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The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1946-12-23

Christmas has been in the air
for several days, now, at the I'm
ion county Infirmary. With more
than 40 inmates, it has been a
big undertaking, but Supt. and
Mrs. Mckinley Haines have had
a lot of much-appreciated help
from the outside.
Two different groups were
there Sunday to present Christ
mas program and gifts for the in
mates.
The Salvation Army came
down from Marion, Sunday morn
ing with gifts and conducted a
Christmas service for their bene-
fit.
Sunday afternoon, the Union
vile Center Church and Sunday
School presented a program of
Christmas carols and readings,
and gave gifts to all the inmates.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1946-12-23
CHICKEN DINNER SET
FOR PRISONERS AT JAIL

Prisoners at the Union county
Jail will have chicken for their
Christmas dinner, Mrs. Alva
Moore, matron, said today.
"We had turkey at ThanksgiV-
ing, and so decided to serve
chicken for Christmas dinner, "
she pointed out.
There will probably be treats
of some kind for the three or four
prisoners now confined, in addit-
ion to the extra fare which Mrs.
Moore is arranging for her Christ
mas dinner.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1946-12-23
LOCAL MAN
IN QUAKE ZONE

AT least one Marysville man
and his family is in Osaka, Japan
center of terrific earthquake
which struck early Saturday
morning.
He is Major Myron r. Bittiko-
fer, son of Supt, and Mrs. F. G..
Bittikofer, of Ash st. He has been
in Japan for the past year. His
wife and their small daughter and
son joined him there about two
months ago.
According to United Press re-
ports, the pre-dawn quake appar-
emily centered about 90 miles off
Shikoky island, Jared seismo-
graph around the world and sent
l0-foot tidal wave crashing into
cities and villages along the
shores of Shikoky and south-cen-
trail Honshu.
Preliminary Japanese govern
ment figures based on survey of
IA prefectures hit hardest listed
$40 known dead, 628 seriously in
Ijured and 823 missing
At least so cities and villages
on the shores of the inland sea
were wrecked and 1886 houses
and 81 factories were damaged
or demolished.
Maj. Bittikofer, who was grad
uated from Marysville high school
in 1881, has been in the Army
since 194l, having been called up
from the Reserve ranks. He is an
officer in the Engineer Corps, as
signed to the 240th Engineers
Corps battalion.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1946-12-23
Sgt. Ellsworth McKeon Sends $4,000
to Hospital Fund as Chxistmas Present

years in all he has been in the
regular Army.
Mr.. and Mrs. Auer have been
in constant touch with young Nc
Kean, have kept him informed of
local happenings. They told him
of the proposed hospital and their
own interest in the campaign. AS
former resident and a bene-
ficiary of Union county insti-
tuition, Sgt. Mexican Immediately
dispatched money-order to Mr..
Auer for $l00 as a Christmas gift
to the County Hospital Fund.
Verify, as the scriptures say,
Bread cast upon the water will
return many fold"
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1946-12-23

at Christmas time" Mrs. w. R.
Weidman, w. Fourth ST., chair
man of the relief work, declared.
Presents and treats have been
given to the Children's Home kid
dies, and Infirmary inmates, but
that is all.
Last year, five families were
given baskets of food, clothing,
toys and games at Christmas
time. Each year, the number of
families on the Kings Daughters
list has dwindled since the early
war years.
There have been times when
more than so Christmas baskets
bushel baskets, too-have been
distributed by The Kings Daugh-
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1946-12-23

Many will remember a pleas
ant, curly-headed boy, who, dur
ing his Marysville high school
day, earned extra money by
working part time in Hazen's
Book Store. That was more than
-l5 years ago, for Ellsworth Nc
Kean graduated in the class of
1881.
After graduation he left the
County Home, where in the hands
of Mr.. and Mrs. Chester Auer, he
had spent a happy childhood.
Ellsworth enlisted in the Regu-
lar Army and for three years was
at Fort Hayes and for the next
three years in the Philippines, II
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1946-12-23

ters. One year, there were 152
children to be provided for, and
the group came through for each
child.
But this year is different"
Mrs. Weidman declared. Every
one seems to have enough money
at least to get by so they don't
need US"
But there will be a time when
times are not so good as they
are now, Mrs. We:dman believes,
and when that time comes, The
Kings Daughters will again be
ready to aid those in distress, es-
pecially at Christmas.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1946-12-23

