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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.” . Could Adam Eat the Apple With Stomach Ulcer Pains? The biblical story of Adam eating a raw apple might never have come to pass had he suffered after eating pains. Don't ignore your sufferings. Try Udga for relief of ulcer and stomach pains, indiges tion, gas pains, for heartburn, burning sensation, bloat and other conditions caused by excess acid. Get a 25c box of Udga Tablets from your druggist. First' dose must convince or return box to us and get DOUBLE YOUR MONEY BACK. Saunders and drug stores everywhere. 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. _v_ 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 — TBWfllliWrllll -- ------- - - .-— Three Feothers Distributors, Inc., New York, N. Y._ Blended Whiskey, 86 proof, 40% grow neutral spirit* I “On second thought—perhaps it would he better to find the key with a STAR-NEWS Want Ad!” ---__ 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. -V 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 --—V Protect your family’s most price less possession—good health. Buy and use Christmas Seals this year. Buy as many as you can. The Seal help insure you against tu berculosis. New Golf Outfit I HERE IS THE ANSWER to the lady golfers for a smart and workman like outfit for the links. The en semble, worn by Bette Rooker, was introduced at Miami Fashion Show ; golf tournament. (International) i b , 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 •rds. All Wool GRIFFON SUITS FOR GENTLEMEN OF KEEN DISCERNMENT • It's easy to see the fine drape and flatter ing lines of this suit. The fine weave of its 100% wool worsted is easily appreciated. But you have to try on a suit like this to realize the care and craftsmanship that has &one into its fit. It’s so easy-to-wear 1 *35.00 & $37.50 Brenthurst ALL WOOL TOP COATS Master craftsmen have combined all their skills in producing these fine new winter overcoats. Cut from the finest of imported and domestic woolens—tweeds, fleeces, velours— they can be found in every style and cut to suit each individual taste. Sizes 36 to 40. 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