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MWMC SUTTER (left), 19-year-old soldier, is under arrest, and *iis 'Marine companion, Francis McDermott (right). 25. is dead following what police said was-a phosphorus bombing of a New York bar by the two. Thirteen (persons were Ixidly burned in the explosion, and McDermitt was shot thtough the head by police and died after reaching a hospital. The taverb was Wrecked. >

Fervent Appeal From Pope On Christmas Eve Fervent Plea For World Peace Made <ln Annual Message <’ VATICAN CITY U»P — Pope Pius XII warned, both tbes'East and the West today In a Christmas Eve’ broadcast that thej- face destruction by Frankenstein-like industrial and mechanical social systems, if “the designs of God’’ and the individual dignity of man are neglected. _ , . \ In an 8,000-word Christmas Message broadcast \, to the faithful around the world, the pope dealt at greater length With social problems) facing mankind than with questions of War and peace which have dominated most of his previous Yule messages. \ • Mindful of what he called the “mournful chorus of the poor and oppressed" throughout the world, the pbpe. sajcf that no one political system, capitalism or Communism, wassolving the grave ecomic and social problems/ of the hour. , Salvation cannot come from production and organization alone, he said J( T , Man, he said, has proved. himself almost incapable of controlling the complex machines he has built in his efforts to subjugate the powerful forces of nature “and now runs the danger of Being overrun and crushed by them.’’ “This, incapacity, of control,” the pontiff in hi? 14th Christmas broadcast, by itself advise men who are its not to await salvation solely through the techniques of production and organization.” ' The speech vivas broadcast and rebroadcast in 23 languages, including Russian. The pope directed special attention to the struggle of the church, behind, the • Iron Curtain “in vast regions the weight of absolute power bends,bodies and sotils.” - In those landSi he said, the church first to suffer acute anguish. , “Its sons, ’, he said, “ar® victims of a permanent persecution, direct or indirect, sometimes open and sometimes subtle. "Ancient Christian communities, noted for the ardor of their faith and the glory of their saints, for the splendor of their work in theological science and Christian art and above all for . the spreading of their charity and their civilization among the people, find themselves close to the. ruin of their greatness. “Youthful Chrlstians-r-the vinel--of the Lord, rich in promise and nourished by the blood and sweat of its new apostles—upheld (Turn To Pare Three) INDIANA WEATHER \ Cloudy and a little colder' with light mow south and oo caslonal snow flurries north tonight and Thursday. Low tonight 25-3O\north, 3034 south. High Thursday 3035. \

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School Board Object Os One PT A Survey Second In Series On School Problems This is the second of a series of releases by «he Lincoln P.T-A-dealing with the seven surveys being circulated ampng the organization’s! committees, a report of .whieh is scheduled to be made by March T 5. The sands of quest.ohs today has to do. with “school board.’’ the committee considering them comprised of Chester Dalzell, chairman, and Johp DeVoss. “What is the make-up of the school board?” ' (1) By What state and local laws is tlie school board governed ? (2) Is the school board elected or appointed? . (3) In either ceaeAhow are the candidates nominated'? \ (4) Do political affiliations influence the selection of school board members? . f (5) •Should school board/ members be selected without reference to partisan politics? (fi!) What should be the personal qualifications for pch/00l board membership? I (7) What provisions are made for the orientation of new school Ivoard members? A (8) “Who are the present school board members? '-Vi , (9) How long has each served? (10) Does each attend school boawd meetings regularly? (11) What are school board members paid for their services? (12) What •board accept as the goals of the public schools? "-fd , (13) What is the voting record of each on major issues? ■ (14) is the school "board responsible for policy making or administrative details, or both? (15) Does she school; board make long-range plans? (16) Does the school hoard give the administrative staff enough freedom of aetiob? (17) Are the meetings of the school board open to the 'public and to the press ? (18) Are some closed sessions of the school board necessary? (19) Does the school board have regularly scheduled \nieetings? (20) Are detailed records of the school 'board meetings kept? (21) Does the school board keep the community informed, of school affairs? . Z. \ *(22) Does the school board seek the cooperation of other laymen iir solving problems? . v (23) To what extent does the school board control, the amount of mopey the comstanity allots to schools? , (25) Does the school board attempt to measure the effectiveness of the schools? (26) Do your school board members agree with you on the goals of public schools? (27) How did Gary get do elect their school board? \ (28) Based on the above facts (answers?) what revisions do you feel are neceshafy?” p The > next series will treat of ,f school luiich program.”

