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fostman ‘Buried Under Heap;

‘lnside’s’ Ready for ‘Leap’

Mail Keeps Rollin’ In, but Ladies, Please... Omit the Box Tops—Just Have Faith

By ED SOVOLA, Author of Inside Indianapolis EA ait SIE tice this morning with x1 be A mi

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Safety Board to Hear po of Survey Roaming dog packs which are terrorizing the suburban areas and a break-down in city facili-| ties for handling the stray dog problem resulted in two actions

ONE: Sheriff Al Magenheimer put two patrol cars on fulltime duty, breaking up stray dog packs, hundreds of complaints after dogs were a threat to persons and property. TWO: A joint committee of the

tion of Cruelty to Animals and the Indianapolis Humane’ Society ‘prepared to present a 7page survey of Marion County to the Safetv Board this afternoon.

worsened by wholesale duraping of unwanted dogs. One deputy! was bitten yesterday as he at-} tempted to round up dogs. A’ woman reported a pack filled her front porch while other citizens {complained they. could not get in and out of their yards because of | snarling dog packs. | The sheriff pointed out that any| eo female running at large in season is a violation of law. He said all females in packs are being taken| to the dog pound, in an attempt] to keep packs from reforming. Deputies also were instructed to try to get license numbers of persons abandoning animals to facilitate prosecution. Meanwhile, an gight-membes

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"Bt let's get down to to business. morial on the day of “The Big My dear “Brown Eyes"—I'm not|Leap,” carry a placard with worried. I don't know why vow!" nt, new furniture and

1 might add originality counts in this venture. How's this for a proposal? “Years will pass—Your youth will fade, But say the word

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flLittle Fishes in a Brook, Soon May See’ Many Hooks ~::,

Propose to Ban Closed Seasons

Attention all bluegills, ies Ted-eared sti ni Yello od indah, rock bass—and H ever a ‘fish needed the time has come. On Maren § the Conservation Department will hold a public hearing on a proposal to eliminate the closed Se480n on these fi frying pan fish, ve Wye of The irony of it all is that it's fisherman's fault. If the 8 had been clever enough “their hooks to catch more Unkbar W. E. Ricker of Indiana ty never would have]

ammendations for improvement tr the Safety Board at 3:30 » m. today. Their survey was made at the request of the board. United Action Urged “It is obvious that an imagi-

port states, as it, urges combined city-county-state police action on

for immediate operation and sanitary conditions be improved to protect healthy dogs It also recommends that the City’ s| three trucks be put into operation with drivers trained and equipped {to pick up dogs. Also that a truck to pick up injured animals {be provided each day until 10

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1939 and 1948—Font page headlines of The India napolis Times published March 14,1939, and Feb. 24, 1948, tell a graphic story of how Czechoslovakia has been swallowed up twice Hitler's seizure of Czech rule was one of the first incidents that led to World War Il.

i Fill Key Posts i New Setup

Rest of ‘Cabinet ~All" Leftwingers BULLETIN PRAGUE, Feb, 25 (UP) President Eduard Benes was reported to have canceled &

radio speech to the nation he had scheduled for tonight.

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Hard-pressed President Eduard Benes accepted a Communist:picked cabinet today, putting the formal seal of authority on the Communist

|seizure of Czechoslovakia. | Meanwhile, state police were reported to have fired into a mass of demo ting students. wi reported that the

| One of the students told the

m. P THREE: Installation’ of &| carbon monoxide, lethal . watercooled gas chamber for humage; disposal of unwanted dogs. further provides observance of a/ five-day limit before dogs are put to death and then only after agencies are given a chance to |give homes to placgable dogs. FOUR: Use of the city market sales room and other city-owned iss fd over the city to pen up arrival of dog pound Jentics trucks. : That the head of the eity ve: pound be trained ‘im an approved course in handling of

Sectionals Begin «In 14 Centers

Tech, Deaf School Start Local Play

The most entertaining yet confusing Indiana - high school

way this morning at 14 centers and after tonight 117 teams will be . on - the sidelines watching others shoot for 38th annual championship. Work on the farm and in the classroom and office was laid aside as thousands of fans poured linto ‘gymnasiums té' get a look {at Indiana's chief by-product, basketball.

SIX: Proper enforcement of ordinances forbidding abandoning of animals, cruelty to animals and allowing females to run at {large in season. | “Failure to enforce and lack |of co-operation are major rea{sons that the animal situation is jout of bounds in the city and amt thst on order, > Lave Hore county today.” the repprt con-|THSAA designated 10 auxiliary cludes. {sectional sites. Seven were in ac-

M 2yor to [ nd tion this morning and the remain-

ing sites were to begin this afternoon. These two-site sectionals, | however, will be idle tomorrow and Friday, resuming play Satur-

basketball tournament. got. under}

The confusing aspect was the

Suffers Heart Attack | In New York Home

Special to I'he Times. NEW YORK, Feb. 25--John Harvey Sorrells, executive editor of the : Scripps-Howard Newspapers, died of a heart at his home early today. was 51. ~ His wife, Ruth, was in the roa reading with him when he died. Mr, Sorrells, whoge offices were at 230 Park Ave, was responsible for editorial management of the Scripps-Howard newspaper group. He handled . news, promotion, budget control and other admin-| istrative duties.

