Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 39, Decatur, Adams County, 16 February 1949 — Page 1

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late Senate ’repares Two ’rimary Bills Gives House Choice Os Two Identical Primary Measures Indianapolis, Feb. lfi — (UP) — he Republican Indiana senate repared today to give the Demoratic house its choice of two bills ailing for a statewide direct prinaly with no cross-over voting. I The catch was the bills were identical and both carried out the pOP thinking. The only difference was that one yas a senate bill with Republican mthors and the other an amended louse bill with Democratic names in it. Yesterday, the senate passed senate bill 11. written by Sen. Luius Somer?, R., Hoagland. The fote was 28-21 strictly on party lines. The bill as sent to the iouse was a combination of the features of the Somers bill and jenate hill 69 by Sen. William C. Bates. R., New Albany. Today, the senate elections committee brought house bi 1 27 to the floor with a divided report. This bill, written by Reps. Carl F. Davis. D.. Crown Point, and ftarrv T. Latham. D.. Indianapolis, called for an "open" primary with cross- < over voting, as opposd to the GOP "closed" primary feature. Senators adopted a majority report that amended it to read exactly as the Somers-Bates bill, and the measure was pushed along to second reading. Bates, chairman of the elections committee, said the commitfee decided it wanted to give the house a chrnce to choose between the two hills, even though they were identical. The choice was. he said, between the Republican version with i Republican authors and the Republican version with Democratic names attached. The house was expected to ) amm ] the Somers-Bates bill to incorporate the Democratic position on the issue, thus further confusing the picture and recording an- , o'her example erf the clash of. ideas in the politically-divided legislature. Meanwhile, the acmi-.istration’s eoldi r bonus hill was due today for a final house vote. It was on anti climax to the hiege't political ruckus of the 86th general assembly yesterdav. Mo t of the Republican renresfnta'iveg who yesterday stomped out of the house in a revolt during debate on the bonus bill were ' espected to vote in favor of it today. They recognized that the Democratic majority was able to muster enough votes to pass it any wav and GOP lawmakers preferred not to be recorded as voting no on the touchy subject. Hut the Republicans pledged aolemnly to rip the Democratic fnoss income surtax plan to ®hreds ’ h, n it arrived in the GOP sen- •’» s ronghold. it was a strategic retreat co- : <*dinated with plans for a counter •Turn To Pace Three) Concer Film Shown At Lions Meeting The first showing in Adams county of a film on cancer highlighted the weekly Lions club meeting Tuesday evening. The film was made available by Roy Kalver. Io f al theater operator, who is choir man of the county cancer drive. Sylvester 'Everhart. of the Decat ar high school faculty, supervised ’he showin*, and the projector was made available by the high school. The picture stressed the possibility curing cancer if it is discovered i° time, and urged consultation with * Physician at the first sign of Vmptoms. Df- N. A. Bixler was program 'hairman. Following the regular meeting the board of the Lions club ®*t. with Robert Holthouse, presid»nt. in charge. A ladies night was banned for the near future. WEATHER F *ir and colder north and cloudy south portion tonight •*th some light rain or snow •atreme southwest this evenlng. Thursday fair and slightly wider northeast

