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Thursday Evening, December 28, 1944________________
SNIPER’S BULLET MISSES CHURCHILL
WARRING GREEKS AGREE TO REGENCY
THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Methodists Set
Tune in on KRBC
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ATHENS, Dec. 28—(P) — Prime
Minister Churchill’s mission to
Greece, almost brought to a tragic
end yesterday by a sniper’s bullet,
appeared today to have made prog-
ress as warring Greek factions were
reported agreed upon a regency as
the first step in halting the bloody
civil strife.
The regency issue was voted
upon yesterday at an all-party
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ill announced that he, Presi-
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Stalin would take up the Greek
question at a meeting in the
near future.
During the session, which was
held in a tense atmosphere as
fighting flared up throughout the
city, Greek Premier George Papan-
dreou was said to have offered to
resign as a means of expediting
the regency, presumably under Ar-
chbishop Damaskinos of Greece.
Churchill was fired upon by
an ELAS sniper yesterday morn-
ing as he stood outside the
British embassy. He was with
Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden and Ambassador Regin-
ald W. A. Leeper. The bullet
whistled close by the prime
minister and struck a young
woman 300 yards away.
At a press conference Churchill's
comments were punctuated by the
sound of sniper fire outside the
embassy and the thud of British
artillery shelling ELAS positions.
Churchill told newsmen that
when the leaders of the three great
powers get together soon, the
Greek question will be “one of the
most important items on the
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agenda."
“We feel our course has been
absolutely right," he said. "In
August, in consultation with Presi-
dent Roosevelt, we agreed to bring
in food and relief and help until
things settled down. Premier Stalin
was consulted end gave his con-
sent to this course."
Churchill denied that Britain to
endeavoring to bring back King
George II and "impose s particular
rule" on Greece.
“It to clear to me there would
have been a massacre if we had
not intervened,” he said, adding
a further denial of allegations
that Britain had territorial
claims sr desired bases in
Greece. He said the British .
would not now withdraw until
the revolting forces had been
driven out of Attica or with-
drawn from the "built up area"
around the capital.
Meanwhile, in view of the re-
gency agreement. it appeared that
the next move would be up to the
Greek King George II, now in Lon-
don. He has been reported as un-
favorably inclined toward a re-
gency since it was first suggested
by Greek political leaders.
Before the vote on the regency
yesterday’s conference seemed head-
ed for another deadlock. Peace
proposals offered by the left wing
ELAS were declared unacceptable by
members of the Greek Populist par-
ty. However, other conference dele-
gates said they would consider the
ELAS terms and present their re-
ply later.
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Lewis Clyburn, 21, fireman sec-
ond class in the Navy, has been
overseas since the last of Septem-
Christ Crusade
Rally on Jan. 29
A Crusade tor Christ rally for
the Abilene district will be held
in an Abilene church to be desig-
nated later, Jan 29. according to
Dr Orion W. Carter, district su-
perintendent
Bishop Charles C. Selecman
and visiting district superin-
tendents. Dr. Marshall Steel and
Dr. Earl G. Hamlett, the lat-
ter of the Amarillo district, will
be principal speakers.
The rally will touch off in the
Baird Airport Road
Paving Is Approved
BAIRD. Dec. 28—(HW) — The
Texas Highway commission has ad-
vised County Judge B. H. Freeland.
Jack Ashlock and Earl Johnson
that the road from the intersec-
tion of Highways 80 and 183 in east
Baird will be paved to the Baird
airfield, a distance of about three
miles. The men constituted a
committee who appeared before the
highway board several weeks ago.
in Honduras, mahogany trees take
about 200 years to reach their full
size—100 feet taU and 40 feet |B
circumference.
The American steel industry used
29.337.000 tons of limestone in 1943.
After Christmas Shoppers
WE WILL BE CLOSED ALL DAY MONDAY-NEW YEAR'S DAY!
You Men-
Abilenian Earns
Army Commission
John M. Lairsen, 1125 Vine, has
completed a four-months tanning
period in the medical department at
Carlisle, Pa , and has been com-
1 missioned a second lieutenant.
Carlisle Barracks, which was re-
opened last June after a lapse of 16
months, is a training center for
men who have chosen for their ex-
cellent military records, and after
leaving that post, graduates re-
port immediately to various posts
to take over administrative duties.
LEWIS CLYBURN
ber, stationed somewhere in the
South Pacific.
Clyburn, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Ernest Clyburn’ of Hawley, has
been in the Navy eight months. He
took his training at San Diego
While there he played in a tennis
tournament on a team made up of
Texans and won. _
Before entering the service he
farmed near Hawley and was em-
ployed in Abilene. His cousin, Maj.
Clifford Clyburn of Abilene, was
killed in action with the 38th divi-
sion on Nov. 25th.
• * •
FORT MYERS. Fla—Sgt. Albert
F Vinson, son of Mrs. May Vinson
Abilene, was graduated recently
from the AAF Training Command’s
Flexible Gunnery School at Buck-
ingham Field near Fort Myers, Fla.
Now qualified as an aerial gun-
ner. he will soon become a member
of the Army Air Forces’ bomber
crews. He will receive his crew
training at an operational training
field in the United States then go
overseas.
