Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 55, Decatur, Adams County, 7 March 1950 — Page 1
iil'X 'ATI: it DAILY DEMOCRAT
Vol. XLVIII. No. 55.
JUDITH COPLON CONVICTED OF CONSPIRACY
Testifies Air Insufficient To Kill Patient Motficol Witness In . "L? - jfikjfi ■ ■ I cSnfnOlly I vuOy AT Physician's Trial Manchester. N.H.. Marek 1.-— (Uf> A medical wilnea* teat: tied at Pr Hermaan N. Sanders _.. merry warder trial today that 4* cuh4c (eat Uaetscs of air were not enough to kill a person. Hr. Rickard Ford. Pathologist of Harvard Valverslty went to the witness stand attar the doctor's loyal wife. In a brief, dramatic appearance, told the ail-male jury that her husband had hern worried and tired »t the time’he injected air into the veins of his cancer patient. Dr. Ford performed an exhaustive 10-hour autopsy on the body of the patient. Mrs Ahbie C. Bor into. 59. several weeks after She died He struck at the heart of the states murder case by stating. "forty CCs is not enough o block the arterial system leading to the human lung ” Defense Atty Robert E. Booth asked him that if a medical record stated a person died easily after W’feWfM : ’MV the-air mtnniiy"»amir*»;'" it would indicate to me death had resulted from other 1 ! causes than air." Dr.‘ kkJd. ...... Z„’ Dr Ford said that research conducted on animals Indicated it »< mid Take itm to :tw cubic renHmeters of alt delivered within 25 seconds to kill a human m> lir Ford said “a fatal dwse of air Is an all or none pheaomenoh He explained that the air either - kills or doesn't kill regardless of the condition of the person who — ■ - ret elves the injection. ' Forty cubic centimeters of air. he said would he the equivalent . of about an ounce and one-third, or "'somewhat less than an ordinary measuring -glairs .tot a bnr tender". Dr -Ford said death. from ait —.-'rnrhrdtsm ,|s ApHte. rat eJJ —■ - lie siild he had examined the r-gse records of~lffOthr autopsiev t.nd that only kt were recorded as due t<L air embolism. There wer,e 12 proven cast's of ■the kind of air embolism In question." he said "In all of these cases there were large quantities “oL'alr present "' The doctor expla'nefl. with a blackboard diagram, that air In the lungs will break up and evenl- - ally pats out into the lung air — spaces with which the body takes in oxygen. In her testlmany Mrs. Sander, mother of three small daughters, said her 41-year-old husband was " "extremely tired" and lompialnejj. of fatigue early in December On Dec. 4 hie cancer patient, Mrs. Abbie V. Borroto, died at Hills borough county hospital, allegedly from the air he injected intv her vein The doctor, testifying veHfrday. said his "mind snapped* He would come home very sober, eat . without saying much and then go up to his office and — get out his hooka and start studying about some else." his wife said "I knew he was worried.” ■ She said he was so devoted hi .C iTara Ta Waae Fwwrr Local Ladys Brother Dies In California ~ • MrsrC? E Holthouse of this city received word of the death of her brother George Shoaf. 57. of Ventura. Cal.. about midnight ' last night Death resulted from a heart a’ltack. Mr. Shoaf was planning a trip to Qjcatur. this spring and__hi* death was unexpected. Surviving . besides Mrs. Holthouse are three other sisters: Mrs Boyd Fuller. Ix» Angeles Cal., Mrs. Joseph Burger, lola. Kas, and Mrs. Mae Belts. Harrisburg, Ore Funeral arrangements have not been made. WEATHER Cloudy withMcasional shove ora eoMee lata tonight cloudy and colder wHMffhMf Burr lee near Lake Micb Btreeg shifting" winds toniSjPri.ow tenigirt 2> 30 north. MJwO south. Falling temperatures during Wodneoday.
