Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 147, Decatur, Adams County, 23 June 1949 — Page 1

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2 KILLED AS DUTCH AIRLINER CRASHES

mu Voices Icern Over [employment ■f e |ls House-Senate ■Group Unemployment ■ problem Is Serious June 23 (I Pl - ■ Truman reportedly told KwreiiMoiial delegation today K tldng must be done” K ( ri»n:K unemployment. Khuu*- fenaie group called on Kmiident to diacusa an "ecoK expansion bill" which has ■ jet been Introduced. K James E. Murray. I)., K spokesman for the delegaK . 4 id Mr Truman voiced con K over the employment situa Ktnd agreed it l» a problem Kaunt be met. K r ny said the economic ex ■ion bill would fight deflation Kr than inflation. It would ■7 create a national economic ■mtion imard." Kfrotnote private investment Kvmitting taxes on new IndusKficllities to be paid over a K priori ■ Provide iong range planning ■pHk works ■lanwhile the president signed ■IU providing for general pub■ton of monthly "economic In■ors'' showing which way the ■mi winds are blowing. ■ter congressional develop-Kt-Sen Ralph E. Handers. I Vt. proposed a |3,000,000,000 ■ii the house-approved 116,000.■m military budget K - President Truman "wil■W' signed a bill giving house Kters 13.500 more a year for Ktsl help and telephone and graph expenses. But he chidlite house for not also raising I ptf of key federal executives teip the government get "good I for big jobs." hr Assets — In approving a PWO.DOU deficiency money bill I tease appropriations commit irecommended immediate liquibe of the war assets adminiska The committee said di remaining work can be Uk.l by permanent agencies. Ik the cold war front, senate hra gave Acheson qualified Mites of action this year on t Atlantic pact and ttie armstferope program. Ihnocra'lc leader Scott W Luiud chairman Tom Connally th* foreign relations committee Wtsed hope" that the two Mores would be approved at I session of congress. hs Arthur H. Vandenberg. ReMcsn foreign policy spoke*- * said flatly that "congress kt adjourn without acting on “ We cannot leave any twill tone in a subject of such W Importance to the world." statements followed Ache- •• plea yesterday for prompt : ’’ t on the defense pact and the BMWJ'OO arms program for * sstions of the world. Acheson was scheduled I the house foreign affairs Mlltee on progress made at l4 *tfour meeting in Paris. He •tiao to talk over the 1150.000,recovery program for Korea /•'* questioning on the Unit>Utcs China policy. «k Driver Killed Hopper Collapses Ind.. June 23 —(UP) Little, 41. was killed yesterf’hen a fully loaded sand and « hopper fell on the truck he 1 driving. William Day. plant •*7 for the Felgel Construe h /'°®P*ny. said one of the on the hopper collapsed ss '* drove his truck under * opp * r for loading. More Stricken ' e *os By Polio Akgelo, Teg., June 23-((’P» Milon’s worst polio epidem>*2** r*r struck five more bringing the total number «® W today. |a-- Weather cle **y ""d warmer, I kbuMerrtvewers tothundershowers. ■L** f humid. Low to High Friday IMO.

