Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 189, Decatur, Adams County, 12 August 1946 — Page 2

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Vendiac Machine* In addition to ita 15,000 muilc boxes, Chicago support! 10.000 coinoperated beverage vending machines. 35 000 merchandise mschines. 35.000 peanut machines. 10.000 amusement machines and 25,000 service machines.

AU-PURPOSE Near and black a* newspaper print, Dinah Black is film a coai of armor for wood oe Iron fences, railings, stovopipes. Dries' ovsrtugn* to a sleek, bard surface. Vas*» proof, crackproof, rustproof Kaeletefr mMMOOVWW* Kohne Drug Stare Roy S. Johnson & Son Auctioneers & Keai Estate We ll be fllad to Represent you In the transaction of Real Estate at Public Sale or private sale. 25 years in this business in Decatur. We welcome your investigation of our record of which ws are proud. Phone 101 !■»•/ So. •’’l' DeVohN Bldg., Ground Floor Melvin 4-eichty. Rep.. Berne, ind.. Phone 251. TRUCK l-OAD Mich. Peaches FREESTONE For Canning Tuesday Morning 6:00 a. m. *l-49 UP Bring Containers ARNOLD’S MKTS. Phone 13(H>

PUBLIC SALE oh '" °° SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1946 At 2 o'clock p. nt- (EST) ... Thin pi .>)»• •iy ■ide toilet: wood house l-» school" 2 squares from Located one square from grade and high s<nooi. • church: 4 squares up town and WpU |ot . Blw| Thia property la in need of r'Pair. Ha* h «_ i. th. wlltase of Willshire. Van Wert county. Ohio, Sixty (6'» feet on the MSt aide of lot No 54 in said village and alate. Beginning at the southeast corner of lot No. 54 In said Tillage and state. Thence went alone Green street «<• f Thence north parallel with the east lline of Mid*lot 148’4 feet Thence eaat parallel with Green street 50 feet. Thence aouth I4*' 2 feet to place of beginning. TFIIMS OF SALE—One-half purchase price in cash on day of sale ■nd the balance payable upon delivery of deed. Possession given in 30 days, from day of aale. Mrs. Elisebeth Frye OWNER Floyd L. Purdy. Auctioneer. License No. 6851. Sc Auction The undersigned will sell the following personal property at hla home located on Eaat .Main Street in Monroe. Indiana, on Saturday Aug. 171946 Starting at 1:00 p. m. 2 piece living room aulte: 2 ruga and wool carpet; Glider: 7 RockWood bed; Iron Bed with springs and mattress; Day Bed; » r eaa<*r* 4 stands; Flower atand; Mirror; Chain; 3 tables; Right day clock* Pictures and Frames: 2 ironing hoards: 2 carpet sweepers; Electric iron; Hard coal bane burner: Kitchen range; Oil stove: Oven- Sink cupboard; Fruit Jara and crocks: Cooking utensils; 2 iron pots-' Garden plow; Ladders; Wheelbarrow; Lawn Mower; Tubs, nil boards; Many articles too numerous to mention. OWNER JACOB SCHERER - w * **• *■ Melvin Lleekty Ned C. Johnson—Auctioneer* Glen Stuckey—Clerk , — ...

American Prisoners Held Without Charge Held By U. S. Army In German Prison Frankfur*. Aug. 13 U'l’i Thirteen Americans — Im ludiiix ala civilian* Imprlsoßwd In a I'. S army *to«'kade here for a* Inns a* two month* are being held without charges and without th' 1 privilege of legal counsel, it wa* dl»<ol*ed today. (•apt Karl Carroll, former pro nociitor nt the Lichfield brutality trial*, said the disclosure came after he received a letter from Pfc. Daniel I* Walczak. 22. of Detroit, Mleh Investigation revealed that 63 persons had been detained in the military prison for periods ranging from one week to 53 days all without charges being brought agaln«t them. Walczak wa» suspected of complicity in tile murder of a 19-yvar-old German girl when he wa* jailed on June 11. He wrote the letter which reached Captain Carroll after Walczak tried unsuccesfully to obtain a lawyer. Three of the prisoners — including Walczak said they had b- en slapped and beaten by agents <>t army criminal Investigation division. Two of them said CID men intercepted and read prisoners' letter* from the Cnited State*. Carroll, who resigned from the Lichfield prescution staff after charging there was an effort to "whitewash" certain oficers. said Walczak* case "transcends any question of guilt or Innocence." The fact that Walczak was held in jail for more than 60 days without an opportunity to prepare his defense "forever foreclosed the opportunity to get the full truth,” Carroll said At the request of correspo* dent*. Col. Owen Summers. Portland. Ore. beadquarter* coin mandant, summonded the sis civilian prisoner* before a special board of inquiry. Five said they de-ired defense counsel imined lately Lawrence F Benson. Chicago, former signal corps auditor, said "if somebody will tell ine what I'm charged with and who is pressing tin- charge* then I'll known whether I need a lawyer.” Summers said Benson's case would be "investigated" Summers «aid "step* will be taken" to give the other men counsel, but added that charge* wouldn't be preferred until the criminal investigation division bad completed it* investigation. o — Sort Screws Save one-pound coffee jar* for your handy man's work shop. Nall the cover* of three or four under an ea*y-to-reach shelf. Sort out screws, nails, and what have you; file them, by size and kind in the jars; screw the jars with their contents to the covers.

