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90TH‘! PHMO Edward Hand 1K6 the It!’ CHARIJOTTETOWN. CANADA, MONDAY; JANUARY so. 194s

lllTlSll-El-TWHIARMY PUSHES WEST 0F TRIPOLI

Read by Everybody

Strikers Vote Today 0n Govt Wage Proposals New Calamity ~ ' A

Kursk.

facing entrapment.

alone during the darkness. Plane Becomes Flying Ambulance

A Maritime Central Airways plane became a flying ambulance Satur-

ilflv. making s as-mil ' . t t Fortune to bring l: 5e. Iilfllmvmif Prominent merchant and fox.

"richer there to hospital at Che:-

lottetown.

l Seats were removed from a Rapids ski-equipped plane to per- mit a stretcher to be put aboard, Miss-Johnston me a li."..".‘f“.i."'..l.'t3f’:.° "" mil.“-

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lithe airport to rushwdiamvi: t2: Prince Edward Island Hospital. Tho- Pilne landed on the ice on

‘Fortune River. Cant. Carl Burke. "limiter of Maritime Central Air. Wnye here was the pilot,

‘ i-rfllélii reports from the Prince Edward- Island Hospital last night

Were that Mr. Johnston was rest.

tm: comfortahpq

Several more villages fell in the Voronezh where the Red Army was engaged also in wiping out. scat- tered isolated groups, including an entire division trap- ped some 50 miles behind the front. About 800 enemy troops were killed and 450 were captured on that front

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Facing Nazis

(By Eddy Gilmore, Associated Press Staff Wrltor)

MOSCOW, Jen. 24-(AP)—German forces in the Cau- easus apparently faced a cslsmlty of considerable propor- tion today as a result of the swift Russian advance sear Kropotkln while on the Voronezh front the routcd Axis forces were reported in fast retreat toward Kharkov and

A lfl-mile advance was recorded overnight h the north Caucasus and the Russians said they captured a town of great importance there. At recaptured Armavlr on the Rostov-Baku railway, the Red Army severed the railway leading to the Maikop oil fields and Tuapse, on the Black Sea. Large numbers of Germans were fqpgflgd

sector,

Liquidation of the trapped Ger- mans west of Stalingrad rcceeded. The entire second battal on, 518th regiment. 995th infantry division

surf-end and it was indicated th t 0th “l!” “mam ‘qwere ready to

8 wanted to surrender earlier, but was Jishtened b the officers‘ tales that Russians k ed captives. when a Red Commander met the Battalion: sders and assured them of safety, the men and officers gave

up. The orginally men of the German

trapped 220.000

0th annyb div- isions has shrunk to less than 40.- Oiitlldstsrved survivors. the Russians as .

(The German oommiminue adult- e further breech had been driven into the Stalinsrsdh pocket from the west. 1t said "fl ting in the North Caucasus had s lftcd to the Kuban Valley." according to

glen and claimed that along the ed

lack Sea Axis forces had driven pail: Russians who had broken their

(Th0 Iflninlfld battle south o! 9 Wilmllhique said. Russian at- _ l-edoss "swayed to an fro."

<oaaomi'ea”_—"en Mei-oat s?

Allies 1W_ay Make Bid For Victory 1711's Year

Somethind Big In Wind; Momentous Decisions

In The Wind.

lion. T. Vicn Appointed Senate Speaker

OTTAWA. J n. 24 —1CP)- Prime nffristci- Mvkenw Kn; mancuirced o" girl the Cove "melt illirvdrd lo r oii Hon. Thomas V9‘ ‘ormer op iy p nker of ills l-irusv of Cowimrns. as S a’:- er of tl~e Echo's.

Mr. Vie». who w'll f'l t e "a- pnucv caused by t e recent d a h o’ Hon. Gewrea P"e:ii-. was m de a member o.’ the S "a e l-rl a1- iumn.

M“. Kn" ill ~ n 110"" ned tlrt. J A Blmclic is, Lwrl me er o‘ Parliament for Cwnrton. Fue- ber constitute-icy. has been ao- pointei Lib-rel whp for Quebec Drevlncn h the H us of Comm ns.

