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VOLUME 53 NUMBER 248
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| By UNITED PRESS | : : “America observed "the birthday ‘of the Prince of Peace today in a world at war. eg Its ‘accelerated ® wiser slowed temporarily for. the!" mas, prayers and celeb though ‘there was no respite for ; on its sons at ‘battle stations d ang sea azomny, the globe. It was unlike any Christmas the nation had ever observed before. A year ago, 18 days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the countrv was - only beginning the complete conversion of its peacetime $eonomy to war.
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organized for war, tightening its belt after a final Christmas buying spree which stripped stores of many ar- . ticles which - cannot be replaced “until the war ends. Transportation Heavy “Millions of men in the armed services could not rejoin their famflies’ for the holiday and: choked transportation facilities prevented many other family reunions. Most war factories which kept operating at topspeed through other holidays halted their production lines to give ‘their workers a well- - earned: rest. But some continued
~ Bven’ ‘with ‘war workers at home, there were vacant chairs at many ras dinner tibles. Approxi1,000,000 - soldiers are overseas and thousands of
ontside’ the United States. ‘And _ some 4,000,000 other men are star . tioned at camps within the coun- . try far from their own homes.
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"Ohtighmas to You “Al, (An Editorial)
In. a. World of Anxiety and Woe, We ‘Wish g Mores] . n
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| tensified hatred.
“{ which Christ was born, make their
IN THE MIDST of war
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‘day of anxiety and woe. saying—
the. birthday of the Prince. of Peace.
of sorrow in.the world, so. much of hatred, so much of sufA so mugh of distrust—so little, it Seems, tof good
It has always seemed thus. ed "Each Christmas,” from the first, has found Human 1x ‘hearts bowed down by loneliness and grief, human spirits * corrupted by selfishness and. malice, human aspirations “mocked by enmity and defeat. If that were all, ‘the celebration would be' ‘a Sravesty
BUT; CHRISTMAS this yeir: as: sin other 'years— finds ‘most of .us: honestly wanting tobe unselfish and kind; most of “us genuinely trying to be better than we are; most of us sympathizing with others’ SOrTow and seeking to add our mite to others’ happiness. Christmas has never been all ‘we could wish it to be. But our very longing for a: ‘perfect Christmas, never realized yet never quite suppressed; is the best answer to
“Our minds tell us that, for most of humanity, it is a Our, wiser hearts persist in
A Merry Chistinas to: You’ ALL!
we pause again to celebrate
the fact. There is 50 reel.
By PAUL oma
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BERN, a Cheha te fourth of this merciless war—comes this year to a Europe. completely | devoid of anything like the Christ-| mas spirit and stripped of most of], the earthly goods normally éonsid-
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festivities. | } As a prelude to the celebrations) of the birth.of Jesus Christ, who| councilled his disciples to love one another, Europe has héard the impassioned voices of Dr. Joseph Goeb-! > bels and his Italian counterpart spurring their Sountrymen on to in-
Alorig France's cold, bleak roads, long convoys of Jews, the race from
rage, , despairing way toward: the
awaiting them, the rest of vassalized Europe, their brethren suffer unspeakable horrors}
prisoners lie wasting away in geséred indispensable to the traiivional|
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“unknown destination” where Nazi forced labor is the mildest fate| while {throughout
in ghettos and concentration camps. Hundreds of thousands of political}
tapo prisons for no greater -crime than their inability to share * ‘the| views of Europe’s Nazi masters. -
In inereasing numbers, efdgees|
‘flee to the few hospitable humane countries left .on this: ‘continent— small cases in the Wilderness ot sor-
less nights! in air - raid shelters - ‘while -their homes are pounded to A icy. windswept steppes of ; Russia and the arid deserts of Africa, mil‘lions of men seek: one another's | death, | On this fourth war Christmas, no single country on’ this continent is unaffected by the catastrophe engulfing it. Scarcely a family -in the belligerent countries is without its i (Continued on Page. Twa)
WHITE HOUSE MENU
WASHINGTON, ‘Dée. 25 wipe ‘Menu: af. the White House Ghrustmas dinner: Oyster cocktails, cl Shey, roast turkey,
., | Gefmgn “tanks, were captured and {that in one’ sector - alone an addi-
Europe Wasted and Enslaved, But Still Thinks of Christmas|
= National bank. There was a total}
of the orthopedic | ‘section.
scale. offensives sil alt day were reported’ % greatest eins tk
viously threa the middle D
Hi scale, of ‘the battle was indicated by by ‘the anpouncement that 23
tional: 24 ‘disabled “tanks, ‘10 trucks, 12 “machine ‘gufis .and more than 1000 mines and a number of ammunition dumps were taken by the he new offensive salready had (Continued: on Page Two) Two)
TURKEY LOCKED UP; COMPANY 0 ON WAY
That Was Dilem Dilemma Until Police Came to Help. °
Fred Rhees, a salesman for the Fox Deluxe Brewing Co. today ‘called upon police for assistance in getting “his 15-pound Christmas turkey from a ldcker in the holidayclosed: ‘College Market at 2252 College. aye. Mr. Rhees had. taken the turkey, given to him as 2 Christmas present by His company, to the home of a | frierid, and the friend, having no place to keep the turkey placed it in a locker at the market—a fact Mr. Rhees discovered only today. At press time today, Mr. Rhees and the co-operating police officers
‘| nad not succeeded in contacting] | Herbert Netter, store proprietor.}
| Anat: . Rbees had company com|ing for - dinner.
