Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 257, Decatur, Adams County, 1 November 1949 — Page 1

VII, No. 257.

14 DIE AS FIGHTER PLANE HITS AIRLINER

KE Reads Self Out Os CIO

Wing UE ■tialsTo " Khold Dues j President I HI)E Predicts ■fibers To Stay I ! I' I ’ work ? BK ~ ..i it*, if <hi* <>r j . I H presid* nt K,..-, wing Official. . nu u» ■WI , hi tb. national worker* of ..an ..! union w<,u'.d withhold due* |K. <• KTucil924 Here .j ~( the IE (CIO) i* . of ’he « :k- . f 'he Cent Fal plant a- the CIO reof free, unionism H del. gate* immt-dl . a >he national *ay.tig they had elsewhere.” organizer and p-.-id> t>' 'I the electrical al ti.w-tnell he was of the union's »:!! in the CIO ».t:z < -I. ’rival workers' i-nz have fought openly with the dominant Bit. r.a'ienu CIO leadership ' • wi'hdrawal from the : at.d virtual withdrawal ' ;i> no- unexpected :.i .■ cio tomorrow by -fi-t. anyway, along with left wing affiliates » rightwing unions to memberships of the 1. ft including 'he electrical t'i'werald. left-wing pre ' 'he electrical workers. a! a acted wiihoir con "i i<- of other left wing Officials of the other r»d no immediate com1' 'he IK . withdrawal - worker* claim ”*rt.l,er« Hut. tight wing .V- have -aid this claim and that I’E • actis closer to 4)"'..tn- that henceforth his u.d not pay dues into the a' . u»ed national ”• if conducting "a pro- ‘ • cdn.g union busting and hypocrisy " he said tlie policy of the to fritter away the HB 1 ' ‘ rength of the working «r.d to whip them into a lineup |B*' ‘ I estimated that in the |B '•’•f. or since the CIO w is !|i union "has paid B""" ln «> Hi* CIO treasury " pr«-conven'lon strategy of right wing CIO lead tu toss left wlne o ff| L .| a | R 'C' U'lye board expel some u n j ()ni | a nd then ’ executive board power to out of the CIO before !,f the year if they dldntM their way. B John Glendening ■ n Michigan ■* **’ r **eived here today •>' ’hi* morning of Mrs Jo in ,‘/ B ' nr ss. of Oden. Mich. i B. ' l,f ,{, ’*< oe Glendening < f k:. h h oc<urred ■’ L,tG '’ ""'PltaJ. Petoskey. Mi b ' «md John C Giendenl ig. ■r,, ? n * r ‘ 1 * rTl «* »iH b"! «f<emoon at 2 30 o' ■t IM?*’ f " n ’' r * 1 hLm * r «" ■Tv v * rUI »HI ’* in JamesIn rJ h * 01 * n,, * n >’«« hav» 1 w *n for more than 33 I wkatmir «'«udin«. and L * w Muth H, ’ h

