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j-Hitleris Chancellery In Berlin Left In Shambles

10th Mammoth Blow Is Struck At German Capital.

Ii. J. Iurohell Rots r- ems $519M IQ" glntggnt successive waffle“: PM In n. r. bombeissp {is coon.-

__ from the skies.

— Hitler's proud chancellor-y made a shambles by block-busters. with hundreds of believed trapped in its have“ s said. dication that Hitler was there at the kne.

new ppointmentg for

m; w!“ aenlor officers and

Meets of isarscasters and Halif- and a stro

er in the union cf n‘

proceeded as int-the Neal capital at i a. in. -- he union of the same as on Sunday-in K glare 10th mammoth raid since Nov.

Those l0 blows have dumped more than 14,000 tons of bombs on Berlin-twice what London took in ll months-an the Neal centre appeared for building by building extinction. Berlin is but

mAWA, Jan. 5—(OP)—-'.l‘hc Ex- "d Affairs department armban-

- of f-h ish - “heat-gut? draft ‘the statutfeqf

asi- Burgh born. t s d in . . c e be f tiayenNova haii oi London's sine in area and

and population. . woo ‘s Counsel 10- Hails of flak and reinforced] i Ba was WW ted to the New‘ swarms of fighters failed tohaltthe’ fol t in some Y. 1941- a. a. n, which lost r1 bombers. If"? W" 1" m '1'!“ m" including four uncasters iron." m‘ w" m m” ' the Canadian Bomber Group over]

~ ‘Pawn m‘ '“‘°“‘ ‘i’ “ Berlin and in other opersticns ‘ m’ “' m‘ h °"“‘"““'°“" Twent eight fell the revious.‘ i in Newfoundland. .11 een- 1M!’ h H b u: - i levnde, assistant under-sccresmv I18 - W on l-m ll-TI I W85 oi s universal a airs, wi hit. -

be . comm oner New type flares, shot from the

/ N ground. guided the German figh- ws. boson Aitlokluiinelg-l‘.

Swedish travellers. who termed the latest assault the "worst raid we've yet experienced." said s block buster must have smashed Hitler's i huge grey stone. ohancellery run- ning a full block from the Wil- helmsplatz to Hermann

Btrassa along Voss strasse.

One report quoted a Stockholm newspa. as saying 2.760 dead had been count/rd n Berlin, 70 per cent of them workers who had been forced to carry on in fac- tories during the raid.

What effect the raids were hav- ing on Berliners’ morale still was speculat‘ e. but never in history has one city taken such a beating in so short a time.

The storm cf defence Sunday night took a toll below the aver- ole loss in the seven weeks can: pa-ian. Twenty eizht bombers first were reported missing from Ber- lin, rninclaying, and to

one landed safely later.

Meanwhile the Vichy l-tadlo re- ported an attack at an unspecified time on Nice in soothe France.

A f‘ out ducting Paris newspaper said Allied raids on fiance from Oct. i to Dec. 3i had killed 11.813 persons, iniurcd 17.741. and left about 1.000.000 bonLbe

d out.

A few German planes raided England, killinir one woman and injuring several persons in a southeast town. Four craft were aim-t down. inndon had s. brief l . |

it... sleigh In Axe-Slaying

Jili- I — (C?) -_

der aliarses after she had earlier been found criminally responsible b a coroner's Jury for the axe saying last ‘rhuraday of her three

in basement oi her

was set for Jan. ll. As cmbomary in murder cases. she was not asked to enter a plea.

Britain Looks iiuge Post-War Airports

u LDNDON. Jan. a-(cr) - ari- suddenly discovered she

n civil war. is great since Bri- probaiply has more military to t a 100 miles than any

Tito’: lien Bapture lialf 0f iianialulia

IQJDON. Jan. I-_ (AP) — Par- tisan armies of Marshal Josip Broz (Tito). now reported officered in part by Allied commanders pre- sumabl were still engaged tonight in a fight to complete their capture oi Banialuka, mining and agricultural centre in central Bos- n a and Yugoslavia! fourth city.

