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OOO Eleflip tiflne Iftedl HD Regina Clears Hurdle Ms IMg Waffttnmme JIIb Advisory Air Plan mi Joint Body Training for IqH(pWW ill Illy IA 11 QU Repulse Tank Attacks (By Canadian Press) OTTAWA, May 22. Decision to form a combined, on air training in North America, to consist of representatives of the United States, the United Kingdom and was announced Friday. A U.S. representative will be the chairman the committee which is to have headquarters in Washington. The committee may meet elsewhere U.S.

or Canada, however, if that seems desirable. The decision to form the air training committee was reached at the Ottawa air training conference. Function of the committee will be advisory, including: 1. The exchange of information on air training questions; 2. Advice on standardization of training methods; 3.

Advice on the measures to be taken to ensure that the most effective use is made of the air training facilities of the United Nations, in North America. The committee will provide opportunity of representatives of other governments concerned with air training on this continent to appear before it whenever there are questions of interest to those governments to be discussed. According to The Leader-Post Ottawa bureau, a heartening dee laration from Hon. C. G.

Power, Canadian war minister, that pilots and crews were ready for every new aircraft rolling out of the plane factories of the democracies to carry the war deep into the Axis Raiders Strike Terror of Germanys most secrets of the war is the of R.A F. raids. Louis P. who was chief of the Berlin of the Associated Press and has reached neutral Portugal five months of internment, heie lifts the veil. LOUIS P.

LOCHNER (Associated Press) LISBON, May 22. Air raids in are striking terror into hearts of German civilians, their morale and cut down war production. may be said despite the that on no other factor of the perhaps, is it more difficult obtain authentic information on the result of R.A.F. bomb is an iron-clad rule in that bombing repairs W'hce, shes over! Regina's Red Cross drive went over the $50,000 objective Thursday night and with two days still to go, campaign officials are keeping their fingers crossed for the $60,000 mark. Thursday night, total cash and pledges received amounted to $51,116.

Largest contribution of the day came from the Imperial Oil totalling $1,580. Of this amount $500 was a contribution of the firm. The remainder came from the staff, with the marketing division contributing $280 and the refinery division $800. The Imperial Oil Co. of Canada has contributed $20,000 to the national Red Cross campaign, of which $500 was Regina's share.

Large donations are still to come in for Regina's fund, according to campaign officials. An organized canvass of the army has been going on all week, the results yet to be reported, but 'forces have been supporting the campaign wholeheartedly. Two girls uniformed as Red Cross nurses canvassed the airmen stationed at 14X depot last week, at the psychological moment, pay-day, and collected $50 from the men stationed there. Moose Jaw went zooming over the top Wednesday night, passing its $25,000 Red Cross objective by more than $2,000. Actual sum received by officials on Wednesday was $27,689.72, but several contributions not yet received will be added to the final total.

Saskatchewan had reached 70 percent of her objective of at noon Friday, according to reports received from W. F. Marshall, Sask. Red Cross commissioner. Saskatchewan cities had contributed a total of $109,000, rural divisions had contributed $75,000, making a total of $184,000.

Approximately $4,500,000 or 50 percent of the $9,000,000 objective in Canadian Red Cross societys national campaign for funds had been subscribed by Wednesday night, headquarters announced Officials said they were encouraged because reports showed a large number of canvassers had either yet to be heard from or had considerable territory to cover. Outstanding progress was made by Ontario which in one day jumped from 29 to 45 percent of its objective. The percentage of other provincial quotas follow: Prince Edward Island more than i 100; Nova Scotia, 66; New Bruns-' wick, 50; Quebec, 55; Manitoba, 39; Saskatchewan, 53; Alberta, 57; British Columbia, 47. Lea(ler-Pmt Fholo. Dramatic scenes were enacted on the shores of Wascana lake Thursday afternoon as rescue parties worked for two hours to recover bodies of two air force men from lake waters.

Large picture shows one of the bodies being removed from a rescue boat. The south wind made the lake waters choppy. Indication of the wind may be seen from the smoke curling from the power house chimney in the background. Inset is a photo ol Bob Bishop, 18, an eye-witness to the double tragedy who wotked hard, alone and with others, to assist. iaItU 0 Fear Jap Threat To U.S.

