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BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
VOL
XXXH.
No.
6
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
FRIDAY,
JANUARY
8,
1943
,
PRICE-
FIVE
CENTS
Big
Naval
Battle
In
South
Pacific
Manpower
Question
Head
of
Trades
and
Labor
Confess
Says
There
is
No
Shoit-age
Trouble
is
Method
Of
Handling
EDMONTON,
Jan.
8
TO
Percy
Bengough
of
Vancouver,
acting
president
of
the
Trades
and
Labor
Congress
of
Canada,
interviewed
yesterday,
said
that
there
is
no
manpower
shortage
in
Canada
and
the
trouble
lies
in
the
way
the
labor
problem
is
being
handled.
He
said
he
had
learned
steel
workers
had
been
sent
from
Vancouver
to
the
United
States.
Mr
BenEOURh
expressed
opposi
tion
to
the
federal
wage
freezing
order,
"particularly
in
its
effect
ca
those
In
lower
salary
brackets.
EXECUTIVE
IS
UPHELD
Vancouver
Boilermakers
Buck
Action
of
Vice-President
McAuslane
VANCOUVER,
Jah.
8
The
Van-
cavcr
Boilermakers'
Union,
meet-cj
1500
strong
yesteiday,
endorsed
&
locally-elected
executive
and
Ice
C:
.ded
to
contest
an
injunction
uken
out
by
Dominion
headquarter
.jetting
aside
the
election
and
preventing
President
William
Stewart
and
the
executive
from
taking
office.
The
local
union
membership
also
demands
that
the
members
of
the
admlnuixativc
board
named
by
VL-e
-
President
Alex
McAuslane
(urn
In
their
resignations.
Otherwise
there
will
be
refusal
to
work
with
them.
Bought
Liquor
On
Permits
Of
Others
Fined
VANCOUVER,
Jan,
8
Fines
of
tlO
each
were
imnoscd
here
yester
i
v
on
two
men
following
conviction
on
charges
ol
buying
liquor
on
permits
other
than
their
own.
One
of
the
men
had
ten
permits
bea
tng
various
names.
Husband,
Wife
Now
Partners
Beveridge
Report
Admits
it
and
British
Woman
M.P.
Stresses
Point
PENQE
EAST,
Eng.,
Jan.
8
v
If
tor
no
other
reason
the
chances
arc
that
Sir
William
Beverldgc's
import
and
recommendations
for
better
living
in
Britain
will
be
historic,
from
the
women's
point
of
view
for
paragraph
107.
In
this
paragraph,
for
the
first
time
In
hii
official
British
document,
a
husband
and
wife
arc
described
as
a
team
and
treated
as
partners.
Or.
Edith
Summersklll,
M.P.,
brought
this
point
up
in
an
address
to
a
women's
meeting
here
and
said,
"that
paragraph
should
be
read
and
marked
by
every
housewife
In
the
country.
Plans
'or
the
post
war
world
must
give
'he
housewife
equal
consideration
with
other
workers.
A
postwar
plan
with
pre-war
'deas
about
women
Is
doomed
to
failure.
Her
problems
cannot
be
delved.
The
emancipation
of
the
housewife
Is
the
basis
of
all
other
reforms
In
the'
world
of
women."
ONCE
PORTO
GRANDE
Oiittagong,
in
Fndia
near
the
Burma
border,
was
called
Pbrto
Grande
by
the
16th
century
WITH
Taking
Supplies
To
Magdalenes
Breaker
Being
Pressed
Into
Service
by
Federal
Government
OTTAWA.
Jan.
8
Hon.
J.
E.
Miehaud.
minister
of
transport,
an
nounces
that
an
ice
breaker
will
b
used
to
take
much
needed
supplies
i
the
bleak
and
isolated
Magdalene
Islands
off
the
mouth
of
the
St.
Lawrence
River.
SHIELDING
OF
LIGHTS
Street
Lights
.Must
be
Shielded
As
Well
as
all
Other
Lights
Visible
From
Navigable
W'aters
Another
matter
which
will
re
quire
early
attention
In
Prince
Rupert
under
coast
deience
civilian
regulations
Is
that
of
shielding
street
lights.
In
some
coast
cities
this
work
Is
already
unaer
way.
Regulations
call
for
this
shielding
to
be
carried
out
by
February
1.
It
Is
also
required
that
"every
occupant
of
premises
shall
prevent
any
light
being
visible
from
navigable
waters."
It
pan
readily
be
seen
where
mnnv
chances
will
have
to
be
made
at
Prince
Rupert
in
the
very
near
future.
Submarine
On
Mississippi
German
lttdlo
Says
That
U-boat
Went
Ninety
Miles
Uprlvcr,
Approaching
New
Orleans
i
nNnnK.
Jan.
