Milk
Crisis
in
City
Considered-Resolution
to
Government
Asks
For
Guarantee
of
Full
Supply
(Continued
on
The
urgent
need
for
immediate
action
in
providing
Trince
Rupert
with
adequate
and
regular
milk
supply
occupied
the
attention
of
the
Prince
Rupert
Parent-Teachers'
Association
almost
exclusively
at
a
meeting
last
night,
in
the
auditorium
of
Booth
Memorial
School.
It
culminated
in
the
passage
BALTIC
BOMBED
Stettin
and
Kostock
Heavily
rounded
by
Koyal
Air
Force
LONDON,
April
21
(CP)
Heavy
British
bombers
attack
rd
the
German
Baltic
ports
of
Stettin
and
Kostock
last
night
while
speedy
Mosquito
bombers
pounded
Berlin
in
widespread
raids
from
which
thirty-one
planes
are
missing,
the
Air
Ministry
announced.
The
night's
operations
also
included
minelaying
in
enemy
waters
and
sharp
attacks
by
fielitrrv
and
fighter-bombers
on
enemy
railways
and
coastal
shipping.
Kojal
Canadian
Air
Force
aircraft
took
patt
in
the
Stettin
raid,
minelaying
and
fighter
sweeps
with
one
Canadian
bomber
missing.
.
The
Koyal
Air
Force
continued
Its
assault
on
enemy
territory
today,
explosions
being
heard
lrom
the
Boulogne
and
Zebruggc
regions
after
the
bombers
had
left,
RUSSIANS
ADVANCE
Important
Height
on
Kalinin
Front
Is
Taken
from
Nazis
I
'-TDUN,
April
21
fl
The
Rus-
cap'ured
an
important
height
en
ft
Kalinin
front
northwest
of
Mi
w
on
Tuesday
and
then
re-
cu.
r.-1
rated
German
counter-t
K
Mr
row
announced.
About
''
it
and
Nazi
officers
and
men
were
killed.
li
ti"
w--tern
Caucasus
the
Pcr-mar
uffnrcd
heavy
losses
on
the
ground
while
Russian
anti-aircraft
not
down
twelve
German
fn-
and
Soviet
aircraft
downed
nine
others.
BIG
LE
AGUE
BALL
OPENS
Washington
Senators
Defeat
Phil
adelphia
Athletics
in
First
Game
of
Season
WASHINGTON,
DC,
April
21
The
Bin
League
baseball
season
opened
yesterday
with
Washington
Senators
winning
seven
to
five
over
Philadelphia
Athletics.
FIVE
.SECONDS
TO
SMASH
IT
It
takes
five
hours
to
prepare
a
champaigne
bottle
for
a
ship
launching.
Great
Price
ror
Halibut
Halibut
price
on
the
Prince
r
nuie.-t
Exchange
boomed
up
to
the
.
nt"
for
first
class
fish
and
e
lor
second
class
today.
.
ne
Canadian
hnot
toe
Oldfleld
with
5,000
pounds.
I
fROV
N
Local
Temperature
Tonight's
Dim-out
Maximum
i
(Half
an
hour
aftw
sunset
to
Minimum
half
an
hour
before
sunrise.)
9:23
pjn.
to
5:58
am.
L-
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NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
VOL
XXXII,
No.
.
94
.
.
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a
0
A
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
WEDNESDAY,
APRIL
21,
1943
PRICE:
FIVE
CENTS
i."
Eighth
Army
Takes
Enfidaville
of
a
resolution
calling
upon
me
uomimon
government,
through
Olof
Hanson,
MP.,
to
take
'steps
to
have
the
manufacturers
of
canned'
milk
make
such
supply
available
'without
interruption.
The1
meeting
heard
that
canned
milk
had
become
so
scare
in
Prince
Rupert
that
a
reserve
supply
of
367
cases
held
by
the
Army
had
been
released
to
the
retail
trade
and
was
being
sold
only
to
customers
with
babies
In
the
hope
of
tiding
them
over
until
early
in
May.
