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the Germans checked Zhukov'i
march on Berlin.
Grind Forward
The Canadian First Army of
fensive ground forward slowly,
closing in on Goch. The Germans
rushed achievements from all
parts Of the western front to bolster
that last major bastion barring the
Allies from the open country lead
ing to the Ruhr and the Rhineland.
Scottish troops swinging down
the Kleve highway in a dense mist
advanced close to Moyland. which
is two miles from the German
stronghold OF Calcar, communica
tons center II miles from Wesel
at the corner of the Ruhr.
New Fury
Fighting reached new heights OF
fury last night as German tank
forces and fresh reinforcements
resisted the Canadian advance,
But the Niers River, the last water
barrier to Goch, was bridged and
the Canadians and British welded
two bridgeheads into a single, five
mile foothold, into which troops
and armor were poured.
To the south the U. s. Third
Army made slight gains in the Wal
orf-Echternach salient. and
farther south the U. S. Seventh
Army gained 1 1-2 miles in an at
tack south OF the Saar basin, flat
tening a German bulge east OF tina
French city of Sarreguemines in
the northern Vosges.
On the Roer River front. where
British and Americans are massed
the, flood waters loosed by the OBJ
ening of a dam were subsiding and
the river soon might be back TO
normal. 1t Is The last natural bar
rler to Cologne.
Violent Assault
AS two powerful Russian armies.
Zhukov's and Konev's. jockeyed
into position for the final drive
on Berlin, American and British
air forces kept violent assault
on key targets ahead OF them yes.
terday. U. S. bombers sent 1900
tons of explosives on Cottbus, com.
munications center only IL miles
ahead Of Konev spearhead which
Berlin said had cut the Breslau.
Berlin superhighway west of tho
Neisse. 81 miles from the Nazi
capital. Konev's left wing had
thrust to the Neisse In the Goer.
litz area. As miles from Dresden,
Saxony capital which was describ.
ed In a Stockholm dispatch as all
inferno from successive bombings
Konev's march already has cut
some Nail supply lines to Yugoslav-
Ia, eastern Hungary, Austria and
Czechoslovakia.
Berlin said several million refu-
gees were swarmlng from the east
into the central Reich. The Ger.
man radio said plans for the de
tense OF the capital were complete
and that the Nazi party had ar.
ranged for army ratlons for the
population when the siege begins.
Make Withdrawals
In Italy U. s. Fifth Army troops
have made new withdra walls in the
Iyrrhenian coastal sector after
German infiltration movement,
against somewhat lightiy.held DO
sltlons at Monte Canala. The DO.
sitions were taken by the Amer
leans In last weeks attack.
The Berlin radio said today Brit.
lsh troops attempted to land Wed.
nesday night on the Netherlands
Island OF Schouwen, at the mouth
or the Rhine north OF the Beveland
Islands, and that two waves were
thrown back by heavy coastal de.
tense fire. The island is Sc miles
northwest OF Antwerp and "a south.
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Detroit. Feb. l6-WFA Mich.
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Detroit:
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NEW YORK-AP-Jane Mere.
dith. 90, n former actress who play.
ed leading roles In such stage hits
as Pep Only Heart. Mother
Carey's Chickens" and THE Bird
OF Paradise. died ut her home here
NaptaVIaU
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New China in the New Pacific"
will be the topic OF Cheng Pao-nan.
director of the Midwe.. branch OF
Chinese News Service in Chicago
when he appears on the final Rot.
airy Club lecture here in Ypsilanti
High School Auditorium at s .. m.
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MISS EDITH FLEMING

The funeral of Miss Edith Flem-
ing, who passed away Tuesday at
the Methodist Home In Chelsea
took place this morning in Chelsea.
Burial was In Highland Cemetery
here.
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Plus existing over and above that
amount.
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Vegetables

