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McNaughton is Candidate In Grey iio. Riding

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OWEN SOUND, OIIL. Dee. 1|)_(cl>)-Defence Minister Mcflnughto Iii] b6 I Liberal Pery candidate in l llY-filw- tlon in Grey North riding early h, the new year, it was an- nounced today by John Dolfin ,1 Derby Township. president of the Grey North Liberal As- gorlaiion.

John Thomson. chosen 1t!"- |ou§|y hy thQ Liberals a, their nominee, said he would IIIPWN Gcn. McNaughton. and it is expected formal cndoreation of ti“ Defence Minister will be m“, ‘g a convention here next Qaturday.

Mr. Dolfin said Gen. Mc- Nnughton, who entered the De- feneo Minlsti-v following the IQ- cent resignation of Col. J. L. iiaision over the reinforcement iggue, hail accepted an invitat- ion to contest the seat. made vacant bv the resignation of Wil- liam P. Telford. Mr. Triton! has brrn absent from his seat In the Iiousroi’ Commons for more than g year due to ill-health.

(later the president of the As- iocietlon announced that Gen. Mc- Naughton had accepted the invi- tation to stand as Liberal candi- date. In e telegram he said that ‘for the next few days I must give ill my attention to completing ar- rangements for the dispatch of re- lnforcements needed by our troops overseas" and to the return home on leave of troops with long rer- Vice abroad, but added he Bxllevwdi be able to meet the executive of the Association at Owen Sound next Saturday.

Coming Events

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“Xmas Concert and Dance. Or- well flail, December 21st. 12-11-11. "Hunter River Concert. Thurs- lav, December 21st. 12-11-18.

"Rice Point Schol Concert. 11c. list. 12-11-24. "Christmas Concert. Ncw Artlyle School, Decemb-sr 21st. 12 11-11.

"Next shipment dressed hogs win be December 15th. Book Mo] I o

Gulgan A: Boyle 12-5-1 I live and dressed poul-

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"Buying try. Paying wp market prices. Ii- lauo Cold Storage Ltd. 11-i7-tf.

"Annual Mating of the Federal Irving Co.. will be held in the Hall at Eldon. 13th at 7.39. J Secretary,

"Dance, Emerald Hall, Monday. Dec. ll. Proceeds for Sll Arsen- oult. returned. from overseas wounded 12-0-

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“Christmas Concert. St. Cath- erlnes Hall. Thursday. December. list. 12-11-11

Concert.

"Christmas Frederic- nnau. Tuesday night. December - ia-ii-ia-ai.

‘North Milton School Conovrt. Wednesday, flecember 20th. 12-11-1641.

“Victoria Tuesday. National Film Board Movies, 8 p. m. and | P- m. 12-11-21.

“Reserve Wednesday. December flth for institute Dance. ltfillview 5'"- 12-11-11.

and Dance Tuesday. Dec. 12-11-18

will Board Movifintiiinila’. gfumn 11-11-11

Concert

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°"Chri|tmu Concert, H a s o l grove school, Friday, December "li- 12-11-21

‘Jilchflltluu Concert, Emerald p . Thursday night, Dec. 2i. 1i -"- 12-11-11

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"Fllilihport Institute Gift a "I" Bale at Maritime Electiic I It I o'clock.

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Army Drive

ALLIED SUPREME HEAD- QUARTERS, Dec. 11 — (AP) — The United Stiles 1st Army. launching new attacks throusll

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front. reached the Roer River villages of Pier, Gcigh, Gey and Stliammberg today in gains

of more than 1.000 yank in the

first few hours.

(A Berlin military commen- tator called this a “large-scale attack" And declared’ that ainoliie screens ehrouding the United States 9th Army front to the north along the Roer‘: west bank indicated a. drive there was imminent.)

Headquarters said that Americ- an 3rd Army troops “are StNHSl-h- ening their bridgeheads across the Saar River" in the bitterly contested Dllirigen and Saariaiit- em areas.

Supply Contra Captured

WITH THE U. S. 7TH ARMY‘ IN’ FRANCE. Dec. l0 - (A PI — American troops drove today into the southwestern section of Hag- uenau, the most important Ger- man supply and communications centre in northern Alsace .

