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cussnowarowu. CANADA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 194s,

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‘Fictlvo fleck For "The Girl Guide:

air] Guides are co-operatlng _ their brother organisation the lcouls in a cam unu- activlk to hiacs Edward Island Boy gecut Week. A short talk was giv- last svning over CF.C.Y. by Provincial Commission- "Guidc Overseas Gif . on Frida evening V he same a. cm, llIaa 1p runs

with Boy

ult will broadcast on ide

v lumping. Lut night. following the Vice- » legal broadcast over CECX. a lil- minute sketch cntitledflmccent 0n a . H

'Youth" wa given by m. Georgy assisted 0

s of Charl ttoto WM uldes. olze frgnn each

e members of the Provincial h

th ecutive. Exhibits will be shown from Charlottetown, llustlco, Sum-

e peolsalglirf ' during

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- South River,

(By The Canadian Press)

HALIFAX, Fob. 20~The Canad. tan hospital ship Lady Nelson ar_ rived here todag with nearly 50o sick and woun ed veterans from pe. As usual she bore ancthe large section oi Nova Scctia and Prince Edward Island repatriatesF veterans oi the mud and bloody western road to Berin predomin- 33 MD. N0. l fighting men were taken to Halifax Military Hospital and a small number of them were allowed to go home on furlough. The others arc not fit to

and civic recs tion ceremony at o. e District t formally welcomed the Nova Sco- tians and Islanders.

Pto. J. W. Carter of St. Peter's, P.E.I.. had plenty of excitement. Ho took a hand in thc capture oi as Nazi prisoners during ouse- clearing near the Leopold Canal. He and Pie. W. B. MacGillivray. Antigonish County, went through the villages and woods France, Belgium and Holland, weeding out Nazi snipers from houses and plliboxes.

"rhcir atrols cleared the way through wns and villages, hurl- ing grenades into pill-boxes and ouaed in rocm-by-room rccess of elimination till every s per in their éaart oi the front was "writ-

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merside. and other Prince County m,

Guide Companies.

On Thursday a Guide Itallv will be held m the r. w. o. hall. There will be a March Past, games, pres- entation ci the gift sewing and 1 knitting by each Company tomem- ‘bm céutgie grogircilgial llixscutive: vpreaen n o es an a ‘Gold Cord the highest Guide a- ‘ and, to Margaret Mclonnan of " a 0th and 7th (Trinity) Com- panies. cments are being

made to have thc special Guide

cast from Toronto heard over Jtation C.B.A. at 8.15. Campfire page and Taps will close the pro-

. It ishoped that there will “on: ‘wast. ~ a...” . cry . a followlns “merchants have ‘Niall window-sauce for Guido

hills ‘ml! Prcw ‘ Bros

III ., h attractive can allure is Iilelgall? for a day's hike and meal. Rogers

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On Sunday the 18th, Guides took part in urch par. sdu. one Roman Catholic and one ll . On Mcndav abides enlfstrtained the Scouts at a

Summerside ch

be a Scout-G i - mover the local station with a am: Commissioner for Prince

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Carter found the people inFrance pharticularly friendly and their en- usiasm grew as his unit, the Al- gonquin Regiment. swept past Caen. Macfliliivray was wounded near Seine River when he was hit

. Q. Miller of Dureka. Pic- u unty, was in France with the tank trans rt section of the Army rvice orps. l-lisfoot was fractured in August when the motorcycle he was fading rolled into a shell hole beyond Csen dur- ing a black night. He went over- seas in the spring oi 1M2 and was on French soil on June 1'1, 1944. Commenting cn-"his drive-through Italy with the Cape Breton High- landers, Ptc. R. It. Walker oi Cher- ry Hi P651}, lclaimedu l: ggot ding’ rea sgn poa as b the rapid advance. He los hlsrightarminthoflllninipuah. ley cf Amherst

diphtheria in Holland.

