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FORECAST: Cold wave with temperatures » near 5 above by tomorrow morning; continued cold tomorrow ; Anir,

VOLUME 54—NUMBER %5

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21 1943

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis, Ind. ssued daily except Sunday

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Operators of Christmas tree lots wailed in unison today: “We're stuck! We're in for an awful thumping!” The story was pretty ~ much the same at every lot covered in a; survey: ~The supply, reported weeks ago to be scarce, turned out to be more abundant than a year ago. Prices were high, the demand less. © The result is that three days before Christmas, lots are still thick “forests” ‘and even with last-minute reductions in prices operators say they won't be able to dispose of their supply.

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unsold Christmas trees after Christmas? —QOne--lot- employee had the answer: “It looks to me like we'll have a great, big bonfire.” Anticipating a shortage because of transportation problems ‘and other reasons, dealers got in all they could. Typical was the situation of an operator of two small lots at Rural and North sts, one at 56th

At Forest and New York sis. . . . Tree prices down to 50 cents.

LOGAL TRAINS, BUSSES PACKED

All-Time : Record Peak Will Be Reached Here on Friday.

While the nation’s railroads groaned under the greatest number of holiday travelers in history, the crowds of travelers coming and going in Indianapolis’ Union station and bus terminal were not expected to reach their peak until Friday. Union station observers reported that civilians seemed to be heeding : the requests not to travel unnecessarily. However, military travel is heavier than ever as servicemen are on their way home for Christmas,

E. 10th st. William Summers, in charge of one of the lots at Rural and New York said prices had been re-

Big Gift

May Ramsay Will Gives $120,000 to Riley Hospital. A TRUST FUND amounting to about $120,000 for the benefit of Riley Memorial hospital for erippled children was set up under terms of the will of the late May Ramsay, on file in probate court today. The trust was created in mem- | ory of Mrs. Ramsay's husband, i the late Edward A. Ramsay, for-

said. Soldiers and sailors have priority on train seats; traveling civilians may take what is left,

of Mr. Ramsay's chie! concerns in his many philanthropies and that. her will was drawn up for Riley hospital benefits in memory of her husband's lifelong interest in children.

The fund will be known as the “Edward A. Ramsay Memorial Fund.” y

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THE VALUE of the Ramsay estate was estimated “at about $125,000. Individual bequests to friends and relatives totalled $5000, Bequests were made to Miss Forest Yaryen, former secretary to Mr. Ramsay, $500; Miss Sallie Kennedy, $1000; Mrs. Maude Griswold, $1000; Mrs, Bethel Bogan, $500; Mrs. Hazel W. Partlow, $500; Matthew Sprague, who was in charge of wheel chairs at an Atlantic City hotel. $1000, and $500 to the Union Trust Co. which was named executor of the will.

elers appeared to be servicemen and thelr families. Booked Month Ahead Pullman and streamliner reservations were reported booked a month ahead as they have been all year. The only hope for late seekers were cancellations. All available equipment, for which

Informed of the hospital fund, Hugh McK. Landon, president of the board of guardians of the Riley Memorial association, said that “it will have : continuing

works of Riley hospital both in the field of medical aid and care and in that of research in the diseases and deformities of chil dren.” r

REPORT CHINESE ADVANCE

OBSERVES 105TH BIRTHDAY NEW BRITAIN, Conn, Dec. 22 (U. P). <- Celebrating her 105th birthday anniversary, Mrs. Sophie

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At Ewing and Washington sts. + « The new price is 75 cents,

duced about a third, but he estimated he will have about 150 left and that at the four places leftovers would be between 500 and 700. James Heap, in charge of a lot at Denny and E. Washington sts, said prices were reduced as much

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— | Stabilization Director Fred M. Vin-

1ERD WEATHER 1S ON WAY HERE

Cold Wave to Be General Throughout Midwest by Tomorrow. LOCAL TEMPERATURES

was for temperatures of 5 to 10 above,

Christmas, Meteorologist R. M. Williamson said it was too soon to say. He said there was no snow anywhere near the city and added that “tomorrow will be soon enough to talk about the weather for Saturday.” The cold wave will be general throughout the Midwest tomorrow, the weather bureau at Chicago said, and the cold air mass will hove southward and eastward to the Atlantic coast. A cold air blanket already has spread over Minnesota, the Dakotas, Wisconsin and Upper Michigan, accompanied by temperatures of 15 to 20 degrees below zero in the extreme northern portion of Minnesota.

