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Mrs. Moran to Fete
Music Guild at T ea

Mrs. Juraj Slavic, wife OF the
Czechoslovakian Ambassador, ana
Mrs. Thor Thors, wife of the Ice
landic Minister, will be the honor
guests at a reception to be given
Wednesday afternoon for the mem
bers of the Chamber Music Guild
Mrs. Moran, wife of Capt. Thomas
Moran, u. S. NJ, will be the hostess
entertaining in her home on Kalo-
rama road and guests are asked to
present their invitations at the door
A program of music will be given
by Phyllis Hoyland, winner of the
Guilds 1916 addition, who will sing
and Stanley Weiner, violinist, ano
Nuita Schapiro, pianist, who viii
play. Mrs. Edwin M. Watson, presi-
dent of the Guilds Advisory Board
assisted by Mrs. Gardner Luce, has
arranged the program.
Mrs. Luce also will take her turr
at the tea table and others as.
sisting Mrs. Moran will be Mrs. Rob-
ert P. Patterson, Mrs. Fred M. Vim.
son, Lady Berendsen, Mrs. COST K
urayk, Mrs. o. Max Gardner, Mrs
Joseph Arnold, Mrs. Robert E
Freer, Mrs. Gilbert M. Hitchcock
Mrs. George Holmes, Mrs. Morris
Cafritz, Mrs. Windsor, Mrs. Marce
Ancher, Mrs. George Parker, Mrs
Louis Montague and Miss Eller
| Wood,
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Mss Shoemaker
To Be Married
In Early Spring

The engagement OF MISS PaullIle
Shoemaker to>the Rev. Lester H.
Case has been announced by Miss
Shoemaker's parents. Mr.. and Mrs
John r. Shoemaker. -
Miss Shoemaker is the associate
president of the international So
ciety of Christian Endeavor and Is
in the employ Of the public schools
of the District of Columbia. She
completed her undergraduate work
, at Wilson Normal School ano
George Washington University and
received her masters degree from
Teachers College of Columbia Uni
versity.
Mr.. Case is president OF the Ma
tional Conference of Christian En-
deavor executives, with headquar'
ters in Harrisburg, Pa. He also Il
field secretary of the Pennsylvania
Christian Endeavor Union, having
formerly been for 10 years pastor Of
the Community Church in Ernest
. Pa. He is the son of Mr.. Fred I
Case of Binghamton, N. Y.
The wedding will take place Marcf
% in the Rhode Island Avenue
Methodist Church.
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Foreign Ministers Coming
This W2eek to be Honorgd
Parties Are Arranged;
News of the Diplomats
By Katharine M. Brooks

No less than five distinguished
foreign visitors will come to Wash
ington this week. And there will be
parties, some large and some small
for each of them. The largest will
be given in honor Of the Crown
Prince of Saudi Arabia, His Royal
Highness Prince Emir Saud, who
will be here Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday.
Smaller and less formal will be
the entertainments in honor Of the
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uru-
quay, Mr.. Eduardo Rodriguez Lor-
reto, who will come tomorrow from
Cleveland. Mr.. Lorreto attended the
Council of World Affairs held there
yesterday. The visitor will stay at
Blair House and arrangements for
parties for him will be completed
over this weekend. He probably will
leave Wednesday for his South
American home.
The very popular Minister Of
Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia,
Mr.. Jan Masaryk, will make another
brief visit in Washington the middle
of this week en- route to New York
and the steamer sailing Saturday
to take him to his home in Prague.
MIR. Masaryk stopped in Washington
with the Ambassador and Mrs.
Slavik on his way to Cleveland and
was with them Friday.
DR.. Paul Auer, Hungarian Minis
ter to Paris, another of the speak
ers at the Forum yesterday, will
stop in the Capital the middle Of
the week en- route to New York.
The Hungarian Minister and Mrs.
Szegedy- Maszak have cards out for
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a late afternoon party Thursday In
his honor.
Miss Lille Szegedy-Maszak, sis
ter of the Minister, who has been a
lguest at the legation since the late
autumn, will be off today for her
homeland.
