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Crate.

toel Froa Four ll. S. Mines lip 95 Gents

OTTAWA. Jen. 4 .... (c p) _. The Prime Baird announced will!!! that an increase of B5 c.\its per ton for retail sale of coal has been authorised by the coal , tor to four coal

effective Jan. l. review at any time but in any event, moat b; reviewed not iat- er than April 30.

The lnllounceuelnt “is the price iaoreaee: paid by the eon- eaaiI. goee directly hack to the operator to be paid out in wages.

ll. 8. Identifies Destroyers Lost

cylcr sunk y ex lesion off Sandy ook as the l.- TDg-tdn U. .

another destroyer, e Neg-tn Atlantic. was the IMO-ton

ry.

Loss of the ships was by the navy yesterday but it with- held their names. e Turner, commissioned last April. blew up in New York harbor with such vio- lence that her men guns were hurled into the sea. Little detail wes given on the loss oithe 34-

Leary excegt‘ that she the North tlantio liter wen immodest-Christmas Ive. No figures were given bv the navy of the number f casualties in

the loss of the two vessels, each of which carried more than 160 men.

Montreal Strike Is Likely To Dontinue

MONTREAL, Jan. 4 — (OF) — The first day of "total strike" by 2.000 civic white collar workers ended here with the prospect of a prolonged stalemate ss essential city services employees remained away from their work.

Both city authorities and work- ars representative; said that "it was up to the Quebec Municipal Commission, controlling the city's finances, and the Provincial Gov eminent. to find a. solution to the dispute."

Gerard Picard, General Secre- tary of the Canadian and Catho- lic Confederation of Labor, par- ent body oi the Civic Employees National Syndicate. said “we are ready to stick by our guns even ii the strike should last six months."

Find Pilot To Blame in Ship Stranding

TORONTO. Jan. 4 (C?) —An Admiralty Commission investigat- ing the str " oi the steamship Norman B. Mecpherson Sept. 11 in the St. Lawrence River today ascribed the mishap lo the "wrongful act and negligence" oi the pilot. M. a. Home. and rc- commended suspension of his lic- ence for one year.

‘rha Commission's leport. sign- ed by Mr. Justice l". H. Barlow, is

be forwarded to the Federal , ter of ‘lrsnsport.

'l‘i-le steamship suffered "L000 damages.

COMING EVENTS

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mend the naval Invasion.

British Explorer Dies In Ecuador

--.-.,, . . . ...».._-_ GUAYAQUIL. B: or. Jan. 4 - (AP) —- Capt. mric Erskine Loch. 53 year old British explorer who achieved TTCB several Years ago for expeditions in South and Central America, died {Ieilfirdly in an Andean town of

In 1035 Capt. loci headed en expedition into the Andes - An:- amn region in search of the 1m. bela Indian tribe when he emer- scd is months later he repozied that the 9111i’ had been m-iable to locate the Indians, but, hm found a- new anzl accessible route through the Llanganatls moun- tains es well as a considerable ce- posit oi gold.

Believe Ilit|er’s Fate Early Death

W Ad if Hit] 1i b0 6d unite and fitlrh is V1118 on rruw

foreclosed by his I . This is the bfiiiflgwg! “thrill? per- kno Ge we

sons who w rmany They have little doubt thin. Hitlers fato is early death. their onlv div-

in is about how death will come to him.

Enlil Ludwig. iwtfifi German his- torian and biographer. says Ger- man Generals shortly will decide to do away with the man who pro- claimed on New Year's Day that there can be no victor in the pre-

sent war.

Foreign Minister Jan Mas k oi Caecho-filovekla. says he be eves Hitler nlsy take his own life rather than face the disillusioned peo le whom he led to disaster with lls glittering promises.

Th v will leer.

s people of German

Ludwig said. at the latest words or the man who once promised them tnc world at their feet. Hitler's re- mark "if millions 01f people no 1on- lzer possess anything to lose. they can only gain something" struck Ludwig as "foolish."

