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South Indiana Towns Lashed

By Winds, Rain

Shelbyville, Salem, Greensburg Hard Hit

Flash floods and whipping wind left a wide section of southern Indiana a shambles today. State police reported Salem struck by the heaviest storm in years late yesterday. Flood waters reached window sills in some parts of town and merchandise floated down the streets as darkness closed in on the powerless town, A small railroad bridge was swept away and one unidentified train crewman was injured as a train sagged into the swirling water, state police said. Power had. been restored by this morning. Shelbyville Trees Uprooted At Shelbyville trees were uprooted: and hurled across the streets. Power circuits and rural telephone service’ were still out this morning. Flood waters swirled

over curbs and up to business sec-|

tion doorsteps. Residents of Shelbyville said the whipping wind acted as though “two storms had met” there, Telephone circuits-to Greensburg, where residents reported the “worst storm in 70 years” still were nut of order this morning, Dozens-of huge

" trees were sprawled in the stree's,

blocking’ traffic in and out of the city from nearly every direction. : Hail at Martinsville Martinsville reported the storm was accompanied by hail, and sev-. eral fields in that: vicinity were left under water by the flash floods. Three state highways were blocked near Vevay. U. 8. 31 north and south of Sellersburg was covered with a foot of water at the height of .the storm last night. New Albany and Jeffersonville were in darkness during much of the night as wind - tangled ‘power lines. Most of New Albany still was without power this morning. The storm in Shelbyville was blamed for three auto accidents in which four persoris were injured.

. Muncie Traffic Halted High wind and heavy rainfall brought traffic to a virtual standstill in Muncie where two inches of water fell in a little over an hour. In New Palestine busses on U.S. 52 were re-routed because of trees

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fall there was reported the heaviest for a single night in many years. At Rushville wind was reported light but pouring - rain ‘quickly flooded streets and basements,

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od boat 1 For 'New Moon' Every performance of “The New Moon” at Butler Bowl will start at 8:45 p. m., unless rained out, the centermial ‘commission - announced today. Even though rain falls 10 minutes before curtain time, the show will go on.- Rain checks will be honored only if the show cannot start by 9:45 p. m. Butler field house. will be open to provide shelter for patrons if a the commission

Wr Freight War Seen

If Airlines Cut Rates

WASHINGTON, July 14 (U. P.). «An intensified rate war between scheduled airlines and air freight carriers was in the making today. Air Cargo, Inc, airline ground service organization, that 19 scheduled lines will cnt freight rates 25 per cent on Aug. 1 if the civil aeronputics board approves tariffs’ to be filed tomorrow. The announcement looked like a llenge to the all-cargo .oranch| G f the non-scheduled aviation industry. which, ran, away with the potentially rich air freight market after the war ended. . The cuts would drop the airlines’ freight rates to about 20 cents per ton-mile, compared with about 15 cents charged’ by the air freight lines which wére built up to a considerable extent by war veterans.

Traveling Newsmen Visit MacArthur

TOKYO, July 14 (U. P.).—Gen, Douglas MacArthur

visiting American editors and pub-

lishers, They are touring Asia as

guests of the war department.

. The newspapermen began their visit of allied occupied countries in the ‘Far East with a briefing by members of the supreme command on the aims and accomplishments

|The sediment that settled to the

announced,

today gave a frank, off-the-record analysis of the current situation in. Japan to 10

58th YEAR—NUMBER 107

State, Transit Firm Locked in Battle - Over 2c Transfers

Attorney General Hunts Way to Dissolve

Utility’ s Court Writ Blocking Free Change Slips |

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of 2-cent transfers.

