Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 139, Decatur, Adams County, 14 June 1949 — Page 1

fcxLVU. No. 139

ICOAL HINERS SET TO TALK NEW CONTRACT

Ashinsky And ides Leave L Four Meet I No Exploration Is ■ Q iven When Russians 1 Leave Secret Parley hm- H- UTt-The Sovan hour after it opened l|C f tom Mng off «P*« illation r , ihe Russian* had walked the conference ,i; auation was forthcoming .^K..A Soviet walkout ,;i». U---U outside tiie confer; nt there was no <on t->reign minister Andrei and his entire delega th*’ 1 onfer-nce room, the inodsters remained He ML.,-. ~-■>• not allowed Insidt* the t>£ , ~>iir'yard. and were given OB tn question Vlshinsky Ki jtv member of hla delegation. I , four ministers met for a fl decide the fate of hie W 3 hour after the start, lilt les w ere seen ■ «Hu Satis had walked oHt noon tie camelled H-c d»* iftitdsteru meet In secret isi- western minister*, Mr r to vain to keep their own t formula secret. agreed •Mary of slate bean A<he»eat to extreme lengths to delegation. He cancelled . (inference which was to i«-ti his first since lie cairn J h-is lie ordered each mem- ■.! his delegation to answer all inquiries with "no comSa »’ l* r for secrecy was so ' .at the I' 8. delegation for hours announcing that ■k r-gular meeting of the minis-1 uad been cancelled and a fl*"’ session would be held gßl'iihinsky had been seeking deBl' t®Friday It new appearMk -jo,nai>!- to conclude that he fie» instructions from Mos- j fl” wbhh would determine this conference on Gerwould dissolve in anger or a working arrangement in fl* t - ,i katimi of another council in New York next fail M ws’ern delegations already y*’ Mcking up The last sesjy* of <hls conference was exp*< tM» t'J be li-ld tomorrow night or |y' if * <| ay Thus the British and' m*kch ministers can attend a t || ’"“l* Pact conference in Lua-1 ■fc-onir-- Friday and Saturday H de afternoon meeting will open j 8 (Tern Tn Pa«e ST«btl fcseuss Plans For | first Annua! Fish I Fry Here In Fall of the Chamber of Comf* met with the executive com- || us the Adams county extern-1 at the office of ' T mnt L H Archfodd ManPlans were discussed for first annual fish fry to * Srid this fall. two organizations are coopg 1 sponsoring the event, hope will become an ■Ur. Farmers' tickets, of ' will be SOO, will sell in each township to 'be ticket sale. for the 200 Chamberj *lll sell for |2 50 Various made to farmers at and plans al.-ady are obtain one of th<* glee clubs for enterThe two cooperating name various commit* ’ to complete the plan*. Weather • *?* c,ou-)f with occasfoe(4ti,h***r» snd thunderstorm* **’ >n< * '* e<,n *sday. Contisrather warm and humid. ’ Um « M 66-72. hiah Wed 72-71.

