Lerial Forces Active in Egypt ... ussians Bring Fresh Troops . . . IT, Br-A id count was 336. Lock Landmark Crumbles Away irec weeks of being awarded the if.C for removing two uncxplodcd smbs from the submarine H.M.8. ireshcr, Lieut. Peter Roberts, loyal Navy, has won the D.S.O, &r gallant and distinguished scr Ice" durlnir uatrols. One CAIRO Ll!il ItrltMi patrols harassed Axis furrr on all sec tor! uf the 111 Alameln front Jut night. Tliere Is, however, no indica tion of large-scale operations anywhere in the fighting zone. Aerial irthity Is confined to sweeps over enemy lines. Axis bomber raided Meiandrfa lal nltht. killing four persons and injuring 13. Air raid ilirmi also sounded in the Cairo area and other points. MOSCOW Armored trains rolled Into Don fiend steppes with Irr h reinforcements for the struggling Ited Army. Russians are re- ported as having checked the Herman drive west of Stalingrad. Kus- Urn report bieaking up novel flying-wedge massed infantry walled ... . . . . 1 r I I .1 1 I y lanas. ine situation diiow iimioT continues ciircmriy grate. Jlied Airmen Bag Nine . . . AI.I.li:!) IIIIAIKHAUTEKS, Australia Allied airmen destroyrd sine of 19 Japanese raiders over Port Darwin yesterday in the biggest tutburst of aerial warfaie in that area since the Coral Sea battle. enemy transport alwi was tt aflame off New Guinea. A destroyer escort was shot up and one enemy fighter plane downed. SETTLING CITY GOV'T OF INDIA' RESOLUTION iltrd Stales Intervention Might Keiult In Pacifying Mahatma Ii. ;don Gandhi Prince Rupert Trades and Labor ; Council Wants Mayor and Aldermen July 31 There ts a The Prince Rupert Trades and rc that th crisis be- Labor Council has pasted the fol-indlftn Nataeaaitst Con- towing reoluUon In regard to the ,1 trst IXuuim wvs rnimmt lm rowdd jttmUaa-wd. i peratton In the war seeking endomUon of ether ili V ttled through the In- bodies: (if the United State. whereas the City of Prince Ru-Oandbl might be tn- pert Is to shortly return to a rail off his passive re- mayor and council form of govern-ampalgn to Oreat DrtU ment, and. Whereas certain jubHc bodies are rmueating the provincial gov ,0G SCALE ernment at the next meeting of .the legislature to grant a special charter to the City of Prince Ru l pert whereby nprpDy a a city c,ly manager manager n may nnn WffrVIrPTT rllK IVH IN AX i H apPintl through and by vJLV lilv11 an honorary honorary mayor mayor and and council, council, an and. I Whereas the provincial govern - ill cf ?9.?:210 Hoard 1'eet Was menl nM macjc provision in the utput Willi bprurc and item- i Municipal Act for the appolnt-lock Principal Varieties jmcnt of a city manager where ' necessary, and. I r.,ii,g In Prince Rupert, whereas city managership, com- b uA fol balsam. 75301 1 Therefore be It resolved that we ?. ct Jm kjslne and "6)l the Prince Rupert Trades and ot rruVclLaneou. ' Dor council representing a large imd piling production in ody 0f workers and property own-itt rior amounted to 86,703 ' efg ln tnc guy cf prince Rupert to, f.tt. 88,1 M (latal feet being therefore, request -the Provincial j oovernment of British Columbia tailed ,4W Jitorfia and the t Rrant local autonomy and thet rlaht to elect a mayor and council ito the cltlsens of Prince Rupert and so show faith ln the much ' ineeded and published form of rt.mrwrtiltr onvprnment. Copies of the resolution have been sent to the Premier of Brit ish Columbia, Attorney ucnerm PORT ARTHUR. Ont., July 31 and leader 01 mc i.u.r. The Sea Lion Is no more. The uai rock formation located in n liver Inlet on Lake Superior about Npwt r.flltOl 1 . . A . " miles oy roaa irom t-oiv nir has crumbled ln sutiicieni uasnUty to destroy the contour Milch gave It the name of Sea Won Thou.siinds of people have ad-Itlrod and nhologranhed the Sea il(r in I) rlnv nnrf nlrliirn nnst- ird views of tho formation have v.,ce' -, A' ravelled all over the world. WINS V.C. AND H.S.O. LONDON. July 31: (T Within To Ottawa To attend a conference at Ot-j tawa with Uic minister of labor) and the director of selective ser- Huntcr of the uony. News left on this morning's trnln for the