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Good Business!

Makes Belgium Christmas Gay

Shops Overflow With Many Luxuries

By LUDWELL DENNY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer BRUSSELS, Dec. 25.—Belgium is the gayest country in Europe this Christmas. Of all allied lands on

perous—indeed, the only prosperous

Shops are full. Window displays remind one of prewar days. There seems to be

luxuries here, from hams and turkeys to ears. From fruits and nuts to champagne and cognac. From nylons to furs and diamonds. From toys and electrical appliances to 1946 American automobiles. Even in the poorer districts people are buying fine foods and warm clothing not to be had in neighboring countries. This island of plenty in hungry and cold Europe is real enough however much it may seem only Christmas make-believe to foreign visitors. The explanation is that Belgium was lucky, to begin with, and on top of that made a big gamble and won, How long her luck will hold is another question. Rich Before War This is how the miracle of prosperity out of war happened. Belgium was relatively rich before the war, being on the best business cornet of the continent's main street. She has the densest and most highly skilled population in the world, natural resources at home and colonial wealth abroad. Also Belgium suffered less destruction in the war than her neighbors. Many of her factories and mines and much of her extraordinary transportation system remained intact. It was to the Mazis’ interest to keep Belgian production going.

Mr. Denny

Many Belgians, especially in the |

north, remained to work the factories at a slow-down pace rather than to refuse and be deported to Germany as slave labor. At the end

all manner of

.__ THE » ! : Willobee, walked across the street from his home to see how his new1 edge of the curb when a passing By PAUL GHALI quired medication, Yuletide of peace and liberation is|in the hospital on Christmas Eve,” the joyous, carefree, oldtime Christ Whole hams, § PLEASE— looking toys, and could desire have such abundance

M S. Clause Hurt, Black arket |But Not Seriosuly admire his Christmas tree. y decorated tree looked from a Merchandise Is Back automobile brushed him and Times Foreign Correspondent pitalization, darkened for the French by the |N® muttered. mas are gone forlong rows of saueverything the reappeared. ' But when only the

INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Stanley Olause, 36, of nearby distance. He was standing on the But Few Can Buy knocked him down. His injuries rePARIS, Dec. 25.—This second| “Never heard of a Clause being strong belief that cheap living and ever. sages, attractive feminine heart what is the use of few can buy? The

black market king of France, d vernACTION "FROZEN"—The remarkable Photograph (above), {ment prom hat it would be showing ‘he action of flying playing cards sharply "frozen" in mid- |dead by Chijétmas

ts are dimly lit, chil

air, was made with a new electronic flash lamp, developed by the in unheated rooms, elec-

U. S. Naval Photographic Service. Exposure time for the flash from the new lamp is. 1/10,000th of a second.

Christmas in England Hit by Prices, Shortages

Turkeys Cost $1.10 per Pound, Holly Is $2 A Bunch and a 12-Inch Tree Brings $1.50

By GEORGE WELLER Times Foreign Correspondent LONDON, Dec. 25.—England’s Chirstmas is tied together with bits of broken string. Its tinsel is synthetic. Its turkey is small and costs like peacock. Its fixin's are plain ana {have to be helped out by a national food subsidy. Its trees are dwarfish and their decorations do not glitter, being mostly paper. But children’s cheeks still shine red and their eyes blue, in England at Christmas. Their breath still comes in gulps when they see toys starved power companies have a —even though a single doll costs trick of cutting down the amperage more than an|without warning. The result is the office worker's grill stays at bedwarm temperature French toy manufacturers, noted

. for their imaginative creations, have y lv 7. weekly salary And [and the turkey's flesh is warmed, | roduc 1 some strange twists thi

the British, who [but not cooked. ; : t : (year, One of their chief sources of have the biggest| Seized, however. by an abandoned ion has beers the resistance

hearts east of the holiday spirit, electric overseers to- 1 . | 3 | movem ; tisa ar with Nantucket light-| day announced that current enough |, Yemen: Tar a a . pre-

ship, still manage | to cook the turkeys would be sup-| z : |sented alluringly for children, with to muve over and plied, regardless of the sinking coal end of miniature machine

successive districts of the city. And there is no hope of any improvement this winter, In fact, further restrictions have been announced.

Electric Train Costs $100

Children’s walks in toyland are torments of Tantalus. An ordinary tin toy cannot become yours for less than $17. An electric train costs $100, a Punch and Judy miniature show, $24, a wooden horse $20, a sailboat $100, a teddy bear or Mickey Mouse in plush, $16, and a toy auto $40. Despite their price and charm, most of the toys shown in Paris are of second-rate quality, Ironically, the best of the French toy output this year has crossed the channel to England in order to bring France sterling currency and to fill the place vacated by the Nuernberg'toymakers.

of the war, allied armies brought

in and spent money. Increases Favorable Position So Belgium went into the postwar period in the unique position of having a favorable dollar balance and a going industrial plant ready to produce for a world crying for all kinds of manufactured

goods. She increased her favorable other 50 cents a pound extra under

position by buying all the food and

let rome German stocks. y g HE and such novelties as “the perfect prisoners share | With grapes at $1 a pound and), } ur”

their Christmas plum-sized tangerines at 12 cents) feasts. |fruit is a sort of bonbon. Staples are War-Inspired Games Through Lon- potatoes at 10 cents a pound and! In the way of games, a novelty is a modernized version of the old

goose game in which the players are supposed to escape from a {German “Stalag,” or prison camp. This same game, in another and

Mr. Weller

{don’s murk today go homebound | Brussels sprouts at 8.

householders with turkey's, for

which they are supposed to have : : gl A Christmas puddi for four, paiq $1.10 a pound, the ceilipg price, runs between % and ® cents, but but have actually had to “slip an- | ims therein are slightly skimpy. .

