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W EDNESDAY, DEC. 13, 1939
Tax Agents Play ‘Hobo’; Secure 14 Indictments
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A G en era l Q u iz
A LL day long they had been go-
becca will seek to make you com- j
T h e Q uestion»
ing by the inn, camels and don fortable there."
1. What and where are the Pil
keys stirring up dust, weary men
Even after she had done every-I
lars of Hercules?
and women resting by the stream thing she could, and had crept into
2. The cross is to Christianity
outside the inn yard. The little coun her own dark corner for the night.
as
what is to Mohammedanism?
try maid had never seen so much Rebecca found she could not forget*
3. In what direction does the
travel.
the couple in the stable. Mary, the
earth revolve?
Just outside the city of Jerusalem, man had called his wife. There was
4. How m any words does the
near by the village of Bethlehem, such a radiance about her. "I won
Bible .contain?
there were plenty of people who der what makes her so different,”
5. Who said, “The future of the
stopped for refreshment. And Jere Rebecca thought. And she opened
race m arches forward on the feet
miah kept a good inn. He was a her eyes.
of little children” ?
good man, too. But
6. Are many wills broken through
In
amazement
she
saw
light
In
he was hard, spar
i litigation?
the
courtyard,
so
much
that
it
ing neither man nor
7. What is the largest single in
beast. And his niece seemed the dawn must have come.
surance
risk in the world?
But
the
light
came
from
a
sjar
that
Rebecca was hard
8.
What
is a muckna?
shone
just
about
the
stable.
Out
into
put to do the tasks
the yard the girl crept, and sudden
9. What is the oldest known toy?
that were set before
ly she heard a child’s cry, a cooing,
T h e A n sw er»
her.
happy sound.
1. The opposite rocks at the en
•'Why are there so
trance to the M editerranean sea
Rebecca looked about. No one
many travelers to
at Gibraltar, known as the Gibral
was stirring. Far off, on the hill
day?” she asked the
ta r roefc and Mount Hacho.
side she saw what looked like a
little slave girl who
2. The crescent.
helped her prepare group of men, shadowy, indistinct,
3.
The earth revolves from west
seemingly
moving
toward
Bethle
the evening meal.
to east.
“The tribesmen,” replied Fatima, hem. It must be her imagination.
4. The Bible contains 773,690
"are going to Jerusalem to be num Possibly it was Ephraim’s vineyard
words.
bered, so that they may pay their she saw. Soon she stood in the stable
When
drunken
hoboes
continued
to
clutter
up
the
rural
districts
near
Philadelphia,
Penn.,
they
attracted
5. Phillips Brooks.
doorway.
taxes. And this will continue for
the attention of Uncle Sam’s alcohol tax department. Department Agents J. B. Seemiller, inset left, and B.
o. Fewer
r ew er than
lnan ten
len wills
Wllts in a
6.
There,
lighted
by
a
lantern,
was
days. These are not times of re
J. Johnson, right, were assigned to play hobo roles and ferret out the reason for the prolonged sprees. They thousand are broken through liti-
Joseph,
bending
over
the
young
joicing and feasting for us!”
ate mulligan stew in the "jungles,” and to secure evidence, bought rubbing alcohol, which, they were ad- gation.
gation.
Rebecca looked up as a bearded woman and holding in his arms a vised by the sellers, tasted better with flavoring. The federal grand jury returned 14 indictments. The
7. The San Francisco-Oakland
man. leading an ass on which a tiny baby—her firstborn. At Rebec suggestions to flavor the rubbing alcohol constituted a violation of the law.
bridge. Two of its policies, cov
young woman rode, entered the ca’s exclamation he turned, and in
ering property damage and use
courtyard.
"Is the inn keeper to her outstretched arms he handed
and occupancy, amount to $44,-
the
little
figure
and
showed
her
the
here?” he asked gently. "My wife
000,000.
snowy lengths of swaddling cloth.
and I seek shelter."
8. A m ale elephant without
“There are no rooms left,” Fa Tenderly the maid clothed the in
tusks.
fant
and
laid
it
beside
the
mother.
tima told him, going on with her
9. The doll.
“Thank you," Mary whispered.
work. But Rebecca looked up at the
woman, whose face was weary and "For the child’s sake and in His
name, I thank you for what you
touched with pain.
"I will see what provision can be have done. We thank
made,” the little maid exclaimed. h er, d o n ’ t w e,
Sensational Relief from Indigestion
and One Dose Proves It
Her eyes never left the young wom Jesus?"
