Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 52, Decatur, Adams County, 3 March 1949 — Page 6

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Tucker Auto Firm Petition Accepted Petition Granted For Reorganization Chicago, March 3 — (UP) — Federal judge Michael J. Igoe today accepted Tucker corporation’? petition for voluntary reorganization and enjoined its creditors ana certain government agencies from pursuing lawsuits against the hard-

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pressed automobile firm. Igoe said he would appoint two : trustees to administer the company’s affairs under a provision in the federal .bankruptcy laws which permits financially embarrassed firnis-to avoid receivership as long as they are solvent. The Urm also asked tnat creditors and federal, state and local ■ governments be enjoined from in- ■ terfering with company property. The firm leases its huge plant from ; the war assets administration. Tucker asked that the court a>pi point a trustee or trustees to ad-

jTwo Men Convicted Os Stealing C (Montgomery. V j ch J — (UP)— An Evan. JUe, nd., nan, D. R. Rhodes, 45, and his son-in-law, lElarl Price Medlock, 22, Marianna, Fla., today’ stood convicted 04 stealing cattle. They will be sentenced tomorrow to minimum prison terms of five years. The state charged that the two men took eigiht cows from Pine Level to Blrmhamington last July and sold them. The purchaser became suspicious and returned the cattle.

Former Resident Dies In Illinois Mr. and Mrs. William Bertsch, of Decatur route 4, have received word from Mrs. William Timm, of Ot•tawa, TH., that the latter’s husband died recently of a heart attack. The Timm family formerly lived four ■miles west and one half-mile north of Coppess Corner. Aged Winamac Woman Dies Os Broken Hip Logansport, Ind., March 3 —4UP) — Mrs. Emma Arenbrecht, üB, Winamac, died yesterday of a broken hip suffered in a fall Tuesday. minister its affairs. Present .management of the company would continue, however. The petition was filed under chapter 10 of the bankruptcy act, which permits such continuance of management. No receiver would be required, because the company maintains that it still is solvent. The (petition listed assets, including plant and investments, totaling $14,434,380. It listed liabilities exclusive of capital stock totaling ?L---643,175. However, the comipany originally was capitalized at $25,000,000. The petition said capital stock outstanding totaled 3,490,000 shares of class at $1 per share and 1,000,000 shares of class B at 10 cents a share. The company said in its petition that while assets are greater than liabilities, the assets are of such nature that they cannot readily be liquidated without loss. Thus, it said, reorganization is necessary. The suits pending against the company were filed by creditor and 1 shareholder groups. They seek to j have the company declared bankrupt and placed in the hands of a receiver. Under the propos' d court order, arguments could he heard May 2 on I continuing any court-appointed trustee in office. By June 15, the company would be found to submit a reorganziation plan or explain why it could not.

Now She Shops “Cash and Carry” Without Painful Backache When disorder of kidney function permits poisonous matter to remain in your blood, it maycause nagging backache, rheumaticpains, leg pains, loss of pep and energy, getting up nights, swelling, puffiness under the eyes, headaches and dizziness. Frequent or scanty passages with smarting and burning sometimes shows there is something wrong with your kidneys or bladder. Don’t wait! Ask your druggist for Doan’s Pills, a stimulant diuretic, used successfully { by millions for over 50 years. Doan’s give happy relief and will help the 15 miles of kidney tubes flush out poisonous waste from vour blood. Get Doan's Pills. average! J| FACTORY ? ay > i94B M6ir average \ FACTORY SAME * PAY,1945 GOODS L SSB - 30 »N'4B j $44 WORTH d 1N1945 CALLING for “» gradual and orderly decline In high prices," the AFL gives the above figures in argument that living costs have risen faster than pay: articles the worker’s $44 pay would buy in 1945 now cost 90 cents more than pay. (Iniernttioatl)

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Bid For Custody Os Lonely Hearts Killers New York Seeking To Try Alleged Killers Grand Rapids. Mich.. March 3 — (UP) — New York authorities hid today for the custody of two "lonely hearts 1 ’ killers in order to try (hem under threat of execution for one of the three murders-foi money.

