The Calgary Albertan from Calgary, Alberta, Canada • 3

THE The Newspaper ol the Home WEDNESDAY MAY 26 1943 Air Casualties Wages Food Prices Seen Key To Control Phillips (father) Bern ant NO OFFENSIVES DUCE PLEADS Asks Hitlsr To Seek Peace When War Deadlocked LIVES ON RAFT FOR 131pAYS Chines Steward Caught Fish With Bent Nail-' 'Watch on Rhine' Again Foe Theme LONDON May 35-A Sign of the Radio listeners report that German broadcasts are plugging the last-war song "The Watah on the Rhine" Until recently the favorite was "We Bail againat PICHE Kenneth Mark FltSgt Lake Linden Mich PILON Francois Rplland Joseph Sgt Rockland (hit PODOLSKY Alex Sgt Michael Podolsky (father) 10405 123rd St Edmonton RUDICK Peter Sgt Oeorge Ru-dick (father) Winnipeg BERG ENT Joseph Raymond Louis FO Sergent (father) Meadow Lake Bask STEWART Ronald Hehry FO Welland Ont WHITNALL Philip Bgt Peterborough Ont ZAIS80HUK Demetro Sgt John Zaleachuk (father) Roethem Bask Previously missing an active service now reported prisoner 5 war (Germany) BUJOLD Paul Laurent Sgt Bujold (father) Debben Bask Previously reported being believed killed on active service now for official purpose presumed dead FIDDLER George Layton Sgt Windsor Ont Previously reported Inning on active service now for official purposes presumed dead THOMPSON Joseph James Sgt Nlcol Thompson (father) Prince Rupert BC Seriously ffl BATHEN Francis Marsh PO Minneapolis Minn CANADA KUkd on active service GENGE Ralph Kenneth LAC H-minster Somerset Eng OVERSEAS Canadian In KAF Previously reported miming en active service now for official purposes presumed dead MURPHY Paul Cameron Bgt Montreal SEE DANGER IN JAPJJRIVE Could Force Gen Chiong and Government To Flee to Wilderness by newrrr Mackenzie NEW YORK May 35 Intend tieatton of the Japeneie military operation In the area of the strategic port of Xchang on the Yangtse river appear to bold unpleaaant potentialities Observer In Chungking figure the Japanese are out to consolidate Important territory along the Yang-tee and perhaps to make a drive against the Chinese provisional capital itself In either event rich agricultural vitd to the maintenance of Gen Chung Kai-shek's would be at stake The Japanese early this year threatened to go all-out to smash Chungking and knock Oen Chlang out of the war Whether this Is the Inauguration of such a campaign remains to be seen It hasn't gone far enough yet to warrant us In assuming that the Chungking area Is involved However It's a harsh fact that should the Nipponese succeed In capturing the capital and in overrunning the provinces of Hunan and Ssechman with their wealth of rice and other vital resources it would place a terrific strain of un predictable effect on the hard-pressed Chinese This Isn't cited in any spirit of pessimism but ss rep- resenting the 'possible goal of the Rising Sun barbarians NATURAL BARRIERS Official quarters In Chungking say that "The Chinese are well prepared" to meet such a fresh slaught and one hopes that this Is a correct estimate of the position Certainly there la no doubt of Chinese bravery and apart from their considerations nature hos set down some great barriers In the path of the Japanese The bomb-tom mountain city of Chungking lies less than 100 miles by air to the west of the strategic Yangtse port of Ichang which Is In Jap hands However Ichang Is at the eastern entrance of the Yangtse gorges West of this city are mountains through which the mighty river has cut the famous gorge that in some places Is 3000 feet deep In solld rock The gorge and the surrounding mountains provide strong defences against Invasion Meagre reports of the fighting indicate that the Japs may be calculating on driving westward to the south of the Yangtse In an effort to reach Chungking They also are operating to the north of ichang which might represent an effort to get at the capital by a route north the Yangtse Chinese communique reported a successful counter-attack against the Japs In this latter gone Of course General Chlang still has a vast hinterland Into which he could retire with his government and his armies However he would be leading his