Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 244, Decatur, Adams County, 17 October 1949 — Page 1

XVII. No. 244.

. S. STEEL ACCEPTS BID TO CONFERENCE

■Congress Hs Toward journmenl ■mocrot Leaders ■il Astounding Kgress Made Oct. I*. —•(UP) |K. :llo , rJ ti.’ f’li't cougress. ■\iodding toward adjournKudue*<l»> «r Thursday. ■b'touiHlno; progress in ■;. progressive legislation," Hath leaders claimed today. He Democratic leader Scott Has of Illinois reported atW'blg four' conference of Haiunal leaders with Preeithis morning that the Knt "la happy and pleased in both houses." ■ farm legislation and some appropriations hills, inK the big military services gMtu- hill, stand in the way Kier Sam Rayburn said that Key are out of the way adK*nt will come rapldly-prob-Kedneeday or Thursday. Ke Democratic leader John Kformack of Massachusetts j K hoped the differences be- ■ the house and senate on the ■lad appropriation bills will penciled. expressed the hope that ■rnate would put 130.000.00 u i ■ final supplemental appropri- ■ bill for aid to Korea until ■ehruary. I Democratic leaders, includ- 1 ■ce-president Allien W. Bark■reed that today's conference ■be president would be the ■f*l*r weekly legislative con ■s at th* White House until ■ry Itayburn for one, said ha ■nt plan to return to Wash- ■ after adjournment until Jun ■ Democratic leaders present K Truman with a report by ■>emo<r*tL policy committee Bl senate charting the leglsla- ■ accomplishments at thia Bn Bn before adjournment, argu B over the record of congress Bgrowing hot. Senate KepubI leader Kenneth S. Wherry. ■ •aid the record this year was ■re endorsement of the Repub■eonirolled both congress, ex- ■ that the Democratic majority ■ved a return to deficit spend■nd to the administration ver|cf the reciprocal trade law. ■ate Democratic whip Francis Byers. Da., asserted, however, (the administration won ail It Bit In the field of foreign poll■nd achieved considerable sueI In domestic legislation too. In ■Portia!' listing of domestic ■venients. be mentioned hous■nd rent control, government faniiatlon. storage facilities [rain, and renewal of the proi of federal aid for hospital iruction. e senate made a mid-week ad•®ent possible by voting. "6 i. Saturday night to sidetrack Administration's Displaced on« bill until next year. The **• lines also were broken in rut across party lines, dispute over the farm price to,t bill, now In the hands of inference committee trying to fundamental conflicts bent house and senate versions. '°»Pects for a settlement apr*d bright at noon Saturday ” »enate conferees were roiT«rwTs Fa<v Threes H®’’ Funeral Is Id This Afternoon r>l wvicee were held this *noo n for Thomas E Mi ler. ' W*y»e. at 2 o'clock at *« o »*n funeral home and buriaf •» the Decatur cemetery, Mr ' d ’ ,d rrtd *y morning at St. •Ph hospital » Is survived by his wife. Elisa MUI"; a brother. ,' lodlaB *PoiH. and two sisters. ' Osy. Warsaw, and *■ •• Penbrook, Clearwater. WCATHIR tartly (Isudv tenlaM a»U * ’•* "«M showers •"•Hy In extreme south * Cewtlnues mild. Lew u«wd N to portion. Hsph Tuesday

