Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 109, Decatur, Adams County, 9 May 1949 — Page 1

LVII. No. 109.

ORD SNUBS ALL OFFERS OF MEDIATION _____ _______ *

fcsenate ■cation ■Pad Urged ■rmer Secretary IK War Patterson ■rges Early Action May 9 — < up > “ «■ secretary of war Robert ,aid today that quick ratification of the Atlantic K the surest way to keep ■K from starting World War ■ add the senate foreign relaSs comnii'tee that Russia 3 distatorship" has K. respect for physical power star’ a war if the westband together. ■ the senate would "gam■till, war" if it were to “quibH. Mall or to equivocate" on ■atiutr He said the Russians the same pattern of iKess aggression” as did Hitanil will continue ■ so as long as they believe ■don't run the risk of defeat. t'ee chairman Tom Con- ■[ D„ Tex., said he hoped to ■up the pact hearings this ■ He asked the remaining to cut short their testiH so that the committee can ■on the treaty before the big ■ ronfer-nce on Germany opens ■iris two weeks hence. ■r, Arthur V. Watkins, R., ■, quit the pact hearings in Ko against Connally's tactics. the chairman had “lectur-Kuniili.it-I and embarrassed" Band that his questions about ■pact would be asked on the ■te floor where Connally could ■"gag" him. Watkins is not a ■ni'tee member, but has been ■ding the hearings. ■ other congressional develop■ts: ■bor law: Speaker Sam Ray- 1 ■ said administration Demo-' ■ in the house will overhaul' H reintroduce the so-called Sims ; ■promise bill for a second try I ■epeal of the Taft-Hartley la- ■ law. Sen. John J. Sparkman. ■Ala. suggested that a repealer ■d on the Sims measure would ■he best course of action in the ‘ Bate. too. ■eciprocal trade— Senate major- ■ leader Scott W. Lucas of Illi- ■ promised President Truman ’ ■ legislation to extend and ■when the reciprocal trade ■ements program would be ■ n up in the senate soon. The ■ent trade program expires : ■e 30. ■mmunists—Ex-comminist org- j ■er Paul Crouch has been sub■ed by the house unAmerican ■ ■'Ties committee to help unrav■the mysterv of “Scientist X." ■ purportedly passed atomic I y ls ,0 r °n'muni«t official Steve I of Pittsburgh. Nelson and | 1 ■* itemic scientists also will I ■ y before the committee May BL * F UtB ~ Chairman Walter F. sosf of the senate finance com- [ * 8ai(1 hieh er taxes might ac ■ ' increase the anticipated 1 r Pr ninent deficit for fiscal 1950. 1 of wiping it out as PresiF Truman has indicated. The rw Democrat said a deficit! from a drop in gov I F" 1 !-revenues reflecting a del Ta Pa<* «| () usse Jl Funk Dies f Mishawaka Sunday Ho-la'w FU f nk ' 48 ’ ° f Mißhawaka ' nh or n2 f Amo * of M died at 1: Jo a. m ( Jllrt. 1 ' -foseph's hospital t ,ollow,D ' a ■ t H formed two weeks Ws R.n* a ’ an etn P ,o ye of i 1 1 C°- at Mishawaka. 1 a er °f the Masonic I are his wi ’ e ’ Flor ' 1 *r of btfr ' Mrs - Charles 1 1 '»<• broth* B * Dd: tW ° ' FuDer * l ** rv - ' 1« * h *W_« iP m. Tuesnth [. u. . &nman “el Baptist < St ’ aU w,th hurial 1 8 ‘ Jo cemetery t Clous Wt *™Eß tasiJ? With oc> < Cooler extreme j J

