December 5, 1944

says Health Dept checked schools and found conditions normal

Lucherberg capture described and importance to Allied positions noted

martial law imposed; Athens; Papandreou Govt ultimatum warns EAM armed unit, ELAS, to quit Athens area by midnight Dec 6; EAM asserts willingness to disarm ELAS is conditioned by simultaneous disarmament of right-wing and Papandreou regime mil units; Royalist and ELAS troops battle, Thesseum dist; Brit communique repts ELAS attack on Anglo-Greek naval hdqrs; Brit troops disarm 800 ELAS troops marching on Athens; EAM strike cuts utilities; ELAS seize 2 police barracks, Piraeus port; Brit troops patrol Athens; Scobie reiterates stand backing govt; pub parades before Brit and US Embassies asking for free determination and lauding Roosevelt; Papandreou charges EAM foments civil war; EAM sec gen, D Pasalides, asserts fight for liberty against present regime will continue; refuses to surrender arms by Dec 10 as ordered; pub funeral for civilians killed during Const Sq demonstration; pub calls for Papandreou fall

US 3d Army troops fight in Saarlautern east of river; AP repts Wallerfangen taken; other units clear Theding, Diebling and Bettring; small groups reptd 4 1/2 mi from Sarreguimines; Ger resistance weakening around Sarre Union; Amers reach Keskastel area and Voellerdinger; US 7th Army forces fight way slowly around Haguenau and Haguenau forest toward Karlsruhe corner; enter Diemeringen; fight around Wingen; take Rothbach and Zinswiller and enter Gumbrechtshoffen; sniping stops around Strasbourg as fighting continues fierce south of city and in Selestat area; St Hippolyte taken; French reach Schlucht Pass northern end and gain in Bussang Pass area; meet stiff resistance in Harth Forest; French squadrons of US 1st Tactical Air Force hit Mulhouse-Strausbourg area; fighting on Juelich athletic grounds continues; 1st Army reaches high ground west of Dueren; reptd elimination of 6 Ger divs in offensive called overoptimistic; Ger divs thought relieved; 1st Army thrusts from Inden and Wenau Forest noted; Brit clear all Ger units from Meuse west bank; Gers reptd to have broken dikes to flood Arnhem area; Allied planes support ground action on most sectors; maps

natl sales ahead of schedule; NYC and NYS sales lag; figures; NYC shoe store auctions nylon stockings to aid drive; illus

Rescue of Havoc gunner described

3 main coms approve conv on civil aviation organization, agreement for interim council and separate agreements on freedoms 1-5 and freedoms 1 and 2; Berle sums up results; sees 20-yr advance in mo; replies to Brit press criticism; US-Spanish past is 1 of series to be signed by nations not agreeing to freedoms 1-5; similar Brit-Spanish pact signing cited; amendment provides for gen security organization vote on adherence by nations invaded or attacked in present war; another amendment permits countries to operate lines owned by friendly foreign nations but bars Ger controversial issues to be referred to interim council on Swinton motion after LaGuardia withdraws opposition

Rockefeller, N A, asst Sec of State