Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 December 1939 — Page 3
SATURDAY DEC. 2,
1939
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DIANAPOLIS TIMES
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Russians Held Back Somewhere tween 1886-88 CITY PREPARES Sherrer Was ‘tween 8-10 FOR CHRISTMAS |
On All Finn Fronts;
Retreat i
Threat From Rebel Re-
gime to Bomb Helsinki Again Is Reported.
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might be a stalemate in the area
for the rest of the winter.
United Press Staff Correspondent
WITH FINNISH ARMY ON THE KARELIAN ISTHMUS, Dec. 23.— Finnish troops for the 17th successive day threw back the Russian Army today in its attempts to break the Mannerheim Line.
Amidst flurries of snow, the Rus-|
sians continued to batter the Finnish stone wall on the Karelian Isthmus, but they made no progress. In the few bright intervals between snowstorms there was considerable but sporadic air activity. The maps of the Russian pilots were said to be poor, which may in part account ‘for their lack of success in attaining important military objectives, One map taken from the body of 2 Soviet pilot whose plane had been shot down was marked in pencil. The map included all of Scandinavia and the Baltic on a scale of one million to one. In intervals between Rir raid warnings the few civilians remaining in towns near the front hurry around doing their Chistmas shopping. Shops as a rule are open for only a few hours each day. Transport to the front is jammed with tens of thousands of parcels for soldiers in the front lines. Most packages contain warm sweaters, heavy woolen socks. tinned neat, mittens and other utilitarain items.
Two Small Finn Forces
Turn Tide in Salla Area
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 23 (U, P).—Two small forces of Finns, one of which marched for 155 miles through snow and ice in zero weather, turned the tide agianst Russia on the Salla front by a flank attack, Danish press dispatches said today. Forgetting their fatigue after terrible forced marches, the Finns smashed into the Russians’ left flank on the Salla front, it was asserted, and by turning it made the Red Army's position there untenable. One of the Finnish columns, the one which marched 155 miles, drove northward from the Suomusalmi sector. opposite the top of the Gulf of Bothnia. The second one marched east. ward from the Rovaniemi sector above the gulf The two columns met in the Salla sector just above the Arctic Circle, according to the dispatches, and attacked at a critical moment in the main Finnish body's sudden firm stand against the Russian advance, with the result that the balance was turned. Dispatches said that it was believed Swedish volunteers. now arriving in force on the Far Northern fronts, would be thrown into battle there to reinforce the thin Finnish lines.
Allies Hope Finland To Fight Until Spring
PARIS, Dec. 23 (U. P).—Finland's admitted success in beating back the Russian onslaught in Finland raised strong hope in Allied capitals today that the tough little Finnish army still will be in there fighting when spring comes. Allied strategy is to avoid a declaration of war with Russia at this time by sending armed forces to Finland. although there have been hints that the “volunteer” svstem being used in Finland and so impressively demonstrated in the Spanish war, might be tolerated. However, if the war supplies are delivered in sufficient quantity and in time. Finland may make good its RO ise to keep fighting and no further action may be necessary before spring. by which time much may have happened. If the blockade of Germany fails to starve the Reich into submission by the end of this winter, there is some belief in Paris that the “sit down” war on the Western Front may be ended and the Allis start their drive into Germany.
In Karelia
RUSSIANS TANT ALLIED CRITICS, END PURGE TALK
Point ‘Fumbling’ and Promote Military Leader.
