or A v user: MAN earl .Ieaeilel II. L I. The P's Pepe Covers Prince Edward i Island Like the Dew CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, FRIDAY, JANKRY 1. 1944 Read by Everybody 6 {ii iulglsrln LONDON, Inn. 7 (Friday) - l- A- I- bombers roared toward leromsqaln early today. oroee- ig‘ ‘eels-lit channel in a gored we beer procession. Ilelfll! l! the Berlin redle left the all‘. indicating that the bellies-e were heading for Yugoslavs lirlve Iezls Freer Valley e_-- LOIOUN. J . 6—(AP)-—Y - lev Partisan‘ ‘hive driven the “- out od the ‘entire Oil-mile lo of the Cetine River. w hi0 the Sea ‘ins... .:::.=:::*-h~* ‘ Cl‘ Josie bros mo» Ants- ' bmsdcas e a "bitté use Yuemfieoio esi battles" were continuing base 0f reggae: wit‘: large led 0f Salt Located At Aieherst —mir borinee ' at nearby ' et Io t have uncovered a bed of salt, while thick areas gypsum have been uncov- another site. Officials of e lootia Mines Department posted to arrive here this confirm the flndlri|e rnede the borings. Greeks Charge ‘Nazi Atrocities ssrimv/miwiws-koer f5‘? ll ‘ii 3i I! OAIWO, Jon. 6 ——(AP)-- Mala slaughter of morl wnsbwlik by Germans wee charged today the Greek eoverrimcnt in a eta-lament that also told of new '8 ueril sueeeesee eleinet the Axis. inelud one battle thot cost the enemy casualties. The eek Announcement eeid that in town of Ralevrita on the ire naeeue the Germbrll aeeembi all melee over ll years of ego "to listen to e h" and then out them down wi machine wtloh ‘wee burned. it ee . The German soldiers then looted houeee and destroyed mat-e. Berlin Press NOI/Ill SYDNIY. N. l., Jan. O-iCH-Tbe dstlre orlw a Uni Nations ehl sur- vived her alter was an n- vee- sel of! Newfoundland New Year's nilht. it was lose! here toda with th rival of the loet ship's Osb n. eleht officers and es crew members. onorvsnoquu, "out. Jsnfsqom t, w, eW seed. President of erio Commend. s today guano men have esubiishe . DIIDGIIOIT C0 .. Ja - :.-. " -". ' "ii-Keri Ida hlin “a Tar IE8. Deaon ofAsn ease :Ith0flty on} outta lie e - 5%:- tlofiflvblltilll“ rsiiTsTis an biolrebher. Toronto ilnit In Jiaiilesfoiir.» their a Iwhmmbm,’ Elli?) -- trédrone in’! t tods reoortedi dimstch irfiiii sway" that menus! bore of the 40th ma‘ ere of Toronto haven't had eir teoff for e month. "lome of the betflee we have been in rney be gained from the feet thelt we hevent had our oiothoe or of! for a month. sect’ Wernpi —fm.n' weeks lo be o ouohd 0% William o. boom o eeyiol. ' s have foulh. lint and eaten mind the entail '.l‘hey have iuet had e n; cope, whio is . for pro- tection from the rein. and in eons water in trenches beer: four rest . Then it mile f0 Wins’ e to fie rein and snowstorm." Lend-Lease Totals More Than 18 Billion , . —(AP)- WAQUNOQVN Jen 6 “am” the ‘s . - “no” u, w“ _ gainst the cnemvs winter H t “Wm °°"'at:r"°ighuu'h Fflmddme Nuwvfmm ‘from W, Prodiiéctioéi 331cm oegamilserrgilzgagie f,“ ans; he is fighting m“. hell, Britkh ilullld F0r@@‘ lgjflf;,‘iingfflf)ot§"fkedhi:t ‘Qzgjf; Bell Aircraft Comosuy was liven the gulls struck mo Ylifiii. wihr, ti. “ w u. ..""...."-"‘"....... .. first ares mbrwisrai: ill‘ sites"... ii a... o”. .1 -_ . i ,3. ggirstyvhiu ggr-hsnvorl-u- ::.."'.i.".::.ri"t.:2 tort’: is: ‘Zi£“‘i'.‘“.i..h“i..°“.ii.§.i°“" l rl U. ° ' . t, to ilit produ tiori when , “'-" "Q l- Ouri tle carried ' ‘ period. wmhnagiir 1% 3:31.53; yalaired/‘mgaidljthe QTVJ. report. I t d aéfNggN’ $361.16 “fiflufkfgi, "ifwhgmi ugh‘ Lin“; ‘ IMWW- l §§'§ie§h°wg§“nfi§.mii." _ vii-gm of men wsr centres ‘mop-ciao fr; gym‘ iffy‘; NSTIUII l“ 3 Q ‘cum, 0mm command,“ m“ wund n. ‘Jéhlrzii’ grrwgritmnliliigv than i? ‘months. 