Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 194, Decatur, Adams County, 18 August 1949 — Page 1

,1 XLVII. No. 194.

MILITARY AID PROGRAM HANDED SETBACK

■resident In Briticism Os I Pc). Probe II Requests Newsmen Il Withhold Judgment Il On Gen. Vaughan Aug is (UPi Truman today asked h H..,. editor* to "Mi-pnid ir" <>n hi* military aide jK, G.fi Hairy Vaughn, "in coni |K. '.nine**" until Vaughn can K-■, f..re Miiate investigator* K|.V .1 news conference, whet. ' Aa “ present. Mr Truman i; .. I. nee criticized tile Senate committee for lk . on testimony given in dos ftnsjofin. |B|'er:nitting direct quotation of B>.tt.atk-. Mr Truman said that ■pc all of the hearings thus h.u been held "behind elo-.d particularly if they w. re rable to Ceti Vaughan the start of his confer* he President told reporters not him about Vaughan i.ad this statement ■ v 'Io outset I want to say that ■do not intend to answer any pertaining to the test! to given before Sen Hoey's B G.ti Vaughan has alteady said K sill go before the committee make a full statement oil all with which his name h.iconnected. H | suggest, as the chairman of .mmittee has done, that you K.'.-nen and your editors in fairness suspi nd judgOU Cm Vaughan until he been heard by Hie committee ' told Mr Tinman that if the sessions of the com had been held in the open Truman said he did not know ■h: that, and only knew what read in the newspapers MB I:. public hearings the commi't.e developed testimony that ■H 1 Put pressure of housing > x ■edi'er Tighe E Woods to grant building permit to Tanforan at San Bruno. Cal M 2 Pip pressure on a sugar r.i t.it.g official to drop a violation against Allied M>>la*-e* B of Perth Amboy. N. J ■ 3 Asked Maj. Gen Alden 11 ! -u-pended chief of Hie al my al corps, to submit m> mo . to him about officer* who Kxlit he candidates for Wain's The memoranda belittled the H I Got a deep freezer paid for by Albert Verley Co. Chicago Berfuniers who once employed Maiagog Vaughan later ad getting seven freezer* in and distributing five of Horn ng friends in the White Home H Mr Truman's opening statement B 'ked reporters who were pie to ask him a long series ofj based on the above tn testimony given in public of the senate committee j ■ Th.v had wanted especially to about demands of a Republic >n that Vaughan be di*mi-“ , B* ,r °m his P«* veterans' coordi Another senator predict. .1 B l ' Truman would fire his aide' ■ Sett Joseph R McCarthy. It ■ (I ere Te !•■«» KiaMl Bounty Council In ■Special Session Adams county council not B ’**’ session this morning for B ’•'►day meeting, during which BJ >> consider requests for t ■ Bj” additional appropriations to B^* r *'e certain county offices and BJ* highway department for Hie B»i*nce <,t the year. B Tti e appropriations aaked by the B*h»»y* total 137,100. Funds of ■*’ M»«line tax to operate the deB* r ‘ fr, ent are on hands, but must ■* *Pproprtated for specific u«e general fund appropriation< B** 1 117.960. of which a major B"* 0 " are tor ditch work under ■**rv|.|„ n of the county surveyor ■ Ths councilmen will review the ■••topriation* today but will no' B** final »ctlon on the request* 8 111 tomorrow The law demand* ■* tooday session when appropria total more than IlS.ooo | wcathlr ■ Meetly fair with little change ■ ,R temperature tonight and I Lew tonight 63 to 68 nortc. I"Jte 71 aowth. High Friday 82 | I • "Mh, 86 to M aowth.

