Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 24 February 1949 — Page 1

'ol. XLVII. No. 46.

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Votes th I I Approval Os Bills Tentative Approval Voted For State's < | Largest Budget Indianapolis, Feb. 24—(UP)— ■ yhe Indiana house of representatives. obviously impressed by the i ■mushrooming demands for more ■ money, gave the state’s biggest IB budget tentative approval today. The house resolved itself into a th ■ committee of the whole today and :1 ’’■went tediously through every pro- • “■vision of the record-breaking $207,060,000 biennial budget. I There was only one attempt to <■ change the recommendations made IB by the house ways and means a coni | n ittee. It was voted down by ro,| B a voice vote. Ils - ■ a few minutes later, the house' shouted approval of all three budw ■ get bills and recommended that 'ishlH they "do pass." The budgetary measures still he »■ must go through the entire legislative process in both houses but : the approval given them by the ing, ■ house was considered significant. I Meanwhile, in the senate, vot- ■ ing on the controversial bill to repeal the compulsory arbitration j law was delayed until next TuesIB day. Some legislators said supportty (■ ers of the repeal bill in both parties feared it would not get adequate support had it been voted on this JI morning. I But Rep. D. Russell Bontrager, ; R„ Elkhart, said the delay was sought to give the house a chance Bl the arbitration law. The sub bill ■ I is the administration’s bill provid k ■ ing for voluntary ai bitration which Democrats promised would be passed in the house if the senate ■ advanced the repeal bill. ■ Bontrager said he just wanted ■ "to make sure that the senate has a chance to look over this substi7H lute bill b efore we repeal the law." But observers pointed out that '""Bi next Tuesday was very near the AH end of the 61-day session and both /■ Pleasures might get lost in the < ■ last-minute jam. | The only change proposed in the I I budget bills was by Rep. James E. II Hunter, D., East Chicago. He want- ■ I ed the appropriation for the fait II employment practices commission 11 in the division of labor increased 11 from $11,400 to $13,500. I Sen. John A. Kendall, R.. Ban | | ville, state budget committee chair- £■ man, said that “the committee felt vB that no more money should be apII preprinted than the division spent ?!■ in last biennium.” Hunter said 1 the unit had receiv 11 ed $15,000 for several years. •» But the dollar-minded representa tives turned down Hunter’s motion Bl to amend. I Action on the budget will be fol Bl lowed later in afternoon sessions II by a renewal of the battle of the ■I bonus in both houses. B Governor Schricker and his I (Torn To l’»Kr Three I Lumber Company Workman Killed | Lebanon. Ind.. Feb. 24 — (UP*— ■ Virgil Carlton. 50. Voss. Ky„ died H yesterday from injuries suffered in H an accident at the B F. Hendrick H lumber compamy Tuesday where he ■ *as emcloyed, ' E Carlton arrived here Monday II evening and was hired by the lum ■I her company the following morn I fag. About 30 minutes after he | K started to work he walked past a H large saw. The saw caught hir I sleeve and pulled him into it. J Rev. M. T. Brandyberry J Dies In California I Relatives here have receiver IE *ord of the death of the Rev. Mil lard T. Brandyherry. former Adaim I county resident, at his home it ,‘B Huntington Park. Cal Rev. Brand B berry had served the last severs I bars as assistant paster of the Church of the Nazartne in the Cal IB Ifornia city. lB He was the father of the Rev I. Paul Brandy berry, former Decat u: minister. A daughter also survives. •» do several nieces and nephews in Decatur and Adams county. Buna’ **> in Huntington Park. WEATHCR Cloudy tonight and Friday. Rain this afternoon, continuing •a southeastern half tonight Somewhat colder Friday.