WASHINGTON, May 22. Belief that Japan is trying for a knockout blow against China to be followed by an attack on Russia or Alaska was voiced Friday by senators who uiged all possible speed in aiding Chinese troops. Senator Hill of Alabama said if the Japanese can knock out China, they will be in a position to attack Alaska or Russia. A victory over China would release thousands of men, hundreds of planes and much equipment for attacks elsewhere. We must do everything we can to prevent that from happening.

Japs Maintain Advanre CHUNGKING, May 22 Mis sionaries have left Kinhwa as the Japanese army's sweeping offensive drew nearer that stiategical city, provisional capital of Chekiang province. The mam Japanese column was reported 50 miles fmm Kinhwa, smashing heavily at Chinese lines with plane suppoit. Kiel re fighting was repotted all four sec-tots of the Chekiang frontier. The situation around foorhow, chief port of iukien piovmre, where Japanese troops landed Wednesday southward extension of their spjcadmg offensive, remained obscuie. The story was told by the Belgian undei ground newspaper, La Libre Belgique, a copy of which has reached London In the Belgian embassy here Decker's name was put in the file of patriots who daied resist the German invaders.

The file is being kept against a day of reikonmg From the time Deckers was arrested and sentenced to death on Oct. 10, 1940, until last Jail 26, death was always at his elbow and for espionage Itis fust tup to the execution Rrpinan on Droailcast OTTAWA Mav 22 1 "Let-in-, from Britan broadeast-iu find. iy, 23 (CI3C, BK 5 00-5 30 pm, ti i it, i hole IO Kcn- iir- While, Kinlcy; LAC. Caldwell, Regina. Fliers Drowned In Boat Upset Tragic ending to a boat ride during their 48-hour leave in Regina, two sergeant pilots of the Royal Air Force, No.

41 S.F.T.S., Weyburn, drowned in Wascana lake Thursday at 5'30 p.m. Another sergeant pilot, who tried heroically but in vain to save his friends after the sailboat in which the three were sailing overturned, lies in Grey Nuns' hospital. His condition Friday was reported good. SHOTGUN JUSTICE HARLAN, Kentucky, May 22. Manzo Shepherd, ,24, was shot to death in the Harlan circuit court room where he was being tried for the slaying of a taxicab driver Thursday, and the jury convicted him and recommended the death penalty during the few minutes which elapsed between the time he was shot and the time he was pronounced dead.

Jack Heaton, 26, a coal miner from Loueilen and a nephew of the man Shepherd was charged with killing, surrendered to officers immediately after the shooting and was placed in jail. One clohelv-guarded effect Lochner, bureau now after partly By creasingly the lowering ting This fact war, to than ings. There Germany take precedence over all others as a result, in an incredibly short time bombed districts are made to appear normal, at least outwardly. The morning after a raid, win dow-pane setters remove debris and replace glass as the first step toward making a stricken area look normal again. Carpenters, masons and plumbers report as soon as possible for their parof the work.

A casual visitor in a bombed section thus, on the first morning will find areas roped off so he cannot determine the extent of damage at first hand; by the (Continued on Page Two) Jean Barton and Inez Maschek, Saskatoon, 84. (Betty Robertson, Elizabeth Gibbs, Lumsden, 80.) Comp. 58, ladies quartet Sylvan ladies quartet, Saskatoon, 83 (Provincial winner, Ninette girls, Regina, 85.) Comp. 54, vocal duet Margaret Maclnnes and Elinore Burwash, Saskatoon, 84. (Ruby Fiexman, Marjorie Erskine, Regina, 83 Comp.

95, euphonium, Arthur Tiffen, Sutherland, 84. (George Henry Turner, R.A.F. Moose Jaw, 83.) Comp. 57, ladies trio Margaret Maclnnes, Muriel McFarland and Elinore Burwash, Saskatoon, 84. (Westminster choir, Regina, 80.) Comp.

