WILL BE JOBLESS Many Construction Workers Will He Looking For New Work Tliis Summer VICTORIA, March 5 With the completion of large defence construction projects, ten thousand construction workers will be look ing for new Jobs by August, It Is estimated, Mrs. Miniver Year's Best (reer Garson and James Cagney Oct "Oscars" For Best Moving Picture Acting Awards HOLLYWOOD, March 5 In the annual presentation of "Oscars" at toe Academy of Motion Picture Acta and Sciences last night, ""Mrs Miniver" received the award for toe best picture of the year. Act- mg awards went to Greer Garson ,r 'Mrs. Miniver" and James Cagney in "Yankee Doodle Dandy." There was a message of congrat ulation from. President Roosevelt for the part moving pictures arc playing i:i the war effort. Profiteers Are Sent to Prison 'alriik Lynch Gets Three Years in Montreal for Fraud in War Contracts MONTREAL, March 5 (CP) Pat-Tick Lynch, president and general manager of Engine Works and fading Incorporated, has been sentenced to three years' Imprisonment and $50,000 fine for consplr-lr3 to defraud the federal covern- nrnt and three comPanles of $200,-"ua m connection with war subcontracts. Lesser sentences were ""Posed on three other employees. had been sunk on September 10 alone. In an address In Quebec Wednesday Navy Angus MacDonald said twenty ships were sunk In the St. Lawrence area last year. Red Cross Drive Makes Progress British Columbia Readies $113,000 Of Its Objective of $800,000 VANCOUVER, March 5 Ths Red Cross campaign in, British Columbia has reached $112,000 of the objective of $800,000. Britannia Beach Is the first place over tte top with $2,500 on an objective of $1,200. Giving To Red Cross T. B. Black $ 5.00 Mrs. Adam Mcintosh o-U'J Mrs. Geo. Shcnton 5.00 Mrs. P. F. Byrne 5.00 M,rs. M. F. Nlckerson 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. J. Forman 5.00 Mrs. Geo. Eckerman 5.00 Mary and Margaret Strachan 5.00 Mrs. G. Dibb 5-00 Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Leek 5.00 G. Brotherson 500 II. Ward 5-00 Mrs. J. H. Thompson 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Scherk 5 00 A Klni? 5.00 Mrs. T. Priest 5.00 Mrs. F. Dlbb 5 00 Mrs. II. B. Nlckerson .500 A. Voetman 5.0U . . c nn J. Plint JUU Mrs. A. W. Burnip 5 00 Mrs. V. Vuckovicti o.w Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Stuart .. 5.00 J. Glllett 5.00 Charles Graham 3 00 Nancy K. Rorie 500 Allan Davles 5.00 Andrew Thompson 500 Mr. and Mrs. L. Fitzgerald 5.00 Bessie W. Snider 5.00 John E. Mathieson 500 Ike Martin 5-j Sheila A. Stuart u A. M. Budlnlch 5-00 irrs. n. C. McRae a-uu Ernest Wilding 5- Mrs. and Ruth Walton oM ncn n.iwcs Mrs. F. W. Gallagher 5.00 Noreen G. Gibson 5-0? Mrs. Gilker a ir Hill-Tout 5.00 5.00 Rev. A. MacSwecn 5.00 Mrs. Margaret McMullen .00 J. C. Brady 7-00 Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Hall 10.00 Mrs. L. R. Lambly 10.0C Mrs. B. ParKer E. A. Nlckerson iU-u" Norman A. Watt Robert C. St. Clair W. Longwell Walter Vance Mr nnri Mrs. L. C. Eby 10.0C 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 Miss Judy Felsenthal 10.00 Arnold Flaten Eileen Gibson Phviiis. Rilecn and Mr 10.00 Ylamblln " Mrs. R. M. Wlnslow 15.00 Dean J. B. Gibson 25 00 CAUSE OF TRAGEDY Enrolment In Schools Here BULLETINS NINTH STRAIGHT NIGHT LONDON Royal Air Force bombers attacked western Germany for theninlh successive night. The objective was not specified. One plane failed to return. NAZIS RUSH HE FENCES VICHY The Germans are rushing the construction of defences in the Campiegne area, eighty miles from the coast of France, a location which would be of importance 'in connection with any Allied invasion. .J SUBSIDY ON WOOD OTTAWA A subsidy of $1 pT cord will be paid on wood cut before July 1. There will also be assistance in bringing the wood in from the bush. TAKE COMMUNICATIONS TANG1ERS The Spanish authorities have taken over control of mail, telegraph and telephone services in this important French Morocco centre. Reason For Subway Shelter Dlsas ter in London Simple Enough LONDON, March 5 CR A woman carrying" baby tripped near the bottom of a subway stairway during the German air raid on London Wednesday night and, within a minute, the nineteen steps became a well of death where J 76 persons died In a pllc-up and sixty were Injured. The woman was rescued alive but the baby was killed. Special precautions are to be taken against the recurrence of any such a tragedy. Two policemen will be posted to the cntranc of all such shelters. Figures Presented by Principals at Regular Monthly Meeting of Board There were a total of 423 pupils enrolled In Booth Memorial High School, 359 In King Edward School and 227 In Borden Street School In February, reports