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FOUR WILMINGTON MORNING NEWS. WILMINGTON. DELAWARE, MONDAY, DECEMBER 15. 1947 amp a mum morn 'identity must be withheld for safety (reasons, said he was conducted to School and Brown Vocational High LIS. JEWS TO SEEK rLMIIO MI1I1UUI1ULU Child Victim of Bombing PRE-CHRISIAS 1 SERVICES HELD CHURCH DISPLAYS C.A1E.

PARCEL the command post for discussion of a proposed arms deal. "The approaches were guarded by battery of searchlights and Bren gun positions," he said. "I was required to wear Arab headdress. In side a map-cluttered omce unuorm-ed officers worked at desks. Passages and offices were piled high with Bren guns and boxes of ammunition Oratorio, Candlelight Rites, "Play on Church Programs; Gifts to be Given Needy services, featuring 'ie presentation of Handel's ora-fjtorio, "The Messiah," candlelight services, a Christmas play and the of white gifts, were held in many churches last night.

More than 250 persons attended the presentation of the play, "In uu tjiry oi uavw- in St. Paul's "Methodist Church. The one-act 'I; -i-vy ly 4: 'i V- "1 I it AH I mm 'A play was directed by Miss Rosalie Jenkins. Soloists were Jean Dawson and Benjamin Davis, with "2" Lee C. Sistare as organist.

The cast included Jean Granger, Louise Small, Margaret Champlin, Mary Lou Jenkins, Robert McClure, Mr. Davis, William Swezey, Richard Sutton, Fess A. Brill and Orhum Cmall, Jr. Rachel Andrews was in of costumes, Milford Lee i was stage manager, and lighting I in charge of J. Earl Cummings, James McCready.

'Candlelight services were held in First and Central and West Presbyterian Churches. In First and Central Church, music was pre-jsented by the choirs directed by -Wallace Heaton, organist. The pro-Jjptm was preceded by instrumenta? Tnusic featuring Dorothy Johnstone Baseler, harpist. In West Church, each was (riven a candle as he en. An Arab policeman shouts for an ambulance at he carries a wounded girl from the Arab market place at Jerusalem's Damascus Gate after two anti-personnel bombs were tossed into the crowd.

Photo by Associated Press Staff Photographer James Pringle. (AP photo by radio from Jerusalem to New York). tred the sanctuary. The musical program was arranged by Robert A. Imbt.

director of music. Nearly 1,000 persons crowded; FOR TREE LIGHTING Mayor to Press Button At Community Yule Fete; Carol Singing on Program The annual community Christma tree lighting ceremonies will ta place Thursday night at 7:29 p. m. when Mayor Joseph S. Wilson presses the button lighting the tree the steps of the public building which the ceremonies will be held.

Mayor Wilson will extend greetings to the public which is invited to attend the carol singing. Greetings will also be given by Mrs. L. Mulford Taylor, president of Wilmington Music Commission which has arranged the annual affair. The invocation will be asked by the Rev.

Francis J. Tierney, assist ant rector oi St. Marys Church. A brief Christmas message wul given by the Rev. John Herrlck Darling, pastor of Hanover Presbyterian Church.

Carols will be sung a chorus from the Evans O. Shortlidge No. 30) School, directed Clarke Maynard, supervisor oi music for the Board of Education. Pianist will be Miss HUda W. Darby.

Francis X. Gallagher will direct the audience in the singing of carols, with Miss Margery Hill Bauer at the piano. An instrumental program will be given by the Wilmington High School orchestra directed by Walter L. Mitchell. Mrs.

Josiah Bacon Is chairman of music arrangements for the ceremonies. Members of the music committee are Mrs. Virginia Fuller Mac Nutt. Miss Lucia B. Hickman.

Robert Forman, Miss Mabel S. Haley and Muncey Keith. The ceremonies will be broadcast over WDEL and WILM. Accidents CaatlBaea' Fraai Ftrat Far silver crucifix and a pair of tor tolse shell glasses in his pocket. The man's death raised the Dels ware automobile fatality list to 66 so far this year, compared with 76 for the corresponding period of last year.

