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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-25

their older children dressed last
night.
The day is to reach its climax
when the President carves the tur-
key at the old-fashioned Christmas
dinner-the kind of dinner which
causes everybody who sits down to
it to get up saying, Il don't think
I can eat another thing for a
week"
The menu will be: Clam cocktail
and saltines; clear soup ard beaten
biscuits, with curled ce.ery ard
stuffed olives; turkey, chestnut
dressing, little sausages, cranberry
jelly; giblet gravy, corn, peas, seal
loped sweet potatoes and pineapple;
grapefruit and frozen cheese salad,
whole wheat waters; English
plum pudding with hard sauce, va
nilla ice cream and cakes, candy,
nuts, and coffee.
Thousands of presents reach the
White House every year, and the
receiving staff was taxed to capacity
removing the wrappers and taking
the gayly wrapped packages up for
the Presidents family.
But tomorrow, it will be business
as usual at the White Housa
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-25
Baby Sara Roosevelt 3, Mistress
of White House Christmas Pnrtu

Down came her bullying stocking
from the Presidents mantelpiece,
and with it she rushed to her grand
fathers bed to show him what
Santa Claus had brought.
In the absence Of the other grand
children, John Roosevelt, youngest
son of the President, had the right
to take down his stocking next and
so on until her great-grandmother,
Sara Delano Roosevelt, finally was
allowed to see what Santa Claus
had put in her stocking.
All morning, Baby Sara was find
ing her toys and playing with them
up and down the White House, as
the only child there. Usually
Sistie and Buzzie (who would much
rather be called Eleanor and Cur
tis) toot their horns, blow their
mouth organs, beat their drums, and
wind up their mechanical toys
through the White House on Christ
mas Day.
After going to church at st.
Thomas at IL a. m, and after
lunch, the grownups of the family
get their presents from che big
tree on the second floor, which the
President and rs. Roosevelt and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-25
SWEEPS STATE:
58-MILE WIND REPORTED:
NEW COLD WAVE ARRIVES
White Christmas Prevails
for Entire Northern
Half of u. S.
EAST TO GET STORM
Near Zero Belt to Stretch
From Canada South
to Georgia.
By United Press

A white Christmas with
snappy temperatures pre-
vailed over the northern half
of the United States today
with the prospect of a chill
bearing down from the North
west tonight and tomorrow.
Mountain and Middle West states
had a steady wet snowfall which
made the yuletide holiday re-
splendent in cleaning white.
Winter winds Gained into mild
breezes as the flakes idled down
from low-hanging clouds to provide
the proverbial white Christmas.
Temperatures lowered in the SOS
in the Southern states and on the
West Coast with the exception of
the Gulf states, which basked in
their usual balmy climates.
The Eastern states and New Eng
land tomorrow are due for chill
breezes and snow sweeping from the
North and West as the mercury
dipped in the Middle West and
Mountain states.
The Chicago Weather Bureau
foreSaw a cold wave over the north
ern half of the country with near
zero temperatures or below being
general. The cold wave was NOV
ing eastward and was expected to
hit the eastern half of the nation
tomorrow, extending from Canada
as far south as northern Mississippi
and Georgia.
West of the Mississippi River tenn
peratures ranged downward from
freezing in Yellowstone Park to
slightly below zero in northern Mon
tana with snow flurries forecast gen.
orally over the northern territory.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-25
By United Press

WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.-Little
Sara Delano Roosevelt, nearly 4
daughter of President and Mrs
Roosevelt's Oldest son, James, was
without any doubt mistress of the
White House today.
A cold kept 5-year-old Curtis
Roosevelt Dali at home in New York
and with him remained, very sadly,
his 8-year-old sister, Anna Eleanor
Dali; his mother, Mrs. John Beet
tiger, and his stepfather, John Boet-
tiger. They expect to be hosts at a
White House party Saturday, how
ever.
After Mrs. Roosevelt had quiet
ly slipped into the Presidents room,
shut the window and lighted the fire
early today, little Sara rushed i'm
portantly around the White House
corridors and bedrooms, waking
her parents, her grandmother, her
great-grandmother, her great-aunt,
her young uncles from Harvard, and
finally, her grandfather, the Presi-
dent, as she dashed at the head of
the family party into his bedroom.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-25
FISH LEAPS ON
B0RAH WAGON
New Yorker Announces He
Will Lead Drive for
Senator.

