Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 292, Decatur, Adams County, 13 December 1949 — Page 1

No. 292.

SEEK CAUSE OF AIR CRASH KILLING FOUR

® Bel Defies ,’B Decision ■Jerusalem Proclaims ' JS. -salem A s I* s Capital Dra<-1. Dec. 13—(I’Pl jM ... :.,i •!»♦•«! Jerusalem its today defiance Wi.-n* decision to the Holy City. ■Bvi/.i government will set in the "new city" The old city.” covflK., 2'" acres encircled by • .foot stone wall, is oc Hashemite Jordan move to shift most JB'i-tntnen’ activities from K-. .„ (he former capital of »■'* announced by pro Bi 1 ItetiGurlon at a tense HB < 'he Israeli parliament n bitterly attacked the "> l ,ia, ' e Jerusalem ■Hj i y trusteeship council moot lend ourselves to ‘eparation from Jerusa | without reason or J SB-' hl ‘" ,ri ‘ ” a,ural rieht ~f of Zion." he said I Israel, there B-c •**" and always will Jerusalem the eter M ,- been for the past and so it will be. we until the end of time . innouncement was mB ,h *' a " |h,,ri 'v J ■B *•' F ’ rlllav ,hP general as ;n New Votk directed the ■Mtt .otincil not to allow "any * -iken by any interested r governments to di jHt f' .m adopting and I tupleJAg internationalization to move to Jerusa Mn- :t!.ide by the cabinet only slknight meeting that shortly before dawn I’ B hours of hot debate BB h " '" ul>u " aI >"” * ruling Abdullah of Hashemite Jor !r '‘'l l " t" 1 1,1 object to the He too. opposed in of Jerusalem, to remain in occupa section of the city ■ Ur $* UN Action SHh Success. N. Y.. Dec 1.3minister Fadhll ■:! Iraq today urged early 'he ( luted Nations secur to counter Israels pro of Jerusalem as its cap of a UN order for of the Holy informed of the action m Tel Aviv, told report never believed that Is o.tnjdetely sincere toward •''“lions or its prlncithink that summoning council to take ac- *“■ ,h * n ‘‘ xt M*p ” the Iraqi diplomat did MB*Miatelv make a formal retor P urity council action Widespread speculation Arab nations which, with of Hashemite Jor ■m"'*' l !' "Upported interna M^M* !ion of Jerusalem, prob * wk 1 *’ sanctions of uainai H. Barkley ® At Monroeville 818 J 11 Barkley. 102, Monroe gßggß* ulfl * r «f John Barkley ot 'Br' >Bd oldest resident of V> 88l <ll * d Mond *y at her had l>een a lifelong rest BBL All#b ‘onnty and was a MF * East Liberty Evangel BBL' , '' ,-,i Brethren church Hur the sou. John, are MB? *° n ' *’»ldo of Monroeville BB| tt, * r ' Mr * Minnie Shafer BBk B ' r four <rand< hlldren BBL?**' <rand <'hlldren B|K ' may call at the home to g|Hs ' " BUI funeral time Wed <f '’ r n<s>n at 2 o'clock a: IK ? E ’ an «’ , l‘‘*l United Bre flUj' r ' h in Mronroeville, the S '*'odemus official.to■■te"?' 1 ** in th® I o o r " M °nro*vllla Xlkwn WtAT H«R ,a ‘ r ratMr cold cT* i- ow w ’* ’* 20 ta 28 ”

