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LXVII No. 26 MINNEAPOLIS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1944 16 PAGES Price 3 Cents 5 gft THE WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight; warmer Wednesday. TEMPERATURES JOURNAL Sinnia.dhi to Mask Churchill Aids Greek Unity Hope Dynamite Under' His Athens Hotel Ttv.A. vv JL II If pi x- jfjj ilj HJ Lr-fl' rr b. 5 FEE tf- 1 Jr V'h J.

of MMe BELGIUM fVs? wips our V(r )) II -sSSYT AMERICAN Ljmgfr' )) VW'VOug'" SAllfNTNCAR SJ tiTATl FRANCE I XroRuievt comrades iuxembourgiv JJ iTPAPPED IN BAST06H .7 PROPOSED MAYO MEMORIAL BUILDING FOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS Appeal will be made for contributions for 12-story, $2,000,000 memorial And So, Blairgowrie, Weather May Relent Sf UTI Mill Asxoelated Press Wlrvphota GERMANS WIPE OUT YANK SALIENT, FORM SINGLE BULGE Von Rundstedt's forces continue hammering toward Meuse THE WEATHER has relented, Blairgowrie, laddie, time to permit us to suggest borrowing an item of significant implications from our British cousins. In the British empire, Blairgowrie, boy, today is an additional holiday after Christmas, called Boxing day. It is, Blairgowrie, traditionally a day in which Christmas wrappings and packagings are gotten rid of with frightful celerity, thereby helping out the waste paper drive. It in further, Blairgowrie get on the other knee, that one is frost-bitten an occasion on which postmen, delivery boys, are given their gifts. That, Blairgowrie, is where the significant implications come in.

No end, Blairgowrie. With us, a Yuletide cravat is a Yuletide cravat, and wear it we must or brave the displeasure of Uncle Fothergill, who has a tidy Memprial to Mayos Proposed $2,000,000 Center to Honor Doctors Plans for erection of a center for medical research, teaching and administration as a memorial to Dr. William J. and Dr. Charles H.

Mayo were announced today by the committee of founders of the Mayo memorial, headed by Dr. Donald J. Cowling. jm The proposed 12-story Mayo Memorial building, to be erected on the University of Minnesota medical campus in the center of the University Hospitals quadrangle, will be constructed at an approximate cost of $2,000,000. Citizen of Minnesota, where the Dri.

Mayo were born, where they practiced all their lives and to which the Mayo reputation has drawn the sick and suffering from all over the world, will be asked to contribute most of the funds for erection of the memorial to the two men who were called "country doctors for the world." A statewide appeal for contributions will be started early in 1945 under direction of the committee of founders. The appeal also will be carried on nationally and, if war conditions permit, international- ly, to give the friends of tthe Mayos all over the world a chance to contribute. The committee of founders was appointed by the governor and the state legislature after passage of a concurrent resolution by the 1943 legislature calling attention to the many outstanding advances inj medical science brought to mankind by the Drs. Mayo and asking a committee be appointed to plan a suitable memorial to these distinguished sons of Minnesota. Serving with Dr.

Qowling on the committee of founders are George Earl, St- Paul, secretary! of the committee; James Ford! Bell, Earle Brown, Mrs. George Chase Christian and Frank T. Hef-felfinger of Minneapolis; George V. Lawson, Archbishop John! Gregory Murray and I. A.

O'Shaughnessy of St. Paul; Jay C. Hormel, Austin; Ward Lucas, Winona; Dr. Edward L. Tuohy, Duluth; and six members of the state legislature; Senators Raymond J.

Julkowski, Charles N. Orr and William B. Richardson; Representatives Walter Burdick and Ben D. Hughes and former representative Mabeth Hurd Paige. "The committee of founders haves weighed many suggestion for a suitable memorial to the Mayo brothers and have finally determined the most fitting would be a great center for research to be erected on the campus of the medical school of the University of Minnesota to which the Drs.

Mayo devoted so much time, interest and money during their lifetime," Dr. Cowling said today. Dr. Will Mayo served the university as a member of the board of regents for 32 years and Dr. Charles was for many years professor of surgery.

