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TAGS TWO SASKATOON STAR-PHCENIX THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1942. Launck Half a Ship Continuing IlDuce FROM PAGE ONE Continuing Legion FROM FACE ONE forces and continuously attacked enemy transport. (London quarters, noting no mention of infantry, predicted that Rommel soon would be forced to use all his armored forces, it he has not already dons so. These include one Italian and three German divisions. He also has four Italian motorized infantry divisions As the Axis offensive began, oddly, with the approach of the desert hot season, the reaction of British soldiers manning the tanks and gun emplacements was let 'em come.

Strongly holding positions which make the best possible defensive use of the sandy terrain, British forces welcomed the opportunity for a new test of strength. Since it is destruction of the enemys armored equipment rather than the winning of ground that counts In this desert warfare the result may surprise the Axis chieftains, they said. much material and equipment as possible for use of the "heroic Soviet armies and demanded pressure on the Government to apply in Britain and the Empire In a practical way and during the war the spirit of the Atlantlo Charter. Issues Warning To Quebec People QUEBEC, May 28. Onesime Gagnon (U.N.

Matane), expressed belief in the Quebec Legislature Wednesday night that ths civilian protection committee in Quebeo should occupy Itself with the defence of the Province. I am not against having a civilian pptection committee, but I believe their most Important Job should be the finding of anti-aircraft guns with which to defend our shores. The only antiaircraft gun in Quebec district is on the terrace at Levis and I doubt if it could shoot very far." Continuing Ford FROM PAGE ONE craft. Whether he could have produced that many planes a day never has been wholly agreed upon among his fellow motorcar manufacturers. Many scoffed at the claim.

The pioneer automobile builder, nearing his 79th birthday, never ceased to believe, however, that the task would have been nothing more than an "assembly job. While he had no opportunity to test his ability to make 1,000 pursuit planes A day, he has accomplished at Willow Run something that In many ways la equally startling and unbelievable; in less than 13 months he has converted a farm and wooded eection some 30 miles from Detroit into a gigantic aircraft factory bigger than anything the world has ever seen and haa mass output of the aerial battleships in sight The plana for Willow Run, with a mile of assembly lines and using the combined production technique of both automobile and aircraft Industries, call for the giant planes to roll out by the dozens each day. Continuing Imperials FROM PAGE ONE rled out with little or no air support. The struggle has been hard and critical. General Wavell indicated that a counter-invasion of Burma by United Nations forces will be attempted some day.

Meanwhile the main responsibility for defeating any Japanese thrust toward India rests with the Indian eastern army who have got their troops disposed and ready on the mountainous border of Assam." He disclosed the Government of India had begun a supply road into Burma but that we had not been able to complete It" In time and up to standard to stand the monsoon rains. "And so it was not possible to move forward reinforcements or to relieve the troops In Burma with fresh ones." He had seen every unit of the army from Burma. They are not what the Japanese are saying they are a beaten army in any way. "On the contrary, they are in very good shape. "Naturally after the hardships they have been through and the hard fighting they have seen there is a certain amount of sickness, but the great majority are fit and well.

The picturesque story told by a member of the House of Commons of troops wading through snake-infested waters, living on unripe limes is fantastic, as they had full rations all the time. "These troops had fought an out standingly good fight for many months, unrelieved, unrested, urn reinforced, and they naturally de serve an opportunity to rest and refit. only with the authorization of the party and at Mussolinis personal order. Mussolini thus appeared intent on shaping a smaller, stronger, more easily controlled party modelled after Hitlers SS (Elite Guard) Including only members on whose absolute loyalty he could count in enforcing national discipline. Such was the condition in the early days of Fascism, and a Rome writer said the situation on the home front had made such measures necessary again.

A reliable foreign diplomatic source said that at the same tlmo Italy made her territorial demands on France she sent a supplemental memorandum to Germany. This note, it was reported, said Italy had fought since the outbreak of war in Ethiopia, had sent her troops to Spain and had served the Axis in the Second Great War. but that she had lost her original gains and had nothing to show for her sacrifices. The Italian note is said to have pointed out this is creating growing unfavorable sentiment at home. Italys claims, meanwhile, Apparently created considerable stir In Vichy.

The Governor of Tunisia is reported to have turned in his resignation in protest against any concessions involving North Africa. There has been no indication whether his resignation will be accepted in view of compromise efforts through which the Vichy Government is trying to work its way out of its difficulties. VO, youre not seeing things. Thats half a ship being launched at a British shipyard. A tanker hit a mine, broke apart, and only the after section could be towed to port.

