.:ow quarter ?nd the rich Donets oasin occupation of which port Is admitted The Oermans are not much closer to Moscow following weekend fighting. The fall of Kharkov has been officially admitted Kharkov is Russia's fourth largest city. It has a population 800.000. Berlin, in claiming Its Kx-M.ivor M. J'. rticCafferv Passes apture, calls It a "paralyzing ojnw at Soviet Industry. The German's assert they are now In admitting officially the lossi j Kharkov, the Russian Hlghj Command said that the Nazis had caid dearly for its capture with (OS3 of 50,000 men killed and wounded and destruction of a ttugc amount of war material. The srravlty of the general Rus-i vian situation is admitted as the I German.1: throw more and more reinforcements into the struggle for Moscow and the Donets basin. In London It Is believed that (he -anturc of Rostov by the Qer-tr.an would load to a drive to A 'akrn 400 miles beyond at the mouth of the Volga River in order u in r,ff central Russia and men acf the British In Iran and Iraq. The Kremlin itself was battered vesterday by a heavy aerial bombardment as the Nazis made a blitz bombing attack. ARREST IN PR. GEORGE Two .Men and Women Taken Into Custody In Connection With Royal Hotel Robbery. Jerome Baert, Prince Rupert beer parlor waiter, and Mr. and Mrs, William Sysak of Winnipeg, were taken from an eastbound Canadian National Railways train at Prince George Saturday by the British Columbia police on instructions from Prince Rupert where the safe of the Hoyal Hotel was robbed on Oct. I' Police say that a search revealed $1800 on Baert and 5108 on Sysak. The trio have been remanded 'n custody for eight days in police court at Prince George Pending arrival of warrants from Prince Rupert. Away In Vancouver Funeral To Take Placr Here On Thursday pre iing on uostov, iony miies distant and gateway to the Cau- Wcrd was received In the city :asus oil fields. The Russians today of the ueaiii- of one of continue stubborn resistance. Prince Rupert's most prominent Berlin claimed early today that and highly esteemed pioneer citi- m Nazi force" had effected a new ns, Ex-Mayor Michael Patrick break-thrqugh on the Moscow McCaffery, who passed away ir g from and that the Russians were Vancouver this msmJng following g failing back in disorder In the an Illness from which it had been g Donets basin realized during the last few days 5 ..f 'o.M .h,t ffrnnrt there was no hope of recovery, g """'''rr News of his passing will be receiv- be!nI1!"!? ""'"m ed with a deep sense of shock 2 ailuuugll Ktiiviui jiuvo aim oetng held intact. Passes Away i EX-MAYOK M. P. LONDON rw. 97- fwT?Pn- trv MrCafferv McCaffery. McCAFFEKY and regret by many friends who will ext :nd their sincere sympathy to the bereaved. The remains are being brought hxn? fc. bunal. the funeral to take place on Thursday morning with rites of the Roman Catholic Church. The late Mr. McCaffery was a native of Maine, U.S.A. He moved to Prince Rupert early in the year 1909 where he was engaged in the real estate business, m the year, 1915 and 1916 Mr. McCaffery served as mayor of Prince Rupert city, and was Instrumental In placing the financial status of the I city on a strong business footing.! Mr. McCaffery was largely In-j terested in the lumber and build-. Ing supply business of Albert Si, McCafferv. Limited. He was also nead of the Northern Fishermen's Cold Storage Ltd. The firm of Albert & McCaffery, Limited, and McDougall, McNeill, Limited, were amalgamated In 1921 for the purpose of constructing a court house at Prince Rupert. Deceased was also active In the Prince Rupert Chamber of oom- rs quoted a dispatch relay- '.Thomson and Miss Norah McCaN. Michael McCaf Ta&s. official Russian news fery who is with the Canadian anency, as saying that a force forces In Esquimau. There are two f twenty Japanese soldiers sisters, one In New Hampshire and ad attacked Soviet frontier the other In Portland, Maine, guards near the village of , Mr. McCaffery was sixty-eight Rasklno last Thursday. The years of age. ",,"-h bH there were The remains are being accm-' untied on both sides. panied home by the widow and other members of the family who . . . . . y,nvo hpen n the souin. Tm victor:, d c. Weather Forecast Prince Rupert and Queen Charlotte yFI IS Tomorrow sT ides Islands Light rain, partly cloudy, mild with fog patches In We High 8:38 ajn. 18.0 ft. Hi the morning In Hecate Straits and 20:34 p.m. 17.4 ft. widely scattered showers over the Low . 