Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 56, Decatur, Adams County, 8 March 1949 — Page 1

XLVII. No. 56.

LEGISLATURE PASSES SOLDIER BONUS BILL

Prison Terms To Clergymen

le Terms To lur, Two Are It On Parole Reath Penalty Not Invoked In Bulgar kourt For Pastors Hfia, Mar. 8 - (UP) — Four Kestant pastors were sentenced Hife imprisonment for espion- ■ today. nine others were given Km terms ranging from five to Rears, and two were released Miarole. Ke Sofia district court where ■ls ministers had been on trial ■e Feb. 25 on charges of treaespionage and black market■did not invoke the death pen- ■ in any case. Kdge Constantine Undjiev, preKg justice of the three-man Ht. after reading the sentences. Kmented that’all countries have ■ death penalty for espionage. ■ the court was lenient because ■‘your sincere confessions.” ■ll the defendants announced ■t they were satisfied with the Kicts and the sentences. The ■secution also expressed satis■ion with the outcome of the. Ks trial. ■nder Bulgarian law the sentKes went into effect at once. If ■er fide had been dissatisfied, ■could have appealed to the su■me court. ■he sentences were handed ■n under a complex system of Kying charges against the separ- ■ defendants. They overlapped n dup icated in many cases with Kard to the prison terms, the ■es and deprivation of civil Hits for various periods. ■he heaviest sentences went to ■ four pastors labeled by the Ksecution as the leading defend■U. Their composite sentences, ■owing for overlapping and du■cations, were life imprisonment, les of 1,000,000 leva ($3,500). Id loss of civil rights forever. , ■hese four were Vassil Georgiev ■apkov, 48, Congregational; Yan- | Niko’ov Ivanov, 48. Methodist: Kola Mikhailov Naumov, 40. Ipti t; and Georgi Nicolov Cher|v, 46, Pentecost. ■he o'her sentences were: ■ambri Marinov Mishkov. 41. Ingregational, 15 years. ■eorgi Nicolov Nassev. 48. BapIt. 15 years. ■van Nagelo Stankulov, 44, BapIt. 10'years. Eahari Spassov Raychev, 50, ■ptist, 10 years, ■Mltko Mateev Dimitrov, 39. lurch of Christ, six years and ■ht months. Illaralan Ivanov Popov, 41. Penlost, 15 years. ■Ladin Ivanov Popov, 36, Pente--Ist. five years. [Fravko Ivanov Pezlov, 28. Methlist, 15 years. poncho Nicolov Dryanov. 41. Intecost. 10 years. ■Alexander Georgiev Zahariev, I. Methodist, released on parole. lAngel Georgiev Dinev. 40, Penkost, re eased on parole. INo blanket sentences were isbed. Instead, the presiding judge leticulously listed specific char(Tom To Pazr Five I [hoppers Throng To This City For 'Twin Dollar Days' Shopping at Decatur stores was k center of interest today as bunreds of people came to take ad ■ntage of the "Twin Dollar Day" zrgains offered by local merhita. A preponderance of women -was ten during the day as the shoppers Isited the stores. Local merchants sported a brisk business during the lorn log. The “Twin Dollar Day" sale conhues through Wednesday. WEATHER Rain tonight and Wednesday possibly mixed' with some snow in extreme north Wednesday. Warmer south tonight. colder north and central | portions Wednesday