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Ground Blizzards Sweep Utah, Nevada Salt Lake City Is Reported Isolated By United Press High winds swept over Utah and northern Nevada today, setting off ground blizzards that blocked highways and railroads and completely isolated Salt Lake City. In Nevada, where the legislature appropriated another $25,000 for emergency measures to save livestock, ranchers in the Ely-Caliente area described their plight as “worse than ever." Stiff 50-mile-an-hour gales redrifted the snow' across roadways in Utah as fast as snow plows cleared them. All Trans-Continen-tal buses were held in Salt Lake City. The weather bureau had good news, however, for midwestern residents who slipped and skidded after a 24-hour freezing rain laid a sheet of ice over wide portions of Illinois, Indiana. Michigan. Wisconsin, lowa and Missouri. Forecasters said temperatures would rise.above freezing this afternoon, melting away much of the ice crust. That prediction, however, was bad news for lowland residents of the Ohio. Missouri and Mississippi river valley who watched river levels anxiously, fearful that a sud den thaw might set off major floods along the already-rising streams. Nevada officials expressed fears for a motorized convoy that left Thousand Springs Monday nigh' and still was unreported at its destination. Wells, more than 26 hours later. The convoy consisted of a rotary plow, a highway crew, a bus. mail truck and several automobiles. Authorities believed the vehicles were caught in the deep snowdrifts. The Southern Pacific railroad's main line through eastern Nevada was shut tight by the diifting snow. Railroad officials hoped to move their eastbound streamliner City of ] San Francisco out over the adjacent Western Pacific railroad; tracks. The City of San Francisco) became stuck in a snowdrift near) Alazon. Nev., yesterday. A Union Pacific railroad snow; plow bogged down while trying to open the line from Salt Lake City 1 | to Logan, Utah. . Fifty motorists abandoned their I ears in Salt Lake county while they I sought shelter at nearby houses. The Union • Pacific announced that it expected to lay off a num ber of workers this weekend be cause the continued bad weather forced it to curtail operations. Fifth army snow-removal crews) took advantage of the clearing weather in Wyoming to try to open I as many miles of roadway as pos ) sible. Only yesterday. 400 miles of) i pavement were re-blocked by the, drifting snow. A convoy started out from Cor-; tes, Wyo.. attempting to reach 150 workers and their families snow ; bound 20 miles away at the Cortes: dam site 60 miles southwest of Casper. The convoy was making less (Turn To PaKe Five, Totalitarian Forces Again Hit By Pope | Trying To Destroy Concept Os Society Rome. Feb. 16 - (UPt - i i’ius to iay denounced totalitarian | fore's which he accused of trying to destroy the concept of society based on the will of God and dig | nity of man. The pontiff spoke out again on the Hungarian trial of Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty — his f '" h pronouncement on it in a week. He addre. sed 34 diplomats accredited to the Holy See. who call ed on him f<« »“ exceptional mass audience. The Pope said his heart was filled with deepest sorrow over the trial and life sentence of the Roman Catholic primate of Hun the prosecution of the cardinal as an incident in the cur rent strugg e between the church and totalitarianism, he said that struggle reflected the reaction of Christian conscience, and even human conscience, against every, appression and every arbitration, against every denial of Jutice an every threat to sacred rights and principles.” . • Among the' five diplomats ab(Tura Tw Page 5,1 •

Russia Quits World Health Organization Ukraine And White Russia Also Quit UN Organization Geneva, Feb. 16—(UP)—Russia, the Ukraine and White Russia withdrew today from the world health organization, contending that the United Nations organization's setup incurs expenses too heavy for member states to bear. UN officials regarded with serious concern the withdrawal from the WHO of the Soviet Union and the two Soviet republics with separate voting privileges in the UN. (UN leaders at Lake Success appeared to feel that the with drawal did not portend a Soviet walkout from the UN itself.) Dr. Brock Chisholm, WHO director. announced the cancellation of the Soviet memberships in the only specialized agency formed and sponsored by the UN which they had joined. Russia also belongs to two other agencies — the International Telecommunications Union and the Universal Postal Union—but both were already in existence and were taken over by the UN. The Soviets gave as their reason for withdrawal dissatisfaction with the work of the WHO. They claimed that "the organization's swollen administrative machinery involves expenses which are too heavy for member states to bear." UN officials made no secret of their concern over this first Russian resignation from a UN agency. Even in the bitterest UN debates Soviet officials, when the idea of withdrawal was broached, always have brushed it aside as unworthy of comment. The health organization was established formally last year as- ) ter two years of informal activity. I It was regarded generally as one ) of the more effective branches of the UN setup. Chrisholm. director general of th WHO. said he had cabled the ; Soviet government suggesting that he visit Moscow for “fuller discussions" of the withdrawal. At a press conference where he announced the Soviet decision. Chrisholm said he had cabled word to Moscow that he could not accept the withdrawal, as the organization's constitution “makes I no such provision." No Action Is Taken On Parking Dispute Council Postpones Action On Request The case of the 13 reserved park ing spaces was left in mid-air Tuesday night when the city council tabled action on a communication requesting the city to "take im mediate steps to cooperate with the commissioners of Adams county. A motion by councilman Joe ' Brennan delaying official action “till the trial period is up" was passed unanimously. The "trial period." marking 30 days since the city's parking met ers were officially placed in opera don. will end Thursday. The county's stand, embodied in a letter from Ed A. Bosse, county i attorney, was that an ordinance be passed restricting the use of 13 free parking spaces on the south west side of the court house to ) county officials only. The communication, previously released, told of the commission er s original desire to enjoin the city from installing any parking meters around the courthouse and the subsequent scrapping of this plan “in interest of harmony." Reluctant acceptance of a pro position for 13 restricted parking spaces for county officials was fol lowed by "a great amount of con troversy because of your failure to follow through and pass an ordi nance enabling this area to be used exclusively for reasons indicated" the letter concluded. Tabling the communication en . abled the counciltnen to sidestep the city coun'y squabble at least until their next regular meeting, scheduled for March 1. Protests Assessment Russel Intel. assessed $145.96 on (Tara To Pane Three,