presented to the school board at Its regular monthly meeting showed. The Booth School enrolment consists of 315 In Junior High and 113 In Senior High. The attendance percentage for Junior High was 83.G3 and Senior, 83.68. The King Edward enrolment included 174 boys and 185 girls, the percentage attendance being 84.93. The Borden Street enrolment consisted of 115 boys and 112 girls. Forty-seven pupils 25 boys and 22 girls had perfect attendance In that school. Worthy Memento To New Warship Prince Rupert Chamber of Commerce Favors Raising Fund for Gift to 1I.M.C.S. Prince Rupert Prepared to lead off Itself with a subscription of $25, the Prince Rupert Chamber of Commerce has proposed that the city sponsor subscription list for the purpose ot providing 1I.M.CJS. Prince Rupert, the largest war vessel so far built In Canada, with a memento worthy of the citv after which It Is named. SUB FIRES PROVINCIAL 1 L1BRAKY I REDS MAKE NEW DRIVE Are Concentrating on Centre Against Retiedting Nazis Many More Communities Taken NAZIS THREATENED MOSCOW, Marcli 5 Coupled with new Soviet gains in the northwest front and Red Army advances northwest of Kharkov, Soviet succe-ses have increased fie immediate threat to German position j at Orel, Bryansk, Gzbatsk; Vyazma and Saraya Russa,; intensifying the potential trienaVe. i German key bases at Smolensk and Konolop. MOSCOW, March 5 The newest drive of the Russians against the retreating Nazis is west and north west of Moscow. In the region of Veluki some ten more villages have been recaptured. West of Rzhev as I the Soviet forces move towards iVyasma and Bryansk forty more towns have been taken. The drive west of Kharkov to-,' wards the Dnieper River iu trie norm ana west of Len ungrad the Russians have 'anccd to within eighty miles of Ithe Latvian border. The Ru&ilan offensive Is now ex-Uended all along a 4,000 mile front. 0N.GEN0A ... Hits Scored on Two Ships Being' Built in Yard Train on Bridge Shelled LONDON, March 5 A British uibmarine, it has been revealed, :ame to the surface in the Gulf of Genoa and fired on an. Italian hipbuilding yard, scoring several hits on two vessels on the stocks while a train on a bridge was also shelled. Red Cross Makes I Appeal For Help Communication Read at Meeting Of Local Chamber of Commerce Last Night A communication from C. A. Cot- terell of Vancouver, provincial Red Cross campaign chairman, read at Wednesday night's meeting of the Prince Rupert Chamber of Commerce, emphasised the greater need than ever of the Red Cross for funds and bespoke the greatest support possible for the campaign both in the way of Individual of food and clothing to prisoners of war, and soldiers and refugees overseas, as well as to Russia and China. The organization of disas ter relief In the way of assembling ; medicinal and hospital supplies and clothing was also mentioned. Arnold Flaten, president of the local Red Cross branch, spoke briefly along the same line. MOSCOW, March 5 -0 For outstanding service In literature', the Supreme Soviet has awarded Alexander Serafimovich, 80, the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. Trustee E. J, Smith was delegated at the meeting 'of the board of school trustees to ' Interview the Northern British Columbia Power Co. In regard to charges being made for electric light and 'power at the schools. It was stated that thc maximum rate It U proDosed that the mayor was now Deing cnargea Uie scnoois should head the committee to look 1 and the feeling was that some ... OR n.l - rt.. wtnffar rirl tVof IV,o nlf v I mnro fnvrmhlp trpntinpnt. mlo-lif. IWICI iilttvw. w..uv wvj . . Mri W R MCAICC , Court House Employees 112:50 put up a substantial donation. be accorded. Local Temperature M IT I,- -1 . 1 HI II' 1 I Tonight's Dim-out (Half an hour altar sunset to Maximum 51 hall an hour before sunrise.) Minimum 30 7:53 pjn. to 7:51 a.m. NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER VOL. XXXII, No. 54 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1913 PRICE: FIVE CENTS , Another Highway For C0NVOYIS WIPED OUT ENTIRELY Destruction of Japanese Armada Moving Towards New Guinea 100 Percent Complete ALLIED HEADQUARTERS II? AUSTRALIA, March 5 0) Allied Urmen haye completed the destruction of a Japanese convoy of twenty-two ships carrying reinforcements to New Guinea. An Allied communique reports that the only remnants of the convoy which were still afloat, two crippled destroyers, were bombed and sunk Thursday. The attempt to reinforce troops in New Guinea cost the Japanese eighty-two airplanes, ten warships, twelve troopships and upwards of fifteen thousand men. All that is now left of the convoy 13 the occasional barge or lifeboat containing surviving