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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1940 "THO FOOD SHIPS GOING TO EUROPE "(Continued from Paze 1) gecupled or dominated by Germany, blocking proposals for a large scale American relief program in Con- tinental Europe. : Seeking a continuance of Spain's | netitrality, however, Britain has ER | granted permits for some food ship- | ments from South America to p Spain, where need already is acute, | and is understood' to be willing to | sanction the projected $1,000,000 | shipload of foodstuffs from the ' United States. Since the American Red Cross is a neutral, humanitarian organiza- | tion Norman H. Davis, its chair- | ¥han, is reported in informed quar- ters to be insisting that any Red Cross help must go "to all who are | suffering in Europe." | The Red Cross therefore has taken the position, it is reported, that if and when it sends a ship- load of food to Spain, it must also . be allowed to send similar help to _ infants and children in unoccupied | France, the other victims of the war who most urgently need food now. '(An authoritative American sur- vey of food conditions in Europe, now before the state department, Teported that none of the German- invaded countries would face actual starvation for another five or six | months. The state department, it was said, would therefore defer any 'action on the relief plans for those countries two or three months. (The same survey emphasized, however, that Spaniards already were going hungry, with the situa- tion daily growing worse, and that and vitamin products for children 'there was an urgent need for milk in unoccupied France.) "The Red Cross has in this war rendered assistance to Great Bri- tain, Norway, Belgnum, France, The Netherlands, Poland, Finland, Greece, Switzerland and Canada, it was pointed out, and offered assist- "'snce to Germany, which replied it needed no help. . \.... British authorities have permitted medicines and medical supplies to pass through the blockade to unoc- 'eupled France, but have refused to 'enter the same area. A compromise 'grant permits for foodstuffs to of the American and British posi- | tions could be reached, it was said, if the British would liberalize their | definition of medical supplies to in- elude condensed milk and vitamin i products, which are designed to ward off malnutrition. HLSLEY SCORES THOSE WHO SEEK T0 AVOID TAXES (Continued from Page 1) the spending of our income Mn- creases our responsibility for their proper disposition." Any business man who permit- ted higher costs because the gov- ernment bore most of them through losses of excess profits tax, "is In my judgment, guilty of serious mis- | conduct." Need Billion The minister said the govern- iment would need to borrow next year a sum "likely to be much oser to $1,000,000,000 than $500, 000,000." The objective for war savings, aside from war loans, would be $120,000,000 a year, more than double the original objective of $50,000,000. To reach this objective of $10,- D00,000 a month, he suggested, it would be necessary "to count on an average subscription to war saving certificates of about three times as much as is being paid in the form of the (two per cent.) national de- fence tax." © "We must expect that seme with er incomes will have difficulty i saving much more than the amount of their tax, while those, shall we say, with more than $50 a veek can probably save more than hree times what they pay in na- ional defence tax. "I realize quite well that these e substantial rates of saving, but hey are not more than we need t will mean doing without scme bf the comforts of life for a time, ut that is not too much to expect en we are trying to preserve our homes and cur liberties. "Furthermore, these savings will invested in the best security that n be obtained, will grow steadily In value, and will increase the fu- = security of the individual or amily doing the saving." 4 Flan For Loaa E"Mr, Ilsley urged his hearers to beein planning now so their sub- beriptions to the third war Jean summer would be as lage as "You should befsaving ' he said. Mang people yho never had bouzht bofids b=fore vould have to be rcachéd, and an normcus orzanizatiogf would be 230d. Bit war loans wefe not enough. 