The
court
of
revision
on
the
municipal
assessment
roll
was
in
session
for
several
hours
yesterdaj
and,
after
making
a
number
of
adjustments
on
various
appeals,
the
court
was
adjourned
until
February
24.
The
court
of
revision
consists
of
Mayor
W.
M.
Watts,
chairman,
Aid.
W.
II.
Brett,
Aid.
N,
E.
Arnold,
Aid.
George
Hills
and
Aid.
J.
S.
Black.
The
assessor,
Arthur
Brooksbank,
was
in
attendance
and
Miss
Audrey
Wrathall
acted
as
clerk.
Only
in
one
appeal
did
counsel
appear,
this
being
in
that
of
F.
Mlllerd
Co.
Ltd.
which
asked
for
a
reduction
of
assessment
on
land
and
Improvements
on
a
waterfront
block
at
Seal
Cove
where
a
cannery
has
Just
been
established.
A
reduction
of
ten
pe;cent
on
both
land
and
improvements
was
permitted
from
$9,250
and
$12,500
respectively.
T.
W.
Brown
appeared
as
counsel
for
the
company
and
W.
O.
Fulton
on
behalf
of
the
city.
Dr.
Joseph
T.
Mandy,
resident
mining
engineer,
appeared
with
the
request
that
the
waterfront
property
where
the
ore
sampling
plant
is
located,
valued
at
$3040,
be
exempted
from
taxation.
The
court
reserved
decision.
James
Taylor
appeared
with
a
claim
that
$90
valuation
on
the
land
of"Iot"13,
block
6',
secUorfT,
was
too
high
at
$90
taut
it
was
ordered
to
stand.
Oscar
Larsen
presented
a
claim
from
Erllntr
Parkvold
that
assessment
of
$180
on
land
and
$300
on
improvements
on
lot
6,
block
39.
section
5,
was
too
high.
Decision
was
reserved
by
the
court.
In
the
matter
of
a
considerable
amount
of
property
which
has
been
taken
over
on
lease
by
the
United
States
government,
it
was
decided
to
place
the
property
on
the
tax
roll.
Other
appeals
and
the
disposition
of
them
were
as
follows:
J.
H.
and
Helen
Hillman,
lots
13
and
14,
block
21.
section
7,
land
reduced
from
$230
to
$180.
R
L.
Mcintosh,
lots
11,
12
and
13,
block
A,
section
7,
$485;
lots
28,
29
and
30.
block
F,
section
7,
$435;
re
duced
by
25
percent.
Emll
J.
S.
Sollld,
lots
17
and
18,
block
13,
section
7,
improvements
of
$390
deleted,
land
at
$275
unchanged.
W.
and
M.
Smith,
lots
5
and
6,
block
2,
section
7,
building
reduced
from
$2140
to
$1900,
land
at
$360
unchanged.
F.
Chin
and
C.
P.
Moon
(King
George
Hotel),
land,
$2040,
improvements,
$6,615,
unchanged.
Pierre
Lcltoss,
cast
half
of
lot
5,
block
2,
section
2,
land
valuation
of
$135
unchanged.
A.
J.
Daly,
lots
17
and
18,
block
27,
section
8,
improvements
increased
from
$345
to
$495.
Mr.
Jackson,
lot
21,
block
38,
section
7,
improvements
of
$351
added
to
roll.
D.
A.
Lund,
lots
23
and
24,
block
2.
section
8,
improvements,
of
$175
added
to
roll.
Raymond
Scherk,
lots
27
and
28,
block
7,
section
7,
improvements
In
creased
from
$620
to
$1400.
Canadian
National
Land
Depart
ment
lease
to
Department
of
Na
tion
Defence,
waterfront
block
G,
iuo
on
land
to
be
added
to
roll
Canadian
National
Railways,
lease
to
Department
of
National
Defence,
block
8,
waterfront,
$100
valuation
added
to
tax
roll.
Train
Subjected
To
Machine
Guns
LONDON,
Feb.
9
Southeast
coast
towns
of
Englanfl
were
attacked
last
night
by
the
German
Luftwaffe.
A
train
was
machine-Sunned
but
there
were
no
casual-tles
as
the
engineer
drew
it
Into
the
safety
of
a
tunnel.
ing.
All
or
1200
I'atlenU
at
Indiana
In-stitulion
Are
Believed
Saved
EVANSVILLE,
Ind.,
Feb.
9
Oi
Fire
destroyed
EYansville
State
Hospital
for
the
Insane
today.
