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The Molns Ttocteter anil Trlhunn Hv More Than a Quarter Milltnn Circulation. PKICE mm IrallE, me fliflO i 1 1 I ASKS BROADER WE ALWAYS DID SAY WE WANTED CHRISTMAS THE vc a Drw mm mnM'T FArTLoses All It Owns in: MERCURY DIPS 1 BRITISH PLAN TO TAKE OVER COAL MINING WAR EMBARGO LIST FOR II. S. Peace Group Frames New Proposals for Neutrality Act. NEW YORK, N.

Y. (U.P.) A new neutrality act authorizing the president to embargo to belliger.jminutr8 latpr noth'nR ents "all articles and commodities but a section nf blackened wall essential to the continuing conduct of war" was advocated Wednesday night by the National Peace Conference. Thfl new art u-nnlil rpnlnrA thp The President Hears Pastor Hit Capitalism Wirephoto on Page 8. WASHINGTON, D. President Roosevelt heard "ruthless capitalism" rebuked In a Christmas day sermon here.

Although members of the Episcopal church, the Roosevelt family attended services held by the Washington Federation of Churches in Foundry Methodist Episcopal church. The Rev. Russell J. McClinchy, a Congregational pastor, declared that progress is being made by those who are trying to lead the nation away from the rule of "tooth and claw." "Simply an Automaton." With a phrase frequently used by President Roosevelt the pastor indicted practices of modern capitalism. He criticized the philosophy of Communism and Fascism in these words: "In their view, man is simply an automaton who exists for the good of the state." "Progress Made." Then the pastor continued: "But it is also true that ruthless capitalism is trying to make us believe that man is a predatory aniinal stalking about to see what he can obtain for his own individual interest." "God knows we are not very far beyond that tooth and claw stage yet But that progress has Holiday Fire (Plflurn on Pn 12.) An explosion and fire made Christmas day a bitter memory for Mr.

and Mrs. Russell Robbins when it destroyed their cottage Twenty-eighth st. The fire broke out shortly before noon and was discovered by Mrs. Robbins, 21, an expectant mother. In five minutes it had tin.

hntia. a fmi and the twisted iron of a heating stove and bedstead. Carried Out. Mrs. Robbins' grandfather, Wil- Brinkcrhoff, lf, who was visiting there.

Crippled by rheu- hihii.iiii, i.id vim, limn urum The fire apparently was caused by the explosion of a can of crank-; case oil which Mr. Robbins had! I .1... 1- oeiorc sne neara a sound as though the teakettle boiled over" and found the kitchen In flames. Painfully Burned. Christmas night Robbins anil present law which expires Feb.

81' wno Iivps the 1936, and which outlaws export to Robblnaes. was carried from the warring nations only of "arms am-jT Charles munition or implements of war, basic essentials for war are not 41,. -u-va mjt inc I'urm ill, nil. Opposition Appear. Although It would be mandatory upon the president to apply fc The holiday was ushered In by embargo equally to all belligerents, ne (lldn't remember leaving I a bllt blizzard that he would be allowed discretion as! 11 on tho stove- bllt tne yunK wife took the lives of two men.

An-to when it should be applied and said 8no 8aw 11 there five minutes otnPr wa, Would Cut Millions From Income ot Clergy, Peers. MINERS IX HOT WATER Before tne U'ona war cng-laml was prosperous coal nitn-nation, in 1913 producing 11.7 per cent the world's and employing 1,110,000. Sines 1021 the mining industry has been beset by loss of ex-fort trade, wage disputes and the burden of high interest. In an effort to prevent total eotlapse of the mining industry, England has spent more than (100,000,000 in direct subsidies io labor and property owners. LONDON, ENGLAND P) A government plan to permit Great Britain to purchase all private coal mining properties Wednesday vu hailed triumphantly by Socialists as "the forerunner of doom (or England's feudal system." The proposal is calculated by its proponents to free miners from "the yoke of private ownership" which has restricted them to an iverage wage of $11 a week.

