Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 144, Decatur, Adams County, 20 June 1949 — Page 1

No. 144.

BiG FOUR AGREE ON GERMANY, AUSTRIA

■Truman Submits Keren Plans Os JReorganiza tion

■ Sends To Congress ■ Seven Proposals On ■Wholesale Changes I In Executive Dept, ■rjihington. June 20- (UP)-! Truman sent to congress, X? .rvHI proposals for a WholeK r , organization of his execu■jdtpartmrnt. starting with < ■ ••a K v( a lo w department of welPresident put the welfare! Kjnnotit proposal at the head of Kfot seven reorganization plans E) he submitted to congress Krflately after he signed the Kfinlta'i 'ti act of 1949. The K department would take over ■ vork <d the federal security ■pry. ■ tder the new law. either the or the house can veto any ■til of the plans within 60 days—- ■ Auk 19 11 "ingress adjourns ■bre that date, the plans can not Kit into effect Otherwise, they ■ome effective at the end of the ■ <>! period ■ft,. President emphasized in an Ktnpsnying omnibus message to that mere approval of his Ks< would not ’ automatically" Kdiirr more efficiency in govern K- and save money for the taxK.-. lie said this is only a beKing and that it will require "a Kd) and sustained effort' to proKe real results. Hut In the long Khe thought it would save[ Kd ■Hr Truman said he would have K.rred a provision in the new K making his plans subject to K only by both houses of conKt* rather than by either body K. he said, he is "glad" ?J be Kt to go ahead with the reorganiKm job in spite of that restric■Tite most far-reaching of the Kiident's initial plans was that ■ letting up the new department ■ velfare The head of the new Ksrtnent would be a secretary of ■.:.*•' rank, aided by an underKr»tar; and three assistant secreKigracy. which the new depart■The du'les of the federal secur-! Ki' would fall heir to. cover au' h Biely scattered fields as food and Kt administration, public health, ■ration and social security. ■Voder the President's plan, the ■feral security administrator, Os- j K a Ewing, would serge as act ■ lecretary of welfare until a Knanent secretary is appointed ■ confirmed by the senate. ■The other plans submitted by the ■•lident today involve functions ■ the V s employment service; K postoffice; the national securf mumil and the national septy resources board; the civil pice commission; the maritime pwisaion. and the public roads pnlaaion With each plan he P * separate message to con- 1 P‘ and an overall message em plait all. |Xr Truman is expected to suie I Tur. Tw Su, rivet [SOO Damage Suit piled In Court [?*«<* J Briads filed a suit far pages against Mrs. Catherine An ps Saturday, seeking |7.500 for P M re* sustained in an auto u<F*' March 2. 1945 larded charged in the complaint C returning to Purdue paeion in Fort Wayne as a paid ' pea<*r of Mrs Andress. Accordp to the document, they wer* F'»< over Ky roads at an excessftot* of speed When the car ran 1 L*“‘° the berm. Mrs Andress ' r*** ih « car back onto the road, i into the path of an P 01 "-' 1 * driven and owned by t r* Stodsen. result Inr In a t F** The plaintiff states In ththat he suffered a 41*- I O s (h# aacro-iliac. Injury i L?* and the five lower 1 F****- and resulting complies 1 P»ri«h and Parish cf For’ EJ* v * the attorneys for tie 1 I ’ | WEATHER ’ ! f *ir. quits warm and i , * tonight and Tuesday- I •■•74, high Tmw I ' it

