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S ’Sicle Reports Surplus k Of $3,513,

Annual Reports Submitted At Meeting Last Night; Liquor Question Discussed.

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SAINT JOHN, N.B., Jan. H — (CP)—'I‘he disastrous fire which swept the north aide of Kin! Souare, in the heart of Saint John's business district. early io- Cay is estimated to have caused losses which may exceed $350,000. Origin of the fire was still undet- ermined tonight.

A red cloud out of which seethed clouds of smoke and flame was visible from all over the citv as tho buildings, mostly of wood, flamed like matchwood.

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"loading live hogs at Bouris evary Monday all day. Signed Georse Dmgwcll. i2- -S-W-S-ti.

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"Loadin hogs for Davis d: Fraser at urrav River Monday. J. J. Bock

January 25th.

"B in; ii and dressed chick- 1 fowl gory Wednesday. ng 1,9 price; . .

Hunter? glxr. O-Dil-S-M-tf.

"We are buying live and dress- ed chickens and fowl daily, pay- IIIB bop market. val . Phone or writ: for pr cos. Island old Bioraé .1??-

"Livestock Marketing Board tak- ing h s at Charlottetown every week ay. special price paid for YWHB Iowa suitable for breeding Purposes l-M-

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u thtlicavleut filhilng new under- Germans are being forced buck so rapidly the cannot keep up with developments. Note, Bnllk, whose cap- ture pa; announced lugt night, is shown well behind German linoa us eulaicd only a. few daya age. The map indicates the mnli-i-pronged

which the Soviets are threat-

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A surplus of $8,513.11 for the cur- rent year was reported at the ad- iourned meeting oi the Bummer- side Town Council which wok place last evening. Total revenue amounted to 8124.01.51 and tots expeditures t0 8190.93334-

The recorder pointed out that ten year; ago the revenue was $54.- 000.00 about half of what it is to- day while in the some time the salaries of town officials hul- dc- oreased slightly.

Councillor Mcliison, chairman of the Finance committee, said that it was s very favourable statement particularly in view of the fact that the sinking funds have been well taken care of. He said that while most of ihe expenditures were up the street expenditures were lower.

Councillor Gorrlll congratulated the finance committee and point- ed out that the streets had spent $800 less than their estimates and that they were in good condifon.

Mayor WJ. Lidstone presided and councillors Gorrill, Mollison, Morrison and Wedge were present.

Councillor Mollibon asked if any- thing more had- becn done about the meeting with the Premier. Councilor Gorrlll said he wanted to know if when they met the Premier did they intend to discuss the en- forcement of the Prohibition Act or the changing of the act. Coun- cillor Morrison. "we are going to aak him to chsnfe the act." The

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BULLETIN

OTTAWA. Jun. 23-minut- day) _ GP) - An official statement issued early today laid that "the wa Iiliill‘ for resumption o’ pro- ductlon at once" in alccl plank at Sault Ste. Marla. OnL, Syd- ney. N.B., and Trenton, N.S. which have been sirikebound for more than a week. ,

The iatemant was issued on behalf of Prime Minister Mac- kenzie King and the United Steelworkers of America,

The uialcment said that du- tulla of the agreement of sat- tlemeni. are elng communi- cated to the union locals involv- ed ln the strike by officials who attended conferences hero yes- terday and early this morning.

The details were not made public In the official statement.

Principal demand of the U. S.W.A. in the strike has been establishment of a basic min- imum Wale rate of 55 cents an 11°!!!‘ plus oosl-uf-llvlng bonus-

Praise Ganadian Ack-Ack Battery

IN ENGLAND. Jan. 22 —(CP Cable)-A Canadian anti-aircraft battery was praised today for its port in the aerial de- fence of London last Sunday when iltwtoaieili]. four nlfinauo! highceérplos- s e a nu bombers. ‘ ma“ It 1a the only Canadian heavy anti-aircraft battery in the Inndon defence area. The unit wag praised by the General Officer Command- in: the Ack-Aok command, Sir Frederick Pile, Who messaged; “("9 "D the 800d work. Canada".

