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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-12
Treaty Ends Greek Fight
BY JAMES E. ROPER

Athens, Feb. 12- CUP)-A com promise peace treaty ended the bloody Greek civil war today.
 Representatives of the Greek gov- ernmcnt and the rebellious left wing EAM-ELAS signed the pre- liminary protocols to the treaty at 4:30 a. m. after an all-night TO- hour meeting. The final treaty will be signed at 2:30 D. m.
 The treaty grants FAM ELIAS de- mands that general elections and a plebiScite on the question of King Georges return to Greece be held this year, but excludes the FAM ELIAS from the government at least until after the elections.
 Before the outbreak of the civil war Dec. 3, FAM national libera- tion fronU held seven cabinet posts. The treaty also provides for the disarmament of the ELIAS, military arm of tile FAM, by March i5 and distinguishes between common crimes and political offenses in any trials of EAM-ELAS followers.
 Government employees who parti- cipated in the recent fighting 0r collaborated with the Germans duro ing the years of Nazi occupation will be discharged under another provision of the treaty.
 The preliminary protocols were signed at a seaside villa at Var kiza, near Athens. where peace nc- gotiations had been under way since Feb. ? under truce arranged by the British commander In Greece, It. Gen. Ronald Scobie.
 Harold MacMillan, British cabinet minister resident !n the Mediter.
 
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-12
RUSSIANS ENC|RCLE BRESLAU
Capture OfKleve And Pruem
 By Canadians Appears Sure Despite German Resistance
BY JACK FLEIsCHER

Paris, February 12.-UP) = Supreme headquarters re- ported today that the capture of Kleve and Pruem, key stone bases of the yielding Siegfried Line, appeared i'm minent.
 Canadian First Arm y troops broke the German grip on Kleve, northern an chor of the Siegfried belt, ex- cept for a toehold on the edge of the stronghold.
 American Third A rm y forces stormed through more than half of Pruem, 11O miles south of Kleve, and front re- ports said the main garrison had withdrawn, leaving a thinly scattered rear guard.
 SHAEF sources said the mounting Allied pressure on the fortified com- munications centers threatened to collapse the remaining German re- Sistance at any time.
 Between the besieged bases, pa- trols of the American First Army probed the German defenses on the east bank of the Roer river south of Dueren. They found the east bank heavily defended.
 As the battle of Kleve moved to- ward Its climax, the Canadians cap- tured the neighboring town of Gen. nep in the offensive aimed at the industrial Ruhr
 Low Rain Clouds
 Fighting under low rain clouds that grounded their air support, vet eran Canadian, English and Scot tish infantrymen were slugging through 12-mile breach in the toughest German defenses covering the industrial Ruhr valley.
 Field dispatches said British shock troops had broken through the dense reich forestbetween Gen. 11ep and Kleve and were driving down on the Siegfried line strong hold of Goch against steadily-stif- fening German resistance.
 Weather closed in today ground ing most of the tactical air force but observers reported they gave the German rail network in the Rhine e-Dortmund Bielefeld-Pader- born quadilateral one of the wars worst poundings yesterday.
 The planes flew almost 1000 sor- ties and reported knocking out 53 locomotives and 99 freight cars. An- other 1O7 locomotives and 454 freight care were damaged.
 The trains were part of a two-day traffic movement - troops and sup plies coming up to bolster the vest ern front and vital war materials leaving the Ruhr for the eastern front.
 More than 100 miles to the south, Lieutenant General George s. Pat tons American Third Army forces fought their way into another west wall bastion at Pruem and cleared more than half the town after a
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Hundreds ofGern1anH Homes Concerted Into PiLLb0xes

plete destruction of the city.
 Fifteen SS Elite Guards divisions were reported massed in the city, and Moscow said the Nazis were evacuating civilians from the east ern suburbs by forse, mining the roads and transforming hundreds of homes Into pillboxes.
 Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower $ western Allied headquarters broad cast an appeal to German and foreign railway workers in the Reich to sabotage all railway move ment of troops, supplies and forcib- ly-evcuated refugees.
 Disruption of this traffic at the present critical hour of the war, the broadcast said, will play de- ceive part in coming military oper- ationS."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-12
Big 3 Seek
  War Set-Up
By LYLE c. WILSON