The parties for the Crown Prince
of Saudi Arabia will start with the
reception Wednesday and the fol-
lowing day he will be feted at lunch
con by the President and at din
|ner at which the Undersecretary of
State, DR.. Dean Acheson, will act
as host. Following his stay here
his fighness will start on an extern
|sive tour Of this country.
Another visitor to this Capital Is
the Deputy Chief of Staff of the
Siamese Army, Maj. Gen. Net Khe-
nayothin, who will be here for sew
eral weeks. He is studying the mill
tary system of this country. The
Military Attache of the Siamese Le-
cation, 1t. Col. Nom Luang Kharb
Kunjara, and Mrs. Kunjara will give
a reception in his honor next week,
though the day has not been set.
Mrs. Carlos Martins, wife of the
Brazilian Ambassador, Is in her
home in Rio de Janeiro, where she
went Immediately after the recep-
ton to the diplomatic corps at the
White House last week. Mrs. Mar
tins will be absent a month.
The Netherlands Ambassador and
Mrs. Alex Loudon will be back to-
morrow from brief visit In Buff
falo. Also coming back tomorrow
are the Norwegian Ambassador and
Mrs. Wilhelm Munthe de Morgen-
stierne. The De Morgenstiernes are
in New York for the festivities IN
connection with the visit there OF
the Norwegian battleship Bergen. 1t
is the first time that Norwegian
gunboat has visited these shores and
the officers were entertained in New
York at several parties during the
past few days.
The newly appointed Polish Am
bassador and Mrs. Josef WinleWlcz
are expected to arrive this week
from Poland. The former Ambassa-
dor, DR.. Oscar Lange, now is Polish
representative to the United Ma
tions and with Mrs. Lange has
taken an apartment in New York.
Now comes the news that DR.. Lange
will make a visit to Warsaw next
month and rumor has it that he
may be named Premier in the elec-
tions next Sunday. Mr.. Wlniewlcz
formerly was Counselor OF the Pol
ish Embassy in London.
The Irish Minister, Mr.. Robert
Brennan, was joined Friday by Mrs.
Brennan, who has been in their
home in Ireland for several months.
Coming back with her was their
son, Robert Peter Brennan.
The Commercial Counselor OF the
French Embassy, Mr.. Raymond
Dreux. has returned from trip TO
his homeland and joined Mrs. Dreux
in their home on Cleveland ave.
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parts of the country who find occa-
sion to come to Washington.
The result is that the Clifford
household frequently takes on as
poets of Grand Central Station. It
is an atmosphere In which Mrs.
Clifford thrives.
She has a wonderful servant--an
elderly woman who looked after Mr..
Clifford during his early days here
as a Naval Reserve officer before
his family moved to Washington.
But the maid leaves at about 5
O'Clock in the afternoon and Mrs.
Clifford takes over from there.
Whether there are guests or not,
she1 prepares the dinner. This is q
happy arrangement for all con-
|cerned, because she's an excellent
cook and really likes the role.
A popular member Of Washing
toms official circles, she makes the
transition from pots and pans to
white gloves with the greatest OF
ease. 4
She and her huSDand are much
sought after in Washington society.
Mr.. Clifford Is blond and handsome,
and from assistant naval aide to the
| President he has become one Of the
Chief Executives ablest advisers.
Mrs. Clifford also Is blond and
tgood looking. And her accomplish
ments range far beyond social and
domestic realms.
She is q musician and artist and
can claim laurels in the field OF
interior decorating. She attended
the Harcl1m School at Bryn Mawr,
studied piano at the Boston Con-
servatory Of Music and then topped
Oh her education with courses ct
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the Fannie Farmer Cooking School
and q secretarial school in Boston
F"T wanted to be able to earn a liv-
ing" she explains.
She took part in several concerts
by groups drawn from the Philadel-
phia Symphony Orchestra, but she
also worked for about three months
as secretary and then took a turn
selling clothes and promoting q
new line of cosmetics.
The former Margery Pepperell
Kimball, she was born in st. Louis
but when she was 5, her parents
moved to Philadelphia. Later they
returned to their former home ir
Boston.