13, ladies chorus Syl van ladies chorus, Saskatoon, 82-82 164. (Provincial winner, Philharmonic ladies chorus, Moose Jaw, 84-83 167.) Comp. 32, school chorus Wilson and North Park school. Saskatoon, 86-84 170. (Wetmore school, Regina, 85-84 169.) Comp.

27, singing games Wil son and North Park school. Saskatoon, 86. (Victoria school, Regina, 86), tied. Comp. 28, singing games, grades 3 and 4 Mayfair school, Saskatoon, 87; Wilson and North Park school, Saskatoon, 87.

(No southern entry.) Comp. 30, selected school chorus, grade A (open) Victoria school. Saskatoon, 85-88 173. (Wetmore school, Regina, 86-85 171.) Comp. 37, school chorus Buena Vista school, Saskatoon, 85-83 168.

(Provincial winner, Wetmore school, Regina, 86-85171.) Comp. 38, school chorus, grade 1 Victoria school, Saskatoon, 83-87 170. (Wetmore school, Regina, 81-85 166.) Comp. 43, sight reading test, school chorus, grade 7 Wilson and North Park school, Saskatoon, 80. (No southern entry.) By HENRY C.

CASSIDY (Associated Press) The Germans once more have hurled strong tank forces into counter-attacks in the raging battle for Kharkov, this time employing tricky new tactics of screened attack, but the new mechanized thrusts have been repulsed, Red Star said Friday. "The enemy is making furious efforts to take the initiative out of our hands, the army newspaper reported, but this is not last year, and the relation of the opposing forces is quite different. The army organ intimated the Germans might have succeeded obtaining some partial, limited successes, but declared that on the whole the Kharkov offensive was developing satisfactorily and we have everything necessary to keep the initiative. The German high command claimed Russian attacks on the Khaikov front had been smashed (Continued ort Page Ten) Nazis Land In Maine- (By Associated Press) AUGUSTA, May 22. Francis H.

Farnum, state director of civilian defence, said Friday that accurate information is in the possession of police and 8rmy authorities to show that foreign agents have recently been landed on the coast of Maine. Others have come Into the state over the Canadian border or from other parts of the United States, Farnum said in a prepared statement. They are here for no good purpose and they are in our midst now. They come to plot, to damage, to destroy. Only Thursday civilians and members of the volunteer defence coips were warned by U.S.

and state officials in Boston to exercise especial watchfulness for enemy and fifth column action dong the New England coast. Sometimes a special agent is sent to this country to perform some single task, Farnum added. He is the pinch hitter, or the hit-and-run worker. Once his assignment is completed he tries to make his way back to his native land or to join other spies in this country. Farnum warned that It was entirely possible that the enemy may attempt to land parachutists or other air-borne troops in Maine" and added that an attempt may even be made to organize bands of fifth columnists.

Farnum did not disclose how or whore agents alieady had landed on the Maine coast. BOMB AKYAB AIRPORT NEW DELHI, May 22. Runways of the Japanese-seized airdrome at Akyab, on the west coast of Burma, were bombed in a British atr raid Thursday, and at least one direct hit was scored on grounded planes. wall swiftly followed his arrest. Six German soldiers stood before him, raised their rifles and aimed, only to lower them unfiied.

Deckers believed at first he might not be executed, the newspaper said. He told his wife when she visited him about the Germans marching him out and leturning him to his coll. For reasons best known to themselves, the Germans dul not beat Deckers, as they did other prisoners. But the mental torture was even more exquisite. He lost weight, could not sleep.

In his last months his wife told friends that he did not seem to recognize her at times when she visited him. On the January afternoon when the cud i me. Deckers wife armed at the prison just as the (Continued on Page Two) North Festival Classes Held Cool, sane thinking and hard work was done by an eye-witness, Bob Bishop, 18, 1129 Fifteenth avenue, in a dramatic effort to aid the men. From the Regina Boat club, nearly a mile away, Bishop saw (Continued on Page Ten) FIRE DESTROYS NORTH SCHOOL THE PAS, Man May 22 Bush fires destroyed the school house Thursday at Wanless settlement, 73 miles west of heie. A special tram left Hudson Bay Junction, 15 miles west of Wanless, Friday carrying firefighters to aid the forestry patrol in controlling the fires.

