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irsiiiinir they will dergo in Britain

Col. J. L. Riilstnfl.

'_ i sir Empm q grow srledomlnated tn he contingent, but Australians,

Trained Airmen land in Britain

Defence Minister Says Air Superior- ity Needed T0 Win

Amnron) Stall Writer)

A nnmsu PORT. Oct. zo-

oI the largest

dralis of Canadian-trained alr-

rsess has ar-

rived in Britain to serve as air

stall for l!" rce,

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south Africans ‘:23. dglewfound "w pager, keen-eyed ,

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is that the have to un- vvlll be oom-

pleted soon so they can loll! operational squsdronl.

the Dominion‘:

flefence Mhiister_ who was at the

Air Minister C. G. Empire

Vancouver. senior

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Air Superior! Air superiority the war. Col E peacetime

another onjheagl .- - .. ..

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pains moving into lrsiern Canada. "this should mean

lulu: to inc formers of Nova Sco- ua and permit. them to make the increase in production which iiicy

have been only too liui for the h gh c0 feeds." the minister

Coming Events

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‘Stevenson, commander of R. C. L F. headquarters in Britain.

is . Raiston told one oiip of airmen overflowing what was the first class dining saloon on a luxury ‘lillle-l‘ ‘ind

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ii. S. Agriculture Minister pleased

HALIFAX. ct. 20—(CP)—-A‘5i'i- ' ‘ J_ A. McDonald of said tanig H

"more than gratified . Government's pro- posal to par the full freight on fred

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‘or mdfvc Tuesday, October 28th Bugper mfilmngezrlinuand Sausage

Coal 24th. Old Sydney. it lute. Slfiith

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Power. A Rnyii n; poi-cc commodore welcomed rite-g iilr training plan kraduntcs on behalf of the Air Mlnistfl/ allll cmup Contain E. L. Mac

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Nfld. Woman 114 years old

8'1‘. JOHN'S, Nfld, Oct. 20 — (CP Cable)—- In good health, Mrs. Ellen Carroll today celebrated her 114th birthday at. her daughter's home in North River. she is New- foundland’: oldest woman.

British Columbians‘ Go to polls today

VICTORIA, Oct. 20 -— (C?) — Some 400,030 British Coiumbizms retired tonght taking with them the secret of what party will form the province's next administration —a secret which vviiicbeitold-nt the polls tomorrow between 8 a. n1. and ll p. m. PST. (12 noon and l2 mid- night A.S.'I‘.)

In those 12 hours ii was expect- ed about ‘l0 per cent of the 417,- 839 registered voters will murk bal- lots to elect 48 members to British Columbia's 20th lcglsinture. Ono hundred and fifty-six candidates —the bulk of them L")€i'l\lS, Con- servatives and C. C. F‘.-—hnve plac- ed their names before the Public

The inst two provincial elections resulted in Liberal sweeps. In i933 Premier T. D. Pnituilo 1rd his foi- lowers into power by ivlnniug 35 seats, the same number the Con- servatives had held at dissolution 'l'he C C. P‘. became the officfai opposition with seven seats. Nu Conservative under that party fag was elected, although ii few won seats as Independents.

In 1987 the Conservatives reap- peared on the legislative scene by winning eight seats in the general election of that vear. and become the official opposition. The Liberals retained 31 seats and the C. C. F. seven, with one labor member and one Independent making up the list.

‘Report Russian Gen. dismissed

BERNE. Switzerland. Oci 20 — (AP) - The Ankara radio broad- cast tonight a Vichy press report that. Marshal Timoshenko, com- mander of the Russian armies on the central front, had been dismiss- ed.

(Thorn was no confirmation of thls from other sources. However, Premier Joseph Stalin's order of the day broadcast from MOSCOW last night sold General Gregory K. Zhukov, hitherto chief of the gen- eral staff, was commimder of the western army. responsible for dc- fence of Moscow's western oP- preacher)

Air Minister's Son goes overseas

AST COAST CANADIAN PORT, Oct, 20—(CP)—-LAC. Will'- lam Patrick Power. son of Causal!!! air minister has one overseas to help man the ra iolociitors which stand as Britain's first line of de- fence agslnst aerial attacks.

A newsman was told by other ra- dio mechanics that Power was on another shi in the convoy which islet took em out of this harbor to Britain. “It wouldn't d0 Y0}! 17W good to talk to h "m"? man sold. "Ho shuns Duhlici y.

