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Santa's Load Was Much Too Big “Freeze to Hit

Major Part of | W State Tonight

Rains Cease, Halting - Threat of Wabash And White Floods

LOCAL TEMPERATURES Gam .. 46 10am .. 48 Tam .. 48 11 am... 42 8am ,. 46 12 Noon ..41 Dam .. 43 I pom...41

The weatherman forecast freezing temperatures over - most of the state tonight as jrains ceased today, lessening the danger of severe flooding lon the Wabash and White! ‘Rivers. | Here in Indianapolis, the merjcury was expected to plunge to, 30 tonight, but warm to 42-45 tomorrow as southwesterly breezes bring’ ‘increasingly cloudy skies to the city. | Light rains in the past 48 hours brought the east fork of White River to near flood stage at Seymour. The west fork approached the same level at Edwardsport. The upper Wabash, which was|

Five thousand after-Christmas gifts. L. H. Mahan and C. H. . Horning, Railway Express Agency [falling yesterday after going out

officials look them over. of its. banks earlier last week. ! |was near the flood level at Lafa-

; |yette again today 5000 Yule Gifts at Goes on Here? Floods Limited { Pl 4 D | d ! Weath how id marter Planet Declared |, wooo ro i

Jam REA Office Flying Saucers Home Base iu iiriii’a:

Magazine Insists They Are Real | V Signy Soder atr pushing tnto Packages Pile Up { B 9 y |Indiana from the West will lower | ut Air Force Shakes Its Head the mercury to 25-32 in the north |

Despite. | | spite Extra Help NEW YORK, Dec. 27 (UP)—True Magazine said today that and from 32-38 in the southern If you didn’t feel the squirt of “informed authorities” believe that “flying saucers” are inter- portion of the state tonight. gift grapefruit on your cheek planetary vehicles” marined by spacemen from a distant civilization! Rainfall overnight totaled 29

Christmas morning, it is probably more advanced than on earth. inch in downtown Indianapolis, because it is piled up in a moun- Concluding without reservation .that “flying saucers are real” but .43 inch was recorded at Weir tain of yet-to-be-delivered pack- True said it learned that “a rocket authority stationed at Wright Cook Airport. ages at the Railway Express Field, O., Ras told . . . (Air — ~{ Throughout the state rains

Agency. Force) personnel flatly that the {were less than an inch with Ed- . About 5000 packages, nearly all saucers are interplanetary and Times Sto Net |wardsport reporting the heaviest Christmas gifts, /were caught in that no other conclusion is pos- jrab. 90 inch.

the log jam, in spite of extra gible.’ In a broad outline of Indiana

help at the Railway Express (Wright Field officials, however, urs prospects, the Weather of the new year, but “doubtful” Agency over the long week-end. (did not support this view. “The Lveni Ifts |Burean said temperatures would for the last half. Jt said business The REA piled up its payroll| Air Force Material Command has _|average four to eight degrees will go into a slump after June, with 85 extra workers but stilllbeen working very closely with {above normal for the next five jn all probability, unless wages the gifts rolled in, mostly citrus Intelligence on the whole matter 52 ; Children at |days. Experts said daytime tem- are increased and prices lowered. fruit from Florida. of flying saucers,” a field spokes- —- 4 {peratures would be near normal, The bulletin quoted mo AFL Orders Were Heavy Iman said. { Center Benefited 7 (but during the night, they were spokesman, but labor sources! ‘It seems that the Florida aship-. “We probably have the most. Marion County Juvenile Cen: ‘expected to range pan ABOVE said that it unquestionably repre: pers started early enough but ‘complete file on the saucers ahy ters 52 children received 403:prmal. sented the top lével thinking.

they couldn't get it out of the Where, but there is nothing new Christmas gifts plus a crate of] "Cooler Thursday , f fields fn time. The orders weresOF startling © Judicaie that he oranges and a bushel of apples, . saucers i) heavy due to the freeze which had ap Sy are interplanetary .visi-/following a story by Mrs. Man- range. from 19-40 north and from| hit the Texas crop. {ners in The Times last Tuesday. 27.50 degrees in the souther ) Finally the citrus fruit began| 8 Month Investigation [Gifts were distributed during ti ¢ gy es in the soy RB por to arrive four or five cars at a Basing its conclusions on an holiday festivities. at the Center. on .o e state. time. too much of a load for the eight-month irivestigation by Ddn-'A’ turkey dinner was served Stghtly cooler weather Friday| package hustlers who had no wayjald E. Keyhoe, & former Navy Christmas Day and a party held vy 5 followed hy warmer again of knowing how many grapefruit flier and former official of the Christmas Eve. aturday and Sunday, forecasters

