Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 98, Decatur, Adams County, 26 April 1949 — Page 1

XLVII. No. 98.

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jiledStates Li Departs Shanghai L; I). S. Fleet lees; Evacuation Ins Abandoned [ghai. April 26,-(UP)- The ■ r s fleet fled suddenly ■ Shanghai today, abandoning | f „r a scheduled evacuation of ■Americans in haste to escape Lnist trap that threatened ■ Shanghai's only outlet to the 1 warships started sailing ■ the Whangpoo to the safety ■ open Yangtze at 10:40 a.m., E vice admiral Otcar C. Bad- | his flagship Eldorado. Kent incidents on the Yangtze K a reappraisal of plans ■ had been made for the evacE of Americans to points of | a terse navy announcement E explanation. Licans left stranded in ComEmenaced Shanghai watched Edifice windows with a sense Lading as the vessels steamLt. Many made plans to over■the fleet in small boats before | sudden withdrawal was carLit after Commtihist troops L a drive on a 30-mile front Elate Shanghai from the sea J a quick northern thrust Lt the Woosung forts at the Eof the Whangpoo. This area Lot eight miles north of Lbai. E Communist drive was Led on a line running from (Yangtze south to Soochow. Lilist troops met the assault, ■heavy battle north of Soochow, Lies west, marking the first [the Nationalists have stood ■fought on the approaches toLbai. ■citing the emergency nature ■ ships' departure was the fact I the hospital ship Repose, ■ originally was ordered to I behind and carry out part of [evacuation. joined the sudden [inwal. It line of ships steaming tow[the safety of the open sea inltd the transport Chilton, carrylai! but a handful of the navy’s I marines in Shanghai, a defer tender, a repair ship, a pe tender, several tankers and hber of landing craft. I was understood the "fleet ■ sail 50 miles into the open I China sea to be clear of any pie threat from Communist pitch as blasted four British F in the upper Yangtze last r J big American liners, the r® and the Van Buren, were Ried to arrive tomorrow to h the evacuation but there was pddtbt that they wouid risk pi the threatened trap. p Scouts Plan po Operate Nursery during Street Fair I added attraction for the free street fair and phttral show is being planned Girl Scouts, it was anF* 1 today by Clarence Ziner. finnan. A free nursery » wablished up town and loScouts and their sponsors ! * » charge. L “’rwry p] anß are not com . L*,'“ esi ’ ort will be made .J, the Den or have a e instructed at a central loca“id. Hours for the O pU* the nursery will be anlater. ill be placed in the nnrsh™titributions will be re’ill be made h»ill u W “ polnted out--1 the ‘ rr ‘ n?ed ,or to enter«x and »U Girl h •/L? u,igned certain K orm the work of atRenamed J Bx Poyers Board * '“dianapolis, 14 « ch * lr ®»n of ih» Z" the Indiana Alb€rt H Ky "WMldent KK? 0,lndl “‘P o i l «. 1 n ** :Te secretary 01 tSdty. IK for.. ** th *‘Uteor-

