eported
Devastated;
C
British
Niers
Attack:
housantls
of
Fire
Bombs
and
Tons
of
Explosives
Dropped
uy
iwjai
an
I'wiw
uii
mis
uuu
wilier
uojeciivcs
in
Reich
LONDON,
November
8:
(CP)
The
ereat
Krunn
filaments
works
at
Essen,
Germany,
was
left
"one
hutre
leet
of
fire"
in
an
overnight
attack
bv
the
Roval
Air
:rce,
the
Air
Ministry
announced
today.
Thousands
of
re
bombs
and
uncounted
tons
of
explosives
were
loosed
(the
plants
tor
more
than
lour
hours.
Returning
pilots
fsuu
mey
couia
see
me
resulting
linnTPni"T
!b1ow
ml1"
away.
IIM
I
I.YII
111
Official
sources
reported
that
the
Three
OF
REPORT
fuller
Kin;
Issues
Call
To
1'rov-
tta
for
Conference
on
Sirois
Recommendations
ITTAWA,
Nov
8:
(CP)
Provln
I
jovemraents
have
been
ln
i
by
Prime
Minister
William
Mackenzie
'King
;
to
a
pta-provlnclal
conference
to
hsbplementat'.on
of
the
re-
bttSitlons
of
the
royal
tipyft
tma
u:
minion
s
provmciai
Italhe
Prime
Mlniitef
sald
ht
i-ommcnds
ltselfwong-
iwnd
Judgment
Mtullo
Comments
pCTORIA,
Nov.
8:
(CP)
Pre-
;
T.
D.
Pa
tullo
said
yesterday
I
tmt
was
much
In
the
Sirois
I
hlch
British
Columbia
was
I
prepared
to
accept.
The
oppor-
i
w
discuss
It
was,
however.
nod.
i.
CHAMBER
COMMITTEES
Nnttmtnt
Made
Of
Personnel
'or
Coming
Year
Jntor
Section
of
Prince
Rupert
pw
oi
Commerce
committees
i
Man
at
t
"
nave
been
named
as
r-tendance
Air
nivitf
irhw
P).
LouLi
Fum-cilfr
nuvor
r1Vlc
Centre-
-Cliff
Tlom
tr-V,r-
i"'-
me.
uordon
German,
Gavin
f
-"Clal-
-GC0H?f
PnrU
r.V.nlr.
SmlUl-
ss
Ingram.
LT-rge
L.
Rorle.
lon
Day.
xniff
nm,.
v.i
-
"vuwiuy,
iuis
tcisen-
Hockey
Scores
National
!
.,.
ansi.PH.7"s'
Pari
f
I.
ri...i
re8-and6"
!
Royal
Air
Force
carried
out
a
smashing
attack
on
various
Qer-!
man-held
objectives
during
the
I
night
in
addition
to
the
exceeding
ly
heavy
attack
on
the
Krupp
works.
Oil
plants
in
Oermany,
invasion
ports,
airdromes
and
other
targets
were
bombed
as
well.
.'It's
No
Thrill
On
Home
Fronts
Rut
British
Women
Doing
Grand
r
JnbAVIth
RartoVproblems
and.
SOUTHPORT,
Eni.NtVf8?(CP)
"Women
on
the
homr
front
are
doing
a
grand
Job
in
the
face
of
difficulties,"
according
to
Mrs.
Barbara
Aryton
Gould,
addressing
the
National
Conference
of
Labor
Wo
men.
I
"There
Is
no
excitement
staying
at
home
wrestling
with
the
piob-)
lems.of
rationing,"
she
said.
'There
is
no
thrill,
but
all
the
time
these
women
are
as
vital
in
winning
the
war
as
the
men
who
go
out
and
des
troy
Nazis
In
the
air.
If
the
home
front
were
to
crack
everything
else
would
crack."
Three
hundred
delegates,
with
onlv
three
dissentients,
carried
a
peace.
John
Queen
Is
Re-Elected
WINNIPEG,
Nov.