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Heads Lawyers i MLM NATHAN C. NELSON, local attor- . ney. was elected president of the Adams county bar association Wednesday afternoon at the annual election of officers of that organization, held in the library of the court house. Czech Government Again Warns Bishop Continued Subversive Activities Charged Prague, f’zechonlovakia. June 23 —(UP) Archbishop Josef Beran ' | and his bishops were accused to- ; day of continuing "subversive" activity in the face of a stern ■ government warning, and were re- . minded anew that such acts were "punishable." The trade union newspaper ■ Prace renewed and extended the charges against the Roman Catholic prelates Premier Antonio ■ Zapotocky first voiced them officially two days ago, along with an implicit threat to arrest and prosecute them The newspaper said the church leaders In the last few days "used open threats and pressure on those priests who approved the Catholic ac tion.” the government sponsored organization established to promote a church-state agreement They i also were said to have used the threat of excommunication. "These are. of course, Illegal, antistate, anti-popular, and pun ishable.” the newspaper added The new ailing of the charges ; against the clergymen who hid defied the communist government, followed an announcement by Catholic action leaders that they intended to conclude an agreement with the government despite the opposition within the church ranks The Czech board of bishops, headed by archbishop Beran, and the Vatican have denounced the Catholic action society as “schis mafic.” The Vatican decreed the excommunication of its members , The newspaper Prace accused the church officials of preventing] an agreement between church and state. The Catholic action society again j called Upon the bishops to stop opposing an agreement, and said it] was con vino d such a pact would be concluded. I Tucker, Associates Plead Not Guilty Immediate Trial Is Demanded By Tucker Chicago. June 23•on Taker. Sr. and five of hia associates today pleaded Innocent to charges of mail fraud, conspiracy and violation of sec regulations. Tucker demanded an immediate trial. a . A sixth Tucker associate. sto< » underwriter Floyd D. Cerf, did not, enter a plea on grounds that he dl l not want to admit the sufficlen 7 of the charges against him in any way. . . _ . The government indicated Tucmer and seven others June 10 on charge, growing out of Tucker-, efforts to finance and manufactur, a revolutionary new rear-drive automobile. The company now Is in the hands of federal trustee. organization proceedings were filed. Tucker appeared before federal judge Philip L Sullivan With him were Cerf; Robert Pierce. 50. for mcr director and treasurer of tae Tucker firm; Fred Roek.lm.n Chicago. Tucker Corp sale, director; Mitchell Dulian 55. general sales manager and a director; Otis era™ T. rsoe «•*•>

Fear lewis To Stagger Mine Strike Action Staggered Walkout Might Forestall Injunction Effort White Sulphur Springs. W. Va„ i June 23. — <UP) — Coal operators I said today they believe John L. Lewis may try to "stagger" strike | action by his miners over the ' next two months if contract negotiations 'all. They said that by striking various segments of the industry at different times, Mwis probably could forestall any government efforts to obtain a Taft-Hartley antistrike injunction against his United Mine Workers. The operators agreed that a staggered walkout would make it difficult for the government to prove In court that the work stoppage Imperiled the national health and ■ safety. The present soft coal contract ex-, ' hires on June 30. But under the Taft-Hartley act. a union must maintain the status quo for at least 60 days after giving notice of contract termination. I'nder these circumstances, operators said, Lewis will be free to strike on June 30 only in the southern mines owned by members of the southern coal producers association. The status quo provision of the law. they said, would compel the miners to work in U. 8. | steel’s "captive" mines until July 13, in other northern commercial mines until Aug. 14, and in tha anthracite pita until Aug. 15. I Isewts and representatives of the northern and western mine owners began preliminary talks on a new contract here yesterday. The producers have indicated that it is now up to Lewis to present them with his formal wage demands. Girl Slightly Hurt When Train Derailed Danville. 0.. June 25—(UP)— A Pennsylvania railroad diesel i freight train derailed at a crossing] here today, smashed a telegrapher’s shack and scattered 17 cars along i the right-of-way. The state highway patrol said Bonnie Jean Italiano. 10. Frederickstown. daughter of the telegraph operator, suffered minor lacerations. She was standing by the building when the freight car smashed Into it. Her mother escaped injuries. New England Slates Drought Continues Pleasant Weather In Most Os Nation By United Press Cooler weather brought relief to , New Yorkers today but the 24-day-old New England drought went right on killing thirsty farm crops. One agricultural expert, however. said the long drought was "just what the farmers need" to reduce surpluses and increase their prices. In most of the country It was a, pleasant summer day. but scattered showers were expected in three huge areas — the plains states, northern Rockies and the Gulf coast. Again there was no rain for New York and crop losses mounted almost hourly. Potatoes, corn, and cabbage thirsted in the longest dry j siege in 41 years. The New Jersey department of agriculture figured the farmers of that state had lost |10,000.0(M» on their asparagus and strawberry crops alone. Two agriculture authorities and a weatherman took issue with reports that the drought would be disastrous to New England farm-! ers. , ’. "Everything will be cut a little ( perhaps, but the overall picture Is not too bad. said Paul W. Dempsey. of the University of Massarhusetts. He said he had heard no reports that farmers were plowing their . crops under because of damage | "On the contrary," be said, "farmers are plowing under becram T. re«e May

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, June 23, 1949.

