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age. Not Mrs. Marthetta Pearson Downey. Born Feb.’ 29, 1920, she's celebrating her “seventh” birthday tomorrow. The young mother plans to spend hér birthday fing bottles for her 6-month-old son, Kent.

McGrath rath Hopes Fr Party Unity

Sees No Peace With Wallace, However i By ROBERT BLOEM i Democrats have scant hope of, ‘feunion with Henry Wallace, Na-|

banquet tonight at the Murat. He will be principal speaker a the banquet. Expects Truman Bid Sen. McGrath said he had no doubt - that President Truman would seek election and expressed belief the President would announce his intentions some time before the national Democratic Smvention: in Philadelphia June

“= High prices will stil bea major

issue in the coming campaign, the National chairman believes. "The recent decline of commodity prices which Republicans have hailed as a leveling off has meant very little to the consuming pubYe” Sen. McGrath said. "He added, “prices are still much too high» More than a thousand Hoosier Democrats were scheduled to pay $25 a plate at Fos Po eferson. Jackson ban nquet tonigh Sen, McGrath.

Speedy Aid Urged As Soviet Check |

te ct————————————— i (Foreign News, Page 2) ] WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (UP) ~Chairman Arthur’ H. Vandenberg of the Senate Foreign Rela-| tions Committee said today that Congress must speed action on U. 8. foreign aid programs beCause ‘of :the Communist coup Jn Czechoslovakia and new RusSian pressure on Finland. The Michigan Republican toid Teporters that developments of the past few days in both countries “make it obvious that time 18 of the essence<in doing whatever we are going to do” in helpIng foreign nations. i

Photos by Henry Glesing Jr, Times Stafl Photographer MATHEMATICAL PUZZLE—Mary Coffin is. pretty ood in-arithmetic classes at school: 39 but she can't Fore out how old she really is. Going by birthdays, tomorrow she'll be two. She’ d prefer, however, to count her years as eight and be a "big girl daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John C Coffin, 1405 Deloss St.

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1048

UT TIME." —How would you like it if you had to wait four years ay cake, like Patricia Lynn Cornwell, daughter of Mrs. Helen

Cornwell, 3457 W. 10th St.2 Of course there have been cakes on unofficial birthdays in other years but the one in which Patricia sinks the knife here is the first of the

“official” variety.

' Young Mary is the

"I'VE GOT A BIRTHDAY" —That 's what Jonel Fritsch, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Joseph N. Fritsch, 1128 E. 35th St. confides here fo her doll. Tomorrow's

the first birthday the little 1944 can remember. Jonell

the fi rst 24 hours after birth.

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girl who was born Feb. 29,

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U. S. Seen Drawing Closer to War ‘Save Shades’

Probe Arson Angle “hn Hobby Shop Fire

State police today probed a fire

that last night gutted a hobby

{shop at 4996 W. 16th St, stating it appeared a “definite case of arson.”

Estimates of the damage to the ishop owned by Mrs. Lester Gregory ranged from $1500 to $5000. Maj. Robert O'Neil, state police ‘executive officer. sald two witnesses told him they saw a woman break a front window glass and throw something into the shop. The interior burst into flames as the woman fled in a car without lights; Maj. O'Neal said. Fred Foster, an investigator for the state fire marshal's office, said he was unable to find any incendiary material in the in-| terior.

On the Inside

Reds and Finns talk over “pact”. ........-

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Ministers stress need for more nurses in “state. . waves . . Page 4

W. W. (Bill) Flagle sees good Profile oh enh akin

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Italy and France Face Strike Tieups in April; Russia Could Move In Through Yugoslavia

Scripps-Howard Newspapers

WASHIN GTON, Feb.

at time of Munich.

28-—-We're closer to war than

“In April Communist-led strikes are scheduled for Italy and France. Civil. war may come in either. Italy's more tense, because of elections Apr. 18. Catholics have underground militia organized if trouble comes, but Reds are believed to be even better armed.

And Italy's most likely spot strategically. We'd either have to pull out of Greece,

in through Yugoslavia. Turkey and Arabla—or fight.