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G E- Company, Union Open Negotiations Negotiations between the Gen j eral Electric Company and the I United Electrical Radio and Ma chine V,'.,rk- ■ * of America CIG will open today in New York I nion demands this year include a flat, 1500 raise for ea- n employe and improvement of the standard of living by better pen sfons. Improved health protection shorter hours of work with no 10-s in take home pay and other mean. ; General Electric workers it, i Decatur are represented by l*o< al r i 4 Berlin Strike To Continue; Vote Six-One West Berlin Roil Workers Vote To Continue Strike I!, !■;■ ■ • 'll*' W- ’ worki day strike against the Soviet-con fo*> J >;:■.> ■- so .. ’i ' Ulli! ndllh- ai/ah usbl* th* city and virHurtin >‘tnd * h- ir / Brai ' unn ■ f ■ . h*a r’y fhnti the w<«rkerM hav*- no eon "Unit *hv Utoip wa« n. ported work ed out by Soviet transport chiefs; ■ z r - -.. ■ i commandant here Th* Worker# voted 12/»26 again#! 4oir<K back to work aod 2,085 in favor of * nding the strike Columbia City Man To Speak To Lions James I>. Adams, of Columbia, City, will apeak at the weekly j meeting of the liecatur Lions Club , tonight at 6 20 o'clock at toe Knights of Pythias home Mr. Ad-j t>ms U a well known manufacturer. * banktr publisher, and former chair-; man of the Indiana state highway commission The title of his spew It [will be "43 days in South America. On his trip through South \meri< a. Mr. Adams traveled more than 27.noo miles, of which 22. mm miles were by air l> Burdette Custer will | have charge of the meeting. Torrential Rains Hit Texas Areas 10 Deaths Reported In North Texas Area I Dallas Tex . June 11 -'l l’ '! ; squall-line of massive thunder storms poure<l torrential rains over I ;he Dallas-Fort Worth area in north Texas today, causing severe flash : floods and at Imul 10 deaths The downpour measured an o'-fu-lal 7*6 at Grapevine, a north-• western suburb of Dallas, but an , u!) * ~i .*..!!*• ■■---:* Rl -<»n I' hicb*** l less than 12 hours Four persons drowned in suburban Garland when a ymall creek flashed out of its banks and owrran a new residential devel-pmetc Iwo other deaths were attributed to the storm in Dallas county and four others at Fort Worth Three youth., were /tilled at Fort > Worth when their auto was hit ■ b. a train during the heaviest par* of the downpotw Another youtn j was electrocuted there when he stepped on a live wire There was no official estimate believed heavy. A loaded Frisco ftelght train of ♦<* - are 'ut , sas.i out at Farmers Creek north of Dallas, and overturned j, rew escaped Levee patrolmen kept waf<h'»!j L y es on the Trinity river's dikes I which were crumpled by a devastating flood at Fort Worth only last j month The dikes had not been rs-, I paired.

Oppenheimer Admits Being Party Member Admits Communist Party Affiliation Prior To Atom Work Wushingio': June 11 (I’Pi 'Dr Frani-. F Oppenheimer admit ; • d today that lie had been a com uiuatst party memtM t for three ■. rears prior to hix wartime employment as a research worker on the ilotnic bomb. Oppenheimer is a brother of the 'famed physicist, .1 Robert Oppen-* i lieimer, who was one of the top tig-1 uh - iii development of tin- bomb j | He appeared at a half hour closed! i Session of the house utiAmerlcan! activities committee e At the con.elusion, he issued a press release I I to reporters He said he left the party prior! to his wartime employment. He worked at the University of Calit fornia radiation laboratory at Berk ; I >-|ey from 1941 to 1917 Frank Oppenheimer said he and !ii» wife joined the communist party In 1937, "seeking an answer to the problems <it unemployment and want in the wealthiest and : la 1..- , .UH' ' ' m t.he. Thi. e and one half years later, he aid they dropped out because the party did not accomplish their •* • ,Ve o< b -. now an -• istant profi -or of physics at the University of Minnesota, said he an wered all questions about himself fully and freely " But he said he d< < lined to answer question* about I other people. TfM y asked me about the politi al affiliation* and activities of others, he said- "I refused because I did mil believe I should represent others at this hearing Oppenheimer said that he tendered hi- resignation to the University I of Minnesota a few days ago. He said he joined the communist party in Pasadena. Cal . In 1937. while he was working for his Ph D degree He left it at Palo Alto. Cal, three and one-half years later when he was teaching at Stanford University, he said "During the period of our mem<T»-« T« !*•*» Kl«bt> Bonus Applications Here In Two Weeks VFW And Legion To Have Applications Indiana World War II bonus application* will be available in Decatur on July k, it was learned today. Harry Martz. Decatur route 6, fourth district commander of Veterans of Foreign Wars, which organization along with the America nLegion, is cooperating with the ; state department of veterans' as i fairs in plans for receiving bonus ' applications, has returned from a ■ council meeting at Indianapolis at | which meeting the tentative plana I were discussed Application blanks for all living i participants of World War II will • be availabl eat all VFW and Amer ! lean Ixncion posts In Indiana in ! i.laiut two wenks Both organizations will have member* schooled i in assisting any applicant with the , filing of hi* application. Those eligible to receive the boni’s. voted by the 1949 Ind ana general assembly, include: Army of the United State*, I S navy, U. 8. marine corp*: U. 8 «oazt guard and all their compotient* Component* are defined j >n the instruction* as she various , womens organizations, active dui j mg the recent war and also publi'*; health service and geodetic sur-1 I vey, whlfo detailed for act<ve duty Those not in ! uded are; Women's auxiliary army corp*; , uerchant marine and maritime *er ■ i ice, R O.T.C and such private organization* as Salvation Army, Red <'ross, Y M C.A and civilian memer* of the army and navy depart t men! and FBI. All i; ■■ "<1 ' -r< "» dur '■»' the war who were resident* of In* j diaSa for »ix month* prior to their | t-nlistlng are eligible to apply tor i ,the bonus The attention of applicant* i» <ailed to one section of the law wliicb prohibit* anyone from chamI inc sos assistance In filling out |Tsrs Te Paar Klahty

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, June 14, 1949.