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Civil Rights Issue Faced By Senators Political Advantage Sought Over Issues Washington, Feb. 24 — (UP) — Republicans and Democrats alike maneuvered today for po.i.ical advantage in the civil rights disputes boiling up in the senate. Senators faced the civil rights issue on at least three fronts, as follows: 1. How and when to break a filibuster against changing the senate’s rules of debate, traditionally the southerners' first line of defense against civil rights bills. 2. Whether new labor legislation shall forbid union discrimination against negroes. 3. Whether public housing legislation shall forbid racial discrimination in all such developments. Spokesmen for negro organizations found support among both parties yesterday when they told the senate labor commit’ee that union discrimination against negroes should be outlawed. Sen. John W. Bricker, R„ 0.. said he would attempt to amend proposed housing legislation to forbid racial discrimination of any kind. The suggested amendments to the labor and housing bills would arouse bitter southern Democratic opposition. The big dispute, however, is on how to dehl with the civil rights proposal itself. Before the senate can act on civil rights it must break or prevent the filibuster which southern Democrats are prepared to wage against it. By agreement all around, a resolution to adopt senate rules against filibuster tactics has been scheduled for debate beginning Monday. i But senate Democrats in party conference yesterday agreed that after opening the rules change debate on Monday, they would Interrupt it any time a major bill was presented for senate consideration. Within a little over an hour, a senate banking subcommittee agreed on a compromise long-range housing bill to provide 810.000 low-rent units over a period of six years. It would be a par.ly subsidized program. The housing bill is scheduled for full committee consideration which will enable it to be reported to the senate in ample time to give senate Democratic leader Scott W. Lucas, D., HI., an opportunity to stop the rules debate if he desires to do so. Chairman Robert A. Taft. R., 0., of the senate Republican policy committee, however, told questioners he believed Republicans wou’d vote against any motion made by Lucas to set the rules debate (Turn To Pnise Fhrl •

Court House Clock Is Again Operating Decatur time is marching on once ’gain. The crurt house clock, crip nleß since last Thursday, got a naw set of gears last niziht. it no longer -eads 6 o’clock all the time. School •hildren, tipplers and tardy em oloyes have lost their last and best jxcuse for arriving places late. Mrs. Mary Ann Clem Dies This Morning Former Teacher In Schools Os County Mrs. Mary Ann Clem. 70. a teach Pr in Adams county schools for 40 rears, died at 1:30 o’clock thi’ morning at hfi home. 21 n 9 South Harrison street. Fort Wayne. A native of Adams county, she was born June 15. 1878. a daughter of John and Annetta Miller. She was a member of the Simpson Methodist church at Fort Wayne, and was highly active in church circles. Surviving are her husband. Mel vin A. Clem, a real estate agent: four sons. Channcev E. of Auburn. Richani M. of Fort Wayne. Paul A. of Chicago and Robert D. Clem of Elkhar*. and two grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 3 pm. SaturJav a’ the D O McComb & Sons funeral heme in Fort Wame. the R-r Carl C Adamx offlclatliig Bnrial •* !n the IOOF remeiery at Monroerille Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock thia evsning.

Senate Group Approves Big Housing Plan Committee Okays 810,000 Low-Rent Housing Units Washington, Feb. 24 -- (UP) — The senate banking committee today approved a measure to build 810,000 low-rent housing units in six years with federal money. The bill is a bipartisan compromise between an administration proposal for 1,050,000 units in seven years and a Republican plan for 600,000 in six. The committee voted 9-3 for the measure after rejecting a proposal to ban racial segregation in the public housing projects. The no-se-gregation amendment was proposed tby Sen. John W. Bricker, R., 0., and Hgrry P. Cain, R., Wash. Friends of the bill feared the racial issue would kill its chances of passage. The inendment was defeated 10 to 2. Committee chairman Burnet Maybank said the measure will be introduced on the senate floor tomorrow with both major parties supporting it. Tlie bill also calls for a $1,500,000,000 slum clearance program, a $262,500,000 rural housing program, and federal housing research and census projects. Other congressional developments: Labor — Sens. James E. Murray, Mont., and Claude Pepper, Fla., both Democrats, predicted the administration's labor bill will be ready for senate debate in less than two weeks. The bill would repeal the last congress' Taft-Hartley law and replace it with an amended Wagner act. Wallgren — Former Gov. Mon C. Wallgren of Washington denied charges iby Sen. Harry P. Cain. R., Wash., that he permitted Communists to get into his state's government. Wallgren said Cain's charges were ’’ridiculous” and "silly.” Ghina — Secretary of state Dean Acheson told 30 house members Chis government plans no new help now for Nationalist China. One Republican quoted Acheson as saying he United States will take no new action in China "until the dust set(Turn To I’nirr Thrrrl

