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ttle May Prove
Bloodiest Of War
(Continued from Pace 1.)
tools displayed a sudden aggressive*
ness. These may be Indications the
Germans are preparing to spread
their offensive to Lieutenant Gen
eral Gorge S. Patton’s front or are
preparing to stave off efforts by Pat
ton to relieve pressure on the First
American Army.
Seventh Army Front. Official re
ports said Heinrich Himmler, chief
of the Gestapo, has assumed per
sonal command of German forces
in the Colmar pocket. The estimat
ed 35,000 Nazis In the bridgehead
they still hold west of the Rhine
displayed sudden aggressiveness,
lashing out at the Ifrst French
Army.
All reports—both from front re
porters and here at supreme Allied
headquarters—emphasized the ssri
ousness of the situation. It was
pointed out here that information
made available today on the oper
mtoins up to noon Monday do not
Cover what was described as "the
Inst 48 hours of German progress.”
“There was no Indication at
fiadquarters that German momen
tor att he center of their drive
beyond Stavelot had been checked
although at the north and south
ends of the 70-mile front progress
had been slowed.
■ United Press War Correspondents
Jack Frankish and John McDer
mott, reporting from the First Army
front In dispatches filed at 10 a.
m. (5. a. m. EWT) reported the
Germans continuing their attack
with Nazi Panzer columns roving
thorugh the Belgian countryside hi
an attempt to disrupt American
communications.
They said the situation still was
•’extremely fluid” but at the north
ern end of the front two German
attacks were repulsed with little
difficulty. Considerabl German
movement was observed behind the
center of the First Army front.
A fire battle occurred close to
«ne Belgian city between German
flame-throwing tanks and American
flame-throwers. After the battle the
Americans found at least ten
dead Germans in civilian clothes.
^The First Army reported it had
captured 724 prisoners in the past
24 hours.
Allied flyers who swarmed out
through low-hanging clouds to bomb
and strafe the advancing enemy said
the roads behind the First Army
front were black with Nazi men and
armor moving forward and there
were signs that the German offen
sive had begun to spred up and
down the entire western front.
Little Success
Feverish German activity was
Sighted behind the U. S. Third Army
sector where Lieutenant General
George S. Patton's troops were
bumping hard but with little sue*
cess against the edge of the Saar
Valley. The American Seventh and
French First Armies on the scouth
ero flank and the U. S. Ninth to the
north similarly recorded little or no
progress against suddenly stiffened
Nazi resistance.
Everywhere it appeared that the
Germans had seised the intiatlves
or were trying hard to gain it, per
haps to keep pressure off their
break-through front or perhaps as
the prelude to a general offensive.
The fog of battle literally and fig
uratively covered the great struggle
vAst of the Belgian and Luxem
bourg borders where Lieutenant
Gberal Courtney H. Hodges’ forces
’were rallying to counter the Ger
man drive. Low clouds and mists
hampered the American air support
and reduced visibility to a minimum
Oven on the ground.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s
headquarters, responding to angry
protests that the truth of the Ger
man offensive was being withheld
ftom the Allied people, issued a par
tial report this morning covering
the first 53 hours of the action.
From the take-off at seven a. m.
last Saturday until noon Monday,
tii» report disclosed, the Germans
succeeded in breaking the American
lines to a depth of 18 to 20 miles at
four main points from Echternach
on the Luxembourg border to Mon
achau. Just east of the Belgian-Ger
man frontier.
German paratroopers, panzer di
visions and picked Infantry outfits,
apparently the cream of the Nazi
strategic reserves, all participated
in the offensive.
Two armored spearheads struck
from the east and southeast at St.
Soviets Kill
4,000 Nazis
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d#d Germans were killed and more
(ten 700 others captured In the
UBtle for the town
Jit the same time, Malinovsky's
Mmy, which German propagandists
OK had been halted short of the
Aovak frontier, pushed several miles
iBtc that puppet state on a more
or less continuous 76 mile front.
Just west of the Hernad river, the
Soviets advanced four miles to
within 10 miles south of Kassa at
Sena, while 17 mile sfarther to the
west they took the Tuma raUway
junction 18 miles southwest of
Xassa.
Forty miles southwest of Kassa,
Malinovsky’s forces were advanc
ing swiftly on the road and rail
junction of Roznava. progressing
seven miles yesterday to Silica, seven
miles south of Roznava.
