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VOL. LTV. No. 293. Fear In Mi Lewis Intimates Won't Run for Parliament if Elected The fight for the honor of being Mayor of Ottawa next year will be a three-cornered one.

Twelve candidates aspire to the four seats on Board fof Control. There are 39 'capi-dates for 20 aldermanic seats in 10 wards. Aldermen Dan iel McCann and Wilbert Ham ilton were returned by I ic- clamation. i a 1 The acclamations for Aide: McCann and Hamilton in housie Ward are conceded cause both R. W.

Dawson and! J. R. Sands told The Journal they would not run. However, te -city clerk has nomination papers lor lour candidates. Mr.

Sands withdrew at 3 prnjlfut Mr. Dawson has not yet given official notification of bis wtth-drawaL I I Nominations were received between 10 and 11 ajn. by City Clerk Nelson R. Qgilvie, returning officer for the municipal elections to be held Monday, December 41 xi.i- miu. If Mayor Lewis, seeking a fifth consecutive term, is opposed1 by Controller Finley McKae and S.

Leonard Belaire. P. J. Nolan withdrew' from the mayoralty campaign at the last Mr. Lewis announced that if be were elected he would not aspire fto any other office.

This was taken to mean he would not seek the Liberal Domination in West Ottawa for the next Dominion gen eral elections. The 12 candidates for Board Control compare with 12 in ea of the previous four years. 13 In 1933 and, 13 in 1934. They incluj the three present controllers, Bourque. Dr.

G. ii. Geldert iaad Dr. J. H.

Putman, and ex-Coh-trollers Thomas Brethour laid James A. Forward, ex-Aldermin W. H. Marsden, ex-Mayor Arthur Ellis, Grenville W. Goodwin, Max Feller.

Percy E. Bedford, Caleb S. Green, and Edward E. Kestexv ton. Five were nominated for the Public School Board, three to be elected for three-year terms.

1 E. Gowling, D. Roy Kennedy, and Miss M. E. Cowan are re-election, with opposition ty Malcolm Campbell and Iverc-y I Heaney.

H. Stanley. Higman the only 'candidate for his own un- expired part-term of two years from which he retired on Tuesday to run for Board of Control, As he "did not resign three days from 1 the day of civic nominations be could not qualify so he was! re nominated tor the school board. Five Minute Speeches. After nominations for mayor.

controller and public school tee closed at 11 o'clock, in the Pul tic School Board admuustratien i Conclnded en Page 12. Derouin Ordered To I .1 TORONTO. Nov. 24. CP) Rene E.

Derouin was ordered day by Mr. Justice G. F. McFar- land to pay Mrs. Martha Koobs 31.600 as the result of an automobile accident 1 near Pembroke.

October 18, 1938, in which Mrs; Koops' mother was killed. It twfu. found that. Derouin was wholly to fori the accident Derouin had launched an action against iuj-s. noops ana Claimed $10, from her.

I Soviets Continue Attacks on Finlan Nov. 24. Sovifct Russian newspapers, pressing; a tacks against Finland, today ported growing difficulties and sension in Finland over the Go ernment refusal to come to with Moscow Despatches date-lined Helsingfors, Finland, land Tallinn, Estonia, again accused Finnish leaders of wanting to go to war with the U.S.S.R. against the wishes of the Finnish peopli DCKTS FIRST LEAVE. LONDON.

Nov. 24. Rear-A. miral the Duke of Kent, who has been on naval duty in Scotland, returned today for several days' leave London, his first sine the war started. He is staying at Buckingham Palace with bis wife.

Agai fco iir Mayor S. LEONARD BELAIRE, financial executive, 121 Cambridge street. STANLEY LEWIS, merchant, 168 Cartier street." i FINLEY McRAE, administrator. 864 Echo Drive. Board of Control (Four to be elected).

ARTHUR ELLIS, gentleman. 41 McLeod street PERCY EDWIN BEDFORD, manufacturers' agent, 146 Clarendon avenue. -j E. A. BOURQUE, merchant, 341 St Andrew street THOMAS BRETHOUR, contractor, 307 Lisgar street MAX FELLER, merchant 334 Somerset street east i JAMES A.

FORWARD, merchant 425 Parkdale avenue. 1 GEORGE MacKINLEY GEL-DERT, physician, 272 Somerset street west GRENVILLE W. GOODWIN, optometrist S77 O'Connor street. CALEB S. GREEN, contractor, 170 Ay lmer avenue.