Queen
was
Chamberlain
Gravely
111
LONDON,
Nov.
8:
(CP)
Mrs.
Neville
Chamberlain,
wife
of
the
former
Prime
Minister,
in
a
statement
to
the
press
today,
said:
"Mr.
Chamberlain's
strength
has
been
falling
the
last
few
days
and
he
Is
now
gravely
111."
HOOP
PLAY
ORGANIZED
Leagues
to
Operate
This
Winter
With
Y.M.CJI.,
Savoy
Hotel
and
Rupert
Motors
in
Senior
enlng
will
take
place
some
month.
A
local
Senior
all
star
team
will
travel
to
Ocean
Falls
some
time
'soon
and
the
New
Metlakatla
and
Petersburg
teams
from
Alaska
will
i
be
here
before
Christmas.
PAUL
SATKQ
GOING
EAST
Voyageur
of
"Ark
of
Yukon,"
Now
Settled
Near
Juneau,
to
Visit
Philadelphia
Paul
Satko,
Richmond,
Virginia,
automobile
mechanic,
who
this
year
picked
up
his
wife
and
eight
children,
crossed
the
continent
In
a
mo-
-
I
TtiA
nnvArai)
it'i
frnti
Dnfl
than
"o.
'
the
adventures
of
the
trip
this
year
8.
.
,w
rrm
(Or)
jonn
Tvm
.
,
,
.
.
.
DUblicltv.
,hl.h
won
him
so
much
re-elected
mayor
or
-
...
,.
Wlnntottr
by
acclamation
today
when
no
opponent
was
nominated.
1
no
.111
K
lntlAn
HilV,
wovemDer
"c
ovontr.fr
nnil
there
sire
nineteen
candidates
"
'J:
1".'
for
ten
scats
on
the
city
council
with
fifteen
for
ten
school
board
seats.
POPE
IS
ALARMED
Norah
at
Prince
Rupert
and
will
proceed
East
by
rail
from
here
Frl-
"The
family
Is
doing
fine,"
said
Satko.
They
are
living
on
land
at
Eagle
River,
some
twenty
miles
north
of
Juneau.
They
are
quite
happy
ln
their
new
home
and
have
no
doubt
they
will
enjoy
prosperity
UtfhAriY
VICTORIA,
B.C.
m
High
mAln
!
Tomorrow
sT
ides
21:56
p.m.
lW
.
High
8:50
a.m.
18.0
ft.
Low
2:59
ajn.
7.9
ft.
21:00
pjn.
16.7
ft.
15:58
a.m.
8.2
ft.
Low
.
1:52
am.
7.4
ft.
14:51
p.m.
9.1
ft.
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
XXIX.
No.
263.
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
FRIDAY,
NOVEMBER
8,
1940.
PRICE:
S
CENTS
mm
wenty
German
Planes
Are
Downed
jreat
Krupp
issen
Munitions
Plant
!:
Plant
Is
Mass
Of
Flames
Britain
Got
Best
Of
CONTINGENT
:
FROM
YUKON
OFF
TO
WAR
rarty
Here
Yesterday
Enroute
To
Vancouver
To
Enlist-Norwegian
Out
To
Get
Hitler
"Yes,
I
want
to
getoveiseas
as
far
and
as
fast
as
I
fan.
I
want
to
get
even
with
the
man
(and
the
description
was
not
as
compll-mentary
as
:hat)
who
killed
my
sister
and
her
four
year
old
baby
girl."
So
said
Walter
Erickson,
one
of
a
party
of
eleven
Dawson
men
who
were
in
Prince
Rupert
yester
day
afternoon
aboard
the
steamer
Princess
Norah
enroute
to
Vancouver
to
enlist
in
th'
Canadian
veuve
service
torce.
one
was
Norwegian
bom,
on
Swedish,
one
French
and
the
rest
Canadian
bom
one
in
Dawson.
Mr.
Erickson
told
how
he
had
,
learned
indirectly
of
th
fate
that
With
at
least
three
teams
In
had
befallen
his,
sisen
and
her
each
league,
schedules
for
league
child.
