Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 146, Decatur, Adams County, 22 June 1949 — Page 1

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CONGRESSMEN CLASH ON FLOOR OF HOUSE

kh Bishop 111 Continue lurch Fight government Mokes Veiled Threat To Arrest Archbishop Czechoslovakia, June 22. T c.tholli- church sources| 1,1,1 Archbishop Josef -Interi'l' to continue his splr | " fcht against the communist Lnient despite Its v* ||<-d _• jo arrest him. L Mid the Czechoslovak prl- ,,, determined to carry out hi* sal ! duties as he sees fit. H- i mtitainin-- a calm hut firm a'- * in the face of an approachlowdown with the government, r said uitonln Zapotocky hint broadly in an unprecedented minute radio broadcast to the w last night that the arch W iarr-*t may lie imminent I, Mid the government would tolerate the archbishop am! (ollemie* terrorizing" priests , ilsh to support the governing and justice must be used pc Marauders. Provocateurs tqote who rail for dishonor and Mt" he said. Pud he had bean empower •<! iezovernnient to assure Cze. n:» I h would protect" them from rhind of church threats IW.-ontroled Czech press, which I I Wes clamoring for the "punishr of Archbishop Beran and his lan-* published the text of pto-ky s broadcast without eo n g Ijrib observers emphasized that iprtbishop from the beginning M» resistance against governg attempts to dominate th« Kb. has insisted only on strict ritual obedience and refrain--! liny policy that might lead to kt *. hey pointed out that he quietly I pried his followers when they j ter«l outside his palace lai! krday after he had told them at | Strahov Monastery that he nevwould sign a compromising an?n' with the state. ft* ruling communists were pro Minto their most direct threit Iwinst the Czech Catholic filer •f by Archbishop Beran's d— K "no compromise" pastoral let tread in most Catholic c hurch* r I Sunday h the letter. Msgr. Beran arcusthe communist government of *< to usurp the church's tunet< and substitute marxism for Katur Men Injured i Traffic Accident Rev Dwight R McCurdy • Paul Myers, of Decatur, were Tuesday in a wreck near ■ d*l*T on highway 33. The two | ••ere driving north to Elkhart i •bill ton pickup truck through - Miring rain at the time of the i "to. The truck hit a dip In • r <*d and slid sideways, strikI l heavy utility pole. The r * 'napped the pole and jarred Ulf-ton transformer loos*-. *b narrowly missed the two ” Rev McCurdy, minister of • Church of God here, suffered °n the chin and chest. He thrown dear of the truck at •omeiii ( ,f impact, and was “*rious after the crash Myteported that he bounced Suite a bit inside the cab * the truck stopped 25 feet pole. The accident oc--7* « • <5 p. m yesterday, south of Ugotler '*• Clara Gauck ** At Batesville Clara Gauck, M, mother of Cook and Charles ** both Os Decatur, died Mon •Uht at her home in Bates *♦ had been bedfait for the ‘ Mars She bad visited here •Mgo*™ 1 * oc «*»4on» several j?* 11 *erv|ces and burial will *** »• Batesville at 9 o'clock ’* 4 *y morning WEATHER . J***rsliy fm,. tomght: cooler M Partly cloudy ThurW * y L * wt *’

