Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 305, Decatur, Adams County, 28 December 1948 — Page 1

I XLVI. No- 305.

MAROONED AIRMEN RESCUED FROM ICE CAP

ifo Revive Ruhr Industries

Ijtahing ■Agreement To Mild Ruhr I United States And I Major West Europe I Lands Plan Revival -■ Rondon. Dec. 28- (UP) -The States and the major westEuropean nations announced plans for revival of the vital ■L, industries under the superißto® of an unprecedented interHjtioiwl authority. announcement of the far(Httachitiß agreement which wi.l reW tJ the Ruhr into an industrial ‘Hartland for western European “^t o v t ry meant final burial of the Morgenthau plan for which was designed to reduce German industry that nation never could have the to make war. Details of the new plan were Hde public today along with ifHyse of a draft statute for an in’Hitniati'oiwl authority for the Ruhr "Hihirh will be formed by the UnitStates, Britain, France, BelHgi]” he Netherlands and LuxemfHnrg. Eventually a German goviKttment will be included in the Ktbority precautions were taken satisfy French fears of a possiHe revival of German aggressive Hndenclts. The United States ■greed to revive the "objectiveft. Hid mechanisms" of the 50-year Kiarmament treaty which was by former secretary of Hue James F.‘Byrnes and was reby Russia. HBtit French demands for eventiHi! international ownership of the Hahr industries which supplied He armies of the Kaiser and of ■litler in the last two world wars Mitre not answered. This question Hns bypassed, to decide at some ■specified future date. ■ The long-awaited announcement released simultaneously in Mke capitals of the six nations Bitich drafted the plan in conferHites which began Nov. 11. ® The communique emphasized ■>t the plan for the Ruhr has objectives: ■ “Firstly, to assure the disarmaand demilitarization of Ger “Secondly. to further the recovMl of the countries of Europe, ■finding democratic Germany. to promote that inti association of their economic which in the last analysis ry ß6 can assure a peaceful and ■twperotis Europe." jB T “ e Ruhr authority will consist y * council composed of repre of the six western na «nd Germany, with western W*>l*tion officials casting the for Germany until a peaceful German government is ■ Tl >‘ United States, Britain. ■J* 5 ’ and Germany will have ■* »°tes each, while Belgium. F •'■'otherlands and Luxembourg ■* cast one each in the council. 0 assist the council in its pur°f preventing use of Ruhr S <T»r» To pace Tkreer - * Service ■’ lere On January 5 ■ Re Presentatives of the Indiana Floyment securi'y division will the Decatur city hall at 9 a m K, ednesday. January 5, instead 3(1 Pm. as previously schedul Announcement of the change in "mile by Marjorie V. May 11 B. Hutt, managers of the ||l' • tnent service and unemploycompensation office in Fort persons seeking jobs HT unemployment compensation H7/*P°rt at that time. The subHP* reporting date will be Wed January 2t. at 9 am., it ■ -* OBoua ced After that date ap■Jj** *lll report at 9 a tn. on the <n<i fourth Wednesday's of month. 9 . weather H J*" tonight and early Wedfollowed by clearing 9 * Wednesday. Warmer to--9

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To Press At Noon The Decatur Daily Democrat will go to press at noon Friday and no edition will be published Saturday, New Years day. Regular Saturday news and advertising deadlines will be observed Friday. Rural church announcements will be printed Thursday, with copy due at noon Wednesday. Decatur church announcements will be printed Friday, with copy due at noon Thursday. Charier Plane With 30 Aboard On Missing list Passenger Plane Presumed Down At Sea In Atlantic Miami, Fla., Dec. 28—(UP)— A chartered passenger plane with 30 persons aboard disappeared on a flight from Puerto Rico to New York early today and was presumed down at sea off the Florida coast. A faint and indefinite distress signal heard shortly before dawn sent 43 coast guard, navy, air force and- civilian planes on a widespread search which included the dense Everglades jungle on the southern tip of the Florida penin- ‘ stria.'* The missing plane, a DC-3 operated by the Airborne Transport Company of New York City, took off from San Juan at 10:30 last night with a crew of three and 27 passengers, including two infants believed to be Puerto Ricans returning to j New York after Christmas visits to I their homeland. The crew members were identified as pilot Robert Linquist. no address; co-pilot Ernie Hill, Jr.. (Miami, and stewardess Mary Burke, no address. The plane's flight plan called for a stop in Miami at 4:05 a.m. At 4:25 a.m., the CAA radio station at New Orleans heard a weak signa! which sounded like the registry number of the missing plane— NC16002. The CAA operator asked for a repeat of the signal but received no answer. Keep Vigilant Watch Over Sumner Welles Washington, Dec. 28 — (UP) — Doctors kept vigilant watch over former undersect retary of state lumner Welles today to determine ,f his all-night ordeal in the freezng cold will necessitate amputations. The 56-year old ex-diplomat suffered severe frostbite of the toes ind fingers in his Christmas night mishap. The latest hospital bulle in said the "chief hazard" now is •possible complications from exposure." Seven Youths Leave For Active Service Six Are Ordered For Pre-Induction Exams Seven Adams county youths left Decatur at 7 o'clock this morning on the first leg of their journey into military service. They were sworn into the army in Fort Wayne upon arrival at Baer fieldFrank Clear. Jr., of 154 North Second street, -was chosen leader of the contingent, and Hugh Ehrman. of Decatur route 3. acted as assistant leader. Others in the group were Merlin junior Rots. 72/ Dierkes street: Harold W. Nussbaum. Berne. Kenneth Yoder. Berne route 1nard G. Zurcher. Berne route 2,| and Woodrow Joseph. Moaroe. “six more county men will under e0 pre-induction physical » n^" ,en tai examinations in Fo '^'\ ay “ e January 5. local draft board of~X. <; >«• ro ute 1: RnlP* l RoM ' Deca tJr route 2: Harry Stucky. Berne route 1' Paul Moser. Geneva route Line street, Decatur.

