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Safe Arrival Of Convoy Made Known Yesterday.

AN ABT OOAST CANADIAN PQF-T. lhbii —.iOP)e Poised‘ for action (lanadlau soldiers. mlors and airlnen to reinforce‘ Dfllfllhlfln 11811111116 forces overoeao ealledfrom M!" o! s» lenders day. ldent the were waded for the deciding m and miwgr... . Ball arrival ti! flip con i; 33min was loads known h g w. With the men sailed tho largest

ilints Rationing To Be Extended

CHICAGO Feb. O—(CP)— Donald Gordon, chairman of Canada's Prices Board, forecast Indirectly in a slfitoh prepared

1| h 0H9 0f nil-women ever to leave {alieglglirvdnof Ozrltpflglnnggfnlllfi: he“ mo!“ 1°‘ ‘Wm’ u" 1111151" loeoplmoditles not yet unis; Wendal- 141131118 ill-m 111 $11011‘ control, and tho introduction bu” “m” ‘l! 81118 were 100k-

m! oirbolnt lysiem" of rationing l" "W511i W Working in a new some linen of goods. so ntry. lfr. Gordon, addreniséfi the Among tilem was Airwoman Lnaeualhmeietiuglpf the “:0. o lnitrlB grant of Moosomin, f‘ us nesg IIIQIII, ll. ‘i: ., g brunet who w g Prim Bil-rd’- vollov ls "_ taking pgeby brothgr, r" ling!‘ "11"" W!’ “mm”!!! ll I00! ' Oyrll Brant. aong. ‘line two be; u" IPPH" "I" elm“ es lievcd they wero thafirst brother 1h'"1°" 1" P hi"! '1‘ d! and iiafcr ip Canada m’ lpendem- would cause 1ricvances about barkaflon “we. wsemei. ‘M m llllie allocation of available sup- snyovnua. u, the “m. fink p es. - ~ h co n-r . m“ 1e; ‘already’ inaitllsznldfrr s" wfwh u“ Qkwmfi?" w“? W519 coffee, sugar. butter and pl- °°n m!“ m bl“°"t°“5h- “s” m” l, worm" “enmopmnar, bomber crews more than anxious n, Wm," h, "p; A a um,’ to unload bombs on German fact- vilhoui speclfyln w at ex- Oriel and quick iishtar pilots with tensions might made or B- Ylfl l0 blflw GOBILIIO‘! men out of ylui goods might be rationed the skier. ‘ ‘ on a Dolnt system," he con- PO. , die Black of Barrie. 0nt., lllhllldf- was among _gfl_1, a reformed in- When we move into the more fantryrnan who joined the air

tllllllllcated fields where the foros because he "got tired of vsgofvnolnil systems neo- walking." A fighter pilot in the "-5‘"'~' °‘"' "'1 m‘ V l"!!- movement was lift. Lt. H T. Mi

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~ . o peer; ere , ,cu_- Killlnfsz Tali: eodfioli-lsull: so in Rhamovamgnt. the 101111.891 lflvallable lllpply." veins Iii-yew old Hoot Bela-rt ‘ ..__..___._ forties. of Inndon, Ont. FORMER ACTRESS DIQQ

Others in the“ movement includ-

___ ed ‘nforcelnents for practically SANTA MONICA. Calif» Rb. l (APL- Mrs. Lillie H. Belles, who,

every branch ofCanadian fighting _ Ullian Langdon, was widely

forcel eves-soap. own on stage and screen o quar- r-centllry ago. died last night. ht 0110c Said she had worked with lo directors during her career, i1 0'1 ihe screen she appeared ill such silent picture stars as "folnh Valentino. Dorothy Gish, In?! igiirford and Douglas Fair-

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cheii of Ottawa. I Canadian mem- ber of the R.A.F. who had already won the D1120. in previous scraps

Ottawa Paper Prediets Budget

OTTAWA, Feb. B — (CP) — The Ottawa Evening Citizen said today in a front-page stc that, while there can be no of lclal forecast. the ‘Peami-officlai" indications are that the 196-44 budget. expected “T m ____ {g bewbroggghtilcllownwvgthin two or s e;_ as": res ea . w e:-

Mom “turgid “ dlvstments but no great

‘ ohanile in the levels of taxation.

