Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 24 February 1950 — Page 1

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ORDER MINE UNION TRIAL FOR CONTEMPT

Laborites Lead In Britain

Appea r Short Os Retaining Full Control Majority Appears Narrow, Possibly Unworkable Lead bulletin London, Fob. 24. —(UR>— Labor party candidate* won a technical majority In the houee of common* tonight when g«nerat election return* gave them at leaet >l3 of the 12* " umiim,. 7Tm — <vp* The Itrttinh labor party edged closer to a,t*<-hnieal majority of 3131 Beat* in the house of commons' tonight on the bail* of imomX. -plate return* from a hotly dontested parliamentary election -? bid for a new lease on absolute power to carry on it*; eocialtaatlnn program - apparently trad fallen short -it* majority seemed certain. to be nartk*J» if not unworkable . *5 ’ At 7 p m the standing of the parties, with .36 constituencies atilt to report, was: ■' ; ~V" Labor 311 Conservative* Wl. . ~ Überal* ***** Other parties t-Hpaakerl. an*. . The inherit** apparently WIN awnrari of the 313 majority. Hut politicians agreed that tWF Would need a bulge of W to «' seats tn commons for a safe working majority u> guarantee: the success of their policies Winston Churchill, leader of flic conservatives. said that regard - less of the final outcome, partis ment "bhvtouirty in going to he In a very unstable position" That came after a more optimistic Statement by the wartime mints ! ter "1 think well make it." 4'hurehill told the conservative party agent In hl* own constituency of Woolfortl just after learning that he hhrtself had been re-elected The neck and neck rate lie tween th- conservative* and laborites overshadowed two other standout factor* in the election • 1 The British voters gave the communists and left whig, fetfbw travelers a thorough shellacking 2-. The liberal party of Glad stone ami Lloyd George apparent ly had been wrecked beyond re pair i. -a psery win 313 seats u-r •<< The libera! party proposed on election eve a coalition govgrnment with labor if The socialists failed to get a working majority ’ The liberals had 10 seals in the, old parliament After getting onlyone seat in the first hours of the] counting they were creeping Up in the late returns this afternoon Prices on the stock market had I >'■' fallen oft sharply at Jhe market ' opening when a lalstr victory seemed assured They rallied notably during the afternoon when the returns showed the la , , -bor lead dwindling. The going was rough, too. for the communists. They had two members In the last house of commons. One of them already has been defeated. So far none of the 100 communist candidates has l>een elected Morgan Phillips, secretary -of the labor party, made the claim of partv victory todav on the 1 basis of returns from !«« elecfltW districts Rut they were mostly Idr city districts Churchill, who would be prime minister should the conservatives win. neither claimed anything nor conceded anything. Re walked out of hl* housd. a big 'clear tn a holder clamped tn hl* teeth, and ITrhi To* Pur* Ftve) WEATHER CoM wave today and tonight. Fair tonight becoming eloudy Saturday with light snow north and west portion*. Low tontgh five to five below north, ala to 12 above Muth. High Saturday--20 north, 25 to 30 Muth.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT : , - - ONLY GAILY NEWSFAF— * ADAMS COUNTY