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One third of the liflbiiletionl --—- n“ ”'n°“m°d may m” M ' u edi n National - l ,’ H The new oonfllot hinges on of - we P01 nd was n” "°°"' "30 "' "'" "Wlwimona?! ‘m’ '“' fir: agmmsqfl m” “H.233? nominated for .» ' u“ ' ‘ whether Russia's boundary should mt wit‘. in r m. ‘or n. ‘mm °";;'5°"°'“"“ '-‘° "- "' - - ' “m” ' viee-ri-esieent of the .. ‘ be fixed ecoin alone lines Aim-- lessen. n. census show a mooo- ' '-"" " "'“‘" "' m; h“ “"‘¢'°.'..", Qua}. fins-fin?‘ Institute of Oenade. " p i. m‘ iier to those after the last wsr or ooo Uitreiniens and Rlelthélliflhs i UNDAY SERVICE sew "d n ‘M ‘up YR Rlhlfl’! ‘u bun“ god.‘ u, h ex. ’ '* / -' I _ _ Whether it will be the line agreed compactly settled tn the soilili-i L Ch H u m l2 Mm n m b" " u’ trill ted w attond the annual meet~ » , ’ I to in the Russian - German pact western section. Russia clams "" ' " e W" ' microns and fowl. r tor wle suspended altars n! r 4/1 (> ,1; i 4 m, ma!“ wk,“ m.“ m] jam!‘ m‘ “h,” m . "m. “ Pnmunh L o; u“ “mm” 1n Qugbgq (my \ l / of i028. ihem. Arrive Charlottetown l. 5 n. ’ (h: uly ll loll sfter Russia ea. us. e-se- leet Saturday. . em NW"!- - - - Situation “Very Critical” , |~Germon Capital Rife With Theories Concerning British-American Invasion. ', 5°“ fightini" ‘since 1 While this for south. 1 B" The 53c. in e broedoset record-i y Admits w-__ I. Jan. I —(AP)—- The Berlin Press openly acknowledged today that the situation in Russia eeh with theories that e British-Am- erican invasion of the west might he tinted to coincide with the Bleak of the Soviet winter offen- ve The Berlin correspondent of the Bwlee ‘paper Tribune Do Geneva wrote t e the 607mm PTWIIW“ efio t wee w orient ublic opinion or ua-l to realize ion and ee- oeptence of the retreats. He said military men elreedy hed en- iiounoed taking ell necessary mosne to "moderate" the Russian advance but that if these felled, the German risked "to lose ell the territory “in the bloody ie one of the most direct statements on the f htirig yet permitted to come out o Ger- ml-Iiy. German PIMP! still conten- ded, even while stueeing the crisis. that “the situation is not lost for all that" slyin; reserves and cour- sse still were strong throushoilt the Reich. Othe "invasion" items included: The $330 broadcast in the nan-o of tho allied commend. eekinl Bel- gians to etey st Mme when mili- tary operations beesn. lest they obstruct allied sir forces attacking German ootriinunioetione. The Hench National Committee in Ailiere decreed mobilization of youths 1o and 1O efleotlve- Feb. iii and voted to form s second expedi- tionery force to participate in the invasion-of Ilurope from the west ed in New York by CBS, advised Buleerie. ltumenie end l-tunaery to "break with Gerntsny now" if they waited "to escape the worst ‘conseq noes _of f‘ emys dc- ee-' War. Production tiutliacks Planned WABHINGTON. Jan. _6 -—(APi—-» Cutbecke in the production of smell arms. bullets, non-combat planes and anti-aircraft equi merit plus a else of nearly per cent in aluminum reduction. were redlctz-d b the o fice of Wsr In- ‘orrnetlon riilnt. The decreases will be more than offset by boosts in warplanes and some other munitions. the office said, and "no considerable curtail- rnents" for the purpose of resum- ing nivilien goode manufacture can be scheduled for 1944 unless the European Wlr ends by June or July "Until then. whsttever resurwt- ion of civilian production the ar Liiiiliili-T Push 0n iii-Mile Front In Italy By RICHARD G. MASSOCK ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. A1- giere, Jen. d —(AP)~— British and American infantry, plunging for- ward in a new offensive on s l0- milo front in tho mountain maze before Cgssino" advanced an aver- age of o. mile with the first moni- entum oi their assault and are smashing into concreic piilbox defences guarding the Germans’ new Italian “Bleufried Lino". bead- quartcrs announced today. All along the rugged front from Venoiro in Roccs D'Evandro and astrsddie the Via Casilina to Rome the Nazis fiercely resisted