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ONWAR POLICY ROUSE SENATE

View Aid to Democracies as Putting Defense Line Back in France.

CAPITAL HEARS DETAILS

Roosevelt Quoted as Saying _ He Will Support Nations Against Aggressors.

(National Affairs, Page Three) mer finns WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (U, P.).— President Roosevelt's policy of peacefully, but materially, aiding democracies against aggressor states was interpreted here and abroad today to have extended America’s defense line to its 1917 World War position in France. Secrecy imposed by the Presiden, shielding! his discussion of foreign policy and French air mission activities here, raised from Senator Hiram W. Johnson the sharp question: ! “Are we on the road to war?” ‘ From | Senate Military Affairs committeemen who talked with the President yesterday details of the discussion gradually were spreading through the capital. They said Mr. Roosevelt told them Lhe would support democracies against aggressors by active means but short of war. His remarks evidently were directed primarily at Germany and Italy, and probably through them to Japan. Senators variously -described his secret statement as alarming and as having indicated that the United States’ defensive frontier lay now iu Yrance.

French Deal Involved

The current instance of aid to the Sehiocracies is assistance given by Administration to France in pura se of American planes. If is rstood that French facilities cannot produce the volume of planes needed immediately there for defensive purposes and that American factories are expected to share the burden until they are diverted to construction of our own emergency “England also is purchasing planes here. The French enthusiasm for this assistance suggested, also, that Europeans may consider Americanmade fighting planes superior to any others. r. [Roosevelt| previously had drawn a defensive liné around the Western Hemisphere and invited sister republics and Canada to help defend it. He also has pledged the United States specifically to defend Canada against aggression. > | Attacked in Berlin f‘America’s boundary is the Rhine,” the Berlin newspaper Nachtausgabe said today in an attack-on the President’s conference with military affairs committeemen. Senator Johnson’s question whether the nation was war bound indicated the controvery may be extended to the Senate floor. ‘In the answer,” Johnson con-

: tinued, “every American has an in-

terest and deep concern. fIf our present dealings with the Prench mission or any of the rets now whispered about Washton indicate this, the American people are entitled to know it. If we are playing some supposedly clever diplomatic game that may place us in an equivocal position in

. the future, the American people are

ikewise entitled to know it. “To tell a committee of the Senate secrecy what concerns not only the Senate, but all our people, is to vite distortion and misapprehension of the facts.” The Administration evidently believed the issue should not pressed to public discussion and the Administration may prevail, although some senators were threatening further inquiry. Their interest may be jincreased by the statement of Air Minister Guy La ambre in the French chamber of puties. Hag “In helping France,” he said, “the nited States is helping peace. We 11 have good planes soon, thanks President Roosevelt.” ‘Senator Nye (R. N. D.), one of the committeemen, complained that “to (Continued on Page Three)

APPROVES PAYMENT ' BY UNION NATIONAL

man of about $90,000 dividends to 534 depositors of the nion National Savings and Loan ssociation, which was closed for voluntary liquidation Nov. 5, 1936, been authorized today by obate Judge Smiley N. Chambers. The dividend amounts to 5 per cent, bringing the total paid since the itution closed to 35 per cent, or a total of about $690,000. Mayor ullivan and Earl P, Ensley are uidators.

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William E. Borah

QUADS BORN TO TEXAS MOTHER

Four Girls ‘Doing Fine’; Smallest: Three Pounds, 13 Ounces.