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Four Juveniles To Slate Boys' School • Other Young Thieves Placed On Probation / Four Decatur juveniles today were being held in Adams county jail, awaiting commitment to Indiana boys’ school at Plainfield, where they were sentenced on larceny charges by Judge Myles F. Parrish late Monday afternoon. > The boys, one 12 years old, one t 14, and two 16, were sentenced to r serve at the boys’ farm until they f reach 21 years of age. It is re- ! ported, however, they may be I eligible for parole after 18 to 24 s months. Four other juveniles brought be- > fore Judge Parrish Monday for ' commiting numerous thefts and > breakins in and near the city, were placed on probation and ordered to make full restitution of stolen ! money and property. Saturday ’ two other boys, whom sheriff Her- ’ man Bowman arrested for thefts, had also been placed on probation. Meanwhile, sheriff Bowman continued his drive against juvenile I larceny when late Monday he ar- , rqgted the 14th boy taken in the unprecedented roundup of under- . age thieves. The sheriff said the > bov admitted a part in stealing a $l2O power saw, which has been . recovered. The boy also confessj ed breakins at Stewart’s bakery t and Smith's %nkvard, bo’h of Dex catur, and stealing football unit forms from the garage of Kenneth Secaur, South Fourteenth street, i baseball equipment from Worths man field, and fishing tackle from We°tern Auto store. s Sheriff Bowman Monday also rei covered $73 more of the loot taken ■ in the Ideal Dairy Bar burglarv. ’• The amount of money recovered in > that reported SBOO job. pulled by 1 *.wo*of fhw'hovs sentenced to the ’• bovs’ school, now stands at $366. r ~ Parrish heard the eight juveniles yesterday in his private • chambers, the bovs going in one ' at a time, accompanied hv one or ’• ho»h parents. It is reported Judge ’ ■ Parrish administered stinging renj'rimands tb the bovs as he made disposition of their cases. Although he granted elemenev in ordering probation, he is reported to have warned the lads they will s join the four in the s'ate bovs' . school if th°v ever again appear x' in juvenile court. 'I Quota Is Set For County Bond Drive Opportunity Bond = Drive Opens May 16 J T. F. Graliker, countv chairman, j U. S. savings bonds division, announced today that the county s “E" bond quota for the U. S. treasury’s opportunity hond drive, to be held from May 16 to June 30. is $153,799. The Adams county savings , bonds commit'ee has cho'en "Put more opportunity in your future' i as the slogan for the drive. This i theme has been accepted through out the state and nation. Eugene C. Pulliman, state chairman. U. S. savings bonds divi'ion. has announced that the drive quo . ta for the state of Indiana will be i $28,220,000 and honorary national chairman, President Harry S. Tru- .! man, has stated that the national , goal in “E" bonds during the opportunity drive is $1,040,000,000. “The citizens of Indiana already hold $1,150,000,000 in U. S. savings bonds." Mr. Graliker commented, "and this billion dollar investment is earning $31,679,000 for hond-holdlng Hoosiers." "These people who are buying and holding savings bonds are doing their part to strengthen the economic foundations of America, upon which rests the hope for economic stability at home and economic recovery and peace throughout the world," he added. The opportunity drive is being nlanned and conducted bv the “minute men and women" of 1949. volunteers who buy and promote the sale of U. S. savings bonds, and who uere honored by Gov. Henry F. Schricker at a dinner in Indianapolis 1s t week WEATHER Partly cloudy, occasional thundershowers central and south , portions tonight and Wednes- j day. Cooler Wednesday and in I extreme north tonight.

Sullivan Quits As Secretary Os Navy Today Makes Angry Blast At Defense Head In Scrapping Carrier j Washington, Apr. 26 — (UP) — Navy secretary John L. Sullivan resigned today with an angry blast at defense secretary Louis Johnson for the "tragic" scrapping of the navy's 65.000-ton super aircraft carrier. Sullivan submitted his resignation in writing to President Truman, who accepted it. At the same time, the outgoing secretary tired a sharp letter at Johnson, accusing him of acting "drastically and arbitrarily” in halting construction on the giant carrier last Saturday. He told Johnson bluntly that the consequences of that action "are far reaching and can be tragic." Sullivan’s letter to the president said he wanted to get out “at the earliest date convenient to you." Mr. Truman replied with equal candor that Sullivan could leave whenever it suited his “personal convenience." Sullivan made no reference to the scrapping of the carrier in his letter to the president, other than to express regret at "the circumstances that prevent me from continuing in my present post . . .’’ But he minced no words in his letter to Johnson, the scrappy defense secretary who has been rattling the walls of the pentagon with directives and efficiency shakeups | since he took over, about a month ago. Sullivan said he was “very deeply disturbed” over the cancellation !of the super carrier, which the navy had planned to use as a floating base for atomic bomb carrying planes. “Your action . . so far as 1 know, r. presents the first attempt (■lira io I’ftgr Six* — Judge Parrish To Preside Al Dinner I. U. Alumni Meet Wednesday, May 4 | Judge Myles F. Parrish, former i as istant to Dr. Ernest Linton at | Indiana University, will preside at I the annual Adams county Indiana ! University alumni dinner and j meeting to be held Wednesday evening, May 4, at the K. of P. home here, it was announced today. Dr. Linton will be the principal speaker. The meeting will ob-j serve the 129th anniversary of the. founding of the university. Judge | Parri h, who received a doctor of 'jurisprudence degree at Indiana served under Dr. Linton during hi« undergraduate days at college in the department of government. The meeting will not he limited to members of the association, it was pointed out, and tickets for h» dinner are now on sale. Dr. Linton’s addre s will be of interest to all people. His subject will'l be “The International Situation." Reservations for the meeting can be made until May 2 by calling Robert Anderson, president of the county group at telephone number 209. Robert Dro, travelling secretarv of the Indiana University alunWii, i association, will attend the meeting and several present students at the university also are expected to attend. Preceding the dinner, a short business session will be held at which time officers will be elected ’ for 1949-50. Judge Parrish will introduce the visitors and al'o will in’roduce the principal speaker. Plan Organization Os Society Chapter A meeting will be held at the | First Christian church in this city at 7:30 pm. Thursday for the pur- , pose of organizing a local chapter | cf the Indiana society for crippled- ( children. All sororities, fraternal and civic. 1 .organizations of the city have been I asked to send representatives to I I this meeting, to which the public j is also invited.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, April 26,1949

Frame Demands For ’49 ">Trlw i ’ W '//At ihfa t BIK J ■ ,3| JOHN L. LEWIS (center), president of the United Mine Workers Union poses with John Owens, (left) UMW secretary-'reasurer and viee-pre-ident Thomas Kennedy as he met with his 200-tnan policy committee in Washington. The meeting was called to draft the Union’s 1949 coal contract demands while bituminous operators also met to prepare counter-provi. ions.

