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BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
4,
W
m
XXXII,
No.
2
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
'
MONDAY,
JANUARY
4,
1943
PRICE-
FIVE
CENTS
ussians
Sweep
Ahead
Everywhere
I
1942
Customs
Revenue
Sets
Up
New
Mark
:
Cu
'oms
and
excise
revenue
at
the
port
of
Prince
Rupert
for
the
year
1942
totalled
t
n3.n7.01
as
compared
with
$550,502
In
the
year
1941.
In-
cldentally.
the
revenue
Xor
1942
was
the
heaviest
In
the
hi.
'o
y
of
the
port.
The
rev-
nue
for
this
December
was
$54,41052
compared
with
$47,-
140
18
in
December
1941.
4
SHIP
WAS
SCUTTLED
Gtrmans
Chose
to
Sink
Their
Own
Ship
Rather
Than
Lose
It
lONDON.
Jan.
4
A
10,000-ton
German
merchantman
was
scuttled
by
1U
crew
after
being
Intercepted
by
British
naval
vessels.
The
crew
was
captured,
Ottawa
Session
Opening
Shortly;
Post
War
Plans
OTTAWA,
Janriwrhesessten.of
Parliament
will
open
on.
January
23,
I
announced.
Flans
for
postwar
rehabilitation
will
be
given
attention
In
addition
to
deallng'with
war
maftrrs.
The
opening
of
the
scs:..on
will
see
some
vacant
seats
with
by-election
dates
not
yet
set.
MAKE
RAID
UP0NKISKA
Allied
I'lancs
All
Return
Safely
Pro
in
Latest
Attack
WASHINGTON,
Jan.
4
United
Stitr
,
bombing
planes
made"
still
another
raid
on
Klska
Island
in
th
Aleutians.
Japanese
planes
,n
rose
to
meet
them
and
one
was
brought
down.
All
American
Plane
returned
safely
to
their
base
NAVY
WINS
THISR0UND
Japanese
Planes
Destroyed
In
Vain
Attempt
to
Sink
United
States
Battleship
WASHINGTON.'
D.C..
Jan.
4
CP)
An
American
battleship
destroy
t'd
an
entire
flight
of
twenty
enemy
o'vp
bombers
with
anti-aircraft
Bun.
In
the
South
Pacific,
the
De
partment
of
the
Navy
reported
to
day
The
battleship
destroyed
a
total
of
thirty-two
nlanes
before
the
enemy
ceased
trying
to
sink
it.
The
battleship
suffered
only
one
Domt)
hit,
causing
minor
damage.
TO
RATION
NEWSPRINT
Federal
Government
Announces
This
Is
To
Be
Done
OTTAWA,
Jan.
4
The
govern-mtnt
announces
today
that
news-Print
Is
to
bo
rationed
in
Canada,
"
will
be
on
a
graduated
scale,
according
to
the
size
of
newspapers.
PNEUMONIA
TARGETS
Pneumonia
has
been
found
to
be
more
common
among
men
than
women.
RUSSIANS
ON
THE
In
the
thick
of
the
battle
for
Stalingrad
me
of
the
Soviet
forces
which
hurled
back
the
Nazis
are
shown
advancing.
Infantrymen,
their
auto
natic
rifles
ready,
lead
the
party.
Behind
them
comes
the
crew
of
trench
mortars.
Two
men
drage
the
mortar
on
Its
wheeled
carriage,
.two
others
rush
up
with
the
ammunition.
BUSINESS
BROKE
OLD
YARDSTICKS
OF
OTHER
YEARSjN
DOMINION
New
Official
Index
for
1912
Shows
Gain
of
2i
Percent
Over
1911
Major
Expansion
in
Employment
.AinLFanu
Incomes,
Higher
.
.
By
ALEX
PRINGLE
(Canadian
Press
Staff
Writer)
The
third
full-
vear
of
war
witnessed
continuous
ex
nnnsinn
nf
Canada's
industrial
plant
and
a
sizeable
growth
of
agricultural
production
to
meet
the
call
for
more
food
at
home
and
abroad.