people out Into a comparative wilderness Thus It Is essential that Chungking and the agricultural areas In neighbor' tag territory be held TAFTS WIDOW DIE IN US My My Carol Ann Dorvel I gives a two-ton blockbuster bomb the once over at exhibit In New York Nazis Conscript Women for Labor LONDON May 25 Four thousand Norwegian girls have been summoned for compulsory labor service In four days an Oslo dispatch broadcast tag the German radio said Sunday Sixty-four labor corps wet reported set up In Norway KINGSTON BUILDING GUTTED KINGSTON Ont May Fite of unknown origin gutted the Jack-eon Press building In the downtown Brock street district Sunday It waa estimated damage might exceed $750001 The RCAF Issued the following casualty hat Tuesday: OVERSEAS Killed an Active Service Ottoman John Gregory Bgt Ottawa VAN CLEAF Raymond Kenneth PO Hamilton a active service after air epereUaos ARCHIE Stave Sgt Mike Achty-mlciuk (father) Wynyard Saak BESSETTE Bertie Joseph August Norbert Beeaette (father) Wa-wola Bask BIRCHALL Roland FltSgt St Thomas Ont BROWN Ian Stewart Sgt Brown (father) Winnipeg CANTUEY Alexander Crawford Sgt Montreal CLUDERAY Elvln Newton FO Aylsham Norfolk Eng FILL Harold Walter Sgt Mrs James Fill (mother) Kamloops BC GUAY Joseph Allred Jacques WOl Quebec HAINES Lloyd George Sgt Montreal HEMING Cecil Davis Bgt Mrs Hemlng (mother) Felly Bask HEMING George Chetwynd Sgt Hemlng (father) Jaw Bask JORGENSEN Stanley Johannes Sgt Jorgensen (father) Beets tro Bask Kwaany William Sgt Lukas Kwasny (father) Tuekm Man LEBLANC John Maurice Sgt Bonaventure County Qua MACDONALD Irving Sgt Thor burn NS McCARDLE Frederick Grant Sgt Toronto McLELLAN Norman Milton FO Toronto MACHEUU Harry George Sgt Machell (father) Mataqul BC MERRITT Edward Miles FO St Stephen NH PEPPER Man villa Bancroft FO Pepper (Father) Vernon BC PHILLIPS Wallace Edward Sgt that with a Pwyet ced- STOCKHOLM May 25-Musao-lim told Hitler at their conference on April 13 that Italy would make no separata peace but proposed that Italy and Germany should make peace together when a "dead point" had been reached In the war and no one oould conquer It la reported Duce also urged the Fuehrer not to start any "adventurous according to Information reaching neutral sources The newspaper Aftonbladet eald Mussolini raised three other points a four-point program: 1 Italy has no Imperialistic am bitions and wants to cultivate the friendship of smaller European countries 1 Italy desires to make peace with the Roman Catholic church and lead tha way in' a recohstruo-tton era of religious tolerance In Europe 1 Italy wants Jewish persecution halted The Italian premier was further aid to have told Hitler that no more Italians would be sent to fight on the Ruselap front An Aftonbladet commentator said Mussolini's decision left Rumania with the taek of providing the chief help for Germany on the eastern front and estimated that thb Rumanians now have 10 divisions fighting In Russia and six held In reserve LAUNCH NEW FREIGHTER VANCOUVER Miy 10-000-ton freighter Astoria first new-type Ship" to be built in British Columbia 'was launched from West Coast Shipbuilders Ltd Friday night by Min Stephen Eely a mother who has seven eons serving In the Canadian army bits MIAMI Fla May A 35-year old Chinese mess steward Boon Llm survivor of one of the severest trials of human endurance told today how ha used a bent nail for a fish hook to help him survive 131 days adrift on a llferaft On the morning of November 33 1843 a submarine torpedoed tha British merchantman on which Poon Llm was serving as aeoand steward One hundred and thirty-one days later on April 3 he waa picked up off the coast of Brasil by tha' crewmen of a email fishing vessel Three more days passed before the fishing boat reached land yet Poon Llm managed to walk aahortb He still his not leaned the fata of hit 54 shipmates For more than an hour after tha -torpedoing the steward swam until he sighted an unoccupied raft and climbed aboard -i Hie raft's food and water stores were Intact "The food lasted for 65 Poor Llm related through an Interpreter water held out for 65 days" After his provisions