Near-Accidenl On Railroad Revealed Warns Children To Stay Off Railroads Railroad safety officials and school authorilies today planned a renewed attack on the problem of trespas ing on railroad property following a harrowing near accident Tuesday. Erie police officer Zintsmeister said three children of school age were playing on the Erie tracks near the tower Tuesday when an express train bore down on them. They tried to flag the train down, hut fled at the last moment, leaving their youngest companion, aged five, standing between the tracks. Officer Zintsmeister said the tact that the five-year-old was not killed or seriously injured was a miracle. He said the engineer of the east-bound train, who saw the children too late to stop, was severely shaken emotionally when he reported in at Lima, O. Officer Zintsmeister spent Wednesday stopping school children who cross the tracks at unanthor ized points. He said he caught 12 children risking their lives in that way. Funeral Rites Held For Reed Infant Funeral services were held at the GHHg ft Doan funeral home Wed nesday afternoon for DeWayne Singer Reed, stillborn son of Aferl (Jack) and Eileen Reed, born Wed nesday at the Adams county memorial hospital. The Rev. Edgar P. Sdimidt officiated, and burial was in the Decatur cemetery. SurviriK in addition to the parents are the grandparents. Mrs. Pearl Reed of Decatur, and Mr. and Mrs. Ben Dull of Glenmore, O.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, February 24,1949

Red Army Day In Berlin RUSSIAN KOMMANDATURA officers parade from the Russian zone of Berlin, through the Brandenburg Gate to the Russian War Memorial in the British sector as the Soviet armed forces in the German capital celebrated Red Army Day. They carried a floral wreath which they placed on the memorial. On the gate can be seen a sign reading: "You are now leaving the British Sector."

Urges Norway Join Pad Discussions , Seen As Clincher To Norway's Entry Oslo, Feb. 24.—(UP)— Foreign minister Halvard M. Lange told parliament today that the Norwegian government believes it should join discussions on the north Atlantic pact immediately. Lange said the government believed it should start discussions “at such an early time that we will have the opportunity to present our view on how such a treaty should be tormed.” He added that it will be up to parliament to “take the tinal decision it and when the government presents a finished treaty tor ratification.” Lange’s statement was made in a report on his recent mission to Washington and London. He also said that the Norwegian answer to the Russian offer of a non-aggression pact would be submitted “as soon as parliament during the next w-eek has been able to formulate its attitude to the questions raised in the (Soviet) request.” Lange’s speech virtually clinched Norway’s entry into the Atlantic nact negotiations. The governing labor party, which holds 76 of the 150 seats in the Norwegian parliament. already has approved such a step. Norway's adherence to the pact would break the traditionally solid Scandinavian neutrality front. Lange told parliament that the alternative of a Scandinavia defense (Turn To Pnsr Flvrt

Dairy Farmer, Scientist Now Canning Fresh Milk

Valparaiso, Ind.. Feb. 24 — (UPI — <A dairy Ormer and a scientist said today they were "on the road" toward development o! a process to can fresh milk and eventually eliminate bottling, refrigeration, and dawn .home deliveries. Jack Stambaugh said milk from the 200 cows on his farm ha l been "successfully canned" under a method worked out during the last three •ear by a retired V. S. department .4 agriculture scientist Dr. R. R. Graves. They predicted if they were tuccesaful that the price of milk would be slashed and the dairy industry would undergo an econom’c revolution. “We’ve kept it in cans over a month and you can’t tell the difference from fresh milk when you drink it." said Stambaugh Both Stambaugh and Graves, however. irfsfstcd that their experiments were far from completion. “We’re a long, long way from being able to say it’s ready for the market," said Stambaugh. But he admitted they had made

Auto License Bureau Open Saturday Night The Decatur auto license branch, located in tihe Schafer store, will be open until 8 o’clock Saturday night for sale of license plated, it was announced today by Mrs. Charles Lose, bureau manager. Monday is the deadline for operating motor vehicles with the 1948 iplates, and state officials have announced repeatedly that there will be no extension of the deadline. Husband Confesses Lover Lane Murder Estranged Husband Confesses Murder New Castle, Ind., .Feb. 24—(UP) —Ernest Sells, 39, confessed today that he killed his 17-year-old wife. Lillian, whose battered body was found in a lover's lane cornfield yesterday, sheriff Robert Padgett announced. Sells made the statement. Padgett said, after an all-night session of questioning and lie detector tests here and at Indiana state police headquarters in Indianapolis. The battered body of Mrs. Sells was found early yesterday on a lonely country road. Hours later, her estranged husband was arrested at a New Castle factory. Meanwhile, police found what they believed to be the murder weapon, a “black jack" which was picked up in a ditch southwest of town. Sheriff Robert Padgett said (Turn To I’nitf Three!

