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'Glory to God in the Highest and on Earth Peace, Good Will Toward Men,' Message of Nativity F - " "I ) l' ... . fW'iii ft Ik f rflir ill- "And Joseph also went David, which is called being treat with child." Yule Pageant Pictured These scenes and Biblical passages describe the event which Salem and the world commemorate today. Pictured are scenes from the Rick a 11 community's Christmas pag eant, as photorraphed by Don Dill. Statesman staff photog rapher. He was all of three years old, so he could tell what was going on as he stood on the courthouse lawn the other evening to watch the annual lighting of the Christ mas tree. Afterwards he describ ed it thus: "It was all dark. Then the lights came, and the tree reached all the way up to the sky." May we not say that the child caught the true spirit of Christ mas: aspiration? We are earth-bound mortals. We adults know that trees do not reach to the sky, nor do the mountains. We know that the lights are just bulbs made lumi nous by electric energy. The young boy, however, saw the sud den light lifting a tree up to the aky, for a tree-top looks very, very high to a small boy. Shep herds on Judean hills must have caught a similar vision over 1900 years ago when they saw lights streaming out of the sky. Christmas comes to teach us giving and sharing as . well as getting and holding; to look up, to reach for the sky in thinking and doing. The Christ, whose birth is celebrated this day, is hailed as the "light that Ughteth up the world to inspire man kind to nobler living. New Yorkers Gird for Snow NEW YORK, Dec. 24-fl)-May-or William O'Dwyer tonight held out hope that New York might miss the "full brunt of a snow storm tomorrow. Earlier the Mayor had warned the city might celebrate Christmas with the worst snowstorm in its history meaning more snow than last Dec. 26's crippling 25.8 inches. However, the Mayor said his latest advices from the weather bureau indicated the storm, then in the Carolinas, "may veer out to sea." SI Million Electricity Bill Shocks Customer ESTER VILLE, la., Dec. 24-J?V Bob Peterson, farm bureau field man for Emmet county, gulped when he opened his monthly light bill from the city. It was for $1, 188,005.56. Explanation: City Clerk Glenn Story said the billing machine went haywire. The amount should have been $5.56- ASKS FOR STINK BOMBS OMAHA, Dec. 24-UP-A Santa Claus visiting with children in an Omaha store was snapped out of his reverie when a whisp of a girl stated her Christmas wishes: " . and a couple of stinks bombs to throw in a theater, please," she lisped. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH Dtp I SHEDS op from Galilee . . . into Judea Bethlehem ... to be taxed with 98th Year ? 16 Teacher Plans to Marry Boggie, Freed Convict; Pair Have Never Met STERLING, Colo.; Dec. 2i-(JP)-A Wisconsin school teacher con firmed tonight that she plans to marry a pardoned Washington convict whom she has never seen. The teacher, Beatrice Nichols, said she plans to leave Sunday to marry Clarence Boggie, who was 55-year-old convict was serving a life term for a murder which he always has denied having committed. Miss Nichols, a widow who lives on a farm between Barronnett and Cumberland, Wis., said she be came interested in Boggie's case when she read about it in a magazine. "I was interested, in, his cause and in seeing that Justice is done, she told reporters. She wrote him last August and they, started to exchange letters. "We found that we had many things in common poetry, and good literature, for example," she told a reporter. "We had many heart-to-heart talks by mail." These common interests will form the basis for a happy mar riage, she said, admitting that she didn't know yet whether she was in love with Boggie. "I was thrilled when he called today saying he had received the pardon," she said. "We had beeni expecting it." She will join Boggie at the home of his parents in Lebanon, Ore., she said, and they plan to be mar ried soon afterwards. She has giv en up her teaching job. Larry Got That 320 the Hard Way It will be a merrier Christmas for Larry, "a small boy who lost a $20 bill," if the finder reads this story and acts in the spirit of the Yuletide. Larry brought an ad to The Statesman yesterday. It said the bill was lost near Stiffs Furni ture store about 3:45 p.m. Thurs day; that the money was "hard earned berry money to buy Christ inas presents"; offered a $5 re ward, and asked the finder to 'phone 3-1546. Larry is Larry Brandt of route 6, box 431. The Statesman staff decided this was no time or occasion to be buying an ad hence this story on page 1 where space is not for sale. But he gets on the classified