Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 286, Decatur, Adams County, 6 December 1949 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

No. 286.

ORKERS STRIKE AT ATOMIC BOMB PLANT

Hunters Lil Os Ishipment L Mysterious Eime Shipment ■A-Bomb Uranium pec. '• — (UP) K hunter* today were un mysterious wartime E to Russia of A-bomb E,j, may have been E- to make it useb-aa. ff,,, learned that a ban E try the late Preaident E government Eftotn Hiving congrega acEvidential materia) may K|rtt month. Eurtty han. which Presi ■gam ha* kept in effect. Ksritery cargo were key *i broadening inquiry into Los atomic materials and via the aerial lend Vine to Russia. |B# .. of such high wartiifie t a the late Harry Hopft'r House confidant, anil trice president Henry A. |U ve been linked to the it Ur It was believed g others, both high and afp.ir.r two former state M t officials, would crop (, Mid he had ■•absolutemi to do with the shipHopkins relatives, friends m usociat** branded as He charges that he was mponsible. p Rtcey Jordan, former r force major, touched off pry with a report that iipßti sent tons of maps, ■i. atomic materials and lost Items through the l at Great Falls. Mont.. Jordan was lend-loaae "ex’ll 1143-44 mu John 8. Wood. D.. Ga.. i bouse unAmerlcaa actlvl■Mee will not "leave an ntouched" in running tar who let such vital into real h the Soviet Union, a low a New York cont pre both dates and names lip his story in two radio tot with commentator FulSk Jr tod Hopkins once told him bboie to keep the atomic to tsoving to Russia and i Rist" On another oc to uld he found a White senorandum initialed ”H tonmabiy Hopkins, saying tor bad "a hell of a time'* Home atomic material from t Leslie R Groves who was h» of the wartime atomic Wet. **• bam? was brought up to lait night. He said the ”lce president and cabin■tor overrode Groves to to delivery of the atomic to I tailed Groves to appear •toy to tell what Im knew •towtents He said Jor ■htoents could "either be *r disproved." *tor»an foresaw a long ■* iMsiry '**■* Weryorie whose name **"•*•" he said. "That to ti«e." to reached at his home In .'wwslk. Conn., denied “‘••Hr cleared any •topstenti to Russia or was * Wallaee. JtUsce was not In my f^tosnd r he said. vic* president, who ~ T ‘ r, “* to»” Weather In State y**- •. ~-<up)— toireau s five-day outZL for * ot colder weath ». rising temperatures lJ* Fri day, and more , ’sekend. temperatures J*** near normal maxih-? “•««- -nd mln h* * “ *•«*— w ' wt *'l < >n. occurring as t “ *•• forecast' about *«ATHtR toe» r w, *to • ffew Wetoweeday. aC*** “id colder, with l '* «ear Lake Mlehe rT J***’* n to rr sooth. High * to J# north, 35

Delays Appointing Atom Group Leader David Lilienthal's Successor Delayed Key West. Fla . Dec. 6. — (UP) — The While House announced today that President Truman will wait until congress convenes before appointing a successor to David E. Lillenthal as chairman of the atomic energy commission. Press secretary Charles G Ros< said that because so little time te mains before congress comes beck in January. President Truman has decided against making a recess appointment to the AFC Job. Lillenthal announced his resig- i nation last month Ross explained i today that Lillenthal does not plan to leave the job unfll Jan. 1 an I has promised to stay beyond that date if anything of an extremely urgent nature comes up. Meantime. Mr Truman got up early to tackle a mass of pap« r work brought to him last night by aerial courier from Washington His work force here was substan- j Hally increased last night by the arrival of virtually all the remaining mem tiers of the White House Staff who were not here from the start. But their presence was not en tlrsly for work Ross said they ex pec ted to mix work and play in the sun about evenly Among the late arrivals were In John R. Steelman, assistant to the president; three administration t.ssistants. Donald Dawson. George Elsey and Charles 8. Murphy; Joseph Feeney, legislative assistant; P. F. MaGuire, assistant to Steelman; 8. J. Splngarn, assistant counsel; and David D. Lloyd aid David Hell, from Murphy's office. There were so many staff membtoKiiere. In fact, they had overflowed the president's quarters In-Ur-Mother big house on the Navy base here and also onto the presidential yacht Williamsburg, which has linen converted Into a floating boarding house Press secretary Charles G. Ross said the primary purpose of the staff influx was work on the messages which he said would now become intensive. But he admitted their presence had holiday angles, too. The early spade work on the message is done or in the stager, of completion The work to lie done here was largely a matter of wording. sifting ideas and pulling the legislative communications into (rial form. Discount Uranium Shipment To Russia Insignificant To Bomb Production Chicago. Dec. 8 -(UP)-Sclent--Ist* who helped produce the first atomic bombs said today there was "nothing startling" about the disclosure that uranium materials were cleared to Russia in 1H43 under wartime lend-lease. Dr. Harold C Urey and Dr Thorfin R Hogness. University of Chicago scientists, and Dr Arthur Jaffe, chemist at Argonne national laboratory, commented on the state department’s statement that export licenses were issued for 1.400 pounds of unrefined uranium, 25 pounds of uranium metal and !.<»««» grams of heavy water" (deu terium). The three chemists agreed that the amounts of uranium materials mentioned in the state disclosure were negligible both from the standpoint of U. 8 suppies in 1943 and as a possible boost to the Soviet Union in atomic y IH yn h "The weights allowed by the export licenses. Urey said, "were so small as to be insignificant to the amount needed to produce a He said the materials I'sted were stable compounds and lbrr,lo^ n '' t virtually no interest. ally, for explosive purposes during Referring to the amount, of unrefined and refined uranium li< en. ed for export. Jaffe said: • "Those were fairly amounts as far as research n atomic energy went Apparen y less than a ton was Involved .”<« .... «••»“«' '■ productioto of the A-bomb. * Hognoaa. former director of the institute of radiobiophysics, .aid <Taea Te r»S«

