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Dec. 23 (U. P.).— president of the 5, said today that at reports that he facilities of Ebbets klyn Tigers of the | league for 1945. United Press that ut the best feelings s and -that it had im t the Tigers ck at Ebbets field

hat I would like to onal football franid. “I have been + years, even when s. But I certainly to have one next

orld of Capt. Dan yf the Tigers, and eir general mane nd I feel sure they us next year.”

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Island Christm

: (Ernie Pyle is "HONOLULU, Dec. 23. ~It will be a Mele Kelikamaka—a Merry Christmas—for the Hawaiian Islands’ approximately 130,000 children this fourth wartime Christmas — Caucasians, Japanese,

Hawaiians, Chinese,

Porto Ricans, Koreans, Filipinos andmembers of the small Latin community. : The percentage of youngsters with daddies off to war is not so high here as elsewhere, as the draft is not pressed as vigorously, but the combined efforts of the adult civilian and military com—munities throughout the islands will assure happiness for all, even those with parents missing. There is a shortage of Christmas frees here and snow, of course, is lacking but Santa arrives just as propitiously by surfboard as reindeer gleigh and an abundance of tropical shrubs and giant poinsettias - provide adequate substitute trees.

Parties for All

THERE WILL be toys — wooden and paper — Christmas dinners, candy and parties for all. Some of the toys are being made by the Seabees for distribution to the poor. Others will be provided by a local newspaper, which has been collecting money and second-hand toys under the slogan, “Santa is no war casualty.” ’ Another paper is sponsoring a fund to give Christmas dinners to needy families. Through the Salvation Army, grocery credit orders up to $15 will be passed out to each. Families will be allowed to buy at the stores, an innovation from the old Salvation Army practice’ of selecting and delivering baskets of food. Hawaii has not been bombed since March 5, 1942,

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

AN ELDERLY newsstand operator pulled a surprise on a few of his customers the other 8ay. For

. some time he had saved all the silver dollars he

received. And then, as some of his better customers stopped at his stand, he'd tell them: “Shut your : eyes and open your hand.” Imag{ne their surprise to reopen their eyes and find he had given them a silver dollar. It was his way of wishing them a merry Christmas. (If we identified him. some of his other customers might get mad at not being included.) . .. One of our agents reports seeing two young women standing on the sidewalk outside Haag's at Pennsylvania and Washington, diligently applying makeup. They were doing it with the help of mirrors displayed in the store window. . . . Al Robinson (Indiana Tuberculosis association) is an ingenious chap. Mrs. Robinson had hinted she'd like a hat for Christmas. Al didn’t know anything about buying ladies’ hats, so he decided to make one. Taking a wire coat hanger, he twisted it into the shape of a frame. Next: hie yqueht a-couple-of 1gd Toses and 4 green veil at the dime store and us them to trim the “hat.” Then across the top, for a crown, he affixed a $10 bill.

Find an Earring? ADD COINCIDENCES: Mrs. Bernice Wagner, soclety reporter for The Times, lost a pearl earring yesterday somewhere between The Times and Ayres’ It was a very special earring—one she wore when she was miarried—so she retraced her steps down Maryland st. hoping to find it. Sure enough, there in the middle of the car tracks at Illinois and Maryland she picked up a pearl earring. - When she got to the office, she found it wasn’t hers. It was fractionally smaller, a different shade of pearl and a slightly different type mount. It seems quite a coin-

cidence that two people should lose almost identical .

America Flies

GREAT BRITAIN already is planning to blanket the world with fast airlines. New England states are planning a network of air markings that will enable airplane pilots to recognize immediately the territory below them. Continental Air Lines announce ' _ immediate jobs for their return. ing veterans, which pay equal to what they would have been making had they remained on the job. The Rev. Paul C. Hartford, Pontiac, Mich., “sky pilot,” has returned to the U. 8. after flying an Aeronca Chief many thousands of miles over bad terrain on an aerial missionary trip to ald Mexican Indian tribes. These are a few of today's aviation highlights. Great Britain’s plans are pictured in a copy of The Aeroplane, British aviation publication, in its Nov. 10 issue. In a two-page colored map, British airlines are shown planned from England to Spain, the west coast of Africa, Brazil, Argentina and Chile. The British line also is shown passing through Alexandria, Egypt, and Cairo, down through Haile Selassie’s Ethiopia, clear to Cape Town.

