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SASKATOON STAR-rilOKNIX. THLRSDAY. JANUARY 6, 190. CHICAGO GRAIN FLUCTUATIONS Thursday, January ft, 1944 $1,000,000,000 Voted at each of the last two parliamentary sessions for aid to the Empire and the United Nations). Lend-lease aid to Australia and New Zealand amounted to of which 61 per cent consisted of finished munitions, 85 pe i cent Industrial lteme and four per my mai' suburban railway sta- Slavs Winning Banjaluka LONDON, Jan.

8 (CP) Had-quarters of Marshal Josip Broz (Tito) Yugoslav Army of Liberation announced today that his forces were steadily driving the enemy from Banjaluka as the sixth day of bitter street fighting rsged In that Croatian bass of the 2nd German Tank Army. All enemy units were declared driven from the valley of the Cst-ina River which courses through the Dalmatian plains and empties into the Adriatic Just south of the port of Split. The bulletin said trapped Germans had attempted to break out of the encircled town of Novo-mesto In Slovenia, but a stout ring of Partisans threw them back. Elsewhere only tklrmiahing was reported. A TWO Living Cost Drops Liiile OTTAWA, Jan.

6 (CP). The official cost-of-living index declined from 119.4 at November 1 to 119.3 at December 1, making the total wartime increaso 18.4 per cent, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics reported Wednesday. Decreases In indexes for foods and fuel and lighting ovei balanced a rise In home furnishings and miscellaneous Items," said the bureau. The food Index dropped from 133.1 to 132.7 with declines for beef, polk, oranges, turnips and cabbage of greater importance than increases for bmtei, eggs and potatoes. LIGHTING DOWN The bureau said reduction in the fuel und lighting index from 113.3 to 111.9 was due to rebates In electricity hilL in a considerable number of larger cities.

The index for home furnishings and services advanced from 118 2 to 118.8. with aircraft, ordnance and other munitions constituting 56 per cent of the export value. The lend-lease aid we have furnished," the report assorted, has been effectively used in the Red Army's advances In the Ukraine and White Russia. Through October we sent to the U.S.KK- nearly 7,000 planes, more than to any other lend-lease country; more than 3,500 tanks and 195,000 motor vehicles, including trucks. Jeeps, motorcycles and other vehicles.

MUCH MUNITIONS Munitions comprised 48 per cent of lend-lease exports to Britain In the first 10 months of 1943. The re port told how lend-lease planes and bombs are helping to devastate German industries and mentioned tremendous offensives to' be launched fiorn Britain. Mr. Roosevelt mentioned also In his letter the flow of reverse lend leaso supplies provided for the United States by Britain and other Allied countries. ACKNOWLEDGES RETURN The flow of lend-lease assistance from the United States to our Allies and of reverse lend-lease sistance from our Allies to us has increased the power of our united offensives, he said.

Each of the United Nations is giving what it can to the accomplishment of our objectives In fighting man power and in war production. Some countries, like the United States and Canada, located away from the fighting theatres of war, are able to make avallabl to other United Nations large quantities of food and manufactured arms. Others, like the Soviet Union and China, require virtually every' thing they can raise and produce in order to fight the enemy on their own soil. And still others, like the United Kingdom and Australia, can make available substantial quantities of war material to their Allies but must necessarily retain most of their war supplies and food for their own forces. WHEAT May luty Sspt BARLEY May Inly Sept.

OATS May July Sept RYE May July Sept. Wheat Stocks Greatly Down OTTAWA, Jan. 6 (CP) The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reported Wednesday that stock of Canadian wheat in ctore or in traneit In North America at midnight. December 30, totalled 358,506,146 buaneli, including 322,994,968 In Canadian Position and 35,511,579 la United State poeftions. Oh the corresponding date lat year storks were 469.186,785 bushel.

Farmer in Western Canada delivered 4,065,493 bushels of wheat during the week ended December 30, compared with 5,033,662 in the previous week. During the elapsed portion of the crop year which AV.gU9t ftrketins aggregated 117,580 99 bushels, compared with 143, 950,314 in the correspouding period of the previous crop year. Following quantltlea of coarse grains were also delivered from Western farms during the week i figures for previous week in bracket): Oat 2.708.362 (5.3ft9,975) bushels; barlev 1,794,121 (3.508.599); rye 187,475 flaxseed 81,646 (U5.143) bushels. Continuing Chemical FROM PAGE ONE Central America as its exclusive sales territory and I.C.I. was allocated the rest of the world with ths exception of Canada, Newfoundland and South America.

