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Republican: TSR Appeal to Maintain Military Budget Intact

* British Seek Congressional Declaration On Greece Before Moscow Parley WASHINGTON, March 8 (U. P.) —Great Britain: was

hoping today for a prompt congressional declaration that the|

American government firmly supports the moderate: Greek « government, capital observers understood. The British were also hoping that the declaration would - be followed by financial and other aid.

.The British were reported | iis to feel such public: assurances consider state department appropri- ’ : a ations. . Were necessary -before Secretary of | Republican fiscal leaders made it] Btate George C. Marshall begins clear that the administration's redeliberations at the Moscow confer- quest for aid to Greece. would ns en ing a week from toda laffect their plans to slash PresiThe British ri r ye {dent Truman's budget and to re-| e British say they are unable ;, oo." to carry on aloné in Greece but fear They rejected Democratic pleas their withdrawal would leave the’ ‘that the military budget be left in-| country open to communism. tact in light of the crisis facing, Speaks to Committee jthe westérn allies in Greece, The re senate was expected 4a czplete:

Secretary Marshall revived the action today on a legislative budget international - situation, including cejling.

the Greek problem, in & two-hour, wrpe only figure mentioned so 9000 British ‘appearance before a house appro-’ (far is $250 million for Greece for

priations subcommittee today. a year,” Senator Taft said, That, Mr, Marshall declined to make a he added, is only a “small item” statement to the press before or in a budget that will be someafter his talk with the subcommit- where between $31,500,000,000 and tee, which met in. closed session to $33 billion. > elie 8 8 =

History's Gravest

By WALLACE R. DEUEL Times Special Writer

Gives Task to U. S..

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor

has ever been called upon to make, | try of western civilization. mow clipe of te Bri capi Te ls seul dunes ha mos -which for’ more than ears! ' ey he waves” and ond the | Middle East and Asia may go Com: | leading role in the maintenance of | Tis hue Felative,y eat og —puts world leadership up to the exists. Li Briain 304 Whe. aneible; Utiited S|stes. | wrecked countries, The question before congress to- | day, therefore, is whether we will} accept the colossal and costly ob-| ligation or abdicate in favor of Soviet Russia, ready and eager to

take the job. i : f are growing in one area after-an-Must Make Up Mind other as the British give up their! United Nations positions. | Chaos and communism are likely ito develop in these areas as a res | sult,

no longer strong enough to hang ion to much, certainly not most, of

the empire. |

To say the ought to police the seven seas and| assume the chief responsibility for |

peace leadership, admittedly begs A Chain Reaction the question.

‘The United Nations, of itself, can| Once begun, such a process could do nothing. It is merely .the sum gather speed and intensity which |

of its members, and of its members could defy ‘opposition throughout members of Irgun Zvai Leumi and!

there are only five so-called great! great parts of the globe. Pe there ard only three- the It could result in a change in the United States, Russia and Great world balance of power that would | Britain, world. Communism and disastrously | Wi nable to be lerg time, will be una vw weaken the United States and west-

her normal share of the burden. | That leaves Rissls and the Urittea] 5. Sivilization. at leaves Russia and the Uni 7 Btates to do most. of the policing. | The most immediate dntger spot

is Greece, because. Great Britain is And Russia plainly will bear a lot | ] ; of ‘watching. considering the posibility of with

This means that unless the United drawing its support. Britain’ may have. to pull out of | States makes up its mind to fill part Greece as of March 31, a matter of the void left by Britain, the world situation is destined to un-| dergo a radical and dangerous | change with democracy more than ever on the defensive,

Monroe Doctrine Was British Idea | men, the money or the resources to

: ‘stay much longer than that. One expense which the British | have been shouldering for the past other western. country which could |

125 years, for example, is most of [take over the job of keeping a free the Monroe. doctrine upkeep. . We Greece alive.

like to think that we did this our- | Greece ‘almost. certainly will col- |

over Which President Truman and, other officials are greatly concerned. |

Lack Finances

« selves, but the truth is that the lapse in chaos and Communism

British navy did most of the work within a few weeks or months withfor us. jout substantial support from the In fact, the Monroe doctrine is | outside. #8 British as it is American. If Greece goes Communist, Turkey | British - Foreign ‘Secretary Can- and Tran will be gravely threatened. ning frst proposed a joint declara-| yf and when Britain also pulls out |

Of these, Britain, for a | EnOrmously strengthen~ Russia ad)

The United States is the only |

‘MODELMODEL' Mavis Le by Kent State university as "Model, Model." ing news photographers of the country during the sixth annual short course in news va a¥ Fafiversity..... :

Search Holy Land To Free Two Yanks = 2%: 55 onsiderey that they were entitled store hei es ‘ments before she takes her fourth husband, Prince Igor Troubetzkoy. This will be his first marriage. The couple is shown at St, Moritz,

Switzerland.

