T
Rvan
contract,
after
passing;
immc
Lake,
goes
on
via
(
'
,
.'Hit
T
kMAl
n
AIAM
Or
Pivnp
nnrl
trinn
mit
fn
TlTI.
Uynn
Co.
also
has
the
con-
Navy
Have
Production
This
Year
To
Date
Shows
Slight
Increase
Over
1911
Log
scaling
in
Prince
Rupert
DIFFIf.in.TY
New
Recruits
mmln
,dlns
1n
the
invasion
attempt
at
OTTAWA,
Oct.
1
(CP)
Ships
of
UlC
Royal
Cana-
Dle
He
admitted,
however,
that
i
Navy
this
;
summer
have
sunk
four
enemy
U-boats,
r
'
M
.sunk
two
others
and
taken
part
in
"many
other
ttel
HUt
of
bm
ofncm
and
men
I
r:n"!np
attacks,"
Hon.
Angus
Macdonald,
minister
f
taking
part,
r
nal
defence
for
the
navy,
told
a
press
conference
The
Prime
Minuter
made
this
v
xrday.The
minister
also
said
that
the
Navy
now
has
giS
SSSlS
iuS
,
naarln
flVA
nilnflrMI
'
'
-
j
:
48.000
men
including
l-llll
T
1
.
.
,s
and
men
serving
IWheil
iNaZlS
AVay
fey
-1
The
Frogs
Come
hp
patrol
vessel
Raccoon
o
corvette
Charlottetown
.i:
the
Gulf
of
St
Law-
minister
ttd.
adding
was
no
confirmation
of
..a
submarine
parties
had
dings
anywhere
on
the
ast.
Donald
said
that
one-
r
convoy
work
between
Arrived
..-.d
Europe
was
being
'ground
v,c
Canadian
Navy
them
During
Heavy
In
England
Rainstorm
CHEDGRAVE.
Eng
Oct.
1
O
Inhabitants
had
to
pad
doors
and
windows
to
stave
off
an
invasion
of
frogs
during
a
heavy
rainstorm.
The
frogs,
most
of
them
an
inch
lonz.
descended
so
thickly
the
was
almost
covered
by
PRINCE
RUPERT
TO
HAVE
ITS
HIGHWAY
TO
TERRACE
barrier'
of
unforeseen
strength
and
the'
attackers
losses
were
"very
nearly
half
the
total"
of
troops
Involved.
Road
blocks,
said
the
Prime
Minister,
had
been
found
which
It
was
Impossible
for
British
guns
to
dtslodxe.
1
U.S.
LOSES
TRANSPORTS
Two
Vessels
Sunk
in
Solomon
Islands
by
Japanese
Work
Heine
Carried
Out
By
Contractors
In
Seven
Sue
crashed
into
her
after
she
had
ATD1EPPE
;
PWMer
In
Churchill
Declines
lo
Give
Detail
Of
Participating,
Forces
Road
Blocks
Impenetrable
:
WASHINGTON.
DC.
Oct.
1:
Tti
IiepartflSettt
of
the
Navy
an-'
nounces
loss
of
two
transports
from
enemy
action
in
the
Solomon
,
Islands
on
August
5.
Fortunately,
loss
of
life
was
light
as
the
ships
had
dwermrged.
BY
SPRING
'OF
NEXT
YEARSB
ccssive
Sections
To
Be
Completed
i$y
inai
nmc
larwea
troops
ana
supples,
uaso-.
Ulne
fires
were
started
which
J,
t
i
M
nt
I
.....
it.,
ci
n:......
ii;i..t.ni.
.eould
the
end
ol
mis
year
uie
oKtcutt
mwi
i
mme
Lake,
live
woric
'cr
way
fron
this
end.
!
f:
T
'
o
the
Ryan
contract
will
'up
with
that
being
carried
Mio
Rayner
Construction
"
of
a
number
of
con-l
i
ding
through
to
Terrace.
T
-
h
ccssive
contracts
between
Rupert
and
Terrace
arc
bc-:
'
'd
out
as
follows:
!
?
