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ANDERSON RANCH DAM] Ida., Feb. 12 (UP)—Contact with the outside world was re-estab-lished hereilate tonight when the first person broke out of .this snowbound, avalanche-terrorized ity and met a rotary] plow working in from the outside world. Ross Piliings, a construction worker, was the first to break through to the outside world. This community has been hit with avalanches since Wednesday. Tonight was the first personal contact with the outside. Rotary plows and bulldozers bucked their way to the twothousand foot canyon rim this evening, according to Hubert Blonk, public information officer for the regional Bureau of Reclamation office, ; Supplies for Children Behind the first plows: Soro; through was .a. milk ‘truck. . much needed supplies for thé 50 children in the terror-stricken camp, Following the milk truck) was a produce truck and behind’ that an oil truck. Mr. Bilonk said plows would] Cheers forgotten, yell leaders Rayo Glenn and Elaine Anderbreak neler aay Alirough now! son | son of Technical High School give rapt attention to their team road Pri the canyon Tper into, at @ crucial moment in the Tech-Crispus Attucks game last night. the the tiny construction camp below.| Tech won, 54.53, Next shop, the Sectionals—Climax of } Hoosier a
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The reclamation bureau reported hoopla. (Additional photos, Page 37.) “i dookt 10 huts to break through | ; asi is community has suerea| They Were Always Together—
vHemnaous San age’ but ho loss | | . . Ww cae ni meso 2 Elderly Sisters Die thousands of tons of snow into the narrow, tortuous chasm be-
low the Anderson ranch dam, a Few Min utes Apart
project of the reclamation bureau. West Struck——— -.Found by Neighbors 4 Days Later; Radio Still Playing, Home Spic and Span TVO elderly sisters who spent their lives working CHICAGO, Feb. 12 (UP)—The weather hurled pei found dead yesterday West today with high to TE E. Morris St. had lain in the home for four days Before reigns them.
Miller, 80, and Miss Emma Miller, 72, ap poy Sled of heart attacks within a few minutes of each other ast uehiey night, according to Dr. J. H. deputy coroner, Nelghbors si the sisters had lived on Morris 8t. longer than any other resi-
Miss Matilda storm, expected to drive eastward, = Porch. ‘Mr, Scherer nientioned this to Mrs. Donald Edison, crossed up forecasters by veering E. Morris 8t., who sent her husband to investigate.
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Unwitting Aid, Legion Told
Conference Hears Of ‘Front’ Movements!
From Ex-Communist By DAVID WATSON
Communist front movements enlisting the support of guillible citizens 1s the most sinister undertaking on which man has ever embarked, Dr. J. B. Matthews, former member. of the American Communist Party, said here last night. «i Addressing - delegates tothe} American: --CORLATeNCe. On. subversive activities, Dr. Mat thews, said supporters of organizations apparently far removed from Communist activities often give unknowning aid to the move-| ment. Hidden behind distracting organization titles, the front movement .in this country fulfills a vital need. of the party. by secur}. ing revenue and members, mobi-| lizing large segments of public opinion and ~ecruiting espionage] agents, Dr. Matthews said. ‘Roped Into Service’
Some of the most ardent supporters of seemingly unrelated organizations are being “roped” into party service without their knowledge, the speaker asserted. He said statistics compiled by] investigating committees show some 25,000 prominent Americans are supporting Communist move-| ments, although some may not be aware of it. Investigations have also revealed, be explained, that thére are some 3000 college professors] in 700 institutions having 24.000 Béparate affiliations with 92 orShiuations labeled subversive by
the attorney general. In the past 13 years about 2500
some degree to the Communist front Tae Vilas. movement. This does not include
hundreds of smalier local units mont Ave.
+ Martha Gray, y. cought her of pi av rr er orselingt oc» Macha Grey, cba hs 18.5. Bel-
Calls Chapin
To Washington for Ta 1 alks
Accuses Bugapan Red 4 ; Of Meddling
World Report, Page 27 WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (UP)
Chap! consultations” but let Hungary know it {rejected the demand that he be fired.
