Delphos Daily Herald from Delphos, Ohio • Page 1

INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE DELPHOS OHIO Cloudy and colder tonight, low 25 to 30. Thursday cloudy and rather cold. PftlCE FO JR CENTS WEDNESDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 24. 1952 TWENTY PAGES VOL.

69. NO. 163. NACARTHUR PLANNING FAR EAST TOUR Truman Lights Nation's Christmas Tree PROGRAM TO BEGIN AT 4:30 Activities At Peak In Two Indiana Towns Ceremony Will be His Final Holiday Observance as Chief Trumans Are Spending Christmas at the White House. WASHINGTON INS President Truman lights the nation's number one Christmas tree today and extends Yuletide greetings to the country in his final holiday observance as Chief Executive.

Mr. Truman will wish the U. S. a merry Christmas in a six-minute address highlighting an hour-long ceremony' before the "National Community Christmas Tree" on the south lawn of the White House. The program will begin at 4:30 p.

m. EST and the President is scheduled to speak at 5:17 p. m. EST. His remarks will be carried at that time over CBS-radio and via EST over the ABC and NBC radio networks.

This Christmas is the second to be spent by the Truman family in Washington since it began its White House residence in April, 1945. The President and his family have spent each Christmas since then except for 1947-at the "Little White House" in Independence, and Mr, Truman has lit the White House Christmas tree by remote control. This year, for his final chance at the chore, Mr. Truman will be on hand in person to press the button lighting the green and red electric bulbs on the living 35-feet- tall Norway spruce. The tree and a twin used in alternate years were planted on the White House grounds in 1940 when President Roosevelt and Britain's Prime Minister Churchill met there.

Prior to the lighting of the tree, Christmas music will be performed by the U. S. Marine Band and carols will be sung by the Washington Community Chorus. Boy Scout and a Girl Scout will present greetings from the people of Washington to the President and First Lady as an INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. INS tide activities will reach their peak I in two Indiana hamlets on Christ- mas Eve.

They are Santa Clans and Bethlehem, with respective populations of 50 and 177. These little communities are in the holiday spotlight every year and then lapse into comparative obsecurity. Both 'towns are in southern Indiana. The eleventh-hour visitors to Santa Claus the hamlet and the total of callers in the magically named settlement rose to about 700,000. Practically all of them have visited the fabulous 160- acre Children's Park.

In addition, Postmaster Elbert Reinke and his expanded staff of 25 have handled about four million pieces of mail, all bearing the colorful Santa Claus postage stamp. The little town of Bethlehem on the bank of the Ohio likewise has been teeming with visitors and also has dealt with the mail problem. The star in the steeple of the tiny Bethlehem Community Church, which has burned brightly all the nights of this week, also has drawn many visitors. Postmaster Albert Matthews of Bethlehem likewise has handled many thousand pieces of mail which he has hand-stampled with a "Star of Bethlehem" cachet. GENERAL WILL ACT AS "GOOD-WILL" AMBASSADOR Christmas Day Truce Arranged OW faith issubstai things 'not The very young the very old; They grasp intangibilit sheen The song, the drea miracle foretold.

1 Even fo Heartbreak Three Kings Down" years their lengthen on the The song is heard, know. For have seen if in the East- And north and south and west, I mark its And in some ugly spot where I think least To find a star, I its white gleam. It died not on Judea's hills, I know; It did not show me where He lay, then still on starless nights I watch its One In Every 12 In U. S. Is 65 Or Older I JERUSALEM INS Moslems and Jews have arranged a truce on Christmas day for the fourth straight year.

Mines and roadblocks will be removed Wednesday from Jerusalem roads and the gates between the Arab and Jewish parts of the city will be thrown open so that Christian pilgrims can make then- way to Bethlehem. additional part of the ceremonies. After the festivities are over the Trumans will play host to relatives staying with them as Christmas guests. MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS FELT EVEN ON KOREAN BATTLEFRONT Christmas Trees Are Displayed on Front Line Safe from Bed Mortar and Artillery Fire, ON THE WESTERN FRONT IN Korea INS You can feel the magic of Christmas, even on the Korean battlefront- Christmas in Korea is the thousands of gift packages daily pour-, ing into this division and the sands of greeting cards pouring out in many languages, 'Christmas at the front is' the memory of bygone holiday seasons and the hope that, if any Infantryman's luck and prayers hplqi out, next Christmas will be at home. The holiday spirjt can be seen in every frontline unit.

