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‘Manual, Lawrence Meet in Tst Game
The state’s high school basket-!than ever . . .
ing today.
That's the promise for the fifth edition of The Times IceRama tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in the Fair Grounds Coliseum. The two-hour production was given final okeh by the production
There are 101 games carded g.r¢ yesterday at dress rehearsal. Most of the cast of some 500
with action in all major sec-|
tionals. | » : And for Hoosiers here it means) p IC §
opening contests in the Indianap-| olis sectional at Butler Field-
house. Manual will battle av To Three Classes : Other stories, sketch, pages 31, 32 ;
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. rence Central in the first game, Welfare Help Goes
at 7 p. m. and a gang of high) school Hornets from Howe and To ‘Unemployable’ By DONNA MIKELS
Beech Grove will buzz at 8:15. ther sites, teams like] Se Glenn and power-| Just who gets your welfare houses like New Albany, Ft. dollar’
4d Ft.| Recent attacks on the Marion Wayne Cental, Slkhast an {County Welfare Department and
’ the ndiana welfare program Glenn’s Pirates meet Terre! oo e the general impression that Haute State at Terre Haute,
its, anybody who's temporarily short basket eyes on its 25th consecu-| on cash can drop in and cl a
skaters went home to rest for “the big night” after four hours of “polishing.” Those in specialty “acts” returned to the ice rink last night
Photos on Page 29 =
for additional workouts, others will return tonight . . . for all of fhe skaters want tomorrow
' ICE-O-RAMA TIME: 8 p.m, tomorrow, Fair Grounds Coliseum. Doors open at 7:15 p.m. BENEFIT: The Infantile Paralysis Fund. TICKETS: 2000 choice reserved
seats still available at The Marott called for partly clo nd. cold- Pills despite bitter Democratic Shoe Store. Marott box office er tonight with. weer worthy Opposition to the program earlier.
closes at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow. Tickets available at the Coliseum
Waters Creep In Homes and Cellars Here
Wind-Whipped Wall Collapses On Capitol Ave.
By CLIFFORD THURMAN
over Hoosierland today.
| homes.
| Nature in the form of floods
was on the rampage. above flood stage that threatened
(January, 1950. In Ravenswood and other low areas around In-
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6a m.. 37 10a m.. 36 7a m.. 36 11 a m.. 87 8a. m.. 35 12 (Noon) 38 9a m.. 36 1p m.. 38
Humidity at 11:30 a. m. 85%
dianapolis water already filled basements and crept toward many homes.
Wall Falls Here One Indianapolis family was
father of five children returned surrounded by six feet of water
: from raging Buck Creek. aie a
a
streets as
: rainfall w to nches, a re for the year. Levee Cracks
In Vincennes, where the levee,
o-|cracked under the strain of a
7-foot flood stage last -year, the mighty Wabash was expected to crest at 25 to 26 feet tomorrow. That doesn’t include the deluge!
that fell in upper Indiana yester-|
{day. Flood stage is 16 feet. ; | Lafayette was threatened with {another flood while recovering {from a 2.19 inch rain during {past 24 hours. Flood stage there is 11 feet and a crest of 21 to 22 {feet was expected by Thursday morning, | | A Weather Bureau ‘survey indicated that virtually every, stream in the state is flooding.! {Most of the water from last night's deluge hasn't even reached! the rivers. { Colder Tonight | The official weather forecast
(tomorrow. A low of 26 degrees ‘was anticipated for tonight with
A churning, swirling, mud- State Hi filled yellow monster crawled t,urnament.
evacuated at midnight when a home from work to find his home|
the
Won't Even Take Their Beer With a Chaser—
WFBM-TV Spurns Offer of Top. Show Minus Anheuser (Collar) Ad
By ED KENNEDY WFEM-TV today flatly rejected an offer of the An- with no mention of the beer or heuser-Busch Brewing Co. to run the Ken Murray show ®Ponsor. without commercials Saturday night. oH The offer made by the sponsor yesterday was an effort vise the format of the program to prevent the show being canceled here for four weeks 80 that no slip-ups would take when it would be next to the television broadcasts of the "2° gh School Basketball —
| More than 1000 seats remain | for tonight's opening game of
| “If time is bought and paid| the Indianapolis sectional of
it. Neither. could mothers it is beer advertising. Therefore,
who gathered their children {and prepared to leave Indiana “Beer, TV and Kids” . . . Hoo-
sier Forum. . . . Page 30. of the show itself would not be
Indiana rivers were climbing in the spirit of its agreement with
Strong men couldn't Stop tor hy a beer company we feel] the basketball tournament.
