14 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 1949
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Agec Incense Merchant's Got
Ideas for Water-Short N. Y.
' By EARNEST HOBERECHT
Tokyo, Dec. 27 U.R Maki-San, an aged incense merchant
whom the Japanese consider a wise old man, had some sugges
tions today for water-short New Yorkers.
Never one to be rushed into advice, he pondered the suojeci
awhile when we approached him at a local shrine.
"So they want rain in New-
York," he mused.. "Have they
tried all standard rain-making
Safe From Drug Mrs. Chester V. Stalker and her son.
Donald, 10, of Burbank, Calif., gaze ai a poisonous silver
nitrate compound at New Brunswick, N. J., after the end of
an intensive two-day search for the mother and son over rail
way station public address systems between- New York and
Philadelphia. The search was instituted b'y a Philadelphia
druggist who had given the boy the poisonous solution in a
mistake for a "car sickness" remedy. Mrs. Stalker heard about
the search for the first time when visiting friends. The boy
had taken a small docs of the drug but suffered only tem
porary nausea. (AP Wirephoto)
devices?"
'What devices?" 1 asked.
'Well," said Maki-San, "it is
written in column one of the
famous Japanses book, Zoku
Nihonshoki, that on the day of
the horse in the fourth month
of the second year of the reign
of Emperor Nommu (April 698),
a horse was offered to the Gods
of Mizuwake with a prayer for
rain."
"Did it rain?" I asked.
Maki-San seemed not to have
heard me.
"Then," he said, "on the first
day of the fifth month a cloth
offering was made at different
shrines. On the day of the rat,
a messenger was sent out to offer
a prayer for rains to the Gods
of the famous mountains and the
Four Corners People Greet
Guests Home for Holidays
Four Corners, Dec. 27 Home for '.he holidays is Ronald Pear
son, who is stationed with the Marines at San Diego, Calif. He
is spending his leave with his mother, Mrs. Mabel Pearson.
Four Corners students home from college for tiie vacation
are Evelyn Benz, Verlaine Walker, Walter Hart and Leonard
Perlich, who attend Oregon
State college. Jack Corning from
the University of Oregon and
Lawrence Cherry and Robert
Gilbert, who attend Willamette.
Celebrating the Yule season
with a party, the Girl Scouts
troop 42 made merry at the
community hall, where they
sang carols, had a gift exchange
around the tree and presented
Shirley Thulin and Jennie
Christmas their awards in the
Christmas card contest. Refresh
ments were served. Mrs. Ray
mond Hough, leader with Mrs.
Earl Thulin as co-leader. The
next meeting will be Jan. 2 after
school.
Guests of Mr. and Mrs. John
Fox at 6 o'clock dinner Christ
mas day were Mr. nnd Mrs.
Howard Wood and children of
Amity and Mr. and Mrs. E R.
Steed, Michael and Susan of
Salem and Miss Eunice Carlisle.
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Baltcron,
Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Deen and
Richard Deen were dinner
guests of Mr. and Mrs. David
Crockett of Salem.
The Firemen's auxiliary will
ponsor and chapcrone a social
evening for all teen-age youth
at the Community hall Friday
evening.
Val Albany Librarian B
Albany Resignation of Mrs.
Ary Neptune as Albany cily li
brarian and appointment of
Eleanor Davis of Klamath Falls
as her successor is announced
by the Albany library board, ef
fective tentatively as of Febru
ary 1.
Mrs. Neptune s resignation,
prompled by ill health and by
Impending operation of the Ore
gon slate retirement act, will not
mean, however, her Immediate
severance from the library staff
for, board members said, it Is
contemplated that she remain
at tne library lor a month or
more to assist Miss Davis
adapting herself to the local li
brary and community.
Miss Davis has been Klamath
county library for the last two
years. Mrs. Neptune will leave
the library after 21 years of
continuous service.
MacArlfiur Okehs
Jap Ship Building
Tokyo, Dec. 27 U. Gen,
MacArthur today allowed the
Japanese government to spend
money realized rom the sale of
U. S. aid goods to acid more than
500,000 tons of shipping to Jap
an's post-war merchant fleet.
Preliminary plans call for
construction of new ocean-go
ing ships and conversion of 20
non-standard vessels totaling
272,000 gross tons to ocean-go
ing ships.
American support for Japan's
shipping program was believed
to mean allied countries may re
lax or abandon bans against Jap
anese merchant shipping.
Girls Invite Leaders
Woodburn The Rainbow
Girls of Evergreen assembly
will entertain their past worthy
advisors and the next meeting,
December 28. The committee in
charge of refreshments will in
elude Loris Marriott, JoAnn
Matlson, June Polly, Vera Pan
tic and Eileen Rogers.
long rivers."