March FTA Meeting Postponed One Week The regular monthly meeting of the Lincoln school parent teachers association, scheduled for Thugpduy evening, has been postponed until Thmsday night. March Hi. ” * House Votes To Admit Hawaii : To Statehood ' Measure To Face * Bitter Battle On Floor Os Senate 1 Washington. Mar. 7- H'Pl The bouse today voted 261 Io llt> ’ to admit Hawaii to the union Last week It approved statehood for Alaska If the senate ' approves the measures, the two territories will Itf&ome. the 49th ’ and 50th states. ‘ But senate approval is by no means certain The house up- ’ proved statehood for Hawaii in f 1.947. but the bill died In the sen ' ate The new. measure gtid ***** ‘ : Alaskan bill may suffer the same : fate this yegr Southern '*l‘em*Mfhts and a Slid - ’ the statehood measures io the .Ums .Msattestry.* j ally pptmsed the Hawaiian bill on • grounds that the territory in in feirted with rommunlnU- v ’ Other cahkreMßM/nal d*‘V**T<»p 1 m*nts ‘ Wtonnta - • Victor - ■ A. \ wartime member fit tMe Soviet pun ha fling ronimiiiMkm here. .tqhfj r “the house unAinertcHii a< tivith’s‘ f committee that ev«*ry 'hiiMiarif ’ ■ diplomat an<l every < uinmunist in j th**. .JJahed Stalest... tbli: roOntry ilnrinK the war Hoover- Former. Preßhlvnt Iler bett Horner nrK«M| r< »ng reunion a I approval -sweeping. -av.v.ckuntln# i reformr ♦<» r-place the federal goveritmenl’fl pn ,^nr^ r 1 and wastje*.fwl” procedures. He ‘ THtft’ f fh’'Kenai<« exTreßfHsue»~-. t ou< ■ ’ mlth'p that \ah •« tHinl-j-m ge.n’eriLl. ‘ Ljalujuld £vt Ul> in tlrf* treasury; * to work off! unitnrui_’prjHjg-.L’ife* for all a gene lew. If.. -- f Kent The senate liankinj? rt»m I fnittee voted to hold one week of , hearings in the week of April 24 on President Truman s truest , for extenfeon of the rent control 1 law. The present law expires * June 30. Efforts to renew it face a hard fiaht. Coffee Representatives of the' ’ food industry told a senate agri ' i culture that ther ’ utill is a shortage of coffee and that no early price drop is likely , 5 Formosa — Sec retary of state l.| Dean Acheson said _ mon* i S 1 e<’onomi< aid may be forthcoming ( for Chinese Formosa He sux rested to th* senate foreign reia Hons committee that congress ‘ keep available in the new < r»ra T» Pa«e Fiwri ; Bertha Moeschberger; : Funeral Wednesday ; Former Resident Is Token By Death r * » Funeral will be held at 1:30 p m Wednesday at the Klaehn i funeral lioine in Fort Wayne few i ■ Mrs Bertha Moeschberger. 7S. who ( died Sunday at the Lutheran hospi > tai in Fort Wayne/ Burial will be j * in iNb-Decatur remeiery i r Mrs. Moeachbefger was j near Berne Aug 30. IWTff. a da ugh v 4JSL at Karl lind Magdalena Gerber A Schwarta f 1 -. married in 18S3 to Wil * Ham F Moei*r bbergvr' Tbvy lived I near Berne for a number of.years. , later moving! jb •'firm HOU th oLDe 7 " calur where ihey resided until re ' tiring and moving to Fort Wcync 1 Her hysband preceded her in death She was a member of the St 1 John'x Evangelical and Reformed ' church In Fort Wayne • . j' Surviving are three daughters.; l Mrs Laura Gutteboe. Mrs OriUa ' Bunner and Miks Helen Moesch 1 berger, all ot Fort Wayne, two sons. Carl of Akron. O. and "Edgar f of Fort Wayne: five grandchildren ‘ and four great grandchildren A » number of nieces and nephews re- t side in Adams county 4
