The Edmonton Bulletin from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada • 5

PACE FIVE EDMONTON ALBERTA '5 OLDEST NEWSPAPER-THURSDAY AFRIL 1 1M4 FACE FIVE private Daily War Map Bcdusively in The Edmonton Bulletin Air Power The Setback at Cassino mrnnmr TO CUT NAZI BALKAN COMMUNICATIONS -By Maj A Parallel with the struggle raging at Caaaino is the discussion raging around the subject in print and on the air waves The Allied setback following demolition of the town by aviation and artillery continues to be made the excuse for strange lir deductions shout sir power Will To Continue War Is Said Broken By WES GALLAGHER LONDON April $-(AP)-Ru- mania' diyt a an affactive fighting powar appear ended under the onslaught of Russian armies and Alliad bombers Premier Ion Anlunescu it is believed here is finding it impossible to take Rumania formally out of the war kince German troop hold all key pninU but the people's will to fighl ia broken and Rumania now la in the same apathetic elate ai Italy (A Blue Nelwurk broadcast from London quoled Turkish diapaU-hra aa saying Anloneacu would ask Moscow Washington and London for an armblice) COLLAPSE LITTLE HELP Although Hiller's Balkan satellites are dblntcgrating under the burden of war Allied military chiefs preparing (hr western front have small hope that a Balkan collapse would be of any immediate scriuuk injury to the German war machine Rumania's will to fight flares only at the possibility of war with Hungary and ever since the Germans started to retreat in Russia Rumanian army morale has dwindled to sub-zero with the Sovieb reporting Ihc capture intact of Rumanbn battalions In recent advances A large proportion of the effectives remaining in the Rumanbn army now trapped in the Crimea Nash Returning WELLINGTON NZ April (CP) Finance Minister Walter Nash New Zealand minister In Washington returning home and will be replaced by the present high commissioner there A Bar rndsen it was announced by Prime Minuter Peter Fraser yesterday ALBANIA Oureiiofi 9K SHOWS MAIN TARGETS figure that when the pigeons see this they'll obey orders more promptly!" Calgary Delegate Chides French at Meeting District News in Brief FDR Dewey Likely Choices For President By BLACKBURN WASHINGTON April S-(CP) Tht high hopes of Wtndall Willkie for nomination as Republican candidate for the presidency wore ended by Tuesday's primary voting in Wisconsin while major Ity Republican support went to non-committal Governor Thomas Dewey of New York If the result In Wisconsin carries Ihc significance most independent observers here attach to iL the presidential fight thla year will be between Dewey and President Roosevelt in Omaha last night Willkie coin ceded defeat RESULTS Tuesday's stage in the long and intricate procedure by wblch United States presidents are elected had these odd results: 1 Not a single Willkie pledged candidate was elected although he stumped the state making 25 speeches in 13 days 2 All the Democratic support went to President Roosevelt although he has not Indicated a willingness to run for a fourth term 3 All the Republican support went to candidates who had made no personal appeal and the hulk nf it to Dewey who had told the electors he did not want IL Purpose of the Wisconsin pri-meries first to vote among the states that have this system was to elect 24 delegates to the Republican national convention in Chicago next June and 2C delegates to the Democratic convention in Chicago July 11 At these conventions candidates will be nominated by each parly for the presidential elections next November The candidates are elected on a pledge to support a certain person for the presidential nomination but in some states they are not legally bound to abide by their pledge INDICATES CHOICE Nevertheless the result Is assumed to and traditionally does indt cate the choice of the parties in the stale concerned With some Wisconsin returns yet to come in the result was as follows: 1 All delegates chosen by the Democratic voters are pledged to support President Roosevelt for a fourth term 1 Fifteen candidates pledged to support Dewey were elected and three candidates at large but known to be Dawcy supporters were leading well in front 1 Three candidates were elected to support LL Cmdr Harold Stas-acn former governor of Minnesota now on active service and three were elected to support Gen Douglas MacArthur United States army commander In the South Pacific who has not been heard from on the aubjecL Lone Body Found in Dinghy HALIFAX April (CP) -A lone airman's body found floating In a rubber dinghy on the Atlantic gave RCAF officials yesterday the only clue to the fate of four filers missing since Saturday night on a flight from'the air station at Debert NS The eastern air command here announced last night an RCAF crash boat one