Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 71, Decatur, Adams County, 25 March 1949 — Page 1

XLVII.No.7I.

IXIS SALLY IS SENTENCED FOR TREASON \ *

■w Veterans won Bill ■ubmitted ■ew Pension Bill ■ Introduced By Kp. John Rankin Mar. 25 — (VP) — ejKdlm E. Rankin came right Boday with a new veteran-’ raKn bill considerably less ami costly than the one the house yesterday. Dem crat introhis new measure with the that he would use his chairman of the veterans' cgßttee to bring it to the house limit pensions to veteranß World War I at the age of Ssßquire proof that the ex-sol-need, and put a $72ceiling on the payments, original bill had a $390 t>>Mover.-d veterans of both wars. and required no proof Unler his new proposal, a 65veteran of World War I for the pension only If ®had an honoralde discharge hi* annua! income was beif single and below if married or with dependBign aid- -The senate pilingwhat its Democratic leadwould be the final day Of.Bate on an administration MSB authorize another $5,580.of Marshall plan spending, majority leader Scott Lucat b: I linois predicted passage despite the oppositioAf some Republicans like A. Ta't of Ohio and Homer Capehart of Indiana who VsMto slash anvwhere from sl.to $3,000,000,000 from K The Marshall plan debate '-'BBeld up briefly by a side aron the North Atlantic b hasn't been signed yet reach the senate until ■is- Senate and house conalso were tied up in their attempt to work out a between their separcontrol extension' bills. P Airlines The civil aeronautics warned the senate comcommittee that "economic might result if a groat Mp r of t,le Bo ' ea ' ,e< * irregular were permitted to run service without being subl?ct Io the same regulations as airlines. Anti-lynching — Sen, Hubert Hua»hr y. D.. Minn,, introduced *U®ti lynching bill and challenged W Repub icans in the senate to pls ml up and be counted." Cbpr--: -The house passed a bill suspending import duties on Copper gptil June 30, 1950. WEATHER north and mostly cloudy Muth portion, with occasional l*Ml showers and thunder•tstm; extreme southwest toniflht and Saturday. Somewhat eoMer tonight except little cWpetge in temperature in ex- - Ihsme southwest

■ beaten THedizatiM (Rev. L. A. Middaugh. Rivarre U. B. Circuit) ■ ACCENT ON FAITH ■John 20:29—"Je c u» s. ith unto him. Thomas. Ircnn e thou seen me. 'hpu ha't be’ieved: blessed are they that B B** ave not se en. and yet have believed." ■God is not only in His heaven, but here and everywhere for ns wa< r ept by simple faith. We n«ed not see to believe, nor do we Hfr* to tinders and to believe. Here is an excerpt from a letter during the recent world war. from one of our own ■Mar ; county hoys who Ilves by faith in Col. "I was talking to a about my ace when th- discussion turned to religion and '* an ex’reme y brilliant fellow well educated and a verv person, everyone likes him. He told me how he was trying ito ink" God throvgh and find a definite rea on for everything He said he envied me for the simple faith I hid I am more Inclined to accept things as I find them, hut I I hav-' "thought" enough of God through to know that there ■■■be some things I will never understand. But my experience HI God has made me believe what I could not understand "

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Assessors To Meet Saturday Morning Adams’ county's 18 deputy assessors will meet in Decatur Saturday to compare averages drawn from a survey of personal property conducted throughout the county within the last four weeks, it was announced today by county assessor Albert Harlow. Figures gleaned from the deputy’s reports will be the basis for Mr. Harlow's own report to the state tax board Monday. Bedell Smith : Resigns Post As Ambassador Resigns Position Today As Envoy To Soviet Russia Washington, March 25 — (VP) ’ — President Truman today accept- • ed the resignation of Lt. Gen. Wai1 1 ter Bedell Smith as ambassador to 1 ' Russia. ' | Mr. Truman said he accepted it with great reluctance. Smith will ’' be given a field command but his 1 ; specific assignment was not disclos- ' ■ ed. He has been ambassador to ' j Moscow for three years. 'j ’ The announcement was given to ’ reporters after Smith conferred ' with President Truman for 15 minutes at the White House. Smith told newsmen he under- ' stood command of the first army at ' Governors Island. New York, was ’ being held open for him pending a 1 decision on his resignation. How- ' ever, he said his statement was not ■ an announcement of such an assignment. ' Smith returned to Washington last Christmas for medical treat- ' ment at Walter Reed hospital. ' At that time he told President ' i Truman that he did not want to ' return to the diplomatic post but I the president urged him to stay on the job. ’ I Presidential press secretary Charles G. Ross said the choice of ' 1 a successor was “wide open." There was no indication that acI I ceptance of Smith's resignation had any connection with recent changes In top Soviet government and military posts. 1 Smith, who was Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s chief of staff in the European theater of operations dur1 ing World War 11, told reporters (Turn Tn Five! Andress Funeral I Sunday Afternoon Funeral services for Dr. Roy An- ' | dress, who died Thursday morning, will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 , o’clock at the First Presbyterian , church in Decatur, with the Rev. , George Walton, Fremont, O„ officiating. Burial will be in the Odd Fellows cemetery at Monroeville. Frilnds may view the body at the Marquaj-t and ’l’ainter funeral home at Monroeville this evening or at , the Zwick funeral home in this city from Saturday noon until Sunday noon. The casket will not be opened at the church. Pallbearers will be the following associates in the chiropractic pro session: C. R. Davidson. Portland: C. F. Sowards. Bluffton; Ed Nyffeler. Berne: Clark Grove. J. R 1 Fitch and Paul Watson. Fort I • Wayne.

