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On TV Stations

By ED K Don’t touch that TV dial.

ENNEDY You'll be getting no new sta-

tions here for at least two years.

That was the opinion today of local industry leaders following the “unfreeze” announcement

Communications Commission. In the FCC announcement the way was paved for two more very high frequency channels—8 and 13 on your present dial—and three channels of ultra-high frequency. These are 26 and 67 for commercial stations and 20 for educational use. :

A conversion unit on even the most recent sets will be required to receive a picture on the UHF bands. This prompted one industry leader here to forecast it may be many years or never before any attempt is made to put a station on the air using any of those bands.

Five Are Competing

Five companies are in competition for the two bands in the VHF band “unfrozen” by today’s move. All will have to submit new applications to the FCC. Planning to enter the race are WISH, WIRE, WIBC, WLW of Cincinnati and a recently formed company, Television Indianapolis, Ine. . Forming the new company are L. 8. Ayres & Co., P. R. Mallory, Co., Inc, WXLW, Butler University and WKRC, Cincinnati, owned by Hulbert Taft, cousin of Sen. Robert Taft. Two of the applicants agreed today another picture on your screen will be at least two years coming. One predicted it would be as far off as 1955 before the necessary paper work, hearings and decisions could be made by the FCC. A fourth applicant was more optimistic and thought another station could get underway here within a year and a half if the breaks came right.

Next to Last

The FCC, in their announcement listed a system of priorities under which the new applications would be considered. Indianapolis was listed next to the last in the order of consideration. In the first priority group was WTTV, Bloomington, which will be changed from channel 10 to channel 4. Service men were uncertain as to what will happen to antennas now set to pick up channel 10 in Bloomington. They said all people could do was wait and see.

Might Be Switched

Special small antennas which were designed to pick up channel 10 might be switched and aimed to Terre Haute which has been granted a channel 10 assignment. A single application there is un-| contested. Multiple bar antennas for gen-| eral use will continue to pick up

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To Truman Beech Grove Action Geared to ‘Steel Strike’

Nine hundred railroad men laid off by the New York Central’'s Beech Grove yards to-

Ohio Phones Sign Contract That's ‘Fair’

By United Press

and CIO Communications Workers of America today signed an

agreement ending the week-old strike of 16,000 phone workers in Ohio. Negotiators, after an all-night session, reached a settlement calling for a raise of between $4 and $7 per week. The contract was for one year, The figure was about the same

as the 12.7-cent hourly increase

won last Friday by workers of the Michigan Bell Telephone Co.

Union officials said the Ohio/bulletin. We are at a loss trying agreement called for an 11.2-cent to understand this procedure bebasic raise, with an additional/Cause we, the workers of the rail-

3-cent hourly boost accounting for differences in job reclassifiications.

Hopes for Speed-up

CWA President Joseph A. Beirne expressed hope in Washington that the Ohio agreement would help “speed up settlement of disputes in New Jersey, northern California, and Western Electric.”

Mr. Beirne said that “of course, we are glad to see the Ohio company meet the $4 to $7 a week pattern, but we are not glad that they made us strike for a week before agreeing. The company could have this sort of settlement

over a week ago and a strike Twine Co. Faces

would not have been necessary.”

Ohio Bell previous] pay increase ranging from $3-8,

jand later upped the figure-by. 50, cents.

The union originally demanded a package raise of 21 cents an

hour,

Fair to Each Side

Union and company officials said the raise was effective immediately. Employees were expected to return to work today. Randolph Eide, president of

Ohio Bell, called that agreement “fair, both to employees and the, price regulations permitted the

publie.” The Ohio settlement left 42 other states jeopardized by phone walkouts. Union officials said they did not know if pickets of Western Electric Co. workers would honor

The Ohio Bell Telephone Co. jwith its layoff notice, effective

offered $34,322 Suit

Truman to speed a work” movement here. The railroaders protested they were given the layoff notice Tuesday “in anticipation of ‘the steel strike” even though the President

ment was seizing the steel mills and the lifting of steel embargoes on Friday. The letter, signed by J. O. Haynes, president of the Beech Grove Shop Federated committee, protested the railroad went ahead

at the end of respective shifts Friday. New York Central officials {here said they had no word from {the New York office, which controls operations at Beech Grove, to call the men back to work.

Letter Quoted

In his letter to the President, Mr. Haynes wrote: “We naturally assumed the company would rescind its layoff

road industry, not so long ago went through the same procedure as the steel workers have and, after government seizure, work went on at its normal pace.” The railroaders protested being laid off because of the steel controversy while steel workers lost no time because of the similar earlier controversy in which the government also seized the railroads. 2 The letter challenged the power of the railroad to lay off the men without first getting government approval ‘as the roads are still under federal control.