‘Fre‘iii:li‘lllive‘i* Ainnan Graduates

OTTAWA. Jan. 22-(CP)-Ai Marshall LS. Breadner, chief cl all‘ staff. today presented wings m 8- Brfldllaiirif; class of pilots at No. 2 Service Fying Training school "f nearby Uplllnds and Presented the school for the second time the “Cock Of The Walk". Trophy,

The Trophy, awarded four times B W111‘. marks Uplands as the most efficient service flying training school in Canada during the last three months of 1942.

Youths form eight provinces. four states and Brazil were in the pilot's graduating class.

The acluafes are:—-

Maril: mes-Hamid W. McLeod. French River. P E'I., Jolm E, Pearce, McKeofis Mills, N.B.

Iiay Sweeps Gver France

LONDON, Jun. 22- (AP) -—- Swarms of British. Canadian, Am- erican and other Allied planes car- ried out extensive, large-scale of- fensive sweeps over Northern France and Belgium today in a followup to the ninoh night bomber attack this month on Hitler's Ruhr valloy arsenal.

The air ministry said seven Gor- man fighters were destroyed and that four Allied bombers and six fighters were lost in the daylight operations that extended over 350 miles of Gannon-occupied coastal territory from Ghent to the Cher- bourg Peninsula.

Dealers Told To Ration Goal In Prairies

858g The Canadian Press) n Co ealers in the three Prairie Provinces last night were instructed by the Prices Board not to deliver fuel to any person having 10 days supply on hand in an effort to over- come the acute fuel shortage at many points following the coldest

n", , Alta, r flavorful ntlhc nmnfiili Cgrrgilcrlefgdlicevl €l8m 1% t3: move grilitelgrl: aislfirays-a ‘so. "corneal a l 1 0 V8

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°°“ ...§.'."£"...“§'.'. nero. .1...» . 33f cord low for Vancouver to 40 be- low in Nor Saskatchewan. m Southern Baa and Muni- ...... is...“ m... s. '.:"...'".r*" fig?“ and A brother. lfobert. some nubile.- no s s2 all? botbof newclLltl. ioumcampcrmirsandOI-lluul.

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They now urs highly important in cumin; battle of Tunisia.

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siege of Leningrad.

‘Pheflllefliipollbeforula-Illsfillolupcrfonfi change ln the aerial uspcciu of the battle of ‘runluiu even I Marshal Erwin Rommel’: remnants escape to Join forces h north Tunisia. u e_ a e e a

(By Kirke L. Simpson. Associated Press War Analyst)

an important

Axis airfield: that have come in for furious Allied asst-west bomb- ing to hamper RommeYu retreat lic to the south and west of Tripoli.

the Allies for their own use in the

The quicker those fields within B00 miles or has of Tunis Ind Biuefle be taken. repaired and put back in service as Allied air buses, the sooner n triple bomb fire at relntlvcly short range can be opened an Axis defences on the Tun slan for-clam],

criheaste ll Trlpolitnnlu where the nlr fields

The fight for control of the Mediterranean waiuolne, confined lax". l7 l0 ill’ 099F931"!!! 9800M for the 8th Army advance and Nani efforts to hold "P"! and widen Rommel’; Qygllpq

‘dot. must therefore enter

If. seems obvious that apprehension is running high h mun u some new Allied offensive stroke, perhppg h N°f"y. “n, h9g0" ‘h, hliile of Tunisia h Iona-in out or u... final mm reached in u» Rnullnn Wiflivr ofimslvv- Sweden nope-n worried um u» war n coming closer to her. Finland is startled by Russian success in

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Germans before Stalingrad.

point of Russian advance on

Extensive Search For Missing Airman

H HALIFAX, Jan. 22—(CP)—-A.n extensive" seaich is being made for one of the Dominion’; best known airmen, Flt, Lt. S. Alward (Al) Glee-amen of Port Arthur, Ont., and two companions, missing since last Sunday, the headquarters of the Eastern Air Command announcpd, i191‘? Wiley. An air force statement said that no trace of their plane has been found since it left its base at Srnudouc, N.B., on a routine flight.

