Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 110, Decatur, Adams County, 10 May 1949 — Page 1

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IUSSIA BEGINS LIFTING BERLIN BLOCKADE

IHuest Funds /■Operating 9th Center Meeting 0 immunity Fund Is yJtld Monday Night was made last evening ''■'■ annual meeting of members ■ Decatur Community Fund, I m the budget committee apfunds for next year's! nf the youth center, comcalled the Den. in favor of continuing was voiced by Ray president. Carl Pumphrey, ■ Everhart, recreational dir’others, after Mrs. Arthur chairman of the »I committee of Woman's club, ■ors of the teen-canteen, asked ~~^K sem bly to take action on’ of the place. directors were elected to, ard ' each re l’ resnting a par ‘l They are: Roop, representing labor.' |Kis Jacobs, business men. | Joan Wemhoff, women’s orML Mr. Leitz and the newSHected members, the board is |BLised of Joe Oelberg, the Rev. J ■ nl Fe|ler ' Karl Fuhrman ' ■ staley. Arthur Heiman and! J - Krickof the various and activities suppor'ed gHunds from the Decatur Com-] Fund, gave brief reports assembly. About 50 interesteven and women attended the D -FKalver. chairman of the AdHcounty cancer fund, reported' ■ had been done the past year ■he educational fight against |Ber. The cancer society receives ■ frQm ,I,e Community Fund does not make a separate ■ta'ion in the cit FMB I Girl and Boy Scouts Doyle Collier, representing Scouts and Brownies, re-j ’Dat Db' adult workers. 275. and Brownies were now en- 1 Md in organization. The Scouts plan to operate a res', ■n for mothers and their child-' the Den during street fair M^B 1 Mrs- Collier said. Everhart, health, safety Physical educational ins’ruethe Decatur high school, and |Bttor nf Roy Scout and recrea-' activities in the city, report-i • these organizations. said ,hal the Boy Scouts’ and now had 169 members. The] is for more adult leaders, as desire of the scout executo organize more troops in ■city. speaking for the continued of the Den. Mr. Eversated that the youth center met a definite need in the This year's attendance April 3p when the Den was ,or the season, exceeded ■ of a year ago. He estimated (■ lhe Den had more than 10,000 cr ’ during the past school | ■F Jhe center also is used as a* place for Scouts and Cubsi hours when not used by school students as a teenV ® e eting place. Plj yt)round Equipment Ever hart also outlined the Playground equipment parks and playgrounds in the Provided by the Decatur ComFund By the end of May. will have been inK* J®. the flve Parks, namely K '• u ' tma n. City Water Works. |KL h Memorial. Homesteads. HT. m * n Fie!d and at the South Wground. ■jMnt ordered last year. H,,’ Reived until after the JBtC'2 eaSOn ' alß ° win be Placed ■ r ". r !? Un<iß ' to g e 'her with this the tWO yearß the .JKroii-nZ > FUnd has a PPf°Priated i . ey $3,000 for equip-, ■k rs-j rePßrati(,n of grounds children, including modern ■ park,.'""' 41 Übles in a fev 01 * Hl " Here ■s j0 l 1 ‘ n Herbert HilL of ,nd ' ■ itJ?? secretary of the ■ File WEATH *A S■; led"? C ?° !tr north ' el‘lr't* * r ”“ ,h P’rt.an Fr °* indicated in ■'*’ twiih? ’’l*** north por ■*4,l, ,’ L Wed "e«day fair warmer.