Living
outside
of
Cslo,
Noi-basketball
in
Prince
Rupert
are
now,
waJ'-
hi
a
small
town,
'.they
had
.being
lined
up.
In
the
Senior
see"
two
transport
planes
land
League
the
entrants
will
be
Y.M.C.
and
rjW
out
to
the
ffcM.
They
A.,
Savoy
Hotel
and
Rupert
Motors,
turned
out
to
be
Germans
declared
Erickson.
who
said
that
his"
mother'
and
father
and
sisters
and
brothers
also
lived
in
Norway
but
he;
had
heard
inching
from
them
imce!'the
Invasion
of
Norway.
The
party
was
headed"
by
Tommy
Rogers,
a
Welshman
and
veteran
of
the
last
war.
Burns
McDonald
end
Adolf
Watelet.
the
latter
a
Frenchman,
also
served
in
the
last
war.
The
others,
were
all
younger
men,
all
having
been
in
the
employ
of
the
Yukon
Consolidated
.
Mining
Co.,
principal
gold
mining
concern
of
the
Yukon.
All
are,
anxious
to
get
Into
,the
war,
with-'
out
delay.
All
being
friends,
they
hope
to
be
able
to
train
and
serve
together.
They
expect
to
be
met
at
Vancouver
and
taken
In
charge
by
the
military
authorities
there.
resolution
on
war
and
peace,
stress-
salled
from
Seattle
to
Juneau
ln
the
Each
wea,s
a
copper
bronze
maple
lng
that
only
a
commonweaiin
wcrude
home-made
boat
Ark
of
Jun
nauons
couia
onng
awui
a
lum
....
ba,k
Prlnee
Runert
leaf
presented
by
the
Imperial
Order,
Daughters
of
the
Empire,
.
.
ana
em
Dossed
again
inursaay
atieruuuu.
xiuvuig
settled
his
wife
and
the
children,
including
one
which
was
born
since
'
with
a
crown
and
(the
words
"Dawson
Y.
T
Canada."
i
Al
Physically
I
all
un-
,
,
.
...
,
,,
,.
.i
L
Before
ociwe
leaving
ieuvmg
Dawson
unwson
larrlval
ln
Alaska,
Satkc
said
that
I
to
visit
with
relatives.
Undoubtedly,
he
will
also
be
able
to
capitalize
on
exam-
j
inatlon
and
were
pronounced
in
I
Category
A.
Enlistments
could
not;
be
formal
at
Dawson
because,
had
they
actually
been
enlisted,
it
would
have
'been
a
breach
of
neut-1
ralHy
for
them
to
pass
through
Alaska,
as
they
had
to
to,
In
trav
elling
out
of
the
Yukon
to
British
'
Columbia.
Therefore,
they
had
to
I
pay
their
own
way.
They
are
the
second
lot
of
Daw-'.
son
men
who
have
left
ln
groups
to
enlist.
Another
party
will
be
coming
out
within
the
next
couple
nf
wwlrs
Thl
jvirHr
will
.
..
.11
Tl
1
,.r.
Ik
nff.
M.AM.
I
"
.
ROME-Alarmed
over
the
tnreainere.
wua
wmun
w.u.b
--
Vancouver
Saturday
mornin;
of
the
British
Under
Secretary
onm
w
wcu
Foreign
Affairs
that
the
Royal
Air'
leaving
Richmond
that
they
struck
The
party,
a
likely
and
well
set
up
looking
lot
ranging
ln
age
from
Force
planned
to
bomb
Rome
the
out
ior.
nn,2lJ
44
comprised
the
following
Pope
Is
reported
to
be
seems
u
-
-
"
Thomas
Rogers,
miner,
aged
42,
ther
assurance
from
Great
uniam
"a
.
pom.
at
xnysyDroi,
waies.
be
two
weeks
and
It
may
be
may
Qustave
that
the
Vatican
will
be
spared,
mlncT(
ANNOUNCEMENT
AOW
mc
through
the
medium
of
this
paper
to
thank
"
my
many
friends
and
patrons
who
have
so
loyally
pPported
me
during
my
connections
with
Bryant
com-
ginning
Saturday,
November
9th,
I
will
be
afflliat-corrtl
lhe
clothing
firm
of
William
F.
