Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 296, Decatur, Adams County, 17 December 1949 — Page 1

XLVII. No. 296.

EEK TO SMASH CHICAGO NARCOTICS RING

Production At kF Is Slowed By Sit-Down

lompany Refusal ®o Poy Over Dues Ko Union Reported Kone Os Contention -r <l<>wn xttikv <"-<-ih j HH, •>,. G.m-ral Electric plant tp.tnooii and continued |H r a. night shift, workers K today the afternoon about s<i H r 1,, plant workers idled ... ~n "no work" silted ■V"-. -r ,|..wn was not as pre„n the night shift, which ».ak at about : o'clock. learned |H! - di.t not close down dur K-Inf'-. for about .".it per ■!:. aoikers remained on 9H i.-- said Tile offices 8,’..n site closed today as M . of th. five day »flk ... conversations, work ■ -nd 'he bone of contention null* about tile sit down '. nanpany’s refusal to pay 1 'h> I E laical 921. •;.had been paid by mem there is a break in the the two factions '.ivk'.d left and right" I II > l"< ttl employes IB'- ti'.-d by Local 924 1 E I- loaded by Albert EitZ . IP nt t Stauffer is presi 1,11 “I union. K thn. ill Electric company M'!'-! 1 petition with the na.ateit relations board fol » ' "’tons to determine "' unions will repre |B'" I,r 'he company M throughout the country Klmc-d.i in Sew York City gB ' "’ Electric company <l> >t New York *l4l.<um of Mt 'h'** money for which the |B unions are contesting and h company had in its M-m an 'l did not know to M 11 should be paid ' -I'uaiion. which work |B '"ln then tom. i sat ion |B e " de-ai with a competing he Cleared over the mm Kge Demolished Ken Hit By Truck |B* '"*"'hip line bridge on--I*o miles West of CO| |B 'he Monroe Erem h ■ ■ ' " 'deleb demolished al H^B'' n Ettday afternoon when IB 1 " ' s 'one Company trie k |B ‘ Henry Stauffer crasiie I ■ ''''“ldling tin- rail Mirai ic M »as unhurt He *as '" explain what happened |B^ : Sa '"'i' 'ounty road su iei IB* 4 ’’ 11 ' “ho reached the scene |B' "'e accident occurred IB'”' lh *‘ driver either fell a ''■'Xiientarily or the brakes i.t '"“died |B* "hie of tiie bridge war » ""npletely down and the IB* I'*' 1 '*' "" badly damaged that it ■ ’* r “idaced II is a .4 > and the cost will de Hb "" how much the abutments | Stauffer iminediat. ’he road and re-i W / 'he community notifi. l K WCATHSR "t'oav.ng cloudiness. windy |Bk Hm ** h * t * ,rmer today. IB^ 1 ' 0 ”* 1 rain beginning to * r ’* n *rrsw. B moppw

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j Eisenhower Denies He Is Candidate Ike Disavows Any Presidential Hopes Chicago, Dec 17 (IT) Gen Dwight Eisenhower denied with a J "no. no. no" that lie was a presidential aspirant, hut lie was guarded as closely as a candidate when he passed through here en route| ! from Texas to New York Newsmen had to push through al I line of determined, shoving railroad guards and military ptdice to quesi tion "Ike" as lie arrived at Dearborn station last night aboard a special Santa Fe train from Kan , sa* City, Mo j When they questioned Eisen- . hower, over the protests of Major; , Robert Schulz, his personal aide j the general said: "No. no, no. I positively am not a candidate for political office " Eisenhower followed that disavowal with n reiteration of his ! respect for President Truman, simi- 1 , lar to the temporary White House's! J statement yesterday that the I’resi . dent and the general are "good, !, friends." . "President Truman and I are the best of friends." Eisenhower said I "I admire MrwTruman and have a . deep rts|>ecl for him." ,1 With that brief statement. Ei«en • hower was whisked across the ’ I . 1 "Lo6p" to I nion station. , /There, reporters were shoved aside by guards when they tried to . approach Eisenhower before he boarded the Pennsylvania rail road's "Gotham Limited" for New York. The guards attempted to eject | . a I'nited Press reporter waiting to| , question Eisenhower Tile report-1 I er broke away from the gate guard. ( who said he was acting on thej , stationmaster's orders, hut was i barred from approaching the general Both the Santa Ke and Pennsyl- , vania railroads denied earlier that ! Elsenhower was passing through the city. Hut it was learned that the general, his wife and aide traveled here from Kansas City in a special Santa Fe train, consisting of one private car and two mail and baggage cars The special train was made up by ' order of J <’ Gibson. Santa Fe vice president and general counsel. ; after he learned that the regularly (Tara l a Page Eight I Mrs. Anna Burkhead Dies Lasl Evening Former Resident Dies At Huntington Mrs Anna Burkhead. sis». wife of Dorsey Burkhead. died at S o clock Friday evening at her home in Huntington after an illness of four weeks. The family resided in Decatur for a number of years, moving to Huntington 2-1 years ago Mr Burkhead has heen an Erie rail road conductor for many years She was born in New Bliaiming ton. O. July 11. 18««. a daughter of John and Christina Berg Schmidt, and was married Jan 7. H 22 She was a member of the Rebekah lodge. Women of the Mooaw and the ladies auxiliary of the trainmen. Surviving in addition to her hu« band are five brothers. Jake ' Schmidt of Marion. Will '»* New Bloomington. O. John “ nd l ’“" both of Marion. 0.. and Paul. Whose present address is unknown, and two sisters. Mrs Fred Roe of Akron and Mrs. Jim Kmboiy of Mt Giliad. 0. Funeral services will be held at 10 a m Monday at the Black fun home, the Rev Charles Stevenson officiating Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery Friends may call at the funeral ( home after 7 ©clock this evening Th- Rebekah lodge will meet at the funeral home at 7 day. the Women of ’he Moose a 7:30. and the trainmen s auxiliary i I at I

