Sherbrooke daily record, 15 décembre 1942, mardi 15 décembre 1942

[" V â\u2019hrrlirnokr ÎJailu îSrrnrii \u2022 \u2022 \u2022 THE PAPER OF THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS WEATHER Colder with snowflurrles.established 1 897.SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1942.Forty-Sixth Year.ROMMEL FORCES CONTINUE HEADLONG RETREAT Allied Planes Busy Strafing Fleeing Nazis ANOTHER UST OF CANADIANS AT HONG KONG Sixty-Eight Members of Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps Reported as Prisoners of War at Hong Kong.Main Body of Rommel\u2019s Army Reported to Have Retreated | More Than Four Hundred Miles from Collapsed El Ottawa, Dec.15.\u2014W\u2014Sixtiy-oight members of the Hong Kong Volun- Agheik Front, Leaving Only Tatted Rearguard to j Combat Advancing British 8th Army, Now Through have been reported as prisoners of Pass.Under lashing attack by three hundred R.A.F.and Allied aircraft.survivors of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Africa Corps were reported lo have retreated more than four hundred miles from the collapsed El Agheila front today, with the British 8th Army in rapid pursuit.British headquarters at Cairo announced that Rommel\u2019s tattered forces were still retreating Westward.leaving only weak rearguards to combat the advancing 8th Army.One report said British vanguards had passed the Marble Arch airfield forty miles West of El Agheila.A broadcast from the German-controlled Vichy radio said Rommel now is expected to make a \u201cstrong stand\u201d about 125 miles West of El Agheila\u2014or less than 30'0 miles from the Axis base at Tripoli.British headquarters declared that swarms of Allied fighter-bombers \u201coperating' on an unprecedented -¦cate\u201d were transforming the route of the latest Axis withdrawal into a trail of wrecked trucks and fire-charred equipment.On the Western flank of the two-way Allied offensive, the Berlin radio reported that several hundred Allied troops landed on the North Coast of Tunisia and attempted to operate against German supply lines\u2014pre-.umably somewhere in the region of Bizerte.big Axis-held port forty miles North of Tunis, the capital.Berlin\u2019s announcement said the Allied landing forces were compelled to retreat.Without confirmation elsewhere, another German broadcast asserted that the Allies were continuing to fall back Westward from the Tunis-Bizerte zone and reported that \u201cin local thrusts our troops destroyed some enemy tanks.\u201d Allied headquarters, however, declared that British and United States guns smashed a German motor column Northeast of Madjez el Bab.34 miles Southwest of Tunis, while Flying Fortresses again pounded the docks and shipping at Tunis and Bizerte.Drenching rains bogged roads in the Tunisian hills and slowed operations on both sides.Rome announced Naples was bombed once more last night.Other key developments in the global wrar: Russia \u2014 Hitter's high command threw fresh reserves into the battle on the central (Moscow) front.West of the big Nazi base at Rzhev, but the Russians declared they sent .he invaders reeling back six times in that sector and repulsed a series of bitter German counter-attacks South of Stalingrad.Finland \u2014 Reports that Finland Continued on page 2.column 6.war at Hong' Kong, the External Commonwealth Air Training Plan, On Third Birthday, Far Exceeds Of Original Organizers By FRANK FLAHERTY, t Canada today arc hammering the Canadian Press Staff Writer.I industrial centres of Germany and Ottawa, Dec.15.\u2014ff)\u2014Three years I\t*mi!TR: , ^\t»> ,\t.\t.\t, .\t,\t'., South Pacific islands, hunting sub- after it came into being the british ^ marines and standing guard on Commonwealth Air Training Plan : North American coasts, is paying lush dividends to the j Despite many adverse and un-United Nations in the form of vast i expected turns' in the war since and still growing air striking power.! December, 1939, the \u201cair force of Tomorrow the plan will be three 1 overwhelming strength\u201d is in sight years old.On this day in 1939 rep re- ! an(j as jts strength grows it delivers RAYNAULT WINS EASY MONTREAL ELECTION RACE ITALIAN AND NAZI TROOPS BATTLING London, Dec.15.\u2014#)\u2014The Moscow radio broadcast today what was called an official announcement that clashes between German and Italian soldiers in Italy are becoming increasingly frequent.It reported that in Milan a crowd of women threw stones at a group of German officers, who then opened fire on the women.It said Italian soldiers came to the aid of the women and administered a beating to the.Germans.\tAffairs Department announced here last night.In releasing the names, the department said in an accompanying statement that since the.list \u201cwas issued by the Japanese authorities and transmitted to Ottawa by the International Red Cross at Geneva, Switzerland, it maty be assumed to be official.\u201d Nearly all members of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, a militia unit, have next-of-kin on the Pacific Coast.The departmental announcement added that the list included both Canadians and non-Can- \tContinued on page 2.coiumn 6.Germans Suffer Heavily In Stalingrad Counter-Drives\t Russian Armies Fighting Stubbornly to Repulse Series of Bitter Counter-Attacks Launched by Nazis in Effort to Free Befeaguered Force Held in Soviet Trap\u2014Axis Forces Reported Using Many Tanks.\t By EDDY GILMORE, Associated Press Staff Writer Moscow, Dec.16.\u2014(TP)\u2014The Rod army fought on all fronts today to repulse a series of bitter German counter-attacks and exacted a heavy toll, the Soviet midday communique said.Most violent fighting was reported\tCHARGED WITH TAKING MONEY Southwest of Stalingrad where on one sector at least six hundred Ger-| mans were reported killed after four waves of counter-attacks, and on another sector where the Russians said five hundred were slain and a vast quantity of military stores was ; taken.They were described as probably , the strongest counter-attacks by the ! Germans since the Russians began I their winter offensive.West of Rzhev the Germans rushed in new reserves and launched a wave of attacks but the Russians said they sent their foe reeling back six times, killing about four hundred.Despite the continuing bitterness of the struggle in and around Stalingrad, workmen protected by the guns of the Red army have repaired almost four miles of railway tracks in the Stalingrad district and trains have been able to move over them for the first time, a dispatch to Iz-vostia, the Government newspaper, said today.The counter-attacks Southwest of Stalingrad were a continuation of the German push that caused a Soviet setback yesterday.The Germans attempted by sheer weight of numbers, bolstered by reserves brought up three days ago, to overwhelm the Red army holding its positions before a populated n] sentatives of four British nations met in a room in Ottawa and put their signatures to the Air Training agreement which set the thing in motion.The object then, as Prime Minister Mackenzie King stated it, was to create an air force of overwhelming strength with which to smite Hitlerite Germany.Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom were to pool part of their air training organizations and place the whole thing on Canadian soil and under the direction of the R.C.A.F.The decision then made, coupled with another on the same matter six months later, will probably turn out to be the most profitable decision reached by Empire statesmen in this war.Things did net turn out ns draftsmen of the plan expected.They looked for a war in which the British and French land armies could hold the Germans in the West while the British Empire built up a mighty-air force to aid in an offensive a year or so later.The land armies did not hold.France was defeated and the powerful German air force was in a position to launch a devastating air attack on the United Kingdom.Britain became unable to supply the planes needed to keep training expanding in Canada, In the spring and early summer o£ 1940 the Empire governments faced this problem: Whether to throw its blows.For the then-small R.C.A.F.the task of organizing a training system comprising about one hundred schools and turning out 20,000 to 30,000 aircrew a year was a vast, one.The first school under the plan opened April 28, 1940, when 168 recruits started training at No.1 Initial Training School, Toronto.Each month saw new classes start, new schools come into being.The training plan mushroomed, with schools in every province.The first class of thirty-five pilots received wings at No.1 Service Flying Training School, Camp Borden, Ont.First classes of observers and wireless operator-air gunners graduated about the same time, and by November 11, 1940, Air Minister Power was able to tell the House of Commons he could predict the success of the plan.By December, 1941, the original programme of school establishments was completed with the opening of the bombing and gunnery school at Mont Joli, Que.The original programme had called for that stage to be reached in three years.Original estimated cost of training under the plan for three years was $600,000,000.But the plan has been extended so far that in a new agreement concluded this year the cost for a period of two years and nine months was placed at $1,750,-(XN/.OfK).The second British Commonwealth Air Training Conference met in Allied Forces Capture Strategic Buna Village PositionlnNewGuinea Given Third Term After List- : less Fight and Light Vote in |\t________________________ Which Only One-Fifth of j Australian and United States Jungle Fighters Stormed into Buna Village Yesterday Afternoon as Allied Bombers Smash at New Enemy Invasion Expeditions at Two Points Farther Northwest on Coast.