Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 24 January 1949 — Page 1

XLVII. No. 19.

ORT WAYNE MAN KILLED IN ACCIDENT HERE

lie Senate IssesßillOn ■ndardTime 111 Governmental ■nits To Operate Bn Standard Time ■anapolis, Jan. 24 —(UP)— Controversial time standardiza■ill passed the Indiana senate ■ease today and was sent to ■>use. ■ nobody was sure whether Leant a victory for the farm■e city dweller, or neither. K vote, after nearly an hour of Kd debate, was 38 to 10. ■der the terms of the bill as ■ded on second reading, the ■ operates on central standard ■winter and summer, as far as ■nniental units are concerned. ■ there's nothing to prevent a Cy, a businessmen's associalor an individual from setting lock as it pleases. There’s no ■ty for going on daylight savKime. Even cities could ig- ■ the provisions, in the event ■ill becomes law, although anyIcould bring suit for an injunc■n civil courts. ■ere was talk that the senate Rents of the measure helped lit to victory because of an ■standing that it would be killI the house. At any rate, now ■it is past the Republican-con-■d senate, it still must survive ■ Democratic-dominated house ■get the governor’s signature ■e it can become law. Lnwhile other time proposals, ■ding one for eastern standard I await legislative action. |e senate struggle on the time lion highlighted the first argu■packed sessions of both ■s since the legislature conB Jan. 6. There was a wrangle la state insane hospital invest!In in the house. |w bills poured in steadily, too. Bg them was another soldier Is bill, aimed at getting more Boney from smokers and drink|p. Roscoe G. Scott, D„ Green|e. proposed new taxes on ciI tobacco, beer and liquor to Ice a costly bonus plan for Id War II veterans. k bill and a fifth bill proposk state wide direct primary for Inating candidates for three Ir offices now decided in conion highlighted the* new measlintroduced as the 86th general bibly convened after the weekrecess. Io introduced was a bill to ree employers to withhold state I income taxes from paychecks, [they do federal income taxes, p bills played second fiddle to Ilrst floor fight in the house, lere, Rep. Roman F. Korpal, D., [ lh Bend, introduced a concurI resolution demanding an inKat ion of the Logansport state ■tai. He said it was “rumored the findings were published" the hospital was “not properly kged." started a fight between Demob and Republicans. Korpal led the motion barreled pgh to the senate and a sixkber committee appointed to g an immediate probe of the ital. Democrats Joined him in I argument, while Republicans the attitude the investigation not be ordered in such a b a showdown vote on adoption he resolution, it carried by a tin of 49 to Al. But then the Ition arose whether a simple brity of those voting was necesI or whether a majority of the Representatives had to approve. ' house was recessed while Iker Robert Heller, D., Decatur, the rules committee looked up rules. Heller later ruled the button was adopted, and it was I to the senate. bott’a bonus bill called for a payment of s2oo to veterans saw duty overseas and SIOO those with domestic service <T»r» To Page Three i urch Women Meet layed To Feb. 1 ie committee meeting of the ttur council of church women, doled to be held tomorrow, has ; postponed to 2 p m. Tuesday. L it was announced today by Dwight R. McCurdy. WEATHER lostly cloudy and much coldtonight and Tuesday.

