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Report Byrd Plans Journey Stirred Red Hint of Uranium WASHINGTON, Apr. 18 (UP) Secret preparations are being made for a gigantic. American ex-

pedition to the Antarctic which may have far-reaching interna-

The expedition, it was said today, may produce a formal Amerfcan claim to strategic areas of the vast Antarctic continent] - The decision to dispatch a new v. 8. expedition followed failure of American efforts to get agreement for international control of Antarctica. The American preparations assumed particular importance in view of mounting evidence that the Soviet Union is planning to stake a claim in the Antartic, ‘where, acording-to Moscow radio, “there is reason to believe that uranium is to be found.” Soviet whaling fleets cruised the South Polar sea for four months last winter, Makes No Claim

Hitherto, the United States has made no claim to Antarctic territory and it has officially refused to recognize claims of other nations. Explorations by Rear Adm. Richard E. Byrd and other Amerfcans have, however, placed the United Btates in a strong. posi-

dion in the event of any territor-|

jal race. Adm, Byrd, now ¢0, was reported planning to lead another expedition to Antarctica, “the most spectacular of all time.” He hopes, according to the reports, to explore a 3 million-square mile section of the ice cap lying across the South Pole from Little i which was his base in

Russ Serve Notice

Argentina and Chile to consider interndtionalization of the Antarctic land mass. These six nations have claims and counter-claims on the entire continent with the exception of ‘American-explored a r e a where, by a gentlemen's agreement, No other power has planted| its flag.

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Vatican Paper

{posed to a war against Russia

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Indianapolis, Ind. Issued Dally

War on Reds Opposed by -

Declares Defeat - Of Soviet Would Not End Communism VATICAN CITY, Apr. 16 SE) The . Vatican newspaper

servatore Romano said today the, Roman Catholic Church is op-|

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WFBM to Televise 500-Mile Race Her

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Reception Effective in

Indiana this year.

yesterday.

A And Dangerous Turn

70-Mile Radius

Foi 5 Full Hours on Memorial Day By HAROLD HARTLEY, Times Business Editor The 500-Mile Race will inaugurate television in Central

Final arrangements for televising the Memorial Day classic have been completed by WFBM-TV, it was learned

| The agreement was made with the Mutual Broadcasts

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Sun to Wam. Up. Easter Dawn Chill

‘Winter Togs Best For. Early: Worship. A predicted temperature rise lof 30: degrees—will bring spring!

The U. 8. proposals t no nccepténce from any of the al nations and flat rejections from | Argentina and Chile which claim | areas previously listed as British! domain. Political Flavor " Russian explorations date back to 1821, but there have been no recent Soviet expeditions on the continent itself. However, in view of the fact that no power’ has ever maintained a permanent settlement there, some other claims

France, for example, has sent no expedition to the French area! since its discovery in 1836. A | French expedition failed to get through the icepack “last winter! but will tfy again during the next (28 exploration season, which opens! in December. In addition, Britain, Swolont and Norway are reported plan-

ning a joint “scientific” expedi-|

tion which would remain in Antarctica more than two years. This means that at least five, and possibly six nations will be involved in simultaneous explorations. Probably all will be designated 'as “scientific” but Russia's renewed interest in the region lends them a distinct Political flavor.

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back to Indianapolis today for! Easter. ‘Winter suits and fur coats will be the vogue for early morning {worshipers with the mercury ex-| pected to hover between 30 and 32 degrees at sunrise. . But by afternoon it was ex-| pected the sun will warm the temperature to a mild 60 degrees thus bringing out new Easter haberdashery in all its finery. .Clear All: Day Clear skies were expected to prevail throughout the day. The weatherman forecast freez{ing temperatures at daybreak! from the Great Lakes region] eastward. West of the Mississippi [River mild temperatures willl rove A spring drought plagued sections of Virginia and the Pacific Northwest. Fires dotted the big timber stands in Washingten State, the largest blazing over

{1000 acres near Battleground. In

Virginia 60 forest fires over near-| ly 2000 acres were reported in a 24-hour period. Floods Menace Along the Misouri River floods | menaced several areas, the river broke

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through three levees. High water, whipped by strong winds, spread over at farms. sorts and homes near Big Lake, Mo., were isolated. Dawn worshippers from the Great Lakes region eastward|

land will find the thermometer! near the freezing mark. The cold

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(Editorials, world report, politics, radio, movies, Pages 18-28) A new society column about people you know by a woman you know . . . Katy Atkins joins The

Sunday Times as a special writer. shopping column by Louise Fletcher, Times

“Counter-Spy,” woman's editor; soclety

Pessina

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and women’s news, teen

activitied, gardens, bridge, fashions, Pages 27-40.