Those who wish to write per-
sonal letter of appreciation to this
generous giver may address him
as follows:
Sgt. Ellsworth Mexican, 2035th
Labor Supervising Co., APO sc,
% POSTMASTER, New York, Erlang-
en-, Germany.
Others may wish to follow ELS
worth McKean's example and put
the Memorial hospital on their
gift list. New contributions, as
well as payments on pledges, may
be left at Galloway's shoe store
in Marysville, or at the home of
F. M. Brown, in Redwood.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1946-12-23
NARCOTICS CHARGE

Mrs. Emma Jane Elliott, Rich
wood, is being held in Union
county Jail under bond of $4,000
after she pleaded not guilty be-
fore Justice William H. Snodgrass
Saturday morning, to being under
the influence of alcohol or mar
cotics. She was arrested in Rich
wood Friday night by Deputy
Sheriff Alva Moore on an affi-
davit signed by her son, Ray.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1946-12-23
No Yu|e Baskets
Given This Year By
Kings Daughters
First Time in Years
There Has Been No Need
For Christmas Relief

For the first time years and years, the City Union Of The
Daughters will provide food and toys for needy families
this Christmas
Not that this splendid organization is ready and willing
do there simply is need for its this year
Marysve a few reported the Kings Daugh-
and duly investigated by their relief workers. but each
the potentian recipients declined aid
This the have put out any askets
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1946-12-23
YOUTH CENTER DANCE

The Memorial Youth Center
will sponsor a $3.50 dance Thurs
day evening in the armory. Dane
ing will start at $50 o'clock. Mrs
Cecil Riser has been appointed
as full time advisor for the youth
center next summer.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
Jops Try to Forget Assault
On Pearl Horbor But Can't

TOKYO Dec. 7. (P)-This bomb
ruined and defeated country would
like to forget what happened five
years ago.
Through the chilly night of De-
cember 7 1941, Japans millions slept
in tension but in ignorance-while
a few key men completed the final
details of one of the best-kept Sc
crets of warfare the attack on Pearl
Harbor.
It was 3:25 am, December 8.
Tokyo time, when the bombs ex-
ploded. 1t was am. when the or
dinary Japanese got his first inkling
of the event through careful radio
broadcasts. 1t was 1l:40 am. when
the radio announced the imperial
rescript declaring war.
Americans who. were here at the
time said most japanese seemed
stunned, unprepared for that final
reality, even though they long had
been groomed by press and radio for
day of reckoning with America.
Now, as japanese see on every
hand how their moment of triumph
has ended in impoverishment and
defeat, they don't like to talk about
Pearl Harbor.
1t has a habit of creeping into
between Americans
and Japanese, and usually the talk
comes to an abrupt, embarrassing
halt. Then the Japanese starts
talking about something else. Most
japanese cannot understand why
Americans won't forget things the
way they have tried to do.
AT the outset of the occupation,
educated Japanese used to ask,
when did Japan lose the WARP"
They were shocked at the usual
American answer: "When you at
tackled Pearl Harbor."
1t is doubtful if many japanese
even yet consider the attack moral
ly wrong. In their minds they had
accepted stealth as legitimate part
of war even though that war had
not been declared.
Still the great majority appears
embarrassed knowing that Pearl
Harbor brought upon Japan suffer-
ing, hardship and despair. The
Japanese would like to forget the
whole thing-but they can't.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
Hickman Field s Flag
That Weafhered Jap
Attack Raised Again
gx the Assoeioted Press

HONOLULU, Dec. 7,-At exactly
l7:55 am, the American flag which
flew over Hickam Field at that mo-
ment five years ago was raised ON
the same flagstaff today in a simple
but impressive ceremony observing
| the anniversary of Japan's attack.
The Navy held no special services
commemorating the Pearl Harbor
assault, one officer explaining, I'VE
want to forget-not remember
Pearl Harbor."
AS the Arrny's tattered flag flut-
tered in the breeze under gray skies,
Brig. Gen. John G. Williams, COM
manding the Hawaiian Air Materiel
Area, gave a brief, vivid account OF
the Japanese attack on Hickam
Field.
when it was over" he said, "the
smoke from burning aircraft
mingled with the smoke from burn
ing naval craft at Pearl Harbor.
That flag is as you see it now-torn
and damaged but still symbolic OF a
great nation"
Gov. Irgram Stainback said, "Ihe
heroic deeds of our citizens of every
race should silence for all time those
preaching racial intolerance, should
still forever the tongues of discord
that would divide our people"
1t. Gen. John E. Hull, command
ing general in the mid-Pacific said,
"It is my fervent hope that the
initial costly losses of December Z,
l941, will serve always as a reminder
to our people that they must re-
main physically and mentally alert.
Continued peace depends to a large
extent upon the understanding and
good faith of people of all nations. /"
Evening star., 1946-12-08

