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2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 a a a a a a a a a NEWSPAPERS In Two Cities. Chattanooga News Blames Its Foes In TVA Cox Takes Hearst Atlanta Features. Chattanooga, December 16 (AP) The Chattanooga News ceased publication today with an announcement that "certain had taken advantage of its financial condition to destroy the fifty George Fort Milton, afternoon President paper. and General Manager, in a "farewell" statement, did not identify the "certain interests" but said important element of them arose" from leading a successful campaign that brought Tennessee Valley Authority power to the Chattanooga area which that time was served by the Tennessee Electric Power Company. "During this struggle this group backed and financed a competitor to make us pay the penalty for our public stand," he said with apparent reference to the Chattanooga Free Press, afternoon daily established in 1936.

He previously had said holders of $325,000 in bonds who advertised the paper 1 for sale planned to turn it over to the Free Press. "Public power has won; the News, however, pays the price," Milton's statement said. He added that another group "for personal reasons desired" his elimination from the Chattanooga newspaper field. Atlanta, December 16-(AP) -The Atlanta Georgian-American, a Hearst newspaper unit, announced today it would cease publication with its Sunday issue tomorrow. "Its feature news and services will appear in the Atlanta Journal beginning Monday, December 18, 1939," said the announcement.

Closing of the Georgian-American left two newspapers dominant in the Atlanta field. They are the (afternoon), which Was purchased last Tuesday by former Governor James M. Cox of Ohio along with its 50-watt radio station, WSB, and the Constitution, (morning) published Major Clark Howell. Aggressive in the news and editorial field, the Georgian-American was active in a campaign which in 1908 ended a much-criticize1 system of leasing Georgia convicts to employers. The newsprivate, won the Georgia Press Association's Sultlive trophy for outstanding service to its community.

NEW SEASON Launched With Victory By Holmes High Basketball Team--Highlands Beaten, 24-20. Holmes High School, Covington, champions of the Northern Kentucky area last season, opened the new season with a 24-20 victory over the Highlands High School basketball team in a game played at Holmes last night. The Bulldogs trailed Highlands at the half, 10-12, but recovered to take the lead late in the game and finish in front. In a preliminary game, the CovIngton Reserves defeated Highlands Reserves, 23-11. The box score: HOLMES.

HIGHLANDS. FG.FT.P FG. FT.P King 2 1 5 C. Lehman 3 Mason 0 0 0 Dickenson 6 McMillan 0 2 D. Went'orth 2 Fields 3 0 6 Luecke 0 Gibson Wentworth Jones 1 1 Cecil 2 0 Fenstem'ker 0 000 0 Tinnell 2 1 Totals 6 8 20 Lillard 0 Walther 0 1 1 Stephenson 2 Totals 10 4 24 BELLEVUE TIGERS LOSE To Breckenridge Five- -Winners Hold Lead Throughout.

Breckinridge Training High defeated the Bellevue Tigers, 32-26, last night at Bellevue. The winners took an early lead, which they held throughout. Judd, Morehead forward, Walker, Bellevue forward, tied scoring honors and. with 11 points each. The box score: BRECKENRIDGE.

BELLEVUE. FG.FT.P FG. FT. Ponders, 0 0 2 2 6 3 5 Walker, 3 11 Allen. 0 UTO 0 Winters, 1 3 Johnson.c 2 9 Penders, Helwig, 2 5 Patrick, 0 0 Alexander.

3 1 7 Totals 10 12 32 Totals 5 8 26 Referees--Miller and DeVan. Brooksville 35, Simon Kenton 19 SPECTAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Brooksville, December 16- The Brooksville High Polar Bears defeated Simon Kenton, 35-19, here tonight. The winners were on top all the way. Cooper, center, tallied 15 points for the Polar Bears, while Barnes, with five, was best for the losers.

The box score: BROOKSVILLE. SIMON KENTON. FG.FT.P FG. FT.P Btevenson, 0 2 Rust, 1 0 2 Cummins, 4 12 Barnes, 2 1 5 5 5 15 Utz.c 1 1 3 0 1 2 Ernest, ON 0 Waymond, Inscoe, 1 1 Morgan, 3 Totals 11 13 Totals 5 19 Referee- J. Wright.

CORINTH 33. MASON 17. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Williamstown, December 16 -In the only Penogram Conference game tonight, Corinth defeated Mason, 33-17. RAYMOND ICKES MARRIED.

Chicago, December 16 (AP)- Raymond Ickes, son of Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, was married tonight to Miss Miralotte Lucia Sauer, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Louis W. Sauer of suburban Winnetka.

