SYMPATHY
FOR
GIRLS
GLACE
BAY
Glace
Bay
coal
miners
went
on
a
one-day
iiW
yesterday
in
sympathy
with
12
waitresses
in
a
restaur-
t
who
were
having
a
dispute
with
their
employers.
GENERAL
HENRI
GIRAUD
WASHINGTON
Having
been
invited
by
President
fanklin
I).
Roosevelt,
General
Henri
Giraud
is
expected
to
pay
lusit
shortly
to
the
United
Stales.
BATTLE
AT
DARWIN
ALLIED
HEADQUARTERS
IN
AUSTRALIA
Two
of
18
kpanese
planes
which
visited
Port
Darwin
yesterday
were
shot
tin
and
two
others
badly
damaged.
Little
damage
was
done.
DcVALERA
CONTINUES
DUBLIN
Eamonn
deValera
is
expected
to
continue
as
Pre-
lier
of
Eire
because
of
the
failure
of
his
opposition
to
get
tether.
GERMAN
BOMBARDMENT
DOVER
Big
German
guns,
firing
from
Calais,
dropped
bells
at
15
minute
intervals
into
the
Dover
area.
NEW
JAP
DRIVE
CHUNGKING
There
are
indications
that
the
Japanese
iff
about
to
start
a
new
drive
against
Chungking.
NEW
ADMINISTRATOR
WASHINGTON
Disagreeing
with
the
policy
of
the
ad-
linistration,
Chester
V.
Davis
has
resigned
as
food
administra-
Judge
.Marvin
Jones,
who
was
chairman
of
the
recent
world
d
conference,
is
his
successor.
GREEK
WAR
RELIEF
FUND
fle-ions
to
date
$3,65851
;
of
box
at
CaDltol
1.34
'i:::;
Hardware
10.00
t
&
Nickerson
25.00
0
Morse
10.00
'y
Douglas
&
Co.
Ltd.
25.00
1
T
McOulre
10.00
'
C
V
Sutherland
5.00
O.
Fulton
2.00
'
McClymont
2.00
a
iaggard
5.00
F
Fitch
2.00
'r'
&
Anderson
10.00
Rae
Bros.
10.00
L
W
Kergin
5.00
J
T
Collart
5.00
?
H
Skattebol
3.00
pva
Pajolo
2.00
3'
Stromdahl'
"
5.00
$3,795.85
I'LL
FOR
CHANNEL
TUNNEL
June
29
IP)
Direc-
of
the
62-ycar
old
English
panne
Tunnel
Company
held
1
T
UYe-mtnnfn
nnrrnal
mcet-
&na
once
more
affirmed
the
N
of
the
company
for
a
tun-
cennectine
France
and
Eng-
N
at
the
earliest
opportunity.
NlSON
WAR
CONTRACTS
var
contracts
affecting
more
160,000
nriion
inmates
in
1
United
States
prisons
are
be-
MORE
TIME
GIVENHERE
Olof
Hanson
M.
P.
Gets
Conces
sion
Regarding
Island
Boat
OTTAWA,
June
29
(Special
to
Dally
News)
Olof
Hanson
Llb-
ral
Skeena)
has
been
success-
ful
in
getting
a
longer
stay
made
at
Prince
Rupert
in
the
new
ten-
day
service
of
the
Union
steam
shhip
Company
to
the
Queen
Charlotte
Islands.
The
ship
was
scheduled
to
leave
Prince
Rupert
at
9
o'clock
but
this
did
not
leave
enough
time
for
Prince
Rupert
to
deal
with
matters
arriving
on
ine
steamer
and
getting
them
out.
The
Minister
of
Trade
and
Commerce,
Hon.
J.
A.
MacKinnon,
today
notified
Mr.
Hanson
that
the
departure
time
had
been
set
for
11
o'clock
with
an
extra
hour
at
noon
if
necessary.
PRISONERS
FROM
THE
SEA
29
-The
British
LISBON.
June
cruiser
Adventure
picked
up
157
German
sailors
from
the
sea
when
the
German
blockade
runner
Silvaplanta
was
scuttled
oir
Caue
Finlsterre,
Spain.
CATTLE
FOR
CEYLON
COLOMBO.
Ceylon,
June
29
0
-Pedigree
cattle
from
Australia
arrived
In
Ceylon
as
part
of
the
Commonwealth's
response
to
the
colony's
apprai
proved
food
supplies.
