Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 30, Decatur, Adams County, 6 February 1950 — Page 1

Vol. XLVIII. No. 30.

TRUMAN INVOKES TAR-HARTLEY LAW IN COAL DISPUTE-400,000 NOW ON STRIKE

Says Briton Gave Highly Secret Data Head Os Congress Committee Issues Statement On Data Washington. Feb (VPiChairman Brien McMahon ot the congre**lonal atomic energy coni talite* naM today that the British sciential now under arrest as an atomic apy ha* transmitted highly secret information to the Soviet Union ” I The Connecticut Democrat made, that flat statement about Dr Klaus K J Kucha after a secret twohour committee meeting with director J Edgar Hoover. 3 and Jwo of Hoover's top aider —r —/4 McMahon declined to name hi*' source* or where or when the »e< ; ret* were paaaed to the Soviet*., But be told reporter* that he was. making bls atatement "flatly." Asked whether Fuch ha* made a ' rtmteMioa. he raid "No comment In ,fact. 1 can’t! comment " ! But be dropped a broad hint that.! the FBI suspect* other* were in on ' the alleged spy pirn with Fuch*. a , .German horn scientists who work-! ed at the ix»* Alamos N M . atom bomb plant during the war yeai»| aa a member of a British team ! Mtrkhßww sal* ff'iinr ll * committee that British and American agents are studying ""other ’ ramifications" of the *py case but; that "common sense" barred fur tber arrests at this time McMahon, after announcing that jSll other committee members htrdj .' been bound to silence, issued a statement listing these other high ' lights of the Hoover testimony 1 "We were advised thajJ the background of the lEUrhsi lattwlr has beep xojii.mu!ii«ti< that I* th«H Fuchs, since he was a young man.! .''ban be>n tleflnHefy sywipathrtfebrjcommunjst Ideology- Most of hiclose' relative* have Tievn either members of the party ot fellow travellers " 2 The FBI did not Itiv. sitgM. any employes of the wartime atomic energy project from March. 1*43. until Jan" 1. 1347, when the civilian atomic energy commission took over front the army 3 The atomic energy commission accented the British certifi ~ cate on Fuch*' security clt stance in 1347 without further question At that time Fuchs spent a fort night here working on an Anglo U. K declassification guide for release of secret Information known to both British and American sejrit list* Lt. Gen." Ixrsie It. Groves, war time head of this country's A bomb • Turn Te Faw* Five) “ • ! Otto Hoffman Will Seek Renomination Otto Hoffman, well known Washington township farmer and < oinmissioner of the second district today announced hi* intentions of seeking a second term to that post, subject to the decision of hemocrat voters in the .May prl mary election. Hoffman I* starting the second year of a three-year term, but because there is a one-year hold over before the second district commissioner take* office, it i* mcessary for the commissioner to be elected a year before he assume* office Th* candidate, formerly a meml>er of the county council, has long been active In affairs of the connTy~ He also-ha* been interested in county 4-H advisory work and other agricultural organisations He Is a graduate of Decatur high school and pa* resided In 'Adams county all hi* lite. WEATHER Cloudy esteems north and feppy with occasional drizzle -south and central portions tonight. Tuesday cloudy with oc- - national drizzle. A little colder north portion tenlpht. Low tenlpht 26 to 34 north. 40 to 43 south. High Tuesday 40 to 46 north, 4d to M south.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Candidate Otto Hoffman Nine Violent Deaths Reported In Indiana ’ Three Drownings In State Over Weekend . By United Pro»<n Nine fluoniet- ’ died violent!.' ! over the wee,Rend> with traffic ■ tldenls rial mine four liven and dmwningn .thf'w other*, police nr I ofd.» *»h<» **<l A. I and r home art ide®t eom |» hMed LU* (4Mb joll Clemen* Wiinderlkh. Jr. 6. and i HaiTt Haim i. Jr., X boill us Kvans- : vllle. drowned in a pt>nd near their 1 home Safurdiiv appnrenlTy while I trying t<» cut ft hnk in the 1 « 4 inch .Ice they could fish The third drowning victim wa> Gustav Hunke. 4<». Hudson. (Su u ■b» n county». who d.n«w<ud in Lilli* Turkey Lake white fishing Sund:»> ' 4Thi’ traffic victims were Murel 1 G Mason 47. Muth i« ; Edward W Maphr 79. Cl avion: Alfred Mort ijuiUMVv-S 0 Elkliur’. v and G*»ni<*h Roto rts. 27. Ti-tre Haute Mason was killed .Sunday when ,! • . .i-.tl ..a \ k ' ' ■ tialn stFU«\ his .if a 1 a < r-> *ine' w< st of Mun< t‘ Police _sald son e ’car wa-* carried for a half mile dou’n the track* befoie tlv. {rain was stopped Maple died Saturday night when he. was struck by a<ar in I S l<» near Clayton. Mapb was making a h ft Him off the road on hi* threa wheel *COot< T wh«-n th* art id» nt <M < UfTl d Mor* laousa died in a Warsaw hospital Saturtlay as a re-ult of injuries Kuffererl Friday night, when the rar h» was driving struck an oth« r car south of Warsaw He was a Ball State student going home fur weekend and his d»ath was the sreomi as a result of the < ra<h Robert also, died Saturday, in 4Tara T«» met Keep Two Jefferson Voting Precincts Commissionersln Monthly Session The county ennmissioner*. in llteir rcKular monthly ineofing to | day in th* court house; ipjtroved c|*ln>« during th* morning ***- sloti, th* r> por of county home superintendent. Frank Kltsoti. and ! also the esinlinuance of two *eparaie voting precinct* ili J*ffer son lown*hip Brayton Py>■ t riistee. Balpti Bollen bat her ami Jake Keef. ati of Jefferson township, appeared Imfore'"the imard of commissioner* and stated that it was their belief, after a ctiraory survey which they had .conducted, that the' people of JeWerson township preferred the current set-up. rather than a single, voting unit. The board asaected. anti the pre ejects' will remain Intact. The Iwiard also certified the of mile* of roads in Adams county 725. S and sent the information to the stat* highway commission. The amount of n-ve-nee the county receive* for maintenance of roads is based on this report. Also in the morning session. PhH Sauer -coqnty highway com . <Twrw Tw m«» Flv*>