Young Ickes, 27 years old, is an Assistant United States District Attorney in New York. His bride is 25, I THE ENQUIRER, CINCINNATI, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 35 17, 1939 ARM AND LEG Of Woman Fractured When She Is Hit By Auto Streetcar Passenger Hurt In Collision With Truck. Mrs. Elizabeth Sunderman, 67 years old, Box 5, Koenig Road, suffered fractures of the right leg and right arm yesterday when she was knocked down by an automobile driven by Wayne Hague, Zion Road, at Harrison Avenue and 'Fischer' Place. Police said Hague was passing a loading platform when Mrs.

Sunderman crossed in front of A stationary streetcar. She was taken to St. Mary Hospital, Blanche Seibert, 49, Suire Avenue, was cut on the right hand when thrown from the seat of a Fernbank streetcar, which collided with a truck operated by Isadore Deutsch, 415 Rockdale Avenue, in front of 1218 West Eighth Street. Mrs. Seibert was treated at an emergency hospital.

The streetcar was operated by Joseph Stuart, 808 Poplar Street. A hit-skip motorist struck Cecil Glenn, 34, mechanic, 3770 Beechmont Avenue, last night at Fifteenth Street and Central Avenue, inflicting an arm fracture and head cut. Glenn was treated at St. Mary Hospital. MAN ARRESTED On White Slave Count After Four Wayne Girls Are Traced To Chicago Area--One Sold For $200, Police Say.

SPECIAL, DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Richmond, December 16- Sheriff Arthur Quigley reported today the arrest in Chicago, of John Slapikas, 35 years old, on a charge of having violated the Mann Act in connection with the dislappearace in recent months of four Wayne County, Indiana, girls between 16 and 21 years old. Quigley said one of the girls was from Cambridge City, one from Richmond, and two from Germantown, that one had been traced to a house in Joliet, where Slapikas is alleged to have "sold" her for $200 to the couple operating the house for immoral purposes. Slapikas was taken into custody after Quigley, Fred Fossler, and a Kenneth Marlin, Indiana state police officers, enlisted the aid of the Chicago Police Commissioner and a squad of Chicago police in staging a raid at the Slapikas apartment in a Chicago hotel, Slapikas denied having taken the Wayne County girl to the Joliet house, Quigley said. One of the girls signed a statement saying Slapikas had transported her from Cambridge City to Cincinnati and then to Joliet, Quigley said.

Slapikas has been turned over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation at Chicago, the Sheriff said. HONORS ARE PLANNED ON PLANE'S BIRTHDAY Manteo, N. December 16-(AP) -Thirty-six years ago tomorrow Dayton, Ohio, bicycle-makers, Wilbur and Orville Wright, with a strange contraption looking more like a box kite on wheels than anything else, flew 1,000 feet. Tomorrow morning, beneath the Wright pylon on Kill Devil Hill. site of man's first flight in a heavier-than-air-craft, the community will lay a wreath at the base of the memorial, and aircraft will roar overhead in salute.

This year, besides certain of the pioneers of aviation, 50 young pilots trying their wings for the first time cross-country flight, are coming here from colleges in North Carolina and Virginia, to pay homage to the inventors of the airplane. The youngsters are undergoing primary training under the Civil Aeronautics Authority. Old timers here still recall the wintry day the Wrights made their flight. There were few spectators. The inhabitanta had been watching the Wrights rig up their machine for days.

BLUE TICKET Captures Lion's Share Of Offices In County Republican Club's Annual Election. Blue ticket candidates won four of five Vice Presidencies and eight of 14 Directorships last night in the fifty-sixth annual election of the Republican Club of Hamilton County. Hobart A. Wehking WAS unopposed for President, P. Lincoln Mitchell for Commander, Walton H.

Bachrach for Secretary, and Paul Schirmer for Treasurer. It WAS Schirraer's nineteenth consecutive reelection. A total of 1,930 votes was cast. County Prosecutor Carl W. Rich, running on the Blue ticket, led all contestants for Vice President.

C. Dabney Thompson, also A Blue ticket candidate, polled the most votes for Director, Bes.des Rich, successful candidates tor Vice President were C. Handley, Gilbert J. Shaver, and William H. Kreidler of the Blue ticket and A.

E. Scheffer of the Red. Other Blue ticket Directors are Walter P. Beck, Robert N. Ziegler, Ben J.

George, Sigfried H. Starick, Gordon F. Morgan, Andrew W. Hitz, and Horace F. Lyons.

