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Graduate Speaker H' ;■ i. fIH Dr. Gerald H. Jones Grade Graduation Exercises Saturday Dr. Gerald Jones Graduate Speaker The theme of the address to be delivered by Dr. Gerald H. Jones, pastor of the First Methodist church, at the county eighth grade commencement exercises next Saturday in Berne, is “Youth's Decision.” The Decatur minister was selected by the township trustees to give the address at the exercises which will include the awarding of certificates to 200 graduates. The services will begin at 2 o’clock and will be in the Berne auditorium. County superintendent Lyman L. Hann will act as chairman. TJie program follows: Busic—Berne-French high school .string quartet. Invocation—Rev. C. A. Schmid. Class Address—Dr. Gerald Jones. Music, trumpet duet — Ralph Jackson and Don Runyon Presentation of diplomas by the county school superintendent and township trustees. Music. Benediction—Rev. C. A. Schmid. The trustees, teachers, and graduates are asked to meet at the auditorium at 1 p. m. Saturday for a group picture.

Truculent Turtle Is Enroute Home London, May 18—(UP)—The U. S. Navy’s record-breaking patrol bomber Truculent Turtle took off from the RAF's St. Eval airfield near Plymouth today on its return flight to the United States. The bomber was scheduled to depart yesterday but was delayed by mechanical difficulties which forced a landing at St. Eval. The plane flew to Europe over the route taken by the first transAtlantic fliers 30 years ago in another U. S. navy bomber. Let Noil-Strikers Info Bendix Plant No Disorder Today At South Bend Plant South Bend. Ind.. May 18-(UP) A normal. 60-man picket line parted to let some 1.600 non-striking workers into the Bendix Aviation Corp, plant today. The CIO United Auto Workers union reinforced its lines yesterday to 400 men to prevent the workers from entering, after plant protection police were forced to scuffle for entrance earlier. There was no di-order today, and neither South Bend city police nor sheriff’s deputies were on hand as the non-strikers, mostly office personnel, entered. The union had no comment as its negotiators prepared to meet at 9 a. m. with Bendix officials and federal mediators for a ninth bargaining session, on the 29th day of the strike. An eighth session, held yesterday. ended without announced re suits as did all the earlier meetings. Stanley Ladd, president of the local, said the union intends preventing removal of dies from the plant by Nash-Kelvinator and Willys. The auto manufacturers obtained a writ of replevin for the dies from the St. Joseph coun, | (Tara Ta Page Trial

New Communist Attack Presses Close To River Halt Daily U. S. Naval Runs Into Beseiged Shanghai Shanghai, May 18 — (UP) — Communist troops pressed close to the east bank of the Whangpoo between Shanghai and the sea today, cutting off daily U. S. navy runs into the besieged city. The new communist drive “all but encircled Shanghai completely on the east, leaving only an eight-mile corridor on the west bank guarded by the powerful artillery of the Woosung forts. At last reports the communists were five miles from the east bank of the Whangpoo after a wide wheeling motion south around Shanghai which carried them through the Pootung district across the river from Shanghai’s downtown section. The exact point at which the communists threatened the east bank could not be determined. However, the force was believed to be composed of infantrymen following the favorite communist tactic of infiltration. Although the daily run of an American navy LCI up the 'Whangpoo to Shanghai was cancelled today, two Chinese vessels came in this morning and two more were scheduled to go out this afternoon. This Chinese traffic indicated the communists have not yet been able to bring up the necessary artillery to blast river traffic, if that is their intention. The U. S. navy shuttle service, intended to evacuate any of the 1,450 Americans in Shanghai who might wish to leave at the last moment, may he resumed if the military situation improves, a naval spokesman said. The navy's strength in the Yangtze, off the mouth of the Whangpoo, has increased considerably in the last 48 hours. For the past week or more it has included only two destroyers and three landing craft. Now. howpver. Vice Admiral Oscar C. Badger's flagship Eldorado has arrived as well as an American cruiser and the hospital ship Repose. The Repose just returned from Hong Kong, where it took British seamen wounded on the British sloop Amethyst in the upper reaches of the Yangtze. With the Whangpoo threatened,

