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mas spirit then you haven't kept your ears unbuttoned while you've been burrowing through. the bustling downtown crowds. This may or may not be the

“ biggest Yule season on record, but at least it has been the noisest. : Let me hasten to add, however, that most of the contributors to the din that reached some sort of peak about noon today are well-meaning citizens eager to contribute to the spirit of Christmas. On the Circle Frank Sinatra's voice can be heard giving out with “I'm Dreaming of a White -Christ« mas.” Where's it coming from? Right out of the office of John Kleinhenz, publicity director of Indianapolis Water Co. He's a platter turner now and says he

turns his Christmas music off wien there's something doing on the Monument steps.

"SILENT NIGHT"—The Salvation Army adds to the Christmas spirit,

Inside Indianapolis

IF, AT THIS late date, ‘you don’t have the Christ One More Look Before the Bus

i ter goes into the kettle and can’t even be heard. A! To mark the smiling fireman tugs on the Mile-O-Dimes bell and; ® conclusion of the hurrying shoppers stop for a moment to dig into! program, which pockets to help make the mile grow, has beer going

‘By Ed Sovola

THE LOUD SPEAKER at ,the Lyric News and RecOrd shop keeps the 100 block of N, Illinois st.! «

- SECOND SECTION jumping.

“Hurry or we'll miss the bus, I told you vel . . 0 Ing

shouldn't ‘have stood in that candy line.” Christmas gs Re Keens Czech So Mommy, tired and beaten from being buffeted . around the stores, worn out by keeping an eye on a 3-yearcold youngster, stops and watches the animated toyland window at the William H. Block Co, on W. Market st. Together with the antics of miniature Santa Clauses in “Twas the Night Before Christmas” scenes she hears rollicking laughter, and jolly Christmas songsters coming from the top of the marquee, Snatching Junior away from the display she heads for Illinois st. and the bus—and the quiet: of her neighborhood. On Washington gt. the loud speakers on the Claypool hotel begin their daily chime session. It’s “Silent Night.”

And Back to Circle Singers

FARTHER EAST on Washington st. the Salvation Army strikes up the band—high in tempo, A quar-

can be sweet, too. |

Letters From Donors Shown With Gifts

By WILLIAM McGAFFIN Times Foreign Correspondent PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Dec. 24. —Upwards of 400,000 men, wom= en and children of Czhoslovakia are dressed warmly this Christmas thanks to used clothes contributed by American families,

on for the past year, a sample of the last lot to arrive was put on

The Indiana National bank carolers sing “It Came | Upon the Midnight Clear” within the confines of the! institution, But their voices ring out over Virginia | ave. Pennsylvania and Washington sts. by way of | a loud speaker. display in one of Swinging back toward the Circle more voices can| Mf MecGafin 44, ° prague ‘be heard above the traffic din. A mixéd group of|schoolhouses. about 50 singers fills the Circle with “Little Town ot| “Many thanks to our friends in Bethlehem.” U. 8. A,” said the big banner Small groups gather on the corners and listen as! hanging across the entrance to the they tap the cold from their feet. | exhibit. A hurrying man throws a glance at the assemblage Cards Displayed on the Monument steps. Christmas cards from some of A little girl with bare legs whispers, “I'm cold, the donors were on display with Mother—let's go home.” | their gifts. There was a Christmas card, for example, with a beautifully worded

Nothing Stirring

~ |personal greeting from Mrs, W. W. | williams, Columbus, O. And a sweet note on school-tablet paper from 8-year-old Barbara Barnett,

By Frederick C. Othman

” ——— Akron, O. “Dear unknown friend,” said WASHINGTON, Dec. 24—It's the day before ink to replace the red and the fervent hope he's al-!garhara, scrawling with her childChristmas and all through the capital nobody much lowed to use it. lish Ra vsince we tannot visit

is stirring, including me. I'm sitting under my tree with my eyes shut, sniffing the elegant smell and feeling generous. Yep. I'm the man in the sled gliding across the rooftops and I'm delivering gifts .a fellow needs. At 1600 Pennsylvania ave. I'm dropping for presidential use soon on Capitol Hill, 10 lessons on how to be a hypnotist. For daughter Margaret I have a jug of invisiblegirl fluid (sprinkle on a few drops and rub in well) so she can date the boy friend without benefit of autograph hounds, or secret service agents, either, Jimmy Byrnes gets a chance to sleep -a while in his own bed. I have some new mail trucks for the postmaster general who has run out of bailing wire; for Wilson Wyatt I am rushing an expedited house to Louisville.

