. 1—Three-foot snowfall in Teheran and other Iranian towns causes earthen houses to collapse, killing 60. 3—Tornado demolishes Warren, Ark., killing 512, injuring 275. High gales, floods, cold wave kills 39 in western Europe. 14—Cold waves on West coast kills citrus crop. Blizzards roar through Rock- ies, causing 121 deaths, 27—At least 600 Chinese missing follow- ‘ing collision of two steamers off Shanghai coast. February 3—Blizzards in western and mountain states cause 600 deaths and property damage of $200 million. 8—Twenty-eight die when Scandinavian plane crashes off Swedish coast. 12—Madrid-Barcelona express train plunges down 40-foot embankment, killing 30. 24—Crash of Cathay Pacific plane from Manila on northern Hong Kong is- land kills 23. Twenty-two die in air crash at Cuzco, Peru, 27—Nine students die in fire destroying dormitory at Kenyon college, Gam- bier, Ohio March 24—Tornadoes kill 26 in south and south- west Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana. April 6—Seventy-four die in Effingham, hospital fire. 19—Sixty-two persons are killed in earth- quake that rocks c-ntral Chile. 28—Crash in South Africa of three elec- tric trains kills 74. May 4—Italy’s entire world champion soccer team dies in plane crash at Turin. 21—Tornadoes kill 46 persons in Mis- 11. souri, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and g Kentucky. June 6—Twenty-two killed in Greek air crash near Athens. Crack.up of plane near Florianopolis, Brazil, kills 27. Y—Fifty-four persons killed in crash of plane San Juan, Puerto Rico. July ] 2—Eighteen persons killed in air crash near Perth, Australia. 12—Thirteen American correspondents killed in air crash near Bombay Air crash near Los Angeles kills 36. 30—Sixteen persons killed when navy Hellcat hits Eastern Air Lines plane near Fort Dix, N. J. August 5—Between 3,000 and 4,000 persons killed by Ecuador earthquake. 9—Western states forest fires take 13 lives. 19—Manchester, England, air crash takes lives of 24. September 6—Crazed war Camden, N.J. 9— Airline crash near St. Joachim, Que- veteran slays 13 in bec, kills 23. Nine die as cabin cruiser is swamped in Nantucket Sound. 17—Steamship Noronic burns in Toronto pier taking 130 lives. October 18—One thousand die, 70,000 left home- less in Guatemala floods. 28—Forty-eight die in air crash in Azores, including boxer Marcel Cerdan. November 1—Fifty-five killed at Washington, D.C., airport as P-38 hits airliner. 17—Eighteen killed as two B-29's collide near Stockton, Calif. 29—Airliner crash at Dallas kills 28. December 2—Dormitory = blaze at University of Oklahoma kills three. 11—Nine killed by tornadoes in Missouri and Arkansas, Seventy-ton slab of granite falls off cliff near Victor- ville, Calif., killing four, 1—Barbara Ann Scott wins Lou E, Marsh memorial trophy as Canada’s outstanding 1948 athlete. 7—Joe DiMaggio signs 1949 contract with Yankees for $90,000. 9—U.S. court reverses lower court dis- missal of Danny Gardella’s damage suit against New York Giants. 14—Calumet’s Coaltown ties record for mile and 1/8 at 1:57.6. March 1—Joe Louis retires as heavyweight champion, turns promoter, 12—Hamline of St. Paul defeats Regis of Denver for National Assn, of In- tercollegiate Basketball champion- ship. 26—Kentucky wins National Collegiate AA basketball tournament in Seattle. Russian Hero wins Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree, England. April 18—Baseball season opens. . 23—Olympia, Eddie Arcaro up, wins Wood Memorial, 26—Tony Zale, ex-middleweight champ retires from boxing. 30—Coaltown, Steve Brooks up, wins Gal- lant Fox handicap. May 6—Rocky Graziano, ex-middleweight, reinstated by N_Y. athletic commis- sion after suspension for failure to report bribery offer. 7—Ponder, Calumet’s 16-1 shot, Steve Brooks up, wins Kentucky Derby. 23—Joey Maxim defeats Gus Lesnevich for U.S. lightheavyweight title. 30—Indianapolis motor speedway Memor- ial classic won by Bill Holland in record average speed of 121.327, June : 10—Frank Frisch, Kew York coach, be- comes Chicago Cub manager. 11—U.S. open golf championship goes to Dr. Cary Middlecoff. Capot, Ted Atkinson up, wins Belmont Stakes. The 18 players suspended from U.S, pro baseball because they jumped to Mexican league re-instated by Com- missioner Chandler. 