"2. Introduction of the pay-as- you-earn plan (of income tax col-

lect n.) "B. Tariff chanlges but only those _ lhlnirtratlve char- ac . The tariff, these days, is often changed in a downward dir- ection. by order-in-council. "4. No departure from the finan- cial lpolicy; mfollowed ghezetoftore, name y, ra s mone, xa on and bxdgublic loans add gavlangs. "5. erence to the anti-inflat- mildl- ‘lgug e mitlldil fbllrgwed-‘pdg u} fir: personnel of those who ap- p, em. X6 Another big victory loan in the latfieraprlnfl for ‘ls much as can be ra .

"Tdlklts — Smlrll Monday.

2-10-31.

k our Baby Chicks now. d1 d. I. aownlsn. a-a-lo-zl “Mi Royalty rink tonight, m“ VS mlials. Skate after.

2-10-11. ~idi';"ll..“s.l. cs2:- lliilllsau Orchestra, o 2.5.10;

"Pantry sIle Sisters of M n- "‘"Y-5<l'-u1'fl11y. February 18th. - M. 3-6-10-11.

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m "1 this Thursday and Friday "M- a-lo-zl.

Vi ii edConccrt in New London Hall "i-‘slidi’ evening, Fcbrualéy 24th. 2-10- 2-23-31. u -._._ Nilllve. loading hogs this week

‘i FWWWH. Thursday until noon. G- °- Green. z-a-zl.

"Due in arrive within if 10 {firs Assorted reeds. mcollllgllh a "t 2-10-21.

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Former idembor 0f Bennett Govt Ilia: In Toronto

figltlmliggglxdlgttyltlfi dafyoafislgnztd ggdn: doaomo m». a —(CP)—Hou Dmilfll- z-a-w-s-fr. Wesley ‘A. Gordon. Ia. a minister

in the Conservative Government of

l "Borden R1111! wellness». 10th R . t. Hon. R. B. (now Viscount) glfkeyélfllwflna Owe vs lddle- Bennett, from 1903-1035 died today

“a flier same- fl-10-11 at the home of his sister, Miss n-

"“' t-hel Gordon of ‘Toronto. He had been in poor heilth for the last two years when he suffered aheart

lam u, m“ 5, Mayfair Tea Room Prince BttMk, hilt hid been sefl0lllly ill

‘fist. Baturdfli- ‘bowel-i’ 13in, , _ n§fi.",‘““ m’ “h” "$3,123; wnoelduoltad h ro "coo went .o am. o. c "IQ? .' . leen and A. o. qleen. ' moron, . no moved duieybury uvnentm i? ~ and». were =19‘! Ir pig, - wlfd llllflllnerlild ‘Hail, h! min ‘ velo enfl in Northern u}? 1°!‘ but costumes. Aus ‘a 0:1 m" , in active inter- "~ ‘ 2-10-‘8-2‘. w; ccfioohwoik] ucation ‘I Bonn; w w.

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Urges Farmers To Produce All. Possibly Gan

Says Greatest Job 0f War Still To Be Dome On Battle- fields.

?__ M C. B. BLACKBURN Canadian Prsll Staff Write:

CYITAWA. Fbbifl —(GP)- Agri- culture Minister Gardiner told the House of Commons today the Gov- crnment believed the time i134 °°m° when Erector emphasis could b9 Placed upon farm production than has been given in the last two years,

He said the recent eight-point Dfoflmm l-Sfilled by Arthur MacNa- mimi- Director of Selective Ser- Vlflfi.‘ strengthening the Govern. m!!!“ Dfllkry to leave men on the 111ml. was "an indication that they believe such a time has some."

“But the greatest jab to be do“; in connection with this war isstill to be done on tho battlefields," he added.

