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Pairings Listed For 769 Teams In 64 Sectionals
50th YEAR—NUMBER 312
Tech, Attucks
Fragile Feller Finds a Friend— Rouls Bails Out Trixie As Local ‘Poochnaper’ Faces Big Doghouse
. Pound Supt. Payne Refuses fo Release
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Bonus Chances
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(Pairings, Page 29) By BILL EGGERT The luck of the draw
clation’s 38th state basketball tournament. " Crispus Attucks, winner of 15
first-round opponent. Tech, the heaviest local favorite, was
- matched with Washington, the
defending sectional champion. In two games this season, the two teams split. In the same lower bracket were Manual, i Tea? School and De-
Cathedral, drew the easier path in the upper bracket and its sternest. opposition from the winner of the Lawrence Central-
county rivals already have met three times this season with Lawrence winning two. Opes “Wednesday The Indianapol wil get under way next Wednesday!
BOC-! they assérted he was no gentle-| man,
Shinkle and their mother, Mrs.
Police Chief
Sgt. Payne found himself snatching the puppy from = front porch and then arresting the women who came to plead with him to get it back. The puppy, & pooch of miscellaneous origin by the name of Trixie, was slated for the gas chamber at the dog pound, leaving behind it a sobbing 8-year-old boy, his weeping mother and a number. of angry and helpless citizens. ? Municipal Judge Alex Clark: raised the roof when he heard that _ Sgt. Payne ordered Mrs. Evelyn McLaughlin of 973 Elm St, her sister and her mother into court, then refused to file a charge after he learned the
misconduct. | 58%. Payne's dogcatchers had,
of Mrs. McLaughlin's sister, Mrs. | Dorothy Shinkle, next door last] Monday. : Willing to Forget ; When Mrs. McLaughlin, Mrs.
Threatened them. Placed them under arrest when
The three women were scheduled to appear in court this morning on the arrest and they did. But word meantime reached the dogeatcher that a large section of the populace had been aroused by reports of his treatment of the| women
He telephoned Mrs. Mel anghi as high 438 washed her to. fof
But the three women and their attorney, ex-prosecutor John Car$08. $10 WANT 30 Jet the matter Pp. This morning they were ready
next "Thursday at Denville; Franklin Township vs. Mt. Com-! fort next Friday night at Green-
fleld and Plke vs. Whitestown|
next Thursday night at Lebanon, The highspots of the drawing out in the state were the firstround games for the state's five undefeated teams: Sugar Creek of Clinton County, Monroeville, Center of Delaware County, Winslow and Fairland. Sugar Creek, winner in 17 straight, must meet Frankfort,
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Parents Save Tot
“From Drowning
won MMEEE, Action, of a, Sather and mother was credited saving
the life of their 2-year-old girl
today who fell into a five-foot|Payne refused to-return the dog| “water-filled hole. 1
The child, Jane Fendley, was playing In & yard. in the rear of her home at 4324 E. Iowa 8St. when she fell into a partially completed well. Her mother, Mrs. Lucian Fendley, discovered the child floating on top of the water in the hole, pulled. her out and carried her to the house. She aroused her sleeping husband, who applied artificial respiration. "The child had been revived and ‘was crying when deputy sheriffs and General Hospital doctors arrived. They gave full credit to the quick thinking of the parents
and said they were “very lucky.”
Lift Rent ‘Controls In Miami Beach Area
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 (UP) ~The Emergency Court of Ap peals has ordered rent controls lifted in Miami Beach, Fla. and five nearby resort towns. Besides Miami Beach, the order
when Sgt. Payne who had to ap-
tried to sneak out as their case was called. ot The dogecatcher had reached the jcorridor when the situation was called to the attention of Judge Clark. He ordered his bailiff, Sgt. James Langsford, to bring the fugitive dogcatcher back. Redfaced and stammering, Sgt. Payne said he had made a mistake, He said he had decided not
offense after arresting them. 1 ‘This Isn't Germany’ “This isn't Germany,” Judge Clark told him. “You can’t order people into court without an affi-
are doing?” , | Sgt. Payne admitted frankly he didn’t know, Judge Clark at the) insistence of the three women and | their attorney ordered an affida-| vit made out. He set the case for Feb. 24 and nearly every dog
and. wept in court when Sgt. | trial. Her 8-year-old son, | Michael, has been weeping and] unable to eat since the dog was) snatched. ’ Neighbors and friends of the) family were up jn arms. Some-| thing, they said, would have to be!
