Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 88, Decatur, Adams County, 14 April 1949 — Page 1

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Imberg War Bnes Trials Lhl To End BHigficon Tribunal gMtences 19 Top IB|er Advisers April 14. — (UP>— ■■utiubers war crimes trials ■■today with the sentencing of SMa.'./f Hitler's top aides and <„ prison terms ranging years. ■American tribunal handed «enlenees after convicting ■■ Nazis of crimes running ■Mi... waging of Hitler’s wars to the slaughter of ji.r-lilp in criminal || ; ■heaviest sentence 25 years on Lt. Gen. tiottlog f ■ -,2. (Hie of the highest ofIKBin Ilitlir’s dreaded SS orgaEKn. for st tiding thousands of ■Mt., gas chambers, mistreat-pri-oners. participating in fi- Kot slave labor and member the SS. SKOcomt 11. Id that Berger, as ■’ l ' land ' condoned |EHi,s avainst Jews which lEKi evil! tile .Nazi high com"lli: ' !ri:i, ’ Kl • Uwis!i iKißi. ill ' 1 ’<d th. m with poison <i’y watched their iB KrSS iii'ii under Berger's IgbKni h. id.d .lews into barns fßMiniei! them alive. IKsl fi't lb rgi r and the other ■He..!-;;’- in the 13th and last ■■ NueiTib* w trials filed moÜBl Irivi 111, verdicts set aside. KBsitid tiny would appeal for Urn. Lucius I) military governor. Heinrich Lammers, 69, lliti. i’s lltii lischancellory vi.a-chancellor of Gerdrew one of two 20-year imposed. had been found guilty ■■picing the slaying of allied ■■n shot down over Germany, again : Jews, plundering ■Mi. and other ovupied coun■■ll-::" slave labor and mem ■Mi? in < liminal organizations. ■■ court gave a seven year ■Mrv the best-known deHarm. Ernst Von Welz-'?i\-ai.dd Nazi war-time th. Vatican and. beB--'. - ate secretary in the ■■>n foreign office. white haired Weizsaecker rmivieted of planning agwar against Czechoslo- *■ and aiding in atrocities Jews The court held that i; huh French Jews to death camo. where yj"’ wvie executed in gas I ■ ri ■■" tn liter. the court imposed ■Bint t-t of 25 years, two of 2(■B- three of 15 years, two of 10 six nf seven years, one of six two of five years, one of ■■yt'.irs and one nf three years and 2d days. Bs* sentencing ended the long gß* Nuernberg war crimes ■■that began In 1945 with the of Riichsinarshal Her ■B Goering, deputy Fuehrer Hess, foreign minister ■B[ m Ven Ribbentrop and ■B 5 of Hitler's top associates. ■B ee that opining day. interIHF 131 and A, t'ericnn tribunals IB ln Nuernberg. They have ?t defendants hanged, sent |,.j Prison for life end imposed ■B 1 totalling 9’5 years on 82 n »m To Pure K| Blin Reports On | B Cross Campaign g JbuiaHon of re ports In the Red dri ” that J. E. EllsißK' Mhcltl - r in section 12. Wash'■K lown ’hip. turned in the from any of the M1 "“ s <m-e districts, the IB v." nfflee re P orted ’oto' - ™«»°rth’s district cont:!- ‘ 'o the fund The second " me ;r °m Harold Schame*- ‘" n ' n!on township, to |u. t. !P Rf() CrMg f oTer t()p ■ l. Rtt,h Hulling,-*orth. eie■rt n '\ Mirv ’ rill «"»P«e a Weat her IB^torm?| , L n ' Bh ‘ Wi,h ~lun. . .. k’ 4l> Wuih Pfrtion. rain