— * Coal Talks Begin And End iIMM MHMEbUm : s JOHN L. LEWIS, president of the United Mine Workers, sits down I | with representative* of Big Steel's captive mine* at a I’hiladeiphia I meeting to begin di*< tlssion of ll't’.i eontraci-i The talk- ended abruptly after two short session*, however, and will be continued on June 23. by mutual agreement.

Schricker Seeking Strike Settlement Urges Bendix Plant Strike Be Settled Indianapolis, June 14 ■ (UP) • (Governor Schricker asked the par--lies to the 56 day-old Bendix Aviation Corp strike today to settle , their dispute so 7,500 CIO United Auto Workers could go back to i work Schricker expressed the hope an agreement could be reached ami the plant reopened soon for the ■ production of part* for the automo.|tire and airplane Industrie*, ij Schricker said it was the state's -•"opportunity and duty" to try and '(get the parties together "This Is a critical matter," th*governor sal "laissex ia wage are almost irreparable The economic situation in many homes is becoming desperate It we fail thltime, we're Just hack where we started." State labor commissioner Thom as It. Hutson suggested if the present efforts failed, an Indus trial engineer be called in as a "third party” to try for a settlement. A few minutes after he conferred with Bendix and UAW spokesmen in his statehood* office at his invitation. the conference recessed for lunch. The conferees agreed to return at 1 p m to talk again. (Turn Io I‘hk*- l ‘*fctl Slain Girl’s Mother Testifies At Trial Mrs. Birmingham On Witness Stand Milwaukee, June 14 I UP) Mrs Katherine Birmingham. 3k. testifying for the prosecution in her son in law's murder trial, wept today at the sight of a jacket worn by her -lain 16 year-old daughter Bi r m against Milton Babich. 19, on trial for killing her daughter. Patricia, last Feb 10. Babich and Mrs. Birmingham's oldest daughter. Kathleen. IS. eloped two days before Patricia's body was recovered from the Milwaukee river last March 2<». Mrs. Birmingham and Kathleen differed when Kathleen decided to stand by her young husband Babich is charged with killing Patricia to silence her about Kathleen's pregnancy. Kathleen's baby is expected next month Mrs Birmingham, an attractive housewife, burst into sobs when deputy di-tri< t e att troy I-- ph Tierney placed Patricia's jacket on * table in front of the witness ! stand l<» be shown to Mrs. Birniing- ( bam later As soon as she saw it, Mrs. Birmingham bowed her head and wept bitterly Tierney hastily withdrew the jacket from her sight, and after a few seconds Mrs. Birming bam dabbed at her eyes with her (Tara Te Pace t.tskti

Library Open Only Two Nights Weekly The public library will lie open only two nights u week, startiny immediately and extending through j the summer months, it was an-. nounced today by Miss Bertha Bel 1 ler. librarian, and the library board ’ Hogular hours will be observed e, j , ery Monday and Friday and the •’reading rooms will be open from • 18 16 |i m to 8 sat pin ~ _ I On Tuesday, Wednesday. Thurs- > day and Saturday evenings, the library will close at 6 o'clock until i further notice There are no Sun I day hours at the local library. Young Roosevelt To Take Office Today To Become Member Os Congress Today • Washington. June 11 (Ul’i Another Franklin Delano Roosevelt comes to Washington today. , Fresh from a New York triumph that set him on a political career. t FDR, Jr, takes the oath of office . shortly after noon as a member of the house of representatives. I The third son of the late presl ! dent is due here from New York by plane at lo 11 am EIW His I mother and a party of friends were to accompany him. Young Roosevelt has an afternoon date to see President Truman in the office where his own father guided the destiny of the nation for 13 years Democrats welcomed him wits. open arms, despite the Liberal party mantle he donned when Tam many Hall turned him down as a candidate “He 1- a Democrat nothing ebei couldn’t be anything else." said | house majority leader John W Me Cormack Roosevelt, whet is 34. personally arranged the final details for today's brief simple ceremony And like his father did so many timei in politics, he set a precedent Usually, a new congresamatr is i "sponsored” by the dean of his i party's delegation from hi* own I state In Roosevelt’s case, th a’ 1 should be Rep Emanuel Celkr.| dean of New York Democrats tn the house But late yesterdav . young Roosevelt telephoned Rep Walter A Lynch. D, N Y to seek I his sponsorship Lynch happily a< cepted It is generally believed that j i yoU.ng Roosevelt wld b< a-■-1;'»•■•!! > to the house executive expenditures’ committee. That group has one ofj three committee spots now vacant.! f'hairman of the committee |» Rep . William L Dawson, D, ill, onb negro ever to hold -ueh a place in I congress Th* group handles bill i affecting the reorganisation and! i long range spending plan* of th* • executive branch of government •tVoung Roosevelt. tall and friend ly with a smile reminiscent of his father's will represent New York> 20th congressional district, it In , I eludes most of the west side of Manhattan between 2<th and llttb I streets, a district represented tor more than two decades by roti ■ gressman Hol Bloom who db-d (Tara Te rage Eight >