Board Ruling May Jeopardize Coal Contract Labor Board Rules . Indirectly UMW's Contract Illegal Washington. Mar. 25 — (UP) — The nalional labor relations board ruled indirectly today that the United Mine Workers’ coal contract is illegal. It opened the way for employers and rival unions to challenge the jurisdiction of John L. Lewis’ union in the basic coal industry. The decision raised a new complication for Lewis who announced yesterday that he will call his 200-man wage policy committee here next month to frame new contract demands. The ruling was issued in a relatively small case involving the Midcontinent Coal Corp.. Marissa, 111., and not in the major test of the union’s contract brought by U. S. Steel Corp. And other steel producers. The steel case still is pending before the board on a trial examiner's recommendation that Lewis’ contract is illegal under the Taft-Hartley law because it continues the union shop without an NLRB election. Midcontinent usked the labor board to decide whether the Piogressive Mine Workers of America. or Lewis’ United Mine Workers represents employes in thd Green Diamond mine. Both unions claim bargaining rights and effective contracts with the employer. The Progressives asked that the employer’s petition Ire dismissed because of an existing contract I between the union and the company. This contract, the board said, runs until next June 30, continues a preferential hiring clause (union shop), and is terminable on 30 days' notice. The board added in a footnote that these same provisions are contained in Lewis' contract. The board ruled on the Progressive contract. "We find that because this con(Turn To Page Eight) Health Roundup Os Children In April Physicians To Aid PTA For Roundup Plans have been completed for the third annual health roundup of Decatur children, to be held at the Lincoln school Tuesday and Wed nesday. April 5 and 6. The clinic will be held from 8 am. until 12 noon each of the two days. All Decatur doctors are donating their time for these two mornings. The clinic will be for all children who will enter kindergarten next September for the first time, and for all children of the second, fourth and sixth grades. In addition to these examinations. Dr. Ben Duke will conduct eye examinations of all first grade children on both days. Last year, approximately 430 children were examined during the roundup, which is sponsored by the Lincoln parent-teachers associa, tion. Volunteers are needed to assist; the physicians in their examina tions, and any person wishing to aid during the clinic is asked to call Mrs. D Burdette Custer, chairman of the roundup, or Mrs. Janies Burk. Death Car Driver Is Fined And Sentenced .Robert Dailey. 20. of Willshire. 0.. pleaded guilty to driving while under the influence of intoxicating •iquor when arraigned before Judge Euiene R McNeill in Van Wert. O. court. Dailey was fined $5<W and costs, given a six-month jail sentence and his driver's license revoked The court suspended 1400 of the fine and five months of the jail sentence. The car driven by Dalle- collided headon with one driven hy Chalmer Snyder, also of Willshire. Va-ch 12. resulting in the death of Dailey's 12-year-old brother. Stanton.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, F riday, March 25,1949

TAKES OATH M A Jv®-I E * I wH sBSgSgSHgB' ... DR. JAMES BOYD, (right) takes oath administered by Floyd E. Dotson, (left) chief clerk of th? Interior Department, as director of the Federal Bureau of Mines. Boyd, whose Senate confirmation following his appointment was battled by U.M.W. chief John L. Lewis for two years, called for close co-operation with the U.M.W. in mine safety. Interior Secretary Julius A. Krug, (center) is shown holding two checks for approximately SIO,OOO in back pay due to Dr. Boyd.