The exchange was the . latest and most serious in a series which had brought U. 8. relations with Soviet-dominated eastern Europe {to a new low. The only worse step, short of war, would been a complete break of diplomatic relations, Diplomats could not recall a another
gation to join nothing until they
to the south, too. There was no smoké from the chimney and the shades The 'S. Weather Bureau at were down. The screens were locked from the inside, Denver issued a special warning Police called by Mr. Edison entered with a pass kev and . for northeastern New Mexico, found ‘the body of Miss Matilda slumped in a living room where a cold wave was predicted. chair. The living room radio was switched on and playing.
2 . # », » » ” gti Sie Srignt oper. Tie IN THE dining room officers found the body of her sister, Miss Emma, sitting in a chair with her head resting on the that snow was being Sleaved ho table. The house was in perfect order. rapidly in Neransk 9, tha “check ny Dr. Jewett said death must have struck both women disaster subarea is being c within a few minutes of each other off the list. Miss Emma was last seen Tuesday afternoon as she hung “wash on '& line In her back yard. For several years she had * Collar S, Tempers been more active than her sister and mowed the lawn and
d I S d trimmed the hedges and trees in the summer. ~ » ” And Coal Save INVESTIGATORS said papers dated Tuesday had been
taken inside the house, but those for the remainder of the By New Furnace week were still outside. Neither of the womén had ever married, neighbors said. COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 12 (UP)| . pty sisters had worked many years in the office of H. P. «J. Frank Byrne has a furnace) wasson & Co. and Miss Matilda was employed at one time by in his basement that makes the Wm. H. Block Co. smoke and soot just like all the Both were members of Second Evangelical and Reformed others, but he’s happy with it. Church and for many years took an active part in the work Mr. e sald today that his of the church. : Byrn stmple. The furnace Survivors include only four nieces and nep Mrs. Soot une #8. much coal 8s OF- Harold Eden, Indlandpolis; “Mrs. Jobn Arnold, Rockport, burners, Mrs. B. doesn't Mass: ; Kenneth Miller; Los Angeles; Cul, and Warren WoessSua YY worry at clean cur- ner, New Smyrna Beach, Fla
ighbors are mot| g gg Ld a. ad ring wo designed ‘South Side Boy, 9, Dies jointly by engineers of Bitumi-
‘Underneath Potato Sack eo Toniater hore n ernea 0 a 0 ac S
ny =» neath a pile of heavy potato sacks in. his. father's storeroom. HE AGREED to let his bosses A playmate, also nine, was completely buried by the sliding install it in the basement. It| sacks but escaped uninjured. ed. th The boys were believed to have Instead of the smoke and : © upset the stack of 100-pound soot going directly up the Subp sacks while at play in the room. ney, the two SHS A w 3 Rudy Lee Grove of 516 8. collars are forced back throughipm,.: gt fafled to revive when the fire and burned ow vo police emergency officers admin- - or. Borns ond, the over the istered pulmotor treatment. The pri of =oal Jeg by Sonveh Sher youth, completely covson] ques aula Jae the|ered by the sacked potatoes house and curtains clean. And juitiped, up whey police He ered him and ran e, he only has to #toke the furnace =~ frightened but uninjured.
nsaeay Rudy was discovered by his father, Junior Grove, 30, when Grand Jury Report |i1c latter went to the storercom
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bo; The door The Grand Jury's peport in, its its), i ae lottery business in Indianapolis is Hhevugh a w or Tuesday. ’ sticking is particularly inves- sacks. Giove tigating the lottery activities of a. oy “two Republican politicians, one a stored | ie police court lawyer and the other BONO.
~& AAVern.owner.... attempted toOne or two witnesses are ex- were. unsuccessful.
thetr-own four months ago, 16
coho only sftective means of Stole for Trousseav, exercise of intelligence, Dr. Matgo SRlArOll ve a moral obli- Girl, 22, Tells Judg e
learn exactly what it is,” he said. Bonet Anis Shoplifting Spree;
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In some cases, he continued, the - names of avowed anti-Commu- Clark Puts Defendant on Probation Chin at Chicago ‘had carried on “anti-state” work [nists appear on letterheads as By DONNA MIKELS | CHICAGO, Fgb. 12 (UP) One {with help of a U. 8. attache. chairmen or officers of organiza:| YOO OFTEN fustice 15 & Will of the wisp in Maron County's thousand members of the Indiana Hungary had accused Mr. Chap
{tions which actually support the | movement. “The public must learn to identify these organizations for what! they are,” he said.
scheduled to attend further meet- 9TUnks, panhandlers and prosti-|™
ings today at American Legion tutes led into Municipal Court 4. headquarters.