Bluff, Ark., on March 31, 1896, the!

Iva Sorrells. per work as a reporter on a Pine Bluff publication founded. by his |grandfather. World War 1 Officer 4 He was educated at Washington

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Of Juke Monopoly

Capehart’s Distributor Charges Threats

(Here is the story of what | happens when a legitimate business tries to break - s gang “monopoly:)

CHICAGO, Feb, 25 United|D States Attorney General Clark was told of Sen. “omer

E. Capehart's futile attempts to | the Chicago juke box ly. +The attorney general assigned

itwo.alds to get the details »f the

Mr. Sorrells was born in Pine,

son of Judge Walter B. and Mary; ‘He began newspas

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executive edifor of the | the

pushing-around the Senator's dis{tributor was getting here, Whether an Investigation .lunder way wags not made clear. The situation was placed vefore the head of the Department of Justice in Washington as Huber| Keenan, distributor for Sen. Cape|hart's juke boxes, was visiting! state attorney's office here.

Tom | X Om seputy premiers Bohumil Laus- ¢

(United Press that five of his fe! lows were hut bitiuliizh ahoi yards from the ace. He said he did not know how badly they were Injgred. Perhaps 15 to 20 others, he added, were beaten up with rifie butts.

munist half hours before the time limit set by Mr. Gottwald. The Communists had threatrl to cripple Czechoslovakia

government

they seized were turned over to them 5

format. 12 Posts Go to Reds The new cabinet comprised 12 {Communists and 11 other leftists |ot pronounced Communist leanling, a number of whom {broken from their parties in the crisis which led to the Commu _iniat coup. They were

three Social Democrats, two Independents, fwo' =

National Socialists, two Peoples members and two Slovak Democrats. Premier Gottwald named as his

|man, Social Democrat; Willlam [Siroky, Slovak Communist; Antonin Zapotocky, Communist {Trade Union leader. Masaryk Stays On Jan Masaryk, who belong to uo party, stays on as head of the |to reign office. But Communists hold the. fol(lowing ministries: Interior, infor. imation, agriculture, finance, for. |eign and domestic trade and edu|cation. Meanwhile, Communist police {began arresting purported mem‘bers of an alleged Anglo-Ameri-

jand Lee University, on whose Sc/inps-Howard Newspapers, | In a statement released by the cup “spy plot. "

died ,of a heart attack early |state’s attorney's office, after the

dunt that the fish population ‘Outstripping its food supply. OW about all that's left for| Dr Poor fish is to fry or starve. Ricker, lake and stream surhe thinks frying must be! ferable go he has recom-

t t the host school. | day AfiernoeG “ Com 8%. 3cho {football team he was a star halfne pete (back. He left school in May,

— Blank Check Habit | Twelve one-site sectionals, a-l1917, to enter military service.

Mayor Feeney today put anicluding Indianapolis, with 14 to} a session at the first of-| lend to the practice of department 16 teams entered, will start to- i training camp, he was com-|

{night at 7 and all other tourneys mission to Cam | heads issuing blanket requisitions | will gtt under way LOMOTTOw | prc ned and aagigned o Ca Pl

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harged: ; That Tom Smith, juke box buss! iness agent of Mike Boyle's elec-

_today in New York. as had been told in The Chi-|

| - cago Daily News, Mr. Keenan)

7 7 Children Killed In Farm Fire

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etd that the closed season og unfortunate five varieties - May 20 to June 18 be cut

mR HL Mid Rent Control ASHINGTON, Feb. 25 (UP) © Senate approved unanily today a resolution exhw £5 the present rent control 0 March 31. This completed

Ssional action of the tem~—1Y extension,

On the Inside -

Merchasi Association celebrates its 50th anniversary

es Picture and story. .

iam Philip Simms, Times foreign editor, analyzes

the Czech situation vias

Big hats, little hats or “In Betweens’ . . . " Louise

BURLINGTON, Iowa, Feb. 25| for supplies purchased at the end |

{of each month. (UP) —8even children were ne Mayor.ordered instead that

burned to death today in a fire|department heads issue a requi-| which destroyed a farm home 14|sition for each purchase. miles north of here. “This practice is just the same | Coroner R. O. Gilles said the as issuing blank checks,” Mayor )| seven perished at the home of Feeney sald. Mr. and Mrs, Ellsworth Water]! At the same time, the Mayor house. °° arranged to hire another bookThe children were sleeping in|keeper in the éity controller's three beds in the only upstairs room of he two-story frame | house.

extra clerk will check on vouchers | and purchase orders.

Receipts Dip Sharply Indiana farmers invoked the old law of supply and demand

gained 50 to 75 ctnls at! the Indianapolis Stockyards as receipts dropped sharply.

