Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1946 — Page 3

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TUESDAY, DEC. 24, 1946

PSC Clamps

Down on Gas For Heating

Conversion for Home |

Heating Is Halted

The Public Service Commission 1 today clamped down on conversion'| §

to gas for space heating, where

gas must be obtained

Pastern Pipe Line Co,

The order, effective immeditaely, |}

applies to house heating and all other heating where other facilities currently are in use. It would not limit. installation of gas heat

fn new homes or buildings even |} delivered by |’

though the gas is Panhandle facilities. “With the 1946-47 winter demand for natural gas in areas served by Panhandle far exceedIng transmission capacity.”” the ccmmission statement said,

order has been issued restricting

the use of natural gas for certain}

purposes.” Must File Reports The order provides that com-| panies receiving gas from the Panhandle wholesale system file weekly reports with the commission on distribution in their areas. Sam Busby, commission secretary, said a public hearing would be held on the curtailment order at 10 a. m. Jan. 15. For two months the Indiana com- | mission has participated in hearings on distribution of natural gas through the Big and Little Inch] pipelines. It is now estimated that | gas through these lines will relieve Panhandle facilities in Ohio enough so the utility can deliver an addi- | tional 20 million cubic feet of gas! daily to its Indiana customers. |

Negotiations for obtaining this —

relief are now under way and are being conducted by members of a | special industry advisory committee set up by the federal power commission.

Trooper Death Girl Stightly Il

Vera Hornbeck, 15, of Anderson, one of four teen-age youths charged with the slaying of a state trooper | near Shelbyville, was taken back to] the Shelby county jail today following a midnight ambulance ride to the Robert Long hospital in Indianapolis. :

Following complaints indicating

. possible appendicitis,* the girl was]

brought to the hospital for observation last night, under state police guard. She was taken back to Shelbyville this morning when ex-

amination indicated her illness not |

of serious nature. Meanwhile, in Shelbyville today Judge Harold G. Barger granted a change of venue of the murder trial to Bartholomew circuit court, where the case will be heard before Judge George W. Long. Yesterday pleas of not guilty to the charge of slaying State Trooper Herbert Smith on Dec. 5 were entered by the Hornbeck girl, Mary Ruth Ward, 15, and William Johnson, 17. The fourth member of the group, William F. Price, 17, previously had pleaded not guilty.

. Earlier he had signed a confession

admitting the slaying. Officials at Shelbyville said motions for separate trials were expected to be filed after the case is transferred to Bartholomew county. Motion for the change of venue was filed by Emmanuel H. Baugh of Evansville, attorney for Johnson and the Hornbeck girl.

Many Portal Pay Suits Likely Here

“Portal to portal” back pay suits involving an estimtaed 20,000 Hoosier workers today were being prepared by the United Automobile Workers, C. I. O., here today. Arnold Atwood, head of the Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois area of the union, said that some of the suits are expected to seek as much as $1500 in overtime over a six-year period for time spent on. factory premises and not now included in paychecks. Following the lead of national unions, locals in the area now are filling out individual suits, Mr. Atwood said. Suits are expected to be filed in at least 30 per cent of the 115 Hoosier factories where U. A. W. members are employed, he said, :

Harvester Suit Filed

CHICAGO, Dec. 24 (U, P.).—Suit for $100 million portal-to-portal pay was filed in a U. 8. district cotirt today against the International Harvester Co. on behalf of 30,000 employees in plants throughout the nation.

IN INDIANAPOLIS--EVEN| S—VITAL

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INDIAN LANDLORD—M ission Indian Lee Arenas, 68, shown with his wife, Marion, said he intends keeping the 94 acres of valuable land in the swank Palm Springs, Cal., desert resort which the courts awarded him as his own property. Mr, Arenas admits his land keeps him and his pretty 32-year-old wife "well off." Neighbors estimate his income from the 94 acres at $3000 during the winter months. As an Indian living on and operating his own land he pays no taxes.