to Western Front
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MOSCOW, Dec. 23 (U. P.) —Gen. | Kyril A. Meretskov, commander of | the Leningrad Military District | and commander of Red Army mili- | tary operations in Finland, ‘was | promoted today with a nomination to the Leningrad district Soviet. The nomination was regarded &s disposing of rumors that Josef Stalin had summoned Meretskov to the Kremlin and had reprimanded him for the alleged failure of the Finnish campaign. It had been rumored also that Stalin had ordered Meretskov's dismissal. In connection with Meretskov's advancement to the Leningrad district Soviet. a group of high com- | manders from the general staff and the Leningrad Soviet paid tribute to the general. In an article published in the Leningrad Pravda on Dec. 22. the Leningrad district Soviet drew attention to Meretskov’s qualities as a soldier and his contributions to Russian defense. Although admitting “most serious difficulties in its Finnish campaign. Russia claimed material progress today, reasserted that it had broken the Finnish Mannerheim defense lines in several places and taunted the Red Army's allied critics with their own lack of progress against Germany West Wall. A special communique reviewing operations for three weeks of the war was issued bv headquarters of the Leningrad military area, directing the Finnish campaign, Its main points were: 1. Russia has scored successes on all fronts, 2. Russian troops have capturad 18 Finnish officers, 105 non-commis-sioned officers and 1302 privates, a total of 1425; 35 field guns, 300 machine guns, 3000 riffes, 21 trench mortars, 220 grenade throwers and seven armored Cars. Accuse “3 Foreign States” 3. Russia had lost 1823 killed and 7000 wounded 4. Finnish losses in killed, inclnding only bodies found by Russian troops in the field. totaled 2200. It was estimated that the Finns had lost more than 10,000 wounded 5. The Finnish terrain is most difficult for military operations and also Finland had spent four vears in building fortifications with the aid of “three foreign states which fought among themselves for influence in Finland as a base for an attack on Leningrad and later on Moscow.” There was no indication which three countries were accused. Recent press reports had indicated a Russian belief that Britain and
important
| Sweden helped to fortify the Man- | nerheim Line. | Russian
Before the Germanrapprochement , Germany was often accused of inciting Finland against Russia. Well-informed persons expressed belief that Germany might be the third country, Allies Called Fumblers 6. Finland's Mannerheim Line is in no way inferior to Germany's West Wall “against which AngloFrench troops have been fumbling already for four months without making the slightest progress.” “The Red Armv knew of these difficulties in Finland and therefore never expected to annihilate Finnish troops by- one lightning blow. Only ignorance or overt hostility toward the Red Army could ascribe to Red Army leaders the wish to do away with Finnish troops within one week.”
UNIVERSE SEEMS TO BE SAFE PASADENA, Cal, Dec. 23 (U.P). —Dr. Fritz Zwicky, noted astrophvsicist, of the California Institute of Technology, as the result of new astronomical photographs, tests and calculations, discounts absolutaly the existing theory that the wuniverse is expanding and may some day blow up.
IN INDIANAPOLIS
Here Is the Traffic Record!
City ki | 66
County 111
19 46
Arrests Accidents
FRIDAY TRAFFIC COURT Cases Convic- Fines Tried tions Paid
. 14 14 $67
Speeding . .
Reckless driving Failing to stop at through street. 11 Disobeying traffic signal . Drunken driving. R All others ...... 39
11 29
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12 1 55 35 0
Totals
Girls
Allen R.. Lottie Johnson, at St. Prancis. Clifford, Grace Rumple, at Coleman, Robert, Janet Jones, at Coleman, Clarence. Zena Adams. at Coleman. Albert, Virginia Grafton, at City,
Max, Helen Lowe, at Methodist.
