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VOL. CLXXI. No. 227 THE GAZETTE. MONTREAL: TUESDAY; SEPTEMBER 22, 1942.

REPORTED MISSING NOW PRISONER EXECUTION TOLL PUT the brink of disaster already by unfair ceilings." On the wage stabilization front, it was argued by Senator Ball, of Minnesota, that the principles of the "little steel" adjustment (permitting a 15 per cent, rise in wages NAZIS ARE STALLED IN RUSSIAN BATTLE (Continued from Page One.) appear- I iff k. saw. Mi H.M.C.S. OTTAWA SUNK BY U-BOAT, 113 LIVES LOST (Continued from Page One,) vi'Je home today of the high morale of the crew of the ill-fated craft. "You wouldn't want a better comply their discipline wai of the highest order right through." he aid.

"They were true to the tradition of tr.e navy." Lt. Pullen. who was rescued after five hours in the water, is home on leave. The officer said there were many cts of heroism performed In the hours after the destroyer was lost, but that In the darkness he had been unable to pick out any parti rular heroes. "I was clinging to a raft with Just my head above water," he said.

"I couldn't pick rfut any particular man by nsrne, but I do know that on a rft nearby one man took complete charge and kept up the spirits of tne men by singing and them. "Several times I saw him dive Into the water and help others onto the raft," Lt. Pullen said. Paying trioute to the missing men the officer said: "I can ssy with conviction that the families of the men who are mUsing can be assured their loved ones acquitted them selves in a manner that was a credit to the service. Every man In the r.ips company was grand." SPAIN AFFIRMS ANTI-RED STAND (Continued from Page One) the strength and prestige of the state" (This paragraph presumably referred at the start to the cabinet shake-up and tht change in the party leadership.

Franco himself took over the post ef chief of the poetical Junta of the Falange. (The other cabinet changes saw Gen. Carlos Asensio-Cabanillas becoming war minister succeeding Gen. Jose Varela and Bias Perez replacing Col. Vaneltin G.

Alarza as minister of Interior.) The communique continued: "In the economic field, despite the grave difficulties ef the moment caused in a large part by our war of liberation and by the immediate reccty to begin at once the whole Jfib of reconstructing Spain with the noble desire to exccll, and by the present state of the world, there ia a notable improvement which is reflected In the good condition of our treasury, in the recovered prestige of our money, the vast execution of a public works program, important work realized in the field ef social and labor policy and the gradual but sure recovery of our agricultural, industrial and mercan- JAP FLEET RETIRES IN SOLOMONS AREA (Continued from Page One) all repulsed with severe losses for ihe enemy. GERMANY: A German communique Monday: "After overcoming difficult and mined terrain the towns of Terek and Vladimirovka were stormed and captured on the Terek front. "In some districts of Stalingrad which the enemy Is desperately trying to hold with the help of fresh reinforcements violent street fighting is going on. Renewed relief attacks against a position to the north of the town collapsed with losses for the enemy. "Near Saratov the air force shot ablaze a tanking depot on the Volga.

Northwest of Voronezh several enemy attacks again failed. "Also southeast 6f Lake Ilmen and south of Lake Ladoga repeated Soviet attacks were defeated with heavy losses by concentrated fire of all arms. The air force sank on Lake Ladoga one transport ship. Another ship was damaged and one patrol vessel set on fire. "German fighter planes yesterday, notwithstanding particularly unfavorable weather conditions, fought in Dvinskaya Bay, near Archangel, the remainder of the large Anglo-American convoy.

Three merchant ships were hit several times. "In North Africa formations of the German Air Force attacked enemy forces on the El Alamein front and in the southern desert region with bombs and machine-guns. Four British chasers were shot down in aerial combat. "In the period September 2-20 the Royal Air Force lost 189 airplanes, of which 46 were over the Mediterranean and North Africa. During the same period 22 of our own machines were lost in the fight against Great Britain.

