Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 306, Decatur, Adams County, 29 December 1948 — Page 1

XLVI. No- 306.

HLESTINE CEASE-FIRE ORDERED RY UN

k Truman Weturn [o Washington I Truman Declines To I Amplify Statement I On Soviet Russia ■ Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 29—(UP) Bp—ident Truman heads back to Khington today to help organize m Democratic congress. ■ The president’s Christmas week ■ihonie ends when his plane, the Kwndence. takes off from FairKairport at 10 a.m. (CST) for the Krtioar flight to Washington. ■ Tomorrow. Mr. Truman plans to ■ -,.. w jth vice-president-elect E w. Barkley and house speakSam Rayburn about organiK od plans for the new congress E convenes Monday. The PreKjtnt also must whip into final K pe his state-of-the-union mesK, (or the new congress. Er. Truman left his nearby ■me town of Independence, Mo., K world capitals still humming K, his impromptu luncheon ■meh here Monday in which he K "certain leaders" of the SovKl'nion want to reach an “underKiding with us." ■ ilthough the President declined Klyto amplify his statement, obKers close to the White House Klieved it was aimed at creating Kertainty and possible suspicion Kong the Russian high command. ■ yr. Truman told reporters, K'll just have to continue to Kuzte.” ■beept for the off-the-cuff talk Kiday and a Christmas eve radio Kideast, the President made no Kit talks and spent much of his Ke resting, taking his daily mornK walks, and visiting friends and Kitives. ■ He spent most of yesterday at his Kporary headquarters in the Kiel Muehlebach here working at Kdesk and receiving visitors. ■At noon he was the guest of reKters covering his trip at a pri■ue, informal luncheon in the Ket ■ Last night, the President, Mrs. Ktnati and Margaret attended a Kill private dinner at the estate ■ Broadway producer Blevins ■tris near Independence. ■irs. Truman and Margaret will ■km to Washington later. ■leporters and photographers K covered Mr. Truman’s frosty ■mlng walks gave him the origiK charter of the “Truman early ■m walking society of Independ■te, Mo." The document bore pieyt of the charter-member “folym" taken with the Presideut Kt one of the walks. ■The news and photo men also ye the President a pedometer S 'T»r» ih Pace Wlmi fry Brown Funeral frsday Afternoon body of Harry J. Brown, who KSaturday at his home in Mesa, y, arrived by plane last night y removed to the Gillig & y* funeral home, where friends y all anil time of the services, rites will be held at 2 p.m. y t * l> y at the funeral home, with yVasonic lodge conducting the yces Burial will be in the Cathy cemetery. Surviving are his ff 1 ,lle dormer Margaret Schuyherof this city, and a sister-in-y ‘td nephew of Brooklyn. N. Y. Colchin Injured fr n Hit By Auto yColehin, «6, of 234 South ’treet. was in "fairly good' y*’- 011 *t the Adams county hospital today after being hy an automobile at Third ■* Person stree's Tuesday He suffered a lacerated yj Md the crest of his right hip ■T driven by W r. SlO Monroe street Police Bwry as saying he did not ■7**had struck the pedestrian. ■7 »ough the impact of the K* **• efficient to knock out a 00 the car. He returned K* lf * B * of the mishap, howK* the assumption that he KT * T * hit something without Ku? ia the driving rain. Injury was the secoad K/"** accident in 10 days was hit by a car Kg** and Monroe streets on is Last night's accident y ****>:«! by city police