"And did it rain?" I asked.
"The books does not say," he
replied.
He made change for a cus
tomer who bought two long
sticks of incense .
"But further on," he sumed,
"the books docs say that a black
horse should be offered if you
want rain and a white horse
should be used to halt rain. Hon
orable New York persons should
.keep this in mind."
He paused again.
"Building fires on hills is also
good way to start rain," he said.
"Are there any high places
around New York?"
"Even the housewives can
help," he said. But, of course,
they would have to hold private
ceremonies because women
should remain in the back-
Christmas Celebrations
Staged All Around World
'By the Ajwoctittd Pre)
Sydney, Australia, Dec. 27 Christmas eve was a scorcher
in eastern Australia. Thermometers hit 96.6 degrees in Sydney at
3 p.m. Thousands in this land south of the equator, where the
Seabees Are
8 Years Old
Eight years ago December 28,
the "Seabees" were organized.
In those days of crisis, just
three weeks after the infamous
attack on Pearl Harbor,- the
navy turned to the best construc
tion men of the nation lumber
jacks, catskinncrs, pilcbacks, en
gineers, electricians, carpenters,
plumbers the men who span
ned the Golden Gate, tunneled
the Rockies, built the skyscrap
ers of New York and Chicago.
All those and more formed the
nucleus of a war baby the
Seabees
With "know how" and "can
do" spirit, they soon became the
largest group of construction
experts the world has ever seen.
The Seabees participated in ev
ery major invasion, won fame
for their speed and ingenuity,
ground, he said.
"They should prepare offer
ings and then climb to high
places and make great noises by
means of drums, gongs, and
musical instruments consisting
of kitchen utensils," he said.
"This is sure to work."
and have earned permanent post
war status In the navy.
Today these fighting builders
of World War II are back in
their civilian Jobs, but not los
ing any of the "know how" they
gained while island-jumping in
tne Pacific. Organized to form
nuclei for construction battal
ions in event of a national em
ergency in the future, the Sea
bee Reserves keep their mem
bers abreast of all new scientific
developments in ways of con
struction. In the 13th naval district,
which includes Washington, Or
egon, Idaho and Montana, there
are 6,000 former Seabees. Of
this number approximately 1.
500 are in the Reserves, mak
ing up 16 Seabee companies in
this Naval District.
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yuletide comes in the summer.
beach and mountain resorts. 6-
are spending the holidays at
Balavia, Java, Dec. 27 W) A
republican army spokesman an
nounced Indonesian troops
here to take over when the Unit
ed States of Indonesia gets in
dependence Tuesday played
a football game Christmas day
with Dutch soldiers they were
fighting five months ago.
Brussels, Belgium, Dec. 27 (IP)
For the first time since the war,
Belgian children arc asking for
more cowboy suits and fewer
toy cannons and soldiers. That
means, said the manager of a
large Brussels department store:
"Peace is now a reality."
Prague, Czechoslovakia, Dec.
27 (!') Nine-year-old Jaromir
Muzik received a special Christ
mas gift from soldiers of the
Klatovy garrison "or his vigi
lance and alertness with which
he helped catch an enemy spy,"
the army newspaper Obrana Pi
du said. It did not identify the
spy, give details of the capture
or say what the gift would be.
Berlin, Dec. 27 m Seven
men who once helped rule all
of Europe went to a Christmas
eve church service in their jail
tonight.
Recordings of Christmas car
ols and a brief reading of St.
Matthew's version of the birth
of the Christ Child represented
Christmas for Rudolf Hess, once
Adolf Hitler's deputy; Admirals
Erich Raedor and Karl Docnitz,
munitions expert Albert Specr,
banker Walther Funk, youth
leader Baldur Von Schirach and
the aged diplomat, Konstantin
Von Neurath.
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London, Dee. 27 W" British
kiddies who thought father
Christmas (Santa Claus) lived
in Switzerland and addressed
letters to him there, are disap
pointed. Their letters came back last
week. On them, Swiss postal au
thorities stamped: "Not known."
Vienna, Austria, Dec. 27 OP)
Elephant steak was on the
Christmas menu of a number of
Viennese restaurants. About
two tons of meat were stripped
from the rarrass of Bubi, a 27-year-old
circus elephant shot by
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Nicola, the patron saint of this
southern Italian city, is suppos
ed to be resting tonight, tucker
ed out from his scurrying to de
liver toys to children from
southern Italy to the Nether
lands. The tradition is that he
makes his toy-delivering visits
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