Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 24 February 1954 — Page 6

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Indiana Fair Trade Act is Held Valid Decision Is Made By Federal Judge INDIANAPQLIS UP — Indiana's fair trade act was upheld late Tuesday , as a means of , preventing "predatory price-cutting” in a federal court decision handed down by Judge William E. Sleekier. Steckler ruled in a case brought by the Sherwin-Williams Paint Co. against the Bargain Barn of Indianapolis. It was the first time the constitutionality of the 1937 law was tested in a federal court. The judge also issueu an injunction prohibiting the Bargain Barn from selling the Ohio paint corporation's products cor less than the contract price. The Indiana-

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polls store argued the state law conflicted with the “restraint of trade” section of the Sherman antitrust act. in his ruling, Steekler said the overall effect of fair trade laws "is to lower, not increase prices to the consuming public; that predatory price-cutting threatens serious injury to producers of trade-marked or branded goods and business generally . . . and help to prevent the growth of monopoly distribution ...”

To Attend Meeting Os Lutheran Leaders I To Discuss Drive For New Building Five local men will attend a meeting of Lutheran leaders Sunday afternoon at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne. Former Indiana Gov. Henry F. Schricker will be the main speaker for the event which will feature a discussion of the campaign for a new building at the Lutheran Child Welfare Association Home in Indianapolis. Those attending from Decatur will be Conrad Doehrmann of Immanuel Lutheran Church, Williard Fawbush of St. Paul's, Hugo Boerger of St. Peter’s and (Emil Bienz of Zion Lutheran. The Rev. O. C. Busse, former chaplain of the Indiana department of the American Legion, will give the invocation at Sunday's meeting. A Fort Wayne attorney, Paul Nieter, heads the drive in Northeastern Indiana. He will be assisted by committees named from the churches in his area. A goal of 1500,000 has been set for the campaign which will open officially (March 21. If you nave something to sell or -ooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad. It brings results.

Dust Bowl Fanners Seek Federal Help Appeal To Federal Government To Aid GARDEN CITY, Kan., CP — Farmers who saw their top soil, winter wheat and even fences blown away in one of the most destructive dirt storms since the Dust Bowl days of the mid-1930's today appealed for federal financial aid. Political leaders in nearby Colorado agreed the federal government should at least move to stop the loss of precious soil and prevent a second dust bowl. Rep. Clifford Hope (RJKan), chairman of the house agriculture committee who had accepted a routine invitation to speak here tonight, found himself right in the heart of the area hit by last Friday’s destructive dust An 11-man committee representing farmers in eastern Colorado’s high plains came to Garden City to talk to Hope. The committee was named Tuesday night at a meeting of about 15(1 farmers at Lamar, Colo. It was likely, too, that many of ( the 500 delegates to the southwest agricultural congress which opened here today would press Hope for help while he attends the twoday meeting. In Colorado, county agents said that the Friday blow, aggravated by high winds Monday, destroyed up to 75 percent and more of the winter wheat crop in seven eastern counties. Fence posts were snapped off at the ground in some areas and drifts of dost plied up on some farms. The storm also blackened the sky as far south as Texas. A Lot Os Chores GARDNER, Mass., UP—Nearing her 105th birthday. Mrs. Victoria Bonislawski still is bale to do farm chores.

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Marine Pilot Testifies To Marine Court Says Fellow Flyers Imprisoned By Reds Instructed To Talk WASHINGTON, UP r— A marine aviator said today that 75 to SO percent of his fellow flyers imprisoned by the Communists in Korea had been instructed to tell their captors everything they knew. The flyer, Maj. Walter R. Harris. testified in a marine court of inquiry into a false germ warfare confession signed and later repudiated by Col. Frank Harris said he was told by a briefing officer at an El *Toro, Calif., marine school, shortly before going to Korea, that the old code of giving captors nothing but name, rank, and serial number .■■isout.” ~ - "They are going to find out the truth anyhow,” Harris quoted the briefing officer. “Go ahead and tell the truth, gentlemen. It can't hurt us. You don't know anything." Harris said he found, after his own capture, that ‘‘7s to 80 percent of the air personnel in his prison compound had beeu instructed to tell anything you want to." Another “15 to 20 percent were Told to use their own discretion,” he testified. The flyer criticized that "policy, or lack of policy by the sth air force which had command in the Korean area.” Harris also volunteered the personal belief that in any future conflict with the Communists every man should have drilled into him the idea of giving captors nothing more than name,

