Sherbrooke daily record, 4 janvier 1944, mardi 4 janvier 1944

[" V S\u2019hrrltrmikf Hailn Srrnrii \u2022 # \u2022 THE PAPER OF THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS WEATHER Fair.Established 1897.SHERBROOKE.QUEBEC, TUESDAY.JANUARY 4, 1944 CITY EDITION REDS NOW ADVANCING ACROSS POLISH TERRITORY 170 Villages Recaptured n Swift Soviet Advance Fall of Olevsk and Novo-grad-Volynski Announced in Russian Communique\u2014 Other Spearheads of Vatutin\u2019s Army Pushing on Toward Rumanian Frontier.By HENRY C, CASSIDY Associated Press Staff Writer Moscow, Jan.4.\u2014 (A5) \u2014 Red Army forces under Gen.Nikolai Vatutin, liberator of Kiev, were rolling over the flat terrain of Poland today after capturing the former frontier town of Olevsk and smashing their way across the pre-war Russian-Polish border.Fall of Olevsk and Novograd-Volynski, 42 miles to the South, was announced last night in a Russian communique which dared that 170 villages had been recaptured in the swift Soviet advance.Front line dispatdhes disclosed that Russian vanguards, pushing on rapidly from Olevsk along the Kiev-Warsaw railway, crossed the frontier a short time later.The spearhead advancing' from Olevsk, a former customs station 135 miles Northwest of Kiev, was supported on the left by another column which had occupied Emil-chino, 28 miles to the Southeast.The point at which the Russians crossed the Polish border is approximately 150 miles East of the frontier from which the Germans launched their invasion of Russia after the partition of Poland, and is about 300 miles from Warsaw.The Russians made no official comment on the crossing of the border, which no longer is recognized by Moscow ©s an international boun-dary line, The Southern wing of Vatutin\u2019s army, meanwhile was plunging on from captured Czerzhinsk, 35 miles Southwest of Zhitomir, in a drive which Marshal Fritz von Mannsitein\u2019e rearguards have ep-peared unable to check ever since eight Nazi tank and thirteen infantry divisions were defeated in the battle of the Kiev bulge.At no point along the 60-mile wide drive on Poland, apparently, was von Mannstein able to rally his fleeing, demoralized troops for a stand against the slashing Russian offensive.While Premier Stalin signalized the Red Army advance by an order of the day announcing the.c/pture of Novograd-Volynski, other spearheads of Vatutin\u2019s army were pushing toward the Rumanian border slightly more than 80 miles to the Southwest.They slashed the Kaza-tin-Zhashkov and Kazatin - Uman railway serving the 500,000 Germans believed to be still in Southern Rms-sia, including those threatened with encirclement in the Dnieper bend.Front dispatches seid these spearheads were within thirty-five miles Continued on oaae 2.column 3 Soviets Consider Much Of Present Polish Territory As Russian And Still To Be Freed Of Nazi Hordes By The Canadian Press\ti tier near the Russian town of Novo- Russia\u2019s 1st Ukraine Army has! grad Volynski.From that point it is plunged across the Polish frontier\u2014 but in Moscow\u2019s view \u201cPoland\u201d still lies 150 miles beyond.At this border, the Red Army is 370 miles from Germany itself and 780 miles West of Stalingrad, scene of a great Nazi debacle in January, 1943.Soviet offensives then already underway farther West, since have travelled more than 500 miles, toppling Kharkov, Kursk and Kiev.Red Army troops crossed the Pol-ish-Russian frontier after racing ten miles beyond the town of Olevsk.But in September, 1939, by mili-de- tary an(J political partition of Poland with German, Russia pushed her Polish frontier back in a jagged lino ranging generally from 100 to 210 miles farther West.The Soviets have indicated in various way that they consider this new territory as \u201cRussian,\u201d and still to be liberated.Much of the Polish territory taken by Russia formerly had been Russian under earlier partitions of Poland, but was incorporated into an independent Poland after the First Great War, Hitler\u2019s invasion of Russia was sprung in June.1941, from the Russian-set border, carrying nearly to Moscow.The Russians have pictured their own expansion into Poland as a defensive step in anticipation of Nazi invasion.In a straight line West, it is 150 miles from the border near Olevsk to the 1939 boundary running along the Bug River between Chelm, on the German side, and Luboml.The crossing of the former line capped a Russian power drive carrying 140 miles West of Kiev.Southwest of Kiev, other Soviet columns are approaching the fron- CLAIMS HITLER WILL NOT LIVE TO FACE TRIAL Jan Masaryk Believes Hitler Will Either Be Taken Care of by Military or Commit Suicide.Washington, Jan.4.