-^ - Electors Went to the Polls.Montreal, Dec.15.-((P) .Smiling and suave Adhemur RnymuiP ¦ is Mayor and Chief Magistrate of Montreal for a third term.Ho was re-elected yesterday by a sweeping majority after a spiritless campaign which took only about a fifth of the 280,000 eligible voters to the polls, in the lightest balloting in the city\u2019s history.The final count for the 1,091 polls gave Mayor Raynault 81,116 votes, Hector Dupuis, former member of the Civic Executive Council, 18,114; Joseph Benoit, member of the outgoing council, 1.736, and Raoul Perillard, an unsuccessful Canadian party candidate in a recent Federal bye-election, 062.Benoit and Perillard lost their deposits.Polling officials said that approx- Continued on Page 2 Col 5 FORMER FIGHTING FRENCH NAVAL HEAD DECLARES TOULON FLEET RUINED London, Doc.15.\u2014 ((P!\u2014Vice Admiral Emile Muaelier, former Commander of the Fighting French naval force*, *nid lodny that a careful study of photograph* of Toulon harbor indicate* the destruction of the French home fleet was almost IOO per cent complete.\u201cOne may say with certainty that the French lleet of Toulon no longer exists,\" Musclier said, disagreeing with the statement* of the United State* Navy Secre-lary, Frank Knox, that twenty ship* apparently were left intact.Churchill Discloses Grave TankWeaknessIn June 1940 British Army Had Only 100 Tanks on June 11,1940, to Face Threat of German Invasion After Fall of France, Prime Minister Declares in Defending Tank Expansion Policy of Recent Years.\u2022«e every available airman and airplane j Ottawa in May and June this year into the fight or carry on with the training plan which was designed to reach its goal of maximum produc-ion in March, 1943.In other words Private Tells Court Martial of Paying Over Ten Dollars Received from Applicant to Member of Parliament.place.Overnight the Red army braced, however, and continued their at- Continued on Page 2, Col.5.Stories Of Unflinching Heroism Emerge From Newfoundland Blaze By C, E.A.JEFFERY.Canadian Press Correspondent.St.John's, NfkL, Dec.15.\u2014 G® j Cable) \u2014 Servicemen who died in the flaming horror of the K.of C.i hostel Saturday night-, many unflinchingly sacrificing their lives, that others might be saved, will be buried here today in a mass military funeral while a sorrowing city pays tribute to their bravery.Full military honors will be paid the dead, including Canadian naval, army and air force personnel and at least one American soldier, who lost their lives when fire billowed through the service hut, crowded with more than 500 men and women attending a dance.In all, ninety-nine persons died and 104 more were injured, four of whom are reported dying.\tj Those who escaped, and others i who watched the terrifying blaze.! told stories of the heroism of two naval ratings and many others who j -corned to flee from the scorching flame- but stayed behind to help ; their girl companions to safety.They told of two sailors who stood] in the hostel windows with flames licking about them and passed woman after woman to waiting hands below until they could no longer resist the savage heat.One escaped, but the other, of whom it was said \u201cif ever a man deserved the Victoria Cross, he did,\u201d fell backward into the flames and perished, with his identity papers perhaps forever unknown.Another sailor repeatedly entered the blazing building to drag-unconscious girls to safety, and had to be forcibly restrained from continuing his work of mercy even when the walls were crumbling and blazing brands falling about him.Cause of the tragic fire that followed so close upon the Cocoanut Grove disaster at Boston is still a mystery, but military and civilian boards of inquiry have instituted probes.No one who lived through that horrible eternity of ten or fifteen minutes has a very clear idea of what occurred, but some reported hearing an explosion seconds before the chilling cry of \u201cfire\u201d echoed Continued on pace 2.column 4.Quebec, Dec.14.\u2014(CP)\u2014A number of Crown witnesses are expected to take the stand today as trial of Capt.Pierre Gauthier, Member of Parliament for Portneuf, continues before a general Court Martial which has charged him with accepting $10 from a private while jin the performance of his military j duties.Capt.Gauthier, who yesterday-pleaded not guilty to the charge, is The second of five medical officers who have been charged by the : Court, set up to try the five officers and four other ranks following certain irregularities in the medical ! examinations of army recruits.The four soldiers have already stood j trial.Pte.George Fortin, of Quebec, one of the accused, told the Court:; \u201cI gave him (Capt.Gauthier) $10.j I offered him the $10 and he asked: me what it was for and said a man | had given it to me for him.Capt.; Gauthier said: T don\u2019t want it; Ij don\u2019t need it,\u2019 but finally accepted jit.\u201d i Defence Counsel Antoine Rivard, j objected to the testimony saying : ¦ that it had no bearing ofi the charge 'but was overruled by the Court.Mr.Rivard also objected to the' : charge on grounds that bribery con-; stitutes a civilian offense and that1 as such a Court Martial had no say in the case.The objection was overruled.Trial of Capt, Georges Antoine Grondin, of Quebec, also was disposed of by- the Court yesterday.Capt.Grondin has pleaded not guilty to a charge of having accepted bribes.and revamped the original agreement.The sights, already raised by mutual consent, were raised still further.The United Kingdom de-\u2014to scrap the plan or not to scrap coded to shift practically all its air it-\t: training activités to Canada und in- The decision was _ to go ahead, j incorporate them in the plan.Britain would face the German air! Under the pew agreement Canada attack with the R.A.F.as it stood ! is to contribute half the cost\u2014estini-and count on Canada for reinforce-! ated at $750,000,000 from July 1, merits later.The R.C.A.F.went) 1942, to March 31, 1943, and sixty shopping for planes in the United per cent of the recruits to be train-States, spurred the Canadian air- I ed.craft industry to increased production and speeded up construction of airports, organization of training schools and recruiting of aircrew pupils.As a result the Empire air forces, manned by fliei's trained in Canada and equipped with planes made in Britain, the United States and of the recruits for training.The United Kingdom contributes, the other half of the expense les; any contributions from Australia and New Zealand, on a per capita basis for the number of aircrew they send to Canada for training.The United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand contribute forty per cent Ûûiùînued Rain SLiil Hampering Allied Drive In Tunisia Sector London, Dec.15.\u2014'((Pi\u2014'Swarms of Allied planes, battering at the shrinking Axis footholds in North Africa from both East and West, appeared to be calling the turn of baftle there again today as Field Marshal Rommel\u2019s forces streamed Westward in Libya before the British 8th Army.Dispatches from the Tunisian and Libyan battle areas told of devastating aerial blows falling both upon Rommel\u2019s weary fighters and the chief Axis concentrations in Tunisia.One hundred United States P-40 fighter planes especially fitted to carry bombs were flying wing to wing with Australian and British aircraft in an effort to make the newest stretch of Rommel\u2019s retreat another trail of smashed trucks, abandoned troops and fire - gutted equipment.Allied fighter-bombers, a British announcement, said arc \u201coperating on an unprecedented scale\u201d and Axis air power was reported \u201ctotallv ineffective in preventing these operations.