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cuaatorrsrowu. CANADA. WEDNEsDAY, APRIL 14, i943

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P.E.l. Made Area Bommaml In M.B. No. 6

Lt-Col Paton Is Com- Official Announcement Yes-

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IIALIFAX. April 13 —-(C‘P)— prince Edward Island has been loads an area command within Military District No. t, and Mai. J. ll. Paton of Charlotte- mui has been a pointed aa Commandant with he rank of lieutenant "clonal. It was an- nounced tonight at Mill llgadqulrtns 0i’ M-D. I here.

The command. with boll!- quarters at Charlottetown. will be militarily separate. I eertaln extent, reporting to Brit. D- A. White. the District Officer Commanding at I-Iali- fax, hut carrying on Nlllllfl! under its own ' commandant. LL-Col. Paton will have charge of administration and training. and also will act as representa- tive of Pelt. White in carrylrll out provisions of the National Resources Mobilization Act.

Until now. Nova Seotla and Prince Edward Island formed a unified command.

Ace Sallctcur Is Slim liirl

‘ llOCKl-IOLM, April l3—(CP)— I ‘lb look at slender, l

Ifsrforie Dalia: of London nobody wou d ever know she is an acc sab- ctcur but there is evidence to prove 1t. She worked 1n Norway and, if hey would talk. chances are many mag Norwegian airmen training in anada would say they owe tllielir escape from the Nazis to this l‘

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Among the 9.000 Norwegians who have escaped to Sweden since the Germans occupied Norwa few can

1 have a more thrilling s ory than git?“ dancing girl turned saboteur

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i Legally she is Norwegian for she escaped internment by payins a ‘Ollllg Norwegian $125 to marry

er and so acquired Norwegian cltuenship. She saw her husband Only twice-the day she married him and early in March oi 1942 when she gave him another $125 to get a divorce.

The marriage brought. about more than a contiuatlon of her llbtlly- It saved the life hnd free- dom of nctlon of scores of Norwe- illsn patriots because Miss Dallas Was one of the Linchpins of a na- ~ tlon-wide organization which en- i lbled Norwegians to carry out sab- 1 Mil‘. to escape and spread allied

Dfllillluanda. She carried on this work for three years.

l-ler friends insisted finally that l leave the country.

It took her more than 12 days. llllld in ski costume, carrying what “m9 Bllilblles she could in a knap- sack. But her route is a route fol- lowed by others so she would say nothing about it.

‘Arriving here is like escaping "m" Drlson." she said. "I intend to 3° l° Ellkland to continue the struggle."

Tm —iOP\_. Miss .m.

PLYMO Woollcombe. serving with the W.R..

"5- since the outbreak of war as

"if Superintendent of Personnel.

has been named Deputy Director of

the W R N . - m‘. S in charge of man

Coming Events

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B! LEWIS HAWKINS Associated Press Staff Writer

IDNDON. April l3—(AP)—8harp observers here watching the des- rate race between the silica and Axis to muster for a i043 showdown on pcan continent, antic te that this year Soviet Russia w attempt to mmmt her first summer offensive of the

war.

‘These sources int out that the east-wee comb tion has sub- Wlfid Gifmllly to the worst winter t has yet. experienced and brought this?!“ ‘it???’ b’ the beginning." u and a

Oo-ordinated Drlveu

P01110118 out that the Russian counter-offensive which freed Stalingrad and mcnptumd much territory inthesoutilstarted almost slmllllenccusly With the allied at- tack in North Africa. similar mesh. I118 was ledicted for the “bggln- lllllu of end."

The observers recognised that recent German counter-attacks mlly be the feelers for the usual Nazi summer offensive on the east- ern front. but said the Russians nevertheless will attempt to land the first warm-weather punch "l" 76B!‘ or. if this proves impos- slllle to launch a major counter- of ve after absorbing the first Nazi blows.