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Indianapolis Near To Parking Meters Indianapolis, May 10 — (UP)— The city of Indianapolis today was a step closer to hiving parking meters. The city plan commission approved installation of 525 meters, in the downstown area, on a trial basis. The city’s master plan ordinance must be amended before the meters can he set up. House Group : i For Pensions To Needy Vels Committee Votes Tentative Support • For Pension At 65 Washington. May 10. —(UP)— i The house veterans committee toI day tentatively accepted a comproi mise bill under which all needy 65- . I year-old veterans of world war I land II could qualify for monthly .[Pensions of $72. Such pensions, under present reg- . ulations, are paid to needy veterans | who can show a non-service-con- . nected disability of at least 10 peri cent. In practice, almost any 65-.•year-old veteran is disabled to that , I extent or more. [I The committee voted to write jtlte regulations into law at the same j i time wiping out the 10 percent dis- , ability requirement. I It also agreed to raise somewhat i 1 the income limitation that compris- . es a test of need. And it voted to i wipe out the existing requirement • that the veteran be unemployable •;to be eligible for the pension. II Tfie compromise, offered by coin- ■ mittee chairman John ®. Rankin. I is a substitute for earlier propos-1 als to pension all veterans, regard- i less of need. The committee rejected all a-! mendments proposed to the new hill, but put off until tomorrow a final vote on it. I The bill, in a nutshell, would liberalize and write into law the i regulations by which the veterans administration has determined what veterans are eligible for $69 • 1 or $72 monthly pensions for “total | and permanent" non-service-con-, nected disability. These regulations provide - S6O pensions for men under 55 who can i show a single disability rated at I least 60 percent or combined disi abilities of 70 percent. At age 55; I the disability requirement is cut' ■to 60 percent, whether single or |combined; at age 60 it is dropped to 50 percent. At age 65 the pension goes up to ( $72; the disability requirement is ' cut to 10 percent. In all cases, the | income limitation is SI,OOO for single men. $2,500 for those with dependents. Unemployability also is a requirement. The bill approved today raises income limitations for single men to $1,200. It does not change the (Turn To Pnae Twol I ’Union Shop Pads I To Slay Within Law Labor Board Rules On Shop Contracts Washington. May 10— (UP)—| The national labor relations board held today that union shop con tracts must stay strictly within the limits of the Taft-Hartley pact. ' The board killed a union security provision, even though it had been authorized by more than 50 percent ; if the workers in a plant in a union ] shop election as required by the'l labor law. i 1 The board ruled illegal the contract of the International Molders i and Foundry workers (AFL) with | Morley Manufacturing Co.. MasI coutah. 111. It found that it went | “beyond the limited form of union ( security agredfnent permitted by ( the (Taft-Hartley) act." Previously, the board s sweeping , decisions concerning closed shops, union shops, hiring halls and other forms of union security had been -wes where the contracting parties defied the ban of the law or had "bootlegged" clauses to evade its provisions. In this case, the union and company had in effect a contract by. which the company agrees that when hiring new workers "mem-| here of the union shall be given (Tara Ta r»F Twa)

Officials Os Ford And Union To Meet Today Seek Settlement Os Six-Day Strike In Two Key Plants i Detroit, May 10. —(UP)— Ford Motor company and CIO officials meet today to attempt settlement of a six-day-old strike against two key Ford plants that will idle a total of 85,000 workers by tonight. Reopening of negotiations came as Ford scheduled immediate shutdowns of 11 assembly lines, with the remaining eight to close by next Monday. Henry Ford 11, youthful head of the company, accepted a union offer to reopen peace talks which were cut short last Thursday when 62,200 United Auto workers struck at Ford’s River Rouge and LincolnMercury plants. In his bid to reopen negotiations, Walter Reuther, president of the UAW. asked for to lead the company negotiating team personally. Ford declined the invitation, hut said “We will be happy to meet with you at 1 p.m. (C.S.T.)’’ Reuther referred to a letter the Ford president wrote to striking workers last week, in which he said the walkout was “unnecessary.” | "Since your letter expresses con- | cern for the Ford workers, we j would like to suggest that you as-1 rume your personal obligations to participate in negotiations." “This will also afford you the opportunity,” Reuther said. "Os being appraised of all facts in the' situation, which you do not have." I Ford said John Bugas, vice-presi-dent in charge of industrial rela,'tions who led previous peace efj forts, would conduct company negoI tiations with the “full support and 1 backing of the management." , Locals 600 and 190 of the UAW i I struck the two plants last Thurs-; day, charging the company with ' speeding up assembly lines at th-' j risk of the "health and safety" of workers. The company denied any ! speedup. I The strike at the heart of ths ' Ford empire has shut down several small Ford plants, and caused layoffs among the 3,500 major supplier , firms to the multi-billion dollar Ford auto business. The company's tractor division ■at Highland Park, Mich., which ( , makes one-fifth of the wheel-type I (Turn To Pnar Two) I: I. U. Band Concert I Here On Wednesday f Famous University Band To Play Here Albert Selleineyer, Decatur hlghj school bandmaster and faculty 1 member, will direct the Indiana University concert band when it | plays the famous Sousa's “Stars and Stripes" here Wednesday at ternoon in a public concert to be held at 2:30 o'clock at Decatur high school auditorium. Mr. Sellemeyer was invited to! direct the visiting hand by Daniel! Martino, director of the Indiana University travelling concert band, which is making its first visit to Decatur this week. Other features will include a trumpet trio and clarinet quartet, and harp solos by Mrs. Margaret B. White. The concert will be public and proceeds will go to the Decatur high school band fund. The local 1 band is sponsoring the event. Following is the program: Introduction to Act 111 from ■■ Lohengrin — W’agner. Overture for band—Mendelssohn ' Featured ensembles: trumpet trio playing "Bolero" — Ravel; ’ clarinet quartet playing selected J numbers. ' | Featured solo—Mrs. Margaret B White, harpist - Selected. , ' S ars and Stripes — Sousa. Caribbean Fantasy — Morrissey . Selections from "Porgy and | Bess" — Gershwin. , Principal W. Ouy Brown an , nouDced that students of all schools would be admitted to the , concert at 25 cents and adult tick- , ets are selling for 50 cents. He , stated that the unusually low price was set for students so that all , might be able to attend.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, May 10,1949.

