WEDNESDAY.

Air Force Ed Laberge Nets Winning.

Goal With Only 58 Sec’s Of Play Remaining

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Scoring a goal with only 58 seconds of play remaining and with both teams playing a man short due to two major penalties, an Air Force tea_m from No. 2 A. N. S. last night chalked up the opening victory of the City Hoc- key League when they defeated the Collegians 6-5 in a gruelling, hard fought encounter.

From the time His Worship Mayor J. E. Blanchard faced off the puck at centre ice closc to 1100 fans were kept in a high state of excitement as the teams put on a ' fast skating, hard hitting display with the lead alternat- ing from one team to the other and the issue remaining in doubt right i0 the final whistle, until Phil Laberge’s drive from close-in on a pass from Pele Kelly settled the issue

Flying Officer Cotleb hockey beam from Summerslde had their first Workout on the steel blades at liic Forum yesterday morning and cicspne the fact that it was their lillillii prLCtlCB session they im- pressed a large gathering of rail- birds with the potential power they contain in their ranks.

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U '11s of twenty or moreplay- ci. in: a berth on the squad 111.1111" c trip from Summerside and not; the time they stepped

in i110 ice opened right out in cf- '

the eye of Coach wed the two-hour appraising; the in the

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‘citing g glimpse at them one d not but, be impressed \vith ;tit ii d speed of the Suin- rspresentatives and the H11lilll"l‘ in which they the rubber around the ice. _ tleiiiiite more than slightly acquaint- iih the game. and those in "lance at the practice were lo stamp them with their .'."l. some coing so far as to ~ them as tlie team to beat for honors. -

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And that latter opinion is far from being a remote possibility. Willi ten members of last year's squad siill with them. and with liiilli)‘ of hockey talent sprinkled illiwil}! the newcomers to the sta- il(ill .i"..;1~ 112s‘. season. Coach Cot- 10's tram just have to be taken in- to consideration.

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A big. rugged team. they can throw their weight around effect- ivclv when the need arises and of- irnsivciy can ice tmrce strong at- tlisking units that are going to prove difficult to stop. Of course, the local teams have also been showing plenty of smart hockey, which all leads up to the fact that ti": league games are going t0 be pleniy close throughout the length oi (he schedule. .

It being the first ice workout for his team, Flying Officer Cotie 118d nothing (lefinite to offer in the way of the starting lineup he Will "' d out against the Navy sextette

. ctlav night. Even though ten

his last year's team are back, that doesn't by any means say ‘ t. they already have secured s on the ‘team;

no doubt about it. will

‘x.- 1. ' i srcki , ill? viewpoint of this writs‘: that some of the new men ' replace members of last year's

11g berths and it is 13°5-

- a a .-\ hi: razigy defenceman in the 1 of a lad named McPherson . ‘.110 rye of spectators yester- dny n " finish- ed E1. y player was quite evi- (lent and it is not surprising, as 5.11119 player has played with York Americans in the Nat- l League. 0 a Nit-Phersoifs presence behind the bidciine, aided by three other hus- ' rounl; hcckeyists, puts a form- barricade in front of the -' goalie and probably g the western team one of 2st blocking defences in the

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:11 competition, however. us- 'choni_;:s the complexion of

on: way or another, and fails will have to wait to see ' iinerside boys in action on ‘l1. y night before forming any tlefinito opinion as to just; ‘tow strong they really’ aare.

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Navy basketball teams made it two straight in the City Basketball l mutiny night when they

‘the Tars come h :1 victory in the op-

ii v, bill of the-

tiotiblchcadei-

test but ldonday

si - d that their per-

o.1 that occasion was no

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'1 ti workinc; o en- t-kitit defense.

thia league prom- lif competition once '0 bite deep into and the way matters .1: four teams enuzrcil should have a good chance 1 ..-..- honors when the

Ln is rung down. . . a Thouch there are reports that tlii- V. 11.1., is going to do some- thing about clarifying the presi- uotion at its meeting it isn't likely that any ion Will take place, ;. OMcara, in the Montreal

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11i case people have forgotten about it P.1d Dutton is still presi- [1(‘l1i of UL? N ii L. till next, April, lkirz: are runlcrs that. he will ‘ne-

year president, because Jim Norris is strongly kccii Red in the swivel

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tiily inclined to chair.