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Christen Funeral Is Held This Afternoon Funeral services were held this afternoon at tue First Presbyterian chur-h for Edward S. Christen, former Adanis county school superintendent, who died Friday evening after an extended illness. The Rev. A. C. E. Oillander officiated, with burial in the Decatur cemetery, conducted by the Zwick funeral home. Huge Feedlift launched Today To Save Cattle Air Force Launches Giant'Haylift'To Cattle On Ranges By United Press The air toree lavnihed a giant : “haylift" operation today in a light i to save more than 1.00(1,000 sheep and cattle facing starvation in the worst winter on the western ranges in 50 years. Sixteen huge C-S2 cargo planes took off at 10-minute intervals from McLellan airbase at Sacramento. Cal., and headed for Fallon, Nev., where they will pick up baled hay and cottonseed cake. The planes, which had been held hack by bad weather, will fly the life saving feed to Ely, Nev., where ranchers will board the planes and direct the pilots on flights over the snow-covered ranges where the sheep are stranded. The planes will “bomb” the rang-' es with tihe feed. Ranchers at Ely, who had been briefing themselves "with aerial charts of the southeastern Nevada blizzard area, said most of the feed will have to be distributed in this manner, because few roads in the region are open. Previously, it had been planned to land the feed at Yelland field, at Ely, and distribute it by truck. The main runway at Yelland field, where t>he big planes will land to pick up their guides, had been cleared of snow. Crews woyk ed against time to clear ramps and taxi strips. The field closed momentarily because of murky weather, but was expected to be re opened by the time the planes ar rive. . The cargo planes had to contend with rough weather over the Siern Nevada mountain range, but the flying conditions over most of Nevada were generally good. But the weather was bitterly cold. It was 32 degrees below zero this morning at Elko. Nev., and 40 below at Carlin. (Turn To Pn«e Three! Lewis S. Armstrong President 01 Bank Former Decatur Man Heads Elkhart Bank Lewis S. Armstrong, formerly of this city, has been elected presi dent of the St. Joseph Valley Bank, at Elkhart. Formerly he was executive vice-president. With assets totaling 12 mi.lion dollars, the bank has deposits of nearly 11 million dollars. Clarence Ziesel. former bank president, was elected chairman of the board. Mr. Armstrong also was reelected a director. Mr. Armstrong moved to Elk nart 13 years ago and has climbed from assistant cashier to the presidency of the bank. He is serving as vice president of the American bankers as ociation for Indiana and is widely known in banking circles in the state. Mrs. Armstrong is the former | Sally Kern of this city. They have three children. Funeral Held Today For Reinhart Infant i Graveside services were held this , morning at the Decatur cemetery I .'or Linda Ann Reinhart, infant daughter of Harry and Mary Shaf- | fer-Reinbart. of Decatur. The Rev. William C. Feller officiated, with the Zwick funeral home conducting the services. The child was born at 8:25 am. Friday and died at 113:40 pan. Saturday. Surviving in addi ion to the parents are a brotner, Donald Duane, and a sister Sharon Kaye.

Mercy Flight Crewmen Rescued From Ice

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PICTURED after their arrival at Churchill. Manitoba, following rescue by an RCAF Norseman plane, are the crew of a mercy flight Dakota which was forced down in 40 below zero weather on the ice of Hudson Bay. RCAF Flight Lieutenant Norman Keen made two trips with his ski-equipped aircraft to rescue these men and two seriously ill passengers from the crash-landing. The crewmen of the downed plane are (front row, 1. to r.) Corp. J. P. Rae, crew chief; F/L F. Rowe, navigator; F/L A. B. Morabito, radio operator; F/O C. G. Mattusch. radio operator; back row, F/L K. O. Moore, captain and pitot; Leading Aircraftsman J. E. Clark, radio mechanic; F/L R. T. Heaslip, co-pilot; LAC A. A. Burge, crewman. »

Truman Asks Bills For Power Project Asks Giant Project In Columbia Basin Washington, Jan. 24 — (UP) — President Truman today ordered government experts to draft legislation to create the Columbia Valley Authority, a giant power and reclamation project in the Columbia river basin. Mr. Truman sent letters to a number of the experts, asking them to work with the executive office staff in drafting CVA legislation for submission to congress. The instructions went to the secretaries of interior, agriculture, commerce and army, budget director and Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, chairman of the council of economic advisers. "It is most important,” the president said in the letters, “that concrete legislative proposals for such an authori’y in the Columbia basin be deve'oped on a sound basis, taking into account the characteristics anu needs of the region, the interests of all parts of the executive branch and the lessons of our prior experience wi h the kinds of operations which will be involved." Mr. Truman has long supported the general idea of the developments similar to the Tennessee Valley Authority in all of the great watersheds of the nation. He has conferred several times recently about the development of a Missouri vallejr administration, but it was understood that CVA came first because a tot of preliminary work has been done on it and also, because of strong sup (Turn To (•««<- Three! Rural Students Are Given Patch-Tests Six Townships In County Are Visited Pupils in schools of six townships were patch-tested for tuber-> culosis last week under the supervision of Mrs. W. Guy Brown, secretary of the Adams county tuberculosis association, and Miss Jean Shockley, county health nurse. Students in the first, ninth and tenth grades underwent the tests in Hartford. Wabash. Jefferson, Root, Union and Preble townships. Results of the tests will be determined this week, and children showing positive reactions will be referred to their family physicians. The mobile X-ray unit will be in the county from January 31 to February 4 to confirm questionable diagnoses. Testing of school children is another project of the county tuberculosis association, with the cooperation of the Adams county medical society and the county health nurse. Eventually it is hoped that all school students in Adams county can be examined.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, January 24, 1949