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Halloween Parade Draws Huge Crowd Annual Parade Is I Held Last Evening The hundreds of residents of Decatur und area who braved thchill October air to jam the city'* bu iness district, Monday night witnessed one of the finest Cal I'hunipian parades ever held her t ag Decatur's Halloween celebration. Starting only a few minute* after tha 7:30 p m. set time, the parad<T featured by 10 high stepp'ng. horn-blaring high schmd bands, moved along in rapid style, giving a real treat to the viewers along the sidelines Gaily costumed Individuals and groups, interspersed with the bands, new automobiles and old Jalopies, added to the enjoyment. At the conclusion of the parade, cash prixea were awarded to the bands, drum majors and individuals. selected by judges from chilly perches atop truck* parked along the line of march Top prize of I’iO went to the fine band from Woodburn high school, whose leader is Miss Marilyn Lungi. with 29 band m mbers Other band awards were: 140 second prize to 45-piece Rockford. ().. band, led by Mr* Wilma Ralston; |3o third prize to 50-plece Convoy. ().. band, lei by John D Linn, and 120 fourth place to the 32-piece Huntertown band, led l>y Walter Sloffer Other bands in the par ade. all awarded appearance prizes of >lO. were I'nion township. Huntington county. 3b pieces. Merle H. Gable, leader; Willshire, U„ of 35 pieces. Russell Griffith, leader; Ohio City Liberty 40-plece band, led by Mrs Helen Wurnter: Wren. O. 35 piece band. Miss Baumgartner. leader; Decatur | Catholic high school 29-piece band, led by Earl Stodden, and the Decatur high school band of 45 pieces, led by Albert Sellem yer The two Decatur bands, per annual custom, are not eligible for prize awards. Individual awards were as follows: Drum majors -first. l.oia White, Decatur high school; second. Bob Wearley. Woodburn; third. Evelyn French. Rockford Tallest man, Chester Adams. 725 'C eveland St.; best decorated toy wagon or tricycle. Mrs Harrison Miller. Mrs. Harold Bauer and Wayne Bauer. Berne route 2; best fat boy. Arlene Dellinger. Convoy: most original girl. Nancy Sapp. Rockford: best masked croup of three or more. Mrs. Dowel Singer and children. 821 North Dierkes St.; best ghost. Ronnie Robinson; be«t comic strip woman. Carol Hicks, Decatnr route 4; best comic (Tarn Te Pare •<«» David Deitsch Dies After Long Illness Funeral Services Thursday Morning David Deitsch. 73. a retired carpenter. died at 2 15 o'clock Monday afternoon at hi* home. 513 South Fifth street, following a several week* illness of complications He was born In Mercer county. 10. July 26. 187«. a son of William and Margaret Baucher-Deltsch. but bad resided in Decatur for the past 45 years. He was a member of the St. Mary's Catholic church Surviving are one son. Edward Deitsch of Decatur; one stepson. Purman Hebble. address unknown; two stepdaughters. Mr*. Ed War ren and Mrs Arbie Owen*, both of Decatur; one grandchild, nine stepI grandchildren, two brother*. Ed 1 ward and William Deitsch. both of Celina. ().. and five sisters. Mrs Emma Rhyne. Mr. Frieda Smeltzer and Mrs Edith Vantilberg. all of Celina. Mrs Anna Rhyne of Texas and Mr* Mary Woodward of Markle. One daughter, one «on. a brother and a sister are deceased Funeral services will be held at »:3® am Thursday at the Black funeral home and at 9 o’clock at St. Mary'* Catholic church, the V. Rev M.gr J. J Selmetz of Delating Burlxl will •»» *“ ”” Catholic cemetery, Friend* may eall at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evealng

Gov. Schricker Declares State Ot Emergency Tragic Emergency Faces Hoosiers In Coal Strike Wake Indiumvpolis, A’ov. 1. —(UP)— 'Governor Schricker proclaimed today that Indiana was in the midst of a coal shortage emergency "en dangering the welfare of every < itizen." Schricker issued a formal proclamation creating a state fuel commission ami asking governmental heads to establish similar commit sions on the local level. He asked for "fullest cooperation. to aid in sharing coal supplies to the end that the catastrophe now threatening our state may be averted ’’ The governor issued the proclamation shortly after announcing he would tell President Truman. John L. Lewis and the mine operators that Indiana faced "a tragic , emergency." •Before the day is over," the governor told a conference of 5u state leaders. "I will send telegrams saying that we have reached a positive conclusion and conviction that a tragic emergency is facing the people of our state." Schrb-ker said unless something was done there would be "tremendous suffering.” He spoke at the conclusion of a two-hour meeting with mine union coal operator, local government nnd education spokesmen during which suggestions for meeting the situation were offered by many. The conference was marked by an exchange between united mine worker distri't president Louis Austin of Terre Haute and mine operator spokesman R. A. Sherwood of Indianapolis over the merits of the Taft Hartley act. Schricker, dramatically sober In his appraisal of a coal shortage in the face of the season's coldest weather, said it was a shame the situation arose. "I am sorry to say that a great country like ours with hundreds willing to die for it hasn't yet reached the place where it can preri sra to Page ais» Education Week To Be Observed Here Observance Starts In Nation Sunday November «-12 will be the 29th I observance of American education week The theme thU year is "making democracy work." The week starts on Sunday with a realization that religious faith, giving a seme of the worth of .the individual personality. is the basis of Democracy, i and that education ij the key to making democracy work. Daily topics for the week are as follows: Sunday. Nov. 6 — "The Worth of the Individual" Monday. Nov. 7 — ’’Educational Opportunity.” Tuesday. Nev I — "Responsible Citizenship ” Wednesday. Nov. 9 — "Health and Safety." Thursday. Nov. 10 — "Home and Community Obligations ” Friday. Nov 11 — "Our Freedom and Security.” (Armistice Day J Saturday. Nov. 12 — "Next Decade in Education " National organizations sponsoring American education week are the national education association. American legion, the United State* office of education, and the nation il congress of parents and teacher* Superintendent Hansel Foiey of the Adams county schools and s'lr- I erintendent Walter Krick of the Decatur public schools offer particular invitations for parent* visit the schools during American education week. In some of the churches of the city, the week will I* begun with sermons on “The Worth of .the In dividual.” Democracy’s greatest and most distinguishing idea.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, November 1, 1949.