New forepart, pictured above, was joined tyith veteran rear, saving time and steel in building a new" ship. approval at the closing session of the ninth biennial legion convention urged; Strict regulations in matters pertaining to Doukhobors, Mennonites, Hutterites and other sects; That arrogance of German prisoners he dealt with in a manner to protect guards from Insolent demands; Hospitalization British repatriated prisoners of war. The Legion urged the Dominion Government to take semi-military" organizations of a voluntary nature into the reserve army and place them under one military administration for all home defence purposes. All Legion branches were asked by President Alex Walker of Calgary to take part in cadet training. The delegates approved a policy that all branches actively support the formation and development of army cadet corps and to encourage boys of school age to join.

Mr. Walker said that in some areas of Alberta from 60 to 80 per cent of boys were born of foreign blood. He urged the Legion to buy uniforms for these boys and help teach them democratic Canadian ideals. R. H.

Inglia of Rockfordbrldge, Alta, claimed that In some places persons of foreign extraction, three generations in Canada, are still loyal to their homelands. Such people, he claimed, should be disfranchised until they prove to Canada they are good Canadians. In fact, In Alberta, something must be done about it these people refuse to fight for Canada." In a resolution dealing with acquisition of real property of Doukhobors and other sects the Legion asked that these people be prevented from purchasing, acquiring or leasing real property beyond a period of one year, or Increase their real estate holdings during the war and for five years thereafter. Tlie Legion suggests that any breach of this policy should be a criminal offence, carrying with it "the confiscation of the property in question and deprivation of special privileges granted certain sects against the bearing of arms. The Legion made it clear it will accept into its membership any British person enlisting in the active forces "anywhere and receiving an honorable discharge.

I Continuing Blakeley FROM PAGE ONE suffered loss of six men killed and 12 wounded. During her two-day stay In Fort De France, the port of Martinique, the Blakeley was tied up alongside the French aircraft carrier Bearn, which figures in- current negotiations between the United States and the local Martinique authorities looking toward effective neutralization of the island. BLACKHEADS also pimples, rashes, dry skin eczema, diaper rash and similar irritations relieved and toothed by pure, medicinal WATCHc Continuing Expects FROM PAGE ONE ceivable. He did not discuss the possibilities of attacks by Japans Axis partners. The loss of face Japan suffered from the army air attack led by Jimmy Doolittle made a vengeance blow inevitable, Stlmson contended.

The United States, through General Doolittle, inflicted a stinging humiliating, surprise blow on the Japanese as evidenced by their boasting of Japans invulnerability at the very time the bombers came over, the secretary said. Continuing Axis FROM PAGE ONE THIS PAGE TOMORROW Continuing Chinese FROM PAGE ONE Chinas back door, were reported to have encircled Japanese-occupied Lungllng, Burma Road town west of the Salween River. Central News, Chinese agency, said the Japanese had been sent Into headlong retreat Into Lungllng after the Chinese had retaken Fang-makiano and Hwangtsaopa, both to the south of Lungllng. This was the main fruit of a series of co-ordinated assaults launched Saturday along the whole western Yunnan front. Part of that series was what Central News called "annihilating attacks" in the Tengchung area, some 40 miles northwest of Lungllng, where staggering losses" were reported inflicted on the Invaders.

Chinese attacking west of Tengchung also were reported to have made progress. Crack units of the Chinese air force and members of the American Volunteer Group bombed and machine-gunned the Japanese in Yunnan during the co-ordinated assaults. Last Monday, It was announced today, Chlang Kai-shek telegraphed the A.V.G., congratulating its filers on their remarkable achievements." Chinese advices said that Chinese operating behind the Japanese lines in Chekiang to the north of Klnhwa had recaptured Slnteng and now are pushing the enemy, who is in full retreat." (Slnteng Is 25 miles southwest of Hangchow and about 70 miles north of Klnhwa.) In the Lank! sector northwest of Klnhwa, the Chinese said the Japanese had sustained heavy losses. The possible widening of active operations on the Chinese eastern front was Indicated in dispatches which said 30,000 to 40,000 Japanese troops were massed at Nanchang, Japanese-occupied capital of Klang-sl Province, Inland from Chekiang. Six or seven Japanese warships were said to have shelled Santuao, north of Foochow, on the Fukien coast opposite the Japanese island base of Formosa, in a test of Chinese defensive positions there.

Chinese reports said the warships left when their fire was returned. (or in the sector; that Red Army cavalrymen had slain 2,100 Germans on a 40-mile raid behind the Nazi lines. After a two-day lull, aerial warfare evidently picked up. The Russians announced they had destroyed 82 planes and lost 23 in operations Tuesday. Dramatic movies of the Donets basin combat were exhibited here by the Russians.

One showed the northern Donets flooding far over its banks and a ferry carrying supplies to Red Army troops on the western bank. An anti-tank rifle was pictured firing at close range at a German tank and setting it afire. The Nazi crew leaped from the machine and fled for cover. Todays Russian dispatches gave this story of how the main German thrusts in the Izyum-Barvenkova was checked: The 101st German Infantry Division was assigned to cross a river 12 miles south of a fortified settlement which was holding up the Nazi advance. The Germans marched up with a brass band as though on a parade ground, deployed along the high right bank of the river, and started down to the water.

