The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-26

u. S, STOCKING
Everybody Happy as 1885
YuIe Passes, National
Survey Shows.


Claus was good to the United States
yesterday.
Preliminary reports Of pre-Christ-
mas retail sales indicated that more
Americans found full stockings on
the holiday morning than in any
year since 1880, police records re-
Elected a day with extremely few
accidents and of temperate con-
VITALITY, and most of the country
enjoyed the snow and nippy tenn
peratureS that make the ideal yule
Business leaders and the man in
the street agreed that it was the
best Christmas Of the post-prosper-
ity era and may herald, in its cir
culation Of an estimated $4,500,-
100000, definite turn of the corner
economists have hunted for five
years.
Government funds again cared for
tens of thousands of homeless men
and women, but only charity saved
Santa Claus from the stigma of
neglect in thousands of homes where
children awaited him. Federal gov
eminent figures showed that the
number of jobless was lower and
simple observation showed that the
lines of men seeking Christmas din
ner in front of municipal shelters
were shorter.
Snow and cold winds combining
in almost blizzard proportions kept
highway traffic, and consequently
accidents, to a minimum over the
northern part of the country. The
thermometer went below zero in
Chicago % below in North Dakota,
to II in New York and far below
freezing even far in the South Air
planes were grounded and even
trains and buses travelled behind
schedule.
Observance Is Temperate
Transportation utilities handled
their largest volume of holiday
travellers in several years.
New York police said that despite
large crowds Of Christmas eve and
morning celebrants in hotels and
clubs, there were fewer cases of in
toXication than in pre-repeal years
No New York hospital had an alco-
holic fatality, the first such year in
almost a decade.
Possibly because of the indicated
temperance there were eXtraordi-
ncrily few fatal Christmas tree fires.
President Roosevelt and his a.
year-old granddaughter, Sara De-
lano Roosevelt, set an example to
the nation Of the old-fastioned
Christmas celebration. Young, curly
haired Sara sat on grandpa's lap
before an upstairs White House fire
place to open her presents. All the
Roosevelt family in the White House
went to church after breakfast, fill
ing an entire pew.
Quintuplets Celebrate
A cold kept Curtis Roosevelt Dali
(Buzzie), and with him his sister,
Anna Eleanor Dali (Sistie), and
their mother, Mrs. John Boettiger,
in New York.
The Dionne quintuplets, celebrat-
ing their second Christmas in
Canada, were nonetheless a part
of the United States Christmas
Gifts from scores of admirers from
below the line" made a mound
around the quins' first real Christ
mas tree.
They had a genuine family"
party in their nursery, with their
mother and father and their for
gotten" five brothers and sisters.
The quintuplets gave dresses, neck
laces, dolls, bracelets and other toys
to their brothers and sisters, and
unrevealed gifts to their parents.
Charitable agencies and police
headquarters reported today that ap-
parently every one in Indianapolis
was remembered in some way this
Christmas.
Donations given readily to charity
brought Christmas to thousands of
needy homes, and no one applied at
relief centers or to police for
emergency care, despite the bitter
cold.
The Negro Y. NJ. c. A. quartet
began caroling at 4 yesterday morn
ing and visited SO homes, including
that of Gov. McNutt. Quartet
members are Clarence Hicks, George
Robson, wallace Voolfolk and F. E.
DeFrantz.
Food, Gifts Distributed
Christmas hymns were sung at the
Zion Evangelical Church sunrise
services, and combined services were
held by the Garfield Park and St.
Paul's Evangelical Churches in st.
Pauls Church. Masses and church
services were held at Fort Ben
jamin Harrison in the morning.
The Catholic Charities Bureau
distributed food and Christmas gifts
to several hundred private families
and to inmates of Catholic charit-
able institutions. The Sisters of the
Good Shepherd provided dinners
and gifts for many elderly persons.
Agents of she Wheeler City Rescue
Mission distributed approximately
800 Christmas baskets together with
toys before noon.
Relief agencies said that Christ
mas campaigns conducted by news
papers and charities were RESPONSE
BILE for Christmas coming to thou