Together they were responsible for establishing the Mayo Foundation for medical education and research. Mayo memorial committees will be organized by the committee of founders, in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Duluth and elsewhere in the state to take charge of the appeal for contributions to help erect the memorial. A general headquarters under direction of Byron W. Shimp will be opened Jan.

1 at 1126 North, western Bank building. Pound Nazis by Air Fourth Straight Day LONDON UP) In strong support of American troops fortune amassed in real estate. battling the German offensive, United States bombers and fighters for the fourth day attacked enemy communica tion and lines. Headquarters of the strategic cluded two railroad yards in the Coblenz area and bridges and rail lines between Coblenz and Bonn: The communique said 150 Liberators and Flying Fortresses accompanied by more than 300 Mustangs and Thunderbolts participated IRiver ermans Advancing Westward Penetration Now Is 50 Miles Wide PARIS (LP) The German offensive across Belgium, backed by two and possibly full Nazi field armies, advanced west today, despite continuous American air assaults, and Nazi spearhead smashed to within four miles of-the vital Meuse river line. Supreme Allied headquarters' announcement disclosed that by Sunday night the Germans had plunged 50 miles into Belgium.

The most forward points reach ed by the Nazis were Celles, four miles east of the fortress' city of Dinant, representing a gain' of 11 miles from Rochefort and Ciney, 10 miles northwest of Rochefort and about eight miles from the Meuse. The Nazi advance was made possible by crushing the American salient In the center of the German bulge extending west from St. Vlth. This enabled the northern and central spearheads of the Nazi forces to join up and hammer west with new force. a The Nazi offensive front now was a single bulge 35 miles wide and 50 miles or more deep.

An Allied military spokesman at Shaef said the offensive had been personally planned by Hitler and was designed to crush the. Allied forces in the west. He said the initial objective of the Germans was the Meuse river line and the fortress cities of Liege, Namur and Dinant, The plans had been thwarted, in measure, he said, but further German gains must be expected. Field Marshal von Rundstedt has hurled the Seventh German Infantry army into his attack and is employing the Fifth German panzer army and possibly a second panzer army. a With the crumbling away of the American positions in the center of the German bulge, the Nazis were pounding hard for the Meuse river despite fresh tactical assaults by the Ninth air force.

Br tha Aurfriitea Press In the heart, of this bulge a surrounded American force several thousand strong fought doggedly to hold the important Belgian road hub of Bastogne after rejecting a surrender ultimatum. It is under incessant Nazi armor and infantry attacks. The whole, hope of this isolated force focused to the south where Gen. Dwight Eisenhower's counter-assault had beaten back up the Arlon road within five miles of Bastogne and still was gaining ground. German stabs had veered north of La Roche through to Grand-menil and Llerneux, threatening to cut off Americans dug in on ridges west of St.

Vith and keeping Von Runstedt's assault prongs from merging. These forces had to be pulled out in rearguard fighting the last two or three days, supreme headquarters said, and the German junction had been formed by Christmas jnorning. There were no reports whether this withdrawal was torn- West Front Continued on Page Three Neither does all' available advertising fit into news filled, newsprint-rationed papers. Result: Advertising is rationed news is not! By GEORGE WELLER Special In ih Minneapolis Star Jnarnal ana Chicago Dally Nwl ATHENS With Prime Minister Churchill and For eign Secretary Anthony-Eden both in Britain's recon quered but besieged one-third of Athens, Greeks hope that the conflict can be solved with conciliation rather than gunplay. While presence of these statesmen does not in itself guarantee any solution, in view of the bitter state of feelings on both sides, it is the first hopeful augury in the three-week conflict.

Neutral observers consider that Churchill has done the right thing for the United Nations as well as for Britain in coming to direct grips with the tragic situation rather than by continuing the remote steersmanship which already had aggravated the crisis. In view of the tough fiber of the most recent republican note, observers here are cautious about estimating the effect of Church ill's mere presence. The republicans have undergone every phase of modern warfare except heavy bombing. Their rancor towards Britain is deep. But Churchill's stature as a leader among the United Nations will lend his presence in confer ence enough to compensate lor ground already lost.

