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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1936

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EUROPE WAITS Brisbane Dead CHIANG FREED: | Smiling ‘Merry Christmas’ to Babyland

HITLER'S WORD

ON WAR CRISIS

Chancellor Studies Two

Courses Open on Spanish War.

FRANCE IS ANGERED

Yuletide Spirit Dampened as Fear of Conflict Hovers Over Continent,

1936 by United Press Dec 25 Chancellor sat before a twinkling today, high in the Bavarian Alps, and pondered a decision that may carry Europe to the brink of another great war. Diplomats of the great powers, their yuletide cheer jolted by the fear of a gathering crisis, waited apprehensively for the Fuehrer to answer a blunt proposition put to m bv France and Great Britain He must choose between two COUTSy 1. The

LONDON Adolf Hitler

Christmas tree

plea of Francisco Franco of the Spanish rebels that he send 40,000 Nazi troops into Spain to deliver a final crushing blow to the loyalists. 2. A promise of gold from Britain and France to free the German people from economic shackles that have brought war-time food rationing

Faces Big Decision

faced with one of the most decisions of his ironover the Reich, weighed the alternatives alone in his Bavarian chalet Haus Wachenfeld,” at Berchtesgaden It was reported, however, that a group of his chief lieutenants would confer with him today or tomorrow The conferees probably would include Gen. Hermann Goering, who has a chalet only 200 yards from Hitler's; Joachim von Ribbentrop, ambassador to London; Joseph Goebbels, propaganda minister, Marshal Werner von Blomberg, war minister, and Admiral Erich Raeder, chief of the admiralty. They must decide whether to break away from Gen. Franco and possibly let him. Jose his war after they have recognized his Fascist regime and bambled heavily on him | or risk touching off a general conflict by plunging into the conflict. Should Hitler take the militaristic course of “guaranteeing” a victory for Franco grave repercussions undoubtedly would follow,

Russia May Change View

Russia, staunch friend of the loyalists and bitter over the recent burning of the Soviet steamer Komsomol, might go to the aii of the Madrid forces. France, angered by reports that 20.000 or more Germans are fighting Fanco new, might go openly into the conflict. I'he rebel plea for 40,000-—or better still 60.000-—-German troops to break down the stubborn loyalist defense around Madrid was sent to Hitler through Maj. Gen. Faupel, German ambassador to the nsurgent government “capital” in Rurgos The Fuehrer's decision was made more difficult by disciosure that Italy, anxious to conclude an ac{Tarn te Page Three)

SEPARATE NYA FUNDS TO 8E E SOUGHT. BELIEF

WASHINGTON, Progress

Hitler momentous

. fed a willed rule

with

Dec. Administrator

‘Works Harry L.

Hopkins will recommend to Congress | appropriation for the!

R on

separate inuation of the National Youth

iministration, it was learned today

At present NYA is operating as

a project of the Works Progress Ad- |

ministration on funds allocated by 1 President from the $1.425.000.000 relief appropriation for 1936. The act set aside $71,250,000 for youth

BOB BURNS

Says:

MAN is takin’ a lot himself when he judges a Whole city or country by his private experience If he goes to New York. for instance, and meets up with a good bunch of people, he'll come home and tell you that New York is a swell town, full of swell people. 3ut if he gits his pockets picked the station and has to come

Generalissimo

Wilhelm |

HEART DISEASE IS FATAL AT 72

Columnist Began. Career as Reporter on New York Sun in 1883.

By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—Arthur | Brisbane, famed newspaper columns | ist, died at his home here today at! 4:30 a. m, (Indianapolis time) of heart disease. Brisbane, whose daily comments on the news have been front-paged

in newspapers throughout the country, was 72,

His death was unexpected although | he had been ill with heart trouble |

for several davs. Mr. Brisbane once said that when he was 19 he had made up his mind to become a newspaper editor because the Constitution prevented him from being President before he was 35, and that was too long to wait. He became editor of the Evening Sun when he was less than 25. At the time of his death he was editorial chief of the Hearst newspaper chain. His daily and weekly | jcolumns and editorals reached an audience estimated at 30,000,000. Mr. Brisbane often explained that | his object in writing in the simple

CHINESE CIVIL

WAR MAY END

Rebels Release Nationals’

Leader Held Captive For 14 Days.