Her parents live at Woburn. Mass.
about 10 miles from Boston, in q
house which dates, back to 1882
Her father is an expert on guns ane
her mother is an authority on ole
furniture and silver.
The Kimballs were exhibiting ir
an antique show in Boston wheT
their daughter suddenly acquired 6
commission as an interior decorator
Lillian Smith, author of Strange
Fruit" stopped in to see the ex.
hibit. Mrs. Clifford doesn't know
quite how It happened, but by The
time Miss Smith left she had agreed
to decorate the authors New Yorl
apartment.
Later she had several offers Il
decorate New England houses bu'
regretfuIly declined them because
she was leaving for Washington. He1
art work, however, has included
sketches of some Of Boston's mos
historic houses.
Although she was born In st
Louis, where Clark Clifford wa,
brought up, the two met In Europt
while they were on separate vaca.
tion tours.
After their marriage, they hvet
in st. Louis where Mr.. Clnort
practiced law until he volunteered
for naval service in January, 1914
They still have their home in st
Louis which, incidentally, is fillet
with antiques.
| Their three daughters are all blont
/ and musical. The oldest. VINO is IA
has the family name, Margery Pep.
pereIl, but Is better known as Jerry
Joyce Carter is q year younger
than Jerry and Is called eithel
Sister or Susie. Six-year-old Ran.
DAN, the baby, who IS named for hel
grandmother, doesn't have : nick
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Nlf1tUMzl1'1nS
Eeted Again
allarinOs
Are Hosts

The retiring Colombian Ambassa-
dor and Sonora de Sanz de Santa
maria have had time for nothing
but parties in their honor since 1t
was announced that the Ambassa-
dor would be leaving. There has
hardly been moment day and
night when some one has not been
entertaining for this unusually pop
ular couple. Last evening they were
the toast of the dinner given by the
Panamanian Ambassador and Se-
nora de Vallarino. ~
Guests at the party, which was
given at the Panamanian Embassy,
were the Assistant Secretary OF
State and Mrs. Spruille Braden, the
Cuban Ambassador and Sonora de
Belt, the Dominican Ambassador
and Sonora de Garcia Godoy, the
French Ambassador and Mime. Bon
net, the GuatemalaSa Ambassador
and Sonora de Garcia Granados
and the Chairman of the Governing
Board of the Pan American Union
and Mrs. Antonio Rocha.
| Mai. Gen. and Mrs. Conger Pratt
were also present and Rear Admiral
and Mrs. Clark Woodward, the Di-
rector of the World Bank and Mrs.
Victor Moller, Col. and Mrs. Joseph
B. Mau1din, Senor Jose Comacho-
Lorenzana, First Secretary of the
Colombian Embassy; Mr.. and Mrs
Peter Ansberry, Mr.. and Mrs. j. j
vallarino, jr., and Miss Hilda VAL
larino.
Tonight the Colombian Ambassa-
dor and Sonora de Santamaria will
be guests Of honor at large din.
ner to be given by the Cuban Am.
bassador and Sonora de Belt and
tomorrow the Guatemalan envoy
and his wife will entertain them al
luncheon. The following day Senol
de SAM de Santamaria will leave
for Colombia to become his coun.
ltry's new Minister Of War.
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Symphony Artist
Will Be HOnOred

The former Ambassador to Argen-
tina and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss
will be hosts at a reception Wednes-
day evening in honor of Rudolf Ser
kin, pianist, following his perform
ance as guest artist with the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra.
DR.. Hans Kinder, conductor OF
the orchestra, will share honors with
the pianist, and another noted guest
will be Doda Conrad, basso, who will
leave next month for France fol-
lowing his discharge from the United
States Army.
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Sn-Uice Set
.GUe Parties
Dinner Dance
At New Club
MERRY TRIO.
By Betty Milliksn

Mrs. Floyd L. Parks, wife Of MAJ.
Gen. Parks, chief of the Bureau Of
Public Relations, has invited few
friends to a tea Friday in their
quarters at the Army War College.
The informal party will be given IN
honor of Mrs. Parks mother, Mrs.