14—Jake LaMotta wins world middle- weight title from Marcel Cerdan. 22—FEzzard Charles win~ world heavy- weight title by defeating Jersey Joe Walcott. New York and England re- fuse to recognize title. July 2—Ted Schroeder takes men’s singles in Wimbleton, England, tennis championships; Louise Brough ‘takes women's singles; Frank Parker- Richard Gonzales take men’s doub- les; Mrs. Margaret Dupont and Miss Brough take women's doubles. 11—World welterweight champion Sugar Ray Robinson successfully defends title from Havana’s Kid Gavilan. 12—American league All-stars defeat National League team, 11-7. 31—Sam Snead takes Western Open golf - championship at St. Paul, August 10—Ezzard Charles successfully defends heavyweight championship by de- feating Gus Lesvenich. 19—Hironoshin Furuhashi, Japan, sets world swimming records of 18:19 minutes in 1,500 meter free style; 4:33.3 minutes in 400 meter free style and 9:35.5 minutes in 800 meter free style. 20—Coaltown, Steve Brooks up, sets world record of 1:34 4 in winning one-mile Whirlaway Stakes. September » 1—U.S. retains Davis Cup, defeating Australia four matches to one (ten- nis). 3—Charles Coe, Oklahoma City, wins U.S. amateur golf championship in Rochester, N.Y. Joseph De Bona, Hollywood, wins Bendix air trophy. 5—Bill Odom, speed record holder for round-the-world flight, crashes into a house in Berea, Ohio, during Na- ticnal Air Races in Cleveland, kills self, two others. Silver Cup Trophy in motorboat racing goes to Bill Can. trell, driving Horace Dodge’s My Sweetie. ~~ 25—Louise Suggs, Carrollton, Ga., takes S. women’s open golf title in Land- over, Md. October 5-9—New York Yankees defeat Brooklyn Dodgers in World Series, four games to one. 28—Capot beats Coaltown to win Balti. more’s Pimlico Special. November : 1—1949 major league all-star AP base- ball team team announced. 15—Eddie Vann scores fastest heavy- weight knockout on record in Lon- don bout with George Stern (12 sec- onds, first round), 21—Cleveland Indians sold to a syndi- cate of Cleveland business men. 24—Ted Williams, Red Sox, named American League's most valuable player. December 3—Notre Dame defeats Southern Meth- odist to end season undefeated and lead football pack. Army, Oklahoma and California remain undefeated. 12—Kentucky and Oklahoma bid for na- tional cage leadership. January 3—Israel involved in a dispute with Britain after invading Egypt and shooting down R.A.F. planes. 13—U.S. turns pressure on Britain to abandon dispute with Israel so as not to endanger Arab-Jewish peace. 14—U.S. says it plans to join North At- lantic militaty alliance to ease west Europe’s fear of Russia, Chinese Communists say peace terms are surrender of Nationalists. 21—Chiang Kai-shek enters retirement. 22—Israeli-Egyptian armistice delayed by Jewish retention of Negeb. 28— U.N. security council passes inde- pendence plan for Indonesia. February 8—Cardinal Mindszenty pleads ‘guilty in principle’ to treason charges by Hungary’s Red regime. Gets life sentence. 24—Israel, Egypt sign armistice. 26—Bulgaria begins treason trials of Protestant leaders. March 4—Andrei Vishinsky replaces Molotov as Russian foreign minister. 11—Draft of Atlantic pact completed. Italy decides to join. Trans-Jordan sign cease-fire. 20—Soviet zone currency barred from west Berlin. 31—Russia denounces North Atlantic pact. April 2—Chinese Communists modify peace terms, 4—Twelve nations sign North Atlantic pact and plan for U.S. arms aid. 7—Tories upset Labor in London elec- tion. 17—Ireland becomes independent repub- lic. 24—Communists capture Nanking. 30—U_S., Russia negotiate to end Berlin blockade and set up Big 4 confer- ence on Germany. Communists gain in attempt to isolate Shanghai. May 4—Russians agree to lift rail blockade of Berlin. Dutch, Indonesians agree on new truce. Reds capture Hang- chow, isolate Shanghai. 11—Israel admitted to U.N, 23—Big 4 ministers’ conference opens in Paris. West German constitution adopted. Reds capture Shanghai. 30—Big 4 deadlocks on German unity. Soviet-zone Germans adopt constitu- tion. Czech Reds hit Catholic church. June 6—Senate foreign relations committee approves Atlantic pact. 7—Chinese nationalist government pre- pares to flee to Chungking, 9—U.S. and Soviet authorities agree on formula to end anti-Red Berlin rail- road strike. 