and his wife were killed. . If,:. - ,A B.C. Weather Forecast Tomorrow sT ides prince Rupert and Queen Charlotte She mmm High 9:35 ain. 18.7 .It. Islands Light winds, (air 21:45 pjn. 17.9 ft. and mild with fog patches. Low 2:47 am. 6.7 ft. 15:36 pjn. 3.3 ft. NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER " " xxx: no. 252. ' PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1U 11. FnwS Reds a: Vv unching Counter Attacks Oj V, i .O'l vol ttnnsevelt Says SHOOTING STARTED. FOR U.S. America Attacked, Time Has Come to Clear Decks and lane stationsStatement of Tolicy. WASHINGTON, Oct. 28: 0 - -Damn the torpedoes. Full speed aheao These words of Admiral Farragut were repeated by Presl- dent KranKjin u. iiuwcicn m a Haw Day address which was broadcast to the world last night. The shooting war has start ed mf oresiueiii uctiaicu. rtiuei- nalion niouu jcaujr. iiic unit uoii v., ipap inp nprix a n n her British authorities refused to At I (If tail, UaVuau.aawu ins. ilia ucuaiatiuit n oujwi- In an important statement of lil'Y 11 ILUIWI. f I, a W HIIIIVUHVV JHlUlUrUV LCJ (11 III 1..C1 L,aill It Oil uo ii an niir inpnns w l l n navai . . L i llv. a. wuv a v a v. a a Chancellor Adolf Hitler's plan was and, tf!:f!ons In London President Rouse- nannh nr V 1 M A H ttn ii. a u. m u c Aawaaviu want J i ? n T h Even nnr Star LU '.I I'll LI 111 L UI11L4T11 O ItA LCJ h aia tiro war Berlin said that the speech n:3 be ludicrous u it cua not mcb tragedy. The secret nap or South America was ref err- ru u H' a mn p Mrs Roosevelt criticized John Lew by Implication. LOGGERS WANTED To Hundred and Fifty Men Are Needed for Forestry Corps. Two hundred and fifty men are needed for the Forestry Corps and British Columbian' loggers are 'aated Enlistment Involves a; first class passage south, a trip across the continent and over the a to the British Isles. 1 ! Anyone who has nut in an un- iercut swun a falW ke. null- IfQ a crosscut honked . ,.., a . rhnker. figged a spar try, tightened a guy- lime DUnkeri whWt.l hnolrnH fnr 'ne varde fired a donkey, stow-ei a boom put In a splice, officiated as bull cook, handled a pair ui ung. scaled a cut or cruised I a show --in h Weather Forecast General Svnnnsl T Viao Koen cloudy with lioht ri H r, ' Or) the Enntnrm nAcl nnrtl with tot natch. In thelardr0( norther,, oortl portion. ' r I -5 cr, Vr: rains piahk a nmcwi with to. tog 'CZ "iMadsen Red Lake FAlTiiT:rj; 6T PATTM V" 'X"". ... nn b-i wet. to; w - mager: m this district of Nor- ml. ?VP colleckd enough scrap 000 'he manufacture of 12,-for Tn euns and wate paper fuses ents of MMM shell ' "Hie RIDDANCE tno.-' "'It or Apteryz Is al- ex'inct. DOWi ?D NAZI PLANE VIEWED BY SOVIET CHILDREN This Helnkel 111 bomber, shot down In Ru:,..ia, apparency has no who cluster about it. The photo was radioed from Moscow. TELLS WHY THEY QUIT Belgian Army Not Beaten, Says Minister, But Trapped by French Retreat. LONDON, Oct. 28: O; The battle of Belgium in the spring of 1940 was lost In France, said Ca- mille Qutt, Belgian minister of National Defend" luncheon here. He declared the battle was lost M n ir IK sin a nilna . Ihn XT r - I L A iia w au. Ulll. ua l ua. i. lw& & t - uaa brflk - .throut?h at Siod&n. when LIFU. L1M.III trl 111. Alllfll LI Crlllrl Mil Ail hind the Scheldt. The Belgian army was not beaten, it was trapped," ne assert- ed. "It was encircled, because the Germans, through the sap made at Sedan, had reached the French coast and made any retreat Impossible for us." Mr. Gutt said the Belgian army bore the full pressure of the German war machine from May 22 until May 27. At the end of that time munitions were lacking and 3,000,000 people were packed into an area of less than 1,000 square miles, without food, drinking water, gas, electricity or shelter. That was why it was decided to surrender. i TODAY'S STOCKS j (OourUwy S. D. Johnston Co.) Vancouver j Grandview 15 Vi. Bralomc 10.75 i Cariboo