| By United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.-The
Borah-for- President campaign was
given added strength today by an
nouncement of Rep. Hamilton Fish
(R., N. W, that he would lead a
fight in New York for the Idaho
senator.
Rep. Fish announced he had
called a conference of 20 prominent
New York Republicans after a
meeting yesterday with Senator
Borah, in which plans for instructed
delegates to the Republican Ma
tional Convention were discussed.
Senator Borah was given ''en-
couraging" reports from 40 states
which Mr.. Fish has visited since
adjournment of Congress. Mr.. Fish
reported large popular following
for Senator Borah.
Himself frequently mentioned as a
possible Republican presidential
nominee, Rep. Fish said he told
Borah that he could carry Virginia
North Carolina, Missouri, Oklahoma
and Florida against President
Roosevelt in 1886 if nominated. He
reported tremendous" support for
Borah in the Middle West.
Denying reports Senator Borah
might not enter the Illinois pri-
marieS, Fish said "of course he will
He was born there, he has strong
support in the state, and it is the
logical thing for him to do"
FiShs conference followed within
few hours a meeting between
Borah and Col. Frank Knox, ar
ranged, it was said, at the request
of the latter. The two were under
stood to have compared notes on
probable campaign issues.
Borah, however, maintained his
usual silence in regard to both
meetings
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-25
ITALIAN ARMY GIVEN
YULE RAT|0NS, GIFTS
Mass Begins Observance of
Christmas at Front.

By United Press
ASMARA, Eritrea, Dec. 25-Extra
rations and gifts from home were
distributed today to the thousands
of soldiers of Italy's northern army
in Ethiopia.
The army began it's observance of
Christmas with celebration of special
midnight mass, conducted by army
priests and chaplains.
Scores of truckloads of Christmas
presents were taken up to the front
yesterday. In addition to the gifts
which the men received from their
families, officers of virtually all
units donated extra gifts which were
distributed by lottery.
From schools, colleges and pa
triotic organizations in Italy came
other big bags packed with presents
for the troops - tins of cigarets,
books, clothing, pictures of Musso-
lini and many other things.
All the troops, including even the
native ASkaris, who are not Chris
tians. were given extra rations.
By United Press
Adds ABABA, Dec. 25.-Ameri-
can correspondents covering the
Italo-Ethiopian war forgot the
heat, the dust and the fleas today
to gather around Christmas tree
in the only restaurant serving edi-
BILE food and celebrate the holiday
with Christmas carols,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-25
KING GEORGE CREETS
SUBJECTS BY RADIO
Stresses Peace Hopes ir
Holiday Address

By United Press
SANDRINGHAM, England Dec
25.-To his nearly 5O0,0OO,OOO sub
jects on seven continents, King
George v today broadcast Christ
mas greetings and plea for peace
The radio hookup which carried
his words from small study in the
royal castle was probably the most
extensive in history, reaching ap-
proximately one-fourth of the
worlds population and area.
Il wish you all, my dear friends,
a happy Christmas" the king be-
gan.
Stressing the British Empires de-
sire for peace, he said:
I'm Europe and in many parts of
the world anXieties surround us. It
is good to think that our family of
peoples is at peace in itself and
united in the one desire to be at
peace with other nations-a friend
of all and an enemy of none"
The broadcast climaxe6 the years
jubilee observances celebrating the
twenty-fifth anniversary of King
Georges ascension to the throne
He thanked his subjects everywhere
for their many expressions of good
wishes and loyalty on that occasion
and for sharing his joys and sor-
rows.
He expressed also the appreciation
OF Queen Mary, referring to her not
as the queen, but using the phrase
of utmost simplicity and senti-
ment, MY dear wife"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-25
ST0RK HAS EASY YULE
AS TWO BABIES ARRIVE

Boy, Girl Reported at st. Francis
Hospital, Beech Grove.
The Christmas stork was particu-
larly negligent today in local hos
pitfalls.
Only two babies were reported
born, both of them at st. Francis
Hospital in Beech Grove.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs
Albert Mantooth, R. R. 2, Moores-
vile, and girl to Mr.. and Mrs
Charles WEIGH, 1913 Cottage-av.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-25
Indy is SANTA
TO JON AT SEA
Flier's Son Finds Stocking
Swinging as Steamer
Bucks Storm.