County Plat Books Here Photographed Assessors To Use Photostatic Copy Eugene Davis of the Permanent Records Corp., Indianapolis, has photographed every page of the plat books in the county auditor’s office and will furnish pho’ostatic copies of the farm sections, town lots and additions for assessor's use In making the real estate appraisement next month. There are five plat books. The records are divided into sec’ions of 640 acres, and those including the lots and additions in the incorporations of Decatur, Monroe. Berne and Geneva. The six by six mile square townships of Root, Washington. Monroe and Wabash contain 36 sections each. The remaining eigh*, four by six mile townships. Preble. Kirkland. French. Hartford. Union. St. Marys. Blue Creek and Jefferson, each contains 24 sections. Accurate and up-to-date with the latest real es'ate transfer, the plat books were prepared by WPA workers in the late thirties. The county contains 336 sections. However, town lots and additions in Decatur and incorpora'ed towns are not platted as sectionh. but In their respective additions and subdivisions. Each assessor will be furnished with a book showing the acres in each section, together with present ownership. Copies of the plat records in Decatur and incorporated towns will be provided to those who assess real estate in these municipalities • The county commissioners cdn(Torn Ta Pagr Seveal

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, May 18,1949.

Hero’s Welcome ■J ‘ WJAWy .■ J l" I VTr IFi .iMl I .J MBj A- ■ »<•,■ -4 L aSuy vs '-v ■ ’ President Truman adds a second Oak Leaf cluster to the Distinguished Service medal on the breast of Gen. Lucius D. Clay as the retiring U. S. commander in Germany arrived in this country. Gen. Clay was given a rousing ovation when he appeared before both houses of congress. . *

City Officials On II Visit To Milwaukee Councilinen Adrian Burke and | Dorphus Drum, Lester Pettibone, superintendent of the city power plant, and Frank Burns, chief engineer, left today for Milwaukee, Wis. The Decatur delegation will visit the Nordsburg Diesel Manufacturing Co. and observe one of the power manufacturing plants in operation. The city is considering the purchase of a power unit to supplement the local power production. No Pacific Defense Treaty Considered Acheson Statement Blow For Chinese Washington, May 18— (UP) — Secretary of state Dean Acheson said today that the United States “is not currently considering participation" in any Pacific defense treaty. The secretary’s statement was seen as a blow to Chinese Nationalist hopes for a Pacific alliance against Communism. Acheson said a Pacific defense pact “could not take shape until present internal conflicts in Asia were resolved." The secretary acknowledged that “there are serious dangers to world peace existing in .. . Asia.” He said there was a sharp difference between the Atlantic and Pacific situations. The Atlantic pact, he said, was "the logical culmination of a long series of devel-’ opments.” He said that practical plans for western European de-: sense were in existence long before ■ the North Atlantic pact idea came up and that they gave a “solid foundation on which to build.” He indicated that such a foundation does not exist in Asia due to internal conflicts. (Turn To l“nitr Seven)

(I. S. Steel Facing Squeeze By labor Lewis, Murray Seek New Wage Pattern Washington, May 18 — (UP) — U. S. Steel Corp, today faced* a two-way squeeze from John L. Lewis and Philip Murray to set a wage pattern for major industries. But corporation executives reportedly have told coal and steel Industry colleagues they are unwilling to take that lead in new wage talks. Representatives of the company are due to confer secretly this week with Lewis, possibly here, to explain why they are unable to enter immediately into new wage negotiations with the miners' union. Lewis asked for such talks in a letter yesterday. It was sent to the steel company's coal producing subsidiary. H. C. Frick Coal Co. Lewis did not set a date. He Is already committed to begin negotiations with Southern Coal Producers Association at Bluefield. (Tura To Pace Tno)

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No Exact Estimate On Sewerage Costs Bond Ordinance By City Is Suggested O. W. Brunkhorst, consulting engineer of Consoer. Townsend and Associates, said late Tuesday bis firm cannot at the present time estimate exactly the cost of the city’s proposed relief sewjrs and sewage treatment plant. Appearing for the second time within the month at a city council meeting, Brunkhorst, whose firm has prepared the plans for the project, stated the only way the city could learn definitely how much the construction will cost was to call for bids form contractors. “Spotty declines” of building costs throughout the middle west were blamed for the lack of an estimate. "Prices of materials have gone down from 15 to 30 percent since we made our last estimate of $1,285,402.50 earlier In the year," the engineer told the council. “But we cannot know exactly what the decline has been in this locality until contractors make their bids." Brunkhorst recommended the city administration go ahead meanwhile to draft a bond ordinance allowing issuance of revenue bonds to finance the construction. “When the contractors’ bids have been received," he said, "the city will know at how much under the original estimate the bond issue ■ can be set." The council will discuss further the problem of financing the conj struction in an executive session l next Tuesday. Other business at last night's i council meeting included: Consideration of Roy Johnson's 1 proposal that the city furnish tiles ; to drain sewage from his land. AtI torney Lewis Smith, representing I Johnson, said the county has al(Turn To I'live Seven)

Safety Awards c -„. x JAYWALK WG HAtUOftTCUT I TOTHtCTMWtR/ MUOtW UrtTVCOUHOI 9 1 Motorist: Mrs. Mae Strahm. 359 North Ninth street. Decatur. Award made by sheriff Herman Bowman and contributed by W. J. Bockman Insurance Co. Pedestrians: Mrs. William Kohne. Decatur route 4. Award made by Carl Braun and given by the Daily Democrat Mrs. William Bedwell, 227 North Fourth street, Decatur. Award made by Ferris Bowers and given by Gerber's Meat Market.

