Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 259, Decatur, Adams County, 3 November 1949 — Page 1

mil No. 259.

EWIS ASKS SCHRICKER HELP END STRIKE

’ |r Battle Up On placing UE ■■ter New Union ■•■ Replace UE In . Konol CIO Rank C up Cl ° < hart, ted a new ■ .1,,: » 'ik>rs union to ■■. ,'.:d lef uiriK UE which ■■, !,d ft"” 1 ”•* _ uni'll was union of a?. I tn o bln>' work ... ■■a, 1,.* organization. iniSaid claim to 230.000 the old I E and to all ; i. io' ai'h employtemporarily the flight the CIO *a* : d.o ihat the govern up a run'. I "J* rally-con •. i . t,.i.v commission aft* r the Tennessee valtake run al! atomic energy - in.'.ad i f farming out private corporation*. I E local* all over det.rmine which of the member* would ’’■■Th* old IE leftwing JB In New York said they ""■Fr!.' ■ -he f.r.j-h any memby the CIO. - board, given r P'.w.r by th* convention with 11111111111111*1* and feil’“ ranks, made It ■>r> would he a bitter drive deposed IE uid the new union would H^Hr-■; in.-ntiy holding |Ht- wrh the deposed union them and sign up with ip And he called on all of the lift wmg union to n*» organization SB whole question of whleh member*, contracts feds was thrown into and many of the quesHner* due to jam the courts time MB Attest employers of ■<- worker- Westinghouse ■toil Electric -said they confused as to which bargain with. ■■ ''invention yesterday al«o MM'iit the -mailer faun equip Be Concert To jß<ven On Friday ■Mpubllr- is invited to attend of ihe Mizpah Te.n belies of the Eort UB Shrine to be held at the ■Nr high school Friday night No admission will be for the event, sponsored Adams county Shrine club ■■Mlgpah band, chanters and »hl h won considerable 11 national Shrine con9R* ln f'hlcago last summer. ■H* Rented in full regalia on the program will bo BM hr the band, choice selecthe chanter*, and the drill by th e patrol. M Check Warning W sued By Bank M"* 1 ’ of the FirM State Bank Dncatur business HET 4 h<d ' h * , k *riter active |W./'.'*• Including thia City |B *’ signed by George H 4r * u,ua| ly H? “nd written on ■7?’’’ S,vlß « a Ra «>>< of Van |KL MlaM ar * a >»o being used ■g lh * 'hecks which have C.'/ ?*** Th * ‘ hecka »re K M bank officials said of ’he payer and ** r Br * ’•’7 similar In ’< The writer usually and B| " '**•«• in cash. ■<'r .J'*™** ■, *7 * "**'• «*'*•' with ■ •»’- * ’“**

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Columbia City Man Killed In Accident Columbia City. Ind , Nov. 3. — (UP)— Services were arranged today for Fred Carter, 40, Columbia City, who was killed yesterday when his car left Ind 9 and crashed Into a tree . Seven-Year-Old Kidnaped Girl Found In Auto Crippled Carolina Girl Found; Two Men . Taken Into Custody Mullins. 8 C.. Nov. 3.—(UP>— The crippled daughter of a sharecropper was found today In a car stuck in (he sand hills near here with one of two men who kidnaped her within sight of her home last night Police chief 8. J English said a medical examination had estab lished that an attempt had been made to rape seven-year-old Mary Alice Spivey. The child was within sight of her home yesterday enroute from school when two white men drove up beside her and forced her into their car. English said Jerome Alford, a Marion county farmer, was with the little girl in a 1941 Hodge car wh< n officers came upon them in Ihe sand hills across the Pee Dee river from Mullins Police nabbed another man.. Hugh Smith. 23. in Mullins. Eng ' lish said both men admitted that they kidnapped the partly-crippled youngster yeaterday as she was re-1 turning home from school. Both were jailed and held with 1 owl bond pending a preliminary hearing. English said neitner Alford. 30. nor Smith, a newly discharged, sailoi. would give any reason for taking the child. English said the two men, both bachelors, apparently weie intoxicated when they kidnaped the child. The capture of the pair end l ed a widespread search. Police feared the girl had met with violence when they found her red coat and pink sweater near the spot where she wa* picked up. Officers said it wa* then they learned that her abductors were drinking heavily. Mary Alice, daughter of a share cropper and his wife who moved here from Tabor City. N. C. les* than a month ago. was snatched into a 1911 Plymouth coupe yester day as she lagged behind her com panic ns on the way home from (Tara Ta rase Elabn - Youth Support For Community Center School Children To Give Earned Money Decatur school children, from first graders to high school sen lora. will invest earned nickles. dimes, quarters and dollar* In the Decatur Memorial Community Center during the coming weeks. This was reported today by W. Guy Brown, chairman of the youth-chil-dren division to Carl C Pumphrey, general chairman of the drive which seeks 1275.000 for the cen ter. ••Not a nlckle. or even a penny la wanted from a child who doe* not earn it himself." declared Mr. Brown "The young people of De catur are about to have one of the finest civic, social and recreational center* in the United Stat«s but they must earn their fair share of it. not ask their parents for it." , v "High school students, ninth through grade*, are being asked to earn and Invest one dollar each Seventh and eighth grade students have set their Investment goal at 50 cents and youngsters in the first six grades hope to earn and invest 25 cents." Mr Brown said Mr. Brown emphasised that they may give more or less as they please, but they must earn what they Inveet “Our goal is IM Percent participation- Those making up the youthchildren division are: Mr. Brown. Sister M. Agnes and Bryce Thomas, together with all of the teacher* tn all of the schools, both public and Catholic

