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Cuban Big Money Men Get-"lnto Horse Racing

HAVANA. Jan. 3 — (AP) - Havana's Oriental Park getting a shot 1n the arm from renewed Cuban interest in horse breed that has brought big money men into the garn Of the 360 at Oriental, more t an one third were bred on Cuban farms of stal lions and mares from the United States. The others are North Am. erican bred but the number of imported racers rapidly de- “Frlhslngt a z e ren o ros erit that brought rich Cubapm pintg close

contact with racing coincides with

increased purses and mounting betting totals in a land where the ‘roan-in-the-street is an inveterate Sportsman.

An ordinary Saturday or sun. idly turnout ranges from 5.000 to

Early Selection‘ 0f New Baseball -. Commissioner llrged

BRQZJN, Jan. 3 -- (AP) — Selection of a new baseball coni- missioncr to succeed the late Kenesaw Mountain Landis “at the earliest possible time" was urged today by Branch Rickey. president of Brooklyn Dodgers and member of the 10-man committee that will start work Friday in Chicago on drafting a new Major League agreement.

Speaking at his first press con- ference of 1945. Rickey reiterated his earlier statement on the fut- ure of baseball when he said: “It seems reasonably certain that base- ball will carry on in 194.6. we were right in following th 1942 green light from the White House ltin is our Job and our duty to con-

ue"

Touching on the need for lead- ership, Rickey declared, "we need a. commissioner now. Drawing of an agreement is not as important as that Job. If we can do both tasks at the same time we will be 1n an even better position but I believe we can proceed more ex- geditiomly on a new pact if we

ave selected our commissioner who can work with us."

Standings In N. N. L. Scoring llnchanged

Standinils of national hockey lea- ml: 860111102 leaders held unchanged

t night as each of the league's four top scorers picked up one or two points when Cana-ldisns defeat- oston c

lev. Boston. Other scoring leaders were idle.

Leaders: Blake. Canadians Richard. CLfbBdlCliI Cowley, on Lach. Canadiens Howe. Detro t M. Bnmeteau. Detroit Bodnar. Toronto

BOWLING

vvsnivssna; AFTERNOON BOWLING amour.

TEAM 2-

Mrs. F. B. Clarke .. Mrs. Sinclair .. . Mrs. Hooper

Mrs. Dalllng . Mrs. Walker TEAM 1-

Mrs. Norman

Mrs. Mutcli .. Mrs. Stewart

v§Em§8§Q

. I32 . 116 70

Mrs. Cl3\VSCl‘i TEAM 3-

Mrs. J. P. Clarke .. Miss Pat Clarke Mrs. Irvine Mrs. Rupert

Mrs. .. l . ' : Mrs. I-liaii Three: Mrs.

u. N. L. Standings

6.000 fans but the total approaches 10.000 on holidays. particularly when an all-Cuban stake is offer-

1118 ed. The bettors have the legal

choice of wagering through the parimutuels or with the hand- o

e. thoro hbreds stabled bo ks

Oriental Park, located on thc outskirts of Havana. is virtually brand new as the stands were re- built after almost total destruc- tion by the Oct. l8 hurricane. Although Havana racing has ex- cited little interest in recent years,

until the current shutdown of the h

tracks by order of War Mobiliza- tion Director James F. Byms, 1t once was the winter sports centre of America. The late John J. Mc- Grow. manager oi the New York Giants. once was financially inter- csted in Oriental Park and was a regular off-season visitor.

!“YM” Wins Exhibition Hoop Tilt

An exciting exhibition sen-Ret- ball game between P. W. C. and the Y.M.C.A. was held in the Y. M. C. A. Gymnasium yesterday. The Y.M.C.A. team beat the P. W.| C. by a score of 5i to 31. Smith, oi the Y.M.C.A. team was the high scorer for the evening. scoring 24

oints. Cornish scored l0 point-s or P.W.C.

Referees for the game were L. W. Storey and Harold Howatt. Scorer, Harry Shaina.

Canadians Hockey Club ls Robbed 0f

Equipment At Boston

BOSTON. Jan. 3 -- (AP) — While checking over their euuili- ment in elr Boston Garden dressing room today before leav- ing for Toronto. members of the Montreal Canadians llockcv Club discovered they had been robbed of two paris of skates. two sweat- ers. a ir of hockey gloves and a pair o hockey pants.