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Light Term For “Blockade Buster” . '' if ? ■bk jjK Wil If V&xloLi W’ li £ k J* hi WM EDWARD J. LADA, ex-par?trooper of Newark. N. J., who cracked the Soviet blockade to "do the right thing" by his German sweetheart, sits wi h the girl. Ri th Riecki and their 2-year-old daughter, Nancy, after a U. S. military court in Berlin gave him a seven-month prison term and fined him S7O. Lada was found guilty ot jail break and illegal possession of currency and an army identification card. He says it was "all for love" and p ans an appeal.

Prosecution Rests In Axis Sally Case Defense To Begin Testimony Thursday Washington, Feb. 16. —(UP) — A war-hardened American excomniando said today that just the sight of Mildred (Axis Sally) Gil lars "working for the Germans" in a Nazi prison camp made him hate her. Eugene S. McCarthy, 25, a Chicago oil burner repairman, testified he knew her as “ The Berlin | Bitch" when she visited the camp in March, 1944. American-born Miss Gillars is on trial on a charge of treason for broadcasting for the Nazis. The prosecution rested its case after playing for the jury a record of a broadcast in which she allegedly cried. "1 say damn Roosevelt, damn Churchill and damn all the Jews who have made this war pos sible." The government claims it found that record among Miss Giliar’s belongings in Berlin. Federal judge Edward M. Curran recessed trial until tomorrow when the defense will begin. Miss Gil lars is expected to be put on the stand to testify. McCarthy said he refused to make a recording for Miss Gillars at the camp near Kammerstein, where lie was taken after being captured on the Anzio beach which he attacked with American (Turn To I'OKC Three> Downward Trend In Prices Is Reversed l Price Os Meat At Wholesale Climbs Chicago. Feb. 16. — (UP) - Wholesale meat prices rose again today and figures showed that wholesale food prices generally , had reversed their downward trend. Dun & Bradstreet reported that despite the sharp price break in ! the grain market last week, the wholesale pi ice of 31 basic foods rose during the last seven days to , end a seven-week decline. The agency reported that prices ( bepan moving upward after hitting the lowest point since the end of J OPA in October, 1946 Wholesale meat prices, which slumped sharply last week, con tinned their recovery at Chicago I and New York markets today. At Chicago, beef sold *4 to 114 cents per pound higher, pork cuts were 1 cent higher and lamb was steady , The wholesale price of choice ’ beef at Chicago was 37*4 to 39*4 cents a pound. However, live hog prices drop ped 50 cents to $1.25 per hundred I pound* at big midwestern Miarkets ■ today, losing much of the ground; ‘ they had recovered since last J week’s slump. ( But slaughter cattle and lamb t prices were steady, despite the fact that farmers had stepped up their shlnments to market. On the Chicago board of trade J wheat, corn and oats all dropped 1 slightly.

90 Decatur Pupils At Capital Today Ninety members of the civics classes at the Decatur high school motored to Indianapolis this morn ing to spend the day at the state legislature and other points of interest. They were taken to the state capital by W. Guy Brown and Hugh Andrews, instructors, and parents and friends. Claim Royall Told Japan Withdrawal Tokyo Story Asserts Statement By Royall Sydney. Australia, Feb. 16 (UP) — A Tokyo dispatch to Australian Associated Press said today that U. S. army secretary Kenneth Royall was the “high American official” who said recently in Tokyo that U. S. troops might -be withdrawn from Japan in event of war. The dispatch, signed by DenisWarner, was published in most targe Australian newspapers, all ol which are members of AAP. AAP is a mutual news-gathering and distributing organization formed by the major Australian newspapers. It has no connection with the Associated Press of America. “As Royall now has denied he held off the-record conferences in Tokyo with selected American cor- ' respondents, any reason for withholding the full facts of his visit to Japan no longer exists." the AAP dispatch said. "Not having accepted the obligation imposed upon correspondents who were invited to the con ference to conceal the source of their information. 1 no longer f»e! bound not to reveal that the spokes nan at this conference was Royal!.' (American correspondents in : Tokyo last week cabled dispatches tuoting an unnamed American high official as indicating that Japan has teen relegated to a minor posi tion in American strategy, and might not be defended in event of war. The correspondents concerned have refused to reveal their infer mat ion. on grounds that they were pledged to secrecy. Royall has denied repeatedly that he made any such statements. Royall returned to Washington yes terday. and in a press conference said he believed it -would be “ini I practical* now to strengthen U. S. forces in Japan.) The AAP dispatch said that two unnamed American correspondents were charged with the responsibility of arranging with other select'd American correspondents to meet with Royall at the American emlias sy in Tokyo on the evening of Feb. 5. The meeting took place as scheduled. the dispatch said. “Whatever it may lie termed by : Royall." Warner wrote, "it was. in normal newspaper jargon, a press conference, the only unusual aspect as far as Tokyo was concerned being the deliberate exclusion of Gen. (Douglas) MacArthur's 'chief information officer." Warner said the conference lie-' , (Tara To Page Two)

