To The Customers of THE FASIllCN SHOPPE

Owing to an iinprecedlented rush Wednes- y when our shipment of silk stockings went on _ their were probably some of our customers‘ (llélljlllltllllifitl iii not securing a pair. but this was entirely tinziviiidiilile and in no way due to iiny 0y Kilt by the firm. and we hope that those tiniilne to secure them will overlook it.

We tried to d0 it the wziy we thought would be fairest to all by telling the customers when they would be available.

..

we cannot take any phone culls

iiiid please do not iisk us to hold

".1 as .t is iiiiirosslble. All future shipments will he pail on the counter for immediate sale.

flit’: FASHlDN SlitlPPE

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ti: ms~———---—- _..

tire; zalzer of French ivluriguis is ills Expeieuce

But we got the girl and she hot."

z_\'-.wo women

q.) in his sector.

' ie v-onicn of F‘; -.. ,

. vvoiicleriiil. 'I‘hey lielliilelgle lzglltllln’

i and told the men they had r015 ' “'11? the hiiaquis."

_e recn ed Madame Laure Sin. °f,_Chi“'91iE5.Wi1ose weriiiiriie _ _ as Liicitnne, and who knew n11 t! Cipillill biiilid about hiswvorii, fed 111m and 1

loo:- iiioritlis bc-, 9d him. “Elie was one of th “Lub-

in the depart-l women I've eve; seen" e 95‘

illll yolrc, near; D'Art0is' mission wias to and lead emy communic ti cu‘ c?‘ striiede oi his a ens line's ando“

were shot as

ie French ‘

t y d i7 bridges "

o ii cred‘: " .

n l Army: liamlly svoiinrled lb llhxgnGekrle was nine iililll ihingcr for French Jews heaped him mans‘

11111101706 w.i:. woven into and Lieut. Gngfon Levy wa an!“

e too. and he rcturnedlof the best men I had." s one

without a scratch andl ~ Awarded Croix dc Guerre

thci Capt. D‘Artoi

hCil i0 i. .:ii1

1n ,,,_ _ I ._ ‘l<‘ ed tire Croix deS,G‘l‘1gi9i'e“Withdw‘:ill-i11- group, did not. wear his Canadian firm‘ llllg personiickuniform While with the M 1 y cheer up" al “If my men were cau fig“ 5' " en about ivere shot. So what gas, good iYEFLEh f‘? llfm ‘YRS 500d enough ‘uh m? di nt wear my uniform 1min Tlyatlglsishverly thankful for so well.’ ‘y my backed me The Germ 33 wounded ad? ‘lflilantdllielvflgellliflg . Elggerflalnanrllan leader oithe 15mm in re H?‘ e5 mfllly Germans D sal but, he said sadly, lalififlllilened again."

"1 i-YOODS of the French-Am- giflgienlth ABmy under command wok o rill elottre ‘do Tasslgny we ver. all of DArtois’ men

re incorporated in the regular ‘llllllengl’ ?'“lr)5 where prefmh ‘ml. ll- successful

rman de- fstrlicfls to the Rhine River.

n er German occupation mend; people listened to BBC broadcasts, hi0 said. ‘This was enough to gyc them faith. he 15.151153, are like God for them."

Anil lie lliill

'1 l‘.l.‘i llwi‘. _ in iiiinseil . .

the Saone~Lolrs . ill lite . . _ bClllW .n ll’ iczl to organize IhdFi-eiich Maq and met, 5h Paris a few months later. Mrs. D'Ariois is expected to join her husband in Montreal shortly:

Cup‘. DArinis rvtherccl some I}.

Bu‘

. ‘ (l irinminerszaiicl lflllsllt them giierillii w'ni~fcre tac- tics.

To feed them he mode “fake" raids against French farms. The raids were "fiilie“ because the famiers were Paid in advance and "smashing ‘\‘.'il‘l(ii‘1\'.'S was lust. a question of making it look good to 'he Germans,"

D'Artols land his own secret telephone liixe. "rho only one of the kind in France", with tele. Phone men hlreil by the Germans Working for him.

Pulled Gestapo aha Gestapo tried to get rid of

hi . “C>nce." said D’Artoi, "tn l; a beautiful blond Polissh glrlyoflilelr

Keen On Canada.

All the time he wag w M30015. Frenchmen "wanltztgli “if. know, to find out about Canada."