I... Cpl. E. MacPhee oi Nine Mile River. Hunts County, member of the R.O.A.5.C., drovc transports on the "new road to Berlin" until strafed by the Luftwaffe. iver Hebert private, C. . was wounded in the shin

. ymond in France. He is a patient at Cogswill Street Hos- tai.

The first thing Ptc. R. W. Petti- grew oi Economy Point, Colchestor County, did when he was settled in hospital in Halifax was to pick up copy of Zane Grey's "Forlorne River" and started reading. He's a North Nova and was wounded at

cam v . Fllllmitaucn sign Pte. Eusebc LeBlanll of Weatvilie. Pictou County, ,was wounded while serving in the Gothic Line with the West Novas. He was struck by machine-gun .;rc in thc right foot.

Givcs F. ll. ll. llcw Pledge

DeGaulle “A-rlgry, Refu- ses To Meet Roosevelt At Algiers.

n, c. reps-Kaunas

drcaacd hogs ansOenDe

lby mortar shrapnel in the right g a

Mu’ "hot stove" k m Jalniaapn of Flanders, . rumor: that Raul: “m” m“ her non-nonunion

experiences

Lloyd George Seriously lll

' manna. Feb. 2o - (or) -- g-agd-ul-IOYG (zyegrge, Britain's fillevlud tesmam n_ o rleloentg was

The 82-year-old earl was re- Wted suffering from a mild at- tad of influenza gag-lie;- month. but was believed p, he ro- WWPIM. condition now is cousins anxiety among hia (rump, it WM reported.

Dramatic Scone As Guest Ghildrcn llctrain in London

LONDON, Feb. 3o...(0p ¢¢,b1¢)_ 111W l Iflmy. war-scarred London station yesterday came s. group of mung men and young women clad

comfortable Canadian clothes who stared around with the wide- ayzd look oi newly-arrived tour-

A party of micdl ed Bothered at the barrioerafistared and hesitated a moment.

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kissed in one r ‘the ' itgiangest and most otouchingwfif

ona. , For all the appraising looka were those of youngsters cooling home. Elvfouated‘ t‘? Cl-Itlildl during Brit- a ‘a ar a s small nltlaeyloreltetrs no ‘f s. geioped idetaa on mlmutllt?" ‘The. were <~

Thirty of them. tl daughter's of (Ford) i to era had received the hcspi homes with workers ‘ior the Can- adian branch of the same comp- any in Windsor, Ont.

News Briefs

GUAM, Feb. El-lwedndsdafl-

A The three-day-old invasion cf Iwo

is ahead of schedule despite the unprecedented ferc ty oi Ja anesc resistance, it was ‘ ’ ay.

LONDON, Feb. 20 -— (AP) — Nuernberl. centre of the for- mer Nazi party propaganda spectacles and one of Germany's most important rail junctions. shook today under its heaviest dayl ht bwnbing as United bomber!

WASHINGTON. Fob. 20 -— (AP) —Pos’t-war retention by the Unit- ed States and its Allies of fleets "capable oi controllins the world's oceans" was demanded b Navy Secretary James Iiorrestai. “Such power,” Mr. Fbrrestal said in his annual report to the President. "is not inconsistent with plans for international col n."

YAI-MOUTII, NJ. Fab. 2d -- (CP) — Two- , air passenger service connecting Boston, Yar- mouth and Halifax will be est- ablhhad in the near future, it waa announced ht by VJ. Pdttier, (Lib. Sthelbum - Yar- mouth-Clare).

CANBERRA, Feb. 20 — (Ritu- ters) - It was announced today that Anny Minister Francis Fords and Dr. Albert Eva , tomey geperal and minister of external

world security conference in Amri.

a‘ Mr. lbrde will lead the Australian

delegation oi i0 to the conference.

