Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 50, Number 232, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 23 November 1948 — Page 1

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WEATHER CLOUDY .. WEDNESDAY Indiana: Fair tonight. Tonio row partly cloudy and somewh. warmer. i READ THE LATEST NEWS IN THE DAILY TIMES VOL. 50 No. 232 UNITED PRESS SERVICE SULLIVAN DAILY TRIESTUESDAY, NOV. 23, 1948. INTERNATIONAL PICTURE SERVICE PRICE THREE CENT;

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lore Revenue INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 23. (U.R) Indiana tax officials estimated today that the new state tax re assessment program going into effect Mar. 1 would bring in more than $17,00,000 additional revenue on property now omitted from the tax rolls.' State Tax Commissioner Peter A. Beczkiewicz and Joda G. New scm, administrator of the re assessment program, explained to the Indiana School of Tax Asses sors here yesterday that he new reassessment program . was de signed to "equalize" taxes. The school, under the auspices of the State Board of Tax Commissioners, is being attended by township assessors and trustees from 31 southeastern and central Indiana counties. The school was expected to adjourn its two-day meeting today. Other Meetings. Later today and tomorrow, a similar school was scheduled at Bloomington, for southwestern counties, and at Purdue University, Lafayette, Friday and Saturday for northern counties The officials estimated that owners of more than 66 per cent of the property in the state would pay about what they are being assessed now. But, they said, some 17 per cent of the property not now on the tax rolls will be heavily assessed, with assessments running back for at least five years. They added that more .than eight per cent of the state property underassessed in the past would get increases, while owners of another eight per cent who have been overassessed Would receive lower rates. Newsom estimated that some $500,000,000 worth of Indiana property is escaping taxation. Frank J. Murphy, state assessment council secretary, said that an estimated $88,000,000 would be taken In from owners who have ' been dodging property taxes. Indiana Guard Opens Recruiting INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 23 (UP) The ranks of the Indiana National Guard were open to unlimited recruiting today for the first time in five months. " Brig. Gen. Howard Maxwell, State Adjutant General, said Hoosier Guard officials would resume recruiting, designed to put the state's ground forces at 16,000 men. The ban . was lifted bv the National Guard bureau at Washington, Maxwell said. There are now 6.241 Indiana Guardsmen in the ground forces. Maxwell said, most of them in the 38th Division, commanded by Mai. Gen. Ben H. Watt. Unlimited enlistments in the State Guard were stopped last June 24 when President Truman signed the peacetime draft law. Since then, only officers, shorttime war veterans and the youngest class of men eligible for the draft have been permitted to enlist. Graysville FJ.A. Plans Scrap Drive The Graysville F.F.A. will pick up scrap and junk all day Friday, Nov. 26, and Saturday morning, Nov. 27. They ask that, the scrap be collected and ready for picking up. They would like to have iron beds, stoves, machinery, car bodies, pipes, radiators, batteries, rags, burlap sacks, cotton mattresses, tin. wire, and any other scrap metal. No paper or rubber will be picked up. Please call and report junk to be collected to any Graysville F.F.A. member or to E. J. Wagner, Graysville. ROTARY CLUB MEETS MONDAY The Sullivan Rotary . Club heard an interesting account of the history of railroads at the Monday luncheon of the group pt the Davis Hotel. Thomas McRoberts gave the account and then took the members to the C. & E. I. depot for a demonstration of a new safety svstern. John mrbaugh was pro gram chairman. . . . FILE?' COMPLAINT ON ACCOUNT The Plumbing Supply Com pany has filed a complaint on account against Lewis P. Carter In the Sullivan Circuit Court.

