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FORECAST: Partly cloudy today and tonight. Low 28, High 50.

61st YEAR—NUMBER 336

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Indianapolis spring—others say it it is simply more and more

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Looks at a Milestone

J. C. Penney Here To Spend Week-end

+ By Harold Hartley Times Business Editor * 3 Nob: / knew: just who 'hé was. If they had, th- _. would have

. ich unfold, eyes ing places with ‘one who passes

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erve as pockets. been a crowd ve, t : re : ve, they can be J stood on the Circle with sted. in ~d people, busy about their own ied 3 having h affairs, brushed by. i quite a display { Ani I watched him as clear, . | } yish eyes swept up the concrete % ' (50 Years with the Golden K y McKimson |) Page 28) ~ : wal which was to bear his name. N'T GET § ou know now. It was J. E IYGRADE : Penney, with ru.ay face, and if milk-white hair and “mustache. 1 And he had just a trace of a cold. 4 | . $6 Million Milestone

He was looking at a $6 million milestone which was, in a way, also- a monument to the swift, fruitful years through which he h-d run, ir one lifetime, a $2.50 pig into close to a billion-a-year busin--s. His stores are important, fo there are well over 1600. Bu far overshadowing the bolts ofl yard goods, the ready-made cloth ing, the steady, vigorous crescendo of the cash registers are Mr. Penney and his people. He's everywhere, in the strict honesty of the price” tag, the

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5 GROUP OF NE'S TRAIL « REVER Clerks whom he always calls selves, ~ associates.” And a lot are part- man who made principle pay. ners. They own stock. and will appear with Glenn Mc- man. style.” Hugh, vice president of the Equit-| He was takin able Life Assurance Society, what he calls his “Queen Store, which built the building, at sev- pecause it is at the hub.

the Indianapolis Sales Executive diana alone. Council tomorrow night in the! Athletic Club. Ifunctional design and And he's here to launch, today comfort, will open Feb. 22, in The Times, the serial publica-|

Ing book, “Fifty Years With the ing. It's roto-color.

Golden Rule,” Flowing gently, and with

Inside The Times

A 22-year-old former IU coed has built a family tra-

Pairings announced for annual 72-team city-county

ruth About Spring?

Is this the sign of spring? Chuckholes appear at Senate Ave. and Maryland St. Some say it is

A Merchant Prince

J. C. Penney . . . a man and a monument.

manners of the managers and theling about the little words themis the great spirit of the;

; He wears a bow tie, but laughs He's in town for a week-end ang says he “doesn't tie it Tru-

g a last look atiquota controls.

i in the Eric A. Jo eral meetings, including that of center, of about 50 more in In- labor's d

| And he and his associates were 48 his special assistant. tion ef his latest and most inspir-excited about the window light-

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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1951

Entered as 8Second-Class

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PRICE TEN CENTS

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Indianapolis. Indiana, 1s

State Taxpayers Foot Bill— ;

20 ‘Press Agents’ Get $72,000 Yearly Total

Salaries Range From $900 to $6300; Their Titles Are as Varied as Their Pay

By IRVING LEIBOWITZ The taxpayers may not know it, but there are at least 20 “press agents” on the state payroll. This costs Hoosier taxpayers more than $72,000 a year.

ally, is to tell the public what their particular departments are doing. More often, however, they are used to keep

things secret or to spread Tr oO bas Sun to Put a0 the salaries they are paid. Some