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Predict Early Drop In Price Os Pork Bumper Spring Crop To Bring Price Fall Chicago, Aug IS (Ul’r Pork prices probably will drop at the corner butcher store in about in days and the cost of beef may go along, the American meat institute said today. The lower retail prices will re suit from a bumper spring pig crop, 15 percent larger than In 194*. an institute spokesman said The Idg hog crop is just beginning to arrive at midwest markets. , Simultaneously, the national retail growers association fold housewives that they should buy fresh fruits and vegetables now , because prices are the lowest of , the season. Yesterday. farmers reduced their shipments to market in an attempt to halt the decline of prices for hogs on the hoof As result, market prices varied Th- day before, prices dropped Io as low as s2u a hundred pounds, more than slo under the all-time high set last year about this time Experts pointed out that farm 1 ers wouldn't be able to hold their shipments off indefinitely and predicted that prices would fall even further The meat institute spokesman couldn't predict how far retail prices would fall but said the effect should be noticeable at meal , counters within in days The grocers association said that most food prices were holding fairly steady except for fresh fruits and vegetables. Big crops of peaches and pears made them especially (heap, a i spokesman sai.l Grapes home grown tomatoes, corn and other garden products also were marked down but lettuce was expensive because of a poor crop The mea* Institute said the big corn crops of 194* and 1949 were helping to make meat cheaper because it cut fanners' feed costs and encouraged them to raise more animals Hogs are moving to market almost a month earlier this year than normally. The spokesman said that the competition of cheaper pork may help to force beef prices down hut lamb probably will hold steady . because of scarce supplies

Falling Rock Kills Indiana Mine Worker i Bib.-rMd, Ind . Auk 1* fl'l’t — Funeral services were arranged today for Jacob Karl Reed. 55. crushed and killed by falling r<>< k yesterday at the Ingle Coal Co mine here Myrl Collin*. Boonville, who with two other men was chipping rock with Heed when the m cident i occurred. said they had ju-t turn ed away from him whin the rock fell Reed'* lo ad was crushed against a steel rail on top of a flat car from which the men were working | He is survived by his wife and two < hildn n Cuban Star Fails i To Swim Channel Third Chollenger Os Season Fails Today Cap Cris Xex Frame. Aug 1«. Cuban swimmer Jos* Cortina, failed in his attempt to swim the English <'hannel today and Massachusetts schoolgirl Shir ley May France postponed her try for at least a week Cortina., exhausted and with rr amP* in tioth legs, was pulled from the water after he had covered 12 of the 21 miles from < ap Gris Xex to Dover in a little lean ' h Cort*inas. 32. was the third challenger beaten this season i by the forbidding waters between ( ap Or.a Xex and Dm er Philip Mlckman. I* yeara. d Brtt fob schoolboy. and Rijsel a Dutch housewife, met the “ZX Plunged in at C.P <jri. Sex at 12 15 • tn i-al -me Hhid ended five hour, and 5a m.n ” The Cuban started strongly hut th£ hour, ou, he called to th. launch traveling alongside him far brandy. an hour and. half later, he .omplained of sharp «r»n.p in ?*" S - (T.ra r * a * ’ ’

Communists In Finland Start General Strike Cabinet Minister Decries Strike As Attempt At Power BULLETIN Helsinki, Finland. Aug. 18— <UP>—One percon was killed and four were injured today in a clash between police and 2.0C0 striking communist work--1 ers. Helsinki. Finland. Aug. IS. I il'l’t Communist-dominated labor unions started a general I strike of 100,(NS) workers in Fini land today and one Finnish cabl--1 net minister said it was an at--1 tempt to seize power by force. The minister. Unto Varjonen, 1 minister without portfolio in charge of Hie government's anti '' strike program, warned the communists however that the government was "fully prepared to deal with any attempts to stage a coup." ' Tlie strike paralyzed all harbors but those two handling sup- ' plies for Russia and shut down 69 1 building projects in Helsinki alone. A government spokesman said I 52 ships were idle in 15 Finnish harbors because of a strike by stevedores, paralyzing virtually all foreign trade. . The spokesman said the strike ( was "most dangerous" to Finnish economy. He said the government has definite plans" to break It in I event the workers refuse to go . back to their jobs. It was expected the government - would issue an ultimatum to the - strikers later tmlay or tomorrow Troops may be called in to uni load ships as was recently the ■ case in Britain and Australia. Some 7,mm transport workers threatened to walk out tomorrow (Tas* T* I’sae F.iabil 14-Year-old Boy Is Killed By Auto Indianapolis. Aug 18- (UP) ~ I A 14 year-old Indianapolis youth

