Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 78, Decatur, Adams County, 2 April 1949 — Page 1

XLVII. No. 78.

IENATE SET TO APPROVE EOROPEAN AID

■use Votes l| To Repeal les On Oleo Bill Would Permit ■ree Movement Os | r e-Colored Oleo Bsbington, April 2— — (UP)— — Lan Walter F. George, D„ ■of the senate finance commitLid today there is a good L federal oleomargarine taxes ■d be repealed this year. ■ said his committee probably ■ begin hearings within the ■ week or two on a house-ap-Ed bill which would repeal Leo tax and permit the free Lent of pre-colored yellow ■ in interstate commerce. E house approved the measure ■ yesterday by a vote of 287 to Eiter it side-tracked an alterE bill by Rep. Walter K. Lr I).. Utah, which would E 'repealed the oleo tax but barEbe interstate shipment of yeV ■ margarine. ■e firanger bill had the apL| of the house agriculture Littee and dairy state con■men. Its supporters said reElions on oleo sales were necesE to protect dairy farmers from L competition from margarine ■nfacturers. Em the Granger measure was reEd. 242 to 137. in favor of the Leo substitute sponsored by E W. R. Poage, D., Tex? ■eorge said he has “no doubt" ■ that the committee would ap■ve the Poage measure. And he Eh-ir-d that the senate would E the legislation when it reach■the floor, even though it faced Lg opposition from senators ■n dairy states. ■urge told newsmen he had "no Lei" with the provision in the Le bill which would compel ■auranis to serve margaiine in ■ngular pats and to make it E' to customers that they were ■ring oleo and not butter. ■ the senate goes along with the ■>r. President Truman is almost ■tain to sign the measure. The ■nocratic platform last July Led the party to tight for oleo ■ repeal. | the Poage bill becomes law, I Turn Tn )•»«» <SUI It. Thomas Biery Eneral On Sunday ■erne. Apr 2—Funeral services ■I be held at 2 p. m. Sunday at I Hardy and Hardy funeral fce. Geneva, for Pvt. Thomas Be Biery, who was killed in acP in Belgium on Christmas day | IS 44 The body arrived at GeW a Friday. The Rev. Clayton ■le will officiate and burial will |iti the MRE cemetery west of | rE? The widow, two sons, the P*r, four sisters survive. [''• Biery was 26* years old at I time of his death. was a of ’ihl community. He ent|d the service April 20, 1944 f was sent overseas in October |t»at month. hhway Commission Fuses Highway 101 r ,e state highway commission f hot take over the 12 mile pt' of road on state road 101, L/L road John w | Otto Hoffman, Adams connI Wiissioners, were informed r V Phil Sauer, county highL ’ ttWrint «ndent. also attended reference with the highway ofHadden - chairman of the Krftk 1 * W, ’ r In Lr** officials that the did not have funds to L ■«. m ° r * road * Chances are Wbetk 01 th * ,e< l)nd *ry roads Kthr 0 *! 101 *** «‘«nded L, .T* 1 Pl «*«nt Mills, termMe ***■ A “ appp * : »»» Rud th B € 1 St * < * commission to H«tr tSuk"”"' threui?h north ls imorovL. h ° 8 h,sh *»i r Md OUn ' 7 “ d MtW “” g,. W <ATHtR fa. cX’ toIfaJX•”!“** f «ir tonight • ~J i " er «*'nq cloudP «to SA Hi ®*» ‘"toy J’* w to to *> to 45 south.