Most
of
the
1200
inmates
escaped
and
were
herded
into
an
outdoor
stockade
with
several
hundred
guards
watching
them,
There
is
no
known
loss
of
life.
BARRICADE
PROPOSED
Civic
Board
of
Works
Docs
Not
Consider
Recommendation
of
Jury
Feasible
The
recommendation
of
a
coron
er's
Jury
following
a
recent
inquest
i
that
a
barricade
be
erected
at
the
end
of
Fourth
Avenue
West
at
Ag-new
Place
came
(before
the
city
council
last
night
with
a
report
from
the
Board
of
Works
that
this
would
not
be
practicable
unless
the
pathway
which
leads
from
there
to
Fulton
Street
be
done
away
with.
However,
it
was
proposed
that
a
re-1
necior
De
put
in
as
a
danger
signal
at
that
point.
The
reason
that
the
barricade
could
not
be
put
in
without
eliminating
the
pathway
is
that
it
would
require
so
much
bracing
work
down
the
side
of
the
hill.
Second
Doctors'
Office
Entered
Diugx
Thought
Objective
of
Two
Nocturnal
Visits
Made
During
Week-end
Besides
that
of
Dr.
C.
H.
Han-klnson,
another
local
physicians'
office
was
entered
during
Saturday
night
or
Sunday
morning
that
of
Dr.
It.
G.
Large
and
Dr.
J.
J.
Gibson
in
the
Smith
Block.
Entry
was
made,
It
is
believed,
by
way
of
a
transom
and
exit
Ly
opening
a
door
from
the
inside.
A
clock,
but
nothing
else,
was
miss
It
is
thought
that
drugs
may
have
been
the
objective
of
inc
entrants.
Water
Cut
Off
By
Broken
Main
Complaint
Made
to
City
Council
Last
Night
Hut
Nothing
Could
Be
Done
About
it
E.
A.
Evans
appeared
before
the
city
council
last
night
stating
that
considerable
inconvenience
was
being
caused
for
the
Salvation
Army
Hostel
on
Second
Avenue
where
seventy
service
men
were
spending
the
night,
owing
to
the
water
having
been
cut
off
while
re-Dalrs
were
being
made
to
a
broken
main,
The
water
had
been
shut
off
,ithniit
wnmin!r
and
Mr.
Evans
inquired
if
something
could
not
be
done
about
Having
n,
lurneu
on
again.
Mayor
W.
M.
watts
ana
Aia.
Thomas
Elliott,
chairman
of
the
utilities
committee,
explained
that
there
was
nothing
which
could
be
done
about
the
matter
until
repairs
had
been
finished
as
the
water
could
not
be
allowed
to
run
out
of
a
broken
main,
particularly
during
the
present
shortage
and
when
residents
of
some
of
the
higher
parts
of
the'
city
had
been
and
were
still
without
water.
Japanese
Have
Evacuated
Guadalcanal
Position
Of
i
United
Nations
Is
Better
In
Conference
With
Military
City
Council"
in
Coinmittcc-of-Wholc
Session
on
Question
Of
Water
Following
the
regular
weekly
meeting
last
night,
the
city
council
went
into
committee
of
the
whole
to
meet
a
delegation
representing
the
military
authorities
here
for
the
.purpose
of
discussing
the
water
situation.
The
purpose
of
the
meeting
was
to
devise
some
means
of
providing
the
military
establishment
here
with
a.
more
adequate
supply,
particularly
in
view
of
recent
rulings
toy
the
council
with
a
view
to
conservation
during
the
shortage
Including
one
that
no
new
connections
would
be
permitted.
However,
no
arrangement
was
arrived
at.
Col.
Martyn,
area
commandant,
headed
the
military
OVNCAL
WASHINGTON,
D.C.,
Feb.
9
(CP)
The
apparent
ending
of
the
six
months'
campaign
of
Guadalcanal
which
has
resulted
in
the
wiping
out
of
all
enemy
resistance
there
places
American
forces
"within
striking
distance
of
some
of
the
most
important
bases
of
the
Japanese"
said
Secretary
of
the
Navy
Frank
Knox
today.
The
secretary
of
the
Navy
talked
to
a
press
conference
shortly
after
the
Berlin
radio
announced
Japanese
Imperial
headquarters
had
reported
the
withdrawal
of
the
Japanese
forces
from
Guadalcanal.
Berlin
reports
also
told
of
the
evacuation
of
the
Japanese
from
the
Buna
area
where
final
annihilation
of
a
15,000-man
Japanese
force
by
the
Allies
was
accomplished
some
three
weeks
ago.
