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sire is off, they - rim army ‘will of its 1,500,000

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| RUSS STAND PUTS ~~ BYRNES ON SPOT

Moscow Statement That Troops Will Remain in Parts of Iran Comes After Secretary of State’s Warning.

By LYLE C. WILSON: - United Press Stafr Corfesporident A 3 WASHINGTON, March 2.—The Soviet Union put Secretary of State James F. Byrnes on the spot today by refusing to’ make good on a proniise. to withdraw its forces from Iran. ‘Moscow's announcement that some parts of Iran (Persia) would con=-j ° tinue to be occupied came less than. 24 hours after Mr. Byrnes’ speech

announcing a no-appeasement policy toward the Soviet Union” . He sald, specifically, that there

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sent-of the latter. If Moscow persists in occupation of Iranian provinces Mr. Byrnes will be under strong pressure to protest and make it stick if possible. Critics Alarm Leaders ... The alternative which would get

"him off the spot would be agree- Planned to Aid Europe. ment by the Iranian government to

continued occupation. . WASHINGTON, March 2 (U. P). The administration already ' ja| —~Ameri¢an housewives awaited furalarmed by the vigor with which its| ther word today on how they-can critics are demanding a stronger|..ut corners on food so that milhand in dealing with Moscow, lions in Europe and Asia. will, not A senator told the United Press starve '}: today that Mr. Byrnes’ Thursday A

“night speech was revised constder- The President's. food-saving con- | S ff Li t 4. P of P| + ably after an address delivered in|ference sald yesterday that to pre- arno IS S oin an O Aid Collective Bargaining uarj-Pebruary United Nations as- {wheat and stop wasting other foods.

ly meeting in London. It said consumption and wastage NEW YORK, March 2 (U. P.)w—) “TWO: Facts are vital, but their Reporting to the senate, Mr. Van- | of fats and oils particularly “must; David Sarnoff, who arose “from proper interpretation and their denberg conceded the right of Mos- | 9° substantially “ reduced” . if this| \newshoy to. become president of | practical relationship to the probcow to speak up. But he called for | country is to meet its obligations | Radio Corporation of America, to- lems both sides. face are also very an equally tough and out-spoken | ‘© humanity. day advanced a four-point program important. And here is the root of American policy in dealing’ with The specific plan by. which this| which -he believed could settle many | ‘much misunderstanding. Sometimes, the “Russians. [saving is to be accomplished was problems of bok I think that 50 per cent of the y not disclosed but Secretary of Ag-|and managenien trouble is dye to misunderstandou Thun ed riculture Clinton P. Anderson said| -Mr. Sarnoff re- Ling of each other's purposes and the speech would permit the Repub- hoped to have additional de-|centty assisted in "remaining 50 per cent is due to licans to put the administration ar [4118 Soot, Javeriiga a understanding of each other's pura disadvantage by getting all credit| He said the program would save | ened Vl b or poses. for advocating & stronger position {about 2,000,000 tons of wheat and | ransher a fon “THREE: In genuine collective toward Moscow. would be completely voluntary, call- | strike and settle- bargaining, one must try first of all |ing for the co-operation of restau-| [ment of the tug- to clear up the black shadows of rants and hotels as well as indi- | boat strike. misunderstanding. Until this is

X \ The stale deparment ordered a | viduals. His program done, the atmosphere is likely to be

ON FOOD PLAN

Cut in Consumption, Waste

Josephine Judex : (left), 19, and Jeanne Brennen, 18,-who admitted reaching this country by stowing away on an American ship at Liverpool, England, sample wedding rings z‘ a Chicago department Store. Immigration authorities have informed them that unless they marry an American they will have to return to England, Jeanne declares she may wed a Baltimore, Md., sailor, Josephine, however, is ‘unable to make a satisfactory selection. 7

Vandenberg (R. Mich.). Mr. Van- | jcans must eat 25 r cent less rf was a delegate to the Jan-| 8 De

) | pro d: bundle of Mr. Vandenberg's | Hoover Named Chairman propose charged with useless heat instead

{ “ONE, in deal- \ h for study the day before, ne conference then: officially! | ing NE. 3 man. of useful light. If the first Half is - Mr.\ Byrnes’ text was released.

Acting. Chairman Walter

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SPAIN CHARGES | HOSTILE ACTS|

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Communique on France Bares ‘Bloody Clashes.’

