Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 231, Decatur, Adams County, 1 October 1946 — Page 1

XLIV. No 231

E NAZI LEADERS SENTENCED TO DEATH, IEVEN TO PRISON, THREE ARE ACQUITTED

National Loop Playoff Opens

Ids, Dodgers |en Series To ■tide Pennant ■let For Cords, | o Os Dodgers Krtmg Pitchers ■ BULLETIN P.v< St. Lou,*. The St Lows Cardm ■ heid a 1 to 1 lead over ■ Brooklyn Dodger* after ■e nnihj* o* play in the Kir of the - three game K:** ie' ’O' the Nation ■League pernant this a'ter I • Park, St Louis, Oct ■p. The .* I.” i. Cardinals ■>,.. Hr<hk!)" I' * ■’• •'* lin. ’f ■ter 11*-!' ,-»:•* toi.iy for the K t !».! •* g ime K r i>" f Nation ■r.- pennant ■ tem:'-r * i■■ n the big-’ ■ti i •' VuliZ .-nit o’ j sellout ■ •'■’S" •rill' i '*r..'igh the ■ ■ !>.' !i.-: he Dodger’e iippy K[-- picked ll.dp i Bldll i. a K .’»■ » . parlay,- I , sizzling ■all aty a sk.mpy 3-n record. h ■ar d»' iiM ;p,,t. How - i’.dlet, ■Kitnpax ur.d th,' only B" in the club to win 2b vi ■ sea-on B»> suffer—l a pi.b 'l muscle B< shoulder M-ver:.' day* ago Be Cardinals w.-r* ruled in ■( udda anti., in ..1 by Jimmy Bill St Loals Mt.tig < unin!*' Br. as 13-to-2" favot'les to win ■tsn*s N.-w Y.,ik l„, kmakeie B*d St Louis in today'* game Bkl, us * to 5 B* apparently mad, |,is p r ,.- ■Bo! a three-gam,- -flies on ■»tre.'ii;t!i of |..s innfid'dice in ■yltie heen. tae seasoned lefty ■ »on the only game the Card,' ■ from the Cubs in th** scaeon■I three-game s"Hes lire, ■aproliab.y w 11 fart the second ■hff gam,' i 1 , |, ), loti Thursday f notwithstanding, the ■’-jiun sp«, t a , [ e () , ( > l( . c nr d|. l«d the Dodge:» trying on the f**- 'town for sign drew tne |f"*'i of ,he t, Sporta* I ■ i' .■ t <■.: imn t> | o - Katur C. 01C. tefing October 7 •*ty Planning' Is °P IC Os Add res:k , "— “"‘for the quarterly meeting ■' l’"<atur chamber of Com- . , k '' ** held Monday evenS' 7 “ ’3O o'clock In • eit ~ ry y ai " ll,< ’ rl,ln '' W,, TO . • ■ •*! today ■' 1 11 Morgan. IndianaU ‘ ” ate director of the Ind “““CH- will he "City “7 M lh * lne *Ung. aihon ' be delivered in **»iat th n ° Pe " dtae «“to» t»l chamber'’ Pr °' reM ° f the i) r»ed !! t ,> r " ° f tbe ( totHt ,/' *| tt * nd A " "biihuaily w,uc «'o»«> meet»*s: Wt i,'a'"* 4 ' ,y offi<er< “f the * r ,: 00» m URE READINGS - 40 **•*■.;■ r «ir.nd We * THIR ,r <*t •!"** eMI wlth **"NrM u 2 . freezing **• ,| h ?nJ* n #ht W * d "e*- *"< warmar.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Capital Butchers Face OPA Charges Indi inapol.*, <». • I <1 Pi Th.numb,', of Indianapol. h it, io .- | facing federal i iarg. of well.nr tn, .it a!, ol' \ ‘ ; 1,,, waimr<a*,d to 2‘J today Indiana Ol’A d:*ti ■ • riveefUa tor* eaid they loin ! >iolati<iti* in II mine t-boph yewtoiday Uiwt F'riday. overc.hatg, uplifted in 1* city etoreCordell Hull Is Serious After Slight Stroke Former Secretary Os State Suffers Stroke Last Night Washington <> t I iCl'i Cordell Hull. f i:n"i retury of ataf, and father of the Cnited Na lion-, .offend 'light itroke la*t I l.iglit and i* ’I heiiou* condition j mi tlie eve of hi;< Tsth birthday The eld'-l state :nan from Ten Io•*«• e. who helped |'r, xid'-nt i Loose!'lt g lide I S foreign p'd 1 icy for nearly 12 era lai y, a •>■• tore and daring World War II na J been in li th, I , naval ho-pital , j since Sept 12 f< ’ re.-t and a k , ■ Up Ho-p tal offi< ~!« said they di- ■ covered thin morning that If ill had suffered a wtroko during the night They said hi- pr nt , o!i dition i "s.itid, toiy" following the stroke but m general mu t regarded , ' enoiis > Hull ha bee; in poor h, a'.th . win e before )>•■ resigned it- re tury of slate Nov 27. I'll He ■.. as not able to -fay n off! for the San f'r.m, i*’ o < onferdi, ,' in UMS when adopt'd the Cnited Na tlons ihurter tlntt was com iv>d and draft,-,! under his direction Hull's friend • ere frankly wor rled about his condition, although i Hull talked w th bis w o at the ■ I ho.pltal th!* morning After his resignation in lb 11 Hull immediately entered the naval hospital in a stat-, of comi | lete collaps, i On last Jan Ihe begat, working >n his memoirs, a < ompl< te record of his own life and American for eign relations as he saw them during the troubled years leading up to and into World War II Vp until last night, the aged elder statesman has mail.tallied j an active Interest in world affairs, reading four to live paper* every iT.irn To I’.ig” fi. Column C, --- — 0Fire Prevention Week Is Planned “— Week's Observance Planned In Decatur ' t - Plans for the ohweriance of fire ' prevention week in Decatur beglm < ning October fi have been launch- ; ed here, it was announced today The observan. •• b spoils red locally by the Adams county insurance asauciat.on numbers Kenneth Runyon, local agent, has been named by the ae«cciafion a» general chairman and is arranging the program. A Joint meeting of th" Lion* and R tary clula is * heduled for Tues, day night as part of th.' commemoration, It was announced, and the program is to be extended into the city achoola. A prominent -peaker I; to be secured for the observance. Fire prevention week has been proclaimed by the president of the L’nltM Rtatea to be get aside from October fi to 12 Complete plans for the local obaarvance are eipected to be announced hter this week

