Vidette-Messenger of Porter County from Valparaiso, Indiana • 1

jnJLiXLLiXllw THE HOIIB 'OF- VALPARAISO THt WEATHER Fair and colder tonight; Wednesday partly cloudy and quite cold; low tonight SO; hlfh Wednesday, 38, low 13. UNIVERSITY Ji Daily Newspaper For All Porter County VOLUME 19 UNITED PSBSS LEASED WUU VALPARAISO, INDIANA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1945 PUBLISHED AFTERNOONS EXCEPT SUNDAY four CErrre UVJ UVJ UUVJ i i IS iff Planning Sewage Disposal Plant Cify Identity a ri Death Cause Are Unknown Gary Hunters Discover Skelleton in Jackson Township Marsh. Is 15 Trailers To House VV Vets, Wives A trailer city wlll be established on the campus at Valparaiso university In the near future. It will be located on university ground Just east of the Valparaiso City Barns, and running north of Llnwood avenue. The plot is situated in Watts subdivision.

First intimation of the university's plans was given at the regular city, council meeting Monday night by Mayor G. D. Conover. Conover said he and Council George Ferguson were called yesterday afternoon to the university 'I Cheer "Ike" In Boston Armistice By MERRIMAN SMITH WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.

(UP) Prime Minister Clement Attlee told congress today that civilization can survive the' atomic bomb only if the nations accept the Christian principle of man's brotherhood The new socialist leader of the British government, addressing a joint session of the house and senate, declared that "man's material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress." 19 1 Millions Parade SMILING HAPPILY and accompanied by his wife. Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied ETO Com mander, waves from his porch in the tonneau of his car to an estimated million persons lining his route through Boston. With Gen. Eisenhower leading the Armistice Day parade are Gov.

Maurice J. Tobln in the rear seat, and Sen. David I. Walsh, Mayor John Kerrigan of Boston and Col. James Stack, "Ike's" aide.

Wheeler PTA Center Proaram In Gum: Hoover Says! He Knew War Was Imminent WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (TJP)-Rep. Bertrand W. Gearhart, First Event November 26th By HERB STEINBACH WHEELER Union tcwnship junior and senior high school pupils said that Director J. Ed-will be given the opportunity to participate in organized recreation, if gar Hocver of the Federal Bureau plans of the Parent -Teacher association are successful of Investigation, told him today! Hoping to keep the pupils occupied during a portion of their spare that he "had information NovTTafter-sutfper hours, the P.

T. A. group has formulated plans for a "Youth 26, 1941, that war was imminent" Center" in the high school gym. For the present no elaborate program and that as result alerted his is to be attemptd, but if initial attempts are successful, a broader pro- men in the Pacific islands. "If the army and navy hadone this there never would have been a Pearl Harbor," Gearhart told reporters.

Gearhart made this disclosure! after he and Rep. Frank B. Keefe, Wis tne tw0 house repubiiCan members of the Pearl Harbor investigating committee, returned from interviewing Hoover at his office. "Hoover gave us very valuable information which I believe will result in startling disclosures," Gearhart added. Gearhart and Keefe have Joined senate republican members in charging administration forces with attempting to withhold information they consider vital to the inquiry.

The committee begins open hearings on the Pearl Harbor attack on Thursday. Meanwhile, two senators, a demo-1 Co unci I To Ask Citizen Group's Help Land Owners Along Salt Creek Put Pressure On State Board. Construction of a sewage disposal plant for Valparaiso is just around the corner in the opinion of Mayor G. D. Conover and members of the city council.

This belief was strengthened by a letter to Mayor Conover from B. A. Poole, director of environmental sanitation of the Indiana state board of health. The letter was read to members of the council at Monday night's esslon. Poole Informed that during the last several months the state health board has received complaints from Porter county about polluted condition of Salt Creek, into which city sewage Is dumped.

"This condition has been serious for a number of years and it is time the city took steps to remedy It," Poole added. According to Poole, Crown Point and Hobart have employed sanitary engineers, and If Valparaiso takes the same kind of action it will be fine, Poole said. Mayor Conover said he believed the matter has been agitated by the report of the city's recent move whereby It was granted a $15,000 loan by the Indiana Economic Council to cover costs of plans for a disposal plant, "1 am not in favor of putting in a request for the full amount of our loan application, as we will probably not need it." Mayor Con over said. "However, I believe we should make plans for a sewage survey for the community." To put the matter on a partisanship basis, Mayor Conover sug gested that the city enlist the aid of a citizens' committee to go nil the way with the project. By this plan there could be little criticism, he added.

