Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 193, Decatur, Adams County, 17 August 1949 — Page 1

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10 DECONTROL THIRD OF RENTAL AREAS

k Pct. Probers May Prosecute Bohn Maragon I Continue Hearing | Testimony Today On I Vaughan, Maragon I Washington, Auk. 17 — (UP) — Lnaie "five percenter" inveetl* t h , r . today laid the groundwork E, possible prosecution of John Paragon on perjury and tax eva Eon charges. | They also heard testimony that L r fast talking Maragon * White Eoii?- friend, Maj Gen. Harry H. Eaughan. threatened to get a fedLai official fired because he refined to fix a complaint against a Erin which had hired Maragon* L»rvicHL lit The testimony about Vaughan Laased Sen. Karl E. Mundt. R, ■ I), to charge that the White ■louse military aide used "threats. Intimidation, bluff and bluster" to L-.p Maragon operate "an a fixer Lr a fat fee.” I Maragon's client, according to antimony liefore the senate invesElating committee, was the Allied k,.lasses Co. of Perth Amboy. N J. L 1946 It allegedly overdrew its Ini-lasses quota under the sugar Lion regulations. The agrlculLure department slapped a viola[tlun < barge against the firm and onied It further access to moIfeMM. Maragon had denied in sworn ItHtimony before the committee on Laly 2s that he ever received money from the molasses firm But two witnesses testified toLay that he received 11.000 from Lne of them and 1100 from the rber And the committee produced records showing that Maragon k*ver mentioned these fees in his income tax returns. These developments caused Sen Joseph R. McCarthy. R. Win, to demand that the department of )««tice seek Immediate indictment of Maragon. Committee chairman Clyde R. Hoey. D„ N. C, told him "proper action" would be taken at the "proper lime.” Vaughan was brought Into the story by Herbert C. Mathorn, former alternate administrator of the agriculture department’s sugar section. He said the general called him on the telephone in November, 1946, and urged him to kill the complaint against Allied Molasses

, Hathorn said he couldn't do that but Vaughan "was persistent" "He ended up with the state, rnent that he *aa working very ‘lose to the preaident." Hathorn •aid. "and that a friend In the M’bite House could mean a lotrfo » man In one of the government agencies and he could get my Job." Mundt exploded. He said that ■a the past when Vaughan was Naked with Maragon and other alt*ted "Influence salesmen" he thought the general perhaps "was I’M a bungling bum " But now." the senator said. "It evident he is s finagling and Angling bargainer." He said the government had •aak to a revolting and repue •ant low where a presidential a*de calls up an honest man and bf threats, intimidation. Muff and Master attempts to get him to do wrong, mainly to help 1 Mend of Gen. Vaughan's who **ks as a flier for a fat fee " Hoey said he thought "denun riatory statements have no place »t this point" until Vaughan has "d a chance to testify General lw * t,<h «n U scheduled to testify witnesses who testified •host psyment of fees to Maragon Harold Roes, president of the company, and Milton a Milwaukee Insurance who la Rosa* uncle. Roth "•rifled that Maragon never ac•■piished anything for the firm Holland testified he twice paid * ir Mon |Mo BB< | Rom M id he *•»♦ the bantling little Greek‘•erlcaa SIM H*»th said he talked impreslvely his % Inflnonce in the gov•■"••nt And both agreed they *• taken in Roas said he <Toru Te Peer Sewrl WCATHtR *»eWy cloudy, occasional •“"dershowers east and south HHIom tonight Thursday "•"tiy fair. No decided •*•*»• In temperature. Lew ‘•"•ght «7 north to 72 south. Thursday U north to •• sooth.

