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Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-12-21
Santa Claus Headquarters In Copenhagen
Norwegian Exports To U. S. Doubled

ported during the same months of
1894 These figures do not include
imports and exports of shipping.
Percentagewise this means that
while Norway's exports from jan
uary through September, 1949,
could pay for only 1920 of total
imports, the figure for this years
period is 1870, or almost twice as
high.
Exports to the U. S. have varied
from month to month. In the third
quarter of 1850 they averaged 26
million kroner a month, against
II million in the second quarter,
and % million in the first. In the
four months preceding the Nor
wegian currency devaluation, ex-
ports averaged about Z million kro-
ner a month.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-12-21

being an assistant to Father
Christmas because the children s
letters were so sweet and charm
ing. 1.-The chimney is very dirty
wrote Margot and Alex from
Auchterarder in Scotland. but if
it does not get cleaned before
Xmas, we will leave the door open
for you and put the tea on the
table,"
A six-year-old girl named Lii
ian wrote g. last year you sent
Daddy hair curriers' but it was no
use because he has no hair"
Little John from Sheffield said
he would like to see Father Christ
mas: g. but I go early to bed,
so please don't be too late" Writ
ing from Ballinrobe in Ireland,
young Edward wanted toys and
books, and, for his brother Mich
ael, money "as Michael loves to
have lot of money 1 know
you have long way to come, and
it is very cold, but l will have a
good fire for you when you ar
rive"
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-12-21

until an imaginative girl secretary,
Miss Gerda Staining, undertook to
act as Santa Claus permanent
secretary.
She thought it was a pity that
the children, after taking so much
trouble, did not get an answer, so
she wrote a greeting to them from
Your old friend Santa Claus
She began this labour of love some
years ago and she might have
quietly gone on with it for many
years had not she spoken to a
British journalist who called at
the Greenland Office last year.
She told him that the office got
these letters around Christmas
tide and that she answered them.
The reporter mentioned the fact
in his newspaper with the result
that last year, just before the Big
Day, 1000 letters poured in, mostly
from Scotland and Ireland, but al
so in great numbers from England.
the United States of America, and
Canada. Obviously the report had
provided pestered parents with the
answer to that infuriating final
question: And where shall ad-
dress it to?"
Well 1000 was more than the
good Miss Staining could cope
with alone. Father Christmas had
to establish a secretariat with a
staff of five women who read Tor
decyphered) the letters and re-
warded the children's efforts with
a kind letter from Santa himself,
signed in his own hand; a copy of
Hans Andersens fairy tale about
Christmas, THE little match girl;
and a picture of the scenery in
Greenland.
please Don't Be Late"
It was certainly no dull business
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-12-21

Not so today. Children are more
knowledgeable; they want definite
information. And more and more
children in the English-speaking
countries are now being firmly
convinced that Santa lives in
Greenland. From there, where he
has a fabulous factory. he sets
out every Christmas Eve on his
sleigh to call on all the children
in the world, visiting them by way
of the chimney stack, making
them happy with the presents that
he stuffs into the stockings hang
ing at the fireplace. There is now,
it seems, no reason to doubt that
this story is the correct one. The
best proof, the presents, are solid
enough things on Christmas Day
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-12-21
News Flash!
$4,000 Letters
Sent This Year

As we were going to press a
news flash from Denmark report
ed that Father Christmas in Co.
penhagen has already received 3d.
900 letters from British and Am
erican children this year. Santa's
headquarters is repeatedly mad
house," Nevertheless all letters
will be answered before Xmas and
each child will receive a little sur
prise - perhaps an H. c. Ander-
sen fairly tale.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-12-21

A breakdown of statistics on
Norway's foreign trade in the
months eOf January-September.
1850, shows that exports to the
United States more than doubled
compared with the same period of
last year. At the same time, inn
ports from the u. S. rose only
slightly.
In the first three quarters of this
year exports to the U. S. reached
a total value of 1877 million kron-
err, compared with SO million in
the 1949 period. Imports from the
U. S., also in the January-Septem-
Der period, were valued at AZ mil
lion kroner-an increase CT only
% million over the 435 million kro-
ners' worth of commodities i'm
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-12-21

