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" (Photos, Page 3) Sun and wind, following morning showers, today lent a hand to householders climbing out of the mud left by Monday night's cloudburst and yesterday's over-

flows. The Weather Bureau forecasts additional showers tonight. White River will not go as high as expected, unless there is a substantial amount of rain, said Meteorologist Paul Miller. But last night a new wave of water rolled down Big Eagle Creek, flooding between 20 and 30 basements near the creek on Vermont St. Farm Dam Breaks Hubert Stevens, 5011 W. Vermont St., said one of the Lilly farm dams north of Road 34 near Traders Point gave away about 4 p. m. yesterday, sending a new rush of water down Big Eagle Creek. Mr. Stevens said that in a nev addition at Lyndhurst Dr. and W. 10th St, basements of 30 or 40 new homes also were floodec. White River reached 12.5 feet here yesterday, and the Weather Bureau had expected a crest of 14% to 15 feet. However, this morning the water had dropped to 10.9. Await Second Crest Meteorologist Miller said a second crest was on the way and a new rise to about 12.5 was expected, but unless there are new heavy rains there will he no. serious overflow. ¢ More than a score of Sunshine Gardens = residents worked on weak spots in White River levees protecting the area until midnight last night, and others kept watch until dawn. Holes in the earth embankment, caused by rodents, were plugged with sandbags. The levee was described as. “soft.” Red Cross officials said 20 per-

by Emerson Ave. residents. » =

inaction. and pulling in all directions as they tried to solve their individual troubles. Front Yards Flooded Meanwhile, front yards were inundated with water that refused to flow away in drainage ditches that have been poorly planned and are still incompleted,

sons from he: Ricks } just north eof .Sumshime Gardens, were ro from their hom yesterday afternoon and were forced to. spend the night in Bluff

Avenue Grade School No. 9. Ferrled to Safety

This same water has d into a well at a home where a child

SYMBOLS OF CONFUSION—A flooded ditch on E. Terrace Ave. lies between unused tile and excavated dirt as the long incompleted and poorly planned county project fails to provide relief from heavy rains.-Conditions shown are typical of those cited

Outmoded Sewage System Adds to High Water Woes

Terrace and Emerson Aves. Area Citizens Flay County Aids; Septic Tank Waste Seeps Out

By KENNETH HUFFORD An antiquated county sewer system, if one exists at all, has

become a challenge to families seeking fresh air and additiomal | space outside the city limits. Typical of the lack of planning and ineptness of county offi- pledged to the former Minnesota cials through numerous administrations is the comimunity ‘near governor were far out in front. Terrace and Emerson Aves. Today found residents bewildered by

At least one septic tank is]

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lis recovering from a tonsillecto- of the campaign today at U. 8. my. Water in the basement has Sen. William E. Jenner.

Property owners in the vicinity reached a height of three feet]

of Vermont St. and Eagle Creek!and a furnace stands useless in lated into this governorship race

today planned an indignation meeting in an effort to force flood control action.

movement are Mrs. David Donaldson, 628 Olin Ave, who yesterday spent nearly two hours hanging onto the porch railing of her home while her husband waded out of their residence to get help. Finally she was ferried to safety by her husband and by Hubert Stevens in a borrowed sheriff’s boat. For more than a month Mrs. Donaldson had been circulating a petition for flood control work, and already had obtained 103 signatures. The upper Wabash: River was near flood crests at several points today but no serious overflow was expected unless heavy additional rainfall, occurs.

Warns Red Menace Calls for U. S. Power

NEW ORLEANS, Apr. 7 (UP) —Gen. Omar N. Bradley, Army Chief of Staff, warned today that the United States must “rely on power” to guard against a. Russian menace to ‘our precious freedom.” Gen. Bradley, an Army Day Speaker here yesterday, did not name Russia in his address. But In an earlier press conference he said Russia is the only nation now capable of waging aggressive war and accused the Communist regime of deliberately making its people hate the Western Allies. The American people have the

or providing the means to keep it at hay, he said.

STUDY INFLATION EFFECT WASHINGTON, Apr. 7 (UP)— President Truman today called in his top economic advisers to discuss the inflationary impact of the new defense program.

