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Evening star., 1945-12-25
Thousands to Eot
Christmas Dinner
In Privote Homes
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Dec. 25.lThou-
sands Of returned GIs, so near
and yet so far from home, spent
Christmas in East Coast ports
and camps today-but were SOL
aced by the knowledge that a
holiday dinner around the fam
lily table was not far of.
But for all. many of whom had
come In ships buffeted for days by
fierce Atlantic gales, there was heap
Ing Christmas fare-served military
fashion-in their camps as they
awaited discharge or transportation
home. Many were given 24-hour
passes to spend the day in cities
near the camps.
Some 25,000 servicemen arrived
yesterday to swell the total on the
Eastern seaboard to- an estimated
$4,000 and nearly 10000 more are
scheduled to debark today.
Wounded Men Sent Home.
Yesterday 48 wounded veterans,
some of whom hadn't been home
since they left for war, were taken
from Halloran General Hospital
and placed aboard a train for their
Evening star., 1945-12-25
District Observes Christmas
On Happy Peocetime Note
FomiIy Reunions With Returned Veterans
And Parties Mark YuIe Under Leoden Skies

Christmas came to Washing
ton today on a happy peace
time note and even gloomy
weather could not dispel the
warmness felt in many homes
where family reunions again
were complete.
For most Washingtonians it was
day when turkey and all the trim
mings topped off pleasant conversa-
ton and nostalgia memories of other
Christmases. 1t was a great day
for the stay-at-homes, but it was a
bright day, too, for those who spread
cheer at parties and open houses.
And for most who had passed
through four years of rationing, 1t
was a bountiful Christmas. Junior
df he was particularly lucky had
that electric train he had pined for,
and nom had that fur coat.
Dad, Of course, smiled contentedly
Evening star., 1945-12-25
New Overseas Edition
Viii Be Out tomorrow

A new issue of The Stars
Overseas Edition will be ready
tomorrow. Free copies, with
envelopes for mailing, may be
obtained at, The Stars busi-
ness counter and the Victory
Bond booth in Lansburgh's
Department Store.
The edition is strictly lim-
tied. Please don't waste 1
single copy.
Evening star., 1945-12-25
Big ; Reaches
Agreement on
Peace Treaties
Terms Will Be Topic
At Conference to Be
Called Before Nav |
Ey the Associated Press.

MOSCOW, Dec. 25.-An agree
ment on the procedure for draft
ing the European peace settle
ment, reached by the Foreign
Ministers of Soviet Russia, the
United States and Britain, Of
fered hope today for termination
of the impasse on which the
five-power conference in London
foundered last October.
An announcement issued by the
Big Three Foreign Ministers last
night said they had agreed that
the peace terms should be drawn
up by those nations which signed
the armistice terms with Germany s
European satellites, except in the
case of other members of the United
Nations who will be invited to take
part in decisions of questions which
concern them
The terms, the announcement
said, will be submitted to a confer
ence of representatives of 81 active
belligerents who fought for the AL
lied cause, to be convoked not later
than May l, 1916.
A communique will be issued at
2 a. m. Thursday 6 p. m. WedneS-
day Eastern Standard Time, a
British source said.
Informed quarters said the Big
Three ministers planned another
meeting before adjournment.
Byrnes Pleased With Results.
In the meantime, the announce
ment added, deputies of the five
power council of Foreign Ministers
will resume their work in London.
The Big Three conferees asked
both France and China to give their
approval to the agreement.
China has replied affirmatively,
but there has been no answer from
France, it was learned.
The announcement, issued as the
tripower conference drew to a
close, was regarded by foreign
diplomats here as fair compro-
mise of the positions taken at the
recent unsuccessful meeting of the
Council of Foreign Ministers in
London.
These quarters expressed belief
that the major powers now stand
closer together than they have in
months.
Secretary of State James F. Byrnes
was said to be pleased with the
results of the conference, while not
Evening star., 1945-12-25
Atomic Toast Given
By Stain as Host to
| Byrnes and Bevin
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Dec. 25.-General-
issirno Stain gave an atomic"
toast at a Christmas eve din
ner for United States Secretary
of State Byrnes and British
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin
in the Kremlin last night and
all drained their glasses mer-
rily.
Details were not given out,
but persons who attended said
the toast probably was the most
interesting and amusing of
about Is drunk at the function.
Premier Stain, rested up by
a long vacation, took a lively
part in the conversation up and
down the long table. Men who
have attended many Kremlin
banquets for foreigners said he
never was more hospitable.
Evening star., 1945-12-25
Picture on Page A-2.)

