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VOLUME 51—-NUMBER 247

MONDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1939

112638 CHILDREN §.3 MADE HAPPY BY 3+ CLOTHE-A-CHILD

i, Mile-of-Dimes Acocunt sfor

Most of the things that are suppesed to happen on Christmas happened as they were supposed to for Tommy Gill, 4245 Graceland Ave. One problem remains to be solved. December brought Christmas, Christmas brought Santa Claus and Santa Claus brought presents. But

Sania staved. Tommy's

CITY WORSHIPS, Stork Subs for Santa

EATS AND PLAYS

One of Busiest Seasons in

Decade Climaxed With Traditional Activities.

Indianapolis today celebrated of its most prosperous Christmas Days in " It meant an end to davs of hustling through

business sector in search of the tie

Raa sa |! Qecaqe.

] that Dad was wearing, the housecoat Mother was admiring, Sister's vanity in some ways The day's homes and cl and business activities ceased. Most

sel an

wirches,

public offices were closed. Exceptions |

Palice

office,

Department, the the he Foderal Bureau of Inwhere business was “goual.”

were the Sheriff's office and vestigation ing on as u Family Feast Feature

for

One WAS aispose cases day The big moment for children—the pell-mell dash to the family Christmas tree to see what Santa left of course, was over. Next most important was the family dinner Christmas day was celebrated in all Catholic churches throughout the city with special music at all Masses. Most Protestant churches observed Christmas services vesterday. A few clubs and social groups were planning dinners downtown Most Yuletide festivities already Jere over Share Joy With Needy

Patients in hospitals and inmates of correctional institutions also celebrated the day with special dinners and distributions of gifts. And through the generosity of Indianapolis people, most needy families had some Christmas cheer. The Christmas Clearing House estimated that many more than the 10.000 families aided last vear got to share In the material joy of the season this vear Tomorrow, business, industrial and governmental life will take up again. but the holiday spirit will not come to an end. There's still New Year's Eve.

session Municipal Court cheduled this morming to of traffic and misdemeanny The Postoffice was on Sun-

schedule

BLACKOUT,

The Times’ New Serial Story, Begins Today oh 2

wie

jammed downtown.

i Junior's train—whiech | also belonged to Daa celebration centered in| All industrial |

State Police |

In Four

| The stork plaved the San

dawn todav,

| First Christmas Dav baby honors {at local hospitals go out of the city. Glendvn Monday, she Camby, Ind., were presented with & ON® pouncing girl at 4:03 a. m. at St.

(Mr, and Mrs

Frances Hospital. | The stork Santa called next Mr. and Mrs. Leo Wall,

Fair and Clear Forecast Here

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

am... 8 Dam... Rm.... 0 10am Be Men BS

29 31

6 3 « 8 THE WEATHER Bureau's Santa Claus Iailed to heed Indianapolis’ wish for a white Christmas, and, what's more, the chances of a belated snow present are pretty slim. Tonight and tomorrow, the Bu-

reay said today, are to be fair and | 1

clear, Southern Indiana. which has & blanket of snow south of Bloomnigton, will have cloudy skies, the Bureau added Warmest today here will be “about thawing.” with a drop to about 30 degrees expected tonight.

DOUBT SAFETY ZONE CAN BE PATROLLED

| LONDON, Dec. 25 (U. P.).—Unofficial quarters expressed doubt today that the Pan-American neutrality protest growing out of the sea battle involving the pocket battleship Graf Spee at Montevideo would produce material results. The 21 American republics,

to Great Britain, France and Germany against violations of safety zone around the Western Hemisphere, Unofficially it was said here that several factors militated against an effective protest, These were described as the inability of the Pan American navies to patrol 5.000000 square miles of ocean, the torpedoing of Allied ships within the safety zone and the need of an “mirtight” guarantee that Germany would respect

‘measgites involving the zone,

role of Hospital. ta Claus for four couples before

on 1612 Churchman Ave, at the Methodist

in- | cluding the United States, protested |

the |

Christmas Visits

Their vule gift was an 8 pound 2 ounce bov, born at 5 a. m It also was & bov for Mr. and Mrs. Noral House, 3431 Graceland

Ave, at St. Vincent's at 5:10 a. m.|

and another boy at the Methodist to Mr. and Mrs. Irving Goldman, 1201 Union St, at 6 a. m. The latter pr¥¥ents weighed pounds 4 ounces and § pounds 9 ounces, respectively. In all cases, babies and mothers were reported “doing fine.”