The mercury was excepted to

and oranges Hoosiers had ordered Department of Commerce Aero-| A group of girls gave a box o said. from Florida. {nautics Branch, True said it has gifts to each girl and boy. Each Precipitation is. expected to Then there was the 40-hour come to the “considered con-|girl was given costume jewelry Tange from one-half inch in week which went into effect Sept. viction” that: ® |and cosmetics. In the boys’ boxes|Rorthern: Indiana to one inch In| 1. Before that REA worked] ONE: “Flying saucers are were combs, sox, hair oil, chew-|the , south ' during “the period.| Saturdays. So ‘when the 40-hour real.” {ing gum, etc. | Weathermen said frequent pe-| week —went=-in,— Saturday — was TWO: The planet —earth-has Variety of Gis... riods of rain or snow north ana... lopped off the schedule, except for been under systematic close-range| Gifts also included 40 automatic "ain south beginning late tomor

perishables, fish and oysters and examination’ by “living, intelli- pencils, 40 automatic pens, $1 in OW Or early Thursday would turn the like for hotels and restau- gent -observers from another & red stocking for each child, {0 Snowflurries throughout the rants. } planet” during the last 175 years. Handkerchiefs and stationery for State Friday. Rain or snow was With the three-day Christmas| THREE: That visits to the ®Ch child, 25 games and 30 books. expected again Sunday. week-end accumulation the pack- aarth's atmosphere by these inter- : Used Jour. -round are books for — age mountain piled up. But Earl igi “ha : boys and girls from 11 to 17 years Mana mpirinrendint at he Dancin ere Mave nreased I Sle onvoer: nes S@leCt 50 Names

Indiana Division of REA, said and small pieces of material used rs “We'll have it all on the way to- "Fou JR: That the vehicles used PY the girls, and presents for the For Jury Duty

morrow.’ for the observation have been birthday cupboard where gifts are. Jury Commissioners R o & s SE “identified and, categorized” omin-Tin the year for Moore and Mrs. Robert Loomis S, oday announced selection of BO Windsors Reach U. S. [three distinct types. . | The gifts may be taken to the names of persons to be cailed for For Lengthy Visit Discernable Pattern Center, 2401 N. Keystone Ave, or examination for service in the Co ~ { But True pointed out that Juvenile Court, 148 E. Market St. January term of the Marion! NEW YORK, Dec. 27 (UP)-- observation of the flying disks —————— County grand jury. The Duke and Duchess of Wind- indicates that the “discernible pat- Times Index . From this list, the commissor began a long visit today to tern of observation and explora- ~~ |sioners said. six persons will’ be the United States and Canada. |Ho7 ‘shown varies “in no im- Amusements. 4 Movies renee d selected Jan. 3 to serve on the After a month or so in New POrtant particular from well-de- Bridge ...... 8 Novel .......20 county's investigative body. The York City, the Duke and Duchess veloped American plans for the Canasta .... 9 Othman ree+1l selection will be made Jn, the ay ther plan to go to their exploration of space expected to Comics ..... 19 Radio ...... general term of Criminal Court 4000-acre ranch in Alberta, COMe to fruition within the next Crossword 13 Ruark ......11 presided over by Judges Saul I. Canada, for the rest of the three >0,Y®ars. Editorials ...12 Society ..... ‘5 abd and William D. Bain. or four month visit. It is their ‘The article asserted that U. 8 For. Affairs 12 Sports - +o 14-15 One of the prospective members first visit to thé U. 8 in. 18 Air Force investigatiors are en- Forum ...... 12 Teen Prob. .. 8 of the grand jury is Mrs. Marie months. They arrived vesterday gaged in a “Project Saucer” and Hollywood .. 4 Weather Map 13 E. Wemmer, 5260 N. Meridian aboard the ‘Liner Queen Eliza- 2™ ‘receiving and evaluating Inside Indpis. 11 Karl Wilson. 10 Bt, widow of the late Willlam H beth. sighting reports at the rate of 12 Dr. Jordan .. 9 Women's .... » Wemmer. one-time Republican

a month.” Mrs. Manners 5 Your Job ... 5 mayorality _candidate,

Gets 60 Blood Pledges ‘All the World Loves a Lover —

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32-year-old mother of three chil-

dren, whose doctor says her life t i | The knowing winks: Made at depends on blood transfusions; to-!" = °° Ri a’ $ Marri age Holds. the Spotlight dinners by presidents and poliday said she had received “the But the Veep Makes Hit as a Swain © |ticians,

best Christmas present anyone « * » - . : db, yo opt Lege ‘ } Sample: “The Squire of Pacould hope for’—the services of By H. D. QUIGG, United Press Staff Correspondent ! ducah and the new Spirit of St

60 blood donors. NEW YORK, Dec. 27-—Oh lift a wine to '49, the year Louis.”