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BULLETIN Washington, April 14—(UP) —The senate today completed congressional action on a compromise bill authorizing $5,430,000,000 outlay for European recovery in the next 15 months. Some Republicans served notice they will try to cut the expenditure when congress later this spring votes the actual money for the second installment of the recovery program. Russian Bloc Continues To Assail Pact Czech Delegate In Charge Acheson Is 'Rattling Arms' Flushing, N. Y., Apr. 14—(UP) — Czechoslovakia, continuing the Russian bloc's attack against the North Atlantic treaty, charged in the United Nations today that secretary of state Dean Acheson, while opposing war, "was rattling arms as though someone was ready to attack Washington to- ' morrow." I Dr. Adolf Hoffmeister, Czech I delegate, also referred to a report 1 by columnist Drew Pearson that I former secretary of defense James i Forrestal was suffering a nervous breakdown and that he was "obsessed with the idea the Russians were invading" the United States. He said this was a "sad event" which was brought up to retort to those responsible for the "war psychosis.” j condemned a state- - ment ntd.de yesterday in Washing110<L.hy R e P- Clarence Cannon, D., : Mo„ that "Moscow and every i er center in Russia" should be "hit ! within one week after the war ' starts." I The Czech delegate alleged that j newspapers, radios, American J government officials, "and even ! comedians on Broadway" had been | enlisted in the campaign to con- ] vince the world that the Unit; ! States has a legitimate claim to i world power, and that Russia is 1 an aggressor power. The attack on the Atlantic pact i came up again in the assembly during a debate on recommendaI tlons that use of the veto be curbjed in the security council. Andrei I Gromyko of Russia started it with 1 a speech he made yesterday. Britain’s Hector McNeil charged that Gromyko had "slandered" the British government and the western powers by bringing up lent and aggressive fashion." He lent and aggressive fasihon.” He challenged Gromyko to put the issue on the assembly’s agenda. But, he said, he did not expect any such “orderly and straightforH'Brn To Pbbf EZUhti Bicycle Safely To Be Featured Here Lincoln PTA Will Equip All Bicycles 1 In a concerted drive for safety, i Lincoln Parent-Teachers associai tlon will apply Scotch-Lite tape, a product which reflects light at • night, to all children’s bicycles in I Decatur Thursday afternoon. April 1 21. between 1 and 4 o’clock. i This announcement was made by the safety committee and will feature the annual bicycles safety week program of the club, Mrs. Malcolm Loeke and Mrs. Louis Jacobs are co-chairmen of the event. Safety posters are being made by pupils of grades four, five and six, under the direction of Miss Kathryn Kauffman, and prizes for the best posters will be awarded during tbe week. I There also will be a safety film shown during the week, and the 10 rules of bicycle safety will be j displayed all during the event in i Lincoln school. I Volunteer workers for the we:k | include, besides the cos hairmen. Mesdames F. Striker. D. Jeffries, IN. Ochsenrider. J. Bauman. D. Van- ■ Horn, T. Sprague. L. Soliday, B. D. Custer. R. 'braudyherry. and H. Lankenau Other volunteers wao desire to help with the safety wee* campaign are asked to call -Mrs. Jacobs for an assignment.