\u2014 (.T)\u2014Jan: Masaryk, Czechoslovakian Foreign) Minister, predicted today that Hitler won\u2019t live long enough to be tried as a war criminal.\u201cHe'll either be taken care of by 130 miles W.st to the 1939 Polish ! the military or commit suicide,\u201d boundary line at Sokol.\t| Masaryk told an interviewer.The Russians also are within 801\t,, miles of Bessarabia, formerly the t Mfar>k\u2019 \" 10 *>lans uto retunVto boundary line between Rumania and j°nc*on sn°rth, has been in this Russia.But Russia established a ; country as chief of the Czech dele-new frontier with Rumania in 1940 ; gation to the United Nations Relief by ultimatum taking that part of i Conference at Atlantic City.Bessarabia between the Dniester and Retreat, On The Double Prut rivers, a strip varying from 50 to 190 miles wide.Once reaching the Dniester, Moscow may consider her true border lies those distances West to the Prut.Far to the North, in the swirling battles near Vitebsk and Nevel, Russian forces are about 70 miles from the Polish and Latvian borders, and are still closer to Latvia above the Nevel area.Along with Poland, the Russians took over Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, in 1939, subsequently making them republics of the U.S.S.R.These acquisitions pushed the border some 280 miles West from the frontiers in the Vitebsk and Nevel areas, or all the way across Lithuania and Latvia to the Baltic shore.From Finland, Russia gained the Karelian Isthmus, including Viipuri, and territory along Finland\u2019s Eastern border in the winter war of 1939-40.With German help, the Finns retook Viipuri and their part of the Karelian Isthmus, and gained a slice of Karelia to the North.This is apparently what Russia wants her border line to be after the war: It envelopes all of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.From Lithuania it touches East Prussia, going South- Continued on page 2.column 3.Discussing the trials of war criminals by Allied Nations after the war, he said there will be twm kinds: The important ones will be taken care of quickly, the others may drag on longer But the British and American troops will have to help clean up Nazi terrorists, the son of Czechoslovakia\u2019s first President declared.He added: \u201cThere must be a firing squad of British Grenadiers in Prague.\u201d After the Nazis who participated actively in atrocities have been wiped out, Masaryk said there would havej to be a period of quarantine fori Germany.\u201cThere must be some good Ger- \\ mans,\u201d he said, \u201cbut they will have | to prove themselves.\u201d As for the satellite countries,! Masaryk indicated that there is a wide difference between the people | and the rulers and that when the: crust of totalitarian sympathizers ! has been shorn off, Hungary, Bui- ' garia and Rumania will be able to ! rejoin the family of peace-loving: nations.The Czechs do not share fears ex- ! pressed by other smaller countries : that Russia, Britain and the United I States will dominate the post-war I world to the detriment of less power- j ful nations, he said.\tI B & Allied Guns Are Trained On Pesara Canadian Troops Last Reported as Engaged in Spasmodic Fighting Near Key Adriatic Port with Germans Putting Up Stubborn Resistance.I an.I.KOY These Nazis, part of more than 300,000 troops forced to retreat in the Kiev sector through a strategic blunder by the German command, take a last look at this burning Russian village which they systematically destroyed before deserting it.TO CONFER ON POUSH-RUSSIAN QUESTIONS London, Jan.4.