Stone
where
I
uiaiiy
invite
you
to
afford
me
the
opportunity
of
fur-iner
ervU,R
as
In
i.h
t.
-..
...
r-
.
OllJtClCiJ,
ssi
f
SAM
JOY
six.
Prince
George
Gets
Blizzard
Six
Inches
Of
Snow
Fell
Yesterday
In
Interior
Town
PRINCE
GEORGE,
Nov.
8:
(CP)
There
was
a
snowstorm
of
blizzard
.proportions
in
Prince
George
yesterday,
A
fall
of
six
inches
disrupted
traffic.
at
Dawson
33,
born
Henry
Herschfleld,
carpenter,
28,
born
at
Steinbeck,
Manitoba.
Leonard
Wilson,
22,
caterpillar
and
truck
mechanic,
born
at
Round
Hill,
Alberta.
Bum
McDonald,
41,
miner,
born
at
Sydney
Mines,
Nova
Scotia.
Walter
Erickson,
39,
painter,
bom
at
Frederlckstad,
Norway.
Otto
Nordllng,,
31,
clerk,
bom
at
Lurlea,
Sweden.
James
Sinclair,
26,
carpenter,
Toronto.
Norman
Hartnell,
21,
truck
drlv-(Continucd
on
Page
Four)
.
.
.
:
V
.
,
777J
Air
Fighting
During
Mediterranean
J
Hi
rescued.
Naval
Battle
LA
LINEA,
Spain,
Nov.
8:
Bulletins
FIRE
AT
TERRACE
TERRACE
Fire
destroyed
a
residence
near
the
railway
station
a-i
noon
today.
The
loss
is
estimated
at
$2000.
The
building
had
been
completed
only
this
year.
WAS
NOT
HANDLED
NEW
YORK
National
Broadcasting
Company
announced
that
a
speech
Chancellor
Hitler
was
to
have
delivered
over
its
network
beginning
10:15
a.m.
Pacific
Standard
Time
had
been
cancelled.
Earlier
the
company
had
ad-
vised
that
Hitler
was
speaking
TACOMA
BRIDGE
COLLAPSES
TACOMA
The
Taeoma
Narrows
Bridge,
third
longest
suspension
bridge
in
the
world,
collapsed
today.
No
one
was
on
the
bridge
which
began
swaying
craz-ily
during
a
high
wind
earlier.
All
that
is
left
of
the
$6,500,000
structure,
which
fell
a
distance
of
190
feet,
are
the
two
towers.
A
newspaperman,
Leonard
Coats-worth,
had
a
narrow
escape,
losing
his
auto.
He
was
the
last
across.
NOT
RESIGNING
BOSTON
Speaking
here,
Joseph
P.
Kennedy
said
he
was
not
resigning
as
United
States
ambassador
to
Great
Britain
but
was
ready
to
be
back
In
London
on
forty-eight
hours'
notice.
He
was
pessimistic
as
to
an
early
peace,
Kennedy
said.
FREIGHTER
ATTACKED
NEW
YORK
The
British
freighter
Empire
Dorado
radioed
today
that
she
was
sinking
300
miles
west
of
Ireland
with
casual
ties
aboard.
Lifeboats
had
been
smashed
by
an
enemy
attack
and
could
not
be
used,
the
message
said.
,
Spectacular
and
Impressive
Oliser-I
vance
of
Remembrance
Day
rianned
for
Next
Monday
Full
details
of
the:
Remembrance,
Day
parade
and
service
to
be,
held
ln
Prince
Rupert
on
Monday
morn
ing
next
have
been
completed
by
George
W.
Cripps,
chairman
of
the
I
parade
committee,
and
are
announced
in
general
orders
issued
by
Major
J.