soldiers or airmen. All twenty-two ships of the convoy totalling 00,000 tons were sunk, Allied headquarters announced Thursday, Australia ttme. The astonishingly low cost to the Allies was only one bomber and three fighters lost. Allied headquarters estimate that fifteen thousand enemy ground troops were aboard the transports and these "have been sunk or killed almost to a man." The convoy was sighted In the Bismarck Sea Monday advancing from New Brltaln.hi.l, at that !lme foul weather kept the Allied planes from blasting It. SINKINGS IN GULF Quebec Member Says Thirty Vessels Were Sent Down by Sub In St. Lawrence QUEBEC, March 5 CP Oneslme Gagnon, Union Nationale member of the Quebec Legislature for Matanc, told the House yesterday that "not twenty but upwards of thirty ships were sunk in the St. Lawrence River and Gulf of St. Lawrence last summer." He could give names and dates. Five vessels Yanks Hit At Kiska : WASHINGTON, D.C., March 5 United States planes have made another raid on Kiska in the Aleutian Islands. Direct hits were made on Japanese camp Installations. DIM-OUT IS DISCUSSED Chamber of Commerce Asks For IUh 115 of Regulation Requiring Shielded Auto lights The Prince Rupert Chamber oi 1 -.at .nreling night, decided to make representations to the Civilian Protection Committee otganizatlon with a view to having the restrictions on out regulations discontinued as had been done in Vancouver and Victoria. The matter was brought up by ad-'l,v- J- Scott who stated that this vps tn? only place in the whole province where it was still necessary to have automobile headlights hncded. The use of the shielded 'i3ri!lr,lits he feared would be the cause of serious accidents. S. E. Parker thought the whole dhnout was abra'd, great lights of the dry dock and contracting projects being permitted to blaze on. vl. 'Uef uu3ilits,iv hilo- othsr. lights w darkened. J. J. I.'ttle. who is district chairman of the A. R. P., remarked that It would probably be necessary to "set touch" with violators of the 1Imm.it. regulations. FINANCE IN GOOD SHAPE Loral Hospital Had Good Year in 1912-Mililary Hospital Contract Settled. Meeting yesterday afternoon, the board of directors of the Prince Rupert General Hospital received the annual financial report for 1942 a satisfactory document showing a substantial excess of revenue over expenditure, which was referred to the annual general meeting, time and place of which have yet to be arranged, piobably late this month or early April. A good deal of time was spent at yesterday's meeting In discussing of the contract with, the Depart ment of National Defence in re gard to the military hospital and contributions and active assistance; Agreement has now been uy memueib ui sua. wuwu made for ft grmmd rent lease tn as onamDcr 01 commerce. Mr. w-1 department which will extend erell's letter mentioned such tunc-' ,nr fhn Hnrat.inn nf thP war nnd tions of the Red Cross as sending two years afler Then thc mu ltary hospital building will be turn ed over ,to the general hospital. The appointment of Douglas C. Stevenson a3 assistant managing secretary of the hospital was ap-pioved by the board. A standard accounting system Is Ibelng Installed. Present at yesterday's meeting were Frank D:tb, chaliman, D. O. Borland, Arnold Flaten, R. E. Benson, W. O. Fulton and J. S. Irvine, directors, and II. W. Birch, managing secretary. Hockey Scores Montreal 7, New York 2. Constables Ernest Bradley and R. W. Sinclair of the city police, who have been In the south for several weeks taking courses, returned to the city this morning from J. Clark has now assumed duties as Janitor at King Edward School, taking the place of J. R. Morrison resigned. NEW ROAD TO NORTH Appropriation at Washington of $25,000,000 for Prince George Connection .. .WASHINGTON, D.C., March 5 Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes has introduced in Congress a bill to appropriate $25,-000,000 to provide for the con-struction of a road from Prince George northward in British Columbia to connect with tlte New Aican Highway. Alberta Wants Its Beer Back Legislature Would illave Federal Government Cancel Restrictions EDMONTON, March 5 Over an amendment of premier Aberhart, automobile headlights under dim- the Alberta Legislature last night, AGREEMENT IS REACHED BY HEARING Shipyard Wages to be Reclassified ncrease Application Later As a result of the conference here .this week between the commission of Mr. Justice S. E. Richards and the Allied Trades Council, it was agreed subject to union merbershlp approval, that a joint employer and employee application should be made to the National War Labor Board for a reclassification of rates of wages to bring Into uniformity with other shipyards on the coast the wages in the Prince Rupert yard, the application for a fifteen percent all-around Increase to be left to a later date. The conference ended last night after further representations had been heard. The memorandum of the Allied by a vote of 27 to 21, endorsed a Trades Council, of which George resolution urging the federal gv ernment to lift its new .beer sales restrictions. NAZIS ARE REPULSED British Light Armored Forces Drive Enemy Back in Vicinity of Mareth, North i. -Africa- .