Brows war communi broad-

cast. by the

said rie Psrtisans had captur- lcity and that many Genuan or men have been taken prisoner in oody street figh . The city is head- qu for e German 2nd tank any ed with defending the Na -held tic coast.

Making Some Washing Machines In Canada OTTAWA. Jan. S-(OH-Prioes board officials ssid toda, that pro- duction oi washing es on a mall scale has been rssumled 2y

Canadian plants. as inaterla viousiy available onlyhginr war pur-

Gillllllli EVENTS

“m: Noyalt Rink innl ht Royals vs. st. Avkrds. i-‘l-ii

" ily used Bags of "017 . Ira Mcflcubrey

a-aii "Gard bo Boci l d dance in uwl nan“ ‘Puescrayl .53.

"B o and Dance in Lot 65 IialLmWednesd . J h. oooc lunm. n35 lllilslguwl-f-tfl

“Ulhl Plrty and Dance Bevan Kile lav Hall. mes. Jan. 4, star-tins at I pm. 1-4.1;

1 ‘ " "all; ligoitsl. General, ueoi- i a at mo. ‘tit-i... '...i'.‘.'.‘i".i train. ,3.

i‘ poses all . 00 m . " will to Mu l!" and mold 7'3...- have been in oper- ' Thcenblast. breaking windows it“ l" "Il- Pavia, W! a about twe weeks. under In ashore and arousinil thousands of g: WWW- "lll" 5°! a tion of metal made for thf Metropolitan New Yorkers from - l-II- iod ending part" Muchmil. m egg;- girpogbgh, :11", z, m, -—- yolrs hill! pa g e un crwa ‘Wielding live hogs for have been Illlfle l!!!“ Nlfilga six miles northeast o Bandy Hook? Ruse-k ilth ham”: o'clock r?’ 39kt?“ "mm" m‘ m §;',;,y"“fl...'.."§‘ §y'°§,..f,‘“°§°k§," ~ ' Pmlnfi- . . .. s -

day at easing until noon. G. “no meta is iaiade available by m,“ Md

itsr war requlrauants are mat an; sl- locatisns are decided by the price’:

board. Washers were van h ricrt bscpusa oi the scarcity of dcmcsfic h

IIVQ 1i for

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lU. s. Navy Photo FrCnl NBA) H916’! an luea of what Jails at Robaul saw when 23 of the Navy's new Curtiss “Helldivers” screamed through some 80 Zeros and heavy flak bBITBKe to leave Rauaul i-larbor an inferno of smashed ships, 1n photo above. landing barges circle as dive bomber roars down on ".enemy shore.”

May Name New ‘(Thief Justice This Week

orrawa. JBll. a _ (or) —Slr' Lyman Duff. Chief Justice of Can- ada, was in his office in the cld Supreme Court Building today putting final touches on some rea- sons for Judgement and who theso are finished his work in this high office will be at an end.

Friday he will be '19 and his term of Chief Justice automatic- ally ends following two extensions after he became 75. The govern- ment is expected to name his suc-

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2s CHARGED WITH PLOT 11v y. s‘. *

Planned To Set llp itazi Government

ABHINUION. Jan. 8 -— (A?)

W .5 zines-year plot to incite mu- i of the

Naal ersl Grand Jun may the indictment oi so men and two women on consblrwv charges.

Bill declared that. by pgmphlots, books and circulars.

to mrcad word mat.-

i. Democracy is decide-M- l Nasi or Fascist form of lovflm" merit should be established and l- Nasi "revolution" is inevitable in the Unit/ed States.

3. The major political parties. Congress and public officials “arc controlled by Communists. Inter- national Jews and Plutccrats."

8. The United States deliberate- ly provoked war with the Axis nations which arc seeking only lo live at peace with the rest oi the

world

, l. President Roosevelt and Con- Jlfld "sold out the United States and forced the powers to wage war upon us." ‘rho Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor was "dc- liberately invited in order to in- volve this country in a foreign war."

b. Communists. International Jewry and war proflteers prevent "an honorable and lust peace” be» ing brought about speedily.

Among publications the defen- dants were charged with distribut- ing was Hitler's ‘Main Kainpf."

