Weather
Forecast
Prince
Rupert
and
Queen
Charlotte
Islands
Light
southeast
winds,
cloudy
and
mild
with
occasional
light
rain.
OLD
LAND
Engage
Attention
on
All
Fronts
28
Terccnt
Jump
in
Living
Cost.
ny
PAT
USSHER
Canadian
Press
Stall
Writer
LONDON
Oct.
23:
P
Life
on
the
home
Iront
for
many
Britons
coda
has
become
a
stern
struggle
against
the
niwt
ude
3f
p
:
.
s
The
mi:i..:i'v
ol
labor
whtch
keep
a
arc-(ui
ci
o
o
:
n
l
y
;he:lc
on
price
;
i
e
o
o
s
r
;tl
-maica
the
cost
o)
living
rose
approximately
28
percent
be-xee:i
the
outbreak
o)
war
id
September.
1941
in?
battle
of
wltie;
that
are
argeiy
prices.
umn
or
ii4n
PAT
USSHER
1939,
and
July
1,
the
pocket
book
a
deir.s
waged
in
every
household.
The
(ood
that
is
eaten,
the
clothes
Csv
are
worn,
the
domestic
t.
:::de:ably
more
than
two
years
O
The
government
has
con-Wjlel
Ihe
prices
Aofvinariycom.-.
.
(nudities,
particularly
foods,
but
to
prices
in
nearly
every
case
ire
substantially
above
the
pre-m
level,
chow
that
last
July
1
the
;
:c
jf
clothes
of
the
type
bought
by
working
class
was
80
percent
above
-
of
Sept.
1.
1939.
Thanks
to
government
control
MAITLAND
F0RUNI0N
Conservative
Leader
Suggests
That
Three
Parties
Form
Union
Government.
VANCOUVER,
Oct.
23:
tt
11.
L
Mail
land,
K.C.,
Conservative
'tadcr.
today
issued,
a
statement
ucsting
the
establishment
of
a
union
government
of
Conservatives,
Liberals
and
Co-opcra-:ve
Commonwealth
Federation.
,le
said
that
an
opportunity
was
nw
otrered
for
the
parties
to
I"1'
into
practice
their
declara-J"n
that
"achievement
of
max-mum
war
effort
is
the
principal
of
the
nrovlnrp
a
n
d
Is
m
Oct.
29.
By
DOUGLAS
HOW
Canadian
Press
Staff
Writer
HALIFAX,
Oct.
23:
ffi
Strong-
cicj
were
only
about
21
per
hold
of
Liberalism
almost
consis-
w
above
the
levels
prevailing
In
tently
since
18C7,
the
year
of
Can-oeacetime.
ada's
confederation,
Nova
Scotia
McDonald
of
Cape
Breton
Centre
Otl'
.
1
1
,
n
1
1
1
i
1
1
.
.
1
.nrnt
1
Hl.n
ff
f
H
f
m
iiciiiy
jmportani,
caieguiy
was
uic
iujic
h-ijicocii.u...
-
rcnt
and
munlcinal
assessment
Co-oneratlve
Commonwealth
Fed-
Conttnued
on
PAGE
FOUR
country
s
a
whole."
eorvaHsm
and
confederation.
Vernier
Pattullo
did
not
coin-
The
other
is
the
tendency
of
"et
and
Harold
Winch
said
lie
urban
populations
to
vote
Conser-
a
calling
a
meeting
of
the
,Vatlve
and
rural
people
to
favor
t.I.
leelslativp
T"K
WORKERS'
BEER
23MnDESBOROUa".
Eng-
Oct.
J"
'hipworkcrt
In
pubs
here
and
majorities
in
the
last
two
legislatures
have
done
much
to
shatter
this
tradition.
The
first
house,
after
confederation,
sat
Jan.
30.
1868,
under
Liberal
Premier
William
Annand.
He
"
W.
are
scarce
it
Is
only
had
become
premier
the
previous
'n
the
workmen
are
November
upon
the
resign"""
"
'
a-i.'ta.
I
IIon,
h.
Blanchard
who
had
form-
Sharpest
increase
has
been
In
.
.
,
.
.
r
.
0f
T,v
.
1(M7
ic:hr
-'-..are
CCUI.il
HE
i
N.