With Fir. lot. Chccsman were Cpl. G. A. Nimmons. North Peter- bflfflilflll. Ont. and Lac. P.G. Lan- dry of Moncton, N.B,

Germans Gloomy Over Eastern Front

LONDON, Jan. 22 -(GP)-- In iizeir gloomirst communique of the will‘, Lhe German High COlI-lllnlild reported tcdny Lllill. Nazi troops encircled near Stalingrad were forced. back several kilometrls by a Russian break-through from the west and tncfly admitted s retreat in the Caucasus.

‘The plight of the “Stalh-igrud defenders" was acknowledged about lo days ago when the Germans. after two days of exporting the troops to light, snld the Rlussans were attacking from all sires. ‘me communique broadcast by Berlin and recorded me Associ- iated Press today. sad the Russ- ians broke the weal wall brfcr-e Stalin ad and "are stormin with far au rior forces." Thcy c amud large numbers of Soviet tanks were destroyed.

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LONDON, Jan. lI—(AP)—'l‘he capture of Salak, im- portant railway junction in the North Caucasus 100 miles southwest of Rostov, was announced tonight in a special Russian communique recorded here by the Soviet Monitor.

Salsk is on the Stalmgrad-Tikhoretsk railway and is the terminus of another, brane 1i» qaiHecllI1ios.-l¢-“i~--u1i‘l1=iw ‘Inca-armor. air has.» m... which transport planes had flown supplies to the encircled

_ line from llostov. Beside;

The Russians also announced the capture of Mikoyan- Shakliar in the north Caucasus.

Mikoynn-Shakhar is deep in the Caucasus mountains on the headwaters of the Kuban River slightly north and west 0f Mount Elborus, king peak of the towering range. It lies 120 miles southeast of the Mnikop oil fields and a- bout 60 miles south of Nevinnomissokays,

the farthest the Rosiov-Baku railway. '

The midnight bulletin also told of the caplure of Nova Aldar, 30 miller. northwest of Voroshlovjrraci on the railway running north to Valllki, already in Russian herds, This important Russian 3.11:1 p-lt ihe Rod Army only 50 lllllvn nrrth- east of Artemovk. bis railway city on the line runninr south of Tag- nnrog. on the Sea of Aznv west. of Rostov.

‘Imus the Russian; now have seized many points on lhe north- aouth railway running rcvuvthly 00 miles west of the Moscow-Retry line. and am driving on to capture A second rail netwrrk in the U- kraine.

Salslvs capture w‘s the most im- portant of the (‘av be nuse it put tho Rilssiana within '1') mil"a of Tikhoroisk, where the S‘al':=grad railway meets the main line run- ning north. Cutimz of this Yne would leave tho Nazis only the risky escape channel of the Ker-ch Peninsula opposlie the Crimea.

Once R~stov is taken or en- circled the Riuaums; would berm u bilge ann’bil~lin:~ light as ih"_v did with the i‘ German dividers trap- pcfl at sinlivcrnd.

The S‘~l‘n_ nrl liq"lrini'nn a i‘lis wring rn acalnst. less tlvn 50.""0of tho n~~'~'\"nl total of some 220.0% Axis troors.

Japs Wipod Gut At Sanananda

ALLIED HEAD UARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, an. 23 — (Saturday) —- (CP) — The Jap- anese in nll the Sananandu sec- tor of New Guinea have been overwhelmed and the Allies now control the entire Pupuun Peninsula, the high command announced today.

Th9 mum (gumlllllhlqflc 1B0 reported the destruction of 24.- 000 ions of Jan nhllillllll ll Rubanl, New Brligjri.