MADRID, March“ 2+(U, P.).—! Gen, Francisco. Franco's “govern | ment today accused France of hos-| tile acts. He admitted that Spanish * Republican guerrillas = from France “are carrying on a “terror-| ism” campaign in the interior of Spain.

munique after a long night session in Franco's home. 2 Meanwhile, the ‘last-minute announcement by Francis Cardinal Spellman that he would not come to Spain for the elaborate public]

ROME, March 2 (U. P.),— Francis Cardinal Spellman has advised the American embassy in-Madrid that he will not have time to attend a diplomatic reception in his honor in Madrid on | his way home, it was learned today. i |

ceremonies planned in hisshonor today caused great excitement among Spanish government officials. Franco's communique disclosed a

“Inumber of “bloody clashés” along

the frontier between Spanish forces and groups of Spanish or French Communists—“in many cases with! the complicity and protection of French local authorities.” France was charged with “mis-, treating” Spanish Republican exiles. Spain also blamed France for attacks against Spanish consulates in Algiers and southern France, re-| ceiving former Spanish Republican! cabinet ministers and campaigning against Spain in the. United -Nations. The government assailed what it’ called “a new- international Communist offensive against Spain.” Cardinal Spellman’s absence up-| set elaborate plans for his reception in Madrid today. The governs ment had announced that Cardinal Spellman would impart his blessing to 50,000 persons in the central post office square at 4:30 p. m, At night | he was to be the guest at agovern- | ment dinner. | The American embassy had issued 450 invitations to a reception for the cardinal at 7 p. m.

George (D. Ga.) of the senate for- | ident Herbert Hoover, who directed economig, factors are involved. Men PrOBTess begins on the second half | European relief in world war I, as|and women, as well as machines and | WDich deals with the real substance.

eign elations committee, said];

| honorary chairman. th “POUR: In the area of subthe Uhited Nations security council] mathematies, are jueluded in thei

Chester Davis, former war food problem. Emotion, as well as rea- stance, each side must be willing] must take steps if Moscow persists’ administrator and president of the son, is part of the picture. Seldom to make reasonable concessions from | in refusing to leave Iran. | Federal Reserve bank of St. Louis, are the colors of the picture clearly their original purposes without sac- | Senator Joseph H. Ball (R. Minn. | was given the job of expanding the black and white. The shades of rificing basic principles. This is the said the terms of the withdrawal ppc .He will organize a committee | color in between these two, often essence of genuine collective bar-| agreement still are binding and! or 75 nationally known figures to give a more accurate reflection of gaining and successful negotiations '

that the. question must be raised | work with the program. | the Teal substance. | between labor and management.” before the Uiitpy Nations again |

The security council meets March | 21 in New York, . Senator H. Styles Bridges (R N. H) said “Russia evidently does not take Secretary Byrnes’ soeech

Mr. Hoover recommended that; . Mr. Anderson be given complete control over all the nation’s food | resources. He said he felt this was| necessary because no organization |

‘Counter Attack’ Rockets | To Be Tested by U.S. Army

seriously when they take centrary “outside - the government, Wiough action. -I shall be. interested in helpful, would cover the whole] ; e emergency.” { By Scienve Service command laboratories and véterans

. Byrnes’ next ste e Russ urs is contrary to) The. Riusgan Next Fouf Months ‘Critical’ WABHING TON, March 2. from Iran was on the route of a iend-| He reiterated his belief that when ~ counter-attack” lease pipe line to the Soviet Union Europe reaps her first harvest in explode enemy jet-propelled misBig Three troops were billeted | June the “problem will be solved.” [siles harmlessly in mid-air may be | ‘there. All United States troops ‘Mr. Hoover said the next four the answer to the problem of a de- |, > Means must be found to dehave been withdrawn., London months will be “critical.” He said|fense against attacks from the sky (fend our country against a’sudden announced that 600 Britisn troops mass starvation overseas was averted : ks trom the sky enemy rocket attack,” Brig. Gen. remaining would be out by\the end after the last war simply by supply- in a future war, believe army ex- | | William L. Richardson, chief of the of this week. ‘ing the needed amounts of wheat Pers. who will conduct tests of cap- guided missiles division of the air mr and fats and oils. He sald he Jured German V-2 weapons at the staff, said.