{ The session seats will be sold
WFBM-TV feels that the running 1°F 60 cents at Gate 4 of the |
| Fieldhouse starting at 5:30 p. m. Officials said that this was the | first time in the history eof the
tourney that more: than 150 |
seats remained unsold.
fill with local announcements—
To do this national producers of the show said they would re-
They stated further that they would remove the end commercial {entirely on the entire CBS net{work so that Mr. Murray could {make a smooth closing to fit beth {Indianapolis and the rest of the | country. The task of cutting out the {commercial would fall to the sta{tion producer here who would simply have to give a command {to an engineer to “switch.” At {the same time the producer
{the Indiana High School Athletic/Ken Murray show. The only would monitor the network pro-
|day. L. V. Phillips, Commissioner of
the IHSAA, said he felt the spon- pany learned of the plans to can-
{the games,” Mr. Phillips said.
| Association,” William Kiley, sales|thing we ask is that there be no/gram and return to it at the com10 equal the high water mark of manager of the station said to-/beer ads next to the broadcast of pletion of the commercial with
another flip of a “switch.”
| Officials of the brewing com- a 8 @ #
"STATION official said there
sor’s offer would remove the show cel the show here yesterday. They was no question of revenue as
from its ban on beer, whisky or then contacted the local station
the Ken Murray show would be
{tobacco ads being next to broad- and offered the program withoutireplaced with 8 DuMont Kine-
casts or telecasts of high school
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“WE THINK viewed by children is good and He indicated that the progr all, right with him.
“I don't have a TV set and I {don’t know anything about the
‘athletic events. |
'commercials.
'apolis due to the
~ » » without the advertising would be THE STATION would be pro-\cast of the | vided with a cue sheet from which, |the local producer could cut out|
|scope of the Cavaicade of Bands
Under their plan, an announce- program. Rates for both proment was to be made that the grams are the same. our ruling on sponsor had requested that no such ads being next to programs commercial be carried in Indian-
This program, sponsored In this market by Hook's Drug
: adjacency of the we'll stick’ to it,” he said. basketball games. : Stores. Was to haVe Tun at 8 p.m.
and was pre-empted by the station to make room for the telegames, : An effort was made to have Mr.
commercials as they came up-- (Continued 'on Page 3--Col. 2)
Bristling Reds Hold Back [Life Sentence
SEE UN Patrols on Han River
Hint at Stand Against All
Douglas MacArthur's call for a Korea. ’
GOP Labor Bills
{ing two miles closer .to Seoul. bery-slaying of Albert M. Thayer,
Passed in House | Two other American patrols met Indianapolis attorney. W f | The youth sat through the read-
On the central front, however, i | United Nations spearheads proned Circuit
| Earlier Opposition
By Democrats Fades By NOBLE REED
The entire Republican labor, program sailed through’ the House of Representatives here today with overwhelming majorities, Every Democrat in the House turned in “aye” votes on the GOP
Only two votes were cast against the bills and they were Repub-
; ST HOBERFOCHT, United Press Staff C ponder | TOKYO, Feb. 21—Chinese Reds hurled an American tank spearhead back across the Han River today in a bristling reply to Gen.
s at Seoul;
Fy a ag
new United Nations offensive in
er ever had seen.
The Reds also drove off a South Korean patrol attempting a cross-
a similar reception yesterday.
north virtually unopposed on the heels of retreating Commurist forces. The Reds pulled ou* of their pocket in the east-central mountains above Chechon fast
Given to Kelly
By JOSEPH ALLISON Times Staff Writer
The 16-year-old Indianapolis youth last night stolidly received the verdict of first degree murder and life sentence in the rob-
Court Judge
Impassable.
