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PAGO FOUR TUE EVENING SUN, HANOVER, TPiURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 19-48 THE EVENING SDN Bntervd at the Hinonr second clasa mall matter. Published daily except Sunday, st 130 Carlisle Street. Hanover. by Sun Company. H.

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DECEMBER 23, 1948 WITH THE PAR AGRAPIIERS Columbus sailed away from Europe 456 years ago. Smart Peoria Star. For cheap eating at other seasons we need a cut of meat corresponding to the 17-pound turkey of late autumn. which yields 21 pounds of leftovers. Grand Rapids, Press.

np Tojo The fellow who is always waiting for something to turn up might as well start by turning up his sleeves. Union. A rodeo promoter who caused trouble in Switzerland has been ordered out of the country. Give a man enough rope, we always say, and he'll lasso Louis Post-Dispatch. HAPPENINGS 15 YEARS AGO (From New York Herald Tribune) Tojo was hanged yesterday.

And this event, which should have had about it all the majesty of- a great and historic retribution, was years of court process, argument and sheer into just another tawdry episode in the grist of trouble and sonsa- tion. Seven years ago today, when the nation was shaken by the Pearl Harbor catastrophe, when MacArthur was preparing to abandon Manila to its fate, when marines on Wake Island were making their last stand, when Hong Kong and Malaya were sinking un: der the tide of invasion, Hideki Tojo had energized, insisted on and I led the whole grand design of a grim and monstrous ngure upon the world stage. Now he dies as a feeble, almost pathetic little man, another shambling character in spectacles, caught in the toils of a history which is proving rather too complex for the best of us. It is a death neither good nor bad. It cannot elicit much pity when one thinks of the men who died by inches and hours, entombed in the eap: sized hulls of Pearl Harbor, of the men who died slowly in jungle foxholes or under torture by their Japanese captors.

Or, for that matter, when one thinks of the crazed Japanese who were incinerated in their tunnels, roasted to death by the flame-throwers or died miserably in the flaming cities. A man who, whatever his secret reasons, did so much to promote all that agony, cannot complain if he is himself his own last victim. And perhaps this somewhat undignified, heroic execution is a more fitting end than the Wagnerian funeral pyre which Hitler prepared for himself; perhaps it is a better evidence that ultimately all are cut down to human size, however great their crimes or their mistakes. Miss Clara J. Sanders died at the home of her brotlier-in-law, John M.

Sanders, Liberty township, near Fairfield, at the age of 60 years following an illness of two weeks. The garage and blacksmith shop at the home of Frank Flicker, a mile and a half south of York Springs, near the Hanover-Carlisle highway, was completely destroyed bv fire, causing a loss placed at $1,500. Dayne E. Garrett, son of Mr. and Mrs.

B. J. Garrett, Hanover R. D. 2, and Miss Mary R.

Strausbaugh, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Strausbaugh.

Hanover R. D. 4, were married in the Lutheran parsonage, Pleasant street, by the Rev. A. M.

Hollinger, pastor of the West Manheim charge. Miss Helen E. Frock, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Frock, Westminster.

and Sterling A. Helwig, Hanover, were married in the parsonage of Carroll Reformed charge, near Westminster, at a ceremony performed by the Rev. C. B. Rebert.

Clark L. Rohrbaugh. son of Mrs. Austie Rohrbaugh. Spring Grove R.

D. 4. and Miss Pauline E. Cramer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

John Cramer, Brodbeck 2. were married in the Lutheran parsonage, Pleasant street, at a ceremony performed bv the Rev. A. M. Hollinger, pastor of the West Manheim Lutheran charge.

EVENTS YEARS AGO TODAY Mi.ss Alice S. Marshall. Spring Grove, died at the age of 70 years. Mrs. Mary C.

Ackerman, wife of Anthony Ackerman. McSherrystown, died at her home following an illness of several weeks at 67 years of age. Miss Mary Bish. daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Milton Bish. near Littlestown. and William Clouser. son of Air. and Mrs.

