Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 102, Decatur, Adams County, 30 April 1949 — Page 1

LVII, No. 102.

KRUN WATERWAYS DISPUTE IS SETTLED

>KortChances Id for Ouick ® To Blockade Sport Vishinsky ■porently Approves j® e sfs Conditions tH York. Apr. 30 - lUP) “ ,]^K rn diplomatic sources reK '’ l ' anCeS Were for a " ul,k en(l ,0 the M bll)f!iai |e as a result of the ■W Yn;irii':"o'’ |iv tot negotiaJH i33 foreign minister Andrei apparently has placstamp <>f approval on thd Ucondition for pn, ‘ ing ,he informants said. JH < anihassador-at-large Dr. c Jessup. who met here United Nations repreiMtivy Jacob A. Malik yesterK >nt m Washington today to ’^9 gn and possibly to President tm official report was on the 2>5 hour coninformed sources said ■ important poin's occurred discussion: Russia gave formal assu> western conditions for the Berlin blockade were to Moscow. new Russian conditions H ending the dispute were |Hrr. as stumbling blocks in the a settlement. ■ No question of principles for bic four foreign minconference was discussed. |H a result, optimism was voleMr most quarters over early ■: of dates to lift the Soviet the western counter|Hiiie of Berlin, and summonMoi a council of big four minto meet late in May in Paris problems. |Hp;umats. who have been in with the negotiations since 15. said it was “quite likely" |H and French represen|Mes soon would join in the talks. They hehowever, th' re would be meetings here on Berlin Mil Monday at the earliest." |Bvas 1-arned that the latest meeting set no ■ dates for aclon, although could be expected within 10 Malik presumably suggestfur ending the blockade |Bl"r the big four meet that will St to be considered by WashLondon and Pari’.. west s condi ions for agreeconsist of simultaneous endH"' the Soviet blockade of BerH'*' the west s counter-block- ■ »wely by setting a date for ■"o ,j r conference on Germany, terms leave the west free ahead with plans for creao' a western German state. H" ff his conversation with MaH ; SSS 5iW through a spokesal !ke ,a ' ks are proceed- ■ Wactorily." This was the H,®' 141 statement on the pro H 'he talks. ■’ e spokesman said at this I HL ,t ’ ll Wa ’ important to HL ? 1 e in, °rmal and explor K., at^ r 01 'heae converKornS" Pr ° gress wi " not frjur Ministers ■‘"Meet Monday H»i?hn l a r -' nini3!erial associa H., 1 01 Its regular monthly Kof t n ' ay at 10 a " in the Ho-2 J’ Z,( ’ n Evangelical and H’-'M tot l Urch Every me mher B t 0 be present, fr'"' /outh Center ■J es f or Summer ■tV D' calur ' 9 youth center. K ( . tonight for-the sum H Th 45 ’bounced this morn K*>rr i W ” 01,9116,1 la,t - Mi has had excellent ■i Sorin. " rou,!,lout the winter V ' pn «4 months. ■ lacrw WE *™ e « ■*.C"’ 9 eloudi "'W and ■ hsdy and mostly ■k to kJ f tMa > 80 n ° rth ■ k Kulh ' low tonight 55 to

