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EARLY RESPITE
FROM COLD WAVE
PROMISED WEST
By The associated Press

BY The associated Press
LaFly respite from the season.
SIoeSt weather was predicted last
~sAt by the Weather Bureau as n
!'F'e part Of the Nation shivered
N q rigid blast accompanying the
.s,lAhng Of winters solstice at
T;5 pm.
revising earlier temperature
0fecasts. the bureau said Mid
west thermometers would record
up readings Of about 20 degrees
,0've zero today and that tonight S
'% IN the Midwest would be
%ound Y degrees above. These
l9ofeS were from 5 to 10 degrees
warmer than previously indicated.
however When the sun set yes
EFoay. ending the shortest span
y daylight hours for the year,
ne Great Lakes, Ohio River Val
Rf and Atlantic Coast areas still
were experiencing ear-nipping cold.
9lt no extremes, such as the %
stoW reported Wednesday night at
'emldji MIMI. were expected.
The Weather Bureau said it
would warm 1.n rapidly today in
eTa' Minnesota, North and South
odhota, and Wisconsin, and also
u illinois and Indiana, where Nor
uerA residents were given special
I'Aings Of probable overnight
"T Of ) to 10 below.
Little precipitation was expected
u the change back to normal WIN
Nf weather occurs, the Bureau
a'2ouced.
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BERLIN REPORTS
new RED DRIVE
Powerful Push Launched
Along 40 Mile Front
In South

LONDON, Dec. 21-tR)-The Ger
mans announced today that the Red
Army, after nearly two weeks of
intense preparation, had launched
a powerful offensive along a 40
mile front southwest of Budapest
aimed at strangling the long-be-
sieged Hungarian capital and
breaking open the most direct in
vasion highway to Vienna.
Soviet shock troops broke through
German lines at several unidenti-
fled points, Berlin admitted.
Marshal Feodor l. Tolbukhin hurl-
ed ten rifle divisions of his Third
Ukraine Army into the attack,
mounted between Lake Balaton and
the Danube and Immediately
threatening the big junction city of
Saskatchewan, the Berlin radio
disclosed. In this area, Tolbukhln' S
troops are six and seven miles east
and southeast of Saskatchewan,
and are linked with elements of
Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky' S
Second Ukraine Army, which two
weeks ago smashed across the Dan
ube just southwest of Budapest
outskirts.
Only a 35-mile arc remains to be
closed on the western side of two
thirds encircled Budapest.
The German High Command
communique said the resumed Of
fensive was supported by many
bombers, adding that "bitter fight
ing is in progress
The German army bulletin also
reported that Russian pressure is
mounting" northwest of Budapest
between the big Danube bend and
the southern frontier of invaded
Western Slovakia-another avenue
of invasion toward Vienna, Austrian
capital.
Below Budapest, the Russians
were reaching for the vital supply
lines behind the Hungarian capital.
The big immediate objective, Seek
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BOY, Is, KILLS
SISTERS CHILD
Youth Flees Leaving Note
Saying 4 Am Kill
Crazy

PRINCETON, ILL.,, Dec. 21.-tR
Norman Burton, Is, who cared
for his sisters four small children
while the parents worked in a
shell-loading plant, hammered and
slashed to death one OF the tots,
five-year-old Sara Jane Tyne,
Sheriff Frank Grisell said today.
The sheriff said that after the
Staying the youth locked the vic
TINS sister, Mary Lou Tyne, 7,
in the basement and pedaled away
on a bicycle. He added that the
boy spent the night in park and
appeared this morning at the
home Of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Burton Of Princeton, who
turned the boy over to the sheriff.
Grisell said the boy confessed
the killing, which occurred yester-
day in the Tyne farm home near
Ohio, Ill. but when pressed for a
motive he just gave me a silly
grin and said I don't know "
Sheriff L. E. Bates OF nearby
Lee county, in which the Staying
took place. said he found a note
near the cnild's body which said:
81 am kill crazy. Don't try to
catch me for you'll never take me
alive"
A coroner's jury at Dixon rec
commended the youth be held on
a charge Of murder.
Sheriffs Grisell and Bates OF
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|BattleTermed
Greatest Met
By Americans
Germans Retain Initiative
Except On Two
Flanks ."

