iunwal‘! 9f lire-Invasion Blows

pre-invaaim aliens-

mwflgures approximate): i5 da

ya. not including Tues-

“? Allied airmen haves- more

than aoooao

m; bombs min more than 150,800 planes psstro at least 2J3! planes

wing i, oi their own.

since ‘ru nilht. Allied

nes are reported to have at- uked Lev n and other Ger-

llaval Awarils

rosa. one roceivcd abartohilnlC, en- d one cl C . win-

zy announcement also had received mention in dis-

patches. Lieuts. Wadsworth and P

received the award "ior good work Italy), while Lieuts. were honored

coasts

It $KM"( i‘ _ “i” “um "r m _u “$4: sussnosmn m-

. a inhis b. I. C. “for good wortiatiflig-

unoPlarssalvediisp

uoeseoeivissatermineswesp’ ' ‘ stllalta m‘

t, 1,000 Saved As

‘lunspsrt Grounds

liii PRANXCO Sl-- (AP) Inn than 1M0 nalvlywann were

ruiuadlomaatriokan

lld aisvoilidkil waters toduv ter lie _ crashed s-

and heavy fog on nds 30 miles west

Nuval authorities said there were Delis oi casual

The vessel. s. liberty ‘SUD ands: a na- nirt. tonight was understood to be

.rlnl 1gb. it was inbound troirki “um "e ho m: appr°mmlm_

grlxdlhwlerdi

Farsiiion of Golden Gate

Iivste charter as

made . snail lslandsflifialble from the Go Gate bridge

on n clear day. t-ci those lll life lackets were

licked up within an hour. Destroy- I and patrol boats were busy bick- Q _rsits_oii_day

IONDON, May 81 — (OP-Cable)

_. rive members oi the Royal sf

Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve

have been worded Disting- lervics

undneda oi men ‘took o3 the water in Life Jackets and on. rafts. ackv shares oi (lie

T?) TR00

Provincial

in the committee

was represented.

always been aciiv ee dormant. But the meetln widespread belief

Dru‘ J. in P I. L-The

of polic

vice-presidents, Leith

ip Bouris; Chester McCarthy. Tig- nili; Preston K nnedy. Kenning‘-

ton: secretary-treasurer, Mac

Arsenault. Mont Carmel: fourth Russell Thompson. Tryon: fifth John Y. Phillips, .

serfs-first district,

White Kingston:

lard, Bouris hat; second. EL.

Alany War Savings Staaipsllotllonvsried

UITAWA, M Sl-(Cl-‘l-Can- ly $6,500,000 worth of war savings stamps which have not yet been converted into war saviifi certif- leatas. it was learned to y.

Officials handling the conver- aion cf stain said. however. the fact they ha not been turned in did not necessarily mean that the stsm had been lost and would

P5 not eventually bttexcgiged.

Gestapo JitteryAs D-Day Looms Closer In Europe

BDHIIG EVENTS

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"Dance in llhrnseliife

M: 2nd. rue cross. a- "Dance "i Friday Jim‘: m“ fir’???

itivsvs. m?" hiss clown": om some’:

“Will 5w thlg III! pin. l‘. J.

so Pom-iv Bale. Bradalbano risu. mildly June 3rd. Bradalbans Society. o-as-u.

Bee "Silos Qhldge from Turni M’ Mari P]; , own 3N7. (halo 23698.80. w.

"mm-mu wand-gum Cea-

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slat-at. will

. IQNDON. May 31--(AP) - The German f‘ pressed a force- lous wave oi terror in Iirance. the Ncth ds ltum

Boned by the French pres service Looidon, offered new evidence oi le jitters within Gemian-

eid Europe and ontrastcd with the calm cont d

the invudon base of Britain

British nevwnmers displayed pro- minently a as naton announce- ment that. the United Mates was producing a plane every five min utes and mother armouncement m‘ James Forrestal Uniwd States navy secretory. that there now are enough cndlt to carry entire invasion army over the wat- ers to Hitler's Europe.

