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Gunfire diminished in the lower Garigliano sector of the main Fifth Army front, but patrols clashed at several points. The Germans shellâ€" ed the Orsogna area of the Eighth Army front. but that sector also was generally quict . except for patrol clashes. Three small German attacks of platoon strength on the left side of the beachhead south of Rome have been beaten off and the Germans remain on the defensive in that sector. Six differint patrol clashes were reported in the beachhead. mainly in the Cisterna and Carroâ€" ceto arcas. Cross Prut at Jassy, Menace 100,000 Nazis Moscow.â€"Russian mobile forces fanned southward through Bessâ€" arabia today. They seized the Prut river crossing before Jassy, German defence bastion of northâ€" east Rumania, and former headâ€" quarters of Marshal «Fritz von Mannstein. Naples.â€" Allicd artillery broke up a German attack north of Casâ€" sino and continued to hammer the two hotel "key point" areas of the German defences within the ruined town, headquarters announced toâ€" day. Bursting sholls set fire to a German ammunition dump south of Cassino. The Nazi attack was broken up on the road from Terrelle, which lies about four miles northwest of Cassino. The Germans replied to the shelling of the Hotel Continentâ€" al and Des Roses with a nightlong bombardment of Allicd positions south of the town. The WORLD‘S WEEK Allied Artillery Breaks Up Nazi Attack From Cassino Marshal Ivan S. Konev‘s drive down the Prut valley brought the rail junction of Jassy under artillery fire. It cut one of the few remaining roundabout rail lines of retreat for 100,000 Gerâ€" mans in the 200â€"mile long enemy salient along the Black Sea. Dana Andrews â€" Richard Conte Kevin O‘Shea â€" Trudy Marshall \ n nith â€" “m“m‘m\\ | 1 E2 /'M Mon. â€" Tues. â€" ‘Continued from Page "The Purple Heart" 11 At presont British railways are runnng 2,000 special trains a week for troops and government supâ€" plies, nearly 7,000 trains a week for war workers and about 1.100 coal trains from the collieries. Some lines are expected to close to all but vtal war traffic. Certain areas likewise are expected to be "frozen" as far as cvigan traffic is concerned. Declares Invasion‘s Clock At "5 Minutes to Twelve", London.â€"Arthur Hendecrson, finâ€" ancial seecretary to the British war office, siaid at a "Salute the Soldier" exhibition today that the hands of the Allied invasion clock have reached "five minutes to twelve." Britain‘s railways â€"â€" already busier than they ever were as preparations for the western inâ€" vasion go forwardâ€"will gve No. 1 priority to invasion demands when the troops make their landings.. There was no word here to indiâ€" cate that the Russians had erossed the Prut. But front dispatches deâ€" scribing extreme German demoralâ€" ization and the probable Soviet command of river crossings sugâ€" gested that they could ford the river at will. To the northwest, other Russian units massed along the upper Prut across from Cernauti, biggest city of Bucovina province, after a specâ€" tacular advance of 24 miles at a speed of one mile an hour. Ford Prut at Will The first and second armics of the Ukraine were pounding forward in concert to clean up the entire bank of the upper Prut and clear the way for a grand scale surge into Rumania. They drove spearheads within 22 miles of a junction which, would close the neck of a German salient looping northeastward from captured Kamenetsâ€"Podolsk, trapâ€" ping thousancs of enemy troops. _ Storming in against the Prut crossing six miles east of Jassy, the Soviet vanguard of tanks, moâ€" bile artillery and infantry slaughâ€" tered thousands of German troops as they scrambled in panic for the Rumanian bank of the river. . â€" 2 Big Hits CECIL B. DeMILLE‘S "Reap The Wild Wind" (In Technicolor) outstanding entertomns art Playing WEEK "Canadian help." said the newsâ€" paper, "has been very big. . . . In the Dominion‘s new. agreements with Britain, Russioa, Australia, New Zealand. China and Fighting France the most gencerous of terms are stated. . . ." All that Canada looks for, the article concludes, is freedom of trade and postâ€"war coâ€"operation. ‘ Clear First Border Less than 40 miles to the south, Marshal Ivan S. Konev‘s 2nd Ukrainian army fanned out along a 53â€"mile front on the cast bank of the Prut river. This signalized hurling the fleeing Germans back across a Soviet border for the first time since the start of the Russoâ€" Getman war in June, 1941. Konev‘s massed guns wore reported pourâ€" ing a tortent of stecl and exploâ€" sives across the narrow stream into the shattcred enemy ranks Canada ‘Most Lavish, Generous‘ In War Aid, Is London Tribute London. â€" The Sunday Observer said that "none of history‘s tributes to Allied pooling will outrun that due to Canada." Passes in the high Carpathians are being lighted by gucrrillas to fuidc the advancing Russian forces, ront reports said. ‘"The whole chain of the Carpathians is ablaze with beacons," the reports added. Premier Stalin announced in a special order of the day that Marâ€" shal â€" Gregory _ Zhukov‘s _ First Vkrainian Army had captured the Germanâ€"held stronghold of Kameâ€" netsâ€"Podolski, completing a front of almost 50 miles along the middle reaches of the Dnicster river and the former border of Rumania‘s Bucovina province. _ _ . | "A great weight of high exploâ€" sives and incendiary bombs was dropped, but clouds made it imâ€" possible to observe full results of the attack." the air ministry anâ€" nounced. Other fourâ€"engined bombers in the "very great" force, which the air. ministry said attacked Gerâ€" many, raided Hanover, war proâ€" duction centre and communications hub in central Germany. Another formation blasted railway targets at Courtrai. Belgium Cassino ‘Bloody Failure‘ Army Newspapers State London.