Truman Hints Dissension In Soviet Russia Surprise Blast By President Hints At Rift In Kremlin Independence, Mo., Dec. 28.— (UP)— President Truman today told reporters they would have to keep on guessing what “certain leaders” of Russia he said are willing to "reach an understanding" with the U. S. about world peace. Mr. Truman again declined to expand on the remark which set speculation buzzing in capitals around the globe. The President began the last full day of his one-week Christmas visit in his hometown by taking his usual early morning walk over slukhy streets. As he tramped back into the i driveway of his home, a reporter asked again if he would clarify the , i statement about Russian leaders because there has been considerI able speculation. 1 "You'll just have to continue to speculate,” Mr. Truman said firmly. He then broke into a slow smile. It was obvious the President did not intend to discuss the issue further. As he returned home, he did not stop in the driveway for a (•hat with reporters as has been his custom. He walked straight ahead and turned around ( only when questions were called to him. Press secretary Charles G. Ross last night said "the President does not intend to name them” when i reporters asked for clarification of I the statement. The remark was i made in Mr. Truman’s explosive off-the-cuff attack on Russia at a testimonial luncheon yesterday to his old haberdashery partner, Eddie Jacobson. The President coupled his unexpected blast at Russia with a good, word for the Russian people themselves. He also pledged to spend his next four years in office working for peace. "I know it can be done,” he told a cheering and surprised audience of Kansas City businessmen who had gathered to pay tribute to Eddie Jacobson, the president's old haberdashery partner, for his work in raising money for Jewish causes (Turn io t-aae Fire) Mrs. Joseph Gerber Dies This Morning Funeral Services Thursday Afternoon Mrs. Mary Gerber. 70, wife of Joseph Gerber, died at 2:43 a.m. today at her home three miles east of Bluffton following a stroke. She had been ill for three years. i A lifelong resident of Wells county, she was a daughter of Mathias and May AeschlimanKaehr. She was married July 9, 1898, to Joseph Gerber. She was a member of the Apostolic Christian church. Surviving In addition to her hus band are seven sons. Lewis of near Decatur. Fred of Latty. 0.. John of Markle. Henry and Lawrence of Bluffton. Norman of Petroleum and Roy. at home: six brothers. Daniel and Joseph Kaehr. both of Decatur. John. Jacob. Joel, and Reuben, all of Bluffton; one sister. Mrs. Bertha Reimchisel of Bluffton: 28 grandchildren and one great grandchild. A foster daughter, one brother and two sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be held at 1 30 p.tn. Thursday at the home and at 2 o'clock at the Apostolic Christian church, the Rev. Samuel Aeschliman officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The body will be removed from the Jahn funeral home to the residence at 5 o'clock this evening. NEW SERIAL FRIDAY • All About Marriage." Ethel Hueston's new serial atory. will start Friday In the Daily Democrat. The story deals with marriage vows and what they t mean to Donna Caidwell. Read this interesting story in the Daily Democrat.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, December 28, 1948