pages, too, for good luck. Anyone see that $20? First 1948 Christmas Baby Born at 12 :02 a.m. Salem's first 1948 Christmas baby a boy was born at 12:02 a.m. Saturday at Salem Memorial-j hospital to Mr. and Mrs. George S. Rossman, 1357 Hines st. Ross man is employed by the state highway department. The infant has been named George B. Worship Services Set Today, Sunday to Honor Christ's Birtli Worship services today Salem churches Sunday in celebrate the birth of Christ in Bethlehem 19 Centuries ago. Music nd meditation will pay reverence. First service this morning will be at 6 o'clock at First Congre gational church, where Dr. S. R. Huntington will speak on "'As the Martians Saw Our Christmas." Children will enjoy a tree after the service. At St. Joseph's Catholic church today will be a solemn high mass at 6:30 a.m., sung mass at 11 a.m. and low masses at 8, 9 and 10 a.m. St. Vincent de Paul Catholic church will have sung masses, to day at 7, 9 and 10:30 a.m. Holy communion will be serv ed at 10 o'clock this morning at St. Paul's Episcopal church. Planned for the Lutheran churches are a worship service at 11 ajn. for Christ Lutheran; Sunday school program at Cen-1 . . . unto the city of Mary his espoused wife. "And and PAGES pardoned at Walla Walla today. The Boggie to Stay Free over Yule Despite Charge Possible Oregon imprisonment of the 55-year-old former Lebanon logger who was pardoned Thurs day after 13 years in Washington state penitentiary will be deferred at least over Christmas week end: Clarence Boggie who won his parole from a murder sentence of. life imprisonment, was expected to spend Christmas with his par ents in Lebanon. Gov. John Hall hinted that Bog gie may remain a free man, despite that an earlier pardon of Boggie in Oregon had been revoked after he was convicted of the Washing ton charge. The Oregon governor Friday advised State Parole Di rector H. M. Randall not to pick up Boggie immediately. Governor Hall Issued his order to Randall after the latter an nounced he would direct the State police to arrest Boggie Friday afternoon as a parole violator. The Governor indicated he would study the case in Portland and that any action he takes would depend largely on whether the Oregon re vocation was based on the Wash ington murder conviction. "If it was, then the revocation would be illegal and I would free Boggie from the Oregon charge," Governor Hall said. "If the Ore gon revocation was based on a robbery conviction in Idaho that would be different. But even at i fection. She misses her daddy be that, if Boggie actually did have 1 cause heVin Germany serving as two years more to serve in the ! Oregon prison it seems to me the 13 years he served in Washington when he was innocent would much more than offset it." . ... ., ' vne xning i want to learn, i Governor Hall said. "Does public j sentiment demand that Boggie re turn to prison? By Monday I probably will know. There will be reaction from the newspaper stories." ariditral churrh at 7:30 pm.: worship will serv ice at 10 a.m. at St. John's, and worship at 11 a.m. at St. Mark. Sunday's programs will include the following: Bethel Baptist, Christmas wor ship at 11 a.m. with a sermon on "Remember the Christmas Mess age" by the Rev. Rudolph Woyke. First Christian, a message on "Christmas Continued" by the Rev. Dudley Strain at 11 a.m. and a solo, "Adore and Be Still," by Louise Brown. Central Lutheran, Christmas service at 11 a.m. and a choir concert, directed by Raymond Dahlen and accompanied by Ar lene Toelle, at 7:30 p.m. Soloists will include Alice Waters, Rich ard Melum and Janice Olson, vocalists, and Bonnie Litchen- berg, violinist. Christ Lutheran, an organ con cert at 4:30 p.m., given by Don Worden with Harry Mulford as guest soloist. (Additional church news on pages 13 and 14.) she brought forth her firstborn laid him in a' manger; because POUNDBD 1651 The Oregon Statesman, Salem, U.N. Asks Indonesia 'Halt Fire' PARIS, Dec. 24 -VPy- The Unit ed Nations security council tonight called for a halt to bloodshed in ! Indonesia without a Dutch ree j treat. I But there was little chance the Christmas eve resolution it al ready was Christmas day in the East Indies would have prompt results. Some time was likely to elapse before the Dutch could consider and issue any order for a cease fire to their troops. Obviously it would be hard for the order to reach the Indonesians immediately. Their central gov ernment is largely in the hands of the Dutch and the republicans are using guerrilla tactics. As long as they continued to shoot the Dutch would likely fight back. Moreover, the council's good of fices committee in Indonesia said its military observers had been expelled from Dutch - held