Coming Events

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B! EDWARD D. BALI. (Associated Press Staff Writes) LONDON. Jln. 34—-(AP)—~Hnpes

iOr e supreme Allied bid for victory this year were spurred today by rsistent tell: of momentous dec- sions in the making or aLoady ed upon in councils oi’ the nited Nations. Speculation over what course the grand strategy- would foll w cover- ed s. wide range and oliic sl quart- ers maintained steadfast silence. The very fact that the talk would not down was considered in the best informed quarters as evidence that!‘ something bin was in the w

With the Allies registering successes the world over - on Blasts’; frosen steppee. in the New Guinea jungles and on Af- rica's drsert ssnds- ress dis- cusslons leaned tows the pos-

hlmy of s massive offensive to str kc he Axis nations elm- ulteneous w and knock the en- elny out cf the war in the next l! months.

The Axis itself refleotod e lbettl of Jitters in broedcests from Minst- controlled radio: tolling of im- portant politics conversations un- der way in Washington.’ '

Under a banner lne of ‘bi news soon says America." the “M!!! Pictorla seld that "lets lset niaht the news in fond d Wsshinl- ton hinted drssns iv that an early announcement of ‘vital deo- isions’ was QIDNTMi-

Ilspectent Atmosphere

The Iondon observer's diplomltiv correspondent. under Am heprins ti! "unify ng plans of 88- "m that "en unusually cmimi lc Ind e nt atmosphere in authorit- et ivc quarters in d eds 0b- eervers he

are it meyae assumed. ngw under sl ti d ion bliltaf ‘Tainan the in widen. one thins stood out: e Allies. far from sn thought of en esrly Ger- letre in thel

man col . ‘zero I l‘ l ns on ea that he asis his: be defoeatod on the mutilate and that a second front must be mounted to do it. With this es e thesis. some usrters advanced the theory that at Allies were sh s 1 tn flositlnued I POI l» 0d ll

Proposed Terms Are Made Public

Trenton Workers To Continue Strike; Other Plants Vote Today.

OTTAWA. Jan. M —(0P)- A guarantee that workers in the basic steel plants would receive s minimum wage of l5 cents an hour. regardless oi’ any downward fluct- uation in the cost of living. was an outstanding point in the pro- posed terms-made public late to- night by Prime Minister Macken- zie King~for settling the strike which has halted steel production in three Canadian cities.

It was stipulated further that if there was any increase in the coet-of-living bonus which would raise the steolworkere’ wages above so cents an hour, they would be entitled to receive it.

A formal statement from the Prime Minister outlined the terms which were drawn up in lengthy conferences starting Friday and ending eafy saturdav morning.

Meanwhile the strikers themselv-

an e5 were preparing to vote on the

proposals.

At Sault Bte. Marie. Ont. ar- rangements were made to hold a secret ballot tomorrow from ii am. E DJI‘ until midnight.

At Sydney, N. 5., a mass meet- ing of striking steelworkers decid- ed to hold a referendum vote to- morrow on the question of return- ing to work under terms proposed at Ottawa.

The steel men there ‘ " ‘- any return l-o work on the basis of an affirmative vote tomorrow will be with the proviso that if their full wage demands are not met in a month another strike will be call-

At ‘Trenton. N 5.. the third nf- fected centre. bhe Trenton local of the United Steelworkers of’ America voted "unanimously" to remniny on strike until the workers are placed in bhe “basic sled" category. ‘The meeting was attended by 1.600 of the 3,500 striking workers at Tren- ton.

The settlement plan is basically the same as the sevenmolnt pro- "csal advanced bv the government last Tuesday which subsequently was reiected bv the Union-but the guarantee against reduction in the basic wage rate in the event of a drop in the coet-of-llvinz bonus navnble to the men is new.

The revised plan would moire the fill-vent ralc retroactive to Nov. 1. 1942. ,

llt. lion. John Burns Passes

LONDON, Jan. 24--(0P)—Rt. Hon, John Burns, the first work- ing man 1p h0ld I British cabinet most-which he resi ned inl9l4in ‘protest over Great rltains inter- vention in the first Eflfli W81’- died today in s. London hospital at the a c of 84.