PARIS, Dec. 21.-(P-The
unchecked German winter Of
fensive rolled 80 miles
through Belgium and slashed
a vital Allied highway 18
miles south of the Belgian
fortress of Liege in what was
described today as the great
est battle involving American
or British troops in this war.
A second and equally menacing
drive swung southwestward and
rumbled three-fourths OF the way
across the tiny Duchy Of Luxem-
bourg to a point 48 miles from
Sedan at the French frontier. Van
guards were 10 miles from the Bel.
gian road center of Bastogne.
Only on the flanks in Luxem-
bourg on the south and In the
Malmedy- Stavelot sector on the
north had the German advance
been halted. One enemy armored
spearhead, the bulk Of a Panzer
division, was being ground to bits
in trap of steel near Stavelot.
The initiative remained definite
ly in the hands of the enemy. SUE
preme Headquarters reporting Ger
man advanced positions as of noon
Tuesday, gave no hint that the
drives had spent their momentum.
Many American formations have
been badly mauled, supplies have
been consumed and lost, and the
doughboys in the trenches see in
the German drive a reverse which
may prolong the war many
months.
One American counterblow on
the north narrowed by nine miles
the 55-mile wide neck of the Ger
man bulge into Belgium and Lux
embourg.
The valiant fight of the Dough~
boys, a U. S. First Army staff
officer declared, had bought time
in which countermeasures to check
the German rush could be pre-
pared.
Field Marshal Won Rundstedt had
hurled up to IS divisions-probably
more than 100000 men-including
five or six armored divisions, into
this desperate offensive which was
badly upsetting the Allied time
table for the conquest of Germany.
V-bombs rained down on Allied
positions and rear base areas,
slackening of the main drives was
interpreted in late dispatches as
only pauses for regrouping and
fresh blows, and uneasiness had
spread among civilians all the way
back to the Belgian capital.
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u Sired Aid In Greece
Nav Be Asked By British

might be prejudiced' by the
Kings premature" return.
Deputy Prime Minister Clement
R. Attlee refused however, to go
beyond Eden's statement yes
terday in which the Foreign Sec
rotary said that he and Churchill
had advised the King to stay in
London on the grounds that re-
turn now might cause political dis
turbance.
In Commons, the suggestion al
so was advanced that the British
arrange a weeks Christmas truce
in the Greek fighting. drawing
from Eden quick quip: Our
object is not to stop it for a week
but to obtain a final solution of
this buiness."
Meanwhile, creation of a United
Nations commission to supervise
elections in liberated lands w a S
advocated by another member OF
Parliament on behalf of the gov
eminent. Attlee said he could see
mo advantage of a general COM
mission" but that Britain would
be willing to give some assistance
to countries other than Greece iii
asked"
Debate in the House Of Lords
was sharp. Lord Faringdon sug-
| gested that 1.-The King OF Greece
did not deserve and was in fact
an unsuitable recipient of the re-
spect and authority with which the
British government h invested
him."
IT think there can be no pos
sibility.'' he added, 'that the King
has hardly any personal support
in Greece. The Greek people in
evitably hold against him that it
was he who brought in Dictator
ship in Greece and VINO maintain
ed the dictator Metaxas in pow
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EnemyBoasts
OF New Units
Waiting Call
German Command Conf
dent OF Success,
Radio Says