\u201d The exact location of Rommel\u2019s back-tracking forces was not known, but the military correspondent of the London Daily Mail estimated that advance British forces already-had passed the Marble Arch airfield forty miles West of El Agheila.Approximately 300 Allied planes were said to be smashing at the German and Italian columns heading for 'Jripoii, the only important bastion of Mussolini\u2019s African empire Still in his hands.In Tunisia, where heavy rain had j ?turned roads into strips of mud and : 1 WHEAT FARMERS STILL SEEKING PARITY PRICES Although United States Wheat Prices Are Highest Since 1937, Farmers Show No Rush to Market Product.By FRANKLIN MULIJN Associated Press Financial Writer Chicago, Dec.15.\u2014 (/P) Cu: h wheat prices are the highest since 1937 but there is no evidence today that this has stirred up selling excitement among American producers, who are holding back from market ; London, Dec.15, \u2014 ït) ¦\u2014Prime iMinistcr Churchill told the House lof Commons today that the British I Army had only 100 tanks on June Ml, 1940, to face the threat of n flerman invasion after the fall of France.j Even these tanks, the Prime Min-llster said, were of a type found in ;the Battle of France to be.too weak Ito stand up against German anti-jtank guns.\u201cThe invasion of this country was expected if not in the autumn of 1940, at any rale in the spring of 1 94 1 or even 1 942,\u201d he said.in less than a year, Mr.Churchill noted, an entirely new tank had jbeen conceived and put into quantity production.The army had 400 by i be autumn of 1941 and now has between 1,000 and 2,000 he said.Th«se tanks have been surpassed by later models and were designed originally for home defence rather than for long-range heavy offensive duty overseas, he said, yet they URGES DOMINION TO EASE CHINESE LAWS Chungking, Dec.15.\u2014 CP.\u2014The newspaper Ta Kungpao today asked j the Canadian Government \u201cto im-; prove the treatment of overseas Chi-1 nese living in Canada,\u201d and to revise the immigration law as it pres-; entlv applies to Chinese.\u201cChinese in Canada have suffered from the shackles of the law limiting : Chinese immigration,\u201d the newspaper said.\u201cThey have been ill-treat-¦ ed both as regards entrance and residence.On the principle of equality ; between Allies, we petition the Canadian Government to improve imme-i diately the position of overseas Chinese :n Canada.\u201d WAR BULLETINS New Delhi \u2014 R.A.F.aircraft bombed Japanese-occupied villages along the Kaladan and Mayu rivers in Burma yesterday and made an offensive sweep in the Myittha valley.The Kaladan river empties into the Bay of Bengal at Akyab and the Mayu reaches the bay just North of this Japanese-occupied port.The Myittha river is in Central Burma.7\t*\t*\t4\t* Tokyo, (from Japanese broadcasts) \u2014 The Tokyo radio said today seven transports were sunk and another four or five were set on fire in Japanese air attacks December 5 and 10 on Chittagong, Indian port.(There was no confirmation of this claim.) ***** London\u2014The Swiss radio said today that Albert Le Brun, the last President of the French Republic, had taken refuge in a neutral country.patiently for that long-sought goal parity.The market for spot wheat, strengthened primarily by scarcity of sales amidst a plentiful supply, has advanced more than ten cents a bushel the last few weeks.Buyers wanted to pay around $1.38 or above, for top grades of hard winter wheat here, yesterday and close to $1.50 for soft red, which is scarce both on farm and at market.At Kansas City top grades of hard were over $1.34, of soft red near $1.40.At Minneapolis choice spring wheat sold near $1.30.The attractiveness of these prie'-', is shown by the fact that they are more than 20 cents higher than in July, more than 10 cents better than a year ago, and almost 60 cents higher than two years ago.To reach parity\u2014the level Government economists estimated wheat should sell to give producers the equivalent of their 1909-14 purchasing power\u2014grain men said prices _________________________________! of hard winter must advance about Continued on nage 2.column 6.\t:\tcents while soft red need ri :\u2022 only about five cents.Parity price of wheat on the farm a month ago, last date of calculation, was $1.37, but farmers actually were receiving an average of $1.04, more grain than ever before, waiting\t?I00'' account of themselves\u201d against Rommel at El Alamein, Mr.Churchill made these disclosures in a statement on the value of the present British heavy tanks, which bear his name, recalling that on August 11, 194(1, he called a meeting to consider tank production.Earlier the Prime Minister intimated that Great, Britain is developing important new air weapons to combat submarines.Disclosing that he had formed a battle-of-the-Atlantic committee in 1941 under his own direction, Mr.Churchill said; \u201cIn October, 1942, I felt that a new additional effort was needed on account of the ever more important part which the air had begun to play in anti-U-boat warfare and consequential, complicated and technical developments of all kinds.\u201d Continued on Page 2.Col.Allied Headquarter.s in Australia, Deo.I\").\t((P \\uslralia and Unit- ed Slates jiingde fighters stormed tnlo Buna village yesterday and heavy figliling raged about the .lapaneso-lield Buna mission to Ihe Hast today while Allied bombers smashed al new enemy invasion expeditions put ashore by a strong cruiser and destroyer force at two points farther Northwest on ihe New Guinea coast.The Allies slashed their way into Ihe village five days afler the cap-lure of Gona, twelve miles to tim Northwest.Those were the main bases of the foothold established by the Japanese last July 23 in their thrust towards Northern Australia.(Win- front dispatches reaching Melbourne said the Allie» were squeezing the Japanese from three sides on the central sector of the Gona-Buna ha tile ground, with Australians pressing in from the left, Americans from the right and both Australians and Americans attacking through the centre at Sanaan-da Point, above Buna village.) Despite the frightful cost in men and supplies inflicted upon the new Japanese landing operations, a headquarters communique indicated some reinforcements were put ashore by the heavily-protected convoy standing off the mouths of the Kunrusi and Mamhare rivers, some twenty and forty miles, respectively, North of Buna.\u201cIn heavy bombing and strafing attacks, tlie enemy\u2019s Ini ding barges were sunk or ia>i3ia2I5l>,»|9|>i>aia;>1ïi^ through the hall.Then flames raged through the structure, feeding on decorations and furniture with terrifying speed.Panicked, the dancers stampeded for the exits, and scores died within a few feet of safety.Upstairs, occupants of the dormitories perished j with no chance of escape when | choking smoke and searing flames i aroused them from their sleep.The dead included seven women, as well as a number of male civilians, merchant seamen and others.Names of very few have been released yet, but Defence Headquarters at Ottawa expect to issue a casualty list today of the service dead.Churchill Discloses Continued front page 1.; representatives of various \u2019 civic ' fresh and storage, 36)4-37.Small; and military groups of the city.It lots to retail trade, solid | is expected that the parade will prints, 371;-38; ¦ pass the City Hall about 8 p.m.Commodity Exchange: Spot clos-i It is important that all members\tquotes: Que.92 score, 36%b; of the C.P.C.Mobile Force and the future closes: December, 36%b; Auxiliary Firemen should be pres- January, 3, 4b; February, oso; Consequently, he said, he reconstituted the committee as an anti- U-boat warfare committee him- j\u2018e'nt\"for' this'paradeT' Au'arc- urged ¦ March 38%b.self as chairman.Sir Stafford U0 assemble at the No.1 Police i\t,, , Cnpps, Minister of Aircraft Produc-j station at 7:15 p.m., in full uniform.! CHEESE (c.per lb.): tl0il: 1S,?.mc'mber.of the committee.1 Those wbo do not possess uniforms Quebec and Western The Prime Minister disclosed thatjwin be provided for if they will be:\twhite .20\t-201- is Vice-Chairman be-ja(.^be assembly point a few mmu- Quebec and Western colored.21%-221,4 Sir Stafford icause of \u201cthe special aptitude he, [es earijer.possesses of forming a sound lay; Arrangements for the parade are; POTATOES (per opinion on these highly teenmeal | bejng handled by Director of Police P.E.I.Mountains issues, and that the other members,an(] pire Percy Donahue.ter, of Montreal, Messrs.Leo and Roger Pye.sons, of Windsor Mills, Mr.and Mrs.Martin Pye, son and j daughter-in-law, of Windsor Mills, Mr.and Mr.William Ward, son-in-law and daughter, of Windsor Mills, five sisters, (Margaret) Mrs.T, Costello, the Misses Nellie and Delia Pye, of Windsor Mills, (Many) Mrs.Jack Morin, of Sherbrooke, ami (Annie) Mrs.C.Petit, of Lakewood, N.J.Among Ihe out of town relatives and friends who also attended were Mrs.T.McMahon, Lachine, Mr.Larry McMahon, Montreal.Mrs.D.McMahon, Mr.Donald McMahon and Mr, Maurice McMahon, Sherbrooke, Mr.Stanley McMahon, Brompton, Mr.J.P.Mullins, M.P., Bvompton-ville, Mr.and Mrs.Dundin and family, Lennoxville, Mr.Edgar Tobin, Brompton, Mr.and Mrs.J.O.Pre-fontaine, Sherbrooke, Mrs.Romeo Audette, Sherbrooke, Mr.ami Mrs.I J.Morin, Sherbrooke, Mr.Charles Crosbie, Lennoxville, Mr.Albert Bryant, J.St.Pierre and F.Bouthil-lirr, Sherbrooke, T.Southwood, Arnold Johnson, K.T.Hayes and Jerome Hayes, all of Richmond.J.K.! L.Green, B.Holtham and T.Cawley, Sherbrooke, and Lieut.B.F.Harley, Vancouver.and that the other members are :\t| Oliver Lyttelton, Minister for! Production; A.V.Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty; Sir Archibald Sinclair, Air Secretary; Lord Leathers, Minister of War Transport; Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound, First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff; and Air Marshal Sir Charles Portal, Chief of the Air Staff.Mr.Churchill said the Committee existed even before Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa, suggested such an anti-submarine high command, Smuts attended two sessions, he said, and \u201cwas satisfied with the character and efficiency of the system.\u201d So far, the Prime Minister said, the Committee has met six times, sitting normally once a week.He emphasized that its work does not NEWSY ITEIVIS NATURAL DEATH VERDICT A jury under Leonidas Bachand.Coroner for the District of St.Francis, last night ruled that Walter Johnson Philips, seventy-eight, years old, of Ayer\u2019s Cliff, died from natural causes.Mr.Philips, who was born in Leeds, England, was found dead in the bedroom of his home on Sunday.Principal witnesses testifying at the inquest were Cecil Tyler and Darrell Richardson, who told of finding the body of Philips sprawled on the bed when they went to visit him.Kenneth Cooper was foreman of the jury.5-lb.bag): .1.45-1.55 N.B.Mountains .1.45-1.55 Quebec Mountains.\t1.25-1.45 POULTRY: Wholesale prices to retail trade for dressed stock: Turkeys\u2014Grade A, G lbs.up .36 Turkeys\u2014Grade B, 6 lbs.up .,, .\"4 Fowls\u2014Grade A, CANADIAN BONDS Following are the closing bid and asked quotations as to Dec.14th, as furnished by the Investment Dealers' Associaion of Canada: Dominion Government Bonds; Bid Asked 2.\tJune 1, 1944 .100% 100% 2 Dec.15, 1946 2% May 1, 1948 .2%, June 1, 1943 .2%, Nov.14.1944 3.\tOct.15,1942.3, Perps.3, June 1, 1950-55 .3,\tJune 1,1953-58 .3l4, July 1, 1948-49 .102% 103% 3%.Nov 15.1948-51 .101% 102% 3%, July 1, 1956-66 .3%, Oct.15, 1944-49 .4,\tOct.15, 1943-45 .4, Oct 15, 1947-52 .4%, Oct.15, 1944 .4%, Feb.1, 1946 .4%, Nov.1, 11 48-58 .4%, Nov.1.1946-56 .106% 107% 4%.Nov.1, 1947-57 .107% 108% 14%, Nov.1, 1949-59 .109% 110% to.Oct.15.1943 .Wartime Issues: ' ! 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Ilnnnpoiis supersede Admiralty control of the war against submarines,\tPLEAD NOT GUILTY The statement on tanks was Mr.Two soldiers pleaded not guilty Churchill s promised answer to what |Charges of being drunk and dis- |he called \u201cpersistent and mis-.orderly when they appeared before Ichievous attempts to undermine the Recorder Raoul Gagne this morning confidence of the troops in these in Police Court and were remanded weapons which play an important: until Thursday.part in the defence of these islands.\u201d I Two other soldiers picked-up by\t1\to./t\" X \u201c j The.much-criticized Churchill j police at 12:10 o'clock this morning\t;\tu tank, it had been charged, was put ! each posted five dollars which were\tr,,P7;] into production in 1940 without a ! ordered forfeited when they failed\t- trial.Mr.Churchill was replying; to appear.Police said that the four specially to Richard R.Stokes, soldiers were engaged in a \u201cfree-Labor, who asked for the names of I for-all\u201d on King Street East when members of the Tank Board at the they were taken into custody, time the Prime Minister consulted with them on the Churchill tank in the summer of 1940.FOREIGN EXCHANGE In Montreal yesterday the buying rate for United States dollars was 10 per cent premium and the '.selling rate 11 per cent premium.(Sterling buying was 4.43 and selling 1.47.Following were the nominal closing in New York: Sterling\tClose Demand .4.03% Cables.4.03% Australia.3.2272 ! New Zealand.3.2434 .0505 Germans Suffer Continued from Page 1.BIRTHS tacks, the Soviets claimed, with the enemy death toll swelling to more than one thousand.The Axis forces were reported employing numerous tanks as a help to their infantry.No new place names have been mentioned lately in dispatches but the last time fixed directions were mentioned the Russians were moving down the Tikhoretsk railway toward Kotelnikovski.The midday communique also reported that around Stalingrad more than three hundred of the enemy were killed, with Red army troops storming and capturing trenches Northwest of the city.The wreckage along tho rail line near Stalingrad was described in the Izvestia dispatch as terrible.Stations were burned to the ground and in numerous sectors the lines were twisted or blown to bits by German bombs or by the heavy guns that held the siege.Gaping shell holes follow the railroad right of way, the dispatch said.In several places, not a single in- : tact vail could be found by workers.\u2018 They did find, however, box cars : which the Germans had brought in from Germany.France, Holland and ' Poland.Izvestia said.The Russians cited gains in the Rzhev-Velikie Luki sectors and for the first time the Soviet early communique noted Red army activity South of Voronezh, on the Upper Den river, 365 miles Northwest of Stalingrad and 290 miles Southeast ; of Moscow.(German communiques for the last fortnight have touched on Russian concentrations in that area, asserting that they held the prospect ; ^er of another Russian offensive to j match the Stalingrad and Central front drives unleashed by the Red army with the coming of winter.(Voronezh is 120 miles East, of Kursk, one of the German strong-points on the Russian front, and 170 miles Northeast of Kharkov, which was the headquarters of the German offensive that carried into the gates of Stalingrad.) Continued Rain Continued trim page 3.hampered ground operations, the United States Armiv Air Forces for the second day laced the Axis supply ports along the Eastern coast with destructive loads of explosive and incendiary bombs yesterday.Flying Fortresses attacked docks and ships at the formidable Bizerte naval base and at Tunis, shooting down three Messerschmitts which attempted to frustrate the atack.Medium bombers were sent to take the docks at Sousse, South of Tunis.A delayed dispatch from Don 'Whitehead, Associated Press correspondent with the British 8th Army at El Brega.Libya, said the British forces met no opposition on Rommel\u2019s El Agheila line from El Brega South to Wadi Elfaregh.PARSONS.\u2014To iMr.and Mrs.Maurice O.Parsons (nee Fanceg McLean, of Granby), a daughter, Frances Shirley, born Saturday, December 12th, 1942.at the St.Vincent de Paul Hospital.DEATHS Another List Continued from page 1.BAILEY\u2014Entered into rest at Melbourne, Que., on December 5th, 1942, Mrs, Albert E.Bailey.Interment in St.Anne\u2019s Cemetery, Richmond.JOHNSTON \u2014 Passed away at the Sherbrooke Hospital.December 14, 1912, Mavis Helen, Marlene Ellen, twin daughters of Mr.and Mrs.Kenneth Johnston, of Buiwer, Quebec, SPENCER.\u2014At his late residence, South Stukely, Quo., on December 14.1942, John Clark Spencer, in his 78th year, beloved husband of the late Lucy Jane Knowlton.Funeral service at St, Matthew's Church on Thursday, December 17th, at 2 p.m, J.J.Paterson Funeral Service, adian British subjects who have relatives in Canada, known to the department, or who are employed by Canadian firms.In October, the department made public the names of 276 civilians\u2014 also many ,hanfa to those who donated t0 both Canadians and non-Canadians my sunshine basket on my return home.Dominion! CARD OF THANKS I wish to thank the many friends who s:nt me letters, ca-ds and flowers during my stay in the Montreal General Hospital ; with close relatives in the \u2014who had been interned at Hong j M»sog.One.Kong.When Hong Kong fell last Christmas Day.the Japanese reported taking 1.689 Canadian troops prisoners, MRS.ELLA CHASE CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our sincere thanks fo all those who helped us in any way at the time of the death and burial of our dear and of these fill but ninety-five have j father; especially we want to thank the been accounted for in official casil- I undertaker.Mr.Jenne.and Rev.Mr.altjy lists issued by the Defence De- ohart rs- of Sutton\u2019 Rev' Mr-\tp£ partaient here.Reports on Canadian army personnel at Hong Kong, numbering 1,985 officers and men, have ocme through Defence headquarters e from time to time.It has been officially assumed that 296 men were killed or missing in the bitter fightipg.Raynault Wins (Continued from Page 1)., imately 15,000 fewer voters turned : out yesterday than for the last civic - election two years ago which drew the previous lowest poll.Allied Planes Continued from oage I.Dunham, Miss Jones, the organist, the members of the Frelighsburg and Dunham Masonic lodge, also all those who sent flowers and cards and letters of sympathy, pa thy.Inserted by MR.AND MRS.AUSTIN GARRICK MR.AND MRS.ARCHIE PIETTE MR.AND MRS.LYNFORD ROYEA MR.AND MRS.GERALD WILSON MR.AND MRS.HOWARD JOHNSON.TOM BROWN \u2022 JEAN PARKER ÇOIUM8IA HCTUHE -LATEST WORTH EVENTS - EXTRA\u2014\"COMMlTslTV SINGING PICTURES.