Belief here is that Britain has acted barely "in time and now must deal cautiously and thoroughly in order to protect its slipping hold on the Balkans. Shortly after Churchill's arrival British headquarters announced plans to convene today a conference "representative so far as possible of Greek political opinion," with the object of "ending fratricidal strife and enabling Greece to resume her place among the United Nations. Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens was named to preside Over the conference and ELAS representatives were guaranteed safe conduct. By United lrea Nearly a ton of dynamite wa found cached in a sewer directly before the Great Britain hotel, British and Greek government headquarters, today. 1 The dynamite had been fused but not lighted.

It was packed in wooden crates bearing the name of a German manufacturer and weighed appro ximately 1,680 pounds. The explosive was penthrite, a German type of dynamite, and was equipped with electric detonators. British engineers who removed the cache were revealed to have followed wires leading from the detonators for "some distance. British authorities have been un able to establish any connection between the discovery of the Athens dynamite and the arrival there of Prime Minister Churchill, the BBC reported in a broadcast. This report said the tunnel was inspected Monday night and that the dynamite must have been planted some time between then and the time of its discovery to day.

Third of Gotham's Markets Closed NEW YORK (JD Approximately 34 per cent of Manhattan's butcher shops were closed today, police reported, in pcotest against OP A price regulations. A police survey showed 506 out of 1,448 markets in the borough shuttered. Spot checks in the Bronx disclosed one out of every five shops closed. The retail meat dealers had threatened a mans "business holiday," predicting 10,000 shops would close. The police report found a ma jority of the markets which were open had little or no meat for sale.

Grand Jury Quizzes Burgum on Police The Hennepin county grand jury interviewed Alderman Harry P. Burgum, head of the conserva tive council faction, today concerning a possible enlargement of the police department. Burgum was asked If another 250 men would help solve vice and gambling problems. He was reported to have replied he did not think so that New York had 18,000 officers and the same kind of problems. He 'was reported to have told the jury that Minneapolis, for the 16th city in size in the na tion, has a good record and is a town.

Beer Drivers Remain Aloof Refuse to File in NLRJ3 Election Filing deadline for union bargaining agent elections at three St. Paul breweries passed today with the striking Teamsters' union remaining aloof, extending St. Paul's beer drouth into the indefinite future. James M. Shields, national labor relations board regional director, is expected to set a date Wednesday for the elections, which the independent Brewery Workers union, only union to file for listing on the ballot, is certain to win.

By law, balloting must take place by Jan. 15, 80 days after NLRB denial of a Teamsters' appeal for reconsideration of an earlier decision ordering the elections. The Teamsters based their re fusal to enter the election on this argument: There 'J are seven other craft unions in the breweries in addition to the dominant Brewery Workers. The NLRB, in designating each plant as a single bargaining unit, excluded these other unions, but did not exclude the truck drivers and helpers. This means that in the elections-they must in evitably become a part of the Brewery Workers union, whose members outnumber them 8 to 1.

The NLRB based its decision on two considerations: 1 The other craft unions had been in the breweries so long that bargaining relations were firmly established. There' were no jurisdictional problems. ty It is the policy of the NLRB to establish plant-wide units wherever possible. This was the basic aim in St. Paul, modified only by long-standing union-management relations.

The Teamsters can appeal from NLRB's decision regarding the appropriate bargaining unit Jn St. Paul breweries, but the courts rarely grant such appeals. In this impasse, none of the contending parties today would even speculate on the outcome. It's Day After But Christmas Comes Early for Quints i CALLANDER, ONT. (U.D The nursery of the $50,000 home that fame built for the Dionne quintuplets was strewn with premature Christmas bounty today because th sisters couldn't wait for New Year's day, the traditional French-Canadian time for gifts.