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Teen-Agers Award * qK £ r Wilbur Fryar, of Colonial Magazine, today announced that Robert Hansel, a page in the United States senate and son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hansel of this city, had been selected by the magazine as the country’s outstanding male teen-ager of the year. Elizabeth Taylor, the winsome and talented English stage and screen actress, was selected by the same magazine among the girls. The awards will be made next December in Chicago, the magazine writer said. Young Hansel, a former Decatur I high school student, will be graduated from the U. S. senate school next month. He has served as page during the 80th and 81st sessions of congress. • CIO Launches Drive For Office Workers Seeks To Unionize White Collar Class Washington. May 9 — (UP) —» The CIO opened a new drive today to unionize some 18,000,000 white j collar workers. i The occasion was the presentation of a charter to the communi-1 ! cations workers of America, the [big independent telephone union whose members voted to affiliate, with the CIO. The affiliation set off a new membership race between the CIO ■ and AFL. The AFL is expected toj | make overtures to two former I members, the International asso- ! | elation of machinists and John L. l , Lewis' united mine workers, to i bring their aggregae of 1,200,0001 members back into the federation.! Allen S. Haywood, CIO director i of organization, said the CIO drive, for new members will be concen t I trated among white collar workers. [ The labor department estimates 1 that there are more than 20,000,0001 ! white collar workers in the nation's: business and industry. About 2,000.000 of them are nowtn CIO and AFL unions, either in! J separate International organizations or as locals in some of the big production unions. There is a possibility that the CIO executive board next week may set up a new white collar workers' union to go after office workers, technicians, insurance agents, salesmen and other workers in trade and service. The international brotherhood (Turn Tn Pnse Sill Gary Lad Winner Os Stale K, C. Contest Decatur Student Is Among Contestants John Gallinatti of Gary won first place in the Knights of Columbus oratorical contest Sunday afternoon in Indianapolis. John Kos of Indianapolis was second >among the six contestants. Placings were not given the other four contestants, who included Ronald Smith. Decatur Catholic high school senior, winner of the local regional: Patrick Piton. Mich igan City: Robert Monks. Marion, and Joseph Raney. Washington. The judges were the Rev. Francis Kienly. state K. of C. chaplain: Emmett McManamon. Indiana at-torney-general and Clarence J. Donovan. former mayor of Bedford. The high school orators discussed “Catholic Contributions in American History " The contest was sponsored by the Knights of Columbus.

New Western German State Is Submitted New Constitution Submitted To Three Military Governors i Bonn, Germany, May z— (UP)— A new West Germany constitution, patterned after that of the Weimar republic and containing a safeguard against the rise of another Hitler, was submitted to the three western military governors for approval today. The constitution was adopted 53 to 12 by the Bonn constituent assembly last night after 250 days of drafting. It provides for an elected president and prime minister. It will go to the various Gernian state legislatures for ratification after approval by the American, British and French military governors. Assembly delegates beat back, 66 to 2, a final communist effort to sabotage the constitution last night. Communists proposed that the assembly abandon the work and start negotiations with communists of eastern Germany for an all-German government. "We don’t want a Germany with concentration camps.” non-com ' munists cried at the two communist delegates. The new constitution was ap-1 proved on the fourth anniversary of V-E day. It will be the basis of the first German government l since Hitler committed suicide in April. 1941 Although strikingly similar to the basic law of the short-lived Weimar republic, which Hitler [ took over, the new constitution' does not contain the crucial provision that gave Hitler the legal opportunity to become dictator. I This provision was an article that permitted the president to without the reichstag in emergen-1 , cies. • The new constitution, of 145! articles, provides for a wes'ern I German government headed by an | ! elected president and a chancellor. I or prime minister. The president's, term will run five years. There will be a two-chamber legislature. I I The lower house of 450 members | will be elected for four-year terms . • Turn To I’n«e Mil 1 | Reckless Driving Charged To Youth Week-end Accidents Reported By Sheriff i A 21-year-old youth whom sheriff Herman Bowman said caused a two-car collision Saturday one mile northeast of here on U. S. 224 will appear in J. P. court tonight on charges of reckless driving. « The sheriff said Horace Greekmore. 313 South Third street, caused the accident by suddenly stopping his car on the highway in front of a car driven by Owen |D. Lautenschleger. 19. rural route '3. When Lautenschleger slammed on his brakes to avoid Creekmore, his car was struck in the rear by a third car driven by Maynard Hahegger. Decatur. The sheriff estimated damage to Lautenschleger’s jear at SIOO. Billy Max Butler, rural route 1. will appear in J. P. court today for running a stop sign at the River road and U. 8. 27. Sheriff Bowman made the arrest Sunday. i Continuing his investigation of a $125 theft from a farm home south of here last week, sheriff Bowman Sundav ques'ioned a man whom he caught loitering around the home of Wayne Gaunt, rural route 5. The loiterer, however, was not implicated in the theft, the sheriff said. Aiding the sheriff in the capture and questioning wer? deputy sheriff Bob Shraluka land special deputy Harold Whitright Two boys, one nine years old and the other Is. were turned over to Erie railroad officials by sheriff Bowman Satnrdav for shooting an, airgun at a freight train. The sheriff warned he will take measures against any other jure-1 niles guilty of such offense.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, May 9,1949.