Red ticket Directors are Robert H. Wachendorf, Martin J. Byrnes, Starbuck Smith, Mrs. Leo Lindenberx. T.

Gordon Cutting, and James G. Headley, November Arrests 306 In 668 Auto Mishaps; Need Of Study Cited Of 668 accidents investigated last month, only 306 arrests were made, C. G. Beckenbach, City Traffic Engineer, reported in a monthly analysis to City Manager C. O.

Sherrill. "It is generally believed that one or more violations are contributory to each accident, hence, probably we should show more arrests for those acts which have actually brought about an accident," Beckenback said. Or 2,072 arrests made in moving violations, there were 1,784 convictions, or 86 per cent, he "This is not a bad record, though it still leaves 14 percent of the persons arrested, and who presumably are guilty, the law," Becknebach commented. Of 18 arrests for drunken driving, there were 14 convictions. of 164 reckless driving charges, 128 convictions.

Of 465 speeding arrests, 449 convictions. Of 970 arrests for failure to stop for sign or light, 820 convictions. Of 6,394 parking violations, only 4,608 convictions. "I believe this entire summary reflects a need for public educational work, first, to cause a mass realization of the serious picture presented by the traffic accident situation, second, to instruct and educate in means of proper acts avoid accidents, and third, to arouse public demand for a higher order of official traffic engineering and enforcement activities," Beckenbach said. FOUR PERSONS HURT WHEN AUTOS COLLIDE SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER.

Richmond, December 16 Four persons, three from College Corner, Ohio, were taken to Reid Memorial Hospital late tonight in the police ambulance after a twocar accident at the corner of South Fifth and Streets. They are Mrs. Esther Buttery, 24 years old. Rebecca Jane Buttery, 63, and Betty Gentry, 15, all of College Corner, and Gladys Lair, 18. 512 North Eighteenth Street, Richmond, who was riding with Walter McNamara, Liberty Rural Route 1, in the other car.

WEED GRADE Improves At Lexington Prices Hold About Steady-Average At Covington Is $17.16. Lexington, December 16-- (AP) -Buyers on the Lexington tobacco market, starting on the season's second circuit of warehouses, today found a better grade of burley the breaks, and a higher 100-pound average than the $16.36 figure, reached Friday, was expected. Prices, grade for grade, however, appeared about the same as yesterday's quotationa. new low was reached in today's sales as a small pile of tobacco sold for $2 per hundred. previous low was $3.

The top today Thrice was $27.50, with several piles going at that figure. At the Kenton Loose Leaf TobacCo Warehouse, Covington, 122,398 pounds of tobacco sold yesterday for $21,010.10. The average for the sale was $17.16 a hundred pounds. High was $27 and low $3 a hundred pounds. At 9 o'clock tomorrow the annual 4-H Club sale will be conducted.

Cluba from eight counties will be represented. Parr, Ky. -(AP) Tobacco sales today: Founds receipts average $17.43. Cynthiana. Ky.

(AP) Tobacco sales today: Pounds 687.824; receipts 626.63; average $16.51. Huntington, W. (AP) The burley tobacco market today sold 227,478 pounds at an average of $16.84. The top price was $35, and the minimum $4, Harrodsburg, Ky. (AP) Tobacco sales today: Pounds, receipts, $90,164.17 average, $16,95.

Madisonville, -Tobacco sales this week: Air cured, pounds, 130,035: receipta, average, $5.86: dark fired, pounda. receipts, average, $5.50. Owenabero, Ky. (AP) Tobacco sales today: Pounds, receipts, 671.88; average, $14.47, (No dark tobacco sales). SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER.

Carrollton, December 16 Carrollton burley sales today, 775,936 pounds: $134, 254.99; average $17.30. Top basket. $27. Total figures for week's males. A pounds: average $17.44.

Top banket. $28. Raleigh, N. December 16-(AP)The State and Federal Departments of Agriculture reported today middle belt prices were somewhat lower than last week on most grades of cutters, lugs, and Inge: unchanged to slightly lower on most leaf grades, and slightly higher on smoking leaf grades. The markets closed yesterday for the Christmas holidays, and will reopen January 8.

Many of the new bright belt markets have already completed sales and have closed. A few of the largest markets. however. will remain open until December 20. before closing for the Reason.

Prices were about the same an last week. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Mount Sterling, December 16- Tobacco market was steady here Saturday and the Farmers House sold 253,780 pounds for an average of $13.94. This house sold for the season 1,100.690 for $160,029.71, straight average of $14.54. The Growers House sold about 480,000 pounds for about the same average.