Mrs. Margaret Breen, of nearby| of great romances—of hearts, flowers, troths, bowers and | The full flower: A seven-minute Deerfield, is the victim of a rare . ’ ceremony in St. John's Methodist blood disease (applastic anemin), couples in romantic stances. Church in St. Louis Both an

. * . according to her doctor. She has The front page loves made twittering doves of papers 'swered “I will.” received monthly transfusions since 1947, but her doctor plans from Butte tothe Hub. ‘So without ado——from us to you | Outside the church: “That's not

’ "I" : n » to increase them to one a week. ——here's what thie year trothed bub. (This rhyme is copy- | a Gear, that's the Amer1600 Ti St le | righted, reprinting is expressly forbidden in ‘excess of | The Barkieyism - of the - vear imes olen 500 words.) CL Ral &- (when asked by a reporter’ v i * 1The Ritaly, a cocktail (vermouth

More than 1600 Indianapolis sw» 0» } Sunday Times were stolen (rom RITA HAYWORTH, 30, a star 12 different street corners Christ- and Prince Aly Khan, 37, a cres mas morning. The papers had cent (diamond studded). been left in—bundles—for route, The spark: Ignited last year on carriers. Police. today were look- the French Riviera.

whether it wouldn't be cold in Shangri-la, where they were going to honeymoon): “We'll

and chartreuse) The bald hint: Aly brought back a baby carriage from Lon don. # The issue: In Lausanne, Switz 4 8 uN ° eériand, on Christmas Exe Rita's BILL O'DWYER, 59, mayor of jdoctor said her baby ‘would ‘be New Yqrk, and Elizabeth Sloan born late, in January or early in/8tmpson, 33, an ex'model. February,

a ———— p— {Spain the United States, Mexico, FOG HALTS N. Y. FL IGHTS |Cuba, Ireland, England, SwitzerNEW YORK, Dec. 27 (UP)—| land, and France.

flights in and out of LaGuardia/ Communist mayor (Aly is heir to 38 a Mrs. Veep. fterward. Airport today. Domestic airlines one of the world's great for-| The budding: In Washington in| The campaign: East Side, West, canceled led 04 fights in six hours. tunes). Both said “Oui, oul.” | June. Side, all around the town;

- | The union (Moslem rite): Next| The bloomhin In 8t. Louis tluding visits to the Worl TEXAS ¥ EDUCATOR DIES day In Cannes, by two Immans where the ming: dropped in at theater premiers, and the fer FT. WORTH, Tex., Dec. 27 (UP) | (priests) from a Paris mosque. every opportunity and they went politan Opera «= Dr. E.'M. Waits, president We'd likeMo tell you what was to such cultural uplifts as The election: Dee 16 City Hal! emeritus of Téxas Christian Uni- said here, too, but we're all out Cardinal baseball games, versity, died at his home last of Arabic script. The péople: “Never had 80 Dec. 20 at St Joseph's ‘Roman

night of a heart ailment, | Wedding reception by-product: many pulling ig me. before.” (Catholic Church, Stuart, Fla, |hats of dignitaries,

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FORECAST: Partly cloudy, colder Tonight. Increasingly cloudy tomorr ow. Low tonight, 30; high tomorrow, 42-45. « T

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AFL to Seek First Ice-O-Rama Trials. Errors < Found

New Round Of Pay Hikes

Will. Demand Rises Averaging 10 Cents An Hour in 1950 WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (UP)—The AFL said today it will- demand another round of “substantial” wage increases in 1950. “In a bulletin to all affiliated unions, the federation hinted that

it will. be unwilling to settle for, anything less thar an average] boost of more than 10 cents an!

hour, ~ It told its member unions that ag a niatter of fact, management, could afford pay raises of from 7

to 15 cents an hour without al.

price Increase if it would trim its) production costs.