Twent -iou;- of the 30 were named n DNVIOUS‘ sedition in- no: . towsst Nazi government here.

Joseph E McWilliams oi New York and Chicago. described by the Justice Department as the cr- snizer oi the Christian Mobilis- ers and publisher oi "the Christian Mobiliner" is among the eight in- dictec. for the first time.

Those indicted previously and also named in today's indictment include George Bulvester Viereck. lcnR a Ge ogsdandist in this country, who is serving a prison sentence for v‘ g the Foreign Agents Registration Act. and Mrs. Elizabeth Dllllng. Chi- cago. author of “Tile Red Net- work" and other publications

. WA. Jan. 3-40?) — The unemployment insurance com- ‘ ‘ tonight that the

PO balance in the unemployment in- surance fund at Nov. 30 stood at SIGLMQMO.

Gross revenues to date. plus in- terest earned hv the fund, mount- ed t0 $l65.553.8‘23.

Benefits paid since January, 10-

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Set Afire In

- ALIJED HEADQUARTERS, New Guinea, Jan. 4 - (Tuesday) - (AP) — Planes from a South Pacific carrier force have hit two heavy cruisers and two destloy- ers in a raid on the Japanese base at Kavieng, New Ireland.

Both oi the enemy cruisers were set afire in the raid. the second assault. by carrier planes in lec- ent days.

The Allied ccirrlnunique today also announced that troops of the United States 32nd Division, who landed__at Saidor, on_the north

NEW YORK. Jan. 3 — (AP) —- A United States destroyer blew apart near the entrance of lower New York Bay today with a blast which hurled men and guns into

the sea. The blazin ship sank in 40 minutes as Coast Guard craft

edged to her side to rescue 103 men. including 100 injured. Hours after the first. blast. which took place at 6.18 a.m. EDI‘. the Navy said the cause had not yet been deterrninec". There was‘ no announcement regarding loss life. but destroyers in wartime sorry crews ranging from 150 i0

srnrl‘ 1w rwo

ah eye-witness said another ex- in two" about

Two Heavy Jap Cruisers

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Air Attack

coast oi New Guinea, last Sunday, had gained their final Objectives after overcoming light enemy re- sistance.

The communique reported that l3 Japanese planes were downed in the Kavieng raid.

Nineteen more enemy planes were destroyed in another Allied raid on Rabaul. New Britain.

The Marines at Cape Glouces- ier, New Britain. have extended the perimeter of their beschhead established there Dec. 26.

‘U. S. Destroyer Blows Up In New York Harbor

short time later.

Survivors told oi crewman man- ning hoselines to fight the fire. despite explosions of the ship's own burning shells. and of heroic rescue work by the Coast Guard.

they gave no indication of the blastfs origin.

Most cf the iniured were taken to an army hospital iit Port i-isn- cock. on Bandy l-iock. A number oi uninjured were landed at Sta- ten Island. N.Y.

Hundreds oi bottles oi blood plasma were sent to t Han- cock by other army. navy aria Coast Guard hospitals in the New York Metropolitan area.

POOR MEAL SAVED LIVE!

NEW YORK. Jan. 8 -- (AP)-—» A sailor aboard the destroyer that. exploded and sank today in low-- er New York Harbor expressed be» lief many lives were saved because the crew did not like its breakfast

Seaman Second Class Philip Wells. ll. said the blast wrecked the forward mess at a time when the men usualy d have been

at ‘ill am. It sank a

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7M U YIIUI- 2515M! e g . ' {mill ll crcloc-kgqlf‘ v e and the employment

“v amorous. l-i-lilcswomenoulfiadetbelicme.

l ul there-but that ti??? had left tho tables sooner than usual today.

the accused soudhi 81"" 194“ ii nkl ' wheeling movement south and southwest, aimed at entrapment c: the itighuge German forces In soisthern Russia against the Iumunian a er.

