2 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Saturday, De. 14, 1949
Y Entertains
Many Youths
With school work suspended
for the Christmas holidays, the
YMCA has been swarming with
youngsters since Friday morn
ing. And while activities will
cease Sunday and Monday, per
mitting Y staff members to be
at home with their families, a
full program of activities will
be resumed Tuesday when tours
of state buildings, and industrial
plants, plus a basketball tour
nament will constitute the prin
cipal attractions.
Table tennis and checkers
tournaments were held Friday
with Allen Homaday winning
first place in the 9-10 year age
group for the paddle game. Rich
ard Waterman won first in the
H-12 age group and John
Caughell took the title in the
junior high division.
"Pepper" Young proved the
best checker player among the
9 and 10-year-olds and Dale
Grimm placed first in the junior
high division.
Larry Beshore was the sharp
est member of an audience lis
tening to a series of stories by
Carl Greider. Each yarn had a
flaw and Larry spotted most of
them.
Saturday forenoon's program
consisted of a special Christmas
program for members of the
Preps, Rangers and Triangle
groups, motion pictures from the
collection of the late Dr. D. B.
Hill; a Christmas story by Rev.
George Swift and animal imi
tations by Allen Mueller.
Truman Visits
With Relatives
Independence, Mo., Dec. 24 VP)
Free from the burdens of state
for a few days, President Tru
man planned to get in a lot more
visiting today with relatives
and old friends.
There was only one formal
event scheduled for the day
a speech at 5:15 p.m. (EST) ex
tending Christmas greetings to
the nation.
Mr. Truman will speak from
the rambling Truman home here
and throw a switch lighting a
big Christmas tree on the White
House lawn in Washington.
The president lost little time
Jn getting his annual Christmas
visiting under way.
Within a few hours after ar
riving from Washington yester
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Wins Freedom Louis Boy, 50, walks out of Sing Sing
prison at Ossining, N. Y., a free man after serving 18 years
of a life term as a convicted murderer. Boy, once condemned
to death in the electric chair, won a gubernatorial Christmas
pardon for risking his life in an unsuccessful medical experi
ment to save the life of a little girl doomed by leukemia.
Guard Sergeant C. K. Bosenbark holds the gate open for the
happy Boy. (AP Wirephoto)
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day, he called at St. Joseph's
hospital in nearby Kansas City,
to chat with an ailing World
War I buddy, Theodore Marks.
He remained with him for about
fifteen minutes.
Sister James Marie, a hospi
tal supervisor, told Mr. Truman
about Kenny Fry, 17, who suf
fered a broken neck in a high
school football game. The presi
dent dropped in to shake hands
and to tell the youth to keep
his spirits up.
The nun said Mr. Truman also
dropped in to see another pa
tient, Lawrence Weaver. They
must be old friends, she told re
porters, since they called each
other by their first names.
Train Doctors
For A Injuries
Washington, Dec. 24 UP) The
government will start this spring
to prepare doctors across the na
tion to treat atomic-war injur
ies among civilians.
The atomic energy commission
announced last night that a
series of one-week courses will
be held for "selected members
of the medical profession, who
in turn will instruct physicians,
dentists and nurses in local
areas."
The agency said it had pre
pared the program with the help
of the national security re
sources board, which is the gov
ernment's chief civil defense
planning group, and the general
services administration, which
has the task of blueprinting war
time disaster relief.
The courses will start in
march at the Argonne national
laboratory, Chicago; University
of Rochester, N.Y., and the
Wester Reserve University
School of Medicine, Cleveland.
Later in the spring, courses
will be offered at the University
of California at Los Angeles;
the University of Utah School of
Medicine, Salt Lake City; the
University of Alabama School
of Medicine, Birmingham, and
Johns Hopkins School of Medi
cine, Baltimore.
The atomic agency said the
courses were planned this week
at a meeting of representatives
of the AEC division of biology
and medicine, the NSRB and the
interested universities and labor
atories. Carroll Miller Dies
Washington, Dec. 24 OP)
Carroll Miller, 74, a member of
the Interstate commerce com
mission since 1933, died today.
He had been ill for two months
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DENNIS DAY SINGS SANTA ROLE Dennis Day, NBC
singing star, plays Santa for his son, Patrick James, and starts
the Yuletide holiday right with a demonstration of the finer
points of a fast freight. Patrick, who is just one year old,
wonders when he will start playing with the toy himself.