TERMS NOT ANNOUNCED!

Government Protection Given Americans in Troubled Zone.

Bu United Press SHANGHAI, Dec. Kai-shek, generalissimo of the Nanking government, was released from Sian-Fu after being held prisoner for 14 days, it was announced officially today. Government officials said they were unaware of the terms of his | release. | The Christian general, who rules 'millions of Chinese, had been held | captive by Marshal Chang Hseuh- | liang, former Manchurian war lord. | He was taken to Loyang, not far | from Sian-Fu, while troops of the | Central Nanking government were | pressing in upon Sian-Fu and pre- | paring to storm it. The generalissimo’s wife, the former Meiling Soong; her brother, T.

V. Soong, governor of the Bank of China, and W. H. Donald, Australian

adviser, accompanied him to Loyang

in an airplane, The kidnaped general's

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25. — Chiang |

release |

presumably averted a vast civil war

in China. -Nationals Rejoice

Shanghai and Nanking wild demonstrations over the news| of Chiang's release. Men, women and children trooped through the streets, waving flags and setting ol ! firecrackers. Government forces closed in today | lon Weinan, on the Lunghai Railway northeast of Sian-Fu. The gov-~ | ernment’s advance guard claimed to | have defeated a large concentration | ‘of rebel troops north of Weinan | along the Wei River. Two powerful Northern leaders of | | China today’ threw their support to

staged

Chang's demands for a reorganiza- | |

{tion of the government, |

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terms he always used was to make Gen. Han Fu-chu, military governor |

the masses think,

Writinks | Debates

His forthright observations both | in his writings and on the lecture | platform frequently stirred wide- | spread debates and contradictions. | Once he wrote that a gorilla could | | lick 10, or 20, or even 30 modern | prize fighters. He frequently re- | printed this in various forms, and | | both friends and critics quoted it often. Another time he told 450 women attending a fashion exhibit that they should have six children | each instead of worrying clothes, His salary as editorial director of the Hearst newspapers and editor of | the New York Daily Mirror was re- | ported to have exceeded $5000 a week. His income from shrewd real estate investments was at equal that amount,

Remained at Desk

Some years ago it was rumored | Brisbane planned to retire

that Mr. from newspaper work and spend his declining vears in Switzerland. But | the call of his profession proved too | | strong, and he remained at his desk. When Mr. Brisbane celebrated his

seventieth birthday anniversary on |

Dec, 12, 1934, he received 2000 con- | gratulatory telegrams from leaders {in public life and in many fields of private enterprise throughout the world. President Roosevelt hailed him for “having simplified the in(Turn to Page Three)

CROP INSURANCE ACT'S PASSAGE IS PLANNED

By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.

! Administration planned today to

| rush a crop insurance bill through | Congress early in the session to put |

| & program into effect, if possible, for the 1937 wheat crop. Agriculture Department attornevs speeded preparation of a bill which Senator James P. Pope 'D,, Idaho), said he would introduce at the “earliest possible moment” after convening of Congress Jan. 3. Passage of the bill by March 1 would, it is believed, give the De- | partment of Agriculture time to set up administrative machinery for placing crop insurance into effect in the principal wheat states next spring.

about |

least

~— The |

of Shantung province, Sung Cheh-y | Hopei-Chahar [sued a statement in Peiping En a compromise settlement of the re- | volt. | The embassy in Nanking telegraphed Gen. Hsueh-chung request- | ing that he give fullest protection to {all American nationals and help any who might be in Qenger.

LIONEL BARRYMORE'S

John Will Substitute i in Radio Program Tonight.