U.S. LOANS RADIUM TO CITY HOSPITAL

No Charge May Be Made

For Use of Element.

~- ‘

“he City Hospital radium supply {will be nearly doubled by & loan of '208 milligrams from the Federal Government, it was announced today by Dr. Charles W, Mvers, hos'pital superintendent. : Valued at about $7500 the radium will be available for the permanent use of City Hospital with the provision that no charge be made for lits use

| Tt will be shipped here by the U |S. Public Health Service in small [platinum iridium needles imbedded {in lead containers. Tt will be used {for cancer treatment. | The loan will greatly increase the scope of the newly organized cancer clinic at City Hospital, recognized as one of the leading clinics in the country. Was supplied through the Seventh District Federation of Women's Clubs, City Hospital is one of 13 institutions in 11 states to receive radium under the loan system.

NEWS HUSBAND ALIVE

JERSEY CITY, Dec. 25 (U. P.) — Mrs. Natalia Modzelewska got “the most wonderful Christmas present of all” when she stepped from the liner President Garfield. It was cablegram informing her! shat her husband, an officer in the Polish merchant marine, had not been killed in a mine explosion as! reported and was safe. Belief that her - husband was dead led Mrs. Modzelewska to return to this coun-

try, where she was born, |

Radium now in use here |

Christmas problem is how to get his own private railroad under personal management.

10 PERSONS DIE INYULEWRECKS

Three Drown as Car Plunges In Pond at Austin; 23 Hurt Here.

Ten persons were killed and 28

injured in Indiana traffic during the week-end as thousands jammed the highways. Twenty-three persons were injured, four seriously, in 78 accidents [in Indianapolis during the weekend. Twenty-two drivers were arrested here, five on drunken driving charges, The most seriously injured in Indianapolis was Harold Milender, 20, of 2840 N. Capitol Ave., whose car went out of control and overturned at th St. and Highway 13 yesterday. Three other youths injured in the accidents were Edward Pittman, 20, of 439 W. 3ist St.; Jack Page. 21, of 218; W. 30th St., and Niles Foster, 15, of 2860 N. Capitol Ave. Three motorists, trapped in their car as it plunged down a 10-Yoot embankment into a pond near Austin, Ind., were crowned. The vie- | tims were Jesse nnd Gertrude Flatt of Chicago and John T. Bannon of Argo, 111.

Mrs. Evelvn Keener, 30. of Detroit, |

was Killed vesterdavy when the ear in which she was riding left the high way and struck a tree on Highway 15 near Elkhart. Her husband J. C. Keener, suffered head injuries They were en route to Logansport to spend Christmas with Mrs, Keener's mother. Mrs. Sophie Dickey, Joseph Cunico, 58, was killed at his home near Centenary when he WAS run over by an automobile driven by Ray Bishop, Chrisman. |TII. Mr. Bishop said he was blinded by oncoming auto lights and did not (Continued on Page Three)

Whose Plane.

HER “BEST PRESENT’ |

Pete Bystedt, who braved an Arctic

NULATO, Alaska, Dec. 25 (U. P). The bodies of Hans Mirow, and

blizzard to fly out over the Alaskan

tundra on a mission of mercy, were Bru by dog sled to Nulato toAY. Their plane, piloted by Mr. Mirow, operator of Alaskan Airlines, crashed, probably Wednesday, near Kaltag on the Yukon River. Tt was found vesterday, its nose buried in the snow, its wings shorn by the terrific impact that must have killed

its occupants instantly, y |

WR ———

$3747 of the $28,397 Raised This Year.

(Donors’ List, Page 5; Editorial, Page 14)

It was a merry Christmas today for 2638 needy Indianapolis school children, That was the number clothed through The Indianapolis Times’ tenth annual Clothe-A-Child campaign. It was a record-breaking year in all categories. The number of

(children clothed exceeded last vear's

| peak figure of 1821 by 817.

These figures speak for them selves:

Clothed directly by donors |. Clothed by donors’ cash | Clothed by Mile-of -Dimes

127¢ . 958 . 401

Total The money itself:

$ R9G5.86 (esti- . 15,744.49 34%.30

Cash donations Spent by donors mated) | Mile-of-Dimes ....