Health Agency Is Proposed In GOP Bill Establish Grants By Government To Individual States Washington, April 14— (UP)— Republicans today gave their answer to President Truman's proposed compulsory health insurance program. Sens. Robert A. Taft, R., 0., and H. Alexander Smith, R., N. J., introduced a bill to set up a national health agency through which the federal government) would make grants on a matching basis to states. Taft and Smith said their program would leave "primary responsibility" for health programs with the states, it rejects the idea of a “human welfare state,” they added. In the first year, the proposed national health agency would spend about $280,000,000. Most of this money, with the states putting up an equal amount, would be spent for development of plans for ■ extending medical, hospital and in some cases dental care for persons “who cannot pay the full cost." Federal aid also would go for development of voluntary health insurance plans, school health services, hospital construction, expanded public health services, and boosting enrollment in medical schools. Other congressional develop ments: Taxes — Chairman Robert L. DoUghton of the house ways and means committee said It would be a “disservice to the country" for i congress to permit a return to de- i ficit financing. Housing—Chairman Burnet Maybank of the senate banking committee said the administration's. long range public bousing bill i would “aid and strengthen private I : enterprise." He opened senate de-' bate on a bill calling for 810,000 public housing units in the next six ■ years and for a $1,500,060,000 Marshall plan renewal bill was well on its way to becoming law. The final measure was worked cut by a house-senate conference committee after both chambers had passed similar bills. The’ house promptly okayed the final version. Extra money—The senate passed and sent to the White House I Turn To l’na» M»> — Democrat Carrier Boys Form Club Fred Rumschlag Is Elected President i Fred Rumschlag, a senior in De-' catur Catholic high school and vet-' eran paper carrier was elected president of the newly formed De-1 catur Daily Democrat Carriers j Club at a meeting held by the car I riers in the newspaper office last evening. The novice organization ' the only one of its kind in the city, j will nnet once a month for the i purpose of d'scusslng and settleing I problems which arise in the car rier salesman business. The organization's prime motive will be “For better service through understand ing” Ronald Smith, a former carrier, now in charge of the routes, was chairman of tbe meeting. Other officers of the club include: Francis Coyne, a freshman > in DCHS. vice-president: Gier Douglas Rambo, a member of the seventh grade'at DHS, secretary; and Joseph Costello, a member of i the eighth grade at St. Joseph treasurer. The Daily Democrat maintains 22 routes throughout the city, em ploys 22 carriers, many of whom have assistants, and distribute ap proximately 2.200 papers each day, Monday through Saturday. The carriers and their route numbers are: Anthony Gillig. 1: Donald Gillig. 2: Joseph Costello. J: Robert Meyer. 4: Glen Douglas Rambo. 5: Fred Rumschlag. <: Louis Laurent. 7: Philip De Bolt. |g; Richard Coyne. 9: Donald De Armond. 10. Bill Baumann. 11; Francis Coyne. 12; Jim Johnson, j 13; Nell Keller. 14-A: Dan Shack-1 ley. 14-B; Timothy Murtaugh. IS; Clarence Zimmerman. IS: Edward Gilbert, 17: Karl U>bgh. 18; Jack Cbllcote. 1». Robert Miller. 20; and Richard Gage. 21.

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Earthquake Damages School v ; >■'< \ 1 : , ‘ >t v' "'?" -'-W bKIimBBsBE mdS •- 'm kJ Uh m m 3 'IW $ B» 'IS' ONLY THE FACT that the walls tumbled outward spared students of the LaFayette School in Seattle from possible injury as an earthquake. closely paralelling in intensity the 1966 temb'or that destroyed San Francisco, struck over a large area of the Northwest.

Confesses Slaying Os Shirley Banker Wounds Are Fatal To Indiana Banker Indianapolis, April 14.—(UP)— 'Clarence Gorman. 27, confessed | slayer of banker Fassett W. Hinshaw, Shirley, Ind., said today that ! robbery was the motive for the [ fatal shooting. Gorman was captured here last night and admitted the shooting. [ police said. Hinshaw died in a i New Castle, Ind., hospital earlier yesterday. Gorman, reportedly a paroled California convict, was unarmed and did not resist arrest, authorities said. Hinshaw, president of the Citizen’s State Bank in Shirley, was shot at his front door when he answered a knock Monday night. Francis Hedrick, 19, and Law rence Anderson, 36, both of Indiana • polls, were arrested Tuesday morning. Police said Hedrick involved Anderson and himself in the shoot ing while he was questioned, and identified Gorman as the gunman Officials believed the bandits planned to kidnap Hinshaw and I force him to open the bank's’vault. , Gorman partly corroborated the nolice theory. He said the three ! heard Hinshaw kept money in his 1 home. They planned to tie up him [ and Mrs. Hinshaw and rob the I house. I Police quoted Gorman as saying ■ they talked about kidnaping Hin I shaw and making him open the ' bank vaults but Gorman refused 1 because he didn't want to get in I volved in a federal offense. Gorman said he fired accidental!’ i when Hinshaw answered his knock ' on the door. Meanwhile, prosecutor Robert Brown of Henry county said he would ask a grand jury to Indiet the three men on first-degree mur der charges. Judge John H. Morris called the jury for a session next Monday. Gorman, police said, was paroled from a California prison after serv ' ing a term for federal Dyer act vio latlon. He was working as a carpenter for a lumber company in Indianapolis when the shooting oc curred. Solation of the crime was credited to an alert policeman. Town marshal Otto Stouehton of Shirley recalled after the shooting that he (Turn To Pure Two) Library Will Close For Church Services The public library will close at 7:30 o’clock tonight anu also will I t>e closed Irorn 12 o’clock noon nn- ' til 3 o'clock Friday afternoon, it was announced today. | Tonights closing was announc’d ' because almost all local churches ' are having communion services. | and the Friday closing will be made in line with all other retail and pub-' I lie offices In Decatur during the I Good Friday services.