Britain Considers | thought this same pattern could be White - Sands, N. M., proving, “We want to develop a method : | followed satisfactorily during the grounds this summer. |whereby we can intercept enemy | Protest to Russia present emergency. lier wy meting SF radar de- rockets in mid-air, We cannot hope : | Mr. Hoover said the. FEC must in- amous ‘to do this, however, until we dis- . P)— ; ; . gama ux oh stitute a food-saving drive in this! 100n radar” equipment, will be cover a method of “tracing their | 18 d < ie To country appealing to the “moral used to plot the course of the cap-/ [course through the sky and pre- | vacation today to consider a British’ {tured rockets as they are sent|d tad Le : rotest to Russia against retention\ Sense” of the American people. elermimmg théir-a1e of Might, p g He said he felt that if the people streaming into the sky during the | «once w omplish this,” deof Soviet troops in Iran, on which \ tests. From thes we accomp is, e London: sisbatt-had-Boen in ouch are well informed of thé needs’ ese experiments, the | 15r65 Gen Richardson, “it will be : anny abroad they will react quickly with 3Xmy hopes to develop‘methods of sibl i ' - i with Washington. defens or possible to design a ‘counter attack The foreign office, disclosing the » 'Pirit of co-operation to carry out ig e against jet-propelled at-|.,.xet which will be controlled by consultation. between the British ~ yoluntaty program. Re {radar and will be capable of interand American governments on the

the European occupational’

[the A. A. F. while army ordnance |experts fire the Nazi rockets.

ada . fr r devices can. successfully |cepting the enemy rocket ata pre-

hart. th rs : iles~ vreh ; ind " Russian stand, implied possibility of COOGAN. PROPOSES TO Ie oy sl Pillans {determined point in-its course. . a joint protest to Moscow and a re- | Gen. Richardson said that the quest for clarification of the Soviet BLOND SHOW GIRL peris say that iv showd be possible {A. A. F. has been working on a de-

explode énemy. rockets in mid- i ; stand. ; a HOLLYWOOD, March. 2 (U. P.):[g4; by a_radar-controlled “counter- | fense against rockets since the first

—Anne McCormick, blond night attack” rocket, With radar charting | Ot Man V-2 landed accidentally in CAPEHART URGES club.entertainer, and onetime child the course of a missile as it, heads | Sv cae” I ue Sulyma » 1943, and MERGER OF UNITS actor Jackie. Coogan today sought lowstd fhe TORY, they say that Toll ra, Tense a % : may be possible to se ts Senator Homer E. Capehart said ner family's ruling on their pro- ,.. TE flight of the enemy |cXpected Irom the. tests’ with the today he would urge that the office Posed marriage. ‘Weapon to explode it high in the | Nazi missiles, * of price administration and the Miss McCormick, who met air. ak civilian ‘production: administration Coogan when they appeared to- | Must Chart Flight | PLENTY SHOES SEEN P gether in a floor show at Slapsie| The tests this summer will be| BOSTON, March 2 (U. P.).—The| be combined. Maxie Rosenbloom's night club, dis-{sonducted on a course 150 miles | nation’s shoe industry will achieve | Mr. Capehart said he would in-|closed that Coogan had proposed t0 jong and 50 miles wide with the [an all-time production high of 550,- | vee : ht in the yepate to i and said she may accept if her ordnance. air forces and signa! | 000,000 pairs of shoes in 1946, execu- | effect, shortly after he returns to family approves. corps of the army cooperating in |tive- vice president Maxwell Field,

Washington next Monday. She said she will leave Tuesday ihe ex eriments. Offi cers and: civ- h thMr. Capehart made the statement to join Coogan in New York and P technical rors of ee rf ley Ls |

upon. his return here from Los|talk to her family. She was di-|

iliang from air

rockets sent up to lair force will man radar devices for |

ZONING BOARD'S LIFE EXTENDED FOR WEEK

The Marion county board of zon-

ing appeals yesterday was given a week's lease on life.

County Commissioners William

{Bosson Jr. and Ray D. Mendenhall

amended an order issued Tursday

{abolishing the board. Mr. Bosson,

president of the hoard of commissioners, said it would be kept in

| force for a week because “without a

zoning board any person would be

at liberty to build any kind of struc-

ture anywhere in the OILY “With out, restriction.” The avowed intention of both in {abolishing the board is to reinstate Claude E. Hixon as county building | commissioner. Mr. Hixon was “fired” several weeks .ago by the Marion county plan commission . whose membership also forms the zoning board.

