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15, 194 1. TWENTY-SIX PAGES. SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS LVt ASSOCIATED PRESS nmsi rtm 7th Army Inside Germany; Nelson Returns With Report on Britain Backs Up Soviet Claim to Eastern Poland China's Effort Philippines Bombed Again WASHINGTON. D. C.

Churchill Wants U. S. to Make Stand Known U. S. to Answer Churchill Shortly, Stettinius Reveals Donald M.

Nelson has returned to Washington from a second mis No Meeting of Big Three sion to war weary China. The White House said Friday he would Pushes Over Border at Karlsruhe 82,550 Jap Casualties On Leyte reixrt to Iresident ltoosevelt ns soon as possible but would have Likely Before February Packages nothing to say about his trip be Overseas From N. Y. fore seeing the chief executive, but alto of a hth rwi hair a hrl I The former War Production iKt r.i. n.

cosri.i. INI. Ata4 I WASHINGTON. C. Tt-te arw It IxkiixI chairman, who became a NEW YORK.

UP) Postmns ter Albert Goldman rejiorts 4H, jiNM.sl.nit to the pi cr.idoiit will If DtkWl 191 -t IVI tie 000,000 parcel post packages have WASHINGTON, D. C. (IP) Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr. promised Friday to give a frank statement soon on American policy with respect to British and Russian moves in Europe.

Stettinius backed off answering any news conference questions on Poland saying he had only fragmentary reports of Prime Minister Churchill's speech Friday morning and had riot bad time to analyze it. He likewise turned down queries on a speech Thursday by Brit LONDON (U.R) Prime Minister Winston Churchill Friday endorsed the Soviet Union's claim to a postwar "buffer state" carved out of eastern Poland and tacitly invited the United States to make public its stand on the explosive Husso-Polish dispute. In a far reaching definition of the British policy on post war European settlements, Churchill told the House of Commons that Great Britain will support Russia at the with the equivalent of cabinet rank, has heen in China attcmntcd lSitf armadas of American Slalin ronfrrrncr lrfurc rrt of January. been sent overseas from the New are faU: XWxX il. Atfh a a a to stimulate greater war pro- carrier based planes have at York postoffice, while soldiers are Despite report to th contrary duction there.

He flew back by tacked the Japanese held sending home $1,000,000 daily in and problem crying fr ljui- a I money orders. m-M. I'cbruaiy rrtably the niMian.1. m.r hi-rn l'hHiimiiir uiram a at hot that the IhC Three of the nui rf mikiu i.i mi I. men.

lie rr.utt iuw ai4 mr.cf Xa e-rit of the Cm in Jar-oary. liuar thin! If 9 United Nalioru ran uwrnt'if. Friday (Japanese time) the Nipponese radio revealed in That is the prmcr.t Jutmer.t. peace conference in demanding territorial concessions from Poland to hit not only State department ri an unconfirmed broadcast ain's Labor Minister Ernest Bevin must cn tar-i Jan. 23 fourth trrm British remcn In ahincun.

'i I Ve 'r- Name 7 Top Officers For New Ratings which followed disclosure the American navy was using sjHftacular new tactics in the implying that President Roosevelt had ok'd a British-Soviet agreement on dividing Europe into respective spheres of influence. Leftists Give British area. Thursday (Japanese tme) car in the east. In serum, the greater part of East Prussia would be ceded to Poland, he said, suggesting also that there would be no objection from Britain or Russia if the Poles also pushed out their western borders into Germany proper. To Bat for Mikolajczyk.

The British backed Russian plan, Churchill said, envisages the virtual extirpation of the Prussian state, with the forced removal CHICAGO. (JP) The Polish American congress, claiming to represent 6,000,000 Americans of Polish descent, Friday in a mes rier planes kept most I Japan's northern lhilippincs airforre te U.r ti i a r. -s I Ur. rv-e r-. Tfe rm in -r If fCT-- 13 r-S ett 4 iVrrt Terms for Armistice to the r.riind while de sage to British Foreign Secretary Admiral of Navy, General of Army Ranks Created stroying VI enemy and rt ling two destroyers ahre.

