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The Greatest Sacrifice

her crucified Son, Jesus.

“the sun was darkened . . .

“And when Jesus had cried with a loud

Thy hands I commend my spirit’.”

These words from St. Luke’s Gospel, describe the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on the first Good Friday. In Indianapolis and every Christian place around the world today, men and women are striving’ to recapture something of the sacrificial spirit of that long ago day. Certainly a charcoal drawing, done by John Brock who drives 90 miles:

(Another story, photo page 5)

daily to attend classes in the Herron Art School, serves as a vivid reminder of crucifixion and sacrifice. The faithful—and the not-so-faith-ful—early this morning began to stream into their churches. Services were being held in every part of the city. Some were scheduled by individual parishes and others by groups of them. They will continue well into the evening. For Lent, which began on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 27, will come to its dramatic climax today. It will close with Holy Saturday services tomorrow. Sunday will be Easter, the Feast

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voice, He said: ‘Father into

of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. - Music, sermons, prayers, Scripture— all the lore which has been precious to Christians down the ages—will tell the story of how Jesus of Nazareth gave himself to be hung on the Cross. Three-hour services, noon to 3 p. m., the actual period of the crucifixion, were announced for the First Baptist and Christ Episcopal Churches and for the Lyric and Keith’s Theaters, all downtown. The Church Federation will be in charge of those in the Baptist Church and the Lyric, and the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod, will handle those at Keith's. All are interdenominational. The. Knights of Columbus will sponsor Roman Catholic Way of the Cross devotions, for the 15th consecutive year, from 2:15 to 3 p. m. in the World War Memorial Plaza. The Mass of the Pre-Sanctified will open threehour “Tre Ore” services downtown in St. John's and St. Mary's Catholic Churches.

McDuff Reported Critically III

Paul McDuff, Marion County Democratic party chairman four years, was reported in critical condition in Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Fla., today. Mr. McDuff, a colorful political leader here for 15 years, resigned the party chairmanship Jan. 9 because of ill health and went to

Florida with his family to spend plans to build a’ fifth atomic|a

the rest of the winter. His proving slightly a month ago, but yesterday he suffered a se-

U. S. to Put $1 Billion Into New Atomic Plant

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‘The Atomic Energy Commis-|

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By United Press

WASHINGTON, Apr. 11—

sion announced today that it

explosives plant to cost about $1

The new plant will be a urani-

rious relapse after a hemorrhage um separation works even vaster

of the lungs. the hospital in a semiconscious condition.

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He was taken to than the one built during the war| {at Oak Ridge, Tenn, and the) {$500 million new one being con-

structed near Palucah, Ky. It probably will be built in the Ohio Valley.

The new “gaseous

diffusion” | {plant will be part of the $5 billion! to $6 billion atomic expansion

| Valley area,” Mr. Boyer said, { “due - principally to the availa-

{sonable cost in quantities needed | for construction and operation of gaseous diffusion plant and to {the availability of water.”

'See Clear Skies For Easter Bunny

The Easter Bunny can hop into town with dry feet Sunday according to the weatherman who today promised a nice day for the egg hunters. Showers, according to the five-

‘program announced by President day forecast, will skip tomorrow

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Truman last January, Drafting Details

The AEC said details of the over-all expansion program are

sion to Congress.” Meanwhile, it is surveying potential sites, of 5000 to 6000 acres, so that.construction of the new plant “may proceed without delay” if the ex-

until Monday ' leaving Sunday clear. Temperatures in northern

Indiana were expected to near, {a normal high of 60 and a low “now being drafted for submis-|of 36. Below normal

mercury {readings were forecast for the {south where the high was pre{dicted to be 63 and the low 43. | It was expected to turn warmer

FRIDAY, APRIL 11

Downtown Fire Covers Area With Smoke

Damage Estimated At $150,000

By CARL HENN and ED KENNEDY Smoke covered the downtown area this morning as flames, fed on stored aint and varnish, gutted the fourth floor of a venetian blind firm at 111-113 8. Pennsylvania St. : Damage was set at $150,000. C. V. Gale, owner of the building, said his losses totaled $75,

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000. The same loss to stock was given by W. C. Patterson, whose firm occupies the building. ‘Two alarms were pulled for the

downtown blaze, and additional special aquipment was rushed to the scene later.

alarm, firemen were bringing the blaze under control. Gutted was the top floor of the Patterson Shade & Floor Covering Co., Inc, which occupies the entire brick building.

