Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 29, Decatur, Adams County, 4 February 1950 — Page 1

Vol. XLVIII. No. 29.

LEWIS REJECTS COAL PEACE PROPOSALS

Geo. Groves Will Testify . On Spy Ring Wartime Leader Os Atom Bomb Project - Called By Congress Washington. Ml. 4.-(CP>— 14. Qgjk Le*U* R OratH leslL fle* today Mor* congreMional In vMllgßtM* who want tn find oat if aceompliee* of an accused Russian spy ar* allll operating within <T 8 ■ •tuaUr renter* —“ Drove*. head of th* wartime . A boMb proj*ct. wn» railed before, , a closed meeting nt th* joint con ■ grraslonal atomic energy commit |H to explain how Or. K E J. I Each* manured to pain acre** to' th* moat »ltal V. 8 atomic secret* Hource* her* charped that Fuchs a top British nuclear scientist who was arrested In London yesterday on spy charge*, helped th* Hit*-J alana tremendously by slipping them top secret data on th* C 8 atomic and hydrogen bombs Fuchs spent th* year* from 1E43 to 1944 working on th* A bomb project at U. R atomic Installations and a fortnight In 1947 at the .Oak Ridge. Tenn . atomic plant Th* Itritlah acted upon Inform* tion given to them by th* Fill IM rector J. Edgar Hoover said his saents are still investigating "pthrr ramification*" of th* caue.ln this country The Fuchs arrest shocked Wash Ing ton beyond any event in recent year* Member* of the atomic energy commltte* said Fuchs possessed information that would have speeded Masala's A-bomb project! by years Th* incident was discussed at a. cabinet meeting yesterday by PresV dent Truman who recently clamped a lid of secrecy down upon the hydrogen bomb after he was given an advance tip on Fuchs’ pending arrest Sen John W. Bricker, It O art atomic .conrmjttv*' member. said that Fuchs had access to enough ’ plans, blueprints and scientific data to give th* Rirssfans all the in formation they needed to build, th*-., bomb " other committee member- . said that’information “of grate Im port ’ was involved Hoover teefd another rongrr* alonal commlltrc' that the German horn, naturalised British scientist , had confessed part tally to aiiirft.' A bomb and some hydrogen bomb secret* to th* Ruthin* Httpver described Fuchs as a j ‘ plant” who was »*nt into England In IPSO by the Russians ,He said the scientist worked his way Into British scientific circles and was naturalised in 1942 FBI agents ar* still on the trail of others in this country who may be Implicated. Hoover said Store Window Broken Early This Morning Someone fell against or kicked [ in a plat* glass window in the dls- - play entrance to the Kaye She * ■ Store on Second street early thic morning - The eight-hy elpht foot class was"' shattered to pieces, when noticed by* police who notified Al Zin!-, store manager A freshly llgh’el cigarette lay on the floor. Presumably the Intruder was not cut. as •here was no evidence of blood in •he entrance. A new sloe display had been arranged yesterday: bur no merchandise was missing. Zink said. A temporary covering was erect ed today, pending arrival of a new plate glass next week Jobless Pay Claims Decrease In State ~ Indianapolis, Feb. 4 — (UP) — Claims tor jobless pay continued a downward trend last wedk. the Indiana employment security division, said today, but a substantial Jn crease in new claims was expecie l because of secondary layoffs due to the Chrysler labor dispute. Director Everett L. Gardner said 4.579 initial claims were tiled last . week, the fewest in any week since j mid-October. He said that was * de*line of II percent from the pre vloua week and was 44 percent be low the same week a year ago. WEATHER Fair today through tomorrow. A little warmer today. L High today 42 to 48. Low to- | night 25 to 30.