Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 87, Decatur, Adams County, 13 April 1949 — Page 1

SPEED UP GERMAN INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY

■ Io Join Bfeervance fcod Friday I Burch Services In I Biree-Hour Period 1 lark Observance wß'iir will join with tl,e reßt ■K Christian world Friday in nll a.itina the three hours KHjesiis Christ spent on the ■Hat Calvary. ■■■dents (if the city and comwill thictig to church dur|Ke threehour period from 12 s*K,util it p. nt., and practically ss will cease during this ■ Pro estant churches of the ■■ill unite in a joint service Sfi|r the entire three hours at KK, n Evangelical and Reform■Kimh. Third and Jackson H iv' w’ Bl’aul Cplike. of Marion, dissKB S up..iintendent of the Church Nazarene. will be speaker union service. Dr. I pdike r district superintendent past six years, and was EK r iy pastor of the South Side |K h of the Nazarene and of the of the Nazarene at Hunt■■a lie is now chairman of of trustees at Olivet Kankakee. IE., is a memEKf the general board of the seven last words of Jesus cross will be the theme of ■■':,;ikr's meditations, ami also HHtlieme of the music sung by ■Munsie depar'inint of the De- ■■ Woman's club. Pastors of in the service. HMe three hours will be observSt Mary's Catholic church, ami meditation, and pubof the Cross. The stawi’i be said at 12:45 and 1:45 anil at 2:lbi o'clock blessing faithful with a relic of the ■■ cross will begin. BBm " 1 Friday service will also ■■held at the Zion Lutheran ■■<h from 12:30 to 2 p. m., cen■■tg about the reading of the ■■try of the passion as compilthe four gosels. Lessons ■■i" pas-mn, read by th ■ pastor. ■fl Rev. Edgar P. Schmidt, will ■■interspersed with appropriate and prayers. will also be held in of the churches Thursday Friday evenings. fl Suspend Business ■■ttsiness will be suspended durfl flihe three-hour period, with ly all retail stores and offices closed for the entime. The First State Bank | ■J lie l ios ed all day and public will be closed from 12 to 3. Daily Democrat will be closthe three hours, with the 1 edi'ion issued at the usual : of 3 o’clock. of the Decatur post I ■■e will he closed from noon ting (Turn Tn Fair* «|tt [■tools Close For ■ster Vacation schools will be closed Mjtsday and Friday for the annual ■■ng vacation. The Decatur high ■ Wl ’ nco ' n grade school gj at ,he en d of regular classes V aft? rnoon. with the students to school Monday mornjfre Ca,l >olic high any St. Joseph M/ ’ rhools , ,08e <l at noon today. > !■ sasses to be resumed Tues I JTTUT I O il ■ °VERTISERS jI ‘ display advertising j or the Good Friday i I |^ SUe must ** received I Thursday Aoril 14 3 P. M. i Classified deadline ■Dai] ru m ‘ Friday, lie L □ ocral °ff’ce will ■fr (i on Good Friday ■ 12 TO 3 P. M.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Special Election On School Merger Election Planned In Two Townships A special election will be held in the Washington and Monroe school townships on May 5, to determine whether or not a majority of legal voters of the two townships, outside of the corporate limits of Decatur and Berne, are in favor of a ■consolidated school, embracing Washington, Monroe and Kirkland townships. Fixing of the election date was made this afternoon at a meeting between John Stoneburner, trustee of Washington township and Howard Gilliont, trustee of Monroetownship at the latter’s office in Berne. Determination to hold the referendum followed the filing of a petition with Mr. Stoneburner by voters in Washington township, asking that the consolidation be submitted to a vote of the people. This petition, circulated by Barton P. Walters and signed by jiimself, Arthur B. Wilder and 166 other voters in Washington township, mandates the trustee to place the question on the ballot. Monroe township joins in the election, because the trustee and advisory board declined to join in the consolidation movement when the matter was submitted to them. It will not be necessary to hold the election in Kirkland township, since a majority of the voters in that school district petitioned to merge with Washington and Monroe school units. Voters in North and South Washington, and in Middle and North Monroe precincts will be eligible to vote in the special election. Approximately 1,000 voters reside in these areas, based on the number qf vote4-cast for the presidential candidates in 1948. - In Middle Monroe there were 120 votes; N. Monroe 311; N. Wash- ■ ington, 29 and S. Washington 262 votes for these candidates. The consolidation movement got • underway several weeks ago when laws were passed by the recent Indiana general assembly providing for such steps in townships that favored school mergers. The voting privilege is also one of the pro visions of the new law, it was explained. Decatur and Berne voters, although residing within the boundaries of Washington and Monroe (Turn Tn I’ase Eiahtl % Pfc. Ralph Spade Funeral Saturday War Veteran's Body jl Returned For Burial Adams county will pay final tribute to another of her war dead ' Saturday, when funeral services 1 are held for Pfc. Ralph J. Spade. | son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Spade. I of Peterson, who was killed while serving wi'h the U. S. army in Germany March 4, 1944. Services will be he.d at 2:30 p. m. Saturday at the Zwick funeral home, with Dr. Gerald H. Jones officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery, with the Decatur pots of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars conducting military rites. The body will arrive here Thursday night and will be taken to the funeral home, where friends may ca l after 2 p. m. Friday. The war veteran was horn in Adams county March 29. 1906. and attended the Kirkland township 'schools. He was employed for many years by the General Electric company here until he entered service Oct. 29. 1942. He was atI tached to the 83rd division of the | Third army, and was serving as chauffeur for company officers at the time he was killed. He was sent overseas in April of 1943. He was a member of the Beulah Chapel church and the Loyal Order of Moose. Surviving in addition to his parents are his wife. Mrs. Kathryn t Holmes Spade, of Fort Wayne. ' and five sister-, Mrs. Otto Dilling of Griffith. Mrs. Arthur Kelley. I Mrs. Willard Mcßride. Mrs Theo i dore Heller and Mrs. Leonard I Liechty. all of Decatur. WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight Thur*day mostly cloudy with rain overspreading state; cooler north portion.