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| ! Bil nited Press

| HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 25—Lionel Barrymore was in seclusion today recovering from collapse which oc(curred last night after he watched Irene Fenwick, brilliant actress who quit the stage to become his wife, | die of influenza. Barrymore was forced to cancel his appearance as Scrooge in Hol- | lvwood’s annual enactment of Dickens’ “Christmas Carol” and his | brother John stepped into the part. The death of Miss Fenwick closed one of the film colony's happiest— and most unobtrusive—marriages. The former actress, 49, met her husband when she took a part opposite him in “The Claw,” a stage thriller, at the old Belasco Theater in Los Angeles in 1923. They were married in Riverside, Cal, the same year. They had no children. Miss Fenwick had been chronjcally ill for several years from & | stomach ailment, her physician said. | She was stricken with influenza Sat- | urday night. Her condition was complicated by an injury received | six years ago when a broken rib pierced the chest cavity.

WIFE IS FLU VICTIM

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Miss Fenwick was born in Chi- |

cago in 1887 and started her stage career when she was 17.

She was married twice before be- |

coming Barrymore's wife. He had | been married once before. After

him in “Laugh, Clown,

their marriage, she played opposite | | years in Indianapolis. Laugh.’ » | 9 a. m.,,

Look at that smile!

It belongs to Kim Edward Decker, 2186 N. Sherman-dr, and means: “Gee, I hope all 16-month-old babies are as happy as I am today. And all the older

_babres, t too.

Thank S, Sa nta Claus.”

PONTIFF SLEEPS AT YULE MASS

nd S30 Naps Exhausted: After He

“Receives Sacrament in Sick Chamber.

By United Press VATICAN CITY, Dec. 25.—Pope| Pius XI, his waning strength taxed by an emotional appeal for peace | that circled the world, fell asleep | from exhaustion today while hearing Christmas mass in his sick | chamber, | He had received Communion then { fell back onto his pillow and into a deep sleep of heavy breathing. The Vatican City official gazette | announced that his. holiness | “passed a good night, on the)

whole” but it was learned that | Prof. Aminta Milani, his personal | physician, was apprehensive lest his | 79-year-old patient suffer a relapse. | | {

Prof. Milani had advised the] Pope against making his radio ap- | peal from a microphone suspended | above his bed, but relented in the | face of the Pontiff's insistence.

On Verge of Collapse {

CHRISTMAS WARMEST

HERE IN MANY YEARS

HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6am... 43 3am. &

Tam. 4 10am. 46. | 43

8am. This is the warmest Christmas in It was 45 at 14 degrees above normal. |

When he quit the stage for the] YOu could hardly - see your breath !

screen, ater.

she retired from the the- |

outside. In case you've forgotten, last year's Christmas began the most severe |

« real

Unatraid

Child Clasps Gaudy Drum As He Waits For Death.

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By United Press MAHA, Neb, Dec. 25.—The quiet hands of 3-year-old Johnny Hernandez clutched at a gaudily painted drum today and even in his sleep he smiled —because for the second time in little more than a week Santa Claus had come to see him. Physicians and nurses hadn't believed it possible that the little Mexican boy, dying of Ewing's cell sarcoma, could live until the Christmas Day and so on Dec. 16 they had arranged for Santa to pay him a special visit. Johnny was afraid then and called for his nurse. But last night , . . “I'n not ’fraid now,” he said. Santa in his red suit and his bag of toys across his shoulder had appeared in his doorway.

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VEN Santa paused when he heard the small, excited whisper from the hospital bed, and for a moment his voice choked.

“And how are you, little man?” | | he asked.

But Johnny didn't reply. His cancer-like ailment had gone too far and he had sunk back on his

pillow exhausted. And then for |

the second time Santa emptied | his toys at Johnny's feet. There was a faint gasp when Johnny

saw the drum. His hand reached

out and held it. He was asleep a moment later, = = n

ANTA tip-toed away then,

SANTA VISITS

WHITE HOUSE

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President Is Awakened by

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Grandchildren; Wife Joins Sick Son.