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ll that is so. no others need ap- ply Izccnuse Jtln Norris of Detroit ' s a lot of authority in . leaf‘. '. Lester Patrick is managing director the or rlnization, who as he goes along ndg ma; it, l; difficult to deal with perplexing rdilcms while he occllplgg a p03- lioii oi such piomineiice with one of tlie contcntiiirpi clubs.

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fflzcre are some who claim that ' ~ Lister i: outwardly shilling G-"Oflb Hardy. that he is in- ' booing they will toss the

"lilo in his direction. We don't -’ ' s» .

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indication of I

'v nticntion to the new‘

pan; they o ain _

in the final seconds.

, But u to this time the Coll-zgianq. cverv it as eood as their ‘ cnts except when in scoring posit- 1 . cave the iavored Airm.n

. cf it all the war.

Ba ed up bv the sci \'._ion.ii uoul minding of Shorty McKiniion. es- ilciaily in the last three minutes of the game the losers, the Colle- Rians hammered awav in every ses- sion to have the had on three cc- casions oniv to lose out. iii tlie fii l five minutes of the game as t.‘.-.- winners poked in the equalizer at ' l4 52 andotlien notched the win- ner " . 2 iof Laberge who sanl: four of the Air Epics goals during tho encoun-

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i final four minutes of ulflv—a fact i that had a lot to do with the Col- l lcglan defeat.—when Paterson the winners and Robertson of tli losers started swinging punches I and before many seconds had elap-

sed practically all theplaycrs on the ice were mixed up in it. Pat- i/STSCII flilfl K033113011 11M} lllfllDPS tacked Olrtilim and then the high scoring trio of Ktily, Laberlle and

a row McKlnnon turned theni back but linn11',' had to yield wiznn Kelly laid a perfect goal-mouth pars on Labcrges stick that broke up the encounter.

Both squads sta

in the first minute only to have the Collegian goalie kick the drive aa- ide. springing to the attack Nicolle on a pasdng olav with Blanchard and Rnbcrtson beat the Air Force lloalie but it was called bnck Ash- lev drew the first nenalty uf the game at the five minute mark and inc CultFTlJrlS literally swarmed a- round the Air Force cake but couiiift tlrive a counter home. Ashley returned to Diav with the scoreless ELCUlCliUCK unsullied and the teams were at full strength when Collegians went into a 1-0 lead Camel-on going right in closc on passes from Irvine and Maliar to beat the opposing goalie.

Three minutes aftcr the Colle-

that lad to the equalizer Hc ska-

c‘ ted over the ODDOSHIZ bluellne from‘ a iis own line before feeding a. pass,

to Laberge and tho short, stocky ct-ntrcmon wnlbiietla drive into the l wen corner Colleaians still had 111'! betinr of the plrlv right to the end oi the 5935101’! mi". could not pene- trate the Air Force goalies aiinor.

the Air Force team struck on a Dew to Laberce play with the 1'01‘- mer whipping in an ankle-iiigil

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a yinto position before going in closc

both from the stick ,

add to the excitement a I 79ml,“ free-fecal) bwke m" i" m” ' McKinnon ivho had no chance on

o: ’ and 50 seconds to go when tlie Air

~ rled out at loci speed with Dew testing Mcliinilon‘

THE cilaawrrcrown GUARDIAN

fiiiiiéfiifiisa 11.; pucfifnt- _ relaying it to givlahar and Mahar working his way

‘to draw tlie Air Force net janitor |out and slip the disc into the open

net.

For the second time in the game the Air Force saw their opponents go into the lead as Irvine. sturdily built young forward stole the puck from an Airman inside tlie blue-

ges Out Cole

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REMEMBER VIIIEII

B: The Camila has It was d clded. - meeting of ethe Association 30 your; u“ mday w divide the pllylng time a: hockey mama! 131W tllme periods of 20 minutes each. Previously the 8'11"" We" wilt into two 1mm.

