Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 158, Decatur, Adams County, 7 July 1949 — Page 1

Vol. XLVII. No. 158.

bEN. FLANDERS BLASTS ATLANTIC PACT

klares UN lust Agree On loin Control [Truman Reiterates Belief Full World reace To Be Met ■ashington. July 7— (UP)— Lident Truman raid today the ■td Nations must agree on con ■ of atomic energy before there I be any effective discussion of Irnationa! disarmament. Ir Truman expressed the opin | to his weekly news confer L that the world Is moving slow Knd gradually toward peace. ■e again spoke his belief that | ultimate goal of full world Ice would be achieved. [esterday. Sen Arthur H Van [berg. R. Mich., called on tbe pldent to lead a "new crusade” I peace Vandenberg asked particularly It the President underscore this ptry's good faith In dlsarma■t and to curb the United NaBa* veto. she President said in response to ■uestlon, that disarmament is a [stion before the United Natlomf I when the atomic energy part ■he program is agreed to by all lions, then we can talk about Brmament, but not before that, ■e said that since he took office [1945. he has made a continuing Isade for peace and would conlie to do so ■e said he did not think be had ■seil a single opportunity in pub[addresses and statements to talk but the need for peace, and that [had been the keynote of his lite House service. Refuse Oaths Washington. July 7— (UP) — Io recipients of atomic fellow- ■> have refused to sign oaths of pity to the United States, the Iniic energy commission disclos[today. rhis was revealed when Sen. [lliam F. Knowland. R. Cal.. Id a letter from commission genii manager Carroll L. Wilson but the response of <97 fellows [the requests for the loyalty ths Nineteen of the 497 fellows are II to be heard from. All others, hept the two who refused, have med the oaths. Dne of the fellows who refused a resigned his fellowship, while I other, according to Wilson, has tn notified of the cancellation of | fellowship. Commission officials declined to I newsmen the names of the pair rolved. The letter was read to b Joint atomic energy committee ■ring commission chairman Lvid E Lllienthal’* defense ■lnst mismanagement charges, bf the 19 fellows unheard from. Ilson expressed belief that this by be due to changes of address, [these cases, the professor watch I their work has been notified of b failure to reply. Ben. Rourke B. Hickenlooper. It. L who raised the mismanagement large* against Lllienthal has Mntalned that the technical sue ases are tbe fruits of enterprise I scientists and Industrialists, and kt these have nothing to do with t charges against Lllienthal Lllienthal. however. Insists that e "fruits’* are the results of tbe I Tara Ta Pane Twat I Percent Os Bond lies For Indiana Indianapolis. July 7— <UP) — loslers purchased 84 percent of sir state quota of "K" bonds up June 25 la tbe opportunity drive. Me bond chairman Eugene <’. illlam announced today Pulliam Id eight more counties had pur ased 100 or more percent of their Mas. Sullivan county still led s state in purchases, with 140 rcent of its quota. New counties which surpassed sir quota by June 25 were Scott, 9 percent; Madison. 110; Rar olotnew. 105; Parke. 104; Ohio. B; Hendricks. 101; Dubois. 101. d Franklin. 100 Tbe drive will atlnue through July Id. Pulliam id. Total ”E" bond purchases In e state were 8M.M2.8tr5 The •I is 125.220.000 WEATHER Partly cloudy with widely scetteeed afternoon shower* or evening thundershowers through Friday; little change I" temperature. Lew tonight high Friday 66-90 north *• 99 south.