Quartz uar 2.15 .t ediey Mascot Pena oreuie Pioneer - z.u Premier 70 Privateer - 43 Reno .1U",2 Sheep Creek . .83 Oils ' Calmont .16, C. ti E. 1.20 Home 2.20 Royal Canadian ' .01 Toronto Beattie 1.06 rentral Patricia 131 Cm.llcrr 39.25 n Kerr Addison - uZoLr: " n Pickle Crow Preston East Dome 3.20 'San Antonio - lou.. Sherritt Gordon 92 KfLLED HIS PARENTS HULL, Eng., Oct. 28; W-Pte. irrwt nirt 29. eave his rifle to his six-year-old son, Herbert, home on leave. The when he came i-j iha trieccr and Dicic Bulletins JAPAN DENIES CLASH TOKYO A Japanese spokesman denies reports of a clash between Japanese and Russian frontier guards near the village of Raskino in Siberia. INDEPENDENCE OF SYRIA LONDON Recognition of the independence of Syria was implied in a message by King (leorgc today. Similar recognition by other nations, including the United States,, would be welcomed, said the message. NAZI DRIVE SLOWS UP ' MOSCOW Winter weather and stubborn Russian resistance is making it increasingly difficult for the Nazi panzer divisions 4o" continue their drive on north and central fronts and they are also being slowed up in the south, the Russian High Command said today, ROYAL AIR FORCE BUSY LONDON The Royal Air Force had a particularly busy day and night yesterday over France, Holland and Belgium. Ostend seaplane bases were hit. ' German ships in convoy were attacked. Twenty-nine Geiman planes were brought down. Pilot Officer McAlpine, an American from Buffalo, accounted for two of them. LONDON STAYS QUIET LONDON London completed its third month today without a general air raid alarm, the last having been on the night of July 27-28. WINDSORS AT WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON The Duke ! and Duchess of Windsor were received at the White House today. ) Mrs. Roosevelt was keeping a date in Chicago. LIGHT ON MARATHON Light from the nearest of the' Nebulae takes 900,000 years to reach the earth travelllne at 186.- 000 miles per second. Turk Generals . Meet Hitler BERLIN, Oct. 28: Q Chan cellor Adolf Hitler today re celved two Turkish generals at eastern front headquart' ers. The meeting, It is sug' gested, might be of some si? niflcance in connection with the Russo-German war. terrors lor the Hussaan children BOMBARD IN LIBYA British Warships Blast Axis Barracks, Transport and Supply Bases at Bardia. ALEXANDRIA, Oct. 28: --British warships, in their newly disclosed bombardment of Axis objectives in Libya, blasted Axis barracks and motor transport and Germans Throwing Fresh Reserves Continually Into Battle Soviet Reserve Armies Being Trained Far to Rear in Eastern Siberia. LONDON, Oct. 28: (CP) The Red Army launched counter-attacks on all sections of the Moscow front today and made headway in a number of places, according to a correspondent of the Red Star quoted in Moscow despatch to Reuters. The report came as an authoritative source said that German armies were ten to fifteen miles from Rostov-6n-the Don but still about forty miles from Mos- iii r c supply bases while firing more conferred with supervisory staffs mans were said to be throwing of Moscow are said In war dis-than one thousand shells into and have met the employees In fresh reserves continually Into patches today to have withstood Bardia. BODIES TO GO J0UTH Two Men Injured In' Airplane .Crash Leave For Ketchikan On Coastguard Cutter The bodies of Livinsstone Wer- necke, prominent Yukon mining man, and Charles Groptis, his airplane icrash a week ago today near' Milbank Sound ' will be for- warded tonight on the steamer Francisco. 01 Business is greater tnan at any Pilot Gerald Boddlng of Ketchl- other period in the history of our kan and his passenger, Harry country although the western Can-Sherman of Dayton, Oregon, who ada grain crop of 1941 was dlsap-crashed In another plane close to pointing. the scene of the other tragedy has been a matter of pride and only about half an hour pre- to rallwaymen that in the first 'ceding it, were taken to Ketchikan . two years of the war they have 'yesterday aboard the United ! carried the troops, the munitions, States .. . coastguard . . cutter . Cyane which had brought both the bodies and the Injured men here. 