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VOL
XXXII,
No.
2Si
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
THURSDAY,
FEBRUARY
4,
1943
PRICE'
FIVE
CENTS
Survivors
From
Plane
Picked
Germans
May
Try
to
Evacuate
to
Russian
Warships
and
Planes
Pounding
Nazi
Fleets
in
Black
Sea
Rostov
is
Menaced
Still
More
Sharply
by
Advancing
Red
Army
Kharkov
Situation
More
Tense
LONDON,
Feb.
4
(CP)
Reports
in
London
today
said
that
Russian
warships
and
planes
were
already
pounding
fleets
of
German
ships
which
have
been
hastily
massed
in
the
Novorossisk
area
on
the
Black
Sea
from
which
troops
of
the
invaders
of
Russia
might
be
ferried
across
the
Strait
of
Kerch
to
the
Crimea.
Rostov
Itself
was
menaced
stm
more
sharply
by
another
Russian
column
which
thrust
up
the
rail
line
from
Salask'
and
captured
Kar,alnltskaya,
thirty
miles
southeast
of
Rostov.
To
the
north
Red
Army
forces
pressed
their
offensive
fiercely
to
the
west
with
gains
north
of
Kursk
at
the
approach
of
Kharkov
and
between
Kharkov
and
Vercshllov-grad.
t
SALARIES
UP
AGAIN
School
Hoard
Working;
on
Basis
of
Langrldgc
Plan
For
Increments
ToOnffr-Wllh
Teachers
Tiie
question
of
teachers'
sal-aitr
was
again
before
the
board
oi
aihool
trustees
at
the
regular
wwkly
meeting
last
night
In
con-r;
'.ion
with
the
consideration
of
'hi-
yr.-u's
estimates
which
musi
b?
:omj!leted
by
next
week.
Pend-'!:
a
final
conference
with
the
Pnnce
Rupert
Teachers'
Federation
the
board
Is
basing
Its
esti
mates
on
a
new
schedule
which
was
presened
to
It
last
week
by
T-usiee
J.
T.
Langrldge
under
which
there
would
ibe
some
Increases
and
the
Institution
of
a
plan
of
annual
increments
of
$60
An
estimate
presented
to
the
bcaid
at
last
night's
meeting
by
Trustee
Mrs.
George
Hill
placed
the
total
of
salaries
under
the
new
plan
at
$52,421
as
compared
with
$51,107.60
now
being
paid.
The
former
figure
does
not
take
Into
accourit
a
proposal
to
pay
$150
bonus
to
three
vice-
principals
which
If
included
would
make
the
uiaric1
this
year
$1,736.40
higher
than
last
year.
The
most
of
the
increases
under
the
new
plan
would
be
at
King
Edward
and
Borden
Street
Schools,
Booth
Memorial
School
showing
few
Increases
due
to
fact
that
there
arc
so
many
new
teachers
there.
The
salary
matter
Is
expected
to
come
up
again
at
next
week's
mertlng
of
the
board.
Roosevelt
Plans
For
Offensive
Continues
Activities
Along
Lines
Agreed
Upon
With
Churchill
at
Casablanca
WASHINGTON,
D.C.,
Fob.
4
Oil
President
Franklin
D.
Roosevelt,
following
his
returns
from
the
historic
Casablanca
conference
with
prlme
Minister
Winston
Churchill
'
ureat
Britain,
Is
continuing
Plans
to
put
Into
"active
and
conceded
execution"
plans
for
1943
offensive
campaigns
which
he
and
Mr
Churchill
drafted.
Mrs,
T.
M.
Spencer
has
donated
ei
of
Book
of
Knowledge
to
Klrg
Edward
School.
The
board
school
trustees
last
night-
in
StrUCtCd
thp
conrotor.r-
tn
nj
I
Ktter
of
thanks
to
Mrs.
Spencer.
Post
Office
For
Military
Ordered
Here
The
Prince
Rupert
Cham-
ber
of
Commerce
has
rcseived
a
communication
from
Hon.
