Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1941 — Page 2
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REDS HOLD KEY 70 ALLIED UNITY
Eden's Mission to Moscow May Outrank Churchill's
Visit to U. 8S,
By EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER CONE Hh Daly Tove The WASHINGTON, Dec. 24. —PresiChurchill will have no great dif. culty in establishing their part of an Allied Supreme Couneil and sven an Allied General Staff, into whieh the British dominions, Helland and China will doubtiess be drawn, The difficulty is Russia, and for this reason Foreign Secretary An-
thony Eden's visit te Moscow may be more important even than Mr Churchill's visit to this country. For the war cannot be won on the sea. It must be won en land. land warfare on our
is waged by Russian which alone] |
seems in a position te exert sueh constant pressure upon the German
front as to limit, if not prevent,
German offensives elsewhere, Need Mutual Confidence Russia and China are the great
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ets & supreme eo be a lame ne incapable of synchronization of war effort believed essential to victory. Will the Bolsheviks in Moscow accept mem in such a gouyncil, with the full exchange of information that such a pesition implies? Well, in the words of one Russian “it all depends upen the degree of confidence that can be established.” The Russians still distrust Britain the United States to some ex. tent. The Russians have net to wonder why the British Americans did not ask fer military solidarity in the Far East Japan struck at Pearl Harber, n, these same Russians admit, were afraid that Japan would first at Viadivostok, as Hitler was pressing them to strike.
Want Secrels Kept
Another point that bothers the Soviet leaders it what they eall the incurable garrulousness of the democracies. Russia, it is neted, managed so well to keep its own councils that in time of peace it successfully held from the entire world the full extent of its military preparation. During the recent fighting, the Soviet baffled the German intelligence service and beat the German armies by collecting behind the lines and suddenly launching a mass of manpower of not less than 20 divisions. The democracies are, however, so “garrulous” that even a matter of strict secrecy, like the trip of Winston Churchill to this country, was known to many in both countries, including “even” newspapermen, The Moscow leaders know they can secret matters secret and fear that the democracies cannot.
NEEDY IN WARREN TO GET BASKETS
Ten committees have been named from among members of the Warrenette Club, the Sunshine Society and the HI-Y Club to prepare Christmas baskets for needy Warren Township families. Co-chairmen eof the committees are Genevieve Kreiger and Bernie Berry, Eileen Pollard and Bick Gleason and Richard
Gale, Marilyn ) Rodebeck, Patricia Rodebeck and|g
Den Ping, Mary Harold White, Bert and Clifford Toombs, Dorothy Peters
ani Marvin Reodebeck, Irma Piel
Wennell and ha Dickinson
and Alan Caudell, Coila Snider and | pie
Charles Martin, and Dawn Steele and Albert Mathias. Seventh grade girl members of the Girl Scouts dressed dolls to be included in the baskets.
GET CHICAGO DEGREES Three Indianapolis residents have
a bachelors d and Levey, 3018 N. Meridian of medicine.
GET
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our telephone switche board will be epen until
10:30 P. M.
{ Christmas Eve.
on late deliveries or other service problems.
lin this raid landed in the port
0 \ N ning
This shows the of sapanees Ehuets an show
drive underway on
today, surprise today at AMA due ne orient, indicated that the Japanese were
attemp drives upon the island capital from three points in
in Sheraton Earlier, an
transports had attempted to land probably 0,000
Q I
' [while a southern army pushed
troops in the Atimonan region, 78 1¢ Meunila, The e n es anest , - ere U. 8S. forces are fights ing a Jap force estimated at from 80,000 to 100000 men. The Japs have three other minor footholds on Luson—at northern Aparri, western Vigan and southeastern Legaspi.
pirbase just outside Manila. Damage there was reported slight altheugh some buildings nearby were damaged. Bombs started crashing in the port area soon after the first
air raid alarm sounded at 11:14 am, The “all clear” came at 11:39 after a 35 minute raid. A second alarm was sounded at 1:02 p. m. for a 48 minute raid ending at 1:48. The third alarm of the day was sounded at 2:58. The “all clear” came at 3:23 after a raid period of 25 minutes, : Soon after the first alarm, watchers in the United Press building in the center of the city saw smoke rising from fires less than haif a mile away. Touring the raid area after the first alarm period, I found a popular Army and Navy night club tly damaged & ters. cross the street fragments and debris had damaged a large
garage DAILY Sreched cars a A bomb had struck in the curb in front of the building. So far as I could see all bombs
ares.