“Their titles are as varied as are called public information « Heat on Winter |

rectors, .others simply news- | writers. The pay scales ranges from a part-time $900-a-year job| | with the Indiana Economic Coun-| Balmy Temperatures ! cil to an annual salary of $6300-| | a-year for the director of the De-| Due Here Today partment ef Commerce and Pub-; By CLIFFORD THURMAN | lic Relations. | A very tired and sad old man Hoosier taxpayers also pay for | cathered his frozen toga around secretaries, typists, stenographers 5 left and clerks assigned to assist the bony knees last night and left | . press agents. In addition there are Indianapolis. | | Aim to Offset the Humerus Publisations pub-| It was Old Man Winter himself] se : lished by the state. who clicked his uppers and said] Living Cost Hikes The top magazines are put out goodby to i | | WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (UP) by the State Police, the Public | It'll be 50 degrees above. zero {—The decision of Cyrus 8S. Ching Welfare Department, the Depart- ji Indianapolis and central In-| to resign as head of the Wage StX- ment. of Health and the Conser- diana today—much too warm for! bilization Board indicated today vation Department. {the old guy with the frozen beard that ‘the board soon will be ready Titles ‘Camouflaged’ {who moved in last week-end and .to announce an overall formula| Because some departments cam- stayed for a spell. ° regulating pay increases. louflage the titles of their press| Official forecasters said the | Wages were frozen Jan. 25 agents as “department heads” or mercury was to hover around a {along with prices. A partial thaw “analysts,” it is difficult to un- low of 30 degrees early today. {began a week later when the cover all of them from the offi- Then, according to all the trick {United Mine Workers were per- cial budget requests. instruments in government mitted to get a $1.60-a-day hike. The highway department has Weather Bureaus, temperatures negotiated before the freeze but{two press agents, but informed will start climbing with the sun. effective Feb. 1. The Times yesterday that the More Like It Since the first thaw, the board staff will soon be reduced to ane.) Unless. - somthin ¢ (has been working on a formula) One department—Conservation (©. 0 = gee. 8 un Drogesn to allow other workers to catch|— has three professional préss .." ” . dpwhHgh up with the cost of living and to'agents and four assistants. The [moons We aureus Oly after (provide a cornerstone for pay salaries of this staff cost Hoosiers = aa Ay Siuetvers would {control policy. '$26,000 a year. This does not in-|O¢ Classify It as a heat wave, but Mr, Ching left the Federal Medi- clude expenditures for photoation ; Servies reluctantly to head graphic supplies, publication ex-| cently. {the Wage Stabilization Board. |penses and a hundred or more . At the time of his acceptance sundry items. Te What's more, there'll be no preof the wage board job it was un- The Employment Security Di- pF 4508 if official forecasters ‘derstood he would return to the vision of the state reported it had| ave anything to do with it. The /mediation service as soon as the six on the public relations staff lce-snow crust covering Indiana {new agency began operating on a but refused to disclose the total | Will dwindle and disappear. ‘solid footing. Hence the prediction|salary cost of operation. One staff| Highways may be mushy. of a soon-to-be-announced pay in-| member 5 the workers were | Motoring, weather wiseacres say, [crease policy. paid in fedehal funds and it was | Vill be safe , if you keep left-side | Mr. Ching’s successor as chair-'no concern bf Hoosier taxpayers. Windows up to keep flying slush | man of the Wage Board is expect-| Mayrice Hunt, director of state Out of the car. ed to be either W. Willard Wirtz, | welfare, said his department had| And. too, take your topcoat now the board's active executive 5 public relations staff, but only ‘along on this afternoon’s drive— |director, or David L. Cole, Pater- ear it may get down to a cold 35 ison, N. J., arbitrator. | (Continued on Page $3—Col. 5) again tonight. | . Preliminarly to a wage formu-'____ = - was the meat control order igConve

Sued Friday by Price Controller circumvent a black market in “ A Hedge Against War Irritations

meat by placing slaughtering of ‘livestock undér rigid licensing and 3 BEDROOM white frame Co-

of the same.

Ul. 8. Drafts Rules On Pay Increase

nient Home Red Capped Bandit Sought in Holdup

A red-capped bandit, accom{panied by a ‘“frizzle - haired {blonde,” was sought today as the {Indianapolis “liquor store bandit” {who robbed three establishments

"| Meantime, Economic Stabilizer hnston acted to appease] emand for more repre-|

sentation in the over-all defense| lois on nice lot i-car sarage. (Friday night and another last The store, a masterpiece in emergency. He appointed George Call 2 HOLLAND HU-3753 {night. shopper M. Harrison, president of the = F.oderick B. Cline, Realtors Police said the chalky-com-

Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, Fr-3174 | Plexioned man held up the Spot

| 1313 Circle Tower Bldg.

