Maximum
Mln.mum
VOL
XXXII,
No.
71
EX-HEAD
OF
RAIL
CO.
DIES
Sir
Edward
Wentworth
Uealty,
for
Many
Years
C.F.K.
Chief,
Passes
Away
MONTREAL,
March
24
Q)
Sir
Edward
Beatty.
aged
65,
prominent
figure
in
the
Canadian
business
world
who
resigned
a
year
ago
as
president
of
the
Canadian
Pacific
Railway
Co.,
died
Tuesday
night
in
hospital
here.
Death
came
suddenly
in
a
last
brief
illness
although
Mr.
Beatty
had
been
in
indifferent
health
for
the
past
two
years.
He
had
been
finally
stricken
a
month
ago.
Dtai.h
thu;
ended
one
of
the
most
brilliant
careers
In
Canada's
business
world,
a
career
which
saw
him
work
up
through
the
legal
department
of
the
Canadian
Pacific
Railway
to
become
executive
chief
of
the
world's
greatest
privately
owned
system
in
his
fortieth
year
Is
Dead
Slit
KDWAKI)
BEATTY,
K.C.
When
Edward
Wentworth
Beatty,
K.C
on
October
10.
1918.
accepted
the
office
of
president
of
the
Canadian
Pacific
Railway
Company
wiUi
(i
j
va.
empire
of
railroads,
telegraphs,
steamships
and
hotels,
he
turned
away
from
an
ambition
w
be
a
Judge.
He
was
promoted
from
ylce-prejdent
at
the
head
of
the
law
depa
tment
of
the
company
to
be
president
and
executive
chief
of
the
worlds
greatest
privately-owned
t;
asportation
system
about
a
week
before
his
forty-first
birthday
in
1924
he
became
also
chair-wan
ol
the
board
of
directors.
Beauy
achieved
distinction
as
a
tfanspiKtatlon
executive.
He
became
actively
associated
with
some
oi
the
Dominion's
most
important
banking
utilities
and
mining
enter-Prices
A
bachelor,
familiarly
known
but
seldom
addressed
as
Eddie
he
played
n.
nromlnent
Dart
In
directing
organizations
dealing
lth
youth
training,
higher
edu'ea-
on
and
social
betterment.
He
was
at
the
helm
of
the
C.
P.
from
1925
to
1929
when
the
company's
earnings
reached
the
highest
peak
In
Its
history
and
also
through
the
depression
when
rail
way
revenues
dropped
preclpltatc-
mi
many
lines
on
this
continent
wc
threatened
with
banknmtcv.
Contemporaneously
with
these
"oqs
the
C.
p.
R.s
greatest
rival,
lhe
Canadian
National
Railwavs
wc
developed
to
thplr
crpatpst
rip.
f.rpe
01
competition
by
the
late
Sir
-wiry
niomton.
In
the
ungthe
Beatty
regime
spent
Simons
In
Improving
its
en
:
"
uu
Property,
two
of
its
vast
projects
being
the
construction
of
I"0
Kyal
York
Hotel
In
Toronto
at
ia,.!f.
of
$17,000,000
and
the
-.
cning
in
1931
oI
the
Ereat
4i
tain
the
Empress
of
Brl
later
t
casualty
nine
years
ff.
i
.
crash
of
revenues
which
"toted
Iwu
.t
........
tem.
u
.
11
"le
naaian
sys-an?Jife11
t0
the'lot
of
Beatty
to
uuce
in
1932
the
C.P.R.
was
Fifty-two
Planes
Are
Shot
Down
i
LONDON,
March
24
0)
In
a
report
on
last
week's
day-
light
raid
on
Vegesack
near
1
V
Bremen
an
American
spokes-
'
man
said
today
that
United
States
heavy
bombers
knocked
down
fifty-two
German
fight-
crs
positively
plus
twenty
probably
shot
down
and
twenty-three
damaged.
AIR
BLOWS
EXCHANGED
i
Allied
Airmen
Strike
at
Northern
France
and
Germans
Hit
by
Night
LONDON,
Mai
eft
24
0
Trading
punches
with
the
Geimans
across
ihe
English
Channel,
Allied
airmen
struck
again
this
morning
at
enemy
targets
in
northern
France
as
Nazi
warplanes
resumed
hit
and
run
raids
on
coastal
districts
of
Britain.
Heavy
explosions
west
of
Boulogne
rocked
houses
in
the
Folke-s
one
3
ca
after
formations
of
Al
lied
planes
streaked
across
the
onannei
10
ionow
up
nigm
aitac.
by
Royal
Air
Force
fighters
on
railway
communications
in
northwest,
Germany
and
occupied
territory.