Bunkers colorfully decorated with red and green Christmas rope. Wreaths and mistletoe reminding "soft-hearted" GIs of the girl they left behind tinsel draped across scrawny evergreen branches and greeting cards from loved ones' nailed to ammunition- crate walls. Christmas trees are displayed on the frontline within sight of the Communists, strangely, are safe from Red mortar and artillery fire. "This is the time of year when the world should be at peace and isn't in Korea, anyway," explained Netherlands Sfc H. C.

Mas of Amsterdam, Holland. He said this Christmas will be his second holiday season in Korea. The 32-year old whose parents were "killed during World War II, said he feels "some of the spirit" generated by the Americans. He added: "Before, Christmas was just another day because I. have no home.

Nobody. But feel it now, here in Korea, at the front." Christmas in. Korea is more than a magic word. It's a spiritual symbol that has- taken hold of United Nations trpops from Christian nations. They feel it.

They are living it. WASHINGTON INS The Census Bureau reported today that one out of every 12 persons in the U. S. is 65 years or older. The Bureau estimated that 12,759,000 persons 8.4 percent of the 1951 population are in the GS'-or-over bracket.

Fifty years ago, the ratio was one out of every 25. The Bureau said, however, that, the population has only doubled in the last half century, while the number of oldsters has quadrupled. MORSE NAMED AGRICULTURE SECRETARY Morse, a Democrat Who Supported Eisenhower the Campaign. Will Serve Under Secretary, of Agriculture-Designate Ezra Taft Benson. Role is Likely to be Unofficial but The Far East Expert is Expected to Have the Full Support of The Eisenhower Administration.

What Noted People Are Saying Vatican City Pope Pius XII: "In vast regions where the weight of absolute power crushes soul and bodies, the Church is first to suffer. Her children are victims of per- I manent persecution, direct or in! direct, sometimes open, some- i times covered." New York-President-elect Eisenhower, on his meeting with former President Hoover: "We had the opportunity to talk over number 1 of affairs of government, past, pi'e- sent and future-ta my great bene- fit, I hope." Hoolywood-John Barrymore, when asked if his family knew of his elopement: "They'll read about it in tho papers," PIUS PLEADS FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE The Spiritual Head of the Catholic Church, in His Annual Christmas Message, Praises Those Who Defy Communist tion 'and Remain Firm in Their Christian Faith. VATICAN CITY -INS Pope Pius XII pleaded today for peace and justice in his annual Christmas address and praised the bravery of those who defy Communist persecution to remain firm in their Christian faith. Cardinals residing in Rome and other high officials of the Church government were present in the Consistorial Hall of the Vatican as the 'Pontiff delivered his speech from a crimson throne, It then was translated into 14 languages and broadcast around the world by the Vatican radio. Repeatedly and perhaps more insistently than ever before, the Pope returned to the theme of Communist persecution.

He declared: "In vast regions where the weight of absolute power crushes souls and bodies, the Church is first to suffer. "Her children are victims of permanent persecution, direct or indirect, sometimes open, sometimes covered." The Pontiff also criticized sharply what he considers the failure of industrially advanced and wealthy nations of the world to help poorer nations. The Pontiff warned the world to beware of losing the "rudder" which is guiding the mechanized age, reference to the (Continued On Lust Page) Discards Lights For Religious Theme BETHLEMHEM, Pa. INS Bethlehem, America's "Christmas City," is discarding most of the bright lights and the pageantry that have been so much a part of its yuletide tradition. In their- place, the town named after Christ's birthplace by a hardy band of, Moravian settlers on' Christmas Eve more than 200 years ago, is hewjng this year to a simple theme of religioUs, rededication to the Prince of All that remains today the gaudy seasonal electrical Displays that attracted holiday tourfsts from all over the world is giant star atop a mountain overlooking the city.

