H e r 's an expl a nation, given b y th e Sn Francisco Weather Bureau - of the disaster of wat e r. '!Wo storms - r Oregon, Northern C~ liforni a , Nevada. One, a cold stonn from the Artie. The other - a warm, swirling mass of air from the South, out of the Pacific. This latter - laden with moisture mm.x~from the ocean. It just happened that the two coming in from the north and south met on the coast. The cold storm - causing the warm one to unload its masses of water in a continuous downpour of rain. A freak of nature - drenching a vast area. Bringing on the deluge - of overflowing rivers. ~Marysville, California, llt at the Junction of the Feather and Yuba rivers1 Jlllt the Editor of the local MUpaper, THE APPEAL-DEMOCRAT, reports: ~Our town ts like a soupbowl. water. " If the levees break, we'll be under eighteen feet of ~ ~ # , _ Editor William Monahan~ 8The town has been I\.. " ordered evacuated. But this is not mandatory. ''Pe ~ple, ft he goes on, "can stay in town and take their chances if they want~ Substitut e FLOODS - 2 ' ( I don't kn ow h o~ m a ny ---e.e. ~ , I J ' (_ are stayi ng o u t f i ve :;A hundred have already promis e d to st a y and fight o n the leva e t o save the cit*. " T h 1 "rc::ll e on Y w ay out of Marysville is by one bridge. The line of cars at the bridge - a mile lon g . lrying to get out. Ten thousand people - The flood story extends from Oregon right on down to C li f ornia. The Russian River nineteen feet above the flood stage. What about the camps at._ famous Bohemian Grove? ~ver inNevada, at Reno, the waters are four feet deep around the fashionable Mapes and Riverside hotels. The Truckee River1 R- always a rapid stream, )row - thundering along. Pouring into Reno, where they put up hasty ~andbag barriers, trying to hold back the deluge. United ress Correspondant, Robert Bennyhoff, wires: "The river swirls over eight of the nine bridges, which span the the river ir-eno area - almost cutting the city in two. Only one bridge remains to provide a round-about me a ns of getting from one side to the other. The flood, " he adds "was caused by ..,....,Substitute FLOODS - 3 heavy rains which melted the snow pack on the high Sierras. The downpour continue u without let-up during the day." Such is the story far and wide - towns washed out, homes swept away - at least thirteen lives lost. As one river after another - has risen to record-breaking flood level. -EISENHOWER • President Eisenh d ower A not go South, after all. Several weeks ago we heard how his docto shad recormnended - a warmer climate. So the Chamber of C ommerce at Key West, Florida, sent him an invitation - to visit their balmy island. But the resident replies: "Much as I would like to follow the advice of my physician to (climate) seek a warmer/\•tu4 for a while, I doubt if I shall be able to leave Washington. If I do manage to get away," he adds, "I think I should go no farther South than Georgia." s Sounds as if the resident expect,-. a busy time these Winter months. -fJe must be feeling in excellent shape. ~ Today, at Gettysburg~he signed a lot of docU11ents - he was in the spirit of Christmas. Grantint forty-two pardons . ~ and co11111uting one death sentence. The commutation wasAthe case of a former soldier convicted for murder in World War Two while serving in Gennany. That sentence connuted - to a prison term instead. -ZNDIA. Th e wor in ond i on s - that Indian P rime Minister Nehru, will try to promot new talks on dis-annament. Especially - a ban on a tomic test explosions. Nehru - having the ppproval of the Kremlin for this.aw,e""'t-. The scheme originated, we he ar , during the Bulganin- Khrushchev travels in India. Nehru suggesting to them - that he might act as a go-between, in arranging - a new East-West Conference on dis-araament and atomic • subjects. Both Bulganin and Khrushchev saying - na!na/- go ahead! Giving NehrJ -/Lt- assurances I!' they will agree to what the London infonnat1on ~ - calls any reasonable suggestions." In all Nehru's official this India would act asr. a,,J(eutral• - which is I M-tiJ-~ ~ ) - position. ~ want to participate in any such talks~-~•d merely like to arrange them - to be held in the coming Spring. ~ This is connected with• visit the two Soviet leaders " M'4. ""'· are to make to Britain in Aprilj - if t~~---..