EDWARD E. KESTERTON. 59 Preston street WILLIAM HENRY MARSDEN, civil servant 108 Melrose avenue. JOHN HAROLD PUTMAtf, gentleman, 206 Rideau Terrace Aldermen i I BY. lis J.

A. PARISIEN, merchant, 82 Friel street JAMES BUTLER, clerk, 28 Cobourg street MARCEL' DUPUIS, salesman, 458 Clarence i ERIC QUERY, civil servant, 61 Augusta street D. ERASER, retired lumberman, 98 Strathcona avenue. v' E. PICKERING, manufacturer, 9 Crescent Heights.

jj E. A. BAND, merchant 26 Sec ond avenue. -I-- -CENTRAL. FREDERICK M.

JOURNEAUX. gentleman, 36 Roseberry avenue. GEORGE F. PERLEY, customs and insurance broker, Central Chambers, 46 Elgin street ji IH GRANT SHAW, insurance agent 155 McLeod street MRS. H.

G. BARBER, housewife, 24 Lisgar street DALHOTJSIE. RICHARD W. DAWSON, salesman, 27 Plymouth. WILBERT HAMILTON, Civil servant 22 Spruce street ji DANIEL McCANN, dvU servant 361 Arlington avenue, JAMES R.

SANDS, builders' supplies, 811 Somerset street west (Mr. Dawson and Mr. Sands stated they would withdraw) ELMDALE. HERMAN H. BRADLEY, operator, 159 Holland avenue.

j' GEORGE W. PJNGLE, merchant 41 Julien avenue. I CECIL D. MORRIS, Qvil- Service printer, 131 Irving avenue; DAVE SPRAGUE. vice-oresi- aent 13B tunton avenue.

OTTAWA. A. E. BEAUCHAMP. aeent 328 St Andrew street l-i- ARISTTDE BELANGER, civil servant 208 Bolton street I NAPOLEON Ai BORDELEAU, merchant 104 King Edward avenue fl RIDEAU.

WILFRID DONAT GIRARD. dvil servant, 101 Rideau Terrace. FRED J. GOODHOUSE, civil servant 209 MacKay street I JACK POWERS, secretary-treasurer, 121 Noel street I i DR. WILBERT SPEARMAN, veterinarian, 82 Union street MAX SCHOEN.

earaee nroorie- tor; 120 Noel street I i. RIVERDALE. LEONARD L. COULTER. dnis gist 136 Fentiman avenue, i SAMUEL DIBARTOLO.

mer chant 64 Main street 4 i JOHN Mclennan. ui man. ager, 165 Cameron avenue. 'f DAVID MCMILLAN, dvil Ser vant 124 Ossington avenue. jj UtQRGE S.

SLOAN, contrac tor. 87 Fulton avenue. I ii Ji -V: ST. GEORGE'S. I A.

PINARD. gentleman. 263 Friel street I :7 FINLEY, McRAE. German Attack Called Off by Hitler Fuehrer Cancelled Plan Four Hours Before Move Was Scheduled to Start By Panl Rlsler, LmeWws andSmrt lj ON PAGE f6 BELGRADE, Nov. 24.

Adolf Hitler sent a telegram calling off a German attack on The Netherlands a scant four hours before it was scheduled to start Nov. 12, this Havas correspondent learned today on good authority. An absolutely reliable source Hitler decided early in the choosing Sunday, Nov. 12, as the on Wednesday, Nov. 8.

On the morning of Nov. 9, arriving in Berlin from Munich, Hitler called together the five generals who fornr what Nazi officers call his private general staff. SnMnk Withdraw Omltra- Colonel-General Walther von Reichenau called attention to reports that the visit of King Leopold of the Belgians to The Hague meant Belgium would aid The Netherlands a should that country be attacked. 1 Hitler did not seem bothered by this, and Instructed Von Reichenau to complete preparations for the offensive by the evening of Nov. 11.

I U- The "private general staff met again on the morning of Again Von Reichenau emphasized new reports that Belgium would support The Netherlands. He 1 said he was ready to obey orders, but in case of a failure he would invite death at the head of his troops. Then Colonel-General Walther-von Brauchitsch, Commander-in-Chief of the army, spoke for the first time. I In the name of the assembled generals, he said he could not assume responsibility for the proposed operation. Hitler maintained his previous orders, but during the night without consulting again with anyonehe sent a telegram with drawing the order to attack, only four hours be lore the fixed time.

