Russians
Balking
Germans
three-day
German
assault
in
the
attempt
to
cr:.
an
important
river
in
the
Kharkov
sector
has
Iteen
balked
by
Russian
hill-top
defences
and
the
Nazis
now
have
been
forced
on
the
defensive,
Soviet
dispatches
declared
today.
East
of
Kharkov
on
the
central
front
the
Germans
claimed
yesterday
that
a
battle
for
wtineration
of
the
line
ended
in
German
favor.
Around
Sebastapol
the
Russians
say
the
Germans
have
massed
seven
artillery
regiments
in
an
effort
to
batter
down
Russian
fortifications.
Land
and
sea
forces.
Italians
co-operating
with
the
Germans,
today
launched
a
land
and
sea
attack
acainst
Leningrad.
Bitter
fighting
along
the
rest
of
the
front
indicated
that
the
whole
battle
line
may
lc
springing
into
new
action.
Air
Blows
Against
Hitler
On
the
perimeter
zone
of
the
European
conflict,
Uic
British
air
ministry
reports
sharp
Royal
Air
Force
Wows
overnight
against
Chancellor
Adolf
Hitler's
air
bases
and
sea
communications
in
Western
Europe
and
along
the
invasion
coast.
Seven
enemy
shops
have
been
Hink
or
damaged
off
the
coast
and
other
targets
have
been
hit.
U-Boats
Still
Preying
Nazi
IMxints
are
operating
again
in
the
Gulf
of
Mexico
where
a
large
Panamanian
ship
is
reported
"link.
In
addition,
five
more
ships
have
Iiecn
sunk
in
the
(
aribbenn
Sea
and
the
Western
Atlantic.
The
lat-ft
victims
of
submarines
in
the
Battle
of
the
Western
Atlantic
include
two
United
States
vessels,
one
Norwc-Kian.
one
unidentified,
two
Hritish
and
the
Panamanian.
This
makes
a
total
of
1175
Allied
vessels
sunk
since
"lid-January.
From
one
of
the
latest
sunken
vessels
tvvcnlv.fivc
survivors
have
been
landed
at
an
Eastern
Canadian
port.
CUT
DOWN
GAS
MORE
CTTUVA.
Jun?
16;
-
New
resrlc-m
regard
to
the
use
of
ne
arc
expected
to
be
an-'
i'
"l
in
Ottawa
within
tho
-fx'
cIhv
or
so.
possibly
today.
"
will
affect
CaUigory
A.
mot-
Tae
overage
motorist
In
Canada
have
to
get
along
with
less
1
'
particularly
those
whose
work
1
nothing
to
do
direct
with
the
-r
effort.
GIVING
TO
RED
CROSS
Walter
8.
Cooper
5
15
00
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Angus
Macphce
5.00
Claxton
Cannery
Staff
132.50
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Angus
Currie
10.00
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Hector
Cowle
10.00
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Ernest
Jensen
0.00
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Harry
McCavour
10.00
S.
J.
Stoplcdon
Norman
McDonald
5.00
Donald
McCavour
"
Mel
Watson
,
.
5-uu
I
t
-
-
.1
Preparing
For
wmln
dia.
If
complete
freedom
is
given
India,
he
aayi.
he
would
agree
to
retention
of
British
and
United
States
forces
in
India
to
heto
in
defences
against
Japan.
A
free
India
could
and
would
help
China
Oandhi
says,
but
he
would
not
permit
exploitation
of
Indian
by
Britain.
Meanwhile
Japan.
OerflNMp
and
Italy
are
said
to
be
offering
"to
aid
India
in
obtaining
her
DEBATE
IS
CONTINUING
Conscription
Rill
Still
Under
Discussion
In
House
of
Commons
At
Ottawa
.
OTTAWA.
June
16:
Hon.
J.
G.
'Gardiner,
minister
of
agriculture.
I
In
the
debate
yesterday
on
the
conscription
bill,
said
he
believed
voluntary
enlistment
would
rivp
Canada
an
overseas
army
of
750
-.000
men
by
the
end
of
1913.
It
i
would
be
a
seriou
responsibility
,to
impose
conscription
for
overseas
service
if
such
were
not
re-mtrd.
!
John
Dief
en
baker
Conservative
I
member
for
Lake
Centre.
