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PUBLISHED Every Week Day Except Saturday. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARS The Oshawa Daily Times PROBS Cloudy and Mild Today and Friday, With Rain. Colder Friday Night, INNIS VOL. 27--NO. 124 OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1940 Single copies 3c TWELVE PACES BRITAIN DOUBLES INVASIO Albanian Battlefront Quiet As Snow, Rain Slow Italians, Greeks 'Latter Continue Their Advance Along Adri- atic Coast North of Chimara Italian Bombers Raid Corfu After British Flyers "Bombed" Island With Yule Gifts Athen's, Dez. 26 (CP).--Rain and snow slowed fighting on the Al- banian battlefront today, but the Greeks reported they continued their advance along the Adriatic coast north of Chimara without making contact with main Italian line. Most of the front ments were of a local nature. battle for Tepeleni and Klisura in the central sector conitnued in in- tense cold and waist deep snow. - A captured lieutenant colonel of the Italian army said Fascist troops were suffering severely from the weather and difficulty of get- ting supplies. He said main bat- talions were reduced from 700 men each to 200 because of losses. This officer who . commanded Bersaglierl units said many had died from cold while many were in hospital with severe frost-bites The Christmas bombing of Corfu by Italian aircraft after British air- men had "bombed" the island with gifts was announced by the Greek high command. The Italians killed 15 persons and wounded about 30. Most of the victims were women and children, the high' command said. It added: "Since the outbreak of tha war, Corfu has been bombed 23 times. According to ment, Corfu is an open town where there are no military targets. The Italian raids were directed against the civil population exclusively," British Royal Air Force fliers earlier in packages of gifts to a large throng in the little island "in the Ionian Sea. The inhabitants had been told in advance of the aerial expedition. The presents, British sources said, were in appreciation of kindness shown British airmen who have had to land on Corfu. Bitter cold, deep snows and heavy mists curtailed fighting in Albania, but in skirmishes on the northern (Continued on Page 12, Col. 7) GANADIANS TALK T0 SOLDIER KIN IN GREAT BRITAIN Christmas Day Program Over Air Two-Way Event Ottawa, Dec. 26. (CP)--Canada spoke to and heard from her sons engage- in service overseas in a Christmas | Day broadcast that! spanned space and united for a brief few minutes the men of the f with their people at home. ! For instance Young, a little g spoke to her d Kingdom, sent good wishes and old was in hospital. "But he'll gel r soon and oer said Linda i greeting typical of to coast, s sang for those pse left behind re- ~ songs peculiar to f the land. Manitime § their voice In a L aca, "Sailing, Sailing, nd Main," Men sang "Give me a Buffalo Roam." L. McNaughton, 8; Canadian Corps. J es of Calgary, the 1st Division and WV. Odlum, command- i Division, spoke for d the people at was Linda in Halifax who in the United the season's him her dog r8) and the for their hospital- "To the people of Canada we ex- press our srafiade for all that has been done and is being done and hope that ini not too distant future we may be all together in our homeland ys . . together a The | international agree- | the day had dropped | Dean of Stage Producers Dies SIEGE OF BARDIA ENTERS 10TH DAY; [ERO HOUR NEARS Plight of Italians Growing Worse As Food, Water Scarce Cairo, Egypt, Dez. 26 (AP) ,--The siege of Bardia entered its 10th day with the Italian garrison facing steadily increasing pressure from stage producers, died today roy Sanitarium of following a fall. Frohman, one of the most dis- tinguished figures in the history of the North American 4, when he broke his right hip in a fall in his hotel. Veteran prcducer, who helped develop many of the leading stage stars for more than two genera- tions, kept unflagging interest in the stage although he had been pro- AGT T0 IMPROVE HEALTH OF THOSE USING SHELTERS Ministry Wars on Untidiness -- Improve Ventilation, Bunks By DOUGLAS AMARON Canadian Press Staff Writer London, Dne. 26 (CP)--The gov- ernment, anxious to make winter life healthful anc comfortable for the millions of Britons who spend their nights underground, is launch- Ang a countrywide campaign to edu- cate the public in the use cf air raid shelters as dormitories. help themselves and so help their neighbors and the nation," said Herbert Morrison, home secretar and minister of home security. "We think it is desirable to encourage | people to be as self reliant as pos- | sible." Millions of leaflets, together with posters, newspaper advertisements. films and radio talks will be used in the campaign, to be directed chiefly at health and untidiness in public shelters. "There is a perfectly needless amount of litter, particularly in the