By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—President Roosevelt joined the rest of the nation today in celebrating Christmas with his family.

The chief executive's day began early when grandchildren to awake ran into his |

| room and aroused him. The other | | children soon were out of bed and | lowing resume of the campaign

awakened all members of the house. hold. Then they took down their stock-

| ings which last night they had am

on the mantle in “grandfather's”

the first of his Six |

room and climbed on the President's | bed to show him what Santa Claus |

had brought them.

The children missed “grand-

mother” this morning. After help- |

ing them hang their stockings last | night, Mrs. Roosevelt left by train for Boston to spend part of the day

CHILDREN

CHRISTMAS BEST IN YEARS

1365 Are Assured of Warm Clothing by Clothe-. A- Child.

NEW RECORD SET

Donors Provide $1200 More Than During | '35 Campaign. |

(Donors’ List, Page 3) A citizenry with a child's interest at heart today wel- | comed the birthday of another Child by assuring 1365 needy school children warm | clothing through the Indian-| apolis Times Clothe-A-Child | | campaign. All around the town in homes of the unfortunate boys and girls | donned clean, warm apparel. Moth- |

ers offered silent prayer for the as- |

| surance of protection of their young { against the rigors of the New Year's wintry months. The 1365 children dressed broke all-time Clothe-a-Child records by furnishing 124 more boys and girls |

| garments than in 1935. Donors gave an estimated $1200 to $1500 more | than last year.

Received $5835

As agents of donors in dressing | needy school children, Clothe-A-Child received a total of $5835.97 in cash contributions. More than one- | half of the children were clothed | by individual donors. It is estimated that individual | donors spent $9000 to $12,000. Clothe-A-Child shopped for 337 children on money sent to The Times and dressed 285 children on | Mile-of-Dimes, the sidewalk Santa of the fund.

Spend Last Dime

The silver shrine, that weathers snow and gale, was picked up last night and while automatic counting machines rapidly checked the dimes, the last of the money was spent in city department stores. | The line gave $2583.60 to Clothe- A- | Child. Cash, sent by mail and brought | in person, dressed 337 children. In- | dividual donors dressed 743 chil- | dren. Clothe-A-Child’s growth from a babyhood of 380 children clothed {in 1930 to today's 1365 boys and girls cared for is seen in the fol-

Years:

| pounding block and

are news,

| the world

| Problems Fill Day As

Loaded Trees Greet F amilies.

MUCH INDECIS ION

Dilemmas Are. Solved As Youngsters Put Gifts to Use.

This is a day when children It’s difficult to say how many Indianapolis children awakened too early toe day, and padded into another room in their pajamas to let | brilliantly lighted trees burst

‘on their wide eyes. It was the happiest Christmas in

| years for the children as well as

their elders. The youngsters were plunged ime mediately into violent indecision, What should a 2-year-old girl do? Ride a new red tricycle she has

| been wanting, or take a lick at the ! business end of a striped candy

cane? There's no answer in the back of the book, What should a boy do who's need=

ed a red wagon for a long time and

| it suddenly appears beside the tree? | Whatever he should do, he did run | the thing around the house, bump-= {ing into the furniture and saying

to himself that if he had time to

{dress he certainly could burn up a

section of sidewalk outside, and would, by golly, in a little while.

All Tangled Up

It became rather inconvenient for this same boy to take a bite off the chocolate man and in the next | gesture blow up a balloon. They got all tangled up, the chocolate man and the balloon, but there was ane other balloon. Before it got light, the 2-year-old

had solved the dilemma of the

candy cane and the tricycle, The cane went into the mouth, was grasped firmly between the upper and lower teeth, and the hands were removed. That left them free to | operate the tricycle and hold a teddy | bear while the tot cast moon eyes at a talking doll. Thus did the younger generation, which became the biggest story of today, occupy its time even after it got light and its par= ents quit yawning at the early rising hour.

