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Yellow Cab Company prevented s serious fire Sunday night in Bernard‘s Upholstery shop above their office at 11 N. St. Johns Avenue. The "cabbies" smelled smoke but could find no blaze. ’kâ€";malladndlmm from stove upstairs burning a hole through the floor. ‘ MEN‘*CGARNETT‘gsors Ahh', of sondolence, cards of thanks. Fire At Bernard‘s Found By Cabbies â€" Employes of the Highland Park ALL WOOL FLANNEL FOR LOUNGE OR STREET 26 No. Sheridan Rd I | | «i\ We \ LEISURE JACKET That‘s why some Long Distance Christmas calls will be delayed ‘Tuz mountain peak on the chart representsâ€"last â€"Christmas.â€"Calls from many points were five, six â€"even EIGHT times normal. _ This coming Christmas will be busier still, Wel do all we can to handle the rush with every available circuit in serâ€" vice and hundreds of extra operators on duty. THE HIGHLAND PARK $750 FLOWERS from WILLIAMS h for the Christmas Holidays DOORKNOCKER: DECORATIONS INDOOR AND OUTDOOR WREATHES WILLIAMS. FLORIST POTTED POINSETTAS our BUSIEST Opening Song The following program will be sented : + pre +«««.. "The Star Spangled Banner" Invocation .. Lieut.â€"Col. Arthur Ewert \ _ . Post Chief Chaplain The Management Committee is as follows: Dr. N. C. Risjord, chairman, To AAiem." etoms." Prks Harvey Reber, American Legion; Reâ€" verend Winfield Johanson, Pastor, Zion Lutheran Church; Reverend dist Church. Club Services Open Dailyâ€"9:00 a.m. to 11;:00 p.m. All servicemen are welâ€" The Highwood United Service Orâ€" ganization will be formally dedicated Thursday, December 18 at 8 o‘clock, with Commissioner Ernest I. Pugmire, Territorial commander of the central Organization‘s Fort Sheridan, is operated by the Salvation Army at 346 Waukegan Avenue, Highwood. ‘l‘hdnbnnudisuldlon,' _ Federal Coordinator, Edwin C. Jones, Dedicate USO At Highwood At 8 O‘clock The Club Staff includes Major and Mrs. Ira R. Fitzpatrick, Club Direcâ€" tors; Clare Wiggs Olson, Program MMMV.MH& stretching can expand a telephone systemâ€"toâ€"fiveâ€"times. its size, _ just for one day in the year. Calls to certain points may be delayedâ€" some perhaps for long periods. We hope you‘ll understand, and nccept any delays in the same friendly spirit that moves you to eall at Christmas, CORSAGES CENTERPIECES of Club and Refreshments at PRESS WANT ADS BRING RESULTS Snack Counter Phone H. P. 350 ; with orchids if desired berg, Towa, in 1906 asd left the Uniâ€" versity of Iowa to take fiight trainâ€" ing at Brooks field in the army school. He later wezt to the Univerâ€" sity of Detroit ard took a degree in Zone. In 1931 he took up studies for his master pilot rating and beâ€" Women Out to Get tionate infivâ€" A Play for Their :m: rlb caftairs. 70% of W ealth Some per. sons informed in finance in politics say they do and some say they don‘t. Miss Cathrine Curtis, ths tall, Junoesque lady who organized women investors in America, a few years back, not only insists that women do have all this money and sayâ€"so, but makes it a business to see that they get a play for itâ€"a big new feminine pressure group if you want to put it that way. first for the Ford Motor company, and then joined the Panâ€"American ’I‘fl!ldcpmt shis to get it a attain the highest fiying rank of "master of ocean flying boats." 4 able to get it quite straight, as to women owning 70 per cent of the wealth of the country, and wieldâ€" In her home town, Glen Falls, N. Y., where her father ran a hotel, the 18â€"yearâ€"old Miss Curtis saw Gur ‘Thomas‘ play, "Arizona." She folâ€" lowed it around the upâ€"state circui. and became so saturated with its romantic glamour that she kept right on goingâ€"to Arizona. There Harold Bell Wright saw her and put her in his moving picture, "Sherâ€" herd of the Hills." This was her start in various moving picture and ranching enterprises. It was in 1935 that, in New York, her presezt home, she organized the women inâ€" vestors. It appears that nobody ever has figured out how much of that 70 per cent is merely something in the wife‘s name for safeâ€"keeping. Just a glance at his work sheet for the last 15 years shows that he bad to keep his mind on his work to atâ€" tain this eminence. (Consolidated Featuresâ€"WNU Service.) N!' YORK.