Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 180, Decatur, Adams County, 2 August 1949 — Page 1

,1 XLVII. No. 180.

LGREE TO MODIFY MILITARY AID PROGRAM

■ouse Passes lill Assisting lisabledVets I Boosts Federal Aid I To Disabled Vets, I Veterans' Widows Aug. 2 — (UP) K bouse today passed “ MM ,o ST . <,.,i.Tai payments to disabled Elan/-d veterans’ widow- by ■{.507.300 a year. ■The bill no* K“ eM ,o ,h,> *' na'e Lt <>f provisions apply to Lraa* of l»‘»th world wars. ■The bill wan sponsored by Hep ■■„,, R Rankin. D., Miss It would pensions for totally disabled Eeran-t from *l3B to 1150 u Kin'h Kit would Increase allowances to Krtly disabled veterans and would Kp up payments to veterans’ Kj iiWH with one child from 1100 ■ |ios. Payments igr each addlKu! child would be raised from K to 125 a month. ■ other . ongreslsonal developK* nt * ; ■ i'he percenters Housing expeKer Tighe E Woods was quizzed Kout the role of "five percenters" K getting federal permits for Knstruction at race tracks Jn Klifornia and Massachusetts at a Kte when materials were scarce Ki’arm program — Chairman Clin Kn P Anderson. D.. N. M. said K< senate agriculture subcommitKe hopes to approve a com pro Kite long range farm bill ThtirsKy He said members were K.rarer agreement.” ■ Clark Senate leaders said AtKrney General Tom C. Clark will Kvr no trouble getting confirmaKn of his appointment to thaj Kipreme court. ■ They said also that confirmation K Sen J. Howard McGrath. D. K I. as the new attorney general K succeed Clark, is as good as in Ke hag President Truman was E> ccted to send up both nomlnaKm* today. ■ McGrath's old jobs as chairman K the Democratic national com Ki'lee probably will go to William K Boyle, now vice-chairman and Kuronage boss and a close friend K President Truman. ■ rniflcatioß— The house passed Kt sent to the White House comK«mi»e legislation strengthening K»f n-e secretary Louis Johnson's Ktthority over the army, navy and Kr force ■ The roll call vote was 356 to 7 ■ Approval came after chairman Ktrl Vinson of the armed services K— tnlttee told the house the mea spells out Johnson e position K> the main military adviser to ■b president on national defense ' ■ said the bill has provisions K° Pteeettt the secretary from astoo much authority or K'tt’ing his power. ■ He said it carefully describes Bllltary mission of the army. K* r l' an 'l 81r force and prevents K** •*‘ r etary from transferring < r ••"'li-hiiig any of their activities ■ foreign aid — Administration apparently were planning g continued fight against inclusion ■ff Spain in the senate's .Marshall spproprlation bill They also ,0 knock out a clause that earmark part of the funds ■ (Tarw Ta Hilf Foarl ■China Threatened By ■Communist Wedge ■ f *nton. China. Aug 1-(UP» yXionallst government source# ad-■y-'*d today that Communist ■ t4n,t * southward from captured w *re threatening to dri. ■ “dgs between central and sou !. ■**’ Odna. ■ center of fighting has ahifte I ■’’•♦stern Hunan Province, th■J*! ‘ 0 «» l defense ministry said, with movements west of ilt# ■JU ling lake area assuming ina ■* proportions. ■_ Alr » of the Communist thrusts I. Ka.** 11 S ’»'*onalist Gen Pai Chung■T* rostral China command. ba-> ■? K Hengyang. and Gen Chang southwest defense for •• the wartime capital o." I Weather ■ Clsirinj slowly tonight pre ■ by scattered showers ■ **heaat and extreme east ■ Somewhat cooler to ■ J* Wednesday mostly fair ■ 7 s iweasant. Low tonight 56- ■ J •***. high Wednesday 79- ■ * ■**, SMS Mlh .

