Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 151, Decatur, Adams County, 28 June 1949 — Page 1

Kvil. No. 151.

O-DAY-OLD BENDIX STRIKE IS SETTLED

tight On Injunctions Is Lost

Kate Votes Bill To 1| Injunction Hffeated In Fight flEXill Injunction bulletin June —(UP) senate voted today to '^■ )t he injunction ’as a weap nation*! emergency June 28—(UP)— today lost its battle to kill the use of as a weapon against ring national health oil) another vote wan |„ write explicit injunction ini,, the administration's oKgirtl.r repeal bill, adminisforces were defeated In test The vote was 46 to ■*, {timocratic leader Scott tu tl|J emergency Strike jHrfSi- Robert A Taft. R. <) vould have knocked all In provisions from Taft's to low tin day injunctions seizure of indusVot both gHbr of the Lucas amendment jjj||tP «nate facing another vote jjHwt later on Taft's double bar dSi proposal. |K> administration's defeat was victory for Taft It '.,| to have a substantial |Br tn the outcome of the en fight over reBld the Taft-Hartley law. |Hh ad. im-tratioli defeat camo alter it had won a tempor That victory came IHrlo senate defeated. 54 to 37. nt by Sen Spessard I. b Fla. and three Other |Hm> that would have authorizinjunctions against na tgiergency strikes. battle reached a climax on amendment The senate »* r. packed and standees |Mltbe walls as the senate clerk the crucial rofl call of labor Maurice J vat Jud from a front tow the gallery. He was flank labor department aides and for labor unions. close vote on the Lucas was according to sß)r The administration had an a hairline decision For it had brought vice BMtGt Alben W Barkley buck by plane to cast the decid jM'otr in rase of a tie But Bark U**" got a chance to vote. of one vote from to -for'’ would have re in a 45 45 deadlock which have been broken by Bari. <Tara Tw *lll Ms — ■ Wort School Head At I. U. - B' I»ean Wendell W Wright snn.>un< rd the appointment H Church, auperlnten «■ “* the Elkhart schools, as of th* division of research services at Indiana Uni .-B** 1 11 * native cf Pennsylvania. Bk the Elkhart post for thyears. ■wtur Lions To Hear fr* Banker Tonight jf* 1 B *urngartner. Berne bank SB* »l*ak at the last summer BP** °f the Decatur Lions club The meeting will start at St, yfto ' hat the Knights of home Newly elected of "W »l»o be Installed dur K. evening The next meeting • ‘•September •. I h-u. WtATMtR «f«udy. Scattered gH M *howera south portion fl **** *"d I* the esteem* g| 5 Wednesday. Continued humid, especially Low tonight !■*•*’'• n south. High Wed ■"** • Mfth, 87 gouth.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Brief Respite From Heat In East States New England Drought Goes On Unbroken By United Press Cool air rolled southward along the Atlantic coast and gave east erners a break in their long heat wave, but weather forecasters said today that it wouldn't last long and ■ the New England drought went on unbroken. Hot air moving up from the south was expected to bring sticky, sweltering weather back to New i York City and New England tomorrow. The cool air hit Boston late yesterday. It dropped the temperature from 76 to 62 in six hours, but the drought in New England started its 39th day with no general rains in sight. U>wer temperatures began 1 sweeping southward during the ; night. At Hartford. Conn. the ! temperature dropped from 9o dei grees to 69 In a three-hour period. In Washington, the thermometer officially registered 91 yesterday, but the high still was a relief from Sunday's blistering 96 de grees. People in the capital faced a 93-degree high today. Four people. Including a two-year old boy, ' were overcome by the heat yesterday The drought In New England still 5 menaced crops and endangered for- { eats. Weather observers said I scattered showers along the coast 1 had not brought much moisture to tinder like forests and seared crops Forecasters In the New York area predicted that the temperature relief would reach only parts of 1 New York City, chiefly the Bronx and parts of Queens They saw no end to the dryness burning the ■ city's lawns. The temperature In the heart of the Metropolitan area had dropped to 64 degrees at 5 am. as cool air moved Into the city. Hcattered showers were expected io Ohio. Kentucky. Tennessee i West Virginia, and Pennsylvania The plains states already were > feeling lower temperatures from I the cool western air sweeping east ward In the Dakotas and Nebras jka, high temperatures ranged yes-1 terday from 72 in the north to 85 to 90 in the south. They were as much as 15 degrees lower than Sunday. There were falling temperatures! last night in lowa and Minnesota too. where temperatures moved I downward Into the middle 50 s. The Chicago weather bureau said, however, that the cool air mass which caused the temperature <Twra T* !'■■» »•*’ Announces Grants In Cancer Research I. Notre Dame I Included In Grants Washington. June 28 (UP)— Federal security administrator Os-, car R Ewing today announced grants of fI.OJ6.tM by the national cancer Institute to finance labora tory and clinical research in can ctr. Several of the grants will carry forward investigations of the "milk factor" which causes breast cancer , In mice. There is no experimental i evidence at present for the existence of a "milk factor" In human, l C *AgJant of 1116 667 for 14 months to the Roscoe B Jackson Memolaboratory at Bar Harbor. Me win help continue genetic investiga tions of cancer and abnormal growth It was at this laboratory that the "milk factor' in mice was first discovered by Dr. John J. BWtnei- in 1936 The research grants include. Illinois Institute of Technology 5 946: Illinois Masonic Hospital Chicago. 6,1.9; Michael Reese ho. pltal. Chicago, 12.0<M»; N ‘ ,rt * w s’ ern University Medical ‘ h ' cago. 2.169. University of Chicago Chicago. 22.971; University of Illi no. Chicago. 23.639; University of. 5 000; Northwestern VB, ’ r * r *, i ’ y 1 KvM.ton, 9.3J4; University of I II Z, te . Urban. 16-6 M: toM ’’j dUna University. Bloomington «. 1666; Uulraratty of Notre Dame.; UM. - •