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Two-Year-Old Boy Drowning Victim Sullivan. Ind., July 7—(UP)—A coroner’s verdict of death by accidental drowning was returned today In the death of Richard Allen Bedwell, two-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Bedwell, yesterday. Mrs. Bedwell said Richard was playing with his two brothers when she noticed he was missing. She investigated immediately and found his body in a tub. Efforts to resuscitate the boy failed. Rules Against Parole Powers Os Governor Judge Baker Rules Governor Has No Power Os Parole Michigan City. Ind . July 7—(UP) —Superior court Judge Robert S. Baker ruled today that the gover nor Df Indiana does not have the power to parole prisoners. Baker said the power to parole, used by many Hoosier chief executives. was an "assumed power" with no constitutional basis. The ruling was made in a hear ing on a writ of habeas corpus filed by the public defender on behalf of Wilks G. Rims. 35. who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for robbing a home in Gary in 1911. Baker freed 81ms. who was paroled by governor Schrlcker In 1944 on the condition that Sims enter the army Sims enlisted, but received an honorable medical discharge when he suffered a broken bgi-k three months later. Sims did not report to any probation officer after he was discharged. He was cited as a delinquent parolee by Gov Ralph F. Gates In 1940. and was rearrested last Dec. 8. Baker's ruling was that Hirns technically had been In prison ever since he was first committed in 1941, since the governor had no authority to parole him The La Porte superior court Judge said the ability to parole was the "sole and undisputed right" of (T»r» Tn I'aae S'eurl Walter Vermillion In Serious Condition I Anderson. Ind., July 7 (l*P>State Sen. Walter Vermillion. !>.. Anderson, was listed in serious I condition at St John's hospital to- ' day a* a result of a heat stroke suffered last week. Vermillion was senate minority leader in the last three sessions of the general assembly. He has served continuously in the state senate since 1933. First Polio Case Reported In County Young Girl Taken To Riley Hospital Adams county’s Hrst case of poliomyelitis in 1949 is reported, with Brenda Kay Affolder. three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrt> Edwin Affolder. Jr, of south of Berne, ill with the crippling disease. The child has been taken to Ri[ley hospital at Indianapolis for treatment She is reported to have developed paralysis or lameness tn both legs and in one arm and shoulder, and her condition Is serious. The girl victim has been 111 more than a week, suffering headache, sore throat and high fever. When admitted to the hospital, she bad partial use of her limbs, and It Is hoped that treatment may enable her to reedver. Although this Is the first case reported in Adams county this year. Jay county has had five polio cases, including one death. Indiana state health officials report a seasonal increase in infantile paralysis In the state, but there is no cause for alarm Dr j. w Jackson, director of the com-, mnnlcable disease control division, said tbe number of cases reported so far this )«*r is slightly over the 10-year average but is still below the figure for the first six month* of 1949. It show* no signs of becoming epidemic, he •aid.

U. S. Steel In | Flat Rejection Os Wage Boost Nationwide Steel Strike Looms In Wake Os Rejection Pittsburgh. July 7. —(UP) — The U. 8. Steel Corporation's flat rejection of CIO president Philip Murray's fourth-round wage Increase demand brought the strong possibility today of a nationwide, steel strike July 19. In announcing "big steel’s" stand. Benjamin F Fairies*, president of the corporation, said there was "no sound or proper justification” for wage hikes now. ’ With business now receding in almost every industry across the land.” Fairies* said, "nothing could be more damaging to the economy of the nation than generally to increase labor costs at this time " He noted that any wage boost by "big steel" would "encourage” Increases throughout American industry. Murray, who also heads the CIO United Steelworker*, promptly announced that the union’s executive board and wage-policy committee would meet next Wednesday to i "take any action necessary.” The conference comes three day* before the July 16 strike deadline and Murray made it cleat that a walkout will be the subject of the par ley. Indignant at U. S. Steel's position, Murray said the negotiation* were deadlocked and that he saw no hope of reaching "a mutual satisfaction" on any issues. The company offered a 2 1/5 cent hourly increase in Insurance benefits, but held firm to its position that Murray’s 1150 monthly pension demand was not a negot I able item at this time. U. 8. Steel offered, however, to submit the pension question to a board of I arbitration and conciliation "This is the most niggardly offer ever presented in a collective bargaining conference by a responsible firm.” retorted Murray, whose wage-insurance-pen»lon demand reportedly would, if granted, cost the company at least 30 cents an hour. The union never has made public Its specific wage demands. Murray said he would hold a press conference at hl* headquarter* here later today to make pub (Tore r» •’•«» river Four-Year-Old Boy Found Dead In Sack Found In Basement Os His Own Home Chicago. July 7 — (UP) — The l»ody of fouryear old Thomas Laux was found today in a sack in the basement headquarters of a teenage "hangmen’s noose dub" and police announced that a 13-year-oid member of the ciub bad admitted and then denied the slaying. Police Capt. Frank Reynolds said that the youth. Charles Munday, admitted to assistant state’s attorney Leo Poch that he had strangled and then hanged the child after an argument over a pet kitten. A short time later, chief of detectives Timothy O'Connor said the youth had denied the slaying The youth said he was nervous and upset" when he made the admission. O'Connor reported. In announcing the 'admission. Reyolds and O’Connor reported that Munday had said the Laux child had hidden his pet kitten in an automobile and denied knowing where It waa. Another child In the neighborhood heard the argument and told Munday where the kitten was hidden. Munday said be then took tbe Ijiux child to the basement, strangled him by thrusting his fingers down his throat and then hanged him with rope to a beaifi. Reynolds reported He said the slaying was pattern ed after mock hangings the teenagers used for •nitlating members In the club. He said he later cut ! down tbe body and placed it in the sack head down. Reynolds reported The youth’s mother. Mrs. Edita Munday. 49. who found the body In she sack, meanwhile was taken to police headquarters for He detector test* about unusual circumstances in reporting the discovery to police. Crura Te Pan* *U>

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, July 7, 1949.