"In fighting in the region of Stalingrad a Pomeranian and East Prussian mechanized infantry division' destroyed on one day 129 Soviet armored fighting cars in successfully warding off strong enemy relief attacks." BRITAIN: Text of a British East African communique on Madagascar Monday: "Our forces are closing In on Tananarive. To the east of the capital the important road and rail junction at Brickaville has been occupied, while from the northwest our troops are advancing south of Ankazobe, which was taken September 19 after a short engagement ''On the northwest coast, despite heavy rain which had added to the physical difficulties already caused by French road demolitions, the other southwest movement continued. "In this area Befotaka, to the south of Maromandia, has been occupied and our advanced elements were last reported to be moving on toward Anthony. 'The column moving down the northeast coast entered Saham-bava at midday yesterday." The Admiralty issued this communique Monday: "The Board of Adimralty regrets to announce that H.M. Trawler Waterfly R.

W. Hawes, R.N.V.R.) has been sunk. Next of kin of casualties have been Informed." The Air and Home Security Ministries Issued this communique Monday night: "During the morning enemy alr- craft dropped bombs at a place on the Southeast Coast of England. Some damage was done but no one was seriously Injured." An Air Ministry communique Monday night: "In the course of offensive patrols today our fights set a flak-ship (anti-aircraft vessel) afire off the Dutch coast. One of our fighters is missing." MIDDLE EAST: A British communique Monday: "During the night of September 19-20 our patrolling continued on the whole front.

Yesterday there were artillery exchanges in the southern sector. "On September 19 two enemy flying boats were shot down by our Malta fighters over Sicily and schooners east of Tripoli were successfully attacked. "Fires visible 30 miles were started when our heavy and medium bombers attacked Tobruk the night of September 19-20. "Yesterday our fighter bombers were active in the late afternoon and air combats developed. At least two enemy aircraft were-shot down and many were damaged during the day." ITALY: "During yesterday the Axis air force successfully continued bombing and machine-gunning operations against motorized enemy formations at the rear of the Egyptian front.

Numerous motor vehicles were set on fire. In air battles German fighters shot down four enemy planes. "British aircraft bombed Tobruk. "Machine-gun bullets fired from enemy planes and some bombs dropped on inhabited places of the province of Agrigento did not cause casualties." past week, it appears to observers here that success in carrying the war through Japan's outer bases need await only the upbuilding of American bomber strength in those regions. SPECULATION IDLE ON FINN PEACE BID (Continued from Page One) ally unchanged "without retreat or advance," one correspondent at Secretary Hull's conference spoke today of reports of new fighting between the Soviet forces and the Finns, and asked whether this could be considered an "offensive" operation by Finland.

Secretary Hull said that he had no information on this subject. While some persons speculated about the timing of the Finnish statement, well informed Finnisn quarters said that it had been made at this time only because of a feeling by Minister Procopc, based on an analysis of press clippings, that American public opinion was, incorrectly, coming to the conclusion that Finland preferred to press a war against Soviet Russia as an ally of Germany, though she could, at any time, conclude a peace which would restore her, in part, at least, to good standing with the American Government. It was for this reason that Minister Procope emphasized that his country had entered the war "not owing to any alliances or political commitments but because she was forced by the Communist attack," that she sought, no imperialistic ends; that her political and social system has not been changed to a Fascist dictatorship, and that Fin-land's hope for the future lies in keeping "her land in her own hands until a lasting peace built up on real guarantees comes." OTTAWA PUTS BAN ON DREISER TALKS (Continued from Page One) After telling a special session of the police commission there might be a "serious breach of the peace" if Dreiser were allowed to speak, acting police chief John Chisnolm was instructed to take any steps he considered advisable to "prevent the holding of any meeting in Toronto for the purpose of being addressed by Mr. Dreiser." The Town Forum committee's cancellation of the meeting followed. A statement from the committee's chairman, D.

