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FRIDAY, DEC: 24, 138

Yule Traffic Reciohonog Accidents Kill Four in State

Warn of Hazards In Holiday Driving

Four pre-holiday traffic deaths were reported in the city and state today as a predicted record snowfall promised hazardous iving Christmas week-end. . Dead in Indianapolis are: Aviation Machinist Third Class Marion Dale Gillum, 23, of 1318 Calhoun St. Frank C. Barber, 72, of 28 N. Bradley St. Robert Taylor, 59, of 615 E.| Southern Ave. Killed near Anderson when ul

the junction of State Roads 67 and 9 early today was George; Albert. Groff, 60, R. R. 5, Ander-, son. rs i Police Urge Safety Police, anticipating snow and hazardous driving conditions over) Christmas, warned motorists te} drive carefully. They urged the! use of skid chains if the streets| become icy. Mr. Gillum died late yesterday in St. Vincent's Hospital of a! fractured skull and internal in-| juries. e car he ‘was driving] was struck by a Deisel-powered freight train at Sutherland Ave. and the Monon Railroad. Services for the veteran of six

Miss Mary. Donovan, a superintendent of Clerment Girls School (center), accepts a radio-phonograph from Alpha Mu Omega chapter of Alpha’ Kappa Alpha Sorority as” its hristmes contribution for civic and charitable needs. Representing the | sorority are Mrs. Flora H. Crossens, civic service committee chairman (left), and Mrs, Victoria Porter. The chapter also donated $25 years’ naval duty will be con-| 4o the Indianapolis Community Fund. : ducted Monday in Linton, his |

birthplace. He was on Christmas’ Local Deaths— ; leave from Pensacola, Fla.

Survivors include his parents,

aim ou vw: Walter J, Hubbard Dies;

brothers, George J. Gillum: 4nd!

Ts Fone mie Planned for Toda = ami Services Planne oday

BO hel, Wis, Namute B illum) Walter John Hubbard Ir.” as-/be held at 10:30 a. m. Monday in

A watchman. in a Christmas sistant cashier of the American|/G. H. Herrmann Funeral Home. tat

National Bank, was to be Buried! ‘Mrs. Egget, who was 52, was 2

A380 0: me today She was..a member. of nen MOTLuATY. lot.: Investigating officers safd he) was struck by.a car driven by| Cecil R. Hollis, 18, 108 N. Bel-| mont Ave. Mr. Barber was taken! to the city morgue. Officials at General Hospita said Mr. Taylor died yesterday from injuries received when he was struck by a car Wednesday | - night.

{5621 Central Ave., died yesterday| ' Surviving are her husband, Carl {in Methodist Hospital after a|L. Eggert; her daughter, Mrs, Mil|four- month illness. He was 58. dred Meloy; hei A lifelong resident of Indian- Eggert, both of Indianapolis, and apolis, Mr. Hubbard was asso-/a brother, Henry Schakel, New 1 ciated with the American Nation-| York City. {al and its predecessor, Fletcher|American National Bank, for 30 Frank - C. Barber ears, : He was a graduate of Short- lchinist, died early today in GenThe three local deaths raised ridge High School, Wabash Col-|eral Hospital. He was 72. . the city traffic toll to 61 for the! lege and the Harvard University | year, four under that in the same, chool of Business and so Tons ge. ae Vas . member of , ember of ~ Beta Theta e Christian pericq last year Sisording ® 1 the] ambs Club and a former mem-| Services will be at 10 a. m. Mon:

‘ber of the Woodstock ~ Country day —in—Flanner -&..

- As a rash of other traffic; ‘Mortuary. Burial will be in Crown |

crashes swept the city last night/Club and Dramatic Club. Hin. and early today, police recorded| Served in War . |" Surviving are his wife, Mrs. eight persons injured, some of| He was a member of the Cen- p.cqia MM, Barber; a daughter, them critically. {tral Christian Church and a past ar. victor H. Gibson, IndianA taxicab driver, Verner G. jpresident of the Indianapolis| |apolis; three brothers, Guy P., and Stanley, 31, of 316 E. Washington | {Credit Men's Associgtion, and an’ a vin 'C. Barber, Indianapolis, and St, received a possible skull-|agsociation director for 25 years. ay Barber, Honeoye Falls, N. Y.;