LONDON, Dec. 21.-F-
German broadcasts declared
tonight that Field Marshal
Won Rundstedt's "steamroller
offensive" had cut the vital
Liege-Bastogne highway ION
a broad 'front.' and was driv-
ing the enemy to the Meuse
valley" - some IS miles far
ther west.
One Berlin commentator said the
U. S. Third Army had rushed
north into southern Luxembourg
in an attempt to stem a second
drive pointed toward Sedan, but
said none Of these movements
carried out by the enemy have
thus far led to any noteworthy
success"
An analyst for DNB said the
offensive rolls on tonight" and
"all our assault divisions have moi
yet been thrown In.
1.-The German command" he
added, "awaits the expected eli.
max of the battle with quiet con.
fidence.
This broadcaster, DR.. Max
Krull, claimed five Allied divisions
"already are completely smashed
and seven others were in hurried
retreat"
The attack, he said, was back.
ed by rested replenished infan.
try divisions which are equipped
with tanks of the most modern
tpye, with special antitank guns
and motorized artillery which de.
velops extremely mobile firepow.
er.
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tS1On OF OeDdCe on the new TeHCH
Soviet alliance.
Following a statement from de
Gaulle, chief Of the provisional gov
eminent, on the recent negotiation.
leading to the signing of the 20
year alliance, the assembly approx
ed the pact which now is ready fol
rativfcation by the French cabinet
France cannot conceive vic
tory without a world security or
anization who could be first il
rank if not the United States, whose
efforts in the Western theater ane
in the Pacific are enormous?" he
added.
Earlier, Foreign Minister Geor
ges Bidault said France intends tt
help mount guard on Rhine after
the war to keep the Rhineland ano
RUIZ, industries out of German
hands. He also declared the French
nation intends to help Poland ex
pand westward into Silesia anc
East Prussia.
The minister, who signed the pac1
for France, asserted that the &C
cord would be a means of mutual
defense and added that the Rus.
SLAMS and French had agreed to
territorial revisions in both the east
and the west.
Eve agreed to the acquisition by
Poland of East Prussia and Silesia,
he said. This concession cores.
ponds in our way Of thinking to ter.
ritories in which Poland would be
persuaded to abandon"
This apparently was a reference
to Russia's proposed acquisition OF
former Polish territory UP to the
Curzon Line. During the confer.
ences at Moscow, the French, ira
ditional protagonists of the Poles,
promised to support the Russian
case for the old Curzon line, &C.
cording to reports received here.
Bidault said the Rhineland ques-
ton was for all the Allies to work
out within the European Advisory
Commission, but ''it is certain that
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British Strufe Units
After Ultimatum Ignored

ATHENS, Dec. 21.-(P)-British
tanks and rocket-firing fighter
planes shelled and strafed ELIAS
concentrations north of Athens to-
Gay upon expiration of the 9 a. m.
ultimatum in which 1t. Gen.
Ronald M. Scobie waned the Greek
Leftists he would use every avail
able weapon in an effort to restore
order.
Sherman tanks climbed the high,
monastary-topped L k b e S
mountain, their 75-mm guns she'll
ing and scattering ELIAS goups
around Averof prison and the mill
tary academy.
Raj fighters pin-pointed other
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Raj BOMBERS
STRIKE BONN
AND COLOGNE

LONDON, Friday, Dec. 21.-(F-
Raj heavy bombers struck into
Germany last night in twin blow
against freight yards at Cologne
and Bonn, on the Rhine 20 miles
south, after other British Lancas-
tiers had made a daylight attack
on the German railway town Of
Trier.
Weather continued bad and even
the daylight raiders. which drop
ped an estimated 1900 tons Of
bombs, were forced to use night
bombing instruments to reach their
targets through the heavy fog.
U. S. Ninth Air Force fighters
rose from their bases on the Con.
tinent to accompany the 200 Bril-
fish heavywelghts to Trier, 20
miles northeast Of Luxembourg
City. The Lancasters, essentially
night attackers, returned home
without loss.
U. S. Eighth Air Force Fortress
es and Liberators-equipped for
day bombing only again were
grounded as the British heavies
took advantage ct their night-raid-
ing apparatus to brave the murky
weather that has stopped almost
all air support for Allied troops
attempting to stem the German
drive
Meanwhile, Italian-based U. S.
18th Air Force heavy bombers
hammered ali targets at Rosen.
helm, 50 miles southeast of Munich.
rounding out seven straight DAYS
OF blows at southern German COM
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LONDON, Dec. 21.- (Rl The
chance that Britain may ask Amer
ican-Russian aid in settling Greek
political woes arose today along
with a demand in Commons that
the British government Invite
King George of Greece to remain
here until his erstWhlle subJects
decide whether or not to take him
back into the fold.
Lord Samuel told the House Of
Lords Britain probably would have
to resort to some sort OF Inter
Allied action to settle the Greek
situation. He contended there Is
no reason why Great Britain
should be called upon to bear this
burden alone"
The liberal leaders assertion
came after member OF his par
ty. Lord Faringdon, sharply as
sailing Britain's armed lnterven
ton. cautioned that ''mutiny'' may
arise among British Tommles oe
tailed to quell civil strife If
Greece.
The Eton-educated Lord Earring
don's contention, plus his claim
that the British terms for peace
in Greece were conditions OF sur
render'' rather than of armistlce
drew a stern rebuke from Lore
sameul and cries of "monstrous
from his colleagues in the usually
sedate and placid chamber.
But the Greek monarch remain
ed on the pan in both Houses O.
Parliament.
In Commons, Tom Driberg Qn
dependent) unsuccessfully sough
government assurances that Kint
George be asked Ito state public
|lv that he has no intention of re
turning to Greece until after t h {
question of monarchy h S beer
settled by a free plebiscite." HI
contended that such plebiscite
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II, s. Attaiins
New Invasion
OF Pincers In Or
moe Corridor Is
Announced