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Heads Board / i gl Dr. Harry Hebble, local optometrist. was elected president of the Decatur school board for 194950 at a reorganization meeting held at Decatur high school .Monday night. Dr. Hebble succeeds Gerald. Cole as president. Mr. Cole was elect'-d treasurer and Itoy Mumma was named secretary for the coming school year. Mr. Hebble was elected last June by the city council to a new three-year term. He was originally named to the board to succeed the late Gregg McFarland. No Objections To Proposed School Tax Levy Is Proposed For Building Fund No objections were registered with the Decatur school board last evening against the proposal to .levy a 30-cent cumulative building tax on sl(Mi of taxable* next year. Walter J. Krick, superintendent of schools, announced today Among the three persons who appeared at the hearing held in Mr. Krick’s office at the Decatur high school, was Richard Pruden. executive secretary of the Chamber of Commerce Mr Pruden did not offer any objections, but stated that the chamber approved proposed school building plans The next legal step in the consideration of levying the 30-cent tax, I is to give notice to taxpayers, other I than those who merely pay poll ' tax. that remonstrances may be filed with the county auditor up to August 13. Legal notice to that effect will be published In Wednesday’s issue of this newspaper. Mr. Krick explained that the 30cent rate would raise approximately 124.000 a year and a total of sl*o,ooo for the five years. By 1955 the school board’s bonding re serve will be near $130,000. which will give the school city a building fund equal to about $250,000. Plans for a new building have nut yet been discussed. Mr. Krick stated Ward buildings may be built, or a new building may be erected west of the Lincoln school (Toro T« »'•«» Flvel Oliver Harmon Will Is Probated Today Estate Estimated Well Over SIOO,OOO The will of Oliver J. Harmon, retired farmer and banker of Wren. O who had lived in Decatur the past several years, was filed tor probate in the county clerks of flee today Bond for sl3o.<hhi was filed by Cloyd Cluts. Who was named executor by the will, and the Fidelity and Deposit Co., of M The will stipulated that $5,000 would go to the board of trustee, of the Wren. O . Radical I nlted Brethren church for repair, of the present structure or toward building a new church After payment of debts, cost, of administration and funera pen*#* are subtracted, rr of the property is left to ** Supon's two son*. Earl city, and Francis Beryl Harnton. of Wiihbire. O. to .bare "a wrt.... c-«. •* •“ ta Iba aHocnsy.

House Group Kills Federal Education Aid House Committee In Effect Halts Aid To Education Washington. Aug. 2. — (UP) — The house lalmr committee todayin effect killed federal aid to education for this session But it re- |; fused to pronotritce the corpse dead. The legislators wrangled for two I hours behind the closed doors of ! the committee room without agreeing on anything in the dispute that - has become partly a religious Issue. The only unanimous vote came on a motion to receive — but not to adopt —a report from a subcommittee. 1 Committee chairman John ' ski. D„ Mich., said he would call the legislators together in a few days for another try at an agreement But it was conceded that it is too late for the house to act this session even If the committee could ' agree on something. The s3oo.<t(Mt.oon-a-year measure has been held up by a dispute between Catholic and Protestant legislators. Rep. Cleveland M. Bailey. D.. W. Va. thought earlier that he had found a compromise that could settle the dispute. He did not disclose its terms and did not get a chance to offer It this morning. With legislators leaving Washington at an increasing rate, it Is unlikely that he can get the measure I to the floor in sufficient time for i' action. > I Bailey announced hia "dtecovery” ti after a closed meeting yesterday • witli 10 other committee members. r There are two major —aa well as several minor — bills before ths committee. They are: 1. A senate approved bill to per 1 mit each individual state to decide whether the federal funds could lie r used for parochial as well as public schools. . 2. A bill drawn up Rep. Graham A. Bajen. D.. N. C., which would restrict all the funds to public schools. The Barden bill has been denounI red as ’anti-Catholic” by Francis , Cardinal Spellman, archbishop of ( New York. He Included Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt in his denunciation t when she indicated sympathy witli the basic principles of the measure. What was considered a Catholic . approach to a compromise was offf cTara T» Mat Contracts Awarded By Commissioners • Will Meet Thursday To Complete Budget The county commissioners adjourned last evening, to meet again Thursday to complete compilation of the budget for 1950. Herman Haugk was awarded a contract to install a bottled gas water heater at the county home for 1482. The new equipment will replace an old coal-fired heater, formerly operated by one of the inmates. The cutting of weeds on the county’s lot south of the hospital along High street, was referred to Phil Sauer, county highway superintendent. Edmund Aumann was named a viewer on the Paul Bleberlch drain in Preble township, replacing Lewis Captain, surveyor of Wells county, who disqualified himself. Emanuel H. and Elisabeth K. Ha logger filed a petition with the commisaioners, asking that 83 acres of their farm east of Berne, assessed In Monroe township since 1907. be transfered to Wabash township. The petitioners were instructed to pro<eed under law in regards to transferring of property beyord township boundaries A petition for the repair of the James W Barr ditch in Wabash township was referred to the conn ty surveyor. The commissioners granted the Petition filed by Earl E Dewaid for the town of Geneva, for a right ot way to lay a water line along the route of old highway 27 to the Driveway theater east of Geneva. The contract for three tons of <Twa Ta Fnwe Five!

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, August 2, 1949.