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Plan Further Cuts In Excise Texes House Committee Plans Deeper Cut Washington. Feb. 4 Il’Pi » me tax-writlnx how® way* ami' mean* committee nerveil notice today that it plana to draft a far deeper cut Id •’Xciae tafcr- than President Truman want a After hearing treasury men* tary John W. Snyder ppell out the administration s tax proposal yesterday. arv®ml Ih'ititw rutii meiuTieriC of the commit tea baid | they would join Republican | colleague* in pteaatiut for still I further reduction* hr lev Snyder xald the prewhAhl I a Ktvb.mNt.tHML reduction ia ex<i*v taxes Hut he proposed that <on • sreas offset this lona nml nd i another |9SOjNm;WP t«» the g* »- ernmenf s yearly -revenue* by; phiKKinx tax. loorfthrie*. raiding corporation, estate and gift taxe* I and imptndmi-a- -fte-W-levy on jodes . of television sets i j Democratic Reps Stephen M | Young. C-teU R King. Cal and John D. Dingell Mich-. immetliNieiy said they weuid line up with OOP committeemen tn a drive H» broaden the excise rerluHhm i Among other thing*, they want to; | include taxes on such items a« ; amusements, phot<»graphl< equip meat and elwtrh hult»K since the DrlWoTFatß b«. only a five-man majority*r»it the *.iy« ami m*adii < ummittee i *4»ift three vote*, wikuhl - enable the R'epubiicanM to push through the . Mita they want Kis«‘where in coiitcrexfat (Jiao—A joint M*nate-h«»usr .rnn FWRBRi rottrmlTre** ran turn wnaga ■ in tUpit attempt to mrw* on the final-firrm of a hill to repeal fe<l era! taxes on oleomargarine (‘hairman llaroftf p , Cooley; It-. N C. of th*- house arrtcabtjre <*t»inmiltee, said the «ro«p' at*Hld, k try to uettle , the if dtt*«‘t toy.*’- at another meeting Monday after noon War Trfal* tWrttum <Hd It Hoev It X sul.l hi* m hat* invf«<!iK'afinit w«ilx will, not m.fkv ar i. «♦•»! «< «• \ • the li.ath senteme* *o rt«rw Tto I’ue* » •sum Plan New Tours Os Indiana Highways Four State Senators To Make More Tours Indianapolis FVh 1 <1 I't • Htour Indiana state *»na’<»r- plan ned near tour* over the Ifoayste r ' highway system today after leant ins in a puhlii- hearths what metn !>♦!’< .•! tbe hivJia pi « ■<otj migsjoft and u*er< of the road* think is ■ wronsHighway deitfirtnient witness** told,Jhe Mprrial senate inve*iisa’ : Ing <-.»mmilit» yesterday that poor drainuK*. old as« ~mi»rt- and heavie r traffis . and ‘ pet hap* pe«.r d» Hgh were respimUhle for the vtuuihilus "road* ’ ; 2j 25 J . t Sen I tale E Beck. !>.. Young America, chairman, said after the hearing hW group would make additkinaJ trips Lo mcv what J* wrong The committee mad* four trips, covering some S.lttHi miles, before calling th** public hearings It wa* directed by the last legislature to report its finding* ami reeom-j Weoxtation? to governor. -hriekw • Commisslouer Jap Jones, Fort Wayne and Indianapolis h<c f | <>wn ♦r. said he thought poor drainage was resimnsibje for the breakup*.. He disc ussed th* “com retversus Ma* ktop" cent rove ray under ques ; tloning'and said there was ”nti‘pee fit ieal pfesKure of any- bind— o»-de4 cision* to build a road of either material “Wf are confused as to what kind of road -to buifd. M «4uaa«-Wj|4d. /ajid the public is confused Fot my part t J prefer a~ta£e£u>t..bJa< ktoj> concrete as the ideal road.” - J ~ “in spite of all the criticism.” he* said. ”Indiana elands out as having, the best highways and they are all J paid for." { Earl It r>xkridge. highway def part men: maintenance • ent. said concrete and a«phah [ roads were •'comparable as tar as j riding quality and endurance are i concerned ” Lockridge said the "economics’’ I of whether a supply of concrete or f blacktop was closer, to , th* road > site was the most impcwtMi'Tac£i>r • «Twrw Ta !*•«« Five!

