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Jacos Would Flood Control ‘Under Fire’
Let U. S. Buy
Parish Schools
Suggests Purchase In Event of Fight Over Tax Money
By DAN KIDNEY : Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 28—Rep. Andrew Jacobs, Indianapolis Democrat, today made his first proposal as a new member of the
House Committee on Education| and Labor and it was a revolu-
tionary one. 3 eg}
The Marion County congressman said that if there is a conflict between parochial and public| schools over the use of tax money, he would be willing to use federal funds to “buy out the church schools and turn them over to the public school system.”
The timeliness of the Jacobs]
plan was pqinted up by the fact that 3000 persons turned out in the rain last night to hear Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam of New York denounce what he charges is a plan for Catholic schools to obtain public funds un-
der the proposed Federal Aid for
Education Bill, Meetings Held Dr. Oxnam, former president of DePauw University, spoke at Constitutional Hall at a meeting sponsored by Protestants
and Others United for the Sepa-|’
ration of Church and State. Previous meetings were held by the organization in churches here and a press conference was held at the headquarters of the National Education Association. “The Roman Catholic Church does not believe in the separation of church and state,” Dr. Oxnam charged. “Nor does it believe in religious liberty, The attack, therefore, upon this bastion is but the beginning of an assault upon the fortress itself. We must not forget that the issue before| us is not alone”that of religious liberty but also that of Ameri
Protestantism is committed to
any other thurch« “to cure public funds for parochial schools.” the executive board an-| nounced. , _- —_ { Bill Reintroduced
Under the “states rights” plan for federal aid amounting to $300,000,000 annually the money, could be given to support paro-| chial schools if local school offi-| cials so decide. The measure passed the Senate in the 80th Congress and was reintroduced in the new Congress by Sen. Elbert D. Thomas (D. Utah), chalrman of the Senate ,Education and Labor Committee, and Sen. Rob-| ert A. Taft (R. 0.), head of the Republican policy committee in the Senate. 5 “I am a Roman Catholic and have three children educated in| parochial schools,” - Mr. Jacobs| commented. “But I do not believe! that church schools should get a| single cent of tax money. I am| even against carrying the pupils in school buses paid for by the taxpayers, although it has been held ‘legal by the U. 8. Supreme
Court. To my mind it violates!
the principle of separation of church and state.
be cut in on the lunch program
on agricultural-economic grounds, |
but certainly not on any educa-
tional approach.
that they can no longer support their school system without tax| money, I would favor using federal funds to buy their school plants and put them out of busi-|
the parochial school children into|
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all of Indianapolis . . . discussi Supa
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y Thorp, Allen Mitchel, Wray DePrez and Ora Lewis (left fo right),
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Prof. I. O. Foster (left), Indiana U tion, exhibits flood pictures to Ewing Emison, who represented the “Perhaps church schools should Vincennes Flosd Control Commission at the hearing. . » vy »
Farmers Voice Objection
1c 0 cots merry wi TO Flood Control Project
Group From.Shelby County Protests
Building of a Dam on Flat Rock River Protests from a group of Shelby County farmers over the ness. We would need them, un- puuding of a dam on Flat Rock River highlighted a public hearing doubtedly, if we were to take alll on a resurvey of Whife River basin to control flood damage, hel last night in Hurty Hall, State Board of Health building, 109
the public school system Row. W. Michigan St.
The public schools are already overcrowded in most places.” i Answering the argument that
schooling, Mr. Jacobs said:
persons who could afford to send their children to private schools
dren were educated or not.”
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Col. John L. Person, district engineer, Corps of Engineers uisville, in cha of the Neal-t =. — I stl the ne was the first |in that area would be flooded out Catholics are taxed double for step in any flood control action. [If the dam very erected. A ‘delegation from Bloomington “That was the argument used purpose of receiving and correlat-| petitioned to have a reservoir built in the early days to try and pre-|ing information or comment from|north of that city. vent setting up any public school! 11] Interested persons and groups. other groups from Clay City, system at all. It was used by] The Corps of Engineers was Cloverdale, Columbus, Anderson, assisted by the Indiana Flood| Petersburg and Hazleton. (Control and Water Resources| and didn't care whether poor chil- Commission, headed by Anton gations, Hulman, Terre Haute, chairman. |County introduced a number of} Secretary Johr' Mallett, Indian- petitions calling for work on Big| |apolis, took charge of the pro- Eagle Creek, Little Eagle Creek| ceedings ‘after an intzgductory and F' {
Mrs. Harden Lose Committee Place
after the Wahash River and
He sald it wos called for the)
statement by Col. Person.