BY the Associated Press.
Santa Claus at Walter Reed hos
pital turned out to. be a genial
stocky, three-star Army general.
1t. Gen. James H. Doolittle, with
a pillow and q row Of decorations
under costume made for q Santa
a lot bigger than he, last night dis
tributed> gifts among amputees and
litter cases to the delight Of q few
hundred CTS who didn't know who
he was until the show was over.
He got his biggest hand after Pfc.
Tony Cerasaro, of Endicott, N. X,
lying in cast, explained that he
would have liked his wife and daugh-
ter with him for Christmas, but
couldn't find 3 place for them. The
Evening star., 1945-12-25
Gifts Dropped on Islands

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. rs (P.-
Santa Claus, in a Coast Guard
flown ply, will visit the Farallon
Islands this morning, weather per-
mitting. He will parachute 1900
pounds of Christmas turkey din
ners, packages and mail to weather,
radio and light station operators
and their families, who for the past
week have been isolated from the
mainland. some 25 miles away, by
Pacific storms.
Evening star., 1945-12-25

with the usual socks and ties, but a
full stomach at a dinner table un-
der which EXCL Joe placed his feet
seemed enough at the time. Even
the bills could be forgotten.
There was the other side-the
hospitals, the welfare institutions
the empty chairs where GI Joe
would never sit again. But even in
the hospitals the men who fought
for another peacetime Christmas
made the most of what they had
and a share of cheer went out to
those in the institutions.
The Nations greatest transporta-
ton jam, created by the biggest
push home, was broken at last
Union Station appeared deserted by
comparison with the week end
crowds, but transportation officials
looked for a new crush tonight when
Evening star., 1945-12-25
Gen. DooIittIe Distributes Gifts
To Wounded at Walter Reed

general then presented him his wife,
Frances, and the 4-year-old daugh-
ter.
He extended congratulations to
Frank O'Conor from La Canada
Calf, q Nisei orphan who lost his
right leg in France, for "magnifi-
cent job" of Mr.. O'Conor had COM
planned there was still prejudice
against the Nisei.
Others who got presents all the
way from wrist watches to suits In
q radio program included Pfc. Hor-
ace Deal of Macon, Ca, who said
the Germans got his Christmas din
ner q year ago; William T. O'Con-
nell, 1928 North Fifteenth Street
Arlington, Va. and Sergt. Victor
|Mapes Of st. Cloud, Fla.
Evening star., 1945-12-25
Auto-Train Collision Kills
Seven in South Carolina
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GAFFNEY, S. c.. Dec. 25.-Seven
persons were killed instantly when
the automobile in which they we're
riding was struck by a SoutherD
Railway passenger train at a cross.
ing here shortly before midnight.
Bodies were strewn so yards down
the tracks, while the destroyed
automobile was hurled about the
same distance.
The victims we're all believed to
be Gaffney residents. Undertakes
identified the following:
Fred Warren, Jack Cothran, Henry
Phillips and Charles Phillips, Robert
Phillips, G. c. Self and Miss
Geraldine Byers.
Evening star., 1945-12-25
Troops on East, West Coasts
Assured of YuIe Celebration
GIs Stationed Abroad
Fill In for Suntu to
Alleviate Hordships
By the Associated Press.