Needs a Drink

Father Kills

PAINESVILLE, O. Des. 28 (U. . P.)~8. Clause got his left leg in- ) Girls Self . jiired last night standing back to ' a

the counter, Many of these frozen

and raw materials available on the birds require attack with a hammer

world market on the theory that

{before they are thawed and roast-

| Enough beer, cider, sherry, gin, or | Whisky to make the menu mellow

{runs to $10 and drink is abundant. | You really need a drink to counter-

ven more expensive form, is called “Chicago.” Each player is a gangster, fighting his way into the city | through police barrages, G-men

goods would get scarce and prices, able. {and siren-sounding motorcycle

higher—which they did. | The trans-Atlantic rush by the Her usual competitors could not Canadian steamer Highland Mon- : compete with her as buyers on the arch to get turkeys here by Christ- {risen to the occasion. Ambassaworld market because they were mas was partly foiled by dockwork-| : 3 . !dor Jefferson Caffery, chairman of broke or nearly so. They could/ers who refused to work over thel ote: hey comes high, with holly | ie American Christmas fund, en-

: heh. Twelve- [eis 4 not compete with hey in selling week-end and left 40.000 out of 120,- ost $150 and Ne nen Frees tertained 5000 children from Paris because their economic systems 000 turkeys on the docks. | that is obtainable, exce

were gutted by war or they were, Stuffed with 30 cents worth of fierce struggle or a long search unable to get raw materials. sausage meat and 50 cents worth of | Britain's real bargain is mistletoe, Juggle iy Slows oS Mehl Instead of hoarding stocks Bel- | chestnuts, this turkey—oftener it's sold helter-skelter at $1 a pound And The Chicago Daily News, Inc. gium went into a boom. There was | goose—goes into the oven. rather than by the bunch. They say work for all. Wages went up and] Cut Down Power | strikes down. There was plenty in

{act that slightly hollow, though not | actually hungry feeling which is the Englishman's characteristic stomach situation.

American charity once more has

orphanages last night, treating pt after & thom to a feast and a show of

the shops and everybody spent freely. Prices Not Too High Prices were high but not too high for the mass purse apparently. Anyway the highest prices were on the black market, and you could live on the legal market. The labor shortage has created a black market in wages (higher, secret wages above legal control), which in turn encouraged a thriving black market in goods. It is easier to describe this fan-

tastic boom in the midst of European austerity than to foresee. its

future. Belgium's neighbors shake their heads and predict the bust that usually follows a boom. An increasing number of Belgians are beginning to wonder whether all this is teo good to last.

Youth, 12, Killed After Yule Exchange

London electric stove. The coal-

Seer Predicts

{ you can do lots for Christmas if you - It might take as much as six have a sense of indoor strategy and tate 0 non hours to cook it on a characteristic| 16 ounces of mistletoe. .

Rough Year

For All But Babies in '47

Will Be ‘Young-Looki

By WILLIAM United Press Sta

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that 1947 would be a good year for rest of, the nation.

Says Children Born in Next 12 Months

ng in Their Old Age’

H. MEYERS

ff Correspondent

MILWAUKEE, Dec. 25—A New York numerologist predicted today |

babies, but would be tough on ‘the

Speech Due Jan. 6

WASHINGTON, Dec. 256 (U. P.). —President Truman probably will send his state of the union mes- | sage to congress Jan. 6, White House Press Secretary Charles G.

Ross said today. It has not been decided yet

{ Whether Mr. Truman will deliver |

the message in person. Mr. Ross also said the President's | economic message, based on the {finding of his council of economic

Ed Hall took time off from a lecture tour to warn that the new | advisers, would not go to congress year will bring with it flood disasters, a serious influenza epidemic and | pefore Jan, 8. The federal budget

{a financial scandal. Mr. Hall does it with numbers. He figures the “vibrations” of vari-| ous numerals, including “1947,” against each other by means of a! complicated chart. From these, he

cities to suburbs and small towns. Mr, Hall said that the nation’s birthrate would show an unprecedented increase, particularly of

CHICAGO, Dec. 25 (U. P.),—Peter ¢laims to be able to see into the male babies. Children born during

Huizenga, 12, and his cousin, Clarence Huizenga, 13, exchanged Christmas gifts after supper last night. First they met at Clarencels house, where they admired the tree. Then they started over to Peter's home, a block away. But as they crossed the highway, Peter was struck hy an automobile and killed instantly, Homewood police held the driver, August Klitzgen, 47, Schererville, Ind, on a charge of involuntary manslaughter pending an inquest tomorrow.