The
fisheries
industry
likewise
stepped
up
the
tempo
of
output
but
lumbering
and
gold
mining
were
handicapped
by
the
shortage
oi
me
labor
supply
and
these
alone
among
the
country's
basic
Industries
suffered
retrogression.
The
war
has
had
the
effect
of
directing
the
Dominion's
productive
effort
into
many
new
channel!
Ii.lnrr
niltclrtn
hn
CPOtlP
of
DP.ICP-
time
economic
barometers.
Tne
nnmininn
Tt
ii
r
p
a
it
of
statistics
found
It
necessary
a
few
montns
ago
to
replacejts
outmoded
business
speedometer
with
a
new
index
that
would
better
measure
the
faster
clip
at
which
industry
has
been
travelling
under
the
spur
or
the
war
effort
and
at
the'
same'
1me
reflect
the
usual
factors
en
tering
into
the
compilation
of
the
physical
volume
of
business.
,
According
to
the
Bureaus
new
Indicator
the
volume
oi
Business
showed
a
gain
of
24
percent
for
the
first
10
months
of
1942
in
comparison
with
the
corresponding
10
months
of
1041.
A
few
of
the
75
or
more
classifications
entering
Into
the
Index
compilation
show
increases
of
35
percent
or
more.
Manufacturing
generally
enjoyed
an
expansion
of
40
percent.
F.mnloyment
Expansion
Standing
out
prominently
in
the
.
vp.ir
s
list
ot
new
records
appears
.,....
i..
the
sharp
expansion
u.
c.i.jjiuj-ment.
Canadian
plants
are
now
turning
out
$2,600,000,000
in
war
materials
annually
and
this
output
In
addition
to
production
for
civil
ian
needs
has
called
75U,uuu
aaai-tional
workers
(men
and
women)
to
the-
nation's
payrolls
in
the
last
two
years.
The
national
income
has
grc
n
70
percent
since
ijm.
The
flood
of
money
goiB
the
pockets
or
wonders
a-
in
duced
the
greatest
vo
'
spending
in
the
country
s
.nistory
despite
the
heaviest
burden
of
tax
ation
ever
Imposed
in
lyi.iaua.
15
to
20
currently
tadl
sales
are
percent
greater
than
a
year
ago
and
for
1942
the
total
is
expected
to
exceed
the
1941
total
by
35
per-
Ali
the
money
Is
not
going
Into
consumer,goods,
taxes
or
even
war
bonds.
Deposits
in
the
banks
now
total
around
$3,300,000,000,
a
gain
$1,000,000,000
in
three
of
nearly
MOVE
IN
DEADLY
DRIVE
years.
ExDanding
national
income
has
enabled
the
government
to
fl-
nnhre
more
than
70
percent
of
Canada's
war
and
non-war
expen
dlture
from
taxation
and
other
current
revenue
and
the
remainder
oy
me
ui
market
at
interest
rates
so
low
that
the
per
capita
interest
charge
of
$17.25
on
direct
and
guaranteed
debt
as
at
March
31,
1942,
was
less
than
$2
greater
than
the
per
capita
Interest
charge
three
years
after
the
First
Great
War.
Farm
and
Fisheries
Farm,
Income
for
the
first
nine
months
of
1942
showed
an
increase
of
13
per
cent
over
the
comparable
neriod
of
1941.
The
latest
wheat
i
crop
of
'better
than
600,000,000
KucViolc
-nmnnrrrl
with
312.000.000
'
bushels
in
1941
while
the
oat
crop
of
652,000,000
Whnls
bushels
ranrx
more
than
'
doubled
the
previous
crop
and
the
barley
crop
showed
an
increase
of
133
percent
over
that
of
1941.
Cat-tl
sales
show
a
minor
reduction
and
sales
of
hogs
Increased
1.5
percent.
The
landed
value
oi
tne
sea
iisn
cries
increased
24
per
cent,
pro-
QllC
Lion
OX
coal
auuuk
oia
pi-iicim-
Detroleum
production
four
percent,
pig
iron,
production
35
percent,
steel
production
17
percent
and
ce
ment
production
12
percent.
The
war
has
been
chiefly
respon
sible
for
wide
gains
in
the
revenue
of
the
railways.