GengEisenhower warned of it in his final report. ranean were walled up, he said,

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Russia could move

8 If Mediter“effects would be instant

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Are Taking Him for a Ride

By ED SOVOLA (Author of Inside Indianapolis)

WOMEN ARE FICKLE.

{I've had my leg pulled. But good.

1 have the sneaking suspicion that It hurts, too.

This “Big Leap” stuff should teach me a great lesson. A follow-

AA di ‘my Mamma done tol’ me.”

a talk from women.

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With complete sincerity, 1 ask Not twice. Hoosier for blank checks. They come in word I réceived 37 such letters. | sawn on the “Bank of ' Happi- Signed “Ima Nutt” is the signa-

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Than in Hectic Days of Munich Drive Needs Boost

| Campaign $25,000 | Short of Goal | THE “SAVE THE SHADES" | campaign to buy 1400 acres of forest land near Crawfordsville

for a state park will have to get a shot-in-the-arm to suc-

{ ! i ] > | The drive has bogged down to | 1

| & snail's pace within $25,000 of | | the $250,000 goal-—it has been |

| receiving a chilly reception in |

some quarters of the state. But Gov. Gates and other | state officials who have been {| working the drive for nearly a

and Year are planning to put some 3

new push behind the wheel They are convinced the goal can * be raised soon. The American Legion has jumped into the lagging campaign with a program to enlist the aid of some of the biggerhearted philanthropists. Last year's ballyhoo to raise the | money by nickels and dimes and quarters from school chile | dren never clicked effectively. Raising the last $25,000 is not the end of the problem. officials are reminding citizens that it will take about $50,000 ~1 more to put the land in shape for a state park. a r -”

A Nod for Feeney

MAYOR FEENEY'S drive to

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methods . . . and ultimate economy... "in city government. Except the businessmen ding hardest are Republicans,

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Semi-Finals

At Sectionals

_ Battle for Lao

"Details, Se Scores, Box. ‘Scores, Page 7. Only 256 teams were left n 'the running for the 37th THSAA| basketball championship today as

256 Net Nous &

|semi-final rounds were scheduled {in each of the 64 sectional den {ters In the state.

{giving reason for a few upsets.

| In the SA sectional, = was city vs,

Attucks’ surprising Tiger ST Coun. was matched with Lawrence the ‘tral in the opening game at the

and Washington

{at 2:30. The two winners will meet for the sectional champion

. ship tonight at 8:15.

Feature games in the state today were Hammond High (15-7) vs. Hammond Tech with the win.

ner opposing East Chicago Wash-

lington (17-4) or Whiting at Ham- | mond tonight; Gary Betton U a 5) was to face a strong Ga [Jit quintet before qualifying ri t the Valparaiso-Kouts win-| ner,

Downstate, the Evansville Cen-| tral-Evansville Reitz battle 2:15 p. m. was a southern chamaffair. Reitz upset the several weéks ago after the Bears had won 14 in a row,

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Play Unaffected 1 I...

L {THSAA officials had received a

Rule Attucks Cager Ineligible; Tourney

ineligible today after

written report from the school’s that the youth had - basketball

last fall under an assumed name, The player, Malcolm Orton, a senior, has been removed from the squad and the team will be forced to use only nine boys during the remainder of the state tournament. Crispus Attucks’ sectional victories over Beech Grove and Tech will not be forfeited.

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rt In Five

Floods States;

Ohio Is Rising

Mild Tremor Shakes New England; Snow Hits Wisconsin, Minnesota

By United Press Floodwater: 8, drifting snow, or the debris left by high |winds harassed portions of the United States today. Five Midwestern or Southwestern states had floods. At Cincinnati, the Ohio River, always an uneasy stream in Several outstanding games are|late winter or early spring, was rising two-tenths of a foot

> Damage Slight a Winds Whip City

Expected to Diminish Gradually Today

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jachedutea in this afternoon's play ay hour after a heavy rain. It was expected to rise five

to eight feet during the day.

{The crest today would be be-

flow flood stage, however.