8
The
German
IMC
tll.lt.
il
German
submar-
iciuiu
j
i
il
lne
recently
travelled
ninety
mm
....
iho
Mississippi,
.
approaching
uH
close
to
New
Orleans,
wim
u.e
uu
Ject
of
destroying
a
bridge.
Air
Mail
For
Civilians
In
Britain
Ends
rvrmAurA
.Tnn.
8
Air
mall
ser
vice
from
Canada
for
civilians
In
Great
Britain
has
ocen
uvu..-
tlnued,
It
Is
announced
by
tne
postal
department.
DESTRUCTIVE
RATS
The
total
value
of
goods
destroyed
by
rats
in
the
United
States
equals
$2,000,000,000
a
year.
VICTORIOUS
RED
ARMY
Anti-tank
rifles
are
used'to
defend
a
small
Russian
village
AMERICAN
ENGINEERS
IN
RUPERT
This
is
One
of
Six
Districts
Being
Set
Up
in
Northwest
Division
EDMONTON.
Jan.
8
TO
Forma
tion
of
six
districts
of
the
north-division
of
the
United
States
Army
enelneers
under
the
administra
tive
control
of
CoL
Theodore
Wy-
man
Jr.,
is
announced
today.
The
new
districts
arc
Edmonton,
Prince
Rupert.
Dawson
Creek,
Skagway,
Whltehorse
and
Fairbanks.
Lleut.-Col.
Gerald.
R.
Tyler
will
be
In
charge
of
Prince
Rupert
district.
4
Our
Victory
1
Next
Year
WASHINGTON,
D.C.,
Jan.
8
President
Franklin
D.
Roosevelt,
In
a
press
confer-
ence
today,
reiterated
the
hope
he
expressed
In
his
con-
grcsslonal
message
yesieraay
for
an
Allied
victory
In
1944.
Mr.
Roosevelt
says
the
war
will
not
end
this
year
but
it
may
next
year.
)
HARD
HIT
FROM
AIR
ah;
rnnlinuinr
to
Disu
Out
Bombs
in
North
Africa
Eighth
Army
on
Move
LONDON,
Jan.
8
There
is
little
change
In
the
situation
as
far
as
land
fighting
in
Tunisia
is
con
cerned.
The
Axis
Is
bitterly
con
testing
every
inch
of
ground.
The
British
Eighth
.Army
in
Libya
appears
to
be
on
the
move
again,
having
reached
a
point
only
forty
miles
from
Tripoli.
Meanwhile
Allied
raiders
are
smashing
their
bombs
from
Tunis
to
Tripoli,
hitting
Sousse
and
Tunis'
since
yesterday.
Palmero,
Sicily,
was
also
bombed
by
Allied
planes
last
night.
GRAPHITE
IN
HEAT
rllflrtnl
frmnhlt.p.
nspri
for
lubri
cation
and
protection
of
certain
types
of
tools,
will
withstand
heat
that
oil
cannot
endure..
-
"Fantastic"
Says
Radio
In
Berlin
BERLIN,
Jan.
8
TO
The
Berlin
radio
describe
as
"fantastic"
the
figures
of
President
Franklin
v.
Roosevelt
on
war
production
as
given
in
the
address
to
the
United
States
Congress
yesteiday.
'
Such
sta
eients
cannot
changt
he
:ourse
of
the
"ware"
said
the
German
radio
which
suggested
Al
lied
losses
in
Russia
and
North
Africa.
BOMB
EAST
COAST
TOWN
Single
German
Raider
Comes
Over
Club
and
Theatre
Struck
LONDON,
Jan.
8
An
east
coast
town
was
bombed
in
daylight
by
a
Nazi
plane
Wednesday
and
four
persons
were
killed.
Men
were
burled
Inside
a
club
which
was
struck.
There
was
a
direct
hit
on
a
theatre.
Stewart
Man
Passes
Away
James
McMillan
Succumbs
to
In-
juries
Sustained
in
Accident
Near
Premier
James
McMillan,
pioneer
resl
dent
of
Stewart
.and
formerly
of
Prince
Rupert,
died-
at
10:30
last
nicht
In
Prince
Rupert
General
HosDital
as
a
result
of
Injuries
sus
mined
three
weeks
ago
when
struck
by
a
bulldozer
while
en
eaeed
in
snow
ploughing
opera
lions
near
Premier
for
the
provin-
:1a
lcovernment.
Mr.
McMillan
was
sixty-six
years
of
ace
and
Is
survived
by
a
widow.
Deceased
was
a
veteran
of
the
First
Great
War
In
which
he
sus
tained
wounds.
He
belonged
to
the
Masonic
Lodge
and
Canadian
Le-glan.
Kiska
Is
t
Attacked
WASHINGTON,
D.C.,
Jan.
8
American
Liberator
bomb-
ers
attacked
the
Japanese
on
Kiska
Island
In
the
Aleutians
again
Wednesday.
