The local hockey season opens ignight at theForum when Prince

s! Wales clash with the Navy quad Ln a ‘prel-‘season game.

SPORTING NEWS

.The local hockey season will swing into action tonight at the Forum at B o'clock when Prince of Wales figured to be one of the

key League that will begin shortb-

- . k1 t c h b l ly after the New Your, clashes nitmeveiiifingo heoavsas sgtillg-‘Czltxilgigt: with an equally strong Navy .ai about his squads chances, but Bill-lad-

nevertheless figured that the team he has chosen will prove more than worthy opponznts of ltho team that the Queen Charlotte my; have picked. 0 i» i il-

swyting tonight in the nets for he P.W.C. team will be Ivan isaeArthur, a youngster that has roven his worth before going Everseas with the armed forces. ack Proude, who tended goal for e Collegians last year is likely, o share goal-tending duties with acArthur in tonight's game and e youngster who has been bat-

ng it out in the last couple of practice sessions with MacArthur lor the goal-tending position still gives _ “way from the more experienced ilayer. 1

Il- 0 i- Up front Prince of Wales will s led by the high-scoring line of loolle, Blanchard .and Robertson, l trio which in the last couple of practice sessions have been show- liiiz their last season's form, a form which carried them to the high scoring record in the league. O O 1- 0

Snag’: second line will be coin- osed of Beer, Bagnall and Brad- ioy, and the popular coach may provide a surprise when he throws those threq youngsters over the boards in tonight's tilt.

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That is the dope we liave on P.W.C. team. Navy have been more or less reticent on the chances of the squad they will ivl" for tonight's encounter but nevertheless in conversation with them last night it was plainly evident that they expected to start oi! the season with a vio- iory over the team that ls ex- pected to be the classl of this season's City Hockey League.

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Hfavyweight champion Joe Louis wil gs to spaln iii late January fog an exhibition tour of leading cities. boxing promoter Antonio Ponce said recently.

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Ponce said Louis would come to Seville befora starting his tour and would appear at Barcelona and ‘Jalenola, among other cities.

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lank Borowy whose mid-season urchase from New York Yankees helped- Chlcago Cubs gain their first ennant in seven years, led all stlonal lnague pitchers in I earned-run and won-and-lost rat-

lag for 1M6. official baseball fig-

ures disclosed recently:

Waived, out '0! the American lrague by Yankee President Larry llauPliall because of,his "inabil-

ily to go the route after July 4." “x1

Borowy not only completed ll of his l4 starting assignments for the Cuhs, but became the first senior circuit hurler since Cincinnati's Elmer Rlddl; in 1941 to capture both the earned-run and won-and- lost honors. 1|- 4- Il- 1-

‘Hie Canadian Olympic Commit- tee decided at a meeting at Mont- real Saturday that Canada will be represented in the 194B iOlympic flames by "one of the largest and most representative teams ever

sent."

e e 6 e ..Decislon to enter s Canadian team in the first games sincs 108B

was taken at the meeting, called its consider notification from J. Slgfrid Edstrom of Stockholm that the games would be resumed in London and that the winter gam- es would be held at St. Moritz,

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1- sl- Danlel J. Ferris, secretary of the Amateur Athletic Union and a member of the executive com- mittee of the United States Olym- ic Association, said the Internat- oiial Olympic Committee had ilPén conducting a mall poll of the Olympic membership on where the games should be held. He added that he hadn't been inform- ed that the voting had been com- pleted. Q i» 0

*1’. J. Mulqueen of Toronto, pres-

will formally notify Mr. Edstrom, president of the International Ol- ympic Committee, of Canada's de- vision to 6:81‘ a team.

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J, Howard Crooker of London, out, said that the Ph Ils- nnss Council of Canada, through Major Ian Isenhardt, had promis- ad full co-operation in preparing for the games.

+ Each ort will be responsible for l cogmending either individ- uals or teams and the sport org- anizations likely will be called upon for some financial support. Il- Q 0 O

Committee members at the meeting were Mulqueen, Crocker,

Prof. N. C. Hart of London, Ont., ' secretary; Dr. AJB. Lamb. Maul- l; Liam Northey, Montrealmud

Union, and T. H. C. Alison, To!‘- onto.

promise of taking the job 5

ldent of the Canadian committee, Doomed

Tonight's game should give loc- al hockey fans a keenly foualit en- counter all the way. Both lineups are packed with players who halve

been serving overseas for the past

Writers Pick Top Fighters ,

The New York Boxing Writers‘ Association has come up with its annual ratings for the I946 sea-

on.

