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The Calgary Albertan from Calgary, Alberta, Canada • 8

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THE The Newspaper of the Home JUNE 10 1944 ENEMY GAINS NEEDED TIME LIQUOR BUYERS 'CHISELLING' Give Store Employees $2 for Not Having Permit Book Marked SHOT SNIPERS OUT OFCHURCH Spared in Landing Opsrationi Till Huns Started Using It Ry CHARLES LYNCH WITH THE CANADIAN FORCES IN FRANCE June I have juat seen British Commandos flush snipers out of a church In a eoutal town white traffieo from landing craft on a nearby beach continued to roll by the building's shattered doors Tha church had been spared hi tho Day fighting except for one slvl through the steeple Today tha snipers opened up from a position inside the church and tha Commando went in after them wc drove along Ttthln two minutes there wu bedlam Inside with rattling machine gun fire and return rifle fire from cornered snipers Finally several grenades want off blc whig gaping hides In tha walla and the roof of the church wu clear of snipers The steeple still stand but to battered Invasion Operations Handicapped By Poor Weather By DEWITT MACKENZIE NEW YORK June ThU to difficult und dangerous stage of Um Invasion of Cherbourg Peninsula Tho superb Allied force already I Undod art getting ahead with their job In buti nrsx-like faoliluu but tha I operation haa been handicapped by bad weather The AlUea are not I ae It a far ahead In the Initial drive a they would have been with enwotb eeaa and fair skies Thto mean the enemy baa gained I predoua time In getting art for hto all-out counter-attack which to In I tha making It meana the Alllee have their work cut out for them to get reedy for thto crucial onslaught which Rommel to likely to apeed up In view of circumstances The flrat phaae of tha landing to completed aupreme Allied headquar ten teUa ua Thto to tlia "securing of a foothold and the defeating of the Intel Oerman reserves" The In- vadnn now are engaged In the sec-1 A ond phase which to aawelllng battle IConodlon Filfttf Out HlHaf YoilHl with reaervee that are being nulled from neighboring atatlona The Thto once proud Panarr Grenadier one of Token of Gratitude A yeary Allied soldier pauses on Route I on tha road to Home and to presented with flowers by an Italian a means of expressing hto gratitude to on of tha liberators of Rem Tanks Seemed To Come Right Qut Of Ground Buy Alberta PRODUCTS Boost Alberti Payrolls Hit tore ao-calkd "oupoiman" to Juat one of thouaanda of BrltUh prtaunera today He waa captured during the tth Army drive on Rome and thto Canadian 1-dler with rifle at tha ready to not leaving anything to chance third phaae will bo Rommela major DAIRY PRODUCTS TORONTO Juno A general clean up among liquor store ptoysea to wlp out irregularities of giving more Uquor than tha quota aUowanere to reported under way by direction of A Ooggin liquor board chairman Several employ' see hare betn dtomtosed for three Irregutorittoe during tho past few weeks both tn Toronto and outside stores and In out store in Toronto tho entire staff wu removed SIX QUARTS A DAY Reports are that a system had grown up under which some permit Miuors granted purchasers more Uquor than entitled to hr merely receiving a 13 Mil ln the permit book In aoms eases report! have It purchasers were obtaining aa high aa six quarts a day from on particular store without having permits marked Thto situation ex toted ln on Toronto store where reports eay tha entire staff were "In on" the Irregular system which cam to light when a change In staff arose The new member wu confronted with a purchaser who already had hto quota but presented Um book with a S3 MU ln it Unrest Igatloos were nude but other members of the staff are reported to have granted purchases on the same day without tha nook having been marked Officials believe thto racket has gone oa for some tima permitting release of large quantities of liquor without quotas being observed thus depriving others of their rightful quota SPECIAL ORDER! Special Instructions have been issued by Mr Ooggin recently to aU Uquor store staff The oommltskn-tr has personally Investigated