The extreme north sector. held by thi- ist Canadian Army and the British 2nd Army, was reported "IICIIHHEM today. ‘This sector is mostlv along the line of the Mans River but it extends 1‘l"T“O"'iv into German t-rriiory east of the Ni]. megen Salient.

Nixon Resigns As Ont. Liberal Leader

rvanoivro. Dec. io _ tori __ Harry C Nixon. provincial leader of the Ontario Lilxral party, 3,9,1. dered his resignation Saturday to Archie Hollies. president cf the Lib- eral Association A caucus of the 16 Liberal members of the legisla- ture on Wednesday had accept-ad Mr. Nixon's resignation as house lender and offered the house lead-er- ship to former Premier Mitchell Hepburn. who accepbzd it At the time the 11611512 leadership’ passed to Mr. Hepbuni. M1". Nixon declared that the provincial lead- ership itself W115 a matter for a pxggvincliil convention to settle rrslgiiatlon of this post followed

Australia llas Immigration Plan

CANBERRA, Dec,

10-—(CPI-- gommcntlnlr on the Ausu-ailan overnmcnts announcement of.

gggns for the immigration of i to Mel

1.-‘ British and European children Austialla each year. Stanley bollrne Bruce. Australian Huh

- Commissioner in London. said the

Plans were only part of n larger project to increase his country's population.

Details of the larger project now

‘were being worked out by the Brit-I

lsh and Australian Governments.

Plan Maritime

HALIFAX. Dec. 10-—(CP)—Plans for the formation of a Maritime Shipyards Federation comprising i111 Shipyard and marine re air unions in the area are taking eti- llllle Smile. John W. McKinley. vice-president oi the Sydney Mar- ine and Structural Workers‘ Un- ion. said tonight.

A general conference oi all un- ions concerned will be held in next few weeks. Mr, McKinley seid. as a preliminary to the call- ing of a general convention at which the federation will be es- tablished.

A. A. MecAusland oi Vancouver, 1st vice-president of the Congress oi Labor. who ls in charge of cs- tabllehing shipyard federations in the Maritimes and central Canada. has been in Halifax for the inst few days and has consulted with Pat Shea. 0.0.]... organizer hero in charge nf perfecting the Maritime organization and other marine iin- ion officials.

Spanish Press Has Praise For Churchill

MADRID. Dec. l0—- (AN-Tho entire Spanish press. from the 16' gime'e international commentfltol’! to the smallest provincial dailies. devowl columns of praise todlli’ to Prime Minister Churchill's Fri- day speech. All writers viewed it

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fIWar Situation Last Night

B! KIRKE L. SIMPSON (Associated Press War Analyst)

American forces driving into Germany's No. 2 industrial area, the Saar Basin. posed l. new and pondercus threat to German hopes of halting the Allied winter offensive anywhere west of the Rhino.

Their success in forcing multiple crossings of the Saar barrier and spearlng decals’ into vulnerable frontier gaps between the Saar and the Rhine off-set a relative lull in the hitter fighting farther north whore Allied troops hail fought their way to tho Meuse and the Boer.

It was quite clear. however, that German commanders were caught on the horns of a dilemma as to where to deploy their dwindling re- serves up to now strongly concen ated in the north. It is there, along the Aachen-Arnhem sector. where they appear to expect the culminating Allied assault of the winter campaign. To fend it off the gigantic Ruhr- Rhine heart of German war industry. they have risked and perhaps lost the lesser Saar Basin and its important mechanical and natural ro- sources.

It remains to be seen whether the situation along the Saar and eastward to the Rhino may not force a recastin, of German defence plans. An Allied break-through in depth toward the Rhine south of the Moselie could gravely affect security of the whole west Rhine sec- tor norihward of the Arnhem corridor. It could lend to disruption of north-south communications in the central Rhine valley. These facil- ities are of vital importance to any prolonged German defence of the Cologne Plain approaches to the Ruhr or to the flatlands east of the Neder Rhine that lead direct to Berlin

Battles of greater casualty cost to both sldcs than any yei fought in the west are in prospect in both main action theatres. Official Allied reports clearly indicate, however. that the cost to the enemy to date iilnce the winter offensive began has far exceeded that of the attackers.

