Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 March 1947 — Page 2

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- Doubts Deadline Can Be Met * But Chairman Charles A. Eaton of the house foreign affairs com4 “doubted very seriously” whether the deadline can be met. The New Jersey Republican said. he did not think the committee

bill before next week. ~~ °

Mr. Eaton said he was “eager |.

and anxious” to get to work on

. Meanwhile Senator Henry Cabot Jodge Jr. (R. Mass) pledged his support to Mr. Truman's program. But he warned that this nation cannot “resist communism in one place and appear to support it in others.” Nn Ferguson Asks Data But another Republican senator, Homer Ferguson (Mich), wanted a

influénce. He voiced his demand as the state department recalled the U. 8S. ambassadors in Greece and Turkey for consultations here on the President's $400 million program .to

Lincoln McVeagh, ambas-

key, and sador to Greece.

turns from Florida Wednesday afternoon, and will testify before congressional committees studying the President's program. No Joint Hearings Senate President Arthur H. Van-

program would not be conducted on the bill. Such joint hearings] might have been one speed-up move. | March 31 is the date set by the British for ending their financial assistance to the Greek government. It also will be the signal for reducing the British forces there from 10,000 to 5000 as part of an early withdrawal.

fi for Britain in the wake of a 100-

* | hours, predicted by the air ministry,

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Award- Made by French Government

Elmer S. House, 2424'% Guilford ave, has been notified by the French embassyethat he has been cited for the order of the regiment and awarded the croix de guerre with bronze star by the French government. ; The citation and award were for “exceptional services in world war II in connection with operations for the liberation of France.” Gen. Alphonse Juin, French chief of staff, signed the citation. > Mr. House served as an artillery observer with -the 254th infantry regiment, 63d division. In February, 1945, he exposed himself to intense enemy rifle and machine gun fire while directing artillery con-

centration on a strongly defended

town.

leaf cluster awarded by the U. 8S army in the same action.

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Pendleton. They are being detained on vagrancy charges. Early today police saw a car speed north on Delaware st. and run a stop sign at 16th st. As it careened around the corner the police gave chase. The car skidded into New Jersey st, headed south at a high rate of speed, then swung east on Ninth st. with the police close behind. Shot Is Fired

Police brought the car to a stop with a pistol shot and arrested

In the auto they found a set of i lcense plates issued to Harold Star{buck, Noblesville.

| Gommerce ave.

Davis confessed to the series of [cided that both wanted “good cars.”

Police End Parolees' Car-Stealing Spree Youth, Arrested After Chase, Implicates . Pal in Series of Automobile Thefts

Police today uncovered a nocturnal car-stealing spree. when they right.

arrested two youthful parolees following a North Side automobile’ chase

week-end . thefts

Car Not Running

{then went to a show.

1900 block on Ewing st. | went to the 3800 b}

and implicated |#polls. Newby, police said. A short time 80d parked the car on 15th st. later Davis took the police to New‘bys home where they arrested him. According to police, Davis admitted stealing a parked car Sat-. urday night at Pennsylvania and Ohio sts. He said he parked the car in the 1500 block on Carrollton ave. went home and called Newby.

Davis told police he and Newby

After the

Davis, who was alone in the car. show they stole another car in the

After that, Davis related, they de-

They decided to go to Noblesville and steal one there, On the way to” Noblesville they ditched the car that wasn't running At Noblesville, Davis said, Newby wired around the switch of a parked car and the two started

Arrested were James Davis, 31, of 419 E. North st., and Charles Newby, | back to Indianapolis. 22, of 512 E. 15th st. who police said took at least a half dozen cars| They left the car they had driven over the week-end. Both are parolees from the state reformatory at (to Noblesville in a country lane near

Allisonville and returned to IndianHere they switched plates

Davis told police ie and Newby returned to the car Sunday night. They filled it with gas, repaired a flat and drove around until midnight, when Davis said he took Newby home. He said he was looking for a place to leave the car [when police spotted him.

Women's Speed Record

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hour.

finger of her left hand. Jean

won ‘a Hollywood contract | through an Ohio State university personality contest, is wearing’ a huge diamond and emerald ring. She says it's a birth-

Hughes, millionaire movie producer. Declaring the “engagement” finger was the only np the ring would fit, she admitted "we haven't discussed matri-

mony yet." But she added: | "The romance is serious.” |

Storms Lash British Isles

100 MPH Wind Leaves 12 Dead

LONDON, March 17 (U P).— Fresh gales were predicted today

mile-an-hour wind and rainstorm.

