Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 43, Decatur, Adams County, 21 February 1949 — Page 1

K o |. XLVII. No. 43.

SCORE DELAY ON STATE BUDGET MEASURE

grafting Plans for Defense Os IBomb Attack Defense Blueprint Being Drafted By Atom Commission Washington, Feb. 21.—(UP) - longress was informed today that L atomic energy commission is Lfting plans for the defense of L United States against atomic Lnib attack. I Carroll L. Wilson, general manaL. of the nation's multi billion (10l L atomic program, told the joint Lngressional atomic committee [hat the defense blueprint is being [repared in close cooperation with [he armed forces. [He did not indicate when the Ilan would be ready. [ Other congressional developments: | Labor law—Sen. Wayne L. Horse. R-. Ore., attacked “selfish" Employers who. he said, are urging [etention of the Taft-Hartley law ['to hold labor down." He said he [nd Sen. Robert A. Taft. R., 0.. a [(eauthor of the Taft-Hartley act, Lth feel the law should be amended to lift some of the restrictions lon labor. Rig sou Senate and house Democratic leaders conferred with President Truman on his legislative program. Veterans pensions—Rep. E. E. Cox.. D.. Ga., upset a leadership plan to keep the Rankin pension hill front reaching the house floor. Cox. a member of the rules committee. said he would not go along [with a parliamentary ruse that would have bottled up the bill in Icommittee. Military pay—Defense secretary [James Forrestal asked a house sub [committee to approve salary raises for military personnel to put them |cn an “equal pay for equal work" footing with civilians. Rents-housing—Military author! ties asked for extension of rent controls, particularly in industrial [areas where there are military | bases. | World Co-op—President Truman [asked congress to extend the in | stilute of inter-American affairs | tor five years with $50,000,090 to | spend in the first application of his [plan for development of the world's | backward areas. | Filibuster—Southern Democratic [senators said they will try to bring [bousing and financial trade legislation to the senate floor Monday | the day debate is scheduled to [start on anti-filibuster proposals. | Wallgren—Sen. Harry P. Cain | R-. Wash., said he will ask the [senate armed services committee [ to call character witnesses on for | mer Gov. Mon C. Wallgren of [ "'ashington. Cain is trying tc [ block senate confirmation of Wall | Den's nomination as chairman ot (Turn To Pnge Three! Commissioners Study Proposals From Banks | The county commissioners met at [-o'clock this afternoon for the pur | Mae of receiving proposals from I ’he hanks in the county in the dis I tfibution of public funds. The com | ttdssinners act as board of finance* I Other matters, including the ncm I in ?af a trustee for the Adams coun ’■ hospital, succeeding Earl Colter | ’<“re scheduled to come before the board. ■jchinnaberry Infant Dies Here Saturday | Roth Ann Schinnaberry. four | ®onth-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs [Viliam E. F.-hinnabenry. 621 Schir | ®wer street, died of pneumonl) | -aturday afternoon at the home as [” r a several weeks illness Sur '••ng in addition to the parent | *•’’ the following half-brothers and I Albert. .Mary, Helen. Frank |; a Gatherine. Betty. Richard and | ®*«lah Sudduth; and the grpndpur I tui* Mr anil Mrs Jaco ’’ Hes * " | ‘ **ur and Mr. end Mrs. Charles | nnaherry of Van Wert. O. [ funeral services will be held at • Pm. Tuesday at the Gillig * | funeral home, the Rev Rabb |' ner officiating. Burial will be | ® the Decatur cemetery Friend) <a!l *' ,he funeral horne u3!i! [ Os the services. WEATHER I Occasional rain today and to- | "'Jht; Tuesday partly cloudy. I w »rmer Muth.