‘Silent Night, “Holy Night'— Machineguns Break Peace As Death Stalks Bethlehem

80,000 British Troops Patrol Holy Land As Defiant Groups Wait in Shadows

BETHLEHEM, Dec. 24 (U. P.) "Silent night, holy night. , . .” Eighty thousand British troops patrol the Holy Land this Christmas eve. And 20,000 policemen, Three Jewish underground groups, defiant and truculent. An Arab army of perhaps 20,000, waiting in the shadows.

i | Japanese house, next door to the ' |gutted remains of what was once the most beautiful Christian church | ¥88 left of a church of fine Norman

I G. I. S "By NEA Service YOKOHAMA, Dec. 24.—In a little | Bluff section. a

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Suddenly they came upon what

in Japan, a small group of G. I's architecture. Recognizing it as and American officials will hold | Episcopal, the church of their own their own Christmas service. faith, the G. I's began clearing It is their church, but they are away the debris left by an incensharing it with an equally devout |diary raid, and set up an altar group of Japanese. |inside. The story of the church goes| With the coming of winter, they

G. L's were poking through the services and arranged for a chapel

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“All is calm, all is bright. . . .” en { The machine guns rattle in a candlelight procession wends]| venomous spasms. They shatter the through Bethlehem's lanes. The! calm from Dan to Beersheba. The gorgeously caped Msgr. Barlessina | [Reams of army searchlights probe draws aside the curtains of the] the skies where shone the Star of | little ark.

Bethlehem. | He holds up the little bambino |

flocks by night . . .” | bells and carols blend into a melGangs Are Rectless tody, a slow-moving procession bears the little figure around to the

The troops and the police keep dam

watchful vigil. The truce in the | gickering candlelight the little

Jewish underground Js a shaky one, bambino will await another ChristThe 80,000 men of Hagana are! pag

lying low, but none knows for how long. The 5000 of Irgun Zvai Leumi . 3 a —the 1500 or so of the Stern gang “Holy infant so tender and are restless. jmild . . “Peace on earth and mercy| Msgr. Barlessina’s Christmas mild... >” {message to the United States:

Since last Christmas eve, 65 Brit- | “The doctrine of Christ is our only ish have been killed and 119 wound- means of emerging victorious from ed; 51 Arabs killed, 35 wounded; 19 Jews killed and 17 wounded. Those : : =, are the official: known casualties. bering at the same time the. divine There have been many more. | warning | a Ye Would hat Ben shou o unto you, do ye also Hundreds Worship them in like manner.’ “Following yonder star . . ." | “Our wish for Christmas is that Hundreds go to worship tonight everyone may be convinced of this at the holy shrines of Bethlehem.| tr tn and act accordingly. This But to the cold, tent-housed home- | wish we place with all our heart sick British soldier, the true Beth- in the grotto of Bethlehem this lehem is far away. {holy Christmas night.” The little church of his village, Mayor Welcomes Pilgrims the lighted flats of his home town—| “Hark the herald angels sing...”

there is his shrine. | “Bearing gifts, we traverse afar. hd And the mayor of Bethlehem,

{The winding road from Jerusalem 1ssa el Bandak, welcomes the pilto Bethlehem is burdened heavily 8rims in a Christian message: with military trucks, service cars, “Welcome hither, the place is and taxis. They are rumbling back your own. As the tunes of the bells and forth from late Christmas eve . to the early morning of Christmas of urs" o"e, tr 1 ‘am conden; day. that hope will be rekindled, faith in ultimate goodness will be deepened, and a determination to share in the building of a world based on the principles of the Prince of Peace will be strengthened.”

p, rocky grotto. There under

Message to U. S.

the fight against ourselves, remem-

Few Americans Seen “The silent stars go by .. .” The big square in Bethlehem is packed to capacity. Its electrical star of Bethlehem lights the scene. In the narrow streets and lanes, Arabs, British and some Jews—

- but few Americans—mingle in a milling mass of uniforms and civ-

vies.

to Sing “Glory to the new born child...” - " The basilica of the nativity, the Nn IC & onl t new Latin church of St. Catherine, |

belongs tonight to the native popu- : ; ' lation. There the Latin patriarch, | A choir of 1000 voices will, sing Msgr. Louis Barlessina, raises the Christmas carols in a nation-wide babe in his arms while the hymns | broadcast from the steps of Monof the monks vibrate the ancient! yment Circle at 10 p. m. today. |

rafters. Sponsored by the Indianapolis

Hear Christmas Message Christmas committee, the commuInside the huge nave the crowd nity carolling will be directed by waits impatiently for midnight. The | Ralph Wright. electric star at the end of the! The broadcast will be the climax church is lighted. The bells peal 0‘ “= yule season programs from out the Christmas message. nument in which more than From the gate of the milk grotto | ical groups participated.