my ®If you are among the } i wise and thoughtful Six Convicts Escape home - makers who are Florida Prison Camp | BARTOW, Fla., Feb. 10 (UP)! —S8ix young convicts sawed their way through the bars of the state |prison road camp here this after{noon and fled into nearby woods. | Five of the white escapees,

clerk “never mind the change, seeking better homes [just give me the green.” NOW as a hedge of con- | Charles Sharbraugh, 29, was venience and security the clerk. The store is owned hy against the coming trials Joseph Tague, 3148 N. Harding of war preparedness, St. then naturally you want to choose your home from the largest number of offerings. ® Above is just one of the

2 Receive Treatment For Dog Bite Here

A 9-year-old boy was bitten on

years to life, were still the object lof a state-wide manhunt at mid-

independent basketball tournament .......... Page 15 night tonight. SO MANY HUNDREDS "p04 po a dog in front of Henry Butler previews next week's events in local ey ur | of homes or tae > 11109 E. Washington St. yesterday. live entertainment ........... cc inna Page 18 Cigaret Smoker Falls (ays idl a WIDE VA- The boys Dheomas Lahey, as : ' : : reate s father, arles, in Disc-jockey and TV star Dane Garraway writes a Asleep, Suffers Burns | RIETY! his home at 951 E. Georgia St. ‘Record Review’ guest column ............ ..Page 19| , Thomas Kent, 30, of 134 8. = @Turn to The Times Real John Molett, 25, of 959 Center ee . a hast “ "Y|Arsenal Ave., received first and! Estate Section NOW gt was treated at General HospiFifty Years With the Golden Rule, story of the |second-degree burns last. night (Section 4) and choose tal for a dog-bite on his left leg. i IVE BEEN ) successful career of J. C. Penney . . . the third when he fell asleep while smoking, several. for immediate He was bitten yesterday in front

inspiring article entitled ‘Faith Can Master Fear . . . the decision to put off drafting 18-year-olds is loaded with political dynamite, ac-

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June in February . .. a step by step story of how weddings are planned with the aid of bridal bureaus ' Bridal fashions, Katy Atkins, wedding, home-mak-ing, recipe contest winners, society and women's news : Builders here hit ‘cracker box’ housing, want defense homes built to last . . . real estate news

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cording to Robert Ruark ............ sriedny Page 23 . : An underground Pentagon is now being built in ° King Farouk Announces His | Iran Gets Ready to Celebrate mountains near Maryland-Pennsylvania border Engagement to Teen-Age Beauty Wedding of Shah Tomorrow i vo Our Fair City .oconvecnninninineinn, ... Page 25 LONDON, Feb. 10 (UP)—The engagement of King Farouk of TEHRAN, Iran, Feb. 10 (UP

Egypt to 17-year-old almond-eyed Narriman Sadek, daughter of a civil servant, was announced at long last tonight on the eve of the portly monarch's 31st birthday. The announcement which climaxed a courtship swathed in mystery and censorship for more than a year was made at midnight: |Cajro time by the Egyptian royal — cabinet.

year-old auburn-haired Soraya leader. The ancient capital of the Bi

Photo, to, Page 2 Khan and his beautiful Begum flew in from Pakistan with a party to attend the ceremony. They brought several valuable gifts.

would produce the long-awaited male heir. +No date was set for Farouk's marriage, but it was expected. to {occur shortly, probably in Cairo's {Abdin Palace. Narriman has spent the last ear -— since the death of her have occurred in the land of Father in Europe. {the wedding will take place. leopatra. Me) Honeymoon on Yacht | Gifts for the handdome, 31Saw Her Shopping | The couple probably will spend year-old Shah and his second emAccording to the popularly ac- their honeymoon aboard Farouk’s press—-he was divorced in 1948 cepted version, Farouk first spot- yacht in the Mediterranean. {from Princess Fawzia of Egypt— Zaki- Hashem, 28, buried him- continued to pour in. : self in his work at United Nations| Premier Josef Stalin of Russia headquarters until recently, when was reported to have sent a he returned to Cairo to go to work matchless. mink, coat valued at for the government. 1$150.000 for the bride and a desk His colleagues in New York said set studded with black diamonds palace he will soon move to the Arab for Mohammed Reza’ Pahlevi. The significance of the opulent

|officially approved pictures of the {lovely brunette, with a streak of {blonde in her hair, who will ascend to the throne of the haraohs. The romance of Farouk and the teen-age beauty could only

pleted their plans to handle the throngs of thousands expected to crowd around. the magnificent marble Gulistan Palace where

ted Narriman in a Cairo jewelry establishment, shopping for an engagement ring with another man, a rising young United Nationg diplomat, Zaki Hashem. Farouk promptly summoned Narriman to the royal where he looked her over and League as an economic expert. |