13—Pro-Italians win a Trieste election. 17—United States protests Britain's trade pact with Argentina. 29—Western charter creating civilian allied high commission for west Ger- many published. July 10—Chiang Kai-shek enlists Philippines in drive to form Pacific union, takes charge of Chinese nationalist re- sistance, Britain, U.S., Canada agree to September conference on Britain’s dollar shortage. United Kingdom or. ders 25 per cent cut in dollar ex- ports through mid-1950. 13—Roman Catholic church issues world- wide excommunication of Commu- nists. 23—Yugoslavia breaks relations with Greek guerrillas. August 1—Dutch-Indonesian truce signed. 2—Tito calls for uprising against his Comin’:rm foes in Albania and Bul- garia, warns Russia not to invade Yugoslavia. 11—International rules of war revised. 12—Moscow denounces Tito’s Yugosla- via as enemy of Russia. 16—Greece reports rout of its northwest. ern rebels. . September 2—Yugoslavia breaks off two commer. cial pacts with Russia and discounts danger of Russian invasion. 16—Hungarian ex-Foreign Minister Rajk and two other alleged traitors say they plotted with Tito and the United States. 17—Western Big Three agree not to help Chiang Kai-shek. 18—Britain devalues pound and 24 na- tions follow suit. 23—President Truman announces that an “atomic explosion” has taken place in Russia. : 29—Russia and four satellites break off mutual aid pacts with Tito. Big Four unity talks in Berlin reach another deadlock, October 2—Russia recognizes Communist gov- ernment in China. 6—Big Four foreign ministers meet again cn Austria. Yugoslavia takes its Cominform dispute before U.N. 11--Prime Minister of India, Nehru, ar- rives for visit in United States. Israel and ¢ Top Ten Spot News Stories of 1949 These are the 10 biggest news stories of the past year, as selected by a representative group of weekly newspaper edi- tors speaking through an an- nual poll conducted by The Publishers’ Auxiliary. 1. Announcement that the Soviet Union possesses atom bomb. 2. Sweeping victories of Communist armies in China. 3. Trial of 11 top Commu- nists in the U.S. 4. Coal and steel strikes and subsequent events in nation. 5. Marshal Tito’s successful defiance of Russia and Comin- form. 6. Story of*Kathy Fiscus fall- ing into well and subsequent rescue efforts. 7. Failure of congress to re- peal the Taft-Hartley labor law. 8. Ending of the Berlin blockade by the Russians. 9. Bitter inter-service dispute between the army and navy. 10. Devaluation of pound in Great Britain. 14—Chinese Reds take Canton. 15—Wholesale arrest conducted by Com- munists continue in Czechoslovakia. 20—Yugoslavia elected to U.N. security council over Sowiet protests. 28—George Bidault becomes French premier, ending crisis. 29—United States consul and staff seized by Reds at Mukden. November 1—Dutch, Indonesians agree on terms for sovereign Indonesian state. 7—France and Canada team up to urge nations’ A-bomb pact. 14—Indian extremists hanged for assas- sination of Gandhi. Britain delays date for nationalizing steel. Chinese Nationalists shell U.S, merchant ship. Chinese Reds ask U.N. to oust Nationalist delegates. 16—Washington refuses to recognize con- trol body created for Danube by Russia. 20—President Chanis of Panama ousted by coup. 22—Fate of ‘American consul-general ar- rested by Chinese Reds lies with peoples’s court in Mukden. Ousted Panama president leads demonstra- tion in Panama City, West imple- ments Paris plan to ease controls on West German republic. 23—Chinese Reds release U.S. consul- general - Angus Ward on suspended sentence. 24—Panama supreme President Chanis, forces him out again. Dr. Arias becomes president. 26—Chinese Reds arrest U.S. vice-con- sul, William Stokes, in Mukden. 29—Cominform asks unseating of Yugo- slavia’s Tito. 30—Chinese Reds take Chunking, nation- alist capital. December 1—Western defense area divided into five groups in Paris meeting. 2—Nationalist China warned by U.S. upon ship attacks. 7—U.N. declares Jerusalem an inter- national holy city. U.S. will meet Reds’ terms for release of two Americans held in North Korea. 8—Chinese Nationalists abandon capital at Chengtu and flee to Formosa. 