of several searching the sea for several days had found the dinghy and the dead airman bobbing on the sea There was tur trace of his fellow crewmen There was no sign of the plane either but presumably she had crashed Into the ocean and the others had no chance to escape Next-of-kin have been notified and the names of the dead and missing will be released later Day NEW YORK April (AP)-Thce national Father's Day committee announced today that Sunday June IK has been designated as Father's Day "1 was born in Dublin and I married an Englishman" said Mra Wilkinson Mr' Gregoire later said the Quebec delegates favored political action 'fine now" said Mrs Wilkinson "But tbe question whether we are ready now" continued Mr Gregolre bowing to Mrs Wilkinson With certain reservations the Quebec delegation later endorsed a resolution calling for political action "They're a fine bunch of people and they enjoyed the laugh aa much aa I did" said Mrs Wilkinson Plan Full Probe In School Dispute ROSSLAND BC April Inspector English of the provincial department of education announced last night a full investigation will be made into a dispute between the principal of the Ross-land high school and one of the teachers Inspector English declined to comment on a meeting yesterday with atudrnla who are attending classes again after a one-day strike (Monday In protest agafnst alleged dismissal of the teacher William Brandon The students had wired Inspector English Klonday to come to thia southeastern British Columbia town and probe the dispute Field Operations Start at Bruce BRUCE Lyle Stimbaugh wai out working in hit fields with a tractor Monday April end if the present good weather continue spring work will be general here within a week The Red Croti total has been boosted by a donation of $50 from the Bruce high school Thirty dollars of this money wu ralaed at a games night and $20 by a tag day held by the girls The total In thg recent drive now atendi at $10575 Many letters of lympathy have been received by Mr end Mrs Parfott since their eon Sgt John A Parfett wee officially reported as wounded in action In Italy They can now report however that he has recovered and returned to his unit Another brother Sgmn James ii also overseas Mike Taranko suffered a broken foot when hie team bolted and he got entangled in the wheel of his wagon Miss Ruth Parfett RN of the Hiatt of Ponoka hospital visited her parents Mr and Mr Parfett With Those In Uniform WETASKIWIN-Word was received Sunday by Cpl Henry Sehlin RCAF Edmonton and Mrs Sehlin of Wetaskhvin that their son SgL Donald Sehlin RC AT oversea ii reported missing in action Sgt Donald enlisted in November 1042 and received hie training at Edmanlon Calgary Vancouver and McDonald Man A brother Pte Thomas Sehlin ii serving with the Canadian army in Italy Godfrey Baker president of the Wetaskiwin Navy League attended the officer training course at HMCS Nonsuch held in Edmonton ACJ Russell Motyka is home on leave visiUng his parents Mr and Aire Mutyka Cpl WiMer Melnyk la spending leave with hin parents Mr and Mr William Alelnyk CORONATION Pte Robin Hood RCASC Red Deer Is home on leave L-CpL Osetsky CWAC Red Deer is spending leave with her parents AC 2 Embree RCAF Edmonton ii home on leave -Mr end Mrs Clark have received word that their eon Tom ii now in Italy Ken MacKinnon CPB employee reported for military duly in Calgary Saturday Sheep are used beasts of burden in the mountainous passes of Tibet buck Junior Busy Bees Club Celebrates The Junior Busy Bees club held Us annuel banquet it the home of Mra John Terry Seventeen women were present following the banquet cards were played Mrs Staples tools first prim and Mn Jack Foden the consolation Betty Staples eight years old fell from an upstairs window of her home Injuring her arm Vernon Sampson eight-year-old son of Sampson of Metiakow wee drowned AprU 3 while playing In a slough Mattleea of Okotoks formerly of Hardisty has been visiting here Mbs Hazel Johnson of Lougheed pent the week-end in Hardkty Mrs Robert O'Blordon of Camrom i been visiting her mother Mrs Boag Edmonton visitors during the lust week included: Mias Grace Bennefleid Mra Bernard Kobltazch Mra Quinlan Alrt A Tennent Mr and Mrs Harry Chew end Oxford Mr and Mrs William Mocht end baby of North Battieford are visiting her mother Mrs A Sevilla Mrs Tiedeman is visiting in Edmonton Frank Kobltszch went to Edmonton teat week Mr end Mrs A Burpee are visiting their daughter end son-in-law Mr and Mrs Besurch at Spring Coulee Oncer Srenake is the new gent at the Reliance elevator succeeding George Morrell who has enlisted Gleaned From Rural News Large number of gophers seen in the district end impassible side roads are sure eigne of spring lor Perryvale The inpw has almost gone and the uaual spring mud la holding up traffic