C. Os C. Changes Presidents kP iISk ~ wi MKS’Jp-- Ha 'IH I Ml ■ < ? Mr \vW 1 y . ■■ W** 5 ® 'ij f - ’ vll'l l' Jr 'I 1 I OUTGOING U. S. Chamber of Commerce President Earl O. Shreve (left) turn the gavel over to incoming President Herman W. Steinkraus after election at Washington. Steinkraus is president of the Bridgeport Brass Co., Bridgeport, Conn.

Flight Marks First Atlantic Crossing Truculent Turtle Arrives At Lisbon i Lisbon, May 9—(UP)— The U, S. navy's record-breaking patrol j bomber Truculent Turtle arrived I from the United States today on a flight commemorating the firsj Atlantic air crossing just 30 years ago. Sixteen hours and 50 minutes out of Floyd Bennett field, New York, the twinengine P2V2 Lockheed Neptune landed at 10:30 a.m. (6:30 I a.m. EDT). Three years ago the I Turtle made ■ a record non-stop flight of 11,236 miles from Pertha, Australia, to Columbus, Ohio. Aboard the Turtle was admiral Albert G. Read, retired. Thirty ' years ago he flew the same route i aboard the Trail Blazing N C-4, a | four engine seaplane which took i 19 days to go from the Rockaway i naval air base. The next month captain John AlI cock and Arthur Whitten Brown i made the first non stop Atlantic , flight. Both were knighted for the j flight. They left St. John's Newj foundland, June 14, and landed at Clifden, Ireland, 16 hours and 2$ minutes later. Read was aboard the plane as a ; passenger when it landed here this j morning. Also a passenger on the ! commemoration flight was Read's mechanic on the original flight, chief aviation pilot Eugene Saylor Rhoads, now a navy inspector at the Lockheed aircraft plant in Bur(Tara To !•»«» *l»l John A. Wybourn Dies This Morning Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon John A. Wybourn, 71, died at 3:30 o'clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital, where he had been a patient for the past two weeks. He had been ill for the past six months. He was born near Monroeville May 10, 1877. a son of William and Catherine Wybourn. and was married to Rose Barkley March 30. 1902. Mr. and Mrs. Wyborun had resided for the past two months with Mrs. Wyborun's brother-in law and sister. Mr. and Mrs. Free man Walters, near Monroe. Mr. Wybourn was a member of the Presbyterian church and the ; Masonic lodge at Sturgis. Mich. where be was a salesman for many years for the M & R diabetic lab oratory. Only near survivors are his wife and two nephews. Dr. Robert C. Wybourn of Grand Rapids. Mich., and William Wybourn of Riverside. CaL The late Dr. Charles Wy bourn, prominent Ossian physician, was a brother. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday .at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. W. L. Hall officiating The body will then be taken to the Moon funeral home at Sturgis, where services will be held Wednesday afternoon, the Rev Jack R. Steele officiating. Burial ’ will be at Sturgis. Friends may call at the Zwick funeral home I this evening and until time of the ■ senices. ' 1

