I of Conservative Opposition in the provincial legislature, in dustriai housing project. delivering a campaign Keynote speech lor his party Friday night in the home city ot the I'nme Minister, former Local "March with us to victory and forever rid this province of M I such stupid and Inefficient leadership in government as British Co- Mr Maitland maicaiea ine rai Ituito government for placing con- lildcratlon of politics and power be-J fore the war effort In a statement ot policy he declared that the first duty should be to co-operate fully' with the Dominion government in the war effort and, second, to give I consideration to measures to look after post-war problems such as care of returned soldler.s. He Ithe advocated practical measures to aid agriculture which he declared, In agreement with the Sirols report, vv che basic Industry of the prov-. . i ii t n t ince ne urgea Qecenirauiauun m industry with the building up of industrial centres surrounded by Dgricultural communities. British Icolumbla could not, he declared, be great and permanently prosper ous with all Us Industries cent- In a relatively. small area around Vancouver and Victoria. There tould not be permanent prosperit; Ibn the exploitation of exhaustable Bfsourccs such as the forests, the primes and the fisheries. Transportation was a most lm- problqm, declared Mr. Iportant Maitland It tfas Also a most expensive niatter. "I have said before imore than take road building out of politics and put It Into business, I think I will have accomplished (something worthwhile." Unity and Co-operation Mr Maitland charged that, In a spirit of bringing about unity and co-operation In the face of crisis, he had offered to assist the Pat- government In aiding the Itullo Dominion in the war effort but the I offer had been spurned. The pat ronage system In British Columbia had become even worse in British Columbia since the war started than it had been before, he charged. "All war effort. He had waited fifteen months for the government i to 'if itself to something better but had been driven, ho was sorry to jav to appeal to the people of Brl- tish Columbia to rid themselves of thi; Kovernmpnt. The Conservative leader charged that Premier Pattullo and members ' his government had travelled Je luxe" to Ottawa to present a document, prepared in advance at victoria, refusing to co-ODerate in "nsiaeratlon of the Slrols report '"s alter Mr, Pattullo promised to Eo to Ottawa and offer his fullest -operation. ,? w himself, Mr. Maitland n'raged that, if he became Prem he would without delay go to Ottawa to endeavour to revive the fcirou report and to offer his cooperation to the limit In fighting and winning the war. The Conservative leader con-rVhJ Patt" government tha fte Z bl6t 8etlng t0 Spend 5,000,000. annual expenditure In the history of Blrtlsh Columbia, in Men UltiCerS lumbia has had since 1933. fe 0 .1 were needed in the prosecution of war. The greatest peril ever known was faced and the largest measure of responsibility"- Was"- required. Waste and extravagance must be eliminated. "This election is a call to citizenship of the highest character," declared Maitland. "If we do not answer the call, we are not fair to ourselves and we are not fair to our -hlldren." There Is no hope of co-operation ter Its own self-interests that burn into your brain," sug- it,. rAnrAfnttvA 1 rn H or me Pattullo government realizes," iwar effort. Colin hp declared "Is that this Is election said: 'Thank God and It Is more important than Englishman." Mrs Cameron I am not an Steeves hoped the day would come when the word "British Empire" was not to be found In the vocabulary. We can leave the C.C.F. party to destruction wrought by its own leaders," DRY DOCK SITUATION Commenting on the local dry dock situation, Mr. Maitland said that the local shipyard was engaged In as essential war work as could be seen anywhere. Yet it had remote control from the city of Vancouver. He did not know why a situation should be allowed t0 go on that bred misunderstanding. It was something that would have to be changed. E-oMantiv Mr Pattullo must have Jl IJIAICCIIUI was pledging Itself to come to the ' aid of the fighting democracies. Former Prince Rupert .men are i TTo rlHtiilAi4 t Ha DiHnll nnv. WPIl TPnrpspnt'pH amnna tViA riff I. Commerce, was leading the Car- ' nival Queen contest up to noon today with ' 17,000 votes. til.. T I 1 1 I n n province today which made real Jong3 of Wq leadership essential, asserted Malt- j , service land. I rMi.K nil rrwtnnrt Mr. Maiuana aismisswi me co operative Commonwealth party with brief but stinging comment. The FederaUonlst, C.C.F. organ, sneaking of the war, had said, now that the dogs o of war are at each little Influence at Ottawa or It thU district, would not be permitted to go on. The occasion of Mr. Maltland's speech was a dinner by the Prince Rupert Conservative Association. Weaher ForedL? w y She Sfta0 Tomor row' sT ides FnnCC Xtupeit tianM. atiu liccji Charlotte Islands Light to moderate (Pacific Standard Time) northwest -winds, cloudy and High .,. 