NIJW YORK. Feb. sit-India reports today on conditions in- side Germany contained nur- poried accounts of troubles ranalnr from an anti-war dem- onstration in Frankfurt-On-

-Maln in n. tvphus epidemic In Berlin winch. Moscow radio aaili. was causing many deaths

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...... Schmidt Lam em larder Appeal

OTTAWA. no. 20. —(OP)-'I‘he supreme Court of Canada today Bchmidtd olhelbrt gaglasawnglilltl.‘ from a conviction on a cbbrga of murder.

i in men. Geo e and

W in two o or a

Anthony t undgi‘ sentence oFggatgniol-vm

OI! June 1o. m4. A hint “It I!“ fill-KIN “I 6

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. warning: that oven an American invasion attack on the home islands

f'l"l‘t‘gr'§iii' cattunfitis

7111mm, w‘; convicted of murder‘

'81- Situation-wigs? l

By KIIII Ii. ‘EDITION. Abbhl Prcaa War Analyst

, aa la ' on lwo Jinn. the domin- ant factor la that l. huge armada of American warships, transports and supply craft is riding it out around the tiny islet. 700 miles or less off Japan's home coasts unchallenged by sea and virtually immune even from air attack.

More than dd boura after ilrat echelons of veteran marines poured ashore. no effective help had corms to the besieged enemy garrison.

"‘, ' told of ' naval planes by the hundred swarming the skies. Theta was only passing and ‘ ' mention of any land-based enemy plane! putting in pearance. Tokyo broad- casts intimated that heavily-escorted United States plane carriers were moving in oven closer, hardly 600 rnllea off the euemy’a home coast. to renew the smothering air attack that cleared the air and kept it clear of Japanese flghiera and interceptor! while the first Iwc Jima beachheads were established and extended. The Japanese proaa and radio renewed

might be expected at any rmrueni.

Had other evidence cf absolute Allied control of the sea. established beyond the Pacific in the naval battles in Philippine waters been lack- ing. tba bold move to like lwo Ilma would have proved It, It point- edly confirms the tcrae declaration of highest "‘- ‘ naval authorities in Washington and in the Pacific theatre that the world'a widest ocean has been completely bridged; that the way is open now for landings in China or in Japan itself at any time the men and equip- ment are available or at any point Allied judgment may select.

It still la to the European theatre that the observer snuat look for some answer aa to when the final step in the long leap across the Pacific can be taken. That was again emphasised in Washington's disclosure that Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt after their hia- torlc meeting with Premier Stalin in the Crimea had met again off gtusslau loll to discuss anew British-American full co-operallon against

span.

Renewed aaauranoaa III glvau at that meeting by Mr. Churchill that the whole weight of British m. air and ground power would be thrown against Japan. ‘

Explains Destruction

Of ‘Surplus War Goods

lloy Scout Weak B m CM“ m"

MO cxecu ve of ar

, Feb. QlF-G. . , assistant to the president Assets Corporation, mum thdt “‘we‘ are not destroy- ing anyth that is oi the slight- est use in t e civilian economy."

"Material that is being destroyed is material tnat is completely sur- plus to all military ‘ ements and at thc same time has no civ- ilian use,” he said in commenting on the burning of the skeletons oi obsolete aircraft near Calgary yes- torday.

"As far as those planes were con- cerned, everything salvageable was removed before the fuselages were burned. The wheels were stripped oil’, the instrument panels diaman“

The program held last night at the local radio station in t e in- terests of the Bo Scout movement was greatly en oyed by a large number of interested listeners in the City. The program graphically depicted the various activities which form a part oi the routine camp trainin oi the Bov Scout '"“...°°‘i§“ i“ ddsfilkidt “Si; er ea o

we; a e tied, so that all the Government duzensmp m the a" "en g had left were skeletons which had

bo . ,,

Ioday, there will be a Scout ml-- Wflbe 1115110585 0i- ly and demonsnnlon 1n 12mm; Destruction, unfortunately, is a. of Wales College auditorium. Very 116085581‘! DB" 0f the illiterat- Thursday evening a radio play will 1011B RndBfW-Keu by We!‘ t5 be swan by the cmglottptqwn Corporation." he continued. “The Cubs. The next evening the cubs only thing we can do is to destroy and Scouts will meet. Au parents intelligently and the public can be and others interested are invited assured that We are deitnrvylns in-

t] _ telligcntly not wantonl . to ’"°“d______m° mee n‘ Mr. Lasih divided the operations

of the Corporation into two phases in predicting that there would have to be greater destruction of war materials after victory.

