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THE COURIER.JOURN A E(l lVIEEE, KY ATl HI) AY MuKMMi, I) hi, EM I 2h, 19. SECTION 1 Ihe Celebrates Christmas In Loe 11 i i.e. Priest Thwarts Escape Attempt of .5 1 Prisoners larters in another section (t Milwaukee. Poo. 23 t'6 A i.u'i rriet and one the pn- Kramer found K'zlouki locked ui.

'ihe jailer hurt priest called for help, the five roamed along etibules and corridors four-story building, seeking a short while, I saw officers ih said. "They guarded every door. take long then to clear up the would-be escapees were flushed from and driven back to their cells. ather Kramer raid one rf the pri-nr'? manipulated the cell door lock an attempt to lock the priest in. The prisoners, meanwhile, had attacked Jailer with makeshift blackjacks of socks filled with soap.

They apparently took his' keys and two more prisoners from cells. The priest discovered that the prisoners had failed to lock the cell door. He eluded the would-be escapists and sounded an alarm that brought policemen racing from the Fint today thwarted an escape attempt by fr.e pn.soners who apparently ued the Christmas confessional as a ruse. The Kcv. Edmund Kramer, chaplain at Milwaukee County Jail, said he was told that four prisoners wanted him to hear their confessions and administer Holy Communion this morning.

Three prisoners were let out of their cells by Jailer Paul Kozlowski. and one went into a confessional cell with the priest. "I heard his confession," Father Kramer said. "Then, as he left, I heard a commotion Si 5. Jji I I -h C- 'r'-.

If- Lee Shubert, Who Headed Thealer Enterprises, Dies New York, Pec. 23 (APV Lee Shubert. president of the vast Shubert theatrical enterprises, died today at the age of 78. He died just four d.iys after entering Mount Sinai Hospital for treatment of a circulatory disturbance. The hospital said death was caused by "the com President Shows Joyful Mood Augusta, Dec.

25 "I am not going to be mad at anyone today," President Eisenhower happily declared this Christmas Day. The President, ringed by gift-laden grandchildren, arrived here in midafternoon to spend the holiday with his family and to work the next 10 days on messages he will send to Congress early next month. Tonight the Chief Executive, Mrs. Eisenhower, and other members of the family gathered around the Christmas tree at the Little White House at the Augusta National Golf Club. Mamie Prompts Him Nodding toward newsmen who were on hand, the First Lady noted.

the President's happiness tnd told him: "Tell them what you told me this morning." Agreeing, Eisenhower said that when he got up this morning he declared: "I am not going to be mad at anyone today. I was so happy to get away." He was referring to getting away from Washington and what he called the unusually heavy grind of the last few weeks, preparing for the reconvening of Congress. The three Eisenhower grandchildren played with Christmas toys as the President chatted. David Tries Golf Clubs Five-year-old David was examining a set of junior-size golf clubs Santa brought. The President remarked with a laugh that David's game thus far "is tint all that could be ex pected," but he noted that the youngster had promised to oe out on the first tee bright and early tomorrow morning to brush up.

The President and Mrs. Eisenhower flew here aboard the Presidential plane, the Colum- On the way they stopped for Jll UIC UJ Hiv-J uivt'f noarlv hours at Fort Benninc. Income Mark More Improvements Planned ext Year Washington. Dec. 25 (U R) William T.

Faricy, president of the Association of American Railroads, said today railroad passenger traffic dropped nearly 7 Der cent this year, but freight carloadings were up slightly and total income set a new record. He said the railroad industry set records during 1953 in gross revenues $10,746,000,000 and in operating expenses and operating efficiency. It also paid more taxes than in any other peacetime year, he said. Flan To Spend 800 Million Railroad investment In new equipment, plants, and facilities totaled more than $1,200,000,000, he said, making 1953 the sixth year in a row in which this investment has topped the billion-dollar mark. Faricy said the railroads plan to continue their improvement program in 1954 "at the highest level which traffic, revenues, and earnings will justify." He said expenditures of about $800,000,000 are already programmed.

Gives Statistics Fancy gave the following vital statistics for the railroad industry this year: Gross Revenue up 14 per cent from 1952. Total Operating Expenses $8,100,000,000. Taxes $1,300,000,000. Net Income Nine per cent higher than last year, and close to the $902,000,000 record set in 1942. Freight Carloadings slightlv above 1952.

Freight Traffic ton-miles, fractionally below 1952. Rate of Return Industry's net investment of more than $26,000,. 000,000, rate of return was 4.23 per cent, compared to 4.16 per cent in 1952. Capital Investment including 2,000 new locomotivesmostly diesel-electrics and 80,000 new freight cars. Mrs.