Secretary
Knox
expressed
the
opinion
that
it
was
possible
the
recent
widespread
sea
and
air
activity
in
the
Solomons
might
have
been
a
demonstration
to
cover
the
withdrawal
of
the
Japanese
from
Guadalcanal.
Meanwhile
Allied
headquarters
in
Australia
report
that
Allied
bombers
destroyed
Japanese
occupied
Dro
in
the
Aroe
Islands.
Gasmata
and
Rabaul
have
been
bombed
again.
BULLETINS
GUADALCANAL
CLEANED
UP
WASHINGTON
Sccretaiy
of
the
Navy
Frank
Knox
said
today
that
all
enemy
resistance
on
Guadalcanal
in
the
Solomons
has
"apparently
ceased."
LONDON
HAS
ALEUT
LONDON
A
brief
air
raid
alarm
was
followed
quickly
today
by
the
"all
clear"
in
London.
RED
ARMY
SMASHES
ON
MOSCOW
The
Red
Army
smashed
anew
at
sagging
German
lines
in
three
sectors
today
after1
storming
into
Kursk,
enemy
anchor
point
on
the
Mos-cow-to-Crimea
rail
line,
and
destroying
the
German
Kursk
army
commanded
by
General
Schneider.
.MESSINA
IS
OBJECTIVE
CAIKO
Allied
bombers
car-ricd
out
a
heavy
bombing
attack
on
the
important
Sicilian
city
of
Messina
ycsteiday,
a
Brit-isli
communique
announced.
NAZIS
EVACUATING
LORIENT
NEW
YORK
The
Hcrlin
radio
said
in
a
broadcast
recorded
by
the
Associated
Press
that
Lorienl,
Nazi
U-boat
base
in
France,
had
been
dealt
a
heavy
blow
Sunday
night
by
the
Royal
Air
Force
and
is
going
to
be
"completely
evacuated"
by
Wednesday.
AIR
FIGHT
KEEP&UP
New
Aattacks
by
United
Nations
in
Ports
of
Tunisia
and
Italy
More
Axis
Ships
Sunk
CAIRO,
Feb.
9
a
It
is
announced
that
Allied
bombers
hit
two
ships
in
a
new
attack
on
the
Tunis-Jan
port
of
Sousse
and
set
parked
aiicralt
afire
in
a
raid
on
the
airdrome
at
Gabes.
It
is
also
reported
that
a
Dritish
submarine
off
the
Italian
coast
,ank
four
ships
in
a
single
day
but
It
is
said
there
is
nothing
to
report
from
ground
fighting.
A
raid
on
Messina,
following
by
a
day
a
heavy
raid
on
Naples,
Indicated
a
stepping
up
of
the
Allied
plan
to
pound
strategic
Axis
supply
centres
in
the
Mediterranean
on
regular
schedule.
PLAYGROUND
ACTIVITIES
Report
.for
Last
Year
Presented
To
Gyro
Club
To
Formulate
Plans
for
This.
Year
Total
attendance
for
last
season
at
Gyro
Club
playgrounds
In
Prince
Rupert
last
year
was
3,403,
according
to
a
report
for
the
season
which
i
has
been
prepared
by
Frank
Skln-Iner,
chairman
of
the
club.
The
re
port
was
received
by
the
executive
of
the
club
yesterday
and
will
go
before
the
regular
monthly
business
luncheon
tomorrow.
Activities
on
the
grounds
wcrel
somewhat
curtailed
last
year
but
were
of
value
to
the
goodly
number
ot
children.
Miss
Eleanor
Mox-ley
acted
as
Instructress
and
her
assistant
directors
were
Miss
Char
lotte
Dodlmead
at
Westvlew,
MIfs
Sheila
McRae
at
Acropolis
Hill,
Miss
Kathleen
Doherty
at
McClymont
Park
and
Miss
Thomaslna
Krause
at
Seal
Cove.
There
was
a
regular
program
of
events.
Fred
Olsen
did
good
work
as
caretaker.
The
playground
program
last
year
cost
the
club
$346.85.
Equipment
has
been
In
storage
for
the
winter
and
a
program
for
the
coming
summer
will
be
formulated
later.
There
has
been
prospecting
for
herring
recently
at
Laredo
Inlet
on
the
south
end
of
Princess
Royal
Island
tout,
while
there
have
been
some
signs,
the
quantity
of
fish
has
not
been
sufficient
for
seining.
Local
Temperature
Tonight's
Dim-out
Maximum
-
35
(Half
an
hour
aft&r
sunset
to
Minimum
23
half
an
hour
before
sunrise.)