The Generals ere well ewere that their Fuehrerb gloomy wolde will cost him the last enthusiasts of his following; l/udwig decl

The posibillty of in no way implies an end to the war in . however, other sources declared.

Joint Appeal For War Belief Funds

ovrrawa a . 4-(0?) - WU‘ iii lehneaid

e-

arcd. , Hitler's death

INVASION COMMANDER! IOI. All. AND SEA (NEA Telephoto)

with the appointment of these two Britons. ail- Chief Marshral sn- Trafford high-Mallory (left), prominent in organising Britain's fighter offensiv . will command the air invasion. say (right). who supervised the invasions of Sicily and Italy, wlll “m.

i-Ieavy Daylight Raids On Northwest Germany

French Invasion Coast Also Given Pounding.

Fan fighters attacked northwest

' r Iielrs

Admiral Sir Bertram Ram-

By ROBERT N. STUBDEVANT

IQNDON. Jen. 4 -- (AP) -—Un- itec." States heavy bombers and a great escort of British and Amerl»

Germ y in daylight today in " elmatiorls pug-AID!“ seemed to strelc across 100 miles of sky.

Bombs hurtled down oll the tar- gets (not imlnediatel identified) with such methodical regularity that one file;- sald he was remind- ed of s relay of dump-trucks,

Little fighter- opposltion was encountered but the raiders roared through heavy flak, and the Unit- ed Ststeg Army announced that 18 bombers and two fighters failed to return.

Si uitaneously nearly 750 Bri- tish snd American medium bomb- era and fighter-bombers made their greatest assault on the French invasion coast. pounding “military objectives" nil day from sunup onwards in a constant cross- Channel stream.

The mission raised to more than

1,300 the number of individual sorties made by the Marauders without loss. They started the‘

day and were followed regularlyi by RAJ-T. Typhoon and Hurricane bombers and Bcsloiis, Mitchell:

ABIUNGTON. Jan. 4—(AP)—l1e

e was not until today

they

andlMosqultos st medium and low VG l. Returning airmen said great

were being used against Germany

A disrgotch received in Ioncon from Stockholm said one big Am- erican bomber. sieved with shell bursts. crsnh-landed in Sweden this afternoon and the 10 crew- men were interned.

The German-controlled Danish radio said United States heavy bombers flew aver Denmark at noon and four were shot clown. a number of the crews being taken prisoner.

Stockholm reports said the Nazis were making great efforts to evacuate what is left of Berlin. wi the mass departure over- crowding trains as fal- away as the Swiss border.

Medal Takes Months To Batch lip With Sailor

HALIFAX. Jan. 4-10?) — lllour thstago ti?‘ Gov- ernmen se o presen King l-feakonu Medal to Jack Kane- lakcs, Canadian merchant n gun layer from Perth. Ont... but t he c d Pr found in port Iona enough to mace the presents. on.

' out e grinned. ‘f1 aimigtxler port lrclolc n.4, did. and fo- wes presented Norwegian censu ens

chasing me.’ 'h usually left fer Oflilld find But find him

day the Harold Jueg.

ep|e's

ferred in e ill?-

(lovers Prince Island Like the Dew

Rescued Alive After 31/2 Days Burial in Drtona

By DOUGLAS AMABON

cualtwrrarovvu. caisson, wEpNlasnAY. JANUARY s. 1944

POUNDING

A three-way Soviet forces lends emphasis to

by Everybody

By Kirke L. Simpson, Associated Press Wal- Analyst

MAXIMS

OIL

Meal: MAN

T will

he will u. live Ana ole will te do

keep one steadfast to ille end.

a Nt

ueeaa that threatens to eutrap vast German ha! Stalin's declaration that "1044 will be a year of victory for the United Nations." Prclrlier Stalin movie that statement, obviously basing it on the ex- Dtotuiior. of destroying a substantial portion of the Nari armies in rc-