Main business of the hearing consisted in the introduction of
objections to flood control meas-
lures authorized by Congress
tributary survey, completed in 1946, and In petitions for action in the present resurvey.
ville,
major highways and inundate 18 ‘homes, a 2400-grave cemetery and a church, The Noble Township petition
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{openings in the flood wall sand-
“* FORECAST: Cloudy, much colder tonight and tomorrow. Snow flurries, ending tonight. Low tonight; 13-16. Higlt tomorfow, near 20. | FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1049
Rivers Recede Except for Rise of Ohio
Believed Averted
At Cannelton
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am... 35 10a m...28 Tam..34 1llam.28 | 8a m..S1 12 (Noon). 20 | Pam... 30 1pm... 2 |
Indiana's flood crisis shifted to the swollen Ohio River and bordering towns today as the U, 8. Weather Bureau reported a cold snap and receding waters for the! rest of the state, i The forecast was the first good news in a month to many Indiana counties where rivers have left their banks to flood towns and farmlands. Even the Ohio flood threat seemed less severe than reported earlier. 28 At Cannelton, where it was feared the National Guard might be called for emergency duty, volunteer workers got ahead of the rising river. Guards Not Needed Mayor John J. Minto today called Gov. BSchricker to say guards probably will not be needed. More than 200 volunteers answered his radio appeal for help. Today they had sandbagged the lower opening in an unfinished flood wall and were started on the second. The Ohio stood at 42 feet In Cannelton today and was expected to rise to 47. The mayor said, however, that volunteers would have the second and third
bagged before the river reaches that stage. “1 Upstream at Aurora the Ohio was expected to reach flood stage of 52 today. At Jeffersonville it was about a foot below flood stage and rising a tenth of a foot per hour. At New Albany the river was almost two feet below
The Cincinnati Weather Bureau said the river was expected to
Long- : ; tion was a “lot better,” over the deep e. Hospital Policies cif.” He also said rs © » state. While there Is still A Veterans Administration offi. | Plained they 1 tell the dif: 4 water and ng, he said, in huge banks off the Lincoln! “untrue” ference between the w thase earlier this Municipal airfield.
Girl Ringleaders Transferred to Jail
leaders” to the County Jail
escape Wednesday night.
greatest effort to save its food
day yesterday by blizzards.
Entered an Second-Class Matter at Postofios Indianapolis, Ind. Issued Daily
wn oO -
ental Homes
g Probe
Haylift Fliers Await Takeoff Signal in West
Snowplows Clearing Runways for Flight To Save Cattle Herds
By LLOYD B. WALTON Times Staff Writer WITH THE U. 8. TENTH AIR
windy dawn today and pllots of the Indianapolis-based Tenth Air Force awaited clearance to drop hay and feed to three million cattle starving in the snowbound plains. Operation Haylift—the nation's
supply-—was to resume first in Wyoming, after being stalled all
(Violent gusts of wind from the great Western blizzard rocked Indianapolis last night causing minor damage through: out the city.) Plan Wyoming Flight The Tenth planned this morning to fly 100 tons of hay from| Ft. Riley, Kas,, to Casper, Wyo.,| in response to a plea for aid from Wyoming ranchers. The Alr
were standing by to take off
from Ft. Riley at dawn, pending weather bureau clearance
starvation point, U. 8. officials
about 13 to 16 tonight and will stay below the 20-mark tomorrow. —————————————
Agent Found
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The plan was thwarted when a » supervisor overheard two girls Dead in Car
plotting to attack her with a hammer, then use her keys for a mass
Times State Service
day with winds diminishing to-
Details of an abortive escape MSht: The mercury will fall to
- plot at the Marion County Juve nile Center were revealed by Juvenile Court officials today as they transferred two teen-age “ring-
Get View of Operation
The statewide weather forecast, Stranded yesterday by the bli called for a few snow flurries to-zard in Lincoln, Indianapolis hospital beds here. oh {newspaper “nd radio men were, Following a survey of the two intendent ven a first hand view of the Indianapolis VA hospitals—Bill-| o
FORCE AT LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. | 28-—8nowplows pushed aside the) drifts on western airfields in the |
| - re ser re, ee VA A Disputes
State Senate 0K's Inquiry Of Governor
Reports of Abuser At Institutions
Gov, Schricker today launched an “exhaustive survey” of Indiana's state mental “institutions. bk! The survey, he said, will be
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Herschel W. Ward, VA of |; iff State Mental Ho a denies Aowarican Loe {te Muuital HEEHAL ion charges the VA has denied | “Longoliff is a grim reminder al beds to veterans. centration » .