Two barns were destroyed in fire on the Pas reserve across the Saskatchewan river from The Pas and the Anglican Church of the Redeemer was threatened, but the flames are now being controlled (Continued on Page Ten) Ottawa Crisis Again BY GRANT DEXTER Leader-Post Ottawa Bureau OTTAWA, May 22. In a new and perhaps deadlier form, the conscription crisis has re-emerged. This crisis in the cabinet with respect to the method by which conscription is to be applied, if and when the need arises, has been temporarily but successfully met. It might well arise some months hence; it does not exist today. The conflict between the ex tremists in Quebec and the ex tremists in Ontario which increases apace by reason of the reaction of the one to the other, re-emerges as a direct menace to the life of the government and, what is infinitely more important, to the unity of the nation.

Situation Worsened It is a fact that since the introduction of the amendments to the National Resources Mobilization act, the situation has steadily and rapidly deteriorated. This deterioration is apparent in the continuing and increasingly extreme anti-conscription campaign in Quebec; in the strong reaction of the other extreme in Ontario. It is apparent at Ottawa in the hardening of feeling on both sides and it is equally apparent among English-speaking members of the government whose patience with Quebec extremists wearing very thin. It is not hard to see what is happening. But it is difficult to appraise the consequences.

When the week of acute political crisis ended on May 11 with the first reading of the amendments to the Mobilization act, the government was revealed as holding firmly to the middle course. The government proposed to implement the plebiscite majority by striking out of this statute the (Continued on Page Two) 2 lid Mexican Ship Is Sunk MEXICO CITY, May 22. The newspaper La Prensa reported Friday from Havana that the Mexican tanker Faja de Oro had been torpedoed off Cuba. Most of her crew were reported lost. (For further news on the Mexican German situation, see page 11).

Word of the reported sinking came only a week after the Mexican tanker Potrero del Llano was sent to the bottom off the Florida coast, raising the immediate possibility of a Mexican declaration of war on Germany. SHIFT CURRENT GRADUATES SWIFT CURRENT, May 22. Pilots from France, Czecho-Slo-vakia, the West Indies, the United Kingdom and Canada were included in the graduating class Friday at No. 39 Service Flying Training school. Italians Claim U.S.

Warship ROME, (from Italian broadcasts), May 22. The Italian high command claimed in a special communique Friday that its sub marine Barbarigo sank a U.S. battleship of the Maryland class with two torpedo hits off the Brazilian coast Wednesday. (There was no confirmation from any other source to bear out the Italian claim.) It gave tlie place as 100 miles west of the Brazilian island of Fernando Noronha, 125 miles off the easternmost extremity of Brazil. Official Brazilian and U.S.

sources, commenting on the Italian report, said they had no knowledge of any naval engagement in these waters. German Claims BERLIN, (from German broadcasts), May 22. The German high command claimed that German submarines have sunk 20 enemy merchant ships totalling 111,600 tons in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico and three others aggregating 14,000 tons in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. U.S.

Ship Sunk WASHINGTON, May 22. The U.S. navy department announced that a medium sized U.S. merchant vessel had been torpedoed in the Gulf of Mexico. Turkish Ships Sunk ISTANBUL, Turkey, May 22.

A Turkish motorboat has been sunk close to the Turkish shore by gunfire from five unidentified submarines, Turkish press reports said. Shipping circles said two Turkish cargo vessels also had been sunk in the Black sea in two days, both by gunfire from an unidentified submarine. SWELL YUGOSLAV ARMY BERNE, Switzerland, May 22. Two hundred thousand Yugoslav patriots have joined Gen. Draja Mihailovics forces opposing Axis occupation of their country, Yugoslav circles said Friday.

These sources said spring had brought many former regular soldiers out of hiding to swell the Yugoslav forces. Were on Leave The trio had been in Canada four months and were transferred only recently to Weyburn. With number of other R.A F. men, they had arrived in Regina, Thursday, on leave. They were scheduled to return to England in the near future.

