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' iietl Foreign

Policy Makes About Turn .

By Jun cilwnenell lhvu sun Writer

MOSCOW Dec. iill-(OP-HAV- AB)._Bg[Inn,lnI i939 as the mg?’ promising idealist in 0 family if nations and ending thf year asan adelll l‘ 55°“ “m”; "Realpcltilil" the BOW“ ""1" 1“ months reversed its foreiBn P011935 precipitated the war. W011 filings‘; lc victories over the small mom“ States. and stalled its Wﬂ-r 1T1 g against the 89ml!” resmmnce ° Finland.

A; the beginning of 1939 Soviet leaders were energetically calling for collective security. and wnm‘ tution of ell "anti-sazresslvn" blw bl’ powers to include France and Great Britain. Party members the “mm over proclaimed that war not Loo great a price to pay to end Fsscst lawiessne s_

The ill-st shadow of lmoendins amuse was east April 3, when Max- im Litvlnoff, apostle of collective securtti’. was succeeded as Fbrelaﬂ Colnmissar by Premier VyacliMlaif Molotoft.

Democrat-it's 589k A9997“

In March the Western Democra- cies. concerned by Germany's ab" sorptlcn oi Czeciio-Slovakia, began negotiation; ic-r an accord with the Soviet Union. When conversations moved haltingly the British cabinet ordered William sirens. new of the foreign oiﬁces ‘ dcpartllicni, to Moscow. _ i

Tile French and British ilegllll“ ators already had agreed to change their original PYOPQSaI-lhlli l" the event oi German aggression a- gnllisi, Poland. Roma remain a" ace in the hole to be used only at the Warsaw government's rcque t— m a glrnlglil alliance with equal rights and rrsponslbillties. .

Moscow once more raised its; price, demanding a guaranty cover-l lng "indirect" aggression against i the Balkan and Baltic States. .

A British military mission arrived‘ in Moscow iii August and discovered Russia really wanted carte blanche to occupy Eastern Poland and to‘ establish land. sea and air bases in Estonil, Latvia, Lithuania and Fin- laud.

The Allies balked but Germany showed herself less squeamish. On Aug, 23 Foreign Minster Joachim Vcll Rlbbentrop flew to Miscow to sign a IO-year-non-aggressioh pact 1n which the U. S. S. R. agreed not‘ to join any bloc direpied against Germany. ‘

A week latcr German troops

Central Eilropean TDFBCMDE sessions tinder their belts

‘only undefeated team in the league.

Saints And

victory tonlghts COTIIXIIEICJll-SEFV- ice hockey league encounter be- tween st. Dun-stans University and the Junior Royals ls expected to produce the most exciting and fastest game of the season. It sould be a diet of speed the tans] are fed tonight as both squadsW iilneups are packed with speed mer-l chants galore and the game should be a wide-open affair throughout- wlth defmslve tactics thrown to the winds as the player,- go out seek- ing goals from the opening Whl-STJA.

Saints, defeated in their two pre- vious starts ill ifio f.nal minutes are determined to overcome their jinx tonight by taking the high- rlding Royals for a fall. Just every blt as good as their opponents they have llliﬂl in their previous games Saints nevertheless ilaveift come through as well as expected. ‘They have been missing wide-open scor- ing chances but with several hard

in the past couple of days Coach R/ev. Father Oswald Murphy is ccn- fideii that tonight his boy's will break into the win colu-nin even though it be at the expense 0f the

Royals. although undefeated, nev- ertheless are in second place trail- ing the Navy by two points; a win tonight would put them on even terms with the "tars" with a game in hand so it is a sa-ie bet that, the strong junior team Walter Lawlcr is again handling will be out in full force in an atteilipt to force a deadlock for first place in the standing.

so there's the picture. You have

Remember When

(By The Canadian Press)

National League baseball records for i937, published two years ago today, nallted Joe Medwlck, Si. Louis’ versatile outfielder, the

Royals Clash

Tonight In Important Game Jf Commercial-service League

with both teams anxious for a the Saints seeking to get up’ on even

terms with the third place team which a victory would accomplish and you have the Royals seeking a first place tie. There can be only one outcome to such a settlng_ Both teams will go out on the ice tonight and attempt to skate the other into the ice: both can turn on the heat plenty so fans should witness the fastest and most excit- ing gagrne of the league to date. The game as usual will get un- derway at 8 o'clock sharp with Roy Prowse handling the whistle.