Three persons, two oi inem peaes- trians, were injured in automobile accidents in the state over tne week-end. Greenwood Youth Hurt Carroll 8mith, 17, of Greenwood suffered fractured collar bone when his car went out of control, ran off the road, and struck a fence on Route 14, six miles south of Mil- ford, early yesterday morning. Smith was taken to the Milford Memorial Hospital and was released from there yesterday afternoon af ter treatment. Jay Chandler, 6. of 1005 Jefferson Street, was treated at the Delaware Hospital Saturday night for a bruised left knee, after he waa struck by the car of Paul Hubbs, 2000 West Seventh Street, in the 1000 block Madison Street.

The boy was released from the hospital later. Another child injured to an automobile accident was Caroline Wallace. 11. of 1417 North Jackson Street. Police disclosed that she was struck by the car of William Kush-ner.

of Edge Moore Gardens at Delaware Avenue and Adams Street Saturday. The girl was removed to The Memorial Hospital where she was treated for abrasions for both legs. BIRTHS Delaware Hospital Boyer, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Brandy wine Hundred, Dec.

14, son. Carter, Mr. and Mrs. William Shipley Road, Dec. 14.

daughter. Ford, Mr. and Mrs. George St. Georges, Dec.

13, daughter. Grace, Mr. and Mrs. John Claymont. Dec.

13, daughter. Hockenbury. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Edge Moor Gardens, Dec.

14, son. Matter, Mr. and Mrs. Israel, Newport. Dec.

14, son. Mayer, Mr. and Mrs. Albert R. F.

No. 2, Dec. 14. daughter. Williams, Mr.

and Mrs. T. Leslie, Elsmere, Dec. 13, son. The Memorial Hospital Carroll, Mr.

and Mrs. Jacob, Newark. Dec. 12. son.

Wilmington General Hospital Bowers, Mr. and Mrs. Edward, Marshallton, Dec. 12. daughter.

Pass. Mr. and Mrs. Norman, Colonial Park, Dec. 13.

son. Rowe. Mr. and Mrs. William, 1111 North Clayton Street, Dec 13, son.

Make It "Merry Christmas' for 25 deserving families. Mall check to News-Journal Co. dandle ilicltS PER PAIR TAX INC. all brand new." The raid by the Arab motorized unit on the Ramie police depot was seen as part of the campaign by the Arab army to obtain arms, roe Arabs, in three trucks, made off with arms and ammunition but ran into a British military road block a short time later. They fought their way through the road block but abandoned two of their trucks and much of their loot.

Three Arabs were captured and a British officer was wounded in the 30-minute skirmish. Yesterday a Jewish motorized patrol apparently from the Jewish defense army Hagana penetrated Arab el Yehudiye and blew up a house suspected of being a local Arab army headquarters. Hagana is believed to be directed by an officer in the building here occupied by the Jewish Agency. Its manpower was estimated st 70,000 before the nationwide mobilization begun last week. Its widespread units have defended Jewish settlements for the past 30 years, and it is generally regarded as an efficient and well armed fighting force.

A Jewish Agency spokesman told newsmen today that Hagana would continue defense or "aggressive self-defense" operations if Jews or Jew ish positions are attacked by Arabs. He said that in the first 10 days after the United Nations decision to partition Palestine Hagana was committed only to acts or sen defense, but has now decided to attack all centers from which Arab attacks emerge. He said that last night a Hagana squad stopped an Arab bus near Beisan in northern Palestine, scene of an earlier attack upon a Jewish bus. He said Hagana overcame attempts at resistance, disarmed two passengers and set the bus on fire, then explained in Arabic the reasons for the action. 'Private Annies' Flayed The spokesman denounced actions by "Jewish private armies," a refer ence apparently to Irgun Zval Leumi and the Stern Gang, extremist Jewish underground forces blamed for recent killings of Arabs.

Other violence today Included: Three Arabs were reported wound ed and six missing after three Jews held up and machine-gunned an Arab bus between Beisan and Tiberias. A bomb exploded outside a Jewish shop in Haifa but caused no casualties. Port facilities in Haifa were partially pafalyzed by communal strife, and 11,000 tons of merchandise were reported piled up on the docks. One Arab died of wounds suffered in yesterday's bomb attack on a Jerusalem Arab market place out' side Damascus Gate, raising the death toll in that incident to seven. Six planes of the Jewish-owned Aviron Airline were evacuated from Arab Lydda to a small field near Tel Aviv.

British troops surrounded the field and questioned the crews. A Jewish Agency spokesman de clared that several British police had deserted with arms. The public information ofiB.ce of the Palestine Government said this was "com pletely untrue." PASTOR SAYS PEOPLE TAKE PATH TO CHRIST In every section of the world to day, people are becoming Chris tians, the Rev. Dr. A.