The skates. valued ot S30 the pair belonged to Ray Gciliffe and Leo launoureaux. Thev said auch outfits arc almost irrenla- ceable because of wartime scar- cltics. It is believed that e to the dressing room was gained throuzh a transom sometime n_i‘- ter Tuesday night's game, in which the Canadiers defeated Boston Bruins 6-3.

'_ Turfmen Surprised

At Sale Results

MIAMI. Fla., Jan. 3 -- (AP) -—- Turfmen were surprised today at

36 the prices brought by l0 thorough; a

breds sold for u total ol $6.550

1 an auction conducted on the first

day of the racing holiday.

Trainer Bob Shannon sold the horses for the Guthrie Hall Farm vowned by Baron John Von Leis- dersdorff of Edgmont. Va.

Dr. FJJ. Bennetv-of Huntingdon Valley, Pa. who is stocking the Five M's Farm for breeding pur- pages, paid $1.900 for Cavoluke, a. four-yeur-old son of Cavalcade.

"Apparently somebody still wants horses," Shannon said. "I found the prices better than I had ex- pected."

Navy Team Edges Cut Maroons 3-2

A Navy hockey team int night defeated another local team, the Maroons. 3-2 in on exhibition game played at the Upper Queen Street rink. The Navy team was com- posed largely of players on the regular City League team.

The Maroons hope t pla five-game exhibition s ies the Tors.

Ir ‘his csusdisa II- Detroit's Joe Louis won his 13th bout 10 years n20 tonight at De- troit. defeating Patsy Perroiil. tough rofessional heavyweight boxinz oston battlei". in l0 rounds. Loul. became the second world's colors. champion in 1937 when he knocket;

out Champion Jlrnmv Braddock a Chicago. Lcuis is now in the U. S

y l With

BUS __SCHEDULES

CHANGES IN SOURIS AND SUMMERSIDE TRIPS EFFECTIVE FRIDAY, JANUARY 5th

Owing to the equipment.

situation beyond our control

we find it necessary to cancel the following runs for this

winter only.

Charlotlctown-Souris 4:80 p. in. Cancelled.

Charlottetown-Scarf: 7:30 p. in.

:daiiy excepfSunday.

Summerslde-Cliarlottetown

Eiumlnerside cancelled. All other schedules ho change in Sunday

<_ tlons to Mainland.

TIIE ISLAID MDTD

Remains in effect

7:15 a. m. trip from

remain as at present. schedules except no connec-

Il TRANSPORT LTD.

SKATING AND HEALTH

VETERANS LEAVE

(Corrtinueddrcm pagc l.)_ Western Fronts could scarcely b;- lieve they were back iii a Can. adian mid- ,Ilt8l'. But they were assured theyd find things normal as tthev travelled inland.

The great bulk of the arrivals were ilown from France-men who ad been wounded anywhere be- tween the Normandy beaches and Holland.

One of them was Gnr. ‘lied Reeve of Toronto, former football player and sports wr-ter. Who had tried for days to cover up a brokci-i arm so he could remain with Toronto's “Sportsman's Battery‘ m tlhc Western Front. After the doctors finally found him out. they dis- covered he was over-age. too, so he was sent home. i-le was wounded near Caen.

"l lust made a round-trl sight- secin trip," grinned youth ul Pte. Ray avis of Hamilton, Ont., who landed in England from Canada in M90] aizd was knocked out next mflllili in France.

A dispatch rider, Davis ms put Owt 0|! acilflii when his motorcycle c into a truck at nlgiht While he was riding up to the front from his y headquarters near Boulogne.

A Germ-er.- sniper's bullet ac- Cgllniled for Gui‘. Arthur Black of

i. member of an anti-tank unit. as he W38 talking with a group of his battery-mates in a field near the Seine River.

“A bunch of the artillery boys went after the sniper with small arms and polished him off." he added ‘vith satisfaction.

clearing station. Pte. Bob Kippen 0! NBWdB-le. Mark. was laid low himself by illness at St. Nicholas. Belgium. The illness developed into ‘Pllralysls fcr the R.C A.M.C.

