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Show 10 Sunday, December 12, 1948 SUNDAY HERALD Lost Their Pants Political Writers Serenade Truman At Annual Gridiron Show; Dewey Shows He's Good Sport WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 OJ.R) spirit of sleigh bells and rein- The political writers who lost their pants on the election showed show-ed up that way tonight to serenade seren-ade President Truman, at the Gridiron club's semi-annual dinner din-ner show. The newspaper prophets put on their satirical revue in the Hotel Statler for the benefit of some 500 guests, including Mr. Truman Tru-man and two of his defeated presidential rivals, Govs. Thomas E. , Dewey of New York and J. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. Caro-lina. It was the first- meeting of the candidates since the election, and all saw themselves lampooned without mercy by their hosts. But in token of newspaper-dom's newspaper-dom's humilitation over wrong-guessing wrong-guessing the presidential election, the writers cut themselves in for a big share of the kidding. Lose Their Pants deer .... and good old Saint Harry." "Throughout our land tonight, little children are writing their annual Christmas letters to Santa Claus at the North Pole," he said. "Democrats, of course, just write direct to Washington." The skits, directed by Marshall McNeil of the Houston Press and William H. Mylander of the Minneapolis Min-neapolis Star and Tribune, recalled re-called all the bad election guesses of the Gallup, Roper and Cross-ley Cross-ley polls, as well as the miscalculations miscal-culations of Dewey and his Republican Re-publican "team." One kidded Dewey for his preelection pre-election brush with the railroad engineer who backed up the GOP Victory Special when Dewey wanted it to go forward. Vice President-elect Alben W. Barkley and Gov. Earl Warren of California, Dewey's running mate, also were put on the griddle grid-dle for their campaign capers. Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson and seven of his fellow Supreme Court justices were in the audi ence, along with most of the The entire Gridiron club membership mem-bership appeared on the stage in the opening chorus in white ties, top hats and tails and no pants. Displaying the knobbiest collection col-lection of knees ever assembled on one stage, they greeted the president and Gov. Dewey with president's cabinet his chorus: I "Now is the hour nAJ r r When we must break the news Ie(J JDV KlllQ n5 W11U J1CUH.ICU Dewey could not lose. We saw the crowds, ! Heard Harry's every word; . Then voters everywhere gave us The bird!" Then Dewey was presented with a scroll extending him a lire- time invitation to all future Grid sprinkling of' senators and con gressmen, all of whom came in for a share of good-humored ridicule. The Gridiron actors portrayed Attorney . General Tom C. Clark and house un-American activ ities committee members Karl E Mundt of South Dakota, and Richard Rich-ard M. Nixon of California fish ing in a Red sea. Their first bite produced a minnow. On their second, they hauled up a pump kin containing a document con ferring on Clark "royal and im perial order of the pumpkin head." The musical program for the entire dinner, from "hail to the chief which greeted President Truman on his arrival to the exit march, was provided by a United States marine band orchestra di rected by Maj. William F. Santel mann, leader of the Marine band and musical director of the Grid iron club. Costa Rica (Continued from Page One) that if Nicaraguan planes attacked at-tacked Costa Rica, Guatemala would enter the war and attack Nicaragua from the air. Army Dissolved Only 11 days ago, Figueres had dissolved the army with which he won a five-week civil war in April and May. However he retained a well armed and trained train-ed police force which was being used as the nucleus for the new army. MEXICO CITY, Dec. 11 U.P Reports reaching here today from San Jose, Costa Rica, said that the government has thwarted a good number" of Communist attempts at-tempts at sabotage in the last 24 hours. The reports did not go into detail de-tail on the sabotage tries but said the government believes they were directed by the now- outlawed Vanguardia Popular (Communist) party. Gen. Jose Figueres, provisional president of Costa Rica, outlawed the Vanguardia Popular after he beat the Communist-Calderon combination in a five-week civil war last April . Sub-For-Santa Program Gets List Of Needy Provo Children Truman To Lead His Own Parade For Inauguration WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 U.R) President Truman will lead his own inauguration parade Jan. 20, officials arranging the ceremony said today. They said he vould be the first president to do so. But White House historians said they would want to look up the records before be-fore officially crediting Mr. Truman Tru-man as a "first." Melvin Hildreth, chairman of the inaugural committee, and a group of police officials conferred with Mr. Truman today about plans for the Jan. 20 ceremony. Hildreth said the president, after taking the oath and delivering deliv-ering