Attend Rural Youth Leadership Meeting Max Crownovar, Joan Byerly, Bob llugg.iid. Richard Braun and Kenneth Worden left early thia m iming for Purdue university as deb-gates to the annual rural youth leadership training conference. The Adams county rural yoq(k group selected these mem tiers Io their July meeting a* delegates. The theme of the conference is “Looking Ahead.” Mrs. Lydia Lyde of the C. S department of agriculture at Washington, Mrs. Charles Rewell, secretary ot the association of women of the A E B P., and Hassil E Schenck are tv be on the program. Q. — Term Nursing Home 'House Os Horrors’ Nursing Home At Capital Probed Indianapolis, Aug 12 • (i'Pl — Authorities today continued their investigation of a private nursing home, described a* a “house of horrors.” where patient* wenfound shackled to their beds and strapped spread-eagle fashion to a table. .Mrs. Margaret Colvin. 50-year-old practical nurse and operator of the home, was released on bond yesterday to resume care of 20 patients. charged with assault and battery, maintaining a nursing home without a license and malicious mayhem. Iler atoiruey. Rudolph J. Roller, said sin/ had gone back to the home "and taken over where she left off when police A raid led by prosecutor Slierwood Blue Saturday revealed several elderly women manacled to their bed*. Otte woman, police said, was found strapped to a table, her arms stretched aliove her head and her legs several feet apart. Blue described the two-story brick house- on the city's near north side as a "house of horrors. Mrs. Colvin, who refused to talk with reporter*, was quoted by her attorney a* saying that she "felt she wa* in the right.” Roller said several of her patients were mental cases. Dr. C. L. William* of the state mental health council and Otto Walls, director of the state welfare department, said the establishment never had been licensed although application had been made. Walls said granting ot a license had been delayed pending an Investigation of the home. Origin Os Postal Cards Sought Here Asks All Wartime Congressmen Quit The origin and cause tor a number ot postal cards, received here try individuals and organisations, in which the writer advocates the ' resignation” of “all wartime senators, congressmen." and others, is being sought here. The cards, postmarked Chicago, nre typewritten in poorly constructed English, and have what may be Intended as a signature "Representative Republics, Again Boon.” One ot the cards, typical of the lot which have been received here thus far. advocates that "all wartime senators and congressmen whould resign; also the appointed associates, including all

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Nev Dfslers. Democrats. Republicans, ratty Communlats, lam advocator*. Internal ions list unAmerican* and 'rubber atamp" varieties'." The card continues, "they changed the government to be of. by and for themaelves and their boss** Vho are crooked political machines ot cltlet) and stat**: crooked political parties (Incorrectly spelled 'parly*') and propagated by crooked business and lacketeerlng labor unions." etc. The egrd calls (or "awakened, honest Americans" to atop "all such traitorous, sabotaging. unAmerican politico enterprises now." but apparently condemns Imt h Democrats and Republicans; Communist*, referred to a* "ratty," both business and labor Il charges that "they”, appar cntly without referring to any group in particular," passed unconstitutional laws/' and declare* that "white washer* are worthless. The billions was more value than value of all the earth in 1*37; couldn't be used up hont*llf." First report* ot the card* being received here VS* made today when a local veterans' organization received a copy. Then. It was learned other clubs and Indi vlduals had also received them. QGrandmother linked To Second Slaying Presence Os Arsenic Revealed By Autopsy Fairfield. 111.. Aug. 12 (I'Pl — State's attorney Virgil W. Mill* said today that 11 graine of arsenic bad been found In the stomach of Lorena Clark, sister of a 76-year old woman charged with the murder ot her gn-atgrandson. Mills said the analysis also showed .75 grains in the pelvic region of the woman, who died 21 years ago while her sister. Mrs. Lillie Winter, was attending her. A similar test on the body ot Mr*. Winter's husband. Bert Winter. Who died in I*l3, showed no traces of arsenic. Mills said. The state* attorney said he would present the evidence of the Clark autopsy to the grand jury today and would ask that a murder mductinenl l>e returned against Mrs. Winter In the child's death. The child. Donald Eugene Martin, died last June 15 a| Mrs. Winter'* farm five miles southwest of here after eating a sandwich of luncheon meat. An autopsy report disclosed 4.5 grains of arsenic in his stomach. In addition. Mills said Mm. Winter was suspected in the death of her brother, Clinton Clark, whose stomach contents also disclosed traces of arsenic. The bodies of her husband and sister have been exhumed for chemical analysis. Mills said Mr*. Winter was the only witness at ait inqu.et into the death ot her brother, who died in 1941 while living at her home. A coroner's jury returned a verdict of death from a heart attack. Throughout intensive question Ing. Mrs. Winter steadfastly has maintained her innocence in the deaths and told investigators that I she ate part of the sandwich she 1 prepared for her young grandson without suffering any 111 effects. Results of a lie detector test. giv. en last week, were Inconclusive, Mills said. —— —o gmeklsg Sensitivity In en Indlvlduel sensitive to tobecco, smoking set* like poison end cause* heert pain. The tobscco •xcit«s the eeslly Injured nerve* going to the heart end produces the crushing left bresit pein. To overcome this, smoking must be discontinued.

