Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 7 February 1949 — Page 1

>l. XLVII. No. 31.

(WO PERCENT STATE SALES TAX PROPOSED

ill Calls For ■tension Os larshall Plan “Open New Round Os ■ Foreign Aid Battle ■ in Congress Today ■Washington. Feb. 7 — (UP) — ■ new round in the foreign aid ■tie opened in congress today ■h the introduction of a bill callK for a 15-month, $5,580,000,000 ■ension of the Marshall plan. ■hairman Sol Bloom, D„ N. Y„ ■the house foreign affairs com■ttee introduced the hill amid ■publican demands for a “full Kestigation" before the vast ■ropean recovery project is reK*ed. Kaul G. Hoffman’s Marshall plan ■ministration spent $5,055,000,000 ■ the first 12 months of the pro■mi and its current spending ■thority is scheduled to expire ■ril Ken. Styles' Bridges, former ■airman of the congressional Katchdog" committee on foreign K, charged earlier that Hoffman ■d his aides have made “constant ■stakes" in administering the ■ogram. He asked for a congresKnai investigation. ■Bridges said congressional inKt has been violated many times ■ the program. He was par icuKly critical of grants made to the ■ench government. He said the K program is underwriting a ■ench deficit and make tax col■tions in that country unnecesKy- ■ The senate and house foreign ■mmittees will begin joint hear■gs on the renewal tomorrow, ■th Hoffman and secretary of ■ate Dean Acheson as the first ■messes. ■ Other congressional develop■nts: ■ Labor—Former war labor board ■tairman William F. Davis urged ■ a senate labor committee hear■g that President Truman be giv- ■ specific power to seize struck ■ants if necessary to deal with a ■ational emergency. He said in■notions alone won’t work. Gen■ally counsel Robert N. Denham ■ the labor board told the comKittee he believes the Taft-Hart-■y law is “basically sound,” even ■ongh President Truman wants it ■pealed. I Budget—The house voted, 230 to ■2, to give congressional fiscal l*P p rts an extra 75 days to figure ■overnment expenditures and revfrues for the 1959 fiscal year. If ■e senate concurs, that would set I Turn To Pnm> Two) Ralph Jaurequi Body Is Returned I The department of the army has Innounced that the body of Pvt. Jalph p. Jauregui. Decatur, who las killed in action Feb. 8, 1944 in i*ly. has arrived in the states Iboard the United States army transport Corporal Eric G. Giblon. I The body will be returned here r>r burial at a later date. Pvt. lauregui entered the army June 25. I’l3. and was sent overseas in f ov eniber of 1943. He was employed F the Decatur General Electric Ihuit at the» time he entered serlice. Flmer Kampe Dies pt California Home I Elmer W. Kampe. 53, one-time ad pnising manager ot the Decatur hmocrat, died at his home in Vis F'a. Cal. Saturday morning, accord Rpg to word received in this city. r r Kampe. former publisher of the pTsalia Times-Delta, sold his news r awr interests and retired in June. Ml | After leaving Decatur. Mr. Kam r” ’ent to Royal Oak. Mich., and aler to Adrian. Mich..' where he r rTe d in the advertising field. He I Decatur in 1925. Surviving are »ife. Dorothy of Visalia, and father, J. C. Kampe, Fort WEATHER F,ir tonight, not quite so cold We »t portion. Tuesday increaseleudiness and warmer fol,#w ed by rain in south and cenwal and rain or snow in ex,re me north portion late Tuesday.

