Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 162, Decatur, Adams County, 12 July 1949 — Page 1

I. XLVII. No. 162.

65 PERSONS KILLED IN TWO AIR CRASHES

|yman Meets ■th Ching On Reel Strike Reported Proposal ■or Truman Action ■To Prevent Strike bulletin I Pittsburgh- July 12.— (UP) — ■reodent Truman today asked ■ e United Steel Workers of Hmerica to continue their ■listing agreement with steel ■.. patties for 60 days. ■'axhinglon. July It—(UP)— S,.ral mediation chief Cyrus iKp went to the White House reportedly with a proposal ag presidential action to avert Sati'.hwide Steel strike schedulSaturday. ■tnh-r the proposal, it wan said. Truman would ask the ■ steel workers and the steely to agree to a no-strike, ■ixkout extension of their preIK contract while a presidential K-,1 investigates their wage disK. and makes settlement recomKtdations. informed sources said the proKai does not call for invoking Taft Hartley injunction pro proposal would spare Mr ■man the political embarrassKt <>f resorting to the Taft-Hart-, ■ act which he repeatedly has K,.i congress to scrap of the proposal was said Sin. hide a presidential request ■ CIO president Philip Murray ■delav the scheduled walkout 3ff ■ fio days ,to give the board a to hold hearings and make jKummendations The re<<»mmenjKions would not be binding on side. ■.l.irrav postponed a steel strike K one week in January. 1946. gS the president's request presidential press K-retarv Charles G Ross said the Kite House n»ky make a stateKnt later today on steel situs■i He said "the entire steel is under consideration at K White House" but he could ■ say whether Mr Truman would an emergency board. Kuril a move, it successful. ■nd spare Mr. Truman the pol K<al embarrassment of. resortK to the injunction provision of Taft-Hartley act which he re-, Kitedly has asrtd congress to K>9■n January. 1946, Murray post■tix.i a steel strike for one week ■ the president's request. ■the current steel contract dis■t<- was referred to the White by federal mediation chief Krua Shing last night after a* Kitless. two-and a-half hour meetK with Murray and representaKe« of the steel Industry. ■Thing told newsmen that "nelth- ■ side gave an indication of ■anting its mind" He said he Kns no recommendations to Mr. ■uman. but “will if asked " ■Murray called a meeting later ■ay in Pittsburgh of his United ■chl workers executive board and ■?<• policy committee to discuss ■>*- plans. He said some 500,<M"t ■urkers in 96 basic steel companies ■d 101 other firms will begin ■sir walkout at 11:01 am Satur ■t!.<- remainder of the union s ■"'>000 members, he said, will be ■led out ss their contracts ex- ® iTara Te Fs«» Threat

ounty Within 10 ercent Os Quota The Adams county IT. 8. savI* >«nd drive la within 10 per *’ of the goal. T. F Graliker *»’y chairman, announced tor *•!•* reported to the state office Indianapolis up to June 25. Wanted to SlM,t*l compared to • 1153.00* county quota Mr *Mk«r anno a need that all sale* »de up to July Id would count **rd the quota. Eight counties >»e met their quotas, the state has announced WCATHCR *srity elaudy tonight and *»uneeday. A few widely acet ,er *d ehewers Wednesday. Lltt, e e hange in temperature. L ** tonight. 84 In the north to • t" the. Math. High Wednee--y M UM •• ♦

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Favor 4-H Building Al Hanna-Nuttman Reaction Favorable At Initial Meeting The county extension committee agreed last night to further planning on the idea of a permanent home in Hanna-Nuttman park for the county's 4-H clubs. About .15 members of the county agricultural extension committee met with Mayor Doan, city attorney Robert 8. Anderson, and memtiers of the city council and Chamber of Commerce In the Boy Scout cabin* in Hanna-Nuttman park. The committee, which consists of two members form each township and the presidents of the county's agricultural clubs, made their decision by an overwhelming affirmative vote after three hours, of discussion. City attorney Anderson said today that the next| task is for the city council toj Include in next year's budget an appropriation for the drainage of the area. j The city has agreed to give 1 approximately 20 acres to the 4-H for permanent buildings If the 4-H desires It. The land to be donated Is that part of Hanna- ’ Nuttman park north and east of I the Boy Scouts cabin. The city received clear title to the land ' enabling use of the park in this manner at the last city council meeting. The city will also supply the buildings, if they are completed, iwlth electricity and water, and 'maintain the property after the permanent structures are built. ' All construction will be done by the 4-H. however. ’) The principal changes which F the new buildings will make, if 1 they are now planned and conJ ' strutted, would be: (1) permanent ‘ structures in which to hold the 1 annual 4-H fair; (2) meeting places i for other persons, not connected 'with the 4-H. when the building '. is not in use by the clubs. The I Hanna-Nuttman park caretaker. ' will assign use of the proposed building for group meetings and ‘l picnics when it is not used'by ’the 4-H. ,| Othhr farm groups may later ; Join In the maintenance of the ' proposed building* and have space 1 allotted to them, county agricuitur'al agent L. E Archbold said today. • He added, "the county agricultural 'extension office will do its part 'j to put on a good 4-H show regard'Jess of where the people of Adams ’I county want It. It's the duty of the ' people of the county working i through the county extension com- ' mittee to make a decision on the matter," he said. H, 8. Heckard. county agent ’ supervisor, was a guest at the ' meeting He attended to find out It tTara Te Page Tbreei