terri tory. Most foreign sources in Batavia said that obviously a cease-fire order by the Dutch would have little effect since the Dutch army probably would have gotten con trol of all major cities in the In donesian republic by the time it went out. The resolution the security council finally adopted was a wa tered - down and amended Amer- I ir-an nrniviul whirh fines not ask the Dutch to retire to the posi tions from which they jumped off in a sweeping "police action" last Sunday. Christmas to Visit Girl ill Hospital Today A two-year-old Salem girl who misses her daddy very much will have a Christmas tree and all the trimmings today even though she is recovering from a serious ill ness in a local hospital. She is Dolly Tice, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam R. Tice, strick en last Tuesday with a mastoid in- an investigator ior ine u. miii- tary government. Dolly and her mother, who live at 1210J SL 18ih ' had Pia1l.ed to spend tl"s Christmas with Tice overseas, but government red taD waa gtill tangled until too iate and no passports were in sight. Dolly's father left Salem last May when she was only 16 months old, but she has never forgotten him. Each night before going to bed she kissed his picture and placed it under her pillow. Today little Dolly will have a small tree in her hospital room and presents from Mommy and many friends. But best of all, her mother has promised to bring aaddy s picture to hospital for her to kiss before going to sleep. Centennial Inventory of Oregon Resources . . . Oregon has celebrated in 1948 the centennial of its or ganization as a territory. Due attention has been given to its growth in population, in re ported wealth, in civic and cul tural advancement. What of its natural resources has it consumed in this cen tury? A feature article by Mrs. Marguerite Wright in next Sunday's Statesman gives an "inventory" accounting of our resources. Study it for our Debits and Credits! Sunday in Tour Home Newspaper son, and wrapped him In swaddlinr clothes, there was no room for them in the inn." Oregon, Saturday. December 25, White Christimiais Roads,- White Christmas First for Salem In Last 24 Years Salem's white Christmas wea ther is the first such snowy hol iday in 24 years, a check of weather bureau and The States man files reveals. On the 1924 white Christmas here the temperature ranged from 5 to 27 degrees and the river was frozen solid enough that the local citizens could walk across to Polk county. Four inches of snow had fallen on December 15 and stayed on the ground through Christmas. The Statesman reported then that it hadn't been so cold on Christmas in 50 or 60 years. Pilgrims Cross No-Man's Land To Bethlehem JERUSALEM, Dec. 24-(iP)-One hundred Christians living In New Jerusalem crossed no man's land between Arab and Jewish forces in an hour this afternoon on their pilgrimage to Bethlehem. At the barriers their creden tials were checked by both Arab NAZARETH, Palestine. Sat urday, Dec. ti -(IP)- Air raid sirens sounded in northern Pal estine last night as the bells of Nazareth's famed Church of the Annunciation rang out for the annual Christmas midnight mass service. and Jewish military. About half the pilgrims were members of the American consulate staff and marine guards. BETHLEHEM, Dec. 24-(jP)-PiI-grims of many nationalities knelt before the manger in the Church of the Nativity tonight to cele brate the birth of Christ. They awaited the joyous peal of bells at midnight that will signal an other Christmas in a troubled world. Only the holders of special military passes were permitted to use the Arab military highway from Jerusalem to Bethlehem. The ancient way by which Joseph and Mary came has been closed by war for nearly a year. In the square outside the church three tanks stood filent watch over the motley crowd. Less than three miles away Arabs and Jews faced each other across battle lines in an uneasy truce. Traffic Toll Starts Annual Increase By th Associated Press The Christmas holidays were only a few hours old tonight but the nation already counted 30 dead in accidents most of them as a result of traffic mishaps. Michigan, with six traffic deaths, led the accident toll. Ohio was only one behind. Weather Max. .. 11 - 34 - 4 2S Min. Precip. 19 .SI 2S .00 30 .00 IS .00 23 M Sklent Portland San Francisco Chicago New York Willamette river 3 2 feet. FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem) : Partly cloudy today and tonight, clearing somewhat by Sunday morn inn. Littl change in temperature. High today near 33. Low tonight near 20. SALEM PRECIPITATION (Sept. 1 t Dee. 25) This Year 18.65 Last Year 1SJA Average 1V6 "Ana there were In the same country shepherds . . . came upon them . . 