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16 DECATUR, ILLINOIS, SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 1947. Four Sections and Comics 50 Pages 10 Cents amp 1mm mm WRECKAGE OF COLLISION FATAL TO THREE Wreck of IX. Train Kills 2 At Champaign Rain, Cold DECATUR AND VICINITY: Cloudy and rather cold with rain Sunday. Monday partly eloudy and warmer. High Sunday 50, low Sunday night 45, high Monday 60.

Northeast winds 8 to 12 miles an hour Sunday. LOCAL WEATHER Sat. Fri. Sat. Fri.

Report Wage Issue Agreed By Steel Union Of The Associated Press Reports were circulated yester-4av that a wage agreement had 7 a. m. Noon 7 p. m. Highest Lowest 47 48 Precip.

.10 49 67 Sun. Mon.i 50 63 Sun 63 73 Rises 5:14 5:13 47 36 Sets 6:42 6:43 TEMPERATURES High Low Champaign, April 19 (AP) The Illinois Central's "City of Miami" streamliner was wrecked near here today, killing two crew members and injuring 99 passengers, 21 of whom required hospitalization. E. C. Slingman, Illinois Central division chief dispatcher here, said "something went wrong" with the electrical switching system, causing a derailment of the all-steel, seven-car diesel-powered train.

Slingman estimated the all-coach train, bound from Chicago to Miami, was going 75 miles an hour when it left the tracks at a switch three and one-half miles north of Champaign, where it makes a scheduled stop. He said that although the remotely controlled switch was set for a crossover from one track to another, a block signal, synchronized with the switch; apparently gave the train crew no warning of the crossover. THE DIESEL locomotive twisted sideways, tearing up rails and ties in a shower of sparks, and i i ti Boston 55 44 New York 60 45 Miami 86 71 New Orleans 79 53 Fort Worth 80 59 Chicago 43 36 Cincinnati 71 50 Detroit 43 32 Memphis 80 55 Milwaukee 37 33 Bismarck 61 37 Des Moines 37 35 Indianapolis 66 50 St. Paul 50 28 Omaha 39 35 St. Louis 73 54 Sioux City 47 36 Denver 61 35 Los Angeles 78 55 San Francisco 69 47 Seattle 60 50 Winnipeg 29 16 Blames Price Increase But Sees Surplus Washington, April 19 (AP President Truman declared tonight that a "sharp increase ir prices" has "inflated the entire economic structure" and took a new stand against any income tax cuts now.

He issued a statement predicting a surplus of government receipts over expenditures of one billion. 250 million dollars for the present fiscal year which ends June 30. Mr. Truman had announced in a Jefferson day speech, April 5 that a surplus was in sight, but did not disclose the amount until tonight. The President attributed the revision in estimates since his budget message went to Congress in January to Administration economies as well as to a sharp increase in prices "since the removal of controls." HE DECLARED that now, when a balanced budget is being achieved, he wants to emphasize the need for reducing the public debt "while times are good." "It is natural for taxpayers to wish to see taxes reduced." the President's statement continued.

"But to do this now would promote inflation, so that the benefits of any reduction would be largely dissipated." The President's statement came amid renewed activity over the income tax reduction pending in Congress. 1. Sen. Scott Lucas Democratic whip, put forward a bfll to cut income taxes next Jan. 1.

instead of this year as the Republicans proposed. It would accomplish the reductions by different means than the 30 and 20 per cent slashes provided in the bill which the House passed March 27. 2. The Senate finance committee, of which Lucas is a member, set hearings to start Tuesday on the tax bill with Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder as the first witness. Later, businessmen will be heard.

3. CARROLL REECE, Republican national chairman, made public a letter to G. O. P. office-hold ed today at Sidney.

The car collided with a Wabash railroad train. (Staff Photo) wreckage of the new car in which she, her husband and their 4-month-old son were kill III. She was born in oaggdge mppea uvei uii oi 1Q1o aru) been reached between the C. I. O.