West Berlin's Rail Strikers Back To Work Railway Traffic To Be Resumed Before Nightfall BOIn, Jam- 28 — 4UP) — All but a handful of west Berlin's 16,000 railway strikers went back to work today and railway traffic i was expected to resume before j nightfall. Headquarters of the strikers' independent non. Communist union said 98 |>ercent of the men who had been on strike for 39 days reported for work at 8 a. m. (midnight CRT). Within two hours, they were checking rail and other installs, tions In preparation for a resumption of ' traffic on both Berlin's elevated railways and the singletrack tietween Berlin and western Germany. U. S. transport officials expected the first freight train from western Germany since May 27 to reach Berlin tonight. They said the first U. S army passenger train from Berlin to western Germany will leave here at 9:49 p m. (1:49 p m. CRT) Union officials sirtd the 300-odd strikers who did not report for work lived in the Soviet sector and apparently feared reprisals despite Soviet assurances there would be none except against those who had committed "crimes." Western officials said they did not know when army rail passenger service between Berlin and western Germany would lie resumed. The Anglo-American airlift continued as though the strike still were on. Sir Brian Robertson. (Tara T« I'aae Three! Nol Guilty Plea Is Entered By Forger Gerald A. Nelson Pleads Not Guilty Gerald A. Nelson, arraigned in the Adams county circuit court Monday for forgery, entered a plea of not guilty through his lawyer. Ed A. Bosse His bond was set at 11.000 by Judge Myles F Parrish. Nelson was arrested last Friday and charged with writing several bad checks and passing them in De catur. City police report that they have recovered five bad checks thus far signed by a Gerald A. Nelson. These were fraudulent pay roll checks from a trucking firm operating out of Fort Wayne. The affidavit does not include all five checks. Judge Parrish Informed the defendant that he had a right to have an attorney, and the defendant replied that he had no funds or prop erty. but desired a lawyer to defend him The judge appointed Bosse as the jfkuper attorney. Sheriff Herman Bowman reports that the accused I* also wanted in Jay county by the Portland police for a similar offense If Nelson posts the bond, the sheriff has been asked to turn him over to Jay county officials. Nelson will remain in the Adams j county jail until the bond Is posted or until the September term of the court. He told the court that he had no home at this time, that he had previously !!»«• In Fort Wayne and In Portland. ■ "" Start Reassessment Work Here Monday Two teams of assessors making a reassessment of res) estate values in Adams county started work yesterday One team of three men is working In the north part of Decatur this week. The other threeman team la inspecting property east of the city. These men art In lestixating all real estate propertv and reporting what they find They do not decide themselves i what the tax will he. but only submit a report aa to the condition 'of the property.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, June 28, 1949.

