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WEDNESDAY. MARCH 1. 194s

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Ecol Cross In Ch ’town Breaks Former Records

lleceiplts Cf First Day's Collection Reported Last

Evening Total

flew Suspect ‘ls Ileld j Ski-Trail Murder

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millvselstlgation o! Q19 lid-trail th we: of

nine-year-oid Jchn

‘west was picked up in n lillthceastcndhomeoiaa howgrapher. Police said 4am You been seen on Moluit ,l_ close to when you Boo- ., w“ stabbed with s s Pole. . several occasions takiill Phi-ll!“ .

children. ' ld th_ had learned the ‘eglaiuin trig habit of teams - o1 children and then tell-

. B" Qu . inted hour on Mount Royal to

the prints; and that some cases th

parents in at he . en had been indecent-ll!

t ut-

wos found on s l‘

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.ths side. His hands were bound ... his back with ski strap! he had been indeoentlv at- ed. Police said that a picture l..".2.’.i‘.‘.“’€§i“‘...l".‘..l“i“.?..“€ p‘ __________

.0. M. P. Will ilot lit Drummondvills

AWA M - a" 1...’... 3mg. $1

will Canadian Mounted Police ‘ us, that the force hsd one loath la which in find new sullen lll Drummonslville. Qua. sod ha believed that st least tem- _ rary accommodation could bo alum In that time.

Ha slid the R.O.M.P. detach- ment would not be withdrawn from Druoanondvilie, scene oi a melee Teiitl when the police and Army Provost Corps began luunolml up lliovudwwters and call-up delin- qzell .

The commissioner was comment- la; on a Drununondville news cis- pltch which said that (lesion Rin-

of the Union St-

. tinned last n

en m. Ri et; owner I of the . ,ssid he quarters had been Ifliar military purposes.

Coming Events

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8-7-21. I h my“ every Thursday lllilnv. Pee

dl Fraser Ltd. Mer m. i-as- wnl . __'_' ‘ mgylkllani s flltlaoohlers will hold

1lnan‘s. Satur- lli. March 10th at 8 P. M. 3-7-21.

"Assam Shingles w arrive. n nlrl repairs this B ring. let l! surely you. n. 1.. Dlgkieson.“

"WW hogs at Vernon for Davis s.

“ch ‘Elgar. germ. afternoon. orders for

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l Aubrey cu 5-1.1. lo. i4, e11, sl, m, m, s1

"Webe- snd De Afton Iul. Wednesd y. shuii-ii lh id " ' ‘fits-ironed...

Rise Point w l‘ Ml fine. min-my. S-‘l-li.

‘NW in sioo bulk a . ts

"llmber four wheat oiomsrglve a I ilflwwhgkaiblggléglelageéllulgsg “Ylr- ' s-a-sl.

—- loadin h st Al- "Tldly. ion 08th. from ll oclock Friday. Emer- G. C. Green sud A. 8-0-0!

llflkofl will also d

- Lunch served to all. . I20

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Percentage Loss Of R. A. F. Bombers Cut

Almost $33,000

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The amusing total of 33.00131 was i ss the first day's col- lection for the Red Cross campaign in Charlotterown ly enthus tic meeting of the workers at the YMCA. lust even-

' vvss mad f s o0. l {rhoam tile seven dlvillpon: lull: this

e Spe Co

10.00 received so far b

rom ladies’ organizatior

over what the same unis gave last d ly received

committee.

this gent sum

from Charlottetown, Mr. . T. Ho! man reaorted for the Commando Commit e that .00 had come 1n to his commi tee, $282.00 more n had been received b the some committee last year. his is all from individuals throughou

(UP $100

or MacNutt, and a Dvision were pgesent- ed when the results were tailed,

o. 4 Division having exceeded the ob active set for it to a greater ex nt than the others with a total of 200 per cent.

. D. McLeaNs team, No. 1 of No. 1 Division, won the prizes for the high team on the day's results. having turned in ass per cent o! the objective set. The other mem- bers o the team are: W. M. Rowi. A. H. Mould, Major Alex Knox, D. M. McGuire and Louis Stewart.