Tennis Champ Advances To Third Round

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 28 — (AP) ~Bobby Riggs of Chicago advanced to the third round of the sixth im- nutil Sugar Bowl tennis tournament today u-ltilout having to show the form that made him the United Staies top-ranking player of i939.

He lived up to his reputation for toying with i955 able opponents by early ng M. J. McLaney of New Or- leans. Louisiana state champion, for 32 ames before disposing of him 12- 0. 6-4 in the first round.

Joining Riggs in the third heat tvere Don McNeiil cf Oklallllmﬂ 91W Charles Hare of England. 3W5" (Bltsy) Grant of Atlanta. Edwﬂﬂi Aloc of Berkeley. Callf., Jack Bush- man or Louisiana state University. Elwood Cooke of Portland. ore. and Billy Gillespie of Miami, Na.

OUR OUR WAY

C.A.H.A. Seeks To DrawAmateur Teams Together

‘TORONTO. Dec. 28—(OP)—-Tile Canadian Amateur Hockey Assoc- iation today threw all its support behind its brother organization in the United States in an attempt w draw all amateur hockey clubs a- cross the border into one body.

Specifically the C. A. H. A. pass- ed a motion forbidding the Illort Frances, Ont., team to continue competition in the Intel-nations. Amateur League unless the United States teams in the loop-Eveleth. I-llbbing and Virginia. all in Minne- sow-agree to come under the jurisdiction of the Amateur Hockey Association of the United States. The motion was passed at the semi- annual mcetlng of the C. A. H. A. which iris attended by President Torn Lockhart of the United Stat/es A_ H. A.

The meeting also set the dates for the Eastern Allan Cup elimin- ation playoffs. The series opens be- tween the winners oi’ the Maritime section and the Ottawa Valley and District champions. The dates for the games in the three-of-five ser- ies are March 1B, 20, 23, and if nec- essary All and 27. The first two games will be played in the Mari- tlmes and whatever other games are necessary in Ottawa.

The winners if this series plays the O. H. A. champions, two-of- three series. March 27, 30 and April 1 and 8. depending upon the prev- ious series.

In the Eastern final the winner of the above series will face the Quebec champions in a three-of- five series between April 1 and

Miners Move Up In Hockey League Standing

GLAOE BAY, N. 8., Dec. $- Glace Bay Miners defeated the North Sydney Victories. 4-8, heme tonight and moved to within one» game of a second-place tlc with the northsiders in the Cape Breton Hockey League. S Million- aires lead the three-team circuit by eight full games.

Scoring the only goal in the opener lace Bay matched second and rd period goals with the Victories and went on to wlr when the former Saint John. N B, Beavers combination of Rus- sell and Kelly clicked for the de~ ciding marker midway through the inal period.

Reds Downed By Capitals 4-I

PROVIDENCE, Dec. 28—-R.on l-Iudson, former Halifax Wolverine kept up his hot scorirlg pace to- night as he led Indianapolis Cap-

itals to a 4-1 victory over Prov-

idence Reds. Hudson scored a. goa"

and drew two assists.

Mike Karakas, transferred from Chicago Black Hawks of the Na- tional Hockey League, played hi: first game with the Reds but only two Indianapolis goals were scor- ed on him. With we Caps leading 2-1 and '14 seconds to go, Coach Bun Cock called Karakas to the bench and put on six forwards.

President. said the Western play-

offs would be arranged to provide an early Allan Gun final which will

April l4. Professor w. o. Hardy, o. a r-t. A.

I HAVE SUCH LOVE FER EXCITEMENT

THIS HUMDRUM

SHOP "THAT I COULD WACTCH MOUSE TRAP

marched into Poland. Britain and league's m0“ Valuable Plllyer- Mell- Franoe declared war on the RBlOhlWiCK 19d The bailing HVQYBSE with Sept. ILSBDHH sat back and watched. 1a percentage of .374; the fielding

ALL DA“! TO SEE tSUMPlN HAPPEN--

In mid-September the Red Army, stiyltlng lroln the east at the strug- g.r.g Poles, swept hallway acrois Poland to achieve a common border with the advancing Germans.