\u2019* DETAILED WEATHER COLDER WITH SNOWFLURRIES Forecasts: Fresh to strong winds: cloudy and somewhat colder tonight and Wednesday with light snowfalls and flurries.The maximum temperature yes- declared: terday was 21 and the minimum \u201cOne may say with certainty that zero.Last year the temperature?: the French fleet of Toulon no longer were 32 and 2 4.\tI exists.\u201d had made advances for peace through Sweden met an official denial ir.Stockholm.Scandinavian quarters in London' had said yesterday that Russia's sec-1 ond winter offensive had spurred new talk of peace in war-weary Fin- i land.French fleet\u2014Vice Admiral Emile Museiier, former commander of the Fighting French naval forces, said, in London that a careful study of photographs of Toulon harbor ind;-cated that the destruction ofi France's \u201csuicide\u201d home fleet was.virtually 100 per cent complete.i In contrast to Navy Secretary Ffank Knox's statement that twenty French warships were apparently in-j tact in Nazi hands, Admiral Museiier j CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank all our neighbors and friends for th?kindness and sympathy shown us during the illness, death and burial of our mother.Mrs.Alice Roe; all those who sent flowers and cards.Rev.Mr.Rowe, the bearers, those who loaned ears and the members of the United Church choir, THE ROE FAMILY'.Bury.Que.FUNERAL CHAPEL 21 MELBOURNE ST TlW 171 SHERBROOKE UNDERTAKING PARLORS LTD.PHONE 45 DUFFERIN AVE.STOCK AVERAGES \t\tUtil.\tInd.\tComb,\t.Golds \t\t10\t20\t30\t15 Clo\tse .,\t.49.1\t6-2.1\t57.7\t45.71 Prev.day\t\t.49.0\t62.1\t57.7\t45.48 Week ago\t\t.48.9\t61.1\t57.0\t46.95 Month ago\t\t.45.4\t57.9\t53.7\t42.59 Tear ago\t\t.41.7\t59.9\t53.9\t57.68 42\thigh ,,\t.44.8\t60.5\t54.7\t54.82 \u201942\tlow .,\t.39.6\t55.0\t50.0\t36.94 \u201941\thigh\t,\t54.3\t66.6\t62.3\t79.99 \u201941\tlow .\t.41.1\t52.3\t49.3\t53.94 \u201939\thigh .,\t,.70.1\t93.8\t81.9\t326.48 '39\tlow .\t.55.9\t63.2\t62.7\t' 83.66 \u201929\thigh .,\t, 198.4\t174.5\t182.8\t Allied Forces Continued from page 1.area in a ceaseless shuttle service between ship and shore.Every one of the enemy landing barges in one group of twenty was sunk or set afire.Barrels filled with ammunition, oil and other supplies were lashed together with nets and attempts were made to float them to shore, but Allied airmen said thay had a field day in sending them to the bottom in low-level strafing attacks.Many of the ammunition-filled barrels were reported to have exploded, destroying nearby barges loaded with troops.After absorbing two days of punishing raids, the convoy scattered Northward.As matters stood today the Japanese in the Buna-Gona area still were clinging to Buna mission and Sanananda Point.Their main New Guinea bases, however, are at Lae and Salamaua, 150 miles to the Northwest, where their initial landings were made on the islands last March.The July landings at Buna and Gona, which presented the gravest threat to the Allied outpost at Port Moresby, were followed by a disastrous attempt to gain a foothold in Milne Bay, at the Southern end of New Guinea.FOR RENT 23 King Street West, Desirable 3-storey brick building with R.R.Siding facilities and 2 freight elevators.Large bright office on ground floor of SHERBROOKE TRUST BUILDING Immediate occupation.SHERBROOKE TRUST COMPANY l 3 CITY and SUBURBAN âHerbrûokc ©aUp ^ecorb SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1942.DECEMBER Sun.\tMon.\tTufc\tWed.\tThu.\tFrl.\tSat.\t\t1\t2\t3\t4\t5 6\t7\t8\t9\t10\t11\t12 13\t14\t15\t16\t17\t18\t19 20\t21\t22\t23\t24\t25\t26 27\t28\t29\t30\t31\t\t War Has Brought On New And Unusual Problems In Rotary Administration \"Rotary as Usual\" Must Cease to Be, Declares President of Rotary International\u2014Canada Has Lost One Club But Has Gained Sixteen New Units Since Outbreak of War\u2014 Delegation from Sherbrooke Attended Banquet in Quebec.Delegates from the Sherbrooke Rotary Club who attended the banquet held in Quebec City in honor of Fernando Carbajal, of Lima, Peru, President of Rotary International, returned home last evening carrying with them the stirring message of their organization\u2019s Chief Executive that the war has created new and unusual problems in Rotary\u2019s administration and that \u201cRotary as usual\u201d must cease to be.The President of Rotary International declared that the full attainments of the Rotary ideal of service could only be achieved in countries where there is liberty of the individual, where there is freedom of thought, speech and assembly, freedom of worship, freedom from persecution and aggression and freedom from want and fear.\u201cWhere this freedom does not exist.Rotary cannot exist,\u201d he declared.\u201cToday,\u201d Mr.Carbajal continued, \u201cwe find Rotary, the organization which we love and in which we believe with all our hearts, struggling to keep alight the torch of service so that it may stand as a beacon of hope to all mankind.This is not a war of conquest.It is not a struggle to establish new boundary lines _____ or to preserve empires.No \u2014 we are fighting for the preservation of those very ideals and principles which have been the corner stone of Rotary ever since it was founded thirty-eight years ago.W'e are fighting against an ideology which is a direct antithesis to Rotary \u2014 one that -would substitute the sword for service\u2014force for fellowship\u2014 and coercion for co-operation.Rotary could not thrive \u2014 in fact, it would wither and die in such an atmosphere.\u201c \u2018Rotary as usual\u2019 must cease to be,\u201d Mr.Carbajal said.\u201cThe helpful and essential activities of peacetime must be continued of course, but the more urgent need of the moment must be recognized and accepted as our primary responsibility.\"If we must recognize that \u2018Ro I BE REUMIED WITH FAMILY Members Of St.George\u2019s Sunday School Presented Annual Concert The members of St.George\u2019s Sunday School on Saturday evening presented their annual concert in Sc.George's Church Hall which was filled to seating capacity with parents and interested friends of the children.The members of the primary classes presented the play.\"The Night Before Christmas\u201d in three | feenes.In the first scene, \u2018The I Children\u2019s Home,\u201d the children wore o .\t.x.TT \u201e\t.\t.Margaret Horne, Anne Boright and Rochester, N.H., Dec.15.-®!-: xWcv Church.Five brothers and sisters, separated j In \u2019the second scene, the \u201cToy i*om their fanury lor the last three Show,\u201d each chiki represented the \u2018 ea;S\timmigration tangle, left following and were appropriately yesteiday lor Sherbrooke, for a re- j dressed or carried a well designed umon with their parents and two | poster to illustrate same: Snowman, i Kathleen Sullivan; storekeeper, Separated for Three Years by Immigration Tangle, Five Brothers and Sisters Arrive in Sherbrooke to Join Parents.sty and also expressed the this sec regrets of all at losing a valuable member and also a charter monibor, Mr.and Mrs.Byrne thanked their many friend# for the beautiful gift* and pleasant evening given in their honor and the happy time was brought to a close with the singing of \u201cFor They Are Jolly Good Fellows.\" SAYS BRACKEN OUALIFIED FOR BIG JOB .AHEAD Will Determine If Conciliation Boards To Be Named For Windsor Mills And Waterville Disputes W.1.MEETING The regular monhh'y meeting of the Ascot Women\u2019s Institute was held at the home of Mrs.W.T.Pearson on the Spring Road with .Mrs.\\\\ .S.Richardson presiding.older brothers.The children have lived at St.Charles Orphanage here for three years while their father, Rqmco Boisvert.and their mother, Laura, were unable tore-enter the United States.The Boisverts and two older sons came here from Thetford Mines seventeen years ago.Three years ago tary-as-usual\u2019 will cease to be, then : Boisvert was refused re-entry to the we must also recognize that the war { United States after he had visited has created new' and unusual prob- : hif oW home since he had not ap- MOVIE THEATRES\t a- c/5\tMYRA THEATRE \tRICHMOND © flM\tWed.-Thurs.\u2014Dec.16-17 SC\tCary Grant\u2014Jean Arthur bO\tRonald Colman H c/3\t\u201cTALK OF THE TOWN\u201d 3\tNews \t\t Shorts TIME TABLE CHANGES Laurentian Drummondville Subdivisions Effective Dec.20, 1942.Full information from agents.lems in Rotary administration.We must meet these problems as they occur.Fortunately, this time we have the benefit of experience.In World War I, and in the depression years, Rotary demonstrated that it is not a \u201cfair weather organization.