High point of religious observance remains the Christmas Eye vigil in the ancient Moravian church. During thi? servicf, each person holds a "candle, symbolic of light coming'into the world. NEW YORK INS President elect Eisenhower named St. Louis Democrat True D. Morse today to be his Undersecretary of Agriculture the fourth member of the opposition party picked for a high office in his administration.

The choice of Morse, who supported Eisenhower in the presidential campaign, was announced following conferences between the General and Secretary of Agriculture designate Ezra Taft Benson. Other Democrats named to top posts by Ike are Labor Secretary- designate Martin Durkin; Oveta Gulp Hobby, who will head the Federal Security Administration; and Navy Secretary to be Robert B. Anderson. Morse is president of the Doane Agricultural Service, of St. Louis, a farm management service.

He is a former president of the American Farm Economists Association and the American Association of Farm Managers and Appraisers. Meanwhile, there was increasing evidence that Eisenhower will place top emphasis in his administration on the task of streamlining the federal government. Tliis was one of the major topics of his surprise conference yesterday with Herbert Hoover, the nation's only living "ex-President and an expert in recent years in government reorganization. Eisenhower did not say exactly what he and the Republican elder statesman talked about during an hour and 45-minute luncheon meeting at the home of Secretary of State designate John Foster Dulles. He said, however, that reorganization of the government was among the subjects discussed.

The President elect told, newsmen: "We had the opportunity to talk over a number of the affairs of government, past, present and future to my great benefit, I hope." Eisenhower is expected to clean up his desk early today and? take off for the Christmas holidays, The President elect will spend Christmas with his family, including his three grandchildren, at his Mornuigside Heights residence. NEW YORK INS Gen. Douglas MacArthur is planning to return to the Far East as a "good'will" ambassador with the expecte'd full support of the Eisenhower administration. The five-star general's role is likely to be unofficial and he probably will travel as a private citizen, although his U. S.

military rank alone will bring him top-brass treatment. It is also possible that Eisenhower, carrying forward the recent get-together with his old boss on a plan to end the Korean war, will give MacArthur official status. This possibility was strengthened by the long friendship of MacArthur Secretary of State des- ignate John Foster Dulles. Both men see eye to eye on many phases of Pacific policy. Dulles, the architect pf the, Japanese peace treaty, feels the Tru- irian and Roosevelt administrations paid far too little attention to the Far East.

Dulles has pointed out that during the last 20 years, the Sccre- Uaries of State made trips to Europe but not- one visit to the Far East. Ma'cArthur's experience in the Pacific spans nearly half a century, dating back to 1903. He firmly believes thut this is the area which holds'the key to world peace. With this in mind, he how plans, and with the hearty endorsement of various key nations involved, to leave an extensive tour within the next four to six months. His contemplated itinerary includes the Philippines, Formosa, Japan and possibly Korea, Australia and New Zealand.

Three Far Eastern nations already have invitations to MacArthur on an "open" basis because Mr. Truman is still in office. Two other countries have strongly indicated they would Welcome a visit from the General. MacArthur, whose career in the Pacific dates back to 1903, when he arrived in the Philippines as a second lieutenant, was commander of Philippine defenses from 1922 to 1925, and during this period, Eisenhower was a major on his staff. His return to the mainland on April 17, 1951, after his recall from his commands by President Truman, marked the first time since 1937 that he had been in the U.

S. ONE MAN'S OPINION And Thursday is the day of gifts and tinsel and lights and Santa Claus and good fellowship and warm goodwill and a wonderful merry day it will be. But whoever first said "Christmas is for children" was so right it seems strange that year after year we slight the most important Child at Christmas. There would be no Christmas without the Babe of Bethlehem and those who profess to be His lowers must know what is important Thursday. Everybody can celebrate Christmas of Sant.a Claus an4 that's as it should be, we need, more not less good will, but fop the Christian there also should the Christmas of Christ.

But a wonderful, Christmas to you all,.