Close Berlin Autobahn To Eastbound Trucks As Special Permits Sought

FDR, Jr., Winner Os Congress Seal Gives Tammany Hall I Election Beating New York. May 18—(UP)— Franklin I). Roosevelt, Jr., elected to congress in the heaviest special election vote on record in New York City, dedicated himself today to “liberal and progressive” legislation. “My record in behalf of veterans housing speaks for itself and my political philosophy,” Roosevelt said. The first of the late president’s children to be elected to public office reiterated his campaign promises to support the legislative program of President Truman. Roosevelt gave Tammy Hall, the Manhattan Democratic machine, a shellacking in his successful bid for the congressional seat of the late Rep. Sol Bloom. Tammy frequently found itself on the losing end of fights with his father. Roosevelt could take office early next week, as soon as the results of the election grind through the official machinery, but he announced that he would leave tomorrow for a 10 day trip to Israel. He will take office as soon as he returns, barring some unforeseen development. His election, in which he captured more votes than the three other candidates combined, was attributed to the attraction of his name and an 18-hour-a-day doorbell ring campaign. Running under the banners of the Liberal and Four Freedoms parties because he had been denied the Democratic nomination by Tammy, Roosevelt polled 41,146 votes. His nearest competitor. Tammy Hall’s Democratic candidate Benjamin Shalleck, polled only 24,352 votes. And the other two candidates were far behind—Republican William A. Mclntyre with 10,026 and American Labor party candidate Annette Rubinstein with 5,348. Doctor Teslilies In Murder Trial

Move To Counteract Police Statements Cedar Rapids, la., May 18 — (UP) — A doctor testified today that Dr. Robert C. Rutledge had suffered shock and was "in no condition" to be questioned when he purportedly confessed the slaying of his wife's alleged seducer. Dr. Joseph J. Muenster of St. Louis city hospital said Rutledge was "in deep shock" when he was admitted to the hospital the morning of Dec. 17. He had swallowed poison when pplice arrested him tor the slaying here of Byron C. Hattman, 29. last Dec. 14. Muenster testified for the defense in Rutledge’s first degree murder trial. His testimony obviously was designed to discredit Rutledge's statements to police, who questioned him a few hours after he was admitted to the hospital. Muenster said his examination of Rutledge after his arrival at the hospital showed the 28-year-old baby specialist had a broken nose, black left eye. lacerations on the. chest, right palm and left index finger, and abrasions on the upper abdomen, left leg and both elbows. Asked about the laceration on the palm, Muenster said it was "several days old and made with a very smooth edge." His testimony bolstered the* defense argument that Hattman and Rutledge fought a fierce struggle in the hotel room. It followed similar testimony by Mrs. Rutledge. 23. about her husband's condition when he returned from Cedar Rapids The prosecution contepds that Ru’ledge stabbed Hattman to death after first knocking him unconscious. Muenster described "deep (Tom To Page Seveal

Atom Energy Heads Called To Conference To Discuss Quarter Ounce Os Uranium Reported Missing Washington, May 18—(UP)— The congressional atomic energy committee summoned members of the atomic energy commission to a secret conference today to discuss a quarter ounce of uranlum-235 that is missing. Chairman Brien McMahon, D., Conn., said the commissioners were asked to meet with his committee at 2 pm. (CST). The commission said earlier that the missing material is not believed "to have been stolen or lost.” Carl Shugg, deputy general manager of the atomic energy commission, had disclosed that the February inventory of fissionable materials at the Argonne national laboratory in Chicago showed a discrepancy of 32 grams, or 1.05 ounces of 7-235. Since then, however, he said. 25 grams have been recovered by analyzing waste material al the commission's Oak Ridge, Tenn., installation. Rep. W. Sterling Cole, R., N. Y., a member of the committee, told the house, meanwhile, that the disappearance of even a small quantity of uranium-235 “must not be lightly brushed off." Shugg said earlier that the missing seven grams of uranium "is not believed to have been stolen or lost." Shugg's statement was prompted by a copyrighted dispatch in the New York Daily News which said that three-fourths of a pound of uranium-235 “vanished" from the Argonne laboratory on Feb. 14. "The loss or more probable theft," the News said, “is considered the greatest threat to national security ever to be discovered in peacetime." The News described U-235 as the "explosive heart of the atom bomb and the deadliest and most closely guarded secret of the United States." Shugg said the atomic energy commission takes periodic invenCilini To Pace Five!