By United Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 25,-Little Jon
Lindbergh found his. Christmas
stocking swinging today, as the
freighter American Importer, car
rying self-eXiled Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh, his wife and child,
plowed through a stormy mid-ocean
The famous flying coloneFs Sec
ond flight-this time away from an
noyance and heartbreak that have
accompanied the fame his first
flight brought-entered moderate
storms and bleak rain, which
promised to keep the family under
deck all of Christmas week.
The prospect that greeted the
Lindbergh'S Christmas morning
through the portfolios of their re-
decorated cabins was described by
DR.. James H. Kimball of the New
York weather Bureau-the same
meteorologist who charted the
flier's weather map for his air flight
to Paris.
Expected to Dock Dec. 30.
Shipping officials expected the
ship to reach Liverpool, England,
Dec. 80 and Manchester New Years
eve. Where the Lindberghs would
land was not known exactly, nor
whether they would remain long in
England before making their home,
as friends now believe they intend
to do, on the French Riviera. It
was reported from Nice that Col.
Lindbergh had negotiated to lease
Chateau Gloria at Cap Ferrat,
owned by the estate of the late
Charles Thompson of Cleveland.
AS the exiles sought peace in
Europe from crank letters and the
constant strain of guarding little
Jon against the possibility of kid
mapping, Bruno Richard Hauptmann,
sentenced to die in New jerseys
electric chair Jan. IS, for the kid
nap-murder of their first son, spent
perhaps his last Christmas in the
death house at Trenton. He seemed
concerned at Col. Lindbergh'S &C.
ton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-25
101 Today
By United Press

By United Press
FREMONT, O.. Dec. 25.-For
the 101st time Christmas and
his birthday doubled up on
Capt. Hanson r. Bowlus today.
The first occasion was Dec.
Is, 1885, when he emitted his
first cry in one of handful
of log cabins clustered in the
shadow of Fort Stephenson's
Stockade, the site CT present.
day Fremont.
One hundred years later the
captain, who won his title in
the Civil War, sat down for q
quiet Christmas dinner at the
home of his son, William M.
BcwluS.
The Christmas child" of the
wilderness boasts of having
voted the straight Republican
ticket from Lincoln to Hoover.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-25
GALE HELPS CLIPPER
MAKE FLIGHT RECORD
Philippine Skyline Covers 1880 Miles
in Less Than Eight Hours.
By United Press

BY Chtted Press
HONOLULU, T. H., Dec. 25.-
Winds OF gale force which forced
the China Clipper to turn back to
Alameda after covering TOO miles on
a flight to Honolulu and Manila to-
day were credited with major part
in the fastest transocean flight ever
completed by Pan-American air.
ways skyliner.
The record was established yester-
day by the Philippine Clipper, fly
ing from Midway Islands to Homo
lulu, en- route to Alameda, Cal, on
a return mail flight from Manila.
Commanded by Capt. j. H. Hill
ton, the Philippine Clipper covered
the 1380mile route in seven hours,
AZ minutes, for an average flying
speed of 173 M. P. H. At one point
the Clipper was flying ZIG miles an
hour.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-25
POLITICAL LINK SOUGHT
IN ACTION OF F. C. C.
Hotel Conversation Brings Probe of
Group by G-Men.
By United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 25. - A
mysterious hotel conversation in
volved the Federal Communications
Commission today IN an investiga-
ton by Omen, under orders to see
whether politics or other influence
has played any part in the commits
sion's consideration of upper New
York state radio wave bands.
Operatives from the office of j.
Edgar Hoover were assigned to the
case, after one of the communica-
lions commissioner was told of the
conversation overheard by men,
Der of his family.
The incident grew out of the con-
flict between the Howitt-Wood
Radio Co., Binghamton, N. Y,
ar the Knox Broadcasting Co.,
Schenectady, N. Y, over the right
to broadcast on the 1910 kilometer
wave band.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-25
Merry Mary

By United Press
AUSTIN, Tex, Dec. 25.-
Being named Mary Christmas
isn't much fun on Christmas
Day, Miss Christmas decided
today.
Too many people think it a
joke and when you've answered
the telephone a few dozen
times it doesn't seem very
funny" she explained. Most
of the calls are from strangers
who want to know is Mary
Christmas here"
But Mary, named for her
mother and grandmother, has
one consolation.
I'm glad we don't live on
Holly-st. as we did when we
first moved here. That made
it even worse"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-25
OPERATION BRINGS SIGHT
FOR CHRISTMAS GIFT

