Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 287, Decatur, Adams County, 6 December 1948 — Page 1

XLVI* No. 287.

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we Court L Hanging LvenJaps Lrees To Review Evictions; Busy * L In High Court IL, Dec. 6 - (UP) - ■ L n)e court, on the eve of ■url Harbor anniversary, toKporarily delayed the hangKf,en Japanese warlords who l/und in plotting that infam■ittick ■(id so by treeing. sto t 0 ■ convictions of two of mY - former Japanese pre- ■ Koki Hirota and Gen. Kenji E other five condemned men, Egg wartime Japanese preEideki Tojo, did not appeal. Eeftect of the unprecendented Ee court action is to save all Eom the gallows for the time ■ ■(decision to review the JapanEes featured a busy day- in L the court also: F Refused to order Alabama’s Eidential electors to vote for Kwan-Barkley ticket. It tos■nt suits by Alabama’s Gov. LE. Folsom from voting for Rate’s rights ticket. ■-Ruled. 5 to 4. that the wagelliw applies to persons hired ■C, S. contracts for work at ■tin military bases leased Kfireat Britain in 1941. ■ arguments on the Japanese L will be heard by the court 111 the seven men were convict■tbe far east military trimunal. L were to been hanged last Ebat Gen. Douglas AtacArthur fatally stayed the executions ■ today after the appeal was Iritli the supreme court. ■ decision to review the con- I ■Bl came after an apparent vig-, p behind-the-scenes dispute ■ eight of the justices — who ■evenly split on whether or not Lie* the case. Hite Robert H. Jackson, who Italy had disqualified himself ■inch cases because he prose■lvar crimes in Germany, fin■take the deadlock. ■ court also agreed to hear ■ by five o her Japanese war In sentenced to long prison ■ These appeals involved KoiIBio. Takasuml Oka, Kenryo I lid Shlgetaro Shaimaga — ■n life terms by the far east L tribunal — and Shigenori I rto received a 20-year sentF rapreme court apparently but plan to pass on the guilt fafflee of the convicted war, M Instead, it will decide F’ it has jurisdiction to re- i I the convictions and — if it iTwrw To Pore Three) W Baby Given Viol Outing p. Dec. 6 - (UP) - Prln-I PBixabethu baby got its first' "the gardens of Buckingham ■ ■ ’eiterday. the Princess remained in-' Helen Rowe an# Miss P MacDonald, the Prin fßicnal maid, pushed the in-, P*’ through the gardens in ■fa feiol Events Announced Today By County Agent agricultural schools j >ia! erents, as announced U E. Archbold, county ( * Miss Anna K. Williams. '*»<mstration agent, are as u ~ School on rural electri- * Htm. at Decatur and 7:30 t - Farmstead school. 'Mtitnte at GeJ'Ormers institutes at k “* rM ’ J? F ' arniers institutes at T Union. J , Flrrn * t '*d school. P’- Dairy school. Father colder tonight kJ H '*reasinj cloudiness ■ 1 rain or Portion.

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One Dead, 14 Missing In Coal Mine Blast Oslo, Dec. ti — (UP) - One miner was dead and 14 missing today following an explosion at the King's Bay coal mines on one of the Spitzbergen Islands in the Barents Sea. UN Votes To Adjourn Next Saturday Night Unexpected Vote Sets April 1 As New Meeting Day Paris, Dec. 6—(UP)— The United Nations general assembly, in a sudden shift in plans, voted today to adjourn next Saturday night and resume its work in New York on April 1. The final decision shifted the date for reconvening in New York from Feb. 1 to April 1. It came after a day of self-criticism for failure to complete the work here in three months. The, assembly rejected a British proposal to stay in session here until all the work on the agenda was completed. The steering committee had recommended that the session be resumed in New York on Feb. 1. The recommendation was upset in an unexpected last minute move by Argentina. Thus the debate on about onethird of the program mapped for the Paris meeting but still uncompleted will be put off for more than three months. The assembly delegates ran through several hours of their last week of work here deploring their failure to get more done. What was scheduled to be a routine session to approve the steering committee’s recommendations turned I into another talkathon, with most | of the 58 nations bent on explaining their positions. John Foster Dulles, acting chief of the U. 3. delegation, ridiculed a proposal by Andrei Vishinsky of Russia to shorten the agenda by eliminating many items. "Mr. Vishinsky's proposal is simple," Dulles said. "He would eliminate all the items to which the Soviet Union objects. That would be simple indeed, because it certainly would shorten the agenda." When the showdown came the assembly voted 33 e to 19. with six abstentions, against a British proposal to keep on working here. It defeated a Polish resolution to ad-. journ Saturday without calling for a further meeting to finish the | work. The political committee ap-1 I proved an American request to I spend the final week here on the I Korean question. The move to consider Korea next was approved despite early objections by British delegate Hector McNeil, who asked the committee lT»lnT» Three) < Printing Bids Up To Commissioners Printing Contract Up Tlfis Afternoon The county commissioners were scheduled to receive bids this afternoon for furnishing printing supplies and blank books to the county offices during 1949. The printing contract is award ed on five classes, the largest of which is for blank Itooks and records. The petition for a drainage improvement in Kirkland township under the name of Joe H. Zimmerman drain, was docketed by the commissioners. Homer Arnold and Harvey Haggard were named viewers. Frank Kitson. superintendent of the county home, reported that 35 inmates are cared for at the institution. There are 22 males and 13 females at the home. Included in the bills allowed dur ing the morning bv the commission ers were two for 35 each for boon ty on red foxes The commissioners will be in ses-| sioa Tuesday and bids for highway supplies will be received The conract for stone, gasoline tires-and other supplies totals approximately $75,000. ’ 1