" ( • , . I igvA.vv-tfjn-»-.■■■ . .. . ... . .... . . Plan Atom Security Probe 1 I Bfi ’ ' 18ii| -1 I! B 8 ; i - F I B" . * SOIk In AN EMERGENCY m**iinr toHuwlMt ari*»l of Brißtot! Atomic m-tonlßt hr Emil Facta (right i on ‘ . liar/** of giving nude** rl*ta to Riw.ia. th* Congr***lon»l Atomic’Commit t** l»y« pl»n* for quc-lion-mg th.*.. r. HjH.ndb:* f.q urlly <liirlnK- itovwtoritHHt* ihu IfcH&mb." Th«M- In th* emergency con feren.-e are fl to r > B*ll Tom Coutmlly flu Texas; Itovld Uli»nth«L fMUrinan of tK* Alotnlc Enwrgy t'ominlaalon and Sen Brien McMahon (111 Conn., .-oinniltte* chairmktt. .-I .. .’V - ..'llli „■ . _ . .-. ._. • I‘c. ■ - ... ■■ I ■

Russia Continues Delaying Tadics Open Superhighway To Free Traffic Berlin. Feb 4 fl Pt The Bus- • i.ius ope-h*d the, Berlin suprrhigh Any to free traffic for four hours and 45 miuutes today but promptly i slowed diiVM tyu< k tiaffftc on an either■ Berlin road. ' St ai) daf<F S< >¥j el dritrytug faetk s w«re put into farce at th* Ku lihoii lhrr*nbiHK checkpoint six mile's from !.ueb» k hi northern <»ermany A- tteulfcnant rcplac ♦il th» Gel man police man who nor- •>. m »Hy r -manned -the ch» <-kpoint tiu'LC flu Hu -laiKnJfi »r ijjuiodirtt* h .Ih-vi'i .i and ■ ii*''.iib <i c4u* k of doiUT'o ti!* of Berlin bound tiiitk» !!♦ <ui down traffic to be iac* n two and four trucks an hour i tmtpart.d wilh a mutual rate of JU *.f rt»« r» Wt’hin an hour a backlog •>f *7'. tlUvk® pib«l Up ' ~ | M the Ihhu-tcd' • h» « kpoint on if-.. •im hw <■• no stiwhlh* More - htu k-c-'friMPttn •st-rea-kina 4‘>c JU t jtV ;if r *r »hv S lifted tltFir - i ii .iml promised - they « ted re 4itn lined sot four hours , jmi U, u.ino’♦ * ‘ : Th* i» ri !««n* at ITvlmjdrd+4ki»»*l‘f4-! fii‘h»winc a complete . :i - i j !<• uln n Sos i' t bold* r guard* • > »t‘ oft B* ’ iin botind tru k w r?aff»‘ without eXi«p»(on for •ve.i hour* and !• iii.nu!*? ' Local Men Named On Church Committees Presbytery Appoints Three Decatur Men \ The R* v A C. E Gillanilvr Ken Teepbx all *»f thiJ, city, were named on var iou> commUtakMi of th' Foft \Vayn< presbytery for 19H0 by Rev Andrew. M anue.moderator. Teeple wa< nhnierl as a mrmlier Os the general council of the pres bytert anrL Runyott was nainwl a [member <»f the <-ommittee for s »,; ; rial education and ac tion j ° Rev. GiHander was named to tL> ; .national inissions committee ami also wtm appolniM cdiairman of 'h. ■ united promotion *o»nmlttee Tuts next meeting <»f the governing Imm!. •of Presbyterian churches in this! i-area will Im- held n« xt -Tu'esdav at ■ i Hunthigtcdi. i Ar tfrH meetinst. plauA will ;k. *dade for installation of three itii-’t liters: j The Rev. Robert Urdsby. Fblum i bia Uity; the Rev. Mil* s Freeman Auburn the Rev Gilbert Boyd -KeiuiaUville, Offieem wHI 0 1 .... ; ejec ted for >1»60. Decatur Ministers Will Meet Monday The regular monthly meeting of the I»e atur ministerial i.<1 tion win be at the Zion . Evangelical and Reformed, church Monday morning at > 30 o’clock. The minifiter»- ar£ requested t»> bring the enrollment and pre-regi*'-tration* for the cooperative lead ership training school.