fracture and broken leg in a two- Mr. Hubbard served overseas in|, gister, Mrs. Hattie C. Hale, In- :

car accident this morning at New|the first World War with the Air: York and LaSalle Sts. : Corps and was discharged with Condition Critical /the rank of first lieutenant. The cab driven by Mr. Stanley| His survivors include his wife, collided with a car driven by Steve glizabeth Nunlitz Hubbard; a Harry W. Wright, “Fotlades, 43, of 5258 E. St. Clair|qaughter, Miss ~Ruth— Elizabeth gremy County and Indianapolis, 8t. It continued on and plunged Hubbard; his parents, Mr. and egident 67 years, died today in through a plate glass window at | Mrs. Walter J. Hubbard Sr., and pis home, 5010 E. New York St. 3223 E. New York St. ‘a sister, Mrs. Frederick Holliday, He was 73. THF Sialioy. Was. ake —tagy of Indianapolis. ce sald] Active and honorary pallbearers he river of the Passenger cari. pe Harold Cross, Robert Kel: Was uninjure ler, James Rogan, Merritt Fields, potruck by a car at Fast andipii.r pendrickson, Joseph J. Prospect Sts. last night, Her-ip lil; Russell J. Ryan, William St. 45-in fair Ai 2 ange Sullivan, Ralph Lockwood, Austin/in Flanner & Buchanan mortuHospital today. The car was FH: Brown. Robert W. Clark, R. R./ary. Time of services was to be Bo ER fal Xis Perry C. O'Neal, Frederick | announced later,

Scott en James W. Bennett; 18,7 Holliday and Edward L. Mayer. —— In critical condition at General ‘Noel, Mo., Postal Staff ‘Earns Restful Noel

Hospital Is Robert E. Cook. 18 Frank Butsch _NOEL, Mo. Dec. 24 (UP)—,

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daughters.

Harry W. “Wright

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the transient department of the Indiana National Bank since 1912. His wife, Edith B. Wright, is his only survivor. Cremation will follow services

of 2138 Ringgold Ave. He was! Frank J. Butsch, retired school!

in_which he was riding struck a| pi : -f # 0 parked S58 at 13th St. and Co jrome. 32 Greer Bu. after a IONg is three helpers prepared today Two_ pedestrians. were treated| . He served as a janitor at Tech- for a holiday rest after stampfor minor injuries last night at nical High School and Schools 13} |ing Noel postmarks on an estiGeneral Hospital after they were ‘and 8 before his retirement 16. mated 650,000 Pleces of Christstruck by a car driven by Donald|years ago. mas mail. R. Brown, 31, of 1002 Eugene St.,| Services at 3 p. m. Monday in| The .mail came at Sherman Drive and 28th Sti = [the “GQ. H.” Herrmann —Funeral:about-every -state-in. the. The injured were Frank Cray-|

“from just

tom; 0f-2739 Station St. and. in. Crown. Hill. hand. -canceled. The cancelation| = i : “his son, Frank Jr, of the same, His Survivors ihchide hie wie Taark 18 “prized ‘by’ ‘stamp ONT TEE address. Alma J.; two sons, Fred H. Butsch lectors.

Two other pedestrians, Lee, and Frank H. Butsch Jr. Indian-| “We figure that on & per capFelts, 70, of 1352 8. Belmont Ave: tapolis; © two grandchildren ~and<ita-basis; this pHeswould amount ‘and Lettie Albertson, 55, of EL three great-grandchildren, to about 800 "a for each citi8. Belmont Ave., were treated by |zen of Noel,” Mr. Perry sald, ambulance. doctors. after peing ‘Mrs. ‘Carl L. Eggert wieemiai———————— struck-last night by a car driven] Services for Mrs." A by Ivor R. Coy, 19, of 2207 Mor-;Eggert,-who!died yesterday in hi gan St. ~fhome, 705 E. Minnesota. St., or will Sign Trade Pact

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'Confederacy's Flame Loses Identity Card

ATLANTA, Dec. 24 (UP) —The “Eternal Flame of the’ Confederacy” looked like just another old iron lamp post today to sight-

| marks.

that the gas flame was lit in memory of the Confederacy during “Gone With the Wind Week” in 1939 and has been burning . steadily ever since. Vo.