Bridges Votes “No” On Left-Wing Ouster

■- * ,'iF HARRY BRIDGES (arrow) and members of his longshoremen's union delegation to the CIO national convention at Cleveland stand to be counted as they voted against adoption of a resolution to oust the left-wing United Electrical Workers union, which Bridges had defended vigorously from the floor. The ouster carried by un overwhelming vote and a new electrical workers unioln was formed to embrace right-wing member* of the expelled group. In the foreground is un empty table reserved for. hut never used by the ousted U E., which boycolted all me< tings of the eonventipn.

New Trial Denied To Peler Schwartz Record Os Trial Cited By Parrish Judge Myles F. Parrish refused to grant Peter L. Schwartz a new trial, by setting aside a previous judgment, in the decision handed > down late Wednesday, and at the same time, the judge firmly estab llshed the procedure to be followed in his court In the future The judge ua»-u iiis summary on the historically proud, legally-priz-ed. publley-coveted and constitu , ilonally-assured "due process of | law." "This court." the judge said, ‘ b»» Beres that the life, property or liberty of any man shall not be taken from him . . . without due process of law." Counsels for the defendant. Ed Bosse and C. H Muselman. had contended that had Schwartz known of the true import of the charges he would never have pleaded guiliy in the first place: that affidavits which they produced at the hearing proved that incest was not the true charge, and that Schwartz had not been duly aje prised of the worth of counsel Judge Parrish then produced the record of the trial of Peter L. Schwartz He enumerated the many times he had vainly tried to get an attorney for the man charg ed with incest, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and assault. "I did everything." the judge stated, "but hit the man over the head in trying to make him take, an attorney " Judge Parrish had. in accordance with legal precepts, asked Muselman to aid Schwartz at the time of the first trial. As a friend cf the court. Muselman would have been allowed to counsel the defendant.' At that time, however. Muselman told the judge he would have nothing to do with It because, he was quoted as saying, "the case stinks." The judge. In his closing remarks, mused. "What ha* happened In the meantime to alleviate the stench." When the last wt-ness had been called to the stand, and each side had concluded Rs arguments, the judge allowed each attorney a 30minute period for his closing remarks. Ed Bosse, for the defense, declar ed that Peter L. Schwartz In no wise grasped the significance of the charges against him. and be- j lieved the man entitled to a further. more complete trial, because of the additional evidence uncov ered at Wednesday’s hearing Prosecuting attorney Severin Schurger, for the state, however, said that the "record could speaktor Itself " He said that he would never have tried the case in the first place ezeept for the over whelming evidence against Schwarts. "I cautioned and advised officers that we take time and make sure where we Stand." he said. "The record of the court speaks for Itself ... be could have pleaded not guilty " Muselman. pending his fists while expounding bis facts, cen tered bls arguments mainly on the tTwrw Tv rag*

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, November 3, 1949.