Here's the way the fighters sic picked in the various weights: Behind Champion Joe Louis in the heavyweight class comes Billy Conn, Jimmy Blvlns and Tami Maurlello. Archie Moore, Lloyd Marshall and Freddie Mills trail Champion Gus Lesnevlch in the light heavyweight ranks. Leading contenders for middleweight cham- pion Tony Zale’: crown are Jake Lamotta. Rocky Grazlano and Steve Bellolse.

Behind Champion Freddie Coch- rane in the welterweight class comes "Sugar Ray" Robinson, Marty Servo, Tippy Larkin and Jimmy Doyle.

Bob Montgomery gets the nod over Ike Williams for lightweight honors, although the latter is re- cognized as champion Ln N.B. A. clrcles.\ Williams gets second place with Beau Jack and Allie Stolz rated third and fourth. re- spectively.

New York title holder Willie Pop was picked over N.B.A.'s Sal Bartolo for top honors in the fea- therweight ranks with the latter rated ahead of Phil Rrranova and ancient Chalky Wright. Benny Goldberg, Luis Castillo and Tony Ollvers. are the one-two-three con- tenders for the bantamweight crown worn by Manuel Ortiz while there were no contenders listed for the flywelght crown now held by England's Jackie Patter- son.

Former Wrestler llut 0f ll. S. Anny

ATLANTA, Dec, 20 — (AP) ( Moixinialn Dean)

itt his faoe posting onl V . sup t ken force-of the beard he oiléfiofi

in the wsestlilg fwflln, anrived here

N’. d . The 54-year ZSO-pounder, oiil a shadow of his former se —lie weldhed around 330 in his wrest gigs-served wilth the United States

Army. Imvitt plans to rel/um to his fad-m at Noroross, .

St. Hyacinthe Wins Frcm Sharbroolie 6-2

Klll, Que. Dec. 20- (CIU-While the locals’ high-scor- ing line of Mann-y McIntyre and the Carnegie Brothers was e1 in check. St. l-lyacintlie Saints de- feated Sherbmoke Randlies 6-2 here

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Former Ho. 1 Male Athletes

ION-Jesse . track. INT-Don Budae. tennis. IBM-Don Budge. iezinls. USO-Nile Kirmldr, football. IMO-Tommy Harmon, f lflil-Jua I. film-Frank witch. football. lm-Gundes Hum. iii-sick. laid-Byron Nelson, golf.

By The Canadian Press Juries (Tod) Sloan regarded as

car Pearson, Montreal. Other the world's test. in the lfimmwee meinbeg aée gmbfivg- 22:, dies sit 1m es n ‘you;

rl. I i ' . . "W - -Il years d and gancouvsapelgobertwlitei-‘y Hlmll‘ afifi“ 0! h‘! "n" h. gm ".

n; G. B. I-falt , nn pee. r9 I 8» vine gone resenting the ‘Armateur Athletic t-hwuoh am.

strongest teams in the City Hoc- MoDo

Prince Of Wales, Navy Open Hockey Season At The Forum Tonight

several years and here is how they will line up for tonight's game:

P. W, . - goal. MacArthur, Broude", defence, Keefe. Dalziel, maid. Leightizer: forwards.

Nicolle Robertson. Blanchard. Beer. Bagna-ll, Bradley, Irvine, Richard. Blake.

Navy — goal O'Shea: McAd-aun. McDougaiI. MB . Moore: forward-s. Buck Whitlock. Jackson. LeClair, Gregory, Cud- more, Junop, Jay. Flannigan.

defence.

Hockey Practice

There will be a practice for the Heartbreakers this evening at 5.30 at the Upper Queen Street rink.

Successor To Joe Louis?

(By Tlie Associated Press)

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 20- Billy Fox, 19-year-old slugger with 36 straight knockouts, is "a batter boxer at his age than Joe Louis was," Frank (Blin- ky) Palermo. lils manager. declared today.