H. Kleffman, pastor of West Presbyterian Church, said in his sermon yesterday. In the days of youth, life should be dedicated to God. and children should be taught that they belong to God from the beginning of their conscious life, trained to walk, in His Ways and to do His will. Dr.

Kleffman said. Describing the roads by which people go to Christ, the pastor said no one miss Christmas today, but find it by going along some road in a renewed con secration to Christ." DOLL AND OTHER TOYS STOLEN FROM TRUCK Edward Jarrell, of 208 Newport Pike, operator of Jarreus package delivery service, reported to police that a doll and two doll beds were stolen from his truck Saturday night. The theft occurred at Jar-rell's place of business, 1108 East Thirteenth Street, about 9 o'clock in the evening. Another theft froma truck occur red at Fifth and Spruce Streets Saturday night, when thieves stole several articles of clothing from the truck of Col ton Cleaners, 115 West Ninth Street, police reported. Ax estimate of the loss was not given by the owners of the truck.

leriinq Silver $8-50 on in the be by by J. a School. He entered the Army in 1942. In addition to his father, he is survived by four brothers. William, Joseph, John, and Henry; and five sisters, Mrs.

Helen Drumm, and the Misses Marie, Julia, Dorothy and Jo Ann, all of this city. Mrs. Helen P. MacGuinness Mrs. Helen Phillips MacGuinness, 27, wife of Jerrold C.

MacGuinness of 717 Monroe Street, died on Sat urday In the Wilmington General Hospital following an illness of about a week. A native of Toronto, Canada, she had lived here for the past 20 years. In addition to her husband, she is survived by a daughter, Pauline MacGuinness, and her father, Claire L. Phillips of Wilmington. The funeral will be held on Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Chandler Funeral Home, Delaware Avenue and Jefferson Street, with the Rev.

Dr. A. H. Kleffman. pastor of West Presbyterian Church, officiating.

Interment will be in Lombardy Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home between 7 and 9 o'clock. William Twomey William Twomey of 921 North Clayton Street, who had been employed as a guard by the Water Department, died Saturday night in St. Francis' Hospital where he had been a patient for about a week. He is survived by his wife, Mrs.

Mary Morgan Twomey; six children, Mrs. Helen Barnes of Galveston, Mrs. Anne Lynn, Miss Margaret Twomey, Miss Julia Twomey, Francis Twomey and Mrs. Catherine Conlin, and six grandchildren. Mr.

Twomey was a native of Ireland but had come to this country as a youth and had lived in this city for many years. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Harry Anderson The funeral of Harry Anderson, of 812 North DuPont Street, who died at his home on Friday, will be held from the home this afternoon at 2 o'clock with interment in Mt. Olive Cemetery. Services will be conducted by the Rev.

Seymour H. Barker, pastor of Bethel A. M. E. Church, of which Mr.

Anderson was a member. He had been ill for five years. Prior to his illness he had been employed with the Simmons Lumber Company for 40 years. Surviving is a daughter, Mrs. Ann Anderson Grier of this city.

Mr. Anderson was a member of Wilmington Lodge, No. 1459. G. TJ.

O. O. Wilmington Patriarchie, No. 20, Past Grand Master's Council, No. 5, and of Queen of Sheba Household of Ruth, No.

4. Miss Jennie L. Burns Funeral services for Miss Jennie L. Burns, of Harrison Avenue, Sil-verside Heights, Holly Oak, who died yesterday afternoon following a lengthy illness, will be held Wednesday morning. Requiem mass will be sung at St.

Helena's Church, Bellefonte, at 9:30 o'clock, with interment in Cathedral Cemetery. Miss Burns was the daughter of the late James and Sarah Burns. She is survived by two sisters. Miss Anna T. Burns and Mrs.

Charles W. Castle, both of the same Mrs. Elizabeth B. Klund Mrs. Elizabeth Blanche Klund, .74, wife of the late Elmer.

H. Klund, died on Friday night in Mrs. Turk's Private Hospital after an illness of two-and-a-half years. The funeral will take place tomorrow afternoon at 1 o'clock from the James F. Hearn Funeral Home, 3202 Market Street, with interment in Riverview Cemetery.

Mrs. Klund was a lifelong resi dent of this city. She Is survived by a son. John Warner Klund of Wilmington. Deaths Elsewhere SUMMIT, N.