ONLY DAILY NEWWAMKR IM ADAME COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, February 4,1950

Ball State Students Are Killed In Wreck War*aw. Ind . Feb 4 (VP) — Aflred Morelxnis*. -•» ElkhaH, died I.Hlay of lajurie* received in * head oil -imlllnion 4n which another Bell Stsfe K*n<lein ...jra* killed and t«o ether* Injured. Pol H-e i»»iii Morerhdu** wa* »lrl.’ | hl* car collided hea.lon with a trdt'k ring north in Ind. 15 .ve*n*rday when < j driven by Paul Molencupp. Denver. I Ind. Sharlee Bent. 20. waa killed : lan* Don Sellers and 801 l Blckart.j r , liotti tt*. were Injured *erloil*ly. All BalA Stale xtnrtent* going to • ,'uir hoiiiea In Elkhart for th* (weekend. Korean Boat Fires On Russian Tanker Navy Patrol Boat Fires Warning Shot S*oul. Klr*n.' Feb. 4 ill’* A, navy palnd boat of the Smith Kmeaii > <-|ml-ti. tire I . Whi ning Hhot at .i Soviet tanker whicli "iii’Viiled” Korean (erriliiriat wat- ' erw.-jt was announced today. Tlie navy * lid tin tanker was ■ Identified as th, S. S Pamir, a g.nnii'tun Russian tanker The incident meurred yesterday in ter rltorial water* near Kuryongfloj ■on III* east coast of "Korea !!••• trifle*: soutb' of this capital city. - The navy .said, the .ship «as p..i flyitig a flag when challenged by the patrol boat It hoisted th* Sovln( fbvg only after a warning shot had been fired, but falletl to yt.qi - ... - . i Another righting of an nnidenil tied ship was reported yesterday but it rttay or may not have been .rhe Pamir, navy sources said The weeond sighting is i lined aa miles south of the first rejiort ed position and outside teriitor lai waters, -. — An early announcement issued throiigh th, Korean defense mln istry spoke of an ‘'lnvasion of territorial waters by a “foreign' ship, whom nationality was not identified. — I This announcement -indicated < the sightings “Sert TH »*p«r«r» - vewweds and that- th-re were two ekhlp* Involved in the second ca •■ However, ill* later ««vy .an nouncement .did not cpitfirm this At noon th* Pamir, trailed by j th* .Korean craft. w»« 2i> miles a(T ! » a steaming north only 2* mites south of Tfi* 3lith parallel which divides . < onimunTsl dominated Nor.tl* Korea from this repudilli The original announcement said the two sfatpa .Inmlred la, th* l Tara T* Paae rtv»» Louisiana Governor Suffers Heart Attack Winnfield. lA. Feb 4 (VP)- I, Gov Earl K lame of Louises ns; suffered a heart attack and 1s cotf"s ( Gned In an oiivgen t*nt at 'he ( Wlnnflei3'~g*n*ral hospital, it w*s discto»ed today ’ Th* 55-year-old governof. broth** of th* late Sen-Hueyl* I Kingfish • i > Ixmg was stricken yesterday after a, hunting trip to Winn parish with! I two companion*