addressing the Philosophical Society
of Texas.
''The next would-be conqueror will
hit us first. In the system for ma
tional security, seapower is the
cornerstone. Loosing our imagiala-
tions to envision war against the
United States by power possessing
no comparable fleet but our match
in military airpower and long range
rockets, seapoWer would still tip the
balance for us by its ability to get in
under the adversary's reach and
strike him at close quarters with our
mobile naval forces"
U. S. Savings Bonds pay in more
than dollars.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
u. 5. Will Be Hif First
In New War, Nimitz Says
By the Assoeiofed Press

DALLAS, Tex. Dec. Admiral
Chester w. Nimitz warned in a
Pearl Harbor anniversary speech
here tonight that a militarily- weak
United States would make a tempt
ing prize for modern conquista-
dores.'
Twice within a generation, as
pirants for world conquests have
made the mistake of attacking the
United States last" the Texas-born
chief of naval operations said in
Evening star., 1946-12-08
LudIow-TuyIor PTA to Meet

The Ludlow-Taylor PTA will
meet at 3 pm. Thursday at the
Taylor School. Sound and silent
motion pictures and slides will be
shown. to demonstrate their value
in education. Girl Scouts have
promised to take care of small
children for mothers who wish to
attend.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
GEO. WASHINGTON
Nea,er Did,.

George Washington NEVER slept the furniture
upholster but lot Of comes looking like he
did! If your furniture its lost legs let Alon
reuphoster it and add yeors and years OF enduring se
ice to its life Alan eroftsmen KNOW furniture inside
out. When Alan re-uphosters your - III
furniture it STAYS re-uphoIstered BUDGET
We don't use ony of these huHy-up, DIGNIFIED
mass production methods Every TERMS
suite gets individual attention here. Y
We moke every piece masterpiece
;x :,.': T.: E; :: :: ::' ';;:; 6; ';;;;; ss
springs.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
SITS to S125

Shroock Shetland Robes Virgin WOOL s35
Authentic Pad Lightweight Wool Made England ss
Printed Foulard Unlned $40 Pure S Jacquard Lined 500
Pendeton Tugin Wool Robes I775
Wool Rayon Jackets s650 Fool Smoking Jackets SIS
Handsome Rayon Veluet Robes, SIS
Evening star., 1946-12-08

U. S. Savings Bonds pay in more
than dollars.
Evening star., 1946-11-28

Ia number OF shippers and processors
believed to have dealt In poultry at
|over-ceiling prices.
He said that after perjury charges
were brought against seven persons,
numerous others acknowledged owing
more taxes than they had reported.
Dealers Books Inspected.
Secretary Snyder gave this resume
lof the case In q statement:
Internal Revenue agents began al,
Investigation several months ago
when they determined large guam
titles Of Connecticut poultry were
being sold in the New York market
at prices far above" the OPA CELL
|ings then prevailing.
They looked into the books Of
zone Of the largest dealers who
acted as a middleman between
raisers and retailers, but found en-
tries of all transactions were within
ceilings. Then they broadened the
investigation to include persons sell
ing to and buying from the firm,
not named In the statement, and
some poultry raisers made affidavits
that the concern had participated
in overceiling transactions.
Seven officers or stockholders Of
the company were placed under
oath and after they had persistently
denied participating In overceiling
transactions, perjury charges were
brought against them. These
charges still are pending. !"
Other Disclosures Made.
After the charges were filed,
numerous persons made disclosures
to the agents which Indicated that
black market prices were almost
the rule, rather than the exception,
during the years 1943-1945."
AS the inquiry gained momentum,
an increasingly large number adj.
Evening star., 1946-11-28
Poultry Dealers Pay
lS35O,OOO Taxes on
Black Market Profits
BY ii. Asseeiot.d Press