VANCOUVER,
June
29
0)
The
Wartime
Prices
and
Trade
Board
announced
yesterday
that
allotments
of
food
supplies
and
other
quota
goods
are
being
increased
for
cities
with
population
increases
caused
by
the
war.
Increases
of
100
percent
are
being
given
to
all
communities
on
the
Canadian
National
line
from
the
Alberta
boundary
to
Prince
Rupert.
1
The
quota
increases
do
not
apply
to
rationed
foods
such
as
butter,
sugar,
tea
and
coffee.
leers
ion.ne'ttuuj.
'
--v.
Italians
Try
To
Crash
Gate
LONDON.
June
29
Dozens
of
Italians
of
war
have
"gate
crashed
their
way
into
Britain
in
their
eagerness
to
get
away
from
the
Mediterranean
war
zone,
the
London
Daily
Mail
reports.
They
surreptitiously
joined
official
parties
of
prls
oners
leaving
transit
camps
at
night
for
embarkation
ports.
"CIGARETTE
V.
C."
DEAD
MAIDENHEAD,
Eng.,
June
29
CB
Maj.
William
Forshaw,
"the
cigarette
V.
C."
of
Gallipoll,
is
dead
at
53.
He
won
the
V.C.
in
1915
when
he
held
a
Turkish
trench
at
Sulva
Bay
for
14
hours
with
a
handful
of
men
who
with
ammunition
gone
made
bombs
from
jam
tins,
with
cigarettes
as
fuses.
PftOVNcfAL
This
photo
obtained
from
a
neutral
source,
was
published
throughout
Italy
to
attempt
to
reassure
the
jittery
Italian
populace
that
powerful
steel
and
concrete
batteries
such
as
this
one
on
a
Mediterranean
Island
base,
are
ready
to
repel
any
Allied
Invasion
attempt.
Meanwhile,
however,
Allied
aircraft
roam
over
Italy,
smashing
ports
and
military
installations
In
a
virtually
unopposed
field
day.
Shortage
Of
Houses
I
Taken
Up
OTTAWA,
June
29
The
housing
shortage
In
Prince
Rupert
is
the
subject
of
enquiries
by
Olof
Hanson
who
ls
asking
for
a-
return
of
all
correspondence
and
communications
-
on,-'
the
,
mattpr
with
a
view
to
nress-
ing
for
action
to
relieve
the
shortage.
'
MORE
FOOD
IN
RUPERT
Hundred
Tercent
Increase
Along
C.
X.
Line
"BOTTOM
OF
KEG"
OTTAWA,
June
29
Labor
Minister
Mitchell
told
the
House
nf
Commons
yesterday
that
about
60,000
nen
eligible
for
compulsory
service
in
Canada
were
unaccounted
for
in
military
call-up
records
and
said
that'
Canada
was
"near
the
bottom
of
the
keg"
in
the
matter
of
volun-
local
Temperature
Tonight's
Dim-out
We
(Half
an
hour
after
sunset
to
jlaxlmum
57
50
half
an
hour
before
sunrise).
jj
jILilmum
-
J.0:49
pjn.
to
4:40
ajn.
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER-
XXXII,
No.
151
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
TUESDAY,
JUNE
29,
1943
PRICE.
FIVE
CENTS
ssault
On
Europe
To
Start
Soon
YANKS
IN
.MEDITERRANEAN
STOCKHOLM
Reports
reaching
here
sav
that
manv
itfd
States
warships
have
arrived
in
the
Mediterranean
to
the
British
Navy.
NAZIS
THROWN
BACK
'
MOSCOW
German
attempts
to
cross
the
Donets
River
It
Islium
have
been
thrown
back.
Also
an
enemy
attack
130
Ls
south
of
Veliki
Lukl
has
been
repulsed.
ALASKA
ROAD
WORKERS
OTTAWA
Hon.
Humphrey
Mitchell,
minister
of
labor.
itfd
yesterday
that
it
had
been
agreed
all
personnel
for
era-
Ivment
on
the
Alaska
Highway
should
come
from
United
tcs.
There
were
not
sufficient
Canadian
workers
to
meet
the
nind.
LOAN
OVERSUBSCRIBED
OTTAWA
Hon.
J.
L.
Ilsley,
minister
of
finance,
tpld
the
use
of
Commons
yesterday
that
the
Fourth
Victory
Loan
had
to
oversubscribed
by
$200,000,000.