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tered on flags from homes and public buildings today in celebration of the wedding Monday of the Shan-An-Shah—King of Kings— to 18-

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Auto License |Allied Patrols Prowl For Reds Among Ruins;

Bureau Probe Read to Roll Held Firm Grip on Han.

Reply Tomorrow Chinese Threat Spotted to the East T Ch f M By PHIL NEWSOM, United Press Staff Correspondent -, ° arges o ass TOKYO, Sunday, Feb. 11—United Nations patrols ad Errors in Records vanced through Seoul today as Allied big guns firing into By JOHN V. WILSON the city duelled at point-plank range with Communist An investigation of “ineffi-

howitzers and mortars. ciency and irregularities” in Fires touched off by the

Rush Order Put On Age 18 Draft

Democrats to Push

Bill in Senate

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (UP) —Senate Democratic leaders placed a “rush” label today on the administration’s bill to draft 18-year-olds. Lo Chairman Richard B. Russell, (D, Ga.), scheduled a meeting of the Senate Armed Services Com-

artillery blazed through the night in the battered capital city that bore little trace of the glory it once held as Korea's most modern metropolis. Huge holes gaped in the uni versity walls, all the city’s bridges were gone and many of its newest buildings reduced to shells. Patrols probed into Seoul after United Nations troops recaptured the nearby port of Inchon and

{Kimpo airfield— 's Diggett

‘and one of the best in East. at ! City Worthless

United Nations troo ing Americans,” BA Pu) Ricans, Turks, Greeks and South Koreans, held a firm 25-mile strip

Auto License Bureau will be launched tomorrow by In-

Secretary of State Leland Smith and Bureau Director Clyde Black will be called before the

Senate investigating committee to reply to charges of mass errors in the bureau's records. : Committee Chairman Von Eichhorn, Uniondale Democrat, said his group would make a thorough study of the bureau's operation and report back to the Senate before the legislature session ends in March. : Irregularities in the license il bureau's records were disclosed mittee Tuesday to consider thelalong the Han River from n in The Times in December, Mass measure. Approval seems as- west of the wrecked capital errors in the ‘filing of Sfivers’ 1j-j sured. Ei Ghee : EK toa p :

censes were reported. 5 -Demgustic faders said he vii | may. e first major legislation] 1M Report Studied , brought td the Senate floor this Korean peninsula around Chips A 1949 Remington-Rand report vagy = But they refused to specu- yong and Hoengsong on an east on the condition of the bureau's jaie on its fate.in view of expected! west line with Seoul did the 4 recording system also will get top| strong opposition. munists ‘ cont} heavy Sai consideration, Sen. Eichorn said.| mpe measure, written by the ance. : ; Hie fhe allied

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tee, is 4 obi : an J the state to put the records in| original . Ssmptomise ee progeeag gourd Beoul the | working condition. But both were! quest. That was for unHmited to seize the city rejected. | authorit R-vear-blds. hat | Under one proposal, the com-| 27 hoFty to deans. ow ring but * Co

‘pany asked $135,000 to provide its 5 gix.vear term in co tollowed | a own employees to do the work.| ot to @ ko ‘The second requested $35,000 to! Ahets Ty ; (a bill which

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{present employees to get their 24 months. : ri house in nl g | The sole dissenting member of

Hits ‘Buck Passing’ {the subcommittee was Sen. Wayne | Sen. Eichorn said his group Morse, (R. Ore.). He urged that|V (hoped to stop the “buck passing” the minimum draft age be set| 'and accusations of various polit-|at 18 years and six months; that lical administrations agains t|the term of service be 21 months, 'each other in the operation of the 2nd that the program be tied into ‘bureau. | America's educational system. | Other members of the com- The subcommittee bill would mittee are Sens. Richard Ellis, 8rant the draftee a choice beKokomo, and Ed Whitcomb, Hay- tween serving 26 months and one