had gone Poon Llm extracted a nail foam the raft and used It for a fish hook He unravelled rope and fashioned a fishing line Parts of a biscuit and the bright coll spring from a flashlight pro Tided bait for small Rah which he then used to lure bigger fish Frequent rainfall provided water which he caught In a canvas and kept in the container Toward the end of his ordeal blackbirds roosted on tha raft at night and he caught them for addfo -tlonal food and bait ord If Not Held Down Ceiling Must Be Abandoned Says Gordon I OTTAWA May 35-Wage rates and farm prices are two major cost factors which can "make or break the price celling and the whole stabilisation program" Donald Gordon Prices Board chairman said today before the National War Labor Board In a brief prepared for preeenta- tkm to the board In Its general Inquiry Into labor relations wags regulations and the cost-of-living bonus Mr Gordon said it was Important to prevent any general riae In wage rates so as to protect the jnicG celling believe that If we Canadians cannot hold down food and labor coats and all other controllable costa at the same time we shall have to abandon the price celling" he said Mr Gordon described wage and price control as1 essential and Interlocking parte of the program to control living costa "As consumers we all want to aee prices kept ha said- "However this cannot be dona unless costs of production and distribution can alio bo kept down and1 here nearly all of us are Interested as producers In seeing eome particular Item go up such as wag rates al-aty rates farm price or profit margins 'Can we reconcile our interest as producers with our Interest as con- timers and with the welfare of the country as a whole? This la one of the most severe testa that Canw dlan civilians face during the war period "Prices Vannot be kept down indefinitely unless costa are also kept AGAINST BONUS BOOST Mr Gordon touched briefly on farm prices and their relationship to wage rates "If wags Increases were to be-' come widespread there would be small chance of preventing a comparable riae In the price of farm products" he said "Through Its effect In increasing the coet-of-living bonus this would raise wage levels generally and Canada would again be launched on the inflationary Controversy on wage stabilisation centred largely on the extent to which It could be relaxed In the case of low wage rates Heavy and progressive Income tax Increase! since November 1941 had Improved the relative position of low-paid workers in comparison with those at higher Income levels "Moreover It ihoilld not be overlooked that Insofar as low-paid workers can be Identified with those who have wage bargaining poweg they are the once who have gained moat from the stabilization program to date and who would lose most if it broke down In the future Wages and salaries accounted for 60 percent of all production and distribution costa In Canada the present conditions every Increase in wage rates unless it is accompanied by a corresponding Increase in output involves an Increase In costa which must be borne by the community" said Mr Gordon There were three ways In which this cost could be met: Through price Increases direct subsidies from public funds or Indirect subsidies from public funds In the form of reduced government revenues from taxes MU8T PAY PRICE There waa a tendency when one group obtained wage Increases for other groups sometimes less deserving but In a better bargaining position to seek Increases Difficulty waa added by the desire to retain wage differentials "The people of Canada will have to decide which they want more If any group feels that It can get wage Increases without threatening the whole stabilization program tt must assume that the rest of the people will refrain from seeking concessions for themselves and that the rest of the people will be willing to take on a greater share of the war burden "To my mind the core of the problem lice In this what wage adjustments are considered so obviously desirable by the rest of the community that it to In fact prepared to pay the price in these two ways Just Canadians are going