May Postpone Phone Strike Set Wednesday Bell System Strike May Be Postponed For Negotiations New York. Feb 6. —(UP>—Unlon leaders said today they were "willing io consider” a twoweek po»t-poiK-iiienl of a telephum- workeg* strike “If there's something to be gained by It." Ernest Weaver, president of di vision six of the communications workers ot America iCIOI said a postponement had not been proposed to li(m but "If there's any basis for It. we would consider it." Otherwise. Weaver said, there would lie no change In the strike deadline set for 6 ant {local time) Wednesday by Western Electric installation worker* which could involve lon.iHHt workers and paya: lyre the national telephone network -a company negotiators .and federal mepUutinu nftii tals met at V3b "a m. otSpTt i'll), I federiSl mediator was expected lo Join them later today William N. Margolis. Ching's top aide, was one of the conferees. ZHhER? the meeting began, he would* not comment bn the report that th* government would pmpo** 8 f»'»we*k postponement 1.1 tit. p liigl' government official In Washington said Cbm* would ask the communirathui* worker* <rf America (CIO) to postpone the walkout for two weeks Ching, who conferred over the weekend with high official* of lite Atm rn an Telephone A- Telegraph Co., said it was Impossible to n< gutiate a settlement before the st rt.ke-’deadline ■ Th< government source said Ching would request the twoweek d, lay today lit tomorrow uni, ss an tuuxpr etcdi.blsytk. cytht’ d< adlo.-k with th. Bill System ov, r ittiion demands for higher pay. shorter hours and Improv, d work, iftg conditions ” The union claimed the strike would idle more dhan 30b.000 telephone workers because an addi iiiinal 200.000 would refuse to cross picket line* to b, sei-up around ex changes In ei'lt . ai-rtw* the coup tty IC . To Continue Price Supports For Hogs. . Secretary Brannan To Order Supports Washington. Feb 6.—(V?) Responsible agriculture officials said today that secretary of agricul lure Charles F Brannan will order price .supports continued through lite spring and summer for pork- * These officials" said that hogs provide too large a share of farm Income to take a chance on a dra* tic break in prices Hogs now are selling close lo the support level, although the government has not actually had so buy any pork for price support, as yet. On this score, th* futur* is not too bright. Hog markrting this year will set a new peacetime rec ord high. No one can precisely foreeast: vonsumer demand But officials agree it will shrink If th* national economy dtps Even it It ITwew TW Www* Wlv,) Ed Bauer To Heod Decatur Cemetery Ed Bauer of the Schafer Co. was elected president of the Decatur i-enibtery assoelatlsm at th* annual organirathm meeting pf'the directors Saturday, X Ed Ashliaucher was elected treasurer and E. IL 'Adam*, was named secretary, -The .other board members are I’cter Kirs, h. Beu Shroyer Virgil Rrlck. No action was- taken to fin the vacancy of tbb late Dr Fred Pattenion. was a board member for many •'years.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, February 6,1950