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May Swing Economy Ax On Marshall Plan Sen. Scott W. Lucas Hints At Reduction Washington. Dec. 13—(UP)— The congressional economy ax swung ever nearer the Marshall plan today after a hint from senate majority leader Scott W Lucas. 111., that he might go along with some reduction. Congressional investigators returning from Europe have been generally agreed that Marshall plan appropriations should be reduced in the next session which convenes Jan. 3. The foreign economic aid bill passed last September appropriated 15.660.000.000. Os this 61.X52.380.000 was for the European recovery program—6l.o74.ooo,(olo for the last three months of fiscal 104* and *3.778.380.000 for this fiscal year. Senators beat down house efforts to cut the figure Lucas discussed the next session program in a news conference here yesterday. He said he would go along with a cut In Marshall plan spending "if we can make the cut without crippling the program." That is what the homecoming congressional investigators claim they know how to do. Repeal of federal taxes on oleomargarine will be No. 1 on the senate schedule. Lucas said, to be followed soon by a hill to establish a national fair employment practices commission and to deal with displaced persons FEPC would prohibit discrimination in hiring on grounds of race or religion. Enforcement would be up to the justice department. Attorney general J. Howard McGrath is confident his department could enforce FEI’C in the south where opposition has been bitter. Dairy states senators are expected to filibuster against removing taxes from oleomargarine. Despite these certainties of extended talk, the administration believes it can carry both bills to enactment But It Is recognized that the senate's new "gag" rule on filibusters probably will be needed to silence southern opposition to any civil rights legislation. There was nothing in Lucas’ conference remarks to indicate that be has even a remote hope of obtaining a tax increase at the next session. Auction Graduation Rites Friday Noon The graduation banquet for M students at the Reppert school of auctioneering will be held Friday noon at the K. of P. home, according to an announcement made today by officials of the school. Q. R. Chaffee, dean of instruction and manager of sessions at i the school, will be the principal speaker Officials stated that the full program has not as yet been completed other than to make announcement of the speaker. Man Confesses To Fort Wayne Murder Confesses Killing Partridge Saturday Fort Wayne. Ind. Dec 13—(UP) —Floyd Butcher. 37. a factory guard confessed under questioning today ’that he killed a 51 year old farm worker in an argument over his former wife. Detective Capt Theodore Wyss said Butcher admitted the murder of Dewey Partridge, 51. last s * ,ur day night The body of Partridge was found near an amusement park Sunday, a hole In the back of bl Wyss'* said Butcher broke down during questioning and hitting Psrt ridge over the head with a whiskey bottle, after the two had engaged in •' en ” hy ’”' U y ment over his divorced wife. Mary Partridge, who was «| yesterday, at first refusedlto Identify Butcher as the man who fatally beat her « hua^" d ./“; Butcher said she was sitting in the car when It happened ” The three met in a tavern!Batur day and left together. Butcher said WTtile they werej rrulslng a long, h argument started and he stopped the car and the two men 1-«-*«ld formal chvrges probably would be filed late today.

United States And Bulgaria Near To Break Mistreatment Os U.S. Diplomats In Bulgaria Assailed Washington. Dec. 13. —(UP) — The United States and Bulgaria may be headed for a break in diplomatic relations. garia's mistreatment of American The state department said Buldlplomats raised the question of whether Bulgaria wants to continue normal diplomatic relations. For its |>art, the state department said it “can not ignore" Bulgaria's repeated conspiracy charges against U.S. minister Donald R. Heath. Undersecretary of state James E. Webb delivered a U.S. protest and a warning late yesterday to the Bulgarian charge D'Affaires. Peter Voutov. Webb called Voutov to the state department and lec--1 tured him for 15 minutes without lulling any punches. Webb protested general restrictions on the U.S. legation in Sofia, and specifically defended Heath against communist charges that: he conspired to overthrow the I Bulgarian government The communists are trying for-, mer vice-premier Traicho Kostov i and Iff other Bulgarians on charges I of plotting against the government. Kostov is accused of conspiring | with Heath, hut Webb protested yesterday that these charges were "patent falsehoods,” Webb recalled that Heath had asked the Bulgarian government newspapers to print his denials. Instead, the Bulgarian press repeater! the charges and indicated that all American denials were lies. As soon as the Webb-Voutov conversation ended, the state dej.artment put out a blistering state-1 ment hinting that Bulgarian-Amer-ican diplomatic relations hung by a thread The state department alsf> exhibited Bulgarian press reports which said American denials of spying were "old and tattered cliches.” One newspaper article, signed by director Todor Guenov of the political department of the Bulgarian foreign office, said Washington ami London did not understand that their sides had been caught. Heath, a native of Topeka. Kans . has been minister to Sofia since Sept. 30. 1947. but his tour of duty there may be ending. Safely Program Is Planned In Schools Railroad Sponsor Os Program Here A safety program for all Decatur I schools- sponsored by the Erie : railroad, will be held here Jan 9. I It was announced today by Lieu{tenant J. E. Zlnsmeister. member of the Erie railroad police department. in charge of the Marion division of the Erie safety program A movie entitled "Yours For The Asking." accompanied by a talk on safety, will be shown at a joint meeting of Decatur high school and St. Joseph Catholic and high school students at Decatur high mhool at 8:15 o'clock on the morning of Monday. Jan *. The same program will then be rhown on the same day at Lincoln school at 9 16 o'clock. Lt Zinsmelster will conduct the gpgram The Erie police officer stated that since Inaugurstlon of the safety , program the death rate of children on the nation's railroad property had been cut to almost zero The program will be shown at every town and city along the Erie, from Jersey City. NJ., to Chicago, the officer stated Lt. ' Zlnsmeister stated that another ' phase of the program aleo dealt with teaching the children of each community to protect rather than destroy railroad property He aeid I that all railroads lost thousands ,! of dollars worth of property each year because children broke out and even derailed trains by placing obstacles on the tracks. The Erie railroad has long been . a leader in safety education for children, Zlnsmeister said.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, December 13, 1949.