Ho said he was gulp; t;

Ilrgs lumen to produce all they possibly could, and to ap- peal to his Cabinet colleagues to give on high returns as possibly can be given for the produce put out."

111s point that more attention now could be paid to farm produc- tlon was based upon the belief that resources were available ad-

g. equately t0 equip and supply all

the forces in the field with the combined industrial ms o inf United Nations.

There is only one thing that is going to bring about defeat of our forces and thct is t! we have not a sufficient nmnbsr bf men at the amt: attacked by ihe enemy, with

e best equipment available, and if we have not placed behind those forces the food necessa y to feed them."

Mr. Gardiner declared Canada would do its part fn providing food stocks in reserve for the need which will come when victory is won and forecast. that immediately countries are liberated they will begin to produce their own food.

He was the first sneaker when debate on the address in reply to the throng speech was resumed in {hp House of Commons today.

Earlier Finance Minister Ilsley

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“Thunderbolt" Raids Said To B: More Deadly

1S HAWKINS Associated rcss Staff Writer LONDON. Nb. 9 — (AP) -- “Thunderbolf? raids, the cascading of 10.) or more tons of high ex- plosive bombs and tens of thou- sands of incend-iaries on German cities within 1B or 20 minutes, are not a new attack technique but simply a further refinement of tactics long followed, an authori- tative RAJ‘. source explained tn-

day.

It is the constant aim of the bomber command to drop the greatest possible wei hi. of bombs in ihe shortest possi le time, this source said.

The offensive value of the raid is increased by the swift delivery because it serves to dlsorganize the passive defences, chiefly firefight- ers. . 1hr example. if 50,01) incendiary bombs are dropped on a city over

ByLE

tacks, the firefighters have a good chance to cope with the blames u they develop. Brut if those 50.000 bombs pour down in 15 minute: they are almost certain to start

(Continued on D586 7, col i)

Prelude To Big Push

AULIIP l-IEADQ North Arlen. “b. 0 Tho wafiéldmhllled air m ans}: in rransa a sleiliah port of {his a yesterday with a two-flour barrage of block

busier bomb! Nd hltbared an harbor and air in Tunisia. - lied sources ' eoiared ind .

Ground activities in the North - rican theatre continued to lag be- cause of bad weather.

Tlls combined o Middle cut and firth Africa-n forms cost the Axis l0 planes while only seven Allied aircraft were

loot.

The destruotluviq. raids on both ends of 1R Mediterranean e.""'i......*'"".s".."ms.r' M;

u mudswablgpushbythcBr-i. flt 6th" Armm anion

UNA!!! tho lllAfrlel. '

a period of two hours in wave at- m

somewhere also. o o o

The Tokyo handout, e00 phase of the battle in Kink to urn-cursing Russian '

mission.

foroc In New Guinea

“mission was to die and it did.

counter-invasion now to rescue Japanese survivors. Always in the , longed

in‘ lAfrlco, bi ussla, in ‘Chin the long vi in I. global sense.

INTERNATIONAL AT A curler

(By The Canadian Press)

RUSSIA-Reds capture Belgorod. important German haac on way to threatened Kharkov, main Nazi position east of Dnleper River.

SOUTHWEST PACIFIC — Ja I announce abandonment of Guada - canal; Allies kill 100 more Jana around Wan, New Guinea.

NORTH AFRICA-Lilli persist! as Alllcs muste land forces, but fliers continue to pound Axis key points.

BRITAIN - Churchill . ml!" Q11], report on war situation.

WESTERN FRONT — R. A. F. carries out offensive 119"“! W" Northern France while Nazis stage grudge raids on British 01V111lnl-

and too luff new an Axis

ilivilians To Evacuate Brest

NEW YORK, Feb. iF-(AM-The Berlin Radio broadcast a Trans- ocean A ency dispatch from Paris saying t at Brest, a port on the Britanny Peninsula, and other French coastal towns "endangered by air raids" arc in be evacuated by the civil population shortly- ‘Iijc broadcast, recorded by tile Associated Press, recalled that. civ- iiians in lorlent, another Britanny rt and Nazi U-boai. base hithard

the RAJ‘. Sunday night, were to complete the evacuation of that city by tomorrow.

