Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 148, Decatur, Adams County, 24 June 1949 — Page 1

XLVII. No- MB.

HISS RETURNS TO STAND IN OWN DEFENSE

Lie Agrees | Vole On [junctions Ivort Vote Tuesday |on Injunction Issue ■ln Labor Measure H June 24 — (UPt — ■ today agreed to Mart ■L Tuesday on whether to kill government’* power to rational emergency strike* Kfh court Injunctions. Einjun* tlon Issue is the hot■Lae in the Taft Hartley re ■ which has been dron■oo in the senate for three K, The administration and or KJ; labor want to abolish use ■function* in labor disputes Ksov on ■gator* who like the Taft-Hart-KTbor law enacted by the Re K a! , '"th congress are defer. K to pr- serve its injunction K»ions Some who do not like K Taft. Hartley sections are Ks to give up the injunction Kfon If some other means can ■ bond for preventing strikes ■ threaten the national Welfare. Kfer congressional developKtimum Wage — The senate Kr committee approved a bill ■roc the minimum wage from L;: cents an hour. Hut it deK sot to try In this session Lend coverage of the wage■a* to an additional 5.000,0t»0 wl’-' ■suffice — President Truman ■ congress a plan to take the ■kl lervice out of politics and ■if the red He proposed aboil ■of the time-honored spoils ■a under which the president ■bti first, second, and third ■ postmasters with senate ap ■Bic — Atomic commission' r kb Strauss took issue with k physicist J. Robert Oppenkr'» view that the legal ban loportlng atomic energy and potion can t be taken literal MPenheimer's view as a sden|ii that practically all energy, kt that generated by the tides, laotnlc He told house-senate bk investigators last week ■ th* law's ban shouldn't apply IMio-active research material ►t*d by the atomic energy kiMion They are "atomic en. ■ only in the sense that pra<. PJ everything else under the P he suggested. Strauss, who P** 8 * 1 the radioscope export p® denounced this view F* to take the law literally, phi would produce "complete Putative disorder." — Democratic house predicted that **•! pass the public P* hili by an overwhelming pity after it is amended wmikomy _ Se Oa te economy ad<T«r« T* !•■«* sis) *"ships Inspected * '“vwHgator for the state t*or of public instruction in i all ’he public school build Kirkland. Monroe and •Mton townships yesterday. ‘ Stoneburner, Washington . p trustee. said today The h ** lcr ’ A. b. Smith, examined ‘‘dings to determine whether _ "'»n»hip* need a new joint »°<i whether the 7* »R« is satisfactory was accompanied by "•’ rB »t' H. H. High, Kirkland J?’ trustee, and Howard Gil unroe township trustee, and , 6ty ’uperlntendent elect of ' Khools. Hansel L Foley **«<>Pped no hint as to what would contain, either 77* w otherwise. Final word directly from the super * °f public instruction ’h* new law requiring Wroral of educationally sound ' iu “’** Bo * «o into effect un 7*l. so no decision can be * Mor. that time 1 I < J®9o Policeman Of Pistol ***° June >4. _(VPi-Pa ' Harold Herman. VJ. report ‘• r ** mon bold him up on ; ‘ Bd I

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I More Hol, Sticky Weather For East New England Forest Fire Threat Eased By United Press More hot, sticky weather poured into New York today and experts raid the new heat wave would in tensity the north Atlantic multimillion dollar drought. The weather bureau withdrew its promise of a few scattered show ers for the parched area it said clouds had dissipated and no rain was In sight for the entire weekend Collars were loosened in most other parts of the country, too. Including the golf coast. Showers were predicted for the central states and cooler weather headed out of the northern plains, bound for the upper Mississippi valley As Naw York marked the 29th day of Its worst drought in 41 years, about the only people with a good word for the weather were those selling refreshments at amusement parks and beaches. They were oiling their cash registers. preparing for another week end descent by the sweltering A million potential Ice cream cone buyers were expected at Coney Island alone Worried city officials appealed again for less water consumption Water commissioner Stephen J Carney said consumption was run nlng I.4t>o.o<>o.i>it<> gallons daily. 2ou,MO.i>oo more than usual. For farmers and truck gardeners each day without moisture for their i thirsted meant less money in the bank this fall New Englanders were somewhat more fortunate. Heavy showers had eased the forest fire threat. A flveday ban was lifted on entrance of tWtauthoflted persons Into the Vermont woods and resorts again; opened their gates to vacationers Vacationers elsewhere were promised a confortable weekend The weatherman said no beat waves coining up In other sections Californians may be due for more near9o temperatures, he said, and there will be scattered hot spots throughout the southwest, but skies will be clear and sunny He saw nothing to indicate a recurrence of the kind of weather that caused an estimated eight-inch cloudburst near Hawthorne. Kans.| yesterday