â€"There‘s a nice al literation in "Cape Town Clip~ per," and an invitation to rhyming which in other days might h.n: terested Clipper‘sSkipper: Pan Alley. He‘s a Topper;The tall, Job‘s a Whopper! :L'f'f * .I ® y« the ship back from the Belgian Conâ€" go on a round trip of 19,961 miles, is smart and good looking and could walk on in a Jerome Kern musical, certificates in international law, maritime law and business adâ€" ministration. That‘s about par for the course on the cccan fairâ€" ways for the men who command the big fiying ships. GOLDEN MEADOW DAIRY graduate radio engineer, a Uâ€" censed radio operaior, a first liconsed engine mechanic, a Uâ€" enough to convince one of that. Even the Lindbergh saga might have been different if it had been paced to differential equaâ€" tions. But, of course, there will be another Kipling with another "Night Mail," who will find in modern air transport an exaltâ€" od themeâ€"this time fully real poctry or prose who is quite up War Causes Changes In Holiday Plans H. P. USO ined. Just now There may never be a Casey Jones of the air, the bucke lad where, on the slightest provecaâ€" tion. Just a look at the dashâ€" By LEMUEL F. PARTON WHO‘S NEWS never has been WEEK to the Canal GGâ€"NO and . ECGâ€"NOG ICE CREAM For Your Holiday Celebrations Funeral services were held Wednesâ€" day morning from St. James Church for Mrs. Anna Schubnell, 77 who died at her homie, 337 Orchard Lane, Highâ€" land Park, after a heart ailment of long standing. She retired as a cook in the H. P. high school cafeteria, after 25 years of service. Her husband, August, died in 1928. DeWitt B. Lightner, 53 of 637 Lauâ€" rel Avenue, died Tuesday last in Chiâ€" cago after a long illness. A loop insurâ€" ance underwriter, he is survived by his widow, Marjorie, and a daughter, Mrs. Dulcie Smith, Chicago. Services were held Thursday from the Kelly chapel. Interment was private. Basketball Teams Lose To Morton Morton‘s Mustangs maintained their winning streak when they defeated our Little Giants 56â€"20 yesterday afterâ€" noon on their floor. Led by Strumillo and Lightnek, their allâ€"state candidates, the Mustangs ran wild through all four quarters of the game. The score at the end of the first halve was 27â€"2, and when the gun sounded to end the tilt the score stood tions listed to entertain them. All those wishing to list their willingness to help can do so by communicating with the Highland Park Service Mens U.S.0. tlub 19 N. Sheridan Rd., phone 4874. in fact it is the intention to intensify all these efforts so that should there be any great number of service men in the community during the holidays there will be ample evidence of holiâ€" day greetings to them and accomodaâ€" D. B. LIGHTNER Former Student Places In Track Meet Joe Grinnell placed second in the 60â€"yard high hurdles and first in the 60â€"yard low hurdles in the freshman track meet at Yale. It is stated by the Highland Park Council of the U.S.O. that while plans for the large events have been canâ€" celled there is no change in the plans to promote and list home hospitality, display Highland Park‘s own holiday greetings to the: Yanks in service, list parties and programs being conducted by organizations to which service men can be invited if free on that date and Froshâ€"Soph Lose® The froshâ€"soph lost a heartbreaker by a score of 25â€"24. the liberal contributions from the Highland Park citizens in the local campaign for funds for the U.S.O. and Highland Park Service Mens Club conducted last summer when a total of almost $6.000 was given to meet the U.S.0. quota of $3750 