Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 204, Decatur, Adams County, 29 August 1946 — Page 6

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Nation Traffic 101 l Showing Decrease Toll Substantially Under Pre-War Level Chicago, Aug. 2!» il'l’i The national »afeiy ((luncil died July traffic total* today to show that the nation apfi.ireiily had snapped out of It* postwar "highway hysteria." The July figure of 2.530 .death* wa* 13 pen-ent below the lu*t peacetime July in l«4l. th* count'll .aid. and »a< the third month in a row In which the traffic toll wit* kii b* tan!la Ily under the prewar level. An Intensified safety program In-gun li*»t May by President Tru man's highway *afety conference and hueaeu oy lewKpapttrs. magazine* and radii was credited for the decrease. * "The break apparently ha*

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come," said council president Ned Uearltortb Although the death total was higher than la*t year, when rmoline rationing and wartime restriction* were *tlll in effect, the coun(II *ald the July Im reuse of 21 ffvrcent irtet IMA was the smallest of the year. For th*, first four month*, the Increase averaged <5 percent. The July traffic death figuret were bared on reports from 37 state*. 14 of which had decreases, two no change and 21 Im reuses us compared with last July. Only Con m-cflcut showed a decrease two percent front the IMA figure. Hural area* contributed most to the death figure*. A total of 10.210 persons was killed on rural highway* In the first half of 1946. a* compared with 9,230 In the same period of 1945, an Im n-ase of t»4 fiercent. I’rban death* increased 12 (ter cent. o Testing Egg A itrlctly freih egg will lie on its side on the bottom of a pan of water. If stale it will stand on end and it very old it will rise to the surface.

ten ; 1 3k ■t 5 fA /-> A ?J| LSI .yWp- » 1 » Ik yj % Iilb • • • a • BECAUSE she "wanted to pct rich fast." Shirley Jane Panoskl, ID-year-old Chicago cashier, embezzled $12,000 from her employer and gave SlO.ooo to her hoy friend, Ed Jennings. 17. who lost |6.000 shooting dice nn street corners, according to Chicago police. The "otinle is nicturrd shove 11 nf»rmhnn»l Snundohotn'.

Lichfield Camp Head Guilty Os Cruelty •—W . J Col. James Kilian Convicted By Court Bad Nauheim. Aug. 29 tl'Pl Col James A Kilian. Chicago, was found guilty today of permitting, "harsh, cruel and unusual punishment" to be inflicted on soldier prlsoifenA at the Lichfield detention camp. Kilian was found utility by a seven-man military court that fined him EWO and ordered him to be repel tnalided He 'was the la*t of Id officers and enlisted men to lie tried for uiieruting a "rough, tough” camp at Lichfield. Kilian was eommaiid'ng officer at the <-as>p. , Soldier prisoners who were held at the detention camp in Ettgiaud testified they had been beaten, given castor oil dcee*. forced to stand with kees and n<xe touching a wall for hour*,' and forced to doubletime for lang periods. Sgt. Judson IL Smith, first of the enlisted men to b« tried for inflirtius <rm l und unusuul punIshment ori the prisoners, wax sen fenced to. nerve a tlifee.ye.ir prison Term’ but 1 ihL W;.« -fitter re-dm-A<r ' z Sth-ifliffff'f lro|l?Hl Kilian.'* linlilv' into/tt/ F„cl. s-iiKp’!:<■* q >! .ha had*, (HtTI/ jKiJn* i >, ipefjtX *tlf«- f . r' i/|i ' a lAtih'" ,tqsls.. Ofjirr, Jlefeipianta *aid Had onlAjx ItabuJulian-t o/rungh df>" by) t •'J« *t don't, break too mJtny /K»tifs ,! * Enlisted meg and four orh<-r officers, who preceded Kkilan Imfore the court moHial received light Jail sentences and fine* ranging up to |3OO The cpqrt deliberated two hour* iiefore reaching its guilty verdict. Kilian wa> acquitted on one count of "authorizing, aiding and abetting" guardhouse brutalities.

Rft Oh* "nUI "K'¥■ Be B- - ■ -*** PKtUtIS wers mads at the Caraloe detention camp for Jew leh refugees on Cyprus a few days after first contingent wga brough from Hates. Palestine. Top, internees crowd wire that encloses cami to protest British decision against their talking to visiting journal IMS. Bdttam. demonstrators crouch lou and run for cover as guardi oben hrs over their heads. Refugees eventuslly were allowed ts mnyfege wtth newMusa. >

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Tin- word "knowingly" wa* struck from tin- phrase “knowingly perI mitted" in the second count on «‘.licit he wim found guilty, t „ . Construction Men To Leave Next Week Six men whtpe headgear—ehiny. while helmets like those worn In the- nation's shipyard*-- has at-' Haded tin- attention of downtown I lh-caturite* for the past several j weeks, will leave the city next week The men form one of about' l!5 such (hews "on the road" far a I l iiieag > firm doing steel conutniclion woik and have been building a metal Htprage plant at the Me-1 Millen industty site here From liecatur they plan to go to Wisconsin on a similar Job. Be-' fore coming to Decatur the mem-1 bers of the crew traveled through-< out the w.irld. One of the men spent nearly three yaara In the Middle Ea*t worklug on elevated water towers, dur’ng the war. The white, metal helmet peculiar to their trade la a safety feature. ■—a g Free Chest Picture During State Fair Indianapolis. Aug. 29. -(TPi— St ato heulih officials said toduy that free X-ray chest pictures will he provided during the slate fair jo iwrmm-r.ir* ytmw'of age or older. Tnbercdhnria-expert* will study ailch vjute "and -|>er*<Hts will lie noHlie'd ls 'pp fqljerculoa's donjlifhm ; ( sluts. Signs of the dsem»t' B .will h<* rep<|ittp| m the pi»ysiN.in named ty I In- |>(*riipii examined. ' f •. [ 1 - ' ’■—-U c — . . Bryant Man Suffers Injury In Accident i , Chester llrew*ter of Bryant is confined in the Adam* county menioriaf hospital, suffering from a head Injury sustained tfhen he was , accidentally struck hy a plank. ) Chemical Weed Killing Experiments on the use of chemical weed kilter* began about INS.

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