West Texos Polio Total Is Now 213 San Angelo. Te» . June 24.—(UP) - Five new polio cases under treatment today brought the number of victim* affected by the went Texas epidemic to 213. War Bride Admits Shooting Husband English War Bride Is Held At Capital I Indianapolis. Ind., June 24 - English war bride Pamela Hurt. 1». said today she »hot her husband after he fortad her to *lgn a contention of unfaithfulness and •tripped off her clothes "so the mosquitoes could bite me Robert Hurt. 31. fought for his life in General hospital, a 32 caliber bullet wound in hi» neck The pretty war bride was charged with assault and battery with intent to murder after she admitted shooting him She said he forced her to sign the confession yesterday that she had been unfaithful to him three times Afterwards, she said, he threatened to kill her. then made her take a ride into the country for "punishment" "When we got out In the woods, •he said, "he stripped the clothes off me so the mosquitoes could bite She claimed her husband plan ned to use the confession as a de tense after disposing of her Authorities said they found the confession in Hurt s pocket They would not reveal It* content* Besides making her sign the con session. she said. Hurt beat her and gare her a’gun to commit iui cldc . . "When we returned from tne ride, she said. "he went to bed. He said he would decide when be woke up whether or not be would k *He also threatened tbelr two-year-old sou and warned her he would kill hes "any time in the future I lied to him" (Ti.ru T. Pane Five)

Chiang May Be Held To Blame For China Fall State Department May Show Evidence As Policy Defense Washington. June 24. — (VP) Diplomatic informants said today that the administration, in defense of its China policy, may produce hitherto secret evidence blaming Chiang Kai-Shek for the collapse of Nationalist China. These sources said the state department I t assembling a complete record of military failures and political conniving under the Chiang regime Secretary of state Dean Acheson guardedly acknowledged at his news conference yesterday that preparation of a white paper on China is under consideration. Diplomatic informants believe the department will attempt to show that Chiang wrecked plans for defense of south China along the Yantgtse river line for per sonal reasons, that he deliberate: !y withdrew the entire Nationalist air force and navy and several hundred thousand troops from the Yangtse area In an effort to force his recall to the presidency They expect the projected white paper also to establish that Chi ang consistently ignored American military advice. An indication of a possible congressional fight on China policy was seen in the senate** failure to act on the nomination of W Walton Butterworth a* assistant secretary of state in charge of Far Eastern affairs. Sen Robert A. Taft, ().. acting for GOP floor leader Kenneth 8. Wherry. Neb. asked for a delay on Butterworth** confirmation last night after the senate had confirmed four other new assistant secretaries. Wherry, an outspoken critic of the adtninlsti at ion's policy In the I Ter* Tu Page 9Tv»)

John Nelson Logan Is Taken By Death Fortner Decatur Man Dies In Michigan John Nelson L'gsn. 67. former well known Decatur resident, died Thursday evening after a long illness at hl* home in Kalamazoo. Mich. He was born In Huntertown. Feb 19. 1992. a son of Wesley A and Rebecca Ault Ixigan He wa* married June 26. 1904 to Blanche Stevens, who died in April of 1942 A former Decatur city councilman. Mr Logan wa* a foreman on the Pennsylvania railroad in this city from 19U4 to 1921. when he was transferred to Kalamatoo. where he was yard foreman and later vice preside nt and chairman of the Pennsylvania railroad M of W employe* He was retired in 1942 after .39 years of service. He had maintained hl* member ship In the Decatur Odd Fellow* and Red Men lodge* and was a' former member of the Maccabee ledge Surviving are two sons. Myles A Logan of Kalamazoo and Claude 8. of Detroit. Mich ; two daughters. Mrs. Ardath Froman of Plainwell, Mich . and Mrs Francille Chamber tin of Sioux City, la ; four grand children and one sister. Mrs Rose Eddington of Pettisville. O Funeral service* will be held at 1:30 o’clock Monday afternoon at the Black funeral home In this city Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o'clock this evening Richmond Man In Western Union Job The Western Union relief mana ger, Howard Wright, arrived In De catur ye»terday afternoon and started work today He replace* James Murphy, who ha* been pro nu>ted to the LaPorte office Wright, whose home i« in Rich niond. had been working In the Martinsville Western Union office He is very pleased with the Decatur office of Western Union, he says since they have all the latest eqalpmcnt The Martinsville of Hee I* one of lhe few in this state which still has manual sending and receiving

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, June 24, 1949.