Borys
Homer. Thelma Rensro, at St. Francis, Hal, Dota Catlinger, at Coleman, Leo, Esther Adams, at Coleman Herbert, Beuhla Moran, at City, Howard, Nedra Ely, at Methodist Jesse, Nellie Dobbins, at Methodist,
DEATHS
Roy Dale, 23. at Long, lobar pneumonia Jerry Bundy, 66 at Central Indiana, coronary thrombosis George Ridgill, 74, at 1104 srieriosclerosis. L Willism Spence, 57. nephritis Edward Springer, ary embolism m ames O'Donnell, 80, at Central Indiana, branchopneumonia., A 0 Te "3. at 35 WN. Jersey, pulmonary tuberculosis Prank Riehl, 82. at 42 N. BRelview, hvpo-
static pneumonia Luella Caldwell. R2, at S35 N. Oakland. MT
3505
Knox,
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41, at Veterans’ pul-
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nt Garden, coronary seclusion, Mary Penick, B82, endocarditis, John Turkin, #1, at Methodist,
embolism,
nt Prospect,
coronary
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R58 A. heater no Nt 8:03 flue, no loss 8:20 A. M
ore S. Missouri, overheated “i502 E. New York, burning
1119 Trov, burning flue, no
loss
OFFICIAL WEATHER decmininn Wh INDIANAPOLIS FORFCAST — Snow freeving rain tanicht and temorraw:
much change in temperature; night | abut 20
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| Sunset .. TEMPERTURR —Dee. 25, 1988— ™m. 35 1 —h» m...
BAROMETER m. 30.22
Sunrise
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5:30 a.
Precivitation 24 hrs, ending 7 2. m... AD Total oracipitaiton since Jan, 1 38.51 Excess Since Jen, 1 .
MIDWEST WEATHER Indiana—Rain in extreme southwest por. tion, snow or freezing rain elsewhere tonight and tomorrow, not much change in temperature.
Minesis—Rzain in extreme south, freezing rain in north and central por- | tions tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature. Lower Michigan —- Cloudy, snow tonight and tomorrow; change in temperature.
Ohio — Cloudy, followed by snow: not {quite so cold tonight. tomorrow snow aging to rain and warmer.
Kentucky--Rain, not so cold tonight: | { tomorrow cloudy with rain in east por-! tion and preceded by rain in west porton: warmer in central and east. portions. {
WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES. 6:30 A.M Staion. Amarillo. Tex, Bismarck. N. D. Boston v's Chicaro ... Cincinnati Cleveland
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followed by not much
Jacksonville, Kansas Citv, Little Rock.
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LONG POLITICAL |
HEIR CONVICTED
Shushan, 4 Others, Found Guilty of Mail Fraud and Face 35-Year Terms.
NEW ORLEANS, La. Dec. 23 (U. P.) —The conviction of Abraham L. (Doorknobs) Shushan and four accomplices in mail fraud, struck down another stalwart today from the thinning ranks of Huey P. Long's political heirs, Shushan and his friends were found guilty last night of misusing the mails seven {imes whil2 manipulating a $496,000 Government bond refunding deal. The Government had to prove that the dea: was crooked in order to convict on the mailing phase of it, but the crookedness itself was not It is » state matter, about which the state has showed no concern, All five of the defendants face maximum sentences of 35 years imprisonment Leche Still Faces Trial Shushan, the former president of the Orleans Parish Lavee Roard, whom the City’s magnificent airport was named until a few months ago, and whose name was almost indelibly engraved, etched, inlaid and em-
planted on the grounds, panels, floors and doorknobs of the airport buildings. joins hotel operator Seymour Weiss and former Governor
Most people are sort of curious about Anton Scherrer, conductor of “Our Town” in The Times. Most questions are about Mr. Scherrer’s age. Sometimes he has come close to giving it away, but not often. Well, we are now able to state | with definite authority (hat Mr. Anton Scherer is younger than he
The accompanying picture was taken of Anton some time between the vears of 1886 and 1888. He was somewhere hetween 8 and 10. The picture was given to Dr. and Mrs. Louis Burckhardt bv Mr. Scherrer's mother. he was in the fourth grade at school No. 6. Mr. Scherrer hasn't that much hair now. But maybe you can figure out, how old he is.
FIRST LADY AIDS ~ GHEER PARTIES
Rises Boor Daylight to Distribute 4000 Baskets To Capital's Needy.
writes and older than he looks. |
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and distributed packages, which included clothing, toys and candy. Earlier, she had attended the Washington party given by the Cen. tral Union Mission.