Lewis Notifies Entire Coal Industry UMW Is Ready For Negotiations

French Government Refuses Wage Hike Civil Service Men To Go On Strike Paris, June 14 (I’Pi The government today refused wage boost* for 1.000.000 civil service employes who were scheduled to strike at midnight and practically paralyze French administrative life for a day The cabinet countered the wage demands with a warning Io leader* of the proposed strike that senior civil service employes would be Hable to loss of their job* If they took part in the walk I out. The strike threat promised to immobilize employe* of governti -nt. mini -lr -■ in. ~1 prefects radio stations, law courts, post* offices, telephone exchanges and I'ustoms post*. Many *< hools would be closed Most air transport would be grounded with weather and administrative personnel walking j out. Hail service would not lie | affected, and such vital public j services a* hospitals and water- > work* would be maintained. The *< heiluled strike, plus a threatened dash on Hat unlay in Paris between communist* and supporters of Gen. Charles De Gaulle marked the first threat ’o the political and labor tranquility Fi /i- e ha.» enjoyed •m - the de feat of communist Inspired strikes last November. However, in no way did they | threaten seriously the position of I Premier Henri t/ueuilie's govern--1 ment. Not only the communists, but the socialist worker* force and the Cliristlnn Labor unions w.-re ba< k iiiK the civil service strike They demanded an upward reclassification of government employes which would give the worker* substantial pay increases. The cabinet decided at a meeting today to stand fast It made public a warning that under the November. 19i7 ami June, 194 K. de. ; .-e- assistant offi. <; chief* and higher employes were Hable to suspension ami even dismisal if they took part in strike*. Democrats Stand On Brannan Farm Plan Midwest Democrats Adopt Resolution Des Moines, la. June 14 (UP) The Democrats were ready tojlay to make their big pitch tor the i 1950 midwest farm votes on agriculture secretary Charles Brannan's controversial plan for supporting farm price* In a resolution adopted by dele- | gates fr*m 16 state* attending a j midwest Democratic farm rally, the | party said “We accept the challenge of the {Republican leadership to make the (arm program* offered by the two i !>artit-« the major isue of the election campaign of 1950 in the midwest." The resolution, adopted tinaninously. urged the party's national .ommittee to emphasize the ad 1 -ninistration's farm plan in next I year'* congressional campaign "so | that the people may intelligently > boose between the Democratic ' program of ,-rogres* , , . and the ■ Hepublit an program of reaction ; nd the historic serie* of boom* land bust* for agriculture" That meant the Deini.crats were I willing to stand or fall In the mid- ■ west on Brannan's proposal a* op i tmaed to the Republican-sponsored , farm income law authored by Hen .George D Aiken. R The Aiken law reaches Mi effect next year ! suggestions for changes in the | Brannan plan although Brannan I himself urged that they do so if j they felt them necessary The Brannan plan would Ml up •Tere Te f’sae £!**<>