'executions postponed People of France Given Chance to Give Over Real Killers of Nazi Officers. VICHY, Oct. 28 The execution of one hundred hostages fifty at Nantes and fifty at Bordeaux-ln reprisal lor me snooung recenuy oi Nazi onicers n a s Deen post poned, It Is announced, for the purpose of giving the populace a chance to hand over the killers themselves. Civic Centre Subscribers S. C. Thomson & Son $ 25 Booth Fisheries Canadian Co. Ltd 25' The W. H. Malkln Co. Ltd 100 LOTS OF GAS Twenty to forty percent of a tree Is made up of gases.- Russians Driving Germans Back At Number of Points on Moscow Front, Advices Today Indicate Back From West RAIL CHIEF RETURNS TO HIS OFFICE President of Canadian National Gives Impressions oi Dominion at War. MONTREAL, Oct. 28: R. C. Vaugha'n, president of the Cana- dian National Railways, having completed a thorough Inspection movement anywhere." He added of all the system properties, east that lack of movement was a "very and west, yesterday returned to iood sign." headquarters on the termination Informed sources said that Rus-of his western tour. On his tour slans defending Moscow had been he was accompanied by officers strengthened by reserves from Slot the company and members of beria and had thrown the Ger-1 the board of directors. Mr. Vaughan said, "We have made an inspection of the physl- cal properties of the system, Its roadbed, its equipment, its shops, Its hotels, steamships, telegraph and express facilities. We have all grades of service. "Meetln'gs Tiave been "held "with bit "right "and left wings.' Toward' the'Sdflet capital but In business men In the various cities From Kuibyshev came word that the south the Germans are ap-and with leaders in agriculture, the Russians, while battling ' to patently" pushing steadily toward lumbering, mining and other forms hold Moscow, Leningrad and Ros- Rostov, Russia's Important plpe-of production. The objective has tov, are preparing for the future line terminus and rail Junction at been to determine by personal by training a reserve army far to the gateway to the Caucasus, contact that everything possible is the rear in eastern Siberia. This Bad weather and stubborn re-being done by the railway to en- was reported today. sistance are combining to make it sure continuity of prompt and ef- In Berlin the German High difficult for the Nazi panzer ficient transport service to the Command claimed today that Its forces on the northern and cen-nation in this period of crisis. troops had entered Kramatorsk, tral sectors of the long front. Ger- "The railways carry more than Soviet tank manufacturing city man spearheads directed towards two-thirds of the total production of the Dominion and the malnten- ance of their efficiency is abso-. lutely vltal" 831(1 Mr- Vaughan. "Canadals productivity has risen to new heights In very many llns of effort. In general the volume the supplies and the products of , . . 1 i. 1 t L t i. iarm ana laciory aiong wii-n vabi quantities of material for con struction, without a tie-up of any kind due to shortage of facilities to labor disagreements or any other cause. "I feel certain after this lengthy Inspection trip that this fine record of the railways will con- junue. iney nave not yet reacii- ed the maximum of service which they can give in spite of t-ne largely increased traffic they are handling. Economy Transformed "The outstanding Impression one obtains on a ten thousand mile Journey through the nine provinces of, Canada is the amazing transformation which the war has brought to our national economy, The huge new factories which have had to be created for chem ical and other