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Foreman Third In Discussion Contest LaPorte, Ind., April 30 — (Special) — Marcus Foreman, Decatur high school senior, placed third in the district Rotary oratorical contest here this morning. Don Allen, LaPorte senior, won first place and Joseph Floyd of Gary was second among the six contestants. The winners were announced at the Rotary luncheon held in connection wi h the district conference. > Catholic High ■ Graduate List Ns Announced 25 Seniors To Be I Graduated Here At Exercises On June 3 > The list of 25 graduates of Decat tur Catholic high school, who will t receive their diplomas on June 3, at the twenty-sixth annual exer- > cises, was released today by the • school officials. I Mary Alice Braun, Thomas I Briede, Naomi Eyanson, Robert Gage, Marcyle Geimer, David Gil- > lig, Mary Jo Oraliker, Joan Hei- • man, Thomas Keller, William • Kintz, Marlene Laurent, Martha Laurent. i Janet Meyers, Patricia Meyers, ! Thomas Miller, Sheila Murtaugh, ! Ri a Osterman, James Parent, Max Peterson, Fred Rumschlag. - Donald Schmitfr Ronald Smith. ■ Jacquelyn Teeple, Philip Terveer, Dorothy Uleman. The baccalaureate ■ commence- - ment services will be held in St. : Mary's church in the school audi- • toriem. Diplomas will be awarded the ■ | graduates to those who have comi pleted the eighth grade by the I Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz, i pastor of St. Mary's church. , ( The Rev. Michael J. Vichuras, 1 ' instructor at Central Catholic high . school, Fort Wayne, and chaplain > at several institutions in Allen . county, will deliver the address at | > the service. i This will be the first year that t | commencement exercises ever! [ | were held in the church and the I > i service will conform with church ! use. II Class awards will al obe made, .! during the evening service, which | , | will begin at 8 o’clock, it was* an- J I' nounced. iTo Allow Increase In Export 01 Pork Seek To Forestall Pork Surplus Here Washington. April SO-r(UP)—| • The government let a horde of for . eign buyers into the U. S. meat > market today in an effort to fore . stall any pork surplus. With hog marketing on the in i crease, the government figured , there soon would be a greater supply of pork than American consum ers would eat—at the government farm support price. Hogs have fallen to within about $1 per hundred pounds of the miniI mum price farmers are guaranteed by law. Rather than buying up pork to prop prices, the government decid . • ed to accomm>-h the same thing t by allowing Britain and 11 other ■ countries to purchase 72.000.000 I pounds of U. S. pork within the r next 60 days. That will cut the supply of American consumers by about one-half pound per capita. The new foreign allotment amounts to about three percent of the nation s total April-June sup ply and about 25 percent of the ■ estimated 1949 increase over last year's supply. Previously, the United States was allowing less ( than 5,000,000 pounds of all meat 1 to be exported each month. r Agriculture department experts believe the new export allocation will serve to keep hog prices at or above the support level this spring and summer. However, a department spokesman said that secretary Charles F. Brannan still planned to press congress for authority to make direct cash payments to farmers in case support measures are required next fall and winter The "production payments" are (T»ra T» PM» *'•*

Report Unrest Is Mounting In Shanghai Daily Violence Flares; Communists Move Closer To Shanghai Shanghai, Apr. 30 — (UP) — Mounting unrest and outbreaks iff violence in Shanghai were reported today as communist armies moved in from the west and closed a trap on the nationalist garrison of the oriental metropolis. The communist underground started distributing lapel buttons wi’h pictures of Premier Josef Stalin and Mao Tse-Tung, the Chinese communist chieftain. Shanghai was restive beginning to experience the internal strife that gripped Nanking a little before the communist forces marched in unopposed. The American consulate telephoned the Shanghai defense garrison that a mob of employes were threatening the China Edison company. The . garrison at once dispatched troops to deal with the threat. Other growing unrest and incidents were reported. The communist radio said part* of seven nationalist armies —a Chinese army is the approximate equivalent of a U. S. division—had been trapped in the shrinking bulge between the Yangtze delta and Hangchow bay. at the tip of which lies Shanghai. A telephone check indicated that all nationalist defenders had been withdrawn into Hangchow from the outskirts. Hangchow is the so-called backdoor of Shanghai, the control point on the railway to the southwest. That is the last escape route by land tor those' who would leave the threatened city. Reports circulated that the communists had captured Kunshan, 25 i miles west of Shanghai on the ’ only other trunk railway out of the city. But government sources denied the report. The railway ad(Turn Tn I‘nirr Hit) First Annual Fish Fry Next October Plans Are Made For Ggiantic Fish Fry The Akron Jonah club, an orga-; nization which specialized in serv-l I ing tish frys and which for sev- | eral years has served more than 1 3,000 persons at the state 4-H club | roundrup and a like number of fly | I ing Jarmers, will serve the first ’ annual fish fry to be held In Deca- • tur next October 6, it was announc- ! ed today by R. C. Ehlnger, chairj man of the retail committee of the I Chamber of Commerce. | R. W. Pruden and Robert Helm conferred with Forrest W. Hig gins, vice kingfish of the Fulton [ county organization this week, and Mr, Higgins has agreed to bring his entire crew of cooks to Deca tur for the first annual event which will be a gebtogether of merchants and farmers. Mr. Ehinger said that in the, next few days a meeting would be held with members of his commit ' tee and a group of farm leaders | and county agent Lawrence Arch' bold to start plans for the event, which it is hoped will become an | annual function. In many counties the annual fish ' fry is held in connection with rural achievement night at which, time awards are made in various j agricultural contests. Whether this, plan will be followed in Adams, county will be determined by the j joint meeting. Crippled Children Society In Meeting The lira’ organization meeting of the Adams county chapter of ( the society for crippled children, was held Thursday evening, with’ a nominating committee appointed; to report at the next mee ing. which will be held at 8 p. m. May 12 in the Christian church basement. The Rev. William C. Feller presided at the opening meeting and a film was shown by Kenneth D. Patton, director of extenison for | the state society. A treasurers, report was also presented.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, April 30, 1949.