■ ■ '■— ■ f Urges Early Hearing For Dr. Condon California Solon To Demand Hearing For Edward Condon Washington. June 14 (I'l’l i Rep Richard M. Nixon. R. Cal. today called on the house un American activities committee to grant an immediate hearing to I>r Edward U. Condon. Condon, director of the national bureau of standards, was labelled j "one of the weakest links” in the nation's atomic security last spring 'I by an un-American activities subcommittee He has demanded that he Im given a chance to answer the < harge publicly. But the committee ba* j taken no action <>n his demand Nixon, a member of the <ommit tee, told newsmen he intern!-, t<> move officially for a hearing at today's meeting of the group, "I believe ;• I* time for a- to > get down to case* and give Dr. Coni don an opportunity to appear be I i fore our committee.” he said. ' This, ' thing should be settled once aud ’. for all." | Nixon said the need for a hear- • jing for Coudon was pointed up last! i week by the references to Condon's { ! wife, Emily, in an unevaluated FBI report read into tin- record of Jud- ’ ith Copion'* spy trial j The report quoted an FBI in j 'formant as saving that Mrs Con don gave a Washington business-i ■ man the New York address of a ! Bulgarian official suspected of beling a Russian agent. Condon ha* denounced the rei port a* mere gosslji He ha* de- . I manded that FBI director J. Ed I gar Hoover apologize publicly to! ■ Mrs. Condon Hoover has declined • to comment ■ Elsewhere in congress: Housing The house rules com-j l mittee, after a month of delay, api peared ready to approve the pub- ' lie housing hill tor floor debate The legislation, a major plank in President Truman's platform, pro vide* for the construction of 1.050.000 public housing units over the next seven years. Atomic Sen Rourke B Hick eolooptr. R, la . cited a Hanford. Wash . plutonium plant, which cost tour times the original estimate, a* an example of "incredible mismanagement'' hf the atomic program by David E’ IJlienthal laibor Law Sen. Wayne L (Turn Te l’»«t Klabtl Voters Os Trieste Rebuff Communism Proves Sympathies With West Nations Trieste. Jun. 14 Voters in the international city of hav»* both pro-ton.inform | inx thftir isympathi*** with tl * west, complete offkU! returns .‘lte-lu". nciJ! *r iL r * ; - (I Whh fins return* n frotn all Si." It.l i t ,■ : iT«ni T« !**•«* IClshtf

Price Four Cents

• Gives Formol Notice Present Contract To Expire On June 30, Mines Still Closed Washington Jum- 11 — (VP) John I. L»*ll put tto» whole coal industry on notice today that the United Mine talk new contract. A big issue probably will be a plan to set up a production stabilization 'Tzar* for soft coal sent out notices that he Is ready to negotiate new contracts at a mutually" agreeable time and pla< e with all soft coal operator* with whom he I" <“>t now negotiating. Chi* means th® Hulk of the ludustr) the northern ami w. item commercial soft • "-* 1 operator*, most of the captive mine operator aud two Houthern ( soft .-oal operators aasoci.rion* which broke away from a urretrt conference at Bluefield, W Yai.. wi- gave ell th • group form al notice that the present contract j expire* June 30. ID- also eent « letter anpouncI Ing that the UMW wants to reopen ofl .O' ■ ’' ' ' ' : ” ! 15 8-. a deadline for a new agree* miners The UMW presently is negotlat ing with all but two members of the Southern Coal Producer* a««o- --! dation And yesterday it b- :atr preliminary talks in Philadelphia ; with the H. C Frick Coke <o. a |- <; steel subsidiary which repro* ent* U 8. Steel’* "captive" mines* The talk* with U. S Steel were recessed until June 23 Thu*, la-wis now is in a p. ttion i to open wage conference* on* four ; front*. Practically all mines in the nation were shut down a minei observed the one w<-< k stoppage called by la-wi* as a period of I "stabilizing inaction " At Bluefield, where the UMW ! resumed talk* today with southern operators, the southern < oai producer* us h ation served notice It will fight a plan to set up a I stabilization < zai for the* soft coal industry. Association president Joseph E Moody denouriceil the plan as a "cartel arrangement " He said he would bring it up at today s meeting Lewi* and a group of northern bituminous operators reportedly have agreed tentatively on the plan The proposed "stabilization" czar would try to work out a program to prevent over-produc-tion of coal, price declines, wage cutting and unemployment in the industry Such an allocation and stabilization plan already is working *UCCM sfuliy in Pennsylvania’s i al fields T! • pr< rain I - carried out by a board which represent* the operators, the miners and the state government. Annual Flag Day Exercises To Be Held This Evening