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Christmas Around. the World—

War Foe’s load Fails

Nation to Face Moral Issues

Presidént Makes Christmas Talk To Fellow Citizens

INDEPENDENCE, Mo., Dec. 24 (UP) — President |

Truman agked the ration to-|

day to dedicate itself to brotherly, love and find the] “real meaning of Christmas.” | ‘MF, Truman, in his annual] Christmas message to the na-|

tion, Said the love of God and of |

man is the only solution for the, world’s problems. Radio microphones were set up|

in the small’ music room of his

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home here to’carry his message.

As he spoke; he gave the signal

to light the national Sommunity |

Re spirit of Christ“it 4

red ericans not to forenjoyifig their own abunWny families in fore destitute and 4 r.> 42 ir. them. as for the Holy the first Christmas, ) at the inn” Mr.

Washington yester1 fp-read in the family A prophecy of the

as. foresaw the of Christ,” Mr. Truman o' andther battler for the , summed up the d the prophets in a glor-| i of love which he exalts we faith and hope.” his bless ason,” he con-| “let blind passion “our counsels. We shall y a mogal question by| it,

Docoratpe Tree can scarcely hope to have ‘Chris if we turn a ffering of even, t of Christ's little ones. ; ‘he spoke, scores of neigh-| chistered Sutside the gate d_the sneiy-tovered lawn of | } framg home. Tonight | te passed,” singing their| hs of Christmas. In his own| ig room, theé-lghts of the tree iped d ate last night were,

uman Gives 16 GI's ift for’ Christmas

IND NCE, Mo., Dec.|

5 (UP)—S8ix n Armed Forces

1 Bhitch- hiked home|

To Save U. S

Former German Officer Risks Life

For Heart Surgeon's Daughter ¢

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 24 (UP) —Eight-year-old Mary Bailey lost her fight for life tonight despite the heroic efforts of a former German soldier who risked his own life to save hers. She died: of a dangerous malady three hours after John C. Ansengruber, 29, submitted to a risky operation to exchange his

blood for hers. Her death came shortly after doctors had reported ‘“‘encouraging” results from the operation. Mary, daughter of an internationally known heant surgeon, succumbed. to a rare liver ailment as Mr. Ansengruber’s blood flowed through her body in an ‘attempt to clear away fatal poisons. If she could have heen kept alive under the operation for

-1 24 hours, she would have had

‘a good chance” ‘0 live, doctors said.

HER FATHER, “Dr. Charles Bailey, was stunned. He sobbed quietly. . Mr. Ansengraver also broke

her so much,” he said.

Mr. Ansengruber had risked

his health and possibly his own life to give the girl the blood she needed to ward off death. Dr. Bailey called him “the bravest man I ever met.” But Mr. Ansengruber, a veteran of battles in Russia and- »3orth Africa, sald “it was nothing. I only wanted her to get well,” The former German officer | said he found “a new and wonderful life in America” and wanted to show his gratitude by volunteering for the operation. He is now a chemical enginer-

ing student at the University of,

Pennsylvania.

50,000 In Rome Hear Pope

Read First Holy

Pontiff Celebrates Event Impressively

While Vast Throng Kneels in St. Peter's

ROME, (Sunday) Dec. 25 (UP)—The church bells of Rome rang in the Christmas morn today as 50,000 faithful knelt in St. Peter's to hear Pope Plus XII celebrate the first Papal masses of

the 1950 Holy Year.

The bells began to peal at midhight. One minute past the hour, the Pope began his first Christmas mass In five years.

Thirty minutes later he celebrated his second. Then he re-

turned to his private Sistine Chapel to recite his third at 1

a. m,

St. Peter's and the three other big basilicas, where more than 1 million gathered Saturday morning for the 500-year-old ceremony that opened the Holy Year, were crowded again.

At St. John -in.- Lateran,

| thousands’ of Holy Year Pil-

grims and Romans waited for hours to climb on their knees

the worn marble staircase up.

which, tradition says, Jesus

walked to meet Pontius Pilate,

.Brought to Rome from Jeru-

salem by 8t. Helen, mother of.

the Emperor Constantine, the staircase is open only on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. With three symbolic raps of the gold, silver and ivory hammer given him by Italian workmen, Pope Pius earlier opened the 25th Holy Year, . The Holy Doors of St. Peter's, St. Mary Major, St. John in Lateran and St. Paul's outside the walls swung open at precisely the same moment, formally beginning the “Year of

LONDON, Dec. 24 (UP)— The ghosts of Tiny Tim and

the Grest Pardon and. Great. tua be Lo Return.” tonight.

At. almost the same hour Rome Communists called a general strike, but canceled it within half an hour when police promised to release 125 peasants who were arrested when they tried to stage a rally while religious ceremony was I on, f= =

Manhattan Miracle

Year Mass

| In other a: of the nation, The réal “heart” of Clothe-A-

eee eee into tears. “I wanted to help }

Rain Exp Expected To Follow id= — ra .The public again has indorsed The Tir Child as Indianapolis’ outstanding Christrias lie ea or needy children. 5 ;

The people poured $63,434.11 — an

2045 Outfitted Through: Fim Mile Amounts to $8,233. nd

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Bureau Predicts

High of 40° breaking 2045 children to be clothed before: : Last year’s figure, the pre-| , Hero Today = | way S3857073 Merry Cl ristm While last-minute preparations . for the arrival of Santa Claus How many more will bei Here is .

clothed for the winter will depend were being made last night, the on contributions received over the Westherjuad predicted mild Christ: christmas holiday, There still are weather with rain after hundreds of needy children who sightal won't have a happy plats “It was a typical Christmas Eve|today. Some of them will be outin Hooserland, Transportation fitted this week if funds are terminals, but bus and salud sufficient. X

past. And motor traf eave past. And b by a steady, but decreasing, stream, The Weather Bureau over- Even cast skies th aa state after Coritrmas +ho pPIng by

The mercury was expected to climb to 40 in Indianapolis today. dren for the year. Strong southerly winds, aver: The final tally of contributions Clothe-A-Chil J aging 25 miles an hour, will whip/to The Mile-O-Dimes, was $8, AeA ao] the city this afternoon, fore. 233.50. Members of . Firemen's| bot casters sald. Post No. 42 of the American Sel cont A low of 34 was predicted Legion swept the dimes from a . or ? to- he sidewalk last evening. —not incl Workers at the Merchants Na- got a vig

Cha on thee and the qal.