• - Acheson Declares U. S. Negotiations On Treaty Are Within Constitution

Experts Disagree On Boom Or Bust Economists' Views Given To Committee Washington. Feb. 16.—(UP) — Experts disagreed today on boom vs. bust. Sixteen economists gave their views at a hearing of the housesenate economic committee. The optimists said the only thing around the corner was more prosperity—if that is the word for inflation. The pessimists, reading the future from the past, said the only antidote for inflation that ever has worked before is economic collapse. Few. however, predicted any immediate bust. Bradford Smith of I the U. S. Steel Corp., was worried because, he said, the economy still has to make the transition from boom conditions to “normalcy." And that never has been done "in the past without a depression." But Dexter Keezer of the Mc-Graw-Hill Publishing Co., didn't “share the jitters currently being expressed.” Moreover, he said, "it we bad enough trouble with Russia and bad weather we might have more inflation." What the joint committee is trying to get at is whether the country's economics are going to he such as to make President Truman’s requested anti inflation powers necessary. Republicans and some Demo crats gave a cool reception to the modified wage-price controls proposed in his behalf yesterday. Most members of congress don't seem to think further anti inflation measures arc necessary now. Other congressional develop ments: Pensions—Rep. John W. Byrnes. R., WK, denounced as "dishonest" Rep John E. Rankin’s bill to give n> nsions to veterans of both World Wars when they reach 65. Byrnes 'old the house that the Mississippi Democrat's bill tries "to deceive the veterans into believing they are getting something for nothing." He got applause from both Democrats and Republicans. But when the bill gets on the house floor, indications are a majority will be for it. Budget— Secretary of treasury (Turn To Pace Five* Three Decatur Homes Entered Last Night Police Investigate Wave Os Robberies Three homes in diverse sections of Decatur were ransacked Tues day night but losses were report edly small. The Noah Steury home. 9»41 Walnut street, which has beeni empty since its occupants left on | a trip to Florida and Cuba. was I entered sometime during the night ' by prying open a storm window, j The entrance was discovered early this morning when the lights were s>en h azing and the doors open. No money was believed Stolen, but a cabinet drawer of ; personal papers may have been looted. Ji was reported. Intrud* rs used a skeleton key to enter the front door of the Norman I.eonardson home. 115 North I Eigh h street, between 8 and 11 p. nt. A baby's bank, containing approximately S3O. was emptied. Earl Sudduth. 512 South Thirteenth street, told police his home and meat market were entered via a tack door sometime during the evening while he was at the Decatur high school basket ball game A small amount of change and i some chocolate tars made up the loot. The thieves apparently made .their exit through a window on i the north side of the residence Last night's breakins brought the week's to'al of burglaries to I five. City police are questioning -u-poets and conducting an exten ' slve investigation into the scries of crimes.