John Clouser, near Littlestown. were married at a ceremony performed in Christ Reformed church parsonage bv the Rev. Dr. S. Lindaman.

Miss Effle V. Bollinger, daughter of William A. Kemper, Second avenue, and Roy A. Reese, son of Mrs. Theodore Reese, Westminster, were united in marriage in the parsonage of Trinity Reformed church, York street.

The Rev. Dr. M. J. Roth performed the ceremony.

Miss Anna M. McWilliams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice L. McWilliams.

229 North Franklin street, and Paul F. Boudreaux, Baltimore, were married at the home of the bride's parents, at a ceremony performed by the Rev. Dr. Abner S. DeChant, pastor of Emmanuel Reformed church.

No Holiday For Death (From The Washington Records compiled by the National Safety Council provide a tragic commentary on the traditional season of good cheer. The annual reports of deaths and injuries from accidents of every sort show that actually we are entering the most dangerous period of the year. What makes the situation more tragic is that relatively few of the accidents, especially those on traffic-filled streets and highways, are of the variety. According to the council, the traffic death toll during the Christmas-New Year period is several times that of any period of similar length. Each year the newspapers carry feature stories and pictures of holiday tragedies package-laden pedestrians struck down on busy streets, cars bringing sudden death to celebrants at the wheel, hospital emergency rooms filled with maimed victims of their own or carelessness.

At the risk of being repetitous, the council has just reissued its list of safety precautions for the Chrstmas season. Topping the list is the warn- that holiday hazards require extra not drive if you vice If more persons could be induced, by constant repetition of these warnings, to heed the timely and good advice, there would be more cause for joyous celebration this Yuletide. The World Today World Laws Needed To Cover War Crimes By DEWITT MACKENZIE AP Foreign Affairs Analyst The hanging of former Japanese Premier Tojo and six other war lord conspirators against humanity is being received in America with mixed feelings. My contacts indicate that the reactions range from extreme satisfaction to some uneasiness. On one point everybody seems agreed: If anyone should suffer the death penalty, these seven certainly should.

Of course there is a very large group which is against capital punishment on religious grounds. That viewpoint is pungently expressed In a letter I have received from a Philadelphia boy who says Americans believing in God and Holy Writ are 100 per cent against such executions. He further writes: am just a high school senior who has read history. I think the executions in Japan are inhuman. We are going back 5,000 years.

Our leaders won't learn from history that blood shed upon the battlefield is soon grown over, but blood shed on the scaffold seldom dries. In 100 years the statues of Tojo will be all over Here I want to interpolate that an expression like this by a school boy isn't unusual these days. I have found tremendous interest among the teen-age folk in traveling about the country for talks on foreign affairs. Young America is very much alert. But to get back to ouf muttons: Apart from this religious opposition, a good many people are concerned over the fact that these and similar trials have been held under rules laid down since the war by the victors.

Everybody agrees that aggressive war is just as much a crime against humanity as the atrocities which may prow out of it. However, a lot of of all the high to know just how you are going to assess responsibility for the crimes. You know the top man is guilty. That's Tojo. But are his ministers and the high commands of his fighting forces equally responsible with him? They have to take his orders or be charged with disloyalty to their country.

And if they are equally responsible, how far down the line does responsibility go for an order issued at the top? Does it reach down to the rank and file? I think most of the concern is over whether possibly a precedent is being set for carrying out "justice of the So far as Tojo and his evil colleagues are concerned, having failed their emperor by not winning the war they should have committed hari-kari, according to the Japanese code of honor. As a matter of fact Tojo did try but quite succeed. The Allied tribunal has done a better job. YULETIDE IN INDIA IS KIWANIS THEME Westminster Club Hears Talk By Native Who Is Student At -Seminary Christmas Music Given PUBLIC NOTES (Mrs. M.

C. Wolcott, Librarian) It far to Bethlehem town anywhere that Christ comes down And finds in friendly face A welcome and abiding-place The road to Bethlehem runs right through The homes of folks like me and you. (M. S. "Christmas in and religious festivals provided a new slant on Clvistmas for the Kiwanis Club at their dinner meeting on Tuesday evening at the Charles Carroll Hotel.