Communists Overwhelmed In Berlin Vote Nearly 87 Percent Os West Berlin's Vote Against Reds Berlin. Dec* 6—(UP)—Labor defiance of the efforts of communist Hans Witte to’seize control of the Berlin electrical administration forced his resignation today from the board of directors of the big combine. The municipal power administration was split between the Soviet and western sectors of Berlin in the wake of an overwhe’ming anti-communist vote in west Berlin. Emboldened by the vote, the electrical workers threatened to strike and forced the breach in the pow>r administration with the resignation of Witte. A scheduled 3 p. an. (9 a. m. EST) walkout in protest against Witte's police methods of plant con'rol and illegal arrest of workers was put off for the time being by the workers council of the noncommunist trade union. The workers were directed instead to stay at their po ts at least until shifts changed. All non-communist workers were ordered to report for work tomorrow in the British sector rather than the Soviet sector where the municipal power administration is situated. As the labor trouble boiled up to plague the puppet communist administration set up by the Soviets in their sector of Berlin last week, the final returns were counted in yesterday's municipal balloting. The count showed a vote of 86.2 percent of the 1,586,090 qualified voters balloting. They cast 1,330,820 votes, exclusive of 37,156 which were declared invalid. The Social Democratic party, advocate of evolutionary socialism by ballot, scored heavy gains. It got 858,100 votes, 64.5 percent of the total. The Christian Democrats were second with 258,496. or 19.4 percent, and the Liberal Democrats third with 214,224 or 16.1

percent. Witte, who stationed Sovietsponsored police guards over workers at power plants in the Soviet sector, announced that he (Tu vn Tn I’nup Two) Seoul Roundup In This City Tuesday To Climax Fall's Scout Activities The fourth in a series of west-ern-style roundups will climax this fall's Boy Scout activities Tueslay night at the Decatur high ' school. Scout troops 61, 62, 63, 67. 68 and 69 and Cub packs 1, 8 and 15 will take part in the opening ceremony, | which will feature a brief skit, act lor stunt by each troop or pack. Clarence Ziner will serve as master of ceremonies. A court of honor will follow, with W. Guy Brown as"-hnlrnmn fjiwell Smith will have charge of the next portion of the program—“’’randing the mavericks"—in which new Scouts and Cubs will be welcom ed Into scouting in cowboy fashion George Bair, county chairman of camping and activities, will present awards, and the program will draw to a close with a stirring ceremony by the entire group. All Scouts. Cubs and scouters are urged to attend the roundup, and to wear western gear to emphasize the evening's theme. Parents of Scouts and the general public are also invited. The roundup will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the high school gym. Warns Os Counterfeit Bills In Circulation The United States secret service' advises that conterfeit $lO and S2O bills are in circula'ion. Merchants are warned to be on the lookout for ' $lO federal reserve notes hearing | serial numbers G-20974705 B and G--20209647-C. with check letter andj face plate numbers K-430 and G-110 I The bogus $2« bills bear the serial, number G-97859a9«-C and check let-| ter and face plate number* Utt.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, December 6, 1948

‘ Inspect Stolen Top Secrets _———— ■I lllink St Ia L • gy ~ * 1 IWp fl *' fl I fll I ROBERT E. STRIPLING (left), chief investigator for the House unAmerican activities committee and Rep. John Rankin (D.-Mlss.), committee member, inspect some'of the hundreds of michofilms of secret state department documents found in a hollowed-out pumpkin on the Maryland farm of Whittaker Chambers, confessed former Communist underground agent. .

