Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 33, Decatur, Adams County, 9 February 1950 — Page 1

VoT. VLVIII.No. 33

SOH COAL FACT BOARD ENDS HEARINGS

Railroad Strike Authorized "■' ■ _ I—U — : —— —— — 1 — -*■

Rail Workers Vote Strike On Wage Demands Authorize Strikes If Wage And Hour Demands Rejected Chicago. Feb. 9. —(UP)— Two union! represent In* 250.000 trainmen and conductor* announced today that their members hare voted to authorise a strike against the nation's railroads. No strike dale was set but official* of the two unions said adate probably would be announced tit' ; week. \ Results of Vote were announced by yenaedy.’ president of the bnitfinrhoOd of J | the brotherhood of railroad train-1 men. and Harry Fraser, president of the order of railway • (inductors: They said members voted by a 95 percent majority "to strike If necessary" to sain their demands Their wage and hoiir dispute with the railroads now is before the national railway mediation heart). ' but Fraser and Kennedy said "there Is no basis In sight for a satisfactory settle .......mnt-'l. _ — „ ' ■ '• “It a settlemeat is not reacTied" In medlhtion shortly the two organisations will fix a strike date."' a they said. 1 .1 The unions seek no general i wag* Increase, but instead wsut changes In work-rules which would mean more pay. , , The trainmen seek a 40-hour week for yardmen now working 49 hours and In some bases more. ! They also seek time and a half for hours worked over th. ] Conductor* and trainmen both “seefa reduction In tlie T>asic"»orii'' day from the present ISO 'miles or 7->* hour-* to IW> miles for five hours — However, there was no posstbi'. , ity of an .immediate rail strike under the 'national railway laltor i act. “cooling off" provisions would delay a walkout for at least two months The mediation board now- hear-j Ing the dispute here first must report to President Truman that I Its efforts have tailed. The President then would appoint a factfinding board which would hav« M days to make its Investigation and report back. 77[ Another 30-day grace period would follow Red Cross Chairmen Speaks At Capital Indianapolis. Feb. 9 ttfPl —f Gen. George C Marshall, former , secretary of stale and now director , of the American Red Cross, arrive.; here today for a speech Itefore jhe . Indianapolis chapter Marshall will speak tonight on "Red Cross in the world today.” He is the second prominent World War II officer and cx-dlplo mat to visit Indianapolis this week. ' Gen Walter Hedell Smith, one lime amltassador to Russia, recefrButler University Tuesday, ed a doctor of' laws degree front Cool Shortage Closes Schools At Delphi Indianapolis. Feb. 9. —(UP) — . Governor Schricker's office report- : ed that all schools at Delphi closed j today because of tbe coal shortage : Executive secretary Arthur Camp bell said Delphi school officials ap- _ pealed for coal, but none could be found "We can't furnish these schools with any coal," said Campbell. "We don't have it If they run out. they just have to close." At Delphi, school superintendent Wayne Elkenberry said he hoped to obtain some coal and re-open Monday He said there were only five tons on hand > v WEATHER Fair and cooler tonight. Frl- ' day partly cloudy and warmer north. Low tonight 25 to 30 north; 30 to 35 south High Frt* day 40 to 46.