Total ........v¢0000, SRB3INES

Clothe-A-Child was launched by The Times in 1930. That vear 380 children were clothed. Since that time, the campaign has grown into an Indianapolis institution Individuals, clubs, factory and office groups, scout troops and all tvpes of groups have joined in sending the campaign to record after record

All Lists Checked

The lists of needy children, almost all of school age, are checked through the public school and parochial school systems. If there is no recard in either of these offices, the case is checked with the proper relief agency Donors have their option. They may take a child directly and out. personally, Or, they permit Times to clothe the child with the cash donated. Every dime laid on the WMile-of-Dimes, the famous sidewalk Santa of Clothe-

A-Child, is spent long before the quiet reighed on the entire Western |

dimes are picked up. The Times estimates the amount of money on the line and advances the funds. Clothe-A-Child's history.

1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1935 193% 1928 1939

The a'most $30.000 spent in Indianapolis stores has gone to one of the worthiest causes possibie. Tt means that children who have been unable, in many instances, to attend school because of lack of proper clothes now may resume [classes It means that children who have been suffering from colds and other ailments because of threadbare apparel have a better chance for health and happiness, | It means a Merry Christmas!

BRITISH SOW MINES AND WARN SHIPPING

| LONDON, Dec. 25 (U., P.).-—-The entire eastern coast of Scotland and England, extending far into the North Sea, was protected today by three new ones of destructive mines. Great Britain warned that world shipping would have to “proceed at peril.”

The mine fields apparently yere ance that France would answer the |

intended to facilitate British control

of all shipping passing through the would make Germany “pay for each father, George V. on English Channel into the North Sea gaerifice and feel the weight of the Christmas

as well as for warding off German submarine mine-layers. All vessels bound for England were advised by the Admiralty to approach by way of the Channel to the Dans. There they will receiv orders at the major British contra band control point.

DEAN SUGGESTS 11 AS CAMPUS CURFEW

KANSAS CITY, Dec. 25 (U

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Entered av Second-Class Matter Indianapolis,

at Postoffice,

Advances Plan Sa

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Ind.

PRICE THREE CENTS

POPE CALLS FOR

F.D. R. VOICES ‘PLEA AT YULE TREE LIGHTING

Expresses Wish Countries at War “Read, Learn, Digest’ Sermon on Mount.

| WASHINGTON, Dec. 25 (U. P.) Ranking officials joined today with peysons of all degree in indorsing President Roosevelt's Chrstmas wish that the spirit of peace soon may cover the entire world. Mr. Roosevelt last night voiced the wish, in connection with lighting of a community Christmas tree behind the White House, that peoples of now=warring nations may ‘read, learn and inwardly digest” the “deathless words” of the Sermon on the Mount.

Reads Sermon on Mount

Pope Pius XT “We do not ignore the difficulties.”

WAR RECESSES ON WEST FRONT

No Soldiers Believed Slain To Noon Christmas Day; Draw Extra Rations.

{ PARIS, Dee. 25 (U. P.) Complete

(Front today. According to reports reaching Paris, not a single Allied or German soldier had been killed up

to noon Christmas Day,

A few patrols reconnoitered in the Saar sector, but no casualties were reported. Fog and cold weather also had slowed down aerial activity,

There were only 26 flights hy

Allied combat planes, compared with |

a dailv average of 178. Allied reconnaissance planes flew over Bremen and Hamburg but dropped no bombs, it was reported,

| French Have Extra Rations

Raids on German coastal seaplane bases also were reported | French poilus--except for troops assigned to immediate duty--cele-brated Christmas Dav with extra rations of turkey, cognac and wine

all the way from the North Sea ol

Switzerland. ernization with the enemy of Christ mas 1914. But the poilus made up for it by mobilizing all artistic talent available for impromptu shows and concerts, Three million packages were transported in the war zone by French postal authorities,

| British Say It With Music

| British troops on the Western Front fared almost as well. They received a batch of 100.000 phonograph records, 50 tons of plum pudding, and brandy and thousands of game sets, Meanwhile, the French nation had | Premier Edouard Daladier's assur-

enemy's actions “blow for blow” and

injustices she has imposed on others.” In a grim Christmas broadcast, M Daladier last night warned both

troops at the front and civilians at

| expected to capitulate.

QUINTUPLETS HOLD CHRISTMAS PARTY

| CALLANDER, Ontario, Dec. 25 (U, P.) ~The Dionne quintuplets to-

| There was no evidence of the frat.