Cardinal Marmaggi Dies This Morning Vatican City. Nov. 3. —(UP) — Francesco Cardinal Marmaggi. 73, prefect of the sacred congregation of the council, died today. The Vatican said the prelate contracted pneumonia during a 1 fight against a heart attack. He died at 3:30 a.tn. Cardinal Marmaggi was the second Cardinal to die this year. His death reduced the Sacred College of Cardinals to 54. President To Warn On Reactionaries Truman Speaks At St. Paul Tonight Aboard Presidential Train Enroute to 8t Paul. Nov. 3—(UP) — President Truman today marked the first anniversary or his 1949 election victory, traveling toward Minnesota to warn the public anew against "reactionaries'* or both parties. The chief executive, on his first extensive train trip since the campaign last fall, was scheduled to arrive in Minneapolis at 1 pm (CST) today He will parade through the city and then Into St. Paul Tonight he speaks from the St. Paul civic auditorium at 9:30 o’clock in words which lie said would be non-partisan and nonpoll: leal. When he put the neutral label on his speech yesterday as he left Washington, reporters who bad nad the advance text chuckled The President joined In the laugh and pointed out that he would mention mither Democrats nor lit* publicans in hi* speech. Nor. he said, would he throw brickbats. The President made his first rear platform address at Savanna. 111., at 7:40 am. CST He was greeted by I’aitl Powell, state Democratic vice chairman a brass band and a crowd of over 1,(H)() Powell who lives In Vienna, 111., is speaker of the Illinois house of represents tlves Mr Truman recalled his successful ye»r and said he was nowdedicated to carrying out the Democratic platform. At dusk, the presidential special stopped for servicing at Cumber land. Md., where nearly I,oo® persons greeted him. He appealed on the rear platform and as local pollticans filed aboard to shake bands, the scene smacked of a hundred "whistle stops" last fall Mr. Truman declined to make a speech, saying that If he did It in, Cumberland, he would have to re-: peat the performance at every »top going and coming from Minnesota He confined himself to waving to the crowd bantering briefly with a pretty local girl reporter. Pat Fullerton of the Cumberland News. His next stop was Pittsburgh. Curtains of the President's private car were drawn tightly as the train stopped again for servicing some distance In the railroad yards away from the station Workmen who yelled for his appoarance got noth <Two To p«ae li

Five Persons Killed In Apartment Fire Flash Fire Races Through Building Chicago. Nov. 3.— (UP) A flash fire raced through a three-story apartment btiikiing early today and killed five pet ons, including three children At least 25 of the building's 250 ! negro residents were injured or suffered burns. Many leaped from windows as flames roartd around th* m. Fix men feared the toll of‘dead would tlse as daybreak permitted them to ssarch through the rooms, treading cautiously over fire,weakened floors. The two adult victims were Idtntifled as Julia Ford and Ukraine Williams The children killtd weie Herbert Jones. Jr.. 9. hie sister Joyce. 6 and James White. Hi. The building was located in a middle-class neighborhood In Chi esgo's south side "Bronzevilii-" The file broke out about 2 am beneath a radiator in a first-floor apartment and flash'd through the building with "almost unbelievable speed," witnesses said Wi.hln seconds, it trapped many residents in th* ir rooms, forcing j them to leap from upper window* or slide down ropes of sheet* Flnimn rescued about 50 by carrying or sscor'inr them down ladders. • Many crowded into sun parlors at the front of the building and stood there, screaming with the flame* shooting up behind them asi , firemen urged them to leap into nets or remain calm until ladders ( could be raised The lawn in front of the building' was dotted with persons lying hurt front Injuries suffered as they ‘ jumped The fire burned fiercely for 90 <Tarw T« ••««* Fisht) I Bail Ordered For 11 Convicted Reds U.S. Appeals Court Orders Men Released New York Nov 3—(UP)— Tht United Stat** circuit court of ap p*als ordered the 11 convicted American communist )ead--r« treed on 92<f'.0O(> bail today, pending peal and they were txpected to be released by mid afternoon The elvll rights congress posted bond in negotiable U 8 treasury bonds shortly before noon. The 11 communist national board m*mb«rs were convicted last ‘ month of conspiring to advocate and teach that the violent over- • throw of th* government is a "duty and necessity." Th<y were to be taken from the ' federal house of detention to the U. 8 courthouse in the regular mkkafternoon delivery by prison van. They will sign and swear to the bonds and then will be relent ed. The government bad asked for a total ball of |l.«®o.®o® Today * (Tam Ta F*pa n»a>

