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* FORECAST: “Fair tonight and tOMOFTOW. Low ‘tonight, 28, High tomorrow, 40 > 45.

59th YEAR—NUMBER 325 4

Senators 0K GOP Bonus,

Republican Budget Chief Charges Plan |

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2 0

8 Snub Warnings

Would Bankrupt State |

PRICE FIVE os . Entered as Mecond-Class Matter at Postomos r een wT il _—

Indianapolis, Ind. Issued Daily

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B-50 Flies Nonstop : Around the World

=I; S. Bomber Refueled

(Legislative Calendar, Page 3)

Iron Curtain Up to Stay

By IRVING LEIBOWITZ

rupt the state. The financial warning

—The-bill passed

|surtax which the lagreed to in a recent caucus. Maximum Is $600

$600 and the muiti-million dolla

fund. Republicans iwould be. paid off in 1951 unde this plam: ~~ -

ville,

He pointed out the present tax, which the bill includ the comprehensive tobacco tax

the state’s expenses.

u realize , : nouncement today. He said the ments only four hours; the wha 4ive and his Joney wets withdraws : union had offered $500,000 for a {weather was excellent.” : < for flying other cles. which ‘were ¥ site in Washington and on it the) The last leg—the homeward Mear the rted by .cigaret tax mon 3 Teamsters would build a huge |dash from Hawaii, where Lucky raffic and : - : 3 andr gn 4 “labor temple.” |Lady II took on fuel from a ying Kites ; “Remember, man, that thou are dust and unto dust thes shalt return.” 1 House M That Mr. Beck hopes to make 5-29 tanker last night—*“seemed 4 shows Lent’s spirit of humility and Church. Others about to ‘re- attitude of the | Since the bill a national figure out of himself, Lhe longest” “Capt. Galagner accidents. penitence guided the hand of ceive the ashes on their fore- he over in the season leal- [Senate was an amen with: the removal of the Indian-| “T-don't think any of us Is real v. March the Very Rev. Msgr. Bernard heads are, left to right, Myrtle ingto Easter. The words of th t the’ House bill the measure must now japolis headquarters to ,Washing-| tired. and I wouldn't mind doing | e for kite f= Sheridan as he made a cross Anne Farrell, John Fitzgerald, priest as he makes the return to the lower assembiy for} . [ton was no secret among trade); again—after a little rest” he sililature | with ashes on the head of. Patricia White and David ashes recall the brevity lite approval of the change. It is n {unibnists. - He'll go to Washing..." ; large an | : Karen Davis in Ash Wednesday O'Connor. Little children hum- and-thg moftality of the flesh likely the Democrat majority in] {ton to become top man in the Lucky Lady II took off from OF THE services in St. John’s. Catholic = bly kneeling serve to dramatize and all material things. [the House will accept the amend-| new Setup. Carswell at 11:21 a. m. (IndianT= : ENT TT iment. In that case the bill willl 4 Plans Expansion sjons Time) last Saturday, Feb. | ~The Memory Lingers Oon— ‘ be turfied over to the conference | In meeting here of 700 picked 26.- tower, at the end of her epochal ines wo D | committee for a recommendation. IR en from ha 1s outining AFL | tower, a. a Der spo | : a evout Stumb e fo Mass " Meanwnils Rep. Salts Maeh- to build that organization from|tWo great circies about the fea ! majority leader, recom-it" its present 900,000 members to altitude of 3000 feet and { Over Debris of Mardi Gras mu." sm." ae bw, 3 |thres milion. The Teamsters ai- cme down, fver Lake Worth bt 1 world’s largest union. perfect landing, = study commission made up of

New Orleans Dons Sackcloth and Ashes After 10-Day, $8 Million Carnival

By PRESTON McGRAW, United Press Staff Correspondent NEW ORLEANS, Mar. 2—The devout stumbled through streets littered with empty bottles, beer cans and confetti in the pre-dawn| ~~ . NCOmmen |today to exchange gay costumes for sack ‘cloth and ashes, p UV en . . he iy : Mardi Gras—the nation’s costliest hangever blowout—was just

a hammering memory.