Twinkling Christmas Tree Lights
Thrill Nebraska Sufferer.
By United Press
OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 25.-The
twinkling lights of Christmas tree
formed the most beautiful sight in
the life of Fremont H. Clark today.
Mr.. Clark's sight was destroyed
several years ago, but today he was
able to see the Christmas lights
through the cornea of a still-born
baby's eye which had been grated
to one of his.
1T is a most wonderful Christmas
present" MIR. Clark said, land
wish there were some way I could
share it with others in the land of
darkness"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-25
'CLAUDETTE COLBERT,
DOCTOR WE'D IN YUMA
Film Star, Physician Return to
Hollywood for Celebration.

By United Press
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 25.-Clau-
dette Colbert and DR.. Joel E. Press
man sat down to Christmas dinner
today as man and wife following
their Christmas Eve wedding at
Yuma, Ariz.
The dark-eyed screen star and
the physician she met while on a
professional call to his Office had
planned to be married after New
Years but decided to make in a
Christmas wedding instead.
Immediately after returning to the
film colony, they hurried to the
home Miss Colbert recently built
and combined their Christmas Eve
celebration with wedding party
for few intimate friends.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-25

Those charming little
Canadian ladies, the Di-
onne quintuplets, are
finding their second
Christmas more and more
to their liking.
What with Santa and
turkey and all the trim
mings, it's a grand holi-
day for the quins. The
Times today presents an
other page of exclusive
photographs of the ba-
bies. Turn to Page 10.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-25
ENGLISH MRS. DI0NNE'
VISITS QUADRUPLETS
Even Though It's Christmas, Mother
Isn't Allowed to Kiss Babes.
By United Press

By United Press
LONDON, Dec. 25.-Mrs. Walter
E. Miles, the Mrs. Dionne of Eng
land" spent Christmas day visiting
her widely publicized bankruptcies for
the first time since they were taken
from her two days after birth. The
quads have created as much of
furore in England as the Dionne
quintuplets in the United States,
and heavy contributions are ex-
pected toward the $4,000 needed to
build them a hospital. Mrs. Miles,
%, was not permitted to kiss her
babies.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-25
OLD CHRISTMAS PLAY
PRESENTED IN MEXICO
Sacred Drama Was introduced by
Pioneer Missionaries.

sacred Drama was introduced by
Pioneer Missionaries.
By United Press
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Dec. IS. -
The ancient Spanish Christmas play
Los Pastores (the good shepherds
- oldest of the nativity PLAYS
brought to this country by pioneer
missionaries, was presented in scores
of Mexican communities today.
Parts In the play are handed
down from father to son, as in the
famous passion play of Oberammer-
gau. 1t still is given with the same
devotion and simplicity that marked
its presentation when the Fran
ciscan fathers used it in telling the
American Indians of the birth of
the Christ Child.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-25
Pension Fight to Be Renewed

Pension Fight to Be Renewed
By United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.-Eforts
Will be started to revive a private
pension provision in the Social Sc
curity Act when Congress recon-
venes, Senator Bennett Champ
Clark Cd, Mo-, said today.
Evening star., 1935-04-20

never be other than the grim, sure
elimination of a life that has been
forfeited in penalty for . transgres-
sion that can not be condoned. To
make of 1t Q public spectacle Ia to
arouse passions that may react HARM
fully.
The person who has been given q
fair trial and upon condemnation Is
brought forth for execution under
the law has had his opportunity Of
defense. If the laws Of Kentucky
grant him . last word Of denial that
word should be spoken only to those
who are responsible for the procedure
that has sent him to the place Of
execution. The difference between
this man at Smithland merely say
ing IT am innocent" and ranting for
an hour in declaration Of his inno-
cence is. after all, but little, rs far as
the possible creating of doubt In the
public mind is concerned, and yet the
spectacle Of a long harangue is calcu-
lated to cause q severe shock to the
country at large and possibly to do
great harm to the morale of the i'm
mediate community where this dread
full scene was enacted.
Evening star., 1935-04-20