Mine Workers Straggle Back To Coal Pits Industries Begin Recoil Os Wafers Idled By Walkout Plttsburr I '. -sreii 7-U'Pl -Tbe last of John L Mwla' salted mine workers straggled back to the pita today as industries hard hit by tbe coal shortage recalled thousands of furloughed workers Some too.ooo miners went back yesterday The remainder, numbering about 172.000. delayed 14 hours until la-wis lelegram ordering work to resume following signing ot a new coalraet Sunday was read at local meetings The flow of coal to fuel-starved cities and Industries swelled, but some retail dealers continued to ration deliverlv* New York fuel administrator Bertram Tallarny cancelled a statewet. luounoul order which went Into effect Feb 19 and had dimmed tbe lights of New York city’s great White Way Carnegie Illinois Steel Corp., which cut Its Pittsburgh operations almost In half at thp'peak of the shortae«. put eight idle blast furnaces back in operation and brought "SamSiSß.'- Wbfr h " was ! clbflHl fetfrtlrb-Fe-k- by- tb* *bi*ri ifi burgh and A7r<|uTj»pa7 T’?» bu? THiT* ii H.uiid be wrtk--* Hu 23JMH' flwoik» fttilouithed were hut k «» weft lUihoad-. WbirK laid .d( • iallfd freixbl rirwiutn Andi Mimoum *d tliei *hup and main ’ ; trthtnrr w*»«ld to* |MM bineM'i j in work m< cua! fnuv*m*nD. inrr*aw I ied ' lB in*taten»rt»! of roa) burning I ! r« trains < u? id fa n ent by : Ili4- Its! < rxt riinmifri ; ‘r < uTn-ni* ; * awaited KU** upptmal r _ Frank R«»d |»r**id<-n’t '»< the (’bl : < ago < i»ai iner< hantfl iath>n. said if, would !»♦ about. two w«*k* j ,b 4 largej-upplirM of r»»o< ffradrl i i (ini wt-n av ailablr (i‘t I<m n1 dntn«--- ! th u »i - 11. *aid Cbleago .«»♦ j To high '.1.7- - Chicago's hnaiji-ial lo** a< a re Injlt of the . ’ al strike and dimout ! w:i- < oima!*d a? between and •<» million dollars by Evh f t Lyon, chief <xe( utive officer of the city’s) hhmx-intion of .commerce and industry. Four Illinois state colleges rlo?»»d by tli»‘ shortage were scheduledto r.«-*un»e ciasse* tomorrow and the 2*»“,uo«» school children *ent home ' from Cold classrooms last Week I ♦ tided their btl* f ••vacations ” Decatur Joins In 'Hour Os Sharing' Churches Will Hold j Observance Sunday Plans are l*eing completed in Ito* ' catur t hur« hes tn observe ’’One Great Hour of Sharing'* Sunday The Rev. .V C. E. (inlander, paator of the First Bresbyierian church here and local chairman for- Ui" event, stated that more than loo.tuet congregations in the United Stater, woukl_tak*■. part in the annual ob servance. ' Several denominations are holding preliminary services during ibis week in preparation for the Sunday observance The Methodists <are bolding a **.week of dedication.** the Disciples are conducting a "week of com pass i< m" Other churches are holding similar ..meetings Bnseeds from the collect ions of all the swvices are used to- rehabilitate Christian churches all o*’rxJte.FiKW, Xbp J.iAneXumJfcuu ; , program was InitnuMl teat year and was .so .gueressful thM tbe national leaders of tbe movement decided tn make it an annuaLeVTnt. Literature explaining Ibe movement has been distributed to all Christian churches of the nation. Rev. Gillamler said Many radix pnwratns explaining the event are being conducted this week on the leading networks. fverv Christian church In the nsfirm has been Invited to take part *n the March 12 servlcea and almost every denomination hu entered in to the spirit of the movement. Rev Giliander said. .
