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7 1 Walhr: Clcudy ar.i ccitLv-sl Shrsren WHQU AMILY VOLUME LXTV. NO, 61 SEYilOUS. AVEDNESDAY, MARCH 13. 1946 price rbua G2nz cXl i 3 i-ri i Vw7 7n mL l)Mv i i i i rrni it. Second Home Is Placed Arraignment Set r- Russian Tanks Delay Asked of Plain Talking Eighteen and One-Half Cent Columbus to Use Field Washington, March li-AP) The War Department ad-C vised Senator Willis (R-Ind.) today if has granted a temporary permit to the city of Columbus, Ind, for municipal Twenty MU About Military NeedsWanted RaiseGiven--- Both Corporation and Union Officials Urge -Local Managements to Settle Local Issues Detroit March 1 The General Motors strike waa settled today on the basis of aa eighteen and one-half cents an hour wage increase (UVi percent).

In "addition. General Motors agreed to remove "Inequities" in wage rates as sought by the CIO United Auto Workers. The union, la Us announcement of the settlement, said this company promise "meets she ltVit cent increase recommended by President Truman." Vacation Pay Improved-. "In addition," the union said, "there are other economic clauses improved vacation pay, which alone amounts to approximately $3,000,000 a year; improved over time rates for seven-day continuous operations and equal pay for women which- brings- the total average hourly increase to well above 191 cents." The announcement of the strike's settlement, made Jointly by General Motors, Special Medi-. ator James F.

Dewey, and the union, came on the 113th day of the walkout of CM's 173.000 workers, longest and costliest strike in the automobile Indus-. try's 'history. annoouncement of 'the' strike's settlement came after almost a twenty-four, hour Jong conference between management and union representatives, which was (Continued on page 3, column 1) Withdrawal of ominahon Washington, March li (JP) President Truman today rumination of Edwin W. PaulevN Announced Today Ridgeviev Unit Removal OriJer 4 Rooms and Apartments Needed Here as i Housing Situation Becomes More Acute In the face of a seriout housing ihortage here, which promises to become more critical with ths arrival of former, veterans who will take civilian positions at Freeman Held, determined efforts were continued today to secure a delay in the order to remove fifty-two housing units at tidgevlew. Re ently an order was issued to take fifty-two units from Ridgeview to the University of Illinois, Champaign, for use of student veterans.

At the time the order was issued there were a number c-f vacancies at Ridgeview, but within the last tea days the condition has changed entirely. Authorization has been given CoLH. Dorney, command-rag officer, at Freeman Field, to add one hundred'civiliaii employes at the Post this month. At Wst that many more will be added dur ing April and Mar. The military personnel also win be Increased substantially as approximately ISO officers and enlisted men, many of whom are married and will be looking for living quarters, have been assigned to the field here.

As a result the housing situation suddenly has become very acute. Appeals are made to people In the city to open their homes or to provide small apartments If possible, for some of the new comers. However, available quarters have all been taken up in the city and wen within a radius of ten or twelve miles of Seymour. BuOl Vide Laaham Act, RidgevleWwWbUlltjmderthe Lanham Act which provides that Quarters there will be available only to military personnel, returned veterans and persons employed (Continued on page 3, column 5) Lutherans Hold Showing of many beautiful county scenes in color by W. P.

Stall, county agricultural agent, featured the monthly supper meeting of the Lutheran Social Aid Society Tuesday night at the Lutheran Club in charge of the newly elected president, Walter Kreinhagen Mr. Kreinhagen called on Wil-bert Otte, chairman of the entertainment committee who introduced other members of the committee, composed, of William Kriete, Eldof Bobb and Maurice Arnholt Music was provided by Miss Maxine Deputy and Mrs. Elizabeth Hubbard AcitelU and tap dancing numbers were given by Judy Cline and Joann Patrick. MontUy Dinners: Military Committee Calls Eisenhower and Two Cabinet Officers To Secret Hearing Washington, March 13 VP) The House Military Committee called two cabinet officers and the army's chief of staff today for more "plain talking on, the world situation and on our own military needs." Members said that is the reason they summoned Secretary of State Byrnes, Secretary of War Patterson and General Eisenhow er to a closed-door-session' before voting on such matters as: Universal military training leg islation advocated, by President Truman. 1 Draft Law Expires May IS Extension of the draft law which expires May 13.