The custom of writing to Dear
Santa" is not the custom in all the
English speaking countries, or in
all the families in any one coun-
try, but most children, when their
only wish in the world is a box
of water colors or a model railway
set, find it annoying and frustrat-
ing that Santa should not get to
know ab6at it. In these circum-
tances, it does help to send him
a few words, making the request
as politely as brain development
permits.
Santa Gets Secretariat
That is how many British child
rem have reasoned the matter out
and they have written to Father
Christmas for Santa Claus) Green
land" The British postmen have
certainly looked twice at the adj
dress before deciding, quite rightly,
that since Greenland is a Danish
Colony, and the gentleman con-
cerned is quite big shot, to di-
rect the letters to the Greenland
Office in Copenhagen. That is the
office of the Danish state depart
ment for directing the administra-
ton of Greenland. And in the Of
flee, most certainly, there was
some doubt, when the letters arriv-
ed, about which department of the
state department was responsible
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-12-21

U. S. educational films will he
shown in Norway under a $4,000
ECA contract guaranteeing con-
version into dollars of Norwegian
currency receipts.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-12-21
1000 British, american Children
Wrote to Sc, Greenland Last Year

WHERE
children
patched to fairy region
in he <ies o chimney.
Evening star., 1950-02-22
Henry N. Lanford Dies;
Was Sanitary Inspector

Henry M. Lanford, IT, former
sanitary inspector for the District
and a building contractor here,
died Monday in Doctors Hospital.
Mr.. Lanford, who lived at 2206
Tunlaw road NV, had been i'll
for several years with a heart
condition.
Born in Spartanburg, S. c., he
came to Washington SO years ago.
He was a building contractor here
for a number of years and later
served IA years with the District
as a sanitary inspector. He re-
tired seven years ago.
Mr.. Lanford is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Florence M. Lanford;
d daughter. Mrs. F. Margaret Ryce
of the Tunlaw road address, and
two grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at
Q pm. tomorrow in the Lee fu-
neral home, Fourth and Massa-
chusetts avenue NE. Burial will
be in Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
Evening star., 1950-02-22
Quick Truman Action
Seen as final Hope
AS Phone Strike Nears
BY the Associated Pres,

Government mediation of the
Nation wide telephone dispute ran
into stone-wall resistance today.
Only quick White House inter-
vention appeared as a possibility
to head off the walkout of 100000
workers Friday
Josephine a. Beirne, president
of the Communications Workers
of America. told a Nashville audi
ence last night that the walkout
seems inevitable.
Cancellation Director Cyrus S.
Ching reported the stalemate in
peace efforts to the White House
last night.
His plans for bringing the
Western Electric Co. representa-
tives into the same room here
with the CIO Communication
Workers yesterday were rebuffed.
The company said it would ne
gotiate only in New York where it
has been meeting for weeks in
fruitleSs bargaining sessions with
the union.
The hours licked away toward
the deadline for Nation wide tel
ephone strike at am Friday. The
last countrywide phone strike was
in 1Qd7 bv tho CANA ,,,io~ tLo1
the National Federation of Tele-
phone Workers, an independent
organization.
Now the union, under the lead
ership of Mr.. Beirne, is affiliated
with the CIO. 1t has solicited the
Cooperation of the CLOS million
members in its effort to make the
strike as effective as possible.
The Western Electric employees
are the key groups in the strike
plans. because Western Electric in
stallation and sales divisions OF
crate in nearly every major tele-
phone exchange across the Nation.
Their pickets will be counted on
by CWA leaders to keep telephone
operators from taking their posts
after Friday.
With the two divisions of West
ern Electric, the CWA groups
planning to strike Friday are en-
ployed by the Pacific, Mountain
States and Southwestern Bell
Telephone Cos.
Another 10000 workers en-
ployed by Bell Telephone System
units are members of the union,
but their contracts won't permit
them to join in the first wave of
Walkouts Friday.
The CWA's uniform demands
are for a 15-cent hourly boost
in "package"-including higher
wages, shorter hours, and shorter
training periods. The company
insists the union is not entitled
to any increase, but that each
unit of the parent American Tele-
phone & Telegraph Co.. should
bargain locally. 1t has opposed
arbitration.
Evening star., 1950-02-22
Accused Policeman Quits

Pvt. James Burgess, 81, sus-
pended Prince Georges County
policeman, resigned from the
force yesterday. He was accused
of informing a suspected gambler
that a car containing two men,
parked outside suspects place, was
registered to a county policeman
Mr.. Burgess submitted his resig-
nation after a two-and-a-half
hour hearing before the county
commissioners, sitting as a police
trial board. A policeman for more
than six years, he was accused of
informing zone Sam Morgan of
the identity of car parked across
the street from Romano's Inn,
Colmar Manor. on February l.
Evening star., 1950-02-22