Boosts Arms For Europe 1-jj|f < Mil H FORMER SECRETARY of State Gen George C. Marshall (left I. sits beside chairman John Kee. (D), W. Va.. as he warns the House foreign affairs committee in Washington that "hesitation now" in approving the $1,450,000,000 arms aid program would be "most unfortunate and have wide ramifications.”

135 Now Enrolled In Auction Schoo! Complete List Os Pupils Announced Enrollment in the annual summer , term of the Reppert Auction school I reached 135 today with students from 30 of the 48 states There is ; one student from Decatur. Clyde Troutner, owner of the Troutner real estate agency and former coun , ty clerk. Since 1921 when the school was founded by the late Col. Fred Reppert. there have been students from every state In the union and ail the provinces of Canada. The 1949 students got started on their Intensive training Monday morning and there will be no letup in classes or auction work until 1 the graduation exercises. Following Is the complete roster of the class: Archer. Glenn L.. Charlotte. Mich.; Asselin, Orvlle L.. Eau Claire. Wis.; Adderholdt. J. D.. Gaines vllle. Ga.; Bohnke. Don, Monroe-i ville; Bolton. Nell. Wilmington. N. C.; Baldree. A. T.. Black Creek. N. C.; Bailey. B. B "Bill", Carrollton, Va.; Baker, John. Lima. Ohio; Bosely. Melvin (1. Bel Aire. M.1.; Bowers. George E. Charleston. W Va.; Bennett. Roltert W . Westerville, Ohio; Branaman. Ben., Dear born. Mich.; Braddock Jack D.. Branville, Ohio; Blount. J, W. Bruceton. Tenn ; Busenburg. Woodrow. Walhounding. O.; Butts. Jimmy, Jr., taxlngton, Ky.; Connor. John, Fruitland. Wash.; ' Crowe, Ferry J.. Yakima. Wash.; I Collett, Donald. Coffeyville. Kan.; Cummings. Charles V.. Corry. Fa.: Copeland. Charles R., Anderson; Cole. Veryl D., Orl<»n. III.; Core. William J. Jr., Nashville, Tenn.; Combs. Arlie. Coldwater, Mich.; Christian. L. E, Princeville. IB.; Cohn. Harold. Columbus. Ga ; Courtad. Paul K.. Upper Sandusky. O Duncan. Wilbur W . Beaver Falls. (Tarn Ta Pa«e •!«> I

Test Tube Method May Be Strong Polio Weapon

(Editor'll Note: -A sure cheep diagnostic teat’(or polio, or infan tile paralysis. is needed to make possible a check on the spread of the disease and possibly better treatment. In the following dispatch. United Presi science writer Paul F. Kills tells of a new tert tube method that may lire the medical scientists a powerful weapon against the crippling disease ■y PAUL F. ILLI* (Copyright 1919 By United Press!. I San Francisco. Cal.. Aug 2. -1 (UP! — A new test tube method to ••finger-print" the viruses that cause polio has been developed here, and eventually may be a po» erful weapon in devising meant to control the disease The method, helm perfected after sit years of tedious research work, financed by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Is expected to eliminate to a great extent the necessity of using monkeys in determining and classifying the polio viruses It has been <-»l*biiabed that there are at least three groups of polio viruses -

|U. S. To Base Jes Air Force In Germany All-Jet Striking Force To Be Based For Any Emergency Grafenwoehr, Germany. Aug. 2 —(UP) —The United States soon will base an all-jet air striking force in Germany and will maintain Its ground forces at present strength "ready for any emergency." the visiting U. S. chiefs of j staff disclosed today. Gen. Hoyt S Vandenberg, air chief of staff, and Gen. Omar N.' Bradley, army chief of staff, told newsmen here that there will he no cutback in the air and ground forces with which America will back up Its commitments in Eur- . ope under the Atlantic treaty. The only exception. Vandenberg said, will be the Berlin airlift. > Tfiat is being scaled down gradu- 1 ully now that the Soviet blockade of western land and water routes ! to Berlin has been lifted Vandenberg said the recently regrouped fighter force in Germany, soon will he entirely with jet planes. He sahl the pro-peller-driven thunderbolts, which , were America's first-line fighters at the end of World are being retired. The two generals talked wit.i newsmAn after reviewing with Admiral la>uls E Denfeld, chief o' naval operations, the greatest IM>*t war display of American military might In Germany at Adolf Hitler's former army trailing grounds here. Fully 17.000 troops of the crack first Infantry division and attached units — half the U. 8. army s ! strength in Europe — parade.) in battle array for the visiting gen(Tare Te I’ege Ttirrei