Mine Chief Asks Indiana Governor Use Influence To Help Break Deadlock

Kick-off Tonight On Community Center Psi lota Sorority Votes Fund Pledge Tonight's kick-off for the Decatur Community Center drive was directed with a steady boot toward goal ad campaign headquarter* announced receipt of a 11.500 pledge from the Psi lota XI sorority The sorority's pledge to the fund was reported by Mrs. David F. Terveer, president of the social organization, it was the third substantial contribution made this week by women towaid the $275.000 Center's goal An interesting talk on the Center was given to the members by Mrs. Paul Hancher This evening at 6:30 o'clock at th- Moose home, the campaign which ha* been forming since early last September will be launched into a kick-off for the formal solicitation of funds for the Community Center. Carl C Pumphrey, president of the Decatur Memorial Foundation, I and general chairman of the larze.t civic drive ever undertaken here, will set the ball for kick-off All-star players on the team will b- Dale W McMillen. Sr . founder and hoard chairman of the Ceni tral Soya company, and John E. ; Estabrook, assistant to the manI iger of the General Electric comI t»any. Fort Wayne. Enthusiasts ' for the proposed Community Cen- . 'er. these executives will sound I ihe kevnote for the several hundred volunteer workers who have > be- n enrolled to contact individual. industrial organizations, btisiI ness firms, civic, service and fra- ' ternal groups during the drive The General Electric Aeolian choir will highlight the program with singing. The crowd will he brought to cheering tempo, in the spirit that fans display i.i the ■tadium when old Winsockl makes a winning touchdown "So You Want a Community Center." will be Mr McMillen's challenging question to the assent bly Mr Estabrook will give expert plays to the solicitor*. ('• ntral Soya company, through Mr McMillen, spurred the local drive with an offer of |lffO,oo<i if Decatur raised 1200.000, ind 475. 000 if the fund reached 1150.000. The chairmen, committee and workers who will make the Intensive canvass throughout the city, will be gues's of a "sponsor," who <T»ra 'Ta I'age Klghlt Plan Commission To Meet Here Tuesday Many Suggestions Received By Group The Decatur plan commission will hold a formal meeting Tuesday night at * o'clock in the council room of the city hall, it was announcid today. Col. Lawrence Sheridan, consultant for the local group, will attend and plan* will be made for the 1949-M program of the commission The local group. »ponsor» of the new zoning ordinance, has received many suggestion* for the program and these will be studied at the next Tuesday meeting to determine: future plans The commission, established by a 1917 act of the Indiana general assembly, includes: Mayor John Doan, city attorney, Robert Anderson, city engineer Ralph E Roop, city councilman Al Beavers, Charles Kent. Kenneth, Hlrschy, Clarence Zlner and D4ck Heller It is believed probably that one of the early studies of the commission will relate to suggestions which might aid the flow of traffic through Decatur and the park ing problems in congested areas Other items to be discussed will Include what action th* commls-oon will recommend concerning the twomlle strip around the corporation limit* which are under Jurisdiction of th* council under the new soning ordinance.

I Steelworkers Up Demand To Settle Strike I Bethlehem Formula * To Be Asked From Other Steel Firms ' Cleveland. O. Nov 3 (UP)— | I Striking CIO steelworker* have ! upped the cost of settling their pin > I i sion fight*, dashing all hopes to ' ' day that the Bethlehtm pension agreement would bting a quick end : to the 34 day steel strike. 1 There was no rush of steel companies to accept the Bethlehem settlement as a pattern ÜBW spoke*. 1 men were confident, however, that 1 large Independents would fall in ' line, one-by-one within a few days * Chances for piece-meal settle- * mints weie good Although the r union baa not heard from ('. 8. j Steel Corp which apparently Is I ? standing by and watching the ma-j * neuviring A half dozen other com- ', panics have contacted the union I 1 Executive board members of the I CIO-united steelworkers met with 1 president Philip Murray last night r to hear details of the Bethlehem ' settlement. Thiy wire told that it - ; should be used as a basis for set- * Hing other steel strikes and that 1 negotialors should use the em4 ployes benefits, not the cost to the '■ | companies, to gain uniformity of 1 pension benefits in the industry Tin- union's drive to bring the ' big independents Into line appar- • ntly will pick up steam after the ' close of the ClO's 11th convention ’) hi re Saturday. The union's strate-1 gy appears to be' to wean Jones it 1 Laughlin, R< public. Inland and 1 Youngstown Sheet A Tube into the fold I S\V officials figure that U. 8 Steel would be forced into ‘ settlement or lose customers to the ’ independents Murray admitted that his union negotiators ate trying to work out ' | "tentative agreements" to otter strike bound companies to get the workers back in the mills while the pension details are worked out 1 The hitch lure, evidmtly is Mur \ ray’s Insistence that the "tentative! agreements" embody a guarantee that the companies will match Bethlehem's offer of a minimum 1 8100 a month pension for 25 year mi n. aged 65 or over. With the Bethlehem agreement ’ signed and delivered and the company's »0(M)0 workers bark in ihe -. mills. CIOI'SW president Philip , Murray indicated that the cost of, ! settling the strike had gone up Murray said that the Bethlehem ' pension formula was "better" than the settlement suggestions of the presidential fact-finding board "The union wants the Bethlehem settlement applied to the Industry —and it will tty as best it knows <Tara Tn I’a-:* *ls) I— - — Portland Youth To Face Trial Friday j t Lawrence Saunders Faces Court Trial • lawrence (Harold) Saunders. 17. •of Portland, who has been conI fined to a hospital bed after di ' geHting a light bulb from the coun ty jail, will be tried Friday morn Ing in circuit court. It was announced today i Sheriff Herman Bowman who has kept a Zfrday vigil over the recovered youth, stated that he wanted to get Baunders tried "just as , soon as possible ‘ Saunders, according to rrcent i doctor’a reports, has recovered completely from the effects of sat--1 Ing the light bulb However, the evasive Raunders prolonged his ill- ( ness somewhat by invoking false , hemorrhages by forcibly injecting , his finger up his nose and against , the toot ct his mouth The hemorrhage* subsided, though, when the ( youth’s tints r nails were trimmed Judge Myles F Parrish, after ' consulting the docket, announced iTwrw Tv Fm» »»eb’»