The lithe negro from Philli- deiphia ran lils consecutive kayo string to 36 Monday b_y a convincing nix-round techni- cal knockout of Georgie Koch- an, front-ranking light-heavy- weight from Dayton, Ohio.

Halifax Grcsccnts Score Upset Win

HALIFAX. Dcc. 20 — LOP) — The only civilian entry in the l-lal- ifax City Senior Hockey League, Crescents. scored an upset tonight by defeating the favored Army squad 15-7.

Gordie Drillon. former National Hockey League star, and now coaching the Army tea-m played lils fiist game of the season to- night. He scored three goals and notched three assists.

Quebec Aces Score Upset

MONTREAL. Dec. 20 —— (CP) — Quebec Aces scored the major up- set of the Quebec Senior Hockey League tonight by defeating the leading Montreal Royals 5-1. Aces now are elsht points behind the ficntliners.

At Valleyficld. the ‘hometown Braves swept to a 7-5 victory over Shawinigan Fa-lls Cataracts to move them into a three-way third place tie with Cataracts and Ot- tawa Senators. Jimmy Or . former N.H.L. star, scored once and assisted in three goals to lead the Braves. with Mush MOPCIlOlISC

Germans Considered Suicide Squadron

(By The Associated Press)

OBERURSEL, Germany,‘ Dec. 20 -Plans for- a "suicide squadron" of fanatical German glider pilots, conceived in a last desperate at- tempt to make the Allies sue for peace, were revealed today.

Capt. Hanna Reitscli, ace Nazi avlatrlx, told the story to United States counter intelligence invest- igators at the internment camp here where she is officially des- cribed as a "guest."

A specially designed Messersch- mitt 388, originally intended for a lighter or fighter bomber plaiie, was to be used as a piloted glider bomb, she said.

Tests killed some ace German

llots and disclosed many faults n the plan. the avlatrlx said, leading top-flight Nazis like Illt- ler, Himmler and Goering to dis- count the ldea time afic: time until it was too late to put it into practice,

A 2,000~pound bomb-torpedowas to he attached, with the pilot fully aware a hit meant death, she sel .

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WMIDON, Dee. U-(OD-Prloe all"? in the British open golf ilmplonsiiip, starting July l. dh°%?ik£%$' Mum Clil ‘assume. »

of toys still

Child's-en's Sleds

Just arrived, strong, sturdy. Nice Assortment

MILLER anus. LTll.

available.

Many this. For Christmas In Short Supply

OTTAWA. D , _ - -

housewives Wiwecflflat? lgantlgilll? flklljfmflhs dshoppms until the last than e u; _better get "crackLn_,g__ kee t fklfllt supplies officials

l f! "B about are getting sioitei day by d3," hMost housewives likely already uave stocked their larders but 1'01‘ sgosewiio plan to finish off their

OPPHIE within the two or three diiys remaining before Christmas ""5 is "is Way, the Prices Board sees the food situatiom- I Turkeys! Supplies running short due to heavy demand which re- sulted from meat rationing. Chickens: Fairly adequate sup- plies available.

Cranberries: In good quantities i" m°5t 50°98 as a result of a good crop this year.

Currants: Running low after a

heavy demand earlier ln the month. Raisins: Supplies not too bad

with new shipments in from the United States.

Peel: Very difficult to obtain.

Mareschino Cherries: In short supply and scarcer than last year.

Spices: Reasonable supplies av- lilable, though mostly all imitat- Ion brands,

Mincemeat: Commercial supply is small. Ingredients for home- made mincemeat generally avail- ablc.

Citrus Fruits: Oranges, tarigei- ines. lemons and grapefruit gen- erally to he found in fruit stores.

Bananas: Good supply available from Mexico, Central America and Jamaica.

Apples: Scarce due to bad crops.

Apricots: None.

Vegetables: Tumips. potatoes and other root vegetables in fair supply, though not as good as last year. Supplies of canned vegetables is fair.

Marmalade and Jams: not too bad.

Figs and Dates: Figs about the same as last year; some dates available but not many.

Peanuts, filberts, walnuts Yand almonds: Supplies adequate.

Brazil Nuts: None.

Suet: Very scarce, none at all iii some centres.