Fort Wayne Youth Is Killed In Accident Fort Wayne, Ind.. April 14 — (UP) —A n 18-year-old Fort Wayne youth died early today of injuries suffered when the car in which he and three others were riding went out of control last night and upset on U. S. 24 five miles west of Antwerp, O. Robert Debolt died of a skull fracture in a hospital here. Injured in the crash were James Dunn, 17; Bruce Messmann, IS; and Irvin Kniffen, 19, all of Fort Wayne. They were on their way home from Antwerp where the accident happened. Summer Recreation Planned At Monroe Supervised Play Program Outlined Plans fur a supervised program of summer resreation for the town of Monroe were disclosed today by officials of the Munroe recreation committee. The disclosure was made af:er the committee met earlier to elect officials. Those elected were Gene Hike, president: Mrs. Margaret Lobslger, secretary; and Mrs. Marie Hossmah, treasurer. Mrs. Evelyn Christner and Phillip Kohli also serve on the committee. Officials of the committee said the program will begin June 7 and extend for a period of 12 weeks. Adults as well as children will bt invited to participate. Myron Knauff. Monroe high school athle tic coach, has been named to di re-ct the program, which will be held botli on the school playground and on the adjoining playground of the Methodist church. Mr. Knauff will be on duty 8 a.m. to noon. Monday through Friday, with extra hours Thursday evening. A two day a week program for preschool children has also been planned. Supervised activities will in chide, among others, softball, vol ley ball, soccer, dodgeball, relay games, tennis, horseshoe pitching, with tournaments, hikes, and oc casional swimming outings also scheduled. Dennis Norman, county recrea tion director, will assist Mr. Knauff whenever possible. While the program will utilize high school athletic equipment and facilities, committee officials said it will be necessity to purchase more equipment. Money to finance the project will come from three sources: the county recreation board, which has already given $150; the Munroe town board; and the public. All those Monroe citizens desir- [ ing to contribute to the recreation program fund should contact Mrs. Marie Hossman. treasurer of the 1 town recreation committee. Monroe is one of the first com- ; munities in the county to receive i county financial aid for such a <Tara T« Page Eight)

Experts Warn Os Danger From More Temblors In Area Struck By Quake

Three Bank Robbers Kidnap Pair Os Cops Policemen Are Found Handcuffed To Tree Hanoverton, 0., Apr. 14 —(UP) —Two West Virginia patrolmen were found handcuffed to cherry trees on a farm near here early today after they had been kidnaped by three gunmen in the Weirton police station. The Ohio state highway patrol said the gunmen, who were believed‘to be the ones who escaped yesterday with $5606 in a bank holdup at Fo’lansbee, W. Va., likely were heading for Chicago in a stolen auto and ail Ohio state police were alerted in an attempt to intercept them. Police said, however, that the bandits pfw-ibly already had crossed Ohio since nothing had been heard from them since early morning. The gunmen had been stonped by two Weirton policemen. Lieut. Al Rossell and patrolman James Herman, and were being held for questioning when they overpowered the officers. Shortly before the bandits ! shackled the policemen to trees with their own handcuffs they ousted one of their party from the car and told him to "go home to your mother.” Tbe two policemen told Columbiana county sheriff Howard Clark they surprised the gunmen in the act of changing license plates on the hold-up car on a Weirton street and took them to the police station for questioning. “Get upstairs," the officer i told them when they walked into the first floor. “Upstairs?" asked the gunmen, and as the police nodded one of the robbers pulled a gun and ordered the police to pile in the car. ered the police to pile in the car. Tbe kidnaping occurred at 1:36 a. m. The gunmen, with their victims. raced through the streets of Weir'on, across the Ohio river bridge, through Steubenville and [Turn Tn Pfirr I'lcbt) List Chairmen For Religious Census City-Wide Census On Sunday, May 15 Chairmen for the city wide religious census which will be taken Sunday. May 15. tyere named at