Gold Star Honor Roll For Adams County Released

Bloomington, Ind . June 23 — Six-ty-six members of the World War II armed forces from Adams county who lost their lives in the conflict are included in the county's volume of the Hoosier gold star honor roll released today by the Indiana War History commission. The Adams county volume is the first in the series which will include all of the state's 92 counties. At the same time, the commission released the volume for Whitley county, publication of the small booklets having been started at the beginning and end of the alphabetical list of counties. The honor roll volumes will con tain the names of all Hoosiers in the military forces whose deaths occurred between Nov. IS. 1940, the date of the first induction under selective service, and Jan. 31. 1946. the,terminal date of the honor list issued for each state by the War Department. When finally published, the rolls will contain more than 10.000 names as compar--1 ed with 3,369 in World War I, lead ing the war history commission In 'its foreword to each county volume to declare "the price of freedom • mounts In blood with each successive purchase" The county honor roll volumes, later to be bound together in three volumes, will contain the name of each Hoosier who died, his military record, circumstances of his death, where buried, and the name of next of kin. The information has been compiled and edited by the Indiana historical bureau under the direction of Howard W Peckham. Gov. Henry F. Schricker has advised Dr. Lynn W. Turner, executive director of the war history i commission, that the state will prejsent one of the little volumes to i the next of kin of each of those carried on the honor roll. Purchases of the booklets may be made through the Indiana war history i commission here at prices varying with the size of the volumes The | Adams county volume has been ; priced at 30 cents and the Whitley ] county booklet at 25 cents. The Adams county list of gold I- star members, as published in the

Pilot, Stewardess Heroes Os Crash Save Lives Os All 44 Aboard Airliner Memphis. Tenn . June 23 (UPt —A pilot with an iron hand and a precision btain teamed with a quick-thinking fast acting young stewardess to save the lire* of all 44 persons aboard an American Airlines plane which went down with one motor knocked out here, grateful survivors said today. Capt. Ed Hatch of Memphis and Mias Yvonne Hsnavan of Lindsey. Calif . were the heroes in the crash landing yesterday of the twoengin rd Convair transport. Not a life was lost. Os the 41 passengers, including an infant in l arms, and three crew members aboard 37 were injured Seven teen were treated and released Immediately. Seven were not hurt Only 2" were hurt seriously enough to remain in hospitals today, and doctors believed all the injured would recover. Survivors and eye-witnesses said tbe saving of the lives was strictly a team job tietween the calm, skill- ! ful Hatch and the efficient Miss Hanavan. Hatch brought the burning plane to an amazing crash landing on the edge of a pea patch smoothly enough to keep his crew and pa* sengers alive. Miss Hanavan took over from there and organized the speedy removal of the passengers i before the whole plane could burst I into flames or explode. Sentencing Os Two Men Slated Friday Sentencing of John Drexler. ««. and Don Farr. 42. both of Elkhart, on charges of federal tax evasion will take place Friday in U. S. fed I eral court in Indianapoh* befpre : Judge Robert C. Baltxell Both men. formerly connected with Superior Coach Corp., pleaded guilty to the charge April 15 The judge ordered an invest iga tion of tbe men by the probation department before passing sen trace Farr formerly resided In Decatur. The charge involved pay ment of taxes on the corporation ta 1943 Both were officers In the firm. j

