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8th Army Improves _ Positions Astride Road

larget Practice lauses Alarm

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ALO . Dec. 10—(A.P)—U‘ni- ed States infantrymen of the Al- lied 5th Anny have captured San Pleqo. perhaps the strongest point in the Nazi's winter defences oi Cassino. in one of the bloodiest battles of the war and have surged forward a mils beyond that shat- tered mountain village which is seven miles southeast of Cassino. Allied heirdquarters announced today.

Meantime an Allied military commentator said Gen Sir Bern- ard L. Montgomery's British 8th Army troops, "improved their po-

Dec. 19 — (O P) -- mgot practice by a friendly neichsritman off the west coast ill Vancouver Island threw milit- iry establishments on the Pacific into turmoil last night.

OTTAWA.

Not urrtll earlyaotodlay] was htlhe warms; Bldl along the Orsogha-OY- h a oa . W“ ° “me ' H‘ w ° Serious fighting conhlnued un-

ilndeil near a small cape between ‘loflilo and Port Hardy definitely identified. In the meantime air- craft had been ordered to scour nearby ivaters for hostile craft uid leave for military personnel

abated. on the 8th Army front at the Adriatic end of the line, where headquarters announcll the capture of Poggioiioriio. eight miles southwest oi Ortona anc four miles northeast of Orsogna.

n‘ cancelled’ Allied headquarter: Saturday

Authorities here said no shells tummy named me Canadians

‘mick ‘and 0m no one w“ m" fighting in the Adriatic end of the

0"‘- line as the 1st Division. This Di-

vision took part. in the Sicilian

campaign and in the drive up,

through southem Italy from Rea-i gio Calbria

It was disclosed that the Innis- killing Fusiliers. a famous British regiment. had been in action on the 8th Army front up to the time of the capture of San Vito. which now lies a few miles to tiie rear of the British positions.

MacArthur Might Accept Nomination

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 ~ (AP) — Gen. Douglas MlicArthurs failure to say specifically mat llc would not accept a presidential ncininatlon ii it were offered, has convinced his supporters the re- publicans could draft him, as a nominee.

Senator Arthur Vbndenberg iRep. -- MichJ, looked upon as the father of the MacArthur

Air Raid

IDNDON, Dac- 20 — (Monday) - 101’: — An air raid alarm icilllaed in London early today, the Saturday night alert was the first ilerc since the night of Dec. i0.

‘inc all clcar sounded about n halt hour later.

Anti - aircraft guns were in action in, the Thames likstuary and one hlgli flying raider was caughtl in r C0118 of searchllghts as ltl uled over the Llmdou area. l

lillMlNll lavlzllrs,

"Christmas Concert, Hampton boom, said today he Ls proceeding Ball. December 22nd. 12-10-20. on the theory that the southwest u —— Pacific commander would not PlE-Cklvy Pt. School Concert refuse the republican nomination

“QM dell. Dec. 2i. 1220-11. rol- the 1m election. u _ --_-- . MacArthur will reach the leg- Lalic Verde School concert a1 retirement age of 64 on Jan.l 909mb" 23rd 12-20-11. as. ism, but Undersecretary oil, “m”, '-*- " War Robeitt Paterson, announ- i" Tue-‘MY- DQ455115" ccd last April that the common--

der was expected to continue his services in the field. Stimson said on Oct. 29 there was no change in the general’: status.

More than a year ago MacAr-

lht for Concert, New Haven School r 17-17-31. i

“Christmas Concert in Vernon i Ball. luciiday, Uecembe m. 20 n i

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"Hunter River Presbyterian 9° u m‘ ‘m5 mweini sung adding that "any suggestion to the l0, 5y school ounce“ ‘gecfmtier contrary must be regarded as merely an amiable gesture of

goodwill dictated by friendship." He came as near then as he ever has to an attempt to kill off the plcsidential boom with this declaration:-

"I started as a soldier and I shall "

finish as one. 2,000 More Men In Woods This Season

WELLAND. Ont.. Dec. 19-(0?) -—Labor Minister Mitchell Satur- day announced in an iliterview

"Wlilsloe South, Christmas Con- Wtt. Tuesday. December 21st. 2o n - 12- - .

“Come to the Christmas Con- cert. hi-adalbane, Wednesday. the "Ml- 12-17-31.

“hunter River Christmas con- Wit Wednesday. Dec. 22. If ‘lormy Dec. so 12-20-21.