‘Put Finger’ On Atom Scientist FOLLOWING TESTIMONY before a closed vsrion of tb» Senate Appropriations Committee In Washington. Director of the Federal Bureau of lnve*ligalloii J. Edgar Hoover fright! is quisled by newsmen Hoover said that Dr Emil Fuchs. British scieiillst jailed In lauidon on charges of espionage, had made a "complete confession" In which lie admitted giving I’. S. atomic secret* lo Soviet Russia.

Delay Decision On Air Force Academy No Decision Likely During Present Year I ‘ * — t Wanhin*t<*n/ F>b. dU. - HIP»- [ It npiMftirwi t«Ml.iv that the nlrforcv will have to wait al leant another year before rongrend dechien to CBtabltah an air .fore** academy • ’’.V eonKreaaional election year i in the chief reaaoa. Bids for the, school have bwn mifcriiltted by ■ 1 1!»5 communities in 34 Mlfttei*. Some member* of congreatL who :isk*‘d to remain anonymous, said they d«» not want ‘thin additional „fr<*m bark home while <athimivtiing. for re-election. Chairman Carl Vintwan. D. Ga . of the. house armed Hervice* committee promised to hold hearings <3li the it**ue But he »aid no uetual legislation will be ronaldered until a defence department aeleetion beard inspects all 195 «he» The board, headed by Gen. Carl Spaatz. retired former air force chief of staff, has Inspected 43 sites to date. It was unlikely that] its task will be completed before.congress adjourns this year. There are 27 separate air a*ad emy bills before congress. They would authorize an officer train-; ing -school for airmen comparable To the army's West Point and the Navy’s Annajiolis. Vinson made it clear that con-; cress not only will decide whether to establish an air academy, but where it will be located. This would indicate that it probably will consider but not accept at, final, any recommendation submitted by the site sfdectiofi board., The airforce estimated that 1Y ( needs 5.D00 acres for'-the projsfe’t. Estimated cost Is |l7l.«wm»j»o6 r Gefh—Hoyt 8. Vandenberg, air | force chief of staff, said the air . force d*»es not have and cannot , get a sufficient number of college trained officers personnel without j iTwrw Tw rwa* Fieri

— > - y Two City Policemen Lose Race With Stork Sunday

A couple of city polk'tmen lost' * race with the ylortearly SundayJ morning. but t.slay they weft re-, fleet Inc on theff rank asahliteur obstetririanef and bracing them J selvesTi»rnavfhg'W go through lifer beinpTatled "l»oc ” fStr patrolmen Maurice Teeple -and Roy f'hilcote It wan their first ' such euperience as midwives, but ' they were successful. and saved one. and possibly two. lives At about ! 30 o’clock Sunday morning a boy. handed police a note stating that his mother was In 1 trouble, unable to obtain a doctor, and needing help, which bad been scribbled on a piece of cardboard They ru’hed Immediately to the apartment, where the mother had j«st given birth to a baby, bat had

