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THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1943

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Pelt Championships Awarded At Show

_ * McLure and MacKinnon Silver Fox Farms Ltd. Win Grand Championship.

_, ' lane ls Missing From S’Side

our-Men Aboard Machine, Unreport- ed S i n c e Tuesday Afternoon.

EALIFAX. Jan. 6 — (C?) ~C.A.F. and. three R A.l", air- lcil are missi in a twin-engine lrcrrirt that let the Summerside. E airport last night on a 0 ' e flight and has not been re- rted since. eastern air command nzcials announced here tonight. No further dgnlls of the disap- . lrii-IICG were ven.

The search for the aircraft i6 iuinuing.

Names of the airmen involved are lag withheld pending notification inext-oi-kin.

The ovrin-engine plane missinl mm the airport near summerside illCB late yesterday afternoon was in heard from at 4.45 lb-m- it W“ amcd. Apparently no trouble WB-B polled at that time.

A lighthouse keeper et NOfl-h alt. most northerly tip of Prince lard Island later reported he saw lit appeared to be a Dlflfle @1150" ll into the sea some distance off ellghthouse. The time of tlw rash would be s o'clock. he said-

A search of the area YBSiBTdBY iiledhto revreai an! of wreck- ge, oweve ,

Royal Canadian Mounted Police impel-ion also aided in the search

‘nzch was said to be continuing.

The lane would be in the Reniral

rra oi North Point at the time it

‘sappenred, it was learned from he school.

i0 Name Senate peaker Shortly

OTTAWA, Jan. a _rci>>- The ulemment is expected to Im- MIKE next week the apwintmsflt ' i speaker for the Senate. I 905i en vauilll by the recent death 0f . at (‘reorlge ‘Parent 0f QWMC- ll" nfnlrned sources said i-fiflW he do.‘ on will be between L. A. vls of Montreal, appointed to lu- Senate in 1940. and 1115- Col- mmas vlen or Montreal who. 0n- " TPPFllilT named to the UfW-‘T ‘wlmbrr, will not be fnrmnllv I'l- iwfucvd in the Sennfr- until Pirl- mom meets Jan. 27. Both arc liners.

Final Warning lie Fuel 0il

UITAWA. Jan. 6 — (C?) —'I‘he izzlllll-lls Depilrtlllent in a slot-- till (ill laeilalf of Munitions Min- for l-lolve tonight "issued a fin arliillg w those who have taken o 510175 to change over t0 C081 "Om hensc of fucl oil for heating 60m‘ lire 1, industrial and other build- of ii similar kind. statement said: '

fliol oil position is so £11119

.. no temporary Perm“ 1°‘ m“ arr-hose oi fuel oil for such build- P-rs \\'lii be issued after Jan. l5, un- l ' be proved to the sat-

‘otirelicl by that time, that the Dlilicaiil. is not resboflfilble I“ allure to change over. .

Coming Events

"Talkies-Montague Baturdlayg-at

"Pllv — Mt. Stewart Thuregybl “Grain crushing Ross‘ Mill-

= l i ' cl B tur- Srkgcwun, Tuesdays an 1064‘

"Dance in Vernon River flail. ' idly, January 8th, WM‘ M11170!"- “ lllllvw Orchestra. F741‘

"file annual meetifili 05 m9 lurrln- Harbour pregbyieridn con- rrinloa will be held in me church

Willy. January 12th at 2 FEM.“

"We are buying live end dress- lfi chickens and fowl daily, Day- ini i0 market value. Phone or write 0f or cps. Island Cold Star-algae. U5

"Next recei i d te for h - F hr rnurgag 12th. omega! Gllfhv 15th A. M. until 11.30. signed

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H"Car of feed oats. arriving about ,.'1""flrv 15th. Booking orders now- fon Warren, North River} a 7 a

The PI I. fox pelt lhow was concluded yesterday in Summer- side and the fifth show of its kind. in the province passed into history r1. perhaps the most successful of

Mr. George McLeod of Frederic- ton, N.B., was judge of the ihow and much credit is due him for his piacirigs. He made a masterly job of a difficult task. A fair sized. audience witnessed the judging yesterday nlternoon end the judge gave hi; decisions ghor dil- cussions wen held at inter-vole.