Russian forces on the left bank remained silent and hidden until the Germans were within easy range on the rivers edge, then they opened up with everything at once, turning the bank into a mass of broken trees, flying earth and shattered German bodies. As dense clouds of smoke and dust rose over this scene of carnage, Russian Infantry crossed the river and finished the job. with bayonets and hand grenades. A Continuing Heydrich FROM PAGE ONE Continuing Urges FROM PAGE ONE Walker asserted he was not talking about the Soviet Union but about people who claim to be its friends. Delegates over-rode executive opposition In voting for removal of the Dally Worker ban after Peter Colllck of the Locomotive Engineers and Firemen said it Was not a question of whether one agreed or disagreed with the Daily Work-1 er but whether one believed in democracy whose cardinal principle was freedom ot the press.

"The lesson of this war has been that the press has been In advance of the Government all the time, said Mr. Colllck in moving the resolution. I dont care who Is the minister of home security. The people of this country cannot put their democratic and constitutional right. Into the hands of only one man whether he be Morrison or ChurchllL Herbert Morrison, horns secretary and minister of Homo Security, is one of the Labor Partys representatives in the Churchill Government.

He haa vigorously defended the ban on the Daily Worker. Other resolutions adopted at the conference called upon British workers to produce and transport Continuing Nazis FROM PAGE ONE A MH mm aim BIG 32nd ANNIVERSARY SALE ANNOUNCEMENT other Axis columns were being heavily engaged with results as yet undetermined, the army communique said. The R.A.F. announcement placed these forces even deeper than the army had Intimated, but said the all-day bombings had wrecked many transport vehicles. The R.A.F.

planes also ranged widely in smashing attacks on airdromes and baseB behind the enemy lines and in fighting off Axis air attacks shot down 12 enemy planes while losing four. The main Gcrman-Italian thrust apparently was aiming directly toward Tobruk, which the British forces have held against all vicissitudes since their first offensive into Libya in the winter of 1940-41. (No real offensive can be mounted in the desert unless the attacking force holds both Bengasi and Tobruk, said an informed source in London.) The battles, which began with the sudden Axis advance late Tuesday night, were being fought out over a wide area as the tanks of both sides ranged the desalt wastes like warships at sea. Overhead, the R.AF. Intercepted Axis air raids on British ground 7 route and time that Heydrich set out from his headquarters.

Czech sources In London heard that the assassination was attempted with automatic rifles in the hands of two men between 80 and 35 years of age, one of whom es caped on bicycle or afoot. Some Swedish reports were to the effect that a delay action bomb had been planted in the car or that a bomb had been thrown at it. The German-controlled Prague radio announced an attache case bearing the label of a small Prague hotel, the White Swan, had been found with another "object" after the assassins fled. The Evening Star declared that Heinrich Himmler, chief of the Gestapo, had flown to Prague to take personal charge of the situation. A Czech Government spokesman, estimating that the Germans had 15,000 Czechs in concentration camps In the protectorate, expressed fears that they would be used as hostages, as in France.

Representatives of other Governments here suggested that the shooting of Heydrich, who bore the misleading title of Belchs protector of Bohemia and Moravia, might touch off a wave of attempts against the lives of German bosses in other subjugated countries. For that reason alone, it was believed, the Germans might make an example of the Czechs. were killed in repulse of flanking attacks In the southern theatrs and that 200 died in tanks newly burned or wrecked in the battle of Kharkov. In the Kalinin and, adjoining northwestern front sectors between Smolensk and Leningrad it was reported a series of Nazi attacks and Red Army thrusts recently had cost the Germans 1,200 men killed. Russian artillerymen and infantrymen were cited for turning back two thrusts in ths Donets River basin battleground south of Kharkov, manoeuvres by which Viktor von Bchwedler hoped to imperil Marshal Timoshenko's left wing about that Nazi-occupied steel centre.

In the Izyum direction of the front (lying in a bend west of the Donets) our troops, repelling enemy attacks, inflicted heavy losses on them, a communique said. "Men of one rifle unit destroyed up to 1,400 Hitlerites. In another sector large enemy forces tried to ford a river (apparently also the Donets). Artillery opened fire at short range and the enemy, retreating, lost over 1,000 killed and large quantities of equipment." '1 hose announcements followed reports Wednesday that a Soviet oounter-attack had won new ground I PANS DISHES, SINKS, TAPS, BATHTUBS 'Mode Refreshingly dean and Bright1 Snowilafe ammonia LwWrn Gtui Continuing MacArthur FROM PAGE ONE squadron of 15 Japanese Zeros which attempted to strafe the airdrome at Port Moresby, New Guinea, shooting down one and damaging six. One Allied plane was lost.