11 I ■ l 11 — 7-' IL (j , . ; No Lions Meeting Here Tuesday Night The regular Tuesday night meeting of the tAon* club will not be held this wwek a* member* ot that organization will join others tw j the annual Boy Scout Imnquet to Mo>-faeld Thursday night nt ) o'l-iock at the Ma»»nt<- hall Member* are asked to sign out ' by Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock If they are unable to attend the ' | Thursday joint meeting. — High Waters Drop In Ohio River Valley 25,000 in Arkansas Are Still Homeless (Wsgo. Feb 0. — <l-r> Fiord' waters retreated further in the Ohio River valley tmlay but 25,000 jiersons gtlll were bnmeles* in mutljeaked Arkansas. The St. Francis and White rivers were subsiding-in Arkansas .and rescue workers sajd the overall flood situation had improved, but , t lie Ouachitr. still was rising, •h The lied (’hiss said a few more residents of the Ouachita lowlands prjibably would have to he evacuate<l. The Ohio crested al Cincinnati yesterday seven fret above the 5J , fprrt flood stage, ft was dropping to <iay despite light rain over the Ohio valley. f'pstrewm from Cincinnati, most of the 12.tM»0 persons driven to seek temporary shelter last week had !>egun returning to their hotties Downstream, the crest was ex peeled to hit Ixiulsvllle today, hut .’forecaster* believed there would 1* i no danger. / The river was falling from p*rkersburg. W. Vs. to Maysyjfe. Ky .Tributaries of the Ohio Vrere falling throughout Kentucky At Ashland. Ky.. Red Croks workers who had I wen feeding 300 refugees planiwsl to end the emergency program today /

~ been unable to eope with the situs | tian further. Vsing instruments at hand, kltchlen utensils: the' police completed the operation, cutting and tying Ttbe umbilical cord They wrapped the newly-born baby girl in a blanket, and raced with it In their patrol car to the hospital They then obtained pn ambulance for •the mother, who was also taken tb the hospital The mother and baby, coming Into the world at sis pounds, two ounces-.-are both reported doing . tine. ■ The Two bfflcera. TeepTe and Chllcote, however, have made no further comment on their experience. but It is reported that they ■also are "doing fine"