Over 1,600 Voters Purged From Books Report Is Made By Adams County Clerk I > j One thousand, six hundred and six names were purged from regis- . I tration hooks in Adams county due i to death, change of residence, or \ failure to vote in the primary and , general elections of 1948, it was | announced today by county clerk Edward F. Jaberg. ’ To be eligible to vote in the 1950 elections, those whose names were removed may register at the county clerk’s office anytime between now and April 3, 1950. All new I voters are also urged to register as soon as they have reached the 1 age of 21. and those voters who have changed their names or ad- . dresses must notify the clerk's of- , flee. I j Those who failed to vote in 1948 I were notified that their registra- . j tion would be cancelled unless 1 they signed and returned to the county clerk a reinstatement card within 30 days. Because many failed to do this, their names were purged. "Evefy attempt to keep regisI tration lists and cards up to date j and accurate is being made in the j clerk's office," Mr. Jaberg said, "but this can be accomplished only with the cooperation of every voter." i Business Meeting Held By Rotarians r A brief business session was held f; at the weekly meeting of the De ‘; catur Rotary club Thursday even • I ing at the K. of P. home. Two new | members of tlte club, J. F. San- ' , manti and Robert Ashbaucher, gave 1 brief biographies of their lives. The 'I club president, ('. I. Finlayson, con-' 1 ducted the meeting. Mrs. Marie Wesfveld Is Taken By Death 1 Former Local Lady • Dies In Michigan I Mrs. Marie Patterson Westveld. . 64. formerly of Decatur, died at ' her home in Grand Rapids. Mich.. I; Thursday afternoon. She had been in ill health for some time and her > condition had been critical for 1 ' several days. Mrs. Westveld was born in De- ’ catur, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Patterson. The Westvelds bad resided in Grand Rapids tor lhe last 17 years. Surviving are the husband. James M. Westveld, a daughter. Mary Ann. at home, and a brother. Dr. Fred Patterson. • Decatur. ' Mrs. Westreld was a member of : the Euterpvan and Shakespeare ) clubs and Kappa Kappa Kappa sorori y of Decatur. The body will I be brought to the S. E. Black fu- ■ neral home in this city, where - friends may call after 7 o’clock ’ Saturday evening.' Funeral services will Ire held Monday morning a( 10 o'clock at the Black fun-ral home and burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. . The Rev. A. C. E. Gillander. pas--1 tor of the First Presbyterian ■ | church, here will conduct the ser- ' vices.

Decatur Ministers Will Meet Saturday The Decatur ministerial associai tion will hold a special meeting at ! 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon In the ■ parlors of the Zion Evangelical and i Reformed church. All members are urged to attend. ! * Junior Police Club I Growing Steadily 55 Decatur Youths Are Club Members i t A year ago, about a dozen DecaN tur boys under 15 years of age, ! j through the aid of Robert Railing > and chief of police James Borders, organized the Decatur junior police. The idea caught fire and be- , fore long the organization started ' growing until at the regular meeting Thursday night there were 55 members of the group. I Several local people have joined the group as advisors and every , week a complete program is planned. The club is divided Into . groups, according to age. and it is < the hope of th? leaders that sever- • 'al of the first members will soon . be able to assist in the instruction ' of younger members. The age range is from 7 tolll5 1 { years. The youngest boys, when ; they become members, are enrolli ed in the first aid group and Mrs. | Robert Railing is the instructor of this group. Older boys can have their choice of radio, under the supervision of O. E. Harmon; woodworking, under chief Bord- - ers; outdoor activities, under Mr. Railing, or firearms, under Clarence Brunnegraff and his sou. Jim , Brunnegraff. One of the most popular classes is the firearms instruction. Mr Brunnegraff has a group of about 16 young boys who are learning i the fundamentals of firearms. The entire c'ub meets at the cityhall and after roll call they divide (Turn To I'aite Itlghl) 'One Great Hour' Program Broadcast On Saturday Night Local business men today are sponsoring a full-page advertisement in the Daily Democrat urging cooperation of all people in the “One Great Hour” program being undertaken by all churches of the United States in an effort to raise $14,000,000 Sunday for overseas relief. The plan also will get a boost Saturday night when all radio broadcasting chains and independent stations will cooperate in the presentation of a one-hour radio show. The program will be heard on all stations, except the ABC : chain, at 9 o’clock Saturday night. Rebroad.-ast of the program, written by Robert Sherwood, well known author and radio writer, will be held on the ABC chain at 10 o’clock (CST) Saturday night. Many Decatur people are planning radio parties tor Saturlav rlaht On Sunday morning, in over 75.000 churches the special collection will be taken and it is the ■ hope of those in charge that the i total will reach the eoal of $lO.ooo.ftOO All local churches an taking part in the drive.

