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Signed by Judge Curtis Grover Shake, who was Chairman of the Indiana Territory Sesquicentennial Commission. He served as a Judge on the Indiana Supreme Court from 1938 to 1945. From 1947 to 1948, he was in Germany where he presided as a civilian judge over the prosecution of IG Farben in one of the Nuremberg trials which the U.S. convened after World War II. Farben was accused of using slave labor from Auschwitz in manufacturing synthetic rubber during the conflict. Ten of the defendants were acquitted. However, thirteen received 2-to 8-year prison sentences%u2014mild punishments for which Shake was harshly criticized in the press. When he returned to Indiana, Shake practiced law in Vincennes, and was a longtime member of Vincennes University%u2019s Board of Trustees.Signed by Francis Albert Reiman, who was General Chairman of the local Vincennes Sesquicentennial Celebration Committee. In 1934, Reiman ran for Mayor of Vincennes. Initially he appeared to win by 15 votes, however a recount gave the victory to Joseph W. Kimmell by a margin of just 7 votes. Afterward, he became a Vincennes realtor. In 1949, he served as an Assistant Clerk on the Committee on Education and Labor in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1951, he was named local Chairman of the Red Cross. Reiman died in 1957, at the age of 56.