Judge Clark said he couldn’t| do anything. until he had heard | the case. |
Indicates; Was Police
gan sand dunes today.
plane crash. ’ Coroner Theodore Makovsky said after an autopsy that an’ ille-
decontrols rents at Surfside, Bay Harbor, Bay Harbor Island, Hollywood and Hallandale.
“ What's Happening|tou months pregnant.
I -operation was performed on es. Danks shortly before she died. He believed she died from
the effects of the operation while
“This is definitely murder,” Dr. Makovsky said. ; Police established that she was a vehicle and her body
hit irageed 100 feet along the high-| FY
way. But they said there was no blood on the highway, indicating she was killed elsewhere, dumped out of a car into the highway, and
Pet, Arrests 3 Women Who Plead for Pup
Rouls personally bailed out a 3-month-old puppy facing extermination at the City Dog Pound totoday ay after Pound Supt. James dog to three women in Municipal Court.
davit. What do you think you de
U done about the city dog pound. leo comprehend the complete and/the plain and simple truth is that |
basic intér-depéndence of all serv- With this
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Payne refused to release the
in the doghouse in cout for Battles Religion On School Time
‘Elkhart Senator In One-Man Fight
‘A young Elkhart Sunday School teacher became a one-man “task force” in the Indiana Senate today to outlaw religious in-
Slim Despite House Passage
Plan, Cause Deadlock
The administration's bonus bill
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went to the Senate today where the -GOP-- majority prepared to throw it out in favor of its own sales tax-financed bonus plan. Although each House: loudly advocates a ‘bonus for Hoosier veterans, it appeared likely staleimate over financing the bonus
would effectively block it this session, :
Republicans in the Senate insist on financing the bonus by a sales tax. They are firmly opposed to the one-quarter of 1 per cent gross income. surtax on which Gov. Schricker's Democrats who dominate the House insist. : House Democrats are unalterably opposed to a sales tax. The movement for a bonus for sol-
struction during public school hours. | Sen. Russell D. Bontrager, Re-| publican attorney, labeled the!
teaching of religion on school| Both House and Senate leaders, women planned to accuse him of time as “unconstitutional” and|today quietly reiterated their! &
{termed it “a. dangerous prece- prediction, reported in The Times
dent.” {
fitted Trixie off the front porch Faced With “mounting opposi- bonus is unlikely.
tion from various church groups, Sen. Bontrager declared: { “America was founded on the principle of separation of church and state. Allowing religious education in public schools would be a violation of the American way of life.” Introduces Bill Sen. Bontrager last week introduced a bill to repeal the law allowing students to attend religious instruction one hour a week on released school time. He was ‘to carry his fight-to the public Education Committee hearing this afternoon In the Senate chambers. : The Senator, a member of the Elkhart Presbyterian Church, said his plan was supported by several Indianapolis church Cites ‘Illegal’ Dodges The Benafor said that while “some Indiana schools skirted the law’ by sending the students to another buflding for- religious instruction; he believed it to be fllegal. The U. 8. Supreme Court has ruled unconstitutional compulsory religious training during school: time.
Sen. Bontrager, who also holds the post of Elkbart school attorney, declared he introduced the
measure to clarify the law in view Slayer of Girl, 14, three/PoRT II” Court om “another “vase ! ormer Attorney General Cleon| Given Life Term |
Foust ruled one portion of the Indiana ‘law invalid. The official ruling, he said, prohibited the granting of school credit for religious instruction.
Rearraignment Set | For Herbert Bobb
Rearraignment of Herbert
Ave. was set for Feb. 26 today by Judge Rabb in Criminal Court 2. Bobb is held in connection)
with the death of Patrolman Both died of gunshot wounds at{With a 42-degree high, prevailed
Robert J. Baker in a traffic accint, - { Patrolman Baker was’ struc down by a car driven by Bob on Oct. 2, 1048, at Shelby and| Calhoun * Sts, the prosecution charges. . | |
Devers Scores
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FT. WAYNE, Feb. 17 (UP)— Gen. Jacob L. Devers says that “petty sniping and sharp-shoot-ing” among branches of the armed forces are endangering America's national security. Gen. Devers, chief of the Army field forces, told a national secur-| ity week rally last ht that the 8. suffers from “an inability
ices.”