‘Hundreds of thousands of West-| ashy for help. A Wonka pl roem to minions | @ S Char Rep. Joseph Klein (D. Gary) of range cattle were nearing the ; sid fodny hat S76 withsased nad
Official Defends
cial today denied as oe bet American Legion charges that" ‘wou, ot superintendent veterans with service-connected| glo" gu q0n; said the Loghtis- |
disabilities had been denied VA port hospital was operating today
machinery of “Haylift,” whichiings and Cold Spring Road, eady has voted to In {Afr Force and state officials de-| Herschel W. Ward, chief of the Longelitt Hospital in a vestigate Kor-
|scribed as a historic effort.
{| Haylift is patterned after the {Berlin Air Lift. Its objective is {the dropping of enough hay and leases to Indianapolis newspapers. [feed to stranded western cattle| Stating that “we want to cor- Aetiate {to keep them alive until theirect the record,” Mr. Ward said GREENFIELD, Jan. 28--The/Plains are clear of deep snow.
body of a man identified by bo Maj. Ivar Peterson of the Ne-
The supervisor, Miss PH ol? Brumquist, was ascending stairs Fivin KIFAputsiek 4s Bd.
to the second floor of the center|V2rd Struble, 3551 Forest Manor|terson, has charge of Haylift
raska National Guard, brother
of Nebraska's governor, Val Pe-
| information division of the Chi- introduced ‘by
{cago VA office, branded as un- Bend resoli= founded the Legion's recent re- LS. OD. Sou an end) The by the
This action came after the entire South Bend contingent of lawmakers had been deluged with letters, post cards and newspaper Asked to Come Here . Basing Tor au faves.
gation into Mr. Ward said he was asked). ditions at 1 Hee
{national policies of the VA are being “followed to the letter” in hospitals in this area.
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{old girl detained in the secondia car three miles southeast of
niversity School of Educa- [of the plot and extra supervisorsiman.
{awaiting commitment to Indiana. |Girls School, then were trans-|
measures there, Juvenile Court
g /peatedly asked the County Com-
{the center.
| » On Inside ‘Taft-Hartley revision de-
|Costume makers get busy |ment nave lagged months behind
Following the downstate dele- . R of Marion With needles for Ice-O- in their work, he said.