The bulletin, however, included, these generally pessimistic eco-| J

‘nomic predictions:

ONE: Unemployment in 1950 will reach the 5.1 million mark, about 1 million above the 1949 high, mainly because of the influx of new workers, Trade Outlook Bright TWO: The business outlook Is “bright” for the first six months

The federation warned the United States faces “another {business readjustment” next year. {But there Is a “strong and |healthy"” economy in this nation, it said, and a depression can be avoided if all segments co-operate; in a constructive program. | Other Points Cited The AFL bulletin said that the organization's program would follow these general lines: {

ONE-~Wage increases without]

iprice increases. today at the Fairgrounds Coliseum. i effect many Scansties Sich TWO-—A gradual price decline. ryouts were held for children through 6 years of age. To- now go unrecognized if Mr, THREE--Continuea spending WOITOW's. tryouts. and tegistrations at 8 a. m. at the Coliseum will| Hamilton's exhibit is stricken

by business to improve equipment, which would "be an aid to high employment and increased pro-

jductivity.

FOUR A general reduction in many of the taxes paid by consumers.”

Report ‘Quirino

Plans to Marry MANILA, P. 1, Dec. 27 (UP) President Elpidio Quirino’'s name was linked romantically today with that of Conchita Gaston, a

| Filipino opera singer now in New

York City. The local press speculated that Mr. Quirino, the Philippines’ most eligible bachelor, planned to marry during his visit to the United States early in January for medical treatment. Mr. Quirino, who recently was elected president to succeed himself, now Is spending a holiday at Baguio. * Miss Gaston recently made her debut at. the New York City C enter in the role of C ‘armen

Saar nom. '49 Lends Zip To Life With Its Trail Of Glamour Romances

The oath of office: An eightminute ceremony while a rainbow stood up in the sky above. Both whispered “I will.’ Starts term. Aboard a honey‘moon yacht along the Florida Coast. The rewrile men: Called it the mating of the boy from the south of Ireland and the Belle from the south of Texas, » . »

—X . CLARK GABLE, 483 a he-man and Sylvia Stanley of Alderley, A she-lady. (Married Dec. 20)

Courtship: Spontaneous combustion ‘ Proposal: 8ee above Elopement. Likewise Global “significance: An atom bomb to world womanhood ~ » . TYRONE POWER, 36, a movie actor, and Linda Christian, a

a. The nomination: They met a movie actress. ,. Fog and rain forced delays or| The union (French law): May! ALBEN W. BARKLEY. the Year ago at a fashion show. Shes outright cancellations of air 27 in, Vallauris, France, by a Veep, and Jane Rucker Hadley, larended a party at his home year.

The meeting: In Rome last

The payoff: In Rome this year. The ceremony: On Jan. 27 in

An-|the 10th Century Santa Francesca Romana Church in Rome, {under floodlights.

The bride: 22 minutes late. The riotérs:. Roman bébby-

announced they would be married 'soxers. ‘vho rushed the church

Knocked off in the rush: Silk |

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Charles Haine, 7, of 1512 Ruth Piva. and a a of 3530 Balsam Ave, ut instructions fr Lebn as tryouts for the annual Times len O-Rama omenae

Production of Times Big Charity Event Launche

Schedule of Age Group Tests Announced

For Annual Event to Be Given Feb. 23 = + Mr. Steckler said Mr. Hamilton ned, pre, Te oe fc?

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Production of the annual Times Ice-O-Rama got under way| years. He said conversion to dial

be held for children 7 through 10, plus those up to and including from 6 who did not report today. On Other tryouts and rehearsals —— at 8 a. m. this week wi be as

follows: Thursday, years New Year’ $ ~ {under consideration the a

through all grade ih) ages

Friday, high school students. Try- Resolution mony presented by Mr.

outs for adults and those wanting] : to do pair numbers and solos will| ® Why not make the most im- |tomorrow.

be held next Monday at a time to| Portant New Year's resolution Although ruling out one publie éommission admitted

be announced this week in The of your entire life TODAY! {. pit the

Times. . . and then do something evidence the public's , The Times Ice-O-Hma again about it, TODAY! The reso- pied this oy One ot will be presented by amateur lution to become a HOME | oo" vii was stricken I

skaters of all ages. All skaters OWNER -in 1050! are Invited to take part, imclud- @If you tan make a reason-

