ver union at me weeK-ena s w?re decided upon, which, rdim to II. Harrison, "will aid before the executive of Allied Trades council, with rnmendatlon for action If factory word Is not soon re 1 from the Canadian Na- .al Railways regarding the n.. ary and food situation local dry dock." e Allied Trades council ex"- i t- meet early this week, the receipts of a reply from r, Devcnlsh, manager of adUn National western lines, i.: negotiating with War- Housing and other agen hie nature of the plans was I revealed by Mr. Harrison. ETURNED 0 GREECE IS. Ilombers Visit More Nazi- icltl Airports Stiff Defence AIRO, June 28 0 United : ncavy bombers shattered hangars, pitted runway artPd fires at two alr- irr ; near Auiens yesieraay in poiiprful follow-up to the r ay raid on Salonika which ened a transMeditcrranean :j offensive against German Italian holdings in the Bal-: tf was announced today, ih explosives were cffectlvc- :c:ed on Ele?sls, 10 miles t of Athens, and Hassanl, '..wr t of the capital, and Al- Icaflets. were showered over ur a. Despite savage efforts the defence forces, the bom- i r- Tuted their mission with I. :C3. Baseball Scores SATURDAY National League hicago 5, St. Louis 2. Brooklyn 3, Philadelphia 2. Boston 3, New York. fit'iburgh 9, Cincinnati 0. American League t Louis 6, Detroit 3. Boston 4, New York 1. 'hicago 3, Cleveland 2. JV'a:;hlngton 4, Philadelphia 1. International League Qronto 7-7, Jersey City 3-0. locheiter 4, Baltimore 3. iuflfalo 7, Syracuse 4. Newark-Montreal postponed. American Association ft Paul7. .Minneapolis 1. touisvllle 3, Columbus 0. i:d:anapolls 9, Toledo 0. f lilwaukee 3, Kansas City 2. 511. Coast League ortland 9, San Diego 5. lollvwood 6-6, Oakland 3-3. os Angeles 5, San Francisco 4 auie 8, Sacramento 6. SUNDAY National League St. Louis 3. Chicago 2. Uo:ton l'0-0. New York 1-6. Urooklvn 0-6. Philadelphia 4-0 1'tttjburgh 3-1, Cincinnati 6-5, American League Ww York 3-3. Boston 2-4. Washington 9-4. Philadelphia 0-5. St Louis 6-5, Detroit 3-9. Cleveland 2-0, Chicago 1-2. International League Montreal 4-3. Daltimore 2-0. Buffalo 16-1, Jersey City, 2-6. Newark 4-6, Rochester 2-3. jyracuse 3-0, Toronto 2-4. American Association Milwaukee 14-3, Minneapolis -oulsvllle- 2-7. Columbus 6-8. Kansas City 7-0, St. Taul 8-4. inaianapolls 6-2, Toledo 7-u. Coast League Pwood 2-8, Oakland 123. ban Diego 2-0, Portland 3-0. cramento 1-2. Seattle 0-J. Kan Francisco 1-5, Los Angeles BRITAIN WELL PROTECTED LONDON So strong have become the anti-aiicraft defences that German bombers will never again be able to carry out consistently intensive attack on industrial centres of Britain, it was declared last night by the chief of staff of the Royal Air Force. NORTHERN FRANCE BOMBED LONDON Allied bombers concentrated daylight attacks Saturday on LeIIavte and Abbeville in FranceFive bombers and seven fighters were lost. Few enemy fighter planes were seen. Again yesterday railway yards and airports of Northern Fiance were the targets of Royal Air Force raids. EIGHTH ARMY IN SYRIA BERLIN B e r i n claims that the British Eighth Army is now in Syria have not been confirmed. KISKA ATTACKED AGAIN WASHINGTON Three more attacks were made by the American Air Force -on Kiska Island but poor weather prevented the results from being ascertained. QUEBEC STRIKE OVER QUEBEC The strike in Quebec shipyards has ended with the recognition of the Boiler-makcrs' ..and ..Shipbuilders' Union as the bargaining agency. TWO JAP SUBS SUNK WASHINGTON Two Japanese submarines were attacked by bombers and believed to have been sunk in the South Tacific one 200 miles south of Fiji Islands and the other in the Coral Sea. MOST OF MINERS WORK WASHINGTON The most of the United States coal miners are back at work today follow ing the reaching of a new strike truce until October 31... FIRE IN VANCOUVER VANCOUVER Damage estimated at $100,000 was done by fire in the storage premises of the O'Neill Company on Hamilton Street last night. The Adjoining Crone premises had a narrow escape. TRYING TO GET HOAKE UUi MADRID Sir Samuel Hoarc, British ambassador to Spain, says the Germans are trying to get him out of the country. RUSSIAN FRONT QUIET MOSCOW The Russian front continues generally quiet. Russian aircraft bombed Bryansk laic Saturday and started fires. There has been some land fighting near Leningrad, in which the Finns have taken part. CANADIAN ARRIVAL AT A BRITISH