onques
EDS
HAVE
IITIATIVE
Iryuhere
Russians
Now
Have
s;izcd
Offensive
Against
Germans
NAZI
PLANS
BROKEN
MOSCOW,
July
21
(CP)
pre
than
4
00
Germans,
died
iday
on
the
approaches
to
it
where
the
Kussians,
clos-
a
pincers
about
the
key
.1
a
I-
A
I
kf,
roniiiiuea
iu
mruw
uaiK
Li
counter-attacks
and
ad-
aiced
two
to
four
miles,
front
.
.....
,
,
I
i
i.
;
.i
in,i.
Iviet
Army
newspaper
said
it
the
battle
not'
only
had
bshed
Adolf
Hitler's
plan
a
new
geneial
offensive
on
eastern
front
but
was
caus-
him
to
lose
the
battle
for
fcily
The
newspaper
said
it
Hitler
had
been
unable
to
rase
forces
to
combat
the
lied
invasion
of
Sicily
be-
ase
he
was
so
heavily
en-ted
on
the
Russian
front.
e
entire
Narl
campaign
for
rope
was
being
broken
down
au.se
of
the
Russian
offen
der
JVf
July
24
The
Rus-
advanced
3'
2
to
5
v
run
the
important
1
city
of
Orel
and
.
ae
in
from
three
E:
;
radio
has
com-;
nni
the
people
"
In1
loss
of
Orel.
.
ivanccs
have
been
Belgorod
sector
be
f
have
also
improved
,
m
the
Kuban
the
Black
Sea
and
,
and
have
gained
around
Krasno-
ri"
norththe
Russians
irwcd
ah'oTfensive
"In
:y
of
Leningrad.
r
:a
Leningrad
through
tr
a
of
Aov
Russian
,.vc
been
general.
R
CREW
NEEDED
pity
of
Recruits
Causes
Con
trn,
Minister
for
Air
States
,
1TAWA,
July
24
tt
Hon.
O.
vcr
minister
of
national
"!
f
r
air,
said
in
the
0
t
C
mmons
today
that
vr
ament
is
"seriously
1
over
the
shortage
of
recruits
now
coming
in.
i
Tnwer
said
it
was
hop-i'
"-
apfratlofi
of
empioy-
1
patriotism
of
young
civilians
would
ln-
f
.:s
flow
ol
recruits.
'OMEN
TO
iT
MORE
!"ay
In
forces
to
be
In
cased
to
Eighty
Percent
Of
That
of
Men
pAWA,
July
24
CK
Hon.
J,
p-
'
minister
of
national
Fn
tnnounepd
in
the
Commons
Saturday
of
women
in
the
forces
increased
to
eighty
-
f
that
paid
men
in
the
"ik
The
present
rate
of
v
mrn
is
60
2-3
percent
'
men
l
"'
aae
will
be
retroac
July
l.
n
at
Court
mse
Repaired
.
ovation
Following
Dynamit-
'"e
Last
Year
About
Finished
NCOUVER.
Julv
24'-
Re-
s
h
one
of
the
lions
at
the
Mn.e
of
Vancouver
Court
P
which
was
dynamited
par
ajro
is
nearly
finished,
1
'-he
arrival
of
some
cement
ymg
the
completion
of
the
.,
,
CANADIANS
-
JNCII
THEIR
DAWN
INVASION
OF
SICILY
9BIH
-
'TTf
-iSjtj
Ht
i
Carrying
their
rifles
and
equipment,
Canadian
troops
Jump
from
landing
craft
and
wade
wat
it
deep
thraugh
the
sea
to
launch
their
dawn
a:
.ault
against
the
island
of
Sicily.
A
picture
or
the
landing
Is
shown
at
top.
Destroyers
laying
smoke
screens
to
shield
the
in-
vaders
are
pictured
below.
(Canadian
Army
Photos)
I
REFUSED
TO
NEGOTIATE
Charge
Made
Against
Vatican
by
Italy,
Hungary
and
Rumania
NEW
YORK,
July
24
(CP)
A
British
Broadcasting
Corporation
broadcast,
quoting
the
Swedish
newspaper
Nya
Bag-liot
"Allehanda,
said
that
Italy,
Hungary
and
Rumania
recently
asked
the
Vatican
to
mediate
for
a
separate
peace
but
that
the
Vatican
refused
to
negotiate.