Three weeks later Russia. signed a. “mutual asst Tnce" piwt with Es- tonia, under which Soviet garrisons and naval baiscs were established on

Estonian territory. The followlngl__(cp _Reuters) __Mmk1,

week Latvia took the trail to Mos-

c0\v for a similar pact, and Lithu- a nip of whiskey— in his case, three

enia fell in line Oct_ 10.

Soviet Reverses Start

soviet reverse. did not start uiitii 0.i. 18 tvhell Turkey, traditionally friendly to Russia, interrupted con- vcrsatucns looking toward a Soviet- Ttirklsll muitiai assistance accord largely because of Russian lnszstence of hermetic. cosurc of the Darden- elles to Allied war vessels. Next day the Ankara. government signed a. l5- year-niutLtiil at Lance pact with France and Great Britain.

Finland. called on to cede strate- gic bases as ilcfd tile Baltic States, steadfastly refused in lengthy ne- gULlHLlOrl5 to make concessions pre- judicial to her independence. The Red Army crossed the border Nov. 30.

The Russians set up a "People's Democratic Government" on the

frontier under a Finnish exile, Otto A_

Kuu-sinen.

The Soviet push against the Kar- 7n’! be m" a all

elian bottle-neck ln the south,

where the "Mannerheim Line“ pro»

iecis the Finns. sin-lied. Ncrih of Lake Latlogh the Reds fared no belief. In the far north they cap- tured Petsamo but at the year's end apparently had been defeated de-

cisively by Finnish courage and sub-zero weather. r30 - OPERATIVE MARKETING

OF RANCH-DEED STLVER FOX AND MINK SKINS

Under the

‘honors with an average of .9883;

‘of’ bases, 406; and led

Agricultural Pro- .

counted most runs with lll to h:s credit; collected most liits. with a tally of 237; amassed greatest. total the two- bugger list with 56.

FAMOUR GELDING

ﬂLBOURNE. Australia, Dec. 2B an ex- tremcly nervous gelding, always has

quarters of a bottle- on the mom- ing of a race t0 steady himself.

Despite this treatment, Maikl - proved unlucky by running second in two big races.

Then the owner's friend. a wiiisky merchant, had an idea. Perhaps the horse didn't care for the particular brand that was given to him.

The brim-d ‘was changeck- and so was Mztikl. He won his next two laces. one of them, the Eclipse stakes. alter being 15 lengths be- ilillCl the leaders wuth hull a mi.e to go.

stewards of the Victoria Racing Club ruled that the whiskey was a lionic, not a stimulant, and took no action.

But the R. S. P. C. A. and the temperance alliance did.

"whiskey under no circumstances can bedescribed as a tonic for man or beast," said an executive of the temperance aihance. "lt is a tem- lporary stimulant, and then depres- . S65 ..

. "It's a. damnable thing to do," tald the secretary of the R. S. P. C.

BUT I lNOULDrJT WASTE A Mllxl '

deg-QB

THE STOP WATCH

be played in an Eastern city.

By J. R. Williams

A WELL, THEY HAVE

‘to KEEP THEIR.

EYES PEELED Foe. TH’ B05555. AND li= A BOSS is TOO LONG comm‘

COUPAGED - - THEM GUYS ARE TIRED vw-riw RIGHT now.’

JRwiLL

MONTREAL. Dec. zit-Toronto Maple Leafs took over sole es- slon of second place, b rig a tie with the idle New York Rang era. by defeating Montreal Can- ediens 6-4 here tonight in a. hec- tic National Hockey League gamr before about 8,500 fans.

the Flying iftn

The Leafs sent

Frenchmen down to their

straight defeat. and their seventh in eight contests. in a game that saw two Canadlen goals called: back by referee Frank (Kingl Clancy and produced a. brief fist fight late in the third period be- tween Hector (Toe) Blake of Canadiens and Bob Davidson or the Leafs, with both drawing ma- or:

Mien Clancy called back a Montreal goal for the second time in the second period, President Ernest Savard of Canadiens cali- ed the arbiter over to the Cana- diena bench and could be seen with his hands on Clancy's shoulders. A damper was put on the whole blow-up inside of a minute, however.