Brig-Son. wide Is Promoted

Crrawa, May lil-(Gl-Brilc den. John n. white or Montreal commander oi the Canadian Ibr- ultra‘ Corps, has been proinotad m e mix a mtior-remnl and retire shortly from the Can- adian active force after s long oa- ieer. the defence department an- nounced tonl

ram‘ is in Montreal IIOI I since

Ge I whorls‘. mills been staying

he returned to Canada recently from overseas duty.

In civilian life. Gen. White was auoolated with forest industries and was vice-president and direct- or of Canadian international Paper Congany and a former president of auCanadian Ilorest Industries

on.

lo was appointed to the coni-

Corpr when it was mobilised in June. i940. PM trained the form- tion took it overseas and rs-

a . csived wide praise ior its work in leotland.

While County associations have s the Provincial organization has been to some de-

last night indicated there was a that a central group was needed to co-crdinatc sh the work oi the Progressive Con- servativeg” in eachuof the tgouritlies. o apes was e on. . . P. llacllillsri. leader of the h-tgreasive Conaervslve Party . ainder of the time was devoted entirely to orga- nisation work and to a discussion

y.

Last ni ht Major '!'. B. Rogers of Charl tetown was elected pre- sident oi the re-constituted ss- sociatlon. Other officers include:

Donald. KC. Charlottetown. Other members of the executive one from each of the electoral district; in the Province, include: Prnce. first district. J. .5. Mor- rissey, Tlgnlsh; second. George M. 1 Matthews. O’Lesry: third. John Y.

y. Emerald; second, Derr ll tlrd Leo d

Court,’ Bedford. fourth, George ' then sent. to Halifax for s. three

Burst. Five Houses: third. Andrew MacDonald. Cardigan; fourth.

George Maclntyre, " ntague: fifth. Alexander A. MacDonald, Little Pond. _

Victoria. The other

ships were iilreltdestroyer Chaudiere. the eorvettes Chlliiwacli, LL-cmdr. Clifton R. (

Ottawa. uid Pwnnsl, Lt.

William P. Moffatt of Montreal. and the Mate 8t 0d .- Cmdr. A. l‘. Pickard oi Halifax. The Royal Navy destroyer was the

Icarus, commanded by LL-Cmdr Richard Dyer oi Vancouver.

ml

Progressive

Conservative Ass ’n

_ Elects New Officers

At an enthusiastic meeting held rooms last night the Provincial Association cf the Pro vs Conservative Party in

. . I. was re-organiaed. Every electoral district in the Province

Invasion Weather

DOVER. England. May 31-(0?) —'I‘hs ass was smooth under a cool northeast breese in Dover Strait tmiight and visibility was fulfill’ ggod. t" d ped l

e arorne rop slghtly following an afternoon thunder- owe .

Local Sailor llail Part In Sea Battle

4

Not every sailor who reiairns home to find a thirty-day furlough can res his friends with tales of

braking sur-

do imtv - are uoh is the ood f tun o: imp; Stoker mcwicrc Ogltwayc. in the N here hi hid-lily, i041. went to

iiax the following August and a few letter on board the St.

January, m2 during which time he made six trips from Newfoundland tc Iceland on convoy duty. He was

months sinker course and in April went to Montreal where he joined the corvette iaMablie. For eleven months he remained on the La- Mablie running between St. John's Nild.. and hcridonderrv Ireland. He (fame of! the Isalgkablie in March.

er ship. On April 21c . he joined the corvette Fennel and made two trips to Ireland. In Nov- ember of that year the Fennel went on permanent escort duty Ovéfsefld and was at 3.30 phi. on March 8th the followlnil Hprink that the German sub broke water in the midst of five Canadian warships and one Engl destroyer.