6W Embezzler Is Freed Under Bond Refuses To Reveal Use Os Stolen Money Wolcaß . Feb L Ji tall. 23 yearold bruneUr was (re< ! on bond today while authoritlet I fought to learn wha! she dit| wltl ; 513.T22 she ejnbexzled Jrom th< bank where she worked a$ £ l e *V er Norma Genevieve Hennrr rrtu? ed to say what «hr did with »h< money she admitted taking fron the hank of Wolyott Frl* mi- and t • lativ« - -aid h*-: modest living habits wft** In 4teep ing with the $125 a month aalarj she earned At the bank. She Work » d there three years He said she -n plied simply "I didn't make a statement on that ’ bank s hooks by the federal de j trank - b(x>ks 1»y the federal re ! p«(-U insurance > cOriMirat h»ii firs-t »# s ealed the shortage anil bank j officials, thought ’ Mbs Bontfer had • J red in h» ’ b "ikk* epltiu Th' > a k'd HeF to cheek ov* t her a/ (i*uht> In.-tead. she went to <-he home jof her father. Paul A Benner at Brookston. Ind . and told him what she had done lb- notified bank of fitials who called in the FBI and the Indiana state bank examiners Miss Benner was dressed fashion ■ably but not .xpensively when she ; appeared at the The lines in her attractive young face -how td" the stidin the disclosure had brought her Ktckivk said she told him she t<M»k the money all at one time . She was released on a fl7.<W» real < stale bond pending attiotrby the grand jury FBI agent Harvey G Foster at Indianapolis, who investigated the shortage, said Miss Benner attempted t<» eonceal h*r theft’ by makingjr sheet for t hnkifig and failing to make entries in a savings ledger account , - Bank official* said Miss lUnner a lifelong resident of Wolcott fT«ra T* »•-*«• Mtl Peterson Is Elected Hospital Board Head Decatur Clothier Is President Os Board Cal E. Pwterson. local clothier «s« •totted pr**id«rit of the'Adanr. county memorial hospital hoard and |.D** Fryback. a!»o of Decatur. WM named secretary al the annual rc •organisation meeting held »t the ■ howpital Friday night. Both officers will »erv*' one year. The Friday meeting w»« the first one held in 1950. Mie* Florence Li< ht*n*Gg*r. who ha* »een su-i ' erlntendent. for «ev*ral year*, was ’ r cTram d for -Hrfa y*ar. The hospital :operates as a 52-l»ed institution and in extreme emergencies can accommodate » fete additional patient* The. other two members of th* : four-man hoard are Fred Kamhri.-. Berne. »nd tester Stucky. Geneva i The members are named ahernat* jly fur three tear terms by the Ad «Twra T* r««e ••*>

Mine Chieftain Rejects Truman's Proposals For Truce In Coal Disputes

Wind Shill Eases Mississippi Threat Engineers Prepare For Opening Levee Chicago; Feb. 4 — (UP)— A shift; In wind eased M Hood threat along , j the lower MTWiiMppl river tnday i hut engineer* Were prepared to open a levee to let excess water by pg** New Orleans z, . More than ru.imb persons already Were hymelett in flood area* of ; the Ohio river and in Arkansas but I streams in those- secihms were} starting to recede as rains ceased i and skies cleared * . 4 —in thr Pae -mw-h-w-dou., m ■ blew off the <wean on winds ' miles an hour It scattered sleet ’ and freeting rain from Eugene lore, to Olympia. Wash, and' ’ l.r* at* tO < flash floods on ‘ feeder streams. j The storm, it was feared, would ’ cause mote snow in Montana w’here I army snow tractors were fighting 1 io reach isolated residents of 14 ' northern counties President Tru ' man iridal Hied |s‘«r.('otr tn relief funds to the area last night The nation’* latest flood threat' j, • arose at p# most vulnerable point, [j I the lower rea+hrs of the Mississippi js; from Angola. La. to the river's. i mouth near Venice, l*a Engineers ordvttjd—patfoTs along miU> -oL levees -*» *ke river e boiled to 19 2 feet at New Orleans u where the levee stands only 2<' feet high. r The engineers said,the IHgh »<• Mt . ifi-»d mainly hy strong y' winds yesterday which slowed the; rivers flow to rhe gulf and 4-wused a temporary cr» st near the ciry A I shift in winds eased the threat to j ’ ; day . ■ They expected however, that thei J river would rise .again Monday as f j new crests &WL|iL_di'wnsfrtaui from t’! northern flood r »n» s j Th* y planned, if ne< rssarv ro , open the levee and let the river: tfi 'i ’ ”ii?b ’b» . Boni el ' spillway is miles north of the i t’y d into Lake Ponte hartrain and then [i to th* Gu’Lof Mexico 1 [.[’ The spillway has been used only I twice before in history. In 19.”»7 and I 1945 The fiver was running high er today than it did during those - ' fl.oals > „Th»‘ Ohio river was expected to u cr.est at 59 feet near Cincinnati ■ ' tomorrow morning Home of the I 12;nnn refugee's in life basin of the; Ohio and its tributarks were be • ginning to return to their homes to! begin the task of shoveling mm k I out window* and doots Officials said the worst was over I for Kentucky where almost persons were driven from their j . h<»mes Checks Stolen At Elevator Returned ,- j j; Cash Drawer, Coin Box Also Recovered Check*, ttmountinc to 11.139 “4. : which has been MMftjl Thursday ' ni*ht from »he ARams county co; Top. rativ* elevator. W Btngeh : were recovered Friday and re 'turned to official* of th* elevator • j Th* (h*«k». th* cash drawer’ 1 and coin, box were discovered i a field Iteside a mud road by a' resident of th* vicinity about Ihree4onrr)* mile* n.vrtb of BinKen They were returned to th* . elevator official*, who in turn. ■ notified -deputy sheriff Bob Shra luka and stat* trooper Bob Mer ’ter. who.ar* InveMiratinK furtherj th.- burxlary " I Elevator official* al*o r*vi»M J th*ir estimate of th* amount of ( 1 cash taken ‘'dnrinr the robbery They had first reported that ISJI.-i I si had been tak’eit but later rtat--i ed th* loos was about |3stt “7,-j I No further fact* of th* PIeMASt; Mill* school hreaktn. which also occurred Thursday night. were divulged hy either deputy Shra-' luka or trtxvper Mercer About" |4l in coins from a soft drink vending' machine and |5 in petty «Tw*w Te Few* Mat I