D.
Home,
parade
adjutant.
As
previously
intimated,
the
parade
and
service
are
expected
to
be
the
most
impressive
and
spectac-jular
ever
held
In
Prince
Rupert
which
Is
now
a
full
military
centre.
Local
Canadian
Active
Service
Force
units:
will
participate
fully
in
addition
to
th'e
usual
civilian
Izatlons.
The
parade
will
be
under
command
of
Lieut.
Col.
S.
D.
Johnston
M.C..
V.D.
officer
commanding,
Prince
Rupert
area.
D.
G.
Borland,
from
10:15
to
noon,
the
origin
of
(president
of
the
Canadian
Legion,
the
broadcast
being
not
disclosed,
.will
be
honorary
parade
marshal.
A
Berlin
radio
broadcast
reported
Hi'Ier
would
attend
a
commcn-orative
gathering
of
Nazi
veterans
in
Munich
tonight
on
the
eve
of
the
November
9
Nazi
memorial
Day.
1
Major
J.
D.
Home
of
the
Second,
Battalion,
Canadian
Scottish,
will,
be
parade
adjutant
with
Regimen-,
'tal
Sergeant
Major
J.
Simpkin
ofi
the
Irish
Fusiliers
as
parade
ser-
geant-major.
Organizations
will
detail
quarters
at
10
a.m.
and
the
Izatlons
will
fall
In
on
their
mark
ers
ten
minuies
later,
rne
oroer
or
parade
will
be
as
follows:
Motorcycle
unit.
Detachment
of
Provincial
Police.
Boys'
Band.
Overseas
Service
Women.
Veterans
with
Standard
Bearer.
Legion
Defence
Corps.
Women's
Auxiliary
of
the
Canadian
Legion.
Bugle
Band.
Sea
Cadets,
Boy
Scouts
Girl
Guides.
Pipers.
Women's
Auxiliary
Service
Corps.
Orders
and
Societies.
Detailed
Party
carry
wreath
and
flowers.
Military
and
Air
Force.
The
parade
will
move
off
at
10:30
a.m.
proceeding
west
along
Third
Avenue
to
Sixth
Street,
along
Sixth
Street
to
Second
Avenue
and
along
Second
Avenue
to
the
Court
House
grounds
where
the
service
will
be
held
at
the
cenotaph.
At
the
conclusion
of
the
service
at
the
ceno
taph
women's
units
in
the
parade,
r
n
-
i
eavy
vjerman
ixaia
Royal
Air
Force
Lost
Four
Machines
Nazis
Aiming
at
British
Industry,
Transport
and
Morale
(CP)
Heavy
gunfire
was
re-
-
ported
in
th
Mediterranean
LONDON,
November
8:
(CP)
German
war
planes
today
shortly
after
a
Brit'sh
anneared
earlv
over
London
tonicht
after
scattered
dav-
fleet
of
fourteen
warships
left
m
1
1
1
i
rw--
j
a.
t
.
a.
i7
o
P
h
Ta
twenty
enemy
planes
had
been
destroyed
today
units
of
the
Gibraltar
station.
.
TWO
DROWN
IN
SEINER
Double
Fatality
Yestentav
in
Wre
rk
of
Fishing
Bo?-4
in
Albcrni
Canal
PORT
ALBERNI,
Nov.
3:
(CP)
light
raids
on
Great
Britain.
The
Air
Ministry
said
that
lour
uritisn,
two
01
wnose
pnocs
were
savea
Gecrge
Stllanovlch
of
Vancouver
recent
raids,
It
was
announced,
wa-.
drowned
and
Augustine
Cur,
also
of
Vancouver,
U
missing
and
believed
drowned
following
the
who
wreck
01
the
62-foot
seiner
Liberty
The
Y.
M.
C.
A.
team
will
Include
immediately
turned
maehinj
guns
wmcn
arove
a?rouna
m
a
miy-
Don
Arney
and
Bob
Houston
of
the
cn
people
and
mowed
them
mUe
Bale
on
a
reef
yesterday.