Th; Canadian ships were Ithe two destroyers. the Gatlneau and Chaudlere. the three corvettes. St. Cathsrlnes, Chilliwack. and Fennel. For thirty six hours prior to the engagement, the crews of the ships had been at action sta- tlone. Ostway states. ior an Eng- lish Qilp had sent definite know- ledge that enemy subs were in this vicinity

The sub had only time to launch one torpedo when the converging destroyers and ccrvettes were u- pon her. said Oatwsy. and she want to the bottom about twenty minutes after she had broken water. The Fennel picked up nine German ratings and one officer After this M18880mel1t, L. Sto- Oatway returned to Newfound- land and was drafted off ship for Halifax on April 32nd of this year. He had been home since May 0th and returns to Halifax to take a Stoker Petty Officer! course on June 3rd.

L. Sto. Edward Oatwav is the scn of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Oat- wa . His father is serving in the Ve eraifs Guard He has a bro- ther, Immanuel. in the Mc' Corps in England and a younger brother, Louis, at home.

UITAMA. HAY 81 — (OP) —T.hc Navy announced today the sinking of s German submarine and the co ture of an unststed number oi pr ners in the North Atlantic recently in an attack by i; w"-

vessels. "

'I'he ‘ll-boat, slinking on the flank oisb convoyzwasdstectedbys fluke w en one oi the Canadla warships. the Gatineau. was forced to leave s convoy be- cause oi a distiller defect and im- “suuvisrmiuu.

0 i! I110- ther destroyer vwo eorvettq an a frlgpio o the Canadian ‘ Navy and a British destroyer and the‘ submarim was forced to the sur- face, where it was destroyed. The commander oi the submarine was killed in the action.

‘the Catineau was ecsnrn

by Lin-Cmdr. H. V. W. Oroos of

Canadian

Lt-Cmdr. Nixon of Victoria

T511?) Ooillhlin of Cmdr.

Long-Range German Guns Likely Targets

LONDON. May (ii-MP) — Pol- lowins up a tremendous daylight aerial assault on Hitler’; Ihizooc from the west and south by pos- sibly 3.500 Allied plazas. RAJ‘

3t bh French coast from Colitis to Cube Gris Nez late tonight with its hea- viest bombing of the was.

The targets appeared to be the Gfilml-n Ions-raise guns which ci- feri shelled the Dover district.

The attack like the four which preceded it in the some region. was as short as it was sharp and a lit- tle more than l5 minutes alter the blasting began the planes began

rei . The newest», assault on tbs Ger. mans’ anti-invasion coastal defen-

plancsxtflly a. record-breaking M8.-

Of!) so es.

The night, blow followed combin- ed daylight assaults in which bomb- ers from Britain hit Gorman rail- way centres while Italian-based planes struck at the Ploesti oil fields of Romania.

In skies almost clear oi the en- emy and at a cost of one bomber and four lighters, from ‘I50 to 1.000 American heavy bcmbeis from Bri- tain pounded crowded railway yards alt Hamlin. Osnabruc-ls. Scherte and Soeswtrarispcrt centres just inside

ich iced the coastal defence zones

m the fourth consecutive day more than 1,200 Allied fighters supplied escort but finding no op- position in the air they swooped down and shot up more 86 locomotives and aircraft parked on alrdiomcs.

Smoke clouds visible for miles rolled up from the Ploestl iiclds after upward of no Italy-based‘ heavy bombers dropped their bombs, hitting at least one major refinery.

Confirm Death ln Action 0f Flt-Sgt. Acorn

Mr. and Mrs. Ell‘. Aoom of Charlottetown have received con-

George Warburton Acom. of the R..C.A F. missin since last Dec- ember was killed action. The in- formation was from the casualty

plied bly the International Red Cross at Geneva. , In a letter to Mrs. Acorn the of-

man official information which states that your son lost his life and was buried on December 8. l9- 48. in the (rl-ty cemetery, old part. section 1d, row Delitzsch. Delitzs h miles north of Leipzig. Gemiany." Flt. Sgt. Acorn was reported mix- ing following s raid on December 5. I-Ie had been with the Air Force for about two years an}! overseas for ma

After he was reported missing his mother received the caterpillar pin which goes to airmen who bail out of aircraft. The event occurred November. lust ore he was re- ported missing. His parents hero have never earned the details but apparently the aircraft was aban-

E1“

Navy Reveals Sinking Of German Submarine

ships. includinr four Canadian 1

Doatcrewariorn tbefoua-Cans

domed ove or near friendly ter- ritorv.