\u2014 (I5)\u2014Stanis-law Mikolajczyk, President of the Polish Government in London, and Premier Tadeusz Romer are expected to leave for Washington soon for conferences on Polish-Russian questions, heightened by the Red Army\u2019s crossing of the Polish border.Before they leave for talks with President Roosevelt and State Secretary Cordell Hull, it is believed they may confer with President Eduard Benes of the Czecho-Slovak Government in London.Benes recently returned from Moscow, where a Czech-Russian pact was signed leaving an opening for Poland to join in a bulwark of states against the threat of any future German drive to the East.United States Studies Pole- Soviet issue Washington, Jan.4.\u20144Æ\u2019)\u2014State Secretary Cordell Hull indicated to- j day that the United States may I make an effort to bring Poland and j Russia together diplomatically and I thus prevent any flare-up now that Red troops have crossed the Polish frontier.FIGHT FOR AIR SUPREMACY WAR TURNING POINT Issue Now Hangs on Which Side First Falters.Weakens and Loses Its Punishing Power, Says Gen.Arnold.Washington, Jan.4.-(/P) \u2014 The present struggle for air supremacy Algiers, Adriatic port a main highway within range of I Master Up And Plan For I nvasion Only Starting Date Ha H a - lien Drawn To ia Fixed London, Jan.4.\u2014((P)\u2014The first meeting of the new Allied \u201cinvasion war council\u201d appeared imminent to- ^ day amid indications that a master First Meeting of Allied Invasion War Council Appears Imminent\u2014Montgomery Arrives in London\u2014Says End of War Now in Sight.£s Europe Xady hafbeef S-\tbe here] miles air line from Messina Strait Aught, although I don\u2019t of the.Pescara Plain in Italy and he gave them his war forecast.\u201cWhen we began this business we didn\u2019t know how the war would! ,\t,.\t,\t,\t, .1 end,\u201d he said.\u201cNow the end is to I DlpIomatle obsorvers here watcM 'IP) \u2014- Pescara, nd leriiiinus of to Home, was British 8th Army guns today as the Allied forces continued to advance up the Italian Goasl.Action has been mullled, latest front line reports said, under a blanket of sleet and snow, and Iho Allied advance was slow.Canadian troops, however, were last reported as engaged in spasmodic lighting some nine miles from Pescara with the Germans putting up stubborn resistance.Holding the high ground be« tween the coaslal road and the sea, the Nazis are in a good position to make Uie dash for Pescara perilous and will have to be eliminated by (he same type of dosa lighting that featured the Mora river and Ortona fighting.Melting snow that turned roads into morasses kept fighting at a minimum all across the Peninsula, although the Cairo Radio reported that troops of the Anglo-American \u201e\t,, ,, ,\t,, r-u- e Is tie Western end of tho battle line.Asked at », press conference the major turning point in the war.Air iltiong wei.(l\tamj about the forthcoming Visit hero of| \u201cWhat American and Royal Air I \u201cwidespread damage\u201d to enemy Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, President of (Force bombers can do to the whole i transports and communication lines the Polish Government in Londoifcj German war machine once the (,er-1 Was reported.lt n -, ,i\t,\u2022 ,i ¦ ¦ man fighter force is rendered im-i Nazi vehiele- ct-dle,! in «snow.Hull said the purpose of the visit !\t,\t,\t,\t.\u201e .\t,\tln sno.v- f ,\t.potent needs no comment, he as-(bound mountain passes, were cut up could be inferred from the situa- sorts.\u201cThe issue hangs now on ; by fighters and divebombers whila tion in Europe.\twhich side first falters, weakens and : rail communications at Taggia Mikola- loses its punishing power.\u201d\t| Ventimiglia and Army Riva vTerâ Washington\ta report on the operations of I attacked.Railyards at Terni, 49 ,\t! the United States Air Forces, | miles Northeast of Rome and at .ussian Arnold left little doubt as to his con- , Anagni, 35 miles Southeast o£ questions.\t| viction that it would not be the i Rome, were also hit hard.Hull said this government turns (plane power of the Allies which |\t- its attention to all matters arising would fail.His report, similar to j Algiers, Jan.4.