c1 .) - ~., p., /2_ ~ - ~ - .2 .3,/'i'/'& Here is the latest on that earthqµake and tidal wave in Japan: One thousand and eighty-eight dead; one hundred and sixty five aillling and one thousand and one hundred forty two injured. These are by no aeana the final figures: A J~panese newa agency reports that the total nuaber of dead aa1 run auch higher. Belie~ aquada so far have been unable to reach two entire prefectures. The roads leading to the two principal devastated regions are still blocked. Tonight we have a Christmas message fro ■ the experts of the Rational Safety Council. Our days of aerriment are spoiled in thousands of ho ■ es every year by accidents. Actuary figures show that there are caaualties during the last two weeks of every year in at lea ■ t twenty-two thousand American homes, casualtiea which cause death or peraanent disability. Accid~nt• of a less grave nature are still ■ ore nu■eroue. What cause• these accidents? Bolida7 tripa, heavy travel, alippery atreets, ao ■ any pe4eatrian• in . the atreeta ahopping, and, ln the words ot the Rational Safety Council, •1 ■prudent celebration with the feati•~ apirit often o•ercoming common sense.• Saye the President ot the Council: •It is a pity to be banging crepe at a time when we should be hanging not h· ng but holly . and mistletoe.• .. ,e now have official ~ ~~ informatio~ ~the circumst nces BE. hich a vessel of Uncle " Sa m's Navy was cha sed out of the Chinese ort of Dairen by Soviet Milita autb r ri 1 ies, on D cember Twentie t h, under a twenty minute ultim tum. The s hi~, f lyin g the • i l ~ was a landing craft, which had been sent to Dairen on a courier mission. She carried diplomatic mail and suppli•• to the staff of Uncle Sam's Consulate. On board also were two newspapermen by ~ eraission of Admiral Cook, Coamander of the SeYenth Fleet, ~lso the agent of an Aaerican Oil Company who had full clearance fro ■ the authorities ot the United States Government. She arrived at Dairen December Eighteenth, and requested permission to remain in ort forty-eight hour& lominally, of course, Dairen rJ-J. belong to China. ctually, • t ~ e s 0 ta occupied by the _.,.,.,J , ..... Red Army under the strictest b&ad sf ■ artial law. ftl9t A 8lliae11 ■ efe• e:f tha t.ewa h•• aetlaiz1 t H 23, 'be.c, . . e lie .. ie noitir-a.J..lcn•a--4......, The 8oviet Military A th . · · - u or1ties '>-\rudgingly ULTJIIAlll - 2 - a s sented to the ship's remainin · at anchorag r for forty-eight hours, but would not permit either the newsp lip ermen of the American business m n to land. OnlJ the Commander of the ship and the diplomatic courier went asho~e nd vi s ited the American consulate general.'Prbe \ Consul General tried to appeal to the Soviet Militar1 Commander, who refused to see him. When Consul General Benninghoff went to the Russian Commander's home, be waa forced to stand for several hours in the street in a bitterl1 cold wind. Presently, a sentry came out and intoraed him that General lorshanof would not see him. _ , _ .-AJIIIII , . ~ . , . . " Jz,~ • ~ .,,,. . . ' ~l.b-- ✓" ••• -efwr Benniuglto~ called on the Russian Consul General asking the reason for such behavior. The Russian ~~. -~ ~ ~ r e , «J ~ • A t b a t it was up to the General. No American aa1 land at this Chinese port without permission from Moscow. ~~ Alto g ether, the Russians peremptorily snubbedl\--f Consul General three times. hile the Commander of Uncle Sam's Ship and the M i litary Courier were with the Consulate General, a Red Army Major, ho said he represented General I h orz anof, ordered t h e shi to le a ve w it h in t enty minutes, or t~u the conseouence r- , a lt ho u b the Com ndin g Officer of the A ■ erican ship w as not a boar d . The frien ~ l y Rus ~ i n w om e tr ea t s Al l i e s and frien d a nd give ful l • re d o m in thi s country! Not very pleasa n t ne ~ s t h at. Per a ps in t ~ at p e lt of Soviet Territ o ry they h ven't he a rd th a t ~ e fou gh t · to ether in the rece n t w rand that the nations of the . world a r e now tryin g gettin g alon g with one anot h er. The French today showed how much they are