One Red Crosg V A D.

One Red Cross V.A.D. was oboe-pd the ship-Betty Thompson Q! wllmlllfil. She had contracted pleurisy while serving overseas

Aftfr ridng his tank through France, Belgium and part cf Hol- land, Lieut. Charles Clarke of Montreal silt a smashed leg when a Nazi shell penetrated the tank fi exploded inside, killing one of

crew.

He admitted his crew had "got quite a few" German tanks before it fcll victim m a Nazi self-pro- guri, but he hadn't kept any

Praises Medical Corpg

‘Lleut. Clarke, who was serving W.th the British Columbia. Regi- gtcnt. bod lilsh praise for me work

f hit." he said, is lie there. They'll come out and Wu. no matter where it is. You can't sc-y too much about the work

.of those fellows ”

Two officer victims of artillery fire in Holland’ were Llemt. Q_W_ Reed of Toronto and Calgary and Lie-wt. William Wallace of Toronto.

Reed. w-th the Royal ent, Was hit while his outfit was opening a on the Wiilchenen Island CBUSQWRC’. An odd shoulder wound had the effdec of pilN-lyzing Only

u been aw from tm for 14 weelcsflage said, TH“... luck rm out lust after 1 not back."

A member of the Toronto soot. i491" Wallace was hit by fire from a German a-millimci-ie gun,

I-lcui. Albert Maltais of Chi- wutlml. ploughing inio n hearty hospital rlhlp meal. happily pm- "Wmed lit "11 bl? improvement over compo rations."

Serving with the Regiment Dc Uhaudlere. he was wounded in the lws while leading his pltnpgqn 5,. an attack 0n Nazi pillboxeg am! Ill-Whine all" "Ivblaccments around spill/is l“ k ' 25b A

' e o0 unit always giutlr," engage/fire: our

It Was after an objective had been taken that Lieut. Leo 10m. chell“of London, 0nt., wag wound. ed. A few Jerries got away from us and caused trouble," r-ie ex- Dlained. He was wounded by ma. fill-me Run fire in this brush near the Schelde Estuary. The officer was attached to the South 3M. kififllfiflflél Regiment.

.eu . . D. Woods of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont, serving Wm, the S0111“ Alberta Regiment, was wounded when an 88 shell burst tovelarhead and showered the in- er or f hi t iih .-. ‘hfmlsl? the sturlgl‘. M shrapml

‘We were moving up during tlic

‘uttack on Falaisc, before the bu“.

lhTOUZlI." he explained.

A twice-wounded officer was Capt. A. J. Willick of Niagara Falls. 0M. who served on loan with the British Wiltshire Regiment. Tiic flfflii time. he was wounded by “so h:

e a ra e

of as shell. y m n

One of e. handful of R.C.A.F. per-

sonnel aboard the hospital ship‘

was F0. Gordon Bowman of Chilli-

' Wank. B.C. The young navigator

had been taken ill while stationed with a conversion unit, where lie was transferring from Wellington bombers to heavier craft. He had

lid operational flights before that.

A Nazi riflc grenade ended the war foi- Cpl. Nicholas Matic of Vancouver. member of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles. He lost his rl it leg when he was hit at the Sche de Estuary.

"I never even ot to France." said Cpl. Howard lis of Toronto. from an adjoining cot. The Cor.

ral, with the Postal Corps in

ngland, was injured in a train accident while riding up in Lon-

on, .

own suitvivoit

Though he was wounded twice. Cpl. 'I‘om Breen of Montreal, with the 17th Duke of York Royal Can- adian Iiussars. considered himself “plenty lucky."

He was the only survivor of the crew of a universal carrier which was hit by an 08 shell near Calais. He lost a log in that explosion. On his first trip to France. after go-

Member of the staff of a casualty v

TO-NIGHT-—8 to I0 TWO ENJOYABLE HOURS

THE FORUM

The carrier‘ in which he was flnillly hit Jus in an advance de- tachment pushing into Calais. "We were the only ones in our section °f the IOWH." he said. "and the Jerries cut us off and then went to work on us."