2:59 am 20.7 ft. mlld with local fog banks becoming 15:35 pjn. 20.4 p.m. part cloudy In the afternoon Low 9:25 a.m. 2.9 ft 21:48 5.0 ft. NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPEB pjn. VD, XXX.. No. 186. PRINCE RUPERT, B.C.) SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1941 PRICE: FIVE CENTS Nazis Suffe r More Heavy Losses CONSERVATIVE LEADER PRESENTS HIS KEYNOTE SPEECH IN PR. RUPERT Mr. Maitland Appeals For Good Citizenship and Politics Putting War Effort Above All Else, He Urges Consideration of Reconstruction Measures iProperty Transfer (Bylaw Coming Up City Engineer Will Sit as City Council for First Time on Monday Morning Less Acting City Commissioner F. M. Good will officiate as a city council for the first time on Monday morning when he wlll.sit to put through Introductory readings a bylaw provide for the transfer of land In ' n . 1 n . . , . niTi.iiin oecuun rtf oeven v I'll ri. Deyona 1 1 n n Ainorose nmnrncA av r ernment for issuing a manifesto cers of the Second Battalion, Six-1 i - - A 1 t 1 1- i tlTficont tolHniT n t rM r c r n Trltift- ' reaay in me nearu ut uie pcupie. f""" """"6 yuu'c y "6- "What has Mr. Pattullo and his gov- ston and is due to arrive here ernment been thinking about for about the end of next month, other. the past two years?" Mr. Maitland officers, who are former residents asked. He charged the government of this city,' include Lieut, pen-wlth extravagance including that mllne Green, at one time, adjutant of spending half a million dollars of the old 102nd. Regiment here, on oil drilling in the Peace River, who arrived yesterday, and Lieut. This was a time when there should 8. Hope, former assistant district and I rppeat ft now, he said "that j between Pattullo and Mackenzie I am not a(rald to build roads, hav- IKlng," asserted Maitland, "The ing in mind always that the war ef-1 thing Is Impossible. How could Ot-fort must come (n)t. He condemned tawa be expected to have any con-roads as a "product o elections and Ifidence in either the British Colum-!by-elerUons,''' They should be con- Dla Premier or his government?" Isldered from a business standpoint, j There were problems facing the If I ever become Premier of British I Columbia and am able to do nothing CARNIVAL ! CONTEST Miss Phllomena Murray of Junior Chamber of Commerce Leading 1 Phllomena Murray, nomhi.ee ;of the Junior Chamber of with 16,000 while ' Miss May Skinner of the Oyro Club and Miss Nancy Bremner of the Navy each had 2,000. 1 R yj cameron president 01 tne " other's throats and the boys are , ... fighting over there for liberty, It w" " Vph wLthedutyof iee. who is adml .di d u the party to lookaf-jR; Conservatives as tneir canamaie m Prince Rupert, moved a vote of tinna T3iirorf Harnfl i-iiiiiivo. w. . :i a 'Ladies M well as men were pres. a speech "T tZ' that was 7i calculated , T7i,H tn to ent and Mrs. Maitland was also a , ..11... ,t 4V,o cuest. 1 reiara rauicr wwh w , (v, . . ikgnlcc Mr t had I iiiufiiib me j McAfee expressed appreciation to( Mr. Maitland at having chosen Prince Rupert to deliver his opening Indictment of the present government and presenting his state-' ment of policy for the election campaign. A clarion call had been sounded by the leader to every asserted w. " ,,. nf rltlsh Columbia to face Uefs are not shared by tnousanas 4 their responsibilities .ikihm.. at. at ih of people who formerly consclent lously supported the party. up to the present time. He had made it abundantly clear that the provincial government had as an Important part to play In the war effort as had the Dominion. It was high time that it was made clear that this province no longer wanted government by machine and for personal Interests but government that had In mind the best interests tit all ithe people of British Columbia. Mr. and Mrs. Maitland and two daughters sailed Friday night by the steamer Cardena on their return to Vancouver after a tour of PUT STILL ERIN One-seventh of the total area of Ireland Is peat boff. GERMANY DOUBLY BOMBED Two Air Forces British and Rus-. sfah Now Pounding at Reich Mlrilstry; said that ''enormous fires were left burning at Nazi submarine and Ehlpyard fases; at Kiel when tons of super bombs were dropped : ' ) , .... ' ' J Bulletins MVAnuv ctiv mnrrv asking for a mandate to carry on a teenth Canadian Scottish. In addl-1 OTTAWA An ordtr-in-council war effort. "No election is necessary tion to Major John McOregor V. C.. f j raw $lIk stocks ,n to obtain a mandate which Is al- second