7:05
p.m.
to
8:45
am.
"
rt'
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
VOL.
XXXII,
No.
33
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
TUESDAY,
FEBRUARY'9,1943
PRICE-
FIVE
CENTS
1
Kursk
i$
Now
Taken
Rus
sians
COURT
OF
REVISION
Many
Adjustments
on
Municipal
Tax
Hull
Order
at
Session
Yesterday
ASYLUM
DESTROYED
CHURCHILL
IN
HOUSE
Prime
Minister
Will
Make
Statement
Soon
on
War
Situation
LONDON,
Feb.
0
(CP)
Prime
Minister
Winston
Churchill
told
the
House
of
Commons
today
that
he
would
soon
make
a
statement
on
the
war
situation
including
reference
to
creation
of
a
United
Na
ions
war
council
and
the
shipping
Mtuation.
He
spoke
in
answer
to
a
question.
The
P'
ime
Minister,
who
returned
Sunday
from
his
trip
to
North
Africa
and
the
Middle
East,
stopped
the
show
in
the
House
of
Commons
when
he
entered
unobtrusively
during
the
question
period.
Cheering
and
applause
broke
out
on
all
sides.
Eleventh
Avenue
Under
Military
However,
Public
May
Use
it
Until
Such
Time
as
Rattle
Positions
Assumed
A
letter
from
Col.
D.
B.
Martyn,
i
area
commandant,
read
at
last
night's
meeting
of
the
city
council,
held
that
traffic
was
not
being
untnyfcrdSTbrT
Eleventh
"Avenue
but
said
that,
in
the
event
of
battle
positions
having
to
be
assumed
In
this
city,
it
would
be
essential
to
close
the
road
to
all
but
military
traffic.
Automobiles
and
pedestrians,
Col.
Martyn
said,
were
now
permitted
to
go
through
on
presentation
of
national
registration
certificates
and
children
were
not
Interfered
with.
At
the
suggestion
of
Aid.
McKay
it
was
decided
to
advise
the
local
evacuation
committee
of
the
position
of
Eleventh
Avenue
with
the
suggestion
that
other
plans,
be
made
not
involving
use
of
Eleventh
Avenue
should
evacuation
of
the
city
become
necessary.
Warned
Against
Damage
By
Guns
Department
of
National
Defence
Holds
Itself
Not
Responsible
The
city
council
was
In
receipt
last
night
of
a
letter
from
Col.
D.
13.
Martyn,
area
commandant,
holding
that
the
Department
of
National
Defence
could
not.be
held
iable
for
any
damage
done
to
the
property
of
Albert
Fern
from
firing
of
nea:by
guns
since
Mr.
Fern
had
been
warned
against
the
possibility
of
damage
if
he
persisted
in
build-.ng
on
the
site
In
question.
Mr.
Fern
himself
had
suggested
a
conference
with
the
city
commissioner
but
had
failed
to
keep
an
appointment.
It
was
decided
by
the
council
to
hear
what
Mr.
Fern
had
to
say
now
tha.t
the
military
had
given
its
side
of
the
case.
Military
Would
Take
Control
of
.
Two
Big
Bridges
VANCOUVER,
Feb.
9
In
the
event
of
a
military
emergency
in
this
area,
both
the
Pattullo
and
the
Lion's
Gate
bridges,
the
former
across
the
Fraser
River
at
New
Westminster
and
the
latter
across
the
First
Narrows
at"
the
entrance
of
urrard
BInlet,
would
come
completely
under
military
control
and
would
be
closed
to
all
civilian
Another
Important
Point
Taken
From
Nazis
By
Red
Army
In
Great
Campaign
Entire
German
Defensive
Line
in
Soviet
is
Now
ImperilledKharkov
and
Rostov
Positions
Are
Sagging
LONDON,
Feb.
9
(CP)
A
special
Russian
communique
announces
the
fall
of
Kursk,
one
of
the
principal
bastions
of
the
German
1941-42
winter
line.
The
capture
of
Kursk
imperils
the
entire
German
defensive
line
in
Russia.
The
enemy
lines
are
now
sagging
on
three
lines-west
of
Kursk,
towards
Kharkov
and
around
Rostov.
.
Front
line
dispatches
tell
of
the
i
Red
Army'
sweeping
in
on
the
German
citadel
of
Kursk
from
several
directions
to
overwhelm
the
garrison
that
had
held
Kursk
since
November
11,
1041,
Although
not
admitting
the
fall
of
Kursk,
the
German
High
Command
reports
that
the
Russians
have
renewed
attacks
on
a
broad
front
in
that
sector
and
"In
a
fierce
defensive
battle
our
units
were
st-anaing
ground
against
a
numerically
far
superior
enemy
In
unfavorable
weather
conditions.