Plan Home Nursing Classes In County Red Cross Sponsors Classes On Nursing Home nursing classes will be organized in the county among the home economics members, Mrs. Roy Price, chairman, notified the Red Cross directors at the quarterly meeting of the board last evening. Mrs. Price will direct the activities of the classes and will have the cooperation of the home economics leaders in formation of the training courses. Clarence E. Bell, county chairman, presided at last night’s meeting and announced that the 1949 Red Cross drive would be closed April 30. Donarfbns to date total $8,606. The county's quota was $7,070 and the local chapter receives 61.4 percent and the national organization 38.6 perevent of the funds. A certificate of merit has been awarded the local chapter, Phil Sauer, the county drive chairman and other volunteer workers, for the successful completion of the) drive. _ Mr. Sauer informed the direct" s that Miss Jean Shockley, county ) health nurse, had offered her services as nurse on the county disaster committee. The Red Cross voted to buy another wheel chair, making a total of six that the chapter loans to infirm persons. The chapter said it would not purchase beds for the reason it did not have storage facilities or personnel to care for the beds when returned. Mr. Bell notified the directors • that the annual meeting of the i chapter would be held during the l first week in July. He named Roscoe Glendening, Phil Sauer and John Duff as members of the nom inating committee. Officers will be (Turn To I’nire Mx* Class Makes First Communion Sunday i Class Os 27 At St. Mary's Church Twenty-seven boys and girls will receive their first Holy Communion at St. Mary’s Catholic church Sunday morning at the 7:30 o'clock mas 1 :. The Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz, pastor, will be celebrant of the high mass. The children will renew their baptismal vows during the sendee and the sermon will be delivered by Msgr. Seimetz. In preparation •o make their first communion, the children have been Instructed in the sacrement by Msgr Seimetz. The members of the class are: Gerald Baker. James Coyne. Michael Durkin, Patrick Durkin, Thomas Case, Paul Gross. Alvin Hackman. Edward LaFontaine, Anthony Lengerich. Joseph Mendoza. John Meyer. Robert Murphy, David Schultz, Stephen Sutton. Glenn George Wilder. Angela Andrew 1 . Rose Bver, Elizabeth Colpaert. Sylvia Deßolt. Jane Geimer. Dolores Kohne. Ka hleen Kohne. Judith Koors. Theresa Laurent. Leonida Mies. Susan Nagel. Julia Osterman.

BULLETIN Gullertorv, Cal, April 26— (UP)—Endurance fliers Bill Barris and Igk Riedel landed their single-engine plane at 2:46 p.m. EST here today, 1008 hours and two minutes after they took off on March 15 to break the former world record of 726 hours. Cities And Counties Win Fight For Funds Orders State Funds Sent To Local Units Indianapolis, April . Indiana's cities, towns and counties today won their fight for a $6,582,000 state motor vehicle tax fund held back from distribution because of a dispute over owner- ‘ ship. Marion superior judge Walter Pritchard ruled in favor of the local units of government and against the state highway department, which also claimed the money. The ruling was made in connec-l tion with a civil suit brought byl ! the local units against the state ) auditor and the highway department for a declaratory judgment. The highway commission claimed the money under a 1947 law which expired March 31. The local units claimed it under a 1949 law which apparently repealed the 1947 law and changed the method of distribution. Pritchard said he based his ruling on the fact that the 1947 act used "uncertain” language, and | that it had expired. Settlement of the issue apparently assured the local units an early distribution of state funds which have been upheld since early April. The lack of funds created a crisis in many counties, cities and towns which scraped the bottom of' the money barrel trying to get enough cash to do normal spring main | tenance work on roads and streets. | Pritchard said he gave priority j to a decision in the case "because; j of the widespread public interest: and the necessity of releasing thesr funds for early use on the public | (Turn To P««v *•»* Grant Funeral Rites Thursday Morning Funeral services for Mrs. Everett Grant, who died from a heart attack whlje answering the telephone In her South Bend home Monday morning, will be held at the Welsheimer funeral home in South Bend at 9 o’clock Thursday morning. Burial will be in the South Bend cemetery. Admits Breaking Into Wayne Novelty Plant A 22-year old man who says he broke into the Wayne Novelty company. West Washington street. April 10, is in the custody of Portage, Wis. police, it was disclosed today by Decatur police chief James Borders. Picked up by Portage police on three counts of breaking and entering. James Robert Bushrod, Henderson. Ky„ is said to have admitted he entered the factory through a basement window and took $6 from 'a pop machine Chief Borders said further investigation is now being made into Bushrod's story.