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said. The law of gravity appar-| ently was not considered, for

Only part ‘of it has been com-

Front Walk Flooded While Mr. Stevens talked, the rain outside became heavier. As {The Times reporter started to] {leave a few minutes later, he |found the front walk under two |inches of water. The ground had {been free of water only a short time before. It was li water in a dishpan. | Another family is quarantined

healthful conditions. ‘Wades to Mail Box Mrs. Qmar Schrougham, 5360 E. Terracé Ave, and waded to her roadside mail

borhood scenes this morning. School children trudge through

{the smaller ones endangered by ‘the ‘open ditches containing sev{eral feet of water. | This is county life under nonexistent planning.

On the Inside

The creek was dredged. After]

“That's not the half of it” to bring disrepute to the Repub!declared Robert Stevens, 5213 £.|lican Party,” Mr. Helmke told man, Among the leaders of the Terrace St, another complainant. the Hammond Press Club at

IE a aid \oaifm, was geting fs shief sup i o date from fund of approximately $2000 to dredge nearby Bean Creek, hop- gynthetic Jepner - for - Governof {ing this’ would help to drain the cijubs and Claypool Hotel lobby {waters that collect in a surpris- touts.”

from county officials, the sur- ug, hagn't come out four-square veyor’s office and county commis-| gq above board and announced sioners undertook to dig a ditch (o, (ne nomination for governor. west from the creek along Ter- yy. has taken the more devious

Midway is a hill, Mr. Stevens jignining rods are unfurled and

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7, 1948

Helmke in Opening :: Blast at Jenner

Charges Senator | Plays ‘Coy Game’

Helmke, Ft. Wayne; aspirant the Republican governor. nomination, fired the first public blast “Bill Jenner is being manipu-

by the most sinister forces ever

'Stassen Swamps Dewey And Gen. MacArthur

In Wisconsi

N.Y. Governor May Get One Delegate; Next Tests in Nebraska and Oregon MILWAUKEE, Apr. 7 (UP)—Harold E. Stassen up-

set Gen. Douglas MacArthur

in the all-important Wisconsin presidential primary election, a tabulation of yesterday's voting showed today. Gov. Dewey appeared likely to be blanked, or to cap-

ture only one delegate. With the votes counted in 2315 of the state’s 3138 precincts, the balloting split the state’s 27 GOP convention delegates this way: Mr. Stassen, 21. Gen. MacArthur, 6. Gov. Dewey, none. As the late returns came In, Gov. Dewey, who ran away with the Wisconsin primary race in 1940 and 1944, lost the “single Dewey-pledged candidate who had been running ahead. The candidate still had a chnace to regain the lead. however. Beats Prediction Gov. Stassen, wha personally had predicted he would take 14) convention delegates, had 10 dis-| trict delegates who appeared certain of election. In addition, Stassen candidates lead in lou: other districts and all seven delegate - at - large candidates

Although Gen. MacArthur had six . district candidates out in front, none was certain of election and some were hard pressed Stassen men The returns from 2315 precincts .gave Mr, Stassen's No. 1 candidate for delegate-at-large 155,777 votes, as compared with 120,908 votes for former Gov. Philip La Follette, top MacArthur man, and 91,500 for Edward. Brown, the leading Dewey man. : her

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only one of the 20 convention candidates elected from “the 10 Congressional Districts, and that was fading fast. Dewey Man Lags After leading during the early

a i luncheon session. {

He charged the Jenner cam-|

liquor wholesalers, purely

‘Playing Coy Game’ i “Sen. Jenner has been playing a coy game,” Mr. Helmke said.

course and indicated that his

he is hoping to be struck so hard that all other candidates

water stands in part of the ditch. | win withdraw in his favor.

“If they fail to do so he can]

pleted. Dirt and tile lie alongside. gracefully withdraw and spend] |his time rightfully looking after|lican presidential nomination was hurt perhaps fatally today by {the interests of Indiana’s sitisgns/retures from Wisconsin.

in national affairs.