operations of stores during which he disapproved of conduct of some employees who were ultimately removed Smoking by employees wu also banned In one Instruction employees were informed "the bon-soon to over proper housekeeping must be practised" Similar situations were alas reported existing In Ottawa and Kitchener where suspensions and changes arose but under new system reports have It that the liquor vouchers in each store are now earefully checked for similarity In names and handwriting Thou obtaining more than their quota were using fictitious names when the permits are not officially marked with the quota allowance CENTRAL ALBERTA DAIRY rOOL Head Offices Rad Daw AU fsr -AMS" Wu HsimMSUI ROOST ALBERTA PAYROLLS Identify Slain Girl 10 Years After Death I Coffees Spices Extracts TUXEDO COFFER A IFICR MILLS LIMITED Russians 13 With Panzers MM Sahtag Fhrenag tracts Iptett Butt Sts Calgary AMo What the AlUea need moat of all I a port through which could be poured the endless forcee and tlie mountalna of auppllei which are vital for the breaching of liltler'i Atlantto WalL The great port of one of the world would be a Godsend to tha AlUea right now and tlie itgn art that they ara aiming at Ita early capture Here enter the element of time Tha Alltoe win have to move fat In order to get set for the Neal at tark which will coma ae aonn a Rommel can figure out juat what he'a up fgalrwt The Oerman say that teveral big AlUed Invasion fleet ara ready to Mil from varioua points In tha Brit lh file Soma of them may be hi' tended to feed the Cherbourg operation Or they may be Mt ur new amphibious amaulti That's the big worry of the Neals right now Allies Mouiad Mora Than 100 of Thom Coming Otir Ridge SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND June An eyewitness account of tha Mg tank battle In the Caen area Tuesday aftepioon wu given today by an officer of the' Royal Navy Fleet Air Ann LL Commander Simpson who wu flying a Sesflre plana over tha front spotting targets for warships "Mere than 100 German tanka and self-propelled guns seemed to come up out of the ground and start moving aU At ha said JThey moved toward tha top of a ridga and were met by a British tank formation "Our tanks delivered the first blow which messed them up badly Our men definitely got tha better of them at tha start "All those tanks milling around were a thrilling sight but I couldn't stay to watch I bad to get on to another target "Our warships were out of range It wu too bad they have put a few salvos In at tha atert ust before our tanka cams up the ridge" By BHAPIBO ITH ALUED FORCES Army Men Casualties I St I Um following men who enlisted lnAIbertaor wbou next of kin Uve tn the province were mentioned on the latest Army casualty list: SLIGHTLY INJURED Royal Canadian Otdnaic Crops VARCOE Nelson McIntosh Pte Ml 1210 MU May Vareoa (wlfs) Blngley St Bradford Yorkshire England Mix Mary Vareoa (stepmother) 1081 Sandwich St Windsor Out DIED British CMumbt Regfamnl McKAY Wilfred Istwienoa Ft K0S3O6 Mrs Alda Logan (sister) Box 643 CamroM Alta PREVIOUSLY EXPORTED MISSING NOW REPORTED PRISONER OP WAR Err mis lass nra Unite WRIOHT Joseph Samuel Rogers ASgt M1720B Mrs Astrid Wright (wife) Berwyn Alta TO VISIT ROOSEVELT WASHINGTON June 0r-President Roosevelt said today ha to expecting a visit from General Charles Da Gaulle of the French National Committee of Liberation IN Prepored for 565 Get 85 Casualties By STANLEY Bl'RCH AT A HAMPSHIRE HOSPITAL June Authorities at this transit hospital where tlie fret of the invasion wounded were brought yesterday said casualties on the Normandy beaches were appreciably lighter than expected This hospital to which casualties ara brought by ambulance from Invasion porta to equipped to take 609 but up to last night only bad been brought and a number of them were minor walking cases Ives Enters Bor Admitted by Cousin MSOMMW EDMONTON June I Thaddeus Osgood Ives of Lethbridge graduate of tha Uni vs rally id Alberta In 1043 wu admitted to tha bar before hto council Chief Justice Ives at supreme court Friday San of Mr and Mrs A Ives he plana to practise tn Lethbridge EMPIRE HOTEL CALGARY THE CRT HOME tame