Of general or special concern To the
masses.
The dificulties are enormous. Bridge,
for example, has an appeal to . large
class Of people, yet there are thou
sands who literally do not know one
card from another. To the former the
story Of tournament in which expert
players are participating Is fascinating,
to the latter It Is . waste Of space.
But both groups are entitled to con-
sideration. Hence the cosmopolitan
character Of the average daily.
Changes, Of course, occur from gen.
Grafton to generation. Time was when
scores Of enterprises which now en-.
gage multitudes were unanticipated-
base ball, automobiles, airplanes, radio,
motion pictures, oil these fields are
of modern origin: each has its place
and its audience in the world of 1885,
though none was present In the
world Of q century ago.
But the things most notably news
worthy" providentially are perma-
nently signincant, and 1t is for that
reason that newspapers may be said
to justify their existence. They re-
assert the fundamentals, re-aflirm the
essentials Of life by reporting their
progress.
Evening star., 1935-04-20

rated" and the New Haven (Conn.)
Journal Courier sees "the Hitler wave
dashing against one defense it could
not smash" The Troy IN. W Record
thinks the result will lessen the pos
sibility of armed strife"
TT demonstrates" according to the
Brooklyn IN. " Times Union, that
in communities outside of direct con-
troll by the Nazi chiefs. and with a
semblance Of popular rule prevailing.
a great German settlement cannot be
held down to Naziism. that independ-
ence of spirit may exist that the Nazis
cannot control" The Newport News
(Va) Daily Press Is convinced that
but for the armed forces which he
has behind him, Hitler would find
himself confronted with serious oppo.
sition in his own country" Similar
views are held by the Nashville
Tenn.) Banner. the Portsmouth
(Ohio) Times and the Rockford Qll.)
Register Republic
The Atlanta journal observes that:
Whether Germany and her sympa-
thizers sl Danzig will accept the
results of the recent election or will
attempt to override them. Is one Of
the anxious questions of the hour"
The New York Times holds that the
result may have powerful stabiliz-
ing effect upon the peace of Europe"
Evening star., 1935-04-20
Danzig Vote Called Setback
For Nazi Prestige and Power

Even though it was by a scant mar
gin that the German Nazis failed in
the recent election to muster the two.
thirds vote needed for complete mas
tery over the free city of Danzig, the
result is hailed by observers in this
country as . definite setback for
Hitler.
"The Hitlerites had been so conf
dent of the outcome and had so
plainly made the issue q test" says
the Kansas City Star. that the fall
ure, although only relative, assumes
major Importance" The st. Paul
Daily News declares that 'free peo-
pies everywhere will cheer the out
come: that it will dim the prestige
Of the Nazi cause"
Europe outside Of Germany" ac-
cording to the New York Sun. ''re-
ceives with undisguised satisfaction
news Of the failure of the Mani drive
to gain complete control over the Leg
islature of Danze." The Harrisburg
PaD Patriot states that the Nads
counted their chickens before they
were hatched," and concludes as to
the influence of the event: "Hitler's
campaign orators took it for granted
that Danzig would follow the Saar. I.
did not. The fact that it did not
raises the question of what the elec-
ton returns in Germany itself might
Be, II it were possible for every Ger
man to vote as he pleased. regardless
Of Reichswehr. Storm Troops, Brown
Shirts and other auxiliaries which
have . way Of 'persuadine' voters to
vote right"
"The rebuff Is significant" thinks
the Elkhart Qnd.) Truth, and the
Louisville Herald Post asks: up to
what point viii Germany back Hit
Ter? Does his failure to secure the
necessary two-thirds majority in DAN
mig, In spite Of propaganda and threats
that took on al the aspects of COM
pulsion, does this rebuke point to
weakening Of his hold?"
"Yet an issue can hardly be con-
sidered settled" In the judgment of
the San Francisco Chronicle, by an
election decision when the result runs
counter to the will OF majority. It
Is not like . sporting event that u
closed by the umpire's decision but
instead remains . perennial irrtta-
ton"
IAN overwhelming German vote
does not necessarily mean an equally
overwhelming Nal vote" says the st.
Joseph (Mo.) News-Press, while the
Goshen (Indl News Times feels that
ITO embrace Hitlerism would be too
high a price to pay for reunion with
the Fatherland." The Syracuse IN.
~ Herald concludes that "the mute,
opposing electorate was greatly under