A A. 1 V- -w w a i i i I'ini iirpn nrir:i II Jll J O"" a rrvrt A nrrunn T VT TF.I J llCAUWUlXVirlVO 111 U AriliwAf IUijr uv ' hht flanks of the Ger now wavering on the t Etna line In northeastern The Americans have the Germans back 20 in two days, capturing . i i 1 i . vn Canadians have captured central pivotal point. Canadian battalions, under t . it m iu ill .u lliciuui; uic owiyiia by cuiung cuxnmunicuuuiis ( fnM r rrnnarnl An. rr'.reat A . IJ. J '. ai. iport vessels trying ;:i Lidly were also at- F. CLOSE MUNDA Base in Solomons TF.r TIKAnOITARTKRH IN malia, JUiy ju sjuppori- r. av air attacks, United -u: i forces are mak r - i rnno nrm r r ivi linn ;i jnie 1900 yards from the i n tit, rn rii.than nmnnp'i i Turk", vp ;niav nn K.iia- New Guinea, Timor other enemy objectives, Kacnknil Knrnt American Association VL"iilrno T Tnrllntinnnlle 1 111 .VI I A U KQtlCfle ITtf V. .-..w - National League : nrifilnViln K Df T niifa 11 -S iphla 2. St. Louis 1 American League rf'-i. K UrnVi nrrtnn A PnuaclPlphia postponed. International League hp int- Hrr nii mnra i.m Coast League A . VJVU. I. wv u I 1 1 E I III 1 1 ICII tlVE7 Lord Mayor of Warsaw the 70-year-old widow of lime Polish ambassador to "s onoi oner the Gestapo ii ft Cftnt-A . 1. i I iu uvwtvu in iiiLiiiv in r.vt in inaw house. VANT TO EXTEND WAR Il I If M V . -1 - - tn utt. v ouiy ou vn dcenc o-v.., wunvjr, uuvt.uuc A heap of fire-crackers, boys. "We reckoned on ' t.hnm rt f ,11 l . . . V. was over," said the boys to Court. CAESAR'S FISHING mo n y fishes to friends in cele- vii one 0r h - v .t..i., RALSTON COMMENT Canadia' Army Proves Up to Task. Mian Campaign Ralstovv" k national,, TO,, Canadian ai.Q0 -- aln yesterday ' .i. The campaign ?? clarcd Col Ralston, rtf V n the quality of the Ca.Y .ans and was an answer to those who had wondered how the Canadians would stand up un der a lulf scale offensive. PTOMAINE VICTIMS Persons In Erie, Pennsylvania, Are Poisoned L. lstcr of with t- No Less Than Three Hundred ERIE, Pennsylvania, July 30 O) Upwards of three hundred Erie residents were rushed to hospitals and homes yesterday suf fering from what Dr. James R. Smith, city health officer, dlag- nozed as ptomaine poisoning. Full mobilization of all doctors and nurses In the area was Police Chief George Cristoph has ordered an investigation. He said he believed all victims, em ployees of the Erie works of the General Electric Co., had eaten in a cafeteria. Bulletins mussolini "tiiuown our' NEW YORK Merrill Mueller, National Broadcasting Company broadcaster at Allied headquarters in North Africa, reported Thursday night that the deposed Renito Mussolini "now is a military prisoner in a Rome hotel. He added that Mussolini did not resign but was thrown out by a military coup d'etat. The source of his information was not given. SUBMARINE LOST LONDON The Admiralty announces that the submarine HPS is overdue and presumably lost. ITALIANS RESTLESS BERNE Thousands of Italians carrying placards saying "we demand peace" and "we want our sons back" paraded in Milan and Turin Thursday night in spite of military warnings that troops would fire on demonstrators, frontier dispatches said today. The Italian people are, apparently, becoming; worried over the continued failure of the new Premier Pietro Badoglio to take steps to secure peace, H is suggested that Badoglio considers the Allied "unconditional surrender" terms too severe. JAPS BEING BOMBED NEW DELHI There have been further severe bombings by the British and United States Air Forces of Japanese military targets in Burma. MORE BOMBS MORE FRIENDS I LONDON, July 30 0) "The !imore bomlbs fall, the more matey people become," Sir Edward Evans, London Regional Civil Defence Commissioner, said In an address stressing that "the bombs which fell on London were a good thing." After the war there will be less party' politics in Britain, he predicted. ORIGINAL APARTMENTS Cliff Palace in Colorado is the largest known cliff dwelling In the world, numbering 200 rooms. ' fee I PROV' I Dim-out ll . M-m wrrw w " m- www www Tonight's A-" w (Half an hour after sunset to I half an hour before sunrise). n. Minimum - 10:17 p.m. to 5:19 am. NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1943 PRICE. FIVE CENTS ituation In Italy Is Still Uncertain IN SICILY ANKS OF EMI AKfc INf, HIT CANADIANS MAKE GOOD THEIR LANDING ON SICILIAN BEACHES Onto the beaches of Sicily roll amphibious jeeps used by the Canadian troops In their dawn assault on the Italian 'island. Here men of Canadian units engaged in the attack prepare their craft for the drive which consolidated beachheads and permitted a rapid advance northward toward Sicilian towns and cities. (Canadian