Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1944 — Page 8

PAGE 8 POPE PIUS LEADS YULETIDE MASS

Centuries - Old = Tradition Broken; 100,000 Are Present.

VATICAN CITY, Dec. 25 (U. P.). -Pope Pius XII broke a centuriesold papal tradition by celebrating midnight - mass ‘ personally in St. Peter's Basilica before a throng of almost 100,000 worshipers this morning. ~~ He made a world-wide radio appeal earlier for a just peace and the formation of a post-war international security organization. Some 15,000 allied officers and enlisted men attended the mass, In his sixth wartime Christmas radio message to the world yesterday the Pontiff condemned absolutism in government. He lald down five points which, he sald, mankind must understand if social revolutions and civil wars are to be averted after this conflict: ONE—There is a difference between the people and the masses— the masses he characterized as *the capital enemy of true democracy”; . TWO-—-The state must exercise suthority without absolutism; THREE—An international organ- - {zation must be formed to maintain peace and smother either isolated or collective aggression. FOUR~—The people must realize hat the church is a beacon trying

fo throw light on and to aid the |

future of true democracy; FIVE--There must be charity on the part of the victors in this war to enable the vanquished and the neutrals to participate in the postwar reconstruction,

25 BUSSES ORDERED T0 EASE CROWDING

An order for 25 new busses has been placed by the Indianapolis Railways in an effort to relieve the "overcrowding of the present equipment. . The busses will cost approximately $325,000, according to an announcement by Harry Reid, president of the firm. : Purchased under recently received permission of the ODT, the new busses include: 10 41-passenger coaches and 15 40-passenger

+ goaches, Delivery has been promised by

~ the manufacturers at an “early date.” The new busses will be the largest to be used by the company. The largest at present seat 31 persons. They are the first to be contracted for since May, 1042, All of the new vehicles are of the fear motor type, The 40-passenger busses are diesel-powered. Something new in bus design, “transom” windows, affording standees an outside view, are incorporated in the design.” :

LEADER'S

committee,

Receive New Treasury Flag

"1 25.—~The big Japanese air base on |

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CLAIM WO JIMA 1. KNOCKED OUT

Blow for Big Base on ‘Road to Tokyo.

By MAC R. JOHNSON United Press Staff Correspondent HEADQUARTERS, U. 8. 218T BOMBER COMMAND, Saipan, Dec.

Iwo Jima in the Volucano islands | on the B-29 road to Tokyo was believed to have been knocked out of action at leaf® temporarily today |

“A new treasury flag, believed to be the first of its design in the Nation, has heen presented to the Curtiss-Wright Corp. for participation in the sixth war loan campaign. Numerals in the shape of a “V” have replaced the conventional stars acknowledging participation. Unfurling the banner are (left to right) 0. M. Calvert, personnel supervisor; William Hudson, president of local 769, International Association of Machinists, and Charles E, Hoover, Indiana war finance

NOVEMBER RETAIL SALES UP OVER '43

WASHINGTON, Dec, 25 (U. P.) —Independent retail sales in Indiana during November were 10 per cent higher than for the same month last year, the U, 8, department of commerce, bureau of the census, announced today. There was little change in the November figures’ from the October statistics, the bureau said. At the end of the first 11, months of 1944, sales were 5 per cent higher than for a corresponding period in 1943, the report added. i Shoe stores recorded a sales rise of 19 per cent on the basis of comparisons of November business last year and this year. Fuel and ice dealers reported a gain of 17 per cent and men's clothing stores 15 per cent, Jewelry stores reported the only major loss in sales, a 5 per cent. de-

cline. _ Retail sales gains from November, 1943 to the same month this year by cities: Indianapolis, 11 per cent; Ft. Wayne, 6 per cent; Gary, 10 per cent; Evansville, less than one-half of on eper cent; Terre Haute, 26 per

cent; Lafayette, 14 per cent; Marion, 11 per cent; Michigan City, 7 per| cent, . |

EXPECT 150 COUPLES. TO WED HERE TODAY

At least 150 couples will be married in Indianapolis today—accord- | ing to estimates of the marriage li-| cense bureau—something of an all- | timd record for Christmas. Mrs. Violette Payne, head of. the) bureau, reported that 120 licenses! were issued Friday and Saturday) alone—half of them to servicemen. |

United States from overseas duty.

