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THE WEATHER Cloudy Tonight and Wednesday; Little Change in Temperature. FINAL EDITION For Society News, Eastern Indiana Looks to The Press. VOL. LV. No.

255 Entered at.Poit Office, Muncie. IncL, Second Class Matter MUNCIE, INDIANA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1947 PRICE FIVE CENTS Member of TU Associated Press I Z3 LiLivJ WV7Afo) g)ir Have a Happy Holiday FRANCE CRACKS DOWN ON PRESS, DEPUTY OUSTED Strike Situation Reported Gen- Don't Let Tragedy Mar Christmas; Hackett Lists Some Safety Hints CONGRESS TOLD FRESH ROUND OF BOOSTS AHEAD Grain Exchanges Complain Criticism Unjust. WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. any Christmas decorations anymore.

There isn't even a house." Captain Hackett, head of the fire prevention bureau, was. sounding his annual Yuletide warning HOLY LAND SPLIT STARTS JEWISH AND ARAB FIGHT Mounting Tension Engulfs Entire Middle' East. BY ASSOCIATED TRESS. The fury of Holy Land Arabs against the Impending partition of Palestine erupted today In shooting, wrecking and burning throughout Jerusalem and boiled over in threats and mass demon stratlons in other parts of tho Middle East. Jews of Jerusalem counleral tacked against the Arab mobs and struck Arab business quarters.

Reports oC the day's casualties in Palestine, confirmed and unconfirmed, totalled three Jews killed I 5 ,1 1 Uft MM 'MM WW vsww It. wo84 Looking toward the east, where the. new $25,000 Lees Addition will be in operation along In February. It extends eastward from a recent 20 by 100 foot addition, and will come out 80 feet, being 150 feet long. Rolling machines and presses will be accommodate on 4,500 square feet of floor space.

Muncie Press Photo. $25,000 Expansion at Acme-Lees Announced Secretary of Labor Sehwellenback said today another postwar round of wage boosts is in prospect un less Congress acts to cut the cost of living. Schwellenbach went to the Capital to back President Truman's broad economic controls program as increasing complaints came from some Republican legislators that the administration is not presenting sufficiently specific legislative proposals- in that field. The Labor Secretary testified before the House banking committee while another congressional group, the Senate-House economic committee, was hearing contentions from grain- exchange men that the administration has injust-ly singled them out for attack. i Margin Limits Opposed.

"The high prices of grain have been caused by unprecedented government purchases for export, rather than by speculation," J. O. McClintock of the Chicago Board of Trade said. McClintock objected to the ad ministration's request for power to increase the amount of margin, or cash down payment, required in tradins for future deliveries of grain. The administration contends that low margins have encouraged speculation.

Senator Wherry R-Neb) was one of those contending the administration is not sufficiently specific about what it wants as anti-infla tion measures. He told reporters that Congress has received nothing but "vague generalities" and declared Mr. Tru- (Continued on-. Page. Fifteen) Chicago Students Arrange Walkout As Racial Protest Hospital and Medical School Prejudice Charged.

CHICAGO. Dee. 2. (INS) Spokesmen for 14 University of Chicago organizations announced today that a two-hour "walkout" would be staged at the university next Monday to protest discrimination. The walkout is scheduled for 11:30 a.

m. The university is charged with racial discrimination at Billings Memorial and Lying-In hospitals and in admission of students at the medical school. Listed as scheduled to participate in the demonstration were the American Veterans Committee, Progressive Citizens of America, Americans for Democratic Action, Committee, of Racial Equality, American Youth for Democracy, United Office and Professional Workers Union, CIO, Y. W. C.

Politics Club, United Co-operative Projects, the Communist Club, Channing Club, Bahai, the Chicago Maroon and Pulse Magazine Stan's. HUNT FOR PLANE SO FAR FAILURE Authorities Express the Belief Some Survived Crash. KAISERLAUTERN, Dec. 2. Troops and planes scoured the hills and valleys of the old Siegfried Line today in search of an American C-47 transport which French authorities said crashed in the aera en route from Pisa to Hopes were held out that some of the 20 passengers and crewmen are alive.