127 could not rea all the small wings. Fe belieyed that system- tic saviizs in @anada could bs id: 2lopzid on a freally significant eC..." . J 2 reviewed defelopment of the a wat war sav. campaign and si the chjectivlf of roughly $4. "700 a menth JB "27 In the fi : ivings certificafl $27,000,000 had Ig Australia | each other's. positions. the new objective of $10,000,000 could be reached. Australia ale ready had reached a rate of $10, 000,000 a month. . "Is it too much to expect that Canada, a larger and richer coun- try, can do 50?" he asked, To save, Mr, Ilsley suggestea, Canadians might eliminate pur- chases of some fancy foods, be careful in their use of fuel and prune expenditures for durable consumer goods and other items, "making the old ones do." The war savings campaign could only succeed if the government had the full co-operation of employers, he said, The most important ele- ment in the campaign was the payroll plan, "under which employ- ees instruct their employers to sub-! scribe regularly out of their earn. ings for war savings certificates. "In those firms where enthusi- astic support has been given to the plan it has been remarkably suc- cessful. In many others it has been introduced, but the attitude towards it has been luke-warm. "The war cannot be won by luke- warm participation, as Mussolini appears to be finding out." Personal saving by those with substantial incomes was even more necessary than for those with small incomes, and 'the nation expects the well-to-do to set an example m economy." Economy also was essential in business itself. Mr. Ilsley said the excess profits tax offered a temp- tation to be liberal in their busi- ness expenditures. He did not know to what extent the tempta- tion was being resisted. The tax was demanded 'by the public opinion of Canada." The feeling was, "and still is," that excess pro- fits should not be made cut of na- tional necessities. "In view of these facts," he sail, "the abolition of the tax during the period of the war is unthink- able . . . any manager, any board of directors which permits higher costs because the. government through losses of taxes bears most of them is, in my judgment, guilty of serious misconduct, "There may be a little profit motive for vigilance in economy. But we do not offer the soldier, the sailor, the airman, a profit mo- tive for vigilance at his post, a profit motive to risk his life. Nor should it be necessary to offer it to Canadian business for the pre- vention of inefficiency or waste." GREEKS NEARING ANOTHER VICTORY (Continued from Page 1) ever, both officers were hit in the breast and died. "Their death was the sign for a wholesale retreat and abandonment of the height. After occupation of height, our soldiers found the bodies of the Italian senior officers." In a fierce new drive from Pogra- detz toward Elbasapi in Central Al- bania, Greek mountaineer regiments are reported to have smashed through massed Italian reserves for large gains. Dispatches from that battlefront said the offensive which had been held up by storms and zero temp- eratures was resumed over the week-end with greater gains than had been made there all last week Italians Repelled The Greeks said Italians attempt- ing to counter-attack were "repelled and dispersed in such a way as to lose contact with the bases from which they started." There were indications that the Greek drive beyond Pogradetz, along the Albanian-Yugoslav frontier, in=- cluded an effort to flank the Ital- ians by smashing them back from their border forts and leaving their left wing "in the air." A dispatch from the front night said "Greek troops succeeded in making a general advance over a wide area in the mountainous re- gion held by the enecy above Pogra- detz where the Italians had concen- trated all their reserves." : This report said Greek artillery smashed 'permanent enemy fortifi- cations along the Yugoslav-Alban- ian frontier" in a three-day bom- bardment, clearing the way for "stormy charges by Greek infantry." An Associated Press correspondent in that region said Greek peasant women toiled in the cold to keep communications open and to spare men for actual fighting. The women, their faces wrapped in shawls against the biting cold, were said to have shoveled the way for troops through four-foot snow- drifts in the passes. One Greek cavalry sergeant said the women played a similar part in the Gyeek capture of Premet earlier in the push into Albania. All Men Needed "There were times," he said, "when every man was needed for fighting. Then it fell to the women to bring supplies and ammunition up the mountain sides. Many of them carried 70 and 80-pound packs on their backs up 3,000-foot peaks." Elsewhere the Greek high com- mand reported "successful local fighting" and the capture of pris- oners. In the southern