Ross, said the meeting was cancelled because the statements attributed to Dreiser "have been widely interpreted as a hindrance rather than a help to that better understanding" of the United Nations' Joint effort to destroy "Hitler Fascism" for which the meeting was called. Dreiser was scheduled to address the meeting on "democracy on the offensive." REDS' BOILING OIL BRINGS NAZI WHINE (Continued from Page One) to hammer their way into the blazing inferno of Stalingrad." Citing these two sentences in a similar report on the German radio for home consumption, a Goebbels announcer added: "It must be explained here that too great importance must not be attached to the graphic report of a front correspondent naturally the German advance has cost us sacrifices, but the losses must by no means be considered extraordinary." Other "complaints" of soldier correspondents refer to the "unorthodox" manner in which the Russians are defending their positions. Principal among these according tc one reporter, is the "seemingly artless withdrawals of the Russians from some positions before our heavy pressure after our troops have advanced to a certain depth into a new sector of the city they suddenly discover themselves surrounded by hellions, who ask and give no quarter." "While the fall of Stalingrad can-not be expected for the next few minutes in view of the Russians' increasing stubbornness," says another Propaganda Kompanie reporter tonight, "it must be remembered that our troops are doing their utmost in advancing wherever they can." STALINGRAD BATTLE After twenty-eight days of terrific bombing, Stalingrad ls still defying bombs of massed artillery and air forces. The fighting inside the city, says the reports from Berlin, continues to converge on bitter hand-to-hand combat. The Russians, according to German reports, have succeeded in ferrying heavy infantry reinforcements across the Volga and are massing fresh artillery on the eastern banks of the river.

More graphic details of the fighting in and around the city are sup- fhed by a war correspondent at-ached to the German troops. A striking characteristic of the to cover living costs increases since January 1, 1941) would be taken to the floor for a test Mr. Ball today redrafted the amendment which the banking and currency committee, of which he is a member, rejected last Friday after a previous tentative acceptance. And offered it as the Senate convened today. The revised formula would place outside the President's wage stabilization authority, thus leaving for voluntary agreement between employer and employee, any salary increases which did not bring total annual compensation to more than $5,000, and raises in hourly wage rates not in excess of sixty cents.

Wage increases affecting fewer than twenty-five employees of a single employer, and wage or salary raises for genuine promotions entailing added responsibilities or work, also would be exempted. Compensation above sixty cents an hour or in excess of $5,000 a year would be subject to adjustment in accordance with the "little steel" principle. To correct gross inequities, the President under the amendment would be allowed to make exceptions. Moreover, a new fight began brewing. -Senator Morris of Neb raska noted that the words "other factors" had been stricken from the elements of the cost of living which the pending measure seeks to put under control.

This meant committee rejection of his proposal that the rates, of public utilities and common carriers be included as a cost-of-living factor. Senator Norris had brought his proposal to Senate attention previously, and today he again served notice upon the Senate. Unless "other factors" was restored to the resolution, he said, he would offer an amendment which would in clude specifically all rates charged by railroads and other carriers and aunties companies. His proposal was fiven endorse ment tonight by Senator Wagner, chairman of the banking committee, as he emphasized to a nationwide radio audience the necessity for prompt enactment oi the inflation' curbing program. "An important issue," said Senator Wagner, "has arisen whether the isenate bili should cover public utility ratings.

I think it should, be cause such rates are an important factor in the cost of living. "If we plan to control the prices the fanner receives for his crops, and the wages the worker receives for his daily labor, I see no justification for excluding the prices that farmers and workers must pay for their light heat and transportation requirements." FALL EXPECTED OF TANANARIVE (Continued from Page One) is 125 miles awav. but it is indicat ed that no French troops have been contacted. The third column is advancing irom Moranaava in the southwest It was the Tananarive radio which asserted the British were within 37 miles of the capital, a report which sources here believe more or less accurate. Before leaving the capital, Governor Annet announced he was "determined to resist to the utmost.

In Northern Madagascar. British forces coming down from Vohemar occupied Savambava about 280 miles north of Tamatave. A British com munique early today said that east of the capital the important rail and road junction of Brickaville had been occupied, while "from the northwest our troops were advanc ing south of Ankazobe where an im portant position was taken on the morning of September 19 after a short engagement "On the northwest coast despite heavy rain which added to the physical difficulties already caused by iTencn road demolitions, our south ward movement continues. In this area. Befotaka south of Maromandia has been occupied and our advanced elements were last reported moving on tne town or Antsoniny." Vichy Claims Advance Slowed (By Telephone to The New York Times and The Gazette.) Vichy.