An Indianapolis twine brokerage company today was suéd for $34,322 in damages by thé federal government, Named as defendant in the action which charged violation of price regulation was the R. R.

Trade Bldg. The suit also asks an injunction against any continued violation, District Attorney Marshall Hanley, who filed the suit, said

firm an increase on new stocks of twine. But the company took increases on its old stock as well, the suit alleges. Richard R. Howard, a firm partner, today denied any price violation. He said brokers through-

announced that night the govern-|

Howard Sales Co., 511 Board of|'

MONDAY, APRIL 14

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Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis, Indiana. Issued Dally.

PRICE FIVE CENTS

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Big Muddy Runs Amok st Town Trail

: Police Boats Patrol

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By United Press . SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Apr. 14—The Missouri Valley is “in one hell of a lot of trouble,” Brig. Gen. Don Shingler, Missouri River Army engineer said here today, “Believe me,” he added, “we're on borrowed time." The Missouri flood, he declared,

was at an “unprecedented level” ! from South Dakota to Missouri. S The river bore down on Sioux :

City, meanwhile, after the whole

United Press Telephoto.

BIG MUDDY STILL RISING—OId man river rolls down the main street of South Sioux City, Neb., where the flood waters have risen to five feet. The water is still rising and should reach its crest this evening. Other flood photos, Pages 2 and 14.

Today's News Anesthetic Blast Kills

In The Times |

Nationa Ike, Taft face crucial test in New Jersey tomorrow 8 ICC hikes rates for [reight by $678 million . 11

Local and State Page Two arrested as police scize basement still 3 Dixie airlift begins landing at AHerDUTY sovvivavnane se eve 8

Editorials Page

British Socialists want the U. 8. to pay the bills and follow their advice ... 10 Spring Bonnet . , . a cartoon by Talburt ...... Sen. Capehart's a bit confused «+. Dear Boss ,,. by Dan KIANEY »vasesnsstsnersecs . 10

Sports

Page Cleveland deposits two new pitchers here ..vcevveeeeess 12 The Press BoOX....coivoreses 12 Truman ready for final pitch.. 18

Women's . Page Eligible Escort of Tomorrow... 4 DAR Continental Congress opens in Capitol ....... vas 4

Mother of New

| By United Press | NEW YORK, Apr. 14—The |death of his wife from an explosion of an anesthetic gas inside ‘her lungs brought grief and bit-

|{terness today to Frank Manfra jon his gixth wedding anniversary.

Mrs. Manfra, 30, was killed Satiurday In a “terrible catastrophe” on an operating table at Cumberland Hospital only a few minutes after she had been delivered of her third daughter, Hospital authorities disclosed the tragedy yesterday. THey said that |gas inhaled by Mrs.

curred shortly after the child had been delivered by Caesarian section and removed to the nursery. “There was no negligence on the part of the hospital,” Dr. B. @G. Dinin, medical superintendent, said, “These things have happened before in other hospitals despite all efforts at safety pre- | cautions,”

| Couldn't Believe It But Mr. Manfra, a 31-year-old |

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fra was | . 10| ignited by a spark kicked up by ° someone walking across the op~ | erating room. The explosion oc-

MRS. MANFRA — Killed in freak anesthetic blast.

sarian and he gave his consent. Mrs. Manfra had delivered her first two children without any trouble, her husband said.

Later in the afternoon, Mr, Manfra said, he saw nurses and attendants rushing up and down the hospital corridors. Forty

‘lon its worst rampage in history,

town had been abandoned in the 4 greatest mass evacuation the val- en B ley has ever seen,

The crest, due to hit this city : of 85,000 inhabitants at midday,| Three Centers To See Action

was expected to leave most of the city comparatively dry, But floodwaters already had seeped| The annual search for the best to the edge of the business dis-\ grade school speller in the Indie trict and had covered the river-ianapolis area starts at 7:30 front stockyards and packingip'clock tonight when pupils some houses. pete at three community centers Elsewhere in both Iowa and |in the first preliminary round of

Nebraska, refugees fled in trucks|The Indianapolis Times Spelling and automobiles, aboard trains Bee, po

and on foot, : An estimated 40,000 persons nate and schools spelling

had forsaken their homes, ANd| py pREON AVENUE BAP. Thus far, there had been ample Fos CHURCH, Lh Pmehioh warning, no drownings and only |AVe.~—Schools 3, 58, 67,

a few slight injuries suffered in| FLETCHER PLACE Sous the evacuation. Roe

Worst Rampage and The Missouri, a river gone wild South Side Seventh Day Advens was on the rise all the way from| GARFIELD COMMUNITY north Sioux Oity, 8. D.. ‘to. St. NT, 3. ast ond ao) E> oseph, Mo., #p over thou-{m sands of acres of rich farm land 3 bo oy St, ‘Catherine's in Iowa and Nebraska. . The river had made virtual] Contestants are to report te ghost towns of North Sioux City, [these centers at 7:15 p.m. South Sioux City, Neb. and sub-| The eliminations will end with burban Riverside, Iowa, where/the finals at the Indiana the corners of Iowa, Nebraska