sector, where t Greeks are driving up the Albanian coast toward the port of Valona by way of Chimara, Greek forces wer: said to be pushing forward '"con- stantly," but positions of the ad- vance units were not disclosed. One battle area in the southern sector was said to have been "ablaze for days" as Greek and Italian bat- teries of heavy guns thundered at The Royal Air Force in Greece reported that Italian stores, bar- last | FATE OF FRANGE SEENINBALANGE (Continued from Page 1) roads and all naval bases and ports in unoccupied France are com=- pletely in the hands of Frenchmen. Interior Minister Marcel Pey- routon used the word "delicate" to describe the country's position in warning newspapers to be careful in their handling of a swift-moving series of events. 'These events included: 1. Announcement from Vichy that Petain intended to establish a consultative assembly to share "certain responsibilities" with him and his ministers, 2. The long-awaited return of the remains of Napoleon Bonaparte's only son from Vienna to Paris which was said by informed sources in Vichy to have been an import- ant factor in the crisis which led to Laval's ouster last Saturday. Dignitaries of France and Ger- many solemnly accompanied the remains of "L'Aiglon™ The Little Eagle--to Les Invalides'in Paris, to lie beside tHe ashes of his father, placed beneath thé great dome of the museum just 100 years ago. Admiral Jean Darlan, French naval secretary, represented Petain, and received the coffin from Otto Abetz, Adolf Hitler's ambassador to Paris. The body was returned at Hitler's personal direction and French Ambassador Fernand de Brinon expressed gratitude, terming it the gesture of a great leader. The French press, giving prom- inence to the ceremony today, said Hitler "invited rshal Petain to attend the solemn ceremony" but "circumstances prevented" the French leader from doing so. Informed sources in Vichy sald the Petain government still was un- certain of the reaction of Germany to fhe replacement of Laval by Pierre-Etienne Flandin as foreign minister and therefore France's negotiator with the German's. Petain at the time carefully an- nounced that on the French side no change of policy was involved and that Flandin was better quali- fied for the job than Laval, Flandin long has been an ardent supporter of a French-German alliance. GERMANS ADMIT BRITISH BOMBS * DAMAGED BERLIN (Continued from Page 1) shot down by a German ship. The communique claimed no Naz planes were lost during the night. Sheffield Nazi Target London, Dec. 168 (CP)--Ger- many's night raiders bombed Shef- field, English steel centre, last night for the second time in less than a week, Official sources in their first re- ports said only that bombs "fell in the Sheffield area." Sheffield was attacked heavily last Thursday night and victims of that raid, buried alive in air raid shelters, still were being rescued early today. Royal Air Force planes struck at the Berlin area with "prolonged attacks" during the night, the air ministry reported, while what was at first identified only as an 'in- dustrial region in the north of England was receiving Germany's blows. The government effect of the Nazi attack reporting casualties were "not very heavy." In one town in the area, a com- munique said, a number of fires were started but soon brought un- der control. | The raids on Britain, although widespread, tapered off about mid- night. (The Germans said British planes attempted to attack Berlin but claimed most were driven off by anti-aircraft fire. A few planes, a communique said, dropped pro- paganda leaflets in a suburb of the capital. Strengthening her forces on an- other front, the sea, Britain launched "a formidable addition" to the Royal Navy recently, The Press Association reported today. She was said to be a fast vessel but nothing else about her was made public, Earlier, a maritime source, esti- mating that the axis blockade was costing Britain 62,000 tons of ship- ping a week, said an unsuspected number of destroyers was being built for convoy duty and the ef- fort to persuade Eire to let Bri- tain use her seaports was continu ing. He added, however, that if these efforts did not meet the challenge posed by the blockade, then Bri- tain simply would "put guns before butter." Labor Minister Ernest Bevin speaking in Glasgow, Scotland meanwhile made the sharpest pun- lic thrust at Russia by an official since the war began. The - British government, he de- clared, after being interrupted on two previcus nights by hecklers giving the