General
Hospital.
n
'Qii
'ills
-sands
I
BBRLINL
Dm.
22
Oi
Thf
4
Berlin
radio
broadcast
an
An-
kara
dispatch
today
stating
that
thousands
were
kill-
4
ed
in
an
earthquake
which
4
centred
along
Turkey
s
Black
Sea
coast.
The
Injured
are
4
said
to
greatly
exceed
the
'
number
killed
and
large
crops
-were
destroyed
In
the
tobacco-
4
growing
section
of
Anatolia.
'
ADVANCE
IN
BURMA
British
Imperial
Forres
Continur
Progress
Without
Meeting
Opposition
INDON.
Dec.
22
if'
British
Im
perlal
forces,
continuing
their
ad
vance
Into
Burma,
have
occupied
Mehan
vw.
eleven
mlle
south
ol
Msungdaw.
advices
from
Allier
headquarters
in
India
said
today
Dispatches
said
mat
the
advance
was
made
without
opposition
from
the
Japanese,
placing
ine
unusn
troops
within
forty-one
miles
of
Akyab.
RAID
ON
TUNISIA
Darin
EiDloit
By
British
Com-
-
mndos--Axls
Forres
Trying
To
Meet
In
Tunisia
LONDON,
Dec.
22
(CD
A
British
commando
raid
on
Tunisia
stabbed
to
within
five
miles
of
Biierte
In
a
hlt-and-iun
foray
last
week,
Iteuters
News
Agency
said
today.
The
daring
foray
into
the
tore
of
the
Nails'
last
stronghold
in
North
Africa
was
disclosed
as
Marshal
Erwin
'Rommel's
army
was
reported
only
one
hundred
miles
from
Tripoli
and,
apparently,
planning
to
continue
westward
all
the
way
to
Tunisia
to
join
German
forces
battling
I
here
with
the
Allies,
Most
of
the
British
raiders
had
to
swim
for
it,
their
commander
said,
but
losses
were
light
as
the
landing
was
unopposed.
Hie
incursion
lasted
several
days
and
the
raiders
had
to
regain
the
beach
through
about
fifleen
miles
of
enemy-held
territory.
A
million
pounds
of
'bombs
are
estimated
to
have
been
dropped
during
the
last
few
days
on
Bi-7ertc
and
Tunis.
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k
5?
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Cheer
Fund
Inter-Valley
Lumber
Co.
$25
Rotary
Club
25
M.
Stevens
2
Friend
2
Mrs.
Foss
1
Friend
1
W.
Mullen
1
CONVOYS
OF
1310
Tht.
ronvov
system
was
not
ln-
ciitnfoH
in
thp
First
Great
War
until'
April,
1910.
FIRST
CARTHAGE
Carthage,
Africa,
was
founded
about
800
B.C.
Miss
Enid
McKee
arrived
in
th9
rltv
vpsterdav
afternoon
from
Vic
toria
to
spend
the
Christmas
and
New
Year
holiday
season
with
her
-
---
1
Mrs.
Arnold
Flaten.
jifnl
I
FRENCH
Local
Temperature
Tomorrow's
Tides
We
(Standard
Time)
itri
High
1:56
a.m.
19.3
feet
Maximum
35
13:36
p.m.
21.4
feet
Minimum
32
Low
7:45
am.
8.0
feet
20:21
p.m,
2
A
feet
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
VOL.
XXXI,
o.
N297
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
TUESDAY,
DECEMBER
22,
1942
PRICE-
FIVE
CENT8
Kiska
Island
Is
eavi
Ill
MONTREAL
HAS
FIRES
?
Ihree
Person
Dead
In
One
Apartment
Holocaust
Quebec
City
Also
lias
Maze
MONTREAL.
Dec.
22
0
Explosion
and
fire
killed
three
people
nere
last
night
and
sent
three
other3
to
hospitals
with
burns
after
sweeping
through
nine
flats
of
e
tenement
block
in
the
northeast
section
of
the
city.
A
second
fire
broke
out
in
the
central
part
of
the
city
during
the
first
fire
and
forced
fifteen
fam-tllcs
from
two
apartment
bulld-ir;T"
into
the
street.
The
dead
are
Mrs.
Jacob
Cro-teau,
her
daughter.
Madeline,
and
Walter
Adams,
power
company
worker.
Quebec
City
also
had
two
large
fires
last
night,
five
commercial
premises,
two
houses
and
thirty
flats
being
destroyed
in
the
most
serious.
Thirty
firemen
were
injured.