to have about 1400000000 more to spend In 1843 than they had In 1943 and there wlU be from 8300000000 to (400000000 less In civilian goods available for then to buy Mr Gordon eald 190 Day Jail Term For Band Drummer ban francisco! May as-oene Krupa internationally known band drummer wee sentenced to 90 days In the county Jail and fined $500 following his idea of guilty to a misdemeanor charge In a narcotics accusation' Judge Thomas Foley said a felony charge against Krupa for allegedly Inducing a minor to transport narcotic marijuana cigarettes would be brought to trial June 8 The prosecution charged John Fateakoe 30-year -old property man and valet to Krupa was arrested In of marijuana cigarettes after Krupa allegedly sent him to his hotel room for them 313 VESSELS BUNK LONDON May British naval and naval air farces sank or damaged at least 313 enemy vessels In the Mediterranean during tlw North African campaign from the battle of El Alimeln last October to the victory at Cap Boo the admiralty said TRACTORS 'EARN $150 BUFAULA Okla May Three farmers lost everything they owned in floods except their tractors Bo they drove the tractors to a nearby highway where washouts had stalled traffic and started a towing service $1 a car In three days they hauled In $1500 I I In to sputl beat and tiled it find him it might cacross the great TViev raCC aCI and maic war so that oUC railway fronts Or jost yow troops y0Ut boy Look-SvtheeU can carry rl the 1 caBy im-- They carry fo0J letters 1 furnace jng as tast as -Those singing von i-sra roll tirei infort' they co live fot that your you may nbiioats Wife of Former President Saw Son Elected as Senator WASHINGTON May 35 Mrs William Howard Taft who during her 81 years saw her husband became president and then chief Justice or the united States and one of her sons became senator died Saturday Ill for a year and a half Mrs Taft died at her home where she had lived much of the time since she first eame to the capital with her husband when he was mention' fd In March 1800 He served on the supreme court from 1931 to 1830 the year of his death After the death of her husband Mrs Taft saw her son Robert elected to the United States senate from Ohio In 1838 Another son Charles Taft la serving as assistant dl rector of the United States office of defence health Mrs Taft was buried Tuesday at Arlington National cemetery at the side of her husband Smith Re-elected Education Head LONDON Ont May Sidney Smith president of the University of Manitoba was re-elected president of tbe Canadian Association for AdulP Education at the closing session of a three-day conference Saturday Dr Gordon Shrum University of British Columbia waa elected a vice-president Members of executive committee Include Donald Cameron Unhrenity of Alberta New members of the council to retire In 1847 include: OF McNally Edmonton Ransom Winnipeg Mrs Ferguson Wlnnl peg John Brownlee Edmonton A Chester Winnipeg avoio taavtt ovta -ifvx 5-s i7l' Jap Troops Strafed By $AF Bombers NEW DELHI' May 35 RAF I bombers made three attacks on Japanese troops at Udaung a few miles south of Maungdaw on the west coast of Bunns Monday and burets were observed well within the target area a British communique said Blenheims escorted by Hurricanes I attacked an enemy-occupied village near Buthedaung In western Burma I In tha afternoon The bombnig was I followed by low-level machine gun attacks Blenheims also attacked a Jap-1 anese camp near Hotnalln in the I Upper Chlndwln area where ex-1 tensive damage waa done to bar-1 racks The attacks were made without the loss of a plane AFL Tells Miners Of 'No Strike' Pledget WASHINGTON May Amert-1 can Federation of Labor President! William Green Batiirday appointed a committee to negotiate a basis for re-entry of the united Mine Workers Into the AFX and repeated all I affiliates would be bound by the federation's "no strike" pledge -M? V-M NOW WAR DEPARTMENT OTTAWA May The transport department has been classified ss a "war so it can obtain needed priorities In the purchase of 1 materials equipment and foodstuffs and In obtaining labor needed far I Us war services 3 '4 TT.