! was killed today when struck by an automobile. Fred A Beck. Jr. died f*o min ute* after the accident. Witnesses said he stepped from a curb and wa* struck by a car driven by Wesley K Hoffman, lid. Indianapolis. Six Women Burn To Death After Crash Hospital Employes Killed In Kentucky Hopkinsville. Ky.. Aug IN I CP, — HJx women hospital etn ployes burned to death in the j flaming wreckage of their car I near here last night after it was slammed In front of a truck by another car. the state police reported today. The state police said the car in which the women were rifling was i knocked in front of a truck carry all by another car being driven by a so'dler “at a high rate of speed ” The driver of the truck escaped although the truck and a load of new Studebakers were destroyed in the fire that enveloped them from the womens automobile. The driver said the gas tank on the women's car apparently exploded when it was struck because it was burning when the car liear ing the women careened in front of him. Three soldiers in the sec ond car received minor injuries and were treated at the hospital here, the state police said. The driver was held for Investigation on a charge of manslaughter. Tests for sobriety were not yet completed. The state police identified the victims as: Mrs Lucy Roper, about <O. su perintendent at Jennie Stewart hospital here. Mary Ann Pryor May Jefford Ano Roper, about 1« Mrs Roper's daughter. Mrs Maud- Oats Betty Cason. All of the victims were residents of Hopkinsville and worked In the Jennie Stewart hospital here. w

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, August 18, 1949.

Handshake A La Truman P* B > L K / I: -A . ' . f 41 jSb HiflE ■HeUmSbL MRS. PERLE MESTA (middle) uses Hie criss-cross handshake typl cal of President Truman as she bids goodhy (o .Mrs Truman Heft) and daughter Margaret Truman before boarding ship to go to Luxembourg where she is new I lilted States minister.

U. S. Officials To Leave South China Consular Officials To Go To Hong Kong Hong Kong. Aug 1* (UPi More (han 80 American consular officials will evacuate south (,'hina. including the nationalist capital of Canton, and come to Hong Kong within the next two ('ays. it was announced today. U. S. consul general George D Hopper said the evacuation will pull all American officials out of the Canton consular district, covering four provinces in south China. At the same time the nationalist central news agency reported that ail U. 8. consular officials had been ordered withdrawn from remote Sinklang province, bordering on Siberia in northwest China. The (-onslllar staff of 16 persons, headed by consul J Hal) Paxton, left Tihua (Urumchi), capital of Sinklang, by motor caravan last Tuesday They will return to the United States byway of India.

The dispatch said vice consul Douglas Macklernan remained behind to look after consulate property. Recent reports said the communists were taking over Sin kiang province by degrees without fighting An American navy evacuation fleet of four vessels und( r com mand of Rear Adm Oscar C Badger. U. MS navy commander in the western Pacific, has arrived at Hong Kong to help in the evacua tion if needed. Among the vessel* are Badger's flagship, the cruiser St. Paul, the transport Begor and the two ten dvrs Floyd* Bay and Dixie Hopper said there still were 7"7 Americans in the Canton consular district hut that more than half of them are missionaries who intend to stay despite the immlmnt threat of communist occupation. Latest reports from the fighting front said that communist troops have either captured or surrounded (Tara Ta I’sae F.iahti Legion Will Assist Veterans To Apply Apply For Service Insurance Dividends The American Legion will assist all local veterans in applying for their national service life insur ance dividends. This was announced today by Lawrence Rash, commander of Adams Post 43 of the American Legion. Decatur. "Our post will have the necessary applications which veterans will have to make to the VA to get their NSLI dividends.” Commander Rash said. "Every veteran who held his NSLI policy for *<> days or more will have a refund coming to him. The VA ex peets to pay out approximately 82.800.000.000 In these refunds. Payments per veteran are expect ed to average about |I7S. according to the VA. Applications should be filed as quickly as possible because It will take weeks and months for a veteran to get hts refund check " The local Legion leader stated that be expects to receive the application blanks within the next I week.