â€"Russia‘s First and Secâ€" ond Armies of the Ukraine conâ€" verged along the 1941 frontiers of Rumania today. The B.B.C. reportâ€" ed Soviet flying columns had carâ€" ried the Red army banner across the Prut river border to open the battle of the Balkans. e Light Up Carpathians As Russians Approach In all an estimated 550 persons were killed during Th% anniversary of fascism. The was said to have started when Italian rntiotl fired on a procesâ€" sion celebrating the anniversary. Bombs also were reported to have been thrown into the ranks of the celebrants. said, barricaded the streets and arrested 700 men and 400 women and children. Those unable to proâ€" duce identity papers were shot imâ€" mediately, it was said, and the reâ€" mainder taken to a station square where they were held in a ring encircled by machineâ€"guns. _ _ The 300 selected for execution were driven in trucks to the Colosâ€" seum and the remainder taken to prison. Inside the Colosseum the selected victims were machineâ€" gunned in groups. Subsequently a state of sielg‘ee was gfoned proclaimed in the nal ity. â€" Commentators said the offensive to knock the Luftwaffe out of the skies over Europe preparatory to the Allied invasion now had reachâ€" ed the lowest rung of the Nazi aerial organization â€"the airfields themselves. Crewmen reported they encounâ€" tered no German fighter opposition and littke antiâ€"aircraft fire. Marâ€" auder medium bombers, escorted by Czech and Belgian Spitfires, bombed the Pas de Calais strip of the French coast. The RA.F. bomber command terminated an eight months‘ respite for Essen. Urgent repair work at the sprawling Krupp factories is believed to have been interrupted. The Naziâ€"controlled Rome radio said 100 Partisans were killed in a battle with blackshirts in the Piedâ€" mont valley, where the patriots were attempting to carry the fight into Turin. London. â€" Between 500 and 750% adequate housing for all, nutrition, U.S. heavy bombers plastered Gerâ€"| higher wages, etc. man airdromes in southwest and| The speaker also stated that docâ€" central France by daylight today ‘tors don‘t agree that the scheme after RA.F. and R.C.A.F. bombers made possible by the Ontario Govâ€" crashed 2,800 tons of explosives on the great Krupp armament works at Essen. Big Krupp Works Hit as 2,800 Tons Rained on Essen ton, cartiea vulvinst Thursiny, ou! > were said to include aged ommeee mroee ‘:m..â€"-umw Pictro Badogiio of the present free government of Italy. army newspapers conceded toâ€" day. Observers indicated that the Germans had regained the initia~ tive inside the ruined mountain stronghold. "The Allied bid to take Cassine and Monastery hill, the key to the door opening on Rome, can only be termed a failure," an editorial in the Canadian corps publication, Maple:â€" Leaf, said. "The Allics haven‘t been in the habit of kidding themselves and this is no time to start," it added. "The Stars and Stripes, U.S. :rmy newspaper, said, "Despite he most determined and valorâ€" ous fighting on the m of the Allied infantry and crews, the Germans have been able to hoid on and today their grip on this key fortress of the Gustav iine is nearly as strong as ever. Allied Headquarters, Naples.â€" The Allied attack on Cassino has ended in a bloody failure after 12 days of bitter handâ€"toâ€"hand fightâ€" ing, both the Canadian and U.S. press . accounts 731,000 Although monthly liquor rations in â€"Ontario dropped from 160 ounces to 26 ounces in 13 months the number of liquor permits inâ€" creased from 155,295 to 1,225,459. One in every three persons in the province now possesses a liquor permit. mended that the federal Home Imâ€" The Ontario Government has asked the Dominion authorities to EXPLAINS ONTARIO Mines in the use of powdered aluâ€" minum as a preventive of silicosis is being watched with interest by the Ontario Government. liberalized" and placed on the staâ€" tute books for use immediately the cost of medical services to the pubâ€" lic, wrongly attributed to the docâ€" tor, politicians of all Eflh _have realized the value of issue as a vote catcher and have brought out different plans to handle the probâ€" Dr. McGanity explained that, acâ€" cording to the constitution, the proâ€" vince has complete control of health matters and a federal scheme couldn‘t be put into, effect without the consent of the Proâ€" vince of Ontario. The new scheme will provide exemption for Christian Scientists and other groups. Dr. R. I. Gordon introduced the speaker and J. G. Brown proposed a vote of thanks. * Clinic The speaker didn‘t believe a scheme of ordering people around and telling them which doctor they must go to would ever work. "Mutâ€" ual esteem and confidence beâ€" tween doctor and patient is of utâ€" most importance." 