Karallk Falls
At the southwestern end of the
•ffenslve front, the Russians fanned
OUt into Slovakia north and west
•f Banreve, taking Karallk, seven
aqDea to the north, and Jene, five
Other Fourth Ukrainian columns
sMhed into the western edge of the
'Swras mountains in a drive ap
atly pointed toward the Slovak
ay center of Lucenec, and cap
1 the Hungarian town of Nylres.
5 Soviet early morning com
gue gave no new details on the
i of Budapest, but a Moscow
broadcast said Russian guns
■helling the Budapest-Vienna
line and that the last Ger
■cape corridor northwest of
Hungarian capital had been
to about 15 miles,
skirmishing also was re*
from the long-dormant front
Southern Poland, where Nasi
recently have asserted
a Mg Russian offensive is be*
radio said
conscripted by the Nazis for
service, presum*
Vith, seven miles inside Belgium and
nine miles above the northern tip
of Belgium, cutting oft an un dis
closed number of Americans In their
advance. The southeastern spear
head by Monday noon had reached
Maspelt, four miles below St. Vlth,
and the other was less than two
miles from 8t. Vlth.
Nmsil at Censdorf
On the etreme southern flank,
the Nads plunged across the Luxem
bourg border below Echtemach and
reached Consdorf, five miles to the
southwest and only 13 miles north
east of the capital city of Luxem
bourg. Some American troops also
were surrounded In Echtemach and
their fate still was unknown.
Radio Luembourg went off the air
suddenly at nine p. m. last night
and had not resumed broadcasting
at 8 o’clock this momlng, but there
was no comment from headquarters
on the significance of that shut
down.
In the north, German Pleld Mar
shal Gerd von Rundstedt threw In
his main attack, sending two power
ful armored columns plunging west
ward through the forest of Mon
sshau. One speared through Mal
medy and on five miles to the south
west to Stavelot, 20 miles inside
Belgium, while the second branched
off above Malmedy to take Butgen
bach, eight miles to the northeast
and barely 30 miles from the Bel
gian fortress city of Liege.
Admittedly, however, the report
was at least 48 hours behind the
actual battle and there wasevery
Indication tha the rampaging Ger
man armored divisions had deepened
its penetrations since Monday.
Berlin similarly withheld all In
formation on the course of the at
tack this morning, suggesting that
the Nazi propagandists were saving
up news of the advances to be an
nounced with their usual flourish as
a great victory.
But all the Information seeping
through the tight military blackout
made It clear that the German high
command was gambling for great
stakes, risking the complete de
struction of its last and best re
serves for a breakthrough that at
best could add months to the war.
Rundstedt finally had committed
his main strength to battle west of
the Rhine, and everything hinged
now on how swiftly and effectively
the American Mrst Army could strike
back.
United Press front correspondents
Jack Frankish and Jack Fleischer
reported that some American coun
ter-measures were beginning to take
hold at the northern edge of the
line, apparently around Monschau.
The latter town still was believed
in American hands, and the corre
spondents said Yank troops, tanks
and guns were crowding forward in
tht sector and farther to the south
to bolster the units thrown back by
the first German rush.
Headquarters revealed that the
American counter-measures were
delayed because of the initial sur
prise achieved by the enemy. No1
until the stavelot attack was opened
at midnight Sunday did it become
clear that this was anything more
than a series of small-scale coun
ter-attacks. By that time, the ini
tial breaches had been made and the
situation already had become seri
ous.
Frankish said the Americans were
using anti-aircraft guns against the
advancing Nazi tanks and that the
First Army position was difficult
but not yet critical.
•The Americans have been pushed
back hard, but they are giving II
back in the same measure,” he said
in recounting the First Army's coun
ter-measures.
Great Battle Loom*
"It now appears that this may
become the great battle of the win
ter campaign rather than the light
anticipated for the Cologne plain.'1
The gravity of the situation was
accentuated by the disclosure that
hundreds of American and British
heavy bombers were hurled into a
risky attack against the German
lines yesterday, despite dense cloud
formations reaching down to tree
top level.
The big bombers were Joined by
swarms of lighters and dive-bombers
in a series of bombing and strafing
missions up and down the front and
rear areas from the German border
city of Trier almost as far north a;
Duren.
