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Invade Egypt; UN Action Set
“Troop Withdrawal, = Cease-Fire Ordered
PARIS, Dec. 29 (UP)—The United Nations Security Council, after hearing a British report that Jewish troops invaded Egypt, today ordered a cease fire in Palestine, a troop withdrawal to old truce lines in the Negev, and immediate armistice negotiations. The council approved a British resolution embracing a broad directive on Palestine after Harold Beeley electrified with a report that Israeli trops have penetrated some 25 miles into Egypt along the coastal road. The sensational report raised the question of invocation of an Anglo-Egyptian treaty, signed “in 1936, binding each to come to the “immediate” aid of the other in| case either was involved in war. | Not Serious London Says (In Londoh, a foreign office spokesman said Britain does not now regard the border crossing incident as serious and expects that it will be settled soon, He said there was no thought at this time of invoking the 1936 treaty.) The council's resolution instructed the ‘council's Palestine to meet at Lake Success Jon. 7 to report whether Israel and Egypt have complied with the new. orders. If either’ side failed to do so, the council! under previous resolutions then would consider the possibility of applying sanctions. : As finally approved the resoluion included a French amendment ordering Egypt and Israel to “allow and facilitate the complete supervision of the truce by UN observers.” U. 8. Doesn't Vote The British resolution was votes for and three abstentions. The United States, Russia and the Ukraine abstained. Russia and the Ukraine vbted. for the section of the resolution calling for a cease fire at once. An American spokesman said the United States abstention was for lack of orders from Washington. : ; Before the vote, Mr. Beeley told the council that the Jewish forces had thrust “well within
Embassy in Cairo, he said, was that the push into Egypt had reached wi six miles of EI Arish, coastil town some 30
which fighting had been going on for several days. Egypt tried unsuccessfully last year to revise the treaty with Britain calling for mutual assistance in event of war. negotiations were broken off because the Egyptians failed to get satisfaction on two points—immediate and complete evacuation of British troops from Egypt, and unity of Egypt and the Su-
The British report of a Jewish invasion of Egypt was the first public werd of that sort from
“Border Fighting Reported | An Israeli military spokesman in Tel Aviv made a point today
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of the doctors said. been given a narcotic but shel,seq to looking up at these taller
Girl Worries About Parents
Sheds Not a Tear During Ordeal
By DONNA MIKFELS Out at General Hospital today doctors were talking about “the gamest little kid we ever saw” — 10-year-old Mary Helen . Dugan. And up in her hospital bed Mary still could manage her famous crooked . grin, the same grin she flashéd on last night as she watched doctors extricate her mangled hand from a meat grinder and later amputate it. She remained conscious throughout the entire ordeal, although narcotics deadened. the pain. The fifth grade student at St.
her uncle's bu k shop when her hand was caught in an electric meat grinder. . Shed Not a Tear 3 -didn’t-shed-a-tear-as po-
to take her to the hospital.
remained conscious through three coach Hinkle said today, “and they were more conservative with [their shooting. When they get the sawed through the steel grinder. ipa they try not to give it away.
and mechanics hack-
“She never shed a tear,” one
us all the time.” Later Mary spenf another four pn. added.
pain-filled hours in surgery as| doctors amputated the mangled) hand. She still retained a degree, of consciousness. Here again she
tribute from her doctors. Today Mary was a sick little]
of insisting that all the fighting was going on. in Palestine, and crossed
the border,
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12 Fliers rescued from icecap to get hero's welcome
in New York . , . rest planned before reception. ..Page 3
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Indiana Bell denies asking specific rate boost . 3’.
hearing planned Feb. 13
Five hurt by motor cars during storm here. .....
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exhibited the courage that Won heen played, Purdue hasn't won| championship race this season.
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Mary. Helen Dugan—For the doctors, a big grin.’ . .
