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My wife looked at me and I looked at her. “Are you thinking of what I'm thinking?” she asked. “The rats at Anhwa?” “Right!” We wished we could have told the women in the Grand Central about the night we stayed at Anhwa sO that she Mould appreciate, as we did, the magnificent railway and hote] accommodations of the United States. It was a day in January, 1941, when we were beginning our journey which would bring us eventually to America, We were escaping with the aid of Chinese guides through the Japanese lines into Free China. At Anhwa the poor but hospitable farmers gave us the best room they had. It was small and drafty, with an earthen floor. We knew there was bubonic plague in the area, There was plenty of evidence that on the floor were rats, which harbor the fleas which spread the plague. We huddled in all our clothes on the bed, a wooden board with two blankets—not a very comfortable resting place for an expectant mother, =? Change Saved Our Lives Our final lap to the United States was to have begun on Oct. 13 on a China National Aviation Corp. plane for Calcutta. We were notified at noon on the 12th to take a special plane leaving in two hours. } That change may have saved our lives, for on the following day the Jap fighters fell among our transports in the Hymalayas and brought down two out of six, : We went over the hump of the Hymalayas next day at 20,000 feet, with some of the passengers sick from lack of oxygen and from the severe buffeting the plane took in the alternate up and down drafts. It was bitterly cold. We had not eaten for eight hours, but the officials were very careful about getting all the details which we had been at great pains to give their counterparts in Chungking. We were questioned for three hours while May bawled in her mothers’
1ap. : Then began the search for a hotel room. The Great Eastern was to
the army had taken it over and officers were sleeping in the lobby and dining rooms. Three Officers Ejected We toured the city in a taxicab, 80 tired and miserable we hardly noticed the hundreds of ragged, starving Indians lying in the gutters awaiting the relief of death. Finally my wife broke down. We had just been rejected by a small ‘hotel, She collapsed in a chair ‘with May bawling in her arms, The manager's fat wife rushed 1p, kissed the baby and asserted: “This poor darling should be in bed.” Within two minutes she had ejected three British officers from their room and we had it.
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TOTAL TO DATE Mile-O-Dimes (estimated)
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3, § and 15 of Link-Belts Ewart plant night
night shift clothed 10 others.
DIRECT CLOTHE-A-CHILD DONORS ¢ 3 9 and 15, Link-Belt (night shift). ..oonenve 65 children A i Warner Gear Plant (night shift) sessrsENREI NI ENS 10 | Leyout Department, R.C.A......
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500 5.00 5.00 4.50 3.00 Seen tans 2.00
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ursday Evening EUChre OIuD........ssssessssersess 300
cesses anny SENN NNENRRININIRNGS 1.00
WAR HOSPITALS
22.00 1.00
CAPITA INN AINNINRBRRE INS
vevesesss $ 25.00 ‘es 20.00 10.00
Deaf NO. 22..ccevsrsessssnsonesss 900
creessrssssases 0.00
Jeanne d’Arc, Chapter of International Study Club.....eseveee 4.00 Dee, Ann, Bonnie Kay and David Carl Wiltshire ,...ceeesceeece 2.62
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Previous donations eeessseeseensnsssrsssssasnssssssssssnssss $2400.26
cieesereerssasssnseses 3207438 cevecssessnsnses 3600.00
Total Contributions to Date.......es ereceasveerens cesses B174.38
the children. It was 2 p. m. before they reached home. And they were back at work at 6 last night. ® & = A DEFENSE worker is on the job 12 hours a day. Saturday he clothed a poorly-clad youngster. a coat. He didn't have time to find a .coat. . Yesterday a Clothe - A - Child shopper saw the man in a store. He was buying the coat during his lunch hour. ” Today, during his lunch hour, he delivered the coat. . . . SOME CAN'T come to the Clothe-A-Child office. They send contributions and The Times’ shoppers spend the money. But their generosity and goodwill accompany the contributions. One of them wrote: “Allow me to express our appreciation to you for the wonder‘ful work you are doing in assisting the needy during this Yuletide season. “Unquestionably hundreds of persons would not share in -the spirit of the Christ Child were it not for such worthwhile endeavors, Day after day, as I pass and see the Mile-O-Dimes grow larger and larger I think of it, not only as the Mile-O-Dimes, but as the mile of smiles, encouragement and happiness. : “During these days when the whole world is af war and fami-
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reported missing in action it Is needless to say that the work that you are doing cannot be appreciated in dollars and cents. “The material value nor the effect of your endeavor can never be fully ascertained. You are not only doing something in a physi- 3; cal way but mentally and spiritually you are aiding many in carrying on to the end during these perilous times.” ” » . THE AUTHOR of the above letter addressed his message to Clothe-A-Child, But the message was really for thousands of big-hearted citizens who comprise Clothe-A-Child.
man, mark it “War Hospitals, If you have no preference, money will be used for both, Address your contributions to The Times Christmas fund, 214 W. Maryland st, Indianapolis,
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9 PURSE SNATCHERS
Ed Park, 939 Tecumseh st., played a trick on two purse snatchers last night and left them holding an empty billfold, While walking in front of 3030 E. 10th st, Mr. Fark was told by a man who was leaning out an automobile window, to drop his billfold. “Youll let me have my driver's license, won't you?” he said. Then Mr. Fark pulled out the driver's license along with $19 and dropped the empty wallet on the
We debarked at San Francisco sidewalk.
Meanwhile, three women reported
tain two berths on an east-bound |thefr purses taken. A. young man
jumped from between {wo cars on Park ave. near Ohio st. this morn-
Allee, 1626 Bellefontaine st. It contained a gold ring and 41 in money. Roberta Buffalo, 530 Patterson st., reported $24.70 in money and ration bocks stolen when her purses was snatched near Blake and North sts, last night. - Mrs, Mary Harlan of Crawfordsville reported that a youth attempted to grab her purse near Ori-
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DENY FDR MET FRANCO MADRID, Dec. 14 (U, P.).—Reliable sources today denied a roundabout report printed.in Sweden that
President Roosevelt had conferred with Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain and Premier Dr. Antonio de Oliveira Salazar of Por« tugal at Gibraltar Sunday.
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