Fred Blosser Dies Here This Morning Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon Fred R. Blosser, 68, retired Pennsylvania railroad clerk, died at 10:10 o'clock this morning at his home, 315 North Seventh street, after an illness of several years duration. His condition had been serious for the past week. Born in Bluffton Sept. 24. 1880, he was a son of Theodore and Nancy High-Blosser. He was employed by the Pennsylvania for 38 years, most of the time in Decatur. He was married Feb. 18, 1905, to Cora Mann, who survives. He was a member of the First Methodist church and the Red Men and Knights of Pythias lodges, in both of which he had served as an officer. Surviving in addition to his wife are a daughter. Mrs. John Schenck of Mexico. N. Y.; a brother. Charles Blosser of Caluinent City, 111.; three sisters. Mrs. Carrie Smith of Toledo. 0., Mrs. Alice Hemstock of Hammond. Miss., and Miss Helen Blosser of Chicago; and eight grandchildren. One sister preceded him in death. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p. m. Saturday at the residence. with Dr. Gerald H. Jones officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. The body will be removed from the Zwick tunerial home to the residence, where i friends may call ater 2 p. m. Thurs'day.

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Western Officials Say Move Violates Agreement Lifting Blockade Os Berlin Helmstedt, Germany, May 18— (UPl—The Russians closed the Berlin Autobahn to eastbound trucks today, and western officials said the big four foreign ministers might have to settle what they called a violation of the blockade lifting agreement. More than 200 trucks headed for Berlin were backed up at this zonal border station for lack of special permits suddenly demanded by Russian authorities.

Western officials met in Berlin with Maj. Gen. P. A. Kvashnin. He refused even to discuss the truck tieup on grounds that it was a German matter. "It may be necessary for the foreign ministers to settle this difficulty,'* a high allied official said after the meeting. "The outlook is not bright for settling it on a local level.” Kvashnin, Soviet transport chief, also refused to give an answer today on an allied request for permission to run 32 trains a day to Berlin, instead of the present 17. Soviet authorities demanded that the trucks bound for Berlin on the Autobahn show special papers from the SovieVcontrolled German economic commission. While officials bickered, hunddreds of trucks dammed up at this zonal border check point. Among them were 90 huge trailers loaded with fish, fresh vegetables and other supplies. Stopped here less than a week after the lifting of the Berlin blockade and western counter-measures, truck drivers said the Soviet requirements would give the German economic commission of eastern Germany virtual control over all supplies to Berlin. C. A. Dix. American transport chief in Germany, hurried to Helmstedt when the news of the little blockade reached Berlin. He said it appeared to be a “clear violation" of the agreement between Dr. Philip Jessup, American ambassador at large, and Jacob Malik. Soviet delegate to the United Nations, which resulted in the blockade removal at 12:01 a m. last Thursday. Dix conferred with Soviet officials here as the trucks piled up in long lines. He said later that a formal protest would be lodged with Russian officials meeting in Berlin with American, British and French transport and economic chiefs. The Russians claimed, Dix said, that the new permit they demanded of thedruck drivers should have been required all the time after the resumption of highway traffic through the Soviet zone.

The Russians said Soviet officers on duty here had not been familiar with the regulations, and therefore had allowed the freight to pass for six days without permits. Nine-Year-Old Boy Is Drowning Victim Terre Haute. Ind.. May 18—(VP) — Funeral services were arranged today for Harry Flora, nine, who drowned in Loft Creek here yes. terday. Coroner D. M. Ferguson said the boy apparently went swimming shortly after eating. Flora was the first drowning victim in Vigo county this year. New Members Speak At Lions Meeting First-year members were extemporaneous speakers at the weekly mee'ing of the Lions club Tuesday evening. Those who spoke included Al Riehle. Alva Lawson. Dr. Gerald Jones, and the Rev. Edgar P, Schmidt. The following members also talked briefly: Dick Pruden. Ned Johnson. Glenn Hill, and Walter Krick, The club also planned a visit to the Geneva Lions club. The meeting was the second one held during the attendance contest, and at tendance was reported good Next week the nominating committee will report names of those nominal ed for club offices for the year be ginning in July.