In command, who Is at I p,,,,,' nt rMfllrrf for u. nro. ductloh was announced today by Hon. C. D. Howe, minister of munitions. The order is effective at midnight tonight and is due to "uncertainty of future shipments from abroad." COST OF LIVING BONUS OTTAWA Agreement has been be economy and cutting down In forester here, who Is the transport, VnTto navTnt nmlnMal nrovlnclal Vrn.ndit..rp8 evpendltures. Resources Resources officer of the regiment. nprlneiple fot payment of cost of living bonus to prattle ally all railway workers and cltil servants in Canada jit was learn-td-today froiif . rtliiAUr 'uthbrl-ties. Railways have accepted the bonus policy, it was said; while the government has decided to pay bonus to its employees. Larsen and Mrs. Maty Hollyfield were drowned last night off El-kins Point in Howe Sound, three miles from Seaside Park,- when a rowboat in tow 'of a power cruiser capsized.' MrslLarseri. was, pulled oat of the water and expired before artificial respiration could .be effected. The body of Mrs. Hollyfield has not been recovered. EMERGENCY IN AUSTRALIA CANBERRA The Australian cabinet has been advised to stand by for an emergency session, possibly Monday, In view of the Far East crisis. REVOLT IN AUSTRIA VIENNA There is open revolt In many .parts of Austria. There have been numerous arrests and executions. The Vlcrma radio was of I the air last night for the first time In the war. The Berlin and Warsaw radios were also off. NAVAL MEN IN LONDON LONDON Hon. Angus Mac-donald, Canadian minister of naval affairs, arrived in Great Britain today after ah Atlantic bomber flight and boarded another plane for London. He was accompanied by Rear Admiral Percy Nelles, chief of naval staff, and Capt. F. L. Houghton, director of nayal plans. MONTREAL TRAIN WRECK MONTREAL Thirty-flve persons were Injured, three seriously, when .a passenger train crash Highland Retreat Colorful. Affair Another' Interesting Military Ceri-mony Carried Out' For First I I ed Into a switch engine today In the west end of Turcot yards of the Canadian National Railways. Fifteen of the Injured were rush- 'dL to .-rarious hospitals fiv the city while the other twenty- were treated for minor hurts at railway yards through, which the train was passing enroute to the downtown Bonaventure situation., CANADA'S NORTHWEST Much of Canada's; Northwest' Territories is still unexplored. - Tim Here Another" military ceremony was performed' for the first -me in .Prrrice "Rupert last 'evening twhen LONDON.. Aug. 9: O Germany tne pipe band of "the. Second, bombed by two air forces over- tallori,'- Sixteenth Canadian. Scot-night as- British bombers pounded tuti. carried out', the flae lowering tat Kiel and Himbnre and elsewhere uikixtiH' mtroot Vi fH. . - . . . . i 1 1 i iiiauuuiu w vi.i. "In thlS election thC question IS not One Of politics but enue to the federal eovernmenVforlln northwestern Germany and Rds- craif building ground: A large1 citizens itizenship, declared K. L. Maitland K.C., leader of the use In connection with the new In- slan ?lanc? w. Berlin, or e .crowd withessedlhe colorful pro- secunu successive ujgiib. ine Air ceedmES. --- Former Residents Here Pass Away Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Peck Dead in Los Angeles Cruickshank Is Honbreid Farewell . Presentation Are Word has' been received in the city of the recent passing within three weeks of each other at Loaf Angeles, former residents of Prince Rupert- Mr.' -and Mrs. Haryey by C.N.R. Associates to Departing City Passenger'Agent Russians Claim To Be Holding Positions On Entire Battle Front fru'ns, They Say, Have Lost Fifty Thousand More Men ' Berlin Also Declares That Victories Have Been Recorded MOSCOW. Autrust 9: (CP) The Red Army declared today that heavy losses had been inflicted on ten more 'nro litfioi'nnc oiv tnnlr nnrl fnnr infnntrv in the battle on the eastern front. According to Soviet figures losses totalled fifty thousand in addition to losses reported nreviously. The Soviet information bureau described the 4 Air Fighting Over Channel Peck. Both had suffered from LONDON, Aug. 9: Ot Eleven heart trouble. Mrs". Peck died first 4 Herman fighters were destroy ills associates hv the .Canadian J Arlington, 4,000 pounds cohoe.I TWO WOMEN VKcmftbu. Jsembletl t the clty ticket office ati Munns, 14,000 pounds cohoc In VANCOUVER Mrs Margartt tooa'y to ijay.fawelltribut verness. to WUllam.Cruickshank, for twenty ; years located hee arid now trans- j LUMBERING THRIVES ferred ,to Iteglna; Presentation .was Eagle, 10c, mAde to Mr. Cruickshank by 'Peter,' Lakie,. district Northwestern Ontario's lumber bus-freleht and' faasseheer agent, of. a iness Is thriving this year. A. R. handsome brief case as a token of ' white, secretary of the Lakehead esteem and ..well-wishing. SerjtJ- branch of the Lumberman's Safety ments suitable to the occasion were Association, reported that 7,355 men Pioneer III.' 20,000, Atlln, and 10.7c. Thelma It, 21,000, Storage, ,11.8c and 10.6c. : JUST INVADERS WINNIPEG, Aug. 9: ) Dr, M. Speechly, head of Winnipeg's antl-mosqulto. campaign, in answer to complaints from' bitten citizens reiterates "those mosquitoes are not purs ... a large proportion were blown Into this district from out side points." Is Honored By Tennis Club Farewell Presentation Is Made William Cruickshank to Another presentation to William Cruickshank prior to his leaving the cltv was that made by William Lamble. president, on behalf 01 mo Prince Rupert Tennis Club in ap preciation of his services over many years for that organization. The gift was a. handsome silver casser ole with which went best wishes to both Mr. and Ms. Cruickshank. . i . - ' MANITOBA COASTLINE and Manttdba, sometimes described as an inland province, has a coast-12.5c line of 400 miles on Hudson Bay. ALBERTA'S FAR NORTH The Peace River District of Al-1 bcrta has a drawn settlement far BEFORE THE WAR The combined " pre-war area situation on the whole front as static with key sectors unchanged. Branding as fairy tales Hitler's claims of vast military successes, Russians in Moscow estimated yesterday that six and one half weeks of war had cost the Germans more than 1,500,000 men, put their own losses at 600,000 wounded and missing and declared the Nazi blltz- ot about 2600 square miles less thin the area of Quebec Weather Forecast General SynopsisThe weather has been part cloudy In the Prince Rupert district with dense fog over the West Coast. West Coast of Vancouver Island- Li sht to moderate west to north west winds, dense rog or locai cloudiness during the morning and be coming fair and continuing miia this afternoon. STOPPED NUPTIALS WINNIPEG, Aug. 9: O) Someone stole Tony Schmldltleltner's apron from a rustv barrel In a Winnipeg garage and now he cannot afford a wedding. Some $320 his total savings was In the apron pocket. krelg a failure. The Soviet com- ed It was not. long after that Mr. i ed torfay in air fights over the mntnue termed fantastic th Ger Peck succumbed. 4 English Channel and Northern man assertions of 895,000 Russians Mr: ecK was iormeny manager 4 prance and five Royal Air captured und many times that of the Family Shoe" Store here. For. planes are missing, Brl- lnumber slain although admitting years he had been-ln the" hotel bus- SOUrces said tonight. The 'terrific casualties and heavy des- lness in" Los Angeles. announcement said that Royal tructlon of equipment. vnmi fiphters escoriea 1 -t Blenheim bombers over north- 1 Hmer.5 headquarters Jn Berlln . ern France where UrgeU near jclaimed today lhe destructlon of t.Gravellnes were bombed. 'jtrapped Soviet defenders of Roslavl. ! Salmon Arrivals 'and the seizure of the rail town of Kbrosten, eighty miles nrothwest of Kiev. DUKE HAS BUSY DAY FORT WILLIAM. Ont., Aug. 9: 0 f' SSJV". ' voiced by Mr. Lakie. , , are working for 41 timber or saw- Mr. Cruickshank replied, express- millilrms. Ing regret that the line. of duty was ' 1 : . calling him away from his many WELL OVER TOP good friends and happy .assocla- PINCHER CREEK, Alta., Aug. 9: tions In Prince Rupert. Halibut Sales American 40000, Pacific, 11.5c I rricitizens of this southern Al berta town are war-conscious. ' the War Loan Campaign they donated $96,000 while the district's .quota was just $31,000. VICTORIA, Aug. 9: 0) The Duke of Kent yesterday filled a busy pro gram inspecting air, navy and army facilities In Victoria area following his arrival by plane Thursday evening at the westernmost point In the Canadian tour. A crowd of two thousand watched as the Duke inspected the Air Force at Patricia In 1 Bay before driving to Government House for the evening. He had stopped briefly at Vancouver for plane refuelling after the flight from Calgary. He is in Vancouver again today. Fines In City Are Over Last ther north than any other part of.Tofal So Far ,n 1941 Is $3,007.73 H. Canada. ' Compared With $2,651.50 City police court fines so far this year have aggregated $3,007.- France, Germany and Spain was 75 as compared wih $2,654.50 In the first seven months of 1940. Fines for this July amounted to $615 in comparison with $432 In the same month last year. ONTARIO'S SHORE LINE Ontario has a fresh-water on the Great Lakes of more than 2 362 miles. HIGH ABOVE SEA The highest point In Ontario is 2,120 feet above sea level, on the promontory at the northeastern corner of Lake Superior, LONG HOME OF POrES The Vatican has been the home of the popes since 1377. S. Croxford and J. Apland sailed yesterday afternoon oh the Princess Adelaide for Victoria. They are joining the navy; , 'f-JH 'A Ft