British
Columbia
has
been
dlvld-e-d
into
four
black-out
areas
foUow-inp
the
decision
X
the
Provincial
Civilian
Protection
Committee
to
uhc
toe
commercial
broadeajtin
stations
as
an
addition
to
the
established
A
HP
warning
system.
Radio
stations
will
refer
to
thte
areas
by
numbers
only
when
they
give
the
warning.
There
Is
a
sample
message
or
ARRESTED
BY
HITLER
f'fnch
Admiral
-
In
-
Chief
and
Other
Officers
In
Custody
Of
Nails
!
v
"11Y
Nov.
28
The
admlral-ln-;
od
other
high
officers
of;
?
F
.;cnrh
Navy
have
been
placed
i
urrest
at
the
command
oi
'!
Hitler
following
the
scuttling
j
s
French
Navy
at
Toulon
yes
What's
Housewife
Minus
Her
Tools?
Br'llh
Women
Slake
Pointed
Reply
To
Food
Minister's
Comment
LONDON,
Nov.
28
0
A
number
:
f
"respondents,
most
of
them
wives,
have
answered
the
"
'-rment
of
Lord
Woolton,
foods
tc-r.
that
toad
cooking
Is
a
r"
Thev
sav
bad
cooking
In
to"
'
homes
Is
due
to
lack
of
ade-iu:
te
kitchen
utensils,
which'
were
away
In
response
to
scrap
toc.ai
drives
earlier
In
the
year.
2,000-FOOT
FALLS
The
great
falls
of
the
Essequibo
"vcr.
tn
British
Guiana,
are
2,000
tort
from
top
to
bottom.
dering
a
precautionary
blackout
and
a
radio
silence:
The
message
will
be
preceded
by
a
steady
siren
signal
for
90
seconds
foDowed
by
the
announcement:
"By
order
of
Western
Air
Command
Headquarters,
a
precautionary
blackout
has
been
ordered
In
Area
or
Areas
arKl
),
British
Columbia.
If
you
lire
in
Blackout
Area
WELCOME
WARSHIPS
Allied
Forts
Hold
Out
Hand
French
Vessels
Which
May
Have
Escaped
Toulon
to
LONDON,
Nov.
28
(CP)
Allied
ports
held
out
a
welcoming
hand
today
for
any
surviving
units
of
the
martyred
French
fleet
which
defiantly
chose
mass
suicide
at
Toulon
ralher
than
the
ciuicn
of
Hitler.
Even
as
great
cxplo-moms
were
still
lhe
vitals
out
of
the
stricken
men-of-war
went
on
Admiral
Jean
Darlan
-tr
tn
anneal
to
what
sur
viving
units
there
nK'1
make
for
the
haven
of
United
Nations
bases.
Whether
any
ships
would
go
was
problematical
Conflicting-
reports
said
that
some
smaller
units
put
to
sea
before
Hitler
sent
armored
columns
racing
Into
the
naval
base.
Weds
R.N.
Captain
LONDON,
Nov.
28
O
The
engagement
has
been
announced
or
Capt.
John
Wentworth
Farqhar.
.
N
youngest
son
of
the
late
Admiral
Sir
Arthur
Farqhar,
K.C.B..
cv.
r
nnA
t
nAxr
Pnmhar.
and
MU"
Betty
Mitchell,
daughter
of
Jonn
P.
Mitchell
of
Manor
Saskatche
wan,
and
the
late
Mrs.
Mlttneii
i
Churchill
To
:
Talk
Sunday
t
LONDON.
Nov.
28
O
Prime
Minister
Winston
Churchill
will
broadcast
at
1
o'clock
Pa-
clflc
Staadard
Time
Sunday
afternoon,
it
was
announced
today.
Shed
Hold
Nazis
Till
Aid
Arrived
Veteran
Postmistress
on
Atlantic
Oulpost
Wanted
duns
to
Help
Her
Do
It
rvTTAWA.
Nov.