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Jobless Payments Increased In I). S. 16 Percent Boost Over 1948 Payment Uy United Press I nemploy nient compensation paid io the nation's idle workers last month rose more than 16 percent over the amount paid during the same month last year, a survey showed today. Much of the recent increase in unemployment has been in industrial areas, the survey showed, but farm employment, too, has dropped. Forty-three states from which figures were available reported unemployment payments for January. 1949. totaling $1115,167.186, compared with $90,242,87:1 paid out by the same states in.. January last year. In releasing the figures, state officials said the statistics were not an exact measurement of unemployment. Despite the increase, the survey showed many widely scattered areas where conditions ran counter to the trend. New England and Massachusetts, for example, generally reported increased unemployment. But at Salem. Mass., the N'aumkeag Steam Cotton Co. announced plans for building a new factory in North Carolina because of the "tight" labor supply in the Salem area., The company said many of its machines were idle because no workers were available. Most state unemployment compensation officials reported that the increase in the number of job- 1 less is not alarming. Several of-1 ficials said it was a return to "pre , war normalcy.” Many seasonal factors enter into the increasing number of jobless] wooers, state officials said. But several also reported slackened manufacturing and indications of slower wholesale and retail trade. At Washington, the commission of labor statistics estimated that the number of jobless throughout the nation now is about 3,000,0119. Farm employment in January was the lowest for any similar month in the last five years, a I government source said, with much ! of the decline attributed to western , blizzards. The weather also cut employment . in the west in outdoor activities , such as logging, lumbering and . construction, the survey showed. Part of the dollar increase in job less payments last month was at tributed to the fact that many states raised unemployment com ' pensation rates The average week ly payment is estimated this yeat at $2". Last year it was $19.05 and in 1947 it was $17.83. Nevertheless. 11 of the 43 states included in the survey reported that payments last January were roughly double those cf the corre , spending mouth a year ago. The total paid out by the 4. states for the entire year of 1948 was $785,861,090. compared with ' $791,943,475 in 1947. the survey showed. The number of claims filed by Hurn To ITO Mv) Mrs. Laie Swygart Dies Sunday Night • Funeral Services To Be Wednesday Mrs. Leah A- Swygart. 51. of 1115 West Ma.li on street, wife of U.fe swvgart. died at 9:05 o'clock Sunday night at the Adams coun liv memorial hospital a: ter a sev L-al months illness of compicaI Uons. x life-ong resident of Decatur. \ . h( . » ;t < horn in this city April 18. a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. • i Hurt Dibble. Surviving in addition to her husband are the following children: , Henrv Mrs. Betty Baumgartner. ' Mr« Norma Ihrick. Robert. Max 4 and Ri<*a'd. all of Decatur. Mrs J pabelle May of Van Wert. 0.. and ■ Paul. Lase. Jr and Gerald. ,il a t lorn*; »» grandchildren. f ‘"e brother. Bruce Mbbe of Ken J,„n. O, and a sis er. Mrs AMJ „~c Tocsin Three chitI Lindeman of Tocam ‘ rfren preceded her in death. ntt ntl ■“’rri'*’ '* hP ' d ’’ L „ m Wdne-dav at the Church ' lt e Natarene. the Rev Leonard ‘lWrisht officiating. Burial will in the Dcatur cemetery The Will b* removed from the an-)— residence where friends may call 2?? .kw* —*