Record Sales
For Christmas
(By the AiiociiWd Preu)
Cash registers in the nation's
department and other retail
stores played a merry Christmas
tune during the holiday snop
Dine season, indicating record
sales both in unit and dollar val-
ume.
This week s last minute shop
pers swarmea tne couniry s
stores for purchases and sales
many cities soared aoove
last year's record business.
The big push to the store coun
ters for Christmas buying, re
ports indicated, was in the last
few weeks. November sales of
chain stores and mail order
houses were about two per cent
below November, 1948, the U. S.
department of commerce said.
But the federal reserve board re
ported department store sales
jumped to a new record high in
the week ended uec. l f.
No such fallings off in Christ
mas buying was reported in
stores in New York, Chicago,
Boston. Los Angeles, San Fran
cisco, Kansas City, Atlanta, Min
neapolis, Richmond, Va., uaiias
and Seattle.
In New York, most stores
reported business "highly satis
factory."
ibi for Postal
Service Got Results
Richland, Wash., Dec. 24 W
Weigh these Christmas packag
es right away," s a i d a woman
who hurried to the front of a
long line at the post office yes
terday.
Madam," replied Assistant
Postmaster Floyd Hutchins, "ev
eryone must wait his turn.'
"Listen here," the lady shot
back, "I'm due at the hospital
right now to have a baby."
Hutchins weighed the pack
ages in record time. The lady
hurried out
Japanese Kiddies
Learn of Christmas
Tokyo, Dec. 24 &) Most
Japanese children have no idea
what Christmas is about.
But this year, nearly 250.000
of them are going to get a faint
idea. Through the Christmas
season these needy ones will re
ceive new clothing. And for
free.
Their parents are on relief.
There is no money for clothes.
Children between five and nine
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will get complete outfits, down
to and including underwear.
The United Nations interna
tional children's emergency fund
supplied the cotton. Japanese
manufacturers made the cloth
ing at reduced rates.
And strange to say, in this
land never noted for public
charity, the Japanese govern
ment is paying to have the cloth
ing made and distributed.
Lohr Plays Roll
Of Real Santa
Seattle, Dec. 24 VP) Frank
Lohr is a man knee deep in
Christmas spirit.
Lohr took on the job this year
of handling all mail arriving in
Seattle addressed to Santa Claus.
Since Seattle is on the mail route
to the North Pole, stacks of them
reach the post office here from
all parts of the country.
It has been a full-time, family
size job for Lohr, who had to
quit his service station work be
cause of a leg injury. To answer
Santa Claus mail and prepare
Christmas packages for needy
Seattle families, Lohr has draft
ed his wife, two full-time help
ers. his neighbors and his "par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Lohr,
who recently came from Hankin
son. N. D.
The postmen bring letters by
the thousands. All of them get
answered. Lohr has been knee
deep in mail and packages for
weeks. Gift packages are fianc
ed by individuals and two civic
clubs.
when he answers his over
worked telephone, Lohr's cheery
greeting is "Hello; this is Santa
speaking." For many children
it is.
New York Reservoirs
Raised Some by Rain
New York, Dec. 24 VP) New
Yorkers got a Christmas present
from Mother Nature totfav. a
jump in this drought-stricken
city's water supply.
Water department officials an
nounced that yesterday's rainfall
produced an increase of 361,000,
000 gallons stored in the citv's
Catskill and Groton watershads.
At the same time, they estimat
ed that the rain and its eventual
runoff into storage reservoirs
would give the city an addition
al 2,070,000,000 gallons, or about
two days' supply.
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Sat., Sun., Mon., Tue.
Dec. 24, 25. 26, 27
One show Christmas Eve
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Few Make Trip
To Bethlehem
Bethlehem, Dec. 24 W Rain
mud and grim reminders of a
recent war today marred the
traditional Christmas Eve pil
grimage to Bethlehem, birth
place of the Prince of Peace.
There were two roads this
time and two processions.
Only a few would make the
trip, in comparison with the
thousands who used to go lr
other times.
Clergymen and pilgrims liv
ing in the Arab-held old city of
Jerusalem were forced to fol
low the mired northern route to
the ancient city. Delegates of
the U.S., diplomats and a few
other pilgrims traveled from
the new part of Jerusalem, held
by the Jews, over the southern
Roman road.
The dull sound of explosions
could be heard as Jewish sol
diers cleared wartime mines
from their route. The road trav
els for a few miles through
Jewish-held territory to the Arab-Jewish
demarkation line set
up by the armistice which stopp
ed the war between them. Hea
vily armed soldiers of both sides
face each other there, and the
pilgrims will be permitted to
pass and return only at certain
hours.