United Steelworkers union and the XJ. S. Steel Corp. At the same time, the threat of a nationwide strike "of Western Union employes was averted but no break was evident in another communications dispute, the nationwide telephone walkout. ALTHOUGH REPORTS of the steel wage agreement lacked official confirmation, the business news aRency Dow Jones ii Co.

said the agreement had been reported by "usually authoritative circles." The reports stemmed from discussions between Philip Murray, C. I. O. president, and John A. Stephens, vice president of the steel corporation.

The talks were begun Friday and. catching the union by surprise, caused a one-day postponement of a union board meeting, now reset for 10:30 a. m. Sunday. Dow Jones said the settlement generally fits the pattern of the increases granted the C.

I. O. United Electrical Workers Union by' General Motors Corp. and West-inghouse Electric or the equivalent of 15 cents an hour. NEITHER the union nor the corporation would comment on the reported settlement.

Meanwhile, Western Union officials announced they had reached an agreement with the A. F. of L. Commercial Telegraphers union, granting employes a five-cent hourly wage boost and other benefits. The wage question will be subject to renegotiation in six months.

At the same time. Joseph A. Beirne. president of the striking National Federation of Telephone Workers, urged "government pressure" against strikebound telephone companies to induce them to make a wage offer paralleling increases in other industries. Beirne told newsmen he believed if was time for the government to demand a wage offer from the Eell system companies.

Government conciliation, however, embarked on a new attempt to settle the. walkout, which involves 340.000 strikers. So far. the A. T.

T. companies have offered to arbitrate the dispute on a regional basis. The unions are demanding $12 weekly vase increases and other benefits. IX NEW YORK, the A. F.

of L. United Financial Employes union announced it has Dostponed its Three Die in Sidney Crash Of Car, Train Sidney, April 19 (Staff) Three members of a Newmna family a retired farmer, his wfie and their infant son were killed today when, their car collided with the eastbound Wabash railroad No. 4 train at a crossing on the east eds.e of Sidney. Dead are Phillip Waltz, 66, his wife Zclma Mae, 29, and their son Joseph Phillip, 4 months old. Dr.

W. S. Lamkin. Champaign county coroner, said Mrs. Waltz had been nurse to Waltz' first late wife.

THE TRAIN, bound to Detroit, from St. Louis, was undamaged and continued shortly after the accident at 1:15 p. m. The car was demolished. Waltz, a prominent retired farmer and land owner, was driving a new car.

It was believed that a freight train on a siding near the crossing obstructed his view of the approaching passenger train. Bodies of the' three victims were carried 100 yards. An inquest has been scheduled next Thursday at 7:30 p. m. in Sidney town hall.

Mrs. Waltz was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Durnil of near lived in Villa Grove and Tolono most' of her life. She and Mr.

Waltz were married in October 1942. She leaves two brothers, Glen Durvil of Tolono and Lawrence Durvil of Wisconsin: two sisters, Mrs. Helen Nichols of Champaign and Doris N. Durvil at home. THE BABY, Joseph Phillip, was born Dec.

5, ,1946. Mr. Waltz leaves a sister Miss Irene Waltz of Newman. His first wife. Delia, died in 1941.

The bodies were taken to the Barr funeral home in Newman. Funeral services for all three victims are set tentatively for Monday in the Newman Christian church. The hour has not been decided. 35-Cent Raise Asked at Allis Milwaukee, April 19 (AP) A oeneral wage increase of 35 cents an hour plus "justified group adjustments" was demanded today by the C. I.

O. United Auto Workers union, local 248, at the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co's main plant at West Allis, scene of a 328-day strike which ended last month. Harold Christoffel, chairman of local 248's bargaining committee, said the union is asking for 11 cents which it claims is "still owing from the first wage demand of 25 cents an hour" plus the 23 cents cost-of-living increase set by the international U. A. I.