Former G-Man To Head Stale Police Arthur M. Thurston Named By Schricker Indianapolis, Dec. 28—(UP)— A handsome, husky ex-FBI man who was a wartime counter intelligence agent in the Pacific area and helped reorganize the Japanese police system, was governor-elect Henry F. Schricker's choice as Indiana state police superintendent today. Arthur M. Thurston, 33, Shelbyville, was Schricker’s second pick Sas superintendent. ♦ The first. Arthur Campbell, Indianapolis printing firm executive, was disqualified a day after his appointment because he lacked the required police experience. Schricker said there would be no such legal snag to bar Thurston’s appointment. Thurston has nearly 10 years background in the Federal Bureau of Investigation and government and military police work. “I’m'proud that we have an Indiana man so well qualified for the job," Schricker said at a press conference yesterday when Thurston’s appointment was announced. Thurston, a good-looking, six-foot-three-inch. 215-pound Democrat. paid he was “proud to get the job." "I know Indiana's police system is one of the best in the country,” he said. Although he was born in Boulder, Colo., and has been away from Indiana most of the time since 1938, Thurston is a member of a pioneer poosier family. He has been living in Shelbyville since January, when he resigned as deputy chief of operations of the war department's central intelligence agency in Washington, a post he held for a year and a half. His six years with the FBI and time in the navy as a lieutenant, junior grade, have taken him to all parts of the world. He has rubbed elbows with top-notch police ad(Turn To Pnue Three) Russians Free Six Seized Americans Returned Unharmed By Russian Forces Frankfurt. Dec. 28 — (UP) — SJx American soldiers captured by the Russians at gunpoint Sunday when they crossed into the Soviet zone of Germany by mistake have been returned unharmed, It was announced officially today. The soldiers, members of the 22nd constabulary squadron at Hersfeld, were identi.ied by the army as: Sgt. Joseph F. Kelly of Philadelphia; Corp. John L. Warrick I of Garrison. Pa.; Pvt. Edward Sesi ser of Andalusia. Ala.; Pvt. Miller Lester of Clemens. Ky.; Pvt. Chester Collins of Pineville, Ky.; and Pvt. Robert P. Deyton of Chester. IS. C. An army spokesman said a German policeman accompanying the ' soldiers also had been released. Two jeeps and all their weapons were returned with the men. The soldiers were turned over to U. S. army authorities at the border check point of Widderhausen last night. “There was a misunderstanding as to where the actual border was," a U. S. officer explained. He said the Russians had fired (Tara Tu Hurr Twos No Date Is Set For License Plate Sales Mrs. Charles Lose, manager of the auto license branch office in this city, in response to numerous Inquiries, announced today that no defini:e date has been set for sale of 1949 plates. Because of confusion in the state offices because of the political changeover in the state, the license department is short of help and con siderable delay has been encountered in readying the sale of license plates. Mrs. Lose stated that she I would make a public announce- ' rnent when a date is set for the license sales here. Sales probably will not be started until after Feb. 11.

Egypt Premier Assassinated By College Student New Type Violence Hits The Troubled Middle East Today By United Press Violence of a new type hit the troubled middle east, already wracked by a war in Palestine ' and friction among the Arab stales, when Premier Mahmoud Fahmy Nokrashy Pasha was . assassinated in the interior ministry building at Cairo today. , Police identified the assassin as i a veterinary college student and member of the outlawed nationalI ist organization, the Moslem broth- - erhood. Disguised as a police of- . fleer, he fired six revolver shots at Nokrashy. Five found their i mark. The motive for the assassination was buried in the complicated political trends of Egypt, particularly among the students, which ofen have flared up in big scale ' rioting and bloodshed. Nokrashy had been active in suppressing student demonstrations. The Moslem brotherhood was outlawed early this month on grounds that 1 it fomented student terrorism. Next door to Egypt, at its very ■ frontier, the army of Israel claimed successes which threatened the position of all ti e Egyptian troops ; remaining in Palestine. Israeli, Egyptian and United Nations reports were agreed that the Jews had gained some ground less than five miles from the Egyptian frontier. The significance of the gains lay in the evident possibility that they might enable the Jews to seize control of the coastal railway where it crosses the frontier, thus severing the only practical line of communi- ' cation between the Egyptians in Palestine and their homeland. The UN security council in Paris was grappling anew with the Palestine problqm. Great Britain offered a resolution calling for an immediate cease fire and for withdrawal to old truce lines. Such a withdrawal would deprive the Jews of most of their gains in the October offensive, as well as in the new fighting which broke out two days before Christmas. Other developments: Belgrade — Marshal Tito, cast!(Turn To Pnjre Three) Public Aid Costs Listed For County Per Capita Cost Is Below Average Expenditures for public aid in Adams county amounted to $165.472 or $7.79 per capita in 1947, as compared to a state-wide average of $10.24 per capita, a study made by the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce showed today. ■Statistics for Adams county for the month of June. 1948, show that 246 persons received a total of $9,006 in old age assistance. The average individual monthly payment was $36.61 as compared to the statewide average of $32.96. Under the program of aid to dependent children in the same month. 94 children of 40 families received an average monthly pay went of $20.56 to make a total of $1,933. The statewide average in dividual payment was $20.57 per child. Grants totaling $265 were made in June to seven recipients of blind assistance, or an average of $37.86 per person. The average individual monthly payment in the state was $35.09. Total expenditures in the entire state for county public welfare programs. township relief and county homes and orphanages in 1947 were $35,104,015. The state Chamber's tax and social security manual is published at the beginning of each session of the Indiana legislature, presenting statistical facts and comments on all phases of government financing and social security in Indiana. •