GENERAL M'ARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, PHILIP
| PINES, FRIDAY, Dec. o.
| g-Deadly American fight
g planes are flying against
the japanese from a newly
instructed airdrome on Min
| dro Island, less than $50
miles from Manila Gen. Doug
las Macarthur reported to-
day,
The announcement that the new
field hacked out on Mindoro' s
southwest coast is in use, marked
attainment of the primary obiec-
tive in the landing on the island a
week ago today.
Its Importance, both to the Amer
leans and the Japanese, was dem
astrated as the enemy sent %
planes against installations there
Wednesday. Eleven of the raiders
we're downed in fierce aerial com.
bat with American Lightnings and
Thunderbolts. One American fight.
er plane was lost.
Closing of so-called ''pincers''
in the Ormoc corridor, on Leyte
Islands northwest coast, means
that the First American Cavalry
ron the north and the 77th Infan-
|try Division from the south have
joined their advance units along
the Ormoc road. The Japanese,
PARTICULARLY nthe east side of the
road were striving desperately to
keep gap open SO they could slip
through to the west in the direction
OF Palompon, h e r remaining
escape port.
But the Nlpponese were well
scattered. While there still is stiff
aSh'lng ahead by isolated pockets,
AelF destruction continues. An ad-
GloraI 2,032 enemy dead were
counted in the Ormoc corridor
Wednesday,.
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|MUKDEN PLANE
PLANT BOMBED
B-29's Hit Air Opposition
In Attack On Jap
Industry

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.- R -
B-29 Superfortresses. fighting
through moderate to strong" all
opposition, today bombed a Japa-
nese aircraft plant at Mukden.
Manchuria-the third enemy air
plane factory to be blasted this
week.
In the air battle, two of the
force of about 60 B-29's were lost
and 80 enemy fighters were hit.
B-29 crewmen reported on their
return to China bases that Is enc
my planes certainly were destroy
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mean further delay in increasing
production of civilian goods.
WPB Chairman j. A. Krug told
a news conference that "greatly
increased demands on production
would result from the Nazi coun-
ter-thrust.
IF General Eisenhower had
been able to break through the
West Wall promptly, the equip
ment we had under procurement
would have been sufficient" ne
said.
He hasn't been able to, and it
looks as if it may take quite a
long time. We must get ready to
fight the kind of war we've been
fighting in the last two months
for the next year or as long as
lit takes"
Slim con of IL
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important Alice Highway South OF L;eg@
Cut BY inch e|ked Nazi Winter Offensive
American Fighters Using Mindoro Airfielc
WPB Re- Surveys Production Plans;
War With Nazis May Run Over Yea,

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.-R-
Germany's powerful counter-of-
fensive led Government officials
tonight to resurvey arms produc-
ton plants on the basis that heavy
fighting may continue in Europe
for year or longer.
Against this dark possibility,
however, Secretary of War Slim
son set another-the possibility
that the war may be definitely
shortened if the Nazi effort can
be crushed.
But even if the Sti.nson-foresen
possibility should proveet true, it
appeared certain that the present
rate of arms production must be
stepped up because of the enor-
nous losses of material in the cur
rent heavy fighting. This would
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Federal Workers Respond
To Army Call For Blood
Needed On Western Front