After the judging was completed the exhibitors and officials met at the C.N.S.B. Fbx Assn. office where the formal presentation of trophies was held. Mr. L. W, Han- cock presided. and gave a resume of the show and the various class- es exhibited. He stated that this year the average quality of the pelts was higher. Color was much better and in all more good pelts were on display this year than in previous veers. After the present- Btlfm 0f irroohies the chairmen call- ed upon the various winners to ad- dress the assembly.

Mr. George Caibeck, Chief In- spector of the Association and the top winner of the show express- ed his opinion that fox ranchers generally must step up the qugljty of their ‘herds, It was useless. he contended, to carry on unless also did cull and continue to cull until onlv fDDs were left. -

One bio, factor in producing good clear pelts was. in his opinion, sanitation. This ccu'-d not be stressed too strongly. In the new types watch out for blueness. He believed foxes in th‘s province were becoming smaller and the remedy for this is to feed the young puns heavier. The fur trade wants size along with quality of’ fur.

Mr. George McLeod the judge of the show in addresing the gather-

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955 Enemy Planes Shot Down At Malta

LONDON, Jan. 6 —(CPl_ Mal- ta, the British Mediterranean stronghold ‘irhich has suffered

er spot during this war, destroyed 955 enemy aircraft in 194-2. the Middle East News Service of me RAF. said today.

Of these, 7'13 were dnot down bv R.A.F. fighters with loss of 195 Bl-itish craft. The pilots of B9 of these were saved, however. Ant-i- eircrait fire amounted foa- 182 of the enemy craft.

0n the offensive against enemy supply ships in the Mediterranean RAJ“. P101183 based on Malta at- tacked 46 convoys, six sin-zle ves. eels and five forces of naval vessels.

The score was M! ships either sunk, severely damaged or left 1n flames, and about 4o other chi?! damaged to a loss decree.

,' Naval aircraft based at Malia

Bl l hit 37 shine with bombs or torped-

.095. including four cruisers and i-WO rhwrrrivers.

I In its attempts to knock out the island. lhe enemv inst Y"? drew- erl 17000 toils of bombs rm it.

Striking l"i'l(‘l( with ifs limWed resources, planes from Malia 118W.‘ (unwed 1.5m Mus of hombs on ills rim-my in North Africa and Sicily.

W JACK BRAYLEY Canadian Preu Staff Writer CORNWALL, Ont» Jan. 6-(0?) 41hr; ice-sheathed textile town. still cooking its meals over wood iumace time. hoped today 1'01” I» thaw to aid overworked repel:

85-118’!-

Ihe Whole town and district: i; one mass of wire and tree limbs, the result of a 22-hour TBiLl that started Dec. 29 and from u, it fell. The rein was followed by g blizzard Dec. 80 and 31. The storm cut power. communi- mtim and highway traffic lines and the coating of foe was so bod that in some places it froze wild birds and farmyard poultry 1n m!“ |tracks. One tree five miles from | the centre of the city hed a 8Y0“?

of i6 wild bird; frozen on its limb-fl- i The ice coating made thin tele.

graph wires nil thick as a persons iwrist and than the wind snapped ithem off. Some streets give i"! iimpresliion 0f the dnyfl 1161MB l" expected invasion of lmglish coast gowns, with great barricades of tree

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From Record Storm

Terrible Ice Storm Followed By Blizzard; Wire Services Still Only Partially Restored.

French Force Wins Victory

LONDON. Jon. e - (c?) - a flElllmg French force driving up mmuah Southern Libya from the Lake Chad area has taken an im- Dortant enemy position and held it against a counter-attack by enemy motorized columns. a communique from the headquarters of Brig.- GHL Jacques Ileclerc announced wnlzt. (Jacques Leclerc is the Alias adopted by a fighting French com- mander to protect his family in Frzfnrlice.) 1

e oommun que as re rted by Reuters news agency saidii

"Weather conditions having im- proved, French troops have resumed their advance in Southern Libya. and have taken an important en- emy position.

"Enemy motorized columns which attempted to retake the position were vigorously repulsed and were forced to retreat toward the north."

The location of the position was not given.

Springhill Airman Killed

AYDIMER Ont, Jail. 6 -—(CP)— LAC. Douglas Weathelibeq 22, of S lrighill. NS, was killed late last nght when his Harvard training plane crashed near No. l4 R.C.A.F. Service Flying Training School here, it was announced tonight.