"Interest of the Community." Sir Thomas Inskip, Attorney general, announced the government plan to buy out the owners of mining properties. "It means the purchase of these properties by the state and thereafter their control by the state," he told the house of commons. "It will involve a change of ownership and direction from private owners to single pub-lie ownership, controlled by the state In the interest of the community." A Blow to Church. Jubilant cries of "This is Socialism! This means the nationalization of England!" swelled from the Socialist benches in parliament when Sir Thomas made the announcement. But whatever it means politically, it is a stunning blow both for the Church of England, which receives $1,850,000 a year from coal holdings and for countless blue-blooded peers of the realm whose great hereditary fortunes are founded on mining profits.

More than $565,000 annually is paid in dividends to the Duke of Hamilton estate; the marquis of "ln-'" "ls night, particularly in northern ter Mrs. Florence Simmer, 2400jIowBi RialIlg tcmpcrature8 wer9 Garden road, while neighbors, p(1icte(J for Iowa tod wlth sought a stove furn lure bedding, clothmg and food for them A Tho blustery zero weather was neighbors garage at 2245 Bell tnrollnout the middlewe8t. what articles should be included In contrast to this plan was that announced Wednesday in Washing ton, D. by Senator Bennett C. Clark who demanded it be made mandatory for the president to clamp down both a war material and financial embargo as soon as a state of war exists.

War Threat. With serious war threats to the east and west of America, neutral ity legislation is sure to be among the most important problems considered by the congress which con venes next month. The Peace Conference's proposed neutrality act was drafted by a special committee headed by Dr. James T. Shotwell, noted authority on international affairs, BtLUW MU, RELIEF TODAY TVaffiV Delayed by Slick Roads After Drifts Opened.

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Th KpRintrr'i lov.a Npwi Servlct. Iowa had an old-fashioned white Christmas Wednesday, bitter cold like the kind that grandma used ..,.11 The mercury fell to a low of below zero at Cedar Rapids, la. Warmer Today. The mercury was expected to din ti'All Krtlntr vnrn At Oskaloosa, Dave Reese, 60, former railroad frelghthouse employe, was found fatally frozen beside the Minneapolis A St. Louis Iyost in Blizzard.

1 Rce.se was still alive when found a c.0. survived by a brother, Ivor Reese, if nP Mnlnen Tommy Woods, 35, a laborer, was found frozen to death Wednesday afternoon near Jolce, la. Woods' car was found about 200 yards from his body. He evidently had started to walk to shelter after his machine stalled and had walked into a fence and perished from the cold. Thinly Clad, was wearing Woods a thin jacket.

He was single. William Ellis of Cedar Rapids, was found there by polics Tuesday night staggering through the blizzard with both hands and nis face frozen. He was taken to police headquarters wnere he re covered. ('reus Clear Roads. Highways were reported slick Dut pasaanie over most ot tna Weather.

CoiifittHPd on Page Twelve. Two Trains Collide In New York Tunnel NEW YORK, N. Y. (U.N.S.) Two hundred passengers were itibadly UP when two nS jlsland railroad trains collided Wednesday in a Brooklyn tunnel. for Them J- 14 ml llll-lll lu 1IVC in.

Mr, Hoyt was taken to the home of another daughter. Twni'fnlli, VT-o DKklni, hf I 7iT I v. railroad tracks. Police said ha Ing outdoors for her husband whoi v. probably became lost in the bllz- was nearby hunting rabbits.

1 t. Izard whl trying to reach his Robbins, 22, who has had wi.i iaK. 11.. historian trostes so hlKh 11 impoMlble.b'it died a short time after beinr anvone to enter lh a 'taken to Mahaska hospital. He is been made is only because a few noble souls have set out to find a nobler way of living." "Only Heroic Souls." Only heroic souls, he declared, climb the mountain-peaks of life.