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30-Day Quarantine On Dogs Is Lifted .Mrs. Robert l*ane». secretary of the city board of health, announced today that the 3(May quarantine on dogs had been lifted. The quarantine was ordered by the city hoard fo'.ldwln; th.* discovi-ry of rabies in a dog that had molested local people. Th*- campaign I* still on against stray dogs, city officials ea id High Cour) To Study Validity Os Rent Control Agrees To Review Constitutionality Os Rent Control Act Washington. Oct 17—(UP) — The supreme court today agreed to review the constitutionali'y of the present rent control law Two federal judges have Issued opposite opinions on the question Judge Elwyn R Shaw of Chicago ruled the law unconstitutional last July 26. On Aug 8, judge Leon It Yankwich. Los Angelis, ruled to I the contrary. The government appealed the Chicago case to the supreme court The suit was started by housing I expediter Tighe K Woods in an effort to keep Shoreline Coopera- ( five Apartments. Inc., from evict-1 ing tenants. Less than 65 percent of the Shoreline stockholders lived in the apartments Therefore under rent -control regulations tenants could not be »vic-ted in order to give stockhold* rs occupancy. Shaw held that congress Illegally delegated its powers when it Included the socalled "local option" section In the law. This permits decontrol of rents upon the vote of, a state legislature or even of a local governing body if the stkte governor approves "There is a grant of unbridled administrative discretion subject] neither to reason nor findings of fact,” the decision said. Shaw said congress could never have passed the law at all without .these local option provisions. Therefore he held the whole act unconstitutional Ml ■! I »l Many Lost Articles i Are Held By Police j Police today were holding for Identification by the owners aaverjal wallets, key cases, women s ' change purses. at the police ata[tlon These articles were recur|r red from the fair, either by the | police or turned in by the publif. • Proper description ot the article will retrieve them for the owners, police said Announce Winners In Horse Pulling Contests Held At Fair Here Saturday The big team ot horses enter.-d by Fowler Brothers, of Montgom ery. Mich., pulled, heaved, and strained the weighted sled at the horse-pulling contest further than any other team, and won first honors in the heavy weight division Saturday afternoon However, another Michigan entrant, the team owned by Henry Weitnau. of Constantine. was a close second The winning team pulled the 7.O'W pound weighted sled 13 feet, four and one-half inches; the second place team pulled the same pound age 11 feet, four »nd one half inches. A team owned by Earl Ruby, ot Eaton. 0.. won first place in the lightweight division held in the morning session Pulling a sled weight of 6.000 pounds, the team went forward 26 feet, three and one-half inches The team owned by Joe Griffith, who had won the national lightweight title earlier in the week, finished secand. pulling the same weight 21 feet, four inches Other owners ot winners In the heavyweight division were Everett Brown. Bryant, third; Stubby Bolleabaueb. Geneva, fourth; Leo Maurer. New Phillipsburg, fifth: Ora Williamson, t’nlondale. sixth Paul Davis. Decatur seventh, and John Burris. Fort Wayne, eighth fjghtweight: J. S Messick. FreiTeru Te Page *'»•

Marine Leader Scores Amy's General Staff Charges Crippling Os Marine Corps A Blow For Security Washington, Oct. 17- (VPr Gm Clifton B. Cates, marine corps commandant, accused the army general sluff today of damaging national security by trying to cripple th<* marine cotp*. Cutes told the house armed services committee that the army brass "stands within measurable distance” of destroying the marines as a fighting force. Cates, testifying during the commitlee's investigation of military' unification, said the army g< neral staff has made three demands on I the marine corps that violate the' national security act He said the army demanded that' marine corps units be limited to regimental t>lxe and reduced In | overall numbers to 50.000 or 60,000 officers and men It was luO,O(Hi at the end of the war. Its second demand would make amphiblour warfare a function of the army, although such operations'always have been under the marine corps, he said The army's third drinand would, provide that the marine corps "not b* appreciably rxpanded in time ' of war," the leatherneck said. Cates said the corps is helpless to defend Itself because it has no voice. v<ge or information on what is going on at top Pentagon levels The marines have been excluded from the joint chiefs of staff, he . said. Defense secretary Louis Johnson, in setting up "powerful" commit ) tees to administer the deft use act, I has given little or no representation to the marines, he said 'Fundamental questions relating to marines' weapons are not decided by the corps, but by a commitI tee composed of five officers each from th'- army, air force and navy., he added i Cates and Gen A A. Vandergrift, former marine commandant, were the two officers chosen to (Tern To Paxe Three* Lincoln PTA Will Meet Here Tuesday Initial Meeting Os Year Tuesday Night The first meeting of the year of the Lincoln parent teachers as sociation will be held at the Lincoln school at 7 o'clock Tuesday evening. I An open house will be held in the class rooms, with work of the students on display Following the tour of the class rooms, a program will be presented by the achool children. The following chairmen of stand Ing committees have been appoint ed to serve during the year Membership. Mrs. Norman Katt; program. Mrs. Randolph Brandy'berry: publicity. Mrs Chalmer DeBolt: budget. Herman Krueckeberg; publications. Miss Georgia Fouxhty and Miss Vera Van Bus kirk: hospitality. Mrs James Wall; legislation and by laws, the Rev and Mrs F. H Willard: health and summer roundup. Mrs. James Burk and Mrs D. B. Custer; music. Mrs. F. H Willard; school lunch. Mrs. Robert Gay; recreation. Miss Rebecca Walters and Sylvester Ever hart: safety. Kenneth Runyon; school survey. Dr Harry H.bble Following the regular PTA meet ing. the chairmen of the fall festival will hold a special meeting to complete plans for the event. Oct. 31. Fort Wayne Man Held For Murdering Wife Fort Wayne. Ind . Oct. 17 —(CP) —Herbert Thorne. 26. was held on a murder charge today after his wife was killed by a point blank shotgun blast. Authorities said Thorne admitted holding the shotgun which kill ed hie wife. 83-year-old Delores. Saturday night but they said he told them It was accidental Thorne told police he threatened bis wife when he came home and found her writing a letter. He said he got the gun to threaten her. and it went off as he handled It.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, October 17, 1949,