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Parting Blast By Russia On U. S„ Britain Charges Nations In \ Attempt At Troops Into The Kashmir * UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. UP —Russja kept the United Nations security council working overtime in its last session before holiday' recess Tuesday night for a parting blast'against the United States and Britain. Soviet delegate Valerian A. Zorin charged the two nations were trying to get their own troops into Kashmir by means of a U.N. resolution calling for a /plebiscite in thgt princely state. T%e resolution was passed over the| Soviet objections, however, and the 1 security council recessed at 7:01 p.m. Until after the first of the year. The general assembly of the, U.N. recessed Monday until Feb; 24.- \ . Actually, the Anglo - American resolution, approved by a. 9-0 council vote with Russia abstaining, said nothing about putting Western troops tn Kashmir, the mountain-, ous country whose future accession to India or Pakistan eventually may be decided by a U.N.sponsored plebiscite. It called on India and Pakistan to negotiate a settlement \ and suggested limits for the number of troops to be kept by each side in Kashmir pending the plebiscite. A U.N. special representative mentioned in a report that perhaps "U.N. troops” might be sent in to police'the eventual plebiscite if India and Pakistan could not reach agreement on demilitarization. The U.N. representative is an American — Dr. Frank C. Graham, former Democratic senator and onetime president of the University of North Carolina. But Zorin geized upon Graham’s report to get in what were his first real licks on his own in the Kremlin’s? “Hate America” camUntil Tuesday, when Andrei Gromyko left, Zorin had been under the shadow of Russia’s most famous “Ao man” and his top boss, foreign minister Andrei Y. Visliinsky, although he took over as permanent Soviet representative from Jacob A. Malik early last fall. Good Fellows Previous total $945.25 Rotary 10.00 Kane’s Paint Store 5.00 A Friend 5.00 /. ? • Total ,———1965.25 Toys from Smith Drug Store. Library To Close On Christmas Day .Miss Bertha Heller, librarian, announced today that the public library will close this evening at 6 o’clock for Christinas and will open again Friday at the usual time.

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Ike Appoints Ex-Democrat As Ag Aide True Morse Named As Undersecretary For Agriculture NEW YORK, UP — Presidentelect Eisenhower today named True D. Morse, a former Democrat who helped work out the farm plank in the 1952 (Republican platform, as liis undersecretary of agriculture. Morse lists himself as a Democrat in the 1952-53 “Who’S Who.” But in St. Louis, where he heads the Doane Agricultural Service, Inc., he was described as “a former Democrat who has voted Republican for the last 20 years.” During the Republican presidential campaign of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, Morse hegded a group of farm leaders working to get out the vote for DeWey. A farm boy. he was invited to help with th® GOP farm plank this year and worked on the plank prior to the Republican convention. A spokesman for Morse said'thfil has been his only activity in politics. He voted for Eisenhower/the spokesman said. James C. Hagerty. Eisenhower's press secretary, said Morse was “an Eisenhower supported’ during ■the campaign. However, in St. Louis it was said Morse did not campaign for \ As No. 1 man under the secretary of agriculture, Morse will re> ceivb a yearly salary of $17,500. He will succeed C. J. McCormick, present Undersecretary Os agricul- e ture. ‘ •. Eisenhower had a light schedule* ot appointments at his Commodore Hotel headquarters, ending at noon. Tonight, he wist help his family' decorate the Christmas tree and hang up stockings at his Morningside Heights residence. The Eisenhowers will have a turkey din-, ner Thursday and will exchange presents in the morning. 1

Christian Pilgrims To Worship At Bethlehem JERUSALEM, Palstine UP —ancient Bethlehem-Jerusalem :

Thousands of Christian pilgrims from this divided ‘city set out today for Bethlehem to worship in traditional Christmas Eve ceremonies at the birthplace of Christ.. \ One of the first parties to leave, headed by Patriarch Alberto Gori, passed beneath Jerusalem’s' Jgffa Gate early in the dfiy, skirted the barbed-wire no-man’s land between Israel and Jordan, and moved* off Slowly aldng the 15-mile route to Bethlehem. Special buses and taxis carrying thousands of other pilgrims and ’ tourists from all parts of the world were expected to head out of Jerusalem before nightfall. Among the first pilgrims to leave were 30 Christian ministers and laynicn led by the Rev. Hfirold Gretzhiger of Los Angeles/ Calif. Tlie patriarchal pariy wound through tlie Judean countryside, past the Garden of Gethsemane and across the slopes of the Mount of Olives, to Bethany — where Christ was annotated in the house of Simon leper. From Bethany the route climbs through low hills until it joins the

