 for the welfare depuii- , ment. j The council accepted the resigns- , tion of councilman Otto Hoffman, ito take effect December 31. Mr. , Hoffman will take office as a J county commissioner January 1. 1949. His successor on the council j will be appointed at the next meet- j ing.

President Gets Report On Foreign Situation 9 Bl b K Kg IN WASHINGTON after his Florida vacation, President Truman strolls (left) with Secretary of State George C. Marshall from the White House Io the new presidential residence at the Blair-Lee House for a cabinet luncheon following a conference on affairs abroad. The secretary arrived by air from Paris and was joined at the conference with Mr. Truman by W. Averill Harriman (right), roving ambassador for the Economic Cooperation Administration.

City Planning For Christmas Season ~ Big Christmas Tree , Is Set Up Monday I A 40-foot Christmas t ree was set 1 < up on the southwest corner of Madison and Second streets Monday as- 1 ternoon, one of countless steps being taken by the city, the Chamber of Commerce and local merchants to herald the Yuletide season. Two or three times the number of lights that were installed in the 1 business district last year will blaze this Christmas season, according to L. C. Pettibone, superintendent of the city light and power company. Wires for these lights have already been strung, and installa'ion is scheduled to begin sometime this week. ' A merry-go-round for the youngsters will swing into operation Sat- ’ vrday morning. December 4.- It will I run from noon to 8 p.m. daily, and j from 11 ant. to 9 p.m. each Satur ' day until December 19. Free tickets for the ride will be available at stores which are members of the i Chamber of Cotpmerce. Santa Claus will make his arrival' in Decatur on the same day as the merry-go-round. At 2 p.m. on the afternoon of December 4. the jolly gentleman will be greeted by the Decatur high school and Catholic high school bands. Santa will be around every day from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m.. and on Saturday from 2 to 4 and from 5 to 9 p.m. The retail committee of the Chamber of Commerce has urged local merchants to observe the following store hours from December j 6 until Christmas: Daily: Close at 5 p.m., reopen at 6:30 and close at 8. Saturday: Close at 9 p.m. Thursday: Remain open after(Tin «m »*MKe> Tni»l Tax Reassessment Means New Revenue Much Property Is Now Off Tax Rolls Indianapolis. Nov. 23. —(UPl — Indiana tax officials esiimated today that the new state tax reassessment program going into es- I feet Mar 1 would bring in more i than $17,000,000 additional revenue ' on property now omitted from the i tax rolls. 11 State tax commissioner Peter A. i Beczkiewicz and Joda G. Newsom. administraFor of the reassesment program, explained to the Indiana school of tax assessors here yester , day that the new reassessment program was designed to “equalize > taxes. ‘ i I The ‘school, under the auspices., of the State board of tax commisrioners. is being attended by township assessors and trustees from 31 southeastern and central Indiana counties. The school was expected adiourn its twoday meeting today Later todav and tomorrow, a similar school was scheduled at | Bloomington, for southwestern <Ta.a •• l ’’«t two>

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, November 23, 1948

NO PAPER THURSDAY In accordance with annual custom, the Decatur Daily Democrat will not publish an edition Thursday, Nov. 25, which is Thanksgiving Day. Breen Disappearance Termed Cheap 'Hoax' Publicity Gag Is Charged To Breen Glidden. Win., Nov. 23.—(UP)— Officials denounced Bobby Breen’s “disappearance” into the north woods as a publicity hoax today and began an investigation on whether criminal charges could be lodged against the former child singer and his press agent. Breen denied that he or his employes had engineered a scheme to gain free advertising. He said it was “just an unfortunate series of circumstances.” Kenneth O. Thompson. Breen's pilot, also denied that the "disappearance" was a publicity gag. He said he and Breen didn’t realize anyone was worried about them and consequently didn't hurry to announce their location. But officers who directed the search for Breen in sub-freezing weather were outspoken in their opinion that they were taken for a ride. "State patrolmen, game wardens and deputies who spenj all those hours in the woods hunting for him while he was in a warm lodge are pvetty sore," said undersheriff Clyde Williamson of Sawyer county. “More than 50 men w’orked out of our office alone. Some of them are of a mind to run his parly right out of these woods.” Breen was “found" last night in a resort hotel where he and his (Tara Io rur hrr‘