Comfort LOW RATE! Body Kapt in Chemical Search Echoed In 87 Countries By RICHARD GREENLEES MELBOURNE June S-Aiutra Ue'e "pyjama girl" murder ease haa been called for trial June IS but there to no definite promtoa that thto wlU be tha final chapter of a story that haa endured 10 years and echoed In IT countries It waa only a few month ago that police gained an Inkling to the Identity ofo tha victim through the Intervening year tha body had been preserved in a chemical bath The story began In September ISM with the finding of tha body of' a young woman under a road culvert about 200 miles from Sydney She wu dad only In pyjamas I her body had been partly burned i 1 1- her head severely battered There rorcenr Loans up tol wnunrt ln hCT $3000 Will Be Backed Attempts to Ideiitlly tier By Govammant FARM BILL PROGRESSES failed Capias of her fingerprints and OLD GOLD Estimate Birks Sons CALGARX ALBERTA TELEPHONE M85 SATURDAY STORE HOURS: 9:00 sm to 5:00 pm Sports Jackets They wlU bo wB satisfied with these mb art weol-and-eottM acfceta In papular checks af Grey and Brown Styled with single-breasted three-button front patch porketq and half lined 0tsrs 10 to 10 yean Two-Piece Dresses For tha Girls Fin eat tea ster seekers wflh pleated skirts battoned-tep fronts twa pockets rever cellar short sleeves and tong-tan drop Floral and striped design In shades of Blue Red and Rosa Bku swim II to Each SHOWER-RESIST BUSH COATS FRANCE June 0 A 11-year-oM Russian boy In Oerman uniform several atoM too big far him was among prisoners from tha German 3 tot Pinxer Division captured last night Tha boy told intelligence officer ho had been forced Into the German army a year ago and sent to France after training Ha seemed apothetlo about being taken prisoner but ha brightened considerably when put aboard a ship for England TWOPARTiES ATTACK CCF 9 Talk Fadaral Affairs In Saskatchewan Campaign Is Claim RKatNA June Charges tha CC ware Invading Saskatchewan wtth tha hops of establishing tha first Socialistic government In Um Dominion and that they discussed federal Issues beyond provincial authority were made In election spwchea Wednesday Rupert Ramsay Progressive Conservative provincial leader told a Regina audience OCT policies for tha province wei advocated bv persons with their heads In the clouds who would It was "an affront to our lutelllgenca" that oUmt partita should Import election speaker "to tell us how to ran our business" ha said These speakers did not discuss provincial Issues but Uie Bank Act Immigration and other quesUisuc Agriculture Minister Gardiner told an audience at Birch HUto Bosket-clirwen had had three election tlM visitation of various speakers In 1030 IIm Boclal Creditor in 1030 and the CCF now Mr aordlner otolmed Cold-well national CC leader wex for tho co-operative government of Premier Anderson from 1030 until 1031 "The result wu a spending spree beyond Um capacity of the The co-operative government bed 34 Conservatives five Progressive and six Independents with 30 Liberals Iii Uie opposition At that time tiler were 03 members Harold Which British CohmiMe CCP leader claimed sum children lu Mm province had never gixie to school because there wm no scltool district wlwra Miry lived "Tlie govenuneiita of Canada today stand Indicted before the people fur building up countries we now tiave to overthrow" ha Mid adding ha "would Uk to tell Jimmie Gardiner iHon Oardlner federal agriculture minister! to hto fare Miat capitalism haa built up fascism and totalitarianism and liberalism had Ita part tn it" Simon Isenstein Dies From Wounds ALPINE" SKIRTS Cello poplin "busk cools" styled with four patch pocket and a MIL Thaw are fully eatteu lined Shades Green and Blue Shea It to II yean Each $495 Trousers TOR THE IJOYS Rayon wean with plentod front and plain Battened aid fastening and Ilaied styles 8 bade af Btaea Rad Grey sad Roa IS to 1A Each gatonia SHIRTS Pla qsslity wool worsted IniMwn iialhr with tlaal portals ad ruth The or in smart stripe la mao or Brown Sites II K'rv $595 SMALL BOYS BRUSHED SWEATERS FOR BOYS OTTAWA June Commons on Thursday gave first refuting to a MU to encourage the provUVm of intermediate