A dangle-maker and later s stationar engineer. r6?"- sented t o London working-class district of Battersea in arlla- ment from 189i! until his retire- ment from politics in 191B.

He entered the Liberal party cabinet of Sir Henry Campbell- Simnextnan in 1005 as president of

e local overnment board and

‘ n the succeeding minis- try of Herbert Asquith. in whldi he dvevse president of the board of

as the time of his resigns- Burns was co-leeder with Ben Tillott of the London dock strike

of 1880. a notable event in Bri- tish labor history. Borne of s most important legislative work was in housing and town planning. .___.__....___._

See Murder And Suicide

‘TORONTO Jun. it — )- Bodies of boners MoAskill. es fonner vice-president and general maliller of the Internatlone Nick- el company of Canada, Llm tod,end his wife, Jane. were found deed to- day tn a bedroom of the Mn Asklll home. Prltoe derorfbed the double fatality ls murder and eui-‘lde.

The bodies we" dis overed by s maid. Irene . who said she

no shots. Police se‘ two of ex bullets had in a .31 calibre revol- in the bedroom cf . uacAskill. who formerly lived In

fokirilion. . Ik- Msclskill retired as vice- e e e ofnsrn a Decem- 31.19%!’ ling general‘ mtervrr of ber. H y ill heath for

e hsd been in

some time.

lilectflc lights still burned in the bedroom of the Machkill home on Cortleigh Bwlevmd in Nortti To- ronto when lie bodies were de- severed.

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ing Allied ah- power. In Itneeta and in Akfee

Plants Attacked.

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llard Hit By Severe Storm.

ST. JOHNS, NfliL. Jan. i4 —lCP Cablel-ltail a d hi):- wsy commsn.c.t.o.s in he..- foundmnu are still artially paralyzed iloday follow ng one 01 the mast severe storms ever to hit the ares. One fre ght train was 1._lown complecy off the rails and at o e ilme 80) pussengirs W re muruoned is- board express trains.

With the lifting of the veil of wartime censo shit today. it was dlscloswl that thro: gh traffic on the main line from St. John's to Port . u:. Ensues is still st a stanrlstil. One ex- prcss remains isolated on s long stretch of line covered with 1A fret of suow and ad'- planes are being used to fly food and supp'les to the pans- cngi-rs. T:e storm rach d Its height Tu~s:‘ay and Wxdirs- day with wi ds rrlng to ‘Iv i- cane velocity ' temprratvr-s prevailing.

At least thrre llvrs were lost at sea. but ro r pwis have come to the cz-pltal of dwitlis in the colony r-lt‘~ough m‘nv small cotrmunltlct are Ieolwd. Full naval honrrs wcre sir-ord- od LL-Cmilr. A.(‘». Price, Ilrut Gordon 0s‘or-~e and n rtlng whose n~ru~ was not dl cl rd. all k'l‘ed at sea aboard s Brit- ish derroyer.

To Import II.S. Spudsln 8.0.

VANOOU . an. es-(ori- Potatoes will be imported from Washington Staio effective immed- iately to alleviate the shortage in Vancouver district, it was announ-

Donal Gordon.

5Q

lb Cordon esid the imports eleo will serve to relieve a potato shor in certain sections of the Prairs

Provinces. Washinwton s ents into British Columbia ‘g1! froe an additional portion of e Alber.

ta cruu for movement into the prairie market. Growers have not been deliver- ing potatoes to he Vancouver market since mid- ovember when e o e e .

War Situation Last Night

(hIlrbelnlhnpmAseeetetedPleleWerAselyst)

While events in Insets and Afrlce bill! toward disaster-fraught crises for the Axis mates is: lei-ope, Isere en brood hints that their Pacific seeompllce, lagers, will not long escape new Allied blown.

O I O I

flow. when and where President Iooesvewe promhs fleet 1MB wll l" ti" W" "Hid Pfisrosslvely to Japan tlsls onlooker makes no pre- lflnse of knowing. l-le has no doubt, however, that it 1s cumin; and [00]]. Moreover, it is clear that the prime factor changing the pattern of the strusglesgalnst the Axis time se ii BIope and Africa h ever incren.

waning Anh ablty umbrellas for ground troops under attack I too obvious lo be disputed. No such catastrophe in Africa ll the LNO-Inlle Axis retreat from Egypt into Tunisia could have been forced had Rommel been able to match Anglo-American als- strength thrown sgalnst hlsn.