his inaugural address at th capital, will have lunch there and then lead the parade back to the White House. No other president ever has done this, Hildreth said. After returning to the White House, Mr. Truman will enter an ornate reviewing stand on Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania avenue and watch the rest of the four-hour parade swing by. In previous inaugurations, the president has returned to the White House after taking Russians Ease (Continued from Page One) be "bluffed" when the Russians first imposed the blockade, said today that he did not "believe war is just around the corner." He added that "there have been no indications in Berlin, in Germany, of in eastern Europe that Russia is building up her armed strength or making any unusual military preparations." When asked in what form the Berlin issue is lilcely to enter its next critical stage, Clay said, "It cannot enter any further stage. It is a tense situation that will continue con-tinue as long as the blockade lasts." Two Injured In Orem Accident Two persons were injured and an anestimated property damage was caused Saturday night on Highway 91 near the Stork Club BODT OF ERNIE PYLE MOVED TO HONOLULU WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (U.B The, body of famed war correspondent corre-spondent Ernie Pyle has ,been moved from Ie , Shima, Pacific island, to Honolulu for burial in the national Memorial cemetery, the army has disclosed. Burial is expected some time . . , . ... . . , uua iai w a s-rt- v v swine jS.'.i.,J.norli?ou'l.J" "ffiflnext .ummer. The body Is now U. S. Not Likely (Continued from Page One) (Continued from Pace One) and a big (Continued from Page One) ties in the last three years for lack of equipment. These reports place the blame for Nationalist defeats on poor leadership, and lack of a .vill to fight. 2. Large-scale U. S. commitments commit-ments in western Europe under the multi-million dollar European Euro-pean recovery program. Govern ment experts a year ago said thej Drotrram could be suDDorted but me ihpv cautioner! aeainst over ex- oatn, eaten a quick lunch andltending U. S. resources to aid then reviewed the parade. I foreign nations. Mr. Truman will attend a ball I a concert and at least two banquets ban-quets during inauguration week. developments in Europe while Hitler was cobbling ud Austria and Franco was rising to power in' Spain. 2 Reports of military developments develop-ments in the Far East, when Im- UIC VII III- 1 I , ., . i iron club dinners, an invitation I rT'r" 2!"AvLp,ung ine which in the past has been re- -nina. served for ex-Diesidents. ne documents indicated that Dewey responded with a brict speech in which he followed the Gridiron cue and poked fun at his own campaign while paying tribute to his successful rival. President Truman echoed that i American diplomats in Europe came. up with some of the worst guesses on record in that pre-war period, general underestimating Hitler's speed and aims. The 21 papers were published theme in his own off-the-rrcord Iduring a recess in the committee's talk at the wlndup of the show, jespionage hearings, which will resume Monday. Speech In the Dark- Hiss To Be Called The dinner began with a 'speech in the dark" by the club's retiring president, Phelps H. Adams, Washington correspondent correspond-ent of the New York Sun. At the annual meeting of the club earlier, Richard L. Wilson of the Des Moines Register and Tribune, was elected Gridiron president munist espj0nage. Thomas L. Stokes of United .The ,commi' ,haKs 8"bPe"aed Features Syndicate was elected j"'8' aln with his brother Don-vice Don-vice president. Walker S. Buel of lald , anotn"e,x-s1 f te dP"tm,cnt the Cleve and P ain Dea er. Pau ..ii .".... nnu Acting chairman Karl Mundt, R., S. D., said he will call Hiss to the witness stand next week, as soon as the accused man has nmsned nis testimony before a federal grand jury in New York which also is investigating Com- man, a one-time dhemist at the national bureau of standards. Chambers has accused Alger Hiss and Pigman of stealing secret government documents for him Leach of the Knight newspapers and Lewis Wood of the New York Times were re-elected as treasurer, secretary and historian. t-rtrt i vl v The club membership iso when he worked for the Soviet chose Lyle C, Wilson, Washing- spy ring before the war. ton manager of the United Press, ..Mundt told reporters the corn-James corn-James L. Wright of the Buffalo nuttee knows the identity of one News, and James T. Berrvman of of the. photographers who made we wasnmgton alar, lo serve with the officers as the executive committee for the coming year. In keynoting the dinner, Adams welcomed the guests "in the immortal im-mortal spirit of Christmas the been certified by the county welfare wel-fare and Red Cross as those for whom Santa will need some assistance as-sistance if he is to do right by them on Christmas morning. The Sub-For - Santa program was started in Provo in 1945 as a joint project of the Herald and the fire department, and it? success suc-cess has exceeded even the fondest fond-est hopes of its sponsors. Alms Described