The citizens' committee, he said, would be asked to sit in on all decisions, agreements, hiring of engineers and so forth. All transactions would be done in open council meetings with the advice and approval of the citizens' committee. Admitting that he had dodged construction of a sewage disposal plant In the past, Mayor Conover said he had arrived at the point where he believed the matter could not be sidetracked much longer. While he said the state board of neaitn warning was not a man date to build a plant, it came close to It. Mayor Conover declared that certain parts of the city sewage system needs attention.

He cited Forest Park and the east and north portions of the city as glaring examples. There Is also the proposed annexation of land, recently suggested by a chamber of commerce committee. This, he said, will re-I quire a comprehensive survey of i the city's sewer facilities and Mayor Conover stated he had contacted two engineering firms From one of them he obtained Information relative to the charge for making a general survey. The firm disclosed that such a survey jould be made for $2,500, providing -ull tfould be $5,000. Councilman George Juneiohan favored the move to clean up Salt Creek and remove pollution, which he said has existed for many years.

Councilman Otto Gibbs wanted to know how many persons were affected by the pollution, "if there are only' a few then the expenditure of several hundred thousand dollars would not be justified," he added. However, as Salt Creek evb ly dumped Its water Into Deep river and Little Calumet river then to Lake Michigan, the pollution maUff assumes a large aspect. Mayor Conover declared. When Gibbs asked what public opinion was on the subject. Councilman Frank Ferguson answered him' by saying everyone feels the same way about the meaning that issue cannot be dodged much longer." The discussion added up to the conclusion that the city should take advantage of a part of the state loan, obtain plans for a sewage disposal plant and start the ball rolling to complete the Was it murder, siucSd or accidental death? A Gary hunter, whil crawl ing through a marsh in a dans woods near the Quakerdom school in Jackson township, with two companions, cam across the skeleton remains of a woman Saturday after noon, it became known todav.

The hunter, Hamp Town sell, negro, 1701 Jackson street, Gary, and his companions, James Arnold, also of Gary, and a man Townsell did not know by name, did not report their grewsome find immediately. Late Monday, however. Townsell told Jesse Evans, of Gary, a deputy sheriff, of their discovery. Evans immediately contacted Indiana state police and Sheriff Harry Borg, of Porter county, The spot where the skeleton was found Is approximately one-half mile south of U. 8.

6, and a mile west of the Porter-Laporte county line, in Porter county. Sheriff Borg, state and Coroner H. A. Flynn, assisted by Townsell, tried Monday night to locate the spot where Townsell came' across the skeleton, but failed. This morning another search proved successful.

None of the flesh remained on the bones and the clothing had practically rotted away. A box eon talning clothing, found near the body, arranged in faultless fashion, was badly deteriorated. The remains were removed to the Flynn funeral home in Chesterton, Officials so far are without clues as to the identity of the woman, what caused her death, her age, or how. long the body had lain In the wooded marsh Cunmer Flynn Informed The Vldette-Messeuger this afternoon that an examination will be made by a physician and a dentist in an attempt to learn the answers to eome of these questions. Police.

authorities will press for clues to her slayer If it is found she was the victim of murder. Sailor Yearns To Be CackOnFcrm, He Informs 'Look' Stanley Williamson, formerly of Morgan township and now-lnlthe U. S. navyr is looking forward; to the day that he can return to the farm. He was recently Interviewed by a Look magazine correspondent.

His picture appearr-ita the "Meet the People" section-of Una issue dated Nor. 27, which wa-Tejeased nationally today. In answer to the question, "Where would you like most to live?" Williamson replied: "I'd like to go right back to the farm, in the last lew yearv I've worked in a steel mill cooked and butchered. Now I'd like to farm. No matter where I live, 'the hst thing I want to do is more butch erlng." Williamson graduated from Morgan township high school Mannerly he assisted his step-father, who died recently, on a farm Morgan township.

His wife and child are residing at the present time north of Valparaiso. His Williamson, is living in Valparaiso, Students Hurt In Car Mishap-Are Improving Ah authorized report" fronV th office of President 0. mann indicates that" the five auto accident victims KtHJ nosp'iJalESj are steadily improving. Miss Edit! Sondertgger and Miss" Alice Wei both of whom received several fractures, are now at Passavant hospital In Chicago, where they have nns? gone bone-setting bperaOonsT Ttef are under the care of 'bone-spsc-1. 1st Dr.