"A man can't do it who says the snow is too deep, the wind too fierce, the rocks too high," he told an audience intently aware that President Roosevelt, his wife mother, and three tall sons filled a far-forward pew. "If a man says the forces of selfishness are too great for him, that man is beaten." "World Is No Nursery." "The world is no nursery. It's not set for a holiday of fishing and sleeping, not made for play boys it was made to give heroes a place to stand on. No coward ever looked at life and found this world was made for him." The president's party arrived at the church preceded by six motorcycle police. At the White House before the services, 4-year-old Sara Roosevelt, only granddaugh nrpaldpnt.

started the dav bv taking possession of the single stocking hung over a hearth in the executive mansion. Dinner In Stat Room, After the services, the family, with the best wishes of the church p-rmm rinHnr in their ears, juiw 1111 juwiuua, bh lilt' smoke and raced for the house. But the wind bad fanned the vounir Netrro who tried it vuun 1 imiiuuiiv liui iit'll 11111,111. 111M iiii-i'. Up In Smoke.

Tho little group huddled to- le "90w aml etched housc Wfls destroyed, and with it Christmas presents the Robbinses had purchased for relatives, the baby clothes on which Mrs. Robbins had been working, their own clothes, a steel guitar highly prized by the young hus- iband, the radio, and the rest of I their personal effects. Robbins said Wednesday night I that he and his wife and her I grandfather have been living on the $15 a month Pension tiven Mr. Hoyt with what direct relief they obtained. "Seems Pretty Hard." "I had enough clothes to Inst me about five years," the young wife said, "but they were all burned except what I'm wearing." "I've been working on that place a good many months, Konbins jsaid, "getting it fixed up, and now it's gone in about four minutes.

Pem rretty hard." I Even the overcoat which Rob-, bin hpd ln nl hurry to to burninfr nolHe was l0Ht lT the Bute receives $545,000 a year, to celebrate Christmas with uunuauon lor international reace and president of the League of Na- tions association. Provisions. It goes much farther than the exisling neutrality act, and would carrv these provisions: carry these provisions: 1. Requesting the president to negotiate with signatories of the Kellogg-Briand pact for a treaty to clarify the rights and duties of neutrals and of the parties to the part In case one of them should resort to force In violation of its obligations. The proposed neutrality act would remain in force only until such a treaty is concluded.

2. Authorizing the president to embargo all materials needed to conduct war, with discretion as to when such an embargo should be imposed and the articles to be included. It is mandatory insofar as it must be Neutrality. t'onf iuiie't 011 1'ape Sine. Santa Claus, Stork Visit the Flatleys Santa Claus, with the able as- sistance of his friend and colleague hr-u tn th White Houseiwas doing something Girl's Home Set Ablaze, Healy Jailed HOLLYWOOD, CAL.

'Twas a roaring Christmas blaze that Ted Healy, screen comedian, asserted-ly started in the apartment of Marion W. (Bonnie) Bonnell, 26. In his cell Wednesday the bald film funnyman, placed in Jail on suspicion of arson, said he didn't remember what happened. TH HK.AI.V. He said he had had a number of drinks and recalled only that he someone didn't want him to do.

"I'm Too Old!" Miss Bonnell had a better memory. She insisted the comedian had "forced his way in." "Was I burned up!" she told police. She pointed to a stack of charred table legs and chairs to illustrate her point. Healy laughed that off. "I'm too old to play with I went to call on Bonnie, and she fired on me." Crashc Glass Door.

He showed a bandaged hand as evidence, claiming the bullet went throueh his palm. Police said the hand was cut by glass and burned. According to Miss Bonnell's story, Healy attended a Christmas eve Dartv at her apartment. He left with other guests, and later appeared at her door, demanding to be let in. Miss Bonnell said she was alone, and the party was over, so she refused.