‘Ihe plane crashed shortly after taking off, plunging to the ground ricer the place where an Australian student pilot was injured fatally completing flying training andpro- three weeks ago.

Officials said Weaftierbee was bably would have received his wings in two weeke-

Famous Poet 83 Sunday

1030mm J . iS-KOPi-Rpodv to celebrate hlgnlllird birthday 0Y1 Sunday, sir Charles G. D. Rvberifi. poet, historian and novelist. "ll- vises people to Jlvork hard. i>l_=_\v fair and s iliai-lemand they “ill g9 gong ii rg -

Surrounded b)’ his books Mid manuscripts, Sir Charles lives a- lone, He cooks his own meals. Plllfl one of his steadfast rules is that he niust not be dislurbed. even bY his closest, friends, except by of)- pointment.

His first book of meme was Dill?‘ lished when he was 20, and head- master of a grammar school at Chathnm. N.B. At Kings Collevf‘. Windsor. N.S., hr- spent many 1101111“ writing verse and nature stories

more bombing raids than any oth-; with Bliss Cal-man and Rlcllflffl

Hovey. He was then Professor of Iiinglislll illfld French Literature at . o ,

L1gfl§§ymscvci'al veors in New York he lveiit to EuFOiX’. and Served durille the First Great War.

Telling pl his war service, Sir Charles said: "I was 54 years old at the time, but I cut l0 veers "if my age and tried to get in the Canadian Armv. Eventually i was accepted and given work breakinK and training rcmouilts."

Later he went to France saw action.

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HOS PITAL OPENED

HALIFAX. Jan, 0 -— (CP) -—Can- adas only ermailent naval hospital was offlciaiiv opened here today by Rear Admiral L.W Murray. naval officer commanding on the At- lantic Coast. in a brief ceremony in the lobbv of the three-storey brick and concrete structure. With tvpicnl navy icrseness. Admiral Murray said niilv. "it gives me great pleasure in

That conclusion is inescapable

claimed a general German retreat bulletins detailed the fast crumblin

Naiehik-Terek River theatre. There Russian advances in that sector. Bil fensive" fighting on all active fronts l0 chlllellke the Moscow version.

O I O

Hitler has either thinned out h the Caucasus to find reinforcement; ern flank of that

shn pursuit.

Whichever course he has taken, alarm over Russian threats lo the whole southern flank of his over. spells olit further convincing proof

machine to meet all the defensive z still expanding Russian offensive a

War Situation Last N ghi

18y Kirke L. simpeon, Associated Pres: War Analyst)

Hitler has fbumbed his armies in the Caucasus back out of that Der. lion: 300-mlle-deep salient to avert an even greater disaster than men- Mes his shivering forces caught in the Stalingrad pocket.

on the basis of Moscow advices. It

was true even before Red Star, official organ of the Soviet Army, pro-

in the Caucasus and Russian war g spearhead of the Nazi threat 1o

the Grozny and Baku oil fields with recapture of key junctions in the

is no other way to explain swift nd Nazi accounts of successful "do. in Russia do more to confirm than

is most extended southern front In for the long and jeopardiled east-

great salient; or he ha: ordered a, retro“ noflhygrd "0111 "l I-Dfl above Grozny, leaving only [Qgrxlllrfl] go jmpeh Rub

it sufficiently indicates hi; growing Roslov ommunleailon key to the extended front in Russia. Ii. also of his waning resource; in man.

power, planes and-perhaps most llllporlant or elk-fuel for his war

u-"Kenciee forced upon him by Qhg

Daring U.S.

Base At Munda.

By WILLIAM T. PEACOCK (Associated Press Staff Writer) WASHINGTON, Jan_ 6 _ (AP) .-

In adoring foray into the Japaliese- l dominated middle Solomons, a Unit- i ed States force of surface warship: shelled and battered the enemy air base and installations at Munda. New Georgia Island.

The operation, carried. out dur- ing the early morning darkness yes- terday, was reported in a. navy de- partment communique today which told also oi an air attack, with un- certain results, on a heavy Japanese cruiser, and the bombing of an en- emy triulSDOrt some 300 miles north of Guadalcanal Island. i

I.il addition, the Cilifliflllllllllle re-i iziied that 48 Japanese were ifiiiLd in mopping 11D operations in the‘

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oeoillro this building open." lo b" . ‘Iifl cfficinllv llle career of the 175- i bed hospital that aci-uallv has been looking after patients for the last three weeks ‘

brandiee and whiskeired. ooiled wire making etreete impassable.