Read byiverybody Oovorsllrhoe Edwordélsland Like the Dew

CHARLCYITIYFOWN, CANADA, THURSDAY; JUNE 1, 1944 3

l\ War Situation Last Night

campaign in Europe is about to start.

Moscow has reported a limited German offensive in the lasl region J geology branch of the mines dc-i of Romania which dented the Russian front. Issl is a probable rnnln lumpoff spot for the impending red army offensive aimed at the Grilati gap gatew y to the Danube Valley at, Bucharest and at Plocstl. The Nazi attack apparently is a German attempt tn disrupt the expected Russian drive and sap its force.

Russian army chiefs however. probably are more concerned at the moment with the Ploesti rail yards than the oil Installations. For Ploestl is the primary communications hub upon which Nazi forces guarding the Galatl gap muse depend for supply or for escape ii‘ they fall to halt the Russian armies when they strike.

In Italy, there are indications that the Allied march on Rome is nearing the point set in Russian-Allied war councils for the still‘! of greater assaults from the easg and west. Renewed fighting in the lzisi sec- tor between tlie Slret and the Prut sounds like preliminary an . oi the expected battle of Galati gap.

Most military observers. however, believe the main Russian contri- bution to the aurnmsr campaign will not fall ln Romania but in Poland- li is there, north of the Carpathians and south of the marshes oi the ly the heaviest concentration of Russian power is

Prlpet_ that probnb That ls the eventual Russian road in Berlin.

nearing completion.

Refugees Ship Stopped By German Submarine

. Steamer Allowed To Proceed Later; Three Per- sons Lose Lives.

Fascist Moguls Flee Faster Than Nazis

TH THE MYTH ARMY IN ‘II-IE LEPINZ MOUNTAINS, May 31—-(AP>—Not a single invportant Fascist has bee

Allie simple reason that the local moguls

are iloiilit northward well ahead of

the German army.

If the conduct of these dignitar- nms true m form not many will

be found in Rome when the Allies

en r.

It is not that they are so afraid of what the occupying army might but. rtthar that m these mountain towns they havg more worried over the possible in- terim betweedn the departureflof the

o

officer at Ottawa. from details sup- o

behind is usually proof that he en- loys at least enough public

hands of the citizens once his mil- taaiv protectors have gone. pea. he usually can

ficcr said: "the report quotes Ger- _

c’ m" number 7' b ck to in a war-town vi -

c “ca” 15 loge than an inexperienced person. M A.M.G. officers said, and for this reason he is frequently kept in oi- {Iiace temporarily to keep things R0-

llalston To Visit ll. S.

rwns one of the passengers.

CYITAWA. May 31 - (C Defence Minisier-Ralsion will visit Nova scotie. over the coming week and fsor antour of military district

o. Halifax. it was a l-f

'from Nazi-occupied countries en

nnounced tonight. been exmided an invit-

d Kentville N. 5- opening the annual. Annapolis Valley apple blossom fes. tivll and starting Sunday.

Milan in the rescue of ors e boats from the Chiiliwsck Fem-re

that Cha/isdiero. No Canadians were 06

The Canadian ofifloers and men in the capsized boats attributed their rescue to the Canadian navy's new life-ssviniz jacket and said t without irt they could not have last-

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Even without s. Berlin admission that the battle for Rome is near lis criaia there h much to suggest that the hour for Russian and Allir-d al.- tacks on other fronts keyed in with that first major blow of the summer

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UITAWA. May 31 -—- (C P) —

I-lfl. 54.0w other Provlnrsp g (1,115, ||_g subscription liellsvsrd. 56,00

PS PUSH CLOSER T0 ROME g

Night Raiders §maish Invasion’ Coast ‘Search For Oil

‘w

iflritishmllnits [14 Miles From “Eternal Sity

NAPLES. May Sl-(OM-Allled troops smashed closer to Home today at the wrest end of the long Allied line across Italy, thrust in-

Survey parties of the mines and to the outskirts oi the important

PHILADELPHIA. May (ti-MP) __A fully-lighted refugee shiD "l" yylng 385 passengers was halted off Bermuda by a German subma- rme 1E5; Fylday, me United State- Navy disclosed today. 811d the U‘ boat abandoned DWPBYBtwYl-s t” torpedo the snip only after vire- lass orders from Berlin.