Indiana, Purdue Alumni
Gnash Teeth Over Classic
But There's Plenty
Of Joy at Butler By’ BILL EGGERT ~ Indiana and Purdue alumni were gnashing their teeth today. There were rumblings of discontinuing the Hoosier basketball classic after Butler's toy-sized Bulldogs had won théir second mythical state title last night in the Fieldhouse. i The Bulldogs and Coach Tony Hinkle were walking on air. i Toast of the basketball-fhad ¢° {town, the Fairview gang was being hailed as the Wonder Five. . Tony's giant killers increased the prestige of the school and the town and most Indianapolis residents were sincerely glad to see the.double win by the team that down to their size. Letters Meanwhile, Coach Branch MecCracken of IU and Purdue Coach ‘Met Taube were- ing-a-bush=
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can’t beat ‘em, don't play i “The kids played a good game,’
“Of course we feel mighty hapthat we won and we're getting
Tony Hinkle
was still conscious—she watched toqms, Indiana and Purdue have|those spectators came here from
to get used to us beating them,” Illinois, Kentucky and Ohio. “| After all the shouting he&subThere were moans and groans sided, however, it’s generally befrom the other coaches. | lieved that IU's “Hurryin’ HooPurdue Has 4 Defeats | slers” have an excellent chance In the two years the classic has of causing trouble in the Big Ten
a game, never losing by more| McCracken's basketeers came than - four -points...Indiana and back strong -last- night. to... whip
girl. She couldn’t eat her break- Notre Dame have won two and f los|fast. And pain was beginning to lost two. Fag DING SY 10:47, SN dee
; . to Butler the previous. eve“Coaches, Tike ‘players; bulld upining ni SM POET, games, “Indiana is a tough team” and and. cut it 1Dose after the final should go far this year in the whistle. Onevlosing coach last|conference,” Coach Ed (Moose) night said: “It's the officiating Krause of the Irish said.
{like that that will ruin ‘ollege| McCracken, quick to give credit
basketball.” 4 [to his young squad, praised thé The other I'losing coach just play of Jerry Stuteville, a sophosat in the dressing room, shook with little game experience. his head and frowned. | Of course, Hinkle was satisfied, Despite any standoff whether but it was Mel Taube of Purdue the Hoosier Classic will or will who had the right to moan low: not be- played in future years, Maybe he eXpected & miserable thére were 25,000 fans at this/two nights. His wife stayed in
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Funeral ship to return 11 Marion County war dead
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Czechs launch attack on Catholic prelates . . .
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Many oppose state 15-cent property tax . . . aboli-
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“Many good People can’t find each other” . . . reader tells Mrs. Manners Scrapbook . . . daily features....... Butler still mythical boss of state's Big Four netters &, . .'a round-up of the cage classic. . . other
Sports ....iiiienens What's the key to the traffic Some pertinent clues to the given on the section page by William Oates ......
Legislation by push buttons . . . You can’t trust “Old Joe” . . . editorials and special features. ..Page 14 Life among the namesakes . . . Wilson tales from
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Tips on boy-girl party invitations . .
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a photo-story ... . on the women’s page. . ...Pages 16-17 In Hollywood . . . with Erskine Johnson pouring
other amusement notes .. Born thirty years too soon...
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some, of the greatest basketball“two nights of "this is enough for And” some" “ménibel of “the ramtiy. er
in the Midwest. And” some of one tie Mark Ferree Promoted By Scripps-Howard
Now General Business Manager at New York
Promotion of Mark Ferree, former business manager of The Indianapolis Times, as general business manager of the ScrippsHoward Newspapers was announced in New York this week by Roy W.. Howard, president of The Indianapolis Times. Mr. Ferree, a native Hoosier, will assume the post on Jan. 1, succeeding Ray A. Huber, general business manager of ScrippsHoward for the last 10 years. The new genefal Business manager has been with the ScrippsHoward organization 16 years, be-ginning-as a member of the advertising staff of the Washington Daily News. Born in Marion, the descendant of a4 pioneer Hoosier Qualgr family, he worked on' the Marion
Mark Ferree
‘|Chronicle as a cub reporter, at-|Scripps-Howard Newspapers. He
tended Indiana University, and| was succeeded on The Times by later was telegraph editor on the|/Henry W. Manz. Evansville Courier. Mr. Huber, whom Mr. Ferree In- 1932 he joined the advertis- now succeeds as general business ing sales staff of the Washington manager of Scripps-Howard, will Daily News. In 1936 he was trans-| continue in the general manageferred to’ The Indianapolis Times ment of the organization as a as advertising director, and a member of the executive commityear later became business mana-|tee. He sérved as general manager