Nab Drivers Using 1948 Auto Plates

Two. Indianapolis men were - fined $3 today in Municipal Court 4 hy Judge Alex Clark in a state-| wide - crackdown on motorists driving without 1949 license plates which - netted 20 arrests here yestérday. Yesterday was Mardi Gras day, the climax to one of the bigRalph Breedlove, 1611 Park|gest and loudest jazz-filled car ‘Ave. and Corwin: Wickham, 4601 nival seasons in New Orleans his-

Senators.

\the bill into oblivion.

income tax.

Indiana State Senators Soasy passed a Republican version © the bonus bill despite warnings the method of financing. the plan | by = $25 rmlilion cut from the state’s general fund would bank-

came from the Republican chairman of {the legislative budget committee. All Senators present voted for the measure. Democrat members i |“went along” on the bill because they did not want to go on record’ as having voted against a bonus today carried the Republican policy provigions|

lof forestalling a gross income; = party had|

Maximum payment would be

expenditure would be financed by a new tobacco tax and $25 mil-| lion from the state's general

said the bonus

Sen. John Ke Kendall of Dan-| chairman “af the budget commiftee, protested the financing plan would “ruin the state.” e

{already committed to pay many

four Representatives and four There would be four) days for the commission to study,

recommendation was apmaximum bonus payment of $400; year-old Vera Stefich Alexan-

toe financed by a one-fourth of} der stepped from a plaue at 1 per cent increase in the gross, LaGuardia .Field, N. Y., this

In Air Four Times On 3 23, 452-Mile Journey

Lands at Ft. Worth 94 Hours After Takeoff; ‘Wouldn't Mind Doing It Again,’ Pilot Says By CHARLES CORDDRY, United Press Aviation Wrifer FT. WORTH, Tex., Mar. 2—"Lucky Lady II,” a United States Air Force B-50 bomber, today completed the first 4 nonstop around-the-world fight in history. y | Ninety-four hours and one minute after she took off | from Carswell ‘Air Force base here last Saturday, the great ps {four-engine bomber came home again out of a haze hanging

L | Teamsters’ Move | Lv mat that she Waits on Site

‘had flown 23,452 miles, al{mast the distance of the earth's circumference “at . the equator, | without any major difficulty-aloft land with the benefit/ of four re$500, 000 Offered {fuelings in flight. In Washington Deal | Her 14 crewmen scrambled r By FRED W. PERKINS lout, proclaiming their willingness . Seripps-Howard Staft Writer {to-do it all over again after a CHICAGO, Mar. 2 — Only alittle rest, and received a royal real estate deal remains to be Welcome from top Air Force _|completed before removal of the Officers and Air Secretary W. . Teamsters International head- Stuart Symington. quarters from Indianapolis to - Had Good Weather Washington. Capt. James Gallagher of MelDave Beck, labor czar of the rose, Minn, the smiling crew com Pacific Northwest, made the an- mander, said: “We were on instru-

1f Mr. Beck's “five-year Sg Escorted by Tanker 7 Planes goes through he will overshadow| Some 400 to 500 persons, most ppt of the aging chiefs of the|of their Air Force personnel, were AFL and will become one of the on the ramp to wave their greetfew top-ranking union leaders ings to the crew, which had their along with John L. Lewis of thée|faces pushed against the windows. \United Mine Workers and Puinp Two B-36 tanker planes were Murray of the CIO. . with Lutky Lady II as she broke . Beck’s present job is execu- the haze. They had tive vice president of the Team-| “picked her” up and flown escort sters, His boss, the union presi-/on the run in from Tucson, Ariz, dent, \is Daniel J. Tobin, who is in |this morning.

Vera Stefich Riders a traveler.

Acme Telephate.