First Postwar Draftees Leave City This Morning

In a spirit of cheerful resignation four Adauns county men | boarded a bus for Fort Wayne at 7 o'clock this morning on a free’ one-way ticket. They were the first county contingent of postwar draftees. leader of the group was Marion Smith. 25. of Berne, who had been employed as a cutter in a furniture factory there. Smith was assigned to keep the group in a semblance of military order, and to present the vitad papers to an induction otficer in Fort Wayne. Others i» the contingent were Virgil Morningstar. 25. an employe of a Fort Wayne radio manufacturing company, .whose home is on Berne route 2: Marvin Sprunger. 25. of Berne, a furniture factory employe: and James Junior Strickler. 24, selfs yled "youngster" of; the group, who lives at the Homestead and was a G.E. ma hinist The men reported to the local draft board office in the library at 6:30 to check in. There to greet them wi h a wistful smile was Mrs Elmer Chase, draft board clerk, who saw thousands of men

Submits Report On City's Zoning Plan Consultant Offers Tentative Report A tenta’ive report on the zoning plan for Decatur has*been submitted by Lawrence V. Sheridan, planning'consultant. and the report will be reviewed by the Decatur plan commission at a meeting at city hall Friday night at 7:30. The citizens committee also will meet with i i the commission, and dates will be ! ■ set for public hearings on the proposed ordinance. , I Charts and maps will be displayi ed at the Friday night meeting showing the various residential. ! business and manufacturing dis , tricts in Decatur. Under the tenta I tive plan, the city is divided into s six districts. They are the Homestead distric’: two residential dis . tricts, with different building re quirements: neighborhood shopping district: general commercial dis j trict. and industrial district. !; The Friday night meeting will be ,! limited to commission members and the citizens committee, but it was , pointed out that dates will lie set J for hearings and copies of charie r and also of the proposed ordinance - soon will be available to those inter ! ested. , Under the slate statute creating > the commission and defining its’au - thori y, there are certain require k i ments necessary before a proposed [ ordinance can lie presented to the J council and these will ire followed I It also wSs pointed out by cominis f sion members that the purpose of < the ordinance is to protect property owners and not to restrict them. i The proposefl ordinance does not II require a minimum expenditure on (Turn To I’nur Twol

deave in more trying times. 11 A little before 7 the group sauntered to the ABC bus station, a ' walk they compared to the "last ■ mile." One of the draftees suggest ed that it ’would be easier to escape now than later. "Too early, much too early to be going over the hill." another' yawned. The inductees were not in top physical condition, having gone to bed in the -wee hours of this morning after parties or late packing. Glancing at the crippled cat hob- ■ bling around the Ideal dairy bar, • one of them observed, “She walks like I feel." i There .were none of the tearful farwells that went with wartime inductions as the men boarded the . bus. It was with little more than ''nostalgia that they watched Decatur rush by through the bus windawg. They wouldn't be here I for Thanksgiving or Christmas, either. > 16 To Take Exams • I«ocal selective service officials : today released the names of 16 (Tar* To Pa«e Twa)