§ Despair as Russ prisoner
Read Lyle Wilson, Page 2
OMAHA, Jan, 28 (UP)-—Mrs, Several groups of farmers and Cecil M. Harden of Covington, landowners from southern Indi- Ind. lost her place on the execulana Introduced statements, The tive committee of the Republican largest single body attended from National Committee in a revised Noble Township in Shelby|list of members announced by ; a pas County, and was headed by|National Chairman Hugh D.| Amusgipents 12 Rational Att. 18 there had been no balance in her|Dureau. a ar : Warren Brown, farmer, of Shelby-|Scott Jr., it was disclosed today. Bridge ...... Man .,...17 department since April. She took Mr, Scott's original Mst of 15 Business ....24 Radio «.....11|over the supervision job recently Other employees told a sad House Measure Seeks members of the committee, which Classified 25-28 Ruark ......17|from the former administration's %tory of not enough help for the ral Chiro erection of a dam over Flat Rock functions when the full commit- Leg practor 4 River. Mr, Brown said the ré-|tee is not in session, was assailed sulting 2000-acre lake would de-/by anti-Dewey forces as too stroy good farm land, cover two|friendly to the New York gover- Food .......21] ! revision, announced Forum .....18 Try It ......20 tices sald she had corrected 100/clared that: when they [last night, four members, includ-/Meta Given..21 Teen Talk ..21|from the notices sent in and hasithe department was broke. Thelin the Indiana House today. ing Mrs. Harden, were replaced. Hollywood ..12|Teen Probl..21 not had time to do more. Ofi-|$780,000 appropriation to run the, The measure oat hophaed by The action was Interpreted as a Inside Indpls,17 Weather Map. 5 cials estimated there were prob- office for the fiscal year which Reps, Louis ¥. la (D. also sald tax rates would be up- peace iuing to foes of Gov. Mrs. Manners 10 Earl Wilson. .19 ably 10,000 changes of address. began last July was completely Chicago) and Nick
set and gas wells now operating Dewey in
This group protested proposed)
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{co-ordinates calls from stricken Beck, VA deputy administrator, areas, giving first priority to/to look into the basis of the|®™ Probe has been communities where food and “serious” charges of the Legion. the Senate, it has failed to come medical supplies are needed. He said he asked Dr. Earl H.W for action on the Senate floor. Planes of the Tenth then at-Hare, manager of Cold” Spring See Split in Ranks tempt to drop supplies. Working Road Hospital, and Dr. H. W.| A split In Democratic ranks with committees of ranchers and Baxley, manager of Billings Hos- Was seen when Lt. Gov. Watkins, out cold hit her again.” 0 The: exmust pe attached fyrmers, the state officials also|pital, for lists of veterans with presiding officer’ of the Senate, "Notifies Officials -1 The body w pipe. d map out hay and feed drops. service-connected disabilities who said he was going to try hol The supervisor notified officials! by J y was found this morn-| Tenth AF officers from Ft. had been denied entrance to the up the House resolution until the > n by Jess Shiveley, local dairy- Harrison, Indianapolis, in charge institutions. | Governor completes his survey, of the Lift are Lt. Col. Joe K.| They replied, he said, “There ‘Sen. Baldoni emphatically deMalay. directing operations for are none.” {clared today he would blast the
when she overheard a 17-year-|Ave. Indianapolis, was found in (Operations here for the state. Heito come here by Charles G. Although the House request tor forwarded to
floor security room plotting with here today. a 15-year-old inmate. Mr, Struble was division pas‘Take a hammer, hit the super- senger agent for the Pennsylvania visor over the head and knock Railroad in Indianapolis. her out cold,” she heard the 17-| Sheriff Kirkpatrick said a hose year-old gifl' say. “If she isn't|leading into the car was
were put on duty. In a search| a ———————— that followed authorities found y . a butcher knife and several clubs OK Realty License Bill and stones hidden behind a bovk-| Indiana's House of Representa-