“remarkable results” in their es forts to seal in cans milk coming directly from the cow, "It was Graves’ idea," said Stani baugh, “I had a dairy farm and we were good friends so we joined fore es. If we can complete the exper iment. it will be quite a contribution." The plan involves drawing milk from the caws under vacutrm with milking machines and sending it through several proteases, including a new speeded-up pasteurization plan, and th»n placing it unex posed to the air in sea’sd cans. “We’re doing things that have’nt heen done before." said Stambaugh' “But there's a lot of exhaustive ex perimentation to do yet." Stambaugh admitted the econom ic possibilities of canned fresh milk were staggering. “If perfected, canned fresh milk would create a drastic economic change in the dairy industry.” he said. Canned milk would make obso(Tara Ta Paa* Twa)

Brief Ceremony Sets Up Permanent Peace Basis For World’s Holy Land

Flood Ihreal Eased For Middle West . Ensuing Five Days May Be Critical By United Press Army engineers and weather forecasters said today that disastrous spring floods along the Mississippi river and its trihut; vies may be avoided provided the spring thaws are not accompanied by heavy rains. They said the next five days might be critical in determining how fast the heavy snowdrifts covering western ranges will melt. But some areas already were battling against threatened floods. iAt (Ely, Nsv., army engineers planned to channel expected spring torrents from the Robinson Can-yon-Gleason creek snowshed directly down the city’s main street to save residential districts. The engineers called for 28.000 more sandbags to bolster the walls built along the street's curbing to retain the water. All traffic was rerouted around the main street. At 'Elko, also in eastern Nevada, thousands of sandbags were laid against levees along the rising Humbold river. Rain fell today over portions of Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas. Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin, hut weather experts said the threat of floods had eased in the middle west. Streams which threatened to overflow in Kansas and lowa were receding. Snow fell over the Dakotas and in Minnesota. High winds caused some drifting of old snow but snowplows were expected to clear swiftly the few miles of roads that were closed. Freezing rains near Duluth (forced westbound buses to cancel their runs but a few moved eastward into Wisconsin. All Duluth radio stations went off the air for a short period last night when electrical service was disrupted by ‘heavy icecoating on lines. Maj. Gen. Lewis A. Pick, commander of "operation snowbound” and director of flood control activi j ties in the 'Missouri basins, said a i 100-mile ice jam north of Atchison. | (Turn To Pnar Five)

Zone Chairmen For Red Cross Campaign Residential Zones Leaders Are Named Kenneth Runyon, city chairman for the Red Cross drive which opens March 1. today named 18 residential zone chairmen. The i districts have been assigned to the zone leaders and solicitation will he made at the homes throughout the city. The women volunteer leaders are: Zone 1. Mrs. Floyd Morrison: 2. Mrs. Joseph Hunter; 3. Mrs. Don Cochran; 4. Mrs. Ralph Ken worthy; 5. Mrs. Nora Wdodruff: 6. Mrs. Nora Woodruff; 7. Mrs. Kenneth Secaur; 8, Mrs. Wesley Leh man; 9. Mrs. Frank Bohnke. Zone 10. Mrs. N. A. Bixler; 11. Mrs. R. O. Gentis; 12. Mrs. Joseph Murtaugh; IS, Mrs. Edgar Rein king; 14. Mrs. Phillip Dolby; 15 Mrs. Ray Moser: 16, Mrs. Reinhold Sauer: 17. Mrs. Russel Acker; IS. Mrs. L. C. Pettibone. Heart Fund Drive To Be Continued Heart fund canisters which an located in many downtown Decatur ■ stores will remain on the counters “hrough the first week in March it was announce.! today by Mrs R. C. Hersh, chairman of the fund drive. It originally had been planned to j complete the drive for money the I last day of February, but since the i local group was several days late jin receiving the cannisters. it was ■ decided to continue the solicitation a week.

Urge Revision Os Government Finance Setup Hoover Commission Says Present Setup Archaic, Inadequate Washington, Feb. 24—(UP)— The Hoover commission advised congress today to get rid of the government’s archaic, inadequate and patchwork financial system and set up new budgeting and accounting procedures. In asking that fiscal policies, which have "come down from Alexander Hamilton.” be ended, the commission recommendations boiled down to these: 1. A “performance budget" be established, based upon functions, activities and projects to be done. It would replace the present federal budget system which emphasizes personnel services, supplies and equipment with no uniformity and sometimes without identification. 2. An accountant general be created under the secretary of treasury. He would have authority to prescribe general accounting methods and enforce procedures, subject to the approval of the comptroller general. This w.ould replace the present divided system of accounting whereby fiscal accounts are handed by the treasury department and administrative accounts are in the province of the comptroller general, and his general accounting office. The commission's report on "hud geting and accounting” is its seventh to congress on streamlining the executive branch of the government. It said the government's financial concepts were archaic when the United States spent $4,000.000,00(1 per year. Now. with a government which expends over $40,000,000,000 per year, "they are totally inadequate," the commission said. It characterized the present fed’ eral budget as “an inadequate document, poorly -organized and im properly designed to serve Its major purpose, irtilch is to present an understandable and workable financial plan for the expenditures of the government." • In criticizing the present method *of presenting the federal budget, the commission cited the case of the naval hospital at Bethesda. Md. It said the hospital receives its allotments from 12 different navy appropriatiuto titles. It said there is no one title in the present budget where the total cost of operating a navy hospital is (Twrn Tn Pn«r Twol