: |lease open for new bids ‘Instead;
|prior to the last one the corpora-
“[sidies from the Olympia Stadium
(Corporation - Defends Lease On Coliseum
Insists Profits : Have Been Meager
By ROBERT BLOEM Indianapolis Coliseum Corp. to-| day defended its lease on the Fairgrounds Coliseum with the contention that the state was making a fair return on the 4building although its own profits were meager. Critics of the lease have charged that the state Fair Board | was not making a sufficient re-; turn on the promotions for which the Coliseum Corp. uses the sprawling building six months each year. They have advocated that the board exercise a cancellation provision in May and throw the
of letting the corporation use the coliseum for another five years. The defense was made by Corporation President Arthur ~M. Wirtz of Chicago in a letter to President L. J. Demberger of the Fair - Board. © Mr, Wirtz wrote:
ONE: That for the past season the corporation paid the Fair Board $73,976 in rental, based on a sliding scale percentage of gross receipts as provided in the| lease. This amount represented six times the minimum rental guarantee of $12,000 provided in the lease. ; TWO: That contrary-to statements attributed to Mr. Demberger and other Fair Board representatives, the Coliseum Cofporation bedrs the bulk of the cost of, maintenance and upkeep. THREE: That the corporation not only pays the electric bill but is forced to buy power for ice making and other uses from the Fair Board at a higher irate than it would have to pay buying directly from a utility. FOUR: That critics of the lease overlook the fact that the Board itself uses the building half of each year and that even during that half-year does “little or no” maintenance on the buildHg.
the building is “far in excess” of what the corporation would have to pay for use of similar build-
SIX: That for eight seasons tion showed only $96,304 profit
while during the ‘samé-period it 62,928 in hockey sub-
Corp. in Detroit. The subsidy again this season will amount to more than the net profit, showing that without it the whole Colise-! um operation would be on a los-|-ing basis. bi * Mr. Demberger said today he had read the letter but had no comments other than to call it a lengthy “recital of the Coliseum’s history.” - vot Mr. Wirtz also pointed out that! despite curtailed earning power; during the war years the corporation returned $186,645 to the Fair Board, in rentals. During the same period, he noted, the bal-
lance of the Fair Grounds 2% market in baby -sitters-for New Fears Eve. I
under federal lease at §1 a year, 50 Major Attractions
is uSed for only 50 major attraetions, including mainly: the Sonja. . Show and organized hockey. The remaining nights of the lease ‘ period, he" said, are used for public ice skating which is ‘operated. primarily. as a ‘philan-. thropy” and at a financial loss. “Under the terms of the lease, the Coliseum Corp. has the option! to continue another five years! |after next May. The Fair Board | may, however, cancel the lease at that time by paying $50,000 to, the corporation for the un-amor-tized portion of $150,000 worth of
To Washington
KANSAS CITY, Kas, Dec. 29 (UP)—President Truman headed back to Washington today aboard his plane, the Independence, in a 10:10 a. m. C8T takeoff into a blustery, cold north-
Kansas City, Kas: ...._ Appointment Secretary ‘Matt Connelly said just before the departure that Mr. Truman has appointment in Washington this afternoon with CIO Labor Lead: | er Philip Murray. The sky was overcast for the President's take-off, The wind whipped across Fairfax Airport at 25 to 30 miles per hour, and there were occasional flurries of blowing snow.
Four Show Police Way to Burglarize
Four men who, following their ‘arrest early this morping, demonstrated to police how they burglarized the Holcomb Grocery, 2824 Shelby St., were being held today on vagrancy charges with bond fixed at $5000 each. Arrested when Patrolmen Harry Hammond _and John Yates stopped thelr car”in the 2000 block of Bluff Road, and discovered an assortment of groceries and
ger of The Times. . of the Cleveland Press and pubIn January, 1945, Mr. Ferree|lisher of the New York Worldwent to New York as assistant Telegram before his appointment general business manager of/as general business manager.
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burglary tools, the men admitted the theft, police said, and enacted the crime when return to the store. = oe
Avert Serious
FIVE: That current rental on|
ge failed in this and other sections of Marion County. = New Year's Eve Baby Sitters. Sitting Pretty at $15 a Sit
a te. , shell and thought they could Actually, “hie sald, the bullding’s,4"o¢ Tuck fn-tndianapolis,
baby-watchers about the middle @f November.