New York via Newfoundland

ANOTHER LINE passes from New York to Newfoundland and from Montreal to England. Still another continues on from Cairo to India, thence to China and the Philippines. = A branch of that line psases on down through the Netherlands East Indies to Australia. “ Canadian routes are shown crossing Canada and passing through to Fairbanks, Alaska, across the Bering strait to Russia, thence down through Japan to the Philippines and China. Another Canadian

My Day

WASHINGTON, Friday~Miss Thompson and I arrived in Washington in what seemed the" depths of the night. It was really a little after 7 a m. y. From then on it was a busy day. At 11 o'clock the President and I received the staff : of the executive offices to wish them all a Merry Christmas. At 12:30 Girl Scout troop 167 came in and .presented me with two big boxes of Christmas tree decorations. They had read in my col-

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sailors’ here. Hawail’s youngsters will find ‘them

The Sergeant’s Answer

T. SGT. BAYARD H. McCONNAUGHEY, of Claremont, Cal, has seen to it that some of the islands’ Jap children won't want for Christmas gifts. He has donated $100 to an Hawaiian newspaper with the stipulation that it be used for children of Japanese ancestry. ’ The sergeant said it was his answer “to the Amerjcan Legion, Native Sons of the Golden West, the Eagles, Americanism Education League and other unpatriotic groups in my home state who seek to raise fictitious racial barriers to. foster {ll-feeling between different groups, to destroy the Constitution of the United States by making its. provisions arbitrarily inapplicable to certain groups of citizens because of their ancestry, aiid to destroy. from within -everything which distinguishes us-from axis countries and makes America really worth fighting for,” Another serviceman followed McConnaughey's lead and gave $35 anonymously for the same cause. The money will be spent under the direction of the Honolulu Council of Social Agencies which is co-ordinating Christmas activities here. Dr. Ferris Laune, former executive secretary of the Wieboldt Foundation in Chicago and instructor of social work at Northwestern university, is the council's secretary. Fifteen-year-old Leilani’s own particular Santa Claus this year is a certain local dentist who read about her plight in one of the newspapers. Leilani had to hold her hand over her lips when she smiled because her parents couldn't afford to get her a new tront tooth. She is now wearing a very special Christmas smile.

pear] earrings the same morning and in almost the same spot. (P. S—She'd gladly trade the one she found for the one she lost.) ... The folks over at the Union Trust Co. are quite proud of the fancy directors’ room, on the second floor of the bank. On the wall is a new portrait of Arthur V. Brown, chairman of the board. It was painted by Simon Baus... . Our 8. Meridian st. agent reports noticing a used goods store displaying, among other things, a used grave marker, ww

A Ticket, Please

DICK AUTEN reports an old story with a new twist. While waiting for the light to change at New York and Illinois, passengers on a street car watched admiringly as their silver-haired motorman (394) hurried off the car to assist an elderly pedestrian who had fallen in the middle of the intersection. After getting the man over to the curb the operator returned to his street car and started up. Just then a ripple of laugher went through the car. The feeble old man had hobbled over to the box office of the Fox theater and was buying a ticket. After all. you're only as old as you think you are. . . A woman who lives in Franklin, Ind. writes to report an unpleasant incident in the big city. She cays she drove into a parking lot (not far from The Times) and saw several empty spaces, “but the attendant told me they were full up unless I would slip him a tip. For the right tip he would let me park. Seems we have ‘stoop’ parking places, too.” Just another wartime racket . .. and then there's the yarn about a middleaged woman who rode a taxi from the Union station to the Antlers. En route, we're told, the taxi driver asked her: “Say, sister, want a drink?” When she said emphatically she didn't, the driver reportedly explained: “No harm meant. But we can make more from selling liquor than we can from taxi fares.” It's a new racket—at least, it's new to us. And we doubt that it’s practiced very widely. OLD INSIDE wishes each and every one of you a very merry Christmas.

~ By Max B. Cook

route passes from Montreal to Bermuda to South America. An Australian and New Zealand route passes from Australia and New Zealand up through the Pacific to Honolulu and Los Angeles. A second Australian route passes up through the Netherlands East Indies to Burma, across to Africa, thence across France to England.