Vegetables
BETS No. I bu. $l.00150.
CABBAGE-No. !. bu.. $50 lbs
1881 go: red, Sl.50-2.
CARROTS No /. doz. punches
sl.5O.2.
CAuLlFLowER-No. l. bu. $500
$50
DRY oNIoNs-No, I. so lbs. sl.25
l.5O.
PARSNIPS No I. bu.. s2,25-2.b0.
POTATOES No. |. s1,75-2.00 bu.
PUMPKINS No. |. bu.. 5O-75c
RUTABAGAS-No. |. bu.. 9Oc
1925
SQUASH Hubbard. No |. bu soc
l.25
TURNlPS No I. pos bchs $i,S5
LIS.
Fruits
APPLES -Jonathans. $2.25.2.s5 a.
ID bu.: Northern Spies. No |. 10
ID bu.. s250-2. IS. Greetings. No
l. s225-2S0.
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Rural Events
MONDAY

MONDAY
Salem
Primary election at Salem Town
Hall.
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Detroit Cash Grain

WHEAT-No | red. SHAY.
MALTING BARLEY choice new,
Si.4i.l.50; needles. $l.l5.
Evening star., 1945-12-20
Commons Passes Bill
For Naturalization
|0f Bank Of England
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press. !.
LONDON, Dec. 20.-The Labor
Government pushed its bill to ma
tionalize the 250-year-old Bank of
England through the House OF
Commons last night and took steps
to nationalize the coal mines and
civil air lines.
BY BOG to 126, Commons approved
and sent to the House of Lords the
bill for public ownership of the
Bank of England It had been
hailed by Laborites in debate as "a
great charter of freedom for the
English people," and denounced by
opponents as useless and involving
an unwise encroachment Of au-
thority or other financial institu-
tions.
The governments bill to "estab-
lish public ownership and control of
the coal-mining industry and Ger
tain allied activities" was introduced
in Commons during the day by
Emanuel Shinwell, minister Of fuel
and power, amid cheers from Labor
benches.
Details of a naturalization pro-
gram for civil airlines were disclosed
in a white paper to be read in Com
mons today. The government would
be prepared to subsidize operations
until they became self-supporting,
it was announced.
Ivor Thomas, parliamentary sec
retary for the Ministry of Civil
Aviation, told a news conference
that naturalization legislation was
desired at the present session Of
Parliament and that arrangements
had been made for airline oper-
ations in the interim.
On the controversial subject OF
fares, Mr.. Thomas said Britain was
prepared to operate on any fare
agreed on internationally
Evening star., 1945-12-20
Gen. Wheeler to Present
1000 Gifts for GIs

1t. Gen. Raymond A. Wheeler
chief of engineers, United States
Army, will present 1000 gifts to
Sylvan King. chairman of the
American Legion Gifts for Yanks''
campaign, in a ceremony at the
front entrance of the new War De-
partment Building, Twenty first
street and Virginia avenue NV,
at pm. tomorrow.
The gifts, collected in the Le-
gion's drive to share this Christ
mas with service veterans in nearby
hospitals have been donated by en-
ployes of the chief of engineers Of
fee. An Army band and choir
will present a short musical pro-
gram and two Army trucks will
be used to pick up packages for
delivery to the various hospitals,
it was announced. -
Evening star., 1945-12-23

japanese lambrequins, Indian and Moor
ish tabourettes, blue delft placques and
vases, etc. Among framed pictures for
Christmas gifts were st. Cecilia's por-
trait as patroness of music, "a Yard of
Roses" and "a Yard of Violets," photo
graph panels, Remarque proof etchings,
French pastels and real pastels. In the
toy department, imported and domestic
dolls and games were publicized as
genuine reductions" dressed
dolls from So to $25 each; German dolls,
$3.50 to So; Indian dolls, rs cents; enam-
eled steel dishes, as cents; wagons with
skin horses, $1s5; tigers on platforms.
$1.50 to $3.50; japanese houseboats, Is
cents; Pixies Peak puzzles, 10 cents.
The Star for December 23, 1895,
chronicled inaugural services at the
Fifteenth Street
Two New Methodist Epis-
Churches Opened copal Church
on the north
east corner of Fifteenth and r streets
NV, and the Epworth Methodist Epis-
copal Church South on the northeast
corner of Eleventh and A streets NE. In
the latter case, however, it was ex-
planned, the congregation had been
using the building for several months
and the ceremonies to be held. therefore.
would be those Of dedication more speci-
hcally.
Evening star., 1945-12-23
Christmas, 1915
By the Right Rev. Angus Dun, D. D., S. T. D.,
Bishop OF the Episcopal Diocese of WashinQton.