Retailers To Meet Tuesday Afternoon IMennbers of the retail division of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce will meet at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in the ciiy court room, it was announced by R. C. Ehinger, re ail director. (Election of members of the retail committee will be conducted at the meeting, and the year’s program will he discussed. Communists Make Gain In Jap Vole Right Wing Party In Clear-Cut Majority Tokyo, Jan. 24—(UP)—Premier Shigeru Yoshida, whose right wing democratic liberal party apparently won a clear-cut majority in the general Japanese election, promised today he would fight the communists even if they should become the first party in Japan. Yoshida admitted to a press conference he was surprised at the showing ol the communists in yesterday's election. They captured 35 seats, in the Japanese diet. 31 more than they held in the last parliamentary tower house. Other incomplete and unofficial returns were: Democra ic Liberals, 264; Democrats, 69; Social Democrats, 49: People’s Cooperative, 13; Social Renovation, five; Labor Farmers, seven; minor parties and independents, 24. The apparent victory for the Democratic Liberals indicated an ultra-conservative government acceptable to Gen. Douglas MacArthur would rule the country during the rehabilitation period. Yoshida said he planned to organize an “action cabinet" to co-oper-ate with MacArthur's nine-point economic program. Meanwhile. Sanzo Nosaka. Japanese communist party spokesman who was elected from the Tokyo district, told a crowd of 20,000 persons in downtown Tokyo that ‘if the Truman victory over Dewey was a miracle, today's victory I of Japan's communist party could also be called a miracle.” The election gave Japan its first clear-cut government party with a ’ right" and “left” wing split made at the expense of the center parties. Most casualties took place in the socialist party, numerically the strongest in the last diet, which saw the defeat of its chairman and Japan's first Christian premier. Tetsu Katayama. Some observers thought MacArthur's edict against strikes and (Tura To Pore Two! ' — Local Man's Father Dies At Fairmount Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Doyle, of Mercer avenue, were called to Fairmount Saturday by the sudden death of Mr. Doyle's father. Culver I Doyle. Funeral services will be held M 2 p m Tuesday at the Hunt fun eral home in Fairmount.

. New Flood Spreads In Souili Indiana Hoosier Lowlands Are Again Flooded By United Press The third flood this month spread over lowlands today in the wake of heavy rains across a southern Indiana belt and the weather bureau forecast the highest crest in years for the Wabash and White rivers. Rain totals ranged up to 4.45 inches at Petersburg, where the two forks of the White river join, during a 24 hour period ending at 7 a m. today. The Indianapolis weather bureau’s river stage experts expected the White to reach the highest levels since 1937 at Petersburg and Shoals. They added that the lower Wabash would crest in some places at the highest points since 1943. The unseasonable mid-winter rainstorms pelted across the s'ate all day yesterday and throughout the night. In Jackson county, along the east fork of the White, it still was raining shortly before noon. High water closed the Cortland school five miles west of Seymour The Baltimore and Ohio railroad had an emergency crew standing by in the Medora area and sandbagged points where the track was in danger of a washout. Some 100 persons in 30 families wearily took their belongings from homes in tfie Jackson county towands for the second time this year. Rain included 4.20 inches at Bed ford. 3.93 at Williams. 3.97 at Ahoals. 3.30 at Seymour, 3.09 a' West Baden. 3.09 at Edwardsport ind 2.73 at Vincennes. North and central Indiana sec tions had light rains, averaging considerably less than an inch. The weather bureau predicted a crest of the White at Petersburg st 25.8 feet by midnight Wednesday, the highest level since 1937 when a 28-foot reading was recorded. Shoals expected a crest between 32 and 33 feet by the week-end. highest since 1937 and wi hin four feet of that year’s mark during the worst flood ever to hit the Ohio river. Seymour was expected to have a crest of around 20 feet, about the same as it had earlier this month. At New Harmony, along the lower Wabash, a crest of 21 feet was expected, less than three feet l>elow (he 1937 crest and the highest mark since 1943. At Covington and above along th<> > I Wabash, no rise was expected, for rains there were negligible. A new cold wave was expected to ‘ , halt further rain and reduce the danger of even more serious floods The weather bureau said it would turn colder this a'temoon and the mercury would drop to between 20 and 25 degrees in the rainy belt. Tomorrow will be cloudy and much. i colder, the forecast said