O U C I O O

to provide adequate els-

Nowhws en In whole Russian front, boiling with ltlssisn offen- d" ""0" "l" u"! ill NWQIYINI‘. has there been any material evi- dence that the boasted Luftwaffe h effectively on the job. Moscow war bulletins consistently Ignore lg so m gmporgam gflcgm. |n the "st b“, tie. The speed and precision with which mission surprise thrusts have been driven in'tlme after time to reclaim huge segments of territory and rock flltlers Don-Caucasus front from and so end Iufficlently dem- onstrates the end of Ills uh mastery.

Nazis Are Dealt Two Heavy Blows

U-Boat Base Bombed; Industrial

l DONDON‘. Jan. si-rom _'. n‘,

RAJ‘. dealt the Germain war mflehine two smashing blow?) 5m- uidny night, blasting u... 4.0M, nest at Ioricnt for the fourth time Wiiilill 10 days and pouring a. cargo of bombs on the heart. of industrial wesmm Germln)’. R.C.A.F'. bomb- BTS Pflliiciiletcd in the Inash st Lorlent.

Radio stations at Berlin, Kocnlgsber . Leipzig, Stuttgart and Luxem ourg went off the air simultaneously tonight at 7:15 p.m., sn indication that the Allies were raiding Germany sgn-ln tonight.

Fbllowing up Saturday's daylight attack by United. States four- mctorcd bombers on Iorlent. the heaviest bombers of the R.A.F. and R.,C.A.1". unleashed o. "great. weight’ of high explosive and fire bombs in a concentrated 30-min- ute assault on the submarine pens and docks there Saturday night.

Visibility was 300d. the air min-

iiify stud. and many fires were left burning. some of them, returning pilots said. could be seen for 150 ,mlles. Only three R 11.1". bombers were reported missing from the night's expeditions. All the Can- ad an craft got back safely. i The Canadians flew Halifax bomb. ers from the squadrons commanded by Wing Cmdrs. W.D. Fen-is Edmonton and M.M. Fleming of Ottawa and the crews greed that the U-boat base "too an awful beating."

With the latest powerful blow at Lorient 1t became evident that the Allies hope to flatten the French port from which Nazi submarines prey on Atlantic shipplnfl. to knock out. its power plants and workshops and pound its massive U-boat shelt- es to pieces.

Lorient has been raided more than 50 times since it was converted into a. super-submarine base in the summer of 1940. its thick concrete- covcred stockndes are believed to accommodate at least 20 U-boats and possibly 80.

‘B363’ Single Men Register

UPTAWA. Jan. za-iclfi-Lelbor Minister Mitchell announced to-

day that, upwlto Jen. 20. 8.80s single men regislored under the recent proclamation whi

celved a notice to report for med- ical examination, 830cm‘ gervice officials seal‘- me , men may H» be ore the deadline Rb. 1%- eenise men ere itlcd to regis- ter at t off ces and local em- pwloymen offices all those registered y Jan. so had not been reported y» divisional selective service of-

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Many Say Goodby Ts The Brscllens

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WINNIPBJ, Jon. 2t—(OP)-8ev- ei-ai hundred persons faced s. blis- sdrd and. 20 below hero weather last night to bid goodbye to M}. end Mrs. John Bracken at e ublic re- ception in the Manitoba tive Build . Mr. and Mrs. racked-i left to ght to make their home in Ottawa.

Mr. Bracken. Progreaive 0on- sorvative loader of Canada and formerly Premier of Manitoba for more than 20 veers, end Mrs. Brack- en were guests at a. dinner given by Coalition Members of the Pro-

ncial Legislature preceding the reception.

tlold Wave In West Enters Second Week

Wflifiwfi. Jill. I -((I) Western Canada's cold weve enter- ed the second week today without prospects of a change.