With 1,21 ROTTERDAM, The Nov. 24 The Holland-Amerika liner Statendam sailed for New York ''today with 1,200 passengers, including 175 Americans. Officials of the line said the Statendam carried no German cargo. Her sailing' came with the resumption of restricted shipping 24 hours after Netherlands lines suspended operations on the advice of I the Government The limited traffic still excludes calls at British ports in the mine laden North Sea area. The Netherlands Government announced at The Hague yesterday that it bad protested to the British Government against its decision to' seize German exports on neutral ships and the Belgian Government prepared a similar protest i H.

P. HILL, Jr, barrister. 340 Stewart street. HAROLD H. TAYLOR, technician, 14 McDotigal avenue, i.

VICTORIA. JOSEPH ALLARD, merchant 133 Hinchey avenue. NELSON J. LACASSE. agent, 71 Lyndale avenue.

JOSEPH P. NOLAN, gentleman, 38 Ross avenue. WELLINGTON. ARTHUR J. R.

ASH, manager. 426 McLeod street ROBERT BURNETT, real estate and insurance broker, 402 McLeod street. WILLIAM A. salesman, 447 Somerset street west WILLIAM LODGE, retired, 18 Florence street MARTIN M. WALSH, manager.

610 Cooper street Liner OTTAWA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1939- 0 Nominated for Mayoralty. STANLEY LEWIS. on Netherlands Havas Staff Writer. confided to me the following story: month to invade The Netherlands, date. The Munich bomb exploded Of-Assignments ilifary Pay Assignments of military pay may be made to provide for instalments on a soldier's borne or his insurance pre mium or similar purposes, ac cording to the new regulations promulgated by the Department of National Defence.

These regulations allow an of ficer or a soldier to make an assignment of pay to cover charges in settlement of any of the following, which are payable on a monthly basis: Will Cover Following, (a) Insurance premiums, including, those in respect of Civil service. Returned Soldiers or group insurance. Broaden Scope (b) Canadian Government Annuities. (c) The Civil Service Co-operative Credit Society Limited. (d) The Civil Service Mutual Benefit Society.

(e) The Dominion Railway Mail Service Benevolent Association. (f) The Post Office Department Mutual Benefit Association. (g) Loans made under the Dominion Housing Act and Home Improvements Loans Guarantee Act An officer or. soldier may 'also make an assignment to provide monthly amounts which he is obliged to pay under a court order or any written agreement for the support of any dependent, but ro other assignments of pay will be permitted except to dependents respect of whom applications have been submitted for dependents' or to dependents who are in receipt of a dependents' allowance awarded upon the application of another officer or man. May Continue Assignments.

An assignment of pay in favor of a person in respect of whom an application for an allowance has been submitted and who is one of a class of persons eligible for an allowance, may be continued in effect notwithstanding that no allowance is awarded, provided that in such instance the assignment may be varied or discontinued at the officer's or soldier's written request or may be varied or discontinued by direction of the Dependents' Allowance Board. Can't Take Seat Until January Although he was re-elected today by acclamation as a public school trustee, H. Stanley Higman will not be able to take his seat on the board until the first meeting in January. He lost the right to sit for the balance of this year by resigning to be a Board of Control candidate and was ineligible to run for the Board because he did not re- sign in time. S.

L. BELAIRE. Cheer and Sing As Train I Pulls Out of Station f- O'clock Edition Servie. A smiling, happy throng of men and women, gripped by the football fever, streamed into Union Station this afternoon, and at 2.30 cheered and sang as the special pulled out for Toronto. At Varsity Stadium tomor row- afternoon Ottawa Rough Riders will play the final match for the Big Four title with the Toronto Argonauts.

Animated Scene. The scene on the platform was an anima ted one as the players, officials and the fans, numbering 300 in all began to arrive. Vendors of the Ottawa colors. proceeds in behalf of soldiers' comforts did a great business and not one follower getting aboard the train but wore the red, white and black ribbons on his or her coat Mayor Lewis was down to see the train leave, and wish the team good luck. Owing to his recent illness he felt he should not make Conclnded en Page Throws Beer at Bandit Gets Bullets in Head NEW.