BULLETIN Indianapolis. Aug. 18. — (UP) — An Elkhart trailer manufacturer was placed on probation for five years today by federal judge Robert C. Baltzell. Don R, Farr. 43. pleaded guilty last June 24 to attempt ing to evade payment of >43, 000 in corporate income taxes for 1943. He was fined IL--000 and sentenced to three years in prison, but the sentence was stayed until Sept. 1. District attorney B. Howard Caughran opposed Farr’s probationary plea because of the "seriousness’ of the offense. Will Erecf Grain Storage Structures Government Plunges Into Grain Storage Washington. Aug lx (UPi Faced with prospect* of the gr atexi corn surplus in history, the government plunged headlong Into the grain storage business today to help protect it* price support program. Thousands of government-owned grain storage structures will he set up iii tlie midwest within the next 6" days. They will lie made of wood, steel and aluminum They wjll dot the skyline of the corn belt states. They will provide storage for hundred* of millions of bushels of 1948-crop corn and other grains which the government expect* to take over under Its price support program this fall. It promises to surpass anything dreamed of in the days of Henry A. Wallace's "every normal gran ary." Total construction costs I may run dose to $ I s<i,(hii»,<mm) The government storage bins will lie set up in the big corn state* of lowa and Illinois and in Indiana. South Dakota, Ohio. Ne- ' braska. Minnesota, Missouri, Wisconsin, and other state*. Besides housing Hie 1948 crops to lie placed under price supisirt. the new storage blns will help make room available for the big crops that will be harvested this fall Farmers must have storage to take advantage of price support loans. The government may have to hold onto its grain surpluses for years. Cost of private elevator space would run more than 10 cents a bushel each year. Including handling charges. And. official* said, use of private facilities would add to the storage jam-up. Yesterday's announcement was the first official confirmation that the department had enlarged the scope of Its original plan to buy only W.OM.OM bushels of new storage capacity. The government still has 45,(MH).iTarw l*4i«r Flahti Officials Announce Spraying At Berne Berne. Aug 18. — Berne town officials announced today that be cal alleys, garbage dumps and oin er breeding place* for flies an.l other insects will he sprayed th.* week with DDT This will be the second such spray to be applied here A decrease In the number of flies has been noted here. No general fogging of the town I* plan ned.

Tentative Vote In House Cuts Plans For Military Aid To Europe One-Third

More Polio Victims Reported In State Indiana Polio Toll Is Now 471 Persons lndiana)Hdis, Aug 18. — (UP) — The total of Indiana's polio cases climbed again today as more cases were reported by Vanderburgh county latest area in the state to become a "trouble spot." Dr. George M. Brother of the state board of health said there were 471 cases, but no new deaths had been reported and the death toll still stood at 4* with 62 counties affected by the disease Vanderburgh's total increase-1 two cases to 33. but no deaths ha been reported ill the far southeastern county. Brother said the new cases brought Vanerburgh’s incidence per loO.imo population to slightly over 2>i. the point at which experts consider an outbreak "ahove normal." LaPorte and Dubois counties reported other new cases today Brother said the 1949 outbreak already was the second worst in recorded Indiana medical history The 1910 polio epidemic claimed 682 Hoosier victims, and the next highest yearly total was in 194'1 when 453 were stricken State health officials said the Ind lann state fair would not be postponed and school openings would not be delayed unless there was a sharp increase in the number if polio cases. The slate board released a breakdown of eases by age which showed •he incidence was heaviest in the Ito!5 year-old group hut more fatalities were noted in the 21-to-30 ag" class There were 150 cases and five deaths in the l to-5 age bracket, but 12 deaths out of only 6s cases in Hie 21-to-.'!o group. Cases and deaths in the other age groups were under one year. 19 cases and one death: 6to-l<». |t)s-!>; 11-15, 56-9; 16-20, 39 9, and over 50, 2<» 3. The breakdown showed males were more susceptible Io polio than females. Men and hoys contracted 231 out of 457 cases through Aug (Turn Tu I’ngr Five!