Army Chief Recalled From Japan

r- 1 ■ 7 B u I’ / ON HIS ARRIVAL in Tokyo on an Inspection tour. Gen J. Lawton CoLins (righti. V. S. Army Chief of Stuff, is met l>y General Douglas MacArthur. Supreme Commander ot the Allied forces In Japan. Later. Collins was ordered to return to Washington to testify before the House Armed Services Committee In the Navy-Air Force fetid hearings. Acting Army Secretary Tracy Voorhees Issued the order.

Weekend Accidents Investigated Here No One Injured As School Bus Is Hit The sheriff's office was kept busy over the weekend and to day answering calls and Investigating accidents on highways and county roads surrounding Decatur, which involved a school bus. a truck, and four cars. Deputy sheriff Robert Shraluka. who investigated ail of. the accidents. was called today when a Preble township achool bus. driven hy Edward Kuchner. and a car. driven by Darrell Shockley, of Preble, collided at the Intersec tion of two county roads one and one-half miles north of Preble. The driver of the bus. going west, Mated that ba turned left In an effort to avoid bitting the Sharkley car. coming south. I'nahle to do so. the cars hit. then both went off the road There were 2ff school children aboard the bus. none of them believed Injured. However, a doctor was called to the school to check all of the passengers. Shackley injured his head and right hand in the arcident and was brought to a Deca’ur doctor for treatment. A car driven by Ray Yauae. of | route 1. left the road Sundav. overturned several times, then landed In a field. Roger Davenport. a passenger in the Yause car. suffered a sprained hack. A passing motorist brought him in to a Decatur doctor. Yause had attempted passing a car on IT. S. highway 27. four miles north of ftecatur. His car hit the left side berm, swerved suddenly to tbe right, then off the road (Tara Ta Pea* Ftvel

'Outlined Administration For Community Center

"After the Decatur Memorial; Community Center has been built, how will It be administered amt supported *" Tbie is a question asked hy many Decaturlte*. Carl C Pumphrey, chairman of I the Community Center fund cam paign to raise upwards of 1275.60 U. replies in this manner. "The gov-j ••rnlng board will be composed of seven members, five of whom will' be selected by tbe Decatur Memorial Foundation. Inc . and two appointed by the hoard of works of the fity council. The board will i have full authority under the law orer the use. operation, improvements. maintenance ot the center. Including the right to receive donations. execute leases, etc. Tbe terms of office will bo for four years and will overlap m as to assure continuity of polkles "Tho directors will select a full time manager for the < enter and tho manager will also act as oecrefary of tbe board He should ba; highly qualified In eonmanitr recreation and civte work end bare distinct executive and promotional

Legion Membership Windup This Evening The cleanup drive for the Adams Post 43, American Legion, member j «bip campaign will be held tonight. It was announced today by Robert Asbbauchcr, membership chair man. Al) workers are arked to mei t at the Leglou home at 6 o'clock this evening for the drive. — I Pork Prices Tumble Under Heavy Market Heavy Run Os Hogs Sends Prices Down By United Press A heavy run of hogs to market i ■ this summer sent the price of pork , i chops tumbling 10 cents at butcher shops in the last month, a Unite I . 1 pres* survey showed today, i' Pork roast has declined almost H) !' cents a pound, reports from 30 11 cities showed. Bacon, however, resisted the j downward trend and beef has re- , malned steady .' The big shipment* from the bumi per spring pig crop sent Dun A .' Bradstreet's wholesale f*x>d price . 1 Index to a new three-year-low j Agriculture department experts ' I said they expect all types of meat except lamb to be plentiful through i 1550, with prices relatively lower. Throughout the nation, newapxpJer food writers and nutritionist , j urge housewives to buy pork to > save money. I Center cut chops were 20 cents ' a pound cheaper In Chicago than a ’ month ago and !J cents cheaper in t Philadelphia. At Boston, chops • dropped from 99 cents to 75 cent* . At l.oa Angeles, prices dropped lb (Tara Ta Page Five*

lability. He should also hare th**«" qualities of leadtrshlp that will cause him to use volunteer help effectively.” Operation and Maintenance I “A careful estimate of the coat of operation has l*een made hy experts In these matters." Mr. Pun.I phrey continued. "In the F. Ellwood Alien report tbe items of cost 'are set out in detail and Include the salaries of the director and janitor, secretary and assistants on part time, contractual obligations such as public utilities and suppli* *. insurance, propertied and equipment as well as miscellaneous items. These total a minimum of 111.975 and a maximum of 114.110. "The budgets assume considerable volunteer leadership at ths center through a house commlttie and a committee on aetlvitl«*a Some of the manager's time will La given to promotional work throughout the city. Tslag the larger budget as an example, operating coats will be met from the folio slog sources 1. (T«ra Te Pase Sis*