S:
STANDS
BY
T.8
OLD
Wmln
REPAIRING
THE
WARSPITE
AT
BREMERTON
PARTIES
IN
POLITICS
AT
ELECTION
NEXT
WEEK
-
-
-
-
oi
woor
Ministry
Province
.
Goinff
.
.
to
Polls
nlls
in
itln
tn
to
rnfflHPrati
confederation
Fuel
Prices
Mount
eoes
to
the
polls
Oct.
29
to
elect
,,,
t.,ntr
tn
,.,.
VnV9
R(.
I
nA
ltUt
I
OC
i.
n
.
.
1
1.1.11...
nAmKl.r
WlfVl
b
LEISTON,
Eng.,
Oct.
23:
P)
The
local
Constitutional
Club
has
demanded
the
resignation
of
Edgar
Granville,
Liberal
National
M.P.
for
Eye
because
he
crossed
the
house
to
sit
ln
opposition.
The
case
of
Mrs.
Victoria
Pedei-
ten.
charged
under
uerence
ot
Journed
until
next
Monday.
A
general
deck
.s
rne
from
the
bow
of
the
Britlsn
warship
Warsplte,
heio-ship
of
many
naval
battles
of
the
present
war.
as
she
was
put
in
ship
shape
befcre
venturing
the
high
seas
once
again.
The
tubes
shown
on
deck
are
for
air
conditioning
for
the
men
working
below.
,
I
Tokyo-
Gives
Last
Chance
TOKYO.
Oct.
23:
P)
Japa-
nese
newspapers
today
gave
nrpat
Rritain
and
the
United
opposition
in
.
st
th
,
...
t
chance'.
to
Nova
Scotia
entered
under
which
use
Japan
as
an
intermediary
the
leadership
of
Sir
Charles
Tup-
ln
the
European
r
or
rtSk
per.
.
!
chaos
tn
the
Pacific."
The
Leader
of
the
antl-confedera-'
japanese
press
accused
Unit-
tioaists
before
this
event
was
Jo-
4.
ed
gtates
of
trying
to
get
seph
Howe,
but,
like
Tupper,
he
bascs
in
siberia
which
they
never
sat
in
the
provincial
house
'
sald
-belongs
to
Asia."
after
1867.
When
Blanchard
form-
ed
his
government,
uowe
was
ui
percent
higher
on
the
average,
the
exception
of
the
periods
1878-
t
lonlal
status
b
W
H
lir
i
1!
a
jvicvuv,
wwu
0(
mm
v
w
London
percent,
lamp
oil,
candles
and
vatlves
were
in
power,
Liberal
gov-
1
.
.
f
M-nr.
about
27
per
cent.
ernmenU
have
always
directed
tc0Hd
l
Th,
m.nlstry
of
labor
explain-
the
political
affairs
of
Nova
Soo-
J
i1!;,""6"
the
feder
.ihou.
m
nercent
of
the
in-
tla.
is
a
nrovince.
John.A'
"ac.Do?a"
i?.
u.!
were
due
to
higher
taxes
At
dissolution
of
the
18th
legls-
'c.ap
became
lleut
e?
n"
"TJ
Fm
:r3,-.
tobacco,
cigarettes
and
laturc
Premier
A.
S.
MacMUlan
jtour
ma.
nr,
and
some
three
percent
had
the
support
of
22
members
:V.-T.!.aBa:!
PR.
RUPERT
Isolated
To
Be
Polls
Still
Remain
Heard
From
-he
purchase
tax
which
The
Conservatives
under
Leonard
u
u
supp0rters
Reportlng
twdve
votes
for
into
operation
in
the
au-
W.
Fraser
had
five
seats.
Douglas
'
r....n
tiv.i
o,i
until
me
Liiociais
wcic
ucic.ii.cvt
nuei
i.
i-'.
muuuu,
uwhu,
an.i
1878.
'sixteen
for
George
Weaver,
C.
C.
Conservatives
remained
ln
pow-
F.,
Digby
Island
yesterday
after-
4-
1
toon
..nrlAM
C
XT
TTnlmoe
'nnnvt
cnif
In
(tc
rfitiirne
frvr
11
IOC.
there
were
two
va-
and
eration
g
Thompson
who
later
days
provincial
election.
This
cancles.
minister
Canada,
Wark
Channel
came
ln
of
the
18
counties
..,.
m
.
the
ine
became
prime
of
morning
Two
&t
ches
slx
fQr
miuUo
and
one
for
province-
uiamw-
conservative
leader
ln
confed-,
Weaver.
