Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 January 1949 — Page 12

{Tojo Still Lives, apanese Believe n Rural Areas TOKYO, Jan, 14 (UP)—Fantas-| te rumors that former Premier Hideki Tojo is still alive are

in some of the rural Japan, it: was» reported

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The Kyodo News Agency, making a survey for the Office of Information and not for publication in Japan, sald such rumors began to spread about one week Jiu the executions last Decem-

, wi : WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (UP) ' + The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted unanimously to-|"" os day to confirm Dean Acheson to! ‘A RUMOR, said to be receiving the greatest credence, has it that the allled council members did freeinot actually witness the hang ings, but watched from a considerable distance. It holds that the criminals were shrouded in

ate floor Tuesday quick and|plack hoods and dropped through overwhelming con: tion is ex-ia trap-door to the ground. pected. They néver' died, according to Rents the word spreading through the

area outside Maebashi, but on the following dawn were escorted secretly to an American airbase and flown to/the Philippines,

A President Truman's proposal to io: ot extend rent controls fot a quick oh xo-ahead from the Senate Po Banking Committee today. : The committee voted to give it ) No, 1 prirority among the Administration’s ideas for fighting inflation. S Présent rent ' controls expire

Hog Prices Drop aim 190 After Gains

Hog prices dropped off 25 cents a hundred pound in late trade in a fluctuating market in the In-

ward 27 months, s dia ; . napolis Stockyards today, afthad suggested a two-year exten-i.. ,..ning at prices 25 to 50 cents

per hundredweight above yesterday’s figures. Most advance was seen on weights 210 and less, as prices became very uneven in moderately active trade. Weights 250 pounds and less showed the early

price drop, com to yesterday, in a lite trade decline that

$21.75 to $22.50 (top price), dropped to sales $21 to $21.50, in

the $22 figure. Class Sells at $20.50 Weights from 220 to 250 pounds .Jopened at higher prices, selling from $20.75 to $21.75, but dropped 75 cents to $20 and $21 in closing trade. Weights from 250 to 290 pounds sold at $19 to $20. Weights from 290 to 350 pounds sold at

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100 to 160 pounds sold at $1 to $20.50. Sow prices fell off to instances 50. cents below yesterday's trend in late trade, selling at $15 to $16.50 in learly trade, then dropping to as low as $14.50. Stags sold irom $13 down. Steers and Heifers Steady In cattle trade, a small supply of steers and heifers sold at

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later trade, as only a few reached:

$18 to $19. 4

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As Murderers 0f U. S. Fliers

7th Doomed Man Granted Reprieve LANDSBERG, Jan. 14 (UP)— Six German war criminals were hanged by the U. 8. Army today for the torture and murder of captured Allied filers during the WAT, : The were carried out after both an Army review board and a special commissiun had reviewed the original sentences. One condemned man, Franz Weiss, a former German army sergeant accused of déwn a captured American filer in cold blood, was reprieved, at least temporarily, at the last moment,

Weiss had been excused from the gallows today “for reconsideration of his case” by Gen. Lucius D. Clay. This will be the fourth review of his case since he was sentenced.

An Army announcement said]

PARTLY CLOUDY AND e CLOUDY AREAS

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The southward-moving Canadian air mass will give the Northeast cold and clear weather toatures in the 30's through Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and Kentucky.

night and tomorrow, and tem

by a special commission. The commission recommended that their sentences be commuted to life imprisonment. Despite this, Weiss was the only one to escape death today. The other five went to the gallows as originally sentenced. ; Ket The death sentence of the seventh man on the original list, Merbach, was confirmed by an Army review board and

reconsider his case. The special commission, headed by Judge Gordon Simpson of the Texas Supreme Court, recommended the death sentences of the six condemned men be commuted to life imprisonment on grounds the evidence against them was not conclusive.

Those executed: Josef Ehlen, 35, a labor camp commander, who ordered four, captured American airmen shot in September, 1944. August Viehl, 49, high officer of the camp commanded by Ehlen, who was found guilty of pation in the same murders. Hans Engelneiderhammer, 43, Munich railroad official who admitted “finishing off” an Ameri.) can flier with a rifle. butt after| by ‘a crowd near Munich.