Applebye-Robinson and Mrs. Charles
Muffett, who are enroute to Sebri1g,
Fla, where they will spend the re-
mainder of the winter at Harder
Hall. Mrs. Applebye-R obinson and
Mrs. Mnffett, the latter formerly of
London, will arrive Thursday from
their homes in Cornwall, N. Y, and
will remain over the week end.
Mai. Gen. and Mrs. Graves 3.
Erskine, with their three daughters,
have returned from Alabama where
they spent two weeks at Roamers
Roost, plantation of Mrs. Erskine's
mother, Mrs. L. w. Spratling, widow
of the Navy captain.
Graduates Of the Military Acad.
emy of Glass of 1915 invited Naval
Academy graduates Of the same
year to a luncheon Thursday at the
Army Navy Country Club. In the
company were Vice Admiral JOHN L.
McCrea, Rear Admiral Robert o.
Glover, Rear Admiral M. L. Ring,
Commodore James E. Maher, Com
modore j. D. Small, Capt. Preston
Marshall, Capt. Oliver H. Richie
and Capt. A. s. Wotherspoon, all OF
the Navy; and Maj. Gen. Pedro A.
del Vale of the Marine Corps.
The Military Academy graduates
at the party were Gen. Omar N.
Bradley, Maj. Gen. Thomas B. Lar
kin, Maj. Gen. George j. Richards,
Maj. Gen. william F. Tompkins,
Brig. Gen. Vernon Evans, Brig. Gen.
Henry 3. Sayler, Col. John e. Har-
ris, Col. Frederic w. Boye, and Mr..
Sidney G. Graves.
The new director of the Army
Institute of Pathology. Col. Ray.
mond o. Dart and Mrs. Dart were
honor guests at a dinner given FRI
day evening at the Army Navy
Country Club by 1t Col. and Mra
Joseph L. Bernier.
The other guests were Capt. and
Mrs. Trendley H. Dean, Comdr. and
Mrs. Francis A. Arnold, DR.. and Mrs.
Henry A. Swanson, DR.. and Mrs.
Jack Burke, DR.. and Mrs. Harold
Krogh, DR.. and Mrs. Harry Kaplan
and DR.. and Mrs. Harold Hertford.
Parties at Andre,cs Field
Inaugurating a new program Of
social activities at Andrews Field
the huge Army air base less than
10 miles outside the District, ths
Oficers' Club gave its first dinner
dance last evening in the newly.
CONSTRUCTED clubhouse.
Among those who entertained
guests were the President OF the
Board of Governors and Mrs. ]. I.
Brause, who had in their party Brig.
Gen. and Mrs. William A. Mather1y.
Col. Curtis D. Sluman, commanding
officer of Andrews Field, and Mrs.
lSluman; the Military Attache Of tbs
IGuatemalan Embassy and Sonora
de Lopez, Col. and Mrs. Louis Il.
Renfrow, Mrs. Anne B. Won Claim.
LIT. Col. and Mrs. Bill Brown, 1t
/ Col. and Mrs. John r. Chapman and
Capt. Roland H. Brady, club officer
and secretary-treasurer Of the board
OF governors.
Mrs. Sluman gave q birthday
luncheon Friday for her 4-ycar-old
daughter, Marcia. Present too was
Iher son, Tommy, who is year older.
The guests included Mrs. Harris
|Scherer and her daughter, Gretchen;
Mrs. Louis Berger and her son, Bobos
Mrs. j. B. Kalvin and her daugh-
tier. Joyce, and son, Albert; MrG
1Sec MILLIKEN, Page D-16J
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French Visitor
Is Entertained

The Duchess d'Uzes was the guest
In whose honor Miss Ethel Lemoine
Beasley entertained last evening In
her apartment in the woodward. |.
The other guests were officers OF
the military forces who knew the
duchess when they were on duty In
France.
The visitor, who before her mar
riage to the late Duke Dues, was
Miss Imogene Angelo of New York
and has made her home in Paris
since her marriage. Her trip to this
country is her first visit to her
homeland in the past II years.