The
total
vote
to
date.
,
7
.JmS
eration
days,
was
active
In
feder-CaChu
r
k!
;
p.
Nl
Politics
Like
Thompson,
he
Cumberland
"JeJSl
becm.
Canadian
prime
minister
tou-each
have
two
representa-
tlves
while
the
otner
consuiuta
nine
nOVl
Mri
cfitutp
n
sincle
rid
v,iro
vv,i.
w.w.
-
T,.ii
..j
.
sway
ai
xiamuA
uuuci
iJiuiuv.10
For
43
years
before
Hon.
E.
N.
W.
T.
Pipes.
W.
S
Fielding,
later
Rhodes
Conservative,
later
Cana-
federal
minister
of
finance.
G.
H.
and
E.
II.
Armstrong,
dlan
Minister
of
Finance,
became
Murray,
nremicr
In
1925
ln
the
wake
of
a
Then
came
the
Conservative
re-violent
strike
in
the
Cape
Breton
glmes
of
Rhodes
and
G.
S.
Har-rnal
fields
Liberal
regimes
had
'
rlngton.
hSSoSS.
.
In
1933,
Angus
L.
Macdonald
,
smashed
an
eight-year
Conserva-
!
Some
Traditions
Ulve
dynasty
and
restored
Liberal;
'
rule-
He
was
returned
in
1937
pactions
have
1
.
xr
Nova
Scotian
cnntnn
elections
u.vc
n,m
spawned
that
which
with
forty-two
out
of
forty-six
polls
accounted
for,
is:
Pattullo,
1607;
Weaver,
1527.
In
yesterday's
tabulation
an
er-
From
1882
to
1925,
Liberals
held.ror
made
Warke
Channel
read
24
iior
fattuiio
ana
zo
ior
weaver.
Instead
these
figures
were
for
absentee
to
date.
Cumshewa
Inlet,
Limestone
Island,
Oona
River
and
Sewell
Inlet
have
yet
to
be
heard
from.
There
has
been
some
speculation
as
to
the
tr,end
of
the
military
vote
abroad.
Possibly
some
indication
is
given
by
Reglna
re
porting
three
for
Pattullo
and
nothing
for
Weaver
and
Halifax
two
traaitions.
ut
ireoortlne
two
for
Pattullo
and
t(1
VOte
111
lu,u
tu
ucuumc
miiiMni
ui
vie-,
-
lu
wtc
.
r.n
nothlmr
for
Weaver.
The
sold
er's
.
.
.
i
ji
fnr
ience
lor
navai
aitairs,
a.
omi-
;
.
...
.
..
as
their
granapai
u..
;-
....
hw...
nrpmIer.
vote
will
not
be
De
officially
Howe,
Liberalism
and
against
w-
,
tjnn,v
nr
for
TUDDCr,
COll-
'
DEMAND
JI.P.
()UIT
missing.
nounced
until
November
12.
an-
RHINELAND
IS
RAIDED
LONDON,
Oct.
23:
P)
British
Tomorrow
sT
ides
High
3:50
a.m.
20.4tt.
15:42
p.m.
21.7
It.
Low
9:46
ajn.
6.4
It.
22:25
p.m.
2.9
It.
4o
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
NO.
248.
v7.U.XXX..
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
THURSDAY,
OCTOBER
23,
1U41.
PRICE:
FIVE
CENTS
hange
In
Britons
Endure
It
BATTLE
OF
PURSE
IN
Red
Army
Command
Bulletins
LATEST
ELECTION
RETURNS
The
latest
election
standing:
for
British
Columbia
shows
20
seats
for
the
Liberals,
14
for
the
C.C.F.,
10
lor
the
Conservatives,
and
one
for
Labor.
With
four
small
polls
remaining
to
be
heard
from
the
majority
for
Premier
T.
I).
Pattullo
in
Prince
Rupert
stands
at
eighty.
AMERICANS
MISSING
.
WASHINGTON
A
lifeboat
fro-
the
American
freighter
Bolt'
Venture,
sunk
by
a
German
torpedo,
ii
still
missing
with
nineteen
men
on
board.
Another
lifeboat
landed
crew
members
on
Iceland.