Eugen Ziehmer, 43, inmate of the Flossenburg concentration camp, who as camp clerk beat Polish inmates with a sledge hammer and forced water into the mouths of several prisoners until they died. Hans Schneider, 30, a medical {master sergeant, who shot a badly wounded American soldier in« the French town of Village

y Business Women “at its annual meeting in Chicago Sun5 officers attending will be Amanda Anderson, president, and Miss Clara Gebhardt,

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In sheep trade, steady prices were shown, .as the bulk of good and choice native wooled lambs

Jan. 13 BILLS INTRODUCED

= 730 to

wie for e

HB. 48 (Dennis-G devices on steam

ou which prohibits horses,

. (Agriculture), (Burks-Noelle)-—Ralse from

rallrosd tracks, (Railroads). MN. B. 47 (Burks-Noelle)—Increase from feet to B% Teel of raliroads., (Ra

8. B18 (Anness-Shake)—Cirant consoli.|onsol tance Lom township|

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’ ations to employ » cian, (md jeation).

) and repair of dredge

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ans Walter A {idren’s Hospital, (Benevolent titutions)

INTRODUCED

of ) «= Appropriate diem of i §uring seasions. (Ways gemeteries held at $25. ‘A load dropped to

uire sal et eatery), ~Slenker)—Increase sala and swine from vunning|i’:

22% feet the clearances over

the lateral clearances firoads).

«Provide maintenance | ditch. (Natural Re-

Conrad)~Enforce mine ine five

8 LR (RichhornjeOive each countyts § representative and provides > res | noel

held at $24 to $25. Scattered head of common and medium grades sold at $19 to $23.50. Two loads of good and choice 85 to 95-pound fed western lambs

$24.75. A deck of good and choice 98 to 100-pound fed western yearlings sold at $22, . : Scattered head of "good and choice slaughterewes held steady, at $7.50 to $9, as on and | vam grades sold at $5.50 to

" Estimates of receipts were gs, T7025; cattle, 450; calves,

choice sold at| Joseph Davis has been installed | - ; common and medium/as Noble Grand of "at $24 to $32; culls at $18 to $23, Chapter 44, TOOF.

in July, 1945, as he lay on a stréteher. | Hans Merbach, 38 an BS Heutenant and guard adjutant at|

Buchenwald concentration camp, who participated in the fatal,

sponsible fot others being shot.

Joseph Davis Heads

Brookside’ _ Other new officers are W. E. Hiatt, right supporter; George Ford, left supporter; Harry Mills, vice grand; K. L. Stewart, right \supporter; James Echols, left supporter; Herbert Kimbrel, recording secretary; George B. Loveless, financial secretary; Roy A. Jepson, treasurer, r Also Eugene Crim, warden; Carl! Crim, conductor; Paul W, Davis, ! chaplain; A. H. Floyd, past noble! grand; J. Wilhelm, inside guard-

~ Steaks on Indiana dinner tables will be a little thicker and juicler this year, if you wait awhile.

the population of grain-fed cattle in Indiana, Dr. R. F. Smith, State Veterinarian, reported this morning.

180,000 beef cattle stuffing themselves on Hoosier farms with Inthe special commissioh did not!diana’s rich grain; crop of last fall. 30,000.

cattle does not apply to Indiana alone, Dept. reports that at the end of the year there were 4,548,000 cattle on feeding farms, an increase

IOOF of Brookside |

of 19 per cent over a year ago. This is a record, the report said, the previous high being 4,448,000 fat the'end of 1946. Low grain prices have run up

Four Local Students

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ve Reviewed by Board Storms are predicted for the Rockies, the Southwest and the Great Lakes region. eiss was one of six defendriginal : eig {Official Weather ants originally sentenced t0\] ool for Jucier Steaks Shortly ppb Hb is

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Four students from here ares,

among those who have won pro-|De motions in rank in the Purdue University military band. The promotions: James ‘Belden, |; up about|924 Middle Dr. Woodruff Pl, to first lieutenant; William Lind-

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staedt, 2357 Broadway, second

But the increase in grain-fed lieutenant; Edward Weddell, 2648/5

W. 60th St, staff sergeant;O Charles Peters, 6903 E. 38th St..|; corporal, and Rodney Dunham, 6859 Pleasant Run Pkwy., private.!

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ALL PLATINUM MOUNTINGS

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ian, and Wiliam Lynch, outside guardian, ’ Club to Elect The Indianapolis Traffic ‘Club will elect officers at 7 p. m. next Tuesday at the Marott Hotel. T. J.

and sheep, 1375.

Connelly is chairman of the meeting.

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GROVER A Dealers

Indiana Stocks and Bonds

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Birthstone and Initial RINGS

WERE $1600 . . ..

52600 . . . $3600 .....