East. Bascb'all Scores National League Chicago 2, Brooklyn 0. Cincinnati 2, Philadelphia 4. American League Philadelphia 5-7, Detroit ll-C Washington 11. St. Louis 6. Boston 3, Cleveland 4. Loca! Temperature Tomorrow sT ides (Standard Time) High 4:15 ajn. 195 feet M.iiiiium 61 16:56 pjn. 195 feet Minimum 92 Low 10:36 a.m. 35 feet NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMMA'S NEWSPAPER 23:09 p.m. 55 feet XXXI No 176 "i PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1942 PRICE- FIVE CENTS New if anadi ian Contingent Arrives 01 Today's War Summary By Canadian Preu) RAIDS ON ENGLAND Seven Enemy Tlanes Brought Down Last Night During Scattered Attacks LONDON. July 3l-Seven enemy planca were brought down in scattered raid over England dur- in uve Midlands were visited bv the Luftwaffe but only one sustained any appreciable damage, j some casualties being caused. Enemy planes were also over London bat no bombs were Vancouver j Grendvtflw - .10 Bralorne 6.00 Carlxjo QuarU . .05 Hedley Maseot .18 Pend OreUl .85 Pioneer - 155 Premier - .43 Privateer .35 Reno .03 V4 Sheep Creek .......... .71 Oils Calmont .12 C. & a .92 Hume 250 Royal Canadian .02Vz Toronto Beattlc ; .54 Central Pat. .73 Cons, Smelters 33.75 Hardtock . .33 Kerr Addison 3.85 Little Long Lac 80 McLeod Cockshult 1.10 Madsen Red Lake ... .39 McKenzlc Red Lake 52 Monfta - 54 Pickle, Cr!ow 1.62 Preston Bast Dome 1.55 San Antonio 1.48 Shcrrltt GordOn 01 WORK FOR CiERMANY STOCKHOLM, July 31: CD Moro than 180,000 Netherlands' workers now are cm ployed In Germany, according to the Nazi-controlled Pari! radio, t Heavy Raid On Darwin raid against Port Darwin yes- terday, using 27 bWbcrs and 22 fighters, but the attack was broken up without great deal of damage. Nine of the enemy with loss of but one United 4- Nations machine. Port Hed- land In northwest Australia was raided nlsn Hut suffered only slight damage. MEDICAL CONVOY ATTACKED BY GERMANS Jjhf k" SllSBlBssWsssWStW l . mmr M JBSSTsSssSSu Jr A woui.rird British ambulance driver Is being treated by his comrades for wounds that were Inflicted when Oerman forces attacked a Royal Army Medical convoy during the battle of Libya. The driver was rescued from the burning vehicle in the background. BRINGDOWN j JAP PLANES United States Machines Piling Up Score Against Invaders of China d.strlct .for the month of mUatoner. or any one man form CHUNGKINO. July 31. United ungated 3M7X.610 board 0 government be It for city, prov- states planes shot down four Jap- which 2.011.O06 board feet nf.e or dominion savors too much anec maduneii over Hangyoun In 10.961.4)0 board feet 0f a dictator, which form of rule china yesterday. Over the same 4 248.JW board feet cedar. uc are making great sacrifices to clly wren pnes were brought t'i hoard feet hemlock. 1.- overcome. Idown the day previous. TODAYS (CXrtry 6. D. STOCKS Joh&stoa Oo.) PASSING OF GEO. TITE Sudden Death Yesterday After noon of Weil Known Local Business Man George Rupert's best known pioneer bus! ness men. havinz been ln the fur : ROLLING a OF TANKS MELBOURNE, July 31 The .Ordnance Workshop Plays Import ant Part in Servicing Equipment of Armored Division By Frank Flakerty (Canadian Press Staff Writer) AN EASTERN CANADA ARMY ing last night. Six or seven towns planes were brought to earth CAMP, July 31 fl Back of every armored division stands the ord nance workshop where the tanks and other equipment are kept In repair. In the case of the 4 th ar and thus see e have been what defecU tank Is a big Job In Itself. It Is lifted out with a block and tackle and bolted Into a In which It can be turned upside down or to any desired angle for working. The repair Jobs ln this workshop are reduced to a drill A definite time Is laid down for each opera- D. Tlte. one of Prince an,d a del!f 5!'