The rlnal supper meeting of the Charlottetown will oe held Thursda evenln8 it 0 oclock and the vi onsl commanders are sll confident that the ‘city collec-

o y" "..i‘.?.“‘".‘°‘$.‘.i“. the are co en a e filiayldtotillwtll oéceed the great recor se as ye .

The amount reported last night is several thousand dollars ahead oi that reported the first night last ear and is a new record for Char ottetovm in charitable cam- paigns for the Red Cross or for any similar orflarlization.

Major Norman Lowther resided last evening in m5 "i"! h! DY and breez manner. There was fits

good- ulnored banter among the divisional ' commanders and competition to better the other fel- low‘s record is keen and lively.

One notable subscription men- ight was 0100.00 re’- froln the Parkdale Wqmens

ceiveziw Insti u . , Charlie Chamberlain m, gthgrfng with a. number of gran: so s, Jackie Doyle st the ianc an chairman lmvthtl‘ 01'! all or the whole cream-ration expressed thanks for the excellent mp er p well served h th lfllllfll oi Red

he Cross Cori m; the splendid uls A... lamlnligsshaflrid ‘radio wlgestgrday Mr. h lee MacDuif. the collector o! Brookfleld. m “the: s‘ ‘" ‘k

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l-urbw iigsiérict. ~Llst su r e McDuif bro ht in I ~- shllws how o“ WY "l" l°b "n ”° done in the country, when the col- lector gets to work at once. Other districts should emulate ns examvlv-

OPERA SINGER. DIES

HOLLYWOOD, March 0 -- (AP) _Mr-e. Marie Rusaek iillgifhznieé‘

wrspou, March d - (CP) -- percentage ices of RAJ". bomber; mapiwhcd against enemy to!!! h“ been reduced by approximate- 1y 40o per w“ ° 5 Archibald Sinclair. Air seer y said today. but he disclosed that bewgm April 1 and Sqit. U llbt ye“, Bomber Command alone sldfered u .-

rnore than 10.000 ollilsl-

éhe Ill‘ amalgam in

OMDIOTU- ma‘ '

{ffdaflfjfiwss of R.A.1".snd Am-

ea- M“: °"'.?"::'2:..’".l . PUD .

“M an to l.'l

gt your snd to 1.1

the first two men he

ms ssirblous

1910. Deeoribirri‘! 3;“ 2g “m; . .

G uvs ndiloed ion to such an sl- ble reserves sle

listed." debate which folio m.“ Mongggue, Labor member shll “In”, Under TC All‘. is that Vise ewiaton. for Civil Aviation

l et deal with may‘ an" szeslrlshlo to

at s tremeiidous- him

had ll‘ kind.

sold: "Al- for Ger-

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ilhurehlll Pays A Ball 0n Germany

I! WES GALLAGIEI. Assléeluted Press Wot b

orrespoudent

JUELJCH, Germany. March 3- (Delayed K OensorJ-Prilne Min- ister Chur paid s csll to Ger- man today in a long-awaited per- sona triumph.

Hitler was not on hand to receive

The 70-year-old Prune Minister walked into Germsnymthrough the shattered Siegfried e. once e symbol of the might of Hitler w o four years sgo was promising to

sit in on.

Mr. Churchill looked around the ruin: of this“ ciety-tlhe mos com e since 5t. Bo-withouet‘ vlzibie 31?: plessrurol; bend ssidunm l : “risers

o en

round here all?» the k it took considerable argument by Lt-Gen. William Simpson of the United States 0th Army who act- ti...'."..'“‘i’.°.l ‘° .“°°" w or rem v e

Rhine ‘gal! at ‘ er are oo o can ° tank sud r villi» all

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The tour included an of the dragons teeth and of the Bigffried Line near l an inspec on oi the jump-o- on the Roar River from the 9 Army's cpresent drive and a lunch in the tadel of Juelich, tie severi- century-old German stronghold which fell early in the offensive.

With the Prime Marshal

Minis-oer were

Montgomery, Sir Alan

Brooke chief of the ‘ Gen- l Staff, Gen. Simpson and two 0th Army C013)! commanders, M Gen. Ra on .5. and - van C illum,

Strip-Tease Dan er 6°“ Qi§F1l=B°P§°Y°

.._.__. IDINDON. March - Home Sec l’!