Urges Arms Back Atlantic Pact urn K 3 ut ■ Mr jB nF tV '- W. AVERELL HARRIMAN, Marshall Plan roving-ambassador tells the Senate Foreign Rela ions Committee that the North Atlantic Pact aims will receive a “set-back” if the U. S. fails to furnish rnili- , tary aid "promptly" as is expected.

Children Fall Into > Water-Filled Holes I i Three Are Rescued, • Auburn Boy Drowns Uy United Press Four children fell Into waterfilled holes today two weeks to 1 the day after a similar accident 1 cost the life of little Kathy Fiscus in San Marino, Cal. ■ I Three were rescued, one was drowned. I One-year-old Charleen Pierce ! i plunged into an open well in the | yard of a neighbor at Coventry. | Conn. She was unconscious when ; I her mother, Mrs. Donald Pierce, ' | found her floating in the water ' 1 and pulled her to safety. '} Another mother, Mrs. Frances 1 Dugan, glanced out the window of i j her home in Reading, Mass., at 1 the moment her 21-month-old son, ; I Richard, fell into a 10-foot cessI pool in a neighbor’s yard. , Running to the pit. Mrs. Dugan leaped in and groped in the muck ’ until she found her unconscious I child. She passed him up to a | neighbor and pleaded with rescuI ers to ignore her and attend to i I the boy. He was revived and firei men later pulled her out. In Framingham, Mass., 5-year-j old Paul i. Goodhue, Jr„ fell into an open well while playing with* ’' his si t r. Paulette, 6. in a pasture ‘ I near their home. The girl sum-! | moned her grandparents and fireI men formed a human chain to pull the boy to safety from a shelf . to which he was clinging six feet down the well. i Larry Wayne Hogan, 2. was playing on his parents’ farm at Auburn, Ind., and fell into a fence | post hole filled by recent rains. i He was drowned. ■ Further Plans For Religious Census Decatur Churches To Conduct Census ' Decatur churches today continued selection of volunteer enumera'ors who will conduct the citywide religious census scheduled to I take place here Sunday, May 15. 1 Officials of the interdenominational project stated the churches i are being asked to furnish quotas I of the 274 census enumerators who will list the church affiliations or preferences of Decatur families The ci y has been divided into 137 census districts and two workers will be assigned to each district, officials said. A follow up census will be conducted later to interview those families missed May 15. | Information gathered in the census will be used by Decatur churches to aid in their membership drives, according to the officials, i Questions Decatur families will be asked to answer include: To what church do you belong? Mhat is your local church preference? . Where did you attend Sunday school? In case of need, what church's minister would you call?

f Receipts Reported On Parking Meters Parking meter receipts for the ■ four-week period, April 2 to 29, a- ’ mounted to $1,079.40, city-clerk ; treasurer H. Vernon Aurand said today. During the longer, five-week i period of March, meter receipts were $1,365.45. Mr. Aurand said $3,871.59 has been collected from the meters since they were put into 1 operation Jan. 17. , Open Negotiations On Bendix Strike Hudson Moves Brake Dies From Factory South Bend, Ind., Apr. 30—(UP) | — Negotiations to end an 11-day I strike were begun today between ! federal mediators, the striking CIO United Auto Workers Union Local No. 9, and officials of the | Bendix Aviation Corp. ■ it was the second mediation meeting since the strike by 7,500 Bendix employes began April 20. j The first meeting was held WedInesday and ended without any f agreement being reached. Meanwhile, five trucks rented by the Hudson Motor Car Co. went into the Bendix plant to remove Hudson-owned brake dies. Hud- | son obtained a writ of replevin ■ Wednesday to remove the dies, but ! St. Joseph county sheriff Stephen C. Hipsak was unable to get the dies out of the plant because of UAW pickets. Hudson was able to begin moving the dies today because of the protection given by a temporary * restraining order issued by feder lal judge Luther M. Swygert at Fort Wayne yesterday, barring the union from interference. Local No. 9 officials issued a statement saying that international UAW attorneys had advised against any action which might violate the restraining order. The union presented three demands as the mediation meetin'’ began: Local No. 9 officials emphasized that elimination of an alleged speedup in the plant and restoration of wages were the prime fac'ors in the strike, but also asked tha» Ben-iix rchiro J ? employes of the brake shoe departm L nt who were <’i<cb r ' an alleged slowdown, and withdraw a federal court suit asking for $1,180,000 damages because of production lost during a weeklong wildcat walkout by union members earlier this month. Judge Swygert issued the order yesterday when Hudson claimed it would have to shut down its plant without the parts. Hudson lawyers said the stoppage would lav off 16 000 men and lost $1,500,000 a day for the company. Sixty-five pickets of th a United (Tore To Pare Mil NEW SERIAL STORY "And Not Have Love” is the title of an interesting novel by Margaret Nichols. which will appear In aerial form In the Dally Democrat, starting next Tuesday. May 3. Personal problems of modern marriage are woven into an interesting story involving three women.