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San Angelo Polio Cases On Increase San Aangelo, Tex . June 22. tl i’l The number of polio iiM'B In the years worst epidemic rose to 203 today. Six cases were diagnosed yesterday and admitted to Shannon Memorial hospital Only two patients were discharged ami the polio cen sub at Shannon at midnight was fit Six cases also were admitted Mon-1 day. The epidemic which struck this west Texas city about a month | ago has taken eight lives Dean Acheson To Report To Senate Group Secretary Os State Reports On Big Four Meeting In Paris Washington. June 22 fl'l’i — Secretary of state Dean Acheson reports to the senate foreign rela lions committee today on the big. four meeting in Paris. Diplomatic informants said he would warn the senators that the end of the cold war is not yet in sight. Acheson also was expected to reiterate President Truman's assur ance that there will be no weak ening of this country's efforts in Europe. The President, in a for-1 mal statement last night, blamed I I Russia for blocking any "real progress" toward an agreement on Germany Mr. Truman emphasized, however. that the outcome of the for-1 elgtt ministers' conference proved the "correctness" of U. S. foreign policy. Without naming specific policies I such ax the Marshall plan and the north Atlantic pact, the chief executive said: The results again underline the. necessity of pursuing these policies with calmness and determination, i 1 as the only sure road to the estabI llshment of conditions in the world where peace and freedom can en- ' dute." Mr Truman issued his assessment of the successes and failures of the Paris parley after a long It'll rt> I'm Ps«» Five* Biome Labor Disputes For Employment Drop Indianapolis. June 22. tl Pl—i |.al>or disputes were blamed today- 1 tor a continuing increase in unemployment in Indiana. The Indiana employment security division said layoffs caused t>y strikes in the auto, construction and mining industries lowered total employment during April and May But seasonal Joli openings man--up some of the losses, the division said | Telegraph Office Manager To LaPorte Promotion Slated For James Murphy James E Murphy. Jr. manager ot Decatur's Western I nlon office most of the time since IM2. has lieen promoted to manager of t e Western Colon office in Laf’orte. Murphy who was born in l»*«a---tUr started as a messenger tmy and worked his way up Ha has been with the Western inion more than 25 years, and in Itecatur all of the time except for short periods in Terre Haute and Hartford City. _ . Murphy will go to LaPorte Friday end start to work Saturday. Mr« Murphy and their three children will remain here until a home Is found in laPorte. Murphy reports that the only thing which hasn't . hanged since he's been working is the location of the Western I’nion office when he started working in De *-atur be received on an old Morse key Now an automatic tape records We actual message, and he can type out a wire directly to Detroit. Chicago or any large town, on a machine resembling a typewriter Murphy is a former president of the Decatur Rotary club and hie wife is • member of the St Mary's society.

Supreme Court Judges Testify For Alger Hiss Frankfurter, Reed State Integrity Os Hiss Unchallenged New York. Jun*- 22 —(I'Pt- Two justices of Hie I'nlted Slates supreme court testified today that tliey never had heard the "integrity. loyalty, and veracity" of Alger Hiss questioned The justices were Felix Frank furter. Hiss' teacher at Harvard, and Stanley Reed, under whom Hiss worked when Reed was U. S. solicitor-general in 1935. Frankfurter testified that Hiss's reputation was "of the best." Frankfurter recommended Hiss In 1929 to be the law-clerk of the late supreme court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes He testified that during his many years ax a faculty member of the Harvard law school he had recommended I many students to various law jobs. I "Did you ever recommend I-ee Pressman?" asked assistant I’. H. attorney Thomas F Murphy on cross-examination. Both Pressman and Hiss were named by former communist spy courier Whittaker Chambers before tlie house committee on tin•Unerican activities last August 3 as key members of a Soviet underground "apparatus" which sought to infiltrate the federal government in Washington in the late 193U's. Pressman, formerly general counsel for the C. I. O-, I now is in a New York law firm. Defense attorney Lloyd Paul Stryker objected to the question. While federal judge Samuel H. Kaufman was sustaining the objection. Frankfurter, his eyebrows i raised, answered: "I would say it's highly unlikely” | Frankfurter testified under : questioning by Stryker that Hiss, j while a student of Harvard, had ' been honored by being named to the editorial board of the Harvard ; Law Review Murphy asked whether Pressman also bad been . on the I.4*w Review Again Judge Kaufman sustained .T»r. T» Paae Kinbtt Zoning Ordinance Report Accepted Zoning Hearing To Be Held On July 5 Decatur's zoning ordinance report was accepted by the city council last night, and Robert Anderson, city attorney, was instructed to draw up a notice of the hearing which must be held before the council can take final action. The report wax submitted by Ralph I Roop, secretary of the plan commission. It wax accepted unanimj ously. and had not been changed j since it wax sent back to the plan | commission The zoning hearing will be July 5 at 7:30 p. m. A contract between the city of Decatur and Emery. Marker, and Emery of Toledo. O. wax approved at the meeting. The Toledo firm agreed to furnish engineers for the extensive Improvement of the light end water plant The engineering firm will charge the city seven percent of the final cost. The city council passed the utility fund transfer ordinance as provided by new state statutes This law prevents the transfer ot money from the city light and power company to the city's general fund unless a profit is shown by the company Also, the money to be transferred can be drawn only from a utility fund after five percent of the profit Is placed In a cash reserve fund for expenses. Agreement for rural line extensions were made with Lawrence Be! ho Id. Root township, and Lester Busick. of Allen county for the amounts of 145 and 125 respectively A petition for an alley Improvement was referred to the city engineer and the committee on street improvements. The proposed alley would run pareliel and between 12th and 13th streets from Meibera street about half wav through the block. The city's bills were read! and allowed and the meeting wax adjourned by Mayor John I>uan . All coancil members were present.)