'€F."‘°.....'°“ “fitméfih ‘i’? s p- er s - omelet: to deetxh with Ktsrl Gusto; Hu n, Amer can para rodpfll. the . murder of s Inndon taxicab driver. it was announced tonight. Mr. Morrison refused l reprieve for Hulten.

The two were sentenced at 01¢ Bailey Jan. as to be harmed Marah 8. Hulten. 0Q. formal-l? 0f cam‘ bridge, Mass, was the first Amer- loan soldier to face a cailliil charge in the historic court.

Their conviction flglmd tthxei murder of Geolue "0 - B driver known es "the man with the cleft chin."

Strike 0f London Ilock Workers

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LOlNTDON, March b-A strike of London dock workers which began six days ago assumed even more serious proportions today es a port official announced that

' out up to yesterday-

Union representatives meeting last week-end had llrged the men to go back to work today, but the

‘s port official declared:

“There is no prospect oi the men coming in today."

To meet the situation the Gov- ernment laet night assigned hun- dreds of additional soldiers to the i moving , r in; to 3,000 the number so eng ed.

The main vievance of e strik- ers ncerns the system of hiring the men and the treatment of ab-

senieee. .

A. '1‘. unnox Boyd. parliamen- tsry secretary to the Mr Minis- try intervened to say thst there been no secret deals of any There had been confidential talks and the House of Commons wouldsoonbesbletodiscums white paper on the matter. he

added. An appeal for better und services to Ilvdffifilfgfl tgoiasir saengen sme rem . er glbcDonsldf Nova. Raglan-born conservative. who shorted that this was u field where ‘Britain hsd foiled sndwwlliere bar “American a

their pert in the British Cg: monweeith Air m. der which “not fsr abort 000,000

mlnkfimnlilsd been trained in so hibsld said ei-lloh girls

munbere of the Women's Auxili-

iflwfi “OH

guess st when. when and iww the

aumed. nevertheless. that his trip planned st Yolts. Iiunl

German west-bunk defence front.

fence llne along the out bank too

Oder Valley. Allied crossings of

sector to the north.

Wisp 0f Smoke First Sign 0f Trouble 0n Ship

h 0 -— (OP) "Klimt

Wll

heavy ' 1e

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The shilfs third officer, who re- fused to give his name. told the following awry o! what ppemu:

“It was a very small f st the stsrt, j a wisp oi slacks. nothing to get excited about.

" was standing under thebrldge assisting the first officer who was

y humdiugers. blew the side out. The first officer jumped out oi the hold and he was no sooner 82f] than it seemed to blow all to

"Rivet-l. rockets. cargo. streamer tape and everything were flying all over. Ono rocket skidded right under my feet.

"One sailor shouted that the en- line room was clear, so we ink the men got out there, but there were from seven to 1e men in the number three. hold, where the ex- plosion took place. and we don’

now how many of them got out."

IODDID IN IUIONTO

call second explosion

wallet containing I100 by two thugs early today as he off s street-car. l-le

head snd both eyes were blacken-

.

--—-—-_-_._. ILOOD NEAR TORONTO

TORONTO. March 0 - (OP)- Several families in suburban Long Branch were msrooned and work- ers unable to get to today when the ltobicoke River gverran its banks. flooding two

or‘ lSituation Lost

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Allied sud Russian lrmles alike are rapidly consolidating position in readiness for that “one strong heave" which Prime Minister Chur- chill eaye could end the European vvsr. y ‘known i» any but hishsst commend elrclse. however. for more than I

Itistobesssuuaodtllutfdnfllurekillhndtllelhinecroninlll lnindvvhcuheulsdotissststemsnteuhissurprisevveek-eud vlsltfo the American snd Csusdlsu fronts In Germany-

liodltiou snd was somehow related to Russian-Allied M!" 000M101"

disintegration of German left bunk organised resistance all

the vvsy from the Roselle to Arnhem token defence of the left-bunk bridgehead at Cologne was indicated.