Emergency Provisions Os Law In voked; Coal Miners ‘Start Full-Fledged Strike

Soft Gml Miners On Full-Fledged Strike; No Formal - OrderTrom Lewis Pittsburgh. Feb. 6 - it’P) John L. Lewis' soft coal miners started a full-fledged strike today. Almost 31)0.000 united mine work era joined the IMt.bM who were Idle last week In a Mop work protest against the coal operators refusal to negotiate a new contract. Lewis issued no formal strike order Uni hi* miners took his stinging rejection of President Truman * proposal tor a 7<*day trace tar negotiaii.m*. or fact finding a* the signal for a full scale strike They were "fighting mad over lhe operator*' refusal to meet further with Lewis. Fut the most part. John L leste 4M.1W0 soft eoal miners simply stayed home Ar Harwick Pa a : typical mining lovk-tt WM i "stay in bed” strike. When the whistle blew tor work thl* morning, not a light showed In the miner*' how*e* elustered on a t hill above the mtne shaft. ,' Borne local union* went throagt I the formality of a strike vote. A Harmarvllle, Pa.. 400 employes o ( a Wheeling Steel Co mine met yes •• -terday end quickly - voted for- i (walkout But most miners skippcc a vote because, they said, the "wdrd was out" for an all-out strike. -I'.MW district leaders . said the men were fed up with the Lewis' tbree-day week strategy and returned to their traditional "no coniracf, no work" stand to force a. show down In their eight month fight with the coal operators David I. Cole. Paterson. N J., attorney, said last night that Mr. Truman had asked him to be avail able to serve as chairman of aTaft fimllhg board to investigate the pule; ' '__ The how strike, contlng on the heels of . months of low production caused by the threeday week and wildcat strikes, was expected to deal s staggering blow to Industrial produ.-tion President Truman has been In formed that the nation's coat Stock iTurw T« Purwe Three) Escaped Convict Is Sought In Illinois Escape Partner Is Shot And Captured Mensryt 111 Feb « — <V_ pJ A hew<ih- armed posse searched a wydiis on the outskirts of Chester, til. for 'an escaped prison convict. The fugitive. Dalliert Sixeuuore 32. of Muncie. Ind . was believed hiding near the spot where his escape partner Oliver Wendell Martin. 27. Chicago, was shot and captured by searcher* last night. Warden Browning Robinson said Sixetnore waa believed armed with a butcher knife stolen from a home where the pair holed up all day yesterday while prison guards and state police scoured the countryside for them. State police aided guards in rizh State police aided guards in tightening a net around Sizemore, who waz serving a-one-year-to-lifa term for robbery when he escaped I Sizemore and-Martin, wgo was ; iloing a IS* year term for murder. escaiHd early from the , state penitentiary here The Warden said they used a hacksaw to cut through the iron bars of a baaetawt window in the ' prison's administration . hnildlng. The building la outsde the prison walls They escaped sometime between 7 and 3 45 a tn.. Robinson said They were, present for the earlv f morning > Tick Tmt mHsing at the 1 S 45 Inspection A short time after they fled the prison, they broke into the home of (Tara Ta Fw«a Five)

Mobster’s Home Is Rocked By Explosion Cohen Uninjured In I Explosion At Home t*M Angele*. Feb. 6, • (I'P) - ' An explosion tore out a bedroom 1 sail of gambler Mickey Cohen's ' home early today,'causing |so,<*'Hi . damage But the dapper moioter •* raped with only a scratch on bill 1 hand. , 1 "Your guess ts as good as mine." Cohen, calm and cool, after the explosion, said cirtwerning the la'e»t attempt on his life Cohen, who was wounded last July in an ambush shooting in , which one of bi* colleagues waa ' . j killed.” wa* in"a back "Bedroom With t . his wife He usually sleeps in the [ , lust room in the south wing which was ripped apart by the «>xplo*J<>' k \ man HVFhg wrreniw tke wtrogt-Vrwm-! n | Cohen reported he waa blown out a of bed. Windows tn the neighbor J hood were shattered. h It was rhe second time, an ttjalon had rocked the Brealwood of mansion ot the mobster A ffyna- • mile blast some months ago did • little damage, - ■< The fact that Cohen waa awaken- • ed by his elaiiorate electronic warning system. Indicating that somep one was on the preirilses, probaldy 1 I saved him. from death or . lujur. . I officers said. .ills' three minute* -Iwfore the ‘ blast, Cohen got up to l<*>k outside ' to see if there were any prowlers, i He first balked out of the windows ; in the front of the house, and there when the blast happened. :. "I smelt a fuse burning. 'Cohen told officer*, who thus heliew;X jdvnamite was used. / [ The wardrotie where Cohengeepi most of his natty suits/Was de II inolitdted " , Windows in other, 4mmes for. a Mock around x p'.ue were i blown out ‘ Tbp west l.o* Angeles police statU>x three miles from the scene. al>ye‘ * as shaken. Leadership School Will Open Tuesday The annual leadership training school, sponsored by the Decatur i ministerial association, will opeti ’ i ll 7 30 Tuesday evening 'at the I Trinity Kvaggfiical t 'qlted Breth--1 ren church The school will run for five night* Tuesday and Thurs-l day. until the < hieing Feb. "1 Heart Disease Kills 11,573 In IndiaM Biggest Killer In Indiana Last Year L. —: ; - -■ - - Indianapolis. Feb. < — (CPI — I Heart diaeaae killed more Hoosiers ‘ In 1*43 thany any o*her single cause of death, provisional figures 1 at the state board of health showed r wtay—— —■ Verne G Robinson, public health division • statistics director, sa d - ; heart condtion* killed 11.573 per- i L sons on th* total death list of 3S -1 “ j 11*. Tumor* and eancer took second , /place with 5.M7 deaths; vascular-! • iesinna afreet Ing the -ewnual n«z. . vc.i* system third with 4.644 am! I hypertensive diseases fourth with; ' i 3.067 deaths. C_. . J ! Accideßt*. not Including murder* ' and sulchta*. claimed 2.451 live* There were 512 suicides and I!'. i murder*. On the other aide of the ledger, there were no death* from scarlet. ,•' lever and no case* ot smallpox Ty"J pboM fever killed only one peredw. ] /and nine death* were blamed on j , I meealea. j Polio killed Hoosier*. /