0K REMOVAL OF TWO “STARS-STRIPES MEN

TOKYO, March 2 (U. P.).—Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters today approved an official report

{recommending that two non-com-

missioned officers, whose loyalty was found “unimpeached.,” be removed from the editorial staff of the army newspaper Stars and Stripes because of “questionable” discretion and ‘integrity. The report recommended that the two meh, Sgt. Kenneth L. Pettus,

| Chicago, managing editor, and Cpl

Bernard D. Rubin, . Waterbury, Conn., “columnist, be sent to the Yokohama replacement depot for normal reassignment instead of {Okinawa where they were ordered sent Feb. 7. Both had protested | het Okinawa assignments.

STOPS TOOTH DECAY MOSCOW, March 2 (U. P.).— | Soviet scientists have concocted - a | toothpaste which they say will prevent tooth decay and enable the user to retain a gleaming set of natural choppers indefinitely, the | Russian medical magazine Ogonek reported today.

Angeles, where he attended hear- | vorced several years ago from Clarings by the senate small business ence Stroud of the Stroud twins | committee. > | comic team.

This Curious World

“EVENTS TODAY Bankers Lite Insurance, By Ferguson m, Claypool Louise Coverdill, 1047 E. Vermont

Robert Farrell. Wheeler, Fort Harrison; | Florence Evelyn Thompson, Cariisle

luncheon, 12:35| Max Keily Morris, Noblesville; Mary

Claypool. | dance, 6:30 p. m,, 1 Taft, Plaza hotel {John R. Wood, Clayton, Catherine Klatte, | 1230 W. 36th

| Atkins Pioneer Club, bRRgast, 6:30 p. m,, ll | Severin | | Mercator club, dinner, 7 p. m, Lincoln,

La | Russell Benton Hottel, 3360 N, Meridian x —————— Marie Alexander, 1501 Maple rd. ON A WOMAN IS a . il | / y 9 + Hans R. Hauke, Camp ‘Atterbury; ‘Dagmar CONSPICUOUS... | EVENTS MONDAY G. Serstad, 412 N. Alabama | ¢ . BUT THE LEOPARD ll {Service club, luncheon, 12:15 pm, | | Mausies, Les Jutsiht, 20 N. Oxtord; I Claypool . WEARS [V TO BE Scientech eclub,. luncheon,” 12:15 p.m. | a Claypool, BIRTHS Indianapolis Fire Prevention. association, Twins _luncheen, 11:30 a. m., Washington, | At S( Vincent's—Albert, Mary - Bennett or TE 1 girl-and-bo¥r—— rrp . » Girls MARRIAGE" LICENSES as St. Francis—Carl, Catherine Bates; |

Clarence, Betty Gunn: Lester, Gertrude Pasch, and William, Minnie Cook. Beatrice Richards, and

Phillip Surentine Jr, 19 Johnson: billie Mae Lyda, 1306 N. Pennsylvania. » Burrell Gillam, Dearborn hotel; Elizabetn | At City—James, Louise Hemingway, 333 N, Grant. Glenn, Margaret ‘Doty. Robert "Ervin McKee, 421 8 Warman; {At Coleman—James, Anna Earl Ruby Marksbury, 402 8. Warman. At Methodist—Thomas, Donna S8ilverstorf; Frederick Willard Kirby, Winston-8al.m,| ~Threll, Viiginia Johnson; William, N. C.; Thelms Ruth Thompson, Steuben-| Klaska Johnson; Donald, Elizabeth ville, O. Riner; Gerald, Laura Hamilton; Leland, John “Kenneth Grimes,” Kokomo; Fifssie Phyllis Bartlett; Robert, Edith Drum; Mae Fields, 2220 N. Meridian. Amel, Rosemary Fougart: Prank, Daisy Leonard Gedrge Meyers, Clayton; Louise Lawrence and Merritt, Dorcas Beasley, Elizabeth Schimmel, 3626 N. Deony. At St. Vinceni's—Robert, Margaret Angell. Vernon Herbert Robinson, 2331 W.” Mof-| At Emhardt—Dent, Bertha Graves; Porter,