Through the lovely stories that
frame the central event of the first
Christmas there runs one theme. AS
in a great painting Of the Madonna,
all the figures center in one figure
and all the lines lead the eye back
again and again to the Christ child;
so in these simple stories, all eyes
turn finally to Bethlehem, to Mary
and Joseph, and to the Babe lying in
a manger.
There is no claim in the Gospels
that they tell all that was going on
in the world on the first Christmas.
Doubtless much else was going on
births, deaths, toll and holiday,
pleasure and pain, love and quarrel
ing, truth and hypocrisy. Christ was
not born in sanctuary; He was born
in the stable of an inn. And along
the road past that inn went all the
motley throng of motley world
rich young men and poor widows,
good Samaritans and thieves, chill
dren, hypocrites, harlots. lovers, fish,
ermen, soldiers. But these did not
set the day apart; what marked the
day pointed to Bethlehem and to the
Child lying in the manger.
How is it with us on this Christ
mas, 1945? The people who move
through this day are the same who
moved through the day before and
will move through the DAY after. Yet
today has its mark pointing to Christ.
1t is time OF giving-in families.
among friends, to the needy near and
far. 1t is a time when family affec-
tion renews itself and reaches out to
include others in its circle. From all
over the world, sons and husbands
have been hurrying home after long
years of separation: in numberless
households, fathers and mothers will
reach out on this day to children
still absent. At this season, men
search their memories and their ad-
dress books for friends who have been
crowded from their lives. Strangers
are taken in, not for duty's sake but
because for a day they have ceased
to be strangers, and we become for a
day more like the family of God,
On Christmas men for a day meet
life more in the spirit of childhood
turn more simple, less critical; are
more ready to trust and to believe
good. On Christmas it is easier to
take life not as hard task, but as
good gift Children set the standard
Evening star., 1945-12-23
Reducing the Draft

The order ending the draft of ia
theirs is in keeping with the reduced
requirements of the Army and Navy.
During the war and in the months
Immediately following victory, heads
of families had to be called up be-
cause essential manpower quotas
could not be met otherwise. Now,
however, replacement needs can be
filled without them, so that young
couples with children will be free to
plan for the future without worrying
about the possibility of induction.
In many an American home this
worry has been a poignant thing,
and the news of its end will certainly
add to the Christmas cheer of all
the individuals affected. But youths
in the 18-to-25 age group, who are
unmarried or without children, still
will have to be inducted by the thou
sands. Currently the Army and Navy
are calling for about $4,000 month
"a necessary figure in view of the
great numbers being demobilized
and the continuing demands of oc-
cupation. How soon the draft can
be further reduced is problematical.
At the moment, according to selec-
tive service, not enough re-enlist-
ments are taking place to warrant
a cut, and the demobilizing process
is going ahead at such fast pace
that failure to supply sufficient re-
placements would leave our armed
forces undermanned for the impor-
tant tasks assigned them.
Despite much ill-informed criti-
cism, the Army has released we'll
over 100000 troops since We day,
and Navy releases have totaled more
than 1000 000-figures which make
the discharge rate after the First
World War seem slow by comparison.
Both services which have just an
nounced a new speed-up through an
additional lowering In the number OF
Evening star., 1945-12-23
Holy Night
The nights siDeet NTH stiffness.
Quiet and SDeet Uith rnotfonless soB

Ihe nights siDeet NTH stiffness,
quiet and sDeet NTH motionless soH-
tude
Spreading its raven ,oinos oper the
hills,
The old, old hills of Judeu.
Against the celestial canopy Of silence
Echoes the crying OF lambs,
Little lambs lost from their mothers
Cries in the night and the stiffness.
Suddenly tn the wondrous and great
shining
OF Bethlehem's Star, tearsome NTH
t0hiteneSs,
angels. Uing tipped to ping, sing tri-
umphdntly:
"On earth, peace to men OF good wiH,'
And Mary, on the clean hay, in the
sDeet night,
Night OF stiffness, haHo,oed and holy,
Sings to the Child on her bosom,
Sings to the Lamb OF God.
LEILA PIER KING.
Evening star., 1945-12-23
Capital Sidelights
Bu Will P. Kennedy.

