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Show Hometown Lachs Lights, Truman 1 Get Patriotic Christmas 1 1, t ! By ROY CALVIN United Preu Staff Correspondent INDEPENDENCE, Mo., Dec. 15 ?U.R When President . Truman .comei home, to Independence for; a Christmascelebfation he'll find . the old hometown done up like the Fourth of July. v : It's all because of the war. They I used to string colored " lights around the square at Christmas time. But during the war the I practice was bandoned and the decorations were irreparably (damaged by disuse. Thus American flags will wave t from street light standards and ! it will be a patriotic, if somewhat t unseasonal, Christmas homecom- ing for Mr. Truman when he arrives Dec. 23. I It wilT be a trlpleheader cele- bration, though, with three separate separ-ate Christmas dinners planned for the president. All the plans I aren't' complete, but tney are un- derv way. And if the present weather holds, the hometown will I be wearing a coat of snow when its most famous citizens returns. I The first of his Christmas dih-fners dih-fners will be served at the little White House the rambling frame house of Mrs. David Wallace, the president's mother-in-law. Mrs. Wallace, Mrs. Truman and Miss Margaret Truman, the presi dent's daughter, . win ..arrive next week to put things in order around the place and get a gigantic gigan-tic Christmas tree laced with dec orations. Rooms in the little White HousaJiave 14-foot ceilings and it takes, a big. tree to make an impression in all that space. Mayor Roger T. Sermon, long time friends, of .the president and an Independence grocer, was studying Mrs. Truman's Christ mas dinner menu today- to make sure he had everything' in stock to fill the orders after the fam ily arrives next Wednesday. "Got everything but the cran berries now," Sermon said today, "And I'll have them by the time they want them. The mayor said he would have a tree picked out, too. The Tru- mans have bought their Christ mas trees from him for the last 20 years. "I presume It'll be just a family gathering," Sermon . said of the president's Christmas. "We hav en't planned anything. Friends will drop in to see him if he is here long enough. Dies For Merciless Execution of 15 American Soldiers " s' I i. , pi t ft i i f f 4 ? - 3 Tvo Women Die In Boise Crash BOISE, Ida Deu, 13 .UJ9 Two women were dead today and a serviceman seriously injured after an automobile crashed into the rear of a gasoline laden tanker ana trailer - yesteraay. - The dead are Mrs. Mattte J Smith Miller . Pennington, . 23, . a cride of two days, and Virginia fc-nnmgton, 19, both of Dayton, Ore. Injured was Cpl. Marvin Pennington, Jr., 23, also of Dayton, Day-ton, the husband,' and also the brother of Virginia, who was taken to the Gowen field hospital. hos-pital. He suffered concussion and severe lacerations of the head and leg. Ada County Sheriff Don Head-rick, Head-rick, said the Pennineton car crashed into the rear of the tanker-trailer, driven by Leiand Boner of. Umatilla, Ore., as it slowed down on U. S. highway 20 seven miles west of Boise. SUNDAY HERALD avSS?T..h PAGE 5 SAD CASE WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (U.PJ The veterans administration re ported today the sad case of a lady, marine who wanted a G. I. loan to open a saloon in-7 Colo rado "Springs, Colo. It looked like a sure fire moneymaker. money-maker. Discovering in time that Colorado Springs is dry, VA regretfully re-gretfully turned her down. Mother Plans Christmas. Then Two Youngest and Self ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec. 15 (U.R) Mrs. Genevieve Ertl's plans to give her four children a happy Christmas were changed today. Police said the 40 - year - old mother killed her two youngest children and herself, leaving a note to "just bury us all in one grave." Investigators found in the Ertl home at suburban Overland a pile of neatly wrapped Christmas presents, including a doll which Mrs. Ertl had dressed to brighten the holiday for Barbara Ann, 2, one of the victims. They also found a .32 caliber revolver, with which, they said, the mother shot Barbara Ann and i Child Star's Idea Of Ultimate Goal GERMAN POW's HOLLYWOOD Margare 'CONTRIBUTE $30,307 five-month-old William yesterday. yester-day. The note police said she left read: "Dear Daddy. I guess I am just a coward, but I can't take it any longer. I am taking the two little ones with me as Jim (a 14-year- old son who was at school) and Ellie can do for themselves. Love and kisses, Gen." Appended to the bottom of the note were these instructions: "Here are "the insurance policies. Just notify the office and collect. Just bury us all in one grave, Barbara and bill in one casket." The husband and father. Otto Ertl, was told of the tragedy as as worked in a St. Louis bottling plant. The couple's eldest daughter, daugh-ter, Eleanor, 16, came upon the bodies when she returned from high school. fNEA TeUohoto)- 3erman General Antone Dostler Is tied to a stake (left) before being executed by firing squad t Aversa, Italy. The general was convicted and sentenced by an American Military Tribunal on charges that he had ordered the execution of 15 American soldiers without first giving them a trial. Bullet of firing squad strikes Dostler (right). U, S. Signal Corps photo. MALONE TO RUN SAN DIEGO, Cal., Dec. 15 (U.R) Dudley. Field Malone, former assistant secretary of state under Woodrow Wilson, said-today he will "stand squarely behind the principles of Wilson and Roosevelt" Roose-velt" when he runs for nomination nomina-tion to the U. S. senate in California's Cali-fornia's Democratic primaries next June. 