"Diiustaffiaage Christmas con- illft. Marshfield Hall, December ll st l1 pm

"'_‘ ' th t there were 2.000 mor. work- mlagéaiued m bu)’ u" “d dream ersa in the woods of 905L851 Can- “ “m! mwl- “Wm w‘ ada on Dec. it this year than

the lame time last year. There were 46.000 men cut- niiig wood for the pulpwocd. Baa-

léiéilifid prices. island Cold the" we" a;

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The People's (lovers Prince Edward tlsland Like the Dew

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CHARIUFTETOWN, CANADA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 20. 1943

CE 0N SO-NILE FRONT

Foniicr Member 0f Legislature llicil Yesterday

TIIE LATE MR. D, N. McKAY

Mr. Donald N. McKay, 75. a fort mer member of tho Legislature in this Province died yesterday at Elle Prince Edward Island Hospi-

He was a native of Springfield. P.E..I and lived there all his llfc. carrying on farming operations. He was a. son of the, late William McKay and 111s wife Catherine Mal- letr McKay. Ho was born oil-July 1. 1868, the first anniversary of the confederation of the Provinces and five years before this Prov- ince joined the Dominion.

l-le took a prominent part community activities i111 his llfc and was ii member of the Sons of Temperance and of the Temp- erance Ficeration. l-le entered the political field in 1935 when he was elected as Assmnblyriian in the first district of Queen's for the Liberal party. He was re-elected in 1939 but was defeated in the general election this year minent farmer at

He was a pro Springfield and was active in farmers’ co-operatives ulid other

farm organizations.

Surviving are his wife. the for- mer Mlss Flora Sutherland Stanley Bridge P.E.I.. and two el W. McKay. a Can- adian National Railways brake- man at Charlottetown; Sutherland McKay. a farmer in Springfield.

Funeral services will be liclcl idence to the Springfield ceme- tery.

Island Born Tailor Dies In Saint John

SAINT JOI-IN, NIB» Dec. lCPPl-Angus A, Chaissoil, merchant tailor here for than half a cent dily after an illness weeks. He war born in of Rollo Bay. P.E.1. His wile is the former Katherln lottetown.

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BRITISH TEA TAX

The duty on tea in 0d on a. pound cosilng most 25 per cent in du

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ANCIENT HERB

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"Will he trucking hogs to Davis g Fraser Charlottetown, Thurs- ml’ Dec. 23. Please list early. M-

llr liaslam. Bradalbane.

12-18-21.

A"Cllrlsimas concert Salvation

"fly Hall, Monday, Dec. 20 at ll

P-m. Admission i0 cents. 12-18-21.

"Eliristmas Concert in Tracadlc mil. December 21st. if not fins

‘l fine night following. 12-11-14-30-31.

"Borden ink o nirig skate Plaster night. Decrflst. skating

t muglclll-llil om. Grand loader? christian rt a a n e. grwell Hall csigieceadnyfmDecer-nbcsr ll. Mlllview orchestra. Iiiainacbhiiii.

log aiid wood industry on Dec. 11 @151?!“

DOG. 19-(0?) -

LONDON. continued

Heartonlng new: oorne from Prime Minister Church- lll's sick bed somewhere in the Middle East today. with the mid- afternoon bulletin announcing that his temperature has return- ed to normal andqthat the pneu-

monia 1| dill-PW‘ "ll- Tho lack of reference to the ir- roguis pulse mentioned in was particu-

tu w Ma llotln 5a r '| ll larly encouraging. There had been uneasiness in London because it had been noted that the Oil-year- old prime minister is being attend- sa by snlineart specialist in his pceflenf- us.

moldy‘; bulletin. issued from l0 Downing Street. said:-

“Th; prime minister's temp"- ' ature is norlnal and signs ofnthl!

pneumonia are 11111179111

Termini: e announcement tlefaotory." a medical au- "wen there any xlety over tho pill" ly would have I11 ‘m,’ hi‘ ‘new

‘s age s considerable can

of New

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"We will be iniylnc turnl daily ‘i-uélhlgheat market. rlces past our m n” mile. limiter iver. Opening h- 33 for remainder of season .,, ""1 wry n. lull stock of when. -.".:":ri"Y.-..*z-.:.°'.2re.".:;

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Pneum or Mr. Church lto give rise to very anxiety because it

Heartening News Of Churchill's Condition

ed also hv Lin-Col. J. G. Scaddlli wldely-lulown Iondoln nuthorl

Co. Budding was

in Brompton in London before army shortly after the war b He has been in the Middle for two years.