Congress, which long has had in
mind a new edition of its most val
liable book of reference-the cumulative
Biographical Directory of Congress"
is being urged by librarians all over
the country to do it now" Represent
ative Charles A. Plumley of Vermont
is heading this drive. The author of
the monumental volume referred to is
Ansel Void, veteran clerk of the Joint
Committee on Printing, now eligible for
retirement at any time. But it is hoped
that he can be induced to remain on
the Job until the directory can be.
brought up to date. He has been work.
ing toward that achievement foEsSn
years, and his personal knowledge and
experience are invaluable.
The present book contains 1,74o pages
and includes the biographies of ule1n-t
bers of Congress and other information
regarding the organization of Congress,
from 1774 to 1927. 1t is compilation
based on the Dictionary of Congress
and the General Government, first pub
lished in 1859 and revised in 1859 by
Charles Lanman: the Biographical An
nails of the Civil Government in 1876"
by Charles Lanman and James Anglim.
and the Lanman edition of 1876. as cor
rected by James M. Morrison in 1887:
the Political Register and Congressional
Directory of 1878. by Ben: Perley Poore;
the Biographical Congressional Direc-
tory of 1908" by O. M. Enyart, and the
Biographical Congressional Directory
In 1911"
Illustrating how far out of date the
present edition is Git was published un-
der the direction of the late Senator
George H. Moses of New Hampshire),
the listing of Presidents closed with
Calvin Coolidge; such veteran Senators
as Elmer Thomas, Robert F. Wagner
and Arthur H. Vandenberg are not in
the book There are only 10 of the pres
ent 96 Senators and 80 of the 435
House members listed in the compila-
ton of more than 5000 biographical
sketches.
Some errors are known to exist In the
present edition which Mr.. Void is anx-
lous to see corrected. He was brought
to the Capitol As years ago, at the age
of 10, by the late Senator Knute Nelson
Evening star., 1945-12-23

Canada early next spring and will
traverse several thousand miles of
wilderness to the shores of the Arc
tic Ocean. Supplied by air, and &C
companied by scientific technicians,
these detachments will make stra-
tegic survey. combined with the
practical working out of problems
of clothing, food and equipment
needed for ground operations under
wilderness conditions and in extreme
cold. The location of a network of
airbases will be an essential part of
the work. Thus the initial phase of
Polar defense for North America
gets under way.
Evening star., 1945-12-23
Exercise Musk-Ox'

Official announcement tnat the
United States and Canada are initl-
ating Joint plans to defend North
America against aerial attack from
Asia or Europe across the North
Polar regions emphasizes the radical
change in grand strategy brought
about by the simultaneous develop
ment of long distance aviation and
the advent of the atom bomb.
Until the last few years, the Arctic
frontage of Canada and of the
United States in Alaska was strate-
gically impregnable, The ice-bound
Arctic Ocean could be perilously ne
gotiated by an occasional stout ship
of the ice-breaking type, but only as
q stunt. No expedition of military
significance could traverse it or cross
the frozen wastes of tundra if. by
some miracle, a landing was made.
However, the air is medium
whereby these formidable barriers
can be surmounted with ease.
Furthermore, the Arctic is short
cut between the continents of the
Northern Hemisphere, reducing for
mer travel routes by thousands of
miles. This means that, even in the
present state of aviation, long
tance bombers could fly via the
Arctic to attack any part of Canada
and points deep within the United
States, returning to their European
or Asiatic bases.
That new vulnerability has quick
ened the American and Canadian
general stats to concert measures
of joint hemisphere protection, in
conjunction with the American
Canadian Board on Defense, devel-
oped during the late war and re-
tanned as permanent agency. It is
interesting to note that this board
now meets more frequently than it
did during the war period.
The first step in the defense pro-
gram against Arctic attack is an ex-
ploratory survey termed Exercise
Musk-Ox" by the Canadian govern
ment. With American participation,
this consists of detachments of
Canadian troops which will leave the
inhabited frontiers OF Western
Evening star., 1945-12-23
Pictures in December