V The critical importance of Novograd-Volnyski to the strategic pat- ‘Director tern of the battle of the Kiev bulge. already the most outstanding ilus- ‘the Holstein-Friesian As-oulution of and the bitterest Nazi ‘defeat of the war, ls obvious, Its can- i Cami he Russians astrlde a rail line running from that point to ‘ilic lea to the southwest. usslan thrust down than railroad to engulf Shepetovlia would leave thi- Nssl garrison cf Berdichew, 60 mll vise. It is already cut off from escape southward capture some do. s ago of Kasatln Junction. Just south of Berdicheiv, on

. Probing Russian Patrols frontier In pursuit o route

In f

anchor points east of th Russian troops

formidable- natursl obstacle loomed. Poland, once the tributary to the stands. was crossed.

than l0 miles away.

lllls. n the first troop: crossing the of e cud n first foo iold_| selsei‘ beyond Busala Th Busal ’ bulge. he as b pgrad-Voln anchored t elr flank a

a ng attacks from he north.

slan victor turc puts

Shegetgyka junction. 30 ml

In n deadly

the Kii-r-Zhmcr nka railroad. At Volodarks. the Russians arc

er for thi- Nazi front southeast ol‘ standing ulong the Dnleper below

ntrapment by every Indication.

LONDON. Jan. 3 —(Cl’l --

A telephone service between London and Moscow. severed will be restored

The Dally Mail said calls would have to be booked through the Ministry of Information with copies of the material to be used submitted beforehand.

IBTANBUL-TITU-rl-icy. ash. .2 - (AP) — Telephone and

r e.

Wfith the fall of Novogrsd-Volynski, s Polish border in the northwestern Ukraine.

were within sight of the bounds

Pr!

From that point to captured Olevsk 40 m"~i to the north. Russian heavy field guns were in range of Polish ten‘ ‘tory, less

' , .Gcn. gikgported" w

By Iilrlic L. Simpson. Associated Press War Analyst

robably are already over the Russian-Polish Nazi invaders although Moscow may with- hold formal announcement of the fact until the border has been crogaeil

last of the Nazi's river protected

In a Iii-mile front. No ahead of t

practice would call for a special award by Marshal Stalin to line. Thelr surge into Poland will mark the the Nari invasion of ltussl n frontier’.

a, tlny as ml! be the n corner cf-the Kiev

b an in the

however. holds a more ominous threat to the foe than the fact that

cen drive-n at one point off Russian ski iind investment of Olevsk the

alnst the rrlpuzi-rinsk marshes, forbidding Nazi

They are in a position to start n great

aoll. In the seizure cf Nov- Russisns have firmly

bv Russian

ev. The Russians are already duo Nani plight seems tics-

Yfomment On Strikes

GTON, Jan. 3-—(APJ— Green the Georg: C Marshall was starternent that labor troubles may

have upset the United States war

'time-tsolc, tonight challenged the

army chief oi staff to prove it as a f ct

a . "We challenge General Marshall, or anyone else w prove that the re- m

cord oi America's soldiers of pru- ductiou provides an effective pro- paganda weapon ior the enemy." said Green in a statement.

‘ Mentioned

I-le linked Marshall's name with the declaration of a high authority, made New Year's Eve. that the rail Hitler a

communication I with Bulgaria. and ‘m! "m1" ‘we . _ broken off suddenly yesterday “In” 9°11“ m hep 5mm‘ AM“ Wlbhmlb ' "9" s ' J

the c

severed today amid reports first the pro-Nazi government of Pre- mier Dobri Brfilcv had fallen.

'i‘here was no reliable explanat- ion of what was happening within Hitler's wavering Balkan satellite.

MADRID. Jan. 8 — (AP) -—- The French Press carried a dis- palch from Lisbon tiodav re- porting that the agreement In which Portural gave Britain use of naval and air bases in the Azores had been extended to Include Madeira and that Rrltlsh forces had landed there. The dispatch sslfl there was IIfI-CDIIHWNIHOII n! the re- port by the Poriugese.

Some Faults In Liberty Ships

WASHINGTON. Jan. 3 —-(A.Pl

—Chail"man Emory S- Land of the

United state; ivisrnime uommis-l sion disclosed today that struc--' tural faults which have caused

some Liberty ships to break up are

capable of ‘i5 "to 80 per cent cor-

rection. but not of 100 per cent

correction.