Discuss Means Os Settling Coal Crisis Two Coal Operators Meeting Secretly To Discuss Crisis End New York. Dec. 6.—(UP) — One 1 northern and one southern soft coal operator met secretly today to discuss means of ending the bituminous crisis while long-stym-ied negotlatoins between anthracite operators and John L. Lewis' united mine workers resumed. The secret meeting was hailed as the first step toward a possible compromise settlement of the dispute between the nation's soft coal 1 operators and the union over a new contract. The operators were Joseph Sal vatti. of the Island Creek Coal Co.. I West Virginia, of the southern group, and George Isive. a northern coal man. They were brought together by Robert R. Young, head of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. A spokesman for Young said the meeting was being held "at an undisclosed place.” Young was acting as "interlocutor or intermediary” and he was interested primarily in getting the C and O. a big coal carrier, operating. the spokesman added No| union representative attended. Young, whose railroad has suf- - sered heavy losses because of cur-' tailed coal production, has been! attempting to bring the soft coal, operators and John L Lewis. UMW chieftain, together for the past week. Lewis reportedly was "pleased and interested” in the meeting. He has hoped for a split in the solid ( front of the operators, observers i •aid. * I-ewis was not present at the. anthracite meeting, which was opened formally at the WaldorfAstoria by joint chairman Ralph E. Taggart, president of the Phila-delphia-Reading coal and Iron Co.. (Tara Ta I’aae •!»> Postpone Action On Berne Annexation Remonstrances And Petitions Are Filed Approximately 5« people gathered in the commissioners' room in the courthouse Monday to accompany petitions and remonstrances which were filed regarding the an negation of the territory north of Berne to the Berne town limits, though U appeared certain that no action would Ire taken on the matter. A petition was filed by the town | board of Bertie seeking the add! tional property to alleviate traveling to and from schools for tnt ' children. Roliert 8. Anderson. Deca- ' tur attorney, represented the ' hoard; D. Burdette Custer, ilso of ' Decatur, presented a remonstrance attacking the annexation proposal. , signed by 50 taxpayers in the area , in question. I Custer, when presenting the re- , monstrance, stated that It "conveyed the sentiments of the people " i The Berne town board Is attempting to annex an area approximate.y i 12 times the size of the town itself The entire area Iles east, west and north of Berne; none la sought south of the town of Berne. i County attorney Ed A. Bosse, al i so present at the meeting, stat-’d i there was no provision in the stat'* acts for a remonstrance, thougu one was nevertheless presented Following the meeting, one of the | commissioners stated that any action on the matter would tie "post- ’ ;ioned indefinitely." I County's Printing Contract Awarded The county commissioners, in their regular meeting Monday, awarded the printing contract for the coming year to the Haywood Publishing Co., of the low bidder on all five classes of printing. ' The A. E. Boyce Company, of Muncie, forwarded the only other bld but was disqualified for failure to post bond The Boyce bld was for the first three classes of printing. but still higher than the Haywood bid.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, December 6, 1949