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Fear Congress May Run Into September Many 'Must Bills' Still Await Action Washington, June 20 — (UP) — ! Some senate Democrats voiced concern today that President Truman's list of "must bills” may keep congress in session all summer. At the rate the legislative branch is going, said Sen Millard E Tyd- ' Ings. D. Md.. it is “not at all unlikely" that the present session may continue into September. Sen. Elmer Thomas, I).. Okla., a top-ranking member of the appropriations committee, said "we'll never in the world" approve the government supply bills before the start of the new fiscal year on July 1. That would mean a resolution would have to be passed enabling government departments to continue spending at their present rates beyond the end of the fiscal year, So far congress has completed action on only one regular supply I, — that for the treasury and post office departments. Several others are languishing in conference between the two houses. Other congressional developments: Housing — Speaker Sam Rayburn shrugged off the pessimism of his fellow Democrats and predicted the house would pass a "good housing bill" by the end of this week. » Atomic by pass — Rep. Charles 11. Elston, IL, 0.. accused the atomic energy commission of by-passing the national defense act by contra, ting for a natural gas pipeline |to power the atomic plant at Oak Ridge, Tenn. Commission officials denied the charge. Military Pay — Charles R. Hook, chairman of a civilian commission on military pay. urged a cut In flight pay for generals and admirals. He said they do too much unnecessary flying to collect the extra 50 percent in flight pay which the present law permits them. Dividends — Rep. Kenneth B. Keating. IL, N. Y., introduced a resolution demanding that the |2,500.000.000 (Bi dividend on service insurance for World War II veterans by paid not later than Oct. 15. instead of next January as proposed by VA. "Most of them need the money now.” said Keating. B-36 — Appointment of a chief Investigator to direct the house armed service committee's Inquiry into the B-36 procurement program was postponed until tomorrow. Textbooks — The house unAmerican activities committees i proposal to study school text(Tare To FM» MSI I Herbert Lankenau Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon Funeral services for Herbert H. Unkenau. «0. of Allentown. Pa. brother of Enno W and Oscar Lankenau of this city, will be held Tuesday afternoon at J o'clock at -Emmaus Lutheran church. Fort Wayne. Burial will l»e In Lindenwood cemetery. Mr. I-ankenau's death occurred 1 Saturday at Altoona. Pa. The body will arrive In Fort Wayne Tuesday morning and will be taken to ti e Wellman funeral home Funeral service* will be helfl there prior to the church service Native of Adams county. Mr. lankenau lived In Fort Wayne until about 15 years ago when moved to Pennsylvania He was a veteran employe of the Pennsylvania railroad Besides the brothers in this city be is survived by his widow. Angela. a son Henry of Clinton. X. Y„ two daughters. Mrs. Marjorie White, in Oeorgia. and Mrs Jeannette Skiba of New York, five grandchildren, two sisters. Mls« Louise laxnkenau and Mrs. Herman Gerka, both of Pert Wayne.

