Local Temperature Maximum jfc... Minimum jL. VOL XXXI. N" 189 Battle - Of MEASURE IS GOING THRU Conscriptlcn Hill K Up for Third Heading Today King and Hanson Speak OTTAWA. July 23: ..The govern - mmt'a corucrlpUon bHl to ud for third readin, t2iy and i, Z l.ulc dehy M oToJS Mwmber hai Intimated hla fntflti- win of pekln against the meas ure Pnme Minister William Lyon .via Kcnaip King, who had prevl-"usly .said thax the government would com back to IWHament f .r a vote of contlderK if con- rrtption for ovenma service were ;ut into effect, announced yetter- iiv that the government would :it M-ek further authority from Parliament to Implement the Mil Hn K. B Hanson urged tof. "'i.it- eniorrement of corMcrto- . ,,.wr ,rr twwwi LONDON, July 23:-Any olans f' "1 tr" the government hTvJm ' ' ""T"". Popenln, of a second front in we- .utj uir I rune Ub f temporizing . WINS FOR PUInlPPr I H 1 H X H va ilk 1 Jspancsr Invader Do Not Appear To be Doing so Well in Tlial Arra Just Now t fflNoKINO. July M-Further :. against the Jauwpe are i v made by thf CtHSvaw 4a are making It very dUftettlt ' Invaders to control the . i hk -Hankow Railway. ' ; rt states army planes are "tn. attacks on Japanese YUGOSLAVS FIGHT BACK Guerrilla Patriots Itrportrd To Have Killed or Caplured Ten Thousand Nazis I NIX,N. July M:- YugoSUv patriots continue fight-Axis troopt thioufhout Vugo- x They have, It U aaad, klll-aptured 10.000 Natis and iiff red heavy losses Uvem-'" A Oerman rascue tuquedltt- ii jxiried to have bom sent . ii' Dunbue River ' I Communists Make Demand To Open Up Second Front ' ',IX;. July 23: -The Britteh ' iiunwi party staged a demon-yesterday damandtng thc ! i Uiutr opening up of a second ' i aid Ruria. Another such "'ins! ration t called for 8un- IUX'ORATED FOR COURAGE LONDON. July 23: OiFO. ncr-d Wlcksteed,, former Fleet tTrci newipaiHtr man, has been -arded the D. F. C. On his first ( ;XHaUonal encounter with thn p i, r, . . ; : : M.c m-uunsnver m ; wmcn;ne -id P o. A II. Harvey were flying damaged In shooting down ft Hi tnkcl and crashed. Thrv tnnbi It'll SWlmminir ljrhlnrt hnr, Unnhy until thev rearhrd .w . 30 n miles away. Harvey won the D.1 I u INTERN GRUMBLERS LONDON. Ju"Iy23: -Germans a if led as "jrrumblrrji nr f' a'lsts and offenders arnlnt iU wd regulations aro to bo sent to 'If'ial camm , nrt-nrMntr ... v w v. i, v, wmc report quoted by Reuters. TAXATION APPROVED Fednal Parliament of Australia V iheld in Important Decision Made Today MET rvUTTJWF tt s . Vi J" T ' thc m0t lmPrUnt hh rulfd lhat leoeral parliament acted within lU power in adopting a Dominion- wide uniform taxation plan. Four iUles, had the pten " HOLDING-SECRET British government Not IVrinc 1 Drawn Out in Regard To Second front i rr tinmn. -r- I,. . 'y guarded secret. No revealm autement to forthcoming In spite of widespread agUaUon. 8lr Stafford Cripps, government leader In ttte Houae of Common. "nplied in the House today that ihe government ha In mind tome operation toward opening a second European front to relieve the German pressure In Russia. Crlppa. however, told the, Houe that the government would not "entrust the M"rt even to 616 people" ttte members of -Parliament. TODAY'i-fOGKS IO)WlJ S D JntklMSMI 00.1 Vancouver Orandview J2 Ilralorne SBf Cartrxwj Quartz . M Hedley Maaeot . J IHoneer LIS Premier M Privateer M Reno . JM Sheep Creek JS6 Oils ; ; Calmont J2 C. k E, J Home ZM Royal Canadian .03 Toronto Beattie - -60 i Central Pat. - M Cons. Smelters 34.00 Hardrock - M Kerr Addison 3.85 Little Long Lac SflVa McLeod Cockshutt 1.18 Madsen Red Lake . .41 McKenilc Red Lake Moncta M Pickle Crow - 1.88 Preston East Dome 1.00 San Antonio 1.60 Sherrltt Gordon M LANDING - IS MADE Japanese Put Force of 2500 Ashore. the salvage of fats to collect 500.-On New Guinea Closer to .000,000. Port Moresby MEIJIOURNE. July 23: The Japanese have effected a new. landing with a force of 2500 men on New Guinea in clever proxt-( mlty to Tort Moresby. " was in thc operation of thU landing that. loss or a transport to Allied' Domoers. as bimioui.c j,u" occurs, PATRIOTIC PENSIONER t -nrrvrwr t,,1u 11 tt Tfthu Wll- .. w . ".v I au. nam unrisinias. ' awaiui-u C ,0,nfler the last wr. : ........ ii.. voluntarily gave k up wnuc present war lasU and Joined thc Royal Air, Force as an aircraftsman. YANKS LI KB COFFEE America consumes more coffee than any other country in the world, m to NORTHERN AND CENTRAL HRITISII COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER PRINCE IUTERT, Desert Suletin J MST COAST TOWN HIT LONDON A number of civil. Ian were killed by a single Herman plane which diopped a 1 sthk of bembs on an east coast town in a low daylight raid. One j direct hit wiped out a family of nil. NEW GUINEA LANDING j ALLIED IIKAIMJUARTEILS IN AUSTRALIA The Japanese put ashore a force of between 1300 and 2500 men at Gona Mission on the I'unuan Cunt i.. th. jft aggressive thrust toward , Australia ince the cmashing Coral Sea defeat. This Ls a dis-tance of 100 miles across from Ihe Allied outpost of Tort Moresby on New Guinea. The landSjg cost the Japanese heavily in casualties. INCOME TAX CHANGES OTTAWA Two changes proposed in income lax of the new budget were brought in yesterday by Hon. J. L. Ilsley. minister of finance. One would insure that the net inlome of a commissioned efficer would not fall below that of a warrant officer. Another makes alimony subject to income tax. GANDHI SI'IIAKS DOM HAY Mahatma Gandhi regards Japanese occupation of J India as inconceivable as long , as Allied troop are in the country. j If the Japanec.4houItL. however, occupy India his policy I would still be non-co-operation. He would rather be shot, he says, than co-operate with the Japanese or any other power. AID FOR CHINA W A S II I N G T O N Aid for China was the principal subject of discussion at a meeting of the Pacific War Council yesterday. II Is known definitely what China needs. The question is how to get it there. Kitchen Fats i For Munitions' Big Salvage Campaign Planned in! United States I UHOA.OO, July 23: O - TwoAlr Force nged up and down pounds of waste fat furnUh enough oetman-occupied coast of JL ? uC ,Ve. ant,-'ank; Europe by daylight yesterday, shells. That s why collecting grease striking at shipping and port from the kitchen puts It out of the nations. Unfavorable weather iryin pan into vne nnng tine. Ten pounds of fat make 2'i pounds of glycerine, and 860 pounds of glycerine make one ton of nltro glycertno. It takes about three pounds of nitroglycerine to make four pounds of dynamite. Thc government Is undertaking HALIBUT SALES Summary Aincricanl 67.000 pounds, 15c American Franklin, 50,000, 15c and 14c, Storage Storace. Resolute, 45,000, 16c and 14c, At- Un. Tacomn, 30,000, 17c and 14c, Storage. Bemice, 24,000, 16.4c and 14c, Whiz. Sherman, 18,000, 16.4c and 14c, Booth. Miss Norma Kenney of Terrace Is leaving for Vancouver tonight on her return to Royal Jubilee Hospital at Victoria where she Is ln training for a nurse. She has been visiting at Terrace with her pr-cnts, Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Kenney. B.C., THURSDAY. JULY URGES ALASKA ROAD WASHINGTON Frederic De-i iano, following a recent trip west, recommends to Treildent Roose-I velt the construction of a rail way from I'rince George to Fair-; banks. It is deemed a valuable post-war project even If the war was over before it eould be completed. THREE MORE SINKINGS WASHINGTON Three more Allied ships have Keen sunk in j the western Atlantic. One b a Norwegian vessel. j Canadian refatrlvtes J J WASHINGTON A ship, carrying 921 repatriates 10 Canadians J from Japan to North America, has arrived at Portuguese fast Africa. ' NAZI U-BOAT SUNK I WASHINGTON A German submarine has been sunk by a United Stales destroyer off the Virginia coast, it has been revealed. Bodies of some of the Germans were recovered and a military funeral was accorded. i RURKER TO GERMANY LONDON Japan Is reported to be supplying Germany with a trickle of rubber whkh Is being shipped by way of Cape Horn. AKYAB ROMltED NEW DELHI British planes U operating -from I&Ua bombed Akyab and other enemy instal-, lations on the Burma coast. LIFT COMMUNIST BAN OTTAWA The Defence of Canada regulations committee of the House of Commons recommends to Parliament that the ptesent ban on the Communist Party of Canada should be lifted. The commit lee also recommends that seven other organizations, now held to be illegal, be taken out of that category. I !RoyaI Air Force I n.MI 1 . lS 10 Mill UUH ActlVe lLUVC Ranged Up and Down German Occupied Coast of Europe Yesterday 1 kept the Royal Air Force at home night, '. RAIDED BY I RUSSIANS Another Attack on East Prussia City by Red Air Force Last Night MOSCOW, July 23: Thc Russian air force delivered another attack last night on Koenlsberg ln East Prussia which it had bombed heavily last Saturday night. Baseball Scores American League New York 5, Cleveland 1. Philadelphia 11, St Louis 8. Washington 2, Detroit 1. Boston 0, Chicago 2. National League , Chicago 2, Boston 1. St. Louis 7, Philadelphia 0. Cincinnati 1, Brooklyn 5. ITS A FACT Part of Uie Pacific Ocean Is farther east than New York. 23. 