Wind Fans Flames

At the height of the blaze, flames leaped 50 feet above the south end of the structure and poured 25 to 50 feet high out of the west end windows. A pall of smoke towered thousands of feet high over the center of the city, Starting in the rear of the fourth floor, flames ran quickly across the entire floor as an east wind swept through fire-cracked windows and fanned the blaze. Firemen fought through thick

was brought under control. More Than 1000 Watch

The blaze spread fast because paint, varnish and highly flammable cleaning materials were stored on the fourth floor. The top floor was a "olocaust in a few

minutes, and flames broke through the roof.

More than 1000 spectators, many of them workers on their way to the office, stopped to watch scores of firemen fight the fire.

Choking smoke spread east from the building and hung heavy over much of the downtown area. The battle was short but dramatic. Firemen moved close with two high towers, pumping water at

Half an hour after the first a

smoke to the third floor, then {chopped holes in the third floor

By 8 a. mi, 45 minutes ater the gan sXNPREIT 4 first alarm, ters edged ; ’ te. fret siatm, engined New York-bound

breaking windows as the blaze

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Eisenhower Resi In Europe, Asks 10

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice

Indianapolis, Indiana. Issued Dally.

At Least 10

persons aboard was ditched

GALLANT COUPLE—Pilot John C. Burn and wife Jane Froman.

Are Killed

As Plane Hits Atlantic oes: “Coat Gard. shine snd Sho

American Airways plane with Panes } at oy 10 dead. %

2 Transit Lines

Another Route To Be Discontinued

The city’s transit system, at midnight tomorrow, will raise fares on two bus lines—Sunshine Gardens and Mars Hill—and discontinue another route, 38th and Arlington Ave, These transit changes were approved by the State Public Service Commission at the request of Indianapolis Railways, Inc.

900 galions a minute into the fourth floor inferno. Three water! cannons were moved up, shooting | water at high pressure, | Although firemen feared the south wall might buckle, they moved their equipment right up to it and aimed their water hose into the broken windows. The fourth floor was still blazing when 13 firemen invaded the smoke-charred third floor to break through the ceiling. Several firefighters were

|est in the nation.

As a result, patrons on two lines here will be paying top fares in the city and among the high-

The cash fare for. Sunshine Gardens’ passengers will be a flat 25 cents, If tokens are used, the fare will be 22% cents a ride. On the Mars Hill line, the cash fare will be a flat 20 cents, The token fare would amount to 17% cents a ride,

Extend Arlington Route

sprayed with flying glass and debris, but doctors waiting by the General Hospital ambulance had] no patients. il Even after the flames were subdued, smoke kept filtefing through the bricks of the build-

on Pennsylvania and about 90! feet deep. Spotted by Passerby Firemen held back the blaze] to keep it from spreading to the| adjoining Nutz and Grosskopf| Leather and Findings Co., 107-9 Pennsylvania. A passerby turned in the first jalarm. | The first floor houses sales and

[roller shade shop. The third floor {18 where blinds are made and the, [fourth floor was used for clean#ing and painting. Besides fire damage, smoke and water damage was heavy,