Court House Clock Is Stopped By Bird The clock in the court house tower here, stopped Saturday afternoon, will not be in operation for two or three more days, it was stated by C. C. Pumphrey, local jeweler. A bird became caught in ■ a cog of the clock’s works, and j broke the cog, which cannot be rej placed for a few days. : ■ i ‘ Six Accidents Are i ' I d Reported By Police [ ; Reckless Driving l. Charged To Youth 1 City police report one arrest and y six traffic accidents over the weeke end. a Fred Quirk, 16, Bluffton, will apk pear in J. P. court today to answer y charges of reckless driving. He was arrested Sunday after his carl I- went out of control at Marshall a and First streets and struck two c parked cars. e Police estimated damages to the! • first parked car. owned by Frank t Mentzer, Convoy, 0., at 345. The 8 third auto, also owned by a Convoy resident, Guiles Mohr, was 1 1 damaged to the extent of 325,' 3 police said. j e An estimated 3100 damage waß| 5 done Sunday to a car driven by E. ' W. Hancock, 53, Lincoln, Neb., 1 when involved in a collision at 1 Monroe and Second street with a car drive by Francis Miller, 25. 1153 Rugg street. Carl F. Brown, 30, rural route | 3, and Lee Fleming, Decatur, were the drivers whose cars collid- i ed»at First and Jackson streets ; Saturday. Police fixed damage to Brown’s car at 315. Cars driven by Elinor Deffen- i bough. 27, Marion, 0.. and Fred. I Braun. Maple street, were involv- ; ed in a collision in the 200 block [ of Monroe street Saturday. I, , Alton P. Hower. 46, Fort Wayne.Ji ? and Adolph Baumann. 57, 1026 Vinestreet.’ were the drivers involved '1 J in a minor accident at Monroe and| < , Thirteenth streets Saturday. i An auto collision Saturday morn- | , ing in the 100 block of Second I street resulted in total damage of i . i 340. Andrew Chavez. 23, 946 North Twelfth street, and Ma hias Coffee, i I 54, 347 North Third street, were i ; the two drivers involved. < Thelma M. Wenger. Decatur, was fined 25 and costs and had her < driver's license suspended 90 days i 1 in mayor's court Saturday on > charges of drunken driving. Mayor 1 . Doan also fined Earl C. Mann. 49. < Geneva, 310 and costs Saturday for < public intoxication. ; ! , Day Os Recollection For .Men Next Sunday A day of recollection for men of ( St. Mary's parish will be held next , Sunday, with the Rev. Francis ( L Schmitt. C. PP.S., in charge of the , I derotionals. The men will attend the 7:30 , { o'clock mass and receive Holy , I Communion. Conferences will fol- , low at 10 o’clock and in the afterI noon. In the gymnasium of the i school. The final conference will be r heid in the church, followed by ■: Benediction of the Blessed Sacra*ment