Saw Numerous Casualties
I saw numerous casualties — all persons who had failed to use air
shelter 8 A I sons emerged unharmed. Less than 200 feet away numerous persons were killed. :
Out of between 10 gnd 18 bombs during the
d 3 oe bomt landed close to a main
firemen stuck to ‘their the second raid, while "h to shelter, and ry subdue all first raid within half
Ne Sign of Panic
no d er ey started in an hour.
'Wave on Wave of Bombers Poured Death Upon Manila’
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an unidentified town in the same area said: “The people of this town thought the planes were American. They could not identify them at the great height at which the planes were fiving. However, they could not believe that the Japanese would attack a town in which there was not a single military objective. “The planes feigned a dog fight, and the people thronged to the streets, thinking the planes were maneuvering. At this peint the planes swept down and machine gunned the streets. “The planes dropped several incendiary and demolition bombs which set fire te and destroyed half the town proper, including the entire commercial district. “From 50 to 100 citizens were killed outright and hundreds were wounded.” A dispatch to the newspaper Debate said Japanese planes machine gunned civilians in the town of Portra and then dropped bombs which burned the business district and killed and wounded the townspeople.
SANTA'S FIRST STOP
IN U. S. ‘ON ALERT’
PENASSE, Minn. Dec. 24 (U. P). —The half-frozen children of this north country village prepared today to make the most of their ical advantage over all the millions of other small boys and girls in the United States. Because Penasse is the northernmost point in the nation, it is traditionally the first U. 8. stop for Santa Claus when his sleigh glides down from the north on Christmas Eve, Juvenile preparations consisted
ears, offering to run errands, and generally behaving in a manner suitable only to the day before Christmas. And there is a Santa Claus who always appears at this northern gateway to the U. 8, located in the northwest angle miles above the
propricor of i, general
Penasse's Santa never has missed —in depression or prosperity, war or peace. And once when there was no snow he made it anyway.
(JAPS BEGIN ATROCITY
STORIES AGAINST U, S.
southern approaches of Leningrad,
primarily of washing behind the!
[REDS HT HARD
IN NORTH AREA
Hurling Forces at Nazis in Drive to End Siege of Leningrad.
Uetel Pro Slat Coerpontent
MOSCOW, Dec. 24—-The Red continues an Site
westward, threatening to entrap enemy troops holding the
besieged for months. Another force, bolstered by ski detachments, pressed southwest. ward, aiming to flank Novoford, on from the area around Lake Imen. The most notable suceess on the Moscow front was scored in the Tula sector where the Russians recaptured Gorbacheve, junction of four railroads linking Mescow and Kharkov and Saratov and Smo-
Desperate an resistance and fierce ter cks failed to halt e Rea advanes along the
mene, Aan"
counter-aitacks on the sailent of the Moscow front,
Two Men
They Smiled and One Of Them Climbed Upon a Chair. (Continued from Page One)
up the furrows of care and worry in a face that has, so often in these latter days, looked squarely into a world full of trouble. = = . YOU COULD feel the quicken. ing pulse of free peopies in the very atmosphere of that room. Because, more than all else, of the simplicity of the ocecasion-—of the comfortable laughter from men unafraid. Two men imbued with essence of democracy talked across a desk to representatives of a free press and a free Recple. On the d were the knickknacks that clutter up the homes and desks of democratic people. In a basket in one corner, usual ly reserved for presidential papers, Christmas gifts were neatly wra N The President and the Prime Minister sat talking together as ne nts filed inte the room, a cause of the necessary spection of their credentials
gallery. ent had some news, about the creation of an office of transportation, about a meeting at 5 o'clock of the Anglo-Ameri-can co-ordina staff. Then he explained that he'd suggested that the Prime Minister need not answer questions, but the Prime Minister said he would like to. ss 8 @ SOMERODY ASKED the Prime Minister a question. “Let's see you—stand up!” came a shout from the crowd. The President turned to Mr. Churchill and asked him if he would stand up. He did. But still he could not be seen by many in the rear of the room, as he realized. So he climbed right up in the big leather chair. A cheer broke out, and he stood there, smiling, for the spontane-
ous ovation, Then he sat down and anquestions, numbers of
swered them. He was confident of victory, but -optimism