The French said the big craft went down in the hilly country between Bitche, France, and Kroeppen, Germany. Pilot Calls for Help. Initial radio contact with the plane had quoted the pilot as say ing he was "badly in need of aid. -At 2:30 pi im. local time, army authorities said the constabulary troops which crossed the Franco German border near Hagenau had met with no success.

Riding in radio-equipped jeeps and marching on foot, the troops made their way through treacherous terrain without sighting the craft. Search planes continued their survey of fog-blanketed valleys and peaks in the Vosges. Officials said the search was complicated by the wreckage of military aircraft remaining in the region since the end of the war. American army ambulances and radio jeeps of the U. S.

'Army's crack constabulary force reached Kaiserslautern, in the French zone of Germany, after an early morn ing dash from the U. S. zone when radio contact was made with the pilot of the downed plane. Discloses Nation Is Producing New Atomic Weapons Lilienthal Says Plutonium and Uranium Both Used. ATLANTJC CITY, N.

Dec. 2. CF David E. Lilienthal, chairman of the Atomic Energy Com mission, disclosed today the United States now is producing new atomic weapons from both uranium and plutonium. "Both of these products are vsed for atomic weapons in -current production and under design at commission laboratories," Lilienthal said.

He did not explain whether th new weapons are bombs, such as were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or present a new mili-. ary application of atomic power. 3uch details are classed as "secret." In a speech prepared for the merican Society of Mechanical Engineers, Lilienthal said the weapons are being assembled at the Isolated Los Alamos, N. laboratories where the first bomb was produced. Yesterday the atomic emergency commission disclosed a new prov-' ing grounds for atomic weapons is being created at remote Eniwetok toll, in the far Pacific.

BY EVAN OWENS. A1 THE Central Fire Station today Capt. George Hackett picked up an ordinary' ever green sprig, the kmo Christmas trees are made of, and set a match to it. Whoosh! It virtually exploded in flame and was already nothing but ashes by the time Hackett yanked his hand away. Then he picked uf a sprig from another pile, a sprig that had been dipped into a simple fire-prevention solution, and went through the same procedure.

There were a few little pops and a crackle or two, but the treated sprig burned1 feebly and then only when the fire from the match was kept in contact with it. Now you see what, is behind those fire headlines every Christmas time," he said, and of course you knew there was going to be a moral to all this. "A wire gets hot or something happens to a decoration, and all of a sudden the family is standing outside if they're lucky, and there aren't YULE OPENING PLANS READY $1,000 in Prizes Offered to Muncie Youngsters. The flags will fly and the bands will play when Santa Claus comes to town Wednesday evening. While members of the Retail Merchants Division of- the Chamber of Commerce worked out all the details of the parade, and readied St.

Nek's headquarters next to the eourthourse, Muncie's youngsters were doing some planning of their own to be sure they all had a prize-winning float. As for the music, there'll be plenty of that, with the Ball State College band leading the parade, and the high school bands of Muncie Central and Royerton also participating. Other units adding color to the affair are the Western Saddle Club, the American Legion Color Guard and Drum and Bugle Corps. $1,000 In Prizes. Children from kindergarten to rthe ninth grade of school are eligible for one of nearly SO prizes valued at a total of $1,000.

The competing youngsters are asked to be at the field house at 6 p. where their part in-the show will (Continued on Page Fifteen) Muncie Man Wins At Chicago Show Walter E. Kemmef of Muncie. R. R.

3, Hamilton Township, took first prize in the hybrid shelled corn for region 7 at the International Hay and Grain Show held today at Chicago. For region 8, in the same class, John Rutherford of New Castle took first place and A. C. Stewart of Greens- burg took second and third plac-ings. imitators working in this difficult now medium.