State Department Says Coast Apparently Clear To Lift Berlin Blockade

Churchill Demands || Fleel Reinforced Denounces Shelling Os Four Warships II London, April 26—(UP)— Winston Churchill demanded today that Britain reinforce its far eastern fleet to retaliate against any further Chinese Communist attacks on British warships. Churchill rose tn commons to de-1 nounce the Communist shelling of four British warships in the Yantze river with a loss of more than 40 lives last week as an “atrocious outrage." As opposition leader, he called on the La'nor government to s»nd one or two aircraft carriers to the ' far east to "make sure we are treated with respect in the future." He demanded "power retaliation" for any future "insulting" Communist attacks on British prestige. He said local Communist authorities near the Yangtze "took the line that clearance had not been obtained from the people's liberation army and that the Amethyst had entered the war area." “They also complained,” he said, I “of heavy casualties incurred by their troops as a result of fire from his majesty’s ships. They refused to admit justification of self defense. ’ "After consulting higher authorlj ity, the headquarters said that in ! the circumstances they would be 1 prepared to allow the ship (Ante- ' thyst) to proceed to Nanking, but only on the condition that she would assist the people’s liberation army to cross the Yangtze. 1 “Such a condition was obviously unacceptable." J A foreign office spokesman said 1 China's Nationalist government adI vised Britain last February that it 1 could not guarantee the safety of British ships in the Yangtze. But, he said, it did not suggest that J British warships and other vessels should leave the river. i 1 Arthur Shock Dies p Monday Afternoon !• Retired Navy Officer '! Is Taken By Death p Arthur Shock, 80, retired navyj 1 commander and well known De-' catur resident, died at 2 o'clock I Monday afternoon at the U. S. | ! Naval ho’pital at Great Lakes. 111.. 11 ! where he was admitted two weeks I J ago. suffering from thrombosis. • Mr Shock had resided in Deca- I I - ur since his retirement in 1933 | with the rank of commander 'in IU. S. supply. Bbfore entering naval service, he received a bachelor of law degree from the Hamilton college of law at Chicago. He was born in Baltimore Jan 7, 1869, a ron of Phillip E. and 1 Alice P. Bordley-Shock. His wife, ' •he former Iva M. Kern, died May 10. 1946. The retired naval officer wps a , member of the Plymouth Congre-I ! national church at Fort Wayne, •he Masonic lodge and Scottish ' Rite Survivors include a brother. Henrv L. Shock of Baltimore: e , sister, Mrs. Clara Myers, also of ' Baltimore: two ni°ces, Mrs. Kenneth Butler of Decatur and Mrs. ’ Hazel Bartlett of Looellsvill“. Vs.: a nephew. Richard Myers of Balti- f more, and a grandniece. Mrs. ’ Mary Wise of Decatur. • Funeral services will be held at ‘ 2 n. m Thursday at the Black fu- 1 neral home, the Rev. George Wai- * ton. former pastor of the First Pre'bv’erian chnrch here, official- 1 tar. Burial will be- in the Will- '■ «h'r» cemeterv. Lodge ri'ea will * be conducted bv the Scottish Rite, ( and mllftsrv ceremonies hv the American Izrion and Veterans of ’ Foreien Wars posts in this city, i ( Friends may call at the funeral,’ home after W a. m. Wednesday. I<