HW Jnwgglmm) m gnarl aridLthafs just what may be shaping up new in the frozen land of - im- "' attention has been to the Russian break-through to d.“ m the dggtifk o‘ ‘- gefid 3 the Po isil border. But further sou h lbuaalan troops are for n‘ garage];-

oi Ortona. was rescued alive . by members of s battalion who clawed away the rubble with their The soldier was s. Lance-Corpor- al, who occordin to latest reports» is "doing well.” He was em- seicus when rescued despite the fact he had been unable to move from beneath the mam of girders and cement blocks. ~ e Lance Corpora-Ps platoon had been clearing houses of Ger- mans Dec. 26 when Nazi machine- guns opened up. They book sh - ter in a two-storey building which the Germans promptly blew up with a prepared demolition charge

All the Canadians were trapped. When the immediate gllting had subsided. pioneers frolizlutht c .

poral was rescued Dec. Tlicut. Terry Rowe oi Winnipeg, an army photographer. photographed the rescue operations.

"The brick and stone house wag a mass of rubble-

hsd dug ut n man deed. They heard souglds occimirl from wider ut five feet

the pile of rubble e hi h."

The space from which the noise came was next to the wall and on- work at

an- nlng the avalanche of mortar from above. soldier's hair aPDQB-Y‘ i 1 l eifidui mic ole d D6 W95 D B iziaeiiagle him to get more air. ‘atihf... w... n. - < l be forced into a lylngupos tlnn be- fore the stretcher rers 0001i! carry him to the medical post. He was the second Canadian rescued alive after being buried in rtona. a privst other

O a

day and only injury a

Court Martial At Fredericton

SAINT JOHN. N.B.. JB-ii. 4 - (CPJ-A general court martial ill- volving three officers oi the Rbylil Canadian Army Medical coupe W1" open at Fredericton Thursdfly morning. it was learned authorit- atively today. Details of the 055° were not announced by mlum-‘Y authorities. The officers We“ nsm as Lin-Cal. H. E. Baird. fon-rlerly oi Chipmon, N.B ._ officer commanding at HIP "a" "~‘*'"~ unitary I-lospital;_ CB-Dli- “G- G-

pears military axiom, d inevitably shorten thc war in Euro

0 be a triple entrapment pattern. They are folio vide and conquer. in a ldilermined effort to surround or h destroy almost u third of all German forces still in Russia. Success must

c. Tilere have been many indi ti] that ith th G Ii lit ill u" flflfll- "l6 Wflkhl 0f lhecfiursndn attagk woulzi tlgfigutsvtlflsrhpto m

ll. The Russian southward drive from the Kiev bui to Volodarka or beyond which broke the Nazi hold on u rnarily at rail and rec'd networks. It is ply and escape lines eermg the de tbs of ctatiou that n matched Russian a tack in the south to close the great nlelper slack on gee fol: inlay come at any_moment._

Beluga Tserkov seems aimed pri- y tending to pinch Nazi sup- he ben and raise; an ox-

he base lln of

lower blink of the Dnlcpe opposi

entrapment movement. The Bug River linc new is drive on Vinnitsn and Zh ‘ '

Nazi Supply

o , t

the Dreluper bend, is the vital lateral communication for the inv ere east of it. it is menacul at both ends. A Russian crossing of the Dale at its mouth to take Kherson and push on to Nikolaev, 40 miles north and east of the Bug estuary. has been In the making for weeks.

