Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 60, Decatur, Adams County, 12 March 1949 — Page 1

I XLVII. No. 60.

WILLSHIRE YOUTH IS KILLED IH ACCIDENT

lewis Orders Irotesf Strike IfTwo Weeks ■Grandstand Strike ■Seen Strengthening ■ Taft-Hartley Backers ■Washington, Mar. 12 — (UP) - ■ n L. Lewis' grandstand coal ■ke strengthened the hand to- ■. of members of congress who K striving to keep the Taft-Hart- ■ labor law on the books. ■lepublican supporters of the ■ said the two-weeks work stop■p to begin Monday in all eastK mines, will point up the need ■ retaining the Taft-Hartley law J especially those provisions ■ich gives the government the ■ W er to halt strikes affecjjng the ■tional welfare. ■Even the act's most bitter ■mocralic critics conceded Lew- ■ strike call will probably mean ■e inclusion of many Taft-Hart-K sections in the administraKn's bill to repeal the present Kv and re-enact a modified Wag■r act. ■Chairman Elbert Thomas. D„ ■ah, of the senate labor commitK. said the forthcoming strike Ell inflame some people .emoKna'.ly." ■’From that standpoint,” he said. ■ is very bad." [The two-weeks layoff is expectI to have ifttle effect gn the naKm's economy because there is |w a 45-day supply of coal above Bound—the largest stockpile in ■ven years. Steel mills plan to ■ntinue to operate at full speed. ■ Lewis ordered the two-weeks lork stoppage late yesterday as a ■otest against President Traian's reappointment of James M. loyd as, director of the federal ■ireau of mines. His strike call, ■fecting 425,000 United Mine ■orkers. applies only to mines ■st of the Mississippi. ■ Lewis acted under a "safety ■actices" clause in the coal conlact which authorizes him to call Itch temporary work stoppages ■ter proper notice. lln characteristic . prose, Lewis ■id "this period of inaction will liphasize the mine workers' op-l-ition to one Boyd, an incomItent unqualified person who has lurped the office and functions of ■rector of the federal bureau of lines without senate confirmslon as required by statute. I “Concurrent'.y, the mine workIs will mourn the unnecessary laughter of 55,115 men killed and ljured in the calendar year 1945, ■ring Boyd's Incumbency of his ■urped office." ■ Coal industry sources called lewis action “an attempt to coIce the United States senate" in I rejecting the Boyd nomination lit influential senators said that. I this is Lewis motive, the strike fill he a failure. The senate intrior committee is scheduled to Ite Monday on the Boyd appoint lent. I Committee chairman Joseph C. • Mahoney said that Lewis' order kill insure a favorable committee )por on Mr. Boyd's nomination." I The walkout normally would ■ve cost the miners $56,000,601) b wages, government sources es, Itnated. But the loss wiU be buch less, they said, since most Liners would have worked for ply two days a week anyway be■use of the slackening demam’ pr coal and approach of warmer Feather. Some industry sources said the bss of about 20.000.00 j) tons in pal stockpiles might prevent a Brther decline in coal prices rhich have dropped 15 cents to I I a ton since March 1. 1 But the Impact of the strike fas expected to hit hardest at administration efforts to repeal the *aft.Hartley law. Rep. Charles A. Halleck. R.. nd., said Lewis' action should take repeal minded congressmen hink twice. Rep. Andrew Jacobs.' Ind., said that “any unwarrant<T«ra T» Pa-r Firn .WEATHER Partly cloudy today. Scattered light snow flurries north and east Partly cloudy tonight Sunday mostly cloudy and slightly warmer. Occasional light rain or snow extreme couth Sunday.

