Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 March 1949 — Page 2

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Van Fleet's Death Set for Late March | - During Victory Week, Authorities Say

o Minister of Public Order Constantine Rentis announced today, “that a plot to assassinate Lt. Gen. James A. Wan Fleet, head of the American military mission to ‘Greece, -had been discovered Jay

thwarted.

Mr, Rentis attributed the assassination plot to’ Communists. | He said a number of arresia hat been made.

Mr. Rentis said _police..se all persons connected with the plot “before they were able to © strike.”

Those arrested admitted they

were preparing to kill Gen, Van

. Fleet between Mar. 20 and Mar,

25, he said.

The period set for the assassi-|

nation had been proclaimed a national “work and victory week”

sponsored by Mrs. Henry F.l& Grady, wife of the American am-| bas ;

; American authorities here sai they had heard nothing about the] plot. Wir. Rentis would not say| how the alleged plotters planned to kill Gen. Van Fleet or ow! many were involved, Gen. Van Fleet often travels| about . Greece alone or with a

handful of American or Greek officers. Greek plainclothesmen

guard. him constantly. - Gen. Van Fleet has been under vitriolic attack by the “free ~ Gresce™ radio, has accused him of “murd several arrested Communist lead-

ers. ier foreign developments:

budapest Parliament suspended the immunity of two of its three remaining opposition deputies today, layt them open to prosecution on arges of helping . Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty conspire z against the government. deputfes were Jozser Groh, who was excluded from Parliament for six months Deé¢. 18, and oo Mihaly Kishazi, both representing the Christian Women's Camp, sole opposition party still in existence.

All Soviet newspapers {oday took the occasion of the announcement of the Russian “budget to predict a depression was on- the way in capitalist "countries, particularly the United States The Soviet budget, announced, yesterday, contains a defense priation of 79 billion rubles) ($15 billion) compared to a! milita budget of Hiss billion in the United States. The direct cause of inflation in the United States, the government paper Izvestia sald, was “the growth of military expenditures made necessary by the aggressive

Greek Officials Block ‘Assassination Plot

which.

S-ventura, 27-year

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Myra Stefan — Miss Stefan; - 24 “movie: BO tress and night club performer, has brought a paternity suit against Pastor Paul Buena-

millionaire, charging he is the father of her son who was born | five months ago. The actress | testified in New York court that they announced their engagement in 1947 and obtained a marriage license but she said the wedding never took place. Mr. Buénaventura “denied” the _Charge.

Catholics Note Hike in Members

| Year Book Cites Drop in Marriages The new Year Book for the Indianapolfs Catholic Archdiocese | records a decrease in the num{ber of marriages and births but an increase in church membership. In 1948, 1655 marriages took place in the Catholic Archdiocese which is a decrease of 9.3 per! cent over the year before. Of the year's marriages, 728 were “mixed.” that is, one of the con-|

policy of United States ruling circles.”

Capetown

Premier Dr. Daniel F. lan’s| The. total Catholic population) yun ats ls Tisted as 115,22

Nationalist party ‘won. compared with 78 captured by former Premier Jan Christiaan

for local provincial councils. The| elections had been heralded of a test for Mr. Malan's- policy of ‘racial discrimination and other extreme right-wing policies.

Agana Nava! governor Rear Admiral Charles Pownall today faced a revolt of the Guamanian Congress as its leaders prepared to ignore his request for a special Joint session. Six days ago, members of “Guam's- lower house walked out in what they termed “an indefinite adjournment until such time as Guam is given a civil government” and released from U, B. Navy control.

trating parties was a non-Cath-| ollie person. The Catholic births probes from 4424 In 1947 to 4370 in 1948;

3 in 1948 as

again 112,034 in 1947. Parochial’

grade schogls. show a. steady ; Smuts’ United party in elections growth in ‘humbérs’ witha §

more pupils In 1948 than the Year| (before. The Catholic high schools, | on the contrary, show a arog of 131. The church has established six | new parishes in the archdiocese, the year book reports, and has organized a new family life committee,

————————————— GREENS HELD TONICS Modern nutritionists, like grand- | mothers, believe spring greens to] be good spring tonics, and advo- | cate the use of wild greens as well, {a8 cultivated varieties.

The action was taken to pro-| test Adnf, Pownall's failure to “honor-a- warrant - forthe arrest of a civilian employee who had . refused to submit to questioning! by a congressional investigating! committee,

Rome Premier - Alcide de Gasperi sald today that even if Italy signs the proposed North Atlantic! Security Pact, it would not be compelled to fight in the event of another war,

He Interpreted the Alin DIVORCE SUITS FILED

pact in a speech before 400 Senators and Deputies of his Christian Democrat Party before addressing the lower chamber later today on the pact.

Landsberg

A former Nazi elite guardsman, sentenced to die on the gallows today for war criminality won a last minute stay of execution pending investigation of the case! by the War Department. Gen Lucius D. Clay ordered a reprieve for gJosef! Brauner, He)

was sentericed for killing eight A! 1 Methodist—James, Murial Smith; Mel.

persons unable to keep up with an| evacuation march from a concentration camp in April, 1945,

Tel Aviv

The government announced to-

day that Israeli forces had selzed|

the five-mile coastal strip called Elath at the southernmost tip of, Palestine after a clash with the Arab Legion of Trans-Jordan. A Israel and Trans-Jordan at the

same time took their first major mond, t

step toward an armistice by sign-|

ing in Rhodes a formal conte A SL Vineent's.. Paul Barbara Plekett ment. The long stride ! TS ARresn Wh: peaks was| {AL SE. Wraneis-Philiip, Ethel Miller; Nich. |

taken after long under United Nations auspices.

| A y (The United States. and ‘Great| Abraham, jonny. Sumbre | Britain have begun high level DEATH talks in Washington and London |T* nie Thicksten Wamilton, 69, La Math. !

on the flareup in Palestine, au-| ‘thoritative sources in London re. ported.)

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negotiations A, & General Robert

people have Boetisn: oa Hotel,

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"Robert Virginia Bryant: Robert, | Wilmetta Kelley; Norman, Jacqueline Kenned

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