Healy, she claimed, crashed his fist through the glass door and walked in. for lunch, then package opening, and finally Christmas dinner in the state dining room. The president's sons who at- tended the church services were James, John and Franklin, jr. I QUAKE IS FELT IN CALIFORNIA Sir Stork, presented Mr. and Mrs.

I some one carried E. G. Elatlev. of 1217 Fifteenth with a baby boy on Christmas day. Christmas Day Bitter Memory Possibly Aftershock of 1933ihave 't cold during the night.

Auto Mishaps In Iowa Take Seven Lives (The ReRlster'i Iowa Newi Bervlce.) Seven persons in Iowa were dead Christmas night, victims of highway accidents. The dead were: Jack Kimball, Waverly, killed hen struck by car. Kobert Poogue, Chicago, killed in collision near keystone, la. Zinon Ksttirpos, 10, Sioux City, schoolboy, struck by car. Hector, Sioux Rapids, theater manager, fatally Injured near Spencer, In collision.

William Davis, 26, of Yale, fatally Injured near Albia, in crash. May and Mary Brown, 1 1 and 18, of Ida Grove, killed In Odrbolt, collision. Poogue was killed just before noon Christmas day when his car crashed headon into a westbound bus on Highway 30, south of Keystone, la. Mrs. Thelma Hill, 25, of Chicago, riding with him, is recovering from lacerations and bruises in a Cedar Rapids, hospital.

It was reported Poogue turned out to pass a snowplow. The Interstate bus was bound for Omaha, Neb. jPoogue's car was virtually de- 'molished while the bus was almost unharmed. Mechanic Crushed. Kimball, about 30, Waverly garage mechanic, was crushed to death against his wrecker truck Accidents.

Continued on Page Eight. MAN DIES AS GIFTS PASSED Osage Family Grouped About Tree Witnesses Death. OSAGE, IA. Bruce Champion, 52, Osage battery shop owner, fell dead from heart disease Wednesday morning while standing before a Christmas tree in his home with his three children and two small grandchildren. The family had gathered at the tree to distribute presents when Champion became faint and fell to the floor.

He was one of the first auto mechanics here and operated a battery shop with his son, Robert. HOOVKKS VISIT CHILDREN. SIERRA MADRE, CAL. UP) Christmas brought former President and Mrs. Hoover to Sierra Madre, near Los Angeles, to visit their children and grandchildren, Crisp Comment (By The Aflaoclated Preea.) Sidney Summerfield, chief of the Cook county (Chicago) marriage license bureau, reporting that nowadays it's the bridegroom who blushes and that shy brides are as rare as cigar store Indians: "There's an old-timer who remembers a nervous, flushed young lady, but that was back In the days when 'Oh, you kid' was a funny crack." Representative George Tinkham attacking the Kel-logg-Briand pact: "This pact, falsely and mendaciously called a 'peace a pact to outlaw war, now is being used to involve the United States in a war.

It means war fat the United States, not peace, and it should be abrogated at once." SHARP ROBBERY STILL MYSTERY 3 of 55 Arrested in Tavern Are Held. The Christmas eve mystery, "Who Robbed Bert Sharp?" continued cast its twenty-fourth hour Wednesday right at the city jail without solution. All but three of the 55 persons arrested at the Eagle tavern, 612-14 Mulberrv where SharD said he was robbed of 196, were released by detectives. Included among the three held was Sharp himself. Donald Hicks, one of the proprietors of the tavern, was released late Wednesday night.