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Five Bum To Death In Apartment Fire Albany. Fob. ». -(UP)-* A young, unemployed truck driver, hnl wife and throe children burned to death today when an explosion and fire destroyed their baaement apartment. Eight other occupants of the building escaped. The dead were: Norbert Heppelle, 28. his wife. Margaret, 24. and their children. Theodore. 3. Gail. Id months and Henry, three months. Red-Controlled Berlin Police Given Orders To Take Over City In Demonstration Os Youthful Reds Berlin Feb. 9 — it Pl — Com: mnnlst cons relleil-police in" East! Merlin were today told they inu*! take oyer the en'ir<- •■ity when gtio.oop communist youth memhers demonstrate litre May 28 The communist police were warned they thus”’ prepare " I<> | fight the W«t German m»Hre and t defeat them so that numbers of' I the communist could demonstrate j I la al) am-tors of the city. I 1 The' yarning was issued by, Waldemar Pvhmldt.- chief of-police' fn-ffusslan Want roiled awat—Unr-1 lin. In special Instructions yester ' day to all Rovb-t set lor potion ■ , headquarters and published today 'in the Soviet army newspaper Tneglielie Rundst tiim I The open order for battle was glamd.gfh-x rei«>rt* (bat W.-t Berlin pollc- would lx- reinforced burned lately - He meet a" threat ell ed i communist ajtempt. to seize the city administration during the, rally Schmidt yaid th(* West police headed by, police chief .Jo I banner Stumm were "Illegal' and* ! that they could not keep tire com ■ i (mini st* from taking over the erv-| ' tire . ity Recauw Stunim’n Berlin i were “illegal," Si■lirnidt ■ ’ said, “we as tbe peopFes po’.ice therefore must make all pieparu , ! lions to guarantee the public a* I rurity of the (Jet man. eapitaj: 1 : ; : The end of May th* youth of; all Oerma-ny will meet in Berlin.' . the eonimunixt police chief said j “Here they will learn wluT is Kiiardlnx their interests and wel-’ ’ fare*. American tanka, which a<>-| Fclaliat leader i KurlT ’ iby t«ibally demands, will nut; (Tvm T«» r««e V'.labti I ’ I Monmouth PTA Will Mark Founders Day c sos Luck Supper Is To Be Held Tuesday The P. T A. or ths Monmouth school will observe "Founders day and' merit night” with a pot luck 'supper a4 «:»0 p m Tuesday in I the high schixd gym. it was an ! nounced today. . ‘ Dr. Charles M Brush, of Heidelberg College, former pastor of the Decatur Zion Evangelical an« l Reformed church, will be the I speaker of the evening. Mrs Adolph Weldler will lie In charge of the program and Winfred Gerke. Will serve' as toastmaster. Mr and Mrs. Martin Bnhlman are chairmen of the hosts and hostess committee and will lie assisted by Mr. and Mrs True ’Andrews. Mr and Mr*. Fred Thieme Mr and Mrs Winfred Gerke. Mr and Mrs Carl Hurst and Mr ami Mrs. timer Merriman Merit night is observed annually by the Monmouth P. T A. at the February meeting and is in : honor of the basketball players , -and outstanding stud-nts of the Monmouth school The mWrt WIfH lie served , promptly at 4 30 o'clock ' i and mem tiers and their families i and friends are invited. -

Discuss Possible Atlantic Federal Union H, |i i ■. ... ... ■ ....... CW-- ■ I AT A SENATE foreign relations sulxommitlee hearing on a resolution Uv agplore possibility of the t B joining with other Atlantic part nations in a federal union, ex-supreme court Justite Owen J. Rols-rts. Atlantic I nion president (2nd from leftl, urged western democracies to Imcome as closely ' knit as communist nations Atomic, scientist Dr. Harold C. Urey (right I. warned that the II bomb has I made truly Independent governments Impossible Others In the group are sub-committee chairman ; Elbert Thoma* (Dl. Utah, (left I. and Sen. Estes Ke auver Wl. Tenn. _ . . , ■

