Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 155, Decatur, Adams County, 2 July 1949 — Page 1

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Huge Deficit Renews Demand If or Economy Whopping Deficit Goes For Beyond Official Estimate Washington, July 2 —(UP) — A whopping treasury deficit tor the Qiwal year just ended, far bo yond official estimates, today brought new demands for government economy. Secretary John W. Snyder announced that the treasury went into the red in fiscal year 1949 by $1,811,440,047. President Truman estimated six months ago that the 1949 deficit would be 1600,000,000, a miss of more than (1.211.000.000. Ills severest critics had not expected the red figure to exceed 11.500,iwd.ooo. But they fear It will be much more next year. Federal taxes raised an enormous sum. 238.245.000.000. But it rost f 1.057.000.000 to operate the government including foreign aid for the 12 months which ended at midnight June 30. The President look the bad news with him when he sailed at 10:30 am.. EuT today kboard the yacht Williamsburg for i July 4 weekend cruise on the lower Potomac. He planned to devote much of lis time to his forthcoming midear economic report to congress, n preparation for that study and o discuss preliminaries of the 1951 mdget Mr. Truman met yesterday nth several cabinet, budget and it her aides. The administration charges ilaine for the big deficit to the lepubllcan tax reduction voted by he 80th congress. Republicans and ome Democrats contend that Mr ‘ruman Is responsible because of that they regard as extravagant overnment spending. Wherever the responsibility may le. the facts are that this rich ountry has been in the red In all ut two of the past 19 fiscal years, rhe two surplus fiscal years were ■947 and 1948 and the excesses of Lcotne over outgo were, respectively. 2753,787,000 and 28.419.000.100. I The last president of the United ■tales who served a full term in ■he White House without a year or Lore of treasury deficit was the Lte Calvin Coolidge. Herbert C. Hoover had two surplus years out If four. FDR never was able to let the treasury out of the red. | Economy minded members of Lmgress said the big 1949 deficit ■cure would strengthen the moveL nt to cut 1950 fiscal year spendLg by 6 to 10 percent. I "We must balance the budget.” Lid Sen. Homer Ferguson. R., ■ ich., "notwithstanding the Presi Lnt's vested interest In past ■rors.” ■ Chairman Clarence Cannon. D. 80., of the house appropriations Lmmittee said: I The senate has increased every ■ propriation bill passed by the B"i-e and now in conference tiny Be bitterly contesting us to kgep B<- Increase*. The Senate should Bar' giving way on these increrves Bd should stop whittling away at Kr income.” ■"Next yeUr we’ve got to raise Bres. go into deficit financing or Kcrease expenditures.” said Sen. Kiene D. Mlllikin. R.« Colo. "I'm Kt In favor of deficit spending but (Tern Te Pace Threei

oadcast Search r Jay Teeple iberlff Herman Bowman's ofI today broadcast the search for ' Teeple. World W’ar I veteran. » walked away from the Vetnt Hospital at Danville. HL. irtday night, to the Indiana and lots atate police. Ire. Minnie Teeple of Close •t. mother of the maimed vet1. has not beard anything from son and so far no word hat a received of his whereabouts, rehension that an accident kt befall Mr. Teeple. eansed the Iter to seek help in the search her son. who haa been a patient be veterans hospital fur sevyeart WEATHER krtly cloudy, few widely eeetrod thundershowers In south >d extreme east today; penally fair tonlpht and turnerw. Continued warm. High day PO to M- Lo* tonight te 74.