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Day-Old Airways Strike Is Ended Nation Is Beset By Labor Trouble By United Press Radio operators for Pan American Airways ended their day-old strike today but almost 67,000 workers remained off their jobs in labor disputes involving other industries acres the nation. A Pan American spokesman said that under terms of an agreement reached early today, radio telegraph operators wi.l be used on the firm’s new double-decked slratocruisers and smaller DC-4's only where ground stations are not equipped for radiotelephone service. Wherever radiotelephones can be used, he said, Pan American will have “the right to restore the communications function to the pilot." The firm’s 250 CIO radio operators struck to force the firm to place operators aboard the stratocruisers. Several overseas flights were cancelled yesterday because of the strike but the company expected to restore the full schedule this morning. A wave of labor troubles still beset the nation. John L. Lewis’ United Mine Workers warned that they will wage a "tough fight" this summer for a shorter work day. Increased welfare benefits and higher wages. New Yorkers, preparing for their Saturday evening’s festivities at shows and night cluhs, had to do without taxicabs since 90 percent of the city’s 11,500 cabs were pulled off the streets by a strike. No prospects for immediate settlement of the strike were in sight. The strike was called by a union organizing committee, supported by Lewis, to force recognition of the union. The warnings that the mine workers will make strong demands on the coal industry this summer were sounded by union speakers yesterday when the miners took their traditional John MitchellJohn Lewis holiday celebrating the anniversary of the eight-hour day. Paul K. Reed, supervisor of the UMW’s welfare fund, told workers at Welch, W. Va., to “tighten your belts” for an all-out fight for better working conditions when the union's contract with mine operators expires Jun? 30. UMW vicepresident Thomas Kennedy said in a speech at New Kensington. Pa., (Torn To -»«<•«• Five) Mrs. Heart Gives Up Search For Advice Letters Grasping, Scornful, Hateful Oklahoma, City, April 2.—(UP) —"Mrs. Heart" gave up her search for advice today on how to spend 110.000 "having fun" during her last year of life. The 51-year-old anonymous wi dow left town, reportedly to rest at a sanitorium. She said she was disappointed because most of the 600 letters she received yesterday were "grasping, scornful, almost hate<ful.” The earlier messages, she said, were full of hope and en couragement. She said she would not open the remaining stacks of mail but would solve her problem herself. "The thing got out of hand.” she said. “Some of the letters were so upsetting. I'm going to leave town and give up trying to read them.” Mrs. Heart worked hard for 17 years and amassed a small personal fortune in business. Then heart specialists told her she had serious heart trouble and only a year to live. Through the news columns of the Dally Oklahoman, Mrs. Heart appealed for aid in making those final months enjoyable. She said she had set aside a portion of her estate to make her daughter “con» fort able” and had willed donation* to charitable and religious organ! ta’ions. She retained tlMto to spend on herself, then a«ked the Oklahoman’s readers for advice on how she could have "fun" spending it. Many of th« letters she received (Tara Ta Page Five)

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NORTH PLATTE, Neb. residents learned that spring can be treacherous as fifteen inches of snow fell, lashed by winds of 40 to 68 miles per hour. This photo of downtown North Platte during the dying stages of the blizzards show how the gales whipped the snow into bizarre, carved drifts, blocking traffic in parts of three states.

Reni Conlrol Oil In Several Areas Six Counties In Indiana Included Washington, April 2 — (UP) — Housing expiditer Tighe ,E. Woods today announced the removal of rent controls from about a score of counties in four states — Alabama, Indiana, New Jersey and Texas. It was Woods' first decontrol action since the new rent law, which gives him wide discretionary powers, went into effect yesterday. Woods said that today's action was the first in a series of five such decontrol moves he plans to announce within the next week. The entire series, he said, will affect some 100 separate areas in 27 states. • In all decontrolled areas, he said, local rent control advisory committees will stay in existence to recommend re-control of their areas if it looks as though rents were ris* ing unreasonably. Under the new law. Woods has power to re-control areas if he believes the removal of controls proved unwise. He did not have such powers under the old law. Once an area was decontrolled, it was outside of Woods’ jurisdiction. During congressional consideration of the new law. Woods told the house banking committee that there were many areas in the nation in which he would he willing to lift rent ceilings, provided he had the power to put them back on again if the move turned out to be unwarranted. Woods’ statement played a large part in mustering th/ support ot wavering congressmen for the administration bill. Woods gave no indication in to-1 «Tcr" io Fase Five) Two Girls Picked Up Along Highway One Girl Escaped From State School Two starved, exhausted girls who said they had been wandering on the highway for a week, were picked up In Geneva by sheriff Herman Bowman Friday night and lodged in the county jail. At least one of the girls. Martha Young. 23. has escaped from the state school at Fort Wayne, the sheriffs investigation revealed. The Young girl and her companion. who gave her name as Barbara Wilson. 25. told the sheriff they were traveling to Attica, where one of them has relatives. One of the girls said she had not eaten for a week and the other had had only two sandwiches. City police Friday arrested LeRoy Riffle. 49. 104 East Grant street, on a charge of disorderly conduct. ' A school bus driver. Lawrence Fuelling. 2*. r° ate J - Decatur, received a lecture and a fine of $1 and costs Frida* in J. P. court., where he was arraigned for running a stop sign at the intersection , of U. S. 27 and Second street ex tended Friday morning.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, April 2, 1949