Tl King George 49 LONDON. (IV) King George VI, who was 49 Thursday, gave a birthday ball at Buckingham palace Thursday night, the first dance there since the start of the war. Guests numbered about 100. Anthony Eden said "It will be to the best interests of England to persuade Russia to adopt a hands Japanese rcitortcd 100 planes in Friday's attack hit the Clark Cel PUBLIC LIKES off policy with reference to her from their homeland of most of area near Manila while "sutc 300 peaceful neighbors." others' assailed targets in Luzon WASHINGTON. D.

and the Vitayan area President ltoosevelt sinned a bill Strong Chance England May Accept ATHENS. CV Greek Iraur 10.000 I'. S. raMialtle. tr Urt ml t.mt.

7 rr "i fiie On, 1 I 1 t-'j 4T' tfixrf-S in: ci.t riday creating the ranks of fi-ct STETTINIUS AS SECRETARY Page 4 dmiral of the navy and general of Fnm radio Tokyo came an tin the army. He then nominated connrmCvl rcpurt iat four n.z- the Prussian Junkers who traditionally have been the heart and soul of the German military machine. The prime minister revealed that the United States is fully aware of the agreement reached between Russia and Britain on the Polish question and that to date it has not voiced any objection. He implied, however, that the three admirals and four generals Ward Has 3 Days To Meet WLB Terms for the new ratings. flew over the capital between 3:30 and 6 a.

m. Friday (Japanese aim! inti-d gents hae handed the Itritah terms for ending the 13 day leftist revolt, the AMiated lres a To be admirals of the fleet, the te i Sir Ut-l t-y re 7. -t i' I v-j -re bombs. first in decades, the president nominated William I). La-ahy, his (til.

DoiiU5 MacArthur eti informed by a reliable s-urre Friday night, with the the personal chief of staff: Ernest J. mates Uie first 53 days of the King, commander in chief of the Philippines invasion ha cost the Britih would accept them at a bai for an arrnnt.ee. fleet and chief of naval operations; defending Z2.So aMi.iU 30 QUARTS FOR 30 PRISONERS and Chester W. Nimitz. command Monwh.r.

horrr. the I.LAS War I Pension Bill Signed By Roosevelt ties tiiol the Anirnaii 10.403 Possible All Of Firm's Stores To Shut Down in chief of the I'aciuc fleet and of Pacific ocean areas. hammered llritnh defrrue pillions In central Athens with fresh bursts of artillery and r.f.e f.re Kigfit.ng lus ranged so far from To be generals of the army Mr. Roosevelt named George C. Mar and attacked Indian troops on the Pearl Harbor that A 4m.

Chester W. Pacific flc-ct comman shall, army chief of staff; Douglas mainland north of Patrai. der. nntHHinccd he will e5tablh time has come for a definite American statement on the problem, and announced that he would "welcome" a conference with President Roosevelt and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin at the earliest possible and preferably in Britain. It had been hoped that the leaders of the three major Allied powers would meet before Christmas, he said, but this proved impossible.

The prime minister urged the Polish leaders in London to return E-Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk to the head of their exiled government and expressed a sharp dislike for the regime which sup MacArthur. commander in tne The reply to ilrtt.h rr- WASHINGTON, D. C. (JF) mlvancrtl he.HUuartirs in a posaU for ending the conflict a The possibility of a walkout in all HAMILTON FIELD, CALIF. Pvt.

William C. Steele of Wichita Falls, wounded trying to burrow deeper into a slit trench on Leyte, was with a company which took 30 Japanese prisoners on Kwajalein. "The colonel," explained, "offered us a quart of whisky for each prisoner we brought in." southwest Pacific; Dwight I. Eisenhower. Allied commander in wanl area.

A few days oco the reoorted to contain three mailt Montgomery Ward stores at the chief in western Europe; and II. II Australian radio said Ximitz was points aror.est for the rcbcUic-u riU. trr Orty ce t. A ete Te a rr trrr--t I.rtt 'r- i et t.irjt Ve arid lTTJm'Z '-5 re Or-ui re ti- aZr re r-j p-" re lu trmm efrte4 limf. ri-r re ue e-; 1a re I firrr.

re 4r re tr A ctTr-4n teir cte re n. Vc t-'e 1 at i 1 Ire tif f. t.je rt iwlA re.t -i rJ ir- er height of the Christmas shopping season Friday hung over the new Arnold, commanding the army moving his headquarters to Guam. airforccs est collision between the big company and the War Labor board. Gen.