Today WAN the first Saturday sale ever held in Mount Sterling. The average for today's sale was the lowest of the season. SPECIAL, DIRPATCH TO THN ENQUIRER. Ripley, Ohio, December -Saturday's average on the Ripley Burley Market was $14.85, with 186.038 pounds bringing 631.27. High and low remained about the same.

SPECIAL, DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Mayaville, December 16 For the first four days of the market, including Friday, total of 4,228,193 pounds have been sold, bringing $711,593.52, for an average of $16.83. SPECIAL, DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Madison. December 16- Burley sales today 328,668 pounds.

Receipts 268.61, Average $15.62. Richmond. December 16 (AP)Burley sales today: Pounds receipts average $13.84. Hopkinsville, December 16- (AP) Burley sales today: Pounds receipts average $13. OIL STATION HELD UP.

Joseph Basam, 3010 Lischer Place, attendant at an oil station at 2218 Clifton Avenue, was robbed of $130 lats night by an armed thug who ordered him to "hand it over." Basam turned over the $130 from his pocket and $26 from a money I changer, NEWS SECTION FAR 103 Chamber Requests Transfer Of Relief To Various States Washington, December 16-(AP)) -The United States Chamber of Commerce recommended today that relief be turned back gradually to the states, contending that it result in improved care of the needy at lower cost. In a statement the chamber said that committee had devoted months of study to the problem of relief. "The report in no way minimizes the need for relief," the statement added. "What it attempts to point out is that means must be found to bring down its costs, which if carried on at the present rate of expense over a period of years, inevitably will wreck the country economically." President W. Gibson Carey, of the chamber sent the report to member organizations with a request for "an active and sustained follow such suggested procedure" As may fit yours community and the possibilities of your organization." JEFFREYS'S HAT Is In Congress Ring For Twenty-Second District Post Vacant Since Bolton's DeathBut Only Bricker Has Answer.

Cleveland, December 16-(AP)Ohio's most populous congressional district, the Twenty-second, has been without a representative since the death of Chester C. Bolton October. Today one man announced for the job and two others said they were considering running, but there was still a question: When? Governor Bricker has indicated he had no intention of calling a special election. This stand drew the fire of the aspirant who announced today--Raymond J. Jeffreys, former Townsend leader.

"Because the governor is willing to speculate on the hunger and mi3ery of many people in the Twentysecond District, to end this year with a surplus and secure national publicity, is no reason that he should be permitted to still further penalize them for not supporting him last year, by denying them representation in the United States Congress during times like these," Jeffreys stated. He seeks the Republican nomination. The Twenty-second District includes Lake and Geauga Counties and a third of Cuyahoga. It has al most 700,000 population. Rees IT.

Davis, former Chairman of the Cuyahoga County Republican Committee, and David S. Ingalls, also a Cleveland Republican leader, said they were considering, whether to take out petitions. Mrs. Bolton also has been mentioned 3.5 a possible candidate, but she ha3 declined to say whether she would run. ALL -STAR TEAMS NAMED By Kentucky Football BoardThree Elevens Picked.

Louisville, December 16- (AP) ---The 11-State Football Board today announced selections for its 1939 Kentucky high school all-star football teams. The Board picked three complete teams and gave honorable mention to 154 4 other players. The Board consists of 28 coaches, officials and sports writers. The teams: First team: Ends, George Sengel, (Louisville) Manual, and Charles Eblen, Ashland; tackles, Ebb Bell, Danville, and Austin Robards, Henderson: guards, Jack Mitchell, Owensboro and Len Preston, Manual; center, Art Sager, (Louisville) Male, Tommy Ewing, Catlettsburg, and Jesse Tunstill, Paducah. Second team: Ends, Marion VanHoose, Ashland, and Buster Lanham, Manual; tackles, James Castle, Ashland, and John Richter, Manual; guards, Briscoe Inman, Danville, and Rudy Klarer, (Louisville) St.

Xavier; center, J. D. Meade, Ashland, backs, Teddy Sasseen, Mayfield, James Cummins, Corbin, Gene Syers, Paducah, and Rusty Peace, Corbin. Third team: Ends, John O'Dell, Harlan, and Earl Baugh, Male; tackles, Jack Orr, Paducah, and Tom Fearneyhough, guards, Roscoe Cummins, Corbin, and Jay Rodemeyer, Ashland; center, Bill Stephenson, Covington; backs, Elmo Compton, Male, Charles Bailey, Ludlow, Randall Hammer, Thompkinsville, and Hoyt Tucker, Benham. TO NAME POSTMASTERS.

SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Washington, December 16 The Civil Service Commission has been hold examinations of applicants for appointment of Postmasters at the following: Battle Town, Beech Grove, Belmont, Bowen, and Breeding, all in Kentucky. Postoffice Inspectors have been directed to make investigation with a view to appointment of postmasters at Amandaville, Audra, Biscuit, Bloyd, Carver, Bonny, Charlotte Bronston, Furnace, Calvary, Cray Craft, Crider, and Crocus, all in Kentucky. ANOTHER BALMY DAY. The unscasonal warmth of yesterday will continue today, weather bureau observers said last night.

mercury climbed to 59 degrees yesterday, against 8 normal high of 40. Rockwell Kent, artist, lecturer, and writer, designed this year's Christmas Seal. NEW DEFENSE Is Offered By Hull For Administration Trade Pacts As Criticism Is Voiced By Republican Senator. Washington, December 16 -(AP) -In a new defense of the Administration's Trade Agreements Program, Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, criticized as "unsound and impracticable" today a suggestion by Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, (R) Michigan, that tariffs be based on the spread between domestic and foreign production costs.

Hull contended in al letter to the Michigan Senator that this would involve a return to the flexible provisions of the 1922 and 1930 tariff acts, which he said had been discredited. "If experience counts for anything at all, it surely, shows that such a course a tragic one for the future of the nation," he asserted. Hull's letter, published by the State Department, replied vemier 24 letter in which Vandenberg said he did not wish to return to the "old log-rolling tariff but instead would like to have rates adjusted under a formula laid down by Congress so as to equal "the difference in cost of production at home and abroad." Hull noted that during the nearly eight years the 1922 act was in force there were only 37 tariff adjustments under the flexible provision Of these 32 were upward revisions, he said, and argued that the result constituted a "record of futility." "Seldom can full cost data be obtained, and even when obtained, there is a wide variation of costs as among different producers," he added. Other factors which Hull said must be considered included the "size of the imports in relation to domestic production; comparability of the imported and domestic products type and quality; seasonal factors; a great many HEAVY LOSSES Inflicted On German Troops In Attack On Outpost, French Communique Contends. Paris, December 16-(AP)-Hand to-hand fighting on the Western Front east of the Moselle River, in which French troops repulsed an attacking German company "with heavy losses" was reported tonight by the French command for the first time in weeks.

The evening communique read: "The enemy attempted A raid about 6:15 this morning (1:15 a. m. E. S. on one of our outposts east of Moselle River.

"The raid carried out by a detachinent of approximately a company after artillery and minnenwe: fer preparation and was protected by artillery and heavy machine gun fire during the engagement. "The attacked post defended itself energetically up to hand-tohand fighting. "The enemy was repulsed with heavy losses and left in our hands and material. "They succeeded in taking two prisoners who were able to escape profiting by our fire and reby joined our lines." MEN and MATTERS Insurance Manager Speaker Miss Lorraine Sinton, sales promotion manager of the Paul Cook Agency of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company in Chicago, will speak tomorrow at a luncheon of the Cincinnati Chapter of Chartered Life Underwriters at the Hotel Gibson. Bureau Inspector Visitor -Joseph J.

Eigenman, Weather Bureau airways inspector for this district, yesterday visited W. E. Devereaux, meteorologist at the Federal Building. The two discussed Weather Bureau operations of the Lunken Airport Station. Eigenmen's office is in Cleveland.

Club Cheers Convalescent Wil- liam H. Haass, general manager of the Parkview Hotel, who is in Good Samaritan Hospital recovering from an illness, yesterday received greetings from the Cincinnati Newspapermen's Club, which had luncheon at his hotel. Nixson Denton, Star sports editor, was guest honor at the meeting. Times Mayor James G. Stewart was the first member to sign the message.

CONQUERORS WIN. CONQUERORS WIN. The St. Xavier High Conquerors, led by Captain Jay O'Hara, scored their seCond win of the season, defeating Commercial High School, 34-12. O'Hara.

Sahifeld and Jones connected for 26 points. O'Hara was high with 13 tallies. The Xavier Reserves whitewashed the Commercial seconds, 15-0. COMMERCIAL ST. XAVIER.