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Still her hero as she scrubs floors In Cook County jail in Chicago, Ruth Steinhagen pauses to look at the smiling face of baseball star Eddie Waitkus. She shot the ball-player in her hotel room where she lured him wi h a note. Waltkux had never seen the girl before the shooting.

Troubles Piling Up For Love Swindler Engel Is Indicted By New York Jury Chicago, June 28 (UP) — International swindler Sigmund Engel's troubles piled up <>A him today but he merely lamented that he couldn't have a barber shave him In county jail. A New York county grand jury indicted Engel for first degree larceny on charges of swindling blonde divorcee Pauline Langton out Os 250,000 In jewels. New York detective Edward Larkin wax sent here to try to get the 73-year-old romeo returned to New York. But Mrs. Langton flew here herself with blood In her eye Io try to make the elderly love racketeer •return “my lovely diamonds to me.” She planned to confront him to demand return of the jewels. It was doubtful, however, whether either Mr*. Langton or Larkin would have much luck Chicago police were determined to hang onto their prisoner themselves for prosecution on charges that Engel wooed, won. and then fleeced Mrs. Reseda Corrigan, a widow, out of |8,700. And Engel has refused steadfast ly to say where he has hidden or bow he disposed of an estimated 62.660,990 in cash, real estate and jewelry he claims Io have swindled from about 59 gullible women in past decades. It was unlikely, police «a|d. that he would admit anything to .Mrs. Langton Engel said he didn't even know her but that he probably could smooth everything over “by giving her one big kiss " A hearing on New York's fugitive warrant was continued yesterday until July 14 Mrs. Langton told the New York grand jury yesterday how Engel introduced himself to her, swept her off her feet In a whirlwind ne mance. and married her at Arlington. Va. Mrs. Mngton said Engel disappeared following their wedding iTwr* T* K*«» »»s» Sullivan County Leads Bond Sales Indianapolis. June 28. — (VP) — BaUivan county baa purchase! 132 percent of Ito quota of class “E ' savings bonds daring the current oppoitunlty bond drive, state chairman Eugen* C. Pulliam said todav Pulliam said Sullivan county led 12 counties «oich bad purchased more than their quota of bonds, but th* state as a whole had bought nearly 77 percent of its quota Sales through June 18 reached 621,695, 5V6 95. Pulliam said.

Still Her Idol

BULLETIN Whitt Sulphur Springe. W. Va., June 28—(UP)— Soft coal operators representing ths bulk of the industry voted unanimously today to reject John L. Lewis' proposal for a temporary three-day work week In the mines. Investigate Deaths Os Newborn Babies Aniline Dyes On Diapers Blamed Lake Wales, Fla. June 28 (UP) —An official investigation was un der way today into the deaths of four newborn babies In three days at a hospital using diapers marked with bluish purple ink The case may be given to a grand jury after laboratory samples of the ink. containing anallne dye. are tested. The journal of the American inimical association said that four doctors warned last month after 63 cases and five deaths were reported that anallne dyes used by laundries to mark diapers could kill babies. The doctors said the aniline "may be absorbed through the skin, producing cyanosis through con version of hemoglobin to methemoglobin. a non oxygen carrying pigment " A fifth baby at the Wales hospital was stricken by the mysterious malady that turns infants "a fluish color" but was reported in fair condition, it was given blood transfusions The AMA journal quoted the doc tor* as warning "against the hazard of aniline Intoxication In Infants. particularly premature Infants." They »aid newborn babies are "particularly susceptible to diminished supply of oxygen and hence even slight degrees of methemoglobinemia may be serious." They said lhe danger can be eliminated by b illing diapers after tlrv-y ar* stamped and thoroughly drying them before use. The dia per* used at th* hospital here reportedly were not washed after masking The fourth infant. I-oul* Edward Jr., died at Lake Wales hospital last night, where one baby died Saturday, another Sunday and a third early yesterday. State attorney Walter W Wool folk ba* visited the hospital an J ob tained a sample of the Aniline dye used in marking diapers worn by the Infants, it was learned, indicat Ing that there may be a graad jury Investigation Miss Bree Keely. superintendent of tbe hospital, said sbe Is certain that the illneas Is caused by the marking dye But the eawae of the deaths ba* not bwn definitely »T«m Te F*a» F*~>