©1608 Livingston St. Indidnapolis, the little girl was sent to the U. 8. by her Yugoslavian mother who has been unable to secure travel permits from the Communist-dominated

a In dleepy wonderment, 4-

morning onto the soil of the

E. 34th St. were both arrested] (tory. late . yesterday by accident pre-| Today was. Ash. Wednesday, vention officer James Johnson the beginning of the 40-day Lenwithin a few blocks of each other ten season for Catholics and on Kentucky Ave. Inidanapolis Protestants. police began making arrests yes=/ This was likewise -a- day for : terday afternoon after receiving hangovers, hoarse throats and . 1 Re the “go ahead” signal from state wind-chaffed . faces, and “people Find Building Here police, who wished they'd never heard nk ) _ Overrun With Vermin Eighteen other Indianapolis Mardi Gras. : drivers—arrested—vesterday for, Lhe faithful started trekking “By PHILIP F. CLIFFORD JR. tailing to display 1949 plates; to-storied St. Louis Cathedral and] House members today promissd the Roman Catholic after the deadline, Feb. 28, were OtBier houses of worship long be-'a “full scale” investigation of| slated to appear in Municipal fore daylight. Court within the week. Some of them were sleepy, Oth-iment after their Motorists arrested by state poi! ers ~were slightly unsteady oni,.gpe of overcrowding and in-|niversary of the coronation, ice will appear in magistrates’ | {their feet. All felt the effects of and justices of the peace courts. the 10-day, $8 million Saruivall

Assure ‘Full Scale’ Pius XII Observes Hospital Probe.

And 73d Birthday

ay observed his

“Chufch

As the inquiry moved into its the Sistine’ Chapel.

{with his owh Latin motto, ¥.. lowing truth in charity,” in-! The pontiff ‘was reported

s committee,

up to the altar; his forehead wa UP. ‘Headed by Rep. Louis

Waste of Time’ Crosse with ashes while & priest’ |said Churilla -(D. East Chicago) Senate Majority ‘Leader John “Remember man, that thou art vestigators yesterday. made Van Ness (R. Valparaiso) today dust and unto dust thou shalt re- isecond inspection tour of the hos-| blasted his colleagués for “wast- turn.” pital, ing ‘time and the taxpayers. Arter church services, all hur- ‘Among other things uncovered money.” {ried home for a few winks of by committee members was the JHe delivered a withering ora- sleep before they had to go to | inadequate operating room facil-| tion as an Indianapolis Democrat| work. “hey attempted to blast out’of commit-{" Behind them<=came.the street |

ork.

inight. His daily werk includ

‘We Were Appalled® persons.

10th: Year -as Pope =e. Jans. Alzande,

VATICAN CITY, Mar. 2 (UP), Widow al 34, Mother of 14

—His Holiness, Pope Pius XII to73d birthday and 10th anniversary as head of

The official celebration of the! Central State Hospital's manage- Pontiff’s elevation to Pope ‘will preliminary take place Mar. 12; the 10th .an- nine of them at home, today {

when. following the death of the husband and’ father, {rom in adequate care of patients there.|a pontifical mass will be read in alone, following

EE — [eR Te held in all |second day, Rep. Nick Balog Jr.| © x x = This morning Mrs. Irene Elizabeth Browning went to a funeral =~ ERY TEMPERATURES “Hawai 10_ deliver fuel to the ¥ Catholic churches. Services were] D- Hammond) sajd he would ask, THE only event to mark the home to choose a casket for her husband, and then to a cemetery 6 a m.. 25 10 a. m... 34 Klory-bound bomber, which eire i or cores held also in other churches Arthur G. Loftin, acting director ‘occasion today was appearance to select a burial Tot. Services = 1 a 253 amo 38 cled the globe at an average roughout the lof the ndiana Council for Men-/of a commemorative article sum-'will ¥8 held tomorrow. 4 [ceived public aid trequently since 8 a m.. 28 12 (Noam) 40 'speed figured unofficially at 249.39 os the Brradhi devout stepped ta! Health, to testify before the marizing the Pope’s achievements Then the young widow, who i8/moving from -{reenca e 9a m... Sl 1 p. m... 41 . Mmiles.per hour. *

“Fol- the grandmother of five, a Bood health that would permit which includes four children un- ‘dren are married. They a (him to put in. his usual 18 hours der school age.

An early riser, the Pope seldom’ The father, Edward Browning, and Mrs. Betty |gets “to bed until long after mid- 47,

laudiences with at. least, a. dozen! ierday..