YORK, Nov. 24. VP) A bride of two months today wept for John Edward Glass, 38, who refused to play stooge to a bandit threw beer in his face and got back two bullets in the head. Glass, a West Englewood, N.J., carpenter, and his bride, Olga, had come to Brooklyn, to spend Thanksgiving, with her sister.1 Police said he left the sister's home early yesterday morning to park his car in a side street ap parently was kidnapped by two men and forced to drive them to a nearby bar where they robbed the bartender of (50. When one of the men refused to hand back his car, the carpenter hurled a glass of beer in his face.

The bandits fired and escaped. Glass died in a Dean of Ontario Crown Attorneys Dead TORONTO, Nov. 24. KB Wil liam T. Langworthy, K.C., of Port Arthur, dean of the crown attorneys of Ontario, has resigned from the post he has held for 35 years.

Mr. Langworthy was born in England 71. years, ago and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1891. In 1903 he was appointed Crown Attorney and Clerk of the Peace for Thunder Bay district. "He was considered one of the most efficient and conscientious crown attorneys in the Attorneyi General Gordon Conant said today.

Fail to Find Evidence Of Battle at Sea BOSTON, Nov. 24. Investiga tion of reports by residents of Cape Cod of the thunder of a sea battle off the Atlantic coast failed to produce any supporting evidence, United States coast guard head quarters said today. Boats from several coast guard stations along the Cape made a thorough search after res'dents reported they heard what appeared to be gunfire Happy Throng Goes to Toronto between 8.15 and 8.4 last OiIO tare Sunk by Britain Seeks Counter Weapon To German Underwater Menace By J. F.

SANDERSON. Canadian Preu BUS Writer. LONDON, Nov. 24. Brit ain turned to the scientist 'in his laboratory and the fisherman in overalls today in her fight to.

cope with Germany's mine warfare which a naval authority 'termed in "extremely grave menace'V Officials said they had been un successful in bringing one of Ger many's magnetic mines to the surface for inspection and until they do they are seriously handicapped. Seek Counter Meanwhile explosive experts and electrical experts all sorts of scientists are kept busy trying to find a counter-weapon for Germany's latest underwater More than 200 German mines have been washed up-on the coast of Yorkshire, northeastern England, it was officially announced These will be examined for some clue to the new Nasi Meanwhile, mines oft England's east coast sank another British vessel today, the steamship Msngalore. German 'planes flew over the Shetland Islands again, causing two air raid one of 90 minutes and the other of 42. These islands, off the north coast of Scotland, were bombed. Wednesday when the only loss was a British flying boat which was fired by a bomb.

In addition to Mangalore, whose crew of 77 was saved, the sinking of the Netherlands tanker Sliedrecht by a submarine a week ago. was disclosed today when five survivors were Concluded on Page 11. Germans Claim BERLIN, Nov. 24. () The high command today claimed German forces had brought down three Allied aircraft-two British and one French and that German flyers had returned unharmed from "frequent air fights" with, the enemy.

"In -the west there was livelier scouting and artillery the communique said. "The air force continued reconnaissance activity over French Frequent air fights ensued between enemy chasers and Ger man pursuit 'planes protecting reconnaissance 'planes and the border region. "One English, 'plane was shot down over Verdun and one over Saarbruecken and one French 'plane was brought down by anti aircraft at Zweibrucken." Germany to Avenge Blow to Commerce BERLIN, Nov." 24. (ff Authorized sources boasted today Germany would avenge every interference with her commerce 10-fold. Just how the Reich intends to answer Prime Chamberlain's announcement that Britain will seize -11 German exports these sources were not able to say.

"This much is certain, one source said, "that our principle of cop- ducting the war, namely firing 10 shots back for every shot against us.1 will be used in the economic sphere also." Enticing Items From Today's Wont Ait Good used cart and trucks are for sale at lowest prices. Lindsay pianos are to rent at flJO Central attractive duplex with two bathrooms is to let. Body hardwood is fox sale at S3 a load. Large sunny rjm in Glebe is to rent wim ooara npuonai. Highest prices iare offered for machin ery, ociiing, scrap iron, etc.

See CUSS. 11. ion (Sftir) Of Government Anxious Hunter Wounds Digger WARETOWN, NJ, Nov. 24. VP) Isaac Packard, 45, was digging a ditch in a cranberry; bog yesterday, his head bobj-i bing up and down with each' shovelful.

