Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 111, Decatur, Adams County, 11 May 1949 — Page 1

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ERLIN BLOCKADE IS CRUMBLING AWAY

Lon Hits ■Relations 111 Franco ®irows Cold Water Sn Congressional ■emands On Spain ■tiington. May H - (UP) - ■ arv of state Dean Acheson ■ted today that the United |H wil ) n ot grant full diplo- ■ recognition to Spain until ■ accepted as a full partner ■ f re e nations of Europe, ■teson told a news conference government does not ■jire the basic freedoms es■t o any member of the free ■k of the world. ■ made the statement , in the fl of growing congressional de■s that the Uni’ed States exambassadors with Spain. ■ to join in that demand are K-. top foreign policy leaders ■„,.p<:-chairman Tom Confl, D.. Tex., of the senate forfl relations committee and Sen. fl r h. Vandenberg, Mich., fl:. Republican member of the fliittee. flonally. in an open break with fldniinist ration on U. S. policy flrd Spain, said yesterday he fl “see no reason” why this flnment should not give Spain ■diplomatic recogni ion. echoed that view fl. saying there is 'no reason M we should not have an arnbasfl to Spain" since we have one I floscow. fle United States has not had I flnnba ? sador in Madrid since fl but it does maintain diplofl relations through a charge fl|ni. flbeson said Franco Spain does flrecognize the rights of habeas fls. trial by jury, relegious fldom and political as ociation. ■raid these fundamental basic , flts of the individual, which' fle the difference between free, flpe and the iron curtain counfl. do not exist in Spain, flbeson said that it we resumed i ■ relations without obtaining I flantees of such civil rights, it' fld be taken as an indication ■ we do not care about these ' ■ reporter asked why the U. S. I B no: w.thdraw recognition from' ■> curtain countries which also I flegcrded civil liberties. Bcheson said the question was ■ectical. He said that- the 1946 ■ reolution withdrawing am-, Rdors from Spain was in endw serve as a lever to force co to improve his regime, but l he failed to do so. 1 h did not work with one die-1 >rship, Acheson said, it would work with others. ary of state Dean Acheson Panning a private huddle with fuup of congressmen shortly in ’Sort to stem congressional jCtsm of U. 8. policy toward School Head Is ons Club Speaker J a * U- a ioey, superintendent of «»te school for the deaf at Ind-, was principal speaker at , ly L,ioni dub meeting 1 ? Venill8 ’ The educa l° r -| inni j f ° ar pu P* ls ( rom th® demonstrated how deaf! 11 »re taught lip reading' »„u anm S e - I I m IXII6 WM in cllar K® ofi President Robert 1 ,i °’ M »PPointed Walter Krick' e rbi>, n ? a coraml ttee to nomin-, , .°" lcer! 'or the June elecB ar 2,y illlain ® um ?erdner and 1 . 6 Cu,, w other commit K h 6rs Other business at the *k itti n<l6d beK,nnin « » «>«• M c »»teat The clubi •"’ith llwreL 7° ° PPOBlng ' »i, Smit? Anspaugh and C ‘ pliln ’ At a board Hl .J'* 8 * deci <«d the Lions he*-,. ~ * fon< ’®Mion at the ' r “ r **t f* ir j u!y • ( I. . WEATHER tonight and elsaSi,* * XMp ’ ,8r * >m ' si-/” *" «b«me north to’”rth