,
PROTECTION
OF
BALKANS
Thh
Is
Said
to
Have
Been
One
of
Matters
Taken
l'l
at
Hitler's
Conference
with
Generals
IONDPN.
Dec.
22
Further
par
tirulars
of
what
went
on
in
a
conference
of
Chancellor
Adolf
Hitler
with
his
generals
last
week
are
repotted
here.
It
is
said
that
arrangements
were
made
for
a
special
defensive
force
In
Italy
to
be
In
rfilhs;
shnnM
th
Allies
attempt
to
invade
the
Balkans.
WEDGE
iN
TO
ENEMY
Aider
llslnc
Artillery
'and
Tanks
With
Good
Effect
on
New
j
Guinea
,
MELBOURNE,
Dec.
22
Using
artillery
and
tanks,
the
Allies
have
driven
a
wedge
deep
Into
Japanese
positions
near
Buna
Mission
on
New
Guinea
Island
and
have
captured
a
small
air
field.
Retailers
May
Buy
Butter
Now
Rationing
Documents
Will
Not
Have
to
be
Presented
by
Them
Until
Next
Week
It
was
nnnouced
today
at
the
local
office
of
the
Wartime
Prices
and
Trade
Board
that
retailers
will
be
able-
to
purchase
butter
up
to
midnight,
December
27,
without
surrendering
rationing
documents.
Tills,
of
course,
does
not
affect
consumers,
who
already
arc
required
to
use
ration
cards.
RE-DOOKLNG
COVENTRY
COVENTRY,
Eng.,
Dec.
22
0)
Tills
city
whose
library
lost
150,000
books
In
air
raids,
Is
engaged
In
a
book
recovery
and
salvage
campaign
to
re-stock
damaged
library
facilities,
provide
books
for
the
forces,
and
the
sending
of
useless
volumes
for
re-pulpipg.
INDIA
IN
WAR
PRODUCTION'
eight
million
---
1
pieces
of
army
clothing
each
month.
GRANDMA
GENERAL
One
of
China's
most'
successful
guerrilla
leaders
Is
a
65-year-old
grandmother.
Rpv
Canon
W.
F.
Rushbrook
is
making
'good
progress
toward
re
covcry
following
an
operation
for
aUDCnaiClllS
in
me
nunc
vu....
ACTION
sssm
Two
French
destroyers,
FOREGROUND,
and
of
Casablanca
harbor
after
an
engagement
wi
1
occupation
of
French
North
Africx
This
excel
;
bor
had
been
occupied.
n
1
MaiCS
LlarlaU
Fooled
Hitler
"ormer
German
Hank
ueaa
ays
It
Was
"Major
Diplomatic
Defeat"
for
Fuehrer
CHICAGO,
Dec.
22
A
former
head
of
the
German
Relchsbank
now
residing
In
the
United
States
'aid
In
speaking
here
that
Chan
cellor
Adolf
Hitler
had.
sutlred.,fc
'major
diplomatic
defeat"
through
Admiral
Jean
Harlan
of
France.
NO
TRACE
OF
PLANE
Mystery
of
Mlssin;
Canadian
Paci
flc
Transport
Unsolved
Despite
Widespread
Search
I
VANCOUVER,
Dec.
22
In
spite
of
the
efforts
of
air
and
land
search
operations,
there
Is
no
trace
yet
of
the
Canadian
Pacific
Air
Lines
transport
planes
which
has
been
missing
since
Sunday
evening
on
a
flight
from
Prince
George
to
Vancouver.
There
were
thirteen
persons
three
crew
members
and
ten
passengers
aboard
the
plane.
-
All
day
yesterday
.aircraft
kept
combing
areas
nearby
Vancouver
In
which
the
plane
might
have
been
forced
down
but
wllhbu
avail
in
finding
any
clue
as
to
the
fate
of
the
missing
transport.
nnf
ronort
vesterdav
was
that
a
plane
was
heard
flying
low
over
there
about
7
o
clock
Sunday
eve
ning,
evidently
being
in
difficulty
stave
Lake
is
thirty-five
miles
from
Vancouver.
CINEMAS
LOSE
SEATS
LONDON,
Dec.
22
ff
Seat:slash
lng
in
cinemas,
especially
In
gar.i
son
towns,
is
causing
anxieiy
1
j
cinema
owners
and
some
of
the
rubber
Interiors
used
to
pad
arms
of
chairs
have
been
stolen
in
hund
reds.
COUNCILWOMAN
IN
PULPIT
EDMONTON,
Eng.,
Dec.