Showdown Fight In Offing On Spending Some Congressmen Insist Costs Cut Washington. July 11—(UP)— President Truman's midyear economic teport promised today to bring a bitter showdown with the powerful group of Republicans and Democrats in congress who inslit that government costs must be cut to avoid disaster. Much of the specific antideflation legislation proponed by the President was given a good chance to obtain favorable congressional action Hut Mr Truman stuck by his big spending program for the l»&o fiscal year. The President said he would continue with deficit financing. In plain English that means to continue to spend more than the governmenfs Income and to make up th. difference by•’""‘"J* abandonment of the >1.000.0*0.0 tax Increase proposal of last Jan uary got congressional ebeers almost all around Mr Trumsn will carry the spending battle to the people. The White House announced he will speak over the four major radio networks .t 1 so pm. CRT tomorrow In a plain understandable BwlUb" discussion of the economic sltuaiioa. His address probably will arouse more polltleni controversy than submitted to congress Speaker Joseph W Martin, r.. and others said Mr Truman shmrid have joined to (Tata To P**

Net Increase Is Revealed In Taxable Values Taxable Property In County Higher By Over Million County assessor Albert Harlow today announced a net increase of $1.376998.00 in taxable property in Adams county, following compilation of totals by the board of review. The increase will boost the county's net taxable worth above 34 million dollars, despite SIIO,OOO increase In mortgage exemptions and soldiers' exemptions this year, Mr. Harlow explained. The big increase in taxable values this yegr comes In personal property and added improvements to real estate. Personal property values climbed to $12,256,082. for an increase of $1,192,950 over a year ago. Improvements on real estate, including new houses, barns and buildings, brought an Increase of $342,215. The value of land and lots, with their improvements, is placed at $19,751,752. The stated assessment of railroads, pipe lines and other utilities in the county, last year was placed at $3,456,885. With this amount added to the local assessments, t-ie total On which next year's taxes will be figured la $34,180,405. Personal property and improvements were assessed last March end April by the township assessors Only two townships show a loss In totals. Blue Creek townshin bad a loss of $2,440 and Jefferaon township, $18,925 l Net gains in the townships and towns In the county, aashown by the asaessor.'s figures, exclusive of tne state assessment a, follow: Union. $42,065; Root. $69,006; Preble. SILV 440; Kirkland. $116,846; Washington. $30,528; St. Marys. $55,163: Monroe, sl2o,i<B: French, 129,2-m; Hartford. 662.560; Wabash. $M,655; Monroe Washington $8,350. Monroe. $42,420; t’ensva. $74,615; Herne. $243,259; Decatur. $267.49?; Decatur-Root, $47,950. Mortgage total sl.282,314. of which $129,186 are su’dlers' exemptions.

American Airlift ■ Airplane Crashes No Word On Fate Os Crew Os Three Berlin. July H-(UPi — A Brr lin- bound American C-54 airlift plane crashed in the Soviet cone of Germany early today. , There was no Immediate word aa to the fate of the crew, believed to total three A ground party left Potsdam for the scene of the crash, two miles east of Klaits and S 3 miles west of Berlin, just outside the Hamburg-Berlin airlift corridor. • The plane radioed It was having engine trouble Just before tbe crash. There have been IS fatal crashes in the little more than a year that the airlift has been operating, killing 52 persons. Nine of the crashes Involved American planes, and 29 American fliers have been killed. Trucks Delayed Berlin. July 12-(UP) — With 300 trucks lined up at tbe barrier awaiting clearance, the Russians denied any knowledge ' today of truck delays at their Helmstedt sinal border checkpoint. 120 miles west of Berlin. in a phone conversation with the British, Russian officials said the Autobahn from Helmstedt was the only recognised four-power highway to Berlin. To that highway the Russians were admitting only soar trucks an hour from western Germany. They were subjecting those four to minute inspection. All other highways to Berlin were sealed The British disputed Russia's coatention that tbe Helm stedt route was the only one recognised by the four powers. The Russian stand waa made known la a letter read over tbe telephone to British authorities. In their official newspaper, Taegliche Rundschau, tbe Russians this morning blamed black market truck driven for tbe restrictions which have cut truck traffic from western Germany by 10 percent.

