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here
The
refrigeration
equipment
is
"0
entrees
Fahr
conditions
in
this
room
wrr
than
thr
temoeraturc
at
40.000
feet
altitude.
:
inf.
hanlral
equipment,
such
a
m.uk.v
goggle,
tested
under
severe
cold.
OTHER
HIS
DEATH
SINKING
ACCIDENTAL
f
imrr
City
Service
T
rdoed
Off
Allan.
Mi
lca
t
Lie
ten
Lost.
I
0
25.
Another
r
City
Service
:
torpedoed
and
numbers
of
the
)Uier
were
Uind-
a
port.
leves
Took
f
Chirlfs
Pickrrell
of
Seattle
.
fatAnlv.
rhe
iurv
added
a
rider
moMliied
For
Duration
'.,
it.
vorrtU-t
rynmmenfilnff
that
t
j
Thieve
re-
fnm
the
car
of
"
i
one
nlhi
and
next
night
and
:
?hrpe
The
ear
U
!or
Hit-
duration.
I
RUPERT
COMING
0NI5
r
Loan
Total
Is
$530,750
With
U71
Subscribers
r
:rn
Second
Victory
,u
reached
a
total
of
i
evening
with
sub-
MISS
TIIKIIl
COI
FFF.
pKHOLM,
Feb.
25:
Oh
Itc
liic
v.
n
-
of
fee.
the
national
bev-fxhaustcd.
Before
the
Tg.an
coffee
consump-a
uta
was
the
heaviest
i
id
Meat,
fish
and
dairy
have
practically
dlsap-
ONIONS
AUK
ONIONS
P"
"N.
Feb,
25:
Oi
A
basket
"
:.ix
onions
and
a
bou-
C"ten
orchids
brought
$25
cy
Mon
for
a
comforts
fund
f"
if
women
and
children.
Circumstances
or
Fatal
Fall
at
Local
Dry
Pock
Investigated
.
bjr
Coronei's
Jury.
""
Dagbart
Lund
aged
57.
came
to
his
death
at
the
Prince
Rupert
General
Hospital
at
2
30
Sunday
afterroon
as
a
result
of
Injuries
sustained
on
Saturday
afternoon
in
a
fall
from
a
ladder
while
employed
as
a
rieaer
in
the
tnarhlne
shop
at
the
local
dry
dock,
the
circumstance
of
death
belnx
ac-
ridentaL
according
to
the
finding
111
IT
T
AH
ills
1
ireS
a
eoroncr'
J"""
yesterday
afternoon
sat
before
Coroner
I
A.
J.
Lancaster
to
Investieate
the
first
aid
men
be
on
hand
at
alii
times
when
men
are
working
at
j
the
yard.
Witnesses
at
the
inquest
were
Joseph
Arthur
Hayward,
William
Sankey.
Kumxa
Koaloff,
R.
O.
Maeaulay.
T.
J.
Boulter
and
Dr.
C.
1L
Hanklnson.
The
flrst-men-i.oned
four
were
working
nearby
at
the
Ume
when
Lund
fell.
They
told
how
he
had
been
repairing
the
top
of
a
hoist
which
was
about
feet
above
the
floor,
it
was
while
descending
from
the
nmst
to
obtain
some
Rreasc
that
he
fell
Irom
a
ladder.
No
one
actually
saw
how
Lund
fell
but
the
witness
sankev
testified
that
he
saw
him
in
the
nlr
tal
ma
about
icn
icei
I
above
the
ground.
Deceased
did
uattng
1271.
The
ob-not
lose
consciousness
but
did
not
!00.000
with
1800
sub-1
sneak
after
the
fall
to
those
who
went
to
pick
him
up.
Dr.
Hanklnson
gave
as
the
cause
of
death'
serious
injuries
to
the
Chest.
The
Jury
visited
the
scene
of
the
accident
at
the
dry
dock.
The
Jury
consisted
of
A.
M.
Bor-
lnrf
fnrrman:
Edward
L..
Grant
Covcrdalc,
Robert
Pollock,
Robert
Parker
and
J.
H.
Maccy.
SWANK
IN
MAYFAllt
LONDON.
Fcb7
25:
O-Flrst
time
since
.the
beginning
of
the
war
a
HoUco
advising
"evening
aress
only'
appeared
in
London.
It
was
for
the
opening
night
oi
an
exclusive
Mayfalr'
dlnc-and-dance
restaurant.
PANADA'S
SECOND
VICTORY
LOAN
COMING
EVENTS
Wedncsfln
b
mirsdav.
(5:4f,
n.m.-.Dr.
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T.
Mnndv.
