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o == oo » A07ochS Plotted! At Lonely ‘Mr. Inside’ ppropriate : Pramas ar 3 4] At Lonely ‘Mr. Inside’ | © of jurymen, and $109 . a ! : | i ire A Miltary LOU iv 2 i m= | Wiitary Coup | = ror pi 3 Seize 6 Leaders : : HOR N, Feb, 21 rr of Rival Party A | .. a Mason : began her PRAGUE, Feb. 23 (UP)—Comlife today. She wy Interior Minister Vaclav enire 0 terday ‘as she gp [J Nosek tonight charged the Na- ) 101st birthday _ the second largest party, ; : star tbe Communists, with plot- N D tgs miliary psc agin ~~ NdMes brawn The Communist command: of - the Ministry and the a, | p | 3 In Pollard Case the discovery of “proof” > Na } } tional and uprising and, the itary Move fo Prevent Jury The ministry's police raided Of Court” Bystanders = Nationalist headquarters, ' + By RICHARD LEWIS !

searched the party offices and gles, and arrested at least six of its executives. Week-Long Crisis

Times Stall Writer } GREENFIELD, Feb. 23—A special venire of 150. Hancock County farmers, businessmen and, housewives was drawn here to-|

trial of Howard. Pollard, March 8,| Pollard is charged with killing Leland Miller, 21, in April, 19046. The victim's body was found along a creek bank in |Boone County with the hands and ‘one foot amputated. | The special venfre was demandied Saturday in a motion filed by {Glenn Funk, chief deputy Mar{lon County prosecutor. Field Narrowed

inet ist ministers and those of two, other parties had turned in their resignations from the govern-

ment. In a sudden show of strength

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Nosek announced that his police so . . . | bad arrested two Caechoslovak Bearers of Gifts, Dowries Will Be First, The motion stated that a spewm ofces and “a number” of, Bup Girls, You'll Have fo Get in Line Oe oi The ministry made public de- By ED SOVOLA room bystanders into the jury

tails of a document it said was « (Author of Inside Indianapolis) {box. D 1 fond “in possession of one of I received four proposals of marriage in this morning's! Mr. Funk said the state's de- . the arrested persons.” It pur- t . {mand for the ‘death penalty : ported to give detailed instruc-| . . i . ; | roua result in numerous chal- : : tions from the party sécretary) Frankly, I'm getting worried. Cupid should take itilenges on the ground of conT ATES ating the party's lary or. leasy. : : scientious objections to capital 0 occupy Prague 2 i : + ishment. ® i Sablic offices. ks But since everything points to this year as being the |’ The deputy prosecutor's motion Benes Speaks Out time for “The Big Leap” I'd better get ready. also asserted that “widespread EC President Eduard Benes in a To all my “secret loves.” I! 4 . Publicity sending .the case statemest from Office. urgea| =~ | © : 3 ht retty little head. But, my would narrow down the field of IAL hi Cones (0 wean calm and think it’s only fair I address a goon? have to’ Pes oy jurors. steady.” He been struggling ichances. | “It would not serve the ends

for 4 week to compromise the pa Now, let's see. T wish I had|of justice to call bystanders from

friction within the government. In the very near future we'll Saray he, in effect rejected, a|all meet on the steps of the Worid{these letters bound. Ang fumkithe courtroom to serve as jurCommunist demand for a mew War Memorial and get this Leap ated. The perfume is making ors” Mr. Funk's motion said. government, and insisted that no Year proposal business settled. It FV head spin. Here 38 unte Viewed as ‘Rhetoric’ party or.group should be exclud- takes time to arrange an evert Got af bring us up. to & solu-|’ oo 0 associate counsel. ed {rom the Cabinet. (that hds all the possibilities of ' Waldo Ging; of Greenfield, viewed’ had moved ‘Mr. Funk's remarks about pick-| the Communist lead-|

. ” - | “FROM YOUR write-ups you ‘sound lke a grand person, (I'll Ing a jury from courtroom specfrom every. Jill who agree) and I would Py meet, tators as so much Ende dreaming of . this YOU much—do ye think y ripe? « arranged? I would thrilled!” ‘ _ Wait, honey. Here's what we'll do. All my honeys take note. Also watch the per for the :/time and date of “The Big Leap.”