FG. FT.PI FO.PT.P Hines, 0 0 0 Sahifeld, 3 1 7 Bob 0 0 0 Hara, 3 13 0 Kummer, Ornella, 0 0 Brauch, 0 C'pher, 0 Robinson, 0 Heskamp.c Sloan, Jones, Lasita, 2 Heringer, Moore, 2 VORS. Hellmann. Totals 3 6 12 Steenken, 1 00 Post.c Foley, Totals 13 8 34 Referee- Grandle. COM.

RESERVES. ST. X. RESERVES. FG.

FT.P FG.FT.P Moore. 0 0 0 H. Gilligan, 0 0 0 Redmond, 0 Mullee, 2 Hand.f 0 0 Holmes, 0 0.0 0 0 Gamby.g Heintz. 01 Buste.g 0 Wiesel. Callahan, 0 0 (Walther, Hemmer.

Totals 0 0 Geoghan. Rieck'mann, Magnus. P. Gilligan, (Spraul, Totals 5 15 Referee -Ed Keen, Fireproof Yule Tree; Agent Gives Advice On Making Solution Carl R. Bibbee, County Agricultural Extension Agent, yesterday offered tips on how to fireproof Christmas trees and the cotton placed at their bases to represent snow.

The fire proofing solution for trees can be made, he explained, by dissolving one pound of aluminum sulphate in one and one halt pints of water each four pounds of weight of tree. fore As to the tree, Bibbee said the base should be cut into 8 V-shape at the base, then placed into a narrow container holding, the mixture. The then, absorb in four days enough of the fire-proofing material so that it will be carried into every branch, he said, the trees drink fastest in a temperature between 55 and 65 degrees, and out of direct sunlight, he added. Cotton can be fireproofed, he explained, with a solution of seven ounces borax, three ounces boric acid, and one and ounces soap powder dissolved in two quarts of hot water. Sprinkle the cotton thoroughly while the solution is warm and do not handle the cotton until it is dry.

If absorbent cotton is used, the soap powder can be omitted. Dedicate Nativity Model; Yule Carols On Program Formal dedication of the replica of the Nativity of Jesus to the Mayor's Christmas Fund took place yesterday in Lytle Park with exercises conducted by Mayor Fred Malpass of the Salvation Army The dedication was prefaced by a program of Christmas carols played with chimes several ments by Salvation Army officers, following which Mayor James G. Stewart was introduced by Major Malpass. Praising the spirit in which Charles F. Williams, Cincinnati philanthropist, gave the reproduction, Major Malpass urged school children of all faiths to visit the shrine.

In accepting the donation for the fund, Mayor Stewart contrasted conditions in war-torn Europe and Asia with those in peaceful America. He said he hoped that no child in Cincinnati would be without some Christmas remembrance. Yule Plea To Be Made For Funds For Church A special Christmas appeal in behalf of St. Xavier Church will be made today at all masses by Rev. J.

A. Garrity, S. pastor. Funds will be used to renovate the church as a forerunner of the anniversary of the Society of Jesus, to be observed in 1940. Father Garrity said the improvements were in keeping with a program to make the church a center of the Jesuit observance in Cincinnati, Improvements will include renovation of walls and ceiling, new lighting equipment, and installation of kneeling pads, Judge Is To Play Santa At Odd Fellows' Party Judge Frederick L.

Hoffman will "step down from the bench" to assume the role of Santa Claus for the Odd Fellows' annual Christmas jamboree and children's party Friday night at Odd Fellows Temple, Seventh and Elm Streets. Instead of waiting until Christmas to fill stockings of children to be present, "Kriss Kringle" Hoffman will fill their stockings in advance, SO to speak, by presenting them with toys, candy, and nuts. Eric L. Schulte, General Chairman, said the program would include A floor show. Mayor Is To Lead March At Fund's Skating Party Mayor James G.

Stewart plans to lead the grand for the Mayor's Community Christmas march, Committee skating party Wednesday at the Norwood Rink to raise funds for baskets to be distributed by the committee. The party will begin at 7:30 o'clock. There will be special accommodations for family parties. Numerous entertainment and athletic features have been arranged as part of the skating show. PARTY FOR NEEDY TOTS.

Fifty needy children are to be given a Christmas party this afternoon at the Good Will Settlement Home, 823 Freeman Avenue, Alpha Sigma Chapter of the Beta Sigma Phi Sorority, The program will include the appearance of Santa Claus to distribute gifts to the children and a showing of children's motion pictures. Ice cream and cake will be served. YULE CAROLS TONIGHT. Students of St. Ursula Convent and Academy will present their annual program of Christmas carols at 7:30 o'clock tonight in the convent chapel, 1339 East McMillan Street.