UN Assembly Acts To Vole On Israel Bid To Include Bid For UN Membership On Current Agenda Flushing, N. Y., April 13—(UP) — The United Nations’ general assembly voted today to include Israel’s application for UN membership on, its current agenda, but defeated a recommendation that the full assembly take quick action on the bid. The vote to include the Israeli bid on the UN agenda was approved by 47 to 7 with 2 abstentions. The assembly, however, on a second vote of 31 to 18 with 7 abstentions defeated a steering committee recommendation that the full assembly act quickly on the application. The second vote, which gained unexpected support from LatinAmerica and Scandinavia, sent the Israeli application to the UN’s political committee for study. This made it certain that action would be delayed for several weeks. Only Russia and Australia gave unqualified support to the plan to have the assembly take up the issue quickly. Defeat of the plan for early voting by the full assembly was led by the Arab state. Other nations lined up to oppose the plan, however, mainly on the grounds that Israel had not complied with assembly recommendations to internationalize Jerusalem. Other questions raised during the debate centered on Israeli handling of Arab refugees in Palestine, and Sweden’s complaint that the new state had not taken adequate efforts to investigate the assassins(Turn T» Pnire Six) More Time Problems Besetting Decatur Ordinance Provides Change On April 30 More daylight saving time problems are arising in Decatur. As many cities and towns prepare to move their clocks ahead at 2 o’clock on the morning of Sunday, April 24, it has been discovered that the Decatur ordinance sets midnight of the last Saturday in April as the time to move the clocks forward. By following the local ordinance, Decatur would go on daylight sav ing time on midnight of April 30. However, a new state law provides for central standard time all year, but the state law has no penalty. Several cities, including Fort Wayne, already have agreed through action of their councils to continue the daylight time during the summer months. Time schedules for local sac tories have not been announced of ficially, but it is understood that in some factories, the clocks will remain unchanged, but all shifts will start an hour earlier and dismiss an hour earlier. It is believed that the official clock in the city hall will remain at standard time, but employes will come to work an hour earlier each day and leave work an hour earlier. Chamber of Commerce officials have reported that local retail establishments favor the fast time during the summer months, but whether they will adopt it April 24 hr April 30 has not been determined. The board of county commission ers probably will act next Monday at a special meeting on whether the court house clock will remain on standard time or go to daylight saving time. Rotary Meeting To Be Earlier Thursday Officials of the Decatur Rotary club announced today that the weekly meeting of the service club will l>e held at « o’clock Thursday evening. Change from the usual 6:3o ( time was made in order that I memliers may attend church services later in the evening. Robert H. Heller, of this city., who was speaker of the state house | of representatives at the recent state legislature, will be the guest speaker Officers will also bd elected for the ensuing year and all members are asked to be present.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, April 13, 1949

‘Divided’ Army-Navy Cost Cited Mr 1 > *• : LACK OF UNIFICATION of the firmed forces in World War II cost the nation "billions and billions” of dollars, former Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson tells the Senate Armed Services commiitee in Washington. Listening intently (right) is Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.. (R) of Massachusetts.