Dramatic Rescue Made By Air Force Flyers; Stranded For 19 Days

Order Roosevelt To Explain Family Row Elliott Roosevelt's Wife Slashes Wrist Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Dec. 28 — (UP)—Elliott Roosevelt was ordered today to appqar before the Dutchess county district attorney to explain how his actress wife, Faye Emerson, reportedly slashed her left wrist with a razor blade after a family quarrel. District attorney W. Vincent Grady said the son of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt had agreed to come to his office at 9 a. m. CST tomorrow. Sheriff C. Fred Close said the incident took place at 3 a. m. CST Sunday in the bathroom of the “dream house" cottage at Hyde Park which President Roosevelt had built for his retirement. The couple had lived there since the war and were alone at the time of the incident, he said. The sheriff said Miss Emerson was "restrained” from seriously injuring herself and was driven by her husband to the home of a neighbor, Dr. H. Sherman Hirst, for treatment. On Dr. Hirst’s recommendation, she was taken to Vassar Brothers hospital here. She was dismissed yesterday with adhesive tape on her left wrist and right index finger. Young Roosevelt called for hit wife at the hospital and reportedly took her to New York where they were in seclusion. Dr. Hirst was quoted by. Sheriff Close as saying no stitches were required to close the cuts. District attorney Grady said the case was being investigated because wounds inflicted by “sharp instruments” were supposed to be reported and the first he had heard of the incident was from newsmen rather than. from Dr. (Turn To Pour Twin

Patent Is Granted To Gunther, Sair Assign Patent To Central Soya Co. The United States patent oftice has granted patent No. 2.454,315 on “Process for treating fish press water” to James K. Gunther and Lewis Sair. Mr. Gunther, who resides at 622 Washington Street, is’ research director for the Central Soya company and Mr. Sair is a former company chemist. He now resides in Chicago. The patent has been assigned to the local manufacturing company. Fish press water, a by product of the fish processing industry, comprises the body fluids that are pressed from the fish, it usually is concentrated to a point where it contains approximately 50 percent solid matter and. in such condition, contains valuable vitamins and sup plements for feeds. Because it frequently has to be shipped for considerable distances, it is of great importance to increase its concentration as much as possible. However, according to Gunther and Sair. "any increase in concentration much beyond 50 percent has been found impractical, because the concentrated material tends to gel and form a tough substance that cannot be handled until it is again made fluid by heating. Another problem confronting the industry is the fact that the water has a fishy odor, is somewhat adhesive, and. when stored in the usual commercial concentrations at temperatures of from 70 to 140 degrees Fahrenheit, it tends to become putrid In addition, its viscosity is variable, thereby making it difficult to meter the press water and mix it uniformly with the feed products. “It is therefore the object of their invention to overcome theee disadvantages, and. in general, they accomplish this end by first removing, by a centrifugal process. (Tara Ta )•««» Twei

Charge Primate With Plotting Red Overthrow Hungarians Claim Confession From Catholic Leader Budapest, Dec. 28. —(UP) — The Hungarian government announced today that Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty. Catholic primate of Hungary, has confessed that he plotted to overthrow the Communist regime and restore the Hapsburg monarchy in Hungary. A ministry of interior communique said that the primate, who was arrested yesterday on treason and espionage charges, admitted that he planned restoration of the Hapsburg monarchy in conversations with Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York and Otto of Hapsburg during a visit to the United States last year. Cardinal Mindszenty admitted, the communique said, that he “conducted a one-hour confidential negotiation with Otto in a monastery near Chicago” on June 21, 1947, at which "he told Otto about the Hungarian royalist movement under his leadership." The Cardnial further confessed, the communique said, that at this secret meeting he and Otto agreed that after an expected third World War the United States would support a federated central European kingdom. "Therefore," the communique said, "they agreed that Hungarian royalist forces should be gathered, and the organization extended." After the meeting with Otto, who is the pretender to the throne of •he Hapsburgs, Cardinal Mindszenty talked with Cardinal Spellman in New York, the communique said. He told Cardinal Spellman, the communique continued, that he had accepted the task of organizing royalist forces. "After that,” the communique said, "on the Cardinal's request, in a declaration in his own handwriting Mindszenty declared: 'I declare that Otto Hapsburg is authorized with full right to represent Hungarian Catholics abroad, and especially in the United States.’ ” The 1.600-word communique said that Mindszenty “confessed" sending secret reports regarding Hungarian internal affairs to western power envoys. It did not assert, however, that he made any full confession of being guilty of the charges placed against him. The communique said he was "suspected of treason, at(Tarn To l*nK» Ms)