PORT, June 28 n,A contingent of reinforce ments for the Canadian Army has arrived In Britain and has been dispersed to camps In the southern part of c country. It was disclosed yesterday, n includes officers and men foremost branches of the service. qmtsaT GOVERNOR Pierre .Boissin has resigned as Governor General of French West Africa and the French Committee of National Liberation has accepted his resignation, Reuters agency reported today. Boissin was a former Dar-lan partisan. im 1 JUNGLES TALK FOR BRITISH RAIDERS IN BURMA LONDON, June 28 Royal Air Force Typhoons and Hurricanes sank two enemy ships early today, drove another blaz ing to the beach and brought three more to a standstill after a night in which Royal Air Force Mosquito squadrons winged deep into France to hammer airports and railways. The latest engagement was reported off the coast of. Holland where swift Royal Air Force fighters found five enemy coastal vessels sailing in line. There were no indications that British planes were over Germany during the" night. Local Temperature Tonight's Dim-out We (Half an hour alter sunset to Maximum 59 hair an hour before sunrise). Minimum 51 10:49 pjn. to 4:39 a.m. NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER XXXXII, No. 150 ioL. PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1943 PRICE. FIVE CENTS noin .1 Nazi Official Has Been Slain INION TO :t soon factory Action Regarding Ud for Dry Iock Workers Awaited a meeting of the Boiler- Bulletins Signal section men of the R.A.F. talk and listen. ABOVE, oh one of the portable radios used by the British column that recently raided Burma. Comprising British, Indian. Gurkha and Burmese troops, and with radio as their only means of communication, the Chlndists blew up miles of Jap-held railroad, destroyed bridges, and helped 5,000 Burmese fighters to elude a Japanese expedition. , " ISSUES APPEAL Direct Youthful Recreation to Combat Delinquency is Hope of Rev. Scott An appeal has been issued by the Rev. E. W. Scott of St. Paul's Church for public support in forming and sustaining a boayi to organize and direct the recreation of children and young people of Prince Rupert during the summer months and to a more limited degree during the winter months. The need for such an organization, Mr. Scott explains, Is caused by the delinquency rate in this and other cities brougni about by the slackening of parental control due to Increased wartime activities. Unless some action Is taken In the matter, the letter says, this Increase is likely to continue. The Housewives' League, and the Recreation commiuee oi Wartime Housing Ltd, haSj taken an interest in the project. ! According to Mr. Scott's letter there Is a need for about iu people to give one mofnlng, afternoon or evening each a week. Permission, Is given for the use of St. Peter's Hall and the Rupert East Hall of the United Church and a quantity oi recreational equipment Is available. Whether this can be put to the desired use will depend on the response of the people of this community, the letter says Vanderhoof Man jWILL BACK Out Of Range Ebert Samuel Lee Fined Operating Taxi Too Far Fram Base .A For VANDERHOOF, June 28 Ebert Samuel Lee, Vanderhoof. appeared In provincial police court and pleaded guilty to 'a charee laid by the Wartime Prices and Trade Board of un lawfully operating a taxi at a greater distance than 15 miles from Its registered address. Accused was fined $20 and $1.75 costs, In default ten days. Con stable II. Parker,. Vanderhoof Detachment, Provincial Police, conducted the prosecutfon on behalf of the Board. Enemy Ships Are Sunk EISENHOWER French Differences' Must Not" Be. Allowed to Hinder Military Success i WASHINGTON, June 28 O) With transMedlterranean mili tary operations on a major scale Impending, the government at Washington revealed itself yes terday as ready to back General Dwight Eisenhower, Allied Com mander-in-Chjef, In French ai rlca, to the limit In whatever steps he may find necessary to eliminate any threat to success created, by the political controversy between Generals DeGaulle and Glraud, heads of the French rival factions. Fined For Using Graded Gas In Motorcycle McBRIDE, June 26 In a prosecution undertaken on be half of the Oil Controller for Canada Otto Herman Brunlng appeared In provincial police court at McBrlde. He was fined $10 and $1.75 costs, or ten days. for using other than graded gasoline