LONDON, Jan. 6 (CP) Lord McGowan, chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries, declared In comment today on the anti-trust suit filed by the United States Justice Department In New York, that co-operation between his company and du Pont da Nemours had proved beneficial both to the United States and Britain. lie added that the relations between the companies form a good pattern for postwar International agreements. Describing the main points tn the agreement, Lord MqGowan said: First is the patent processes agreement under which the two companies make known to each other the fruits of their respective large research organizations in the defined fields of chemical science and cross-license to one another for use in defined countries, patents arising therefrom. Second, it is a Joint investment under which the two companies are major stock holders in chemical manufacturing companies In Canada, the Argentine and Brazil to which they make available all their technical and commercial knowledge In the defined fields of chemical and science I have already made known the company's willingness to register all arrangements of this kind which it has made or may make In the future with the appropriate Government department WILMTNGTON, 6 (AP) Walter S.

Carpenter, Jr, president of E. du Pont de Nemours, said today the action of the Department of Justice In filing a suit against du Pont, Remington Arms and Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd, charging they maintained an international cartel agreement in violation of ths Anti-Trust Act, is difficult to understand at this particular time In our war effort. In a statement, Carpenter added: The existence of the agreements which are ths subject of the present attack has never been concealed. Copies have been In the possession of Government agencies for approximately 10 years. They have been before several Investigatory committees of Congress, Stanwyck Has Flu HOLLYWOOD, Jan.

6 (AP) Barbara Stanwyck collapsed on a movie set Wednesday for the second time in 10 days. Her phystcisn said she had Influenza and had overtaxed herself and that she would have to remain at home for another week. LIVESTOCK SASKATOON Supplied by Department of Agriculture, Saskatoon, fiask, Thursday, Janaary 6, 1944 Receipt for tha pat 24 hour at Saska toon, yard and plant combined, amounted to 95 cattle, 12 calves, 1,768 hogs. Very few top quality cattle offered, medium steers sold $10.25 to $10.75, some better one picked out at $10.90, and a coUfil of good ones at common cattle alow sellers, steers and heifer old from $6 to few good cows $7.23 to $7.50, medium cow $8.50 to $7, common ii to S6.35. An odd good calf picked out at $12 to common calve told from $6 to $10 Hog market steady at $15.90 for B1 rail grade delivered off trucks, $1 premium on A carcasses.

PRINCE ALBERT Special to ths Star-Phoenix, Thursday, January 6, 1944 Cattle receipts light, very few early Males. Quotations steady. Hogs unchanged. $15.90 for BU WINNIPEG WINNIPEG, Jan. 6.

Receipts? Cattl 1,000, calves 120, hogs 2,900, sheep 175. Steers up to 1,050 choice $11.75 to $12, good to $11.50, medium $9.75 to common $9 to heifers, choice to $11.25, good I1Q to $10.75, medium $9 to $9.75, common $8 to fed calves, choice $11.50 to $12, good $10.76 to $11.25. medium $10 to cow, good $7.50 to $8, medium $6.50 to S7.25: bulla, good $7 76 to $8.60, common $6.50 to atocker and feeder steers, good $8 to $9.25. Good and choice vest $13 to $15, const mon and medium $7.60 to $13. Hogs, grade Bl dressed $16.30.

Good lambs $12. CHICAGO CHICAGO. Jsn. ft. Hogs 34.000.

and choice 200-300 lb. $13.75 top; 310-340 lb. $12.75 to 170-190 1b. $12.25 to $13; 150-170 ib. $11.50 to good and choice 300-550 lb.

sows $12 to $12 95. Cattle 6,000. Calves 800. Fed steers and yearlings medium and good, $13 to $16; strictly choice cattle, top $16.50, bulk $13 to $16: best heifers most common and medium beef cows $8.25 to bulls, weighty sausage offerings to $12; vealers $15 down. Sheep $13,000.

Good and choice fed woolled Western lambs $15.10 to $15.25, UK CRAIN WINNIPEG, Jan, ft (CP). Rys trading was uneven today on the Winnipeg Grain Exchange. Futures rose to new seasonal highs after mldsesslon but slipped in the last hour to finish cent lower to unchanged. Other grain dealings ware ralnof and on the odd car basis. Early support in the rve market Was offered by American houses.

