Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 84, Decatur, Adams County, 9 April 1949 — Page 1

LVII. No. 84.

lODSE RUSHES ACTION ON FOREIGN AID GILL

> Assails Sid Union s Ml Satellites Houses Cominform H Attempting To Everthrow Regime April 9 (I'l’l— Marlit a,-,-used the cominform iff gs trying to start civil wai 4 ■ in an attempt to his regime and strip this of ir< sovereignty, premier served nothe Communist information t | iat he would fight those of I|K i3 ■•which have nothing In with Marxist and Leninist of the equality ~f rights I v of small nations, spoke for two hours and 10 to the third congress of people's front. He tanned and fit after a vacaSlovenia. was the bitterest yet the Soviet Union and its allies. But he said would not turn to the ■rwlongering reactionaries who they can count on us in ■W l ' :ir pl: ‘ ns °"’ ing tu tlle Kt L'li i’cm in which our connia ■'M' nulin! ' i,ia l pi ' one-time compartners, Tito called upon K p-opie's front to resist "this ' appeal to remove forcib-l K tks present leadership of YugoKvia from its responsible posi- ■ Tlis means an attempt to pro Kkelcivil war in our country, and Kpresctits a grossly hostile act an allied and moreover country," Tito said. I an uprising is usually by an imperialist in a | country. Such a is. however, alien to Comand they must fight the in any part of the world." was resplendent in a dark uniform with gold! red tabs on lapels and and gold wreaths on his departed from his prepared from time to time with causabout cominform bringing roars of laughter from the 1.640 dele " was attended by of the foreign Lr the first time in years. said Yugoslavia would go way "we cannot force in the east to love us they have taken it into heads not to yield and to their the other hand," he continuare ju<t as firmly resolved renounce what is correct what is in the interest of construction in our conn is in the interest of pre the achievement of our our revolutionary strugthe interest of the people of and at the same time interest of international • generally." S' 0 denied that Yugoslavia was I westward or had de-1 ff 11 in awayn >'way from its firm! V!' r °C the Soviet Union In its' a!a >ast the "warmongering j< mon gossip than truth —- X j y e Senate Costs B° ve Appropriation ■j**»napoli«. April 9-(UP)~ n filed in secretary of state Fleming's office today that the Indiana senate f° r houses of l legislature. K' 11 M l*nditure of the upper JB„® 0E 't'luding some $58.04*01 'K,‘ i i, Ors PV. $108,091 77. r report for the house of *‘ nlitiv « has not been filed ," e E€Wr *l assembly appro-: K? °«>'y SIOO,OOO for ex-1 Jfc ,i . Eg ot bi"’ was the largest. <K. ««n on the expense ac K- rfc e printing bill was $47. V' <ith $24,973 In W to $’m € I Pen ’ M ,apfred u for attorneys. Sc.. WE *™ER • an d e * n, inued K eloudiKus. J* " eMI toni ß ht. | Wlf h occasional rain -Bs-or»s* . H , ‘' £0 <• w 55 M ,outh L °* Ketl M ' 9 M norlhl M »« «$

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Russian Protest On German State Seen Say Door Is Open To Russia To Join Washington, Apr. 9 — (UP) — The "big three” western powers braced themselves today for an anticipated Rus tian propaganda assault against their agreement on Germany. Dip’omatic informants said a Russian protest was ' inevitable. They said the Soviets probably will charge that the decision of the “big three" foreign ministers to establish a federal public in western Germany violates the Potsdam agreement. The decision, made without Russian approval, was announced here yesterday by secretary of state Dean G. Acheson. British foreign minister Ernest Bevin and French foreign minister Robert Schuman. The ministers' "occupation statute," which outlined the federation plan, would cover the three zones of western Germany now I 'controlled by U. S„ British and French occupation authorities. Both Acheson and Schuman said the door was open to Russia to join in the west German agree- | ment, and presumably to bring i their zone into a united republic ■ in all of Germany. However, diplomats said that: 1— The Soviet Union would lose I face if it accepted an accord that would lead to anything but a comi mnnist-controlled Germany — and this the west would not tolerate. 2— The west is offering the Germans greater latitude in the matters of civil rights and autonomy than are enjoyed by the peoples of the Soviet Union itself. .Acheson said the German agreement actually brought peace with Russia nearer, because it strengthened western Europe. His reasoning appeared to be that Russia would never accept peace with I I western Europe as long as it re- | mained weak and there was a ! chance it would go communist. Aeheson refused to guess when the state would come into exist- 1 ence, although it is known that ] late this summer is a tentative! target date. Before the state itself can come into being, diplomatic quarters said, the following also must be ! accornp ished: 1— Representatives of the west I German people, now meeting in Bonn, must agree on and draft a constitution. 2— This constitution must then | be referred to the big three gov- j ernments for their approval. If | (Turn Tn Pnge Four* j I Distribute Palms At St. Mary's Church Palms will be blessed and distributed at St. Mary’s Catholic church Sunday morning at the 10:15 i o'clock high mass. Palm Sunday ushers in Holy Week and the order lof services for Holy Thursday. !Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday will be announced ' at the Sunday masses. l Clerk For Airlines I • Confesses To Theft $50,000 In Envelope Is Stolen By Clerk New York. April 9 — (UP) —. Roltert J. Murphy, 25. a clerk in the i KI.M Royal Dutch airlines office at | International airport, confessed to-1 j day. police said, that he stole an , envelope containing $50,900 in SIOO bills destined tor shipment to Europe., Police said they recovered the i money from a vancant lot about a mile from the airport where Mur- , phy said he had buried it. i Police said Murphy, a former paratrooper. confessed after being J questioned almost coAtinously since ' yesterday afternoon when the money was reported missing. I After his confession. Murphy too': : police to the vancant lot and showed them where he had buried the money. The money, defined for ship- ■ ment to Adler & Company. Zurich. •Switzerland, had been missing • since Thursday night when it was j delivered to Murphy at the airlines office.