To Probe Coffee Prices ■ a < BEN. GUV GILLETTE (left) (D. Iowa), chairman of the senate agriculture committee's sub-committee investigating coffee prices, confers with C. G. Lindsay. New York head ot the Pan-American coffee bureau at Washington Sen Gillette's investigators will ask Lindsay about rumors of "coffee dumping" to keep prices up

Announce Rules For Oratorical Contest Plan Annual Legion Oratorical Contest Rules, regulation* and subject matter tor the 13th annual national high school oratorical contest for 1950 were announced today by Ed Jaberg. oratorical chairman of Adam* Post 43, sponsors of the evert locally. The American Mgion sponsors the oratorical event, from Its inception in the counties to th<? na tional finals. All city, town and county schools In Adams county are eligible for entrance. Jaberg said, and he added that he hoped there would be more entered fur the 1950 contest than havejrntered In the past Never before, he said, have there been more than three at one time. He believes that the subject — "The Constitution" is worthwhile enough, and that more high school students could give such a flexible subject matter clever and mean ingful interpretation. There la an added Incentive to students who enter within the county and win one of the top three places. Jaberg announced that post 43 is awarding sso - $25 for the first place winner; sls for second, and $lO for third — as Its own awards National awards Include four scholarships, ranging from s4.<>oo downward to S6OO. The rules, which are devised by the national Americanism convniff sion ot the American Legion, are rigid, and hold throughout the contest. limiting the registrations to qualified high school students.

By February 3 all schools must have chosen its winner. Jabers states, and the county winner wit' be chosen by February 17. From the county the winners advance to district. to zone and to state. Miss Margene Bauer was winner of the state oratorical contest In 1948, the furthest an Adams county student has ;>rogressed. The national oratorical contest has grown from the first year. 1938, when 4.000 students orated throughout the country on the special attributes of the constitution to last year when a quarter of a million speakers from high schools in America explained its potential! (Tara Ta «*aaa MM Dates Are Set For Spring Music Feast Dates for the spring music festival to be presented by the county high achools were announced today by Richard Hkkmau. music instructor m the county *chool* The festival will be held April 12 au<i 14. with Verner Chance, music supervisor of the Fort Wayae school*, directing the student* Plan* for the festival were discussed last I" ,h * c° un, X au! ’' erintendent s office and final dates were set today All county high schools will participate. Hiekman said, in th* festival which will be held in tb* Monmouth school Aprd ’ 12 and In the Geneva school April >l4.

Good Fellows Club Previous report $352.79 Zion Reformed church 10-00 Ixds Chronister 6.00 A Friend 500 A Friend 5.0 u Martha Imurent 1.00 Phyllis Owens 2.00 Total $380.79 $140,000 In Damages Asked In Suits Here Liniger Accident Results In Suits Summons have been issued, their delivery noted, for the defendants in what is probably the largest damage suit action ever to be filed In Adams circuit court In three different suit* filed Monday. a total amount of $140,000 I* being sought a* the result of injuries sustained from an accident, in which one person was killed, al most two years ago. Ed A. Bosse. Decatur attorney, filed In circuit court complaints for damages for Wallace Liniger. a* administrator of the Frank Liniger estate. $16,606; Mrs Mabie Liniger. $100,600. and Mrs. Chloe Liniger-Parrish. $26,000. The action is the result of an accident which occurred one and one-half miles west of Decatur on U. « highway 224 on January 14. 1948 Each complaint alleges that the drivers of a tractor- truck. Philip Perry and Lewis Townsend, were "negligently, carelessly and unlawfully” operating the truck on the highway The truck, the com plaints state, was either parked or moving slowly with no light* visible from the rear Frank Liniger died at the scene of the accident, in which the car he was driving crashed into the truck; Mrs Mabie .Liniger and Mrs Chloe Liniger Parrish, both pas sengers in the car. were rushed to the Adams county hospital Mrs Liniger'* and Mrs Parrish's complaint* charge that as a result of injuries sustained in the accid«nt. they were hospitalized for long period* of time, and both will be permanently disabled Wallace Liniger. a* administrator pf the estate, seeks the full amount -$15,600 allowed by law when a person is killed. Summons were issued Monday for and delivered to Perry and Townsend, drivers of the truck. Leo. Joseph and George Williams. iT»« Ta *>*> Holy Nome Society Names New Officers New officer* of the Holy Name society of Bt. M*ry'« Catholic church, were elected at the annual meeting of member* at the K. of last evening Joseph Schult* wa* elected president Other officer* are. Leo F. Miller, vice-president and Alber' Gllllg. *ecretary-treasurer Edward Gaa* la tb* retiring president The officer* will be installed at the first meeting In January Communion Sunday for the members la the second Sunday of each month.