Dec. 14 (JPi Gen. Edward J. Higgins, 83, third international leader of the Salvation Army, died today. LONDON, Dec.

14 (JP) Sir Hugh Cunliffe-Owen, Bart, 77, widely-known British industrialist, finan cier and race horse owner, died to night. ST. ANDREW'S, Scotland, Dec 14 will Fyffe, 62, Scottish comed ian, died today. WILLI AMSPORT, Dec. 14 (JP) William S.

Green, nephew of the late Samuel Gompers, died today. NEW YORK. Dec. 14 (JP) Arthur Walsh, 51, former Democratic TJ. S.

senator from New Jersey and confidant of the late inventor, Thomas A. Edison, and his son, former New Jersey Governor Charles Edison, died last night. NEW YORK. Dec. 14 (JP) Henry James, 88, Pulitzer prize biographer and son of the philosopher, William James, died.

last night. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. Dec. 14 (JP) Professor Maurice A. Blake, 65, head of the Department- of Horti culture of the College of Agriculture, Rutgers University, died today.

TRUMBULL, Dec. 14 (JP) Francis L. Sheane, 59, of Bridgeport, a member of the State Board of Fisheries and Game since 1939, died today. PORTLAND. Dec.

14 (JPf The Rev. John Joseph Keep, 55. pastor of the St. Ignatius Roman Catholic Church here since 1941, and a former president of Gonzaga University, Spokane, died today. NEW YORK, Dec.

14 UP) Dr. Samuel Friedman. 72, medical prac titioner here for more than 50 years and an inventor who was said to have devised the first block-signal system for railroad safety, died today. QEORGE T. CHARDU KEVNETT SQC ABE WEST CHESTEE Wilmington Stsi KrprewmtsUTe ISAAC S.

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Cor. 7th Broom $250,000,000 Undertake Greatest To Erect Palestine State, Aid DP's, Immigrants i ATLANTIC CITY, N. Dec. 14 JP The Jews of the United States were asked today to dig deeper than ever into their pockets and produce an unprecedented sum of in 1948 to help establish a Jewish state in Palestine, care for displaced and needy brethren in Europe and provide necessities for Jewish immigrants to this country. Some 1.300 delegates to the United Jewish Appeal's national conference voted unanimously for the 1948 quota the greatest fund-raising ef fort ever attempted bv any organi zation in the country in spite of an accumulated debt of $65,000,000 resulting from campaigns over the past five years.

The nation Jews wui nave provided $132,000,000 by Dec. 31 for similar purposes in 1947, a cash-and-pledge contribution that will be short of the $170,000,000 goal set last year by the United Jewish Anneal. Two or the UJA'S inree major spending agencies United Palestine Appeal and the Joint Distribution Committee were faced with the prospect of seeking loans from banks to make up the difference between their requests and their allotments in the new budget, witn tne uniiea Service for New Americans, the third agency, the UPA and DC requested $395,367,000 to meet next year's world Jewry requirements. Only the USNA received the full sum for which it pleaded. The agencies, their duties, and the sums for which they asked and received: UPA, help establish the Jewish state, provide for 75,000 immigrants to Palestine, asked $283,156,000, received $146,250,000.

JDC, provide for displaced Jews in western Europe and needy Jews in eastern Europe, asked $98,547,000, received $88,750,000. USNA. care for Jewish immigrants to the United States and make them self-sufficient, asked $13,664,000, re ceived full amount. The budget set aside lor administration expenses in the campaign. A resolution approving the budget "throughout the years of trag edy, we.

the Jews of America, stood by our people witn our resources un with our moral and spiritual strength. "The year 1948 has become the year of destiny, the year of true liberation for the homeless among the Jews. It is the challenge to rauiy the decision of the nations of the world for the establishment of the Jpwish state by furnishing the re sources that will open the gates nf Palestine, establish the people on its soil in dignity, freedom, peace and security. Palestine Continued From Flrai Fata settlement of Beit Eshel vrh. the southern desert.

in the An Arab motorized unit raided a British police depot at Ramie. A hand grenade hmled at an Arab vrni k-illerl sn 18-month -old Arab htld in Jerusalem. A snipers' duel developed between a post of Hagana at Holon, south of Tel Aviv, and residents of the Arab inline- of Tel Errlsh. Hacana re ported, without official confirmation, that one of its fighters and 10 Arabs were killed. Hagana said police armored car unit had arrested six of its fighters and confiscated tneir arms.