The Japanese returned to the attack again Wednesday night, "but without effect, the communique said. Allied personnel losses, mean while, were reduced when the seven-man crew of a missing American bomber arrived safely at an Allied operational base after a 45-day trek through the swampy wilds of New Guinea. An American fighter pilot, missing 28 days, arrived with them. All were in good shape when they pulled in, having been aided by friendly natives and by a British missionary, Canadas Mayors Back in Session Canadian Press OTTAWA, May 28. Canadas mayors were back in session on their wartime problems today with the warning of Mayor Fioreilo La Guardia of New York that they must lead their citizens through long and difficult war fresh In their minds.

Mayor La Guardia in his speech Wednesday night told of the deeds of mayors of Europe's conquered capitals, and warned: This war will not bo won on slogans. It will bo won with the precious flower of the manhood of our nations." Protect.lt Preserve It Can Help You! What does your home mean to you? It means security, independence, comfort, it exemplifies what we are fighting for today. Do your part protect your home NOW! ALBION PAINT I gallon Good quality purpose paint, for outdoors 1 or interior las tr VlWW or interior APPEALSTO F.D.R. Maharajah of Indore Asks Kussians, Chinese, U.S. Arbitration for India Canadian Press BOMBAY, May 28, -The Maharajah of Indore appealed to President Roosevelt in an open letter today for Joint United State, Chinese and Russian arbitration in tha constitutional dispute between India and Britain.

Pledging himself without question to abide by any decision, the Maharajah proposed that the United States, China and Russia send two representatives each to India to study the problem and advance a solution. ALBION VARNISH STAIN Quart 1.15 6-lnch KaUomlne Brush 1.95 Pint 40c 64nch KaUomlne Brush 1.25 Deaths C-l-L HOUSE PAINT FLAT WALL Quart 1-40 Gallon 4.95 SEMI GLOSS Quart 1-50 Gallon 5.50 INTERIOR GLOSS Quart 1.50 Gallon 5.25 SCREEN DOORS mortised; varnished 2 feet 6 inch width; ItH 3 feet 8 inch width Set of Screen Door tlardware 49c WHEAT IN STORE OTTAWA, May 28. Stocks of Canadian wheat in ators May 22 totalled 420,692,718 bushels compared with 424,811,694 bushels May 15 and 464,344,075 bushels on the same date last year, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports. MARTIN ON MAY 27, 1942, AT a Saskatoon hospital, Rosetta Sophia Martin of 1218 Temperance Street, passed away at the age of 57 years. Surviving are husband, Ceorga H.

Martin, two sons, William and Horace, one daughter, Mrs. L. Smith. The funeral service is at 2.30 o'clock Friday, May 29, from McKague's Chapel, the Rev. R.

K. Sampson of St. James Church officiating. Interment in Woodlawn Cemetery. 5-29-c SHINGLE STAIN Red, black or 9 AC brown.

Gallon bi43 Bright 9 7C green. bi3 Special Red Bara Paint. Gallon 2.45 Funerals LAWN MOWERS 16-inch, five-blade, ballbearing. Mars 16.75 144nch, fiv blade, ball bearing, Mrreurv 12.75 11-inch, four-blade, even cut 9.95 The Weather THttittUy May SS, 1942 Max. Min 72 Winnipeg 72 64 Brandon ft4 6 Yorkton 6ft 48 Kamsarlc 6(1 4R Katevaa 63 44 Basina 93 46 Moom Jaw SS 44 rtaaloitoon 64 Print Albert 64 Battieford 43 Swift Currant 67 Mwllrln Hit 66 Lathbrtdgt 69 ralgary 55 Bdmonton 63 biirvkw 46 Beavarlodg 46 41 FORECASTS Manitoba Frtub to atrortfr wind, partly aloud? and aomawhat cooler tonight and Friday, with light scattered ahnwarg Saskatchewan and Aibarta Partly tlnudv and comparatively coot today and Friday with light aoatterad ehowep.

Peace River Dlatrtct Parity cloudy and quit cool toolshl and Friday. DUCK ON MAY 21. 1942. AT THE family residence, William Alfred Duck of 918 Main Street, passed away at the age of 64 years. Survived by wife, four sons and a daughter, and sister, Mrs.

C. D. Sinclair of 724 6th Avenue, north, Saskatoon, and a brother. Jack Duck of Vancouver. Ths funeral aervlcs waa held at 8 o'clock.

May 23, from Park Funeral Chapel, the Rev. R. K. Sampson of St. James Church officiating.

Interment in Woodlawn Cemetery. Pallbearers wers C. E. Urton, W. Brown, F.

J. Hill, A. S. Camp, W. Hoy, C.

J. Towili. 5-29-c AEsntftTs Phone 2255 433 20th Street, West.

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