28
Oi
The
cider
ly
postmistress
at
a
little
settlement
on
an
isolated
cape
Jutting
into
fho
Atlantic
wrote
to
head
quarters
of
the
R.CA.F.
Aircraft
Detection
Corps,
offering
her
services
as
an
observer,
m.t
she
said,
she
didn't
'have
a
..n
nnd
there
wasn't
one
for
.
.
at
a
nn
miles
around,
wouia
me
tu.s.
send
a
gun
and
some
ammunition
bv
return
mall?
"Hi
noia
on
any
Oermans
tnai
migm
ianu
cic
until
help
comes."
she
sam.
The
A.D.C.
gladly
listed
her
as
an
observer
but
said
any
gunnery
Involved
will
be
leu
w
me
joining
services.
PROVINC
i
a.
LIBRARY
4
Tomorrow
sT
ides
Local
Temperature
(Standard
Time)
mm
..
High
5:36
ajn.
175
feet
17:10
pj.
17.1
feet
Maximum
41
Low
11:29
a.m.
105
feet
M-'-unum
31
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AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
XXXI
No
277
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
SATURDAY,
NOVEMBER
28,
1942
PRICE-
FIVE
CENTS
Gerrns
Driven
Out
Of
Don
Bend
New
B.C.
Blackout
Districts
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COMMITTERS.
-ywepuVER.B.C.-
fagQS,
-a
1
or
Areas
and
)
blackout
your
premises
as
quickly
as
possible
in
accordance
with
ARP
regulations.
Radio
silence
has
also
been
ordered.
This
station
is
required
to
leave
the
air,
but
It
is
suggested
that
you
keep
your
radio
turned
on.
Please
avoid
using
your
telephone
during
this
emergency
unless
vitally
necessary:
all
available
telephone
facilities
must
be
Tanks
Helmets
"VI
1
rrt
r
kept
clear
for
Defence
Forces
and
Civilian
Protection
workers."
Both
the
siren
signal
and
message
are
immediately
repeated,
then
the
station
leaves
the
air.
There
are
seveial
types
of
messages.
A
piercing
tone
signal
precedes
an
order
of
an
"imminent
danger"
blackout
A
warden's
whistle
precedes
the
"all
clear"
message.
The
radio
service
will
start
December
5.
in
urn
i
in
tans:
Army's
Ordnance
Corps
Ships
Car
Load
of
it
lo
Make
Armor
riate
KINGSTON.
OnU
Nov.
28
Ou-I
A
freight
car
load
of
15
tons
of
tin
cans
consigned
from
the
Can
adian
Ordnance
Corps
Training
Centre
at
nearby
'
Barrlefleld
to
a
Toronto
metals
company
has
Just
been
shipped
from
Kingston,
the
forerunner
of
many
similar
shipments.-
The
cans,
salvaged
from
the
ordnance
centre
by
army
personnel,
will
provide
metal
to
make
armor
plate
tough
enough
to
withstand
.
shrapnel
and
deflect
shells.
Emphasizing
the
value
of
such
salvage
to
Canada's
expanding
output
of
war
materials,
army
of
ficials
said
a
tin
can
salvaged
to-rfav
mav
be
nart
of
a
tank
rumb-
llnc
Into
action
a
few
months
later.
Twenty
old
tin
cans
make
a
steel
helmet.
Working
directly
with
the
army
salvaee
and
disposal
board
at
Ot
tawa,
Capt
J.
R.
Clarkson
of
Windsor.
Ont.
salvage
and
dls-
Inosal
officer
at
military
district
!no.
3.
with
headquarters
at
Kings
tan.
has
worked
out
a
comprehen
sive
conservation
and
salvage
pro
gram.
STARTED
AT
OXFORD
The
first
nubile
coffee
house
was
opened
at
Oxford,
England,
In
1650.
RATIONING
OF
LIQUOR
Purchases
to
be
Limited
to
One
Imperial
Quart
or
Less
Per
Day
Wine
One
Gallon
rer
Day
Rationing
of
liquor
is
to
go
Into
effect
from
government
liquor
stores
immediately,
according
to
Instructions
received
today
at
the
local
store.