Surrounded by members of his family and secret service guards, the President told a crowd of 800 who attended the ceremonies and an un estimated radio audience that 1939 “began with dread of evil things to | come and it ends with the horror of another war adding its toll of anguish to a world already bowed under the burden of suffering laid upon it by man's inhumanity to man.” | As his Christmas message to all mankind, Mr. Roosevelt slowly read the solemn words of the Sermon on the Mount, | “In these davs of strife and sadness in many other lands,” Mi | Roosevelt said, "Let us in the nations which still live at peace for{bear to give thanks only for our good fortune in our peace.”

Life More Complex Now | The text of the greeting: “The old year draws to & began with dread of evil

It things

SPIRITUAL DRIVE TOWARD PEACE

Lists Five Postludes,

And Asks Nations To State Aims,

VATICAN CITY, Dec. 25 (U. P). His Holiness Pope Pius XII, en couraged by the appointment of a [peace ambassador from the | United States, today had laid down the five postulates he considers the basis for any solution of the Buropean conflict, The Pontiff made his plan | known in his traditioffal Christmas address to the Sacred College of Cardinals in which he also praised President Roosevelt's appointment of Myron C. Taylor as personal Vatican representative as "a great contribution to a just ‘and lasting peace.’ Pleads

The Pontiff postludes: 1. A guarantee of the right to existence and of the independence of all nations, big or small 2. Release of all nations from the slavery of armaments | 38. Reconstruction of international [ institutions, apparently a reference (to the T.eapue of Nations 4 Satisfaction of the mands of minorities 5 The leaders of all nations observe faithfully their word and international

for Minorities

listed these peace

fair de-

must pledged pacts

Urges Demands Be Stated

The Pope asked leaders of ware ring nations to state their demands which must be satisfied in order {6 achieve peace Declaring that "God wills it." His Holiness called for a spiritual erusade tn restore peace. He also, without mentioning the countries specifically, assailed Soviet Russia’s “atrocities md illicit means of destruction of old men, women and children” in Finland The red-capped cardinals, gatheered in the consistorial hall with the archihishops and parish priests |of Rome. heard Pope Pius announce Mr, Tavior's apnointment at the conclusion of the address.

Just Peace Sought

to come and it ends with the horror |

toll of bowed laid to

of another war adding its anguish to a world alread) under the burden of suffering upon it by man’s inhumanity man, “But, thank God for the interlude of Christmas. This night is a night of joy and hope and happiness and promise of better things to come And so in the happiness of this eve of the most blessed dav in the vear { (Continued on Page Four)

GEORGE PLEADS FOR ‘CHRISTIAN PEACE

Bearded Shepherd

| SANDRINGHAM, Norfolk, Eng. Dec. 25 (U. P.) King George VI today broadcast to the British Em- | pire a Christmas message of peace but insisted that any peace must be based on security from aggression

and on respect for the rights of free |

peoples, | Sitting alone in the study of his country estate here, the King voiced the Empire's longing for peace, but also its determination to fight on until a Christian peace is assured. A bearded shepherd of Cotswold who had introduced the Xing's his annual broadcasts, introduced the King today. | Broadcasting of the message began at 3 p. m. (9 a. m. Indianapolis time). After a program in which the mother country and the domin-

€ home that Germany should no{ be jons and colonies and their fighting of |

|services exchanged messages [greeting and encouragement,

Striking a note similar to that |

developed by His Holiness Pope Pius XII in his Christmas message vesterday in which the Pon. tiff appealed for a peace based on Christmas idealism, the King defended the rights of all nations and

—“Beddy-bed by 11, or you'll never gay celebrated their fifth Christ- the “freedom of the spirit.” get to heaven,” is R chant heard mas as hostesses to their parents, whe text of the King's message

around Kent State University campus these nights, Reason: An 11

“suggested” by Raymond E. Man-

{and brothers and sisters. A big turkey, with all the trimmings, will

p. m. curfew be shared by the combined Dionnes peace and of the home

The girls’ physician, Dr. Allan

“The festival which we Know as Christmas is above all a festival of Among all free peoples the love of peace is

chester, dean of men at the uni- Roy Dafoe, stayed away®to assure profound for this alone gives secur-

versity, Dean Manchester acted house mothers complained some of the male students

after

were

the Dionnes would enjoy “a real family party.” Papa Dionne and

that the doctor have some legal quarrels of

still before the courts, too. The

ity to the home, | “But true peace is in the hear: men and its tragedy of this

time is that there are powerful

keéping excessively late hours, and quins were extremely proud of their countries whose direction and policy

| were disturbing others.