The three-act play rn tilled Ready Made Family" which was staged here was successful The play was followed by a dance and total proceed amounted to $76 SYLVAN A new organization has been formed here to promote wider sporting activities in the town Tht group will be known an the Sylvan Lake Service Club and officers have been elected as follows: President Fisher vice-pmidrnt Keith secretary J- Innei: executive: Neely Calhoun a Wilkinson end II Clarke Mr and Mra James Paton have returned from a holiday at the west coast A mobile blood donor clinic will be sponsored by the Red Crosswhen a qpota of 50 donors is organized Mrs Lyle Maiden attended the executive meeting of the Navy League of Canada Northern Alberta division held in Edmonton Monday Resident of Andrew for 45 yean Mrs John Filipchuk died April 4 at her home there She wan 58 years old Born in Europe Mrs Filipchuk haa lived in Andrew ainre she Aral rime to this country She ia aurvived by her husband five daughters Nancy of Calgary Helen Marie Esther and Josephine el home and five sons Nick Andrew and Bill at home Metro and George on active ssrw ire overseas and two grnndrhii dren Her father Klewchuk Uvea in Andrew and six aisten reside In Alberta A funeral service will be held Thunday from (he Ukrainian Orthodox church in Andrew Mbs Annie Yeo former African missionary has been speaking at church here Mist Yeo who now Uvea in Ontario was returning Canada from Africa in December 1942 when tho ship nhe was travelling on wu torpedoed by the enemy She suffered a broken arm an injured inkle and wu badly bruised and shaken before ahe was rescued end taken to nival hospital The Red Cross outfitted her with new clothes and other necessary articles At a recent sale held at the farm of Mra Isaac Lee 1902 model gu buggy was offered for sale The buggy was purchased new by Isaac Lee and it was bought back by one of the family The Holden school rame second in one category of the recent Wu Savings campaign de Seversky A headline etalee: "Sea Caaaino Failure Blow to Air Power" A press agency diepateh out of Washington claims that tho Ceeeino failure is "a sobering answer to all-oiit advocates of air power" A special correspondent at tho front cabins that Allied air forces have been "overglamorlied at the expense of the infantry" and that Cassino ends the delusion All of which nonsense nf the purest grain The Invasion of the Italian mainland was undertaken in dbregard ol the basic princl-da Sevarsky PM 0f aerial warfare and over tho protests of all-out advocates of air power" Airmen warned rrpcaledly that Fortress Europe could not be successfully Invaded until the air strength of the enemy was broken that any premature assault on the surface would bo courting failure that the use of air power for auxiliary tactical purposes was tho most ineffectual and costly employment of the new force The difficulties we have encountered in Southern Italy confirm that analysis If anything it ii airmen who have the right to say "1 told you The fact that air being underrated on the bub of the Caesino episode a disheartening proof of how far we are still from an understanding of the new force GROUND STRATEGY The ground generals decided for reeaona of ground strategy to take Caesino They ordered aviation and artillery to pulverise the town The job wu neatly done Then the infantry of battle" failed lo take the pulverised town Why that a failure of sir power? By the same logic it not a failure of artillery which pumped more than 80000 rounds of ahelb Into Caa-aino? Finally it the airplane and artillery are demonstrated failures not infantry the greatest failure of all? The simple fact that the whole undertaking failed To blame It on one or another of the supporting elements makes no sense The Caaaino setback rabea the suspicion that the strategic planning and the military assumptions upton which the campaign wu based ere bankrupt When the vaunted land-see-air team finds the going tough the fault can hardly bo laid to any one member of the team Though Cassino proves that the whole undertaking was ill conceived a prominent commentator Major George Fielding Eliot find it possible to exclaim that "wars are still won in the mud" not by tanka and airplanes Then he taya are "all just members of the team whose final purpose is that a weary and mud-caked infantryman shall be able to crawl forward from one hole to another end stay But it is precisely the whole 'team" that met defeaL It precisely the infantryman who wee unable lo follow up the thorough demolition accomplished by the other elements Hu Major Eliot tried to calculate how long It would take 'a weary and mud-caked Infantryman" to crawl from Cauino to Berlin or from Australia and India to Tokyo? The Italian front hu netted us failure after failure Just because it based on such