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Lewis lie-Elected Mayor 0f Ottawa

on. GILLESPIES c RI M IN A L ' case i LIONEL BARRYMORE VAN JOHNSTON DONNA REED

OTTAWA. Dec. 5 —- (GP) —In one of the lightest votes ever polled in Ottawa, with only 30 per cent of the eligible 18,000 voti rs casting ballots, Mayor Stanley Lewis was returned to office for his eighth term yesterday in a munzctpal elec- tion which saw the board of con- trol which served the city from i942 to 19-14 re-elected for a fur- ther two-year term. .

Mr. Lewis’ re-election Ill |el-, dom in doubt, and he wu accord- ed a comfortable majority over both his opponents for the Mayor- alty, c E. Pickering and V, C t Phelan. 1‘

AUSTRALIAN SETTLEMENT

The first settlement by white 'men in Australia was on the cite

i i i I The thrilling secret of a Soldiefs Sweetheart. .__.._-_-_-_._ souius, THURSDAY a mu. I MONTAGUE SATURDAY 7:45 and 9:45

line to skate in iinniolested for an ungssisted counter. Laberge, high scorer of t ning replied with the tying score at 10.14 of the period, sharing a loose puck at centre, rounding the defence to go right in on top of

the close-in drive. The period had only a minlte

IForce went into a 4-3 lead on one 10f the breaks of the game. The puck slid loose out to centre ice. {Patterson of the Air Force beat the lone Collegian defender to the rubber to g0 right. in only to be outguesscd by McKinnon. but the

Dew came on to take the ulav away great. little Coliegians‘ goalie was from the Collegians; three films m beaten as I-lorsburgli picked upihe

rebound to slam the disc into tlie unprotected cage.

For the first half of the flnoli period tlie Collegizins, fresher than‘ their opponents, had an edge on the play. an edge that gave them two goals and a 5-4 lead. the third time they had been in the driver's seat. Their first goal of the period came from tlie stick of Blanchard on u beautiful passing play with" Nicolle and Robertson, a. play mat‘ took the scorer right to Walker's doorstep. A minute later Miihcr was right. in also only to have Walker pull ofi a beautiful save. Three times in a row McKinnon stepped the first line of the Air JFoi-ce team and then saw his mates go into a 5-4 lead as Irvine. a great little opportunist and nardi worker. snagged another loose puck. beat the Air Force defence‘

glans scored Kcliv started tlie play,

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The second period was only a- tory. Kelly got his stick on minute and 48 seconds old wl-lcnl puck and slid a long forward p155

shot after working his way in from-

centre ice to pick the open corner‘

of tlie net. Less than two minutes later, with play raging from one end of the rink to the other, Coi-

ttie prettiest plays Dowling started the play at cen- trenas he skated to _til5_>Ail' Force

P trick is u little too\oiri for the pos . besides he has become so at- tatiiccl to Broadway. and its cnvi- rons as a winter h bitat, he would hate to v/rencli himself away from that sector, Unless, of course, lie moved the office to New York. but there would be many objections to that course.

This is a Job for a. very thick- skinned man, and Lester no mrit- ter liow great his qualifications hardly comes under that classifi- cation. We think Rod Dzitton would accept the call if given in a befitting manner and not in the plccenititl way it has been offered up to the present time.

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legions tied the Score on one ofigoing to hold them ut bay as he of the night.|came through with some remark-

with a drive that saggcdthe twin- cs behind Walker.

The game was in the last five minutes ivlacn the frec-for-all broke out. ending up with Patter-

cleanly and wound up his play l

can and Robertson getting majors. -

Air Force sent Kelly, Lobe-rue and Dew to the attack and the move paid dividends. At 14.52 with Collegians deep in opposing tortill- ‘t B

1 to Label-go at centre. Laberge was in the cicar and McKinnon was beaten cleanly.