Saa-,
katehewil'
rfftf
the
fact
Ihtit
an
'army
of
900.000
had
been
raised
for
overseas
service
was
a
brilliant
record
of
the
people
but
not
(of
the
government.
He
accused
.
the
government
of
raUng
political
I
survival
above
duty.
Angus
Maclnnls.
C.C.P.
member
for
Vancouver,
moved
an
amend
ment
to
the
conscription
oiuwnicn
hp
dfwribpd
as
"inadequate
and
inequitable.'
Y.M.C.A.IS
BUILDING
To
Krect
$150,000
Structure
At
First
Avenue
and
Mc-Ilride
Street
It
has
been
announced
by
Young
.Men's
Christian
Association
War
Services
that
a
new
V..M.C.A.
building
is
to
constructed
very
shortly
in
Prince
Rupert.
The
building
wilh
be
a
real
asset
to
the
town.
It
Is
expected.
Features
which
will
be
embodied
in
the
constiuction
are
ari
auditorium
large
enough
t
seat
800,
a
large
gymnasium,
ample
reading
and
writing
rooms
lounges
for
men
j
and
for
women.
It
will
also'have
proper
showers,
drying
rooms,
and
all
other
facilities
which
will
go
to
make
the
life
of
men
off
duty
a
comfortable
one.
It
is
expected
that
construction
of
the
building
will
start
almost
immediately.
The
site
is
to
be
twelve
lots
the
northwest
corner
of
First
Avenue
and
McBride
Street
and
the
cost,
it
is
understood,
will
be
around
$15oi00.
1
-
V
Local
Temperahv
M
Tomorrow
sT
ides
mm
(Standard
Time)
High
2:56
am
193
feet
tfffi
Maximum
15:54
ajn.
18.1
feet
mum
Low
0:41
ajn.
22
feet
i
21:41
pan.
8.0
feet
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
XXXI
No.
139
VJ
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
TUESDAY,
JUNE
16,
1942
PRICE:
FIVE
CENTS
Seven
Day
Work
Week
Mandatory
t
WAR
NEWS
Beating
Japs
In
Aleutians
I'nitcd
Stales
fliers,
batlc
inn
at
the
Japanese
invaders
of
the
Aleutian
Islands,
were
credited
today
with
having
sunk
or
damaged
eight
enemy
ships.
Japanese
losses
were
listed
as
one
cruiser
sunk
and
one
aircraft
carrier,
at
least
three
cruisers,
one
destroyer,
one
gunboat
and
one
transport
damaged.
No
American
losses
were
reported.
A
United
States
Navy
communique,
breaking
a
three
day
silence
on
Japanese
landings
in
the
bleak
island
chain,
said
that
loth
Army
and
Navy
fliers
were
continuing
the
attack
in
a
smashing
sequel
to
earlier
victories
in
the
Battles
of
Midway
Island
and
Coral
Sea.
Reference
to
"unchanged
situation"
in
the
communique
was
interpreted
as
meaning
that
the
enemy
had
failed
to
make
new
landings
in
the
Aleutians.
British
Withdrawal
In
Libya
The
fierce
Libyan
battle,
in
which
armored
forces
of
Ixith
sides
have
been
taking
a
terrific
hammering,
moved
eastward
today
toward
Tobruk
as
British
and
South
African
troops
withdrew
from
the
coastal
anchor
around
El
f!azala.
This
meant
that
the
British
Army
had
given
up
the
Ain
Kl-Cazala-Bir
Hacheim
line
which
the
Germans
first
went
around,
then
pierced
and
finally
reduced
one
end
at
a
time.
It
also
meant
that
the
llritkh
had
escaped
a
threatened
trap
when
the
Germans
drove
tanks
at
Acroma,
ten
miles
west
of
Tobruk,
to
cut
off
Ain
El
Caala,
thirty
miles
farther
west.
Vc-terdav
British
headquarters
at
Cairo
announced
the
Eighth
Army
was
counter
attacking
Axis
armored
forces
vigorously.
GANDHI
IS
BUSY
AGAIN
Said
To
Be
Starling
New
Move
Acainot
British
Kule
In
India
Aid
Offered
by
Axis
Powers
BOMBAY.
June
16:
K.
Oandhi.