Duchess d'Uzes later will visit Miss
Irene Wright ct the Hotel Roose-
velt
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UnC S1t up dllu
hzz in agreeable
a n ticip a ton.
People are the
business of this
town, but the
Capitals con-
stant complaint
Is that too often
their business Is
of too fleet a
nature.
DR.. and Mrs.
J. Harvey Cush-
ing, however, act
like tn ey are
going to stay.
Tvhau mare here
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The house has
six bedrooms on
the second floor
and two smaller
one S on t h e
third.
With thr e e
daughters t h e
Clifords require
c o n s i'd cradle
space. But they
have S e yer III
b e rooms to
spare, are at
tractive and
hospitable and
have frie n d S
80 ~ q =, ~
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during the war, when he served with
the Navy, and now they are back,
Pat having given UP his private
practice in Cleveland to do what he
considers q far more important job.
He Is helping to restaf veteran
hospitals throughout the country
with topnotch doctors and he plans
to continue with the Veterans Ad-
ministration. More and more Of his
friends, he says, who tasted Gov
ernment service during the war are
returning to 1t. It must be the
satisfaction of serving ones coun-
try and it's trend worth mulling
over.
The nephew Of the famous brain
surgeon of Boston and his brunette
wife Bobby have bought the house
on Tracy place that belonged to the
Whiting Willauers and have remod-
eled and redecorated it into thing
of comfort and charm. What seems
especially permanent about the
whole thing is that they even plan
to move the garage SO they can en-
!
large the garden. There's an
other change on Tracy place. Un-
dergoing face-lifting job right
now Is the house that belonged to
Sandy and Priscilla Liggett and was
leased to the Soviets for q school for
two years. Now Horace and Wibby
Smith have bought it.
kkk 4
A beaming and glamorous-1 looking
Cussie Barber came through town
the other day with her husband Of
just nine days, Bill Piper Of Pasa-
dena. There was party, Of course,
| In their honor so that every one
could meet the newlyweds and Gus
sic could show them in Washington
how attractive they grow them In
California. They were on their way
TO New York, then to Minneapolis,
where Bills work viii keep them fol-
q couple Of years.
On hand for her niece's brief
appearance was Elizabeth Beach
Pennebaker. and arriving in town
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Exclusively Yours,
Betty Beale :
Cushings Add Charm to Capital;
News Gathering at Cocktail Time
Betty Beak

the same time was Cussie's brother
Garter, who formerly worked for the
Stars and Stripes and a London
newspaper and plans to continue
his Journalistic career here. Nell
Carruthers was there, and Howard
johnson (not of the "drive-in" How
ard Johnsons), who said there's
never a dull moment in Mannix
Walkers Foreign Service classes;
the Dwight Griswolds, who are 60
ing to drive to California and take
la six-nonth vacation as soon as
Dwight gets out of the Army and
before he. reports at his new
doctors job in New York hospital,
and John Dix, who drove up from
Gordonsville, Va, for the apereti1.
Charlie Gibson was there and Sc
riously interested only in Florence
Anderson, who comes from San
Rafael, Calf, but Is doing both stage
and radio work in Gotham. And
others happily involved at the cock
tail hour were Harry Hoskinson, who
has moved from his house in
IGeorgetown and Is staying with his
parents; Charlie and Doris Hewes
Of New York, who have taken q
house in Georgetown while the for
mer studies law at Georgetown Uni
lyersity: Marion and Dormer Cam
non, up from the University OF Vir-
ginia; Jean and Les Douglas, the
Spencer Davises and Nancy and
Connie Wood.
Further proof that Capital cock
tail party is synonomous with a So
cial press conference was the gay
gathering at Dorothea and Ned
Foote's the other afternoon. Bits OF
information came from every
quarter. Nat Bartlett said that
Foreign Service Officer Wallace La
Rue would check in>with the State
Department about the 18th to be
assigned to new post. Architect
Freddie Nichols allowed as how he
and his wife will be leaving In very
short order for Honolulu, where he
will have Job of q years duration
with the university there. Frank
Walker came with his sister Evelyn
and brought word Of Manhattan
where he is practicing law. And
also down from the Big City was
Anne Moorhead Berry who is visit
ing her mother, Mrs. Howell Moor
head.