Declares Walkout Solely Company-Union Affair; Strike Effect Is Growing

Violent Death Toll | Is Heavy In Stale Seven Persons Die In Two Accidents By United Press Another long week end list of Indiana traffiq deaths was prepared today and on it were the names of seven persons killed in two accidents only 30 miles and 22 hours apart. The death list from Saturday and Sunday accidents stood at 10. Heavy traffic to and from Louisville for the Kentucky derby, and mild spring weather, sent the season’s greatest throngs of motorists onto the highways. The worst accident was on Ind. 37 near Bedford. Four persons, including three Indiana University students, were crushed to death when their automobile plunged down an embankment on a curve Sunday. The day before, three derbybound Indianapolis residents were killed only 30 miles northeast of the Bedford wreck scene when their automobile rolled over and I over into the guard rails of a I bridge. The Bedford crash victims were | Robert P. Shreve, 23, Garrett; HarIley'S. Shroyer, 22, Michigan City, and Walter Bagrukovich, 22. Michigan City, all students in the University at Bloomington, and Joseph L. Rogers. 24. a Bloomington paint--1 er - i Authorities said the car apparently was speeding. They believed it crashed at least two hours before a passing motorist saw the wreckage alongside the road and found the four men dead inside. Other week-end fatalities included Mrs. Janett L. Morman. 48, I South Bend, who was killed when; thrown from her automobile as iti collided with another car, and Wil-| I Ham E. Anderson. 45. Indianapolis, j (Turn Tn I’Hirr Mil Allen County Home Given Clean Bill Report No Need Os | Grand Jury Action ’ Fort Wayne, Ind.. May 9 —(UP)! —The Alien County old people's [ home, where 29 persons have died; in the past 35 days, is a "good, clean, well-kept place," Dr. Noah Zehr said today. He and county physician Dr.l Paul Bailey and Dr. James Jack-1 son. Indianapolis, a state health | board official, inspected the home[ yes'erday. 11 Zehr said he saw “no need" ford grand jury action in connection] with the deaths. i Saturday he charged that "politics” was responsible for the deaths, and that appointments were made according to par:y affiliations rather than qualifications. He also had said that the inmates were undernourished. William E. Roussey. president of < the Allen county board of commis- I sioners. said the normal death rate < at the home was four per month. I He said, however, that heat wav- I es and influenza epidemics had ’ increased the rate to eight a week, t “Os the 29 deaths in question," Roussey said, “eight died of can- I cer. Two others were practically < dead when they were brought here < and died a few days la'er." ; Consolidate Army Recruit Districts I ( Indianapolis. May 9 —(UP)— 1 Consolidation of the army recruit. ing districts of Indiana and Michi- | gan was made effective today, army officials said. There will be seven recruiting stations in Indiana after the con- 1 solidation. according to Maj Mar- ' cus Braatx. Frankfort, commanding officer of the Indiana district. ' They were Evansville. Fort Wayne. 1 Gary. Indianapolis. New Albany., l Richmond, and Terre Haute Headquarters for the new district will be in Detroit.

Chinese Take Over Private Trucks, Jeeps Requisitions Made To Defend Shanghai, Reds Take Kashing Shanghai. May 9—(UP)— Shang-i hai garrison headquarters requisi ! tioned private trucks and jeeps for military purposes today after losing Kashing.' defense anchor point 50 miles southwest of Shanghai. to the Communists. Other Communist'forces continued a series of probing attacks against Kunshan, northern defense bastion 30 miles west. At last reports Kunshan still was in government hands although the Communists were believed making preparations for a major assault. Among the American firms ordered to turn over their vehicles] to help the defense of Shanghai were the Texas company. Henningsen Produce. Standard Vacuum Oil Co., and the Bakerite Chocolate shops. British firms and government banks and agencies also were ordered to turn over thtlr cars. Communist capture of Kashing after a three-day battle was claimed by the Peiping radio and garrison headquarters admitted the city fell two days ago. Nationalist defense forces with drawing from Kashing have taken ' up new positions some 10 miles closer to Shanghai along the rail line from Hanchow. A military spokesman said Communist guerj rillas were active ip the area. To the north, the northern an- ! chor town of Kunshan, 30 miles i west of Shanghai, remained in government hands despite a serieh |of Communist probing attacks by an estimated 15,000 troops. Government reports said Communist forces at Chihtang, north1 east of Kunshan, were strengthening bridges and conscripting labor to carry munitions. A communique said these actions indicated a big new Communist drive was in the making. Chinese press reports estimated that three Communist armies were massed along a 50-mile front ex tending threfugh Kunshan and Kashipg. These reports estimated the armies could number as high as 200,000 men. The Communist radio at Peiping' made claims of further gains in, central China along the Chekiang ; (Turn To I‘nirr Flvrl Mrs. Olive Thomas Is Taken By Death t Funeral Services Here On Wednesday Mrs. Olive M. Thomas. 75. widow of the late Henry Thomas, and a former prominent Decatur residen'. died suddenly of a heart at tack at 11:30 a. m. Sunday at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Portia Vega. 2027 South Fifth Ave.. Maywood. 111. Mrs. Thomas had made her home with the daughter since the death of her' husband. Decatur cigqr manufacturer, several years ago. She was horn in Deca'ur Feb. 17. 1874. a daughter of David and Martha King, graduated from Decatur high school in 1893. and was married Dec. 26. 1599. Mrs. Thomas was a member of the First Presbyterian church, and the Royal Neighlmrs and Pocahon tas lodges. 'Surviving in addition to the daughter h a sister. Mrs. A. J Slagal ot Marion Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m Wednesday at the Black fun e ral home, the Rev. A. C. E. Gillander officiating Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p. m. Tuesday.