The Germans seized two Amer- ican citizens, the Navy said. RIld-‘L in the dead of night-set _all the - other passengers adrift in life-- boatg for 5 l-2 l_o nine hours. Three persons. includinll 11,15‘ months-old baby. lost their lives in the transfer to the boats. Cam- ilo Grands Perez. 24. native of Ca- nada. also was taken aboard the submarine but was released. l

The ship was the Portugesa Scrpa Plnta. which docked here secretly last night. The passengers European refugees bound for Ca- nada, were travelllng under the sponsorship oi the American joint distribution committee.

Those who died were Beatrice Trapunski, infant daughter of s. Polish couple, Antonio Ferreira Machado, ship's doctor. who fell into the sea. from a Jacobs lad-

der; and the 000K. Hfimflm All" counted, candidates of the Phan-

< — (C?) — New quarters cf the Un-

partment will concentrate this year on search for new sources of pet- rolciz-n base metals and strategic,‘ metalgi, the department announced

8

The ‘i944 field program provides ior 32 survey Parties to engage in geological mapping and investiga- tion and l4 in topographical map- ping ,

Pour of the geological parties‘ will operate in thc Northwest Ter- ritories, seven in British Columbia. six in Alberta. one in Saskatchew- an_ two in Manitoba, two in On- tario, four in Quebec. two in! New Brunswick and two in Nova Scoila

l_n addition, one party will ex- amine the ares a acent to the cancl pipeline road in Yukon and the Northwest. Territories and an- other will collect minerals in On- tario and Quebec to replenish the supply used in preparing mineral set- for prospectors.

Three of the topogranhical 11ar-' lies will work in the Yukon and an adjoining portion H ncvihcm British Columbia Jhree in the North- west Territories, three in Alberta, one in Manitoba; one in New Brunswick, two in Nova scotia and one in Prince Edward Island.

New Quarters For ll. S. Consulate

SAINT JOHN. N B" May 3i

lied State; consulate here were for- mally opened on Charlotte Street this aftcmoon when United States sailors ran up the Stars and Stripes above the entrance. The new of- fices contain records from con- sulates closed elsewhere in the Maritlmes Duties of the Saint Jchn i office cover most of New Bruns-

town of Fhosinonc 45 miles south- east of the capital and drove ior- warcl in the upper Ilirl Valley and in mountainous central Italy. British troops of the 5th army

‘crossed the Molietia river all along

their sector nearest the Tywrhen- inn Sea and captured four villages in n thrust against the Italian capital from the south.

'I".1c heaviest fighting ivas in the 26-mllc stretch cf front from the outskins of Valmontono, 20 miles east and somewhat south of Rrxns through the fringes of the Alban Hills to the Tyrrhenlan Sea a1- most due south of the Eternal City.

The German radio said fierce "street fighting" was raging in the lcivn of Vellctri. on the Anplan Wav l6 miles southeast of Rome where that highway winds across the slopes of the Alban hills. Eri- cmv shock irnnns and American soldiers are battling furiously in this zone.

British units were edging for- ward through thick minefields in sand dune< south of Pescarelln Nuova, which is l4 miles due south of the edge of Rome. They cap- tured the villages of Lfltm-cricano. Lora. Reteno and Arden.

Other British and American 5th army forces who advanced through deadly fire and repulsed savage counter-attacks .west oi Velletri were reported to have reached s point within six miles of the Popes summer home at Castel Gandolfo and within ap- proximately l6 miles of Rome.

The Nazi forces between Vai- montone and the sea resisted der- perately. seeking to hold thrir “last ditch" defence lino before Rome until their broken and scattered forces farther east can be ivithdraivn through the ullilcr Sacco and upper Lirl Valleys.