Airliner Plunges Into Potomac River, Killing Four; 19 Are Rescued

Distribute Shares Os November Taxes Distribute Funds For Taxing Units The county auditor's office is; ready to distribute to the state of Indiana and Its-al taxing units their respective shares of the November taxes. The tax melon totals 1134,677.28, Thurman I Drew, auditor, announced. Taxes collected by Nor Val Fuhr ' man. county treasurer, amounted to $426.643 19 The treasurer's d<liquent fees totaled $258 18, which were deducted from the gross amount. Hank taxes were $9,285.99 The state will receive $26,677 2" and the balance will be distributed locally. Tlw‘ new Adams Central Consolidate school corporation will receiv»Vs42,l*s,s4 The HerneFrench school unit receives $29 996 14 The county government Is ere dited with $72.653 35. The welfare ; department will receive $20,36288 atid the Adams county memorial hospital. $7,831 85. The township poor funds will be boosted with $13,485.55. i Distributions to the townships, school and civil units follow: Township* Blue Creek. $9,100.6't; French. $787 21; Hartford. $12.i 602.28: Jefferson. $8,797.45; Kirk laud. $941.52; Monroe, $2,006.37; Preble. $7,969.46; Root. $14.327 85; St ‘Marys. $12,003.53: Union. $12,081 25; Wabash. $20,213.33; Washington. $1,607.59. Berne, library, $2,073.31. civil town, $10,866.55. Decatur: school board. $51,71722; library, $3,881.38; civil city. $45,489 u7. Geneva: library, $760 86; civil town. $5,041.99. Monroe, civil town. $915 95. Truman Plans Fight For Civil Rights Will Base Fight On Fair Employment Key West, Fla, Dec 13. —(UPt — President Truman will base his 1950 fight for a civil rights program on a federal fair employment practices law. it was learned today This was not officially annoum ed at the winter White House, but it developed as a dead sure fact from unofficial conversations with members of the president s staff The Truman staff said the President realized that the easy way out of the political phases of the civil rights program would be to work first for enactment of a federal antl-lynch law and repeal of the poll tax. Hut. presidential advisers point ed out. the leading groups behind the civil rights program want to fight on the toughest possible lineenactment of a law which would ban racial discrimination in any business engaged in interstate com merce Mr Truman in his state of the union message will a»k for an FEP<’ And administration lead ers were preparing to bring up the civil rights fight early in the sec ond session of the 81st congress, ’ hoping to get the issue out of the way as far in advance of the 1960 ; congressional elections as possible The Democratic leadership in the senate has promised to shoot fast and first when congress comes I back into session again in January The FEPC bill is pending before the senate judiciary committee and an early effort will be made to report it out and bring it to the «T»ra Ta P*«e ■ - Stoker Runs Dry, Department Called Firemen were called about 7:36 o'clock this morning to extinguish a Dre that wasn't there They were called to the Morris store on North Second street when the stoker ran out ot coal, the hopper was empty, land the smoko backfired Theie was no damage reported.

