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Thursday, January 3, 1945 Pete was stewed â€" ingloriously and ignominiously stewed. . His expression was that of a dead haliâ€" but, and his careful progress reâ€" sembled the stiff, ungainly gait of a mechanical man. He.simply folâ€" lowed the direction of his toesâ€" which led himâ€"straight to Babe. Babe was, in every respect, the biggest thing in Pete‘s life. She stood fully 8 feet to the shoulder and tipped the scales at upward of 5 tonsâ€"â€" very comely measureâ€" ments, indeed, for a lady pachyâ€" derm. â€" And the devotion of these two friends was a beautiful thing. _ As Pete â€" squat and unlovely â€" made his labored way through the cireus camp, one instinct reâ€" mained: Walkâ€"till you‘ve worked this off . . . or you‘ll wake up to find that you aren‘t even an eleâ€" phant‘s nursemaid any more. . â€" But Pete craved.companionship. He would annex Babe and take her for a stroll in the still of the night. No doubt it was disconcerting to Babe to be rudely awakened at a time when all good elephants are aâ€"snooze,. Possibly she had been dreaming of her childhood days in India, where she‘d roamed the junâ€" glé, a minor member of a noble harem, ruled over and guarded ‘by a mighty sire. â€" But she blinked. her little eyes and followed Pete, somewhat annoyed, perhaps, by the odor ‘of his cheap cigar. She must have guessed that something was wrong. There was no bustling activity such as attends the breakingâ€"up of a circus camp â€"â€"no blare of band to herald a paâ€" rade, in which Babe would go her lumbering way, holding coyly to the tail of the elephant ahead. Did her keen intelligence hint to her that this person leading her ;'ly‘ in the night was Pete, and yet, in some mysterious sense, not Pete at all? How was the gentle Babe to guess that the particular brand of firewater Pete had imbibed had drugged in him~ the Jeky! and brought into being the villainous Mr. Hyde? .:. As they moved ponderously into the night Babe rested her prehenâ€" sile. trunk caressingly upon Pete‘s shoulder, touching his cheek lightâ€" ty with the delicate, fingerlike tabs at the end. As the fumes of his breath reached her â€" offensâ€" ive and unfamiliar â€" Babe haltâ€" ed in her tracks. ; .‘Pete, in no mood to brook oppoâ€" sition from so inferior a creature as an elephant, turned and showerâ€" ed her with thickâ€"tongued abuse, tugging viciously at the big ear just within his reach. Still Babe refused to budge. Her resistance drove Pete, in his truculent frame of mind, into a frenzy. ‘Ordinarily he would have had better judgment than to trifle with Young People Home For the Holidays Conege’yonncpnpk and service men were home for the holidays and participated in activities of the First United Evangelical church. Miss Doris Gieser of 419 McDaniels Ave., and Miss Betty Ralph of 425 McDaniels Ave. were both home from Bob Jones college in Cleveland, Tenn. Donald Tillâ€" man, 615 W. Park, was home from Wheaton college, Wheaton, IIL.. Pvt. Gordon Raliph was on furâ€" lough from the Jones general hosâ€" pital in Battle Creek, Mich. _ Pvt. Burton Tillman was on furlough from Camp Swift, Tex. Rev. and Mrs George Ralph Jr., were home for a week‘s vacation from their work as assistant pastor of a conâ€" gregation in Canton, O. The group of young people was entertained with local friends at the Gieser home, for dinner on Friday eveâ€" ning, Dec. 28, as well as joining in the carol siriging on Christmas MMSW Girl From Rangoon By Ross Baroey Eve, and other church. Miss Alison Pli:ps Becomes Bride Capt. Howard Hamilton A home wedding took place at 2501 N. Deere Park drive on Satâ€" urday, December 22, at 4, when Alison, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. Ray Phillip.!