Program For Settlement Os Troublesome Problem Presented Today To UN

Suspend Business Here For Holiday Churches To*Hold Special Services Business generally will be suspended In Decatur as*the city pauses for the Thanksgiving Day observance Thursday. The majority of business houses and offices will be closed for the entire day, with the exception of restaurants, taverns, theaters, confectioneries and perhaj’s some service stations. The post office will observe holiday rulds, with the only mail deliveries those of special delivery. Public offices and the bank will be closed and the Daily Democrat will not publish an edition. The city and county schools will close Wednesday for the balance of the week. The Thanksgiving holiday will he marked on a reverent note, as the city’s churches hold special services Wednesday night and Thursday morning. Union Thanksgiving services, sponsored by the Decatur ministerial association, will be held at the Church of the Nazarene Wednesday evening at 7:30 o’clock. The Rey. John E. Chambers, pastor of the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church, will deliver the Thanksgiving sermon, and special music will be presented by the youth choir of the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church. Other ministers will assist in the service, with the Rev. Ralph A. Carter of tile host church as chairman. * Special services will be held at the Zion Lutheran church at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and at 10 a.m. Thursday. The Rev. Edgar P. Schmidt, pastor, will«oonduct both services and the mixed choir and the male chorus will sing Thanksgiving anthems. A high mass will be sung at the St. Mary's Catholic church Thanks giving morning. Senator Morse Urges Taft-Hartley Repeal Oregon Republican Senator’For Repeal Portland. Ore., Nov. 23 — (UP)— \ Republican senator who opposed •he Taft-Hartley law called today 'or repeal of the act and enactment of legislation “fair to both labor ind management.” Sen. Wayne L. Morse of Oregon n a speech prepared for delivery before the CIO convention, said ‘simple repeal" of the Taft-Hartley 'aw is not enough, because the earl 'er Wagner act also is in need of revision. Morse did not vote for the Taft-Hartley law. The speeches bv Morse and see ,"e'ary of labor Maurice Tobin de'ayed for a day the renewal of the •ow which broke out between right tnd left wing leaders of the CIO at 'he opening of the 10th annual convention yesterday. Morse said the public was demanding a law that would prevent abuses by Imth labor and manage i ment. His proposals included: 1. Return of closed shop contracts. ■ 2. Abolition of “mandatory injunc-. •ions directed exclusively against labor.” .3. Enforced settlement of juris-1 dictional strikes and forbiddingi secondary boycotts called to win, jurisdictional strikes. 4. A requirement that unions as well as management bargain in good faith. 5. Elimination of the Taft-Hart- j ley ban on political spending by unions. • 6. Elimination of the lequirement that union leaders sign non-Com-munist affidavits if they wish to use national labor relations Itoard machinery. Morse called the non-Connftunist : requirement of the present law "an insult to patriotic labor leaders." CIO president Philip Murray's three speeches before the coftven(Tara Ta Pace Sevea)

King George Is III; Tour Is Cancelled Indefinite Rest Is ' I Ordered Because Os Circulatory Ailment London. Nov. 23 — (UP) —King , George VI began an indefinite rest . today because of a painful circulatory ailment of the legs which hmh shrd eta shemr fetha tahttt Buckingham Palace sources said posed no immediate danger to his life. The 53-year old monarch will not be bedfast. But he will be required to take as much rest as possible, and to favor his right leg where the affliction was the keenest. Although the trouble generally was called a blood clot, sources close to the palace said it was not necessarily a clot. The gravity with which the ailment was regarded was made plain by the cancellation of the royal tour of Australia and New Zealand, scheduled for early next year.* It was the first major engagement cancelled by the king in his 12 years on the throne, and his first serious illness since 1917 when he underwent an emergency operation for doudenal ulcer. The palace announcement said the king’s condition became acute a week ago when he lost the sense of feeling in his right leg. "It would be hazardous for him to embark upon a long journey which might delay his recovery and which might well involve a serious risk to the limb” said a medical bulletin signed by five attending physicians. The. ailment appeared to have cancelled the proposed six-months royal tour to Australia and New Zea’and. which the king was scheduled to make wi'h Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose. The palace announcement said there was no reason for concern about the king's general health, including the condition of his heart. It added, however, that the strain of the king’s 12 years on the British throne has appreciably affected his resistance to phyisical fatigue. Palace sources said the king will continue to deal with affairs of state from the palace, even though be is under treatment. "The king is suffering from an (Tura To I‘nae Twol Truman To Present Anti-Inflation Plan Definite Program To 81st Congress Washington. Nov. 2,3. —(UP)— President Truman will present a "definite" anti-infla:ion program to' the 81st Congress in January, a: presidential adviser said today. Dr. Edwin G. Nourse. chairman I of the president’s council of economic advisers, told newsman : after a meeting with the president tha' Mr. Truman asked him t i head a group of department and i agency heads in coordinating the I program. His statement was made after | it was disclosed that the national j security resources board had drawn : up legislation outlining a complete system of price manpower and! i other economic control necessary I ; in case of war. Nourse said the Anti-infla'ion program t»hl| be outlined generally in President Truman's "state of 'he union" message in January and his economic report which will follow shortly after the state of ; the nnion message. Detailed phases of the anti-in flation program probably will be presented in special messages and in requests from the white house (Tara Ta Page Fives