"We are in the first phase now. At present so many of the things that are of no military use are needed to fill shortages in the civ- ilian economy and so can be put into civilian use. Thus. only a small art of the material that comes us ior dis a1 at present has to be destroye .

"Later on, we will reach a sec-

_T(53t1_ml_?l §i.2f_ Find $14,000 0n Body 0f Bead Man

VANCOUVER. Feb. 20 - (OP)- A fortune totalling more than I74.-

000 in cash, bonds. and bank drafits pp u an old piece of shirting tied

Yanks Tighten Grip 0n Iwc Jima ls.-

GUAM, Feb. Bllwednflfly) lAPl-Battli tough conceit-ion ever- yard o the way. _Americsn ma!‘ nos made slight gJ.\Z Tues- day north of the captured Moto- yama Airfield on Iwc Jima Ind mot stiff resistance as they attack- ed Japanese positions dug into Suribachi Volcano at the south- ern end of the I d.

At the end of the scocnd day, the marines had out a curving line l- crcss the south end of the Hand,

iving them control of one third o. wo's ei ht square miles.

On t southeast coast. this wedge is more than two miles wide alo the coast. A late report ata- ted t has been extended for 2,000 yards along the southwest coast.

N. S. Fisherman Dies From Coal Gas Fumes

nunsmnum. N-S. -Feb- I0 (or) - Guy Richard. 53. fisher- man from tnis 90ft. W" "Phylli- ln hia boat. on the

ed about the waist of a man found dead in a downtown hotel room.

Detectives Dave MacGregcr and Thomas Campbell identified the body as that of John G. Hill. 70- I-ie had lived at the hotel for the paat four months. PassPOTiB m‘ dicated he had travelled exten-

awarently ll I lhlll‘! flat, lie came from n

Paperatfound on the bod in- dloate his wife had left hrn a sheep ranch in Australia and also that he had investments in Eng- land

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tawa, who is

tawa. Major Anderson enlisted w

turns tonight from polls in New Waterford and Glace areas showed a maiorlty 0! miners were in favor cf the dis- trict 26 membership oi’ the United Mineworkers of America going on strike April demands rejected by the National WarRLabor Board

reported. in favor of strike and 1.440 against it. Returns from Princess locals 1n Cape Springhlil on mainland Nova Sco- tia. and lute tonight. Hebert, N.S., was not polled be- cause officers refused to take thc v

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other Provinces A U.S.A. 88-i-

Subacriptiop Delivered. $5.00.

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Nazi A6521; Block

Push On |3tl1 Day

The 1st Canadian Army day by fanatical enemy resists the United States 3rd Army lu southern end of the front.

By The Canadian Press

nged out in a new attack

offensive was halted temporarily in its 13th day yester- nce before the Siegfried Line stronghold of Calcar but.

in the Moselle area at ihc

In the east, the Russian army hacked out small but steady gains as it gathered

for a final, crushing onslaught on Berlin from thc east and souiheggf,

Canadian forces were locked in bitter fi had cleared all but a few fanatically resis Goch, seven miles to the southwest.

_ ghiing for Calcar after Scottish troops ting Germans from the big road centre of

The Germans, fighting to check the advance toward the Ruhr, threw a half-

dozen powerful counter-attacks against the Canadians the Calcar-Goch road which the Canadians once

and succeeded in driving across hurl cleared.

Bad weather cut down air support over the fighting front.

