Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 162, Decatur, Adams County, 12 July 1949 — Page 2

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Man Convicted Os Slabbing Ex-Wife Facing Sentence Os One To 40 Years Rockford, 111, July 12—(UP) Thomar Oates. 25. us Beloit. Wfs today faced a possible one to 14 year sentence tor stabbing hi* estranged wife in the back while they embraced during an attempted reconciliation Gate*, a foundry worker, was found guilty last night of assault with intent to murder by a circuit court jury here The prosecution charged he stab bed his wife. Wanda. Ik. with a pen knife nine times last May 9 Conviction on the charge carries a possible 1 to 14 year term. Sen tenc'.ng was deterred until next | week to permit the defense to file a motion for a new trial Gates said he came to Rockford to urge bis wife to go to Texas with him to "begin life over again " They had separated a week previously because Mr* Gates, said, "all he did was argue with me", Gates said he stabbed her when she spurned his plea. Prosecutor Robert R. Canfield told the jury that Gates would have killed his wife if the knife blade hadn't broken after the ninth thrust. Mrs. Gates won a divorce last week. - ( Drag Wabash Fi»ei For Body Os Farmer Attica July 12 (VP) Aufnolties today dragged the Waba.i river north of here for the body of Paul ( arson an “Attica farmer Carlson disappeared last night while testing a new motor boat engine No trace of the boat was disco. cred

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New Elevator Is Near Completion Berne. Jhily 12 — The new Berne Equity elevator at Chattanooga. Ohio, is nearly completed and will be ready to receive wheat in a few days The elevator is all (concrete and as nearly fire-proof as possible. The elevator will replace one burned down several months ago. i SAYS TREATY, iron! t-’ron l'ss<- One) _ controversy between Alger His* and Whittaker Chambers. Atomic The joint congression- I 'al atomic energy committee turn. 1 j its attention to atomic security for , the last bit of information it needs for its forthcoming report on David E l.llienthal's handling of the atomic energy commission The committee closed its public hearings >*.*■ terday. Spain — A senate floor fight shaped up over the proposal of the appropriations committee to grant Franco Spain a 150,000,000 loan Administration senators were expected to fight the proposal on tne ground that Spain is a poor security risk. Farm - House Democratic lead era called a party caucus to line up members behind legislation to authorize agriculture secretary Charles F. Brannan to hold a three-crop i trial run" of his new price tup i port program. Republicans intend to fight the measure. Hawaii The senate labor comi mittee begins hearings on emerge.i- --< y legislation to empower President ■ Truman to intervene in | 73day-old longshoremen's strike , The measure would authorize Mr Truman to appoint a fact-finding, board to investigate the dispute and to make the board’s findings and recommendations .a mandatory, settlement of the strike

Pharmacist Charged With Narcotic Sale Port Time Clerk Is Seized In Chicago Chicago, July 12 (VP) Robert J O’Brien, SI. accused of taking drugs from Indiana stores and selling them in Chicago’s night life belt, was charged today with possession and sale of narcotics. O'Brien was arrested last night by federal narcotics agents after they had made contact with him i and arranged to buy a bottle of . morphine for 1100. He was seised at the corner of State and Ran- ' dolph streets. O'Brien said he was a licensed Illinois pharmacist and that his address is the Jefferson hotel in Hammond, Ind Agents said O'Brien has been working as a part time clerk in various Indiana drug store*. A week ago O'Brien worked Saturday and Sunday at an Indianapolis drug store, they said, and after he left the owner found 100 half grains of morphine missing. The owner contact! d federal authorities who traced O’Brien and arranged to meet him. The FBI said it had learned O'Brien had been peddling drug* and knock-out drops in the Rush street night life area O'Brien will be arraigned before the I' 8. commissioner here. REUTHER rc .nr From Pag* Onu trade-union autonomy and political sabotage," he thundered "This ! block of communist party line I leaders get together and they deliberately plot to wreck -basic CIO ■ policy.” The delegates cheered and then passed the resolution by an overwhelming vote. They also approved Reuther's recommendation to ' wage a vigorous campaign to , "capture" the CIO Farm Equipintent Workers inion which has ' refused to merge with the i'AW. Reuther's next move now will be i t<» try to push through constitutional amendments to give the internaitonal union almost unlimitI ed power to discipline recalcitrant ! locals. Trade in a Good Town — Deca’ur

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Lt. Kermit Johnson Dies In Air Crash Berne. Juy 12 — Word has been received here from Mr. and Mrs Will Johnson, of Moundridge. Kan , telling the news of the tragic death of their son. Navy Lt. Ker mit F. Johnson, of Wichita. Kan wbo was instantly killed last Friday in a plane crash in the Car libean Sea in the Canal Zone. Nine persons were aboard the AV 8 Navy I’B-M patrol plane and all were lost. Lt. Johnson ha* many relative* here and visited in Berne occasionally. The widow two chidren. the parents, and a brother survive. HOUSE GROUP (Coot. From l'ag» On*> man most concerned with the B-36 probe. The B 36 inquiry was ordered by the house after Van Zandt said he had heard "ugly reports about the air force decision to buy the big six-engined bomber, built by ( on-solidatvd-V’ultee Aircraft corporation Van Zandt said the reports involved Johnson and air force secretary W. Stuart Symington Both have said the reports are ridiculous. Some sources said the decision . may mean the death of the unification bill at this session of con i gres*.