Alma Morgenthau Dies New York, Dec. 25 Mrs. Alma Morgenthau, 66, daughter of the late Henry Morgenthau, former United States ambassador to Turkey, died today at Doctors Hospital after a long illness. PRESIDENT EISENHOWER and granddaughter Susan, 2, look agreeably upon one another. They arrived at Augusta, yesterday to spend the Christmas holidays with the rest of the family.

Minneapolis Newspaper Strihe Ends Truckers ami Company Aprcc to 2-Year Contract Minneapolis, Pec. 25 A strike of Minneapolis Star and Tribune truck drivers that start ed six days ago ended today. The A L. Teamsters local and directors of the company accept- ed proposals advanced by feder al conciliators. The contract will run until December 31, 1955.

Earlier contracts were for one year. Normal service to all readers will resume with tomorrow afternoon's editions of The Star. Compromise Worked Out The union had asked hourly Increases of 12 cents for day work, 17 cents for night work. The company had offered increases of 8 cents hourly for day work, 11 cents hourly for night work. The drivers had been paid $2.13 hourly for day work, $2.18 for night work.

The compromise worked out at meetings with federal conciliators calls for a 15-cent increase in the wage scale, spread over 26 months, 10 cents retroactive to November 1, with an additional 5 cents effective November 1, 1954. An additional 5 cents an hour will be paid in the night differential, making the premium pay for night work 10 cents an hour, effective from last November 1. Holiday Work Unchanged Contract provisions on holiday work remain unchanged. The union had asked a full shift at double time on holidays as against the current 5 hours at double time on holidays. Tony Schullo, secretary-treasurer of Local 638, representing 100 drivers, saia the proposal was accepted by 85 drivers attending today's meeting by a 2-to-l vote.

Ii-trict hea LEE SHUBERT the old Horse Exchange in Times square into me wmier uarucu Shortlv before World War II there were still more than 40 legitimate theaters in operation in New York City awl the Shuberts (which then meant Lee and J. for Sam had died in 1905) owned, leased, or managed half of them. They also controlled 15 theaters in other cities. Lee was president of the theatrical organization; J. J.

was the general manager. Married Late In Life Lee remained a bachelor until only a few years ago when he married the former Marcclla Swanson, who had appeared in many of his musical productions. She survives. Lee was a hard worker, putting in as many as 16 hours a day even in his 60's, and Jong after he had accumulated a fortune. In his later vears.

Lee did not devote as much interest in producing shows as did J. but concentrated on financial aspects of the organization. Rrrra College Building Damaged by Fire noma Dec. 25 (A1) Fire damaged a wing of unoccupied Morningside Dormitory at iierea College tonight. Damaged had not been estimated.

The small dormitory was originally used for women students, but more recently for men. Firemen from Berea and Blue Grass Ordnance Depot fought the fire. said, I'm sorr 'v; th? building Father in a communal seriously. As the prisoners of the way out. "After a guns," he It didn't situation." The hiding places to pick up their son, Maj.

said, referring to the three Presi- John Eisenhower; his wife, Bar- dential messages which he plans bara, and the three grandchil- to draft between now and Jan- dren David, Barbara Anne, 4, uary 3, when he is scheduled to and Susan, 2. return to Washington. They had a light lunch at the The documents are the state-major's home there while he had of-the-Union message which he umII dnltvot rmrcnnnllv fft Con- Mrs. Dowd Is Present The President and the First T.qHv wore arrnmnjin ipd from -r Wash ngton by her mother, Mrs. John Dowd of Denver.

The President came down the ramp from his plana, carrying In addition to the drivers out on strike, the income of more than 250 of the 2,100 members of the organization and 11,000 carrier-salesmen and farm-crvica route men had stopped. 5-Timc Mayor Of Chicago Dies at 93 Carter II. Harrison Also Tax Collector Chicago, Dec. 25 M') Carter H. Harrison, five times Mayor of Chicago, died today.

He was 93. Harrison, who served as collector of internal revenue for the Chicago district from 1933 to 1944, died in his Chicago apartment. A Democrat, he bore the same name as his father, also Mayor for five terms. The vouncer Harrison was first elected to the chief City post in 1897 and retired after serving four consecutive two year terms. He returned to the office of the Mavor for a four-year term in 1911.

Appointed by F.D.R. President Roosevelt appointed Harrison revenue collector July 28, 1933, when Harrison was 73. He had been retired since he left the Revenue Service in 1944. One time editor of the old Chicago Times, Harrison was proud of his newspaper experience, and regularly attended the annual reunions of Chicago press veterans. He attended the last such affair on October 9 this year.

Was Attorney Earlier As Mayor, he received public commendation for his fight in preventing the late Charles T. Yerkes and his associates from getting from the City Council 50-year franchises for local traction companies on terms that Harrison believed were unjust to the public. Harrison was a practicing attorney until 1891, when he became his father's associate in the purchase of the old Chicago Times, and assumed editorial direction of the newspaper. He left the Times in 1895. NOTICE Closed Today, Dec.