Crosses South Atlantic

A SOUTH AFRICAN route scheduled to fly from the Caribbean to. Brazil across to a point in South Africa, where it joins a northern route to England. Another South African route passes from Cape Town

to Karachi, India. The title of the map is “British Commonwealth

Airlines.” The New Ergland air markings plan was announced in a communication to about 400 Chambers of Commerce and New England state aviation officials from J. Burleigh Cheney, chairman of the New England Council Aviation committee, Communities were urged to take up the problem immediately and plan the most modern kind of identification and direction. This is made possible by the recent lifting of the ban on air markings, in effect during the blackout period. In announcing Continental Air Lines’ job plan, | Robert F. 8ix, president and veteran of world war | 11. said it was inspired by the large number of AAF men who continually ask, “will I have a job when the war is over?” “Sky Pilot” Hartford, returning from Mexico, reported that some natives with itching fingers had pumped several shells through the fuselage of his plane. He added that the little ship not only withstood that’ but several sudden and severe tropical storms.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

At 2 o'clock 1 was at the Salvation ‘Army annual Christmas party. The navy band always provides the music for this party, and yesterday there was a special little ceremony when they presented the leader of the band with a new baton. He at once used it, leading the “band in “Stars and Stripes

1 presented the first check and box of toys to a very nice women with four sweet little children. The eldest little boy, 8 years old, was full of initiative “and had the nicest smile. Lt : A 4 o'clock the President and I received all the house employees and their families in the East room. The numbers have grown considerably because of the increase in the number of fuards during the

‘ITHEY'RE THE TOPS .

By ERSKINE JOHNSON * NEA Staff Writer HOLLYWOOD. — Hol: + lywood’s show of shows of the year—marked ky stupendous box office receipts and spectacular, gigantic, colossal productions - —was a simple homey story that cost little to produce and surprised everyone by grossing nearly $12,000,000. Yes, your first guess is right. The picture was “Going My Way,” in which Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald scored a superb hit. Paramount oxpheged it to be just another Bing Crosby picture. It cost only $087,000, which is confettt in Bagdad on the Pacific. #i wn» THE YEAR was a scrappy one for the movie capital, with stars fighting each other and their bosses. But’ the battles which warmed Hollywood's neart took place at the box offices, where record crowds fought for seats. Receipts were the greatest in 50 years of the galloping tintype, an estimated billion dollars. 2 = = THE YEAR'S No. 1 superdooper, “Since You Went Away,” cost $3,000,000, but will be far down on the list of the 10 biggest money makers. , Others in the .top ten include “A Guy Named Joe,” “Two Girls and a Sailor, “Wilson,” “Pin Up Girl,” “This Is the Army,” “Mr. Skeffington,” “Destination Tokyo.” “Gaslight” and “The White Cliffs of Dover.” . But with everybody going to the movies without the lure of free dishes and automobiles, even bad pictures made money in 1944. 8 " ” THERE WERE no sensational flops and even duds like tne highly touted “Hitler Gang” and the Cary Grant picture, “Once

Upon a Time,” showed small profits. Cary Grant didn't have to worry though. He was Hollywood's 1944

money-making king, along with Headman Louis B. Mayer of MGM and Bing Crosby.

NO SOUL LIVES, NO

French Town Is Erased

Immediately after the allied landings on D day resistance groups “in southern France redoubled efforts to sabotage and harrass Gerinans. In Limoges, the commander of the German “Der Fuehrer” panzer division decided to do something which he“ hoped would stop this resistance once and for all, - ; Accordingly on June 10 a column of German troops swooped down on the small city of Oradour-sur-Glane, rounded up and killed every man, woman and child there and then burned the town to the ground. The story here was written by the first American newspaperman to visit the martyred city.

By TOM WOLF NEA Staff Writer ORADOUR-SUR-GLANE, Dec. 23.—It is probable that the German commander meant his butchers to go to Oradour-sur Vayres. There was a maquis near there. It is probable that the column simply got lost and mistook Ora-dour-sur-Glane for Oradour-sur-Vayres only 20 miles away. Such is the tragic irony of the story of German savagery which outranks even Lidice for passion=less, bestial murder.

J 8 s IN LIDICE the women and children, at least, were taken

away and spared. Here there was no such sentiment. Woman and children burned with their men and their homes and their shops and their barns and their church—with everything animate and inani~ mate which makes a city. Today there are three new graves in the smal] village cemetery. They are communal. graves, for only 52 of the 750 charred pieces of bodies left after the fires could be identified. s ” s SAVE FOR these three new graves, Oradour-sur-Glane today remains exactly as the human butchers left it six months ago. It will remain this way, for the French plan to put a wall around the city and: leave it forever a monument to German bestiality. 1 To visit this ravaged village is all the more shocking because of its contrast to the rich, fertile. rolling Limousin countryside which surrounds it. n . ” NOT A HOUSE, not a shop, not a barn, not a Building in the entire village escaped. There are no roofs. . All that is left is red and gray shadings of brick and granite walls and half-walls in varying tones of age and decay. I have seen many cities leveled by war. But none like this,

BOMBS and shells touch a city with an Ironist’s hand: half a floor is blown away, but the rest

THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS— [ERE WE AR LEIGH | | OADED BRR TARo TO GET HOME?