Accepts Government's Bid; Walkout Spreads To 20,000 Alcoa Men

City Cleaning Up After Street Fair Annual Street Fair Is Closed Saturday The street fair has come and: gone, and the necessary skill and labor to clear the debris In a few hours was pci formed with the hasty coopeiatlon that such un emergency invokes. The clearing operations, the disconnecting of pipes and wires, was an emeigency In the st use that when Hie show people just like the Arabs folded their tents and stole silently away into the early Sunday morning, work for local city departments and merchant* was beginning And show- tents stealing silently into the night is | not un everyday occurrence. The water department, for ex-1 ample, hud opt tied four connections along the midway for the con I venience of people with the show Today this work must be undone, and men are disconnecting these water pipes Ralph Roop, xuperin tendenl of the water department.! said that no charge Was made for the water used: the city simply nullified any readings made by the meters. The electric department handled the stringing of light wires for the concessions differ* ntly; at least they did not have to do it in October They had placed the lights In position for the fair when It was scheduled In July. At the concel lation of the July dates, the elec trie department simply left the wires Intact. L (' Pettibone, head <>f the electric deparlnvent for the! city, said he thought the fair' might be rescheduled, thus nevert ordered them removed The re-' moval work will not be started un til the latter part of this week. Pettibone said, because the fair "... threw the working schedule about a week behind " The fire and police departments worked in the same manner as always. though tliilr activity, of course, was limited The fire department placed fire extinguishers at strategic points along the mid way and had a telephone in their stand: the dtpartment was In this manner able to be on "stand by" at al) times. Police patrol was curtailed by the midway, and fortunately, there (Turn T» Page sis I Accelerate Drive On Community Fund Captains Appointed For Employe Groups Ray Leltx. < hairman of the Industrial division for the Community Fund, has named five captains who will launch the drive among locai Industrial employe groups tomorrow These leaders are: Rons War, George [jurent. W D Myers. Erwin Buuck and James Strickler Roy Kalver. general chairman for the drive to raise 112.317 forth" Boy Fcouta and youth agencies and national campaign funds, said that the drive would go In high gear this week, with the hope of completing It by Saturday. "Activities were slowed down last week because of the fair. However, all the committees have been organlxed and the workers will canvas their territories this week. Wv hope to complete the drive as quit lily as possible. Miss Joan Wemhoff has been named chairman for women's organixatlons James Staley heads the fraternal division and Earl Caston Is head of the profession; ! and commerce divisions. Boy and Girl Scout organisations participate in the drive to tbe ex tent of more than 13.700. Tbe youth center will receive approximately ll.kOO for axmther year of operation and tbe reerMtion committee, which is equipping playgrounds in the city, has an allocation of 11.333 to complete tbe purchaee of equipment needed tor tbe parks and school play areas