GREAT
AID
OF
CANADA
To
Make
Billion
Dollars
Worth
of
War
Production
Available
To
United
Nations
This
Year
OTAAWA,
Feb.
9
CP)
Hon.
J.
L.
Ilsley,
minister
of
finance,
told
the
House
of
Commons
today
that
(he
government
proposes
to
make
one
billion
dollars
worth
of
Canada's
war
production
directly
available
to
the
United
Nations
during
the
next
fiscal
year
either
by
outright
gift,
by
loan
or
under
replacement
plans.
Mr.
Ilsley
said
that
no
financial
impediment
should
be
allowed
to
interfere
with
the
sharing
of
the
Dominion's
war
production.
MANY
ARE
ENLISTING
Considerable
Activity
Here
Recent
ly
in
Recruiting
for
Active
Force
of
Canadian
Army
'There
has
been
considerable
activity
lately
in
enlistments
here
in
the
active
service
force
of
the
Canadian
Army.
Three
recruits
were
dispatched
to
Vancouver
last
night
and
others
were
sent
previously.
Those
sent
to
Vancouver
last
night
were:
Edward
James,
aged
22,
moulder,
Prince
Rupert.
..
P.
J.
Raven,
19,
machinist,
Winnipeg.
Robert
Wilson,
18,
moulder,
Hln-
ton,
Alberta.
Other
new
recent
recruits
have
included
the
following:
K.
S.
Wood,
35,
warehouse
foreman,
Ocean
Falls.
Olof
Nystrom,
29",
driller.
Product,
Saskatchewan.
D.
L.
Sullivan,
29,
steam
engineer,
Ashcroft.
N.
A.
Ward,
18,
truck
driver,
Bapaume,
Saskatchewan.
C.
Roy
Walters,
26,
civil
engin
eer,
Drumheller,
Alberta.
Arthur
E.
Phillips,
34,
salesman,
Prince
Rupert.
P.
A.
McGregor,
28,
lineman,
Prince
Rupert.
COPENHAGEN
PAID
VISIT
No
Official
Explanation
is
Made
in
London
as
to
Attack
of
Royal
Air
Force
STOCKHOLM,
Feb.
9
German
shipyards
at
Copenhagen,
where
are
located
the
world's
largest
dies-
el
works,
were
bombed
last
night,
the
explosions
toeing
heaid
on
the
Swedish
side
of
Skager
Tack.
There
was
no
official
explanation
in
London
of
reports
that
the
Royal
Air
Force
had
paid
a
visit
to
the
big
shipyards
at
Copenhagen.
I
Fire
Destroys
Seward
Theatre
SEWARD.
Alaska,
Feb.
9
Fire
starting
in
the
film
room
destroyed
the
Liberty
Theatre
block
here
with
a
loss
estimat-
ed
at
between
$100,000
and
$200,000.
(Pi
(R-
PROSPECT
,
NOT
ROSY
Public
Works
Department
Has
No
Money,
No
Men
and
No
Materials
No
money.
No
men.
No
materials.
Such
is
the
plight
of
the
municipal
public
works
department
and
it
does
not
present
a
very
rosy
prospect
for
the
carrying
out
of
;lvic
undertakings,
said
Aid.
Rob
ert
McKay,
chairman
of
the
board
of
works,
at
last
night's
meeting
of
the
city
council.
Also
the
weather
is
not
auspici
ous
at
this
time
for
carrying
out
public
works.
The
skeleton
crew
of
the
public
works
department
has
been
en
gaged
pretty
well
lately
in
thawing
out
frozen
water
pipes
and
hauling
coal
to
the
schools.
Aid.
MacKay
lists
as
the
project
No.
1
Importance
this
year
the
proposed
trunk
sewer
in
Section
1.
Aid.
Sorensen
Chairman
Of
Reading
Room
Mayor
W.
M.
Watts
last
night
appointed
Aid.
T.
II.
Sorensen
as
chairman
of
the
city
reading
room
committee.
Other
members
of
the
committee
will
be
appointed
by
Aid.
Sorensen
and
the
mayor.
For
the
time
being
the
reading
room
remains
closed
as
it
is
In
need
of
renovation
of
repairs.
When
the
Tuel
situation
becomes
less
acute,
it
will
probably
be
reopened.