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BUY
VICTORY
BONDS
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INDUSTRIES
MOIHUZEI)
FOR
sT
ides
IT
411V
Tomorrow
High
10:21
ajii.
17.8
ft.
23:20
p-m.
165
It.
Low
4:00
a.m.
10.3
ft.
17:05
pjn.
6.1
It.
1
?OL
XXXI.
NO.
47
t
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
IJRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
Sevent)
-Three
Thousand
British
Troons
Out
of
Action
as
Result
of
Capture
by
Japs.
I
LONDON.
Feb.
25-Prtme
Minister
Wlmton
Churchill,
in
hU
j
address
to
parliament
yesterday.
'
taid
that
73.000
British
troops
had
been
lost
as
a
result
of
the
fall
of
Singapore.
I
All
Japs
To
Be
Removed
OTTAWA.
Feb.
25
.15
1.00
2.40
.04
t
'
formed
sources
said
today
it
was
likely
the
complete
Jap-
anese
population
of
BritUh
Columbia
would
be
removed
from
cjoastal
areas
in
the
province
In
the
near
future.
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Heights
Has
Its
First
Fire
Overheated
Stovepipe
United
Par
Thr.
first
fire
In
the
new
rcsl
.
.
.
l.i
dentlal
section
oi
uuwiuiwh.
Heights
occurred
Monaay
morning
about
9
o'clock
when
an
overhcat-
stovcDlue
Ignited
a
partition
in
.it
nf
n
metal
thimble
of
pro
tection.
The
fire
was
actually
put
,t
hpfore
the
arrival
of
the
fire
department
but
not
until
some
$100
damage
was
none.
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
WEDNESDAY,
FEBRUARY
25,
1TM2.
Unidentified
Aircraft
Is
Seen
Over
Santa
Monica
and
Anti
-
Aircraft
Guns
Fired
LOS
ANGELES,
Feb.
25:
Anti-aircraft
guns
went
into
action
and
searchlights
played
into
the
skies
over
Los
Angeles
and
environs
early
today
as
an
unidentified
object
came
in
from
tfie
sea
to
pass
elowly
over
Santa
Monica
and
move:
on
down
the
coast
to
disappear
south
of
the
rich
oil
fields.
All
southern
California
from
Los
Angeled
to
San
Diego
was
blacked
out
from
2:55
a.m.
until
7:21
a.m.
Radio
stations
went
off
the
air.
No
bombs
were
reported
and
nothing
was
brought
!ov.n.
There
,
e.-
vcve.
rcpovts
of
instances
of
damaged
prop-r'f-
fun
ant
'-aircraft
shells.
Army
officials
dp-
blimp
mie.r.1
have
passed
over
the
area.
SINGAPORE
NAZI
ARMY
LOSS
BIG
WIPED
OUT
Twelve
Thousand
Nails
Slain
B)
Russians
on
Refusing
to
Surrender.
Great
Offensive
Uncounted
Numbers
of
Tanks,
Guns
and
Armored
Cars
was
virtually
annihilated,
12.000
soldiers
being
killed.
It
was
Oermany'3
Sixteenth
0!
III-
,
ptAM
Arm
of
A
OflO
mpn
whirh
Russian
troops
were
credited
officially
today
with
having
crushed,
three
divisions
being
shattered
with
the
killing
of
the
twelve
thousand
men.
Uncounted
numbers
of
tanks,
guns
and
armored
cars
were
captured.
This
was
described
as
only
the
first
stage
of
a
smashing
new
offensive
in
the
Staraya-Russa
sector
140
miles
below
Leningrad.
A
Russian
dispatch
date-lined
Staraya-Russa
appeared
to
indicate
that
the
town
hitherto
believed
to
have
been
in
German
hands
had
been
recaptured
in
the
Soviet
onslaught
but
a
communique
merely
said
that
the
Germans
had
been
defeated
in
the
general
reiiion.
Smolensk
is
being
gradually
closed
In
upon
by
the
Soviet
Local
Temperature
Maximum
Minimum
JAPS
LOSE
:
MORE
SHIPS
i.reu.
...ack
Ly
Allied
Planes
On
I
Enemy
Vessels
in
Straits
Of
!
Macassar
35
22
The
County
Court
case
of
J.
L
Bethurcm
vs.
Andrew
Pete,
an
ac
tion
In
which
there
Is
a
claim
for
$167.19
for
goods
sold
and
delivered,
has
been
adjourned
from
today
for
one
week.
W.
O.
Fulion
Is
acting
as
counsel
lor
ine
plaintiff
and
T.
W.
Brown
for
Axis
Is
Putting
I
Screws
on
Turks
f
ANKARA.
