Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 282, Decatur, Adams County, 30 November 1948 — Page 2

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K ’ lUH n " ■ ■-« ji DAVID G. WYLIE, of Bloomington. was re-elected to the presidency of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce Monday at the capital. He is the president of the Bloomington limestone company. Turns On Switch, Building Explodes, Buries Oregonian Portland. Ore.. Nov. 30 — (UP)— Walter Kratt was alive today to tell how an office building “blew up and fell on top of me." The blast on the waterfront last night was felt five miles away. It shattered windows a mile from the scene. Kratt was blown 100 feet out of a basement, but he suffered only minor burns. Kratt, 47. an engineer for the Portland dock commission, was the only occupant of the two-story frame building when it exploded. He was working late, he said, when ] he smelled gas and "went down into the basement to investigate." "I turned on the switch and the building blew up and fell on top of me." Harbor patrolman Charles A. Vaneck and Robert L. Schideman. who were unhurt when the blast rocked their car 150 feet away, said they saw a "ball of fire shoot up above the telephrone wires." At Good Samaritan hospital, attendants said Kra't arrived in an ambulance but walked unassisted into emergency surgery. He was treated for second degree burns of the face and hands. Two unidentified longshore pickets pulled him from the wreckage of the building after he was blown out of the basement, Kratt said. Fori Wayne Police Like 40-Hour Week Happiest Cops In World, Chief Says Fort Wayne. Ind., Nov. 30—(UP) - Police chief tester Eisenhut wanted to brag about his men today. He said he thinks be has the happiest policemen in the world—and efficient, too. They went on a 40-hour week almost a year ago the first police force in the world Eisenhut said, to work out such an arrangement. U cost the city less than $52.000. and the results have been “wonderful—more than worth it." Ehenhut said he's received in quiries from all over the country about the plan. Police chiefs in other citier, want to know how it': working out. “It works fine." the chief tol<’ them. “I'he men appreciate it. and you can see it in their work. For once they have some of the sanr advantages as men in other jobs “We have the most efficient po lice f >rce in the city's history.' “Five days of abuse in one week is enough.” according to Ehenhut “ And abuse is all a policeman gets from every side. People Just don't like to be told what to do." Eisenhut objects to just om thing about the plan. He was » regular patrolman and head of the local fraternal order of police when it went through. He became chief oßr - ■ I 1 o 1 y i V'. ■ it'’ 1 ' I NEW WraiNTENDENT of the U. S. I.ilitary Academy at West. Point will be Mai. Gen. Bryant E. Moot ?. who ha j teen cervxj cs chief of the Army's public informal m division. He was named to r Kitted LU;. Ctx, lUxw«U D. Tijdor. flatcfaatioui)

the day it went into effect, i [ “Unfortunately," he sighed, ‘Mie new hours don't apply to me.” High School Pep Groups Name Heads Officers were elected today by i the pep and sportsmanship organiz- , ations of the Decatur junior-senior ■ high school. Elected to office by the Pep ] Champs were Sharon Hite, presi- ( dent; Rosemary Schwartz, vice- t president; Marilyn Hoblet, secretary; and Mary Ann Swearingen,; treasurer. The Howling Hosts elected as |. their leaders Bob Smith, president; i Don Liby, vice-president; Delane < Bowman, secretary; and Jim Bas- I sett, treasurer.

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Combat Traffic Menace In Berne Berne, Nov. 30 — Three more tickets were handed out here over the weekend by Marshal David Dubach in an effort to clean-up the traffic menace on local streets. All three were for improper parking. Those receiving the tickets were Joe Solano, Wilbur Lehman and Ermin Beer. They paid fines of one dollar to Fred Von Gunten city treasurer. URGES SCRAP (Cont. From Page One) materials going into castings is purchased scrap, part of which is also furnished by the farmer. “Scrap collected on farms is par-

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ticularly desirable, as much of it is of the iron grade which is more scarce and higher priced than steel scrap. Farmers of the nation play an important part in furnishing raw materials for the steel mills as they furnish about two million tons of scrap a year, and Adams county farmers can contribute their share to this collection of badly needed scrap. The mills cannot operate to capacity, without scrap metal, some of which may be found on every farm." Adams county collected large amounts of scrap from its farms during the wartime scrap metal campaigns, but since no concerted drive has been made for several years, the accumulation now should represent a sizeable amount, Archbold said. •

; Yoder Home Bought I At Public Auction , Berne, Nov. 3Q— Mrs. Chris Liti wilier lias purchased at public auci tion the home of the late Mrs. i Mary Yoder, on West Water street . here. The house sold for $7400. M'ARTHUR GRANTS i (Cont. From Page One) demned Japanese warlords. They pointed out that the Jap--1 anese were convicted of war crimes ' by an 11-power international tri- ! buna!, not by an American court. And they noted that the court only rarely has intervened even in war crimes cases stemming from U. S. military tribunals. Former Japanese premier Koko

Ilirota and Gen. Kenji Doihara asked the court yesterday to free them on grounds that their trial by the far east military tribunal was il- ■ legal. They are among seven former ■ Japanese leaders who have been ■ sentenced to the gallows for war • crimes. The court is in recess until next Monday. However, chief justice Fred M. Vinson has authoritity to call a special session for immediate disposition of the appeals. This is the first time the supreme court has been asked to Yeview a ' decision by an international tribunal. While it has heard appeals from convictions by American tribunals, it always declined to overturn the decisions. Trade in a Good Town — Decatur I

Christian Church H Board Will Meet The official church board of the , First Christian church will meet ] at the church Thursday evening at , 7:30 o’clock. All board members , are urged to attend. 7 1 REVISED ELECTORAL (Cent. From 4age One) —— — : state’s strength in the electoral 1 . column be equal to the number of its U. S. representatives plus its 1 two. senators. Thus Ohio, under, , the new system, would keep its i present 25 votes and sparsely populated Wyoming would retain its three electoral votes. Lodge and Gossett maintain

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