John J. Pershing, retired Small Lryte Gainv Rembert James. Associated Press political leaders, a national atl parties and a regrncy to rule unUl a plebiscite decides whet.er the country will remain a rofcnarthy holds the unique rank of general WLB gave the firm until Mon war correspondent aboard a flas- of the armies of the United Mates shin of a fast carrier force ff the day night to meet the "terms and Under the bill passed by congress or tiecome a republic. planted Mikolajczyk last month conditions" 6f WLB orders of Au WASHINGTON. C.

Pi Prrvder.t rxLy: a peo i.riX j-critcs Jf osi and h.itrrrt tt iece cvl eraru of lt wrl r. to f.rst yer. if peruo m'tn tf I jm-I men wty cfel V.ll War I. Tie elenvt er la trru: a.l Wuilt War I tnrari. frirtn r.vi tv-e cau4P of tkMih.

Mr. Roosevelt still may name one PhsUppincs, the new Ameri- The reply wa trmpfransy with and which has consistently op gust, 1943, and May, 1944, apply more fleet admiral. can wcucj invoivci wwimj up draw meet Itritnh lmnSrr.ce posed tne territorial concessions ing to its four Detroit stores where The new "Miner ranks" wrrf cmwn nir pnimu ti.iy that it 1-e ined by t.I-S to Russia. Would Give Russia Lwow, sought by the sen ices in order ver every one oi uie CIO-Rctail employes aTe striking This action came as Samuel Wol- leader as well a the -rmt r-Canizaliuit. the 11AM central U.

British Approve New Italian Rule to give top U. S. army aiul navy wianee airneitu on commanders rank and prestige Luzon Wand. He descnU-d the In a sober, detailed review of chok, president of the Retail Em ployes union, asserted that his comparable to that of their coun- maneuver as "sUrtling. the entire Russo-Polish controversy, Churchill told the House of group "is ready for an economic tcrparts in the Pntish and other The JajMnese were caught by Ilntish AmUawador RfS.naJ Let-per cnt for Emmanuel Greek political leader ho Commons that Russia had played Allied armies, t-isennower.

ior surprise a the planes swept out Venti.wi were aiel Va art showdown" with Montgomery Ward in all its estimated 500 stores tne major roie jn noeraung Poland example, has been "outrankil of cloutly kies in the early morn eh.Wren fit tt e.rra Ci and consequently was justified, in theoretically by nis suooroinaie, (Thunlay Man.la tme). demanding "safe frontiers that icrc tx re and plants. Wolchok said that if the gov ernment is unable to get compli untains tiernaru iaw wwu- James said, and In the f.rst few would guarantee her against fu d.ed of a d.kj.l.:y cvreerel T.rii r. i t'jk mar serv-we ari (Zi it te c4 we of ire ca-ie. tml had lesr.

d.Kb'.el tn war. Il e. comery. since tne laiicr was pro- nou rs cir.teil 3oo J.itune WASHINGTON, D. (A) ture German aggression.

motel from general to field mar- planes, only a few of which were ance with the board's directives In an apparent move to patch up is believed acceptab.e to a.5 parties, drawing. that negotiations for a r.ew were under way. The rMi-bility that the archtmhop of Athens miefct be named rejrr.t was reported. Canadians shal last summer. He urged the Poles to accept at -once the so-called Curzon line, as the union is prepared to call out in tne air.

differences in their European poli righting on Leyte continued WKiam wsthu-t K.liren T.n e-r-- s- ttl Sli A Vcr t'J re oe thM Tver.xr IS t--'-ird re cies, the United States and Bri well as a proposed "Curzon Line which would also cede the vicious as ever with the Ameri tain Thursday simultaneously be cans rcjrisicnnz small but ran. be fM Ut ea-h ni i. jlwow region to Russia. In re stowed their blessing on the new sistent gains. ward employes throughout the nation.