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Fort Wayne Fighter Pilot Dies In Crash Camp Grayling. Mich, Aug. 17. —(UP) — Lt. William Tanner, Fort Wayne. Ind., was killed when his plane crashed during Indiana air national guard maneuvers here, authorities announced today. The fighter pilot was engaged in a divebombing and strafing mission when his FSI crashed near Oscoda. Mich. yesterday. Identification was withheld pending notification of the 29-year-old war veteran's wife and parents. Mr. and Mrs Raymond Tanner of Roanoke, Ind 14 Killed In Two Separate Road Crashes Eight Die In Truck Collision; Six Die As Train Hits Auto By United Press Fourteen persons were killed last night in two of the worst traffic accidents of the year. Eight revival-bound worshippers were killed in a truck collision near Fulton. Miss., and six persons wen- killed at Ogallala. Neb., when a train iiit their car at a grade crossing. The national safety council said 1 the Mississippi collision was the worst accident involving privatelyoperated vehicles it had heard of this year. In addition to the dead. 22 persons were injured in the Fulton crash. The truck carrying the revival meeting worshippers collided with another heavily loaded with lumber. Police said the Rev W. H. Cog. Sr., driver of the truck carrying the revivalists, signaled for a left turn and apparently cut back to the right. His flatbed truck was struck broadside by the other vehicle, driven by R. H. Booth. Newbufg. Ind. Both drivers were injured. At Ogallala, a seventh person was injured in addition to the six dead. All the victims were relatives. Police said the driver. Ascenclon Jimenez, a Mexican laborer, stopped his car to wait for a freight train to pass the grade crossing, then drove onto the tracks In the path of a Union Pacific passenger train. The dead Included Jimenez, his wife, two daughters, and two small nephews. The sole survivor was Anna Jimenez. 15-year-old daughter, who was In critical condition. City Crowded With Dollar Day Shoppers The shoppers came early and local stores wefe busy throughout the day as they supplied customers with Dollar Bay values and other merchandise offered in the city wide sales event staged by the retail division of the Chamber of Commerce. R. C. Ehlnger, chairman, of the retail committee, at io o’clock this morning said. "It was one of the largest shopping crowds ever seen in Decatur. The shoppers were really buying and the merchants feel the Dollar l»ay sale will register up as a big toiccess." The sales event was well advertised and stores offered unusual bar gains to customers in a 30 mile area Auction Graduate Exercises Friday Summer Term Will Close Here Friday’ Hugh R < 'haffee. renowned auctioneer from Towanda Pa. wffl the address at 11 a.m- Fri--27 at Knights Os Pythias home at the commencement exercises i the summer session of the Report school of autloneering Mr. 'SbZ u. — ** ~traction and manager of sessions during the current term X hundred -nd forty five mon wU | b. —Hied diplomas fol*- . . three weeks of Intensive training preparing them for work In the a*** w« Each Phase of the »™k was taught by a (Turn P"**

Adams County Polio Chapter Asks Advance Requests Funds Os National Foundation For Aid To Victims Assurance that Adams c<Ainty* polio victims will lie extended all possible medical and hospitalization care was given today following a meeting of the Adams county chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Inc., held Tuesday night at the K. of P. home. A request for advance in funds to the local chMptw from the national foundation was filed by ths executive committee with Miss Betty Mallnka. Gary. Northern Indiana representative of the national organization. The local chapter, through its chairman. Pete Reynolds, and Herman H. Krueckeberg. treasurer, tiled a request for an advance of 16.590 96 to meet current hills and estimated expanses until Hept. IS. In addition, the Adams county chap ter has a credit of >125.84 with the national foundation, which will be added to the request for advances. Estimated hospital expenses for the 11 jiolio patients now hospitalized. and running to Sept. 15 total >5.359 .20. Nursing and medical care costs are estimated at >1,225, and the chapter now has unpaid bills of >974.24, for a total estimated cost of >7.467.46. The county chapter now has >86650 on hand in t|)e form of cash and government bonds, which are being cashed to aid In the payment of expenses. In event more funds are needed beyond the Sept. 15 date, another advance will lie obtained from na tional headquarters, chapter officials stated. The county han had 19 confirms I cases to date. Miss Mallnka presented a check for >22,000 to the Delaware county chapter »• Muncie Tuesday. Dr. Everett W. Ferrill. Delaware chapter chairman, staled that the creek was processed through from national headquarters In three days. Jay county received a check for more than >21.000 last week to aid in <Tera Ta Pave sis) Purdue University Cashier Arrested Embezzler Blames Illness In Family Cheboygan. Mich., Aug 17.—(UP) —A Purdue University cashier, who admitted embezzling “al»out >6.000'” from the school because of Illness in hip family, was to be returned *o Indiana today. William W. Hoflensbe of Mfayette, Ind. was arrested near Petoskey. Mich , yesterday for child desertion State police became suspicious when the found >2,300 In his automobile. • A check with Indiana authorities revealed that University officials had found a shortage In an audit of school funds. Sgt. Erdman Stahl said the mildmannered father ot three children said he took >he money because of -sickness In the family." In a formal statement he told of driving aimlessly for six days through Michigan and Indiana liefore his arrest. “I went out to dinner and forgot to come back." he said after school officials told him they had found the shortage. The scholarly-looking cashier admitted taking >2.000 before he fled and embezzling the remainder during a period of several months./He was unable to say exactly how much be had taken, police said, but estimated It at about H.oed." Sheriff Harry Jackson of Tippecanoe county arrived here last night to return Hoileasbe to Indiana The cashier said he would not fight egtradition. - 17 — (DPI —A Purdue University spokesman said the Mg state school wasn't aware of any shortage la the sccounts of cashier William W. Hol! ansne. until after he was arrested near Petoskey. Mieh., yesterday “We won’t know the exact a(Tara Te Pane rivet