The Luftwaffe also came up light
ing to cover the offensive, and at
least 11 Nazi planes were shot down.
The Allied raiders inflicted heavy
damage on the enemy's troop and
supply columns.
One raiding formation crossed th«
Saar area and spotted a huge con
centration of German tanks, truck;
and supply trains moving up toward
the U. S. Third Army front.
Freight yards in the area were
reported filled to the choking point,
suggesting the Nazis were about tc
spring another drive of major pro
portions there.
German troops facing the Third
Army tried to cover the rear activ
ity with sporadic artillery fire and
repeated counter-attacks yesterday
Patton's veterans beat off the
minor enemy thrusts and ham
mered out small gains through tlx
fortress belt north of Saarlauterz
and northeast of Sarreguemines. It
the past 48 hours, a front dispatch
revealed, the Third Armym cleared
out 176 pillboxes and fortified hous
es in the area above Saarlautern
all in a tightly-compressed sectoi
just Inside the German border.
About 16 miles east of Sarraguem
ines, American Seventh Army troop;
still were stymied by bitter Germar
resistance In the Maginot line fort;
around Bltche.
7 th Gains Slowly
Farther east and southeast, th<
Seventh Army made slow, hard
fought advances into the Siegfried
defenses on the edge of the Rhine
Palatinate. One unit wedged
through dense forests within 1 1-3
miles southeast of Bundenthal,
while other American forces on
their right flank pushed up the
Hagenau-Landau railway line in an
attempt to silence German gun;
harrassing the forest area.
Still farther east, the American;
broke through strong anti-tank
barriers within three miles of Bucb
elberg and advanced 1,000 yards in
to the Bienwald forest.
APPLE TBEE HAS ‘SECONDS'
Rockport, Ind. — (U.P.) — Mrs
prank Rebel wee assaesd when em
of hw apple trees showed up with I
second crop of red June apples in
December. The tree had borne •
regular harvest last sunnier.
Officiate At Bishop’s Rites
MOST REV. F. BRADY
Bishop of Manchester
MOST REV. X E. MCCARTHY
Bishop of Portland
Church, State Pay
Bishop Last Honor
(Continued from Page 1)
In attendance comprised of mem
bers of ranking ofllcers of religious
societies, representatives of the state
and federal government and bus
iness and the limited number of
general public the latter admitted
only by ticket. Hundreds stood
outside the church throughout the
entire ceremony with bared heads
despite the freezing temperature.
Former local clergymen and na
tives of this city were among the
principal participants in the highly
formal liturgical ceremony. These
Included, other than Archbishop
Murray, the following: Most Rev.
Matthew F. Brady of Manchester,
N. H.; Most Rev. Joseph E. McCar
thy of Portland, Maine, the latter
two among those giving final abso
lution.
xtev. 'i nomas r. sauuauiy, lorma
pastor of SS. Peter and Paul church,
here, and now of Hartford; Rev.
Walter S. Sieracki, former curate of
St. Stanislaus church, this city, and
now of Hartford; Rev. Donato A.
Paolucci, a native of Waterbury now
of Bridgeport all were principal par
ticipants in the stately services of
memorlam.
Archbishop Murray traced the life
story of the late Bishop McAulifTe,
the latter Installed ten years ago as
the eighth bishop of the See of
Hartford. Citing the late dignitaries’
youthful beginning as an altar boy
in grammar schol Archbishop Mur
ray outlined In terms of warmth and
deep affection the rapid rise,of the
native Bishop of Conencticut.' Prais
ing his wisdom and sincere sense of
humility he lauded the late Church
official as a man of “great benevo
lence whose contributions to the
Catholic welfare of the state and
nation were Immeasurable.”
The attending clergy made up of
monsignorl, chaplains to the arch
bishops and bishops, and provincials
of holy and religious orders sat in
the sanctuary throughout this
morning’s ceremony while other
priests and nuns sat In the body
proper of the Cathedral.
Representatives of such prominent
Catholic organizations as Daughters
of Isabella, Holy Name Society.
Catholic Women’s Council, and
others were present from this city.
The most solemn of the Church’s
liturgical services were conducted as
final rites for the late Bishop. The
full glory of the choir of seminari
ans and priests voicing the Gre
gorian chants provided the final
background of the services.