At the worst the lied Army is counted to hold the pecan- a?‘ ofitlaszrtlinore Axllsndibvels-

ere breakthrough for Tltpossibl: llllwtlfin w th the allies soma- Wllvre in aoutheaste

(‘Illa sources of this speculation were deliberately ignoring the much-discussed possibility of an allied invasion through France and working on the theory of a thrust through the Balkans.)

Some military critics re ard a co- ordinated Russian offens ve as an absolute] vital corollary to a sup- cessful alled assault. Others. how- "Bl. are convinced that, regard- less of the Red Army's comebwk llbllli-y. the allies will strike at the continent lmmedmtely after the cleanup in Tunisia.

Balkan Route?

No one here attempts to say where the major effort will be m- lewd. but» llllllly think the Balk- ans the most desirable avenue and this is the spot about which the Germans at least pretend, in their propaganda, to be so worried.

ll ‘Turkish co-operation is to be forthcoming one oi the most at. tractive pa hs would be through the Dardanelles to permit blows at oil producing Rumania and half- hearted Bulgaria. Thir- would also place allied forces in position for a squeeze play. in conjunction with the Russians. along the Black Sea shore.

An alternative would be tp by_ pass Turkey and ush through Greece pr Yugoslav a, where Na- tive Ellerillas and allied parachut- isis-still unsupressed ‘despite Axis efforts of long duratiom-are des- crlbed by the German radio as pro- vidln a “Balkan vanguard for al- lied vusion."

Women Pilot Biggest Planes

IONDON’, April 13 —(OP)- W0- men pilots of the air transport auxiliary in Britain, who have long been lerrylns n A r planes of many types from factories to air- dmmlls. now have been given the supreme responsibility of handling the great four-motored bombers. 'l'hree of them have already qusf. lfled for this lob. At least 20 others are in the final stages of training for their tests. One out of every six ferry pilots is a woman. (The men are over-age for combat- llvlns-l one out of everv three of these women is an American. The work of the women pilots firs" Pulse from sir Stafford Crime. Minister of aircraft pro. duetien. who said in a recent in- spection tour at A ‘IXA. head- quarters. "we recocniu the really llllkhlflcent work that you are do- inlr for the country."

Statistics revealed in Sir Staf- fold's talk testify! to the efficiency

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of the AT.A. lots. More than 100.000 air craft have been deliver- ed. mileage exceeds 30.000000, sc- oidente are very rare.

VLLB. Probe ?

UITAWA, April is -fOP)- ‘The Ottawa Journal said today it was “reliably informed" that salaries and living allowances of Wart-hue formation Board personnel are to be investigated by the House of Commons Public Accounts coun-

G. BAR-RI SHEPPARD

Who has been appointed '" glenerlal “of aha {Qtponngl Ill ll OII [IEO ‘Wft oflMunitlona and Supply. mm

llutiful Son In liazi Army

AT THE TUNISIAN FRONT NEAR KAIROUAN. April I3—(AP) -'I‘his is the story of a dutiful son in the German army.

A youthful Nazi private captured in the fighting nor h of Oued Zar- go told his captors that when he was called for army duty his father advised him to do three things.

first, ask for service in the Africa

ln Africa no as soon

TN- Second, after arriving volunteer for the front l

as possible.

Third, after reaching the front line take the first opportunity to surrender.

The young soldier reached Tu- nisia this month and was captured Sunday.

Restrict Export 0f Atlantic Fish

OTTAWA. April 13 —(CP)—Re- strlrrtions on the export of all types of Atlantic fish were announced to- dav by Trade Minister MacKinnon Effective April 15 export permits will bc required for all varieties- dried, salted or pickled-including cod. cusk, haddock. hake. herring. poilock. and mackerel.

Exemptions on Atlantic herring of the kinds known as "hloaters" and "tropics" have been cancelled and these will require an export .permit when shipped to any de- ‘stination outside Canada.

