Rupert Immediately He Is Able to Get Govt Permit ready to builo w independenttheatre tim ice Rupert pro? E, eederal permit can be irmit the suppoi 'c here is bein.p ." announces Paul , 9 week's business visi the permit la secured, izoff says he would pro-Si construction. The mat- laterlal priority would ao problem since In Uructlon a new mater- fcl be used eliminating 90 Df war essential mater- reducing labor by 50 The new theatre would tonal project of his ojvn, kzoff cays. , , of the new theatre at ' I . ...111. , I r Aivazuii nas wuu mm lor a building 125 by 90 lde entranre and the- Kpcr portion of 125 by iA lane basement scc- L.d be used for a 16 aisle all?; while there would it ore on me siae ironi- ! thcat.ro would have :ap;: "V for 900 persons jpr.r wouia dc coin- date. further details of Mr Alvazolf says it Dranwhat similar to Capitol Theatre. ; t ing from the it of the audi -j be somewnai n t "it. nr inc nrcseni. .13 stace wouia dc oi izq and appointment how:- ol.nll r- ri r o SATURDAY :ii inna i i pn pur 3 Pittsburgh 7. vn 7 Tlnctrm S Yak 1-8, Philadelphia plnhln 4 Mur Vnrlr R and 1 fit. Inn!s 3. 0, Washington 3. icmnonal Lcacue orK a. naltlmore 3. 4, Jersey City 2. rnrnn Wkkriiiuin i City 2, Louisville 0. ukee 6, Indianapolis 5. lit 9 rV1itmlAii0 A end of fifth, weather). Coast league llri ft irnt1n,rnn K 0. Oakland 5. j 'uiicisco sacra. - SUNDAY 111 fit-1 It I . . 2-4, Washington 0-5. 12-1, Chicago 4-4. 'lllnnil tA...K Vn R.4 Hi-ietnn K.A o 3-7. Cincinnati 1-0 III1 '7 K T?i t I rWv.. n iu-3, Baltimore 4-6. fl (.IS linn wnn 1 in C II vnn n O t 1 1 - 1 1 City 0-4, Louisville 2- Coast league I ' I ' I f O A1 C!u T-V f ft UUil 11(.U A- 11-4, Oakland 0-5. VsA; Vancouver who w. 'n pnnnpctinn I ALBURN House of Commons Speeding Up Work With View to Getting Session Finished This Week OTTAWA, July 19 0 through the first full Sat urday of the session, the House of Commons swept the order paper practically clear and It is expected there may be proro gation this week. Before adjourning until to day. the House passed Prime Minister King's resolution set ting up a twenty-four man committee to sit during recess to inquire Into and report on possible economics In war ex pcndltures, amti.tfments to the Unemployment Insurance Act to Increase salary ceilings of those eligible to $2400 (now $2000) and remove the cefling on earn ings of those on piece work or dally wages. IS DROWNED. 0FFWKARF At 4 o'clock this morning Fire Chief II. T. Lock received a tele phone call from an American source saying that a man had been drowned after falling from a wharf and asking If he could supply a set of grappling Irons, Upon replying that he had none no more Information was forth coming and the telephone conversation ended. Questioned this morning by the Dally News, American authorities offered no more information than had been already gained. COMMANDER IN SICILY Major General Ouy Edwards Leading invasion forces. Honorary Degree Is Conferred On Viscount Halifax CALDWELL, Idaho, July 19 Honorary degree of Doctor of Letters and Laws was conferred Saturday upon Viscount Halifax, British ambassador to the United States by the College of Idaho. Lord and Lady Halifax made a tour of Idaho farmlands near Boise and the ambassador addressed a gathering of 2,000 persons from a load of hay, at Parma Park. Lord and Lady Halifax go on to Portland, Seattle, Victoria and Vancouver. NEED FOR RECRUITS A meeting of the district wardens and fire auxiliaries was held In the A. R. P. headquarters to review existing activities of the various districts. Progress reports from the' various district representatives s h o w ed that, while the nucleus of the organization , wasUUf fective: and some recruits had been ob tained, there was still a lack of sufficient personnel to deal with any emergency that might arise. Canvasses were being carried cut and a full report would be submitted to the joint 'meeting of the executive and district wardens to be held on the last Friday of this month. Those in attendance were: J S. Wilson, chief warden, who presided; district wardens J. E, Boddie. J. L. Mcintosh, D Woods, J. H. Wardale and II. T. Lock, fire chief; George Abott and M. Bridges, fire auxiliaries, and A. M. Da vies, secretary. SOUVENIRS MADE IN JAPAN Pte. Alvln Holler, of Ios Angeles, and Pte. Tillman