LEASE
LEND
PROGRESS
WASHINGTON
Organized
opposition
to
the
United
States
admini
straticn's
$5,985,000,000
lend-lease
bill
collapsed
in
the
senate
yesterday
and
its
proponents
piedicted
its
speedy
approval
this
week.
'
WAGE
BOARD
OTTAWA
Machinery
being
set
u-.
under
the
new
compulsory
wate
policy
of'
the
Dominion
is
such
that
disputes
will
be
clcaK
with
by
regional
boards
and,
if
necessary,
by
the
National
War
Labor
Board,-
Labor
M'nister
Norman
McLarty
said
.yesterday.
-
.
.
-
tL.
TOM
.MOORE
CRITICAL
OTTAWA
Tom
Moore,
president
of
the
Tiades
and
Labor
Congress
of
Canada,
said
"it
was
incomprehensible"
that
Canadian
workers
had
not
been
given
the
fullest
opportunity
to
express
their
views
on
the
federal
wage
and
prices
stabilization
program
before
final
action
war;
taken.
Mr.
Moore
said
that,
both
its
terms
and
the
manner
of
its
introduction,
the
government
progiam
"is
the
longest
step
yet
taken
by
any
democracy
towards
the
establishment
of
a
totalitarian
state."
MOVE
AGAINST
AXIS
TEHERAN,
Iran
A
week-end
decision
by
the
government
of
Afghanistan
to
expel
all
German
and
Italian
nationals
closed
the
last
remaining
gap
in
the
2000-mile
political
and
military
front
which
Britain
has
built
across
southwestern
Asia.
CANNOT
BE
SEPARATED
BERLIN
A
German
spokesman
expressed
strong
resentment
yesterday
at
remains
by
United
States
Assistant
Secretary
of
State
Breckenridge
Long,
on
alleged
German
intentions
toward
Italy
and
said
it
was
a
"lowdown
trick
to
intimate
Germany
and
Italy
ever
could
be
separated."
HELP
TO
RUSSIA
HYDE
PARK,
NX
A
conference
on
help
for
Russia
was
held
by
President
Roosevelt
yesterday
with
W.
Averill
Harriman,
head
of
the
mission
to
Moscow,
and
Harry
Hopkins,
supervisor
of
lease-lend
operations.
CLOSED
HEARINGS
WASHINGTON
With
opponents
crying
"gag
rule,"
the
United
States
senate
foreign
relations
committee
voted
12
to
9
Tuesday
to
hold
closed
hearings,
beginning
yesterday,
on
the
house-approved
ship
arming
bill.
AFTER
THAT,
WHAT?
Scientists
say
that
the
atmosphere
of
the
earth
is
from
198
to
time.
tnllps
In
hpleht.
planes
raided
the
Rhlneland,
in-
eluding
the
Industrial
centre
of
Mannheim,
and
also
attacked
Tonight's
train,
due
to
arrive
docks
in
German-occupied
French
from
the
east
at
11
o'clock,
was;
rnrinrin'
Refutations,
has
heeri
nd.limrts
last
nleht.
Five
nlanes
ate
reported
this
morning
to
,be
on
Defence
of
Moscow
Is
Tightened;
To
Be
Made
Into
Another
'Verdun'
"Twenty
to
One
They
Will
Never
Take
It
This
Winter,'
Says
London
Authority
in
Commenting
on
Situation
of
Capital.
LONDON,
Oct.
23:
(CP)
General
Gregory
K.
Zhu-kov
has
supplanted
Marshal
Semeon
Timoshenko
in
supreme
command
of
the
western
zone
of
the
Russian
army,
it
was
disclosed
today,
and
his
forces
were
'credited
with
already
having
tightened
Moscow's
defence
despite
admitted
numerical
superiority
of
German
tanks
and
infan
try
oeing
nunea
in
mass
assaults
at
the
approaches
to
the
city.
There
was
no
report
of
a
new
post
:
;
for
Timoshenko.
In
Berlin
Chancellor
Hitler's
headquarters
claimed
today
that
German
forces
have
broken
through
the
outer
defences
of
Moscow
from
the
southwest
and
west,
spearheads
having
reached
a
point
about
thirty-eight
miles
from
the
Russian
capital.