Martial Law Declared In Tel Aviv

JERUSALEM, March 3 (U. P.).—|

|Add 16 Reporters

Russia. Increases © American Delegation

MOSCOW, March 3 (U. P,).—The Soviet government has notified U. S. Amassador Walter Bedell Smith that 36 American correspondents will be permitted to cover the Mos- . {cow foreign ministers conference. ~~ 1Only 20 reporters originally a thors} ized. Ck Notification that 18 additional visas. were being granted was sent to the ambassador yesterday by the foreign affairs ministry. The Russians at first said they could allow fen 20 American cor-

respondentsgbecause of the housing shortage. mbassador. Smith of-

ican official delegation and put part’ Housé, the ambassador's residence. spondents would be glad to double’ No Notice * British

‘Presumably the -Soviet action resulted from this proposal, although

She will pose for lead-

tion it. The British ADEE failed to Te-

press delegation had been increased from . the 20 quota. An hr emasey

representation equal Held Since Saturday United States

“It is presumed it is up ‘to us to “By Communists bring this to the Soviet. attention, | 5. P) oF

to the

he said. NANKING, March 3

Martial law was imposed on Tel |v. ..8. embassy officials “ demanded | London: Delegation |A¥ iv and the orthodox Jewish quar- today that two American army of-| Is Limited te 100

| tex. of Jerusalem today while 9000 ficers held since Saturday by Com- | LONDON, March 3 WASHINGTON, March 3.— The British troops began searching the munist troops be returned at once Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin has

area for leaders of the militant | { Jewish: underground.

U. P)—

Nothing has been heard of the|limited his Moscow conference dele- |

| whereabouts of Maj. Robert Rigg, | gation to 100 persons at the request |

A 30-year-old Jewish cyclist was Chicago, and Capt. J. W. Collins, | of Soviet authorities, a spokesman |

{shot and fatally wounded today by gvanston, Ill, assistant military ata British sentry af) army headquar- | taches in Manchuria.

| ters.

He was cycling near Citrus house, | nist ‘troops while touring the front the army¥office building. He was about, 15. miles east of Changchun.

shot from a fourth floor window |

and died several hours later in a tions for-.the release of the two were being carfied out with the Twenty-three persons were dead Nationalist. government and the Events have shown that Britain is! and more than 50 injured in the | Communists’ liaison office in Nan-

hospital.

three days’ “violence. One .of the dead was.a 4-year-old girl. She -

was struck by a stray bullet when asking the Communist capital for Great, aching political vacuums soldiers fired as a warning against ‘aid in , Qbtaining freedom of the

violation of the curfew. -Confined to Homes : More than 350,000 Jews in the’ | Tel Aviv area and the Mea Shegrim | section of Jerusalem were confined |

|to their homes under statutory martial law. An intense search’ was

and partly secret in progress for the!

|the Stern group, held responsible | tor the violence Saturday which | killed 21 persons. Brig. E. PF. Davies, martia) law commander in the ancient Ortho-' dox Mea Shearim area -of Jerusalem, said operations in his zone against the underground were to | begin today. ~ Under Army Rule Approximately 30,000 Jews live In ‘the Mea Shearim quarter, which | | consists of shops, residences and! religious seminaries. Many came to: Palestine before

june first . world war:

All of Tel Aviv, a Jewish city of |

The British simply haven't got the approximately 300, 000, and a 20- | critical.

mile coastal belt to the north of it, |

were under under amy rule.

$29, 500 Sov els Statens in Florida |

MIAMI BEACH, Fla., March 3 (U. | |P.).—Miami Beach police today | were investigating the w of a second, story thief who stole $29,500 in jewels from a winter home here.

| ‘left the jeep to talk to the soldiers;

| -Meanwhile, the Nationalist gov-}

Brands Purdue

They were captured by Commu-

STRAUSS"

Embassy offivials said negotia- SAYS:

king. Also a note was sent to Yenan -

| two. In Army Uniform Maj. Riggs and Capt. Collins were traveling in a plainly marked army jeep and were in army uniform. * Their jeep driver, a Chinese, told . [embassy officials that a Communist » army sentry stopped the jeep, fired (one shot in the air, and waited un-

til more Communists arrived. As Maj. Rigg and Capt. Collins

the driver turned the car and dashed away under fire.

ernment evacuated its air .force from strategic Tsiinan, far to the south in Shantung province, It may remove ground forces in advance of an expected Communist attack there, according to a spokesman .for the ministry of national defense. . The Nationalist newspaper .Hsin ; {Min Pao said ‘the situation at - Tsinan was becoming increasingly

Rumors False

LAFAYETTE, Ind, March 3 (U.| P,) —The chairman of an investi(gating committee studying the! | bleacher collapse in Purdue uni-’ versity ‘fieldhouse branded today as

"ARAGLOW” COLORS—

A MIST BLUE

For Moscow Parley

fered to trim the size of the Amer-|.