Adams County Child Is Drowned In Tank Gene Alan Scherer Drowned Wednesday Tragedy strut k the farm home of Mr and Mrs Milfred Scherer, five miles north of Itecatur on I'. 8. highway 27. late Wednesday afternoon when their 20-month old son. Gene Alan Scherer, was drowned in a water tank at his home. The child had lieen playing near the tank a few minutes earlier, and hi* father had taken the youngster away When the father turned away to do some work aliout Hie yard, the child climbed onto the metal tank and apparently slipped and fell into tlie waler By tlie time the father returned to the tank, the child wan floating face up in the tank. Artificial respiration was applied, but effort* to revive the boy failed The baby was born Jan. 3. 1948. the son of Wilfred and Margaret Schroeder Scherer, and was a member of the St. John’s Luther an church. Surviving lx sides the parents are a brother. Kenneth, at home; a sister, lads also at home, and the grandparents. Mr and Mrs. Charles Schroeder. Marion township. Allen county, and Mrs. Ixoiis Scherer. Madison township. Allen county. Funeral service* will be held at 130 p m Saturday at the home and at 2 o'clock at St. John's Lutheran church, the Rev. Martin Behling officiating Burial will lie in the church cemetery The body will he removed from the Zwick funeral home to the residence. where friends may call after 7 o'clock this evening

Woods Begins Conference On Rent Decontrol Regional Experts Called To Parley On Deciding Areas [ Washington. Aug lx (UP) -- I Holising expediter Tighe E. Woods (ailed in his regional experts today for a series of conferences to help him decide where to decontrol 1.J s<>o.uoo homes and apartments. Housing officials said these con ferences will last the rest of the week On Hie basis of these pari leys and a list of "horderllne" housing areas. Woods will determine what areas of the nation can be removed from rent controls most j readily. Woods announced in Cleveland yesterday that, because of congress ional cuts in Ills budget, he has de<ided to decontrol one-third of the I.uno counties and 13.500.000 housi Ing units where rent i filings are still in effect Housing officials said tliat the first wholesale decontrol order will lie Issued in a week or D) days They said the second list, eomplct Ing tlie decontrol program, would lie released around Oct 1 The orders will be effei five immediately Woods said in his Clevelan I speech that sparsely-settled areal would be the first affected He said 'that, in any case. In* wants to avoid i removing rent ceilings on cities I witli an actual population of more than Hm.ooo "The smallest ((immunities will feel the effects first." he said "There are many such places along the east coast and west coast and In the southwest." Housing officials said, however, that the decontrol orders would ap ply to areas in almost all parts of the country. Woods made it plain at Cleveland that his decision was prompted iy congress' action in cutting ills top fiscal budget from $26.O»)O.oO(i to $17,500,000. The ( lit. he said forces him to discharge aliout one third of his offI Ice’s 5.6(H) employes He said -ie was faced with a choice of making a one-third a< roas-tlie-lsiard redm tion in the staffs of all regional offices or of decontrolling aliout ■(o counties and firing tlie employe* who now administer their rent con 1 lure Tn Pace *)•> Two Lonely Hearts Killers Convicted Jurors Doom Pair To Electric Chair New York, Aug 18 (UP) Gold-toothed Raymond Fernandez, 'he mail-order romeo. and his fat mistress Martha Jule Heck, were doomed to the electric chair today by a Bronx county jury that de- j liliera'ed all night before convicting them of the greed murder of a 66 year-old widow. Ashen and tired from their all night wait in detention pens of the Bronx county court house, they stood calmly and listened without expression when jury foreman Fred D. Yohs read the verdict. They murdered Mrs. Janet Fay. who gave Fernandez her s6.mm, thinking he xs*« going to marry her Death in the electric (hair is mandatory when the jury returns a first degree murder verdict without recommending mercy. Judge Ferdinand Pecora announced he would sentence them at II am Monday Defense attorney Herbert E Rosenberg said he would file an appeal Immediately after the sentencing. Fernandez and Mrs. Reck each heard themselves pronoum ed gull j ty 13 times of the hammer and (Tara Ta Pa«a Five)