A luncheon was to be served to
the clergy following the Mass after
which the funeral procession was to
get underway. The body of the
Bishop was to remain In state until
the procession got underway to St.
Benedict's cemetery where the com
mittal services were to be held at
the Bishop’s plot.
The ceremonies of the Mass
were described in a special broad
cast over WTIC.
Forty-three extra Hartford po
licemen were on duty from 9 a. m.
until the funeral was over. Traffic
officers were stationed at intersec
tions from the cathedral to Blue
Hills avenue by way of Farming
ton avenue, Sigourney street, Asy
lum avenue. Woodland street, Al
bany avenue and out Blue Hills
avenue to the cemetery, it was
announced.
Two white cruisers and members
of the state police acted as an es
cort for the funeral procession. All
traffic including the Connecticut
FBI Arrests
Ex-Minister
(Continued from Page 1)
in Berlin, and with the defendant’s
wife, Bertha, "to injure, interfere
with and obstruct the national de
fense of the United States,” and "to
use a code and other devices” in or
der to circumvent censorship re
quirements.
A second indictment, which con
tains two counts, alleged that on or
about Dec. 19, 1941, Krepper sent
a message in code “which was in
tended to be delivered to the ene
mies of the United States In Ger
many." The second count charges
a violation of the trading with the
enemy act.
A third indictment charges Krep
per with acting as the agent of a
foreign government (Germany)
without prior notification to the
Secretary of State. He is alleged to
have received a regular salary from
the German government for his
services, payments being made to
his wife in Germany.
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
said an ordinary white pocket hand
kerchief found In possession of one
of the eight saboteurs who was
caught In New York, led to Krep
per’s undoing. Written on the
handkerchief in secret ink, Hoover
said, were the words, "Fas. (Pastor)
Krepper" and the address "route
two, Rahway, N. J.”
According to the Justice Depart
ment, Krepper was to establish
himself as a U. S. citizen in order to
provide lodging and facilities for
German secret agents sent to this
country. He was to communicate
i with Kappe and his etfs, Bertha,
. to Germany, keeping Sham advised
of his whereabouts and availability.
Australia has an anti-rat drive.
Company busses were rerouted on
Farmington avenue between Sig
ourney street and Asylum Place
from 9:30 a. m. to 10:30 and be*
tween noon and 1 p. m.
In tribute to the late Bishop, all
local Roman Catholic educational
Institutions were closed comprised
of grammar schools, Notre Dame
Academy and the Waterbury Cath
olic High school.
Flags on all public buildings were
hung at half - staff in accordance
with the request of Gov. Baldwin
the latter also ordering the closing
of state buildings including the
Capitol for the morning.
Religious memorial services were
conducted throughout churches and
schools of Waterbury since last
Saturday the date of the dignitary’s
death. Eulogies were delivered
in all churches larft Sunday and
special Masses were held during the
week attended by the thousands of
children of Catholic creed.
The late Most Rev. Bishop Mc
Auliffe was widely known locally not
only as the high official of the
church, but as an active member of
various progressive civil endeavors
such as construction of the wing of
the St. Mary’s hospital and the like.
Local clergy both of the Roman
Catholic church and other denom
inations paid high tribute to the
deceased.
ELAS Capture
RAF Quarters
(Continued from Page 1)
have captured some British motor
vehicles.
Although identity of the RAF
personnel was not disclosed, it was
announced that Air Commodore O.
W. Tuttle, commander of air forces
in Greece, was not at Klfissia.
RAF planes dropped leaflets in
the Athens and Pireaus areas warn
ing civilians to evacuate the areas
around Elas guns by tomorrow
morning when an all-out assault
would begin against the leftist
forces.
Jap Defense
Falls Apart
(Continued from Page 1)
based bombers also sank a small
freighter off Luzon, as well as three
enemy barges off Cebu. Elsewhere
In the Southwest Pacific, his filers
sank or damaged heavily three
small freighters and damaged a 3,
000-ton transport and a smaller ves
sel.
Valencia, headquarters of the
Japanese 35th army on Leyte, fell
to the 77th Division Monday after
only light fighting, and the whole
Ormoc-Valencia stretch of the Or
moc-Pinampoan highway was be
lieved in American hands. The Va
lencia airdrome was captured intact
and already was in use.