war history commission’s volume, is as follows: Floyd Jerome Andress, 22, Hartford township. Died May 22, 1944. of wounds received in action near Valmontone. Italy. Beulah I. Barkley. 36. army nurse. Decatur. Died July 27. 1944. from asphyxia at Hie. Mere F.glise, , France. Carl David Baumgartner, 23.] Kirkland township Died Aug. 19,1 1943. In plane crash at Pratt Field, Kan. Dale Erskine Baumgartner, 22. French township. Killed in action Dec. 10. 1944 in Germany. James Harold Baumgartner, 24. Berne. Killed in plane crash in China July 7. 1945. Clyde Clayton Bebout. 24. Adams county. Accidentally drowned April 12. 1943 In North Africa. Francis Frederick Beitler, 31. Adams county. Died May 21, 1942 of dysentery and malaria at Camp O'-l Donnell prison camp. Philippine Islands. Thomas Dale Biery, 26. near Berne Killed in action Dec. 26,' 1944. In battle of the Bulge. Belgium. la-roy Hose Billman. 19. Geneva Died Jan 20, 1945. in hospital In England of wounds received in Belgium Jan. 9. 1945. Merlin Wallace Billumn, 16. Geneva Buried at sea off Okinawa May 27. 1945. Albert Joe Brunner. 22. Decatur route 3. Killed in action March 31. 1 1945 in Philippine Islands James Bruce Christen. 22. Decatur. Killed in plane crash over Sicily July fl. 1943 Ralph Junior Darickson. 19, Geneva Killed in action Jan 15. 1945, in Germany Herbert Henry EhlerdioK. 27. Decatur route 2. Killed by enemy mortar fire May 7, 1945, on Island of Luzon. Solomon Joseph Eicher, 34. Decatur. Died of kidney Infection at Hot Springs. Ark. Richard Edward Eiting. 24. Decatur. Died Sept. 17, 1944 in France of wounds received In action two days earlier <Tara Tn Pace Pearl

Fort Wayne Man Is Killed By Motor Bike Fort Wayne, Ind. June 23 (Ul’t Funeral services were planned | today for Orin V lltaih. about 60, a violin maker here, who was in jured fatally yesterday when he stepped In the path of a motor bike ridden liy Don Gronau. 19. Police said Heath's head struck a light pole. Policy Statement By Nation’s Governors European Recovery Program Endorsed I Colorado Springs. Colo . June 23 - (UP»— The nation's governors went on record today with an un precedenled foreign policy statement approving the European re covery plan, the north Atlantic treaty, and the furnishing of arms to western Europe. The resolution was ratified in the conference's final executive sea sion. The conference then turned to regular domestic business, including federal aid to states, intergovernmental cooperation, and highway problems The governors named Republican Gov. Frank Carlson of Kansas as conference chairman for 1951*. to succeed Gov. William Preston Ijine. Jr . Maryland Democrat. The post relates between parties. The conferees called for increased governmental efficiency by the "d*velopment of more adequate methods by which waste of public monies will be eliminated and present duplication in federal activities will be terminatell " It wanted economy with no curtailment of public service. It said. The conference also: !. Called for the council of state governments to study the care and treatment of mental case* and report to the next annual meeting 2 Called for all state* to set up adequate driver licensing system*, tc prepare uniform traffic control legislation, and increase *aforce ment to ent highway death* 3 Urged state* to consider estate iishment of "reasonable and uni form" sine and weight limitatlona (Twra T. Pa«e k.l«k<*