Feb.
25:
Ger-
man
and
Japanese
ministers
have
served
a
demarche
on
the
Ankara
gvernment
an-
nouncing
a
change
In
policy
towards
Turkey.
This
has
(
followed
the
narrow
escape
which
Ocrman
minister
Franz
von
Panen
and
hla
wife
had
yesterday
when
a
bomb
was
thrown
near
the
German
em-
bassy.
New
pressure,
It
Is
be-
llevcd
by
observers,
Is
to
be
applied
upon
Turkey
by
the
Axis.
BATAVIA,
Feb.
25:
Three
mtie
Japanese
transports
have
been
sunk
in
Macassar
Straits
as
a
lesult
of
another
attack
by
Al'iwl
planes.
The
transports
arc
believed
to
have
been
head-
for
the
Inland
of
Bali
where
three
thousand
Japanese
troops
which
succeeded
in
Undine
last
,
week
have
been
cut
off
from
re-
j
inforcements
and
supplies.
Palambang,
Japanese
-
seized
a'r
base
on
Sumatra,
has
been
again
bombed
by
Allied
planes.
NEW
GUINEA
IS
BOMBED
Captured.
port
Moresbr
Subjected
to
Attack
But
Little
Damage
Done.
MOSCOW.
Feb.
25:
Red
Army
,
hpartmiartrr
announce
that
PORT
MORESBY.
New
Guinea.
German
karrnyhkhrefule'd1cT
waytnf
Japanese-
accede
to
a
demand
to
surrender
oomoers
aiiacsea
us
cuy
day
but
litUe
damage
was
done.
Californians
Are
Urged
To
Be
Vigilant
SACRAMENTO,
Feb.
25:
Governor
Floyd
Olsen
urges
cltiz;ns
of
the
California
coast
generally
to
be
vigilant
against
possible
enemy
attack
and
to
do
everything
they
can
to
assist
the
military
PROGRESS
FOR
LOAN
Total
of
5361,969,000
Has
Now
Been
Subscribed
in
All
Canada.
!
OTTAWA.
Feb.
25:
O
Subscriptions
to
the
Second
Victory
Loan
reached
a
total
of
$361,969,000
yesterday,
campaign
headquarters
announced.
The
campaign
has
until
the
end
of
next
week
to
go
to
reach
the
total
Issue
of
Nurses
Go
On
Active
Service
Greatest
Problem
Is
To
Find
Experienced
Women
To
Replace
Them
VICTORIA.
Feb.
25:
Ninety-
seven
trained
nurses
have
resigned
from
the
Victorian
Order
of
Nurses
to
go
on
active
service
wim
me
Canadian
forces.
Mary
McCualg.
supervisor
of
the
Ottawa
national
office
of
the
order
states
In
Victoria.
"Our
greatest
problem
Is
to
find
experienced
nurses
to
take
up
the
Important
civilian
work
of
those
who
have
enlisted,"
said
Miss
PAYS
TO
TAKE
CAUE
YORK,
Eng..
Feb.
25:
A
telephone
engineer,
alleged
to
have
left
a
"most
secret"
plan
giving
details
of
a
gasoline
dump
and
bomb
stores
In
a
car
without
locking
the
door,
was
fined
the
equivalent
of
$450
and
costs.
punches
came
as
Tokyo
claimed
Japanese
olanes
had
delivered
a
"mortal
blow"
to
British
and
Dutch
air
forces
with
the
destruction
of
sixty-eight
planes
based
at
Java
yesterday.
,
In
London
an
official
spokesman
hinted
that
evacuation
of
British
subjects
from
the
Indies
to
Australia
may
have
started
already.
Australia-
announced
that
a
strong
Japanese
war
fleet
had
been
sighted
off
Dili,
the
capital
of
Portuguese
Timor,
400,
miles
northwest
of
Australia,
and
Jap
anese
parachute
troops
had
landed
near
Koepang,
capital
of
the
Netherlands
half
of
the
island.
The
battle
crisis
heightened
In
Burma
with
reinforced
Invaders,
pressing
against
Imperial
lines;
sixty
miles
Irpir
Rangoon.
Tntrty
Japanese
ngnier
pianes
were
destroyed
toaay.
it
was
oi-ficially
announced
at
Rangoon,
but
It
was
not
said
whether
the
planes
were
shot
down
in
air
or
destroyed
on
the
ground.
BOASTING
BY
TOKYO
Talk
of
Greut
.Military
Victory
By
Submarine
Shelling
California
Oil
Station
TOKYO.
Fob.