\u2014 (JP) \u2014Indian in connection with the Allied situa- a recent summary of army activities j forces of the British 8th Army have tion when it is practical and feas-j by Gen.George C.Marshall, Chief captured a hi!) overlooking enemy of Staff, made these disclosures: (lines and one and one half miles London reported that jezyk is coming to shortly to discuss Polish Europe already cd out and only a needs to be set.Gen.Sir Bernard Montgomery, Commander of British land forces for the invasion, already has arrived in London, it was disclosed last night.The Allied Air Commander, Air Chief Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory, and the U.S.Strategic Air Force Commander, Lt.-Gen.Carl A.Spaatz, also are in England, and the rest of tihe invasion command is expected soon.Montgomery was greeted with cheers when he was recognized in a London hotel lobby.He told Assaults On French Invasion Coast Continued Today By Allied Bombers By AUSTIN BALMEAR ] Fires, meanwhile, were reported Associated Press Staff Writer | still burning in Berlin from the two ¦»\t, t .vd, TT previous night assaults on the Ger- London, Jan.4.\u2014 f/P) \u2014United:1\t,\t, j ¦\t,\t, \u201e\t\u2019\t, j man capital and advices relayed States medium bombers, escorted byjfronl \u201eeutral Sweden said that traf-R.A.F.and R.C.A.F.fighters, heav-ific within the city remained virtual-ily attacked military objectives in ;G'Paralyze|L the Pas de Calais area of France to- ( Two fires were raging yesterday in Hitler's RekhchanceKory, stortmg dateiSl;,,1\u2019\"1 ah^s 011 the\tthese Dispatches from Douglas Amaron, Canadian Press War Correspondent, in Italy said Montgomery told British 8th Army troops in a farewell address Dec.30 that a victorious end of the war was in sight, \u201cthough I don\u2019t say next month, next week or next year.\u201d Addressing members of the 8th Army crowded into a battered little theatre in Southeastern Italy, Montgomery declared \u201cthe situation is good .All we have to do is to have complete trust in our leaders\u2014 leaders of the nations\u2014and get on with the job.\u201d \u201cThere have been certain comments about the slowness of the campaign in Italy,\u201d Montgomery said.\u201cThere has been no slowness at all.This army landed in Italy on Sept.3 and by Dec.3 the 8th had fought its way over 700 miles of country.I don\u2019t call that slow.\u201d There was no further explanation of the 700-mile reference.It is 215 Ir; ! ed next on the Adriatic, and 115\t01 nexj' ye!ai\u2019- He gave the 8th Army credit for to Bari miles air line from Bari North to newly captured Ortona, from which 8th Army units are now striking helping effect this change in outlook and declared it was the on experienced army in the I the Russian army! drive today with fingei-\t.the hope that no border incidents j\tplanes and shoot down will arise to snap the tension be-1\t- Pjanes themselves; 1.Allied fliers are concentrating j from San Tomasso which was cap.toward Pescara.The 8th Army has (said he was taking some of his staff! The Question of whether the srnol-l ,\u2019S Westward'011 enemy with a two-fold objer- j lured by Canadian forces late Iasi; ¦rs crossed* in I Hve-destroy the facilities for mak- ! week, the Allied communique antler incidents ( flfhter \u2019!lanes,aml sho e tension be- the planes toemselves; rmîvroaMw Itween Russia and the Polish Govèfii- .\t, United States only really met in London.\t| largest air force in the wor -jinpire.He:\t, , ,\t.\t; ned by 2,385,000 officers and nouneed today.The Indian troops, of the 8th Div-Stales has the ( ision, advanced almost to Tollo lo-orld, man- cated on a secondary road parallel-, ,\t.\t.\t,\tnd men; ling the coast and about five mile! moved by tortuous highways, 'how-1 with him to Ën^înd'be^si'TtTas j Bering ««ding between Poland and | to^^rodTccdln^hc ne7t I\u2019ighS ! itopatobcs^aili\" A,imtlC\u2019 frollt'lino ever, and not by these direct routes, ibis idea \u201cto get that experience Russia, which have no diplomatic j months wM exceed thst of ali tvpes ,\t- .\tspread out over all the armies that j relations, will flare up depends \u2022\t«,¦\t,,\t,,,,\tTT-., - | leml-lease, of which Russia received also that he had never given a writ-! lj °mier wco attended the United ; 7^00.iten command to his subordinate ( Notions Relief Conference in Allan- J.____________________________________ commanders.He emphasized the He City, said in Chicago three weeks importance of personal contact and j ago that instructions had been issu-j quoted a Biblical verse: \u201cExcept ye j eP t n l c Wi z-xi- n ! / *\u2022\t« ! « + to\t.1 - f\tr, P 4.U C* .