in ea r ne , t in their det-il:nation to secu r e control of the ) ' 4 t - ~ ~ ~~-~J€4- Saa r D1str1ct,,_to r good a nd all. The Military Commander of the French Z one of Occu p ied Germany today p osted twelve hundred French cu s toms g uard s around the border of the Sa a r, . , I to cut it off com p letely fro ■ Germany. A Officially, the Fr - nch authorities explain th a t the idea is to stop the black market of food and ■ one f into the Rhenish fal a tinate and B a den. The French Delegate to the United Nations notified t~e Big Four Foreign Ministers last week that this was going to be done. But the explan a tion doesn't fool anybody• ~~•11>\he Britiab Forei g n Office acce p t s ~ ~ a "::f~,;, w liYI ago as last October, British Foteign Secretary Bevin said p ublicly that the British g ov e rnment is perfectly greeable to the formation of a cu s toms union between France and the S a ar. l!!ll Mor troulle ahead for British Forei n Secretary Bevin. The rebellious member 0 i o ·,n pa.rt refuse to b n p . a ed. Though Bevin made a vi g orous a,• speech efending is foreign policy in reportin on the , Big Fout' mnet i in Ne· , York, the anti-Bevin Labor Membn say they want to be shown that Bevin is re~l l y olding t the middle-of-the-way course, midw 9 y between Uncle Sam and Soviet Rua~ia. In fact they look upon the Attlee Government with suspicion. So says an F.n lish 1 bor leader named Konni Zilli cus, who is their principal apokesman. This Zilliacus intimates that Bevln is offering them words in lace of deeds. The group he speaks for inclu es 50 o~ ➔ labor members o f P rliament. Small as their nu ber is, they are exoee in 1 vcc -- 1 ~nd C 9. Jible of maki g , rouble. A s hi p carryin g am munition for the Greek Ar■J was on its way to Voles, thirty-five miles to the s outheast of Larissa. Just as she reached the mouth of the harbor, she struck a ma g netic mine a nd blew u p . As a result, the entr d nce to the harbor is co ■ pletely blocked. This will ■ a ke it difficult for the govern ■ ent at Athena to p rosecute operations against the strong guerrilla torcea in the Lar i ssa Region. SUPREME QQ]RT_ - The Supreme C o urt o th e Unit e d S tats today granted a petition made by the lawyers for John L. Lewis and the United Mine W orkers. On Janu a ry Fourteenth, the nine Justices will hear arguments from Counsel not on the three millio ~ l t ~ ~ Len IDueand / ' - /\ only dollar fines imposed by Judge Goldsborough, but also upon the anti-strike injunction slRllt. the Judge issued. This is considered a minor legal victor7 for Lewis and the coal men. It means the court will decide whether the Norris-LaGuardia Act forbidding inJunctiona ih industrial disputes, alt applies also when a union calls a strike against an industry which has been seized by the government. SUPRE E QOURT The Su reme Court of the United States today granted a petition made by the lawyer• for John L. Le is and the United Mine orkers. On Janu ry Fourteenth, the nine Justices will hear arguments from Counsel not on the three m i l l i o ~ l a ~ ~ ten 11Dusand / ' - /\ only dollar fines imposed by Judge Goldsborough, but also upon the anti-strike injunction---. the Judge issued. This is considered a minor legal victory for Lewis and the co3l men. It means the court will decide whether the Norris-LaGuardia Act forbidding injunctions ib industrial disputes, alt applies also when a union calls a strike ageinst an industry which has been seized by the government. -- " boa.tor T _ f f be is goin 'l:~..f'1 to;( the Ohio let it be known today th~~ job of Ch a irman of the Senate's Committee on Labor. The inside inter retation of that mo•• i th~t the gentleman from Ohio is in the running for the Presidential nomination in 'forty-!ight, although he has.:t 11:..t LJ.,, ~ A ~~ . . . . admitted it. ta~ Chairm~htll'p would ~A'i•-•~ge\ him powerful influ e nce in sha ing the labor la.ws to be passed by the Eithtieth Congre&s. Re ublican Leaders hlive told us th~t new labor laws will be corrective, - - not \ unitive. If they turn out to be mild enough not to ■■ get labor's back up, the maL