Civil Rights Fight Moves To Showdown Southern Democrats Oppose Truman Plan Washington, Dec. 6.—(UP)— The civil rights dispute lies like a time bomb today within the structure of the Democratic party. The dispute is moving toward'a showdown in the 81st congress. That could rock the administration to its foundations. The vital decision whether the battle shall be fought this winter or be compromised in the interests of party harmony lies with President Truman. It will be among the most difficult decisions he must make in his first year as president in his own right. The situation is developing this way: Southern Democrats: As a group they are looking for some way to reduce the scope of the civil rights program submitted to congress by Mr. Truman last February. Republicans: Many of them want to enact all-out civil rights legislation. Practically all of them see civil rights as an issue on which the administration can be heckled, needled and damaged politically. Minority groups: The more ag- ! gressive minority groups will demand that Mr. Truman and the Democratic congress make good 100 percent on the Democratic platform. There were four civil rights commitments in the Democratic platform. With three of them the southerners generally would go along with qualifications. But they won't even talk about a federal fair employment practices act. If Mr. Truman presses for FEPC the congressional brawl will be something (Tur* To Pace Two! New Presbyterian I Pastor Installed I V Services Are Held Here Sunday Night The Rev. A. C. E. Gillander was installed as pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Decatur at an impressive service conducted by ministers representing the Fort Wayne Presbytery here Sunday night. The Rev. Luthern Markin. I Fort Wayne, acting moderator of the Presbytery, presided Dr. William J. Ratz. also of Fort Wayne, delivered the sermon. Other participating pastors included: : The Rev. Goodlett Watson. Warsaw; the Rev. D. R. Hutchinson. Huntington. and the Rev. Dean Tope. Bluffton. At the close of the service Rev. Gillander accepted the charge. A reception was held in the Sun day school rooms of the church immediately following the installation and it was attended by .members of the congregation, visitors from la cal churches and also risi'ing lay ’ men and pastor* of other churches.

Announce License Bureau Managers E. J. Schug, Berne insurance agent, has received the appoint ment as license bureau manager at Berne, and Mrs. Thurman Baker will take .over the post in Geneva, county Democratic chairman Viz- - ard announced today. a The appointments of Mr. Schug :• and Mrs. Baker for the southern part of the county follows by more a than a week the announcement i. that Mrs. Charles Lose would head i the license bureau here. Mrs. Lose '• has opened her office in the Schaf B er store, 116 North Second street. I- . , Icy Winds And Snow ' Sweeping Midwest ? Mercury Plummets ’ From Winter Storm By United Press Icy winds and snow swept the 1 midwest today as the nation counted at least 20 dead in weekend ac cidents attributed to the weather. 1 Seven of the dead were killed in ' midwestern plane crashes. The storm swept eastward from the Rockies, across the north cen > tral states and into the Great Lakes ' region. Temperatures plummeted as the storm struck. Sleet glazed highways with ice in many areas and numerous traf sic accidents were reported. High winds snapped telephone lines and caused widespread property dam- ’ age. U. S. weather forecasters said r the storm center was moving north ■ eastward across Lake Superior. ’ ■ The storm swept down the eastern ' I slopes of the Rockies Saturday driving across Kansas and part of Missouri. It was the third near blizzard for Kpnsas in two weeks. The high winds and driven snow shrieked across western lowa and eastern Nebraska yesterday, then moved into the Dakotas. Minnesota and J Wisconsin. At Chicago, the temperature dropped 12 degrees in a single hour as gusts as high as 60 miles per hour lashed the Windy City's lake front. At Milwaukee, the (Tarn To race Two' Frank E. Moore Dies At Home In Illinois Frank E. Moore. 64. of Streator. 111., well known sales promoter, and father of John and Miss Miriam Moose and Mrs. George Laurent of this city, died Sunday at his home. Mr. Moore was a former Decatur resident, having lived here in 1925 and 1926. Besides the children in this city, he is survived by his widow, a daughter. Mrs. Thomas Creainean of Streator, a brother. Harve. cf Chicago, a stepmother and sister of Martinsville, and eight grandchild ren. His first wife and two children preceded him in death. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at Streator.