King George Begins Rest For Ailment LONDON, Nov. 23 (UP)

King George VI began an indef inite rest today because of a painful circulatory ailment of the legs which Buckingham Palace sources said posed no immediate danger to his life. ' The 53-year-old monarch will not be bedfast. But he will be required to take as much rest as possible, and to favor his right leg where the affliction was the keensst. Although the trouble gener ally was called a blood clot, sources close to the palace said it was not necessarily a clot. The gravity with which the ailment was regarded was made plain by the cancellation of the royal tour of Australia and New Zealand, scheduled for early next year. It was the first major en gagement cancelled by the King in his 12 years on the throne, and his first serious illness since 1917 when he underwent an emergency operation for duodenal ulcer. Tha Union Service e "t 1 4 US 4 Sullivan churches win unite in; a union service to observe the Thanksgiving holiday Wednesday night at . the First Christian Church. The program will begin at 7:30 p. m., and all persons in the city are invited to attend the meeting. In conjunction with the observance, a special offering will be taken to go to the CROP fund for supplying food for the needy overseas. This collection will be entirely apart from any other church donation for the CROP cause. The Rev. W. H. Dillard of North Vernon, Ind., will deliver the sermon of the evening. The Rev. Jack Anderson of the Christian Church will be the presiding minister. - , The' program for the service is as follows: Organ Prelude. Hymn Congregation. Prayer The Rev. E. E. Aldrich of the Methodist Church. Responsive Reading The Rev. H. G. Weisbecker of the Presby terian Church. Hymn Congregation. Scripture Reading The Rev. R. E. Pavy of the Baptist Church. Anthem Christian. Church -hoir. Offering for CROP. Anthem Christian Church -hoir. Sermon The Rev. W. H. Dilard of North Vernon Hymn Congregation. Benediction Rev. E. E. Aidrich. Two Counfv Men Are Included Two Sullivan County men were inducted into the Army last Friday under the peacetime draft. The men, both from Farmersourg, were William J. McCoskey and Orbrey Orville Phipps, Jr. They went to Camp Breckenridge, Ky. They were included in the first grouo of four men to go from the Terre Haute district. In addition, eleven more coun ty men have taken . pre-induc tion physicals at the ierre Haute recruiting station. EVANSVILLE MAN KILLED OBY TRAIN EVANSVILLE, Nov. 23.(UP) Robert C. Beal, 64-year-old

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Evansville railroad man, was in-jterday. Goodrich was manager of , received recognition as a soloist twelve-piece Chicago orchestra. Bryant of Endicott, New York, jured fatally last night when he, the Reck Oil Co., the Indiana and and received a medal as the Dancing will start promptly at announce the birth" of a son! stumbled over a signal box intojOhio Public Service Co., and thejstudent with the best school 10 p. m. which will be for Elks-John Thomas. Mrs. Bryant is the path of a freight train at the Winchester Peoples Loan and snirit by the unanimous vote of .only and all proceeds will go the former Doris Reeves of SulHowell railroad yards. " Trust Co. the faculty. She also received I into this fund. livan.

Egypt Threatens ToQuif UHlf Israel Admitted (By United Press) Egypt threatened today to walk

out of the United Nations if Israel is admitted as a member. Adly Andraos Bey of Egypt made the threat in the UN politi cal committee in Paris after Aus tralia followed the United States in urging that the Jewish state be admitted as a member. "In certain homes and certain clubs of the United States," he said, "Jews are not accepted willingly. - "In a few days, the United States is going to present Israel for memership here. When things happen, when people are elected to membership in a club whom certain members don't like, the only thing left for the other members is to walk out. I "That is the only thing left for us to do." I Questioned by newsmen later,' Andraos modified his statement to the extent of saying that Egypt would "consider" quitting the UN if Israel were admitted. He j said he did not think the UN would admit the Jewish state. In Tel Aviv, authoritative Jewish snnrrps sairi Epvnt has rpippfed the anneal of Brie. Gen. William E. Riley, head of the UN truce team, for direct Arab-Jew-ish peace talks. Israel already has, agreed to such talks, Other foreign news included: . PARIS' Premier Henri Queuille's coalition government appcared certain to get a vote of confidence. tonight on its piession of the Communist-led French coal strike by force, but us aays nevertheless were be-! lieved numbered. Socialist and Popular Republican members were expected to balk at Queuilie's plans for drastic new antistrike laws. FRANKFURT The U n i t e d states tightened security along the border of Czechoslovakia and the U S. zone of Germany follow mg the- roundup "of "morgIian 20" ;Czech spies in the American an - oriusn zones of Germany. U. S A.,, ., . . " Army headquarters at Heidelbers1 ZZ " tnat its counter-intel-obcihs naa oroken the Czech ring. Clay Says Reds Failed To Get Labor Unrest BERLIN, Nov. 23 (UP)-Gen. Lucius D. Clay reported today that the Communist trade union in the Soviet occupation zone had tried in vain to exploit labor unrest in Western Germany. In his semi-monthly report to Washington, Clay said that when the trade unions in Western Germany called a 24-hour strike in protest against the high cost of living, the Eastern Communist trade union tried to convene the all-German union congress. The Communists, according to the report, believed the time was ripe for an extension of the strike plans in the Anglo-American area. . Clay also reported new industrial gains, with steel production in the Anglo-American area set ting a post-war record for the fifth straight month. The steel output in October rose 7 per cent to 610,300 tons a rate which would make the annual production 7,320,000 tons.. The British-licensed DPD news agency reported that the Russian zone railway system had prepared a secret plan to halt service on the Berlin elevated railway in the Western sectors. " No date has yet been set, the agency said. However, Taegliche Rundschau; official German language newspaper of the Soviet military ad ministration, said last week that traffic of all kinds would be halted between the Eastern and Western sectors of Berlin after the Dec. 5 municipal elections in the city. The elections have been boy cotted by the Russians. GOODRICH RITES Tn rf wrniMirsnAV t WINCHESTER, Nov. 23. (UP) Services will be held tomorrow for William Wallace Goodrich, age 77, brother of James P. Good rich, former governor of Indiana, who died at his home here yes