Pope Assails “Totalitarian Religious States” •——■ —_—_ . . - . _ 'r-- J* *t**i'' *• < lltilftFl • Y ft* POPE PIUS XII, addressing a crowd of 250,000 jamming St. Peter’s Square in Rome, bi.terly assails the "pt r editors” of Joseph Caridnai Mindszenty, and warns that -the Church cannot make peace with the "tota itariaii religious state" which uses the “progress of science for enslaving people." The Pontiff had already announced major excommunication of all Catholics connected with Cardinal Mindszenty’s trial.

Decatur May Have National Guard Plan Anti-Aircraft Battalion Unit Here Indianapolis, Feb. 21—(UP)— National guard officials planned to decide today on a headquarters city for Indiana's first antiaircraft battalion after Huntington was rejected. Maj: John W.’McConnell of the Indiana adjutant general's office said the guard originally planned to establish battalion headquarters at Huntington but changed its plans because there were “not enough staff officers there to organize it." McConnell said another city had been lined up and approval was expected to be given today. He would not identify the city. He said it was "pretty definite" that batteries of the battalion would be located at Huntington. Hartford City. Decatur. Bluffton and posibly Columbia City. The battalion will be composed of 748 enlisted men. 39 officers and two warrant officers. McConnell said the northeastern Indiana area was selected because it was the only area of its size in the state without guard units and armories. "This will undoubtedly mean new armories for the cities involved." he said. Each battery will have 16 wea pons on htilf-tracks. eight of them mounted with twin cannons and the other eight with machine guns He said strong-rooms would b» rented temporarily to store the equipment. • Aged Bluffton Man Is Burned To Death Bluffton. Ind.. Feb. 21 — (UP) — Services will be held tomorrow sot Thomas W. Grove. 87. who died yes terday of burns received when his clothing eattght fire while he was smoking a pipe. Grove was a forinet Bluffton city clerk treasurer. Father Os Decatur Lady Dies Sunday Alois Geis Dies At Monroeville Home Al'ds Geis. 69. father of Mrs. Rita Smitley of Decatur, died at 5 a m Sunday at the home of a son. Ber nard Geis, near Monroeville, after an Illness of several months He was a native of St. Leon Ind., and a member of St. Rose Catholic church at Monroeville. Surviving are two daughters Mrs Smitley of this city and Mrs | Roberta Sheehan of Monroeville; >wo sons. J oseph and Robert Geis - bo'h of near Monroeville: a bro then George Geis of Liberty; two sisters. Miss Barbara Geis of Cincinnati and Mrs Kathryn Under of Liberty, and 11 grandchildren Funeral services will be held at 8:30 a m. Tuesday at the Marqrnrt 4 Painter funeral home and at 9 o'clock at St. Rcxe Catholic church, the Rev J J Uennes officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery at Monroeville. The Holy Name society will meet at 8 o'clock this evening at the funeral home

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, February 21, 1949

Posts Installed For 13 Parking Meters The final chapter in the story of the city-county parking meter squabble was penned this morning. Workmen completed installation o'. 13 posts on the southwest side of the court house which by Tuesday afternoon will hold the disputed meters. Retail Food Prices Still On Decrease Retailers Expecting New Price Rise Soon By United Press Retail prices on It) common foods, mainly meats, have fallen sharply in the last month in line with wholesale prices, hut many retailers expect to hike prices up ward again soon, a survey of 32 cities showed today. .Most grocerymen and butchers said housewives were taking full advantage of markdowns by buy ing "specials." They said homemakers also were buying as little as possible in hopes of further markdowns in the near future. Tlie survey showed that a mother, cooking for a family of three, could cook a breakfast of six eggs and a half pound of bacon for about seven cents less than it would have cost her a month ago If she bought a tour pound rib roast of beef, she could save 46 cents, or almost enough to buy another pound. Results of the United Press survey are shown by the following table: Today Month Ago Rib Roast (pound) 58.4 69.9 Loin Pork Roa t (pound) 46.6 50.6 Choice Bacon (pound) 59.0 6.7.1, Fork Chops (pound) 58.5 62.7 ('•Bone Steak (pound) 73.8 81.8 Lamb Chops (pound) 80.0 52.2 Best Butter (pound).. 71.5 71.1 Grade A Eggs (dozen) 55.0 66.6 Flour (live pounds).. 46.2 47.? Potatoes (10 pounds) 54.6 55.2 The Idg drop in the price of rib roast resulted from a sharp decline in the who'esale price ot quality beef. At Washington, rib roast dropped 26 cents, at Springfield. 111.. 23 cents. Seattle. Buffalo. Memphis. Des Moines. Oma•Tnrn To I'HKe Mt) Barn Destroyed By Fire Sunday Night A barn on the Herman Thieme farm, three and one-half miles northeast of Decatur, was destroyI >*d by fire Sunday night after all I 'ivestoek excejit two cows and twi 1,-alves were rescind. The l>eeatur fire department was summoned at 7 p m.. as was the Monroeville unit. Mr. Thieme said the building was all ablaze btfort he noticed it. He saved some !•) head of cattle from the blazing structure. Mr. Thieme told -Decatur firemen the cause of the fire might have he<*n defective wiring. Several oubbutidings were threatened. cal firemen atunded the Maze for three and one-half hour*.