Ixindon Reds Blast Wall Street 1 S . WALL STREET, perennial whipping Ixiy of the Communists, lakes a lambus ing from Ixmdon R-ds in this placarded parade. Streamer accUHes Wall Street of '•lnterference in liberty and trade." Old Glory can be partly seen beneath streamer.

President Scores Dictator Feeling More Authority To Defense Head Cited Washington. July 7 — (UP) President Truman today describe.! as perfectly absurh the feeling thai the secretary of defense might lie come a military dictator under t senate-approved bill Increasing lib authority. Mr. Truman was told by a report or at his news conference of a feel Ing by chairman Carl A. Vinson. D Ga., of the house armed servicecommittee that the so called Tyd ings bill as drawn might result in the creation of a military dictator ship. That, the president raid, wa* n perfectly absurb opinion, lie said as long as the presi-'ent is the I commander in chief of the armed | forces, no other person could pos* ibly take them ov« r Some military and congressional observers feel there was irony and a wrong* choice of tense in f.ot,'i« Johnson's remark that Vinson could become secretary of defense. In many respects, these obser • ers point out the influential Vri son and his house armed service* committee have been running mill tary affairs, even determining strategy, ever since they shoved the 7u-group air force bill through (Tara Ta !'««» F.iubtl Dulles Is Appointed As Interim Senator Fills Senate Seat Vacated By Wagner New York. July 7 —(I’P) — Gov Thomas E. Dewey today appointed John Foster Ihi Iles as Interim sen ator from New York until Dec. 1 Dulles, Republican foreign policj expert, will fill the senate seal left vacant by the resignation ol Robert F. Wagner. Democrat. A special election will be heli! Nov. 8 to choose a senator to fil the remainder of Wagner’s unexplr ed term. Wagner resigned because of illness. Dewey, in announcing the ap pointment, said be thought it un likely that I>ull<mi would lie a can eiidate for the office in November He said he had made the ap pointment because of Dulles' wide knowledge of foreign affairs. "The foreign affairs issues lie fore the senate made his appoint ment the greatest contribution U the senate that I could make,* the governor said. Dewey was ask'd whe-ther Du I les. and American delegate* to the United Nations, would have to re sign his UN post because of bit senatorial dm les ”1 don't know,” Dewey raid ' That would be up to the adminls tratlon " Dewey made tbe announcement in his suite at the Roosevelt bote h<re «

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Youth Is Drowned In Blue Lake Wednesday Columbia City. Ind.. July 7. — (UP) Police searched today for the body of John J. Davidson. 22. Blue l.ake, who drowned yesterday in Blue Lake. Police said Davidson rowed out onto the lake with a company and I dived Into the water after anchoring the boat. The boat broke from its mooring and Davidson drowned while trying to get back . into it. >s tAirliner Catches »Fire, Lands Safely I"* 63 Aboard Safe In Emergency Landing Shannon. Ireland. July 7 —(UP> A New York-bound stratocruis- * er carrying 63 persons caught fire over the Atlantic ocean today, but raced 6<>u miles back to Shannon ' airport for an emergency landing. <1 All 53 passengers - including comedian Danny Kaye and tennis '• starts laiuiso Brough and Margaret i- DuPont - and 10 crew members s donned life Jackets in preparation 1- for a "ditching” at sea after the g fire broke out in the right outd hoard engine The flames burned' out in 45 minutes, however, and the huge Pan American airliner came In to Shannon on three engines with an escort of two liberators without further incident A dozen fire truck stood by unneeded as the plane landed. The passengers, who also inciud«d Paul V. McNutt, former U. 8. ambassador to the Philippines, raid there was no panic aboard the t airliner But McNutt said a power , dive from 19.000 to 6.000 feet In an attempt to extinguish the flames j was "absolutely terrifying." Y The same plane, named the ll America, also was forced to return :to Shannon two weeks ago when oil pressure dropped alarmingly '• while the airliner was flying back II to the United States from a Paris r air show. e The first sign of trouble today again was a drop in oil pressure in the right outboard engine while v the plane was far out over the r Atlantic on a direct London-New lork flight. e* That wa* at 12:30 am. CMT • 6:30 pm Wednesday ('STL e- The pilot, ('apt. 11. G. Gulbrant- sen of Great Neck. lx>ng Island, o tried unsuccessfully to feather the propeller and decided to turn back I to Shannon because of hi* decreesI- e<l speed. e About an hour later, the proI*- pellet huh began showering spark* Is snd the engine caught fire Pan American sent taro spare 1. planes to Shannon to take the *• passengers on to New York. The stratoi ruiser sent a distress it signal immediately after the fire el broke Mt and ships and planes in 'th* area wer* alertcf.