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C. C. Speaker gIiMF wM’ w| * * jgjjg BP ‘I '.IKr ■ c HH J ) MB . DELOSS WALKER, noted magazine editor, world traveler and corporation executive, will speak on “See What’s Ahead” at the annual ' dinner meeting of the Decatur • Chamber of Commerce January 12. • A capacity crowd is anticipated, as the dinner is not limited to r Chamber members. Reservations t must be made by January 7. r —— ' Favor Eliminating ' Slate Properly lax a Sizeable Group Os Solons Favors Move i Indianapolis, Dec. 29 — (UP) — , A sizeable group of Indiana's 1949 > legislators favor eliminating the 15-cent state property tax, a Unitt ed Press survey showed today. 1 The sentiment toward wiping 1 -nut the levy ■ completely was not 1 confined to the Democrats, whose ‘ stale party platform pledged 1 wholesale tax reductions and repeals. 1 Half of the 149 members of next ! j year’s general assembly replied to • a U. P. opinion questionnaire, and i of the 75 answers, 30 favored re- '' moving the 15-cent tax. Os these, 19 were Democrats and 11 Repub- ! licans. An equally strong b'oc favored ' | keeping the tax as it is. Thirty ‘ | said they thought it ought to i stand. Twelve of these were 1 j Democrats and 17 Republicans I and one did not identify his po- ! litical affiliation. A third group, much smaller, ,| favored reducing the tax below the - 15-cent maximum provided by law. , Eight favored reduction and seven j others indicated they were unde- , cided or declined to commit them- . 1 selves. The present law was enacted in 11937. It holds the annual levy to , I not more than 15 cents on each .; 8100 of taxable property. The i state finance board, which in- | eludes the governor, has for some ' years set the tax at maximum strength. Some of the levies included in the tax breakdown for (Turn To I’sse Two) Measure Prepared On Direct Primary Kendallville Solon To Submit Measure Indianapolis. Dec. 29 — (IP) — The first draft of a direct primary bill has been drawn, Rep. Laurence iD. Baker. Kendallville, co-auditor > of a similar measure defeated by the Indiana legislature two year ago. said today. Baker said he planned to intro duce the bill in the house and have a copy presented In the senate when the general assembly convenes in January. Baker spearheaded a drive to en act direct primary legislation in the 1947 legislature but the measure was beaten and a conven’ion reform law adopted by the Republi-can-controlled assembly . Democrats, pledged by their platform to enact a direct primary, will (Ton To twrs.l Brief Session Held By Decatur Council i T he Decatur city council met in continued session Tuesday to wind up Its business f« After roll call, which one bills the last meeting of the year n.

Press Search For Transport | Down At Sea Military, Civilian Aircraft In Search For Missing Plane Miami, Fla., Dec. 29— (UP)— A swarm of military and civilian aircraft took off at dawn today to begin the second day of searching I for a chartered passenger plane missing over the Carribbean with 30 persons aboard. Three American crew members | and 27 Puerto Rican men, women and children were known to be aboard the plane which vanished early yesterday on a flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to New York. Coast guard officers directing the hunt added a blimp from Boca Chica naval air station to the searching aircraft and widened the search area to include the northern coast of Cuba. The plane's pilot, Robert Linquist of Ft. Myers, Fla., sent his one distress message at 4:13 a.m. yesterday. six hours after he took off from San Juan. He said then that he believed his position was about 50 miles south of Miami. But a search from dawn to the last minute of daylight by 43 military planes and low-flying civilian craft failed to turn up a trace of the missing plane. Hunter planes planned to cover the north coast of Cuba today on the off chance that the pilot had miscalculated his position. Most searchers believed, however, that the passenger plane was down at sea or crashed among the tangled jungle of Florida’s Everglades. Besides Linquist, crew members aboard the chartered DC-3 were co-pilot Ernie Hill of Miami and stewardess Mary Burke of Jersey City, N. J. All passengers aboard the plane, owned by the Airborne Transport Co. of New York, were believed to be Puerto Ricans returning to New York after a Christmas visit to their homeland. If the plane went down at sea, chances for survival of those aboard was good, the coast guard said, since the plane carried three life rafts and life preservers for all hands. Central Soya Holds Salesmen Conference Banquet Tonight To Conclude Conference Managers and department heads of the Decatur Central Soya company's office and plant, were among those who attended the annual salesmen conference of the company held at Hotel Van Orman in Fort Wayne last evening. Arthur H. (Red) Motley, publisher of Parade Magazine and one of the nations outstanding salesman, was the principal speaker at the banquet attended by 300 salesmen and officials. H. W. McMillen, sales director, and E. E. Reynolds, assistant director. were in charge of the program. Mr. Motley was introduced by Fred W. Thomas, company president. Motley electrified the crowd with his talk on salesmanship. "Nothing ever happens until someone sells something," said the dynamic and successful publisher and advertising director. “Needs are not important. If they were, the neediest peoples would be the wealthiest. “No. wants are the fundamental thing. Needs are valueless unless the person wants to satisfy needs. "To keep this a free country, you must make people want to keep it (Tr-« T« Tare Tw®l Hotel Fire Fatal To Four Persons Twisp. Wash.. Dec. 29 - (UP) - Firemen searched the ruins of the 40-vear-old Campbell hotel today tor Indies of at least four persons killed in an explosion and fire that destroyed the building yesterday. Nine hotel guests escaped without injury by jumping from windows Into snow banks. The exact number of persons in the hotel could not be .determined because i the hotel owner. Tom Campbell. ( \as among the missing. i

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, December 29,1948

Youngest, Oldest New Citizens Afl L T’ ’ 3L h■ ' IfOlß YOUNGEST AND OLDEST of 325 new U. S. citizens sworn in at New York as nieces and nephews of Uncle Sam during Freedom week are Luciano Gillia, 3, and Mrs. Mathilda Ullman. 83.