Legion Convention To Open Saturday Indlanepoll*. Aug. 12-Il I' * i State legionnaires will li« ar a h*"' of Uaslogne and a Bikini atomic Ismib !*»• observer at their annual convention here Aug 17-20. la-gion officials said Maj Anthony C McAuliffe would b- tne principal speaker. It was MeAul Iffe who <urlly replied 'nut* " Nazi demand* that h-- eurrendei , his men during th.- battle of bulge. He later wa* at Bikini a» an official observer of the teals. Nation il Commander John Stell, and Pa'tl H. Griffith, Cnlontown., Pa. a candidate for that post m 1*47. will “too address the tlrst postwar Indiana state convention of the Legion. --Q— — — Trade In * Good Town — Decatur — —o — BRITISH SHUT (Continued From Page One) today.) . . Additional British tanks ami Infantry were posted in the port arcs Sunday night. Six warships barricaded the harbor entrance The port was treated as a "pro hibltcd area" and all civilians removed Machine gun nest* and barbed wire barricade* indicated British tear* ot violence. Falta, a city of 125.000. was deeply stirred by the fate of the refugee* and the opening of its largest military trial, in which 24 young Irgun Zval Leumi mem her* face a British court for extremist activites. The defendants included four men arrested while allegedly sabotaging the Haifa railroad shops. The 1,500 refugees aboard ships in the harbor are part of the 3.300 uncertified Immigrants who have entered Halga harbor during the past two week*. About 1.800 were taken ashore to refugee camps already housing 1.000 who arrived in June. 1 o FIELDS relates (Continued from Page 1) that after (hat date nothing will remain but administration of leases and loans and a "minimum" of actual equpiment. Officials pointed out that this goal of a quick wind up of the surplus disposal program is in sharp contrast to past actions of

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the agency, in almost two year* only an estimated - worth of surplus has been sold out of a total of some *30.0W.00<).000. These figure* refer to the cost of the surpluses to the government. Il won t get that much. Littlejohn said that 90 penent of the agency's complaint# are irom veterans and "65 percent of them are justified." The rest, he said, are based on erroneous information which "we Intend to correct." in a move to slash through red tape, target of severe congressional criticism in surplus dlsposCl. he ordered reports cut to ,1 minimum ami demanded that letters from tlie public Im- answered within three dayso ——- BYRNES RULING (i- .ntiiHird Fr»m Pag* '*''*> tTTwtrhTsubmltted a belated re qn.et latter the British withdrew the Austrian proposal. The conference decision ended two days' debate on way* of letting nations outside th- 21 members egpress their view*. It almost cer tainiy open.* th" floodgates to a flo.k of other requests—probably from m<xt countries which declared war again*) the axie.

COUNTY'S TAX (Continu'd From Pace Ona) totalr-rl *I05.0«0 and income was listed at the same amount. The welfare department's budget is given at *169.880. carrying a 1 S cent rate, the same a* In effect this year. The levy will produce approximately *41.656. The budgets will lie screened by (he county council at lite annual meeting of the board on September 2 and 3. TO CALL GRAND (Continued from Page 1) the bodies of Giddings and Frank Liw kman loday. Previously. cor<in-| er Sidney lialgh said he would hold i oft for a while In exhuming the bodies of four persons who died ; in Mrs. IxM kman's care, including j her husband and (lidding*. Mrs. Lockman was arrested on u bench warrant obtained by llalgh yesterday after state toxicologist Dr. It. Harger reported he found "nearly a grain" of mercury in the vital organ.* of Mrs. Minnie McConnell. Prosecuting attorney Dontild Bear planned to request a grand jury to investigate the charges against Mrs. Ixx-kman.

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