Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 298, Decatur, Adams County, 18 December 1948 — Page 1

XLVI. No. 298.

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Hiding I Japan As jfense Line Bulwark Os Pacific ■efense Positions ■gainst Communism Kington. oec. 18 - (UP) - ■niteil states is building up ■ , he bulwark of its Pacific K r line against communism, ■. disclosed today. ■ornted sources said this ■ e da' been selected by diploK an d miitary leaders as the ■bet to cope with recent com■t advances in China. sources said the Japanese ■ n|jv ' stabilization program, ■„ ? .i yesterday by the army ■ale department, was in line ■ t!1|1 n ew policy of bolstering H g Gen. Douglas MacArthur ■rtiered to direct the Japanese ■j.iev> economic stablity "as K|y as possible." K an was instructed to put ■ effect a sweeping nine-point Homie program to combat iri- ■ and speed recovery. At ■nt. that country is costing ■ban taxpayers about $1,000,■o a year to support. The ■ rnini .ni announcement implied ■p. S. funds for Japan might ■t if the reforms failed. ■hile economic recovery was ■d as the primary aim of the Eic program, officials said it ■ j move to prod the Japanese Hi'tion in behalf of their straE interests and those of the ■ed States. If China falls to ■ communists, it was pointed ■ Japan would be the anti-com-Est outpost of a line running E the Soviet-controlled Kurile Eds in the north through South ■i. Okinawa. Formosa, and ■Philippines. Ehori’ies emphasized that Ja- ■ would not he built up econom■y or militarily as any possible ■board of American aggres■in the far east. Present ■ ' they explained carefully, ityid to defense against com-ism-nothing more. i lite with this new official king, the United States is exM to call for a larger Japanpolice force, gradually remove many controls on government possible, and relax U. S. occun policies. it there will be no tendency to 1 loose" the former enemy lon. officials said. And there be no by passing of the polilaid down by the 11-nation far lern commission, they said, he joint state-army announceI said the new economic order M for “resolute and intensive n by the Japanese." ! lost of the nine points outlined ike United States for Japan to •». already have been invoked wstem Europe under the EuroITuni To I’nge «lx> col Man Escaped Injury In Chicago Hotel Fire Dec. 10 . , i ’dm Gilson, well-known De-, f resident has returned to this after a narrow escape from j in the Hubbard hotel fire t Chicago December 10. Mr.GijJ 1 **» uninjured, but lost part of | clothing and considerable cash. 1 f Gilson was asleep in his • M the third floor of the 180- ® hotel in downtown Chicago “out 2:30 in the morning when; I maß knocked at his door and him to get what things he “ »nd hurry with him. He then • td that the building was on J” than ISO persons were re”l from the burning build- ' 'he firemen, and there were ** rt ous injuries Mr. Gilson; that the Salvation Army was * iob in a hurry with food and for the victims and also for "r»tnen. Gil»on had gone to Chicago •J» before for a visit. WEATHER ’•"x doudy today and towith intermittent light •ooth and central and light r**’treme north late today, r *nd early Sunday. ' Sunday afternoon, tonight and north and 4 Colder Sunday, j 1 1> *• SO oouth. and I * "orth. Low tonight St ’ and 30 to 35 north. 1