Commission houses and locals were also on the buy Ing side. Offerings wre chiefly In tho form of profit-taking selling for American account entered the trade near the close. The May rye future made It new peek by hitting $1.29. the July by touching $1.29. Ot the close May had dropped to $1.28, July to $1.27.

AVERAGES TORONTO Industrial. 118.89, up ,18. Golds, 102.84, up A I. Base metals, 69.58, down .68. Western oils, 27.18, up AS.

MONTREAL Utilities, 58.1, up Industrials, 74.8k unchanged. Combined, 68.3, unchanged. Pulp and Papers, 124.48, oft 1.37, NEW YORK Industrials, 138.35, off .30. Rails, 34.16, off .07. Utilities, 2256, off .09.

Stocks, 47.94, off Lemon Juice Recipe Checks Rheumatic Pain Quickly If you suffer from rheumatic. anhrlt! or neurltlo pain try this simple inexpensive home recipe. Get a package of Ru-ex Prescription from your druggist. His It with a quart of water, add the juice of 4 lemons. It's easy and pleasant, Tmi need only 3 tablespoons fUl two times a day.

after within 48 hours sometimes overnight splendid results are obtained. If the pains are not quickly relieved and If you do not fee! better, Ru-es Prescription win cost you nothing to try. Tour money refunded if it does not help you. Ru-ex Prescription Is for sale and rerommended by Liggett and all other good drug stores. The miscellaneous index up from 108.3 to 108.3.

In a separate statement, the bureau said the weekly composite wholesale price index of Canadian farm products moved up 0.4 points to 101.9 between November 26 and December 24. Animal products stiffened 0.8 points to 127.1 duo to a reversal of trend in livestock prices which overbalanced seasonal weakness in eggs. Fowl prices also were fiactlonally stronger. A rise of 0.3 points to 91.7 for field products was due to a "sharp increase in the price of unmanufactured tobacco and rye, coupled with slightly firmer quotations for potatoes and onions. The composite wholesale price Index tor 30 Industrial materials gained 0.2 rolnts to 99.4 between November 26 and December 24, reflecting strength in foods.

Continuing Help FROM PAGE ONE accounted for $4,674,000,000, an increase of 142 per cent over the corresponding 10 months of 1942. Russia got $3,550,000,000 of the exports and the United Kingdom $5,980,000,000. Lend-lease aid to Russia In the first It) months of last year was up 63 per cent over all of 1942, Count SOYHART smonj your euenlitl daily food), eiptcially il you work hard. Work art must hava high protein diets, the soybeans in SOYHART contain i 1 i times the protein of meat, ere more easily digested and ere alkaline in reaction. Ak yout iroerr Mariarrt' Jlrndmioit't aria Jukkr 10 2 rsliii Hoy Lcciprs.

THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE! I -j I 1 I IJ 4. 2T tiliTT' J. Trumbull Ltd. Vancouver Continuing 5th Army FROM PAGE ONE ground at 800 miles An hour to strafe And bomb the enemys emplacements. The aircraft were unable to observe accurately the damage they did, but A pilot reported seeing German troops scatter wildly under the attack.

None of the aircraft was lost. ROAD TO ROME The taking of San Vittore would open the way to Caasino, the main Allied objective in western Italy for many weeks, and the breaking of defences at Cassino would open the path to Roms through a broad valley where armored forces could be used. The Germans are reported to have constructed a "southern Siegfried line, similar to their defences in Western Germany, in the hills as far back as Cassino. British troops, In the southern half of the eector, captured 47 German prisoners as they advanced on the bend of the Garlgliano River. Most of them appeared to be youths of about 20.

To the northeast, In the 8th Army sector. Canadians took a height overlooking the village of Torre Mucchio. Fighting was sever along the Adriatic coast, while British artillery shelled German transport near Orsogna. Making one of the deepest penetrations of the Adriatic, the British destroyers Jatina and Jervis, sister ships, tossed between 260 and 800 shells Into German communication at Pesaro, south of Rimini, Spitfires bombed shipping and port Installations at oft-hammered Civitavecchia, northwest of Rome, and at Port Ercols near Orbetello on the western coast. Continuing Stettin FROM PAGE ONE half destroyed and that another 25 per cent of' the city was badly dam- RETURN AT DAWN The thundering night fleet of and Canadian bombers took off early In the evening and did not get back until dawn.