Children Shout Thanks
President, Mrs. Roosevelt “wishes that he could be with vou hopes that vou have a happy time here today and all through the holidays . . . and hopes that Santa Claus brings you all the
The said,
presents you want.”
for hold
Richard W. Leche is grief before the |
bar of Federal justice. Weiss and five others, including Dr. James Monroe Smith, formed
president of Louisiana State University, were convicted of mail
| frauds with state monies in Sep-
tember, and Leche had been in-
dicted but not yet tried. U. The State, so far, has intervened only in the case of Dr. Smith, who allegedly misappropriated several hundred thousand dollars in L. S. U. eash and bonds. He was convict ed on state charges and now is a member of the sugar cane field squad at the Angola, La. prison farm. All the rest of the breaking up of the post-Huey Long clique has heen done by the Federal Government. Convicted with Shushan were: Herbert W. Waguespack, attorney and former member of the Levee Board; Henry J. Miller, accountant: Newman and Norvin Trent Harris Jr., investment brokers and prominent in New Orleans society.
S. Breaks Up Clique
BEAT VICTIM AFTER HE REPORTS HOLDUP
SPOKANE, “Wash. Dec. 23 (U.P. Pat Holland, 63, rode in a police cruiser a long lime looking for the two took $18. The search was unsuccessful and the obliging police took Mr. Holland back to the scene of the robbery to let him out. When the police had gone the footpads reappeared and beat Mr. Holiand sb severely that he was taken to a hospital.
COY'S CONDITION SERIOUS BALTIMORE, Md. Dee. 23 (U.
|P.).—Marine Hospital attaches re-
ported today that Wayne Cov, adassistant to Federal Security Administrator Paul V, McNutt, is in “serious condition.” Mr. Coy has been in the hospital for several weeks with an intestinal rilment.
robbers who wavlaid him and
‘Mr.
“Thank you, Mr. President.” the children shouted back in an effort to make their voices carry three blocks to the White House, “Merry Christmas to you.” Before Mrs. Roosevelt calls it a day she will attend two more parties for needy citizens, help the President distribute gifts from the huge Christmas tree in the east room to the White House household staff, and sing Christmas carols tonight at an alley celebration for poor families.
Federal Workers Rest
Meanwhile, the huge government buildings were deserted. The Government’'s Christmas present to its thousands of emplovees was a three day holiday starting yesterday afternoon at 5 p. m. Mrs. Roosevelt's afternoon ule follows: 1:15—Christmas partv Volunteers of America, 2— Attends Salvation Army party where there will be gifts for 1000 impoverished citizens, including 600 food basket 4_-White House party for housestaff. Guards. chauffeurs. maids, cooks, butlers, housemen snd their families will attend: each will receive a present from the President and Mrs. Roosevelt, 5—Visit to two of the capital's alley slums within the shadow of the capitol's brilliantly lighted dome. She will join school children in singing Christmas carols,
sched-
sponsored hv
Family Reunion Tonight
Back at the White House the First Lady will preside as hostess at a family reunion. Two of the Roosevelts’ sons—Franklin D. Jr. and John—and their only daughter, Anna, and their families, including four of the President's grandchildren will be there. The fourth generation will be represented by the President's 85-vear-old mother, Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt. Harry Hooker, New York, an old friend of the family, will attend, and, as in recent Christmases, the Roosevelts will have as their guest Diana Hopkins, voung daughter of Commerce Secretary Harry Hopkins, who is Ris at his home here,
4 KILLED AND 1 HURT IN VIRGINIA GRASH
ROANOKE, Va. Dec. 23 (U. P).—
| Four persons were killed and an- | other | their automobile struck a concrete
critically injured today when
bridge abutment six miles north of ( Roanoke on the Robert E. Lee Highway, The victims were identified tenita- | tively as: | Dr. C. W. Boone, a veterinarian: and Mrs. Clarence D. Fizer and
Mrs. G. R. Powell, all of Roanoke. The injured girl, Susie Shaffer, 22, was brought to a Roanoke hospital, where it was said her condition was serious.