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Economic Report (Joes To House pt .wr fi iiy » K wBl Irli’ll S _ t. HERBERT MILLER and Wayne Hawks, of the White House staff, carry Pre Idem Truman s voluminous mid-year economic report up the senate steps for presentation to congress. Mr. Truman announced abandonment of earlier demands for tax increases.

House Group Delays Action On Measure To Complete Probe Os B 36 Purchases/ Washington. July 12 — (UP) — The house arme l services committee today postponed acjlon on a bill giving more power to detense secretary Ix>uis Johnwn until It has completed an Investigation of air force purchases of B-36 bombers. It did so by a 13 to 12 vote. The postponement followed disclosure of orders from Johnson a central figure in the B-36 Inquiry—to top Pentagon officials for his office to • co-ordinate" their proposed testimony on the B-36. The postponement raised serious questions as to whether the house will act on the bill this session Rep James E. Van Zantft. R. NPA., who disclosed the Johnson orders, said they would put the defense chief in position to censor testimony and "chaperone" witnesses from the military departments Rep. Dewey Short. R., Mo., made the motion to defer action on the senate-approved bill. The measure would tighten up unification by giving Johnson complete "direction, authority and control” over the army, navy and air force. Short said that If the bill were passed. Johnson could muzzle the committee's witnesses. He said Johnson, a former director of the firm that makes the B-36. is "the (Tara Ta !■■«» Twal

Top U. S. Journalists Are Among Air Crash Victims

New York. July 11—(I’PI— The victims of today's plane crash at Bombay. India, Included some of the best known names in American journalism. William 11. Newton, staff corre spondent of the Scripps-Howard Alliance, joined the Scripps How ard organisation soon after hb graduation from Ohio State Univer sity In IM4. He survived the war over Europe and the Pacific as an aerial gunner with the rank of a captain and rejoined the newspaper chain after the war. He spent IS months in the far east where be was the first to report that Russians contracted uranium deposits in Chins. He was en route home from Batavia. George Moorad of the Portland Oregonian, a native of Indiapp polls, lad., was a veteran corre spondent whose war reporting started with the 81 no Japanese outbreak In 1*32 He bad worked on several west eoast newspapers and was a war correspondent for the Columbia Broadcasting flystem and Time and Life mqguines 8. Burton Heatin was a Pulltser prise winner who had been with the Newspaper Enterprise Associa-*

Schricker Approves Franklin Decontrol Indianapolis. July 12 — (UP) — Governor Schricker today approved rent decontrol for the city of Franklin Schricker gave his approval to a request by the Franklin city council for removal of ceilings on rental property and said he had forwarded the council's request to federal housing expediter Tighe E. Woods. Says Treaty, Arms Program Inseparable Sen. Wherry Gives Advice To Solons Washington. July 12. — (UP) — Senate Republican leader Kenneth 8. Wherry of Nebraska advised his rolleagiKs today that a vote for the' Atlantic pact would <be a vote for a long-term program of arms for Europe. He said the administration has so linked the treaty with the arm* proposal that senators voting for one must be ready to support the other. “They are not separate issues but are inseparable," he said in an interview. Elsewhere in Congress. Hiss t'hamhers A sharply dividetF house un-American activPlM committee decides today wheth -r to reopen its Investigation of t>ie| (Tara Ta Paar Twat

tlon as an economics, labor and political expert for eight years His annual income tax primer was printed by more than 750 news papers. Elsie Dick, former magaxint executive, was director of women's educational and religious program* for the Mutual network She work ed for the New Yorker magaxine as well as a group of Sunday and home decoration magazines Nat A. Barrows. Chicago Daily News correspondent, was cited two months ago by Sigma Delta Chi. national professional journal Istlc fraternity, for hl* beat on the story of an airlift supplying the Israeli army from Cxechoslovakia. He joined the Daily News in I*ll. Charles Gratke. «. of Marblehead. Mass., had been foreign editor of the Christian Science Monitor since 1*37. He received the Sigma Delta Chi award for foreign correspondence In IS4< and held a French medal for coverage of France during the Nasi occupation Texas-born H. R Knickerbocker won a pulltser prise in I*3l while Moscow correspondent for the Philad*!:<hia Public Ledger and the tVuEB To Pane Two)