GREEK
RELIEF
OVER
MONTREAL
The
Greek
war
relief
campaign,
objective
of
lich
was
$500,000,
has
been
oversubscribed
by
$90,000.
GERMAN
ESCAPES
QUEBEC
Hugo
t'oerster,
who
was
a
captain
in
the
Ger-
ln
navy
ana
a
prisoner
oi
war,
escapea
yesieraay
wnue
a
of
prisoners
were
being
moved
from
one
point
of
continent
tty
to
another.
THESE
DEFENCES
DON'T
SEEM
TO
HELP
ITALIANS
f
'f
Jf?
4
vV'
If
.
Move
Nazis
t
From
Russia
I
LONDON.
June
29
Re-
ports
reaching
here
are
to
the
effect
that
fifty
Ger-
man
divisions
are
being
moved
from
the
Russian
front
to
western
and
south-
em
Europe.
Many
would
be
coming
to
France.
REVISIT
COLOGNE
Follow
Pattern,
for
Destruction
of
Reich
Industrial
Cities
Much
feared
by
the
airmen
of
the
Luftwaffe
are
the
British
merchantman
gunners
like
those
pictured
above.
Their
Job
is
also
to
fight
off
U-boats
as
they
carry
vital
war
supplies
across
the
sea.
These
gunners,
manning
an
Oerllkon,
are
David
Price
at
the
sights
and
Alfred
Woolgrove.
The
plane
they
are
after
never
came
out
of
Its
dive,
but
crashed
flaming
into
the
sea.
ALLIES
IN
INITIATIVE
War
Outlook
in
Pacific
Theatre
Is
Improved
WASHINGTON,-
D
C,
June
29
Th
United
States
now
holds
the
initiative
in
the
Pacific
war
and
the
tide
has
turned
to
the
point
where
the
Japanese
are
In
general
withdrawal
towards
their
home
bases.
This
was
declared
yesterday
by
the
chief
of
United
States
naval
Staff
following
announcement
that
United
States
submarines
had
sunk
eight
more
Japanese
ships,
including
one
destroyer,
one
minelayer
and
six
supply
craft
and
seriously
damaged
three
others.
This
makes
269
enemy
vessels
sunk,
probably
sunk
or
damaged.
Allied
bombers
were
busy
with
thirteen
bombing
attacks
from
the
Aleutians
to
the
Solomons.
There
have
been
seven
more
air
raids
on
Kiska
and
six
on
the
Solomons.
The
camp
area,
ground
per
sonnel,
air
field
and
gun
emplacements
at
Kkka
we're
pounded.
There
were
16
raids
there
in
three
days
since
the
week-end.
LEGHORN
BLASTED
Area
Hidden
for
Hours
by
Smoke
Cruiser
and
Supply
Ships
Hit
ALLIED
HEADQUARTERS
IN
NORTH
AFRICA,
June
29
O)
DjJhundred,
.Fortresses
smasnea
ine
noruiern
uauan
port
of
Leghorn
with
several
hundred
tons
of
bombs
yester
day,
damaging
a
light
cruiser
and
four
supply
ships
and
creat
ing
havoc
in
oil
tanks,
railway
yards
and
industrial
plants.
Bombers
hammered
at
the
city
for
nine
concentrated
minutes
and
returned
home
without
loss.
Allied
headquarters
announced
The
bombers
created
such
LONDON,
June
29
Q
The
"iat
tn
ornciai
report
saia
Rnval
Air
fnrrp
rpturnwl
in
creat
mat
nve
nours
alter
ine
raio
strength
last
night
to
cologne
me
enure
port
was
sun
so
neav-
where
one
thousand
bombers
"y
covered
oy
smose
tnat
ac-blasted
300
acres
of
destruction
I
curate
inspection
of
the
damage
in
May
1942
and
laid
a
pattern
I
was
then
impossible.
for
city-by-city
razing
of
Ger-1
man
war
industry.
British
heavy
bombers
also
struck
at
Hamburg,
sulbmarite,
building
centre,
and
continued
the
mine-laying
that
official
sources
announced
yesterday
had
caused
the
sinking
of
at
least
400
Axis
vessels
since
the
beginning
of
the
war.
Twenty
-
five
bombers
were
listed
as
missing,
two
of
them
Canadian.