T'S SERIOUS—On the third |

Peters, 20-year-old actress who |

day present from Howard |

The storm left at least 12 per-

like wartime bombing. Rescue techniques perfected in

hatted police squads burrowed through the rubble of smashed buildings for victims. Scores of persons were injured Driving rain during the next 24

was expected to worsen flood condi.

streams in southern England. At Reading, 25 miles west of London, waters from the Thames rolled through city streets a mile from the river banks. It was the worst flood there in 50 years. College Is Closed The playing fields of Eton were waterlogged. The college was closed and its 1100 boys sent home. The royal town of Windsor, across the Thames, was almost cut off by flood waters. A fleet of 40 army trucks: carried water to London's East end, where flooded waterworks cut off normal supplies to more than a million per-

Warns It's Dangerous

To Abolish Flight Pay

WASHINGTON, March 17 (U. P.).

inspector of the army air forces, contended today that a bill to abolish the 50 per cent extra pay for flying personnel would impair the

. morale and efficiency of ‘the A. A. F.

Rep. Carl Vinson (D. Ga.) has introduced a bill to abolish flying and submarine pay and substitute a government-paid $10,008 insurance policy.

5 Ships Arrive In N. Y. Harbor Today

in New York harbor: Arriving

* herst from Bermuda, - Departing—None.

sons. Radio amateurs were the only {outside links for some villages.

in Birmingham,

| Coastal watchers said last night ~Maj. Gen. Junius W. Jones, air|was the wildest in years on the seas

{around the British isles.

| Waves estimated to be 100 feet high broke across the coastal rocks

at some points,

ran aground.

Truman Vacation

Ends Wednesday

dinner that night.

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.manuals and many early days of golf.

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THE HISTORY | OF GOLF An exhibit of histori March 18 Thrd % -

sons dead and flattened de

the “blitz” days were revived. Tin- |

tions along the Thames and other |

Sixty houses were blown down |

At least two ships limped to port | with crippled engines and another

- KEY WEST, Fla, March 17 (U. NEW YORK, March 17 (U. P.).— P.)—The temporary White House 8hip movements scheduled: today announced today that President | | Truman's. Florida vacation will end —Marine Perch from Ge- Wednesday afternoon. | hoa, Stavangerfiord” from Bergen,| He will take off in his special brGam. from Rotterdam, Santa plane, “Fhe Sacred Cow,” shortly | : Cecilia from Valparaiso, Pt: Anmi- after lunch Wednegtay retdrning | ~*° to the White House in time for | .i

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TAMPA, Fla.” March 17 (U. P).! (=A former Painesville, O., teacher, | Next, they Marge Hurlburt, today was the! x bh Winthrop holder of a'new world speed record Plates on the ave. and took another car because,| for women pilots. Her 2000 horse- | car, they said, had been taken from Davis said, the car they had was| power He holds*the bronze star with oak a truck parked in the 1400 block on not running right. three-kilometer course here at 337.635 miles per

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Max Baer Leads Tabernacle Hymns

From Qincinnati’s gay night spot, thes Latin Quarter to Indianapolis Cadle Tabernacle—that's the jump ex-heavyweight champion Max Baer took yesterday. . ~ After a late show at the night club with “Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom, the ex-fighter hopped to Indianapolis to lead hymn singing at Cadle. last night. He came here to visit his former sparriftg partner, Jerry (Curley) Owen, now conducting evangelist services here. Mr. Owen, who bills himself as the “World Champion's Bible Quoter,” last week came to the defense of four teenagers charged with the slaying of state trooper Herbert Wade Smith, Hampered by a sore throat, “Maxie” lead 5000 persons singing “Rock of Ages" and “There Is No Night There,” hymns which he said were favorites of his late parents.

CATHOLIC BISHOP DIES PATERSON, N. J, March 17 (U.

Corsair |P.) —The Most Rev. Thomas Henry (el Aughis, 65, Catholic bishop of |

Paterson, died early today at his residence.

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A meeting with the Indiana

school bus safety committee will be

top drawer business Wednesday for State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ben H. Watt. In his first press conference Saturday the new superintendent said

one of his first objectives would be’

improvement of school bus standards and safety regulations “to bring them up to those of other leading states.” 3 ; Mr. Watt also plans to speak at regional teachers and school officlals conferences at New Castle, March 81; Columbia City, April 13 Valparaiso, April 2; Crawfordsville,

April 3; Washington, April 4 and

Madison, April 5.

He was sworn in his new post Saturday by Supreme Court Judge James A. Emmert. Earlier, the judge administered the oath of office to Col. Howard Maxwell, native Hoosier, who succeeds "Mr, Watt as adjutant general.

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