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den, Republicans, and Greyble Week with leave time or serving New Threat Appears (McFarland, Indianapolis Demo- 24 months without time off. There were indica the {erat \ | rene cide Chinese screening force be : | low the Han River had hee = = ‘Holdup Leads drawn back entirely as the Amerk Tie-Br eak er can and British task forces lash

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out as much as 25 miles in Five youths are held by Juve- 9ay. ; A new Chinese threat appeared to the east, however, and there were reports the Chinese may be The youths, four of whom are preparing a big offensive into the and the other 11, admitted to heart of the Allied lines in Cen=police they took about $13 from tral Korea. A force of 5000 to cash prizes totaling $1000. George Milton, 2702 Baltimore 200) Chin REe TS nfo ne | omach of the persons uo Sag) Young Milton identified one of, In the air, Communist MIG-15 awards Tecelve nis assailants. They said they jet planes made three attacks ws: took the money to play pinball late Saturday on 5th Air Force Le enn ls ver oe oes roo a ars pt. te hi waa A off. |joined and no planes were shot Jrom those in the original con-| pgjice immediately hit three umes on a U. 8. B-29s

ing a strongarm robbery of a 13- | year-old boy last night.

The keen competition in The! 14 Times Match the Twins Contest has resulted in ties for the 53

i places, confiscated four pinball pjasted bridges in the When the tle-breakers entries n,cnines and arrested three per- area. ge Pyongyang i sons on charges of operating a {their decision within a few days! { | , . . probably in time to announce _|Nations task force led by -the the winners in The Sunday Times! Arrested were William West pqaitieship Missouri stood off In- ] | Dorothy Gold, 35, of 1411 E. 10th ys tye fight should Communist 'St., and Paul William, 15, of 1823 regictance appear. : How fo Be 106 {in Municipal Court 4 tomorrow! . y LONDON, Feb. 10 (UP) morning. (Continued on Page 3—Col. 5) lieved to be London's oldest woman, celebrated her dancing “The Lambeth S h | ¥ St ¥ T WW Walk” and enjoying a shot Cc 0 0 ar omorro

are received, the' judges will make . le" juag i : On the sea a mighty United igaming device. |Feb. 25 \more, 36, of 1309 E. 15th St; chon ready to lend its big guns |College Ave. They are to appear, a: \least one South Korean -~Mrs. A P ish, be- 7% oF dominios The Times "Magic Meal® 106th birthday today by of whisky.

Homemakers to Get $5000 in Gifts

The 1951 Times “Magic Meals" Cooking School begins tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. in the Murat: Theater. Admission is free. More than $5000 worth of merchandise gifts will be given to homemakers attending the sessions tomorrow, Tuesday and Wednesday. The top prize at each of the four schools is a Philco electric range that ‘“broils under glass.” SY “Budget. favorites” will be featured at the first session, according to Mrs. Marie Daugherty, na-

)—The Golden Lion of Iran flut-

Isfandiari, daughter of a tribal

blical land of the Medes and Per-

Iranians who know their oilrich country is of strategic importance to both East and West. tionally known home economist, . President Truman, who enter- who will be in charge of all the tained the Shah in 1949, sent a gemonstrations. Steuben ~bowl—"The Bowl of = Nutrition, the care and storage . Legends” designed by Sidney or £5045, and money saving shop- .

Waugh-—-similar to the one he ; : ping tips will be among the things gave Princess Elizabeth of Brit- emphasized this year.

afm on her marriage. Hand executed, it is a in piece. | Fmphasis In Meat Tall, lovely Sora. = will wc ri Rump pot roast, pork shoulder | one of ti.e most fabulous wedding roast, broiled lamb chops and * gowns of’ all times. 3 other meat dishes will be among A Christian Djor creation, it is the nine recipes prepared Monof silver lame studded with 6000 day. Emphasis will be placed on . diamonds and 1 million seq: s. meat cookery. : ‘Twenty thousand feathers-havel Every step in preparing each. (Xen worked into the hoop skirt. dish will be demonstrated. in the |: The Shah will wear a dark blue ki uniform with gold epaulets and a (Continued on Page 3-Col. 5) ter Steaks Since iste, ~~

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