Two Ships Collide, No One Is Injured Fire Is Controlled After Long Battle Bridgeton N. J., April 13 — (UP) 1 ! — Fire in the hold of an unloaded 1 oil tanker which collided head-on with a freighter in the Delaware Bay, was brought under control today by herioc crewmen after a six-hour battle. The 39 crewmembers aboard the ' Sun Oil Co. tanker Pennsylvania j Sun risked danger of an explosion , 'of oil fumes to save the ship. The Sun collided with the U. S. Lines freighter American Attorney in the fog-shrouded channel below ship John Lighthouse shortly before ! 1:30 am, (CST) Both ships caught ; fire in the bow, but no one was la- | jured in the crash. | One seaman, tossed overboard I from the 11,394-ton tanker by the | impact, was picked up by a passing freighter. Sun Oil officials said the tanker would be able to return to its Marcus Hook. Pa., base under its . own power “as soon as the fog j lifts." I The collision was the second in I which the Pennsylvania Sun was • involved in the past eight months. However, there was no fire in the ■ first crash although damage to tije ship was extensive. * 1 Both ships caught fire in the bow i section. The flames aboard the ■ freighter were brought under control without much difficulty. But the fire on the tanker spread from a forward hold and a fire-fighting 1 chemical was rushed by plane from New York to help in the battle. | I The Pennsylvania Sun was out-i I ward bound from Marcus Hook. ' I The captain of the tanker, How- j i ard W. Quigley, Northeast, Md., di- ■ 1 rected fire-fighting operations. Decatur State Is Looted Last Night Gamble's Store Is Entered Last Night I A series of break-ins into DecatI ur business houses appeared in the i making today with the second burg- ! lary within five days being reported to city pojjee. Smashing the glass of a side win dow. a burglar Tuesday night broke > into Gamble's store. 115 South Second street. Five dollars in change was stolen from the store’s cash register. Thurman Wooley, manager of the store, has not yet determined whether any merchandise was taken. Except for the $5. he had removed the day’s receipts from the cash register before closing the store for the day. Police said blood-stains found inside the store indicate the burg--1 lar cbt his hand when he smashed the window-glass. ' The burglary occurred after 9:45 ' p.m., at which time Wooley returnI ed to the store to turn off the lights of the window display. Police are still searching for the burglar who early Saturday stole, 3800 from the Ideal Dairy Bar. 217 j South Second street.

Red Cross Fund Is Over SB,OOO Mark The Red Cross fund continued its onward march today as contributions climbed to $8,019.82, nearly SI,OOO over the $7,070 goal. Included in the contributions were donations of $250 from the American Legion and $20.50 from employes at the Adams county memorial hospital. The 1949 fund drive went over the top last Monday, when donations totaled $7,600. Final reports will be compiled this week. Hoover Criticisms Answered By Royall Criticism Os Army Practices Answered Washington, Apr. 13 — (UP) — i Army secretary Kenneth C. Royall has released a letter to former president Herbert Hoover answering criticisms of army budgetary practices. The point-by-point answer sumI mary was: Hoover commission—The army had an item in its 1950 budget for enough tropical worsted uniforms to equip the entire army with one each at a cost of $129 apiece. Army — The cost was $40.48 apiece and the purchase was sos [ 1,284,500 uniforms. The item was subsequent’y deleted from the budget by tlie army before it went to the budget bureau. Hoover—The army budget contained $213,519,000 for stockpiling ! clothing and personal equipment ■ which would seem unnecessary in view of surplus clothing left over j from the war. ■ Army—The proposal was abandoned when the president ordered | a budget cut. Actually, the army has used up its wartime clothing i surplus by supplying the nationa’ guard and organized reserves. It hasn't sold any surplus exc,ept 771,000 pair of combat hoots to relieve a civilian shot shortage right after the war. Hoover—The army had equip ment for 89 divisions at the end of the war. Yet now it says it has enough extra .equipment for only 18 divisions. j Army—The army sold equipi ment for 30 divisions and it has 18 divisions in operation now. Os the remaining 41 division sets of -quipment, 23 are obsolescent or out of balance or need overhauling. This leaves only enough for 18 divisions ready for emergency use. Hoover — The army produced 86.000 tanks in the war. But it had only 25.045 st war's end and now has only 15,800. Army—The facts are that the army had 25,045 tanks at war's end but it had on hand on June 1. 1948. exactly 17,875. The remaining 7,170 had been declared obso(Tura Tu Puce Clabl) Treasurer's Office Open On Saturdays The county treasurer’s office will remain open Saturday afternoon until 4 o'clock. N’orval Fuhrman. \dams county treasurer, announced j today. The Saturday schedule will I -ontlnue through the spring taxpaying period, which ends May 2.