1:34 a.m. 6.2 It. Queen Charlotte Islands. 14:19 pjn. 9.2 ft. NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER VOL XXX., NO, 251. PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1941. PRICE: FIVE CENTS RUSSIANS STH MVING GROUND AS THROW MORE F0RCE FIGHT gvv (.crmans Paying Dearly for Evcrytu (jainFan of Kharkov Admitted ..yfn Js Blitzed. LONDON, Oct. 27: (CP) Soviet authorities admit r.har the prcat Nazi drive against Moscow on the central front and towards Rostov on the south continues, but declare that continued fierce resistance is being given by i.tip Red Army. In continued fierce and furious fighting f ne enormous casualties and loss of equipment have been suffered by the enmy In Van M- ... ym PIONEER OF CITY DIES BIG CONTINGENT OF EMPIRE AIRMEN ON WAY TO CANADA happ gi-oup Is part of a detachment, of ex oiba'ked at San Francisco from til War New s HUC-E SKIP TOLL LONDON An unofP'.hl survey shows that more than two thousand shies of all kinds and all rntions, merchant and war vessels, have been sunk since the betinnin; of th war, the ton-na-e. totallin" -oven and a half million. Mire than eighteen thousand perrons have been killed and nine thousand are missing. Creat Britain has suffered the greatest number tit Io.e$ 75 vessels. Germany has lost 1 15. Italy. 105 and Swetiln Xl8 ' ' MASS MURDER DENOUNCED LONDON noth Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Orcat Urifain, and Pre-iilent Franklin D, Roosevelt of the United States condemn the cold-blooded murder of hostages in France in reprisal foi the shotting of German officers. Chuichill, speaking Saturday, pledged Great Britain to avenge the cold-blooded execution o innocent people in occupied countries. This was an indication or what Hitler would do in Great Britain and the United States were lie given the power. Roosevelt condemned the wholesale exertion of hostages, denouncing the terroristic tactics and f rightfulness of the Nazis. JAPAN DEMANDS U.S. CONCESSIONS TOKYO The Japanese Foreign Office-controlled newspaper Japan Times and Advertiser warns the United States to make concessions to keep Japan out of the war. The enormous naval and military power of Japan can lose .the Pacific and Indian Oceans to Allied shipping, the newspaper declares. WAR IN NORTH AFRICA CAIRO The enemy have been subjecting Tobruk to artillery fire. British patrols from Tobruk are extending into Libya without resistance from the enemy. British naval units have poured thousands of shells into Bardia. There are signs that a new Axis offeiuive in North Africa, long anticipated, may be about to get under way. HAMBURG IS BOMBED LONDON Docks of the German port of Hamburg were bombed heavily during the night by many squadrons of Royal Air Force bombers and other objectives in northwest Germany were also attacked. Norway was also visited by the Royal Air Force, four bombers of which are missing. MAKING NO World Short STATEMENT; Of Bristles ; Shortage Of Siberian Bears Now Premier Pattullo Continues Silent! In View Of .Meat Demands In Regard To Future Of ! Government j KANSAS CITY, October 27: CB The war has Just about brushed off the bristle business. Take the VICTORIA, October 27: 0) Pre-;word of John T. Ople, a brush I 4 .. 1 rnlrco and took an active interest! !mier T. D. Pattullo left over the and bristle expert. Jap Attack IS $HhS H of th. week for Ottawa to1 The only good bristles, it A .Mv m all an puui I r with fprfpml authorities .