13 OFF!

SERVICE FOR 6 MADE BY

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COMMUNITY 2. SILVERPLATE S220

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BY COMMUNITY HOLLOW HANDLE—MIRROR FINISH

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LADIES’ OR MEN'S 7-JEWEL WATCHES

|At Hawaii-New Y

. {fuel brought the flight to an end, [will be’ credited -only with 2400

Although he covered about 2000 miles before ice and dwindling

under international air rules he

miles from Honolulu to Oakland. That “distance breaks a record of 2061.7.miles set by two Russian pilots in 1937 in a plane of the same piston displacements (397 to 584 cubic inches).

Clean-shaven, but wearing a

‘Lanky Globe-Girdler Not Content = ® With Light Plane Distance Record ~~. = OAKLAND, Cal, Jan. 14 (UP)—Capt. Bill : for another chance to fly nonstop from Hawall to New York, not content with the world Hght-plabe distances Jecare he set before . weather forced him to hl : | and The lanky, 20-year-old round-the-world speed flier turned back when he ran into icing conditions and stiff headwinds over the high Sierras. He had already com- = pleted a ari us 2900-mile Purchasing Agent to overwater t from u. © Capt. Odom brought his scarlet Teach Bu ter Clase

Inc. bas been appointed to the

Butler University evening division

y BE faculty for the spring term. He °

will instruct in a course in purchasing. : X Mr. Mercer, purchasing agent at the firm 12 years, formerly was in sales administration work. He attended New York University and studied business administra tion, :

ness law for four years at the

York City.

Film Forum Formed

crumpled checkered suit, Capt. Odom joked with a small crowd of newsmen who greeted him at the airport. Pie le “I want a big steak and then I want to go to bed,” he announced. “Then I'd like to go right back to Honolulu and try again. It's

"|a fine little plane.

“I don’t feel like any congratulations. We got one record, but

gsi ing table ie ay ul » (|) ———— er oie pa OWS ~ the tei fwanted to go on to New York. Purdue Band Promofes | swiss — — ig i

finished. I'd just as soon ship the plane back to Honolulu tomorrow and start again. But maybe my sponsors want me to fly on to New York. I'll know tomorrow.”

+ {OES to Initiate

Brookside Chapter No. 481, OES, will hold an initiation and memorial program in its stated meeting at 8 p. m. Jan. 18 in the

Brookside Masonic Temple, 3117

SEE THESE! |

E. 10th St.

GOLD PLATED 50¢ PER WEEK

Now s1 485

NATIONALLY ADVERTISED

WATCHES

$9475,

BENRUS - @

'SUNBURST MASONIC 1/3 OFF

SCOTTISH RITE DIAMOND 1/3 OFF EASTERN STAR — MOOSE

BOXES

WERE

0DD FELLOWS — EAGLE — K, of C. — K. of P.

15 OFF!

MUSICAL POWDER

$4.95... Now 52.17 $6.95 . . . Now 52.97 36.95... Now $347

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ALL COSTUME PINS

“I don’t Uke to leave a Job un={7yR

WERE $3.00 LOCKET and CHAIM

$6.00 VALUE METAL COMPACTS

use oun EASY AHERT a

Pay As You Wear

Organization of a film forum |committee at Kirshbaum Center was announced today by Mrs, Leo XKammin, chairman of adult activities at the center. The comImiittee, headed by Mrs, Howard Lieberman, will present outstanding foreign and domestic films te {members at a reduced rate,

U. S. Statement

WASHINGTON, «dst 18 (UB) —Governs 8 -and’ receipts for ‘the cure Ww ~ He moses Sieben me nses L031; Rebeipts 1871 ITI. 348 19,408,450,516 urplus a rats sa 1.484.783,409 Defleit 16TUDTI — vsivisenire 3.163,049.740 482,263,572,614 24,353,040,697

INDIANAPOLIS rings :

Local Truck Grain Prices

No, 2 red wheat, $2.14, No. 2 white corn, §1.25, . No. 2 yellow com, 31.35. No. 2 oats, 75¢. New No, 2 yellow soybeans, $3.20, - -

MEN'S 17-JEWEL GOLD PLATED

ww $1685

OTHERS 1/3 OFF

LARGE SELECTION

98° Now 89

AND EARRINGS, V/, OFF!

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$1x35-In. siz

Reg. $19.

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Reg. $1.6

Materia 48-In.; cotto!

Reg. $4.4

S4-In. cotton Reg. $5.9 54-In.; wine, Spread.

Full or twin

“Reg. $10.

Full or twin

Reg. $18. Cretonne sii)

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Reg. 39¢ Towelir 11-In. Blue,

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