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Unparalleled Grain Harvest In Nation Is 17 Million Tons Over Previous High Washington. Dec. IS — (UP) — An unparalleled harvest of 179,000,000 tons of grain this year has brought hope to the housewife and uneasiness to the' farmer and the government. Grain production is nearly 40.- . 000,000 tons greater than in 1947 i and 17,600.000 tons more than the 3 previous peak in 1946. Corn leads , a procession of record-breaking crops with an output of 3,651,000,3 000 bushels, according to the agrii. culture department’s latest esti--5 mate. Since corn is the raw material for meat, the housewife can look > forward to more steaks and chops , at slight'y cheaper prices by the r end of 1949, the agriculture departj ment says. Supplies of poultry , and dairy products also will be r more plentiful. > In .using its figures for all 1948 5 crops, the department's crop reporting board said total farm pro- [ duction far exceeded that of any t other year. New record yields per . acre were set for corn, cotton, t oats, soybeans, potatoes, tobacco r I and dry beans. Quality was like-| . wise outstanding. , The wheat harvest, second larg-l' I est in history, was placed at ; 1,288,000,000 bushels. Wheat farmers have already been warned i i by the department that they are | , in for trouble during the next few ; years because of expected de- , clines in foreign demand and low- . er government price supports. > This year's crop could be the be- , ginning of another huge wheat I surplus. The report showed a flaxseed! I , crop of 52,533.000 bushels, even I , larger than the one forecast yt , November. There will be more I I flaxseed than needed this year to ’ take care of domestic and export 1 . needs. t The estimate for another stir- , plus crop—potatoes—also went up. ’ . It was set at 445,850,000 bushels. 1 compared to 431.401,000 bushels t forecast in November. The government has bought about 75,00 f- I 000 bushels of the 1948 crop and < I has about 20,000,000 more to go. 1 (Turn To Piute Eight! I ( I .; 18-Year-Old Girl . : £ Is Found Murdered < I Body Is Found In J Ditch Near Chicago < £ Chicago, Dec. 18—(UP)—An attractive blonde, about 18 years f old, was found slain in a ditch ( ■ near a cemetery today, and auth-j t I orities said preliminary exanrtna- s ' tion showed she had been raped. State policeman Jack Bergbreit- ( er said the body was discovered | after he received an anonymous | ' telephone call from a man who < | said: “You will find a woman's ( i body on coun'y line road, two I blocks north of Lake street. c II Berghreiter sent out a sta'e po- ( lice team which found the body. The cemetery is near the Du f 1 Page-Cook county line. I The girl's clothes were disar- ( ranged. The body had been covJ ered with a green coat. Berg- > breiter said the girl apparent y | [had been tossed into the ditch', i from an automobile. He said tire! tracks were found near the ditch. I He said that his first report did | ; not indicate whether the girl was shot or strangled Coroner A. L. Bordie sen: investigators to the] scene. Teen-Age Dance Here On Christmas Night * The fifth annual Chris mas teen- c : age dance sponsored by Adams s Post 43, American Legion, will be held at the Legion home next Sat- • urdav. Christmas nigh’, it was an • nounced today. The dance is for ' teen agers only, and all teen agers of the community and college teen- * agers home on vacation, are invited to attend. ? Adams Post will provide thedance hall and the orchestra, as for * the Thanksgiving dance, and no ad- a mission will b« The dance' ( I will be from 9 pm. to midnight Dec. 25. The Den will be open dur I, ’ ing the dance for those not attend- ( j ling or for those wishing refresh (r * ments. a

Wright Brothers’ “Kitty Hawk” Comes Home Bro ml WmtvM i - THE WRIGHT BROTHERS’ first plane, the “Kitty Hawk", which took to the air just 45 years ago, is enshrined in its native land as a large throng asssembled at the Smithsonian In titution in Washington for formal presentation ceremonies. Suspended nearby is another famous U. S. aircraft. Col. Charles Lindbergh’s “Spirit of St. Louis.” Vice-president elect Alban Barkley made the speech of acceptance of the “Kitty Hawk.”

Threaten Recovery Os Ruhr Industries High Prices, Low Wages Are Threat Duesseldorf, Dec. 18 — (UP) — The smoke of steel mills and factories hangs thick over the Ruhr today. But two major threats to continued recovery of this valley which is traditionally western Europe's center of heavy industry are plainly visible: 1. The more Flian 1,000,000 workers here are fed up with high prices and low wages, and are talking of a general strike. 2. Farmers hoarding food for the thriving black market may cause a new and serious food crisis in the spring. Production records are being made almost daily, and then broken again the next day or the next week. Coal is coming out of the mines at the rate of 320,000 tons a day—seven times the rate at the end of the war in 1945. and 80 percent of top prewar production. About 470,000 miners, the pampered darlings of the occupation era. have done this with the incentive of a series of food, liquor, and cigaret bonuses. Steel workers, the other major factor in Ruhr recovery, have piled up an even more impressive record, although they have had no such incentive system. The men who make the'e re<* ords live in an area where food is both plentiful and good, where the best textiles are available, where chrome plated stores display luxury goods under fluorescent lights. But they can buy little or none of these goods. The prices are prohibitive. Muttering threats of a general strike, union leaders of Bizonia have organized a series of weekend conferences to talk about (Turn Tn Pure Charles Brodbeck Is Struck By Car Only Sliqhtly Hurt Here This Morning Charles Brodbeck. 58. of 210 North Seventh street, was hospital ized this morning after he was struck by an automobile while crossing Monroe street at Second street on foot. The car was driven by Paul Sneakman. 19. of Decatur route « After the mishap Speakman took the victim to the Adams county memorial hospital in his car. Broadheck s ' injuries were a severely bruised forehead, facial, lacerations and a bruised left hip ! No bones were broken He was crossing on the west side of Sec ond street when the Sneakman auto, making a left turn, struck him. 1 The accident occurred at 8:55: a m . according to city police, who investigated. It was the first pedestrian accident in Decatur in* almost a year.