Bread and Milk Trucks Stalled
On Routes Here
By RICHMOND BARTLETT County officials over Indi.
ana called road conditions “worst in history” today as roadbeds broke into impassable quagmires everywhere in Indiana.
Executive secretary of the County Commissioners Association Claude Hodson said today that travel was impossible on 75 per cent of Indiana county roads. Flood and mud also brought cuts in the shipment of milk and livestock Inte Indianapolis markets. The were termed “not critical,” but officials warned an emergency could arise if the. situation continues for a few days. Many families went without down on da'ivery runs. Officials worked all night setting up blockades on Marion County roads, County Highway Supervisor Leo White said 100 unpaved and black-top roads had heen barricaded. ; Short of Gravel
off the highways the better,” he said. “Right now there isn't
in
GREENFIELD, Feb. 21—Farl|
The armored patrol withdrew to the south bank of the Han Michael Kelly looked at life today | seven miles east of Seoul under the heaviest and most accurate _.in the penitentiary. mortar fire barrage its command-
ng of. the verdict by Hancock'ing to Mr. White, there is
Samuel | chance of getting trucks or grad-
Offutt with no change in expres- ing machinery into the sinking sion--as he has greeted nearly road surfaces.
all other steps in his seven-day trial.-
Last night Mr. Hodson made
ia spot check of seven Indiana
Kelly's mother sat with eyes counties. Commissioners of the that they abandoned ‘their dead averted as her son looked back following counties. reported the at her while his court-appointed situation critical: Clark, Gibson,
and supplies. Withering Barrage The American tank and in-
attorney polled the jury.
{ Allen,
Warren, White, Johnson
After Kelly was removed for and Decatur,
fantry patrol which tried to probe the trip to jail, his mother pil-|
of Beoul ran into at least 150 pe
Schools Close All schoolslare closed in Shelby
across the rain-swollen Han east (Continued on Page 3—Col. 1)|and Johnson counties and some — in Montgomery,
Greene and
bread as hakery trucks bogged
“The more traffic we can keep
enough gravel in Marion County . to take care of these floating
rounds of “amazingly accurate”
tive victory. Another unbeaten quintet, Waveland, will go for its 23d straight against New Rich-| mond at Crawfordsville today. | The opening day's abbreviated 21-game schedule yesterday featured one upset victim, Hammond. Neighbor Hammond Noll dropped the Wildcats from tournament contention, 58-57. Top-ranking Gary Froebel erashed into the second round of
. after 6 p. m, tomorrow. you {lican. Actually only three groups of pRIOES: Box and Parquet (Continued on Page 5—Col. 8) Although the Democratic
persons receive assistance chairs, $1.20; north and south through the welfare program . ..
mortar fire, Battalion Command-
|“practically nullifying every-|boro, Vt. reported.
sid nin 3 end & ’ aged persons with no other! Sronzamine. we 35 ceitia; sas ny New-Used Car S [thing labor stand for,” Demomeans of support; dependent chil-| , {crats backed th: measures in encountered such a withering
dren and the blind. clude ax. Every seat 18 reserved. {order to insure passage of what-| mortar barrage. A driving rain These three groups are provided night's production to be the Lis : lever benefits the program offers./also bogged down his tanks in for on the theory that even in|smoothest ever presented. | | i el n S | The controversial bill to in-|ankle-deep mud. times of full employment as the {crease unemployment compensa-| Communist guns and mortars
The Times Ice-O-Rama again] present, they will be the people las one of the year’s outstanding) {tion payments from the present were serving a blazing notice that | {$25 a week to $27 a week for 20|the Reds intend to defend the
U. S. Imposes
1 + leadership described the bills as 14. Col. Jerry Allen-of zartie- Troops to Ike
Never before, he said, had he
Daviess Counties. Perry Township here has closed all schools for the rest of the week accord|ing to trustee Nelson Swift. High WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (UP) water has closed School 4 of
{Center Township. —Lt. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay sald | Mr. Hodson said reports from today that strategic
bombing several other counties indicated could smash Russia’s industrial that traffic on rural roads was war powers but that the United practically at a standstill. Two States ‘had better send some major state roads and 14 second-
ground troops to Europe just the{31Y Ones. are dlosed ot floods. same.