Republican Blames GOP For Election Loss INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 23 (UP) Rev, Ralph Harvey, R., Ind., last 'night blamed the 1948 Republican election defeat on the GOP itself. Speaking at a Republican dinner here, Harvey, representative from the 10th Indiana District, criticized GOP leaders for allowing the party to be called "reactionary." He said the

Democrats would cause a depression if they carry out their platform pledges. ; "It is useless to blame the' voters for not voting rignt, . said Harvev. "Rather, it is for party workers and leaders to J . j :i iir vilv steer xowaiu n. su,wj not steering the right course or we would be in power today." Looms Between China, Reds NANKING, Nov. 23 (UP) A maior battle between Nationalist troops under 'ever victorious' Nationalist Gen. iU JLSO-I1 ana Communist soldiers under Gen Lin Piao shaped up today along a 50-mile line between Peiping and Tientsin The government's position in Hopeh Province in North China became more critical when the Nationalists abandoned faoting,

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about 80 miles southwest of sup-!peiping. Six columns of Communist troops were said to be converging

along the Peiping-Tientsin front, Lin's soldiers reportedly reached !thP .a?t bank of the historic Grand Canal about 45 miles southeast of ; Peiping. " ' Fii was said to have deployed a large, force in Mataochen and Sossuwu west of the Grand Canal (to check the advancing Commun- . , , xra ar Peared to be. rail communications with Tientsin and the coast and to isolate Sill HIIU uic .tuoai rwnOCp mita1 . Meanwhile, Central News Ag ency reported two government columns heading north from' Pengpu to reopen rail contact with Suchow smashed to within 16 miles of Communist-held Suhsien, key station between Pengpu and Suchow. East of Suchow, the so-called gateway to Nanking, government rescue columns also were reported to have made a two mile advance in the last 24 hours. The gains narrowed the gap between them and Gen. Huang Po-Tao s encircled forces to 10 miles. MILK PRICE DOWN AT TERRE HAUTE TERRE HAUTE, Nov. 23. (U.R) Terre Haute milk retailers to day announced a one-cent reduc tion per quart in milk prices. Milk now is 20 cents, buttermilk 19 cents and cottage cheese 20 cents a pound. They said the price cuts were the result of lower raw milk ! Prices. .1

County Board Of Education Hames Myrna Mayfield For Elks Scholarship

The Sullivan Elks Lodse. No. 911 has announced the 1 selec tion of Miss Myrna Lee Mayfield as the winner of the Elks Scholarship for , nurses training. Miss Mayfield was chosen 'from a list of applicants by the County Board of Education which is comprised of the Township Trustees and the Superintendent of the County Schools. The Elks lodge plans to make an an nual award of this . scholarship which will give I a girl graduate of Sullivan County, tuition for a three-year course in nurses training together with a snending allowance. Miss Mayfield is the first winner of such a scholarship. Miss Mayfield, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Mayfield of Shelburn, is a graduate of the Shelburn High School. She was on the honor ( roll each grading period during her twelve years in school. She was yell leader' for four years and also had the 'leading feminine roles in both the junior and the honor roll senior class plays. She was' voted queen during her junior year by her classmates and was a member of the chorus all four years. At commencement she