22
)
Deputy
Mayor
and
Councillor
Mrs,
Florence
Long,
made
history
Jiere
when
she
read
one
of
the
lessons
in
the
parish
church
during
the
annual
"Mayor's
Serviced
She
was
the
first
woman
to
do
so.
OUTDOOR
MOVIES
Outdoor
movie
audiences
of
10,-
000
are
riot
unusual
In
Free
China.
'MAYBE
NEVER
AGAIN
Germany
had
more
traders
in
West
Africa
before
the
war
than
any
other
European
nation.
DESTROYERS
OUT
OF
11
ww
iii
mi
1
11
1
li'
h'
Fjni'
li
''niii.pr.
a-
''phed
'ust
north
an
United
Nations
ta?k
force
during
Allied
;
r
ii
view
was
made
after
the
important
har-
BRACKEN
IS
HEARD
Fledges
Support
to
Federal
Government
in
War
Effort
Urges
Undersecretaries
WINNIPEG,
iDec.
22
W
Hon.
iohn,-Bracked
ny
llfeeaSated.
Q4
erai
leader
or
me
ivpgressive
conservative
party,
in
a
national
radio
address
broadcast
last
night,
pledged'
his
utmost
support
to
the
federal
government
In
the
war
effort.
He
urged
that
a
move
towards
efficiency
would
be
the
appointment
of
under-secrctaries
to
the
war
ministers
and
urged
the
establishment
of
such
under-secrctaries
to,
federal
ministers
in
the
Dominion
during
wartime.
Mr.
Bracken
said
he
wanted
to
help
to
build
a
United
Canada
and
claimed
that,
under
war
pressure,
jthe
government
had
not
developed
democratic
devices
but
was
be-
coming
a
bureaucratic
form
of
ad-
ministration.
Mrs.
O.
A.
Rlx,
who
has
been
quite
ill
of
late,
is
now
making
1m-
provement.
TAP
DKSTItOYER
MILLER0Y0
IS
TAKEN
Refl
Army
Believed
to
Have
Recaptured
Important
Railway
Town
Between
Moscow
and
Rostov
WBBBQWr.
De32.
WfeUelt-4s
not
officially
stated,
indications
are
that
the
Red
Army
has
recaptured
Mlllorovo,
important
railway
town
west
cf
Moscow
and
130
miles
northwest
of
Rostov.
The
objective
of
the
Soviet
forces
now
appear?
to
be
Rostov,
the
recapture
of
which
would
give
Russia
new
access
to
the
Black
Sea
In
addl-
numbering
one
million
men
in
the
Stalingrad
and
Caucasus
areas.
A
Soviet
communique
said
that
a
"Ir.rgely
populated
place"
had
been
taken,
this
being
assumed
to
mean
Kvr
FAIRLY
MODERN
The
Navajo
Indian
pueblo
of
Laguna
Is
the
only
brie
in
New
Mexico
which
does
not
date
back
to
pre-Spanlsh
times.'"
MORTALLY
HIT
A
Japanese
destroyer
is
shown
smoking
after
she
was
hit
by
a
bomb
from
a
Flying
Fortress
off
Normandy
Isle
in
the
South
Pacific.
Soon
after
the
photo
was
made
rafts
and
personnel
were
seen
In
the
water.
Enemv
Submarine
Base
In
Aleutians
v
American.
Aircraft
m
Direct
Hits
Scored
and
Big
Co-ordinated
Attack
by
WASHINGTON,
D.C.,
planes
heavily
bombed
Japan's
submarine
base
on
Kiska
island
in
the
Aleutians
on
Sunday,
the
United
States
Navy
reported.
The
Navy
communique
from
the
North
Pacific
said
that
United
States
bombers,
escorted
by
fighters,
executed
a
co-ordinated
attack
on
Japanese
1
shore
Installations
on
Kiska
De-
F0RTY-F0UR
NAZIS-DOWN
tocmv
lighters,
Had
Bad
Time
When
United
States
Bombers
Visited
Romilly
on
Seine
LONDON.
Dec.
22
ff,
Forty-four
enemy
fighter
planes
were
shot
down
by
United
States
airmen
In
Sunday's
raid
on
Romilly-sur-Saine.
an
eighth
Royal
Canadian
Air
Force
communique
said
today.
Six
were
seen
to
crash.
Twenty-three
went
down
in
flames.
Fourteen
disintegrated
in
the
air
and
one
was
abandoned
by
lt3
pilot,
the
communique
said.
AIR
RAID
-0N-MUNDA
United
States
flying
Fortresses
Again
Strike
at
Enemy
Air
Field
WASHINGTON.
DC.
Dec.