Top Nazis Sentenced To Death - v f b*- *b jy i. ’k KU Joachim von Ribbehtrop Hermann Goorina Wilhelm Keitel

Hann Files Mandale For Salary Increase Files For Mandate On County Council P llunlett,' ('lister, is attorney for o :iity s< hoot ■ iiperintt-mlvut Lyman I, llalili flb-d a Milt before Ju,!. .1 I’n <1 I'ru. lite in ,ir , .it ."in: t.ei. t.,.lay to mati'l.ite tbe . - . .'in. .1 to i 'h'lrize a ft '! i" in. r.-.iM- in the s. "mol head- salary Mi ILimi' ult. entitl'd ?"ti tion an.l eoinj.laiiit for mamiatt- " i bar. . - Hat th-- county ' oiim ll 'as "wrongfully ami unlawfully fatl.'ll Old ref.l,l',l to llllk" '.lid approptiat.on of aid sum <d it for the salary of this relator, a.. voted -id Im r- i-'-d !•> the iiu.itiiuioii voi, < and < oii- "’it of • i h and -angular t -wnslup tr iU . of Ada 1 S < Ointy. laduitia. and i., i con»''l'lem e thereof, not only a, the law of the -tat,- of lad 1.11111 b ■II VI ,lilted blit a grave In .'i-1 a e ha - be- i done to the relator herein." I.- .:a! plaintiff in the action is the itate of Indiana, on relation of the <o ::ity . bool .up.-!int,-:d ent Named aa d fetidan! - ,i'<- Henry liehnet William Kruetzmann Julius Si hultz l>'-a:i Byerly. Leoti Neitein,, bw .md' i A • Munro and c J lorn- members of the county count il Co def'-nd.nits in the a, tion albo an Dale I' Mose-. John Chris tener and El. D iba. h, a members of th- Adams county board of intnmis oner* and Thurman I Drew as auditor of Adam., county The complaint is -a t out in 1! rhetorical para iruphs Par iaraph one avers that the relator has -erv.-d as duly elect,-I county school superintendent im <■ August In. 1!<I1. and that barring acts of providence he expects to s.-rve until August la. I'.'lh other ,-arly paragraphs in the (omplaint set out the facts that the defendants are serving as respective officials, that the salary of 1.'J.000 for the -.cliool head was set in August. l''ll. that there is now an Indiana state law which provides that ti'o township trus tees may increase the school head's salary and that in August, I'iltl. the trustees did increase his salary from I't.ooo to il.'loo annually Paragraph nine declares "notwithstanding said action of said township trustees." that the county council has refused and failed to make or enter any appropriation for the increased salary and that because of this failure the commissioners will be unable to allow it. Th- complaint asks that the council be mandated to at once ap propriate it that upon making of said appropriation the defendant, the county auditor, be mandated to certify it to the commiaalonera and thut the commissioner* lie mandated to allow the necessary funds to pay the increase ae eame ‘womee due and payable