If the first dose of this pleasant-tasting little
The baby opened
an's sweet face. The woman smiled
black tablet doesn't bring you the fastest and most
complete relief you have experienced send bottle
at Rebecca, and her husband smiled his eyes and smiled.
back to us and get DOUBLE MONEY BACK. This
B ell-am tablet helps the stomach digest food,
too. Rebecca’s face lightened ea
"He s m i l e d a t
makes the excess stomach fluids harmless and lete
you
eat the nourishing foods you need. For heart
gerly and even Fatima found her me," Rebecca ex
burn. sick headache and upsets so often caused by
excess stomach fluids making you feel sour and
self softening.
claimed. “I shall
sick all ever—JPST ONE DOSE of Bell-ana prove«
Rebecca had some difficulty find never forget, a new
speedy relief. 25c everywhere.
lng her uncle, busy as he was with burn babe smiled In
many things. Then it was hard to to my face to say
Object of Government
make him listen.
thank you.”
The care of human life and hap-
"There must be some place, un
Mary drew the
! piness, and not their destruction,
cle. That new stable, with the clean child into the shelter
is the first and only legitimate ob
straw, would be warm and comfort of her arms. Her eyes closed, Joseph
j e c t of good government.—Jeffer
able. She cannot go farther, I walked to the doorway and watched
son.
know."
Rebecca as she returned to her
“So be It," he answered. Then, room. He, too, saw the clump of
as they neured the group, he too trees or vines, or was it a group of
was impressed by the young wom men on the hillside? Then he re
an’s beauty and the lovely warmth turned to the manger and settled
of her smile "There Is naught but down beside Mary and the sleeping
the stable," he told them, "but Re Jesus.
Finland’s Troops Battle for Country’s Preservation
INDIGESTION
Typical of the men who are fighting for Finland’s preservation is this Finnish volunteer, left, one of the
thousands concentrated against Soviet forces. Bight: A Finnish soldier mans a machine gun directed against
the numerically overpowering Russian invaders. The gun is part of the equipment of his camouflaged tank.
Chinese Junk Begins 19,000 Mile Voyage
Sun’s ‘Virginia
Still Has Faith
In Santa Claus
Don't Marry the Cirl
Day After Christmas
I f you b elieve the e a rly m onks,
don’t select the day a fte r C h rist
m as to get m a r rie d , s ta r t a new
job or put on that new suit. It's
('h ild e rm a s s day, c o m m e m o ra t
ing the slaug hter of the llo ly In
nocents hy lle ro d , and In the e a r
ly days was considered an o cca
sion of the greatest Ill-o m e n .
C h ild re n , according to legend,
w ere soundly whipped C h ild e r
mas» day to im p ress on th e ir
m inds the sto ry of the baby m a r
tyrs.
Ho Intense was the fe a r of this
u n fo rtu n ate fe s tiv a l th a t the coro
nation of I n g la n d ’s King E d w a rd
IV was postponed in o rd er to
avoid the fa ta l d ale .
It lute H ouse Maintains
T n u lition s 1 3 9 ) ears O ld
V irg in ia , l/ie re is a Santa f.'Zau,.
H u e t i , l , as c e rfa in /y us f o ie und gen
erosity unit ife i'o tio n e lis i, a n il son
Anoie (fiat they a lin u n il a n il g ilè Io Zi/e
its ZngZiesf Zseaofv a n il jo y .“
Forty-two years ago un editorial
writer for the New York Sun penned
! these now-famous lines in answer to
a scrawled letter from a little girl
named Virginia, whose faith in San
ta had bvwwhaktAi
Todn.iLV il item Uf grown up, mar
ried, and.aarw» as assistant prin
cipal in an east side New York
school Her name is Dr Laura Vlr-
j ginia Douglas and this Christmas
she’s plating ! anta Claus not only
j to her pupils b il her own daughter
McanwMW‘*lii I 2 years she's evolved
some id<isj®of her own on wti.it to
tell children
ut Santa Claus
Pink che
vivacious, yet shy
and h c -it.iilH
peaking of personal
■natters,
uglus is not in favor
of bre.ikfliig j
news boldly to a
child tty it
is no Santa Claus
He w illIJ
[turully, she says, as
I lie tu suk.1
|>e free, imaginative
' stag e
hildhood to an in-
Irre s t | n '
rid around him.