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Upstream in South Dakota, where the river was falling, the Red Cross estimated that from

9000 to, had been made Somiton. Ne Pn v5 D., 403 homes had been damaged, River Falling

Downstream, the worst was yet to come, : The U. 8, Weather Bureau at Omaha, Neb., revised its predic tion and said the crest would reach Omaha and Council Bluffs, Iowa, Thursday at a level of 31% feet, 15 foot higher than previously forecast. For the next week, the crest would be rolling southward between the two states. Downstream from B8ioux City, Army

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. [New York navy vard worker, minutes later. a doctor and sev-| Cc the Bloomington station with no|the agreement and stay away|out the country were following|Reversible clothes expand the | Sve’ He had eral nurses approached. engineers sald a 200-square-milel -ounty schools also are

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expected trouble according to the experts, Cost of getting a television station on the air here with only| the minimum of equipment was set at $500,000,

x HCA Sorrer Srging 9 *Picketing Halted Weds Millionaire

The FCC also assigned channels to the following Hoosier

cities which have no applications

on file at present: Anderson, Angola, Bedford, Bloomington, Columbus, Connersville, Elkhart,

Gary, Jasper, Kokomo, Lebanon,

Madison, Marion, Michigan City, Richmond, Shelbyville, Tell City, Vincennes and Washington.

Educational Channels

Educational channels were allotted to Bloom'ngton, ville, Wayne, Gary, Indianapolis, Lafayette, Muncie, South Bend and Terre Haute. Indiana received nine of 242 such channels allotted by the FCC. The other assignments (city and channel number assigned. E—for Education): Anderson 81; Angola 15; Bedford 39: Bloomington 4, E-30. and 36. Columbus 42; Connersville 38;

from Ohio Bell offices, If WE

{pickets appeared, spokesmen said,

the CWA might ask the employees of the telephone firm to report to work anyway.

‘At Evansville

their normal pricing procedures, He said the manufacturers had been granted a raise and that brokers had merely followed) | suit,

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Evans-,

Ana Maria Alvarez /Calderon | Indiana Bell Telephone Co. Fernandini, beauty quekn -of the | {today obtained a restraining Americas in 1949, and millionaire {order against “hit-skip” picketing lawyer Manuel Pablo Olachea

{of its Evansville exchange. Dubois were married yesterday. { CIO Communications Workers

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could not “believe it.” {hoped to have a quiet anniver-| sary celebration at his wife's something was wrong,” Mr. Man- | bedside today. {fra said. “The doctor told me to {| "She was so strong and heal- | come into his office and 1 did. | thy,” he said. “I cannot under- | He told me my wife had passed {stand how something like this/away, that the anesthetic had ex|can happen in an up-to-date hos-|ploded.” | pital. They told me a man walks| The five-pound, 10-ounce daugh{across the floor and there is a ter will be named Raffelina for

“I saw by their faces that

area around the town of Onawa would be flooded. Most residents of the town already had fled. Farther downstream, at Blencoe, Iowa, another deserted town, two men in a boat were feared

their own contests now to two winners in each township whe will compete in the semifinaly, |

Reports Truman Set

missing for four hours yesterday To Veto Tidelands Bill |

iwhen their motor fouled in telephone lines near a farm storage] WASHINGTON, Apr. 14 (UP}

| spark, the anesthetic ‘explodes. L just can’t believe it." | Mr. Manfra sald several sur-| geons had recommended a Cae-|

withdrew their pickets and tele-| {phone operators went back to! work.

| disrupted earlier when operators | ’ refused to cross picket lines set! up by striking Western Electric J {Co, workers at Evansville and 7 Whiting. Local, as well as long-distance service, was hampered in Whiting. where the Illinois Bell Tele-| © phone Co.'s exchange does not! § have a dial system 1 8 Evansville is served locally by § a dial system which was not dis. § rupted by the picketing. Thirty-| five Indiana Bell supervisors han. § died emergency long - distance °

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her mother, Mr. Manfra said. No one else was injured by the blast, although a doctor said he was jarred, 3

Mother Wins Race

Against Son's Death

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. 14 (UP)--An Oklahoma mother who raced here by train and plane kept a round-the-clock vigil today at the bedside of her soldier son. Doctors said he probably will die. : Mrs, Lois Sturges of Enid,

10kla., won her race by taking a

plane from Memphis, Tenn., when

building. Signal With Grain

They climbed to the roof of the building, cut a hole in it and scooped up the grain inside, With it they spelled out gn the flat roof the word, “Okay.” A plane spotted he signal and guided a boat to

Apr. |the rescue.