I
he
broadcast
said
the
report
was
not
yet
confirmed
in
London.
CANADIANS
HIT
KISKA
Dominion
Airmen'
Participate
in
Smashing
Itaid
on
Japanese
Aleutians
Base
Ottawa,
juiy
24
w
cana-
dlan
airmen
stationed
In
the
Aleutians
participated
In
an
air
attack
Thursday
on
Japanese
at
Klska,
the
Royal
Canadian
Air
Force
announced
on
Saturday.
At
Washington
the
United
.
States
Navy
said
that
heavy
i
air
raids
preceded
and
follow-;
wlthm
a
few
ays
0f
the
reed
bombardment
of
enemy
po-
moVal
of
coffee
from
the
ra-ltlons
on
Thursday.
The
raids
.
tlons
ist
owing
to
the
lmprove-are
evidently
Intended
to
soften
'
ment
m
the
Atlantic
situation,
"
up
defences,
:
The
newly
completed
runway
and
other
Installations
of
the
Japanese
,on
Klska
were
targets
of
the
latest
raids.
The
Royal
Canadian
Air
Force
pilots
flew
Hawk
fighters
which
supported
the
bombers.
A
Navy
communique
said
Allied
airmen
heavily
bombed
and
strafed
enemy
coastal
batteries,
anti-aircraft
positions
and
building
areas.
Numerous
fires
were
started
and
one
large
explosion
was
observed.
One
American
plane
was
shot
down
by
anti-aircraft
fire
but
the
crew
was
rescued.
Col.
William.
C.
Koenlg,
who
has
been
stationed
here
for
some
time
as
port
commander
for
the
United
States
Army,
left
Thursday
evening
for
New
York
where
he
has
been
transferred
for
reassignment.
!
iTfeBY
GUNMAN
TTUIUCU
iiuvr
TOKYO.
Juiy
24
Premier
Tojo
has
caJled
elder
statesmen
and
military
leaders
into
extraordinary
session
on
account
of
the
"critical
war
situation."
Further
United
States
raids
on
Tokyo
from
bases
In
China
are
expected.
Bolters-up
Ask
Wage
Increase
More
Money
Being
Sought
By
Employees
of
Vancouver
Shipyards
VANCOUVER,
July
24
Bolters-up
In
Vancouver
shipyards
are
seeking
an
increase
in
wages.
Coffee
Being
J
P
KCITIOVCQ
rTOm
RofinTflC
I
icf
WASHINGTON,
D.C.,
July
24
Announcement
is
expected
PENSIONS
INCREASE
Federal
Government
Derides
On
Old
Age
Basis
of
$25
Rather
Than
$20
OTTAWA,
July
24
CO
Hon.
J.
L.
Ilsley.
minister
of
finance,
told
the
House
of
Commons
Saturday
that
the
government
has
decided
it
should
make
legal
provision
for
Increasing
the
maximum
old
age
pension
from
$M
to
$25
per
month.
Halibut
Sales
American
Chelan,
33,000,
17
V
and
16,
Pacific.
i
;
ill
pr
ARE
SLAIN
i
Ogden,
Utah,
Killer
Takes
Lives
of
Five
Tersons
Including
District
Judge
OGDEN,
Utah,
July
21
(CP)
A
gunman
here
killed
five
persons
including
a
district
judge
who
had
granted
his
wife
a
divorce.
The
gunman
was
arrested
early
today.
Sheriff
John
Watson
said
the
gunman
was
Austin
Cox
of
Utah.
Tlie
dead
are:
District
Judge
Lewis
True-man.
Mrs.
Janes
Stauffer.
Mrs.
Burton,
Mrs.
Stauffer's
mother.
Mrs.
Betty
Brooks.
Sam
Nelson.
The
sheriff
said
that
Cox
evidently
had
gone
out
to
kill
any
peace
officer
or
Judge
he
found.
Mrs.
Cox
recently
obtained
a
divorce
in
Trueman's
court.