British May Try Fuchs In Secret Trial May Request Secret Trial Far Part Os Fuchs Proceedings Ixmdon Feb. 4 —• (VJ’I — Th* British government may request : a secret trial in part of th* pro- , ceedings against Dr. Klaus Fu< h«. ■ top British scientist accused of TfeveSHrig ABjjKeXinFricafi~ srolfflc Tsecrets to an enemy, authoritative quarters said today -—— I They said the rovernment could request a dosed trial if officials felt that security would tie jeopardTled by a full public trial Fuclis was charged yesterday with giving vital information to agents of a country which unoffi dal.Sources said was Russia, one* in rhe I s - it: In W 45 and agsiu in Britain- tn- 1917. pr.-litninacy heating wtfl be held next Friday. A spokesman for the office of director of public prosecution* rej fused to state flatly whether the i government would ask for a hear ; ing in Camera, or dosed *o thy ’; Jttrtrtie. ( f One aource here *aid Fuchs was one of the group of BrifJah *cfet>tteU who determined rhe critical size of the atoinb tKunb 1 It .Was bet ;ms«- of tu- work cj. ’ ing in camera, or closed to th® U. S. for ab<AUf a year A top British geientiri -aid i Britain B»ok a calculated rixk. in t trusting Fuchs with at emir see rets when the question of hts se dtmrtly wtatus tamp up in 1912 It wa« dcri«lo4| to UM‘ th*' ’Syear~obt Fm t»s. described as ■ piobab’y Britain s hriglH’-S' youiifr nurtear setenriwr"’ bis German ba< k ground because he was s<» bitterly anti Nazi; this ; source said A major factor in the dccisfo.d the kald. was the fact tha* in 1942 the allies vt* re engaged in a desperate atomic rare with Germany which might conceivably have det rem I ned the fate of the Mar At thin .time Russia was an ally of the western powers and the J question of Fuchs’ poeaible al ilegiance to th® Krem'fn couW | have been considered legs .ptesI sing than the German menace I Fuchs, head of the theoretical • research department of Britain's : great atomi< research centei at • Harwell, has been (dae'ed in Brix • ton priSfUi umß "Trfw” next cmrrt appearan< e next Friday ! Fuchs js the son of 75-yearwild Pn»f.-Emll Fuchs, who moved two weeks yAiro from Frankfurt to ! Ixdpzig in the Soviet zone of Ger • many tn take a j<»h~as' j>f'OfeMm»r . 4>f theologry at -Leipzig, university Mrs. L. E. Templin Dies At Bluffton i Funeral Services 1 Sunday Afternoon Mrs I.iw?ep » E. Templin Bluffton high schisd Teacher and afbletic director, died Friday evening in thCj i.Clinic hiwipital at Bluffton after an ’ illness of two weefca. -1 She was a member of the Metho* (list rhutcb at Bluffton Surviving in addition tn her hnsI band are a son? former lh*c*tur resident, now !tv ing in Milwaukee Wis . two daughter*. Mrs Arthur Neuenschwind* r <*f Auburn and - Mr*s Cared Temp. ; Tin. at home four cmndehirdreri and a slater. Mrs Claude Riggin of .j Geneva. . . - - Funeral service* will be held if chapel at Bluffton the Rev E E Kaufmin -Off.itdating Burial will j be in Elm Giove cemetery