James K. Stacks and of tr. Leo Hardt, medical ipeciaSst, i will remain hi the hospital for era! Miss Hildcgarde Eerforfi fci ti Porter Memorial hospital, tr--tag satisfactorily from the JjhZ brain concussion. Michael and MeMn MaJchow, wfco dlsiocations and moved shorty -frcn tvs 1 pita! to toe V. V.

offices to Inspect an area where the school wishes to locate its group of trailers to house married G. and their wives. The trailer city will consist of 15 units placed on foundations, probably cedar posts, with protec-! tlve sides for the foundations to keep out cold air, the plans revealed. Each unit will have sewer connection for a sink, and there will be a toilet unit for the whole group. Each unit will be spaced 20 feet apart.

According to university authorities the trailer units are being leased from the federal govern ment. City officials were informed the trailer arrangements will be more or less temporary because of the housing situation. However, it was pointed out that they will be used probably for five or six years until the university is able to build dormitories, plans for which have been drawn. In order to provide sewage facilities for the temporary housing project, a sewer line wlll have to be extended to connect with the sewer on Mound street. The council announced It will re fer the matter to the city plan commission with recommendations for the commission's consideration.

The plan commission is expected to submit its report at the next council meet on Nov. 26. The university's housing plan is not new among colleges, it is said. Indiana university already has a large contingent of units for housing students, and other schools are making plans. Recently it was announced by two large mid-west schools that they could handle from 2,000 to 3,000 more students if housing facilities were available.

Hunter Hurt In Accident Marvin Logman of Michigan City is recovering in Porter Memorial Hospital today, in the first hunting accident victim in Porter county. Wounded in both legs while hunting Saturday afternoon with companions five miles south of Valparaiso, Logman was rushed to the hospital where some of the shotgun pellets were removed. X-rays were taken later to locate- the others. His condition is reported as not serious complications develop. With Logman on me inp wejc John Steindrager and Joseph and Stanley Wonoskl, all of Michigan City.

One of the party spotted a rabbit and Logman and two others A charge from one of the guns struck Logman In both legs below the knees. Hunting of rabbits and pheasants, the season for which opened last Saturday, is bringing out many hunters, but the game Is reported scarce, according to County Conservation Officer Michael Ober-meyer. Obermeyer said heavy rains and depredations by foxes have made inroads into the pheasant and rabbit populations. Vote To Continue Training Bill Debate WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (UP) The house military affairs.

committee voted today to continue with immediate consideration President Truman's request for a compulsory military training program. The committee defeated, 15 to 12, a motion by Rep. Dewey Snort, to defer consideration until next year or until the senate military affairs committee approved a bill. The measure before the committee would provide for a year's compulsory military training for all males upon reaching the age of 13, or at their option before becoming 22. "IKK" IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Nov.

13 (UP)-Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower arrived here today to lend his weight to proposals for unification of the armed forces and compulsory peacetime military training. Eisenhower arrived by train from Boston. City Dads Get Estimates On Garbage Plan Refuse Truck Bodies Will Cost in Neighborhood of $7000.

It will cost the City of Valparaiso approximately $7,000 to Install equipment needed to handle the collection of garbage and tin cans in Valparaiso. This was the estimate arrived at by Mayor O. D. Conover and members of the city council at their regular meeting Monday -night, A representative of the Elgin Corporation, makers of garbage bodies for trucks, Informed the council in the matter. He had been requested by Mayor Conover to appear along with a representative of the Gar Wood company of Chicago.

The latter did not attend. Prices on garbage bodies were quoted by the Elgin Corporation salesman at $1,400 for a standard body, and $1,900 for a body equipped with a compacter. As the city will need two trucks, the price for the bodies on trucks will approximate $7,000, providing the standard body without compacter, is purchased. The city's interest in the garbage collection is due to the fact that the four-year contract with Ernest Holmgren will expire next April. At present Holmgren receives per annum and city authorities believe the cost of the new equipment can be nearly paid for in the first year.

The city, with the aid of the Val-po Airport will see that the name of Valparaiso is painted in some location where it can be seen by aircraft. The Indiana Aeronautics Commission in a letter to Mayor Conover said the state law provides that municipalities mark the name of the city within its corporate limits. 'J. V. Bruhn was granted permission by the council to hook onto the city sewer system at his paint shop on Fair street and Road 49, just outside the city limits, at a cost of $75.