Communist salute, has got "to teach Russia that that me- thod of carrying on her foreign policy does not pay in this coun. try." In Sheffield, the great north ee ---------------- in two raids on Valona yesterday. The Greek ministry of home se- curity said there were no new Ital- Mr. Iisley said h& wi racks and an airport were bombed ian air raids on Greece, minimized the | England steel centre which was hard hit by a Nazi raid last Thursday, persons buried alive in wrecked homes and debris-covered Anderson air raid shelters still were being extricated today. The Press Association said a large cas- ualty list was "feared." Last night's raids on Britain followed a quiet day but the at- tackers roared in with the rising moon and fanned out fo many parts of Britain, including London and Liverpool. The government's communique said there were few casualties and little damage. The Press Association reported that seven persons were trapped in the debris of houses wrecked by a high explosive bomb in London's outskirts and that two children were removed dead. The others were injured. In an East Midlands town, large bombs fired and gutted a school and caused considerable damage to residential and business premises. There were only three minor cas- ualties in the whecle town, how- ever. : Meanwhile the air ministry list- ed effects of Royal Air Force bombing on German military ob- jectives. In a summary covering operations including those of last Friday night, it said Berlin haa been bombed 35 times, while the great port of Hamburg had been Jeft "practically useless" after 60 raids, The ministry reported extensive damage caused Friday night at the Bordeau U-boat base in occupied France and damage done to docks at Bremen, the home of 'Lord Haw-Haw's" radio station, and naval shipyards at Kiel, MISSING FLIERS ARE FEARED 10ST INLAKE HUSKOKA (Continued from Page 1) open water is reached far shore. The missing planes were searching for the missing plane of LAC. C P. Hopton of Cabri, Sask. Trappers on both sides of the lake said they saw pla collide in mid- air over the lake a patch of oil on the open water indicated yester- daay that the planes might have plunged into the lake. LAC. J. D. Bilkey of Montreal, son of Paul Bilkey, editor-in-chief of the Montreal Gazette, was killed when his RCAF. plane crashed near Dunnville, Ont., Saturday. In the meantime an intensive search of the waters of Lake Erie near Port Stanley is taking place to discover whether a Pairey bomber which disappeared a week ago yes- terday, plunged into the lake there. Dragging operations have been un. successful but officials said that if the waters became calmer the miss- ing plane may be located by obser- vation from the air. Three men were in the plane when it disappeared: F.O. L. A. Hood of St. Joseph, Mo.; AC. E. L. Bourne of Oshawa, Ont., and AC. J. H. McNally of Minaki, Ont. All Aboard 'Sunken Boat Said ; Saved cial report from London on the Sat- urday torpedoing of the liner Wes- tern Prince was expected hourly to- day, amid growing hopes that Mun- itions Minister Howe and three of his department officials were among the rescued. Prime Minister Mackenzie King was advised during the week-end that most of the passengers and crew aboard the ship had been picked up safely, His information did not name any of the survivors, his office said, In London. The Canadian Press heard reliably last night that Mr. Howe was safe. No information was available there about the min- ister's travelling companions--E, P. Taylor, of Toronto, Col. W. C. Woodward, of Vancouver, executive assistants; and Hon. Gordon Scott, of Montreal, financial advisor. But Mr. King's advice and the London report, pieced together by anxious friends and co-workers, led to belief in the capital that the of- ficial news, when it came, would disclose that the entire government party was safe. There were rum- ors around the capital to that effect all week-end, but none could be confirmed. Reason for delay in issuance of an official statement was dsclosed last 'night by Navy Minister Mac- donald in a statement outlining the "general policy" of naval headquar- ters in such cases. "No announcement can be made until the ship or, in the case of a sinking, the survivors have reached harbor," he said. Mr. Macdonald said the statement was Issued "in view of the number of rumors, press reports, etc., which have been in circulation during the week-end," an obvious reference to the Western Prince incident, The big Furness liner. carrying Mr. Howe and his colleagues to- ward