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i’resßure* Told In Waitt Case ■f v. j >Si \ TEX Kt . i ** Maj. Gen. Alden Waitt' ' I - A S/ , B 'I F j W U&. Iv M.J., John 0„. AS SENATE "5 per center" probers queslion Maj. Gen. Ahien Waitt. suspended Army Chemical Corps chief, already on the record Is testimony of Col. John A. who said Waltt’s liaison officer. Major John Gay, came to him to learn status of a pending >2u.ouo contract—never let with the Deering-Milliken company of Greenwich, Conn. "Major Gay said the White House was putting pressure on General Waitt to find out status of negotiations . .’’ Colonel MacLaughlin testified. Previous testimony linked DeeringMilliken with James V. Hunt, management counselor quoted as saying he was a friend of Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughan’s.

Oppose Van Horn As Mine Fund Trustee Soft Coal Owners Oppose Appointment Washington. Aug. 17. —(UP)— Soft coal industry sources said today they are opposed to re-ap-pointment of Ezra Van Horn as operator trustee of the united mine workers welfare and retirement fund. Their opposition raised the possibility that miners president John L. Lewis, who la chairman of the fund'a three trustees, may soon lose both of his colleagues. Sen. Styles Bridges, R. N. H . neutral trustee, has indicated he plans to resign from the >35.000 a year job next month. I,ewis. who does not accept the salary, and Van Horn were chosen for their jobs by the wage contract negotiators In 1947. Bridges was accepted as the third trustee at the suggestion of the then house speaker Joseph W. Martin. Jr.. R . Mass . In April. 1948 Industry sources said that coal operatora will not sign pnother contract retaining Van Horn as a trustee The producers forced him to resign as chairman of the operators' negotiation committee last week, following disclosure of his acceptance of the >35.000 a year salary from the welfare fund. This disclosure was made to the (Tara Te Pa«» TSiee!

One Os Every 10 Workers In Buffalo Now Jobless

•V RAYMOND £. WILSON Buffalo. N. Y.. Aug. 17. —(UP)— One out of every 10 employable persons in thia western New York industrial center is looking for a job. But there to some improvement in sight. In Rome and Utica. N. Y.. however. more than one in eight to out of work and prospects for an early pickup are slim. These facta and other first* land information on tj>e economic outlook of these two Important production centers were gathered personally by secretary of commerce Charge Sawyer yesterday as part of hto nation-wide study of am ploy moat and business conditions Attar a day of conference with management, labor and government officials from the two areas. Pawyer prepared a report of pres idential assistant John R Steelman It to Btoelman's job to chan nel government contracts and construction to areas of critical an-

Ask Drivers Stop Using Driveway A request has been issued for motorists and cyclists to stop using the driveway at the hospital after visiting hours. Several disturbances have been reported to the board of trustees. The driveway is private and Is not to be used after visiting hours at night. C. E Peterson, pre ident of the board, stated today. Several cyclists have been conducting bicycle races around the drive and many motorists use it as a turnaround. City Council In t Session Tuesday Approve Contract On Monroe Rower A petition for electric light and power extension was presented tu the city council at their regular meeting Tuesday night. The petition. signed by Stewart W McMillen and presented by D. Burdette Custer, attorney for the petitionee, asked for an extension from the primary line located on the west side of the county farm road in Washington township to some property owned by McMillen The petitioner agreed to pay for all costs involved In the extension An ordinance approving the contract between the city of Decatur (Tare Ta Pear Twa)