Bruhn' will also be compelled to sign an agreement that he will not oppose annexation and also will pay his proportion of the cost of a sewage disposal plant if and when built. Residents on Rldgeland avenue petitioned the council for a street light. The matter was referred to the lighting committee." Mayor Conover called attention to the Improvement being made in Maplewood cemetery. The Mounts boys are doing a fine Job, he said. The council authorized purchase of a new tire for the police car and two tires for the Ford pickup used by the street department.

The United Cab company was denied a permanent space perml. by the council at 20 North Washington street on the ground that the street was too congested. The company recently moved Its offices there from 62 Lafayette 'Street. Gary Runaways Picked Up Here; i When they acted suspiciously I after alighting from ap automobile at Junction of Roads 2 and 30 this morning, Glen Coin, 16, 4357 Virginia street, and Francis Rowland, 16, 227 Tyler street, both of Gary, were picked up and held by city police- who were directing, traffic for a funeral party at that point. The boyi told police they were enroute to a 'home on South street but did not know the location of the place.

Later they confessed they had run away from their homes. Gar; police were notified. "The greatest task tnat laces us today," he said, "is to bring home to all people before it Is too late that our civilization can only survive by the acceptance and practice In international relations and in our national life of the Christian principle Uhat) we are members one of another." In this country to discuss with President Truman and Canadian Prime Minister W. L. MacKenzie King means of making the world safe for atomic energy, Attlee asserted "It is a great mistake to think constantly of war and the prevention of war.

"We have to think rather of the best means of building up peace. Speaking last week in London, I stfid that the foundation of peace lay in the hearts of men, and I hold it true that the more the cltizensjof the world can get to know each other the less likely are we to have the emotional condition- in which war is possible. For that reason, Attlee continued, "our United Nations, in which I profoundly believe, must be something more than an agreement between governments; it must be an expression of the will of the common people In every country." The prime minister's speech wa6 couched majnly in general terms. He did not specifically mention Soviet Russia or detail any plans for bringing about greater unity between the eastern and western allies. He did, however, pay tribute to Generalissimo Josef V.

Stalin in a reference to the late President Roosevelt and former Prime Minister Winston Churchill. "In the struggle against the foroes of Attlee said, "the names of these two men, Churchill and Roosevelt, together with that of Generalissimo Stalin, will ever be linked in achievement." He also seemed to underscore President Truman's Navy Day assertion that this country, interested only in world peace, looked upon possession of the atomic bomb as a sacred trust. In words which might have been calculated to allay soviet fears, Attlee said: "Today the United States stands out as the mightiest power on earth. And yet America is a threat to no one." Attlee, whose speech was broadcast over all networks, said the labor government of Great Britain believes that "the foundations of peace must be world prosperity and good neighbprliness." And it is determined, he said, to fight for this objective "with courage and a determination to win through." "We have not stood up to our Continued on Dage it. column PORTER COUNTY WAR FUND I25.277.0S Total Budget Collected to Date $17,903.25 Open Tour Heart and Be Generous In Victory Mall Tow Contribution to Porter County War Fund, p.

O. Box 89, Valparaiso, Ind, or Make Cash Contribution at Any On of the Six Banks in Porter County. crat and a republican, declared dorf, senior; Frank Patterson, jun-that the Pearl Harbor investiga-j ior; John Ames, sophomore; was doomed because of politi-1 vieve Horan, -freshman; James Plans Youth Add Pickets At Plant To Curb Police By UNITED PRESS Striking United Automobile Workers union (CIO) members reinforced their picket lines around the Ford Motor company plant in Windsor, today in anticipation of possible early intervention of provincial police in the Ford strike. Negotiations in the 63-day strike were stalemated. Meanwhile, employees of Northland Greyhound Lines, voted to strike in seven midwestern states.

An official of the Amalgamated Association of Street Electric Railways and Motor Coach employes of America (AFL) said the union mcinucio uu vuieu 1 01 wj oo join striking Greyhound employes in 27 eastern and southwestern states. xne uanacuan rora dispute ntn- hour settlement efforts collapsed eany toaay wnen rora omciais an- nounced they were unable to accept a United Automobile Workers (CIO) proposal to reopen the company power- plant and resume negotiations on disputed Issues. The union suggestion was offered as a counter-proposal to a company plan entailing an immediate return to work pending submission of the dispute to arbitration. UAW officials had rejected the company proposal, after agreeing to arbitration of all points except union security, the primary Issue. Meanwhlla, in the United States, the UAW scheduled a meeting next week among 200 local leaders to discuss the union's waBe demands against the General Motors Corp.