An even more startling fl-mlle forward lunge by 0rd Army tanks

to within striking dlltsuee of Coblenu on the Middle Rhine was report-

ed it the some time. Ttmesns that the 0rd Army's fast moving armor

is vveil sstride super military highways vmt of the Rhine, virtually spilt-

ting the Slur Basin sector off from the collapsed northern end of the

The breuk-throlllll flown the Moselle clearly treat behind the Blaine throughout its whole length. That will afford the Allied High Command opportunity to lnssk its intended main prosa- iug points from the foe by felnts or sir and illl III Nmlllfllllflll 0! ulsuy points simultaneously. It will

The Coblens ores of the Rhine Valley toward which 3rd Army tanks are charging is a vulnerable sector. There ta flat ground on both , sides of the stream sufficient for east-bank bridgehead operations.

An east-west super highway lateral crosses the Blaine just north oi Cobleus. It is the western end of the military road that spells eon- trsl Germany to the Dresden region in ills east and beyond and along m which ltusslsll columns have been pushing toward Dresden from the aould prove more immediately disastrous for German hopes of singing

s. final last-ditch fight in the great central plain or the Bavarian Alps than would a breaching of the Rhine front lu the loun-Cologne-Weeel

Fear 5 Dead Following Vqncouvevr Ship Blast

i; Missing And At Least Injured; Cause Of Explosion Not Known

llfisoovi? °°°

"Y mile

suffered bruises to his face snd it

Help The + Red Cross

Nigh

T.» mus factors. are un-

lsst big push will develop.

It is also to be us- vvus more than I IlIN-IQJIII B!‘

has set in. Little more than s

indicates a German re-

certainly stretch the enemy de- thin for security.

the Blaine in the Cobleus theatre

VANOOUVIR. March 6-(0?) - Iive ‘Persons were believed killed and x missing today after a eer- iee of four explosions in the 10,000- ton freighter Greenhill Park at the

-crowded docks in downtown Vancouver blasted out thousands of windows in the adjacent area and rocked build half from the we rfront.

The casualty reports were with- out official continuation. They were based on newqvaper checks and because of the uslon no conclusive figures were available several hours after the blasts which urred just about noon (Pacific Daylight Time).

At least 10 injured men were tsk- en to hospital. Scores oi others sufietrlcd minor injuries from fly-

ing ass.

An official of ths Csusdo Ship- ping Company. limited. opera of the vessel. said: killed that we know of. Only four persons are missing and the not have been on the ship.’ did not know when the com- pany would issue s mtelnent.

About 100 lnen were on the Orsenlllll Pork or the dock when the blasts occurred send- ing flames several hundred feet into the air sud scattering debris for blocks.

Company official ssld the was be loaded with tinplste box shoo and general cargo. Frank Hibbs. a crewman ch the freighter Bcwnesa Park which was doc nesrbyi said in an inter- view the Greenhfll Park was "car- gm surgpowosr. rockets and

Smoke poured from the holds of‘

vessel

Inlet. Vancouver's harbor is three miles

the blasts. Later she was taken thIDlIh the first narrows into English Bay near the ocean wherc was believed she might be sunk in deep water. Reports circulated along the waterfront that further ewlosions

A lllnber barge beside the Greenhill Park caught fire. the inlet where merino firefighting

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the vessel as she was towed into feet- un-srd

IORONTO. March 6—-(@) — a Wllior fill/Bel. B0. was beaten Ind m. robbed of his

Bhe was towed into ill

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Bracken To Speak Tonight

OTTAWA. March 0 — (C?) -— John Bracken. r _ vu Con- servative national leader. will de- liver an address over the national network of the Canadian Broad- casting Conporation tomorrow night, it was announced today.

The half-hour address. entitled "Sacrifice. Security and Respon- sibility." will be heard over the eastern network at 9.30 p.m. A.D.

The address will be delivered on free time provided by the CBC io allow political leaders to express their v ews.

Fleeing Nazi Troops Bombcll By Lancasters

LONDON. March 6 - (GP)- I.A.F. l-snossters tonight blast- ed the Rhine liver town of

clogged with fleeing

troops. a follow-up of Mosquito raids on the same town during the day.