Baseball
Scores
International
League
Bfaltimore
0-1,
Jersey
City
4-6.
Newark
0,
Syracuse
3.
Toronto
4,
Rochester
2.
Montreal
3,
Buffalo
6.
Coast
League
San
Diego
3,
San
Francisco
13,
Hollywood.
2,
Seattle
0.
Sacramento
1-4,
Los
Angeles
2-3.
.Oakland
3-4,
Portland
2-5.
National
League
Boston
0,
Chicago
5.
Philadelphia
2,
Pittsburgh
3
Brooklyn
2,
Cincinnati
0,
New
York
0,
St.
Louis
1.
American
League
Chicago
7-5,
Boston
8-1.
Cleveland
1,
Philadelphia
0.
St.
Louis
0,
New
York
1.
Detroit
12,
Washington
6.
American
Association
Toledo
3,
Milwaukee
4.
Louisville
5,
St.
Paul
2.
Columbus
4,
Kansas
City
5.
Indianapolis
9,
Minneapolis
12.
R.
A.
F.
BURMA
NEW
DELHI
The
Royal
Air
Force
has
damaged
more
than
100
Japanese
warcraft
in
Burma
as
well
as
motorve-htcles.
All
bombing
planes
returned
safely.
Local
Temperature
Tonight's
Dim-out
Maximum
.
63
(Half
an
hour
after
sunset
to
Minimum
51
half
an
hour
before
sunrise).
10:26
p.m.
to
5:09
am.
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
k
XXXII,
No.
172
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
SATURDAY,
JULY
24,
1943
PRICE.
FIVE
JAPS
HAVE
NAVYiOSS
Nine
Thousand
Ton
Seaplane
trader
Sunk
by
Allied
Planes
Off
Bougainville
ALLIED
HEADQUARTERS
IN
tfouia
PAUiXC.
July
24
fhe
Japanese
have
suffered
another
naval
loss
In
the
sink-
uy
Auiea
pianes
of
a
9,000-.on
seaplane
tender
off
Bougainville
in
the
Solomons.
One
out
of
four
accompanying
des
troyers
was
damaged.
Ihere
have
been
further
Allied
air
raids
on
Madang,
New
Guinea,
and
elsewhere.
Appropriations
Bill
For
War
Is
Passed
By
Senate
OTTAWA,
July
24
The
war
appropriations
bill
of
$3,890,-000,000
was
passed
by
the
Senate
yesterday.
BRINGS
IN
ESTIMATES
Finance
Minister
Ilsley
Presents
Supplementaries
to
Sum
of
$43,633,933
OTTAWA,
July
24
TO
Hon.
J.
L.
IMey,
minister
of
finance.
tabled
in
the
House
of
Com
mons
yesterday
supplementary
estimates
of
$43,633,933
for
the
fiscal
year
ending
March
31,
1944
bringing
to
$654514,427
tfo
total
estimated
expenditures
lor
non-war
purposes
in
the
cur
rent
fiscal
year.
Premier
Hart
To
Pay
Visit
To
Peace
Country
VICTORIA,
July
24
Premier
John
Hart
is
about
to
make
a
trip
Into
the
Peace
River
district.
He
will
leave
Monday
for
Dawsdn
Creek
to
study
problems
there
and
elsewhere.
BURNING
TIME
The
Anglo-Saxons
In
ancient-
times
measured
time
by
burning
a
graduated
candle.
Mrs.
E.
C.
Brown
of
Nelson,
who
has
been
visiting
here
with
her
parents,
Mr.
.and
Mrs.
Robert
Wilson,
is
making
good
re
covery
at
the
Prince
Rupert
General
Hospital
following
an
operation
for
appendicitis.
PLANES
HOVER
A
dramatic
picture
made
CENTS
.
Is
.
Near
i
Complete
Americans
Are
Swinging
Eastward
To
Join
With
British
and
Canadians
Bulletins
MOSCOW
In
a
special
order
of
the
day,
Premier
Joseph
Stalin
today
congratulated
his
army
on
the
complete
liquidation
of
the
German
summer
offensive.