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Highways Jammed Bumper To Bumper Holidayers Crowd Beaches Os Nation By United Press The nations city dwellers left their hot and humid homes by the millions today, flocking to beaches, picnic areas and resorts for the Independence Day weekend. -Roads were jammed — bumper to bumper, in some areas — but only a scattering of deaths In traffic accidents were reported across the nation. The earliest reports compiled by United Press showed a total of 16 dead. 11 in traffic, three by drowning. one in an airplane crash and one In another type of accident. Numerous drownings were expected as holidayers crowded beaches. The number of deaths due to firecracker accidents was expected to drop somewhat due to new laws banning the use of such explosives to insure a “safe and sane fourth." Altogether. 600 persons were expected to die in accidents during the three day holiday, 290 of them on the highways. The tremendous Increase in private flying since the war. especially for quick trips to resort sections, was expected to boost the total of pilots and plane passengers killed. One of the first accidental deaths reported was that of George Mahoney, 28, of Galesburg, 111. His plane was caught in a high wind, the tail end of a near-tornado that swept over portions of Missouri and lowa and into Illinois late yesterday. A companion. Mrs. Charles Hillard. 17. was injur'd critically when the plane smashed Into a field. Experts estimated that 33.000,000 cars would be on the highways at one time or another over the threeday period. That was 3,000.000 more than was on the roads over the (Tarn Te l*aae Three) 18 Persons Die In Australian Crash Perth, Australia, July 2— (UP) — A DC3 airliner crashed and burned in the middle of a housing project today, killing all 14 passengers and four crewmen. The crash occurred only a mile from Guildford airdrome, from which the plane had just taken off for Darwin. Families In the housing settlement fled their homes and a number had narrow escapes from death or injury. No Heat Relief Is Foreseen On Holiday 2 Suspend Business Here For Holiday The temperature In Decatur climbed to 100 degrees by 5 o’clock Friday afternoon and the weatherman forecasts the same hot. humid weather for the holiday*. The hottest weather Decatur has suffered this year is sending hundreds of Adams county residents to "he lakes in northern Indiana and Michigan for the Fodrth of July holiday. Travelers and state police already report a record ’stream nf traffic wending northward for the three-day weekend Many Decatur residents unwilling to risk a trip on the overcrowded highways will find their vacation here in Adams county. Harry Dally, director of the city swimming pool, expects a record crowd to cool off In the city pool during the holiday weekend. Large crowds are also expected at Clem's lake and Pine Lake. Adams county’s two swimming resorts. Clem's lake also provides boats for fishermen or rowing enthusiasts. and a large picnic grounds Many heat weary residents are planning picnics to be held in the Legion Memorial park and Hanna Nuttman city park. The national safety council warns that 290 persons will lona their lives In ante accidents If special caution is not taken. The city police and sheriff Herman Bowman plan special watches to direct traffic and protect Dccatarites from traffic violators A quiet holiday le anticipated here, with no public celebration planned, and most business houses and offices ckueu Sunday and Mou W- ,

USSR Releases 2,000 Jap War Prisoners LOOKING SLEEK and well-fed and singing the communist “Internationale,” these Japanese prisoners of war. repatriated by the Russians, march from the ship Takasago Maru at Maizuru In their homeland. Despite a long sojourn in Siberian prison camps they op. niy'called themselves the "vanguard of a communist army landing in the face of the enemy.” They said that 95,000 Jap prisoners still held in Siberia will join the communist party voluntarily when thev come home "to create our new world In Japan.” The sign in the background reads “Welcome' Home" In Japanese.

Mississippi Valley Damaged By Storm Windstorm Causes Considerable Damage Chicago. July 2. —- (UP) — A windstorm that swept up the Mississippi over Missouri, lowa. Illinois and Wisconsin caused a plane to crash, killing the pilot, spoiled the semi-finals of a national collegiate golf match, and wrought heavy property damage. The storm, apparently originating north and west of St. Ixtuis. caused considerable damage to power lines and farm property in Missouri yesterday. Then it swept over lowa, forcing postponement of the National Collegjate Athletic Association's golf match semi-finals. As ft whipped across the Mississippi river toward Galesburg. 111., it caught a plane piloted by sign painter George Mahoney. 28, plunging it into an oats field five miles southeast of town. .Mahoney was killed Instantly. His companion, Mrs. Charles IIITI- - 17. was taken to St. Mary’s hospital in critical condition. The storm spread out as ft reached its climax, setting off a series of violent electrical displays. The wind caused Its greatest damage in its dying throes In that area. At Rockford, it plunged temperatures from a record high for the date of 97 degrees. Weather observer John Schroeder at Freeport said temperatures dropped from a record 100 degrees to 70 degrees In a few hours. Thirty-six mile-an hour winds O'er® Te l’««e Sial Subversive Probes Assailed By Condon Action Reminiscent Os Tactics Os Nazis Chicago. July 2—(UP) —Dr. Edward U. Condon, director of the national bureau of standards, charges that some investigations of subversive activities are conducted in a fashion recalling actions of the German Nasis In their rise to power. “Several and perhaps all” of the subversive probes in Washington. California. Illinois and Maryland and other states are “strikingly reminiscent of the wave of antiintellectualism which formed an early part of the Nasi rise to power In Germany.*' London said. Condon, once called by a house unAmerican activities committee the "weakest link” In atomic energy security, made the attack in the current issue of the bulletin bi the atomic scientists. He said ha did not oppose “fairly and competently conducted" Inquiries. "Bat I do want to be on re< ord inc e tn such investigations and against their being conducted in an atmosphere of hysteria-generating pub(TWra Ts Page Three)