'For unto you is born this Christ the Lord ." 1948 Wrecks, Police Called To Over Fifty Auto Accidents Automobiles piled In ditches and rammed each other like toys on the living room floor on Christmas morning. Friday, but through the eve of the Yuletide holiday no serious .injuries had been reported in the Salem area. City, state and county police offices were swamped through the night with accident calls and investigating officers were going from one wreck to another un able to cope with .many tangles on the treacherous area roads. Several persons were treated for minor injuries at Salem hospitals but all were released to spend Christmas at horn. State police investigated 11 ac cidents in a few hours and were unable to check many reports called in. Thirty-two accident re ports had been filed at the city hall and nine at the sheriffs of fice. Many more wera expected to be reported today. Icy streets boomed business for Salem's first aid car Friday. Eight calls were answered and 1 1 per sons treated for injuries. Most serious was Joel Bouche, 29, 4030 Denver ave., who was apparently injured in a fall at 14th and Oxford street. He suffered a severe cut and possible fractured skull. His was the lone ice-caused injury which required hospitali ztion. Louis Costello. 745 Trade st., was treated at Salem General hospital- for bruises and cuts receiv ed when he supped and fell while crossing the street st Ferry and Cottage. Gene Wallace Rushton, Salem, told police his car appar ently hit Costello while he was lying unconscious on the street. Costello was released after treat ment. Bill Bowden. 2025 S. Cottage St., suffered nose and back in juries in a collision of. two auto mobiles at Bush and South Lib erty streets to become the first casualty of the flurry caused by the snowfall. His injuries were described as not serious. Ray Cook. 2148 Mill st., was slightly injured when he fell at Winter and Trade streets. He was taken home by first aid ambulance. The rash of accidents on the Dallas highway called the ambulance to Eola during the afternoon where several persons were treated tor slight injuries, but none were re ported on hospital records in Salem. R. T. Brown, 370 Bellview dr.. suffered a broken wrist in a fall in the 400 block of Ferry street. He was treated by first aid. Helicopters Board Carrier for Fast Greenland Rescue Run NORFOLK, Va., Dec. 24 - (P) - Two helicopters landed aboard the aircraft carrier Saipan today as a hastily assembled crew readied it for a fast rescue run to Greenland. The Saipan has been assigned the job of backing up the air force attempt to take 11 stranded airmen off on icecap 7,500 feet high. Seven men have been there two weeks, since their C-47 plane was wrecked. The others joined them in rescue attempts. Capt. Joseph L. Kane of Wash ington, commander of the carrier, announced it will depart at 12:30 pjn. (EST) Saturday. The run to the point to which rescue attempts will be launched is expected to take 46 Vt hours, which wouldput the Saipan off Greenland's west coast Monday morning. The run will be made at 26 knots (30 miles an hour). Three more helicopters will land aboard before departure. These are twin-roter Piasecki llRPs, capable Price 5c Eve tBrooug PBea to (Soul!: Travel Prisoners in City Jail Released on Christmas Eve Nine sober but still - dis heveled men filed out of Sa lem's municipal Jail Christmas eve and left the jail empty for the first time in several weeks. They were free because of a special Christmas present from Chief of Police Frank A. Min to. Most of, the men were serv ing sentences for intoxication or vagrancy. "I'm letting you go because this is no place for anyone to spend Christmas eve," Minto told the offenders. "But I don't want to sea you back here to-nlght- The poorly, dad group collec ted their belongings and shuf fled out into the cold. They had no place to go, but as the chief remarked: "Anyplace is better than jail on Christmas eve." Pope Calls on World to Work Toward Peace (Picture on page S) By Frank Brntto VATICAN CITY, Dec. 24 - VP) Pope Pius XII called upon man kind today to pray and strive to ward peace under the United in a tions, lest civilization pass over a precipice into oblivion. The pontiff admonished his lis teners to discourage aggressors by outlawing actions that threaten the nations' ability to live side by side as neighbors. Speaking of "the common Inter est of all nations in the defense of peace," he said: "Evenr violator of the law should be banished in disgrace to solitary confinement by civil so ciety, as a disturber of the peace. May the United Nations organiza tion become the full and faultless expression of this international solidarity for peace!" The