tubes," said Mr. Morrison. "This is anti-social and it ought to stop People should take away their own litter." How to keep the nation's health cn a par with its morale is still one of the chief problems confronting the government and Malcolm Mac- conald, minister of health, described in a broadcast plans for meeting this task among the people who use the vast public shelters, the deep tube stations and the vaults, base- ments and tunnels. "We had no thought, a few months ago, that these places would be used for more than a short space during comparatively brief air raids," Mr. Macdonald said, "but the collapse of our ally and neighbor, France, has multiplied a hundredfold the German's capacity to keep a succes- sion of bombers over our industrial centres. ! "So these shelters aré now dor- mitories in which scores of thou- sands of citizens spend every even- ing and sleep the whole night." For such a purpose, they are over- crowded, Mr. Macdonald said. Their normal ventilation was often crude, their sanitary arrangements non- existant. He compared people sleep- ing in them to "rows of wounded soldiers in some primitiie casualty clearing station," and said they might become 'the nurseries of a series of epidemics." "So with the best medical advice (Continued on Page 12, Col. 2) New York, Dec. 26--(CP)--Danie] | Frohman, 89, dean of United States | in Le- | complications | theatre, had | been in the sanitarium since Nov. | fessicnally inactive for many years | "We want to Wp shelter users to | | British forces holding the battered Libyan port in a grip of stecl, Reports from the front indicated the Italian air force was making | desperate efforts to break up Bri- [tish pr<arations for a final as- sault on the . beleaguered town, which British headquarters hinted might not be long delayed. | Fascist dive bombers were report- led to be taking an active parc in | the defence of Bardia, but British | officers said they had proved large- | ly ineffective and caused few casu- | alties British military circles here: would not. say how soon they expected | Bardia, to fall, but emphasized the {lines around the town were being | reinforced steadily, and that the Italians' position "would become more difficult daily as food and | water supplies dwindled. Mechaniged British forces were said to be! continuing activity in the desert south and west of Bar- dia, while the Royal Air Force con- centrated pounding ' Italian air- dromes and bases far to the west along the coast, STAR OF SILENT 'MOVIE DAYS DIES Agnes Ayres Passes Result of Cerebral Haemmorhage Hollywood, Dec. 26 (AP)--Blende Agnes Ayres, 42, who rocketed to movie stardom in the silent screen | days, retired to cinematic sidelines | when the talkie era started and later made an unsuccessful come- back attempt, died Christmas Day of a cerebral haemorrhage. Miss Ayres, a film contemporary of Gloria Swanson and Wallace Reid, whose outstanding roles were | in "The Affairs of Anatol" and op- posite Rudolph Valentino in "The Sheik," had been in failing health for some time, She was stricken suddenly on Christmas Eve and died later in a hospital without regaining cons- ciousness. Surviving is a daughter, Maria, 15, now feported to he in Mexico City with her father, 8. Manuel Reachi, frem whom the actress was divorced in 1927, Miss Ayres' firs: husband was Capt. Frank P Schuker, an army officer, whom she divorced in 1921. Among other films that starred Miss Ayres, whose distinctive halr style was remembered by a tightly braided coronet effect, were 'Tha Ten Commandments," "Son of the Sheik," "Lady of Victory," "The Donovan Affair," "Broken Hearted" and "Worldly Gceods." Another was "The Awful Truth," which later was reproduced as a talkie featuring Irene Dunn and Cary Grant. Born in Carbondale, Ill, and edu- cated in Chicago, Miss Ayres got her movie start with such compan- ies as the old Essanay, Vitagraph and Fox. When her popularity began to wane with the advent of the talk- ies, Miss Ayres retired from the screen in 1927, a wealthy' woman. Depression years that followed play- ed havee with her savings, however, and after 10 years she decided to make a new bid for fame and fort- une with the talkies. But dame fortune and the talkies dealt none too kindly with her and she returned to operating a small real estate business. Our Feet Are P To Victory, Dec lanted on Path lares the King London, Dec. 26.