Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 196, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1931 — Page 14

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WORLD LIFTS VOICE IN SONG OF CHRISTMAS Gaiety and Solemnity Mark Observances; Russia, Alone, Sneers. BY H. L. PERCY l nited Prew Staff Correspondent LONDON, Dec. 25. England started a three-day Christmas vacation today. When the stores, packed throughout the day with last-minute shoppers, shut their doors on Christmas eve, an all-pervading quiet descended on the business sections of all big towns. By 4 p. m. today, even the transport services will have stopped. Taxicabs will be at a premium. Few, if any, people will be out of doors. Except for essential services, like newspapers, transports and stores selling daily necessities, everything wil remain closed until Monday. Many hotels have special plans for the Christmas holiday at a special inclusive charge. The whole royal family is spending Christmas at Sandringham, Norfolk, where a Christmas tree and many presents were prepared for the king and queen’s grandchildren. Gaiety Sweeps Paris By l n ilnl /’rc.s-.i PARIS, Dec. 25.—Christmas is being celebrated in Paris and every city of France this year with all the traditional festivity and gaiety of yore. French children can be sure that Pore Noel—the French Santa Claus —will leave their shoes full of pres*ents. All the toy shops and department stores have been jammed with hordes of Christmas buyers. Business was as brisk as in previous years, due mainly to cheaper prices. To the poor children, it is a glorious occasion, for the president of the republic receives them at a banquet in the stately halls of the Elysee palace. . As they munch their turkey and plum pudding President Doumer will walk around the long table and personally distribute presents. A great Christmas tree will adorn the dining room. Spain Is Festive lit / United Press MADRID, Dec. 25. Spain’s Christmas celebration was observed with as much intensity and enthusiasm as ever. Thousands of families, who may not be able to pay their bills promptly, or even at all, found sufficient cash for the ingredients which every Spaniard considers eonsubstantial with the Christmas season to-wit —with a lottery ticket; plenty of food sweets, wines and liquors, and toys galore for the children. The Spanish festive season ex--lends from Dec. 22, t}ie day the Christmas lottery is drawn, to Jan. 6, the Day of the Three Wise Kings.

Italians in Reunions By Unit ril Press ROME, Dec. 25—Romans celebrated Christmas as usual this year. They did not allow the traditional festivities so dear to all Italians to be interrupted by such matters as adverse budgets. The holiday of Christmas itself Is given over, as in most other countries, to feasting and family reunions. It is also to some extent a children’s feast, but less so than in other countries, for the children have a special holiday to themselves on Jan. 6, the feast of the “Befana,” an old, pleasantly disposed witch, according to tradition, who takes the place of Father Christmas. One of the most charming ceremonies of a Rome Christmas is the children’* sermon, which takes place in the church of Ara Coeli on Christmas eve. Little boys and girls of the congregation deliver three-minute sermons to their children friends and elders.

Swiss for Sports By United Press GENEVA. Dec. 25.—Heavy snowfalls, especially on the mountain slopes, made it possible for Switzerland to celebrate Christmas as usual in spite of the economic depression. With the steady development of winter sports, and especially of skiing, Christmas has become largely a day of winter sports here. Russia Scoffs Jin United Press MOSCOW, Dec. 25.— Christmas, like Easter, is the busy season for the Society of Godless, which is carrying on an intensive campaign against the holiday celebrations. Atheist Russia has two Christmases, one on Dec. 25, as the rest of the Christian world, and the other thirteen days later, on Jan. 7, in accordance with Greek Othodox calendar. Both da vs will be utilized by the Godless Society to fortify atheism among the masses. Indeed, the principal sign of Christmas is the strengthening of atheist activities. Elsewhere it may be Christmas trees and the like which indicate the holiday. Here it is indicated by additional anti-God placards and more atheist lectures. Boy Shot in Foot B’l Times Special BROOK. Ind., Dec. 25.—A bullet from a revolver pierced the foot of Carl Murfett, 5, son of Walter Murfett, at the family home north of here. The boy climbed to a shelf to obtain the revolver.

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Upper Left tleft to right)— Mary Rejke, Julia Mazar and Helen Rejke, in Hungarian costume. Upper Right—Menka Guleff and Luba Popcheff, in Bulgarian costume. Center —Pauline Andrie and Florica Coman, Rumania. Lower Right Philip Vudas, Greece. Lower Right—Charles Angelkocich and Leona Vudis, in Serbian castume, the girl’s costume being that in vogue years ago.

Cheer ‘Merry Christmas’ as They Meet Today at Settlement. Merry Christmas!!! You might not recognize the words uttered by the group of children who met today at Indianapolis’ “melting pot,” the American Settlement, 617 West Pearl street, but there is no mistaking their meaning—it’s Merry Christmas, in any language. Each Christmas season these children are among a large group of boys and girls of foreign birth, or foreign descent, who gather at the settlement to renew memories of quaint European Christmas customs. Children in most of the countries of Europe, particularly the Balkan states, celebrate Christmas by going from house to house singing carols, receiving gifts of candy, fruits, nuts, and sometimes coins. Carol singing is rare in Indianapolis, but among those who do not forget are Mary Rejke, Julia Mazar and Helen Rejke of Hungarian descent. In Hungary, children go to bed Christmas eve with one eye open to watch for the Christmas angel bearing a basket of gifts. Menka Guleff and Luba Popcheff, dressed in quaint Bulgarian costumes, hang their stockings at the fireplace for Santa’s visit, but their Bulgarian cousins substitute their shoes for stockings. Pauline Andrie and Florica Coman, two charming little RumanianAmericans, displayed the odd clubs with which juvenile carolers in certain European countries hammer on stout wooden doors to attract an audience. Philip Vudas has a Dr. Jekyll-Mr. Hyde personality. Sometimes, in pageants at the settlement house, he plays the part of a Greek youth, and at other times that of a Serbian. That is, he explains, because his parents are not of the same nation- | ality, one having been born in

Greece and the other in Serbia. The fireplace plays a big part in the Christmas celebration in Serbia. The father brings in the Badnjak leg and places it on the Then the family tosses honey,

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—Photos by Kirkpatrick, corn, satul and silver coins on the flames to insure plenty in the coming year, and to drive away evh spirits from the Christmas feast, which folilows. fireplace Christmas eve.

KEEP MY CASE ALIVE, MOONEY BEGSJFRIENDS Famed Convict Fears Foes Too Powerful; Writes to ‘Comrades/ By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 25.—A Christmas letter from Tom Mooney assailing the delay in a decision on his pardon application was sent to the convict’s “comrades, friends and fellow unionists” today. In it he indicated the despair expressed in an interview at San Quentin prison the day before when he declared his conviction that Governor Rolph will deny his plea for freedom. “The dictatorship of capital has decreed that I die in prison,” Mooney wrote. “California plutocracy, an all-powerful foe, backed by the combined wealth and power of this nation, has sealed me for life in this tomb. “Only the support and activity of the thousands of friends and activity of the militant workers will keep the issue alive and defeat the plans to put my case in cold storage.” Mooney declared the three months which Governor Rolph said he and his advisors would require to decide the case was a delay “to lull my sympathizers to sleep and thus destroy my defense organization.” In the prison interview Mooney expressed belief that the decision to refuse him a pardon already had been made. Today was the sixteenth Christmas the famous convict has spent in San Quentin since he was found guilty of murder charges in connection with the 1916 Preparedness day bombing in San Francisco. Hunter Shot Fatally RAGELSVILLE, Ind., Dec. 25.—A fatal wound was suffered by Charles Myers, 21, when a shotgun he was carrying while hunting was discharged as he crawled through a wire fence near his home.

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