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Britain's Monarch Undergoes Operation Condition Reported Highly Satisfactory London, Mar. 12 — (UP) —King George VI, 53-yearold monarch of the British empire, underwent an operation to restore the circulation of his right leg today. A bulletin issued by nine attending physicians said the operation was completed successfully and the king's condition was “entirely satisfactory." The operation was performed before noon in a bedroom of Buckingham palace which had been converted into an operating theater. The operation was performed by Prof. Janies R. Learmouth of Edinburg, American-trained surgeon and senior palace physician, and Prof. J. Patterson Ross, a director of surgery at St. Bart's hospital in London. “The operation of lumbar sympathectomy was performed on the king at 10 a. m„” said an official bulletin signed by the nine doctors. "His majesty's condition is entirely satisfactory.” It was understood the operation required a two-inch incision and took less than a half hour. The object was to cut a nerve controlling circulation of the blood to the king's right* foot. Queen Elizabeth, Princess Elizabeth, the Duke of Edinburg and Princess Margaret Rose remained in the palace while the operation was being performed. The king's mother, the Dowager Queen Mary, was informed by telephone at Marlborough House, a fOtV blocks from Buckingham palace. Five nurses were in attendance on the king in addition to nine of Britain's foremost physicians and surgeons. While the operation was expected to improve circulation in the king’s leg. physicians were doubtful if it would bring about complete recovery. Dr. Learmouth. who performed the operation, personally informed Queen Elizabeth that it had been concluded successfully. Among the prominent physicians in the operating room was Dr. John Gillies, president of the association of anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland. Sir Maurice Cassidy, famous heart specialist, left the palace smiling at 11:15 a. m. He was one of the nine who signed the bulletin on the operation. Rent Representative Here Next Thursday A representative of the Fort Wayne area rent office will be at the Decatur post office next Thurs day from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. t< conduct interviews regarding ren control, it was announced today by John E. Williams, director-attorney of the bureau. V“ Dr. Gasion Foote Will Speak Here ' Spiritual Emphasis Speaker Announced • The Decatur ministerial associa •ion announced today that Dr Gastcn Foote has been secured foi the week of spiritual emphasis. t< be held in the local churches No vember 13 to 20. Dr. Foote is pastor of Grace Methodist church. Dayton. Ohio with a membership of nearly 4.00( persons. His former pastorate; were in Amarillo. Tex.. Little Rock Ark., and Montgomery. Ala. Hit M. A. and B. D degrees came from Southern Methodist University in 1925. He earned a doctorate of theology (ThD) at Denver Univer sity in 1934. and was awarded the honorary degree .of doctor of di vlnltv by Miami University. Ox ford. Ohio. In 1947. Dr. Foote if the author of several books: “Keys to Conquest." "Just Plain Bread." “Lamps Without Oil.” and “The Words of Je«us from the Cross." This coming summer. Dr. Foote nlane an exchange of pulpits with Dr. Leyland of London. England Dr. Foote has travelled in Europe on five previous occasions, spent one summer in the Orient, and in (Tara Ta Page Five)

Final Vote On Reni Control Bill Delayed Seek More Support For Extension Bill Before House Vote Washington, March 12—(UP)— House Democratic leaders conceded today that they want to muster more support for their rent extension bill before forcing a house showdown on the measure. They acknowledged that this was one of the factors that caused them to postpone a final vote on the bill until next Tuesday. They had originally planned to call for house action on the bill yesterday or today. But party spokesmen said they became worried when the house started rejecting by only a few votes Republican amendments which drastically would have weakened their bill. Rent controls are scheduled to expire on March 31. The administration's house bill, which has been under debate for the last two days, would extend controls for another 15 months and grant greater enforcement powers to housing expediter Tighe E. Woods. The Democratic leadership hoped that, before Tuesday, speaker Sam Rayburn, a Texan, will be able to talk his fellow southerners into voting with the administration on the rent issue. Rayburn was absent yesterday when many southern Democrats crossed party lines to support a Republican amendment which; would have extended the rent law for only 90 days. The proposal was rejected by a vote of only 178 toj 163. ■ Other congressional develop-; ments: Filibuster—Administration sena-i tors were called into a strategy j conference to decide the next step I in their drive to curb senate fill-; busters. Coal—Republican supporters of I the Taft-Hartley act said that John I L. Lewis’ call for a two-week strike (Turn To I'liur Three I Survey Planned On Church Affiliation Plans for a house-to-house survey of Decatur to learn church affiliations of all residents have been projected by the Decatur ministerial association. Pastors and lay representatives of every Decatur church will meet at 2:30 p.m. (March 20 in the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church parlors to plan the work, which will take place after Easter. Zoning Proposal To Council Next Week Plan Commission To Present Ordinance The Decatur plan commission will present Its first proposal to the city council next Tuesday •light, following the regular meeting of the council, it wad announced today by members of the commission. The proposal is a zoning ordinance for the city and it divides the entire city and the two-mile area surrounding the present corporation limits into residential. business and manufacturing sec tions. The proposal will be presented informally by Clarence Ziner. chairman of the zoning sub-committee, other plan commission members and the citizens zoning committee. The proposed ordinance has been drawn after a study of more than a year by members and Col. Lawrence V. Sheridan, planning consultant. Two business districts are sgt up. They are the present business section and the one which is being built on Thirteenth street. There also are several neighborhood shopping cen ters in the plan. There are two types of resi den’.ial sections: one for single unit dwellings and the other for multiple units’ The commission also will plan i's activities for 1949 Tuesday night. Under the state law which creates a planning commission and outlines its duties, the council now has 60 days to study the proposed ordinance and during that time another public hearing must be held.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, March 12, 1949