3
Ryan
Construction
Co.
Pi.nrr
Rupert
end.)
T
Construction
Co.
i
sn
Construction
Co.
iurd
Paving
Co.
amara
Construction
Co.
i
:
m
Paving
Co.
.a
Construction
Co.
(Into
4-
children
from
that
4-
West
African
port.
Axis
prop-
4-
naanda
recently
has
circula-
ted
rumors
about
Dakar,
ap-
parently
to
plant
the
idea
4-
that
an
Allied
offensive
Is
impending
against
the
lm-
portant
African
port.
LOG
SCALE
IS
LARGER
not
be
extinguished.
The
other,
the
Gregory,
was
a
c
been
opened
out
a
distance
of
twelve
miles
from
de8troyer
type
auxiliary
of
recent
recommencement
on
Prudhommo
and
was
sunk
at
transport
ouadai
Guadalcanal.
U
u-na
nnnnunced
VC8-
Previously
loss
of
two
destrqyers.
'V
U
V
7fnn
Inrtinir
transports
and
one
cruiser
i
head
of
the
I
Ryan
-
Contracting
h
Col.
B.
J.
Ryan,
Wn
announml
,
irh
lia
the
iob
in
hand.
The
road
is
expected
to,
japanese
losses
amounted
......
i
.
.
.
.
.
i
.
.
.
j
tufru
Kt
'i
iim
imuy
ivr
ubiik
jj
u
By
the
Ume'the
Ryan
j
uRh
from
this
end
other
having
eleven-mile
sec-
L
'nd
should
also
be
about
j
which
would
mean
thc.
hment
of
the
long
antlcl-1
i
t
from
Prince
Rupert
to
,nid
thence
to
thel
maln!
Dakar
iKar
Is
is
To
l
u
4
iw
Jo
snips
sunK
or
uuinasru
miu
200
planes
destroyed.
Be
Evacuated
t
n
Pnnce
d
Rup
n.L
rt
VICHY.
Oct
1:
An
offi
cial
source
said
today
that
Pierre
Boisson.
xovcrnor
of
amp
of
about
sixty
men
i
t
v.1,.,
had
decided
to
evacu-
w
ate
EuroiKan
women
and
,
Frencn
in
rubiic
eye
Local
Steamship
Agent
Finds
.Many
People
Interested
In
Local
(
Developments
.
,
Prince
Rupert
is
much
In
the
public
eye
these
days
In
the
south,
according
to
Frank
Skinner,
local
agent
of
Union
Steamships
Ltd.,
who
is
back
from
a
trip
to
Vancouver
and
Victoria.
A
keen
interest
is
being
taken
in
all
developments
here.
Business
firms
are
thinking
of
opening
branches
here,
Mr.
Skinner
says.
For
Army
Here
Paul
I.aorte
and
George
Pacquette
Enlist
for
Active
Service
and
Noel
Bayaiaiul
in
Veterans'
Guard
Latest
recruits
in
the
Canadian
Armv
at
Pr
nee
itupcn
inctuae
'
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n-orn
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tuct
pn
mw
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with
Hazclton
a
world.
and
the
out-
'
Uli:
DM.
t
I
111
1
V
l
V
VI
1S1KSST
IAJ
i
ww
.
-
-
-
the
other
end
of
Oalloway
l;iPids
Bridge,
its
destination
be-1
Port
Edward
a
short
distance
10
and
which
arc
the
Skcena
River
annerles.
TIME
FOR
SHAKE-UP
Wore
serious
earthquakes
occur
n
Japan
than
any
other
country.
.
.
....
.
.
...iv,
1AS1-J7RRS
uoara
icct
a
corresponding
date
last
year.
This
IV
I-
III.,.
,ro
Rnnlpmhor't
SCalC
Of
J,IH.V
-
umi
s-k-'"(4
ui.uiti
vK.v...-v.
-
VnilVPf.
last
year.
,
Th.