Price Four Cents

Early Vote Subject To Later Roll Call; Major Setback For Military Program Washington. Aug 18 (UPI - Tlie administration's $1 15" (iihi.ooii military aid program suffered a major setback today when the house voted tentatively to cut it by more than one-third The house adopted a proposal sponsored by Reps James P. Richards, D S ('. and John M Vorvs, R. <i. to cut ssS".l9s.(mii from the $1,16').99".mm which the administration proposes to allocate to wedern European signatories of the North Atlantic Pact The proposal was approved on a teller vote. 72 to 137. This is subject to a roll call vote later Administration forces believed they j had a chance to reverse the action a i on a roll ( all *| In addition to the $1.16().99'1.1>(1<) I proposed for the \tlantic pact pai"ners. the bill larries $211.37n."tm I for military aid to Greece and Turkey- and $27.640,(>«<> for Iran. Korea and the Philippines Richards and Vorys made no attempt to (tit the funds for any of the other five nations The two sponsors of the European cut are prominent members of | the house foreign affairs lomiuittee They urged that as far as th" Atlantic powers are concerned, congress should not make available thfull $1.160,99<).0i><i sought by the adj ministration until after a common I ■ defense plan has been established iin accordance with the Atlanti * I pact Richards and Vorys contended that the $5X0.195,000 authorized by 1 their proposal would lie sufficient to get the program in full swing ! and keep it going until a plan Is developed Tlie house tentatively okaved Him ' Richards-Vorys pn>p<eal despite ,i I fervent appeal for the whole program by speaker Sam Ravburn and despite the fact that se relarv of state Dean Acheson had urged anew that con/ri-- approve it speedily. Elsewhere in congress i 'lark Sen Homer Ferguson, 11.. Mlcli . asked the senate to reject attorney general Tom (' Clark'* ' nomination to the supreme court. He said the appointment wav "transparently political" Taxes Sen Walter F Georg’, D. Ga . wants tlfe government to cut taxes generally and abandon exilian taxation entirely. Asked if h“ would approve such action in tlie next session of congress. President Truman said at his news conference he would not objei t if George would find sources of revenue to keep the government running John L Waller R Thurmond 'of the Southern Coal Producers j Association asked congress to con- | trol John L Lewis Thurmond sa.d Lewis' United Mine Workers nav lieen trying for 50 years to "monopolize and control" the coal ind h>try. "Scientist X" Rep Harold H Velde. R. 111. predicted that house spy hunters will bring jierjur/ i liarges against "Scientist X." who allegedly gave atomic wn rets to a (Turn To I’oae Ihrrri Emergency Funds To Fight Polio Totaled $296,411 Last Week New York. Aug II—(UP) - Emergency funds totaling $296 411 to fight polio were sent to 22 states during the week ended Aug 13, setting a new weekly high for the year, the national foundation for Infantile paralysis said today The largest sum. 156.880. went to the Illinois sta'e polio fund pool. Indiana received 152.300; Missouri, $4".25"; Arkansas. $27,575; Michigan. |25.U"(t. and the Tennessee pool. |3(i.iHi(i All money came from the yearly "March of Dimes" campaign Since Jan I, the foundation said, it has advanced 14.126.000 to county chapters whose own fund* have been wiped out In paying medical expenses for polio victims The I figure Is more than double the ■ amount paid out for the Mine period in 1941.