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MY WIFE'S IN THERE" — Mis clothing waterspotted, Raymond Bemis. is wsshown frantically pleading with firemen:to let him enter.a burning three-story rooming for wife and daughter,
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Garbage Disposal
Aired in Court
Complaints Made ‘At Slum Hearing
Garbage has not been collected | properly at some homes on the near- | Northwest side for. as long as six! years, witnesses testified today in the superior court hearing on the proposed slum-clearance program. | The testimony was given at the! resumption of the hearing before | five superior court. judges ir a legal test of the city redevelopment commission's proposed slum-clearance project in “blighted” areas. The. case is an appeal from the redevelopment commission's recent order, designating the area between 10th and 16th sts. and West and Milburn sts, as a blighted area for redevelopment. by ‘private concerns. ° Property Owners Testify Seven property owners in this area testified today, listing the money they had spent on their
ernisation in an effort to prove that the district was not “blighted,” | if adequate city services . . Were | ‘meaintainéd, gaa Many of these home owners tes-
bathrooms and other modern ‘conveniences, if permitted to continue living in the: area. 5 Under the redevelopment program, all residents in the. area would be displaced and. moved to some other section of the city, while new housing is being de-
Some Homes 50 Years.Old One property owner, Mary E. Robertson, 522 W. 10th st., said no garbage had been collected at her place’ for six years. :
Attorneys for both the redevelop-| ment commission and the protest-|
ing property owners stipulated that more than half the homes in that
tubs, and that more than half the houses in the area were more than 50 years old.
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12{times since they were sentenced to 3| Weather Map 17 death" Dec.”1, 1945. ' He said that . under British justice a man once J. “News ... Jolt taken to a place of execution but World Affairs
Acme Telephotos RE. UNITED . IN SAEETY—Mr. Bemis is shown with his wife Jane and their daughter Barbara after he found them in the crowd - watching ‘the blaze destroy the rooming house where they lived. Four persons were killed and six injured in the fire which started
early this morning.
Churchill Wins Death Stay For 4 in "Ju-Ju’' Slaying
Declares ‘British Justice’ Protects Gold Coast Natives Six Times Sent to Condemned Row
LONDON, March 4 (U. P.).—Winston Churchill's demand for British justice for four members of Gold Coast colony native “royalty” won a postponement of their. scheduled execution today. & ‘The four were ta be hanged today for the “ju-ju” ritual dibirder of
a tribal chieftain. But MT. Churchill; supported by members’ “of all parties in the house of commons, raised such a furore with colonial authorities yesterday that Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech Jones promised he would recommend to Gold Coast |top chief of the Akim Abuakwa, the offictals that the execution be post: most enlightened tribe-in the Gold poned. yo Coast, in August, 1943. A ceremonial funeral was arSy hay pane at Ew capital of ‘the sale ef among the mourners was AkGay. Jrom Aotr, eapital > of Whe yea Mensah, head of the royal bodyguard and chief of the village of Apedwa. Mensah ° entered’ the palace at Kibi to pay his last respects on .the day of -the ceremonial funeral. He never was seen again. At the same time the! royal thione, blackened. with a, mixture of sacri-
The story of the events that Ted up. to Mr. Churchill's -plea went back to the death of Sir Afori Atta,
Churchill argued that the {four men should be reprieved ‘bex cause they had been taken to a ‘place of execution” in Accra six
4, — Defense attorneys for their lives here for the slay-
“ling of a state trooper indicated today they would plead
of prospective jurors.
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Defense Puts Question to Jury Prospect
Lawyers May Seek Manslaughter Charge
‘By VICTOR PETERSON Times Staff Writer
COLUMBUS, Ind., March
two teen-agers on trial for
that he killing was an -accident. This was disclosed in questioning Fifty, only eight of whom are unchallenged, ! have been sifted by prosecution and defense, with no indication that a jury will be selected before tomorrow in the two-day-old case. On trial are William Francis Price, alleged triggerman in the death of Herbert Wade Smith, Dec. 5, near Shelbyville, and William Virgil Johnson. Beth 17 year-olds from Evansville are charged with first degree murder. Prosecution Objects First ripple. of excitement came in the packed Bartholomew circuit court room when Defense Attorney William H. Dobbins asked Prosepective Juror R. D. Foley, a Surmep: “If it should develop in this cas that the- defendant, in oe to shoot the left rear tire of Smith's
ing the tire, accidentally and unintenfionally shot Mr, ‘Smith, and if the shooting was not a natural! and probable consequence of the act, would you judge the defendant | not guilty?” Assistant Prosecutor Merl wall immediately objected tothe -question as “improper.” W. Long took the objection under advisement but let the question er main in the record. Mr. Foley said that if the con-
tention was proved he would judge
the defendant not ‘quilty. Involuntary manslaughter conviction: carries a sentence of 2 to 21 years, Cite 1905 Law
Defense attorneys also have] pointed out provisions of a law of 1905 which provides. for penalties of only 1 to 10 years for teen-agers! judged guilty of involuntary man- | slaughter if they have never been convicted of a felony. Defense Attorney Vincent Kelley | said car theft is not considered a felony if committed by a minor. Attorneys on both sides continued | to jockey for a jury acceptable to all. Yesterday the state temporarily passed upon 12 men, all but two of whom are farmers. The defense challenged. four and | they were, dismissed. _ Principal cause for excuse was admission on the part of prospective jurors that they Were prejudiced . against the teen-agers by Bewspajier accounts they had read. . Letters Released Companions -of the two boys “i \a romantic interlude which ended | in the killing of Trooper Smith after he had arrested them in a stolen car and commanded them to
Ward, 14, Evansville. The high school bobby-soxers are | appearing in court but are not on
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Cloudy Tonight, Snow Tomorrow
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a m.... 24 10a nm.... 30 7a. m. .24 lla m:...29 $a m.,,.. 25 12 (Noon).. 30 9am,,..21T .1pm. ". 30
Cloudy skies tonight followed by snow tomorrow was forecast by the weather bureau for Indianapolis | and vicinity. Temperatures will remairi from
—or in the middle 20's. Snow will fall generally over Indiana and Illinois from Wednesday until Thursday filght, the—-bureau’ said. Iv will average half an inch in . moisture content in the southern portion and-a quarter inch. in the northern portion.