-fl__g.h_- riage to Capt. ln-iq AAF, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Hamilton of Lone Tree, lowa. The marriage lines were read by Dr. Louis W. Sherwin of the Presbyteâ€" rian church. â€" + w stt ts Given in marringe by her fathâ€" er; the bride was gowned in ice M.le-undndth veil, and carried white | Whitworth, who wose fuchsia satin damask with harmonizing hair orâ€" nament. _ George Kyle, of Washâ€" ington, D.C., served as best man. Several outâ€"ofâ€"town ghests were present at the ceremony and at the reception which followed. w ;]m of a full grown eleâ€" vwhant, however gentle. But Pete was filled with the stuff that inâ€" ‘afim&cfi-idmbuw on its breast and cry, "Bring on your eat"" _ Dgubling his horny " _ Dgubling his horny r'&"u"&mmgu_fi. the only vulnerable spot lowered head â€"â€" the space between the eyes. _ _ o ers _ Babe backed away, whistling with sgrprise and displeasure. _ _ A normal man would have realizâ€" ed that Pete‘s next move was practically the equivalent to writâ€" ing his own epitaph. But Pete was now fully under the spell of the Hyde complex.â€" Removing the ciâ€" war fromhis mouth he pressed the glowing end against Babé‘s sensitive trunk. > With a squeal of pain and rage Pabe‘s gentleness left her. _ She trumpeted a protest. It was Pete‘s good fortune then that Babe was not a member of the fieree Afriâ€" can species, with the huge fanlike ears and ivory bayonets. . Babe was a girl from Rangoon, and her tusks, such as they were, had been removed. Babe had never been a mother, but somewhere ‘in that massive brain there lurked, apparently, a memory of the sort of punishment visited by mother elephants upon their rebellious offspring. Coiling her trunk, she released it like a spring, delivering what probably seemed to her little more than a love tap, but which sent .Pete, sprawling and gasping, headlong lin the sand. And Babe‘s ire still With his last ounce of strength Pete rolled over on his back and lay there in the light of the apâ€" proaching dawn staring up into the angry little eyes â€" breathing, no doubt, his own particular versâ€" ion of "Now I Lay Me." But his Grasping, with those fingerlike A;;b- the burning cigar from where it had fallen, Babe pressed the fiery tip against Pete‘s cheek. Screaming and. writhing, but now sober, Pete felt himself being lifted is the coil of that terrible trunk. At the memory*of a lar occurrence he had once nessed, Pete parsed out cold. Babe seemed to realize at once that the hatefu} stranger who had treated her so badly had now left her friend‘s bod.y,-dhr::: vanished. True Pete muh&fl.m that was all over now. _ Moreover, uwvhflka‘ great pain. Elephants are very sympathetic. Babe had had her own miseries from time to timeâ€"and she knew what to do. Swinging Pete‘s limp body up in the coil of her trunk, she tenderly bore Mr'mabk keeper . . . straight to the cireus On Way Home From India A delayed Christmas greeting from Alex McPherson, written from New Delhi, India, states that he will be on his way home by the first of the year, and expects to arrive in Highland Park within two months. He is the nephew of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Grant. Alex recently celebrated his 24th birthday (the fourth in servâ€" ice) and declares that he is fed up ‘Taj Mahal is a nice of hunk of Lt. Dorothy Aldridge In Tokyo Lt. Dorothy Aldridge has reachâ€" ed her destination in Tokyo, acâ€" cording to a message received last week by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Aldridge, 1408 Judson. Three years in the service, Lt. Aldridge was completing a course in Japanese at Stanford college, Calif., at the time peace was deâ€" clared, and was reassigned to the Tokyo area, .'