In the domestic field, the Fvrcnch "@019 are “very divided," added ElAIl/OIS. Many of the men undel- Fsrcgmmand were members of the n» -F.. 31 Communist organiza-

on Wglo took" their orders from ilimew ere else. But they obeyed

5 010908 after he had "poured Wall" 111W my Wine." or modified them to fit. the circumstances.

53d‘ in (780860. D’Ai-tois regrets divisions here. "Men fighting over- seas are not fighting for England of for France, but for Canada. We have to help each other or we're sunk before we start."

Her arms piled high with exciting looking parcels, Wren Kay Owe»- d Calgary, Alberta, sends holiday greetings from the members of thc women's Royal Canadian Naval Service to all their families and friends throughout Canntiii. stationed in Ottawa, she can't get home for Christmas this year. hut. like hundreds of other Wrens serving at naval establishments in Canada. blew York and Washington. Ncvrfoundlan" and the British Isles. Kn} will have a Merry Christmas in quarters.-

imcu. Photo by um. c. nan, nouvio.

cry .

"aces” was Jean Louis De]-,

THE CHARLUPTETOWN GUARDIAN

‘Jap Controlled Pacific '

Area- Is Cut

j . Enemy. Has Lost Much Ground Since Beginning

0i Lightning w...»

By C. R; BLACKBURN WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 — lCP) In the three years since Japanese treacherously struck Pearl Harbor and started a lightning conquest of Pacific Islands. American and Al- lied forces have fought back to where they can make almost daily stabs by air at the heart of the ‘Japanese empire. . This agonizing, step-by-step pro- gress toward the seat. of Jal>lll195° authority has cut in half the Pac- ific area Japan controlled at. the height of her conquest. . But the enemy still holds and increases his gains on the Asiatic mainland in a strip. “mi 1719-095 1,000 miles deep. from the slbcrian border of Manehurla down through China and including French Indo- clilnu, the Malay Peninsula. Thal-

,.; d Burma. lallitpgh‘ retains. too. the NEW"- Borneo, the

Lnds East. Indies. Clclcbes and most of the Philip- pines and a number of scattered lslai " which were by-passed and

:rcndri d impotent. The island area of Japanese con- cached eastward to include

l t to the Midway Islands i" the Central Pacific and the Solu- m s t1 to the south, threaten- ‘ A aliu and New Zcwland t ‘The turn of the tide started in lien when. 1m in the year. the ‘Japanese were cleared from the Salomon Islands af'er ‘the 0100'!) figln-rg zit Guadolcana. p5iilllllfils.lWPlLEliFlPllleF lilllltr

Praise Canadians For Salvage Work

I lBy The Canadian Press) OTTAWA, bee. l9~—Three Cana- Ydinn Naval men have woii com- inenclntion from Admiral Sir Char- les Little, chief of the Portsmouth Command. for their part l!'l a sal- vage operation during a wild K816 of two United States oll barges in the English Channel. The barges and cargo were worth 8150.009

A Naval release. issued here to- night, identified the mcn B5 Lifillt- D. s. iPincherl Martin o! Halifax. Lleut. T. c. Marshall of Vancouver and PO. Eugene Peters of Regina Coil of the corvette Mayflower- ‘. The Mayflower was escorting a ‘convoy in the English Channclorie Emorning in October when 1,000- llon barges were sighted at a (ii-S- .tance‘ without escorts. The May- flower left. her convoy. which W” out. of the danger zone. and ifllei‘

The two barges were found

drifting l5 miles off Le I-Iovre of- ,tei~ having apparently cut oil their tow thc previous day dllfmk ‘<1 heavy ghle. The sea Wu! still V5- rough and the decks of the W0 barges, fully loaded and low in the ;wat.er, were continuously awash- ! The barges were tied WRITE?» land after numerous attempts the icrew of the Mayflower succeeded in securing a line on the port. side n; one of them, taking the other 11h tow astern. The process had to be repeated several times as the ltow ropcs kept parting. The sea was running high during the fol- lloyvlng l2 hours of laborious orOE- lrcss, and skillful seamunslnp was irequlrcd to keep the bflffles- Wlllfih iwere being tossed about like Cork-B. from dbmaglng the corvette-

“It; was a lucky thins 101' "5 l" were told to anchor on return to ‘harborf’ said Lleut. hlirrsholl. .1 had no lines left at, all.