Then, several years ago, the
park service put a loud speaker
in the elevator and provided a
recorded lecture. AS the elevator
starts up voice comes on with :
The National Park Service well
comes you to this great shrine,
dedicated by grateful Nation to
the memory of its First President" "
Then comes facts about the
monument. The visitors atten-
ton is engaged, and he doesn' t
think about the height.
There's another lecture on the
way down.
AS a result of these attention
distracting talks, Mr.. Herman
said, the fainting cases have fallen
to about three or four a year.
Spirits of ammonia used to be
bought in quart bottles. Now, Mr..
Herman said, he laid in a couple
of small bottles a year ago. One is
still about half full, the other is
untouched
Evening star., 1950-02-22
Lectures Virtually End Painting
At Washington Monument

The National Park Service has
found that it's efforts to have
people regard the Washington
Monument as a memorial to a
great man rather than an OBJ
servation tower has paid off in
an unexpected way. 49,.
Visitors no longer faint in the
numbers they used to while as
cending the 555-foot obelisk's ele-
vator.
The consumption of aromatic
spirits of ammonia has fallen off
substantially.
There was a time when the
guards might be called on to re-
vive three or four fainting persons
a day, according to Charles L.
Herman. the custodian. Mostly it
was in the elevator. 1t takes a
minute for the big car to reach
the top-plenty of time for people
to think of the steadily increasing
space below them and flip out.
Evening star., 1950-02-22
Americans Defruuded of Cars;
French Jail u. S. Auto Dealer

mobiles in his garage. He once
had as many as zoo cars, police
said.
Police said Rodgers offered to
buy the cars of American tour
lists, made no attempt to sell
them, rented the cars out at $40
daily, and then never paid the
full sale price to the owners.
Many Americans left their
cars with him when they returned
home.
Rodgers went in for wide pub
licity, hiring airplanes to fly over
incoming transatlantic liners
and over Paris. Lettered on the
planes was: Rodgers welcomes
you to France" In another pub
licity effort, he gave tourists a
list of Ten Commandments" Of
what to do in France, for exam
pie, report in to the United States
Embassy. and be polite to French
men.
Evening star., 1950-02-22
Anocostiu Citizens Association
Honors Two Oldest Members

The Anacostia Citizens Associa-
ton last night honored its two
oldest members.
George G. Havenner, 84-year-o old
former president of the. associa-
ton, and Mrs. Carrie G.. Smith
78-year-old first vice president
were awarded bronze plaques in
recognition of their long and out
standing service to the commu-
nifty. The awards were made at
dinner of the group.
Mr.. Havenner, who was born in
1866-then known as Union Town
became member of the asso-
citation around 1915, he says, and
served as president from time to
time for 20 years.
He served as president of the
Federation of Citizens Associa-
tions from 1929 to 1888 and was
director of the Districts George
Washington Bicentennial Com
mittee in 1882.
Got First Paving.
Mr.. Havenner, who now lives
at 2912 Albemarle street NV, was
said to have been responsible for
getting the first street paved in
the Southeast area. He moved
from the Southeast in 1886,
shortly before he retired after so
years of Government service.
Mrs. Smith, still an active Off
Ger OF the association, has lived at
1909 Mapleview place Sc. for 35
years. She Joined the association
80 years ago. Mrs. Smith is also
a charter member of the Order
OF the Eastern Star. Chapter 2.
In accepting her award, Mrs
Smith remarked that she was
Evening star., 1950-02-22
Mercy Killing
Continued From First Page.)