Indian,
leader,
tats
started
a
ment
against
Brltlah
Mohandas
Nationalist
new
move-rule
in
In-
ATTACKING
OF
DARWIN
North
Australian
Fort
Is
Again
Subjected
To
Air
Raids
ALLIED
HEADQUARTERS
IV
AUSTRALIA,
June
1G:
0
Port
Darwin,
Australia's
North
Coast
iise.
was
raided
by
Japanese
alr-afl
yesterday
for
the
third
successive
day
and
a
few
casualties
resulted
with
damage
said
to
be
light.
Allied
headquarters
announced
that
twenty-seven
Japanese
bombers,
escorted
by
fight's,
the
Hret
force
yet
to
reach
Darwin
in
a
series
of
week-end
ssaults.
came
over
in
the
after-
won.
Six
enemy
planes
w
Qiirrnr
Rntinnc
iauons
Islands,
a
telegram
from
Lieut.
General
H.
H.
Arnold
sugar
of'the
Armb
Chtef
Army
Alr
Forcc
effect
on
July
1.
Olenn
L.
Martin,
Baltimore
air-
Voluntary
Workers
To
e
Lngaged
craft
manufacturer,
cackwed
yes-Thrnugliout
Canada
In
Bis-
'
terday.
Soon
after
an
official
an-tributing
Coupon
Applies-
nouncement
from
the
United
tiotis
States
Navy
stated
that
eight
en-
emy
warships
in
aii
had
been
dam-
OTTAWA,
June
16:
Voluntary
aged
by
army
and
navy
aircraft
in
workers
will
be
engaged
through-
the
vicinity
of
the
Aleutian
Is-out
Canada
between
June
18
and
fends.
They
were
stated'
to
be
23
In
the
distribution
of
sugar
four
Japanese
cruisers,
one
air-rationing
coupons.
They
will
be
cra(t
carrier,
one
destroyer,
one
(
necked
and
classified
with
a
gunboat
and
one
transport
view
to
having
rveryuung
rraay
.
nut
rounon
vzv
rationing
In
Despite
fotry
wcut.hrr
tack
of
United
State
the
against
the
forces
which
landed
on
Attu
Island
and
at
Kiska
is
continuing.
Tht
enemy
are
still
ashore
but
the
Japanese
vessels
have
been
driven
out
of
Kiska
Harbor.
Belief
Is
generally
held
in
Washington
that
the
strategy
of
the
Japanese
in
attacking
the
Aleutians
is
to
cut
off
Russia
from
Alaska
by
the
seising
of
bases
which
would
outflank
Kamchatka.
Part
of
the
campaign
along
this
line
it
is
believed,
was
the
attack
by
air
nn
DuU
h
Harbor
on
June
3.
MEXICAN
CABINET
DECLARES
WAR
AG
AINST
AXIS
Prr.slden
Manuel
Avlla
Camacho
Is
shown
a-
the
extreme
right
as
he
convened
hl3
cabinet
n
Mexico
City
to
discuss
measures
agalniit
the
Axis
following
the
sinking
of
two
Mexican
tankers
in
the
QuU
of
Mexico.
A
formal
protest
was
rejected
by
Germany,
Italy
arid
Japan
and
It
was
decided
by
tho
cabinet
to
ask
a
special
session
of
congress
to
declare
a
state
of
war.
It
was
also
proposed
that
all
Axis
assets
in
Mexico,
frozen
since
Japan's
attack
upon
Pearl
Harbor
on
Dec.
7,
be
seized.
The
cabinet
members
that
may
be
seen
in
the
ABOVE
arc:
LEFT
to
RIGHT,
Oen.
Atisclmo
Maclas,
secretary
of
national
defence;
Miguel
Merman,
secretary
of
Interior;
and
Gen.
Salvador
Sanche2,
army
chief
of
staff.
Continuous
Production
Order
in
Ordered
i
west
coast,
the
needs
of
the
Shipyards
I:
By
Ottawa
Minister
Of
Labor
Says
He
Expects
All
Workers
Arc
Scheduled
To
Work
Next
Sunday
Will
Re
At
Posts
Who
OTTAWA,
June
16
(CP..
A
seven-day
continuous
production
plan
in
British
Columbia
shipyards
will
be
enforced
despite
objections
of
certain
unions,
Hon.
Humphrey
Mitchell,
minister
of
labor,
said
todav.
An
order-
en
,
ln-council
was
nassed
some
time
ap-n
under
whirh
thP
brought
wo.
down,
the
defender.
king
pian
is
to
be
put
into
operation
and
a
departmental
spokes-
The
Jananeae
also
attacked
Dar-n
on
Saturday
and
Sunday.