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Hospital Trustee »* Cal E. Peterson Cal E, Peterson Hospital Trustee ' Decatur Clothier Is Named To Board Cal E. Peterson, clothier and civic leader of this city, has been appointed a trustee of the Adams county memorial hospital, succeeding Ear) Colter, who resigned, Mr. Peterson will immediately assume his place on the board. The vacancy has existed since January 1, when Mr. Colter tendefeil hlfnsignation. jlie appointment Is for one year. Mr. cotter, who was first named in 1938, succeeded the late A. J. Smith and had served three years of the current term. Active in business and civic affairs, Mr. Peterson informed the county commissioners that he would accept the appointment. Currently he is one of the jury commissioners in the Adams circuit court and anounced that he would resign from that post. The other trustees are, Dee Fryback, Decatur, Fred Kamholz. Berne and Lester Stucky. Geneva. . A nohpartisan hoard. Mr. Peterson is a Republican, as is Mr. Kamholz. The other two trustees are Democrats. Mrs. Robert Freeby Is Zone Chairman Mrs. Robert Freehy has been ap pointed chairman of zone 11 for the Red Cross drive in Decatur, Kenneth Runyon, city chairman, an nounced today. House-to-house solicitation will be made in the city and chairmen have been named for the various zones. The first report from the township zones is published in today s paper, showing receipts of $264.25. The county’s goal is $7,070. C. 01C. Directors Adopt 1949 Program Seven-Point Program Adopted For Year Plans for civic betterment and industrial expansion predominate the 1949 program of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, announced Monday night following a meeting of the board of directors. The seven-point program proposes that the Chamber. 1. Conduct a safety program. 2. Develop a better health pro gram. $. Prepare a survey of school consolidation. 4. Spon.or a dinner for rural residents. 5. Develop a city beautification program. 6. Continue efforts to interest industrial prospec's in Decatur. 7. Encourage improvements to the exterior of the county court house. In addition to the proposed 1949 projects, the Chamber will continue to sponsor the annual street fair and the calllthumpian parade on Halloween. Plans were furthered last night | for a "sports night meeting" for. (Tarn To Pano Feer)

Cal E. Peterson

Odom Sets New Light Planes World Record New World Distance Record, Honolulu To New Jersey Is Set Teterboro, N. J., March B.—(UP) —William P. Odom landed his sil-very-winged little monoplane here today after a solo flight from Honolulu which set a new world distance record for light planes. Odom, a lanky adventurer of the skyways who holds the round-the-world speed record, landed his little ship at 11:05 a.m. CST, 36 hours and one minute (unofficial time) after he took off from Hickam field at Honolulu. He coaxed his plane, the ‘‘Waikiki Beech" along the last leg of this record-breaking flight on a dwindling gasoline supply. Earlier he fought through snow, rain, fog. and ice that in Indiana almost brought him to disaster. The Teterboro airport, across the Hudson river from New York and about 15 miles from mid-Manhat-tan, is a part of the Metropolitan system of airports. The flight established a new world record for all light plane long distance flying and a new solo flight record. The 29-year-old flier more than doubled his record for light planes of the heaviest, category. set last January when he piloted the same single-engine plane 2.406.902 miles from Honolulu to Oakland. Calif. A crowd of about 500, including 200 reporters and newsreel and press photographers, gathered at the airport to greet Odom. Police roped off the main field and the runway which Odom used to taxi to a halt. "All Americans can take pride in this latest chapter of aviation history,” said Walter H. Beech, president of the Beech Aircraft corporation which manufactured Odom’s Bonanza model plane and sponsored the flight. John P. Gaty. vice president of the company, said the flight was not a stunt but was “conceived as proof of the tremendous improvement in postwar personal airplanes that the Bonanza exemplifies.” The record-breaking flight nearly ended in disaster over Indiana. The plane’s engine cut out when a gasoline tank ran dry. and Odom dived through an overcast, his wings icing dangerously, while switching to another tank. But the (Turn To Pace Two) Bank To Remain On Present Schedule Five-Day Week For Banks Ignored Here One and possibly both of a pair of bills passed last week by the state legislature will have no effect on Decatur. The First State Bank announced today it would continue its present hours of operation despite passage of a law permitting banks to operate on a five-day a-week sched ule. It will continue to remain open Saturdays as well as Thursdays until noon in conformance with the schedule of Decatur merchants. (The First Bank of Berne has issued a similar statement.) Governor Schricker’s signature was affixed to the standard time bill last night. It establishes central standard time as the official time for all public offices the year around. However, the measure fails to provide a penalty clause and is viewed as a frail victory for the rural forces which effected its pas sage. To conform with the time standardization law, the Decatur city council would have to repeal an ordinance it passed In 1940 putting the city on fast time from the last Saturday in April to the last Saturday of September. ft was believed the county would likely go along with the city, whatever the ultimate decision, tn order that confusion bo at a mini mum.