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BULLETIN Tehran, Feb. 7 —(UP) — A two-engined U. S. embassy plane was reported to have crashed today near Sultanabad, south of Tehran. Authoritive sources said an American major and six other persons were aboard. Attlee Rejects Suggestion To 1 ; Call Meeting Rejects Proposal ] To Arrange Confab i By Truman, Stalin 1 London, Febb. 7.—(UP)— Prime minister Clement R. Attlee today turned down a suggestion in the 1 house of commons that Britain seek 1 to arrange a meeting in London • between President Truman and I Premier Josef Stalin. ! His rejection came a few moments after British minister of r state Hector McNeil had given a I sharp negative to a suggestion that i Russia be invited to join the proi posed north Atlantic security pact, t McNeil charged that Russian ob- > structlonist tactics had made the . pact necessary. Laborite member Ronald Cham- . berlain raised the question of a s possible Truman-Stalin meeting . here when he asked Attlee wheth- , er, in view of the apparent willing- , ness of Mr. Truman and Stalin to ( meet somewhere sometime, the British government would arrange for the meeting in London. “As no official communication has been addressed to me by either President Truman or Marshal •Wglin, I see no purpose in inter- ’ vtjning as suggested,” Attlee replied. Chamberlain also suggested that only a top level conference could break the international deadlock. He argued that a London meeting 1 would be the answer to the refusal 1 by Mr. Truman and Stalin to leave ’ their respective territories. But ’ Attlee rejected those arguments. 1 “Do you not think that the i government of Great Britain • should take the lead in world • peace" Laborite Emrys Hughes i asked. Attlee replied that Britain want- ■ ed to do everything possible for i world peace, but insisted that the : suggestion of a Stalin-Truman conference in London was not the best i method. I Attlee said that foreign secretary , Ernest Bevin “again and again has ’ taken the initiative. I do not see . why the members seem to think ' that all the initiative must come from this country. A little initiative from the other side of Europe would do a lot." Boy Scouts Continue Observance 01 Week I Annual Banquet To Be Held On Tuesday 1 Decatur Boy Scouts and their sponsors will continue the observance of national Boy Scout week 1 Tuesday evening when they hold ' their annual banquet at the Ma- : sonic hall. Scheduled to begin at 6 p.m.. the banquet will feature a talk by Paul W. Phillips, of Fort Wayne, a member of the area scout execu ,Te board. Members of the Rotary and Lions clubs and the American Legion, who sponsor Decatur’s three scout ’ troops, will attend the banquet. At exactly 8:15 P-«-. the tr00 I”' will recite the scout’s oath, along with hundreds of thousands of 1 scouts throughout the central time belt. It will mark to the minute the 39th anniversary of the incorporation ot the movement at the nation’s capital. A large number of local Scouts , attended special services at the First Presbyterian Church Sunday morning. Scouts acted as ushers. ’ The sermon, devoted largely to, 1 scouting itself, was delivered by. the Rev A. C. E. Gillander. pastor, of the church. Boy Scout week is being obsen-| ed by 70.000 individual units in the United States and its territories, with 2.200 O'W scouts and leaders participating. „ .. The annual “gold and blue din ner for Cub Stouts is scheduled for 5:30 p m. Friday at the Lincoln school gym

Catholics Join For Battle On Communism Cardinal Spellman Sets Keynote; Pray For Mindszenty New York, Feb. 7—(UP)—The Roman Catholic world united to. day in a war to the finish with communism, touched off by the trial of Jo eph Cardinal Mindszenty in Hungary, Cardinals, bi,shops and priests, convinced that Cardinal Mindszenty is to be hanged as a martyr, called upon their congregations in Sunday sermons throughout the United States to units in protest and pray for the soul of the Hungarian palate. Francis Cardinal Spellman, archbishop of New York, set the keynote at his first appearance since V-E day in the pulpit of St. Patrick's cathedral. Five thousand parishioners jammed the catehdral to hear the cardinal. “if we tail to learn a lesson from Cardinal Mindszenty’s martyrdom," Cardinal Spellman warned, “we shall fail ourselves and ourselves face communist conquest and annihilation.” He declared his conviction that Cardinal Mindszenty had been the .victim of "torturing and druggings that put him beyond the reach or realm of human help." He entitled his sermon: “Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.” In Washington, Archbishop Patrick A. O'Boyle told a mass in the cathedral of St. Matthem that the trial was a “vile business" and a “mimicry of justice." He said Catholics everywhere should disregard the cardinal’s confession because it followed the pattern of communist trials everywhere. Also in Washington, the Rev. Dr. Frederick B. Harris, U. S. sen ate chaplain, said the trial was the signal for “war to the hilt” between Catholicism and communism. "It is the signal for war between an an'i-Christian colossus and any church which refuses to submit to its supremacy and regimentation,” the Rev. Harris told his congre(Turn To PnK* Two) Si. Mary's Church Demolition Started Catholic Church Razing Is Started Workmen of the Martin Wrecking Co., of Fort Wayne, this morning began the task of razing St. Mary’s Catholic church, the former sisters’ home, and the Fifth street annex. They started work by removing everything from the interiors but the bare walls, which soon will fall under the attacks of modern demolition equipment. Cen'er of activity was the aban doned sisters’ home, which apparently will be first to be leveled. Lumber from a’l three buildings was being removed for salvage. Work on removal of the church, which has been a landmark for 76 years, is scheduled for completion in May. The sisters’ home was erected Li 1893 and the addition was completed in 1907. Following demolition of the venerable building, the block-long area will be graded and topped with crushed stone. W’ork on a new church may start in 1950. Preliminary plans are being drawn by an architect for the projected church, which will be located at the corner of Madison and Fourth streets. Since the church was abandoned last June the auditorium of the Catholic school building has been used for services. Last Christmas was the first since 1873 which was not observed in St. Mary’s church. Addie Marie Carter Funeral Tuesday Funeral service* for Mrs. Addie Marie Carter, who died Friday evening, will be held at 1:30 pm Tuesday kt the Pleasant Mills Baptist church, with the Rev. Ralph Johnson offi fating. Burial will be in the Mt. Tabor cemetery. The body has been removed from the Black funeral homo to the residence