* to Tl.\tf-\t111\t\u2022\t.\t.\t.\t1 .(orco this morning their threatened ; force of the South Pacific Command \u201ctotal\tstrike\u201d when reinforced \"\u2019ere hammering the enemy war- pickets drew a tighter cordon (ships with heavy bombs and torpe-around the City Hall and other city 1 does, other aircraft from Soutn buildings.^\tI Pacific bases were destroying 32 Gerard Picard, General Secretary ! Japanese planes over Kavien-g and of the Canadian and Catholic Oon-jRabaul, big enemy base in North determine whether the cruisers and destroyers eventually sank.Thirty Japanese Zero fighters streaked in to meet up with United States fighters which downed 11 enemy fighters for sure and four more probables.The Americans lost federation of Labor, parent body of ( eastern New Guinea.Five United ! two fighters and one divebomber the civic employees National Syr- ( States planes were lost in the two (iicate, told the Canadian Press that j raids.\u201cthe.strikers\u2019 determination to j The attacks, reported in today\u2019s obtain what they consider adequate communique, occurred New Year\u2019s compensation for their work mains adament.\u201d He added: re- Day.American troops of the Army \u201cFrom this morning on pickets have secured their objective at have been reinforced at the City Sai.dor, on the North coast of New Hall and at all other municipal Guinea, where they made an inbuildings.The lists of those that vasion landing Sunday, had been allowed to enter during the I Warned by reconnaissance planes past two weeks have been revised (that a Japanese naval force of two and from now on only the top-rank- cruisers and two destroyers were ing officials whose presence in their (approaching Kavieng, where an-offices strikers deem indispensable I other carrier-borne plane attack had will be permitted to walk through sunk an enemy destroyer and two the tighter cordon.He have drawn big cargo ships Christmas Day, the around city departments.\tcarrier force sped to meet them.Eighty heavy bombers and fighters smashed at Lakunai airdrome in Rabaul\u2019s chain of airfields, dropping 350 fragmentation bombs, starting fires and destroying an enemy bomber on the ground.The New rear\u2019s Day raid on Rabaul brought to 160 the total of enemy planes downed there in ten days, against an Allied loss of 25.The Australians moved Northward from recently-captured Nuzen on the coast of the Huon Peninsula, New Guinea, closing the approximately 70-mile gap between them and the Americans at Saidor in a move intended to destroy the Japanese between the Allied Forces. SHERBROOKE DAILY RECORD TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1944 Pro-German Cabinet Of Bulgaria Report Collapse Telephone And Telegraph Service Between Bulgaria And Turkey Is Broken Off Without Explanation London, Jan.4\u2014©)\u2014While the Berlin Radio dismissed today as \u201cinventions\u201d reports that the pro-German government» of Bulgaria had been overthrown, dispatches from Turkey said the belief persisted there that Premier Dobri Bojil-ov\u2019s Cabinet was on the verge of collapse if it has not actually fallen.The exact situation in Bulgaria, however, Istanbul advices said, was obscured by continued interruption of normal means of communication with Sofia.Telephone and telegraph communication between Bulgaria and Turkey was broken off suddenly yesterday without explanation.Tlhe Istanbul advices it was freely predicted by persons in contact with Bulgaria and Rumania that popular movements in both countries might attempt organized revolts against the Germans within the next two weeks if the Russian Soutfhwest- ward advance continues.The Red Army\u2019s drive, it was said, already has exerted a powerful influence in Bulgaria, which is not at war with Russia and whose people have been traditionally friendly with the Russians, Both Bulgarians and Rumanians were said to be anticipating an Allied landing somewhere along the Adriatic coast simultaneously with the expected Soviet breakthrough from the East.A correspondent for the Turkish paper Aksam, writing from Budapest, said that it was believed there that a democratic government would replace the present Bulgarian regime during the first two weeks in January, but that a change in Bulgarian foreign policy was not expected.