Top American Newspaper Correspondents Killed In Crash Near Bombay, India

Loaded Passenger Airliner Crashes In California; 11 Or 12 Are Killed Burbank. Cai., July 12. — (CP) — Two men fought a blqpdy battle aboard a loaded iMssenger airliner tmlay Just before It crashed in the mountains and police reported 11 or 12 persons killed and 30 or 31 injured. , Fire broke out after the crash but was controlled quickly. The plane, a non-scheduled twlaengined Curtiss Commando identified by the Civil Aeronautics Administration as belonging to TransNational Air Lines, crashed in tne foothills of the rocky Santa Susanna mountains near Chatsworth. Cal. Pilot Roy White had been given clearance to land at Mx-kheed air terminal here and had his landing gear down when he crashed at 7:50 a. m. Shortly Itefore getting landing clearance White radioed that he had "trouble" aboard. He told the control tower that two men were fighting and one was "badly beaten." “They say they're going to finivh it as soon as we land.” he reported. Burbank police had been asked to stand by to arrest the fighters. A pilot who flew over the scene i soon after the crash said he did uot see how any of the occupants could | have lived. He said both wings | were severed and the wreckage was I "burning fiercely." An unidentified boy spotted the crash and ran a mile down a canyon to the Box Canyon ranger station to report It. The crash wax in hard-to-reach spot approximately twb miles from a main highway in the foothills of the Santa Susanna mountains. A spokesman for the Standard Airlines In New York said the pline left LaGuardia airport at 5:40 p. m. CST yesterday. At Chicago tbe operations tower at Municipal airport said the plane (Turn Tn Sts* Nazarene Evangelist Electrocuted Monday Spencer. Ind . July 12—(UP) — An electric shock caused the death of the Rev. Harry Hagaman. 40, widely-known Naxarene evangelist, yesterday authorities said today Hagaman was working in the basement of his home when a light cord he carried shorted and elec trocuted him.

More Natural Gas May Be Available Second Pipe Line Is Now Being Laid An additional sttpply of natural gas may be available in Decatur next year with the completion of the second W inch pipe line being laid by tbe Panhandle A Eastern Pipe Line company from the Texas oil and gas field to Detroit, a reliable authority estimated today j The new line travels northwestward through Adams county, in the direction of Monroeville. The line will run to-Detroit. From Cleveland a 20 inch line Is being built, which will connect at the Detroit terminal. When the second line is com pieted. it will service Toledo. Detroit and Cleveland and points between those cities This will relieve the demand on the original line, which waa laid through tbe county in the late thirties It supplies natural gas to Decatur and Fort Wayne. Several score men are employed in digging the trench and laying the steel pipe. Many of the men with the regular pipe line crew reside in Decatur and recently requests for apartments have been numerous Tbe pipe line from the Texas Panhandle district to Cleveland will be more than 1.290 miles In length It Is one of the largest utility expansions being under taken in tbe country. It was stated.

Reuther Slated For Reelection As Union Head Convention Passes Resolution Urging Communists Ousted Milwaukee, July 12 — (VP) — Red-haired Walter P. Reuther was expected to rout his left-wing opposition today and sweep easily to his third straight term as president of the giant CIO United Auto Workers. The scrappy 41-year-old labor leader appeared certain to emerge with more power than ever as the 2.354 national convention delegates voted for their four top officers. Secretary treasurer Emil Maxey and vice-presidents Richard dosser and John W. Livingston also were slated for landslide reelection victories. This became apparent last night as the d legates unanimously endorsed the Reuther slate while only 100 delegates showed up for a caucus of the left-wing "Progressive Unity” slate. Carrying the standard for tbe unity caucus was W. G. Grant, former president of Ford local 600 John Lindall of Detroit was matched against Mazey for secretarytreasurer, while William Johnston and Dominic Digaibo were in the race for vice-president against Gosser and Livingston. The Progressive-Unity caucus was a loose coalition comprising remnants of the old UAW leftwing factions and anti-Reutlierites. Tbe only setback Reuther has suffered so far came iate yesterday when the delegates voted six to four to reject his plea for biennial conventions and two-year terms for officers. Left-wing leaders charged Hist the move would be a "step toward dictatorship.” But there was a general feeling that the resolution died not so much because of their opposition but as result of the natural love of UAW members and delegates for conventions. At Reuther's personal urging, the convention yesterday passed a resolution calling on the CIO to nxpell all communist-led unions and reorganize them along right wing lines. Left-wing delegates charged Reuther with "dictatorship tactics" in a heated floor debate. But he countered with a blistering attack on communism in labor "There is a difference between (Turn To Paar Ts»l