Be alt show Will sble JOWH Jaynent 44 are Capehar, Halleck ‘On AFL Blacklist ,

WASHINGTON, Dee. 27 ( time since the war, : |~~Two Hoosier Republicans, ® Turn ~ow to the classified 'Homer E. Capehart and Rep. pages. You'll find HUN- Charles . Halleck, were included today in the AFL political league's

Francis Cardinal Spellman, arch: DREDS OF HOMES FOR bishop of New York, will address SALE today ... and EVERY

the Overseas Press Club dinner DAY ... in The Times. The lst df 107 “enemies” in Congress, tonight. commemorating the first’ Times is NOW the newspaper The league said 26 Senators anniversary of the arrest of with the REA]. ESTATE |and 81 Representatives, mostly Hungary's Cardinal Mindszenty ADS Republicans, had voted “against

{business and farmers “Through= |out” the last session of Congress, | Mr. Halleck is the dean of all Hoosier Congressmen and as rep(resentative from Indiana's 2d | District served as majority leader |in the Republican-dominated 80th

SONJA HENIE, reported vari- British throne, great-great grandously in the papers as 36 and 33, son of Queen Victoria, and greata skater, and Winthrop Gardiner, great-great-great grandson of reported variously in the papers King George III; land Mrs. Ro- b

Congress.

Married: 4 P. M. Sept. 15 at

26. These. Simpsoh women cer gereat in 1950, second only to ark rend Methodist Church, tainly do get’ around, don’t they. gen Robert A. Taft of aay Her qualification: Winner of ane meeting: In London ‘in Ha ot Vie ganator= th Oly y i oy ja A gp Ro lhe “6° The proposal: In Cannes In on the AFL's blacklist. The other - His qualifications: Test pilot oy engagement: Announced » Senators ware Republicans. for the Navy during World War in Lond sage og I n London Sept. 2

The rumor: Spread last spring hacheior. oe Fm

in a Rossellini picture. former mate of dime-store heiress, The fact: They made a picture garbara Hutton, and Betsy

there is a hot volcano. seeking movie fame.

The annouricement (Aug. 5): The nibble: Aboard ocean liner C0: 136 E. Washington St.—East She will divorce her husband, pr.| returning from Europe two years| and South ringside and reserved, Peter Lindstrom, Los Angeles ago, { Em-Roe Sporting Goods Co, surgeon, and retire from motion’ ‘The bait: Status as his third 209 W. Washington St.—Balcony

pictures } wife. Peseryal » op NP ; The gossip: The waves in the The bite: P sed | i portsman’s Store, . Penne Bay of Biscay sometimes attain in Hollywood. Toposed last Apri sylvania St.-<North and West _ w height of 45 feet, three inches. The play: Till she got her name TNgside and reserved. When the wind is right. in lights without his help. {| The amateur boxing tourney = lh | The net: An Arizona elope- !will be held Friday nights, Jan. 6, DAVID “Michael Mountbatten, ment on Christmas Day. 13, 20, and 27 and Feb. 3. Ticket

30, Marquis of Milford Haven, The prize: Hers, too—a stars’ prices are: Ringside and first row Lon don-laundryman, betwéen ring role opposite Grant in * Wary, balcony, $2; Married.” “41.50. Prices

30th and 40th In line for the Girl Should Be

mistakes.” Fl told the sparsely flied hears 3 ber that “mistakes of

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8en. Capehart has been rated

i 28 y union political represe Vi as 40 and 36, an executive, maine Dahlgren Pierce Simpson, as Wik folitica) rep A

The blessing: Given by King Gloves Tickets Go INGRID BERGMAN, 32, an George VI actress. and Rqberto Raogsellint, The . disqualification: Milford On Sale. Tomorrow

43, an Italian film director. faven as London's most eligible: 1 its for all nights of The | Times Legion Golden Gloves Box when she arrived in Italy to star {ing Tournament will go on sale CARY GRANT, 45. actor and "00 stores tomorrow. Hers are the lo¢ations and the tickets on the island. of Stromboli, where, |Drake, 26, former social deb)’ available at-those stores: —Bush-Caltiahan

In Estimates 0f Revenue

Cannon Voices Amazement at - ir Experts ‘Mistakes’ Indiana Bell Telephone Co, today scored the first major gain in its fight to get a $3.8 million phone rate increase, The initial advance came as \Indiana’s Public Service Conte mission ruled out one of the public's 30 exhibits over the pros test of Public Counsellor Wile liam Steckler. Commissioner Lawrence Cane

non attacked the anticipated reve enue ‘exhibit of Allen K. Hamils

expert, as “full of

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