Hoover Urges Eight Reforms In Government Asks Solid Support For Moves To Slash Government Costs Washington, Dec 13 H'pi | The people of the United Sta'es had an urgent Invitation today from former president Herbert Hoover to join him "In a crusade to make democracy work." The 75-year-old former president made his appeal in a nationwide radio address and before about 7<m> persons gathered here at a "<-ra< ker barrel" conference of the citiz ens committee for the Hoover re port. He urged solid support behind eight new reform in government ' Which he said could save the tax , payers s2,turn,non,turn a year It will be necessary, he said, to reduce . eight new rearms in government , ventures. Saying a reduction in the cost .>f , ’ government is necessary to win the ■ cold war. he added significantly: ■| "By these reforms and these selfdenials, we tan help disapisdut Ml. I Stalin. . . ' "There is today much apprehension lest the American experiment ' will fall. We have need to re-estab iish faith that the whole preamble to the Declaration of Independent' ■ and the Gettysburg Address are still related to government I "If the republic Is not to be ovet whelmed, the people must have ' such methods ami systems as will j enable good officials to give them I good government Success in ot r I crusade will help bring faith in | stead of cynicism and disillusion ment." Mr. Hoover spoke al the midway I istint of a twotiay meeting simnsor ed by the Citizens Committee, an outgrowth of the official Hoovtr i commission He shared the speaker's platfoim with Mrs. India Edwards, director of the women's division of the 1 1 Democratic national committee, and i with Itep Clarence Brown. 11. I) ' a member of the 12-man bi partisan J Hoover commission which spent tx I months attempting to find out bow | government could become more i-c---imomlcal and efficient. ' I Earlier in the day. the coiiferem •• j got a promise by letter from I’res (Tara 1» I’aa* *!•( I I District Endorses Busse For Chaplain Pastor At Preble Backed By Legion The endorsement of the Rev. <) 1 C Busse, pastor of the Preble ■ Lutheran church, and Adams post ■ 43 chaplain, by the fourth district delegates of the American I-egion ■ i for state chaplain of the i was announced at the regular meet- . Ing of the post Monday night The 1 approval now goes before the state ' department of the legion for sane tlon. then onto the convention floor i next summer for vote Commander Elmer Darwachter. of post 43. also announced at the meeting that there will be no fur j ther meetings this month, due to the holiday*. The next meeting • will be the second Monday In Jan I uary The members Monday voted *6® for the Gou4 Fellows club, and; announced the Christmas party for Legionnaire*' children Mrs Wilmer Randebush. Mr and Mr*. Harold Tieman and El mer Darwachter left today for In dianapolls. to the veteran's ho* pltal there, to visit Wilmer < Dutch > Randebush. Chauncey Brokaw, i Frank Straub and George White. Darwachter is also scheduled to ! meet with state official* of the II Legion at headquarter* in Indiana poll*.

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Airliner Within Minute's Flight Os Safety Before Washington Crash Washington Dec 13 — (UP) Government officials today sought the cause of last night's Capital Airlines crash In a series of recordings tracking the doomed sship right down to the moment it plunged Into the Potomac river, killing four of the 23 persons aboard. Civil aeronautics board investigators said their only hope of solving the tragic riddle lay in the record* ami the broken wreckage of the DC 3 airliner, still half buried in muddy waters of the Potomac barely a mile from Washington national airport The idiot and co-pllot died with their ship after bringing it through a blinding fog on Instruments to within a minute's flight of safety Two passengers died with them and all 19 survivors w.-re injured In the crash-landing, six of them seriously or critically. A s|»okesman said the cab has impounded a complete transcription and wire recordings of all communications from the airport control tower to the airliner, which was en route here from Memphis via Norfolk. Va Civil aeronautics investigators hoped to find some clue to explain why the twin-engine plane wand- | ered off the radar screen at nat- ’ ional airport as It was making a routine Instrument landing ami slammed Into the muddy river bottom about a mile from the runway They said it was far too early to even guess at the cause of the crash But there was some speculation that engine or instrument failure was to blame It also was possible that the pilot, convinced that a crash was Inevitable, deliberately ditched the plane In an effort to , keep down the casualty toll (inly the quick work of Bolling airmen pretented Hie accid' nt from Incoming a more serious disaster Killed were pilot W J Davis, 41. of Alexandria. Va . co-pilot L. L Porter. 28, also of Alexandria, and two passengers. They were identified as Neville Uisslter of Arlington. Va. and Mrs William Cherton of Brooklyn. N V. Dr Lmlwg Capital AirI lines medical director, said the toll may rise to five. Th.- plane was Capital's flight i s<m from Memphis. Tenn, to Washington The a. eident hapjiened not far from the s. ene of the worst air- | liner crash in history the Nov. I a. rial collision of an Eastern Airliner and a surplus I’3B fighter | plane which sent 55 person* <Turs To Paa* Legion's Christmas Party On Saturday Plans have been completed and I arrangements mad- for the appearance of Santa ( laus at the annual American Legion post 43 party for members' children Gllllg. in charge of arrangements. states the party will bogin at 1:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon in the legion home The Rev O. C Busse, post chaplain. in charge of the entertainment for the party, totes that in addition to Santa there will be movies, singing and treats for the children IA uyjapr • 1 MWimssfks