responsible will have stron1 support at the Nineteen Forty-Eighth Convention. The son of the twenty-seventh President of the United St tes is surely sking for plenty of work during the next two year . • tven if he wins out in bis fi g ht for the labor chairmanship, be will continue to be a member of the Finance Committee. Either ?f these is fall a full job. Since he wa.nts that labor Chairmanshi , he ill t,>rob a bly et it b., ri 6 ht of eniorit y . Som Re ,. ublicans I!ll - 2 had hoped that it would go to Senator George Aiken of • Vermont, who has been fnendly to labor. However, he has been in the iaaasz ■ S nate two years less than Taft. Furthermore, he recently wrote Taft that he would support him for hatever Chairmanship he wants. IRYMAK The first of the season's Christ ■as parties was held in the White House with the gr e at hit e father as Santa Claus. The guests were employees of the White House, five hundred of them. I never realized it toot so many people to run the national Executi•e Mansion. They included cooks, butlers, aaidl, chauffeurs, secretaries, door ■ en, secret service men: each of the• got the same present, a picture of the President and Yrs. Truman, boarding an airplane bound and autogr phed. With that went a handshake and a •A Y~rry Christmas.• This party was a preliminary. Tomorrow at dusk Yr. Truman will open the nation's yuletide by pulling a switch . . ..._. ligh~he Rational Christ■as J Tree on the s~uth lawn of the White House. 11th that will o a speech, and carol singing. Bl!R1~!!~M- T he re will b e ma g nificent pedt cle in Bethle h e m t m orr ow e veni ng . The oc asion will be the cer e m o n ial entry of the Latin Patri a rc h of Jerus a lem into the an cient c r ucb of the Nativit y . It is timely a nd c n ml.ing to be able to report that t h rou g h all these months of vio l ence and bloodshed, some important work o f pious restoration has been going on in the city wher ~ the Savi o r w ~ e born. In spite of al l the ~trif e in the Holy Land, architects and antiquarians h ve be en r e taring the fifty ~lender a ■ i•••• columns whidh support the roof of the Bacilic built by the Rom!n Emperor Justinian in the Sixth Century. The palestinian D6partment of anti"uitie has supervise this work; and t e story today t~lls how they have uncovere so m e red lime s tone columns and some of the l ife-size painting a n• statue . • Amon g t h e m , t e fi g ur e of so ~ e t rity saint~. The Church of t h e Na ivity in Bet lee ~ s pas s e rl t hrou many vicis ~ itude since Ju t"n iRn built i t . In six un re ~ n~ Fourteen, t e P ers ian Kin , ~l!R~ElltH ____ g_ Ch o sroe the Sec d c pture it. A ~e~ yeqr~ later, the G eco-Romans force under Her 4 clius, recbve edit. In Six B . undr d and Thirty-six, the Ar :lbs co n ue re it and held it for ■ ore tan four centuries, until the Crusader occupie d Bethlehew.. In those ye rs, it sacred relics " @re tre a ted with 0 reater r spect by the Yoh mm e da ns than by the Christians. The Crusaders, in Bethlehem a e in Jerusalem, did ■ ost of the c ~ mage. For one th i n g , they found the clas e ic~l a rchitecture of the beautiful Byzantine Church too severe. So they covered the columns ans walls with p ~ intings ••• u nd super-ta, imposed Gothic archtiecture upon the Byzantine Ori · ina1.. The entry f the L tin Patriarch of Jerus~lem into the church of the NAtivity tomorrow nig twill be acco mpa nied b v , uch po'llp and symbolic 1 ~itu 1. 11§1 And here's the story of a wish come true at Christmastime - a whole raft of them, in fact. ~ast spring, Israel Broadsword, last of Idaho's s~~~iving GAR veterans, made three wish~s -- the last fulfill e d today. In the spring his fi~st wish was to live to be one bun red years old; then, ~ o vote in the next general elections, and finally, ~ o own a Civil War uniform. •ell, Broadsword has already cast his ballJt; today he celebrated his one hundredth birthday, and the Red Cross h~s notified him that the Civil · ~r unifor ■ is on the way. •Thou halt not steal• says the Bible. tspecially around Chri s tma s . But tonight Charles Thackwell, parson of the £hurch-by-the-Side-of-the Road, Okanogan, Jashinion, is in ••••t•J county Jail. Th• char g e -- grand larceny - the heft of an a i rplane. Last Sunday preacher Thackwell, was in Tacor,, and he had to preach a sermon in S po kane, and he• s late. Then, mi raculously, there appeared before hi ■ an empty plane. Prelicher Thackwell climbed aboard and flew to Spokane in ti ■ e for the s e r ■ on. But the i~■ ti Sheriff didu 1 t call it a miracle. ~-tie.s~-r~-- Be N%tt1I= n t1r1t:t;::W: locked,'. tabs p& a 'PA And at thi1 ti ■ e of year, too. Here's a story ith a prison background, but a different an le. A Bew York a~n passed all the war years in Sing Sing. Jlualtiat,t;xi,, ' hen he ca ■ e out, he had t~enty'cents and a damaged reputation. But he al o had a t ~ lent for designin e furniture. In almost no time he renabilitated himaa.f, made a brilliant comeback.~ 11,4 ~ Christmas approliched, he decided he wanted to do somethin1 for one of the men who had• helpedr:--•·lliiiiitill .. •••.SN!!!!INI ~•.:- ~ :W-WW 1£e ~WtO"l-wGA..,~~.rr~-, ... ■ t.:1:J!:;r(lle had acquired a small but well appointed apartment. It is only one room and half, but in it are all the comforts and bea~ties that skill and money can ~ .. ~ provide, ,:--•h--eAJ~ a fireplace that burns xe ■ l wood. Be thought the most ap ropriate way to show his feelings woulQ be to turn that apartment over, furnished, to a veteran who had no home. Out of hundreds of men who a lied, the lucky man is Lieutenant Commander Herbert A. LeYitt •ho, with Urs. Levitt, bas been living with his arents in e erewded three-room apartment, sleeping on a cot in the living room. Lieutenant Commander Herbe•i A. Levitt joined e N V in J ulr 1 etee n Fort fou t in t . e t • , P. of the Ti 01" ~ ri of oer b j of t J Se <?. , Sun , , e V r Str it nd other en g : e m ent s . e w _ s on t e Cruiser Rous n wh en t e J . ps s'1nk e r, nd ~ ~ C t u o n t e Isl n o f Jav a . For theee ye r s , the ene r:i y . ut l e , ~ im aroun in ri o n ~ '"l m s, 11 the y f r om J -;, v i:t to Mane uri a . He hold t h e Pu pl e Heart with clus er, the Bronze St a r, a nd t . e Legi o n of Merit. Mean · ·· . i l e Mrs. Le r itt was a Navy nurse for forty-four m c hths seven of t hose overseas. And now Co m ander and Ars. Levitt are g oin g to move in to that apartment , whic inc ude. Christmas tree, refri g erator full of food, the fir s t mont 's ren paid, and no de~l under the counter with the Superintendent of the aparlnent house. The Levitts will havP one g ue r t for their Christmas dinner, the m a n who was in Sin g c.ing.when they f ~ t And when y ou too , eri a fl yer in the were o .1. a w'lr. w r Nelson. Al o ~ orty y ea.r . 6 0 , C h & rl H ~nso n illed ol ic m n in Ch ic a g o. Aft er itin g i x m on ths t o b e t rie d , h e l ii:i S convicted a nd s nt nee d to life im pr i on m ent o r 11 t h e · e t hir ty - nin e y r ' he h~ been in Joliet Pe nit en t i ary. No w , c:. cc or ciin t o the l w of Illinoi s , he should h a ve had 11 t,, r o m t tri a l. In f a. ct, that i s a p rovision of the con s titution of the United State s . So l•J•r• lawyer decided that old Charlie Hanson, now seventy-five might h ~ ve a chance to be released, since the law was rather careless .. ith him thirty-nine years ago. To a ay they brou g ht him to Chicago for a hearing, his first si g ht of the outside · orld in practical y forty year s . He s a w mor t ch a n g es than Rip Van Winkle. A l thou h Orville and ilbur i ri 0 ht h ~ d flo w n their heavier-than- · ir machine a t Kitty Hawk, ·here were no . l ~ nes fl y in the kies when Charlie Hanson ent to Joliet. As they sh ow ed him trans p ort liner s high o•er th e city, he s a id: •The sky is fo r birds.• But h e g ot a g re a t i m re ss ion out of the m~ - ni : ic e nce a nd luxury of Mic i g n Boule,~ - n e mul itu .. e in e , <: or on Sti:t e e n • C . r1. rles ~ - n on sai ty-ni Py 1 r in ri o n h~d ~u t ni ne th i n for sure: Yes, )t)u've guessed it: th t crime doesn't pa . If t e courts do set C rlie free, tx a S nt Claus in Lincoln, Nebr sk,, will give him a job seventy-five. ~nen if he is a e