Flood Threat
Unner Wabash, 8 White Fxpect (Minor Rises
Mercury Drop to 24 Here Predicted
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6a m.. 46 10 a m.., 42 7a m,. 47 11 a m.. 38 8 a.m... 47 12 (Noon) 39 9a m., 48 1p m.. 30
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Clearing skies and cold weather brought -an end to- | iday to a major flood threat which was developing in Central and Southern Indiana
under heavy rains. : | MHnor floods were forecast at scattered locations over the upper Wabash River and along sections of the west fork of White River. However, no major damage was expected. ' wy Blustery winds today were ex- . | pected to bring temperatures as low as 24 degrees tonight, the Weather Bureau said. There was { | no more rain.and only light scats | tered snow flurries in sight. - : . Traffic Jammed | Meanwhile, the 1.52 inches of ‘|rain which fell here yesterday caused numerous flooding -condi- - | tions due to faulty drainage and {sewer systems. Poor visibility during the storm yesterday afternoon caused traffic to jam in the downtown area. Just outside the city limits, at 3035 St. Paul St, a family had to be evacuated from its home lack of drainage
Photo by Henry BE. Glesing Jr., —-Six-year-old Butch Muston==tem -on -crutches—braved the backyard lake in the 2000 block N., Au St., Speedway, to help his mother by emptying the kitcheh refuse. Most residents of ‘the Speedway addition were water bound this morning as drain-
I hearings, one here, next month for public discussions of two proposed flood control projects
Parents Are Very Much Out of Luck eng ge With High Demands and Short Supply
LONG demand and short supply has whipped up a lively gray 1008 W. MN Parents who accepted .invitations to ses the New Year break wij pe held in Seymour. get their usual sitter are pretty much|
9 os THE SIREER. market began bidding for New Years Eve (St W
By the first of the|ing reliable sitters .(with refer-
|month, the. old customers of the {city's one sitter agency had abe sorbed the supply, and the wait-
her waiting list. "
ences) as fast as possible to melt .
persons . lasked to give economic for the projects.
west wind at Fairfax Ajrport,
3 a 8 A G..RATES_ for ordinary nights are 50c an hour from
ing..list, and. the... walling, grew and grew. The last quotation on New Year's Eve baby sitters was $15; although the bidding had progressed xfrom the §5 through the $10 level previously. Mrs. Gertrude Hopper. who op-erates-Parent Aides at 1011 N.
Daytime sitting is rated at 60c, but that's no problem.
stage] Its New Year's Eve-and the
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{White rains
irresistible urge to drink a toast|its flood stages were expected topped later this week
be two Teet-above. flood on
grees at 9 a. m. today and shortly {afterward began to drop as cold
Weather Bureau said flood
Beville. Ave. (the number is/cornered pants as the hour hand | crest reaches Wal a ok IANO rarupare; Wit Tt won't do you aii ghides past the figure 12 next Fri and Covington. ; } : ~ |good) reports that she js recruit-iday night. Yn ” the West Te —, : ; ny Te Sree ; : ‘ork of _at Elliston Truman Going Back “|and_ Eawardépott. are expected 14.
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U. S. Aid Lashes China Red Charges
WASHINGTON, Dee. 29 (UP) ernment that the leaders of the —Acting Secretary of State Ro-|recognized government of China bert A. Lovett said today the at- should be called war criminals by tempt of Chinese Communists tothe Communist party in China.
label Chinese Nationalist leaders Sn a——————————— Garbage Collections
as war crimipals is a matter of great concern to the United Regular Saturday collections of States government. garbage and trash will be made Mr. Lovett also disclosed at a New Year's Day, the Department ' - Sanitation /announced today.
news conference that Mme. Chiang Kai-shek visited him at|& oiriag is the only holiday the department observes.
the State Department Monday FOOD PRICES DOWN
and reiterated her plea for ingreased American aid for, her husband's government. NEW YORK, Dec. 20 (UP)— Mr. Lovett said the war crimi- Wholesale food prices dropped | nal charges by the Communists more than 14 per cent in 1948 after reaching an all-time high on July 13, Dun & Bradstreet
to everyone. He added that it
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