,i
nf
noles
and
piling
lor
this
year
to
date
ln
the
district
is
881,020
lineal
feet
as
compared
Lwlth
2,043
68
lineal
icei
in
first
nine
months
of
1941.
nc
nrnHii.Hnti
Mils
Rplltember
Of
92,-
217
lineal
feet
compared
with
8Mw
in
ih
same
month
last
year,
morning
and
will
leave
tomorrow
night
for
manning
depot
at
Van-
a
road
ead
ne
away
from
tmsiDoara
icei
coiupanu
-
,nnu
n.iv7..ind
:i
:
r
ihA
c?i.a
.
niifAH
inn
m
ixtn
u
h
in
nnn
rn
utl
in
ktt
v
Ouard
here.
who
has
been
employed
at
the
local
dry
dock,
has
enlisted
ln
the
Veterans'
CUSTOMS
COLLECTIONS
t
Customs
and
excise
collections
at
the
port
of
Prince
Rupert
for
the
month
of
September
totalled
Aleutians
Bulletins
HOUMFA
EXTENDS
LIFE
lONDONThe
House
6f
Commons
voted
215
to
9
yesterday
to
extend
Its
life
for
another
year
without
a
general
election.
The
Daily
Expiess,
Lord
Beaver-brook's
paper,
is
critical.
FUNERAL
YESTERDAY
VANCOUVER
Funeral
services
for
Barbara
Brough
Gordon.
70,
of
White
Rock,
former
Prince
Rupert
resident,
were
held
yesterday.
Mrs.
Gordon
died
Monday.
MALTA
QUIET
CAIRO
During
the
past
twenty-four
hours
there
have
been
no
air
attacks
on
Malta.
On
the
North
African
desert
front
the
situation
Is
still
comparatively
quiff
although
Allied
air
activity
against
Asis
bases
ron-
REACH
ENGLAND
LONDON
--
Lieut.
CoL
Elliott
Roosevelt,
son
of
President
Roosevelt,
Clement
Alice,
Dominions
secretary,
and
Malcolm
MacDonald,
minister
to
Canada,
arrived
in
England
by
plane
yesterday.
BIG
WAGES
OFFERED
VANCOUVER
Loggers
are
being
offered
510
"to
work
in
ramps
on
the
Queen
Charlotte
Islands.
It
Is
the
highest
scale
ever
offered
loggers
oh
the
coast,
being
one-
third
over
the
regular
scale.
MILK
SHORTAGE
N.NAIMO
A
serious
shortage
Is.
threatened
Dealers
refuse
to
supply
milk
here.
milk
unless
an
increase
In
price
from
10c
and
allowed.
12e
to
lie
perk
quart
Is
CADETS
ARRIVE
VICTORIA
Students
for
the
naval
cadet
school
at
Royal
Roads
are
commencing
to
arrive.
The
school
will
open
October
21
to
give
a'
two-year
course
leading
to
naval
officership.
The
minister
of
the
navy,
Hon.
Angus
MacDonald,
is
expected
for
the
opeln.
NO
CHLORINATION
ORDER
VICTORIA
Mayor
Andrew
MrGavin
announces
that
no
order
lias
been
received
for
rhlorlnation
uf
.Victoria's
water
supply.
R.A.F.
IN
BURMA
NEW
DELHI
The
Royal
Air
Force
has
staged
successful
bombing.
raids
against
the
Japanese
at
Mandalay
and
Akyab.
HALIBUT
SALES
Summary
and,
13c
to
16.4c
and
13c.
Canadian
None.
American
Senator,
47,000,
16.4c
and
Royal.
Sea
Bird,
28,000,
16.2c
and
Atlln.
Nordic,
43,000,
15.2c
and
Booth.,
Wireless,
19t000,
15.6c
,
and
Storage.
.
'
"
Local
Temperature
Tomorrow
sT
ides
(Standard
Time)
High
7:08
a.m.
15.5
feet
18:54
p.m.
16.1
feet
MaxJ&fCn
Oft
Low
0:31
ajn.
7.4
feet
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
12:35
pjn.
10.7
feet
v-i!
XXXI
No.
228
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
THURSDAY,
OCTOBER
1,
1942
PRICE-
FIVE
CENTS
Sr.