Whei
became old enough
to rei, J
¡ull meaning of the
KtpYg t i t
she felt badly be
i a n te p.,«r
ren were not able
to have O lirli
s gifts as tangible
evuleneg I f j
a s existence Lat-
grew to realize that '
er^alii^says,,
materia) gift»-. Irere not to tmpor-
lant as the faith which even the very
pour child could have in something
spiritual
WASHINGTON - Santa Claus
makes his 139th visit to the White
House tills Christmas, carrying on a
tradition started December 25. 1800,
when Kris Krin gle called on little
Suzannuh, granddaughter of Presi
dent John Adams from Massachu
setts.
The White House In those days
was In an unfinished state and the
great barnltke rooms were only
scantily furnished, providing a great
contrast to the beautifully appointed
mansion of today
Yet the same
joyous spirit prevailed on that
Christmas morning, more than a
century and a quarter ago. as that
found tn the White House this Yule
tide.
From early years of our country.
Presidents have set aside the heavy
burden of state and made merry
Christmas day with their families j
Christman Tree liaefnl
During Real of \\ inter
AMHERST, MASS - t n northern
states where Christmas heralds the
coming of cold winter weather, the
tree that warms the living room De
cember 25 Is being put to work the
balance of the winter outdoors Ac
cording to Arnold M Davis, exten
sion horticulturist at Massachusetts
state college, fir trees can make eg
celled "fretting stations" for birds
and offer them rosy shelter on frosty
winter nights Suet is often tied to
the branches The tree Is also used
to protect climbing plants, or the
branches can be ripped off and laid
as a mulch over low grow ing plants
or bulbs Northern beekeepers find
the trees handy as windbreaks.
Candle Maker
Don’t let
winter catch you
unprepared
tln the first lap of their year-and-a-half voyage from Los Angeles to
New York are Wendell Parks, left, and Dr. E. Allen Petersen, right, to
gether with his Japanese wife, Tanl. The trio, sailing a Chinese junk, will
route themselves via the Straits of Magellan. When they arrive in New
York they will have traveled 19.000 miles. Dr. Petersen and his wife were
members of a erew that sailed the Hummel Hummel, a 36-foot boat, from
Shanghai to Los Angeles. The erew of the diminutive vessel expects to
arrive io New York some time in 1941.
Tweet, Tw eet— And the Angels Sing
Grandmother used to make her
bayberry candles in a copper pot,
one at a time. Now. in a Phila
delphia. Pa., plant, great bunches
of wicks are dipped simultaneously
until they are the desired thickness.
The candles, made from berry wax,
give off a distinctive aroma—the in
cense of Christmas.
Stock Show Veteran
Change now to
A cid-F ree Quaker State
W inter Oil
nle Flower Named
A fter 1’ . S. D iplom at
T hank an e a rly A m e ric a n dlplo
m a t for the p oinsettia plant you
re c e iv e lor don't re c e iv e ) t ’h rla l-
i i i » , m o rn ing . The flam ing flower
whose V e rm illio n red le a re a are
m is ta k en at a d istance for the
petals of Ila flow er, was brought
la Ibe V n lte d M lales about 182«
by Joel R oberts P o insett, m inis-
le r to M exico , who d iscovered II
grow ing there. P o insett, who had
»ladled both law and m ed icine
abroad and served m an v y e a rs In
the d ip lo m a tic service, ended hl»
c a re e r la (he A m erican house of
re p re s e n ta tiv e s fro m IS2I to IK25
Itu t w e re It net for the plan t be
brought bach fro m M ex ic o , b it
n am e would now be unknow n.
Last call! If your car won’t
start. If you wear out your bat
tery in a hopeless tussle with
congealed summer oil. If you
burn out bearings because cold-
stiffened oil couldn’t get to
them. If you are troubled all
winter with sludge, carbon and
corrosion due to impurities in
the oil . . . don’t say we didn’t
warn you to
s
QUAKER
The cares ef the dav arc erased fur Chester Ricasl, municipal play
ground heavyweight tighter, who repeaea tn sweet slumber on the canvas
after colliding with one e( Edward Hrtniinger'a rights 1» the diamond hell
touraamnal tn New lark.
For the fourth time In five years
Luella Padgett of Krllerville, 111.,
was given the highest award at the
National City. III., stork show. She
is pictured with her l.lISponad
Aberdeen Angus calf, grand cl
of the baby benf show.
MAKES CABS
RUN BETTER...LAST LONfiEI
Stets OU J tz /s ia / Csrfsretin,
Oil City, Pa.