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aw ris; Dorothy Mae Leitch, 2331 WwW Callie Ward, and William, Evanda | ay, | Russell Edward Ickes, Jeannette, Pa: A ve RavImONd: Prisds Thompson . y . { ry Catherine Laffey, 1117 Windsor, tate; John. Geraldine O'Neal, A WHAT |S THE SIGNIFICANCE OF || prank’ a. Price, R. R. 1, Box 421, Bridge~| 1838 Ludlow, and William, Mabel Toney, Corn, 1946 BY NEA service, me. | “WITCH” IN WITCH HAZEL | ? gort;, Gertrude Ey Euleen Maloney, 2010 N.| 316 N. Pine. A A eridian, Apt

? Boy Henry 8. A “on Fayette; Thytica | At St: Prancie—Rarond Mildred Ferguson: McFarland, 867 W. Claudies D. ' Banks, Jon: Dorothy E | Jones, Marion; Mabel Kettler, and Robert,” May Doan. | Lester JamAs Page, Bicknell, Elizabeth |At Coleman—Paul, Bonita Davis; Robe): | Maxine Sargent, 2324 Sugar Grove. Flossie. Troxal; Herbert, Shirley Backer,

ELAND, KANS., IS 200 MILES FAST OF MORELAND, KANS.

Chester, Marjorie Owens; Oliver, Doris Wilson: Clarence, Alma Lott; John

P. Ray Vass, 2052 . Alabama; Nbna Frank. Jane Hess: Leonard, Frances Graves Thomas, 2052 N.. Alabama, Walter: Felix, Maria Garela; Charles, John Courtland Stevens, 3730 N. Capital; Katherine Miller; Dr... John, Jean Thelma Louise Farmer, %537 Kenwoos. Rydell: Paul, Ruth Gillum, and Wiley, Charles William Kaul, Port Harrison; Phyllis Hull.’ June Margaret Hale, Fort Hairison At Methodist—Mike, Nellle Handak; Jo-

Harty Nicholson, 3347 Ralston; Madonna| seph, -Ann Dawson; Everett, Cora : M, Mille, 08 W. dr, Woodruff Place,| Blanton; Robert, Edna Lawson; Edwin, |

: Dorothy McClellan; Arthur, = Lucille Pawkes, HOWARD A. DAMON, | Ralph Aivert Paihaber Canton, O.; Ruth| Moore and Leonard. Lucille Tilson ; LAMAR, COLORADO, E. Lower, Canton, O. At St. Vincent's—Elwood, Ernestine ott, 32 m. U, 8, PAT. OFF. a Paul R. Baller; ni Engiich: Lucile Emily| and Charles. June Msc REG. U, 8, Russell, AL Home--John, May aware 2m Hill- + ANSWER-~Forked a of the tree are used rerio persons as snk, "Eis ig Fa, Ma N, Walestt)! side; Robert, Gladys 1041 W, + divining rods tor 1 ells, ] id op now, 1381. Commerce. . © Wai Renuth; Virginia Jorlett, 2318

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IN INDIANAPOLIS--EVENTS—VITALS

Adams: Barton, Mazzie Criswell, 2022 Roosevelt; Claude. Emogene Willams 810 Blake, and Harold, Thelma Todd 550 Warren DEATHS Oscar L. Wolf, 62, at 5051 E. 16th, arter-

losclerosis (Leo pues 20, at Veterans, chromic neph- | Mable: Strong, 29, at Long, bronchopneumonia Virgil Woolbright, "38, at Veterans, rheumatic heart Philip May Watson, 16, at Long, rheu. matic heart

Edward. Roysdon, 176, at Oity, chronic nephritis Marion Yoder, 70, at 314 N. East, lobar pneumonia >