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, June 22, 1949.

ACHESON RETURNS VICE PRESIDENT ALBEN BARKLEY and President Truman greet secretary of state and Mrs. Dean A* heson at Washington National Airport ax they arrive from Paris following the Illg Four foreign ministers' conference.

Blackford County Sheriff Dies Today Wounds Suffered In Gun Battle Are Fatal Hartford City. Ind . June 22. - (CPI Blackford county sheriff Garland I'ptegraft died today of bullet wound* received Monday night in a gun duel with an exconvict who was killed by other the back, died at Blackford county officer*. I'ptegraft. critically wounded in hospital at 9 30 a m. despite several blood transfusions. He was shot hy 35-year-old Rollic Cook, a war veteran who had threatened to kill a neighbor girl ■ because she refused to have dates with him. I'ptegraft went to the Cook home when the man's mother. Mrs, Iva Cook, told him her son was drinking and had threatened to shoot I*- | year-old Betty Monroe and others | When the sheriff found young i Cook with an automatic rifle, he ■ ailed for police reinforcements. Police chief John Lanis. a depu- . ty sheriff and a city policeman arrived and exchanged shots with Cook. I’ptegraft was shot in the hack by Cook, who was shot five times. I'ptegraft was survived hy his 1 widow, a son. his mother, and a brother and a sister. Train-Auto Crash Fatal To Woman Valparaiso. Ind. June 22. tl'P* Mrs Gertrude Bailey. 37. Koko mo. was killed yesterday when the car in which she was riding was struck by a Chesapeake and Ohio railroad freight train mar here. The driver of the car. Francis Cottrill. 24. Knox, was injured St. Louis Negroes And Whites Battle • 13 Persons Injured In City Outbreaks St Louis. June 22. —tl'Pl Fairgrounds Park and Its swimming pool were closed today to prevent new oatbreaks of fighting between whitesand negroes in which 13 per ■on* were injured last night. More than 200 officers, commanded personally by police chief Jere miah O'Connell broke up the tattle in which crowds of whites and negroes attacked each other with ball tats, crow tiers, knives, tree branches and fists. A taut ti.ooo persons milled a round in the park at one time but most were merely watching the fighting. A negro and a white man were In serious condition from stall wound*. The fighting broke out as a result of a new order issued this week by public welfare director John J. O'Toole to open all of the city's swimming pool* and playgrounds to negroes a* well as whites. Mayor Joseph M Darst rescinded the order today He said that In the "Interest of th* general public' the city would resume Its “time honored policy of separate pool* for negroes and whites." three of th* city's nine pools are ( Tsra Te •'•*» MBbU I