W.
P.
Mulock,
Postmaster
General,
in
reDlv
to
a
letter
sent
by
the
local
chamber
in
regard
to
postal
service
here.
announcing
that
a
military
post
office
has
been
authorized
for
Prince
Rupert
and
will
be
ti
opened
as
soon
as
the
neces-
sary
accommodation
Is
avail'
"
'
'
'
able'.
BULLETINS
"DUNKERQUE"
FOR
AXIS
MOSCOW
Last
Axis
troops
in
the
Caucasus
were
icporlcd
today
being
driven
back
toward
the
Sea
of
Azov
"Dunkerque"
as
the
Red
Army's
lightening
arc
around
Rostov
cut
the
only
remaining
rail
line
of
escape
at
Kuschevka
where
the
Shal
Yean
Hivcr
widens
out
to
the
sea.
PLACE
OFFER
DENIED
KVi
Dc
Janeiro
the
Spanish
embassy
here
issued
an
official
note
Wednesday
night
denying
that
Adolf
Hitler
was
planning
a
peace
offer
through
the
Spanish
government
of
General
Franco.
BRITISH
TAKE
MOUNTAIN
ALLIED
HEADQUARTERS
IN
NORTH
AFRICA
Troops
of
the
British
First
Army
have
seized
a
strategic
mountain
six
miles
south
of
Bou
Arada
in
a
phase
of
Hie
battle
for
Tunisia,
it
was
announced
today.
WAS!
HAMBURG
IS
UNDERFIRE
Large
Conflagrations
After
Bombing
Last
Night
Other
Attacks
On
Enemy
Territory
LONDON,
Jan.
4
O)
The
Royal
Air
Force
announced
today
that
large
fires
were
left
burning
following
an
attack
by
the
Royal
Air
Force
last
night'
on
the
German
port
of
Hamburg.
Royal
Canadian
Air
Force
squadrons
took
part
In
the
raid,
losing
two
aircraft
of
the
total
of
sixteen
which
failed
to
return.
The
losses
Indicated
that
a
force
of
upwards
of
three
hundred
bombers
participated.
.
The
Royal
Air
Force
disclosed
today
that
four
fighter
planes
were
missing
from
raids
yesterday
on
occupied
France.
Four
other
Allied
planes
are
missing
from
sweeps
against
military
objectives,
which
were,
apparently,
renewed
today.
COURT
OF
REVISION
Thirty-eight
Appeals
Arc
Listed
For
Hearing
at
Session
Op-
pening
Next
Monday
MXrhlrty-eIght
appeals
are
listed
for
hearing
at
the
court
of
revls-!Jh
pn
the
municipal
assessment
roIl.Thc
court
will
be
in
session
nexVOonday.
The
appellants
Include
J.
H.
and
Helen
Hillman,
R.
L.
Mcintosh.
Emil
J.
S.
Sollid,
W.
and
M.
Smith
F.
Chin
and
C.
P.
Moon,
Pierre
Le
Ross.
F.
Mlllerd
and
Co.,
United
States
War
Department,
Canadian
National,
Railways
and
the
asess-or
hlmseif.
The
assessor
is'
seeking
certain
adjustments.
The
most
bf
the
appeals
are
based
on
claims
of
excessive
or
Inequitable
assessments.
Deadline
Is
Set
Forward
OTTAWA,
Feb.
4
Hon.
Humphrey
Mitchell,
minister
of
labor,
announces
extension
to
March'
1
of
the
period
for
registration
of
single
men
in
age
groups
subject
to
military
call-up
who
have
not
yet
received
notice
to
reoprt
for
medical
examination.
HAMBURG
HEAVILY
HIT
LONDON
Royal
Air
Force
bombers
heavily
attacked
Hamburg
last
night
in
a
raid
in
which
sixteen
planes
arc
missing,
it
Was
announced
today
NEWS
AXIS
SUPPLY
SHIPS
SUNK
LONDON
Nine
Axis
supply
ships
and
one
anti-submarine
vessel
have
been
sunk
in
the
Mediterranean
by
British
submarines
in
the
past
few
days,
the,
Admiralty
announced
today.