Red Cross Campaign To Open Wednesday Approval Is Given To County's Budget Rod CroM Goal ■ National Quota .. *3,336 County Chapter ..- 5,239 . 'Total Budget 3,575 Approval of the routby chapter'* budget and allotment of Ibe natioltal quota to the county for the annual Red Cross drive, which open* , March 1, waareceiyed today by lE. Bell, chapter chairman. The budget total* **.s7*. of whlc’t (3.336 I* for the national Red Crus* sgwnarwr— nhiibb iimigri.-wttft 35,239 for the chapter's home aer- : victA office and financial aid pro-. : gram to servicemen. veterans and Their dependentaWid civilians. The campaign goal is a little higher than the one set a year ago, but under the amount contribute I by Red Cross supporters in the I'll* drive Last year. contfllmtlon* totaled 35447.42. The organisation Js, ready for launching the drive, with Pltll Saner acting as county chairman. ‘ John B. Stull*, former mayor us thl* city, will act a* Decatar chairman - and already started contact with workers sad division chair men. Separate organizations are form ed in Monroe, Berne and Gene .’,*. Haaagb Fotay. county su perl Men !- ’em of school*, head* the towniht? , argaalxatloh and Ift most areas a ' house- Io house - canvas will. ..La I . made. Card* have been serif TO pros- j ’’pm ttve workers arid recipient* an- ]- | requested to fill them out ami slg'i. t and return the inquiries to the lt» I Cross, so that the organization < an 'he rvmipleted, Mr Eolei said. The humanitarian work ill tlr : He<l Cross Is so Wl 11 known that few American* refuse the appeal when approached tn this county, the home service Office has be*'ll of • inestimable jy.*i«tanee to civilians, qerrtpemen veterans and tW-1r fiioc lite*. City Attorney Is Speaker At Rotary Robert Anderson Is Speaker Last Night Attorney Robert Anderson nryljimember of the public relatioQM < <»mnv ttee.of .<he Indiana's*t.i , i’*‘| bar in d talk fiefore the 4 Rotary clutii:Jaat evening. sta*«d “the lawyer s cßief purpose was so k«*»*p people <Hir <»f fn»:r ! ('Ming that the roie <'f the la v ' yer should be viewed -from —Uuthat the f’hbieae pay ; ’’ltheir doctors while they are well. :Ander»on said that attorneys shv?UTd ■be consulted before papers are jstirned .. ” —: ' “This policy will keep "Thfiiny 7HIU of legal tangles and prevent law I suits." the city attorney said He oiUlined several histances where the 'services ot lawyers would ha»“ saved a patron money in taxea and • avoidant e of law anita. 1 The program was in charge o*> ' Ih»n Xarquest, Next week’s meet ing Will i»e held in connection with . »he Chamber of Commerce banquet : at the high achiMtl auditorium The <lu » vote<l to register and r par part of the exj»ense «f sending , -two Roy Scouts from Rotary troop , to the national punboree at Valley r Forge next Jana Mon Falls To Death In Hotel Elevator Indtanapoli* Feb 34. —fl T P> — Authorttle* continued an investigation today to determine how Marshall Moore. s*. managed ts open an elevator door at the Marott lintel gnd fall 35 feet to, hi* death. ■■ . j fie stopped at the desk yesterday to aak direction* to the sixth floor where he was to pick up a- - from a former employer, pulled open the elevator door and fell through Io the bsaement |

Thieves Make >350,000 Haul F * Bl I ■Ls i 11 —

FOUR HOODED GUNMEM made a sham bias (right) of the subm-bna Bratenahl home near Cleveland of multi milliohalie William «. Mather Hefti when .they hurglariaed the manaton of >550.000 in uninsured jewelry The burglars entered through a rear door and lx>und the M-gearold industrialist a male nurse to a bed. Three accomplices were posted outside the house during the rofcbery.