{power in the Ku Klux Klan in ‘Indiana, is Jenner's chief sponsor. {Lyons helped wreck the party ithe D. pouring he is trying it again for personal igain and political prestige.

in C. Stephenson era. Now

Pledged to Advise Public | “His chief lieutenants are Lit-|

blame on exposure to the un-| “Doc” ; rw pe (Eimés} She nod tunas to improve nursing care taking

{and food at Julietta was made to Minnesotan’s two. The Oregon {the County Commissioners today Primary takes place on May 21,

(Charles) Maston, a team have ruined more political careers than anyone in Indiana.” Had the delegates and party workers whe nominated Sen. Ten-

er would have nominated him.”

policies.

[Club chief, dropped back to third

vote tabulating, Bernard Gettelstate Dewey-for-President

n Primary

and Gov. Thomas E. Dewey

Dewey Hops West With Confidence

Discounts - Loss

Of Wisconsin Votes EN ROUTE WITH GOV, DEWEY, Apr. T (UP) — Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, claiming. he still is out in front in the Republican presidential nomination race, took off for Nebraska from Albany today in an attempt to

Stassen. As Mr. Dewey boarded a chartered plane for a 1271>mile hop to Grand Island, Neb, he sald that yesterday was a “pretty good day" despite his defeat in Wisconsin. i “Now we have won one - pri-| mary and lost one primary,” he sald. “We are on to Nebraska where there are no favorite sons. On the total, yesterday was »! pretty good day. We gained 90 delegates in New York, which is more than four times the number any other candidate acquired.” Like most political forecasters, | Gov, Dewey was wrong on Wis-| consin. ‘He opened a sealed en-|

velope. ; containing : his . predictions, ig it Morse int he! exphotid Gen. Mac. re-! 10-delegates, six. for Mr. | Stassen;and two for himself. . Claims Edge Despite his setback in Wisconsin, Gov. Dewey's executive assistant, James C. Hagerty, said! a private check of 309 Republican convention delegates chosen |

was “well out in front”

with returns in from 85 of 305

{precincts in the Fifth District. stantial”

The vote in that district was: | Harlan Kelley (MacArthur),! 7678; Ralph Sproule (Stassen),! 7456; Mr. Gettelman, 7208. At Minneapolis, Mr. Stassen thanked the people of Wisconsin for their ‘early and valuable” support. |

Dewey May Find Stassen Dealt Him a Fatal Blow

Backers Called Wisconsin ‘Show Window’;

Next Tests in Nebraska and Oregon By LYLE C. WILSON, United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Apr. 7—Gov.

so far indicated the" am

Mr. Hagerty claimed “subDewey majorities in| New York, Oklahoma, Iowa, |

North Carolina and Kansas. He said- the governor was also strong in Maine, Arizona, Louisi-| ana, Florida and Virginia. Wis-| consin, Minnesota and Michigan were not included in Hagerty's|

“poll.”

Dewey's campaign for the Repub-,

| Wisconsin, which propelled him toward the presidential nomi- | “Bob Lyons, one-time financial nation in 1944, let “him down badly.

Seek to Improve | Care at Julietta

{ A request for reallocation of

by Daily E. McCoy, superintenaent of the Marion County Home. In a letter to the commissioners,

Dewey managers let it be known in late winter that they would make the New Hampshire, Wisconsin and Oregon primaries the show windows of Gov.| Dewey's coast-to-coast political appeal. e shellacked Mr. Stassen in| New Hampshire last Mar. 9,| six delegates to the

Free For All Gov. Dewey, Harold E. Stassen and Gen. Douglas MacArthur]

tomorrow.

even the score with Harold E, |

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blowing in the wind, Henry Wallace swept into Indianapolis today,

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via air from Evansville. He will speak here tonight at the Armory.

ANTI.WALLACE PARADE—Last night in Evansville a picket

| line greeted those who entered Evansville Coliseum to hear Mr.

Wallace. A spokesman said all were veterans but that they rep-

resented no group. He said they '

‘just got together about 24 hours

ago and decided to picket." At starting time about 150 had joined

the picket line and about 1000

persons entering the building. » #

others stood by and cat-called

Chilly Reception Given

Wallace on Arrival Here

Third Party Leader Speaks Tonight at Armory;

Pleads for a President to Deal With Russ By ROBERT BLOEM Henry A. Wallace, third-party presidential aspirant, pleaded

for a man in the White House capable of dealing with Russia |

Mr. McCoy asked for reallocation meet again next week on the Ne-/today as Indianapolis gave him a chilly reception,

{of personnel funds to employ a braska primary battlefield. Also

thur H. Vandenberg (Mich.)|

He saide he would press tor Charles W. Myers, superintendent California. Nebraska will have 15 dele-|circulated, asking that the news- |

sound, economical and progres sive state administration. He pledged himself to stay in| the governorship race until nom-|

inted or defeated at the Repub- | fT a pupervisor of kitchen and publican regulars with a Nebran. oar Sant

lican convention June 11.