Russians Agree To Keep Hands Off Barges; Free Three British Soldiers

John Lewis Willing To Negotiate Pact Offer Is Made To Southern Operators Washington, April 30—(UP)— John L. Lewis told southern coal producers today that he is willing to open negotiations for a new soft coal contract on June 6 at Bluefield, W. Va, Last year, the United Mine workers president refused to bargain with the southern coal producers association as a group but was forced to do so under court order. Recently, the southern produc1 ers beat Lewis to the punch and an- ■ nounced termination of their contract, effective June 30. If the producers take up Lewis’ offer, it will be the first time in several years that negotiations bes tween the UMW and coal operators i- will be held outside of Washington, k Lewis’ proposal was made to j Joseph E .Moody, president of the k southern group. s Lewis agreed to all proposals d made by Moody and said the conn ferences would be open to the n press and to the public. The mine workers chief asked that UMW be represented by 3G ■ representatives, and that equal | representation be provided by the coal producers. He said the suggestion of 36 conferees from the UMW “is a reasoni able limitation.” The UMW group would be composed of six members from each of six districts, number 20, 19, 28. 29, 17. and 30. That covers all of Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia, western Kentucky ) and the southern half of West Virf ginia. i Bluefield is located in the heart : of the Pocahontas field in southern i i West Virginia on the Virginia hor- > der. i t Muselman Reports ' On Juvenile Probe Investigation Made By County Official l County probation officer C. H. | , Muselman today filed a report in I , juvenile court on his investiga-, [ tions into the cases of the four; juveniles against whom prosecutor) Severin H. Schurger had asked the. , court to dismiss larceny charges. | . Muselman's investigations were, ordered by Judge Myles F. Parrish I Friday, one day after the prose-1 , cutor had asked charges be drop-1 ped against the hoys On the basis of the report. Judge •Parrish will decide whether to I ■ order the probation officer to file new charges in juvenile court against the four. It is said the probation officer’s ■eport states offenses committed hy the juveniles are sufficiently serious to warrant the court assuming jurisdiction. The four boys are the last of the 14 juveniles rounded up earl ier by sheriff Herman Bowman in a cleanup of thefts and breakins. Four of the boys were sentenced •o the state hovs' school at PlainHeld, ami six others wer» placed , an probation Dayliqht Saving Time Is Effective Here At Midnight Decatur and community will go ■ on daylight saving time at midI night tonight, to remain on the fast 'itne schedule until the last SaturI day midnight in September. Business establishment’, offices, industries and public offices will all go on the daylight schedule to night, following action taken by the city council and the county commissioners. Many areas throughout the state adopted the fast time schedule last week-end. but Decatur. Fort Wayne and Auburn are among the cities waiting until tonight tor the> change.