1942 is Livening (DANGER IS VERY REAL: i No Lessening in Menace of Nazi Advance Toward Vital Cities Of Russia GRAVEST CRISIS MOSCOW, July 23: (CP) Russia, facing its gravest crisis in the thirteen-month old war with Nazi armored columns, is closing in for a second Battle of Rostov. The Nazis are headed toward Stalingrad and are pressing upon the lower Don be-I tween Stalingrad and Rostov in an effort to isolate the Caucasus. Rostov, at the mouth of the Don, i$ menaced from three sides with the nearest German forces at Novocherkassk, twenty miles northeast of the city. MOSCOW, July 23: It is acknowledged by Soviet military authorities that the .threat, to Ros- tov and Stalingrad has greatly in- 1 creased. The enemy are now only twenty-five miles from Rostov and are ln a position to strike at the city from three sides or by-pass it. 1 "ur s-andard of living has pro-I Alarming progress is also being bably been the highest in the jmade by the Nazis toward Stalin- wrld but we have get to get down igrad. They have reached the big to a simpler mode of living until bend of the lower Don River only Job Is finished," declared J. 125 miles distant from Stalingrad. v- Scrivener, local representative Berlin reports to Stockholm said of -he Wartime Prices and Trade Stalingrad wvas already being at- Board in addressing the Prince tacked. However, there is some encour- agement in the statement that the Russians are now moving up a new army which has been train- ed in the Urals. The Rjwlan aaau siUl-.inching the Germans back from the ap- rroaches to Voronezh in the upper Don arra. - - - nn Aim lrnivr NOW MOTHER Leeds Woman Recovers From Serious Injury "Walking Miracle LEEDS. England, July 23 ( Mrs. Ada Mawn is known as Britain's "walking miracle.! ... " " . j If? ' ua ,Tai, broke u her neck, lived for months In a steel frame and then became; the mother of a healths 'boy. She fl to overcome." Mr. Scrlv-,broke her neck as she hurried Urener but a sure sense of tne ii 7 2,u ' Slipped and fell. Plrst sVia TA-n q tit it Into a ntactfir Jacket but her condition made that unsuitable so she was fixed and Into a steel frame, stitched at the vent of the skull and kept in even position by a 50-pound weight Twice her hair had to be shaved off completely. She could not move her hands or feet. Sh8 was ifed through a rubber tube. But a fortnight before her baby was born, Mrs. Mawn was recovered sufficiently to sit for a time In a chair. The baby weighed six pounds, five ounces. Her other son, seven-year-old Jack, didn't see her while she was In hospital Mrs. Mawn wouldn't let him "I looked so awful I didn't want to frighten him." Now about Mr. Mawn. Home on leave for the baby's birth and filled with anxiety for the wife he had seen ln a steel frame and sur- rounded by countless surgical gadgets, he cloaked his real feelings with the query: "Is the baby a real 'un or a tin 'un?" TRAIN FIRE GUARDS NEWCASTLE, Big.. July 23: 0 Compulsory training for fire guards has been announced by Helen Wilkinson, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Home Security. The training will take place during the 48 hours' part-time service a month. WAY BELOW NORMAL Norway's 1941 hay ciop was only 70 percent of normal. Looks Like Bad Winter For Europe I LONDON. July 23 W Ger- many and Nazi-controlled Europe will harvest a crop fif- teen to twenty percent below normal this year, British and American experts say. Short- of farmhands and rainy weather may make the deficit still greater. There are early indications that Europe will be facing a difficult winter from the food standpoint. MUST HAVE SACRIFICE Simpler Mode of Living Essential To Win War, Declares Official Rupert Gyro Club yesterday on the purposes and functlpns of the board. "Total war and a high standard of living do not go hand In hand. Can we achieve by vol- untary methods and action the ..Mrsh. cplean4.saqrficej.pf comfort which are necessary"'' to alter our standard of living? Whether we can