Berlin announced many days ago evacuation of a bridgehead an the te Kherson. The wld the rivr were freezing over then, the Nani announcement said, rendering Kherson vulnerable to attack. Dnieper ice now is ennu ls to support the weight of heavy guns anti tanks. That ls what the m Russ mu have been waiting for apparently to begin another dangerous

all but iulvned in the north bv the Red . . and threatened in the south by the "Il- pending assault on Kherson and Nlkolaev,

A greater German disaster than Stalingrad Ia flaking shapemouth of the Pinek marshes to the lower reaches of the T‘ pel- River-

r to he

or soon will b; heavy

Artery At

Turin Smashed By Bombs

Alli-TEES, Jun. 4 ~ (AP) —l German supply traffic through the] big railway bottleneck at Turin in- Northern _1ts1y was disrupted and a ball and roller bearing works st nearby a heavy and accurate onsiaugh of United States bombers yester ay. photographs showed today

One ilundreci direct hits were scored in the heart of the Turin yards by the raid, blocking at least temporarily oil through lines from France and Milan that con- verge at Turin to form the prin- cipal west coast route down to Genoa and‘ Rome.

Simultaneously, two other waves oi bombers struck in clear. cold weather at the bearing works at Villar Perosa, nestled in the Chlsone River valley 23 miles

Yugosiavs Fight For Town Di Danie Luka

I .

N130 .1 .4-—(AP) —Fell iofxganjg Eukrihesdquarters of the German 2nd Tank Army in Yul)" slavlo. in a blow at the centre of

Ithc Nazi defence system on thfi

Villai- Perosa silatieredi b1.

southwest of Turin. and turned it into a shambles. 'I'lle huge main building oi‘ the plant. Wiliiiil pro- duces eight per cent oi the Nazi's bearings. was blasted by direct hils pd.,nesr . misses. . Pl°bflbly knoc g the factory out of the war for a long period.

While the weather favored heavy bomber activity for the first time in nearly a week, the opposing land armies in Italy remained stalled in heavy snow in the mountains and bogged to the axles in mud near both coasts.

Field dispatches said Canadian 1st Division forces on the Adria- tic coast experienced their quiet- est day since the battle of thr Moro River began nearly a month

SEN.

5-(Wed- nggflnyy-(CP) — London hld a half-hour elr raid alert early today during which defensive

LONDON. Jan.

gun-fire was heard. It was the first alert since Sunday night.

Amazes Nazi Officials

Traffic llesumed After Rail Wreck

TRUE/O. N. 5.. Jan. 4 — (CF) — ‘Traffic was resumed this af- ternoon over the C. N. Rfls main line near here after a half mile of traffic had been nlaid at the scene of a 19 car derailment that tied up trains about ii hours.

Tile accident occurred late last night outside lmndonbclfy. l5 mil- es east of here. when an extra freight broke in two whiirdescend- lng Follleigh Mountain Three of

‘the derailed cars plunged over s.

40 foot embankrrlent While the

‘ others, laden with steel. tore up the

roadbed.

No one was hurt. though the wreck was one of the most spec- tacular in Nova lcotia railroading history. The engine. in charge of it. V. Van a of Moneton, N. 3.. remained on the rails.

Canadian ‘ I l ' r lines were crippled for hours after the careenlng cars had uprooted

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CA Pl

STOGKHOLM, Jun. 4 —- (Al?) -The accuracy of a secret new navigation device which permits the RAJ‘. to bomb targets with precision regardless of weather conditions hi5 amazed high Ger- man military officials who have observed how it was used in tho systematic pattern destruction of Berlin. it was learned tocay.

A source close to German oi- ficial clrcles said the Germans were caught flat-footed by the Al- lied secret weapon which permits night pattern and precision bomh-

"""="t‘" min‘: s radlolocetiorl navigation device transmitting 1n_ - . m. live WiilUh pierce fog and cloud. When the rays are reflect. ed _from the earth, they are re. corned on a cathode ray tube fonnlng a pattern which the nav- lsltm- cen read like a mAp,

This scientist credited the dc-

W R American scientist named Zworykjn who w“ ssid to live in QQQE“, 1v;