Wolchok said it has a majority of the 60,000 to 65,000 Ward employes across the nation. The Detroit strike was called last Saturday in an effort to force the company into comDlvine with turn, the Allies would guarantee icS l. A tt a fereur. ti i 4 feiti fr.e t.i it m'ri I Italian government. Some Solons Still Oppose Grew, Aides The statements on the new gov Chaplin's Lawyers Poland the acquisition of all of East Prussia west and south of Konigsberg, including the port of Will ret SIS.

le- fv I I ee 127. three wid cl wd I NcWS WOOQ Pushing On ernment set up by Premier Ivonoe Bonomi emphasized the close con Danzig, giving post war Poland tor aoi-l-crl vrt-an II Quiz Jurors the directives. Despite the refusal of Sewell Avery, Ward head, to sultation between ambassadors China, In Italy 200 mile coastal strip on the Baltic sea, he said. pewaded. No cr'ile wulLnr ran ctra from Washington and from Lon don during formation of the cabi LOS ANGELES.

(At Charlie pertwn unlet lr ar-n-al tt sena representatives to the board hearing in the Detroit case Thursday, WLB Chairman William H. net. ROME. IA1 Canadian tr-r- is under Il.txO. rr can a Burma Davis went ahead with plans to of the Eighth army have -tab- ch.tdren qoal.fy Ur a te Chaplin's lawyers quizzed prospective jurors in the Joan lrry paternity suit Friday in an effort to uncover any prejudice against WASHINGTON, D.

C. (IP) Senators opposing six State department nominees announced Friday they would attempt to send the nominations back to President UcMtsevelt. Sen. Claude Pepper I. Fla.) lihcd a bridgehead et ef the U.on utilex her irrne Uf hold a scheduled hearing Friday Holiday Purchases ste-eply banked anale Navi.io.

ioo. GOP Ends Campaign In the Black on me company's position in stores or plants in Chicago. Denver. St. movie ieopIe or in favor of chil Over 1943 in a mcni auac rvemeati Uacnacav and are h4dir.

It dren. A etrrn rr.utt )ae rel at re Ieat las for h. And. to rf.acw.raie x-aui, i-orciano, San Rafael, toUl a reporter he and others wha( ana Jamaica, n. Y.

against strong opposition. headquarters announced Friday. NEW YORK. Holiday gift are opposed to confirmation of the aiicic is a cnance uavis -mav en fmen marrying setetint Jif ife fi-'. the idea of ta.n r.

1 purchases swelled this week's re ask the White House to act simul slate headed by Joseph C. Grew, named as undersecretary of state, c4 Charles E. Millikan. the white haired comedian's attorney, wanted to know: "Are you prejudiced against the motion picture industry? "Are you f.tinl of small children? Would such fondness influ tail trade volume for the country l.e law ay that any wieran t-rel ArrT-- a tie taneously against Montgomery would "resist any effort to take up the nominations out of order." uru in au seven cities. Prm ,1 The advance was made by same firres mho days their way thnwifth tf! Cirnun defense in rnuinfi the Iamone river due west td The attack threatened the road center of nacnacavallo, 10 ui-uuui intercession mieht mvnn married a veteran after te li r' e.Tx tie -f mu't Uir t'w re been marr.el h.m fc 19 )ert ret tte 1., CHICAGO.

(U.R) For the first time in Republican party history, there is a post presidential election surplus, according to James S. Kemper, chairman of the GOP 'We still believe that there is to levels 10 14 percent ahead of the same period last year. Dun Bradstreet reported Friday. Midwest gains were 6 to 9 percent. government seizure, as it did in possibility that the president ence your opinion in favor of the the company's Chicago strike last the peran will reconsider these nominations.

to receive death. plaintiff? spring. finance committee, who credits the the Florida senator said. With hj IU.fTrrar Kt1 ef 1 party with $350,000 in surplus campaign funds. blocks generally were holding up well, but supplies of some items, such as lingerie and toys, are reported rapidly becoming deplet that in mind, he said he would move to send the nominations back Captured Generals Nazi Prisoners miles northeast of Faerjra In the Po valley.