Cra

The fliers were seeking one of Alaskan Airlines’ planes, grounded

somewhere on the wasteland sur-|

rounding Nulato with its pilot and three passengers, including a mother and her 15-month old baby. The grounded plane was found

Friday and all the pilots available |

in West Central Alaska turned their efforts to the location of Mr. Mirow and his mechanic.

| with William Jefford, an

Civil Aeronau-

| big, gaily decorated Christmas tree

Dog Sled Returns Bodies of Mercy Fliers, shed in Arctic Blizza

Meanwhile, the occupants of the

| first plane were returned safely to

Nulato and the mother, Mrs. William Jefford and her infant son, continued by air their trip to Fairbanks to spend Christmas at home Airlines mechanic, Neither they, Pilot Jack Chambers nor the plane's fourth ocoupant, Joe Walsh Jr, son of the Alaskan Congressional representa-

are based on aggression and the suppression of all we hold dear for | mankind. “It is this that has stirred our (Continued on Page Four)

YALE HOCKEY STAR ENDS HIS OWN LIFE

RADNOR, Pa, Dec. 26 (U, P) — | Priends and relatives could give no reasons today for the apparent Christmas Eve suicide of Cement [C. Kite, 21-vear-old Yale University senior and ice hockey star. | Mr. Kite, son of socially prominent Mr. and Mrs. Edwin M. Finletter, was found unconscious late yesterday in a second-floor bedroom at the home of his cousin, Mary M.

tics Inspector Charles R. Burnett tive, suffered apparently from their | Merrick, whose holiday guest he was

sighted the wreck and a dog sled four days in the blizsard-buffeted to have been. with rescuers reached the wreaking | pune cabin, the last day and & hall | wound from a 22-caliber bullet wi

to find the bodies inside,

thout food, 2

He suffered a head He | died shortly later,

Introduces Ruler at Broadcast.

“We could not have received Aa more SAtisfving Christmas announcement because it represents a strong and promising contribution from the great head of a great and powerful nation toward a just and honorable peace and toward the work of relieving the suffering of the victims of war,” he said Mr, Taylor was named "so that our parallel peace efforts may help each other” President Roosevelt had ald in a personal message to the Pope, a Vatican announcement said The Pope appealed for a and honorable peace’ in a word address which recounted world’s tribulations and his repeated efforts to bring neace

“Just 4000 the own about

Explains Fine Postulates

“Tt is mecessary to set forth funde« mental points necessary to a peace which the Governments would be willing to negotiate,” the Pope said, “but it must be borne in mind that any peace must be an hgporable peace for both big and small nations.” Explaining his five postulates of peace, the Pontiff said: “Firstly, a fundamental postulate of an honorable and just peace is that of the right to life and freedom for all nations, both big and small, powerful and weak. “The will to life of a nation must never call for a death sentence of other nations. \Vhen and whe'ever this squality of rights has been clestroved or damaged, or endangered, (then juridicial order calls for reparation which cannot be found hy means of the sword or bv selfish arbitration, but through justice and reciprocal equality,

Calls for Disarmament

“Secondly, true peace will be established when nations are freed from the heavy slavery of armaments and from the danger that material force which, instead of protecting rights, become violent in its oppression. Peace which does not, attribute fundamental importance to disarmament, both organic and progressive, is hound to show inconsistency and lack vitality “Thirdly, in creating or reconsti= tuting international institutions . which have missions full of difficulties and grave responsibilities, the experience of the past should be kept In mind. Inefficiency and faults in practice from which any similar institution suffered in the past should be taksn into consideration so as to be avoided In the future “Fortunately, if a better order in Furope ig desired, attention must be (Contihued on Page Four)

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

. Johnson Movies a Mrs. Ferguson 14 Obituaries

Clapper Comics | Crossword Curious World 21 Editorials 14 Flynn 10 Forum «...+.. 14 | Rago. ........30 Gallup Poll , 13 Mrs. Roosevelt 13 Grin, Bear It. 21 | Scherrer | In Indpls 3 Serial Story { Inside Indpls. 14 Society 8 9 | Jane Jordan . 9, Sports. .18, 18, 17

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