By
ihat
time
it
was
expected
the
situation
would
become
relieved
with
theory
of
sl
though
regular
channels
adequate
to
meet
the
normal
needs
of,
the
community.
There
would
be
no
canned
milk
available
for
adults
until
after
the
end
of
the
month.
J.
V.
Scrivener,
local
representative
of
the
Wartime
Prices
and
Trade
Board,
and
Dr.
R.
J.
Mac-Donald,
medical
health
officer,
were
both
present
and
addressed
the
meeting.
Later
there
was
a
rather
protracted
discussion
In
which
various
aspects
of
the
milk
situation
were
gone
into
and
many
views
expressed.
-v..-
TheLooal
Crisis'"'
Mr.
Scrivener
explained
how
the
present
milk
crisis
had
come
about.
The
fact
that
one
company
had
undertaken
a
large
contract
for
the
British
government
.and
had
had
difficulty
in
filling
it
had
ag
gravated
the
situation.
Now
there
were
no
reserves
left.
Stock
had
been
taken
In
Prince
Rupert
on
Monday
and
it
had
been
found
only
fifty-three
cases
were
on
hand.
Three-quarters
of
the
stores
had
no
milk
whatever.
No
sup
plies
could
be
expected
before
May
1.
To
meet
the
emergency
the
Army
had
loaned
367
cases
which
would
provide
only
for
small
chil
dren
until
the
end
of
the
month.
Steps
were
being
taken
to
ensure
that
only
families
with
small
chll-,
dren
secured
this
milk.
I
Mr.
Scrivener
went
on
to
state
that
efforts
were
belr
made
to
I
have
a
regular
supply
of
3,000
.
cases
of
canned
mint
monuuy
made
available
tb
Prince
Rupert.
A
strong,
(resolution
backed
by
various
organizations
would
undoubtedly
h'av'e
some
effect.
Milk
was
recognized
as
a
most
important
item
of
diet.
Mr.
Scrivener
expressed
the
vie'
that,
after
the
end
of
the
month,
there
would
be
regular
supplies
of
canned
milk
for
the
summer
.months
at
least.
Hoarding
would
have
to
be
guarded
against
and
the
days
of
having
a
case
of
milk
on
hand
wquld
appear
to
be
over.
The
present
canned
milk
short-
i
l
A
...nc
man
age,
Mr.
scrivener
siu,
Bv..
,,.!
ThP
Wartime
Prices
and
Trade
Board
actually
had
no
con-
(,ro!
of
how
the
available
supplies
were
aistriouu-a.
w"
-
make
suggestions
and
mat
was
De-
Ing
done.
ti
jt
There
was
consmeraDie
ai.u-
.
t.
will
t.lfl1Q
sion
also
of
tne
ireMi
mn.
u-
tion
here.
It
was
admitted
oy
u.
Scrivener
that
local
dairies
had
been
put
in
an
awkward
financial
position
by
being
compelled
to
pay
.
....
J.,ort
whilP.
at
more
to
ine
fiuuui-""
"
.
j
the
same
time,
a
retail
eel
ng
had
to
them.
It
applicable
been
made
was
possible
that
they
would
have
which
would
Involve
to
be
given
relief
more
having
to
be
paid
by
fresh
milk
the
consumers
of
discussion,
after
it
In
general
out
that
one
of
had
been
pointed
fhe
problems
of
the
local
dairies
las
to
secure
help,
one
suggesUon
was
that
local
men
might
turn
Page
Two)
PRESIDENTS
ARE
HEARD
Chief
Executives
of
United
States
And
Mexico
Get
Together
in
Monterey
MONTEREY,
Mexico,
April
21
0
President
Franklin
D.
Roosevelt
of
the
United
Slates
and
President
Comacho
of
Mexico,
speaking
at
a
banquet
last
night
In
this
northern
Mexican
industrial
centre,
proclaimed
a
brotherhood
In
arms
of
the
two
countries
and
mutual
desire
for
peace
wherein
no
group
in
one
country
may
exploit
the
resources
and
people
of
another.
A
program
of
peace
and
unity
j
to
extend
through
the
war
and
after
was
enunciated
by
the
two
chief
executives.