Stockpiling of materials vitally needed in time of war. Increases in pay of allrarmy andjiayy personnel in an effort to spur enlistments. After hearing Byrnes, Patterson and Eisenhower, the commit tee is expected to vote on univer sal training and the draft exten sion, two matters which many members say they feel must be settled before the committee does anything else. There is strong committee sen timent for the proposal of House Republican Leader Joseph W. Martin of Massachusetts to delay training legislation until all efforts to outlaw peacetime con scription throughout the world have been exhausted.

Proposal Gathers Strength. While Chairman May (D-Ky) is Continued on page 3, column 7) President Asks More Funds for Housing Washington, March 13 President Truman asked Congress today to appropriate $233,727,000 tobuild W-SMlditionalr temporary homes for veterans. Congress already has funds for 100,000 such dwellings, but the President said another 100,000 are needed. He made the request in a letter to House Speaker Rayburn (D- Tex). The funds would go to the National Housing; Agency.

Stalin Attacks Speech London, March 13 (IP) The Moscow radio said tonight Gener alissimo Stalin had told a Pravda reporter that Winston Churchill's speech in Fulton, was "very dangerous" and contained "lies" about Warsaw, Belgrade, Bucha rest and Budapest Arraignment of Floyd Eugene Rochner, assistant mail messenger operating between Ewlng and Brownstown, is scheduled for March 20 on acharga of embezzl-ffiritlerromema cording to. an Associated Press dispatch from Indianapolis, J. Foster Home Neighbors Discover -Blaase While Family Is Absent in Seymour With only the ashes and a few; articVai' of by neighbors remaining of their resi dence. Mr. and Mrs.

Jake Foster, who resided on the Jackson-Jen nings county line one mile east of the Trading Post southeast of Seymour on the Commiskey road, today were making plans to erect a new home on their farm when ever labor and materials are availr able. The four-room house. Its two front rooms constructed of logs many years ago, was destroyed by fire Monday afternoon while Mr. and Mrs. Foster and other mem bers of the family all were in Seymour.

When discovered by neigh bors, the roof of a blazing smokehouse at the rear of the home was ready to fall in and flames had be gun to consume the rear of the house. Neighbors who arrived at the scene managed to save the living room suite, a a piano and a few other, articles of household goods from the blazing structure, which burned rapidly. A quantity of meat in the smokehouse, butchered since Christmas, was destroyed. -v Origin of the fire was undeter- (ruined as members of the family bad checked the fires carefully before they left for Seymour. A small amount of insurance was carried on the house.

George Ernest and Jesse Banks, who were at Mr. Ernest's farm nearby, were among the first to reach the scene when they saw the smokehouse blazing. Mr. and Mrs. Foster will be six ty-six years of age in June.

They eretherparRUf Ermil, Foster and Mrs. Oscar both of Seymour; Beryl Foster, of Frank lin, formerly of Seymour, and Chester Foster, living on a farm adjacent to his parents residence. Mr. Foster, who is a brother of Arthur B. Foster, city clerk-treasurer, and his wife will live temporarily with the son, Chester, and his family, until their house can be rebuilt They were told the news of their loss while in Seymour when they were located here by a neighbor after the fire.

It was at first feared sonvs of the family might have been trapped in the dwelling. Wilson Aimounces For Reelection Earl Wilson, representative in Congress from the ninth congress-tonal district, today officially announced his candidacy for reno-mlnation to that office "in response to the unanimous endorsement by the ninth district Republican organization and in response to the wlicitation of the district Republican workers." In making his announcement, Congnsssman Wilson said in part: "For the past three elections it has been my privilege and pleas ure to head the Republican ticket in the Ninth District This honor I have accepted with dutiful pride and with a keen sens of the re sponsibility attached to it In 1940, the people of the Ninth District elected me as their Representative In Washington by a majority of 3333 votes. In 1942, I was elected by a majority of 11,853, and in 1944, the. people sent me back to Congress by a majority of 13,451 votes. This steady gain In Republican strength in the Ninth District has been the result of unexcelled party harmony and unbounded work on the part of those who be lieve in tte principles of the Re publican Party.

Not so long ago, the Ninth District was known as a Democratic stronghold, but it has changed from a marginal dis Fire Destroy Under Quarantine Here The hdme Mrs. Hoyt Smith, 718 Noble street was quarantuved for diphtheria today by city health authorities. A 'son, Archie Smith, aga sixteen is. iUwith thtf disease. The home is the second now under quarantine for diphtheria in Seymour.