obsolete ideas of hole-to-hoie crawling in an age when direct strategic blow at the enemy's heart arc possible FUNDAMENTAL LAW When we opened tho Italian front without first attaining complete control of the air over tho entire theatre of and that means all of Fortress we aefied the fundamental law of modern warfare conditioned by the ascendancy of air power I pointed out time and time again that local and temporary air superiority was not enough that we dluat take command of all the akin in the ume broad sense as superior naf-in used to take command of the seas We shall continue to blunder and lo squander precious lives and re-zoiircea aa long aa we refuse lo recognize the new military order In rtfect we follow how-anri-arro methods in an epoch or firearms Then when the enterprbe fails we blame the firearms instead of blaming the fallacious strategy GENUINE COMMAND In Tunbla and Sicily we were able to take genuine command of the skies Why? Because the Germans were unable to reinforce their air power over water gape We loat that command soon aa we Invaded the continent proper We could merely cstablbh brief local ascendancy until the enemy shifted enough air strength to the point to wipe out such ascendancy That the key to the riddle of the stalemate In South Italy Released by MeNaught Syndicate Inc Discourage Buying Chicks For Easter QUEBEC April Urging parents and all adults "to discourage the practice of buying helpless baby chicks for children at the provincial agriculture department stated here yesterday that "poultry raisers are doing all they can to help the war effort and it should be borne in mind that all available chicks are hidly needed to fill in depleted flocki" Official List Of Casualties RCAF (List No A44I) OVERSEAS KILLED ON ACTIVE KKSVIIK llutlrr Vsrnuo Karilell Urates Fll- JISSZS I Holler (filhrr) ISNI Ava KSmonlm Alta Calnan Ronald Frank TO 39111 II Calnan (rather) Vancouver Floyd Charles Rli-hard FO JSftNO Dr Floyd (faUiar) Toronto OnL Fullerton Melvilla Lloyd PO 31-snj Mra A Fullerton (molhorl Toronto OnL Jacobs Daniel Lewis PO 29911 CapL Jacques (brother) Basina-stoke Enfland Johnston Lorna Mar her BL 1194-719 Johnston (lather) Lewisville NB Mai-Cllllvray Ralph Northrlirr TO J1I367 Mrs Andrew MacCllllvray (mother) Anllaonlsh NX Millen Harry Charles TO CSU7S Mn Millen (wife) Mattawa Ont Mohrlni William James FO JI7-199 Mra Mohrlni (wife) Montreal Qua MISSING ON ACTIVE SERVICE Blnns Maurice Reavto FI R11WM Blnns (father) St Thomas OnL Boyd Walter Dawson Carl FO Jll-III A Boyd (father) St Jovita Que Davis Michael Ludlow FS RHSS74 Cap! Davis (rather) Bombay India MIMING NOW PIUIONEB Barton Victor Augustus Sft Rial-II Barton (father) Wilcox Saak Buchanan Gordon Robert son WO RI711S LACW Buchanan (wife) Oranaden England Harvey Arthur Gow WO R112S24 Rev Dr Robert Harvey (father) Mlnnedosa Man Wall Raymond Thomas TO 25901 Wall (father) Medicine Hat Alla Nesbitt Earl Doran PO J1948I Nesbitt (father) Vancouver BC PRESUMED DEAD Askew George William FS RIS4-Ml Askew (father) Cartwright Men Banceecu George WO RI07T01 Ell Binceacu (father) Flintoft Saak Brown Georgt Rawaon PO 31197 Brown (father) BartonviUe Ont Cooper Jerk FS RSS1S3 Maurice Cooper (father) Ottawa OnL Goodman Benny Baldwin PO Jll-74 Mn Goodman (wife) Winnipeg Man Hewer Lome Barrie Sgt R179S04 Hewer (lather) Vancouver Hunter Thomas Bamburgh WO mooses Hunter (father) Tar-onto Ont Mitchell Banks Earle DFM WO MOJ14 Mn Mitchell (wife) Winnipeg Men Rlbbald William John DFC FL JI9700 A Slbbeld I father I Toronto Stewart Robert PO 11281 Stewart (father) 8L Vital Man CANADA KILLED ON ACTIVE SERVICE Somers Georse Robert Sgt R203-422 Mrs IL Somers (wife) Toronto Thompson Frank William PO J20309 Thompson (fathar) Toronto OnL PRESUMED DEAD Ecnger Grant Charles Sal AUS-4IBI89 A Scnger (father) Melbourne Australia Stewart LAC GB19494S Stewart (father) Sunderland England DANGEROUSLY INJURED Maaon John Kent LAC AUSISSSS Maaon I rather) Lindfleld New South Wales Australia Rogera Harry Frank Richard LAC AUSS7SS Mn Rogers (mother) Bourne End Bucks England SERIOUSLY INJURED Hicks Eric Sankey TO J3BS7I Mra I Hicks (mother) Butternut Ridge NB KERIOUKLY ILL FROM INJURIES McNeil Ronald Walker SgL CBIR04 MS McNeil (father) Sao Vicente Santos Brazil Roy George David LAC R2043S9 Roy ifather) Buckingham Que UNITED STATES PRESUMED DEAD Bell Raymond Melvin TO JZ7371 Bell (father) Hot Springs Arkansas Greek Premiership Offered Venizelos CAIRO April 6-1 Soph odea Venizelos was recommended aa the new premier of Greece yesterday by the cabinet of the Greek govcrnment-ln-Cairo after a stormy session at which all ministers resigned and then decided to continue In office provisionally Stumbling on the issue of unity with guerrilla leaders in the homeland at well as the post-war fate of the ynonarchy the