26, All Day THE BUDGET PLAN 212 SPEEO BLD6. 4fh and GUTHRIE Abash 6781 1 iVl! Do tefcrt ir: rjcr' ft W4j i i 11 tip U' r'i I fl XV A 1 1 plete failure of the circulatory system." Shubert was one of three brothers whose far flung theatrical business at one time was esi-mated conservatively to be worth $400,000,000. The eldest brother, Sam S. Shubert, died many years ago. 3 Invaded Broadway The youngest brother, the only survivor now of the famous trio of showmen, is Jacob J.

Shubert, generally known as The careers of the brothers were closely interwoven so much so that the life story of Lee Shubert was also largely the life story of Sam and J. J. The three left Syracuse, N. as young men and invaded Broadway. They became engaged in a violent war with the old Klaw Erlanger booking business, then known as "The Combination." Built Many Theaters The task was a difficult one but the three brothers broke the combine and emerged eventually as the most powcnui single group operating in the theater.

The Shuberts built many theaters in New York familiar to theatergoers throughout the nation. These houses included the 44th Street, the Lyric, The Shubert, Broadhurst. Booth, Plymouth, Morosco, Bijou, Ritz, The 49th Street, Nora Bayes, Forrest, Maxirte Elliott, and the Al Jol-son. They previously had converted Countr-Journtl Photo END-0F-YEAR jpfcAi 98 A beautiful 8x10 Portrait in Sepia. A regular $7.50 value.

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Clotod Dot. i PROOFS lJ I I SHOWN IN I 30 MINUTES (w w'' i i Auotiatad Prist Wfrtohoto ner with their families, as the crew of his plane was doing. "Why don't you just write up a bunch of stories for use here and go on back," he suggested. "As a matter of fact, I'll be glad to write them for you if you want." Shortly arter the President and the First Lady were airborne from Washington, they received big cake inscribed in gaily colored frosting: "Merry Christmas from the crew 0f the Columbine." Paper Says U. S.

Can Pull Atom's Punch Paris, Dec. 25 (P) Paris- Presse, one of the leading after- un.ofiiiJiij uw, smv today that President Eisenhower's proposal for a United Nations aiomic pool naa Deen maue pos- sible by an amazing new discov- ery that atomic materials can be "denatured" to remove their de- structiveness. The paper did not give either the source of its story nor details of the reported discovery in the article which it displayed prominently. Paris-Presse said President Eisenhower was prepared to turn over the secret of the discovery to Russia, and that this would effectively remove Russian fears that atomic material it might contribute to the world "nuclear bank" would ever be used against the Soviet Union. A.E.C.

Refuses Comment (In Washington, a spokesman for the Atomic Energy Commission said he had no comment on the report.) The newspaper said American scientists had made the discovery and had perfected means for "emasculating" plutonium and other nuclear material which goes into an atomic bomb. Fissionable material thus "denatured" could never again be used for military purposes, the article said, but would be unimpaired for peaceful civilian purposes. The paper said the process was too complicated to explain in laymen's language, but takes the lethal kick out of nuclear material so that it is useful only for civilian purposes. It added that Eisenhower was convinced the system would work before he proposed before the U. N.

General Assembly December 9 that the United States, Russia, and other nations with the secret of the atomic bomb turn some of their materml into a peaceful pool. Christmas School Set For Opening at Berea Special to Th Courltr-Journal Berea, Dec. 25. Berea College and the Council of South em Mountain Workers in co operation with the Country Dance Society of America, will sponsor the 16th annual Christmas School here Sunday until January 3. The Christmas School was established in 1938 to instruct teachers, social workers, recreation directors, and other such leaders in the Southern-highlands area in the use of folk-arts materials.

1,000 Huts Destroyed In Hong Kong Fire Hong Kong, December 26 (Saturday) (U.R) A fire that began Christmas nieht and was still out of control early today destroyed 1,000 squatters huts and left some 5,000 persons homeless. Loss of life was feared heavy. The huts of flimsy bamboo are jam-packed together on the fringes of the colony where many refugees from the Communist-controlled Chinese mainland have settled. INM KI SAFETY LIBERAL DIVIDENDS EASILY OPENED THAT'S A SAVINGS ACCOUNT AT Susan, who was dressed in a Red Ridinghood coat and bonnet. She clutched a blue-clad doll, a Christmas present.