assigned to Highland Park and to establish a fund in the community to care for the serâ€" vice men. The game hit a fever pitch when Morton overcame a five point lead to win in the final stanza. Joe was a student and member of the track team at Highland Park last year. der present conditions to plan ahead, according to Harry Aiston, US.O. chairman, who has been in contact with Col. Rogers at Fort Sheridan. _ The extensive program which had as well as other events which were for a large groug of men and involved exâ€" The big Christmas Eve party and vaudville show at the Alcyon Theatre the old fashioned Christmas Open House at the Community Center to have been conducted by the American Legion, and the Auxillary, the big New Years Eve Party and the dance anâ€" nounced by the Ravinia Wormeng Club of the U.S.0 to revise the elaborate plans which had been made to provide a holiday proâ€" gram for the men of Fort Sheridan and Great Lakes during the holidays, according to Paul Behanna, chairman Highland Park Council of the U.S.0. The recent entry of the United States into the world war and the fact that all troops are subfect to moveâ€" MRS. ANNA SCHUBNELL Obituary 537 Central Avenue it being _ Junior Chess club mects in the Highâ€" l‘lgd_'.hrkwm, the Trinity Episcopal church. h ies Ne hn t ie + ul t w cA ns1 of Meat Cutters at 16 N. Sberidan rd. Highland Park. P land Park Community Center. munity SATURDAY _ _ Shop and Art Crafts club meets in the .lhuuar-to--nhc--. _ Story Hour at the Library. 9:00 pm. PE _ c in the -_hlhl P:t Lions club meets the Highland Park Woman‘s club. _ _ _ SUNDAY * Shore Hikine isb meet at the Cormer" of corner St. Johns and Central aves. for weekly _ Second _ annual hland Park Comâ€" munity Mhn'u’l.fiutiuhch-. 12:18 e * " Tinlent . Futk Showrr cuh mon‘ ts church. 12:18 Highland Park â€"Rotary club meets in the Hotel Moraine Onâ€"theâ€"Lake. .éma»«nmam-â€"u. ‘Highland Purk Kiwanis club meets in ;hla“hlmhnmblqh ._Mighland Park Table Tennis club meets in the Community Center. .. ‘ SIS. Aighianle. mats â€" in second class post office in the vicinity of Great Lakes, Illinois ; or the Manaâ€" ger, Seven(h'l:.‘S. Civil ervice District, Post Office Building, Chicago, Iilinois _ Applications must be on file with _ Mighland Park Boy Scout Treops 30, 35 and 38 meet. Tee Toy C park P of the I:.'f.‘:iuhfl-‘.-ln- High := 6 in n;%mm-m-m in the Highland Park Community Center. CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION The United States Civil Applications must be on file with the Recorder, hlntMU.'SNrt val Training Station, Great Lak linois, on or before the close of busiâ€" Sntnnhy,b,l)&eus'hcfl ? Party : 0. and movies at U. S. 0. Club «* Sunday, December 28. ‘ 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. musical program and Monday, New Year‘s Eve party and Frolic Thyrsday, January 1. Friday, January 2. Mess Attendant) $1,080â€"$1,140â€"$1,200 a year, at the U. S. Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, IHlinois. Application blanks and full informaâ€" tion as to experience and other reâ€" gmct For ractice Xmas Program Commission announces an petitive examination for ATTENâ€" DANT, (For filling the position of The "Messiah" will be presented by Miss Sandor‘s group of singers. asâ€" sisted by the chorus, on Sunday afterâ€" noon, Dec. 28 at the Community Cenâ€" ter. Soloists will be announced in next week‘s Press. Friday, December 26. lhiardolu-:dlhw of the "Messiszh" will take place at the home of Miss Olga Sandor, 401 So. Sheridan Rd. on Friday, Dec. 19 and Friday, Dec. 26. Regular rehearsal on Tuesday night at the Community Center will be under the direction of Miss Sandor. ., ; The chorus will help lead the carolâ€" ing at the Second Annual Community Christmas Tree at 6 p.m. Sunday afterâ€" Junior Chess club meets in the Highâ€" Friday night Sandwich dance. Hosâ€" t_fuoâ€"DouLeoStlfiv-&lleuy 4 o‘clock Tea Food furnished by Santi‘s Dairy. Hostess, Nancy Santi. 