Requests Probe Os Racial Literature Illinois City Asks Probe Os Bigotry ROCK ISLAND, 111. UP — The federal government has been asked to Assist in an investigation of bigots perverting brotherhood week with anti-Semitic and antiNegro literature, police said today. The campaign began in the quadvity area btrt' has also touched Des Moines, Waterloo and Cedar Rapids, lowa, according to Rock Island police chief Claus Miller. Last Sunday some 30 stores in the quad-city area of Rock Islam}, Moline. East Moline, 111., and Davenport, lowa- were plastered with printed signs that read: "This store is owned by Jews’.” A rubber stamped addition read: "Anti-Jewish Week, Feb. 21-28.” The dates corresponded to national brotherhood week. U. S. postal inspector Ivan V. Kinney said other racist literature has been mailed in this area. He said envelopes had been tnlercfpl&ff tW Wend; "Anti-Jewish Week, Feb. 21 to 28.” Kinney said this was a violation of postal regulations. The envelopes found so far all bore Rock Island post marks. But Miller said that the pamphlets inside referred to an organibation in St. Louis, Mo. He added that he believed that the St. Louis organisation was the source of the material. Miller said there had been no arrests in the “un-American campaign” so far.

Warn On Independent Basketball Playing INDIANAPOLIS, (Special) — Sunday is the last day for 1953 car license Morris J. Carter, state bureau of motor vehicles director, warned today. Starting March 1, the drivers of Indiana-registered motor vehicles not equipped with 1954 plates will be fair game for roving police patrols, he said. No extension of the deadline is possible under the state vehicle licensing law. State police supt. Frank A. Jessup disclosed that troopers in the 13 department districts will arrest motorists operating on last year’s ta gg- , _ ■ rank, and serial number. He said that if every prisoner had that idea the Communists wouldn’t have enough holes to put them in. "They can kill you Just as easily after you talk,” he said. “I believe ycu will fare just as well by not talking. I believe you will fare better with your own conscience.” He said he believed it would serve a prisoner “when the going gets rough and you begin to rationalize.” “ "It provides that last little straw a man can grab and keep from sinking," he said. Harris, decorated for organizing resistance to the Communists in his prison camp, admitted he signed a document for his captors confessing his leadership in the prison compound. "I did it to get out of the hole,” he said. “I’d had enough. I didn’t know how much more I could take.” The court called in the testimony of fellow marine officers who won decorations for their defiance of Communist captors. Schwable’s attorneys requested the testimony of Maj. Gen. William F. Dean, the highest American officer captured in Korea, who has said since repatriation he had personal "sympathy” for the confessors but would not "condone” their actions. A major question before the cburt was: What is the breaking point of human endurance?

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Reports Anti-Stale Groups Convicted Military Tribunal Is Held At Prague VIENNA UP —Radio Prague said today “three anti - state groups” have been convicted of high treason and espionage by a Communist military tribunal at Prague. ■ The broadcast said the defendants were members of groups identified as “Dak,” “The Christian Democratic Party” and “the Brotherhood of the Third Resistance." It said their trial lasted several days. Radio Prague did not reveal the number of defendants, but sa?d two leaders of the “Dak” group, Bohumil Kokrda and Miloslav Novak, were sentenced to life impfftonmehL en t e n”c e s ranged from 15 to 25 years. All were charged with and convicted of “high treason, espionage and violation of the law for securing the peace." The broadcast said Kokrda and Novak had printed and distributed anti-state leaflets, collected arms, ammunition and dynamite and “prepared for armed intervention from the West." If you have something to sell <w rooms tor rent, try a Democrat Want Ad. It brings results.

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Appeasement Signs Warned By Senator Major Address By Dulles On Tonight W9HINGTON UP — Seu. 81. Alexander Smith R-NJ w’arned today there are “danger signs" of appeasement in the Big Four agreement to invite Red China to the forthcoming Geneva peace conference. But Rep. Walter H. Judd RMinn., a longtime expert on Far Eastern affairs, said he does not believe the decision will weaken American’s position or lead to Red China s diplomatic recognition. The debate over the wisdom of the April meeting on oKrea and Indochina picked up steam as Secretary of State John Foster Dulles went before the senate foreign relations committee—today to defend, the conference. Dules will carry his case to the

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-people at —tor 96 —pm JEST tonightwhen he makes a major nationwide radio-television address on the recent Big Four meeting in Berlin. The speech will be carried on the Dumont. tele\ision and all major radio networks. At a two-hour meeting with the House Foreign Affairs Committee late Tuesday, Dulles gave his personal assurance that the United States will “In no case recognize Communist China." Smith, who heads the Senate sub-committee on Far .Eastern affairs, warned that Britain and France “will be pushing us 'to bring Red China into the United Nations. But he emphasized he was raising a ‘word of warning rather than opposition.” Expensive Odor ROCKVILLE, Gonn., UP —Residents in the neighborhood of a mink farm brought the owners inj tb court. The ordor from the farm, the neighbors charged, was too much.