JAP
ATTACK
IN
SOLOMONS
WASHINGTON
Last
Friday
night
just
about
dusk
Japanese
United
Slates
fleet
of
warships
planes
made
a
sudden
attack
on
a
Guadalcanal
in
the
Solomon
Islands,
it
is
announced
cruising
near
by
the
Department
of
the
Navy.
The
extent
of
American
losses
is
not
announced.
FINLAND
WANTS
PEACE
ANKARA
U
is
heard
here
that
Finland
is
threatening,
to
make
a
separate
peace
with
Russia.
KOYAL
AIR
FORCE
ISUSY
I
ONDON
The
Royal
Air
Force
made
raids
every
day
and
night
during
January
upon
the
enemy,
says
an
official
announcement.
Probe
Into
Fatal
Fire
Jury
Finds
PrFvate
Valpy
Was
Suf--
fucated
Corp.
Leighton
Praised
More
Safeguards
Urged
Verdict
that"
Private
Rodney
Val-py,
who
was
Irt
the
Royal
Canadian
Army
Service
Corps
here,
came
to
his
'death
'ab?ut
7:30
list
Sunday
morning
aboard
a
cabin
cruiser
lying
at
berth
jt
thf
Prince
Rupert
Rowing&
Yacht
Club
from
suffocation
and
second
degree
burns
as
a
result
of
a
fire
aboard
the
vessel
was
returned
last
night
by
the
cor-
oner's
Jury
which
sat
before
Cor-
'
onsr
Dr.
R.
J.
Macdonald
to
Investigate
the
circumstances
of
the
fatality.
The
Jury
expressed
the
opinion
that
Corp.
Wallace
Lelghton,
master
of
the
pewer
cruiser
In
nucs'.lon,
did
all
in
his
power
to
save
deceased
and
should
be.
commended
for
his
efforts.
The
Jury
further
recommended
-that
steps
should
be
takeh
toy
the
Yacht
Club
to
lnstal
adequate
fire
fighting
I
equipment
at
the
floats
to
prevent
repetition
of
such
tragedies.
The
Jury
consisted
of
W.
F.
Sheardottn,
foreman,
David
Young,
Albert
Still,
Edwin
J.
Cobb,
N.
L.
Jones
and
Jack
Furness.
Examination
of
witnesses
was
conducted
by
Staff
Sergeant
F.
W.
Gallagher,
chief
of
city
police.
Wlt-nessesvwre-DrW.,GLarse,
James'
Martin,
Capt.
Matthews,
Corp.
Wallace
Lelghton,
Fire
Chief
H.
T.
Lock,
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Thomas
L.
Wil-ford,
Lieut.
John
Hunter
Restall
and
Constable
Richard
Wallace
Stroitfh.
Caretakers'
Story
James
Martin,
caretaker
of
the
Yacht
Club,
told
of
the
bedroom
of
his
quarters
at
the
floats
being
fully
lit
up
by
flames.
He
Immediately
rushed
out
to
the
boat
and
me
Corp.
Lelghton
coming
towards
him.
Witness
then
returned
to
telephone
the
fire
department,
Jelling
Lelghton
to
go
back
to
the
boat.
When
he
(witness)
returned
to
the
boat,
'he
heard
Lelghton
talking
tj
deceased
through
a
porthole
of
the
boat.
Witness
shouted
to
deceased
to
"get
out
of
the
boat
and
get
out
quick."
As
the
o:ts
ol
Dr.
R.
G.
Large
on
one
side
and
of
M.
M.
Stephens
on
the
other
were
afire,
Martin
told
Lelghton
to
push
the
burning
boat
between
into
mid
stream.