ONLY UAILV HIWWAFM IN XOAMR COUNTY
Streamlining The Classroom STREAMLINING EDGES TOWARD the claaeroom with these moulded plywood desks, shown at Amertraa Association ot School Administrators convention. Atlantic City. W J They are said to take up only a third ot space ot old-fashioned desks
Streamlining The Classroom
Seek Improvement Os tads, Ditches Present Petitions To Commissioners Rcvcra! persons appeared before the board' of co«U|ty cftmmiaaßtaerr i-Us 4iM- their regular monthly meeting Monday I to fteih.ion for the ImproyeiftFht of roadn and ditrhea. insurance poll t de* were renewed and the county 1 Uttru* wa* granted a leave of ab- | nesice ft»r a abort time Beit *um i m * r . ■•M&I <Mto Hofstetter. Gas Mann. Har ■ L*y Tumhtonon Garfield Yosa. J <> • Teeier. K L Lehman Eugene Cnff»»|- Kummer. Ix*R«»y Bieber--Ifin and Herman Burke. «44 <4 .•‘.I \\ <>r Jefferson tow»i r»hrp. appeared to reqnear .further *»4a<k’-‘pj>inx <if county road 23 h. Wabash-Jeffetfl<»n j -hip line to Male road 27 Th* men ♦ vptatnvd that a petition *mt I lining the iiAed 'for such work had Vtl’L d B?jhe board tpefore the war. and fHa! roatf improve 1 nrcntn had been tngde $ across Jet ferMiti township Tin* group re quested that if |Mpa«ib)e - thin ini : provement might be extended to j include all. that sought in the peti- ! tion ... I Another group, Raymond Becher. Roy and Gale Nidllnger. of Wash ingtou township, presented a petl lion to the hoard, also requesting; road improvement by blacktopping the county road from the Jptersec-' th>n at Doc's Car.JDock west for on* mile Elmer Rich also appeared hef t ‘re »he board regarding a ditch p in French township. Filch had ap peared at an earlier meeting of the 1 j. injurd- and since that lime !h» < »m i mnovloners had inspected the exist j ing conditions, and the county ’ agreed to open the side ditches, put ] dirt filling in the washout and [ bigger wells >«n either side of the Iroad to improve drainage of road water. - The board renewed the equipment insurance policies with the Decatur Insurance agency, and likewise renewed several other policies on county buildings Mian Jean Shockley, county health nurse, was granted a leave of absence, without pay. frotti June Lilo August 11. Miss Spock!♦) ex plained to the members of the (Turu Pas* »tai
(Her. R W Parsley, Ptearant Milla Methodic Chur, hl "With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful ' noise before the I .ord the King" Psalm KI T— "■■- TWe'Puanntet-dli one wf the chief-wttm-ase* to theTnarretous things that the L*>rd has done for Israel who have returned from theta- long Exile, which is an example to the'whole world of the ~ Lord's might He la so stirred In hie soul hy the righteous hand and the Holy arm of God who delivered the Israelite* that he cannot alone Kite just expression to so great a salvation So he ca'te upon all the people of the earth to give vent to such joy. with a new song and with trumpet*'and cornets and all kind* of musical Instrument* He feel* that even the sea and the Mil* win , have a part tn the joy of Israel's salvation Quite often in our day we hear the multitude* rejoicing with a treat noise and the band playing with all the mute* thrown ‘ away We hurry to see what all the shouting is about and to it : la only the victory of a basketball game ... ....j__2 < It Is s tood thing to give -praise and rejoice tn the aklHful achievement* of man. but It ta far more important that we work < to achieve victory over sin. then rejoice la man's victory and his 1 salvation through the love amt power of our lord and King