The Treasury has shared $3.50, ,000
lin drive to collect income taxes on
profits made by black marketers IA
the New York area when poultry
was under price ceilings. Officials
estimated today that collections may
reach $4,000, 900.
Secretary of the Treasury Snyder
told news conference his agents
have cracked down" already on
some 1000 Connecticut farmers and
Evening star., 1946-11-28

mitted deficiency In their tax re-
turns and signed agreements to pay
additional taxes and civil fraud
penalties
Other Treasury ofilcials said the
perjury charges mentioned BY Sec
fretary Snyder were hled at Hart
ford, Conn.
They said the Government had
recovered many thousands OF dol
lars In additional taxes and pen
alties from previous investigations
Evening star., 1946-11-28

into tax aspects Of poultry black
markets IA other States. notably
those along the Atlantic seaboardI
and Texas and California
Evening star., 1946-11-28

MEMS DEPARTMENT
. Jackets, 1907 wool, leather trimmed
front, SO and 40. Were 1895. Now o.95
Topcoats, young mems fnger-tip coats,
wool and cotton mixture, sizes "a and
SO. Were 1895. Now ---------lO.95
RAINCOATS
Pastel shades. blacks, checks, natural,
sizes 1920, 38 and 40. Were 1899 to
17.99 Now w------------5.48 to 9.98
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-29
TOPPING $4,000

Business at a local post office, bank
deposits and the payment of taxes are
generally considered in determining bust
ness trends in community, with the re-
ceipts in stamp sales at the post office
coming first.
But, as regards Key West, there is
another factor just as outstanding as pos
tai receipts in determining business condi-
tons in our community, and that is the
collection of tolls on our bridges.
Let us consider that factor in con-
nection with business conditions in Key
West today and we will find that they are
practically as good now as at any time
during the war
Last month, with the collection of
tolls tOtaling $31 ,375.75, more than ST 600
in excess of the amount for the same month
in 1914, indicated for the first time since
the falling off of tolls, that business con-
ditions were returning fast to their war
status, Other recent months had shown
gains but they were not as pronounced as
in December just past
With four days more to go in this
month, receipts have already exceeded the
December totals. And bear in mind that
January is not considered a really good
month for the collection of tolls because
for week or so after New Years Day the
traffic slows down.
For instance, the best January, ex-
Guiding the present one, in collection of
tolls was in 1941 when there was nation
wide rush in preparing for the war the
United States government felt sure was
to come. That best January in the history
of the Overseas Highway up to then show
ed total collection of $31 ,694.41, and the
receipts this month, with four days more
to go, since Sunday, have exceeded that
sum.
B. M. Duncan, engineer for the Over
seas Highway, said he thought that the
total collection of tolls this month will be
between $4,000 and $4,000, which is a
far cry from those months since the road
was built when the total for a month fell
below $4,000. \
Up, up, up, go the tolls, and VIII
February and March generally the best
months on the highway, the $4,000 mark
likely will be topped.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-29
BLOCs IN THE U.N.O.

Tn the opening meetings of the Onlteo
Nations General Assembly, the first work
Of Importance was to name the members
IF various councils, commissions ana COM
mittees.
In the process of selecting MEMBERS
observers note a tendency on the part OF
the Latin-American group to get together
nc q bloc. choose whom they wanted IN
narticular place and thus practically force
the UNO to accept their nomination. re-
gardless of the man or position lnVolVed'
It has also been observed that the in
FAINT Arab League, consisting of Egypt
SYRIA, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and lraq'
acts in concert, apparently for the pur-
pose of excluding Turkey and Iran from
positions of prominence. Apparently, the
League has been encouraged by Russia,
and the unwillingness of the United States
and Great Britain to make an issue has
facilitated the Leagues success.
We call attention to these matters,
not in criticism of the UNO or in the be-
lief that they threaten the success of the
organization. The formation of blOcs, IN
the early operation of the UNO, is prob
ably inevitable. AS the organization gets
to work, there is the prospect that these
tactics, will disappear and that all nations
will look upon issues fairly and vote as
independent units.
There is no reason for the people of
this country to be worried by the action
of the Latin-American and Arabic groups.
Perhaps the cooperation of smaller ma
tons is somewhat inevitable in view of the
little influence that they possess when they
act alone Nevertheless, it would be pity
for the United Nations Organization to be-
come a group of competing blocs, because
such practices will inevitably prevent the
development of policies based upon justice
and reason.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-29
COMMENCING SENATOR MORSE