There was no word from the
front as to the fate of Lt. Gen. So
saku Suzuki, commander of the
Japanese 35th army, and his staff,
who formerly had headquarters at
Valencia.
The first cavalry division, ad
vancing from the mountains to the
east, cut across the Ormoc-Pinam
poan road at Lonoy, six miles north
of Valencia, while the 32nd division
exerted frontal pressure along the
Ormoc road from another two miles
to the north.
The Japanese appeared to be
preparing to abandon the remaind
er of the Yamashita line anchored
on the Ormoc road and fall back
along a branch highway to the west
coast port of Palompon. Enemy
forces have been observed repairing
bridges on the branch highway and
some traffic has been reported, but
the whole western area was under
attack by Filipino Guerillas.
Another 1,484 Japanese dead were
counted Monday on Leyte.
Nazis Gamble
On Offensive
(Continued from Page 1)
However, they have come from
behind defended lines and to press
the offnslve they must move large
forces, wrich will be vlunerable to
aerial attack. The Allies naturally
wlil establish new lines in an effort
to contain the enemy. When the
Germans encounter these lines it
will touch off warfare that will be
expensive in men and material—and
German resources are limited.
Military quarters said it may well
prove that the Germans, instead of
gaining a valuable break-through,
may encounter disaster, and leave a
big hole open in their own lines
which can be exploited by the
Americans.
If so the present offensive will
have proved contrary to their own
interests, which admittedly new h It
fight as prolonged a war as fsaMt
in hopes for an easier peace or ad*
vantage from possible Allied dis
unity.
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Big 3' Not
In Agreement
(Continued from Page 1)
this week without criticism, even
here at home, which has added to
our difficulties.”
“We had a certain task thrown
upon us and we are discharging it
to the best of our abilities," he
said.
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden
told Commons that no agreement
yet had been reached in the Greek
civil war, though “everyone In this
country naturally wants the situa
tion brought to an end at the
earliest possible moment.”
Asked for assurances that if the
left-wing ELAS laid down their
arms they would be protected
against right-wing elements, Eden
said:
“We shall take every precaution
in that respect. It is not our de
sire that as result of this business
there should be victimization,
either on one side or the other.
Our desire Is that there should be
amnesty and that the Greeks
should have an opportunity to live
in peace and harmony.”
If ELAS accepts British demands
for surrender of their arms and
evacuation of Attica, Eden said,
“we shall do our best to ensure
the Greek people their choice and
free elections as soon as possible.”
Earlier, Eden had admitted under
pressure that the right-wing EDES,
as well as the ELAS, had retained
their arms. He said both “irregu
lar bands” had agreed to surrender
their weapons by Dec. 10, but the
outbreak of “disturbances" had
broken the agreement.
“It will be necessary for us to
make another agreement,” he said.
“The demobilization of guerillas
must clearly await the settlement
of the present disturbances.”
EAM (National Liberation Front)
parent body of the ELAS, has
denounced EDES as royalist,
though EDES claims to include re
publicans as well. ELAS fre
quently haajBaid they will not sur
render them arms as long as EDES
remains arumdL^ nom>
Commons adopted a motion made
by Eden for adjournment tomor
row until Jan. M. Eden said a
_.L
provision existed for the recall of
the house on short notice if neces
sary.
Greek Crisis
Under Debate
(Continued from Page 1)
can) that the British should pre
pare the forces to occupy the Athens
area and pave the way for com
mencement of relief and for estab
lishment of law and order ....
The proposal of the combined chiefs
of staff was initialled by the Presi
dent and me, and on September
14 a directive was Issued.”
Ernest Bevin, British Minister of
Labor, December 13 In London re
plying to charges that British pol
icies in Greece differed from the
policies of her Allies:
“Long before this we had an
agreement with Russia whereby
Russia undertook the main problem
of Romania and we undertook the
main problem of Greece. Tills agree
ment was taken to Quebec, submit
ted to President Roosevelt and
agreed to and initialled by him.’*
Secretary of State Edward R.
Stettinlus, Jr., December 15, reply
ing at a press conference to a ques
tion about Bevln’s statement:
"There is no answer I can make
on Mr. Bevln’s speech this morn
ing.”
That brings it up to yesterday
when at his news conference Mr.
Roosevelt was asked:
'Mr. Bevin said last week in Lon
don that you had initialled a British
plan for th* British stabilisation of
Greece. Can you tell us anything
about that?”