GALVESTON, Tex., Feb. 1 (U.P). —Four girls were born today to Mrs. W. E. Badgett. Attendants at St. Mary's Infirmary said they “were doing fine” and that Mrs. Badgett was in “splendid condition.” Mr. Badgett, 35, a construction foreman, was plainly bewildered by the multiple births. ‘Doctors and the Badgetts had expected twins, possibly triplets, but quadruplets had not ‘even been thought of. The four little girls’ individual weights ranged from 3 pounds, 13 ounces to 4 pounds, 9% ounces. “Well, this puts me head and shoulders above Eddie Cantor,” Mr. Badgett said. “He only has five daughters. Now I have six.” The other Badgett children are Geneva, 15, and Elsie, 13. Mr. Badgett, who had been working in Louisiana, arrived just after the babies were born. “Names?” he asked. “No, we haven’t figured on the names. We might have had an idea for one or two names but no one ever thought about picking out four names. Any-| I'm too flustéred “to. think. This never happened to me before.” Mrs. Badgett, a native of Oklahoma, is 36 years old. Her husband is a Texan. There are four 8-year-old quadruplet boys at Beaumont, Tex. They are Anthony, Bernard, Carl and Donald Perricone—known as A, B, C and D.

MOTHER WEDS BOY SAME AGE AS SON

Times Special : LOGANSPORT, Feb. 1.—Mrs. Dorothy Stitt, 35, divorced mother of three children today was honeymooning with 17-year-old Warren Bowen, who is the same age as one of the bride’s sons. They had to delay getting their marriage license yesterday until Mrs.

Stitt had paid the costs of her recent divorce suit.

4 PERISH AS FIRE SWEEPS TENEMENT

Five Others Are Injured in Cleveland Blaze.

CLEVELAND, Feb. 1 (U. P).— Four persons perished today in a fire which swept an old tenement. The victims included an entire family—a widowed mothér and her two small children—and a man roomer in the: building. The dead: Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, 23; Everett, 5, her son; Clayton Jr. 2, another son, and an unidentified man believed to be William' Eich, about 50, a former city tuberculosis patient, who roomed alone. Thirteen roomers were traped on the top floor of the two-story structure when flames swept the full length of its narrow hall. Two others were burned seriously and three others injured in leaping 20 feet to the ground to escape.

PICHER, Okla., Feb. 1 (U, P).— Rescuers risking their own lives un-

|der falling rock worked desperately

today to reach two and possibly three men trapped by a mine cave-

to the surface. There was little hope that the missing men would be found alive. They were ong a reported crew of 38 working 150 feet underground in a high-vaulted “drift section’ of the Southern lead mine jus across the Kansas State line. The mine is one and one-half miles northwest of Picher. Three hundred tons of ore broke 8ifrom the ceiling of the drift late yesterday. A terrifying roar accom-

panied the collapse and moss of the the fall~

3|men. ran to safety thro

BORAHSENTTO [HOSPITAL WITH

SEVERE GRIPPE

Wife, Her Face Streaked by Tears, Goes Along With Ambulance.

SENATOR 73 YEARS OLD

Doctor Believed to Have Feared Complications at Advanced Age.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (U. P.).— Senator. Borah, 73-year-old dean of the Senate, was sent to a hospital in an ambulance today for treatment of a severe case ‘of grippe. It was believed that Mr. Borah’s physician, Dr. Worth Daniels, ordered him to the hospital in fear that his advanced age and weakened condition, which resulted from

«a serious illness last fall, might

cause complications, such as pneumonia. | Dr. George Calver, Congressional physician, announced: “Senator Borah has been taken to the hospital. He has a severe case of grippe. His condition so far is satisfactory.” . Serious Turn Feared

Illness of the Idaho Senator first became known yesterday, when bis office disclosed he was suffering from the grippe. His condition apparently took a sudden serious turn today and he was rushed to the hospital shortly before noon. Wrapped in blankets, Senator Borah was carried into the hospital.

Mrs. Borah, her face streaked with |

tears, had accompanied him in the ambulance. Mr. Borah’s powerful influence in international affairs in the Senaie made him one of the best known Americans in the world. A member of the Senate since 1907, he is best known for his work as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee while the Republican Party was in power. He is an outstanding isolationist whose influence has been a powerful factor in shaping American, foreign policy. Meanwhile, Vice President Garner

was confined to his hotel with what

was described as “a nasty cold.”