Doth
Roosevelt
and
Comacho
set
their
faces
against
negotiated
peace
feelers
from
the
Axis
such'
as
that
which
emanated
a
few
days
ago
from
Spain.
They
pledged
themselves
to
work
for
a
new
order
in
the
interests
,
?'
fU
humanit
an
n0t
a
faredi
cans
and
use
of
Mexicans
on
United
lixce
Rupert
Gyro
Club
today
in
States
farms
are
among
subjects
ar
address
by
Mayor
V.
U.
Watts
which
Roosevelt
and
Comacho
which
was
of
'
.much
interest
In
;
have
discussed.
vlew
01
lne
Information
which
it
President
Roosevelt
left
Wash-
contained.
The
;
mayor
spoke
of
fl-
j
ington
April
13
and
on
the
way
nances
and
dealt
with
some
of
the
to
Mexico
visited
military
training
difficult
problems
which
the
city
camps
in
the
southeastern
states,
was
facing
in
view
of
present
un-also
spending
a
day
at
Warm
,
usual
conditions.
t
,
Springs,
Georgia.
Under
Secretary
of
State
Sumner
-Welles
and
Mrs.
companying
the
President.
It
was
the
first
meeting
in.
thlrty-four'years
of
United
States
1
and
Mexican
presidents
were
both
in
office
and
the
first
trip
away
from
the
United
States
of
Mr.
Roosevelt
since
historic
Casablanca.
FEAST
OF
PASSOVER
Gathering
of
Local
Jewish
Tersons,
Mostly
Service
Men,
Held
Monday
Night
Thc
gathering
being
directed
by,day
nlght
when
lt
was
decided
to
William
Goldbloom
with
Sergeant
Itosenberg
of
the
United
States
Army
conducting
the
religious
rites,
the
Jewish
Feast
of
the
Pass-ovet
was
observed
formally
in
Prince
Rupert-on
Monday
.night.
The
function
was
held
in
the
Em
press
Hall
and
about
seventy-five
persons
of
the
faith,
mostly
Canadian
and
American
service
men,
were
In
attendance.
A
banquet
fol
lowed
the
service
with
Jewish
dishes
appropriate
to
the
occasion
being
featured.
The
observance
or
the
Passover
Is
being
continued
this
week.
The
event
here
was
organized
by
Rabbi
Cass
of
Montreal
in
the
course
of
a
visit
to
the
city
last
week.
Home
Economics
Department
At
B.C.
University
The
Prince
Rupert
Parent-
Teachers'
Association,
at
Ite.pieet-
mg
last
nigni,
naa
leweia
nuiu
tut;
University
of
British
Columbia
and
the
Department
of
Education
in
reply
to
the
proposals
of
the
association
that
a
department
of
horns
economics
should
be
established
at
the
university.
The
letter
from
the
university
said
that
the
matter
was
being
placed
before
the
board
of
governors.
Hon.
H.
G.
Perry,
minister
of
education,
in
his
letter,
said
that
an
appropriation
for
the
purpose
suggested
had
been
included
In
this
year's
estimates.
WINK
IN
LAUNCHINGS
Red
wine,
symbolic
of
blood,
was
long
identified
with
ship
Are
Still
Shackled
.
,
OTTAWA,
April
21
05
The
Department
of
External
Af-
fairs
says
that
prisoners
of
the
United
Kingdom
and
Cana-
dian
forces
are
still
shackled
at
Staleg
Vilib
and
other
camps
in
Germany.
The
:
statement
said
that
the
Brit-
ish
and
Canadian
govern-
ments
are
continuing
to
press
:
for
abandonment
by
the
Ger-
man
government
of
shackling.
MUNICIPAL
SITUATION
Finances
and
Other
Problems
Discussed
by
Mayor
W.
M.
Watts
In
Speaking
Before
Gyro
Club
Today
The
municipal
situation
up
to
date
was
brought
before
the
fresiaeni
w.
j.
ocoij.
was
m
u
at
cnair
ana
mee
su
tendance
of
Gyro
members
ta
I
eether
with
a
number
of
guests.