Negotiations have been deadlocked following bitter accusations by the union that the company was working against the public welfare. In other labor developments:" 1. Strikes brought severe shortages of bread and milk to the San Francisco Bay area, where a bakery drivers waikout held up bread deliveries and a machinists strike shut down the American Can major producer of milk cartons for the city. 2. AFL longshoremen returned to work at Mobile, ending a stop page which completely tied np shipping operations for a 24-hour period.

Union members were granted a raise of 15 cents an hour, boosting pay rates to $1.15 an hour. 3. A one-day strike in tanning plants of 16 states was voted by members of the International Fur and Leather Workers union (CIO) to back up demands for a 30 per cent wage Increase. A union spokesman said the date of the strike would be announced "very shortly." 4. The number of workers striking or idled by work stoppages to- (Contirued on page 2, column I) cal Sens.

Carl Hatch, N. and Raymond E. R. Ind. said 4n separate interviews that Ject may be Heading the P.

T. A. Youth Center committee as chairman is Mrs. Cecil Burge, of Wheeler. Assisting her are Rudy Lambert and Mrs.

Florence Betz, of Union Center, and George Bay of Wheeler. Floyd O. Glass, school principal, is aiding In an advisory capacity. The Union township P. T.

A. Is limited to one project annually, and they are hoping that the present undertaking will be one of their major successes. Mrs. John Thome is P. T.

A. president. Because they know that not only recreation but also youth training is a valuable asset to school pupils, the major arrangements for the running of the Center will be made by the students themselves, according to the chairman, Mrs. Burge. Recently the P.

T. A. committee met with a student group, which consisted of one representative from each of the six top grades, to out- line the general program. Student members were Irene Sue Koeppen, eighth grade, and Donald Bivens, seventh grade. At this joint meeting of the P.

T. A. committee and the pupils the gates. These various duties will be delegated to the pupils, who will establish a rotating schedule. Adults wlll aidN the students wherever possible, but Mrs.

Burge reports that they do not plan to chaperon the parties, in the true sense of the word. However, there will be two adults on hand for each activity, to handle any difficulties, which the' pupils can not manage themselves. differences between democrats and it was planned to hold the first republicans on the 10-man con-pr0gram on Monday evening, Nov. gressional committee had jarred 1 26. public faith in the inquiry.

Nei- Nights on which the Center will ther Is on the committee. open wlll be flexible, Mrs. Burge They said that although thfc reports, but the general night will committee dcesn't begin public be on Mc)ridays Wnen otner school hearings until Thursday, the sharp nctivities interfere, the Youth Cen-party. line split within its ranks ter night wiU be 6hifted to an. already has precipitated Violent other nlght of the week partisan debate in both houses of 0nce a month the group hopes tQ congress.

i hold a dance; probably on a Satur- "Since the first debate I have; nlght gpeclal programs wiI1 been convinced that no good can jbe scheduled f0T seasonal holld Cu ch as Thanksgiving and Christ-blaming either s.de but politics when have so permeated the matter, tha jnon there Is serious question what good purpose can be served." i Hatch said he doubted that the I fFra six democrats and four republi- Youth Center project is set cans on the committee could reach i Io unanimous conclusion. i Juke bemg sought to Wiflis blamed the democratic j. iu a majority on the committee." He PuPlls P7 for this themselves referred to the fact the republican out of the Proceeds. For the Satur-members had been denied the i dance nights Orchestra Leader right to look individually into gov-lRudy Lambert. who is also oh the ernment records.

T. A. committee, hopes to have "It is to be deplored that the his ensemble available. majority has made a political mat-1 The Planning of the various pro-ter of it," he said! "The American ifams is being left to the pupils people will 'never be satisfied with- themselves. In addition they are out a thorough disclosure of all belnK charged with the cleaning up events prior to Peart Harbor fix-1 the program, and policing the ing the -responsibility on methods school to see that no outsiders crash and persons who were dilatory in performance of their duties." Willis agreed with Sen.

C. Way-land Brooks, HU ho recommended last week that republicans resign from the committee unless they were permitted greater- individual freedom. Republican members have obtained the right to question potential witnesses but they are not allowed as individuals to investigate government files or "records..