He's Never Seen One

A GENUINE, gentle sea monster fills the request of Fred Orsinger, the federal fish expert, who has read about-such beasts for 40 years, but never seen one. For the U. S. senate I have eight ounces of fresh kerchoo to fill both its Japanese snuff boxes. I am delivering checks for portal-to-portal pay to the laborers in the Pentagon; full-size chips of butter to the patrons of the federal cafeterias, and a wailing wall to the haberdasher who thought he could get $12.50 each for striped cotton shirts, Money-bags John Snyder gets a bottle of black

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Families Warm

ND the angel Gabriel was sent from God ‘unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgins name was Mary. And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women, And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be. And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God, And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS, He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.

Tom Clark, the attorney general who joined in|...h other I hope that this letter the smiles about his rented claw-hammer coat, gets | win help us to become acquainted. an affectionate pat on his wrinkled back. Adm.|y am 8 years old. I am in the Richard Byrd went as far as he possibly could BO! third grade in King school. My from my own North Pole headquarters and must be! sgquorite subjects are reading, hissatisfied with my long-distance good wishes, [torv and music, Today we drew

i pictures of train. Have you heard Nothing but the Truth lof Akron, Ohio? It makes more

PATENT Commissioner Casper Ooms gets a medal | rubber goods than any other city in of 18-carat gold for putting up uncomplainingly withithe world. Please answer if you the tom-foolery of a correspondent whose name I'lllcan and tell me about yourself. modestly not mention here. For Senator Homer Fer-' Your American friend, Barbara guson I have a witness, who'll tell the truth and!Barnett.” nothing else the first time around. | One of the Prague dailies, atFor Rep. ‘Marion Bennett (Mo.) I've brought a tracted by Barbara's letter, menspecial congressional chair to keep his feet awake tioned it in its account of the during debates. Senator William Langer (N. D.) gets exhibit a sulphur match for use on his never-lit-yet cigar. | Maps Show Distribution Jim Preston, the expert on things senatorial, re-| Barbara's gift of a little apron ceives a handclasp for favors rendered and questions and the other things in the exhibit answered. So do many other people. T've found some will go, as the other bundles have buyers for the surplus winches of the maritime com- gone, to bombed-out families and mission's Burton L. Hunter. {to needy industrial workers and For John L. Lewis I have a copy of Bartlett's miners. ' quotations; he might as well get his Shakespeare! The clothing bundles, including right. {some children’s toys, were collected Only one still off my list is Senator Theodore G.|mn America by charity organizaBilbo. The Man has everything, the evidence shows,| tions, forwarded to Czechoslovakia and I don’t know what to give him. {by UNRRA facilities, and distributSkoal to all and now that I'm awake again, I'm ed here by local social welfare com-

worried about my Christmas tree. It's shedding like | Mittees. . a bogus mink, Big charts and maps at the exhibit , showed how and where the cloth{ing was distributed after investiga-

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Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be? ! And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. ’ . «+ And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus; that all the world should be taxed. , And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David) to be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child, And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accom plished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.

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ND there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the , field, keeping watch over their flock by night. : And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.

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By Maj. Al Williams | ind tue’ Ciscaes Duty News, ne.