The All‘ Force, taking the play away from tlie Collegians, Cflllilll- ued to hammer avcay for the Will- 1131‘. Up to 58 seconds from tlie end it looked as if McKinnon was

able savcs. but. Kelly finally got his stick on the puck again and his short forward pass to Lriberge at the edge of tie crease had goal labelled all liver it Lineups: Air Force: Goal, Walker; cle- feiice, Swant. Ross, Enrico, Jacobi; forwards, Dew, Kelly, Labcrcc. Trezisi, Aslilcy. Pfaff, l-lorsburgh, Patterson, Belzingcl‘.

legions: Goal, McKinnomdc- fence, A. J. lVicAdam. J. McDon- aid, A. McDonald, L. Martin; for- wards, Blanchard, Robertson, Nic- olle, Manor, Dowling, MeIsauc, Ir- vine, Quigley, Cameron. ‘

SUMMARY 1st Period l-Collegians Cameron ilrvine, Mohar) 2—R.C.A,F'., Labcrce Penalty: Ashley. 2nd Period 3...R_C_A,F,, Dow (Lnbergc) 1.48‘, '1—COliC2lfll‘.5. Manor ‘ (McIsuac, Dowling . .. 3.10 5—Collcgians, Irvine ' (Mahar) 6—R.C,A.F,. Laberge 7—R.C.A,F . Horsburgh (Patterson) v . . - - . . ., Penalties: None. 3rd Period 8—-C(IllCglflllS, Blanchard (Nicolle, Robertson) 9—Colicglans, Irvine l0—R.C,A.F., Luberge 1l—R.C.A. .. Labergc Penalties: Patterson Blanchard (major).

FIVE XLLIED-

(Contlnucd 1mm P88e_l.)__ anything in the long war history of Western Europe. .

Drawing back Just a trifle the veil of secrecy guarding the manpower cost of the great opera- tion, Allied headquarters disclosed thut the previously estimated fig- ure of 4,000 German casualties daily had risen considerably. It seemed probable that UnitedStat- es armies, at present bearing tho brunt of the assault. might be suffering losses at least, as heavy.

The German commando raid in which dikes of the Neder Rhine southwest of Arnhem in Holland were breached Saturday night has forced Canadian forces in this sec- tor t/o withdraw from forward pos- itions.‘ The breach flooded a large area northwest of Nijmegen to a

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Canadiens Tighten Grip _ On N. H. L. Iieadership

BOSTON, Dec. 5-<AP)—Mont- on any one he chose. He rears speedy Canadiens strength- authorities and precedents ened their grip on the National back to Gladstones relations with Hockey League's top rung by out- Q1160!) Victor"! W Suppl!" m! skating the Boston Bruins for a constitutional argument.

4-1 triumph. their fourth straight Mr. Dieter-bake" also delved 1n- of the season, tonight before a 13,- to history when he argued that 000 crowd at the Boston Garden. conscription had been the law of Toe 313mg who Pam-d the vlciqys, Canada in the Militia Act since took over the circuits point-mak- 136B Mill Uh" m6 10W 113d been inc 193d from Boston's Bill Cow- framed by_French-Canadian Min- ley by collecting two coals and an 151011 H" 531d the M111“)?- Al"? 35515; m,» a total of 2s, ilrovidcd that when/men called out were placed on service outside SUMMARY Canada Parliament should be called. He noted that Parliament First Period now was proceeding much as it would have done if action were 1—Montrcal Blake lLflchl i617 taken under the Militia Act. 2—1(\§g3li§fg!1;) 10,2411" 1000mm“ "Rationed Conscription" P.nolty — Esau. Second Period

He called the present order-in- Ii-Montreal. Blake (Ritililflfii 10:30 e

of modern Sydney 1n 17m-

cited this

council "rationed conscription" and predicted it would merely perpetu- Penalties — Hillel‘, Gztiith l’. Third Period

ate _t_lic inequalities of service and

sacriiice which developed under ‘t-Montrcal. Richard (Blake) i210 5—Boston_ Cain (Esau) 1'1: 1

the National Resources Mobiliza- 3. Penalties - shnzvcliuk, Gclliffc. i.