the attack which was launched in a cold‘. driving rein before yester- day's daybreak. British troops on the left wing of LL-Gen. Murk Clark's 5th Army attacked south of the Via Coeilixis while Americans struck north of that main traffic artery to Cassino and Rome. 70 miles be- yond. Advance One Mlle inch of ground their customary style. but iwve been driven book at least e milc in most places," allied s okesmsll said. ‘The Nazis urod ousends of rounds of srtilery end mortar shells into the eovsnciril allies, end fire blazed from hundreds of enemy machine-gun nests. From noon yesterday, when the clouds lifted. waves of dive-bomb- ere mated low over. s front It 300 miles an hour, ‘s raffino and bombing the enemys emplace- ments and in some instances caus- -irig the Germans to scatter wild- Hand-io-llend Fighting Violent hanc-to-hsnd fizhtlng was in progress through the ruins of the village of San Vittore, six miles from Cassino, headquarters said, with American troops in pos- session of approximately half the place. The British troops centred their attack at e. point just west of Rocco Dflivandron, where the Ger- igiisno River bends westward, and in their first rush bagged l’! Noll prisoners. most of them youths of about 20. Canadian forces on the Adriatic coast consolidated their positions 0n "Point 59". on elevated stronti- point about three miles north Ortona. from which Maritime Province troops (New Brunsvvlcks Carleton and Yorksi cvicter. tho Germans Tuesday lliEhl. in a stiff fight that cost the enemy many dead. l9 prisoners and all their weapons and cquillmelit- limited the Canadians to pstr activity yesterday. Lt-Gen. Oliver William Leese. l, - i t.d commar ""1" mggrrtysgio git: Army. told at". first press conference that "we rte uv ...a,'_ muy be u ‘i not tell ll the story. lateral communication lanes w 'l‘hei‘e remain in that Nina west of the marshes “rJIliem in no such logirlilce] gym use of tlic long central slretc of the Dnloper. Supplcrnentln vides the holder with quick and southern battle theatres. [In wer. Bcrl “The Germans are fighting biitl: ‘u- s. ._terly for every iihemical Firms NEW YORK. Jan. 6 - (AP) -— The United States Justice Depart- ment accused E, i. du Pant Dc Nemou s. the Remington Arms Company and Britain's Imperial chemical I of con- epirlnl to restrain trsdefirrreherrr- icai productl. arms including war materials, and ammunition." Named among u group of "co- consplrawra" but not as a defen- dant was Canadian industries, Ltd- Montreal. Du Pont's piesidcnt, Walter S- Carpenter, Jr. promptly disputed the charge and said the American public and the war effort had ben- efited, rather than suffered, from hi; company's activities. The government action, n civil suit filed here, was summarized by Attorney General Biddle as char- ging that the big chemical and arms firms "have been and now are parties to contracts and dzree- iwendell Borne. in charge of the Rain. '* drive“ ‘w a wind M “k forcgflerally accepted sense. . line i ,ments in violation of the Sherman i anti-trust act." And assistant attorney general Anti-Trust Division. isucd o statement saying that it is “a [major blow against the cartel ‘systcm" of dividing world markets. i Carpenter, at Wilmington, Dell. in offices of du Pont, said his statement» that it is now or ever has bee "warty in any Cartel arrangement using the term Cartel in its gen- ituoion “Night By llirlse l». Simpson. Associated Press Wei- Analyst The Iiilosny admission in Berlin that the Neel front in Russia has been hopelessly split apart by the We'd Army's victories in the Kiev bull: reluds- to e new general Gennnn retreat in the cost. Bot it noes Th - . lit i t t I 1...... tiff}... ii3.‘L.i“Z'..3§|"r2h$'.i. flit-ii‘. .‘."‘r'ii'i‘."i’-i.'.‘.‘i°l..i".ti‘.‘.'.