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, February 7, 1949

> Assails Hungarian Regime

me IF B ■ IBM rWI — ® ' w MBMp j ’ IT W K? ■ 'Hub'ilk! I ■ f * FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN, in one of his rare appearances In the pulpit, denounces the communistic Hungarian government in jammed St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. He accused the Hungarian regime of having “tortured and drugged" Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty beyond human help in the Hungarian prelate’s trial on charges of treason and espionage. Cardinal Spellman told the huge congregation there is little hope of saving the life of Cardinal Mindszenty.

New Storm Sweeps On Plains Stales Many Motorists Are Reported Snowbound By United Press A widespread storm whipped out of the Rocky mountains today toward the plains states and army of fleers feared that all their work of breaking roads to snowbound ranches might be undone in a matter of hours. Winds up to 80 miles an hour howled across the mountains. An estimated 300 to 400 cars were trapped on U. S. highway 40 as 77-mile-an-hour winds drove snow across the Donner summit between Truckee and Baxter in the Cali fornia Sierras. Towering snowdrifts isolated La Grande and Klamath Falls in Ore gon, Walla Walla in Washington, Boise in Idaho, and Casper, Raw lins and Lusk in Wyoming. Reno. Nev., was cut off on three side| Half the automobiles In Blackford, Ida., were stalled on city streets. Several thousand persons, most of them skiers, were believed trap ped in the Sierras. About 2.000 persons were snowed in along highway 50 between Kyburz, Ca!.. and White Hills, Nev., near Carson City. Truckee hotel keepers ap pealed to private homeowners to help them care for the storm refu gees. Two Transcontinental buses were trapped In Oregon, at La (Tnra To I’nxe Six) Heart Campaign Is Opened In County Berne Woman Is County Chairman A drive for funds to combat heart disease in Adams county was launched today, according to Mrs. Sherman Stucky, of Berne, chairman of the 1949 heart campaign. The campaign. extending hrough Feb. 28. will be a part of the national campaign for $5,000.000 of the Am rican heart association. with which the local heart association is affiliated. Harold E. Stassen, former governor of Minnesota and president of the University of Pennsylvania, is qaiional campaign chairman. "Preparation by a countywide organization of volunteers indicates that the heart campaign will meet with quick success." Mrs. Stucky said. “The people of Adams county are aive to the need for a well integrated heart pro gram in this community to combat the disease that causes one out of three dea'hs in the nation, taking a toll greater than the combined mortality of the next five leading causes. The health of the com(Tara <• Page Two)

Retail Milk Prices Drop Here Tuesday Retail milk prices will drop in Decatur Tuesday morning from 19 and 20 cents a quart to 18 and 19 cents. This is the second drop in the last 60 days, according to local retailers who announced the reduction. t ; Explains Difference ’ In Plant's Profits r i Adjustment In Coal Inventory Is Cited f Due to an adjustment in the coal 1 inventory, the net profit of the city light and power plant for 1947 and 1948 should be averaged for the 1 two years. L. C. Pettibone, plant superintendent, explained in a ' statement issued today. The 1947 profit was $152,702.46 •tnd in 1948. $77,099.57. For the two years, the average would lie sll9.The adjustment of 5,767 tons ol t coal at a cost of $36,495.98, was made last year and charged to 1948 ) operation costs. This extra charge > also increased the pounds of coal . per K. W. H. manufactured. Mr. i Pettibone explains this discrepancy. and gives a very explanatory state- > nient on plant operations. “As an explanation for the vast difference in net profit and coal : consumption between 1947 and 1948. 1 I wish to submit the following in formation. “Prior to 1947 the pounds of coal per K. W. H. was approximately 1.7 pounds. You will notice that the year 1947 was abnormally lower, being 1.54 pounds per K. W. H. "The reason for the low coal consumption in 1947 was that insufficient coal was charged to operation during that year. In 1948 the condition was revised. '.More coal was charged to operation than rightfully should have been. “The reason for the above discrepancy was due to adjustments in coal inventory. Due to the uncertain delivery of coal and strikes it has been necessary to carry a very large stock of coal in our storage pile which always presents a proiilem of exact check on proper ton (Tam Tg Fuse Twa) February Term Os Court Opens Today The February term of the Adams circuit court began today with prospects of a crowded do.ket. Five hearing* were scheduled for this wee*, four of them divorce*. Judge Myles F. Parrish said at least three jury cases would be scheduled, including two venued , from Allen county and one from . Wells county. He said the docket j would be called next week. The ' judge will assume jurisdiction in a ' divorce case in Jay county Friday morning