Seventy
thousand
Germans
have
been
killed
since
July
5
with
3,000
tanks
destroyed
and
1,400
Nazi
planes
shot
down.
CORDWOOD
FOR
VANCOUVER
KAMLOOPS
There
is
plenty
of
cordwood
available
at
Kamloops
and
it
is
exptttrd
some
of
it
will"
be
shipped
to
Vancouver
to
relieve
the
shortage
of
fuel
that
is
expected
this
winter.
WOMEN
IN
SHIPYARDS
VANCOUVER
Women
employed
in
shipyards
here
now
number
1100
and
it
is
expected
this
number
will
be
increased
to
3000.
BOMBING
BELGIUM
LONDON
The
Royal
Air
Force
resumed
Us
raids
on
western
Europe
yesterday
with
low
level,
bombing
attacks
on
two
power
stations
inliefgiumT
INDIAN
PRIVILEGES
OTTAWA
Hon.
A.
Crerar,
minister
of
mines
and
natural
resources,
said
yesterday
that
the
franchise
and
other
privileges
would
probably
be
given
to
natives
who
were
called
up
for
military
service.
TO
INVESTIGATE
GRAFT
VANCOUVER
Hon.
C.
D.
Howe,
minister
of
munitions
and
supply,
said
yesterday
that
charges
of
"graft
and
corruption"
in
Vancouver
war
industries
as
charged
by
Harold
Winch,
C.C.F.
provincial
leader,
would
be
investigated.
RECOGNIZES
LABOR
BOARD
NEW
YORK
John
L.
Lewis
has
decided
to
recognize
the
authority
of
the
United
States
war
labor
board
and
has
agreed
to
appear
before
the
board
to
discuss
a
contract
for
coal
miners
to
provide
for
$1.25
portal
to
portal
pay
and
a
forty-eight
hour
week.
OVER
TARGET
from
a
hlgh-flylng
Allied
plane.
showing
a
B-24
Liberator
bomber
poised
over
bombed,
smoking
Messina,
Sicilian
terminus
of
the
Important
Regglo-Messina
ferry
line,
during
the
latesj
of
the
series
of
raids
on
that
city.
The
results
and
effects
of
bomb
bursts
among
naval
barracks
and
oil
tanks
can
be
seen
clearly.
AXIS
PRISONERS
NOW
REACHING
OVER
ONE
HUNDRED
THOUSAND
MARK
ENEMY
AIR
POWER
REDUCED
TO
NOTHING
CATANIA
ABOUT
TO
FALL
OTTAWA,
July
24
(CP)
Prime
Minister
Lyon
Mackenzie
King,
in
a
war
review
in
the
'
House
of
Commons
today,
may
be
expected
at
any
ATT
TPn
urr
a
rrvTT
A
m
RICA,
July
24
(CP)
American
forces
have
captured
ft.
ii
i
n:.
:i!
a
e
ir
i
i
j
t...-:
me
western
oicman
pon
oi
marsaia,
Aiuea
neaa-wr
quarters
announced
today.
Many
American
units
are
believed
swinging
eastward
to
join
the
British
and1;
Canadian
troops
in
a
knock-out
blow
at
Axis
def
fenders
clinging
to
the
Isolated
.
4.4.,
J-
'
.
t
MnI.J
.
1
.
1
J
1
1
,
111UU14UC
stiu
uitu
a
rapiuiy
cum
inlshlng
portion
of
the
all
that
remains
tn
the
sStah
South
of
Catania
the
Germans
are
e
still
still
fiercely
f
prrplv
resist
resisting
nu
o
the
t.ho
Brinsn
Eigntn
Army
aitnough
......
.....
.
Amen
warsnips,
drawn
up
along
the
coast,
poured
a
destructive
naval
bombardment
into
the
enemy's
shore
positions.
It
13
disclosed
officially
that
the
Allies
have
taken
sixty
!
thousand
prisoners
and
are
ex-
pected
to
round
up
at
least
fifty
thousand
-jmore,
jrhe
.
prisoners
are
said
to
average
about
three
per
cent
German.
The
Algiers
radio
says
that
American
forces
have
taken
more
than
forty
thousand
prisoners
at
Palermo
alone.