Allied headquarters said the Canadians turned bark a numWr of (Irrnun but heavy fight in ctr.t.nuevl. Kemper report was read Urges Increase In Butter Cost ed, said the mercantile agency. Ask Hitler Ouster to the White House. A motion of this sort would provide single test vote on all six nominees, un- To Resume Worlc Thursday night to members of the Illinois finance committee who Cigaret Shortage Inquiry Ends Industrial Users heard National Republican Choir ess it were amended from the MOSCOW (U.PJ Marshal XT. SHERIDAN.

II.T CI ICAGO Tre? to floor to exclude some of them. man Herbert Brownell pledge -use iriiMjners oi war on a bread and Replacement Lack Vexes Eisenhower To Get Less Sugar water diet for four A aVS U'Pra in- of the funds for the development of an organization to keep the party functioning on a "year round Train Runs Over but Te rrr7 wtul mke rreutrr It i Ve i- iormea j- riday they would be permitted to return to work Monday WASHINGTON, D. (U.R) oaeis. Boy Switchman GERMANY. U1 Already rtiMU-.

4'l V. liieT, executive secrrtarT e-f The Office of Price Administration auer uieir spokesman reported Friedrich Von Puulus, former German commander at Stalingrad, and 49 other captured Gerrrum Kcn-craLs luldri-ssed an imjHisMoncd appeal to the German army Friday to overthrow Adolf Hitler and Hcinrich Himmler and make peace before the army is entirely destroyed. The appeal. in the Soviet press ami hro.Mlc.tM oer the Miimhw rudio by Von Paulus. was relayed over loud can nutter tn.rhite.

ttl re I plagued by shortages of ammunition and tfrcs. Amencan forces on Friday ordered a 10 percent cut in sugar consumption by most in DECATUR, ILL. (IP) Billy T1 r-m, I them ready to accept whatever conditions the camp commander imposed. The 14 day bread and nss Farmhand Killed In P-38 Swoop Jcne Lowery, 16 year old switch cnver.tjvn dustrial users, beginning Jan. 1 a r- man employed for the last four water diet was ordered bv Mai The reduction, the agency pointed the western front now are cn-frnteil xnth the problem trane.l inl.nilry icpUce-merds.

1 tr.nl a stealy tU Pla.ne.1 that -J r.neT r- months by the Illinois Central rail E. It. Schuclke, camp commander, out, was in line with first charter i f. ami ma: toi of 1945 allocations of sugar for COLLEGE PARK, GA. (A) Tuesday morning because of mass refusal to work.

The sen road, died Thursday three hours after he was run over by a railroad car he was switching. Low civilian use made by the War f- speakers in the Ilusian front tence was suspended, effective 'v 'f C. ti Food administration, which has An army P-38 plane killed a farmhand working atop a silo near here Thursday as it crashed on the farm re lines. Sunday. ery attended the railroad scliooi asserted that stocks "are at a low of uch replacements direct trn the Unitwl State, men are ben: taken fnen newly arnvetl divisions or frn quiet sectors f.Jl the ranks Iii.i-n sl.Kh have had high battle rauialt.es.

level" and by Jan. 1 are expected of instruction at CarUmilalp last summer. He is survived by his of T. Q. Sullivan.

J. E. Mealer, a Urges More Pay For War Workers to be 450,000 tons under the same St. Louis Recluse Ai, jamer or. nve cnudrcn, was Hannover, Kassel Targets of Forts parents of Decatur.

period of 1944. Report Szalasi's Life Threatened nearly decapitated as the plane sheared on the top of the silo, Disappears Chicago Fire Destroys The pilot, whose name was not WASHINGTON. D. C. Cf) Wayne Morris Home i ma h.

Supply of Orchids inn ine I'aria ra After 57 Sorties LOUIS. (IP) Helmuth disclosed, was critically injured. Presidential Guard Dies 1 1 -v raj re r-m dio said Friday Hungarian Prime Setz, 53 year old millionaire creAM-s in war industry kery tf.V CHICAGO. (A) A large part chemist who was found living in 8 Generals Executed LlsnOSsRiP Eight Hungarian genera's who refused to support Adm. Nicholas Horthy, regent of Hungary, have been executed following conviction by a Ititilapest court.