10—Labor party defeated in Australia elections. 11—North Korea Reds free two Yanks after 81 days detention. 12—Angus Ward and staff, court re-seats but police chief Arnulfo freed by Chinese Reds, board ship for U, S. January 1—Needy children in China total 20 million, 15 million of whom were made homeless by war with Japan. 15—Air Force submits to Defense Secre- tary James Forrestal proposed pol- fey to discontinue racial segregation in ranks. J 29—Repairmen overhauling the White House open the building to reporters who found parts of it near collapse, February 9—Film star Robert Mitchum and ac- tress Lila Leeds sentenced to 60-day prison terms in Los Angeles court on marijuana charges. 23—Grady, inquisitive cow of Yukon, Okla., plunged into silo, achieved bovine fame while nation racked brains for four days over problem of how to get her out. 25—General Motors announces wages of 341,000 employees will be reducea under cost-of-living contract with union. 26—Axis Sally begins defense at treason trial by saying treason cannot be committed by ‘mere words” March 1—Latest get-rich-quick scheme to sweep America is Pyramid club, which works on order of chain letter. 2—-U.S. births reported by Public Health Service to number 3,559,000 in 1948. 26—Axis Sally sentenced from 10 to 20 years in prison for treason. April 6—President Truman says he would not hesitate to use atom bomb under the same circumstances it was used on Japan. 16—Bureau of Agricultural Economics predicts slight drop in prices, in- comes, production for 1949. 28—Russia completely jams ‘Voice of America’ broadcasts to the U.S.S.R, containing accounts of negotiations ending Berlin blockade. May 2—Atlanta city council bans public wearing of masks except for festive occasions. This is blow to Ku Klux Klan. 10—Frank Hague’s 32-year rule as boss of Jersey City ends when Hague ma- chine is swept out of office. 27—Movie star Rita Hayworth is mar- ried to Prince Aly Khan. June 2—“Wall Street Journal” survey re- veals used car prices “melting like snow under a hot spring sun.” 8—American Medical association ‘‘gags’ its chief spokesman and concedes U.S. needs adequate public health plan. 25—Attorney General Tom Clark orders F.B.I. investigation of terrorism in Alabama where several have been beaten or intimidated by hooded night riders. 4 July 1—Justice department files anti-trust suit in U.S. district court in Chicago aimed at breaking up du Pont em- pire. 15—Charles (Lucky) Luciano, ex-New York vice ‘king, barred from Rome after being questioned about nar- cotics ring. 25—Thomas Mann receives Goethe prize for literature in first visit to native . Germany in 16 years. August 3—Photometer, which accurately meas- ures constituents of single cells, is demonstrated at Columbia univer- sity. 4—Dispute over federal aid to-religious schools between Cardinal Spellman and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt ends. 19—FCC announces a ban on radio and television quiz programs. September 1—General i.arry Vaughan defends himself in ‘‘5-per center’ probe and keeps White House job. Defense Secretary Johnson wants to abolish senators’ world trips at government expense. 8—American expediticn to find Noah’s Ark fails. 13—U.S. district judge from enforcing prohibition of away programs. 20—Tokyo Rose found guilty of treason. October 3—Agriculture department reports Americans spending 2 per cent less of their incomes for food than last year. Vatican reports 423 million Catholics in the world. 17—Ilse Koch, convicted as murderess of Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany, formally released from military prison after her life sen- tence is commuted. 27—Dr. Walter Hess, Zurich, and Dr. Antonio Moniz, Lisbon, divide Nobel prize for medicine for work on brain function. November 4—Dealers urge no hoarding of coffee during shortage. 16—Shah of Iran arrives for American visit. 18—Vice-President Alben Barkley mar- ries Mrs. Carleton Hadley of St. Louis. 19—Eighteen of 20 who went down on B-29 near Bermuda rescued. 29—New drug, neomycin, works wonders in ending kidney infections. December 2—U.S., may have ‘‘booster’” bomb to set off more powerful bomb. Mt, Etna eruptions threaten Sicilian towns. 