Miners Return To Work After Mine Holiday Return For Week's Pay Before Annual Vacation Period Pittsburgh. June 2» (UP)—The nation's coal industry ordered full production schedules today to make up the 11.500,000 tons of coal lost during the United Mine workers one-week "stabilization" holiday. John L. lewis' 450,000 miners obeyed their union chief's order to return to work and earn five day's pay before starting their scheduled K'day annual vacation on Saturday. But the industry, ready to engage in negotiations with the UMW lon four fronts, still faced a full J fledged strike If the scheduled ■ wage talks fail to reach an agreement before the June 30 contract termination date. Miners began working their shifts at midnight. There were scattered reports of some absenteeism. especially In the western Pennsylvania soft coal fields, but in most mines full work crews started on time. Lewis admittedly closed the mines a week ago to trim the naI'tion's near-record TO.OM.OtKbton ' coal stockpile by some 11,500,0u0 tons and strengthen his hand in I negotiations, in the back-to-work order, Lewis told his miners to "take advantage" of the week's work before vacation time. One Uniontown. Pa., digger, who refused to be identified, said he was ready to return to work "the day after w« quit and I'm just as anxious now." But he took a dim view of the contract talks and felt he would have "lots ot time soon to finish a chicken coop I started last week ” Another miner said at Library. Pa., that he would report to work on schedule. "Lewis said go back to work, and I'm going,” he said. "John also I said tighten your belt- and I'm I doing that, too." Three operators* groups meet in separate places with Ic-wis this week in an effort to reach agreements by June 30 and avert a general strike. The southern operators will re sume negotiations Tuesday at Bluefield. W Va. These four weekold talks thus far have been fruitless On Wednesday, at White Sulphur Springs, only 8«» miles from Bluefield, Lewis will open negotiations with the northern and western operators, the Industry's biggest (Tors To !•■«» Ms I Bendix Workers To Vote On Proposal Proposal Rejected By Union Stewards South Bend. Ind.. June 20 —(UPI - Bendix Aviation Corp, worker* will vote tomorrow on governor Schrlcker's proposal to end their 42-day-old strike, a plan already rejected by the stewards of the CIO united auto workers union local The stewards announced they had voted unanimously to revom mend rejectoin of the governor s plan to call an Immediate halt to the strike Members of the union, who have been jobless since April 20. will ballot during a meeting loginning at 3 p m. Tuesday The stewards recommended that ■ the 10-man union negotiating team ' resume negotiations in an effort i to get a better settlement. The governor's plan called for a twoweek nwotsation period, followed by appointment of a fact-finding pane) if there was no settlement achieved But the union leaders objected to the fact that neither side in thdispute would be bound by the findings of the fact finding panel The company announced acceplance of .4chricker's plan but said It could not be found b» the panel's finding aa this would enroach on the rights of management to set production standards Bchricker made his proposal during negotiation last week at the Indiana statehouse Twice it appear ed the two sides were on the vergi of a settlement But the union ne(Tvra We ree« Ma»

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, June 20, 1949.

Boy ‘Governors' Visit Truman —"SC—w 1 -4 J 1 id SiS 1 ■ A r i PRESIDENT TRUMAN pones in front of the White House with the Hl-Y “governors" of nineteen states, who are in Washington to attend the National Conference of Boy Governors. The President told tin, "executives" that the responsibility of good government will rest entirely upon their shoulders in the years to come.

Summer Ushered In Day Early By Heat No Drought Relief For Eastern Areas By United Press A heat wave ushered in summer x dsy esrly today and forecasters ‘saw no effective relief for eastern srea hit by the worst June drought in 41 years. The heat moved down on midwestern states, sending the mercury towards the high 90’s. Residents of the drought-stricken j areas of New York and New England prayed for rain, to end scorching weather that has caused an estimated $50,000,000 in crop damage and has been blamed for 39 deaths in the area. But residents of the flood-strick-en Shenandoah and Potomac valleys in Virginia and West Virginia were heartened by rainless skies and prayed that they stayed that way. At least 13 were reported dead. 11 to 20 were missing, and hundreds were homeless in the floods. Summer will arrive officially early tomorrow aftertioon. The weather generally across the nation was warm and humid, except in the northern Rockies and Pacific northwest. Chicagoans were warned that the temperature would hit 9»> degrees. J In New York, suffering from a three weeks’ drought that has hit severely the'truck gardens supplying the metropolitan area, residents sweltered from high humid Ity as the temperature soared towards a predicted maximum of Ho to 90 degrees, depending on the distance from the Atlantic Ocean. The drought cut short the strawberry season three week* ahead of time, but fruit trees still were undamaged Beaches in the metropolitan New York area drew 2.046.000 persons yesterday. Slightly cooler weather brought brief relief in New England, but forecasters said there was no’ break in sight to end the drought. There was "a chan*-e" of few acat-| tered showers and in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. The weather was ex pected to turn hot tomorrow. The tinderdry condition of forJests prompted conservation auth(>ritie* to ban outdoor fire* In the •Tan* To !•*«» ••»* Earl Moomaw Dies After Heart Attack Funeral aervicea will he held Tuesday for Earl "Red" Moomaw. 51. Indianapolis, formerly of Bluffton. who died Sunday following a heart attack suffered at the Speedway golf course In Indlanapoli* Moomaw. former Bluffton and Ind lana University athlete, will be buried In Bluffton Mr Moomaw. who had resided In Indianapolis for the last 20 years was well known In I»ecalur both as an athlete and basketball and football official Surviving are bl* wife. Martha Plessinger Moo maw. two brothers and a sister.