Nebraska Blanketed With Snow

To Draw Jurors For April Court Term Members of the grand and petit juries of Adams circut court will be chosen .Monday for the new 54-day court term beginning April 11. The names of the jurors will be drawn by jury commissioner Frank Rowley andiEd Berling. « 99-Year Sentence For Killing Baby Former Soldier Is Given Prison Term St. Louis, April 2—(UP)— William H„ Pollard. 25-year-old former soldier, began serving a 99year sentence today for killing a 26-month old baby whose body he hid in a hotel dresser drawer. Pollard pleaded guilty in circuit court yesterday to a charge of sec--1 ond'degree murder. Assistant circuit attorney Edward L. Dowd said he accepted the plea to the reduced charge so that Pollard “would be locked up longer.” The former veterans hospital psychiatric patient admitted that be stole the baby, Joseph Nichols. Jr., from his mother at Huntington, W. Va., and brought him here. He said he beat the infant to death because it wouldn’t stop crying. He denied violating it sexually. Dowd said he accepted the plea only because under Missouri law if Pollard were sentenced to life he probably would be freed in 10 or 12 years. Under the 99-year sentence ; he must serve at least 70 years. As Pollard was led from the courtroom, his 54-year-old mother. Mrs. May S. Pollard of Cincinnati. ; whispered to him: "It’s for the best, son." Cincinnati attorney Gordon H.| j Scherer, a member of the Cincin nati city council, and former prose-' cutor and director of safety, presented Pollard's case. He said h» had known Pollard since he wa? three years old. "If any good can come from a sordid crime like fills," he said, “it might be that it will force society to pay more attention to the poor facilities the states have for cases like this.” He said Pollard’s mother once had pleaded with authorities of a veterans hospital “not to release her son on society again." Pollard was arrested by FBI agents at Chicago a week after the slaying. The child’s body had lain in the hotel dresser drawer more than 24 hours before it was dis covered by a chambermaid. A court psychiatrist found Pol lard sane. Officers said that as Pollard wen’ 1 back to his cell, he told them “I guess the sentence was the bes: thing if my mom thinks it is.” Tin Cans, Rubbish Collection Monday The prelude to the general May e’.ean-up throughout the ct'y will begin Monday when department truck* begin » city-wide collection of tin cans and which Decatur residents are asked to have reedy in their alleyways ' or at their curb*.

American Protesl To Czechs Answered Secret Trial For Gl's Protested Prague, Apr. 2— (UP) —Czechoslovakia has answered an American protest against the secret trial and sentencing of two Gl’s, the U. S. embassy announced today. Contents of tlie note, delivered to the embassy and cabled to Washington yesterday, wqre not disclosed. But in another note, the Czechs rejected a British portest over the expulsion of a British army officer and demanded that Britain stoo "acts which mav be described as direct threats to the security of the state." The 1,000-word note to London was read over the Prague radio only an hour after it was handed to the British embassy. It reiterated charges that Capt. Philip Wildash, the expelled British military permit officer, had been "plotting” against Czechoslovakia. U. S. embassy officials refused (Turn To I'mtr Three) Perfect Circle To Boost Production New Castle, Ind., April 2 —(UP) — Workers in the Perfect Circle Corp, piston ring plant here and in three other Indiana cities today began working on a 10 percent increased production schedule. W. B. Prosser, general manager, said the boosted production schedule would remain in effect at least until July, when the plants here and in Hagerstown, Richmond and Tipton will close for a two-week j vacation period. Nationwide Baby ' Mill Is Charged Army And American Red Cross Accused New York. April 2 — (UP) — An affidavit on file in general sessions court today accused the army and the American Red Cross of ap proving a nation-wide baby mill to dispose of the illegitimate children I of army nurses. The affidavit petitioned dismissal of baby adoption racket char:- . es against Mrs. Alice P. Satterthwaite. j It was filed yesterday in general sessions court by Curtiss E. Frank, counsel for the 56-year-old cors*t I saleswoman and former social worker. Frank said he had been retained by 40 couples who are fighting to keep the babies they obtained through Mrs. Satterthwaite's "free" adoption service. The statement said Mrs. Satterthwaite bad acted as a “good Samaritan" for army nurses who re■urned to the U. S In “pregnant condition" during the war. It said I she acted at the specific >equesl ut the Red Cross nursing service. "The head of the Red Cress nursing service here at that time knew (Tsrs Ta I*M* Three)