_________ sun-roman T0 DIE

UPIR , S.D., Feb. 9 -—(APl— JaEob Iyimfeinzmann, 54. Wlw 311115 is wife Jan. D9 with l WW1" g quarrel while slilht of their 20 children looked on. was under sentence today in die in the electric chair during the week rep. l5, 1044. South Dakota low provides cannot be carried out until a year after sentence is impo . =fi

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Berlin was first to relay word ol the Nfllpo ment, perhaps 0n the theory that misery loves company. Even before that there were indications that the meaning of recent and still w. . , . . ma“ . ._ .. . atre had been widely misinterpreted. Enemy resurgent activity south- ward of Guadalcanal was first generally interpreted u intended to screen effort; to reinforce the Japanese garrison still holding out on the Island, It now ll suggested on high Washington authority that actually the purpose was to protect the withdrawal of the remnants of the enemy force on Guadalcanal Some many survivors did nicks night get-aways.

n: IIGIIIIH ozone-o'clock»; mi, latishc-MIY- ‘lvkyoéwzlrleoe p substantially u large as. that on. Ill alcana with no effort of a major nature clthel- to reinforce or withdraw"

Japanese efforts hve been balked by British or allied counhr efforts in France, in Norway, in Greece, in the Philippines, in Malaya. and the Dutch Elli. Indies and Bllrml- T00 “m!

rather than an Allied bad-dream whether ~ln Blwmo or in-the for Quill» That in is the most significant fact about the war. at thlaltagc

‘first thing‘ the

,1 far from over.

that the death penalty i‘

Fin/wield?! l F‘ WAR slung-i-

impson, tad Prue Wlr Analyst)

Like Berlin efforts to cloak Nazi retreats in Russia from German public view with the phrase "according to plan," Tokyo's admission“ of “evacuatiom of Bum. in New Guinea. and of’ Guadalcanal in the Sol- omqns la a face-saving propaganda device.

The Nari retreat is according to plan; but that plan h stamped mads-iu-Moaoow, not Berlin. The worwhelmlng bulk of Japanese out- polt garrison: in nol-theute u New Guinea and on Guadalcanal have been evacuated but to eternity or allied prison camps, lot to fight again

however, more definitely marks the and of the aouthwslkm liaoiflo than tho fall of

or the loosening Axis grip on lor-

iov and the Don-Dock Basin yet denote in the battle of Russia. Hitler's retreat could still become a rout. It could quickly turn into one of the moat stupendous military disasters in history. Japan has confessed only initial defeats, but in such terms as to conceal from her people the true strategic significance of the ominous coat in ships, concealing them behind the phrals that the forces had fulfilled their

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The some thing has been relatively true about Guadalcanal. Tokyo war lords were never willing to rials the main Jallimm strength either to build up an army adequate to deal with the American fully consolidated on that strategic key inland, or

fleet or plane

Guadalcanal. and New. Guinea fighting

the some thing that so long marked

Bill To Control Catering Meets Opposition

LONDON, Feb. 9 —(CP Cable) -The Government today carried through second reading and into committee stage its bill to regulate WINS and conditions in the ‘cater- ing business. but brought the larg- est opposition vote recorded a- gainst the present administration.

The vote came on an amend- ment io reject the bill, proposed by D. H. Hacking, Lancaster Con- servative, and rejected 386 to lid. The Up}. sition vote was twice as grewt as moat members had ex- pected, despite a defence of the bill by Labor Minister Ernest Be- vin which was acknowledged to have been one of his best parlia- mentary performances. Almost the entire opposition was Conservative.

Hacking moved the bill's rejec- tion on the ground that it was a breach of a Government pledge not to introduce controversial leg- islation and argued that there should be no interference with pri- vate enterprise until it was proved not to be doing its job.