Christmas music was played throughout the dinner by the club pianist, Mrs. Helen Ackley. Group singing wras led by W. Richard My- ers. President John Bankert called the meeting to order.

Prof. John B. Howes, head of Rural Church at the Westminster Theological Seminary, was presented by President Bankert. He had arranged the program for the evening. He then introduced the Rev.

Benjamin Nilo Jagi, of India, who is a student at the seminary this year. He gave an interesting taik on the Christmas season in his part of the country of India, and he i also related facts on other religious festivals in his country. Another student at the seminary, who was a guest, was the Rev. R. B.

Desai. The Rev. H. Z. Bomberger, the new minister of the Westminster Church of the Brethren, was the guest of K.

Ray Hollinger. The library will close at 6 o'clock on Friday. Christmas Eve, and will remain closed till Monday afternoon at the usual hour, 2 o'clock. Hanover Cook Books are selling at a rapid rate. They are a delight to the covers or your choice.

Sometimes the purchaser weighs the coice carefully, others select quickly. As red is a Christmas color the red cover is the leader at present. A young husband who bought one for a Christmas gift to give his wife decided promptly on red because is so bright she'll not be so apt to lose A member of the committee came in on Saturday to buy one as she planned to start her Christmas cakes today and she had relinquished her own copy of the previous edition for use in the revision. A Hanover Cook Book becomes a treasured household poses- sion. It is a perfect gift.

TELEVISION Put'I'tl Doris Brown poses with Jolo, the clown, one of the characters in puppet show which is to be out on television in serial form at New York studio. WHVR TO BE ON AIR EARLY IN JANUARY The Senior Fellowship Bible class of St. Church will memorialize a deceased member in an appropriate and lasting manner by placing books in this library. The two volumes of Lincoln compiled by Mearns have been selected in memory of Benjamin M. Frey.

Such a memorial benefits the library while honoring the dead. A recent anniversary gift in honor of a dearly loved member of a family bough four attractive books for the young people's department. All gift books bear special book plates. (Continued From Page One) THE SUN D1A1 YORKER NOT MAN WANTED IN OHIO (Continued om Page One) fingerprints and other data on the accused Cleveland murderer. Attorney Frank Boyle arrived at City Hall.

York, to represent Hansford shortly after the latter was taken there Hansford told the police he had never been outside of the state of Pennsylvania. He denied any connection with the 14-year-old murder The Cleveland man was reported to be a truck driver, father of one son. The York Hansford, a laborer, lives there with wife and is the father of 15 children. Teeth For Spy Law (From the Philadelphia Bulletin) Strengthening of legislation dealing with spies seems a certainty in the new Congress. Attorney General Clark and the House Committee on Un-American Activities both intend to present measures.

The statement of the Attorney General shows that the Adi.i ni- stration, in spite of the President's unbecoming repetition of the red herring slur, recognizes that the revelations made demand action. The rifling of State Department files of top secret documents, proved by the discovery of copies in unauthorized hands, is a stubborn fact which cannot be explained away by disputes over the credibility of Chambers or of Hiss, the imputation of unworthy motives to the committee, or by criticisms, however well founded, of committee I procedures. By sticking to the trail I the committee proved the truth of that had been asserted re' garding the activities of spies, and rendered a great service to the na. tion. Congress is in a mood to pass.

i and the country is ready to approve legislation which will deal adequately with this menace to the nation's safety. Revision of the statute of limitations, so that it shall not afford undue immunity, to the plotters against the country, and elimination of certain provisions of the law which at present unreas- I onably handicap prosecutions, are among the changes suggested. The Courts may be depended on, in the enforcement and interpretation of the law, to see that the statute kept within the bounds of thr- Constitution and that the rights of the accused are duly safeguarded. Bow Tie Tiff Warner Hospital Given Tne Adams county commissioners at their weekly meeting in yesterday their annual contribution of $2.000 to the Annie M. Warner hospital, Gettysburg.