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Behind Schedule In Defense Stockpiling Security Insurance Obtained By Nation Washington, Nov. 1 (UP) The United States is getting mote security insurance day by day. but still is behind schedule in it* $3,2lH).()0<),0ftO five-year program of defense stockpiling This is the considered opinion of the men who are charged with scouting world markets for about 9u critical and strategic material* this country must have for national security Their search ranges from Agar to Zircon. Horn Bismuth to Vanadium About 70 of these scarce items ate available only from foreign sources. The rest are sought because domestic production is not enough Stockpiling Is understandably a hush-hush procedure It would not do to let a potential enemy know which materials are scarcest here, or even which material*, eagerly sought a year ago. are now stocked in abundance A year ago. the program's diffl cultles were scarcities of the lop priority materials Today that situation is eased The problem now is to make an overall appropriation of 9735,000.000 for fiscal 1950 do the job Some |3Ji).no)).ooo of this sum includes deficiency appropriations and contracts awarded during fiscal 1949 This leaves only 9425. OO't.OOO in new funds That I* the headache of the muni tions board which wa* set up under unification to handle stockpiling It makes its dlreet purchases, where it can, through the bureau of fed eral supplies * Maj Gen A B. Quinton acting director of the munition* board* section on materials and Interna1 tional matters the stockpiling authority -was asked through a spokesman whether the program wa* in healthier condition than it (Tara T» I’nae alt)

Estabrook To Instruct Solicitors For Funds

' — — ch * ,r "! ' '' ’ ' < • r ■ • ■ 1 * <. /y .! th< '■ Company K«>rt Wn'l’>-. wiJ civ* h.- iiiftruc-lotit- to ,l “‘ ki -k off" dinner at th* Moo«c Hom* at 6 to pin Thurxdm ew nine. H* will follow Hal* " Me "■'* .A I Millen. board chairman of Central jCompany. to address th* • h* Mr , r ■SxaSRO *< 'JB jttw J - • .i ■ I kSmf ■ w 1 ■ >•■■■' WtejSK*| efir '<■ YMCA fund rahina campaign “'’• | <r ' In IMS. and many o’hrr similar activity.. John E - E«-brooa He ii no* aiahtant to C H Mat- historical wcietiei and many other, son. manager of th* General Klee- Bn( j service orgninintiona. I trie company Hit pa«t experience luring the war. Mr Eetabrook Include! newspaper publithing in wu a n lcht (Iyer in the Pacific Syracuse. N Y He l« aetlre In the arM a tartlng aa a lieutenant and Chamber of Commerce, health and cmra T« r»«« ri*»* *

Temperatures Drop To Season's Lowest Indianapolis. Nov 1 tt'l't Heavy frost greeted Hoosiers today a* November arrived with temper i cures dropping to their lowest points of the season Low temperature* varied onlv two degrees between South Ben I In • th.- extreme north and E.ansvill • ..) t the extreme soti’h 'i’e-rre Haute'* 23 wa* the lowest mark reported in an early-morntnt check by the Indianapolis weather I bureau Indianapolis and Sou’) 1 Bend had 24. Fort Wayne 25 ami 1 Evansville 26 4 Czechs Take Over Control Os Church Government To Run Affairs Os Church 1 Prague. Czechoslovakia. Nov I ■' (UP)- The communist govern ! • ment today took control of the j Roman Catholic chun-h in Czecho1 s’ovakia amid Vatican charge* that the new s-hurch control laws were unconstitutional. 1 As 7.*"") member* of the Catho- ’ lie clergy wi re converted into civ- '' il servant* and the government ’ took over supervision of church ’ affairs, the Vatican radio charged • in a Czech language broadcast that the new control law* violat- ’ ed the new Czech constitution The law* became effective today Aleve Cepicka, son-in-law ot President Element Gottwald r head* the new government offhe t which will run < hurt h affair* The Vatican broadcast demand ed that the laws be revised to guarantee th.- church autonomy in : ft* Internal affair*, declaring the i new regulations amounted to political interference : At the same time the Prague i radio addressed *pe< ial bulletin* i to priest* telling ’h.m their bishops had given them permission to tlure T« One Five)