Along came Harry; Dupont 30, shotgun over his arm. eyes alert for ducks, Police said Dupont fired nine shots, striking Packard in the face and shoulders. He was taken to hospital where his condition was described as not serious. Police said the shooting was accidental. Two Gatineau Point Men Drowned Alfred Danis And Maurice Miron Fall Through Ice An ice flecked northern lake was the scene of tragedy this morning, as searchers pressed their hunt for the bodies of two Gatineau Point victims in the waters of Bas-katong Lake, at the Lacrbix Dam, 30 miles north of Majni-wakl Only fragmentary reports came through to the Capital by longdistance telephone this morning, but they told bow Alfred DaniS, 35, and Maurice Miron, 23, slipped through the ice to their death as they sought to push a- boatf to open water.

ji Farewell Visit with his wile and daugh ter Jacqueline, his brother, Rey. Antonio Danis, of the Holy Ghost Fathers, and 'young Miron, had gone Thursday morning' northwards to his cottage by the lak. It was a farewell trip for' the priest brother of the victim, who was to leave Canada in two weeks for parish work in the West In dies. 1 Danis had asked his employers, the People's Credit Jewellers! in Ottawa, for three days' leave' tp go with his brother, whom he would not see again for several years. He- had worked as inspector with the jewellery, firm ifokf eight years.

Jt Young Miron was the son of Concluded on Page 12. GREETINGS AS- USUAL. LONDON, Nov. 24. (CP) "Yo cant black-out my greeting" is thj phrase on a wartime Christmas card shown here.

1 i Record and Forecast of the Weather The Joo; 1 standard thermometer at noon registered 32 degrees. O. Nov. 24. CP) The weather has been mostly fair and comparatively mild in the Western Provinces and a little milder in Ontario with light snoW and rain near the western end of Lake Erie.

FORECASTS. Ottawa and Upper St Lawrence Valley Easterly winds. Partly, cloudy today and most of Saturday, prob-; ably followed by light rain or snow towards Saturday nUrht: not much change In temperature. Northern Ontario A 1 probably, some rain orsnow, bot much change in temperature. Lake Superior Fresh east to northeast winds with some rain or snow, a little colder over we: portion.

i Temperatures. Hic'st Durjna a a m. xes ay iNigm Dawson 13 7 5 5 Fort Simpson Fort Smith Rupert' Victoria 21 :27 38 28 42 47 8 36 44 49 53 48 38 25 27 34 20 20 28 24 25 21 Kamloops jasper Calgary Edmonton Saskatoon Prince Albert; 40 27 32 33 23 23 32 24 40 42 37 35 38 Brandon Winnipeg Kenora Moosonee Sault Ste. Marie Huntsville Parry Sound London Toronto Kingston Ottawa 34 32 31 33 33 27' 37 37 35 37 43 38 1 30 30 22 1 CE THREE CENTS. Off Were Knowledge Official London Sources Discuss Seizure of Stevens and Best LONDON, Nov.

24. (CP) Authoritative sources said today -that the two Britons seized Nov. 9 by the German Gestapo on the German-Netherlands border were en deavoring to find out if a Ger man fide'V peace offer was bona These sources said Captain Henry Stevens- and Richa Sigismund Payne Best were acting with the knowledge of the British Government when they were ji Doubt was expressed in London that Stevens and Best are still alive, I according to the London Daily, Herald. uenun reace rroposau. The' "peace proposals" came from i f'some German a British spokesman said.

Everything Stevens and -Best learned "was transmitted to their own The spokesman confirmed reports from Amsterdam that a Netherlands observer was accompanying Best and Stevens when they were take by the Gestapo. I Replying to German charges that Britain inspired the Munich explosion November 8, the British spokesman said the Gestapo must either: have known, the bomb was in the cellar long before it exploded or admit to "gross i i Iri: case they knew, the spokesman continued, the explosion was "either to inflame hatred against the British or whip up the German people's waning enthusiasm for -jj Held lit Berlin. The spokesman did not reveal the nature of the purported peace Concluded on "Page 12. i Great Britain Calls I 5,000 Volunteers LONDON. Nov.

24. CP) Great Britain! today called for 3,000 volunteers from 22 to 35 years old for overseas duty with' the Army' Service Corps. OUSTING S.0M JEWS. KATTOWITZ. Germany.

Nov. 24. About 5.000 Jewish women. children and infirm men must leave the Kattowitz (formerly Kattowiice, Poland) and Teschen areas jot German-occupied Po- -land for a Jewish reservation leastof Lublin by Dec. 13 it was disclosed today.

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