-v.- FOUR VESSELS SUNK ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, March 5 (CP) Allied bombers sank four Axis vessels from a six-ship convoy yesterday and shot up a German and Italian motor transport in an aerial accompaniment to ground fighting during which the tank-led First Army forces repulsed determined attack at Sedjcnanc. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, March 5 Wt Light armored forces of the British Eighth Army, it Is announced, the fortified line in central Tunisia. Allied planes are still pounding the Mareth Line. Marshal Eiwin Itoimel Is protecting the retreat of his forces through Fald Pass with the laying of large quantities of land mines. There Is little change in the situation around Kasserlne. TAKES OVER POST HERE Duncan J. Johnston Succeeds W. F. Ei'c as Administrator of Wartime Housing. Duncan J. Johnston has arrived in the citv from Vancouver to sue ceed William F. Eve as admlnis trator of Wartime Housing here. Mr. and Mrs. Eve left last night for Vancouver where they plan on taking up future residence. Elmer F. Green has also arrived In the city to assume the position of community counsellor for War time Housing here. Mr. Johnston has been with the Burrard Dry Dock Co. as chief timekeeper and just recently Joined Wartime Housing. His wife will be coming here In about a month's time to Join him. Mr. Green has seen service In the present war with the Royal Canadian Air Force. B. Thorstelnssen, inspector of schools, has been making his visitations to local schools of late. He was at King Edward School during February, the principal reported to the board at Its regular monthly meeting. McKnight Is chairman, was as fol lows: The Memorandum "The proposed scale 'of wages, which Is recommended by the members of" the B.C. Shipbuilders' Federation, and which give the same rates of pay to shipyard em ployees, whether at Vancouver or Prince Rupert, does not allow for the considerable difference be tween the two cities In the living conditions, the working conditions and the-, higher. cost of living at the latter city. "Prince Rupert is 580 miles north of Vancouver and Is a colder, wetter climate. Its distance from agricultural and industrial enterprises causes prices of commodities to be appreciably higher. Men who come here realize that the end of the war will see the cessation of shipbuilding, as well as the finish of many other lines of work, and Prince Rupert will return to Its pre-war status. "No large Industries are estab lished here and nearly all the newcomers will have to go elsewhere lor employment and to es tablish a home. They feel they arc have repulsed enemy infantry sacrificing considerably more than striking east of Mareth, anchor of those who go to Vancouver and the more favored parts of the coast where there is a better chance to establish themselves latertf- J "Coming here, they find the higher ' cost . of commodities food, rents; light, water, etc., are unrelieved bjr prospects of establishing vegetable gardens, chickens, as they can do In Vancouver and the south There they are making a specialty of home grown food. Here it I impossible to do so as these Is only muskeg and rock underfoot. "AH vegetables, fruit, and other commodities must be brought :n from outside, much of it from Vancouver, even fresh milk being brought In from Vancouver and the Interior. A quart of fresh milk which costs eleven cents In Vancouver sells for fifteen cents here. "This Is an Indication of many other commodities and prices. "While we list prices in our special submission on same from the Labor Gazette, we find the local prices and those in Vancouver are appreciably higher than those (riven in the Labor Gazette. Costs Compared As evidence of our claims, a comparison was tabulated by the Allied Trades Council and the fol lowing figures are the result. "Taking our . figures from the Labor Gazette, we find that, comparing the prices In Prince Rupert from December, 1941, to December, 1942, there was an Increase of 2.95 over the 1941 prices. "Comparing December, 1942, prices In Vancouver, with thc prevailing prices in Prince Rupert at that time, we see that Prince Ru-( Continued on Page Two)