|did in September, 1948.” The union newspaper said that
Phone Operator
- A coroner sald she apparently died of an attempted abortion, | Police identified her as Mrs. Roberta Shirley Danks, 26, Chica- wage cut. go, widow of an air force flight instructor killed In a post-war The downward wage adjust. niies from the entrance to Dunes/Ment will be made on the basis ‘ Mich lof State Pak por Lake 3 except [Price index to be published next
for her shoes, which were found 40 feet away. She wore an initialed gold watch and two rings, one of them a wedding band. The was found in a stretch of highway joining U. 8.6 and U. 8.12, two of northern Indiana’s most® heavily traveled arteries.
the|~—Actress Patricia Medina,
jers is thus caught between the
vable object in the House #*
and the irresistible force in the Senate.
when the session opened, that
Votes No Vortex of a storm center since its birth in the House, the bill
passed the lower branch of the
General Assembly yesterday by an 84 to 6 vote. Ten lawmakers failed to vote. Despite violent opposition from House , - passage of the bill was an almost foregone conclusion even before voting started. . Many observers were surprised when Rep. Philip H. Willkie (R. Rushville) cast = -negative vote
His action caused more than |
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a minor buzz in the House. He ! :
was one of six men who turned thumbs down on the measure. A Navy veteran of World War II, Mr. Willkie, son of the late Wendell L. Willkie, presidential candidate in 1940, later told re-
iporters he voted against the billl
because “I voted against it In the referendum, and only wanted to be consistent.”
veterans, who fought
other in World War I, and failed to any Merk to the measure wer
Danielson (R, Ply-|
Harry E, mouth), and Meret Reid Monks (R. Winchester). They had no comment for casting a negative vote. rags
MT. VERNON, Feb. 17 (UP) — Ben Hodges, 48, Evansville, was under sentence today to life imprisonment for killing a 14-year-old girl. ’ Hodges was convicted late yesterday on-a charge of first degree
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murder by a Pesey Circuit Court jury that deliberated several
to ‘charge the women with any’ Charles Bobb. 19, 6f 627 Cottage hours. |
He ‘was accused of shooting to| death his former wife, Esther, her daughter, Zelma Zane Davault.!
Evansville last summer. A Van-| derburgh County grand jury in-
k|dicted Hodges in both slayingsilow of 30, will give way to in-| pn but he was tried only on one creasing cloudiness and warmer) charge of killing the girl, temperatures. tomorrow,
UAW Paves Way
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 (UP) —The CIO Auto Workers’ Union
is preparing 325,000 General Mo-| tors Corp. employees to take al {2- to 3-cent an hour pay cut next
month. The current issue of the union's newspaper said: “Nobody likes a wage cut. But
General have the
adjustment {Motors workers will
[same real wage position that they
Chicago Woman's Mutilated Body Found on Indiana Road
{pay envelope will be slightly less!
Death Followed Illegal Operation, Autopsy but it will buy just as much as it
had when they received an initial
{11 cents an hour increase last!
June and an additional 3 cents an hour in September. “The amount of money in the
MICHIGAN CITY, Feb. 17 (UP)-—A Chicago telephone operat- “there is a small group of Como's crushed body was found in a lonely highway near Lake Michi- munists and other political op-
portunists who are trying to make
political capital” of the coming
the . government's consumer week. Under the General Motors contract, the workers receive a cent an hour increase for every 1.14 points the index rises. Similarly, they lose a cent an hour for every 1.14 points the index drops.
Amebic Ailment Puts
Actress in Hospital HOLLYWOOD. Feb. 17 (UP) wife of screen #tar Richard Greene, today was under observation for amebie dyse which she
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Bunny skies and mild breezes,
in Indianapolis today. | Clear weather tonight, with a}
accord-| ing to the Weather Bureau. The! forecast called for a high of 55 degrees. Weatherman Paul Miller said]
according to) over original predictions antici] pated. ; } The west fork of White River| will crest here today at about 10.8 feet, one foot below the Janu-| tary high. Below the city, Elliston
will get a 26-foot crest tomorrow, |.