22
(P1
Tn
the
South
Pacific
United
States
Aiiny
flying
fortresses
executed
new
raids
on
the
enpmy
air
field'
at
Munda
In
the
Solomon
Islands
and
damaged
at
least
one
cargo
ship
near
Bougainville
Island.
Soldier
Charged
With
Theft
From
ovyntown
Store
August
Harryluk,
local
soldier,
is
appearing
In
city
police
court
this
afternoon
before
Magistrate
W.
D.
Vance
oh
a
charge
of
shoplifting
from
the
Variety
Store.
He
is
alleged
to
have
been
caugh
redhanded
taking
a
wallet,
two
srarette
lighters
and
two
zipper
cases.
The
articles
were.
In
his
oossesslon.
C.W.A.C.
Is
Given
Formal
Welcome
Head
of
British
A.
T.
S.
Pays
Official
Visit
LONDON.
D.
22
tO
Maj.-Gen.
Jean
Knox,
director
and
chief
con-t
-oller
of
the
Auxiliary
Territorial
Service,
accompanied
by
several
senior
A.
T.
S.
officers,
paid
an
official
visit
to
the
Canadian
Women's
Army
Corps
residence
here
shortly
after
the
young
Canadian
'women
arrived,
the
first
of
their
'cvice
groun
to
reach
Britain.
In
a
brief
address
Majf-Gen
Knox
welcomed
them
on
behalf
of
thousands
of
British
women
who
have
put
.on
the
king's
uniform.
Representing
an
expenditure
on
new
equipment
of
an
estimated
$5,000,
a
special
permit
has
been
granted
by
the
controller
of
supplies
to
the
Canadlnn
Dry
Cleaners
for
the
installation
of
new
dry
cleaning
machinery
In
the
.local
plant.
The
Installation
is
to
take
place
in
January.
Pounded
Explosions
Are
Observed
in
Bombers
and
Fighters
Dec.
22
(CP)
American
cember
20.
Hits
were
scored
and
heavy
explosions
observed
in
ths
vicinity
of
the
submarine
base.
Camp
areas
were
bombed
and
.
strafed.
All
United
States
planes
returned
to
their
bases.
Awake
To
Find
Prowler
Taking
Her
Xmas
Gift
Mrs.
R.
C.
Mutch
was
awakened
In
her
room
at
the
York
Hotel
at
3
o'clock
this
morning
to
see
a
prowler
helping
himself
to
articles
of
wearing
and
toilet
apparel
which
she
had
purcliased
as
Christmas
presents.
The
police
were
immediately
notified
and
soon
picked
up
a
man
giving
the
name
of
Arthur
Brazeau
whose
presence
around
the
place
a
short
time
before
had
caused
some
suspicion.
Articles
in
Brazeau's
possession
in
a
construction
camp
on
Acropolis
Hill
were
Identified
as
being
the
property
of
Mis.
Mutch.
UKRAINE
iviukjjlR
Ksimrvrin
Two
Million
Russians
Are
Mass
acred
by
Nail
Invaders
MOSCOW.
Dec.
22
Soviet
authorities
charge
that
two
million
Russian
Inhabitants
of
the
Nazi-occupied
Ukraine
have
been
murdered.
MUNICH
IS
HITAGAIN
Principal
Target
of
Royal
Air
Force
In
Bi?
Raid
Last
Night
LONDON,
Dec.
22
Munich
was
the
principal
target
of
a
raid
In
force
by
the
Royal
Air
Force
Into
southwest
Germany
last
night.
Twelve
British
planes
failed
to
return
and
two
Nazi
machines
were
shot
down.
In
their
smash
on
Munich,
the
birthplace
of
the
Nazi
party,
the
British
planes
dropped
a
"great
welghi"
of
bombs
and
started
fires.
It
was
the
second
successive
night
of
raids
over
the
Reich.
Clouds
hampered
the
bombers
and
German
night
fighters
rose
to
battle
In
bright
moonlight
above
the
cloud
yal
re
.
mafamaham
the
cloud
layer.
BILLIARDS
TLASTIC
The
first
plastic
was
used
to
replace
Ivory
for
billiard
balls.
BRISTOL'S
DEBUT
The
British
port
of
Bristol
first
achieved
prominence
from
Its
wool
trade
with
Ireland.
Miss
Marie
Lock
arrived
In
tlw
city
yesterday
afternoon
from
her
High
School
studies
in
Victoria
to
spend
the
Christmas
and
New
Year
holiday
season
with
her
parents,
Fire
Chief
and
Mrs.
H.
T.
Loci.
iiil
ilti