Torrential Rain In Japan Kills Four Tokyo. June 20 (UPI A tor- . rein lai 72-hour rain left four dead < and 30,000 homes flodded throughout Japan today and an air force weather squadron reported a 115-mile-per-hour typhoon was heading I toward Okinawa r Winds and rain flooded 160® • homes in Tokyo and washed awiy 11 bridge*, caved In roads, ami caused s more than 20 landslides elsewher**. A small earthquake was reported at Fukui, where a quake killed 5.000 ' persons in May, 194 H, but no ca.vualtlea were reported. i Babich Murder Case To Jury By Tonight I Defense Witnesses Denounced By State • Milwaukee, June 20 (UP) I The state denounced detelise Wit- ’ nesses am! demanded today that ' Milton Babich, 19. he cohvlcted ot ' first degree murder In the slay- ' Ing of 16-year-old Patricia Bir- • mingham, his bride's sister. 'l Hundreds of spectators jammed ' the court house as assistant dis ’ trict attorney Joseph Tierney, in a 1 thundering summation for the I state, demanded that Babich be 1 found guilty of first degree mur- ' der, which carries a mandatory ’ sentence of life In prison He also could be found iiims-ent or guilty ' of fourth degree manslaughter The jury of 10 men and two 1 women, all but one married, was ’ expected to receive the case late hslay and may decide Babich's fate by midnight He is charged with murdering Patricia last Feb 10 to keep her from "tattling" about her sister's illicit pregnancy ' He and the sister. Kathleen. 19. eloped to Micihgan two days before Patricia's weighted body was j dragged from the Milwaukee river ' March 20. Tierney, shouting at times, denounced defense rebuttal witnesses. including deputy coroner l Thomas 8. Uaretr of Cook county, j (Chicago), Illinois, ami William Za*s. a West Alli*. Wi*.. gunJ smith. > He described Carter as a "Must- ; ering old falatafflan. a windy pollI ticlan from the windy city." Car- ‘ ter. appearing a* an expert for the I defense, had disputed a state ■ pathologist's testimony that Patricia was paralyzed liefore the' second of two bullets that hit her body was fired. Babich claimed that the girl wa* shot twice "accidentally" during a struggle for a gun with , which he had Intended to "scare her" into *H«n«e about Kathleen's condition The state conteadwd that Pa- | tricia could not have been struggling when the second shot was 1 fired Tierney described fourth degree manslaughter, which would carry a sentence of one to two years, "aa the lowest form" of a verdict. I Tara Ta I'agr «l«>