Carloadings
Increased
six
percent
in
1942.
and
the
National
Railways
report
an
increase
of
gross
revenue
of
about
23
percent
while
the
C.P.R.'s
gross
income
Is
up
16.5
percent.
Increases
of
net
revenue
were
31
percent
and
six
percent
respectively.
Due
to
the
government's
price
celling
wholesale
prices
in
Canada
advanced
only
3.2
percent
between
nrtober.
1941.
and
October,
1942.
Tn
the
same
period
prices
in
the
United
States
advanced
8.2
per
cent.
In
both
countries
farm
prices
registered
the
widest
gains.
Mines
Situation
Shortages
of
labor
and
materials
AGAINST
N
AZIS
JAPAN
LOST
MANY
SHIPS
Sevrn
During,
Past
Week
Brings
Bag
of
American
Subs
to
112
WASHINGTON,
Jan.
4
United
States
submarines
have
sunk
seven
more
Japanese
ships.
This
brings
to
112
the-
tolal
of
Japanese
ships'
now
sunk
by
American
submarines.
Pacific
Coast
Shipbuilding
Quota
Is
Big
PORTLAND,
Jan.
4
A
quota
of
sixty-nine
'hips
to
be
built
during
January
has
been
set
for
west
coast
of
United
States
shipyards.
The
quota
for
the
west
coast
for
the
year
is
equal
to
that
of
the
whole
nation
for
last
year.
Home
of
Bing
Crosby
Burns
Residence
of
Noted
Screen
Star
Consumed
by
Flames
Last
Nighf
HOLLYWOOD,
Jan.
4
The
beau-
tlful
ttfenty-room
Colonial
man
sion
of
Bing
Crosby,
screen
star,
was
completely
destroyed
by
fire
.
.
...
.
i
i
r
'""
ninu.
ine
lamuy
r.
-u
cwc-
IV
irora
Wic
uuuuiug
wiuiuuw
uijuijr.
Crrwby
was
absent
playing
golf.
The
fire
was
caused,
it
Is
be
llcved,
by
a
short
circuit
when
Mrs.
Crosbv
and
her
four
young
sons
wore
tiKin?
aown
unrisimas
iree
decorations.
Damage
is
estimated
at
210.000.
Many
valuables
were
destroyed
but
not.
the
original
manuscriDt
of
"Dixie"
which
was
not
there.
.
.
.
i
.
t
i
i
gave
tne
goia
mining
inuuwy
a
setback.
Gold
receipts
at
the
Canadian
mint
were
down
eight
per-cet
for
the
first
10
months
of
1942.
At
the
same
time
the
mining
'
of
essential
war
metals
has
been
encouraged
and
these
continued
to
expand.
One
producer,
The
International
Nickel
Company
of
Canada,
brought
a
plant
addition
into
operation
in
1942
enlarging
the
output
of
nickel
by
50,000,000
pounds
over
the
1940
output
and
enlarging
their,
copper
production
by
75,000,000
pounds.
Production
of
newsprint
slackened
along
with
the
lumbering
industry
generally.
Production
of
newsprint
decreased
five
percent
for
10
months
of
1942
and
exports
of
newsprint
in
the
same
period
slumped
4.2
percent.
Rostov,
Important
Gateway
To
Caucasus
Oil
Area
Has
Been
Recaptured
by
Doviet
AIR
POWER
OF
ALLIES
rcat
Demnslral!on
of
Superiority
In
North
Africa
LONDON,
Jan.
4
(CP)
In
a
great
display
of
growing:
Allied
'lr
pswer
in
Tunisia,
British
and
American
,
plnnes
shot
down
twenty-eight
enemy
aircraft,
Amagcd
thirty-four
others
and
battered
Aris
supply
bases
over
the
week-end
as
French
forces
thrust
near
the
Tunis-Tripoli
highway
and
pushed
deeper
into
southern
Ji'iya
from
the
Lake
Chad
region.
Duststorms
and
rains
combined
to
hamper
all
nperatirnnl
activities
yesterday
UMn
Libya.
Bolh
Cairo
and
Axis
dispatches
old
of
adverse
weather
in
that
onr
-nfi
mentioned
no
significant
manoeuvres
by
either
side.