Dies At Hospital After Auto, Semi-Trailer In Collision At Crossing

Garsson Bros., May Convictions Upheld U. S. Appeals Court Upholds Convictions Washington. Jan. 24. —(UP)— The war-fraud bribery convictions of Andrew J. May, elderly former Kentucky congressman, and Henry and Murray Garsson, industrialist brothers, were upheld today by the U. S. court of appeals in a 2 to 1 decision. May, Democratic veteran of 16 years in congress and the Garssons, head of a war-born $75,000,000 munitions combine, were convicted by a federal court jury in July, 1947. May was found guilty of accepting, and the Garssons with giving him, $53,634 in bribes. The idea was for May. then chairman of the powerful house military affairs committee, to use his influence to throw shellmaking contracts to the Garssons. All are free on $2,000 bond now. They are under sentence to serve from eight months to two years in prison. Ruling on the conviction after taking almost a year to decide the case, the majority held that the trial was "impartial and temperate” and arguments against the lower court’s conduct were “little more than frivolous." The tone dissent—by justice Harold M. Stephens—was based on grounds that the indictment against [ the Garssons and May was techni-. cally faulty. The indictment, in effect. Stephens said, charged the Garssonsl and May with "conspiracy to conspire” rather than an actual con-1 spiracy to commit a crime. But justices E. Barrett Pretty-[ man and Henry W. Egerton ruled' otherwise. And to May’s arguments that he could not be prosecuted on information he gave to the senate war investigating committee when it was looking into the case, the majority held that (Turn To Page Two! Farmstead School Here On Tuesday Morning, Afternoon Sessions Are Planned "Plans are completed.” states county agent L. E. Archbold, "for the farmstead planning school." The first session of this school will be held in the basement of t>he Methodist church, corner of Monroe apd Fifth streets. Tuesday. The mee'ing starts at 9:30 am. with the following program: 9:30 am. - Remark by the chairman. 10 am. — “Figuring what you can afford to spend on farmstead improvement," — F. H. Demaree. division of argricultural economics. 10:40 a m. — “Planning the farm- j stead to save labor, to insure healthful and pleasant living conditions." R. B. Hull, division of horticulture. 11 a.m. — "The farm windbreak — its contribution to comfort and to the appearance of the farmstead.” — J. L. Van Camp, division of forestry. 12 noon — Adjournment. 1 pm. — “Planned planting of the farmstead." — R. B. Hull. 1:40 p.m. — “Utilising native tom | her from the woodlot'’ (seasoning and preservation I. — J. L. Van Camp. 2 p.m. “Planning for convenience and labor efficiency” — R. H. Dcmarree. 2:40 pm. — Discussion. 3 pm. — Adjournment. The school is being sponsored In Adams county by the extension service. Geneva Lumber t Supply Co ; Bank of Geneva; First Bank of Berne: Liechty Bros. Heating & Plumbing; Berne Lumber Co.; Adams County Farm Bureau lumber Co.. Berne and Monroe; Decatur Lumber Co.; Kocher Lumber ACoal company; the First State Bank. Decatur.