Violent Death Toll Is Heavy Over Weekend Six State Deaths In Traffic, Auto Conditions Ideal By I'nlted Dress Fourteen Hoosiers died violently over Ihe weekend with ideal mo - oring conditions Sunday being re-1 sponsible for six of the deaths. In addition to the highway arI cidenta. there were s* veral railroad fatalities. two shooting ! deaths, a child burned to death , and one man dl»-d In an airplane crash. The accidental death victims i were: Emmett Bowles, 53, Nabb, (Clark county >. Brashear*. 3S Gentry- . title (Spencer county). Ernest R Connor. 80, Indianapolis. Brice L Davis. 42. Anderson Mrs. Genevieve E Hayden, 37, Huntington Ermel Hollon, 20. English. Mrs Dorothy Katarell, 32, South Bend. Ray Long. 20. Bourbon (Marshall county (. William Nichol, 18. Carlisle, (Sullivan county) Mrs. Carolyn Ridder, 40, Crown Point Shirley Kay Shrock, 19-months, 1 Elwood j Ervin Sommers, 41. Greentown Bowles died when the car be was driving struck another car head-on in Ind. 62, north of Charlestown. Sunday. lirashear* was killed by a car driven by Herman J Durldn, ,‘i. Tucla. Ky, as he lay In Ind 45. north of Chrisney in Sp<-m er county Durbin's car was wrecked In a vain attempt to miss Brashear, police said Conner filed Saturday In Indianapolis general hospital of Inluries he received in a traffic accident Sept 10 He walked into the side of an automobile at a street intersection. Doctors said he had been on’y semi-conscious since the accident. j The body of Davis, who w-as summoned from his home lute Saturday night by a "mysterious" telephone call, was found at the intersection of a county road and the NYC tracks Police said they could find no reason for his presence there Mrs Hayden was killed a mile west of Huntington when bpr car * Tars Te r a <* * («»* Resolution Adopted By Library Board Will Operate As Library District The Decatur library board, which operates tbe Decatur public libraty has passed a resolution permitted under the acts of 1947 to operate as a library dbtrict. effective Im mediately The resolution was tiled with Judge Myles F Parrish. In accordance with the law. and Judge Parrish announced today that he had accepted and fil’d the resolu tlon. In compliance with the resolu tlon. Judge Parrish has appointed three of the seven members to the library board of trustees Mrs Mary Willard has been named by the judge to serve for two years: Mrs Eloise Andrews, one year and Lowell Smith, three years After these terms expire, each oppoint ment will be for tour years. The council will name two mem bers and the school board will name two members, thus making the six* of tbe boatd the sama as at present. All appointments will be as of August 3. 1849 Under the law which permits the con version Into a library district. (Tare To Page Sis*

Price Four Cents

Representatives Os Big Steel To Meet With U.S. Mediation Chief In New York Pittsburgh. Oit 17 d'Pi I'. S. Steel Corp . today qccepted u government invitation to tulk over the 17-day steel strike *U* the giant walkout spread to 2<(.oo<> Aluminum Corp. of America workers. "Big Steel." which produces a third of the nation's st*«* I. said its representatives would meet with I'. S. mediation chief Cyrus S. Ching In New York Wednesday.’ The meeting may lay the groundwork for a major move by Preai; d<-nt Truman to end the walkout, which in combination with th« coal strike has idled 1.520.060 of the nation's 60,000.000 workers. The ALCOA workers quit work at nine plants to enforce the ( IO t'nited Steelworkers demands for company paid pensions an I Insurance. The strike cut off one fourth of the nation's aluminum supply The Ching I' S. Steel talks were expected to climax the series of "exploratory" talks with tho steel companies whl< h opened with Bethlehem Steel last week. Ching wan meeting with representatives of Youngstown Sheet A- Tube ( o In Washington today Th** International headquarters of the steelworkers said it had received no Invitation to th* Ching conferences and had not been contacted by any federal mediators In addition to the ALCOA walkout. th** steel union' closed the plant *>f the Patterson Foundry ■nd Machine Co. a fabricator employing 2"<» workers at East Liverpool. A 24 hour extension of th** ' union-company agreement expired without settlement Government lal*or experts In Washington warned that the strike problem will become "cri'ical for the national economy within a week if no progress is made toward settlements. The ALCOA work* rs quit their jobs at 12 "1 a m EST when lastminute intervention by federal 'ulior mediator William N Margolis failed. R. <’ Turner. AM’DA itersonnel director, said the company asked th- union to postpone the Strike and continue negotiations but that he was turned down flat. The USW rejected a company offer to pay a non-contrlbutory 10-cents an hour pension insurance package profiled payments would be reduced if so< ial aecurity benefits were increased. Turner said Government expert* agreed that no end of the 29-day old co**l min** shutdown and Hie steel strike was likely for another two weeks. I" S. mediation chief Cyrus S. Ching, however was to make another attempt for a settlement formula In the steel settlement today at a meeting with offhiais of th** influent lai Youngstown *O ) Sheet 4 Tube Co. John L lx*wls and his i'nited Mine Worker* were aclieduled to resume negotiations with the coal operators tomorrow But both •Id* s are far apart In their wel- | fare fund dispute, which has idled iTarn T« l*a<r Three* LATE BULLETINS Paris. Oct. 17.—(UP)—Premier Jules Moeh resigned tonight after 11 days of fruitless effort to form a French coalition government. Hong Kong. Oct. 17—(UP)— The nationalists abandoned their big port and naval base of Amoy to the communists today, but clamped a sea blockade on surrendered Canton. Chino. Cal.. Oet. 17— (UP)— A B-36 bomber apparently wax lost when it craehed in hilly country south of here, killing four and posoibly five persons, air force officials Mid today. A report that "ooms important persons" wore aboard the ship woe doubled by officials at March air base who said the plane lacked tho plushy outfittinge uau all y provided in planes carrying such personagee.

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