-1MM1..a-ll~t--\CHI.,.. In London, there was ta lk_ that the visit might be called off. india - 2 The British - not liking t ~ i s y anti- ritish statements~ ~Bulganin and Khrushchev m e in India. But, from what we now hear, M ~ Nehru hopes the L ndon trip will be a proper time for Bulgantn and ltluaan Khrushchev to discuss a conference as proposed by Nehru. OTTO JOHN. In West G rm ny, today, the turn-coat Intell i gence Chief, Doctor Ot to John - was arr st ed , on su picion of treason. ctually, the charge is made - as a pre ca ution mostly. The ~ belief being - that Otto John might try still a n o t h e r ~ ), ~ He might go behind the Iron Curtain again.( So A now he's in jail - for safekeeping. - They've been questioning him, ever since the surprise A return of the West Gennan version of our own J. Edgar Hoover. The word being - that they don't believe the story Otto John has been telling. ) Reds. That he was drugged - when he went over to the He says that on the day of his disappearance, he was at the West Berlin office of a friend of his - Doctor Wolfgang Wohgemuth - with whom he had a cup of coffee. This Doctor Wohgemuth - said to be a secret Communist. Anyway, Otto John ,._~="Pt--~ claims the coffee w a s ~ - - - he was kidnapped~ while A ;< unconscious. Declaring - that, two days later, he awake in a hps•ital room in East Ber)_n, guarded - by Russian soldiers. otto JO - 2 0 - ~ ~ i ¼ f - ~ 1 3 / 4 ~ e stor, 0unds a ll the more ~JJ~~~ improbable when it is recalled th at - when in Ea st rlin, Otto John ga ve a news intervie w , in which he said that he had fled behind the Iron ~~~ curtain of his own free will. AM gave the reporters - a ~ ~ ( / ' Communist ~ .A The word now is - that, during his long stay behind the Iron Curtain, he made three trips to Soviet Russia. More and more confusing becomes this mystery of Otto John. BERL! . • o r m ny f mili e n East -~ ~~ r 1 n ~ a Merry hristm 0 res nt from Santa~ - nd a skimpy C hristm s dinner. Y t th ey had saved u p their Christmas mon y , ~ went to the store~ n bou ht bundles of good thins. Bu t the stor e s h r e th e go od thin g s are to be had are in W e st Berlin. So w ith their bundl e s, th e y had t o pass across the border of the Iron Curtain - goin g back to their nomes in the Communist area. At the border, the Reds AfAle stationed Itiig vigilant ~ guards - confiscatingAChristmas purchases made in West Berlin. It is against the,Communist Law - to go trading like that in the Free World. 5 01 In East Berlin, little more than the barren necessities of life are available - this Chri stmastime. In West Berlin, on th e contrary, the stores are so well stocked ~ 0 li that the Allied part of the city is~lli3li s,,.c,Athe ~S how Window ~ of the West. 11 Id-A to those E st Berliners, it is a mockery to II say, tY1'!erry Christmas. BERO -----==--==-=- --= = ::;;;;:.;;;; .._iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii-iiiii -- At an airforce ba e in Loui. ana 'taff erp-eant Raymond Doyle of New Bedford , Mas achusetts, is beinp: recommended - or the Distin"ushed ~ lyin~ Cross. w el l , pt le A s it"' s a diFtinp11ii:--heci repair job! A hu~e C-154 transport was cominp into the Barksdale BaRe, with fourteen aboard, when it wa . found - thAt the landing ~ear~ would not lock in place. , · omethin~ h~ci ~one wron~. So t~at waP when Ser~eant Doyle did - the distin~uished repair job. He tied a lon11 Rtrap around his ankles, and had his comrades lower him ~o that hes could ~et at the landinp ~ear. The ~lip-stream below the plane waA blowin~ at - one-hundred-and-sixty-five miles an hour •• In that bast ~r wind the Rergeant worked away. A lockin~ pin wa out of place, and it required forty-five minutes to 1let thin~s fixed for landin~. Han~in~ by his ankles in the violence of the RlipFtream for three ouar•ers of an hour - but Doyle saved the ~ituation, and the hu~e plane lanned okay. So now biP 8ommardin~ Officer ir. recommen~in~ - a DietiniUiFhed flyin~ Cro. F for a di ~ tinFUiFhed repair job. ( . IMPOSTER. Down in Texas, officials at the statepprison were greatly pleased - with Doctor Benjamin w. Jones. last Summer as a physician for the penitentiary. Employed, The doctor not only knew how to prescribe medicine, but also showed - he knew how to handle prisoners. So, in a brief period of tiJlle, he was promoted - given the post of Assistant Warden. Then, recently, a convict noticed a peculiar thing. In a magazine, he saw an article about an imposter - Ferdinand Weldo Demara. A fraud - with an imposing record. Demara - having posed, from time to time, as a-college professor, a ~~~~w-<~~t( Trappist ,;~, a surgeon. A. few years ago~e got into the Canadian Navy, and