Chamber Os Commerce Officers ’fl J ■> - '*** - mW ; pF E fl fIV Glenn HU! Richard W. Pruden

Glenn Hill Reelected C. Os C. President Annual Organization Meeting Held Here Glenn Hill, prominent Decatur business man. was reelected prrsi dent of the Decatur Chamber of i Commerce for 1950 at the annual organization meeting held Monday night In the new Chamber room* in the DeVoss building. Anspaugh. owner of Anspaugh Studio, was elected vicepresident and Karl Caston. assisti ant cashier of the First State bank, was named treasurer. R. W. Pruden was reappointed executive manager of the Chamber. Mr. Anspaugh also will be chairI man of the retail division of the Chamber for 1950. |t was announced. The annual election was the first official meeting in the new quarters and open house will be held tonight from 7 until 9 o’cloc k for all members and their wives. Directors other than the officers include: Stewart McMillen. Carl Gerber, Dr. Harold Zwlck. R C. Khlnger, John DeVoss, Wilbur Petrie. John Welch. Robert Macklin and Roger Kelley • The new officer* will be installed at the annual general meeting, which will be held in January Plans for the annual event will be announced later, manager Pruden said today. At that time the year's program also will be outlined to all members. Directors were loud in their praise of Hill and Pruden and pointed out the score of activities added during 1949 R C. Khlnger. retiring chairman of the retail division. also was complimented for hl* program. 4-H Dairy Calf Club Banquet Held Here Dr. Gerald Jones Principal Speaker Dr Gerald Jone*, pastor o 9 the Decatur Method!*! church, was the main speaker Monday night at the banquet of the 4-H dairy calf club held in the K of P home. Dr Jone* was introduced by L onard Kingsley. Herne vocational agricultural teacher toastmaster for the evening. Preceding Dr Jernes' speech. Charles 'Ripley spoke for the 4-H dairy club members. and Herman Krueckeberg responded for the sponsoring committee Ripley extended the appreciation of the members to the sponsors for the project. Krueckeberg expressed the happiness of the sponsors, par ticularly in the progress of a club that adds materially to a cotnmun ity. The only things asked of the youths. Krueckelrerg said, was that when they get older they try to aid as much as possible the youth of the community. Charles Backhaus then gave the story of the activities of last year the meetings and the project. Dr Jones, in hie speech, which was based on the premise that man cannot live by bread alone, stated that while It is complimentary for people to Improve produc tion met herds, worldly gain is not the important factor at all He vividly brought attention to the changes which have taken place over the years, but at the 'same time emphasized the Import ance that necessitates spiritual thought L. E Archbold, county agent. (Tara To r«S« ■••••»

Report Quintuplets Born In Colombia Medellin, Colombia. Dec. 6 — (I'Pi Quintuplet boys have been born to the wife of a laborer and are In perfect health, the mayor of the remote village of Angoslure Norte reported today The mayor said the quintuplets. | children of Alfonso and Marria Arroyave. were baptized yesterday. They were named Fermin. Ramiro. Rodrigo. Nabor and Francisco. The mother's condition was reported as excellent — Charges Violations Os Taft-Hartley Law Union Soys AT & T Is Violating Law Washington. Dec. 6 — (t’PI — The communications workers of America (CIO! today formally accused the American Telephone and Telegraph company and IS of Its Hell system subsidiaries of "bad faith" contract bargaining in violation of the Taft Hartley law Joseph A. Heirne. president of the CIO union, charged in a com- i plaint filed with the national labor relations board that ATAT and its subsidiaries last month "illegally" changed the terms of the industry pension plan without bargaining with the union Moat of the 18 subsidiary com panies named In the complaint are state Hell telephon - companies. The ATAT and the Bell system have had a company-financed pen-1 sion plan since 1911? On Novern-1 i her 22. when the CIO union was bargaining with many-Hell com-I ; panies. ATAT increased its pen-1 i sion benefits Heirne said the pension plan was changed by the company I without the knowledge or consent of the union "This is not true collective bargaining." Heirne said "Actions like that of the companies. If allowed to continue unchecked, would completely destroy the pat- | tern of collective bargaining relations." Both the labor board and the supr'-me court have held that pension* are a subject for collective bargaining And the Taft-Hartley tu t requires all companies and unions to bargain in good faith on all matters that are found to be bargainable Issue* The ATtiJ issued a statement ass-rting tnat the changes pro tested by the union were made under procedures provided for in the pension plan The ATAT pension plan now provides >IOO a month pensions, including social security, for all employes. 65 and over, who have been with the company 2o years or more The old minimum at age *5 was >SO a month. Besides ATAT. the union char ges were directed against Bell system companies in Indiana. Illi- ; nois. <>hk>. Wisconsin. Michigan. Cincinnati. New Jersey, and the Southwestern Bell company. Northwestern Bell company. Southern Bell company, snd Chesapeake A Potomac Telephonompanies in West Virginia. Mary land. Virginia, and the District of Columbia The charges also covered telephone and telegraph companies on : the Pacific coast, the mountain states, and several departments and laboratories of ATAT and ' Western Electric Co. •