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, July 2, 1949

Meter Take $6,184.95 Since Installation Decatur's parking meters have grossed 26.184.95 since their installation last January. H. Vernon Aurand, city clerk-treasurer, reported today. The "take" in June was 21265.50. This money Is kept in a parking meter fund and 50 percent of it is paid each month to the company which installed the machines. This will continue until the meters are paid tor. One policeman's salary is also paid from the fund. His duties include collecting the parking meter money once a week. The parking meter fund now contains 22337.58 This money is spent by action of the city council as directed by state law. Puzzled Why Judy Betrayed Country Judith Copion Case Puzzles Observers Washington, July 2. — (I,'P) — What made Judith Copion become a spy tor Russia? Even the experienced, elderly jurist who sentenced her admitted that he is mystified. “Here was a young woman with Infinite prospects.” federal judge Albert L. Reeved said. "Before her —a great future. "What prompted her to do It I do not know — but she undertook to betray her country." Some have pat explanations. They talk of “an Inferiority complex.” of “frustration” of a "thirst for power." But to most of the reporters who covered her 10 weeks long trial she is still an enigma. They have chatted with her and laughed with her —more than is customary with defendants — but most of them admit they do not know her. Even when she was delivering a defiant tirade she seemed to bemasking the real Judy Copion. Even her hysteria seemed controlled. There was only once when she seemed about to shed her armor. That was when she entered ti:e courtroom to hear the verdict. Her pale face was drawn. Reporters heard her whisper to her attorney that she didn't know whether she could "take it or not.” Defense lawyer Archibald Palme - put his arm about her. He patted her hand and in a few seconds she was. as usual, a sphinx. The record shows she was born into a Brooklyn family of better than average means. Her fat be? was a toy merchant whoee gifts to the poor won him the nickname of "The Santa Claus of the Adirondacks.” Her school days were a series o’ eeholAaiic triumphs. At Barnard College — the women's college of Columbia University — she was elected to Mortarboard, scholastic honorary society. She was gradu ated with high honors. She worked while she was in college —- jobs in the school library sad such — but ao more than many siadenla Sammers she waa a camp jlTasa T< raw* Theos)

Girl Lost For Five Days Is Found Safe Physicians Amazed By Girl's Endurance Yosemite National Park. Cal., July 2— (UP) —Joan Thompson. 19 year-old Palo Alto coed, amazed physicians today (or her "artracuI lous endurance" while lost for five days without food or shelter | in Yosemite canyon. Joan walked out of box-like Show Creek canyon under her own power yesterday after three youthful volunteer rescuers found her almost by accident. She and her sister. Patti, 22. lost their way in the canyon last Monday. Patti was found yesterday at the point where Joan left her to seek help after Patti broke her leg in a fail. Joan was In "comparatively good condition” after her ordeal. Dressed only for a short one-day hike, ' the girl suffered only minor cuts and bruises while hiking through country that defied forest rangers for four days. She was placed In a hospital with her sister. The three youths who rescued Joan were Don Rogers, 19. Palm Springs. Joe Goller, 20, and Jim Pierce. 20, Los Angeles. They joined the search only yesterday morning and were directed by rangers to start up Snow Creek >canyon, three miles from the nearest settlement. When they stopped to rest. Joan heard their voices and cried for help. They led her from the canyon by tying their belts together to get over long passages of jagged (Tara Ta Pa«e His) War Declared On Bingo In Churches Officials Seek To Stamp Out Gambling Rockford, 81., July 2 — (UP) - An "open war” on blngcT in churches was declared today by officials here as they prepared to prosecute a Roman Catholic priest whose church was raided for gambling this week. Winnebago county state** attor--ney Robert T. Canfield said he heartily approved the action of Mayor Frank 8. imrson of Suburban Love’s Park in raiding St. Bridget s Catholic church Thursday night. The church’s pastor the Rev. Raymond Patrick Gordon, and three of his parishioners, were arrested in the raid. Gordon waa released on his own recognizance. The parishioners. Andrew Poxxi, Waiter Hoffman and Al Thotnas Fox were released on 2120 bonds furnished by Rockford automobile dealer Robert Doyle. Doyle was listed erroneously yesterday as one of the men arrested In the raid but police later corected thia. The four me* probably will be brought into county court before (Tata Te Patfe Five)

