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FRIDAY, APRIL 1954- THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR PAGE 1 Groups Boost Yard Parks Senate Votes Statehood For Alaska, Hawaii I jus ii ira joumin i T' www V- j- i I uaiminw fqiimim mm- wTft. ps IZl 41, wwmii I in 1 'f mm IpA (W wmmr ASSS i SW' rv.v -A -ii vv 11 XvV i'v 7 I I.V""V -V'i. I' 1 Ike Signs Bill To Build U.S. Air Academy TOR STAt'S WASHINGTON BUREAU Washington President Eisenhower yesterday signed into law the bill authorizing the Air Force to establish a school to train officers like the Army's West PtSnt and Navy's Annapolis. Senator Homer E.

Capehart was invited to attend the White House ceremony at which Eisenhower affixed his signature to the bill. Indiana is one of the states considered to have a good chance of becoming the home of the new service school. A site near Madison, is known to have won favor with Air Secretary Harold E. Talbott, although other sites also are In the running. were sponsored by opponents of statehood for either territory, led by Senator Smathers On final passage, 23 Democrats joined 33 Republicans and 1 Independent against 19 Democrats and 9 Republicans.

Among the opponents were some Republicans who favored admitting Hawaii to the union but not Alaska. Senators Homer Capehart and William Indiana Republicans, both voted for passage of the bill. GOP leaders in the Hoiine were reported determined to prevent Alaska from achieving statehood now, even if It means a delay in admitting Hawaii. The House -passed a Hawaii- -fs 0 5' 11 )X hu tmr-ly. mi- iHti ifiiiaiiiaiiiiiiiiwiniWi laHTiiniiiiiu innnirmr-1 hi fiance, Jack McMillen, 20, as the couple, obtained a marriage license yesterday at Santa Monica, Cal.

The wedding is to take place Monday. (AP Wirephoto) DEMPSEY'S DAUGHTER TO WED The former world's heavyweight boxing cham- pion, Jack Dempsey, shown (left) with hi 17-year-old daughter, Barbara, and her F. Don Ricardo (right), newly-appointed chairman of the Mercantile Division of Yard Parks, was congratulated yesterday by Judge Saul I. Rabb, whowith E. E.

Martin, stepped down as temporary chairman of the division. The "ceremony took place at the division's first organizational meeting in the Athenaeum. (Star Photo) French Plead For Aid As Reds Hammer Fort "The rapid progress made by Yard Parks this year is due primarily to the work of this division, which can do more than any other group to improve the looks of the city." The entire Yard Parks project, was lauded by J. Russell Townsend, city park director, who pointed to the nine Yard Parks Clinics, attended by some 4,000 people, as mute evidence of the city's interest in the beautification campaign. Washington (AP) The Senate yesterday passed a bill to grant statehood to Hawaii and Alaska but the measure may languish in the House.

Republican leaders there are receptive to Hawaii but not to Alaska. The Senate passed the combined bill 57-28 after batting down moves to: "I Grant the two territories commonwealth status, like Puerto Rico's, instead of full-fledged statehood. Require a referendum In each territory to let the voters choose between commonwealth status and statehood. The first move was defeated fiO-24. the second 59-26.

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Sai. Sun, Drive-in Flower Mart 225 W. 16th St. Talbott will name a site sel ection board to decide where the school is to be located, according to provisions of the law. He already has indicated that Gen.

Carl Spaatz, World War II Air Force commander, and Lt. Gen. Herbert Harmon, chief of the academy project, will be mem bers of the board. Meantime, Lieutenant Gover nor Harold E. Handley of In diana has been in touch with Senator Capehart with a view to arranging a meeting with Secretary Talbott on the Mad ison site.

Indiana has thus far put forward no heavy pressure to get the school, and this fact is believed to weigh heavily in the state's favor. Some states have been extremely insistent upon getting the air academy. I.U. Fraternity To Be Closed As Drinking Fine Bloomington, Ind. (Spl.) In diana University officials yester day ordered the Delta Tau Del ta fraternity house to close and told its 42 members to find new quarters because of a drinking party.

The house was ordered closed for a month. I.U. officials also said that six members of the fraternity ana one nonmcmber involved in the party face disciplinary action by the dean's office. The action was the first major result in a move by the Inter-fraternity Council to halt drinking in fraternity houses. STRAUSS SAYS: fenses of Dien Bien Phu and seizing a toehold on the field at the heart of the forti fications.

French Union forces swarmed against the spearhead and wiped out the force that reached the air field. But successive waves of attackers poured in. THE LATER radio appeal from Castries was marked urgent. He Faid the bastion could be saved if help arrived, leaving the unexpressed implication that it could not otherwise. Twice before, early in the siege now in its 20th day, reinforcements have been parachuted into Dien Bien Phu.

A battalion of some 800 showered down into the dusty basin on March 14, the day after the Reds loosed their long awaited showdown siege. Two days later another battalion followed the first. Justice Jackson 111 Washington (AP) Justice Robert H. Jackson of the Supreme Court is in a Washington hospital for treatment of a mild heart attack, his ofifce announced yesterday. For lower cost results rely on STAR-NEWS Quick-Action WANT ADS ATlantic 2411.

Hanoi (UP) Red-besieged Dien Bien Phu made an urgent appeal for reinforcements last night to save the hard-pressed French bastion of northwest Indo-China from 40,000 fanatical attacking Communists. Col. Christian de Castries, commander of the battered garrison of 11,000 French Union troops, called for help soon after an all-out Red assault had passed its 48th hour. Castries' radio SOS indicated that the plight of the defenders had become desperate under two days of ceaseless hammering by waves of Red assault troops at batteries, ringing the isolated valley. Gen.