Congress To Get Anti-Inflation

ill In January WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (UP) President Truman will present a "definite" anti-inflation program to the 81st Congress in January, a Presidential adviser said today. Dr. Edwin C. Nourse, chairman of the President's council of economic advisers, told newsmen after a meeting with the President that Mr. Truman asked him to head a group of department and agency heads in coordinating the anti-inflation program His statement was made after it was disclosed that the National Security Resources Board has drawn up legislation outlining a complete system of price, manpower and other economic controls necessary in case of war. Nourse said the anti-inflation program will be outlined . gen erally in .president irumans "State of the Union" message in January and his economic report which will follow shortly after the State of the Union message. Detailed phases of the antiinflation program probably will be presented in special messages land in requests from the White House for specific legislation, Nourse said. Nothing on the program will be made public before the State of the Union message and the economic report go to Congress, Nourse said In reply to other questions on the type of program, Nourse, would say only, "there will be a definite program." Junior High Team Tops Pleasantville The Sullivan Junior Darts came from behind in the last quarter of DatiKtauan Kali IC til WIG wmm h fe a J. . , . lSUWI yi 0 VV I The visitors led at all the rest, periods by two points, but couldn't hold the lead in the last quarter. Hale led Pleasantville with 1 eight points, while Kimmell and Huff topped the Dart scoring with six points apiece. Summary: Sullivan (23) FG FT PF TP, Kimmell, f ........ 2 Templeton, f ..... 0 J. Arnett, f ........ 2 B. Arnett, f ........ 1 Eslinger, c .... 0 Lafollette, e 0 Walls, g 1 Huff, g ........... 1 2 3 6. 0 0 0 0 . 5 4! 1.03 2 2 2 0 10 0 4 2 J 4 4 6 9 19 23 Totals 7 Pleasantville (22) FG FT PF TP 1 Wehmeir, f ...... 1 3 3 Dunford, f ........ 0 j Figg, f , Hollingsworth, c i Klutey, c Hale, g Hendrickson, g Totals . . i' . 6 . 10 15 22 Officials, Merder and Truelock. I . typing awards. Miss Mayfield is already en'rolled in the St. Anthony Hos1 pital in Terre Haute where she. will take her nurses training. For the benefit of their Nurses Educational Fund, the Sullivan Elks, No. 911 will hold a dance Wednesday night, November 24 featuring Stan Sterbenz and his

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Czech Spy Ring In Germany Broken FRANKFURT, Nov. 23. (UP) The Czech spy ring smashed by U.S. Army counter-intelligence agents in the American zone of Germany was compiling information about American accupation troops, the Army disclosed

today. More than 20 spies, all but one either native or Sudeten Germans, were rounded up Nov. 9 by Am erican agents in the American ad British zones of Germany. The one who claimed to be non-German said he was a Czech citizen. Some of those arrested probably will be tried by a special military tribunal on charges of act prejudicial to the United States occupation. The tribunal will be appointed by Gen. Lucius D. Clay, American occupation commander. The Army said that the Czech agents also were interested in "'Sudeten German activity, Czech refugee activity and Bavarian party activity.". Undecided Voter Did If. Gallup Declares NEW YORK, Nov. 23 (UP) It was the undecided voter who did it, George Gallup reported today. Gallup, whose poll showed Gov. Thomas E. Dewey would be elected President, blamed the mistake on the fact his surveyors stopped canvassing 10 to j" days before the election, After that, he said, a lot of .People changed their minds. Statisticians for Gallup's .In stitute of Public Opinion, who have completed their first check mto tne reason President Truman s popular vote . was underestimated, said failure to continue questioning voters right up to election eve was a mistake. Gallup said the statisticians jhad found that 8.7 per cent or some 9,uuu,uuu people were undecided about their vote when the polling ended. At that time jr" uiimci wiubu uic per cent. xhen the voters de icided and the il hWam I wrong, "Results of the first study point to a substantial shift of votes v from Governor Dewey to President Truman during the closing days and hours of the campaign," the , report said; "There was also a continuation in the last days of the shift from Henry A. Wallace to Mr. Truman." The analysis was based on a study initiated by the Gallup organization before the . election: Each person interviewed was asked to report later how he actually . had voted. "If later analysis of other facts bears out. the results of the first story ,! Gallup said, "It