\u2019\u2019 NTo.t only can wre ride the storm, but we can seize upon it as an opportunity for greater and more intensified service.\u201cThis is a big responsibility,\u201d he declared.\u201cWe must strengthen our organization in every way possible.We must watch closely the problems which will make it difficult for some of our fellow Rotarians to maintain their usual activities, and be ready to extend a helping hand to them.We must be constantly ready and willing to \u2018go the second mile\u2019 in order to bring encouragement and assistance to any Rotary club that may be encountering difficulties, for it is highly imperative, in these times that wre keep the spark of Rotary' alive in each community in which a Rotary Ciub has been organized.Canada, he declared, \u201chas been in the war for over three years, and during that time she has lost only one Rotary Club particular club was plied for citizenship during his resi hence here.The mother was deported because she was not a citizen, The Canadian Government, however.refused to allow the five young children, born in this country, to enter Canada until Boisvert was able to prove they would not be a burden to the Government.For three years the children were kept at the orphanage but now Boisvert has arranged for their entry to Canada.The family will live in Thetford Mines.CITY BRIEFLETS Wales Home Christmas Gifts.Send to Mrs.Rugg\u2019s by Dee.17.For Sale\u2014Record route in East Ward.Apply Record Office, Circulation Dept.Tel.94.Annua! Candlelight Carol Service by St.Peter\u2019s Church choir to be held this year on Wednesday evening, Dec.23, at 8 p.m.All welcome.difficulties long before the war.During the same period, sixteen new clubs have been organized in the Dominion.These new Rotary Clubs added to our roster, represent a decided compliment to our organization, Mr.Carbajal stated.\u201cIn these busy times, men do not affiliate with an organization unless they believe in the principles for which that organization stands.We must, therefore, be ever vigilant that we maintain a programme which is dynamic, a programme of action through which men can find an ever increas- Continued on page 2, column 4., 35th Bty.Asso.annual meeting and that j and election of officers, Beividere St.experiencing j Armory, Wed, eve., 8 p.m.Relatives of 35th Battery men urged to attend.Twilight Carol Service, St, Andrew\u2019s Presbyterian Church, 4 p.m., Sunday, December 20.Dr.N.T.Williamson, of Montreal, will be at the Sherbrooke Hospital on Thursday, December 17.Be sure and read the \u201cImportant Announcement\u201d about new Milk Prices by the Sherbrooke Pure Milik Co.Ltd., Page 3.Y.W.C.A.Christmas Carol service Thursday Eve., Dec.17th, 8.15 p.m.All members welcome.GIFTS THAT PLEASE! The Entire Family\u2014Young and Old! REMEMBER: THERE ARE ONLY 9 SHOPPING DAYS TIL CHRISTMAS! LANDRY\u2019S Hardware Store offers you a varied and choice assortment of practical, useful and acceptable GIFTS, Fine Imported DINNER SERVICE in earthenware, semi-porcelain and porcelain.Service for 6, 8 and 12 persons.Exceptional choice, from $10.00 to $41.25 GLASSWARE Glassware of all kinds, to please the modern hostess.Fine quality glass-ware at greatly reduced prices.Coloured glassware novelties, vases, etc, Huge assortment of PYREX, and GLASSBAKE cooking utensils ., CUTLERY, etc.FIRE-FIGHTERS ANSWERED FIVE ALARMS IN OTY GOODS Hockey Sticks Toboggans.Skis SPORTS Skates and Boots.Pucks .Sleds.Ski Poles, Etc.HOCKEY STICKS Slightly damaged by smoke, but still in excellent condition.AH at a special 50ro reduction.TOYS AND DOLLS Games and Toys of all kinds to please the youngsters., .Inexpensive, too.See our special assortment of toys at prices to suit every purse.The municipal fire department answered five alarms yesterday, two of which were turned in from boxes.Firemen put out a blaze in the motor of the car owned by Philias Dumas, of Sherbrooke, at the corner of Beividere and Galt Streets.Damage was slight.Burning grease in the roast pan on the stove in the kitchen of the home occupied by Leopold Turgeon, 72 Bowen Avenue South, was extinguished without damage.Stovepipe blazes were put out at the homes of Antonio Morin, 140A King Street West, and Douglas McKay, 14 Kingston Avenue, before any damage resulted.Noticing the reflection from the furnace in the Chartier and Laçasse building on Bowen Avenue South, which -was swept by fire on Saturday, a passerby late yesterday afternoon thought the blaze had broken out again and raised an alarm.Firemen were unable to find trace of a fire.Peep,\u201d Patricia Loach, and Mary,\u201d Frederick:! Day.Two more scenes followed after which a piano solo by Miss Margaret Dawson was much enjoyed.\u201cRod Riding Hood\u2019s Visit to her Grandmother\u2019s\u201d was then presented in three scenes.Taking part were.Red Riding Hood, Anne Boright; her mother, Eletnor Husbands; wolf, Margaret Home, and grandmother, Fredericka Day.This was followed by two dialogues \u2022by the larger pupils, \u201cOh My!\u201d with Gerald Frost ns Mr.Gibbons, Vera Way as Mrs.Gibbons, Rita Pratt as the much annoying son, Will, and Helen Sorensen, his fiancee.This scene took place in the well arranged Gibbons dining room.\u201cFirst Prize\u201d was another very interesting dialogue in which the following girls took part: Joan Tapp a Lottie, Evelyn Deacon as Minnie and Dorothy Wright as Nancy, all sisters, and Margaret Dawson as a friend, Grace Loach as Mrs.Long-windy a despised old aunt, Alison Husbands as Mrs.Brown, a supposed neighbor, and Shirley Tapp as Lady Lahunum.These dialogues were ably directed by Miss Joan Jones and Mr.Moi c Robinson assisted by Mi-.- Lydia Aboud- and Miss Lucille George.The primary performances- were directed by Mrs.A.Jones and Miss Moorhead, assisted by Mrs.Fred Day.To these ladies much credit h due for the many beautiful costumes, stage management and the pleasing manner in which each child -presented his or her part.The announcer for the evening was Char les Clarke; ushers, Ronald Jen ne, Allen Hunting, Gerald Loach and William Ta-pp; curtain, Mr.Cyril Watson, and ticket taker, -Mr.E.Peterson.Mrs.4\\ .T.Pearson acted as Secretary in the absence of Mrs.X.L.Cameron, who was called to Barn-ston by the serious illness of her mother.Few reports were presented owing to the absence of several conveners.The Treasurer reported a substantial sum in the bank, and Mrs.F.R.Mitchell announced that several children had received their first diph-therin^ inoculation in this district.During the business period donations were voted for sending seedo to Britain, and for the Children\u2019s Queen\u2019s Canadian Fund, and the -e made to o the sick and shut-ins, Mrs.Smiley is to look after this work, assisted by Mrs.T.B.Majury.Farm Forum meetings were reported on and a Quiz was conducted by Mrs.T.B.Maju-y which brought out many interesting facts.Following this the singing of Christmas carols was enjoyed with piano accompaniment.A delicious lunch was then served toy the hos-tesses, Mrs.Little Boy I Pearson and Mrs.M.Hyatt, The Little Bo-! members wore seated around a large Grace Day; Santa Claus.Joan Church; Christmas card, Bobby Faun-ham; Christmas tree, Elizabeth Home: Christmas pud-ding.Edwina Day; Yule leg.Eleanor Husbands; box of chocolates, Robert Niehol; doll.Marguerite Hunting; Christmas stocking, Robert Boright; Christmas candle.Dorothy Hunting; Christmas cracker, Albert Pratt; Christmas cake, Mary MacMillan; Jack in the box, William Blake; Donald Duck, John Earl Brady ; Mickey Mouse, Glen Allan.In the third scene each child re-] Russian Fund.Plans wer-cited a short nursery rhyme and was, send Christmas baskets l dressed to represent s-ame.The rhymes were as follows: \u201cThe Old Woman Who Lived in the Shoe,\u201d Elizabeth Home; \u201cOld Mother Hubbard,\u201d Kathleen Sullivan; \u201c.Mary, Mary.Quite Contrary,\u201d Brenda Keck; \u201cLitttle Tommy Tucker,\u201d Brian Beck; \u201cLittle Polly Flinders,\u201d Elizabeth Ann Pearton; \"Jack and Jill,\u201d Donald Downs; \u201cHum-pty Dumpty,\u201d Suzanne Mitchell; \u201cDing Dong Bell,\u201d Shirley Anno Downs; Blue,\u201d Peter Church; Lazy i table which was centered by red tapers in silver holders.Mrs.Ste.Mario did the pouring.The room:-took on the holiday air with their Ch ri st m a s raii were sunk by submarine thousand times more a JfÇntleinan jaction in the Western Atlantic, Of than Churchill is.It is really difficult these, 191 were sunk off the United to picture the reaction of the be- states, 175 in the Caribbean, 87 off reaved and bombed-out little people South America, 4fl off Canada and of Italy to this announcement that 4g in the Gulf of Mexico.Who can their former hero, for all his catas- ( doubt that the U-boat remains one trophic errors, is as much a \u201cgentle- 0f Hitler\u2019s most powerful weapons?The tonnage sunk was only part of .the loss.With the ships, in many To verify this amazing piece of|instances, went vital cargoes dis-snovbery, the Italians are called on patched for the fighting fronts all to go on fighting \u201cforever\u201d \u2014 or over the world.Most important, until, at any rate, their German and with the ships were lost hundreds j Japanese big brothers rescue them and hundreds of brave and experi-from the predicament into which H , ciiced merchant seamen.Du ce has led them.The Japanese | The submarine campaign qs not are \u201cinvincible\u201d and the Germans one-sided.If the United Nations have promised them the anti-aircraft have lost many merchant ^ ships in guns which Mussolini\u2019s Fascisme so -be past year, if man, articles pio-notably failed to provide; in the Mucfd for victory have gone to the meanwhile, as they await this sue- oottom of the sea.Hitler has los cor, they will evacuate their cities !manP 1 -boats and their trainee and console themselves with the'^ws.borne of these last are pm- ; precipitated them mto th« he\tde&troyed £ captur.1 admits that the aH-ack on France ed ^ the thcory tbat uncertainty was a stab m the bncU they would abo thp fateof missin sub.only have been \u201cmaltreated, as a maiines is unsettling to German result of his statesmanship, by both i moi,ajc.Recent departures from; sklf3-\"\t.\t, this policy, represented by graphic So they are to resign themselves i a,counts of the destruction of parte the present consequence of the tj(.u\u2019ai.submarines, as well as a re-Mussolini genius, whereby they are|e£,nt 0ffjc;ai summary of German maltreated by their German allies ;^ss\u20acSi may indicate doubt about while they are being heavily de- ! £b6, soundness of the general the- : feated by the enemies who are ' actually far better friends of Italy than the Germans.* ?* ^^*Çlira7!Trl-r\u2014-' & FASCIST TIMELY COMMENTS Former Premier Herriott of France has been jailed on the orders of Vichy, which now mean Laval.Men like Edouard Herriott, however, can not he silenced: even when rendered dumb by their oppressors, they still sneak to tneir countrymen in a language which only freedom knows.\u2014Hamilton Spectator.A father is the.one who can hardly wait till Christmas so he can plaiy with Junor\u2019s toys.\u2014 Toronto Telegram.The Nazis r.i'e promising spaghetti to the Italians but it sounds more like the same old macaroni.\u2014Vancouver Province.McKENNEY ON BRIDGE By Wm.E.McKenney, America\u2019s Card Authority.FINESSE REFUSAL UPSETS DEFENCE Our impression is that more white men are row shot by mistake for deer than by Indians in other days on purpose.-Chicago Daily News.man\" as anybody else.* * * SMILE A young Polish pilot attached to the R.A.F.wished to send a message of goodwill to a friend in a squadron detailed fur a special job.The message he wanted to give was \u201cGod preserve y^u,\u201d but not kn wing bow to express it in English, he consulted a Polish-English dictionary.That dictionary gave hint a choice of two words, \u201cpreserve\u201d and \u2019'pickle.\u201d He chose the wrong onel This is the second of a series of hands given to me by Harry J.Fish-bein, who is associated with the Mayfair Bridge Club in New York, I think they are six of the outstanding rubber birdge hands of the year.Today\u2019s hand is worthy of being selected as a World Bridge Olympic hand.Of course East\u2019s bid of one heart was a psychic, and was shown up when North doubled two hearts and South bid three hearts.The opening lead of the jack of clubs was pretty clearly marked as a singleton.Declarer could not lead a trump, as West would win, underlead his diamond ace and then get a club ruff, defeating the contract.So the declarer hoped to find West with the jack of spades.If you knew West had the jack of spades, would you take the finesse?If you did, you would lose the contract.Declarer made the hand by cashing the queen of spades and discarding a diamond from his own hand\u2014and now of course east knew that his partner held the jack of spades.So when the ten was led, East did not bother to ruff, anc\u2019i now declarer made the nice play of throwing away his o.hor diamond.Then there was no way to defeat the contract.East could have upset the applecart if he had been tricky enough A AKQ 10 V Q 10 9 8 ?\t9 *\tAQ 10 8 A J 8 3 2 V AK5 ?A 10 8 5 3 A J N W E S Dealer A 7 6 3 V4 ?KQJ6 2 A 6 5 3 2 A 94 ¥J7632 ?74 A K 9 7 4 Rubber\u2014N.and S, xml.South\tWest\tNorth\tEast Pass\t1 ?\tDouble\t1 ¥ Double\t2 ¥\tDouble\t3 ?3 ¥\tPass\t4 ¥\tPass Opening\u2014A J.\t\t\t15 to trump the ten of spades, but it is difficult to believe that the correct play is to trump a trick that your partner can win.I There were many intrigues between Americans and high French officers.There is nothing glorious in 1 the landing.\u2014 Mussolini, excusing 1 Africa invasion to Italians.A revolutionary moment in the world\u2019s h'storv is the time for revo-luticns, not for patching.\u2014Sir William Beveridge, British social reformer.A notice ut an office in a military estabii.-hment in Scotland, whire civilian callers sometimes cause draught, reads: \u201cThis is a free country.\u201cYou ma open or shut your eyes, ears or mou:h as you please.\u201cBut keep this door shut.\u201d SECOND U.S.PRESIDENT It is America* and British practice to anounce the loss of a ; submarine when it is \u201coverdue and must be considered lost.\u201d Probably The man cannot even keep his | the same practice prevails so far : guilty conscience out of his speech.\u2019as the German naval high com-As he lists his juggled figures of mand is concerned, though it is not j casualties (sufficiently ominous even j likely that the German public is after having been juggled) he has taken into its confidence.Secrecy to throw in a parenthesis to say that | on our part can be defended when They had been married only a month, and he had left for a feu-minutes while she prepared a salad in the kitchen.Suddenly a piercing scream rang out, and lie rushed to the kitchen preoared to face fie knew not what.\u201cWhatever is the matter, darling?\u201d he panted.\u201cIt\u2019s a\u2014a caterpillar,\u201d she gasped.\u201cOh, Reg.what if I had been in the house alct e!\u201d EDITOR\u2019S NOTE-BOOK this time he really is telling the truth.The speech is filled with unconscious sense of defeat and inferiority and achieves the grotesque at it prevents the enemy from obtaining information.If such secrecy merely leaves the enemy in doubt how a missing submarine came to News reports indicate that Italy is shaking in its boot.*\t>i by her aunt who asked her wh shk was not at school.\u2022\u2018We are not going to school this week,\u201d s'-e said.\u201cThere\u2019s an expectant bomb in our hockey field.\u201d \u201cHow long does it take you to dre«s in the morning?\u2019' \u201cOh, about half an hour,\u201d \u201cIt onlv takes me about tan minutes.\u201d \u201cYes.but I wash.'\u2019 \tJ\t\t'\tl\t3\t4\tr\t\t\u20ac\t7\ta\t\t\t \tJ\t9\t\t\t\t\t\tIO\t\t\t\t1 l\th\t 172\t\t\t\t\tHU\t\t\\àr\tir\t\t\t\t\t\t 17\t\t\t\tMs§\t\t\t1 fa.\t\t\t\t15\t\t\t10 XI\t\t\till\t\t\t\t\t\u2022 ^ ¦ fi Y | jj\t\t\ts&sy\t13\t\t 24-\t\tn\t-2S\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t26\t\t\t ?\t\t28\t\t\tRA'-t'/ A V*'>v7\tYV\t\t\t\t'ÜÉ;\t\t\tL\t 3Û\t\t\t\t\t31\t31\t\t\t\t\t\tss*-?ter,-\t33\t34 35\t1 r\t\t\t3S\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHK-Î.'\t37\t\t 78\t\t\t39\tY J ÉM\t40\t\t41\t41\t\tü\t43\t\t\t \t4A\t\t\t45\t\t46\t\t\t\t47\t\t\t\t \t\t48\t\t\t*49\t\t\t50\t5)\t\t\t\t\t \t\tL\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t15\t\t\t i I TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, \\942.SHERBROOKE DAILY K L L f0™0 (ava-09«70 Colo-*' _\tONE Vm in Richmond in May, 1>)pi, is one of the new members of the Montreal City Council.He is a nephew of Mr.and Mrs.Melbourne T.McKee, of Richmond, and of Mr.and Mrs.David J.Sails, of Sherbrooke.W.I.SOOETY AT COOKSHIRE Group to Send Goods to Air Raid Victims in Britain Through Red Cross\u2014Members Speak on Timely Topics.Gookshire, Dec.15.