pope, as usual, did not sin gle out any nations, and men tioned only one area by name. That was Palestine, for which he bespoke a secure peace. "Never since the end of hostili ties," he said, "have men been so obsessed as today with the night mare of another war." ot carrying eight persons- Officers said the 'copters have a ceiling of 15.000 feet and should be able to reach the high plateau where the men are stranded. One item taken aboard today in dicative of what the ship is ex pected to encounter was 6,000 pounds ofrock salt to be used on ice coated decks. The helicopters which landed to day are an experimental single rotor7 type Sikorsky KHJS's. A navy ice breaker also was or dered to the Greenland coast to assist the carrier in approaching the shoreline u ice conditions made that necessary. The 11 marooned men are on the ice cap about 100 miles inland from the coast, an easy distance for helicopters, planes fr gliders, if the weather permits. The weather continued bad to day, with turbulent winds up to 58 miles an hour preventing rescue attempts. And, lo, the angel of the Lord day ... a Savior, which is ! Observing the Yule I The Statesman business office will be closed until 1 p.m., today. There will be no Interruption la publication. j No. 245 Portland. Coast Clear; Valley Area Af f ecteid Salem took on a powdering of snow and a glaze of ice Friday for the Christmas holiday. Salem's weather bureau promis ed more snow during the early hours Christmas morning and snow flurries during thf day to "maintain the White Christmas backdfop for the 1948 holiday. i ii The Christmas eve snowfall through three afternoon hours amounted to only J& inches, but t ha below-freezing temperatures which froze it solid enough to k tie lip traffic and alter many a travel plan for the holiday. ij Automobile accidents were num erous as the snow came, in tha thick of last-minute shopping and early Christmas eve traffic. By lat er last night, however, traffic mov ed warily to the chinks of tire chains and many folks stayed at home or walked, i . S Advise Little Travel f f , State police and highway offi cials advised the citizens to "keep it quiet" with a minimum of travel today, as most of the state' roads are considered treacherous. 4 Portland and Astoria were frea of snow last night and highways north of Brooks were, generally clear, the stats highway mainten ance engineer, E. A. Collier, re ported. But all highways to tha south and to the coast are Icy and require chains for safe driving. Tha Columbia river highway wag reported open but dangerous. Snow Froten to Roads ! f Packed snow was frozen to roads throughout most of Marion, Polk. Yamhill, Benton and Linn counties. opeciai anving caution was urged for traveling on all grades between Salem and the coast. Six inches of snow was expected in tha summit of tha coast mountains. I Salem ahivered through Fridav with temperatures nearly alwava below the freezing mark. For only three hours at midday did tha mer cury climb above 32 and then to reach a high of only 33.2 degrees. ine day's minimum of 19 degrees was the coldest recorded for tha winter and matched last February 12's 19-degree reading for the cold est of 1948. After tha afternoon snowfall, temperatures continued to stick Just below tha freezing mark and -maintained a 30-degrea reading through Christmas eve. Baker 8UII Coldest I Baker was still Oregon's coldest city Friday with a low of 24 de grees below zero. LaGrande with minus 4. Klamath Falls with 2 be low and Lakeview with 9 belbv followed. Other temperatures about in ffT M , lnnlnH.4 IJ ,4 M u . ivieoiorn ia, noseourg zz, jtugena n, Portland Z8 and Newport 30- Astoria and North Bend had un usually cold weather with 35 de grees reported in each. , 1' . if The combination of snow. and holiday produced the uual ef fects on local and statewide com munications, ft f Most Trains Delayed i Southern Pacific's passenger I fac tion reported most trains delayed, but not seriously late. Traffic $vaa heavy, about the same as last year. racinc ureynound station hena filled all regular and many extra buses throughout tha day. Buses were coming Jn late from the south. Oregon Motor Stages' city linea had a big day, too, with heavy loads of the business day and early evening dwindling as the night went on. The icy streets upset bus schedules, but routes were covered as rapidly as drivers could make- their rounds. Manager R. J. David son said Friday's bus business waa the heaviest day's business in sev eral months. - 3 i Salem Taxi service said all cab were rushed into service when thai weather turned to ice and so many Dersons began calling for cabs that some of the telephone trunks had to be disconnected. ? I I I