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NEOSHODEMOCRSPECIAL DELIVER!If you fail to receive youi paper by 6:30 p. m.t please phone 1238-R for specialdelivery.Price Five Cent*Newton County’s Only Daily Newspaper—Dedicated to the District’s WelfareA CHILD’S PRAYERProof that a child is perhaps closer to God than many of us with implicit faith in His powers to grant prayers, is contained in a letter to God written by a local nine-year-old boy.Handed to his father to mail in an envelope addressed God, New Heaven, the letter followed death of the boy's dog which had been buried with an appropriate ceremony in which a small amount of hard-earned spending money was placed in the grave. The letter:March 3, 1950, Friday. Dear Ood—Please accept our little dog and make him an angel, because Honey Boy deserves it.Yours truly „ . JU. S. Meeting Trouble rations rushed to starving migrant workersIn Cleaning GermanyOf Old Nazi LeadersAre Taking It SlowRather Than MakeMartyrs Like HitleriM9iAgree Mine Aid BillKilled by EconomistsWashington, March 17.—lt;UPSupporters and opponents of a $240,000,000 mining aid bill agreed today that it was killedand buried by a hell bent house economy bloc.Chairman Clair Engle, D , Cal, of a house subcommittee which brought the senate-approved billto the floor said Its rejection by the house late yesterday left no hope of reviving It in any form.It was strictly the economy boys, he said.Rep. Christian Herter, R,, Mass.* who led the opposition, agreed that the economy vote was the big factor in defeating the measure.The vote, he added, alsopartly shows an unhappiness at the way subsidies are working out elsewhere and a 1 eeriness of starting new ones.The measure would have authorised a three-year program to stimulate exploration for and conservation of U. S. strategic(Editor’s note: U. S. Officials are taking it easy in dealing with political scandal in Germany and cleaning out some of the old Nazi! gang. For one thing, they are not creating any martyrs who would | be useful to a resurgent Nazism. That is the situation Lyle C. Wiln son. manager of the United Press bureau in Washington, analyzes in the following dispatch written during his recent tour of western Europe.By Lyle C. Wilson United Press Staff Correspondent Stuttgart, Germany, March 17 lt;UP — There is a political scandal in this beautiful swabian country where German officials are making a joke of American desires to purify and punish some of Hitler’s ! old Nazis.Responsible officials believe Isimilar conditions exist in otherareas.The situation is not good, and at first glance it looks very bad. But the showdown on issues now raised will not be had soon.American authorities are more likely to take it easy for a bit rather than crack down sharply on balky German officials. They are not making martyrs of them.High policy seems to be to permit officialdom some leeway on the denazification question here for the time being, in expectationEMERGENCY FOOD RATIONS and medical supplies are being rushed to this migrant labor camp near Phoenix, Ariz, where destitute families have been subsisting on flour-and-water biscuits soaked in lard gravy. Older members of families are unemployed because of light citrus crops. Investigators say many of the 100 camp children are in starving condition.” (International Soundphoto)Bergman to ReturnCECIL STACEY TO f ERVE TWO YEARSRoosevelt PapersTo Fight for ChildSenator to OpposeHer Entry Into U. S.Hollywood, March 17*.—lt;UPIngrid Bergman will return toCircuit Judge Walter Bailey today ignored a jury’s recommendation for parole on Cecil Stacey, I 22-year-old Joplin man convicted j 10 days ago of statutory rapt' 1 against a junior high school Neosho girl. Judge Bailey, in division one of the Jasper county circuit court at Carthage, sentenced Stacey to serve two years in the state peni-Made Public TodayNew Sides RevealedTo His Personality17.D.that they will lose out badly in,. U4 „, , . , .the end ' custody of her daugh*svnionaHrtn. 4 Uer against charges that she isExplanations why a drastic l..unfu. l0 hayc the ch,]d ^ attorney said today,Ingrid is determined to makewhy acrackdown might do more harm than good are persuasive. Buti Icem ono Art 4* Vt j*Hollywood to make the fight of j tcntiary for the offense.The assault took place in Joplin, and was tried in Jasper county.Hyde Park, N. Y., March lt;UP*—The bulk of Franklin Roosevelt s personal and political papers were made public today. revealing new sides to his colorful personality.The 5,000,000 pages of papersI cover all of Mr Roosevelt's lifeNeosho. MissouriFri., Mar. 17, 1950/.St. Patrick's Day OneFor the Books in NeoshoSure and ’Tis GrandHouse Blocking Street,Old Day in IrelandAccidents, TroubleThousands CelebrateAnnual ‘Paddy’s Day’Dublin, March 17.—lt;UP— PatKerrigan. 70, said today he doubted if ever there was an Irishman drunk on St. Patrick’sday.Having unburdened himself of that startling remark, Pat figured the shamrock in his lapel and mused as to where a man could get a drop of Irish whisky this day. what with all the pubsclosed by law.Like Pat, thousands upon thousands celebrated the day with extra gaiety. It marked Ireland's first national feast day as an independent republic, com pletely outside the British commonwealth as a result of acts passed last year by the British and Irish parliaments.It started with young and old, dressed in their Sunday best, going to church. In Dublin the streets were decorated with flags and bunting.White-haired President Sean O Kelly drove three miles from his palatial residence on the fringe of the city in a red automobile escorted by a motorcycle guard of honor.Stocky Premier John A. Costello. one time leader of the Irish legal bar, was in the holiday pa-Mark Irish Dayrade. So was Eamon de Valera,wartime premier whose lanky figure is a familiar sight among Irishmen.No matter what the politicalSt. Patrick’s day blew in wild and windy here and will be a day to remember for several Neosho-ans and Newton countians.For residents along South Jefferson street it marks the day a four-room house blocked theirtree-lined street, and took up a new* location with a concrete lawn and a view in four directions.The house, being moved from 403 South Jefferson to make room for the Church of Christ’s new building on that site, failed to negotiate the comer at Hillstreet. 'CM£3With the aid of three big trucksand blocks and tackle, workmen hope to get the house rolling again this afternoon to Prairieavenue. *According to C. C. Risley, Neosho real estate man who made the sale of the house, it belongs to Irvin Watson, 454 Smith street . ■ ?The house, just sitting there In the middle of the intersection of Jefferson and Hill will undoubtedly confuse the non-Irish. ;St. Pat’s day celebrators expect things of that sort on theday when the little men areriding.The little men ’ riding a Marchwind about 10 o’clock this morning blasted out a six-by-10 foot plan? glass window at the Griffith Motor company on Highways 00-71.Although several persons werenearby when a gust of high w ind swept through the shop to splat-4 a. 4
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Neosho Daily Democrat
Neosho, Missouri, US
Fri, Mar 17, 1950
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