Rescue Ships Speeding To Life Raft Spotted Drifting In Pacific

15 Persons Killed In Plane Crashes Feared Death Toll May Increase To 22 By United Press At least 15 persons were killed in weekend plane crashes, and authorities feared today that the death toll would jump to 22. Officials at Salinas, Cal., said five, and possibly six. navy men were killed when their single engine plane crashed and exploded against a fog-shrouded mountain. Four youths died when their ight plane era hed in a wind and rain storm near Dubuque. la., municipal airport. Officials said the victipis borrowed the plane from a friend and took off in bad weather without consulting the airport. Pilot John Jungwirth, 25, Howard Maiers, 29, John Schuller. 36, and Louis Keck. 26, all of Dubuque, died when the plane came to ?arth in a farmer’s field. In Wisconsin, the bodies of Karl S. Reynolds, 48, cherry industry leader, and two companions were found beside the wreckage of their single engine plane. The other victims were Lougee Stedman. 41, and Ervin L. Kossow. 47. Reynolds was the pilot of the plane. AH three were from Sturgeon Bay. The bodies of Charles Miller, 40, and Otha Lobb, 38, both of Clinton, 111., were found in the wreckage of a private plane on a farm near Marseilles, 111. Authorities said the plane had landed at Joliet, 111., shortly before it crashed. It did not burn.

Air force and state police officials searched for two airmen missing on a flight from Salem. Ore., to Los Angeles. Aboard the plane were Paul D. Starr. 32. Los Angeles, president if the Southgage, Cal., Lumber Corp., and his brother, Robert. Paul Starr was the pilot of the Bonanze Beechcraft plane. Flight officials in New York. Pennsylvania, and Ohio investigat(Tiirn Tn Pmte Three! Delay Arraigning Dodson, Christen Deferment Granted Until December 20 Fort Wayne. Ind.. Dec. 6—(UP) —Two men indicted on first degree murder charges in the sex Haying of Mrs. Dorothea Howard both were granted deferment of their arraignments today to Doc. 20. Counsel for Robert V. Christen, former Fort Wayne drug store jwner. asked for the delay "because of the piany angles and difficulties involved in the case." The ittorney for Charles D. Dobson, the good-looking postal clerk from Memphis. Tenn., also charged with the murder, promptly was granted •he same deferment. Ralph Lobaugh, former Kokomo grave digger who is under sentence to die for the slayings of Mrs Howard and two other Fort Wayne women, is awaiting hearing in Al'en circuit court Jan. 10 on his petition for a writ of error coram nobis. Lobaugh has insisted he was under the influence of drugs when he nleaded guilty to all three muiders The Indiana state supreme eourt ruled last month that his case should be returned for another (Tarn To Po-e Three) Grants Authority To Arrest Ashida Tokyo. Dec. 6 — (UP) — The Japanese house of representatives voted 140 to 120 today to grant the Tokyo district court authority to airest former premier Hitoshi Ashida and two other diet members on briliery charges. ' Parliamentary permission was necessary iiecause members of the legislature are immune tjom ar rest while the diet is in session.

Chambers And Hiss Before Federal Jury Face Questions On Microfilm Copy Os Stolen Documents New York. Dee. 6 — (UP) — Whittaker Chambers, a former Communist. and Alger Hiss, former state department worker., went before a federal grand jury today for questioning about microfilm copies of stolen government documents found on Chambers' Maryland farm. Chambers, now a senior editor of tlie Time Magazine, was the first to enter the chambers of the New York federal grand jury which is investigating espionage and Communism. As he entered at 10:15 am. he told reporters that he had "no comment" on the microfilms which were recovered from a pumpkin on his Maryland farm. He was followed into the chambers by William Wheeler, a com mittee investigator, who said he was delivering some "documents" to be offered as evidence in the investigation. The “documents" were believed to be the films. Hiss, for whom a suhpena had been issued ordering him to "appear forthwith" before the grand jury, arrived a few minutes later and entered the grand jury anteroom. Thomas J. Donegan, special assistant U. S. attorney general, said that a number of witnesses had been called and that the grand jury hearing would "probably continue all week." Chambers had appeared last October before the grand jury, but apparently did not mention the hidden microfilms then. They were brought to light after filing of a deposition by his attorneys in reply to a $75,000 slander suit brought against him in Baltimore by Hiss in connection with Chambers' charge that Hiss was once a Communist underground agent in the state department. The microfilms were copies of state, war and navy department secrets. Publication Harmful Washington, Dec. 6 — (UPI - Former undersecretary of state Sumner Welles has advised house spy investigators that publication (Turn Tn Page Three)