5—Former Rep. Andrew J. May (D., Ky.) enters federal prison on fraud sentence. Census bureau says em- ployment is up, Shirley Temple gets divorce on ‘liquor and lipstick” plea. 8—New Jersey citizens told to curtail use of water. G.I. found hiding in tent in Germany with fraulein and baby. New German drug reported as ‘‘promising’’ treatment for can- restrains FCC give- cer. 10—Vice-President Barkley satirizes self at Gridiron club banquet. January 1—Sir Malcolm Camp- bell, first man to ex- ceed 300 mph on land. 3—Robert Ingersoll Aitken, sculptor. 4—Dr. August Herman Pfund, author- ity on infra-red and other rays and on optics. 5—Joseph H. McNabb, Bell and Howell president. 11—Nelson Doubleday, zine publisher, book and maga- February 10—Isoo Abe, who introduced baseball to Japan. 12—Battling * Levinsky, former light heavyweight boxing champ. 23— Francis Edwin McMurtrie, editor of “Jane’s Fighting Ships.” 28—John Sanburn Phillips, co-founder of MecClure’s Magazine and founder of American Magazine. Charles Han- son Towne, author, poet, editor March 4—Arthur Atwater Kent, inventor, phil- anthropist, famous host. 6—Sen. Joseph Melville Broughton, Democrat, N.C., former governor of his state. 7—Rep. Sol Bloom, chairman of house foreign affairs committee. 11—Gen, Henri-Honore Giraud, French hero of both: world wars. April 15—Wallace Beery, veteran screen star. 27—Frederic , C. Wallcott, Republican senator from Connecticut, 1929-34, author of RFC bill. May 3—Joseph Peter DiMaggio, father of ballplayers Joe, Dominic and Vincent DiMaggio. 6—Count Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet and dramatist, author of ‘The Blue Bird.” 10—Sam Breadon, ex-president of St. Louis Cardinals. Neysa McMein, por- trait painter, illustrator, writer, 18—Dr. James Truslow Adams, histor- ian, Pulitzer prize winner. 22—James V. Forrestal, former secre- tary of defense, by suicide. June 10—sSigrid Undset, Danish-born Norweg- ian novelist. 14—Charles B. (Uncle Charlie) Moran, National league baseball umpire, Russell Doubleday, retired publisher and author. 26—Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, interior sec- retary in Hoover cabinet. July 2—Georgi Dimitrov, Communist premier of Bulgaria. 8—Harold H_ Knerr, cartoonist who drew Katzenjammer Kids. 19—Frank Murphy, associate justice of the supreme court. August 1—George Moran (Searcy), survivor of Moran and Mack, the “two black crows.” 12—Al Shean, survivor of Gallagher and Shean, comedy team. 16—Margaret Mitchell, author of “Gone with the Wind.” 18—Dr. Samuel Green, imperial wizard of Association of Georgia Klans (K.K.K.) September 3—Maj. Gen. Walter Short, army com- mander at Pearl Harbor when Japan attacked. ¥ 8—Richard Strauss, German composer. 10—Wiley Blount Rutledge, associate jus- tice of supreme court. 15—Ernest Edward Bonham, Pittsburgh Pirate pitcher, former Yankee star. 18—Frank Morgan, film star. 19—Will Cuppy, author, critic and humor- ist. October 6—Robert Emmet Hannegan, ex-post- master general and Democratic na. tional chairman. Col. Matt J. Winn, who made Kentucky Derby famous. November 6—Rex Mays, leading auto racing driver. 8—Clyde M. Reed, senator from Kansas. 925 “Bojangles” Bill Robinson, dancer. 27—William H. King, four-term Demo- cratic senator from Utah. December 11—Clifford Berryman, editorial cartoon- ist for Washington Star. January 5—Truman asks higher taxes, universal mili- tary training, wage- price controls in the state-of-the- union message. 7—Secretary of State George C. Mar- shall resigns and is replaced by Dean Acheson. 14—State department policy statement says U.S. will join North Atlantic defense alliance. February 3—Truman declares Constitution gives him power to stop walkouts affect- ing national health and welfare. 17—Presidents says current price de- cline and unemployment increase nothing to worry about. 24—Hoover commission makes report on government reorganization. Truman says he will stump nation to defend his program, stalled in congress. March 2—Air force B-50 makes first non.stop trip around world. 3—Louis Johnson replaces James For- restal as secretary of defense. 11—U.S. senate rejects ruling against filibusters. U.M.W. announces two- week memorial walkout. 