Then
Vltness
proceeded
to
attend
first
to
theflre
on
the
Large
boat
and
then
that
on
Stephens'.
By
that
time
the
fire
department
had
arrived.
The
fire
chief
asked
that
the
burning
boat
be
pulled
back
Into
the
float
so
It
could
be
-eached
with
the
hose.
After
the
flames
had
been
brought
under
control,
some
one
ihouted:
"Where
Is
Valpy?"
Martin
went
into
the
pilot
house
and
en
countered
Chief
Lodk
In,
the
thick
smoke.
The
latter
found
no
man
aboard
then
but.
on
opening
the
door
of
the
lavatory
forward,
found
th'e
body
there.
The
body
was
taken
out
on
to
the
floats.
Police
and
doc
tor
were
sent
for.
Witness
did
not
take
kindly
to
questions
as
to
what
reason
there
was
to
assume
that
Valpy
was
safe
when
the
burning
boat
was,
cast
off.
However,
he
had
evidently
assumed
that
Valpy
had
come
off.
Two
other
boats
were
afire
at
the
time
and
these
flre3
were
stopped.
Capt.
Matthews
suggested
that
the
other
boats
might
have
been
cut
adrift
Instead
of
the
one
with
Valpy
on
board.
Corp.
Lcighton
Corp.
Lelghton
explained
that
he
had
been
awakened
by
the
smell
of
burning
paint.
Turning
on
the
light,
he
could
see
smoke
coming
through
the
cracks
of
the
door
into
his
stateroom.
He
dressed
hurriedly
and
then
went
out
to
find
the
wheelhouse
all
in
flames.
He
made
a
dash
for
the
extinguisher
and
tried
to
use
it
but
with
no
effect.
He
did
not
know
at
that
time
Crimea
FRENCHMEN
RELEASED
Men
Alleged
to
Have
Been
Involved
in
Uailan
Affair
Arc
Given
Freedom
ALGIERS,
Feb.
4
0)
General
Henri
Giraud,
French
High
Com
missioncr
for
North
and
West
Africa,
announced
-
Wednesday
night
that
eight
persons
arrested
after
tli?
Christmas
Eve
assass'na-tion
of
Admiral
Jean
Darlan
had
been
released
with
two
others
de
talned
at
their
homes
and
three
men
still
in
Jail.
f"
f
I
DO
II
t
UlVC
ISMIII
About
Middlemen
Statmrnt
UMMitfil
to
Wartime
Priffs
and
Trade
Board
by
New
Brunswick
Member
OTTAWA.
Feb.
4
P)-D.
K.
Hazen,
Progressive
Conservative
member
for
Saint
John,
New
Brunswick,
fa
id
In
-the
House
of
Commons
.
-fov
nieht
that
he
had
been
Informed
the
Wattim
Prices
and
Trade
Board
had
told
business
men
that
they
did
not
"give
a
damn"
about
middlemen.
The
New
Bruns
wick
member
was
speaking
In
the
if,,,n
on
tne
Ti
.ie
;.jeech.
whcther'DE
not-Valpy-as'n-board
or
not.
By
this
time
the
galley
was
full
of
flames
and
witness,
with
chest
and
hair
burned,
was
choking
frorn
smoke.
He
went
out
on
deck
to
get
air.
Windows
were
broken
and
flames
were
shooting
out
all
aicund.
Then
he
made
a
dash
for
the
caretakei's
cabin
to
'phone
for
the
fire
department.
Then
he
went
back
to
sea
what
could
be
done
about
the
fire.
Martin
called
him
to
cut
loose
the
lines
which
he
did,
starting
to
move
the
burning
boat
out
of
the
berth.
It
was
then
he
heard
deceased
calling
his
(wit-1
ness)
name.
At
first
It
sounded
like
the
call
was
coming
from
the
flat..
Then
he
perceived
It
was
from
the
porthole
on
the
other
side.
He
went
around
and
handed
Valpy
the
extinguisher.
Valpy
was
now
breathing
heavily
and
not
talking
any
more.