Nancy Ordway. with that new
and becoming slim look chatted with
Betty Sprague, who is up to her
ears In remodeling their Eecently
acquired Georgetown abode, while
the hostess gave every one q shock
by introducing youthful Mrs. Wal
lace Scudder as her aunt. She 4
the wife Of Dorothea's step-uncle
who looks more like he belongs Ia
the brother department. Incident
ally, they are also now living IN
the Capital
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Any time Washington society is
enhanced by the permanent addi-
ton of an attractive couple, it's
news-the kind that makes every
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bottom. Of the SO seamen, many
were very young and making their
first crossing. For them, the II
days was a never to be forgotten
mixture of sea sickness, cold and
not little worry.
Shortly before docking, the
Bergen" was boarded by Capt
John r. Gade, U. S. Navy Liason
Officer and Captain Kristian Ost-
by, Norwegian Naval Attache.
while waiting on the pier was an
official reception committee head
ed by Norwegian Consul Elovius
Mangor. Following a press confer
ence aboard the destroyer, Off
GERS and officials entered into
tight-packed schedule for the day.
which included official visits to
Mayor William O'Dwyer of New
York; Admiral Monroe Kelly,
Chief of the Bird U. S. Naval Dis
trict; Admiral Thomas Kinkaid;
Admiral FEM. Whiting, and the
Norwegian Consul G eral. A
full program for the remainder of
the week included dinners and
dances for officers and crew, con-
cluded by an official reception at
the Waldorf Astoria, rendered by
Norwegian Consul General Rolf
Christensen
Following weeks stay in New
York, the Bergen" will spend two
days in Boston, after which a two
day official visit will be paid to
Halifax, Nova Scotia. Permission
to return via the Azores has been
requested by Commander Hottie,
as present North Atlantic weather
is considered too dangerous for a
destroyer.
Rated one of the most modern
ships Of it's type, the Bergen has
displacement of 2,400 tons,
length $40 feet, and speed in ex-
cess of 30 knots. Armaments in
clude four Az inch guns, four 40
nm. Bofors cannons, 4 torpedo
tubes, and lighter anti-aircraft
installations.
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Prominent Norwegian
Here For Lecture Tour

OSLO Christian S. Oftedal,
editor of the west Norwegian daily,
"Stavanger Aftenblad" and men,
Der of the Norwegian parliament,
arrived at La Guardia Airport.
New York, on December 81, for a
two month lecture tour of the
United States.
Mr.. Oftedal was among the first
Norwegian editors to be arrested
by the Nazis and was condemned
to death for his work with the
Norwegian resistance movement.
Saved by a last-minute reprieve,
his sentence was committed to 10
years at hard labor and from Feb
ruary, 1941, until Norway's liberia
ton he was imprisoned in various
concentration camps in Germany.
Following his return to Norway
in May, 1945, he again assumed
editorship of the "Stavanger Aft
enblad' and was elected to Par
lament in the fall elections of the
same year.
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. Yeor Of Progress

OSLO - Norwegian newspapers
reviewing events of the past year
in December 81 editorials agree
that 1916 has been a year of prog
ress for Norway on many fronts.
They predict, however, that the
coming year will reveal strong
political differences with the con-
flict centering on passage of the
Governments proposed stabiliza-
ton bill.
Many quarters regard the pro-
posed measure as a long step to-
ward broadened State control of
the economy. and conservative
forces are expected to register
strong opposition. Labor and Com
munist parties which are advocat-
ing acceptance of the bill hold the
parliamentary majority necessary
to guarantee its passage.
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hopes of delivery by Christmas
failed to arrive in time for the
holidays. This disappointment was
partially offset by sizeable ship
ments of oranges which were sold
ration-free, and by quantities of
good Norwegian apples. Candles
for the Christmas trees, an in
tegral part of any Norwegian cele-
bration, We're extremely scarce and
most shops were forced to limit
10 candles to each customer Elec-
trio Christmas tree lights are not
expected to appear on the market
for several more months.