a meeting of the steering committee last evening. Enumerators will be named and every effort will be made to com plete the census in a one-day call at every home in the city. Cnairmen of the various divisions named last evening are: Cal E. Peterson, districting. Lloyd Rhodes, assignment. Mrs. Irenaus Gase, materials. Edward F. Jaberg. procurement. H. H. Krueckeberg. follow-up. Solicitors will be selected from the 14 churches in the city to call at the hemes, Mr. Peterson said The census taking should take only a few hours, he explained. Sufficient number of workers will be named so that territories can be covered within Sunday afternoon Pastors of tbe churches are cooperating with the laymen in the census, the first united effort of its kind to be undertaken here in about 35 years, a member of the committee said. Huntington To Move Clocks Up April 30 Huntington. Ind.. April 11 ( r P» — Residents here were expected tn turn their clocks ahead 'or!’ 36 following the adoption cf n tion recommending daylight time by the city council. .'Ttytr Roy Unwell said that clocks In the city offices would not be turned up cause es the 1949 standard time statute.

Truman Sees Deficit To Be Over Billion I Close Fiscal Year In June, Deficit Os Over Billion [ Washington, Apr. 14 — (UP) — . President Truman indicated today I that the administration expects to ; close the fiscal year June 36 with . a deficit of around $1,200,000,006. j ' He said at a news conference . that a bill passed by the house , yesterday to give the veterans administration an extra $595,606,600 , would, hike the expected deficit by . that sum. ] In his budget message last Janu- , ary, Mr. Truman estimated that the 1949 fiscal year would end ! J with a deficit of $599,706,231. i The extra appropriation for the ,! veterans administration, needed r j to meet unexpectedly heavy unem- .; ployment and other GI benefits. , would just about double the Janus ary deficit estimate. s Mr. Truman also told new men: f 1. He has no intention of with- , drawing the nomination of Mon C. B Wallgren to be chairman of the national security lesixtrces board. . The nomination of the former { Democratic governor of Washing- ; ton has been tabled In the senate, j. There had been reports that Mr. ! Truman might withdraw the noml- >! nation, but he told reporters today this was not so. I When a reporter mentioned a! > rumor that Wallgren might ask j the president to withdraw his . rtame. Mr. Truman paid he did not -[know what was in the nominee’s! . mind. | 2. The president still wants government power to control in-i i stallment buying and credit extended beyond the prerent explr ’. ation date. ■ j 3. Secretary of army Kenneth I I C. Rovall and secretary of naw ' John L. Sullivan submitted their [ resignations along with all other • top federal officials after the elec-i I tion. But Mr. Truman said he! 1 know of no development since [then involved Royal or Sullivan , He declined to answer when ask- | ed whether he thought they were' [ going to leave the government [Turn Th Phkc Eight i j i Plan Conference II With Cong. Kruse - [ Confer On Federal 1 Grant For School i II H .High. Kirkland township trustee announced today that he I and a group of Kirkland township citizens would confer wi'h Con gressman Ed Kruse, of the fourth district, in the next few days at s Fort Wayne relative to a federal i grant for the construction of a new ; I school building in Kirkland town I ship. Mr. High stated that the move - was being made as a safeguard and that it in no way chanced the. ’ status of Kirkland township in the move to consolidate the schools of i Washington. Monroe and Kirkland ‘ i townships. ‘: At the same time the trustee stat-; II ed that no remonstrance or petition - < tor an election in Kirkland town : ship had been filed at midnight i last night in connection with the I proposed consolidation of the three' ' townships school systems. Mid nleht was the deadline. The exact date and time for the conference with Congressman 1 ' Kruse is not yet known. Mr. High ' said, but it will be known in the ’ ■ next day or two. Mr. High has sug- ■ nested that other Kirklaud reddcn‘s who are interested should contact him so he can make ar ■, rnngements wt.h Mr. Kruse as tc ». the number of people who will at-1 I lend tbe meeting.