5, would appear that the chief 0 .failure in election forecasts this 2 year were , due to decisions made 0 , by the poll directors rather than 2 by any failure in the sampling

system itself." CIO Asks Return To Wagner Act PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 23. (UP) The CIO called today for repeal of the Taft-Hartley law and a return to 'the Wagner Act only a few minutes after Sen. Wayne L. Morse, R.., Ore., told convention delegates that "simple t repeal" is not enough. Morse, one of three Republican Senators who fought against the Taft-Hartley labor law, was given an enthusiastic reception by the CIO national convention but his advice was not needed. He told the delegates that whatever new law is passed by Congress should include some needed revisions in the Wagner Act. With little discussion, the convention approved a section of the resolutions committee report call ing for "repudiation and repeal" of the Taft-Hartley law. The resolution urged President Truman and Congress to restore the Wagner Act of 1935 as the law of the land. Earlier, the CIO right wing lashed out at the left wing again with a resolution committee report that evoked protests on five counts from left wing spokesmen, The committee .report called for support of the Marshall plan and rejected proposals for new doIitical parties. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Francis E.

U.S. Proposes Arab-Jewish

Land Exch PARIS, Nov. 23 (UP) The United States proposed today a broad United Nations conciliation program to encourage an Arab-Jewish territorial exchange in Palestine and the final settlement of all outstanding , questions there. Dr. Philip Jessup submitted the American proposal in the form of amendments to a British resolution which would order, the Arabs and Jews to settle on a basis of the Bernadotte plan. It would give the Negev to the Arabs and Western Galilee to the Jews, ' . The formal proposal calling for direct Arab-Jewish negotiations through a three-nan UN conciliation commission was presented to the UN political committee. The U. S. scheme would cut away key parts of the British blueprint' for the final Palestine settlement. It especially would prohibit the General Assembly from imposing any territorial or other provisions on the Jews and Arabs without the agreement of both sides. Although pullin? some teeth from the British resolution. Jessup nevertheless proposed that the General Assembly ask both sides in Palestine to take into account the territorial exchange proposed by the Bernadotte plan. Count Folke Bernadotte, Palestine mediator for the UN. drafted the plan iust before he was assassinated in Jerusalem. . He proposed, in a reversal of the original UN partition plan, that the Negev so to the Arabs and Western Galilee to the Jews, in j a sort of exchange making for j geographical coherence. ; State GOP Reports Campaign Expenses - INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 23, (UP) The recent election campaign cost the Indiana Republican party $319,960.29, GOP state officials reported today. James W. Costin, state Republican central committee treasurer, said the largest single item was $66,857.23 for printing. Publicity was second with an expenditure of $41,184.67; radio advertising cost $37,234.13, and the state convention cost $14,424.81. Costin's report showed that contributions to the state GOP fund amounted to '$237,478.44. With a cash balance on hand as of May 4, this left an unspent balance' in the state Republican party treasury of $44,881.66. Today's Markets INDIANAPOLIS, Nov 23. (U.R) Hogs 8,500; moderately active, mostly 25c to 50c lower; early, sales good and choice barrows and gilts 160-220 lbs., $22.75 $23.25, top $23.50 for a few loads mostly 210 lbs. down; few sales around 225-270 lbs., $22.25 $22.75; heavier weights scarce; 100-160 lbs. around 50c lower it $22.00 down; sows about steady at $18.50 $20.00, few big weights down to $18.00. Cattle 1,200, calves 400; steers and heifers fairly active, steady, instances 25c higher; heifers firm, cows steady to strong; three loads good and choice weighty steers $32.00; four loads mostly good medium weight steers $26.50 $28.50; mixed medium and good steer and heifer yearlings $23.50 $29.00; two loads 800 lb.' fed heifers $30.00; good beef cows $19.00 $20.00; vealers fairly active, about steady, good and choice $30.00 $32.50. Sheep 2,000; fat native wooled lambs fully steady, good and choice $25.00 $25.50, top $25.50; load fed Southwest lambs 86 lb. average barely steady at $25.00; two loads fed Texas yearlings No. 1 pels 97-100 lbs. steady at $22.00; slaughter ewes around steady. good and choice $7.00 $8.50. INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 23. (U.R) Cash grain: Wheat: firm; receipts 4 cars; No. 1 red $2.28; No. l'hard $2.27; No. 2 red $2.27; No. 2 hard $2.26. Corn: firm; receipts 130 cars; No. 2 yellow $1.31; No. 3 yellow $1:29; No. 2 white $1.39; No. 3 white $1.37. Oats: firm; receipts 19 cars; No. 2 white 86c; No. 2 red 86c. Soybeans: firm; receipts 16 cars; $2.62 carload lots F-O-B Indiana and Illinois points.