Arraigned On Spy Charges • - |HKi VALENTIN A. GUBITCHEV, (right) Russian U. N. official, covers his face with his shackled hands as he is led into U. S. courthouse in New York for arraignment with his co-conspirator, Judith Copion, 27, (left) of Brooklyn, N. Y.. a Washington Employe of the justice department. The two are named in four counts charging espionagrf, by a special federal grand jury.

North Atlantic Pact Unveiling Next Week Final Agreement Is Reached On Pact Washington, March 12.—(UP)— I The long-secret north Atlantic de- ! sense treaty today was destined ! for official unveiling next Friday. ; with signing ceremonies here the ! first week in April. Diplomatic quarters were of the ' opinion that the foreign ministers ! of at least eight and perhaps 12 ; nations will sign the pact April 4 —one day in advance of the United Nations general assembly meeting in New York. But the date has not been officially set. The ambassadors' committee which has been drafting the treaty since last July reached final agreement on the treaty text at the state department yesterday during a two hour and 15minute meeting with secretary of state Dean Acheson. Minor changes in wording were made which are expected to meet the speedy approval of the eight drafting nations — the United States. Great Britain, Canada, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, and Norway. Diplomatic officials expressed new hope that Denmark, Italy. Portugal and Iceland would decide to •join the treaty before it is signed. Danish foreign minister Gustav Rasmussen, who conferred yesterI day with Acheson on Denmark's entry into the pact, was scheduled to meet again today with other state department officials. Reliable informants said Rasmussen intends to wind up his visi. i here next Tuesday after at least one more meeting with Acheson. He would then fly to Copenhagen to piake his recommendations to the Panish parliament. The eight nations are particularnum To Pnse Five)

IKeditatiM (Rev. Lawrence T. Norris, Union Chapel E. U. B. Church) “MODERN HYPOCRITES” Luke 6:39—"And He spake a parable unto them. Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?" Speaking of modern hypocrites, we are conscious that we mu't be very careful about judging people, and candid in our cenacres, because we need groins of allowance ourselves. Bu'. Just as surely as it is legitimate for the true practitioner of medicine to cry ont against th<- quacks of the medical profession, it Is also very neces'ary for the tru»* ministers of the Gospel to cry oat against 'he hypocritical mis eadlngs of the socalled Gospel praechers of today. "Can the blind lead the blind?" In othvr word", Je'us is saying. Can the pharisees who are blinded by pride, prejudice and bieotry lead the blind people in the right way? He says NO for I’ will m»an the destruction of them both. How can they expect the outcome to lie otherwise? Those that are lead by common opinion, course, and cu-torn of this world are themselves b Ind—and are lead bv the blind-and will both perish together Isaiah 56:10 speaks of such as being ignorant ministers, and in chapter 42 verse 10 calls them deceitful teachers, who are blind ed bv their own Interests against any conviction. MINISTERS. LET US .COME BACK TO THE OLD-TIME GOSPEL OF REGENERATION WHICH WILL CAUSE BLIND MEN TO SEE.

BULLETIN London, March 12—(UP)— Great Britain is reinforcing her garrison at Aqaba, across the Trans-Jordan border from the southern strip of Palestine occupied by Isreali forces this week, the waroffice announced today. ♦ Ice Dams Swollen Nebraska Streams State's Residents Forced From Homes By United Press jams dammed swollen Nebraska streams today, backing water over lowlands and forcing residents from their homes, while continued rains raised rivers in California and threatened a resort area. Three feet of water flowed over Fremont Island, in the center of the Platte river, forty-eight families escaped from their homes on the island, a mile north of Fre mont, Neb., as the river rose yes terday. The Platte also was flooding at Venice, Schuyler, Clarks and Cen tral City in Nebraska and army engineeis at Omaha said the Big Sioux was flooding near Sioux Falls, S. D. The engineers also said that the Vermillion and James rivers in ! South Dakota and the Mareau and Grand in North Dakota were flood ing lowland farms. Rivers were rising in the Guerne ville and Healdsburg area north of San Francisco. Many sunnnei ; cottages were endangered as north ern California streams neared flood stave from heavy rains. The Russian river area had five inches of rain in 4S hours. Live stock was movgd to higher ground as the Sacramento river rose ir ’ Tehama county near Sacramento.