Three IVesfern Powers To Speed Business Recovery In Germany, West Europe

American Citizen Arrested By Czechs Political Activity Charged To Woman Prague, April 13 — (UP) — Czech police have arrested Miss Vlasta Adele Vraz, an American citizen and head of American relief for Czechoslovakia, on grounds of possible "political activities.” U. S. embassy officials disclosed today. They said she was arrested In her Prague office at 1 p in. last Saturday. She told an embassy representative who visited her in jail yesterday that she is being held for investigation of alleged political activities. Her home is at Berwyn, 111. Embassy officials said American relief for Czechoslovakia is sponsored by the advisory committee on voluntary foreign aid at New York City, and distributes food and clothing to Czech children. Miss Vraz’s arrest followed by less than three weeks the imprisonment for espionage of two Arnerican soldiers who wandered into Czechoslovakia while AWOL from their units in Germany. A Czech state court on March 26 sentenced army recruit George R. 'Jones of Owensboro, Ky„ and recruit Clarence R..HHI of Jackson, Miss., to 12 years at hard labor as spies. Czech police also arrested four Czech employes of the allied military permit office three weeks ago One was released last ’night and 1 officials said they expected two j others to be released today. The Czechs expelled Capt. Philip j Wildash, a membdr of the British embassy staff in Prague, for alleged espionage last month in another move calculated to harrass the western allies. Miss Vraz, 38. was born in Chicago, where her unde, a Mr. Geringer (first name unknown) edits the Czech language newspaper Svornost. She came to Czechoslovakia in October 1945 and was well known in cultural circles and the foreign colony here. Embassy officials said the com(Turn To Pnfcc Five) To Question Girl i i In Babich Slaying Grant Continuance In Murder Hearing Milwaukee. April 13—(UP)— Authorities planned today to question 15-yearold Carol Leszynski | about her statement that Milton ' Babich. 19, made advances to Pa-j ! trieia Birmingham before he killed her. District attorney William McCauley said he would question Carol as soon as her condition permits. She ran away from her home in suburban West Allis Monday and was found wandering in a daze through the streets of Kenosha. Wis. When picked up in Kenosha early yesterday she told authorities she was one of Patricia’s closest friends. She said Patricia bad. j told her that Babich "got fresh" [ with her. Patricia. 16. disappeared Feb. 10. Her body was recovered from the' Milwaukee river March 20. and 1 Babich, who had eloped with her older slater, Kathleen, was arrest ed in Minneapolis March 24. He confessed shooting Patricia to death but said the gun went off' in a struggle. He said he had. threatened her because she knew Kathleen was pregnant, and taunted him with the secret. The youth's lawyers won a con-1 tinuance yesterday at a pieliminary' hearing on his first degree murder charge. Defense counsel Arthur Richter asked and got a postponement to May 4 on grounds that there had been "unexpected developments" in the case. Out of court. Richter said last night that the unexpected developments were Carol Leszynski's .statements, and the etete's claim, (Tara Ta Page Fire)