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SCHOOL VACCINATION RULING DUE FRIDAY

Survey of Pupils Being Made In War on Smallpox.

The City Health Board will decide Friday night whether to issue an order making smallpox vaccination compulsory for all public and parochial grade and high school pupils who have not been innoculated within the last 10 years, Dr. Herman G. Morgan, Board secretary, announced today The decision will be based on results of a survey to determine how many pupils have complied with the

Board’s request for voluntary vac-|

cination. Dr. Morgan said 136 cases of the disease were reported in the City last month. He said he would ask City Council for an additional ‘appropriation to provide care for smallpox patients to be housed in the. barracks on City Hospital grounds. Dr. Morgan conferred with W. J. Weaver, WPA area supervisor, who told him that the WPA was ready to begin construction on the barracks Monday.

STOCKS DRIFT.DOWN: GRAIN MARKET FIRM

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NEW YORK, Feb. 1 (U. P.)— After a rally from opening easiness disclosed a lack of follow-through buying, stocks drifted off to losses extending to almost 2 points today. Steel shares were weakest and alrcrafts gave up forenoon gains.

CHICAGO, Feb. 1 ( 1 (U. P.).—Wheat prices had a firm undertone on the Chicago Board of Trade today under the influence 3f a higher Liverpool market and a lack of moisture in the Southwest wheat belt. - At the end of the first hour wheat was up % cent, corn was up 1% to % cent and oats were % to %

in. Three bodies had been brought Kas.

cent higher.

150 Men Battle to Save Two Trapped in Mine

rescued, Officials of the Dines Ming Co., owners, thought possibly ve menywere missing, but they listed only’ Harry Bertram, Galena, Kas., and Frank: Porter, Riverton,

One hundred fifty volunteers descended to the horizontal level and with shovels and jackhammers tore into t boulders and rubble that filled the missing miners had Y3und any sanctuary on the other side of the debris. If so, there likely would be little air. But the rescuers planned to drive through an air pipe as soon as they could. Weeping relatives and curious persons were at the shaft openi-8 in bitter cold weather. The Red set yp an. T ;

e drift. They doubted that]

Indiana House Hooked

Fee for Women. :

EMININE anglers found: & stanch supporter today in Rep. Herbert Evans (R. Castle)—but their prowess ‘with rod and reel very nearly threw a hook in the p

Rep. Evans took the floor i e

today’s session of the House of Representatives and asked backing

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would reduce the price, women’s fishing licenses. trot $1.50 to 50 cents.” LE “Women aren’t .as entaumspie C fishermen as men,” he said. * ey: usually prepare the lunch

mayhe fish for just a few minutes. =

The license isn’t worth $1.50 to them.”

Elberfield) leaped to his feet: “Why penalize men since the average woman can catch’ oe ae

a

many fish in a day as any man,” p

But before the 99 male rep= resentatives could ponder : this point, Rep. Evans asked for a roll: call and the bill passed and was

sent to the Senate with only two ¥

dissenting votes. Rep. Bess Robbins Kaufman (D. Indianapolis), only woman legis~ lator, thanked the House for its | “chivalry.” » 2 8

MY Darling Child! BUCHAREST, Rumania, Feb. 1 (U. P.).—~The widow Yona Trachesu, 42, and her unmarried = daughter Judith, 18, both claimed today to be

the mother of the same baby.

Authorities of the town of Oradea were faced with a Solomon-like judgment when the widow, charged her daughter with kidnaping the 18-months-old child.

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Frankfurter Fidgety

ASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (U.P), —Justice Felix Frankfurter appeared today to be a candidate for the title of most restless Justice ‘of the Supreme Court. Mr. Frankfurter, after spending two full days in his new position, seems: to dislike listening for hours . to attorneys arguing technical legal points on which he formerly. delivered lectures. During a typical five-minute period court spectators have seen Mr. Frankfurter: Tilt his chair back and gaze at 3he ceiling; Joe: do’ note ona piece of

wise to i his colleagties; iy

from a glass of water; confer with his neighbor, Justice Black; read from a printed brief, and perhaps question the pleading attorney in a jerky, nervous voice.