Raymond.Fcrn-ndez. ’' ‘Tiail or der" romeo killer, rrd Mrs. Marthe Beck. 30, his 200-pound lover and helper in preying on widows and spinisters, were charged wifch first degree murder in Mineola, N. Y. The pair confessed swindling and killing Mrs. Deliphene Downing. 28, and her Ijaby, Rainelle, 3. and burying them in cement in the basement of the Downing cottage in nearby Byron Center. The Mineola warrant for Fernandez and Mrs. Beck was returned for the confessed killing of Mrs. Janet Fay, 50-year-old widow, in Valley Stream. N. Y.. last Jan. 3. Judge Albert C. Moore signed the warrant and sent it immediately to Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, who would not indicate what action he would take. At Lansing, Gov. G. Mennen Williams of Michigan said he would not comment on the case until it was placed before him officially. Kent county prosecutor Roger McMahon and attorney general Stephen J. Roth are considering a prior claim by New York for the killer. The couple could be executed in the New York electric chair if extradited. tried and convicted of the ! Fay killing. Michigan law forbids ■ capital punishment. Edward Robinson, assistant district attorney of Nassau county. N. Y„ said he had obtained full statements from the man and woman in the death of Mrs. Fay. Meanwhile, a Chicago detective questioned the accused pair, asking if any of their victims were buried under a cement floor they ooured

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'W « 1 L A Bk W r BHLIfI JAMES L. KILGALLEN, whose byline has appeared from news centers throughout the world, is winner of the George R. Holmes award for distinguished work by an International News Service correspondent in 1948. Tenth to win the award, selection was based on overall reporting and particularly for superb coverage of indictment of Alger Hiss by a New York Federal jury. (International)

in the basement of a cottage they rented in Chicago last summer. Sgt. John Doyle of the Chicago homicide squad flew here to ask the mustachioed Spanish casanova and his fat mistress a direct question: "Did you kill anyone and bury his body in the bungalow you occupied at 5927 South Washtenaw avenue?” The pair, who have admitted Killing two lonely widows and one ■ child in their kill-forcash plot, livI ed at the Chicago address last sumI mer and fall, during .which time they poured a new basement floor. Each of their three victims was buried in cement in a basement. Chicago police said they hoped, to obtain details of the couple’s activities in the windy city before going to the trouble of excavating the entire .basement floor of the Washtenaw avenue cottage.

Judgment Deferred In Trespass Case Judgement was deferred and the trespassing case of Charles Minch against Harry Dey, manager of the Decatur Cab servied, was continued indefinitely in mayor’s court Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Dey announced the cab stand had moved from its former location on North Third street to West Monroe street between Third and Fourth streets. 11 PERSONS (Cont. From Page One) huddled in little groups. Officers feared that there might be other victims as neighbors in this little Fox Lake village of 64 residents said there frequently were as many as 20 persons spending the night in the house. AMERICAN REDS (Cont. From Page One! sia clash were recently made by ; French Communist chief Maurice Thorez and Italian leader Palmtro Togliatti. The justice department declined to comment on the Dennis-Foster statement. It has brought criminal against the two men for allegedly advocating the overthrow of the government by force and violence. Senate Democratic leader Scott W. Lucas of Illinois, however, said the statement “is not surprising." "Like the Communists in France and Italy, they take their orders from the Kremlin,” he said. “If their party was tc come to power, they would overthrow the constitution under which they now are claiming every right, every protection.” Rep. Harold M. Velde, R., 111., a member of the unAmerican activities committee, said, “it’s nothing more unusual than they’ve been doing and saying right along. They’ve been crying imperialist and Wall Street for years. This is just some more of their double talk. It is more important to bring happiness into the world than to make money.

~ * 'WiBB I I.- A 1 W9R ; Ml - ' Km-w BOX •' ■ M AN AMERICAN MP blocks a Soviet officer from entering the headquarters of the Soviet reparations commission in Frankfurt, Germany, as U. S. officials imposed a blockade, cutting off utilities and threatening to cut off food supplies. Gen. Lucius D. Clay has ordered the mission to leave the American zone. (International Radiophoto)

HOUSE GROUP (Cont. rrorn Page One) national security resources board. Filibuster— The senate Democratic leadership gave signs of not liking its self-imposed task of trying to cut short debate on antifilibuster proposals. It had decided earlier to try a parliamentary maneuver today to silence southern Democratic defenders of the filibuster. Then it put off the attempt

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’ to Monday. | Needy— The American public ' welfare association—made up of . | state and local public assistance • administrators — endorsed Presit dent Truman’s new help-theneedy • program. Oleo —Charles W. Holman of the • National Cooperative Milk Producr ers federation said unrestricted i \ sale of colored oleomargarine ■ i would plunge the dairy industry in- - 11 to depression.