LONDON, Dec. 25.-The world
rejoiced today in the first peace
time Christmas in six years, but
food, clothing and fuel shortages
brought widespread suffering in
many lands.
Some of the hardships, however
were alleviated by American CTS
who, unable to be home for Christ
mas, filled in for Santa Claus.
In the little town of Bethlehem
the nearly 2,00o-year-old miracle
which founded the Christian re-
ligion was re-enacted at midnight
last night in the Church of the Ma
tivity by high church dignitaries be.
fore an overflow crowd of pilgrims
from all over the world, many ir
uniform.
Pope Flags Totalitarianism.
Pope Plus XII, broadcasting his
traditional Christmas message tc
the world yesterday from Vatican
City, flayed "totalitarianism" as the
source of human suffering and called
for collaboration, good will. and re-
ciprocal confidence in all peoples"
In England, civilians, still not back
(See YANKS ABROAD. Page A-3)
Evening star., 1945-12-25

wishing to raise American hopes too
high.
Mr.. Byrnes hoped to get away to-
morrow. His plane crew readied
the ship.
Provisions for Peace Treaties.
Specifically, the agreement reached
here provided that the terms OF
the peace treaty with Italy be
drafted by the United States,
Britain, Russia and France, and that
treaties with Romania, Bulgaria and
Hungary be drawn up by Russia, the
United States and Britain. Britain
and Russia will draft the treaty
with Finland.
When this preparatory work is
completed, the council of foreign
ministers will call a conference to
discuss the peace agreements. Ma
tions eligible to participate in addi-
ton to the United States, Russia,
Britain, France and China will be:
Australia, Belgium, White Russia,
Brazil, Greece, Holland, Canada
New Zealand, Norway, Poland, the
Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, Ethiopia
Yugoslavia, the Union of South
Africa and India.
Following the collapse of the
fve-power conference of foreign
ministers in London last fall,
Mr.. Byrnes issued statement in
which he blamed the deadlock
on Russia's insistence on barring
France and China from discus
sion of Balkan peace treaties.
(Mr. Byrnes argued that un-
der the Potsdam decisions the
Foreign Ministers Council should
call conference of principally
interested states" which should
include permanent members of
the Security Council, the Euro
pean members of the United
Nations and non European mem
bers which supplied substantial
military contingents against the
European members of the Axis.
The conference would review the
preliminary work of the coun-
cil.")
Observers said the agreement
reached by the Big Three foreign
ministers was indicative of the cor
dial spirit of the Moscow confer
ence, and it was intimated that de-
cisions on other matters of world
wide interest might be forthcoming
soon.
Evening star., 1945-12-25
No Soldiers Aboard
Vessel in Distress
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Dec. 25.-The New
York port of efnbarkation said yes
terday there we're no troops aboard
the 7,000-ton U. S. S. James M.
Wayne, reported In serious trouble
at sea.
The London Sunday Graphic said
message relayed to Lloyd's of Lon
don from the ships master reported
the ship was taking water fore and
oft
Evening star., 1945-12-25
Doctor Plays Sonto
To SIG With NyIons
BY. the Associated Press.

BY the ASSoclated Press.
CHARLOTTE, n. c., Dec. 25.-
Nylon stockings occupied places OF
honor under Christmas trees in SIG
Charlotte homes today.
All nurses and other women en-
ployes of Memorial Hospital received
one pair of the priced hose-gift of
a Charlotte physician. He dis
tributed 43 dozen pairs to as many
fortunate females.
To avoid a possible mob scene his
identity is being withheld.
How did he get the stockings?
Professional secret,
Evening star., 1945-12-25
Is Die in Hospital Fire
Al Hartford as Nurse
YuIe Tree
Short Circuit Storts
BIoze; II Victims Sent
To Other institutions
Py the Associated Press,