Goering Takes Defense Stand Relates Early Talks With HitlerDenies Being Political Leader Nuernberg, Germany, March 13 WV-Hermann Goering, dressed in an undecorated gray uniform with a red scarf wrapped around his neck, began his fight today a- gainst war crimes charges by testifying soberly of a career started in the Richthofen air squadron three, decades ago. While his white-haired attorney questioned him, Goering mentioned the medals he had won and a wound sustained in fighting for the Kaiser's Reich. The court was packed for the dramatic moment of the three and a half months trial as the once flamboyant relchsmarshal took his place before the microphone. In a low, somber voice, Goering identified his father as a friend of the British empire builders, Cecil Rhodes and Joseph Chamberlain. He said the first world war left him "opposed in every Way" to the Weimar republic" After travel abroad, Goering said he' returned to Germany and at obscure political rally in November, 1922, he saw Hitler, i Hitler declined to speak at the failyj Goering recalled, but one day later he heard the future fuehrer declaim on the Treaty of Versailles, and the heed for Germany to regain her strength.

"This appealed to me from the depths of my soul," said the leadt Ing defendant among the twenty-two Nazis on trial before the International Military Tribunal. He Joined the National Socialist Party, and atJthe same time volunteered his services to and deep explanation of national (Continued on page 8, column 5) Red Men to Observe Forty-First Year Here The forty-first anniversary of the founding of Chicakeith Tribe No. 40S, Improved Order of Red Men, will be observed Thursday night with a "pitch-in" supper and dance to be held at Red Men Hall beginning at 7 o'clock. A short program, including the history of the lodge, will follow the supper, after which the dance will be held. All Red Men and Pocohontas members with their families and friends are invited to -attend.

Atomic Energy of the military." He called it an "exceedingly unfortunate devel opment." The armed forces have taken the position all along that post war atomic energy control should be their responsibility because of the importance of atomic weapons to the nation's defense. But nu merous scientists and others have argued for complete civilian control to advance research-and allay international suspicion. The decision in favor of the military was, on a proposal, to revise the bill sponsored by" Senator McMahon (D-Conn). which would entrust post-war atomic development to strictly civilian control. McMahon cast the lone vote 1 against the proposal which would eive the military veto pow er in matters of national security.

a member of the committee and author of the "proposal, told reporters the revision would give military officials "stop, look and listen power in behalf of national security" and predicted that the amended bill would get approval thirweek from the committee. Free Aid For Contour Ftanns Soil Conservation Practice Expected to Become More Common With New Service Planting cultivated row crops or drilled crops' on the level, which is a soil conservation prac tice undy-r which farm payments may be? earned in 1946, is likely to become more common in Jack' son county as result of an an nouncement made today by mem bers of the Jackson county AAA committee. The announcement Is made that the County AAA Association will furnish assistance of a trained person in calculating and laying out contours for farming this year, under the accepted plan. This ser vice will he given without cost to those people who want to prac tice contour farming for the first time, and do not feel quite able to lay out the basis for doing this. Previously, the county commit tee has been able to offer this service, but not free, as It Is to he this year.

It is added further that this service will also be available for others who may have special problems in 'addition to contour farming on which payments are to be made this year. Some of these other practices are the establish Ing of sod water ways, the locating and planting of dams for livestock, water, and the construc tion of open ditches and tile ditch- To Combat Erosion. The use of as a means of earnings AAA payments in 1946 has basn indicated on a number of farm plans for 1946. It has been known for a good many years that these practices are reliable and dependable ways of erosion and water control. They have not been used to a great ex tent before, because of the fact that too many people feel that It is a complicated Job requiring the services of a graduate engi neer.

For most of these purposes this.is.xtot. the, case, but because little had been done on the matter before, the county and state committee believed that the right way to get these things started was to furnish the Assistance, free, of a person sufficiently trained to do the job properly. In so far as pos sible this service will also be ex tended to ail farms in Jackson (Continued on page 8, column 3) Officers Named By Toastmasters Richard S. Robertson, of Brown' stown, was elected president of the Toastmasters Club of Seymour at the semi-annual election of officers held Tuesday night at the organi zatlon's semi-monthly meeting at the Elks' Home. Don M.

Bollinger was elected vice-president and J. Walter Has- tedt was reelected secretary-trea surer. William Gamron was elect ed sergeant-at-arms, and Arthur S. Kaufman, retiring president. Was elected deputy governor.

Following the business session. each of the members present gave a speech on a subject of his own selection. Louis Abraham acted as toastmaster and Mr. Kaufman served as critic. Wcilter Rcccrdi and vnoffUif waatner tordi for Seymour foi tha day.