Moscow Criticizes Cardinal Spellman LONDON, Dec. 25 (U. P.).—Radio Moscow, quoting the newspaper Izvestia, criticized Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York today for his “fierce hatred of anything progressive, and first and foremost the

Soviet Union.” The newspaper, singling out his

. recent article in Cosmopolitan mag-

azine, charged the cardinal with an attempted whitewash of “‘the traitors who fought side by side with Nazi Germany” as merely antiCommunists and martyrs.

Sight Missing Plane HALIFAX, N. 8. Dec. 25 (U. P.). Royal Canadian air force officials reported today that one of their search plans had sighted a missing Quebee Airways plane and nine survivors on an ice floe in the St. Lawrence river about two miles off Cape Chat, Plans were made to dispatch a surface craft to the scen :

1people will be afflicted with “throat

future. | “Fly” Epidemic Next year, he said, will be strong |

financially, particularly for pankers, brokers and others who handle money. Inflation will increase and {important legislation will be adopted relating to money. The financial scandal will be 80 | bad that Mr. Hall refused to dis- | cuss it. Mr. Hall said the numbers] showed considerable “danger from water,” such as unusually disastrous floods and tidal waves. He | said a serious “fly” epidemic would sweep the nation and many

troubles.” Sees Real Estate Tumble | Real estate values will tumble uring the year, reaching bottom | in 1953, he said. Then, they will start upward again to hit a new| peak eight years later. The year | will also see a general shift ‘of population away from the big

N. Y. City Employees Get Wage Increase NEW YORK, Dec. 25 (U. P).— The city picked the best time of the year to announce cost-ot-living | wage Increases totaling $32,214,810 to its employees. 4 The increases, voted- late yesterday by the board. of estimate, average $400 each in the police department. and $300 each in other departments. Only nurses, teachers, and operating employees Of the transit system were not affected by the raises. ne

the year, he said, are destined to hold their youth far into life, and most of them will be “very younglooking in their old age.”

3 Teen-Age Boys Burned In Christmas Eve Fire ANDERSON, 8. C, Dec. 25 (U. P.—Three teen-age boys were severely burned last night in the Christmas eve explosion of a fireworks stand. Billy Joe Dyer, 13, suffered burns of the eyes, nose, face and neck. Halston Osborne, 12, and Neil Parker, 12, received severe burns on the face and neck. The cause of the blast, which smashed the window of a grocery

store across the street, was undetermined,

Bombings Keep Quake Toll Down TOKYO, Dec. 25 (U. P). — A death toll of possibly more than 100,000 might have resulted from the earthquake on Shikoku island alone but for the B-29 fire bombings which virtually leveled all large cities on the island during the war. That is the opinion of American military government officers and Japanese authorities. Meanwhile, two hundred thousand shivering Japanese—homeless as a result of Saturday's earthquake and tidal wave—had a white but dreary Christmas today. The latest home ministry figures showed there were 1172 known dead with 1555 injured and 163

for fiscal 1948 will be sent to con[gress immediately after that, The economic report is required under the so-called full employment act passed at the last session of congress. Mr, Truman started work on his state of the union message Saturday. Ross said it still is “in the formative stage.”

'Antarctic’'s Santa

Looks Like Penguin ABOARD U.S8.8. MT. OLYMPUS, With Byrd Expedition, Dec. 26 (U. P.).—Members of this Antarctic ex{pedition made a startling discovery

today about the Santa Claus who lives at the South Pole. He costumes himself as a penguin instead of sporting a red suit and flowing beard that distinguish his better-known counterpart from the North Pole. The Antarctic Santa, In the person. of Seaman l-¢ Thomas PF. Donnelly, 19, of Bala-Cynwyd, Pa. arrived on schedule as the Mt. Oiympus, flagship of the Byrd expedition, plowed through 10-foot waves toward the Antarctic regions. Complete with shaved head, a swallow-tailed coat, pillow case pants and a black bow tie, Seaman Donnelly distributed presents to crew members.

An Old Custom Going to Jail CHICAGO, Dec. 26 (U. P)— Virgil Hill, 54, spent Christmas Eve in a cell, all because he mixed up his holidays. Lit, . Hill was arrestéd after he began firing a revolver wild west fashion in his home, sending his wife and daughter sc g for cover, At police station, he protested to detectives, “It's an old American custom-—firing guns and Arecrackers on the Fourth of July.”

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Christmas Eve Tragedy Probed

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill, Dec. 25 (U, P.).~East St. Louis police today in. vestigated & bloody Christmas eve tragedy which claimed the lives of

but not hos-|a father and his two young Jdaugh-l¢s enter the house. They found

ters. Benjamin Franklin Dennison, 40-year-old laundry checker, slashed the throats of his two girls, fatally

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the family, enraged him, she said. When he returned home, she related, Mrs. Mann's announcement that she intended to take the older girl to midnight church services touched off the quarrel. Police broke down a locked door

toys scattered throughout the rooms and a Christmas tres, trimmed ear-

lier by the family, standing in the front room.

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