Although he failed to flash as good form as many of his team mates, Gordie Drillon, the league's leading scorer, picked up two goals. His first came in tile sec- ond perlod when he ta lped ill Davidson's rebound and is sec- ond came on a breakaway in the 17th minute of the third session.

Other Toronto goals went to Davidson, Pete Langelle, Wally Stanowskl and Dave Schriner. Tile Montreal scorers were Marty Barry, Charlie Sands. George Man- tha and Louis Trudel. It was the third meeting between the two teams this season, with the Leafs emcilglng victors for the second time. The Leafs 10st in their first

THE‘! err Dis-

OUR BOARDING HOUSE

Maple Leafs Take Over

Second u Position By Defeating Canadians 6-4

/ appearance on Montreal ice this season.

SUMMARY

First Period -

i, Toronto. Davidson (Stanowsicl. Kampman) 6:18. ll. Toronto. Langelle 15:43. 3. Toronto, stanowskl, (Kamp- man) 17:23. Penalties! Getilffe. Homer. Church (2). Blake. Second Period 2 ‘i’? Toronto. DrilZol-l (Davidson) 5. Canadiens. Barry (Sands, Get- llffe) 5:36. 6. Canadletis. Sands (Getliffe Barry) 18:29. 7. Calmdlens, Months (Blake. Gagnon) 19:54. Penalties: Homer, Drouln. hird Period B. Toronto. Schrlner (Chamber- lalni 14:13. alga Toronto. Drillon (Homer) 10. Canadians, Trudel. (Sands Manlha.) 18:33. Penalties: DrOuln. Blake, (ma- jor). Davidson (major), Mlnard’: kills pain.

SEE

ROYALS vs. Action Every Mi Face Off At Regular League

Lost Minute Football Win Biggest Thrill

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sod it ahead of the e emerge,- rum ti...“ ‘is W

The b cotilalli all-ill the vote‘: of lo sports wtyltanfrs n,“

no other incident d 0M. 711011211 there llveltlye ‘ﬁre $3.1? submissions.

The ballots covered of sports but most of lhbvideullztgs}: couldn't get their minds off that c6141. snow)’ d“? in Ottawa.

BEAVER-S Durex? 331mm

HERBHEY. Pa, Dec, "8-_}1'\ Burs defeated Pil/isbllrgh “illil nets l-0 in an Intemationai-Aln. gllsgnmﬂwker League same here

Gordon Bruce's firt, l-l was the only score. pe 0d ma!

Forum Skating 3-5 This Afternoon

CHILDREN'S SK ATE 110-220

FORUM

SNAPPY‘ H-o-c-K-E-Y TONIGHT

S. D} U. nuie Tonight 8 Sharp Fixture-ZR

THE TT-IQE5HHOLD

UP FOR A NEW VEAR SPEECH TO THE JOLLY JUNKET CLUB.’ sewl-lMP-KAF-F! é 8V THE WAV, DID VOU KNOW JANUARY i5 €l6NAL" NAMED FOR JANUS, ROMAN 60D WiTH

% ‘EGAD, I WISH vou DONKEVS wouto Z NOT DIGTRACT Mia! I AM BRUSHNG \

. Two FACES ? JANUG was rue e00 OF 000129, BECAUSE A DOOR LOOKS TWO

_ wAvs-- t-l0v\l'6 Ti-lIQ FOR A 6TART— v "MV DEAR FRIENDS,AS we ‘PAUSE

dAR-Rumw-i

M0555 1' TOO-w-ILOOK KNOW, YOU'LL BOTH WAVS WAKE UP 0R COME- , WiTi-l Moms. TO wn-u AN n HEAD5 man ARMFUL. l OF A NEW-- A KEG OF OF FRONT

‘.4

lF THAT JOLLV JUNKET CLUB l5 THE GAME QWARM oi=

JANU6 MUST HAVE BEEN THE n GOD OF ‘PEDEGTRIANG,

BUMPERS / \;f A§\\\\ \\ ‘ \\

NTRODUCTIO . To AN ORATION =

"If a horse cannot race without [first being given whiskey. he should- L ..