.-' she is with Luise and Eric Haessler their mother, Mrs. Mildred Haessâ€" ler, 1787 Rice. The Heutenant, who is connectâ€" od with the amphibious forces, left lnst week for Battle Creek, Va, where he will be reassigned. Afer w Yeum take «o 9l turn to Washington, D. C., she is working with the Federal Housing association. " U.S. Â¥VICTORY BOND S Lt. Eric Haessler and Miss Luise â€"R.B.0. Screen Star Guest Of Husband‘s Parents, The James Aubreys Mrs. James Aubrey, Jr,, who in public life is Miss Phyllis Thaxter, screen star, is at present spending a few weeks with her husband, Capt. James Aubrey Jr., and his parents, the James Aubreys, at their home on 181 Hazel _ __ _ Mrs. Aubrey, who starred in the screen production, "Thirty Secâ€" onds Over Tokyo," is the mother of little Susan Schuyler Aubrey, born December 21, at the Evanston hosâ€" pital Capt. James, of the AAF, the young father, is at present on terminal leave. He has been in service since 1941, prior to the Pearl Harbor tragedy, and has been stationed in the Aleutians. D. A. R. to Meet With Mrs. E. E. Lawrence Tuesday, January 8 The annual business meeting of the North Shore chapter of the Daughters of the American Revoâ€" lution will be held at the ‘home of Mrs. E. E. Lawrence, 2211 Lakeâ€" side PI., on Tuesday, January 8, at 2 p.m. + Mrs. Ivor Jeffreys of Glencoe, who is candidate for the office of. state regent this year, will be the speaker. _ "Continental Hall Is Yours" will be her subject, which will be of great interest to all D. A. Rs who wish to know more about their national headquarters in Washington, D. C. _ x Assisting the hostess, Mrs. Laurâ€" ence, will be Mrs. Amory 0. Moore, Mrs. Jerry C. Leaming, Miss Marâ€" jorie Leaming .and Mrs: Franklyn V. Nelson. Deerfield Teacher, Succumbs to Hiness _ Last rites were conducted o ‘Monday in Waukegan for Mr succumbed to an illness of several weeks at her home, 538 Central, last Saturday. . >, A former resident of Waukegan, ‘Mrs. Knaak had. taught school for nnyyo.n.ls’lto.pbj“dhfi-‘ primary department~o6f the Deerâ€" field school. She was a member of Christ Episcopal church of Waukegan, apd during the wat served as volunteer hostess on Sunday evenings at the USOâ€"Salâ€" vation Army in Highwood. Surviving are her son, Alvin Jx., mother, a father and brother of Waukegan, and a sister Miss Cathâ€" erine McMahon of Chicago. John A. Butlet; City Employee, Succumbs To Sudden Iliness Charles Snyder, Is Laid to Rest On Tuesday, January 1, Charkes Snyder, lifelong resident of Highâ€" land Park, succumbed to a long illness at his home at 605 Central. He was 67 years of age. _ A colléctor on the North Westâ€" al,.h“m"w-‘ ral rites were held Thor» lay, at 1:30 pm. at the residence, and interment was made at Roseâ€" hill cemetery with Masonic servâ€" He is survived by his wife, ‘Ted R. Ebel, ‘of Elâ€" T HE PRESS and recentâ€" Mrs. Katie L. Puh Taken By Death Mrs Katie L. Palmer, widow of Edwin B. Palmer, an old time resiâ€" dent . of Highland Park, passed away at 95 years of age, January 1, 1946, at 337 Central Ave. Mrs. Aurelia P. Lewis and of Mrs. Nellic P. Flinn and of a son, Irvâ€" ing H., who was killed in the Spanâ€" Mr. and Mrs. Palmer, with the latter‘s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cyâ€" this suburb until 1906 when they moved to the state of Washington and resided there for several years. Mr. Palmer died at Seattle in 1912. Mrs. Palmer divided her time afâ€" ter that between the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lewis, in