But the losses were appreciably less than last April when Stettin and Rostock were raided and 81 bombers were lost In the joint attack, Danish broadcasts said Copenhagen anti-aircraft batteries opened fire as the planes passed overhead. The operation was the R.A.F.s third big raid in five days of January and the fourth In eight days- a record pace for what normally Is the years worst weather period, KIEL SHIPYARD RUINED Meanwhile, the Stockholm Af-tontldnlngen reported that the arsenal and the Important Deutsche werke naval shipyard at Kiel were almost completely destroyed in Wednesdays heavy bomber raid In which airfields at Bordeaux and Tours In France and other Industrial targets In western Germany were hard hit. The shipyard built the pocket battleships Luetzow, the battleship Gnelsenau and the aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin, The big U.S. bombers and escort ing fighters which participated in the sweeping raids on Germany and France Wednesday were credited officially with shooting down 95 Nazi planes ths biggest score since the December 11 attack on Emden when 138 enemy fighters were destroyed. 25 BOMBERS LOST Wednesdays raids, which extended over a record 800-mile front, cost a total of 25 heavy bombers and 12 fighters.

Of the 95 German planes shot down, gunners of the heavy bombers accounted for 62 while the escorting fighters including R.A.F,, R.C.A.F. and Allied craft-knocked down 33. R.C.A.F. Spitfires helped cover the withdrawal of the U.S, bombers from Tours and a communique issued today said little enemy opposition was met and all Canadian aircraft returned safely, Other Canadian fighter squadrons supplied fighter cover for R.A.F. medium bombers pounding the Invasion coast of France.

TWO IN A ROW The attack on Kiel was the second assault on that vital German shipbuilding centre by heavy bomber In as many days. The Berlin radio snld the Industrial city of Duesseldorf also was attacked, but this was not con- firmed. To roach their targets, airmen knifed through strong defences which Included rocket planes and fighters towing what appeared to be new type anti-aircraft bombs. It wss the first time this weapon had been reported in use. Returning fliers said the bombs seemed to be about the size of 100-pounders and were towed on 40 or 50 feet of cable.

Despite the opposition the assault was described as successful. Continuing Canada FROM PAGE ONE further fabrication In Canadian factories. The actual transfer It not to Canada but to the countries of ultimate destination. Other lend-lease goods going to Canada Include trainer planes and small quantities of other supplies for use of Norwegian, Polish and other United Nations units training on Canadian soil. The report refers to Canada's own mutual aid program under which she Is supplying without payment to the United Kingdom the Soviet Union, Australia, New Zealand and other United Nations, $2,000,000,000 of additional war supplies produced in her own factories and shipyards.

(This Is assumed to refer to ths tlon, with whom I confer each morning on the status of the war, asked me whether the bard driving Russians are likely to reach Berlin ahead of the Anglo-American allies and, if so, how that's going to affect postwar problems. His query was, of course, purely by way of making conversation, because he knows all the answers already. Stilt, he was asking a question which a lot of folk are debating, especially since the Hitlerite line has been slashed In two at the Polish border west of Kiev, and the Nazi forcez In the Dnieper bend trap again are In sore straits. Well, its fairly obvious that if the German front should suffer a wholesale collapse, the Muscovites might Indeed be marching down Unter Den Linden before an Anglo-American army could arrive. However, while the Nazis are In a tight spot, there has been no general collapse as yet and the presumption must be that there's a lot of fighting to be done before any of the Allies get troops into the German capital.

News from Moscow today Indicates a stiffening of Hitlerite resistance west of Kiev. Nazi Field Marshal von Mannsteln seems to be rallying his hard pressed troops for a stand, and we shall get a somewhat better view of the position In that theatre after he has demonstrated how much punch his army has left. If the Germitns are able to continue the skilful withdrawal which they have maintained for more than 700 miles at the extreme depth, then they will make a final defence In ths fortifications on their own borders. Should this happen, it will take the combined striking power of both Russian and Anglo-American armies to administer an early coup de grace. This presumably would bring all the Allies into Berlin at the same time.