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Choir Boy Confesses Slaying Young Girl High School Senior Confesses Slaying Roanoke, Va„ May 11 — (UP) — A husky, 16-year-old high school wrestler who sang in his church choir today was charged with the parish house murder of his pretty schoolmate, blonde Dana Marie Weaver. The tall, handsome youth, Lee Goode Scott, gave detectives a statement last night after more than six hours of questioning. Police court judge Samuel R. Price immediately swore out the murder warrant. The youth was held without bond. Detectives said information from an anonymous telephone caller led them to question young Scott, a' senior at Jefferson high school ■ here. Dana Marie, also 16. was beaten! and choked to death in the parish' house of Christ Episcopal church Sunday night. Scott has sung bass in the choir there for the past two years. Police withheld all details of the youth’s statement, which they hesitated to call a “confession” officially. The motive for the brutal slaying remained a mystery, i One officer said young Scott's , statement was "disconnected and incoherent” and indicated that more investigation will be necessary regarding the motive. But two detectives said earlier that the youth had confessed killing the pretty Jefferson high, school junior. Detective Frank Webb's official i announcement said only that young Scott had given investigators a statement and that formal murder charges had been placed against him. “There are many other things we just cannot disclose at this time," Webb said. Police found the clothing which ' Scott wore Sunday night after the | youth told them it was in a closet 'at his home. Stains believed to be - blood covered the brown corduroy , coat, tan trousers and saddle oxj fords. Scott’s tanned face and hands were slashed with fresh scratches, ! which police believed Dana Marie , might have inflicted while fight--1 ing for her life. j She was found Monday morning ' in the kitchen of the parish house, j lying in a pool of blood. | Dana Marie’s funeral was to be 1 held this afternoon at the Raleigh Court Methodist church, wi h bur ial at Evergreen cemetery. Both Lee and Dana Marie were well-known and popular among their fellow students. But friends, said that Lee never had dated thej liTyrn To Tool 1 Lady Check Forger ' Escapes From Jail | Makes Escape From Greencastle Jail | Greencastle. Ind., May 11—(UP) I—A 25-year-old brunet being held for federal authorities on check forging charges escaped from the Putnam county jail today. | The woman, identified as Miss' | Marjorie E. Traylor, was taken to state police headquarters at IndI ianapolis yesterday for questioning ■ and returned here last night. Mrs. Victor Cue, wife of the jailor, said Miss Traylor saw a local ' doctor last night in her cell for a I “nervous condition" and then told i Mrs. Cue she was going to bed. “Evidently the girl secured a key I after being arrested and before go- ' ing to s ate police headquarters." , Mrs. Cue said, “because we shook I her down when we locked her up the first time, but not the second.” Miss Traylor told police she used a check writing machine to turn out the checks and then displayed FBI cards and described herself as a federal agent to merchants. Police said she had admitted I cashing nearly SSOO worth of the checks here, in Anderson and Lebanon. : She was arrested here yesterday by patrolman Estel McCloud as she tried to cash a check in a drug store. She said she had already cashed a 150 chect here at an appliance; ! store. On Monday, she said, she (Tara Ta Page Seeea)

Reuther Warns Left Wingers _ Quit Meddling [ Ford Strike Peace Talks Resumed As ! More Plants Close ! Detroit, May 11 - (UP) - Wai-' i ter P ( . Reuther, fiery chief of the' t CIO uni ed auto workers, warned ■ left wing elements in his union to- ! day to quit meddling in the seven- ’ day-old strike against the Ford Motor or face the conset quences. Crucial negotiations to set’le i the strike at Ford's Lincoln-Mer-Ijcury and River Rouge plants, mari|red yesterday by allegedly ComI i munist-inspired picketing, were scheduled to resume today. II The peace talks were set as i three more Ford assembly plants i shut down, raising to 90,000 the ' total number of workers off their • jobs because of the strike. Eleven , assembly plants closed yesterday. I Reuther’s ultimatum to "deal ’ with" errant workers came after union negotiators were embarrass- ■ ed by the appearance of about 40 j UAW pickets at the mid-city office i building where the negotiating sesl’sion» are being held. I The pickets, carrying signs de- ■ nduncing alleged “speedups" on I Ford production lines, were dis- • persed quickly by UAW Local 600 • president Thomas Thompson. II Reu'her said the picketing was | "unauthorized" and "engineered by ( I certain avowed Communist mem- 1 : bers.” i At the strike-locked Rouge plant. • meanwhile, two men distributing (Turn Tn Pnire J j ! Tax Collections Total $483,220.24 1 * 1 » Real estate, personal, and poll l taxes collected in Adams county > from November, 1948 to May 1949 ' amounted to $483,220.24, county • treasurer Norval Fuhrman announced today. t i Mr. Fuhrman said more taxpay- , ers were delinquent in this period s than in the previous period, May ■ to November, 1948, during which : $422,128.84 was collected. • I ,1 Frank Hague Loses ! Jersey City Rule ; 32-Yenr Political Reign Os City Ends I 1 Jersey City, N. J., May 11—(UP) I —Frank (“I am the law”) Hague, | last of the oldtime city political i bosses, faced a probe today of his ' ,12-year rule of Jersey City by the' [new “freedom" administration | elected yesterday. | John V. Kenny, whose fusion I slate broke the reign of the 73-year-old Democratic leader, said he would ask superior court judge William J. Brennan to impound the Hague administration's records to prevent their being destroyed. He said a large staff of auditors would be put to work on the city's books as soon as he and four fel low “freedom” commissioners take | office next Tuesday. ; "We won't touch a thing.” Kenny said, "until we can show «e can't be accused of all the mismanage-J ment we have charged against the Hague administration." Kenny, who will be chosen mayor by hia,"freedom" city commission, ' was elected by 81,117 votes to 59,231 for mayor Frank Hague Eggers. nephew of Hague who headed the machine ticket. Thousands of Jersey City resi Jents danced and paraded in the j streets until the early hours this morning celebrating the end of “Hague rule." The crowd hung a new sign on city hall reading: “under new management." Wholesale Prices Os Food Show Decline New York. May 11 - (UP)— Wholesale food prices dipped three cents last week to $5.68 on the < Dun & Bradstreet index, the agen- ' cy reported today. The index is two cents above the 28-month low of $6.66 reached last Feb. 8. It was $6.93 a year ago. The index represents the total ( of the price per pound of the Jl| foods in general use. •