1,905 Delegates To State GOF Convention s P - ItulianapoUx. Mar. T—(UPi — Th« Rcpwblkan atate nominating convention here June 30 will be miupoaed of 1.905 delegate*. Mate GOP headquarter* announced to 9 (lEWm eoum X tFI. .•m.-JMW .Tdr -dMtW;r Uun. 344 auaitwru...with the fifth; f Elatrirt total being next al 2AI. f There were 1.957 delegate* Io the 194 H convention, and 2.129 to ’ the 1946 convent! >n. with the 11th h dlMrict group being the large,! r ewrh time Endorses Long-Range Coal Industry Study i Recommendations By Truman Are Awaited Washirigioii. March 7 (l T PF < 'b4h-i.’. tyM-aii. n- \ s h»- -• -nii’t* HJ* i i*-i inn niit’i r 1(> da> ♦ ndorsrd fcr aj i range study of the coar%dustryJ "For a -long, time." he said, it has been recogniied that the c<»al , industry needs special attention '* President Truman pt<qH>*ed erea- '< tion of a special coal commission in ■ j his recent message asking for tiuth I , jority to seize the’mines Wiib the ’' >♦ fth tn* nt of the '*r coal di Mm** i cougress she Ived further considera- I Hon <»f a seftur* bill ’ I.vjtut a powerful Hoc of senators are pushing legislation to establish a <*oal investigating group >nrwa| O’ Mahoney, g Wyonring l»em<wrat .. whose vuumihtee ha* Jurisdi* ’i*»n j over sqch a bill said he is in sym it• i,% wet •’ ( «Phi The pubhf generally ha«.deep j sympathy with U .<«•! misers be 4-au**- of ’h* • vnootdinar* hazard , »iua nature <»f tlreir orcuputitm " he ! *aid "I think the pubiV wiHild sup I I port a program designed to meet ! the very extraordinary conditions that exist " 1 He Raid the committee would await specific recommendations from Mr Truman before going T Railroad sources said they expert < the interstate commerce commin sion to rescind "in the next day or I lwo“ tta present 35 percent cut in 1 the freight operations of coal burn<TWew Te Pe<» Feme I
Government Girl, Soviet Engineer Convicted For Conspiring To Aid Reds
Great DusfCfouds Over Great Plains Report Cold Front Sweeping Eastward Chk»go. Mar. 1— (CPI —Great cloud* ot dual aroae over wide area* ot the great plain* foday and a bliuard ewept the north central etatee. but the mldweat luiaked in near record spring temperatiirea. Elsewhere, epring flood threat* arose from U-e-gorged rivers In lowa and Wteconsln Prairie fire* Which swept hundred* of square mile* in tagaa. Oklahoma. Mia *ouri and Nebraska were reported under cohtroL Duat atortna whipped up by ■trong wind* blotted out Ihe Sun over Kansas and sol) conservation expert* warned that a dust howl like the disastrous one of Ibe 1930’a might develop unless rains come uwn. The dn»t storm* already covertwo jwrMitu*. had di«*d in highway j by - th<? xlust X 'ptlwttp tffrnrrhig- L ir truck rmt cars n*ar Noyling Kan., last night killed a bride and injured 12 per Rot>«, flix seriously. A man was killed near Win dom. Kan., when he was Ml hy a truck while groping through the duat after fata own. ear had »>een wrecked in a head-on collision . •The cold “Jjmnt. sweeping east *•*&.. * aM W tonight The temperature in the windy city rose toward a record d green today. i»ut forecasters said the mercury would plummet to a gusty 1* by tonight A t ombinar h»n sh»et gtorin and blizzard, cut off virtually all of Nd*rth Dakota from the east and ■k: n:.T;-7i--Min---.!.; aiit! MMDO if' South Dakota The United Press bureau at Bismarck. N 11, notified Ut* tuwrtqrrartrrA at Minhe«T«ra ••*«* Flwei ’ ' Union Services Are Planned By Churches Plan Services For Lenten Season Here Th* Dwcstur ministerial *■*<> . tulu.n nwt Muwduy st Zion Evan gclh SI ami Reformed church for th' ir regular monthly buslnetui session, and announced •everu'l plan* for union service* In |he ; near future. It turned out to be Impossible .to get-the film "Dust or Destiny ’ planned for tonight at the First Christian church. Rut It I* possible to Ket tbe classical film. “King of Kings." during the Lenten season Cecil B DeMKle* "King of Kings" la scheduled for a double showing Tuesday night. March 27. 