HITLER YULE THOUGHT
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PARIS, Dee. 23 wv. Py -French newspapers, with which the wish might be father to the thought. toyed today with the idea that Adolf Hitler during his Christmas holiday at his Bavarian Mountain retreat
near Berchtesgarden, was weighing.
the possibility of abandoning his power. “Private dispatches,” mostly of Swiss origin, were cited.
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Last Minute © Shoning Rush Gets Under Way; Parties Held for Kiddies.
(Continued from Page on) the Athenaeum and Club. A dinner also will be held at the Propylasum.
Only a few Christmas marriages
the Riviera!
are planned in comparison to the!
large number held at Thanksgiving. |
Tonight and tomorrow charitable organizations will begin delivering food and clothing to needy persons throughout the community. The Indianapolis Christmas
year would pass the 10,000 families benefited last year.
Churches Plan Rite
[Clearing House said the total this!
Churches throughout the city will |
hold: religious services tomorrow and Monday. tomorrow morning, afternoon and evening. Approximately 15 Pro-
testant churches will hold midnight
services and a few will hold dawn
services Christmas. Masses will be held in all Catholic churches Christmas. Santa Claus won't skip inmates of ‘correctional institutions and hospitals. At the Marion County Jail Christmas dinner will include roast turkey and dressing, cranberry sauce, candied sweet potatoes,
|ereamed carrots and peas, cole shaw,
mince pie, bread, butter and coffee. At the Indiana Women's Prison roast chicken will be served. Also on the menu will be giblet gravy, mashed and sweet potatoes, creamed peas, cranberry sauce, bread, butter, coffee and mince pie. A special treat at the prison will be grapefruit sent by Harry Johnson of Bloomington, Ind. The inmates also will be given candy, oranges and apples.
Services will be held potatoes and chocolate cake,
peanuts, | | the State Highway
Roast turkey will be served at the
Central State Hospital and gifts candy will be passed out. ing men patients in addition will receive pipes and tobacco, while the women will receive additional boxes of candy. Also on the menu will be giblet gravy, oyster cranberry sauce, candied sweet potatoes, creamed onions, bread, butter, mince pie and coffee,
Special Dinners Planned
of | and the emplovees and Marion Work- |
dressing. |
| have been listed as $11,
Hospitals will serve special din-|
ners Christmas as well as the Marion County Tuberculosis pital, Julietta, Schools for the Blind and the Deaf, the Bay's School the Indiana Girls’ mont,
Plainfied and Cler-
at School at
started their Yule vacation today. Students at Butler University and nther colleges and univresities were already enjoying holidays. Mast of the City's schools celebrated the last day of school for 1939 vesterday with parties and plays. Choirs from Manual ridge High School will sing carols in the downtown area today. The Ipalco band and chorus will sing carols at noon on the mezzanine floor of the Electric building. “The Dramatic Club of Indianapolis presented ‘Stage Door” at the Murat Temple last night. Bonus checks in the form of vacations with pay was presented to Richman Brothers’ employees at the Washington Hotel. Among other bonuses distributed in the city for Christmas was a share of $350.000 in the nation to 850 Kroger employees here, $60,000 to Indianapolis Power & Light Co. employees, tra wages as bonuses WIBC emplovees, $35,000 to Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. emplovees here and $20,000 to Hook Drug Co. emplovees. Ballard Ice
and Short-
Hos- |
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the Detention Home, |
Grade and high school pupils had
week and half-week ex-| to Station
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Cream Co. |
workers alsn were among those who!
received Christmas cash gifts from their employers.