As
Allied
daylight
raiders
kept
up
the
shuttle
service
across
Dove;
Straits,
the
Oermans
used
mist
as
a
cover
to
cross
the
British
coast
and
bomb
a
locality
in
the
south
east.
ORGANIZING
OF
WORKERS
Entertainment
and
Recreation
Being
Lined
up
for
Diy
Dock
Men
Local
shipyard
workers
are.be-
inc
organized
for
entertainment
choose
from
its
memoersnip
a
representative
to
a
central
The
first
entertainment
feature
of
the
new
organization
was
the
presentation
Monday
night
or
a
moving
picture
show
In
the
dining
hall,
this
being
much
appre
ciated.
Silver
collections
are
to
be
taKen
up
at
the
entertainments,
the
proceeds
to
go
to
general
entertain
ment
expenses.
Outdoor
sports
will
receive
at
tention
of
the
new
organization
and,
In
fact,
preliminary
arrange
ments
are
already
being
maae.
suspending
dividends
on
preferred
nnrf
pnmmnn,
shares.
in
1935
he
was
created
Knigns
O.
and
Cross
of
the
British
Empire
by
King
George
V.
At
the
opening
of
the
Second
Great
War
in
1939
sir
vrfa-arri
was
appointed
repres
entative
In
Canada
of
tne
urmsa
Ministry
of
Shipping.
All
snips
in
the
Dominion
of
British
registry
were
placed
under
his
direction
for
service
n
the
Empre
war
euun,.
Through
Good
ami
in
When
offered
the
presdency
of
the
C.
P.
R.
m
Shaughnessy,
wno
was
Beatty
at
first
refused
ii.
pB"-nessy
is
reported
to
have
fixed
him
and
to
have
ex
with
a
stem
eye
claimed:
"My
God,
ueauy,
ou
juu
want
to
be
a
mere
lawyer
alt
your
life?"
Beatty
smiled
and,
putting
aside
his
hope
of
eventually
goin?
on
the
Bench,
took
the
Job
-
the
highest
paid
post
in
Canada.
The
task
of
president
of
the
railway
for
several
years
consisted
In
chronicling
Us
Increasing
revenues
and
developments.
The
picture
Continued
on
Page
Three
RABAUL
IS
HEAVY
HIT
BY
BOMBS
Heavy
Blow
is
Dealt
to
Japanese
Air
Power
in
South
Pacific
ALLIED
HEADQUARTERS
IN
AUSTRALIA,
March
24
0
Allied
bombers
plastered
the
Japanese
air
base
at
Rabaul.
New
Britain.
in
a
two-hour
raid
Tues'day,
aim-1
lng
fifty-four
tons
of
bombs'
on
f
three
airdromes
and
two
hundred
i
and
fifty
enemy
planes
clustered
i
on
them
to
strike
a
heavy
blow
to
Japanese
air
power,
the
Allied1
command
announced.
The
heavy!
raid
was
launched
after
recon-i
naissance
disclosed
the
largest
concentration
of
Japanese
aircraft
ever
observed
In
the
sector.
A
substantial
proportion
of
the
grounded
planes
were
destroyed
or
damaged.
A
large
quantity
of
Incendiary
and
fragmentation
bombs
was
dropped
on
Rabaul
and,
on
the
way
back
to
their
base,
the
Allied
planes
encountered
a
ten
thousand
ton
Japanese
transport
ship
which
they
hit
and
left
afire.
RUSSIAN
FIGHTING
Chugucy
and
Belgorod
Sectors
fin.
Principal
Sectors
of
Violent
6
Conflict
30
Miles
From
Smolensk
LATEST
REPORT
MOSCOW,
.March
21
(CP)
The
Red
Army
clung
tenaciously
to-
I
day
lo
positions
on
the
northern
I
Donets
River,
beating
back
every
j
effort
of
the
(iermans
to
establish
themselves
on
the
(eastern
bank.
On
the
central
front
Soviet
troops
pressed
on
toward
Smolensk,
capturing
more
settlements
in
their
advance.
MOSCOW,
March
24
KP'-Chuguey
h
rw.mat.lon
in
connection
with
and
Belgorod
sectors
were
the
ceh-
Wartime
Housing
service.
Three-
;
Ues
of
most
violent
fighting
in
the
I
man
committees
are
being
formed
!
Donets
area
as
the
Germans
em-i
In
each
staff,
each
committee
to
nloved
Increasing
numbers
of
in
fantry
behind
their
mass
tank
and
plane
attacks
but
there
was
no
serious
denting
of
the
Soviet
line.