Recently a resident of Indianapolis, Pogue moved to Muncie sume time ago to be near the center of the area which he represents for the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. His sand Wasting artistry started as a hobby and is still erally Improved. PARIS, Dec. 2. (INS) French officials cracked down on Communist newspapers in Paris and the provinces today and restoration of electricity permitted reopening of theaters and movies in the troubled capital.

Ministry of the Interior Circles reported an improved situation also in the Moselle Department, one of the chief concentrations of French heavy industry, steelwork-ers returned to their jobs. Action against Communist newspapers followed forcible ejection from, the national assembly of a Communist deputy who urged the French army to revolt. Entire Party Leaves. Raoul Calas, who staged a nightlong "sit down strike" in the Assembly chamber, was removed by armed guardsmen. The entire Communist Party in Parliament 180 members-followed him ou When the assembly reconvened this afternoon, Communists draped a tricolor scarf across Calas' vacant desk, then stood and applauded.

The Ministry of Justice saidr it will prosecute the Paris Communist newspaper, Ce Soir, for publishing a false report that police at Toulouse had joined the nationwide Communist-led Several Communist provincial newspapers have been seized. Estimates say that France has lost more than a million and a half tons of coal production since the strikes began. Developments from the country side included; Limoges Police discovered an arms cache an abandoned bar racks at the nearby town of Gueret. It included 20 rifles, two tommy guns, grenades, revolvers and 10,000 cartridges. Marseille A group of strikers broke into the post office and ex changed blows with workers but were ejected.

hoosieiTgrain man corn duke New Castle Grower Takes Chicago Show Award. CHICAGO, Dec. 2. John Rutherford, New Castle, gram grower, today was named corn duke at, the forty-eighth Interna tional Livestock Exposition. Rutherford won the title reserved for the exhibitor of the champion hybrid shelled corn, with a variety known as pobc.

The reserve championship was awarded R. W. Smith, of Elsworth, who exhibited a Wisconsin 55 variety. me' i34t corn auKe was vernon Ely of Mason, III. The champion carload of swine, Poland China, was shown by Walter SchLchting of Apple River, 111.

His carload of 25 hogs, averaged 226 pounds each, Ponders Champion Steer. Richard DeQuincey, of Bonden-ham, Hereford England, chief steer judge at the international had the task of selecting the nation choicest and most costly chunk of beef. After days of poking, slapping and punching hundreds of DeQuincey had narrowed the field to approximately 90 steers, and some time today he was to give the nod of victory to the show's grand champion steer. Cattle raisers, both adult and junior, filled the stands surrounding the huge amphitheater early to1 witness the crowning of the 1947 king of steers the outstanding event of the international. Hopes of the nation's youth this year rested with a Future Farmers of America member, Claude Mill-wee, 18, of Fort Cobb, whose 1.100-pound Shorthorn, Big Boy, was adjudged grand champion of the junior show.

BUS FIRM SALE TO BE OKAYED i Wesson Interests to Be Ob-' tained by American. WASHINGTON, Dec7 2. (INS) Officials of the Interstate Com merce Commission said today favorable action would be taken in the very near future on the application of the Wesson Company transfering controls to American Buslines, Inc. The Wesson Company operates bus lines in several sections of the country. (The Wesson Company operates Indiana Railroad which holds the bus transportation franchise in Muncie.

For story on Indiana Railroad's plea for higher Muncie bus rates see Page 3.) The ICC said the application merely has to go through normal commission procedure and it Is likely that it will be granted without a hearing. i and giving a few helpful hints, along with it, on how to enjoy all these Christmas decorations with a reasonable amount of safety. What are you supposed to do? Get yourself nine ounces of borax and four ounces of boric acid crystals, mix them with a gallon of water, and you have a simple flame-proof solution at a cost of only about 35 cents or so. Use it; on cotton and decorations and above all use it on the tree itself. If you use the spray method you can do it in the garage or out in the yard," said Hackett.