Fighter Plane Piloted By Bolivian Rams Into Airliner At Washington

New Farm Measure Signed By Truman Moy Bring Increase For Butter Prices Washington, Nov 1 (UP)— The nt w farm law's first effect on oonsumer* may come in the next two months in the form of higher butler prices, officials said today , But they said the law, which President Truman signed late yes-' terday, probably will mean cheaper egg* next year Tin new support system guaranties at hast one more year of rigid high wartime supports for major fi« Id crops, with only a gradual tapering off of minimum sup port level* in future years. It authorizes secretary of agileulture Charles F Brannan to keep sup ports for wheat, corn, cotton, tobacco. rice and peanuts near present mar present levels indefinitely However, It also puts Brannan on the pot with price-conscious i-oti-umers and with livestock and dairy producers The law gives th' secretary wide discretionary authority In settig the level of maiket price props in 1950 for such : table product* as pork (hogs), butter milk, eggs and chickens Since early in the war these com modifies have been guaranteisl high support under legislation ex-1 pirlng Dec 31. A special provision of the new legislation, which officials say bo-1 come* effective immediately, may have a pi ice bolstering effect on j the butter market before Jan J The n< w law requires the govern in> nt to charge an extra five percent plus the- going support price in selling any of Its storable price support commodities back on the domestic market. About 9a.iHw.ooo pounds of butter: or two-thirds of the nation's i total cold storage stock* are now | jin government hand* Commen ial , cold slot age holding* are at. or near, a record low Grade A but ter Is now selling at about the sup port price of 62 cents a pound, whole -ale — Engel’s Swindle Trial Nears Jury Surprise Move By Engel Rejected Chicago. Nov 1 (UPt— Sigmund Engel. 73 year old wizard ut woo a>*cil*<d of (lee ring a red hair >d widow, sought in a surprise move today to have testimony re ; opened in bis trial so he could ’testify in bls own defen e but hl* ■ request was denied Judge George M Fisher refused I to peimit Engel to testify because* Imth the state and defense had rested their cases and the defense refused to stipulate that Engel ha* a prison record dating back to 191* Fisher ordered closing argu ; menu started and the case was ex perted to be given to the jury of six men and six women late today ; Engel is charged with having swindled Mrs. Reseda Corrigan. . 9 Chicago, of |*.7<)o after promising to marry her. Engel announced yesterday that he did not want to appear in hi* own defense However, when court opened today, attorney Allan Bloch said that Engel had been thinking things over during the night and felt he should tell hi* story to the jury ’’ James A Brown, assistant state's attorney, objected vigorouly He pointed out that Engel bad refused to testify before th* defence rested and said he was ready to prove that Engel ha* a criminal record dating back to 1918 He said he had had witnesses standing by In New York state for i three weeks waiting for him to , summon them for the state He , released the witnesses yesterday, ihe said, after Engel refund to testify This might very easily be an I other of ths defense trieks." Brown I iTwrw Te rsge Slat

Steel Strike I End In Sight, Coal At Crisis Stalemate Broken By Bethlehem; Coal Crisis Is Mounting By I'nited Pres* The end of tb ■ stool strike w:i in Might today, but the soft coal walkout rapidly approat lied a crisis. Beth|olii-m Steel Corp, had brok on the 32-day stalemate In steel, and four otln-r major producers wore expected to reach settlenn-n' with tin- striking CIO I'nited Steel Workers shorty on the same basis. But the walkout by 380.000 United Mine Worker* Inflicted new hardship in cities ami towns scattered across the nation In Illinois, fuel merchants asked i Gov. Adlai Stev> n«on to intercede with President Truman to end the walkout They said Illinois coal yards will be bare by the week's 1 end. Chicago public schools began I conserving coal by lowering classroom temp- ratures. At Streator. I I 111. mayor Albert Ditman declared an emergency and the city hous--1 ing department began rationing <-oal to those In need Coal dealers In Atlanta, Ga. w re flooded with calls for coal I when the temperature dropped to l:’. degrees, ami w<re forced to ration shipments to customer* A state of emergency was declared at Rome, Ga. when the weatio-r bureau predicted a low lof 2* tonight There was ho coal ; in retail yards, and many of the city’s t" ot o inhabitants wetwithout fuel OSiclitl* announcfd i the city auditoiimn would ' e loafed and kept open to the pqbli, tonight At Knoxville. Ky. a spot c!i<-<-k howed no coni reserves !■ ft Drlzxling rain kept the tempera ' lure near fr- eximMeanwhi'e, federal mediation ■ hies Cyrus S Ching reported to the White House on both the coal and steel strikes and reports tlint the gov) rnment might s'ep into the coal walkout before the seek- ; eml. Ching was reported ready to call for renewed negotiations lietwen 'he striking I'nited Mine Worker* and soft coal operators. If that ' bld failed. Ching could ask President Truman to alti anti-strike iti)itn< tions against th)- mlm r under the Taft Hartley law Settlement of the steel strike would be almost meaningless with i out an accompanying agreement in coal sln<)> the mills and smelt- ' ing furnaces are defendent upon the mines for fuel Also, It was the coal strike < lnrn V» !•■«» Fl»e» Several Injured By Fire And Explosions Capitol Building Hit By Explosion Washington. Nov 1 tl'P> Fire and <xph»l>n* in an tight floor electric transformer vault .»• | the fi d« ral communications post i office building today sent several ’ person* to the hospital. Some 3.s<ui employes of the post ( office department and the federal communications commission marched safely out as three alarms ' brought fire equipment screaming up to the building The bla»t» knocked plaster from 1 ceilings on the floor below the ’ transformer vault For a while it ’ was feared a massive skylight might collapee but It held firm It 1 took more than an hour to extin- ’ gujsh the firAmong those Injured tat Aaron 1 Trail, superintendent of the mas-J sire, horseshoe - »hsped building 11 which hons«* the interstate cam ’) meres commission the FCC. and J ths post office I