or cannot may have a bearing on the final result ;Let each of us think it over." "Canada's price control legislation Is the most forward legislation on the statute books of any country." asserted Mr. Scrivener in his talk. He explained how the 'over - all retail ceiling plan of nTcp, rontrnl hnH hnn nrtnntprt Jn inanada a heintr the most easilv administered and the fairest to everybody, from September 15 to October 11 last having been taken as the basic period for the price celling. Mr. Scrivener told how the Board was responsible lor ra- "oning of sugar and rubber but not ofune. Thpro rp manv , nH rilr. inevitability of the alternative .HlMet,,. Inflation! Hvp thnso In authority the courage to carry on. Price control is worth working for must not fail. We must pre Inflation from happening though we may be called upon to make tremendous sacrifices. inflation wherein the people, with more money to spend and less goods to buy, would compete against themselves and against the government for goods and services, means ruin. The government, the Wartime Prices and Trade Board and other bodies cannot defeat Inflation but they can give leadership and direction. It Is you and I who can make or mar the success of this great undertaking." Prescribing what the people could do to play their part In supporting price control and preventing Inflation. Mr. Scrivener suggested that prices be watched closely and cases of overcharging or disregard of the regulations be reported, that purchasing of luxuries or nonessential things be refrained from, that hoarding be avoided, that the regulations be strictly lived up to and anticipated as well as merely observed, that all ways and mearis of practising economics be adopted mH that evervthlne be taken care of and made last. Mr. Scrivener also urged that heed be paid to the appeal for salvaging of rubber and tin of which there was such a scarcity and of which Canada was In such dire need. Mr. Scrivener's address to the (Continued on ?ayo Three) Tomorrow sT ides (Standard Time) High- 10:40 ajn. 17.1 feet 22:36 pjn. 203 feet Low 4:14 ajn. 43 feet 16:11 pjn. 7.5 feet PRICE- FIVE CENTS Up OPTIMISTIC F0REGYPT British Military Experts Think Auchinleck Has Good Chance Now CAIRO, July 23 (CP) The British Army of the Nile Is reported to have driven back the Axis centre with simultaneous attacks on other sectors of the EI Alamein front The British troops are reported to have made attacks on all three sectors north, centre and south of the thirty-five mile front Enemy 'forces are reported pushed from some of their positions on Ef'Raweisat Ridge1 and gains have been consolidated by the British. The battle Is still raging Inconclusively to the north and . south in a see-saw melee, no details of which are as yet available. British military experts In London say it is obvious General Sir Claude Auchinleck has been heavily reinforced in armor and artillery and is moving forward to a decisive battle. These experts appeared optimistic of the outcome. Meanwhile the Royal Air Force continues its pounding of enemy objectives, sweeping over the battlefields and smashing motorized equipment of the Axis. NAZI BOMBS WENGLAND Scattered Raids Cause Some Casualties and Damage Operations Not Extensive LONDON, Julf 23: A lone German raider came over an east coast town bf daylight and caused some casualties and damage. An entire family was killed when the shopping district was attacked. The enemy were also over an east Midlands town and a hotel In a town fifty miles from London was bombed. SABOTAGE IN N0RGE Activities Against Invaders Is Becoming More Widespread STOCKHOLM, July 23: Another German troop train Is reported to have been wrecked in Norway as sabotage against the invaders be- comes even more widespread ln t1 country, Second Front Demanded By Beaverbrook LONDON, July 23: Lord Beav-erbrook's newspaper, the Evening Standard, calls for quick action in the opening up of a second front to aid Russia. DRIVER WAS SMART CANVEY, Eng.. July 23 CB It was exciting to everyone but the driver when a bus with several . lm drove back to ft me statkm and the flames were put out In no time. WINS HIGH HONOR LONDON, July 23; 47) Prime Minister J. C. Smuts of South Africa, has been awarded the Albert Medal of the Royal Empire Society for 1942, The medal was inscribed: "statesman, soldier, scientist, philosopher,'1 . . . if Hi 1