Sergeant Vinson was employed
on a ranch before entering the
service.
Pfc. Robert E. Ghormley, 1158
Butternut, who is attending the
University of Texas Medical school
in Galveston, to home for a brief
vhst during the holiday recess. Pre.
Ghormley was recently discharged
from the Army and plans to contin-
ue his professional training.
Abilene district the three-year
campaign which includes the rais-
ing in Methodism of $25,000,000
for rehabilitation of mission posts,
feeding of hungry nations, generali
evangelism and other forward ac-
tivities of the denomination.
The rally will bring to Abilene
approximately 30 pastors and as
many laymen. It will be an inspir-
ational as well as an instructional
session.
Dr. Carter announced that Merkel
had already exceeded its Crusade
quota.
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Army, Navy Worried
At Decline in V-Mail
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—P)-
Army and Navy today urged greater
use of V-mail in writing to service
men overseas in order to conserve
transportation space.
The services expressed concern
over recent drops in the use of the
microfilm service by both service
men overseas and civilians at home.
The Army and Navy want civil-
ians to use V-mail for four out of
five letters, reserving air mail for
an occasional long letter or one re-
quiring enclosures.
29 Camp Officers
Win Promotions
The promotion of 29 ASFTC offi-
cers has been announced by Brig
Roy C. Heflebower, commanding
general Coming at an appropriate
time, the letters of promotion were
received by the men on Christmas
Eve Christmas Day.
Promoted to captain were Nichol-
as Agati, MAC. Hors., T-O Units;
Charles R. Barden. SnC, Hq ,
ASFTC: James F. Hanley, AGD, Hq.
ASFTC; and Carrol R. Steiner,
MAC, Hq., 67th Med. Tng. Bn.
New first lieutenants are Ismael
H. Garza Jr., Co. A. 55th Med Tng.
Bn.; Bernard F. Lucier and UrbanC.
Huth, both of Hqrs., 60th Med. Tng.
Bn: William J. Camplon, Hq, 89th
Bn.; Leonard G. Bauer, Co. D, 68th
Bn.; John J. Immekeppel, Co. D,
67th Bn.: Thomas R. Ferguson, 381st
Station Hospital: Martin E. Jenter,
William A. McWilliams, Donald R
Ireland, Harold C Schulz, and Clar-
ence B Buckman, all of ASFTC
headquarter.
Harold E. Taylor, Co. B. 55th Bn ;
Arthur W. McMaster Jr., Hqrs., 55th
Bn.; Edward L Robinson, Co. B.
61st Bn ; Mike A. Belcastro. Vo. A.
70th Bn ; Harold L. Shafer, Co. D.
52nd Bn.; Palmer O. Aasmundstad,
Hqrs. 53rd Bn.; Floyd L Snodgrass,
Co. D. 53rd Bn.; Herbert J. Stoll, Co.
B. 53rd Bn.; Richard P. Timmins,
Co. A. 53rd Bn.; Wilbur B. Swain,
Co. D. 55th Bn ; John F Walsh, Co.
C. 68th Bn.; and Randall L Rigby.
Co. A. 68th Bn., all officers of the
Medical Administrative Corps. Don-
ald E. Vickers, Hqrs , ASFTC, was
‘ promoted to first lieutenant in the
Adjutant General’s department
Award to Lt. Ellis
In Carrier Group
A U. S. TROOP CARRIER FORCE
BASE, EUROPEAN THEATER OF
OPERATIONS: 1st Lt. Lester Ellis
Jr., whose mother, Mrs. Margaret
Ellis, lives at 1518 South 4th street,
Abilene, has bene awarded the Dis-
tinguished Unit medal, symbolic of
the Presidential Citation recently
received from the War department
by the 437th Troop Carrier group to
which he to assigned in the Euro-
pean Theater of Operations.
The Presidential Citation com-
mends Lieutenant Ellis’ unit for out-
standing performance of duty, in
powered aircraft and glider sorties,
which were part of the mass air-
borne assaults on enemy-held ter-
rain, by Maj. Gen. Paul L. Willlama,
U. S. Troop Carrier Force, air com-
ponent of Lt. Gen. Lewis H. Brere-
ton’s First Allied Airborne Army.
and dropped into the cafe kitchen
through a trap door.
His loot: One 40-cent sweet po-
tato pie
Chaplain Emeritus of
Baylor Hospital Dies
DALLAS. Dec 28.— (P—Dr. Louis
M. Waterman, 87, chaplain emeritus
and for 23 years chaplain of Baylor
hospital here, died Wednesday at
the hospital.
Dr Waterman came to Dallas in
1908 from North Dakota, to become
associate editor of the Baptist
Standard He later became assistant s
to Dr. George W. Truett at the
First Baptist church here before
joining the Baylor hospital staff in
1916.
Funeral services will be held Fri-
day with Dr. W. A. Criswell, pastor
of the First Baptist church, offi-
clating.
Survivors include three daughters.
Mrs R. E Thorn. Mrs W V Reid
and Mrs. O. H. Corbett, all of Dal-
las.
Appetite
PORTLAND, Ore, Dec 28—Mb—
A burglar broke through the second
floor of a vacant building adjoining
a down town cafe, forced a door,
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