Urge Measures Tc Reduce Absenteeism

OTTAWA. April l8 —(CP)- Taxation adyustments to reduce absenteeism in Canadian plants were urged by l-louse of Commons members today and examination of their proposals was assured by revenue mlnster Gibson.

Finance Minister Ilsiey said it was possible that a solution might be found in copying the United Kingdom system which establishes a worker's income tax for a qlllillfll‘ of a vear on the basis of earnillilfl for the previous quarter. ‘This left an incentive to increase earnings. ‘lhe House spent the afternoon in continued consideration of in- come tax resolutions incorporated in the budget presented by Finance Minister Ilsley on March 2.

16 Big N.Y. Stores Fined

NEW YORK. April 18_—(A.P)- Sixteen of New vol-k cltys blesest department stores and the retail dry goods association of New York were fined a total of 080.000 in Ped- eral Court today on ch a that chev conspired to boycott he New York Times because the news p- er save notice If increased a ver- tlslnu rates effective in May.

Counsel for the stores and aa- soclation entered pleas of nolo con- tendre and were given 4a hours to pay their fines of 05.000 each.

The New York Times dld not initiate the investigation, nor did ft file a complaint with the antl- trust division." said special assist- .1“ pemrney general Samuel fsseks, who conducted the probe for the Department of Justice under the direction of existent attorney general Tom. O. Clark. in charge of the anti-trust division.

The Times said it planned to is- sue no statement.

GOOD GOING

UONDON -tCPl- An airgraph letter written in Canada on

quesday was delivered at its des-

WSTaT-giluaiion Last Night

By Glenn Babb, Associated Press War Analyst

rule of the skies in that area. But it

on Monday. shipping off Guadalcanal. Sunday 2A

Japanese .' who come back.

dlcationa from the northwest Pacific

meet the high comma ‘ s demands,

been expended. But all the evidence name league with the Allied fliers th

INTERNATIONAL c1 A cuinc:

By The Canadian Press

TUNISIA — Allied ring around Axis North African armies grows tighter ls enemy shows no dis- position to make a strong stand before Tunis and Blzerte.

that powerful Japanese naval forcesj are within striking distance of; Australia. Birlmcy says Japs have massed 200,000 first-line troops in islands north of the Common- wealth.

BRITAIN -- Churchill tells com- mons allies are more than holding their own in Atlantic submarine warfare.

RUSSIA — Russians advance on Smolensk front dislodging Nazis from fortified positions, while they turn hack German tank and in- fantry attacks with heavy losses to the enemy in Leningrad sector.

. WESTERN FRONT - Hundreds of allied aircraft strafe and bomb Axis-occupied Europe from Brest to the Netherlands, concentrating heaviest blows on Abbevllle and- Caen in France.

Republicans yilritieal 0f ‘Trade Policy

WASHINGTON. April l3 —-(AP) - House Republlcaizs put the Roosevelt Administration's foreign Trade policy on the griddle today and by their caustic questioning of witnesses served notice that it will require some olnocratlc spade work to line up their support for re- newal of the President's power to negotiate reciprocal agreements. One of the most important allel- ments is with Canada.

Minority members of the Ways and Means committee intensively

uizzed commerce secretary Jesse

ones and Nelson Rockefeller. co- ordinator of Inter-American A1- fairs. who urged approval of the trade pacts. The tenor of most of their remarks was summed up by Rep. Thomas Jmkins of Ohio, who sa o:-

"I'm getting a little fed up with all this 200d fellowship stuff."

'I‘ha.t attitude, Rockefeller

sanded, is "dangerous."