‘“' "‘° Baltic nml the other southward of the Ben. It is l. matter of battle lo islgcifi’! e C a wnnu SEIKO-tongs? crntgl no; daily two such laterals-_in: - - - e cov . , ; , "Willy vrtuelly lust. nnyd theprnund-argdaut route?“ h n" "a" swam" tunilciil obiu -tive of the Kiev bulg ff el i d ‘ h of theelflenfggriglyilllsgegrfmissowriglValet the riersllel lines eest or the river, it ro- nter-communicatlon between the nort lei-n Once ii has been cleared of the foe all the way to Navel. it. will permit swift Russian concentration of massive eiriktnfigower a! any selected ai- luok point in either the north or the south. s the effectiveness of the already huge ‘ in reports a new Russian offensive stroke east of the Dnlepey at Pmpnisk. Coupledvvvith the Russian drives ht Vil-ebsk and north of Ncvel. it looks like a beginning" of liquidation of the last Nazi yond the Dnleper. Success would clear the greet‘. north-south communic- “Ubus laterals completely _in prrparation fer future major olfenslves in the: uorlli synchronized with final phases of the entrapment campaign approaching lie climax in the south. Russian Army Sweeps 10 Miles Into Po e I ta till: reet swempiundg m the ls- Nasis have lost the close-up ed the two eegmenlle into 0n... rough Brest-Llitwltk involved for "lo Russians. A prime t should simosit double v- ponders n man- foothoid on or Ivo- Tha combination {room le not uncenspon. MAXIMS 07A MERE MAN of a well- ed body and a lost soul. alas. PAGES Gaiiui-‘lifllery.’ . Fast And At i Great Height By WILLTKM FRVE WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 - (AP) - Cloakod in secrecy for years. a new "rocket" plane has em- erged from British-Am- erican engineering lab- oratories, capable of ex- treme speeds at high al- titudes without using standard propellers. The disclosure was made today in a joint statement by the R.A.F. and the United States army air forces. The plane is powered land B)’ JAMES M. LONG IDNDON, Jon. til-LAP) ~— ‘The Rcol Army swept i0 miles into Poland wdav with the capture of Rakitno, killed 11.000 more of the enemy's retreating troops. and el- so plurized southward to within 30 miles of the Warsaw-Odessa roll lifeline to the German Dnleper bend army. Berlin intimated that pert Ge ‘s horse Driispor ben m ewsoroixadmatdbctween fl I . Si, Y. .7! ‘Dali for ltsiife hqslngt a, Sgvfiet nocrs movement by the arm s 0 Generals Nikolai l". Vstutin and Ivan B. nev. A Moscow communique tonight announced the capture of Rakitno in a fanwise sweep by Vwtlli/ilrfs an- my, which Berlin said number- ed 750,000 men besides “the serves that mill are moving up.” But Berlin broadcasts said the Soviet army pushing toward central Poland mostly was “marking time." Axis comments/tors were far more concerned, it appeared, with the massive swing southward toward Rumnrlia and scutheastwsrd lnw the Dnleper bend. Although Moscow i1’- dispatches_ spearheads were across the frontier in the lower Pripct marshes, this was the first time a communique mentioned e specific locality. Mos- cow, howov . did not mention the frontier, a subJect of dispute. "The du Pent Company dcniesi ll it lien Commander 0f , l Accordino to evidence ei CONQUERALL BANK, N, 5,, Jan. 6 — (OP; — Charged with msnslsusnter in a fatal hunting accident, Stephen Hit-tie of ricer. by} Gonquei-ell Bank was commit- tec for Supreme Court trial tcdev st his preliminary nearing. the illunting Accident , i Electric Company with jet propulsion en- gines. No details were given. Jet propulsion is rgenerally considered in aviation circles to be 8 series of short. sharp ex- plosions on the rocket principle. hurtling the plane forward. Several hundred flights by tho new British-American planes were made without a single mishap and‘ ‘l! quantity productio is Just around the corner. the allied sir chiefs de- clared. Rlesearch work on the idea. 1terted firyeers e16 in GresrBri- f tain under Group Captain Frank Whittle of the