In
Al-pltalI4sUraeam-..The,
leaWeop-.d0'',X're
a.,tuq;
e
timp
time
thi
this
muraerers.
Why
wny
mat
s
not
war,
"e-
rive
emers.
on
Doara
were
DETAILS
OF
BIG
PARADE
y
as
as
against
against
One
British
squadron
alone
shot
down
fifteen
German
dive
bombers
which
were
fiMTfT
CJ
attacking
shipping.
1
V,Vll
V
U
I
1U
The
raiders
attacked
London
andj
other
British
areas
today
following
i
rfcECT'DfYVim
up
a
night
of
blows
evidently
aim-
j
LlEiU
1
1
J
I
Ell
ed
at
Great
Britain's
Industry,
transport
and
civilian
morale.
Reports
of
the
night
raids
disclosed
that
a
large
library,
children's
hospital
and
Catholic
home
for
the
old
Big
German-
Victory
on
North
lantlc
is
claimed
by
Berlin
BERLIN,
Nov.
8:
(CP)
The
Oer-
were
among
places
hit
but
casual-
tman
high
command
claimed
today
Moo
nitPA
fanf
The
Tower
of
London
i
that
surface
warships
of
the
the
man
navv
ODeratine
In
the
Atlan-
Church
of
St.
Clement
Dames
in
the
tic
"have
completely
destroyed
a
Strand
have
been
hit
by
bombs
in
British
convoy
on
the
North
"At-
;
lantic
route,"
sinking
86,500
tons
of
j
shipping.
I
Greeks
Still.
t
4
Holding
Fast
.
ATHENS.
Nov
fi
8.-.
Greek
forces,
jye
repulsed
'tfle!
Kew
Italian,
offensive
attempting
to
pierce
the
.Metaxas
Line
In
the
yiclnlty.of
Eplrus.
The
Greeks
are
also
continuing
to
pound
the
Important
Italian
base
of
Koritza
in
Albania.
MAY
BE
PREMIER
LONDON
Political
gossip
has
it
that
Ernest
Bevan
may
quit
the
cabinet
unless
he
is
made
Prime
Minister.
Lord
Halifax
is
expected
to
remain
as
foreign
secretary
despite
criticism.
TURKEY
ARRESTS
SPIES
ISTANBUL
Turkey
Is
rounding
up
spies.
One
hundred
Italians
and
Bulgarians
are
reported
to
have
been
arrested.
FLOATING
HOTEL
SYDNEY,
Australia,
November
8
(CP.)
The
American
yacht
South-
thelr
Seas
wil1
as
a
hotel'
at
markers
to
report
to
the
parade
"
,
'
"
because
of
the
sergeant-major
sergeant-majc
at
fortress
head-
Alrwap
inaeiuiue
political
suuaiion
in
ithe
French
island.
carrying
wreaths
and
(flowers
will
dismiss
to
permit
members
to
view
the
parade.
The
remainder
will
form
up
on
McBrlde
Street
facing
Third
Avenue
ln
the
following
order:
'
T
Detachment
of
Provincial
Police.
Pipers.
Veterans
with
Standard
Beardr.
Legion
Defence
Corps
Bugle
Band.
1
Sea
Cadets.
Boy
Scouts
Military
and
Air
Force
ln
same
order.
'
't
The
parade
will
then
proceed
along
McBrlde
Street
to
(Third
Avenue
West,
along
Third
Avenue
past-the
saluting
base
oil
the
steps'
of
the
Federal
Building
wheYd
the
saluto
will
be
taken
by
Lieut.
Col.
3.
D.
Johnston.
The
parade
will
then
proceed
to
Sixth
Street
and
thence
independently
by
units
to
their
own
parade
grounds
for
dismissal,
In
the
event
of
Inclement
weather,
the
parade
will
proceed
"direct
to
the
Capitol
Theatre"
Wuro
tilt)
ser-
orders
and
societies
and
detail
parly
vice
will
be
held;,
,
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