Challenger And ‘Hague Mayor’ B r . . ' Jr I i Jr ® IB i ■■■-J Jigger • 11 John V. Kenny Frank Eggers JERSEY CITY, N. J., officials are counting votes to determine one of the most significant political battles since last November—mayoralty race *oday b c tw<’en John V. Kenny, challenging the Hague machine, and Mayor Frank Eggers, nephew of Frank Hague, retired former mayor and ‘ Haffue machine" boss. (International)

Commons Votes For Iron Nationalization Labor Government Measure Is Passed London, .May 10. —(UP)— The labor government's iron and steel 1 nationalization bill went from the I house'of commons to the predominately conservative house of lords today for final approval. Commons passed it by a vote of 333 to 203 last night. The conservaitives had anticipated defeat. , Declaring passage of the bill was a "tragic interlude," conservatives promised to repeal it and return the industry to private ownership the moment they return to power. La horites said they were merely doing some wishful thinking. They said despite an expected rejection in lords, the laborites would "bring ' it out” before the next general elections in 1950 through use of the recently-enacted parliment hill. The bill it mandatory for lords to act on the measure begore the election and opens the way for it to become law over the expected lords rejection. Conservatives charged bitterly that the 650.000.000 sterling (|2,j 600,000,000) measure was the "biggest gamble in state ownership the world has ever known." Socialist M. P.’s boasted it would i “break the back of private capital." Under the terms of the bill, only one major steel producing plant in Britain would remain outside govsubsidiary of the American-owned Ford motor co. With 97 percent of the steel industry under government control, the amalgamated industry would become larger than Bethlehem or (Turn Tn I'mje M*» ■ Bendix Plant Strike Goes Into 21st Day No Meetings Slated To Mediate Strike South Bend; Ind., May 10—(UP) —Two top federal mediators, one from Washington and the other from Detroit, were reported enroute here today to confer with officials of the Bendix Aviation Corp. I and the CIO United Auto workers* union which has been on strike for the past 21 days. Meanwhile, strengthened picket ‘!n’« natroll«d 11 gates of the strikebound plant. The mediators were identified Cyde Mills of Washington, and Arthur C. Viatt. regional director of the federal mediation and conciliation service from Detroit. If Mills and Viatt arrive this afternoon, as was expected, both union and company officials indicated that an early meeting would be acceptable. Company and union spokesmen have said they would be willing to] attend future meetings, but they also indicated that they would not budge from the positions they held when the sixth and last meeting broke up Saturday aftcrncon Some sources, close to both disputants, w'ere pessimistic that the new mediators could accomplish much. Some 7.509 UAW-CIO members struck April 20 in protest against | «Twra Te Face Feart