Washington, Feb. 12- (UP) - Published reports saying the Soviet Union would join the Anglo-Ameri- can combined chiefs of staff with headquarters here provoked caut- ious suggestions today that some other method probably was being sought to coordinate war plans against Germany.
 American officials have known for months that the Russians were somewhat suspicious of the com- bined chiefs of staff set-up which has been functioning here since shortly after Pearl Harbor. It con- sists of top ranking British and American army and navy officers They plan the Anglo American joint war against Germany and Japan.
 Russian suspicious have not been of an unfriendly nature, but more an apprehension that the Soviet Union was missing out on some thing. It had been understood here. however, that the Russians did not desire membership in the combined staff because of its frquent respon- sibility for working out top plans for war against Japan. Russia and Japan are at peace.
 Russians have been so strict in their neutrality that they have re- fused on several occasions to dis cuss informally with Americans the situation which would exist when Germany is defeated. Whether Premier Josef V. Stalin has refus- ed to discuss such possibilities ol the future has not been revealed here. But his offers certainly have refused to do so.
 Publishd reports that the Soviet Union would become member of the combined chiefs was received with some doubt although Stalin, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt now are meeting and can expand the or ganization to include Russia 1T they wish.
 An alternative coordinating method possibly under considera ton or already effected would be an Anglo RusSian-American mill tary committee ability of better coordination be when the armies presently engaged against Germany on the east and west is admitted.
 Dispatches report that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower did not know the time and place of the Russian offensive which began in the east three weeks ago The Russians
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-12

London, Feb. l2 tUP) - Berlin was reported under state of siege today and swarming with hand picked Nazi Elite guards ordered by Adolf Hitler to defend the capital block by block against the Red Army
 A Moscow broadcast, partially borne out by Swiss press dispatches and German propaganda state ments, said Berlin had been con yerted into m armed camp. jam med with troops and refugees from the east and ruled by what amounted to martial law.
 Quoting advices from Stockholm, Moscow said Hitler had convoked a council of war at his headquarters and ordered Berlin defended to the death, even If 1t meant the com
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-12
Forts Bomb Two IsIond
Nv FRED SCIIERFE

Washington, Feb. 12--tUP)-B-29 SuperfortresSes followed up week end raids on Japan and Burma with heavy attack on the stepping stone island of Two, 750 miles south Of Tokyo, today.
 The daylight strike at Two, site of a strategic air base on the bombing route to Tokyo, was the fifth by SuperiortreSses of Maj. Gen. Curtis Ie Mays 21St Bomber command from Marianas bases. Army Llbera- tors hit Two for the 64th straight day last Thursday.
 On three of the previous four B. Liberators joined in the lombard 29 attacks, surface WarShips ana mcnt of Two. There was no immed- fate word whether these units also participated in today'S raid.
 The Japanese Romei agency said lone Superlortress flew over the Tokyo area at 10 q. m. (Tokyo timc) on reconnaissance today, but was shot down by a Japanese fighter plane.
 The 2lst Bomber Command opened the weekend B-29 offensive Saturday with an assault on the important Nikajima aircraft plant, 40 miles northwest of Tokyo. that probably disrupted production for months to come,
 The largest force of Superfort- rcsses ever to hit Japan demolished one main assembly building, dam aged another, badly damaged sub assembly building. damaged one third of the roof area of a fourth building and set fire to n fifth, a Guam dispatch said.
 Twenty intcrcepting Japanese planes were shot down, l9 possibly destroyed and 27 damaged, Two
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-12
SECRET BALLOT

Boston, Feb. 12-(UP)-The Ma tional Labor Relations Board today ordered an election by secret bal lot to be held within 30 days by employees of the safety car heating & Lighting Co.,, Inc. at Hamden, Conn, to determine whether they shall be represented by the United Electrical, Radio & Machine Work CTS of America (CIO) for collective bargaining purposes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-12
GAS TANK EXPLODEDA

Waterville, Me. Feb. l2-tUP)-- Eight buildings were damaged and gas service in the Waterville area disrupted when an Eliminating gas manufacturing tank exploded here yesterday,
 Though fire was confined to the one tank, the tank top blew 1000 feet away into a field. The shock was felt mile away in Fairfield.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-12
Poultry Men Here
 Rap Black Market