Decisive
Moment
For
Stalingrad
Feats
Are
Sunk
of
Canadian
Reviewed
,
Four
Submarines
cr
of
Naval
Affairs
Announces
the
Raccoon
and
Charlottclown
Were
Sunk
in
Culf
of
St.
Lawrence
LONDON.
Oct.
1:
0-Speaking
day.
Prime
Minuter
Winston
Churchill
declined
to
give
figures
of
the
strength
of
the
participating
forces
in
addition
to
Cana-
4-
TOKYO,
Oct
1
First
snow
4-
of
the
season
has
fallen
at
in
the
House
of
Commons
yester-
Japanese
occupied
Klska
Har-
:
BIG
POWER
Premier
St
;i
4-i
4
bor
In
,te
Aleutian
Islands
4-
and
the
ground
is
covered
4-
with
a
white
mantle.
A
biting
4
cold
wjnd
is
sweeping
the
4-4
island,
-s
4-,
'
Consumption
of
Energy
i
Oreatest
In
History
of
City
Prince.
Rupert
is
now
using
the
greatest
amount
of
electrical
nergy
in
its
hWory
and
the
load
is
gradually
increasing,
makln;
it
necesnry
to
consider
the
early
necessity
of
increasing
'he
present
power
output,
J.
J.
Little,
general
manager
of
the
Northern
RrftHi
Columbia
Power
Co.,
states.
J
the
main
power
plant'
of
''the
"
at
Falls
River
which
is
3,000
kilowatts.
While
Falls
River
operates
continuously
it
is
also
necessary
to
use
the
1,100
kilowatt
plant
at
Shawatlans
Lake
part
of
each
day.
Visiting
City
PREMIER
JOHN
HART
Paymg
hii
first-
visit
to
Prince
Rupert
in
his
capacity
as
Premier
of
British
Columbia,
Hon.
John
Hart
arrived
ln
the
city
this
afternoon
from
Terrace,
.ac
companied
by
his
secretary,
Percy
Richards,
and
Is
busy
to
day
visiting
local
departments
j
r9
a
ff"OFnmftnf
t
T
a
o
aten
ra
ui
11
so
(jV
V
siassvsi
b.
AS.G
so
aijv
v
ceivlng
delegations
who
have
local
matters
to
take
up.
Mr.
Hart
Alii
leave
by
Friday
morning's
train
on
his
return
to
Victoria
by
way
of
the
interior,
thus
giv
ing
him
a
full
day
here.
E.
T.
Ken-,
m
m
s
.
m
LOAJJ
HlKl;
rucj
ney.
M.L.A.
for
Skeena,
also
came
ln
with
the
Premier.
Following
ar-!
MELBOURNE,
Oct
1
The
Jap-
I-
aim
Tells
ers
of
Citv
To
Yield
No
Ground
Russians
Crunch
Forward
North
and
South
of
Stricken
City
Germans
Seem
Unable
to
Deal
Knock-out
Blow
j
MOSCOW,
Oct.
1
(CP)
Backed
by
a
stream
of
re-'inforcements
from
across
the
Volga
and
barraces
from
The
maximu-n
peak
load
so
far
iroving
guns
of
the
Volga
flotilla,
Russian
infantrymen,
has
been
3.301
kilowatts
whith
,1nflpr
tplpnhnno
nrrWs
frnm
Prpmipr
Jncnnh
Stalin
In
esrerds
the
mesent
utput
of
....
i
,
,
,
,
.
v,
V
.
jriciu.
iiu
iiiuii;,
cxc
icyvi
iu
uu
uc
v;i
unfiling
lunvaiu
today
northwest
and
southwest
of
Stalingrad.
Dispatches
to
Red
Star
frankly
picture
the
'
city
as
in
"the
most
decisive
mo-
rr
1TT
fTT
ment"
of
Its
trial
as
Increasing
NIJKKlJK
I
VXX
weight
of
Axis
troops
and
mach-
ines
was
thrown
Into
the
fight.,
AP
I
A
1
II
j
Counter-offensive
strokes
.
on
the
,
Mr
MJy
,1
J
iLX
A
il
1
wings
of
the
constricted
front
evi-J
Mantltf
tt-Aea
acI
ni4
t
r
wIma
ah!