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Friday will" be: clear, put SNOW Burries are espoviad Satulay. Lh
five to seven degrees below normal|
CHARGED WITH MURDER—Vera Jean Hornback (left) and
Mary Ruth Ward will be tried on
lowing the trials of their sweethearts, William Price and William Johrison now underway at Columbus, Ind.
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Greece Near Secretary Ma
Crisis of Primary Importance to U.S; Call for Assistance Disclosed
WASHINGTON, March 4 (U. P.).—Secretary' of State George C. | Marshall said today that the economic condition of Greece is “on the |anonymous group of citizens for heart state police intervention at Elwood. {nes wa Srsely Sue rom) - hint
| verge of collapse.”
The crisis, he said, is of primary importance to the United States |i} request to the state police deauto and while in the act of shoot-|“in the light of the world situation.”
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land fhe superintendent to decide
Budget Group ‘Backs Down on
Proposed
Legislative Observers
Minimum pay scales once
$1600 to $2400 a yeer as compared with a present spread of : $1200 to $1650.
Baming Raids Left To State Police
Gates Washes Hands Of City Requests
Governor Gates today washed his hands of all requests from cities and towns over the state for state police gambling raids. It's up to the state police board
the question of moving into local gambling situations, the governor said. ; The governor's stand, taken at his morning press: conference, was
Mr. Marshall's statement was Tread to reporters at the state .de-
Britain and France 5 c= Sig War Pact
50-Year Alliance ‘Provided in Treaty
DUNKERQUE, March 4 (U. P.). —Britain and France signed a 50-year military alliance today be=~ side the Bloody beaches where they endured their darkest hour in June, 1940. Foreign, Minister Georges Bitdault of - France and Foreign Secretary |Ernest Bévin of Great Britain | stoned the new alllance in a brief | |ceremony . at mid-afterndofh. The ceremony - was held in an
funheated, whitewashed reception {room of the Dunkerque sub- prefecture, the only public building which {came through the war intact. About 90 per cent of the city was de'stroyed in the war. Only a few thousand person$.now'live In’ DunKerque.
“For All Time”
Mr. Bidault spoke first, {that for France the 50-year term | of the treaty “means for all time.” He- said it continued an entente| jdating back to’ the early years of | [this century,” Which had “fiver {really been broken.” The French foreign minister ob- | served that the treaty was “not| exclusive” and mentioned the “close
las “the peoples commonly described | lag the small nation.” Mr. Bevin observed that the { French: and -British peoples had much in common, and asked: “Why should we not march -together for all time?”
: WASHINGTON, March 4 (U,
tary patents. Rep. Thomas said he Téared s technical “Know- “how” involved inh In an addr delivered on the house floor, the: New Jersey Republican said _ et “front organizations” “systematically ‘have been] tapping American inventive. genius through the U. 8. patent office. "Mr. Thomas added that former Secretary of Commerce Henry A.
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Thomas Complains of Information Given To Soviet Union Without Reciprocation
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partment. He said the situation has been receiving the “urgent attention” of | President Truman, executive agencles, and congressional leaders. The Greek government itself has requested assistance in its present | desperate condition, he disclosed. This appeal was received yesterday. * Previously, Great Britain notified this country it’would be unable to carry on in Greece after March 31. Mr. Marshall said he. could not say anything at this time as to what U. 8S. action may be taken. But he said a complete public statement on the Greek crisis and its implications to the United |States would be made “very soon.” “The problems involved are so far-reaching and of such importlance that any announcement relating to them could properly come only from the President himself,” Mr. Marshall said. He did not elaborate on the “farreaching” problems entailed in the Greek: situation. But authoritative government sources previously have said that a fall of the Greek government night spread communism in Greece, eastern Europe, and the ' Middle East: : Mr. ‘Marshall -said that final decisions on measures to be taken by the United . States will rest with {President Truman and the congress.
