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fflEN PLEADS
for regular
ALLIED TALKS
(Continued frrm Pase °ne)
11 in agreement that it would
t"vm>rro\v until January 15.
were the main points of
explanation of the Greek
‘f^There was “no question” of
V • armed intervention in
Brlta „ “without consulting our
Greece
•‘^"'.'•We could perhaps have been
2' ,red for not having interven
ce!Vl' Athens on behalf of law and
■rfan earlier date.” *
, Britain is "seeking nothing for
jve<i in Greece—neither stra
ff advantage nor economic ad
ntage nor any ot,her advantaSe
j that kind at all.
°4 “If we hd not taken this
.:on there would have been
starvation all over Greece
"id members of Parliament would
fve come to the Government and
jjd ‘what are you doing about
all this '
- -\ve are not trying to impose
Right-Wing or a Left-Wing gov
,„ment. All we wish is that the
L should keep an even keel.”
■'j y. Gen. Ronald M. Scobie,
..jjish commander in Greece,
“refused the help of Right-Wing
organizations against the ELAS
and has disarmed them.”
"rj jhe British Government is not
against a regency in Greece. It
aSi in fact, the British ambas
sador in Athens who first suggest
ed a regency."
“j “The only criticism that could
have been made is that we ought
Jr, have brough contingents of the
oihers (Allies) with us as well.”
S. Britain is not trying to ‘‘im
pose a king with' British bayonets
cr. the Greek people.”
10. He and Churchill persuad
ed King George of Greece to re
gain in Britain because “we were
perfectly conscious that his arrival
i;n Greece) might be the cause of
polictical controversy w h i c h he
wants to avoid.”
m OFFICER RAPS
m NEWS BLACKOUT
I (Continued from Page One)
deal more without giving any in
formation to the Germans.”
Lyon said he was leaving for
Washington Friday and would con
tinuehis campaign against news
suppression there. He joined war
correspondents at last night’s press
conference in protesting against
the blackout.
"Everybody in the world knows
this s'-ury and is going to print it,”
he said. '’It has leaked over 40
acres. You say we can’t tell the
Germans this because they may
not know it. The Germans’ record
in this war is Inat they have known
themselves to be pretty good sol
diers and I think they know what
went on Sunday afternoon.
"it seenis t . me not only foolish
but that it will make us all seem
stupid if we don’t tell the story.
If you continue, then you make
them imagine things are worse
than they nr?. I think everyone
else in the woild except SHAEF
correspondents are permitted to
tel! the story.” .
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200,000 German Troops Swarming
Into Breach Of First Army Lines
(Continued from Page One)
(If at full strength, as seems
y °r+v,thiS carefully Prepared
German thrust, armored divisions
each would number about 10.00(
iTr!Land infantry divisions up tc
15,000 making a total force of ur
to 200,000 in the first phase of the
Geiman assault. The extent of the
new enemy forces which dispatch
es today said were swinging intc
action was not yet known).
The fighting was intense anc
casualties heavy for both sides
as the battle swirled through its
fourth day on a front of approxi
mately 60 miles.
The initial impetus of the Ger
man surge, which penetrated to a
distance of 20 miles or more into
Belgium in its first day and a half
appeared to have been checked in
the Stavelot sector by Lt. Gen.
Courtney H. Hodges’ grimy Dough
boys, but farther to the south the
situation remains fluid and the en
emy continued to pound deeper in
to American positions.
Stavelot, four miles southwest
of Malmedy and in the sector
where the Germans threw the
heaviest weight of their assault,
was held tonight by American
troops who drove the Nazis from
the town street by street. Mons
chau, on the German side of the
border 16 miles southeast of Aach
en, also was recaptured by the
Americans. Other local successes
were reported, although no effort
was made to disguise the continu
ing seriousness of the situation
or to indicate that the full force of
the German drive had slackened.
The gravity of the German of
fensive was fully realized at head
quarters. But there also was rea
son to believe that Field Marshal
von Rundstedt. in risking all his
resources in this surprise assault,
might also be laying himself open
for a defeat so decisive as to short
en the war if this bold strategy
failed.
The Germans are expending vast
reserves in their attack and in the
end the Allies* immense store of
equipment and manpower may
turn the Nazi High Command’s big
fling into its last.