In hospital is Sgt. Pilot Morris Eastlake, 27. Drowned were: Sergeant Pilots G. A. Gardner and E.

P. Fairgneve. Next-of-kin in England were notified Friday morning. Sgt. Pilot Gardner was from Birmingham and Sgt Pilot Fair-grieve from West Kirby, Ches Wife of Sgt.

Pilot Eastlake lives at Bristol. Both bodies were recovered within two hours after the accident by men with grappling irons Grappling was done by members of the city police force, firemen and airmen of No. 2 I T.S., under the direction of Police Inspector Fred Toop. Hundreds of citizens looked on. Word of the tragedy spread through the city like wild fire and roads in the vicinity of the legislative building were jammed with cars.

Coroners jury was to be empanelled at 1:30 p.m. Friday. In quest is exported to be held at the city police station at 7 p.m. Friday, May 29. North of Island Accident occurred 150 to 200 yards north of an artificial island, directly west of Broad street bridge, and approximately 150 yards from the mainland cast of the legislative building.

Bodies were recovered close to where the sailboat the airmen rented overturned; one 75 to 100 yards from the island, the other only 25 yards from the island's shore. Water was believed to be approximately 10 feet deep. Belgian Bravely Carries Secrets to Patriots Grave (By Canadian Press) SASKATOON, May 22. Several provincial awards were cap. tured at opening sessions of the northern branch of the Saskat chewan music festival here on Thursday.

Winners in various competitions were: Comp. 74, mezzo soprano, grade Frances Seeley, Saskatoon, 81-82 163. (Provincial winner, Joyce Robinson, Regina, 83-83 166.) Comp. 89, boys solo, grade Bill Plump, Saskatoon, 86. (SUr art Hamilton, Regina, 85.) Comp.

84, girls solo, high voice Megan Lloyd Jones, Hanley, 85-84 169. (Betty Lloyd, Regina, 85-84169), tied. Comp. 128, piano sight reading for accompanists Cancelled. Comp.

129, piano solo, concert group Mr. E. H. Fox, New Os-goode, 72-72 144. (Provincial winner, Dorothy Klai, Regina, 85-82167.) Comp.

124, violin duet, grade Josephine Chaben and Stanley Kopach, Saskatoon, 86. (No southern entry.) Comp. 137, piano duet, grade Cloudy and Warm For Saturday A cloudy and moderately warm Saturday is the promissory note of Joe, the Weatherman, in his outlook today. Joe, shedding his extra socks, declared: It will be partly cloudy and moderately warm and maybe a few showers. Joes weather bureau said it was 63 degrees at 1 p.m.

today. Temperatures from 7 p.n last night to 7 a m. today: Max. Min. 42 Winnipeg IV BY JOHN A.

PARRIS (Bv British United Press) LONDON, May 22, Ten times George Deckers, 61-year-old Belgian patriot, stood against a wall within an eyelash of death before a German firing squad. And 10 times he heard the head slaughterman grate the command Lower rifles, only to be hustled back to his cell for a grim session with the Nazis trying to wrench fiom him what he knew about the movement. I know nothing. Deckers (old them time and again as hi hair grew whiter, his mind more unstable, under IX months of mental torture. Then came the lllh time, and the lower rifles order never reached his ears.

He died witli his hack to the wall, and his knowledge of the Belgian underground movement with him, on Jan. 26. II ill 111 rviiut tic nnen Belgian underground'll -r endangering the security of tne Geiman aimy NAZIS NAB NAZIS MOSCOW, May 22. Tass news agency reported that a number of German court officials have been arrested by the Gestapo. The report suggests that this may be the first Important move by Hitler to clamp down on officialdom under powers recently given him by the reichstag.

According to Tass, the arrests took place in a number of German cities. The source of the information was not disclosed. Yorkton 70 Kamsarlc 70 44 Ftean 64 32 FEGINA 72 37 Moose Jaw 71 40 Saskatoon 72 43 SKatoon 72 48 Swift Current 44 Calgary 76 45 (Continued on Page Ten).