The commissioners announced that pnyonr interested in purchasing the old jail property in Gettysburg may submit proposals at their office. The property was withdrawn at a public sale on December 15. Clarence J. Waybn. ht.

Gettysburg D. 1. was again named county soil conservation commissioner for a four-year term. While most members of the rodent family live on or under the ground, some are tree-dwellcrs and others are semi-aquatic. This country has enough problems on its hands without adding a controversy over what kind of ties a man should wear.

It is particularly unfortunate that a squabble over neckwear should develop at the Christmas season when, wo understand from sources clase to the retail trade, there is a rather large volume of tie buying by women who don't often have an opportunity to indulge artistic tastes running to Gobelin tapestrv and the somethings from the brush of Salvador Dali. But we might as well face it a tiff over neckties lias developed. A Hollywood wardrobe man started it by asserting that "The bow tie belongs to and should be eschewed in favor of the four-in- hand by men over 35. Instead of dismissing this as so much cravatian prejudice a haberdasher to male movie stars who can sartorially, hold a candle to the better dressed college youths and businessmen, a group of experts in the creation and the wearing of neckties took up the cudgels in defense of the bow tie. Such authorities on male attire as Brooks Brothers.

Sulka and Grover Whalen, we read in the New Herald Tribune, contend that any man, regardless of age, can wear a bow tie, if he can tie it or has a wife who can. We say it is undemocratic to set up a line of demarcation, based on age, between men who should wear bow ties and those who should wear four-in-hands. We stoutly argue that men. the drabber members of the species, ought to be allowed to wear the kinds of ties they 'ike. Goodness knows men have few enough chances to indulge sartorial whims, and the choice of neckwear is one oi them.

We hope women will bear this in mind and in buying ties for men buy what the men like not what they happen to like. It will make for a pleasanter Christmas all the way around. Cleveland Plain Dealer. vated in order that the operator may observe activities in either studio with ease. One of the studios will be used for conference groups, debating societies and news broadcasts while a larger studio will be used for broadcasts by orchestras, or choral and other music groups.

The music room is especially de- signed to store, file and audition the various recordings, programs and transcribed announcements for broadcast time. This room will contain a basic library of 30,000 selections in addition to several thousand phonograph recordings. The news room facilities will include a teletype service. There are two executive offices, 1 one equipped for the station manager and the other for the sales manager. There are also quarters for the program manager, continuity editor and accounting workers.

For programs originating away from the studios, 25 specially prepared telephone lines will serve to carry broadcasts from the various churches, civic organization centers and social functions. In addition to these remote broadcast facilities a special short wave radio which will operate on a frequency of 26.35 megacycles nas been obtained to short wave special events lrom where it would be impossible to obtain a telephone connection. Two wire loops connect the control room equipment and the transmitting station. CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL ACTIVITIES The choir of St. Mark's Lutheran church will rehearse tomorrow at 4 p.

m. The Youth Fellowship of Grace Reformed church will go caroling tomorrow evening at 9:30 o'clock Following the 11 p. m. service tomorrow. the group will hold a Christmas in the social hall.

The members of St. Matthew's Luther League will meet tomorrow evening at 10.45 o'clock in the lower room of the church to attend the 11 o'clock candlelight service. Following the service the league will sing carols throughout the community. St. Parish Women Meet A joint-meeting of St.

Joseph's parish council of Catholic Women and the guild was held Sunday evening in charge of the presidents, Mrs. Anna Mohler, of the C. C. and Mrs. Catharine Baublitz, of the Guild.

It was announced the monthly card party wrould be held the second Wednesday of each month. A white elephant sale will he held at the next meeting. The meeting closed with prayer by Mrs. Anna Mohler. A play was presented by the Cubs of St.

under the direction of the Cub mother, Mrs. Hazel Steven. Santa Claus distributed gifts to the children and women present. Refreshments were served. Following a yearly custom Ervin Wretzel gave the library a Christmas gift of two dollars for a book.