Widespread Rains Renew Flood Threat Ohio JGver Saltey Again Threatened Chicago. Feb 9 — (VP) | Widespread rains Malay ix>s(*d a ' new flood threat to lilt- Dhio yh«r .-vailoy.. Murky weather, elsewhere ■in the midwest snarled highways and Impeded air (ravel Heavy snow fell tn upper Michigan and northern Wisconsin, flttr-i Tie* pelted the northern Rockies.: and It was cold along the North - -. ~..... I Elsewhere around th* coiiiiflfJ th* weather was more mild The swollen Ohio threatened to rise again along the .Ohio-KenJ tatcKV wx-lor of . itA C'llin •“ under heavy rain* in the t'iii< inuaii. IxmisvUte and Evansville, IF.I . t area'a:'- *■■ — Aiwvut two -inches of rain had 1 fallen at Louisville since noon I yesterday and it was stilt rtrtping early today The river, which had lw-.en fall Ing after an earlier rise, leveled off six feet above flood stage at Louisville River observers said rlt wrrattt resttmy its climb., if rains | continued upriver. Foggy weather and slippery ■ pavement caused a major traffic jam on U . S highway 12 at Gary. ' Ind Thirty accidents happened j in rapid succession as hundreds yof automobiles and track* became- • snarled along an',-, eight-tulle, I stretch. One man was killed and 1 five persons injured Two ears collided in a fog near Hillsboro. 111., and three, person*! ' 'were killed. he floe* floating down 4he Columbia river toward the Pacific ripped up clocks and smashed vonCTwra T« Wane Civet Alva Sovine Dies At Jonesboro Home Former Adams County Resident Is Dead _ Alva Sovine. 71. a native of Adams county, died Wednesday] evening at his home in Jonesboro following an illness Os four months of dropsy ~ -- j He was born at Honduras Feb. 12. | ISTB. a-wow of David and Alice Scki vine, and was married to Flora ’ Whybrew In 1914. , He formerly owned grocery stores in Honduras and Vera Crux, later moving to Jonesboro, where he also Ope rated a grocery. -Surviving in addition to his wife are three brothers. Robert Sovine of Decatur route J. V V. Sovine of] Bunker Hill and Henry Sovine of Allen. Mich , and two sisters Mrg. -V K Hawk of Fort Wayne and Mw. Mid Michaels of Mon>oe route Funeral services will be held at if p.in Saturday at Jonesboro, with! burial at Jonesboro.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, February 11950

Report Collections | For March Os Dimes A total of 324$ 74 was collected In the lobbies of the Adams and Cort theater* fur tbe National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis, it was umuMMuad today. In the . Marc h of Dimes drive held recently In the local inov in houses. Decatur Girl {Scouts co-operated by ■uduitlng for funds in the IV-day < n'Apaign. “ . t. Education Aid Bill Still In Committee [™House Votes Hike For Postal Rates Washington Feb 9—<UPt It appeared utilikelv today that the = gov. rntnent s pica for a federal aid- . loeducatlon law. would jar she con , troverslai aid bill out of the house:! education and labor committee. > Rep Samuel K. McConnell, Jr, 11. Pa. ranking minority member , of the committee, said U S edit i cation commissioner Earl J Me- . Grath's argument* won't help the < ommitlee settle Its main- problem what to do about -pafcx-hiai schools ■ McGrath said yesterday It does I; Knot take an "alarmist'' to predict "shocking disorder and Ineffective ness" for the nation's schewd sys- , tern unless something is done about the critical shortage of teachers and school buildings. "The need for federal aid to edu ] cation is clear and imperallve." , I McGrath said in his annual report The house was called Into session an hour earlier than usual to pass a bill that Will increase postal , , rales about »18n,000.W0 a year. The senate laid aside the central Ari -zona project 10 open debate on a , military construction bill. Elsewhere In congress: A'omic. Members of the con - gressxhmal atomic energy commit- I tec said they may ask for a “com- ' -plete" review of atomic enerey comniisshsn security measures to guard against recurrence of the Fuchs spy case ’tut one member suggested that such a study might retard the. commission's work. GOP—Sen. Owen Brewster. R. Me . indicated that the Republicans 1 i hope to make political capital this ! fall by blasting the administration's ’ (Twrw T. r»w» s:iwlH> < Charge Conspiracy • ! To Drug Companies i- Feb. (UP)— 1 ■ The government today charged two 1 ' major drug companies with consplr < Ing to monopolise the hard gelatin 1 capsule nuxrket. . — rr .;* Attorney general J Howard Me- < Grath announced filing of an anti > trust civil suit against Parke. Davis A Co.. Detroit. Mich., and | Ell Lilly A- Co . Indianapolis Tbe < suit was filed in Detroit federal court. ■ The jus’lee department said both i rompanle*. In addition to making , pharmaceuticals and Mologleals. | make and sell hard gelatin capsules , ■ used primarily aS sbluahle containers for drugs and medicines.