He
told
Valpy
,to
take
the
extinguisher
and
fight
his
way
out.
By
this
time
-the
fire
department
was
arriving
and
there
was
other
help.
Eventually
the
fire
was
put
out
and
the
boat
pulled
back,
deceased
being
taken
off.
Witness
could
not
say
how
the
fire
sta:
ted.
It
might
have
been
from
an
electric
heater
in
the
wheelhouse.
Valpy
was
quite
a
competent
man.
Fire
Chief
Lock
told
of
the
call
to
the
Yacht
Club
and
.the
trip
there
under
extremely
hazardous
road
conditions
due
to
Ice.
The
boat
was
furiously
ablaze
by
the
time
the
department
airlvcd.
There
was
difficulty
In
laying
a
hose
line.
The
boat
was
drifting
out
and
the
chief
called
fqr
It
to
be
pulled
back
In.
After
extinguishing
the
main
blaze,
the
chief
went
aboard
and
It
was
then
that
someone
asked
If
there
was
a
man
aboard.
Later
he
found
the
body
In
the
body
In
the
lavatory
with
the
door
closed.
The
body
was
slumped
on
the
floor.
Valpy
was
pulled
out
of
the
boat.
The
chief
tried
for
a
heart
beat
but
could
perceive
none.
Martin,
however,
thought
the
heart
was
beating.
The
body
was
removed
to
th3
floats,
covered
with
a
blanket
and
artificial
respiration
started,
continuing
until
the
doctor
arrived.
Later
the
chief
told
of
the
contents
of
the
fire
extinguisher,
the
fumes
of
which
In
closed
quarters
might
be
very
serious.
Dr.
Large
assumed
that
death
was
due
to
suffocation.
The
barns
were
superficial
and
not
sufficiently
extensive
to
be
fatal.
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Wllford,
who
lived
aboard
a
boat
opposite
the
burned
one,
told
of
being
aroused
by
the
fire.
Twovlen
From
Missing
For
Landed
At
Ketchikan
Woman
Was
Only
Person
to
be
Killed
Outright
in
Crash
Fate
of
Three
Others
is
Not
Ascertained
KETCHIKAN,
Feb.
4
(CP)
-
Two
of
six
persons
aboard
Pilot
Harold
Gillam's
plane,
which
disappeared
January
5
on
a
flight
from
Seattle
to
Alaska,
arrived
here
yesterday
on
a
coastguard
patrol
boat
which
found
them
on
an
isolated
beach.
Perry
Cutting
and
Joseph
Tippits
said
tlfay
last
saw
Robert
Gebo
and
Dewey
Metzdorf,
Anchorage
hotel
owner,
a
week1
ago
In
"bad
shape."
Cutting
and
Roberts
had
left
the
others
to
walk
out
for
aid.
Susan
Batzer,
the
men
said,
was
the
only
casualty
of
the
crash,
adding
that..
Gillam..
had.,
left,
the
wrecked
plane
In
search
of
aid.
He
had
not
been
heard
of
since.
The
two
survivors
said
they
be
lieved
the
scene
of
the
crash
was
seven
miles
back
in
the
wilderness,
probably
fifty
miles
southwest
of
Ketchikan.
The
plane
has
been
sought
by
the
Royal
Canadian
Air
Force
and
American
Air
'Force
planes
for
th
past
four
weeks
and
the
search
was
only
recently
abandoned.
.
Leadership
.Is
Lacked
By
Labor
4
VICTORIA,
Feb.
4.
CD
Dr.
J
J.
Glllis,
Liberal
member
for
Yale,
told
the
Legislature
yes-
terday
that
Labor
lacked
lead-
ers
and
recommended
th3t
the
nrovincial
labor
minister
Initiate
plans
to
train
such
la-
bor
leaders.
He
said
that
every
man
should
belong
to
a
union
and
attend
meetings.
.