PENICILLIN NEEDED

mmm THE development of a new jet-propelled, flying= boat fighter plane by the British is significant. A fighter flying-boat is an engineering revolution in itself, because flying-boats have never been fast, or capable of the rapid rate of climb required in a fighter. A fighter. must always be fast and able to get upstairs in a hurry. It appears, however, that the British jet flyingboat fighter's climb, speed and maneuverability, are comparable to a land-plane fighter. No performance figures are yet available’ because this ship still is on the secret list. Before we can appreciate what a jet flying-boat fighter can mean in military operation, we will have to revise our conception of a flying-boat as we know it. Instead of being a bulky;’rather unsightly affair, + a jet-propelled flying boat can be designed as a beautifully streamlined job of niighty efficient aerodynamic shape. Strange as it may seem to the layman, the narrowest plane body (fuselage) is not always the most efficient, low-air-resistance shape, That was the old idea.

Propellers Absent

ACCORDING to latest data, it's shape that counts rather than size. As a matter of fact, a round stranded cable one eighth inch in diameter wil] offer much more resistance to the air than a streamlined shape (roughly cigar shape) an inch in diameter. There are no unsightly propellers on the British flying-boat fighter—just the streamlined hull, a tail, a single wing and retractable wingtip floats, There is plenty of room for two jet engines in the hull, and that is where they have been mounted. A jet engine can burn from 500 to 750 gallons of fuel an hour. And complete combustion of this fuel

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; : | WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (U, P.). means burning as much as two tons of air an hour. | —The government yesterday freed The new British fighter flying-boat can cruise on &| penicillin from all distribution consingle jet engine, which means fuel economy, with the | trols because production has reached second engine to be cut in for top speed maximum a level high enough to satisfy do-

climb as required in combat. mestic and export demand.

Now—since airpower is able to traverse an ocean, Women Seek

perform its mission and return to its base, the next war obviously will be a real inter-continental war. Therefore, it is logical to assume that most of the! break-through fighting in the air to get at the tar-| get objectives will be done over the oceans and along! the coast lines. This is exactly where a jet flyingboat fighter will come into its own. | |

Refuel From Subs

THE land-plane fighter can operate only from a! land base or a carrier deck. And with pilotless, selfguiding missiles, carriers will have an even tougher time in the next war than they did in the last getting within working range of a hostite coast. Flying boat fighters able to ‘land safely in any} coastal cove, inlet or bay may be refueled by Sub- | marine motherships. The practicality of this combination of jet flying-boat fighter and a refueli mothership submarine lends an even greater mobility | EX year and Seles Bs 3545, and surprise factor to air warfare. Furthermore | For, in line with his campaign when a land plane is forced down at sea, because of t0- accelerate the modernization of combat disability, it is finished in that it sinks almost Mexico, President Miguel Aleman immediately. On the other hand, unless its hull is has asked the. congress to extend badly punctured by gunfire, a flying-boat can make the voting franchise to give women a go of a water landing. {the privilege of holding municipal The development of this British jet-propelled | office on an equal footing with men. fighter flying-boat is the first practical confirmation | The request covers only the right of what we have long since predicted and anticipated {to vote in municipal elections. But —namely, the ultimate and inevitable combination of the new president, who has a ready undersea, ocean-going craft and airpower, |

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| HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 24.—Motorists, get ready. If 31 you see a beautiful blond in a 1940 Packard stalled along the highway between here and New Orleans in the next few weeks, don't pass her by. It'll prob- | ably be Irene Manning. I Chances are, you wouldn't anyway. But this par- | |

nd #1 | ticular blond will be able to repay you for a lift— i or the loan of-a jack—with your favorite ballad. She

sings right purty, As you already know if you're a movie-goer, She's built nice, too. And we doubt if she'll have ; any trouble hitch-hiking a ride. Just in case she H gets stranded in the middle of some lonely desert— with ‘hat big box of tools she doesn't know how to use, Because Miss Manning is starting out on a 20,000mile concert tour next week. And she's going by car. i Partly, she says, to see some scenery. But mostly to make sure she gets there. “I don't like to fly,” she admitted. “And I've al« ready tried to make these tours by train. You just buy your ticket and pray you'll make the town you're ; supposed to on the day you're due to sing. 1 “And even if your luck holds out and you get there, ; she says, you're so tired out from changing trains in 1 the middle of thesnight you're apt to give with a 3 high squeak instead of the high C the customers paid to hear.”