Saturday Deadline I For C. C. Tickets Annual Dinner To Be Held Thursday Saturday afternoon at 5 o’clock is the deadline for the ticket* for the.annual Chamber of Commerce banquet to be held not Thursday rflght at 6:30 o’clock at necatur high school audilortum ITerniah Ki ufckeberi? - sWed that _4fter tomorrow ho tickets would be a-vaiiabh 1 j The banquet thiif t<» the public an<| several arts <>f‘ high < k la>s vaudeville will follow 1 the'dininr. T«< kets are .priced at andhis charge Iritludr-s, ‘ !.• • ntirr progtam Immediately following the dinner, A R Holrhotis* cdit'ir of the Daily Ibnowrat will make the Cltiien of the V» ar” award and foHowing the inLrtMfactkm-ef the wipienl of this award, the balance of the evening will he turned over to the stagr -how —The--ejummittee in charge of the entertainment stated that the pro gram was formulated to br especially appealing to the ■women. The afternoon session .of the annual meeting will he hekl at the American legion home at 2 ocldCk and this session also will be open to the.public Tickets ■< au be secured today and Sttuiday at several local business houses, the 'Chamber of Commerce -Hftlce-or from any Chamber mrm--be<^— — Cold Wave Followed By Fresh Snowstorm More Than 50 Lives Claimed By Weather I'hhago. Feb 24 - Il’Pl- A fresh *n<>w*lorm. followed clo*ely by a cold front moved aero** the north today In the wake of a wintry *torm that claimed at l«*a*t 53 live* In tjie midweat and northeast. The new »torjn dumped anow on street * and highway* *llll hazardon* from the layer of ice, aleet and. know with which they were plastered earlier this week Karly today the storm belt eitended about 200 mile* in each direction from Chicago, a ILS. weather forecaster Mid. Behind the snowstorm a cold wave pushed out of southern €a»ada and across the Great Plain*. It was expected to shove eastward across the Great Ijake* region and on into the north Atlantic state* by tomorrow. Colder weather also Jnvaded the flood stricken south. Increasing I the suffering of some 30.000 refu-1 gees. Many of the homeless are living In tent* or shacks. The death toll from highway accident*, fires, exposure and overexertion climbed sharply aa fresh report* cane In from snowbound New- England comAaaitiea Twenty persons died In the northeast alone from cause** at- i tTara To rear Mai

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, February 24,1950

Call The Democrat | For Tourney Scores The Daily Democrat again will | give the scores by quarter* of the two MH-tlonal basketball game* starting at 7 o'clock tonight. Mi*a KotsSA'erling. Decatur high achool student will be in charge ot information and thoae unable to attend the aeaalon are Invited to call telephone 1000 or 1001. The Borfiee will continue at both Sattn- .i s -e.” Truman Considering Trip To West Coast May Moke 'Whistle Stop' Train Tour Washington. Feb. 24 *- (UP) rreMdent Trurnan may make .an <»’her trans lonfiirnntal ‘ whlalb Mop” train trip this npring Up (old hl» news conference ye terday he Ir considering a west coaat trip to dedicate the - (Iran i ._ Coulee dam in Washington If h gites. he said, he aolild make apeechea both cm the ’WBjrouU an<l on .the way back Although Mr Truman has said the trip would i»e non political, it was understood he would leave th c apital well toefore'the end of Ma? Thia would mean he would Im* pairing through stajeN before Demo cratic nominees are chosen in pr m aries -•-- - —-r— Mr Truman long has insist«-d that h 6 would keep hands pfU*’ l primaries except in his own stat“ r of Missouri Hut politicians won<|er ed how he could make many “whistle stops” without becoming involved same extent in in.tr* party races. * , He could make speei on hroaJ domestic topics without refen in -* *<> kM*al issues. But he would Jm* tinder constant pressure Trom Dem--(wrath- primary candidates to jonu 111 111 I>3 taialvli-<i wr. .. n — ■■*»*• rn Mr. Truman said yesierday that his forraioat political Interest this year was replacing Republlc.n* with Democrat* in both the house <T~«» a-* »t*e>

“DEDICATION FOR LIFE" ""ph'all Id the glory of tiod."—l Corinthian* 10 = 3-1 Johann Sebastian Bach was for twenty-seven years music di rector tn a church In Leipzig. Germany Had he worked only to earn money, he might have Ilr-d in obscurity. But Bach lovedk--God. and his greatest goal in lite was to bring people closer to Christ through hla music Therefore, on every one of his cotii positions he placed the same,dedication: "To The Glory of God Alone " It waa this Holy Dedication of his life that led him a* he created lit* glorious music “'Io the Glory of God Alone'" Yes. we may well Write that dedication across the portals of our businesses, on the hearthstone* of our homes, above th* desks of our teac hers upon the platforms of our legislative halls and in the chambers of our own ’ hearts Coder the spc-ll of such a dedication our powers Increase, all the different sections of our personality fall Into their right plans, and we rise to new IWe by the benediction and challenge J, Os Christian discipleship "I le«eech you therefore brethren-, by the mercies of Clod that ye present your bodies a living-sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God," Which fa.year reasonable sen ice " 4, Romans It 1