Strike Os Construction Workers On New Building Spreads To Oak Ridge Lab

Nation Employment Higher Last Month October Decrease In Jobs Wiped Out Washington. Dec. B.—(UP)—i employment rose by SH.-; •mo last month and wiped out all of the October decline caused by the coal and steel strikes, the com inerce department reported today Commerce secretary Charles . Sawyer said the "job picture In November was perhaps more favorable than at any previous time this year " The American Iron A- steel institute reported that the nation's steel mills, now back in normal production are expected to operate at 91-7 percent of rapacity this week It Would be the highest out put reached since the week of May 30. Sawyer was confident the nation could reap a "fabulously high standard of living" in the next 5o years if it adopts a policy of "new • liberalism" in which all economic groups are held "in balance." He said in a speech before a New York meeting of the public 1 relations society of America that the chief problem is dividing the results of U S. production equit ' ably among consumers, labor, management. agriculture capital and I the government i "Th< re is a middle ground which I is best for all in the long run.” ' he said "When one of these groups Is short-changed, the economy suf fers.” The commerce department report placed total employment at I 59.. r >lN,mm workers on Nov 12 This compared with 59,mt1.<••••• on Oct s. and 59.M93,m>0 figure in November. 1949. Unemployment was estimated at :t.4ti9,mm person s. as against 3.57ft,mm in October and 1.931,000 a year ago Sawyer said all employment ' losses suffered during the steel and coal disputes had bem recovered and that nonagrii ultural employ no nt in November had reached the ; 1919 high of late summer Agri< illI ture employment was aided by good weather last month and fail led to show "its customary sea zonal decline," he said. Highway Contracts Awarded By County More Bids Will Be Awarded Late Today The county commissioners dis posed of a majority of items confronting them in awarding high way contracts for the coming year in the forenoon portion of an allday session in the county court house. Os the 10 items Considered this morning, no bids were received on four It- ms. contracts were award ed on five Items, and the other item had been tabulated but was taken under advisement until the afternoon session. The commission received no bids for sand and gravel; tile and sewer pipe, 2<Ml barrels of Portland cement, and yellow pine ship lap The John Karsh stone company of Jefferson township, and the Meshberger Bros stone company, of French and Blue Creek town ships, were jointly awarded the i contract for the so.uuo tons of I erushed stone Whichever com- ' pany affords the county the abort- ; est haul, the commissioners exi plalneil. will lie utilized for any partii ular work Roth companies entered blds of Ml 30 a ton for •tone loaded on county trucks There were four bidders for the corrugated m-tal pip*- the coatract being awardeil to the Istg ■asport Metal Culvert Company for corruga’ed pipe, to the Armco Drainage and Metal Produce Com pany of Indianapolis, for rolled I pipe There Hi no set amount of thia to be obtained, but the county ! buys it as required The Lewiston Pipe Company, of I UTwra Te Pea*