\u201cThe change will be made in order to unite the nation befoi'e taking decisions for which a strong government will be needed,\u201d he said.Fight for Air Continued from Page 1.170 Villages Continued from Page 1.of the main Warsaw-Odessa trunk railway feeding the Dnieper bend, 5, American planes now can bomb and were driving for Vinnitsa, 22! enemy cities through overcast or in miles to the Southwest, and Zhemr-: darkriess> with accuracy, as a result inka, in their sweep to seal off the of developments in navigation aids; I ,6.Flight weather forecasting has ! German forces to the East.Bcrdi-i progressed to such an extent that] chev, von Mannstein\u2019s headquarters'P1'6?31'3*'011® now can be made 30 until the present offensive, was re-^ days in advance ported to be half-surrounded.On the Baltic front in the far North, Gen.Ivan Bagramian continued his advance toward the Latvian McConnell Mr.and Mrs.Aristide Forand and Allied Guns Continued from Page 1.ward movement of about three miles since they captured Orbona last Tuesday.Soggy ground hampered large-scale fighting.On the Western front American troops of the Anglo-American 5tlh Army stabbed with Patrols at defences of San Vittore, guarding the main highway to Cas-sino and Rome.The Germans replied with a shelling of Mignano, a highway hub.While Allied Headquarters has not formally announced the capture of Mignano, that former German strongipoint is behind the present Allied positions along both sides of tlhe important Rome highway.In the air, heavy United States bombers knocked out the bearing plant at Villa Perosa in Northern Italy yesterday and once again battered the Turin railway yards.Allied fighters and five-bomibers wrecked or damaged dozens out of hundreds of German supply trucks found snowbound in mountain passes.Other aircraft bombed the German-held Yugoslav ports of Split and S'ibenik, and attacked a large concentration of troops at Prijedor in Yugoslavia.A German broadcast said Allied planes had carried out a \u201cterror attack\u201d on the communications centre of Pistoia, 21 miles Northwest of Master Plain For Contimmo from Page 1.Soviets Consider Continued from Page I.Four Years Ago By The Canadian Press Jan.4, 1910.\u2014Britais requisitions all merchant ships of the United Kingdom for war duty.Field Marshal Goering assumes direction of Germany\u2019s war economy.Increased patrol activity, noted on Franco-German front.MONTREAL STOCK EXCHANGE CLARENCEVILLE Sicily.Every soldier could not come to hear him say goodbye because his ! men still are marching.Although the message to the troops perhaps meant more to veterans of months of desert and Afri can campaigning, the Canadians noted the passage in which he said: \u201cIn all the battles we have fought together we have not had one single failure; we have been successful in everything we have undertaken.\u201d There is no doubt that the Canadians will miss \u201cMonty,\u201d a regular visitor to the Canadian area.Aifter the Sicilian campaign he called them \u201cveterans of the 8th Army\u201d and told them he never would put them into a battle which he was not certain of winning.frontier.The Soviet war bulletin re-, 'iau£hter> Pauline, were holiday ported capture of seventy more, guCcd's °f and ^rs-towns North of Nevel which'left the:man and Mr- and, Mrs- ^ CnaP-Russians within 40 miles of Latvia.™\u2019 m Framingham, Mass., and At the same tim« Vitebsk, major _\\fr> ancj\tJohn Ingalls, of stronghold of the Germans White i:eebe, were guests for a few days Russian defence system, was .s»owly ;of Mr_ and Mrs.Hibbard Ingalls and being invested by Bagramnans j family.troops, dispatches said.\tMrs.