MOST OF LOCAL WAR PLANTS SET HOLIDAY Many to Close’ Down Both Saturday and Sunday.

o Whether or not it will be a white

BY RAIL UNIONS

UPS DEMANDS

More Than Million Set to Go on Strike Dec. 30th.

WASHINGTON, Dec, 22 (U. P).— The five operating railway brotherhoods responded to President Roosevelt’'s wage settlement offer today by drafting a counter-propossl calling for substantially greater raises. . Informed sources said the counterproposal, to be submitted to the President this afternoon, carried these basic provisions: 1. Straight time hourly wage increase of 8 cents, compared with 4 cents awarded by an emergency board and approved by Economic

son, 2. Time and one-half pay after 40 hours a week for all yard men, who constitute operating group's 350,000 members, 3. Full lay-over expenses between runs for workers paid on a mileage basis, in lieu of the overtime demanded for the yardmen, 4. Vacation pay.

Ask 8-Cent Raise

Mr. Roosevelt had said he believed the operating employees could receive no more than 4 cents an hour increase in straight time wages under the stabilization program but had offered an additional 4 cents as

Await F. D. R. Call

The board had limited its award to 4 cents because of Vinson's decisions affecting the 1,100,000 nonoperating employees. The operating group's counter

call to the White House, Mr. Roosevelt has met for three consecutive days with officials of the “Big Five” operating brotherhoods in an attempt to settle their dispute within limits of the wage stabilization program. New come plications were added last night when the 15 non-operating unions announceed a strike for Dee. 30, the same date fixed earlier by tne SHURE SOUS. cin that he had in

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Yuskevich said today that she expected to be around “when Hitler and Hirohito get what they deserve.”

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Times Christmas Fund Gifts Wrapped WAR TL i

Christmas gifts purchased through The Times Christmas fund for patients in Billings General hospital and the station hospitals at Ft, Harrison and Stout field are shown being wrapped at the production center of the Red Cross in the War Memorial bldg. All the wrapping is completed and the gifts have been sent to the hospitals to be placed under

BLOCK GOUNTY

LDING PLAN

Purchase of Fidelity Trust Structure. By NOBLE REED tapayers as fod wih the county

auditor today, blocking the county

council plans for a $235,000 bond issue to purchase the Fidelity Trust Co. office building at 148 E. Market

£1 st. as a court house annex.

The remonstrance bore the sup. port of seven organizations which circulated the petitions against pgrchase of the building. They were the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, the Indianapolis Taxpayers association, the Marion County Farm bureau, the Building Owners and Managers association, the Real Estate board, the Apartment Owners association -and the Indiana Taxpayers association. The number of taxpayers who signed the petitions, asking the county council to purchase the building with a bond issue, totaled about 450. A mere majority is all that is necessary to block the bond issue. Cites Economy

Addison J. Parry, council president, said the county will lose money by failure to purchase the building. “The county already is paying $8400 a year on office rent for the county welfare department and will have to rent additional space costing around $5000 a year more for new juvenile court quarters,” Mr, Parry sald. “If the Fidelity Trust building were purchased by the county, the bond issue would cost the county only $2000 a year and the bonds could be retired mostly from rental revenues from the building itself, leaving the county valuable equity in real estate”

Organizations re! remonstrating|

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Against

Christmas trees. Facilities of the Red Cross production center were donated and help of the workers loaned to expedite the big task of making kit bags, buying, as sembling and wrapping the gifts; The people of Indianapolis, through The Times Christmas Fund, are supplying. the funds for the. purchase of the gifts. Co-operating closely in the project were Mrs. Frank Hoke, c¢hair-

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man of production for the Red Cross; Mrs. Thomas Hood of Mrs. Hoke's committee; Mrs. Bogert, chairman of sewing, and Arch V. Grossman, chairman of | the war hospitals committee of the Red Cross. In the picture are (left to right) Mrs, Sterling Roborts, Mrs. C. I. Pler and Mrs Jacl Fender, members of the Prather Temple production unit of the Red Oross.