SHIP HITS WAR MINE

r i . (■■k i ;i_ i wIL ... r ’ RfX UIIIBI,. J'.. £ • IT * - Crewmen aboard rescue v-sse!» (topi work frantically to lake off the survivors from the Belgian cros i-hatitiel vessel Princess Astrid aft»r she hit a war-time mine near Dutikirk. Frame with a loss of five crewmen and 15 injured In the lower photograph the Princess •Astrid, her superstructure almost awash, settle toward the bottom

Long Italian Farm Strike Is Settled Berlin And Hawaii Walkouts Drag On By United Pre** The lengthy, violent Italian term strike was settled today, but two other prolonged and costly walk outs in Germany aj;d Hawaii dragged on. One million communist-led farm workers In Italy filed back to work, their five-week Htoppage ended by a compromise settlement after the personal intervention of premier Alcide De Gasperl The worker* won the hulk of their demands Communist laleor bos* Giuseppe DI Vittorio said hewa* "fully satisfied" with the first nationwide faim worker* contract in Italian history. It provided for unemployment benefits to seasonal workers, cost ' of living bonuses and special In demnlties in case of illness or accident Dlsorde rs during the sttike h d to six deaths, with score* Injured and hundred* arrested Crop* had been i threatened. In Germany, west Berlin's 15,0m> rail strikers showed a growing in cllnatlon to reach a compromise, hut they were "locked out" bv the Soviet rail administration pending (Turn l» I'ngc- s»*rw)

Farm Leader Will Make German Soybean Survey

K W Busche of Monroe, well known farmer and agricultural leader, will spend 39 day* in Germany making a survey for the American Soybean Grower* Association. Flying from N< w York July 2t>. Mr Busche will land In Amsterdam. Holland, and then proceed to Germany Military permits for hi* traveling in Germany were approved by General Luciu* Clay, pridr to the latter's retirement a* American military governor in that country last month The 76 year old agricultural and master farmer, who immigrated to the United Stale* a« a 16 year old youth and in American tradition, climbed to the top in hi* chosen vocation, will combine business with pleasure on hi« European trip He will visit his three brother* and one sister who reside in the British sone in northwestern Germany Ills last trip to Germany was prior to World War 11. His son. L M "Mart" Busche. assistant coun’y agent leader and an agricultural instructor al Purdue University, wa* seat by the U 8 army on a special mission to Germany in 1947 Tbs Ruscbes operste large farms

NEW SERIAL STORY “The Leaf Shall Be Green” is the title of a great serial novel by Marion Chamberlain which will start Monday in the Daily Democrat. A daughter raised in an unconventional manner grows up and her life makes a dramatic, moving story. Don't fail to read it in the Daily Democrat. 11 Question Suspect In Brutal Slaying Factory Worker Is Arrested In lowa Grundy Center, lie. June 21 IlT’t A slightly built. 27yearold I factory worker was question' d to day a* a suspect in the brutal sex slaying of a young mother Search for other *u«pect« wa* abandoned. The man wa* captured in a corn field last night as he lay flat to hide from a poGrundy county -h» riff John A Me Ver said the man would be ques tiotic-d intensively about the mutila i tlon slaying of Mrs Harvey Stahlhut. 22. whose rap'd and dis. figured body wa* found by her hu«i band in a refrigerator in th' ir tav ern at nearby Morrison Meyer said h< "knew nothing" about a rt port that the man al I'l'Mrn Ih !'»«: ftrer*'

E. W. Busch* east of Monroe Mr Busche. who I* board chairman*of the First State Bank in this city, has been active in the suybiati growers movement In this count) since 1933. when the < Central Soya company wa* estate jlished by Dale W McMillen, Sr.