munitions of war have passed from the construction and organizing stage Into output. In the shipyards on the Atlantic and the Pacific, and cn the Great Lakes, keels for new freighters and the war vessels have been laid. When we were at Vancouver this month the first of the new freighters was launched. Farther north, at Prince Rupert, the Canadian National Ship building plant and dry dock are also busy on the creation of freighters and minesweepers. "Other plants of the Canadian cow at the nearest point. The sources said that heavy fighting continued In both sections but "there has not been very much mans back as much as ten miles in some sectors. Late despatches said that bad weather was slowing up the Ger- mans with rain and light falls of snow turning ground of some re- gion3 into quagmires. The Ger- battle, concentrating main forces, 100 miles southeast of Kharkov, while military quarters said that German artillery for the past twenty-four hours had pounded Leningrad, apparently to soften up the city's defences prellmln- arv to Infantry and tank assault, Angus Walters i Tries Politics Doughty Skipper Of Fishing Boat Queen Runs In N. S. Election HAUFAX October 28: ffi In the Nova Scotia general election today Conservative candidate in the riding of Lunenberg is Captain Angus Walters, internationally- known skipper of the stately uiuenose wnen sne was queen oi wie iL&iui.g ovjiuviicii ui uie wt 111 Atlantic. Now a business man ashore, Walters is mak ns his de- "ai"K Ul AT A y IC AOC. IlmXilO XxlYIj HELD UP IN RUSSIA NOW Unfavorable Weather And Strong Red Resistance Are Factors- Berlin Expects Winter Campaign - LONDON, October 28: O The Russian lines southwest and west Nazi attempts to blast an opening Moscow have been driven out oi some villages and the Germans are on the defensive In many places. The Nazis have suffered heavy losses around Leningrad where old style trench warfare has been resorted to with opposing forces only 50 yards apart In some 'places. 1he' Soviet high command said 'that the Germans had been halted the drive towards Moscow at on one pomt 07 miles to trie west and 65 miles to the southwest and that there has also been a slowing up between Kharkov and Rostov to the south. A blitz bombing attack against Moscow was beaten off with the joss of elght Nazi planes Berlin now admits the likelihood of a winter campaign in Russia and warns the people that victory cannot be expected until sprlng although lt wU1 be certain then Fierce RussUm counter-attacks launched ta an attempt to halt There has been a marKed det- erloration In physi:al condition and morale or oerman forces during the last twenty days, Moscow asserts. Monetary Reform Being Considered Five Provinces Are Represented At Conference Being Held In Winnipeg WINNIPEG, October 28: Representatives of five provinces are in session here to consider monetary reform. Parliamentary control of all currency and credit Is one of he subjects being considered, Among those present Is Premier 'William Aberhart of Alberta, n in tne ponucai wona. advance Into the rich Donets Basin were claimed fall-ETERNAL LONDON ures yesterday by the German The London fire of 1666 brought H16h Command. building structures of stone and. brick in place of wood. National are busy on war work. "I have had an opportunity of talking to many hundreds of Ca- nadians through the east and through the west people from the pioneer stocks which have made North America what it Is today; and nowhere did I find that res-, olutlon to win the war had given way to pessimism. Even the war moved with such dramatic rapid-1 ity and the theatre of war has' expanded so quickly that there comes occasionally a dense of unreality. But the essence of the Canadian snlrlt at this time, as I have found lt, Is that the demands and burdens arlslnsr out of the crisis affect everyone of our peo - pie and will be met willingly by everyone." 4 t h "3 V W'k