The girls and their brothers and sisters attended two masses in their nursery chapel and ate a tur key dinner Monday. Then, be cause they wanted an early sam ple of "Pere Noel's" providing, they exchanged crayons, colored pencils, and blackboards and tried on new dresses. On the back of Sullivan's shirt, they said, where it would escape notice in casual "frisking," they found tied a wrist watch belonging to Harold Olson, 2933 Seventeenth avenue another lodger who said he had lost the watch and $9. In Whistler's pockets they found $33, which they suspect is more than he had on him when he arrived at the bastille. Beside the drunk charges.

Whistler and Sullivan are also held for investigation of larceny. In the British empire, Blairgowrie, a Yuletide cravat may be, if we wish it, a gift to the postman. The mercury today, Blairgow-' rie, dipped sharply through the Northwest as a new cold wave moved in this direction. The low here was 8, after a high of 14 degrees Monday, while Bemidjl had a nippy r7-23 International Falls 18, Madison, 16, and Sioux' City, Iowa, 12. The Dakotas fared North Dakota varying between 9 at Fargo and" 5 at Williston, Rapid City, S.

having 4. The weatherman foresaw for the Twin Cities area partly cloudy weather tonight and Wednesday, slowly rising temperature tonight, warmer Wednesday. In Minnesota he anticipated fair and not quite so cold tonight, Wednesday increasing cloudiness and warmer. Lows of zero to 5 above are foreseen for the state tonight. The temperature in Minneapolis at p.m.

today was 15 above. We have a further Christmas note today, Blairgowrie, in the form of a warning from the National Fire Protection' association that the longer you keep up your Christmas tree, the greater is the danger of fire as the thing dries out and becomes deucedly inflammable. That takes care of about everything, Blairgowrie. Except, perhaps, the matter of a protest from postmen. Lengthy War Seen by WPB PHILADELPHIA JD The war production board is operating now on the theory the war in Europe will go on indefinitely, Chairman J.

A. Krug told a press conference here today. As an example, he said new factories have to be built to supply demands for trench mortars and the factories cannot go into production before next August. The factories will cost some $200,000,000, he said, and if the war ends before August, a good deal of the money would be lost, but if the war isn't over by then "as it probably won't," the new plants will save many American lives. Before he left Washington, Krug said, he received a rush message from Gen.

Eisenhower ask ing for 6,000,000 yards of blanket ing material. Jackets and underwear, ordinarily expected to last a soldier five months, are being worn out in half that time under the rigors of the present struggle. On the. Inside Editorials Page 4 Comics Page 10, 11 Theaters Page 11 Sports Pages 12, 13 Radio Page 10 Women's 6, 7 Markets Pages 13, 14 Weather Data Page 4 Boy, 14, Knifes Policeman as Longbow Fails PATROLMAN AITCHISON With bow and arrow taken from youth PATROLMAN BRUCCIANI Finger slashed by hunting knife Patrolman Leonard Brucciani of Bryant avenue police station today suffered possible loss of his left forefinger when slashed with a hunting knife by a youth who at first shot at him with a bow and arrow, both Christmas presents. Brucciani and his squad partner, Patrolman Earl J.

Aitchl-son, had gone to a south Minneapolis address on the report a 14-year-old boy had gone berserk and struck his mother on the head with 'a frying pan after she questioned him about money missing from the house. On arrival at the house, Brucciani found himself threatened with a long bow. and arrow capable of inflicting serious injury or death. Brucciani was trying to persuade the youth to give up the weapon when suddenly the boy pulled the hunting knife and slashed at him. The cut nearly severed Bruc-ciani's left forefinger and it was feared it might not be saved.

The next finger also was cut. Aitchison overpowered the youth. Brucciani was taken to General hospital for treatment, the boy was taken to the mental ward at the same hospital. 1 air force announced targets in Jury Studies Ghaplin, Baby Comedian Is Silent During Test LOS ANGELES UP) The jury in Charlie Chaplin's paternity trial today offi cially compared the physical characteristics of 14-month-old Carol Ann Barry and the man Joan Barry accuses of being the baby's father. Joan's counsel, Joseph Scott, asked the court for permission to have the jury study the two.

It was a dramatic moment when Chaplin and the baby, in her mother's arms, stood In front of the jurors. Baby and mother were about eight feet away from Chaplin. Chaplin stared at jurors. Joan stared at them, "too. The baby, who had been gur gling all morning, was quiet.