Check Presented To Community Center 320,000 Check Is Presented By G.E. in a photographed ceremony at 11 I . clock this morntng in the Flrat State Bank/ K W Ignite-' wSu. manager of the Iteeatttr General Electric plant', presented a 120.000 check from the Genera) Electric company to T F. Graliker bank president ai><! trrasurer of the Ikeiatnr Memorial Eottml.i tion. Inc., as 0 E.'s gift tv the proposed Community Center. , Julius Baker, fl. E: photograph- , er. took * picture of the check presentation in Mr. Graliker's office. Standing with Mr Lankenau and Mr. Graliker were. Carl <' Pumphrey, president of the Memorial Foundation and Arthur R Holthouse, co-chairman of the eotnniunity center drive. On February 7. Mr. latnkenau announced that the General Electric c ompany had pledged >2s. too to the community and youth center. In today's mall. *Mr. nau wa* pleasantly surprised to receive a, (heck for the entiryr amount It is the first payment in full of a large pledge received by the Foundation. Mr Graliker said . . Jn many _£Msa. donors agreed to make payment over a two to] three-year period Several have' already paid one-half or one-third I of their subscription to the liet-a-I fur community project. *■ ' The G. K gift of »20.«00 Iwiost-• ad the fund above >136.600, When' it reaches 315t).0tm r a *75.f100 gift will b<- made by Central Soya company. Mr Pumphrey and hl* organize ’lion are endeavoring to rea. h the I goal within the next coup e weeks and have been encouraged byoffer* from individual* and organ izations to help raise the 114.04*0 m get an additional 173.1H1'' from Central Soya <-ompany.

Judge Orders Contempt Trial Monday; Industry Os U. S. Near Paralysis

Notions Leading Industries Facing Complete Paralysis From Coal Shortage Pittsburgh, Feb, 24 — <OP> — Steel, aulo and other heavy industries faced complete paralyaia soon as soft coal stocks dwindled today toward the vanishing point. Only a Tew thousand tons of coal w.ill be left in the nation's storage bins by Monday. Some Ht.tHto industrial workers will be idled this week end by the coal shortage and additional Hun dred* of thousand* will be working reduced hdur* because ot pn»duct lon cutback*. Homeowners also felt the pinch of the coal shortage. In three ktatee. Ohio. Illinois and New York, deliveries to home user* were limited io one ton or less, and then only on proved need j Contract talk* between Ldwis and the operators were Ytalemat ! ed and Preaident Truman reject i e*l new appeals Hie nuue,-. j>en<rinv the o-Jippme of i bntempt of' court' proceedings agaln«t the! I'nlted Mine Worker* for ign.tr Ing federal .injunctions against the strike. Cftnnty camintakmfw at Pittsburgh telegraphed John t». J>wiis and the coal operators in Wash Lawton that • Th®, generalpublic” ai well hn public institutions “will be without beaJ in the next few hourh.” Mea’vrs -ai- Columhua. <>. reported supplies were helow Hie five-day level ami (Juv- Erank. ilhe hotifieil President Tru man that, the situation in Ohio wjhu so. acute that state action # W4auW n<*(- h<||p- • Strict Soft coal rationing wpqt into effect in-Ne.. Y-ork state to-j day. with only hospitals, -schools.,, in u tijc ipa I w a thr' w <irh», food pro-1 cessing plants and priority home customers getting coal The New York Central railroad said many of it strains were running jip to five hours late because <»f*th»* pqQr quality coal being used < • ' ■ Coal industry spokesmen said effects of «the threo-»eek-old strike by 372.000 miners would he tL_ «Tar« T» Fare Fl*r> Coal Situation In Decatur Is Critical City's Coal Dealers Have Only 48 Tons The coal situation In Decatur he |came the moiit crttb-al today that 1’ has been since ibe coal strik“, according to a check made of local coal dealer*. All dealers In Decatur have a <-nmliined tonnage of is tons. HTType*. and the same deal cr» have orders for-TTiTton*. The dealer* have Wen rationing the coal for the last .week, and in case* of eniergencle*. the city has released coal to dealers to meet The most critical shortage*. Mayor John Doan stated today that rhe city power plant still had more than M-day* supply but hud not received, any additional coal in the last io days. ' The mayor stated that as long as the dealers continued to ration thJir small supply-, he did not belle'e it. would lie ne< e**ary for him to issue an "emergency order " _ — t'lTtess -there is a break in the situation soon. "Mayor Iman salt. ;;it will be necessary to cut down on power ukgge. hut thia will uo* be done unless the city supply gets helpW the 20 day margin Infant Suffocated tn Her Sleeping Bag Terre Haute. Ind Feb. 24. — il’Pis Robin Cramer. 13-month old dadghter of Mr and Mr*. Robert Cramer suff<x-ated .yMterd*v when she rolled in her sleep Ing bag which was pinned to a davenport and was unable to get her head out ot the cover*