HARTFORD. Conn, Dec. 25.-
The number of dead in the Niles
Street Hospital fire, caused by a
Christmas tree which suddenly
became a torch of death, mount
ed today to 16.
Latest to die as a result of last
nights blaze in the hospital, a small
institution for convalescents and
chronically Ill, was Theodore Piper
His wife was among the first Is
persons. many of them aged, who
perished in the fire.
Mr.. Piper was one of 27 injured
persons removed to other hospitals.
Two in Serious Condition.
DR.. Waiter Weissenborn, medical
examiner, said the condition of at
least two of the injured was grave.
Thirteen of the dead were women
three were men. Most of them were
residents of the Hartford area.
Earlier in the day blaze which
swept a nearby Meriden home cost
the lives of man and wife and four
Of their i've children.
The hospital tree flared up when
a nurse unplugged an extension cord
leading to the lights with which 1t
had been festooned and within min
utes the interior of the 3-story brick
building was in flames.
Neighbor Sent Alarm.
A woman living next door to the
institution heard the cracking noise
of the flames, looked from a window
and telephoned the first alarm.
Within minutes all available fire
apparatus was at the scene and &c
ambulances on hand to convey the
injured to other institutions.
Firemen working in close to zero
Temperatures did what they could
but the blaze ate through the struc-
ture. A woman jumped to her death
from the third floor, other victims
were found within the hospital char
red almost beyond recognition.
One victim died at st. Francis
Hospital, where most of the injured
were taken.
Some of the victims-two were
over 80 years of age-were found
with hands clenched, as they died
All But One Patients.
With the exception of a kitchen
employe, all the dead were patients
but at least some of the hospital
personnel were believed to be among
the injured. Hours after the fire
it was still impossible to obtain
an accurate estimate Of the num-
ber of persons in the institution
when the blaze started.
Firemen not needed to fight the
fire were pressed into service to
help police as litter bearers, bring
ing the dead and injured from the
building. Time and again they
fought their way into the interior
to emerge with the meaning in
jured and charred dead.
Ten firemen were so seriously
overcome by smoke that they joined
the rescued inmates of the Miles
street institution at other hos
pitfalls.
Police Restrain Spectators.
State and city police held back
huge throngs and established a tenn
porary morgue at the headquarters
garage.
State Police Commissioner Edward
J. Hickey, an early arrival on the
scene, opened an immediate investi-
cation.
As firemen continued to pour
tons Of water on the structure, ice
coated the blackened walls, and
twisted fragments of metal beds and
mounds of charred mattresses and
other furnishings made a ghastly
background against a neighborhood
gay with Christmas trimmings.
Evening star., 1945-12-25
Marshall and Chiongs
Lunch in Chunqkinq
BY the Associated Press.

CHUNGKING, Dec. 25.-Gen.
George c. Marshall had Christmas
luncheon today with Generalissimo
and Nine. Chang Kai-shek, his first
meeting with them since his arrival
in Chungking Saturday.
Those present included Walter
Robertson, United States charge
d'Affaires; Brig. Gen. Russell RAN
dali, commander of American forces
in Chungking, and Chinese Vice Pre-
mier Wong Wen-hao.
Evening star., 1945-12-25
Truman Leaves
For Missouri
y
|0n Sacred Cow
Plane Flies Blind;
Weather Holds Up
Stort for Hours
BULLETIN.