On a specified day, under prop-

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Mr.) Ging is associated with Frank Symmes, Indianapolis, in the defense of Pollard who has been in jail nearly two years, awaiting trial. ; The murder case was venued|

day for the first degree murder!

blast in ‘the Jewish quarter of States intends to do—and not to do—about armed enforce {Jerusalem yesterday which killed : “Judge Hinchman would he

‘ |assertions in Beirut that the blast American last-minute attempts to| developments ‘were:

To Authorize 10-Year Plan

Urges Rent Controls WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (UP)—President Truman to{day outlined a vast housing {program calling for 10 million ‘new dwellings in the next 10 'years, resumption of publie housing and extension of rent > controls until Apr. 30, 1049. In a lengthy message to Cone gress, he urged that Congress provide funds to permit cone struction of 100,000 low-rent pubs lic housing units each year for the next five years. Mr. Truman also set forth a program to reduce building costs and to aid cities in slum clearance and rebuilding run-down areas, = Stressing the need for low-cost and low-rent housing, Mr, Truman outlined a five-point short and long-range housing’ program which he said will push the nae tion “far toward the goal of a decent home for every

NAMES FOR POLLARD JURY DRA WN—Jurors who will decide the fate of Howard Pollard in the "hands-and foot" slaying of Leland Miller will be chosen from a venire of names drawn today by Hancock County Jury Commissioners Almond Wickard (center) and Chester Gates (right). Mrs. Dale Walls, deputy county clerk, is recording the names.

Jerusalem Blast What U. S. Plans to Do. Admitted by Arabs On Palestine Partition

Will Take Middle of Road, Won't Start Move for International Patrol By ‘NAT BARROWS, Times Special Writer LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Feb. 23—Here, out in the open basic story of what the United

Explosion Aimed Against Partition JERUSALEM, Feb. 23 (UP)— The Arab organization Diner re-! ported tonight that it set off the for the first time, is the

ment of Palestine parti tion, : ‘ L ’ ~ jung abot ner 4 "1t also reveals part of the British position fri‘the cloak-| cae rules of war, we shail gontinue and-dagger atmosphere of Zanedveis. attempts at conciliindisciminats on a big- ation, a proposed “freeze” of | Ty "Clay aieticult for Said. It In i gy 'eiect, partition for three months, 'pregigent Sunny pp iscenind the high command of the Arab and some extremely fancy tion—assuming that it has any military. jugging of hot potatoes. |desire to do so—to back down

Death Toll Mounts i , ’ . | ‘The utmost possible secrecy from last fall's United Nation's The report here followed Arab nag covered and still covers the decision to divide Palestine, The

was the opening move in an Arabicrystallize its Holy Land policy| ONE: A demand by Sen. Rob-

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even ask you to marry me when er police escort, I shall make my ; On Way Today I see you—which will be one oflappeatance on the steps of the here ut of Marion: County by : these days not so far away.”|War Memorial. 8 defense oight months ago. LOCAL TEMPERATURES Ahhhh. - : All you ladies (those bearing Trial Delayed $am...? 10a m..37 | What can you do when “Hope-| 0, gouries and blank checks| The trial, originally set last Tam...27 11a m...s+l [fully, your secret love” writes: get attention first) assemble|Nov, 4, was postponed on a moSam..2 12 (Noom) 43 |“Is it true that you are a single|,, ." ,., sry] manner for thetion of Prosecutor Judson Stark, $am.;.38 1pm... 43 man? Then you must have been t. T shall attempt to select Who asked an investigation be

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Warmer weather is in store for

Indianapolis and vicinity today. . Of course, dear,

Temperatures which began in’ the 20s early this morning are

tween 45 and 50 degrees (his afternoon. ! Increasing cloudiness, however, will partly obscure the sun. Tonight the mercury is expeited to dfop to about freezing, | = Segrees above last night's Tow’ of 26. ; ;

Meanwhile, flood waters of the

along the length of southern Indiana. The White and the Wa-, bash Rivers, too, were dropping.i The Ohio reached a crest of! 42.4 feet yesterday at Evansville and fell to 42.2 by this morning.

Reveals ‘Human’ Hands To Be Bear Paws

CATSKILL, N. Y., Feb. 23

(UP)—Lucille Bulich excitedly ..ooner Frank Sinatra, broke into the reference book of the famous,” ‘Pilot J.” L. Younghans, Inform «who's Who in America,” for the first time today. i

falled State Police to them that her dog had dug up a

? you waiting for Leap Year. Since you are so bashful, may I

Ohio River were receding today offers.”