Th p. m. temperature reading to from a downtown ther bia -On- low or oa, Sett mometer, and is unofficial AU eth-or reading art from the records of Mrs. WlUard N. Ererhart, Sr government weather observer here, and are ocnciaj.

Teaperarumi Official minimum Official maximum 46 68 80 Reading at 2 p. m. -1 River Stages $.1 feet es FromTehran Another Note Sent to Moscow Demanding an Explanation of New, Soviet Troop Activity Tehran, Iran, March 13 W) Russian combat troops, in full campaign kit were declared by British and other official sources today to have closed within twenty miles of this capital and to be southwest, across northern Iran close to tte borders of Turkey and oil-rich Iraq. The reports caused Secretary of State James F- Byrnes to announce in Washington Tuesday night the dispatch of another note to Moscow demanding an explanation. Fourteen Tanks Combat A correspondent flew over Kara, twenty miles from Tehran, and counted fourteen Sherman tanks, a score of other vehicles and saw half a dozen Red.

fighter planes at Kazvin to the north. Premier Qavam Es Saltaneh, Just returned from inconclusive negotiations in Moscow over the continued presence of Russian troops in Iran, declared today that no agreements were reached. Qavam described as "ridiculous" reports circulated during his visit to Moscow that he agreed to six Soviet demands which were re ported to have included the incor poration of Azerbaijan into th Soviet Union, granting of oil con cessions to Russia and direction of the Iranian army by Russian offi. cers. Firm Stand Tatan.

He said he took a "firm stand" against "certain concessions which the Soviet Union expected the Persian government to make in their favor" and that the Rus sians in turn took a "firm stand" against his demands for. immed iate evecuation of Iran. Reports reaching this troubled capital told of Russian combat troops entering the towns of Mianeh, Maragheh and Miyan daub close to the southern end of LMM Iraq borders. Russian troops were obligated by. international agreement to have withdrawn by March 2.

In ccontinued on page 3, eokimn 3) Conservation Glib Offers School Fee The Seymour Conservation Club, meeting Tuesday night In the council chamber of the city building, voted to provide a $23 entry fee for a teacher to enter a six-weeks course in conservation methods which will open June 21 at Versailles State Park The school 'is being conducted by Purdue University, in cooperation with the state superintendent of public instruction, and will provide instruction in the basic elements of conservation. The offer by the conservation club is made in an effort to get a teacher from this city to attend the course. At the meeting, at which Fran cis Horning, president, presided, it was also announced that the club had realized $300 from seven shooting matches conducted since December, and plans were made to use this money to furnish a new club room between the Tru man Hotel and Superior Bakery, on St Louis avenue. The club room is expected to; be Com pleted by April 1. Plant for a Jlshing, contest for members, with prizes for the largest game fish caught beginning April l.

were formulated. The contest win be divided Into four classes, bait fishing with worms, bait fishing with minnows, fly casting, and plug casting. A prize will be awarded monthly in each classification. Members voted to have 240 quail raised by Henry Huber. The quaU will be released this fan.

when they are between eight' and twelve weeks, old. I The next meeting of the club is planned for April 8 in the new club room. us9 of thealesboro AlrFieldH which was built as an auxiliary to Freeman Field, Seymour, Ind. Ask Concession In Road Case County Gets Reply From State Highway Following' Conference A reply from Wilbur F. Smith, engineer of right of war for the Indiana state highway commission, has been sent to the Jackson county' board of commissioners and James E.

Cummings, county auditor, following a conference of highway officials held with commissioners at Brownstown Monday regarding proposed right of way for the relocation of State Road 250 and construction of a bridge at the southeast edge of Brownstown. The reply, which quotes a let-ter written in ,1942 outlining previous action in the case, states that at a meeting Monday morning at Brownstown attended by county officials, R. H. HarreU, (Continued on page 3, column 4) Mrs. Eliza Steinberger Expires in Seymour Mrs.

Eliza Ellen Steinberger, age seventy-nine, a life-long resident of ackson county. died Tuesday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Harry Men-dell, 813 North Broadway. She had been ill for 'the paste seven Funeral services will be conducted at o'clock Thursday afternoon from the Yoss Mortuary with the Rev. R.

S. pastor of the Central Christian Church, in charge. Burial In Riverview Cemetery. Friends may call at ihe Voss Mortuary at any time. Mrs.