The majority of Waterbury's poultry markets were closed today in continuance of the suspension of business necessitated by what local and state dealers have claimed is black-market and OPA violations by New York poultry dealers.
 At the request of the local group Mayor John s. Monagan last night forwarded an appeal to Governor Raymond Baldwin seeking the states aid in cracking down on any such violations.
 According to the dealers the gov ernment has frozen the supply of poultry in the states that usually supplied New York because of the needs of the armed services. AS re- suit, they claim, the New York deal CTS are coming to Connecticut and paying more than the OPA ceiling prices and then reselling the pro- duce in New York at a profit. The result is a scarcity here 1t has been claimed.
 In view of the current and more critically impending meat shortage this curtailment of supplies of poul- try products will only add to such a situation, it was pointed out by the local dealers.
 East Hartford, Conn, Feb. 12-- (UP)-A 50 per cent drop in egg productions reported by four state cooperative marketing associations today was attributed principally to black market operations by Philip J. Wadhams, manager of the Con- necticut Farmers Cooperative Auc- tion.
 Black market prices for live poul- | try have led to killing of many birds, causing the large drop in egg production within the past foul weeks," he said. This situation has been worsened by weather condi- tions which have held up transpor- tation, he added. Live poultry sales by the cooperatives at Willimantic, Hamden, New Haven and East Hartford have dropped off ito prac- tically nothing" Wadhams said. The four cooperatives sell 35 to 40 per cent of produced eggs.
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Evening star., 1945-03-09

was on his Tooth flight when the
plane was reported missing.
John Howard Findley, aviation ra
dioman, third class, U. S. N. R., %
whose wife, Mrs. Catherine G.. Find
ley, lives at 1926 Eighth street NE.
was reported missing in action in
Asiatic waters on February 7, ac-
cording to an official Navy Depart
ment release today. Radioman
Findley is a native of Brooklyn
where his parents now live, and at
tended schools there. He came here
in 1886 with the Agriculture De-
partment, and later worked for the
Office of Emergency Management
for about a year before joining the
Navy in June, 1943. He was sent
overseas last october. He has q
son, John, a.
Pvt. Douglas E. Workman, 81, in
fantry. has been reported missing
in action in Germany since Decem-
ber 3, the War Department has in
formed his brother, Lester Workman
1914 North Seventh street, Arling-
ton, Va.
| Pvt. Workman was born in Pur-
cellville, Va, and attended Herndon
High School, Herndon, Va. Before
entering the service February 10
l943, he was employed as a tree
surgeon. He was sent overseas in
September, last year A brother
James Workman. is in the Navy
overseas.
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including one from the beauty shop
at which she had made an appoint
ment, and another from a friend
which led to discovery of the
tragedy.
Other UnsOlved Murders.
Two other recent unsolved mur-
ders faced District police, while
nearb Montgomery County Md
police were checking clues in the
murder of Mrs. Pearl Corens.
The bodies of Mr.. Barkers, IS, and
Mr.. Casbarian. So, were found the
night OF February % in a trailer at
"a parking lot at Fourteenth and N
streets NV. Robbery was believed
to be the motive in the double mur-
der. The two men were found bound,
gagged and shot.
The Staying of Miss Frances N.
Erickson, attractive young woman
architect and designer, in Rock
Greek Park August 6, 1914, still puz-
zles police Hundreds of suspects
were questioned after her stabbed
body was found, and rewards total
ing $3.50 were posted for information
leading to a solution of the case.
In the Corens case, the 45-year-
old husband, Henry H. Corens, is
held while county police seek the
torso of the 31-year-old Bethesda
woman. Her head was found Feb
ruary u on lonely road in Fair
fax County, Va.
Evening star., 1945-03-09
3OO-Bi|Iion Debt Limit
Wins in House, 1884,;
Waste Is Attacked
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Legislation boosting the national
debt limit to $500, ,0OO, 900 600 was
approved by the House, 1853 to 4,
late yesterday after Democrats and
Republicans alike called for an end
OF "wasteful" spending.
The House beat back, II to 26, a
Republican-supported effort, led by
Representative Rich, Republican, Of
Pennsylvania, to hold the debt top
at $280,000, 100000. The bill now
goes to the Senate.
No new expenditures are author
lied by the measure, which simply
authorizes borrowing to cover ex-
penditures otherwise provided for.
The Treasury said the legislation is
needed before the next, War Bond
drive in April
Representative Carlson, Repub-
lican, of Kansas sought to impress
on the House how much $500, ,O0O,-
000,0 is, saying that many dollars
put together would make a line
$4,000 miles long.
While the actual debt now is $242,-
500 900 900, the Treasury estimates
war costs will boost it to $500 O00,-
600, 900 or above by July l, 1916. The
debt when the United States began
preparing for war was about $43,-
900 ,000, 900.
In presenting The new legislation,
Chairman Doughton of the House
Ways and Means Committee de-
clared "promiscuous spending by the
Federal Government must stop, if
we are to maintain the security of
our credit"
Evening star., 1945-03-09
Ensign HiIIock, School Star
Injured in Plane Crash