Caught in the RAF. error bomb- lni; at the Folaise pocket on Aug. 14. Gnr. John Murray of Durirea. M811» Was wounded in th g: was with the 12th Field

Artillery and sniper fire inflict- ed two wounds on Cpl. Pierre Car- i-iere of Cumberland House. Sash. He was hit by shell fragments at Orbec. France. and later by a sniper at Nieuport, Belgium, while flifhtins with the South Saskatche- wan Regiment.

An 88 shell accounted for Pte. Gravelle of Ottawa, member of the Anny Service Corps. He was wounded in the ankle at the Seine River,

Two Ontario members of the Argyll and Sutherland Highland- ers were exchanging reminiscences in a ward. Ptc. Howard Silver- thorn of Bolsover lost the sight of one eye when he was hit by a mortar bomb fragment during an attack Sept. 0 at Belgium's Albert Canal.

Sgt. Len Morse of Burlington suffered a. broken hip at Falaise. "I was lying in a slit trench," he. said. “when iln B8 shell passed overhead and hit an apple tree nearby. The explosion showered me with fragments."

One of the few veterans of the Italian fighting abroad was Sgt. George Wlinlley of lberville. Que. who had fought with the Royal ‘Jaiiadian Regiment. He was part- ly paralyzed when he was hit by machine gun fire in the spine and neck near Rimini.

“One my jobs". said Sgt. George W. Richardson of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont, "was locating land mines, and 1 certainly located this one."

Driving a jeep with an officer passenger. lie ran into a sniper and pulled off the road near Fal- aise to avoid the fire. The little vehicle touched off an anti-tank niliic that blew off its front. Rich- ardson, a member of the Engineers, had both heels broken; the officer was only shaken up.

First Bailey Bridge

Sgt. Richardson was proudest of the fact that it was his platoon that put up the first Bailey bridge used by the Allies of France. "We threw it across the Orne river at Caen in eight hours," he said.

A direct hit by an 68 on, o. house in Holland left Pte. Albert Wells of Edmonton with paralysis after a spine injury.

“We had Just. come up to this house and were starting to use it as a headquarters,” he said. "Jerry act the range on it and put one shell through the roof. I started out but didn't move fast enough, because the next one blew the place to hell. The ceiling and everything else came down on lop of the three of us in the build-

‘te. R. n. Memmott of Gait. 0nt., was wounded while fighting his way into Boulogne with the Regiment De Chaudiere. A shell fragment hit lilm above tlie knee while he was serving with an anti- tank guii crew.

"I think." he said, "lt was one oi the big cross-channel guns at Cop Gris Nez that the Nazis had turned inland against us."

Ministers Discuss Family Allowances

, THE CHARLOTTETMQWN

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CQARDIAN

TNEATRES “The lung's All Ncre”

IN TECIINICOLOB! ALICE OAR

I MIN Faye - - Miranda PHIL IQNN

Baker - - lioodmayn

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you what. truly glorious sli- tcrtalumcnt it ill soums-rriuas. s pm.

MONTAGUE-SAT. var-us _ PM.

JOINS 3R

1Continued¢fr§pi_ Dido l.)___ ated that the Germans still had about 20 di

scum?

were acing the 8rd Army on M to 30 miles of the bulges southern flank from a point east of 5t. Hubert t0 north 0i Wiltz. At least half of these were panaers, with the of the better German troops centred .

The Genrinens were reinforcing heavily around Ilouffalise, nine miles north of Bastogne and five miles north of Boumy. armo/unced poin-t of Allied pene- tration into the bulge, Roses" Greene. Associated Press War Cor- respondent, reported from the front.

Von Runstedtfi Lone:

It. was officially estimated today that Held Marshal Von Rundstedt lost 20.000 men captured and tanks destroyed by ground forces oloize during the first 1B da/ys of his spectacular drive to the west. and. that in addition six German armored divisions and five infantry divisions were severely cut up. Un- official estimates in the field put the €n€my's total casualties ir. the offensive at 60.000.

Evidently most. of these casual- ties were inflicted bvy the ‘U18. ‘Ilhird Army, which a field diqiatich estimated had destroyed the equiv- alent of five Nazi divisions sinoc entering the battle Dec. I). From 8.000 to 9,000 men were in each gnaw division. The t h

into

the enemy-‘s lomes only thromh Dec. 31 in the battle of the bulge. Gen. Patton’; armored counter- drive had exacted or.- additional heavy toll during the last three dalys. in‘ which the Germans had been knocked from more than u donen towns in the Bast/pine and.