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Proposal Calls For Direct Negotiations Between Arabs, Jews Through Commission Paris, Nov. 2.3 — (UP) — The United States proposed today a broad United Nations conciliation program to encourage an ArabJewish territorial exchange in Palestine and the final settlement of all outstanding questions there. Dr. Philip Jessup submitted the American proposal 4n the form of amendments to a British resolution which would order the Arabs and Jews to settle on a basis of the Bernadotte plan. It would give the Negev to the Arabs and western Galilee to the Jews. The formal proposal calling for direct Arab-Jewish negotiations through a three-nation UN conciliation commission was presented to the UN political committee. The U. S. scheme would cut away key parts of the British blueprint for the final Palestine settlement. It especially would prohibit the general assembly from imposing any territorial or other provisions on the Jews and Arabs without the agreement of both sides. Although pulling some teeth from the British resolution; Jessup nevertheless proposed that the general assembly ask both sides in Palestine to take into account the territorial exchange proposed by the Bernadotte plan. Count Foke Bernadot’e, Palestine mediator for the UN. drafted the plan just before he was assassinated in Jerusalem, lie proposed. in a reversal of the original UN partition plan, that the Negav go to the Arabs and western Galilee to the Jews, in a sort of exchange making for geographical coherence. Earlier. Australia called on the UN to accept Israel for membership. Egypt threatened to walk out if Israel became a UN memh«r. Jessupi's proposal in substance added up to this: 1. Set up a three-nation conciliation commission whose job would be to help the Arabs and Jews negotiate, if they want such help. 2. Refrain from telling them, as Britain proposes, the lines on which they must settle their boundaries and other outstanding questions. .3. Imply some moral obligation of Israel to give the Arab’s at least part of the Negev it it wants to keep western Galilee. The threat was made by Egyptian delegate Adly Andraos Bey in a special political committee meeting during debate on admission of new members. "In certain homes and certain clubs of the Unfed Slates Jews are not accepted willingly.” Andraos said. "In a few days the United States is going to present Israel for membership here. When things happen. when people are elected to membership in a club whom certain members don't like, the only thing left for the other members is to walk out. “That is the only thing left lor | us to do.” When questioned later by cori respondents, Andraos modified his statement by saying that Egypt j would “con ider” quitting the i United Nations if Israel was admitted. He said he did not think the Jewish state would lie admitt(Turn T« I'asr Five! County Rent Board Will Meet Tonight The Adams county rent advisory | ''oard will hold a special meeting I tonight at 7:30 o'clock at the First State bank building, it was announc. ed by Herman Krueckeberg. president. John Wiliams, area directorattorney. and a special representative of the regional office at Cleveland will at end. The county hoard recently agree! to consider studying a recommendation that sonv of the rural part of , the county be decontrolled soon. Action. however, is r.ot expec ed nnt'l a thorough study is made of the matter.