WAR NEWS KEI) ARMY ADVANCES MOSCOW Further advances hTe been mad' by the Kus-Un In their campaign to drive the Nails out ' Vviet Itepub-lic before winter ends. The lied Army v- o today to be within slfht of wrecked houses of the w Ip&fx rthwestern rity of Staraya where 90,000 Germans are t & hlle fsrther south the Russians pushed toward i VV, 'taelper- oDflrovsk ajainii nerce uerman resuunct; . V .par AXIS TANKER TORPEDt LONDON An Asls tanker was torpedoed In ntl last ni(ht, the Admiralty announces. Inula, ana popular locaj young oa; Us been missing since Fri- a.'Ursioon last and fears are trrta.j.rd that he may have lost falling from the com w, office he was at 3:30 Frt- ay afternoon. It U thought prob- ble t..' soon after that he step- Kl ; u.c He was wearing over- aii tri wa. doing nu usuai wors. rii") sir' ; various theories as to r, have happened but no even as to whether he we i t outside. v rp notified late Satur- :. that the young man i and - -- ConsUDie Mr- t -At u this with hU stepfather r - Mr and Mrs Stcw-H was a member ot Talmp- tl. I A F f A. AL E s AT B ATA AN Japanese WASHINQTON. DC. March 2:- ne : aa-.on today on the Phiup- i i aorted relatively quiet. ;al Mc Arthur's forces have l i vhrr tnmst against the prr:y cn Bataan Pcntnsula, Lui- bi I l i but it ls not regarded important. lunters And Trappers In 'a-'auvcr 8un advocates the or- inizaUon of hunters and trap- a.i part of a defence scheme the British Columbia coast. larttrularlv the northern nart. Iu advocating Immediate provl-ion of air raid shelters In Van-:ouver the Sun asks: "Just what ould be our program If wc got crd tomorrow thai n Jfttiaiu'se iquadron was off Prince Ilupcrt?" 'alifornia Radios Have Silent Time BAN FRANCISCO. March 2: Ml San Francisco Day area and Bacrampntri rnrlln ctnlnn wri Silenced for approximately thirty- minuies Saturday nignt. Tncre as no Immediate reason given as 0 whv thev unl ttlint Thh Na. ionai Droadcastlne Co. said the tatlons were ordered off the air ftt 11:02 p.m. -A . 1 MX- IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC BATAV1A The jeneial trend of the war In the southwestern raclfic was reported little chanted late today. The enemy are tontlnuinf to concentrate their drive against Java and Burma and are endeavouring, under heavy obstacles In the way of united nation resistance, to strengthen their attacking forces In the all-out smiih In both directions as the Immediate objective. 'RED WIGHT IS MISSING flyttrry Surrounds Sudden Disap pearance of Well Known Local Young Man. F:ed Wight, electrician for Ed- f.-si L-rvxtt Ltd. nere and well HOLDING ON BURMA LINE Japanese, So Far, Unable To Cross Sittang Kiver MANDALAY. March 2 British forces are still holding their positions on the west bank of the Sittang River in Burma In spite of heavy Japanese pressure. The possibility of an outflanking operation by the enemy Is, however, admitted. The Burma road between yj'dor k during the storm that Rangoon and Mandalay. over la.; ragusg uiai aiicniowi. ; a., far as known, the last person Wight wa the local man- per :1 the company, John Moer. whtch thousands of tons of sun- plies had been moving to China, s now ou: of use ROUTE OF HIGHWAY Has Not Yet Been Definitelr Chosen, Washington Says Via Edmonton Seems Favored. WASinVITTlW Mlt-nti i- i u . .w. ... w a w.. m. h Btadley Instituted drag- emphasized In Washington that a ' - t t 4 lis unw or ou. nnai selection or route lor tne v rftilt rnmtnirtlnn nf a hlshu-sv in Alea. r was 27 years of age and ka has not yet been finally made. n from Vancouver four At a recent meeUng here of the , ..a ago. He had been In Canadian-American joint Defence of the Llpsett concern , Board emphasis was laid on an He lived at Rush- inland., route from .Edmonton via i . ... .. - the' Peace River country to White-horse and thence to Alaska. An advantage of this route. It was contended, was that It would follow or parallel a string of seven i"'r fleUU butlt by lhe Canadlan I nTTirrT' 1 1 1 1 r I ' 80vernment- "T0 alternate route VfUlJ-4A (running north from Prince George jare, however, still under consld- 'atlon. Some quarters hope that an actual start of construction of th Alaska Hlshwav mav be made r.snnurs force jiik unc h Ar(, , - - ... ... ...i . inruti, However, Again SUBSCRIBES TO VICTORY Sun Life Contribution of $15,000,-000 Gives Fillp to Campaign Local Figure Mounting. OTTAWA. March 2. O Victory Loan headauarters said today that .the campaign had gained Impetus from $15,000,000 subscribed by the I . . . J- PnHilltil I IPtPnPA