\u2014The December meeting of the Women\u2019s Institute was held at the home of Mrs.f.K .Wootten, with Miss Buck assisting as hostess.The delegates\u2019 expenses to the W.I.convention held at Macdonald College in June last were ten dollars, but Mrs.J.W.French, who was the delegate on that occasion, most generously returned half the amount to tho Institute and wished that five dollars be used as a Christmas gift to buy jam and fruit, etc., to be sent.Overseas.Mrs.MacRae moved that another five dollars be added to Mrs.French\u2019s gift and that canned fruit, honey or marmalade bo purchased and sent through the Red Cross in Montreal to air raid victims in Britain.Mr.Orin Osgood will be asked to attend to this matter.Mrs.Kirby seconded Mrs.MacRae\u2019s motion.Five dollars and seventy-five cents was donated to the Self Denial Fund.It was decided to send Christmas cards to former members -of the Institute, shut-ins and others who wore ill.A Christmas box containing a chicken and other \u201cgoodies\u201d will be sent to the'local Chairman.Several members donated privately to this gift.After some discussion it was moved by Mrs.Fuller and seconded by Mrs.Worby that four dollars be donated to buy seeds for Britain.A member generously donated one dollar towards this gift.The seeds are to be sent to a member of the W.I.in England and distributed.The seeds sent over last year were greatly appreciated and excellent results with very fine specimens were obtained.The roll call was answered by n quotation from a Christmas carol.The main part of the meeting I was taken up by the reading of \"Current Events,\u201d each Convener taking part.Miss McDonald rend an interesting paper on \u201cCanadian Industries\": Mrs.Fuller gave a talk on j \u201cEducation and Nations and Ir.ter-Inational Relations\u2019\u2019; Mrs.MacRae ! spoke on \u201cHealth and Welfare\u201d: Mrs.Kirby gave some interesting facts on \u201cAgriculture and Adult Education\u201d; Miss Buck reviewed some of the items from Mr.Ilsley\u2019s I recent speech on the price réduction of certain foods, etc.; Mrs.Barter spoke on \u201cHome Economies,\" and ! Mises Dennis read some articles on ; \u201cPublicity.\u201d At tho close of the programme on | \u201cCurrent Events,\" Mrs.J.W.I French read two very lovely Christmas poems.Mrs.MacRae then moved that the meeting be adjourned.Refreshments were served by the hostesses, Mrs.Wootten and Miss Buck.The next IV.T.meeting will bo held at the home of Mrs.H.Barter.with Mrs.R.Elliott as co-hostess.General Notes Mr.and Mm.Howard Barter have received word that their daughter.Pto.Beverley Barter, of the C.W.A.C., has arrived safely in Washington.D.C.where she will be attached to the Military Attache of the Canadian Legation, at the British Embassy.'Miss Barter\u2019s many friends here are ail very pleased to I hear this news and wish her much success and happiness in her new position.j Tho Christmas Club was entor-tained on Thursday evening at the I home of Mrs.Frank Hurd.Plans I were made for the Christmas tree jat this meeting.j Miss Betty Beaumont left on | Tuesday morning for Galt.Ont., ! where she has enlisted with the j Royal Naval Service (W.D.l Her friends here all ioin in wishing her Me Bellevue, spent ten days with her mother, Mrs.Arsene Beaulieu.I Cpl.Roberta DesRuisseaux, of (the Women\u2019s War Auxiliary, Quebec j City, is spending a few days\u2019 leave j at her home here.| The County Council was held in the County Hall on Wednesday.Mrs.Arthur Taylor was in Sher-; brooke.| Mr.J.A.Blanchette, of Chartier-\u2022 ville, was in town on Wednesday.Miss Margaret McBurney returned to her home in High Forest on Wednesday after spending ten weeks here while she was caring for the ; late Mrs.Robert Cole.Mr.Ives Pope is spending a few days in Winnipeg, Man., where he is attending the National Conserva-j live Convention.The Ladies\u2019 Guild of St.Peter's 'Church held its annual Christmas ; supper and sale in the Parish Hall I on Wednesday, December 2nd.The ; hall was beautifully decorated by Mrs.A.H.Pope with Christmas decorations, Mrs.Leon DesRuis-seaux was the Convener of the supper with a very efficient staff of | helpers.The fancy work table was j in charge of Mrs.Arthur Bailey | and Mrs.Harry Moe, owing to the j illness of Mrs.Ives Pope and Mrs.| Roland Elliott.Mrs.Fred Hurd was J in charge of the aprons and Mrs.' Fred Noble and Miss Ethel Wool-ley looked after the fish pond.Mrs.A.H.Pope was in charge of the dining room, while the members of the Girls\u2019 Guild very ably wait-I ed on tho tables.The supper proved | to be a great success and the proceeds amounting to over a hundred dollars, were very gratifying.MELBORO Mi-.Albert Batchelor was in Sherbrooke on Thursday to accompany his son, Master John Batchelor, home from the Si- rbrooke Hospital, where he was a patient for two weeks.Deepest sympathy is extended to Mrs.X.II.Be : s and family and 'other relatives in their bereavement | by the death of Mrs.Beers\u2019 brother, Mr.William Fowler, of Kingsbury.' Pte.Grégoire Chagnon, of Val-cartier, spent part of his furlough with his parents, Mr.and Mrs.Pierre Chagnon.BORN TO THE CROWN OF Inheritance of a royal name imposes a definite obligation to leadership.And Seagram's London Dry Gin more than fulfills its family obligation in maintaining the House of Seagram reputation for matchless quality.5 ciu) nun's c/; o- 3ST.THERE'S DUGAW'S DAUGHTER- AIN'T SHE A WOW?c?P)\u2014Morton Cooper and Johnny Beazley, the righthanded mound stars of St.Louis Cardinals, received confirmation from the official figures of the National League today as the outstanding pitchers of the year in the senior circuit.Cooper, already acclaimed as the most valuable player in the League, topped all pitchers in earned-run average with a sensational 1.77 while finishing second in winning percentage.Beazley, the frosty-nerved 21-year-old rookie who no\\v is a corporal in the United States army, was second in earned-run average with 2.13 and first in winning percentage among pitchers participating in at least ten com- \tP\tW\tL\tD\tF\tA Hershey .\t21\t14\t3\t4\t76\t56 Providence\t22\t12\t10\t0\t85\t80 Washington\t20\t6\t11\to\t66\t94 New Haven\t17\t4\t10\to o\tA Q hi-J\t64 Western Division\t\t\t\t\t\t \tP\tW\tp,\tD\tF\tA Buffalo .\t20\t10\t8\t2\t6-9\t5-3 Pittsburgh\t18\t9\t9\t0\t61\t67 Indianapolis\t19\t6\t11\to\t61\t72 Cleveland .\t19\t6\t11\t0\t61\t72 \tJ.A\t.H.A\t\t\t\t \tP\tW\tL\tD\tF\tA Concordia .\t.4\t2\t0\t2\t13\t10 Royals ,,.\t4\t2\t2\t0\t10\t13 Verdun .\t.4\t1\t1\t2\t13\t13 Canadiens\t.1\t1\t3\t0\t13\t16 REMEMBER WHEN?WAR INDUSTRIES LEAGUE Professions; hockey made its New Y rk dehut 17 years ago tonight with more than 19,000 Gothamites in attendance.Montreal Canadiens, one of the N.H.L.\"originals,\u201d made the \u201cgreen\u201d New York crowd gasp with | their speed and won with a clear-cut | 3-1 decision over Americans.P W L D -F A P \u2019! Canadian Car 5\t3\t1\t1\t35\t21\t7 ; iC.P.R.Muni.5\t3\t1\t1\t33\t21\t7 Noorduyn .5\t1\t3\t1\t21\t36\t4 Fairchilds .5\t3\t1\t1\t13\t36\t2 plete games.Beazley\u2019s won-lost record was 21-6 and Cooper\u2019s 22-7.A second classification in the averages, listing pitchers who appeared in a minimum of ten games, but not seventy complete games, was topped by the veteran Lefty French of Brooklyn, who won fifteen games and lost four while compiling 'a low earned-run average of 1.82 for a nine-inning game.In this game group Ace Adams of New York Giants had an era of 1.84 and Max -Macon of Brooklyn Dodgers 1.93.Cooper, 27-year-old Missouri .farmer, compiled the most remarkable pitching record in a decade in the National League.His era was the lowest since Southpaw Carl iHubbell was in his prime for the Giants and set his mark of 1.66 in jl933.Cooper pitched ten shutouts 'and this also was the most any jhurler had accomplished since Hub-,be!l administered the same number of white-washings in 1933.In addition, Cooper scored the | most victories, twenty-two, and \u2019started the most games, thirty-five, j Eleven pitchers appearing in at least ten complete games had less than three earned runs per nine-inning session, They were Cooper 1.77; Beazley 2.13; Curt Davis, Brooklyn 2.36; John Vandermeer, i Cincinnati 2.43; Bill Lohrman, New York 2.47; Cliff Melton, New YTork 2.63; Ray Starr, Cincinnati 2.66; Bucky Walters, Cincinnati 2.66; Claude Passeau, Chicago 2.69; Lon Warneke, St.Louis and Chicago 2.73; and Whitlow Wyatt, BrooK-lyn 2.74.Sport Shorts From Britain The British Boxing Board of Control has authorized a world flyweight title fight between Jolting Jackie Paterson and Sgt.Peter Kane of the R.A.F.No date or site has been set but when it comes off it will be Britain\u2019s most outstanding match of the war.Paterson, a terrific puncher, holds the British and Umpire titles that once belonged to Kane before he decided he couldn\u2019t make the weight.By the time he could, the titles had passed on.So Peter embarked on a comeback campaign and smashed his way to a title fight with the Scot from Glasgow.The National Boxing Association of America rates Paterson and Kane as chief contenders for (he world title.The Association rates Little Dado of the Philippines as king.SOUTH CAROLINA FISH About IfiO species of salt water fish, twenty of them edible, are found in the coastal waters of South Carolina.This state also has seventy species of fresh water fish, of which twenty-two are edible.eafe1*® se®* im lx U5! \\V>NV x- evV^V v\\^>.YJv'e' \u2018\tAeie o'.-* i 0Y , .VO Ail, 3 vYvC \\ * % /Mît Of Vol \\\\VW L\\ ^ lAcV VY ,CW v\\Ae U asss ttw s \\\\0>° oV ucf°'! * w \\\\\"ccV «Jn.blJ\u2019 /mvY A\\ Y*'*' 'V''\\oe\"c' ,eY c .00 ,9^ $Vy SV\"1 ui.*¦ % % tfojenblooMf 0»^