7 p. m and 9 p nt at the First Christtan chureh. The ■public is invited. _ The mtniatertal association haa asked the youth committee ot the associated churchea to s|s>n»or another sunrise-service on Easter morning. April 9. at-6 a. m Some preliminary plan* have 10-en laid The sunrise service will be led by young people of various churches. much a* last year, when more than JOtl arose early for the service. Trinity Evangelical Toiled Brethren church will be the site, pf the e t hi* year, and the Trinity ladies aid will aerve breekfsat Detail* ot the service are left up to the layman's committee of associated chsrches with two pastor*, the Rev A. C. E Giliander and the Rev Jonas Blrkey assigned to aid the young people Speaker at the union Good Friday service April 7. 12 noon until 2 p. tn . will be Pre*. S A. Witmer of the Fort Wayne Bible Institute The Methodist church will be’ site ot the. holy aervice*. with th* Music department of the Decatur Woman's club lu eharg* of the music
liberal Parly Supports Labor In first Test to k Ignore Churchill's it Appeal In Initial « K House Showdown . • IsHtdon. March 7—<UP>— The n Libera! party brushed aside Wins' slott CliurChin’* blandishment* to-ei-d*y and threw it* support to the La- •- hor government in the first showt- j down in the new common* Churchill, leader of the oppoal r tlon Conservative party, bad just n: offered to withdraw-a Conservative’ i. motion for censure of the govern t j ment if l-abor leader* would pro-' ( misv to postpone nationalisation of , iron and steel until at leapt nine months after the next general elec .. tlon ... ~,,-i,at>w '.ha&iiA.jttkiOTi’s: lit ■ M-v.-n Aea ts- In "th! he * psrihHweWt* [-fund the- - tiHiv Liberal menxbws 5 m.Ubt. bold tb<- balance of power in J any close Vote—A defeat on euch S a majoi Issne as steel would force r I the government's resignation But Clement Davies, leader ot ™ I the liberal party, indicated his fol inwets would • h<p support Xhe CQp h ! servativea on the motion K U.is *; pressed fb a m«u. ™ , 4 He said he thought the Labor | government’s promise In the King's 1 speech yesterday not to push ant KTsAtjittntious _ h gislatlon" at —this p st ssion of parliament was enough • for the Libel al party " "Strongly as l ain opposed to thy t act (nationalising Iron and steel! and indeed to any further acta ot I .naUuttaUxiiUuv. sljavio -.tid Ho f ho good purpose can be served In I bringing this issue forward st thi- ■■ ‘4fartW4iiar ■: j-unernrei - tiay ’“.Vv i the government has rti’ngnlxcd.the < (acts of this electlon-and the votes • that have bet n cast " -t The steel act' was passed bs the old patltano nt. to lake efftc' to v Jan I The Conservative and Lib • rat parties, pledged to repeal of ■ the act won a majority of the popu ! i lar vote in last month s election. : but the Labor government never-: Jthele** captured a slim majority of I seven: seals in the new house t Prime minister Clement R Att (Tara Te Fa«e Txtar! J - ' _ ——_ "■ ? ■ Henry Lehrman Dies Monday Afternoon :i Funeral Services [ Set For Wednesday I Henry Lehrman. 95. retired farI mar. died at 2:40 o'clock Monday ' afternoon at the home ot a son. • Paul, near Monroeville, following r a week's illness He was born in Swltserland I Aug 22, 1K64. a son ot Ferdinand • and Caroline Ebrman-Lehnnan and came .JsLtiN-*’•**•* states i when * boy. He was married Ap ! rii 5. 1X94. to Mary Barkley, who ' died Jan 7. 1943 - .. x- He » mwmlrer ot the ln» r 1 manyel Lutheran church in Vnion ' township j I Surviving are seven sons, John. - Bimon. Harry. Paul and Daniel i Lehrman, jail .of Monroeville. i Joseph of Kalamasoo. Mich., and , • Delbert of Richmond, two daugh- > ter*. Mr* Lillian Schlemmer of L. PUtML, Q-, *nd Mrs Mary; Grote, ‘.of Kalamaxoo. Mlch.l V grand- i > children.. two great grmxdrhßd ( - ren. two brother*. Albert and j i Ch«rles Lehrman -6f Decatur and , one sister. Mr* Soptita Schamrr i loh of Monroeville Three sons ■ and one daughter are deceased Funeral service* win M held at'' ■ l l’o -p m Wednesday at the i Zwtck funeral home and at 241 o'clock nt ths Immanuel Luther an church, the Rev. K. B. Allwardt h officiating .Burial will he tn the ■I O <1 F cemetery at Monroeville Friend* may call St th* fu I neral home unfit time of the wsa> I vic**. 1