Approve Agreement For Running Two Germanies, Austrian Treaty Issues

Launch Real Estate Reassessing July 1 Instruction School Is Held Here Today The huge task of reassessing real estate and Improvements in Adams county will get underway about July 1. Albert Harlow, county as sensor, stated today, following the one-day school of instruction for assesorn and special appraisers held in the circuit court room George Gable, a representative of ■the Indiana state board of tax commissioners, condu cte <1 the school. He explained that the purpose of reassessment, as defined in the law. was to make the assess, meiits uniform throughout the state. "If the assessors and appraisers follow the law (19491 and the guide book of instructions, no piece of real estate, farm or city, will be assessed for more than one-third of its sale price as of March 1. 1949." the state tux expert stated. Mr. Gable would not hazard a guess as to the results in the reappraisement of real estate and their improvements in this county "The final results might be higher or lower,” he said Farm land will be assessed on a productivity formula, as outlined* in the guide book. Os the 13.54U.140 farm acres in the state, only 3M1,332 are graded class "A." The majority of acres fall In class "C," with an expected assessed value <>t |SO to )7o an acre, and an average of |«0. Dwelling, barns and other build Ings will be assessed on a point system These vary with the type of structure and ihe improvements therein A table of values will be used in assessing houses and build Ings, according to materials used in**construction and the type of Improvements, ranging all the way from bath rooms, heating plants, kitchens to basements. The age ot buildings will also be taken into consideration However, the low est value will be 30 percent of its cost. In other words. Mr. Gable explained, the depreciation sched ule will be as much as 70 percent. Adams county now has an assessed valuation of approximately 5 I*.000,000, of which real estate and improvements total less than 30 millions The reassessment job Is expected (aura In l*Me MSI « Two More Alabama Floggings Reported Mother, Daughter Flogged By Mob Birmingham. Ala , June 20 tl'Pt A 3x year old mother said today that she and a 10-year-old daughter were flogged near here by a hooded mob while another , daughter was forced to watch the beatings with a rope around her neck. The incidents were the eighth anil ninth in a growing list of reported violent acts In the Birmingham area during the past two weeks. .State and local officers and numerous civic organizations were engaged in an all-out campaign against night riding hooded terrorists and other lawless groups Mrs. Irene Burton told police that she her daughter. Sally, were victims of a hooded gang on the night of June 3. The same gang of white cloaked and hooded men Who beat Mrs. Burton and. her daughter also reportedly flogged three men that night Other mobs flogged navy veteran B. G. Stovall and Bill Hamilton, a coal miner, and intimidated Mr* Hugh M< Itanal. a 42-year-old grandmother, and rest aurant operator Steve Marshier One officer explained that "the full scale investigation is making a lot of moh victims brave enough to talk aow.” Mrs Burton, of Sumiton in neighboring Walker county, said eTwra Te l'a<e Stat

Czech Primate Defies Moves By Government Archbishop Beran Urges Catholics Defy Communists Prague. June 20 d'P) Czechoslovakia waited uneasily today lor rhe communist government's reply to archbishop Josef Beran's defiant i "no surrender" call to the nation's 59.000.000 Roman Catholics The fil-yearold primate threw down the gauntlet yesterday tn his most outspoken pastoral letter jet against the government's attempts to muzzle him The letter was read In most of the nation's ' Catholic churches despite a reported police warning that it was illegal. Monsignor Beran tried to speak out In person against the commute , Ist regime in St Vitus Cathedral yesterday, but. drowned out by an apparently organized group of shouting, whistling hecklers, he re- ' turned to the seclusion of his nearby palace. ' He still was there today, along with Czech secret imlice who seized . control of his office last Weduav- , day and now are painstakingly ex- ’ amlnlng his files Czech Catholics feared this might be the prelude t > another Mindszenty trial The archbishop made his own position abundantly clear in tli- , 1.000 word pastoral letter read by • Catholic priests to the faithful yesterday. It apparently was draft-d by Monsignor Beran before the police moved Into his office In it. he accused the government of trying to undermine Roman Catholic ideology, seeking to re place religion with marxism ami attempting to appropriate for the state "alt rights, even in matters of conscience, faith and morals, which no Christian can recogniz** ” •'Every Czech atpl Slovak Catholic .must realize that his time ->f test has come, in which he has 'to tell the sheep from the wolves It sheep's clothing' and that in issues of religious freedom there < an be no compromise whatever.'' h-* said "It is a question of the eternal salvation of every immortal soul We (hank all clergymen and oeItevers for their faithfulness, w* lielieve in their steadfastness, and to steel their Christian gallantry we bestow upon them our benedi - iTmfm To I‘nar Tour* Retired Minister Dies Last Evening Rev. William Bryan Is Taken By Death The Rev William G. Bryan. 59, pastor of the Union Chapel V liodist church near Geneva until illness forced him to retire four years ago. died Sunday evening at his home six miles west of GeneThe minister was ordained in I9IK. and aervud pastorates at Spencerville. Ashley, and th- Decatur and Oakland-Blackford circuit* liefore going to Geneva Surviving are hi* wife. Iva. two sons. Paul, at home, and Dwight of Muncie; two grandchildren; three *i*ter*. Mr* Fern Shoemaker. Mrs Opal Romey and Mr* Merle Pusey. all of near Geneva, ami four brothers. Ott. Herliert. Dan and Beryl Bryan, all of near Geneva Fun* ral services will be held at 2pm Wednesday in the Union Chapel Methodist ebur* h near Ge J neva. the Rev James Wilken* offi dating Burial will lie in the Alberson cemetery The body ha* l>een removed from the Hardy A Hardy funeral home to the real 1 dence.