Says Atlantic Pad Provides A-Bomb Bases Key Congressman Points Base Needs In Event Os War Washington, Apr. 13 — (UP) — A key administration congressman said tbiTay that the Atlantic pact gives this country the European a-bomb bases it must have to win a war with Russia. From these bases, chairman Clarence Cannon. D„ Mo„ of the house appropriations committee declared: "We must hit Moscow and every other city in Russia within one week after the next war starts—and with land-based airplanes. "The next war," Cannon asserted, “must he won in the first three weeks. We must in that time pulverize every military center in Rus-la.” Cannon said that "with the signing of the Atlantic treaty we have the bases." So "all we need now," he added, "is the plane to deliver the bomb." The oppropriations chief urged the house to kill a proposal to add $300,000,000 for naval aviation to the pending $16,000,000,000 military rpending bill for fiscal' 1950. He said the money ought to be put "where it counts—in longran're, land-based bombers.” He said the navy's proposed 65,000ton super-carrier would be "sunk In three days" after it got close enough to an enemy to launch its a-bomb planes. Other congressional developments: Bombardment — Sen. Ralph E. Flander, R., Vt„ proposed that the United States use guided missiles ‘ and robot planes to bombard Russia—with propaganda. Foreign aid — Chairman John Kee, D„ W. Va.. of the house foreign affairs committee said housesenate conferees might agree today on a compromise Marshall plan renewal billk Veterans—The house voted an extra $595,890,000 for veterans unemployment compensation and educational benefits. Early—The senate unanimously approved the nomination of Stephen T. Early to be undersecretary. of defense. Costly fringe—The veterans administration said “fringe" benefits! of the new Rankin pension bill! would cost a lot more than the [ (Turn Tn I’nitr Six) Kirkland Graduate Lisi Is Announced Commencement Rites On Monday, May 9 Fourteen Kirkland high school students are on the tentative list for graduation May 9. it was announced today by Dale Decker, principal. The baccalaureate ser- ■ vices for the class will be hel<i Sunday night. May 8, at 7:30 o'clock at the Kirkland high school gym nasium. with the Rev. H. A. Menssling, pastor of the Salem Evangel-1 leal and Reformed church, delivering the sermon. Commencement exercises will be I held the following evening. Mon-; day. May 9. at the high school gym-' nasium with Dr. Gerald Jones, pas-, tor of the First Methodist church; of Decatur, delivering the address Following is the list of candida'es for graduation: Beverly Arnold. Vivian Arnold. Betty lech. Evelyn Kipfer. Martha Üby. Esther Sowards. Darrel Arnold, Homer Junior Arnold. Ronald Byerly, Carl Hechter. Clifford Landis. John Parrish. George r.ingger, Jr., and Dwight Troxel. H. H. High is township trustee.

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Agree To Increase In Production Os Steel, Limited Output Os Tools Washington, April 13—(UP)— The big three western powers today agreed on moves to speed industrial recovery in Germany and western Europe, hnd to give the defeated Nazi state tjie beginnings of a merchant navy. The three powers —the United States, Britain and France — agreed to permit a boost in German steel production and limited production of key industrial chemicals, metals and machine tools. Th(\accord also permits western Germany to construct up to 280,000 tons of shipping a year. Ships are limited to 7,200 gross tons and a maximum speed of 12 knots. The agreement is designed to clear the way for full participation in European recovery of the pro jected German federal republic being drafted at Bonn. The three powers also agreed in a separate accord on reparations to keep in Germany as an aid to Euro pean recovery all or part of the equipment of 159 plants which had been scheduled for removal as war reparations. These factories include 32 steel plants, 88 metal working plants, 32 chemical plants and seven non- | ferrous metal industry plants. While perniilting the increase in German industrial activity, the three powers maintained strict prohibition against armament manufacture and other industries which ■ might contribute to the rebirth of i a German war machine. Specifically prohibited from production is synthetic gas and oils, synthetic rubber and butadlne, heavy machine tools that could bs used for war, magnesium and beryllium and radioactive mater- ■ ials. Relaxed so as to permit limited or full production were previous restrictions on ball and roller bearings, heavy tractors, aluminum and shipping. Besides the merchant tonnage which western Germany may build, she also will be permitted to acquire 100,000 tons of tankers and 300,000 tons of dry cargo vessels from abroad. In no case will she be permitted to build trans-Atlantic liners. The three powers agreed that the prohibitions shall be enforced until there is a peace treaty, and the limitations until Jan. 1. 1953, unless there is a peace settlement before that date. The reparations treaty was hailed by recovery chief Paul G. Hoffman, army secretary Kenneth C. Royall and ambassador Robert Murphy, political adviser on Germany, at a news conference. Royall said the big problem was (Turn T» I‘nue Two) Decatur On Traffic Safety Honor Roll Chicago, April 13 — (I’P) — Seventeen Indiana cities today were on the honor roll of the national traffic safety council for going through 1948 without a traffic fatality. The communities were listed in the 5,000-10.000 population category. They were Bicknell. Bluffton. Clinton. Decatur, Franklin. Greensburg. Hartford City, Lebanon. Linton. Madison. Noblesville. Rushville. Tell City, Tipton. Warsaw, West tafayette and Winchester. Lions Are Entertained By Accordion Band Walter Zuercher. Berne, and his accordion band entertained at the weekly meeting of the Lions club at the K. of P. home Tuesday evening. The program also Included a reading by L. J. Montague. Lawrence Anxpaugh acted as president in the absence of Robert Holthouse, who is ill. Noah Steury was program chairman. Members of the band, all from Berne, were Arlene Balslger. Marjorie Fcrd. Evangeline Moeer.-Ei-l»en Graber, and Bennie Affolder. Mr Znercber has previously entertained the Lions club, which expressed appreciation at his return.