employment. Sawyer earlier viaited New England. the midwest and the south, similar studies in Pittsburgh. ChiLater this summer he will make <ago. New York, New Orleans, on the West Coast and in Texas With the aid of a half-dozezn members of bis staff. Sawyer haa a firm pattern on conducting the conferences. They are operated on a rigid schedule in which every minute counts. Hto Buffalo visit was typical. At 7 a.m.. he left Washington by air and was in Buffalo leas than two hours later By lunch time be bad met with mayor Bernard J. Dowd's full employment committee, held two news conferences to keep reporters up to date on the discussions. made a radio broadcast and conducts a two-boar discussion among New York state industrial tots. After lunch he mads another radio broadcast and held a series of (Turn Te Peas Twe)

Housing Expediter Cites Slash In Housing Budget Necessitating Decontrol

Six New Polio Cases Reported In Slate State Polio Group In Session Today Indianapolis, Aug 17 —(UP) — Six new cases of polio were reported by the state board of health today to bring total to 461 for this year. The death toll stood at 48 (board ot health revision). Two of the cases reported today were in Vanderburgh county, which now had a total of 31 cases but no deaths. St. Joseph, Hamilton, Howard and Posey counties each reported one case. Meanwhile, the state polio committee prepared to meet to "pool all knowledge" of the disease Dr. George M. Brother of the state health board emphasized the meeting of the Indiana state polio committee was not of an emergency nature. "There is still no trend either way," he added. The disease had engulfed 61 Hoosier counties with the additional 15 cases reported late yesterday Jay county remained the hardest hit with 64. but has not reported a new case In the last week The death of C. Lyle Mannweiler, 37. Houth Bend, in Memorial hospital there was not trributed officially to polio until late yesterday. A second death reported yesterday was that of Judy Sullivan, 15. Kosciusko county, who died at Warsaw. Today's meeting was the second since the state polio committee was formed early this summer. “We just want to pool all of our polio knowledge.” Dr Brother said. New cases reported yesterday included Delaware, 1; Vanderburg. 6; Wayne, 2; Kosciusko. 2; Marfon, 1; Vigo. 2. and Morgan. 1. Following Jay county in case incidence was Delaware with 52 (Tara Ta l*aae Three) Channel Attempt Postponed By Girl Wissant, France, Aug 17.—(UP) — Shirley May France. 17-yearold .Massachusetts high school girl, today postponed for at least 24 hours her attempt to swim the Englfsh channel. Her manager. Ted Worner, announced at Dover. Eng . on the opposite side of the Channel, that the winds blowing across the Channel late this afternoon would be too much for her. He said the fore cast tomorrow would determine whether Shirley would make her try tomarrow afternoon.

Czech Archbishop Charges Internment Red Government Is Accused By Bishop Prague. Czechoslovakia. Aug 17 —(UP)— Archbishop Josef Beran has accused the communist government of interning him In hto palace, stripping him of bls religious rights and seizing his church funds The Czechoslovak prelate, spiritual leader of 9,000.000 Czechoslovak Catholics, made bis charges In a bitter, defiant letter to the government procurator, or attorney general, dated Aug. 6. It was released today by Catholic aources. Mzgr. Beran complained In the lettaMßst the government had de prived him of "all personal free dom and all rights as archbishop ' "I have been Interned in the palace." he said "I am not permitted visitors and It to said that the archbishop forbade such visits ” He said the government had seized all hie mall, taken over possession and operattoo of hto eon slstory or office, and had broken up hto last public maas in Bt. Vitus Cathedral June It. He charged the government with confiscating the central treasury of the diocese of Pra*ti*. which was not legally a part of the con stotory. and tahing over the con atotory's own funds in a post office savings account