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Those Double Bills!!

NEW YORK, Feb. 1 (U. P.). -—Mrs. Mary Faherty, seeking $100,000 damages from the F. W. Woolworth Co. as the result of a fall in a five and ten cent store, testified today that because of her injuries she was able to see only four motion pictures in five years. “You haven’t missed much,” Supreme Covet Justice Thomas Cuff remarked.

Well, Slap Me Down!

HICAGO; Feb. 1 (U. P.).—A ruling of Circuit Judge Philip J. Finnegan held today that a man can slap his wife as hard as he wants to as long as he doesn’t kill her. ~ He made the ruling yesterday in denying Mrs. Mary Kuhar, 21, an afttraetive blond, a divorce from her husband, John Kuhar Jr.,, a drummer in a dance band. She had asked the divorce on the grounds of cruelty, charging he had slapped her twice within a period of six days last June because she wouldn’t go to a dance. “The slaps left red marks on my face,” she said. “That wasn’t cruelty within the “meaning of the law,” Judge Fin-~ negan said. “Cruelty must consist of violence great enough to endanger life. A man has a right to slap his wife as hard as he wants if he doesn’t kill her, and if more of them did so there would be fewer divorces. “I won’t grant a divorce on the evidence I have heard in this case.”

RENE BAKERY OWNER DIES WHILE WALKING

Frank R. Knoth, 43, of 6517 Riverview Drive, proprietor of the .lene Bakery, 114 Monument Circle, died at 7 a. m. today while he was walk= ing in the 6400 block on Park Ave. Death was due to heart disease, Dr. D. E. Wood, deputy coroner, said. Lester Sisson, a driver for the Banquet Milk Co., saw Mr. Knoth fall to the sidewalk and cailed police. Mr. Knoth came to Indianapolis 14 years ago from Cleveland. | He is survived by his wife, Irene, a daughter, Doris Knoth of Cleveland, and his mother, Mrs. Agnes, Knoth, of Avon, O. He was a member of the First Friends Church.

DEWEY BELITTLES

NEW TORK, Feb. 1 (U. P)~—A re e fingerprints of George Weinberg, the State’s key witness the trial of Tammany Leader James J. Hines, were not on the gun with which he killed him-!$

self Sunday, was sent to Governor |s

Letunan by a Nassau County egim

Craossiinal lawyer

Votes to Cut Fishing i :

Rep. William E. Gibbons @ |

bill to enable students the absent voter bal-

need “to third reading s vide $625,000 ckers who

in the pei on oer Ag lig- . (Page Five). Sa S a public hearing P. m. on the House

;eaders of both parties conie study of State’s finan-

20onducts a public hearing #4 p. m. on the Senate bill j repeal the Full Train Crew

elays committee action on yeral liquor bills including Be Administration’s measure. i Dean William Dirks, of Defauw University, to testify jefore Senate Textbook In-

a Committee. (Page ve)

ile the House Public Morals

Committee prepared to hold a pub-|.

lic Bearing on the Republican-spon-liquor reform bill, a measure wal introduced in the Senate today vide “home rule” or local op- . control of alcoholic beverages. feanwhile, legislative leaders of 1 h .parties ‘continued to search for a¥s of balancing the new biennial [get following yesterday's confer= We with Governor Townsend. &wo minor bills were passed by Senate today and sent to the i Only

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afer the Florida. Hombre Exemption Act.