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pagean ‘the fairest of you all for-my very

propose.’ | but get in line. | - . - “PIT A PAT” (sounds like

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“IF MY choice isn't final and

campaign to thwart any compro-i__32 weeks after the General As- ert A. Taft (R. 0.) for the United mise which would permit parti-isembly voted for partition. {States to “co-operate vigorously” tioning of Palestine. The exact American phrase- with the United Nations in setting

made of reports that Pollard was being shown “favoritism” by offi-| cialé afbund the jail. Prosecutor Stark's motion for

Epecied: 10 reach a of be- lovely girl) asked a ‘question be. Satisfactory we'll resort to games a change of venue from Hancock x ou

fore warning me. “Are aware that it is Leap Year? you stay in town it means you

are. just waiting to be asked and]

if you are just waiting, then I am going to ask.

i » . : . “EF have long admired -you-and consideration. .This thing. unter Par Testing. Plane

have waited for this opportunity be done right.

Rain fe fofecast for tomorrow. 3s 1 was too young last Leap “That's the story, Year. Please don't acéépt other loves”—see you soon: Other can-

“Pit a Pat” don't you worry

of skill and endurance.

don’t come to a decision, arbitrarily I'll choose. > | Again I say, gifts, dowries and iblank checks will be taken under

didates for “The Big Leap,” get your letters in early:

‘48 Who's Who Reflects

America's Changed Mood

Sinatra, Movie, Radio Personalities Replace Military Men in New Volume

CHICAGO, Feb. 23 (UP)~—More than 5000 persons, includingthe U. 8. Air Force.

Jcuit Court.

B75 Has Close Cal

County because of the “favorit-

If at the end of a week we still ism” rumors was overruled by ...wn death toll mounted to 49.|

Judge John B. Himehman of Cir-

| An Allison test pilot and a flight test engineer escaped injury today when their Twin-Mustang fighter plane blew a tire while {making an emergency, single-en-| |gine landing at Municipal Airport. | The plane, a P-82 which will cruise at well over 400 miles per, {hour, was on a routine test hop. t is being tested by Allison for

1709 Cunningham Rd., said he had to,

M%. Sinatra, along with Actress Paulette Goddard, Cowboy RoY feather the propeller on one of the human hand in the back yard of Rogers, and Minerva Pious, Radio's Mrs. Nussbaum,” appeared 2250-horsepower motors when it

ber farm home. Police found a i, the bjennal edition of the blue book of famous people. The new mee gta ne eet

fecond hand nearby when the¥| .qition was placed on sale today.!

Investigated. Then they found two more. s Roland Lindemann of the Catskill Game Farm solved the mystery when he identified the hands” as bear paws discarded bY hunters, Russ Foraging Charged BERLIN, Feb. 23 (UP)—Rusflan soldiers have been crossing the border from Austria Into American - occupied Bavaria to farage for foodstuffs and impose their. dem German farm-

rs, Gen. Lucius D. Clay reported today. ’

On the Inside

The big crop of new “personalities” into the book more than made up for about 1000 wartime officers left out this year because they automatically lost their prominence when the war ended or they left the service. . The new edition carries the biographies of 21,194 persons on its 2976 pages. - ‘ The publishers say the odds are about 3000 to 1 against anyone with aspirations to appear In “Who's Who" but graduates of

small colleges have a four times,

better chance of getting listed’ this year is a 97-year-old engi- ‘B

than’ those from big schools.

Among the persons listed this

year were 35 explorers, SeVOn |g...» 3737 Deloss St.

developed an overspeed. Riding with ‘Mr. Younghans in {the other cockpit was Luther) a flight

bridge engineers, eight diabetic|,, i o.cineer for the local air-

specialists, 15 impresarios, criminologists, . two and 52 astronomers. y Nobody can buy their way into the’ book—nor out of it. Both have been tried. : All’. the persons listed screened by a five-man editorial

magicians

craft engine plant. With one good engine, the two airmen headed toward the airport for an emergency landing. As the wheels of the twin-fuse-lage craft touched the runway one

AI'% of the tires blew out and the plane

careened crazily up the strip to a

board. The editors make certain 4 Sparks flew from the underthat the book's “characters” are arriage as the concrete runway

not necessarily “the best, but the oround the wheel down to a nub-

best known." The ‘oldest person in the book

| Margaret O'Brien.