The
Red
Army
is
now
within
thirty
miles
of
the
Important
Nazi-
held
city
of
Smolensk
on
the
cen
tral
front
and
is
continuing
Its
drive
through
woods
and
swamps
in
spite
of
stiff
.resistance.
In
the
Bryansk
sector
a
strong
drive
of
the
enemy
has
been
repulsed
and
seven
thousand
Nazi
of
ficers
and
men
are
reported
to
have
been
killed.
Elsowhere
along
the
long,
muddy
front
there
is
bitter
fighting.
STOPPING
AIR
BASE
This
is
Object
of
Stepped
up
Air
Offensive
Against
Kiska
WASHINGTON,
March
24
(CP)
Stepped
-
up
air
offensive
against
the
Japanese
force
on
Kiska
Island
is
designed
primarily
to
prevent
the
enemy
from
accomplishing
the
task
of.building
an
air
field
on
the
Aleutian
base.
New
blows
in
this
offensive
were
reported
Tuesday
in
an
American
Navy
communique
which
said
that
Kiska
was
attacked
Monday
by-
two
groups
of
bombers
but,
except
for
one
large
fire,
results
were
not
observed.
Monday's
raid
was
the
twenty-first
on
the
island.
The
Japanese
on
Kiska
arc
reported
to
be
working
day
and
night
on
the
building
of
a
land
plane
field
on
Kiska.
May
Be
Attac
!
By
Japs
PROV1MCIAL
LIBRARY
J
Local
Temperature
j
cm
ii
m
s
.
Major
Gcneial
Pearkes
Makes
Appeal
Jor
More
Recruits
For
Reserve
...
ir
.
EDMONTON,
March
21
(CP)
Major
General
G.
R.
Pearkes,
commander
-
in
-chief
of
the
Pacific
Command,
as
he
called
for
more
recruits
for
Canada's
Reserve
Army,
warned
that
there
Is
more
reason
now
than
ever
before
for
a
Japanese
raid
on
the
Pacific
Coast.
General
Pearkes
told
a
luncheon
meeting
that
supplies
to
China
and
Russia
are
going
by
lailroad,
ship
and
air
via
Alaska
and
there
is
more
reason
for
some
desperate
raid
by
the
Japanese
now
than
in
the
past.
In
the
event
of
an
attack
on
the
Pacific
Coast,
the
general
said
that
reserve
units
from
all
over
Western
Canada
might
be
called.
Hanson
Wants
To
Know
About
Highway
Work
Olof
Hanson,
M.P.
for
Skeena,
has
been
asking
In
Parliament
at
Ottawa
for
Information
In
regard
tr
the
progress
on
the
Prince
Rupert-Cedarvale
Highway..
One
question
placed
on
the
order
paper
is
what
percentage
of
the
work
was
done
up
to
March
1
of
this
year,
another
have
arrangements
been
made
to
construct
the
road
east
of
Cedarvale
to
link
up
with
the
now
existing
highway
at
Haz-elton
'and
still
another,
has
the
contract
been
let
for
the
gap
be
tween
Cedarvale
and
Hazelton
and,
If
not,
why?
British
Columbia
Red
Cross
Drive
Of
Total
Objective
of
5800,000,
Sum
Of
$731,000
Had
Been
Raised
Up
to
Last
Night
VANCOUVER.
March
24
The
Red
Cross
campaign
for
British
Columbia,
up
to
last
night,
had
reached
$731,000
of
the
$800,000
objective.
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
WEDNESDAY,
MARCH
24,
1943
Tunisian
Situation
Sea
Cadet
Corps
"Robin
Hood"
of
Moose
Jaw
is
the
only
one
known
to
have
triplets
in
its
membership.
Here
they
are
Donald
P.,
Richard
R.
and
William
II.
Schlamp,
three
sturdy,
16-ycar-old
Westerners
learning
the
rudiments
of
life
in
the
Navy.
The
Navy
League
of
Canada
sponsors
the
Sea
Cadet
Corps
movement,
and
is
proud
of
the
thousands
of
former
Cadets
who
are
now
on
active
service.
MEMBERS'
IUPP0RT
Minister
of
Finance
Asks
for
Co
operation
of
Members
of
Parlia
ment
in
Fiscal
Matters
TORONTO,
March
21
Toronto
Maple
Leafs
evened
up
the
count
with
Detioit
Red
Wings
in
the
Stanley
Cup
hockey
play-off
series
.last
night
by
winning
a
marathon
overtime
game
3
to
2.
The
game
went
into
no
less
than
four
overtime
periods
and
Jack
.McLean
scored
the
winning
goal
after
"0
minutes
18
seconds
of
overtime.
