Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 108, Decatur, Adams County, 7 May 1946 — Page 1

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Election Interest Is Low In Indiana Only 30 Percent Os Vote Is Predicted Observe Poppy Day Saturday, May 25 Legion Auxiliary To Sell Poppies Poppy Day *sW ,M ' observed n It. cant- and th. uushout 'he nation on Saturday, May -5, '* *’ ;ii 'flounced today by Mr* Vthm Uy ets. president of the .*nx li r> I American Legion Post l ! Memorial poppb" to be * un m honor of th-- dead of ludii VVmld Wai ■ in I - ■ ■ ■■'• street throughout the day by vo lunteei.i from the .iiixiliiry Com i hilt ions evolved 111 exchange In the flOWe Alli be U"d ill I’t-li d and rehab; itatio'i work for die aided veterans their families and famlli- of th. d -.d Expensive pin- for I’uidd Do are now underway by h» um under tilt di ecti mos Mi- I Smith, the Poppy Day chairman ot the organization The popple* have lit»en order.-d from Marlon, where they are InIng made by disabled veterans o' both war* in the h«*|dtal there. They are crepe paper replica* of tha Eur pean wild poppy, which bloomed on the battlefield* ot France and Belgium during both wais and which have become a world Wide symbol of mmombrane'of America's battle dead.

U. S. Steel Is Threatened By Early Shutdown Possibility Seen Os Coal Rationing For Next Winter By United Pr“S» '., . t ‘ ■ r j ‘ •if i‘A j; i 1 ' i. David Heller Named VEW Service Officer I Appointment Made Bv Post Commander Martz of flu- Imai |»<- t during lire reguiat nif-ftic.' held I .' it; -i- in , the post home. Mr Heller its a veteran of the I S. army air forte*. with whom he ved in the Pacific vliM.it r during World Wai 11. Hi* offo.es .ire located in the IL Iler It'd-: , oilier First and .Monroe Mreec. ( a:! (lattKchall. p *t adjutau*. reported last night that flit- memhei -tiip of the newly organized post him gone ovei the 2ltb mark, ai h jot; Adam* county men who served outside continental I’. S. in three war- now enrolled Ff.-d line, district command-r of i o VFW, and t'larcme Mesirur, di. i l inspector, both of Fort Wayne, attended last night'* meetins and outlined plan* t -i the up proaching year. — o Lions Club To Meet With Rotary Thursday The regular meeting of the Decatur Lion* club, scheduled lor tonight, has been cancelled hi favor of the joint Rotary Limn ni'tdinn on Thuted.ty night

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Huge Slash Made In Interior Dept Fund Committee Lashes At Ickes' Regime Legal Debate Is Negro's Second New York, May 7 h gal debate raged from coa 1 o coast to lay over whether Willie Francis, 17 year dd la>ui<iana negro, should b< ed in the electric vhait .< -econd time to carry out a death sentence for murder. Francis was removed front Louisiana's portable electric chair In the St Martinville pariah jail last Friday, frightened but unhurt. after the full force of the lethal current failed to reach the electrodes. The Ilf l!> v Msgr. Edward J Flanagan. the famous Father Flanagan of Boys Town, telegraphed Gov. Janies II IJavis pf Louisiana: "Deeply interested In saving life of Willie Francis now In .death cell at New Iberia. La Would you, dear governor, use your power of equality to commute sentence? May God direct you to do His holy will " Jerry Geisler, famous Igjs Angeles attorney, said, "the youth really died mentally, ami In the

Wall Street Reports Strike End Is Near Soviet Interference Charge Is Renewed Evidence Indicate* Raging Over "Execution ’ s.ihii- of ic'i’i. < ■ .* ■- life ;mptisonnieiit Tie u.-- • >: death and physi. al < 'iflm-im-nt eould he sufficient ptltiishtlietlt. llt would be quite the fail and sporting thing to do to commute the sentence " Jerome Michael, professor of lew at Columbia I'nlveisity. New York, explained the case from a h gui standpoint. He pointe I out that a, perosn is sentenced to death to prevent, through fear of tl.e saint* conhequenceji. other persons from similar crimes, and because the condemned person is a menace to society. "From those points of view.” Michael said, "it is utterly irt< levant that the attempt to cxi cute his sentence proved abortive” Many attorneys said the matter of placing Francis in the chair a second time would depend on the wording of the original sentence The sentence by Judge James —II ■ , SSUWS ■ ss- ins-<».- si.wisir IS ll———e-»-...... I Ifutn To Pigs !, Column 1)

fniintv P|rfirinafA< in SaMv p ro:K<im Special Programs Planned Thursday While th> prog? .<m U *e- n , j . liotiully front May 15 until Jul L i the local committee will "jump j the gun with i -• of safetytalks on Thurxday < First of these a<ldr»**ee* will •• i given by Meiril! X Wann, of th- i hid ana -'.Ho p li< < force at Win- 1 Chester, to the student I of the In- ' i.itur junloreenior hlg;i school and I flu- Decatur Catholic nigh -< ho.d at the former'# gymnasium audi 1 torium at s 15 a.in in a gpvt ta! I < hapel program. • tifflie; Wann will go to Heme * in the afternoon and will uddres# t the high e' h<M»l -tmleuts there at 1 p.m. I Rotary Lion* Meet The third aafi-ty program of th- - will be staged a' H !<» put. 1 T ur day at the Knights of )-y. I thia home in a joint meeting of 1 the Decalin Rotary ami Lion. <1 ill T" f'ag <’ du on !!)

Return Transylvania To Romania Control Big Four Leaders Deadlock On Daiuib. . . Hui a ... . a w i d it h< ■ How. 1,-l 1,,- nllll el cd d. idl'.i ked on flu- une-imn ~f Ila viglit ton of the Danube river on which the t idied States and Rrituin favor inlernatimializa'lon ' whib* Itu.s -ia propo . . on! iid by the Danube powers rransylvaniu has been In dis pule between Romania and Hun gary for yea hi |<mi the x., z j M at a confercm <• at Vienna <l.-< id. <1 to take it aw iy fram Romania ami award it to Hungary be< ■llllse of I Hungary - more onthu-la die collaboration with the Rome lt.-rlin axb. When the Red army swept over Romania and Hungary one of the . flisf acts of the Riis lans wsi to restore Transylvania to Romania I The foreign ministers with little I Until To Page Column (I)

■num thom their 'dun Secretary Li bo, 1.,., u St h Welle!) bath di-'U with Ur-key. , duyw.ih I' *id<-ut Tinman, -mv,i,a|„ n 1 <"• « Snyder ami pre. hb-nti,, a sistap. j„| U | st-eL Atkinson Funeral Wednesday Afternoon Funeral servh-es f nr M « F min;l I’kfnson, Geneva w, t! , ,« an auto ,o ■ id. nt n, ~ 4 j , * .Sunday, w ill be held .<• _' .Ju p it! Wednesday at th,. w . II a Ha/y funeral home at Geneva, with the Lei Lm 1. Miller officiatin’, j; u . rial will be at Geneva.