MARRIAGE LICENSES Henry Claude Spencer, 809 N. East; Lucille Lasiter, 33 N. Temple: Delaware; Wilma Dean Porter, 1235 Central.

Ronald E. Stockton, R. R. 12, Box 538; Marjorie Ann Hansing, R. R. 12, Box Albert Roy Summers, 1612 Columbia; Leona H. Tern, 424 N. West Robert Willlam Tabor, 1143 Udell; Jo Ann Pace, 1210 Eugene. James E. Taylor, 1438 N. Missouri; Anna . Wooden, 420 W. 14th, Wilbur Thomas, 3432 N. Oapitol; Marie Koeber, 1546 Bradbury Norman K. Thompson, New Augusta; Bar-

Rose

Clifford’ Albert Conner, 2224 National; Margaret ¥. Flora, 1002 8. New Jersey. Louis Cox, 946 Paca; Helen Ewing, 945 ca

ace, Theodore Ford, 1122 Madeira; Lucinda Thomas, 2305 Kenwood. James Marshall Graham, Galveston; Mitaf Lou Kerr, 2835 N. Delaware

Boys At St. Francis Elwood, Dessie Hargraves: , Mary East, and Paul, Mary

y—Kleason, Sandy Nyland; Bertram, Bertha Eubank, and Neal, Nolene Ford. At Coleman-—-Robert, Nell Reid, . At Methodist—Harry, Rosemary Doll; Rob-

Bobet Oral Jeatup, Bloomington; June ert, Yuba Kutruff; Albert, Elizabeth . Henderson, r " : ' { . Herbeft Johnston, 427 N. Oakland; Hope| Faullois; Edward Mildred Galther;

Holding, 249 Belle Vieu. - Lennel Lee, Marcella Royer, and Thomas,

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Catron, 1007 Elm.

E. ‘Carl, 2030 N. Euclid; Susie |

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“While shepherds watched their for the people to see. While the!

by his friend, Franz Xaver Gruber, .

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Church of St, Nikola in Oberndor, Salzburg, Austria where the famous carol “Silent Night, Holy Night'* was first played and sung on Christmas Eve, 1818, The words ware written by Vicar Josef Mohr of the church—and the music was composed

Plan Yule Services Near Ruins of Church. ji

| rubble along Yokohama's famous|in the small Japanese house next

door, : : {| They located a‘ Japanese Epis|copal bishop, and moved their altar {to the house, A Japanese woman sewed strips of blue material into jan altar hanging. Four rusty door {hinges were made into wall sconces. | A Japanese carpenter made {wooden candlesticks. Beer cans had {to serve temporarily for the sacramental wine. But services were

back to last year when four or five {had to find new quarters for their held.

News of the small chapel spread,

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attracting both Americans Christian Japanese, Today, between 15 Americans and British attend the first Sunday morning services. A second is held an hour later for about 25 Japanese. Some 60 Jape | anese children school. Douglas W. Overton, American vice-consul, now one of the little church's guiding members, says

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and 20

attend .Sunday|

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Prayer

(([e thank Thee for this place in which we dwell; for the lobe that unites us, for the peace accorded to us this day, for the hope with which We expect the tomorrotw, for the health, the work, the food, and the bright skies that make our life delightful; = Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us if it map be in all ovr innocent endeavors. 3f-it map not, give us strength to encounter that which i to come, that Wwe may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, tem perate in wreath and in all changes of fortune, and doton to the gates of death; loval and loving one another.

— Robert Lovis Stevenson

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