WASHINGTON. Dec. 81. (P) :
Government employees were re-
spending by the hundreds today
to an urgent appeal for donations
of whole blood to be flown to
France.
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau
broadcast over a loud-speaker sys-
tenn an appeal for all healthy
Treasury employees to report for
blood tests because of an "emer-
gency'' and said he was taking
one.
But National Red Cross Head
quarters said no special appeal
had been received from Army
Headquarters in Europe. 1t ex-
planned Christmas shopping ap-
parently had caused Washington
and some other East Coast cities
to fall behind in their quotas of
whole blood flown to France each
light.
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troublesome positions. nd at
Omonia square tank-supported
parachute troops patrols made a
series of sorties.
A billet of the U. S. AAF Trans
port Command rocked with the
conclusion of shell blasts as the
troops demolished a snipers' nest
in the square, whose buildings are
just behind the Comopolite hotel
quarters of the American airmen.
It was not Immediately clear
how much effect Scobie's warning
had on the ELIAS forces. Nor was
there any further word of political
developments toward truce.
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strongly implied that he expects
the German lunge to fall short.
The Secretary compared it with
the desperate drives of the same
enemy in 1918 which were beaten
and followed quickly by the wars
end.
With little to lose, he said, the
Nazi High Command chose to
gamble some of its troops rather
than await the inevitable end OF
a slow defensive" The possibility
exists, he conceded, that the coun-
teroffensive might develop SO as
to gain for the Germans "a few
months extension of time" before
they are called "to an accounting
for the misery they have inflict.
ed upon the world"
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France Expects To Help
Form World Peace Group

PARIS, Dec. 21.-QP)-France is determined to help
form world peace organization in which she expects the
United States to take the leading role, Gen. Charles de
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FORECAST

Fair and mild today with highest
4enperature about 81 degrees. Gentle to
tolerate variable winds becoming SOUTH
westerly.
Yesterdays temperatures:
nigh Slow, IS.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-20

The word soviet" means "coun
ell" in English.
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CHURCH OPPOSES
VENCEFUL PEACE

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Oct. 49,
R-Opposition to a vengeful and
hate-perpetuating peace at the
enc Of the present war was ex-
pressed in a resolution adopted
during the closing session here
today of the synod OF the Fourth
province Of the Episcopal church.
Declaring that Christian peace
must include political, social and
economic justice for small ma
tons and minority groups, the
resolution urged all citizens ia
exercise care in voting for pub
lie officials" and said members
(of the church, shall be called to
repentance and faith in Christ as
a consequence of previous short
sightedness in political, social and
economic matters
Increase of the provincial bud
get by 20 per cent over 1914, with
most of the addition being appro-
priated to college work, was an
nounced by DR.. Warren Kearney,
New Orleans, La, in the annual
budget report.
The Rev. Charles w. Sheerin,
Washington, D. c., spoke on the
church mission of help of which
he is national president.
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DIR. KALIF SPEAKS
AT WELFARE MEET

RALEIGH, Oct. 10 Up The
dawning notion that families in
which there is unemployment or
low earnings constitute a public re-
sponsibility has vast possibilities
for the future Of public welfare,
DR.. George 7. Kalif. director Of the
Richmond Wa.) School of Social
Work, told the 25th annual Public
Welfare Institute here today.
With DR.. Kalif's address the in
stitute closed three days Of discus
sion OF social welfare problems and
procedures. A short session will be
held tomorrow. More than 275 vel
fare workers were registered for
the institute.
Provision Of full employment is
a matter Of deep concern today,
DR.. Kalif said, mot merely be-
cause OF the necessity of supplying
the essential needs of existence
but because Of the dawning con-
seriousness that unemployment de-
stroys morale"
1T is not financial assistance
that destroys morale, but the en-
forced idleness which undermines
character, the search for employ
ment, the rebuffs piling Illustration
on Illustration, humiliation of en-
forced restriction in social activi-
ties, and the presence of a family
that must be clothed, fed, an d
housed" he said.
MANS needs extend beyond
those for food, clothing and shelter
and recognition of this fact has led
to the provision of constructive as
well as preventive programs. Mea-
sures taken by public authorities
recognize the need for services be-
You'd those providing the necessi-
ties of existence"
He said that in modren indus
trial society a scheme of social
insurance is a necessity. Social
insurance, public assistance, health
and recreation are expanding fields
to help individuals live out their
lives with personal satisfaction and
independence
Turning to the problem of aiding
returning war veterans DR.. Kalif
said that, understanding the vet
eran problem will require more