the United Kingdom for war. time consultations with British of. ficials, left New York, Dec. 6, pirst word she had been attacked apoyg 400 miles off the Irish coast came from Mackay Radio in New York, which picked up a message from ga Scottish Radio station. Confirmation came from Mr, King's office Saturday night -- g from statement saying it had been learn. WEATHER SLOWS BRITISH ADVANCE IN LIBYAN AREA (Continued from Page 1) impossible to give an accurate idea where the front line is . . . it can be assumed that some British forces already have crossed the border." British headquarters did not dis- close whethar Marshal Graziani had reinforced his frontier stand from his large reservoir of Libyan reserves, Belief was expressed, however, that the Italian commander would make a determined effort to save his important eastern Libyan base at Bardia, less than 20 miles west of Sollum, Sollum, military observers said, would be a valuable prize to the British. It offers a deep water port to which the British Mediterranean fleet could ferry troops and sup- plies, saving the long haul across the desert from Matruh. These sources said if Sollum fell to the British they probably would consolidate their position there, to safeguard their gangplank to the sea, before attempting another ma- jor thrust to the west. Italian Sub Sunk The British naval command re- ported last night that operations against Italian forces and bases along the coast were continuing without letup, and said destroyers sank the 580-ton Italian submarine Naiade, The British air forces, mean- while, carried the war into Libya ahead of the mechanized columns They bombed the harbor and mill- tary buildings at Bardia twice dur- ing a week-end attack on Fascist air bases all along the Libyan coast. (The Italian communique said week-end, starting fires in build- ings and hitting a medium-sized were reported killed and injured.) Pilots returning from Bardia Sat- urday night sald they had to fight yesterday said that 24 Italian planes had been shot down and two destroyed on the ground. One Brit- ish squadron alone was credited with downing 14 tri-motored Savoia bombers and four Fiat fighters. Three British planes were report- ed missing, but one was believed to have landed behind the British lines. Admits British Gains Rome, Dec. 168 (CP) --The Italian high command claimed today that bitter fighting was In progress In Libya and Albania against British and Greek attacks. (Greek and British sources re- ported advances on both fronts.) The Italians claimed British at- tacks along the Egyptian-Libyan frontier were made under bombard- ment of Italian planes which caus- ed heavy casualties, The high command's communi- que also claimed Greek attacks along the Albanian battlefront were repulsed with "considerable" losses on both sides. Meanwhile the Italian people, told that their North African forces had been driven back to Libya, waited for word whether Marshal Graziani's reserves had been able to stem the British advance. The high command told them yesterday that the battle, fiercest for Italian troops since the world war, "will last several days yet-- maybe even more than a week." That communique told of "bloody combat: from dawn to sunset," ack- nowledged Italian withdrawal from Sidi Barrani in Egypt, and declarea that the pressure of the British drive continued. Observers were advised to reserve judgment on the final outcome. Speculations at this time, the high command sald, "would seem pre- mature." Enough For Situation The communique added, how- ever: Italian forces in Libya, aided by faithful Libyan troops, are fight- ing with extreme courage, con- ed that most of the ship's passen- gers had been saved. Since then the Prime Minister's office has been in communication with Hon. Vincent Massey, Cana- dian high commissioner in London, but late last night it was sald of- ficially that no definite information had been received whether the Can- adian officials were safe or not. Since Mr, Massey had no official details, it was assumed here that even British officials had not been advised yet what persons had been rescued, Naval officials said that Wireless messages might disclose the Position of rescue craft and result in new attacks by the enemy. It was stated in Ottawa yesterday that Lord Beaverbrook, British minister of aircraft production, had sent information that Mr. Howe was safe. However, officials said later that no survivors had been hamed in any communications re- ceived, and in London Lord Beaver- brook's secretary denied that