Grand Jury Session Delayed To Tuesday Judge Orders Delay To Complete Panel Circuit court judge Earl B. Adams today excused the grand jury panel until 10 a m Tuesday, pending the completion of its 12- : member roster. Only five jurors appeared this morning: the other seven names, drawn by the jury commissioners were persons deceased, excused or non resident Those who appeared were Esler Doehrman. Minnie Andrews. Otto Boerger. Jr.. Raymond W. Jack and Herman Linnemeyrr Seven more names were drawn late this morning by jury' commissioners Ed F. Berling. Roy Mumma and county clerk Edward F Jaberg. commissioner ex officio They were John H. Hilty. Berne: Lena Martin. Kirkland; Simon Chandler. Hartford: Byron Whitredge. Monroe: Oran Schults. Washington: Robert McCade. Wabash and Harlan McGill. Decatur Six members of the 12 on the panel will be sworn in Tuesday morning, and it is believed that the J grand jury's order of business will i be begun at that time. The jurors : are to inspect county buildings and hear evidence of any alleged crimes eommitted in Adams coun- . ty. The jury has not met previous--1 ly this year

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37 Persons Aboard Air Force Transport Plane Forced Down In Pacific* Ocean Honolulu. Dec. 6— (UP) —Survivors of the crash-landing of a U. S. air force transport plane were sighted drifting on a life raft in the Pacific today, and rescue ships speeded to the scene. Thirty-seven persons were aboard the four-engined C-54 transport when it ditched 340 miles southwest of Johnston Island. The air force did not know how many survived. The nearest rescue ship, a navy patrol boat, was expected to reach the survivors about 8:40 a. m. (12:40 p. in. EST.) A lifeboat was dropped near the raft and a navy privateer search bomber hovered overhead until its gasoline supply ran low and it was forced’ back to its base. Two o'her planes were dispatched from Johnston Island to keep watch over the survivors. Capt. Allen Tottz of Chicago, B--17 pilot who first sighted the flares that led to finding of the crash survivors, said he could see one life raft deafly despite the darkness last night, but could not tell if there were more. The privateer circled th? raft, but had no report on the survivors. The airforce said the bomber messaged at 12:20 a. m. (4:20 a.m. CST): “Circling survivors. Can remain on station approximately three and one-half hours." The navy estimated the cargo ship Zejima could reach the survivors about 10:20 a. m. (2:29 p. m. CST i Earlier, a B-17 and a navy PBY sighted two sets of flares 20 milct apart. The 817 dropped a lifeboat 100 yards away from where the first set was seen last night, flow: ver. the crew was unable to tell in the darkness whether the survivors were able to reach it. The transport went down yesterday 340 miles southwest of Johnston Island. 717 miles Ivestsouthwest of Honolulu, with two motors out. It carried 30 military nassengers and a crew of seven. * Officials of the military air tran port service, which operated the plane, confirmed reports that the transport, a C-54. carried 30 ground crewmen attached to the 98th bomb group based at Spokane. Wash. , It was reported that the p'ane, military counterpart of the com-, I men ial DC-4, was in a formation of five military transports ferrying personnel from Okinawa to I (Tarn To Pn-r Three!

Two Decatur Youths Injured At Detroit Two Decatur youths. John Zintsmaster, a student at a Lansing. Mich., mechanics school, and Dick Mies, a Detroit College student. were injured Sunday morning when their car hit a telephone pole in Detroit, it was learned here. The pair were on their way to church when another car pulled onto the highway in front of them. To avoid hitting the second car Zintsmaster, who was driving, had to swerve into the pole. He suffered several fractured ribs. Mies sustained a smashed nose and a broken foot. Parents of the accident victims. Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Zintsmaster and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Mies, are at the Highland Park. Mich., general hospital today visiting the youths. -£>JtIOPPING DAYS LEFT Ti vwWWWWWWVM • • * •/ \ M