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At Least 61 Persons Are Hospitalized By Worst Earthquake In History Os Region Seattle, April 14 — (UP) — Experts warned today that more tremblers could follow the earthquake which rocked the Pacific northwest with property damage estimated at $26,666,066 and a loss of seven lives. Prof. Samuel N. Dicken, head of the University of Oregon's geology department, said at Eugene. Ore.. that furthur shocks are possible if the earth’s crust continues to "act up." The quake yesterday was the worst in the region's history, spreading damage through a dozen western Washington cities and scores of smaller communities. At least 61 persons were hospitalized. some in serious condition, and hundreds of others suffered minor Injuries either from falling debris or from accidents in their frantic attempts to escape. The earthquake struck at 11:55:40 a.m. (PST) and rocked the entire coastline from Vancouver and Victoria, B. C„ to Salem, Ore., for more than 60 seconds, shattering buildings, starling fires, breaking water and gas mains, and sending hundreds of downtown shoppers and Holy Week church goers into a ■ brief period of panic. Spokane. Walla Walla. Wenati chee, Yakima aud other Washing- . ton cities as far as 300 miles east • across the cascade range felt tlx . tremor. Hut death and destruction i was centered along a 125-mile strip [ from Seattle south to Longview on l the Columbia river border of Ore- ! gon. Damage to schools, churches, office buildings, bridges and industrial plants was so widespread that officials offtred only conservative i estimates on the damage. Still, es- [ timates from throughout the damage area indicated that the total would pass the $26,606,600 mark. Hardest hit were Seattle. Tacoma. Olympia, Chehalis, Centralia. Longview, Kelso and Castle Rock, i Workers at tlie Hanford atomic j works on the flat lands in eastern Washington reported feeling a slight tremor. The Bonneville dam on the Oregon border was unseat it- , ed. although earth slides were re- . ported to have occurred nearby. Mayor William Devin of Seattle. [ coordinating disaster work in this city of 506.060, said "damage will ■ run into the millions. It is IncredIble there were so few casualties." Seattle fire chief William Fitzgerald said “thank God. most school [children were on 'Faster vacation." Dr Eijo E. Vesanen, University lof Washington seismologist, described the quake as "the most sev(ere in the recorded history of the | Pacific northwest.” He measured | the quake's intensity at eight. (Twelve is the highest. Vesanen attributed the quake to a moving i fault and placed its epicenter at 90 I miles southwest of Seattle. | Chimneys toppled, fires broke out I but were quickly extinguished, cornices gave way. piling rubble on ' noon time shoppers scurrying from [ stores. A half dozen schools, three state institutional buildings a' • Turn To Piter Sis) Woman Fired On By Occupants Os Auto Wednesday Sheriff Herman Bowman today I is tracing the occupants of an Ohio car who Inexplicably fired a .2! bullet at a woman driving onequarter mile east of Berns on highway 118 Wednesday. The woman. Mrs. Horman Ryf. route 2. Berne, was unhurt by the i bullet, which shattered the wing i ventilator of the driver's window The bullet came from a car which passed Mrs. Ryf. eoing in the opposite direction. Mrs. Ryf was oniy momentarily frightened by tae shot. Turning her car around, she chased the tiering car. getting close °n»u:h tn read the numlwY <m the Ohio license plate Tao men she had never seen before were in the I car. she said