Lard: Situation bad. An addit- ional 1,250,000 pounds placed on market last iveek failed to meet demand,

Hard Candy: Supplies scarce be- cause of labor and sugar shortage.

Ribbon Candy and Candy Canes: None.

Export (if H. B. Potatoes lluericd e

Supplies

OTTAWA, Dec. 20—'I‘he export to Spain of a large number of seed potatoes from th; Province oflNew Brunswick, was made the subject of an enquiry in the House of Commons just before the session ended.

D. King Hazen, (Prog.Con., St. John-Albert) asked the Minister of Trade and Commerce, Mr. Mac- Kinnon, how many potatoes had been sold to the Spanish Govern- ment and at what price.

He also wishes to know wliy this deal was put through as a "private agreement," according to a statement made by the Special Products Board. This Board. he reminded the House, is an adjunct of the Department of Agriculture avid all seed potatoes from New Brunswick are supposed to be sold through it, except those ex- ported to the United States, Cuba and Venezuela.

The New Brunswick MP. sought to discover why the usual proced- ure was not followed, and why the dealers or shippers of his Pro-

slamnilng home two goals and - _ drawing an assist on another. gfiéc were not notified the He held that the transaction had not been in accordance with r B h prevailing lregulations, and liad G a the earmarks of some firms tav- ing had some particular pull with ' the Government. He asked for the name of the dealer who had ship- ped the potatoes, and also what _______ price fllifldd bJeen recelvtedi sag a oen ex or e . - GLOUCESTER‘ NJ" Dec‘ 20 _ Izndanfyurthei‘ if the pDepartment of (AP) “John Dlnsmore‘ who played Trade and Commerce had issued shorts witli Detroit in the old the necessary expo" permits‘ Nationa League in 1880, died to- Dr Mccanm Min-Mel. o; Nat. day‘ He was 2' ~ who was pinch-

lonal Revenue. _ hitting for Trade Minister Muc- Kinnon who was not in the city, said he could not answer Mi". l-Iazcn‘s questions. He added that

lie felt sure, however. thflt l1"; explanation coverlnfl tliltlgzenwgt

would be sent to _M1‘- w h e Saint John, after his retu.n 0m -

Haupiiiiann’: Scn Named Beneficiary

NEWARK. N.J.. Dec. 20 —(A.P _ Mannftied HalIP 1?- yleos-old son of the for the murder of baby, has been named a beneficiary in the will of Emile Kurtl. elderly spinster.

Her bequests also inollud-sd $60.- 000 for educational institutions abroad and $3.000 forfthe w" and protect-ion of cats.

The will. filed for lip-bate to- day. bequeathed Bnmo HauPt- mamfs son Miss Kurtis savings account. with a New York .

Souices close to the family est- imated youns Hauptmann wpuld receive about 8500. >

Her estate was estimated at

$300,000 or moms. In her will Miss Kurt: com- mented on the Hamtmann be-

quest as follows:

"In making this bequest I state that while I do not lrnow either Enlm or any member of his family. I have foi- some time been of the

ion that this lad is and will continue lobe. hsndlca in life and I mould like to ex to him some aid in his unequal struggle fps existence."

NEW YORK. Dec. i0 —- (AP) —- Nesrly all United states security and other merbsie have snnomced

plans to close Monday, Dec. making a y -end ex- Wldlht from

Christmas and New Year's Day. The only marks-U open Dec. 24 are snd Jersey City Live- stock Chicago Cash Clnin. New Y0K Dairy slid melon h-

l adlan Amateur

sHIZ ‘LHARLUI IIZIUWN GUARDIAN

NEW YORK, Dec. I) —- (Ail?)-

Golfer Byron Nelson, winner of the United Sta/its Professional Golfers Association championship

and l8 other WLIIIIlB-fllcflts today was named the vrorlrls No. 1 male ath- lete of 194.5 by sports writers across the country who voted the honor to the Texan for the second consecutive year. His main competition came from durable Doc Blanchard, Army's all- America fullback. Of the 82 sports writers particl- pating 1n the poll, 36 placed Nelson at the top of the list, While 30 picked Blanchard. On the basis of tthree points for a first-plaice vote, two for second and one for third. Nelson scored 181 points to Blan- dhard's 150.

