Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 179, Decatur, Adams County, 31 July 1945 — Page 2

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Elliott Roosevelt Granted Discharge Returns To Civilian Status On Aug. 15 Washington. July 31 —<• *’• Brig. Gen Elliott Roosevelt, second sou of the late president will doff his uniform Aug. 15 and return to civilian status will) the army's thanks for his "efficient service. The date of his discharge was announced by the war department last night in a statement denying any connection between his release and recent publicity over certain loans which he reportedly negotiated while his father was in the White House. The department said the 34yearold officers application for. discharge, and the decision to ! grant it, were made before the loan controversy began. "No information regarding these matters was in the possession of the war department at the time the request was authorized, I the statement emphasized. Young Roosevelt’s financial as- ! fairs have been under congressional study for several weeks as result of reports that be had negotiated several large loans which were later settled tor fraction of the money involved. There have been published suggestions that top army officials advised him to quit as result of the publicity. According to the war department, however. Roosevelt tiled his

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discharge application on May 11 whereas the first public disclosure of his controversial loan Operations was made in June. It reportedly involved a $200,000 loan which later was settled for $4,000. Before approving his release, the war department ordered young Roosevelt to pass on to instructors at the air force photographic school the experience he had gained as a commander of photo reconnaissance units in the Mediterranean and European theaters. The statement said the discharge application had been studied in the light of Roosevelt's "long and efficient service in tile European I heater." —.. —o Michigan Prison Officials Fired Warden, Six Other Men Are Discharged Lansing, Mich., July 31 —(UP) -The state corrections commission today removed from office | warden Harry 11. Jackson and six i oilier officials of Jackson state | prison. Dismissal of the officials followed by less than a week their suspension after Atty. Gen. John R. Dethmers had reported publicly on rampant vice, graft and gang rule ai tile penitentiary. Action by the commission reversed an earlier announcement that hearings would be given the officials Aug. to ll Dethmers de nounced the hearings and asked tile commission to rescind its decision. Discharged with Jackson were deputy warden George I. Francis; asst, deputy warden D. C. I‘eltit; II Charles Watson, director of classification; Walter L. Wilson, chief guard inspector; Richard Riley, athletic director, and Joseph Poirier, accountant of inmate funds. They have opportunity to appeal the dismissal to the state civil service commission within 10 days. COURTHOUSE MARRIAGE LICENSE Gorman E. McKean. Berne, U. S army, to Ixirraine Lehman of Berne. .

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Cops Headquarters Al Chicago Looted Vital Evidence And $573 In Cash Taken Chicago, July 31 — (VP) — Embarrassed Chicago detectives worked overtime today, trying to Identify the culprits who robbed police headquarters, making off With vital evidence and $573 in cash. John Warren, acting chief of detectives, said that pistols, radio's and jewelry, held as evidence in pending court cases, were included in the loot. In all, he said, the loss amounted to SIO,OOO. Preliminary inestigations, Warren said, indicated that Hie burglary had been skillfully and leisurely executed and might have been an "inside job." Warren said the police custodian's strong room had been entered from the seventh floor landing of a fire escape, clearly visible from an elevated station and nearby whitlows. The detective said he thought tlie burglary was committed Sunday night or early yesterday morning. The thieves, be said, tore open nearly 200 manila envelope.; containing the valuables and were in the vault several hours. Warren said they left 70 cigaret butts on t|ie floor. Until a complete check had been made of the files, police said, tiiey would not know how seriously some future trials might be affected by lack of evidence. Al ready, they said, some officers had been forced to seek court

routinuances of cases. — 0 SENATOR PREDICTS (Continued From Page One) of obtaining enough food. One troop • train of soldiers can pretty well “clean out" a small town djtriug a two-hour stop, lit* explained. Tile subcommittee heard paradoxical evidence that despite an overabundance of meat in some western iocalities, restaurants arc beginning to close because they haven't got enough red ration points. There was a telegram from William V. Bradford, bos Angele*, executive vice-president of the Southern California Restaurant association. He said 90 percent of the. restaurants in that area might i have to shut dowu within the next two weeks—it tiiey don't get red point relief. But at the same time, he said, lamb and beef are a "glut” on the market there. o ICKES WARNS i (Continued From Page Or.e) tinue to ship coal to Europe in any amount.” Ickes said that the projected army plan to transfer 2,600 German miner* from American prison camps back to German mines would not provide anywhere near an adequate answer to Europe's coal problem. “Ultimately Europe's coal problem must be solved on the contin-1 ent of Europe," he.,said, "but this cannot be done overnight, and until it can be done, our allies need our help." — 0 _ LEWIS HOLLE DIES (Continued From Page One) both of Fort Wayne, and six grandchildren. One brother is deceased. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the home, five and one-half miles north of Decatur, and at 2:30 o’clock at St. Peter's ‘Lutheran church, witli the Rev. Karl Hofmann officiating. Burial will be in the church eepietery. The body will be removed