I but did not report the new total . UClCillC U111L.. , nnv,. total un to Sat- VANCOUVER. March 2: - The urday night was $538,789,600. The Victory Loan figures thus far prompted Hon. J. L. IU'cj. minister of finance, to Issue over the week-end a strong statement In favor of the greatest possible oversubscription. With one more week In the campaign to go, Prince Ruperts Second Victory Loan susocnpwww up to this morning had louuien tftin fmm 1498 subscribers. The objective here Is $600,000 wiUi 1800 subscribers, the original quota of $485,000 having been over subscribed several days ago. TFKUOll FOR GEESE iiwivitM Mnrrh 28: 0 OCCSC nr Miseentlble to searchlights a Lincolnshire farmer learned when he hid In his barnyara vo catch a fox he thought was keeping his; fock awake at night. No lox showed up dui wiicu ii(.ht i'mm nearby batteries proo fed the sky for raiders the geese became panlo strlcicen ana encu out In terror. H, Drlnkwatcr and J. Leckle, vnnrnnvnr xhlnnlnir men, arc here Mr 1? n t i i iu . 1 . - 1 , i i. - .. I n nrrlvArl from . a. uusirum urrivcu in iucon ousiness, jiu'b "- ------ Fty on the Catala this morning the soutti on the Catala this 111 1)1)1 Itnlnrlnln I mm In compliance with a new fed- eral order, police here, under ( direction 01 inspector i-.rnesi Gammon, yesteiday rounded up all cars, radios and cameras in the possession of all people of the Japanese race. Three cars, 21 radios and 22 cameras were taken. Firearms had previously been surrendered and no explosives were found. There was no trouble whatever, the authorities reporting that the Japanese themselvej complied quite willingly when called upon to relinquish theoe articles all of which are being carefully tagged and stored. Co-operating with the police were special provincial police reserves from among civilian men who have been organized for some time. Like In other protected areas the curfew law whereby Japanese must stay Indoors from dusk to dawn Ls also being enforced here henceforth. Although, according to a Vancouver interpretation, "the curfew- means the closing of all Japanese stores and the evacuation order means the vacation by Japs of their homes," no steps along these lines have so far been taken here. ESTIMATES ROAD COST Report Presented by Special Engl neer to City Commissioner on Seal Cove Artery D. McN. Lowe, local engineer, has turned In to City Commission er D. J. Matheson a special report on the Seal Cove road sltuaUcn. The commissioner will be calling a special meeting In his capacity as a city council shortly to consider the report In public and re- jceive suggestions from Interested i nartles Including a special com mittee of the Prince Rupert Cham ber of Commerce which has been working on the matter. The rc- nort elves estimates of costs or widening the present road and de veloping alternate routes. Widening and surfacing the i sixth Avenue road from Hays Creek to Seal Cove to a width of twenty-four feet in two ways would cost $38,660.05, It li estimated. Widening and surfacing the present road to eighteen leet would cost $35,250.05. Incidentally, Mr. Lowe does not rec ommend the latter scheme. An alternative to the widening of Sixth Avenue would be a two- lane roadway using Eighth Aven ue to Herman aircci, mence w Seventh Avenue and to immanuel, the cost of this being estimated at $36,000. Mr. Lowe made a check of traffic on this road in one day and found that from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. no less than 473 vehicles passed. Mr. Lowe has also made an es-Umatc of $3960 for the opening up of a 16-foot roadway on Hays Cove Circle from Fifth Avenue to the approach of Hays Creek Bridge. Local Temperature Maximum : - 46 Minimum 37 Charles Oraham, Inspector of mines, returned to the city on the Catala this morning from a trip to Surf Inlet on official duties. CONVOY IS HEAVY HIT Four and Possibly Nine Ships Appear To Have Been Sunk In Mid-Atlantic AT AN EAST COAST CANADIAN PORT, March 2: One hundred and eleven men from four ships eunlc out of a convoy In mid-Atlantic have been landed here. They tell .stories of harrowing experiences following an attack In which at least nine ships were l torpedoed, Wishful Thinking TODAY'S STOCKS (Courtney S. D. Johnston Oo.) 'Orandview Biaiorne Vancouver Cariboo Quartz 1.30 Hedley Mascot Pend Oreille Pioneer Premier Privateer . :. Reno Sheep Creek Oils Calmont C. & E. Home Royal Canadian . 1.40 1.65 .44 .35 .17 .75 .15 1.00 2.45 .04 Toronto Beattle 80 Central Pat. 1.15 Cons. Smelters ..' 