City Officials To Capital Conference Mayor John Doan, Lester Pettibone, Ed Kauffman, councilman Joseph Krick, and city attorney Robert Anderson went to Indianapolis Monday for a conference with attorneys concerning a bond is- ! sue for the purchase of a diesel stand-by electric light plant. The Decatur group was met in Indianapolis by Herbert Dow, engineer for the Nordburg Co., diesel manufacturers. Rural Eighth Grade Graduates Listed Annual Exercises At Berne May 21 Exactly 200 boys and girls wilL receive diplomas at the county j eighth grade school commencement exercises in Berne on Satur-I day, May 21. Dr. Gerald Jones, pastor of the Decatur First Methodist church, j will preside. I The list follows: Blue Creek Rex E. Raudenbush, Glenn T.| Gerber, Lester L. Painter. Shirley; Marlene Fox. Shirley A. Edwards.] Shirley A. Johnson. James Leßoyj Wilson. Gerald Lee Sipe, Jerry F. Neadstein, Lester E. Manley, Vivian Marcile Manley. Marilyn Ann Sipe, Lois Jean Debolt, Rose Ann Bilderback. Hartford Edward Fox. Duretta Herman.] Margaret Elaine Hirschy. Phyllis] Jane Schaadt. Maxine Monee, Tommy Wagley. Merlin Alt, Jerry Augsburger, Teddy Moser. Robert Her- ■ man, Patty McCune. Rebecca Lehiman. Dorothy Isenhart. Norma j Runkel. Jefferson Donald Eugene Charleston. Salo ] ma Hilty. Earl Eugene Johnson, j Patricia Jean Kelly. Barbara Ann ] Ijehtnan, Imogene Miller, Mary: Juanita Rhoades. Patsy Jane Rumple, Richard Paul Stuber, Rob- ] ert Leroy Switzer. Sharon Lee. Teeple, Christian Wlckey. Kirkland Donald J. Dick, Frances Elaine | Freels, Floyd Kenneth Ehrrnan. | Patricia Rosamond Barger. Roger I.ongenberger, Carolyn Dean Ger-1 ber. • Monroe Vivian Baumgar ner, Chestei| Beer. Gene Bluhm. Darrel Jimmy] Brodbeck, Leroy Chamness. Eileen, Evelyn Funk. Lyle Gerber. Arlene] May Habegger. Vera Harvey. Luther Jerome Heddlngton. Joe L. Hil-j ty. Coleen Hirschy. Don Holloway Max Lehman. Roy Lehman. Ernest Ray Liechty. Mary Michaels. Sara Moyer. Edward Nussbaum, Willis I Nussbaum. William Charles Row-1 den, John E. Schmidt. Margaret N. Schwartz, Samuel Shetler. ShirleyAnn Steury, Marva Mae Strahrn. Julia Ann Yoder. Preble Thomas Buuck, Peggy Eichler, Jerome Fuhrman. Roger Koeneman. Marilyn Miller. Howard Nielsen. William Ostermeyer. Ila Schaefer, Dorothy Witte. Willis IBulmahn. Frederick Ehlerding. Norbert Selking. Mariana Selking. Eugene Weber. Deloria Werling. Alice Werling. Darlene Ann Bul'emeier. Norma Jean Schroeder. Iva. Jane Klesa. Phyllis Darlene ScheuiTara T» I’as* Tbrevl