"I cnined st Yormou h. N. 8.. with him" he added. "and it WM s limit’ liolon anybody iuiew who

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A WEST CUAST CANADIAN PORT, Oct. 20—\CPi—Two more

trim naval vessels of the mine- sweeper type were iiildcd the row- ing icuyui Crinuuliin Navy n a

launching and double christening Clclflllwlll’ lit this west. coast purf, tu- any. The vessels were named H. M. C. S. Bcllechnsse for n, river ln Que- bec and l-l. M C S. Mii-amlcnf for a river in New Brunswick.

Nazi General Shot in France

VICHY, Oct. 2W -_(AP) -- Gen. Hiiliz, German commandant of the important Nantes region of western occupied France, was killed today by two gunmen who escaped uric Frenchmen fought awaited Nsizl reprlsuls.

Hollz was the highest German Ol- ficer yct attacked in ihe wave of terrorism in the occupied zone, and German sources said the assassina- tion "might have serious conse- quences." '

German and French police be~ gun o roundup of suspects who may be executed as hostages un- der the German system of exacting many Fiench lives for every slain German soldier.

The gunmen apparently were well aware of Hoitz's routine. They in? in ivuit on the tree-lined C-ulrs Saint Pierre in front of Saint Picrre Church.

As the general passed shortly af- cer B a. m. en route to his office

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reported to have suffered both pis- tol nnd shotgun wounds, two of them in the hcnd.

Before police could ring the was the gunmen disappeared.

‘Number of enemy Aliens are released

AN EAST COAST CANADIAN PORT, Oct. 20~ (CH-On one of the ships that carried thousands 0i Canadian soldiers over the Atlantic, an undisclosed number of eneni aliens released from lnternmen comps in the Dominion were trans- ported to Britain.

Thev were understood to be in. ternccs whose records were investi- gated and considered favorable

enough to warrant their release. The rsnki arm officer on their ship refua to slow a reporter to s

ec them.

A soldier who travelled to this seaport on the same train said the internees numbered "shout 200." On the day a reporter boarded the snip. they were not to be seen on the decks.

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WON? t! I broken bottle I would be damned if I would hand in to that thug ‘m4 his gnngstcrl." ego Oi , (m. mcr 'l‘rii<le Union endless char-

here. This audience may

they opened fire. The general Wlh ‘

Bat- like Plane Mdy Get In Hitler’s Hair

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A revolutionary plane that may be a. big trump card in America's play for air supremac t; m _ lug over Hawthorne, Calif._ But-shaped machine developed by Northropp Aircraft ha: 11g gselzge o‘: tell. employs two engines buried u. the wings and driving pusher propellors through 10-foot shims.

Soviets . Report Repulse OfLarge

Tank Formations

Battle for Moscow still rages; Reports Germans _l_o_se_g_rgund in far north.

MOSCOW. Oct. zl-(Tuesdaw- LAPi——Repea.ted attacks by large formations of German tanks were reported repulsed by the Red aim- les on the central front. before Moscow today with the battle for ~- dofenaomf-thio-wipttai xogifi hay- iest in the Mozhaisk and dTGysr- (BIBVCLS sectors to the west and south-west.

In the far sauthem zone, fierce fighting is in progress around 1kg- anrog, the Soviet infomiaiticn bur- eau announced),

(The Germans claim to have cap- tured Taganrog, only 30 miles west of Rostov, 1n the drive to conquer the Doneis Basin.) '

Mczhnisk. 57 miles weot of Mos- ccw, and Maloysroslavets, 65 miles southwest, are the some areas where the heaviest fighting has been ic-

orted for the last 24 hours, imply- ng no appreciable Nazi gains,

On the for nzri-hern front, Priuvdie.

organ of the Communist Party, said German assault forces had lost ground until they found themselves occupying positions no nearer that important Arctic port of Mur- ninnsk than they were 100 davs dgO. The information bureau conic-nun- ique declared that during last Pid- dziy and Saturday Red army forces on the Kailnln front, 95 miles north of Moscow. destroyed 1'7 German tanks. more iliiin 215 trucks bring- ing up infantry and about. 130 am- munition trucks.

The communique added that on the front. tz-ivurd Bryansk. south- west of the crpltel. 100 infantry trucks were destroyed last Satur- day. the headquarters of a Nazi cnvahy regiment was smashed and more than '10 guns were destroyed or captured.