Monschau, German town at the
extreme northern end of the ene
my's assault, was recaptured by
counterattacking Yank troops, who
surrounded and presumably seized
Nazi forces who had fought into
the town. Lying 16 miles .southeast
of Aachen, it was the jump-off
point for a short-lived American
attack last week.
Front dispatches, release in de
tail through c.ensprship Jjp: tb«
first time, disclosed that the' main
German drive is being made in
the region of Stavelot, a key Bel
gian town 20 miles from the Ger
man frontier. Previously it h.ad
been known only that the drive had
reached this area, and it had not
been clear w'hether this was the
scene of the principal push.
Fighting raged today in and
around Stavelot, where Hodges’
Doughboys, backed by anti-tank
guns, beat back four savage Ger
man attacks.
Stavelot was reached by the
Nazis in the first 36 hours of their
bold surprise thrust. Today the
grimly fighting Yanks regained
control of the town and fought off
fresh enemy attacks.
Four times today the Germans
hurled everything at the battered
tow'll, striking under cover of a
clinging fog and mist, but each
time they were flung back. To
night the embattled Doughboys
were reported driving the Nazis
from the tow a street by street in
bitter fighting.
American tanks and tank de
! stroyers were smashing at the side
i of the enemy salient just south
of Stavelot and were reported to
have made ^ome progress.
Associated Press field correspon
dents said the enemy offensive was
being likened to the final do-or
die punch thrown by the Germans
in 1918, which had some initial
success but later collapsed. An
America nofficer declared confi
dently that if the present drive is
crushed “the war can be won right
here.”
Relaxing its rigid censorship on
news of the fighting, Allied head
quarters disclosed that the enemy’s '
great Christmas offensive smash
ed into Belgium and Luxembourg
at four points and that by Monday
noon the initial impetus had car
ried the Nazi columns from,five to ■
20 miles inside the two countries.
While there was no delineation <
of the jagged and fluid fighting 1
front tonight, it was announced that -1
Stavelot remained in American 1
hands, as well as St. Vith and Ech- 1
ternach, two other focal points of ;
the enemy offensive. Several pock- ]
ets of Americans were reported to
have been surrounded near St. 1
Vith, four miles inside Belgium and i
10 miles south of Malmedy. ’
Fast units of “Wildcat” Ger- 1
man ormar were reported striking 1
boldly through the First Army’s 1
lines and by-passing numerous
towns still held by American for- -
ces. These columns—some using 1
captured U. S. Sherman tanks — 1
obviously were trying desperately 1
to seal off big American dumps 1
and thus replenish their own dwind- *
ling supplies. i
vjtci nidii prisoners xaK
en in the first 24 hours of the at
tack were several hundred- para- ,
chute iroops who were dropped be
i Mnd ihe American lines in an ef
fort to disrupt communications,
headquarters said. There was an
unconfirmed report that some Nazi
dead and prisoners were wearing
civilian clothes
The German prisoners were ex
tremely confident that the offen
sive would win the war in short
order and predicted that Antwerp
would be taken within a few days.
Kenneth Dixon of the Associated
Press said Hodges’ Doughboys,
hastily dug-in against the assault,
were “giving everything they’ve
got’’ and were managing to hold
or turn aside some of the Germans’
deepest thrusts, but added that
“the situation certainly has not im
proved in the past 24 . hours—to
say the least.”
The main German onslaught was
disclosed today to have started
across the Belgian border in the
vicinity of the village of Honsfeld,
two miles inside Belgium and 27
miles southeast of Aachen. Nazi ar
mor then split into two fstst-moving I
columns, with cne veering north
east of Malmedy into the vicinity
of Butgenbach and the second
stabbing directly west toward
Stavelot.
A second Nazi drive was a pin
cer thrust upon the important high- 1
way town of St. Vith, four miles
inside Belgium and some 12 miles
south of Malmedy. Some American
troops were cat off by this drive,
but these Yanks still were holding
out in scattered pockets and were
barring St. Vith to the enemy. En
emy armor had carried within
three miles of St. Vith, which is
10 miles southwest of Honsfeld,
and one claw of the pincers cut in
as far as Maspeit, four miles south
east of St. Vith.