John L Lewis' Brother Takes His Own Life ■ Brother vs Union Chieftain Shoots And Kills Himself Springfield. 111 . Feb. «4brtUJ’* — Thoma* Lewis, <7. who helped rise to the top as leader of the Vhited Mine Worker*, shot and ■ killed bimselt at hl* hone here ’ today. i liepuly coroner Catherine Ruth . erford said Lewhl shot himself j with a revolver while his wifd. ‘ Lenora, was tending the furnace ! in the family s hotne on Sorih IHI- ! noi* street ,-j- Tirp- mine leader’*- -brqther- -a i- retired immigration service erti' ■ I ploye. had suffered a severe heart attack fate yesterday.’ according I to his wife, and was seriously ill throughout the night. Hi* wife told Miss Rutherford > that she was talking with him a tew minutes before he abot him ’ aelf. She »gld rtte'left him tn I to the baaemept to tend the fur r nace While In the basement she heard a crash, and thonght he s. had f&llen. Rushing upstairs to help Mm she found .film »pr*wlel In the l>at}it.ul>. fully clothed" except for > his’ shoe*, a revolver clutched in II hl*> hand The revolver, a. 45 ■ belonged to him . - J : coroner said a but] let' plerc'etf bis abdomen am! he I . died almost immediately. Time: -of depth wa* placed at S'os a nr • CST No time has hetui set for i& inoueat. ■ ' . I Mis* Rutherford *aid she had. - found- no notes left by Wwi* • Thoma* was oldest : of eight children of Thomas and Ann latuisa I-ewis The t utted I Mine Worker president 1* the oldI j est. by three years. >1 It was Thoma* and four broth- ' er* who helped I>wl« start his i rise to the top Thomas dug coal • with hi* father and John L. In the Luca*, la . coal flelii* before John L and the family moved to Panama. 11l . in Montgomery county and worked' to organize the miner* there It" was Thoma* and the four other brothers who formed a cote for the mine leaders' early union efforts After John L Mwf* got started to hl* rise to the top Thomas became superintendent of the mine at Panama Later be I entered the immigration service Hi* death was the second in the (Twrw Te Page F.labo General Motors In I . ■ Wages, >rke Cuts ( Reduction Made By Living-Cost Pact 1 Detroit. Feb 24- il'Pl—General Motors cut wages of It* J3O.6M* pror duction workers two cents an hour ] today and simuitanrously reduced prices of ft* ear* Old to *4O. It was Hie third lime GM has cu’ car price* and reduced pay of it* employes under a history makinz - cost-of living contract signed with 1 the CIO united auto workers ariM electrical workers union .21 months ’ ago GM president C. t. Wibon said the price reductions passed along to consumer* "the savings resulting from both the downward adjust ment of wage and salary payments and the lowered cost of certain • Items, notwithstanding the lucre*s 1 ed price* now being paid for steel - **d eome other commodities “ u . Ten dollars was lopped from all - Chevrolet —models. 115 to *32 -eta i! Buicks 315 to *3b on Oldsmobile*. I i >35 to, *4O on Cadillac* and >l* on ■ Pon? la,-* . if..