The book about household pets in this list was purchased with his contribution. There are several desirable books on our shelves that bear Ervin's book plate. New Books (Library Guild, Gifts, Standard Book Of Household by Jack Baird. Expert and detailed information about dogs and cats, and every other type of familiar pet. More by John Mason Brown.

Here is the author at his entertaining inimitable essays on the world of arts and human events, astute and witty observations the current American theatre, and serious comment on the present state of civil affairs. But Me And Thee: Psychiatry At The Fox-Hole by Gen. Elliot D. Cooke. This book was written by an efficient officer who didn't know a psychopath from a case of delirium tremens.

He was told to study the problem, get the answers, and report back to the top commander of our army. This is the story of General Cooke's search for the answers and his report to General Marshall. by Rachel Field. At the time the Disney artists were working on Fantasia, the author visited the studio and sawr the pictures that had been created to interpret Ave Maria. She was so deeply impressed by their mystical quality that she wrote the moving and beautiful verses presented here for the first time.

City And The by Harold Lamb. The author's superb story-telling and clear, sharp scholarship are focused on Peter the Great, his gigantic labors to raise Russia in one generation to cultural equality with Europe, and his efforts to mold and shape a sprawling empire Lincoln by David C. Mearns. A vast body of first hand material reflecting not only thoughts and problems, but the inner history of the nation in a time of supreme crisis. House Without A by Joel Sayre.

This is not just another war story. It is a picture of the German side of the war told by ordinary people in terms of everyday incidents, a telling study of nation's physical and moral decay. by Henry Castor. A novel of Lancaster, and the Civil War. by Lin Yu- tang.

Written against an original background and told with humor and a sympathetic understanding of how the Chinese in America really feel. Is by Frances and Richard A Mr. and Mrs. North mystery. Frank Slaughter.

Swiftly moving story of a daring experiment in land tenantry is post- Revolutionary Savannah. Busy, Busy by Samuel Spewack. The background is the American Embassy in Moscow, and the busy people are both Russians and Americans, who love and hate, and dream and die. CHINESE DRIYE OFF RED ATTACKERS NANKING, DEC. 23.

warships at isolated port city, drove off attacking Communists today, killing 1,500 of them, government sources i Associated Press Correspondent Spencer Moosa in Peiping said many small Red attacks on the outskirts of Tientsin had been repulsed. Last night alone, he said, 800 Reds were killed or wounded, and as a result today the Communists were inactive. (Moosa quoted Gen. Fu Tso-yi's headquarters in Peiping as saying the Reds were repulsed in almost every North China attack. headquarters said the Communists dared not attack Peiping directly because they know it is strongly fortified and the 2.000,000 inhabitants support the defenders wholeheartedly.

(Moosa added that whether these residents would show their support was another question. In his opinion the people of Peiping want peace above all.) Nationalist forces in the Nanking area took advantage of bad weather which has eased the action north oi here to throw' up defenses south of the Yangtze toward which the Reds are creeping steadily. The pro-government Kiangnan Evening Post said the Nationalists had increased the number of watchposts along the eastern reaches of the Yangtze. There was little military action immediately north of here. WESTBROOK PEGLER Recalls Efforts To Oust Star Spy Hunter (Continued From Page One) EXPULSI0H OF HOLLAND FROM U.

N. IS PROPOSED (Continued From Page One) relayed to the Security Council today. The U. N. good offices committee cabled the charge after the return to Batavia of eighteen of its personnel from Kalioerang, a mountain resort above Jogjakarta, where they had been isolated four days.

number of shotj were fired by the advancing Netherlands the committee said. was heard intermittently during the days following (the Dutch invasion of Republican territory Sunday), were reports of the fatal shooting of civilians. The shooting of an unarmed boy by an Ambonese soldier of The Netherlands forces was personally witnessed by a member of the secretariat staff and his young TEXAS FAMILY OF FIVE KILLED IN PLANE CRASH ALICE, DEC. 23. wealthy hero of the Second World War perished with his family of four last night when his plane crashed in a pasture 36 miles northeast of here.