Mother Jailed In Baby’s Death J| ■ MRS. FLORENCE RAMSEY. 2«. Hefti of Chicago is being held for grand jury action after an inquest into the death of her blind 3-year-old son. Thomas Wayne Nykaza Coroner A L Brodie said Hie tot starved to death Shown at the right are Mrs Ramsey s two other children being examined Dy Dr liar ry la-on t right i who fears the children have a vitamin deficiency. Coroner Brodie looks on.

Aviation’s Greats Honored By Nation Commemorate 46th Birthday Os Plane Washington, Dec. 17. tl'PI The nation today honored the i greats of aviation •• the Wright I I. tot her* and Charles A. Lindbergh ■ - in ceremonies commemorating I the airplane's tiith birthday. Still the shy pilot who soloed I the Atlantic 22 years ago. Lindbergh was to receive one of Amer I lea's highest flying awards - the Wright Brothers Memorial trophyI "for significant public service of ■ enduring value to aviation in the , I'nited States." Presentation ruyvemonies highlighted daylong activities in mem- | ory of man’s first airplane flight, a 12 second hop by Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk. N.C.. on Iter. 17. 190.1. As usual on these occasions, the ' emphasis was on the peaceful I uses of the airplane Orville Wright i who died on Jan 30, I9tk always I bemoaned the evil genius that ] turned the invention into a lethal weapon. Speakers at the National Aeronautics Association forum here lamented that Orville could not have lived to see in the Berlin airlift, the substitution of commercial transport planes for bombers as successful Instruments of foreign policy. "We are not at war today." ’ said the Rt Rev Msgr Maurice Sheehy of Catholic t'niverslty. "be ' cause of the enterprise, the Ingenuity and the determination In- , volved in that project." Lindbergh also was expected to emphasize the importance of airplanes t<> peace in a speech acceptrlnrs T« I’sae »•"»»"» Appeals Board Will Meet Monday Night Zoning Board To Select Officers Decatur's newest board. the I board of zoning appeals, will meet Monday night at the city hall at 7 o'clock for the purpose of electing a chairman, vice chairman and secretary, and starting the pns-ess of drawing up rules under which the board will operate. The fiveman bward is composed of Clarence Ziner. Robert Yost. Charles Cloud. Sylvan Rupert and I tick Heller. Several appeals already are awaiting the board, according to Ralph E Roop, who has the task of enforcing the new zoning ordinance. t'nder the state law which creates the appeals board and the local zoning ordinance, all meetings of the appeal board are open to the public and a record vole must be taken on every case It Is the duty of the enforcing officer to reject any requests for construction or remodeling which are contrary to the ordinance, and then the matter may be appealed to the new board Mr Roop said that to date he had rejected five requests for building permits The new board, appointed by Mayor John Doan, probably will set a date at the Monday aseeting tor Its first meeting to hear appeals