MERCHANTMAN
GUNNEKS
FILL
ENEMY
WITH
FIRE
FISHING
ISSL0W
Skeena
River
Boats
Not
Getting
Heavy
Catches
Many
of
Them
Not
Yet
Out
Reports'
from
the
Skeena
River
where
the
season
for
the
fish
ing
of
sockeye
opened
Sunday
evening
indicate
a
light
run.
Up
to
today
only
about
two-thirds
of
the
boats
were
out
but
it
fs
expected
the
balance
will
be
out
by
the
end
of
this
week.
Early
reports
on
gill-net
fish
ing
in
the
Skeena
indicate
an
average
of
about
eight
fish
for
boats
fishing
in
tle
river
and
16
outside.
The
highest
boat
so
far
reported
had
72
fish.
On
the
Naas
River
the
fishing
appears
to
be
considerably
bet
ter
than
on
the
Skeena
with
an
average
of
59
fish
per
boat
and
high
boat
of
137.
CHARCOAL
OF
SWEETS
BARBADOS,
B.
W.
I-
June.
29
0
The
Barbados
House
of
Assembly
voted
$6,750
for
the
experimental
manufacture
of
synthetic
charcoal.
The
material
used
will
be
megass,
residue
of
sugar
cane
ana
,
vacuum
pan
molasses.
JOBS
FOR
CYPRIOTS
The
governor
of
Cyprus
has
announced
that
the
government
plans
to
appoint
suitably
quail-fled
Cypriots'
to
posts
of
responsibility.
IRRIGATION
IN
CYPRUS
New
irrigation
schemes
have
been
parried
out
in
40
Cyprus
villages,
covering
a
total
of
11,-000
acres.
Fourteen
Submarines
Of
Enemy
Have
Been
r
i
i
x
lb
i
iunK
in
i
wo
weeics
Malcolm
MacDonald
Says
Allies
Are
Undoubted!
Approaching
Another
Great
Crisis
in
War
OTTAWA,
June
29
(CP)
Malcolm
MacRor
British
High
Commissioner
to
Canadaj
said
that
atieast
fourteen
enemy
submarines
were
in
tht
past
two
weeks
and
predicted
an
Allied
as
on
Europe
would
start
very
soon.
He
told
a'
pi
conference
that
we
have
had
a
dead
subi
ISTALKING
OF
DEFEAT-
Publication
in
London
Says
Nazi
Leaders
Arranging
for
Best
Way
Out
LONDON,
June
29
W
The
Nazis
have
started
to
lay
the
foundations
of
an
underground
movement
for
the
time
when
Germany
has
been
defeated,
according
to
"Die
Zeitung,"
Ger
man-language
newspaper
published
in
London.
Plans
have
been
prepared,
the
paper
said.
Certain
members
of
the
Nazi
part
yare
to
be
"excluded,"
or
will
voluntarily
resign,
so
that
after
military
de
feat
they
will
be
able
to
claim
they
were
purged
and
therefoie
are
not
Nazis.
"Among,
them
are
the
Reichs-
Mlnlster
pf-Finarice,i..Graf,Sch
werin
Krosigk,
Prussian
Minis
ter
of
Finance,
Prof.
Popitz
and
the
fteichs
Traffic
Minister
Dorpmuller,"
it
continued.
"Also
in
this
category
are
in-.
eluded
the
Old
Guard
of
heavy!
industry
and
of
the
I.
G.
Dye
Trust,
as
well
as,
prominent
Journalists,
scientists
and
conservative
Junkers."
Minor
officials,
such
as
governors,
lord-lieutenants,
burgomasters
or
cell-leaders
now
have
the
opportunity
of
taking
cover
in
"non-political"
anonymity.
They
expect
that
nobody
will
bother
about
another
small
field
action,
especially
in
the
chaos
which
will
follow
defeat
Nor
they
hope
will
anybody
bother
Baseball
Scores
National
League
Pittsburgh
7,
Cincinnati
1.
International
League
iNewark
2,
Rochester
1.
Jersey
City
5,
Buffalo
1.
Syracuse-Toronto,
postponed.
American
Association
Milwaukee
5,
Minneapolis
4.
Kansas
City
8,
St.
Paul
5.
Indianapolis
8,
Toledo
1.
Louisville
-
Columbus,
p
o
s
t-poned.
SCOT'S
DOUBLE
D.S.O.
GLASGOW,
June
29
CB
Lt.