Under
the
new
rationing
regu
lations
there
can
be
only
one
purchase
of
one
Imperial
quart
while
wine
will
or
less
per
day
be
limited
to
one
gallon
or
less
per
day.
Liquor
and
wine
may
be
bought
together.
Hereafter
liquor
permits
will
have
to
be
presented
for
endor-sation
on
making
purchases.
Evacuees
Flock
Back
to
London
LONDON.
Nov.
28
?)
Hut
schools
arc
being
built
on
30
London
sites
tn
cone
with
the
increasing
streams
of
returning
evacuees,
nearly
1,000
a
week.
Two
of
these
hut
schools,
intended
to
make
up
for
schools
which
have
'been
bombed
or
re-
VU
4?
VV-
-
'
I
with
an
attendance
of
85
children,
j
mice.
Nazi
Soldiers
Beinq
Gradually
Coralled
West
of
Stalingrad
Important
Gap
in
Curving
Line
is
Closed
by
Recapture
Of
Kletskaya
by
Russians
MOSCOW,
Nov.
28
(CP)
The
Red
Army
has
clear
ed
the
last
German
soldier
out
of
the
Don
elbow
west
of
Stalingrad
and
remaining
enemy
forces,
coralled
in
a
rapidly
closing
ring
of
Russian
guns
and
bayonets,
are
being
hurled
back
to
the
east
upon
the
bayonets
of
the
Stalingrad
garrison,
front
line
reports
said
today.
Clos
NEW
RADIO
COMING
UP
BB
C.
to
Start
Broadcasting
From
Here
on
December
8
Eleven
Hours
Daily
and
Sundays
White
the
Canadian
Broadcasting
Corporation
takes
over
the
local
radio
station
CFPR
as
from
December
1,
next
Tuesday,
institution
of
the
full
new
program
ser
vice
from
the
station
is
deferred
until
December
8
when
Ira
Dil-
worth,
regional
director
of
CB.C.
plans
to
be
in
Prince
Rupert.
Thereafter
there
will
be
broadcast-
tag
from
Prince
Rupert
between
7:30
am.
and
1
pjn.
and
between
pjru
and
10:30
pjn.
There
will
be
broadcasting
on
Sundays
as
wefi
as
week-days
News
broad
casts
wtfr
be
put
out
twice
dally.
the
news
coming
from
Vancouver
For
the
start
the
local
station
will
be
taken
over
on
a
three
months'
rental
basis
prior
to
event
ually
being
taken
over
completely
by
tht
Commission.
Clarence
In-j
sulander
and
S.
3.
Anderson
will
be
retained
as
members
of
the
staff
under
CB.C.
and
two
men
win
be
coming
in
from
Vancouver
James
Oilmore,
an
additional
engineer,
and
Dick
Halhead,
program
man
and
announcer.
As
previously
announced,
the
programs
at
the
commencement
of
CB.C.
operation
will
consist
largely
of
transcriptions,
six
hundred
of
which
are
coming
from
Toronto
and
several
hundred
from
the
Na
tional
Broadcasting
Co.
of
the
United
States.
These
transcriptions
will
consist
of
a
variety
of
sub-
Jects.
N.
R.
Oldine.
regional
engineer
states
that
the
permanent
policy
In
connection
with
the
local
sta
tlon
will
be
to
increase
the
power
from
the
nresent
100
watts
to
1000
watts
and
to
provide
sustaining
network
facilities
for
broadcasting
from
here.
.
As
for
the
temporary
plan
of
bringing
network
programs
into
Prince
Runert
by
short
wave
for
broadcasting'
reception
tests
have
so
far
proven
disappointing
and
it
is
difficult
to
estimate
when
tne
short
wave
link
will
be
established.