“homeland” she had never before seen. An American by virtue of the citizenship of

his 70's and spends much time| Mr. Symington and the top mils |at the home the union bought for itary men — Gen. Hoyt Vanden{him in| Florida. Speculation has berg; air chief of staff; Gen. Curbeen that Mr. Beck aims to dis- [tis E. Lemay, strategic air come {place Mr. Tobin. Relations be- mander, and Maj. Gen. Roger A, tween the two are such that Mr. Ramey, 8th Air Force commands Beck probably will move up only er — pushed. forward and encirwhen Mr. Tobin is good and ready cled the xrew -as they climbed for it. (down. Meantime, Mr. Beck is tighten-| The Air Force billed {his as a Faces Care of Family / Alone ing his influence .on the Team-|“training mission,” but its ob _._|sters, building up a strong coterie | vious pride in the flight was reTof supporters. atthe

Yugoslav government. Vera was scheduled to arrive in Indianapolis at noon today.

Death Intrudes ona Home—

Times ‘State Service NOBLESVILLE, Mar. 2—A 34-year-old mother of’ 14 children,

aced the task of caring for her fam- Forecast Fair "And Warmer

por

Average 249.30 MPH | Afr Forve “B-29 tankers Sant up gover the Azores, Dhahran in

; t. {juries suffered in a figh Saudi Arabia, -the Philippines and -

must Years age.

istruggle with the problem of in how to provide for her brood,

elmgearesé | - Gen. Vandenberg said the flight =; | Fair weather was forecast for was additional evidence that “we “PHree of the Browning chil Indianapolis; tonight and. tomor- have an. intercontinental. — re Den- row. force.” Tt was a demonstration Temperatures were #xpected to to the world that no enemy obMary ‘Lanning of Noblesville, range from a. low of 28 tonight jective is outgide the range of Black, Greencas- to a highsof between 40 and 45{United States bombers. Browning degrees tomorrow, The mercury| It was, said the Air Fores, will not drop to last night's low “part of ‘a continuing program’ of of 25 degrees, the weatherman! in-flight refueling promised. - . i (Which will be flown to all parts Warmer weather. also was fore- of the world.”

Meager; Resources

{nis Wayne Browning and Mrs. Head Hits Rock

died from skull fracture in|tle. Miss Stella May es Hamilton County Hospital, yes-|is attending the Pilgrim Holiness _Officers._said- he fought| Church college at Frankfort, Sunday with Alfred Jenkins, | While TSagac J: Browning 18 1m the

tee two measures affecting the gweepers. They had celebrated, city. too. It took. them tiost of the: “We are wasting too much time|day to clean up the tons of paper, on foolishness,” the Senator de- and thousands of empties that

Tucked away In a musty, ill-| lighted ‘dilapidated corner of one of the hospital's many buildings, | investigators found a tiny cubicle’

On Inside

clared. were left-by a: half-million Or-| He then produced a bundle of jeanians and thrill-seeking tour- Whisk EO aro aanerating American M MP’ s 's seal o off 8 figures to support his claims, He ists, feet by 15 feet. : Russians in U., 8. zo said he had figured it cost the | “We were appalled by the lack] Sew . ) taxpayers $4113.64 each day the »f modern surgical instruments,” 0 rmany ... Arend

Senate was in session. He sald the figure broke down to approximately $22.85 a minute. When the. Senator concluded his verbal spanking the Assem-

the World , . , &“ digest of today's news ...Page Death alwa ys sendy to spring’ traffic traps that

ompan Gas Co P y Rep. Churilla said. A small town country doctor's

Uses Bloodhounds office, the lawmaker observed, is To Sniff Out Leaks likely to be better equipped.

Sanitation Poor |

bit of entertainment cost the tax-| ‘The bloodhounds are named Joe neglect and disrepair. Invest- Vandenberg te e 1 1 s GOP payers $228.50. |captain and Ethyl Captain, and gators said conditions Were not} Senators that they may

{they're owned by C. E. Gill, athe fault of Dr. A. Bahr, ‘ Wholesale Foo d vote to end filibuster...