O. Local 248 recently ended a long strike at the West Allis plant, returning to work without a new contract. Nazi Base Demolished Like Volcanic Scene Cuxhaven. Germany, April 19 (AP) Lieut. Bernard'Cahill of the British navy said tonight the island of Helgoland was so shattered "it looks as if there had been a volcanic eruption." He and Herbert Woosman, royal navy gunner, were the first.

men to set foot today on the former Nazi North Sea bastion after Friday's demolition of the island's military installations by thousands of tons of explosives. Cahill said the eight miles of tunnels honeycombing the island collapsed, leaving huge craters. The 12-foot thick reinforced concrete U-boat pen was destroyed completely. Cook County Officer Heads Health Group Springfield, April 19 (AP) Dr. Edward A.

Piszczek of Chicago, Cook county health officer, today was elected president of the Illinois Public Health association. Other officers named at the closing session of the group's two-day meeting were Maude Carson of Springfield, president-elect, and Harold M. Cadins, Charleston, secretary-treasurer. The following were elected to the executive council: C. W.

Anderson. Rockford: Mrs. Louise Bshrens, Evanston; Dr. Lon Morrey. Chicago: Alexander Rotchan, Chicago, and Dr.

E. V. Thiehoff, Peoria. Wall Street strike, which had been In tonight session the Fotsaam set for 10 a. m.

Monday. agreement, favorite document of The postponement was agreed to! Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Moat the request of acting Mayorltov for quotation, boomeranged Soviet Support Of Slav Claim Blocks Council Moscow. April 19 AP) Soviet support of Yugoslav claims to Southern Carinthia threw the foreign minfsters into a final deadlock tonight and apparently buried any chance of writing an Austrian peace treaty at the Moscow conference.

On the intiative of U. S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall and British Foreign Secretary Ern est Bevin the ministers scheduled two Sunday sessions in a drive to speed the conference to a con clusion. THE COUNCIL ended its sixth week without a single major agree-- ment on disputed issues in the writing of the Austrian and German peace pacts.

It has been the longest period to date for a session of the council. American informants suggested that the Kremlin may have decided to stall off deliberately any changes now in the Central European situation until the Soviet union's policy makers weigh the effect of the new anti-Communist stand of President Truman as evinced in his proposals to aid Greece and Turkey. when he supported Yugoslavia claims for 150 million dollars in reparations from Austria, as well as the territorial demands. Bevin, in apparent delight, quoted from a hitherto secret portion of the Potsdam conference which snowed mat a similar nussian (claim at Potsdam ended with Prime Minister Stalin agreeing that no reparations should betaken from Austria. AT POTSDAM the Soviet government -handed in a proposal which asked for 250 million dollars to be paid by Austria over six years from 1945, and from current production as reparations for the benefit of Russia, Great Brit ain, the United States and Yugo slavia." Bevin recited.

"That proposal was put in the 24th of July and referred to the economic committee, which reached no agreement. It was later discussed in the council of foreign ministers, who referred I heads of state. it to the "The heads of state agreed that no reparations be taken from Aus- tria. and this meant that the Soviet i paper was withdrawn. This was The Greater Chicago lodge No.

3 of the Loyal Order of Moose to- day offered a reward of $500 for the arrest and conviction of two i gunmen who bound a custodian at Uhe lodge home here Friday and i-escaped with $1,400. Henry F. Wallenwein. executive I secretary, said the bandits used 1 an American flag to bind and gag ithe custodian. Wallenwein said the 1 money, intended for use of de- The body of Mrs.

Phillip Waltz, 29, of Newman lies under a blanket near the tangled Girl, 16, Killed in Death 'Pact' Pasadena. April 19 (AP) Lieut. C. H. 'Burlingame of the police homicide bureau said Gerald Snow Welch, 18.

brought the body of his 16-year-old sweetheart, Delores Fewkes. to the Pasadena police station this morning and said he shot and then beat her to death in a suicide pact which he failed to complete. The officer said Welch declared the couple had discussed mutual suicide for some time and decided Friday night to put their plan into operation. He said Welch related that they drove the youth's car to Angelus Crest highway in the San Gabriel mountains, spent the night there and that shortly after 7:30 this morning he shot the girl in the head with one of two cartridges he had taken for his .22 caliber rifle. When that proved ineffective.