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Ready For Blockade Lifting I V /v ■» ' -V” V. < • - W a/ ' 1 ’ - L I 1 * I . > I /V A. I "?> 1 I sj, ■W. A ’■ H - kfl t, vWfl'CTflLw *y|fl. ■MhBHHIBto. ® GERMAN RAILROAD men prepare a locomotive scheduled to make the first run from Berlin to the western zone When the blockade is lifted May 12. The workers are placing signs reading "we greet West Germany" on the eigine which, like other Berlin rolling stock has been idle for the past 10 months.

Bonn Site Os New German Government » Ancient University City Is Selected Bonn. Germany. May 11—(fU)— The ancient university city of Bonn was selected today as the provisional capital of the new west German state. The voting was secret. The west German constituent assembly, meeting in its final plenary session, gave 33 votes to Bonn against 29 for Frankfurt, headquarters of the American military government. Stuttgart and Kassel had been eliminated from the race earlier. Two Communists abstained. One ballot was declared invalid. Bonn, a d'y of 100,000 persons, is located on the Rhine near Cologne in the British occupation zone. Communists objected strenuous-1 ly to the use of a secret ballot in choosing the capital, claiming it would set a bad example because all the work of the constitutional: convention, including drafting of' the constitution, had been conducted privately. The main objections the German politicians found to Frankfurt were that it was too close to the occunation authorities and lacked adequate facilities for housing a central government. The assembly, in a second vote, barred former Nazis from the presi- i dtney and seats in the parliament (Turn To Paar Five!

Hirohito Pays Unstinted Tribute To Gen. McArthur

(Editor's note: Frank H. Bartholomew, United Press vice presi dent for the Pacific area, talked todav in Tokyo with Emperor Hirohito and Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the men who in their separate ways rule Japan and are recon structing the war ravaged country The Emperor paid unstinted tri bute to MacArthur, while the gen eral regarded Hirohito as a patriot devoted to the betterment of his people. Bartholomew’s-'account of his talks follows.) BY FRANK H. BARTHOLOMEW Tokyo. May 11—(UP)- I talked today with the two men who rule Japan’s 80,000.000 and who are charged with reconstructing the war-wrecked nation—Hirohito, the emperor, and Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur, the military ruler. Their views of each other were expressed frankly and freely. Although I was pledged directly to quote neither. I can say that the Emneror paid the highest and apparently unreserved tribute to the; conquering General as a man pos sessed of the quality of grandeur, a great administrator and a true)

Close Democrat Office | Saturday Afternoons The Daily Democrat office will] close at 1 o’clock each Saturday, afternoon during the summer months effective Saturday, May 14. For several years the Saturday issue of the newspaper has been published at noon. Copies of the, , issue can be purchased at either of the two Decatur newstands. Continue Parley On Bendix Plant Strike , South Bend Strike Is In Fourth Week 1 South Bend, Ind., May 11—(UP) A strengthened force of federal ■ mediators stepped up its efforts ( ' todav to end a strike by 7,500 CIO [ 1 United Auto Workers against thej Bendix Aviation Corp, as it enter | ' I ed its fourth week. 1 The mediators scheduled separ ate conferences today with both ! union and management. They had ,jno immedia'e plans for a joint meeting. A sixth frui.le s meeting ended last Saturday afternoon. The federal mediation forces ’ were augmented yesterday when Arthur C. Viatt, regional director at Detroit, and Clyde Mills ot Washington arrived. Viatt and Mills joined E. M. Sconyers and Paul Holbrook, who : have been trying to settle the disi pute since the UAW callee (Turn To I‘niie Flvel ,