Airliner Homebound From Far East Falls Apart And Plunges In Bari Harbor

Russia Vetoes Offer By Berlin Strikers Encroachment On Operation Rights Berlin. June 23.—(UP)—Russia appeared today to have vetoed an offer by west Berlin's striking rail-; way workers to handle freight trains from west Germany. The strikers offered yesterday to man switches, freight yards and ■other installations in western Berlin .for trains currying food and lather vital supplies from the western occupation zones. But the Sovlet-boesed railway management retorted that the I Strikers' offer constituted an "ell- ' croachment of the operation rights lof the railway." The statement indicated that Russia, which controls the railways serving Berlin under a four-power agreement, has no intention of per- . mitting trains from west Germay to enter Berlin until the strike as I a whole ends. The strikers' offer did not apply to a resumption of passenger train traffic from western Germany. < Neither did the strikers offer to resume work on Berlin's elevated railways. | It was estimated that some 40 . or more freight trains loaded with supplies for Berlin are stranded in the Soviet occupation zone between I western Germany and this city. The Russians have refused to let their locomotives haul trains here las long as the strike continues The 15.000 strikers are demanding recognition of their nont'ominunist union, all their pay in west-H-rn marks and a policy of no reI prisals. They yesterday rejected I for a second time an offer backed by all four occupation jsiwers of 75 percent of their pay in western marks and no reprisals except a-; gainst strikers who have committed "crimes." — — Chairmen Appointed For Annual Fish Fry Farmers-Merchants Fish Fry October 6 Committee chairmen for the first annual farmerr-nn rchants fish fry sponsored by the Decatur Chamber of ('omnierc'.-. to be held October 6 in this city, wen announced today by Glenn Hill, president of the Chamber. Rolurt Helm, local clothier, will be general chairman of the big event. Plans are underway (or a capa city attendance of 6tu» farmers and local merchants. The banquet will be similar to those held by several n«ighborbig cities, f'ommittee < hairmen will meet soon with presi d«nt Hill and county agricultural agent L. E Archbold to complete the program for the big fall event Following are the chairmen nam »d today: CHIIHes, Lester Pettibone; fin anve. Tony Metzler: program. Ben Webster; food. Hubert Schmitt; ' serving. Fred Haugk. publicity, Dick Pruden: arrangements. Dick Mansfield: decorations. Ollie Penny and William Gass; reception, laruis Jacobs and M P Cass Lawrence (Bud) Anspaugh will serve as toastmaster tor the event and introduce the speakers and vari< us events following the din ner It C Ehinger is the Chamber of Commerce director in charge of the event, which is being sponsored by the retail coiitmittee of the Chambi r. Ministers Propose Strike Settlement South Bend. Ind. June 23 (I’l*l A group of ministers today sub mitted a plan for settling the Ben dix Aviation Corp, strike which has Idled 7.50 V workers The St Joseph county council of churches offered the company and the CIO Untied Automobile work ers a proposal for reinstatement of some workers dismissed for an alI leged slowdown, an immediate end Ito the strike and appoint meat of ai fact finding board.

Judith Copion Scheduled For Further Exam Admits To Spending Nights With Justice Department Lawyer Washington June 29 (Ul’i—: The prosecution today spurned Judith Copion's challenge to confront her with the justice department lawyer who was her com panlott In two hotel room trysts last January As the girl was recalled for fur ther cross examination at Iter spy trial, prosecutor John M Kslley. Jr, said he has no intention of putting Harold I*. Shapiro on the witness stand. "I have laid proof through her admissions from which the jury must conclude that her conduct with Shapiro was wholly inconel ,- tent with the love she professed for I Valentin A t Gubitchev," Kelly said. Miss Copion. 29-year-old former justice department analyst, has ad xnitted spending the night with Shapiro in hotels in Baltimore and Philadelphia, but lias denied being intimate with him She charged that Shapiro is pari of an FBI frameup” to "brand me as a hatlot.” The brunette defendant, her dark eyes blazing, challenged Kelley late jesterday to "bring Mr Slia piro here witli the FBI agent who trail* d us and the dictaphones .’’ "Your counsel can bring him here," Kelley retorted coldly But defense counsel Archibald Palmer said today he has no such intention "The defense will not call Mr Shapiro,” he said "The govern ment has introduced evidence about this man It is up to th<m to call him to the witness stand My client lias dared the govern ment to back u|> its charges to bring Shapiro into the courtroom to substantiate Its evidence " Miss ('opion is accused of steal itig top secret government Information for transmission to ltu--ia through Gubitchev. a Soviet engineer ty>o has been suspended from his United Nations job The girl, denying the charge, has testified that she was in love with the Bus sian Tile government hop«d to complete Its cross-examination by nightfall Shapiro, a bachelor in his 30's, has been unavailable either at his apartment or iii< office, for com ment on the girl's testimony that •he spent the January weekend and several other nights with him Nathan Nelson Head 01 Bar Association Elected President At Annual Meeting Nathan C Nelson, senior mem ber of the law firm of Nelson DeVoss, Smith and Macklin, and long • time member of the Adams county bar association. Wednesday was unanimously elected president of that group for the 1949-'io term at the annual election of officers, held in the library of the court house Mr Nelson’s name was the only ona presented by the nominating committee Other officers for the year include Arthur Voglewede. vice presi dent; Severin Schurger. secretary and G Remy Bierly. treasurer All officers will serve tor one year and under the rules of the bar association. the president cannot be reelected The new president sue ceeds Ft rd L Litter*r Following the election of officer*, plan* were completed for the an nuai bar association picnic, which will be held June 3» at the sum I mer home of Hubert R McL'lenahan al Pretty Lake.