Steinberger was born April 28, 1866, the daughter of Samuel and Mahala Jane Tompkins Clark. She was married in 1882 in Jackson county: to Waller G. SUiiiw who died February 13, 1833. She was a member of the Central Christian Church and enjoyed the acquaintance and esteem of many friends who mourn her passing. She is survived by five children: Elmer Steinberger, Mrs.

Harry MendeH, Mrs. A. Williams, Mrs. Elizabeth Sullivan, all of Seymour, and Mrs. Norman Hukriede, of Indianapolis; two brothers, Albert Clark, of Seymour, and Tilden Clark, Seymour R2; two sisters, Mrs.

Leora Wheeler, Seymour R2; Mrs. Jennie Marsh, of Reddington, eight grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. A son, James M. Steinberger and three infant children preceded her in death. Riley district, Washington district, $324.80.

Further contributions from in dustries, industrial employes, businesses and organizations in Sey mour in addition to those previous ly reported, include: Industries and special gifts Jackson County Loan Trust, Seymour National Bank, Industrial employes State Highway Garage, Kroger Grocerr ArH Ahlbrand Co, $25.23. Businesses Treajurie Chest Lynn Hotel, Bald win, Drugstore, Whitmer's, VoriDlelifigen's Shoe Store. Bee Ebner ice and Coal Company; 13.00; Morris 8 10, Modern Restaurant, Tower Burk holder, Seymour: Motor Sales, Hancock Music Co $1.00. Organizations ArrWcan -Le gion Auxiliary, Woman's Association, Shawnee Council, No. 309, Tri Mu aass, Baptist, $2.00.

National Safety Issue Gives Armed Jackson County's Red Cross Drive Passes Halfway Mark To Quota Pauley, caiuornia oil-man, to be under -secretary of the navy. The President acted at Pauley's request He said Pauley's defense of his name" has been "valiant and conclusive. In a letter, Mr. Truman told Pauley that he "met the challenge" of his nomination facts" and added: "You answered prejudice with a complete and forthright resume of your career and with an amazing patience under continued misrepresentation." The first announcement of the withdrawal came from Chairman Walsh (D-Mass) of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee after a thirty-minute closed session of the group. At the same time, Walsh handed reporters a statement declaring that the committevfom-mends" Pauley his patriotic action In requesting the President to withdraw his nomination." The action wound up six weeks of controversy which boiled up at one point in the explosive resignation of Harold L.

Ickes as Secretary of Interior. Ickes had criticized the nomination. The White House made public i an exchange of letters between the President and Pauley shortly after the note of withdrawal was sent to Leslie Biffie, Secretary of the 'Senate. After expressing his "full confidence" In Pauley, th President wrote, "I shall reluctantly your nomination." "I shall do so not without ironical reflections;" the President added. "Your honqv integrity, fidelity to duty and capacity for public service have been cor.i-pletely established.

"All of these considerations ar.i circumstances fully Justify ti.a confidence which I reposed in yt-i and which prompted me to you to the service of the Dc; ment of the Navy." So, you i before your countrymen eft clous and -unwarranted with Integrity unscathei, ability unquestioned, with I unsullied." Forces Decision on Washington, March 13 VP) The issue of national safety gave the armed forces the decision today in an Important preliminary test on post-war control of atomic energy. The decision was hit immediately by Secretary of Commerce Wallace, who saw in it "the potentiality of delivering us into the hands 'of military fascism in this nation." Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich), however, -held that military, regulation "is necessary until stabilized international control is developed effectively to prohibit the use of atomic energy for military purposes by anybody at any time." The test developed when the special Senate Atomic Committee voted six-to-one to Incorporate into pending legislation a provision giving a presidentially-appointed military liaison committee a right to intervene before a civilian atomic control commission of five. Wallace declared this was a yott "to place the control of atomic energy, in effect, in the hands Jackson county's quota of in the 1946 Red Cross Fund campaign has now been more than half raised, it was announced today by county Red Cross A total of $6,136.75 has been raised to date In the county, it is revealed, and Stanley Z. Owen, of Brownstown county drlvenchah-maii, and G. B.

Bottorff, of Sey-mour, Jickson township chairman, Urge that all workers complete their soliciUtion and turn in their report as soon as possible so that the total raised in the county can be compiled. Many areas in the county have not made reports to dtef it Is stated, Pi vThe Seymour drive Is expected to be compVeted within a few days. Reported to date from the rural areas of Jackson township is to date In the school districts of the city, where the solicitation is in charge of repre-smUtives of the Parent-Teacher Associations, are Emerson district Lincoln, district, (Continued on page 3, column 3) 'L 1.