Suitcase of Long Woolies

TIME WAS, when a concert coprano started out on one of these junkets she needed a special train, half

her out on the stage. She usually managed to disrupt half a continent before she wound up, too.

‘a dozen trunks, and a small army of servants to get

By Virginia MacPherson Perfect Grades

Eight senior high and two junior high students have received perfect

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Miss Manning's traveling light. Only taking one or two trunks, All full, she added, of “very low-cut

gowns.” J ‘Those we can iru on the top of the car,” she| grades in the second marking pe | figures. “Inside, I'm keeping one suitcase, though. |riod at Manual Training high school

to lead the honor roll, Senior high students are Marilyn Hafer, June Kénnedy, Waneta Staten, Catherine Stevens, Jack Edwards, Harold Kissel, Charles Kriech and Edwin Mussman,

Phyllis Harman and Doris Kenninger led the junior high students.

Florann Greeson, Jacqueline Davison, Clee Smith, Mary Ellen Ellis, is Harman, June Lee, Barbara Snodgrass, Dorothy Steele, Betty Snoddy, Margie Board, Shirley Shotts, Barbara Ferguson, Carolyn Marshall, Connie Davidson, Nila Jo Hawkins, Dorothy Schienbein, Helen Schwomeyer and Deloris Sharkey complete the senior high girls’ top ten. Roy Turley, Robert Herbst, Johnny Lee,

Full of long woolies.” Because she's covering the south and middle east in the dead of winter. And in case there's still a! shortage of coal in those parts, she doesn't want to freeze to death between choruses.

Keep Your Eye Peeled

BUT THE ARMY of servants is getting left behind, With Miss Manning on this cross-country trek will be only three others: Her manager, her | accompanist, and her Scottish housekeeper. “Usually, my manager goes ahead to make all the arrangements,” she said. “I don’t know yet just how we'll work it this time. I guess he can wangle hotel reservations by phone from one town to #nother.” The Manning itinerary looks more like a Southern

i Robert Scheib, Walter Reinacker, Henry Pacific time table than a concert tour. If everything Roi, Robert rE Cun goes right, she'll hit 35 cities in seven weeks—all| Lowell Parley, Frederick Bears, Arle +4 | Bishop, S8colt Brown, an yalty, Te spaced out over 20,000 miles of highway. That'd Pollard, Lesiie Stanley and Richard Moeven be tough on a beefy, buxom soprano, Which Mahan complete the top ten list for

senior high school boys. Following Miss Harman and Miss Kenninger in junior high are Barbara Phillips, Bella Eskenazi, Ruthanne Pattison, Ruth Evelyn Taylor, Ruth Ann Cassady, Betty Koenig, Charlotte Levy and Barbara Wil-

Miss Manning definitely is not. “But I have four brand, new tires,” she said hopefully. “And the man down at the garage is giving the motor a complete overhaul. Now if the insides

’ » loughby, % just don’t fall out of my old Packard, we'll make it Yohiip Goldsmith. Kenneth Colton, all right. . Jimmy ison, (ish Punta, JiShazd 5 « | Mahan, incent uiliani, aro ut, And if they do, well . , , that’s where you motor A Ma Richart aoe | Rn

ists come in, Just keep your eye peeled for a shapely blond with -big blue eyes, and you can't miss her,

mond Williams, Bernard Matthews and Richard Oliphant qualified for junior high top ten, .

Posts in Mexican Towns

President Aleman Asks Franchise to Give Ladies Privilege of Holding Municipal Office

By JEANNE BELLAMY

MEXICO CITY, Dec. 24—The little adobe, tile-roofed towns of this country where women have never yet even voted, may have women

in a race for municipal office in the elections slated for some towns

And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city’ of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. ‘ And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them