House Debates TaffHartley Repealer Bill Rayburn Predicts Defeat For Backers Os Taft-Hartley Act Washington, Apr. 26 — (UP) — Speaker Sam Rayburn today predicted defeat for house members who want to save most of the Taft-Hartley act. As the years bitterest congressional battle entered the arena of the house, Rayburn forecast an administration victory. President Truman and his party are pledged to repeal of the labor law passed over his veto by the Republican 80th congress The administration bill wotild restore the old Wagner act as the nation's basic labor law. But a coalition of Republicans and southern Democrats is fighting hard to keep Taß-Hartley provisions on the books. It is backing a substitute bill written by Republicans but bearing the name of Rep. John S. Wood, D.. Ga. • It would repeal the Taft-Hartley law in name and re-enact most of its provisions. Said Rayburn: “I think we can beat down the Wood thing.” - ■ Other congressional developments: Atomic secrets — Two atomic scientists were confronted with a communist agent at a secret meeting of the house unAmerican activities committee. But the scientists said that they did not know I the agent. And the agent. Steve Nel on. said: "they confronted me with men I never met. I don’t know whether they are rats or not.” The committee is trying to find out whether Russia got a! set of atom bomb secrets. Cash—President Truman asked congress to appropriate $5,272,090,000 for European recovery spending in the next 15 months. This is $157,800,000 less than the total set in the measure authorizing renewal of the Marshall plan. Social security — Former president Herbert Hoover asked congress not to boost social security taxes until the cold war ends and foreign spending eases. Farm prices—Secretary of agriculture Charles F. Brannan said he would like to try one phase of (Turn To Pnur Six* Community Fund To ' Name New Directors Annual Meeting To Be Held On May 9 Three new directors of the Decatur Community Fund. Inc., will he elected at the fifth annual meeting of members on Monday. May 9. The meeting will be held at the “Den" at 7:30 o'clock, Ray Leitz, president, announced today. Those nominated represent three divisions within the Community Fund. They are: Francis Eady and Bryce Roop, labor; Louis Jacobs and L. R. Zintsmaster. business; Miss Joan Wemhoff and Mrs. Gray Paddock, women's organizations. All sponsoring groups and donors of the fund are invited to xttend the annual meeting Letters have been mailed to the sponsors informing them of the meeting and urging individuals to invite a friend to the annual conference. | The Decatur Community Fund. Inc., is the agency that raises funds for local youth recreational activities and (or all Boy and Girl Scout organizations The annual drive is made in Oc-' tober and a city-wide canvass is conducted in raising the quota for the various community projects, sponsored by the organization

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Council Os Foreign Ministers Expected To Meet To Discuss Germany's Problems Washington. April 26 — (UP)— The state department said today that “the way appears clear for lifting the Berlin blockade and a meeting of the council of foreign ministers” if Tass reports on the current position of the Soviet government are accurate. The department issued a lengthy statement outlining the history of the "peace feelers" which were re- | ported last night by Tass, the official Russian news agency. The department said that the latest word on the positiqn of the United States. Britain and France would be conveyed tomorrow to the Russian U. N. representative, Jacob Madik. The statement said that U. S. ajn-bassador-at-large Philip C. Jessup first approached Malik on Feb. 15 to question him concerning an interview granted by premier Stalin Jan. 30. In that interview, Stalin made no mention of the Berlin currency question, which "had hitherto been the announced reason for the Berlin blockade," the statement said. Jessup asked Malik if the omission was intentional. Malik one I month later informed Jessup that Stalin’s omission was “not accident--1 al." Malik told Jessup that Stalin felt 1 the currency question could be discussed at a council of foreign ministers' meeting if such a big four session could be arranged to revi w ; the whole German problem. ! Jessup then asked if the Russians | would lift the blockade “to permit I the meeting to take place.” At this point, the statement said, i the news of these conversations was given to Britain and France. On March 21, Malik told Jessup that if a date for the foreign ministers meeting could be set. tile , Soviet blockade would be lifted in I advance if the allied counter- blockade were also lifted. At this point, the statement said, secretary of state Dean iche o '”! discussed the developments with British foreign secretai > ~i evin and French foreign minister Robert Schuman, who were in Washington at the time, and "an agreed position was reached among the three western powers." On April 5, Jessup read Malik a statement setting fourth this "agreed position." The purpose of that statement was to make clear that the points under discussion were the following: i “1. Reciprocal and simultaneous I liftine of the restrictions inn>os.*d | Ity the Soviet Union since March 11, 1948, on communications, transI portation and trade between Berlin • and the western zones of Germany and the restrictions imposed by the three powers on communications, transportation and trade to and from the eastern zone of Germany. "2. The fixing of a date to be determinated for a meeting of the council of foreign ministers." The state department said that the western big three "wish to he sure that these two points were not (Turn To Puce Five* Severance Os Churches Not Requested Here It was erroneously stated in Monday’s edition of the Daily Democrat that “officials of the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church have sought severance of the Calvary chnrch from the local charge for several years." While the advantage of such an action has been informally discussed at various times by hoth churches, no petition was sent to the annual conferen-e ' by either church requesting such a<tion. and the severance of the churches came as a surprise to both groups of officials Tiiere has been complete- harmony among the members of both churches, and the severance was not a result of an agreement or petition by either of the two churches. The action was taken by the con’ference officials.