After standing there for 30 or 40 seconds, during which (time there was not a sound in the court room, the judge told Chaplin and Joan to take their seats. granting the permission, the court said neither attorneys could make any comment and the principals were to remain silent. r. As Chaplin walked to his chair, he glanced briefly at Joan and Carol Ann. Scott was unsuccessful in an ef fort to introduce a photograph of Chaplin's two sons, Charles, and Sidney, when they were chil dren.

The comedian's lawyer, Charles E. Millikan, objected, and Judge Henry M. Willis observed "As far as possible in this case, I want the jury to indulge in no imaginative speculation. When you get to comparing photographs you are treading on dangerous Chaplin Continued on Page Eight Democratic Party Dues Plan Offered WASHINGTON (JF) A plan to have the Democratic party reorganized on a "dues paying," basis was advanced today by Representative Ramspeck Ga.) Under his proposal counts? units would be formed witff each member paying dues of approximately $5 a year. The money would be divided for national and local use.

He plans to present the Idea soon to national party leaders. In the rail attacks The targets, through which most of the traffic for the German western forces flow, were bombed visually. The big Nazi synthetic oil refineries at Oswiecim, Poland, and Blechhamer and Ordertal In German Silesia were pounded today by figltter-escorted Flying Fortresses and Liberators of the United States Fifteenth air force based in The powerful four-day Allied aerial assault was designed not only to help the hard-pressed American forces but to knock the luftwaf fe out of the skies. Su preme headquarters said 78 enemy planes, were destroyed Monday. American losses were 13 heavy bombers, seven medium bombers and 43 fighters.

The Allied planes wrecked at least 56 tanks, and de stroyed or damaged 791 other armored vehicles and transports. Officers at headquarters said -the full effect of air blows may not begin to be felt heavily on the actual front line for 48 hours or more. The Ninth tactical air force alone reported this toll of enemy vehicles since the start of the German counter-offensive: 312 planes destroyed, 435 armored vehicles, 2,986 transports, 685 rail way cars, and 27 locomotives destroyed or damaged. German airmen fought back in considerable numbers. Reports last night listed close to 400 Nazi planes destroyed in three days.

The same period of operations cost the American air jforces 198 planes 55 heavy bombers, 39 mediums or lights, and 104 fighters. Up, to, 500 Fortresses and Liberators of the United States Fifteenth air force based in Italy made a heavy attack Monday on a synthetic oil refinery at Brux, 50 miles north of Prague, while rocket firing Thunderbolts blasted rail lines, fuel dumps and trains on the Brenner pass route. Twelve bombers were lost in the Brux raid. Fighters of the Twelfth air force also attacked the Milan-Bresso airdrome and railyards in Austria. A dispatch from Switzerland said an Allied air attack was be lieved to.

have demolished the largest powder factory in north ern Italy. "Heavy blasts in the Milan area shook houses on the Swiss-Italian border, the report said. CHECK TRIAL SET Gordon Resigner, 27, 825 Fourth avenue pleaded not guilty today to second degree forgery charge in Hennepin county district court before Judge W. W. Bardwell.

Reisinger was accused of passing a bad $30 check in a loop department store. Bond was set at $2,000 and trial will be -Jan. 8. Two Quit Zionist Group in Dispute NEW YORK UP) The resignations of Dr. Stephen S.

Wise of New York and Dr. Abba H. Silver of Cleveland as heads of the Amer-f lean Zionist emergency council' were disclosed today. The resignations followed a disagreement, between them over a United States senate resolution urging free entry of Jews into Palestine. The council will act on the resignations Thursday night.

Theft in Cell Block Spells Double Trouble for Inmates The mystery of Cell Block today spelled double trouble for two of its principals. Elmer J. Whistler, 56, 530 Ohio street, St. Paul, and Thomas Sullivan, 45, Denver hotel, on being-picked up on drunk charges, were lodged in the cell block. Soon therefrom came complaints that property of others in the block was being made away with.

Officers intervened to investigate a mystery right in their own bailiwick..