Orville Miller, 29, three-time medal winner, ex-navy pilot and prominent Dallas oil man, tried desperately in heavy fog for an emergency landing. The gasoline supply failed and Miller aimed for a pasture, but the ship cracked into a power line, rammed through a fence and plowed into a mesquite grove. Rescuers found the body of wife pinned underneath a wing. Miller and his sons, Orville James Crane, 2, and Robert Stanley, 1, were thrown clear, but all died instantly. James Crane would have celebrated his second birthday today.

The single-engined, five-place Stinson did not catch fire. Highway patrolmen said its tanks were bone dry. The Millers were en route from Dallas to Benavides, in Duval county, for a holiday visit with relatives. NIXON CLEARS DUGGAN IN ESPIONAGE CASE NEW YORK, DEC. 23.

member of the House un-American activities committee has given the late Laurence Duggan a clean bill of health in connection with spy ring activities. Rep. Richard M. Nixon said on a television broadcast last night from Washington that recent developments had cleared the former State Department expert in espionage HLs statement came as a New York City medical examiner reported that an autopsy showed evidence of in fatal sixteen-story fall from a Manhattan office Monday night. "We may never know exactly what said Dr.

Thomas A. Gonzales, the examiner. could have been pushed. We do know he was not assaulted, not beaten, nor The autopsy report read: or jumped from 16th 205 SOLDIERS CHARTER PLANES FOR TRIPS HOME THE WEATHER Eastern Pennsylvania Partly cloudy and somewhat cooler Friday mosth cloudy and continued cold followed by snow in south portion at night. Maryland Considerable cloudiness and omewTiat colder tonight; Friday cloudy and continued cold, with snow beginning in west portion in afternoon and in east portion at night.

HANOVER WEATHER REPORl (Observjitions it a Rainfall previous 24 degrees Lowest during night degrees Highest degrees Highest year degrees I owest year degrees Weather year MINIATURE T. MAN AC Sun rises a. m. Sun sets today p. Moon rises 12.03 a.

in. Sets 12.28 m. New Dec. 30. Fust Quarter Jan.

7. Noted Huntsman Dies UNIONVILLE. Dec. 23 Plunket, Stewart, 70, retired banker and noted huntsman, died at his Brooklawn estate in Chester county last night. Stewart was the owner of the Cheshire Fox hounds and many fine horses and was familiar figure at horse and dog shows throughout the country.

Stewart's grandfather, David Stewart. founded the Bank of Baltimore His father was a wealthy coffee merchant and a director of Johns Hopkins University. Three Drivers Pay Fines Laverne Fuhrman. Hanover R. D.

1. paid a fine of $10 and costs to Justice of the Peace L. G. Kuhn, Midway, on a charge of failing to signal. Donald J.

Neiderer, Hanover R. D. 4, paid $10 and costs to the same on a charge of failing to keep to the right. Andrew Calugaru, Pittsburgh, paid $10 and costs to Justice of the Peace George Brandt, Dillsburg R. 1, on a of driving Without a license.

you a package marked been laying on that pile twenty minutes!" A Activities The Senior Y-Teens of the C. A entertained fifty small children at a Christmas in the association gymnasium Wednesday evening Games were played with Lee Myers. Barbara Bollinger. Adele Reed and June Blocher as leaders. Christmas carols were sung around the lighted Christmas tree.

Lee Myers told the Christmas story and group sang, accompanied by Adele Reeo on the piano. Santa Claus distributed gifts io each child present. Refreshments were served bv a committee of Y-Teens composed of Jean Good. Henrietta Hess, Bernice Hartlaub and Dolores Reoc Miss Phyllis Krumnne and Mi Anna Sheffer were the advisers. CHRISTMAS CANTATA BV COMBINED CHORUS The combined choirs of St.

Reformed church of Silver Run and Emmanuel (Baust) Reformed church will present a Christmas cantata "Carol of the Lee Rogers, at Baust church on Sunday night it 7:45 o'clock. The group, numbering about 35 voices, will be under the direction of Mrs. David H. Taylor, with Mrs. Denton Wantz as organist.

The pastors of both churches, the Rev Charles A. Price and the Rev. M. S. Reifsnyder, will participate in the opening devotional service.

Soloists and others taking special parts will be: Miss Doris Peeling, Charles Koontz. Miss Evelyn Mans, Mrs. Stanley Dutterer, Miss Gladys Dutterer. Alvin Dutterer, and Mrs. George Dodrer; double Dutterer.

Mrs. Allen Morelock, Evelyn Maus, Mrs. Emma Wine. Delano Haines, Charles Koontz. Paul F.

Kuhns and William J. Flohr. Tne public is welcome to tend this service. The first rendition of this cantata on the past Sunday night at Silver Run was well received by a goodly- sized audience, despite the snowy road conditions. This music was rehearsed by each choir individually, and then both choirs visited the other for two final group rehearsals.

As a means of adding further variety to the cantata, the soloists were exchanged between the two churches. Much pleasure and fellowship has been manifested in this combined choir venture. Following the rehearsal a' Silver Run. members of he host choii invited the vi itors from Baust to the social hail for refreshments. NE3W YORK, DEC.

23. chartered planes have arrived here from Fort Lewis, bringing 205 soldiers home for ten-day furloughs. One C-46, carrying 39 army recruits, arrived at New York International airport late last night. The eighteen-year-old recruits said they were part of a group who had pooled their funds and chartered planes to get home for the holidays. Three other planes, carrying 166 GIs, landed at LaGuardia Field yesterday afternoon.

WEATHER PREVENTS FURTHER RESCUE EFFORTS WASHINGTON, DEC. 23. attempts to snatch eleven marooned fliers off the Greenland ice cap were postponed again today when bad closed in, the air force said. The men on the high ice cap still getting along very the air force said. It reported they are huddling in their snow houses today to escape violent winds and drifting A variety of equipment for a new rescue effort was ready at air bases in Greenland, but when the weather would permit its use was guess.

Officials went ahead, meanwhile, with arrangements to drop Christmas dinner to the little group of men, seven of whom have been stranded for two weeks, if rescue efforts are not successful by Saturday. KENTUCKIAN SUGGESTS SCOTT RESIGN (iOP POST WASHINGTON, DEC. 23. defeated Republican senator today called on Rep. Hugh Scott (Pa.) to resign as GOP national chairman.

The suggestion came from Senator John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky, who also a reporter he has been sounded out abut taking over Scott's job. Cooper said he doesn't want it if I could have The Kentuckian lost, his Senate seat to Rep. Virgil Chapman in the November election which gave the Democrats control of Congress and President Truman a new four-year lease on the White House. Cooper has bucked the Republican leadership on various issues in the Senate, but he has not been regarded as a party renegade. Cooper said he has nothing against Scott personally but feels the party ought to make fresh, clean start" under new leadership.

HOUSE PROBERS TIE RED TAG 10 13 CIO HEADS WASHINGTON, DEC. 23. House un-American activities committee tied a red tag today to thirteen union officers in the CIO. But it said the CIO has taken steps to purge itself. Four of the men named by the committee as are union presidents.

They are Harry Bridges of the union, Ben Gold of the Fur and Leather Workers. Abram Flaxer of the United Public Workers of America, and Donald Henderson of the Food, Tobacco and Agricultural Workers. tistical duty, using up plenty 0f gasoline. Later she just happened along where he just happened to be in Rhode Island. And, for a final effrontery, she helped herself to a great four-engine transport, man- red by a dozen officers and enlisted soldiers who were supposed to be fighting a war, and, after making passes and feints as far away as New Zealand, sure enough, landed on an island where Joe Lash was.

All this was done at public expense with scarce and rationed fuel, with a pretense, however, that the Red Cross was to receive a gift cf money equal to her earnings from her column during her absence. But the Red Cross refused to name the amount and there is no reason to take her uncorroborated word that she gave anything at all. Pat Robinson, the war correspondent of international News on the island where she rushed up and kissed Joe Lash, asked a G. I. standing bv, would you like to be kisseoj bj the The answer was: would a damned sight; rather be kissed by my Eventually, Lady I presided at a wedding arranged between Pal Joey Lash and an immigrant from Aus- jtria named Gertrude Pratt, who had married one of the rich Standard Oil Pratts and had been divorced dowery not stated.

