Show I World News Today Fritz Thyssen Found Guilty of Nazi Help Compiled From Chicago Daily News UP AP and INS Reports Fritz Th former Ruhr steel magnate was found guilty as a R minor nazi by a German court in Koenig The defendant 73 was ordered to turn 15 of his hs available property in Germany into a restitution fund for victims of nazi persecution n. n A Thyssen was accused of having supported Hitler Hitler Hit Hit- ler as far back as 1923 allegedly having made subi substantial sub sub- i contributions contribution's to nazi part parly funds The jury found the former magnate magnate- had essentially promoted promoted pro pro- i 4 I tj w i the nazi party It found also he had become c a nazi nail b by personal conviction well before 1932 broke with Hitler and fled led to Switzerland S J i when the nazi policy led to war 1 When the verdict was pronounced Thyssen dressed in gray and leaning on a walking stick smiled slightly and said Im lm satisfied Im I'm Im I'm sat- sat Thyssen Pope Condemns Finance Practices Pope Pius XII condemned practices of public finance which he said are undermining the moral conscience of the people The pope addressed delegates of 10 nations to a conference in Rome of the International Institute of Public Finance He scored financial leaders who guided by interest or partisan spirit or considerations more sentimental than reasonable treat public fi finance fi- fi nance with ith greater ardor and assurance than competence Such policies he said are too often dictated by false or unhealthy Ideologies The pontiff declared that the tile Catholic church cannot contemplate contemplate contemplate plate with indifference this crisis that in reality is a crisis of con con- science Eire May ay Leave Commonwealth The London Daily Herald quoted Eires Eire's Prime Minister John Costello as saying that Eire will leave eave the Ule British commonwealth within a month I The paper quoted Costello to the effect that Eires Eire's parliament will consider legislation to scrap the external relations relations' act of 1936 Under this ruling ruling- the governor g generalship was abolished but the British king was authorized to act for Eire Eiro in external affairs Chiang Admits Reds Circle City reports said that Chinh ien important Manchurian Manchurian Manchurian Man- Man city miles north of the great wall had at last been en encircled en encircled circled b by Communist troops northern rail terminus of the combined railway-airlift railway supply route to Mukden has been a major objective in the Red drive to cut the Manchurian corridor Radio contact with rail town only 65 miles north of the great wall was broken indicating that a Red column may have captured it Papers Report Red Zone Strife The western Berlin press reported new evidences of unrest Inthe Inthe in inthe the Soviet-occupied Soviet zone of Germany One dispatch said the Russians broke a down sit hunger strike in Goerlitz Saxony with threats to plunder the city Another said Germans in Jena Thuringia draped a Communist office with Nazi swastika flags and daubed with tar a monument honoring honoring- Nazi concentration camp victims The Russian- Russian controlled press admitted recently that there have been food shortages shortages shortages short short- ages and e actions against Soviet anti elements clements in eastern castern Germany The western powers acted in Berlins Berlin's newspaper war They ordered German police into stations of the Russian-controlled Russian elevated railway railway railway rail rail- way to protect the sate sal of western western-li western licensed papers |