EEE ———— Worried mother tells Mrs. Manners: “My daughter's in love Theater Robbed

Three bitten by rabid dog: open drive on strays. ...Page 8

r r ” Gates and Jenner both “in doghouse” . - ” r ’ g ‘ ” » » 3 Two local men among four dead in traffic.......... Page » ” = sr i ~ » v | A picture story of YMCA drive to enroll 1600 new, front office to an aisle in the : ve... Page 11 middie of the theater where the ~ yeggs smashed it open, apparent-

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usements. ! Eddie'Ash .. 8! Bridge ..... 15 Business 6 Forum

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A Key to Other Inside Features 4 Crossword .. 9 Dr.'Jordan.. 15 Ruark

Editorials :. 12 Mrs. Manners 2 Side Glances 12 tion, 1611 Roosevelt Ave. 8-9 night and carried away merchan-

4 Spo T cs. 14 dise valued at $303; accordi HER 12 Al Nelson, 1438 E. 11th oy Aon 13: Weather Map 2 tion owner, . ' : :

| Fashions ... 14 Movies ..... cesses 12 F.C. Othman Classified. .16-18 | Meta Given. 14 Radio ...... 19 Washington . Comics +++s' 19 Inside Indpls. 11, Mrs. Roosev't

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(Of $2000 Cash

| Burglars broke into the’ Rivoli

ineer from Massachisetts, Calvin ~ [F. Adams. The youngest is- the 11-year-old pride of Hollywood,

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omb’ Discovered

LONDON, Feb. 23 (UP)=An] [anonymous caller © warned (he occupants of Palace Chambers, a building - in Westminster which

'movie theater, 3155 E. 10th St./houses part of the colonial offices. | {

early

o/about $2000 cash trom an office

safe, pt The safe had been carried fro

ly with sledge hammers.

| Burglars broke through a winvesss 11 dow of ‘the Phillips 66 seryice stalast Cannon Row station to be exam- ministrative foreign policy

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today and escaped with that it would be blown up in three

{minutes today. 4 | Scotland Yard officers raced to

m the building from the nearby Jan-|cpins policy

non Row police station were re{ported to have found a 12-inch {long candy box with wires and |batteries attached behind a letter bo~ in a hallway. ht The “bomb” was taken to the

ined by experts. tt. i {ing came from a caller who spoke “with a foreign accent.” °° wv

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‘when contacted by telephone.

eved of his contract last week sentially as given above,

In Westminster |

[Lions of the National Profession- British position.

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The Arab drive was credited ology will not be made public up an international army for by. Beirut informants to Haj until Warren R. Austin addresses ¢ Amin El Husseini, the -exiléd the Security Council, possibly” to-| Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and morrow. Secretary . of State prominent Americans, includi master mind of Arab strategy, George C. Marshall - gave his Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, a Unit: Far flung ramifications of the super-secret instructions to the Nations delegate, urging creation blast became apparent as the U. 8. delegation today. of a United Nations army for Two week-end ' developments Palestine immediately, Rescue workers probing inthe

rubble at the heart of the Jew- U. S. Doesn't Propose to Send Troops

Palestine, CAPWOL TK statement by four)

TWO: Stimulate a higher vole ume of home building on a suse tained basis, with_ special em phasis on rental housing, with the proper safeguards against possible inflationary effects. THREE: Reduce building

ish quarter here believed a few is © a t h : al ch mote” ‘bodies | ‘This correspondent, however, is; The United Statés, as part of

More than 100 were injured.

han 100 were injured. “/fisie, the general trend of the Security Council argument that! . 10 Britons Siain {American strategy "and -taclies, the Genéral’ Assemibly has only While anti-British resentment and some of the precise points. . the power to recommend. mounted in Palestine, the cabinet! It Is likely that the full con-| It will stress, and support, the met, in London. It was under- cept of the American policy will'idea of some kind of a small-| stood to. have discussed the emerge piecemeal. The position, power army or an international bombing and subsequent repris-|in full, will be exposed day by day volunteer police force. als against Britons whom the as the debate proceeds. | The United States will support Jews blamed for the blast. The United States will con- the current undercover moveTen Britons were killed in re- tinue to back the partition ides:iment toward “freezing” the part)prisal yesterday, two of them it . will not initiate any’ move Lotion. issue for, say, three months having been shot to death on %end an international army into/in an effort to achieve concilia-| their hospital beds. : the Holy Land to implement par- tion between Jews and Arabs.