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At. RGA Clothe 117 Negdy|

(List of Donors, Page 10)

Te ROA war worker said: “What a thrill”

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The mother of one of the needy children said:

“You'll never know what this means to us.”

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THAT SUMMARIZES the results of the clothing of 117 needy children through Clothe-A-Child by local B-1048, International Broth-

erhood of Electrical Workers, A F. of L, and the salaried employees of R. C. A, last night. The 1. B. E. W. local sponsored the collection of funds among the union members and the man-

-Christmas

It's not too Iste to help with Clothe-A-Child and The Times Fund. Send: checks or money orders to The Indianapolis Times, 214 W. Maryland st, or call Ri-ley 5551 for an appointment te clothe a child directly,

agement helped with the salaried employees’ collection and together they raised more than $3300. A “committee of 126” met at the Clothe-A~Child office, took the youngsters to the store and when they were through each child was clothed in warm, wellfitted qutfits. ¥ - » IT WAS the largest single clothing project of the 14th annual Clothe-A-Child campaign. The group was conducted through the downtown traffic by Sgt. Marion Ostermyer and Ofi« cers Paul Kennedy and Edward Gerdt., Two of the war workers and two of the children were late getting” back to the Clothe-A-Child office. - They had stopped for ice cream

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Film Buyer Gets Surprise Thrill

BUFFALO, N, Y, Dec. 22 (U, P). Just to please a customer, James O. Meyers, chemical éompany executive, bought a roll of moving picture film for $18, even though he didn’t have a projector. When his son, Glen, a naval lieutenant, ‘came home on leave, Meyers borrowed a projector and ran off the film. One of the scenes showed another son, John, an army leutenant, participating in the allied invasion “at Salerno, Italy.

“OPA GIVES BONUS OF 5 EXTRA PORK POINTS|

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (U.P). ~The OPA today issued a meat “dividend” for the holiday season by granting the public five extra points for use in buying pork. Price Administrator Chester Bowles said that beginning today and continuing through midnight Jan. 1, spare stamp No. 1 in ration book 4 would be good for five points worth of pork. Bowles said the dividend was made possible because of an unexpectedly large supply of hogs and the danger of spollage due to shortage of freezer space,

DEMAND CARTEL LIST

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Propagandists ists Arety Are | Calling Yank Airmen Murderers.

LONDON, Dee, 22 (U. P.). | Germany proclaimed today (that in retaliation for the hanging of three Nazi officers convicted of war guilt at Kharkov, German military courts soon will “deal with American and British prison. ers” accused of violating ine

ternational law. A government spokesman was quoted by the official DNB. news agency as announcing the impend{ing action against allied captives, {evidently airmen against whom the | Nazis have ranted with increasing intensity as the weight of the aerial offensive mounted, : London officials refused for the {time being to comment on the Nasi jreport. It appeared to be a safe {assumption that the government {would give the announcement it iclose attention, since it constitutes {the most drastic German action or [threat of action against allied pris. oners since the shackling incident a year ago,

Kickback from Kharkov

The courts will “deal with British and American pfisoriers who vers involved in serious violations of in a law wibout lo legal pro- ¢ 50 far being ageing Nast spokesman was Yio hia” assertions Jr in the war guilt trial at the spokesman put up the ganda defense that the eb there “weve so crazy and ridiculous that they could only have originated in the brains of those r 3 creatures who before this have used similar proceedings as Prope, ganda trials.” According to the broadcast DNB version, the Wilhelmetrasse spokesman sald German prisoners were being tortured to extort confessions to non-existent crimes.

‘We Are Not Surprised’

“We are not surprised that the criminals of the Soviet government carry out their propaganda with such bestia] methods,” he sald. “We know them as murderers of Katyn and Vinnitsa (where the Nasls ace cused the Russians of mass mur. ders), and have no doubt that all prisoners who fall in their hands sooner or later are lost.” Then he reported the f

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On the War Fronts

Dec. 22, 1343

ITALY -—- American and troops advance two miles &