30—President signs bill extending rent control through June 30, 1950, April 14—Congress passes second year E.R.P. authorization. House votes $16 bil- lion for arms. 19—Government rests case in trial of top . U.S. Communists, 26—Navy Secretary John L. Sullivan re. signs in protest against cancellation of plans to complete super aircraft carrier, Ma oY iplitstration efforts to repeal Taft-Hartley act come to temporary halt in congress. 5—Strike of 62,250 C.I.O. workers closes Ford Motor Co.’s River Rouge plant, 13—Francis Patrick Matthews, Omaha, succeeds John L. Sullivan as secre- tary of navy. 17—Atomic energy commission under fire as pound of uranium reported missing. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., elected to congress by New York district. 25—Congressional investigation of atom- ic energy commission begins. June 3—Alger Hiss perjury trial opens. Three top Communists sentenced to jail for contempt of court. 7—Gordon Gray appointed secretary of army. 8—John L. Lewis orders one-week mine stoppage. 30—John L. Lewis orders miners to work only three days a week. Judith Coplon convicted as spy, gets from 40 months to 10 years. July 7—John Foster U.S. senate. 11—Truman abandons tax increase plans. and calls for deficit spending. 21—-U.S. ratifies Atlantic pact. rejects Brannan farm plan. 28—Truman offers Attorney General Tom Clark seat on supreme court, asks Senator J. Howard McGrath to become attorney general. August 5—State department white paper marks off nationalist China as lost cause. 8—Five per center probers accuse Maj. Dulles appointed to House Gen. Harry Vaughan of influence peddling. 11—General Omar Bradley appointed first chairman of joint chiefs of staff. 25—House recesses without senate’s per- mission, Probe of corruption in B.36 program collapses. John Maragon, alleged influence peddler, refuses to talk in ‘five per centers’ investi- gation. September 10—President’s fact-finding board re- jects steel workers’ demands for fourth-round pay raises. 13—Federal Judge Sherman Minton nom- inated to supreme court, 15—Government files anti-trust suit to break up A & P chain. 19—Strike called by coal miners’ John L. Lewis. October 1—500,000 CIO steelworkers strike over pension-welfare dispute. 3—Navy air force dispute brings on con- gressional probe. 11—Eleven Communist party leaders convicted on charges of conspiracy against U.S. government. 19—Dr, Edward C. Nourse resigns as head of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. General Omar Bradley says navy criticism of de- fense set-up endangers nation. First session 81st congress ends. Pennsyl- vania Railroad drops “Jim Crow” seating. 29—Dismissal of Admiral Louis Denfeld as chief of naval operations by the President raises political storm. Tru- man freezes air force at 48 groups. 31—Bethlehem steel and steel union sign pension plan, breaking solid front of steel companies during strike, November 1—Vice Adm. Forrest P. Sherman named chief of naval operations. 2—C.1.0. ousts left-wing United Elec- trical and Farm Equipment workers. 3—Eleven convicted Communists freed on bail to press appeals. 8—Navy Captain John Crommelin rep- rimanded for revealing navy’'s bit- terness at defense setup. Fair Deal program triumphs in New York as Democratic Lehman defeats Repub- lican Dulles in senatorial race. 9—John L. Lewis issues back-to-work order, postponing coal strike until ec. 1, 11—United Mine Workers and U.S. Steel sign pact, breaking back of steel strike. Undersecretary Oscar L. Chapman succeeds Julian Krug as secretary of the interior. 12—Senator Thomas (D., Okla.) Sweden failed to show proper spect for him on recent visit, 17—Leftwing demonstrators in New York City riot at National Maritime Union hall. Alger Hiss perjury trial opens. 21—Whittaker Chambers testifies against says re- Alger Hiss. 23—David E. Lilienthal, AEC head, re- signs. 28—John L. Lewis calls off meeting with advisers as coal strike deadline looms. U.S. announces impending tests of new A-bombs at Eniwetok. Device to ‘breed’ atomic energy fuel disclosed by .S. 29—Rep. J. Parnell Thomas (R., N.J.) drops innocent plea to charges of payroll padding. December 1—Government denies F.H.A. loans up- on racially restricted properties. Lewis orders three-day work week after miners quit work again. 