Schricker Blasts Communist Leader Tongue-Lashing Is Given By Governor i Indianapolis, Feb. 21 — (UPI — Gov. Henry F. Schricker of Indiana angrily gave a communist party officer a verbal tongue-lash-ing today when the communist handed him a propaganda leaflet. The incident happt*ne<i on tlie sidewalk in front of the state employment seciiri y division office, where a long line of. unemployed men and women waited to file jobless benefit claims. Ren Cohen, chairman of the Indianapolis communist party, gave Schricker a leaflet advocating sl9 weekly unemployment ' compensation benefits. The state now offers a S2O weekly maximum. Schricker absently took tlie leaf let and walked into the office for an official visit. A moment later he returned, red faced and angry. "So you're a communist," the governor said he told Cohen. "Yes, sir," Cohen replied. "Then why don't you go back to ' Russia and peddle your papers?" Schricker asked. "Take this propaganda back where it started and pass it out to ' your friends." Cohen, the governor said, replied that he was not a Russian but an American. "I don't think much of your Idea <>f Americanism." Schricker said "Did you ever try working for a living?" "This is my work." Cohen re plied, according to the governor. "Well." snapped Schricker. "you can take it from me it isn't very (Turn To I'nur Three) I - . ■ ■ —- I Glazed Highways In Midwest Area > I Freezing Rains In Parts Os Midwest By United Press ! Slick highways made driving i hazardous in many midwest areas today, but the army took advant- ! age of mild weather in the west to i work around the clock toward its . goal of completing "operation snowliound.” Four persons already had Iteen killed in automobile accidents on glazed highways. Three University of Kansas students were killed n*ar Ottawa. Kan., last night tnd another Kansan was kiJed on an icy highway in Clay county 1 Mo ! The weatherman warned that ’ freezing rains would make road 1 conditions dangerous in parts of Oklahoma, southeastern Kansas, northern Missouri, routhern lowa. ‘ I and northern Illinois. * ’ Scattered snow was predicted * I for the midwest, the great plain*. 1 and northern New England Some ' rain was forecast for the west : Washington coast. Poiige searched for the bodies I of two persons whose car plunged 1 into the flooding Gasconade river 1 ] near Richmond. Mo The highway " bridge had been covered by water The weather bureau at Portland (Tara Ta *l>)