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Of Total Eclipse

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (U. P.) {—A party of American scientists | {will photograph a total eclipse .of the sun from a remo-ie village In Brazil on May 20, 1947. The army air forces and National | Geographic society jointly an- | nounced the expedition .oday. The party will use the latest scientific instruments in an effort | to solve more of the mysteries of the effect of an eclipse on the! earth's atmosphere. The informa- | {tion is expected to be of use in - |A. A, F. research into the mysteries | answer for everything, has a defl-|,r outer space, the highway of nite reason. rocket plane flights of the future. “Mexico is going to begin at the| The village of Bocayuva 400 miles | beginning,” he declares. north of Rio De Janeiro, was selected | The small number of women rep-|as the closest practicable point to | resented in the parliaments of other |the center of the path of the total | countries demonstrates that women |€clipse, which will last about four | are not sa much interested in na-|minutes. It will not be visible in | tional problems as in local, accord-| the United States.

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friends if they would support them

into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go unto Bethlehem, and see this thing whieh is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us. And they came with haste, and the Babe lying in a manger. And when they had geen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child, And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds. But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart, And the shepherds returned, ®€lorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them. " n n » » » (This story of the birth of Christ is from 8t. Luke, the excerpts being taken from Chapters I and IL) 3

found Mary, and Joseph, and

Sees Rabbit Run Like Man

And Finds Proof in Book

Exploring Biologist Finds Rare Behavior Of North Pole Hare Already Recorded

By DR. FRANK THONE

Science Service Editor in Biology

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24. —A rabbit that runs like a man was the

incredible animal seen on one of Canada's farthest-north islands by Charles O. Handley Jr, U. 8. fish and wildlife service biologist, recently returned from a cruise on a coast guard vessel that carried him within

eight degrees of the North Pole. Ashore on the island, which in summer is not much more than a mass of bare glacial ‘gravel, Mr. 8 Handley spotted a white rabbit. He didn't like what it saw, and went recognized it as an Arctic hare, away from there. close relative of the snowshoe rab-| p.4 instead of hopping off in bit or varying hare, common In! orthodox rabbit fashion it ran on this country. , lits hind feet, Once in a while it But he wasn't prepared for what would touch fits fBrefeet to the happened when he walked towards| ground, then up again and away in the animal. It rose on its hind feet | its astonishing biped mode of travel, to get a good look at him, evidently When the biologist told his ship-

ing to Mr Aleman. SILLY NOTIONS

Has Definite Reason “Mexican women are particularly

mates what he had seen no one | would believe him, not even a fel-low-biologist. Upon his return here, he dug into the scientific

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interested in the problems affecting their own home localities,” says the the president. “They are concerned about health conditions, prices of goods, schools and other such domestic or local problems. Their int terest: in municipal problems, there- | fore, will be very great.” The franchise will climax a halfcentury of change for women's status in Mexico. Even after the turn of the century, Mexican women are divided sharply into two groups: the rich, who wore European clothes; the poor, who wore shawls and sandals or no shoes at| ' { all. . Today, in the citles, Mexican senoritas work as stenographers, and | ! 4 clerks, and they dress much the same as business girls in the United States.

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‘Hot “Clue Melts, Cooler Not Cold

DETROIT, Dec. 24 (U. P.).—A hot police clue turned cold yesterday when it melted. As evidence in an attempted safe robbery—in which three men were driven away by private detectives’ gunfire—police found a footprint in the snow. They carefully picked it up and transferred it to a cooler at police headquarters. The cooler. wasn't cold enough,

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“OH YEAH, | FORGOT T'TELL YA ITS A PAINTING."

libraries, and finally found the Arctic hare's strange behavior re corded in print. So although he thus lost the dis tinction of being the first to report it, he at least had the satisfaction of knowing that he hadn't beem “seeing things.”

News Association Names Local Man

Harry F. Miedema Jr, Indian apolis, has been named associate |canager of the Pennsylvania News« paper Publishers’ association, Hare risburg, Pa. The association is composed of 250 and daily newspapers in Pénnsvlvania. Mr. Miedema formerly was with the Indianapolis Star for several years in. advertising, business and editorial departments.

' Filipino Currency | MANILA, Dec. 24 (U. P.) ~The ‘United States will pay the Philip- | pinés republic $50 million in com=

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