.' L"! ccuure is preset iuvu. oj wu un-aa it Is possible to get the quickest riv possible movement of equipment through the shop and at the same days, passed away suddenly at his home on Second Avenue early yes- lime liave terday afternoon. He collapsed f tlons. and soon succumbed to a heart opposite eacn w u overhaul Is a blackboard on wh ch attack. News of his passing came chalk the time log the operators as a great shock to his numerous iriends of their work, the time each oper- Bom" seventy years ago. Mr. atlon Is completed. Their objective Tlte spent hU early life ln Vic-, Is to keep each singe operation torla and it was from that city! within the prescribed time so that that he came here ln 1910 and I they will finish the whole in the established in the furniture busl-jtime laid down without being un-neas. For years he took a promln- duly rushed on any particular cnt part in public affairs as well operation. as in the Masonic Lodge. He wasi Lieut. Edmond Cox of Windsor, for a long time one of the local . Ont.. Is In charge of the tank wing lonrtsn nt ih rnncarvaHvi. nnrtv 'nf the shoD. Before Joining the Mr. Tite is survived by his wl-, army he worked on the manufac- dow as well as two sons. George jture of Bren gun carriers wnn mc and Ted. and two daughters. Mrs. Ford Motor Company. Fred iLorna Clendennlns of In charge of the administrative Vancouver and Miss Eleanor Tlte work of the shop, keeping records at home. of the tanks coming in ana going NEW SHIP ON TRIAL Ten Thousand Ton Freighter Tested Out Satisfactorily At West Coast Port AT A WEST COAST CANADIAN PORT, July 31: Another ten thousand ton freighter for Wartime Shipping has run successful trials with various officials ln at tendance. Speed and equipment were all satisfactory. The'ship will shortly go Into commission. 1 1 1 - U .nnil.0 onrt Tl f C OUb UnU Ul wlC ICJUUil u 4 thev reoulre. is Lt. E. K. Mac- Eachern of Ottawa, a graduate of Queen's University In engineering with several years' experience in mechanical engineering behind him. f The men ln the shop who do 1.' special repair Jobs work ln pairs i . , 1 .nni.t. mis gives vwo icn wuiii.tK experience on every Job. The Ideal situation ln a tank worKsnop is to have every man able to do any Job on a tank but as a start that Is not possible. INCREASED LONGEVITY Average longevity cf persons In the United States has Increased 5& years ln the last decade. Fresh Thousands Land In Gt. Britain; 2nd. Front Mooted Cripps Makes Statement American General Arrives Speculation Aroused . LONDON, July 31 (CP) Speculation that an allied invasion of the continent is in the offinir was stirrprl nnpw morcd division the workshop has today with the debarkation of a new contingent of Cana- torto w.m I we range! d,an troop. Cripps; statement in the House that the gov- of tools, spare parts and skilled operators. It Is a huge building the form of an "If." One side is the tank workshop and the other the place where o'her vehicles, trucks, motor-cycles, carriers and armored cars as well as smaller pieces of ujiuueiik nau teiuiin iiitenuuiis cuupieu witn me arrival of the thousands of Canadian fighting men . again brought second front discussion to Rlirmn'c Oil lthe lore. Significant also was the DUUlldd Jll larrlval In BrlUln of Brigadier-. TLT , p 'General Frank O. D. Hunter, com-IlOt "Or JapS mander of -the American fighting r I plane units In Britain. It Is haz- 1 th1 "Uon w"! LONDON. LONDON. July July 31 31W W-The The BrlUsh BrlUsh "de?t V? drfsUc cMunc..,. KC w.cu K.,.U.K. crow bar contains offices and dld no mcan Job Qf destroyln any. stores of tools and parU. hln of yalue ta Burma before me dig nam wtii&s uacu vj the division In trailing get a com plete overhaul after every 100 hours of operation and in order to keep them rolling the Job Is done as quickly as possible. Four men give the tanks their . i ii- 1 1 1 . i ry m nour sireicn oi seaay worK ior,described M the Ul' aic Yu saboteur . workshop men and the other two -history." ..whalever mtle mUtakes are memoers oi me crew wnicn they relinquished the country to superior Japanese forces. Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith. who was rrrwamrr rf Dtirm i fr!! Vi ova rf said- Sir Rejrfnaul- Inventors Are The Job starts at seven o'clock In the morning and it is usually well on in the next morning before It Is finished. After It Is done the weary, greasy working soldiers get a day off. Jobs Become Drills Removing the engine from a "greatest he mtirlo tt-hpn Tip rlnEtrrrvpri nil flplrlc operates the Unk They work on the Dutch lndies he cor. the overhaul that they so W,rected ln Burma and 1 am told know what the tank needs and bew Qf thJ Burma oUmis huk cuailMic u i yi- K,pV ,nt nmrtnctlnn ' SittasS , , -.