Seattle, 1nd that of Mrs. Flinn in Highland Park until 1940 when she and Mrs. Lewis returned to make their home in Highland Park. Mrs. Palmer leaves four grandâ€" children, Palmer G. Lewis. of Seâ€" Lewis, AN.C., Mrs. Frederick H. Heintz of Deerfield, IIL., and Mrs. Edward C. Schweitzer of Highâ€" land Park. There are also four To her family and friends Mrs. Palmer was ever an inspiration, keen of mind, cheerful of disposiâ€" tion and understanding to the end. She brought to those who knew }m‘-flm â€" (For notice of services, see Chiâ€" Group Meetings of Presbyterian Women‘s Group meetings of the Woman‘s association of the Highland Park Presbyterian church will be held on January 7, at 1:15 p.m. in the following homes: â€" Mrs. Wm. Bartel‘s group with Mrs. Dwight Reynolds, 425 Eastâ€" wood Ave.; Mrs. W. L. Buchanan‘s up with Mrs. B. E. Newman, 122 N. Sheridan Rd.; Mrs. R. C. Johnson‘s group will meet in her Mrs. Palme January 11, at 10:30 a.m., in Calâ€" vary Presbyterian church, Jackson and Keeler Aves., Chicago. â€" Resâ€" Paul Date by Jan. 8. ‘The board will meet on January 14, at 10 o‘clock. ri_;“' fi'fih m- m w ‘The world owes all its onward a new chapter of be made with Mrs. Last week five boys and three girls were born at the Highland Park hospital Daughters were preâ€" sented to the following: Mr. and Mrs. James Mitchell, of Deerfield, umw;l:.umu- oni, 1400 Western, H on the 27th; and Mr. and Mrs. George 27th. The same day the tide turned, and sons were born to: the followâ€" ing: Mr. and Mrs. Richard O‘Conâ€" mor, 217 Highwood Ave., Highâ€" Donald Reynolds, of Chicago, on Auderer, of Ft. Sheridan, on the 29th; Mr. and Mrs. Wui. Kieser, of Deerfield, on the 30th, and Mr. and Mrs. John Hartman, 722 Harâ€" vard, on the 31sh Thursday, Jan. 3â€"6:15â€" Tuesday, Jan. 8â€"1 p.m.â€" Meeting of Board of Directors. 8 p.m.â€"Mothers club musical Wednesday, Jan. 9â€"6:30 p.m.â€" Pi Delta Business Girls‘ club dinner and book review,‘ by Miss Breden. Y. W.C. Highland Park High School e Will Start Monday, January 7 Education Classes Registration January 7th and 9th â€" 7 to 9 p.m. Astronomyâ€"Mr. Bert Leech Business Englishâ€"Miss Regina Beckmire Chorus (Mixed)â€"Mr. Chester Kyle .......â€" Shorthand (Review)â€"Mr. Roy Latimer Spanish (Advanced)â€"Mr. Ronald m- Typewriting (Beginning)â€"Mr. Victor Baker ....'h‘ Typewriting (Advanced)â€"Mr. Victor Baker_.._Mon. Woodwork ie & se Woodwork (I.-â€"h.)â€": Edwin Stuart ....Mon. Woodwork (Advanced)â€"Mr. Walter Durbahn..Mon. ; ‘Tars yeEar millions of men will change from uniforms to "civvies" and begin a new chapter HMlinois Bell Telephone Company, too, is starting a new.chapter. We have turned‘the corner from shortages and we‘re on the road to more and better service! Ahead of us we see a lot of hard work â€"much careful planning, much costly conâ€" phone serviceâ€"with enough for all who wish it. New improvements in telephone techniques are on the way from the Bell} Laboratories. Western Electric‘s manufacturing facilities are in fullâ€"speed production of telephone equipment: Mr. Walter Condon . at the . Thursday, Jan. 10â€"10:30â€" Creative Writers. First meeting for Winter term. T:30â€"Mr. Tom Wilder‘s art GLENCOE THEATRE . 630 Vernon Ave. Highland Park 605 SUN to WED. Jan. 6â€"7â€"8â€"9 ‘The Story of George Gershwin Rabert Alda, Joan Lesic and Tyrone Power, Maureen O‘Hara Coming: "Our Vines Have Tenâ€" der ~Grapes," "State Fair," "Junior Miss," and "Her Highâ€" ness and the Bell Boy." AU., FRL, SAT., Jan. 10â€"12 Return by Popular Request Alexis Smith in "Rhapsody in Blue" "Home In Indiana" All in Technicolor __Weqd. / SWAN‘ 7:30â€"9:30 7:30â€"9:30 7:30â€"9:30 Page 3