Restore Electric Power To Parts Os Berlin 40 Hours Before Deadline

Communists Renew Drive On Shanghai Force of 200,000 Renews Offensive Shanghai, May 10 —(UP)— Powerful communist forces estimated at 200,000 men renewed their drive on Shanghai today while other communist columns reportedly forced the start of a nqtionlist withdrawal from Hankow in Central China. Pres reports said that Gen. Pai Chung-Hsi, commander of the Hankow 'garrison, had stafted to move his 300.000 troops soiuthward toward Canton to avoid being trapped by the communists. The renewed communist drive on Shanghai's approaches started last night and was reported still raging furiously 12 hours later. The communists were reported hitting hardest at Kaiting, only 22 miles Northwest of Shanghai, and Ktioyaq dudlel 3 miles west. At Kaiting the communists were only 15 miles West of the.Woosung forts guarding the Whangpoo river, Shanghai's only outlet to the sea. Military authorities ordered the Shanghai population to prepare for i a state of siege by laying in erner--1 gency food supplies sufficient tor several months. City police wete placed on a wartime footing. Reports relayed through Hong Kong said all civilian passenger traffic on the rail line from Hankow South was stopped yesterday to make way for the military, i All foreigners in the area, includI ing Americans, now must seek their i escape Southward by means of a (single torturous highway. Gen. Pai also ordered all nationI alist steamships and junks in the j Hankow area to leave by tomorrow. Young 6irl Slain In I Church Parish House I High School Senior j Killed In Virginia Roanoke, Va., May 10 —(UP)—’ j Absence of a logical motive today I stymied the search tor the merci-: less killer of lovely blonde Dana ( ! Marie Weaver. 16-year-old high! school senior who was found beaten I and strangled in a church parisii ■ house here yesterday. Police admitted they were Up I I against a blank wall. Questioning , of at least six teen aged friends of I I the dead girl produced little infor-1 ' mation. Police Supt. S. A. Bruce said he was inclined to believe that the ' girl surprised an intruder when she entered Christ church Sunday night, looking for a meeting of the j Youth Service League. I There have been several rohherI ies in Espiscopal church in recent months. Bruce said. Nothing reported missiing this time, how- | ever. The violence of the attack and ; other circumstances surrounding 'the girl's death also appeared at 1 odds with this theory, officers ad ( I mitted. Dana was found early yesterday ' hy Alex Roland, the church's negro i janitor. Her bruised, beaten body lay in a pool of blood in the parish house kitchen on the second floor, wedged against the lower half of a dutch door. Coroner Charles M. Irvin said she had been kicked brutally in the face and legs, apparently after she had fallen to the floor. Fingernails were ripped from her I slender hands. Her throat and body i were blotched with ugly bruises. She was fully dressed in a neat ‘ gray suit and Irvin said after an inquest that she had not been i taped. .| ' But the scene indicated a ter- , rific struggle. A trail of broken glass led into an adjoining dining room Broken dishes were strewn , over the blood stained kitchen floo~ . Three chairs were overturned. Soft (Tara Ta Pane Five)

■ ■' ■ ■————r Row Nay Delay Senate Vote On Atlantic Pact Connally, Watkins Row On Questions Asked Os Witness Washington, May 10—(UP)— A row between chairman Tom Connally of the senate foreign relations committee and Sen, Arthur V. Watkins, R„ Uath, threatened today to upset the administration's plans for early action on the Atlantic pact. Watkins stomped out of the committee's pact hearings yesterday, claiming that Connally had "humiliated and embarrassed" him. A frequent critic of the treaty, he indicated he would have a lot to say about it when it comes up for ratification before the full senate later. Some GOP senators immediately rallied to his support. Sen. Styles Bridges, R„ N. H„ said the Connally Watkins flare-up “sure will" prolong senate debate on the pact. Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper, R., la., said the incident "won't shorten debate any." Sen. Robert A. Taft declined to comment, but he already has said he favors full discussion before the senate acts on either the pact or the corollary arms-for-Europe program. Despite the ruckus, Connally reaffirmed his intention of pressing for speedy action on both issues. He predicted that Watkins' action would have little effect on the outcome. Connally and Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg, R„ Mich., meanwhile, turned down an invitation to accompany the U. S. delegation to , the big four conference on Ger--1 many which opens in Paris May I 23. Thfy said they would stay on j the job here but would attend the conference later if there is an “urgent need.” The Watkins-Connally feud has I been brewing for days. The Utah Republican and Sen. Forrest C. I Donnell. R.. Mo., have been inter- , rogating witnesses as "guests" I the foreign relations committee. ' Almost daily Connally has remindi ed the pair that they were present (Turn To Tag* Tlir»»» I I ( Observe Poppy Day Saturday, May 28 ; Winners In Poster Contest Announced Poppy day will be held here May 28, it was announced today by MYs. Eleanor Braun, poppy chairman of I the local American Legion auxiliary. which will sponsor the event. Mrs. Braun said proceeds from the sale of the poppies, made by disabled veterans at the Marion government hospital, will be used for aid to veterans and for child welfare work in the local auxiliary unit. Making the poppies provides the disabled veterans with their I only income and helps them occupy their time while in the hospital. All Legion and auxiliary members are asked join the poppy club, Mrs. Braun said. Memberships are being sold until May 28. Winners of the poppy poster contest sponsored in Decatur schools by the auxiliary were also announced today by Mrs. Braun. Class three winners are: first. . Miss Vera Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Miller. Adams street; second. Kristine Striker. I daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Striker. Washington street: third. , Marilyn Teeple. daugh'er of Mr and Mrs. David Teeple. First street. I Class one winners are: first. I Mary Louise Voglewede. Madison street; second. Joyce Loshe. Fourth street; third. Susan Holthouse. North Second street. All winners are students st St Joseph's Catholic school, except Miss Striker, who attends Deca (Tara Ta Pace Twa)