olorado, Wyoming, the Dakotas,) Mr. Ward said he conferred bill out into the open unless it Kansas and Nebraska from Low- ya Joseph F. Lutes, Indiana comes out shortly, . hidden beh ry Field Air Base, Denver; his Legion commander, and Oscar R.! Gov. Schricker; case ng undes Dods. . 17-year. then today passed and sent to assistant, Capt. Carl L. Cook: Brown, department rehabilita-|state mental Bospitan"s id ae Nngleaters. 2 ra . nate a bill to license real Maj. James L. Hudelson, liaison tion director, about charges that stand some impr wement” He Jie 5 vin las oh ad) irl ate dealers In the state. The and rescue officer with the gover- beds were not made available for sald, however, that many ‘of the vote was 81 “ayes” and seveninor in Lincoln; Maj. James W. certain cases. {reports are “‘probably exaggernoes. Twelve representatives Ingram and Maj. Willlam M. Offers List of Refusals {ated.” did not vote. Middleton, information officers. Yesterday, sald Mr. Ward, The Governor recommended the " — m——— Director Brown offered a list of repeal of a state law which reeight names of veterans who al- quires that superintendents , of legedly had been denied hos- state-owned hospitals hold med Pitalization. “In only one case” cal degrees. He sald the position 1e- sald, “was the veteran a gerv- was administra ice-connected case.” than of " lon, Tathef Looking further into the case, “During my p : Mr. Ward said the veteran had| istration.» the ous aid 1 This Y ear, Depa rtiment Director Say s contracted ‘tuberculosis during visitéd every state penal and : peacetime service. “The veteran's health institution. I Intend to do By LOUIS ARMSTRONG doctor on Jan. 6 recommended the same thing again.” Indiana Motor Vehicle Department officials today placed fulllagainst hospitalization,” he sald.| ‘Beyond P 1 Ines blame for the state's license application mixup on the shoulders of “We have no quarrel with the The hss be 1 gi eee | the last administration. Legion and they have none with 4 ;mong the aan lnytetige goth Becretary of State Charles Fleming said Paul Fry, department|/us,” Mr. Ward reiterated. “Wel General Assembly goes Be
layed in Congress. .Page §| director, charged the present condition of the department is due to/d0 not deny there is a shortage Republican Demo{mismanagement and inefficient help. Many sections of the depart. [of doctors for VA hospitals.” mea. Repu leas and De to. had come to the offices on several |, Suk ob) bro Mr, Yard, os gether to “get at the root 6f the nights and found the night em- Hg SnAg aE n a8 lem."
RAMA .voussons ... Page 8| A tour of the department today ployees lolling in their chairs with |[COT0L0C® With the law. And We| gen. Willlam Butcher, Republidisclosed reds A doing just that.” ' Watts’ ho losed hundreds of change-of-|the work piling up around them.|™ * ere itlactoun hope for stay of Bend, discussed Hos-
: address notices from license hold-|It is these employees who operate ported Logansport e ution up to U. 8. ers “filed” on top of a radiator, ithe punching hines pun i Hoosier Re | pitas Sondtiats with Democratic Xec mac |colleaguer and said he would de-
Supreme Court.... {These changes-of-address should applicant. They are far behind 1 | P Page ne been corrected in order that their work. y 3 Missing on Plane {mand a separate probe from the
license applications malled out! But he said there is no neces- (Earlier story in = | Senate, , " y In Around-the- | would reach the persons to whom sity for extending the Mar, 1 World, Page 24)
{they are intended. ; deadline. EL PASO, Tex., Jan. 2 wv Pleads Guilty
: . Employees despair of straighten-| One employee sald her superSiberia. . . . No. 5, Page 6 ing out the jumble this year. Mr. visor had spent most of his time Air. Force authorities at Biggs
1500 Feared dead in ship |Fry said the system could only be/in rooms of the statehouse other ig here sunoansal a To Embezzlement crash off i _ |corrected now .as the new 1049 than’ his department. She “aq 0 Indiana airman '8 Amo . Helen Ricketts Worth, 23, China coast |automobile registrations come in. been employed In the bureau Aboard the B-20 Buperforiress former bookkeeper in the Citi
. - | nearly t missing on a flight from Dakarizens National Bank a — No Balance Since April early two years and she said the Englarid. ) : at Crawe
ferred.
The near escape from the I — racine, wee Cot Lay Auto License Mixup officials said. The court has 10 Gates Administration No Chance of Clearing Up Confusion
missioners to repair wire screening and to strengthen security at
overshadows fear of death. . . . Escape from
en ol. er. t mixup would have oc-| pleaded guilty Other Inside Features The supervisor of the eashiFERIT UU The Hoosier filer was identified| before Fede § audit of branch offices sald today CUrred whoever was runding the as Lt. Maurice H. Smith, Brasik| Baitzell 10 ral Judge Robart C.
Not Enough Help
(Comics ..... 29 Scherrer ....18/cash audit supervisor who re- Past year to perform all the work |Crossword .. 9|Side Glances 18|signed Jan. 1. required in the $15 million de-| A bill to legalize the practice An
{Eaitorials +++ 18 Boctsty cones 20 with cor- partment. |of chiropractics and to provide Sports ...22; 23 |recting the change-of-address no-| Mr. Fleming and Mr. ¥ry de- for She examination and took over of. chiropractors was in .
vyes31, Meanwhile, Mr. Fry said he spent when they
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