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, December 17, 1949

BULLETIN Charles Hakes. 62, of 319 North Eleventh street, died at 11:25 o'clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. The body was removed to the Gillig 4 Doan funeral home. Housewives Lauded For Saving Water Men Ignore Pleas Os City Officials New York. Dec 17.—(UP)— Housewives won credit today tor saving an estimated imt.otHt.iwm gal . lons of water on "dry Friday" in | the city's battle against a water . famine. Their fashion conscious men folk rated only a Bronx cheer for surveys showed they Just couldn't get along without their dally shaves - despite the plea* of city officials. , The estimate on the amount of I water saved about 10 percent of the city's normal usage came from a check of the rate of flow of water from the upstate reservoirs which .-supply the city's g.iHttt.ooo residents. Water commissioner Stephen J. Carney hoped that Saturday baths wouldn't undo all the efforts of yesterday in trying to conserve water in the drought-depleted res- ’ ervoirs which are only one-third I full. The city had asked all residents to go without baths or shaves, use one glass less of water, and stack ' the dishes until evening for a single dish washing A poll of the city's housewives showed that at least 7f» percent 1 cooperated But three out of four i men observed on the street Were clean shaven Most said they had unit electric razors or went to a barber where waterless shaving was used A bank clerk said his boss cave him "such a look" tht he sneaked l out for a shave at lunch time. "My secretary took one l<s>k at my beard and called me a bum,'* said a Wall Street broker Carney said New Yorkers could bathe and shave again with a free conscience, but asked them to con finite all other "dry Friday" meth od* of conservation He said New Yorkers must save at least 300/ ooii.lmxi gallons a day to prevent extreme rationing measures within 3o days. i City officials forsook their rax ' ors as examples of the creed, "a I I beard is a badge of honor.” but Trygve Lie. secretary general of 1 the I'nited Nations, offered a - smooth cheek to the world 1 "But I didn't take a bath." Lie explained Waiters at the Colony restaurant. 1 one of society's favorite dining iT'sra Te I’sgr F.labll Boy Scout Officers In County Reelected All officers of the Adams county district Boy Scout organization were reelected this week. Clarence Ziner is district chairman, Earl Webb. «»f Berne, is vice-chairman Steve Everhart is county cornm.s stoner and Eloyd Cowens is a m< m- , Iter of the executive committee. Cowens. Carl Pumphrev and Ent. Imnkenau are the members of th* three man executive committee Chairman Ziner said that he would name the appointive officers for the year about January 2.

Report Coal Owners To Make Payments Continue Payments For Welfare Fund Pittsburgh, Dec. 17 —(I'l’i—The' major soft coal operators report ; edly have agreed to make payment on schedule Tuesday to the I'nited Mine Workers welfare and retirement fund. There were reports that some leading bituminous mine owners| would refuse to make the usual remittance, as a protest against ’ the three day work week now in effect by order of John L Lewis. 1 But the major operators from , northern and western suites were! | said to have agreed, at a meeting 1 here Thursday, to continue payments despite the uneasy coal pic1 hire. At Huntington. W Ya. however. r board chairman J. It Francis of j the Island Creek Coal Co said ( his firm would join "a good many'' r other West Virginia operators in ! declining to make the Tuesday payment of 20 cents for each ton of coal mined for the period of Nov. 2<t so Dec. 20 < Island Creek's refusal to pay up [ last September was one factor ■ that led to a nationwide soft coal - walkout Sept 19. The firm conI tended, ami still does, that the exj piratioii of the union contract on ‘'June .10 ended all company obll-l ' ■ gutions to the union. [ | The operators' meeting in Pitts-1 ' burgh was called so negotiators! : could review developments In ‘j their contract fight with la-wis No major soft coal negotiation* r are in progress. • I i .Members of the western Penta ! sylvania coal operators association also dim-used forthcoming payiTsra Ito l’»a<- BeVeOl Asserts Emergency , In Coal Situation Cool Owners Head Cites Emergency 'I Washington. Dec. 17 H'Pt ’ I John D Battle, vice president of 1 . the National Coal Association, said today the administration "is fail ] ing to face up to the plain fact ] there is an emergency in the sup j ply of soft coal " In a statement issued here. Battle said he had heard reports "that . , some high government officials disclaim any emergency in coal." "We inquire, what has to hap ; ; pen to cause government officials j to determine that an emergency] : exists?” Battle asked. The I'nited Mine Workers, on i direct orders from John L la*wis. have worked only three days a , week since Dec 5. In another move I by la*wis to reduce stock pile* and thus improve his bargaining pool i thin with the coal industry No major coal producers, however. has granted the union's demands The old soft coal contract expired June 30 Battle said Mr Truman should use the Taft-Hartley act “to protect the puhlh in an emergency such as now exists In coal" "Thu present situation fully warrants prompt action on the part of the government." be said