The utility was charging Sunday’s state supreme court

This blocked a Saturday the state attorney general's office to enforce the Indiana

public service commission’s order abolishing 2-cent transfers. Attorney General Cleon Foust and his deputies were attempting today to find some way of dissolving the supreme court writ of prohibition, which utility attorneys obtained yesterday afternoon. They conferred all morning, put could not find no immediate way to block the. company’s Sunday punch. No Bond Posted As a result, trolley patrons were getting ‘a white coupon with every bus and trolley transfer they pay 2 cents for. The attorney general's office said the utllity had posted no bond to cover these receipts and was not required to impound any revenue. The company emerged temporar=-

By RICHARD LEWIS

Indianapolis Railways, Inc, was on today over the issue |

een the state of Indiana and

for the transfers today under writ. night -injunction obtained by

ily . victorious in a week-end legal melee with the PSC which kept the superior court open late Saturday and the state supreme court operating Sunday. Stymied for Week Today the commission and the state attorney general's office were stymied for at least one week in their thus far fruitless attempt to make the commission's order stick. In the middle of these proceedings was the trolley riding public. Passengers and trolley operators were. debating the issue on the forum of crowded streetcars and busses this morning.

The operators had. their instructions to continue charging for transfers. Patrons who were unaware of the supreme court ruling

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Full Skeletons

History announced today “probably made of the first dinosaurs.”

ago. They were found in the bed of an ancient sea, once bordered by a tropical jungle. Ironically, a wind such as dried up the sea ages ago, hurled a desert sandstorm through the camp "oday, tore down communications and delayed a complete report on the findThe party of scientists was headed by Dr. piri rin Savard Simpson, chairman. of the department of fro ig and ‘paleontology, and Dr. Edwin H. Colbert, curator of fossil reptiles.

Dinosaurs Found in N. M.

‘Most Important Discovery’ Hailed; Animals Were Small in Everything but Appetite

NEW YORK, July 14 (U., P.).—The American Museum of Natural

* The discovery was made by a field party north of Lindrith, Rip Arriba county, N. M., near the Colorado border. complete skeletons of dinosaurs-that roamed the area 200 million years

1 the ancient story of the world writ-

of First

the most important discovery yet

It was a quarry of

ten in the rock strata built upduring the triassic period. A great sea then stretched from Alaska to northern Mexico. Along its shore was a jungle of weird plants. Nature still hadn't made up its mind about vegetation. The fossil remains showed giant ferns which reproduced by means of egg-line spores; eyéads, the biologleal link which OF: means of spermftozoids, and cone bearing shrubs. The latter were the only

The party found new pages from

There were no flowers to soften the surface of he raw, red earth.

bottom of the lake formed a dark red sandstone. The first dinosaurs were small, but they had a whale of an ap~ petite, and liked meat. They ranged in size from that of a fat hen to a small horse. They walked about, balanced on long hind legs, and had short front legs to grasp the squirming smaller reptiles that made up their diet. . It toek 100 million years for the small ,order, of theropoda to develop _inta the 40-ton flesh-eating monster, tyranosaurus rex. This great dinosaur reached a length of} 38 feet, towered 18 feet high, with

Some as Small as a Hen, Some as Large as a Horse

seed producing plants,

a four-foot skull and teeth. a foot long to tear its victims to pieces. Only bone fragments had been found previously of the early dinosaur. “The discovery was probably the most important ever made of the triassic period of North America,” Dr. Simpson notified the New York museum. The museum said the find was the “most striking” ‘n the career of Dr. Colbert, author of “The Dinosaur Book” and world famous authority on reptiles. “These new skeletons represent an animal much smaller and much more primitive than the plateosaurus from Germany,” Dr. Colbert wrote the museum: “This discovery shows the real beginning of the dinosaurs.”

Clark Escapes Vote Fraud Probe

WASHINGTON, July 14 (U. P). —The senate judiciary committee today voted 7 to 6 to kill a proposed Investigation of the justice department actions under Attorney General ‘Tom C. Clark in connection with alleged vote frauds in President Truman's home district last year. Senator William Langer (R. N. D.) deserted his Republican col” leagues to vote with the six committee Democrats to “indefinitely postpone” action on a resolution by Senator James P. Kem (R. Mo.) calling for the investigation. The motion to kill the investigation was made by Senator Pat McCarran (D. Nev.), member of a three-man subcommittee which has held hearings on the resolution. In a report to the full committee signed by. Senators McCarran and

further investigation would be “fruitless and productive of no good result.” The subcommittee said . that a further, investigation would “duplicate without reason the activities of other agencies, that it would amount to political harassment, and that for these ghd other good reasons the proposed investigation is wholly unjustified.”