Farther south, the Germans
drove out of Ardennes forest into
Luxembourg on either side of the
border town of Echternach, but
this push appeared to have gained
less ground than those to the north
and the enemy at last report had
not taken Echternach itself.
The greatest German penetra
tion in this sector was in the vici
nity of Comsdorf, five miles south
west of Echternach. This push also
by-passed pockets of American
troops, who were reported holding 1
out grimly.
Near the center of the Western
Front, Lt. Gen. George S. Pat
ton’s Third Army captured 40
more pillboxes and fortified hous
es in the Saarlautern area for a
two-day total of 176 and seized a
Gersheim area, six and a half miles
northeast of Sarreguemines.
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JOAN BERRY SAYS
CHAPLIN GUILTY
LOS ANGF.LES, Dec. 20. —OT—
Joan Berry today testified under
oath that Charlie Chaplin is the
father of her 14-months-old daugh
ter, Carol Ann, and' that she has
had relations with no other man
since the time the met the 55-year
old comedian.
Her testimony was given over
the heated injection of Chaplin’s
attorney, Charles E. Millikan, who
interposed when Joan’s lawyer, Jo
seph Scott, asked her:
‘■Who is the father of that baby?”
“Charlie Chaplin,” she replied af
ter the objection was overruled.
“Did you have any relations with
any other man from December,
1942, until the baby was bom?”
Scott continued.
“I have had no relations with
any man since the time I met Mr.
Chaplin,” she replied.
Previously she testified she and
Chaplin had a falling out the night
of December 10, 1942, because each
was out with someone else but that
late that night they made up.
Sideshow
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 20—W—A
theater manager found his soft
drink dispensing machine rifled of
$25 and a note attached:
“We’re taking these nickles fc%
war bonds.”
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 20—(B—Earl E.
Provost, president of the St. Louis
Funeral Directors Association, is
missing one hearse.
“What in the world would any
one want with it,” he asked the
police. Only suggestion he could of
fer was the vehicle's ample gas
tank—capacity 25 gallons, and al
most full when last seen.
ARNETT. Okla., Dec. 20 —(A>i—
After two years of Mediterranean
fighting in w'hich he didn't receive
a scratch, Sgt. Johnnie Trujillo
came home on furlough, went hunt
ing—and shot himself in the foot.
SALT LAKE CITY. Utah, Dec.
20—CP)—State Patrolman A. D. Por-;
ter has received a note from an i
out-of-state woman thanking him [
for issuing her a warning ticket i
for speeding.
She explained that he probably
saved her life, because shortly after j
she was slowed down, she came1
upon a truck accident which bv ) k- j
ed the highway.
NEW OPiLEANS. Dee. 20—M— A
gray-striped cat named “Tiger.”
mascot at the Tenth Precinct Sta
tion, ‘‘got his man” today in his
first police duly.
At 2:30 a.m. the police received
a telephone call from Mrs. Fred
erick Vensel. “There’s a rat in my
oathroom,” she pleaded. “Help!”
Officers, carrying Tiger, respon
ded, opened the bathroom door nar
rowly and pushed Tiger in.
Two minutes later out strutted
riger with the rat
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 20 —(^>)—
Descendants of Beulah Newbold
Vlarkle won’t have to look at old
srints of Cousin Willie or Aunt Su
sie. Mrs. Markle’s will directs that
ill family photographs be “burned
md totally destroyed.” No reason
vas given.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 20—!J>)—
two-year-old boy found his Santa
Haus—but Santa didn’t have any
vhiskers. In fact he was a detec
ive.
Detective Walter Coyne found a
ittle boy looking cold and sad on
t street corner. ' Looking for Santa
Haus,” the boy said.
Coyne took him to a police sta
ion and slipped a $1 bill in his
vveater pocket as the boy thawed;
iut. A moment later a telephone
ang and Mrs. JoseDh.Davis asked;
f the police had heard anything :
bout little Joe, Jr.
They said they had.
GERMANS JAMMING
ROADS WITH ARMS
FOR WESTERN PUSH j
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY
FORCE, Paris, Dec. 20. — (JP) —
The roads immediately behind the
German attacking front are lined
bumper to bumper with enemy
transport of every description, de
fended by unbelievable quantities
of antiaicraft guns massed espe
cially for this offensive, a U, S.