25:
The
Tokyo
radio
says
that
the
shelling
by
a
submarine
of
an
American
oil
station
near
Santa
Barbara,
California,
Monday
night
was
a
"great
military
success."
(Actually
little
damage
was
done
as
a
result
of
the
shelling).
REMOVAL
OF
JAPS
Representative
of
District
Where
Shells
Were
Dropped
Has
I
Something
to
Say.
WASHINGTON,
Feb.
25:
The
representative
for
the
California
district
In
which
.an
enemy
submarine
dropped
shells
Monday
night
demanded
Immediate
removal
of
Japanese
from
the
coast
and
Internment.
Cordell
Hull
Not
Retiring
No
Changes
in
United,
States
Cabinet
Are
Contemplated,
It
Is
Announced.
,
WASHINGTON,
f-ec-
25:
Official'
quarters
state
that
there
is
no
truth
to
reports
that
Secretary
of
State
Cordell
Hull,
now
in
Flor
ida
for
the
benefit
of
his
health.
Is
to
retire.
No
changes
in
tne
United
States
cabinet
are
"LAST"
BASKET
LKEU
DISS,
Eng..
Feb.
25:
Ofi
Harry
Markwell.
84.
last
of
Diss'
famous
strlne
oi
basketmakers.
died
here.
PRICE:
FIVE
CENTS
Critical
Indies
Battle
O
n
Japan
Admits
Heavy
Blows
On
Transport
Vessels
and
Predicts
That
Worse
Are
Yet
To
Come
j
Tokyo
Claims
"Mortal
Blow"
at
British
and
Dutch
I
Forces
Evacuation
Commencing
Burmese
!
Crisis
Heightened.
Allied
planes,
blasting
at
Japanese
sea-borne
invaders,
were
credited
officially
today
with
sinking
three
big
enemy
transports
in
the
critical
battle
for
the
East
Indies.
A
Tokyo
spokesman
acknowledged
that
twenty-six
Japanese
transports
had
been
sunk
or
damaged
to
date
in
rhe
far
Pacific
and
predicted
even
heavier
losses.
Word
of
the
Allies
new
aerial
counler-
t
Rangoon
Now
I
Under
Siege
I
MANDALAY,
Feb.
25:
The
Burmese
civilian
government
has
been
removed
here
from
Rangroon
which
Is
now
un-
der
virtual
siege.
Lease-lend
supplies
for
China,
stored
In
large
quantities
at
Rangoon,
T
are
uciug
uuuujtu.
i
uc
t
Japanese
hordes
are
gradual-
ly
closing
In.
NORWEGIAN
SHIPL0ST
Only
Six
Men
Survived
and
They
Had
Hectic
Struggle
in
Shark-Infested
Waters.
BALTIMORE,
Feb.
25:
0
Six
men,
only
known
survivors
of
the
torpedoed
Norwegian
freighter
Blink,
told
today
of
a
66-hour
fight
for
life
in
a
swamping
lifeboat
in
rough
shark-infested
seas
after
the
freighter
had
been
torpedoed
without
warning
off
the
Atlantic
coast
with
probable
loss
I
of
twenty-four
lives.
FATHER
OF
TWO
B.
E.
M.'S
BRISTOL.
Eng.,
Feb.
25:
&
John
Greening,
79,
believes
he
Is
the
only
parent
of
two
British
Empire
Medal
winners
Chief
Pet-ty
Officer
R.
Greening,
decorated
for
bravery
at
sea,
and
Mrs.
Dorothy
Blatt.
who
helped
dig
out
victims
after
an
air
raid.
ONE
IN
100,000,000,000
Scientists
estimate
there
are
100
billion
stars
In
the-
galaxy
which
includes
the
earth.
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May
Open
Up
Anyox
Reports
received
In
Prince
Rupert
today
from
Anyox
!
state
that
orders
have
been
received
to
cease
the
work
of
dismantling
the
old
Granby
smelting
plant
there
and
that
the
property
has
been
dlspos-.
ed
of
by
the
Consolidated
Mining
&
Smelting
Co.
to
the
Ventures
mine
interests
of
On-
tario
whose
Intention
it
Is
to
resume
mineral
processing
at
the
famous
old
camp.
There
Is
talk
of
a
steel
mill
being
established.
In
answer
to
In-
qulry
from
the
Canadian
Press
at
Trail
last
night,
S.
O.
Blaylock,
president
and
man-
aeer
of
Consolidated
Mining
4
&
Smelting
Co.,
said
that
Ventures
Limited
of
Toronto
had
taken
an
option
on
the
Anyox
plant
but
he
refused
to
confirm
or
deny
reports
that
Ventures
planned
to
resume
mineral
processing
there.
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