MATURES ROMANCE
1934 CHILDREN IN TIMES DRIVE
: jand_ ‘wound. up the year’s ; )
A Daxlait’ ssses-
LT0: y- EAD IN ‘DIVORCE |
CLOTHED HERE
Mile-Of-Dimes Nets $4000; Total Expenditure Well Over $30,000.
(Photos, Page Three)
It was a very merry Christmas today~for 1934 Indianapolis children—the underprivileged children aided. in the 13th.annual Indianapolis Times Clothe-A-Child cam-
paign. The final day's work at the Clothe-A-Child offices saw 217 children cared for, all by Times shop-
been contributed directly or placed on the famous Mile-Of-Dimes, The dimes were swept up at 5:30 yesterday evening, washed, dried, and then counted at the Merchants’
$4000.90 on the dime line: Total cash contributions amounted to $11,420.36, placing the . total amount of cash in excess of $15,000.
Over $30,000 Expended
However; the hundreds of. ¢hildren clothed directly by donors did not come under this cash figure and Clothe-A-Child officials “today estimated the: total expenditure in the 1942 campaign at well, “above $30,000. WM There were 1034 children dlbthed by Times shoppers and an. even 900 by direct donors. The Times ceased accepting contributions or donors three days ago
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(Dec. 25, 1942) JR Soviet offensive
sination not expected to eripple allied offensive. Allies in : u drive axis from M . positions. ported near. Sirte. Taranto and Naples bombed.
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC — Allte 5 drive Japs to last defense line near Buna. Enemy destroyer and 5000-ton transport sunk near Salamaua.
BURMA—British = land offensive makes “slow, steady” progress. R. + A.'F. raids Magwe airport. Japanese bomb Calcutta again.
‘| Elephants Keep New Mayor Busy
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Dec. 25 (U. P.). — Mayor-Elect "Manson L, Reichert borrowed four elephants from an indoor circus last -November to take part in his victory parade. The owner wanted to keep the animals in town for a’ while, so Mr. Reichert magnaminously .agreed to quarter them in his garage. He thought they would be there a week. The elephants are still ‘here, and it looks as if they will be there for the duration. No wartime transportation is available for elephants. So they ‘cannot join their owner’s act in Baltimore. Today the mayor-elect is not worried gbout a white Christmas; . it’s “white elephants.”
‘FAMILY UNITED—IN JAIL
‘ELKHART, Ind, Dec. 25 (U. P.). —City Judge D. Russell Bontrager said he'd “keep the family together for Christmas,” when hé sentenced | an 18-year-old soldier; his brother|a and his father for starting a battle royal in a local tavern. Pvt. Warren G. Pettit, on holiday leave from Ft. Bliss; his brother, Jess Pettit, 36, and his father, Grant Pettit, 69,} each were sentenced to prison for 10 days, and fined: $11 mplece.
First Yule Baby
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mas baby, a girl, was born to a
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naval ability, came from a. fam: of sea-faring people. Born’ iil, village: of Nerac in Gascony Aug. 7, 1881, his main intere:
were the navy, and ‘on brief ho - days, ‘the countryside of ‘his nati - € | Gascony. : Darlan had been a key man of i! c . French Navy. since 1936, when: le ‘of the milita v
was named
cabinet ‘of. ' ministry of marir
With his appointment as a fill p |admiral on dune 6, 1929, he tok _|command, of alt French naval forc: ; He used his position in the mi
istry of marine before: the war
place his own nominees in all it
portant naval posts. © Thus, wh: n
strained after’ the.a#mistice, Dar’: was a key | ure ‘because of ! control of ‘the navy. He apparen
used this comtrel to obtain his pr - is » . murder.” before conjecturing on
as ‘Marshal Henk” Philippe’ Peta: minister of - ‘marifie. -d Jater vi premier. : In N. Africa When Invasion Cam i As Petain’s s representative, Darl: toured all French North Afric
some contact ith meri In any event, “he was’ in No: Africa, probably” in Algiers, wh
the American forces landed en No '.
8. He was taken prisoner with oth
French officials and: after! megoti: . t 1,
tions with Lieut. Gen. Dwigh ' (Continued: or Page Two)
HOLIDAY WEATHER 70 CONTINUE ML)
There Isn't a Snowstorm 1 - Sight Anywhere.
#3 % Indianapolis won’t even get in ¢- the tail end of a snowstorm 1c
|make it a white Christmas, accor ;
ing to. the latest weather report.
ay’s comparatively mild ten - persture will continue tonight wii
light. _ rain, obliterati any remnants of the snow which fc ner “this week, the . weath: bureau said.