Ninth Air Force flier said tonight.
The flier. Capt. Kenneth Dahl
berg of the Marx: Twain Hotel, St.
Louis, shot down four Messersch
mitt 109’s yesterday in a furious
dogfight just west of Prum.
The all-out nature of the German
air support and the vast quantities
of light and heavy anti-aircraft
weapons showed the tremendous :
German will to win the present bat
tle at any cost, he said.
The German pilots, in contrast
with their cautious behaviour of
recent months, are aggressive and .
continue to bore in, he added. i
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FRANCO-SOVIET
DEBATE PLANNED
PARIS, Dec. 20—(.Tl—The French
consultative assembly today pre
pared to open debate on the :
French-Soviet alliance amid author- ’
'tative reports that the Moscow ■
conferees had agreed on mutual -
support in projected amputations ^
>f German territory on both the (
cast and west in eventual peace ■
settlements. 1
Assembly members who heard (
Foreign Minister Georges Bidault’s '
,-eport on the treaty in a closed
session of the foreign affairs com
mittee yesterday said France con
sented to retracing of the Soviet
Polish frontier along the Curzon
Line and giving to Poland German
territories east of the Oder in com
pensation for territory she would
lose to Russia on the east.
Russia, in turn, they said, prom
ised to support French claims to
the Rhineland and Ruhr industrial
Basin in western German. This
territory, according to the most
prevalent French view, should be
cut off from the Reich and set up
as an independent state .under
French and Belgian sovereignity.
Meanwhile, the Foreign Affairs
Committee turned down a motion
by Louis Saillant, president of the
National Resistance Council, pro
vided that France proicose a simi
lar alliance with Britain and the
United States. The committee said
the moment was not opportune.
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Obituaries
MRS. MARY E. BLIZZARD
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary
Elizabeth Blizzard, 79, formerly
of Acme, who died at her home at
Delco Monday morning were held
at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the home by
the Rev. C. R. Blain pastor of
the Acme Presbyterian church.
Burial was In the Weyman Church
cemetery.
She is survived by three sons.
Charles Blizzard, Van Blizzard and
George Blizzard, all of Acme, and
two daughters, Mrs. Carrie Lar
kins. of Wilmington, and Mrs. Ka»
tie B_ Fields, of Leland.
WILBUR R. SMITH
Funeral services for Wilbur R.
Smith, 17. of Seagate, who died at
James Walker Memorial hospital
Monday night, will be "held at 3
p.m today at the Yopp funeral
home.
Services will be conducted by
the Rev. J E. Allard, pastor of
the Seagate Baptist church, who
will be assisted by the Rev. J.
Bryon Dosher of Kelly and the Rev.
Walter B. Freed, pastor of St.
Paul’s Lutheran church. Burial
will be in the Seagate cemetery.
MARTIN L. PERRY
CLARKTON, Dec. 20. — Funeral
services for Martin L. Perry. Span
ish war veteran, who died at his
home here Monday, were held at
2 p.m. yesterday.
Surviving are four daughters,
Mrs. Helen Mae Sessom, Hazel,
Thelma and Bernice Perry; and
one sister Miss Annie Perry
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HUGE WHEAT CROP '
SIGHTED FOR ’45
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.— Ufi —
rhe nation may be headed for
another billion bushel wheat har
vest in 1945.
The Agricultural Department re
ported today that the winter wheat
prop has gotten off to such a fa
vorable start this fall that harvest
lext summer may total 761,591,
300 bushels.
This estimate was determined,
the department said, from factors
low measurable, such as the re
ported condition of the crops as
if December 1, and rainfall and
temperatures to date.
To be added to the winter wheat
s production from spring wheat
seeded next spring. While no es
;imate of spring wheat production
;an be made at this time, officials
said a 300,000,000-bushel crop was
possible.
A billion bushels would be more
han ample to meet expected
peeds during the 1945-46 season.
SText year’s production will be sup
plemented by reserves from this
mar now expected to total
ibout 400,000,000 bushels next Ju
y I
This year’s harvest gave 764,073,
100 bushels of winter wheat and
14,574,000 of spring wheat—a to
al of 1,078,647,000 to top all rec
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