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, October 1, 1946

Labor Disputes Extending From Coast To Coast Most Serious Wave Os Labor Disputes In Several Months By I'nited I’r.-ss Th- nation's most serious wave of labor disputes in months extended from coast to coast today with a new shipping tieup and violence in the Hollywood 111.i11,' strike Deputy sheriff.* fought with sevetal hundred *trik>r- who were picketing the .Metro Gold wyn Mayer studio at Hollywood In defiance of police order* The stnkii's were member-, of the AEL conference of studio unions which i.< involved in a jurisdictional dispute with another American federation of labor union. The wage dispute which halted American shipping was the second in two week* Three maritime unions, one Al'L .iml th,- oth< rs f-Ht wen' mr stiike at midnight after failing to reach contract agreements witli employer* Negotiations were going ahead in al! three disputes Tho*.' idle Were th,' CIO m.i I line engineers, CIO longshore men, and AEL masters, mate* :nd pilots Picket lines appear <d at New York and Philadelphia, and AEL longshoremen in New York refused to cross them Pittsburgh already wrackel by : power strike, was inconveni- ( , on T„ Pag' 2. Column 1 1 V - Boost Prices For Oleo, Shortening OPA Plans Higher Prices For Cases Washington. Oct 1 il'Pi Retail prices of oleomargarine shortening and salad oils were boosted 2’-j cents a pound today as OPA prepared to announce higher prices for meat courses served by restaurants Representatives of the restaurant industry met with OPA officials today to put final touches on the new pricing formula OPA agreed to the boosts after the Industry rebelled at its recent ord er roiling back prices by 10 per cent to June 30 levels Not satisfied with pri< e boosts alone Hie Washington restaurant association voted unanimously last night for lifting controls imtm-d lately on all restaurant food The restaurant industry is expected to petition OPA decontrol shortly Meanwhile, aecretary of airlYluia To Fags Z, Column O

Mayor In Warning Against Vandalism Lives Endangered By Halloween Pranksters Mayor John I! Stull • ity p li' •• offici;,!* and . li-'ol 1 de: today warn,,! a '.iln i loiitimnn e of an i llpl .-d .ted .1 r. . ' pi e I Lil low, .n vandalism M iyo Siiilt* s.i.'l that 'lie prank of t Io- . . 1,-!,’ ,in» - 'i iv>- Tow ,i un |t.l th y have eiidang,- • I liv,-* of I cal < i' z-n - ..ti I mot,i i t* At fir-t we ohunii'-d p i 1.1,, i'y ! th nking that * i< li w ,'ild only at It a t af'-n’i. 110 ' pl.iliks and I perhap* give sour- on,- else id,-.,-bul aft,-! c.mia, ng • '.rioit* city ' officials. I hav- leani' -i that th" ■prank.- have grown to sm II p: - portion* thiif co y m i-' b, st pp< I before in ' lie * .r ' ii'Uii-’-red In- said. •When p<>!|.> clef J'd Miller jw ,1 ~-d 111,- otli, I day the vi'.l I'or - ’ v lio i. - appr,- eii'ie.l vil! - ! secuied. it w i*n i jus’ > rolltine wirnitg w.- i.e.ni 'he nay lissert,*! Mi*t ••• ion ■ ff,:i, of the prankster* to d.it" 'lie mayor st.it id. ha* li, ell th" I" iiov.il of a Im g" num :„-i ..ft, th-■ and _l i n tern* on *■ '"i ditch'- and r I ex a', anon- Hie may, i *od In on,- ill„t.in< • . east Ot ll' < .it II! a lierc ll i •w • . .>■ is b" ..' colistin, t, .1 • > lio- new !io i inc addition. ab'Ui i dozen of tietn -th* an.l lantern . w ■ ••in.,. I i r irn ICa ■•.. Il'nn ;> October 7 Deadline To Register Voters Party Workers Busy Checking Records I i With O'to!>ei 7 the deadLii" for registration <>f vote:* for the November .1 ,'ie. t 11, D'-'l. 'CI .lt a'ld Republican pre, n, t work.-rs are busy checking registration records il an effort to legist, r all non registered voter, before the book* .*re closed Voter* who d- sire to bee me ' eligible to vol,- .ire asked to regis-1 • ter at the office of the i .itiniy el. ki or arrangement# will n" made a' either Democrat or Itepubliran headquarters All persons over 21 y.-ars >f age who have resided in the state eix months, the township day* and the pre. iiict 3o days. o. who will have met th-se qualifi itlons by November .1 can become qualified voters by registering prior to mid night, (tctobei 7 Any registered v- t,- who ha* changed precinct* shoe the primary election, also iniazt transfer his registration before the October 7 deadline Persons who move from their precinct after October 7 will not be eligible to vo'e tn the general elec tion. according to the Indiana elec j tlon laws