Lieut. Burlingame said Welch stated, he shot her again and then, finding her still alive, beat her to death with the gun. Toronto Wins Stanley Cup Toronto, April 19 (AP) The Toronto Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup, emblematic of the world hockey championship, by nosing out the defending world champion Montreal Canadiens, 2 to 1. before 14,546 partisan fans here tonight. The Leafs, youngest team ever to capture the Stanley Cup, had to come from behind to win cup and title, and along with it the National Hockey league championship.

With the game only 25 seconds old. the veteran Canadiens, trail ing. 3-2 in the best-of-seven series and needing a victory to even the count and stay in the running, skated into the lead. Butch Bouchard passed Buddy O'Connor at his own blue line, and the diminutive Montreal center dashed down-ice, split the defense, drew goalie Turk Broda out of position and fired into an open net. Communists Expected To Gain in Germany Essen, Germany, April 19 (AP) Both British and German politic al dopesters agreed today that the Communists probably would score again in the British zone state elections Sunday but saw little likelihood that the party would finish better than a poor third in the final tally.

'Panther Woman' Sues Los Angeles, April 19 (AP) Lona Andre, known at one time as the screen's "Panther sued Businessman James T. Boiling for divorce today on allegations of mental cruelty. They were married in 1944 and separated last April 7. It was Miss Andre's third marriage. side and the five coaches bumped over the ties and rails but remained upright.

The road bed was torn up for a quarter of a mile. Killed were Charles Redus, 70. of Centralia, the conductor, and C. M. Woods, of Champaign, the baggageman.

Woods was trapped under the overturned baggage car and Redus died enroute to a hospi tal, one of his legs nearly severed. The injured were taken in ambulances to Burnham City, McKin-ley, Mercy and Carle hospitals, where 18 stayed for treatment. Chicago headquarters of the railroad said the train "ran a switch" at the railroad yards as the train was slowing for the station. The railroad said the fireman. Thomas Woodhall of Chicago.

rer ported the switch was open. Wood-hall, who was injured, said: "WHEN WE were about 300 yards from the switch, the light was green, but I noticed the switch was open. I yelled at the engineer and he put the emergency on, but it was too late. We couldn't stop in time." The derailment caused shortlived panic among the passengers, many of whom were thrown from their seats. Witnesses said they were calm when they realized there was no fire and that they were not trapped.

Some climbed through windows to the roadbed. Clyde Andrews, 39, Bryan, Ohio, a passenger in the last coach, an observation car, said there was a "rasping and tearing. sound" and a flash -of sparks. Several passengers were thrown to the floor and injured. AMBULANCES, doctors and rescue workers quickly removed the injured to hospitals.

The engineer, Ralph MacMullen, and firemen, Thomas Woodhall, bath of Chicago, were pulled from the cab by Howard Eaton who witnessed the derailment from his nearby farm. The two were taken to a hospital Railroad officials said the train normally traveled a60 mile an hour spe'ed at the site of the wreck and. several witnesses and passengers gave this speed estimate. The railroad said another train was being made up to take uninjured passengers to their destinations. The City of Miami had 220 passengers on its run, which is scheduled for 30 hours.

The train was wrecked about 9:56 a. less than two hours after it left Chicago. 'You Don't Believe It Crash Survivor Says Champaign. April 19 (AP) "You don't believe it can happen to you." That was the way Clyde Andrews, 39. of Bryan, Ohio, a passenger, described his reaction when the Illinois Central's "City of Miami" streamlined train was wrecked near Champaign today.

"I WAS in the observation car getting ready to put on my coat." he said. "I was going to get off at Champaign and visit my wife's parents. Mr. and Mrs. R.