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Longshoremen Strike Soon NEW YORK, Nov. ' 23. U.R) Federal mediators remained optimistic about an early seitlemeiii of the East Coast longshoremen's walkout today as shipowners met to consider possible new concessions to the-strikers. "We are looking for a speedy solution," said William N. Margolis, assistant director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service "I see nothing that will break down negotiations now." . " Representatives of the 65.00C members of the International Longshoremen's Association (AFL) who have been on strike for 14 days turned down as "nothing new" a weekend compromise offer by the shippers. That plan had called for the men to return to work pending negotiations on a welfare plan, demanded by the 1 union along with a 25-cents hourly wage increase. . "We have no right to submit this to our membership," said Joseph P. Ryan, president of the ILA, "because it is no different than the proposition rejected by the members." SOUTHAMPTON, Eng., Nov. 23. (UP) The engine room crew of the liner Queen Elizabeth today rejected a proposal that the ship sail for New York tomorrow regardless of when the dock strike there ends It was believed other crew members would not oppose the enginemen's decision. The decis ion apparently doomed hopes that the vessel would cast off at 4:15 p. m. (10:15 a. m CST) tomorrow. The proposal was advanced by the Cunard White Star Line, owners of the Elizabeth. They are anxious to get tlys 83,000-ton liner a,nd its more than 1,400 passengers under way in the expectation that the New York strike would be over befwe-the -vessel arrived. If the strike were not settled, the company said, the liner would anchor in the Hudson River. ritish Freighter Is Feared Lost NEW YORK, Nov. 23 (UP) The 5,500-ton British freighter, Hopestar with a crew of 37 was unreported today and may have foundered in an Atlantic gale, the Coast Guard said. The Hopestar, en route from Newcastle, England, to Philadelphia, was six days overdue. The Coast Guard said the ship sent an arrival report at 8 p.m. on Nov. 14 saying it was 900 milus east of New York and had suffered heavy weather damage, particularly to the deep tank a tank which runs up from the hull amidships. ' - At that time the Hopestar said it would make an emergency step at Cape Henlopen, Del. The ship radioed it would arrive off Henlopen by 10:30 p.m. on Nov. 17. "We have not heard from her since," a Coast Guardsman said. "Yesterday we assumed she may have floundered in a gale that would have hit her on the morning of the 14th." . The Coast Guard said several planes were searching for the vessel two U.S. Air Force planes from Bermuda, three RCAF planes from Halifax, one Coast Guard plane from Argentia, NHd., another from Floyd Bennett Field, N.Y., and additional Coast Guard planes from the Salem, Mass., Coast Guard station. Mercury To Stay Above Normal INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 23 (UP) The mercury will hover slightly above the seasonal normal for the next five days, the weatherman said today. " The Indianapolis weather bureau said temperatures would avergae from three to six de

grees above normal the rest of the week. Weather experts predicted that rain, falling mostly tomorrow night end Thursday, would average one-half to one inch in Southern Indiana and from one-quarter to one-half inch in the Northern part of the state. Warmer weather was seen for tomorrow and Thursday, colder temperatures Friday and a "rising trend" Saturday and Sunday- . . ... .-iiLa