‘When you have proved this in- dtlsf-ry ls workin under bad con- ditions, I say wthout hesitation, we would withdraw opposition to an bill which would put matters rig t," Hacking said.

In his defence of the measure Bevin said it. had the unanimous support. of the Cabinet. whose members took the view that. agnori wage structure was essential to the industry.

"1 need the bill for the warfthc Labor Minister declared. but "when the vmistle blows at the end" the people will need will be a oliday. He intended, he said, to give them a first-class ca- tering service.

Bevin declared: “I hate the tip- ping system. There must be I wage n, the end of the Week. That is fundamental."

Although the bill received second reading, the a ment appeared licking and his

plan to lsy down a umber q amendments in oom- mitfee and fight for them lino b! line.

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48-Hour Work ‘Week For 0.8..

WASHINGTON, Feb, o_(cp)_. The United States will adopt a ca- hour minimum work week, it was announced toni ht by James Byrnes, economic sta ilization director, P11111118 on the nation for hercuisan efforts on the home front to stave off inflation and increase wartime production.

The longer work week has been ordered by President Roosevelt, Byrnes announced in a radio ad- dress and simultaneously disclosed that 1943 War Plans 0f the united nations include an invasion of the German-dominated continent of EHPOi>e—-“one of the realest milit- ggygilerltlons ever p anned in his-

linox Advocate: Post-War Pacific Bases For The ILS.

WASHINGTON. Feb. D—-(AP)—A United States post-war objective for the Pacific—acquisition of stepping-stone serial and naval bas- es stretching across the ocean w prevent future Japanese aggression —was advocated today by Navy Sec- reary Frank ox,

“We must disarm Japan on the sea after the war," he said. "To keep her dlsarmed for a. long time after- wards, we must have the bases from which to operate. We must have Iuf flcient bases to prevent future ag-

' in that quarter of the world."

Knox testified before the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs committee, urging continuance of the lend-lease act for another year. He expressed belief tflaiislend- lease agreements will help in cre- ate a "friendly atmosphere" in post war negotlations. but. said he "ls personally in favor" of beginning negotiations at once—"it is always easier to make a deal when the one with whom you are dealing wants something."

On the outgoing llda of lend- iease, Knox reported the Navy hast~

1. Transferred to foreign count- ries "under a large arrangement" 286 vessels and ships. and 251 snail craft and boats which are valued at about $127,000,000.

2. Transferred to the Allies ma- terials and services with a value approximating $80 000.000 be- tween March ll. 1941, to the end of 1942. The United Kingdom received $764,000,000 and Russia $20,000,000.

3. Overhauled and repaired for- elgn naval vessels as of Dec. 31, 1042 at. s total cost of $l17,850.000, “many of them large combatant drips, cruisers and aircraft car- riers."

4. Delivered approximately 700 lend-lease naval airshlps to Allies through Jan. l3, 1943.

Stressing that lend-lease “has by no means been one-sided." KM! declared that U. S. naval ships are receiving, without charge, “substan- tiai help in foreign rts, such as repairs, stores, vlctual ing, fuel, etc."

10 British Girls Killed By Bombs

LONDON. Feb. 9—1OP)—Germarl planes bombed a school in south- cnst England curly today. killing l0 12-year-old girls who had arriv- ecl onriy for their classes and two teachers uihn had served as fire- ovairilcrs fhrnulzh the night.

(llher cilildren ulcro hurled llfldFf the debris but. were rescued alive and several more were injured. At least 16 villagers also were taken to a hospital with injuries.

The attack was one of several made on small scale by enemy planes today in reprisal for the re- ceni destructive raids on Europe by British and Canadian bombers.

An Air Ministry communiqtléc said planes of the British fish i‘ and Army Co-operation commands carried out offensive atrols over northern France and at acked Rail- way targets Three failed to return.

Rumors Hepburn To Enter Federal Field

Feb. l-(CEW-wt-

and former Premier of Ontario. said today that he had not done any- thing about the next Federal elect- ion and had not talked to anv Pro- ressive Conservatives including ader John Bracken.