Ensign Donald Hillock, 81, aI-high
basket ball and baseball star TO,
two years at Woodrow Wilson
School, has been injured in an air.
plane crash at Wildwood IN. j.
Naval Air Station, according to WORD
received by his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Nelson A Hillock 4521 Forty
fifth street NV.
He was plotting a nghter plane
when the accident occurred, Mrs
Hillock said, and is now recuperating
in the base hospital. He received
a conclusion of the brain, broken
wrist, an eye injury and body cuts
she said
Ensign Hillock was born in Brook
lyn and graduated from Woodrow
Wilson in 1912. He was attending
Washington and Lee University
when he entered the Navy in Feb
ruary, 1943.
A brother, Staff Sergt. Nelson A
Hillock. jr, %, is a radioman on a
Flying Fortress overseas and has
received the Distinguished Flying
Cross, Presidential Unit Citation and
the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf
Clusters. Mr.. Hillock is chief in
vestigator for the Federal Housing
Administration.
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Murder
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an instructor at a Navy school at
Harvard University. The names of
Lit. and Mrs. Mitchell are listed with
Mrs. Boyer's on the card of the
apartment door.
Apartment Guarded.
Mrs. Mitchell was stunned when
told of the Staying and the couple
went into seclusion. according to the
Associated Press, but a few hours
later they left by train for Wash
ington.
A police guard was placed over
the apartment last night and Mai.
Edward j. Kelly, superintendent of
police, who lives a block away at
2l00 New Hampshire avenue NV,
took personal charge of the case,
the third unsolved murder in the
District within the past two weeks.
The bullets were undergoing police
examination for clues as to identity
of the gun. which was not found
in the apartment, but no indication
was given as to their caliber. In
spector Barrett said. however, that
they were not .25 caliber, indicating
that the weapon was not the same
used in the double Staying February
% of Edward F. Barker and Pany
Casbarian in a trailer parked in a
uSed-car lot.
Always Well Dressed.
Neighbors knew Mrs. Boyer as a
quiet person, who apparently had
many friends. She always was well
dressed and was last seen in the
lobby Monday afternoon, probably
only few hours before she was
slain.
Philip Elman. who lives in the
apartment next to Mrs. Boyer's,
said he had heard nothing unusual
Monday night and had not seen
Mrs. Boyer that evening.
Mr.. Elman, an employe of the
Justice Department, said he had
been home every night this week
but had heard no sounds through
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the walls which separated his apart
ment from Mrs. Boyer's. He had a
passing acquaintance with Mrs.
Boyer, whom he saw from time to
time in the hall, and on one occasion
she asked If her late parties" dis
turbed him, he said.
Il told her l didn't mind" he said,
land that the insulation deadened
most sounds. I don't recall ever
having seen her in the company of
others"
No Disturbance Heard.
Police were unable to find any
one who had heard any disturbance
or shots in the apartment since Mrs
Boyer was last seen in the down.
stairs lobby last Monday afternoon.
She had her apartment cleaned by
several maids at various times, but
they came only when she called.
Mary Green. colored. 1854 Warder
street NV, who is the maid for
Rear Admiral Arthur j. Hepburn.
retired former Navy public relations
chief, who lives in the apartment
below Mrs. Boyer's, said she usually
cleaned the Boyer apartment Tues
days and Fridays, but not unless a
note was left for her and hence had
not attempted to enter
She said the Mitchells had lived
there after their marriage last fall
Mrs. Boyer had mentioned living in
Baltimore at one time, the maid re-
called, but had lived at Washington
House since it was opened four years
ago.
The maid also recalled that Mrs
Boyer told her she had an income
from some property. She had her
own telephone in the apartment SO
that all her calls did not go through
the apartment switchboard. The
maid said Mrs Boyer had few close
friends in the building and kept
much to herself, although she fire.
quently received telephone calls
from outside
Mary FAINT, of zoos Fiftieth street
lie, another maid who occasionally
cleaned the apartment, was working
there Thursday of last week. Both
maids were under the impression
that Mrs. Boyer's husband was not
living. Neither had door key.
Mrs. Boyer had received no mail
for the past day or two but had
received numerous telephone calls,
Evening star., 1945-03-09
Friends Of Slain Men
Offer S2,1O0 Reward