Major Norton Jiflnderson. of

Ottawa and Winnipeg, senior Pub- lic Relations Officer, Directorate oi Public Relations (Army). Nil?‘

lonal Defence Hfifldqllllrlcrs, Ot- being retired from the Canadian Army to take an executive appointment with the Wartime Information Board. Ot- A Winnipeg newapaperman.

ith the Queen's Own Cameron Highland- ers of Winnipeg. and went over-

seas in 1940. — (Canadian Army

Photo) .

llotc Favors Goal Miners Strike ~

NS, Feb. 20 -— vote" rc- the Bay 2.700

GLACE BAY. (OP) —Early "strike

l to enforce wage h most locals in the area the vote showed 4.159

Florence and Breton.

Mlntc. N.B., are expected The local at River

to. oThere ‘are aabout 13,000 miners c .

Halifax Waterfront Strike In Prospect

HAI-IFAX. Feb. 20 - (C?) - Grain elevator workers on the

Halifax waterfront today voted to

strike at the end of the weak un-

leas their demands for wage in- creases and cost-of-iivin bonuses are met by the Nations Harbors Board. Cold storage worker; will vote tomorrow on the strike issue. The men. members of the Csm- adlan Brotherhood of Railways Employees (C.C.L.). are seeking wag; increases of from five to i5 cents an hour and bonus pay of l0 cents an hour Labor depart- ment officials and NJ-LB. repres- tatives conferred in Ottawa. but their findings were not satisfac- QOW to the workers. it was learned. About 300 men are affected. and strike by them would seriously 9M9"- PhIl-‘ping in the port Couple LOSo Aopgfll In Murder Case IDNDON, Feb. 20 —(CP ) —Pic. Kark Gustav Hulten. 23-year-old rachuto trooper of Cambridge. ass and Elizabeth Mnud Jones. 18. former striptcaso danrcricduv lost appeals to escape hanging for the murder of a London taxi dTlhElt‘ o appeals upheld the fury‘.- verdict

By DOUGLAS AMARON WITH THE 1ST CANADIAN

ARMY IN GERMANY. Feb. 20 —-(CP Cable) - ln bitter actions Canadian infantry and armor yielded a thin portion of the Goch-Calcar road to a series oi German counter-attacks today. then went into a counter-attack ftf their own aimed at regaining

There was bitter fighting, too, between Luisendcrf, live miles northeast of Goch on a secondary road between Goch and alcar. and the woods south of Mo land. about two miles northwest c Cal- car. he Germans have__ha1tcd

(Continued on page IICoI. 5)

Manitoba Premier Gppoccd To Bloc

WINNIPEG. Feb. ilJ -— (CF) ._' Premier Staurt S. Garson sairkto- day Manitoba is opposed to the formation of any bloc by the Drovincesppgloiltzcto the PIIO¥IIIIECI$IQZOIIXIG§GIXCBI_

. o o bi dangerous practicgmwxlzglch use “our: veil dispense with at this time."

Mr. Gal-son outlined Manitoba's Position in a statement commen- ting on reports that development of a prairie bloc which would pre- sent a united front at the Dom- inion-Provinclal conference is be. 1H8 discussed in western political circles.

He said the Prairie Provinces hive mflnv common problems and might develop a common view. point upon many matters to camp before the Dominion-Provincial ooinsfcrancc.

uc commqn viewpoint. and when it develops, will be avid. encc not of the existence cf a bloc but that the public men_ in the, Prairie Provinces reach similar conclusions from similar facts."

ll. B. Expcctsi p Dom-Provincial Gonfcrcihcc

(By The Canadian Press)

FRERICTON, Feb. 20-—The New Brunswick Government antic- ipates a Dominion-Provincial con- ference will be held this year and is ready to take part in such a conference, stated the Speech from tne Throne read by Lieutenant- Governor W. G. Clark this after- noon in opening the first session of New BrunswlciCs 40th Iieg latu c. The Speech said a program oi health and social services and im- roved educational facilities was argely dependent on satisfactory financial arrangements between the Dominion and Province. Reference to forthcoming legis- lative action was brief. The Speech promised "ample provision" for thc electric power needs of the Prov- ince and revival of a "good roads‘ program as soon as tiicumstan permit. legislation mending the abor laws and abolishing the mun- icipal road tax was forecast.