Blaze Brings Traffic Snarl In Rush-Hour

fic was jumbled this morning by the two-alarm blaze. Cars lined up bumper to bumper for blocks as police routed [traffic around ‘the- fire - fighting |area. Seven Indianapolis Railways

| Transit lines were rerouted, but {the only major disruption of | service was on the College” Ave. | trolley line. | | Passengers on the trolle§s were {forced to walk from Ohio and

pansion program is approved by in temperatures for the next five short of the normal turn-around

Congress. AEC General Manager M. W. Boyer said the commission has made surveys “of a number of areas . . . to determine which may. be potentially suited for the new major facility.” “Site studies presently are being

concentrated in

the Ohio River . Pan

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LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6a:m...2 10a.m...836 7a.m...30 11a m...83 8a. m...31 12 (noon). 40 a.m... 34 lpm... 4

Latest Humidity ...... 63%

\point. Extra police were rished to Ohio and Pennsylvania Sts. to help unsnarl the jam caused by turning trolleys around at that spot. Trackless trolleys and buses were less affected, being delayed little by rerouting around the fire

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charged the premium fare.

The Lady Saw a Snake, DOWNTOWN rush-hour - And Police Believe Her

N First Flight This Month

To riders who used the 38th and Arlington bus, the transit pany will extend service on the 21st St. and Arlington Ave. line 11 times daily during the

lcently made her television debut,

y ¥ 1 injured persons were brough by Coast Guard vessels. Ditched in Open Sea The plane was ditched in the open sea about five miles northwest of the entrance to 8an Juan Harbor. High seas made rescue work difficult. (Pan =» American Airways in New York said-the plane carried 64 passengers, including 58 adults and six infants, and had a crew of five.) Navy and Coast Guard rescue ships rushed to the scene and were reported to have picked up survivors. Pan-American in New York sald the pilot of the plane was Capt, John C. Burn, husband of Singer Jane Froman whom he rescued in a war-time plane crash off Portugal. Capt. Burn supported the beautiful singer for hours in the At. lantic In 1943 despite severe in juries, . Miss Froman also suf« fered critical injuries which confined her .to.the hospital and a wheel chair for seven years. She return to her singing career despite her handicap and rewalking without the aid of crutches,

Rail Worker Slugged,

morning, noon and afternoon

rush hours: This rush hour serv-|

ing, which is about 50 feet wide ice will go to 34th and Arlington. | gt.

For pupils of 8t. Andrew’s| School on 38th St. the transit company will extend service on

day.

shine Gardens and Mars Hill lines will bring a new collection system into use. From now on,| passengers on these lines will] pay when they get off going] home ,and when they start com-|

bility of potential power at rea- Service. The second floor is the|ing downtown. |

Passengers who use either line] in the city limits still only are| required to pay the regular 15cent cash fare or two tokens for| a quarter. Once they cross the county line, however, they are|

Robbed of $100

Charles Bailey, 2410 Pierson reported to police he was

Come Home June 1

in Europe. Gen, Eisenhower sent a request dated Apr. 2 to Becretary of Defense Robert A. Lovett, asking that he be relieved by June 1 and placed on inactive status upon his return to the United States, The General, however, did not give the date when he expects to return to this country and take an active hand in his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, | Presumably he would return in early June, The White House announcement was made on the day and hour selected by Gen. Wisenhow-

Joseph Short said President Truman is not yet ready to announce the selection of a sueCOT don't k how 1 that now how will take,” Mr, Short ne

| White House Press Secretary

on Apr. 10 Mr. Lovett, acti with the val of the g seit

us upon your return to United States.”