LeMay Backs
year. | velop skills sufficient to meet the —s | current high cost of living. British Bomber A Case Analysis | A deserted mother, even if she In Record Jet should try to work, can seldom » “make an income sufficient to ar-| Hop Over Atlantic ; | P (Continued on Page 8-—Col. 1) GANDER, Newfoundland, Feb. — - " % 21 (UP)—A twin-jet British Canberra bomber landed here at 11:23 Watch a. m. (Indianapolis time) today, . completing a 2000-mile flight from For | f In Northern Ireland in the record y . time of four hours and 40 minutes. Tomorrow Ss Times The plane, claimed by the Brit-| The annual sale sponsored ish to be the fastest of its type} by nearly all the automoin the world, left Aldergrove, pjje dealers in town, starts Northern Ireland, with Squadron, tomorrow. Hundreds of Reade: Arthur X. alana gt the cars of all makes and years The plane bucked & S0:mile an| mill be offered at very sub hour headwind, hoping to som ly all these cars have been plete the flight in four hours. carefully and thoroughly There is no exactly somparable reconditioned, Spring will record for the east-west, Ireland- hy : . i NS ewiourdland crossing, al JANE mych Jighes Prices, though a jet plane flew from poss 2 7 a%.21 Ay OF England to Labrador last spring oie oa and: ‘save in 10 hours and’ two minutes. | . : : The Canberra flew most of thei} s The BIG stance at altitudes greater than |, 4: J \As: Se feet. hTe bomber will go Mid Winter USED CAR
to Andrews Alr Base, Washing- Clearance Sale ton,,D. C., for tests. If the tests A big event that will be are successful, the plane may be advertised ‘only in The mass-produced in the United Times. Watch for it toStates for Gen. Eisenhower's morrow, Atlantic Army Air Force,
i
who are “unemployable,” who Pe — play by thumping Gary Mann, 77 cannot hope to take care of even (Continued on Page 5 —Col. 6
to 28. In other major tilts, East bare needs of living. | Seago Washington &forned Who Will Hire Them? | oaBe; 0 of, and ary GI gure, there are jobs, welfare erson blocked Gary Edison, 63 to people agree. ‘But. who will. hire
bl. 75-year-old or older workers, the Hammond Tech, 1940 state joe group of 55.9 per cent of old! champion, fell before little Crown age recipients in Indiana in DePoint, 55 to 47, but it wasn't con- cemper, 19507 Or deserted, aban-| sidered too big an upset. Tech 3,04 children? Or the blind. | has had a mediocre season this pew blind people can ever de-
On the Inside Of The Time
Indiana State Assembly Woman's Club elects officers . . .
fashions by Louise “Fletcher . . . sewing contest winners compete again . . . canasta rules revised and strengthened by U. 8. and Argentingd ....e.i.i0.n, 9-11
Television is developing its own slang but it still has a long way to go to compete with circus talk ..... 16 De Pour's Infantry Chorus praised by Henry Butler for ‘finely diciplined and expressive singing and for choice of unusual material .. 18 A photo preview of Times Ice-O-Rama acts and stars . +. . Ed Sovola . . . Robert Ruark . .. Earl Wilson .... 29 Sectional basketball opens here tonight at Butler Field-
house . . . college and pro- ' fessional cage results ... 31-338 n » ” About People ..iivveees 27 Amusements ...... sesans 18 Frank Anderson ........ 33
Jimmie Angelopolous .... 31 Henry Butler ........... 18
Canasta si asissciriinnen 11 Editorials .....c.0i000000 30 Feingold Cartoon: ...... 31 « FORUM + 2svoemenransnne ses 30 Harold H. Hartley...... 27 Dan Kidney ....... sess 30
Frederick C. Othman .... 30 Radio and Television .... 16 Robert Ruark .....e00es.°'29 Ed Sovola ..ovivviiisees 29 BPOrts ...icveisnnaenss 31-38 Earl Wilson ..ecs000e00. 29 WOMEN’S «.ovsesssnness S11
‘| Retail Controls |
WASHINGTON-—Feb, 21 (UP)! —Price Controller Michael V. Di-! Salle cracked down today on a nationwide “new-used” car racket with an order setting retail price’
lceilings on all automobiles.