Vote Down Attempts To Cut Spending Power Os European Aid Program

Stan Proposes U. S. Aid To Asia Asiatic Version Os Marshall Plan Urged Boston, April 2 — (UP) — Harold E. Stassen, 1948 presidential aspirant, proposed last night that the government sponsor a billion-dollar-a-year Asiatic version of the Marshall plan to combat Communism in the Orient. Speaking at a mid-century convocation sponsored by the Massachusetts institute of Technology, Stassen suggested that the economic aid program for Asia be called the "MacArthur plan” in honor of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Stassen, president of the University of Pennsylvania and former governor of Minnesota replaced President Truman as a speaker. The president was forced to cancel ithe trip here because of the burden of his work in Washington. Winston Churchill. Britain’s wartime prime minister, shared the platform with Stassen. “Clearly the Marshall plan in Europe has been the most significant single right thing we have done since the end of the war," Stassen said. "It is high time that we have a parallel MacArthur plan in Asia.” • Stassen said it is "foolhardy" to contribute to the Communist domination of China by inaction and withdrawal of aid. HO said an Oriental aid plan should be long term In Its vision with the same requirement for self help as the Marshall plan. Stassen also suggested that America strengthen its ties with the Atlantic pact countries by setting up a common currency system and an Atlantic bank. He said he envisioned the development of international agencies, commissions, courts and arbitration systems (Turn To Paar Flve» Decatur Ministers Will Meet Monday The Decatur ministerial association will meet in regular session Monday morning at 10 a.m. in the parlor of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church. Ay members are urged to be present. Russians To Cease Manganese Exports Federal Officials Seek New Sources Washington. April 2—(UP)— A committee of federal officials has been appointed to find ways of avoiding a steel production curtailment because of the lack of Russian manganese, it was learned today. The committee, made up of officials of seven departments and agencies, has been appointed by the national security resources board. One government official close to the committee noted that Soviet exporters of manganese have informed U. S. importers that their •ontracts will not be renewed this year. Other sources must be f '-undl “within a matter of months.” another official said, to make up tor Soviet imports—which now con stitute from 25 to 30 percent of U. S. supply—or the steel industry will have to cut production. Dr. James Boyd, director, of the bureau of mines and chairman of the manganese board, said, however. that while the manganese problem is "critical It can be solved." He said the Russian action is "inconvenient but it isn't nything that is going to stop the steel industry" The comml'tee feels that imports other •ou»re«—vnch as India. Brasil. South Africa and the African gold coast—can and will be stepped up to cover the gap left by (Tara T« Paca Five)

Acheson, UN Delegates To Form Policies 1 ‘ To Establish U. S. b Policy In Pending ' Assembly Meeting Washington, Apr. 2—(UP)—Sec- ' retary of state Dean Acheson '! meets with the American United Nations delegation today to lay ’ down final U. S. policy for the coming meeting of the UN general assembly In New York. , Later, Acheson Is slated to meet f with the foreign ministers of the , 11 other Atlantic community na- ! tions for formal approval of the * text of the North Atlantic treaty. H The pact will be signed Monday. g It was assumed that Acheson's j instructions to the U. N. delegates would cover the expected all-out n Soviet attack on the Atlantic pact. The state department yesterday e rejected the Russian charge that •• the pact was contrary to UN print ciples. The all-important UN i] meeting starts Tuesday. While approval of the pact by □ the Atlantic foreign ministers is I- regarded as a formality, the mln--1 isters also were slated to exchange views on establishment of mutual i defense machinery. ■- The treaty calls for immediate e I establishment of a permanent conj su'tative council and subsidiary t! bodies, including a “defense corni mittee.” Five of the powers — Britain, i France and the Benelux countries ) —already have similar machinery • set up under the Brussels pact. John Foster Dulles, Republican » foreign affairs expert said, meanwhile, in a broadcast over the I Mutual Broadcasting system that "there is no force In Europe which can stop the Red army.” "The Soviet has the greatest, army on the continent," he said. - He said only the United States i with its air force and atom bomb ! I could stop a Russian attack. l| »I I Indianapolis Man Is Reformatory Trustee Indianapolis. April 2 — (UP) — An Indianapolis Boy Scout executive, Delmar H. Wilson, was a i number of the board of trustees of t ' the Indiana state reformatory at Pendleton today. Wilson was nam- j ed by governor Schricker to replace A. Lynn Minzey, South Bend | Republican, who resigned. ii Music Festival Is j Held Friday Night - 1 Rural Schools In ft Annual Festival ; Varner M. Chance, supervisor of j music in the Fort Wayne schools. j directed the Adams county music ‘ festival at the Geneva high school . auditorium Friday evening. Robert Shepfer, also of Fort Wayne, was H the accompanist. In addition to the choral selecr tions, various specialty numbers J were given. The chorus was comI posed of glee club groups from Ge- . neva. Jefferson. Hartford. Kirk- ! land. Monroe. Monmouth and Plea- ?' sant Mills high schools, fi Mrs. Dorothy Owens, of Geneva., .J was in charge of the arrangements. p l assisted by Miss Sybllla G. Sprung J er. Jefferson. Miss Frances Smith. Hartford. Mrs. Phyllis Hauck. , I Kirkland. Herbert Arlington. Mon- ( roe. Richard Hickman. Monmouth. and Phillip L. Dolby. Pleasant : Mills. ( Dennis Norman, county recreaJ tlon director, directed the com l_ munity sing. e Decatur. Decatur Catholic high , school and Berne do not participate I in the annual event.