September 21 British progress in Madagascar toward the capital has been slowed by French resistance, it is claimed in the communique issued here tonight The official statement says that the ob stacles prepared by French and native troops have held up the ad vance of the British at Brickaville on the east coast and that the other force, coming from the northwest is sun in tne vicinity or Anicazobe The communique stresses the loy alty of the Madagascar natives, wnose chieftains, it is claimed, call ed on the governor today and stress ed the attachment of the population to trench rale. 2-Months Babe Found Dead in Park Bushes The finding by a keener at La-fontaine Park of the body of a two- months-old baby girl in a clump of bushes 40 feet southwest ot the paric lake late yesterday morning will be investigated by a corners jury to day. A preliminary investigation was made by Capt L. H. Geotfnon, of the district station, when the park employee, Edgar Gauthier, reported finding the body, at 11.40 a.m.

India's greatest internal obstacle to unity is the non-democratic character of Hinduism and the antagonism between Hindu and Moslem. AT NEARLY 250,000 200,000 Poles Put to Death by Nazis Since Invasion London Figures Show CZECHS PAY HEAVILY All Conquered Countries List Tragic Totals of Victims 1,500 French Subjects Die During 1942 Alone London, September 21. CK The known number of executions carried out by the Germans in conquered Europe in rearing the quarter-million mark, the Inter-Allied Information Committee reported tonight Included in the growing list was the shooting of 116 Frenchmen last week. The latest French victims, put ta death on orders of Gen. Otto von StuelpnageL German commander in.

France, brought the total to 207p, the committee said. The committee, set up by the United Nations governments in London, said the figure was based on information obtained by these governments. It covers formal executions which have followed trills or court martial and shootings of hostages and other persons announced by the Germans. The Polish government in London said 200.000 persons had been executed in Poland since the Germans invaded the country three years ago, 100.000 of them shot German trials. 70,000 shot hostages and 30,000 killed in concentration camps.

Since Reinhard Heydrich, the "protector" of Czechoslovakia; was assassinated last May 1. 1,765 Czechs have been executed, the committee said, and of this number 525 were accused of being in some way responsible for his death. In addition, thousands of Czech! have died in concentration camps or as a result of Gestapo third degree methods. The committee declared that have been killed in Crete alone since May. 1941 Fifteen hundred fell before German firing squads or were to death in France and North Africa in the first six months of this year.

In addition, the Ger mans have shot 250 hostages since they overran France, the committee reported. Reports from other occupied countries wrere: Belgium: 130 known to have been executed for sabotage or as hostages. Greece: In addition to" the 3.00 in Crete. 40 persons were shot in Athens this summer and 40 more on the Island of Mytilene. The Bulgarians executed several thousands in Macedonia after a revolt against the Bulgarian army of occupation.

Netherlands: The Government in London has the names of 200 persons shot for publishing secret newspapers, signalling to the stealing rations or trying to escape to Britain. Norway: "Thousands have died in concentration camps as the result of ill treatment" the committee said, adding that since the German occupation 106 have been shot Yugoslavia: The exact number executed is not known, but "over 5.000" were shot as hostages by the Germans in September and November, 1941. Luxembourg: No news received since the mass deportations of Luxembourgers began recently, but up to last June four persons had been executed for underground activities. Communists of India' Ask Gandhi's Release Bombay, September 22. (Tuesday) The central committee of the Communist Party in India appealed today in a long manifesto to the British Government to release Mohandas K.

Gandhi and other leaders of the All-India Congress Party and to negotiate with the Congress and other political parties to establish a provisional national government The manifesto issued after a week-end meeting also urged the Government to lift the ban on the Congress and to abandon the present policy of repression. It emphasized the fact that the national Government should be fully empowered and determined to unite and mobilize the people for freedom and the defence of the country, in close alliance with th United Nations. British policy in India, the manifesto said, "stabs the cause of the British. American, Soviet and Chinese people in the back," and asserted that the main responsibility "for plunging the country into grave perilous crisis" lay on Britain's shoulders. Four Hurs to Die Karachi.

Sept. 21. (CP-ReutersV Four Hurs were sentenced to death at Hyderabad today for derailing the Karach-Lahore Twelve others were acquitted for want of evidence but subsequently were rearrested under the defence regulations. The Karachi-Lahore mail derailed May 16. Twenty-two people were killed and 26 injured.

Hurs then looted the train. 7T and drink plenty of water. See how this "Better Way" to treat constipation makes your old "troubles'" disappear! But. remember, ALL-BRAN doesn't work like purgatives it takes time. Ask your grocer for KELLOGG ALL-BRAN today.