Maishal
Erwin
Rommel's
Afrika
Korps
appears
to
be
digging
in
for
a
stand
10
miles
west
of
Wadi.Bcl
El
Chcbir
and
150
milp
past
nf
TrlnnlL
OwinF
Jo..heavjurairu,4here
land
action
of
any
consequence
in
Tunisia
although
air
fighting
keeps
up.
Biitish
and
American
airmen
destroyed
twenty-eight
planes
over
Tunisia,
rocked
Tunis'
and
its
port
as
well
as
Squssc
and
Sfax,
blasting
Axis
harbors
and
tail
ways,
a
North
Africa
communique
reported
today.
The
British
F.ighth
Army
nudged
forward
in
Libya
but
slowly
in
order
to
maintain
supply
lines.
Torpedo
Boats
Hit
Destroyers
WASHINGTON,
D.C.,
Jan.
4
United
States
motor
torpedo
boats
attacked
eight
Japanese
destroyers
off
Guadalcanal,
hitting
one
and
damaging
another.
BOTH
SIDES
LOST
SHIPS
More
Information
Regarding
Naval
Battle
Off
Norway
Coast
LONDON,
Jan.
4
The
British
dmiralty
announces
the
loss
of
he
dtroyer
Gleam
and
the
corvette
Miapdragon
In
a
naval
battle
In
the
North
Atlantic
in
which
the
Jeimans
lest
a
destroyer
and
had
a
cruiser
damaged.
The
battle
oc-urred
when
German
naval
vessels
attacked
an
Allied
Murmansk-bound
convoy.
4
I
Jap
Position
t
Now
Hopeless
MELBOURNE,
Jan.
4
W
Al-
lied
forces
have
completed
the
,
destruction
of
Japanese
forces
'
at.
Tinna.
killinz
650
JaDanese
In
bitter
fighting,
a
communi-
que
said.
The
only
remaining
remnants
of
the
Japanese
Papuan
army
are
confined
in
a
narrow
salient
extending
from
Sanananda
Tolnt.
The
communique
added
that
the
"enemy's
situation
is
now
hopeless."
Buna
Mission
was
captured
at
the
week-end
by
the
Americans
and
Australl-
Red
Army
Gorges
Mercilessly
Along
Against
Winter-Stricken
Axis
on
Five
Major
Fronts
Key
Railway
Point
to
Leningrad
Retaken
MOSCOW,
Jan.
4
(CP)
casus
advanced
along
both
day,
driving
the
Germans
back
from
nowlv-captured
Mozdek,
that
Nazi
forces
thrust
forward
more
than
four
months
ieo
toward
the
Grozny
oil
fields,
Russian
reports
said.
The
.swift
Russian
capture
yester-
day
of
Mozdok
and
Malgobeck,
fifteen
miles
southeast
of
Mozdok,
was
considered
a
major
.
victory
Mke
those
of
Stalingrad
and
Velikie
Luki
where
the
Red
Army
con-
inued
its
offensives.
An
Important
railway
junction
and
a
key
to'Len-
ingrad
has
also
been
recaptured.
With
the
Russians
forging
ahead
on
no
less
than
five
major
battle-
fronts.
German
lines
appeared
to
be
crumbling
in
most
important
sectors,
the
Soviet
said.
The
Nazi
command,
however,
stiffened
re
sistance
at
some
points
only
to
be
hit
at
others
by
the
hard-driving
Red
Army.
The
plight
of
twenty-two
Nazi
divisions
In
Stalingrad
Is
even
The
war
in
the
air
has
also
been
Kolng
badly
against
Germany
which
lost
266
planes
during
the
past
week,
ninety-six
being
large
transports
endeavouring
to
cafry
supplies
to
the
winter-stricken
Nazi
armies.
Russian
plane
losses
for
the
week
are
numbered
at
122.
The
Red
Army
has
pushed
on
for
thirty
miles
beyond
newly
recaptured
Velikie
Lukl
and
Is
now
only
sixty
miles
from
the
old
Latvian
border.
The
Russians
have
scored
further
victories
on
all
fronts
with
increasing
disaster
for
the
Nazis.