Temperatures ranged from 51 be- low zero at McMun-ny, in northern Alberta. to l4 belW it Wlnnillel’. mntlnulng hardships in some areas that have experienced en fuel shortose. ‘

Cases of frostbite were reported at Rlmbev. Alla. where coal sill? plies were meagre but the serlou shortage at Red Deer. in contra Alberta, was relieved tcnporaril; with lihe arrival 0f five efls of eo yesterday.

Alberta temperabres eon low with Edmonton so below en Calgary lb early today.

Elsewhere on the prairies reading: were the Pas. Man. and lteglm helow,- IMXHMOIMQ\ belcw~ end- Prince Albert. In Northern leek- Latchewnn. so below.

Three Airmen Killed In Brash

HALIFAX. Jan. M —iCiP)— All three members of the crew or s twin-engined RCAI‘. training aircraft were kill d yesterday when the mlthine crashed at. Hills Mnlmtllkl Bridge, l0 mil-s ease of St. Stephen. N.B., Headquarters of the Estzrn Air Command an- nounced here tonight. No ristnils of the crash were given in the an- nouncement, which mid the cause of the sccidrnt was “'ol~.ecure."

Names or the airmen have not been made public.

117 Japs Surrender

.. To End Fight

B! TOM YARROIROUOII Associated Press flirfl Wr sop

ALLIED HWADQUARTTR-“nAus- trails, Jan. 24 —(CP'-- At t‘ 90nd 0f i119" fflrc in New Cu nae Pa- Puim Jungle. 11"! Japanese ch10 surrender Saturday insiead of lirhtlns to the awn nl nuns-ens _0f others had done. ‘Thus the campalsn against a Jap army which onre totalled 15.000 came to an end.

The number of nriscne"! taken was unusuallv large. Oily a few twisted snipers remained so be shot 0111'» of their trres rd other perches.

On the spreading aerial front, two waves of night bombers. raid- ing on the first e/nniveroarv of JapnnN capture of Rsbnnl, bloated at nlfdrrmrs and mine in that New Britain sect/r. Aftorwns-g g r cori- nnlseanrae bomber r014 a dlrgnt hit and badly damaged s iiom. ton transport, then bro-‘nkt an 3,- OOil-lon vessel to a swndsill near Rsbeul with two near hits. Only Bctnrd-iv, Gen. Doug/ins Mar-Ann- iir-‘s oommlinicue hnd twkl of the destruction of four Jan shire, tot- alling 24.00) bond. It Pnbnul.

Author, Actor llles Suddenly

NEW YORK. Jan. II -—(AP)— The hectic career Alexander W " , author, actor and com- mentator, ended here just before last midnight when he (ted from s heart attack. He was B6.

Woollcott. who was born Jan. 19. 1887 at Phalanx, N.J., first gained attention as s dramatic critic for the New York Time; a place he held from 1014 to 19M. except for two years with the United states Army during the First Great War.

He was known on the radio both in North America and in Britain as the "town crler“ between 1929 and 1940.

Among his books were "The story of Irving Berlin". blished in 1025; and "Mrs. Fiske- or views on act-

llbeeripdeq El 000i other

Male;

after occupying 'l‘ripoll and caught Inder s cont‘ assault by air.

campaign grew nearer hourly.

But hi Thnlsta, wlrefe Allied hoa/vy bombers and fathers iou ht one of the great air bat/ties o. the war m smash no ear-in at tie Bl. zcrte naval base. the Fran h lor- ccs of Gen. Berri Grnud have been slightly worsted and forced to withdraw to new positions ovgr-

aoube locking the Kairousn 171k: soulh-

weet of ‘llunis.

The Middle last communique received from Gen. Sir Harold Alexander's Cairo Headmuortcrs said 81h Army warriors "after o1:- mipying Tripoli continued their advance and by dveriing were h contact. with the encnrv well to the west."

This was believed in the Tel-Tilly of Zuara. es miles west o! Trpvli and 36 miles from ‘ninisin. where Marshall Erwin Rommel was st- isenptmgwc join the remnants of his Africa Corps, estimated at. from 40.000 to 70.110 men. with idle 70- 0"0 troops of Ooh-Gen. Jurgrn Von Armlln.

211mm h the and of e rilway line rim-fling west, from ‘Ifirrliand the inst, port. from which he Axis might attempt. a limited evacua- tion of its forces by smell b at.