Posten
Kruins
defeated
Montreal
Canadiens
5
to
3-for
a
two-straight
game
lead.
Giving
To
Red
Cross
Donald
M.
Lowe
$10.00
Mr.
and
HSrs.
James
Bradley
5.00
1
R.
O.
Hopkins
10.00
The
Prince
Rupert
Club,
Ltd.
50.00
1
Swift
Canadian
Co.,
Ltd.
oa.uu
Mrs.
K.
Hallbcrg
5-00
Miss
M.
Hallberg
5.00,
Thor
Bjornson
5.00
Paint
Shop
Employees,
BC.
Bridge
".uu
Mr.
Lawrlght
5.00
R.
N.
Bruce
5.00
John
Currie
10.00
G.
Delgrcm
5.00
E.
J.
Hctherington
5.00
James
Flynn
.
5.00
J.
B.
Scobie
5.00
A.
Steeves
5.00
Elton
J.
Lewis
10.00
B.
C.
Bridge,
additional
I
(employees)
'..
'
159.00
His
Visit
To
Coast
Delayed
Director
of
Wooden
Shipbuilding
Is
Not
Coming
at
This
Time
The
city
has
been
informed
that
Mr.
Yulll,
director
of
wooden
shipbuilding
for
the
Dominion
govern
ment,
who
had
been
invited
to
visit
Fnnce
Rupert
in
the
course
of
a
trip
to
the
coast
to
go
into
the
possibility
of
building
small
wooden
vessels
for
war
duty
which
would
be
later
adaptable
to
the
fishing
industry,
is
not
coming
west
at
this
time.
A
special
committee
consisting
of
Aid.
W.
'II.
Brett
and
Aid.
T.
II.
Sorensen
had
been
named
to
go
into
the
mat
ter
of
wooden
shipbuilding
with
particular
reference
to
the
visit
of
Mr.
Yulll.
Settlement
Of
Eleventh
Avenue
Satisfaction
for
Property
Owners
Who
Were
Faced
With
Expropriation
and
Nowhere
To
Go.
A
satisfactory
settlement
has
been
reached
In
the
case
of
prop
erty
holders
on
Eleventh
Avenue
i
OTTAWA,
March
24
0)
Hon.
J.
who
had
been
faced
with
expro-L.
Ilsley,
minister
of
finance,
ap-
prlation
with
no
place
to
go.
ac-pealed
cording
to
Information
given
to
to
members
of
the
House
.if
r'nmmnns
in
enjinpratp
with
the
I
the
city
council
at
its
meeting
government
in
fiscal
problems,
par
ticularly
antl-inflationary
controls.
J
Mr4..Ikle..lsjjy
to
refrain
frbm
'mating
public
statements
which
might
prejudice
the
fourth
Victory
Loan.
campaign
to
be
launched
April
26.
Grajdon's
Assurance
Assurance
that
the
Progressive
Conservative
party,
in
and
out
of
Parliament,
will
give
complete
cooperation
to
the
government
in
promoting
the
Fourth
Victory
Loan
was
given
by
Gordon
Graydon,
Progssive
Conservative
House
leader.
Graydon
said
that
Progressive
Conservatives
support
the
government's
anti-Inflation
program.
MARATHON
IN
HOCKEY
Toronto
Evens
Up
Count
With
Detroit
Boston
Wins
Again
Monday
night.
The
details
of
the
settlement
were
not
disclosed.
PORTS
HIT
BY
BOMBS
Naples-and
Palermo
Are
Objectives
Of
Fighting
Allied
Aircraft
ALLIED
HEADQUARTERS
IN
NORTH
AFRICA.
March
24
R
Naples
and
Palermo,
Italian
ports,
were
again
raided
by
Allied
heavy
bombers
of
which
all
returned
from
the
raids.
Hits
were
observed
in
railway
depots
and
oil
installations
which
were
the
principal
objectives.
Air
Traffic
Is
Increased
Mail,
Tassengers
and
Express
All
Far
Ahead
of
Last
lear
on
TransCanada
WINNIPEG.
March
24
Air
mall
carried
by
TransCanada
Air
Lines
in
February
more
than
doubled
the
amount
In
the
corresponding
month
a
year
ago
and
air
express
Increased
more
than
three
times,
according
to
figures
released
by
O.
T.
Lawson,
vice-president.
The
number
of
passengers
grew
from
5,765
to
,9,402
an
increase'
of
3,697.
Mail
for
the
month
totalled
257,336
pounds,
an
Increase
over
February
1942
of
136,771
po'r.nds.