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President Declares Strike Continuance Imperils National Health And Safety Washington, Fel< 6 - (CP) — President Truman invoked the national emergency provision of the Taft-Hartley law today In the first legal step lo halt a strike of som* 4W.000 soft c.ail miners. Declaring that continuance of the .strike I’wiil imperil the national health and safety." Mr Tro- . man established a tliree-man I Ixiard ot inquiry. He directed the bqard to report ‘back to him by next Monday The board will merely ascertain the fact* ind issue* in the case j After 'the board reports. Mr, ~Truman .may dirett the attorney • general to go into federal court ‘and seek an order to put the j striking miner* buck to work tor int least M day* ”■ ' ' 3 ‘ John L. Lewis warned the ’ president Saturday that the min!era might not go back it he 1 I called the "MackjheS" et The . TaftHariiey law. But the last j time Lewi* defied a Taft-Hartley and Ids union dI.TWAOO In fthes. ' . This was the first time that Mr. Truman has used the jwt-Hart-I ley law since August,' I***, and the third time he ipts invoked It I In a coal dispute./' Mr. Truman Mid lieen reluctant to invoke tlye Taft Hartley law, which he dislikes and which he ■ sought M vain to hare repealed last ydar. Bfit he was left no alternative XKer Lewi* la*l —Saturday- shot ! the door on the ia.*l - baace to [ solve the dispute by vedun'ary *r- ’ tlon a , 7<Hlay tru, e proposal by the presulent Even *o. the president deferred ' 'action the weekend In the hope that the miners would work today Instead, ’be miners started a full-fledged strike, with al- , most 300.W*i» diggers joining HXi.000 others who had walked but ! during the past two weeks even ‘ refusing to work a thrWeday ; week le-wls did not issue a formal ■ strike order But the miner* took his rejection of the truce t proposal" *»-«- signal dor- a—fwH--scalv sjrike Lewis, rejected the truce two days after northern and western ; coal operators walked out on rej newed negotiations The operat- ! ora then accepted Mr Truman’s trace plan but lewis' refusal to eo along with It foreclosed any Aance of a trace A spokesman for Lewis said the mine worker's chief had "no commenl" on Mr. Truman's action today. — Mr. Truman was forced to act because the nation's soft cool supply has dwindled below the danger point—down to a 15-day supply. Government official* feared ‘that many industries will be (Twee Te Fuse r»ve» Ralph Miller Seeks Office Renomination I Ralph M Miller Hartford townl ship trustee and well kno* n 1 southern Adam* county farmer io- - dwe - awnooneed hi* InUaUiau .jd seeking renomiuation to the Iras- : tee's post, subject to the. decision |*»r voter* In the Democrat primary . in May. Miller i» completing his first \ term thl* year He resides a mile south of Linn Gfoye and tea* long active tn civic affair* of the | lesrwetetp Mtiier Mated Him W (Me-’ j cesCnl he would continue bl* present polkle* of school operaitioe* and give the patrons of Hart- . t ord the t»e*t possible school far*! htle* /