Tile attack on Wesel was in aid of the let Canadian y, rap-

bank

Mosquito pilots, who reported during he afternoon that Wesel was choked with masses of Ger- man soldiers and hundreds of veh- were out tonight. dro - ping two-ton block on Berlin for the 15th consecutive

nlgltx. ing the da . RAJ‘. hea- vies kept the of ensive against Germany rolling into its fourth stra ht week with a daylight at Gannon oil targets.

A force of approximately 200 Lancasters hit the Selzberaen re- finery and the Air Ministry an- nounced tilat a successful concen- tration oi bombs on the target had sent columns of black smoke rising above the clouds. Mosquito bom ers also smashed a‘ F-‘errnah 2""- and transport at Wesel on the can‘ bank ol the iJflllle this l;l......._...

The United States 8th oir force rested aier sending an average of more than 1.000 heavies daily a- gainst the Reich's rail and oil tar- gets for 10 successive days.

Serious Floods In ll. S. Midwest

CINCINNATI. 0-. March 6 —

(AW-The midwestb most disas- “m;

trous wartime flc. l swelled slowly ‘ ‘ t toward levels reached only twice before in history. closing war plants by the score and sending thousands of lowland dwellers scurrying w higher ground.

From the Ohio River's head- waters at Pittsburgh, down the Ohio valley to points on the Mis- sissippi. rain-fed flood waters cau- sed city. state and federal agencies to mobilize all th-Jr resources.

Cincinnati. hardest hit major city. reported the Ohio River at 65

18 feet above flood stage and river men predicted the rolling. muddy stream would rise another five feet.

The huge wright Corporation lust outside natl closed at noon when waters from Millcreek, an Ohio tributary, isolate): all bzlgtowo roads in the urea. ear , 1 9d e the planhywhich lilllleTuiafsys ell- glnes. ‘rranmortotion was paralyzed on both sides of the Ohio River in West Virginia. Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. and other public ut-

Aeronautical Cine

in-

htles staggered under the flood-

conditions. The record level for the Ohio ‘TO-N in 1907. $100,000,000 in property was lost in the flood. Lunken Airfield, Cincinnatfs municipal airport. was inundated. The Miselnipai was lislng to- ward flood leve as far south as M his. Tenn. rlcultnral coun- ties n western ennessee faced inundation of several thousand acres of land snd provisions for evacuating families from lovrland communities were made.

---____i.. BRITISH ADMIRAL DIES

"ma. fi7i'&‘l€“"'%r n o rey - Y ce-admiral of the

0 e and admiral of the northern patrol during the Ores o

Flflll t War. and a rmer -chiei of western ap-

commander-In - ‘roaches, died here

last night aged

that covered 32 miles in two

the Moselle.

southern outskirts.

(A broadcast from London re-i corded by the National Broadcast-i‘ ing Company quoted BBC cones--

ndent Hark Gillard as report-f

the Hohenzollern Bridge t-

0981i .

Thus, Germany's fourth largest city and the greatest enemy in- duatrial centre that has so capitulated was in Allied hands on the 12th day oi the powerful of: fensive from the Roar River.

Ton ht its beaten Nazi garrison was be ng driven southward toward

oils a narrowing cor- ridor along the Rhine's west bank.

North of the stricken city Amer- ican forces cleared the Rhine all the way yp Neuss. opposite Dues- seldori, except for a small pocket near zone, virtually ending the fighting in that sector.

The only other enemy bridge- headon the west bank of he Rhine between Cologne and the Netherlands frontier vials at Wesel, and it had shrunk down to an area less than eight miles wide by six

eep. A d‘ ‘ “ from 21st Army Group headquarters said it had lost all but is nuisance value.

British and Cllllillln big sans were shelling some 10.000 er-

nnn troo in the constricted ct an trying to knock out heir escape bri es across the Blaine. British Mpg pushed 1 1-2 miles up the lssum - Wesel Road today and snliroohad the rail town of Alpen. only six lnllu from Wcsel. Canadians gained two miles southeast of Sonsbeck and cleared tlhe weetem fringe of lonninghst-dt Forest.