Conduct Sweeping Raids To Smash Ring Peddling Narcotics To Students

17 Killed In Crash || Os Mexican Airliner . All Aboard Plane Reported Mexicans Vera Cruz. Mexico. Dec. 17. tVI’t — Rescue parties hacked through tropical jungle today to reach the wreckage of a Mexican ’ airliner in which 17 persons, in- " eluding two women, were believed i killed All aboard were Mexican This brought to 54 the number of persons killed in four Mexican airplane crashes In four months In Redding, Calif., the Shasta ; county sheriff's office said reports j Lad been received that an unidentified twin-engined plane crash ed last night in snow-covered Lava beds in miles north of Fall River Mills. tt'AA officials in San Francisco said tiie California crash might have been a single-engine surplus training plane reporteil overdue <>n a flight from Pullman. Wash , to Klamath Falls, Ore.) The Mexican airliner, a twinengine DC-" operated by the Compania Mexicana De Avlacion. tin affiliate of Pan-American World Airways, was flying from Mexico city to Vera Cruz when it crashed into a.umrfoot mountains soinwi 15 miles north of Vera Cruz, shortI ly after dawn yesterday. The plane was flying in halfi darkness over low’ clouds and fog i when it crashed. Indian farmers | who discovered the wreckage ini late afternoon said there were no j-.iirvivors. Aboard were 13 passengers, including two women, and a crew of lour. Ainoni* the itassengers was Carlos Grossman, well-known Vera Cruz millionaire. Twenty-five persons were killed Se|d 2<> w'hen a CM A DC-3 hit a< vidcano near Mexico Citv. Eight Were killed two Weeks later in a crash in Northern Mexico and four were killed when a private plane crashed in Oaxaco state last month Perfect Enrollment In Junior Red Cross Report Enrollment Os County Schools Miss Glennys Roop, county chair man <>r the Junior Red Cross, reports 100 percent enrollment of the schools in the city and county in tiie Junior Red Cross The schools and the amount con ’ tribute)!, since the last report, fol I low: Elementary ! Pleasant Mills. * 5. Geneva .... 5 Adams Central - Elmer Ehrsam. ........... 1.25 Adams Central Mrs. Byerly 124 Jefferson 5.N St Peters, 10 15 St. Johns. 7 77; Bobo. 2.00 Secondary I Pleasant Mills S.M Adams Central high school Dt*>o| Jefferson 100 Geneva —.... 2.00 j Berne-French township elemen-1 tary school was previously report I ed incorrectly They contributed *47 3<Mrs. Emma Zintsmaster Dies At Huntington . Mrs Emma Luenna Zintsmaster 88. died at the home of her daugh ter. Mrs Iva Payne, in Huntingt»n. Friday, after a year s illness Slo was a native of Kansas but had re sided near Andrews more than 6» years theater R Zintsmaster of this city is a grandson Other survivors include the daughter and one sun. lam Zintsmaster of Anderson Fun . oral services will lie held at 2PM ’ Sundav at the Hailey mortuarv in i Huntington, the Rev J D Blake of ' the Andrews Christian church officiating Burial will hs In MonuI inent City cemetery