COLUMBUS, 0. Dee. 24 pre-Christmas cold waves in. Child gave the Christmas haip|lelecast

* (UP)—A 25-year-old secretary

said today she is home with her parents here for Christmas be-

cause of a “miracle” that hap-

pened near - Times Square in New York Oity. Miss Peggy Kirwin sald

~ nothing short of a: “miracle”

‘Gould account for the return of her. coin purse containing $286 | less than an hour after she lost it on Broadway. The money

——was-all she had to come here |

for the holidays. The purse was returned by a woman newsstand operator, | who searched from building to building to find where Miss Kirwin worked. . ,

‘Christmas Carol’ in Heavy Demand

his brother, Lionel, is co-owner | of the 382-year-old antique | Tondon;

- Scrooge .danced today through shop in. Bloomsbuey,

the rooms of The Old Curiosity Shop here as Americans and

| Britons did last minute shop-

~The Independefice left at 3:30! ‘m; Indi time, so that, members apd White House nel could nd Christmas the in Washing-!

ping for copies- of Charles Dickens’ story, “The Christmas Carol.” Tiny Tim and Scrooge were in great demand at the shop which Dickens: frequently visited and which Dickens immortalized in a novel of the same name,

| Bernard Lewis, 41, who with

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sald that “more Americans |

than British come to our shop | during. the year and we have a

great number of them visiting

us at Christmas to buy copies of Dickens’ many works and | silhouetts of characters.” Christmas shoppers still lke to. .read Dickens’ Immortal

words which he wrote to pay |

his housekeeping’ debts: “A Merry Christmas to Us All, My Dears, God Bless Us

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creased hazards that were taking/for the needy one of its biggest WFBM. a mounting hourly toll in fires boosts. By Christmas eve, 3051 On Insi and highway accidents, | children. had been taken to the + Crowds, Thin Out X stores by individuals and Organ- : ~~ | ipations— who “wanted the Downtown Indianapotis crowds seeing ragged youngsters trans- {Gievelana tr thinned out by the supper hour as \formed into happy “Merry Christ-| continues, |most of the. larger department , ... boys and girls, Last year, (General {stores closed their doors to give by Christmas eve these - donors Pr | Yule-weary employees a ‘needed 1,4 taken 770 children tothe | rest. | stores. Smaller stores and drugstores, Times shoppers, too, shopped | | Christmas {reported the traditional “11th for more children than last year. Edwin C. {hour” rush of « stomers buying|{The shoppers took 994 children (Editorials, Christmas-wrap, .J ecigarets, clg-ito the stores, Last year they out- | movies, R |ars and pipe tobacco. |fitted 848 from the Clothe-A 1" gets No. § sport Some Christmas tree dealers Child Fund before Christmas. classic. ...'sss Who earlier ir the season adver-| The big donor again was Local] (Press Boxj tised their ware at $1 a foot|Union B-1048 I. B.E.W. (A. F. of| basketball plinie, “couldn't give away” their trees Ll.) Employees of RCA-Victar ai-| {last night, Early yesterday morn-/vision. The union members and| |ing prices were slashed and the|salaried employees of the plant thrifty housewife could buy what|raised nearly $10,000 in - their ‘Tis the Seison to (was a $10 tree for as little as 50 'Clothe- A-Child fund. They took | Jolly. .%ss.s cents. 352 children 'to the store } 5 oe Clothe=A=-Chjid headquarters | Spy “Only iraveiers bound for near- |shopped for them. The group was homemak

by ‘stations trickled through the more ‘than 100 over last. year's| ing, Pages 15-5 [transportation terminals. y ¥ $ y.

list. At Union Station, the thinning Other Groups Help 4 > ‘holiday crowd was swelled by| Other “big brothers” to Clothe-| Costs Abie, but so do hog scores of Indianapolis citizens A.Child were employees of P. R.| VAISS: 5, ais ani aabi al who brought their children in for Mallory's, the New York Central Hartley's |a last pre-Christmas visit with Railroad, Eli Lilly, Link Belt, the the 50-foot white Santa Claus. department stores, sororities, teen; R State Police sald Hoosier high- organizations and many others. | ° {ways were In condition Some spent as much as $900 to {throughout the state for holiday take children to the stores. travel. Local business houses turned,Pages 88-44

visitor snapped at them illet waif pl a luxury,” | baby trying to buf) bone and muscle.

The rent is HS Fh he v'y the batty, ARAL. potth Worm ote ames § * eo 0°

It costs $2.10 a week for milk. “And the Potk Dairy

has been mighty nice t

month, "And the Polk Dairy doesn't complain. reason. ps ~p Sy a EE —— ‘ BUT ANYONE who tas passed & fourth grads’ afithe : metic household,

THEY HAVE gone without food for thelr And maybe, by now, you've begun to guess wh jit. Sometimes the blll runs a «their baby, as all parents do. But there ", That. Baby ume Tart Seth pert eyes damit. ‘the for | i

test can see that the money .in the Biges! + with a Souble bed, and /a Miny kitchen; -