Th* messati* entitled "/Don’t Wans wdsT ffWXWflgj -T, r-> Hr A4, reproduced below. ':.a- " wav I-,.'warded »n May 12, I'M'), by . H '**' "'fc w A Mr.r.n. Manager of General .*_,>* .* CkhSF / < El- tr,< s Apparatus Oftcc ui Mdjg uu»k<e. with this note: ■ < Four message Jobs Depend on Fj. th’ a pn.nxj.'iJ repression jfc,'. if *'’’•* .. " ' 4 ■ - A aSSlßMattf dftP on FC Fe erson, Super.ntrrdent o/ our Warehouse. He sat up last V ' | Jo n/£hf and reduced his thoughts in ■F r I writing. I have had a copy made ~ /. . ■ tE > T» «• \ Wtewju an<i attach "•«’ 1 ,rel ,ure >° u Kjl| V jft W/.7 be interested in knowing whaf * ; . \tU W reaction some ol these articles pror t doce ” Ww • 9m Neither the title, nor a word, nor a / ffl*. • comma, nor a capital letter has been % \ f J changed. It's just as written by Mr. v '-e, f 7 Peterson, who is shown in the acw■' ■ WF companying photograph with Mrs. a P <trrson > their daughters, and ' JI iSC m -zE

“<T>HOSE who unfairly attack General Electric—or seek to damA age the good name it tries so hard to deserve —may shake the faith of the customer in the Company and its products and, by so doing, rob men of their jobs and futures. “Those who rise to the Company's defense—who seek to help the Company deserve its good reputation—make jobs better and steadier not just at General Electric, but in every community where the Company buys, or makes, or sells products.” (The above are excerpts from the G. E. Commentator of May 6, 1949.) Two closing paragraphs which can be read in twenty-two seconds. The second time. 1 gave it forty seven seconds. The part which reads—“and, by so doing, rob men of their jobs and futures" fascinated me. My memories went back to the close of World War I. A returning hero, so they called me, but I had no job. Just a sixty buck "bonus" and not much hope. An odd job here, another there. Was still paying dues as an electrician, but no electricity wandering around waiting to be harnessed. Was 24-years old when we were married. A war bride, you might say. From London she was. 1921— Assets: A war bride, couple of furnished rooms, temporary job, and lots of uncertainty. 1922— Started with General Electric Company. Was told that job would be steady. A ray of hope. Wife and 1 celebrated by "eating out” 1949-(or 27 years later) Assets: Still have my job. only it’s a better one. Still have my war bride, plus—two married daughters a granddaughter—five room house—automobile—modest bank account—a few war bonds under the mattress—electric refrig-' crator—radio—ironcr, etc.-home work shop-Company pension

George Myers Named Association Officer George Myers, of Decatur, was elected vice-pr sideut of the Stdamonie association brotherhood, the regional grouping of the Baptist I church, during a meeting at tlm . Warren Baptist church last night in Warren Mac Markley, of BlufT- ' ton. was elected pr- tddent. and the I secretary treasurer was rede te-1 Decatur relit the largest delega- • tlon from the .tost distant church 19 m inliers ;<ttending. Dr M<-, ’ Connell of Marion College deliver- • ! ed an address on "The Challenge of Today ■ Those attending heard a committee report on the completion of a inoilern cabin on latke Tippecanoe for the use of boys and girls in the district. TOP U.S. tCont. From Page On«) Nev York Evening I’ot-t He wa* a free lance writer at the time of his death. His son. preparing to follow in iii* footstep*, is now an office boy on the Chicago Daily News. Bertram Hulen had b< en a mem-

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. t, t r of the New York Times Wash ington bureau since 192<e He was th* author of the book. Inside the State Department" i hhn Werkley. 3«. joined the S avv at the start of World War H Burn Ids desk at the Daily Okla , human in Oklahoma City After t!1 , war he went tn work in the Wa’liinxton bureau of 'he N‘* York Herald Tribune. He went i with lime magazine last year. Thoma* Falco of business week | WHII to work for the magazine When he wa.- discharged from the anny in July. 1945. Fred Colvig was one of the most brilliant Journalists in the west He was a I'nited Press correspondent in the Pacific northwest. Dur- ■ ing the war. he served in naval in telligence and afterward Joined the Denver Post to start that I paper's first editorial page. James Branyan. 32- started out as police reporter on the Houston ■ Post only a year ago. He had work .d with International News Service and the Beeumont. Tex. EnterMasonic Regular statod meeting Tuesday. July 12 at 73" P"i 16lb2tx Gem- K. Hike. W. M. (Uh KKIES FOR CANNING washed—pitted—ready for your cans KAYS W. SIDE MARKET Phone 56

in the offing (which was started fbout 1912, or long before the agitators ‘thunk’ it up.)—Free insurance—Additional insurance— Hospitalization insurance—annual vacation—steady pay—a feeling of security. The greatest asset of all. These are the things which 1 have received from the Company in exchange for my humble efforts. These are the things which I have received through the continued faith of our customers in our Company's products and in the integrity of its Management and employees. The Company has faith in me and I have faith in the Company. I am not yet dumb enough to believe that we can receive something for nothing. If we do, it can only be at the expense of someone else. And that someone else may be me. I have no time or sympathy for “those who unfairly attack General Electric—or seek to damage the good name it tries so hard to deserve—and. by so doing, rob men of their jobs and futures." I asked for a job and it was given to me. If I am dissatisfied. I am free to leave at any time. 1 am not working in a slave camp. I believe that “Those who rise to the Company’s defense—who seek to help the Company deserve its good reputation—make jobs better and steadier not just at General Electric, but in every community where the Company buys, or makes, or sells products By preserving the Company’s future, I am merely preserving my own. Just simple arithmetic J?. E. C. Prwaow Wakehouss Sup't. P S I had no rich uncle or a college degree. Milwaukee 5/12/49

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