10’30 Years In Prison, SIO,OOO Fine Imposed; ludge Denies New Trial

Schricker Pledges Aid To Gary Women State Cooperation For Fight On Vice Indianapolis, March 25—(UP) — Gov. Henry F. Schricker today pledged Indiana’s "fullest cooperation" to Gary women who asked him to help clean up crime and vice in their “sick” city. After a two-hour private conference with 14 housewives and businessmen. Schricker said the women asked him for state aid "in a general way.” "We are anxious to see law enforcement in Gary." Schricker said. "We want to cooperate. But the • problem first of all is Gary's." State police supt. Arthur M ■ Thurston, who attended part of the I conference, said afterward that the , governor had asked him to "stand by" for a conference with Gary mayor Eugene Swartz. But Thurston and Schricker | hinted that if state police were used to help enforce law, a request for such assistance would have to come from local authorities. Mrs. Russell T. Griffith, tyho headed the delegation, said she was impressed by the result of the conference. "I think more of the governor now than I thought of him yes- . terday," she said. "Gaty is a sick city with crime , and immorality roaming the streets." ’ As the governor ushered the delegation into his office, he barred newspaper and wire service reporters and photographers and re- ' fused to pose with the women out- ’ side his office. The women came to ask the govI ernor for Indiana state police help in sweeping their city clean of vice • and gambling. i Schricker said before the coni ferenee that he wanted it understood that neither mayor Eugene Swartz of Gary nor any other Lake county official had contacted him regarding the situation. Housewives, business women. i mothers, and spinsters, including one negro, came to represent 30.000 Gary women who claimed tha: local law enforcement has broken down. "Things are so bad people actually are afraid to walk from their homes to the corner drug store at right," said Mrs. Russell T. Griffith. who. with Mrs. Benjamin Saks headed the delegation. No Damage Caused By Trash Fire Here City firemen Friday noon extir guished a trash fire at Niblick A company. No damage »as reported Allred Kohler Dies I , Early This Morning Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon Alfred Kohler. 85, lifelong rest dent of Adams county, died at 7 . o'clock this morning at his home , four miles west and three and one . half miles north of Berne. Deatl was caused by complications. H< had been bedfast for the past six weeks. 1 Born in French township July 3 1563. he was a son of Abraham t ■ and Anna Rudy-Kohler. He war 1 married to Mary L. Moser March 6 I 1897, He was a member of the West . Missionary church at Berne. Surviving are his wife: two son« . Melvon Kohler of Decatur and Cllf I ton of Berne: a daughter. Mrs , Andrew Hackenos of near Mon roe. and eight grandchildren. Hr was the last surviving member of a family of seven. Funeral services will be held at 3 p in. Sunday at the West Mission ary ehurch. the Rev. Oscar Eicher ! officiating. Burial will be in th* ! MRE cemetery. The body will be • removed from the Yagtr funeral - home to the resident e at 1 p m Saturday

New Shift In Soviet Russia High Command Armed Forces Gain i New Boss As High Officers Shuffled I By United Press “ The Soviet armed forces got a 1 new boss today. -Moscow announced that .Marshal Nikolai A. Bulganin has been re- ' lieved of his duties as minister of the armed forces and the job taken over by his deputy, marshal Al- > exander M. Vasilevoskv. ■ However, Bulganin apparently rel tained his post of deputy premiei ' and member of the policy-making - Politburo. It seemed to be just another case of premier Josef Stalin ‘ relieving his top adviers of departL mental duties to leave them free 1 for policy-making and special tasks. Bulganin is the fourth deputy premier and politiburo members to i ’ be relieved of a departmental port folio within the past three weeks j. Only one politburo member. Alexei . N. Kosygin, remains in charge of a ministry. He is minister of light s industry. s The 54-year-old Bulganin is one of Stalin's top administrators and trouble-shooters. He served successively as manager of the Soviet Union's largest electrical plant, mayor of Moscow and ehairman of the state bank before taking over from Stalin himself as minister of , the armed forces in 11)47. Vasilevsky is a 47-year-old professional soldier who has been credited with masterminding the Soviet victories at Moscow. Stalin- ' grad and Leningrad during World War 11. He is a former chief of 1 staff of the armed force. Other foreign news included: Berlin - Brig. Gen. Frantisek Dastich, chief of the Czech military mission in Berlin, was revealed to have fled to western Furope "sotu“ weeks ago." Col. Emil Buschina. Czech military attache in Berlin, also may have fled west. Frankfurt — Attempts to esta hlish a western German state ap near about to couapse. The Bonn assembly of western Germany political leaders has rejected bluntly recommendations of the three west-, trn military governors for revision I of a draft constiUltion for the pronosed now state. Southhampton. Eng.. •— British 'oreign secretary Ernest Bevfn sail'd on the Queen Mary for the Unit ?d States to sign the Atlantic treaty and discuss cold war strategy with secretary of state Dean Acheson. Nanking The official Chinese (Turn Tn I’nise Flchl >