-ih- i In armv grow on on Siberian Siberian hwrs bears. On Siberia in" f 11 rs Uom Australia and New Zea- M snterev en route to flvine schools in uu?aaa. immediately aner -y disenib:t & they took a boat for Oakland. Calif., where special trains for Canada. seems, who v,i wid-Vmifpr From .. hv four daughters reaard to Income tax matters, In cold, northern Asia comes the sUff they BIRTHDAY OF TRAIN Eighty-five Years Since Service Between Tnr"""to And Montreal Started (Railway, now part of the Canadian National JRailways. While the terminal stations are not the same today, the main line is that which was opensd for service during 1855 and 1856. The original Montreal station site Is now a freight yard, while York, which was the 1856 terminal for Toronto, Is today the site of the Danforth station of Canadian Na tional Railways. schedule was operated on "Montreal tbne." This was faster by 8Vg minutes than Brockvllle time; 12 minutes better than Kingston, 14V2 ahead of Belleville and a full 23 minutes faster than that recorded I by Toronto clocks. Hess Is Too Well Treated Lord Provost of Glasgow Com plains at Consideration Given Nazi. rsr asrsnvv net , i-. - p f. Ar.r bristles that make tooth brushes, onmfnrtn hie pvlstence in the j enn Tlie uausimrio .auiic ui ciiiiio iu uion " u, --, --- - . Mica Mirffire MCCauery, mb me rremier sun mu.uc nu oiiic- - ,wj " Mrs. Clarence ment in regard to a possible coall- ,000 different kinds of brushes, Mr. as "the criminal which he is." tion government in British Colum-iupie says. ,Hess Has lost tourteen pounds bla following the indecisive re-1 "me was wnen you couia Duy smce he landed in tins country, suit of last week's general elec-,all the Siberian bear bristles you ' l 1 1 AC i m l ! n wkot-i vara rrfi w mtm tlon. Speculation still continues as wamea ioi .w u pouna. iwaayi ih.iilh num un to whether or not Liberals and they're $13.50 a pound If you ( Arthur W. Fadden Is Australia's Conservatives will get together can get mem. me post-war Iajn-;i3th prime minister and ne tooK wiUi the C. C. F. as the official lnf ru1919 slateduIu4f ia's s,lb;lofHce on a Friday. ... off the ... ... erlan bears bristle market, r government but, until something flnd ,nl0 he meat mjttke6B- Th8; W1IERE irs NEEDED is heard iron tne Premier, it con united States has purchased all! Canada and the United .States ing, Bodies of Victims of lOne Crash Here With Survivors of Another Story of Strategy Co-incidental Crashes Told at Inquest licre loday Both bhips Turned Upside Down Within Mile of Each Other. Inquest into the deaths of Livingstone Werneke and his pilot, G. A. Groptis, landed here this morning by the United Sta.es coastguard cutter Cyane, commenced' this morning before Coroner Norman A. Watt with the viewing of the bodies. The story of the double airplane crash aL Clam Passage near Milbank Sound at noon last Tues day was told by Gerald Allred Bedding of Ketchikan and Harry Sinks Near Here Dayton of Sherman, Ore., who crashed a mile distant from the scene of the Werneke tragedy. They arrived on the Cyane. It was a coincidence that the two machines should have crashed under conditions of poor vlslbll-, Ity in so close a distance of each other. The two men from the north-bound Waco are not seriously hurt. Thev are reeivlnc trpsit- U. S. GAME VESSEL ON GREEN TOP ment here. lKan Up Fun Speed at Top ol IUgh Relating the story at the in- Tide Saturday Crew quest this morning, Gerald Alfred Safe Ashore. 'Bodding, pilot of the northbound ,Waco plane, which was flying 10o-ioot schooner Elder of ; Harold Sherman of Dayton, Ore.. the united States Fish and Wild , to Ketchikan, told how the engine nfe Service Is lying on Green Top (cut out at 11:45 last Tuesday island outside of Prince Rupert I morning, me piane stalling in me in fl snnken condition after rtav- wind or hitting a wave and turn- tng piied up on the islet near the ing over, it was ja miraculous top of a high tide at 4 o'clock escape which Jthe two men had Saturday morning. The Armour under these conditions. Sherman salvage Co. Is endeavouring to was rendered unconscious b u t institute salvage operations on the fi i llBotUn8 somehow hauled mm out vessel, the bow , of which Ksts .on ffinS'w andhclung the ledge wilh the stern In the InaTigumtlon-of-iftougH . paswn-U" th on .UDturned t npnrep Rlfarbo the n hAt.nnM Ifnnf ww-. O re9l and Toronto falls today. It was on October 27, 1856, also a Monday, that a train set out from Montreal at 7:30 in the morning , to arrive at Toronto at 9:30 o'clock! that night. Thl3 marked a great J advance In the construction pro-! machine for three or three and a master, who, with his crew of four, , i