Price Four Cents

President Expected To Use Taft-Hartley Act To Restore Full Production Os Cool 'BULLETIN Springfield. 111.. F*4» 4.— (UF) —Coal mine official* Mio today they expected lllinoi* miner* to walk off the job Monday. tut mo*t of the miner* themeelve* were tight-lipped about their plan*. » W«*Mnct<m. Feb 4 ti p' — 11 John L j-ewts today rejected J I'reiident Truman # toal peace „ proposal* (l Lewis said il 1* qurationatde i ttnrt any - nrttntr - the government . can take vrlll get all miner* back 4 to work. I la-wl* wrote Mr Truman that . the “min* worker* aid not wHh . three arranger* . , to fix their wage*, decree their working con- , dilioii*. define their living stand > aids, and limit the educaUonal oppbrtuniiie* of their children ' Thl* wag I<ewi» answer to Mr. i Truman * .proposal yiat operators , any L*i»:is. agree to a “May tru. e while a presidentially-appranied < fact finding board inventigate* >. the dispute and make* reeommeudatioh*. Mr.. Truman had asked the I’Bitr od Mine Worker* president and j the etval Indwstry to agr** tn r»~T ••an* ' horrnat rtrxi prorhn tnrri I Monday In the absence ot »(Kh ,j an agreement, the president ask , ed leith sides to caH the Today „ truce The northern and western coal producers, had agreed to Mr Truj. man’s . 70-day tru.-- The southern j producer* informed Mr Truman their mines would lie ..pen for . ■ full prodm tion Monday: But. Lewis said no.. Mr Tru- . man has uiacie it ciear there w iiT ; . 1h- h<v fa£L_iih<Hog imaed unless ■ all parties .agree. Lestis rn'hi* b-tser. said- Th* 1 coal, -indus'ry for eight pientAs . hit.l refused ;to bargain In faith with his union I'- i- a "rave.-tc noon, fustic* t a' they should nriw !*■ slugged I by a legal idack-jsck- to satisfy Hi* overweening avari.-e of their ~ reactionary employers.' la-w is . said; He said th* coal operators had 'boasted'' that they didn t have . t<> bargain fmcau.se Mr. yrriman “in his'high offi.-e, wielding Taft s I; rliib, would -Imat rite min* workers into submission " “To use the power of the slat* I to. drive men into, the mines on . th* t*rms and. .for the profit of . private employers is involuntary servitude." Lewis Wrote "h is ( queslsonal.l. whether on* could postulate-that suc h mass co*r< ion I would insure enthusiastic service , from grateful men ‘ " , Th* president has mad* it clear that he will use th* T»ft-Hanl*y . act to .testor* full eoal prodartion if his voluntary peace pro posal* were rejected Fader the Taft-Hartley act. Mr. i Truman would seek, a federal i court order to pul the miners I hack to wdrk full Ulrie for about ■ -to d*y«.. ~ z. _ Afore than loa.ooo CMW member* are on Mrtfce Th« othjjr Stm.mw are working a three.iay workweek which heaan las 5 Imwf* said be realtoed that the Whit* House is prepared to use ‘■[“the oppressive- lerttl saartkrn-of Taft's MU- <d attainder against labor union ” i "The mtn* workers know also, ' ■ Mr rreahiaat. that the hoary hand of government vratW not be j laid concwrreatly on the shoulders .inf tjte- eoal operator* -as . they i make wassail tn the privacy' of j their -tcTuFWa" fiffle”'' ' ““ .J Lewis said memi<er« of his union and taxpayer* ~ They are men with family.responsihtHtle*.' he wrote Thev perform an essential service. They serve a harsh and hnrtal tndttstry ", 1 .. Their employer* ar* in a con trolling sense, greedy, grasping Ljtnd devoid of ordinary eoutpa*iTwr» T»