Land made the disclosure about

the time that Senator Harry '.i‘ru-

man iDemMo.) of the Wur In-

Oomm tee announce; that he hsd asked for a report on Liberty ship performance. iliol action wu prompted by Senator Mon C Wallgren (Dem-Wssn.) who is demanding a halt in con- I version of Liberty ships to troor carriers nding an inquiry lntu reports ‘that several have broken

IDGTC I ICI

Weather Stalls 5th. 8th Armies

AIGIEES. Jan. L-(Ai-‘l-Snow. sleet and rain all whipped by an icy {ale that ripped tiles from roofs, sta ed the 5th and Ith armies on the Italian front except ior

from a on e a coast. where the Nuts are stub- bornly resisting a Canadian ad- vanc .

liialgth armv artillery was in range cf Pescara. but s dispatch from

an

n

goakglgorrespo dent acc the Canadians. gave no lllg%lll0fl . l

orn ihekeyportwasbclfilshell

resistance. This authority mode with th use

l stipulation that they must not h name, but Green said today that the authority was reported to be Marshall,

Green's challenge climaxcd a day of swirling developments arising frond" the publication of the state-

men .

President Roosevelt was revealed by his press secretary, Stephen T, Early. to be thinking "alo the same lines" anonymous

source.

At Pittsburgh. President Philip Murray, of the 0.1.0. declared in a telegram to Donald Nelson, war production chairman with s copy to Gen. Marshall, that rnwe than 90,000. tons of steel were poured at the enemy last year. He added:

Little "Comfort" For Enemy

"There must he little "psycho-- logical comfort‘ for the cnerny in this amazing record. Whcn our bombers ily over Europe they drop fileell encased bombs and not psy-

0

as the

ogy. . "In making reference to ycho- logy I am referring particu arly to

t term by the unnamed ‘high Washington official‘ in ills recent inesponsiblc attack on this organization."

Green and R.J. Thomas, Pre- sident of the United Automobile (0.10 l. made public statements almost simultaneously.

"somebody in Washington is will- ing to endanger the unity. of the American people in the ope of strait-jacking labor," comment -‘ ‘Thomas.

Green called on President Roose- velt to investigate "the mysterious Marshall incident. and to reprimand whoever was responsible for it-"

Recent Egg Shortage llas Been Eliminated

OTTAWA. Jan. 3—(CPl—Rfi¢¢nl egg shortages have turned into surpluses and some supplies not re- quired by the domestic market now lable to the board for the Unit- ed lnldom. agriculture department officials said today.

The 108i pricm paid by the spec- ial pots board. averaging n- bout 36 cents a dozen at eastern Canada shipping pclntsand slioht- ly less in the west. represent a price floor on eggs. since the Unite Kingdom ll take whatever Can- ada can ship at these ra

The i044 production objective is 367,500.00 dcun cent more

-l0 about 40.- 000.000 dozen would be cx ad Domestic consumption.

Di

w ich has risen r%dl will take an estimat- ed I10 doses.

i

HEADS IIOLSTEIN EXTENSION SERVICE

l-onzion. newly up inied of Extension Serv ce for

A.

ds i-ic will be in charge of

PYOEYHHI of the Association lhfollshout the Dcmimcn and will

es to the southeast. roughi- ‘have his headquarters al. Bram.

iford. Ontario. Photo by Karsh.

| Ottawa.

within 20 miles or less of the Chor- | kssl-Vupujarka narrow-gauge rail line, the only remaining sullllly focd- .

I h

I a south cf Byclsys Tsarkov and well iirntehe lifter of the German forces still v. e perate ln that section and a fast-paced retreisi alone can save them from

Council To Meet

and Gen. Sir Bernard L. goinery, whose arrival was Illkllt. told friends "I don't

ti: invasion of western Europe, ad-

Allled air commander. chief Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mal lorv. and the United Stains stra- tegic slr force commander, Lt-Gen, Carl A. Spoatz. also are already in England. and the rest of the invas- ion comamnd ls ex ted soon.

. There is every ind ation that the aster plan for the invasion ready has been set, needing only the arrival at a starting date.