Cranii Jury indicts Makers of Famed harden Bomhsights

. NEW YORK, Dec. 2il—(AP)-— Carl L. Norden.1nc.. makers oi the famed Norden bombsights. was in- dlcted by a Federal Grand Jury today, accused of conspiracy to hamper output of the-devicesci-ed- lted with playing o major part in werlal warfare.

Named in two indictments were Theodore H. Barth, president. and» Ward E. Marvolle. vice-president of the Norden firm: the Efficiency Survey Company of Corrigan. Oa- burne and Wells; U.S. Navy Cmdr. John D. COITlESJI as head of the concern. and Robert. l-l. Wells. vice president.

The indictments further charged

I a conspiracy designed to forco WM‘

plants tn employ the survey com- lpany, specialists in the installation o! production control systems.

Carl L. Norden. Netherlands-born inventor of the bombsight Who re- ioently turned over to the U. S. Klovernmmt all patents, model: and designs, was not. involved. iGovernment officials said, oddmg ,tbot he no longer was assoclo ‘with the firm.

Wells issued a denial of the charges for the company, himself iund Corrlgon. Officials of the

lNorden firm made no immediate . comment. None oi the defendants was -un- der arrest when the indictments were handed to Federal Judge Ed- ‘ward A. Conger. The Justice De- lpartment said conviction 0n the

char s would mean a maximum lpena ty of $10,000 fine and two ‘yeai-s" imprisonment.

Teach Nazi Officers Polit Eating Habits

Bv aicifiioss wn" . . ADHI

lCP) - Perhaps the German High 000000

Command is already viewing the future with n charv eve and has come to feel that officer; of the Wehrmacht. should learn to behave llkr- gentlemen,

This c-inclusiozi ls ilrriwr. imm- a document obtnincd bv Mnlor Jim lfounhton of Toronto at the time oi the f rt Liinuize River bridrrr- nevi n1: - conrnrindlng a forward

L company of the Povnl Canadian, Rmi t

. . men Issued by lieaijuiiartera ol’ a Gor- mon division the two-om mod

"ins in May 104i A st t

In Half A

At Pearl Harbor.

And the following 11$! a tome sent against Kls ll found the island deserted.

At the some time Australians and Americans were fighting that tortuous campaign that led over the Owen Stanley mountain range in Pspua. and led to re-conouest of New Guinea. in April 1944.

November 1940 saw the Gilbert Islands cleared while the Cevollnes were by- asscd. In February 1044 the Mara all: were back in Allied hands and Woke left for later dis osal.

y June 1M4 the Marianas had been cleared cf the enemy and the way was open for the attacks‘ of recent months which swe the Allied forces through Po nu to the great amphibious attack on Leytc to cut the Philippines In two.

Successful re-oonquest of the Philippines will give the Allies control of the sea routes connect- ing Japan proper with her forces in the Indies and leave hundreds of thousands of troops on those and other, by-passed islands, with- out supplies or reinforcements. easy prey for Allied forces when the time is ripe.

The picture on the mainland is

less promising with the Allied forces facing Burma making slow progress and China, fighting vall- antly with meagre raourcos. los- ing ground at one point and coor- sdically making gains in other salients.

laws down what is expected of Ger- mun officers both in their CW1‘ messes and in llc. 4

No ionizer wil German officers speak or drink when their hlcalllfl are already full. Nor rnav the env lonacr eat. drink or speak wth a cigaret lianizint! between th l Nolsv catlnsz and drinking wil ceforth be considered "boorls impolite". and ial menu made of the un esirobilitv o common burp.

Toothpicks are ‘never to be used while eating or in company" rays he High Command. Spoons will be used for stirring in the cup and not. for wavln in the a! says Der hrer. that: they on out of the cu or glass when drinking Much a tcntlon is given to mus- cular era-ordination and table pos- ture. No more elbows on the table. the bodv to be no closer vet. no fur- ther than six inches from the table though the breadth

M be h ' nl ..:- "e mu". bi:

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rlinr to In‘: eourlinw b4 who Iblnll no’! u! ll."

Io I'D/ward

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ame of the RCASC?

Speed, urgency, timing . . . and courageous

determination!

The Army Service Corps

has the job of getting the supplies to where

they're needed,

when they're needed. And

whether it's food, fuel, ammunition, men, or any of the materials with which battles

are fought and

wars are won . . . supplies

must get through!

Their long and

brilliant record of service

dates to CromwelYs time, when that re- nowned English leader organized the first supply system. Down through the ages, the

iven

on the table-cloth. Put. them both 0n the plate. ouollel one another and diagonally across it.