Reports Radar Equipment On Soviet Planes Jordan Asserts He Ripped Equipment From Four Planes New York. Dec. 6 (UP) For-; mer army air force major George ’ Itacey Jordan said today that he ripped secret U. 8. radar equipment out of four Itiissian-bound transports In the spring of 1943 but that a fiftli plane containing the devices eluded him and flew to Moscow. Jordan made the new- disclosure in his story of an alleged leak of atomic bomb materials and secret i information to Russia at a press - conference. ' As the conference started, a publicity man announced that Jordan had intended to identlify the mysterious "Mr. X" and "Mr Y" whose names he saw on documents shipped to Russia during the war, but that he had been 'prohibited by congress" from naming them Jordan said that the two names 1 of "high state department offi- . ciaia" which he took from a suit- > case had been given to the house committee on un-American ai-tlvl- ‘ ties and that one of the group's ’ chief Investigators had said the committee "would pr- fer" tliat he not release them pending a ■om mi.’ee investigation Jordan was a lend-leaae expedl 1 ter ill 1943-44 at Great Falls. 1 Mont., air base, shipping point for thousands of cargo-laden planes to Russia Explaining the radar incident 1 Jordan said that he became suspicious when a ('l7 trans|>ort plane arrived at the base and he found "strange gadgets" installed in it While the plane waited to hav> the Russian red star painted on it. he said, he telephoned Wright field at Dayton. (>.. and asked the security officers. Col ('. II Git zinger, whether Russia was get ting something new He said Gitzinger exclaimed. 1 ' rip it out of there” when inform ed that mechanics had said it was radar equipment Three more planes arrived in rapid succession, Jordan said, ami he tore tile radar equipment out of them He said he learned that a fifth plane left Washington piloted by | Maj Gen A. I Belyaev chief of the Ruslan purchasing commission In Washington "The general got In. took off i and flew right over my head to Moscow." Jordan said. "He didn't land at Great Falls." He indi< at iTatrn In (’■■» Klafcri James Frank Dies Monday Afternoon Funeral Services Thursday Morning James Collins Frank. 79. former owner of a grocery at Glenmore O. died at 2 55 o'clock Monday afternoon at his home, one and one fourth miles east of Salem, follow ing an Illness of two weeks He was born In Adam* county Oct 27. 197<>. a son of John and Sarah Chllcote-Frank, and was married to Della Myers March 2 1999 The family had lived near Salem for the past nine years Surviving in addition to his wife are a brother. l»avid Frank of Stur g|«. Mh h . and a number of and nephews Two bnithers and one alster preceded him in death Funeral services wilt be held a’ |0 a m Thursday at the borne and at 10'3o o'clock at the Union U. B church, the Rev L A Mlddauah and the Rev J Angel officiating The body will be removed from th* Zwick funeral home to the real dence at 7 o'clock tbto evening

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Strike By Members Os Crafts Union Spreads To Other Atom City Plants Oak Ridge. Ti-nn . Dec. t> (UP) A walkout of members of threo AFL construction crafts building a new $56.000,0(i0 atomic bomb production plant here spread today to the Oak Ridge national laboratory and to new home construction projects. An atomic energy commission official admitted that the atomic ! city's first strike had developed I into a situation that "looks pretty bad.” About DM) laboratory workers and men building 5<M) houses and a pipeline quit work some 1* hours I after 250 fellow workers on the atomic plant walked out Tire new group that quit In a dispute that started over alleged hiring of non union labor included \ «tiamfittirs. plumbers, truck drivI ers and operating engineers. Gordon Molesworth. assistant Ui | the manager of Oak Ridge opera* ! tions for the atomic energy commission. estimated that the num her now idled wa* about ) <••••• Steamfitters, truck drivers and operating engineers, all working out of the Knoxville building trades council, began tire chain reacting walkout late yesterday, when they abruptly quit work at the "high priority" K 29 atomic plant now under construction The craft workers who walked ' out on one Job today were employed by Hick- * Ingle, subcontractor for John A Johnson A Sons. Inc . on construction of 500 practically completed new home* The Johnson firm ha* the contract for con- , »tru< ion of a new high school, but ilt was not immediately learned whether Ihat project wa* affected. All three crafts, meanwhile, quit work on a J A Jones construction Co. project at the national laboratory- the nerve center of atomic research h<r* and on a lateral natural gas pipeline project to the K 29 plant Molesworth said the walkout at the laboratory was having "little effect" on work there Molesworth *aid the atomic ommi**ion. which he described as nt "Innocent bystander" in the work stoppage, had been "holding our breath" last night when member* of the three spearheading crafts began work on tin- night shift at the K 29 plant Official* thought that the walkout might fizzle At lunch time, however, those workers quit, too. he said Meanwhile, business agents of the affected union- who nfu-ed publicly to comment <>n the walk- ' out. planned to meet this morning | with officials of Oak Ridge afflliI atea. The sheriff's office at nearby Harriman. Tom. reported that It ■ had asked the state highway patrol for help in petroling the HarrimanOak Ridge highway Patrol sergeant <’ W Strader said authorities expected trouble" Shortly after noon a large group of AFL painters metal workers roofer* and ilectrieian* joined the walkout Although several strike* have threatened on r contract disputes, none actually ever had taken place to interrupt atomic op* ration* before yesterdays walkout President I'ruman once invoked the emergency clause of the Taft-Hart-ley law to prevent a threatened strike here Molesworth said he planned no i Immediate action in the present ; stoppage and indicated he would *Tera Ta !*«■« •>*> Hjwwwe S sPSe/ ay MORISTWSSfALS