UN To Resume Debate On Italy Colonies' Issue Russia Expected To State Policies On Italian Colonies Lake Success, T'., April 9— (UP)—Fixst deputy Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko was expected to place Russia's policy on disposition of Italy’s former African empire before the United Nations today. The UN's top political committee prepared to resume debate on the colonies' issue after Russia cast her 30th veto in the security council late yesterday to kill Korea's bid for UN membership. Kromyko alone of the spokesmen i for the big four powers has not put forward a plan to solve the question of Italy's former colonies. Delegates anticipated that Gromyi ko would support a form of multination trusteeship designed to give Russia a toe-hold in Africa—a move which would be opposed strenuously by the western powers. Informants said that Italian forI eign minister count Carlo Sforza i also was ready to tell the commiti tee of his government's hope that | the general assembly would restore ! the African empire to Italy under a UN trusteeship. The United States and Britain favor the return of Italian Somaliland to Italy, British trusteeship over Cyrenaica, and cession of eastern Eritrea to Ethiopia. The two powers have not yet reached a- definite understanding on disposition ot Tripolitania and the Fezzan. France backs return of all the colonies to Italy. Russia's 30th veto came in the | security council last night after I Soviet delegate Jacob A. Malik. 1 supported only by the Ukraine, charged that the Korean govern | ment seated at Seoul was a "pupI pet regime propped up solely by | the bayonets of American armed I forces.” He held that the SovietI supported government of northern Korea should be recognized by the | UN. The United States, Britain. I China, France, Cuba, Egypt, CanaI da, Argentina, and Norway voted ; for Korea's membership application. The issue is dead until Korea , applies again. Meanwhile, delegates forecast ■ speedy approval of Israel's application to become the 59th UN member when the general assently holds its first business meet- ' ings of this session, beginning I early next week. The UN's steer- : ing committee, with Lebanon, Iran I and Britain in opposition, recom- ! mended that decision on the Israeli 1 bid be expedited by the full as-, (Turn To I’ngr Holy Week Services ' At Lutheran Church ; Special Services During Holy Week The Rev. Edgar I’. Schmidt, pas tor of Zion Lutheran church. West Monroe and Eleventh streets, announces the following schedule of services during Holy Week: Maundy Thursday at 7:30 p m — This service, conducted on the night in which Jesus instituted the i Lord's Supper, will be a commun-i ion service. The pastor will preachon the topic. “The Doctrine of the Lord's Supper." bastd on 1 Cor inthians 11: 23 29. The choir, un der the direction of David Embler,: I will sing an appropriate anthem ' Members wishing to commune are asked to have their announcement i cards in the pastor s hands by •Tuesday noon. Good Friday midday service--12:30 p.m — This service will cen ter about the reading of the history of the passion of the Lord Jesus; compiled from the Four Gospels.! The reading of the lessons will be interspersed with appropriate hymns and prayers. A reverent silence will mark this service There will be no organ prelude, of t fertory. or postlude. The service, will last from 12:30 until 2 o'clock.' The public is cordially invited. Good Friday vesper-7:30 p.m - This will be the usual Good Friday preaching service commemorating the death of Jews Christ At this service the pastor will con elude his series of Lenten sermon, on the general theme. "He Was Bruised For Our Iniquities." por (Twew T» FW»>