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"Wdlnshon rim-la A mittes

I a ‘lilhalanmerside till l P .: x523 Tile aald the invcetllation ‘an’! U" I‘ RM; Buhnan and will IOIIOI immediately after the . pa“: Hunter nlvei-ri-lcey till committee has finished liming s» I“ Arthur Haalun Bradsl- evidence from col. John ‘moulpson o d‘ ‘m 11 A-K-i Mctwen realigned director of novel-amen

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tlmltion in lnndon on the follow- ing Tlnlrsda

the Eastern New Guinea coast. were ‘nocked out of action. score of these three actions was an even I00 planes destroyed or prc- i babiy destroyed out of 243, more than 40 per cent. These figures can be hidden from the people back home, who are fed mendacioua accounts of u ries in which losses are confined u; a few hem" w}...

sacrificed their lives craahln_ into enemy targets," in the words of the T0170 Wlfllllllnltlues. But they can not he hidden from the d0 1m cent

AUSTRALIA - MacArthur warns. ym-(u ’ The fighter-bombers dropped ex-

Gen. Sir Thomas money's warning that the Japanese have massed 200,000 first-line troops in their island bases above Australia would have been more alarming had it not coincided with renewed proof of the Allied

came the same day that Gen, no“-

gills MacArthur announced that Allied airmen had accounted for 37 planes out of an enemy 100-plane armada that attacked Port Moreshr

Ll-lt Wednesday the Japanese ldlt l9 of BO planed attaching Allied

out of i5 planes raiding 0m Bay, up Thus the

The enemy's air offensive in the south and southwest Pacific coin. cides with increased air activity over the Burma-India border and in-

that he la preparing for aerial war.

fare on a large scale there. Apparently a. tremendous effort whfph h“ been long In the building is approaching a climax, There apparently has iv; been feverish Japanese concentration on plane production and pilot training. The output of planes presumably was sufficient numerically to

providing hundreds, even thousands,

of new planes for each major war theatre. This must have been accompanied by intensive training of replace- ments for the “lint-string team" which Gen. Kenny said apparently h“;

is that these newcomers are not of

first-string calibre. Man for man and plane for plane they are not, In the

ey are sent against.

Hundreds Of Allied

Planes Cross Channel

LONDON, April 13—iCPl—f-lun- dreds of allied fighter planes and fighter-bombers shuttled across the channel for more than three hours today to rake Axis-occupied territory from ‘Brest to the Nash. erlands, attacking airfields. ware- houses and railways yards.

Squadrons of British. Australian and Norwegian Spitfires flew over Holland and Belgium without en- countering any enemy opposition, the Air Ministry announced.

Other squadrons, including two Canadian formations and one Fighting French group, escorted Venture bombers on attacks of Abbeville and Caen in France, where hits were scored in railway

plosives on airports at Brest. Caen and St. Omer in sweeps over Nor- tnern France.

Two Focke-Wulf 190's were shot down by the allied raiders, who lost three of their own fighter planes.

Earlier in the day British coastal command planes attacked enemy shipping off the Norwegian coast. Olne plane was lost in the opera- ton.

Four In Break ~ From Alcatraz

SAN FRANCISCO, April l3 - (APJ-- Four convictssought free- dom in a spectacular/r break from rock-bound Alcatraz penitentiary today and before nightfall all were believed accounted for-one dead two recaptured and the fourth evidently wounded and swept tchis death ill tile waters flowhlgswift- ly past the island prison.

The notorious Harold Martin Brest and Fred Hunter were re- captured. Brest iis serving a life term from Pennsylvania fOl‘ bank robbery and kidnapping.

Senate Votes liown liivoree Bourt Bill

OTTAWA, April -i3 -(CP)—'_I'l'le senate tonight voted 27-19 against a. bill to allow divorce courts to dissolve marriages in which one party was presumed dead.

The bill, introduced by Senator .1. w. Farris (up. British Colum- bia). was voted down on the sec- ond reading, meeting opposition from both sides of the chamber.

NEW DELHI, April 18—(CP)— The Royal Air llbrce bombed the Japanese-held Burma port of A1180 last night on the heels of earlier raids against enemy positions at Yegyanbyin and Aungdaing on Ak-

ab Island in the av cf Bellfllll.

t was announced mday.