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Langer, the subcommittee held that]

Cancer Slogan

. Wins a Home MONT CLARE, Pa. July 14 (U. P.) ~Fortune smiled on Mrs. Mary Kvetan today. For a long time; the young mother and her ex-G. L husband, Rudolph, have dreamed of a home of their own where their three children would have “room to grow.” Last night, Mr. Kvetan answered

room apartment to learn that his 31-year-old wife had won a home, site and furnishings worth $35,000 for a slogan in a radio campaign against cancer. Her ‘slogan, “Arrest cancer—it's wanted for murder,” was judged best of 236,000 submitted in the nationwide Damon Runyon cancer fund contest. She thought it up while

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Reveal Reds

Backing Union Of CI0 and AFL

Foster Got Orders

At French Conference,

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 14.—Chairman William Z. Foster of the American Communist party is under orders direct from headquarters to help bring about merger of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations. { Mr. Foster got his orders from Jacques Duclos, head of the international committee for co-ordina-tion of Communist activity. Mr. Duclos is a Frenchman, His committee was set up by the Communist Internationale, which somewhat ostentatiously went out, of business during the war. The Communist®* Internationale was world-wide organization for Communist revolution directed from Moscow.

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Tops Reds in Power

the prerogatives of the Communist Internationale except authority to summon party members to a world Communist congress. Thus Mr. Duclos is the most powerful Communist outside Russia. He gets his instructions direct from the Kremlin's Politburo, which is the

munists. Private dispatches received here from Paris revealed the DuclosFoster conversations and considerably illuminated a meeting of 26 Communist leaders place last spring in Paris. Mr. Fos~ ter was among those present. Others Who Attended Others included Tim Buck of Great Britain, Nine Poppova, representing Moscow, Dolores Ibarreiri, Spain, and the following French{men: ~ Maurice Thorez, Andre Marty and Mr, Duclos. The “abolished” Communist Internationale was represented by a person described as George WilHams. . This Fisting took place at the ‘office of the central committee of the French Communist party, 44 Rue le Peletier. The eager interest of Communists in obtaining merger of the A. F. of L.-and C. I. O. ties in directly with their program for a third party movement. They also are conducting a pressure campaign to compel the Democratic party to resume the left wing aliances which flourished under the New DealDemocratic coalition created by the late Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Cuban Senator Wounded in. Duel... |

HAVANA, July 14 (U. P.).~—Senator Eddy Chibas was recovering today, from several saber wounds suffered in a 40-minute duel with Labor Minister Carlos Prio 8Sqcarras. The duel climaxed a political dispute over the sale of Cuban sugar to countries other than the United States. The duel was held yesterday In the Salon of Arms in the national capital. Senator Chibas, who is near-sighted, suffered slashes on his ieft arm, right cheek, and the right side of his body. He was taken to a private hospital. Jt was his fourth due] in the past few years.

PUT “BEARD” IN BED ALBANY, N. Y., July 14 (U, P.. —Radlo and Screen Actor Monty| Wooley will enter Albany hospital this afternoon for a periodic checkup, his physician, Dr, John E. Heslin, said today, ;

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Phone Princess Elizabeth Royal Pair May Have to Live With Parents;

By ROBERT MUSEL, United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, July 14.—A royal housing problém today confronted Princess Elizabeth and her fiance, Lt. Philip Mountbatten, who didn’t know

They may have to take an apartment with their in-laws, the king and queen, who live In 100-room Buckingham palace, ‘The princess and Philip were worried primarily over the scarcity of