The
entire
Italian
Fiftieth
Division
was
said
to
have
surrendered.
The
Canadian
First
Division,
under
Major
Guy
Simonds,
was
reported
making
progress
otralnef
tonlr
trnnna
nf
a
flpr-
man
armored
division.
AH
airdromes
in
Sicily
nave
now
been
either
captured
or
neutralized.
Enemy
air
power
Is
Pollce
have
launched
an
lnves-virtually
nil.
I
Ration
Into
the
slaying
of
Mrs.
.
'I
Allied
planes
kept
all
enemy
vlola
Albertha
Morrison,
aged
-J
reinforcements
under
smashing
4.
Vancouver
widow,
whose
assault
Friday.
was
fund
late
Friday
In
An
Italian
communique,
broad-;
a
room
In
a
Columbia
Street
f:
past
bv
Rome,
said
that
Allied
rooming
house
with
'bullei
planes
smashed
at
Bologna
in
north
central
Italy,
causing
casualties
and
damage.
CRETE
IS
ATTACKED
Widespread
Raids
Made
by
Royal
Air
Force
on
Nazi-Occupied
Greek
Island
told
the
pollce
that
his
mother
y
had
not
returned
home
Thurs-
j
day
night.
'
Gunshot
wounds
included
one
;!'
...'outward
course.
No
weapon
was
t
1
n,
m
r,
t
CAIRO,
July
24
-OYl
f0Und
and
it
Is
believed
to
have
Force
bombers
made
widespread
-
case
Qt
murder
attacks
Crete
In
daylight
on
Dr.
Kenneth
D.
Panton,
police
.
Friday.
Ammunition
dumps
were
belieyes
tha
death
had
blown
up
and
tented
camps
occurred
nine
hours
the
positions
wireless
and
gun
and,
,
found
nower
stations
were
shot
up.
'
Seventeen
Allied
planes
are
list
ed
as
missing.
The
three
principal
towns
of
Crete
were
attacked
and
air
.lelds
were
also
among
the
objectives.
Firs?
announcement
of
the
Into
the
forehead
indicating
fir
lng
at
close
range
and
another
below
the
left
arm
believed
to
have
been
made
by
,a
bullet
on
,
General
Giraud
Back
In
Africa
lied
Support
for
French
Army
of
350,000
Men
ALGIERS,
July
24
Stating
attack
on
Crete
-was
made
fromjHas
Recc,Ted
Assuranpe
o!
AN
1111.
Restaurant
Help
Shortage
Is
To
Be
Investigated
JICTORIA,
July
24
The
provincial
Department
of
Labor,
on
request
of
the
federal
government,
is
to.
moke
an
investiga
tion
of
the
restaurant
help
shortage
In
Vancouver.
s
said
the
fall
of
Catania
time."
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Till-
July
91
24
tv
l
There
Is
a
growing
convlc-
tlon
here
that
the
AIIIm
are
about
to
strike
in
the
eastern
Mediterranean
to
link
up
with
the
Soviet
of-
fensive
iq
Russia.
Balkan
unrest
appears
to
be
stead-
ily
Increasing.
"
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'
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-
MURDER
IN
VANCOUVER
Body
of
Woman
With
Bullet
Wounds
Found
in
Rooming
House
'
VANCOUVER,
July
24
09
City
;
wounds
In
head
and
side,
!
Discovery
of
the
body
on
a
I
bed
covered
by
a
comforter
was
.'
made
by
the
rooming
house
pro-
,
prletor
who
called
the
pollce.
I
One
son,
Harold,
Is
with
the
,
V
!
Royal
Canadian
Air
Force
on''
jthe
prairies
and
another,
Don-.'
I
aid,
Is
in
Vancouver.
The
latter
,
that
he
had
received
assurances
4,-
In
Washington
and
London
of;'
Allied
assistance
mat
wouia
j
j
permit
a
French
colonial
armyf'jl1
ed
to
fight
against
the
Axis,
General
Henri
Giraud,
chairman
of
the
French
committee
for
national,
liberation,
has
returned
to
North
Africa
from
his
trip
to
the
United
States,
Canada
and
Great
Britain,
1
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