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fires were s in . et - - “_-

area, inaieettiilgedscmetheoitgrizho §,‘,‘.§”E'..p’?'"d"f"”l§l‘...e2"'l§ah.“.<i- Adffflff” §§§j§hf“§5°§fii§§nmvx;- ALLIED llsanauamms, 11_|bombs may have been the soo- m... mggmd, mo. of the dls- j,“ '01} Mush.“ Josip 3m m...) new GUINEA, Jan. 5—<Wed-

pound incendiaries which Gen. H. trlct depot medical staff at Fred- °rsmd ‘mm Emu‘ 1n me nescsy) — (AP) - United States

l-l. Arnold, Chief of the United emton. m. the town Marineg repulsed e sharp enemy

States Army Air Forces. ’ ' e ‘ "'"“' 8t G596 Glilucemr-

New Britain, killing at least 200 Japanese and raising to 1,500 dead the price the Nipponese have paid in opposing the Marines since the invasion landing there Dec. 28.

LONDON. Jan. l-(AIU-Al- lied heavy, medium and "IN" er bombers hit northwest Germany and the French in- vaeion coast with more than 3,000 tons of bombs today in a dawn-tc-dusk offensive em- ploying probably the war’: greatest number of fighting aircraft in a single day.

LA MAL-BATE. QUE. Jan. 4— (OP) -- Fire, which for a time

threatened major proportions. struck this town 90 miles belo Quebec City on the south shore

of the Si. Lawrence River early to- night and was finally brought un-

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llerdlgan Soldier Missing From llome

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home. and so far as as been learned has not been seen 5110c- lt is thought that have mistaken a.

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He. has e brother and s. sister at home.

Invasion 0f Poland Troubling Bulgaria .

' LONDON. Jan- 4- (AP) — The Russian advance into Poland shook the Bulgaria o; p“-

new peace cries were tile HIMIBIHSXTS. and the Government per pll.

here described the Russian thrust 8.5 the "most serious political and moral crisis of the whole war."

The Polish Cabinet met today

“ afterwards that the government's attitude on the sit- uation "will be made public in the near future."

“The mall in the street inLon- doll or New York ls asking himself whether the Russians are coming as libcretol-s or invaders," the Poi- is Guy newspaper said. There was no curulnaatiorl in of- ficial London circles of reports of a in: the Bulgarian government. and lfhfse Germans branded the story m!

a

Other reports said many Hun- garian leaders were ooelsid un- eondlsicnal- surrender, of Hungary to the United Nations. -

Big Push In liog Marketing Dver

OTTAWA, Jan. i ~—- (GP) — The: worst appears to be past in one of the glcai-‘e most difficult proo- iems-the handling and slaughter- ing of the eateet run of hogs in Canadian h iory.

Even as Chicago reported that‘ a record-breaking run there was beyond the capacity of meat-pack- 1 ing plants, Agriculture Department 1 officials here said the Canadian situation has eased slightly. |

At the end of the market day in Chicago yesterday there were 17.000 hogs unsold-an all-time re- cord carryover. Unlted States farmers are being asked to keep hogs at home until the packing plants fight their way through. .

Hog adings in Canada in i943‘. were p oed at 7.150.000. .

"When this is compared with‘ the 5.220.000 gracing for i938 you. have e picture of the problem ofl handling and slaughtering," one official said.

some sections were short of la- bor. Lster they were able to ob- tain some assistance in this res- pect, but then the rush was even bigger than had been expected."

The Canadian situation had been helped by the farmers‘ res- ponse to an Oct, v appeal by Agriculture Minister Gardiner to hold to a minimum their market- ing oi sows. unfinished cattle alld cows during the following months

Former Actress Dies

NEW YORK. Jan. 4 — (AP) — 'Mrs_ Walker Whlteside, widow of _tile noted actor and herself a former actress, died today at her Ihome at l-iestings-on-Hucscn af- ter five days illness. She was "in w.

i! i. | gurviving is her daughter, Mrs.

ing glmogg on we “ale o; day. five houses were completely des- d Wm‘ id Penn” ’ light bombing, troyed and another store consid- mffimfmwr ‘mfg; m’