1 • •- . ' " . I One Man Is Killed In Jammed Traffic Worst Traffic Jam In Gary's History ipjfii was'kllled. six others Injured, and cars were stalled bumper to bumper ft>r eight Jnllnd'-imWlMt : .'police today i slled the worst 4raf He jam In Gary's history Thirty minor accMents followed the He up on route 12 and traffic j was snarled for two hours All of Gary's eight squad cars ifere called to the scene*last night sod all ran.out oLruad flares used to ~s;;rT' *ihr'rc7«Kwrsrarw' ■ slippery and foggy highway, the main road between Chicago and Michigan and Indiana The first accident occured when a west bound semitrailer truck: driven by Robert T Harris. Detroit,! locked its Wheels and edged Intoj the east bound lane. The truck colUded with a car ] driven by James G Fuller, 26. of] Gary Fuller was killed and his - companion. Johu Biggs. 28. of Gary was injured The trailer came to rest blocking/ the two west bound lanes and other accidents followed a* impatieht, motorists shie swiped each other I as they tried to edge around the I obstruction. Two ambulance* were called to I the scene and added to the con- | fusion. Police said they would no sooner clear due accident frlon the highway when another would follow. With the exception of Fuller and, Biggs, ho one ,wa* seriously Injur-! ed h ■ ■ ' ji Teacher Stabbed By : Grade School Pupil ; Teacher Unable To 11 Explain Boy's Act Granite City. yi . F»h 9 — (UP> 1 A teacher accused , an eighth grade pupil of stabbing her with I a pair of scissors, but told police I today that she didn't know why he i did it. \ i The boy's parents were bewilder- i ed. too. They said he waa a “good i lioy" who had never lieen In trouble lieforg. , , “7. . -I Mrs Lillie Timer. <#. was stab- t bed In her back and chest nftvr 1 svoool boom yesterday as she t*lk- t i cd to 13-yesr-old Fred Pattie about his class work. She ran to the principal's office, screaming: "He stabbed me He < stabbed me." She wa« taken to a St. I-outs hoe t pltal. where attendants said her I condition was “good" today. I The youth, who fled from *he < school building after the stabbing, was surrendered to police by hi* i parAta Police questioned him and I held him without charge for the i state's attorney i Officers refused to say whether. (Tara Vs Fa«» Klsb«i