Army Photo). Get Controller In Pub Debate LONDON, July 30 TP They were discussing rationing in an English pub and there was general approval of clothes rationing as a war and a post-war measure. The last man to be heard, and then by invitation, was an unobtrusive stranger in the torner. He turned 6ut to be Hugh Dalton, president of the Board of Trade and Drltain's "Coupon Czar." JAP SHIPS ARE SUNK Two Large Transports and Two Tankers Are Sent to Bottom By Americans ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN Renovate Shop For Soldier ROTHWELL, Eng., July 30 0 -VThls town in Yorkshire set a new style in war memorials. Townfolk renovated a shop owned by Cpl. Edwin Smart, 27 which had been untenanted during war years and began NORTH AUSTRALIA. July 30 ?lrtwwtnglf..TCar. .Qeorgt Two narge 'Japanese transports . - . , , . , by'w111 come back' t00' to a b and two tankers were sunk United States air action in the siSn bearing his name In large South Pacific yesterday. letters over the shop. BOMUKRS SINK AXIS SHIP IN MEDITERRANEAN A pattern of bombs explode about a German supply ship in the Mediterranean headed toward Tunisia to aid beleaguered Axis troops. The vessel was also riddled by machine-gun fire before the bombs dropped by Allied planc3 sank It. This photo Is from News of the Day Newsreel. SHOWS PANTELLERIA'S UNDERGROUND HANGARS Wrecked Axis aircraft are pictured In the foreground after the fall of the stepping-stone Italian island of Pantelleria, Most interesting ansle of this picture, however, Is the view of the underground hangars In the .background, which shows that the Axis was prepared for an attack and had fortified the island, although It had not forseen the Intensity of the terrific bombardment that was to rain from the skle3. HONG KONG IS BOMBED United States Raiding Planes Drop Their Cargoes There WASHINGTON, D.C., July 30 United States bombing planes blasted at Japanese-held Hong Kong yesterday. TRYING TO SAVE0REL Germans Are Moving All Kinds Of Reinforcements Into Fight RUSSIANS UNCHECKED MOSCOW, July 30 (CP) Germans, fighting desperately to hold Orel at all costs, brought in reinforcements but failed to check the crushing Soviet drive. The Russians drove them from three fortified positions. MOSCOW, July 30 The Nazl3 are moving reiniorcements or all descriptions into the battle to save Orel. However, the German counter-attacks are still proving Ineffectual with rain and mud rendering material and heavy armored equipment ineffectual, Red Army cavalry Is takmg over. The enemy has been driven back another six miles toward OreL Thirty more villages have been captured by the Red Army and more than three thousand Germans killed There have been further Russian gains In the Donets Basin and fighting has flared out again in the Leningrad area. TIGHTENING ON RUBBER Further Restrictions are Announced by Minister of Munitions OTTAWA, July 30 CB Effective midnight tonight used tires and tubes may be purchased only with tire ration permits similar o those required for new tires, Hon. C. D. Howe, minister of munitions, announced. There are also further restrictions in regard to the trading, and exchange of tires both with dealers and privately. Halibut Sales American Omaney,, 55,000, 17.50 and Nazis Furnish Longer Chains 16, Atlln and Royal. evlathan, 38,000, 17.50 and 16, Storage. Tatoosh, 32,000. 17.50 and 16, Booth. Winston Waits For His Honor MANCHESTER, July 30 O) The City Council admitted Prime Minister Churchill as an Honorary Freeman of the City yesterday. However Mr. Church-Ill Is not expected to receive the honor until the war ends. Replying to the -Invitation, he wrote, ''For reason I am sure you win understand, it is not LONDON, July 30 B An 18- year old Briton, home after two years in German captivity, said he had seen some Dieppe pris oners in a camp near Bremen and that they remained shackled as long as he was there. The one respite granted, he said, was the lengthening of the chains between the handcuffs. He described the dally ration of food as a loaf of bread for seven people, a spoonful of sugar, a spoonful of jam and a bowlful of turnip soup or sauerkraut. , AMERICANS OUT AGAIN Daylight Bombing Raids Over uermany ana trance lt.A.r. Hits Hamburg Again SEVENTH BIG RAID LONDON, July 30 (CP) Royal Air Force and Canadian bombers dropped more than two thousand tons of explosives on Hamburg last night. It was Hamburg's seventh pounding since Saturday. LONDON, July 30 United States flying fortresses 6taged a heavy raid on Kiel submarine base yesterday and also smashed at enemy plane factories at Rostock In north Germany. St. Nazalre and Rouen In northern France were also bombed during daylight yesterday. More than thirty fortresses were shot down. The Royal Air Force attacked HambnrswhpfljJly.