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O'Brien has concluded that "working all these years" is really worth while. Ever since she was tiny tot, the young actress has had one dream in mind to ride with Santa Claus down Hollywood's Christmas Tree Lane. "And mother always told me that only movie stars were permitted per-mitted in the parade," the youngster young-ster said. That is why Margaret finally faced her mother with the question ques-tion of whether or not she was a motion picture star. ! JAP PARTY ASKS "Don t tell me," said she, "That j PRESENT DIET REMOVAL I've worked all these years for TOKYO, Dec. 14 (U.R) The nothing.'' j' New Japan" party today der But tne next morning the : nmmri nil mimhr of th diet CAMP GRANT, 111., Dec. 14 (U.R) Two spokesmen for German prisoners of war at this camp called on Brig. Gen. Raleigh R. Hendrix, commanding officer, today to-day and made a $30,307 contribution contribu-tion to tM International Red Cross. It was the equivalent of a month's pay for each prisoner. The spokesman asked that the money go to purchase of clothing, cloth-ing, food and medicine for the victims of Nazi aggression. youngster received a special delivery de-livery letter on the set of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 'Three Wise Fools." It was an invitation to take a sleigh ride with Santa Claus the night of December 8. So her years of work have been well worth while. as war criminals and requested public support for an overthrow of the present house Of representatives. repre-sentatives. The party also adopted a resolution reso-lution to prohibit present diet members from becoming candidates candi-dates in the coming elections. CARNIVAL v&vSs, ' ",-i"h j Ol(lh cop,. wi ,Y KEA SCTVICC. mcTMMa IZ-fS Wool Growers Ask For Credit Corp. SALT LAKJS CITY, Dec. 15 (U.R) Utah wool growers today urged government adoption of a wool marketing proposal providing for the Commodity Credit Corp. to purchase1 domestic wool at present prices or at prices that would guarantee growers a reasonable profit. J. Melvon Jones, secretary of the National Wool Growers' association, as-sociation, said the plan was one of six under consideration by a senate subcommittee that is seeking seek-ing to draw up a wool marketing bill-Jones bill-Jones reported on' the proposal upon his arrival here from attending attend-ing subcommittee hearings on the various plans in Washington, D. C. ACTRESS EXONERATED HOLLYWOOD, Dfc. 15 (U.R) Actress Joan Lawrence Tasch. 22, today was exonerated of charges that she took 52,700 from wealthy Texas oil man Robert Hungerford, 52, in a four-day drinking party at a Beverly Hills hotel. Hungerford faced a . $50,000 damage suit for false arrest. "I feel I have been vindicated," Miss Tasch announced as she left Judge Stanley Mosk's courtroom. "Cure, there was a lot of money spent; but I certainly didn't take any of jt. Deserters Run Wild In London LONDON, Dec. 15 (U.R) A s-ur- prise nihttime sweep by an est i- j mated 8,000 London policemen,; American-and Allied military po- lice trying to smash the military' deserter racket was reported to; have bagged 800 suspects by early today. Downtown London police sta-l tions.were jammed. with suspects,; some in uniform and some in, evening clothes, rounded up during, dur-ing, the night by the , squads of! j white-helmeted American MPj,j Scotland Yard detectives, London l bobbies, British, Canadian and! ! Polish military police, j I Police were seeking to round! up the estimated iu.uuu Ainedj military deserters living illegally! in Britain. Most of them were be-' lieved to be in London. At least 11 known deserters were caught j by 11 p. m. I Scotland Yaxd officials called the results "fairly satisfactory." ! Throughout the night-life hours squads descended suddenly upon! gathering places in four central! London districts Mayfair, Pad- j dington, Soho and Vauxhall j which deserters are known to frequent. i tsntisn and American army-trucks army-trucks pulled up at one dance hall and club after another. Soldiers threw a tight cordon around each building, while others checked the' civilian national identity cards or military passes of evejy-enc evejy-enc inside. British civilians still are required to carry their Avar-time Avar-time identity papers. Detectives in evening dress visited the Berkeley, Grosvenorl House, the Dorchester and other elite west end -'hotels. They- also moved politely but firmly through a number of wealthy ' restaurants. Road blocks were established at strategic points . in subway and railroad stations and outside restaurants. res-taurants. Police teams searched hundreds of "pufes," where Londoners Lon-doners gathered for their evening beer 'and gin drinking. VETERAN KILLS HIMSELF HAVRE, iVIont., Dec. 15 (U.R) FUneral arrangements were pend ing here today for Donald Leslie Otterstad, 23, World War II vet- Icran. who Hill County Sheriff R. C Timmons said hanged himself I with his belt in the county jail here yesterday. j Timmons said Otterstad was : jailed Thursday on warrant for apprehension filed by his wife, j Mrs. Flora May Otterstad, who reported her husband had been j "act ing queerly for the last two (weeks' 'and had threatened to kill himself. 'Of course you can't depend absolutely on what he says he used to be a weather forecaster, you know!' SEE IT IN ACTION! The NEW BENDIX Automatic Home Laundry Ready for You at D T R AN ELECTRIC MILKING MACHINE . . . saves 684 hours per year, according to the U. S. 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