An Ice City

Comwaii is m ice cit/y. ‘Iloday the sun reflects spectacularly on its i6! cable llaiel. trees and power poles- thoae that were left standing. Hed- 50,5 look like gfllt masses of glint- lng steel wool. On the city's out- skirts tramcars are frolen in their tracks, although service has now been restored in the central port of the town.

Electric power and 121691009 services are partially restored and repair gangs are workinG ‘(m8 hours restringling miles of devasta- ted telegraph lines in on effort i0 restore this service.

‘Ihey have so far repaired eclmlilh lines to assure the cnrryind 0! train orders, thereby bringing tirain schedule; almost beck m normal.

In the mil-lying districts end a- cross the st. Lawrence in irp-state New York. the situation le grave and power officisLLglid they held

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Mount Austen 510101‘ or Guadai-i canal. Mount Austen, e Hist-foot! peak southeast of the Americas», held airfield was wrested from the‘ Japanese Jan. 4. i

Ill all ill: operations, seven Jap-y anese pianos (ll-ililitly were shot, down zilld foilr others svere proba-l bly deslruyccl, Two United States piimcs were lost.

In Aleutian craters, meanwhile. Miwllcil im-fliuill bombers sank an enemy cargo ship 110 illiles north- east of Klskil This ilCilOll tcok place _\‘i‘.<li‘l‘dii_v, tile ilnvv depart» melll. uillloullccd. Today a Liberal- or bmlllhl‘ scored one direct and llvo near-hits oil an enemy ship 185 miles southwest of Kiska.

Driving In U.S.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 - (AP)

- The office of pricc administra- tioll today (llillillvcrl all pleasure driving by holders of "A" "B" and gasoline ration cards in the Eilslern United Stales and bre- scribed cancellation of aillflsoliile rations u the penalty for f lure to comply.

Tile aid of all state. county 811d municipal law enforcement agen- cies in the l7 eastern States ilild district of Columbia is being asked i0 help the Federal Government ill preventing pleaslue driving, by reporting violations to local ration board or local O.P.A, offices.

OTTAWA, Jan, s ~ (CPl _ A qualified informant said today he considered it “most unlikely" iluli llici-e would be any change ill the Canadian -gnsolirle rationing re- gulations in the near future.

This spokesman was commenting on today's announcement of the United States office of Price rid- miriistratlon olltlivlving all pleasure driving by holders of "B" and. “C" gasolne ration cards in the eastern United States.

“Under our present rationing." the spokesman here said. “there in virtually no pleasure driving any- way."

10,000 Prisoners Of War Iiillapan

LONDON’, Jan. 6 — (C?) — A British War office statement said tonight that 10,000 prisoners of war — half of them Americans — are interned in Japan.

It. s cl a Red Cross representa- tive in Tokyo had visited three Dri- soil camps and reported conditions "comparatively satisfactory" al- though some prisoners are suffer- ing from tropical diseases,

UITAWA, Jun. 5-(CP)-'I‘he new Canadian li-sided nickel, second new nickel issued by e Royal Canadian Mint in six months, is, like its immediate predecessor. made of a mixture of copper and zinc to conserve nickel for urgent war purposes. The standard ediim five-cent piece in made of nickel.

The present issue. expected to bear the unofficial name "victory nickel," incorporates the “V for victory" symbol in its design. It supplanted the "Beaver Nickel," the original Canadian l2-sided

nd Allied attacks in Africa,

Foray

Into Jap-h elcl Area

American Surface Ships Shell Enemy Air

Nazi Commander In Tunisia Replaced ?

LONDON, Jan. ‘l-(Thurs- dayl-(CIU-A roundabout re- port reached London early to- day stating that the German Army Commander in Tunisia. Gen, Walther Nehring, has been replaced.

A Reuters News Agency dis- patch from Stockholm quoted the Berlin correspondent ofthe Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet as saying that Gen. Vnn Arnim had been 200010905 German Commander - in-Chlef in Tunisia in plat-e of Nehring.

The report was without im- mediate confirmation ill”- where.

Gen. Von Anilm is relatively little known nuisido Germany. although he has figured from time in time in German rt‘. porri- oi’ ihc African camp-nigh.