\u2019 U.G.Libby is closing her home for the remainder of the winter and is leaving for Way's Mills to spend a few weeks with old friends, then on to Sherbrooke to be with her son, Mr.Grosvenor! Libby, and Mrs.Libby.Best wishes j west, curvesSoutheastalong the Bugifcr 3 pleasant winter go with Mrs.: River barely taking in Bn ^t-Lito-ok;Mr- and Mrs-.Grosvenor and including Luck (by good mar-\tof Sherbrooke, .spent Christ- gin) all the way to Sokol.At Sokol mas Day with their mother here, it bends West and Southwest to the' Mr.and Mrs.Ezra Woodard and San River near Jaroslaw, and f0l-i aal[f?hter, Joyce, of Beebe, and Mr.lows the San to the Carpathian :and Mrs.Alfred Keeler and two Mountains.This was the line that1 =nlIdreTl were Christmas guests of was established across Poland byi MlUan m Hatley> Kibbentrop.The line then runs alongi 0,',T Tls\tajT\u2018 -,\t,, f the Carpathians to the old Rumanian!\tLeon ParneB spen ,\t,\t, ,\t\u2022\t1\t1 -p xt t-t- the day \u2022with her parents, Mr.and border, takes m a chunk of North-; ^ Humphr(î;.ern Bucovina in a line about ter.; ^ d ^ A/s, Bacon were miles bdow Cemauti, and then cuts1 c.llristma6 ts of Mr an.d lMrs.off all of Bessarabia between the Arn,oM H,\tand famil in Mag0B, Prut and.Dniester rivers.\tMr.and Mrs.C.J.Hopps enter- Rumania whoso troops have suf- tained Mr.alld Mrs.Mark Dezan fered heavily in Eastern front figrlyt-1 an,d three children, of Rock Island, ing, took back Bessarabia and the j ^rs.Rose Brown is spending the Germas awarded her I rans-Dnie«- 'holiday season ait the home of Mr.;C,a,_a black-soil wheat belt between and lyn-s.Cecil Brown, in Ayer\u2019s the Dniester and lower Bug River.¦ The following quotations are supplied by Greenshields & Co.: Open\tNoon Bell Telephone .153\t153 Brazilian.23\t23 Can.Cement.\t6%\t6% Can.Car & Fdy.\t8%\t8% C.Car & Fdy.Pfd.\t26% B Can.Celanese .\t35% B 36 A Can.Pacific .\t10%\t10 Con.Smelters .\t39%\tA Dist.Seagrams .Dom.Bridge .Dorn.S.& C.\"B\u201d Dom.Textile .Foundation Co.MONTREAL CURB MARKET Trans-Dniestria, officially decreed to be part of Rumania, includes the Black Sea port of Odessa.ALVA Florence.Light bombers and fighter bombers lashed at the Germans in the battle area of Italy, hitting at motor { transport in the Avezzano area, gun ! positions near Ccrvara and also car- ^ rying out another raid against the ' port of Civitavecchia, Northwest of ; Rome.During the day seven enemy air-1 craft wore destroyed and three Allied planes are missing.é I,\\KT DAY A MIGHTY JACK LONDON STORY OK CANADIAN NORTH COUNTRY THAT WILL THRILL YOU TO CHEERS! Hear the Glorious Voice of Johni Carroll As He Sings \"Love Call\" and \"Sing a Song of Sixpence\" I \"WOLF CALL,\" with John Carroll, Movita, Pete G.Lynn, Polly Ann Young.HIT NO.2\u2014BROADWAY GOES COW-BOOGIE I .Herds of Hofirys and Howls of Gleel Robert Page, Franc s Langford in \"COWBOY IN MANHATTAN,\" with Leon E: rol, Walter Catlett, Jennifer Holt, Joe Sawyer.\"WOMEN AT WAR,\" a War Service Special in Technicolor.\"HOT FOOT,\u201d a Roaring Comedy with Edgar Kennedy.\"SCRAP HAPPY DAFFY,\", a Looney Toone Cartoon.Latest World Events.EXTRA\u2014\"SECRET SERVICE IN DARKEST AFRICA.\" REAMf Mr.Frank Hawley entertained on Christmas Day at dinner, Mr.and Mrs.O.H.Baker and three children, Mr.and Mrs.Thomas Hawley, Mr.and Mrs.Harold Woodard, Mr.and Mrs.George A.Hawley and son, Lester.Miss Gertrude Hawley and Mr.Shirley Katlin.Mrs.Maud Moffatt spent a day with Mrs.George A.Hawley.Mr.and Mrs.G.A.Hawley and son, Lester, called on Mrs.O.II.Baker and family one afternoon.Miss Bertha Forand, of Framingham, Mass., was a Christmas guest of Mr.and Mrs.A.Forand and family.Mr.William Sparks is recovering from a severe attack of the grippe.DETAILED WEATHER A very successful Christmas en tertainment was presented by the rUTeUpY w\u201erp, young people and children of this ^lingei Con_ .community on Christmas Eve in the : Howard Smith lecture room of the local United ; imperjai Tobacco Church and was largely attended : imperial Oil .by people from Noyan, Clarenceville j jnter.Pete.East and the village.The pro-\u2018inter.Nickel .gramme, which consisted of choruses, ! Lake of the Woods drills, dialogues, tableaux and récita- ; Ma :sey Harris .tions was prepared by Mrs.Willis (M'ont.Power .Beervort and was greatly appre-jNat.Breweries .elated by everybody in attendance.1 Nat.Steeel rar .The chair was taken by Mr.Chilton Noranda.48% B 49 A Adams, while Mrs.Adams played (Power Corp.the piano for the choruses.An ad- St.Law.Corp., .mission fee of twenty-five cents was | St.L.Corp.