in a motor vehicle. Halibut 'Sales American Sherman, 20,000, 25 Storage. VALUAHLE AXIS SUPPLIES NOW BELONG TO ALLIES NEW VICE- PRESIDENT and 21, to ? .Mm. A 2k .jftiriiiSP I I British officers inspect German airplane repair parts found uncrated In a storehouse of a captured Axis airport In Tunis. This Is but a small part of the vast collectl6n of German and Italian war material that fell Into Allied hands after the quick end of the battle of Tunisia. t S. W. Fairweather Promoted In Service of Canadian National Railways , ! MONTREAL, June 28 Appointment of S. W. Fairweather as vice-president of research and development, Canadian Na4 tlonal Railways, was announced here Saturday by R. C. Vaughan, chairman and president of the National system. Mr. Fairweather, who has had extensive and varied experience In transportation matters, comes of New Brunswick United Empire Loyalist stock. He studied en gineering at Acadia and McGlU Universities and, after gradua tion, Joined the forces of the de partment of railways and canals In May 1916. His first service for the department was as assistant engineer on the car ferry ter minals to Prince Edward Island He was later employed as assist ification and solution of tnanyj major problems. The department of research j and development among other things Is charged with the direction of the development of nat- i j r tun in Prince Rupert, restaurants some other British Columbia localities have decided to In augurate an extra meatless day. Under the regulations of the ration administration, Wartime Prices and Trade Board, Tuesday Is the official meatless day. To further reduce consumption of meat thus making more available for export overseas to steaks on Mlondays and Wednes days only. Ration administration offl-' cials believe that further centres will follow a similar course. CAREER0F CHIEF OF M0UNTIES Commissioner S. T. Wood Great- Great-Grandson of a President of United States An Interesting commentary on the background of Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Commis sioner Stuart T. Wood, has been received from L. C. Branson of Seattle Commissioner Wood spent a part of his boyhood as well as several years of his police career In the Yukon and was for a time In Prince Rupert. Commissioner Wood Is the great-great-grandson of Zakh-ary Taylor, a president of the United States shortly before the middle of the last century. Taylor, a Republican and a rugged and stormy character, had the good fortune to be a military hero at a time when his party was looking for preslden ttnl material. In those frontier ant engineer on the Quebec tlmes mIlitary heroism was the bridge. Afterwards he was trans- , t popular known quality, and iciitru iai utw"n wucic ; . c(r, h npmncrnt.tr. nartv was attached to the consulting en gineer for the Dominion government. In 1919 he joined the staff of the Grand Trunk arbitration on the government side. In 1923 Mr. Fairweather joined the bureau of economics of the unable to drum up a rival war-horse, Taylor went to live in the White House In 1849. He died the following year. As if In contrast to his rough character and exterior he was 'called "Old Rough and Ready" uanaaian wauonai Kaiiways. iQ ni1.,.,nrin. hostess and so- serylng first as assistant to the of hls daughters became airecior ana in imu Deing ap- . . . aH nt hpr t,m ,he mar. pointed director of this branch ,rled JeIferson Davis who later of the system activities. In 1939 he became chief of research and development and. -has jiow been appointed vice-president. Mr. Fairweather Is well known to business men throughout became Confederate leader and In her later days she too became as radical arid" bitter a rebel as any In the south. Another daughter of Zachary Tavlor also married a man of Canada for his analytical , Boaibem mdinations. although speeches respecting various phases of the transportation Industry. To his own department he has brought to bear the resources of a keen Incisive engineering mind and has given Important contributions to the clar he was a general In the Medical Corps of the Army of the United States. His name was Robert C. Wood. Their son, John Taylor Wood, went In for a naval car eer and, at the outbreak of the Civil War, he had the rank of cantain and was an Instructor at the Annapolis Naval Academy. When war broke out Captain John Taylor Wood went with the south and fought as a lieutenant