friend of the Japanese people in peacetime. MacArthur regards Hirohito as essentially a patriot, a man devot ed selflessly to the betterment of i his people. Physically there could hardly be a greater contrast than between these two rulers, who lead their re spective lives in buildings separat I ed only by a lake and a park. Hirohito is a small, well-built man with a slight forward stoop, sitting rigidly in a chair with the burdens and troubles of empire plainly showing in occasional small, nervous mannerisms. He would remind you of an ex pert surgeon or lawyer who is too tired but with the full knowledge of so many hopes dependent upon him he cannot rest. I saw Hirohito in the morning and the tall MacArthur, relaxing his six feet two inches in an easy leather chair as he neared the end of his regular 7 am. to 9 p m workday There was another contrast with MacArthur himself not so many years age in Brisbane. Australia, with the bLck fury ot frustration (Tara Pace Eight I

Russians Permit Carload Os German Rail Officials To Enter HZesf Germany

Chinese Communist Drives Developing Suppress Reports On Some Fighting Shanghai. May 11—(UP)— Reports on fighting in some sectors of the front around Shanghai were suppressed today but the government admitted that a new Communist drive was developing to the southwest. Today's military communique and Chinese press reports contained only the briefest mention of developments at Kunshan, 30 miles west, where the government reported that three Communist armies had started a strong attack yesterday. It was believed either the weight of the Communist threat there was overestimated or the situation was such that the authorities preferred not to mention it. Garrison headquarters said however that a new Communist drive was developing to the southwest in the area of Kashuan, aimed at Sunkaing, 32 miles southwest of Shanghai. The Communist radio said other troops in central China were making swift gains against crumbling Nationalist resistance and were apJ proaching Nancheng, a road hub ’ controlling strategic highways deep into the heart of Kiangsi province. The official central news agency said it had received a report that a movement was afoot in Hankow and its sister cities, Wuchang and Hanyang, to make a separate peace with the Communists despite a government ban on such action. National Protestant Newspaper Planned Kansas City, Mo., May 11—(UP) — Protestant clergymen and lay leaders planned today to establish a national protestant news-, paper. Some 200 representatives opened' a two-day meeting yesterday at which plans were laid for buying and developing the "Protestant Voice," which has been published privately for eight years, to make it a publication for the protestant. world. 1 j Rutledge Murder

Trial Continued Detective Called To Give Testimony Cedar Rapids, la., May 11—(UP) | —Deep slashes on the doors of] room 729 in the Cedar Rapids I hotel were described by a detec-, tive today as the state sought to I prove that Dr. Robert C. Rutledge! stabbed his love rival to death ini a violent struggle. Detective inspector William Kudina, testifying for the state in the first degree murder trial of he St. Louis baby doctor, described slashes found on the bathroom and closet doors of the room occupied by Byron C. Hattman, St. Louis electrical engineer, when he was slain last Dec. 14. Kudrna said the doors were on* opposite sides of a narrow passageway into Hattman's room. He said both gashes were about three-six-teenths of an inch deep and one was “three or four feet” long. The other was short, he said. “rhe instrument to make these . . Kudrna began, but the defense objected and was sustained On cross-examination, defense attorney R. S. Milner asked Kudrna if he would say that the amount of blood in Hattman’s room was “copious." The prosecution object-1 ed and Milner then asked Kudrna if he knew what the- word “copi-1 ous” meant. “I’m afraid 1 don’t," Kudrna said, and the subject was dropped. Rutledge observed his 28th birth- ’ day today as the detective's testimony opened the third day of testimony. Rutledge sat next to bl« six-foot tall, honey blonde wife., Sydney. 23 Occasionally they ex(Tara Ta Pagv Seven)

AFLRetreafs From Stand On I Taft Repealer To Accept Most Os Compromise Offer By Sen. Rayburn Washington, May 11—(UP)— The American federation of labor today gave up its stand for outright repeal of the Taft-Hartley act and retreated part way to a position previously prepared by speaker Sam Rayburn. AFL president William Green disclosed his federation’s decision after a White House conference with President Truman. He said thatin order to get the Taft-Hartley law off the books in this session of congress, the AFL will accept most provisions of the Rayburn compromise which will be the basis of a new repeal attempt later on. He balked at just one provision of the Rayburn bill—a provision to give the government power to break strikes menacing the national welfare with Bbday court injunctions. Green proposed, instead, a provision giving the government authority to seize plants for 30 days in strikes threatening public safety and welfare. The AFL previously has Insisted publicly on outright repeal of the Taft-Hartley act. Other congressional developments: Credit control—Thomas B. McCabe, chairman of the federal reserve board, asked that the hoard's credit control powers be broadened. He told a senate banking subcommittee that such broadening is j necessary to provide “elbow room" , to fight either inflation or deflaI tion. j Taxes — Chairman Robert L. Doughton of the tax-writing house ways and means committee said after a visit with President Truman. that he hoped government . spending could be cut enough to ' avert a tax boost this year. Spies—More tales of espionage , in the United States were given a j senate subcommittee. A former ! Yugoslav official said the YugoI slav delegate to the United Na- ' tions is developing a secret police network for Russia.