There Were Other Problems

There also was the case of the the parental

headache, and the affair of the

| broken Christmas tree bauble, both

celebrated in their way—household

| classics,

| problem of dinner.

Swamped Stores

Donors, some carrying seven | service stars in Clothe-A-Child, swamped stores with clothing orders | | until it was difficult to obtain the |

with Franklin Jr. recovering in a | proper sizes for some children.

hospital from sinus trouble.

The President attended services at |

| the Church of the Covenant with

members of his family. After the services the party returned to the White House and the adults re-

| |

stacking *his other presents |

on the table at the bedside along with hundreds of letters and cards Johnny has received from ail parts of the nation. Other children are having turkey at the hospital today and if Johnny ig strong enough there'll be a small piece of white meat for him. The nurse promised him that, and.the boy for whom death is only a matter of days or hours, believes his nurse.

‘SCORES ARE INJURED IN SEAMEN’S STRIKE

| cold wave in the city's history. Last g,.¥pired Press

| persons were killed and 11 were in- | home | campus.

ceived their gifts. Mrs. Roosevelt was expected {to return in time for the late Janily | dinner. Only member of the i | mediate family absent from the — bation besides Franklin Jr. was Mrs. | John Boettiger, Seattle.

2 DEAD, 11 HURT IN FIREWORKS BLAST

| By United Press

jured here early today in an ex-

| plosion in a downtown fireworks store.

| ion destroyed the building. Of the 11 injured, six were blown | from the store into the street! | Hough a plate glass window.

The generous co-operation of | merchants, the Indianapolis Police Department, and Brink's Express Co. made possible Clothe-A- | | Child's banner year. | Factory workers, shopgirls, sorori- |

| ties, fraternities, and folk from ev-

(CHRISTMAS IS QUIET

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FOR HOOVER FAMIL

| Bu United Press PALO ALTO, Cal. Dec. 25. | | Herbert Hoover, only living former president of the United States,

There the intricate The younger generation claimed, with : some grounds, that it did not want any= thing to eat. In the first place it was too busy, and in the second place there was plenty of candy around which was not only better but also was portable. No solution to this had been reached at press time. And while the younger genera= tion was so occupied, a new younger generation of Indianapolis citizens was being born in local hospitals,

was, too,

Another Mary Christmas? Christmas derby honors went to

| a pickanniny horn at 1:57 a. m. to | Mrs.

Ruby Johnson, 615 Jeffersonav, in City Hospital. Mrs. Johnson said she had not decided upon the infant's name, but that it probably

| would have something to do with

the Christmas season. Second best time was made by In« fant Evans, born at 5:55 a. m. to

| spent a quiet Christmas day with | Mrs. Maxine Evans in St. Francis ASHEVILLE, N. C., Dec. 25.—Two | his family at his San Juan Hill

on Stanford University |

There was a Christmas tree and

{late today the family will gather Flames which followed the explos- for an old fashioned turkey dinner.’

land three children.

| The former president and his wife have as guests their sons, Alan and Herbert Jr., and the latter's wife

70,000 Striking Workers |

Hospital. At 7:25

She was named Virginia, a. m. Mrs. Winona

| Cramer, 424 W. New York-st, gave

birth to a girl, and at 7:20 a. m, Mrs. Ruth Reed, New Augusta, bore a girl at Coleman Hospital. Older Generation Marks Day Methodist Hospital attaches, doc« tors, nurses and expectant mothers

| —five of them—were awaiting de=

| velopments at press time, confident that there would be several Christe | mas babies there. Outside the younger generation, | the city was having some Christmas (Turn to Page Three)

In Christmas Picket Line |

“short shift” picket lines so they | could spend part of the hojiday at! |’ home. In Tarentum, Pa. 2000 children of strikers at the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. played with toys provided at a Christmas party given by the