-.last, .-nlglt dropping 2000 tons of explos Ives. The raid was stated to be In great strength and 28 British planes failed to return, six en emy machines being shot down. ITALIANS IN REVOLT Soldiers in Milan Refuse to Obey Orders to Fire Upon Demonstrating BERNE, Switzerland, July 30 (CP) Italian troops have molted in Milan, refusing to obey orders to fire' upon demonstrating compatriots who were swept from the streets by thousands as they shouted demands for peace. The German TransOcean News Agency teported that all members of the Italian Fascist Grand Council except one not named have been arrested. GERMANS DIG IN LONDON, July 30 IB A German report on the Channel Islands says they have confiscated land and buildings, converted industries to their own use, provided themselves with libraries, shops, cinemas and newspapers, and taken over all motor cars. radios and horses. German Lt taught In all the schools. MOSCOW'S CHANGED LINE LONDON, Julyo 30 W Mos cow now begins and ends all CENSORSHIP IS IMPOSED General Badoglio is Bearing Down on Newspapers in Italy ROME, July 30 An even stricter censorship has been clamped down by the new government of General Pietro Bad-aglio. The newspapers were not permitted to publish the news of the peace terms of General bwight Elsenhower, Allied commander-in-chief In, the Mediterranean area. However, mimeographed copies of Elsenhower's message received widespread circulation and it was broadcast on the-radio. Other restrictions of nature resembling those of the Fascists have peen Imposed. MOVE IN TO ITALY Germans Continuing Preparations to Make Defensive Stand North of River Po BERNE, July 30 Continuing what appears to be their inten tion of instituting defence operations north of the Po River In Italy, the Germans are In tensively occupying that part of Italy between the Gulf of Trieste and the Austrian frontier. . . Bombing Planes Over Southeast Town of Britain LONDON, July 30 German bombing planes were over a southeast coast town last night. Anti-aircraft guns went into action but damage and casualties, if any, were not at first made known. London had an alert but no raiders appeared. REGIMENTAL ANNIVERSARY Highly Enjoyable Dinner and Dance Held by Ontario Unit Last Night The third mobilization anni versary dinner of an Ontario regiment was celebrated last night with a dinner for all ranks in the men's mess followed by a line dance in tne Young Men's Christian Association r-creation hut. It was an outstanding evening all around, highly enjoyable for all in attendance. At the regimental dinner, the colonel of the unit spoke appropriately to the occasion. The Y.M.CA. was handsomely decorated for the dance with regimental emblems and colors. All the Y.W.C.A. hostesses were In attendance as well as girls of the Women's Division of the Royal Canadian Air Force. Sergeant George Graham was a genial master of ceremonies and music was by an orchesi led by Sergeant Major Mills with Mrs. J. S. Black at the piano. Features of the dance program Included a floor show broadcasts In foreign languages , In which Mrs. Gilchrist, recent at present, or so long as the 'with the slogan: "Death to th?ly arrived from Scotland, sang war continues, possible to fix a definite date for the actual ceremony." NAZIS STEAL EVIDENCE MANCHESTER, July 30 CB Netherland sources say the Germans have stolen the original document of the Westphallan Peace Treaty in which Germany recognized the Independence of Holland from Germany In 1648. JUST SAILS ALONG Speediest of swimmers, the sallf lsh can travel at a speed of 68 miles an hour. German Invaders." Before the Commlntern was disbanded the slogan was:: "Workers of all Lands, Unite." Ably assisted by an earnest crowd of sidewalk superintend ents a crew of workmen from the city electrical department this morning did a neat Job of lowering a concrete light standard in front of the new military post office on Third Avenue from Its upright position and laying it on the ground. The operation was done to permit the repair of a broken wire conduit and the post will soon be up again. and Miss Isabel Connery danced the sailor's hornpipe. There was a spot dance and prize waltz, the winners being one of the Air Force girls and a member of the unit. .At 11 o'clock refreshments were served in the mess hall. SALVAGED UNDER FIRE LONDON, July 30' -Britain has disclosed that guns from British merchant ships beached or sunk In North African harbors were salvaged and s,ent to the front line for 'the drive on Tunis. They also helped beat off enemy aircraft. Hi v ft x'.i iiYI n