term land oliort term credit to farmers for the Improvement and development of farms and for tha Improvement of Uvlng con' dlUoiu Tho Mil sponsored by Finance Minister Haley wu Introduced at tha conclusion of a short dlsuualun cn a resolution asking leave to In-troduea tho IrgldaUnn Tho MU known Tho Farm Improvement Loan Act 1044 will coma up for sen and reading at tha nest altting of tlie Houm Under tha bin banka would bo rn titled to loan farmed money to purchase agricultural equipment livestock or an electric system Mrniey also would ha provided for construction of dralnago works repair or alteration of hulldtnga or for any work for the improvement or development of forma Tlie government would guarantee tha loans provided they did not cursed 130(10 Tie rale of interest did not exceed flvr percent and the loan waa repayable In not more than 10 years During the disruMkm of the resolution Bryce iCCF-Helklrk) Mid Interest rales mi loan In enter should be lower than five percent If at all invisible tho loans should be provided at cost VOTER FOR gERVK KMEN The Irausa gava first reading to a MU providing fur voting by mem-ben of tha armed services at home and overwas In wartime general lectio na and for proxy voting on behaU of prisoners of war and aer-vice personnel Interned In neutral countries Tlie MU waa aiunanred by slate secretary MrLarty and follows recommendations of a special commutes on service voting It contained amendments to Tha Elections Act It would extend (lie fra nellies to Indians snd other persona dlslran-rlilsed by reason of race who have served or are Riving In Um present war Tills was also dona with respect to Umim who served In Uie Flrat Great War Persons of Jsmuicm racial origin would be In effect be disfranchised in aU parts of Canada Previously they were disfranchised only when living In a province where they were barred by law from voting at provincial election sa In Rayon cardigan styles ribbed waist caffs two pockets rw naek aad tong ateevea Green Wine Blue Rand and Navy la shea te I yean Each Duritn not exact HOYS' GOOD WHITE SHIRTS Via lowly woven roilon "Os font hint ihtl tn lallmT Ihrttshtat aa a welrtme vtlat to porrnte They hire weotly flnlht arft onltarti Slim Il't ft AM I 14' Ktrh AUU Jtvttlkt-KATdN'S Mils Flow BOYS ASSORTED SLEEVED SWEATERS Cotton knit aardlgan and pnUovec tong steer oo crew nock DU shades nf Brown Yeltew Navy aad Bias levy aad Bias anatwaMnauntwont 8 Each artists' conception of her features were circulated In 17 countries Files of missing girls were searched throughout tha world Hundreds of persona viewed Ilia body some even "confessed" Aa tli years passed tha "pyjama gM" murder wu unofficially consigned to tha Umbo of unsolved killing and tlie public gradually forgot tli body In formalin at tha Sydney pallet slatkm Eventually It waa removed to Sydney University Last February war newa wm crowded partially off the front pages of Australian newspapers by tiis disclosure that tha "pyjama girl" had been Identified: She was an English woman named Linda Platt who had coma to Australia in 1027 and married a waiter named Antonio AngoaUnl In 1031 Angouatlnl 41 denied guilt at find but court proceedings allow ho later signed a statement which tokt that Linda was addicted to drink that Jm awoke one night to find her Uirealeiilng him with a pistol and that In Ilia vnautng struggle he shot and killed her He drove 300 miles to Albury the statement mid placed tha body tinner a nilven domed It with ga'-lina and set It aflame Ha explained hto long sllenra by a sensational story of embroilment with the Mafia ha uld his sitene had been enforced under threat MORE CONFt'KION At tost the "pyjama girl rasa looked clear But Instead of crystal-ImIImi there eama only more confusion First apiwared Dr Palmer Debow who said hto Interest In tlie rase was purely a physician's Interest plus his fasrlnatlnn with criminal asperls He Mid Mm "pyjama girl" wm a Sydney girl named Anna Plilksnena Morgan missing since 1033 lie produced witnesses InrludM a woman of whom Anna Morgan uas the lll'gttliUHtr child They Identified the body nr neiviws toi of tlM crime claimed Anna Morgan murdered