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, April 9, 1949

Identify $690,000 Stolen Bonds ♦ 'Ki \ ■ / MIBB i i-/ il 11 J 11 S| Sai *1 HI > — MHMHMaa waaaßßHiai It \ SOL JFBEb iff * • $690,000 WORTH of bonds found concealed by plaster board (arrow, upper) in attic of Richard H. Crowe's Staten Island, New York home i are idea ified Cower) by an FBI agent while Crowe’s attorney. Peter F. Gulotta (left) witnesses. Arrested in Florida, Crowe first said , he threw the bonds, part of nearly SSS4,OOO loot taken from a New , York bank, Into the ocean.

■ Effingham Plans For New Hospital City Buries Last Os Fire Victims Effingham. 111. April 9—(UP)— • Plans to build a new hospital in I : Effingham went ahead rapidly to- • day as this city burried the last i of the victims killed when a fire 1 swept through St. Anthony’s hospital Tuesday. ■ A mass burial was scheduled for 2 p.m. for three unidentified vic- 1 1 tints. Both Protestant and Roman i ' Catholic church services were held, j 1 Burial was in a lot provided by the! St. Anthony’s cemetery association. The six-grave plot will be mark ed "grave of the unknown dead.” Three victims still believed to be in the rubble of the hospital will be buried in the plot later if their bodjes are found when ground is cleared for a new hospital. Firemen called off their search for the three missing bodies yester day. i The death toll was set at 74 | Six'y-eight bodies have been identi , fled. Contributions poured in for a { ! new hospital although the drive for ! funds won’t officially start until ’ next Wednesday—the day after i business will come to a standstill, and the town will hold memorial I services for the fire victims on a i ! picnic grounds next to the fireravaged hospital. Some contributions for the new hospital ran as high as $16,000. The city plans a 15Abed hospital at an estimated cost of $2,500,000. The army and navy already have offered to help Effingham set up: new hospital facilities. The ninth naval district at Great! (Turn To I'sko Five*

— I Value Os Driver-Training ■ For Student Is Explained (

"Beyond teaching high-school students the mechanics of opcrat ing a car, we try to make them responsible drivers." Thus Steve Everhart summed up the aims of the driver-training program he has conducted for the last year and a half at the Decatur high school. Correct attitudes. Mr. iSverhart believes, are just as iinportdnt for operating a car as knowing what switches to turn and what buttons to push. “When a boy takes out the family car. we want him to realize be ■as control over a powerful rnach■oe. one that can become deadly if not used right." Teaching them both a respect for other drivers and a sense of responsibility when they get behind the wheel of a car does much to Insure safer driving by high school youths, according to Mr. Everhart Results of high-school training

i SIOO,OOO Fire At Angola Early Today i Angola, Ind., April 9 — (UP) — Fire raged out of control for nearly four hours tn the Shank lumber yard early today, causing damages estimated at SIOO,OOO. Fire chief Ralph Oberlin said the lumber yard was “just about a !' i total loss." He said a state fire j ■ marshall was expected to arrive to-1. day to investigate the cause of the 1 ' blaze. | 1 Daylight Time In I Effect April 24 Nearly All Os East To Go On Fast Time By United Pre«s Millions of Americans, mostly j' in the big cities, will turn their > clocks one hour ahead when day- L light savings time go?s into effect at 2 a. m. Sunday, April 21. Nearly a l the east will be on I ! the "fast time." New York, New- ; ark. N. J., New Haven, Conn., Bosi ton, Mass., and Philadelphia are among cities which will go on • daylight time. 1 Kentucky will r main unchang- 1 j ed. Only two or three of the larg- ! er cities in Ohio were expected to f ‘ (urn their clocks ahead. All the south will stay on stand-, ,*r<l time. In Missouri only St.p Louis and St. Louis county wlli | ' i change to daylight time, as will ad 1 jaeent communities in Illinois. 1 Chicago and northern Illinois ’ I cities will adopt daylight time, hut I southern Illinois towns', mostly ( I farming areas, will not change. 1 (Turn To Pmkf Mil $