Republican Measure For Sales Tax To Pay Vets’ Bonus Up To Legislature

U. S. And Norwegian Negotiations Opened Important Talks On Joining In Alliance Washington, Feb. 7 — (UP) — Norway starts important talks with the United States today to determine whether she will defy Russia and join the western powers in a strong non-Communist defense alliance. i The Norwegian-American negotiations assumed new importance in the east-west cold war when Russia issued a second warning to Norway against joining the projected sevenjiation North Atlantic security pact. Norwegian foreign minister Halyard Lange, Norwegian ambassador Wilhelm Munthe De iMorgenstierne and other Norwegian officials scheduled their first talk with secretary of state Dean Acheson for 1:30 pjiii. GST. The talks may be broadened later to include envoys ot Canada, Britain, France. Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. At the White House, press secretary Charles G. Ross said he knew of no arrangements having been made for a meeting between the president and Lange. Russia offered Norway a non-ag-gression treaty presumably as an inducuneiil to stay out of the west ern power alliance. Norway, which lias a common frontier with Russia, probably will isk the United States how much military equipment she can expect from the big western ipowers and how soon the west will provide it if she casts her lot with them. And the Norwegians are expected to seek clear statements on whether the west 'Would require peacetime military bases in Norway —a concession Norway has said she will not grant. Officials said little (Turn To I’nxr Two) Improvements Os Roads Petitioned Petitions On File With County Board Ten farmers from Jefferson township appeared before the county commissioners this morning and petitioned that a threemile stretch of road, west of the Ohio state line, and running north and south, be blacktopped. Highway superintendent Phil Sauer also attended the hearing and explained that the county lacked sufficient funds to Improve (he highway. Members of the delegation were Robert Rudolph Debolt. Chalmcr Srni ley, Marion Baker. Fred Kauffman. Bryson Fetters, Charles Smitley, Sam Egley. Dewey Kuhn. Ralph Christy. A petition to macadamize a mile of road along the Union and St. Mary’s township line, from the Moses corner east, was filed. Two requests for road improvements in Jefferson and Wabash townships, so that the school buses could get through, also were filed and referred to the highway department. The lease to store two buses at the county garage was transferred to Leo M. Feasel. operator of the city bus line. The monthly reports of Jean i Shockley, county health nurse, and Dennis Norman, recreational director. were filed with the board. The resignation of Earl Colter, as a trustee of the Adams county memorial hospital, was p aced on file. The appointment of a successor had not been made at noon. Attorney Ferd L. Litterer appeared in connection with the engineer s and viewers' report on the William Ohier ditch in Washington town-hip. The assessment of William Ohier was reduc’d 1180 and other assessments were approved. The ditch was ordered referred to the county surveyor fort const ruction.

