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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1948
Page
7
A Philadelphia Evening Bulletin report details Harry Harris learning the Santa routine at Gimbels Department Store. He observes S. Herbert Sager as Santa, noting makeup, padding, and the need to balance time with thousands of children while avoiding letdowns.
The article lists freed figures Yoshihisa Kuzu Genki Abe Fumio Goto Koichiro Ishihara Yoshio Kodama Ryoichi Sasakawa Sanki chi Takahashi and Masayuki Tani, all linked to wartime fascist groups and the Tojo regime. Admiral Soemu Toyoda faces trial as former chief of the Japanese naval staff.
The Senate committee continues spy hearings with limited witness questions and pending reports on communism in government and 1947-48 activities. Francis Sayre and secretary Anna Belle Newcomb testified behind closed doors, alleging theft of secret documents from the State Department and Sayre's office. Sayre named Eunice Lincoln and Alger Hiss among those with access to the papers, which he said were burned after lock and key.
Advertisement for a shirtwaist style daytime dress pattern No 8313 in sizes 14 through 46. Details include fabric yardage for size 16 and price 25 cents, with ordering info to Sue Burnett at Monroe News-Star World. Also promotes Fashion magazine Fall Winter issue and designer patterns with a free pattern in the book available for 26 cents.
An elderly man plays Santa for a line of children including Donald Christie Janet Stein and Eleanore Potter. The children request dolls doll houses books and a gas station while one child fears the “bogey man” and another leaves with silence. The exhausted Santa jokes about reindeer feeding and a Turkish bath before asking if readers want the job.
Rotary teams traveled through two cities and environs delivering 364 baskets on Thursday and more than 20 planned for Friday. Packages included roast, flour, corn meal, sugar, lard, coffee, oatmeal, beans, potatoes, pasta, fruit, candy, and up to $25 in warm clothing in some cases. In West Monroe 120 families, white and colored, received baskets. Monroe distributed over 200 more. The drive is praised as the movement’s most successful season, with thanks to donors and wishes for a Merry Christmas and prosperous New Year. The note adds a trivia line about the phrase according to Hoyle from Edmond Hoyle.
President Truman signals the lighting of a 35 foot living Christmas tree on the White House south lawn for Washington's Eve ceremony. A 4:30 p.m. EST start features carols and Marine Band music as a snowbound Holiday Week continues with visits to Kansas City and Grandview, Missouri.
Funeral services were held for 80 year old Joe T. Boughton at First Baptist Church Mangham with Rev. Harold Renfrow officiating. Interment followed in Mangham Cemetery. Survived by three daughters and five sons totaling 14 grandchildren. native of Archie Hill. J. V. Dumas of Swartz also reported dead with funeral plans incomplete.
In Peiping and Tientsin the Reds tighten grip while civilian hardship grows. Fu Tso Yi faces food shortages and power cuts as Lin Piao and top commanders delay urban fighting. AP’s Spencer Moosa likens Fu to a mouse in a porcelain jar awaiting a possible negotiated peace between Nanking and the Reds.
Naval headquarters in Nanking imposes a after dark shipping ban on the Yangtze to deter a suspected Red night crossing toward the capital. Any vessel found on the stream after hours will be sunk, signaling heightened nationalist anxiety.
Edward T. Gregg, 31, of Dubach, was arrested by West Monroe police early Friday morning and charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. He was locked in the West Monroe jail in default of $300 bond.
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