In brief, the program aims to supply a toy or toys to every child In Provo 12 years of age or under whose parents are unable un-able to make proper arrangements arrange-ments with Santa. The movement move-ment aims only at supplying Christmas toys to this age group. Family needs, such as food and clothing at Christmas time, are expected to be taken care of by the usual activities of church, welfare organizations and civic group, i The program replaces the annual an-nual repair of toys carried forward for-ward by the local firemen in former ' years, discontinued because be-cause wartime toys were found practically impossible to repair. The Sub-For Santa method has been found so successful that firemen feel they can do the most good at Christmas time by continuing to sponsor the project pro-ject in cooperation with the Herald. Clearing Agent The Herald officer serves as a clearing point for the activity. Names of needy children whose parents need help in making contact con-tact with Santa are secured from the welfare and Red Cross agencies and compiled at the Herald office. At the end of this story may be found an application blank whereby citizens and organizations organiza-tions may volunteer as Subs-For-Santa. These applications are taken tak-en by the Herald and the names of needy children alloted to the applicants, complying with the latter's requests concerning the number and age of the children in so far as possible. The program pro-gram is entriely voluntary and Subs-For - Santa may remain anonymous "if they desire. The Sub-For-Santa makes direct di-rect contact with parents of the child or children whose names are given him, and makes the necessary arrangements with the parents to see that Santa gets the help needed. Apply to Hearld Office Applications as Subs-For-Santa may be mailed to the Herald addressed to the Subs-For-Santa editor. They may also be delivered deliver-ed to the Herald in person or telephoned to the office. The application blank will be repeated in the Herald from time to time between now and Christmas, Christ-mas, along with the stories on the progress of the movement. U. S. Asks (Continued from Page One to fact" the grounds on which they are being sent home. Trials "Staged" Lovcll and Leverich were linked link-ed by the Romanian government with the sabotage and espionage trials of 12 prominent Romanian business and professional men, who were convicted in October and sentenced to long prison terms. American officials said the trials wen- "'obviously staged to intimidate potential local opposition" opposi-tion" to the Romanian Communist Commun-ist government. They said the evidence was "primarily fabricated" fabricat-ed" and that the trial judge was "compromised." MIDWIFE WHO DELIVERED HITLER. IS DEAD VIENNA, Austria, Dec. 11 U.R) Maris Hoerl, a midwife who delivered 4,000 babies, including Adolf Hitler, died today. She wat 89. Low Cost A S HI LOANS 5 " a month repays $50 loan 110.05 monthly repays $100 110.14 monthly repays 1200 30.21 monthly repays $300 orrics hocus a. m. to 1 p. m. dally t a, m. to I p. m. Saturday Appointments may be mailt ftr titer hours. Phone ITS. KEN HOUSTON. Manager partment papers for the Commun- I ist network. He said the man is an avowed , Communist who appeared recent- ' ly before the New York grand jury. '. But Mundt said he doesn't plan;' to subpena him because "he' probably would follow the same line as the other Communists I and refuse to answer questions on:l the grounds of self-lncrlmina- '- tlon SUB FOR SANTA I would like to become a Sub-For-Santa in Provo this Christmas. If you will notify me of a family who needs help in getting Christmas toys for their children 12 years of age or under, I will become Santa's assistant for that family anJ w. n L A n w n v. n n m am,. ....U Uiw. A - , U ouu manv Ptiviifciiicina wivil mill 1U wjc WJR. . NAME Phone I I ADDRESS I will be able to help for (one child or children) ! AIRLIFT PLANE CRASHES. KILLS ONE INJURES FOUR FRANKFURT, Germany, Dec. 11 (U.F) A U. S. airlift C-54 operated oper-ated by a navy crew crashed 10 miles northeast of Wiesbaden early today, killing one person and injuring four. broadside with another vehicle attempting to cross the highway. According to investigating highway high-way patrol officers, Martin Schwab, Salt Lake City suffered a possible broken ankle and eye lacerations and Nada Oliphant, Orem, was treated for face lacerations. lacer-ations. They were taken to the Utah Valley hospital. i Patrol officers, Mel Grant and. Larry Clark stated that a car driven by Leon Davis pulled out onto the highway in the path ofi the oncoming Schwab car. Schwab could not stop in time to avert the accident, the officers reported. ; The Davis vehicle was travel-' ing east on Sixteenth South in Orem when the collision occurred. 1 No estimate of damage to either car or record of citations issued was given out by the investieat- ing highway patrolmen. I in a mausoleum in Honolulu. Pyle was killed by a Japanese bullet in Ie Shima April 18, 1945, during the Okinawa - campaign. His body first was buried there. 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