perfo1'118d operations on soldiers in Korea - 1 successful operations, too. The maglzine article included - a photograph of the - master imposter - Demara. .,.. lhe convict, looking at the picture - was amazed. It bore such a striking resemblance to Dr. Benjamin w. Jones, Assistant Warden, at the penitentiary . .,,_J ,- • J I ._ , ~- . This was brought to the attention of Dr. Jones. Who . IMPOSTER - 2 was - i~ignant. "I'm not going to stay around here and be insulted," ~--ft he snapped - and walked out. , hasn't been seen since. In his quick exit, he left some laundry behind - marked w1 th the name "Demara. " So now the Texas prison officials are aware - that ~ i;i ~ . they were the latest victims of an imposter~ 1; , ~ngenious """ . . fooling people. I' They say the doctor was backed by the most 1.Jlpressive credentials. Actually, there is a Doctor Benjamin W. Jones, a Professor of Medicine, with all kinda of degrees and honors. These were used by Ferdinand Waldo Demara - who always 81'1118 himself with top-drawer credentials when he's out hoaxing aanebody. ROBBERY. At Dearborn, Michigan, George Doherty is a businessman . ~ businessman R- always looking for a good profit? ~ what's better than doubling your,,_~1 Doherty was interested_when Bob Wilson put the proposition before him. An investment of twenty-five thousand bucks - and a profit of twenty-five thousand. Doherty runs a lumber and Wl'ecking c011pany, and he raised the money. So, When Wilson appeared for a closing of the deal - a certified check was ready. But Wilson said - INo," the transaction would have to be in cash. The lure of profit prevailed. They went to the bank, where Doherty got the twenty-five thousand in cash - and started by automobile, bound for the place where the deal was to be made. on the way, Wilson stuck a gun in Doherty's ribs and told him to pull the car over to the curb. Also - hand over the cash. Across the highway, an atmomobile was waiting. That was the get-away car. He took the money - and off he went. . ROBBERY - 2 Which was no way to trick a businessman. ~ . .(} "- It was one " ( - hundred percent all right.- not profit, but loss! - - "' - alTARTIC In London, the fear is expressed - that British mementos in the Antartic may be plundered. A London newspaper speaking of - indiscriminate American souvenir llmlllan hunters~ Admiral Byrd•s Antartic Expedition has arrived on the £e coast of Ross Sea - where there are two huts, used by Captain Robert Scott - huts with mementos of the tragedy of that great Antartic Explorer, Scott - who lost his i d life in quest of the · ~ A . ~ - ~ - { ; , ~ ~ ~ ~,~t"lt , t h e . , ~ -ro-e. A correspondent for the NOON DAILY TELEGRAPH is aboard the American Ice Breaker at Edisto, and he reports that American sailors have removed what he calls 8several mementos.• Which leads the DAILY EXPRESS to say "deep concern has been expressed over the possibility of 1ndiscrillinate souvenir hunting by u. s. personnel aboard this ice-breaker, at the historic Antartic huts." Well, sailors like souvenirs - but those huts, and their furnishings . have been left as shrines dedicated to the f . t ti Explorer as gallant as he was unfortunate. memory o an An ar c , 1) _ \v-.(_ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ - BETH EH Y.. ---- - - Thir m o rninv ab rri r OOPOf? , t, he r er in JeruRa em - p order where the H 1y ' '1· ,y . v 1 .· divid~ b tw n r . nd O . r · el. o 11 in r , p~ 1· t l , '11 , ' - w .n t 1 c i OP' 0 th P. old city within th , walls. To vi. it holy places there. The scene of the la t · 1pper, the via Dol0ro a, the Churc of the H 1 s 1 o y enu chre, R nd then proceed on o Beth em for ChristmaR. A few days a~o, there waP vio ent riotin,:r in the Jorcian part of the Holy and, Pnn the word wa~ that the seen of the Nativity mi~ht be cln . ed. Today, however all WR F' auiet - a. *he pil~rimF marcheci a onp- the five mi 1~. from Jeru~ 1 em to Bet~lehem. The weather briFht and fta fair. The pil~rims today were mo F tly ~npli~h and Frech, Rnd other hundreds who are followin~ - include a few Americans. We hear that Americans are deterred by the Anti-American charActer of the recent riotin~ in Jordf!n. The people tbere oppo inF a line-up with the Vest. The United tates - re~ardeo as the chief We tern power and as the chief ~pon~or of modern lRrael. AP we know ~ince Worlci War II Americans h~vn t been oopular anywher * Ann are havinv their rlifficultiPs, Henry, even at.ten inp Christmas service. where thP. ,aviour was born.