nun nuuis ociwc uniting tuue iu was Drougni into rince ituperd shore. Sherman by this time had Saturday afternoon by the Cana-recovered consciousness and, fi- dian naval vessel Cougar, said nally, they swam about twenty- salvage would be a difficult Job. five feet to shore. ( The Elder was on her way to As the two men clung to their Seattle after having spent since gram of the former Grand Trunkown wr?.cked Plane Bo a a ing ast Apri in &oaiu wuwm sigmea me omer piane tnrougn ncr uui, yuiw uuu ucui nsiuu-the fog and soon after heard a kan. The vessel climbed on the crash. The first thing they did reef while running at full speed after getting ashore themselves and soon filled and settled. The was to head in the direction where crew took to shore, losing all their the other plane was believed to belongings, and about six hours have crashed. Finally. . Sherman after the stranding were picked found It. The Werneke plane was up by the Cougar which was sig-also upside down. The two bod- nailed as she was passing, ies Werneke and Graptis were The Eider was formerly the hal-both inside Ibut schooner Idaho. She was buUt In .1013 land to equipped wito I For four days after this Bod- The original schedule has. been'dlnZ and Sherman camped on the cut in less than half, the "Inter-1 beach, using sleeping bags and national Limited,' a train several isuch sma11 Quantities of food as times the weight and capacity of thev could extricate from the tne nrst train, powered Dy uana-i y- a" V tor Leek, Cook George Thompson a dian National locomotives now I nal fires and dally boats passed They r m, rfnnv ,n tn dv h i by but none, apparently, saw their ca"'a" half hours. plight until Saturday when the When railway service was estab- j Police boat P.M.L.-7 located them, hshed between Toronto and Mont-W tnls tlme the two men were real in 1856 standard time was becoming desperate and they had something in the future and the about resolved to try to swim from the one Island on which they had landed to another where there was a lighthouse. : said all he remembered was the water rushing up to t h e plane. There had been fog and visibility, was extremely poor. I has a scab wound. jured, brought to Prince Rupert,' arriving here at 8:30 this morn- be nothing more than specula-available bristle in this country are estimated to possess 60 percent The coroner's Jury consists of J; tlon. for defence purposes. (of the world's coal deposits. 0 The police boat, on which were Skipper Victor Bond and Engl-1 neer Doug Gorrie, took Bodding j a Hi) n.p. uiesei engine, onu is a wooden vessel. Besides Capt. Skarbo, the crew consists of Wireless Seaman Edmund Davis, Chief Engineer Vlc- expect to proceed Seattle. from here to Moscow Having War Executions Speaking of the crash, Sherman Three persons Put to Death in Soviet for Crimes Against State. MOSCOW, Oct. 27: There have . Bodding expressed the opinion been three executions In Moscow that Werneke and Graptis were for wartime crimes against the searching for a place to land when state, they crashed. It Is believed they hit a tree while coming down., MORE CHEESE FOR BRITAIN Their plane was just at the water's I edge. Sherman SYDNEY, NJS.W., October 27: W Butter exports from Australia and broken hand and wrist. Bod- to Britain will oe cut su percent riina ha fncp lniurles. Both men .under a new ccmtra.ct. but more 1 cheese and dried and condensed i j j f tt, it 27:-The v Lord . U4" T " ;mnir w, h(S spn,. V-I Ul 1UVI VTft WWW" Provost of Glasgow complains at lnls morning, Rudobh Hess being permitted a GALLANT STEWARDESS LONDON, October 27: B Eliza- tL , in uries Z ,71. were dressed hVpp7 hv by.. beth Owen, ol ',.,. stewardess of Steam-their . Mrs. Reld, the nurse. By this time the Cyane had arrived. After it had been found that both planes were badly wrecked, the bodies were taken on the Cyane and, with the two In ship St. Patrick, who saved six persons after the vessel was sunk during an air attack, has been awarded the George medal. BEFORE COLUMBUS The first white child born in America was Snorre Karlsefne, born In Nova Scctla In 1008. Coverdale, Stanley Savllle, T. Anderson, Glllls Royer, Grant Lawrence and A. B. Curbvlck. H.