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ABBOTSFORD, SUMAS & MATSQUI NEWS

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1940

World News

ALERT BAY BUSINESS SECTION SWEPT BY FIRE ON MONDAY

Fought with
swept the busine
Vancouver, and ca
telephone communicat
hour battle

an bucket
ction of #

b y the entire population of the town, fire
thing and tourist centre, 180 miles north of
,000 Monday night. Telegraph and radio-
it is reported no one was injured in the 4-

with the

Civil Service Employees Attend N. Y. Budget Meet

One of the first trainloads of civil service employees as they left Grand Central station in New York city for
the state capitol at Albany. Some 6,000 employees attez 1 the hearing on Governor Lehmanh’s $396,700,000
executive budget. Proposals that the budget be reducc™ *--~) 77 to 50 million dollars and that all new taxes be
scrapped were debated by groups from all sectiens c° \xether banner, not pictured here, bore the

slogan: ‘Pass a ‘peoples’ budget, tax the upper b:

Dead Men, Silent Guns Tell Mute Story of Warfare

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barrels, these Russian guns are shown on a road of
who mopped up the ragged remnants of the Red army’s
the total equipment which was captured by the

With gunners lying dead and frozen under their
Suomussalmi as they fell into the hands of the Finns,
forty-fourth division. This is only a small fraction of
army, and which is now being used against its for

odern Trench Mortar

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Nazi Grenadiers Operate

these two German soldiers are keeping their
The mortar saves a great
than can be attained by hand-throwing.
The mortar guns

the first rule for longer life on the western front,

Obeying
designed for hurling grenades.

heads down low as they operate a trench mortar
deal of wear and tear on the arms, and gets a much longer range
The grenades may be sent on their way while the soldier Is lying in comparative safety.
are well adapted to trench warfare and are used by both allied and Nazi forces.

« In Views

Lone Sentinel

Arrange Chicago Democratic Conclave

Lonesomest job on the western
front is that of this royal artillery
telephonist who sits alone with his
instrument and advises the British
battery on its target accuracy, giv-
ing it the correct range. ns

Big plans for the in Chicago are being
made by Oliver A. Quayle, center, treasurer of the Democratic national
committee; Joseph Knight, left, secretary of the Mlinois Democratic cen-

tral committee, and Homer Matt Adams, president of the Young Demo-
crats of America. The trio met in Chicago to make necessary arrange-
ments.

Political Respite

New Jap Premier Holds Press Session

Mrs. Robert A. Taft, wife of the
senator from Ohio, takes time out
from all political activities. She is
aiding her husband in his campaign
for the Republican presidential nom-
ination.

Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai, newly appointed premier of Japan, telks
to a press conference after a visit to the imperial palace. Admiral Yonai
is regarded as a te, and has fr ly stressed the necessity for
amity in American and British relations. Admiral
Yonai has been commander-in-chief of the imperial flect since 1936,

Pigeons Blessed

Finnish | blesses the pig:

Polish National Council Meets in Paris

Ignace Jan Paderewski, world-famous pianist who has re-entered
political life as president of the Polish national council, chats with Wlady-
slaw Raczkiewicz, left, president of the Polish republic, and General
Sikorsky, right, prime and war minister, at the first meeting of the Polish
on the i 1 council in France since the war began. The government in
feast of St. Anthony. Only unhappy | France was established after Germany’s invasion of Poland,
spectator is the little Italian girl who 8
is holding the basket and whose
yiew is obliterated by the cover.

His excellency, ldefonso Cardinal
Schuster, archbishop of Milan, Italy,

Motor Magnates Greet Mickey Rooney

Fair Prexy

Marshall Dill, new president of
the California World's Fair which
opens May 25th,

During the 128 days of the Call-
fornia World's Fair he will be ov
the job to welcome dignitaries who
have been invited from all parts of
the world.

Mickey Rooney, young movie star, in a friendly pose with motor

car magnates Edsel (left) and Henry Ford. Mickey was a guest of
the Fords while in Detroit, Mich., for a movie premiere. The new filmy
shown for the first time in the motor city, was the life story of a
Edison. Henry Ford's enthusiasm perhaps is the result of his life-long a
miration for the inventive genius of Edison.

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