Open Music Store Here On Saturday Adam Kunowich To Open Music Store Distinctive as the only store of its kind in the city. Adam Kuno wich, well known musician, an nounees the opening next Saturday of his retail Decatur Music House, in the McConnell building, 226 N Second street. The music house will deal in every kind of known musical instru .nent. running the scales from a harmonica to an electric organ for church or chapel. A musie instructor himsel'. Mr '{unowi’h has the agency for ser eral of the nation's best known qua! Ity organs, pianos, band and strirv: instruments. The music house will also retail a complete line of sheet music, in eluding sacred, popular, classical and semi-classical. Harmonicas and a modern line of musical toys tor children will also be retailed at the store. Nationally famous organs and i spinet pianos as Wurtltwr end Jw Ish French will be carried by Mr. I Kunowich. Selmer and Olds band (Tw»« T* Page Twe)

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Officials Os United Nations Optimistic Armistice To Lead To Permanent Peace Rhodes, Feb. 21—(UP)—Israel signed an historic armistice with Egypt today in a brief 22-minule ceremony which laid the basis for permanent peace in the Holy Land. In the armistice Israel won de facto recognition from the Arab states, which immediately lined up to follow Egypt's example and make peace with Tel Aviv. The agreement gave Israel 25 Jewish settlements in the Negev captured during last October's bitter battles. Egypt won a 160-square-mile slice of southern Palestine covering a 20 by 5-miie strip along the coast from Gaza south to the Egyptian border. Five copies of the armistice were officially initialled befween 10:30 a. tn. and 10:44 a. m. today but war between Israel and Egypt actually ended last night when both sides joked and discussed their battles at a champagne party celebrating the agreement. The signing was a personal triumph for Dr. Ralph Bundle, the American negro Quaker who became acting Palestine mediator for the United Nations when Count Folke Bernadotte was assassinated in Jerusalem last year. Other Arab nations are expected to follow Egypt's lead and sign armistices with Israel shortly. Negotiations between Israel and Transjordan will begin here Mon day. wi h Lebanon and Syria join ing in simultaneous talks. Iraq and Saudi Arabia have announced they will adhere to agreements signed by other Arab states. The armistice provides for: 1. Occupation by lightly-armed Israeli "defensive forces" of the Negev desert areas won in last October's battles, which include a large number of settlements. 2. Occupation liy similar Egyptian "defensive forces” of a strip of southern Palestine on the GazaRafa area. 3. Evacuation of encircled Egyptian forces and such Arab civilians as wish to leave Fahija. 4. Establishment of a sevenman armistice commission to sit at El Auga to supervise the armistice. The commission will be composed of three men from each side and headed by Brig. Gen. William E. Riley, head of the UN observers staff. Jewish forces will withdraw from El Auja and the area will be demilitarized. 5. Retreat of (Egyptian "striking forces" from the BethlehemHebron area to points behind the Egyptian frontier. 6. Withdrawal of Israeli “striking forces" from Bir Asluj and El Auja to behind the line from which they launched their Negev offensive last Oct. 14. The two sides agreed informally to leave the question of Beersheba to be decided hy the Israeli negotiations with Transjordan. Transjordan troops, however, never have occupied Beersheba in strength and it is doubtful if the Transjordan claim would he considered any stronger than the Egyptian claim. The two armies agreed not to advance across the lines laid down in the agreement. They pledged theni“elves io keep : scrupulously" the UN security council’s injunc(Tara Ta Pawr Tkrtfl Peace Conference Discussed In China fhanghaj. Feb. 24 - (UP) — ”hao 1.l Tze. chief peace negotiator for the Nationalist government, has discussed a formal peace conference vfilh Communist leader Mao Tze-Tung. the Communist radii said today. The broadcast said Shao and Dr. W W. Yen. chairman of an owrfIctal Shanghai peace delegation, sew Mao and Chon :Fa4LaL chief Comm unlit foreign affairs adviser, at Communist headquarters In Shihchiachuang presumably yesterday.