Then, and his voice was almost hushed, he of England's dark and k y months in = ® » AND, BEFORE the mind's eye, there rose the
L 8. AYRES & COMPANY
By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst
“war of nerves” has broken out in
Misplaced Bumps Spoil Boys' ‘Perfect Crime’
Three drugstore delivery boys were in the custedy of Police Juves nile Ald Authorities today. Theirs was not the perfect crime. At Headquarters yesterday, the boys, from 14 to 15 years old, told
Detective Sergt. Elbert Romeril how they had been waylaid and siugged with whisky bottles by bandits who escaped with $168 belonging te two
drug stores. They even showed the bumps on
their heads to prove it. Detective
Romeril; a mild-mannered man, clugked sympathetically, He picked up the boys' felt hats, which were mashed and cut where the bottle blows fell, How odd, he wondered idly, that the cuts on the hats where the blows had fallen did not match the lumps on the heads--uniess, of course, the boys were wearing their hats sidewise. The detective stroked his chin and look hard at the boys. The boys admitted, then, they had taken turns bumping each oth-
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on the head with a length of
Then, to m it look “real,” they had thumped felt bats with bottles on the side: . All for $16. It was not, Detective Romeril re-
flected, quite the perfect crime,
LAMP BURNS 37 YEARS SALT LAKE OQITY, Utah U. P). -A n old time carbon filament lamp, purchased in 1904, has been burning almost continuously at a Salt Lake Oity railroaa switch
1 a
SMALLEST CHURCH
ASKS RECOGNITION
ST. MARYS, Pa. (U. P.) ~Residents of this community are proud of Decker el, the * church in the United Staten, ond are sponsoring a campaign attention to We tiny house of wor-
hip. The little church, which accom= modates 30 persons, is always open to visitors, and last year people from 40 states came to see the
1. e structure was built in 1886 by Michael Decker as a thank of fering for his recovery from an ine Jury,
Ti he Night Betose [ heistmas
And then in 8 twinkling I heard on the roof,
"Twas the night before Christmas, when all through
the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mous¢; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be ‘here.
The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar plums danced in their heads; And Mamma in her kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap.
When out on the lawn there rose such a clatter, I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window
I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash,
The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow, Gave a luster of midday to objects below; When, what to my wondering eyes should appear, But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer,
With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment
it must be St. Nick.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came, And he whistled, and shouted, and called them
by name, _
“Now, Vixen
Dasher! Now, i 1
Dancer! Now, Prancer, Now,
On, Comet! On, Cupid! On, Donder! and Blitzen! To the top of the porch, to the top of the walll Now, dash away, dash away, dash away, all!”
As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky, So, up to the housetop the coursers they flew,
With a sleigh full of
toys—and St. Nicholas, tool
VIII,
As I drew in my head, Down the chimney St.
The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.
nd was twig around, icholas came with a bound,
He was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot, And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and
soot;
A bundle of toys he had on his back, And he looked like a peddler, just opening his pach,
His eyes how they twinkled! His dimples how merry!
His cheeks were like
roses, his nose like a cherryl
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow And his beard on his chin was as white as the snow,
The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath:
e had a broad face an
at shook when he la
a round little belly ed, like a bow! full of jelly,
He was chubby and plump—a right jolly old elf
And I laughed when I saw him, in
A wink in his eye and. a
spite of myself. twist of his head,
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.
word, but went straight to his werk,
e stocki And laying his finger
; then turned with a jerk,
de of his nose, iving a nod, up the
chimney he rose.
h, to his team gave a whistle,
like the down of a thistle;
him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,
“ Merry Cheistmas To Qu
eee and to QU a Good Jlight ”
This Immortal Poem Is a For several years it has been
Part of Every Child’s Christmas the pleasant privilege of L. S. Ayres
& Oompany to make it available to our younger friends.