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Lewis Demands Work Day Os Seven Hours General Hourly Wage Boost Also Sought Washington. July 2 — (UP) — John L. Lewis has demanded that soft coal operators reduce his miners’ work day from eight to seven hours without cutting their present take-home pay. Industry sources said today. This, they said, was the only specific money demand Lewis made during closed recent negotiations between the. United Mine Workers and soft Aal producers at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. These sources said, however, that Lewis notified them he also wants a general hourly wage increase. bigger operator contributions to the welfare and retirement fund and establishment of the industry’s first Job seniority system. The operators said they countered by telling Lewis the industry cannot afford any contract Improvement which will increase production costs of coal. So far, they themselves have not ma<|e any specific contract proposals. The basic hourly wage for miners at present is 11756 for an • 8-hour day. This includes 9*4 hours production time, one hour paid travel time underground, and a 30-mlnute paid lunch period. Lewis' proposal would cut the production time to 5*4 hours daily. If there is no reduction In the pay now received for eight hours, the basic hourly wage would be |2 per hour —Just double what it*was in 1945. * On the welfare fund contribution, Lewis is authorised to demand a boost from the present 20 to 40 cents per ton. The seniority issue is almost as pressing a subject among Lewis' 480,000 rank and file miners as a guaranteed work week. Mere than 30 resolutions demanding a seniority system were introduced at last year’s union convention. Wages, hours and seniority were three major issues still facing (Tara To Pace Three) Choirboy's Murder Case To Jury Today Charged With Death Os Girl Schoolmate Roanoke, Va.. July 2 — (UP) - The case of handsome Lee Good Scott, 16-year-old choirboy charged with the murder of his beautiful school-mate Dana Marie Weaver, goes to a Jury today. Twelve married men, 10 of whom have children of their own. must dec-ide whether young Scott is guilty of "wilful, deliberate murder" or of manslaughter committed In a moment of "partial amnesia." A verdict of first degree murd«*r could carry a sentence of death in the electric chair. The husky, tanned youth admitted on the witness stand yesterday that he hit Dana .Marie with a soft drink bottle and choked her in the kitchen of the Christ Episcopal church parish house on Sunday night. Mapr 7. But be denied, stoutly and repeatedly, that he meant to kill the blonde beauty or that he made any sexual advances toward her. Young Scott’s choked, emotional testimony was the defense’s trump card In seeking a manslaughter conviction instead of the first degree murder verdict asked by tha state. Scott's fate was to be handed over to the Jury today after the de- | sense and prosecution sum up their cases and judge Dirk A. Knyk in- i ■tracts the Jurors on possible ver- i diets. First degree murder in Virginia < Is punishable by death in the elec- i trie chair, life imprisonment or a < term of not lona than M yean, with 1 the decision up to the jury. A manslaughter verdict would ’ (Tara Tg Page Ma)

Employment , Data Better Than Expected Actual Employment During June Higher Than Previous Year Waehington, July 2 — (UP) — June employment statistics were more encouraging than expected, giving rise today to some optimism among business and government experts alike. Three facts stood out in the census bureau's survey of the labor force: 1. The number of jobless hit tx seven-year high of 3,778.000. but this compared with a prediction of 4,000,000. 2. Non-agricultural employment showed a slight Increase after a slx-month downward trend. 3. Actual employment was above last year and had absorbed about two-thirds of the 1.400,000 high achool and college youths who traditionally choke the labor market st this time of the year. ‘Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney. D, Wyo.. chairman of the joint congressional committee on the economic report, was one* of the first to become optimistic about the June employment statistics after the census bureau announced them yesterday. He said on the senate floor that "there are coming from variousquarters indications that the decline In prices has now reached a level bringing in new demands which will. In turn, have the effect of halting unemployment trends which appeared earlier in the year. At least, it la to be hoped so." Only a short time ago. he said. It was agreed that there would be no possibility “of anything ever resembling a recession" if there were 60,000.000 jobs in the United States. June employment was 59,619,000. Herman W. Steinkraus. president of the chamber of commerce of the United States, was equally optimistic. He pointed out that during last year's peak employment periods ( the public was clamoring Tor low- , er prices, lower taxes and fewer government controls. , Now that we have all three, he ( (*««ra tw Pane Mb) (