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Flt. Lt. G. G. Keefer ls Awarded l). F. G.

(YITAWA. Jan. ll — (C?) - Award of two distinguished flying croslsea and seven distinguished- fly- ing medals to members of the R. C A F. serving overseas and of two distinguished flying crosses to R.A 1'. officers who took their training in Canada was announced today by R,C.A.1". headquarters.

Following are the award winners with next of kin:-

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Flt Lt. Grenfel J. Mclross, Ont. Rev. W. Conrad (father) Poet Office Burr No. l Bedford, Que.

1"1t. Lt. George Clinton Keefer of Charlottetown, Mrs, Grace Hughes (aunt) 167 Huston It. Char- lottetown.

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1'0. Herbert I’. Dick-unlike (hometown, next of kin not given).

PO. Ernest .1 Saunders (home- town, next of kin not given).

lTlt. Sgt. Lorrie Weller Haunts of Kingston. Ont. Min. mien Haunts (mother) All Albert 5t-

Kl Ont. Douglas Pahner Hob-

Heston. Flt. Btg. son of Saskatoon, Mira. Annie G. Hobson (mother) 621 Sixth Ave. Saskatoon.

Flt. Sgt. Desmond lvloCabe cf Victoria. Henry MoCabe (father) 1089 N111 Ba! Rd. Victofll.

Ht. Llent. Keefer iu a nephew of Mrs. G. Gordon Hughes of this Olly. andlswell known here having spent his summers in Charlotte- town. He enlisted from here.

He was born in New York, the soil of the late Mr. George Clinton Keefer, (Mrs, Keef- er was a sister of Mrs. Hughes).

Flt. Lleut. Keefer enlisted in October, i940, and received his wins! wlllh the rank of Pilot Offi- cer at Uplands Tramin School. in April, i941. ‘The followirigmonth he went overseas. Ho was in Err-l!- land until September, 1041, when he was transferred to the Middle East to a Fighier Squrdron. While there he was engncerl i": nir opera- tions over the Libyan desert.

Last summer he was promoiqdoo the rank of Flight Licut. and in September, 1942 he was made an instructor in the Middle East Air ‘Raining School. He urns still there when relatives here last received word from him.

No official citation has been re- ceived by relatives here in connec- tion with the award.

In a clinpinu from a Smlih Afri- ran paper received in Charlwe- iovrn last- Ailsrnst, rcfermre i= vrfldfi to a yrwnr Canadian p‘lot officer, G. C. Keefer of Priory,- Edwawl lg- lanri, ‘having rescued n, Smith A'ri- can pilot (hose clam had hren shot down in rm erruigemerii with Stukss and enemy firhtvrs.

Mimi-Limit. Keefer was educat- eri at FE'"'$"Tlfl"'l'l Schrol in West Newton and at Pf~lll’p= Firtcr Acndemv in New Honvshlvr. Be- fore enlisiinz he had 0"Tfl'l‘€b"d his first year in engineering at Yale. -

Goldwdl Makes Reference To Strikes

OTTAWA, Jail. 22—(CP_)--M, J- Colrlwell, C.C.F. lender, said in an ziiluress prepared fol" broadcast lo- nighi. three vital steal mills are idle because "the arbitrary price and wage freezing policy adopted in this country decpeeB thli men employed in this arduous and haz- ardous occupation should work for a wage that la demonstrably too low."

In his first radio address over the National Network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation since his election as C.C.F. leader last year, Mr_ Coldwcll said the C.C.F. calls for the immediate establishment of a post-war planning commission “truly representative of all clauses in the communit '

pout - war

L’ War planning and

policies were two parts of the same fight for victory and ‘we are ,ln- deed building the post-war world now, by the way we organise the war.’

ad Fire At Amherst

Jun. D — are Homeless

“Wwsllf- _ vc cs (s?) u fire which Iuplxd the l-lewson Block here today. will")! damage estimated at 861M020- Firemczi succeedrd in llflvmillll the flames from spreading in near- w. mnldingu after g stubborn bat-

The Hcwuon Block. fronting on vicinria and Havelock Streets, con- tained Oak flail, men's furnishing utore, the lodge and recreation mdlll of two Masonic Lodges, of- dices of Tom's Tax-l Service, offices

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140N008, Jain. I -(AP)- ‘Hie laet important defences of 'l‘x1pcli were reported h Brituh bands Io- night and the main moments of Marshal Irwin RommePs fugitive Africa. Corps were believed to escaped into Tunisia.