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106TH GATHERS in Andianapolis for ‘the 104th Division reunion are former members of an anti-tank company, 423 Infantry. Left to right with wartime ranks are Cpl. Albert E. Falkner, Drayton Plains, Mich.: Sgt, Ralph Steed, Robbins, N. C.; Sgt. Glen’ Kennedy, lowa City, lowa; Capt. Charles Reid, Richburg, S. C., Sgt. Leonard Butterball, Shelby, lowa. The group was held prisoner in Hommelburg,

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G.0.P. Senators Seek Tax Cut Votes

Making No ‘Deals, Leaders Assert

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, July 14-—Repub-lican leaders belittled talk of lastminute’ vote-catching “deals”. today. as they sought to drive toward final passage of “a new tax bill. President Truman’ has promised! to veto the bill. “He told congres-| sional leaders today he would submit his veto message speedily in order not to complicate plans to adjourn congress on July 26. Tax reduction proponents were making an uphill fight to nail down | two votes apparently needed to assure a two-thirds majority to override. Talk revived that approval might be given a “community property” | amendment permitting husbands| and wives to divide total income for tax purposes, and thus benefit from lower rates. dozen states. No Chance, Says Millikin But Senator Eugene D, Millikin | (R. Colo.), senate finance committee | chairman, said he didn’t believe] there was “the slightest chance” of | such a deal. Nor did he envision | acceptance of other | which might attract votes. “Amending a bHl to catch votes! may lose as many votes as fit gains,” he said. Senator Kenneth L. Wherry (R. Neb), G.O.P. senate whip, agreed. “I think we'll go to bat on this legislation just as it 1s,” he said. Reports persisted, however, that a compromise might be offered which would make the community property tax principle effective in 1949,

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Effective Jan. 1 Jhe tax bill is changed in only! one respect .from that vetoed. recently by Mr. Truman. It makes tax cuts of 10.5 per cent to 30 per cent, affecting nearly 50 million’ persons, effective next Jan. 1 instead of July 1 of this year. The senate count of noses still showed 61 members in favor of overriding and 33 + opposed—two! votes short of enough to turn the trick. The 33 votes seemed certain today with the return from Europe of Senator Elbert D. Thomas (D. Utah). He told reporters he will vote against the tax bill because he agrees “with President Truman |, Ralls in his tax theory.” deanna sp—— EISLER ON. TRIAL AGAIN WASHINGTON, diy 14 ov. P).| “The fraud trial

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Special Congress Session Not Needed, Truman Says

‘Agrees With G. O. P.

House, Senate Leaders;

Foreign Relation Group May Be Called

WASHINGTON, July 14 (U, P.).—President Truman and congressional leaders agreed today that a special session of congress will not

be necessary this fall. Senate President Arthur H. Va his colleagues took up with the Pr session this fall, They agreed that

But the Michigan Republicanjnoted | ~

that Mr. Truman reserves the right to change Ris mind ih event of an emergency. Senator Vandenberg said it was quite possible that the senate for- | eign relations committee might be | called back after adjournment to

get certain legislation ready ‘for congress when It reconvenes in | January.

Not in Discussion The Marshall plan for European recovery did. not figure in the | White House discussion except) when references were made. to 1% in connection with the need for an extra session, it was said, The President invited the legisla- |

Bombshell Pilot To Try It Again

CHICAGO, July 14 (U, P).— {Capt. William P. Odom will fly the Reynolds Bombshell around the world alone next month in an attempt to break Wiley Post's solo record set in 1933. The Bombshell is the converted two-motor army plane in which Capt. Odom and the owner, pen manufacturer Milton Reynolds, made a record-bréaking round-the-world flight in April. Capt. Odom will make his solo trip over the same 20,000-mile course attempting to set a record of four days. Mr. Post piloted the} Winnie Mae on a 15,506-mile route in seven days, 19 hours and 49% | minutes. He was killed with €o-| median Will Rogers in a ‘crash near | Point Barrow, Alaska, In 1035.