\u201cA\u201d .charged and the proceeds amounted j Shawinigan .to a substantial sum.The most in-j MHnmpeg Elec.A teresting item on the programme ( was a flower drill rendered by eight young ladies dressed in white with pink belts and collars and with head bands of pink decorated with golden coloured trimmings.This drill occupied about one half-hour and was beautifully and accurately presented.The choruses, one of which was given by the boys, were very well done as were also the dialogues and tableaux.Of course, as is usually the case, the recitations rendered by the children afforded much delight.They were recited by Beverly Miller, Sally Adams, Almeda Wilson, Robert Adams, Isabel Miller, MyiTin Miller, Keith Adams, Wilda Wilson, Francis Adams and Ray Adams.At the close of the entertainment a few remarks were made by Rev.D.J.Munn, the National Anthem was sung and numerous gifts from Santa were pre FAIR Forecasts: Moderate winds; fair j today and most of Wednesday; not much change in temperature.I Temperatures yesterday: Maxi-mum, 30; minimum 6 below.1 Same day last year: Maximum, 110; minimum, 14 below.' \u2022- STARTING TOMORROW FOR FOUR DAYS - COME ON THE RUN AND JOIN THE FUN! SEE THE JOY SHOW THAT\u2019S BIG AS OUR TWO-OCEAN NAVY!.The Brightest of Entertainment That Ever Had You Rocking with Rhythm and Rolling with Laughter! SHSlm 3f« caHS Of C0«s oT G\"1* A Paramount Pittufe\u2018Starring DOROTHY LAMOUR WILLIAM t HOLDEN m ©1 BRACKEN 1» jimmy ill DORSEY and his ORCHESTRA featjiine BOB EBERLY and I HELEN O'CONNELL Betty Hutton Betty Jane Rhodes Leif Erickson f\to.mw b, ÏICfOR SCHWZINGfR \"I Remember You''.\"Tangerine\u201d.\u2018Not Mme VMtie Fleet s In \"If You Build a Better Mousetrap ' \"When You Hear the lum Signer.\"Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing in a Hurry\" 2nd DRAMATIC HIT SUSPENSE-LOADED THRILL STORY of a Small-Time Bad Boy Who Fell \u201cHeir\u201d to a Family of Spoiled Millionaires! I It A REPUBLIC PICTURE vwith Chick Chandler, Nana Bryant, Walter Catlett.\"BULWARKS OF FREEDOM,\" a War Service Special.Community Songs.World Events.Performances Daily 1:30 until 5; 6:30 until 11, 3 E S5 £ 3 E U £ B 3 B r (j \u2014 LAST DAY \u2014 \"Sweet Rosie O\u2019Grady\u201d \u2014 In Technicolor \u2014 Bette Grable \u2014 Robt.Young \"Aerial Gunner\u201d Chester Morris \u2014 Richard Arlen Note NEW CHANGE OF PROGRAMME\u2014In Future \u2022\tStarting Tomorrow our programmes will begin \u2022\tWEDNESDAY until SATURDAY and SUNDAY until TUESDAY' inclusively.Showing WED.-THURS.-FRI.and SAT.q,uJE.'BI.OOok-a\tContinuous Show Thurs.(Little Christmas) and Sat from /1'Vo1 until closing.'3,'d *- pearing in the 64 MONTREAL.PRIVATE RESIDENCE, fireplace, hardwood floors, large lot, J central location, $7,500.Easy trims.Phone Edwards, 135.Poultry For Sale ALBINI SAMSON WILL BUY.SELL OR exchange all kinds of rvoporty throughout the Province.For full details write Albim Samson, P.O.Box 627.Sherbrooke.P.Q.( Office: 8 King St.East, Apt.1.Phone Sherbrooke, 1657-M.____________^ PUREBRED BARRED ROCK COCKERELS for sale, $2.50 each.Apply 1137 Main Street, Waterloo.Phone 188-J-4.Livestock For Sale Storage FURNITURE, ETC.IN SEPARATE rooms.Phan* Prichard.52Srl._ SADDLE AND DEI v'ING HORSE, 4 YEARS, 1,600 lbs.; also light sleigh.216 Council | Street.Phone 443.\tI Rock Island Butcher Shop \u2014 FOR SALE \u2014 Modem Meat Market, fully-equipped with all machines, delivery truck and accessories, for immediate sale, for cash, to settle estate of the late J.A.Suprenant.Exceptional mid-town location.Annual Revenue of $6,000.Real opportunity.Apply to: 58a Wellington St.North, Sherbrooke, Apt.105, Tel.24, or at 29 Park Avenue, Apt.1, Tel.1357 LIBBY7 OWN Mr.Frederick Armitage, of Val-! cartier, has been spending a few days at Mr.Matthew Smith\u2019s and Mr.Alvin Smith\u2019s.Mbs.Agnes Smith and family, of Cassville, were guests at Mr.Matthew Smith\u2019s for Christmas.Mr.and Mrs.Frederick Palmer, of Sherbrooke, Mr.and Mrs.George Johnson and little daughter, of Rock Island, were Christmas guests at Mr.Nelson Vancour\u2019s.East Side Kid.\u2019 .Timm,y Dorsey and his orchestra,\tpicture is based on a mos| Paramount\u2019s \"The Fleet's In\u201d which novel promise.Sam Winston, an eld-opens at the New Premier Theatre cr]y millionaire newspaper publish^ tomorrow contains nine hit tunes and