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All Aboard Liner Killed When Plane Bursts Into Fire, Falls Into Harbor Bari. June 23. —ft’P) — A Dutch airliner homeiiound from the far < ast burst into flames, fell apart and plunged into Bari Harbor today. killing at least 24 and probaoi ly 32 passengers and crewmen. Rescue boats darting through the wave lashed waters recovered th • , mutilated and charred bodies of 16 ' 'lien, five women and three childten They were thrown clear when the fuselage of the four-engine transjMirt hit the water with terrific impact. The Royal Dutch airline Kf.M reported that 32 persons were believed alaiard the plane flying from the Netherlands East Indie* to Amsterdam All save the 24 whose bodies were recovered apparently were trapped in the battered fuselage which lay on the iMtttom In 125 feet of stormtossed waters KI.M officials in Amsterdam said the plane was believed to be the liner Itoertuund on a non sciiedule-l flight The Roertnund took a partv of newspapermen, including American. to Indonesia last week for a month's inspection tour there. All aboard the liner were killed, all responsible officials al the scene agreed, when It dropped Into the 'harbor some 1.500 feet from the main pier here. The first impression was that the cause of the crash probably never would be known Thousands of per- > cons on the waterfront saw the big ship belch < moke and flame and plunge to disaster The K! M liner, nearing Its destination after a flight from thi other aide of the world, inexplica'e ly burst into flames over the harlior Witnesses said it fell apart, with wings and tall sections breaking away and leaving the fusel’ige to drop as a dead-weight Documents recovered from tho water showed that the big ship left the Dutch East Indies Tuesday. It last touched ground at Athens, from where it took off iliis morning. Belching smoke and flame, it plunged into the sea in full view < f thousands of persons on the waterfront promenade which stretches for miles along the sea and is a busv thoroughfare Rough, running seas badly hampered salvage operation* Officials said it might be several days before the flame-scarred fuselage < ould be brought to the surface The Imhßcm were brought to shore by three harlsir bonis which carried out their mission with flags at half mast Officials reported that they hud determined that two of «he women were stewardesses, and that ono man's name was Van Hasseit. Otherwise the makeup of the lasulty Hat was unknown in the first hours after the crash I Bari civic and military official*, along with thousands of curious by slanders, lined Ute promenade along (tie sea front as the Itodies wero (Turn T« I'nar Fl«e( BULLETIN Washington. June 23.—(UP) —Chair man Brien McMahon of the congressional atomic energy committee disclosed today that an atomic employe at Oak Ridge. Tenn., had taken uranium chips to his home and that another employe had hidden a uranium block in his locker. David Willard First in Reading Project David Willard, sou of the Rev. F II Willard pastor of tbe Belhauy Evangelical United Brathrrn church. "r*a<-hed California" first in the covered wagon project at the Decatur public library David, a fourth grade student, has read ten books since June 1. Over 2'M> children are enrolled in tha project designed to spur reading. Many have now "cross*d the Mississippi river," or read five books. After reaching California, the children will receive a gold star for each five books they read, symbolic of the gold which the 'O'era panned in the Caltfotaia hlUa>