--The text of King George VI's Christmas mes- sage to the Britisn Empire: In days of peace the feast of Christmas is a time when we all gather together in our homes, young and old to enjoy the happy festivity and good-will which the Christmas message brisgs. It is, above all, the children's day, and I am sure wnat we shall do our best to make it a happy one for them, wherever they "may be. (Continued on Page 13, Col. 4) War brings; among other sor- rows, the sadness * of separation. There are many men in the forces 'away from their homes today, be- cause they must stana ready and alert to resist an invader, should he dare to come, or because they are guarding the dark seas, or pur- suing the beaten foe in the Libyan Desert. Many family circles are broken. Children from English homes arc today in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. For (Continued on Page 12, Col. 1) bs | Duce's "Gif." to British War Effort A This imposing array of Italian Breda guns is part of a huge amount | of military equipment captured by British forces in Egypt in skirmishes | that preceded the big drive of the British Imperial army and which has brought British forces on to the soil of Italian Libya. Latest reports from the area say that two Italian divisions are trapped in' the Italian Libyan base at Bardia while the rest of Marshal Grarziani's army is in retreat westward towards Tobruk. Germany Sending 600,000 Soldiers to Rumania As Trouble with Reds Looms Nazis Order | Rumania To Speed Up Produc- tion of War Materials Budapest, Dec. 26 (CP)--Nazl leaders in Rumania were reported in diplomatic dispatches today to have ordered a hig speed-up in Ruman- fa's manufacture of war materials as crowded trains, earryving the van- guard of some 600,000 fresh Go man troops ave routed across Hungary and Rumania. The vast movement of troons with artillery, bridge building equip- ment, tanks and other motorized ve- hicles stirred speculation on the pos- sibility of a showdown between powers with conflicting interests in the Balkans. The mass shifting of troops and the speed-up order ccincided with appointment of Baron Manfred von Killinger, German minister to Slo- vakia, to the same post in Rumania. Informed sources said von Killinger: was prepared to rule Rumania as virtual Nazi Gauleiter (district lead- er). Although Germany has taken no hand in Rumania's civil adminis- tration thus far, diplomatic reports from Bucharest asserted that the Reich was prepared to take over complete control. Military experts estimated Ger- many already had approximately 100,000 soldiers in Rumania. Ger- mans and © Rumanians sald they were guarding vital sources of oil supply and training the Rumenian army in modern methods of war- fare. First official disclosure of the new ii Nazi movement came (Continlled on Page 12, Col, 3) Britain Must Hang On Till Next Winter London, Dec. 26--(CP)--Sir Wal- ter Layton of the Ministry of Sup- ply told Britons today that "if we hold on through 1941," the volume of United States production of war materials will reach its apex next winter "and there is a certainly of ultimate victory." Sir Walter said, "Don't expect a miracle from the United States." The time element and the diffi- culty of making the United States realize fully the "stale of war ef- fort needed" were two factors. he sald, which should show Britain that the full weight of , United States armament could not be ex- pected until th: late summer of 1941, reaching "avalanche propor tions" next winter. Sir Walter sald America's parti cipation in the fight to "overwhelm Germany" made the term "non- belligerent" rather than "neutral" applicable to the United States. J iventis Mission Workers to Leave Japan by June, 1941 Tokyo, Dec. 26 of the Christian missionaries to this country are abgent fiom their posts, and four-fifths of their child- ren have returncd to their 'homes, the Japan Tim:s sald today in a survey of religious groups, The Southern Presbyterian and the Seventh Day Adventi't mis- sionaries are being withdrawn June, 1941, because of Japan's new religious law which directs the cos- sation of foreizn financial assist- ance and places mission s-hools, | hospitals and social agenci®s in Japanese hands, the Times said. The Episcopal Board of Missions disclosed Dee, 12 it had transferred its properties to the Japanese. Other. missions, including those of the Methodists and the Baptists sald their policies for the present remained unchang:d, but that some of their missionaries had raturned home, HUNT FOR GREW GOASTGUARD BOAT Have Not Been Seen Since Early Christmas Day San Francisco, Dee. 26 (AP). The United States coastzuard or- ganized a search today ior 10 coastguards unreported Since early Christmas day when huge waves beat their attempt to force their small motor lifeboat into Point Arena, They had left their station at Point Arena 10 hours earlier in response to distress calls from the waterlogged coastal lumber schcon- er Stanwood. Mrs, Cecil Thomas, wife of the officer in charge of the coast guard craft, said: "I'm not alarmed, but we know they're In trouble. The two boats were still lashed to- gether when they were last seen and seemed in good shape." 8he referred to the small surf lifshoat which the motor craft towed. Mrs, Thomas expressed be- lief her husband would try to find a small cove for refuge. Seas were punning so strong they washed out wharves at Point Arena, Coastguard = headquarters here (Continued on Page 12, Col. 5) (AP).