"Spray it on and then let it sit a while until the spray has stopped drip ping, tnen spray it again. If tjr? spray method is used we recom mend two applications." There's something about the so lution that makes a Christmas tree look greener and fresher than be fore, as could be seen by compar ing tne treated and untreated sprigs Deing used in the demonstration. A proper application will increase the weight of paper, cloth and similar materials, when dry, one tun ounce per original pound. For years people have been advising home-makers to put the butt of the Christmas tree a bucket of water, for even a dead tree will syphon some of the moisture into its upper branches, but Hackett suggests a bucket of flame-(Continued on Page Fifteen) threTnabbed for gambling Arrests Are Made on Warrants Previously Issued. Three additional arrests were made Tuesday morning by Sheriff Sanuel H.

Gray as warrants were served on three other alleged gaming and tip-book offenders. Both of the accused men came to the sheriff's office voluntarily and surrendered. All were released on posting $500 recognizance bonds. The higher bond rate as announced by Judge Joseph H. Davis, was not effective in these cases assail alleged offenses occurred prior to establishing the $5,000 bond.

George Van Devender, Castle Garage, State Road 32, selling a lot tery chance to R. J. Faudree on Nov. 16. The two-count affidavit was signed by W.

H. Harrison. William Kraus, employed in the tavern owned by his father James Kraus, 1407 S. Walnut charged with selling a lottery Chance to Paul Crider on Oct. 18.

His father recently pleaded not guilty to a charge of selling a lottery chance and keeping a room for pool selling. Ralph A. Collins, 608 S. Walnut Right Spot Cigar Store, charged with keeping a gaming room. Nov.

15 is specified as the date of the offense by R. J. Faudree, the prosecuting witness. in Glass in his living room at his home in produce it. Mr.

Pogue is shown very much that although he has done a number of panels and portraits for commercial purposes. 'But its too expen ttive for most people," Pogue smiled yesterday as he explained the development of his work. 0 Pogue carves his pictures into (Continued on Page Fifteen) sHv-'7 I and 22 Jews and six Arabs injured. A pall of smoke hung over Jerusalem, where a number of buildings were in flames. British forces, using armored cars and Bren gun carriers, braced themselves for new disorders in the current three-day Arab protest strike against tho United Nations partition decision.

A curfew was imposed on. Arab quarters of Jerusalem. Keeps Close Watch. United Nations officials kept a close watch on developments, but there were no indications In New York that action was planned to bring the disturbances before the security council. Thousands of Egyptians demonstrated in Cairo against partition.

They were promised an "abund ance of arms' by Abdei Rahman Azzam Pasha, secretary general of of the seven-nation Arab League. The demonstrators smashed windows of foreign owned shops, wrecked posters advertising foreign movies and American soft links, and shouted "we want war!" The Syrian chamber of deputies (Continued on Pago Two) Announce Program For Conference At Central High Purdue President to Speak at Affair for Seniors. The program for the College Conference and Nurses Training Conference to be held at Central High School Wednesday, has been announced by Ed Olson, senior class sponsor who is In charge. A general assembly in the school auditorium, with Dr. Frederick Hovde, president of Purdue Uni versity, as the guest speaker, will inaugurate the conference for seniors.

Dr. Hovde will arrive by plane at the Muncie Airport at 9:30 m. Wednesday, and will be met by Loren Chastain, Central principal. His address is scheduled for 10:30 a. m.

to be folowed by conferences at 11:30 a. m. and 12 noon, with students conferring with repre sentatives of colleges of their choice. Ted Harris, senior class presi- (Continued oa Page Fifteen) WEATHER Observation at Noon Tads Bitty liencirv, Ball 8taM Collect Weather Bureau. Barometer Rainfall (24 hrs.

to noon) Rel humidity 6 a. m. 38, Noon 42 Wind direction South Wind velocity ..12 miles per hour Visibility 7 miles Sunrise 6:43 a. sunset 4:13 p. m.