Goering, 11 Other Top Nazis Sentenced To Die By Hanging In 15 Days Seven Leaders Os Third Reich Sentenced To Prison Terms Ranging I pTo Life; Three Leaders kcquilted; One Os Condemned Men Thought Dead IHLLLTIN Berlin, Od. I (I I’l—l he i oittlemneil Xa/i leaders will he executed in the Xiiern hern prison, a spokesman lor the Wied eon Ind council announced late lihl.i.v. Ilitfhh reliablv sources reported that the Xa/i- would he handed <»i t. Hi—the last day o| the 15-day period in which the execution wa- order‘d—unle— the control council ordered ol herwi-e. .X’uernberg. Oct. 1 (I'l’i The internal ional n.ilitar 'ribtin.il. i, m*-., H"<l indicia' tone* today wrote an end to Adolf Hitler's > henie !■> ,'oinina’e th- world l> ' ti’encinp Hermann Goering ami II other Nazi leader to !„• hang'd a.’:! dead within 1 > day amt committing to prison for terms ranging up to lif<- even , ’ u-r leader 'he thud rep h Three Nazis, the wily financier. Ilialmar S, ha lit. 'I ■ minor propagandi t Han--I’ritzsche. and the scheming diplomat, Franz tun l‘a|>, is w<r< ;H'q.,;'',d < • <■ those condemned to death. Martin Bormann, ha- n"t been u nc the In .. • at'" md the reiihschancellory in Berlin. May. 1!U">. and ; r-.bal’l.. w.- air, .id. d- .id The sentences imposed today will be appealed to th' le d n ili’;.' Berlin within four days but n<> change in the court's verdic i antii ipnted.

Long Distance Flight Record Set Bv Bomber A 'Truculent Turtle' Lands At Columbus After Epic Flight iP.cture on page •>> (••> umliu- <> (». ' 1 *ll'' Tli" 1 i '•« ill' ll' Tin He 11'22 m . . ui .1 more than • • ' •""’ f.yiiic time from I'eitli. Yu-trali., land. I io I -it 1-’ 27 p m . ES I' , to . laid. 11 .1 ll'-" world - I". ■ "I for long distance flight The four 'i.ivy pilot* who liar .• I th.- flyi:*: •lull- • oi: 'll. flight .m . t.'.i tw i day* In eakin.' t h<- army •■■ t B "• ifi ord of m u • than 7 •"'•' mil" »' ie w.-l, otn, d Tv a . li.-"I inc crowd a- Tiie ic Mile slili'u i d pa ' ’! ii.im'.'-r roiled to a Mop Ife.n' Adm E W Ewen. ~,m mandiiU’ ollicer ot Hi,- naval air i. ..-i v. 11ainini: program, Glen v;. v. 11l . win, fl, w • ri". t th,* I’;,' ific h"pp' i aid he flight was forth,- purpo- "f . faldishing Hie rang.- of the plane nothing else Ewen I haul’ with lh. grinning pilo’s as they dropped through the )..w.-r lint, h of Hie 'hip Til, m,n ('nidi ThomaC Davies, ('l.-velatid '» f'mdr W S Reid. Washington L' Imd If II Tab,' inc .ho gs.'iivili. I".i an I f'mdr E I' Rankin Sajmlpa. <tklo appeared to "• n .•■ "I shape They weie taken immediately to a nearby office for a ..infer ern e with navy offi. ial* and m w men Davies said lie wa very 1 ippy and especially Hint lie land'd n Ills own state He said they were on instrument.-, about 2"" miles oft the coast and broke clear a' Ogden. I 'ali. at whi.il time they bad 1 .<••••• pounds ice on wine i' hud a tail w ind whi, Il helped They had shaved and didn't appear tired, and wire dr.*-"d in their dres green* Davie* said he was not especially tit"d. had plen'y of slc-p Four hour' on and four oft Tin- men w,-nt to file ready room and drank coffee and nnok <d their first < icaret . since Hu y lift Australia Davies lieinin to tell tin- story "We selected Perth a* th,' 'tailing point liecause it wa* the furthest point from the I'nited States an I alw> because it was In an English speaking country where they would he very little difficulty in making arrange nients." h« said Wo went down in four Jumps (Turn To Fag« <, Column 7)