Major leagues open tomorrow, Indians Tuesday. .

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(Sports, Pages 41-45; classified advertising, Pages 48-51} business,

Other Features on Inside Pages wh Crossword ..18{ Dan Kidney ,18| Records osue.23 sufficient to meet a PTR Er on +:416{ Inside Inpls. .19 Ruark “eesees19 and there was no report of . Fashions ....36} Junior Page +28/8chools +24+213| chieese shortage.

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Mrs. Manners 8iBociety .....30

A life-size figure of Christ before the open tomb wrought in stained glass looks down upon Easter worshipers in the Friedens Evangelical and Reformed Church. In the pews left to right, are Eugene Short, Mrs. Short, Nancy Kay Raker and Fred Quebe.

| the day a great occasion.

| by thousands each Easter, Oth{er sunrise services carefully |

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iy Market reports sald, however, are idéntical—15

Sports ....41-45 margarine, lard and olive ofl are rationed.

and Communism because it abhors war and believes it is “folly” to try to destroy an idea by force. |

for peace, the newspaper called Cominform charges that the Pope and church supported war a “perfidious offense and calumny.” It charged that the Cominform campaign was aimed at making the clergy and Catholics “co-re-i sponsibles of an armed conflict” = order that the church might!

won.

: motive and fact,” the pape Times Photo by William Oates. a Soviet liquidation ar iy wy destroy Communism. * Would Mark Time i1sen ® fF “A war and a defeated Russia i - would force it to mark time, not) to give up,” thes Vatican Journal} asserted.

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Penance of Lent Ends, :

doy Greets Easter Morn

‘Church ‘Folk ‘Mark Resurrection ‘In ‘Indooz and Outdoor Services

By EMMA RIVERS MILNER; Times Church Editor «The rising sun gave the signal for Easter worship today. ‘Indianapolis church folk, with Christians around the world, today are marking the Feast of the Resurrection. The penitential season of Lent ended yesterday. A feeling of release, of joy, with thoughts of the risen Lord, is evident. Outdoor and indoor services are scheduled with music and flowers a and | little children to make

Scooter Rider In Two Crashes

types of charges against Jatholie Church and recalled the |

scruple.”

{It was impossible “to paralyze

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55,000 Pupils Tune — Ears for School Bell

Indianapolis has won fame with her Monument Circle East-

er sunrise carol service attended | notebooks, pencils and papers to-|

{a motor seooter accident night was involved in a second | | spring holidays. mishap minutes later when the!

planned are those in the Southport High School Stadium, the Pendleton Pike and Greenwood

Drive-In Theaters and on [the aed with a car at Capitol Ave. lawns of churches. ; Nand Fall Creek Pky. Throughout the day, pipe or- | Charles Gorman, 3141 Ruckle gans will sound forth the tra- iSt was a passenger on the scootditional hymns of the churches er operated by his brother Paul. —Catholic and Protestant. Min- 123 when the vehicle went out of isters will give their annual as- [control at 30th 8t. and Paris surances of immortality. Radios Ave. They wera attempting . to will: pour forth the inspiring pass a car driven by Thomas, words and music that fill the Franklin, 35, of 3027 Cornelius air. And worship and praise Ave, will continue through the day Knocked unconscious, Charles and into the night, lterally was placed in an ambulance. En “where e'er the sun doth its suc- route to Methodist Hospital, the cessive journeys run.” {ambulance collided with a car gine —————— driven by Haze Looper, 42, R. R.| Thousands at Vatican 13. The patient was not injured {in the second collision. For Easter ‘Eve Rites Police ‘summoned another am-| (UP) | bulance which completed the mis-! YATICAN CITY Ape: 18 oh {sion. Looper was ordered- imtaithe office closed at noon. The! ~The can’ y | court for failing to give an emer-| Easter season, and spring, were| !brations neared their "climax to-| genty., vehicle the right of way. credited with the increase. |day as thousands of worshipers) Pail’ Gorman was treated for attended traditional Easter Eve| hip injuries - received in theishowed 19 divorce actions ceremonies in St. Peter's Basil-| scooter accident.” during the same period.