United States Senator Wayne L.
Morse, of Oregon, says that he has little
concern for his own political future unless
II can be reelected on my own ideas"
The Senator is now engaged in a fight
to curtail the influence of conservative
Republicans and to assist "Progressives'
to gain control of his party.
Whether one agrees with his views
on political issues or not, every American
should appreciate his willingness to fight
for what he believes and to risk his politi-
cal future on his ideas. aoHe"
y The United States needs men in pub
lie office who are ready to do this In fact,
we are inclined to believe that it is far
more important to have congressman pos
sessing intellectual honesty and political
courage than to have members of particu-
lar parties. Character and intelligence
transcend political appelations and alone
make possible the success of the American
system of government.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-29
MIeHTrsRUN OUT OF ARMY"

1t is not creditable to the Congress or
the people of the United States that Gen
eral Eisenhower has to appeal for "calm
judgment and sound discipline" to re-
place the hysteria that has been connected
with rehabilitation of our fighting forces.
The leader of our successful cam
paign in Europe says frankly that the al
tentative is for the Army to throw in the
sponge on its principal mission, occupa-
tional duties and the protection of billions
of dollars worth of property still overseas.
The Chief of Staff made a personal
appeal to the Senators and Representa-
tives to support the Army in its effort to
meet the problem plaguing it wherever
men are overseas. He frankly admitted
that the War Department could not live
up to the "hope" of General Marshall that
all men with two years service would be
discharged this spring and warned that
if Rehabilitation was accelerated beyond
present plans the nation will literally
run out of Army"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-29
LABEL DOES NOT CHANGE POISON

The so-called st. Lawrence seaway,
IVA, Bonneville, Grand Coulee, the Cen
trail Valley project in California, the San
tee-Cooper project in South Carolina, the
proposed Missouri Valley Authority, and
numerous others are all as socialistie as
was the much publicized Dneiper dam in
Russia which was part of one Russian
'five-year PLAN. Our Federal govern
ment's tax-exempt power projects are no
different in principle or effect, from the
standpoint of killing private enterprise,
than is the Russian system The American
people are just being fed communism un-
der misleading labels
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-29
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Chapter 16

Chapter 16
DURK waited and Edith con-
- tinued to stare out across the
lav.E and wish she had not come.
The gaunt shadows of the age-old
trees swept across the grass as if
with caressing fingers. The blue
green spruces touched shoulders
with linden, popfars and oaks.
Sparrows darted and chirped from
the vines along the porch and the
tall old chimneys as if sure of
being on friendly ground. Which
was more than Edith, herself, felt
at the moment.
Everyone said that DR.. Angus,
Burk and Barbara's father had
gotten the place at a bargain, for
though its bricks were old and
faded, the lines of the house
would be good for generations
and the furniture which went
with the purchase was priceless.
DR.. Angus had come from Penn
sylVania in answer to call for a
physician in the community dur
ing the first World War. The An
guses had been so charmed with
the peaceful valley that they had
remained. Now, since Barbara's
marriage and the death of their
parents, only Burk was left to
enjoy the beautiful old place.
Josie had told Edith all this and
she was thinking of it now as she
stood there. When Burk came
back, she turned and took a chair
facing him, regretting that she
had come. For now, in the light
of Burk's attitude toward her. she
could find no words to say the
thing she had on her heart.
Burk, sensing her difficulty,
took pity on her and began to
talk of topics of the day. Sud-
denly she spoke quickly and
sharply, with toss of head like
her father. "Does-does your sis
ter have to endure episodes like
last night often?"
$50 I'm told" he answered
drily, jabbing tobacco into his
pipe and splitting a little pool OF
it on the polished floor as ne SC
often did when perturbed. "Per-
haps you know the freedom OF
your fathers house is not mine.
She flushed. His tone implied
that with the well-known AFRO
gance of the Laceys she had as
sumed enormously that the free
dom of has house was hers.