such a message had been sent. : Like the Prime Minister, Mrs. Howe received news today that the bulk of those aboard the liner were safe. The prime minister called on her Saturday, soon after news of the torpedoing reached the capital. Both Mr. King and Navy Minister Macdonald, acting supply minster in Mr. Howe's absence, made every ef- fort to obtain' definite news, but tending the ground with the enemy hand-to-hand . , . "It is believed that Italian forces actually engaged in fighting and those large numbers which are mn reserve are more than enough w meet the situation." This was widely at variance with observations of neutral corres- pondents on the spot who reported that the Italians, except in rare in- | stances, were no match for their British adversaries, despite the fact they outnumbered them sometimes by as many as four to one, The high command said the fighting was cenuring in the dist- rict of Scllum, Fort Capuzzo ana Bardia. Virginio Cayda editor of II Gior- | nale D'Italia, said yesterday that with growing naval forces the Axis would carry the war against Bri- tain to the sea in 1941, He said the German navy would be enlarged soon with the adaition of two powerful 35,000-ton batte- ships and added that "the Italian navy, too, remains strong and ready and on the increase." He said Italy's two "great bat- tleships" which Prime Minister Churchill "wanted to pass off as lost" soon would be "in perfect shape again." DEPOSIT ASHES OF LORD LOTHIAN INUS. SHRINE (Continued from Page 1) George, President Roosevelt and the British and Canadian governments. Every nation with diplomatic en- voys in Washington, except Italy and Germany, was represented at the cathedral services. President Roosevelt, en route to the capital from his Caribbean Naples also was bombed over the | warship on which 50 crew members i their way through at least 50 Ital- | jan fighter planes. A communique | cruise, was represented by Stephen Early, White House secretary. Near him were Mrs. Roosevelt, Secretary of State Hull and Chief Justice and Mrs. Charles Hughes. NINE DEATHS IN ONTARIO THROUGH VARIED CAUSES Two Air Deaths, Two Fatal Car Mishaps, Two Shooting Fatalities (By The Canadian Press) Two airplane crashes, two motor accidents, two shooting accidents, a scalding and a fall accounted for nine deaths in Ontario during the week-end, One of the plane crashes occurred Thursday when a Royal Canadian Air Force training plane from Camp Borden crashed five miles from the base killing LLA.C. C. P. Hopton of Cabri, Sask. The wreckage was not discovered until Saturday. LAC. J. D. Bilkey, son of Paul E. Bilkey, editor-in-chief of the Montreal Gazette, was killed Satur- day when his R.C.AF. training plane crashed near Dunnville dur=- ing a routine solo practice flight. Mrs. Forsyth O'Neil, 83, of Cam- den township, was killed near Nap- anee late Saturday when the car in which she was passenger collided with a truck. Injuries were suffered by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Switzer and their son Donald, also of Camden township. In Sarnia, Thomas H. George, 60- year-old veteran of the first Great War, was killed when he was struck by a car. Police said George was kneeling in the middle of the icy road and a car operated by George Traxter of Mooretown, Ont., skidded into him. One shooting took place at Espan- ola, 48 miles west of Sudbury, where 13-year-old Peter Frazuk was struck by a bullet from the gun of a hunt- ing companion. Lorne McKee said he was emptying his gun . and thought it was unloaded when it discharged. Frazuk was shot through the heart and died almost instantly. The other shooting occurred at Osgoode where Irving Sherman, 28. year-old cattle buyer, was struck 'n the head by a bullet from the rifle of a companion, James McCallum, 16, of Osgoode. The accident occure red during target practice when Sherman stood up suddenly from a kneeling position. He died six hours later in hospital at Ottawa. George DeClarke, 16, of Dover township, near Wallaceburg, drown- ed Sunday when he skated through thin ice on Mitchell's Bay near his home. His body was recovered two hours later. In Ottawa, Barbara Schoenherr, nine-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Schoenherr, died on Sunday from burns received when a kettle of boiling water was spilled over her accidentally. Mrs. J. Vance, 79, of Toronto, died Saturday of injuries suffered in a fall down stairs last September, Liner Queen Mary Seen In Harbor In Australia Tokyo, Dec. 16 (CP)--Domei, Jap- anese News Agency, reported from