Huge Quantities 0f Canadian Fish For United Italians

(By The Canadian freq)

OTTAWA, Dec. lB-Flsherles Minister Bertrand slid tonight 1n s. statement that a roximately 195000.000 pounds of eries pro- ducts from Conrado’; 104.4 output.- the equivalent of something like 400,000,000 pounds of row material —-have been made available for purposes ot the United Nations under various official plans and agreements.

Of this total. about. 112,000,000 pounds will consist of conned ul- mon, canned herring and sardines, and frozen fish for the Unite Kingdom. which also is receiving some 3,000,0(0 pounds of dried salt fish. Large scale deliveries alreuly have been made. |

Approximately 15,000,000 pounds of canned herrlnsbomackcre. andl flake fish and 3. .000 pounds of; pickled herring are being supplied for use by U.N.R.R.A. or the mm,

itary authorities for relief purpos- es in liberated countries.

The conned salmon end herring for the United Kingdom are being supplied under o onto mode between Ottawa and lnndon. Sim- lor m; ents had been in effect each year since 1941.

The quantity of salmon Britain 15 obtaining from the 1044 pac will total about 37,000,000 pounds and the quantity of conned her- ring. includin about 500.000 lbs. of sardines. wil be more than 51-? 000.000 pounds. The salmon ls from. British Columbia while most oft the herring also is of B.C. prodiic-l tion. with some from. the Atlantic Provinces.

Under other agreements Canada is supplying Britain with 22,000,000 pounds of frozen cod. pollock and flatfish and u maximum ‘quantity

2.0111000 pounds of hsllbuni Most of this flsh has olready been delivered. ‘me cod and pollook sup-

lies are from the Atlantic Prov-

the halibut from British Columbia. Iuatnsh shipments in- fillilidfi both Atlantic and Pacific

S .

Mr. Bertrand said the Domln-i ion‘; i044 expcrtoble surplus of salted fish. estimated at. 33,000,000 pounds, has been apportioned u- mong o numbe of mo; under a continuation of the plan for, world mtiontng worked out by the; combined food board in I043. Moot. of the Canadian fish is going to the United State; but some in be- ing sent w the United Kingdom! the British Caribbean on . the Netherlands West Indian. Brlmkl Haiti and other countries. -

An estimated exportable surplus of 25,000,000 pounds of pickled fish also has been allocated to the Bri- tlsh and Netherlands Wool: Indies,’ British Guiana. the United UVAMI.‘ Porto Rico, and lhltl. oh-ieoo al- locations were uni. by the Domin- lon'ii Food Requirements Commit- tee. on the recommends“ of the‘ Fisheries Department. About 0,-

. pounds of 1044 honing bloutiors have been allocated in the some way and. in the mlln, to me some count-rice. '

ROME, Doc. 1B - (OPR- Allied diplomats, accredited to e Vatican. today described as "ob- gOllll-fily without foundation" report;

published abroad that the Gonn- 211s were ueklng ltirmilh the Holy Beeto inainore precise f - ltion of the Alllu‘ d unoorultlonol

SERVING

THE UNITED NAT!

5min: Corps

occiiitiiicn 21. 19,4 @_

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A Tribute To Afqrnous Corps O! Tho Canadian Army

1’ ' x A // z§§ l

ttanaoian Qrmp

gallant men and officers of’ the Army Service Corps have earned their hard-won honours in all our warenufighting not only the enemy, but basting as well the elements, the snipers’ slugs . . . shells . . . and con. quering again and again their greatest enemy, the racing bands of the clock.

The name of the Royal Canadian Army Ser- vice Corps is rich in meaning. The selfless work of the Corps’ gallant officers and men throughout the years has made the name rank with the finest . . . for efficiency, cour- age, and devotion to duty.

ONS WITH WAR AICOHOI

Federal Public works Activities During 1944

During the season of i944 the dredging plant of the Dominion Department of Public Works was engaged as follows:-

Dredge P.W.D. No. l4, Captain

k Alex. MocLeaii, carried on dredg-

ing at Canoe Cove, Cardigan River south. Charlottetown Test Logs, Franklyn Point. Wharf, Lower Montauue. Bourls and Wood Is- lands. .

Dredge PW.D. No. 1'1, Captain Robert Stone, carried on dredging fli- Naufraize and Red Head. Sr. Peter's Bay.