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Confesses Slaying Woman at Bedford

A 23-year-old Bedford man to-| day confessed to the slaying of] Mrs. Eva Eulalia McMahan in|

of the Indianapolis General Hospital.

In addition, the Julietta superintendent requested $95 a month

dining room facilities, a $10 monthly increase in the bookkeeper's salary, a $10 monthly increase | for an assistant patient's cook! and a $10 increase for a farm hand. |

Public Utilities Order | ins

strength outsi s kmakers gt de his home state SAN FRANCISCO, Apr. 7 (UP) shot at Gov. Dewey in the May | ~An order banning telephone 21 Oregon primary. On May 4 States and Russia as the world's | Bedford Apr. 1, after questioning and telegraph service to cus-'he Will contest Mr. Talt in Ohio, greatest powers to take the in{at state police headquarters here. tomers believed to be law viola- Mr. Taft must defeat him if he 5

tion.

ka showing comparable to his Wisconsin victory. Sen. Taft as well as Gov. Dewey would he set’ back on their heels if shut them out there. Taft managers have had to ac-|

ing ground of the Senator's

Mr. Stassen will have another

been held since the 32-year-old of the bookmaking industry in! {matron was found dead last California,” State Public Utilities future may be he is today the Thursday, sightd a statement ad-| Commissioner Harold P. Huls/ man who can do the most 1am-

mitting the slaying, state police said today.

said. No details of his confession were available, ‘

The commission issued the or-|

ider late yesterday. It instructs

Whatever Stassen’s political!

age to Mc. Taft and Gov. Dewey. | Damage to Mr. Dewey's aspira-| {tions was more in loss of prestige!

He sald the slaying grew out communications companies to re- than of Wisconsin delegates.

of a drinking party. Mrs. Mc- fuse service to any applicant or! ammeter | and subscriber’ whenever it has “rea- TRUMAN TO MEET PRESS «esss14|Photo Cont. 13| Weather Map 3 bruises and deep fingernail cuts sonable cause to, believe”

Mahan was found ‘dead

the

esssss23| Washington U were found wi her throat. Several service will be used “for book++.13 Women’s ...17 bottles of liquor were also found making or related illegal - news conference at 4 p. m. to14 in the apartment. poses.” vee morrow, Pp

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+ President will hold a

Mr. Wallace held a press conference in the apartment of a Studebaker Corp. president was [registered nurse in the institu- entered in that free-for-all are supporter at the Glen-Martin Hotel, $46 N., Meridian St, over nominated by President Truman. On behalf of his own campaign|tion’s hospital ward at $225 a Sen. Robert A. Taft (0.), Sen. Ar-/the apparent protest of the building management. /the water to board school busses, ;. "ovo on Mr Helmke pledged | month. i he

to make public his intentions and| “ {

As reporters and radio men in-|

Glen-Martin management was

did not share Mr. the

candidate was invited there by.

Denied Hotel Space Denied hotel

accommodations]

Mr. Stassen here and subjected to picketing American people would {in Evansville last night, Mr, Wal-| imagination.” “There is in my opinion no! the

lace will be hustled directly to a|

{cept Nebraska as a primary test- train and to Chicago after his!

speech at the National Guard Armory here tonight. | In the press conference, Mr.! Wallace said it is up to the United

itiative for peace.

“President Truman's statements, particularly the one in which he said he wanted no Communist in any government anywhere in the world, have made any fruitful conference with Russia impossible,” Mr. Wallace said. : Blames Nation's Press

Mr. McCoy said he had set this Speaker Joseph W. Martin Jr. |terviewed the former New Deal hatred and making them “the gure after consultation with Dr. (Mass.) and Gov. Earl Warren of | Vice President, a letter from the dominating motives in American

life.” He blames the military services

igates to the Republican conven-|papers make clear that the hotel for encouraging fear “designed to : {owners Mr. Stassen could jar the Re-|{Wallace's views and that

get greatly increased appropriations.” a He pointed out that if America would take as aggressive action for peace as it is taking for war preparedness, the benefits to the “defy

continental. attack United States,”

upon Mr. Wallace said.