Christmas Day the temperature at HOUSTON, Tex.. Dec. 25.—Strik-

Daugh ter Born to Duke Ed a a i, 2

And Duchess of Kent semchs o IS CONTINUED | Port Houston in which score of FOR MISSING PLANE

! men were By United Press

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES ,

whole town is crooked. It all depends on the association he had after he gits there. It's the same with married life. The other day they had & man in court for not payin’ his alimony and the man was jest ravin' and talkin’ about the unfairness of women in general.

| By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.— Upwards of 70,000 striking workers spent Christmas’ in the picket lines today, fighting for higher wages, better working conditions and union

Witnesses said 200 seamen and (about 50 men, including police, | Texas Rangers, special officers and civilians shot tear gas bombs, wield-

Births . 3, Merry-Go-R'd 18

. 17! Movies ... 10, 11

(Picture, Page 3) 14 | Mrs, 17

A bulletin issued at the Kent

| town house at No. 3 18 |

The judge says “Well didnt you marry again, knowin’ that you

| By United Press LONDON, Dec. 25.—A daughter

| Square where the child

said:

"SALT ‘LAKE CITY, Dec. 25.— Search for the Western

' ed guns, blackjacks an dfists.

recognition. There were prospects of further widespread strikes as the New Year approached.

harassed company. Pickets munched party dinners provided by $50,000 in food orders granted at the same

Mrs. Roosevelt 17 17

Air Express liner missing since Dec. 15 with seven aboard was resumed today although authorities directing the

‘DR. ROGERS RESIGNS hunt were disappointed when a HEALTH BOARD POST supposed radio clue prove useless

‘An army bombing plane, inspired | Dr. Clarke Rogers, Health Board by reports’ that amateur radio. op- member for three and a half erators in Denver and Ogden, Utah, years, has submitted his resignation | 000. strikes in the Kelsey-Hayes Flynn .. ..... 8 heard feeble calls to “send a doctor, to Mayor Kern, effective Jan. 1. He | Special preparations for Christmas | Wheel Co., Detroit, were settled and | Forum 18 we can't get out,” circled the vicin- said the press of private business | were evident in only a few cases. At| there were prospects of increased | Grin, Bear It 24 ity of Remon, WYO. without | was his reason. No successor has | Kansas City, more than 500 strikers | post-holiday auto production as a Jane Jordan. 14 result. | been appointed. | at the Fisher's body plant marched | result of new part supplies. ' Johnson .... 18

had to meet this financial obligation to your first wife?” The man says “Yes.” And the judge says “Then why did you let yourself git so far behind in the payments.” The man savs “Well, woman agin, your honor. my fault my second wife didn't turn out to be the worker I thought she was.” ‘Copyright

“Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Kent, was safely delivered

‘Kent, formerly Princess Marina of Of a daughter at 11:20 o'clock this | Greece. morning. Her Royal Highness and The royal heir, born at 11:20 the infant princess are doing exja. m. as church bells chimed a cellently.” | Christmas message. has a curly- | The bulletin was signed by Dr. | headed brother, Prince Egwary, ue He William Dr. {is 15 months old and one Alexander Edward Gow, | above her on the ladder to’ the and Hugo Augustine Richards, anthrone. esthetic surgeon. §

24! Curious World 25 | Editorials ... 18 Fashions .. . 14 Financial ... 8 Fishbein ... . 17

The Labor Department estimated | time. | that 51,515 workers were on strike, New strike clouds hovered above | in major conflicts. The officially the automobile industry as John and Gulf | Lewis’ C. I. O. awaited a decision by Coast maritime strikes and minor the General Motors Corp. on a new

walkouts brought the total to 70,- | 2oliecuve ultimatum. | Small

Serial Story. . Short Story . Sacjety ...... Sports 20, 21, State Deaths Sullivan

it's the It aint

1936:

IT's A MERRY CHRISTMAS FOR THE FIVE DIONNE GIRLS, T00— THEIR 1936 YULETIDE PICTURES ARE ON PAGE 1