E. Mil-ligan. However, I wasn't standing up, and that is- probably why I wasn't hurt. "About the time reached Leverett Junction, the car bounced and there was a rasping, tear- Fire in Ship Under Control New York, April 19 (AP) Fire broke out today in the No. 4 hatch of the S.

S. Honduras Vic tory at its Jersey City pier but was brought under control within an hour, the cost guard here reported, i While fireboats from New York City were dispatched to the scene, Jerey City firemen cut through the deck of the cork-loaded ship and poured streams of wrater on the blaze which at one time threatened to spread to the No. 5 hatch. The coast guard said no estimate of damage was available immediately. The ship, a vessel, was listing sharply to port as the fire was brought under control, the coast guard said.

The ship is docked near the busy Exchange Place terminal of the Pennsylvania railroad ferries on the New Jersey side. It arrived at Jersey City April 17 from Lisbon. Midwest Rain Will Continue Chicago, April 19 (AP) Chilly and wet weather which has delayed spring planting will continue in much of -the Midwest over the weekend, the weather bureau reported today. A belt of rain extended today from the Texas Panhandle, northeast through Eastern Kansas, Northern Missouri, Southern Iowa, and much of Illinois and Indiana. Unseasonable cold prevailed over the Upper Mississippi valley and Great Lakes areas.

Temperatures were warm in the Gulf states and moderate over the western half of the country. Rising temperatures and partly cloudy skies were predicted for most of the Midwest Monday. Danes Await Reports On King's Condition Copenhagen, Denmark, April 19 (AP) Copenhagen residents thronged the main squares and congregated at news stands tonight to read bulletins concerning the condition of King Christian dangerously ill at Amalienborg castle. The 76-ycar-old Danish king suffered a heart attack April 6. Today's bulletin said his condition was unchanged and that he had spent a fairly good night.

40 Killed by Explosion In Fiume Freight Yards Trieste. Italy, April 19 (AP) Travelers arriving here today said 40 persons had been killed and 200 injured Friday in an explosion in the railway freight yards at the Istrian port of Fiume. Fiume, formerly an Italian city, has been in Yugoslav hands since the end of the war. It has a population of approximately 54,000. The blast occurred while chem- icals were being loaded on a i freight car, reports said.

Girl, Held Two Years, Back With Family Chicago, April 19 (AP) Five-year-old Mary Ann Kubon, kidnaped two years ago, today renewed her acquaintance with the mother and father she remembers only dimly. Mary Ann arrived from New Orleans accompanied by a policewoman. She was found there April 8 by F. B. I.

agents, living with William G. Fuller, 41, an ex-convict who had been charged with kidnaping June 29. 1945. and sought by the F. B.

I. on charges of unlawful flight. Fuller and his wife are professional' roller skaters and planned to make Mary Ann. part of their act, the F. B.

I. said. Asked her name, the child told newsmen, "Mary Ann Fuller." But when she was led into the office of Chief of Detectives Walter Storms, where her family awaited her, she walked hesitantly over to where her parents sat and kissed them. "I'm your daddy and this is your mother," Kubon told the blond youngster. Mary Ann's n-year-old brother, Walter, backed away and shook his head when asked to kiss his new-found sister.

"She may not remember everything now and he may not remember her," Kunon said, "but I'm sure everything will be all right in a week or Mary Ann was taken to suburban Harvey to meet her grandmother, Mrs. Anna Kubon, and two other brothers, Michael, 3, and Richard, five months. Asked what she was going to do now she was home, she replied loudly and firmly, "stay!" Surplus Tantalum Plant Is Sold to Operator Chicago, April 19 (AP) The government-owned tantalum plant at north Chicago has been sold to the Tantalum Defense the wartime operator. Joseph A. Burke, War Assets administration director of real property in this zone, said in announcing the sale Friday that Robert J.