In two convenient sizes. Or get it in individual serving packages at restaurants Made by Kellogg'a in London, Can. chine-guns and rifles was all but hushed in the bedlam. Still the Red army refused to give way. Dispatches said that all the women and children had been evacuated and that every able-bodied man was under arms and helping in the city's defence.

The noon-day communique reported succinctly: "In the Stalingrad area fierce fighting continued. Our units annihilated about two regiments of German infantry, destroyed 11 tanks and 89 trucks, and silenced two artillery and eight mortar batteries." Dispatches emphasized that the fighting was increasing furiously in several sectors. Hand-to-hand and house-to-house fighting mounted in the northwest area of Stalingrad, while harder battles swirled on the approaches in other directions. All the country around Stalingrad was littered with piles of scrap metal which once had been German tanks, trucks and cannon. Soviet dispatches from the deep Caucasus region of Mozdok and the Terek valley said the Russians had repelled several attacks, taking prisoners.

On the Black Sea Caucasian coast southeast of Novorossik the Germans were reported making no progress, with the Soviets holding the shore road and protecting heights. Another dispatch said the Russians continued to attack furiously from both north and south of Voronezh, where the Germans have their Upper Don bridgehead. In one sector on the south 3,000 Germans were reported killed in three days. On the Volkhov river front east of Leningrad the Russians were reported to have broken into a heavily-fortified forest from two directions, capturing prisoners and blowing up an ammunition dump. In the Karelian sector, the Finns, trying to recapture a position, were said to have failed in counter-attacks.

TIRPITZPOSES BATTLE THREAT (Continued from Page the severe wound inflicted by the a. i ooviei suDmajine. Earlier, in March. British tor pedo planes caught the Tirpitz off morway and drove ner bacK to snei-ter at another time when she was believed starting on a convoy hunt. But for the most part Hitler's super-battleship kept to Trondheim fjord during the long summer days wnen ner movements could be easily checked by British scout planes.

Now with longer hours of darkness and thicker fogs it would be easier for her to slip up the Norwegian coast and into the Arctic shipping lanes leading to Russia, or into the Atlantic. The Tirpitz was launched at Wil-helmshaven on April 1939, the most costly man-o -war in the German navy, and so far she hasn't done a thing to repay the investment. After the British navy sank the Bismarck on May 27, 1941, to avenge destruction of the battle cruiser Hood three days earlier, the Germans were left wvth only three capital ships, the Tirpitz and the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, sister-ships of 26,000 tons. The Scharnhorst and Gneisenau participated in the German fleet's dash through the Channel last February and both were damaged, the latter so badly she was reported recently lying dismantled at Gdynia, on the Baltic. Last accounts said the Scharnhorst was repaired and ready for service.

Official Communiques (Continued from Page One.) were crippled by several of our anti-tank riflemen. The Germam lost more than 250 officers and men. "Southeast of Novoroaslsk we fought defensive actions. "Four motor vehicles were demolished, 60 Germans were wiped out and a munitions dump was blown up in the course of three days operations by one of our patrols. "Several enemy attacks were repulsed by our troops in the Sinyavino area.

One unit dislodged the Germans from one of their fortified positions." A Soviet communique Monday: "During the night of September 20-21 our troops fought the enemy in the areas of Stalingrad and Mozdok. "No significant changes took place on other sectors of the front. "In the Stalingrad area fierce fighting continued. Our units annihilated about two regiments of German infantry, destroyed 11 tanks and 89 trucks and silenced two artillery and eight mortar batteries. "In the Mozdok area a Red Army unit repulsed several enemy attacks and destroyed three German tanks.

Our men wiped out about a company of Hitlerites, captured one gun, two machine-guns and three automatic rifles and took prisoners. "Southeast of Novorossisk one of our motor detachments repulsed several enemy attacks and killed about 150 Germans. Soviet artillery destroyed an enemy artillery battery, a mortar battery and 30 trucks and dispersed about a battalion of enemy Infantry. "In one sector of the Karelian front the enemy, attempting to recapture a position lost by him a few days ago, launched several counter-attacks which were repulsed with heavy losses to the enemy. In three days our detachments wiped out about a battalion of the enemy, destroyed 25 machine-guns and silenced seven artillery and six mortar batteries.