ST. LOUIS R.-Runways at
Lambert st. Louis Field, where
President Truman'S. plane is
scheduled to land at $3.50 pm,
EST, were slippery with a
light coating of ice and snow
today, but commercial airlines
were using them for takeoff
and landing without trouble.
Visibility was 9 miles at
12:45 pm, EST.
President Truman took oil
from National Airport at 1905
o'clock today to spend Christmas
in Missouri with his. family,
after being held up here four
hours by the weather.
At the airport, it was said that it
would be necessary for the Sacred
Cow" the Presidents plane, to fly the
entire route to Kansas City on in
struments because of the heavy over.
cast.
A second plane carrying reporters
and photographers took of right be.
hind the President. -.
Mr.. Truman was accompanied By
Brig. Gen. Harry Vaughan, his mill.
tary aide, and Miss Rose Conway, his
secretary.
1t. Myers at Controls.
The Presidents plane, as usual,
was piloted by 1t. Henry T. Myers,
veteran airlines pilot, who has flown
Mr.. Truman on all his trips, and be-
fore that, was the pilot for President
Roosevelt on transatlantic cross
lings.
| President Truman had expected to
leave Washington about $3.50, but it
was sleeting heavily at that hour,
ana reports here were that similar
conditions prevailed all the way to
Kansas City, which is around four
hours distant.
For a while in midmorning, II
seemed doubtful that the President
would be able to make the trip, but
about IL o'clock. weather reports
were more favorable, and he decided
to get away.
Will Motor to Independence.
The Cow" will land at Municipal
Airport. Kansas City, and the Presi-
dent win motor 16 miles to Inde-
pendence to join Mrs. Truman and
Miss Margaret Truman, who went
West last week.
The Presidents plans also called
for a visit today to his 93-year-old
mother, Mrs. Martha Truman, at
Grandyiew, Is miles from Inde-
pendence, and he also will drop
across the street from his Inde-
pendence home to see his 96-year-
old aunt, Mrs. j. T. holland.
He returns Friday.
When it appeared yesterday after
noon that flying today probably
would be difficult, there were sug-
gestions that the President might
take a train after the Community
Tree exercises which would have
permitted him to reach home for .
late dinner period. He decided, how
ever, to wait, on the possibility that
he could fly out
Evening star., 1945-12-25
Situation Generally
As Juvu Officials Return
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
BATAVIA, Dec. 25.-The situation
was reported generally quiet In
Java today as President Soekarno
Premier Sutan Sjahrir and Other
members of the unrecognized Indo.
nesian republican government re.
turned to Batavia from an extended
tour seeking to solidify their ma.
tionalist, supporters.
Minor clashes were reported ir
the Soerabaja area where British
Indian patrols dispersed groups
around q roadblock.
Evening star., 1945-12-25
British Bride Arrives

ALBANY, N. Y, Dec. IS (P).--
Peggy Barnard Chaplin, British
bride of Gilbert j. Chaplin, for
nler GI, and their l3-month-
daughter Anne have been reunited
for Christmas. Mrs. Chaplin and
her daughter arrived in the United
States from England Saturday and
fached their new home yesterday
Evening star., 1945-12-25
Flying Bricks Kill
Firemun in Admission
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ANNISTON. Ala, Dec. 25.-A fire.
man was killed today and another
was injured in fighting blaze which
destroyed the three-story CONNER
lcial National Bank building here.
Fireman Bert Cole was injured
fatally by flying bricks when one of
the walls collapsed. Fire Chief En-
NETT White was injured. He esti-
mated the loss at $65, 900.
Evening star., 1945-12-25
No Late Editions
Today

The Star observes Christ
mas today by eliminating late
afternoon editions. Subscrih-
ers to the Night Final Edition
will receive the regular Home
Edition.
Evening star., 1945-12-25
Gen. Shepherd Ordered
From China to Quontico
py the Associated Press

Ey the Associated Press.
TIENTSIN, China, Dec. "a De-
layeO Maj. Gen. Lemuel C. Shep-
herd, jr., turned over the command
of the 9Th Marine Division at Tsing-
tao today to Maj. Gen. Archie F.
Howard, veteran of Guadalcanal
and New Georgia. Gen. Shepherd
has been ordered back to Quantico,
| Va, for duty.
Evening star., 1945-12-25

(See WEATHER, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1945-12-25

(See TROOPS, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1945-12-25

1See CHRISTMAS, page A-3.
Evening star., 1945-12-25

(See YANKS ABROAD, Page A-3.j
Evening star., 1945-12-25

shek and Kadzher, near Tehran.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-18