The
ultimate
Idea
Is,
of
cour.se.
to
bring
In
a
special
land
wire
from
Prince
George
for
tne
carets
CB.C.
broadcasting.
vir.
oidimr.
who
has
been
here
for
the
oast
week,
will
be
leaving
next
Monday
night
for
Vancouver
but
expects
to
be
back
In
Prince
Rupert
frequently.
J.
A.
Ouiment,
assistant
chief
engineer
of
CB.C
from
Montreal.
Is
due
in
the
city
on
this
evening's
train
and
will
proceed
south
with
Mr.
OWlng.
P.
A.
Field
of
the
transmission
and
development
department
of
1
CB.C.
from
Montreal
remains
here
in
connection
with
the
conducting
of
surveys
for
the
new
local
oroaa-
castlng
arrangements.
NON-MAGNETIC
its
Armv
helmets
are
of
non
WM
mocrnpUr
steel
and
don't
affect
compasses
carried
by
troops.
VAUMIVTS
KILL
VARMINTS
d
reech
owls,
as
well
n,iUitir.noH
nrr
In
operation,
each
as
cats
and
dogs,
will
destroy
field
ing
an
an
important
imporiani
gap
gap
in
ine
curving
line,
Army
dispatches
re
ported
the
recapture
of
Kletskaya.
Cossack
city
on
the
west
bank
of
the
Don.
Danger
deepens
hourly
for
Adolf
Hitler's
battered
spearhead
at
Stalingrad,
latest
battle
dispatches
Indicate,
as
fresh
strength
Is
pour-In
to
the
aggressive
Red
Army
garrison
over
the
newly-won
land
route
and
fast-wheeling
field
columns
cut
across
the
besiegers'
lifeline
to
the
west.
The
confused
war
of
movement
swirls
across
the
broad
steppes
west
of
Stalingrad
and
It
Is
Im
possible
to
define
battle
lines
clearly.
ALLIES
ARE
CLOSING
ON
UPON
NAZIS
Spearheads
Approach
Even
Closer
To
Tunis
and
Bizerte
is
Latest
African
Fighting
LONDON,
Nov.
28
Allied
spearheads
are
reported
to
have
advanced
to
a
new
point
within
fifteen
miles
of
Tunis
and
to
have
clashed
with
Axis
forces
at
Mateur,
communications
centre
twenty-
five
miles
south
of
Bizerte
in
an
effort
to
drive
a
wedge
between
the
fortified
capital
and
the
naval
base
of
Tunisia.
Both
developments
are
announced
In
a
Berlin
radio
broadcast.
The
position
of
the
force
striking
at
Tunis
was
not
stated
definitely
but
an
earlier
Allied
communique
announced
British"
t
northeastward,
haa
ops,
striking
rtbred
Melez
el
Bab.
30
miles
soh&Weft'ol
Tunis,
over
stiff
resistance
and
were
"ad
vancing
successfully."
The
Morocco
radio
said
that
all
ground
engagements
so
far
were
on
a
small
scale
but
the
need
lor
disciplined
speed
was
Indicated
by
Axis
troop
movements
from
Libya
and
Sicily
which,
despite
Allied
air
and
sea
attacks,
were
shortening
manpower
odds
for
the
first
time
since
the
British
Eighth
Army
launched
Its
offensive
against
Marshal
Erwln
Rommel's
El
Alameln
Line
on
October
2.
Cairo
said:
"There
1
nothing
to
report
from
our
land
force."
NEARLY
EQUAL
In
the
Soviet
Union
48
percent
of
all
war
workers
are
women.
BIRDS
FROM
ALASKA
Manv
American
wildfowl
breed
on
the
Arctic
coast
of
Alaska.
t
Water
Edict
t
Is
Accepted
VANCOUVER,
Nov.
28
CP)
Leeal
authorities
today
draft-
ed
agreement
by
which
the
Great
Vancouver
Water
Board.
reversing
a
previous
stand.
will
accept
the
government
or-
der
requiring
chlorlnatlon
or
this
seaport's
wattr
supply
for
the
duration
of
the
war.
i