on the Merrlmac at Ion of industries on the lines o l k d tak. the system and will also deal with matters concerning high-1 . M . t. h. . way competition. The depart ment is charged generally with investigation Into "matters, bear ing upon the more efficient use of labor and materials and the problems of adjusting the railway's activities to changing con ditions particularly with regard to post-war development. Local Example Being Followed Following the example caped to Canada by way of Florida. His family were wait ing for him In Halifax. Canadian Connection Thus was established the Can adian connection of the Wooa family. At the time of the outbreak of the Civil War Captain Wood had a son who was still a child. This child, Zachary Taylor Wood, lived to become an Assistant Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and the father of the present Commissioner. Alter joining the Royal Cana dlan Mounted Police, Zachary Taylor Wood rose rapidly and In 1898 with the rank of Major and the post of Superintendent, he took over the law enforce ment of the Yukon Territory Major Wood was a soldier by tradition, In spite of his father's naval connection and a disciplinarian as well and his administration of the law In the wealth-crazed Yukon at the turn of the century was one of fair ness and restraint. For a time armed forces and British civlll- durlng the absence of Governor ans, a movement is growing on i010C Hamilton Rn Mninr the part of public caterers to Wood took oyer tne Governor's l . .. ! ..A1..tn t1.. f.nn. pnKltlnff UU&baill vuiuiikaiiiy Mum ocivitg meat on one more day. First city In British Columbia lO GO mis WiU .riuiLC ivuyciu where restaurant operators de cided to stop serving meat on , Friday. Next came Trail and Rossland. At a meeting held June 22, the public caterers of these Kootenay cities arranged to observe Friday as an additional meatless day. They also resolved to serve (Continued on Page Four) NAPLES IS HIT AGAIN Dock Areas and Industrial Plants Arc Hit CAIRO, June 28 Allied head quarters announced that Royal Air Force bombers dropped bombs In the dock area and on Industrial plants at Naples Sat urday night. KILLED BY 'ACCIDENT' Fifth German Head to be Killed In Six Months in Holland LONDON, June 28 CP)-,The Berlin radio said yesterday that Fritiz Sphmldt, regional: chief of the National Socialist Party in the Netherlands and Commissar-General of the rebellious occupied country, had "met with fatal accident" while on an official tour through France. He is the fifth Nazi official-German or Dutch stationed in Holland to be killed in less; than six months. V' INVASION IMMINENT ,1 j;fi BERNE Switzerland, June 28 GO The Fascist press told Ital ians yesterday that an invasion , attack Is "Immediately immin ent" because of Increased Allied air attacks on Italian .targets, 1 and naval concentrations, in-i eluding landing boats in North! African ports. NEW STARS FOR ARMY Decorations for Combat Forces Are Announced by His Ma-" esty the King LONDON, June 28 OD The General General King, In a message to Dwight Jilsenhower, Allied com-f mander-in -chief in North Africa,; announced Saturday his decision to Issue two new decorations the Africa Star to the "victors of North Africa" and the 1939-43 Star to "all services who have fought In other theatres." GREEK WAR RELIEF FUND Collections to date Orme's Drug Store Smith and Elklns Mrs. J. G. Steen Lt. Col. G. B. Woodruff C. P Busslnger-R. L. Mcintosh Miss Freda Hanford W. B. Cook A. R. Argue. Cliff Rennle W. Hogg Jack Dudoward Bea's Newstand G. E. Hart John Bulger Commodore Staff H. S. Wallace &; Co Ltd. D. Crocker A. Fuen Dybhavn and Hanson Mussallem's Grocery E. White Mary Ellen and Frances Moore Mrs. N. Beverldge H. Morrison J. E Stout Annette's Ladles' Wear W. N. Stander Nicholas J. Fuslo Mitchell and Currle Mrs. James Postulo S. Postulo Friend St. Elmo Hotel Mrs. McKechnle Mrs. Hemmons R. Nelson J. Sinclair Hazel Reynolds R. H. Fuller Sgt. James Batltsas Mrs. M. Pongracz Fred Teadden Mr. Alexis Joe Lind'say Proceeds of Tag Day Proceed of Concert Under $1 $2,187.14 100.00 15.00 :5.'00, .25.00 500 10.00 10.00 5.00 1.00 2.00' 5.00 1.00 10.00' i.6o! -5.00; 3.00 25.0Cf H5.0d 1.0c ,10.0c 20.0c . 1.0 c 5.0c 5.0c 5.00' 25.1 25.0d I 1.0 C I 22.0C lC' 5.0C, 5.0C 5.0( .V.0(, ' 3 . 0; i.rx lb.or Mr. and Mis. M. C. Freeman" 3.0C 1.0C ;I.0( 3.Q( 2.6( 5.0(, '5.6( 5.0C no'2i 361 3.61 .$3,653.5: