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WASHINGTON WORSHIPERS HAIL CHRIST’S
BIRTH—This was the scene at the National Shrine
of the Immaculate Conception as the Right Rev.
World Shares Christmas
With Varied Celebrations
Continued From Firit Pace
a real Christmas, the first for
many years.”
Western Europe celebrated as
if this would be its last fling.
A gigantic hangover was coming
after New Year's—the reality of
economic difficulties arising from
the unsuccessful British-French
expedition in Egypt and the re
sulting shortage of Middle East
oil.
But for now the West Euro
peans were living it up. Motor
ists used carefully rationed fuel
supplies for Christmas visits to
friends and relatives. Other
travelers packed trains, planes
and ships.
Pope Pius XII celebrated mid
night mass in his private chapel
as usual with only a few close
associates. He was .spending
Christmas Day at thlhwtfcan in
the company of his younger sis
ter and his nephews.
The United States and other
nations in the Western Hemis
phere seemed unaffected by the
economic troubles bfMgfM. Eu
rope.
Gls Play Sants
Americans in many parts of
the world played Santa Claus to
foreign children.
In Korea, the 34th Division
alone distributed candy,'toys and
clothing to 4.000 orphans. It
was a cold Christmas Day for the
United States soldiers and air
men helping to guard the Ko
rean armistice.
United States soldiers in West
Berlin invited 3,500 orphan and
refugee children to a party in
what they called “operation
cheer.” Other Gls delivered tons
of toys, clothes and sweets to
needy West German youngsters. ;
Probably the loneliest Ameri
cans anywhere were 3,000 mem-!
bers of Operation Deep Freeze
in the Antarctic. But they gath-
Clergy of 2 Faiths Lead
Antarctic Y ule Service
By DON GUY
Antoctstcd Frew Staff Correapondent
McMURDO. Antarctica, Dec. 25 (-'Pi.—A Catholic priest and a
Protestant minister joined last night in leading a Christmas eve
service in the world’s most southern church.
Men half a world away from their homes sang Christmas :
carols in the still Antarctic air.
Father John C. Condit of Jefferson City, Mo., who built his ,
chapel from sections of four left
over quonset huts and a plywood
steeple, and Chaplain Peter 80l
of Arcadia, Calif., and Holland.
Mich., shared the conduct of the
service.
The chapel in the snow is the
only building in the Antarctic
continent devoted wholly to re
ligion.
Men of all faiths helped Father
Condit to build the structure
before the 4-month winter night
began.
Chaplain Detained
Chaplain 801. here on a plan
ning conference, was kept by fog
in Ross Bay from returning to
Little America.
Father Condit had already re
hearsed his Christmas program.
But last night he turned over
all the speaking parts to Chap
lain 80l and took all the musical
parts himself, and played the
organ for such carols as "It Came
Upon the Midnight Clear."
Chaplain 80l led a responsive
reading with a passage from
Isaiah telling of the Christmas
story, and based his sermon on
the gospel of Luke.
The choir included Camp
Comdr David Canham of Mount
Clemens. Mich. and Dr Isaac
M Taylor of Chapel Hill, N. C.
fl The length of beards in choir
»Jd congregation marked
4 amether a man had sintered
t over or had been in camp only
a few months
Sea bee Plays Sal*
David Gileses of Lafayette.
Snd„ a Seabee. gave a violin
solo. The altar was decorated
with fi r branches from Oregon
and pines from New Zealand by
Robert Barger of Peoria. HI.
The altar itself had been sash
elered around trees flown from
r Oregon, trying hard to bring a
cheery Christmas to the vast, ice
s covered continent. A Catholic
priest and a Protestant minister
5 Joined in leading a Christmas eve
I service in the world’s most south
i ern church at McMurdo Sound.
1 90 Degrees in Brazil
t Brazil sought, the illusion of a
northern Christmas even though
. the temperature was 90 degrees.
I Store fronts in Rio de Janeiro
j were sprinkled with artificial
j snow and whitened palm fronds
. were pinned to poles along the
, streets.
Non - Christian Japan made
. merry in the fashion taught by
[ Qls who occupied the country
* after World War n. Except
t for a minority the day has no'
i religious significance to the Jap
anese. Rut almost .everyone
celebrated anyway. Police esti
r mated that 3 million persons
- Jamkned the streets of Tokyo,
: more than two-thirds of them!
' * ml
The Red China radio inter
> rupted its round-the-clock polit- j
Acal commentary to announce ,
that 23 Peiping Catholic':
churches had celebrated Christ- i
mas eve mass. The radio re
ferred to Christmas as “the big ,
festival.” j
The Soviet Union observes i
the Orthodox Catholic Christ- -
mas—in January—but already !
throngs were shopping for gifts i
and delicacies. •
Tass announced that the Si- 1
berian people had donated 310,-
000 small flr trees for children 1
of the southern republics. They!:
were decorated like Christmas :
trees in the West. Instead of :
Santa Claus the Russian Grand-i
father Frost makes his rounds
on New Year’s Day.
,| ’ ij
l ioned by Charles A. Bevilac- j
1 qua of Woburn. Mass. i
; Behind the chapel are the high I
volcanic hills with white snow j
s fields and windblown patches of,
: black lava and the crosses ‘
' marking the memory of seven
• men who have died in South'
: Polar exploration.
-I South of the chapel is Ob
servatory Hill, mounting the
cross of oak raised by survivors!
’ of the tragic Scott expedition
, in 1912.
Leaves Produce Poison •
Fatal to Animals
UNIVERSITY PARK. Pa OP!
—Dr. Samuel Ouss, veterinarian
; at Pennsylvania State University.
reports wild cherry or choke
, cherry leaves damaged by frost,
produce prussic acid, a poison
, fatal to many animals.
A handful of these leaves can
kill a cow or several sheep. Dr 1
i Ouss said. Removal of the trees
U the only permanent control.
Poles Boost Exports
! Os Canned Ham to U.S.
I CHICAGO—Dunn* the first;
eight months of 1956. Commu
nist Poland increased its exports
of canned pork—mostly ham—
; by more than 1.000.000 pounds
I over the like period of last year
i Sales to the United States to
r taled 18.210 000 pounds, com-,
pared with 15.037,000 la the like'
- period of 1955.
Msgr. Thomas J. Grady celebrated solemn high
midnight mass. The scene was duplicated at Catho
lic churches throughout the area.
MRS. STONE
Continued From First Page
gees should have stayed in Hun
gary to help with the fight,
i “I never met one person,” she
declared, “who did not have to
1 leave. For one reason or another
‘ they all had a price on their
[! heads.”
:! “When they see that the Reds
~are going easy, they'll head back
;to fighting. As it is, they could
’ be picked up on sight.”’
Mrs. Stone began her work in
Eisenstodt, the large refugee
i center about 20 miles from the
: border and 40 miles from Vienna.
, She arrived on November 26.
i “I felt I had to help,” she said
1 last night, “so I, like others, vol
unteered.”
She was given a job by the
World Council of Churches. She
: handed out kits containing soap
and razor blades, which were pro
vided by the United States es
, capee program.
1,000 Refugees a Day
“Every day I was there.” Mr*.
Stone said, “there were 3.000
refugees at the camp. About
‘i 1-000 new ones arrived each
day.”
Since Mrs. Stone had. a car:
she was later assigned 4 as *
driver “at anyone’s disposal.’'
She carted doctors and refu
gees from point to point, often
getting no rest for 18 hours atj
a stretch. She also ran supplies
and medicines.
Two or three times a week
she was sent to the border it
self to pass out dry stockings
to the fleeing rebels. “Some had
walked three and four days to
reach the line,” she said, “and
all they wanted was rest.”
( She recalled one night, in par
ticular, when she stepped across
| the border. She had wanted to
check reports that "friendly”
Hungarian guards were charging!
a fee to help bring their country-!
men across.
U. S, Attitude Puzzled
The price, she discovered, de- j
pending on the refugees ability!
to pay, had sometimes been as
high as SI,OOO.
Mrs. Stone recalled that one
of the hardest jobs was trying
to explain to Hungarians “why
the United States did not help:
us.”
“They don’t understand.”'she
said, “why the United States 1
did not give them guns, or bomb
Moscow.” The argument that
such a move would start World
War 111 got her nowhere.
"They cannot understand.” I
she concluded, “why we are
-afraid of Russia. They told us
j«t every turn that Russians fall
over the minute you blow on;
them.” I
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your family
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Citizens Tax Selves
s For Town's Promotion
- PLYMOUTH, Wis. <AP).
Residents of this small east
> central Wisconsin community
) have agreed to an additional 50
r cents a month charge on their
r electric meters to pay for indus
trial promotion.
5 Mayor Howard Fischer said
c “We had a lot of inquiries from
. firms about locating in Plym
outh but had nothing to nail
down the deals with.”
*1 The extra 50 cents, $1 for
! commercial users, will be col
; lected by the local electric util
■' ity. The plan was approved in
t a referendum, 1,309 to 597.
i Night Climbers Refuse
! To Repeat Job by Day
;j ALLEGAN. Mich. UP). Six
’ seniors from Allegan high school
' who admitted climbing the city
' water tower at night to paint
"Class of ’57” on it decided
against doing it again in day
. U«ht
l Given the choice of paying,
t for a repaint job or doing the!
i work themselves, they said
they’d pay. “Climbing up is too
. dangerous,” they agreed.
• Sweden Has World's
Tallest Home for Aged
STOCKHOLM—A new home
■ ifor the aged, said to be the
world’s tallest, has been com-’
: pleted by the City of Stockholm. :
It is 15 stories high and has
: 110 rooms for 206 pensioners.
I Each unit has its own bath and
i radio, and the social rooms have
television sets. It also contains
quarters for doctors and nurses,
and a clinic, barbershop, and:
, restaurant.
: Automation Plant Set
For Sewing Machines
ADELAIDE, Australia.—A sew
ing machine firm plans to build
a factory on a 10-acre site at
Elizabeth, near Adlaide, costing
$2,250,000. which will be the
.first in the world to produce
sewing machines by-automation.
The factory expects to be in
production soon and to employ
more than 300 people and pro
duce 2.000 machines a month
by the end of 1957.
Defendant Spots Talent
WATERTOWN, WU. UP).—
Gerald L. Mead - knows a ca
pable jurist when he sees one.
Mead was fined $35 and costs
by Justice of the Peace Charles
Payant on a traffic charge.
Then Mead engaged Payant to
represent him in a case involv
ing another traflle charge in
nearby Oconomowoc.
Junior Chemists 'Make'
Atomic Bombs and Gold
By JERRY KLEIN
North American Newapoper Alliance
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec ( 25.—1 f Santa Claus brought your
little boy a chemistry set—as he did to many thousands of others
this Christmas morning—stand by! Within the next few days
anything is liable to happen around your house—and probably will.
For America’s little chemists show little interest in following
the formulas recommended by the manufacturers of chemistry
sets, safe and sure as they are.
Take the youngster from New
Jersey who showed precocious in
terest in atomic fission. “About a
Week ago, I discovered how to
make a small atomic bomb by
putting certain chemicals to
gether and wrapping them in a
paper,” he reported. “Then I
took them outside and lit a match
to them, and ran. There was a
bright light which could be seen
for blocks . . .”
For some strange reason of
his own a Philadelphia boy de
cided to make a “thiani gun”
with his chemistry set. “You
put certain chemicals in a test
tube, then lit a cork tightly into
the tube. And heat the sub
stance until the cork flies off,”
he explained, adding “do not
stand in front of the gun or
the cork might hurt your face!”
These testimonials came to the
A. C. Gilbert Co., a toy manu
facturer, which holds annual
contests for small-fry scientists.
“There may be a few things
kids can’t do with their chem
istry sets,” the firm' declares,
“but there’s little they’re not
working on—from turning base
metals into gold, to a cure for
the common cold and the pre
dictability of redeye in fruit
flies.”
“I have obtained some cold
germs,” began one letter from a
young chemist whose optimistic
treatise ended: “I think I will
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r then have produced a cure for
. the common cold.”
Three youngsters in Cleveland
won a SIOO prize for inventing
1 a chemical process to produce a
’ new kind of plastic. They de
. cided to use the money to expand
t their laboratory which then
consisted of a converted fruit bin
1 —and “manufacture drugs to
‘ benefit mankind.”
1 Another 16-year-old in Jack
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commandeered his mother’s
! pressure cooker and baby bottles
• to sterilize red-eyed fruit flies.
But don’t blame junior. Who
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s ta’s pack, anyway?
»
; Earthquake Jolts
• Montana Capital
HELENA, Mont., Dec, 25 (IP).
>—A minor earthquake jolted
■ this Montana capital city today
I but no damage was reported.
. The Weather Bureau said the:
i “strong, double, sharp, heavy;
jolt” lasted four seconds, start- !
, ing at 6:57 a.m.
; It was not classified at once,
! pending further reports. How
• ever, a Weather Bureau spokes
■ man said he believed it would
: be listed as a class 4 quake on
a scale which goes to class 15
I as the worst.
i It was the fifth earth move
s ment recorded by the Helena
l Weather Bureau in 60 days.
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