Here one is bound to take note of the perhaps far-fetched contingency of the Anglo-American allies being unable to stage an invasion of western Europe before the Red forces have had time to drive the Nazis back to the German border and breach the defences. Such a situation could scarcely arise if the American and British home fronts remain steadfast. However, it must be emphasized that, at this Juncture of the preparations for the invasion, probably more depends on the effort of the Anglo-American home fronts than on the military. That Is to say, the fighting machine likely is pretty well set for action so far as man power is concerned and developments now hinge largely on production of essential equipment. There no possible doubt that, anything at all which delays war production will adversely affect Invasion plans, consequently delaying the war's end and Increasing Allied casualties.

But let's get back to the question of what happens If the Russians should reach the German capital ahead of their allies. The Allied conferences of Moscow and Teheran appear to have brought the Russians Into full partnership with the United States and Britain Now these three dominant powers are In accord which appears to ensure all-out collaboration In prosecuting the war. It also provides a degree of friendly trustfulness which should enable solution of postwar differences which are bound to arise Pioneer Dead, FERGUS, Ont Jan. 6 (CP) John Holmea Reed. 96, one of the pioneers of the Canadian West, died in Medicine Hat Alta, It was learned here today.

In 1882 he crossed the Prairies by oxen-drawn wagon. He will be burled here. He is survived by a son, John Henry Reed, Medicine Hat, and three daughters Including Mrs. George Hazelton, Prelate, Sask. LONDON, Jan.

6 (CD For-etgn workers In Germany are treated like livestock according to a comprehensive account of their living conditions given to Aneta by a Netherlands student who recently escaped from ths Reich after being shipped there from the Netherlands for forced labor. Workers were housed In crowded, unsanitary huts behind barbed wire over which factory police stood guard. Beatings were left to the judgment of foremen. Heat In living quarters was Inadequate. Medical attention was careless and disease prevalent.

Ths student said that In ths huts at the Mauser Berlin factory last summer workers preferred to sleep on ths floors because lies mads it-Impossible to get rest In the beds. The Informant was quartered for a time at Camp Trifstrasse In Berlin where there were thousands of foreign worker of all nationalities. The camp had no lavatories and only two water taps for 3,000 men, Hs declared that medical care was of the most perfunctory sort, and that contagious diseases were common with dysentery, scarlet fever and typhus particularly prevalent. The doctors looked upon every patient as a possible malingerer. Add Stomach Don't suffer from gas, bloating, belching, bad breath, heartburn, eour ilomach, die-turbsd elesp and indigestion, caused by ex ccas stamach acids.

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Stimulate healthy bowel action. Oet Dlotex from your druggist under satisfaction or money bash agreeasnt. Am how easy it is to A eat all you like mm Tf and enjoy storne tell ocmfcrv cent agricultural commodities. Continuing Germans FROM PAGE ONE Sluch River which swings In northwesterly direction from Novo-gorod-Volynskl. A dispatch to the Moscow News, English language weekly, said the Russians had broken through the German defences along the Sluch.

Previous reports had placed the Russians across the Polish border in the area between Olevsk and Sarny, a town 35 miles inside the frontier. It was evident that a growing battle was in progress in this sector and that the Russians were bringing new pressure against the Germans In the Dnieper bend southward as well as conducting a large scale offensive northward around Nevel, VIOLENT ATTACK The German communique said heavy battles are In full swing northwest of Berdlchev where the Soviets have attacked with unabated violence. The Germans also said that the Russians had resumed attacks north of Krlvol Rog and east of Kirovograd, and had renewed attempts to break through southeast and northwest of Vitebsk. The Russian drive southward picked up momentum as the result of the capture of Berdlchev and a dispatch to Izvestla reported fierce fighting in the village along the highway to Vemnitsa, an Important rail centre on the Bug River. NAZI DEFENCE CRUMBLING Beyond Tarascha, south of Kiev, the Soviets closed in on a 35-mile corridor which the Germans hold between Kanev, the region around Smela and south of Cherkasy.