The prisoner count in Allied collection centres hears that out. Aside from his dead and wounded. week by week and ilay by day, ihe foe has been paying a high price in prisoners taken for his bitter-end defence.

Two factors change the Allied and German normal casualty ratio. One is the Allied preponderance in artillery. General Eisenhower is again doing what he did in Normandy to force his way through German fixed or field defences step by step. He is using guns and shells on an unprecedented scale to blast his way ahead. and in so doing mlnirnla- ing his own personnel losses.

Britain Has Two Fleets In Far §as

LONDON, Dec. l0 — (C?) Britain now 1111s Livo navni fleets.

Plane Crashes Edfilifliti liihfiinié‘ Al; it? - other in the Indian Ocean. I 3 Men Killed

These first maior steps w illi- plenicnt Prime Minister Cliurchihs, prm-nse “m; Britain would sciidi m‘, great“; pcsglblc forces to tho‘ orient to help defeat JnPFm ‘Vere dis‘ ‘ crowd tonight WllEn the Admiral-r

ced ‘he apmmtmcn‘ MONTREAL. Dcc. i0 — (CF) — announ . ,

My Tlirce members oi tin R. A. F. of Admllfil 511' 37"“ 5' Pym“ i Transport Command .113... killed to- ns f0ll1mi1n<1°l"1"‘4hA°f of ‘hyday when illfv dropprri their Mit- Pnciilo llefli- _ ' ,chcll 13-25 ivliiize into iii-e St Law- T11? Bliilill P39“? flee‘ “n, rcncn River icither than crash on endrcv 110w ccmmniirl anal ille §5I top of nearby Lnehine Houses. ycm- nlrl Sir Bruce win 1°,“ n Imp‘ Next of kin have been notified brittle in conjunction with them", mo“. names Wm be released

United Siatc= Pacific flePfF- V _'FilOI‘tiY. use <1 cnvih" “mi “l” A r. drrnsiicrt Command of- dlsc KI \I'l’ll m9 ‘Imulfinsnus flcias said that IIlg plain; was op-l

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German Prisoners Close To Escape

LEIGH. Lancaster, England, Dec. 10 -- (CP) — Four German prisoners of war who escaped from a camp near here Saturday night sneaked into n United States Air Force base. climbed into a med. lum bomber and had started its engines for an escape flight 1o Germany before they were over- powered and captured by a sentry.

The llrlsoners were nearing British trousers and German u1il- form jackets. Three of them claimed to be fliers.

ifentville’: Grand Cid Man Passes

KENTVILLE. N,S., Dec. lit-(CPM William Yould. Kentvillefls “grand! old ma " and four-times moron! died today at the age of 98. ' was one of the pioneers of rill-I roading in Nova Scotln. starting in the sixties of the last century HIICIA retiring almost 50 years latvr as’ master mechanic of the Dominion Atlantic Railway.

Reds 7 Miles North 0f Budapest

LONDON. Dec. 10-(CP>-Rus- slan troops have driven to witnln seven miles of Budapest on the north. the Soviet communique illi- ncunced tonight.

The Russians already were l\'1il1-. in five miles of the capital on the south and within three miles on the east.

The Soviet communique said that Marshal Rodion Y. Mnllnov- sky’s 2nd Ukraine Army had cap- $rgd 5.600 prisoners from D20. 5

Moscow front dispatches ex-

pressed bellef Soviet storm troops were battling inside the gates of Budapest. striking the blows that will knock liungnry out of the war and pat-n the way for an invasion of Ger- many through Austria. Hungarys puppet government had already fled to the Austrian frontier town of Sopron, 112 miles eat of Budapest, leaving tlic city to be defended by the Gcrruans and those Hungarians with enough heart left to put up a fight.