The President replied that he
wouldn’t bring that up again and
that he thought it was contentious.
He said he had found a new word
while away on his vacation—conten
tious. Then he repeated that' he
wouldn’t bring it up again and add
ed that there’s nothing In that.
The dictionary’s preferred defini
tion of contentious Is: “Given to
contention; quarrelsome.” Whether
Mr. Roosevelt considered the ques
tion contentious or whether he was
mferrttyl to Bavin's^ntum praising
It did appear, however, that the
President was not having any of the
responsibility for the Cheek crisis,
Nazis Near
Allied Base
(Continued from Page 1)
the city of Luxembourg. American
elements were surrounded and it is
only possible to say that at noon
Monday Echtemach still was in U.
S. hands.
3. At St. Vith, just north of Lux
embourg-Belglan frontier. This was
two*pronged with one push from
the southeast, reaching Maspelt,
four miles southeast of St. Vith,
and one from the east, led by pan
zers, reaching within a mile and a
half east of St. Vith. The drive was
held temporarily and St. Vith had
not fallen up to Monday noon
Some American elements were cut
off.
3— A punch toward Malmedy, 11
miles northeast of St. Vith. Two
Nazi armored columns attacked, one
reaching Stavelot, five miles south
west of Malmedy—well beyond the
town. This was the deepest pene
tration the Germans had made up
to Monday noon and waa only 22
miles from Liege. The second Nazi
column branched off to the north
east, penetrating to Butgenbach, 8
miles northeast of Malmedy.
4— A strong German thrust, aid
ed by large numbers of paratroops,
through tht Monschau forest which
carried the Germans into the town
of Monschau on the Belgium fron
tier. This Nazi thrust was held
and the Americans succeeded in
readjusting theii; lines but "by no
means all of the paratroops had
been accounted for at Monday
noon.
At that hour there was little in
dication that the main Nazi mo
mentum in the Savelot area had
been contained but there were signs
that tne situation here was "begin
ning" to be brought under control.
The Stavelot push was mounted in
the Elf el mountains and the Sieg
fried belt of positions and crunched
through the American lines at the
Belgian border town of Houasfeldt,
aa tendered by Churchill and Bevin.
There appears to bo general, If un
expressed agreement, that whatever
wee initialled at Quebec, the eon
frees and their aides did not fore
see the determination of the Greek
Full Weather Report
BMtH, Dee. 10- <UP) —Mew
England weather forecasti
CONNECTICUT and RHODE
ISLAND — Increasing cloudiness
and not So eold tonight. Tomor
row Cloudy with aonse Intermit
tent light snow and moderately
cold. Increasing winds becoming
frrah to strong.
MASSACHUSETTS — Increasing
cloudiness anf not ao cold to
night with Intermltti • light snow
in the Berkshlres. 1 -.morrow
cloudy with some intermitten
light snow and moderately cold.
Increasing wlnda becoming fresh
to atrong. Loweat temperature
for Worcester tonight abont 30
degrees).
east of the Malmedy-Stavelot-St.
Vlth triangle.
It kicked off at midnight Sat
urday after a day in whloh the
aided by what looked like at that
German offensive was being her
aided by what looked like at
that time a series of counter-at
tacks along a 70-mile front.
The objectives of the offensve still
can not be stated but by midnight
Saturday it was clear to the Ameri
can commanders thaht the Germans
had achieved several major pene
trations and that others were in
crospect.
By Sunday morning, it can now
be disclosed, tne whole German
force was on the move from Echter
lach to Monschau.
The German attack was backed
ip by hundreds of paratroops. One
3f the heaviest concentrations, not
more than 500 in all. was dropped
west of Monschau with the objec
tive of setting up road blocks at
|unctions and harassing American
communications.
It was indicated by the lifting
»f the news blackout that for the
time being the story of the coun
ter-offensive is going to be handled
with a 48-hour time lag to avoid
ilscloslng to the Germans anything
they may not know and also to en
ible headquarters to have a sound
er picture of what has happened
before releasing it to the public.
Columbus, O. (UP) — Michad
Jelly, a junior police candidate
eported to city police that this bill
fold, containing three streetcai
Jekets and Ms credentials, was
jicked from his trouser pocket as
le attended a meeting o< the Ju