~ I ’ programs show the truth of this f statement. While there is a lack f of specific figures to show how the training has contributed to safer : driving by Decatur youth, reports 1 from other cities with such train- r ing programs indicate a noticeable decrease in accidents and arrests ’ of teen-aee drivers. Mr. Everhart's driving classes * are onen to 16-year-olds. They are ‘ provided with beginners' license good for six months, and after com- > pletion of the course may take examinations for operators' licenses ) Twenty-three boys and girls completed the voluntary, non-credit course last semester. and IT more ' are n-w enrolled. Mr. Everhart pro- * rides two weeklv sessions of In- ! stniction. one in the classroom and I i the other tiehind the wheel of the ’ , training car. which was donated, < ; * by Brant Motors. , I

Senate Passes Aid Bill After 31 Days Debate; Extends Marshall Plan

Business House Is Robbed Friday Night Ideal Dairy Bar Is Robbed Os Near SBOO Police are searching for the fastworking robber who midnight Friday stole about SBOO from the Ideal Dairy Bar, 217 South Second street. The robbery was committed within 45 minutes after Miss Lorine Rich, one of the proprietors, had locked up for the night. The Dairy Bar carried no burglar insurance. Police lack positive clues to the robber’s identity, but fingerprints which may belong to the robber tire now being checked. This much is known about the robber — he was physically small, and he knew his way around the building. That he left money lying in plain view indicates his haste and inexperience. The stolen money belonged to the ABC Bus Company, whose depot shares the Dairy Bar; the Ideal proprietors; and to the (Eagles { lodge treasury. Lofton Rich, one of the owners is treasurer of the Eagles. Police reconstruct the crime this way. While customers were still being served, the robber climbed into the attic through the small opening in the ceiling of the men’s lavatory. He was hiding in the attic when Miss Rich closed up at about 111:45 p.m. Then he made his way through the attic until he was over a locked office in the building kicked out a section in the ceiling, and I jumped down. He took checks and I currency from un unlocked safe I and desk, in his hurry passing over some bills lying in plain view in the desk drawers. With the window blinds open and a night, light burning, the robber next rifled the retail section of the Dairy Bar. Police, on their nightly check, discovered tlie rear door standing | open. | Search Called OH , I As Schooner Found Schooner Spotted Anchored In Bay Miami, Fla., April 9 -(UP) - A Massachusetts yachtsman and his family cruised the waters of the British Bahamas in vacation i style today, probably unaware that they had been the object of a mas sive search by air and sea. Tlie coast guard called off the | search for Mr. and Mrs. Donald j Parrot and their two sons of Man- 1 Chester. Mass., late yesterday a.’tei a plane spotted their schooner Kes- ■ watin anchored off Spanish Cav. I The coast quard pilot said he' circled low over the Keewatin and I the yacht Lazy Jack and dropiied ■ a message to see if they needed 1 help. Those aboard waved at the I plane but hoisted no distress signals. Fear for the safety of the Parrots arose after the tanker Richard J. Cleveland reported seeing a derelict yacht off the South Carolina . mast. The family reportedly was I en route to Charleston. S. C. It was feared that the couple' had been swept ovtrlmard. leaving the boys, David, 4. and Steven 10 months, alone in a cabin. Six surface vessels. 29 planes and 1 two blimps fanned out in a search i 'or the Keewatin. It wasn't until - later that another skipper, W. C.' Norton, informed the coast guard <Tc— T» ftn Five* Waterloo Man Killed When Struck By Auto Auburn, Ind., April 9 — (UP> — Anthony Ellert. 61. Waterloo, wan killed last night when be stepped Into the path of an automobile on U. S. 27. four m!l*f north of Water-, ’em. State police identified the drlv-. er of the car as Al Ryder. 66, An-. tola.