An additional $2,100 has been
offered as reward for information
leading to the arrest and conviction
of the slayer or slayers of Edward
Barker, IS, and Pany Casbarian, So,
bringing the total reward to So 500. it
was announced yesterday by In
spector Robert j. Barrett, chief of
detectives. The Police Department
previously had offered $400 for such
information.
The reward, made by IL friends
and associates of the two men who
were shot to death February % in
Mr.. Barkers trailer Office on his
used-car lot, 1902 Fourteenth street
NV, is the largest sum ever offered
here by any private group of indi-
viduals, Inspector Barrett said. He
also said that he expects the total
amount offered to reach 5000 in the
next few days.
ANY information given to the po-
lice leading to the arrest and con-
viction of the slayer or slayers will
be strictly confidential if the person
desires, even when the reward is
given out" Inspector Barrett said.
Make the good news better: Buy
more War RnndS
Evening star., 1945-03-09
Capt. Fesius F. Foster
Navy 6unnery Expert,
Killed in Plane Crash

Capt. Festus Finley Foster, one of
the Navy'S outstanding authorities
Ion ordnance and gunnery, was killed
March 3 in an airplane crash in
France and was buried in an Amer
@ican military cemetery there, the
Navy announced last night.
Capt. Fosters widow, the former
Miss Beatrice Nicholson, daughter
sof the late Prof. Albert Nicholson.
Lives with their two children, Baba,
IT, and Jeremy, II, at 1927 Q street
NV. Her father, famed Nobel Prize
winner, was brother of Charles
Nicholson, former publicity director
for the Democratic National Com
mittee.
Capt. Foster was 46 years old, a
native of Hennessey, Okla, and a
graduate of the Naval Academy in
1918. During the World War he
served as midshipman aboard the
ebattleShip Rhode Island. After be-
ing commissioned he served aboard
the Oklahoma with the British
Grand. Fleet.
= Since 1928 he had been assigned
exclusively to ordnance and gunnery
work. In 1943 he served a tour OF
duty in the Pacific In the same
phase of work.
He had been with the Bureau OF
Ordnance here and in Mare Island
Calf; more recently commanded
the Navy ordnance plant at Center
line, Mich, and was for a time Sec
ond in command at the Dahlgren
etVa) Proving Ground
Capt. Foster is also survived by
two brothers, Commodore Paul F.
Foster, U. S. N. R., and Carol H
Foster, State Department attache,
and sister. Mrs. Dorothy Foster
Fuller, Mishawaka, Ind.
Evening star., 1945-03-09
| Nozis Join Yankee
| At PiHbox Breakfast
| OF Fresh Eggs

By the Associated Press.
WITH THE UNITED STATES
Goth INFANTRY DIVISION
IN GERMANY, Mar. 9.-Staff
Sergt. Gerald Dykstra of Grand
vile, Mich, walked into an
empty pillbox today and found
the enemy communications svs-
tenn intact.
He picked up the phone.
Some one answered and Sergt.
Dykstra. speaking fluent Ger
man, said he and his American
buddies were frying fresh eggs
for breakfast.
'If you care to join us we will
be glad to have you,' he added.
Five minutes later three Ger
mans showed up for chow.
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officer of warship in action in
Surigao Strait on October 25, 1914.
Comdr. Cook. who lives at 8401
Irvington avenue, Bethesda, Nd, is
now assigned to headquarters of
the commander in chief of the
United States fleet.
Capt Hunter Wood, Hopkinsville.
KY, now officer in charge of the
discipline section in the Bureau of
Personnel here. received the Le-
gion of Merit in the same ceremony
for services as commander of a de-
stroyer division operating against
the japanese. Capt Wood lives at
3186 North Eighteenth street. Ar
1ington. Va.