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American Sector Housewives Given Unrationed Power Ist Time In Months Berlin, May 10 — (UP) — Russian authorities began lifting the Berlin blockade 40 hours before the deadline today when they restored electric power to parts of • the western sectors. The Soviet action gave American sector housewives unrationed electricity in the middle of the morning for the first time since ■ power raiioning was forced upon western Berlin by the Soviet blockade last July 9. Radios played and electric stoves glowed as the power flowed into ’ American sector lines from the Soviet sector. All of Berlin's major power generating stations are in the Soviet sector. ' German electric power authorities said the restoration of electri- . I city to the western sectors would ~ take place gradually. . | Full service, such as existed be1 fore the Russians cut off the powJer during the first weeks of their j i blockade, will not be effected un.[til some time Thursday, they said. ’ | Restoration of power was started . 1 40 hours before the official time , set for ending the blockade — • |12:(/1 a. m. Thursday (4:01 p. m. .. CST Wednesday). el Western authorities meanwhile H instructed Ix>rd Mayor Ernst Reutal er to lift allied counter-blockade )’ measures against the Soviet zone at the same time. '• At that minute the first of 16 I allied trains a day will begin to ■ roll into Berlin for the first time 1 since the Russians cut off all stirI face transportation 11 months ago. The number of trains a day was set under an order by Gen. Vassily ' C. Chuikov, new Soviet military j commander, providing that traffic tegulations between the east and . j west zones return to the sta us of ’ March 1. 1948. J The 16 trains will supply the , i western sectors with about 10,01)0 I tons a day, somewhat less than . the Anglo-American airlift achiev- , ed at Its highest point. All freight and passengers on the , trains will be passed without re- ■ striction. However, the Russians still will retain the privilege of licensing freight shipments going westward out of Berlin. The western mark, however, s ill will be banned in the Soviet zone "pending the decision on the question of currency in Berlin.” The four-lane superhighway to i Berlin from the western zones will ! be opened at the same time as the ; rail line. i | Nelson Nominated For Bar President ■j Nathan C. Nelson, veteran Decatl tur attorney was nominated for ' president of the Adams county bar - association by the nominating comi mittee at the regular May meet- ’ ing held following a dinner at the i Elks club Monday night. Other atI torneys nominated for offices in the I association for 1949-50 included: Arthur Voglewede. vice-presi-i dent; Severin Schurger. secretary; ■ and G. Remy Bierly. treasurer. The - annual election will be held at the June meeting. However, nomina- . tion by the committee is usually , considered tantamount to election. . Officers can serve for only one term according to the by-laws of the organization. i Report 13 Missing In Peru Snowslide Lima. Peru. May 10 — (t’P)— Rej ports reaching here today, said that II persons were missing in a snow- ' slide which huried a small mining (amp in the Andes mountains last Thursday night. A rescue party dispatched from ( Carhuaz. 35 miles from the scene and 165 miles from Lima, reported ’ | that heavy snows made rescue operaticns impossible. t The mining camp is located 15.000 feet up on a desolate mountain side, it was reported