HAVE THE VALUES!

Home Is Exciting For 'G. I. Jae’

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 25 (U, P.. —Cpl. James D. Slaton, 33, Gulfport, Miss, the‘ most decorated G. I. in the army, has been busy since he came {o Hollywood to act in “G. I. Joe,” the film version of Ernie Pyle's best-selling war book, - Slaton went through the Mediterranean campaign virtually unscathed, winning the congressional medal of honor and British and Russian “decorations for destroying three German machine-gun nests in one afternoon. Then last week, he was hit by a car while crossing Hollywood blvd. and was painfully cut and bruised, As soon as Slaton got out of the hospital, he and Nelda Marshall of Hollywood—whom he met two months ago in Washington— eloped to Las Vegas, Nevy and were married late Saturday night. They came back in Hollywood today for a short honeymoon before Slaton goes befcre the cameras.

'FIND SEVEN BODIES

IN BOMBER CRASH

MONTROSE, Cal, Dec. 25 (U.P.). —Jeep loads of soldiers today trav-

eled a winding, dirt road up Mt.

Gleason in the search of the bodies

of three crewmen still missing after partment added to its regular staff

a B-24 bomber crash. Seven bodi®s were found by search parties who were -hampered by the difficult mountainous terrain

fon which the plane crashed and ex-

ploded late Friday. Wreckage and bodies were strewn over the slope,

Indiana was aboard.

Just 50 California Styled ‘““Maurice Hirsch’

Sturzelback Tweeds

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} following a crushing Superfortress |

raid on the island stronghold, | A. medium force of B-29's from] | Saipan dropped hundreds of tons | | of high explosives on two enemy {airfields on Iwo yesterday. The Japanese, already battered by more than two weeks of daily | | bombardment by U. 8. army Liberators, offered only feeble resistance, | None of the B-29's was lost and there were no casualties,

Dust Over Target

Maj. Lewis R. Riley of Wichita, Kas., commander of one attacking Superfortress, said great clouds of dust ‘andysmoke billowed over the fields after yesterday's strike, “I believe the target was _de-| vastated,” Riley said. “I could see our bombs going right into the areas where we were briefed to put them.” Lt. Marston T. Westbrook, Le] | Mesa, Cal, sald: “I didn’t see any | fires. I guess there just isn’t much | left to burn.” | There was no fighter opposititon. | Crewmen reported that only one Japanese flak gun fired at them. The Japanese bombers based in the Volcanoes have not raided Sai: | pan singe Dec. 7.

POSTOFFICE LICKS | CHRISTMAS RUSH

WASHINGTON, Dec. 25 (U, P..| —The postoffice department had | the Christmas’ rush licked again | | today, thanks largely to an esti-| mated 150,000 women volunteer helpers and the fact. that many people mailed early. | In only a few isolated cases did gifts: remain. undelivered, the de-| | partment reported. So. employees | | were required to make deliveries on | Christmas -day-and-those volunteers {who did work delivered only per- | ishables and Christmas packages. {To handle domestic mail, the de-

of 370,000 an extra 200,000 to 250,000, of whom 70 - per cent were women. Many volunteered for carrier work, although they were not | asked to do so. - | The department paid tribute to

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

B-29 "Raid Seen Finishing

{the many people who co-operated |

Many ‘of the servjcenien; she said,|and some of the bodies were badly | by mailing early. Plans for the 1945 | were recently returned to the mangled and ‘burned. None from Christmas. mailing season will be- |

gin tomorrow, he sdid.

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The Value of a Smile :

It costs nothing, but creates much.

It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give.

It happens in a flash and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever.

None are so rich they can get along without it, and none so poor. but are richer for its benefits.

It creates happiness in the home, fosters good will in a business and is the countersign of friends.

“It is rest to the weary, daylight to the discourdged, sunshine to the sad and nature's best antidote for trouble.

Yet it can not be bought, begged, borrowed or stolen, for it is something that is no earthly good to anybody till it is given away!" And if in the last minute rush of Christmas buying some of our salespeople should be too tired to give you a smile, nay we ask you to leave one of yours? =

It's a Grand and Glorious Season and all of Haag's-600 Employees Wish Each and All of You a MERRY AND AHAPPY CHRISTMAS!

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