with killing Mrs. Abbie Borroto,
SO, incurable cancer patient, by
injecting air into her veins.
The clash of veteran defense
counsel and youthful prosecutor
marked the first real f1are-up in
the trial.
Both spoke calmly but in stern
voices as they put forward their
arguments.
Judge Wescott listened to both
lawyers and then replied:
"On the evidence as presented
to the court prior to the COM
mencement of this case the court
could find nothing to in
dicate. that any juroor was not
Indifferent"
Challenges Implication.
In courtroom language, a pro-
spective juror is referred to as
indifferent after he has stated
that he has no unshakable views
on the case to be heard.
Mr.. Wyman had called on the
court to clear any "such stigma
as an implication there had been
Jury tampering. The 71-year-old
defense lawyer said he could not
let this impression 60 unchal-
lenged..
Mr.. Wyman explained the prac-
tice OF relying on the Manchester
Credit Bureau for reports on pro-
spective jurors. such as their re-
ligion, marital status, property
ownership and affiliations.
Mr.. Phinney replied "it is i'm
portant that the public know the
facts"
And then he maintained that
while it has been common prac-
tlce for lawyers to rely on the
Credit Bureau for reports on
members Of a panel it was not
common to interview veniremen
called for specific case.
He said Ralph Locke, manager
OF the Credit Bureau, had told
the judge he had been employed
at Mr.. Wyman's firm to investi-
gate jurors for the Sander trial.
Mr.. Locke, the Attorney General
said, admitted he had gone di-
rectly to two men"
Mr.. Phinney said that, during
the Is years the Credit Bureau
had been making such reports,
never had any representative of
counsel contacted prospective
Jurors directly for any given case"
The argument appeared to be
an outgrowth of the ousting of
juror Alfred Baines yesterday
after he had been approved on
the opening day of the trial.
Prosecution challenged the To-
year-old Mr.. Baines, apparently
after learning his son works for
the Credit Bureau.
Evening star., 1950-02-22
By the Associoted Press

PARIS, Feb. 22.-French police
today arrested Charles Rodgers,
42-year-old American well-known
to many tourists, on charges of
fraud in connection with his au-
tomobile business in Paris.
Police acted after a number of
Americans had filed complaints
with the United States Embassy
Police said the alleged fraud
dealings involved 100000, 900
francs ($570,0OO, and that he
also had passed worthless checks
to the amount of 100000 francs
($11, 300.
The American Embassy said
Rodgers was from Weehawken,
N. j. He also had lived in
Atlanta, Ga.
Score of Americans were said
to have been affected by Rodgers
dealings, for police impounded a
large number of American auto
Evening star., 1950-02-22
S276,027 Is Low Bid
To Finish Parkway Job

A low bid of $276,027 was an
nounced yesterday by the Bureau
of Public Roads to complete the
scenic link in the George WASH
lngton Memorial parkway, through
Sprout Run Valley ABOVE Key
Bridge.
It was the lowest Of seven bids
opened at the bureau in Arlington
and was made by the w. H. Scott
Co.. of Franklin, Va, which is
now paving a part of Fairfax drive,
near the Sprout Run Valley Sec
ton. The bids ranged up to $313,-
900, j. H. Spellman, division
engineer said
Mr.. Spellman said a contract
will be awarded in the next few
days. Bids were submitted last
April, but at that time, they were
considered too high, Mr.. Spellman
said. The new low bid, he added,
was only about 4 per cent over
the engineers estimate.
Evening star., 1950-02-22
Stripper Stripped

A strip tease performer who
wouldn't take off her stockings
in court lost a $1,000 damage
suit in Baltimore yesterday.
Mary Kuhn, 18, claimed her leg
was injured when a loop the
loop broke in Carlin't Amuse-
ment Park. She said she
couldn't continue her career as
a dancer and stripper with =
SCARED leg. A lower court
awarded her $4,000.
The case was appealed. A
Circuit Court judge asked Miss
Kuhn to display the scar. But
modesty overwhelmed her and
she refused. The judge ruled
in favor of the defendant and
stripped the stripper of the
lower courts award.
Evening star., 1950-02-22
Oyster Bills Pushed

In Richmond, it appeared Vir-
ginia is going ahead with plans
for bi-State control of oysters in
the Potomac River even though
Maryland may not give the neces-
sary approval. The House of
Delegates was to receive four of
its. oyster bills for concurrence in
Senate amendments. The uppe,
body approved the measures yes
terday.
Maryland was reported about
to abandon it's plan to cooperate
with Virginia on the legislation
because it would have to give ur
more of its sovereign powers than
would the Old Dominion.
The bills create a ix-member
Potomac River Oyster Commits
sion which could license oyster
men and limit the numbers from
each State engaged in the work
The group, three members OF
which would be from each State
could tax the bivalves at cents
a tub and close certain areas for
reseeding purposes.
Evening star., 1950-02-22