Repairs and improvements were effected or proposed by day labour at. the following works, under the foremen noted:-

Alberton, Queen's Wharf and Railway Wharf. John C. Matth- ews; Annondale. James A.E. Mue- Dvnlld: Beach Point. William F. Harris; Belfut Wharf, Frank Hul- liduy; Belle River, Simon Stuart; Canoe Cove, Laughlln E. MacKln- Iwn; CBDe Traverse. Russell How- ott; Charlottetown Rallwaywhurf, John P. Monclerson: Ellniont Bay Wharf. 10o D. Arsenault and Em- manuel Gallant; French River, Wesley Paynter; Frog Pond. Jos- eph Edmond Gnllant; Georgetown, Queen's Wharf. Angus McLean; Georgetown. Railway wharf, An- drew Lovers: Graham's Pond. Ben- lomln Henderson: Grand River North Wharf, Arthur E. MacDon- ald; Hayden's wharf, Joseph Fish- er; Hickeyb Wharf, Patrick Kelly: Jude's Point Wharf. Patrick Hog- an: Lennox Island Wharf. Wesley Penwarden; Mlminegosh Harbour, Arnold Ellsworth; Mink River Wharf. Departmental Plant; Moii- togue. Lamberfs. Clarence White Ind Dan MacDonald; Montague, Poole & Thompson and Stevens. Don McDonald; McPurlanesCove, Nell MacCormnck; Naufrage flar- bour. Jamel McDonald and Joseph D. MacDonald; North Cardigan, Tom Sloane; North Lake, 1C. A. Pierce; Pinette Wharf. R. H. Hub- ley; Pogln- Point. Whirl. JD. Mc- Lean: on Hill Wharf. Henry Yeo:

h Red I-Ieud. llblbert. Morph ; Rocky

Point Whorf. James Bmlh: Rus- tlco Harbour. Hen? Doucette; 5t Peter's Harbour. osoph slnnott; Suva e Harbour. Joseph Douglas: Bouts Railway Wharf. Hovmrd Poquetz‘ South Ruitlco Wlurl. Henry Ron: Sturleon Wharf. In: - ummouido

Conrad. I

‘l m“ nephews,

nish Breakwater, Sylvuln Fa‘- Rochcs; Victoria Wtinrf. Hurry Clark: West. Point Vlhurf. Willie? S. MucWllliams; Wood Islands. Charles Lutz: Wood Islands beach protection. W. A. MacQllE-ch-

In all instances, the Dcpartmen reports, work has been handicap- pet] and delayed by scarcity of materials and often on entire ab- sence of available labour. In some

and work will have to be over to next season. Reconstruction of the outer cu

railway wharf was satisfactorily completed under contract with Messrs. H.J. Phillips 6a Son. under the management of Mr. ELM. Phi.- lips. Mr. M.L. small was the local lnsocctor. while inspection of creo- sotlng was by Messrs. Warnock o; Company. Ltd, of Montreal.

IN MEIl-TQR

One of the oldest and most highly esteemed citizens of Earns- cl fe. P. E. Island. passed away recently in the erson of Mr. Frank Mutch at t e advanced age oi’ nlnety-tivo years. dc was bore in 1851!, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Robert. Mulch. Until around his 90th year Mr. Mulch kc t quite active and_ ood neailn. I-Ie will be greztiy m ssecl for lie was a man whose tlne character and sound Jucgincnt commanded

eneral respect. hoBPilHb-t’ iome was always a place for neighbourly visits. He was a cle- vout churchmen, havlng been ‘n valued member of the Methodsst Church in his earlier days. and

Cherry Volley, where he was the senior elder.

The following are the members of his family-two sons, Roy and I-loughton at Earnscllffe; also five daughters, Mrs. George Jack tLoulscl, and Mrs. Gordon Hiker (Helen) in Calgary Mrs. Ila-io- Phall (Dorothy) n Randolph, Mose. Hazel in Edmonton and Jean at home. His wife pre- deceased him thirty yearn ago. and a daughter, Queenie. died at that time also in her 14th year. Mutoh had two sisters, Mrs. Alex Anderson and Mrs. Nathanael Gay. l-Ie had also four brothers, Char- les. Benjamin, Wellington and Stewart. nll now deceased bzil we‘! rememwrezl by the niogle nf [Earnsclitle and vicinity. o left. a large family connection of

nieces. grandchildren and

' . way Wham Major I" Small: Tm-icoilllilhasiuncral was held from the ‘home and the

lwarm tribute to the helpful cantil- ti ing his long and useful life. to lbe l religious