There
has
also
been
a
further
Soviet
advance
from
Selista,
capital
of
Kalmyck
province.
The
Soviet
pace
in
the
middle
Don
area
has
been
slowed
down.
NEW
MAYOR
TAKESOVER
W.
31.
Watts
Assumes
Active
Control
of
Civic
Reins
Council
To
Meet
Tonight
For
the
first
time
since
nearly
ten
years
ago
when
M.
M,
Stephens
.elinquished
the
reins
of
office
to
give
way
to
the
commlssionershlp,
Prince
Rupert
had
a
mayor
at
the
City
Hall
this
morning.
William
M.
V.atts
was
in
his
office
straighten
ing
out
the
mayoral
desk
and
giv
ing
thought
to
his
Inaugural
coun
cil
meeting
tonight.
He
openly
admitted
that
he
expected
to
feel
re
lieved
by
the
time
at
least
one
or
two
meetings
were
behind
him.
Meetings
of
the
council
will
be
held
at
least
weekly
for
the
time
being,
Mayor
Watts
Intimated,
and
t
is
expected
that
considerable
time
will
be
required
for
the
new
uvlc
government
to
get
into
harness
as
neither
the
mayor
or
any
of
the
aldermen
have
had
any
previous
active
civic
experience.
Business
tonight
will
include
the
receipt
of
the
announcement
of
noli,
naming
of
standing
committees
and
correspondence
regarding
water
chlorlnatlon,
traffic
bylaw
etc.
Tonight's
session
will
be
largely
of
formal
nature
as
the
most
of
the
real
work
and
discussion
-will
take
place
in
the
committee!..
FABRIC
SURFACING
Fabric
surfacing
is
still
used
on
'many
parts
of
modern
war
planes,
The
Red
Army
of
the
Cau
banks
of
the
Terek
River
to
to
the
northwest
and
west
thus
breaking
the
salient
How
Nazis
Make
Their
Soldiers
Fight
t
MOSCOW,
Jan.
4-An
order
to
the
Nazi
forces
In
Russia
has
been
Issued
by
Chancellor
Adolf
Hitler
threatening
exe-
cutlon
of
the
families
of
all
German
soldiets
who
dare
to
.surrender
in
trie
Russian
cam
palgn.
SUBBASE
HARD
HIT
Heavy
Attack
on
St.
Nazaire-Valiey
-Ruhr
Visited
Again
LONDON,
Jan.
4
British
'bombers
attacked
targets
in
the
Ruhr
last
night
to
top
off
a
day
long
Sunday
assault
on
Nazi
strongholds
which
included
a
smashing
raid
by
United
States
heavy
bombers
on
St.
Nazalre
submarine
base.
Three
of
the
Royal
Air
Force
iraft
were
reported
missing
from
the
night
assault.
As
well
as
France,
enemy
targets
In
the
Low
Countries
were
also
attacked.
German
bombers
came
ovet
northeast
and
southeast
England
including
the
Isle
of
Wight
and
caused
some
damage
and
casualties.
Heaviest
bombers
of
the
United
States
air
force
were
used
.in
cascading
tons
of
explosives
on
St.
Nazalre
Sunday.
It
was
one
of
the
biggest
daylight
raids
in
weeks.
Seven
American
bombers
are
miss
ing.
Bombs
were
seen
to
hit
the
target
area,
starting
fires
at
St.
Nazalre
which
Is
one
of
Germany's
largest
bases
fbr
u-boais.
DOMESTIC
TRAGEDY
Woman
Confesses
in
Regina
To
Drowning
Her
Two
Small
-Children
REGINA.
Jan.
4
W
Mrs.
Frank
Rill,
aged
29,
was
placed
in
custody
after
walking
Into
a
police
statioii
and
saying
that
she
had
Just
killed
her
two
children
three
years
and'
five
weeks
old
.The
children
were
found
drowned
In
a
water
cistern
In
the
basement
of
the
Rill
homp.
The
husband
said
he
had
been
worried
about
his
wife.
HOCKEY
SCORES
SATURDAY
Toronto
6,
Montreal
3.
SUNDAY'
Boston
3,
Detroit
2.
Rangers
3,
Chicago
3.
Montreal
4,
Toronto
4.