Stanton Dailey, Jr., Is Killed, Four Lads Hurt In Head-On Crash Today

Steel Companies Plan No Cutback Mine Strike Not To Result In Cutback Pittsburgh. Mar. 12 — (UP) — Steel officials said today that the two-week mine holiday proclaimed by United Mine Workers chief John L. Lewis would not force any cutbacks in production. But some railroads were expected to slash work schedules to meet the expected curtailment in coal shipments. A spokesman for Carnegie-Illi-nois Steel, biggest operating subsidiary of the U. S. Steel Corporation, said “according to present plans" it would not reduce operations in its big Pittsburg district. Existing stockpiles of coal on hand were more than sufficient to keep the mi Is running full blast, officials said. The UMW chief called the work stoppage yesterday. He labelled it a shu down of protest and mourning. But the move was widely interpreted as the opening skirmish in the fight for a new wage contract. The shutdown affected some 427,000 miners east of the Mississippi. ( The UMW president said the work stoppage, officially scheduled for Monday, was a memorial period for 55,115 miners killed or injured last year and a protest to the "incompetence" of U. S. bureau of mines chief James Boyd. The miners' two-week holiday will cholfe off production of some 22,000.000 tons of coal, reducing the stockpiles important to industry in the event of a strike when the UMW's current contract with operators expires June 30. Western mines, not affected by Lewis' order, produce only about 100,000 tons a day. The stopwork order excluded some 25,000 miners west of the Mi sissippi “to avoid public hardship" in areas which have suffered a severe winter. However, there was no prospect of a fuel shortage in the next two weeks. The government reported some 70,000,000 tons of coal, or more than 45 days supply, in stock(Turn To Page Four) Four Persons Die In Massachusetts Fire One Dead, 11 Hurt In Chicago Blaze Milford. MaAb.. March 12—(UP) —Four persons including a grand mother, mother and two children, were killed today when a general alarm fire swept a duplex dwelling Dead were Mrs. Mary Gilbert, about 65; Mrs. Eleanor Abraham son. 31, her daughter; Paula Abra hamson, 6. and Sharon Abrahamson. 4. Both children were daughters of Mrs. Abrahamson. Frank T. Gilbert, about 65. husband of the elder woman, was hospitalized and in critical condition from burns and smoke inhalation Charles E. Abrahamson. 32. and hl< three-month-old son, Charles, were admitted to the hospital but •heir condition was not serious Police said the family that live cn the other side of the duplex escaped with minor injuries. Cause' cf the fire was not determined. Chicago Fire Chicago. March 12 —(UP) — One man was killed and 11 injured in a small fire that damaged a room ing house on Chicago's near north side today. Firemen said many injuries were incurred when the guests of the rooming house, known as the Atlas hotel, panicked and raced down corridors and stairways The dead man was Jesus Gon sales, who suffocated tn hi« room on the third Door of the three story building.' The fire, of unknown origin, broke out in the basement and rent (Tara Ta !’»<«■ tear)

Disclose Plot To Tap Phones Os City Heads SIOO,OOO Plot Is Disclosed Today By Mayor Os New York New York, Mtir. 12 — (UP) — ! Mayor William O'Dwyer disclosed today a SIOO,OOO plot by "a prominent New Yorker” to tap the telephones of top city officials and it was reported that millionaire Clehdenin J. Ryan probably would be called to city hall for quesj tioning. O'Dwyer and other high city | officials spent the night at city [ hall questioning Kenneth Ryan, a I former city detective, who con- | fessed the plot and then escaped through a rest room window. A widespread polioe search was started for Ryan but it was believed he had fled to New Jersey. Police said a taxicab driver reported driving Ryan across the George Washington bridga and a spokesman at city hall said he apparently was headed for the home of Clendenin Ryan, near Hackensack, to seek financial air. Clendenin Ryan, reached at his home, denied any part in the plot. "I have no idea who the prominent New Yorker would he." he | said. “I do know that my own telephone wires in the (New . York) city have been tapped the past two or three weeks, undoubtedly by the city government. Who else would be interested in my telephone conversations at this time? "Speaking of wire tapping, I would like to ask Mayor O’Dwyer another question in addition to the 10 already put to him which he has not answered: "How many police have been assigned to wire tapping in the city in the past year at public expense . for the benefit of politicians? I . understand there have been at least 200." Clendenin Ryan, grand on of the late financier Thomas Fortune Ryan, announced only yesterday that he was starting a $1,000,00(i campaign to expose graft and cor ruption in city politics in the Unit ed States. He had dinner last night with John G. Broady, a former assistant attorney general of New York ( state. Detective Ryan and Edward Jones, who also has admitted to a part in the plot, said they were working for Broady and he has been suhpenaed to appear a (Turn To I’nar Three) — I Local Teacher To New Haven School Sister M. Lillian Is Named Principal Sister M. Lillian, seventh grade teacher in St. Joseph's Catholic school, left today for New Haven to become principal and a member of the St. Agnes teaching staff in St. John’s school. Sister Lillian, who came to De, eatur last fall from Oshkosh. Wis. will replace Sister Anna Marie who has been relieved because of illness. Six Sisters teach grade; one to eight In the New Haver school. With the transfer. Sister M Agnes, principal of St. Joseph's announced a division in the grades of the local school. Sister M. Letitia, former teacher in the sixth, will teach the seventh grade The sixth grade will be divided half among the seventh and fifth grades taught by Sister Letitia and Sis’er M Angelus. The new arrangement become' effective next Monday and will continue through the present i school year, it was announced.

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14-Year-Old Driver Dead, Three Brothers And Driver Os Other Auto Are Injured Stanton Dailey, Jr.. 14, of Willshire, 0., was killed almost instantly and tour others were seriously injured at 2:30 a.m. (EST) this morning in a head-on automobile crash on U. S. 33 one and one-halt miles east of Willshire. Van Wert county coroner E. H. Alspaugh returned a verdict of accidental death. It was that county's first traffic fata'ity for 1949. In the Adams county memorial hospital are three brothers of the deceased, who was driving, and the operator of the other machine. They are: • David Dailey. I’, possibh skull fracture. Charles Dalle.'. 16. possible skull fracture. Robert Dailey. 20, broken ribs and chest injuries. Chalmer W. Snyder, 17, Willphire, driver of the other car, facial cuts and possible pelvic fracture. Van Wert county sheriff F. Roy Shafer said the cars collided headon in the center of a bridge spanning Buck Creek. Both vehicles were demolished and no occupants of either car escaped injury. Stanton Dailey, Sr. father of the deceased, has been at the Adams county memorial hospital since Thursday under treatment for pneumonia. He has not been advised of the tragedy, or of the presence of his three sons in the same hospital. The victim was born August 13, 1934, in Willshire, and attended the (seventh grade of the Willshire school. Surviving, in addition to the father and mother and the three injured brothers, are two sisters. Katherine and Marguerite and one brother. Thomas, all at home. The body was taken to the Ketchum funeral homd in Rockford. O. Burial arrangements have not been made. Gen. Henri Giroud Dies Friday Night Dijon. France, March 12 —(UP) — The body of Gen. Henri Honors Giraud. 70, hero in two world wars, lay in state in the pavilion of the military hospital here. An honor guard of officers and civilians of national societies stood at attention by his bier while long lines of mourners filed by the little chapel erected in the pavilion. Giraud died last night of cancer. His last will had not been read, and the defense ministry said it was waiting to see if it contained any directions for his burial If not, he will be given a state funeral, a spokesman said. Judge Orders Death Auto Be Destroyed South Bend. Ind.. Mar.-h 12 — (UP) — An automobile which struck and killed an elderly pedestrian awaited destruction today, the penalty inposed by a city judge who said the vehicle was unfit to be driven. James Jensen, 69. was killed Wednesday when struck by the car which was driven by 19-year-ohl Lewis Voros. Vorek was fined sllO by city judge Leon Kowalski for driving without a license. Kowolski said a mechanic Vho examined the ear found it unsafe. He ordered it destroyed. Goshen Auto Wreck Takes Second Life Goshen. Ind.. March 12 — (UP) — Mrs. Etna Smith. 62. Kalamazoo. Mich., whose husband was killed in a highway crash near here Cednesday died last Bight of Injuries su% sered in the ae ident. Dr. and Mrs. Felix Racette. Paw Paw. Mich., still were under treatment at Goshen hospital for injuries suffered in the same accident.