Republican Os Vermont Terms Atlantic Pact A Soviet Trap For U. S.

Alger Hiss Fate To Go To Jury Today Defense Attorney Lashes Committee New York. July 7 (UP) —Detense attorney Lloyd Paul Stryker wound up Ills summation in the Alger Hiss perjury trial today wit It a fist.shaking statement in which he charged It was "an outrage a long culmination of the Job done by the unAmerican affairs com mlttee.” Holding his hands above his head, doubled I into fists, Stryker added in a hoarse roar; "It’s an unAmerican committee lite way it handled this Job.” He ended a four-hour and in minute summation, which ran through two court days, at 11 a. m. He tore into the character and credibility of Hiss' main accuser, former communist spy courier Whitaker Chambers, taking as his theme: "If you don’t believe Chamber*, then the government has no case.” Hiss is charged with lying when lie denied to a federal grand jury last December 15 that he ever had given secret state department documents to Chambers or had I seen Chamlters after Jan. 1. 1937. Turning to the Jury of 10 men and two women as the hands of . the clock stood at his court-set | deadline of II a. in Stryker said. In a dramatic half-whisper: "This case will be in your hands. I beg you. anti I pray you to search vour consciences well "Yea. though I have walked through tile valley of the shadow of death. I have no fear.” Half turning toward Hiss, who sat with his prim wife just inside the well of the courtroom, he added : "Alger Hiss, this long nightmare Is drawing to a close. Rest well. Your esse, your life, your liberty are in good hand*." Federal Judge Samuel H Kauf man then ordered a luncheon recess until 12:15 p. m. After lunch. Asst. U. S. Atty. Thomas F. Mur(Turn Ta "hi Auction School To Open On August 1 Summer Session Os School Is Planned The 56th biannual session of Reppart’s school of auctioneering will start August I. Miss 'Eleanor Reppert. director and business manager. saig today. The school, which lasts three weeks, draws about 100 students each term Although a large class Is expected, no figures are available on the exact number to attend. The school of auctioneering was smarted in 1921 by the late Col. Fred Reppert. Except for one year when three sessions were held. It has always been a biannual affair. The school itself, which includes an air conditioned auction school room and clubhouse, is located in Bellmont Park Just east of Decatur on federal highway 224. More than 20 instructors will take part in the 21-day training program. The students, who will come to Decatur from practically all states of the union, will listen to lectures from famous auctioneers during the ■lay. and actually practice at night what they have learned Ea h night Madison street between First and Second streets will be roped off for an auction conducted by the stud ents under the direction of the in stractor*. The students will actual-j ly judge livestock on the farm as well as theoretical studies in ths classroom Other courses inclu-l-physical culture, voice building, real estate sales, salesmanship pedigree study, and how to secure auction i sales Included in the list of Instructors Is Col Roy S Johnson, well known real estate and farm sale au< tioneer of Decatur Col Johnson is a forint r j (Tv* Ts >*•■* BiShO