English Mon Held |trousseau”
(UP)Wiliam D. Messamore, 32," pur git — éaught, "sHe
Police on the disappearance of{had missed and voluntarily sup-|
a family of three from English, |Plied a list of others they knew, Ind. ¥-af 5 Raothing about. Her thefts In-|
Messamore refused to waive|cluded more than $450- worth of | extradition to Indiana. However, clothes, including one $139 suit extradition proceedings against, [from an exclusive gown shop. him will be filed in Indianapolis] In court she made no excuses.
Monday, State Police Sgt. Rich-|' ‘I wanted my husband to be,
ard Wedekind said. proud of me.” she In Jefferson County jail here, Messamore denied. knowing any-!|
thing about the disappearance of let his other trials wait.
Ao He pointed to one of the court's pealed to the National Guard to] Beas Vandiver, ie nis 2 ue ‘regulars.” “Look at this womanis|give them an Guard headquarters said tha
- } record and tell me if you want to Johan. old daughter, Wanda lend up like this,” the judge said.
The girl wept The! Patrolman Edward Burnett] quietly. lzed Messamore on’ a Crawford’ Udge continued:
with stealing a dog from|P!ain thievery.” : Vandiver. A fugitive war-
le
overcrowded “case a minute” police courts.
stood in the lineup of of
When her case was called be- months’ probation, with the pro- ——————————— fore Judge Alex Clark a group of, Vision that she ‘make good the » substantial . citizens, all friends, ®0st of all garments not return(Question Parolee came forward to be at her Side. able. Then the tearful girl poured ou
a. story -of thefts of ans suits and gowns from two down- Judge Clark mulled over the case quet.
On Missing Family Lo Mars, Scams fee-Sios- a
aot enough to buy “a pretty
AFTERWARD, in his chamber,
“This was the kind of a case
where a girl may really eo. » Inave profited by an encounter In Louisville Jail | SHE was arrest “by detectives with the law, tuys of » being after clerks t her stealing|the first of a long line-of offenses. | LOUISVILLE, Ky, Fe, 12 od Fro 4 shame we can't do some- . : wi thing’ constructive more often.” was arrested here today and held sobbed. She admitted theft ot} Too often a judge must decide for questioning by Indiana State several garments which clerksias many as 200 misdemeanor cases in one day. Too often, justice loses the race with the hands of the ¢lock.
Fliers to Aid *
| Society of Chicago gathered at a On ith d Mindnaenty; os was But last week ‘court procedure slowed down and a judge took | Colorful $2i-u-yiate dinher thight tenced e i time out to help a 22-year-old bride-to-be, whose desife for an ex- no e centennial of James treason. Mr pensive trousseau led her to shoplift. + Chapin and the U. 8. Conference delegates were The attractive, well-groomed brunet
Whitcomb Riley's birth, Abraham Lincoln's birthday and the recent government Sets the charge as Republican Party election defeat./™ “OMmPplete lie.
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As “signs of the times” adver- Annapolis Graduate tising for “One Thousand Repub- a ait > Hungary also demanded re. Heans to Picket Margaret Trumian's Next - Recital” ‘were pa- odlf of the assistant U. & military raded to the tune of “On the . Banks of the Wabash,” the so-|Cxhel Lt. Col. Peter J. Koposak ciety held its 34th annual ban- not recalled. The State
The guests _efitered” the ball. °®!ved this demand officially, room through an old covered The demand for Mr. Chapin's bridge, marked “$10 fine for driv- » ing across this bridge faster than Partment had oy or a lots ing.acr 8 this bridge faster th fan, first secretary of the “Hop. Across the ballroom from the gating Embassy here, to entrance, the speakers table wag|'h® country. Presumably it spread under the balcony of a|'ttaliation for that move."
replica. of. Riley's. Greentield, 1nd. Chapin Hears News:
home.