Distribute School Yearbook Thursday The 1949 Bevelings will be distributed at the high school Thur* day afternoon at 1:30 o'clock, W. Guy Brown, principal, announced today. Those who ordered them may get them at the office- at th.it time, he said The new itavelings. which has a purple and gold covering, was edit ed by Odell Foley. Foley was assisted by Marvin Stinky, and ad vised by Lowell Smith. Miss Kathryn Kauffman, and I tale Ross, teachers This year's high school annual contains 114 pages, plus blank space for classmates' autographs. Record Peace Crop Os Pigs Predicted Output 11 Percent Above 1948 Figure Washington. June 22 <l'i’> The agriculture department gave ou' with good news for meat eaters today, predicting that farmers this year will produce a record high placetime crop of 9fi.040.001t pigs II percent mote than last year That would be more pigs than were raised in any year except 1942 and 1943. when output went well over the HIO.OOO.ttoO mark The 191.3 crop »et an all time record of 121.0tr.000 toad The 19i9 crop will provide pork for the 12 months beginning next fall The biggest boost in con Minier*' supplies will come in the fall and winter The spring pig crop which will lie slaughtered then, was estimated at 59.040,n0n head. 15 percent more than last year Official* drew two conclusion* from the report 1 Consumers will get a lot more bacon and pork chops But the in crease may not e<|ttal the increase in pig numbers Because of price discounts for heavy hogs, farmer* i aren't expected to produce as many heavy hogs In any event, the in creased population will keep per capita pork consumption from the 1949 crop from reaching an all peacetime record 2 The government probably will have to get Into a price support operation for hogs this fall or win ter Secretary of agriculture Char ■ les F Btannan has warned be probably will have to take pork out of the market to hold hog prices at the mandatory support level unl<»« congress authorizes him to let prices fall below support levels and to make up the differ ence to producers by sending them government checks The department said a fall crop of 37.taO.fHto pig* will be priMluced. if farmer* carry out their breeding intentions Thl* assumes litters of only average six*. Actually, the number of pigs saved jeer litter last fall was the largest on record Th“ department said a survey showed fanners intended to farrow 5.932.ota sows this fall, or 13 percent more than last fall This would ta the third largest number of sow* ever farrowed during the fall season In the corn belt states alone the department said the spring crop was 17 percent greater than la»t year If corn belt farmer* carry out breeding intentions, it said av erag* sized litters would produce ■ 12 percent more pigs In those state > i (Tara Te •’*■» Klabo

Reps. Sabath, Cox Swing Fists On Administration Slum Clearance, Housing

Prepare Plans For Community Center New York Engineers Will Prepare Plans Preliminary plans and drawings tor tli«- piopostd Decatur Community Center will be piepaied by the F Ellwood Allen organization, architects and planning engineers ot New York city. Ray Leitz. chan man of the Community Fund com mittee, announced today. Weaver W Pangburn and I. I. Lido of the New York firm were here yesterday and counseled with th*- community fund committee Funds for preparing the plans and sketches were advanced by the lx> catur Community Fund. Inc . with the provision that the money be restored, if and when the building is constructed Tlie Decatur Community Fund I first advanced JSSO for the survey and report made by F Ellwood Al len. and the second advance is for $2.751>. equal to two percent on tlie estimated SIXO,IIOO cost of the pro posed building The contract is for customary architect and mgineer- ■ Ing fees Messrs Pangburn and Lido visit ed the proposed site for the < om tnunily cinter on tlie city owned tract directly across the Monroe street river bridge Preliminary elevation* and information on flood levels were furnished by Ralph Roop, city mgineer The community fund dir* ctors and niembers of th*- mayor's plan ning committee were authorised to sign a contract uith the New York 1 firm for their setvli** in preparing the planMr Pangburn said that tlie sketches and plans would be ready about August 15. and then submitted to the lis al coinmitt*•• Fund taising plans will probably b< discussed at the August meeting. i it was stated To Resume Freight Service Into Berlin Striking Union To Resume Operations Berlin. June 22 — 11 Pi The ! striking West Berlin railway tin 1 ion announced tonight that it was ' ready to resume operation ot freight trains into Berlin from western Germany 1 Tin- muon refused to etui the strike on the Berlin elevated rail way Heinz Bracht. < hies of tlie rail J way union, said the strikers ' were prepared to resume "an em*-rg*-ncy freight service tomoi ■ row between Berlin ami Helm ste.it tlie Ohly direct route lotween this city and western GerI many Bra. lit said at a pres* confer I elite that the offer had been made . to the three western commandants in letters sent tonight The letters had not i cached western headquarters at tlie time A.eept- ; all. e !>y the western powers was regarded ax certain Tlie union decision closely foli lowed a big four agreement in Paris on a makeshift arrangement for working together in i Germany If it works out as indicated, it 1 will have solved one of the most serious parts of th- long strike Earlier today the West Berlin strikers rejected a .ompromise wage offer designed to end their stoppage Although western occupation authorities urge.l acceptance, the eseeutivo board of the striker*' non communist independent union unanimously reje* ted the Sovietbacked compromise The board said its action wax based on Russia's refusal Io guar antee that there would be no re prlsals against strikers The Soviet bossed railway administration had offered to pay the strikers percent M their wages in western marks xnd the West Berlin city . I g*>v* rnnwut said it would convert (Tarn T» I’sav Fi»»J |