William NOTFIs, 78. at 917 W, Peart, cardiac decompensation. at 811 River, chronic myocarditis Anna Ludke, 83, at 604 N. Jefferson, arteriosclerosis Chester Lord, 66, at 946 8. Capitol, coronary thrombosis Mabel Bernice Shuder, 16, at 1918 Union, cardio renal. Barbara Ann McQuat, 18, at St. Vincent s, acute leukemia. Mary St. Clair, 84, chronic myocarditis Fred C. Freeman, 59, at’ 3256 Winthrop, chronic myocarditis, Cora Margaret Smith, 83, at 115-8. Audubon, myocarditis, Robert F. King. 51, at? 3700 W. Michigan, coronary occlusion Anna a Sch uler, 70, at 27 N. Holmes, uremia Effie Maybelle Jones, 64, al od BvWalnut, carcinoma: . | Earl E. Thompson, 68, at 1315 w 234, myocarditis, Carrie Hackler, 60,.at St. Vincenf's, cardio vakcufar renal, Phillip W. Sims, 22, at Vgterans, brain tumor. Mary A. Anderson. 83, at 6978 E Washington; cardio vascular renal Herschel A. Kennard, 47, at 1502 N Grant, coronary occlusion Katherine Winn, 65, at 37 W,.21st, earcinoma. “ John. Anton "Wehr, ' 19, “at Long, spastic paraplegia. Anna atty, 83, at 4452 Cafroliton, cardio: vascular renal,

al 1445 Broadway,

«| Lillian Hune Hustedt, 82. at PT E Wash-

vas, chronic myocardit

elma Spillman, 52: at 723 TB roapect,. pul- }

onary, tuberculosis. Thoma, ream #0, at 845 N, Temp, cardi bysliar ‘renal, a“

| 1 The cabinet issued a ‘sharp com. . {

SAYS:

Saturday;

quartermaster

. going to do with them. , .

STRAUSS’

March 2, 1946

Dear Folks—

Police sirens screeching eerily. through" the city this week seemed to herald another wild and woolly Midwest crime ‘era ape proaching that of the early thirties. . . , Indianapolis was the focal point- of one of the most extensive

heyday of John Dil« linger ' after a state trooper was shot by two bandits on Road 31. . The fugitives were nabbed in a Detroit hotel, climaxing a madcap getaway over Hoovia Indianapolis, Marion and . While here they com-

sier roads Silver Lake. mandeered two cars and robbed a drug

store at 25th and Dearborn sts. . . . During the three-day dragnet, police raced from one neighborhood to another on false reports that the gunmen had been sighted. . State police posted a $500 reward and joined with the FBI in springing the Detroit trap. . « A dozen week-end safecrackings netted

* yeggs more than $10,000, with $6000 yielded

by a super-market on E, 10th st. ... , A minor crime wave raged around 38th st. and College ave. as three establishments were burglarized. . A life-term escapee from Alibama state prison was captured at Sunnyside sanitarium where he had been a patient since November. . . . Seven squad cars were assigned to patrol school districts on reports that strange men had attempted to molest pupils. . . Juvenile authorities queried seven youths in connection with the theft of $1400 worth of uniforms from local R. O. T. C, supply rooms.

. eo @ STRAUSS SAYS: >

BASKETBALL-—The High School Regional Tournament. is on— at Anderson, Indians—Strauss will be on the air<direct from Andersen—Saturday afternoon and nightie give the play by > ighe golor and the works. your diak L. STRAUSS & C0. INC.

* * @ The Red Cross Girds for Peace

The Red Cross launched its 1046 fund-

' raising drive with $580,000 as-its local goal.

. A 10-day campaign by Central Y. M. C. A. reaped 2034 new members. . . , Bishop Titus Lowe, head + of the Methodist church Indianapolis area, was * named president of the church's Council of Bishops and became the top Methodist official of the land. Ft. Harrison was recommended by the general as the site of one of 12 national World War II cemeteries. . _ BISHOP TITUS LOWE Purdue and Notre Dame received citations from a national metallurgical magazine for their roles in fashioning the atom bomb. : Capt. Harold Stassen, former Mine nesota governor, addressed the Columbia

club's 57th anniversary beefsteak dinner. s . Three Indianapolis men, Louis Borinstein, J. A. Goodman ard Morris

Goodman, are local directors of the largest single Jewish campaign-in history—a drive to raise $100 million for the United Appeal for Refugees, Ovetseas Relief and Pilestifie.

is needed for the servicemen in hospitals here at home and those still overseas — for the vietims of disaster® — for the good of evéry American. Give to the 1948 Fund Campaign.

STRAUSS SAYS L. STRAUSS & CO, INC.