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from the Zwick funeral home to the residence this Evening and friends may cull alter 7:30 p.ui. SPANISHGOV’T. (Continued From Page One) gar at the airfield after their plane developed mechanical trouble ;us it was aßout to take off yesterday. He complained against leaving Spain "so precipitately' and sent a note to Spanish uuthorltle- pointing out that both he and his wife suffered from heart trouble. .Laval was under indictment in France on a charge of high treason and also waa wanted ‘as a witness in the trial of former Vichy chief of state Marshal Henri Philippe Petain. — ... ■ ■ , --(> ■ ■ ■ Illness Causes Two Traffic Accidents Indiana polks. July 31 — (IP) - Hines., was the cause of two automobile accidents here yesterday. The automobile driven by Jacob ( J. Steuerwald, 3d, of Indianapolis, swerved into a stone wall when Steuerwald suffered a fatal heart attack. Mrs. Steuerwald and another woman, who were riding with him escaped injury. Roy O. Stephens, 50, suffered only minor bruises when his car hurtled through a cable guard rail on a bridge over White river and plunged st» feet down the river bank. Stephens said he had become ill while driving and lost control of his automobile.

Kill —w IHI A STREAM OF FLAME SEEKS THE JAP IN HIS LAIR : > MIM if *■* - ■-;■ --'A ■ ■' • r ** & >• y A HUMAN PYRE, THE ENEMY DASHES FROM HIS COVER FLAMES WIN OUT, THE ENEMY FALLS TO THE GROUND THESE DRAMATIC PICTURES taken from a newsreel show a flame-thrower in action with the veteran 7th Australian Division during its advance on Jap-held Borneo. The enemy hiding in a native hut refuses to surrender. A flame-throwing infantryman lashes out with his deadly fire and the Jap emerges a mass of flames. The fire proves too much (bottom) i and the enemy falls to the ground at last. Official U. S. Army Signal . Corps photos from News of the Day Newsreel. (International)

Hoosier Beer Battle Is Apparently Ended Suits Dismissed By Democratic Dealers Indianapolis, July 31 til) The Hoosier beer battle apparently was ended today. Federal court suits by 20 Democratic beer wholesalers challenging the constitutionality of the 1945 Indiana liquor code were dismissed yesterday. Earl R. Cox, attorney for the Democratic distributors, said he had been directed by the wholesalers to move dismissal of the cases without prejudice. The wholesalers had charged they were deprived of property wi'hout due process of law when the Republican administration revoked their licenses May 1 under the new liquor law. In Northern Indiana the Federal court held pat there is no property right in liquor licensee ami sustained a dismissal motion when a series Os similar casee were pre- ■ ented. State court actions by individual wholesalers were ended when the Indiana Supreme Court held the lower courts were without jurfedictipn to hear the cases. a dive is under way to prevent tile loss of war products and other shipments due to faulty packing.

SENATOR BUSHFIELD • (Continued Frm« I>age (>lle) — The Senator was taken to a local hospital where a preliminary examination revealed the hemorrhage. Bushfield, a native of Atlantic, la was governor of South Dakota’from 1938 to IM2. He was elected Senator iu 1943. Trade iu a Good Town — Decatur o— Zoo Attendant is Severely Manqled By Enraged Bear Chicago. July 31— (UP)— Anton Rauch, 59, who always maintained that bears were his friends, was in serious condition at the Pass-

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vant hospital today after he was I severely mangled by a 800-Oound Himalayan hear at Lincoln Park ZOO. Hospital attendants said Rauch's right arm had been amputated above the elbow and that the left one was badly torn. In addition, he had suffered severe lacerations of the head, legs and body during a 20-minute battle with the enraged beast. Rauch, for 19 years in charge of the bears at the zoo, was carried from the bear’s cage yesterday after park policemen shot and killed the animal. Zoo director Martin Perkins said Rauch had entered the cage to clean it without the precaution of first locking the bear in its den. Rauch, he said, had been warned against the ferocious bears but always had answered that the

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