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NOT REVEALED; TAKES PRO TEM
slaying of High Commissioner Expected to
Have No Damaging Effect Upon Allied -: ‘Drive to Push Axis Out of Tunisia. By PHIL AULT
United Press Staff Correspondent
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NORTH AFRICA, Dec.
5.—French and allied authorities today sought the motive
f.an unidentified youth about 20 years old who yesterday
ssassinated Admiral Jean Francois Darlan, former No. 2 1an in the pro-axis Vichy government who swung French Jorth and West Africa to the allied cause. Ar announcement by allied headquarters said Darlan; ‘ho was high commissioner of French North and West \frica, was assassinated in his office at Algiers at 8 p. m esterday but that a preliminary investigation had not stablished whether the deed was of German or Traliah nspiration. (Unofficial British reports said the assassin was a ‘renchman.
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Expect Continued Co-operation (The same sources reported that French leaders in \frica will continue to co-operate with the allies against the xis. Both ithe Algiers and Morocco radios reported that ven. Henri Honore Giraud, who commands the respect of aillions of Frenchmen ‘because of his military ability and hisyeseape from ‘Gernian prisons both in this war and est world war, had assumed responsibility for ‘maintaining rede in. French North and West ‘Africa. _ (Gen. Giraud was regarded as “the second most influs Afr 4 and had been in command of the rendh forces fighting with the ‘British and the Americans {Tunisie © Radio Morocco reported the ‘@ppeal-of - another I'rench military leader, Gen, Gaston Bergeret, former Vichy roinister of: aviation, to the inhabitants of French Africa to
German-Frenich relations’ beca: o cétails of the assassination of Ad-
* President Roosevelt branded in a
; Ais collaborator before he became . she -allied-sponsored high commis- | sioner of North Africa. Still awaited . is word from the state department
I00SEVELT CALLS IT 1ST DEGREE MURDER’
Washington on Waits. Details
'0f Assassination.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 25 (U.P.).— Official Washington today awaited
miral Jean Francois Darlan, which formal statement. as “first degree what effect ‘his death would have
on allied affairs in North Africa. So far Mr. Roosevelt has issued
thie only statement from here on}
defense installations shortly befo , the assassination of Darlan, former
y the American invasion and: it w
and from : Fighting French representatives, who never accepted the " leadership of Darlan. Uses’ Word ‘Cowardly’ Mr. Roosevelt's statement said: “The cowardly assassination is murder -in. the first degree. All leaders of the united nations will
agree with that statement. “Nazism and fascism and military despotism will* hold otherwise. “I hope that speedy justice will overtake the murderer or murderers of Admiral Darlah.” * Most likely successor te Darlan in co-operation with Lieut. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is Gen. Henri Honore Giraud. He is understood to be more acceptable to the Fighting French than was Darlan. Giraud has never joined the Fighting French banner, but neither has’ he collaborated with the | axis, Gen. Charles de ‘Gaulle is quoted as. ing said he would be: willing ¢ fight under Giraud. ; ‘The news of Darlan’s death came only a few hours after Mr. Roosevelt sent a Christmas’ message to French North African troops, addressed d to Girs Giraud as commander.
GALLAGHER TRIPLET DIES IN ST. FRANCIS
Joseph Edward Gallagher, “B” of the Gallagher triplets born Tues-
‘maintain their unity and sup--port Giraud. Bergeret signed: his appeal as deputy high commissioner, although Governor Gen. Yves.Chatel of Algeria
originally had held that ‘post =. Darlan’s’ ‘council))
Assassin Seized at Once
on the spot” aften he fired ofig bullét into Darlan’s ‘mouth and anotifer
his ‘office. He opened fire with a 25-caliber revolver just as Darlan was crossing the corridor to his
office. Darlan stumbled and the assassin’ ran toward the admiral’s offick, jumping over the latter’s body. A French officer, Commandant Fours’ cade, attempted to halt the mre aerer, but the young man fired two shots, one striking the officer in the. leg. By this time other French offices. had arrived trom other offices and they overpowered the assassin.
Thoroughly Plotted’
The assassination apparently was well planned, for the young man had appeared at the commissioner's. headquarters earlier in the day and asked to see Darlan., Although he was unsucgessful, the visit enabled him to familiarize himself with the layout of the‘office. Immediately after the youth fréa. the fatal shots Rear Admiral Daps tet, a member of Darlan’s cabinet, ordered the admiral taken to a‘ hospital in an automobile, the ; cial announcement said, but he & en route. A priest . the last sacraments to the admiral who was a devout Catholic. Dar lan’s wife: was “summoned imme-~" diately, but her husband was deod when she reached him. Radio Morocco, however, reported he died on the operating table an hour after he was shot. The radio" said Madame Darlan arrived while. he was on the table, bug that
time because of possible percu
degree, on the: military situation French North and West Africa,
day morning at St. Francis hospital,| 2o%
died in the hospital at [4:10 a. m. today.
Physicians at. the hospital sad]
the baby 1d ‘not peined
sions on the political, and toa lesset
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into his lung, was waiting for the admiral in a small room opposite
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