“An enlarged front page. of a; BUDAPEST, Feb, 12 (UP)--1), Chicago newspaper padiining 8. Minister Selden Chapin was “Dewey--béats- Truman host at a. private dinner » Whitcomb Riley trails in Indiana” In his home for the British hung in the rear of the room. |ister, Alexander Knox Helm, Who The only stage decorations is leaving soon for a new post in were tombstones erected to po-| Tel Aviy, litical pollsters indicating they| With the’ dessert came ‘a teles
Hearing Aids BOISE, 1da., Feb.
" " " first news that the H JUDGE CLARK took tithe out,” TWo residents of snow isolated remedies for aches and pains ungarian {town of Atlanta, Ida. havé ap-|formed the stage backdrop. /government has asked his
msds On the Inside
bine bhrt 3 Terms robbery| Annual Times sewing contest opens March 1...
terms in Kentucky. He was pa- $1460 in prises. .......iiv.iie “{roled from La Grange Reform- :
atory in March 1947.
dog stealing charge. The case was continued to Feb. 16, and he was ordered held without
Messamore's house!
near English, when fire destroyed (Editorials, politics, world report, radio, movies, Pages 26-36)
{Tech edges Crispus Attucks, 54-58. .
Jail, Messamore sald he found the : | family Jan. 10 when he Ta (Sports, Pages 37-40; Classified ads, Pages 4147; Business, Page 48) |
turned to English trom a visit Other Features on Inside Pages
aa Eo Eddie Ash ..38 Fashions ....22/Junfor Pagé 32 Rad SEE LEVEL FOOD PRICES [Bridge ......14|Fo6d .......23{Din Kidbey 26/Ruark ......20 Forum .....i26/Mrs. Manners 22 Cap, Capers .17 Gardening. ..20{Movies ..,34-35/8chools .....32 Needlework .20!Soclety v,.13-24 # Churches sous SiHollywood +.35/0thman sevesld this spring, the -Agricul-| Clubs SRE Indpls. 29 Parl, Law: sell
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (UP) Business ....48 Forum upward - again, there is little|Childs ....,.26{Meta Given..’
prices tea AER rats N ; + auaviay pi
(General news and features, Pages 2-12)
Messamore ‘made an appear- “Service by Stansfield” “ +4 & picture story of an -lance in police court here on the established Indianapolis tradition. ....... (Women’s news, society, fashions, rh homemaking, Pages 14-24) bond ive oil “Stockyards University” and “Art in Aluminum” andaiver : staying At AY Bl .. .two picture stories. ......... Riley's many poems to the crowd. i itso 7 ndvhew | speakers; redalled
{magic of his uncle's words as he 3 Ruched “Raggedy, Raggedy,-Rag In Li
the Seay? Mun of Riley's life but said
pe Inughed Sway sorrdw witniate humor’” ; :
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died in 1948. A gigantic stage Phone call from a newsman fn coach with placards advertising/Paris which gave “Mr; his
{“Cream of Hoosier Lockerbie and of We are behind the
After the Hoosiers had eaten| It shows how completely eut iron
our t |Griggsby’s Station Beef,” walters ain Mr. Chapin said, . if there is a flight going near that fled out from beneath the front uests quipped that the fare. mountain town, two batteries will|Page crying “Bombe Indiany Helm: sudden{be dro pped to put = couple of! ty, Ind, warrant charging “What you're asfiset of bing alds back into commis-| [Fro
| well dinner for Mr. Helm
in lighted pumpkins reminiscent, ly had turned into one for the lof Riley's famous “When the, {host as well,
st Is On the Pumpkin. Bongs and dancing girls were Nickel Plate
[included in, the entertainment. | GOP In Barrels Lay Off 1087 in 4 Cities
| Men dressed only in barrels] CLEVELAN — __|and long underwear paraded in The Th Nickel Piste hist a |an Impersonation of prominent|/nounced k | Republicans and “Sen. Capehart”|1087 men In Rh ion I a sang “Tom Marshall's Five Cent/of the “decline in business.” Cigar” advising the pation to| A spokesman said the layoffs tighten its belt and stop wishing Were necessitated because of the on a star. “fall-offs in car loadings.” . Page 18 Dr. George E. Davis, heralded] The layo as one of the best interpreters of (Feb. 16 ‘In the locomotive and Riley's poems, said “Riley wrote of the common things of Wife in a/l4ma, O., Frankfort, Ind., and in common language.” the coach shops at Stony Island.
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