Stock Market Registers |

High for Four Months |

NEW YORK, July 14 (U P).~| Stocks. advanced to new highs for| four months today under the leadership of railroad shares. Tiading| Was te the heaviest since May 19. registered gains §Altis Fanging to 2 points in Union Pacific, w made a new high at 139%.

few buying in the

new high for the year, Chrysler hit a 1047 high. oN pri

ndenberg’ (R. Mich.) said he and esident the possibility of “an extra no such session was contemplated.

tive leadérs to the White House primarily to urge legislation to per: | mit entry of some 400,000 European ! refugees to this country, Senator “Vandenberg said, how~ ever, that extreme tightness in the congressional schedule would make it all but impossible to comple action on this legislation hefore Journment, scheduled -for July 26. Mr, Vandenberg said it was “mutually agreed” that the situation required constructive altention by the congress. The displaced persons emergency would* be discussed further among the leaders in an effort to find some solution, Mr. Vandenberg -said.’

Blow Up Jap Mine Off Oregon Coast

NEAHKAHNIE LODGE, Ore., July 14

summer resort breathed much more

[freely today after army experts blew {up a 500-pound Japanese horned

mine that drifted ashore yesterday. Guyon Blissett, resort owner, called the coast guard after he saw children playing with the deadly device, One of the children was found sitting on it ‘When an ordnance expert arrived. He removed the children to a

|safe distance and then blew the

mine up with dynamite. The blast shattered windows in a half-mile area,

Britain Plans Food Exports

Hout od LONDON, July 14 (U. P.) —Great Britain soon will “start exporting beef, cookies, jams and chocolates at the rate of $40 million a year. Food Ministet John Strachey told commons this Monday, He said the dollars obtained from food sales ‘would bé used to buy.nearly [00 mililon tons. of additional staples.

Demand for the rails ingpired) Foodstuffs for export were picked - the industrial sec-| because they were oj the of Ger- [tion wheie the average reached a| monetary value in

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hit] nutritional Value, - said

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(U, P.).~Vacationists at this!

Truman Pleads For Delay

In Coal-Steel Price Hike

Asks TairTest Of Miners’ New Contract

Fears Increase Imperils U. S.Prosperity WASHINGTON, July 14 (U. P.). — President Truman today asked coal and steel producers to withhold price increases until “a fair test has been made” of the actual effects of wage increases granted under the new coal contract.

Mr. Truman said the eifgsfs. of of the wage settlement reached’ last week between the operators and

John L. Lewis’ United Mine Work-~

ers (A. F. of L) had been "badly represented.” He sald the public still did not iv understand what the ‘actual effect of .the settlement would be.

Pittsburgh Increase Announced

also would go up as a In Pittsburgh today, the Retail Coal ' Merchants’ association

on most grades of bituminous.

withhold price increases through a statement issued by the White House. >

wilt for a fair test of the actual effects” of the coal wage increase

‘We Will Never Know’ “If ‘prices are raised at once and a wave of increases in related prices upsets our economy, we never will know what would have happened if the coal and steel managers had been willing to wait,” he said.

which would accrue from the regular work day and work week under the new agreement, from the ine creased efforts of workers enjoying better wages, and from the imeprovement in plant efficiency. He therefore asked the producers to walt for a fair test.

Taft Denies ‘Obstructing’ Universal Training

WASHINGTON, July 14 (U, P), —Senator Robert A. Taft (R. O),

-| today denied former Supreme Court

Justice Owen J. Roberts’ charge that he has “obstructed” senate consideration of universal military training legislation,

“still regards” enactment of ya T, program as “unnecessary.” ' Roberts . declared continued delay “might result in & natjonal calamity. He charged that congress had failed :t0 act on the program thus far largely because of Mr, Taft's “ob~ structionist tactics.”

‘Flour Mill’ Workers

| Strike in Buffalo

BUFFALO, N. Y., July 14 (U. P). —Some 1600 workers at two of the nation’s largest grain mills, Pillsbury Flour and ‘General Mills, struck today. Strikers are demanding 3 15cent hourly wage boost and increased holiday and vacation time.

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