Dwight Arnold To Supervise Meiers Appointment Made By Mayor John Doan Dwight Arnold, who retires Jan uary 1 as Adams county service ofticer. will have charge of Deca tur's parking meters, it was an nounced today by Mayor John Doan The meters will be installed immediately. Mr. Arnold, who retires January 1 because no appropriation was made to continue his office in Adams county, will have charge of all phases of the work in connection with the new parking meters. This work includes repair, when needed: winding the meters and collection of the money, which is turned over to the clerk-treasurer. The meters will be installed in the business district of the city following recent enactment of a city ordinance authorizing the installation Mr. Arnold is a World War II veteran and has been service officer for more than two years Last November he made an unsuccessful bid tor the office of county auditor on the Republican ticket.

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12 Marooned Men Taken Off Ice Cap In Greenland Today By Transport Plane Washington, Dec. 28 — (UP) — Two air force fliers outraced the navy and the Artic cold today to rescue 12 marooned comrades from the Greenland ice cap. The dramatic rescue was achieved at 9:08 a.m., CST., by a twin engined C-47 transport plane flown by Lt. Col. Emil G. Beaudry and Ist Lt. Charles H. Blackwell, both of the Westover field, Mass., air base. They skiied their .big plane into a landing on the icy, 7,700-foot plateau where three other rescue ships had crashed, or been stranded. loaded the castaways aboard and zoomed off again with the help of rocket boosters. .Beaudry and Blackwell radiod back to the air force rescue base at Goose Bay, Labrador, that all the marooned men were in good condition and that they were returning to Bluie West 8 field 270 miles northwest of the ice cap. Seven of the castaways had been stranded since Dee. 9 when their transport crashed on the towering plateau.' Five more fliers joined them during the ensuing weeks in three separate rescue attempts that failed. j’ It was a spectacular victory for the air force, whose Greenland resj cue crews had gone all-out in an effort to remove their comrades from the cap in the face of howling gales that reached velocities of 101 I miles an hour. Beaudry and Blackwell effeete I i the rescue at almost the same time that Col. Bernt Balchen. the air : force's top Artic expert, was arriv- ' lug in Greenland with a picked ; crow of specialists from the Alastan command to lend a hand in the operation. .And they beat out .by a .full 72 hours the oncoming navy carrier Saipan, which pat out from Norfolk. Va.. last Saturday with five helicopters It planned to land on the ice cap. Dispatches from the Saipan said 'the 14.500-ton flattop, damaged by heavy seas, was plowing slowly through a raging snowstorm about l.OOt) miles south of the Greenland . coast. The castaways had been down on a plateau altout 50 miles inland from the southwest coast of Greenland The air force had asked the navy to help because the carrier could get closer to the ice cap than either Bluie West 8 or Bluie West I ai'C liases — the latter 100 miles south of the cap. Because of rough weather in the North Atlantic, the Saipan reported that it would not have been able to reach the area until Friday. The - carrier was expected to bead back i for Norfolk at once. j First fragmentary reports from tlie rescue plane indicated none of ' the castaways was any the worse for the ordeal The air force had kept them well supplied with heating equipment and food — including a Christmas dinner dropped by parachute. They lived in ice block houses and kept in constant touch with the outside world over a radio salvaged from their wrecked plane. Until the actual rescue was accomplished. it had Iteen believed that 13 men were down on the ice cap. But the air force said it had !>een confirmed that only fl-e fliers (Tarn Ta Paa* Tkwi

Freezing Rain In Parts Os Indiana Indianapolis. I) * c - s —<VP>— A freezing rain fell in sca'tered parts of Indiana today, increasing driving haiards. hut the weatherman said warmer, clearin; weather was close behind. State police issued a district-br-district report at 10 am. that said roads were normal in the Ugionier. Pendleon. Connersville. Seymour and Charles'own districts but that rain was failing in many ot them and might glue highways later I today.