5:30 pm. to 6 p.m. Vesper Services g;-tnr'-cmeu'du_basby&rvia; 8 pm. to 10:30 p.m. program and Bridge lessons for beginners. Open House program at new Buildâ€" Party and entertainment at U.S.O. Club sponsored by the Dance & Parâ€" Highland Park U. S. O. Nick T. Young, Director. U SO CALENDAR Calendar d, U. S Civil at any firstâ€"or 31. wiC [have bean elitmisaied from the plane |exeept aneâ€"fAnding a pilot who can *‘The journey lasted three days and three nigh‘s on a train and was a real pleasure. We did not lack a thing because we traveled in a Pullâ€" men. At meal times we turned it into a dining room and at night into a dormitory. ‘The meals were magnificent. "I can tell you that for me the journcy was one I had dreamed of for years and then, in an extraorâ€" said before, this piace is beautiful, all green with woods and surroundâ€" ed by hills The air is fine and heaithy, my appetite very good and the fooi abundant and exquisite. meat, bread, vegetables, fruit, sugar or coffee. When I am eating I always think of you, who are perâ€" Naps without food. No one can complain about the guards. They treat us with every respect and consideration."" Note: To Americans the effusive description of the food as "abunâ€" dant and exquisite" is interesting, because the alien prisoners at Fort Missouia are fed straight army fare. In quality and quantity their rations are exactly the same as those of U. S. soldiers. With American industries crying Tor war materials the covernment uas fnally got around to seizing a jor the conquered countries. Tons upon tons of steel bars, steel rods, sigel shects, ship plates, tin plate, copper wire were ordered by and Belgium, some of it three years ago. It has been in warehouses and idle freight cars ever since, despite the scarcity of raw materials and Aespite the fact that some indusâ€" «ies are even closing for lack of SCRAP IRON TO JAPAN For years, the heaviest foreign buyer of U. S. scrap iron was Japan. Despite much public protesting, the state department permitted Nipponâ€" ete milizarists to imoort huge quanâ€" tities of this vital strategic materiâ€" al. Now appeasement chickens are * Th deleuse product 7 production swinging icto full tide, the U. S. suddenly is shortage. For various reasons, deâ€" tense chiefs are saying nothing about the situation. But it is very ~cute. A number of steel makers have privately reported curtailed production schedules in the offing because of inability to obtain needâ€" One important plant â€"executive went so far as to describe his conâ€" dition as ‘"almost desperate." Why this horde of priceless maâ€" terial remained untouched for so long is a mystery. But the secret is first, government red tape and bureaucracy; second, the fact that prices, did not want to sell. The old Export Control board unâ€" der Gen. Russell Maxwell, who is now devoting his abilities to the this year in Hoboken, N. J., of aluâ€" minum and other materials, but the coming seizures are on a far greatâ€" er scale. Of one commodity alone, tin plate, there will be 100,000 cases, The total haul of all commodities will be between 20 and 25 thousand carloads, which, at an average of requisitioning of all this material, the value of which runs into many millions. Most of it wil} be seized and sold again on the same day, so the $200,000 will be merely a ‘reâ€" ed supplies of scrap. wages. except the poor postman., The cost of living has gone up but be can‘t strike against the governâ€". tes 1** areas, New York, Philadelphia, and which U. S. 6fficials are sure will The letter will get to Italy, all: right. Mail is still being exchanged: regularly between the two counâ€" tries Byt authorities are certain! that the offiger‘s letter will not get! by I1 Duce‘s censors, for, in hungry,| 100 This is the reason: The Economic 1 INTERNED ITALIANS One of the Italian ship officers in The army air corps is windâ€"tunnel at