Weber Bath House ; Is Gutted By Fire Fire This Morning Guts Entire Hoiise -.p l '-, '■ j < Fire at 7:45 this morning gutted most of the inside of the Herman C. Weber bath'house. 507 North Sec-j ond street, sending thick, acrid clouds of smoke wafting heavily over the area. In the house at the time, was Miss .Elizabeth Scott, a roomer with the Weberg. Both the Webers had left earlier in the morning for Convoy, 0., to visit a relative. Herman “Pete” Weber was called at Ooevoy and rushed bank at about 8:15. Meanwhile Ferd Klenk, Mrs., Weber’s brother, donned a I gas mask and removed valuables from the hotase. No one was injured, except for some watery eyes from the greenish smoke. Brought under control by the Decatur fire department at about B:3o—three \ quarters of an hour later—the inside of the house was a charred, irreparable mass burned out as if seared by a blowtorch. "What didn't burn was either smoke damaged or water soaked. Several articles, of clothing were saved. Fire chief Cedric ’ Fisher and 15 volunteers and / regulars used two. pieces of the department’s newest equipment to combat the Maze, made all the more difficult because the house had been narrowly: partitioned into small rooms. The house was used aka steam bath. The steam equipment was all either water soaked or burned. The firemen found it impossible to get In the house bedhuse of the smoke filling the narow passages, doing most of the work from the outside, mainly from the rear roof where they chopped holes to get at the flames eating away at the upper floors.’ ‘ ~ Chief Fisher said-the fire started in a rear, ground floor stairway and made its way up to the attic and Upper floor. The cause of the fire is Undetermined and no estimate of the loss was available today.

of biblical times. ..Today’s skies, washed by fresh winds, were clear and blue across the Holy Land. Moonlight was expected tonight. Members of the diplomatic corps were scheduled to leave the Israeliheld section \of Jerusalem after dusk today. \ Some three thousand / persons crossed the Israeli-Jordan border at Jerusalem’s Mandelbaum Gate for a 36-hour holiday stay in Jordan, time enough for the pilgrim; to Bethlehem. The Mandelbattm Gate is Jerusalem’s only official point of contact between Jordan and IsraeL Tourists, foreigners employed by the Israeli government and commercial firms, members *of the clergy and other pilgrims crowded the patriarchate mansion where their documents were checked by border guards. Meanwhile, hundreds of pilgrims Slanned to celebrate Christmas in lazareth, where Christ grew to manhood. Entrance to that eity was restricted to holders of special permits. r

Auriol Seeks New Leader In French Crisis France Wallowing Without Leader Ip Deepening Crisis PARIS UP — President Vincent Auriol held an emergency meeting with former premier Rene Pleven today as France wallowed without a government in its deepening political crisis. [During the day Auriol planned to confer with at least five more former premiers in an effort to find a successor for Antoine Pinay, who resigned as premier early Tuesday. There seemed little hope that Aariol could solve the crisis, 18th of its kind in France since World War 11, until after Christmas. Auriol’s list of appointments, included talks with Edgar Faure, Rene Mayer, Jules Moch, and Andre Diethelm after his session Mrith Pleven, who heads the moderate Democratic and Socialist Upibn of Resistance UDSR par- ** . ;■ ' 'I Faure and . Mayer are former premiers. Moch is a leading Socialist. Diethelm is a supporter of Gen. Charles de Gaulle, wartime resistance leader who Tuesday night appealed fpr a regime that could “put new life” /into France. Later in the day Auriol was to talk with ’three/ other ex-premiers \ —* Paul Reynaud, Edouard Daladier and Felix Gouin, then receive delegations from Socialist and Communist|Parlimentary groups. France has grown accustomed to recurring political crisis in recent years, but AuriOl s efforts to form an 18th postwar government took on unusual urgency because of major economic and foreign problems plaguing France this month —notably in Indo-China and North Africa. De Gaulle issued a 400-word communique calling for an all-out housecleaning in the Frenph government. \ The former Fighting French leader blasted the “impotence” of Pinay’s regime and said that “the only hope for an enfeebled and menaced France is to put new (Tuna To Powre Six)

Teen-Agers Held In Fori Wayne Robbery Boy, Girl Confess Torturing Woman INDIANAPOLIS, UP — A teenage hby and his girl friend admitted to Indianapolis police today they tortured and robbed a Fort Wayne housewife. The boy, 15, and his girl, 16, were arrested as they got off a. Fort Wayne bus. They will be returned there to face charges. Their victim, Mrs. Gladys Baltes, 49, said the pair attacked her Tuesday her home, and beat her with a flashlight to make her tell w|here money was hidden. She said they took her to the -basement and bound her before allegedly stealing $24 in cash, « wrist watch and S2OO in non-negot-iable bonds. ’ \