Lewis, Mine Owners Launch Contract Talk Northern, Western Operators Open Up New Contract Talks White Sulpliur Springs. W V.i. Jun- 22 <1 Pi John I. Lewis and a powerful group of coal op erators today open contra, t talks which may set a wage pattern for Hie nation's !2,iu>u.oou workers in basic industry The mine chieftain meets with northern and western operator* (2 p m t'STi in a session which Hi.- industry hopes will provide the fist inkling nf wliat tin- min *-rs want in a new agreement. Tin- < urrent soft coal contract runs out eight days from now Tlie miners begin their annual Inday vacation on Saturday and prol.aldy will not return to the pits unless a sue. exsor agr> ement is negotiated. For tin- first time sine.- the war's end. tlie *oal negotiationmay outline tlie terms for settle meut of contract disputes in oile r giant industries In the three previous postwar wage rounds, steel or auto* set the national pattern and lewis took a comparable cents per hour pay Insist This year all of the major con traits expire within a few weeks of e.o h oilier and 1.-wis may the pace. Government economists said tn Washington that tlie results of tlie coal talks h- re may l.«r •ly determine tlie industrial staldli y of tlie nation for tlie next yeat Failure to reach a satisfactory agreement, they said, might tou.li off tlie most serious lali.ll Strife sin., early I9tfi There were ample ilidl. ati.uis that the c.*al industry is taking a militant stand against any con cessions that would hike pr.al e tion costs and price-. In Blue field W Va ‘a miles from In-re representatives of L- wi- I lilted .Mine Workers and tin- Southern Coal Produ.ers association han11 *>rn l« rage l iabi > Proposal Rejected By Bendix Strikers Strike Settlement Proposal Refused South Bend. Ind June 22 'IT' I Striking tnemio-rs id the <'!'• united automobile work rs union today gaw their leadei a ' '■ of confidence in reje. ting <!•■ Henry ,S. liri. k*-r - pr.ipo-.ai for >■ tleinent of their *'.3 da- old -•> against th* Bendix ai.atn.n c.n:> \front ». iu»i members of the Ben dix Imai overwhelmingly turn-I down the plan y.-sterd.. 1 nlon leaders had urged re.ection of the plan Which had lie-tl an •?' >d by the companv The plan called for immediate re turn t" work two weeks ot lie. > tlations and if tie. es»aiy an in vextigation by a fact finding l.oar.f whose recommendations would t-"’ be binding. The walkout te-gali over a dispute involving an alleged slowdown i i the l.rake shoe department for which 47 workers were discharged I’nlon leaders addressed tn* meet-ng in a liivh si-h.w.l auditorium here yesterday aftermsm iml almost without exception urged r* jss-tiim <>f the pltfn The memlxrs. who have lost more than S4.tHW».(MS* in wages gve them almost unanimous support in a standing vote There were a fe * who stood in favor of the gover nor's proposal Bendix vice president ('.• •rg" Stoll aid the union vote appareat ly put the controversy right ba ’* where it was on April 1" the da. j <T«ra Ta rage BlgbO