Carols Sung at Hotel
A chorus of 75 persons Christmas carols from nine of the Claypool night under the direction Rev. George W. Henninger, The Tillman H. Harpole Post 249 of the American Legion will present its annual gift to North Side children today—a huge Christmas tree to be erected in the post Oranges, apples, candy, toys will be distributed. Post members will distribute food to needy families.
sang the mezzaHotel last of the
vard. | nuts and
20 baskets of
Children of Sahara Grotto mem- |
bers will attend a Grotto Home, 13th Ave.
party St.
at and Park |
the |
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More than 150 Speedway children |
will be guests of Speedway Unit, V. PF. W. Auviliary, at a Christmas party tomorrow afternoon at the Speedway V. F. W. Hall. The Knights hold a children's party afternoon in the K. of C. Auditorium. Gifts will be presented. The West Michigan Street Busi-
‘ness and Professional Men's Asso-
ciation was host today to two children's parties at the Christamore House. Miss Victoria Montani, harpist, will play for the Catholic Vesper Service at the Veterans’ Hospital Christmas day. Miss Margaret Cordon will sing and the Rev. Fr, Walter Nugent will speak. The St. Roch's men’s choir also will sing, las well as the Sacred Heart High iSchool glee club,
| Car Inspectors N. Y, C. Lines,
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of Columbus willl, tomorrow |
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Gorging. for His Country
Times-Acme Telephoto. Army Private Joseph G. Froberg, stationed at Mitchel Field, N. Y., goes to work on an over-stuffed meal of spare ribs, sauerkraut, baked in hopes of putting on enough weight to get in the Army Air Corps. Private Froberg, 22, of Brockton, Mass., has passed all the other tests except weight, He tips the scales at 121, but it takes 128 to make the grade.
2304 Children Are Clothed As Drive Enters Final Day
Continental Optical Co. Two
Employees Aid Seven; State Groups Clothe Five Each.
UP AND UP GOES the total of children clothed this year 10th annual Indianapolis Times Clothe-A-Child campaign. close of business yesterday year, ¢ Among large contributors vesterday were the Continental Optical Co. office and factory employees, 7 children; the State Highway Commission bridde department and Commission, five children each,
in the At the it was 2304, which is 483 more than last
Two Friends : Employees American United Life Ins. Co. ... Mr. C. A. Woerner : Hoosier Athletic Club—Auction Bridge Section Beautibob Beauty Shop V. F. W. Post and Ladies Auxiliary No. 2 .... Office Employees—Barbasol ‘Co. The Evening Eight, . Tube Dept. Parts and Pep. R. C. A. Elmer E. Scott Superior Court Room No, ! Boy Comrades—Class of Linwood Christian Church | Fifth Floor Employees—H. r. Wasson & Co. | Power Regulator Co, Employees of West Baking Oo... Machine 1 and 2, 4th Floor Bldg. No. 11, Real Silk Hosiery Mills A. Friend .. Thada Mar Club . L. 8, Ayres & Co.—Gown Room C. 0. McClure .... .. Social Service Chairman Moose Lodge Employees—Equitabie Life Assurance Society of N. Y, | International Business Machines D. L. Sisk . Hook Drug Store—Tlinols and Ohio Sts. A . Boy Scouts—Troops a1 and 6 (Previously clothed 1) Mile-Of-Dimes
| Clothed Friday .. Clothed Previously
fourth floor, County agents of the State Insurance. Also, the Indianapolis Oil Club put down $61 in dimes on the Mile-O-Dimes yesterday, A few days ago a contribution from the Police Post, American Legion, was listed as $1. It should
‘The score: Children. Clothed Directly by Donors. 1155 Clothed by Donors Cash ($8,590.36) .. “oe Clothed by Mile- of- Dimes
Total clothed Children, Continental Optical Co. —Office and Factory Employees State Highway Commission Bridge Department Emplovees—State Insurance & Marion County Agents State Highway Dept, Floor | ? Lathe Dept., 3600- 3700 Employees Switzer-Cummins Main Entrance Eli Lilly Co. Real Silk Bldg. No. 7—Knitters 4th Floor ...... Bookwalter-Ball - Greathouse Athletic Association National Library Bindery Co. of Ind., Inc. ' State Highway Commission Centrai Garage and Stockroom .. vat eta Indianapolis Todge 86, Fraternal Order of Police .