1
'
:
.
6
I
.
:
Geoffrey
Woollen
Speaker
at
v
L
-MMtlne
01
yr
club
the
northwestern
flank
,
u
by
a
,
fresh
u.
i
Yesterday
German
tank
division
as
reported
;
,in
a
Soviet
midnight
communique.
'
Even
with
the
arrival
of
tank
sr.d
inafntry
divisions,
the
Germans
seemed
unable
to
deal
a
de-
Speaking
before
the
Prince
Rupert
Gyro
Club
at
its
regular
week-'ly
luncheon
yesterday,
Geoffrey
Wootten.
orpanlrpr
fnr
this
HUtrlrt
'
-sive
blow
as
the
Volga
boatmen
ln
tne
forthcoming
Third
Victory
"
-
u)an
campaign,
asiced
ror
conild-
ac
river,
bringing
up
Russian
re-
ence
and
enthusiasm
in
support-
-nrcs
unuer
uwee
oerman
u
aw-
ln?
Dominion
through
pur-
itark3
chase
of
Its
securities
and
urging
1
TV
Rpd
star
said
that
600
to
others
to
do
n
u.a?
pat.
11.000
planes
had
been
bombing
riotiC
to
save
money
at
this
time
JStalmgrad
each
day,
piling
debris
and
the
more
that
was
put
into
joi
drbrts.
Victory
Bonds
the
better
both
Today's
midday
communique
rc,m
the
standpoint
of
providing
saW
trteiemy-hd-beendlsA
buUdlrie
I
ydged
from
one
village
at
the
np
resources
for
future
purchasing
southwestern
outskirts
of
Stalin-
power
when
the
demands
of
war
grad
and
the
Red
Star
said
that
'
would
be
over,
in
the
southern
sector
three
set-1
Mr.
Wootten
recalled
that
Norsemen
U
had
been
recaptured
with
them
British
Columbia
had
led
rival
the
Premier
and
his
party
anese
retreat
before
the
Australi-
and
disabused
the
minds
of
had
luncheon
with
Robert
Gordon,
ans
on
New
Guinea
Island
ln
the'nis
listeners
of
any
wild
stories
HITLER
IS
REALISTIC:
German
nation
that
Stallnrgad
i
Is-bound
to
fall.
The
Feuhrer
was
making
his
tomary
winter
relief
campaign
speech
to
the
Nazi
party.
Marsnai
13c,
Rommel
was
among
the
top
Nazi
Headers
attending.
13c,
On
the
same
occasion
last
year
mtler
declared
that
the
Russians
I
Romanian
troops
thrown
into
all
divisions
of
British
Columbia
panir
in
one
place".
,ln
its
oversubscription
of
quota
n
A
Reuters
dispatch
to
London
the
last
loan
and
he
was
sure
It
from
Stockholm
said
that
Soviet
would
be
doing
as
well
again
In.
forces
had
broken
through
the
the
forthcoming
campaign.
German
defensive
position
at
I
The
speaker
briefly
described
the
points
along
the
Don
northwest
of
organizaUon
for
the
campaign.
Stalingrad.
I
Payrolls,
greatly
increased
these
'
riavc
n-pr.
rnn1HrAH
thp
ct.
JAP
ROUT
GOING
ON'
I
field
for
sales.
Employees
ln
large
establishments,
through
their
.
I
unions
and
otherwise,
would
be
asked
to
form
their
own
commlt-
Itees
and
undertake
the
responsi
bility
of
selling
to
their
fellow
;
.
'workers.
Employers
would
also
be
Main
Force
on
New
Guinea
Ap-(asked
tQ
Msbt
ta
eyery
wy
pears
to
be
in
Headlong
to
encourage
their
employees.
Retreat
to
buy
bonds.
Mr.
Wootten
explained
the
sy-
tem
of
remuneration
for
canvas?