Aitchison, president of the corporation, had agreed" to main-fain the productive capacities of the plant for national defense pur-DOes for seven vears." Much of the plant's output of tantalum oxide and metal was used in bone surgery during the war. Speech, by Princess To Climax Royal Tour Aboard the Royal Train in South Africa, April 19 (AP) The British royal family's two-months tour of nearly 10,000 miles by rail, automobile and air in the Union of South Africa ends Sunday with the return to Capetown. Four days of farewell ceremon ies, there, highlighted by a speech by Princess Elizabeth on her 21st birthday Monday night, will end the visit. The battleship Vanguard, escortd by South African frigates and aircraft, sails Thursday with King George, Queen Elizabeth and the two princesses aboard. John J.

Bennett. The union said! that for the time being the walkout was cancelled for Monday only. Bennett announced the of a three-man emergency conciliation committee in an effort to avert a strike. The union's more than 1.700 members had threatened to strike against the New York stock and curb exchanges and some five brokerage houses in support of demands for a 20 per cent wage increase at the brokerage house of A M. Kidder Co.

Illinois Bell Rejects 15-Cent Increase Bid Chicago. April 19 AP Leaders of three telephone unions said tonight their 13-day-old strike acainst the Illinois Bell Telephone Co. "could be settled with a payment of a 15-cent-an-hour general wage increase." but that the com pany had "flatly refused" this of- fer. A spokesman for the company said such an offer had been made at a conciliation meeting with ac- counting workers but that our ers and party leaders saying that Mr. Truman's Jefferson day statement that he would support tax reduction "at a proper time" was "baldly political." Reece challenged the President to veto the proposed tax cut if he and the Democrats want to assume "the responsibility for delaying tax relief." The President's statement was the first official estimate of the budget situation since his message to Congress last January estimated a deficit for this fiscal year of two billion, 300 million dollars.

What he called the "sharp improvement" resulted, he said, from holding expenditures below earlier expectations, even to the point of off-setting increases in "refunds, terminal leave payments and international payments' which exceeded earlier estimates. "IT IS NOW estimated that expenditures will amount to about 41 billion, 250 million dollars in the fiscal year, or one billion, 250 million dollars lower than the estimate last January, the President said. The President expressed regret that price increases had contributed to the improved budgetary situation, sending revenues ahead ot earlier estimates by two billion, 300 million dollars. "This has been due." he said, "to the extraordinary high levels of economic activity that have been achieved and also. I regret to say.

to the sharp increase in prices that has taken place since the removal of controls. This has inflated the entire economic structure and currently is resulting in very sharply increased corporate profits." MR. TRUMAN'S 500-word statement said he had carried out hu resolve to balance the budget and provide for the reduction of the public debt. "A good start has been made on this objective by bringing the debt down from its all-time peak of almost 280 billion dollars to the present level of 258 billion dollars." he continued. "The soundness of our policies in managing the debt is evident from the fact that almost all the reduction to date has occurred in the holdings of federal securities by banks.

But the most important thing we can do in debt management today is to continue to reduce the debt as rapidly as possible." Lucas announced he will intro- Please turn to Page 14 "Trumaa" wage surveys in Chicago show that later confirmed in protocol, our accounting-clerical wage rates are in general a little better than M0OSe L0Jge Offers others in the city for similar work. We can agree with their wagejReWOrd for Gunmen demands. We suggest quickly dis- Chicago, April 19 (AP) cussing terms of arbitration to get the strike settled." UHnois Bell earlier had reported a "definite return to work move- and said 1.175 of 16.000 who went on strike April 7 had returned to their jobs. A union statement asserted that union officers "denied that a back to worK movement nao oeen ini tiated" and added that "the com- pany's published statements rela me to ine people on ine joo on long distance operating rooms in eluded 600 supervisory employes." penaeni cnnaren, naa Deen sound held onto seat as tributd by 500 members shortlyi before the robbery. Turn to Page 14 "I.C.

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