Police said they desired to hold Sharp until the case had been solved. Sharp, who gave his age as 63 and the Saxon hotel as his residence, charged he was ganged by 'a 01 paeons -o jan, Blind Musician Returns, Finds Accordion Gone MOLINE, ILL. UP) Earl Gil-more, blind musician of Rock Island, 111., was deprived of his means of a living Tuesday evening when somebody stole his accordion and stool. Gllmore placed the Instrument on the stool outside a store while he did some shopping. Vhen he returned, they were (one.

numerous peers receive at least half a million dollars a year. Ends Probe. At the same time, the royal commission on tithe ended a year's investigation on the bitterly fought "tithe war" the centuries-old battle over "Queen Anne's bounty," which takes $11,000,000 a year from farmers, In land taxes, to support 7,000 clergymen of the Church of England and an additional $5,000,000 for private owners of tithe rights. Final settlement of the controversy, which dates back centuries and involves payment of one-tenth of the produce of all land nd labor exclusive of the ordinary government taxes is indicted in the report of the royal commission, which offers a plan to abolish the bounty. Proposes Loan.

The commission, under chairmanship of Sir John Fischer Wil-'lams, now proposes a lan, eithei subscribed or guaranteed by the government, issued in the form of in-west bearing bonds as payment Private tithe-owners. More than 300,000 landowners be affected bv th renort. Since 1836, tithe-owners have en $1,500,000,000 out of agri nure in England. In Essex county, the annual tithe payment Is said to equal a dollar a week lf each man employed. To collect these premiums.

Eng. sneriffs have had to "raid" wrriraded farmhouses and forcl carry off household fuurnish 'igs and cattle-of destitute farm, rs. nth' beneflciaries of the tithe, England's curates have come for flaming antagonism from we beleaguered farmers, and even "en churchmen admit the injus- or the system, lisiotm "Stumbling Block." nowever Justified the position we ciergy in regard to the tithe, 1 In fact a stumbling block in we way 0f the church's spiritual "Mion, declared Bishop Roscoe of Wanta As so many country parsons km ltm'. It is doing much to poison relationship between priest and is an intolerable situa-when a parish priest can only himself and his family from by forcing: his principal into Disaster, Scientist Says. LOS ANGELES, CAL.

(ff) A distinct earthquake, not strong enough to cause damage, attended opening of Christmas presents in many southern California homes Wednesday morning. The shock was felt in Long Beach, portions of Los Angeles, Santa Ana, and along the coast south of here. At the Fasadena seismological laboratory of the Carnegie institution of Washington, D. Dr. C.

H. Richter said the earthquake might have been an aftershock of the disastrous Long Beach earthquake of March, 1933. The rec- ords, although indistinct, indicated the epicenter might have been 75 to 100 miles from Pasadena. SO SANTA HAS GOOD MEMORY Pupils of Many Years Ago Send Turkey to Teacher. School day memories brightened Christmas day for Mrs.

Pugh, 75, a widow of 740 Seventeenth st. Although she ceased teaching 42 years ago, to the home came a dressed turkey as a remembrance from five former pupils at Stock- holm, S. D. I The Stockholm pupils. Burned Clothing.

a group tne tavern and tne taken forcibly from his She declared Healy marched Jt into the kitchen, heaped her ex- pensive clothes on a stove and set A squad of a dozen detectives i- and uniformed men raided the tav- fire to tnem. 1 She said she ran out and yelled rn and sent four patrol wagon I I 111 yf AS J''- t'-J sf I. fnr hPln. Healv meanwhile collect-1 ed the living room furniture, reduced the larger pieces to kindling wood, and set fire to the pile, she said. "Liable to Cost Me." "Somebody started a row," ex plained Healy, "and the next thing 1 knew somebody took a shot at me.

That's all I remember until the cops pinched me for doing nothing except celebrating Christ- mas eve. This beef Is liable to cost "grownups" of course, obtained; too sick to care about anything." Mrs. Pugh's address from a broth- After refusing a roast pork diner she recently visited at Troy, S. ner in the Jail with the other a town 12 miles from Stock- Christmas guests, Healy was re-holm, 'leased on 11,000 ball. Mr.

and Mrs. Rusoen Robbins, 1008 S. E. Twenty-eighth whose Christmas was saddened by a fire which destroyed the home and personal effects of the young eouple married not quite a year. "We're not downhearted," Bobbins remarked.

"Well make It.