TliiTe wa little ai>'"pl.t • • l"tt ' ' ).•• I ..'/I Na/: when they finally filed in. "he by if:'-. ’>> hear ’ii,-"' la', after watchinyr for 1" month ami 1" d. ever-prnwiiip mountain of evidence against them file allied ]>!'" e- 'itnr V.i'n lad ill'll, ’‘'d '' N eilti' "ii charge* "t c"!is|,iracy <,r . • nnm"! pai: ■>: ag. i"ii. crime; agaiiisl the peace, wa i rin*-. and i rim' against hiimanit.v expre -, d "me di-app"infm» n' th.,' ill ’ln defendant had lu nil i "hi a B'll ! he. v> er.- yr.-it iiieif • ia: t,. .1. tt •. • ■ .lyyi, ■ -IV,■ wart..re i- a ' I'.i .' !-• w.iii h nidi , d al -tat, Mtu-n m.t\ he pi.II i.ol jia ll"V. bi-, , 1l

Democrats To Open Headquarters Here Open Headquarters On Second Street I mi! :it ,|-.|.l| " [co.lit} h.n- • ' !i‘"! .two J >r. I ill i ■ I' • i 5...il . S> ■ II'I "' .' A , i ...I t...:,.. 11 • .I'l \ • -I - I'. ■ . V —c, —- — Anm,u: i«-m> t "f tin mud,- -no it w i < ’"L •'' '■ 1 -■ ' ■ '' lor Ho- .'H i' i fl", "it ': < >m. i mitt- cl - di' J ' • j |||l I ...i": ;l Hi- t, .-.' l' s.-.it ■ • . t' . t'-d 11. ~ -mln'- I'.oni I* prov 1,1,- l*r :ii"i'. linn < pt-.. :. and -in. ~f th mi .-ii . '. i : ■■ i., !.t ' ■> . it ~ -t .t,-! I'. :. ;. . . . I .i!<-.| and ,i .. !1., tr. nt i'.,i - n a i I . ~:np|, t. I th, I:. a,l<|i|.irt, i - w il. i . i.p. dull - a' I".i t mt ! ■ tc| | l a- l-|,-t . I id, -i D‘ :no< :at I l.'ad.pial |." wa* • -tali' -I Moll i day and rail- i ivn* hav. , i p..iiit<d n th<- dtioi* '!".<• n- w In-a.l'i irtei i.n H',' '.,n: I ii.-. iad a. : ' t.> ll ln-l I II" 1,. ."I'l .. I t Legion Fight With Bradley Is Renewed Sa'i IT.inci*. ..ii' 1 I'l’i The \:ii. lean l.< . ion i> w. d i'f.n t wHi G-'ii Dual if- i•! • y ind 'he veteran* admin .*' r..' n>n t.wjay, li.irging tliai tlie VA hi ke faith .1.1 h . el. an* •, a in. a c pulling a < • ilr .■ 1.1 am ii.- na ■ • x Gl .< Tlie . hat *. wi> de at lln opening s. -.i.,n- of t ■ L»'gioti's! L'mli national .-uiv nt < :i y.--t> rdav by na ,liul omm ind' i J >lm Ste'.le, j who only I ..it Feb na y patched tip l .1 pea e with Bradley W .11 the two ,!.<agreed over V\ pol cy towards i eterans Stelle's speech added interest to Bradley's appearance before the legion convention tom tiow Brad ley was expected tn dene the ,hS'ge*

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