Reports said the Germans upper defence line to their poslttons in the Dnieper bend was rapidly crumbling. Dispatches said little about the Baltio armys operation north, of Nevel beyond the fact that it was a large scale operation and assuming more Importance daily. Fall of Berdlchev after a bloody five-day siege gave Gen. Nikolai Vatutins southern wing the green light to speed up Its march to the Dniester River, where the Germans were said to be rushing new defence fortification. Capture of Berdlchev won a special order of the day from Premier Stalin, and at Moscow 224 guns fired a 20-salvo salute to the victory, PUSH TO VINNITSA Tank and Infantry columns were pushing on toward Vinnitsa, 60 miles due south of Berdlchev, first stop on the 100-mlle drive to the Dniester River bastion of Mogilov Podolski.

Capture of Vinnitsa and Zhmerinka, rail Junction of the Odessa-Warsaw Railway 20 miles further south, would deprive the 500,000 Germans Inside the Dnieper River bend of a large part of their communications and further narrow their escape corridor to the west. The Moscow news dispatches br13 Vatutins northern wing had rolled more than 90 miles west of Rado-msyl, starting point of the Red offensive from the Kiev bulge, Continuing Infant FROM PAGE ONE he believed the child might have been abducted by a passing motorist. I am almost confident that the child must have been abducted, he said, for it seems unlikely that he could disappear so soon after being reported missing by hie mother." The mother, Mrs. George Jackson, who doubted that the child was kidnapped, said she had put the youngster out to play Wednesday afternoon. Fifteen minutes later she put her other son, three-year-old Douglas, out to play and be came and told his mother that David had gone.

I can't figure It out," ahe said. It just seems as though the earth opened up and swallowed him." About 150 persons took part In a seven-hour search Wednesday and a large party was out again this morning. A call was put In to Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Toronto for bloodhounds to assist in the search, but rain and snow led officials to decide they would be useless. Mrs. Jackson said she believed her son had wandered a quarter of a mile to a creek and fell in.

Her husband said the creek Is frozen over, but there are holes in some places. The vicinity of the creek wa searched without result. A.W.L.; Put In Confinement OMAHA, Jan. 6 (AP) Buster, the two-year-old German shepheid dog which went A.W.L, here from a group of 24 army dogs on the way to Fort Robinson, Neb, for training, Is back in town. Military police, who found Buster taking in the sights in Omaha, put him In "solitary confinement" (Ills crate) and bundled him on the next train for Fort Robinson.

Police attributed his temporary fall from grace to befuddlement over wartime travelling. Portrait Assignment OTTAWA, Jan. (CD. The Government has assigned Ernest Fosbery, R.C.A, Ottawa artist, to paint an oil portrait of Sir Lymsn Duff, retiring ohlef justioa of the Supreme Court Canada. The portrait will hang in the Supreme Court Yugoslav Officers Join Tito Forces CAIRO, Jan.

8 AF). A number of regular Yugoslav officers and men have formed the nucleus of a movement to Join the rival army of Marshal Josip Broz (Tito) fighting the Germans In their homeland, It was learned today. Confronted with an unprecedented situation, King Peter's Government here permitted the men to resign from the Royal Yugoslav egular army us formed In the Middle East. The Government -was silent on the switchover. Gen.

DraJa Mihallovlc, King Peter's war minister, heads the Governments force in Yugoslavia. Continuing Wounded FROM PAGE ONE many, cannon shells from A Nazi night" fighter fractured his skull and all but wrecked the plane. Fit, Sgt. Burns reported with satisfaction that Sgt. Bill Forrest of Trail, B.C.i downed the Nazi before he could get another burst away, A former professional lightweight boxer on the West Coast, Pte, Ernie Schartz of Vuncouver was returning home to his young wife and year-old baby he hasn't seen except In pictures.

His ring days were ended 10 days after the Canadian landings in Sicily when be stopped a machine gun slug In his right arm while helping clear out a German strong point In an orange grove. He was with the Seaforth Highlanders. Im no hero, he confessed with a grin. Those 10 days were just nine too many. We saw the German mortars, but they saw us first, explained Sgt.

Doug Vanstone of Winnipeg, member of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. He and three other men were on reconnaissance afoot when a mortar shell landed among them, killing one man and wounding Vanatone and another near Leonforte, Sicily. TZn'rZ Mnini'duaa The Weather Thursday, January ft, 1N4I 11m. -4 0 2 ft ft ft 0 ft 1ft 1ft 1 Min 11 22 2N 10 2 I a 2ft 21 ft 17 ft ft la Ki'iuna IMtHwe Jaw Nitnkatoon Prince Albert North Butitpford 8lft Curwiu Medicine Hat Lethbridge t'oiKitrv Mmumon nnMHTs Manitoba Fair and cold today, Friday imjdy and a little milder. ftHtkatehfan; rienerallv fnir today and Frd, with a little higher temperature.