ONLY- DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMB COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, March 8, 1949

Attlee Visits Berlin Airlift WO'. 9 BCtJKIKK nmgßHfeatSKlM i ■■l K ■■#■ BRITISH PRIME MINISTER Clement Attlee shakes hands with Gen. Sir Brian Robertson, military governor of Berlin as he arrives at Gatow 'Airfield in the German capital for a first-hand view of the combined Allied airlift. Saluting the group is Capt. E. C. Yarde, commandant at the airbase, while behind Attlee is Air Marshal T. M. Wi Hams, commander of the British element of the airlift. It is Attlee’s first Berlin visit since the Potsdam conferences of 1945.

ZktllUC S nisi IJVlllll tIBII nll’.tc Lliv Sol Bloom, Veteran Congressman, Dead Veteran Solon Dies After Heart Attack Washington, 'Maneh 8 - (UP) — President Truman and members of congress today mourned the death of Rep. Sol Bloom, the immigrant’s son who rose from street .peddler to foreign policy chief of the house. In a telegram to Bloom's only daughter, Vera, Mr. Truman said he was "shocked and saddened" .by the New York congressman’s unexpected death last night at Bethesda naval liospital. “As a member and twice chairman of the great (house) committee on foreign affairs, he was a tower of strength to his country in the most critical period of our international relations," Mr. Truman said. Hospital authorities attributed Bloom’s death to a "sudden acute heart attack.” Bloom had entered the hospital Friday for a check-up and treatment for an "acute upper respiratory infection." Death came to the Democraiic foreign policy spokesman just two dais before his 79th birthday. As' was his custom, Bloom had planned to have his friends in congress — a category that included virtually every member — drop in at his office tomorrow afternoon for a quiet celebration, invitations over his signature were posted in the house press gallery just a few hours Miefore his death. Funeral arrangements were not announced immediately. Bloom leaves only his daughter, ills wife died in 1941. Speaker Sam Rayburn, a long time friend of Bloom's, said the honse would adjourn without doing any business today out of respect to the chairman of its foreign affairs committee. Bloom was the secoqd member of congress to die within the past two days. Sen. J. Melville Broughton. D.. N. C., succumbed Sunday (Turu Tn Fuse Five)

(Rev. R. H. Hammond, First Baptist Church) PRESCRIPTION FOR LIFE Luke 18:42 (A. 8. V.) "And Jesus said unto him. Receive thy siebt: thy faith hath made thee who e.” in the miracle-working ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ, the foundation element for the rncccss of the healing miracl? was faith. Faith In the heart of the recipient of divine favor and grace was the key which unlocked the mercy passio-f of the Saviour. ''According to yonr fal'b. so he it unto you." This was ever the cry of the Saviour to the multitudes who besought Him for mercy and grace in their need. The key-note today of successful and happy existence in the midst of un-e tled times is not found in the heart of the one who hastens to answer the call of the rabble-rouser. Rather, it is found in the heart of that man whose faith is a vital life-transforming faith in the infinite Son of Cod. True faith In Chrl t is the prescription for life—a nerertailing remedv for the curse of sin. Soma prewrlptkms may hi', but never that given from the lips of our Saviour. "Receive thy sight: thy faith hath made thee whole."

Mrs. Fred Fruchte On Welfare Board Airs. J. F.red Fruchte today was appointed on the Adams county welfare board by Judge Myles F. Parrish to till the unex'Pired term of ! Mrs. Luella Ellsworth Fauber, who i resigned. I Mrs. Fruchte will serve the bal . j ance of the term, which expires • May 31. and Judge Parrish also ini dicated that she then 'would be rei appointed for a full four year term. ■ Mrs. Fruchte is a Democrat and the widow of the late Judge Fruch- , te of this city. Swollen Missouri Spreads Destruction New Flood Warnings Through Five States Kansas City, Mo., -March 8 — (UP)— The swollen Missouri river slashed a destructive path through five states today in its annual spring race to the Mississippi and the sea. Ralph Aldrich, federal river observer, warned of now floods between Lexington, iMo. and the month 'of the Grand river. And in Omaha army engineers said the “worst floods are yet to come." The big stream boiled turbulently as it rolled along with its yellow burden ot topsoil torn from the western ranges as the big snowdrifts of January and February melted in the warm spring sun. The latest regional weather bureau advisory predicted the “big muddy" would overflow south of here, spreading water from one to two feet deep over lowlands. The Kansas City readings early today was 20.2 feet, only 1.8 feet below flood. Tributaries constantly were spill ing more water into the Missouri Already; tributary streams In low;: had claimed two lives. Capt. W. M. Koenig flew over the flood-stricken areas and later announced at Omaha that the ex (Turn To Pnsr Flvr)