St. Ursula Parent-Teacher Association will give its annual card party January 17, Mrs. John McJoynt, President, announced yesterday. YULE PAGEANT TONIGHT. A Christmas pageant, under direction of Miss Ann Meale Di Girolamo, will be presented at 8:15 o'clock tonight in the Sacred Heart Assembly Hall.

The program will feature the Sacred Heart Italian and children's choirs, Marguerite Ginocchio, harpist, and William Ciarnello, narrator. CHRISTMAS GIFTS STOLEN. A bundle of Christmas gifts exchanged hands prematurely last night. Lawrence Hardinghaus, 2208 Shasta Place, was the donor. Thieves who pried open the door of his automobile, parked at Sixth and Plum Streets, were the recipients.

The loot, which also included ceries, was valued at $15.08, STRANGE RAIN! Bank Stocks Descend report also that: Federal aid has "detricontended, mental to local self-sufficiency, autonomy, and democracy," and "family pride and responsibility also to have been mined." Operation of relief by the states would make the cost "substantially less" than the present total relief cost. Work relief could be developed more effectively at less cost by state and local governments. The choice between work relief and direct relief should be left to persons familiar with community needs. Aid to, dependent children, the blind, and indigent old-aged, now shared by the Federal and state governments, should rest with state and local "The the regovernmentsiy port added, "should be to center relief in the smallest possible consistent with effiactivity, cient administration, whether it be county, city, or a smaller local ernment." OPPOSITION Voiced By President Of Shoe Manufacturers' Group To 35 Cents An Hour As Minimum Wage. Washington, December 16-(AP) -The National Boot and Shoe Manufacturers Association contended today that government statistics inindicated a 35 cents an hour minimum wage for shoe workers would result in sharply curtailed employment and higher retail prices for footwear.

J. O. Ball, association President, presented the figures at a wagehour division hearing on the minimum was proposed by the shoe industry committee. Ball referred to Bureau of Labor reports that 16 per cent of the country's shoe workers received less than cents and declared that the industry would need to make major adjustments if the committee proposal went into effect. Coming so soon after the statutory minimum increase from 25 to 30 cents in October, it would cut down employment and perhaps cause replacement of older and slower workers, said Ball.

A 35-cent level, he testified, would add at least $28,000,000 a year to retail prices. Ball said he was "personally neutral" on the question of wage differentials as between large and small communities. He added that his association "never had advocated a wage differential," but he declined to say whether the organization opposed higher level for larger cities. REQUIEM MASS To Be Said Tomorrow For Attorney, Director Of Orphanage Society Estate Expert. Requiem high mass for Anthony Ronnebaum, attorney and a director for approximately 40 years of the St.

Aloysius Orphanage Society, will be sung tomorrow morning at Holy Name Church, Mount Auburn. Burial will be in St. Joseph's Cemetery. Mr. Ronnebaum, an estate specialist, died Friday at Good Samaritan Hospital.

He lived at 308 McGregor Avenue and maintained his office at 10 East Fifteenth Street. He was 65 years old. Mr. Ronnebaum was educated at the old St. Xavier College and the Cincinnati Law School.

He became a member of the bar in 1897. He joined the Cincinnati Bar Association in 1917. Surviving Mr. Ronnebaum are his widow, Mrs. Nettie Schoenfeld Ronnebaum; three daughters, Misses Louise, Mary, and Ruth Ronnebaum, and a sister, Sister Mary Louise, St.

Ignatius, Mont. JOHN J. SMITH. Requiem High Mass Tuesday For Retired Patrolman. Requiem high mass will be said at the Church of the Assumption Tuesday morning, for John J.

Smith, 2637 Melrose Avenue, Walnut Hills, retired patrolman, who died 1 yesterday following a heart attack. Mr. Smith was born in Cincinnati, in 1874. He served on the Police Department for 25 years, retiring in 1927. He is survived by sisters, Mrs.

Harriet MacKenna, with whom he lived, and Mrs. Isabel Holmes, Detroit; a brother, George Smith, Mount Clemens, two nephews, Arthur MacKenna, former employee of The then Enquirer and now a member of Police Department, and Jack MacKenna of the Internal Revenue Department, and a niece, Mary MacKenna. ALBERT R. COOK. Price Hill Man With Furniture Company For 40 Years.

Requiem high mass will be said Tuesday morning at Holy Family Church for Albert R. Cook, 800 Elberon Avenue, who died yesterday. Mr. Cook for 40 years was with the Anthony Cook Furniture Company, 1401 Central Avenue, of which his father was the founder He retired in 1931. A native of Cincinnati, he had lived for many years in Price Hill.