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{crests will prevail, according to Bridge {Mr. Miller. He said the main|guginess
mouth, will average crests about Comics
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will’ crest today, 10 feet above ¥ flood stage. The river at Coving-|aratn (Hoon its highest point tomorrow; | The crest is not expected to arrive at Vincennes until Tues-
day, when a 20-foot top will ap The Off Workman Story ceniNO. 3
wAgrablied the fire whistle rope and yanked it" ., . . Henry 3 was burned fight. ing flames. with a hand extinguisher before firemen ar-
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Two Indianapolis at torneys, a tavern operator | a bondsman and sm ac- | countant, all well knowl political figures here, were indicted by the Marion County Grand Jury this afternoon on lottery
The 19 indictments climaxed Prosecutor George Dalley’s ritonth-long probe of the lottery rackets, 3
These indicted were: Thomas H. McNulty, attors
ney. CC Rewsrd-ReMeNully, Ws | brother and . operator of the 4
bondsman and man-abouts i
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A 23-year-old Muncie man who earlier had told a story of being robbed of $700 and “dumped” in the Indianapolis Bus Terminal, = twas fined “$50 and costs today by "|Judge Clark in Municipal Court 4, on a charge of making a false report. oo Unable to pay the fine, he was committed to the Indiana State Farm. et Virgil. Morris Colson, of Muncie, called police to the Terminal at 1:25 a. m. today. He told them that he “came to” in the station after an evening-of {drinking in Muncie taverns. He sald he met two women {in one of the taverns and that “ihis last remembrance was of
He said he discoversd his $700 was missing when he “came to.” Police placed a vagrancy charge against him, pending investigation and he later admitted ‘this story was & Tabricatiom; ~~
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street - salesman Alfred Bevér-| id= 35 Radio ......22/gtock, 64, cost him a $3 fine here! 08: \ ier nomen (IVUATK counes 19 recently. The company makes precision ++++23 Bide Glances 20, Alfred walks with two. crutch. Machine products, mostly for cesveses2b/Boclety ......23/ es, and his favorite way of ternal combustion engines. 20 Sports ...28-30 holding the attention of an une proximately 100
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isto pin him against a 24-25 wall ‘with the end of one crutch ‘until he buys a book.
Three Rob Hoba —3d Confession of Gunman
Loan Office of $1777
oionanz, sen 1 wire PUL 'Finger' on Workman.
{today sought three robbers who
escaped with $1777 trom the Lib-| 3 State Police Reported Unusually Zealous
erty Loan Corp. here. { Chief Frank Traeger sald that one of the men told two emloyees, Edith Short, Hobart, and Olga Francell, Gary, “don't try to be a hero unless you want to be killed.”
MURDER HUNG shooting at Haysville in 1936 which eventually sent to prison Indi
To Get Soverdike's Help in Prosecution
Third of a Series
By ROBERT BLOEM in the balance for days after the robbery.
Two of the men scooped the Ana's most controversial conviet——Ott Workman.
money from cash drawers and the
. Fact that the shooting victim, Charles Basch, Workman's
safe while the third herded the brother-in-law, hung between life and death may not have influenced washroom
two women into the ” [They pulled the hold-up after all
the outcome of the case. y But many who were close to it also had pleaded guilty and been
|etistomers had left the bank late then still have the feeling today sentenced to life for the crime of
[yesterday.
that the . trigger man, Frank inficting Injury in the perpetraSouierdike, became convinced heition of an armed robbery,
Trooper . hotly in the homes another vehicle, known as “a place ot ntery : al ry all our readers as the eb. Danks was an operator at a A. Bisce Jor flieh jcked up last fail while working RUSSIANS HAVE NEW GRAPE to do something quickly or| Persons involved in Juestiong At pons Le be the central complaint station of! The body wis’. found at 5:55 In Italy. : |" LONDON, Feb. 17 (UP)—Ra-|/face a murder case say three state police ing fed by the lio Chicago police department. (a. m. and police said it looked| Dr. Robert J. Kosichek sald heldio Moscow said today that Rus- By the time it Became certainitectives displayed an experts. ’ Found by Truck Driver as If the woman had been dead DOpes 0 clear up the aflment|sian scientists have developed a that Mr. Basch would recover geal in the drive to k ws . ~A dairy truck driver found herjabout an hour. . . Within a few weeks, when the grape that can endure tempera-/from his wounds, @ For the first of four | "8 CTL 4 battered about the Her face was mutilated, her|C00Ple plan to’ return to Europe. tures as low as 22 degrees below already had signed a third exclusive despatches, turn head and body, as he drove along|jaw broken, and chest Miss Medina wag hospitalized zero Fahrenheit and still produce fession naming Ott Workman as £i to Page 13. he Teoacrets stretch toerasteds last, pight. "A {a high yield, [the “brains” behind thy crime. He
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