In
the
Sunday
attack
Allied
fighters
tore
Into
a
formation
of
18
to
25
Japanese
fighters,
shot
down
four
in
a
furious
fight
and
saved
the
city
from
an
effective
raid.
Baseball
Scores
National
League
New
York
6.
Pittsburg
2.
Ch
c;?o
6.
Brooklyn
0
'only
ames'
man
said
that
Mr.
Mitchell's
state
ment
means
the
order
will
now
be
enforced.
It
provides
penalties
for
not
abiding
by
the
regulations
putting
the
seven-day
week
into
effect.
The
minister
said
that
he
expected
next
Sunday
that
"all
British
Columbia
shipyard
employees
whoi
are
scheduled
to
work
on
that
day
will
be
at
their
stations."
He
add
ed:
shipyards
are
paramount
Men
and
materials
will
be
secured
even
at
the
expense
of
productlpn
In
other
Industries."
J.
P.
Hawklnson
arrived
In
the
city
this
morning
from
Stewart,
accompanied
by
Jack
Rennle
and
C.
Dean
and
brinerinff
in
thp
stpnm
With
the
Japanese
attacks
on
.laundrv
nlant
from
stwnrt
n.hi.Vi
Aiasica
as
th
the
further
evidence,
that
he
is
to
establish
and
ODen
ud
ud
war
is
approaching
nearer
to
In
the
old
Canadian
Laundrv
pre
mises
on
Sixth
Avenue
West.
Enemy
Fleet
Beaten
In
North
JAPANESE
CRUISER
IS
SUNK;
DIRECT
HIT
ON
PLANE
CARRIER'S
DECK
Enemy
Warship
Flotilla
Feels
Weight
Of
United
States
Fighting-
Aircraft
In
North
Pacific
WASHINGTON,
June
16
(CP).
The
battle
of
the
Aleutians
appears
to
be
a
repetition
of
Coral
Sea
and
Midway.
United
States
torpedo
planes
sank
a
Japanese
cruiser
and
scored
a
direct
hit
on
the
deck
of
an
aircraft
carrier
of
a
main
Japanese
task
force
off
the
Aleutian
British
Side
of
Mediterranean
Battle
Told;
Italians
Suffered
Heavy
Losses
In
Navy
Ships
CAIRO,
June
1G
(CP).
The
United
States
Army
Air
Force
and
the
Royal
Air
Force,
operating
together
for
the
first
time
in
the
Mediterranean,
set
fire
to
two
Italian
battleships,
sank
a
10,000
ton
Italian
cruiser
and
scored
hits
on
a
smaller
cruiser
and
a
destroyer
in
four
days
of
heavy
fighting,
it
was
announced
today
in
a
special
communique.
In
addition,
the
Royal
Air
Force
and
the
fjeet
air
arm
planes
set
fire
to
another
Italian
cruiser
and
probably
hit
a
destroyer
in
a
second
Italian
naval
force
during
the
same
period.
Italian
communique
yesterday
and
today
described
major
naval
and
air
battles
in
the
central
Mediterranean,
claiming
heavy
damage
to
Allied
convoys.
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TRAVEL
IS
RESTRICTED
Canadians
Will
Have
To
Change
Their
Ideas
About
Traffic
Soon,
Declares
Supply
Controller
TORONTO.
June
16:
Vh
Alan
II.
Williamson,
controller
of
supplies,
told
the
Canadian
Transit
Association
yesterday
that
at
least
150,000
Canadian
passenger
cars
will
be
off
the
road
by
June
1943.
He
also
predicted
that.
In
a
year
from
now,
the
oil
shortage
will
be"
so
serious
that
pleasure
travel
will
be
a
thing
of
the
past.
"All
our
Ideas
of
escnUal
traffic
may
be
outmoded."
he
said.
Some
railway
rolling
stock
at
least
will
be
no
longer
serviceable
and
rubber
shortage
will
be
so
acute
that
Ure
repairs
may
be
placed
on
a
priority
basis,
Mr.
Williamson
declared.
CONGO'S
MINERALS
The
Belgian
Congo
is
a
big
producer
of
Industrial
diamonds,
radium
and
cobalt,
holds
fifth
place
for
copper
and
sixth
for
tin.
Mrs,
O,
Stout
leaves
tonight
for
Port
Clements.
I.-
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1
it!