Valuable Awards To Firsl Baby 011949 Decatur Merchants To Present Gifts Sponsored by 31 individuals and business firms, the Daily Democrat’s 10th annual New Year’s baby contest will begin at l?:01 a.m. on January 1, 1949, it was announced today. The contest is confined to the north half of Adams county, including Decatur. To the parents of the first baby bom in the New Year and to the little miss or mister, the cooperating sponsors will shower the family with many valuable and appreciated gifts. The cooperation of the attending physician, nurse and hospital attaches is asked in notifying the newspaper of the arrival of the first 1949 baby, either at home or at the hospital. The word of the attending physician or hospital superintendent will be accepted in determining the time of arrival of the first born, in the event that more than one birth is reported on New Year's day. Thursday's paper will carry rules and regulations and also a list of the cherished prizes for parents and baby. Practically everything from a safety pin to a layette for the miss or mister 1949, a necktie for father and flowers for mother, will be awarded to the family that greets the New Year with a blessed event. The 1948 contest was won by Stephen Lawrence Kohne, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Kohne, 307 South Seventh street, who arrived on New Year's day. WEATHER Clearing and much colder tonight, with low temperatures 16 to 25 northwest to 25 southeast. Thursday fair and rather cold. Diminishing winds late tonight.

Seek Atomic Engine To Propel U. S. Warships

Chicago, Dec. 29 — (UP) — Officials of the Westinghouse Electric corporation estimated today it would take from two to six years to design and build an atomic engine to power warships. | The engine would revolutionize naval -warfare by permitting fleets to stay at sea indefinitely. | Alfonse Tammaro. manager of the commission’s office here, announced that a letter contract was given Westinghouse to cooperate J with the atomic energy commission’s Argonne national laboratory here Jor development of an experimental naval engine "wi hin the shortest practical time." The experimental engine, he said, will be developed to meet specifications of construction and performance laid down by the navy department bureau of ships The Argonne inbora'ory will haw responsibility for the design, development and engineering of the naval power plant. Weatlnghou.se will he in charge of detailed engineer lag, construction and o;*raLon of the engine. | At Pittsburgh, Charles Weaver,

Retail Stores Close Thursday Afternoon The majority of Decatur retail stores, and the First State Bank, will be closed at noon Thursday •lor the balance of the day, it was announced today by the Chamber I of Commence retail committee. Business generally will 'be suspended r all day Saturday, New Years day. i Four Men Killed In • Crash Os Airplane i Michigan National Guard Plane Falls Detroit, Dec. 29—(UP) — The I Michigan national guard officials ■ today said that four mangled bodies ■ had been recovered from the wreck- ■ age of the B-26 bomber which ■ crashed and exploded five miles I short of the Wayne county airport, i Guardsmen and state police I searched through the litter to de- : termine whether other persons i were aboard the plane. It was returning from a training flight to i McDill Field, Tampa, Fla. ’ Two of the dead were identified i as Capt. Charles L. Parham, 26. ; Dearborn, Mich., the pilot, and Ist • Lt. Donald A. Streeter, the naviga- ; tor. , The others were Cpl. John Cinko. : Homestead, Pa„ and Pfc. Donald C. I Radtke, Detroit. Both were b» lieved to be aerial hitchhikers who - boarded the plane at McDill field. ’ The plane crashed last night shortly after it received permisI sion for an instrument let down to the landing field through a windy drizzle. Other pilots reported moderate icing conditions in the Detroit area, the guard said, but the actual cause of the B-26 crash was un known. The wreckage was scattered <Tn*n Tn Pace Two)