Seek To Save Girl Trapped In Deep Well Three-Year-Old Girl Falls In Abandoned Well In California San Marino, Cal., Apr. 9—(UP) —Weary rescuers dug past the 70foot mark today in a grim effort to reach three-year-old Kathy Fiscus, who spent the night trapped in the 14-inch casing of an abandoned 120-foot well. They still held hopes of finding the. chi d alive. She fell into the well late yesterday while playing in a vacant lot. Crowds of onlookers remained throughout the night, watching the floodligh'ed re-cue operation. Heavy duty equipment dug down on both sides of the well as firemen pumped air into the corroded metal tube. Police did not expect to reach the girl's level until after 9 a. m. CST. Then they planned to cut ini to the side of the well and try to reach her. The girl was believed trapped at the bottom of the well. A long tape weighted with a rubber ball went down that far in a test early today. The rescuers expected to cut straight into the casing when they reached that point. A thermometer lowered into the j I pipe recorded a temperature of 90 i degrees at the point where Kathy j was believed stuck. Ear ier, the workers were spurr- j ed on by faint cries from the child. But the hollow voice of the trapped little girl teased about 8:30 p. m., CST, when the roar of digging equipment drowned out her | voice. "She's either dead or asleep," j police Sgt. T. F. Stewart ?ald. Circus thin men. jockeys, mid-j ! gets and neighbor children volunI teered to go into the well, but au- i 1 thorities said the inside of the I pipe was so badly corroded that I they would be badly cut. Shortly before midnight, water engineer Raymond Hill lowered a i rubber ball attached to a steel tape measure into the pipe. It passed a curve at the 60-foot level and I stopped at 87 feet. Hill believed the child probably was at that I point. There was no water on the ball. | indicating that the well was dry at J that point. | Giant floodligh's illuminated j the vacant lot where the well was' (Turn r<> Fnsr Flvri no • Communists Launch Offensive In China Apparent Attempt To Force Surrender Nanking. April 9 — (UP) — Comitnunist armies launched a genenl (offensive along a 100-mile front on : the north bank of the Yangtze rivler apposite Nanking today in an ! Apparent attempt to force the Na I tionalists to surrender. The attack l>egan as Nationalist i and Communist peace negotiators ; were scheduled to resume their {talks in Peiping under the shadow ' of a Communist untimatum for the Nationalist government's surrender by next Tuesday. A reliable source said that Com- ' munist leaders, while indicating a ' willingness to make some conces- ’ sioas in their ultimatum, were standing pat on their demand for peaceful Red occupation of Nauring end Shanghai. The informant said the Communists want to use the two cities as bases for a nation-wide manhunt . for generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek and other Communut designated i' *ar criminals ’*

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Claim Sufficient Votes In House To Approve Repealer Os Taft-Hartley Act Washington, April 9 — (UP) — Democratic leaders rushed their version of the foreign aid extension 1:111 to the house floor today and promised it would get quick approval. Chairman John Kee, D., W. Va., of the house foreign affairs committee predicted house members would approve the second-round Marshall plan spending bill with little delay and no crippling restrictions. Leaders hopod for a final house vote Monday, and were counting on it not later than Tuesday. Congress plans jto recess Thursday for a 10-day Easter vacation. They called an unusual Saturday session of the house in order to expedite action on the measure. The senate argued 13 days before passing its aid bill yesterday, 70 to 7. The bill, however, emerged from the senate in almost exaety the form proposed by the administration. in a last-minute rush the senate tossed out most of a thick sheaf of amendments. As approved, the measure authorizes $5,580,000,000 in recovery spending in the next 15 months. ' The money will prime lhe economics pumps of 16 western European nations and non-Communist ’ Germany it covers the second year, plus three months, of a four-yeiir European recovery plan. The bill brought before the house today was slightly different from the senate-approved measure, although the house bill also would I extend the program for 15 months, j Its spending authorization totals $5,380,000,001) — $200,000,000 below ! the senate figure House leaders said there will be no repetition in the house of drawnout senate debate. AH general d“- ' bate, limited to four hours, was 'o lie completed by nightfall. Chairman John Lesinski of the bouse labor committee said today that a survey of house members in{ilicated the administration has ' enough votes to pass the Taft-Hart- ; ley repeal bill. The Michigan Democrat said a 1 count turned up "votes to spare" . for the administration measure to wipe Taft-Hartley off the statute books and replace It with an "improved" version of the old Wagner act. Lesinski's statement came only a few days after a coalition of | southern Democrats and Republicans claimed enough voting strength to kill the bill. The group 'is backing a substitute measure sponsored by Rep. John S. Wood. I).. Ga.. which would retain the labor law with some minor amendments. The administration bill is now (Turn To Pone Five* No Film Lending Is Planned At Present By Decatur Library Decatur public library will not have an audio-visual film lending I division, at least at the present. Miss Bertha Helitr. librarian stated today, after attending a film library workshop at Indiana University this week. However, the local library will have a list of available films and the nearest .libraries which will carry the films It was decided not to join with several other northern Indiana libraries in sponsoring an audio- visual division here because of a lack of snace. in all proliability the local library eventually will utilize both foots of its building and then there Is a possibility of adding new divisions, it was learned. Miss Heller attended the two-day conference, first if its kind ever held in Indiana The various types of rental film were demonstrated. Types of projectors also were discussed larger libraries already have film-lending dhttlou and some also have record-lending departments The regent meeting. I owever. was exclusively for dem onstratlng and explaining fllm-lend-ln< facilities