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we have used a great deal “tinfoil “snow” 1 was feeling the way the tree would great pleasure to see them all I think new babies the doors were opened the come in for the greatest amount of attention. The Scouts had all been way some of the children have gown is breath-taking. used peanuts, straw At 6 o'clock I went to the alley ribbon to make Cecil Court. on Cherry Hill “This

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1944 +

Half a dozen movie queens tied fo

Crosby running a close second.

WORKING on a salary and percentage deal, Grant coilected near.y a million dollars. . His percentage” of films released over a two-year period was $180, 000 in one month of 1944 alone. But when you have to pay a tax of $027,000 on a million dollars net, you ain't a millionaire. Between radio, records, and pictures, Crosby collected about the same. o 8 .

YOU COULD take your choice

this year for queen of the movies. Half a dozen actresses shared box office and salary honors. Tops financially -and with tne fans were Greer Garson, Ingrid Bergman, Irene Dunne, Ginger Rogers, Claudette Colbert, Bette Davis and Betty Grable. All averaged around $250,000,

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Homey Film Year's Big: Success Story

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Claudette’'s $450,000 take in 1043. But Claudette, poor thing, had to struggle along on only $100,000 this year, working in only one picture. : . 8 8 ODDLY ENQUGH, America’s highest paid entertainer of 1044, Frank Sinatra, earned only $100,000 as a film actor. . But with records, radio and personal appearances, this brought his weekly take to around $30,000 (catch me, I'm swooning) which ain’t bobby socks. Moviegoers liked just about everything * Hollywood's cameras ground out—musicals, comedies; heavy dramas, the almost documentary “Wilson” films with war backgrounds and psychological thrills. ‘

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remains with a piano balancing miraculously on the brink; a dinner remains on a table centering a wall-less room; a picture stays hanging on a scrap of wall, an island of civilization ifi a sea of destruction, ’ There is none of this here. Oradour-sur-Glane was touched with the hand of a butcher.

The bones that are left of

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stores and houses were picked clean by the intense heat of incendiary grenades and phosphorous bombs.

" 8 ALL THAT remains of civilizastion are two signs: “Hotel Milford” and “Cafe du Chene.” They: are on the main street, Rue Emile Desourteaux 1842-1906 —named for the father of the village’s mayor-doctor, He perished, too, with his sons and his family. These two signs alone remain, These signs and, in the basements, a handful of such {iron skeletons as withstood the withering heat of the Nazi pyromaniacs’ phosphorus firebrands.

IN ONE house there is a stove. In another, three bicycles. In a third a bedstead and a sewing machine. In the church there are some frames of what were once haby carriages. That is all, except silence—the powerful, ear-splitting silence of reverence which muffles the foot steps of pilgrims to Oradour. So it has been since 4 o'clock

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PAGE 7 Labor Lewis Likely To Returh to A.F.of L. Fold

By FRED W. PERKINS

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. There's going to be a shotgun wedding aroynd these parts before long — John L. Lewis is go~ ing to get married again to the American Federation of Labor. This will be different from other shotgun weddings, be-. cause this time the shotgun is in the hands of a party not agreeable to the wedding— the C. 1.0. But the shotgun is there all the 6 same, it being in the form of a double-barreled C. 1. O. threat to the A. P. of L. One barrel is the C. I. O's gains in membership. The other barrel is the C. 1.-O.’s claim to having elected Mr. Roosevelt to a fourth term, which is serious enough to make the A. FP. of L. nervous about its influence in government circles during. the uncertain period when war, production will stop and the _soldiers and sailors will be stepping out of their uniforms. s 8&8

MR. LEWIS this week received a letter from Willlam Green, president of the A. F. of L. The formal invitation from the recent A. F. of L. convention in New Orleans for the re-affiliation of the United Mine Workers. But it will be read in connection with statements before the convention which indicated a willingness to compromise the differences that have prevented the re-affiliation for two or three

Craven Named to

Press Club Post

JOSEPH E. CRAVEN, staff photographer of the Indianapolis Btar, has been elected vice president of the Indianapolis Press club to fill out the unexpired term of Earl Richert, former political editor of The Times. Mr. Richert has been transferred to the Washington bureau of the SBcrippsHoward newspapers, “- John W. Hillman, editorial writer for The Times, was named to succeed Mr. Craven as a member of the club's board of governors. !