Henry Costello Dies Monday Afternoon Funeral Services Wednesday Morning Henry Costello. 48. a resident of Adams county for the past yea is. died Monday afternoon at his home. IMS West Elm street, after a three months illness of leakage of the heart. He was born In Guadalajara, Jalisco. Mexico. July 15. 1900. a son of Anacleto and Trinidad Coetelli. He waa employed here as a construction worker. He was a member of St Mary a Catholic church. Surviving are his wife, I-oulsa; nine children. Alfonso, Genevle/o, Lupe. Matilda. Henry. Jr.. Daniel. Dolores. Isabelle and Jesu. all a! home, and one brother. Santos Costello. In Mexico. Funeral services will be held at 9 a. m. Wednesday at St. Marv's Catholic church, tbe Very Rev. Msgr J. J. Selmetx officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. The body was removed late th:s afternoon from the Ollilg A Dost funeral home to the residence The Holy Name society will recite the rosary at 9 o'clock tonight.

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Dutch Air Liner Crashes, Killing All 45 Aboard, During Monsoon Bombay. July 12—(UP) —Fortyfour persons, including 14 top flight American news correspondents. were killed today when a Dutch Constellation air liner crashed into a hill Just outside Bombay during a torrential rain. The U. 8. reporters were returning from a tour of Indonesia by invitation of the Dutch government. Two members of the Journalistic party elected not to fly back aboard the Constellation. All the others, and all on the plane, were killed. The liner apparently lost its way in the blinding downpour. It tried four times to land at the Santa Cruz airport here before it smacked into the hillside nearby. One wing was torn off. It came to rest near the top of the hill. Thirteen mutilated bodies were scattered around it The fuselage and other wing tumbled down the hillside, broke apart, and the wing burst Into flames. Late in the day only three bodies were definitely identified. They Matthews Escapes William R. Matthews, editor of the Arizona Star at Tucson, one of the two correspondents who remained in Batavia, thereby escaping the fatal crash, is well known in Decatur. His wife is the former Betty Boyer, daughter of the late Dr. J. 6. Boyer, prominent physician here for many years until moving to California. Matthews visited here on occasions while the Boyer family resided In Decatur.

i were those of Heath, Moorad and Werkley. fin Hong Kong Mrs. Dorothy Brandon. New York Herald Tribune correspondent, charged t.lat the indoesians sabotaged the Constellation She raid that in refusing to fly back aboard it. she had "told them that this would hapI pen " The correspondents, she said, offended the Indonesians by reporting the Dutch version of the Indonesian struggle) (At the New fork office of the Indonesian republic it was said that the idea of sabatage was "absurd and unthinkable"). (In Manila. William Matthews, publisher of the Tucson, Aril, Star, the second person who left I the party of newsmen, said he had made plans to continue to Manila before he left New York, and did not do so because of any "premonition.”) It was the worst crash in Indian ; history. e Among the newsmen flying back from an inkpection tour of Indonesia were William Newton of Scripps Howard Alliance: H. R. KnickurlMM-ker. WOR commentator, 8. Burch Heath of Newspaper Enterprise Association; Bertram Hulen of the New York Times; and Nat E. Barrows of the Chicago ; Daily News. Two stewardesses and an American radio commentator. Elsie Dick of the Mutual Broadcasting system, were among the nine women kill'd. Two American correspondents who remained behind In Batavia were Mrs. Dorothy Brandon of the New York Herald-Tribune and William R Matthews of the Arizona . Star The 111-fated transport, making a special flight to return the journalists aftqr the tour of Indonesia, left New Delphi e*ly this morning. The other Americans aboard were Charles Gratke. Christian Science Monitor; Vincent Mahoney. San Francisco Chronicle. John Werkley. Time Magazine: Thomas Falco. Business Week; George Moored. Portland Oregonian. Fred Colvig. Denver Post; Lyon C. Mahan. New York public relations representative; and James Branyaa. Houston Pout. The V. 8. correspondents, whose by-lines were among the beet known in American journalism.

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