There have been iin recent rcnoris abroad of Nrhriflk"? ll!‘- mz h, dicffivftl‘. On thr- (‘Oll- irurv, his forces have fiTP-“fmi” ed fnrmidnhlc oiulcshioil i" "'9 advancing Allis-s in Tunisia.

Conservative Women Named

sum- JOHN. N-B- Jw- 5- lcPl-Provinciai representatives on the women's commit-fel- within til? Dominion Progressive Conservative Association were announced hole tonight by Mrs. Hufill MMKM- Rothesay, chairman of the coni- mitree, Women's organizations. Mrs, MacKnv said. have been ac- {IVQ in four nrcvinces and the: presidents will represent these on lhe Ylfiiinvml conlrniitef‘, They 0T"-

‘Princc Edlvzlrri Island. MIS- J» ll McDonald: Wanllobtl, Mrs. A. B. Roblin: Saskatchewan. Mrs. J A. (gm-rm 3M New Brunswick, Mrs. MacKav.

Inquest Opens At Almonte Today

ALMONTE, Ont, Jan. 6——(CPl— Between 20 and 30 witnesses will be celled upon to tell the story 0f the Dec. 2'1 Aimonte train wreck which took 3d lives when Dr. Qmlrl! Ilawson, Coroner for Ontario, opens an inquest into the disaster tomor- row afternoon.

Witnesses will recount their WI‘- sion of the Sunday evening crash when an eastbound troop train smashed through three Dncked coaches of a Pembroke-Ottawa local in Almonte stallion.

The cause of the wreck hns not yet bccr. announced. but ihr- five- mnn Almorlte jury la OXDPPI-Pd i" make a finding in the light of evidence presented to it by the witnesses.

VANCOUVER. Jnn. 6 — fCPl - The Vancouver Dnllv Province said in n newspage siorv tndnv that Lt -Geri. Keilnrfh Sfuarf. Chief of the Cnilnd‘nn General Staff, has made a flvimz irin to lhe Aleutian Islands in obtain first hand in- fnmlniioil rm lilo slrcilzlll of Jrlp forces at Kiskn and Ailu Tsmnds. and the possibility of an enemy

coin made of copper and zinc which was issued lest year.

nush into Alaska find Brillsh Coi- umbia.

N.B. Reports Record Gurrent Account Surplus

FREDERICTDN, Jan. 6——(CP)— A surplus on current account of $l.1p9,2o_0.93 rgest in New Bruiiswickls ilLSLOry-Jg revealed in lhe province's financial statement covering the fiscal year ending Oct__ 3i, 1942, which was released wiliglli. Tile provincial govern- ment had budgetted for a guy- plus of $111,508.

In the previous year the lurplus- largest up to that time-wee $901,233.

‘The sultolilellt Shows several all. time liiigll figures in ille develop-l H1611! of the province's financial

icture during the 12 months end_ n! Oct, 3i.

New Bruilswickb net debt, for instance, was reduced by $977,678 Tile 1111508: reduction riiude pre- vlou.~,lv' has $747,725, lll 1941,

’I‘lle ill-ii record foials of rev- GIILK-f 311d EXDPXKIHUYES WCTG Sill’- passed and. at the same time, were considerably higher than the estimates passed at the last ses- sion of the Legislature.

Rffvillts for lilo year attained a iota] of S11800,479»--pi'zlctii-ililv al million dollars more than the a- moum anticipated, which was $10,803,781. The 194i figure was $l%948,040.

xpenditilres aggre ted 10,- 64i,220—ahout Sflifioogaibi! than the estimate. $l0.692,273_a_g com_i flflrvd lvltli the 1941 total of ear. DOIIIfAiIiIITPTS. ‘$110,046,806.

e ne cle t of the province now in: $dl133l¥gfii7ilswhereas at the end o c ill year it food $84,Z85.2i5. s ‘a

Mos! of the departments did not exceed their estimated expendi- tures, willie, on lhe revenue side, most of ‘L110 (iopurtmeilfs did ex- ceed U101" anticipated receipts

Once again this yeah a; in 1941, the New Brunswick Li uor C0nf7fnl Board registered the bzilest single gain in revenue over estimate. To- ial of revenue in this department was 32.950956, which ans $350955 over lilo estimate and was $730,649 over the 194i figure.

Britain Puts‘ Back Into War Effort