Price Four Cents

Both Planes Coming In For Landing At National Airport At Capital Today Washington. Nov. 1 -(UP) - Fifty four persons aboard an Eastern air lines transport were e.f* filially reported killed today when a fighter plane piloted by a Bolivian governtm nt official crashed into it as both craft were trying to land at National airport. Eric Rios Bridoux. pilot of tho smaller plane, was jit ill alive hours after the crash. He is director general of civil aeronautics for Bolivia He suffer) d back ami skull fractures. Aboard the fouM ngined Eastern IX' I when It t rashed wen- sft passenger* -Imludiiig Rtj) Gtorgo Batts. R. of Sftlcm. Mass, and New Yorker cartoonist Helen Hokin«on and four cn-w member* The civil aeronautic* board reported the official death toll aboard the big airliner after hours of checking It* announcetnint said: "52 dead. One survivor" The survivor was not immediately identified The CAB announcement was hastd on reports that a total of 5! ptt«i>n were on the Eastern plane. I.attr, Eastern said that DO pa • senger* and four crew tm nib) r* wt re aboard The CAB still could account ! r only one survivor, making 5;! dead. Eastern air lint s said one of tho passenger* aboard the transport was Rep Gt urge Bates. R, of Sal. m. Ma«* The collision oc urred as both plane* were coming in for a landing The smaller dived Into a lagoon near the south tnd of tho airport The larg- r crashed partly in the lagoon and partly on v strip of land separating It from tht» Poti mac river. The trail | .rt wa- a DC 4 carrying 19 pt engers and four crew member* on Enetern’* flight 5:;7 ft m Bo ’on to New Orleans vii Nt w York and Wa*hington Cr< w tnenib) t • aboard the shat•tied t.m )>• it wet. (’apt Georgo It iv pilot Chatle < I! Hazelwood, nd fw > fiiy.it attendants, one a woman. \t 12" pm 112 20 ptn (’ST), 23 In dies bad b> <n a ointed for. of th< se 11 w< re at the Ah xandria, Vi, arm ry. which was converted Into a morgut lb at the Alexandria hospital ami "tie each at tho Washington city morgue and at Emergtncy ho-pltal here Among the flr«t brxß> s recover- ♦ d from the lagoon were those of t w tu in and a child, about on» year old The civil at ii tiautic- authority said the tr insport was gliding In for a 1 m It ' Brieoux. tha t’AA said, had asked the control lower for landing Instructions ami wai told to follow the DC I Perhaps misund. standing his in- * tu ten- Brlvoux pu-h.il Lis little fighter In behind the big airliner too soon, the control tower r< ported I: said he farted to land without clearance, overtook and rammed into the tran-port, shearing off it* tail B-ch plane * plummeted Th. EAL op. ration* office h< to said th< plane was commanded by Caps Ray Other no mb. r* of tho dew w.re lifted a* pilot Haxelw - d <> Oryhuela flight purser, and Heon Gilbert, fhght attendant. The plane took off from Boston (Tm Tn r«a» Ms> Files Petition Os Denial To Motion Severin H Rchurger. prosecuting attorney, this afternoon filed a petition of general denial in tho t aa* of state V*. Peter I. St hwart* to the wri: of »rror coram nobi* filed several day* ago by Ed Bosse end C. H Muselman attorney* for the def. ndant, aeeking to reopen the case. The petition filed by the prosecutor *l»o wa* accompanied by three affidavit* *upporting hi* contention that a fair hearing wa* held and there I* no need to reopen the matter The hearing on the writ filed by Bosse and Muaelman for Rchwartx In scheduled before Judge Myles F Parrirt Wedneaday morning at 10 o’clock