S.ma. former Hungarian press attache, lid Friday. Minister Ferenc Szalasi has been seriou.sly wounded In an attempt- of Chicago's weekend orchid Mip- voluntary confinement in a room kS It. lr r. marij.er lt r-; i er HOLLYWOOD.

(P) Lt. Bert DeWayne Morris, U.SNR, otherwise Actor Wayne Morris, was ply was destroyed Friday in a fire assassination. A wecK ago in a fashionable west end hotel fm lu in a thn-e story brick building if-: V. Szalasi wa.t rt jxrted to h.ixe Visit-etl Adolf Hitler at the fuehrer's WASHINGTON, D. (IP) Henry W.

Gilbert, 80, White House guard under seven presidents before his retirement from the metropolitan police force in left the room Thursday night, for the first time in six years. The home with his wife and 6 months old daughter Friday, credited with occupied by two floral the invrcaunx ctenm.t!ee r-rrr hearer after M.ty iM Hay. deputy cha.rrnan cf L-e War iftrrt. T.ve I secret headquarters. hotel desk said Setz had gone but had not checked out of the room Louis Hoeckner wholesale florists, and Archie Spencer, retail florist.

57 aerial sorties, shooting down seven Jap Zeros, sinking an escort vessel and a flak gunboat and 1924, died Friday. he first rented in March, 1939 j. a manpower L.v lit a ti the five nxrat-M f.en N- f- His whereabouts Friday were un helping sink a submarine and known although he was taken Navy Puts Nearly Billion In War Bonds in 3 Years damage a heavy cruiser and mine layer. Sentenced fo Death LONDON. (A1) An Algerian military tribunal has sentenced to I Thursday night to the residence of Colder Tonight; More Snow a brother.

death a Senegalese soldier charged ENOUGH CHICKENS BUT FEW TURKEYS WASHINGTON. D. CD The treasury has announced the GOVERNMENT WEATHER FORECAST, with $hooting and slightly wounding Gen. Henri Giraud at Oran early in September, the Taris ra Nazis Knocking Dcn Austrian War Factories T. ff -iay i are latest sales figures In the sisth Bombs Strike 30th Night in Row BLOOMINGTON AREA.

Colder Friday nljrht and Saturday; light snow Friday ir.eht; snow flurries Saturday; lowest war loan as follows: bor.dJ. dio said Friday. The Senegalese vernier nest iireh. JUST TO GEt7T ALL STRAIGHT PAIUS. CF YarAre t4.e? who have entered cw.r.'.j the chant of urchira "any cjm.

chwnv." rte rexi-eI in a tey frn te fr'et to have pa.n'.cd scn trvirki. He? U' i wotkir Germany. jCvs read: "No r-c tvaiO CHICAGO. (IP) The Insti $133.000.000: total lnd.vidual was declared drunk at the time. sale.

tute of American Poultry Indus Friday night, 20; highest Saturday, 25. PANTAGRAPH WEATHER RECORD. Thuriday'i maximum, 24: minimum, 3. LONDON. IP) For the 13th night in a row, the Germans grand totaL $1.

46.1.0O0.0O0. Fighting men and civilian employes of the United States navy invested close to a billion dollars in war bonds in the last three years. That was the report given at a news conference Friday by Capt Gerald A. Kubank. navy coordinator for war bonds.

tries riday iorecast a severe shortage of Christmas turkeys Baritone Dies NEW YOHK. (V) Willard Friday 6 a. m. 11 a. m.

2 p. but held forth the promise there tacked southern England with bombs Thursday flight and the ai Tlie dnve end Itorvl money rontinues to count until the lempemtor 22 30 3S Pun mm Friday: 6:33. Hun r1 Saturday: may be enough chickens for rrwi c. lr'- 1 rji Charles Fry, 45, former Chicago opera baritone, died Wednesday ministry reported Friday the end of lecember. with the f.na! holiday tables in the middle PANTAGRAPH PHONES 6900- routine "damage and west.

figures being announced Jan. 2. in St. John hospital..