Temprraturra rora4 In Munrlo during XI hour orerrdinc noon today. Noon 39 Midnight .....41 2 p. m. ....43 2 m. ,.,.,.41 4 p.

,38 4 p. m. 4i 6 p. m. ,,..38 6 a.

m. 41 8 p. m. 8 a. m.

......41 10 p. m. a. ..47 Noon today ......52 Maximum 24 hours 52 Minimum 24 hours 36 Central Foreat tir I'nited Statu Weather Bureau. INDIANA: Cloudy north, fair south tonight.

Somewhat warmer southeast portion. Wednesday considerable cloudiness with occasional rain northwest portion. Continued mild. TEMPERATURES. Maximum temperatures for the 21 Iioups and minimum temperatures for the 12 hours ending at 7 a.

m. (CST): Atlanta 49 28; Minneapolis 36 23 Ch icago 37 New York 3'.) 3 1 Denver 52 29; Pittsburgh 43 31 Evansville 50 37St. Louis f3 48 Ft. Wayne 42 35j S. Francisco 57 52 Ft Worth 67 53; Washington 41 23 Kansas City 55 49, Indianapolis 46 40 Los Angeles 63 51 uuth wauzy Mcradden Says Ruth Millett 9 Snorts Round-Un 32 Evilsizer operates the electrolytic His brother, Charles, works near by on the buffing and polishing line.

Fast drill presses, electric spot-welders, rolling machines, punches and other up-to-date machines are seen In the big factory, which nevertheless Is com parativeiy quiet. Men work along, without evidence of speedup or (Continued on Page Fifteen) DRAG-RIVER FOR WOMAN'S BODY Saleslady Slain by Escort in Taxi at Gary. GARY, Dec. 2. -Police hunted today for the body of a 26-year-old woman who, they reported, was thrown into a river after she was shot fatally last night in a taxicab by her 45-year old escort.

The escort then was slain by a policeman after he had hitch-hiked a ride in a police squad car and then attempted to beat the officer with a blackjack. Police said they had not es tablished a definite motive for the slaying of the woman, whom they identified as Miss -Georgia Cum mins, a house to house saleswoman. They said her companion was Alex Habeeb, a Chicago taxicab driver, who had been keeping company with Miss Cummins since she moved here from Chicago two months ago. Firemen from nearby Hammond (Continued on Page Fifteen) WAR FIRM HEAD BEFORE 'JURORS Lamarre Promises Facts on Deals With Meyers. WASHINGTON, Dec.

"aummy president of a war con tract firm, went before a federal grand jury today promising to "tell all" about his dealings with Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers. Before entering the jury room LaMarre tojd reporters he plans a court suit to recover $10,000 he claims the retired general owes him.

The grand jury is Investigating testimony before a Senate commit, tee that General Meyers realized more than $150,000 profits from the concern LaMarre headed. Kicked Hack Salary. The 35-year old witness' told the Senate war investigating committee that he kicked back most of his salary to General Meyers, wartime deputy air forces procurement chief, retaining only about $50 a week as president of the Aviation Electric Company, Dayton, Ohio. LaMarre, who now calls Meyere a "snake," followed his young brunette wife to the grand jury room. The grand jury's first principal witness yesterday was attractive Mrs.

Mildred LaMarre, once Meyers' secretary. Meyers, denying he is guilty of any fraud, told the Senate committee he established the airplane parts firm and made LaMarre its president because Mrs. LaMarre was his "girl friend." Mrs. LaMarre said that was a lie and her husband asked the committee make Meyers "crawl out of here on his belly like the snake he is." Plant Structure, Employment Will Be Increased. BY CHARLES W.