A Palestine police report said here ionurht that border forces in Leba non, to the north, had been "reinforced and instructed to shoot at sight any persons approaching the frontier from Palestine. The renort said the action fol lowed a border "incident" Friday in which a homemade bomb exploded about 10 feet inside the Lebanese frontier. "One of the Arabs con cerned." it said, "alleges" the bomb tu thrown at him from Palestine territory. The report said Lebanese police visited the scene witn nan today. An official spokesman for the Pal' estine government said the Lebanese boundary had not been ciosea a regular control points and the police report apparently reierrea vo persons approaching cross country.

Jews Threaten Attack In Beirut, Lebanon, reports were heard that Palestine Jews had threatened to attack a Lebanese border village whose Arab inhabi tants had seized and disarmed two Jewish interlopers, but that Britisn officers had calmed the disputants. In Baghdad, Gen. Hussein Heikel Fawzi, former Iraq army cruel oi taff, said the army had released several thousand troops that would be ready to move to Palestine with full equipment within two weeks. President Hussein Heikal Pasha of the Egyptian senate told a Cairo political meeting partition would enable Russia to send 300,000 Romanian Zionists to make the prospective Jewish state Communist. Haj Amin el Husseini, exiled Mufti of Jerusalem with headquarters in Cairo, was reported by an aide to have drawn up plans lor a "democratic Arab government of all Palestine" iznorine the UN idea of giving the Arabs only part of the Holy Land.

Arabs Call for Arms In Cairo thousands of Egyptians shouting for arms 'to kill Jews packed into Opera Square to hear representatives of the Arab League pledge weapons, money and men to Palestine Arabs fighting against; creation of a Jewish state in me Holy Land. Police said the crowd numbered 100,000. A reliable report said a central Arab army headquarters was established somewhere in the Nablus Hills north of Jerusalem and an Arab commander was issuing orders for Arab forces to district headquarters scattered throughout Palestine. One such district headquarters was said to be at Lydda, on the road between Jerusalem and the Tel Aviv-Jaffa coastal area. There the district commander pinpoints activ- ities for 53 villages surrounding the Tel Aviv-Jaffa battle zone, these reports said.

A foreign business man, whose UND a I Drive i Dr. W. C. Munds Asks Members to Forward Gifts To Needy Children in Europe One of the C. A.

R. E. baby food parcels was on display near the entrance of Christ Church, Christiana Hundred, yesterday to remind parishioners that Christmas in Europe this year will be as grim as in the several, years past and that food, particularly for the children, wul help make Christmas brighter. The Rev. Dr.

William C. Munds, rector, in his morning service announcements, called attention to thfi display and recommended that C. A. R. E.

parcels be sent. The display was arranged by Hugh C. Wallace, one of the members of the parish, who wanted to call at tention to the fact that the baby package had been added to the list of C. A. R.

E. parcels. Supported by Members Since C. A. R.

E.s beginning here, the packaged relief program has received strong support from Christ Church members. Some years ago Dr. Munds heard a speaker from Czechoslovakia at Princeton talking of the needs of the people there. Later, he asked the speaker for the name of a parish which he could recommend to Christ Church members as worthy of support. The Czech told him of the Rev.

Dr. Jan Pellar with a country parish near a small Czechoslovakian town. DriP Munds passed the name and address on and told his parishioners that packages could be prepared at the rectory for mailing. In the space of a year and a half, he said, a total of 976 packages was sent to Dr. Pellar's parish from Christ Church.

Letters Received But, with the opening of the C. A. E. plan here, he said, the idea was taken up and the prepared parcels were ordered from local banks. He has no idea of the number sent from Christ Church, but he has received frequent letters from the pastor and members of his church expressing appreciation for the C.

A. R. E. parcel. The most recent letter received is from Mrs.

Pellar, in which she expresses thanks for two packages from Dr. and Mrs. Munds, as well as one from Mr. and Mrs. Robert N.

Downs and another from Mr. and Mrs. Ellason Downs. A number of other churches here have also adopted the C. A.

R. E. program since its adoption in Wil mington by local banks more tnan a year ago. The program sends packages of food, clothing and blankets to 14 European countries. Soviet Con tinned From First Fge institutions were ordered to pay their employes wages and salaries for the first half of December be tween Dec.