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l0anada Seeks Rubber From Dandefion

OTTAWA. April l3 — ‘(C P) — Engugh seed may be obtained this year to perliiit commercial pro- duction of the dandelion kok- sagyz. a source of natural rubber. the agriculture department an- nounced today.

From plsntln s in Canada last your, plus supp les obtained from Russia and the United States“ enough roots are available to allow the planting 0f 35 acres this slllllll at. ex rimental farms and stations, and, the yield is 00d. the com- mercial lantings w be possible.

Intens ve experiments and tests

rubber production from the Plant by the division of botany. science service. wor g cOODeratiQn with the experimental farms ser-

ce. The National research council ha! ; undertaken work in COIIIIECUOIIi with the extraction of the natural‘ rubber from the plant.

Tile yield of roots ‘per acre in Canadian plantings last year ranged from 8.100 pounds at Kentville, N , tc 1,600 pounds at Winnipeg. with an average of 5.100 pounds for the end of the first year, an average of 5.100 pounds for five experiment- a1 stations. in Russia when the crop is harvested at the end of the first year. an average of 4.500 to 5.00

ounds of cleaned roots an acre has

n obtained. equal to 150 pounds to 200 unds of crude rubber, and 75 to 1 pounds of seed.

If the crop is left for a second year, the average vield of roots ls from 2.700 to 3,600 pounds and from 100 to 150 unds of seed an acre.

Examina ion also is being con- ducted inbo the possibility of rub- ber production from milkweed.

The natural rubber is neces- sarily employed with synthetic rub- ber tc make the latter usable in a practical way for celibflildfifllltlal purposes. It was known that Rus- sia had for some years been ob- taining a supply of natural rubber

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sides of the envelopment fore Tunis and Bizerte. Nowhere along the

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Marshal RommePs bodies were withdrawing

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said Allied armored units

from Russian dandelion known as

kok-saghyz. A limited supplv of kok-

saghyz seed was obtained from the

United States department of agrb‘ culture in the spring of 1942 and

planted in quarter-acre plots at

Dominion experimental stations

across Canada.

News Briefs

ALLIED IIEADQUARTERS

IN AUSTRALIA. April 14- tuedncsday) — (AP) —Gen.

Douglas MacArthur, whose planes have blunted two big Japancsp aerial thrusts at New Guinea by Shllfilillg down '16 of the enemy, warned today that powerful Jaipailcsc naval forc- es are within striking distance of Australia which can be held off only if the Allies keep com- mllnd of the skies.

MONTREAL. April 13—(CP)— Rt. Rev. Philip Carrillgton, Bishop of Quebec. will be the chief cleric officiating at the consecration and enlhroncmcni here May 3 Very Rcv. Jchii H. Dixon as Lord Bish- op of the Ailuliczin Diocese of filurlirohl, it iviis announced today Mr. Dixon will succeed the lobe Bishop Arthur Carlisle.

‘AIONTREAL, April l3—(CP) The (‘unailizul National Steam- shlps aniwunced tonight that the Lmiy Nelson. flagship of its Canada-West Indies fleet, has hcrn rnnvcrtcd as Canada's first armed forces hospital ship of tllc wnr. (Tile new hospital ship was announced in Ottawa rcccntly- hut its identity was not

5O miles south of Tunis.

(‘The Allied-controlled Algiers radio broadcast that the Allies had occupied Enfldaville, 27 miles north of fallen Sousse Substantially all of the Italian Vittoria division had been captured, it was said.)

As British 1st army advance pat- mls drove north in the direction of Djebebina. an important inland road Junction. French troo mop- ping up the rand Dorsa range ca ured Dje i Kerachouan, 12 m ies southwest of Djebebirla.

The 8th army advancing along the coastal highway from Souse. Pushed back the enemy rearguard which attempted resistance near Lake Kelbia