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Good Fellows Club Previously reported S4BB j A Friend - 5 . ■ Walter Britzenhofe 2 ’ A Friend , -1 David Cole 1 Roger Cole -1 Barbara Cole 1 John Co e 1 Danny Cole 1 Baptist Philo Class 25 | • Friend 5 | i TOTAL $531 1 • | Urges Conservation Taken From Politics b State Department Administration Hit i Indianapolis. Dec. 18 — (UP) — • , The Democratic legislative policy committee today added a proposal 1 for a constitutional amendment to 1 , remove the state de- 1 i partihent of conservation from pol- 1 , itiesjo their growing list of sug- . gestions for legislation. The president of a large conser ] ■ vation club outlined a plan at a i session last night which he said j would eliminate the ‘chaotic condi- ( •ions of the department in the last , few years." i The Democratic senators and rep- i resentatives opened the last hearing ' this morning and were scheduled to I caucus later to discuss the sugges- < tions made during the last three i days. Carl Lee Compton. Indianapolis 1 attorney and president of Conser- * vation United of Indiana, presented 1 a program which he said would “remove the department from parti- ( san politics. He criticized adminis'ration of ( •he department in recent years. “It ( has been rotten," he said. I. He said the club he represented i had about 15.900 members and they | wanted to “save the soil and it will. , save everything else." “We want something permanent,” t Compton said. “We may get a good , hill from this legislature. But it can ; t be completely ripped apart by a ' la’er legislature.” The club proposes to push the. 1 proposed amendment through two sessions of the general assembly ’ and then take it to the people in a 1 referendum. The amendment would 1 set up a bi partisan conservation ••onunisjion. The commission itI self would elect its own director. now named by the governor. Terms j of commission members would lie { set up so no governor could name more than two. he said. Sen. Walter Vermillion, senate I minority leader, said Compton’s plan “Isn't bad." F “We expect to make things a lot •tetter for you." he said. , Compton said his eroup would f “certainly not oppose a merit syst- '' cm for the dapartmen’, but what we want is something more perma- :l nent." Other points of his plan includ- ’ ed eventual compulsory teaching ; 0 of conservation in public schools: legislation to reimburse the depart- a ment for fees lost Tn issuance of * (Turn To Page Severn

Doctor Says Killing Was Self Defense Wife's Lover Killed During Hotel Fight St. Louis, Mo., 18—(UP)— Dr. Robert C. Rutledge, 29, rallied from the effects of self-administer-ed poison today and claimed he killed his wife's lover in self defense. Rutledge admitted that he fought with Byron C. Hattman, 29, in a Cedar Rapids. la., hotel room but /claimed he did not know that Hattman was injured fatally. Police questioned Rutledge briefly late yesterday when he rallied after taking poison in his fashionable apartment here when officers arrived to arrest him in connection with Hattman’s death. Rutledge told detectives that he went, to Cedar Rapids to offer Hattman money to stay away from his beautiful honey blonde wife, Sidney. 23. Mrs. Rutledge is six feet tall. Hattman, like Rutledge, stood about six feet two inches, and was powerfully built. Rutledge said Hattman spurned bis offer and flashed a billfold full of money. Then, he said, Hattman pullfd a knife from his pocket and started for the doctor. The two husky men grappled violently. "I took the knife away from him times to keep him away,” Rutledge and jabbed at him a number of said. When Hattman dropped to the floor, Rutledge picked up the billfold and knife and fled. He returned to St. Louis where he threw the knife and billfold away. He said that Hattman. an engineering designer for the Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co., had been telephoning his wife frequently. asking her to divorce Rutledge and marry him. “I went to Cedar Rapids to see him and square accounts for my wife,” Rutledge said. Rutledge is a resident physician at St. Louis Children's hospital. He took an unknown poison yesterday in the bathroom of his home while police waited for him in the living room. He collapsed en route to headquarters. Mrs. Rutledge remained calm as she told of her affair with Hattman. The daughter of a Hannibal. Mo., physician, she attended Carleton college in Northfield. Minn., and earned a master’s degree here. She said she first met Hattman when she was working at the Emerson plant. She went with him on a company outing on the Missis(Turn Tn Pace «eveai Decatur Lady Marks 89th Birthday Today Mrs. John Lose, well known Decatur lady, oherrved her 99th birthday anniversary today. Mrs. I.ose is enjoying good health. She is the mother of Charles William and John Lose of this city, and resides with the latter son in their apartment. 1241* N. Second St. Affectionately known to friends as Grandma Lose, all extend wishes for her continued good health and many more years of happiness.