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vacation, and are scheduled to convene at the regular hours tomorrow, School authorities said the next holiday, May 30, is the last scheduled until school closes in June for the summer,

Dan Cupid's ~ Mighty Busy These Days

{ords in the Marion County clerk's’ office indicated yesterday. License clerks reported 76 cer-

filed

{Ascension Thursday on May 26.| Then it will be extingushed™to

‘Top Secret’ in Washington

symbolize Christ's ascent to |through Pennsylvania and the in- heaven. terlor of New York and New Eng. en row < {lie hundreds. of Tosses Out Boll When Season Opens;

iflower-filled churches in the Vati+can and throughout Rome willl ____ be jammed as special Easter {masses are celebrated while — {church bells peal in rejoicing for the resurrection.

see Sports ‘Section, Pages | 4145 AVASHINGTON,

ed by Pope, Plus XII and other handshaking. ure oS thentc prelates through-|” _ Washington’s usually well informed sources said Mr. President lout the world. |is fit, ready and rarin’ to go for Monday's elaborate te opener 1 between

{the Washington Senators and the {Philadelphia Athletics. talking. He told questioners they

France Ends Rations would have to wait until Monday. Bince last November, Mr, Tru-| Mr. T »- ambid

'For “Dairy ‘Products {man has pumped enough hands 0,114 pitches horseshoes and drives PARIS, Apr. 16 (UP)—France| keep his throwing arm in shape home an oratorical point with his milk, -|for the next four years. {left hand. He signs appropria- | ended the rationing of but She ne: y fs {ter and cheese today after nearly cal partisans p and a : fairs of state will be laid aside| bi professional pollsters are 10 years of controls. v t guessing what Mr. Truman temporarily while Washington's | ™° Officials said the government! big

{had stockpiled enough butter and of them—watch the champ do his last November. {cheese to maintain supplies: gt stuff at ‘Griffith Stadium. J least until the end 6f May, but The professional pitching will Preston Tucker Fined long lines at butter connters in- be done by Ray Scarborough of $15, Short by $5 ARY, Ind. Apr. 18

{dicated that some shortage: still: ithe Benators and Dick Fowler of! exists. the Athletics, whose 1948 records | y victories and 8 rind $15 for speeding in one of his rear-engine cars, Preston |

{| Tucker reached in his pockets and

How Mr. Truman will throw ry only $10. year—big-| p

Mg ysery of the sugar, rice, ger even than e weather, which manufacturer, _whose (promises to be fair and WArmer. soe stars jr | nly | the President whether he

ilk liveries to Paris were defeats. Both will throw right-| {that milk de

tificates issued yesterday before!

Apr. 16 (UP) —Harry 8. Truman, named to, throw out the first ball in the 1949 major league baseball inaugural, Prayers for peace will be of- Worked the kinks out of his pitching arm today by doing some more

brass and small fry—30,000 {will do Monday. They had enough

(UP)!

In a special 3500-word article | devoted to Pope Pius XITs work]

be “damned” regardless of who Troy, N. I is held

Describing Communism as| The ki “first a moral and sconewmitt five by ive-and-a-half inches.

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It cited the “very signiticant , Minneapolis Decision Iphone Co., which will transmit - Yugosliy episode, which the Com-|

itself,” as an indication of the | great “risks” which Communism —A mufiieipal court decision in|

tore commented on the! federal remt contral law today has been r: the|and thousands

le of! issuing it, -cireulate it without] rng, came in what was believed

Defending point by point Cath. lations enacted recently olic theory . religion and its automatic abhorrence of war, the editorial said the church could not| 0 Minneapolis alone. accept the theory of war to wipe out Communism by force because’

[idea with violence, destroy ft by|STrSehcy Powerk, that it has the tuning equipment.

Some 55.000 grade and high dorf, landlady, versus Mrs. Helen! school pupils will start collecting Moffat, tenant. | Kokomo, Peru, Marion, Muncie,

A 20-year-old man injured in day, preparing for the start of/in the lUinited States last] classes tomorrow and the end of edly” will consider the Minneap-|g,e

Classes were dismissed with the that thereby “thousands of sim-|),o ory five hours ambulance in: which he rode col- close of the regular school day/l/AT tenant’ evictions” issued un-

on Apr. 8 for the annual week of eT the old rent control law might |}, ops mime) on Memorial Day and| film),

{for tenants and that such legisla: within a 70-mile circle radiating {tion may be retroactive. 1] Effective April 1

ling System, WIBC, which * Iwill put the race on the radio i {network, Speedway officials § °F B® and the Perfect Circle Piston {Ring Co., which controls a prior. - 3 1 tv on Brondorating Fgh. BOA RN Ne {| Three cameras, each equipped with four. lenses,- some of them {long range for covering parts of {the back stretch, will pick up the {brick-burning cars and flash them /into the homes of those fortunate ardey at enough to get television sets iny John Kel. stalled by May 30. Troy College student, - Cover Howe Stroteh sized wo cameras will be in the padtone measured | dock, from ‘Which they will cover the home stretch, the pits and where film and political celebrities can be brought ¥o the cameras . from the pagoda. A third will be | stationed in Grandstand BE, view{ng t the dangerous southwest turn, Wilbur. Shaw, RCA officials, extin of WFBM-TV and oMm|cials of the Indiana Bell Tele