But inside Bethlehem the
spirit of Christmas-time worship
prevailed. Mass was celebrated
in St. Catherine s church ad
joining the Church of the Nati
vity, which is said to stand on
the spot where Christ was born.
Msgr. Gustave Testa, acting Ro
man Catholic patriarch, con
ducted the service.
Detroit The Eagles lodge of
Detroit and Idanha gave a
Christmas party to all Idanha
and Detroit children on the af
ternoon of December 24 at the
Detroit theater.
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Randolph Scott - Joan Blondell
"THE STRAWBERRY ROAN'"
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Truman Says
Love Is Answer
Independence, Mo., Dec. 24 u.R
-President Truman said today
that love is the only answer
to the troubles that beset the
world.
He urged Americans at Christ
mas time not to forget the mul
titudes in other lands for whom,
he said, "there is no room in
the inn."
The president, speaking from
his home here, turned on by
remote control the multi-colored
lights of the national com
munity Christmas tree on the
White House lawn in Washing
ton. He delivered his annual
Christmas message by radio.
"In love alone the love of
God and the love of man will
be found the solution of all the
ills which afflict the world to
day," the president said.
His plea for the world's less
fortunate people climaxed a cer
emony that each year attracts
thousands to the lighting of the
so-called East tree, a big spruce
on the south lawn of the White
House.
In the capital, the marine
corps' band played and the Na
tional Press club choir sang
chorals as crowds awaited for
Mr. Truman to touch the signal
that turned the big tree into a
blaze of light. The program was
aired by all major radio net
works.
General Brannon -Advocate
General
Washington, Dec. 24 VP)
President Truman today ap
pointed Brig. Gen. Ernest M
Brannon to be judge advocate
general of the army and promot
ed him to the rank of major gen
eral.
General Brannon, whose re
cess appointment must be con
firmed later by the senate, suc
ceeds Maj. Gen. Thomas H.
Green, who is retiring. General
Green's four-year duty as judge
advocate general ended Dec, 1.
Mr. Truman also named Brig-
Gen. Franklin P. Shaw as assis
tant judge advocate general. He
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Brown nad Claude B. Mickel-
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U.S. Rebuffed
By Hungary
Riirtanest. Hunearv. Dec. 24
(u.R) Hungary rejected today a
U.S. demand for the release of
Robert C. Vogeler, an Ameri
can industrialist, and announced
that he had been charged with
psninnaee. economic sabotage
and "criminal activities."
A Hungarian note to the Am
erican legation regarding Voge
ler said the government could
not release "spies and, sabo
teurs," whatever their citizen
ship might be.
Last Tuesday the United
States demanded the immediate
release of Vogeler, an assistant
vice president of the Interna
tional Telephone and Telegraph
company, at the same time it
forbade further travel by Ame
ricans in Hungary.
In rejecting the U.S. demand
for Voeeler's release, the gov
ernment said:
"The government of the Hun
garian people's republic states
that it is not willing to guaran
tee free activities and exception
fmm rtnnihmpnt for subversive
work against the democratic
system of the Hungarian peo
nlp's ' Hemncracv that is. for
spies and saboteurs, whatever
state they may be citizens ol.
Stoutenburgs Entertaining
Unionvale Mr. and Mrs. Wil
bur Stoutenburg and members
of their family will serve a
Christmas dinner to 22 at the
Unionvale Evangelical United
Brethren church social room,
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Marshall Sees
Peace Possible
Washington, Dec. 24 m For
mer Secretary of State George
Marshall said today in a Chrtte.
mas statement that it now seems
to be within man's power to
make the "great dream" of per
manent peace a reality.
'This is the season when
hearts and thoughts turn to
peaceful hopes," Marshall said.
"The world Is weary of wars.
It is weary of threats of wars.
The people seek a peace that is
permanent, not Just another
breathing spell between wars.
"This hope lor permanent
peace has been the dream of
mankind down through the ages.
Today it seems within our pow
er to convert that great dream
into a reality.
"The free nations of western
Europe and of the western hem
isphere have set themselves to
task of correcting the condi
tions that lead to war.
"We are all working together
to that end and we must work in
the spirit of Christ whose birth
day the world is celebrating. If
we strengthen that spirit, if we
continue to work and plan to
gether, thtere can be no doubt of
ultimate success."
Marshall, the author of the
Marshall Plan for European re
covery, issued his statement in
response to requests from thql
European press for some com'
ment at this season on the re
covery program.
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