Block, of Faraland, Okla., are busily polishing up some Japanese rifles that fell Into their hands after the owners had no further use for them in Attu. The owners had suddenly departed to Join their ancestors. The Aleutian isle is now In undisputed possession of the VS. forces. CHURCH IS DESTROYED Famous Russian Orthodox Structure on Kodiak Island Is Iturned Down KODIAK, Alaska, July 19 fl -The-jf amouX3reelcOrthodoxJ Church, one of the last links of the Russian occupation of Al aska, was burned down In a fire of unknown origin on Sat urday. Many priceless relics were lost' but the church will be rebuilt. STKF.LT CARS COLLIDE VANCOUVER Ten persons wete injured, five requiring hospitalization, when street cars were in a rear-end collision on Main Street at Fifth I Avenue. There was a 45-min-ule tie-up. WAR NEWS CLOSING ON CATANIA British and Canadian forces, advancing up the east coast of Sicily, have reached a point six miles from Catania and one report was that they had reached the outskirts. They are en countering stiff resistance from the enemy who nrc in strong positions on the slopes of Mount Aetna. Gcrbini may be the next place to fall. On the west the Americans have captured Agriento as the enemy stage a general withdrawal. One-third of Sicily is now in Allied hands and Allied military experts declare that the situation is far more satisfactory than would have been dreamed of a week ago. There is no question now as to whether the Axis shall be driven out of Sicily. The only speculation is as to (he stiffness of the resistance. More than thirty thousand prisoners have been taken, mostly by the Americans on the west flank. GREAT RAID ON NAPLES Five hundred Allied planes, operating in waves with British and Americans alternating, staged the most destructive raid to date on Naples to continue the destruction of that Greatest of Italian ports. Docks were smashed and the .Royal Arsenal blasted sky high in additjon to other extensive damage. Defending planes rose in a feeble effort to beat off the concentrated one-hour-and-a-half attack and 22 of them were shot down with the loss of but one Allied machine. NEW RULE IN SICILY The new Allied military governorship of Sicily has dissolved all Fascist organizations, declared Itself In favor of restoration of private property rights and urged the Italians to re-t frain from acls of violence. RUSSIANS CLOSE ON OREL The Russians have advanced another six to eight miles in the Orel area and arc reported to be on the outskirts of Orel. A complete Nail regiment has been wiped out. A German-held river has been crossed at two points. On the south of the line near-Novorossisk the Russians have captured strategic heights. JAPS LOSE MORE SHIPS Two hundred American planes, in the greatest bombing attack against the Japs in that area, have sunk seven Nipponese ships off the northern Solomons. Forty-nine enemy planes were shot down. RE CLOSE TO MUNDA Tonight's Dim-out 60 (Half an hour after sunset to aXUUUUi 505 half an hour before sunrise). nlmum - 10:33 p.m. to 5:01 a.m. NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER T 1 C7 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., MONDAY, JULY 19, 1943 PRICE. FIVE CENTS OME 3QMBEP FOR FIRST rr 1 fcond Theatre In Prince " Inited SUtes Land and Naval Forces Keeping up Pressure on Japanese in Solomons ) SALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, July 19 (American troops are attacking near Munda airdrome o New Georgia Island, a communique said Monday. Three 2nemy destroyers were attacked ofjf Kolombangara Island to the north and one was believed to hive been sunk. American war-sljips attacked and drove off six Japanese destroyers off the wist coast of Kolombangara Isl- KEEPING UP QN ATTACK j i i t Royal Air Force Continues to . Give its Attention to Nazis In Western Europe .LONDON. Julv 19 ft) Hnval Air Force bombers and fighters destroyed eight enemy aircraft and damaged two enemy vessels in! attacks Sunday night on Nazi airport facilities in France and shipping off the Netherlands coast. Italy Is In Great rent s j LONDON, July 19 O) Carlo Scorza, Fascist party .4-s cxetaryr. .general xieciar ed in a Sunday night broadcast from Rome that "our condition is very grave" but asked that Ital- lans "resist and continue to resist." Scorza gave warn- ing