The RED CROSS Fund Cam- > o. 0

Paign began esterday—with Up in the Air—

000 its goal. Every cent Permission to plat an 80-acre tract into

homesites with backyard hangars was asked

of the zoning hoard by Bob Shank, owner of the new airport at 38th st. and the Georgetown rd. , . .

(Ga .~ The Indiana - ‘state guard now has its own airforce,” composed of four Vultee navy ‘monoplanes bought from the RFC. ,, . Conserva-

tion department offi« cials complain that two-man plane. crews have been swooping down on foxes from the.air and plugging them with shotguns : . An ex-serve iceman ffom Gary crash-landed his light plane —in—a—cornfield—on—E—80th—st: 3 : Sixteen Indianapolis businessmen returned from a 41-day, 15,000-mile good-will plane tour of South America County commis« sioners, by refusing to re-enact an ordie

« nance, abolished .he Marion county zoning

board. . . . Evans Woollen Jr. was named president of the Indianapolis Community fund. . . . March tiptoed in like a lamb,

drenched in sunshine and bleating tempera« tures ranging in the upper fifties... . . An Indianapolis housewife bought 1000 airport light: lenses on her $5 bid for.the surplus war property, then wondered what she was . The city asked for $44,000 with

the federal govérnment

- which to make improvements at Weir Cook

airport. * The city dog pound was plagued. by a dearth of funds.

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i INDIANA—THE HEAR

Lost Week-End

manhunts ‘since the

"and West sts. near Washington, than anys

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As the 1046 trafic toll soared to heights, official and public indignation 1 out at drunken drivers. . . . Safety Bo President Will H, Remy asked citizens to report to police headquarters license n . of intoxicated motorists, . The Hooster Motor club. demanded that police ‘establish roadblocks in city streets to check sobriety of drivers, . . . Municipal Judge Joseph Howard launched a drunke driving crackdown in which he suspends & licenses of all guilty defendants, metes hea fines and prison sentences, . . . Dr. R. Harger, I. U. toxicologist and inventor of the drunkometer, was subpoenaed to appear as an “expert” in all drunken driving cases by Prosecutor Sherwood’ Blue, whom Dr. Harges had criticized as “too lax.” , . . Women members of the Hoosier farm bureau, meets ing here, resolved against the use of sugar and grains by the liquor industries. . . Judge John L. Niblack said more fatal ace cidents “occurred in the vicinities of East

where else in the city. . . % A high school “ice cream” hangout at State and Fletcher aves. was smashed by ‘a loaded coal truck, + + » + Hoosler. . drivers without 8 plates. are now subject to arrest , . . § Indianapolis’ Italian colony welcomed two genuine Italian war brides of former io men. . . . An ex-army colonel Tailed in his effort to obtain $10,000 alimony from his wife in superior court 4. . ,. Fire on an Illinois street car routed 30 passengers and injured one. 2 :

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Buildings formerly used by Billings hospital will be converted into apartment units for 150 Ft. Harrison families. . . . State officials planned to give the fairground a gigantic spring “face lifting” following its complete vacation by the army by March 14. . . . Building permits granted 15 industrial structures costing $3 million and 76 business establishments costing $4 million have been granted here since V-J day. . . . Construction of a $150,000 office building in the 1600 block. of .N. Meridian st. was announced by the Indiana Gas and Water Co. . . . An $85,000 structure containing five storerooms and physicians’ offices will be built at Guilford ave. and Riviera dr. . . . The school board listed remodeling and expansion of Manual high school as the No. 1 project on its posts war list. , . . The old Jewish center building on W. Morris st. will be converted into a South side neighborhood house, . . . A U. 8 labor department survey to determine what people are buying “and how much they're spending will cover 250 homes here. . North Emerson ave. residents organized against a demand by the owner of property . housing the Emerson Heights kindergarten that the quarters be vacated by June. . . , Ten new motor coaches will inaugurate bus service on the Shelby line tomorrow.

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victories against only three setbacks, Indiana finished second in the Big Ten basketball race. Notre Dame dropped its ‘fourth game of the season—to De Paul by 36 to 30. , Camp Atterbury’'s cagers counted 28 victories : against six defeats this year. . . Valpas raiso’s quintet captured the Indiana Inters collegiate conference crown. . . . Tech won the sectional by nosing Catheiral, 26 to 28; in fhe final game and state tourney competition zipped into the regional bracket. today. . Butler may join a new mid western athletic conference including five