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Few Blows Struck As Veteran Solons Wage Brief Fist Fight This Morning Wa-liington .line 22 - - .IT’l — Reps. E E <’ox. D. Ga. and Adolph .1 Sabath. D. 11l t<«lay engaged in a brief fist fight on tho house floor ov.-r their differing views <m housing legislation. Only three or four blows were .-x< hanif-e.l other jumped between the ‘3v.*r*dd Sabath and Ills somewhat younger opponent I efore they- really square.) away. It all started within a few minutes after the house began debato <>n Mie administration's controversial public housing legislation t’ox. fi9. Is on.- of the leading opponents of the bill. Sabath is one of its leading ba.kers. He had talked for about 15 minutes In support of tlie bill when Rep Ralph E. t 'hur. h. Ii 111 . interrupted to make a point of order that a quorum was not pren-nt Speaker Sam Rayburn ordered a roll .all Just then. Cox approached Sabath ami asked for some time to talk on the Imuslnff bill Fran, is E Walter. D I’a. who wac -landing nearby said he heard Sabath sas i;*- didn't have any time to yield to ( <>x 'I hen, Walter said, t’ox . all*-.! Sabath a liar ami swung al him. slapping him in the mouth The aged Sabath - glasses fell to th*- floor. I..if he immediately Hailed awav at COX. hitting him alanit the head Members said he landed a left and a right Before am more blows were larded R.-p James I Delaney. D, N > and other members, leaped i , between them Other «. m-res-ioiial develop- , merits: Farm A house agriculture subcommittee apprmed a bill to give the administration's firm subsidy plan a trial run It .alls for generall* higher price supix.rtx in 1950 and for repeal of the Republican Aiken law whi. 'i r lieduled to go into effe. t lan 1 Civil Right* Tlie house admini tratlon committee approved a bill banning collection of poll taxI ex as a prerequisite to voting in federal primaries and elections ' Atomic Atomic production manar. r Walter J Williams told . oiicressional inv. tigatorx that the atomic project "is in I bands and the security of the country, as far i- making liomi— is concerned. is okay." Carrier* Chairman Carl Vinson of tin- house armed service < ommittc.- endots.-d plats for -t.• n--tlu-nim- two Io • v class carriers to -nalde them to handle plane* big enough to carry atomic Ismibs. , H i ii. House Republican I leader Joseph W Martin Jr. said . that if the administration housing • bill I- er acted there will In- less hou-'lng and housing will cost ■ more " In a I. ptepared for dclli.-rv at the Opening of house debate oil the measure he said that "private | homeowners wont build in c >m|*eti'ioii with oM-iiim.-nt ' i In a bid to win votes for thn measure the admiUtratbm's high .ommand agreed to trim th.- leglslatioi \s it ,atu« to the house I turn In I'ssr » l«bl* Decatur Lions Club In Meeting At Park The Decatur Lion* club met at r tin- shelter house ill Hantia Nuttmati pars last night The meellnz , was the climax of the attendan.» contest held re* sntly. and the !->wI ing team treated the winners tn t • ■ hi. ken dinner After the meet in;. Tad Smith entertained a number of , members at his initial ure golf cour- ,. re No r---.-iil.ir program wax given , at th*- dinner , Next week'* meeting will he th-’ last for the summer month* Elmer itatn.gartner Berne '.anker „ and president of the Indiana Rinkers Xsaotiation. will 1w the spent- .. er at the affair, which will in«lude the installation of the new ulfoer* ele- ted last week.