that Italy faced "the greatest peril in its his- tory." KILLED IN COLLISION 4 THE PAS, Man., July 19 OS- Seven men were killed and six injured, requiring hospital attention, following the collision Saturday, of two work trains on the Canadian National Railway line near Cranberry Portage. NEWTYPif BUILDING MATERIAL Asbestos-Cement Product Being Turned Out by Paul Aivazoff To Meet Need Caused By War In Vancouver, at present visit lng Prince Rupert on, business, has branched out into the manufacture of a new asbestos-cement building material which Is already availatole in' substantial quantities to relieve che scarcity of other building materials due to war demands. The new material, Mr. Aivazoff says, eliminates the use in building of ninety percent of war-essential materials such as lumber, steel and nails and, In view of the form In which it comes, further eliminates fifty percent .of the labor in erection of buildings and permltts of quick construction. Further, the new material is more permanent, freer of upkeep and depreciation and is more fireproof and waterproof. It also provides more lnsulatory warmth. It has the approval of building engineers and TIME Military Objectives In Eternal City Are Given Initial Attack HEAVY AND MEDIUM BOMBERS TAKE PART IN RAID CARE TAKEN ABOUT OBJECTIVES ADVANCE IN SICILY CONTINUES ITALIANS EVACUATING ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, July 39 (CP) Allied heavy and medium bombers blasted military objectives in Rome for the first time, in the war today, striking in daylight at the heart of Fascist Italy in an emphatic follow-up to the Churchill-Roosevelt ultimatum of last week- ONTARIO GENERAL ELECTION rremier Tenure Has Broadly Varied in Old Ontario Been TORONTO, July 19 CB On tario goes to the polls August to elect its 21st Legislature and to ' determine whether it will retain the Liberal admin lstratlon of Hon. Harry C. Nixon, its 13th premier since Confederation. The present Liberal admlnls tmtlnn 1c tinlmiA lit thaf d no 1934 it... they have u...- i had i ii three dir ji ferent premiers Mitchell F. Hepburn, Gordon D. Conant and Harry C. Nixon. The party was again returned to power in the general election of 1937. Longest administration of any demanding that the Italians re- move their country from the war. Specially trained Allied crews carried home a precision attack, pin-pointing targets which supposedly were protected by proximity to some of the most sacred symbols and mon uments of Christianity. Care was taken not to harm cultural and religious structures. The principal target was an import ant railway marshalling yard five miles from Vatican City. A Rome communique, com menting on the raid, said only: Enemy air formations dropped numerous bombs over Rome, causing damage not yet ascer tained." Allied headquarters reported that Allied ground troops made progress on all sectors of the Sicilian front Sunday the-IralTTperTni Nional Brocw'lfBte,-mi Inanv pany rpnort report from from AlfflerS Algiers "said Tsaid that American fighters intercepted 15 German troop carrying transports over the Tyrrhenian Sea and shot down all 15 before they could reach Sicily. .Algiers radio reported that premier in Ontario's history was Axis headquarters In Sicily have ihat of Sir Oliver Mowat, who been moved across the Strait of was head of the government Messina to Raglo Calabria at the from Oct. 25, 1872, to July 9, 1896 , toe of the Italian mainland, nearly 24 years. Premier Mow- Canadian and American troops afs administration formed the i captured fjauamssaia aimosi first section of the long Liberal reign from 1872 to 1905, the famous "33 years in the saddle." Premiers Arthur S. Hardy and George W. Ross had added nearly nine years to Sir Oliver's term of Liberal administration. The shortest premiership in Ontario political history to date was that of G. D. Conant, Liberal, who retired May 18, 1943, after seven months in office. Conservative Tenure Longest Conservative premiership was that of Sir James Pliny Whitney who held the reins of government from Feb. 8, 1905, to Sept. 25, 1914 nine years and seven months. Sir William II. Hearst added about five years to Nov. 1919 making the length of the Conservative administration of that period nearly 15 years. In the 76 years since Confederation Ontario's 13 premiers have acknowledged their party Paul Aivazoff, formerly of aiiiuauoru as iouows. union, this city and for years engaged one! Reform, one; U.F.O.