Had Understanding Gen, Eisenhower in his letter to Mr. Lovett said his request for relief conformed with an under: standing he had when he accepted the original appointment in Europe, in December, 1050, He sald the June 1 relief date would leave “ample time for the appointment of a successor and for any preparation and that he may desire from me.” Gen. Eisenhower sald he felt the specific purposes for which he was recalled to duty in 1050 and. sent to Europe “largely accomplished.” According to Mr. Bhort, the general also sent a personal letter to the President advising him lof the step he was about to take, The President sént "Gen. Hisenhower a long handwritten reply. Mr. Short described both letters as “personal and very cordlal,” but he sald they would not be published,

Bolivia Bombs Rebel Center

ARICA, Chile, Apr. 11 (UP)— Bolivian air force planes bombed the rebel stronghold of Villa Victoria in the suburbs of La Paz

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slugged and robbed of $100 early| this morning on 8. Meridian St.|

today while street fighting raged

Would Place General On Inactive Status; Successor Not Namet

WASHINGTON, Apr, 11—The White House: today that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower had lieved June 1 as Supreme Commander

said. The White House disclosed that

ers Hurope, effective 1 June, and have you placed on inactive stat-

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had. been]

Mr. Bailey, an employee of the {the Millersville Rd. bus twice a|New York Centra! Railroad, sald {he believed he was slugged by| The increased fare on the Bun-|some one who knew he had just

been paid.

in the capital's streets, according to the first telephone contact re-established with La Paz this morning. The United Press succeeded .in

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telephoning La Paz this morning from Arica. Rebel resistance in La Paz is centered in the Villa Victoria area and the Miraflores district on the opposite side of the capital. Bolivian Consul Rodolfo Lopez said he contacted La Paz last night and was informed that “they are fighting at Villa Vietoria because that is where young policemen joined workers in that suburb who have always favored

The lady said she saw a snake in the hall.

Police, usually leery about visions of snakes and elephants, believed this one. The lady, calling from a fashionable apartment building on the Northeast Side, was not in a.hallucinating condition.

8gt. Clinton Auter probed all _ {tomorrow with no major changes Pennsylvania Sts. seven blocks crevices for the critter, described ;

as “dark and four feet long.” But he didn’t find it.

Police said the snake probably 2 left hibernation during Wednes-

day’s ‘’summery weather, then

slithered inside when last night {

turned cold.

the national revolutionary movement.” “I don't believe the battle will ast much longer,” Mr. Lopez said. “The combination of workers and police is inferior in numbers and armament to government forces attacking them by land and air”

| Jet Bomber May Make

WASHINGTON, Apr. 11 (UP) ~The Air Force's new jet-pow-ered heavy bomber, driven by the most powerful engines developed by this nation, probably will be flown for the first time this month, informed sources said today. . The B-52 is the Air Force's answer to Russia in the race to build fast, heavy bombers capable of carrying the atomic bomb over long distances. : The giant bomber, built by the Boeing Air-

each of which is believed to develop a thrust of ‘between $000

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12.7¢ Hike Seen As Industry Pattern

Workers today announced a 12.7-cent hourly pay increase to end a five-day strike. CWA Prés«’ fdent Joseph Beirne said the terms “could serve as a patt : to settle the nationwide le” The Michigag agreement is the first bresit a , Wleptions : up involying 43 states, con at a time y in already were overloaded by a fife’ tion-wide walkout of 30,000 West ern Union telegraphers. ” Mr, Beirne announced in Washe ington that the Michigan settles, ment could be the key to end tele phone disputes everywhere “if the American Telephone & Teles graph Co. chooses to make it one.” # Also on strike since Monday are 15,000 Western Electric Co, employees who install and dise tribute Bell telephones. Mr. Ernest Weaver, head of the striking Western Electric Installe ers, also CWA, put a damper on

dispute on the

which averages out to week. *

Strike Outlook Here Pessimistic

Speculation that settlement of the Michigan phone strike would clear the way for settling the Ine

A “no picketing on Good Friday” policy was adopted today by. Hoosiers striking - against the Indiana Bell Teles phone Co. Srey Company officials confirmed there were no pickets set up by. the CIO Communications Workers Union at any of its Indians offices.

Kenneth Silvers, president of Local 10523 of the union, sald: “We're all ‘good Christian people and we don't think it uite right to picket on ‘this oly Day” Hh

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