School Auditorium At Truro Burned

TRURO. N. S., Dcc. 10 —- ICPI - A three-alarm lire almost rom- plctely wiped out the new Central School auditorium here Saturday with a loss of more than 5:10.000

chief of 'I‘.0 Revel Navy's HWY" fleel, and Vice-Admiral Pmvcr his sccond-ln-ccrnmand. The Elsi Ill-

| According to officials. the plane, Iskafsrln trtliaiiblelshprtly rtltc: taking? _ v rem oz-vn arporl. Loin 1-; rile; station command 1111117?“ titiide over Lricliine, the nilritg 150-‘ the Japanesn {iverrariad i,‘ mmdi Dnrcutlv tried to turn back to the Gian Pgfenhelgillt‘ inn1942 0' ‘REAQM arminnwli» imshmz M’ Ilsa .' s a e s11 ur an loam. U - Rear Ailmlliii C 5k Pflyilelr m}? able to gain altitude. the llliirie tiigri’ won the D (Zfly i111“ its aw“ frll into ire river. submarine W“ e - e " ‘ hits been made vice-admiral and

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plaged in (lirrge of administration , N101": ililll 12 Hours

I Tilg Admiralty declined to ties-i oribc ties precise limits of MU miml Fraser's new ccntmand, bu. m Informed qim-fcrs believed liis

NDON. Dec i0 — (OP-Reil- i-i-Biir Ben. the giant clmk in the ‘IOWCF overlooking the parliament

fir-rt would cperain in any sefiilillriiildinirs, stopped satiii-riov nizht ct‘ iii»; Pacific ivlierc it; power was for more than l2 iiaurs of]

Nlinistryi n mccliani-I sllale It was:

oflfioijkst officials . ca c cc was rc...-c.i . “YWCA; o‘ the the second time durinc: the war Big

needed.

This could be lnm n ‘ d i‘ United Slates Pa." r eefs l‘ ‘c B. . 1 d “d H, d 1 W0.“'\\'Sfd nagirut 3093" °r l“ 5“.P"I’I‘liqe1spi}:iyioi§is Igccasltoiilcwasmgilirtiifsr mo» of operations in the Philvqan air r in i941 when some dam- p_i_nes. __ V, __ _ aircyusydonejo the belfrv

Boy‘ Program

To Be Expanded“ 5

UITAWA. Dec. 10 — (OP) - Ear-I Those present at the conference panslon o1 Qanada-s 30y scouti included R. C. Stevenson. of Mont-I program w ggver B, wicler fled of real, cliirnnan of lire Dominion| activities for older boys we‘ an- Executive Board; Gerald H. Brown ngunced Saturday at a joint meet- IIOIIOTHIy Dominion secretary: W.‘ lng of the Dominion executive board R. Creighton. honorary Dominion and Provincial representatives of lféfifillrel‘: John A. stiles. 0N9!

L Ms 1mm “m5, the nn- executive c. missloner; Charles 331mm. ma Dowden, Halifax; Eli The new program calls for sreat- SM" Whil- er development of long distance

Cause of the lire was not known The building was unoccupied zii

the time of the outbreak.

Town Cf Cnnoe Falls To Yanks

the dire." :11 the Netherlands East; Iii." < 1v re recorded. cu ' ' ‘ (IilV on ti.“ Fzirclliam Ilu

MMART‘ H UR/S HEADQUAR- TERS. PHILIPPINES. _Dec. 1_1 tMondayJ-IAPJ — United Stat

inialltryiiien have taken the Levi‘: Island ivest coast suuplv Doll il- Omio; 1i headquarters 0011111111111- que said today. _

l-‘ail of the Japanese - licld 1101'. Sunday climnxed a swift. or1vc_l1\ the United States ‘ilth (liVliltlll. which with the 7_tl1 Division. has bccii I working a. deaolv sous-cw vim Lt‘ an isolated force of Japanese sciitii of rm

oc. An enemy force "many thousand strong" has been trapped ov con- verging American forms south Ormoc. headquarters reported. A

ilazi Attacks in Italy Beaten 0ft I

ROME, Dec. IO-JAPI-The Ger- mans have launched savage coun- terattacks against the British ath| Army's newly won bridgehead over. the Lamone River flanking Fash-

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BOND". ad's defences but all were beaten w“

off. Allied‘ Headquarters announccdl today. g

hiking. crmocins and bivouflc camp- ing f0r boys of between l5 and 1'1 years. The program will be known as senior scouting, a d will apply to older scouts of all rid. $66 and air scouting units. A fcaturc will b, the greater attention Riven 1h" soclnl interests 0f the 011101‘ b0)’-

Under provincial guidance. selec- ted older scout groups will demoli- sn-nie tlic possibilities or the new senior scouting in their respective areas.