cabinet wrangled at length over a successor to Premier Emmanuel Tiouderos who stepped out Monday Venizelos was reported to have refused the post on tho terms offered It wee understood Venizelos want ed to know flatly horn Kins George whether he would return to a liberated Greece before or after a plebiscite la held in the country The king now on a holiday In London haa held to the poeilion that he would make up hie mind when the moment arrived but would abide by any decision on the monarchy reached in a free election held In all the schools of Alberta Individual prizes for public schools of the province were won by Allan Owen with first and Elaine McLean a second and Clarence Olson won a first In the high school section The Holden Air Cadets under the supervision of FO Allan accepted responsibility of the War Savings stamp drive for the month of March in Holden They raid 45 per cent over their quote The iquadron held an "at home" on March 30 for their parents and friends and they demonstrated many phases of their training Money district agriculturist for the Holden district haa been transferred to Ryley Mr and Airs Sorgen former owners and operators of a business concern are leaving Tor Prince Rupert where Ibey will make their home WOODWARD'S WILL REMAIN CLOSED c)Mtodwahd STORE HOURS: 1:30 AM TO 5:30 TELEPHONE 22111 Practical Serviceable COATS TORONTO April 6-(CD-Ald Kira Rose Wilkinson of Calgary said at the national Social Credit convention yesterday that once she "almost married a Frenchman" but was glad ahe hadn't when she found a Quebec delegation opposing a resolution calling for Immediate Social Credit political action Amid cheers and laughter from delegates Including the Quebec delegation Mrs Wilkinson said she challenged them to show that Quebec would support delegates from elsewhere in Canada in political action never know what you missed when you didn't marry a Frenchman" said Gregolre of Quebec City Name Delegates To Philadelphia Labor Meeting OTTAWA April (CP)-Pr-tonnel of the Canadian delegation to the International Labor Organization convention to open at Philadelphia April 20 wai announced last night by Labor Minuter Mitchell Mr Mitchell will attend some of the meeting as a special government delegate Other delegates announced recently by Prime Min-bter King are Paul Martin parliamentary assistant to Mr Mitchell and Brooke Clexton parliamentary assistant to Mr King representing the government Coulter of Toronto representing employers and Percy Bcngough president of the Trades and Labor Congress representing workers ALTERNATE DELEGATES Allernate government delegates will be Arthur MacNamara deputy minister of Ubnr and Vincent MacDonald aaabtant deputy minister An important part of the discussions wil central about mattcra usu-allly within jurbdiction of the provinces and the Dominion has named five technical adviacra chosen by Uic provinces They are: Hon Currie Nova Scotia labor minister Hon James McLenaghan Manitoba labor minister Hon Charles Daley Ontario labor minister O'Connall-Maher associate deputy labor minister for Quebec and King deputy minister of trade and induitry for Alberta Mrs Core Caasclman Iiberal member of parliament for Edmonton East haa also been appointed a government advisor Officials of government departments concerned now arc preparing dais on adminbtraUve mass-urea and policlea applicable in the immediate poit-war period for the use of the Canadian delegatee Percheron Club Names Officers CAI-GARY April (CP)-John McCulloch superintendent of animal husbandry at the Canadian Paciflc Railway farm at Slralhmore was rlrrlrd president of the Alberta Percheron Brooders' Club at the annual meeting here yesterday Other officers elected were: Ellis Uuballa vice-president: Hyardy Salter secretary-treasurer and the following directors: Matthews Calgary Crockett Mayerthorpe Prof Sackville Edmonton: Nicola Lethbridge Lorre Nanlon McCon-achie Cochrane Ollerenahaw Ogden: Edwards Gem Charleton Carat airs Farr Ate drie and Wldney Okotoks A Arid day for Percheron breeders haa been planned for June 17 In Edmonton Charles Rear Saskatoon was named aa flnt choice of Percheron Judge for the 1944 Calgary exhibition Big Outcrop Seam Found in Britain NEWCASTLE April Coal excavations begun here recently have resulted in the discovery of the biggest seam of outcrop ever known In Britain Stretching for 26 miles from Newcastle into the heart of Northumberlandahire the seam ia thought to hold several hundred thousand tons The United Slates army ia to lend mechanical excavator to help production which when in Mil swing is expreted to yield a weekly output as big a that of any oi Britain's largest collieries TNI ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY Tweeds in plaids 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