In
London
it
was
reported
that
strong
German
forces
were
strik
Election
Echoes
The
vote
at
Terrace
ln
Tues-
219
C'Neill,
and
Kwinltsa
seven
for
Kenney
and
four
for
O'Neill.
Six-
ing
hard
to
the
southeast
in
Rus-
craft.
sia,
punching
for
a,
soft
spot
through
which
to
launch
a
drive
lor
the
oil-rich
Caucasus.
This
wai
declared
by
an
informed
Brit-lsbraHe4ha3iitiie-Rus-siaris
were
turning
Moscbw
jnto
another
Verdun
and
the
Germans
were
finding
the
going
increasingly
hard
on
the
central
front,
adding
"it
is
twenty
to
one
they
will
never
take
Moscow
this
winter."
I
Plane
of
Royal
Force
in
Crash
.
GREAT
VILLAGE.
N.S..
Oct.
23:
0
A
flaming
Royal
Air
Force
training
plane,
which
crashed
here
today,
brought
almost
instant
death
to
four
British
airmen
operating
the
POSITION
Foreign
Secretary
Wishes
Members
Could
Be
in
Closer
Contact
With
Military
Situation.
LONDON,
Oct.
23:
Ol
Foreign
Secretary
Anthony
Eden,
replying
for
E.
T.
Kcnney,
Liberal,
and
119
demands
for
miutary
actlon
dc
for
W.
J
Conservative.'
ONeill,
clared
that
lf
th(J
members
could
Copper
City
voted
16
for
Kenney
be
in
doser
xontact
with
theflght-and
7
for
ONeill.
Little
Canyon
servlces
and
could
be
glven
nine
iui
nciiuey
a
ii
a
one
xur
more
information,
they
would
be
better
able
to
Judge
the
situation.
Members,
debating
the
contact
teen
out
of
24
polls
in
Skeena
,r
coct
ntta
h.
signed
to
knock
Italy
out
of
the
In
Omineca
28
out
of
38
polls
war,
night
land
raids
on
the
con-gave
M.
M.
Connelly,
Liberal,
700;tinent
and
a
British
stand
alone-
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237.
and
W.
Menzles,
C.C.F.,
435.
The
latest
word
from
Fort
George,
24
out
of
40
polls,
showed
H.
G.
Perry,
Liberal,
with
942
votes;
A.
McB.
Young,
Conservative.
275,
and
J.
H.
Penberthy,
C.C.F.,
676.
Simultaneously
Lord
Beaver-brook,
minister
of
supply,
told
the
House
of
Lords
that
Russia's
great
loss
of
war
supply
manufacturing
facilities
had
left
Russia
ln
a
position
to
that
of
Great
Britain
after
Dunkerque.
War
News
.
NAVY,
PERSONNEL
DOUBLED
LONDON
The
Admiralty
disclosed
yesterday
that
the
Royal
Navy
had
more
than
doubled
itself
in
personnel
in
the
last
18
months.
The
announcement
added
that
tens
of
thousands
of
men
and
boys
from
every
trade
and
profession
have
joined
the
service.
ARMENIANS
TO
FIGHT
DAMASCUS,
Syria
The
Armenian
community
informed
the
government
of
Syria
today
it
had
organized
a
league
to
fight
against
Germany
on
the
side
of
Russia
and
her
allies.
AXIS
SHIPS
TORPEDOED
LONDON
The
Admiralty
announced
a
British
submarine
had
torpedoed
two
Libya-bound
axis
supply
ships
in
a
convoy.
Another
submarine
was
credited
in
the
same
communique
with
shelling
an
airdrome
at
Cirenaica
in
Libya.
.
,,
,,
.
,
AURANIA
SUNK
'"
'
BERLIN
Berlin
claims
that
Nazi
U-boats
sunk
four'
vessels
in
a
British
convoy
including
the
transport
ship
Auranla,
formerly
of
the
White
Star
Line.
FRENCH
ASSASSINATIONS
LONDON
The
British
radio
yesterday
referred
to
the
futility
of
the
French
assassinating
German
officers.
They
would
be
better
to
concentrate
on
sabotage.
This
was
after
Marshal
Petalu
called
on
Frenchmen
to
cease
killing
German
officers
in
order
to
prevent
reprisals
on
hostages.
ENGLAND
IS
BOMBED
LONDON
German
bombers
last
night
attacked'
the
Midlands,
Dast
Anglia
and
points
along
the
Mersey,