each diffi rent from the other. The test tulie development here may well give medical scientists ' quick answers to such questions a.i what variety of polio Is striking, and what group of persons may !e susceptible to the disease. II possibly may be a diagnostic test. Scientists at the George William Hooper foundation for medical research of the University of Califor- . nia said that the new test tub* 1 method might have some value as la diagnostic tool, but that the real I importance will he to speed up lh>search for a quick, inexpensive way I to "finger-print” the viruses as to , their identity and their virulence Polio scientists long have sought ' to develop a teat tube serologic 11 method for polio such as Is used In bacterial diseases But the polio virus is so extremely small that 25.000.000 of them placed end to end would extend only one inch. As a result, it has been necessary Instead to use animals, such as monkeys, inoculating them with substance believed to contain th* virus. If the monkey came down I (Tern To Page Sts)

Acheson, Johnson Agree To Some Changes; Claim \ Truman Power Too Great

Dale Decker Heads Consolidated School j Further Plans For Operating School Dale Decker, principal at Kirkland high school, has been named principal of the consolidated Monroe - Washington - Kirkland high school and the new snven-man board has voted to have -the high school for the three townships at Kirkland township high school during 1949-50, it was learned today, The combined elementary school will be held at Monroe high school building and a principal for that school has not yet been named. It also was learned that no tranfers ■ will be issued to any other school for pupils residing within the bounds of the consolidation except in the <-ase of seniors who will graduate in the spring of 1950 For these seniors tuition will be paid, hut no transportation will be furnished for them by any of the three townships The three trustees on the school ' board. John Stoneburner. Washing ton; Howard Gilllom. Monroe, and 11. 11. High. Kirkland, have been I named on a sulwommittee to work out the transportation problem. All pupils attending either of the schools will he provided with trans--1 portation. but It was learned that all of the routes will be changed ; and it may be necessary to es- | tablish new routes. Board mem tiers said that teachers would be hired in the next few days, and It is believed like--Ily that additional instructors, especially in the elementary consolidation. will he required All seven members attended the Monday meeting and county superintendent L. L. Hann, who by virtue of his office is superintendent of the merger until August 15. presided until officers were named ! Hansel Foley county superlnton<Tera Tn Prae «l(| Fort Wayne Records Second Polio Death Nephew Os Decatur Lady Dies Monday Max William Everett. 11. Allen 1 county's second polio death of the year, died at 6 o'clock Monday evening The lad was’ in seemingly good health Sunday, having played baseball during the day He became 111 Sunday night and death I was declared cauied by polio fol | lowing an autopsy. The victim was a son ot Mr and Mrs William C. Everett, 133 d j Foreit avenue, Fort Wayne, and a nephew of Mrs. Forest Baker of j this city. His paternal grandpar I ent*. Mr and Mrs. George Everett, were residents of Decatur. The family moved from Decatur ' several years ago. Surviving, in addition to the , parents, are a sister, Carole, at home, and the maternal grandpar. ents. Mr and Mrs J. C. McCowan of Skinner take. The boy was a Cub Scout and in the sixth grade at Forest Park school. The body was removed to the C. M. Sloan A Sons funeral borne. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Preble's Proposed Tax Rate Increased Tax rates proposed in Preble township, payable In 1950, are nine rents higher than the current levies The increases are In the town ship general fund, one cent; seven : cents In the special school snd one cent In the tuition fund The proposed levies on ear h SIOO of taxables are: Township. 9; special school. 52. tuition, 34; poor relief, one cent; total 98 cents With the county and state levies added to the current levies. Preble's taxrate this year Is $1.70 l oa each SIOO, the lowest rate In the county.