Indiana Budget Bills In Committee; Action This IVeeA Pledged In House

250,000 Hear Pope Condemn Hungary Pledges Church To Oppose Dictators Rome, Feb. 21 (UP)— The Catholic world had the assuran’ee of Pope Pius XII today that totalitar ian states never could silence the church. The pontiff's pledge was made yesterday in a brief address to a crowd of 250.(10(1 persons who jammed St. Peter’s square in protest against the imprisonment of Hungarian primate Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty. “The church does not meddle in purely political and economic ques tions nor does she care to dispute the utility or the harmfulness of one or the other forms of government," the Pope said. ♦ “She is ever anxious to the ex tent that is in her power to have peace with all. She renders unto Caesar that which is his by rights, but she can not betray or abandon that which belongs to God." The pontiff's voice often choked with emotion as lie compared the Cardinal with the Christian martyrs of ancient Rome. Totalitarian and anti-religious states, he said, wanted a church that kept silent in return for the tolerance of those governments If it yielded, the church would “remain enclosed within the four walls of the temple, forgetful of the commandments received from Christ." the Pope declared. "Is this the church which you venerate and love'.’" The pontiff as>ked. There was a thundering no. .Six times more he questioned the throng on whether the Pope shoul.l be silent "when the churches united to Rome are torn away from her..." Each time the answer was a booming no. The pontiff’s 11-minute speech, delivered from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, was beamed to all corners of the world by the Vatican radio. He said Hungary persecuted priests and faithful and attempted (Turn Tn I’nge Tw»» Thomas Frank Lynch Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon Thomas Franklin Lynch, 56. prominent Decatur re ident, died at 1:45 p. in. Saturday at the Irene Byron sanitorium. where he had lieen a patient since Jan. 20. An employe of the Linn clothing store for a number of years, he worked until shortly before Chris;mas. when he was forced to retire | because of illness. He was born in Blue Creek township Dee. 27. 1892. a son of Edward and Matilda Lynch, and -p( ut practically his entire life in Decatur and Adams county. He was married to Mary M. Myers July 3. 1914. Mr. Lynch was a member of the Bethany Evangelical United i Bre'hreii chufch. I lie Deeatui . Lions club, and the B. I*. O. Elk I and Knights of Pythias lodges. Surviving in addition to his wife are a daught r. Mrs. Joseph ] Krick «f Decatur; a son. William . (Bill) Lynch, a student at Ball' State teachers col'ege. Muncie, 1 one grand-daughter: aha L-broth-1 er. Ar hur DeArmond of Blue | Creek township; and five sisvrs. i Mrs. Will Dellinger and Mrs. Ora ; Patterson, both of liecatur. Mrs 1 I Francis Marbaugh and Mrs Jess | Davis, luith <>f Fort Wayne, and 1 i Mrs Ray Davies of Berne Funeral services will lie held at! ’ r3o p m Tuesday at th • home I '‘<>9 Mercer avenue, and at 2 j ' o'clock at the Bethany Evangelical I United Brethren church, the Rev 'F. H. Willard officiating. Burial i will lie in the Decatur cdmrt«-ry I The liody has been removed from | the Black funeral home to the 'residence, where fl lends may call.

Berlin Theater Stormed Today By Angry Jews Protest Showing Os Anti-Semitic Movie Os British Berlin, Feb. 21 (UPI —About 150 angry Jews defied fire hoses and warning shots by police today and stormed a B< rlin theater showing tlie Briti h film "Oliver Twist." Tlie violence broke out during a demons'ration against the portrayal of "the Jew Fagin" in an alleged antisemitic manner. A similar demonstration yesterday by some 300 persons stopped a showing of the movie. The band of Jews fought through police lines and threw bricks from a nearby bomb wrecked building at both the theater and the policemen trying to guard it. The hour-long riot was quelled I when demonstrators withdrew at ■ ter the arrival of police reinforce ' incuts. The picture was cancelled. The demons:rating, armed with knives and axes, slashed tlie hoses. Columns of water cascadeil,; over the bystanders, now swelled I to a crowd of 500. Several German policemen suf fetVd gashes, cuts and bruises in the brawl They tired several shots into the air in a vain at tempt to break up the riot In the previous demonstration, the crowd halted the performance by yelling, stamping feet, and tearing up seats. None was injured nor arrested. Mayor Ernst Reuter said li ■ bad asked British authorities to with draw the picture. It already was banned in the American and French zones. Two policemen were injured and an American correspondent. Ly ford Moore, of the Americas Broadcasting company, was hit in the face with a brick He was taken to aif army hospital No Argument Falro. Feb. 2! (UPi Tlie for eign ministry today labeled "not i true" a Haifa report that Israel ] and Egypt were understood to i have signed an armistice agree I (Turn To l*nae MO Assessment Values Fixed For County Values Are Set By Indiana Tax Board Assessment values as fixed by tinstate tax board were released late , Saturday by \llxrt Harlow, ciaintj i assessor, in a meeting of township I assessors and the r assistants priot i to the March 1 starting date for the 1 ] n assessment of real estate. | All new iinproveiuents should * on a percentage basis of 40 percent, of cost, the state (wiird order 'd ; All improvements of 1948 must l«'| 'aken by the assessors Farm pro ' f ducts should tie taken at 70 per : j ent of the March I market price > j and all 1949 autos will lie assess -d ; it 80 percent of the factory deliver : “d price, the assessors were told > Tyni al assesstiu nt values set ; I 'he state include Common work fcoro-s $73; rc I :istere.| stalltons or mares. S3OO i -ommon mules. S3O; re:ister«'. ■ows and bulls. $230; good cows: ■nd hulls. $150; registered sheep | j S3O; common sheep. sl3; register^', I brood sows and sigs. $100; c->m , tnon brood sows with pies $75: chickens, light, per dozen. $?: chick I ens. heavy, per do’en. $9 Grein, seeds and hay ere to be a'M<std at 70 percent of March 1! quotations Miscellaneous appra.s ments include wood, per cord. s2;' Hara T« l*«ce Three)