A mild earthquake was reports a in the New England area, [Hevy snow swept across Minne« and Wisconsin the A border, and New Eng«

{land had its 22d snowfall of the | winter,

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| Evacuate Trailer Camp

Sudden floods brought water ‘into the business districts of Dar lington, Wis., and Galena, Ill, At Madison, Wis,, about half of the families in a 117-trailer camp

Indianapolis felt the backlash for University of Wisconsin stu-

lof violent storms |several Midwestern | yesterday. The Wabash and White Rivers

were rising after yesterday's heavy rains, but no extensive

was expected. High winds buffeted the city

states late

but White River here

flood stage. The wind is expected ish gradually today, falling from an average velocity Centerton, Ind., west of In greatest fury of area.

rooted trees, moved the general store off its foundation and caused other property damage.

high water on the upper of the Wabash and ‘threatening minor Bluffton, Wabash and Lafayette, the Weather Bureau said. An eight-foot crest was predicted at Ravenswood, but no

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ruling stipulates that no final tournament game may be for-|

nessmen Mking a ners | :

i feited because ” Metigibuty.

DR. RU SSELL A "LANE, prin- | cipal, voluntarily filed the report {today with L. V. Phillips, THEAA |

commissioner,

was an Ri factor baby, who | survived a complete transfusion of compatible blood in

Mr. Lane sald he and Alonzo

Woford:, Crispus Attucks’ athletic =

director, learned of the case yes- | terday. Their investigation bore “Toll the “TRE that Orton played with the St. Bridget CYO team last fall after he had been declared ineligible for the school's | reserve team because of grades. Orton became eligible again

in January and played a few ojd-West Side ex-GI acquitted of)

At Wabash, a crest of 16 feet Is

| expected by 6 p. m. This is four

feet above flood stage and one {below the warning stage there, At Lafayette a tentative crest of 19 feet was predicted for Monday, {but bureau officials sald this would inundate only vacant lowland areas.

Dawson Sdils

With W- Side GI ut sont vie hen ie And Family Today, vis Apparently were the after-

"Billy Burke Edwards, 24-year-

| minutes in games against Evans-| killing his infant datoghter, sailed

: ville Lincoln, Vallonia and Sheridan,

today with his family aboard the Crispus Attucks will for-|88 Mirie Marlin from Southamp- Ue

feit victories over Lincoln and|ton, England.

| Sheridan. Vallonia defeated Crispus Attucks. | ~..®N | ANY IHSAA action against the| {school will not be considered, | according to Mr, Phillips, untill {the assoclation’s Board of Con-| | trol meets in April. :

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He was accompanied by hisenridge, Woodson, N

| wife; their other child, Billy Jr,

land Attorney James Dawson of Indianapolis, who was sent by friends of the veteran to aid in

his defense.

Mr. Edwards, son of Mr. and

which swept dents spent the night in hotels

lor university halls after a culvert jammed with ice and backed-up water flooded their omes. The floods and snows came while parts of Texas, Kansas Illinois and Indiana the rubbish left by high winds which tornadoes

produced in some localities, destroying homes other

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damage was reported as wind up-| cy

Yesterday's heavy rains raised! White Rivas, at

the rain from soaking into the ground. . The Big" Blue River cracked off ‘a 30-foot section of a dam five miles northeast of Wilber,

e Upper Mississippi Yaliey, The The

math of the tornadoes which

swept across sections of the Mid- | west and. Southwest yesterday.

The larnaduss Yestetilay Sivek

Texas towns Itasca, manche, Brackscessity, Bar{tonville, Ballinger, Abilene and

Ranger a Mrs. Sam

{burned to death when the debris {Mrs. Noble Edwards, 1906 Sugar of her wind-wrecked home | t | Orton scored three points in the Grove Ave, vas held as a mur-|fire at Bartonville. 86-37 victory over Beech Grove der ‘Suspect after the body of his| | Wednesday night but he did not daughter was found in a woodsan {play in the victory yesterday over six months after her Siaappear- |Tex., and officials estimated the ance,

‘The wind

loss at $100,000. *

dio, HIGH WIND — This view shows some of the damaqe inflicted on Centerton, . last night when the community was struck by near-hurricane winds, In (Continued on Page 3=ok. 3 - round is a roof. To the ghd is the ganore] store which was shifted oft its Tojndation:

the fore.

Christ Pace, 47, was. found dead in the wreckage of his home at

demolished 25 homes d a cotton gin at Woodson,

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