Pravda reported the Germans lost more thou 200 planes in repeated attacks on Murmansk. but said bomb destruction within the city amounted to oniv one store, two hmpitiils. a stadium and several vrocden houses.

interpreting The War News

By Kirlie L. Simpson Associated Press Staff Writer With Hitler's attack on Moscow definitely slowed even if not hiilicd, there are inti- mntions the Germans have changed their strategy and are concentrating for a new assault on the long south flank of the Russian battle line.

For the first: time in more than s week Hitler's head- quarters gave the Rostov and Donets basin rather than the Moscow front first place in its progress bulletins. A belated official claim o! the taking of Taganrog, s. port on the Ben of Azov 40 miles west of Rostov, was coupled with the assertion that "German. Itul. ian, Hungarian and Slovak di- visions iire irresistibly odvsnc. lng toward the industrial area 0f the Donrr". .

0f lighting along the Mos- eow siege perimeter. the Nazi high command said only that Russian counts “ ” had‘ been thrown buck.

The Donets-Rootov sector covers nil of the fighting front south of orei. louthem extrem. lty of the Moscow bottle area, to the coast of the sea of

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Panama approves Arming cargo ships

PANAMA, Panama, Oct g(y_ I (APi-lflnhma officially an- nounced l-mlay its approval of arming Panama-registered mer- chant lhlps The cabinet statement said “attack: of Germans on ves- sels of the Paniimlan flag hiive no Justification, and consti- tute a flagrant violation of our rights u is nation."

German raiders Over England; ‘B. A. F. active

LONDON, Oct. 2l-—(Tuesday)— (CH-Eight or nine Gezman raid- ing planes flew over a Merseyside town at. half-hour intervals lasi

Citizens puzzle Over new wage, Price policy

G0v’t Officials Work On Plans To Admin- ister Scheme.

OTTAWA, oci. 2o —(CP) ~of- ficials tolled and cirzens puzzled today over details of the most am- bitious experiment in economic (‘Oll- trol ever llilflvflilklfii lll Co‘ . llu- lvflge iiiid price stub prep. m ziiinounceil by Plume . . lstei‘ Mackenzie King Saturday night.

Members of the wartime prices and trade board and other govern- ment officials worked on plans to administer- tiic scheme. Citizens, merchants, manufacturers, consum- ers, employers, and wage-earners vrondered how their own pocket books, standards of Wing and ways

night, and early today, dropping bzmbs which caused‘ some damage and a few casualties. l

It was the first time since mid- summer that the arcs. hns been visited by more than one 0r two raiders.

Ground defences put up s heavy i barrage and the sky was lit by their l searchlights and by flares dropped by the mums.

Severn. bc-mbs also were dropped in on east coast aired.

The Royal Air Force yesterday ground-stroked German troops and blasted an emmunultlon tram from the tracks in a broad sweep across occupied France, the sir ministry announced. ,

The returning pilots said “a high peicentage of casualties" was ln-l flicted among the troops caught by surprise in a Nazi convoy. Them some pilots machine-gunned a

numiber of grounded German planes before calling it a clay.

Other R..A F. targets included

two freight trains, reported chim- aged, and o. group of barges near Qolais which re set mfnje. The Germ came back mt England tonight. dropping a num- ber of bcimbsmlzi an east coast area.

Commander of li - Boat shot

LONDON, Ont., Oct. 20—(CP)-— The commander of the German submarine "570" Y6C€lltly_(1il.pt\lf€fl in the Atlantic by a British petrol bomber was shot. dead today in an attempt to escape from ii Lake District prison comp.

The U-bost. skipper. Lieut- Bernhard Berndt, 25, was cauglll once but broke loose from his home g-usrd captors and refused to halt when ordered.

ll. S. Aircraft Carrier Hornet Is Commissioned

NO LIQ Vs, Oct. 20~(AP)- Navy Secretary Frank Knox, 31x41:- lng today at commissioning cere- monies for the aircraft carrier i-Ior- net, said every lllElIl who lost his life on the United States destroyer Keorny lost it as a volunteer in an "ultimate sacrifice" so that mm everywhere may "keep the hope of human freedom." ~ --

Rear Admiral Manley H. Sim ).. . as commandant of the fifth naval district, commissioned the carrier ns the ship's full complement of 17f‘

officers and 2,000 men stood at at-l

ntion. The Hornet, the seventh ship oil the United States navy to bonr innif name, is 770 feet long at the wiici-l level and was designed to attain a

after the commissioning. sold the vessel in recent trials run surprised her designers by exceeding liu: ‘speed limit.