Col.
Alastalr
Pearson
of
Glasgow,
became
a
double
DSO.
in
15
days'
fighting
in
Africa.
"Col.
Pearson
headed
his
formation
and
retook
a
lost
position
to
win
his
first
D.S.O.
and
a
few
days
later
he
organized
a
new
counter
attack
and
led
clerks
and
cooks
into
a
successful
action.
HE
FINED
THE
KING"
CAMBRIDGE,
Eng.,
June
29
IB
Death
of
Dr.
T,
R.
Glover-former
public
orator
at
the
University,
recalls
that
years
ago
when
he
was
senior
proctor
he
fined
Prince
George,
now
the
King,
two
shillings
and
sixpence
for
smoking
in
cap
and
gown.
ECUADOR
HATS
Montecristi,
"hat
capital
of
Ecuador,
has
been
a
hat-making
centre
for
300
years.
-
REMEMBER
NELSON
Neckerchiefs
worn
by
enlisted
Navy
men
were
first
worn
in
the
British
Navy
to
mourn
the
death
of
Admiral
Nelson.
served
up
for
breakfast
day
and
added
that
Ithel
are
ODViousiy
apprqacning
other
great
crisis
or.,
the-
w
MacDonald
said
there
might
comparatively
small
assault:
Germany
and
German-occupli
territory
which
should
not
regarded
immediately
as$
opening
of
a
second
fronts
WHY
NOT
JULY
4?
Berlin
Propaganda
Claims
That
Things
Will
Begin
to
rop
Julv
3
.-
-T"!
NEW
YORK,
June
29
(CPJSt
The
Germans
reached
Into
j
'
their
propaganda
bag
today
and
set
a
new
date,
July
3,
for.
..
the
anticipated
Allied
onj
slaught
against
the
Axis.
This"
new
version
was
broadcast
by
the
German
radio,
and
attrU
fluted
to
London
reports
reach
Ing
Stockholm,
but
there
waSj,
no
elaboration
concerning
tne
point
or
points
at
which
the
Germans
expected
the
blow.
DEATH
WAS
ACCIDENT
S
i?i
In
an
inquest
into
the
death
of
John
Barseth.
fisherman.!
who
succumbed
aboard
the
Laugnnn.
boiti;
Domino
II
in
a
fire
at
Cow
Bat
early
Saturday
morning,
a
JurX.
under
Coroner
M.
M.
StepheriSf
yesterday
afternoon
returned
vprHlct.
nf
accidental
dealllt
about
their
behaviour
as
party
,
through
SUffocatlon.
Evidence
J
members
in
the
past.
showed
that
Barseth
-had
beeri
drinking
prior
to
the
accident
Witnesses
weie
Dr.
R.
E.
Colfo
man
who
examined
the
body
mra
nMot
'H
T
T
not-
inri
Pnni'
stables
McLeod
and
Fulton
oi
the
city
detachment
of
thePrfi
vincial
Police.
Js.
The
Jurymen
were
Neil
cari
eron
(foreman).
L.
Hallett,
Ha
vey
S.
Scott,
Jack
F.
Nichfiif
Cyril
McLennan
and
Donald.
Mc
Halibut
Sales
'm
Beatty,
Storage.
American
20,000,
27c
and
i21c
WAR
HISTORY
BY
AIR;
MOSCOW.
June
29
CB
Prize
winners
among
13,000
averi
age-13
school
children
In
a".
tory
contest
on
Russia's
herp
cities
of
the
present
"patt
war"
were
rewarded
with'
a
plane
trips
to
Stalingrad.
lf
PREFER
COALITIONS
STOCKHOLM,
June'
29
tfc-sA$t
most
half
the
Swedes
polled
the
Swedish
Gallup
Inatttti
prefer
a
coalition
govcrnmef
even
after
the
war.
Fortytv
percent
favored
lt,
15
perci
Dreferred
a
one-nartv
form
wM
the
remainder
replied,
,fNo
6m
inlon."
v-
SPITFIRES
TO
NAZI,
ft
WEYMOUTH,
Eng.,
June
29
A
Netherlander
here
told-lh1
storv
of
a
beautiful
.
new
grown
In
the
Netherlands
whi
struck
the
fancy
of
a
Nazi
gi
eral.
A
box
was
sent
to
hlm,!I
side
was
a
note
saying
the
tulip
had
been
named
Spit
&