He also suggested that the corre-

mmons, 22, above) v was picked |up, | } |

—— thie oMicial notification dia’ no fifen-

tion warning Europe that the two! countries “could not be indifferent” to any meddling with the American republics. Eventually - President made it a strictly U.

Monroe 8S. doctrines |

but without the Britsh fleet we

could hardly have made it stick— At least not without vastly increasIng our fleet at a cost which might well have been prohibitive.

Interests of Both Coincided

Britain,” of course, didnot do this for the sake of America. She did it for herself. European rivalries were’ so keen, and her own interests were such, that. she did not want other Eii-

ropean. nations -to resume their ment of fevered and irresponsible | lock, of Petersburg, as a deputy planned TG meet, again next Satur-|.

land- -grabbing = in ° the’ western

* “hemisphere,

But that is not the point.

terests, And for 125 -years we, profited thereby. Among other things, the United | States now will have to defend the western hemifbhere largely by its

own. efforts and at it§ own ex- |

pense. Under agreements. winde at Rio de Janeiro, Chapultepec, “WHErE, (HE “BHer Tiation ‘new w

mb dave become our “part.

the chief burden remains ours. The armament for land, sea or air, will mostly at our expense.

Asia In Turmoil

The peace of the Pacific will also be almost exclusively an American

“*hemisphere.- ~gefense, bul! and more

of “Palestine, Egypt, Burma and | India—as London says it is going to do within the next two vears—| much -of these and. other Middle Eastern. areas also may go Conimunist.

involve countries west of Greece, as well as othér to the east,

Powerful in France

The Communists are powerful in | France and Italy; for example. This nightmare is tormenting the | {sleep of some of the leading statesmen of the western world. It is a perfectly possible—if not probable—development in the relatively near future. It is ‘not a fig-

|imaginations. If this nightmare turns into re-

Her | (ality, it will cause profound changes in. 1940, Mr. interests did coincide with our in-| linside the U.S. as well as in Ameri. | practicing law in Evansville~since [president of the University board of

ca's position in the world.

The military foraes would-have toy |

be greatly strengthened, not further | weakened. Government controls would be extended over, more and more of the [national life.

“«. Communists Would Gain °

@ommunist minority in the United States would become noisier pssive and probably]

[Would gain members. The great majority of the country's citizens, on the other ‘hand, would ‘turn rightward, rather than left, and it would go hard wi good'.many people suspected 0 a

job. Canada, Australia and New|IDg “Pinkos.”

Nations. « . fatally weak unless the

~ States is strong. Asia, with its bifiton ‘Inhabitants,

~. Where

the making ol. a pew Yur 1 i seething with ret haps shape

These are some, of the possibilities and probabilities that are causing sleepless nights under more than one

5 cedless to highly-honored rooftree in the west-

say, will function within the United ern world as this week opens. _ . { Aut Z | At ome wilbur, Tressle Kesler, 146, i ‘But the United Nations will be'as ‘uprooted . peoples ‘are shoved | Murray. : United around,

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sickness and starvation [take their toll and bolshevism see 'to expand. |

: A 8. isin turmoil. Tn Korea, Manchuria,| “Thé choice faced by ‘the Ofiited| wen daly. ig Crowe: Horbe Herbert, | _ 10th, hypertension. the Middle East. Greece and else- pre

States is in every respect appalling,

This chain reaction could easily

ertain. number-at new FR EREo Red Wise “Rows = NTT DAY

a Ds ee for our failure itself will re-|a 4, : future,

It was the latest in a series of week=| “ridiculous and ill-founded” rumors end gem robberies which have net- that. the bleachers were damaged | {ted thieves $350,000 in a month. | by vandals. | The burglar entered a second | Prof. John L. Bray of the univer: floor bedroom in the-home of the sity engineering school faculty ‘said Richard. 8. Reynolds - family of a formal report was not yet ready Richmond, Va., early Sunday. Mr. {in the.investigation. It was ordered ‘and Mrs. Reynolds were downstairs after three persons were injured | showing movies to week-end guests. fatally and hundreds of othefs hurt His haul included a $6000 plat-|last Monday night during the inum bracelet and‘ other pieces Purdue-Wisconsin basketball game. worth from $500 to $4000 each. He said, however; thatthe committee was “disturbed” by “ridicu-

Attorney-General ‘|lous rumors” that the stands were overcrowded, and that they were

Completes Staff tampered with before the game. Attorney-General Cleon H. Foust The rumors have no foundation, | completed his staff today with the | Prof, Bray said. {appointment of Harold V. White-| - Meanwhile, the

committee

attorney-general. day. Afterward, it may make.a-re« A graduate of Indiana university | port to Governor Ralph 'F. Gates Whitelock has been and to Allison E. Stuart, Lafayette,

| his discharge from the army. trustees.