Price Four Cents

Schricker Again Appeals To Lewis To Aid State Get Coal In Emergency Washington. Nov 3 —- (UP) — John L Lewis appealed today to Gov Henry F Schricker of Indiana to help break the coal strike deadlock by using his influence on two "millionaire coal operators." The mine union leader said these two men control the Indians coal operators Rebuffed by the Indiana ojieraf- ' ors in his first attempt to arrange n separate meeting with them, the United Mine Workers president ' telegraphed Schricker an apiteal to step into the situation. said that R. H. Sherwood | and Hubert Elmer Howard dominate the Indiana operators and that Harvey Cartwright, secretary of the Indiana Coal Producers Association. Is "merely a hired man and business agent” for theso "millionair-- coal operator* " Yesterday, Schricker had appealed to Lewis, the coal operators and President Truman for a quirk : settlement to save the state from I a "tragic emergency." Ix-wls agreed to a meeting The j Indiana operators rejected a separate meeting, saying they wore bound to the national negotiating settlement Today I,ewia threw the ball back to Schricker. He told the governor that if he can persuade "the.-e Iwo gentlemen"—Sherwood arid Howard to permit Cartwright to attend an emergency conference it would help the governor to get coal for Indiana Lewis said he hoped Schricker would be able to arrange a conference with the Indiana producers. He said, "we will stand by to atj tend any meeting you deslgnata on a few hours' notice " As for the two "millionaires,' Lewis Hai'l Sherwood controls three coal companies, a power company and a railroad Howard, ■ now chairman of the defense department's personnel board here, 'dominate- the Binkley Coal Co, and other companies in Indiana i >»nil Illinois. l*-wis said Cartwright informed the gover--1 nor of the producers' rejection of Lewis' proposal for a sc pa rat o meeting Lewis told Schricker he hoped he would not be "depressed nor discouraged by the brutal reply" of Cartwright. I>-wis' Telegram to Schricker Indicat'd his desire to obtain » htrlk* settlement with a small segment of the Industry and then put the pressure on others to go along on the same terms. Lewis has been successful In the past with Rn< h tactics Appeal By Schricker Indianapolis. Nov. 3 (UP) - Gov Henry F Schricker again appealed to John L Mwis today "In a spirit of sheer desperation'* to help Indiana ret coal In a “tragic emergency " Five minutes before the arrival of Le-«l«' appeal to Schricker to help break the strike deadlock by lnfluen< 'ng two "millionaire coal operators," Schricker replied to the United Mine Worker chiefs earlier telegram offering to negotiate separately with Indiana operators. The governor told l*-wla th« operators had rejected the negotiation offer, and added "Once again in a spirit of sheer desperstion. I again appeal to you to come to our aid here in Indiana through cooperation ot your offire." Schricker explained on- small mine we* supplying 600 tons dally to "our most distressed public institutions." This is only a drop in thn iTvrv Tv Pane ••*> Tin Can Pickup In Decatur Next Monday A city-wide tin can pickup will begin Monday, according to an announcement made today by Mayor John Doan "It will probably be the last such pickup until after the thaws next spring." he said The cans should be placed In containers in th* alley where trucks will pick them up In a move to eliminate all cans from bomna and yards