38.00 Hardrock 46 Kerr Addison 3.65 Little Long Lac 1.15 McLeod Cockshutt - 130 Madsen Red Lake 38 McKenzle Red Lake 75 Moneta 24 Pickle Crow 2.05 Preston East Dome 2.60 San Antonio - 1.65 Sherritt Oordon 80 McBride Is Away Above Quota In Loan Campaign VANCOUVER, March 2: W. A. E. Wall of McBride, who has been In Vancouver for the annual meeting of the British Columbia Red Cross Society, reports that resl-rfpnbs of his town over-subscribed their quota of $5000 In the Victory Loan campaign by seventy Building Permits For Month Light Value of Construction Here February Was Only $1325. NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER VOL. XXXI.. NO. 51 JAP ROUND-UPSTARTS Police Busy Yesterday Taking Radios, Cameras and Arms Must Stay In at Night. PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1942. REMOVAL OF JAP MENACE Attorney General Maitland Makes Strong Representations To Ottawa of i i n a map showing the locatlo location Ga dS UlllCk KeSllll 3? settlements all the i i from from Vancouver Vancouver to to Prince Prince Ri How West Virginia Boy West Point Got To WEST POINT, N.Y.. March 2: Ot Don Raese, substitute on West Virginia University's basketball team, sat In the locker room here after a recent ame between the Mountaineers and the Army cag-ers. "Oosh," said. Raese, "How I'd love to go to school here." Just then an attendant handed Raese a telegram. The messaze from his father In Davis, West Virginia, said he had Jus' been informed of Don's ap pointment to the military acad emy. VICTORIA, March 2: The government has already made strong representations to Ottawa about the danger to this coast," states Hon. R. L. Maitland, attorney general. In regard to the "occupation" by the Japanese of strategic poin: ; cn this coast. Of some of these strategic 'points Mr. Malt-land has made an Inspection Mr. Maitland has sent to Ottawa way RuDert. each one located in a most stra teglc point. "lhe Dominion government must see that the Japanese are placed in such areas as will as sure the safety of this coast. That is all that matters," declared Mr Maitland. Harold Enocksen Passes Away Local Hospital After Being Found Unconscious in Boat. in Value; of building permits In, Prince -.iRupert thly February was only $1325. M. Nordgaard took out a permit for a frame building on Alfred Street costing $550. Other oermlts for repair work were: K. Sakamoto, Fifth Street, $100; Dr. C. H. Hanklnson, Borden Cl.-.t 1TKi PnJ -V,ln t T Y tt 1 George Hotel), $600; Louis Ross. Third Avenue, $300 Harold Enocksen. well local salmon and halibut known flsher- been since Saturday afternoon when he was found in an uncon scious condition In his boat at Cow Bay. The late Mr. Enocksen was a native of Norway, fifty-four years of age and single. He was well and favorably known, having resided here for twenty-nine years. He enlisted from here In the last war and served overseas. Axel Enocksen, another well known local fisherman, ls a brother of deceased. Recalls Lore Of Canadians Louisiana's French-Speaking Parishes Enlivened With Old Songs. NEW ORLEANS, March 2: tt The folks in the Acadian parishes the people of Longfellow's "iPifoturoHno" aro rpmpmhprinff the old thincs again, the old songs i and dances and crisp white organ die dresses with the wide bows and deep fichus. For dark-haired Louise Olivier has been seeking out the wrinkled grandmas of Louisiana's twenty-lour French-speaking parishes (counties), searching for a snatch of music here, a half-remembered dance step there the folk songs and folk dances that went out of fashion before the turn of the cen tury. And she ls teaching the children of a "boogie-woogie" generation the songs and dances of their ancestors. At Intervals, she conducts French assemblies among these descendants of early settlers from France and from Nova Scotia. They turn out in crowds larger than Dolitlcal rallies to listen and take part in the programs put on by three generations of "bayou" folk in the marshy river basln3 here. Miss Olivier ls,able to set down the words and music of any snatch of songs or dance she hears, oraa uallv she ls building up a store house of "culture, language and traditions" of the South Louisiana parishes so largely French in their heritage. well as sinking a large transport Tokyo boasted that the Japa-fippt hart "virtually annihi- in latort th main force of the com bined Allied South Pacific fleet and now is engaged In mopping up the remnants." The Japanese claim that five Dutch cruisers and ten destroyers had been sunk and that the British had lost a heavy ' 1 . . rniLwr and two destroyers. Tne rnnovw r. admitted Orlwo cruis- -. urcat var, passed away ouiiuat . . 