Vacation Checks To Employes Os Bendix Production Being Resumed At Plant South Bend. Ind . July 2—(UP)— Employes of the Bendix Aviation Corp., who ended a 71-day strike last Thursday, today held vacation checks totaling 2722.000. The checks were distributed to 5,147 workers on the basis of their earnings during 1941. Employee with one to five ydhrs of service received 2-H percent of the wages, and workers with more than five years at Bendix received 4-H percent. 'Meanwhile plant officials said production in the company's aviation parts departments was being resumed rapidly. Some 4,000 employee worked on all shifts yesterday, and aa emergency call for aircraft l*spectors was broadcast. The strike was settled as a result of air force Intervention. Bendix produces jet engine parts. The lack of one Bendix-made assembly forced the Allision division of General Motors Corp., at Indianapolis to stop delivery of jet engines to the armed forces. Work, however, was not resumed in the automotive brake depart meat Maay aeto makers obtalaed court orders and removed brake dies ao they coaid produce their owa brakes eUeirherc during the the strike. The dies have not been j returned to Bendix jreL

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Bulgarian Leader Dies After Long Illness; Active • Revolutionary London, July 2—(UP)—Premier Georg 1 Dimitrov of Bulgaria, No. 1 communist in the Balkan satellite area, Is dead, the Moscow radio announced today. had been ailing for months. He was given a leave of absence from his duties as premier April 14, and went to Russia for medical treatment. His death was announced a few hours after the communist party central committee in Sofia Issued an announcement that he had taken a turn for the worse and his condition was serious. The Moscow broadcast said: "The central committee of the communist* party of the Soviet Union (Bolshevik) and the council of ministers of the U. S. 8. R. announced with profound regret the death on July 2 at 9:35 am. after a prolonged and serious illness of the liver (diabetes) in the Bordikha sanitarium near Moscow of Georgi Mikhailovich Dimitrov, the outstanding leader of the international working class movement, chairman of the council of ministers of the Bulgarian people's republic, general secretary of the central committee of the Bulgariau communist party." Dimitrov was born on June 18, 1882, in the village of Kovatchevtsi. His three brothers and a sister were all active revolutionaries. One brother died Jn Siberia, another at the hands of the Bulgarian police and the third in the Balkan war of 1913. At 12 years, Dimitrov had to leave school and go to work to help his family. At 15, he became a member of the Sofia Association of Printers Apprentices. His first article was published in the newspaper, "printers Apprentice," in 1897. It dealt with the struggle of the apprentices for better working conditions. Dimitrov was elected secretary of the Printers Apprentices Trade Union at 18 . Two years later (1902) he Joined the Social Democratic party. The party was split between left and right wings and Dimitrov Joined the left-wingers. From 1909 he was a member of the central, committee of the party. In 1913, at 31 years, Dimitrov was elected to the Bulgarian national assembly. He was its youngest deputy. In 1915 Bulgaria Joined the Germans in World War I and Dimitrov was arrested. He spent a year and a half in prison.

In 1919 Dimitrov and the left wing of the Social Democrats reorganized their group into the Bulgarian communist party. At the end of 1920. Dimitrov reached Russia via Italy and took part In the third Comintern congress. ft was then that he met Lenin and later in the session Lenin introduced Dimitrov to Stalin The Reichstag fire occurred In June. 1933, and Hitler blamed the communists. Dimitrov was rounded up along with two other Bulgarians. Dimitrov's belligerency at the Leipsig trial has become a classic example within the party of how a communist should act before a hostile court. Dimitrov was acquitted and left for Moscow. In 1935 he was elected secretary-general of the executive council ot the Comintern. He held (Tara Ta Pace Sis) Marriage Licenses Totaled 29 In June The month of June proved to be a month of many marriage licensee, but not as many were issued this year during the month of marriages as in June. 1948. Edward F Jaberg. clerk of the Adams county court, announced that 29 licenses Were issued this June as compared with 43 a year ago. It was an Increase of 19 licensee over the month of May. The average age of the prospective grooms was 26. and that of tbn bridee-tobe averaged 23. Tbn youngest and oldest of the men were 17 and 82 respectively; tha womea'a ague rag from IT to 41