head of Wes inghouse corporation’s atomic power division, said about 600 men. mostly engineers anl i scientists, will work on the project at a special plant to be constructed in the Pittsburgh area. 1 He said the company will start 1 building the plant in several months. The main problem, scientists said, will be to reduce the size anl • weight qf atomic reac ors, such ’ as are now in operation at Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Hanford, Wash., so as to make them portable and still maintain safety. 1 Naval experts at Washington hailed the AEC's announcement as the first major step toward apply ing recent atomic discoveries to this country's sea defense. Development of such an engine probably would have a more pro- ' | found effect on sea tactics and s rategy than the development of steelhulled steamships had in the days of sailing vessels, they said. Philip Rose, one of the Westinghouse engineers assigned to the project, said the engine would give (Tara Ta Page Twa)

Security Council Gives Order; British Report Egypt Invaded By Jews

North Central Area Is Swept By Storm Report Heavy Snow, Blustering Winds By United Press A severe snowstorm driven by blustering winds swept across the north central states today. The storm, borne on a 50-mile-per-hour gale, lashed Wisconsin and Minnesota after veering across lowa, Nebraska and Kansas. The high winds knocked down telephone lines and piled the snow into huge drifts which made many roads throughout the area almost impassable. Three to eight inches of snow fell in sections of southern Minnesota. At Rochester, Minn., eight to 15 inches of snow choked the airport runways and 'forced cancellation of flights. Four inches of snow already had fallen in cen ral Wisconsin, and U. S. weather forecasters said eight inches could be expected. Busses were delayed and highway travel was perilous throughout the central section of the state. In Nebraska, crews totaling 350 telephone repairmen set out at dawn to repair about 300 breaks in the lines which left 46 towns without communications. The storm sent temperatures tumbling throughout the north central states. It was 19 degrees below zero at Sanish, N. D., 12 below at Pembina, and two below at Grand Forks and Jamestown, N. D. The storm, born in the North Pacific, battered the California coast line earlier this week, pushed Inland over the Rocky Mountains and then gathered intensity as it pounded across the western plains. Forecasters said the storm center would cross almost directly over Chicago about noon today, heading in an east-northeasterly direction for the St. Lawrence valley. Storm warnings were posted (Tur® To I’urr Two)

Czech Priesls And Bishops Assailed Czech Government Lashes Catholics Prague. Dec. 29 — (UP) — The Czechoslovakian government launched a bitter attack on Catholic priests and bishops today which observers believed may parallel the Cardinal Mindszenty ease in neighboring communistcontrolled Hungary. The attack was inaugurated by 1 dispatch distributed through the official Czech news agency which said that workers were complaining that some priests were "traitors to the peoples democratic re public.” The dispatch said the workers also demanded that Czech bishops "clarify their attitude toward the present regime" — communist phraseology for declaring alleg iance to the communist-controlled government. This attitude on the part of the workers, the dispatch said, was disclosed in thousands of letters sent to the powerful central trade union council and the central action committee. Mention of these two powerful organizations indicated to observers that the government definite ly intends to take action against priests and bishops opposed to the communist regime. “Many workers resolutions and letters are being received by the cen'ral trade union council, the central action committee and other organization* demanding that Czech bishops declare their stand on questions of priests who by their activity have branded themselves tnitors and foes of the re- . public," the dispatch raid. i The dispatch quoted one letter (Tara To Pago Two)

