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Attorney General Tom C. Clark
today announced the vesting ol
three German-owned paintings,
including a Rembrandt, which are
on exhibit at the Dayton Art In
stitute, Dayton, Ohio.
A department of justice official
said the paintings were the prop
erty of the Weimar Museum of
Weimar, Thuringia, Germany, and
of Grand Duchess Theodora ol
Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, Hein
richau, Germany.
The painting by Rembrandt,
which is a self portrait, was val
ued by its German owner at $140,
000 the official explained. Another
of the paintings is by J. H. Tisch
bem and is valued at $1,200. The
other painting, valued at $2,000,
is by Ter Borch.
The Rembrandt painting was
loaned to the Weimar Museum by
its owner.. However, a German
court decreed that the painting
should remain permanently in the
custody of the State of Thuringia,
Germany.
Investigators of the Office of
Alien Property found that the
three paintings were stolen from
the Weimar Museum on April 18
1922 and were sold to two German
merchant seamen who brought
them to New York in 1934. The
seamen -sold the paintings to a
resident of Dayton, who bought
them with knowledge of the theft.
• Therefore, the Weimar Museum
had full legal title to the paintings
according to the office of alien
property.
The paintings were seized by
the government under authority of
the trading with the enemy act
Property in the United States
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“Buffalo Hunt”
RAWLINS, Wyo. (IP) — Cries of
“brutality” aimed at Wyoming’s
Firestone-Buffalo hunt resulted to
day in a last-minute rule change
which the assembly archers de
clared would guarantee “clean
kills” of the three bulls slated for
bow-and-arrow deaths.
Under the original rules, tn
archers, armed with 60-pound
bows and standard broad-head a
rows, would have lined up at 7r
yards distance and fired one sho'
each until the bulls were brough
down.
At a mass meeting last night,
called in response to newspapei
charges that the hunt would be
“nothing short of murder,” the
archers voted to stalk the bulls and
fire at point-blank range if possi
ble to assure quick executions.
The vote was taken after Roy
Hoff of Los Angeles, editor o<
“Archery” magazine and 1945 na
tional bow champion, asserted that
“I cannot call my shots at 7"
yards.”
One of the latest organizations
to take up the cudgel in behalf of
I the buffalo was the Victoria, B. C.,
branch of the Society for the pre
vention of cruelty to animals. The
group sent wires to the Wyoming
j governor, Presidents of the Raw
lins chamber of commerce an 1
Eric H. Hansen, president of the
SPCA. in Boston asking the hunt
be stopped.
Photostats at The Nugget.
owned by residents of enemy
countries or enemy governments
is subject to seizure in wartime.
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Mob Kills Negro
In South Carolina
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PICKENS, S. C. (/P)—A band of
armed men early today removed a
Negro prisoner, Willie Earle. 25, of
Greenville, from the Pickens
county jail, an hour and a half
later his body was found on a road
in Greenville county.
"ousl before 5 o’clock this morn
ing, ’ saiJ 62-year-old jailo- J. Ei
Giistiap, “about 25 men knocked
at the front door. Then they c lrne
around to the back door. One of
them said they wanted the Meg!o'
and wouldn’t harm anybody else
Several of them carried shotguns
and most of them wore caps. Thw
made me go in and unlock th
cell. They took the Negro an
drove away in several cars. It was
then a little after 5 o’clock.”
About 6:45 o’clock the body of
the Negro, who had been arrested
for investigation in the stabbing
of a taxi driver, was found in ad
jacent Greenville county. Coroner
J. O. Turner, the first officer to
reach the body, said the body bore
stab wounds and that the head had
been shot through with a shotgun
charge.
Five Dead In
Oregon Fire
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (&)—
Firemen searched the charred
ruins of a three-story apartment
house today for the body of a wo
man missing in a fire that took the
lives of five tenants.
Fire chief Keith Ambro e si d
ihere was a possibility that 'V
woman was visiting out of t va”
yesterday when fire broke on* ir.
.he basement of the 31-apart men
brick and tile building ana r\ :.ck
ly engulfed the downtown st ue
ture.
Most of the 60 tenants e.wioed
through windows, were taken cfl
the roof by firemen or leape i from,
second floor windows when flames
blocked the main entrance. One
family dropped from the th'rd
floor by knotting bed sheets to
gether.
Chief Ambrose estimated dam
age at $200,000 and said his inves
tigation indicated the fire started
in an ash box near a basement
frieght elevator shaft.
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House Must lake
It Or Leave It
WASHINGTON, I/P) — Republi
can leaders decided today to pre
sent the proposed $6,000,000,000
slash in President Truman’s bud
get to the House in a form requir
ing the members to accept it with
out change or vote it down com
pletely.
Chairman Taber <R.-N. Y.> of
he appropriations committee an
urnce i after a meeting with
Speaker Martin and other G. O. P.
chieftains that he will seek a rule
forbidding amendments from the
facr. If he succeeds, this would
head off moves to reduce the slash
>m $6,000,000,000 to $4,500,000,
000.
Protesting that plan, Rep. Can
non iD.-Mo.) told reporters it was
“gag rule.”
The budget cut, approved by the
Senate-House budget committee,
will come before the House Thurs
day.
The first Chinese minister to
Colombia presented his credentials
in July, 1943.
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