16 and 20, thus assur ing everyone of having enough currency to make an adjustment from the old to the new system. The currency reform affects those with bonds, savings accounts and cash. Those who present cash for exchange will receive one new ruble for 10 old ones regardless of the size of the sum they exchange. Depositors Fare Best Bank deposits up to 3,000 rubles will be exchanged on a one-for-one basis; accounts up to 10,000 rubles will be exchanged at a rate of one-to-one for the first 3,000 rubles and the remainder on a basis of two new rubles for three old; deposits of over 10,000 rubles will be exchanged at the foregoing rates for the first 000 rubles and the remainder on a basis of one new ruble for two old. The decree said that coins are not to be exchanged, but will remain in circulation at their face value.

Holders of ordinary state bonds will receive new bonds with a face valne of one ruble for each three rubles of face value of the old bonds. Holders, of the 1938 issue of state bonds, which were fully redeemable at any time, will receive one new ruble for each five of face value. Thus, sayings bank depositors with moderate deposits will fare the best under the reform and those who kept their cash in pocket are the chief losers. The broadcast announcement was the first official mention of inflation and speculation in the Soviet Union, although a hint that rationing would be abolished was made Dec. 9 by Georgi Malenkov, a mem ber of the Politburo.

First to Drop Rationing Under the decree, the Soviet Union will become the first of the larger European nations to take off rationing completely of all foodstuffs and consumer goods. The Russian nation was told by the government that any monetary losses suffered by individuals under the currency reform were "the last sacrifices" which would be demanded of them as a result of World War II. The decree said currency reform was necessary to allow the end of rationing and to put Russian economy on a sound basis. It said too much money was circulating throughout the Soviet Union as compared with goods to be bought, adding that excess money was coming from two sources immense military expenditures which required putting large sums into circulation and also from a flood of "counterfeit money in rubies' left by the German army when it was occupying part of Russia. The old ruble was held a 5.3 to the dollar in foreign exchange.

The diplomatic exchange rate, at which diplomats change their money, was 12 rubles to the dollar. Aimed at Speculators It added the decree was aimed at speculators, who have been "accumulating great amounts of money, aiming at profits at the expense of the population." "It is intolerable that the speculative elements who enriched themselves during the war, and accumulated considerable sums of money, should have an opportunity to buy up goods after abolition of the rationing system," the broadcast said. The broadcast said that, effective Tuesday, food and industrial goods will be sold without ration cards. Unified state retail prices will replace those charged in "ration stores and in commercial stores, where unrationad goods have been sold at They now will get only one ruble for every 10 held. J.

Burke Knapp, associate direc tor of research and chief foreign currency expert of the Federal Reserve Board, said the Russian order appeared to have a dual purpose. Nothing So Drastic Expected "Primarily, its an anti-inflation move," he said. "By sharply re ducing the amount of money cir culation, the Soviet government hopes to dry up excess purchasing power and stabilize its internal prices. We expected some such action by the Russian government, but nothing as drastic as this. It is in teresting to know that inflationary pressures in the Soviet Union have reached such a point." Knapp said the decree also appeared to have a second or "social" purpose.

"It was obviously intended to wipe out the private fortunes which have been accumulated by what the Moscow radio calls he said. He explained that "speculators" in the eyes of the Soviet government are "everyone who produces -and sells on the non-rationed open market for high prices instead of selling to the state for controlled prices." There have been indications the Russian government was having trouble with peasants who withheld their food produce from the state-stores in order to sell it in the so-called "commercial stores" or on the "legal black market" for several times as high a price. Blow at Peasants "This decree is undoubtedly a blow at such peasants," Knapp said. Although the Moscow radio assured the Russian people that "currency reform is a usual matter in all states after great wars," Knapp said he could recall no other incident in recent history when a great power had virtually repudiated its own currency. He said several European countries, including Belgium.

Norway, and The Netherlands, had carried out somewhat similar currency reforms after World War II, in which one unit of new money was exchanged for two, three or four units of old money. But in all such cases, he said, the government in question always gave its citizens either bonds or "blocked savings accounts" to make up the difference between the amount of currency they surrendered and the amount of new legal tender they received. Belies Reich Propaganda BERLIN, Dec. 14 (JP) The Soviet Union, which today announced a money reform, has waged a strong propaganda campaign here to shake Germans faith the American economy and the American dollar. This campaign has attempted to convince Germans the American economy is hell-bent for depression and that the Marshall Plan for European recovery will fail, while the economy of the Soviet Union is "crisis proof." Meanwhile, in deals which the American Military Government has publicly branded as black market and "under the counter," the Russians in Germany have been trying to lay their hands on as many dollars as they could capture.