School
Pupils
Buying
Stamps
Nearly
S1500
Purchases
Made
in
Six
Months
Between
King
Edward
and
Borden
Street
Schools
Turils
of
city
schools
are
continuing
systametlc
savings
by
purchase
of
war
savings
stamps,
according
to
reports
presented
at
the
meeting
of
the
board
of
school
trustees
last
night.
Since
the.pp.en-ng
of
school
last
fall
pupils
of
Kink
Edward
School
have
purchased
stamps
to
the
value
of
$729.75
while
purchases
by
Borden
Street
School
pupils
have
been
$750.20.
In
January
the
purchases
at
King
Edward
School
were
$218.75.
Accommodation
For
Teachers
Is
Scarce
Trustee
Mrs.
George
Hill
told
the
board
of
school
trustees
last
night
that
she
had
had
a
distress
call
from
Miss
Handford
of
the
JJooth
Memorial
High
School
teaching
staff
who.
following
the
sale
of
the
Norman
A.
Watt
house
on
Fourth
Avenue
East
to
Len
Griffiths
who
was
to
take
occupancy
at
the
end
of
this
month,
she
had
no
place
In
prospect
to
stay.
A
discussion
followed
on
the
problems
of
finding
living
accomodation
here
fpr
teachers
followed
and
a
number
of
suggestions
were
heard,
one
interesting
one
being
that
Wartime
Housing
might
make
a
couple
of
its
houses
available
for
the
accomodation
of
teachers.
Up
Machine,
Month
Resolution
Approved
School
Tiustecs
Back
Move
to
Have
Province
Assume
Financial
Responsibility
for
Education
The
board
of
school
trustees,
at
Its
regular
meeting
last
night,
ap
proved
a
resolution
drafted
by
the
Prince
Rupert
City
and
District
Teachers
Federation
calling
upon
the
provincial
government
to
assume
the
financial
responsibility
for
education
In
British
Columbia.
The
resolution,
presented
to
the
board
by
Bruce
Mickleburgh
was
as
follows:
arisen
In
the
educational
system
of
this
province,
involving
a
shortage
of
qualified
teachers
and
a
lowering
of
educational
standards
"And
whereas,
as
a
result,
thou
sands
of
children
are
being
deprived
of
a
proper
education
"And
whereas
at
this
time,
when
the
Axis
forces
are
striving
to
destroy
democratic
education,
It
Is
more
than
ever
necessary
to
Improve
and
strenghen
our
schools
"And
whereas
the
British
North
America
act
assigns
the
responsibility
for
caseation
to
the
provincial
government
"Therefore
be
It
resolved
that
this
school
board
call
on
the
British
Columbia
government
to
assume
its
responsibilities
under
the
3.N.A.
act
by
providing
a
provln-?ially
guaranteed
salary
scale
ade-juate
to
attract
and
hold
qualified
teachers
and
by
establishing
a
system
of
educational
finance
In
which
the
burden
would
no,
longer
lie
chiefly
on
local
districts,
and
municipalities."
Worthless
Check
Issuer
Admits
It
Peter
Shelby
has
pleaded
guilty
'n
city
police
court
to
five
charges
of
false
pretences
by
obtaining
money
through
the
cashing
of
worthless
checVs
ranging
from
$15
to
$23.
He
has
en
remanded
for
eight
days
sent
tee.
Those
victimized
by
Shelby,
were
Arthur
Murray,
W.
R.
Love,
Prince
Rupert
Fishermen's
Co-operative,
S.
E.
Parker
and
John
Gurvlch.
AID
TO
RUSSIA
RUSSIA
FUND
w
Previously
acknowledged
$8,391.39
M.
Leret
10.00
Bytown
Machine
Works
....
10.00
Geo.
Jones,
Skeena
6.00
R.
Kennedy,
Skeena
1,0.00
J.
G.
Baxter
5.00
II.
Duhamal,
Capitol
Barber
Shop
5.00
10
donations
under
$5
10.50
Total
to
noon
this
date
$8,417.89