Clouds
over
the
targets
made
It
Impossible
to
observe
the
results.
j
I
NEARING
ROSTOV
Red
Army
Still
Making
Good
Progress
in
Advance
Into
Caucasus
MOSCOW,
Jan.
8
The
Rus
sian
forces,
despite
desperate
Nazi
counter-attacks,
have
now
advanced
to
within
sixty
miles
8
of
Rostov,
chief
gateway
to
the
Caucasus,
which
is
now
in
the
doubly
imminent
danger
of
recapture
i
by
the
Red
Army.
Since
yesterday
there
has
been
a
further
Soviet
advance
of
ten
miles
in
the
Middle
Don
area.
Large
forces
of
Nazis
are
massing
in'
desperate
defence.
said
The
Russians
have
also
pushed
to
a
point
thirty-eight
miles
north
of
Mozdok
in
the
Caucasus.
Many
more
towns
and
villages
out
have
been
liberated
by
the
Russians.
Bulletins
SEARCH
FOR
PLANE
VANCOUVER
Following
the
report
of
a
women
that
she
heard
what
might
have
been
the
cfash
of
a
plane
on
the
evening
!
of
December
20,
experienced
woodsmen
have
instituted
a
.
vile
search
oF
the
SumaT'
Mountain
area
in
Washington.
It
is
possible
it
might
have
been
the
missing
Canadian
Pacific
Airways
plane.
RUHR
VALLEY
ATTACKED
LONDON
Royal
Air
Force
bembers,
for
the
third
time
this
year,
attacked
the
Ruhr
Valley,
heart
of
industrial
Germany,
last
night.
AH
British
planes
returned
safely.
CONVOY
LEAVES
GIBRALTAR
LISBON
It
is
reported
from
here
that
fifty
British
cargo
ships,
forty-five
naval
vessels
and
two
aircraft
vai'riers
have
left
Gibraltar
and
entered
the
Mediterranean.
AIR
RAID
SHELTERS
OTTAWA
Speaking
from
here
last
night,
Col.
R.
J.
Man-ion,
head
of
civilian
defence,
appealed
to
the
municlpalitcs
to
expend
money
on
air
raid
precautions.
As
the
Axis
powers
became
desperate,
theic
would
be
more
danger
of
attack,
Col.
Manion
felt.
AID
FOR
AUSTRALIA,
CANBERRA
The
advisory
war
council
of
Australia
will
meet
next
Tuesday.
It
is
possible
Prime
Minister
John
Curtin
may
go
to
London
and
Washington
to
seek
more
aid
for
Australia.
ll.M.S.
ACHATES
SUNK
LONDON
The
Admiralty
announces
the
loss
of
H.M.S.
Ach
ates,
a
destroyer,
while
protecting
a
Russia-bound
convoy
in
North
Atlantic
waters.
BRITAIN
IS
BOMBED
LONDON
Seven
German
planes
during
the
night
bombed
a
town
on
the
south
coast
of
England.
There
was
considerable
damage
but
casualties
were
few.
HOLLOW
BUT
LIGHTER
Substitution
of
hollow
steel
for
solid
aluminum
reduces
the
weight
of
airplane
propellors
by
as
much
as
75
pounds.
FAST
CONSTRUCTION
Prefabricated
wooden
"suit-case"
homes
for
migratory
workers
have
been
erected
in
ten
minutes.
Heavy
Action
Theatre
of
War
Felt
To.
Be
Probable
Soon
Japanese
Lose
Two
Large
Transports
and
Eighteen
Zero
IManes
in
Another
Landing
Attempt
on
New
Guinea
ATTSTT?
AT.TAN
AT.T.TP.n
(CP)
Two
large
transports,
one
heavily
laden
with
troops,
were
sunk
and
eighteen
zeros
were
shot
down
was
heavy
price
the
Japanese
paid
in
the
first
twenty-four
f
ii.
'
1
1,
i
4.
i.
i.
i
i
.
r
uuuift
ui
men
aevuiun
inujur
ciueiujji
iu
lauu
luuuui
cements
in
northeastern
New
Guinea.
Meanwhile
ground
forces
have
completed
the
envel
opment
of
the
Japanese
at
Sanan-anda
and
an
Allied
communique
that
the
remnants
of
the
original
fifteen
thousand
Japanese
forces
still
holding
out
can
be
regarded
as
destroyed."
The
two
ships
to
be
runk
were
of
a
convoy
of
ten
which
was
escorted
by
surface
naval
and
aircraft.
A
statement
from
General
Douglas
MacArthur's
headquarters
says
that
since
the
campaign
in
New-
Guinea
commenced,
the
Japanese
had
had
333
planes
definitely
de
stroyed,
81
others
probably
de
stroyed
and
at
least
117
damaged
while
the
enemy
naval
losses
have
included
six
cruisers,
three
de
stroyers
and
numerous
other
smaller
craft.