Broke Off Friendship With Chambers; Denies Having Secret Papers

Slight Living Cost Decrease Reported Labor Department Reports Decrease Washington, June 21 tCP)— The labor department reported to day the cost of living dropped three-tenths of one percent be tween mid April and mid May The dr fiartment said that on May I 15 average retail prices were eight-1 tenths of one percent below a year earlier bill still 2C 9 percent high er than in June. 1946" when most price controls were abandoned The department said price* drop ped in all major commodity groups except rent* last mouth Rents in creased one-lenth of one percent during the ::<>da. p< riod From mid April to mid May. the department said, fuel prices drop ped |,5 percent; house furnishings were down 1:: pen ent; clothing sold about six tentii* of one percent lower; and food* and miscellaneous items "declin'd fractionally" The department said the slight drop in food prices last month wacaused chiefly by price decline* for 1 dairy products, meat, poultry, fish, and fats and <4l*. "Apparel prices, which have de cllned steadily since October 1949.1 on May 15 were almost down to I their Irecimher, 1947 level." the department said It reported substantially lower prices for nylon hose, house dress , •*. men's ami boy's shirts, women's arid girl's cotton dresses ami cot ton and rayon yard goods. The chief reason for the one ams I one half percent slump tn fuel prices, the department said, was lower price* for anthracite and bituminous coal and coke and fuel oil. Ersol Walley Speaks To Local Rotarians Ersal Walley, prominent farm management expert of Fort Wayne.! was the guest spanker at the week ly meeting of the Decatur Rotary club Thursday evening Tlte speaker related many interesting ex|H-riences he had on a trip whi< h lie mad* to Europe last sum mer. telling particularly of visits to several Rotary clubs in France Avon Burk was chairman of the program I Former Decatur Man Given Prison Term Farr Is Sentenced For Evading Taxes Indianapolis. June 24 il'Pt • Federal judge Robert Balt tell today sentenced John Drexler. 60. and i»on It Farr. 4.1, former of fielals of the Superior Coach Co.' Goshen, to thr«e year* in prison, for Income tax evasion Both m» n pleaded guilty today They were also fined U.titHi each The judge stayed execution of the sentences until Sept 1 to give them time to put their affair* in order Both are from Elkhart The tax evasion was charged in an indictment returned by a fed eral grand jury at Indianapolis in March, resulting from a tax return which Farr allegedly filed as secretary of the Superior Coach compa’iy. which a few years later be came Superior Industries, Inc. at Goshen Authorities said Farr filed a net taxable earning Os 1934 75 for 194.3. I which, according to the Internal tax re venue <-<dlector. should have been 143 23< , The firm moved from Garrett to Goshen in 1941. and Farr was elect rd president in 1941. succeeding Itexler. Farr is a former resident of Decatur. having been connected with his father. H It Farr, in a laundry WEATHER Partly cloudy, warm and humid tonight and Saturday Scattered thundershower# tonight and south portion Saturday. Low tonight 66 72 High Saturday 8690. j

Nation s Coal i Miners Ready For Vacation Annual Vacation Os 10 Days; Contract To Expire June 30 White Sulphur Spring*. W Va June 21 tl'l'i The nation's 4*<' <mo coal miners prepared to begin their annual today vacation after today's shift, with John I. Lewis and Hie operators deadlocked on negotiation* for a new contract As Lewis and nothern and west ern operator* began their *econd bargaiwing session here, it was a question just when the miners would return to their jobs. The current soft coal contract expire* next Thursday while mem hers of the (Tilted Mine workers are on vacation. operators of the western and northern mine* were confident, however, that the miners would be back to work on July 5. They pointed out that the Taft Hartley law compel* the union to keep working until Aug 14. 60 day* after it filed a notice of contract t» \o nation But the miner* have traditionally followed the policy of "no contract, j no work" and Lewis refused to confirm or deny that they would re turn to the pit* after their holiday Lewi* told newsmen they "can assume anything ” During their l<*<!ay vacations, the miner* will draw *4B.oo<>.mm in pay at the rate of lino pi r man i Lewi* began formal diM.-ussions yesterday with operators representing an annual produc lion rate of fl4o.lum.mm ton*, about half the I nation's soft coal production. There was little, if any progress, |Tsr« I* I'agr Se«e*> ■ Study Autobiography Os Ruth Steinhagen Psychiatrists In Study Os Shooting Chicago. June 21 — ITT The killing of a pet canary ami secret purchase <it a five-rent candy l>ar I probably were factors that help ed develop the guilt complex wltich led 19-year-old Ruth Stein hag'-n to the urge to kill those she loved, mental do< tor* said today Psychiatrist* «iu<lle<i a bizarre ttiMiii word autobiography the girl wrote in an attempt to anal yxe her motive for shooting base, ball star Eddie Waitkus June II In it. she said she once had a "terrible desire” to kill her moth, er. The girl has admitted that she adored the Philadelphia Phillies first baseman from afar and plan tied for almost two year* to shoot him because "1 wanted the thrill of murdering him." They never had met To satisfy her urge. »he lure.! him into her room at the Edge water Beach hotel with a note saying she had "something important" to tell him A few second* after he entered, she shot | him with a . 22 caliber rifle purchased a month before In prepara tior. for killing him Waitkus is expected to be released from Illinois Masonic l«>» pita) next week IhM-tors said thev proluibly will not remove the bullet from his rear chest wall, where it hsiged after passing througli the right lung, unless It appear* that hl* strenuous athletic aefiv. liy would permit it to shift post, tlon toward some vital organ such as the heart Waitkus ha* said he will de mand prosecution of the girl If she I* found sane. He wa* subpenaed yesterday to appear at her hear ing June 3<t on charge* of assault with intent to murder In the life history she wrote fur Dr. William H. Haines ul the, I <T*rw T* Paa* •»»»*>