This sketches the interesting quality of the friendship between Joe Lash and the great and gracious i day when Bob Stripling, of St. Ati- Igustine, the bloodiest little string town in the Southwest, refused to hop through hoops when Malvina Thompson, also known as Scheider, the secretary to Ladv called up the office of the old Dies committee one day in 1943. The Thompson or Scheider person developed plenty of heft herself as secretary to the First Lady of the Land. This peculiar when you recall that Eleanor the Great used to act the part of empress with her chits to the State Department and her imperious commands to the bureaus to dig up information for her column of prattle. Thompson told Stripling Mrs.

Roosevelt wanted him to come to her office. it business of the Stripling asked. Thompson g'aid he would find out when he got there. Stripling said Mrs. Roosevelt would have to take it up with Congressman Martin Dies, of Texas, the chairman.

After all, he was just an amploye. said, 'Oh, you will come; I am sure you w'ill just like Stripling recalled. meant I wouldn't dare not come. But I going to go see Mrs. Roosevelt on committee business and catch hell from the chairman.

So I told Mr. Dies about it and lie said I did just right. But then one day he told me he had an invitation to lunch with Mrs. Roosevelt at the White House and I said ro myself, this is the ness 1 went over there and they had some measly little old lunch and she said to him she wanted ro fix it up so was ct the lunch, too, of Joey here could get a commission in the navy. She said he had seen his error and repented and she wanted Mr.

Dies to hold a little executive session so he could wash his face. The navy was holding up his commission on account of his record with the committee. I told Mr. Dies it was none of her business messing with a committee of Congress to fix things up for a cheap little old fellow-traveler. But those country-boy congressmen resist ah invitation to the White House.

we held an executive session and Lash said how he had changed his opinions. So the committee asked him about this and that one. 'Were thev Communists? And Lash said he come there to make trouble for his old friends and the upshot of it all was the committee just wrote his draft board and they erf-bbed him as a However, the gracious ladv got her revenge. The little special dealt of the navy in New York whicn stopped Joe commission disbanded. Its files disappeared.

Tne commissioned ranks were now open to the ideologists. And a Sunday night radio campaign soon began, persistent, 1 insinuating. sneering, and flung millions, to remove from the service of the committee on un-American activities Robert Stripling, tne greatest authority that Congress had on Communists in the ment. who finally has turned up Alger Hiss and the entire State partment cabal. Class Holds Party The Mothers class of Memorial E.

U. Sunday school taught by Mrs. Lona Hentz held a Christmas party Saturday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Grizzell, Hanover R.

D. 1. DUj? ing a business meeting officers were elected. Gifts were exchanged ana a gift was presented to the teacher of the class Refreshments were served by the hostess. Those were Mr.

and Mrs. Daniel and children, Mr. and Mrs. Puck and son, Mr. and vvii" liam Grizzell and son, Mr.

and Mrs- Stewart Shearer and children. and Mrs. Merle McMaster and cnii" dren Mr. and Mrs. Burnell He tries and children.

Mr. and Mrs- Brehm and children, Mr. and Mrs- Roscoe Carr. Mr. and Mrs.

Elwooo Hinkle. Mrs Fern Null and son, Mrs. Teddy Baker. Mrs. Roscoe Rider.

Mrs. Lona Hentz and son. Miss Virgie Kohr and Mrs. Rebecca Utz. New Hindrance To Mail LOCKPORT, N.

Dec. 23. the pational hazard Peter Clifford, a college student working as a map carrier during the Christmas dropped a letter. A squirrel nippwi a finger as Clifford reached for tiw letter. Christmas Hopeful GOSHEN.

Dec. 23, The Goshen Junior Chamber Commerce, operating a Santa au mail box. received this missive i feminine handwriting: "Dear Santa- I am 29 old, single and sencr ment. 1. All I want for is Santa Claus.