Attacks Planning Board |

A Republican - measure to abolish the State Planning Board was introduced by Senator William E. Jenner (R. Shoals), minority floor leader. Senator Jenner said “with the budget out of balance, I think we ought to start cutting down on ; boards and bureaus.” The local option bill was introduced by Senator Larry Brandon (D. Auburn) and prcvides that residents of any of four political subdivisions—county, ward, township or community—may petition to hold an election to determine whether the majority of the residents are id favor of barring liquor. The “community” subdivision is defined in the bill and would include cities and towns. A petition of 15 per cent of the qualified voters of any of the subdivisions would be sufficient to demand an election. It does not, however, provide penalties for violating the decision of the election. “This bill was drafted largely to

|bring to a head the local option

issue,” Senator Brandon said. “It was drafted by the home rule advocates to feel out the sentiment on the issue. If there is sentiment for it, there will be plenty of time to put teeth in it.” Salary Bill Stirs Debate A resolution agreeing to a proposed Constitutional amendment requiring that all funds from motor vehicle and vehicle fuel taxes shall be used solely for highways was introduced on resubmission by Senator Alden Allison (D. Connersville). The resolution was passed by the 80th General Assembly. A heated debate arose on second reading of a bill which would permit county commissioners in four counties, with populations between 27,000 and 34,000, to increase Circuit and Superior Court judges’ salaries on petition of 100 freeholders. Senator Walter Vermillion

(D. Anderson) was able to kill the|

bill. after he declared “I move to indefinitely postpone the bill because I am opposed to raising| salaries at this time.” His motion was passed on voice vote. ‘A measure to clarify the Indianapolis Police and Fire Departments merit law by specifying the method by which the chiefs of the two departments may be rémoved is being Studied in House Committee." The bill is sponsored by the City Administration. . Mayor Sullivan said that a 1937 amendment which (Continued on Page Five)

SENATOR MINTON’S FATHER DEAD AT 76

Times Special : ‘WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—Senator

{Minton was notified of the death

WEINBERG RUMOR 2s moms

of his father, John E. Minton, st Ft. Worth, Tex. He was

7 ximeial services are 1 5a held a Georgetown, Ind., Saturday. Senator Minton, his wife and family will attend. The elder Minton was a naFloyd County, as was the

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MERCH S FORERUNNE OF NEW STORM

Rivers Up in Face of

Duchess Molly’

Times-Acmeé Photo. Molly O’Daniel, daughter of the new Governor of Texas, has been appointed grand duchess of Texas to rule over the Mardi Gras in Galveston, Feb. 17 to 21. She is 17 years old and Irish—of course.

IN. Y. WALKING IN

ELEVATOR TIEUP

4000 Building jiding Employes Strike for 40-Hour Week, 15 Per Cent Raise.

NEW YORK, Feb. 1 (U. P)— Elevator operators and other employees of 600 of the city’s buildings

—most of them in the congested garment center—went on strike today to force acceptance of a labor contract. £ Union officials said the strike had “paralyzed” business operations in the district, Approximately 4000° were: on strike, union officials: said at ‘midmorning, predicting ‘ that 4000 others soon would join the walkout, = Tens of thousands - .of workers arriving ati lofts, factories and offices 30 stories high—without elevator = service and picket lines formed on siflewalks outside. The district is one of the most heavily unionized in the country,

‘We're Going to Hit . . .’

As workers milled in building. lobbies or moved out into normally crowded streets, James J. Bambrick, president of Local 32B of the Building Service Employees Union, asserted that the strike was apparently 100 per cent in 300 of the buildings and would soon be in complete force in the 600 buildings. “We're going to hit with everything we've got,” he said. “We are prepared for a long siege—a month’s

battle if necessary.” A three-year contract between the union and the Penn Zone and Midtown Realty Associations expired at midnight. The union demands a 40-hour week and a 15 per cent wage increase, Formerly they worked a 48-hour week at wages ranging from $23 to $26.75. One estimate was that 250, 000 persons were affected -by the strike.