--One-third | | and WIFE OF OSHAWA DRUGGIST DIES INROAD MISHAP Mrs. John Kirby Dies Near Home of Parents at Clinton A highway fatality near Clinton, Ont., brcught poignant grief to John Kirby, druggist at Karn's drug store, on Tuesday afternoon, when | his wife died as the result of an | accident on the highway near the home of her parents, Mr, and Mrs. Harry Thompson, Mrs. Kirby, former Evelyn Thompson, had gone to Christmas with her parents about three miles northwest of Clinton. She and her father had been shop- ping in Clinton and were on their way home in a buggy when the vehicle was hit from behind by a motor car, shattering it to splinters. The extent of Mrs, Kirby's injuries were such that she died almost in- stantly while her father suffered a fractured leg, a number of bruises | and severe shcck. | lacerations The accident happened as they | were turning off the highway onto | & sideroad near the family home. Mr. Kirby received word of the accident early Tuesday evening and, {in company with Mr. Robb, a rela- tive of Whithy, hs motored to the | home of his wife's [ night. Authorities driven by Earl Williams, Goderich Township, which was proceeding west following the buggy. Both oc- parents that say the car was { cupants of the buggy were thrown | out on the pavement and one of | the buggy shafts driven through the | horse's body. Mrs, Kirby died head injuries. Mr. instantly Thompson from was taken to Clinton hospital for X-ray | | examination but when it was founa by | [2 | he had no serious injury he was aken to his home. It 1s understood that an inquest will be held. Mrs. Kirby is survived by her husband, her father and mother, threg ' brothers, Rev. George R Thémpson, Kentville, N.B.; (Continued on Page 12, Col. 5) J9 ITALIAN PLANES | BAGGED BY RAF, IN AIDING GREEKS Albanian Ports Bombed Repeatedly, Summary of Operations Shows London, Dec. 26 (CP).--Ttaly lost | t least 39 airplanes to nine British , losses in operations in the Grezk- Italian conflict from Nov. 7 to Dez. | 121, the air ministry news service announced today in giving details of Royal support of the Greeks, British airplanes, in addition to offensive and defensive patrols and attacks on. Italian troop concen- | trations, airdromes and mechan- ized transport facilities, it sald, seversly bombed the Albanian vorts of Valona, Durazzo and Santi Quaranta (Porto Edda), whizh the Italians had made their key bridge- heads from the Adriatic. Royal Air Force fighters went into action on Nov. 18, "the day on which the gladiators arrived in ireece, That same day they . . destroyed nine Ttalian aircraft." The reference was to the Gladiator type of fighting plane which has been used in the Meditarrznean area. Valona was bombed on five days or nights in November and six times in December, while Durazzo was attacked six days or nights and Santi Quaranta, two. Main damage to Valona, the: air ministry report said, "was the ex- plosion of a munition dump Nov 11, setting on fire two large ships (Continued on Page 3, Col. 5) spend Air Force activities in | resting more comfortably than at N GUARDS Troops Line Naval Recruit 'Dies in Blaze FONSI An East Cca:st Canadian Port, Dec. 26 (CP). A preliminary | checkup revealed one man, a naval | rating, was burned to death and 10 others ' suffered second dzgrez burns, none seriously, in a fire | which levelled three barrack build- ings today during the early morn- ing hours. Because many ratings were ab- sent on Christmas leave, authori- ties experienced difficulty in com- pleting the investigation. Three barracks which were re- {duced to ruins by the blaze norm- ally accommodated 1,000 but owing | to Christmas leaves they housed a | smaller complement early this morning when the fire broke out. Beaches And Cliffs As Strait Mist- Shrouded, Calm Soldiers Halt AH Traf- fic at Barricades, Search Everyone, De- mand Identification Cards of Men in Uni- form Preparations Made While Unofficial Yule- tide Truce Continues Unbroken -- Raider Shot Down Over Orkneys London, Dec. 26 (CP)--Graat Britain's bomb - free Christmas holiday ended today when a single German plane made an afisrneon attack on the isle of Sheppey, in Fannad by brisk north winds the! fire took only an hour and a half | to level the three buildings, two- storey wooden structures, | Identification discs' were missing from the body of the dead man when it was recovered from the ruins, NEWCOMER BADLY INJURED BY AUTO CHRISTMAS HORN Mystery Surrounds Accident In Which E. Sheppard Hurt E. Sheppard, 445 Miller avenue, is in Oshawa General Hospital today in a serious condition as a result oi | being struck hy a car near the cor- | ner of Burk street and King street west about 1:00 a.m. cn Christmas Day. It is alleged that the car was driven by Alvin Teno, 371 Pine ave- nue, Oshawa. Sheppard is suffering from a broken leg, broken ribs, internal in- juries, and a lacerated