The Jerusalem explosion was {| It is not likely that, in due time, déscribed as a local action per’

tition. But, the - 11-nation Security Council|Hfting its arms embargo against

mitted by the Arab league which rqjsey thé question of “threat to Palestine by permitting shipments

had given local chieftains free- tne peace” and if the Council of guns and ammunition to take dom to carry out whatever ac- nagegeq it, the United States then place as directed by the UN Par-|

were concealed. apie now to give in broad out- its plan of strategy, will echo any COSA

if some other member of the United States will consent to

FOUR: Assist communities in

families in the lowest income groups. : * . FIVE: Aid cities In rebuilds ing and modernizing run-dows areas. 8 The. construction of almost one million housing units in 1947 was an “excellent sccomplishment,” - Mr. Truman sald, but much of

{it was too high-priced. He said {that “almost no housing was.

built for low-income families.” Pushes Rent Controls : The President laid special ems phasis on the need for rental housing for low-income families and for extension of rent cone

tion they deemed advisable.” Iwill go along with the idea. tition Commission. EE It does not propose to send It will heartily back the idea American troops if such a vote— for a volunteer police force or an improbable vote, ‘by foreign legion to protect the holy the line-up—should come to pass. places in Jerusalem. ;

‘Question of Assembly Review Open

Don Lash, di n an, former In ANA! The United Stages is aware that date evacuation date and stay on University track star, has api _: |after M » la strong movement is developing after May 157 plied for the job as athletic di- ! It has not been revealed pubto hold a special session of the rector at Indiana University, .it : licly, but this correspondent full German Assembly for review- ‘ was learned today {learns that, at best, Britain would : 2 ing the partition vote.

Mr. Lash, now an agent for the o.oo it proposes to meet when Other great powers could show Federal Bureau of Investigation some chance of success in gettin at Lafayette declined to confirm, the occasion arises. . ia -truce between Jews and qe Ang deny or comment on the matter) That, altogether, is about where, pon then the British. it is ‘ the United States stands at this learned, would stay on only for a But is was learned reliably hour. A drastic overnight shift! month or six weeks. that Mr. Lash is one of four OF in events or an abrupt change at . The United States, it appears, is five persons being considered for the highest level would, of course, on safe ground when it plans to the post vacated by Alvin N.|force a revaluation but, as of back up an international-army--(Bo) McMillin when he was re-inow, the American plan is es- if somebody else intiates the move. It doesn’t intend to use Amer; jean Auops. Britain ‘will ‘Back the {idea, under no circumstances |. Whitehall has been consistent will it permit British troops in in its plans, from the outset. {such a force. China formally has What, however, would Britain announced it will abstain. France,

do If asked to postpone its man- it is known, is waverin As Marshall Plan Threat : nown, DETROIT, Feb, o Riise Only Security Members Backed Partition

Robért A Taft (R. 0.) charged But, as the Security Council United Nations and his defiance today that the administration's lines up now, there are not enough of the partition vote. . “threatens to unde VOtés for sending troops of any! As for the Zionist, spokesmen in the Far East everything that kind--not even on the’ basis of for the Jewish agency say. the

the Marshall plan is trying to do |present partition plan is the abin western Europe.” the partition vote of Nov, 29. solute minimum,

In an address prepared for de- Only six of the 11 members sup- All in all, it would be a supreme livery to the Economic Club of Ported partition, {optimist who can see anything but Detroit, Taft sharply attacked ad- Conciliation is a lovely dream Misery ahead for settling the and that may turn into another Pales- Palestine issue. ©

Lash Applies for IU Athletic Post

By United Press

become coach of the Defroit| Not .und¥r such secrecy is the

al Football League.

Raps U. S.-China Policy

credited Republicans, particularly tine nightmare, » strategy to! Scotland Yard said the warn- Bon, Arthur H. Vandenberg (R.. The exiled Muftl of Jerusalem, to h the ich.) with all ‘recent improve- has been doing very well his 8 down the m |ments,” ! ~ |negative attitude vt the(O%PrHiest Indianapalif Times and Chicago

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Such a consider the proposal only if the!

trols expiring at the end of this month, L Mr. Truman said the governs ment should continue its financial (alds to housing construction. He {specifically asked for extension lof government insurance guaran. tees under the National! Housing Act, He sald the $2 billion ine surance authorization should be |Increased. | He also recommended: ONE: Continuance of federal) support for home mortgage dans, TWO: Government insurance on large-scale rental projects, THREE: Allocation of tmportant materials, including Aousing materials, in extremely short Jsupply. : : FOUR: Insured loans to hous Ing co-operatives and financial aids for rural as well as urban housing. wt FIVE: Funds for the construc tion of 100,000 public housing units ‘a year for the next five years,

Cab ' Holdup False,

‘Driver Tells Police

Kenneth West, 23, of 1048 KE, 324 St, confessed today to » false report of robbery. police sald. He told police earlier that two men had hailed his cab and when he stopped, had taken the cab and £20, When questioned, West ted that he had left the ; the Union Station cab 4 had used the $20 to pay

providing --low.rent housing - for. . ..

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