WHITE. Lees Division of Serrick Corporation will begin a $25,000 plant ad dition immediately, and employ ment will be increased, N. J. Kiss-ner, vice-president and general manager, announced here Tuesday. The plant extension, which fol lows recent addition of a 100 by 20 foot bay at the northeast corner of the Acme-Lees plant, will give 4,500 additional square feet of floor space, in a 30 by 150 foot structure.

Construction will be: sawtooth factory-type glass and steel roof, steel structure, and concrete floor. Contracts have been let and work will start this week. Rolling machines and punch presses will be moved into the new bay which will he completed in February if plans go well, Mr. Kissner aid. The Austin Company, Cleveland, Ohio, industrial engineers who have also done considerable work for Ball Brothers here will do the job.

Acme-Lees, employing approximately 500 men at VJ Day on war orders, was hard hit by conversion and dropped to around 300 men. The conversion process started im mediately and the factory has worked up to an average payroll of over 600, with 625 on the rolls this week. Kissner said employment requisitions have come through' for more men, and the roll will eo ud to 650 immediately. Example of Conversion. Acme-Lees recently covered in a Press feature concerning exem plary labor relations there, also Is a remarkable example of successful conversion from war to peace production.

During the war, Mr. Kissner said, the plant made all kinds of light steel munitions, feu-turing belt links for 50-caliber airplane machine guns and bomb fuses. "We were making 200,000 bomb i uses a month when VJ Day Kissner said. Production of belt links, which hold 50-caliber ma chine gun shells together in a flex' iuic oen, reacnea zi.uuu.uoo a month. The plant manager still keeps a belt of shells around the office to show guests, and says he nasnt tnrown the pattern away, either.

The link itself is an S-shaped gadget which holds the shells in place, at the same time allowing flexibility, so that the shells look like firecrackers on a string. Add New Process. But that's all war stuff. Quickly after conversion orders came in mid-August, 1915, Acme-Lees went to work on the huge job of supply- in American peacetime needs that had long gone unsatisfied, and which are the source of the present general expansion here. Now they are making all kinds of metal accessories for automobiles, refrigerators, stoves, industrial mould ings are a feature.

A new electrolytic polishing department, with Ralph Jenkins as foreman (over all buffing and polishing) was installed recently. Max cover adequately what goes on in collegiate net circles. He will pay much attention, of course, to Central and Burr is, to the Delaware County high schools and those of Eastern Indiana. But he also will bring you all the interesting basketball news from the four corners of the state. Again we say we are proud to present Mr.

Silverburg and his column, for Indiana basketball, especially in this section, would not be complete without them. His first column of the 1917-48 season appears today. Sand Blasts Pictures tt' I 'v 1 7 t-J 1 I I I 1 a 1 SSS CN I Watching the Fouls" Returns for 26th Year This large mirror, designed and executed Pogue, Mapleridge. A total of 130 hours of sandblasting were required to examining it. The Muncie Evening Press today proudly presents an "old friend" to its thousands of readers Herbert A.

Sil-verburg and his "Watching the Fouls." Starting his 26th year as basketball columnist, Herb Silver-burg has watched the sport from its infancyV to its present "big business" proportions. No one knows Indiana basketball nearly so well, no one can write of it more interestingly. While he naturally gravitates toward the high school game, Mr. Silverburg will, as usual, Evening Press Feature Index Alicia Hart 9 Press of Things 4 Dr. Brady sjRadio Program 14 IF YOU SEE an artist at work dressed in a Buck Rogsrs outfit and doing his job with a tube resemDling a fire hose hooked to a lot of loud and complicated machinery, its probably Ivan Pogue.

Pogue, who recently became a resident of Muncie, is the pioneer sand blast artist in the United I States and so far he has very few Crossword Puzzle 15 0 Emily Post Gaynor Maddox Mary Haworth's Mail National Whirligig ii and 23 Years Ago 4 Worry Clinic 5 Pcgler 4.