Pastor Resigns Times State Service 1 GREENFIELD, Dec. 23—Rev. Grant O. Jennihgs Jr., pastor of the First Presbyterian Church here for the past five years, has resigned to become pastor of the Normandy Presbyterian Church {at St. Louis, Mo.

* Back ¢ Cooper for FIC

, WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (UP) ~Retiring Sen. John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky. was reported today to have strong support for appointment to a Republican va-

The Christmas season brought a. . brand-new spinel p Plane to Crossroads, rehabilitation center of the Marion € Crippled Children and Adults. Highly pleased the American Women's Voluntary Services are (standing, left to

by. the So yokoe

ht) Bill Price, president of the Happy Hoboes and Sad Sacks ht for handicapped teen-agers; Miss Louann Myers of the

June Acton, secretary. Seated at the piano is Fred

or IH Crown Hill Cemetery following lifelong . resident of Indianapolis. ln antral

= TT 5 BE Flanner & - Church of Christ. ‘Beientiet ung, | crossed the street in tront of t Mr. Hubbard. who resided at Queen Esther-Chapter No. % OEB.|

son, Carl A.:

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He had beenan_employes of |

union,’ |. Home will be followed by buriall Mr. Perry said, and all of it was

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Worship at Birthplace of Christ as Arabs, And Jewish Forces Battle in Mud

By ROBERT OC. MILLER, United Press Staff Correspondent BETHLEHEM; Dec.

24—The" on el came to Bethlehem!

today to worship at the birthplace of Christ, as they have for

centuries.

But today they marched to. he shrine between military lines Whose ‘guns were silenced only by an’ armed truce. A little way ‘to the south other guns thundered, and Arab

{and Jewish forces grappled in the ‘mud. Ugly charges of a Christ. mas violation of the truce sounded through the Negev an the uneasy capitals of the world. | All along the winding. pathsigstride donkeys. ‘of the cradle of christianity the/ding camels. faithful were answering the sums mons of pealing church bells to|al come and rejoice in Bethlehem.

A few were foreigners, riding _|in automobiles and garbed in western apparel. Most of them were Arabs bundled in’ sheep-| skins, some walking, some A few on plod-|

“They came up from the vill

THE INDIANAPOLIS “Pilgrims Trek To Bethlehem Along ‘Winding Path Amid Roar Of | Guns

herds and Wise Men came onilot of the Holy , Land for more he gray stone walls of tne 80 8 Year. old city of Jerusalem, the sentries Candles and lamps replaced the of the Arab legion flayed their| Customary electric lights at the arms as did thé Roman legion- Church = of the Nativity; the naires on a cold and dreary square of the manger, and other watch centuries ago. {Holy places. The Paléstine war “Shatiow of Despair {made: it impossible to use the elec-1 The hatred that had inflamed tric displays which for years had

headquarters, from where caravan will wind slowly oy the olive groves, attended by mounted horsemen and prominent {persons “The churchmén will be met " Bethlehem by Mayor Essa Bane dex ‘and the Bethlehem citizenry.

They will escort the party through the narrow, hilly streets to the

the Holy Land for many a bloody(P¢en a part of tthe Christmas month had cooled a little, "and

along the way to Bethlehem the The traditional procession of |

there, although "the armies still

the Latin patriarch will from nearby Beit Jala. British era of Palestine it began {in Jerusalem, where the patriarch") was housed.

Trek Through Groves

{determination of neighbor to kill| neighbor was dormant for the moment, A kind of hope and peace was were all :around .and- everywhere

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members, along Jordan and down from the was the shadow of the bloodshed The war forced the church dig-|The Arabs troops garrisoning the terraced hills, just as the Shep-land despiair that had ‘been the|nitaries to return to the Beit Jala| area’ are Moslems.

‘celebration. [Catholic ceremonies will be held.

tart In then the courtyard of the nativity,

Church of the Nativity, where the Protestant services will be held Under the anglican bishop of JeruMost of the military personnel °

{visiting Bethlehem this year were {United Nations staff

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