THE TREND, though, was away from war pictures and back to comedy and drama. Despite record-breaking - boxoffice ‘receipts, it was a year for new faces in Hollywood. Outstanding discoveries of the year were Lauren Bacall, the sultry New York model who clicked big opposite Humphrey Bogart in “To, Have and Have “Not,* — 18-year-old Gloria _ de Haven, daughter of the famous Carter de. Haven of vaudeville fame; John Hodiak and Van Johnson. ;

by Nazis

of that June Saturday afternoon. I heard the story from Clement Broussaudier, one of five men and one woman, who escaped from the holocaust. » s THE COLUMN of Germans, 200 strong, entered the city at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. They forced every one present, native or visitor, into the town square “to check identity papers.” Then they hearded the women and children into the church for “protection.” They set the men to work in groups of 30 or 40 cleaning out the barns. Without warning, while the men were thus working, the Ger=mans mowed them -down- with machine guns. Then they covered the bodies with the barns’ contents and set all afire, Clement Broussaudier played dead and managed to slip away. » » ” © MEANWHILE, in the church the Germans brought “heaters.” They gave off some sort of lethal gas. Two children were found suffocated in the confessional Women or children who tried to run, from the church were shot at the doors. Then the Nazis piled pews over the bodies and lighted the pyre. : After that the Germans went to the buildings and ‘set them afire with grenades, gasoline and phosphorous. Seven hundred and fifty mer, women and children were murdered in Oradour-sur-Glane, 345 of them in the church.

ORADOUR-SUR-GLANE is the worst example of Nazi bestiality in France, © But it is by no means the only. one. Every department in southern France has one of two cities— some of: them more—burned. out by the Germans. The homes and possessions of thousands of lifetimes have been wiped out in a few. hours. And in every case some--Some-times a few, sometimes many-— have been murdered as an example. ’ ~The Germans wanted to give the French lessons. The French will never forget them.

By Laurene Rose Diehl

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years. ! A main difference is Mr. Lewis’ desire to keep jurisdiction over chemical workers.

» . » THE LEWIS claim is based on the fact that many chemicals have their base in coal He Is said to be willing to withdraw on claims for other jurisdiction involved in the United Mine Workers’ sprawling District 50, but to be adamant with regard to chemical workers: ——— — The A. F. of L. has chartered a chemical workers’ union, but opinions out of the A. F. of L. convention were that Mr. Lewis saw that field first and started in to organize it, giving him a prior claim and thus disposing of one of the arguments against re-af-filiation with the A. F. of L. a. 8.8 : IF IT comes out in the way indicated: : John Lewis will become the economic ' leader of workers in two vital industrial fields — coal and chemicals. . In the labor field the voice of Mr. Lewis might be decisive on whether the A. F. of L. and C. L O. continue to fight each other, or whether they unite against what they consider as their common foes—émployers ‘and their spokesmen in government.

We, the Wome War Condition Pose Many

Child Problems

By RUTH MILLETT A WASHINGTON news story on the current diaper shortage mentioned a young navy lieutenant who spent his two weeks’

leave laundering diapers for a «= pecause he

brand new baby, could not get his name on a laundry service supplying small fry with their needs. -— That should JE ia not happen to Yo any serviceman °° 7 on leave, and le it makes a sad Hh story. But it is A J just a sample i of what a tough time young service wives the country over are having.

o » . THEY COME HOME from the hospital with a new baby to look after and they can't get help. They don’t stand much chance of getting on a diaper service—and they can’t buy a washing machine —something they probably never dreamed they would need until a baby forced it to their attention. If they want a doctor to see their baby, they can’t expect a house call because doctors are too - rushed. So they have to drag the baby out in any kind of weather and sit in a crowded waiting room, maybe for a couple of hours, & cross and irritable baby on their

laps. ” ”

” THEY HAVE so much trouble finding baby sitters that they are

the evenings as well as in the daytime.

Worst of all, they can't sit down and weep with the expectation of understanding J

having an ling 1 say, “Never mind, honey.” Nope, they have to sit down write a cheerful, loving, happys sounding letter which makes juns jor sound like all fun and

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