He was 69 years old. Mr. Cook is survived by three brothers, Andrew E. Cook, Leonard Cook, and Charles Cook, all of Cincinnati. Burial will be in St.

Joseph's Cemetery. From Sky To Astonish Hamilton County Officers Traced To Safe Stolen In Michigan. Noticing pieces of paper blowing in the wind when driving on Compton Road near Daly Road early yesterday, County Deputies Murad Grubbs, Albert Pining, and Edward Kress stopped and gathered up a large assortment of oil well and mine stocks, bank stocks, and stracts and titles to real estata, which, investigation disclosed, longed to John M. Grace, Rural Route No. 3, Inkster Road, Redford, Mich.

Investigating further late yesterday, Krses found sheafs of bank stocks, other papers of various kinds, and a small safe that had been dumped into A small creel: near Compton Road. These also were identified as property of the Redford man. Communicating with Wayne County, authorities, the Hamilton County learned that burglars had broken into a safe belonging to Grace at Redford the night of December 7. No being carried and no details of report had been, made of a safe's the safe-cracking were obtained. The papers and safe are being held by county police.

SPEEDER Hunted As Driver Of Missing Auto After Near Accident Seratches New Machine. Police were searching early this morning for a new automobile which was driven away from a parking lot at 8 o'clock last night and later was scratched when it grazed another machine on Montgomery Road near Woodburn Avenue. The automobile, a new machinebeing transported to market by motor truck, apparently was stolen by a Negro who drove it away from. a parking lot at Van Buren Avenue and Union Street, according to reports to police. Ray Brooks, watchman, said the Negro appeared to be about 35 years old.

Francis Dickenherr, 5810 Pandora Avenue, told police investigat015 that a car of the same make 18 the missing one cut sharply in front of him after he had warned the driver to steer more carefully traffic at high speed on Montas the machine weaved through gomery Road near Woodburn Avenue. As the car cut in front of Dickenherr it grazed his bumper, leaving A long scratch on the finish. Dickenherr, reporting the Incident. to Safety Frank Harrison and Chamberlain Foster, whom he met at Dana and Woodburn Avenues, said the other machine bore Tennessee license plates and the driver's description matched that of the man seen taking the car. He last saw the car speeding 70 miles an hour out Dana Avenue.

Hamilton 36, Newark 32 SPECIAL, DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Hamilton, Ohio, December 16- After being outplayed in the first quarter, the Big Blue of Hamilton High School rallied tonight and administered a 36-32 defeat on Newark, last year's state high school champions. Trailing, 14-7, at the beginning of the second quarter, Hamilton, lead by Paul Sarringhaus and George Dreher, outscored Newark 11 points to 3 to lead at half time, 18-17. In the third quarter, the Big Blue increased its margin to 29-22. Newark rallied in the final canto to outscore Hamilton, 10-7, but found the margin too great.

Snelling, Newark sophomore forward, scored five field goals and three fouls for 13 points. Sarringhaus, with, three baskets and four fouls points, and Dreher, with four field goals and one foul for nine points, paced the winners. EXECUTIVE-COUPLE RESIGN From Crosley Corporation -Kelloggs With Firm Many Years. Lewis M. Crosley, Executive Vice President of the Crosley Corporation, yesterday announced the resignation of Mrs.

Louise K. Kellogg as Secretary-Assistant Treasurer, and her husband, Leonard A. Kellogg, as manager of the Crosley Distributing Corporation of Cincinnati. The resignations become cffective January 1. Mrs.

Kellogg has been associated with the corporation for 21 years, her husband for 18. It is understood that the couple resigned because of Kellogg's health. Crosley said no action had been taken on the appointment of suecessors. CAVALRY OFFICER DIES. Hempstead, N.

December 16-- (AP) -Colonel William S. Valentine, 67 years old, Tenth Cavalry, U.S. retired, and one time Acting Military Governor of Puerto Rico, died at his home yesterday. He was a West Point graduate, class of '97, and saw service in the SpanishAmerican war and in the Mexican Expedition. In the World War he purchased 120,000 horses and mules in this country for shipment to France.

BACKS OUSTED HEAD. Nashville, December 16--- (AP) -A temporary injunction against interfering with ousted State Highway Chairman W. L. Miller in occupying the office and performing his duties was made permanent today by a three-Judge Superior Court. The injunction was directed against L.

Patten, pointed by Governor E. D. Rivers to succeed Miller,.