Four-pound hailstone, which | fell Swing a storm

enburg,

Court Ruling Seen As Eviction Curb

{the telecast from the track with May; Affect Thousands {a mobile tnit, co-operated in the MINNEAPOLIS, Apr. 18 (UP) selection of camera locations. Harry Bitner Jr., owner and an ‘eviction case upheld the new operator of: WFBM-TV;chimselt with time to get of evietions station on ‘the nation un- the race. ls This week the massive steel wdge Theodore B. Knudson'sitower will begin to rise on the roof of the Merchants National be the first court test of regu- | Bank, already strengthened by by Con-/gsome 80 gress, It was expected to’ {more than 2000 evig The station expects to have test In a 10,000-word memorandum patterns on the air by May 15 udge Knudson said Congress still when RCA engineers from Cam{retains many of its war-born|den, N. J, wil! begin testing and authority to legislate protection) The telecast will be effective from Indianapolis. The pictures will be even clearer in the 30-mile His ruling was made specifically circle, station officials said. {In the case of Mrs, Luella Rebens-| gustained reception will cover such neighboring’ communities as

Skyline change .

photographer Loyd 8. ‘Walton and artist J. Hugh O'Donnell show how the television tower

But court aids sald other courts Richmond. Columbus, Blooming“undoubt- ts Brazil, Lebanon and Frank:

beginning, ith the American Broadcasting (Central Day-/Co. for network programs (by and is negotiating with ‘run through to the checkered flag NBC and Dumont for network iwaving down the winner. programs. In addition, it will The race will start at 11 a. m., carry news films from the Inter. Central Daylight Time. {national News Bervice, William Expect Rush for Sets F. Kiley, commercial manager, Television engineers sald the said recently. ‘announcement of the 500-Mile tele-

The television

{about 10:15 a. m.

be affected. Mrs. Rebensdorf tried under the old law to oust Mrs. Moffat from one of her apartments. She sald. she wanted to occupy the apartment herself by Apr. 1 and issued the proper notice. But the new law, which became

‘effective Apr. 1, gave the federal cast will bring a rush for televi- {slevision billings such as Arthir

irent director power to draft evic-

Dan Cupid has been working usifig to leave until Mrs. Rebensovertime with his bow and quiver d0Tf secured an approval of evicof arrows, marriage. license rec-|

Marion County ¢ourt records|

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sion sets. Dealers, anticipating Godfrey, the Philco Playhouse,

tion regulations. Mrs, Moffat took {he Speedway event, ire well the Admiral Review, Lucky Pup refuge under these regulations, re- Stocked with receiving sets and (puppets), and Kukla, Fran and skilled crews have been trained Ojlie. another puppet show, for Installation It is estimated that some 1200 af the motor thunder on the sets will be installed between Speedway oval, Indianapolis will now and race day bringing the have the tops of the television total sets in the community near networks, flown in on fis.

1. the 2000 figure. Race day will be * : Puy,”

Initial television rates will be ———— Wise Guys

{$25 for spot announcements on HADDON

tion from the rent control office.

Voice Charges

GLEN RIDGE, N. Apr. 18 (UP)-~Charles A. Barbier tuned up his vocal cords today for his 65th consecutive Easter appear-

itilm and $250 an hour. The pres|ent rate for regular (AM) broad-

| casting is $270 an hour. HEIGHTS,

ance with the choir at N. J., Apr. 168 (UP)-Four Trinity Church in New York | Although a number of tentative hundred youngsters - wera City. {contracts have been made, it is turned loose in Camden

| expected that the station will be {on the air #bout four hours a day, | unless demand for time extends {the schedule.

Mr. Barbier, 74, a retired law book publisher, started singing in Easter services as a nine-year-old boy so-

County Park today for an Easter egg hunt. Five of them came back with live rabbits,

_prano, and, although he re- | The public will be offered fet. “We didn't know there tired long ago as a regular [Work programs from the Colum-| ' o.., ,nv rabbits in the choir member, he has not |bia Broadcasting System of which| 4705 said one puzzled missed an Easter service. WFBM is an affiliate. judge. “They weren't on the

He sings bass. The station also has a contract

program.”

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Initial programs will carry top

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