Fear Atlantic Pad Will Keep U. S. In Europe Missouri Senator Expresses Doubts On Defense Treaty Washington, April 30—(UP)— Sen. Forrest C. Donnell, R., Mo., said today that he thinks the Atlantic pact will force the United States to keep troops in Europe permanently. Because of “grave doubts” about the defense treaty, Donnell said he would vote against it if a vote came immediately. Although Donnell is not a member of the senate foreign relations committee, foreign policy leaders believe his position may greatly influence ratification of the pact. Other senators are known to have similar doubts about the pact. If; Donnell can be satisfied, foreign! policy experts think other dubious senators will follow his lead. Donnell based his opposition to the pact on provisions calling for effective mutual aid in building de- , sense establishments of participating nations and pledging action “forthwith" to defend a signatory if it is attacked. , In other congressional develop-1 , ments: Labor law — Administration: forces in the house were searching for away to rescue President Tru- j man's labor bill from defeat at the, hands of a Republican-southern; Democratic coalition. Some administration Democrats were known to believe only a statemem! by speaker Sam Rayburn could save the President’s program. They want him to try to attract ' southern votes by announcing willj ingness to accept amendments to I the administration bill that would repeal thq Taft-Hartley law and replace it with a revised Wagner act. Budget—The senate GOP economy bloc planned moves to trim I appropriations for the treasury and i post office departments as part of I their campaign to balance the bud- ' get without tax increases. Sen- | Homer Ferguson, R. Mich., said j he would press for adoption of an i amendment requiring department '. heads to trim their funds an averI age of five percent below whatever (Tun To !’•«» Sli> Christen Starts On Life Prison Term Fort Wayne Man Is Given Life Sentence Michigan City. Ind., Apr. 30 - (UP)—Robert V. Christen, 38. to day began his life imprisonment sentence at Indiana state prison here for the slaying of Mrs. Dorothea Howard in Fort Wayne in 1945. Christen was brought here short ly after sentence was pronounced yesterday at Columbia City b’ I Judge Lowell Pefley. The life term was mandatory following his second degree murder conviction by a jury a week ago. Pefley overruled a defense move to arrest judgment in an effort to keep Christen from going to th» prison. But Christen's attorney. R. C. Parri -h. indicated he would seek a new trial. Already at the prison was Ralph Lohaugh. former Kokomo factory worker who once confessed the Howard slaying and was sentenced to die in the electric chair for it and two other slayings he ad mitted. After sentence was pronounced yesterday. Christen told circuit judge Lowell Pefley: “Pm as innocent of this crime as you are. God knows Pm innocent and only time will tell." Christen was convicted in the . 1945 slaying of Mrs. Dorothea ■ Howard at Fort Wayne.

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Russians Back Down To Rekin Nominal Control Over West Berlin Canal Locks Berlin, April 30—(UP)— Tho Russians agreed today to keep hands oft British barges in western Berlin’s waterways and released three British soldiers seized last night while they were trying to retrieve livestock from Soviet zone rustlers. The Soviet actions removed two minor obstacles that had threatened to complicate Angloßussian relations at a time when lifting of the Berlin blockade appeared imminent. The waterways dispute was settled at a noon conference between Brig. E. R. Benson, British deputy commander of Berlin, and Maj. Gen. P. A. Kvashnin, Soviet transport chief. The agreement was understood to call for freedom of movement on western Berlin's canals for both British and Russian • licensed barges. The dispute erupted Wednesday when the Russians, who control j all Berlin's canals under an old four-power agreement, stopped British barges in the British sector of Berlin. Next day. armed British military police shooed away the Soviet control officials and announced their Intention of remaining there to insure the free passage of British barges. The British barges mostly are | engaged in ferrying supplies ! brought in on the Berlin airlift : from the three western airfields I to downtown Berlin distribution I points. ( An official announcement said today’s peace talks were held "in | a friendly atmosphere at Soviet headquarters. The Russians ohi viously backed down in order ti retain their nominal control over the western canal locks. A British spokesman said Kvashnin blamed over-zealous junior officers for the dispute. Benson had gone into the meeting prepared to tell the Russians to stop interfering with British traffic or face seizure of the locks, which control waterways to the Soviet zone of Germany. The British soldiers seized last night had crossed inadvertently into the Russian zone while pursuing 40 Soviet zone police who had raided a western Berlin city government farm. The Soviet zone police had made off with 36 cows, eight pigs. 12 sheep and 34 horses, British officials said. The farm long has . been a bone of contention between I Soviet zone and British sector ofI ficials. Its buildings are in the I British sector and its grazing land in the Soviet zone. The Russians escorted the three British soldiers to the British sector border near Gatow airfield this afternoon and released them. 4 ■ Will Present Medal To Regional Winner A medal for being the regional winner in the Knights of Columbus oratorical contest will he pretented to Ronald Smith Monday evening at the K. of C. hall by lohn latgan. district deputy. Edward Rooney, grand knight of the Fort Wayne council, will accompany Mr. Logan. The presentation ceremony will he made a f ter the regular lodge meeting. John A. Kintz, grand knight of the Decatur council, will nreside. A senior in Decatur Catholic hieh school. Ronald won the regional contest and will compete in the state conference May 8. Payless Payday For President Truman Washington. April 3d—(UP4— President Trutnan faced a pay>ess payday today because congress failed to appropria'e money for hit 312.500 April pay check Last January the lawmakers boosted Mr Truman's salary to ' qnn.ooo a year plus a tax free 190.000 (ipense accoun'. But so far , they haven't bothered to rote funds I to pay him the extra m-ney.