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Shoots Ex-Wife, Commits Suicide Fort Wayne Affray Ended By Suicide Fort Wayne. Ind., Dec. 18—(UP11 —An attractive 38-year-old divorcee was “improving’’ today with a serious chest wound which she said was inflicted by her former husband shortly before he turned his gun on himself yesterday. Mrs. Mary Ludy took a turn for the better this morning. She had been in "extremely critical” condition, unable to give an exact account of the shooting except to name Lloyd Rupert as her assailant. Rupert, 49-year-old operator of an exterminating company here, was found dead late yesterday in a baseball field in the east side industrial area here, not far from Mrs. Ludy's home. Detective (’apt. Theodore Wyss said it “apparently was suicide." The couple had been divorced less than two weeks. They had no children. Police said Rupert apparently came to Mrs. Ludy's home yesterday morning, shot her during a quarrel, then ran away and turn- '• ed his .22 caliber revolver on him--1 self. He was the object of a day- '■ long police search until his body e was found in the field by a news- ” boy, just eight hours after the shooting. 1 Mrs. Ludy had asked police pro--9 tection from Rupert, who she said 1 had attempted to kill her before 1 with cyanide gas and poison. She told authorities at the hospital that '■ he came to her home earlier yes- * terday morning and threatened to '■ kill her. but left when she told him s there was someone else in the 9 house. Authorities said an inquest would p be scheduled later. Manhunt At Geneva s Three state police officers and ' the Adams county sheriff's department went through Geneva and ■ vicinity with a fine tooth comb ’ Friday in a search for Rupert, 8 while Geneva residents speculated that the gunman might take refuge ’ there. 1 The suicide victim was believed 1 to be a native of Geneva, and has 1 a half brother, William Rupert, who e lives there now. Mrs. Pauline 80l(Turn To I’nar Four! 1 P Wold Oil Supply F Is Reported High Oil Development I • i Expert In Report J New zYork. Dec. IS — (UP) | A new survey showed today that f [the world is far from running out J of oil and that synthetic fuels will | not be necessary for 200 years or II <mor% The report came from Dr. E. V. • Murphree, oil development expert. ! who addressed a meeting of the ! New York section of the American ‘ Chemical society. The survey, he said, has indicat- ’ ed that “the potential yield of crude ■ | petroleum of both the United States ■|and the world is quite high, for the | world as a whole mounting to about 264 years of supply at the ( 1 present rate of qoMumption." , On the basis ot that estimate. ! atomic scientists can take their . time in designing that automobile which will run forever on a chunk of uranium. Murphree said that the “world also contains large deposits of natur:al gas. oil shale, an-1 tar sands! which can be used to augment production of oil products." Aa to the United Stales oil sup’s ply, Murphree said, the difficulty encountered in meeting demands ' last year “has been overcome, and 1 it is expected that productive capacity will he in excess of demand for the number of years ahead, bar ring war.” He said that exploration of crude 1 oil has been stimulated, accelerat(Tura T« !’•«» S»»e«i