* The village of Albatin, Iowa, was completely surrounded when ithe Missouri overflow cut through an ancient channel on the other side of the settlement, Appeals were broadcast to the residents last night to move out, (but, Red Cross sald most of {them stayed. { In the Sioux City area, water

~A White House caller said toe day. that President Truman is

prepared to veto legislation give ing the states the rights to olf tidelands.

‘The caller was I. A, Smoot, & Democrat and former postmastes of Balt Lake City, Utah,

“I may get in trouble sa this, but he did not tell me to say anything,” Mr, Smoot saidy

“He told me he will veto the tide« lands bill.”

The House and Senate both have passed bills to return cone itrol of the oil-rich subm lands off sea coasts to the states, House and Senate conferees are

she was unable to make plane was up to the rooftops in subur-|ironing out differences in the two connections from Enid because ban Riverside and all the town's bills,

of bad weather, Her son, 8gt. Irwin T. Sturges,

{5000 persons had fled. Across the {river in South Bioux City almost

22, was in grave condition at the|2ll the town's. 5500 inhabitants Mountain Home Veterans Hos- [had gue ony » past oy the uni Y OUP Advantage {pital with injuries received in an|N€%8 district and a few homes IP d a ljutted up out of the brackjsh| 10 Buy Home Now i

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Elkhart 52; Evansville 7. 50, E-58. ‘calls, and more were sent from and 62: Ft. Wayne 21, E27. and Indianapolis to assist 3 33: Gary 50 and E66, Hammond Developments in other labor ge i . ra automobile accident. 36: Jasper 19 Kokomo affecting Indianapolis ny : ig el i eset eesm——————

Lafayette E47 and 5: Lebanon i He Fractures the Law, Gov. Val Peterson declared a

18; anspor! 51: Madison 25 ay 20: Michigan City But He Had His Reasons state of emergency in, the NeMuncie 49, 55, and E71. Rich. YOUNGSTOWN, 0. . Apr. 14 braska flood zone, mond 32; Shelbyville 38: South (UP)—Pollce thought there! OV, William 8. Beardsley of Bend 34. E-40. and 48: Tell Oity should be a law against it when 10W2 appealed to President Tru31: Terre Haute 10. B47. and 62 they saw Lee Haulson Jr., 38, rid-| man to declare the stricken counVincennes 44, and Washington 60 ing on the roof of a cab today. ties of Towa along the river to Listed The officers arrested Mr. Haui-|Pe_ disaster areas. APTS. son and after a hurried search| South Dakota's Gov. Sigurd Other Indians applications of the law books found that it Anderson requested federal aid. which hase to be refilled are is illegal to ride on the outside| Gov. C. Elmer Anderson of Evansville — Trans American of a vehicle. Mf. Hauison had a Minnesota said he might appeal Television Corp. 11. South Cen ready explanation: “I had an!to the President to declare portral Broadossting Corp. 7 argument with my wife and she tions of his state a disaster zone. FL. Wayne Northwesters In wouldn't let me ride with her| The Missouri wasn’t the only diana Broadcasting, Inc. 4 West inside the cab.” Hives op the rampage. bens - e Mississippi at its headwaES th Ph : - ters in Minnesota was far above Hammond — South Shore flood stage. Broadessting Corp. 36 | channel More than 7000 persons were MM was asvigned Hammond Logansport « Loganapert toimpanys

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AN al i ; IN THE LAP OF LUXURY~—Doris Ann Shelton, 4, holds two baby foxes which collie dog, Mary, (UP) —|

- is reising. o AFL carpenters here returned to driven from their homes in the Me a c x day after settling a wage St. Paul-Minneapolls area as the Fimes State Service | Last week Mr. McCann and. Mr. did a littl& adding and came to Work to | | LEBANON, Apr. 14—A coupleig, ion walked into the barn andthe conclusion Mary could raise| dispute. A SPORONIAN naig the Mistisaippl hit 3 Tegurd 21.25 feet (foxes, sly little fellows that theyi .+ or the manger leaped a full-/two more children. | carpe ters agree aturday to at Sou . Paul. are—are pulling the wool. over. un fox. They were so excited : d will 0 two CCEPL a new wage scale of $2.35 Some 1500 men, using 142 14 (UP) the eyes of a Collie dog. named i}. o jot ft pass— that would be a toialrY See ee. 5 trucks and 20 bulldozers worked

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