"Yugoslav patriots continued to wage a stubborn war against the invaders near Banjaluka. In fighting with guerillas the last few days the Italians lost 300 killed and wounded. Guerillas captured from the invaders a-munition train carrying 250,000 cartridges and many hand grenades and shells. "By rifle and machine-gun fire the guerillas have brought down six enemy planes In two weeks." A Soviet communique Tuesday: "During September 21 our troops fought fierce engagements with the enemy) in the areas of Stalingrad and Mozdok. "There were no essential changes on other sectors of the front.

''In the Stalingrad area fierce fighting continues. Several attacks were launched in one sector by a regiment of German infantry supported by tanks but they were FLT. LT. JAMES STEWART COULTER, son of Mr. and Mrs.

W. S. Coulter. Pointe Claire, who is reported missing after air operations. Coulter is 22 years old and entered the R.C.A.F.

in August, 1940. He received his wings at MacLeod, June, 1941, and was commissioned Pilot Officer in July, going overseas the same month. In June of this year his promotion to Flight Lieutenant was announced. He has been on operational duties over Germany and France since 1941. Coulter was educated at Cedar Park School, Pointe Claire: Westmount High School and St.

Patrick's College, Ottawa, from which he graduated in 1939. paid the farmer. The increase necessary would probably be sufficient to break through the ceiling. Mr. Gordon said that the board may have to undertake allocating meat supplies accompanied by consumer rationinr.

and that it is also studying methods of establishing ceilings on the prices of livestock in addition to the present ceilings on tne prices 'Oi meat. Mr. Gardiner takes the view that the farmer has received less financial consideration than others He told his press conference that it was time insinuations the farmer was getting too much for his produce, either in Canada or the United States, ceased. The minister said the suggestion that someone was suffering because of a beef shortage was "greatly exaggerated." Apart from beef and pork, there were large supplies of turkeys and other poultry which might be obtained by those seeking meat The agriculture department's uvestocK market review showed to day that the movement of cattle to market still is light compared to last year, although consumption is greater. In the week ending September 17, 18,940 beef cattle were sold on public stockyards or shipped direct to packing plants against 30,072 in the same week last year.

For 37 weeks of 1942, however, marketings have only been slightly less than those of 1941, with 753,875 cattle marketed this year against 758,123 in 1941. Gordon Assailed by O.F.A. Toronto, September 21. CB The executive of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture today issued a statement expressing "complete disgust and disagreement" with Donald Gordon's declaration that prices of beef are not going to rise and in fact are going to be lower. "Mr.

Gordon is running true to form," the statement said. "With a conference on the beef situation called by the foods administration of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board now under way in Saskatoon, Mr. Gordon comes out with a typical blast. The feeling is that he had an eye on the Saskatoon conference when he gave his intimation of policy. Everything points to a showdown between Mr.

Gordon and agriculture. If the farmers, as Mr. Gordon claims, are laboring under a mistaken impression prices were going to rise this fall, the administrative officers of the board are to blame, for they definitely gave the impression farmers would receive the benefit of the American quota when it opens in the last quarter on October 1" 'Our farmers are not going to be pushed around, and will not be slow to accept Mr. Gordon's challenge," the statement said. The statement declared "there would be no need of rationing of beef supplies if agriculture had been given a chance," and said Mr.

Gordon "must accept responsibility for the disruption of orderly marketing, and further arbitrary actions are not going to improve the situation." It said there was no "long range vision" to the board's policy, in addition to which the board 'shows a distinct failure to recognize mistakes and to admit failure." STABILIZATION BASIS ADOPTED BY U.S. SENATE (Continued from Pare One.) tampering with the parity formula. Pressure for a voting showdown on parity revision, however, was on the rise, with promises being made in some quarters that the full impact of direct appeals from farmers would be felt tomorrow as that issue reaches both floors. LABOR FACTOR STRESSED Representatives of four of the largest agricultural organizations the American Farm Bureau Federation, the National Grange, the Federal Milk Producers' Association and the National Council of Farm Co-operatives today were disclosed to have sent urgent telegrams to leaders in the field, calling for a deluging of the Congress immediately with direct, personal appeals, where they might be most effective, for inclusion of the labor factor in computation of parity. The inclusion of all farm labor, including managerial costs, according to official estimates, would increase the present parity levels by approximately 12.2 per cent Meanwhile, the National Independent Meat Packers' Association, alleging that "a vital defect" in the anti-inflation measure existed, in that it did not assure protection to the processors of farm products, sent a communication to Senator Brown asserting: "If the farmers are given a fair level of prices, which they should have, meat packers can still be ruineel bv low ceilings on the pro-dycs.