Union, Management In Agreement On End For Strike; Local To Vote

Elmer Darwachter Legion Commander World War I Vet Heads Adams Post Elmer Darwachter, Imai plumb I er and World War I veteran, was ; elected commander ot Adams Post i 43. American Ixrgion, in the 31st j annual election held yesterday ; The polls were open from 12 noon until 8 p. m. Assuming office next August, the new commander will succeed Lawrence Rash, veteran of World War 11. Leo "Dutch" Ehinger. who acted as election commissioner, re ported the following elected offi. cers, all of whom, with the exception wf trustee, were named without opposition. Hugh Andrews, first vlce.commander. Robert Ashbauclier, second vicecommander. l>on Cochran, third vice-com mander. Kenneth Gaunt, fourth vicecommander. William Linn, finance officer; T. 11. Gehrig, adjutant, and Sylvan I Rupert, trustee-. Eleven delegates and an equal number of alternates were elected ! to represent the post at the state convention in Fort Wayne next August. Heading the delegates to the convention city will be Lawrence Rash, retiring commander: Elmer Darwachter. Incoming commander, and James K. Staley, a former commander. Other delegates are: jT. H. Gehrig, David Terveer. Robert Ashbaucher. the Rev. (). C. ' Busse, Hugh Charlee j Morgan, Floyd Hunter, V. J. Bor tnann. The alternates are: the Rev A. C. E Gillander. T. C. Smith. Al Rumschlag. Don Cochran. Art Schamerloh, Kenneth Gaunt, Anthony Murphy. Harry Knapp. Howard Hendricks. Itee Fryback and Sylvan I Rupert Votes cast in the contest for commander totaled 168, Mr Ehinger said. Bids Are Awarded By Commissioners Will Repair, Paint Bridges In County The board ot county commissioners met in a special session Monday afternoon to receive blds for repairing and painting bridges and discuss other business Two submitted blds for repairing seven bridges in the county. Baker and Schultz of Decatur were awarded the contract with a low bld of 17,140. Carl Striker was the other bidder. Ed Deßolt won a contract to provide labor for painting two Adams county bridges The county will provide the paint and materials. The contract was awarded for 1561 ~ The commissioners agreed to pay 1268 for the county's share In the construction ot a drain on the Roy Johnson farm The city of Decatur and Johnson will each pay equal sums Frank F Heimann was autborlx ed by the commissioners to repair a hole In the court house celling The hole Is at the top of the rear Mairway which leads to the court house attic. Heimann will furnish the labor and materials for 697 08 Attorney Earl DeWald. Geneva. Joe Cline. Tilman Affolder and • ■Vara Ta l’«I> Msi New Principal Is Named At Lancaster S M Caldwell, principal at Baago school In Elkhart County, has been named principal of the LnaeMter Central school In Wells county He succeeds Charles Johnson, who was recently elected superintendent of the Ohio county school*. Caldwell formerly coached at Cheater town ship In Wells county, and will be gin a term cn the IHBAA buard of control July 1.