at the shuck of an old woman named loiry Collin near Albury Tottering with age Lucy Collins rente to naut and denied all charges By thto tlmo It had been dtockwfd that Drtxiw onre a wealthy man had flnanrlaHy ruined himself In attempting to solve Mils murder Tlie eat then resolved to the IdeniirU'aUtin of (lie body thHh soli? ciiimusly liml lories ears abnormally develop hands tea In teeth UFA I HTAItl Hill'll IDENTITY Identity finally rested on the cut-1 or of eves Linda lulls were luviwii Anna lUugjni were blue After laboratory tests eminent pathologist testified the todj one remaining rye wm brown Equally emluliirt esperia then swore the color wm Mue The coroners liearlng- longest In Mm court toiled 30 days On Mm 30th dsv tlie coroner broke Um bnyissse by ruling In a M-page verdict that I lie glri'1 was In fact IJnda Platt Antonin Angosllnl wlwse alleged cmdrsslnli mi ma'it illicit to confound was conimtt'ed for trial on a charge of murder named niimgtitiR REGINA June 0-Krv How-aiM Bentall of First Baptist Church Regina waa elected the new Moderator of the Baptist Assoctsiion of Southern Saskatchewan today at the association contention "Yen Cent Brat ftatenla Reliability and Vitae" Nhlrto af batter quality cotton broadcloth In prints that ara tebfaot Theta art well fin-lahed and In yawlht' type to wit bays wHh tongar anna Ea eh- $150 White Sports Blouses Yon cant have tea many White rotten thin-mitts to wear with yam storks sa shirts tor sammorl Them htvt short iteotN an ana parhst $139 HEN'S SOCKS Waal wtth ratten fleror-attan fiat halt Thna htvt a null ctorh Onii te Maroon Nary aad niroa Slut mm telHwPtlr IDS ETON'S Mala Flow Modcratt Prici Her Men in GOOD SUIT Fin all-weal wanted smite te taka you smartly through gemmae and FalL Slngte-broosted madria with twa or three-button ewt wet and pale af trousers Fancy striped patterns la shade Navy Bine Teal Blue Brown aad Grey Maes 30 te 44 gait- $3250 TOPCOATS TOO All wool twvcda weal worsteds and pate etolha get-la sleeves style In tha popular Balasaeaan Box and Tudor Korfeta Rhodes of Blue Grey Camel Fawn and Brown Stars 30 te 44 $1995 $3500 If detirrd BUDGET PLAN TERMS In accordance with Wartlm Frlero and Trade Rrgntotten may arranged Uiesa salts and route STANDARD PENS Krlisbl aad smartly flnlthcd k'ufiu pens Mta! and Wnoirn't wset 1a mraiam a Hth II ktynld aiht lift mssnitea toe Dadi tel an A Fralt rt Vila St tack 1 XITUXIX AND PARRB KNO A m4 teorh at Ihmo flat peas sad wm Kin 25 pcacllt Vtttoas alba Caeh 1 WAJ FATON'l Main Vteoi Reported dangerouatv wounded May 30 while serving with tlie Irish Krxlment of Ontario In Italy PI Rlmon Imnstetn sun of Mr and Mrs Isenstein 024 13th Ave i died hi hospital June 3 hla parent have heen Informed Pie Isriuieln bnpt hi slgsn wm prominent tn Calgary rls with Ills twin brother Haul lorn- stein recently discharged from the 1 Canadian Arm)' Hlinon also took part In dramatics st Western Can ada High srltool from which graduated and enlisted in the armv In November 1043 Before enlisting he wm maiiaxer or Die Catgarv Stair Hospital A letter wu re- i reived by hla parents Just after Pte Isenstein wm admitted to tawpltal which contained wlnga which form-1 erlv adorned the tnnle nt a member 1 of the Luftwaffe tn addition to his father a ton- motive enftnrer on the CPR between Calgary and Field BC he survived bv his mother two shier at home Lillie and Pearl t'td another sister Mr Ponln win-1 nlpeg 1 pritoYlto OXFORDS CANT BEAT EATONIA FOR RELIAB! "YOU CANT BEAT EATONIA FOR RELIABILITY PINAFORE FROCKS foal rritp rattan frock far Hnmntrr cantfart They bullan down tin hark have tufflrd ahanhters fitted midriff fronta tie barks and two packets largo floral patterns with rick -rock trim Calara of Rota Ulna Msnro Red nilh White bark-ground Rlsoa 33 to 4A S298 llaatr EATON tteeand Flaw FOR YOUNG CANADA AND VALLE" Thro good quality calf leather safaris will assure year rhU-ef pleasing comfort and serrtro They are In blucher rut mad ever feot-flttlng taste and hare Goodyear netted rotes and leather herb Cater of Block or Brown and widths collectively ghee EATON'S Mohs Fteer.

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