Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1947 — Page 13
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Her 7th Birthday Is Grandest Day. of All
F~r Cheerful Girl, Doomed by Cancer
PT. PIERCE, Fia., Dec. 18 (UP)—A whole town lied to a little girl today. But it was the noblest falsehood ever told, ’ . They told her it was Christmas, They hig:the calendar, which said| We Dec. 18 They ~id their best» bring Reba Nell Bowman the most gloricus Christmas she's ever haa. The-doctor says it’ will be Her last. ; Today happens ‘to be Rebd's seventh hirthday. But her father, an
unemployed ‘carpenter's helper
hasn't fold her why her two favorite
days are coming at once this year. He hasn't explained why was such a big party
brothers.
As the surpriSe party got under campaign on the air. way today, in Reba’s room in the a thousand heartstrings with words tumble-down house at the edge of like: ‘ 5 town; she was the only one una-
there on a lean purse. and many hard-serubbed shabbiness of their presents that she won't have to cold house, share with her six older and younger
. 17000 CIO Westbrn Union Co. .employees.in New York offered today to join a nation-wide strike of .50.« 000 AFL telegraph -workers sched“uled Dec. 23 in an all-out wage in« " arease demand. 1 ; The offer by the CIO to make *the strike 100 per ‘cént effective { was contained in a telegram sent by Joseph Selly, president of the American Communications Asso= ciation (CIO), to the leaders of
: ~ ” . MR. SILVER called on the Bowmans. He saw that they were living He noticed the
Then he made a plan. Armed with a microphone, he ‘launched a "Christmas for Reba" He strummed
Mr. Selly urged that the unions agree “to strike “together, to fight | together, fo settle together ard to go: back together.” The AFL unions—the Commer-
little girl with cial Telegraphers Union, the Téle-
“Remember the
NEW YORK, Dec. 18 (UP)—The =
the three AFL telegraphers unions.,
For Reba’ Christmas tad IE. "RH do ap 8 7000 in CI0 Offer ion curs roe For Reba's Last Chris mas | £ 30] Peg | 3 : a 0 : To Join Wire Strike
Prices to Make Dealers Christians
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y, Dec. 18 (UP)—Elliott Roosevelt sold. Christmas trees to the public far $1 each today, ‘ He said he offered them to the publie himself “in order to make Christians out of Christmas dealers” who are selling trees raised at Hyde Park for as high as- $35 He said he priced any tree up to 12 feet high at $1 .to combat price. gouging by dealers in‘ the New York area to whom he ‘sold 50,000 spruce for 65 cents each. Mr. Roosevelt sald that within seven years he expects to sell 100,000 trees annually from the 840acre Val:Kill farm he and his mother purchased from his father's estate,
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ware that she is doomed by incurable cancer and may not live out
the week,
E Ny on LAST WEEK her * doctor called her parents: aside and told them: “I have done all -I could,” he said., “There is no hope.” W. L. Bowman saw his daughter's wan face, framed in . yellow curls. He heard her laughing and chattering to the visitors around her bed— street as though there was nothing at all
the matter. He made up
cash customer.
his mind then that “For Reba.’
neither she nor his other childhen Island accent.
would ever know.
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the piping voice who used to sing the hardest in the Sunday School junior choir nearly a year ago?”
who brought in a gallon jug of his] corner wares—drenched
more butter ‘than he ever gave a ANOTHER IRVING BERLIN
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An old time, big league pitcher
THAT DID the trick. Rich and poor alike trouped in with gifts, like E the magi in the oldest Christmas! Ki | story of them all. Among those bearing gifts was
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S—These youthful carolers, members of the School 67 Boys' the wrinkled old popcorn peddler.’ Choir, will sing for the annual sehool Christmas party at 2 p. m. tomorrow in the Schoo! 67 auditorium. The choir is directed by Miss Myrtle Freeman, music teacher.
pieces -as “Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, ODOR HIT PARADE
The Irving Berlin of Civil War the Boys Are Marching,” “Just Bedavs was George F. Root of Massa- fore the Battle Mother” wrote such patriotic Battle Cry of Freedom "
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graph Workers Union and the { Telegraph Employees Union—announced earlier this week that they would strike at 5 a. m. (In dianapolis Time) Dec, 23, if demands for a 15-cent=an-hour wage increase were not met by the company. Joseph L. Egan, president of the Western Union Co. charged that to grant the 15-cent wage increase would cost $19 million—an amount, he sald, that was “nearly double
It is said that the five odors best Western Union's expected earnings , before taxes of $10,500.000 for this
veal
Pilot Killed, 2 Others Badly Hurt in Crash CARROLLTON, Ga., Dee. 18 (UP) ~A mother and her 10-year-old son were in serious condition dt Grady Hospital in ‘Atlanta today after the plane in which they were passengers crashed near here Tuesday night, killing the pilot, The pilot was ‘identified as Joseph W, Jowett, 22, of Tampa, Fla, The injured are Mrs. Algine Bishop of Atlanta and her son, Charles Matthew Green v
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day -he_would ask a congressional fact-finding committee to investi gate the Chicago newspaper strike and Detroit. publishers’ disputes with the AFL: Interpational Typographical Union. : The -co-author . of the Taft. Hartley labor law said he would urge Sen, Joseph Minn.), chairman of a joint SenateHouse committee on labor problems, to: order the inquiry. Mr. Hartley is vice chairman of the committee. » He told the Detroit Employers Association that “we would like to know the history of relationships between newspaper publishers and
"the ITU and find out why there
has been a break.” Rep. Hartley came to Detroit ter holding informal meetings Tuesday with publishers and representatives of the ITU in Chicago, where 1500 printers are on strike.
VFW TO CONDUCT RITES The 11th district of the VFW will meet at Calvary Cemetery at 10 a. m. Saturday for military funeral services for Sgt.’ Victor J. Barry Ralph Martinie is commander of the 11th district.
AR PAGE 5 Congress May Act In Press Strike
DETROIT, Dec. 19 (UP)—Rep. ‘Fred A. Hartley (R. N. J.) said to-
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kept successfully until word somie- now a filling station owner, dropped how got to Douglas Silver, owner in with $5.
of a local radio station,
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to be some of the toughest law officérs in Florida, chipped in for a& blue silk frock, sized seven, 8 8» 1 BY YESTERDAY, “the day before] Christmas,” Mr, Silvers’ office LE buried under a snow bank of
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. presents.
Today Reba was propped up in. a new white hospital bed, a mysterious donation. She peered in excitement from the depth of the snowy pillow behind her head as the gifts were brought in. Her family, and a small crowd of her Sunday School classmates, their voices raised in the carols Reba had learned with them, watched the small white hands fly over the bright wrappings. » ” » HELPING her was a Santa Chaus with a lump in his throat, Jack Harris, the real estate man, In the midst of all that wonderment some one came in and announced that there was to be a turkey dinner, donated by the Elks club, The doctor said Reba could eat all she wanted. |
‘Neighbor Killed Dog,
Woman Charges Mrs. Virginia Van Buskirk, 3123 S. Taft St., lost her dog yesterday | when it wandered into the yard of | a neighbor. The neighbor shot it. | Mrs. Van Buskirk told deputy | sheriffs that she didn't understand} the shooting, because the neighbor's chickens had destroyed the Van Buskirk garden last sumimer. | She said the chickens entered the yard when the neighbor came to the property for water. Deputy | Sheriff Otto Ray is investigating.
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