Pad—Eugene Dennis, Communist party secretary on trial in New j York, denounced the north Atlant tic treaty as an “aggressive mill ! tary alliance" which will lead to! World War HI. Norman Thomas.! the country’s No. 1 Socialist, urged ■ ratification of the pact on grounds (Taro To Pair Eight) | City Hall And Fire ! Station Are Painted Part Os Decatur's Clean-up Campaign In line with the general spring clean-up campaign, the city hall and fire station are in the process of being dressed up Inside and outside. Painting of the interior of the city hall was completed several weeks ago and at the present Ray Venis and a crew of painters are painting the outside. At the fire station, John Anderson and Son have completed the outside painting and the four regular firemen, chief Cedric Fisher. Joe Mcßride. Burt Ralston and Roy Steele, and several of the volunteers have completely repainted the interior, including the refacing of the bricks. Firemen also are preparing to set out their spring plants and have hopes that many flowers will be in bloom on the south lot by Memorial dav City trucks are picking up rub bish this week and many local home owners are planning on having their homes painted during the spring and summer months Local painters My that they are book ! ed up with work until late fall.

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Allied Trains, Autos And Trucks Lined Up For Midnight Dash Into Berlin Tonight Berlin, May 11 - (UP) - The Berlin blockade crumbled away today and the Russians permitted a carload of German railroad officials to cross into western Germany 15 hours before the deadline for ending the Soviets’ supreme and futile maneuver in the cold war. A one-car combination passenger coach and diesel locomotive rumbled across the east-west frontier at Helmstedt, carrying about 20 German officials into the British zone, as allied trains, trucks, automobiles and carts lined up for the midnight dash to Berlin. The first train going the other direction from west to east, arrived a few minutes later at Helmstedt. Loaded with newsmen and photographers from nine nations. it was shunted to a siding to await a crossing at 2 a. m. tomorrow. two hours after the blockade is lifted formally. Hundreds of vehicles — automobiles. trucks, bicycles, horsecarts, wheelbarrows — massed along the j highways and surged toward the zonal border. Berlin itself prepared for a historic celebration to mark Its liberation from the 11 mon hs of Soviet traffic shackles. I Th? Russians blasted 60 traffic barriers along the Soviet sector border inside Berlin — iron and concrete monuments to the all-out effort short of war to oust the western powers from the former capital. The Soviets showed every sign of living up entirely to the letter and spirit of the agreement for the blockade removal. Their official organ here, the Taegliche Rundschau, went even further. It said edi'orially: "It is now clear that peace can he secured In Europe." Ten coal trains were loaded at Brunswick and six food trains were poised at Hanonver. waiting to lift the burden from the gigantic Anglo-American airlift that has supplied western Berlin’s 2.500,000 population for the past 327 days. Berlin for its part prepared for the most massive celebration in history to mark the end of the blockade. The Germans called it their "V-E Day.” They closed their schools and stores, opened their bars and put out the festive bunting.

i The Russians, in a quick turn[about from the bitter days of win- ; ter when the cold war seemed I about to burst into flame, painted j the dove of peace on their first ■ locomotives scheduled to steam | west with goods from the east. | There were growing indications I that the Russians intended to live ; up to the spirit as well as the i letter of the blockade-lifting (Turn To Paso M«» Auto Stalls, Man Killed By Train Evansville. Ind., May 11 —(VP) —An L. & N, railroad train backed into a stalled car at a crossing here yesterday and Marvin Guy lenders. 48. Evansville, was killed. Landers and his son both jumped from the car after it came to a stop on the tracks. The younger man leaped to safety but his father was trapped between the train and the car. Robert M. Hutchins Marries Secretary Chicago. May 11 — (UP) — Charcellor Robert M. Hutchins of the University of Chicago married his secretary. Mrs. Vesta Sutton Orlick. then left with her for a honeymoon in the sou h. Dr. William J. Hutchins, father of the chancellor and former presI ’dent of Berea college in Berea, Kv. read the ceremony last night. i The wedding was attended only by I members of the immediate families in the home of Mrs. Orlick's mother.