In Indianapolis - a

BIRTHS Catherine Owens; Norman, Thelma Girls Stanley; William, - Eileen . Butterfield; . a -| Albert, ‘Mildred Brim; John, Ella HudAt St. Franclg—~Elmo., Irene Marshall;| son; James, Jean Toms: Willlam, Mag-

Helen DeBoor: Ralph, Helen ine Andrews; Elmo, Florence Nickels: Martin, and Robert, Nora Rivers, ~-Carl, Margaret Hogue; David, Wilma At. City — Thomas, Patricia Vire, and venthal, and Howard, luna Henry. “ghey h

a Wher; Hazel “Thomas, WHA,

Richard, Bernice Schuman; Omar, Vera |: Aida Grau” Joseph, Lela McKamey,

Kenton; - Kenneth, Margarel Crowley, Salavator, Betty Venezia; . Leighton, and Charles, Marjorie Spieg: Barbara Geoyge; Robert, Hilda, Koser; At Methodist—Robert i "Cirpenter Charles, Ruth DeHaven; John, {Lenora

Fortner,, and John, Nors ‘Griffin. Emhardt—Guss, Daniel, na_ Sch At Home—Curtis, Pe Neal, .512 Park.

John, Blanche Duncan; '* Theodor: Joanne Toma; Raymond, Janey one: At John, J Farley; John, Virginia Caylor; Pred ed, BON ra Hot: Russell, iy trice Rogers; Jess,, Bett: Tremain; Re Margaret Bernice an: DEATHS Fred, Doro-

a aon, Baty dts ha » th Panes : | Lucy ‘Frances Daily. 84, at 2938 Brookside, iio L. occlusion Meador, and. the Rev, ‘william, Harriet Olle L. Fisher, 65, at 707 Payette, pneu-

K a in d, Naomi Smith; J *s. Neel, 86, at 430 8. Keystone, Fran Eva cardio-vascular re nal. ones, Poimrbiny ra Shiel; William, oki Ray Biddle, 6 months, at Riley, on ~ gudales. Bchoeziewey, and Ervin, Mary | ; bi Herman Bohne, 36, at St. Vineent's aibry, p47" &Y Methodist,

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Boys {Ab st, AS is—Edward, : arriet Kucz Rist uriece, Mary , and

ertensive hear wi es] i 87, at 1117 Belle Vieu, ane a OrT’ Plu mer, 78, at 3680 w.

th ‘Shoopman Carl, Mary , Ralph,

Askwry Wolf, at 863 N. Kemtorie, ral orrha

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Vincent's—-Myron, Helen deGeaxporw Green. Of

A LIGHT SILVER GRAY

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ALSO-—and besides—there is a companion company of ARROW PENCIL : STRIPES—narrow stripes of blue, Brows-on white broadcloth —with all the features that have made Arrow known to millions of citizens—

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of the delegation offices in Spasso ' #

Call on China Reds ceive similar notice that the British

Thursday at Wow H. She willbe guest of ¥ Indianapolis Press . club 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, at

: Copyright by News Syndicate Co. from Acne, SS BARBARA-—Barbara Hutton, ‘the five-and-dime is reported to be waiting only for the proper docu-

Barking Dog Son 2 as Gas Fills Home

A barking dog was credited with saving the ives of tra persona; yeas terday. ;

and repgesentatives of the British ing of Koran Temple, Daughters of the ately aroused her husband, G. ; py : Broadcasting igranted visas to cover the con- | Lincoln. Among: the 20 are three] B. B. C. men. There were 15 B. B.C.|7:45 p..m. Friday in the Masonic Temple. partially overcome by fumes from said today. He said the Russians men at the Paris peace conference. |Mrs: Le Shipman. is worthy matron the leaking gas meter. i

ference.

TRADITION . WITH A

aed Swed” With. the Famous Aftow ®

| pleaded shortage of accommodations.

Lockburn Ay told deputy sheriffs Organizations she was awakened by the barking of her dog. She found Officers will be elected at 4 stated meet- room filled with gas and immedi

British -newspapermen |=

Corp. have been|Nile, at 7:45 p. m. Wednesday in Hotel Mullins, 60, who opened windows.

Lena Winans will be in charge, Both Mr. and Mrs, Mullins were

Naomi. chapter, O. ‘E. 8, will meet + at

TOUCH OF

The name ''Araglow" describes the =~ 5 colors — (ARROW said that) — hE WE like to think in terms of the . ' En INNER GLOW these shirts Cb lel Nee will give to the man who wears them — ing “with the satisfaction he must have ad sl aed when he faces the man in the mirror— These shirtings are fine. broadcloth — Pa & beautifully made up — and are oo Joo

Collar — Sanforized Shrunk - fil : : Ti : ;

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