4th
Total C lothed to Pate
GIVEN 180-DAY
TERM ON DRUNK DRIVING CHARGE
Motorist Sentenced as Five Pedestrians Are Hurt In n Accidents.
John Oliver, 344 N, Davidson St. [today drew
penalties of $10 and [costs and 90 days in jail on a charge (of drunkenness and $50 and costs |and 90 days in jail on a charge of driving while drunk, Similar charges against seven |other motorists were continued in [ Municipal Court. Five pedestrians were injured in [11 accidents. | Edna Pennington was thrown [out of bed and suffered an injured leg when Flonnie Speaks of 814% | Highland Ave, started her car in | rev erse and backed against the Pen Inington residence at 906 Buchanan | St., police said. The impact dams= faged the front of the house and foundation. William Huff, 25, of 2015 Colum= |bia Ave. told police he was knocked [to the pavement by an auto at 15th St. and Cornell Ave. last night. One of three occupants of the car got out, and stole his $20.68 WPA check and $3 from his pockets. he report= ed. He was taken to City Hospital, Lester Stuttle, 34, of R. R. 1, Box 638, was sent to Methodist Hospital after he was struck by a car driven by Robert Bailey, 1237 Grand Ave. at State Ave. and Prospect St. Twelve-year-old Janet Matkin, 4605 Broadway, was bruised when she ran in front of a car driven by Billie Barr Lawrence, 5014 Broadway, at 46th St. and Central Ave. She was taken to Methodist Hospital Terry Rogers, 428 W. North St, | Apartment 1, was struck in the 500 block of Indiana Ave. Richard Lewis, 531 W, 13th St, was the driver, Peal Morgan, 21, Frederick Hotel, was struck at West and Washinge ton Sts., by a car driven by Samuel Ernest, 36, 2927 W. Michigan St. Ten-year-old Harold L. Hughes, 3113 W. Ninth St., was hurt when a car driven by his father, Harold Hughes Sr, and one driven by Fred W. Beck, 3965 Winthrop Ave. cols lided in the 1400 block Concord St,
FOKKER, 49, FAMED PLANE BUILDER, DIES
(Continued from Page One) gled three trainloads of planes and parts to Amsterdam, where he founded {he Netherlands Aircraft {o., the success of which prompted the American Government to invite him to this country, Mr. Fokker came to the United States in 1923 and established ths | Atlantic Aireraft Co. at Hasbrouck Heights, N. J., later affiliating with General Motors Corp. as the Fokker { Aireraft Co. { Mr, Fokker built the first trimotored plane ever manufacturad in this country—the Josephine Ford in which Admiral Richard Byrd flew to the North Pole. Other famous Fokkers were the Southern Cross, used by Kingsford-Smith, and the Friendship, in which th« late Amelia Earhart flew the Ate antic,
Employees Great American Tea Co. - Switzer-C yummins $ S. Local 1148 | Planning Dept. Employ eces—Eli wry Co. r. and Mrs. J. M. Drake... AAA of Employers’ Mutuals Indiana Farmers’ Co. Mr. and Mrs, landon ... General Outdoor Adv. Employees — Tuscany Lincoln Hotel Employees of the Marion Co. Treasurer's Department Auditor of Receipt Div, Bell Telephone Co. ......... Talbott Exchange—Bell TelePHAR OD. ova vies Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Wilson . .. Indianapolis Power & Light— Meter Reading Dept. In Memory of Robt. Leach Employees, 1st Floor Indianapolis Power & Light Co, Foster and Messick Tool Room, Switzer-Cummins, Co. Postoffice Custodial Force, Postoffice Credit Union 356 A. Friend K. H. C. Anonymous Clothe-A-Child for Me—R. C. Omicron Pi Sigma Fraternity .
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Mutual Ins, Settles—On k-
Co. Room,
Ind.