Broad Social Security Plan Being Drafted Aid Needy Persons Os All Ages Under Administration Plan Washington. Feb. 16 — (UP) — Administration experts are drafting a broad new social security) program under which needy persons of all ages would be eligible for federal financial help, it was learned today. The administration’s recommendations are to be presented to congress on Feb. 28 when the house ways and means committee starts hearings on all phases of the social security program. At present, the federal government pays a portion of the cost of relief for the needy aged—6s or over -the blind, and dependent children. But it makes no contri- ■ hution toward the cost of general i relief. ■ Federal security administrator Oscar Ewing gave a hint of administration plans earlier this week when he told the joint congressional economic committee: "Public assistance should be | available to persons who are desti- ) tute no matter what the cause of ) their destitution, rather than to I those who are needy because they ■ I are aged, blind or dependent chil , dren." Ewing said, futhermore. that pub ic assistance should be adjust ed to the economic needs of the various states. In other words, a state with relatively low per capi ta income would get a bigger chunk of federal ail than the s ates with higher income-. Ewing warned that if such a program does not come about, "we face the certainty that experience in the last depres inn will be repeated in any future slump a series of improvised, shifting, uncoordinated programs." A bill along the lines advocated by Ewing has been introduced in the house by Rep. Aime J. Forand, I).. R. 1., a member of the ways and means committee. Forand said that his hill does not neci essarily represent the administration viewpoint, and that he had not consulted any administration experts on it. The Forand bill has the active backing of the American public welfare association a group which draws its membership from state welfare agencies. In the past, recommendations of the social security administra'ion ami (Turn Tn I'aer Two! Mrs. Emma Rhoades Dies Tuesday Night Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon Mrs. Emma Rhoades. 80. widow - of Jesse Rhoades, died at 9 o'clock I Tuesday night at the Adams county 1 home, where she had resided sime 1932 Death followed a long illness i of complications. She was tarn in Van Wert conn-' ; ty. 0.. Sept. 13. IS6S. a daughter lof .Eli and x’argaret Need Her hits - I band died in November of 1913 1 Surviving are two sons. Frank ; Rhoades of Fort Wayne and Dan) | of Prelde township, two daughters. i Mrs. Amelia Rentz and Mrs. Ma-1 ' tilda Schneider, both of Fc.rt I : Wayne: 13 grandchildren: 10 great ' grandchildren and one sistir. Mrs. ■ Miqa Whitekar of Pine Bluff. Ark i Four sons and Jiree brothers pre . ceded her in death. Funeral services will be held at • 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Zwick : j funeral home, with burial in the Decatur eotnetery. Friend* may cal! i at the funeral home after 7:30 pm | Thursday

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Denies Nation Is Backing Down On Any Commitments Envisaged In Pact Washington. Feb. 16 — (UP) — Secretary of state Dean Acheson said today that U. S. negotiations on the North Atlantic pact are being conducted within the frame- | work of the constitution and of pre- | viously announced policies. He denied at a news conference that this government is backin'; down on committments envisaged in the pact, saying there has been no change in this government's policies. Acheson also reported that the pact negotiations are going along evenly and that he hoped it would not be 100 long before a text of the proposed treaty would be ready for public discussion. He said that among the basic | policies is the one expressed by President Truman in his inautural address. Mr. Truman said then, in part, that "each country participating in these (collective defense) arrangements must contribute all it can to the common defense." Acheson also mentioned the Vandenberg resolution approved overwhelmingly by the senate last year. That resolution placed the senate on record in favor of regional and other collective defense arrangements "in reeordance with constitutional processes." Acheson said these policies bill down by the president and congress are being used as a "guide" in the negotiations with other countries on the North Atlantic pact. Some members of ((ingress have expressed fear that the treaty draft, as now worded, would go too far toward committing the country to war They pointed out. and Acheson reiognizcd. that only congress an declare war. Some European diplomats, on the oth r hand, have expressed eon•ern that the present draft does rot go far enoi gli in pledging the parti. hating nations to meet an armed ittack. Some reports from Europe have even accused the United states of backing d »wu," "welching" and "retreating " But Acheson insisted there has been no change it; U. S. policies. "--I should like to wnphasiza that there are no real differences in regard to the objectives which this government is seeking to accomplish." he said in a statement. "We have been proceeding on the basis of policies which have been clearly defined and which, 1 think, are well understood." A< hesott said there was no difference between the stale di partment and top senate foreign policy leaders on the fundamental objectives of the proposed North Atlantic pact. > He made the stall ment in re spouse to a question whether a proposal by chairman Tom Connally. I). Tex. of the senate foreign relations committee fitted in the general tram wc rk of the state department's ideas Connally has p'-o-posed tha' the pact carry merely a committment for ' consultation and advice" in ease of an attack (\>nI nally proposed that each nation ) should be free to "take such mens- ; ures as it may dei m necessary" at I the time of an emergency. Acheson also said that the seven I nations drafting the pact — the United States. Britain. Canada. Belgium. France. Luxembourg and the Netherlands have reached no (Torn To I’nur M*l Dr. Walter Roller Is Taken By Death Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at the Cowan I x- Son funeral home. Van Wert. O . i for Dr. Walter C Roller, former i Willshire. Ohio, physician, whos • death occurred yesterday at Veter--1 an's hospital. Dayton Father of B. F Roller. Van Wert ; attorney, formtrty of this city. Dr. . Roller was SO years old He sermd ■ ’s a captain in the medical corps ' in World War I. Burial will ta in the Wright cemetery, near Will- ' shire.