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Fair Loekod Vp Ta " Await Sentencing Thursday; Facing Long Frison Terms New York, March T.-tUPi — Goveruaxeat girl Judith Copiea and A'alesatli* Gublubev. * Soviet engineer. were found gutiU at <<>n jjMwty to commit supine age today and were loehed up immediately u> await aentenciag Thursday The jury <rf six men and ail women deliberated six hour* and 14 minute* before returning with the verdiet that’t-ouM send Mlaa Coplon to prison tor 25 year*, tn addi tion to the 40-m<>nth to loyesrr aebtenc* she face* for roavlctloe on * charge at stealing government secrets , ’ Gnbltrhev a ITyear-old Russian engineer, faces a maximum sen:- : euce of 15 years in prison and I2»out! In fine* Mi** Coploa. ». may be fined $19.04*0. in addition to the prison sentence The defendants, whose attorneys claimed they yere lunatic* in love" and not spies. v»r» convicted on two counts oath of the four Tfie verdict. »« read to the court by Jury' foreman John Hojrfer after six bouts and 24 minutes of actual deliberation was as. follows First count both defendants' guilty of conspiracy Sei olid igunt maminr Mis* Cop- ' k>n only! luuocent, '.:... ■ Third count —rt’harglng Gwbtt-i-hev with attempting to receiv* and obtain t" 8 secrets) ffutity Fourth count: iCharglns Miss t'oplon with attempting h> pa*« government secrets to Gubitclrev , With t.he knowledge that they would be used to the detri'nent of the Fnlted States add to the advantage of a foreign country* guilty Th. V cell.' wa-. r< ' urned at. 11 47, am as ths-defehje was fighting in swaiw *■». afw.4M.4»t .44ea»w. arf a J •vp. sraphi. al erjnr to the jury found in its repv of tbe indictnwt•' senu ni e of year* in prison and a liU.IMM* fine ilubilchev's inaxe ' mum sentence Would be TS years and f2o.<"»ti fine fl".iy»e <>ti each of Ibe first and third counts Federal judge Sylvewter Ryan remanded both defendants to jail immediately and said he would , . sentence them at 10:3!* a m Tburs- : day ■ Tbe fourth count of the indict- : ment carries a maximum sentence of 20 years for Miss Copion Rhe could have been sentenced to death in war time Miss Copion already is under sentence of 40 months to 10 year* in Washington for stealing governnreatsecrets£. ; Defense motions to set aside the verdict will be heard on Thursday. As the jury returned to the courtroom. Miss Copion leaned forward in her chair and placed her toregrma on' the council table C.nbp chev remained seated back in hl« chair as he had throughout tbe trial Neither displayed any marked emotion as the terdicl waa -read" and the jury polled "God be with you *nd giyjC you long life." the judge then Wild the jury : ’ Guhltchev's 1a w y er? Abraham I‘omerantg. wa* very bitter at the verdict, saying that the caae was . . <Twew Tw z Fwae Twel New Western Union Manager In Decatur Tb* Western Vnion Telegraph Cp? announce* the assignment of -Charles M Reyner a* reakden’ manager of the telegraph office ; in this city Reyner. I* a native of Michigan Since the departure of 'James' Murphy Jr., former resident manager now bight manager at Fort Wayne, tbe local telegraph office had been serviced'by relief managers In announcing tbe new manager of tbe company* office here. ' Western Vnion also anounced new intra state rate* have been plated In effect ip tadiana Equalised ” ■ interstate rate* have been in «<• ’— feet stare February 1 The hew rate structure for telegrams to I ssed on an slrilae mileage, aad hi the main they show a to-r award rate rather than hk-reatoa for telegrams