Thirty-one athletes from all fields of sport were ITIBITLIOIIBCI in

the voting but Nelson was placed first. second or third on 70 of the

MONTREAL Dec. 20 — (CP) —- In the anticipated ice liockev re- vival in Great Britain next winter, Canada should be in a position to supply sufficient players to give the venture a good start, Mer- vyn (Red) Duttoii. president of the National Hockey League said liei-c today.

Commenting (ill ilie recent vis- it to Canada of F. S. Geiitle. an official of tlic British Hockey As- sociation, to discuss with tlie Can- Hockey Associat- ioii possibilities of recruiting play- ers in the Dominion. Duttoii said he came to the right place “as Can- ada is the only breeding ground for hockey in the world." Gentle. who flew back to Eng- land yesterday. conferred with Dutton and Tommy Germ-an, gen- eral manager of the Canadian Arena company, while he was in Montreal.

The NJ-LL. president thought that Canada should be able to supply the desired 150 players which Gentle announced he needs to start operations next winter.

Dutton said that Canada could take care of its own leagues and still supply players to England.

‘He said the British promoter intended to gather his material from among Canadian Amateur Players. Dut-ton. moreover. did not foresee the possibility orf profes- sional hockey getting underway in England for a few years.

"They have to get their organ- ization going. Tlicn. too, you have to take into account that some of the hockey arenas suffered war damage. They have to be repaired."

Mr. Gentle, who is clue to make another trip to Canada next June. said here there was a possibility of three teams operating in the London area and one in Paris.

German said he thought that migration of players from Quebec would be "pretty thin" as amateur hockey needs and opportunities in the Province were numerous enough to satisfy all ooiicvzmecl.

Gestapo Staged Border lnciilnets By Fakeil Raids

NUERNBERG, Dec. 20 — (AP) -—The German Gestapo engineered the bolder incidents setting up the invasion oi Poland witli faked raids which even supplied dead "Polish" soldiers as "evidence", an affidavit given to the International War Crimes Tribunal said today.

The affidavit was from Alfred Naujocks, Gesia-po official who said he led an attack on a Germ- an border radio station at B PM, on Aug. 3i, l9B9-—just a few hours before Hitler's parizer divisions swept into Poland. He solid con.- ceniratlon camp prisoners were drugged. dressed iii Polish army uniforms. and then shot by the Gestapo to “pro-ve" violation of the Gemian frontier

The United States prosecution, attempting to show that six large Nazi oiganlzatlons share the guilt of war crimes along ivitii the 22 leaders on trial" had just begun its case against the Gestapo when the tribunal adjourned fo-r l2 days for the Christmas holidays

Col Robcit G. Storey, one of the American prosecutors. to-ld of the creation of the Gestapo by Hermann Goering in 1933, and dharged that it. flnollv covered Germany and most of Europe with 40.000 to 50.000 agents ilrliose task it was to trriorize ail opposition to the Nazis

Wlieii the tribunal convenes again Jaii 2. t-lic United States case will have at least one more wezk to run before the Russians and French have a chance to pre- sent cvldeiice. British prosecutors have presented evidence dea with crimes against the peace.

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' a Although his forebears (mm in- tended!) came from a tiny island

off the coast of Alaska. this l0- month-old Kadiak cub in the 8t. Louis zoo never had seen snow before. And does he love it! Be dances writ-h excitement as the first - flakes fall

BB ballots and Blanchard osi 65.

~ It was strictly a two-num affair. Hal Ne ‘L ,, tching hero of Detroit Tigers who won 5 games and was named the American League's most. valuable player. got onlv seven firstplace votes in this poll and wound up In third place with 73 mints.

Glenn Davis. Blanchards speedy taamrmate. landed in fourth place with l9 points wihile first baseman Phil Cavarrota of Chicago Cubs. most valuable player in the Na- tional League. plaoed filth witli onlv l4.

Nelson last year's winner, ls the second magi in the 16 year history of the poll to win the honor twice. Don Budge. the former ten- nis champicn. was named the out- standing athlete in bot-h 1937 and 1938. 'I‘he onlv other golfer to fin- isli first in the poll was Gene Sar- azieri in 1932.