Price Four Cents

Company Willing To Meet Union, Submit Five-Day-Old Strike Up To Arbitration Detroit, May 9—(UP)—The Ford Motor company today snubbed ail offers to mediate the strike against its two key plants, increasing prospects of a prolonged walkout that in 10 days will leave 100,000 U. S. workers idle. In 30 days, the strike's effects will be ,felt throughout the world. The company said that the walk- [ out of 62,200 CIO United Auto i workers against its River Rougu and Lincoln-Mercury plants is a matter for company-union negotiations. It is willing to meet with the union and submit the dispute to arbitration. The strike, now in its fifth day, forced the company to begin a wide program of plant shutdowns and layoffs in 16 states and Canada. starting tonight. In a clear cut statement, John Bugas, Ford vice president in charge of industrial relations, reI jected offers of city officials to arI range mediation sessions. The walkout began Thursday in protest over an alleged speedup which the union said endangered work - ers. Bugas said the company's contract with the union contained provisions for negotiating grievances over production schedules. "There is no issue in the current strike which cannot be quickly, promptly and peaceably handled by the established procedure." he said. "Therefore, we see no need to turn the matter over to individuals or groups outside the contract machineiy. whatever their motive for ot sering to help." The contract provides for selection of an industrial engineer as I arbitrator if company and union are unable to settle union claims that production increases are endangering the health and safely o( workers. However, the arbitrator must be mutually agreeable to both parties. If one is selected his decision is binding. The company said it was willing to select an arbitrator, and charged that the union refused. Walter Reuther, UAW president, said before the strike began that the union "denies and dismisses as obviously false the allegations by the company that a strike over thh issue would be a violation of the contract." One of the offers was made by mayor Orville L. Hubbard of suburban Dearborn, with whom the comi pany has been at odds for some I time. Hubbard, with UAW presi- ] dent Walter Reuther, led a “solii darity" parade of about 6.000 strikI ers past the struck Rouge plant last night. After the parade a rally was held in front of the union's hall. Reuther told the strikers that if Ford "would follow the policies of | (General Motors and other auto plants in working out their manhour production, we could get agreement on this strike." in announcing the rejection, Bugas said that several individuals and groups had been "prompted by politics or good intentions” to offer mediation. His use of the word "politics” was considered a reference to Hubbard, with whom the company has feuded since Ford supported the attempt of a life insurance company to bring a large housing project to Dearborn. The rejection also applied to an offer by acting mayor George Edwards of Detroit, who had wanted to call into session a labor-manage-nient-citlxen committee to mediate the dispute. In the Ford schedule, seven plants will have closed or laid off workers by Thursday. By May 18. all Ford and Lincoln-Mercury assembly plants will have closed. A company spokesman said the strike will hit foreign operations about June 6. About 30 days later, he said. Ford's operations and raw material purchases in foreign lands will have been virtuilly thro'tled. Ford builds more than 1.000.000 can and trucks a year To teed its giant assembly lines, it draws equipment and materials from . 5.800 suppliers in the 48 states, and I raw materials from all over the (Tara Te Paca Twa)