This is the month when Nature
reveals many OF her most interesting
pictures. Gone now is the foliage
that hid the comings and goings OF
the wildlife, gone are the green
curtains that veiled brooks and
creeks and woodland floors. On a
clear sunny December day walk
over the countryside tells good
stories.
BY the pasture wall under the
tangled blackberry vines is the
mounded moist yellow soil that re-
veals where the woodchuck is sleep
ing through the winter All last
summer he made forays on the
beans and lettuce in the garden and
while one suspected he might live
in that mass of jack-straw growth,
wild blackberries are not something
that one goes through unless abso-
lutely essential. Better to lose a
little produce than joust with thorns
of the stubborn brambles.
At the edge of the woods in the
clump of saplings is a big cone
shaped hornets nest, Tapped layer
on layer of the tough brittle stuff
made by the paper makers" last
spring. Many a trip last summer
the countryman made on a Sunday
afternoon as he looked over his
farm, but never till now did he
suspect the nest. In the bright
winter sunshine the big nest stands
forth like an etching, outlined
against the slender branches.
Now that the leaves have gone,
the meandering meadow creek is
like a twisted silver thread between
brown blankets. In the grove above
the pasture slope, the gray squirrels
casual bulky leaf nests rest in the
crotches of the rough-barked limbs
and from the dropping -branched
old elm that shades in summer the
pasture spring, long, bottle-neck
orioles nest sways gently in the air
like a gray pennant. December is
the beginning of winter and many
there are who would gladly skip the
twelfth month. But out in the
countryside, in the fields, woods and
on the hills there are pictures that
tell I good story.
Evening star., 1945-12-23

for the day, and grownups do but
follow.
These are the tokens and marks of
Christmas-giving placed above get
ting, family affection deepened and
spread abroad, child-likeness set in
our midst. For those who under
stand, all these point to Christ.
Christmas is not the whole of our
faith, it Is only the beginning. 1t is
the point at which Christ enters our
world, and the spirit of Christmas is
the first stirring in us of the Spirit of
Christ.
Life cannot be perpetual Christ
mas, Christ cannot remain forever in
Bethlehem in manger. He must go
out into the highways and byways of
life; the Cross cannot be forever
screened from view. Loving kindness,
the spirit Of self giving and simplicity
born into the world, must 60 out into
the world. He who is the bearer Of
this spirit must meet others besides
shepherds and worshiping Magi; he
must meet rich men and poor, pub
licans and sinners, pain and death.
He must suffer long and be kind,
vaunt not himself, bear all things, be-
lieve all things and never fail.
The glory of Christ is that whereas
our love fails, His never fails: whereas
our Christmas spirit Is the spirit Of
a holiday season, His is the spirit of
a total life.
There is much in our world we
would rather keep hidden from our
selves on Christmas, l945. Lest our
sheltered JOY should be broken, we
would rather not think of starving
brethren in Europe and Asia. of de-
spairing wanderers falling dead by the
roadside; of powers of destruction
with which we dare not trust others,
and with which they dare not trust
us; or of disturbing conflicts in our
own land Of plenty.
But II We find our way past the
outer signs of Christmas, past the
greeting cards and the holly and the
tinseled trees and the family re-
unions, to the Christ at the center.
we shall not be able to turn our backs
on the worlds need. In the words
of great prayer. He is one who
found His peace after He had made
the worlds ills His own" Those who
come as worshipers into His pres
ence will ask from Him that most
excellent gift of charity. which is the
very bond of peace and of all virtues