U.S. Steel To Give Facts In Price Probe House And Senate Committees Plan Probe Os Increase Pittsburgh. Dec 17 (I'Pi - Benjamin Fairless. president of I' S Steel Corp, said today that: his company is willing to give fads mid figures before congres- j slonal investigators to bark up increased steel prices. Two other steel companies fol lowed I' S Steel’s lead ill adjust Ing prices while the CIO-I'niled i Steelworkers of America denied that tiie union planned to ask for a wage increase wherever prices are raised Fairless said I’ S Steel would ■'Welcome the opportunity" to show congressional committees how higher costs, particularly the steelworkers’ new *|of) a month pensions, left the firm "no alter native other than to increase its 1 prices ” A spokesman for CIoVSW president Philip Murray refuted ai union district director's statement that the union would ask for another wage increase if Steel ! prices were raised The denial followed a statement by H Charles Ford, district 7 di- | tei-tor. in Philadelphia last night that there was "no need" for any < ompatiy to increase prices to meet recently granted social insurance and health beenfits and that if prices were increased. 1 wage Isiosts would be sought Investigation of the steel industry's price bisists was scheduled after Christmas by laith lh>- joint senate-house economic committee and the house judiciary committee I following warnings from loiigressmen and labor experts that the move might start a new inflation ary spiral Font said that the only I'. S Steel subsidiary so far seeking a price lasist of its products was the Amercan Steel and Wire Co of Trenton. N J "If the company does increase the price of its products." he said "the union, in accordance with the president's fact-finding board, will demand a wage increase there, thus setting a pattern for all steel lisals affected by 'big steel' price in< reas'-s " The Youngstown Sheet & Tube | Co., at Youngstown. (). announced it would make price adjustments to meet tiie competitive situation Frank Purnell, president of the company, said rising costs of materials. services and lalmr "leave i I urn Im Pnicr «r«rn> Gerke Is Reelected As Chairman Os PMA County Convention Is Held Here Today Winfred Gerke. of Root towni ship, was reelected chairman of the county committee of the production marketing association of Adams county, as a result of an election held ttslay by delegates The election was held in the PMA offices by the delegates who had earlier been elected by mail by members throughout the county Homer W. Arnold, of Kirkland township, was elected vice-chair-man; Lawrence Beckmeyer. Root, the third menilter. Roiiert Brown. Kirkland, first alternate, and . Harre Ineichen. Wabash, anrond ffiffrsate. The county committee will have I an organizational meeting Monday. It was announced, at which time they will select their secretary for the coming year

Price Four Cents

Federal Narcotics Agents And Chicago Police Stage Raids Throughout City Chicago, Dei- 17 (I'P) Federal narcotics agents and police staged a series of sweeping raids today in an attempt to break up a drug ring that has peddled narco tics to addicts. Including college ami high school students, throughout the midwest. By H:3<» am. the raids had netted 32 persons, five of them . women, ami were still going on in to iglihnrhoods throughout the city. Police said "hundreds of thousands of dollars" worth of narcotics were Involved and that the haul of - illegal dttlgs probably would exceed the *sm).ooi) worth taken hv ! New York authorities in a recent ' raid The officials said they hoped to seize more than 100 prisoners by nightfall In one of the early raids, the of fleers seibed a grocer who once fleers seized a grocer who once grains of heroin Another mao arrested was found to have *1)1.000 worth of heroin in Ills possession He was seized as lie sold a quantity of tile drug to an addict wlio also was arrested Tin- raids began about dusk last i night ! A special squad of 5o federal agents especially "imported" to Chicago teamed up with 2.5 city police to smash their way into hideouts, most of them on tin- sprawling Hout ti Side I list lid attorney Otto Kerner said the investigation that resulted in today's raids h< gan five months ago He said tiie special , squad of agents wen- brought to the city in "two's and three's” to work on tiie ease l>< cause they would not he r« cognized by local nntcotics s< Ilers Others who helped direct the investigation and organize tin- raid* .were Kdtor's assistant. Joseph j Tobin chiif Chicago narcotics agent Ralph Artist and acting : I.ieut John Mangin of the Cliii ago Polinin the raids, two federal agents and a city officer were assigned 'to each iaiding team One of the agents would make a narcotics purchase, after which tiie city patrolman and th< other agent would i make the arrest The I aiders were armed with more than stt complaints giving them the legal right to stage the raids The investigation into the drug trade here started after quantities of heroin, morphine, cocaine and marijuana began turning up at college ami high school campuses in Illinois Wisconsin. Minnesota and lowa In almost every <a«e. Investigators said, the drugs wire traced to Chit ago soutces One fairly large ipiaiitity of drugs was found in a student's possession at the Cniversity of Illinois campus at Champaign and also was traced to Chicago piddlir* One man was arrested and gave information that aided official* in planning today's raids While the investigation progressed. known ptddlers wi re permitted to operate here with comparative immunity to increase the effictiveness of the raids To avoid tipping off the underworld. all of the raid strategy was arranged through general poliee officials rather than through precinct ' stations Many precinct captains were not aware that the raid* were being pulled in their districts. Artist said that in most cases the raids were staged quietly and unobrusively to prevent Irak* to other hideouts Altogether, raids were scheduled in of Chicago's 29 police districts Artist said the raids were mad© today because it was pay day for workers and most addicts use their 1 salaries to replenish their drug sup--1 plies It also i« the day on which high school and college students re- ' crive their weekly allowances Most peddlers have their great- ) est business on weekends, he said. ’ but are comparatively inactive dur- : Ing the week