I New York Jury Will Continue Probe 01 Hiss Federal Espionage Grand Jury Plans Continued Probe New York, Dee. 18 - (UP) Government sources made it clear today that the federal espionage grand jury intends to continue the investigation into Alger Hiss’ alleged relations with communist spies. Hiss' boss when he was in the state department, former assistant secretary of state Frances B. Sayre, will be called to testify when the grand jury resumes its inquiry after a weekend layoff, authorities said. Sayre, now a United States delegate to the United Nations, was due back tomorrow from Paris where he has been attending the session of the UN general assembly. The new jury which was impaneled Thursday heard Whittaker . Chambers, admitted former communist spy courier, as its first ■ and only witness yesterday. ■ Henry Julian Wadleigh, another former state department official ■ accused by Chambers of giving I secret documents to the Reds, was ■ another witness likely to be called ' Monday or Tuesday. He waited in the jury's anteroom under suhpena yesterday, but was not called In. 1 A government spokesman said 1 that another admitted former com- ' munist spy courier, Elizabeth Bentley, was to be called, possibly I after Christmas. He said, how ever, that the jury at the present time has no intention of calling ' the two witnesses believed to have been questioned here yesterday by ' Rep. John McDowell. R„ Pa., for ' the house unAmerican activities ' committee. McDowell questioned the witnesses. both negroes, in his hotel , room. They were believed to have 'been George Hewitt, an admitted ’ f former communist, and Max Yer (Tuol To Pune I’.laht! Arcola Man Is Killed In Auto-Truck Crash Fort Wayne, Ind.. Dec. 18 (UP) — Wayne A. Ruby, 39-year-old Arcola tavern owner, was killed instantly in an autotruck collision, near here shortly before midnight last night. Unity's car collided headon with a truck driven by John Brady. 42. of Churubusco, on I’. S. Itighway 3<t northwest of here. Brady suffered minor injuries. Miss Carrie Andrews Dies Friday Evening Funeral Services On Monday Morning Miss Carrie Andrews. 71.-lifelong resident of Adams county, died at 5:30 o'clock Friday evening at hethome one and one-half miles north- . west of Monroe She had been aili ing from complications for several .! years, and critical for two days Born in Adams connty June 16. ' 1877. she resided on the same farm I her entire life. She was a member Os the United Brethren church. Surviving are two brothers. . Ralph Andrews, at home, and Rex Andrews, of Kirkland townshin, and several nieces and nephews One sister and 12 brothers preceded her in death. Funeral services will he held at 10 o'clock Monday moraine at the Black funeral home, the Rev. W. L. Hall officiating. Burial will be in *the Ray cemetery, west of Monroe Friends may call at the funj eral home from 7 p m today until . noon Sunday, and from 2:36 pm. | Sunday until time of the sendees.

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Former Communist Slated To Appear At Closed Session Os Espionage Probe Washington. Dec. 18 — (UP) Congressional investigators said today a former communist has agreed to disclose "vital information" on Soviet espionage if guaranteed protection against reprisals I by his ex-comrades. | The former communist will appear Monday before a closed session of the house unAmerican activities committee. He was not identified. Members said his name will not be released until Monday. Committee members explained that they will serve the ex-com-munist with a formal subpena. This, they said, will guarantee him FBI protection under a law that makes it a criminal offense to injure a witness who has testified before a congressional committee. The witness obviously was one interviewed in New York yesterday by Rep. John McDowell, R.. Pa. McDowell, however, refused to affirm or deny the story. "I don't care to say anything now about my New York interviews," McDowell said. ‘I will not say anything until after I have reported to the committee." The committee originally had arranged to hear former assistant secretary of state Francis B. Sayre J and his secretary. Anna Belle Newcomb, on Monday. But it was ; indicated that their lestiinonj * would be set aside in favor of tli.l ex-communist. 1 The house spy investigators 1 were embarked on a search t<> learn how the communists slipped people into the government. "VVe have established the fact 1 that there was espionage in the government." said acting chairman Karl E. Mundt. R., S. I)., of L the house unAmerican activities ’ committee. "But we still lack a clear picture of how the communists set up their rings." Mundt said the committee plans to get "lite facts" from two excommunists who served as "couriers" for spy rings — Whittake? ' Chambers and Elizabeth T. Bent- [ ley. "We want to find out how they made their contacts; how they slipped people into the government and how they kept them covered up,” he said. "We need that information if we want to guard ourselves against future espioni age.” Mundt said that he and Rep. Richard M. Nixon. R„ Cal., may go i to New York next week to interview Chambers and Miss Bentley. As Mundt outlined the commiti tee's plans, there were these other developments in the spy case: i 1. Attorney general Tom C. I Clark indicated he would ask the new congress to tighten present espionage laws. He suggested extending the period in which persons can l>e tried for espionage, ami legalizing wire-tapping "under proper restrictions.” 2. Rep. John McDowell, R.. Pa., of the house unAmerican activities committee said he had uncovered some "highly important" new information in New York j which will l>e followed up im- : I mediately. II 3. The house committee released the last batch of “spy paper*'' which Chambers claims he got from former slate department I official Alger Hi*a. The papers i indicated the spy ring had access . I to top level diplomatic exchanges. I i 6THFW To : . Ji DAYS LEFT BUY ' CHRISTMAS “U SEALJ