Only a. few German rearguards had been left behind to enguze in a. bitler last-minute defence of the capital and chief city of Mussolini’: mipire which now was swept. be’ dem “tion uXpIOIlOM and fires set by the withdrawing Axis IOTCK.

Their flight. was clearly visible to Allied llodu who flew aver inc buming oi , and the Morocco R4- dlo said all knportant defences had fallen. I

‘lhe Axis Tunisian Army of Ool. Gen. Jurgen Von Arnlm, already playing host to the Rommel corps. meanwhile was reported smashed back in bitter battles d consider- able scale fur control of u moun- bain highland gilarding Raornmeks coastal escape corridor.

War Winning Strategy liow Being Shaped

LONDON, Jan. IJ—(A.P)—»A wav- winning strategy for United

Nations in 1943 is believed by lon-

don observers to be in the stage of final settlement at this moment. with formation of a four-power supreme war council as one of its main bases.

Although they are without official confirmation, negotiations are re- liably reported under way to com- plete arrangements for a round-the- worlcl offensive which began in 1942 with the war’: first major Allied land victories in Africa. the Wilm- west Pacific, and Russia.

The belief here is that the dis- cussions arc primarily concerned with the defeat of the Axis in Europe this your or in i044, with the full power of the United Nations then to be turned to the far east in a. gigantic assault against Jap- an and every pait of her Elmpirc.

Big Bomber Gn Mercy Flight To Grenfell Mission

MONTREAL. Jun. 22 —(CP) - The Royal Air Force Ferry Command has added u “mercy flight" to a routine that in- cludes delivery of bombers, ur- gent war material and offliiul passengers.

Responding to an urgent re- quest from the Granfell Mia- slon in Labrador u bl [Abern- tor bomber fley m I sup- plies to Ilopedule and puru- chuiefl them to u post where serius illness had broken out.

Cheery waves from mission of-n-lnh n.l.'.'l' they retrieved the sup lies and absence of any furl er requests led Ferry Command men lo l~ell've “they ‘of. what they wanted and

ave the ulluailon well in hand."

The Liberuior look two cases cf supplies which were rlrcpprd by parachute. The

Liberator crew was composed of Cont. ll. J. Bowen. first pilot of Ailantu, 0a., and Schenec- iadv. N Y.; Capt. K. N. Lu- Pulln, co-pllnt. of Brllevllle. Ont.» Iuulic Officer K. I. 0’-

Brlen, Dublin. Eire; Ilighl Engineer l‘. Marshall. Si. fluid-

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LONDON, Jun. B-disturdan-(Cfy-Thu may Telegraph reported that “early today the Cairo radio an?! nounced that Tripoli had fallen.” i,

Reunion News Agency, howoveu, quoted Cairo rsdvio announcement as saving merely _ ‘that at this moment the 8th Anuyy is suturing Tripoli

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Only Few German Rearguarcls‘ Left Behind In Tripoli To Delay Allied Advance.

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Flt. Li. MacLean I Mow Test Pilot For New Planes

Island Airman Has? Distinguished lie-g cord Since Enlistm- ing.

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fires to bancasters." has rec. 1w- Lhe Distinguished Fir (.‘.‘u from the hands of ‘ m‘.

Malclscan was forinery an RC l‘. Instructor in Canada, bui ll " " was not an award chime for the Job he held 0r the one he mow is carryinlr out.