Alberta; Fair today and Friday, and I becoming somewhat milder. 1 Feiicr River idntrict: Fair today and Friday, with a little higher temperature. Continuing Aussies FROM PAGE ONE firs beyond It could be only of the blind harassing kind. From the notes of officers who have just returned it now is possible to give a clear outline of the fighting on Shaggy Ridge. When the Japanese were driven out of the Ramu Valley last October, they made their stand on the dominating mountain Bpur which was christened Shaggy Ridge.

They fought bitterly to keep It, but last October the Australians wrested the southern end of the ridge from the enemy. Of the eight miles of spurs, the Japanese then held four miles to the north and the Australians four miles to the south with the fearsome Pimple between. For weeks the Australians clung grimly to their end of the ridge, harassing the Japanese incessantly but unable to go further against the threat from the Pimple," Australian commanders decided their best bet was to try to surprise and confuse the Japanese defenders by something special In the way of bombardments. HUGE BOMBARDMENT One of the greatest artillery bar rages of its kind in the Southwest Paclfio was organized. More than 4,000 25-pounders were poured into the area of the Pimple.

The dally harassing fire of Australian guns had Just ended when suddenly every available gun In the region burst Into terrific and sustained barrage. Then the guns became silent just as abruptly and Australian fighters appeared leading a awarm of American dive-bombers. For 15 minutes they rained 500-pound bombs on the Pimple. Although it seemed only a pinpoint, 75 per cent of the bombs hit the target area. Almost as soon as the last bomb with a second devastating barrage had exploded, artillery cut loose for 10 minutes.

The dive-bombers cams back to pepper the top of the ridge with bullets. Then the guns began another concentrated barrage of 20 minutes. Then the infantry came one man at a time In a dropping, cursing stream, charging straight at "Rock Face. The guns lifted their fire 60 yards while the Australians clawed their way up the sheer flank of the crag, each man climbing desperately behind the other bayonet fixed. Japanese couhterfire was not heavy.

As anticipated, the defenders were dazed by the weight of the metal flung at them. The "Pimple could hardly be seen. It was as If one of the mountain clouds had come down over its smoking sides. But the cloud was the smoke of Innumerable bombs and shells fuming over Shaggy Ridge, Right up to the ramparts of the Pimple itself, the infantry scrambled, while fighters darted through the smoke like terriers, lashing every target with lead. The Japanese were exterminated with remarkably light Australian casualties.

Shaggy Ridge Is still shared with the enemy but the advantage now la definitely with the Australians, Deaths EADY-ON JANUARY 5. MRS. Fanny Isabel Eady, age 98, at her home, 507 Twelfth Street. Funeral eervices will bo held Friday. January 7, at 2 p.m., from the chapel of McKagues Funeral Home.

Canon R. K. Sampson will officiate. Interment will be la Woodlawn Cemetery. Survived by one eon, Frank one grandson, and one granddaughter.

No flower by request. Regina papers please copy. E-l-6-c GRIESUIK' ON JANUARY 5. IN a local hospital, Paul Grtesuik, age 31, of Hafford. Funeral service today, January 8, at 8 p.ni., from Hafford Greek Catholic Church.

Park Funeral Chapel in charge of arrangements. Interment In Hafford. Survived by his widow, one son end a daughter. The late Mr. Grtesuik has been a resident of the Hafford district for the past 15 years.

E-l-6-c Funerals GRANT-THE FUNERAL 8ERV-Ice of Mrs. Minnie Grant, wife of Robert Grant, Melville, Saskn will be held at Melville at 2.30 o'clock, Friday afternoon. 1-7-c LAKE FUNERAL SERVICES for Mrs. James Lake, age 60, of Asquith, who died In a local hospital January 2, were held January 5, at 2 p.m., from the Asquith United Church, Rev. R.

W. Reid, Asquith United Church, officiated. Interment was made In Asquith Cemetery Perk Funeral Chapel had charge of arrangements. Pallbearers were R. B.

Warren, T. C. Bur-well, VV, Rice, C. V. Henderson, Woodald, and Forsythe.

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