One of the Colonel’! colleagues. commenting staff of physicians Churchill. uid locum-

"The p

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lssis Howl

Bedford knows all there is

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of ive farmers in tho nearby villages and John

Tilesday afternoon from his res-'

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'14, more ury, died Satur- several the parish

e Bolder, Char-

Brltain is 2s 10d, al-

ty said. "It on diseases of the chest and lungs. I u'-"" taut l tal l entering the: n. . S.

t . former the h” rims minister evidently cnt looking after him. Brigadier

know about the heart. and Bead- dlng is a first class inan on the

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By Elton C. Fay. Associated Press War Analyst

One result of tho new Russian winter offenllvn in the north may 110 the relief of Leningrad. unenvied holder of all modern-day records for

siege. Indications that the offensive. sprung in an area south of Novel. lg of 0th Russian and German soilrces.

considerable magnitude come from Moscow re orted last. nlg t that 500 populated places have been liberated, 20.000 Na: s killed and .000 taken prisoner. Berlin, reportinr the offensive before the Moscow announce snlel 250,000 red troo s were in the pus Lenin the ' cradle of tho Bolshevik revolution," went under siege helr way to the use or the rest of Russia. For months

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hon German forces fought t

ff its communications with the

illan population and defenders of the city lived and fought on the

L d t at‘ supplies. brought in across the wafer or over the ice nf Lake a oga.

Finally the rod army pushed the enemy back from the eastern ares, opening n comparatively narrow corridor through which supplies came in

is rail line and highways. ‘flit: city. however. has remained under siege. with Nazi artillery shells making rubble of buildings. Recent',, reports coming through neutral = sources said the Germans were trying out one of the rumored ‘Kecret

. " rocket artillery. nn the Leningrad front. , While the action at Nevel can roduce excellent defensive result; for - tli» heslegcd Russians at Lenlngra , the offensive possibilities are even

. greater e shores of the Baltic would leave thei

l l\ Russian advanci- along th I Axis collaborator, Finland. in rm even more isolated position,

Four Are Exec In

Russia For War Crimes

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Radio as telling on the witness stand how thousands of persons- lnlcludlng men and women were herded into death vans and killed by gas.

“We were told that the Soviet people were an inferior race who must be cxierminatlm by the superior German race and we were taught methods of extermin- ation,“ he saicl. "It was impress- ed upon us that this was the policy ordered by the German govemq

meat." ' about

sizantics

By James King (A P) —

LONDON, Dec. 1e - The Moscow Radio announced tonight that three Germans and a Russian traitor convicted cf war attrocitlcs by a military court sl- Kharkov were hanged in the pub- lic square of tnatclty at ‘11 axnr. today.

Thus, completed the first case of the war criminal trials.

The four were convicted by Ule the 4th Uk- rainian front which handed down the sentence Saturday.

Thley aware Wilhelm Langheld. 52, a Gestapo captain; Hans Ritz. vice commander a storm trooper cimpany; Richard Ratzlaw; 36. a corporal in the Gestapo auxiliary police, and the Russian. Mikhail Bulanov, 20. who served as a gestapo chauffeur.

l The Moscow radb said 40,000 ]pe1‘scm witnessed the executions. which were "greeted by the ivor- kers of Kharkov and the collect-

Ratzlaw estimated that 5.000 were killed in this fashioni and that the total killed lnl Kharkov Province was about 30.- 000. He further estimated that the Germans had executed about 5,- OCO to 8,000 persims at Zhitomir. about 35,000 at Kiev and about 4,000 at Lubnl during their occu- pation oi these cities. The Naz corporal told the court that he felt responsible for the deaths of these people "ln the sense that I- carried out the Orders of my chiefs".

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Pay Received By Servicemen 0n Discharge

l9—(CP)-Oa- nadian financial arrangements for soldiers. sailors and airmen or. discharge are based on the idea of providing a man with funds necessary to tlda lilm over ll“! ps1‘- iod of his re-establishrrient in civ- il life. rather that a lump sum

payment

There is nothing exactly 607"‘ gpondlng to the $200 to cooovmust- ering-out grani- PTOPMN ' United States forces in a bill now before Congress. but Canacian serviceman is expected u) draw considerably more than during the period his re- an life. habilltatlon offic-

with great satisfaction and much applause.“

The men. who included a Ges- ‘tapo captain, a. storm troop ctm- .mandcr and a police corporal as ;we1l as a Russian chauffeur for ~,the gcstlipo, were earlier quoted as blaming Hitler and Interior Minister Heinrich Himmler for attenzpts to wipe out the “inferior Ruslan race."

The opening of the courtmartlal was announced Thursday in a Moscow Radio broadcast which said all the accused already had pleaded guilty. ‘The trial followed only a few weeks after the Moscow pledge by Russia, Britain and the United States 0n Nov. 1 that war lcriminals would be returned to the |scene of their crimes and tried ,under lccal law.

I The verdict. was announced a few hours after one of the deferr- danrs was quoted by the Moscow

OFITAWA. Dec.

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the average .

pro Ater Bit

Navy Surgeon Dies While Telephoning

Commander Frank J. Scully. 40. chief Royal Canadian Navy sur- geon here, collapsed and died at a telephone at. Western here making the rounds of some of his sailor patients. He received his appointment to his present rank on Friday.

of Hon. Harbor Commission chairman at that Atlantic pirt, was Xavier University, Arltillbnlsh, N. S._ and McGill.