Price Four Cents

Declares Chambers' Refusal To Pay Off Debts Led To Break In Their Friendship New York, June 21. • H'P) — Alger Hiss told a federal court jury today that lie broke off his friendship with Whittaker Chambers In the spring of 19.36 when Io- became convinced Chamber* would not pay bi* debt, and never saw him again until the house committee on un American activities brought litem together last year Hiss, resuming the stand In : his own defense on the Ihih day of lit* federal court perjury trial, testified he knew Chambers then as "George (To: ley • a free lam e magazine writer who said lie wa* gathering material for a senes of articles about the senate munitions investigation committee Hi** was coutiael for the committee. Chief defense attorney Lloyd Paul Stryker asked Hiss whether he did "at any time In 1936 or any oilier time meet t'ro*. ley and turn over to him" the handwritten summaries, typewrit, len copies, or "pumpkin paper" microfilm photographs of state department documents which are ' government exhibit* in the trial. "I certainly did not." His* replied Hiss testified that Crosley, his wife and infant child moved Into au apartment on 2*th st in Washington in 1935 when the Hisses vacated it to move into a house on I* St He *ald lie sublet the apartment to the "Crowleys " Tlte subtenants, lie testified, lived In tlte apartment under this arrangement for a short time until the Hiss lease expired. "Dtd there come a time when you asked Crowley for tlte rent?" Stryker aaked. "Th< re c ame several times," Hiss r< plied. He said Chambers <li<l not pay the rent then and several times later when he mentioned the : rent. Chamber* said it would beforthcomlng soon. He said Chambers, prior to the suit leasing, ami afterwards, had itorrowe.i small sums of money. "latte In May or early June of 1 1936 I saw Crowley again at hi* request, and he requested a small loan. Hiss testified "I told Crowley I had become convinced that he would not repay the sum* lie owed m" and I Intended to forget all alsttil it and I thought beat that our contact* lie discontinued " "You did not wee him after that until you met him In tlte Commodore hotel In New York on August 17th last year?" Hi»« said he had not The Aug, 17 meetgig wa* arranged by a subcommittee of the h<>u* ■ unAmerican activities committee lll** testified that "at no time" while he was counsel for the Nyo committe. as the senate munition* investigating committee wan called, dll he get any state department documents for the committee Cht.uiber* had te«tif|ed earlier in the trial that in 1935 His* procured sec ret dts utiH ntw (rom a "Mr Green" in the state department in the name of the Nye committee. Part Os Ideal Dairy Bar Loot Recovered Sheriff Herman Bowman found some ctf the papers lost when the ideal Dairy Bar was roblted two weeks ago. In a c reek bed near Monroeville R L Hoile, a deputy sheriff from Monroeville, informed sheriff Howman that some paper* were found one and one-half mile* northeast of Monroeville. I'pon investigating late Thursday aftemcMin. Sheriff Howman found a drawer from the safe, part Os an abstract, and several life insurance pedicles belonging to the Ideal Dairy Har Some of the papers had l>een washed downstream by high ’water.