Paves Way For President To Seek Court Order To Send Strikers To Work

10 Survive Crub Os Search Plane Rescuers Rushing Through Deep Snow Whltshorse T. T, Feb » — (UP) — An American Canadian rescue tAam pushed through deep snow toward a mtle-hlgh Vukoa mountain shelf today where 10 survivors huddled .in su lexer o weather around tbe wreckage of their U. 8. air force C-4T search plane. The plane crash-landed between the 5.000 and 7.000-foot ’ level Tuesday night while taking part in the two-week search for a C-54 transport missing with 44 persons aboard There were no fatalities In the search plane crash. The survivors were sighted yesterday on the wind-whipped mountain ledge 85 miles west of Whitehorse. radio voice transmitter was dropped to the crash scene so that res*'ucr* could learn of the marooned men!a requirements. Arctic survival gear also was parachuted to them The ground party was not expeeted ta reach the crash acene before nightfall. _ Gause of the forced landing was not Immediately learned. Three of the airmen were reported injured. Those aboard tfie C-47 were five U. S air force crewmen and five. Canadian sol diers. / . . The ItLman rescue party <-on7 slated- of era. k T' S mountain ski troops from Catiip Carson. ( Colo., and Canadian soldiers raanm4--4n* Meanwhile, 'the search for the missing C 54 was centered in, 'southern British Columbia as Royal Canadian air force radio men tried 4o track down the sourc" of mysterious distress callsheard fol more ttjajl a Week altlhg the' Pacific coast The ground party had to travel 52 miles —35 by road and 17 over Tugged terrain to reach the crash scene. 12 air miles north of the lake. Harnessing Atom For Power Purpose First.Filot Plants Soon In Operation New York. Feb 9 (UP) —The United States program toward harnessing the atom for power is making rapid progress and Indore the end of the year the first pilot plants may be in operation They will be pilot ntants tha' ultimately will lead 40 atomic engines for electricity and for propulsion of ships or airplmtee They are definitely out of the blue-print stage, and detailed en gineering design of a ship propul slon reactor is scheduled to begin this year. In addition, preliminary construe tionMvf an experimental breeder re actor in Idaho — from which a smalt amount of useful power _la ekpected as a byproduct ‘is scheduled to be completed hy the end of the year. . Progress of the American program to obtain atomic power is re norted in the seventh semi annual report of the atomic energy com i. > T ■' ~~~~ The commission's report tells o’ four major reactor projects, all cf which pertain to atomic power in one way or another. late last year preliminary construction started on the experimental breeder reactor in Idaho W<»<k Is scheduled to l»e completed Ly ihe ewd ot 19M . '7.J ■ This iw a reactor." the repot’ point* out. “deaig'ted to test the feasibility of tnffvamullng non-fls •ionaMe material tato ftsatonaht.. material in the 'breeding* process I that, produces more flsekmable , (Twra Ve rue I »tsl

Coal Shorlagt Changes Life Os Americans Lansing .First City To Order Brownout Because Os Strike Chicago. FFb (UP)— The coal shortage resulting from the united mine workers strike changed the pattern of life for many Americans today. l-anslng. Mich., with 180.006 residents. became the first eity to order an electrical “brown-out" to conserve coal Street lights were dimmed, householders closed off extra rooms, and business firms turned off advertising display lights / The city had 26 days' supply of coal on hand Svcfetary William A Honecker of the Michigan coal dealers' as> social ion claimed that tbe sltaa- ( Hon wax'“pathetic.” "In another week, people will be . borrowing coal by the sack from > each other to keep warm," he said Salesmen, businessmen, and tour , ists were checking with railroads to determine how the schedule rut- ,. tracks ordered by tbe NttvMa’w * commerce conDiiisSibn Would as- , feet their travels. The IUC. which had already reduced passenger Service, on some , rail toads by a third last January.; '! issued a new directive yesterday for a flat 5o percent cut in *ervh-e i : tor all coal burning passetfger] 'j trains and a 25 percent slash In I'eeai gsiue’-^eelghf ' Railroads, alarmed at the depte-1 ! tlon of their .*(tai st*x-ks. complied willingly As result, additional thousands of railroad workers were expected to be furloughed by Sator day More than .'•5(1.01X1 worker* were" idled this morning due to the mine strike and the t’JO. auto urMftera strike against Chrysler Corp In addition to the imi.ooi) soft.] Coal diggers Involved directly in the mine strike, about 30.(ax* work ers had been laid off by railroads or coal short manufacturing firms, j The' Chrysler strike, involving 89. ] coo UAW workers, idled 36.00® em pfoymnjf- affiliated plants The coal strike had by tar tbe greatest effect on American life and economy. Inland Steel Co at Chicago said it had been forced to shut down a secund .blast, turaace to aave eoal One furnace was shut down in January because of Mie coal scarcity and a third was down for repairs, leaving only five furnaces in qpera (Tara T» I’aae Sixt Hrs. James Dailey Dies This Morning Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon Mrs Hannah Smith Dailey. 82 wife of James T- Dailey, and a Ijfelong resident of Adams roanty. died at 4:20 o'clock this morning at the Berne nursing home after an illness of 10 months. She was born in Root township Jan 26. U6B. a daughter of Frank lin and Catherine Rawley-Smith Married to James T. pulley Feb, 18. 1886. she had lived tn St. Mary's township tor nearly 60 year*. Hobo "Methodist church for Mt*re than 60 yeawte Surviving in addition to her busband are two daughters. Mrs M A Frisinger and Mrs Sim Burk, both of Deeatwr; five grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren, and abrother. M. L Smith of Berne Two brothers and four sisters pre. ceded her In death Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m Saturday al the Zwick funeral home, with burial In the : I tec a) nr Aemetery Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 30j 1p tn FrMxr , , .