Enemy Plans Uncertain

There was no clear indication of the Germans‘ ol-ans. The hill-v ter- ra‘n east of Bastofme is favorable for lgefence, and it wggwthugizlg pose le the enemy m establish s llnc running north- westw ll from that American-held traffic huh and fall back alowlv to their Siegfried Line defences l5 to 20 miles to the east.

For the third straight day the enemy hurled assaults against the ‘flniifled Sta 7t AHIW ir. thie lower Verges. v deepen Ills two-mile by salient southern-i. of the Molrinot fcrf-"esg citv of Hlldhe.

"The eiiemv s-tlll is tru-infl to find n. place to break t-hroug " said or. American staff officer.

Canadian Army

OTTAWA, Jim. S —(CP) Farruiy allowances, plymelmt of which starts next July. were held out. tonight by two cabinet irilnis- tcrs n; an important element in the Federal Government's plan for. maintaining full employment and; creating improved social conditions after the war. l

The speakers were Finance Min- ister Iislev and Welfare lVfin-' isicr Claxtnn. who spoke over the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation natlciisil network on time allotted to t-he Liberal Party under the 0130's fr . t‘ arrangement for political broadcasts. I

Mr. Ilslev said ilie problem 0d finding iierirlv 1.000.000 more jobs for Canadians than existed in the boom year cf 1029 would not be, casv but could be solved. '

Iii approaching it the Govern- ment decided to do all possible to loeep the "thtrec dynan-ios of our economic system" - export trade, domestic consumption and capital ‘iivee-tmeiit-running at. high speed and rcgularity.

The Social Security program. in- cluding famly allowances, fitted into iris governmental plan of in- creasing and stabilizing consump- tion. maintaining consumer spend- ing during the trunsiflon period and sustaining it in later years. Other things contributing to- the sum/e objective were war service grants and the rehabilitation program, unemployment insunancc, old-age pensions. health insurance and floor prices for farmers and fish- ermon.

Mr Claxton said the Family Allowance Act passed the House of Commons unanimously. the first time such a thing happened ir. the case of on important bill which had lceerrstrongly c-mosxid .____ H _ __ _

NHIARDDS

Casualties Down During November

OTTAWA, Jan. 8 — (OP) - De- fence Headquarters today an- nounced Canadian Army casual- ties as 1,990 for November - the lowest monthly total since the in- vasion of northwestern Europe.

The war total Nov. 30 glue 6094.1 made up of 16.720 dead. '1.- 722 wounded. 6.400 rnissinl. Dill- oner and interned. ‘

This is the breakdown on casual- ties since June 1—eix days before TJ-Day:

4

(xi-Comparison of Octobe November misslng-prisoner-intern- ed figures actually showed a de- crease of 56 which presumably re- sulted by reclossification of men formerly listed in these categories.

The heavy-casualt riod for the Canadians enderl 0v. 9 when thc costly-campaign to clear the Bchelde closed. Since then they have been reported as taking part in onl patrol activity along the Nether nd-German frontier.

The new a figures Ibflllflht the war total or Canadas three armed forces to 70.081 mode up of H.440 dead. 30.000 wounded and 12.400 missing. prisoner and in- ferried.

October and November 118"!“ for the Navy and Air Force arc not yet available.

ADMIRAL BAMSATS FUNERAL

coupon, Jan. a - w?) — The Admiralt announced today m" a funera service for Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsey. Allied Milli commainder-iii-chief whole 688th in a plane crash on the continent was reported yseterdfly. would be

400 mente.

Secs Danger For Allies After War

LONDON Jan. 4 — (‘flmlldlyl - (Cm-Tbs lnndou News Obscu- lclo Baldwin an editorial toda that recent tlclsui of Britain the United States cudlsck of harmony

t "sharp inter-Allied tension" the war. " _r laid that tzAmei-ica

The are ursue liciea in a u srloen

rid B t "v on u‘ ielda. critics

afferent o whet

polities’ are vooifero era - ing these difficulties, so the. what is in effect s new form of isol-