Communists Sweep Toward China Capital One Spearhead Only 15 Miles Distant From Nanking Today By United Press Communists swept toward Nanking today, with one spearhead only 15 miles from the capital. Nationalist planes flew over communist territory. They strewed thousands of leaflets appealing for peace. In Nanking high officials said the honorable peace demanded by Premier Sun Fo was being discussed as peace on the best possible terms. The Chinese press reported that the communists had designated Peiping, North China city of 2,5(10.i 000 which once was Peking or I “Northern Capital," as the site for ■ peace talks. The dispatches said ! Chou En-Lai, No. 2 communist as- ; ter Mao Tze-Tung, was to head the communist delegation. Indicative of the violence on the approaches to Nanking, a nationalist ammunition dump and ordnance factory near its east gate ' blew up in an hours-Joug series of shattering blasts. Police reported I no casualties. Still making a show of resistance, nationalist troops threw up I new fortifications along the north . back of the Yangtze across from Nanking as the communist forces moved in. A half-moon arc of communist arms was tightening I from the southwest, west, north i and east. Shanghai dispatches reported heavy nationalist troop movements south from the NankingShanghai area toward Kwangtung and adjoining provinces. Other developments abroad: New Delhi—A conference of 19 Asiatic countries broke up after demanding that the Dutch free Indonesia. An Asiatic union was proposed by several delegates. One of them, Carlos Romulo of the Philippines, said its purpose would be to check the tide of communism in the Orient. Rhodes — A United Nations spokesman said the armis'ice negotiations between Israel and Egypt had reached a climax and the result should be known at any time. After initial progress, signs of a deadlock in the negotiations had appeared. Tel Aviv — The evacuation of 2,000 Egyptian troops from the (Turn To I’nxr Threol Mrs. Henry Miller Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon Mrs. Clara Ethel Miller' 60, wife of Henry G. Miller, died at 5:45 p.m Saturday at her home in St. Mary’s township, five and one-half miles ■sou heast of Decatur, following a long illness. She had been bedfast ! since last September. Born in Van Wert county, 0.. March 13. 1889. she was a daughter of Jacob and Mary Hovertnan. She was married to Henry G. Miller Nov. 29. 1904, and had lived in Adams county since 1935. She was a member of the Bobo United Brethren ehttroh. Surviving in addi’ion to her husband are two sisters. Mrs. B. M. Baker of Toledo. 0.. and Mrs. Estella Bailey of Van Wert, O. One brother preceded her ,n death. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 pm. Tuesday at the home and st 2 o’clock at the Bobo United Brethren church, the Rev. L. A. Middaueh off Ida" log. Burial will be in trie Decatur cemetery. The body has been removed from the Z»i.k funeral home to the residence, j where friends may call

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Aria Hampton Dies Four Hours After Traffic Crash At Monroe And Fifth Ar'a W. Hampton. 40, of 2130 Brooklyn avenue. Fort Wayne, died at the Adams county memorial hospital at 12:20 a. m. today of injuries sustained four hours earlier when the car in which he was riding collided with a semitrailer truck at the intersection of Fifth and Monroe streets. Hampton, who until recently was employed by the Fruehauf trailer company, Fort Wayne, died of a skull fracture. He never regained consciousness after the crash, which virtually demolished the automobile. Other complications were cerebral lacerations, a compound fracture of the right leg, lacerations of the scalp and left knee, and multiple contusions and abrasions. The body was removed to the McComb funeral home. Fort Wayne. Funeral arrangements have not hecn made, pending the return from New York of Mrs. Hampton, a buyer for a Fort Wayne department store. Driver of the wrecked car was Mrs. Lacey Ann Rilev. 49. of 310 West Berry street. Fort Wayne. Mrs. Riley was still in the county hospital today, being treated for multiple contusions and abrasions and a fractured left hand. The 1940 Buick sedan was crushed against a tree by a semi-trailer truck owned by the Newsom trucking company, of Columbus, and driven by Logan D. Ping. 34. alsj of Coiumbus. The car caught fire from the wires of a damaged light post and the occupants were removed to safety while the Decatur fire department played streams of wa'er on the vehicle. Witnesses told police the car was headed south on Fifth street and was struck near the center of the intersection l;y the loaded semi-trailer, which was going east. When the car came to rest against a tree on the southeast corner, its entire right side was collapsed. The right front end of the tractor was damaged. Immediately after the crash a sizeajile crowd milled around the scene, many from the First Methodist church across the street, where services were being held. City police, the sheriff's department and state police aided the victims and directed traffic. Hampton’s death was the first traffic fatality within the city limits since 1947, when two persons died. Training School To Close Tuesday The final session of the leadership training school, in session on Tuesday and Thursdays the last 'hree weeks at the First Presbyterian church, will be held Tuesday night at 7 o’clock. The school »was scheduled to close last Thursday, but it was decided by school officials to hold ■me more night of classes to make up for the classes missed last Tuesday when the session was cancelled because of inclement weather. Foundations For New Church May Be Started Next Year Foundattons for the new St. Mary’s Catholic church, corner of Fourth and Madison streets, may he built in 1950. the Very Rev. Msgr. T. J. Seimetx. pastor, announced Sundav, when he read the annual financial report. • The parish now has a building fund totaling $150,173.36. Razing of the old church will begin within the next 10 days and the site cleared by the Martin Wrecking company of Fort Wayne. During 1948, there were SS baptisms. 22 marriages and 28 funerals in the church. A temnorarv church has been arranged in ths auditorium of the Catholic school building.