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Ends Hearings As Cool Negotiations Stall; Situation Growing Critical Washington. Feb. '• —(UP)— Tbe soft coni fnct-nnding board today abruptly ended it* hearings, pacing tbe way fd» President Truman to seek a court order sending striking misers back to work. The hoard met briefly for 16 minutes this morning, and then said It felt nothing could be accomplished by long-drswnout hearings It said it felt the best thing to do was to cluse the hearings and report speedily to the White Houm Board chairman David L Cole cut off debate and testimony. He told John E Lewis and coal Indue try representatives who were present that they could file Statements tvf their position* by noon CRT. The presidential board's urgency was reflected la the growing eoal crisis throughout the nation " ’ The government has ordered further cutba*-ks tn coal - burning freight and passenger railroad, service In addition to the 4M.«M Mie ' united mine worker* members, thousands of other workers were put out of wort by the coal shbrt ' age. 1 One city, Lansing. Mich . ordered and electrical 'bruwnoui ' to Jtaßserve coal • Mr. Trumsß's tuvtsllgatiag board expects to report to the While * House thia weekend the farts'-in the eoal wage dispute. FrraMeoi Tramaa then caa direct the attorney general to sork a federal In ' junction to return-the miners to the 1 ! pits for about 80 day* The bosrd tried late ysxiterday to 1 get negotiations goinft again in the -soft coal dispute.- But after nearly ■ nine hours of confennees which ifa«v»ci -uaiil. decided l*ew|s and the opefalor* had gotten howhcr< Cole said little about .the neg<> Gallon- except that the posture j of the pvrtle- as.ot last muh: was no) too nilfavorabl* Althbu.-lf L( wi- and «nf' > nal industry men attended tht* morning's i brief hearing. Cole did not permit anyone to make statements there Cole summed up the attitude of i:» members at 12 35 am EST when Lewis and the operator* I broke off an 11th hour attempt to ! settle tUir_ eight month old dispute through direct bargaining The sessions had been'held at -Case's request. "A* of now." he ssld. ”1 belteye further negotiations would be fruitless " CM* «»I<l that »’ f » r ** he i» <*»- 1 cerned a full breakdown in neeotla - (Inn* bad oceurrvd He blamed both sides for the deadlock, and saM tha- no more bargaining «es*tens are planned and the operators had no comment But It was plain they had made no progress during the eight-hour parley The dispute with it* three-dxy work weeks and "vrijdrat ' strikes —has reduced the nation's coal stockpiles to their lowest point in 27 years More than gO.aeO railroad and iadusirial worker* are idle Unless the miner* return to work immediately. I was predteted that = the giant steel industry would have «Tara Tn Coal Not Confiscated Here By Railroad W. H. Barber, local Pennsylvania railroad agent stated today that the Pennsylv-swia railroad did not confiscate a car of coal enroute to tbe city's electric utility. The car wa» held for an--alysis SOd ws* delivered to the ritv fssit nMht Barber said The same experience occurred in cool shipment* to tbe Krick-Tyn-dall Tile Company and the Gen oral E’ectrlc Company These cars were delayed for RTU analysis and later released by the railroad The car* were delivered here last night, the railroad agent stated Barber explained that the Pena aylvania railroad ha* only a six days' supply of coal ou tbe coalerigine operated sect'iow eg tbe line Coal consigned to hospital*. I city utilities or governmental unit* is not coufleeated' Barber nM-