Men of Forestry Corps inspected By King George

BALMORAL Scotland. Oct. B1 - (CP) — Six hundred officers and men of the Canadian Forestry Corps were inspected by the King on one lawn in front of begutiful Balinorul Castle, Scottish home of the Royal family on the winding River Dee.

l-fis Majesty. weal-in the uniform of the Cameron l-llgh binders "with Balmorai and kiit, was accompanied lg the Queen and the Prlnoessrs

lsabeth and Margaret Rose.

After taking the salute. the King and Queen moved slowly down the ranks. stopping frequently to talk to the men. Pflncesses remained at the salutin base and watched the ceremony om there.

Queen liliuheth wearin a. favor- ite blue ensemble and e usual Canadian maple leaf,

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Her Majesty then spoke to Hench and forester was put It use.

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of doing business will be affected,

Leaders of oifianized labor were critical or rcscrvcil judumcnt. Busi- ness men generally declined cum- uient until tilcy sece how the con- trol system works out.

Publication of the order-ln-ooun- cil finder which the scheme will -_ operate is expected Wednesday and - if will reveal the fcrms of the law ‘ on the mailer.

Apart fi'om the order. however, there remain scores of details to be worked out. New agencies must. be sot up. A staff which may run to 4. lo

Willkie sees Sea, air clashes" With Axis near

NEW YORK. Oct. 20—(AP)-— Wendell L Willkie predicted t0- dziv that naval and air engage- mcufs be-tireen the United States iiiiz‘. Germany nre not fiir ln the f

uiuvc,

"The Unit-cil Slates is alivudy in the war and llzis been for some time." Wiiikic said in the current Look magazine in answering a ser- ies of quest-ions on current events

"if, however, by ‘\v:ir', shooting ls Inc-ant." he added, "I think there is .1 possibililv that there will be scmc naval aid perhaps aeronaut- icni engagements between the Unit- ed states and Germany bsfore long."

In repaid to (Hferenccs 0d opiu- ion in lllf‘ lvniiliiicnn Party on {Oifiillll p.:ii"_v. Willkic said:-

"Within four years thnsc in the Republican Party who believe in the international viewpoint will crrmplelciv doeninnte the party, and the isoinflonlsls will be merely o nzcrnorv.

"If this is not true. the Republi- (‘O1 P“".\' as we know it lwlnv vdll div, and some xicw party will arise and Mk0 its place '"

Iran may be Scene of big Events shortly

Y ' . (ountry Is Most Suii-. able Point For Land , . (outset With Rus-g - i S13.

Hly HAROLD FAIR (‘rmndlnu Prrss Staff Writer l LONDON. Oct 20--iCPi—Siru-‘

tegic Iran. mast; suitable point fr." . léllld conliiri bot-ivezu British Rusdnn form-s, may be ‘he

oi invnlcuzolis events as the mails push enmwnrd to the Gnu- casus uzid the need comes for but.- tressing Russian resistance.

Rcimrts that General Sir Archi- bald Wnvell. British commander- ln-ch-icf iii Inifiiii, has organized an expeditionary force in Iran for des- patch to Russia wwre denied in London but tho (icninl failed to dampen rumozs of soothing activity in the hot, sprawling land vitally situated between Turkey and in- die. and covering an area larger than the pipvincc of Quebec,

It. was brrcillvc of the need for such an avenue to RllS-Slfl that the British and Rvssinns mcvcd into the country of 15,(‘00.000 people in September. Prrserce of Axis nai- ionnls Drovided a convenient, excuse but no realist ever doubled the main rearn. glllilsalLlllq Sending: gf_ii__ Brit-

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FAIL TO LOCATE BODY

BUUTOUCHFI. N B.. Oct. 20 — “Pl-Efforts in locale ihe body of honors Beiilveau. 21, believed n. rnvc lv-e-i "WIWTINI in the Nicholas Rlvrr lost night. were made Wlfhflllt, success today. It was thcuzht he

l from his motorboat on which

fanned to spend the night,

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