7.20 i ( ,u d,i,. r,,.,t ers and two destroyers. r .... .J ...j' Dutch. British and Australian forces have launched strong coun ter-offensives against the Japanese invaders who won passage on to the island of Java over ine week-end. A confused and whirling fight has ensued. It Is estimated that the Japan-thrown from 100.000 to 300,000 troops into the Invasion of Java in three spearheads with Bandung, united nations military headquarters in the interior. Surabaya, naval base, and Batavia, the (capital city, as the main objectives. It is reported that the Japanese have advanced to Sabang, I forty miles from Bandung. I The Japanese suffered enormous 'losses in making landings with liehters containing troops, ar mored cars and tanks. The land ings were effected under fire of heavy naval guns. Where they have been forced to fall back the Invaders have demolished railway lines and fired evervthlne that might be of use to the enemy, following the scorched earth policy such as was done In Borneo, Sumatra and Ball. REVENUE Tomorrow sT ides (Standard Time) High .. 1:41 a.m. 21.0 ft. 13:45 pjn. 2LC It. Low - 7:46 ajn. 4.8 fi. 20:09 pjn. 22 ft. STILL UP Although Customs Collections Were Lower This February Than Last. Customs and excise revenue at the port of Prince Rupert for the month of February this year amounted to $16,529.05, according to a statement issued at the cus toms house this morning. This compares with $19,100.12 in no- ruary last year and brings uus year's total up to $62,949.09 as compared with $39,195.36 iti the first two months of 194L 1 1 . i f HOCKEY SCORES SATURDAY Americans 3, Canadiens 8. Chicago 2. Toronto 8. SUNDAY Detroit 3, Boston 3. Canadiens 1, Brooklyn 1. Toronto 4, Chicago 3. - PRICE: FIVE CENTS South Pacific War Rages In Spite Of Heavy Sea Losses Japanese Have Made Landings In Java Twenty-Seven Nipponese Vessels Sunk Or Set Afire in Twenty-Four Hours Tokyo Ulaims to nave Annihilated Allied Fleet. COUNTER STROKE DEVELOPING BANDUNG, Java, March 2: (CP) The Allied counter-stroke delivered against Japanese invasion forces striking into Java was declared officially tonight to have "developed satisfactorily" but details of the defence are kept secret. A communique admitted that "the situation in some parts of Java is obviously critical" but added that the invaders are "receiving blows hammer and tongs." Although there is no direct threat to Batavia as yet, vital objectives there are being made useless to exclude risk. BATAVIA, March 2: Although twenty-seven Japanese warships and transports had been sunk or set afire and six others seriously damaged during three days in the Battle of Java, Japanese forces landed on Java Sun-Aoxt Allied HnmWs infliftintr heaw losses unon them. American and Dutch submarines blew up one Japanese warship and set lire to anomer as CHANNEL GUNFIRE Intensive Exchange Between Batteries On Either Side of Dover Straits '- LONDON," March' 2 t--There was an intensive exchange of heavy gunfire between British and German heavy batteries across the Straits of Dover during the night Weather conditions were heavy and obscure and there was little aerial activity. The firing of the heavy guns was started by the Nazis from the enemy-occupied I shore of France. PRISONERS' SHIP SUNK Italians Report That Britishers From Libya Were on Board Vessel. ROME. March 2: The Italians say tnat a snip carrying unusn prisoners from Libya was torpedoed and sunk. It was not said how many prisoners were on board. Appointments In Trans-Canada Air Lines Made WINNIPEG, March 2: V. II. Fulcher has been appointed assistant to the general traffic man ager at Winnipeg headquarters, it was announced today by W. J. Dalby, in charge of the traffic department, TransCanada A i r Lines. One of the original T. C. A. staff when the department was organized in 1938. Mr. Fulcher entered the transportation field in 1929 with the operating department of Canadian National Railways at Brandon and, later, at Winnipeg. He was made office manager of the air line's traffic department early In 1941. Always an aviation enthusiast, he, holds a commercial pilot's' license and served for three years with the original No. 112 A. C. Squadron, R. C. A. F., between 1934 and 1937. The appointment was announced simultaneously of W, Gordon Wood, Ottawa, as eastern traffic manager with headquarters at Toronto. He joined T. C. A. In 1939 as traffic representative at the national capital. I