Mindszentys Fate Will Be Sei Tuesday Hungary Cardinal Kept Under Close Watch In Prison BULLETIN Budapest, Feb. 7— (UP) — The Hungarian government tonight rejected a British protest in connection with the trial of Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty and charged Britain with trying to give “assistance to the Fascist enemies of Hungarian democracy." Budapest. Feb. 7—(UP)-—Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty was reported kept under constant watch in his prison cell today while awaiting the verdict ot the Budapest peoples court tomorrow morning (2 a.m. CST). Government press officials said the Cardinal celebrated a solitary mass Sunday in an office in his prison building, the same one containing the court in which he was tried, it was understood that special guards were standing a fulltime i vigil over the Cardinal and his six co-defcndants. Maximum penalty for the charges against the primate is death by hanging, which was demanded by the prosecution when the threeday trial ended Saturday. Hungarian press acounts of the last: day of the trial emphasized the Cardinal’s statement that he "regrets” his conflict with the law and also his call for peace. The accounts, almost uniform in content, underplayed or overlooked his statement that "1 was not and am not an enemy of the Hungarian people" and "I did not and do not have any conflict with the Hungarian worker." The press also overlooked the Cardinal's statement that his family belonged to the Hungarian peasant class and “I did not want to deprive any social class of any right whatever which was their due.” » Instead the papers said the Cardinal in his final statement before the court "defended himself with his education and principles” and that “the Cardinal declared that while he was answering to the court he was also answering to himself." Cardinal Mindszenty and his six co-defendants will be sentenced on a variety of charges, but all are (Turn Tn H|(> Henry Baumann Dies After Long Illness Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon Henry Baumann. 76. prominent retired tanner of Root township, died at 9:10 o'clock Sunday morn ing at the home cf his daughter. .Mrs. Thurman I Drew, two miles northeast of Decatur. He had been in failing health from complications for several months and bedfast for the past two weeks. j Born in floodland Aug. 8. 1872. he was a sAi of Frederick and Wil helmina Baumann, and had lived in Root township for many years. He , was married to Florence Fulleton i April 7. 1898. He was a member of the Union Chapel Evangelical United Breth ren church. Surviving In addition to his wife and daughter are four grandchii dren and two sisters. Mrs. Anna Plummer of Kentland and Mrs Emma O'Neal of Goodland. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Drew residence and at 2 o'clock at the Union Chapel Evangelical United Brethren church, the Rev Law rence Norris officiating Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. The body was removed from*the i Zwick funeral home to the residence Sunday night.

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Proposes Tax On All Retail Sales Except Foods To Pay Vets' Bonus Indianapolis, Feb. 7 — (UP) — A bill to levy a two percent retail sales tax on Hoosiers as a means of paying a state so'dier bonus was introduced in the Indiana legislature today. The hill was introduced in the house in a stack of last-day measures, along with a "civil rights” bill prohibiting racial discrimination in hotels and restaurants. The sales tax bill, representing the opinions of many Republicans in the general assembly, was introduced hy Reps. Merrett R. Monks, R„ Winchester, and Lang Helt, It., Dana. The racial discrimination hili was offered by Reps. Jane Ann Noble. D„ Kokomo, and Judson F. Haggerty, D.. Indianapolis. Under the Monks-Helt measure, a two percent tax would be levied on all retail sales except foodstuffs. It would start next July 1 and continue to the same date in 1953. The income would be earmarked for a soldier bonus. Republicans waited 33 days to file the sales tax bill. It was the closing day under legislative rules to introduce new legisla'ion. The GOP attitude was that in a Nov. 2 voter referendum, more people signified they favored a sales tax to finance the bonus than any of four other methods suggested. Two hills out'awing nudist camps also wore introduced in the house. The so-called “civil rights" mea sure contained clauses providing that violators could be fined up t{ SSO and sentenced to as many as 30 (lays in jail. On conviction of a second offense, the violator could lose any slate license he held. Furthermore, persons aggrieved by violators could recover up to $•'100 damages in court under terms of the bill. It proposed that the state's attitude should be that “all persons are entitled to full and equal enjoyment of all public places without regard to race, creed or color.” It would prohibit discrimination in "inns, hole’s, restaurants, eating houses, department stores, barber shops, ice cream parlors, amusement parks, skating rinks, bowling alleys, public conveyances on land, air and water; theaters, and all other places of puhllc accommodation and amusement," Meanwhile, there was a threat of night sessions. Saturday sestons and longer daytime sessions in the legislature. Under senate and house rules, today was the last day for introducing new bills hi the 86th general assembly. The deadline brought an end to one tiine-con-suniing process of lawmaking, but not before the legblature had been snowed under a deluge of more than >oo bills and resolutions. The end of the filing period meant one thing: the senators and representatives could get down to business now and grind out laws. Only two pieces of legislation passed both houses and went to Governor Schricker during the first ha f of the 61-day session. Dozens of other bills are in the (Tura To Pane Five) Initial Report On Infantile Paralysis An initial report was made today by Lyman L Hann. County school superintendent, on the in'antile paralysis fund campaign, •f which he is rural chairman. The first report total is $155.34. contributed by the following schools; Preble, fill*; l.uckey. $9.10; Schnepp. $8; Brandyberry. $9.40; Berne $111.79; Spntnger. $595. The Adams county campawn was delayed because of the late arrival of supplies, and will continue jntil Feb. 15. Any person* or organizations desiring to contribute to the drive may contact Pete Reynolds. county campaign director, or Herman Krueckebent. treasurer