Two Romanian Church Heads Are Arrested Catholic Leaders Put Under Arrest By Communists Vatican City. June 28 — (UP) The Communist government of I Romania has arrested an arch, bishop and bishop of the Catholic Church, the official Vatican press bulletin reported today. They were the only two prelates of the Isatin rite recogniMd by the Romanian government after Its crackdown on church activity last October. At that time all bishops of the Greek Catholic rite were arrest ed and three bishops of the l*atln rite were deporteD. The archdiocese of Alba Giulia was created March 22. 1932 In the Transylvania area. It has 3201 Catholic priests, and the church claims 390.000 Catholics of the total population of 3.260.000. Archbishop Marton, 52. was ordained In 1924 and became an archbishop in 1938. The lasi diocese Is a relatively small one, created in 1884. with 109 churches and only 46 resilient priests. Bishop Durcovlcl. 61. was ordained In 1910 and became a bishop In 1947. With annoumement of the two arrests which eliminated the last of the Catholic hierarchy, the ; Vatican Issued a bitter attack against the Romanian government and the "violent persecution of the Catholic Church there” Ban Pastoral Letters Prague, Cxechoslovakia. Jun>- 28. (UP) The Communist government sought today to muzzle Archbishop Josef Beran and cut him I off from his bishops and his she k with three stringent new antichurch decrees. The decrees, announced last night, banned further pastoral let-, (era and meetings of the clergy without government permission, and declared Illegal the Vatican's ; excommunication of priests who ' sup|K>rt the government. They were designed to Isolate • Archbishop Beran completely from Czechoslovakia's 9.000.000 Catholics by outlawing his directives to ; them and to their Individual «Tsrs Ta I’aae Three) Sifter's Mistake Is Fatal To Child Second Baby Badly Burned In Bathtub Hammond. Ind, June 28-(UP) —A mistake by a nine year-old baby sitter brought death from a scalding bath to a 20-montbold gi<i| ! and put the baby's twin brother in the hospital with dangerous burns, police said today. Carol Gora and her brother, Rob art, were placed In the tub by Joan Farrell, a grade-school girl who had tended the twins often Rhe sobbed as she told police Hgt. I Harold Patrie that sbe made a fatal mistake. She ran several Inches of water into the tub When she tested it with her elbow, sbe said she found !it wasn't too hot. Then she put both of the twins in the tub She left the water running, she said, and went Into the bedroom to get their pajamas While she was there, she said she heard them scream She told Petrie that sbe ran back to the bathtub and placed the twins In cold water, but their skin began to peel Both the parents of the twins were at work When tbe father. Joseph Gora. 26. came home the children were taken to St Mar garet's hospital where doctors found they bad suffered third de tree bwrws Carol died at the hospital yea terday.

Price Four Cents

Conference Held At Invitation Os Air Secretary Results In Agreement Today Washington. June 28 — (UP) — Union and management negotiators reached agreement today on settlement of the 7v-day-old strike at tbe South Bend. Ind . plant of the Beiidix Aviation Corp. Walter Reuther, head of the United Automobile Workers. CIO, and M E Ferguson. Bendlx president, headed the negotiators In reaching the settlement after nearly 24 hours of continuous conferences at the Pentagon. The conferees came here yesterday at the Invitation of air secretary W Stuart Symington to try for a settlement The air force took no direct hand In the negotiations, but Symington pointed out to both parties that the strike wax affecting production df military jet planes The Bendlx plant makes parts for jet engines and other plane parts. Details of the settlement were withheld until the local union at South Bend acta ti|>on It. Reuther said this will be done either to. morrow or the next day. Both Reuther and Ferguson expressed confidence that the settlement would be approved by the South Bend local and would be carried out successfully. Symington, who announced the settlement, praised both sides for answering his plea to end tha strike. He said the union and manage, merit negotiators had done a "very decent thing" He also ask»-d them now to put out a "little extra effort" to produce the "critically short" Items for the air force. Reuther and representatives of the South Bend local union were flown here yesterday In an air force plane and will be flown back In one later today. Symington said the conferences started before noon yesterday and that agreement wax reached finally at 10:15 a. m EDT. today. The air secretary first met with union and management represenI tatlves separately and Impressed i upon them the serious effects of the strike upon air force production. Assistant air secretary John W. Gibson and Arthur C. Vlat, Detroit regional director of the federal mediation service, sat In on the unusual Pentagon negotiations. Reuther said that the interna- | ttonal officers as well as the local I representatives of the union are I recommending unanimously that I the membership accept the agreement and get back to work ax soon as possible within three or four days. Gibson said all three Issues In dispute were settled satisfactorily. Reuther said two of them were 1 wages and production procedures. Symington told the negotiators, who were present in his office when the agreement was announced. that he hopes they will “get along better now." I "I can't tell you how relieved the air force will Im* all over the world." Symington said. He said the air force exerted no coercion whatever, but merely brought both sides together here. Ferguson said he was "happy to see this long strike over." He pledged management to do every, thing possible to make the new <Ton> T» I'aae Three) BULLETIN Washington, June 28. —(UP) —The House agriculture cemmlttee today approved, 17 to 9. a farm program for 1960 which would boost price support* generally and let the administration experiment with direct subsidies en producers. The bill would restrict application cf the administration’s proposed new subsidy plan-designed simidtanceuMy to maintain farm income while letting consumer prices find their normal market leveL-to only three commodities neat year. The Idea le to see how the program would work on a limited “trial run.”