It l5 expected the new scouting program will round out the Rood citizenship work at present carr- ied on in wolf cub packs and boy scout troops for bovs of 8 to i5.

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DeGauIIe Cdmpletes Details Al: Kremlin

By DANIEL DELUCE

AIOSCOW. Dec. 10 — (AP) - Gen. de Gaulle crowned his mission to Moscow with a treaty of alliance and mutual assistance with Soviet Russia today and started for

home in France.

As a special train carried Gen. de Gaulle’s delegation across the frozen steppes ioivziril Bzikii on the Black Sea and his availing plane the Moscow radio announced to millions 0f Soviet citizens the signing of the new entente with an old ally.

The party left Moscow's Kursk s eign Commissar Vyacheslav M_0_I_0i_0VV_

The treaty. the text of which

will be made public later, embod- ied Russian-French determination to remove the 1110111100 of German aggression. It irlcclgrri partner- ship i1i the war against Germany "until complete victory” and Joint measures to safeguard Europe from new aggression after the ivar. It 1i1irallcls the 20-year alliance between Britain and Russia that was signer! in 194i after (iermany invaded the Soviet Union. anti fills a gap in Russirfs future de- fences in the west where she start- ed building a ring around Ger- many with her Czechoslovak al- llancc.

Tlic treaty was signed at the Kremlin at 4:40 a. n1.. climaxing an all-night meeting ivhicli began with a formal banquet where the French and Russians were join- ed by British and United States diplomatic and military missions in Moscow.

At the station this morning a Red Army baud played the French and Soviet national anthems and

an honor guard of infantry marched past.

GPil. do Gauile, in a formal goodbye. ending liis 16-day visit. declared:

“I am sure the clays we have spent licrc will leave :1 mark in a history of this ivar and I believe too they will leave a mark in the peace for the good of all men. Loni: livr- Soviet Russia!"

The French Gcncral then shook hands with Foreign Commissar Vyachcslav Molotov and Gen. dc Gaulle said "thank you for every- thin ."

The fact that the treaty was discussed. written and signed all within l6 days was something of a diplomatic-speed record. It real- ized tlie highest hopes expressed by Gcii. dc Gaulle before he left Paris.

Hc returns now with an inti- mate HCQUQIIIIZRIICGSIIII) established with Marshal Stalin in five sep-

arate talks in Moscow. The French termed Gen, dc Gaullcs v nu unqualified suc-

staturc as a statesman immeasur- ably.

The Russian and French negoti- ators k011i. Britain and the Uni- loci $1.110»; informed of all develop- niciiis during’ tilt‘ negotiations. The definite imprcssinn was sus- tained that the SilTHQtilCflillg of the Franco-Soviet rntcntc was be- ing done within IIlf‘ larger frame- work nf llic friendship nf both vaiinlrics vfzzh Britain iilld the Unllctl states.

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NEW Youth-Inca‘ 10 - (AP) - Two "fairlv scvrrre" earthquakes in , n

scirrnrvrrnpli. Rev . port-rd Tlir slirrks. ‘ed about 10,000 miles Mvriv M.

hr said, okr-

' iclncs. no flour.

iation in a snowstorm at 10:10 a. m. with For-

‘Plczine

git farewell from the windy platform.

Crashes In “Water

OffISea Cow Head Light

A11 aircraft crashed yesterday iii- to the waters of Northuuiberiand Strait three-Quarters of a mile off Sea. Cow Head. a point several miles from sunimerside. it was learned last night.

Thomas Ranahan. lighthoiisio keeper in. Sea Cow ilead said the plane crashed about 2.40 in the af- ternoon during a snow squall. He said he could not see the plane but heard 1t and heard the crash and what sounded like an explosion. Shortly after, he reported. when the weather cleared sliizhtlv a man on the shore could see flames frcm the wreckage less than a at