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night at 7. Nearly 8000 athletes will repreisent 779 schools in the month{long dash for ‘the championship Shelbyville won last year. The {Bears aren't considered in is year's race, however, They have had a worse than mediocre season and will open their home sectional tomorrow - against little Boggs-

office on recommendation of the Own. State’ Board of Accounts. The |

The Indianapolis sectional which never has produced a state schampion, will open tonight at the Butler Fieldhouse with Tech, the upper bracket favorite, meet-

Hogs Gain 50-75 Cents; ing the Indiana State School for

{the Deaf. Crispus Attucks and

Beech Grove will clash in the second contest at 8:15 p. m.

Wins in Louisiana

The| NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 25 (UP) in Oklahoma "City as ,a cop wary farmers apparently were —Earl K. Long, brother of the| reader. When he left in 1035 he!

Discharged from the Army in| December, 1918, Mr, Sorrells returned to Pine Bluff to work for, the Daily Graphic. Three years] later he became editor. In 1921 he married Miss Ruth Arnett. € They had foun children. Mr. Sorrells learned the news{paper business from the ground | up. As a youth ‘he had delivered | papers, and was the high school correspondent for the Pine Bluff newspaper. Summers he worked in the shap. His starting pay was has $3 a week. Joined Dally Oklahoman For a short period Mr. Sorrells left newspaper work to become a public relations man for the Arkansas Light & Power Co. But the newspaper germ Was In his blood. He returned to his first {love in January, 1923, joining ithe staff of the Daily Oklahoman

0f English Hotel

| The William E. English Founda-|_ tion today was authorized in Pro-

: {bate Court to sell the English Ho-

rtel. property on the Circle. Seeking the property for a huge new J. C. Penney department store is the Equitable Life Assurance! Boclety of America. The society] agreed to pay $2,100,000 for the real estate. Judge Dan V. White ruled that

scendants, had any title to the the foundation by a clause in Mr, English’s will. The decree said the sale would be in the interests ofthe charit-

tion. They are the Community

¥*| Fund, Boy”Scouts, Family Serv-

none of the -heirs, or living de-|

da- | able organizations in the founda lwarmed up, the weather 1 "

property which was transferred ho

trical workers union, Local 134, through which the nonopoly Is jmaltained, had threatened to ak Mr. Keenan's partner's leg. The Safety Board today sought Hrtnk that Smith had demanded to abolish _center-of-the-street $1500 of Mr. Keenan for member- parking in the center of. Virship in the IHinois Phonograph ginia Ave. On the recommendation of (Continued on Page 8—Col. 6) | Trefic Engineer Lewis (Cap)

“Johnson, the board will ask the Newest Cold Wave City Council to repeal the orDelayed a Bit

dinance which permits two lanes of parked cars in the center of LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am .. 456 10am .. 47

Virginia Ave. The ordinance has been Tam ..45 11am ..47 Sam .. 46 12 (Noon) 8

force only ‘a few months. fam... 46 Ilpm .. 8

Of Parking Law

| Mr. Johnson cited several rea{sons why he sought repeal of {the parking plan. He said Fire Chief Roscoe McKinney had complained that it eliminated one avenue of ap to the down« town section for fire equipment from Station 30, South and New Jersey Sts. Mr. Johnson said he also had received complaints from business -

The cold wave which was ex|pectéd to hit Indianapolis this {afternoon has been delayed, In the slow down it has

says, and will not be

Fletcher's Feport on the latest women 's fashiiona, Pg. 15 holding their animals off the

Man . = | arket to force the "price up, victory in yesterday's state Dem: He left to families: are facing eviction. . sh ssvasnsases PIES 22 atter yesterday's price decline. crate Par 10 oah att Votre He ary in op JSerinpe. awa, Orphan Soclely. = a[by drizsiing rain and fog. It wil @ - es At the local market, hogs re- of orm government in Louisi-| editor of the Cleveland Press. I rom the sa be little Ider tonight the y lo Othe Caatures on Inside Pages | gained the 50 to 75 cents lost yes- ana. Democratic nomination sae 1026, he was named 0 10 ed 30 construct a building else- bureau says Rani X ¥ Réitoriais .e 13 In 14 18. + 84 a) R. C. Ruark. n terday to Draerl ceipta. were| She atiue a8 eifction tn Louisiana lagi aging editor. In Noyember, he| Where in the city to house all of reaching a low of 32 to. 35 Cache... Financial ... 6 Movies .... ht Sports pry 8-9 |underrunning the 5000 estimated |Jones, & Lake lawyer. g the at Samed, managing Sifter of H : SAO ate in the 30s are oX+ Comiey ‘152 Forum ..... 12 Obituaries {| Toon Tuik'|L 10st opening time and were ar Ritiras Sto 119 3 008 Lm Despite his executive position, jfore the date of sale, the prop-ipected tomorrow as the cooler] Ona 2 Meta Given 14. C. Othman 11 | Washington 12 below Se prop.

the normal receipts Sticints Wa ». Ar erty will be sold to the mass in on the Light ers . Home Page Rar n Weathsr Map Blaround'asmn.. "» (Continued on Page EE 3) yompany, the decree jad, rain aT un ey. {pe y : ; . . . » ; ¥ \

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ere. ice Association, Visiting Nuise) Mild temperatures in the 40s

late Huey Long, won a sweeping was news editor. _| Association and the Tntianapuily are due here today accompanied

firms in the block who sald the increased

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