American Workers More Productive Than English

BY EUGENE GRIGG (Staff Reporter) The next time the boss bawls you out for loafing on the job. you •an quote him this observation by in English manufacturer who has it been visiting Decatur since Satur day: "American workers produce twice as fast as English workers." If that doesn’t stop the boss, you can tell him the authority for the itatement is S. R. Parkes of A and f Parkes & Co.. Ltd. Birmingham England. Since Saturday. Mr Parkes and his wife have been the guests of Mr and Mrs. Clarence E. ' Bell of Decatur. Mr Parkes' company, which I manufactures small farm tools, was founded over a hundred years teo by hi« great grandfather, the inventor of the first steel garden fork The firm now employs 3<M) I people and imports a large amount of Its raw materials from the Unit ed States.

Price Four Cents

Radio Broadcaster For Wartime JMazis Given Prison Term For Treason To U. S. Washington, March 25- (UP) — Mildred (Axis Sally) Gillars today was sentenced to serve from 10 to 30 years for treason to the United States and pay a SIO,OOO fine. Federal judge Edward M. Curran imposed sentence on the whitehaired broadcaster for the wartime Nazi radio after rejecting a defense motion for a new trial. The maximum penalty for treason is death. Judge Curran noted that the evidence did not disclose that Miss Gillars took part “in conferences high Nazi officials to formulate policy” as in the case of Douglas Chandler, former U. S. newsman convicted of treason. Chandler, a commentator tor the Nazi tadio, was sentenced to life ■ imprisonment anil a SIO,OOO fine. Robert H. Best, another U. S. correspondent convicted of treason. received a similar sentence. The 48 year-old Maine-born woman was convicted by a federal court jury on March 10. Miss Gillars was poised but pale as sentence was pronounced. She i took it unflinchingly. In imposing sentence, the court noted that Miss Gillars was convicted of only one of the eight other acts which the government pressed in its prosecution. , She was found guilty of participating in a Nazi radio drama, “vision of invasion." which ”as broadcast to American troops in England just before D-day in an attempt to prevent the Normandy invasion Miss Gillars wore the same outmoded black dress she had worn during most of the seven-weeks long trial. But for the first time she wore her long white hair piled high on her head. Miss Gillars was the seventh person to be convicted of treason for actions growing out of World War 11. Before passing sentence. Curran asked her if she had anything to say She hesitated for a moment, looked down at the counsel table at' which she was standing, then (Turn To Page Five) Tin Can, Rubbish Collection April 4 Plans are underway for the collection of tin cans and rubbish . starting April 4, Mayor John Doan said today. The collection will be city wide and will be preliminary to the general clean up week held each spring. A complete schedule of collections will be announced later and the work will be under the supervision of Floyd Acker, city street commissioner. City employes and trucks win be used, as usual It is estimated that the work will take about a week to complete.

While he operated the LaFontaine Handle company of Decatur •r.d White Plains. Pa.. Mr. Bell ex- ’ norted farm tool handles to the 1 Parkes firm in England. English workers don't produce as much as American workers for several reasons, according to Mr. Parkes. For one thine, there's so little to buy in England that "workers 1 don't have an incentive to work hatd and earn more money.” the 1 trim, tweedy English manufacturer said. Mr. Parkes pointed out that, while the British rationing system ■ was in effect, each person was allowed only 15 cents worth of 1 meat a week—hardly a mouthful to an American. "My first rattan free steak, served aboard shin coming to the Unit--1 i cd States, was so much more than I I wa» accu’tomed to. I couldn’t I I even finish it. "We were allowed 58 clothing iTwrd T« I*agr Elcbll