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One Veteran Solon Predicts No Bonus Measure Will Pass Present Assembly Indianapolis. Feb. 21 — (UP) — Indiana senate Republicans notified governor Schricker today that they were holding the Democrats fully responsible if state biennial appropriations bills failed to get "satisfactory consideration for la k Os time" Tlie budget bills, involving estimated expenditures of some $205.000,01)0 for a two-year period beginning next July 1. have lieen in a Democratic house conunittee since they were introduced Feb. 4. Rep Donald A. Rogers. D. Bloomington. chairman of house ways and means "A" committee, said his committee was "ionsidering them very carefully " Rogers said they would be brought out of committee "early this week" and that tlie senate would have them before the week was over. St-hrlck r had a letter from John W Van Ness, president pro tent of tlie GUI* senate, explaining t"at "not a single piece of major legislation involving a large amount of state funds" had rea hed tlie s-n---ate "It is almost incom eivable." Van Ness wrote, "that we would lie asked to consider tlie many phases of the largest budgi t bill ever presented to a session of the general as sembly. in a period mu.h less than two weeks. "If these fiscal problems do not receive satisfaitory i uisideration for lack of time belore the session ends on March 7 you and your party will naturally take full responsibility for any serious consequences " As if to emphasize tin 1 shortage of time remaining before adjournment. the senate followed up the GOP warning by killing a house resolution aimed at giving legislatu es unlimited time for their lawmaking. Tlie senate voted |ii to 8 against the resolution, which proposed an amendment to the constitution eliminating the 61-dav time limit en biennial sessions and allowing ea.-h assembly to convene and adjourn when it pleased Fulfillment of the plan would have hinged on approval by both houses of two < nise utive legistaitiires and appro .1 in a voter ref rj endlltn in 1912. The house had p:: vsit'd the resolution by a vote of 9! to 1 •> I Sill Milford E. \nness. R . Mct- ’ amora. led the supporters of the .measure He said a til-dav session , was a relic of horse and lug ty days ' t'.itt Sen Ulifford Funder'mrg. It. II *’ntington. said it would "Just give I legislators more time to introdin • I more hills." "An extension would provide time | or mischief, not good works," Fun- ' derhurg said "Instead of this resolution. I w.mid propose a limit on the number of bills introduced in a ] session " I The senate passed house bill 41. I establishing a state real estate I commission and providing for licensing of real estate agents, by a I vote 29 to 9 The house advanced to third redI ng a senate joint resolution which . would amend th-* constitution to | lengthen the terns of prosecuting | attorneys to four years. A senate bill requiring bi partisan police tones in all third and ourth class cities advanced to third reading in the house. As the assembly started the next to last full week of its session, a i veteran D. mo ra'i senator predicted no soldier Ihuius law would In* ena.ted "We re going to pass a lot of I laws." said Sen l.eo J. Stemie. I'. | Jasper. ' Maybe e»eii a few too • nany But I'm as sure as a man <->n >e that no veterans bonus hill is going to )>e among them." With only 15 day» left out of *ho 61 allotted by the state constitution, the legislator* still had final deI visions to make on every mator question posed lasted Jan. 6. when the gavels rapped for order tor the (Tara Ta Page Ms)