Shortage of Material Will Ensure Telephone Shortage for Months

Some telephones will probably not be installed in the College until next January or February, a representative of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company's business office said yesterday.

The Cambridge office, however, has put orders dating from last spring or summer on a priority list. Almost 200 of these, using a four-party service, were met over the weekend, and officials in the business office said the rest will be taken care of in similar rush installations.

The lack of service results from a shortage of critical materials now on the defense production list, the company reported. These materials are needed to complete a central exchange and rumors that the phone company ran out of numbers are entirely false.