In addition the Russians, when selling for export manufactured goods produced in their occupation zone of Germany, have stipulated wherever possible that payment should be made in dollars or other hard currency and not in rubles. This policy was pursued while Russian propoganda was attacking the American dollar as the instrument of "capitalist enslavement." Story Censored Out When the U. S. Voice of America last week reported a run on Russian stores by ruble-holders. the story was censored out of Russian-controlled newspapers in Germany.

The newspapers which were forbidden to publish this report, meanwhile, continued their barrage of attacks against the U. S. economy and praised the 'iron clad economy" and the "new democracy" of the Soviet Union and countries of eastern Europe which are in the Russian orbit. To some Germans the Russian monetary reform was no surprise. Prisoners of war recently re-patriated from the soviet Union reported the Russian economy, jolted by war losses, was shaky and that black marketing and coruption were the accepted thing.

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higher prices than in ration stores. The decree said that carrying out of currency revision is "a usual matter in all states after great wars." "However, the carrying out of currency reform in our country is radically different from currency reforms in capitalist countries," it added. "The liquidation of the aftermath of war and the currency reform in capitalist countries is accompanied by large increases in prices on con sumer goods and an increase the army of unemployed." "Not At People's Expense But in the Soviet Union, the decree said, such reform is being accomplished "not at the. expense of the people." "The number of employed workers and employes is not being reduced in our country," it said. "The rates of wages for workers and employes, far from being reduced are, on the contrary, being increased since the commercial prices are being reduced by several times, and in addition the rationed prices for bread and cereals are also being decreased, which means an increase in real wages for workers and employes." The decree commented that rationing had succeeded in preserving pre-war state prices for essential foods and industrial goods.

"However," it added, "the decrease in state and cooperative trade with consumer goods, and the population's increased demand in the collective farm markets, led to an acute increase in market prices, which in some periods exceeded prewar prices by 10 or 19 times." During the inflationary period, the decree said, "speculative elements made use of the existence of a great gap between state prices and market prices, as well as of the presence of masses of false money, for the purpose of accumulating great amounts of money, aiming at profits at the expense of the population." "At present, when the transfer to open trade with unified prices has become the task of the day, the great amount of money issued during the war hampers the abolition of the rationing system." U. $. to Broadcast News WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 U.R The State Department said today its "Voice of America" broadcast will carry the news of the Russian currency revaluation to all parts of the world in its regular broadcasts beginning at once. Although the "Voice" the government's Foreign Information Service had predicted last week the Soviet government was about to overhaul its currency, fiscal experts here said the "monetary purge" was far more drastic than they had expected.

One Federal Reserve official said the revaluation decree indicates inflation in Russia has been worse than outside observers thought. The Russian edict appeared to confirm the reports, first broadcast to the world by the Voice of America, of large-scale buying runs on Russian stores in anticipation of currency revaluation. The Voice said at that time that Moscow shops had been virtually stripped of unrationed consumers goods, and many had been forced to close their doors because of the financial panic IT. S. Counter-Attack Aided The drastic Soviet action comes on the heels of world-wide Russian charges that the United States is on the brink of economic collapse due to inflation, and thus armed American officials with an extremely sharp counter-propaganda weapon.

State Department officials said the Voice would beam the news to every country which can be contacted. Francis B. Stevens, associate chief of the State Department's eastern European division, said it would not foe possible to tell immediately what effect the Soviet decree would have on the real income of Russian peasants and workers. "Well have to wait until we see the new official price level," he said. "The prices of rationed goods were upped about 180 per cent last year, so it would take quite a cut to bring them down to 1946 levels." One obvious effect of the decree, Stevens pointed out, is that "the Soviet government has cut its national debt to one-third of its former load." He pointed out new loan certificates would be issued at a rate of one ruble for every three invested in the original "bond." Hardest hit bv the revaluation, he said, will be the cash hoarders who spurned repeated appeals from the Soviet government to put their excess money into the state savings banks, or into government bonds.

vrace Metnocust cnurcn where the church choir and The Capella Club presented -The Messiah." Soloists were Mrs. M. Brinton Page, Miss 1 Sarah H. Revelle, Mrs. A.