Kobe, Japan, that passengers arrive ing from Australia tcld of seeing the giant British liner Queen Mary at Sydney. (The Queen Mary has been re- ported in service as a troop trans- port since leaving New York harbor in gray paint in September, 1939.) OSHAWA AND VICINITY BEREAVED OF BROTHER Word was received here last Fri- day of the death at Pdso Robles, Cal, of Capt. J, H. M. Emsley, M.C., eldest son of the late Lieut,-Col. W. H. Emsley and Mrs. Emsley of Osh- awa. Two sister, Mrs. (Dr) F. J. Donevan and Miss Elizabeth Emsley, both of Oshawa, and a brother, Seaborn Emsley, of Vancouver, sur. vive. Capt. Emsley served overseas with the 40th Infantry Battalion re- cruited in Edmonton. His wife pre- deceased him. Funeral arrangements are being made by the brother in Vancouver. CHRISTMAS CAROLS HEARD Shoppers on Simcoe Street South on Saturday afternoon had the pleasure of hearing Christmas mu- sic coming from loud speakers from the Top Hat dance hall over Kresge's store, Fred Brown, trum- peter of the Top Hat orchestra, spent the entire afternoon chang- ing records on the machine in order that downtown shoppers might hear the carols and Christmas music. SLIPPERY SIDEWALKS The rain starting early this mor- ning put the sidewalks and pave- ments covered with ice in a very slippery condition, making walking very difficult and driving a hazard. Drivers were taking their time at intersections and on ice-rutted streets to prevent accidents, and pedestrians were walking with cau- tion to prevent falling. Obituary MRS. WILLIAM BOE { The .death of Mrs. William Boe, a | native of Ontario County, occurred | at the home of her daughter, Mrs. | E. Bonnell, 102 Elgin street west, on | Saturday. December 14, after a | short illness. She was in her 7ist | year. | Mrs. Boe, former Samuelena | Baird, was born in Reach Town- | ship, and has spent the past year at the home of her daughter in Oshawa. Besides her husband, Wil- liam Boe, she is survived by the | one daughter, Mrs. Bonnell, and | one grandchild. | The funeral is to be held from | the parlors of the Luke Burial Co. | 87 King Street street east, on Tues- | day, December 17, with the service to be conducted by Rev. W. Harold Reid, minister of Knox Presbyterian Church, at 2.00 o'clock p.m.. Inter- ment in the Union Cemetery, (ITY BUSINES STALLED AS ICE. COATS STREETS - (Continued from Page 1) several of the suburban routes which formerly had only half-hour service. It is reported by the man- ager that last Saturday over 6,000 passengers used the busses. During the month of November the average number of riders per day, including Sundays which are always below average, was 3,614. During that month city busses carried 108,293 passengers and ran up a mileage of over 31,000 miles which, it is expect- ed, will be exceeded during the cur- rent month. the patients at the Foundation for Infantile Paralysis in Warm Springs, Ga., where he stopped en route back here from his Caribbean trip, He 'told them he hoped to be back for two weeks next spring "if the world survives," and his words recalled his prophetic utterance on leaving Warm Springs early in 1939, when he said he would be back in the fall if there were no war, Bloom, advocating accelerated : to Britain, said specifically thal if Britain should desire credit for a stated purpose, he favored a change in the Johnson Act which now bans loans or credits to a na- tion in default of first Great War debts. He likewise fold newsmen that it might be better, considering world conditions, "to repeal the neutrality Act and go back to Ine ternational law." Such action would permit American ships to carry supplies to Britain, and thus help ease the burden on the British merchant marine which has lost hundreds of thousands of tons in the war at sea. LABOUR LEADER DIES 1 Seeffield, England--(CP.) -- Wil liam Gathercole, former treasurer and president of Bury Labor Party, is dead here at the age of 62, Too Late to Classify SPECIAL -- OIL PERMANENTS from Two Dollars up. Nestle Machineless, Three Dollars. Guar- anteed. Clarke's Hairdressing, 296 Richmond East. Phone 2399J. (21Dec.c) PEGGY MOUNTENAY'S BEAUTY Parlour. Permanents $1.50 and up; also Special Machineless waves, $2.75. 72 Church St., Phone 371J. (31Dec.c) FOR RENT--3 ROOMED APART- ment. All conveniences. Central, Immediate possession. Adults only, Phone 1860. (117a) FOR SALE -- 1 PAIR GIRLS Skates, size 2. Phone 2351J. (117a) WANTED TO RENT -- TWO OR three furnished rooms for couple with no children. 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