Pegler Charges Despots Ruling Labor Unions Despots, Criminals And Communists in Control Os Unions Washington. July 7 (UP) Columnist Westbrook Pegler charged today that “despots, criminals, and communists" have taken con trol of American labor unions from the rank and file members. "This situation did not come about by chance” Pegler told a house labor subcommittee. He appeared as a principal witness in the subcommittee's Investigation of "undemocratic" trade unions prac i tiers. In a prepared statement, Pegler i said that "clever labor lawyers." ’ have connived at keeping rank and ' file members from controlling la bor organization*. He raid they have done this by placing "the! necessary provisions” in union constitutions. "So despotic Is the rule of many of the leaders that we have had cases where no convention of the union was held for over 20 years." , Pegler said. "Members In other in stances had no candidate to vote for except the incumbent or their selections. They received a Hitlerian 'ja' ballot " Pegler, a long-standing "new deal" and "fair deal" critic, said the government has "ducked the communist question in unions for 'political r«asons." Yet, he said, union after union is "completely ‘dominated by communists and pro- ‘ communists and run by them " "An instance us thia, and only, j one of many, I* the United Electrl : cal workers." Pegler said He pointed out that the atomic energy commission recently order ed the General Electric Co. to refrain from dealing with the CIO United Electrical workers. He criticized AEC chairman David E Lllienthal for the manner in which the action was carried out "The commission did not ask for a law which would permit General Electric to protect the country and itself by this action, and certainly Mr Lllienthal knew the company was legally impotent," he said He added: "It does not require any great imagination to visualize what i would happen in the event of trou ‘ ble with Russia if a communist-i dominated union was entrenched iTaara Te Paae fl<*O Mrs. Oliver Harmon Dies This Morning Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon Mr* Eva 8 Harmon. 69, wire of Oliver J Harmon, died at 3 o'clock this morning at her home. 428 Mer i cer avenue She had been critical-' ly ill of complications the past twoi months. She was born in Elgin. O May 21. 1980, a daughter of Eli and Mary Jane Slentx The family resided in Wren. O until 10 years ago. when they moved to Decatur She was a member of the Wren R. U. B church Surviving in addition to the husband. whom she married June 13. 1901, are two son*. Francis ByrL and Oliver Earl Harmon, both of Decatur: nine grandchildren, and two half sisters. Miss Agnes Burk of Connersville and Mr*. Alice ! Precht of Brookville. One halfbrother preceded her in death Funeral services will be held at 1 p m Sunday at the home and at 2 o'clock at the Wren R U. B church, the Rev G N Sill* and | the Rev Georg* Weaver official I ing Burial will be in the mau»» ! leum at Wren The body will be ’ removed from the Black funeral home to tbe residence, where t friends may call after 6 pm. Fri j 4AT.

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Denounces Treaty, Arms Program As Soviet Trap Aimed At Destroying U. S. Washington. July 7 — (I'P) — Sen. Ralph E. Flanders, R. Vt.. today d'-nounced the North Atlantic pact as a trap the result of a Soviet plot to bankrupt the United States Flanders told a surprised senate. which for two days had heard nothing but praise for the defense treaty, that lie will vote against it and tile related 11, ISO.OOOJMIf) program for arming free nations. He declared that the Russian politliiiro the handful of men in tiie Kremlin who rule the communist world has "set out to ruin us economically" and that tin- Truman administration lias fallen into its trap. Flanders said the pact and arms program would fail to stop Russia. He said tile Soviet "wave of conquest will continue to roll until it lias swept Europe and Asia into subjugation" and threatened Africa and America witli the same fate. "The politburo,” lie said, "has victory within its grasp. It is at tills moment running our country. It determines our policy . . By spending billions for national defense and foreign aid, Flanders said, this country lias run into a "budgetary ambush" ere<-ted l>y Russia. Despite Flanders’ opposition, which apparently was not discounted in qdvance. Hie administration appeared to have plenty of vote.* to assure ratification of the Atlantic treaty. White House President Truman made some remarks abotf? Hie legislative program at a news conference: tli in his mid-year economic report on Monday he will discuss a congressional plan calling for a 415,000.0ihi.u00 standby public works program as a bulwark against depression, lie hopes house Democratic leaders w make another try in this session to repeal the Taft-Hartley act. I>ut It’s up to them. (3i the housing program will be pushed rapidly when congress completes action on the bill authorizing it; <4> r>-minde<| of a statement by house Democratic leader John W. McCormack. Mass, that a tax boost is unlikely this year, he said McCormack ought to know because the house is where tax legislation must originate. Farm-- Secretary of agriculture Charles F Brannan said the drop in farm income raises threat of a depression. He urged the senate agriculture committee to approve his high price support program calling for subsidies to farmers and food consumers Sen George D Aiken It. Vt., proposed instead a compromise between hi* own farm plan and Brannan’s. The administration want* to repeal a flexible support drafted by Aiken which i* scheduled to go into effect in 1950 Aiken said he would be willing to incorporate in his plan mandatory supports proposed by Brannan for some perishable products Defense The house armed service* committee agreed tentatively to change the national military establishment into a single execu tive department The committee, considering legislation to tighten unification of the armed services, also agreed to give the president discretion as to whether he would name a < ivilian or a military man to the proposed post of chairman of the joint chiefs of staff Arguments had lieen raised that a general or admiral in that post <ould make himself a military dictator. Basing point— The house approached a vote on a senate-ap-proved bill under which individual Industries, without collusion, could absorb freight costs and po*t uniform prices for their product*, ft appeared the vote would be close. Senate Democratic leader Scott W Lucas. 111. and chairman Tom Connally, D. Tex. of the foreign relations committee hoped the senate would ratify the Atlantic pact by the necessary two-thirds major ity by tomorrow. Administration sources said Mr. t r«ra Te race