_lof care, they said. jail of Siminals ang st their Examination of two wards in NEW YORK, Mar. 2 (UP) ee * The wholesale food price index of leaks In underground gas mains, | (Other Inside Features

{the men’s building, built in 1939, sniffers to the ground ‘looking for) howed large cracks inthe floor,|

| ’ “peeling - paint and chunks of | Amusements. 10 Me vies Dun & Bradstreét, Inc, rose 4) What's more, the American "ee rd! plaster missing from the celling| Bridge ...... 16)My Day ..... cents in the past week, the third Chemical Society said today, Joe) nd walls. The “exercise” halls sess Mh 1 Wy

consecutive. week of advance, the and Ethyl do a better job than! ' Agency anhounced today. |the gas-leak meters commonly] The index now stands at $5.82, used to check mains for small against $5.78 a week ago and) |leaks. $6.70 In the corresponding ‘week | mes tsp Stir ‘Joe Goes fo Docs

both “the. men's and women’s Classified 420-22 {wings were almost devoid of|Clubs ...:.. 16 ~ |comfortable chairs. Those in evi-|Comics ..... 23 “idence, the -probers ‘found, were Crossword .. 8 rickety and ready to fall apart. | Editorials. pao 14

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om 2 Page 3—Col. a SiWarld AL i «| ANE ¥ ‘ . ¥ ii Seven V 7 ®.

. bly took 10 minutes off to listen NEW YORK, Mar. 2 (UP) — For the most- part, investigat- | chatter city «+ « Murder take care of the hospital and fu- bors and county officials said the!the national invitational basket-| oy to Sen. Samuel W. Isler play the This is about a couple of Texas ors .found, the place is overrun, : : v neral expenses.” {family’s resources consist of ball tournament = at Madison Conti guitar. bloodhounds who Work for & pub- with vermin. Sanitary facilities’ On the Streets .i.. | He said the family had re-'meager household furnishings. Square Garden. Cs gy ite nAt Sen. Van Ness’ figures that lic utility. are obsolete and in a state” of No. 4. . Page 13/2 i : MAA ho

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Of 1948. The cumulative three They also found 108 men Food ....... 17|8oclety ..... ‘J: Week rise totaled 16 cents. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Mar. crowded in one dingy ward that Forum ,..... 14 Sports ... 18, The index represents the sum |Z (UP)--Joe DiMaggio left the way built to house 80 patients. |Meta Given... 17! Teen Talk... - —total of the price per pound of 31] New York Yankee spring train-| n each ward was found i Hollywaod «+ 10{Teen Prob. .. foods. In the most recent Ing’ camp today to 3 ge “thermos jug filled with Indpls; 13 Weather Map -the price sf 14 foods advariced, [Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore drinking water. A battered, por-| DF. Dr... Jorgen - Rav Hon « omen’s ...

Nobfesville, and that he struck Army, stationed at Camp Breck{his head oma rock when he was inridge, Ky. | knocked own. He ‘died Without| The other children, all at home, (regaining consciousness. {and ranging upward from less _Jénkins, a truck driver, was than three years, .are Naomi, (ela on an assault and battery Ruth, Alice, James, Richard, Jo|charge, and the Hamilton County anna, Rebec ca, Darlene and

cast for thé entire state except | Regular Combat Plane for occasional light snow in the} 1... Lad 1 extreme northeast section. the pose Doni ales a The state weekly crop bulletin tes after her takeoff; over Dhah~ issued’ by Paul A. Miller, chief ran some 35 hours and 9 minutes forecaster in Indianapolis, stated out of Ft. Worth; above the Phils - |Grand Jury was called today to Shirley." that grass and clover seed was ippines at the 55-hour and 38. [investigate the case. Mr. Browning had, started peing sown. {minute mark, and over Hawall, But the grand jury action will work only. recently as a truck {before turning homeward on the not solve Mrs. Browning's prob- driver. for the Pinnell-Dulin Lum-! {last lap, 78 hours and 54 minutes

Garden Bids Bradley

3 lem. ber Co., here after a siege of ill- latter the fii > “We'll have to give more help, | {ness. Before that he had worked, NEW YORK, Mar. 2 (UP) —| Lucky re gh rnd from the ~ of course,” a Hamilton County | at odd jobs and was employed in Bradley University - today act (gh Alr Force's 43a Bomb G

welfare official said. “And we'll|a local factory for a time. Neigh-| jcepted an invitation to play in

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