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Onlers Union Stood Trial On Criminal And Civil Charges Os Court Contempt Maahington. Feb. M—(VP)— Federal judge Richmond B Keech today ordered the united mine workers union to stand trial Monday on civil and criminal contempt charges for permitting the soil coal Strike to continue in defiance of court order* The jurist ignored union plea* that the 2"2.v0v striking miner* had walked off the job on their own initiative, in tq><-n rebellion against John L Lewis’ back-t»wprk order. He listened io the union argu- ' meats and then ruled that thu t'MW had failed to "purge" itself by such orders and must face trial Monday. But he rejected a government motion that the trial be..held tomorrow because of th* critical eon! shortage sdtlih has caused industry and . railroad, lay offs.. <by "brown outs” and- emergency anion by many states - I MW attorney Welly K Hopkins said he would decide later whetbee . to ask for a jury trial on the criminal contempt charge or let Keech decide the union's fate Twice before the union has tyeen haled into court for defying anti- > strike Injunctions Both times it ■ submitted to judicial trial by fed- *“ eral judge T Alan and wound up "paying "more Tlihh • 33.wm.m«i in fine* . Hopkins protested bitterly against,-the Injunction which Keech leaned Feb 11 and against the _ goyernn»ent'iif / prosecution ’of th* case He said the injunction was "unconstitutional" and thqt the 1 government « speed up attempt was an absolute*” derogation <rf the {decem rights Jit nay t ltUen ! —- I was not, named as a de, ! fetidahi in the gimremp: ar-iem, '! having cleared himsetf ’pcrson'ally : by two back ttsw.oJt leiegyams to. the striking miners. Tile judge turned down a*sj[*faht' y atiornry genrtal II Graftatn Morson's .motion to hold the trial tonlturow iH-cause ot the nation's I critical coal situation I Morison noted that there has been no increase in Soft coal prts duction since Keech signed the original back'o-work order Feb If He said newspaper reports show 1 that many slates have Initiated 1 "emergency measures" and ' vir- “ tually all major cities are cogfront- * ed with a critical problem lie said the government wanted r court action "Immediately" to get the miners back tip work and "ex ~ Trti'are The n*Tinw-trr>m-ine tragrtly - r that stalk* it." . The union objected to the re- , quest to speed up the trial on the- , ground* that th* justice department, had asked that the union be cited ( for both civil and criminal con tempt ‘ A civil contempt charge i« brought to compel obedience of a *! court order A criminal charge seeks punishment for dieobedience of a court order The union will be tried bn both, < harge* On the criminal charge* the union may a*k for a jury tri*'.. There l» no Jury on the civil charges Wetly K Hopkins. t’MW attorney said he would "weigh full aspects" of the case before deciding whether to as) for jury trial 1 of the criminal contempt charge In objecting successfully to the r government's request to hear th* ’ civ it charge tomorrow, he said he iTwva Te Page Twe> t —— g ■ - -n. I -- ■ . r Indiana Farmer Is •• ■. • i Killed In Accident s Kokomo. Ind. Feb 24 — <rpi--j Lawrence Weitzel, 54, Howard county farmer died today in St c Joseph's hospital of injuries suffered late Wednesday when he' was s struck by a tractor-trailer in V. a S 35 north ot here _ , WeitzeJ'* wife said tbair anteI mobile skidded from th* Icy highway a short distance from thel1 horns and her husband was walka tag to th* house Track drive* W < Herbetj Rachford 3*. Gary, told a j authorttle* he did not *ee the m»i. ' walking along the highway