Henri Navarre, French commander, told Castries that every effort would be made to get reinforcements and supplies through the curtain of anti-aircraft fire supporting the Red siege. But a spokesman for Navarre warned that the tornadic barrage and the nearness of the rebel assault forces to the inner lines of the Dien Bien Phu defenses would make a re lief effort exceedingly difficult. Castries' appeal followed a turbulent day which saw Com munist shock troops crashing through the northeastern de STRAUSS SAYS: only statehood bill last year, as it had on two previous occasions, and that is all that President Eisenhower has asked for. Eisenhower told a iiewg conference in February he did not believe Alaska was feady yet. It was both or nothing when the Senate reached the voting stage after a month of intermittent debate.

Senate opponents argued that the nation's continental solidarity would be destroyed by admitting the two 'territories, and some cited what they called a threat of Communist infiltration from Hawaii. Advocates contended that admission of the two territories would be a psychological boost to the peoples of Asia and a blow to Soviet propaganda. They said both territories had met all the traditional requirements. Fountain Concluded From Page 1 the association that the lack of parking facilities is killing similar neighborhood business sections in other cities throughout the nation. Earlier in the day, Sagalow-sky and other South Side businessmen called on Mayor Clark and the works board to discuss the plan.

George P. Cafouros, South Side civic leader and member of the board, helped arrange the conferences. Sagalowsky reported that "the city looks with favor on this kind of plan." During discussion of the plan to use city condemnation procedure to acquire parking lot space, the businessmen expressed optimism for the future if the parking problem around the busy Virginia Avenue-Shelby-Prospect Street intersection could be solved. C. H.

Shuppey, manager of of the G. C. Murphy Company branch store, said his firm planned to spend nearly on improvements. Sagalow-sky indicated his theater was that dancing should be fun and that everyone has a dormant dancing ability. After only a few lessons at Arthur Murray's you'll find this ability coming to life and new poise and confidence will be yours.

So come into Arthur Murray's now and dance out of darkness into the light of new popularity. School oj Dancing Traffic Cops Ordered To Use Rifles Vincennes, Ind. (Spl.) Vin-c policemen yesterday were ordered by Police Chief James F. Harlow to use rifles to stop speeding motorists who refuse to halt. For two consecutive days police have chased cars through the city at high rates of speed.

Tuesday morning police fired at ft car which drove through two road blocks, wounding fatally Carl Hale, 18 years old, of Springville. Wednesday morning police shot the tires off a car driven by Ralph Clevy of Vincennes after a chase through the city at an 80-mile-an-hour clip. Clevy faces charges of speeding, resisting arrest and operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of liqOor. Wednesday night police again had to fire at the tires of William E. Walters, 41, after chasing his car through the city at 70 miles an hour.

paying about $25,000 for Cinemascope equipment. The plan calls for the works board to float revenue bonds to finance the project and to Install parking meters. Merchants Would purchase the bonds. They would be paid off from the parking meter revenue. 'Cost of the $200,000 project, which would cover 11 city lots on the proposed site, could be paid off in 20 years, Sagalowsky predicted.

An alternate, undisclosed location in the same neighborhood also is under consideration as the site of the parking lot if the area along Woodlawn Avenue is found to be unsatisfactory. Landing Accident Kills Three On Carrier Midway Washington (AP) The Navy yesterday, reported the deaths of three men in an aircraft landing accident on the carrier Midway in the Mediterranean Wednesday. The dead: Lt. William Henry Paulsen of Virginia Beach, Va. Lt.

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Keep curls and sidewalks clean. 2. Cut and pull all dead weeds and shrubs. 3. Keep all papers and debris in containers.

4. Keep windows shining. 5. Keep the backyard and alley looking like a boulevard. 6.

Paint up as well as clean up. MERCHANTS ATTENDING the affair promised to carry the message to members of their respective groups and report in a month on accomplishments. Pointing to the mammoth "Plant and Grow with the West Side" program undertaken by the West Washington Street Business and Professional Asso ciation, which Ricardo also heads, Robert P. Early, managing editor of The Indianapolis Star, said: TRADITION WITH A TOUCH ''r' THE BOTANY, mi BUSINESS GROUPS repre- sented at the luncheon, in addition to city officials and Yard Parks executives, were: Murray Morris, Downtown Merchants Association; Martin O'Brien, 10th and Arlington Merchants Association; Mrs. Mary P.

Mc-Guire, East Side Better Business and Civic League; Howard V. Bibler, division vice-chairman from the Irvington Business Association, and Charles Possman, Madison Avenue Business Association. Others were: William Hemp-fling, Mapleton Business Association; Clarence W. Risk, Northeast Business Association; Bernard Goodman, West Michigan Street Business arid Professional Men's Association; Ted Hill, Fairfield and College Merchants Association; Hal Shroyer, 30th and Illinois Merchants Association, and Mart Batiste, 24th and Northwestern Business Association. OF TOMORROW TAILOR a hi" i 4 I 'X jf fa ite xLr DATA Pure Worsted Gabardine London Mellowed Blue Brown Gray Natural Raglans with roll collars-fa Daroff Specialty) regular collar coats with set-in sleeves You'll dance with confidence after your very first lesson at Arthur Murray's Are you getting as much fun out of dancing as you should or are you dancing in the dark? Arthur Murray believes Call or come In today, accept our complimentary lesson and dance analysis- ARTHUR MURRAY This Jacket, Sir, is Pure Studio Open 10 A.M.

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