Lovell Lashes Hungary Arrest OfMindszenly Charges Patently False, Views Os , State Department Washington, Dec. 29 — (UP) — t Acting secretary of state Robert , A. Lovett said today the arrest of , Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty dim- , axed a long series of oppressive actions by the communist Hungar- j lan government against personal, , human and re igious freedoms. Lovett said the cardinal was . arrested on patently false char- , ges. The acting secretary descrlb- \ ed Hungarian assaults on freedom as a sickening sham. He predicted that the arrest would affect the attitude of all free nations toward . Hungary. The cardinal s arrest and what 1 he described as other examples of 1 this type of behavior in communist countries in erfere, Lovett said, 1 with efforts to establish world 1 peace. Such actions, he said, make ' peace an aspiration rather than a reality. The cardinal’s .arrest be added, was another link in an unhappy chain of events which began when the communists seized ! power In Hungary. Re fable informants said earlier 1 that the United States takes "an extremely serious view” of the action against the cardinal. b Diplomatic quarters interpreted j the move as part of a general campaign against the Catholic i 1 church in eastern Europe. They said the campaign appeared ap-11 preaching a climax both In Hun- i gary and Poland. i The arrest was the subject of (Turn To I’nire Threei I All Used Clothing Is Now Distributed All used clothing and shoes, re- , ceived too late for the Good Fe.- | lows club Christmas distribution , last week, have been claimed and no further distribution will lie made, it was announced today by Mrs. Kenneth Arnold. clui> chairman Articles which were not distributed were made available Tues jay afternoon and today, and the supply was rapidlv exhausted, Mrs. | Arnold said, adding that no distri ] button will be made Thursday. Plan Hero Welcome : I For Rescued Fliers, i. ( New York City To Welcome 12 Airmen ] Washington. Dec. 29.—(UP)— J The air force today promised a 1 hero's welcome in New York City for the 12 fliers rescued from a Greenland ice cap. An air force spokesman said the 1 men. who were snatched off the icy plateau yesterday by a ski equipped transport plane, will be given at least 24 hours of rest in Greenland before they are return ed. Some have families in Greenland and may not want to come to the United States, he said Seven of the airmen had been 1 stranded on the 7.700 foot plateau since Dec. 9 when their transport ! went down. Five others joined them during ensuing weeks as var ' ious rescue attempts failed i Yesterday, however, a C-47 trans port, equipped with skis in place , of wheels and rockets to assist its takeoff, made a hazardous landing and removed the men. All were in good condition, having been drop- , ped plenty of food and clothing and heaters for the crude ice huts The men were taken to a remote air force weather observation station called Bluie West X before being flown to Bluie West 1. a (Tara T® race r"’’

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UN Orders Troops Withdrawn To Old Lines; Negotiate Armistice At Once BULLETIN Paris, Dec. 29—(UP)— The Netherlands told the security council today that it will cease operations in Java at midnight Friday “at the latest." Paris, Dec. 29 — (UP) — The United Nations security council, af■er hearing a British report that Jewish troops had invaded Egypt, today ordered a cease fire in Palestine, a troop withdrawal to old truce lines in the Negev, and immediate armistice negotiations. The council approved a British resolution embracing a broad directive on Palestine after Harold Beeley electrified it with a report that Israeli troops had penetrated some 25 miles into Egypt along the coastal road. The sensational report raised the question of invocation of an AngloEgyptian treaty, signed In 1936, binding each to come to the "immediate" aid of the other in case either was involved in war. (In London, a (foreign office spokesman said Britain does not now regard the border crossing incident as serious and expects that : it will be settled soon. He said there was no thought at this time of invoking the 1936 treaty.) The council order called for a cease fire, directed the Jewish and ! Egyptian forces to fall back in the Negev, and told both sides to open at once the long sought negotiations for a lasting armistice. | The resolution instructed tht council’s Palestine committee U meet at Lake Success Jan, 7 tc report whether Israel and Egypt had complied with the new orders. It either side failed to do so, the council under previous resolutions then would consider the possibility of applying sanctions. As finally approved the resolu- , tion included a French amendment Ordering Egypt and Israel to "allow and facilitate the complete supervision of the truce by UN observers." The British resolution was adopted by Die council with eight votes for and three abstentions. The United States, Russia and the Ukraine (Turn To Pnur Three) Dr. Jones Resigns As Health Officer Dr. D. D. Jones, of Berne, has submitted his resignation as county health officer, effective January 1. Appointed to a four-year term on January 1. 1946. Dr. Jones asked the commissioners to relieve him of his official duties with the coming of the new year. A successor to fill the one-year unexpired terin will lie named by the commissioners, probably on January 1, when the board convenes to elect a president. Dr. Jones is widely known as a physican and it was understood that his private practice prevented him from carrying on the work as health officer. Honor Out-Going County Officials At Dinner Friday Out going public officials who will retire from office January 1, will be honored guests at a potluck dinner Friday noon in the corridor of the court house, it was announced today . Incumbent officials, their deputies and clerks will furnish the food. The court house will colse at noon on Friday and the party will get underway at that time. Among those who will retire are Judge Eari B. Adams. Fred Kolter. lailfff. Virgil Bowers, surveyor, Dwight Arnold, county service officer. ind John Übris'ener. county commissioner. The court house will not be opei on New Years day. although an organization meeting of the board of commissioners is scheduled tor 9 o'clock in the morning at the > auditors office.