TIPPIETTATJD “CAP” STUBBS

By Edwina

ROME. Dec. 2s —(AP) —-Ruins CAN ' MAKE FUDGE’? of what archaeologists believe was the liomc Julius Ceasar provided for Cleopatra when the Egyptian queen came t0 Rollie nearly 2.000 year. u- go have been found by workmen grading banks of the River Tiber. Elaborate frescoes and mosaics. stucco drains, pieces of marble, foundations of tcmplcs and even whole rooms were ﬂlllOllli lite evi- struc-

HAS EVER SEEN‘ MY CHOC’

LIKE i MAKE IT!

dence of splendid ancient Lures unearthed.

ABLY TH’ cast CANDY-MAKER ‘n-iis TOWN IN YOUR MOUTH! wou CAN'T BUY CANDY

watt. "I'M Pam'-

MERCY! WELL, l HOPE NOT!

LATE DROPS MELT

on, PLEE-Zr‘. MAKE some CANDY, POP - -

ducts (Io-operative Marketin Act.i with ‘h’ ‘ma’ o? 1939, agreements for the market-Hm” whlch m“ pens have lug of ranch-bred silver fox alidlpm ed

c . mink pelts have been concluded All mmkeung omanlznllons PM"

between the Dominion Department of Agriculture and B number

organizations marketing pelts in

Prince Edward Island. Quebec and Western Canada. ‘These agreements provide that

primary producers of fox or mink

pelts may deliver their an organization which has

pelts to an

lticipating lil this plan will charge ‘lliﬂlr actual costs for receiving, grading and marketing the pelts.

The agreement provides further, that if the average sale price of the skins in any pool ls less than

|ihe initial payment plus the hctual costs of handling and mar-

keting the pell-S. exclusive of tile lBRING UP FATHER

NOYOJ DON'T, MILT sTutsbS! m’ LAST

TIMEYOU TRIED ‘rOUlL HAND AT

n" TOOK MARY AN’ ME A wuotc MORN- ING To MAKE. TH' KITCHEN LOOK HALF-

COOKIN’, MOTHER?

The Omen Mull-w Mum Service. lnr

J/it

HOW MUCH SUGAR HAVE WE GOT,

‘ '/ W/ . (/1 'l

NOW. MILT

FV/ "750. . V» int/A :/. '

By George McManus

agreement and receive an initial 99m"! commlssllmls of aucmm ' _—"nwlmnu"iwﬂ-m-“ 7 i t 50 . e t f u wmlmﬂks» the D°mllil°n 9mm“- -l vQn l vE-gi- '5 HUQRY AND E0 "lllil loom“ s '

ggglgela“l“""“s gar ‘all’ g‘ ‘l?’ mlltl-{lilll nlliiﬁltléll° élllflfecéflli?‘ Uglékizgge u OITUJEOSED- l_ HAVE n‘ COULDN'T l ‘I D LIKE ANTSEJT-T-TEMS '

agreement. Th0 basis valuations. H _ u _o mil ‘an f "m: plgHnoe T lD-HAVE A LTHE amps PACK- GRACIOUS- HAT DE ANYTHING 1 ME 6E1- 11-4555 ;:| H ,

are deiﬂmln"! will‘ “We” "it"? °° p” b "" J’. ed ‘i, n- YOU ALL. HETHIMGS E5 AND l BOUGHTA COULD THAT BUT MAGGIES HOOKS ou OF MY

u..- prices received for all“ dill” iﬁemfe ‘ll?! olleﬁle? ‘Ll Mgrkgllflllg IN QEADINESS ? FINE-I COLLECTION1QF as t» VOICE- H - .

trait: Dominion e '”'st‘l"‘é‘lll<r.lé“" ‘ "

approximately the same as the ilﬁllek 0'4""!- average prices received for skins of like grade and quality market- ed during 1938-39 season. l

The farmer must certify when he delivers the pelts that he is}

the producer of the skins delivered.

He agrees also that the proceeds] of ml ﬂlllnir from the sale of his bell-s shall be, pooled with the proceeds nvm. the sale of pelts of like grade and . Guam‘. dellygmd under this co-i while they last. ' and made to

that m cl. a right price.

operative plan by other producers» J. P. MacPherson

Subseouent Dlymellli m“? & Son

authorised when the pelts in any individual pool are market/Pd M111 provmed the price l-eaized per- mils further blytnenta io be made.

A, mus are received they are gy-ndg»! Qcgordlnq to their qualitv and the grading is checked b! 1 Dominion Government rmpﬂlﬂf- who sees that belt ll 4'11!

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