1917 and served overseas wi Canadian arrny. After the war ha was posted for sometime at the big military hospital Ste. Anne de Belleviiu

,Canadlan industries reporting to

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war. Cmdr. Scully e the Navy and served at first 1n Halifax.

MONTREAL, Dec. l9—(GP)-

HOIDNBI

Saturday night. lust after

in Saint John, N.B., son W.E. Scully. one-tlmil

Cmdr. Scully

educated at St. Francois

S

He graduate-i in medicin in th the

at nearby

At the outbreak of the present nllsted with

He was an ardent sports lover and was a member oi the tra- al Amateur Athletic Association and was for a time club physician of the National Hockey League Maroons. Survivor; include a son. Ueut. William Scully. R.C.N.. a daugh- ter, Mrs Bernard Sirois (Jacque- line Sirois of the Montreal Stand- ard) three sisters. Mrs. Edward O'Toole. Montreal. and Mrs. Thomas Drisooii and Miss Helena Scully bothbf Saint John.

The funeral will be held here Tuesday morning with burial in Saint John.

70,000 More Women Working In Industry

OTTAWA, Dec. l0—-(GP)—vA.n increase of 70,000 in the number of women working full-time in

the Dominion Bureau of Statistics boost-ing the proportion of women in the nation's total working force by more than onc-tenth-was re- ported today by the Bureau for the year ended Oct l.

Number of men working in these plants was virtually unchanged.

The Bureau said that. in addi- tion. employment of women on a

art-time basis “considerably in-

l) creased" during the l2 months but detailed figures were not

available. In some industries such employment was "probably fairly substantial.”

Two-thirds of the women in recorded employment in indust- rial plants at last Oct. 1 were ln manufacturing industries. includ- ing light and power. This group numbered 307.351 Next largest of women were the 8030B finance and n, services.

27011375 in trade. 32,058 in .819 in iscellim

Fix Newsprint Production For Next Six Months

OTTAWA. DBO. 19 -- (CP)

That Election

0a lalg said today the Canadian plan

Mint, was used by ‘Hippocrates, . is more generous than any yet the father of medicine. z! ado ted by any other nation. - e Al soldiers. sailor; and airmen. draw on discharge one months ' ._.__._ Day and allowances, The allowan- i" imififonlh“ rrifiililltlfiiyififili r . . WINNIPBGr m“ m " ((3,?) ‘Q wjlth egiferseas gervlce receive 2B “h” Bracken’ “anon” l“ e? o days‘ demobilization furlough on $31", Piggrleasg: Bdmxgewfiéa: full pav and allowances prior to ary as f1 ulna‘ d cos lthlgal- that Rho ‘plcsen (Dominion) 10$“ “gs “n " °° x‘ mvenmmi, i‘ ‘m “h” w“ w" an For s private soldier. single and suddenly and rapidly." he laid. pretty fsst- drawing no allowances. these three "Until it is completely cleared sneaklns at the MAPM“ T“ items amount to n t $1.. A sway there is s 0008111181 08111191” 37am‘ CW-“rvmw .°°“v_em9n' married man without children present all the time. There is a MT- Bracken Claimed m5 puny-d ., would receive about $212. and‘ a strain on tho heart in every lung 80m! 011°" by ‘"95 “d bgmhx: married man with three children disease. Hard work. too; adversely and urged representatives 0 W; about $184. affect; it. eral consul-Hell“! W 11° t‘ l” n ——-—————— rn addition u» lord Moran. Brig. organizational lob l“ PNPM“ ° nooses narrzan Davis Fl. Bcrlford and Lt.- ol. 107T?‘ llenggnglefisglgnment m m '—--' vrcn " e mfinlngsuilrightjllrc diaxltly wliiiiioiifif tho habit’ of dropping an elteclla More than! 2,'l§»0,000 110x505 l: ' ' .‘ d 1 a mu En d n Wueswr. amage todavs announcement was sign on us sud (evnhygwarvier Ylgpperlss," he bxflblglnbsflhmn ‘he t“; o! the

g ready for

ight be soon." war up lo November. l0

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Newsprint production ill Canada , will be st a monthly rate of 252.- 000 tons during the first six

(AP)—Russia’s 1st Bal- tic front army has crack- ed German positions on a 50-mile front depth of nearly 20 miles, killing 20.000 Germans- in a powerful surge toward Polotsk, key rail junction near the Polish and Latvian frontiers. nounced tonight.

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By JAMES M. LONG i LONDON, Dec. 19 —

to a,

five-day

Moscow an-

The red army troops

under Gen. Ivan Bagra-

mian were believed to be within 40 miles of Polotsk, hacking their way forward over fro- zen land in a triangular area formed by Polotsk, Navel, and Vitebsk. They were less than 70 miles from the Latvian fron-