Gross Income Surtax To Finance Bonus; Locked On Primary And Budget

Housewives Demand Gary Vice Cleanup Irate Housewives Storm City Hall Gary, Ind., March B—(UP)—Two thousand angry women disbanded early today after storming city hall and penning up mayor Eugene Swartz and the town council until they promised to clean out widespread vice and gambling. The women held full sway in the official chambers for four hours, jamnjing the hot, stuffy building until past midnight. The demonstration started in the City Methodist church where the women adopted a resolution demanding that Gov. Henry Schricker clean up this steel mill town if local officials failed to enforce the law. Then the women surged two blocks up the street to the city hall where a crowd of 500 already was in the two-story building, demanding that the nine-man council take immediate reform action. Swartz had ordered houses of prostitution closed, but refused to take action against public gambling. When the women appeared, lie promised that he also would try to halt gambling. This didn’t satisfy the angry crowd which blocked the doors of the city hall, making it impossible for Swartz or the council to leave. Several women fainted In the sticky, crushing atmosphere, but none was hurt. For more than four hours they made speeches, asked questions, and gesticulated wildly in their demand for a general cleanup. The citizens’ drive started after the fatal shooting last Friday of Mary Cheever, 45-year-old high school teacher, when she resisted a holdup man. The women charged that a crime wave has developed here due to the influx of criminals attracted by the city's vice conditions. But Swartz disagreed. He blamed Gaiy's crime wave on slums “maintained by some of our best people." The mayor charged that these landlords “milk the property for whatever they can get out of it, and don’t put anything back into it for improvements." Swartz said that an unidentified 1 negro woman presented the correct picture at the demonstration last night when she charged that (Turn To I’dKr Sl») Propose Extension Os Stale Road 101 State Action Asked To Develop Highway County highway superintendent Phil Sauer and members of the hoard of Adams county commis sioners were in Portland this afternoon at the invitation of the Jay county commissioners to dis cuss the possibility of state action toward the deve'opment of state road 101 as a through highway The Jay county proposal is that the Indiana highway department take over the transformation of the highway into a valuable »<«• ondary road by extending it ihrough Blue Creek and Jefferon towrfships to its junction with a blacktop road at Jay City. Jaycount y. The present highway extends from Butler, where it has a junction with state road 1, south to a point in Adams county east of Monroe, where it joins state road 125. Today's conference was scheduled Monday afternoon at the regular meeting of the Adams coun’y commissioners. Other business transacted included: A decision to purchase a heavyduty industrial tractor to be used for road maintenance work County Auditor Thurman 1. Drew was authorized to prepare plans and specifications and to publish a legal advertisement for bid*, which are to be oponed at the (Tara Ta Pace Sit)