two years in the committee room
but each time refused to answer
questions.
He has been Communist Party
organizer for Western Pennsyl-
vania and was linked by commit
tee evidence to West Coast Com
munist efforts to obtain atomic in
formation during the war.
Other points in Mr.. Cvetic's
testimony were:
That Communist leaders, in
1948. launched a security pro-
gram by ordering members to
turn in their cards and other doc
umentary material that might
identify them with Communist
work.
That the party's Nationality
Committee, of which Mr.. Cvetic
said he was high-ranking mem
Der. mapped out policies, pro-
cedures, committee ASSIGNMENTS
and other agenda for conventions
OF the American Slav Congress
and several other reported front"
organizations.
That he learned, largely by at
tendance at Communist "cau-
cuses,' that the party in the Pitts
burgh area, at least, controlled
the Civil Rights Congress, the La
Dor Press Committee, the, Inter-
national Workers Order, the Pro-
gressive Party, the Croatian
Council, the Serbian Congress and
several foreign languages publi-
That the Labor Press Commit
tee in Western Pennsylvania
raised as much as $4,000 a year
for Communist activities
Evening star., 1950-02-22
$4,000 Fire Damages
Laurel Park Hotel

approximately $4,000 damage
was caused last night by a fire in
the attic of the three story Laurel
Park Hotel on The Baltimore
boulevard just north of Laurel
Md.
Firemen said the blaze started
in a clothes closet and was con-
fined to the attic by equip
ment from College Park, Laurel
Branchville and Berwyn Heights
Evening star., 1950-02-22

honored to be recognized at the
same time as Mr.. Havenner, and
recalled that, in the old days of
the group, Mr.. Havenner always
used to call the sweetheart"
well, you are and always have
been," countered Mr.. Havenner.
Leeman Speaks.
Herbert P. Leeman, dinner
speaker and president of the
Federation of Citizens Associa-
tions, urged the group to back a
40 per cent Federal appropriation
to the District budget.
After-dinner entertainment in
cluded the Gospelaires Quartet,
Hawaiian dance by Miss Max
inc Benhoff and songs by Kenny
Lyons.
In a business meeting, the group
voted to oppose the reopening of
the Anacostia swimming pool un-
less it were for the use of white
persons only; voted in favor of
naming the new South Capitol
street bridge for, John Howard
Payne, author of Home, Sweet
Home; indorsed Walter M.
Bird, president of the Shepherd
Park Citizens Association, for the
Junior Chamber of Commerce
award for outstanding civic serv-
ice.
The group also asked that the
Eleventh street bridge be replaced
on the ground that it is made
quate to handle the traffic.
The dinner and meeting were
held in the Anacostia Methodist
Church social hall. Fourteenth
and u streets Sc. and were pre-
sided over by President William
E. YearWood.
Evening star., 1950-02-22
Hearing Set on Charges
On 'Shakedown' Robbery

Warren D. Campbell, 26, of the
100 block of Swami street NV,
accused of robbery in the alleged
"shakedown" of a disorderly
house, is scheduled for a NUM-
cipal Court hearing March 9.
Campbell, according to Pvts. L.
t. Williams and Louis Fochett of
the Vice Squad, was arrested on
information given by woman
who said two apartments main
tanned by her were invaded by
men demanding money. On one
occasion, she said, she gave up
$40, and on another, 5000. After
the second visit, one of her places
was raided by police. The case
has not yet come to trial.
Evening star., 1950-02-22
Un-Americun
Continued From First Page J

Communist Party had what is
known as political mission" with
a responsibility for Carrying the
party line into the Progressive
Party
Yesterday. Mr. Cvetic put the
finger on scores of Communist
members and described methods
he said captured control of vari-
Gus Slavic-American organiza
tions.
Mr.. Cvetic. whose Catholic
mother died last October. griev-
ing in the belief he was a Com
munist, and whose 18-year- old son
is a sailor in the Navy music
school here, was United State.
Employment Service interviewer
in Pittsburgh in 1941.
Joined Party in 1943.
He volunteered to help the FBI
by getting information about the
Communist Party, particularly in
the Western Pennsylvania area,
he said. He joined the party in
1943.
Until last Friday he not only
held positions on regional and ma
tional levels, but was an official
Of the Slav Congress and other
groups he described as Communist
fronts
He told reporters he would dis
close later why he chose this par
ticular time to end his under
cover work and submit his ma
terial to the House committee. He
revealed, however, that he made
written reports" for seven years
to the FBI, and "by mutual con-
sent" with that agency. he went te
the committee several days ago
He denied that his former Com
munist associates knew or sus-
pected he aided the FBI.
only little while ago, sold
some insurance to Steve Nelson
for his automobile" he laughed. !.
Nelson, whose name came up re-
peatedly yesterday, is no stranger
to the House committee. He ap-
peared three times during the last