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Unusual Saturday Session Called To Speed Final Action On Recovery Funds Washington. Apr. 2 — (UP) — The senate was set today to give quick approval to a $5,580,000,000 second installment on the Marshall plan after scuttling a drive to trim the recovery program’s spending power. Democratic leader Scott W. Lucas, 111., called members into an unusual Saturday session to rush • final action after a powerful bii partisan coalition last night: 1. Rejected 68 to 14 a move by ■ Republican leader Kenneth S. > Wherry, Neb. to trim 15 percent I off administration requests for authorized EGA spending over the : next 15-months. i 2. Voted down. 54 to 23. an . amendment by Sens. Robert A. . Taft, R„ 0., and Richard B. Russell. D.. Ga., to reduce recovery spending by $513,000,000 or about i 10 percent. t These votes came after a special t appeal from ECA administrator ( Paul G. Hoffman, who said in a , j letter read to the senate that cuts t would make just “another relief . program" of the plan for Indusr trial recovery. And Lucas warned the senate that any reduction in , ECA funds would be “pinching , pennies on the question of peace.” Hoffman accompanied his appeal J with a hint that he might resign II his job if ECA spending was serfous'v reduced. A releif program, , < he said, "would be . Garrary to my understanding of the job I was ,! asked to do." I Lucas was "frankly surprised' at the heavy margin for retaining every dollar in the administration ! bill. He said the senate’s action last night "spe'ls defeat for all ! other amendments" not favored by foreign policy leaders. The economic cooperation administration's spending power expires at midnight today. Although quick senate approval of the extern j sion bill is certain, the recovery i program will have to lapse terni porarilv because the house will not take up the measure until I next week. The senate itself may be forced to put off final action until early next week. Hoffman told reporters that “for all practical purposes" his agency will go out of business temporarily this weekend. But ECA now is shipping goods it ordered three months ago. It appeared that the ■short congressional delay In re(Ttirn T O Pttr. Three, . ..... ... Lead-Ore Deposit On Arctic Harbor Edmonton. Alta.. April 2 —(VP) — The discovery of one of the richest lead-ore deposits on the continent on ths lonely shores of anArt- : lc harbor was reported today by the Edmonton Bulletin. The copyright article said the Gateway Gold Limited reported staking out a multi million dollar claim at Detention harbor on Coronation gulf. It said tests indicated the ore was 85 percent lead and worth 2275 a ton. seven times more than the value of ore from Canada - * richest gold mine. Continuing Probe Os Gas Fumes Here Fire Chief Cedric Fisher today was continuing the investigation of the cause for the gas fumes in the a wers in the up-*own district. I Last evening a survey was made bv an engineer of the Northern Indiana Pub ic Service company, who stated that the fumes did not originate from th? natural ga* lines. CM®* F»«her sai l ‘rduhle re-s-ltei ’mm eieanirr fluid or gate line he'ne etnoM'd Into the sewers, under stores on North g»-ont aM Meuro* -tteeta wrre i Goode I wi’h the fnm*s yeaterdav. Ths firs chief said there «u dan ger of explosion from the fumes