House Leaders Clear Way For Rent Bill Vole Fight For Curb On Senate Filibusters Is Apparently Lost Washington, Mar. 8 — (UP) — The-house leadership today cleared the way for a vote late .this we?k or early next on a bill to extend rent controls 15 months from March 31. But in the senate, the southern talkathon against anti-filibuster proposals made it uncertain whether rent legislation will get before that chamber before the expira'ion deadline. All concerned seemed to believe that the administration had lost its fight for new curbs on senate filibusters. Senate Deinoratic leaders privately admitted defeat. But they went through the motion of continuing the fight and announced the senate would stay in session tonight. Senate Republican leader Kenneth S. Wherry. Neb., said the chamber is “further away from a solution" of the debate-limitation issue than it was a year ngo. Whatever the measure’s fate In the senate, early house action was assured when the rules committee, with only one dissent, sent the extension bill to the floor. It would continue controls and strengthen enforcement. Other congres ional developments: Pensions — The administration officially said no to the Rankin veterans pension bill. Budget director Frank Pace, Jr., said that instead of voting pensions for veterans, congre s should pass President Truman’s new social security program for everybody. Money — The house appropriations committee approved a $2.211,794,085 bill for the labor department and federal security agency. It said it would have to put up more money to administer jobless compensation if unemployment continues to rise. Espionage- A couple of senators and a representative introduced hills to curb communists and other subversives. Sen. Homer Ferguson. R., Mich., said he was motivated .by recent statements of world communist leaders, includ-1 Ing Americans, that they would i side with Russia in event of war. Sen. Karl E. Mundt. R., S. D.. and Rep. Richard M. Nixon. R.. Cal.. (Turn To l‘«sr Sis) To Discuss Dental Care For Children PTA Meeting Here Thursday Evening Dr. Joe Morris, local dentist, will be the principal speaker at the reg ular monthly meeting of the Un coin school Parent Teachers association. to be held at 7:30 o'clock Thursday evening in the school auditorium Dr. Morris will take as his sub ject. "dental problems of gradei school children ” He will use illustrated slides during the course of his talk, and will be assisted by his office nurse Dr. Morris in 1946 attended the Dewey school of irthodonsla in New York City. Fol lowing the latest methods of the tooth care of children will be discussed. , Also appearing on Thursday’s program will be Kenneth D. Patton. director of extension for the Indiana society for crippled chil drtn Mr. Patton will present a film on the society's work and will give a short talk. The Lincoln P. T. A. has voted to assist in sponsoring a chapter of the society for Adams county. The program of; the organisation is flnancsd (Tara Ta T»s» Twa)

Price Four Cents

Surtax Plan Raises State Gross Taxes For All Os Income Earners In State Indianapolis, March B.—(UP)— The Indiana legislature passed a soldier bonus bill today and 12 hours later was locked in disagreement on the direct primary and biennial budget issues. Taking advantage of clock-stop-ping tradition, the lawmakers ran over into the 62nd day of a session limited by constitution to 61 days before they pushed across the bonus hill with a gross income surtax financing clause. The surtax plan raises the gross taxes for farmers by 100 percent and other types of income earners from 25 to 50 percent. The bonus hill passed soon after midnight. A recess was called three hours later with’the primary and a budget issues still unsettled. At 1 p.m.. both houses still were in recess but most of the lawmakers were somewhere around the statehouse. Rep. Laurence D. Baker, R.. Kendallville, threw a monkey wrench in the machinery of both the primary and budget conference committee deliberations in protest to the action of 11 Democratic senators in voting against accepting a compromise report. Baker, a member of the first primary conference committee, the second appointed after the first’s report was rejected and the budget committee, said this afternoon he would insist on acceptance of the primary bill. "1 told (he governor and fra Haymaker (state Democratic chairman I that I would sign no budget committee report until the primary issue is reconsidered." Baker said. He blamed Schricker and Haymaker for failure of the Democrat senators to support the committee report. Yesterday, a GOP senator accused both Haymaker and Republican chairman Clark Springer of lobbying against the primary. Baker said he was assured by house minority leader W. O. Hughes, who appointed him to the committees, that lie would not bo removed from cither. Baker boycotted the budget conference committee meeting with Schricker this morning. The second primary conference committee had not yet met at 1 p.m. Meanwhile, the three other members of the budget conference committee were reported to he in agreement but they would not disclose what that agreement was. Hours after the bonus bill passed, there was speculation around the legislature that the 1951 session might enact a speed-up method to pay off the bonus sooner than five years. Spokesmen indicated that if the state was pressed for the payments now scheduled to he made no earlier than 1954, the next assembly might further increase the gross income tax or make some other financial arrangement to give the veterans their money earlier. The bonus bill, now requiring only the signature of governor Schricker to make it a law, sailed through both houses 25 minutes after midnight with only a scattering of 13 Republicans voting against it. it provides a s6<'ii top payment (Turu Tn I’ace Fl«r) Early Repairs To U. S.. Highway 224 Pledged By State Repair of V. S. highway 224 east of Decatur to the Ohio state line, will be started as soon as weather conditions permit. Samuel C. Hadden. < hairman of the Indiana state highway commission, has informed R. XV. Pruden. secretary of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce. Following comnlaints on the condition of the highway and newspaper comment on its repair. Mr. Pruden wrote to Mr. Hadden and received a letter from the highway hairman today. The concrete pwemeni has cracked In many place* and deep chu k holes, which motorists define as ; "tire busters," can be found in the six-mlle stretch of highway.