"Donkeys," chided the gentle
Olivera, '-are the same in every
country, Dora"
But thees donkeys-they're
BAD dOnkeys," she replied.
The talk drifted to- King
Carol and Lupescu, who are
now in Olivera's country, Bra.
zil, and whom Olivera saw
when he went to Rio at Christ.
mastime.
DO you know them?" /
asked Dora.
"Oh, no, I don't. 1 sing"
answered the little girl.
Then, changing the subject,
she went on to tell me about
her two sisters and her two
brothers.
And when you come to
Mexico, I cook for you. i mex
enchiladas and tOrtillas and
tamales all good Mexican
dishes for you"
Olivera, who came TO this
country with Carmen Miranda
and was with the Miranda
orchestra until he joined the
Disney Company, said that
when King Carol and Lupescu
arrived in Mexico, they com.
pletely captured the imagin.
alton of the Mexican people.
They arrived with 800 pieces
of luggage, five dogs, and
Travelled in regal style, and
they are now at the Copa.
cabana in Rio still living in
kingly style.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-18

people I've ever met who works
hard to win your approval.
Walt Disney is her hero.
"Mr. Disney, he make the
best pictures she said.
1.-THE Three CdbdlIero,' Il ees
the best picture ever made"
You mustn't say that,
Dora" admonished her inter.
prefer, Louis Ohvera. A Bra.
lillian by birth, he's well &C.
quainted with the Latin TEN.
permanent. He treats Dora as
a child, and although she says
she's 20, she seems much
younger.
But IL ees true about Mr..
Disney" she answered. "'The
Three Cdbdllero' plays and
plays and plays, and IL cost
10 pesos" which she reminded
me Is about $3.50 in our money,
and Is a high price.
and" she added, "the Ala.
media Theater, IL ees crowded
all day and night"
Walt made a special version
of THE Three CabaIIerOs" in
Spanish, and the world pre-.
miere was held in Mexico City,
making the warm. hearted
Mexicans very happy.
Il hate all Mexican pictures
made I'm the United States"
Dora said. "They make Mexi.
cans dirty, barefoot, too fat,
too many plgtails, and too
many dOnkeys. All but
The Three Cubdllero.'"
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-18

wanted TO ask more ques.
tions about these two people,
but the little Mexican girl was
bored-she wasn't interested
she wanted to talk about
Walt Disney, "the greatest man
in the wOrld-he knows more
than any other living person
about motion pictures"
you ought to be his press
agent" l said, land it's fortu.
nate that share your admira.
tiOn for Walt. /, too, think
he's wonderful"
Dora is returning to Mexico
City to fulfill radio contracts
and to sing, and she'll also
make a picture there. She
sings in the soft, torchy Dinah
Shore manner. Then she comes
back to finish Cuban Car.
nival," for which Walt already
has made the recordings.
A other enthusiasm of
Dora's is her admiration for
the United States and her
eagerness to learn to speak
the English language.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-18
BY LOUELLA O. PARSONS
News Service
IMINUTTVE, smiling,
vivacious Dora Luz

AAAA< re m n q e q me OF
Lupe Velez the first time / saw
her. She has the same quaint
accent, the same love Of life,
and while she's a subdued
version of Lupe. and less
tempestuous, l can see why
she is so loved in her native
Mexico. She has some Of the
charm that gave Lupe such
hold on our hearts.
Walt Disney, who heard
Dora sing in a Mexico City
cabaret, brought her to Holly.
wood for The Three Cab.
alleros." She'll also have a
part and sing in Cuban Car.
nivar" for Walt, who says she
makes him smile because she
always is so gay and SO happy.
was fascinated with the
dress Dora wore when she
came with her interpreter 70
see me. 1t was a bright yellow,
with figures of Spanish seno-
ritas dressed in red and green,
and gay guitar players all in
red, green and yellow. 1t was
the epitome Of color and
gaiety.
She's very small. this little
Mexican girl, with dark eyes
and black hair, and she wants
so much to have everyone like
her. She is one Of the few