Young David, walking behind, nibbled at a Christmas cookie. Barbara Anne proudly dis played a new pair of cow-girl boots, Apologizes to Newsmen Turnintf tft npwsmen W'hO traveled from Washington in an 1 1 Ti accompanying piane, uie dent again apologized for taking them from their families. I'm going to do nothing but lit work down here." Eisenhower gress January uie uay uimi the legislators convene, and the budget and economic messages which will eo to the Capitol a few days later. The President told reporters he wished they could return to Washington for Christmas din- AHOciittd Prtu Wirtphats rncnnnrlnnro enmo lffftO(i and h.A ha(1 accumulated since she left home. "I don't believe I can ever answer it all," she said.

"I would need a secretary." una. nunc ootu at writ her son aeain. Mrs. Howe said she would not HC vcilrtliii vail iuuio wawa not as a hero but a son in dis- grace wno neeas neip, sne saia, Chiang Hopes Mainland Will Be Taken In 1954 Taipeh, Formosa, Dec. 25 (U.R) Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek told the National Assembly today he hoped the Chinese mainland would be recovered by the Chinese Nationalists within the next year.

a COLONIAL FEDERAL SAVINGS AND 10AN ASSOCIATION Where Safety fs Injured 3808 Frankfort St. Matthews TA 0853 TA 2827 THESE MEN wait outside the Volunteers of America, 401 Fehr, for a free Christmas dinner of turkey and all the trimmings. The men and a number of families had to be fed in shifts because of cramped quarters. Diners were serenaded by carolers. i The two papers publisnen regularly during the strike, with editions old only in the lobby of the plant, with a limit of five to a buyer.

Firemen Have Dry Christmas South Portland, Dec. 25 (p) South Portland firemen had cause to bemoan not having a white Christmas. Between 7:30 a.m. and noon they were called to put out eight grass fires. ArJW Met UJThe Ke, Memorial Clft to Kentucky" Heart lion will be promptly acknowledged to the bereaved family.

613 COLUMBIA lOUISVIllt 1 TEL WABASH S641 LOUISVILLE'S morale PiJPL PAINTING BY IKE For Christmas, President Eisenhower gave White House staff members a colored print of this painting he did of President Lincoln from a photograph taken by Alexander Gardner in 1863. Injured Pair Trapped In Car for 13 Cold Hours Arcadia, Iowa, Dec. 25 JP) A seriously injured elderly farm couple lay helpless in 22-degree weather in the front seat of their wrecked car on a lonely road for 13 hours last night and early today the woman's dead sister beside them. Ahead of them in another wrecked car was the body of 27-year-old Donald Berger, Vail, Iowa. The couple are Alfred Brockman, 67, of near Arcadia, and his wife, 65.

They are in a Carroll, Iowa, hospital, the husband with both legs broken and his skull fractured, and the wife with a broken leg, other injuries, and shock. The second fatality was Mrs. Carry Hegcdron, 67, a widow of Lake View, Iowa. The two cars crashed head on at 6 p.m. yesterday in the middle P.O.W.'s Mother Hides Heartache on Holiday Alden, Dec.

25 (UP) Mrs. Portia Howe surrounded herself with relatives today, trying to forget the heartache she suffered in fruitless effort to convince her soldier son to leave mm his Communist captors in Korea VVf It was the' fourth Christmas that her son by a previous mar riage, Pfc. Richard Tenneson, zu, had not been home for Christmas. Chances were that he would never be home again. Mrs.

Howe had busied herself NiWEST AND MOST MODERN SUBDIVISION! best home designs 5 best subdivision planning sfcbest prices and financing Only 10 down for Veterans, including all closing expenses of a gravel road 4 miles from here. The accident wasn't discovered until a farmer noticed the wreckage in the Christmas daylight at 7 a.m. Brockman wrote penciled notes on a bank checkbook during the night, but because of his condition, the darkness, and the cold he scribbled over most of his comments. The sheriff said Brockman was able to tell him that he wrote the notes because he believed he was going to die. with Christmas preparations "He made his decisioiv-a bad since arriving from Tokyo yes- one and he's stuck with it," terday.

said. She wrapped Japanese gifts if he changes his mind later, La Ksmi rvVit in Tnlrvrt inrlllHirtt? iml jtn ism a Kanlr Policemen Give Car To Veteran Bootblack Hollywood, Dec. 25 (P) For 30 years Earl Crain, 61, has shined the boots of many motorcycle policemen. Yesterday 25 of them, to show their appreciation, gave him a Christmas present. Sgt.

G. A. Coffey presented Crain with the keys and ownership certificate of a used but well-conditioned automobile to drive to work. "He's been awful good to the boys," Coffey BUG in h.0 wooden dolls, slippers with a separate piace ior me uig ioe, ana coiorea jbckcis. iune uu was a carved dragon pipe for Mrs.

Howe's husband, Eb. Twelve persons crowded into the square white house today for Christmas dinner. 'He's Stuck With It "You should have seen the kids after those Japanese gifts," she said. "They had never seen anything like them here." She said a "mountain" of cor- AIDStOWN i I.