TAX DELINQUENTS WILL BE PENALIZED

Thousands cf persons who failed to file their 1938 gross income tax returns before the deadline last midnight face a 10 per cent penalty, Clarence A. Jackson, State Gross

Income Tax director, said today. Mr. Jackson said indications from branch managers throughout the state point to larger receipts than for the previous year. Thirty-three ‘branch income tax offices in the City were crowded all day yesterday until closing time, it|2 was reported. Thousands of returns placed in the mails before midnight were being received today. Mr. Jackson said no definite esti-

operators

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The Shadow!

Don’t Let Him Scare You, Groundhog, We "Want Spring.

By JOE COLLIER

[=e are 584,164 groundhogs in Indiana as of today. As of tomorrow, all 584,164 of them are supposed to wake up, creep out of their dens, and take a look at the weather. So far so good. The theory is that if a groundhog sees his

den, go back to sleep, and there wil! be six more weeks of winter. The State Conservation Department, which was good enough to count the groundhogs, says that it is not improbable . that most, if not all, ‘of them actually will poke their noses into the air tomorrow and see what happens. Not only that, the Department says, but if the weather is too cold, there is a good chance that each and every groundhog will promptly pull his nose back into the den, yawn, and settle down for more sleep.

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HAT’S as far as the Department will go, and a darn sight farther than J. H. Armington, meteorologist, will go. Mr. Armington doesn’t know anything about groundhogs, except that they don’t make sense about weather. Apparently where ' the entire groundhog-weather system breaks down is that. there are too many groundhogs. : The following list of questions was compiled by the Conservation Department, the Weather Bureau, and other inerested mparties. gi they are answered logfcally, they don’t want to hear anything more about Groundhog Day. What groundhog, in Indiana, hes to see whose shadow to “authenticate the: forecast, how is - he selected, and how “else “to identify him? hogs are very secretive.) ‘Also, how does g groundhog get that way?

WOMAN KILLED IN TRAIN-AUTO GRASH

Mrs. Eleanor Canepa, 51, of 2530 Ransdell St., was killed almost instantly this afternoon when her avtomobile was struck by a freight train at the Madison Ave. crossing of the Belt Railroad. ‘The car was carried about 100 yerds down the track on the front of the locomotive before the train could be stopped. <The body was wedged so tightly in the wreckage of the car that it cculd not be removed by police al id the train crew until the car had been pried from the front of the locomotive. ‘Mrs. €anepa’s husband, Nicholas F. Canepa, was notified by police and hurried to the scene, where he identified the body. He said he returned home a short time before the accident and found a note left by Mrs. Canepa saying she was going downtown.

CITY’S TRAFFIC TOLL IS PARED TWO-THIRDS

Indianapolis’ traffic fatality toll was cut more than a third in January, compared with January, 1938, according to police records. Only three traffic deaths within the City limits were reported last Hon, as compared with 10 a year

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She victims who were injured and died last month were Patrick J. Troy, 68, of 541 W. Merrill St; Ms. Ida Plummer, 65, of 235 E.

mate of the total collection could

Vermont St., and Walter Mays, 50, Lockefield ‘Gardens.

be made for several days.

‘Portable schools in the Butler University district were described as

‘| “cow sheds” last night at the Indi-

anapolis School Board meeting as parents of School 86 pupils demanded a modern school building. ‘Residents in the district have had to contend with portables for 11 years with their accompanying health and educational handicaps, it was declared by Mrs. George H. Denny, 4617 Sunset Ave., and Dudley Smith, 4338 N. Tilinols St., who led the delegation. “They are ice boxes in winter and bake ovens in the spring and fall,” Mr. Smith said. “Sunlight filters through the flimsy weather sides and one cannot hold a lighted candle near them on a windy day. Dust and coal smoke add to the floor drafts which filter in.” President Earl Buchanan told the

{delegaiion 3 committee would study

Portable Schools Scored As ‘Cow Sheds’ by Parents

Harvey B. Hartsock, chairman of the Board's building committee. The Board awarded a contract to the Sinker Davis Co. on a bid of $352 to build a new steel smoke stack for School 86 portables. 1t was said that the present 62 foot stack is in danger of crashing through one of the classrooms as it is badly rusted and allows smoke to escape Harry V. Wade, 1201 Golden Hill Drive, representing the ParentTeacher Association of School 60), presented a petition for an audi-

school. The Indianapolis school debt is now the lowest since 1924, Mr. Good reported to the Board. It has been cut from $11,325,000 in 1928 to. $9,839,000 at the end of 1939, he said. Public schools are educating more children at a lower unit cost than 10) years ago, he said. The gross

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torium-gymnasium addition to the

Rains Forecast forTonight.