-.n . ' ' W'.IV VUVA f"" Still Very Busy LONDON, July 31 C After three years of war the public still is sending details of "war-winning" Inventions to the Ministry of Supply at the rate of nearly 300 a movable stond'- And Inventions Instead days of the war are of a more serious character now. A staff of 800 Is kept busy sifting the Improve Defence Of South Africa Millions Spent For Construction: Building Program Still Incomplete CAPE TOWN. July 31 Os Since the outbreak of Uie war, the Union of South Africa has spent 20,000,-000 ($89,400,000) on defence build ings. Public Works Minister C. F. Clarkson has announced. As yet the program Is by no means complete, and construction has been limited to the most essential build ings. A number of evacuees are ex pected to arrive shortly ln South Africa from Egypt. Natal Administrator H. O. Watson has asked all holiday makers ln Marltzburg, Durban and the coastal districts to return home as soon as possible to make room for them. The resi dents have been asked to accommodate the 4.000 refugees for two weeks until the government finds quarters for them Inland. A government decree has been Issued to the effect that Italian war prisoners ln South Africa may now be employed by private Indl viduals. RIVER PROPAGANDA MOSCOW. July 31: Ch Copies of a Soviet newspaper circulated In White Russia have been sent floating down the Dnelper and critical Russian situation. Mean- ttered German bomb the "absolute devastation" wrought in Burma and said the lob of de- ' straying the oil 'elds and plant while daylight raids on the French coast were resumed as British fighters swept across the channel towards Boulogne. This followed a ing attacks on Britain. PROJECT IS CONSIDERED Recreational Centre Plan of Wartime Housing Not Very Warmly - Received .. b y.Locl-Ayt ia tion The Prince Rupert Civic Centre Association had a special general meeting last night to consider a proposal whereby it would put ln a stake of $25,000 In connection with the construction of a $75,000 recreational building ln the vicinity of Hays Creek In collaboration with Wartime Housing Limited and the Canadian National Railways, each of the latter also putting up $25,000. The plan did hot meet with the approval of the meeting which was presided over by -Dr. R. G. Large, president of the Association, but two alternative suggestions were made. One of the Tesolutlons of the meeting, moved by W. F. Stone and Dr. J. J. Gibson, was that the site was not acceptable. Another resolution, moved -by S. E. Parker and seconded by W. J. Scott, was that members of the Civic Centre Association should have access to any such Joint project from the outset and that after the war .full control of the building should foe placed ln the hands of the Civic Centre Association with the Canadian National Railways Development Co. have representation on the execu tive equal to that of the Prince Rupert Gyro Club, Prince Rupert Rotary Club, Junior Chamber of Commerce and Sons of Norway namely with two members. SINGS TO RESCUERS SOUT1LUIPTQN', Eng.. July 31: Ch Thirteen-year old Pamela Bunn takes rank as one of the heroines of a June air raid on Southampton and a neighboring town. With her parents and other relatives she was trapped In a concrete shelter which collapsed when hit by a heavy bomb. Her mother was killed. Her father was Injured. But she chatted bravely with rescue workers and when one of them told her lt would help them with their work If she sang, the little girl responded with "The White Cliffs of Dover," and "The Band Played On." Not long after- other rivers In sealed bottles. Each wards the workers got her out af- papcrs bears this notice: "Read ter removing u piece of concrete this and pass It on death to the which had pinned her foot to the Germans." , shelter floor. . , ( t