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Wind Up Four Week Conference; Right Os Berlin Access Granted To West Paris, June 20 (UP) The big four wound up a four-wvek con ference today by approving ail agreement for running two Germanic* and agreeing on all the main points for an Austrian treaty. Tlie council of foreign ministers conference * tided pre* isely four weeks after it opened on May 23. The American. Russian, British and French ministers met 25 times, nine times in secrecy. D tails of tlie agreements were being made public in a four power j statement at S p m (1 p m. CST*. Although the agreements were limited, ami tlie one on Germany was only a live and let live understanding. tlie ministers accomplished far more than had been expei-ted Tin- west obtained its major minimum objective an agreement on its right of access to Berlin and a promise from the Russians not to Impose the blockade again. The Russian objectives were less certain. But a major on*- appeared to have been all early Austrian peace treaty, which now seemed possible l>y Sept. J : Tl.-- final agreement was reached in a quirk secret session of the council of foreign ministers. It lasted barely half an hour A 1 reress wn* railed, and a hnaiy plenary session winding up the first full dress big four eonferenc • since 1947 was schedule*! fur I 3(1 p m ill :30 a m. EDT*. During tin- re* *-ss foreign minister Andrei Visliinsky of Russia left tile rose marble palace, site of tin- conference, presumably to return to Ids embassy. A final communique already had been agreed upon It will be made public after tlie plenary session. It contained a Soviet agreement to give written assurance of free access to Berlin for th*- western powers, it was learned liefor-- the final session opened. The Soviet guarantee on Berlin will lie in tlie final communique of Ihe couni il of foreign ministers, whi« li was winding up itk conference on Germany ami related subject* later lodav. Secretary of stat* Dean Acheson will fly ba* k to Washington tonight in President Truman’s personal plane, the Independence. British foreign secretary Ernest Bevin will leave for lamdon on the night ferry train Foreign minister Andrei Vlshinsky's departure plans were se* ret. Western delegates were pleased , with flu- agreement on acre** to Berlin They said it was letter than hail been expected It was des* rilied by one delegate a* being "as solid as it is possible Io make it <>n paper " The B*-rjin bhskade was to a large degree the issue around whiih tills whole conference revealed The conference itself was summoned a* a Soviet condition to lifting the Berlin blockade. After the ceremonial blockade removal. transport labor troubles reimposed it by shutting off rail communications between the city iTarn Tn !**■•■ •!** U. S. Savings Bond Sales Reported Near SIOO,OOO In County Additional purchases of V. 8. savings bonds in the opportunity bond sale have sent the total near the fiOO.OOO mark, equal to S 2 percent of the county’s quota. T. F. Graliker, county * hairman. announced today. Sales up to June 4 amount to 5K.531 30. Mr. Graliker announced The county's quota is •153. MP and the state'*. 529,00<».<HMI The opportuntt* bond *Me continues throughout the month Purchase of (Hinds may be made through the First State Bank in thia city, or the hanks tn Berne and Geneva Mr. Graliker expressed confidence in meeting the county'a quota before tbs end of the month,