Brightwood Yards St. Moritz Tavern Alpha Beta Phi Sorority eh Women's Society of Indianapolis Florists Woman's Advance Club Dunn Beverage Co. Employees Pure Oil Company Mrs. Fred D. Nixon Employees of General Tire Con. H~~2's Orug Stores No, 20 and No, 23 SARA ENR re teen Shipping Dept. Employees Switzer-Cummins Co. U.C. 148 i | A. Friend at Christmas w. Hn. B. 1 Friends from Transportation
route!
Bells of Bethlehem Will Ring in Peace Despite War
BETHLEHEM, Dec. 23 (U. P.) .— In a warring world, the bells of
| the Church of the Nativity will
peal out once more this vear their message of “Peace on Earth, Good Will Towards Men.” The Holy Land itself is at peace this vear. The rattle of machine guns which shattered the calm last vear during the Arab-Jewish disturbances has gone to other fronts. War searchlights which dimmed the stars last vear now sweep other skies. The only noticeable effect this vear will be the absence of the pilgrims from many lands who
‘used to throng this hamlet, where
Christ was born, to worship on the site of the manger, This Christmas it will be almost a local observance. Tt was not even that last vear, hecause
We disturbed sate & We un
tryside kept resident Christians at home. Also, the bells’ ringing will not be broadcast to the world by radio, because of the war. Tomorrow, by bus, donkey back and afoot, the pilgrims will journey the five miles from Jerusalem, past the tomb of Rachel and to the courtyard of the nativity. Within the church itself, after the midnight high mass ushering in another Christmas dav, the people will file reverently down the narrow stairs to the holy crypt, marking the spot where tradition says the Son of God lay in 8 manger. In the crypt, lanterns burn smokily and the star of Bethlehem in the pavement is illumined softly by an everlasting flame. In the afternoon of Christmas
Eve, a atic gatsiarch of the
Holy Land, the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Luigi Barlassina, and his retinue will come to the Church of the Convent of St. Catherine, adjoining the Church of the Nativity for the opening phases of the ceremony. Back of the Church of the Nativity later in the evening, the Christmas Eve ceremony proper will begin in the presence of high miltary officers, foreign consuls, senior government officials, and all the motley elements which make up a Palestine crowd. High mass will be started by the patriarch just before midnight. As the sacred day arrives, the bells will ring out, earrvin~ their message to the shepherds on the hills, who tend their flocks just as they did nearly 2000 years
ARO. 4b the climax of the ceremony,
| the curtain above the tabernacle before!
will be withdrawn. revealing a figure of the Christ Child, as the assembly intones, “Benedictus qui venit in nomine domini, Hosannah inexcelcis”"—"“Blessed be he who tometh in the name of the Lord. Hosannah in the highest.” The patriarch will raise the figure and the crowd will prostrate itself as he leads the wav to the grotto beneath. There the little effigy will be reverently placed in a manger. Mass will be repeated and more masses will be celebrated continuously until Christmas Day is over. During the evening of Christmas Eve, the Y. M. C. A. will hold a campfire singsong, singing carols and eating broiled meat with the flat loaves of shepherd's bread. The gathering will be conducted by the Rev. S, Wansoupl of Chi-
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gift box first.”
Very soon NOW—a rotund gentleman wearing a white beard . ., and wearing a red coat (about a size 50 short stout) will make his annual tour—via the chimney
We're speaking, of course, of Santa Y. Claus—(the “Y" for “Yule”).
And if the twinkle in his eyes seems twinklier . . . smile on his face seems brighter it's only a natural reaction! For he knows that he carries in his pouch a greater number of certain glowing red gift boxes than ever
and if the
Kindly, all wise, as he is—Santa Claus knows that every one of those characteristic gift boxes . . . carries something of merit—something of taste—something of the tradition something heart-warming to a man-— something that seems to quicken his fingers and make them eager to unfold the contents . . . which is response to a deep, natural impulse—'He will open his Strauss
wl, STRAUSS & co, wc, THE MAN'S STORE