Immigration Law Goes Into Effect Bars 269 Crewmen Os French Liner .\ - ■ NEW 'YORK UP —The French Luxury- liner Liberte steams past a port that no longer extends a wholesale welcome to people' from across the sea. More than a' fourth of the Liberte’s 974 crew members won’t be able to get off the ship for their usual New York shore leave. >— i- The French liner, scheduled to dock at, a Hudson River pier, was. the first foreign vessel to arrive in New Yprk since controversial McCarran-Walter immigration act became effective at midnight. At seaborts, international airports and border crossing around;the nation, U. S. immigration service officers began a tight curtailment of entry privileges under the new law, which was attacked bitterly by both presidential candidates in the recent election. \ At New York’s Idlewild- international airport, immigration authorities were standing by to put alien crew members of foreign planes through a screening that could force some of theip to spend their American layover, in detention on Ellis Island. f The McCarran-Walter act was passed Over President Truman’s veto last[ June by a congress anxious to revise outdated immigration add naturalization laws and at the same time make the country safe from Communist spies and other undesir&ble aliens. A storm of criticism broke after passage of the act. President-elect Eisenhower has promised to peek revision of some parts of it in' the new congress. I, Immigration authorities, meanwhile, set machinery in motion today to’administer the new law. An. immigration inspector who crossed the Atlantic aboard the Liberte to screen crew members during the Irip reported: by radio (Tun To Pace

No Marked Change In Siamese Twins ' .1 ' Surgery Performed A Week Ago Today CHICAGO UP — A week ago oday at 7:50 a.m. surgeons began, •nillimeter by millimeter, to slice hrough the heavy body structure that joined the' Brodie Siamese twins at the top of their skulls. Now the separated brothers will *ace a new threat to their lives, ind further surgery, if they survive the holiday season. L The 15-month old twins, condiion still showed no marked change. Rodney Dee was on the critical list and his weaker brother, Roger Lee, was “still very precarious.” At 7:50 a.m. Roger had been unconscious for 168 consecutive hours, clinging to life although he lost an important blood vessel and most of his brain covering in the separation operation. Doctors at University of Illinois Research and Educational Hospital said that in afew days the twins, sons of -Mr. and Mrs. Royt Brodie, of East Moline, 111., would reach a new crisis and either pass it or die. The medical men said that soon the twins’ bodies' will absorb the blood vessel sutures used to tie (Tint* Pace Eight)

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Heavy Losses Inflicted On Red Soldiers Initial Hours Os Christmas In Korea Are Almbst Peaceful SEOUL, Korea, Thursday; UP—, The first hours of Christmas in Korea were almost peaceful today after United Nations troops smashed a 1,000-man Chinese attack ou the West, Central Front. Allied* troops with massive artillery support inflicted what front imports described as “staggering” losses bn Reds who tried to make good their boast to march on Seoul by Christmas. , The attack erupted Wednesday near T-bone Hill at the head of one of the major invasion routes to Seoul. Allied troops were outnumbered 10 to one but crushed the attack with overwhelming firepower from machine guns, rifles and artillery. — Early > today only sporadic rounds from camouflaged heavy guns broke the silence along the snowy 155-mile front. At one 1 sector in the west a ComTfiunist broadcast (promised a fourhour cease-fire..on this Christmas morning. “We will.bease fire from 8 a.m. to noon in observance of your Christmas.” the broadcast said. Allied troops . w;ere alert for trickery. - Communist loudspeakers again blared Christmas carols interspersed with propaganda messages. Allied troops sang in candlelighted trenches only a distance behind the main line of resistance. \ Gunfire mounded briefly north of the Punchbowl on the eastern front as Allied and Communist night patrols collided in bright moonlight. V For at leakt a week, the Communists had been blaring over loud-speakers and warning in propaganda leaflets dropped by planes that they would be in Seoul by today. In the air, U. S. Sabrejets underscored the Reds’ defeat on the ground by ripping apart a "large force” of • Communist MIGJS’s in a battle just south of the Yalu River. Two MiG’s were probably destroyed find nine others were damaged. Except for scattered patrol actions, the front remained quiet and U.N. soldiers looked forward to the traditional Christmas feast. Cooks up and down the front began working Wednesday to have everything ready. Their job was more difficult because turkeys t arriving at the front were frozen as solid as -ice in the bitter Korean winter. The Christmas menu included —• with some variations — shrimp (Tarn To Pare Eljkt) Herber Burial Rites Here Friday Morning Funeral services will be held Friday at 9 a.m. at St. Mary’s Catholic church in Fort Wayne for Clarence Herber, former Decatur resident, who died Monday evenlpg. Burial wilj be in the Catholic cemetery in this city, with Adams Post 43, American Legion, conducting graveside rites. Mr. Herber was a past commander of the local Legion the post are asked to attend.