scalp. He was not in a strong enough condi- tion today to be questioned. As far as can be learned th2 victim has no knowledge of how or when the acci- dent cecurred. He is a stranger in | the city having arrived only about two weeks ago and has been board- ing with J. Crawford, 445 Miller ave- nue. Sheppard was supposed to have reported for work this morning and when he did not put in an appear- are: a search was instituted and it was not until almost noon today that Crawfcrd was able to locate his missing boarder. The victim was treated at the scene of the accident by Dr. R. Colwill whose residence is only a few doors from the scene. He was removed to the hospital in Luke's ambulance. Dr. Colwill said this afternoon that Sheppard is any time since the accident but is still "in a very serious condition." Charges have not been laid against the driver of the car. Japs Demand Control Of Shanghai Council Shanghai, Dec. 26 (AP) --The dominant voice in the administra- tion of Shanghai's intsrnational settlement now is made up of five Britons, five Chinese, two Japan- ese and two Americans. That re- presentation 'is based upon finan- cial investments in the settlement but the Japanese demand reprs- sentation according to population, Hayashi"s message said. Beaverbrook B-Hive Biggest, Busiest Organization Of Kind By HAROLD FAIR Canadian Press Staff Writer London, Dec. 26 (OP)--Britain's Ministry of Aircraft Production, headed by Canadian-born Lord Beaverbrook, has grewn in six months to the biggest and busiest organization of its kind in the world Established last summer after France collapsed and Britain was left to fight alone for survival, its immediate task was to. ginge:r'up British plane production to cope ance. By taking over all Royal Alr Force operational equipment resp! sibilities it freed the Air Ministry tb coneentraie on recruiting, fesding, clothing, housing and training pers sonnel for actual operations. Hardly had Lord Beaverbrogk swept into his effice than he su moned three other Canadian "busy- B's" to ald him. J. P. Bickel, Can- adian mining magnate, came by air and staried work at once. Rt. Hon R. B. Bennett, former Canadian the Thanges esiuary. There was little damage and no casualties. London, Dez. 26 (CP)--Guards on | the channel' coast werz doubled to- day against the possibility of lightning® German thrust . thrcugh the mist, covering the now calm | Strait of, Dover. Picked troops armed with Bren guns and osher automatic weapons combed the beaches. and watched every cleft of®the cliffs. Coastal traffic was halted at bar- ricades and drivers and passengers were searched. Even soldiers and sailors in uniform were required to show identity cards. All these preparations took. place as the unofficial Christmas truce continued unbroken. Up to 2 pm. (9. am. EDT.) no German planes had crossed the British coast today. Britons, however, regalled General Walter Von Brauchitsch's Christmas Eve address to Nazi troops which was taken to indicate that Hitler's plans for invasion by no means hat been scrapped. Military circles in London, how= ever, said this afternoon "there is (Continued on Page 12, Col. 5) CANADIAN CORPS FORMATION GIVEN WARM RECEPTION Troops Greet Announcement With Enthusiasm Somewhere in England, Dec. 26. (CP)--Canada's fighting troops in Britain were welded into the Cana~- dian Corps today--two well-trained divisions and the necessary ancil- liary troops ready to strike hard blows wherever required of them. Announcement that in this war, as in the last, Canadians overseas would form an army corps was made at Ottawa on Christmas Eve and relayed to the troops in an historic 60-word routine order Christmas Day. It said: "Effective from 1 am. Christmas Day a Canadian Corps is constituted to comprise the - two Canadian divisions overzeas and Canadian non-divisional units in the United Kingdom. In addition the Canadian Corps incluces Brite ish armored units and other forma= tions, all under the command of the Canadian Corps." Lt-Gen. A. G. L. McNaughton, scldier-scientist who led the 1st Di= vision overseas a year azo and has recently commanded a mixed Anglo- Canadian corps, now commands the Canadian Corps. Maj.-Gen. G. R. Pearkes, V.C,, of Calgary, commands the 1st Division, while the 2nd Di= vision under Maj.-Gen. Victor W. (Continued on Page 12, Col. I) British Meat Ration Likely to Be Reduced London, De Britain's meat ral réduced from thal one shilling ten 1} cents) ner week to one shilling six pe cents) ner week per. January, it was today, (Britain 'rations rather than weight. ling ten pence ello a pound and half a tripe, - kidneys, live which hitherto 26--(CP)--Great on is likely to be purchasable for pee (about 37 purchases of e (about 30 rson early in ipbried reliably at by price he one shil- nce bought beef. Pork, Nd sausages, V not ration with the threat of axis preponder- (Continued on Page 12, Col. 1) now may be J the ration).