Express
amounted
to
47,834
pounds
as
compared
with
14,044,
an
Increase
of
33,790
pounds.
HIT
NAZI
SHIPPING
British
Light
Coastal
Forces
Are
Continuing
Their
Assaults
LONDON,
Marcll
24
00
British
light
coastal
forces,
continuing
assaults
oh
enemy
shipping
along
the
continental
coasts,
seriously
damaged
at
least
one
escort
vessel
and
hit
two
others
by
gunfire
yesterday
off
Terschelling,
Netherlands,
the
Admiralty
announced.
Tonight's
Dim-out
(Half
an
hour
aftM
sunset
to
half
an
hour
before
sunrise.)
8:30
p.m.
to
7:04
ajn.
Confu
PRICE:
FIVE
CENTS
sed
NAZIS
ARE
ENCIRCLED
Allied
Forces.
Flankine
Mareth
Line,
Overwhelm
Axis
Tanks
And
Artillery
NOT
SO
GOOD
LONDON,
March
2J
(CP)
Prime
Minister
Winston
'Churchill
told
the
House
of
Commons
today
that
the
Eighth
Army
had
lost
the
most
of
its
bridgehead
through
the
Mareth
Line
as
a
result
of
counter-attacks
of
Marshall
Erwin
Rommel
and
that
the
Axis
defence
lines
in
that
sector
were
largely
restored.
ALLIED
HEADQUARTERS
IN
NORTH
AFRICA,
March
24
(CP)
Except
for
a
twenty-mile
gap,
Allied
forces
are
reported
to
have
surrounded
the
Mareth
Line,
threatening
to
trap
Marshal
Erwin
Rommel's
fleeing
troops.
The
British
Eighth
Army
was
reported
last
night
to
be
rushing
through
the
line
at
some
points,
having
made
a
two-mile
breach.
The
Eighth
Army
move
in
from
the
south
with
American
and
French
forces
striking
toward
the
foast
from
two
directions.
The
line
has
been
flanked
at
both
ends.
The
Americans
have
cap
tured
Maknasi
on
their
way
to
,
the
sea.
Allied
forces,
which
have
swung
in
a.
sweeping
movement
around
the
southwestern
flank
of
the
Mareth
Line,
faced
and
overcame
strong
German
concentration
of
tanks
ahd
affiilery
at
El
Hamma,
twenty
mileswest
oj
Gave.
AW
bed
airforces
smashed
fiercely
at
this
concentration,
hitting
at
least
thirty-two
enemy
tanks
and
destroying
at
least
nine.
Concerted
counter-smashes
by
rtxls
Infantry
and
armored
forces
confused
the
situation
tcday
where
units
of
the
British
Eighth
Army
,
were
rammed
Into
the
Maireth
Line.
In
extremely
hard
fighting,
British
troops,
who
had
driven
a
bridge
head
through
the
Mareth
Line
in
a
frontal
assault
near
the
coast,
suc
ceeded
in
repulsing
all
efforts
of
the
Germans
to
dislodge
them
from
the
area
of
Mareth
village,
an
Al
lied
headquarters
communique
said.
East
of
El
Guctar,
where
AmerU
can
troops
were
within
an
hour's
drive
of
the
sea,
front
dispatches
said
that
the
Americans,
from
posl-
'tlons
in
hills
on
either
side
of
a
narrow
pass,
poured
artillery
fire
into
a
force
of
some
one
hundred
German
tanks,
destroying
some
ten
to
thirty
of
them.
Attended
Funeral
Of
Dr.
Eggert
In
Vancouver
Lately
C.
II.
Orme
returned
to
the
city
this
morning
from
Vancouver
where
he
attended
the
funeral
of
'the
late
Dr.
C.
.A.
Eggert,
pioneer
physician
and
surgeon
of
this
city.
Dr.
Eggert
succumbed
very
suddenly
recently
to
a
heart
attack.
He
had
been
in
apparently
good
health
and
his
death
was
quite
un-
1
expected.
The
funeral
was
attended
by
many
former
Prince
Rupo.t
residents
now
living
in
Vancouver
and
some
of
them
acted
as
pallbearers.
Assistance
To
Fisheries
Has
Interested
Him
Questions
In
regard
to
financial
assistance
given
by
the
government
to
the
fishing
industry
have
been
asked
in
Parliament
by
Olof
Hanson,
M.P.
for
Skeena.
Ho
asks
what
was
the
total
financial
assistance
by
way
of
statute,
bonus
or
otherwise
to
the
fishing
Industry,
Including
shellfish,
on
the
Atlantic
coast,
on
the
Pacific
coast
and
to
Inland
fisheries.