Debate Opens In House On Arms Program Bipartisan Group To Make Fight For Reduction In Aid Washington. Aug. 17. —(UP)— The >1.460.000,000 military aid program came up in the house today with a potent bipartisan group determined to cut It by >580,000.000. Administration leaders are confident, however, they have the votes to defeat all efforts to reduce the amount requested by President Truman and approved by the foreign affairs committee. But the leaders of the bipartisan group-Reps. James P. Richards, D., S. D., and John M. Vorys, R. (>.--were likewise confident they would have the votes to make the outcome close, even If they don't succeed In obtaining a majority. The house won't do any voting today. This session wjjl be devoted to general debate. The amending stage will be reached tomorrow The administration-sponsored legislation carries >1.160.990,0ut) In military assistance for the signa torles of the north Atlantic pact. >211.370,000 for Greece and Turkey. and >27.640,000 for Iran. Korea and the Philippines. Os the total earmarked for the Atlantic powers, >505,150,000 is in contract authority. The Richards Vorys group has its eye mainly on >1,160.990.0u0 earmarked for the pact powers. It has proposed that this total be cut in half so that congress can take another look at the arms aid plan next year without being previously committed to the entire amount. Administration spokesmen are resisting the cut on the grounds that the whole >1,450,000.0dd program is the absolute minimum for carrying out an effective arms plan. Riehards contended that the European nations have not fulfilled all their promises under the European recovery program. With this in mind, he said, congress shouldn't vote the full arms aid program without making certain that the money will he used to the best advantage.

Albert Aeschliman Dies Last Evening Funeral Services Friday Afternoon Albert (Chich) Aeschliman. 56 well known Decatur resident, died at 5:35 o'clock Tuesday evening •t his home. 310 Winchester street, following a six months illness of a heart ailment He operated restaurants In Berne and Decatur for aeveral years and for the past three years was employed at the municipal light plant Born in Berne Nov 21. 1892. be was a son of Eugene and Minnie Frank-Aeschiiman He was married to Hazel Klopfenstein June 24. 1914. He was a member of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church and the Loyal Order of Moose Surviving In addition to hto wife are two sons. Robert and Donald Aeschliman. both ot Decatur, and three grandchildren One brother preceded him In death Funeral services will be held at 2 p m Friday at the Black funeral home, the Rev. William C. Feller officiating Burial will he in the MRE cemetery at Berne Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o'clock thia evealag

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Decontrolled Areas Under 100,000; To Affect Four, Half Millions Os Units ('leveland. Aug. 17. — (UP) — Tighe Woods, national housing expediter, said today he had decided to decontrol a third of the areas under federal rent control because of a cut in the housing expediter'-! budget. . Woods told the national cunvention of disabled American veterans that Itecause his budget had been further cut by the conference committee of lioth houses it left him with the alternative of either firing one third of his employes or decontrolling a third of the areas under federal rent control. ”1 have decided on the latter alternative." he said. (At Woods' office in Washington, It was estimated that should he take such action it would affect about 4.500.000 rental units. Sim e the new rent law went into effect last April units have l>een lifted from federal controls. An estimated 13,500,000 units remain under control al the present time). Woods said that last night he received "some very discouraging news Our budget for the 1950 fiscal year which had been slashed by the senate from >26.000,000 to >21,000000, had been further cut by the conference committee of both houses to >17400.000. "This In spite of the fact that every metropolitan office had reported an increase in workload of from 30 to 50 percent and processing of landlord petitions and tenant applications is running weeks behind." But. he said, 'let me emphasize one point to those who think that this drastic cut in funds will force me to abandon the cleanup work of the veterans housing program. I want to say — not one man will be taken off that program until It Is completely cleaned Up." Woods said all the areas lie would decontrol will be of populations less than Ino ,000. He told the DAV delegates that builders ought to take another look at their profits "They'll sereatn and say they don't take big profits, but they do.” he said "High labor costs are not as important a factor in the cost of housing as the builders' profits.” Woods said he was convinced "there Is a definite need for a guarantee or warranty for the buyer of a home against such thing* as defective workmanship, the substitution of inferior materials or the omission of something In coastrueton." He added that "until a family with an Income of >4O, >SO or >6O a week can buy a house without strain, we have not solved the hous ing problem.”

Veterans Warned On Phony Blanks Genuine Forms To Be Made Available Washington. Aug 17—(UP)— The veteran* administration warned ex-Gl'e today to steer clear of persona peddling application blank)) on which to claim pending remind* on national service life Insurance The blank* are phonies, the agency said VA spAetman said the price of these bogus blank* reportedly range from 50 c«nts to >1 99. Genuine application form* will be made available on Aug 29. the agency said, at poet offices. Veteran* Administration offices, and ot veteran* organization They will be free VA ha* received and tossed oat about twt false application blanks Veterans who sent them la. hoping to share in the >2.MO,Md.M» kitty that will be split amoag Id.OM.OM World War II veterans, are dae for disappoint meat uniesa (Turn Ts Pa«« Five)