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WEDNESDAY, MAR. 12, 1952. _ ; THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES / : : WEDNESDAY, MAR. 12, 1952

Wartime Meat Black Marketeers Seek Presidential Pardon For Fines| ras CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCENTIST

3 . 1 ferman not only over troit to New York to preside at after the government had re- This. official said Mr. Delaney’ Recently, the Justice Depart- ; INDIANAPOLIS : i at By JAMES DANIEL lis and } : - ae y ] Merli d H : Scripps-Howard Staff, Writer charged consumers; they also the trial-—sentenced Merlis and ceived $50,300 of the $370,000. asked a 30 Hsommend * ment Srideed ight ie srinal y . — TWO es from the ROV- ; ce : . g ar. €Ncy. She said she refused, and to pay at leas 3, on we 3 : , . F WASHINGTON, Mar. 12--T ehistied igi a Bov: Herman to five years. In addi In Washington today, the par- oat Mr. Delaney: said he wold fines.® Tax angles of the case ; Invites You to Attend a Free Lecture 3 New York black market meat operating legitimatély One of: the tion, -he fined them and their com- don attorney's office, Justice De- , Judge Picard to help. have been referred to the Internal . i dealers who collected $850,000 in a was that they faked 11 panies $370,000. The prosecutor partment agency that processes No Help from Judge Revenue Bureau. entitled oh , : . - wo petitions for presidential pardons 8 ’ : : 1 . . " government subsidies during ion points in meat rationing had reconmended high fines on peti ny tap , aL pardon > aa Part of the evidence at the O 3 World War II today are seek- coupons, the ground that the government Bephowlegged Shas i Das Ze ved But Judge Picard, Interviewed gsr tris] . was that in 1943-44 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE: A RELIGION OF ; ing a presidential pardon for . After the indictment, more gov- should get part of its subsidy * bey in if ye gy oh fi ns DY telephone today, has other Merlis and Herman did a gross : " ; 8 : id fines ernment undercover work dis- money back man wipe out the rest of the lines. jqeas. He said he remembered the business of $7 million but that CONFIDENCE IN GOD. ; nl a ting to Closed new evidence. It was Judge Picard.ruled .that- after Petition Received case and felt that Merlis and treir companies reported net tax- v

charged that the pair had oper- Merlis and Hermah finished their ated through other companies, In- five-year terms, they'd still-have cluding one “front” under which to stay In prison until they either

able income of only $9000 and

A pokemian Fxpiained depary: Herman so! what was coming to that ‘they reported individual Walter S. Symonds, CS. of San Antonio, Texas melt 1 H ; iim Say them. hy the hell should they o..45 incomes of only $10,400. .

"nearly $320,000. The meat deal-

ers are Siegfried ; who is ‘supporting the petition. po untitled to executive clementhey carried on a wholesale reat paid up or turned over their: as- o, i ee e ¢ J ’ . ; - . : ie same spokesman said the . f The Mother , Herman, 1 en business while serving their 1945 gets to the court to satisfy the .... i. De Pj active.” cy?” he said. vo . Member of the Board of Lectureship o J gee Jrom er prison terms, ‘ fines or else proved they were But in New York the' UU. 8 Mr. Delaney said today he Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston, ite Germany, an : VAUDETrs ‘ ; ¢ nT came into the’ case about a year : Albert Merlis. Subsidies of $850,000 payvj ittorney’s office said there is con- pe : - Massachusetts. . t In 1949, the U. 8. Parole Board, siderable action on the petition. 3890 replacing Defense Attorney A perd They were Sent The: federal attorney, Harold 4 Justice Department agency, de- A woman "official in charge of Sam Kaufman, now a federal ; to Prison briefly McAuley, set the Herman-Merlis cided that Merlix and Herman collecting fines said that Joseph Judge. Mr. Delaney is a member Ya, in 1045 for black subsidy “take” from the govern. were legally entitled to parole and [Leary Delaney -—-a ‘former as-©f the late Sen. Robert F. Wag- * marketing. ment at $850,000, that they shouldn't be kept in sistant U, 8. attorney in New ner's law firm of Wagner, Quilli- Murat Theatre Thursday Evening In 1946, the Early in 1047 Federal Judge ne ’ : Wag and T How y , w Mr. Daniel . arly In 1941, Federal Judge nrigon for nonpayment of the York is now representing Mer- Dan, wagner an ennant. How- ? : government, In & Frank Picard--brought from De- fine. 2 lis and Herman. She recalled that ever, Mr. Delaney said he was 502 North New Jersey March 13 new Ind,ctment, charged, nem SE - They were released after serv- only a few days ago, Mr. Delaney representing Merlis and Herman : ; + 3. 8'clock and their companies Ww RX ing 23 28 C : » hi -on_ his own, He added that the C f. Michi A 0 cloC g 23 months each said he had strong hopes of get MACARONI orner o ichigan frauding the U. 8. of $263,000 in Los Angeles to Get For a while they continued to ting the fines forgiven on the petition for executive clemency

subsidies. Big Jet Plane Job . pay on their fines. But these pay- ground they were ‘unconscion- was first filed while the men were Mop TENDER MORE DELICIOUS

(Only Soest OT on LOS ANGELES (UP)-—About ments stopped about a year ago, ably high.” still in prison. serve C : —— — — mds

/ $30 million is expected to be spent rationing regulations were legally | entitled to subsidies. Purpose of during the next two yéhrs to build | the subsidies was to compengate aviation manufacturing facilities! dealers for the squeeze between at the Los Angeles County air-|

retail meat prices, which "were port at Palmdale. Cie frozen, and Phe rising cost of Col. D. F. Marshall, U. 8. Air meat on the hoof.) Force, sald the expenditures will . The prosecution sald that Mer- make the Palmdale development . : . : Sa _|the greatest jet airplane project

i “in the United States. : So

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