R.A.F. and his preliminary engine rsn successfully in i067. The jqint statement issued in Washington. by Gen. H. old. chief‘ of the Army Air Forces, disclosed that the British Air Ministry placer. its first order for e plane using Jet propulsion on- gines with the Gloucester Air- craft Company, Ltd. in 1939, the engines to be built by Power Jets. Ltd., in s special factory in Eng- land. Group Capt. Whittle was loaned to this company. “Full information about this jet Monday had announced that SO‘li8t_pl'Opii]S10h engine was disclosed in July, i941, to the United States Army Air Forces who, like the British R.A.F. and Ministry of Aircraft Production, had the fore- sight to appreciate the tremend- ous possibilities of this nr.\v form of aircraft power unit. The US. A A. F. at once asked for on ong- inc to be sent to the U S A.. and the engine which had made the first flight wee sent to the General in September. i941. “As the result of close co-opera- iion between the U. S. A, A. F. the R.A.F.. and the A.A.F. materiel eommnnd. the Ministry of Aircraft and The General Electric Com- pany, e number of those engines were built. "The first of these engines was ready for tests in loss than six months. At the some time the i i H_ Ai'n-- ilhllillplloll leelieverd. IIJI llell, econ. other Provlesree e u.s.A. some i ermans Fall For ll. A. F. Faint l. coupon, Jan. s —-(AP) - The R- 5- F- Willi-Ed the Germans out of position last night by sending n. light force of Mqsqum; bomb“... to Jab at ruined Berlin 15 nrinuics before the main force of giant R, A F. and RCAF. Lancaster-s an iisilisaes lfrived over the Baltic port of Btcttin, 75 miles to the northeast. and slammed it with more than 1,000 tons of bombs. The All‘ Ministry LlSCIOSECI that the Germans fell for the scheme, TUSPIIHB their fighter packs to pro. tect whet is left of Berlin and lesvins the route wide open for the heavy bombers in get (hfcugh, ._.; ‘Stottln. The city is one or 11.5 chief supply centres for Germn lfllfmles on the Leningrad 8H2 lFinnlsh fronts. §0ut|ine Policy ' fFor Disposing 0i iWar Surpluses i MONTREAL, Jan. 6 —iCPi -.- The policy for disposal of Coir. nde‘s huge war material surplus all tcr the war as outlinec. today by, the heads of the gnvcrlinicni- created War Assets Corporation Limited, will be s compromise cr- tween the iioccssiiy of liquidating valuable assets as soon as possible and the prevention of an overflmu of surpluses on the murku cans. in: unemployment. J. B. Carswell, of Toronto and Hamilton, former representative in Washington of the Canadian Mu- nitions Department. “’hDYew% ~cl~ cctcd earlier in the. day president of the recently-formed Crown Company, said in a statement is- sued at a press conference:- "Esscntially, the Carporatiolili job will be one of conipromihe, recognizing that surpluses im- pounccd too long cease to be ru- sets, and, on the other hand. thud surpluses released foo quickly coulzl have mgst disastrous cifccts on industry and enlploymciit." At the some meeting. Hon Wil- (rid Gagnon of Montreal was ol- ccted vice-president and F.O. Poi- crsoli also of Montreal \\'i\S ap- pointed 5ECTEtB1'_\'-il‘EflSUi‘(‘f‘, A omi- cral-managel- will be appointed shortly. Mr. CsrswelFs ststemeni said inn Corporation WOUIL impound all wer material surpluses in nus great reservoir rind supply "inwil- ligcnt but. finn control m1 ills releasing gate-valves." GULLS ENDANGER PLANE NEW YORK, Jan. 6 ~—ICP)—~'\ Trans~Cannda Air Lines transport plane bound for Toronto ran into a flock of sen. gulls as it took on today from La Guardia Field here. but the pilot, Captain W. G. Avisml landed the aircraft without mis- hen. On board were three passenger: and the plane's crow of hrcc. About 100 zulls SUYFOLUICCU ih plane as it took the air. Four v IES HAVE NEW “ROCKET” PLANE 3TH ARMY 11v NEW omzzvszvo ._ =<'-.¢._.‘_—~\.§v+._- -