At Evansville last night, two in the Wallace campaign party been mussed up slightly as they went

were reported to have

through a picket line, About 600 other.

Wallace,

strike,

Mr. Lewis and the {decide whether both sides would ‘agree to a hearing Friday. 8

/ persons crossed the line and entered the Evansville coliseum to. hear Mr.

» Coal

Enough Fuel Left to Run For 22.4 Days

Slash in Effect ‘Early Next Week’ WASHINGTON, Apr. 7 (UP)—The Office of Defense Transportation said today it will cut coal-burning railroad operations to one-half of normal “early next week.”

Coal-burning rail transporta~ tion was cut 25 per cent for freight traffic a week ago. A similar cut in passenger service has been in effect over two weeks. The new order will make a further 25 per cent reduction. ODT Director J. Monroe Johnson sald the further reduction in passenger and freight service would be “seriously felt throughout the nation.” : Mr. Johnson called on motor, water and air transport come panies to give their fullest oo= operation in handling shipments which must be diverted from the railroads because of the coal

Low Supplies 4 He sald the rate of cpal consumption and the small supplies on hand “indicate that further cuts cannot be postponed longer

{than early next week.”

Mr. Johnson said that as of Monday raflroad coal stocks wére down to a 22.4 days’ supply,

emergency “every economy sh be practiced by all types of oar. riers to obtain maximum utilisas tion of saipment. JondiAg: He ca for heavy and additiona) schhdules on truck and air lines to help move 68 sential commodities. Meanwhile, John L. Lewis or. dismissel of a irecting him to.

constitutional. He ‘asked: hearing at 10 a. m. Friday. TWO: Judge Goldshor

government to

Strike Still On THREE: Judge Goldsborough promptly ‘cancelled the meeting because union la could not be present, then set Monday hearing. Monday ix also the date asked by the government for a helring on an injunction against Mr. Lewis to replace the present er. Mr. Lewis, however, still made no move to call off the 24-day soft coal strike as directed by Federal Judge Matthew McGuire last Saturday. The strike has spread ints Pennsylvania's anthracite felds, Steel production appears hardest hit, with many more blast furnaces’ forced to shut down. Rails roads ‘are laying off more thousands of workers,

Senate Confirms Hoffman as Head Of ERP Program

WASHINGTON, Apr. 7 (UP) —The Senate today confirmed the appointment of Paul G. Hoffs

{man to head the huge European {Recovery Program. The unanimous vote was taken lless than 24 hours after the

Senate action cleared the decks for a quick start on ERP. Mr. Hoffman told reparters he would

Profile of Hoffman and loeal reaction, Page 15

to check communism and avert

‘(economic chaos in Europe.

Mr. Hoffman, who traded a $96,000-a-year job for the $20.000 government assignment, said he had already started work in his hotel room. He hoped for the appointment of a deputy adminis trator and roving ambassador

within a week, and possibly by tomorrow,

Report Greek Rebels Attack U. S. Mission

rilla forces estimated at 1200 attacked an American Mission road construction project Monday {night on the Athens to Salonika

In the scuffling at the Coliseum highway near Pharsala, reliable

entrance, Mr, Wallace's campaign | manager, C. B. Baldwin of New York, was struck in the faze and Clifford Welch, a field repre-

“That is why it is so important White House.”

tion for ° promoting fear an

| the WASHINGTON, Apr. 7 (UP)|{t6 have another man in the Committee f

Mayor Feeney has promised Citizens-for-Wallace ull police protection is exHe blamed the press of the na-| pected to draw a crowd of more

local for tonight's rally which than 4500.

Pharsala is betweén Lamia and Larissa. { The guerrillas swarmed down and burned or dynamited Am can trucks, road rollers

He said that during the Pieatnt 5

move fast in launching the plan.

ATHENS, Apr, 7 (UP)—Guers

American sources reported today.’

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