I's Neck: and--Netk---In High School Poll
| WESTPORT, Conn., March 4 (U. P.).~Twenty "per cent of the boys
follow his cat ‘are-Vera Jean HOrf-|yicr of both counties with the|and 31 per cent of the girls at back, 15, Anderson, and Mary. Ruth |(yited States and Russia as well| Westport high schobl do, not neck,
a poll showed today. .The "poll was conducted among 400 students. by the school Only one-third of the male students had never tasted: liquor. Fifty-five per cent of the girls and 50 per cent of the boys "smoked.
Congressman Says Russia Given Patents |". Which May Bare Atom Bomb "Know-How" |
"patents covering airplanes, 'para-
P.).—~Chairman J. Parnell Thomas
{of the House un-American activities committee charged today that the government “has given Russia access to important industrial and mili-
ome of these patents might betray he atomic bomb.
made as an un-American ‘activities subcommitteé prepared, to go to
{New York tomorrow: in an effort to)
learn iT an undércover ring is supplying faked passports . to foreign lagents. : He said Russian organizations had obtained | hundreds of | thou-
Wallace should be called before the sands of copies of patents’ fyom the |proper committee of the house to patent office dealing with industrial, | axplain ‘why these, organizations chemical and military, inventions. thvolving mili-"He- said they ordered | as many | as
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Will Move Swiftly to
By LOUIS ARMSTRONG : House budget slashers relented today and agreed to increase the pay of Hoosier school teachers as originally scheduled by the Republican legislative policy committee.
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committee had trimmed
Cut Believe New Schedule
Enactment
more are set in a range of
Rep. Jess Andrew (R., Wosbee: chairman of the house ways and means cothmittee, | said this morning the committee would yield on its proposal to cut the increases back almost half,
There was little doubt now, accord-
Mr. Andrew said
ing mood, the ways
amount to $36 million. ‘Budget Bill in Senate The ways and means chairman said the committee's change of
thé coming two years. The house yesterday shaved an estimated million from the proposed biennial oublay of $179 million...
“Under state law such matters {are entirely up: fo the departiment,” the goverfior said. ‘The | department has the authority to (make its own rules and regulations and adopt its own policies and I shall expect the superintendent of | state police, under the guidance of his board, to take action in the Elwood matter and in all similar matters that come up in the future.” The governor's statement that he would refuse to interfere in state police operations against gambling cleared the air in a number of communities over the state. He has been subjected “to an increasing number of requests for intervention. - Won't Talk on Bonus
Also ‘at his press conference the governor declined to make a policy statement on the proposal before the house for what amounts to a $10 a year bonus for Hoosier veterans. As it now stands, the: house proposal would "give veterans a $10 credit each year from now on toward payment of their gross income tax. ‘ In cases where the tax would not amount to $10, the veteran would receive the difference between that amount and’ the amount of his tax in a cash rebate from the state treasury.
India Rioting Kills
Thirty, Wounds 47 NEW DELHI, March 4 (U, P.) = Thirty persons were killed and 417 were wounded today in communal rioting in the walled. city of Lahore. 2 An 11-hour curfew was imposed, and troops were called out to prevent the situation from getting out of hand. Hindus battled Moslems who had proposed an all-Moslem league
of: the coalition ministry which wolinpeed ‘Sunday night.
chutes, tanks; gunfire control equipment, ship control, bomb dropping devices, explosive cartridge = as‘semblies; bullet resistant . armor, gyroscope systems and torpedo projectors, = “Other. orders requested such patents as bomb sights, pilot directors, range finding and mp director apparatus and th other technical and military p which: will help in building R military might,” he said. Mr, Thomas said Russia's ‘sudden and frantic™ American - patents had - increased tremendously Since the “announcement of the atomic. ceive : “And what have we ved in
.|did last week, to push. ‘the bill
efforts to obtain]
The budget bill now is je where the finance will take it up later today, ate |committee action is not expected to change the bill substantially from the way it passed thé house yesterday and probably will have no effect on the teachers’ pay outlook.
Gates Supports Move In his press conference this } ing Governor Gates lent his. support to the pay raise méve. said he would not back away fram his original stand for the $1600 pay minimums, but made it clear that whatever action the legislature was without pressure from his office. - Today's move by the ways and means committee averted what was expected to have been a sharp between pro-raisé elements hoch house and the budget guardians, -
Gates Just 'Hopes' On Liquor Bill
Governor Gates said today he hoped the senate wouldn't do anything to wreck his bill to unravel the beer-politics tangle. That was as far as he would go, the governor indicated, toward urg- * ing senate action. He said he would not go before another caucus as he
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through. Meanwhile, the senate Republic~ ans struggled for a decision. on. the, extefit to which a precinet’ teeman and ward party officials could be connected with the liquor business. As the bill now stands, they are in the clear. As many would amend it, : precinct committeeman couldn't even work in a. drugstore which sold whisky. ! Senate Republicans were expected
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Tanker Explodes;
2 Missing, 4 Hurt: |“ HOUSTON, Tex, March 4 (0. PJ,
the “Houston er It was berthed for repairs, The blast, ‘caused
cumulated gas fumes in three emp ty tanks, tore a hole big enough to drive. a’ through on’ one
return?” Rep. Thomas asked. “Noth p