I Says Steel's Pension Plan Not Adequate Insurance Expert Says Plan Leads To Aged Unemployment New York. Aug 2. -(UP) An insurance consultant for the I’nited Steel Workers of America (CIOI told President Truman's steel factfinding board today that the pension plan ot "big steel” is a "device for creasing unemployment among the aged.” Insurance r xpert Murray W tatimer. testifying before the three man board, charged that the plan In effect in the six operating subsidiaries of the U. S Steel Corp Is “not a pension plan but a device for compelling the retlrem« nt of men who don’t wish to .re tire but who wish to work ” Latimer said that In a majority of 722 retirement cases studied since July of 1947 “they did not qualify for a single cent of pension under the company plan " The survey purposed to show that U. S. Steel’s pension plan to average monthly payments of less than $6 for those retiring at 65. U. S Steel which produce* onethird of the American steel output. Is one of more than 64 steel com panies which the board has Invited to attend hearings. The hoard on Aug 30 will submit to President Truman recommenda Hons for settling the steel dispute on the basis ot facts gathered at the hearings. The deadline for a nationwide steel strike is Sept 14. tatimer told the board that sick employes of the U. S Steel subsidiaries receive an average of sls • I 17 a week He said the figure for Bethlehem Steel averaged sll.'>2 tatimer said the cost of sick benefits in I’. S Steel subsidiaries was paid entirely by the employes. He sahl that for the entire steel industry the employes bear "not less than 95 percent of the total costs.” The union is demanding a cash I tTsrs Te Paws <l*r I — —■ Mrs. Mary Fuelling Dies Lasfr Evening Funeral Services Thursday Afternoon i Mrs Mary Fuelling. 73. widow as , Jar-ob Fuelling died unexpectedly of j a heart attac k in the learn of her home In Root township Monday evening at 7:39 o'clock. She was' found by a son Herbert who resldi rd at home Mrs. Fuelling was born In Witten berg Germany Feb. 8. 1876. a daug.t- i ter of William and Christian Eller-meyer-Reichert. and came to this ■ country when 13 years of age She was married Feb. 12, Ix9B. to Jarob Fuelling, who died Aug. 1. 1940 She was a member of St. Peter’s Lutheran church Surviving in addition to the son at home are four other sons. Carl i and Gustav. I«>th of Root township. Oscar of Union township and Martin C. of Monroeville; a daughter. Mrs Ruth Blakey of I’nion township; a ste|>daughter. Mrs. Minnie Scherer of I’nlon township: 17 grandchildren; four step grande hil . dren; one brother. Julius Reichett j of Berne, and three sisters. Mrs ; Otto Boerger of Root township, and Mrs. Amelia Wetter and Mrs. Al- ! »>ert Mesh her ger. both of Berne Funeral services will be held at 2 J p m Thursday at the home and at 1 30 at St. Peter's Lutheran church, the Rev Karl Hofmann officiating Burial will be in the church cemetery. The body will be removed from the Zwlck funeral home to the residence, six mileu north of Deca tar. where friends may call after 7 o'clock this evening.

Price Four Cents

Secretaries Meet In Secret Session With Senate Heads On Modifications Washington, Aug. 2. (I'P) — Secretary of state l»-an Acheson and defense secretary Ixiuls Johnson today agreed to some changes In the arms aid program after hearing GOP complaints that it would give President Truman too much power. The secretaries met for two hours in secret session with the senate foreign relations and armed services committees. Their agreement to modify the $1,450,000,000 military aid program came aft ar Sen Arthur Vandenberg. R . Mich., and other Republican foreign policy leaders said powers proposed for the president are "far too broad.” Chairman Tom Connally. D. Tex., of the foreign relations committee said the senate's public hearings on I the program will be delayed until Monday while the agreed-upon j changes are made in the arms measure. He had planned to stait j them tomorrow House hearings began last week. Extent of the modification was not divulged They will be designed to meet objections that: 1, The administration bill would give the president free authority to send arms to any nation. 2 The program covers too much time -two year* 3. The $1.45(1.000.000 figure Is too high. tin the other aide of the capitol, ; roving ambassador W Averell Harriman asked approval of the full program "to protect the growing generation from war.” He told the house foreign affairs ' committee that the program is urgently needed now to keep western Europe's mounting confidence from bogging down into fear and doubt "I believe,” Harriman said, "that it is our duty to make the present i sacrifices which may be necessary to protect the growing generation from war . . . for our own security, for the Interests of our young people who have to deal with the con- : dition* that our actions create, it j I* my conviction that we should j seize this opportunity to strengthen the will and ability of these (western European! nations both to deter aggression and to reinforce them a* allies.” Harriman addressed a committee which has been increasingly res- | tive because of what some of its members call administration "window dressing" about the arm* bill. Committee members call for more facts and leu talk Harriman told the committee that this country must understand clearly that Soviet Russia is bent on "internal and external aggression ” which threaten* both the t'nited States and other free peoples. But he said hr has "never been as optimistic a* I am today that the maintenance of peace and freedom | is within our reach In Europe” He added the qualification—"proI vided we carry out vigorously the policies and programs In which we are engaged, including the military assistance program ” “If this (arms aid! program ia not adopted." Harriman said, "valuable time wHI Ire lost. "It will cost more in the long run and put off the day when we can count on their contribution to our security." House foreign affairs experts called on the administration to get • Tore T» Wtvel ■ Alleys Are Sprayed In Battle On Flies City employes, under the supervision of fire chief Cedric Fisher, gave the flies another battle Monday and alleys were sprayed with the fly and insect killing solution. The spraying program takes in all alley* sad rear premises at business establishments in the uptown and outlying arena and will be continued during the rest of the summer al intervals.