Tey; bjve bees broughj to CAPT. ROLAND GRAVEL, who had been reported missing after the Dieppe battle is now reported as prisoner in Germany. Capt. Gravel left Montreal in 1940 for England. He is the son of Mr.

and Mrs. I Pierre Gravel of the firm Ludger Gravel Fils and a grandson of the late Ludger GraveL ghost-like figures, who seem tc come from nowhere. Each carries a pail, apparently in search of water. There is no way of estimating he says, what has become of the citya former half-million civilians. Describing conditions of the German soldier, the correspondent says: "The German infantry, which from the beginning of the offensive has been marching kilometre on kilometre, constantly runs afoul ol new fortifications or defence contraptions.

The men no longer have the old fighting strength. Their regiments have shriveled, and it is incomprehensible how these men. who have been without rest or sleep, still manage to fight their way through the streets of the city." MURRAY BARES NEW CBC POLICY i (Continued from Page One.) the cheerier they are. So we shall eavesdrop and get the contagion of tneir supreme iigntnearteaness." A leading war task of radio was to provide a living link between Canadians serving abroad and their people at home. Personal messages from Canadians serving abroad to their mends at home served a useful purpose for a time, but the necessary limitations were such that disappointment and irritation had almost outbalanced the positive results.

"After October 15 there will be no more personal messages from tne Canadian troops overseas broadcast over the CBC networks," said Ma. Murray. "That announcement may come as a shock to some, but there are good reasons for it." The messages came in two ways by short wave and by recordings conveyed by sea. Neither method was completely reliable or satisfactory. With the great number of Canadians now in the United Kingdom there was no chance of even a small percentage of these men being able to speak to their friends at home via radio.

In many cases where men had broadcast messages home, their families and friends had not heard them. Rebroadcasts had been, requested, while individual reports of tho messages had also been asked. It had not been possible to comply with these requests. Casualties had to be A man might speak into a microphone one day and the next day be a casualty in an action. If his cheery message were broadcast later, mere would be many heart aches.

The CBC news service was built upon the full services of The Canadian Press and the British United Press "whose ouhlic-snirit- ed co-operation is deeply appreciated," said Maj. Murray. This wjo service by radio was acclaimed by "coirmetent. indeoendent cri tics" as the best radio news ser vice the world. More attention would be nsld Canadian creative work in the music field.

RADIO AS WAR WEAPON. Maj. Murray said Germany had entered the war with a better understanding of the nower of radio than the Allies. It was the ac knowledged fourth arm of the ser vice, next to the navy, army and air force. Experience had shown tne uermans right.

Axis radios were co-ordinated In attempting to sap the will to fight oi ine united Nations. "From northern Norway to the south of France, from the Baltic to the Black Sea and along the Mediterranean, all the radio stations pour forth the same story suitably adapted to the audience and, of course, appropriately poisoned. "More than 100 medium and long wave lengths speak Axis, about six speak English." The British Broadcasting Corporation now was "a tremendous instrument of propaganda." A pre-war stair oi z.ouu naagrown to about 11.000. The enemy's strength was founded on a challenging revolutionary faith, preverted though it was. Hitler's soldiers felt they were the instruments of conquest for a master race and the loot of the world was their prize.

The Germans at home were driven by desperation. The German spirit was dangerous and could be overcome only by a stronger faith and a fiercer devotion behind military might. "And herein lies the really important job of radio," said Maj. Murray. "We must help and stimulate every citizen to brush aside doubt, misgiving, fatigue, indifference." The Government's decision to create a high-power short wave station would give Canada a worldwide audience.