Owen
Stanley
Mountain
area
is
they
may
have
heard
of
large
,assumlng
the
'form
"of
a
real
rout,
earnings.
As
a
matter
of
fact,
the
The
main
Japanese
force
Is
In
full
salesmen
of
Victory
Bonds
in
the
retreat
and
the
Australians
nave
most
0f
cases
worked
at
the
ex-advanced
another
ten
miles
to
a
pense
of
their
own
businesses
and
distance
of
more
than
seventy
for
less
than
normal
earnings,
miles
from
Port
Moresby.
Allied
There
was
no
commission
for
sale
BERLIN.
Oct
l
-The
people
of
1
bombers
continue
to
pound
the
0f
bonds
to
those
on
special
names
the
Reich
and
of
the
Army
must.
enemy's
supply
dumps
and
com-
list
or
Internal
canvasses.
face
another
hard
winter
of
fight-1
munlcation
lines.
ing.
Chancellor
Adolf
Hitler
de-
,
.
clared
yesterday.
All
the
main;
objectives
in
Russia
had
already,
been
taken.
Hitler
claimed.
He
treated
the
leaders
of
the
democ
racies
with
sarcasm
and
scorn
and
praised
German
U-boat
war
fare
and
Industrial
production.
The
Feuhrer
said
Germans
would
never
capitulate
but
would
fight
to
the
end.
The
High
Command
as
constantly
prepared
for
a
second
front.
Dieppe.
Hitler
declared,
was
a
full-fledged
but
unsuccessful
invasion
attempt
intw
tnift
the
German
DeoDleL..,i-
CALLING
UP
YOUTHS
NOW:
Men
Nineteen
Years
of
Age
and
Aliens
Within
Callable
Ages
Must
Take
Military
Training
OTTAWA,
Oct.
1:
0
Men
nine-
.
......
f
nn.
nnrl
ullonC
vlth.
with
national
selective
service,
wjio
said
that
calling
up
of
eighteen
and
nineteen
year
old
youths
and
married
men
for
compulsory
military
service
is
"a
distinct
possibility."
He
added,
however,
tnat
presem
13c,
were
broken
and
"will
never
rise
.
manpower
supplies
for
the
armed
again."
forces
were
far
irom
exnausieu.
j
Past
President
W.
F.
Stone
was
in
the
chair
at
yesterday's
Gyro
luncheon
and
guests,
besides
the.
speaker,
were
Jack
Campbell
and
Morley
Shier.
Cards
Even
4-
Up
Series
t
ST.
LOUIS,
Oct.
1
In
an-
to
clSi
agT
gr
m
made
other
thrilling
game
St.
Louis
Cardinals
evened
up
he
World
haWe
for
compulsory
military
,
that
"we
believe
we
shall
continue
nounced
yesterday.
It
is
csUmated,
defeating
New
York
Yankees
thus!
4
to
3.
The
teams
entered
the
,infnf
mir
pnpmip
until
final
.u-.
i4n
w
,r
men
n-ui
W
Kill,'"
wm
.
.
.
...
I
I
J
I
...v..
",--
I
....
.
....
...
,
a
American,
137,000
pounds,
15.2c
victory
Is
ours."
He
assured
the
me
made
available
Ir,
a
nrfvlnmntlon
an-
lT
oriivs
couui,
hiu
aiici.iwu
uj
it
i.uiut
uimilK
uru
a
i,
uuee
oil,
t
I
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i
i
i
,
i
j
.
,
,1
rnll.,..k4
Oil
'
MIC
LUUllbi
vuimiiK
"
Montreal
Tuesday
r
the
Cards
in
the
final
interview
in
on
:
Elliott
M.
Little,
director
of
sianza.
uaros
naa
scorea
iwice
m
tne
iirsi
ana
once
in
me
t
seventh,
the
Yanks
evening
It
up
ln
the
eighth.
Batteries
were
Beesley
and
Cooper
for
4
St.
Louis
and
Bonham
and
Dickey
for
the
Yankees.
4-
4
V
i
1
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