The order applies to cars sold|
{by dealers or individuals and is |effective Mar. 2. | Mr. DiSalle said the' new ceil-,| {ings are temporary and will be! {replaced as soon as possible by a [permanent control order, | Dealers’ ceiling prices for new |cars will be the manufacturers ist price, plus charges for ‘“legiti{mate extras.” | { The ceilings for any used car still being manufactured will be ithe delivered ceiling price of the same car when new. | If a 1950 Chvrolet, for example, {sold driginally for $1450 no dealer jor individual can buy or sell it for more than that price after Mar. 2. | Evade Ceilings
For all other models of used
cars the ceiling will be the highest price listed for that make land model in the January, 1951, |issue of the official guide which {the seller customarily used Dbe{tween Dec. 1, 1050 and Jan. 25, {1951. | The order probably will mean la big rollback on thousands of {“new-used” cars now standing on
!
‘|dealers’ lots throughout the
{country. | Price control officials said a {large number.of new automobiles were driven a token distance] from the dealer's showrooms and then put on sale as used cars| at more than new car prices. The| existing ceilings on new car prices can thus be avoided. ™ : ad 4
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weeks was passed, 91 to 2.
Han River on the western front
Walnut Grove School, Moores-
Mr. Wilson told the union leaders
equally and in calling upon the
‘ Fought Measure against any Allied attempt to “Democrats and labor leaders force it and take Seoul on the fought this on the ground that north bank, the formula on which the maxi-| United Nations artillery and mum $27 payments is based wasitanks answered in kind. They left at 4 per cent. The GOP lead- neutralized two enemy mortar
“rership refused to raise it to 5 per positions and entrenchéd enemy
cent as the Democrats had in-/troops at one point east of Seoul
sisted. land two Communist self-propelled Rep. Joseph Klein, Gary Dem-
Gen. LeMay, chief of the U. 8.|ville, closed because of mud, has long-range bombing command, already lost 15 school days this {told the Senate Foreign Relations |year due to road conditions. State and Armed Services Committees Highway 144 there is reported ‘that: |full of chuck holes but still passONE: For two or three yearsable. the “greatest deterrent” to Rus-| M. A. Newlin, of the State sian attack will be this nation's Highway Engineers Office, said long-range bombers. They should the state's maintenance respon-
ocrat, said failure to raise the (Continued on Page 3-—Col. 8) (Continued on Page 5—Col 1), (Continued on age 5—Col. 4)
percentage formula would leave —— 20 per cent of all Indiana work-| ers without an increase ‘in benefits. The increase would effect only workers whose average weekly wage is more than §38 a week. | Two other GOP labor bills in-|
(Continued on Page $~Col. 4)| ata le
Wilson Stands
Pat on Powers
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (UP) | Defense Mobilizer Charles E.| Wilson told the united labor) policy committee today that] “charges, countercharges, and recrimination can only dismay and] alarm the American people.” | Obviously irked by union accu-| sations that big ousiness is running the mgpbilization program,
he is still ready to name a top| labor adviser, and added: | “The burdens which we are | required to bear must be shared
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country to make sacrifices we must calculate the benefits to our mobilization program against any le resultdnt inconveniences.” a gi Mr. Wilson made it plain to RN labor that he intended to keep manpower policy-making in his office,
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The sign on Roberts Road at Meridian St. tells the story. Hundreds of roads throughout diana were closed because of floods. : : : ;
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County Roads Break Up; Rivers Above Flood Stage
Mud Makes 13% in State
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