This station would make it possible, among other things, for new Canadians of recent European origin to speak words of comfort and encouragement to their oppressed kinsmen in countries overrun by the enemy. "The voice of Canada on the world's radio short waves will be symbolic of our proportioned maturity," Maj. Murray said. "It will be for us broadcasters to make sure that our message to the rest of the world is vigorously typical of Canada, worthy of our cause and of our destiny as a member of the British Commonwealth, as North American nation and as a partner in the great alliance of i i would include up to a dozen cruisers, some aircraft carriers and a iaree number of destroyers. The bombing of this fleet turned it back out of the area of operations, with two important results, one in the Solomons and the other in New Guinea.

The retirement of the fleet left marconed in the Solomons a Japanese force of important proportions, coincident with the arrival of strong reinforcements for the occupying Marines. Had the fleet been abio to proceed to an attack on the Solomons it conceivably might have prevented the landing of reinforcements of the Marines if not guaranteeing re-occupation of Guadalcanal by the Japanese landing forces which were repulsed on Monday. In New Guinea It was anticipated that the Japanese sea forces would attempt to aid the army crossing the Owen Stanley Mountains bv making an attack from the sea on Port Moresby. This operation would require, however, passage by a Japanese fleet southward from New Britain between the Solomons New Guinea, and the rounding cf a long promontory which extends southeastward from New Guinea. Nw, possibly for lack of sea support by an attack on Port Moresby, the Japanese have been stopped by Australian forces in the Owen Stanleys.

Both the Solomons and New Gu.nea operations still are distinct powibilit.es, but each Involves the running of a gauntlet of bomber? in narrow waters, with the same type of risk for Japane.se naval forces as the attack a week ago in which the bombers hit two battleships. It appears quite possible, on the ta.s of information available here, that the Japanese now face the same ruk. if they attempt to press home their march toward Australia, as the British took when the Repulse and Prince of Wales were sunk by Japanese warplanes off Malaya. Those British ships, it was recalled, were destroyed because of a lack of escort by fighter planes to defend them against attack by bomber and torpedo planes. The Japanese fleet ha the protection or the famous Zero navy fiphter and various land-based fighter, but there is growing evidence that the latest types of Am-erican bombers have a better than even chance of fighting their way through the Japanese fighters and destroying their principal objectives.

If the current operations in the Southwest Pacific should prove this to be generally the case, as has been indicated particularly in the ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA: An Allied Command in the Southwest Pacific communique Tuesday noon: "Northwestern Sector Activity limited to reconnaissance. "Northeastern Sector: "New Guinea: Approximately 37 enemy medium bombers, with fighter escort, dropped bombs in the scrub brush 32 miles from Port Moresby, causing no damage or casualties. "Buna: A strong formation of our fighters carried out a sweep along the Kokoda track, destroying a bridge and machine-gunning the enemy supply line. "Owen Stanley Area: No change. "Solomons: "Buna: An Allied medium bomber unit attacked the airdrome and dispersal areas at night with unobserved results." GORDON AT ODDS WITH GARDINER ON BEEF SUPPLY (Continued from Page One) they are six months or a year older." said the minister.

Mr. Gordon made clear the board is not prepared to permit an increased price for beef cattle to en courage farmers to market their animals this fall. 'But Mr. Gar diner said that temporarily larger supplies could only be obtained im- street fighting, says this observer, is the small number of infantrymen engaged on both sides. A trip mrougn me streets 01 tne devastated city, he says, reveals a single ririeman or a small group of infan trymen who work their way for ward from shell crater to shell crater or some heap of masonry.

They are constantly exoosed to the deadly fire of Russian snipers, who command better lacuiues lor con cealment. During a lull in the fighting and DomDarameni, says tne reporter, the streets of the desolated city suddenly become alive with haggard, Cji tnevilve WHY BOTHER WITH p- "TEMPORARY RELIEF' WHEN CONSTIPATION CAN BE COnRCCUD? EDUCATIONAL EES Sainte Perhaps your constipation is the common type due to lack of the right kind of "bulk" in the diet. If so, how much more sensible it is to try to correct it, rather than to rely on harsh cathartics that bring only temporary relief! KELLOGG 'S ALL-BRAN, a nut-sweet, delicious cereal, supplies the proper "bulk" to help you keep regular. Eat ALL-BRAN every day, A French School for Enolish end French Girls (ages 14 to 20 yeort) run on Parisian lines. Resident and Day Pupils.

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