O. Brad- ley, Edwin M. Hobbs, and Emil Mar- kow. Robert Ellis was organist and the production was directed by 5 Frederick W. Wyatt.

"The Messiah" was presented at p. m. in Peninsula Methodist Church by the choir- and guest singers from Westminster Choir Col-lege. Grier Davis was director, or-Z ganist was Mrs. Earl Williams, and pianist was Mrs.

Robert Bowman. 'Z White gift Sunday was observed in Hanover Presbyterian Church when canned goods wrapped in white paper were presented by the church school. A Christmas pageant, of the Star," directed by Mrs, Ernest J. Peoples, was given while a choir sang carols. The white gifts will be distributed to needy families.

OBITUARIES Miss Catherine McCue -i The funeral for Miss Catherine McCue, 80. of 221 Harmony Street, 1 New Castle, will be held tomorrow J-morning from the Krienen Brothers Funeral Home, 34 West Sixth Street, New Castle, with requiem mass in St. Peter's Church, New Castle, at o'clock. Interment will be in 2 St. Peter's Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home tonight. Miss McCue. the daughter of the late John J. and Mary Toner Mc-j Cue, died Saturday in the Delaware Hospital where she had been a pa-J tient for eight days. She had no im-c mediate survivors.

A former dress-T maker, she was a member of the Sodality of St. Peter's Church. Corp. Steven Oboryshko Funeral services with military honors were held yesterday after-: noon for Corp. Steven Oboryshko, son of John Oboryshko of 1106 West Seventh Street, who died June 11, in the fighting on Omaha Beach.

's Services were held in the McCrery Funeral Home and in St. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Church with mem- berg of the American Legion serv-' tag- as the guard of honor: Inter-; ment was in Gracelawn Memorial Park. Corporal Oboryshko was serving with Company C. Fifth Ranger Bat- talion, when he was killed. He is the son of the late Anna Oboryshko and was graduated from the Bancroft DEATHS BtTRfTS On recembr 14, 1947.

Jennie 1 Burns, dausiiter of the late James and SaraH Burns, of Harrison Avenue. Silver-lda Heights. Holly Oak. Friends are invited- to attend the requiem mass at St. Helena Church.

Bellefonte on Wednesday Eiorntnc. December 17 at 8:30 o'clock. Interment at Cathedral Cemetery. Friends may call at the iunerai home of J. J.

Doherty. Seventh and Rodney Streets, on Tuesday evening from 7 to 9 o'clock. FULLER Suddenly In this city on December 10. 1947- Edward T-. husband of Mary Genevieve Puller, 1128 Pleasant Street, aged 47 years.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral services at the residence of his sister. Mrs Fred Bourdon. Lancaster Pike and DuPont en Monday afternoon. December 15 at 2 o'clock. Interment at SUverbrook Cemetery.

INGRAM At Chester. Pa on December 14, 1947. John husband of M. Nellie nee Donievlei Ingram of B17 East Four-. teenth Street.

Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the fu-! Jeral at the F. White Funeral Home. Thomas E. Rairdon. successor Third and Norris Streets.

Cheste r. Pa. on 'Wednesday morning. December 17 at 8 30 o'clock. Solemn requiem mass at St Michael's Church at 10 o'clock Interment immaculate Heart Cemetery.

Friends may it vanins KaeOtrrNNESS In this city, on December "Y47. Helen Phillips, wife ol Jerrold C. Macouiness, oi hi .1. ii, 7 years. Relatives and friends are m- Jited to attend the funeral services at the Chandler Funeral Home, Delaware Avenue iSd Jefferson Street, on Wednesday after-x noon7 December 17 at 3 clock.

atlombardy Cemetery Friends may call at Chandler's Tuesday evening. TWOMEY In this city, on December 11 1947 William, husband of Mary Morgan iTwImey; of 921 North Clayton Street. Due Notice of funeral will be given. McCrery FZ." 2700 WASHINGTON ST. rARLOtS WITH WICKS' PIPE ORGAH Out Funeral Costs Meet Present Day Conditions.

HAINES FUNERAL HOME JOHN W. SPICEB Saecessor Market at 24th Ph.5-6611 rot til ova cava their araa Warld War II. wa afJer ar parlor, aarrtaes ui piajaac at wiifeoBt ar-a GRACE LLOYD COLLINS 220 WEST NINTH STREET OPEN MONDAY, WEDNESDAY AND RID AY EVENINGS TljL 9 Phone 2-5913 so.