6—John L, Lewis signs pact with some coal companies involving wage in- créases. Former air force major, Racey Jordan, says Reds got atomic materials and radar equipment dur- ing war with official aid. 7—Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves charges that Henry Wallace and late Harry Hopkins prodded him to give atom secrets or materials to Rus- sia. Steelworkers end strike at Alcoa. 11—Mineowners talk about forcing coal strike to bring about showdown with John L. Lewis. Department of de- fense drops 116,000 employees. denies” Er Atlantic Pact- Ratified Britain Devalues Pound Dallas Kiwanis Women 5 Enjoy Holiday Party 2 Dallas Kiwanis Women held their holiday party at Irem Country Club last Wednesday evening. Tables were festively arranged with yvule logs and pine boughs. Green and red candles and Christmas tree balls completed the arrangement. Birthday gifts given by Mrs. Le- roy Troxell, Mrs, Donald Harris, Mrs. Walter Elston and Mrs, Jack Loucks ‘were won by Mrs, Harold Smith, Mrs. Leroy Troxell, Mrs. Harold Dixon and Mrs. Harry Ahrendts. , SEs Mrs. David Joseph acting as good old Santa distributed gifts to all. Present were Mrs, Harold Dixon Jdr., Mrs, Jack Loucks, Mrs, Harold Smith, Mrs, Sherman Harter, Judith Ann Phillips, Mrs, Harry Ahrendts, Mrs. Leroy Troxell, Mrs. John Hen- ninger, Mrs, D. J, Joseph, Mrs. Clyde Cooper, Mrs, Walter Elston, Mrs. Donald Harris, Mrs. C. E. Shav- er Jr., Mrs. Herbert Griesing, Mrs. Gary Cuppels, Mrs. Frederic An- derson,Mrs, Kenneth Rice, and Mrs. Frank Goeltz, ye x Pillar To Post 5 (Continued from Page One) - : dropper. No such thing as a self- sufficient kitten eight weeks old, housebroken by a firm mother cat, and willing to chase its tail in a strange kitchen on a tank of warm milk. : The recent quest for a kitten re- minds us of a time when kittens were all too easily come by, There was the’ black and white kitten which was dropped nonchalantly through the front door by some child on the way to school, heralded by a cheerful, “Here's another stray kitten for you, Mrs. Hicks.” There was the tiny black kitten with the white spot under its chin, two days old and hopefully fumbl- ing around for food in the grubby little hand of the small boy with the freckles. gested to the freckled youngster that this was a very young kitten, that it would doubtless be home- sick for its little brothers and sis- # ters, there was a hurried departure through the front door with an equally hurried and breathless re- turn five minutes later. Where there had been one kitten there were now two kittens, insurance against homesickness. They could keep each other company, it was explained, and if there were two kittens there would be no need of a hot-water bottle. The owner of that, litter must have found her waning faith in Santa Claus re- stored. 1 gested, by telephone, that there were two more kittens, but we did not wish to be considered greedy. We told the generous lady, some- what dryly, that there were other freckled-faced little boys in the neighborhood. ; ; There was the red Persian kitten adopted at birth because of a cruel circumstance. This one spent the first two weeks of its life wrapped in a woolen sock, carried about in a sweater pocket by day for warmth, + tucked beneath the blankets at the foot of the bed at night, fed at frequent intervals night and day, and finally allowed to emerge from its cocoon when danger of complications seemed to have been averted. There were the numberless kit- tens In fact, the owner sug- dropped casually over the picket fence by neighbors in Lin- coln, Nebraska at the time of the annual summer hegira to the lakes and the mountains. This present kitten? It came, as stated above, from New Jersey, and its owner, his freckles now emerged in a solid and becoming coat of tan instead of standing out separate and distinct as they did twenty years ago when he pre- sented the tiny black kittens on the palm of his hand, agreed to part with it if its initial visit to the Pump House seemed satisfac- -tory to all concerned. Read the Classified Column GUNS = All work guaranteed Reasonable Prices MASTER GUN SHOP Clyde A. Faatz, Obed Hontz proprietors : Street in Back of Methodist Church : SHAVERTOWN 120-R-16 When it was sug- \ { §