-Labor, in the manufacturing huslnpss one; Conservative, four and Lib- eral, six. Halibut Sales American Martindale, 75,000, 17.5 and 16, Storage. Atlantic, 38,000, 17.5 and 16, Storage. Arrow, 49,000, 17.5 and 16. Royal. . Rainier, 42,000, 17.5 and 16. Whiz. Borgund, 44,000, 1T.5 and 16. Atlln. Superior, 40,000, 17.5 and 16. Pacific. Argo, 37,000, 17.5 and 16, Storage. Canadian Cora II, 40,000, 17 and 16. Storage. FRENCH-CANADIAN NAME The city of Dubuque. Ia., was named after jiilien Dubuque, French-Canadian trader. half way across the middle part of Sicily. Axis prisoners taken in theviclnity now exceed thirty-five thousand. The British Eighth Army has fought Its way up the east coast to within three miles of Catania. Another Italian general and his staff have been captured by the Americans. The Allied forces seem tp be generally welcomed by the Sicilians who all appear to heartily dislike Fascist leaders and are open In their unfriendliness for the Germans. WOMEN AT SHIPYARD .Number is Gradually Increasing In Various Departments FUTURE OF RADIO HERE To be Decided by C.B.C. Board Of Governors on Early Visit The board, of governors of the Caiiadian Broadcasting Corporation is to visit Prince Rupert next month to go into the local radio situation with a view to deciding nn the future policy of broadcasting from here. There is understood to be1 a question as to whether the Corporation shall continue operation of the local station which it has been conducting under option for several months. The ultimate intention of the Corporation, as previously indVated, was to link the local station directly with the' national network. SCHOOLS SAVINGS Students In Northern rttish Col- UIUV1M ..MIL. UIVU UUIU Well VICTORIA, July 19 British Columbia and Yukon students-are breaking their own War Savings records this year. Re- oorts from 642 schools, out of 1100 in the territory, show a total of $265,149 'invested in War Savings Stamps by boys and girls from Steptember, 1942, to June, 1943, according to figures released toy Miss E. A. Waller, director, School Savings Service, National War Finance Committee. Savings toy school children since 1940 now total over $760,-000. Many students, especially In high schools, have also invested in Victory Bonds this year. Although only a few schools rei ported, such purchases, $31,750 in bonds alone were bought by students In 30 communities. Following are savings reported by schools in Northern British Columbia: Barrett Lake 13 23 1100 Essington 9 100 39.50 Fort Fraser High and Elementary 9 45 28.29 Grassy Plains 14 25 5,75 Inverness Can. 33 75 31.50 ' Lakes District 6 100 5.00 (t6 February) Mapes Meadowdale T"he number of women em- i New Hazelton , ployed in the local shipyard Is ootsa Lake (Alex gradually increasing thus helping to relieve the manpower shortage. While women were employed only in the welding department at first (there are now seventeen learning welding) others have since been employed In the electrical department and the stores, while one h an electric bridge crane operator. The employment of women in shipbuilding is not new and in several yards as many as 30 percent of the employees are women. They are- engaged in nearly every department and, although .naturally they cannot do all the heavy work that the men do from time to time, they are doing excellent work. Now that a start has been made, It Is expected that many other women will Want to Join the ranks and so help the war effort. There are vacancies in many departments Including the plate shop as markers, sheetmetal shop and tool rooms. 50 80 80 1355 12.23 22.00 ander Manson) 100 8.00 (to December) Palling 17. 59 17.25 Prairledale 13 100 78.50 Premier 24 56 46.50 (to April) Prince Rupert Jr. & Sr. High 260 66 1,57850 Prince Rupert (Borden Street 1,544.83 (Victory Bonds) Prince Rupert King Edward 352 90 1,868.50 Seal Cove 78 50 260.06 Simpson 11 75 47.75 Smlthers High & Elementary 20 60 571.75 Terrace Elementary 140 35 167.75 (to April) . ($500.00 Victory Bonds) Tintagel , 8 50 25.00 Vanderhoof High & Elementary 75 220.52 (to April) Woodcock 6 75 80.00 ($100.00 Victory Bonds) Total $7283.45 No. Pet. Sept.-Puplls June