Both
Australia
and
Pearl
Har
bor
Quarters
hint
at
a
naval
bat-
lrnpendingJnw-the
vioulhwcst
-
Pacific
which
may
compare
with
M
dway
in
importance
There
is
further
confirmation
of
heavy
Japanese
naval
concentra
tion,
particularly
at
Rabaul
on
New
Guinea.
Wife
With
Husband
Is
"In
Dispatches"
LONDON,
Jan.
8
Lady
Freyberg
and
her
famous
V.C.
husband,
General
Sir
Bernard
Freyberg
were
both
mentioned
In
dispatches
simultaneously
for
"gallant
and
distinguished
services"
in
the
Mid
dle
East.
This
was
believed
to
be
the
first
time
husband
and
wife
on
war
service
have
been
gazetted
to
gether.
Salmon
Arm
Has
Alderman
Elliott
Coincidence
in
Men
of
Same
Name
Being
Elected
to
City
Councils
Thomas
II.
Elliott,
one
of
Prince
unert's
new
aidermen,
has
re
ceived
a
letter
from
a
man
of
the
same
name,
Thomas
H.
Eliott,
who
was
elected
an
alderman
for
this
year
at
Salmon
Arm,
a
small
town
m
the
North
Okanagan
district.
It
Is
an
odd
coincidence
but
there
1$
no
relationship
between
the
Thomas
II.
Elliott
here
and
that
at
Salmon
Arm.
The
Salmon
Arm
Aid.
Thomas
II.
Elliott'
is
an
Englishman
and
came
to
Canada
in
April
1925.
His
original
home
was
on
Tyneslde,
about
six
miles
west
of
Newcastle,
in
northeast
England.
He
Is
married
and
has
three
daughters.
The
local
Aid.
Elliott
Is,
of
course.
a
Welshman.
RUSSIAN
GRAINS
More
than
140
new
varieties
of
grain,
oilseeds
and
leguminous
plants
have
been
cultivated
this
year
by
50
Soviet
State
selection
stations:
WOODEN
BUS
A
new
wooden
bus
trailer,
used
In
Washington
to
carry
war
workers
.holds
141
persons
and
weighs
less
than
a
standard
40-passenger
bus.
in
This
ITtf
AFIOTTA
PTVPS
Ton
Plane
Lost
Along
Coast
Harold
Gillam
and
Five
Passen
gers
Missing
Sin
-V
Tuesday
Widespread
Search
ANCHORAGE,
Alaska,
Jan.
8
(CP)
Harold
Gillam,
veteran
Alaska
pilot,
and
five
passengers
are
missing
on
a
Seattle-Alaska
flight.
Royal
Canadian
Air
Force
planes
all
along
the
British
Columbia
coast
are
searching
for
the
missing
Morrison-Knudsen
Co.-
plann
w
hlc
h
has-not
been
re
ported
since
leaving
Seattle
early
Tuesday
afternoon.
The
plane
is
presumed
to
be
down
somewhere
around
the
north
end
of
Vancouver
Island.
A
search
for
the
missing
plane
is
also
being
conducted
out
of
Prince
Rupert
but,
up
to
noon
tcday,
there
had
been
no
developments
as
far
as
finding
any
trace
was
concerned.
NO
PLEASURE
DRIVING
NOW
Complete
Ban
is
Placed
in
Eastern
States
Other
Rationing
Cut
To
Forty-five
Percent
WASHINGTON,
Jan.
8
TO
The
government
has
banned
pleasure
driving
in
the
Eastern
.
United
States,
seventeen
states
being
Involved
In
the
order
which
forbids
motoring
to
theatres
and
race
tracks
and
other
amusement
cen
tres
not
for
purely
social
engage
ments.
Fuel
oil
rationing
to
schools,
stores,
churches,
theatres
and'
other
non-residential
establish
ments
is
effected
by
the
cut
to
forty-five
percent
normal
requirements.
.
Canada's
Exports
For
India
Higher
Imports
to
Dominion
Fiom
There
Are
Down
Slightly
OTTAWA,
Jan.
8
TO
Value
of
Canadian
goods
imported
into
In-June
30
was
almost
50
times
as
June
30
was
almost
50
times
ase
great
as
the
average
of
a
half-
year's
Imports
before
the
war
Paul
Sykes,
Canadian
Trade
Commissioner
to
India,
said
In
a
report
to
the
Department
of
Trade
and
Commerce.
Exports
to
Canada
from
India
declined
slightly
towards
the
middle
of
the
year,
Mr.
Sykes
said.
The
values
recorded
were
formerly
considerably
higher
than
those
for
Imports
from
Canada
Into
India,
but
they
now
are
less
than
20
percent
of
Imports.