tioii Ac Clapper, E

"'i‘od.iy," lic said, "this country, as a result of the unfairness 1n whichthe administration of tlie Naitionol Resources Mobilization Act has been conducted is torn by _________ legitimate grievances, accompanied Eiyzyopligegudice and by senseless -—— ‘_‘I ask tlie Government. even at (Continued from page 1.) _ this late hour to ensure that all . . - .1‘ -- _provinccs of Canada shall be equal war because that Ls another ques- under this administration for only “(my ‘ through equality among all the At the time, said Mr. Slaglit. provinces will there be Canadian John Bracken. “anal lczidcr, way-I; 1inliy_ and by cqilality I mean “htdingtlaehirid lic c1 Ems l ‘causality/iii: responsibility as wel as] but ncl icr 1L‘ nor ., . . n curls." who 500141’ 05 “@1113 Hvllsc leader. Dr. Bruce said Gen. ltfcNaughton had nlode any clarification. had said tlicrcavas little benefit Mr. Slaght said he came to Ot- from conscription in the last taw prepared to votc fltlflillsi 11%’ war. bub this was not correct as Govefnmvlli if l? (lid 1W’- Yflke M- conscription had assisted the Can- tian to send reu1forccine;1ts ovcY- adian ivar effort in the last cruc- seas. He had ‘demonstrated be- ,1 ial 10f) days. fore that he did not hesitate to There was no information on differ with his own party and i113 what would be done \1"th the 4-1,- proposetl to rczire from lIOlIUQSlOOO draftecs lcft at home. when the FY9591" paflmmelli 9nd‘ “This is simply one more shame- _ iful episode in five years of search- Advice Tihlgchiaualiifr" mmnng for 11110131151}? of least resist- He was satis c . 1o cf’. once," saia 1'. rucc. Prime Minister Mac enzic Kill: Mcn of the House 511911111 and the Government. had tilkillisliow themselves red - blooded, the richt course and til-fir Icm- worthy to be called Canadians, and fol-cements would be assured. i-le (igmgnd rm; dmnees be sent would vote with tlie Governmeih- wherever tncy were needed. Other- l-le had full confidence in GcnwMC- wise Canada would be shamed be- Naughton, but asked him to 3W8 fore tlic world and seeds of iii- vcry special heed to the following 3115119,, wquld be’ 5mm matters: Ulllfis Mi‘- Km: Was ready to l. That lie will require the com- impgse {up conscrjpmn to support mander-in-chlcf 11nd tlie com- m3 m-an overseas lie should "efface" manders in the two theatres of hjnlgelf and make way for a proper war and of the P001 1" 5081mm wartime leader. The House had been told it was “King or anarchy." The view of lhc country was overwhelmingly aguiitist Mr. King and his Govern. men . If Col, J.L. Ralstonb. advice as Defence Minister had been accepted drllftres would have left for over- . seas last mo h li " 2. That ample advance rc1nforce-| m “my. T1,}: mglnd Tegggfislgfiii; ments be sent forward from Can-i for (“my my wuh Mn King‘ n_ 1111a m fill the needs so reiwrwdi mough Gm Mcmwhmn mus, a "l"; ."'.°'“1§"{.'1'..‘.%.2‘..'t‘°.'....m ~ 3. a. 1e s o ' D13 B, _ "‘°..'."2¥§“°.'.i°“éi.é tiller.- a (carols. spoils c o c - be ,3 of war that no nlimdléléolsavereigfig,‘ prsell] vented by an election at . . . v V ihoutxhtcilcciroqiit? lilaitie unless and until sfidmhelfllfgbgeilgaytglstgwent l e entire and com- P l 9- 15W". i‘3£°..?§‘§‘.111. a proper period mdmilfd m" ‘hi’ "m" “few! of convalescencc. Jmnmfr shwld “mm” the PTO‘ 4. That the men in the Canadian‘ greseilive go)nservative_ amendment Army on active service, who have- n? H cu vcmments confidence been obi-cad inr years, and who g ti)" m1 V014! f0!‘ the Govern- have seen front line fighting‘. "L" - should be granted home leave. Other speakers during the after- noon sitting were Armand Cho- quette (BP-Stanstead) who said his party was opposed to any form of conscription and so would votc against the Government, and Hon. Dr. H. A. Bruce (PC-Toronto- Purkdale) who wanted a charlie of government and an election. Mr. Choquette said 11c was not impressed with the anti-conscrip- tion amendment moved by Joseph Jean tL-Montrelil-Mercier). He said Liberals who voted for it and later voted for the Government on the main motion of confidence were "kissing the hand of their murd- erer before he strikes the final b ..