PLAINS LASHED

Help Is Speeded to Suffering New Mexico Town.

TEMPERATURES

32 11 a.m... 32 12 (moon). 33 1pm... 35 2p mM... 36 Temperatures mounted rapidly in Indianapolis today but the warmer weather was believed only a foree runner of a new storm reported sweeping toward the State. A 14-point climb from 32 degrees at 6 a.m, to 46 at 2 p. m., was

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40 43. 45 46

a prediction of rain tonight and much colder weather tomorrow was made. Little danger of floods in the State exists, unless the new storm, heade ed from the Rocky Mountains, cone tains an unusual amount of rain, according to J. H. Armington, meteorologist. Mr. Armington said the drop in temperatures will not start before tonight but will be below freezing by morning. Rain is predicted tonight for the south ‘and central portions of the State while rain or snow is expected in the.northern part. Meanwhile rivers throughout the State were reported slowly rising with rain and snow of the last few days. o

~ Portions of the White River, south of Indisnapons are ‘above | flood: stage, Mr. Arn

1% fionl . ATS the aot “flood level and it is expected to go slightly higher, the Weather Bureau re«ported. At Terre Haute the Wabash 1s falling, Mr. Armington said. The: White River west fork through / Green County to Petersburg is above: flood level and from Petersburg to: Hazelton the river is at flood stage’ now and is expected to go two feet higher. The Ohio River at Evansville is expected to, pass the flood stage of 36 feet the latter part of the week. The river has risen 4.7 feet there during the past 24 hours and is now at 26 feet.

Roads Cleared of Snow

. Traffic was resumed late yesterday in the northern section of the State as all roads were cleared of snow, the State Highway Department reported. In southern sections, highways blocked by high water were expected to be open to traffic today. Those which were inundated were Indiana 57 at Buckskin, Indiana 64 east of Huntingburg, 157 between Blooms field and Worthington, Indiana 59 north of Clay City, Indiana 42 at Poland, and Indiana 56 at French Lick. Two airliners were forced to ree main at Municipal Airport yesters day.

New Storm Roars ‘Over Plains States id

By United Press

A hew snowstorm roared over the Northern Plains States today but the weatherman believed it would spare most of the storm-weary area still recovering from .Monday’s blizzard. U. S. Forecaster H. A. Downs ab Chicago said heavy snow was falls ing over the extreme North Central States. The storm centered over northeastern Nebraska this morning, he said, and’ ‘will sweep over the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Upper Great Lakes. He reported the new: storm ale

|ready had left four to seven inches

of snow in South Dakota. Other areas in the Midwest and East will have only light snows, Mr. Downs said, and will be less affected by the moderate cold wave following in the wake of today’s storm.

First Storm Wearing Out

The first blizzard which crossed the eastern half of the nation Mone day and yesterday, bringing death to more than 50 persons and paralyzing transportation and coms. munication, was reported dissipate. = along the Atlantic Seaboard toe y. The second storm already has covered Rocky Mountain States with one of the heaviest snowfall§ of the winter. Logan, Utah, ree ported 18 inches of snow. In New Mexico State Police with. a patrol car and snow plows were fighting drifts to reach an isolated community 48 miles northeast of" Albuquerque where an airplane pilot sighted a huge wal Theip cut in the snow. « The New York City mi area expected a low temperature of 15 degrees today, with rain or snow tomorrow. New York City paves

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