0_ P. A. McKie made an appeal on behalf of the Kâ€"W Blood Donor "As you know, a plan is before the tesenl Government to draw up a health insurance ‘glhn which will be submitted to the proâ€" vinces for approval. Ontario has avoided the constitutional issue by bringing in a new bill which had its third and final reading Friday. "I believe medical men genen“lg have found that the plan is m better than any of us had expectâ€" ed," he said. If it were undertaken here there would be no local interference with the doctors, They would be directâ€" ly responsible to the provincial Government but not to the local authorities. Funds for the scheme would be provided by a method of taxation which could be suppleâ€" mented, consolidated revenue, proâ€" viding sufficient funds were not raised in the municipality. _ No Local Interference. Dr. McGanity stated, however, that "no one group of doctors will agree that the solution of the health problem will ever be worked out by being put in control of local governments or the muniâ€" cipality." There are many other matters to be considered such as adequate housing for all, nutrition, higher wages, etc. ernment can ever work out satisâ€" factorily for a community the size of Kitchener. "You‘re A Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith" (Continued from Page 1) Progress at Mclr!tytea%orqapig CAPITOL m P Un Nn (Contipued trom Page 1) Now Showing _ 41 ALllN LADD LOUIsE 'ldln t C o Cantitey ADDED FEATURE Alan Jones Evelyn Ankers °_ "Not at all, sir," said the darkâ€" haired witness. ‘_ Gabellini, dressed in a tan suit land a pale tie, clasped his hands and tapped his toes upon the floor constantly as he testified. Witness vigorously denied that he and Mrs. Lonergan had quarrelâ€" ed over her dancing at the Stork Club with Capt. Peter Elser of the Marine Corps who appeared as a prosecution witness. :I!OLI' apamapan«s eurb the export of bran from this mh order that domestic may be relioved. He said he and Mrs. Lonergan went from the Stork Club to the hotel suite of Thomas Farrell, a magazine publisher. He didn‘t know whether she had any drinks there but said he saw her eat toast and drink milk. Gabellini escorted her back to her own apartment about 6 a.m. on the morning of her death, he said. A committee of the Legisiature will be named to consider the Onâ€" tario Fuel Commission‘s report on of the subject. C e .' nc With four Government ament ments granting tax exemptions those unable to or belonging to certain henuhp::rvicu or reliâ€" gious groups, the new Ontario act ves ons rimioieh hemin tor wi commit stage in the Legislature. "Did the Stork Club management ask Mrs. Lonergan to leave because she I'(was intoxicated?" asked Brodâ€" crick. He made the statement when Judge James G. Wallace asked why he was interrogating Gabellini as to how many drinks Mrs. Lonerâ€" gan had with him on their date. Gabellini, a dapperlyâ€"dressed inâ€" terior decorator met Broderick‘s barrage of questions by replying that he did not recall how many drinks she had at each of the places except that it was "one or two" at some of them. He denied that she was intoxicated. They spent three hours at a resâ€" taurant, then went to the Stork Club, he testified. Defense Rests Lonergan Case In Sudden Move NEW YORK.â€"The defence of Wayne Lonergan, charged with first degree murder in the slaying of his heiress wife, Patricia, sudâ€" denly rested its case Wednesday at 11.14 a.m., after calling only three witnesses. Broderick had attempted to show through Gabellini that the victim was "very drunk" shortly before she was slain. The lanky defendant was not called to the stand. Edward V. Broderick‘s sudden move came after he had called to the witness stand Mario Gabellini, interior decorator who escorted Mrs. Lonergan on a round of night clubs the night before the state contends she was slain, and Mr. Isiâ€" dore Michel, the Lonergan‘s physiâ€" cian. Alleges Victim Drunk _ He had questioned Detective ;}lilliam Prendergast the day beâ€" ore. MON. â€" TUES. â€" WED. "Did you help Mrs. Lonergan ADDED ATTRACTION Daily From 1 P.M. Continuous Dr. Michel, who preceded Gabelâ€" lini on the stand, had corroborated Lonergan‘s statement in his conâ€" fession that he attempted to buy "Didn‘t you bring the Italian driâ€" ver into the shov to tell him not to tell anybody about the fight you and Mrs. Lonergan had had in front of the. apartment?" Broderick perâ€" sisted. + "Certainly not. sir," Gabellini answered. Gabellini said he stayed only a few seconds at the apartment, then went in a taxi cab to a food shop where he was accustomed to eat. He said he invited the driver in to eat with him because "he was friendly and we were talking in Italian." right up to her bedroom?" Broderâ€" ick demanded. "No sir," Gabellini answered. "‘Wasn‘t it a fact that Mrs. Lonâ€" ergan was so drunk she could hardâ€" ly walk?" _ _ ‘"She absolutely was not." Invited Driver to Lunch. 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