1
'.1
r
sKea
To
Keep
Traffic
On
11th
Avenue
In
view
of
the
fact
that
the
Army
has
already
pretty
well
closed
Eleventh
Avenue
to
general
traffic,
military
vehicles
are
to
be
requested
by
the
city
council
to
keep
off
the
Conrad
Street
and
Hays
Cove
route
when
coming
.o
town.
This
will
relieve
congestion
particularly
around
school
areas,
it.
was
fplt
bv
the
citv
council
Mon-
make
a
request
to
this
effect
to
the
military
authorities.
The
matter
was
brought
up
by
Aid.
George
Hills
and
the
"move
was
seconded
by
Aid.
W.
H.
Brett.
Portland
Canal
Loan
Campaign
Drive
is
Organized
with
John
Thompson
as
District
Chairman
and
D.
L.
Coulter,
Vice-Chairman
With
John
Thompson
of
Stewart
as
chairman
and
D.
L.
Coulter
of
Premier
as
vice-chairman,
the
Fourth
Victory
Loan
campaign
In
the
Poitland
Oanal
district
has
been
organized
with
committees
as
follows:
Stewart
Publicity
and
advertising,
W.
R.
Tooth.
Cilizen's
committee
L.
G.
Behn-
cpn
IT
.T
M"T)rlnii1ri.
Mrs.
W.
.1.
Crawfordi
Alex
Russwurm.
Mrs.
At
Ian
Carolan,
H.
C.
Bennett
and
W.
L,
Newell.
Official
canvasser,
John
Thompson.
Premier
Publicity
and
advertising,
R.
McLeod.
Citizen's
committee
J.
C.
Mc-
Cutcheon,
A.
J.
Teed;
Mrs.'
McKen-
nltt,
J.
C.
Smith,
Mrs.
T.
Hughes,
W.
G.
Watts
and
J.
C.
Arseneati.
,
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Oeorge
E.
Windsor
arrived
in
the
city
this
morning
from
Vancouver,
being
on
their
way
to
Wales
.Island
cannery
on
the
Naas
River
to
spend
'
the
sum
mer.
'Another
Important
Victory
Is
Scored
by
British
in
Tunisia;
Montgomery
Smashing
Ahead
HAD
DOZEN
CANDY
BARS
Another
Woman
Wants
Beef
For
New-born
Baby
Some
incidents
at
the
Wartime
Prices
and
Trades
Board
office
were
mentioned
by
J.
V.
Scrivener,
the
local
board
representative,
In
rneaklns
before
the
Prince
Rupert
Parent-Teachers'
Assoclatifn
last
night.
One
Incident
was
that
of
the
woman
who
leached
into
her
handbag
for
a
handkerchief
and
exposed
therein
a
dozen
chocolate
bars.
i
.i
.i
('.i-jie
wj
another
woman
who
wanted
'to
know
If
there
would
be
a
beef
allowance
for
her
Jiew-.jrrn
aaby.
"Shi
can
get
it
too,"
d?d
Mr.
Scrivener.
GIANTS
IN
THOSE
ISLANDS
Early
Hawaiian
chiefs
often
were
physical
giants,
weighing
300
to
500
pounds.
At
Monday
night's
meeting
of
the
city
council
Aid.
Rcfoert
McKay
suggested
that
departmental
out-lay3
fpr
expenditure
on
work
"'shcuid
be
subjects
committee
ap-.pioval
if
involving
expenditure
of
(more
than
$10.
This
was
the
policy
,ln
connection
with
the
making
of
pu.
chases
and
Aid.
McKay
thought
it
should
also
apply
to
work
committments.
Ihere
was
further
discussion
of
the
matter
in
committee
of
the
whole
to
which
the
council
resolved
isfelf
during
the
latter-stages
of
the
meeting.
NEW
JAP
FOREIGN
MINISTER
TOKYO
Premier
Tojo
has
appointed
Shigomit-su
as
new
foreign
minister
of
Japan.
Shigomitsu
was
formerly
known
as
an
advocate
of
peace
with
Great
Britain
and
the
United
States.
DROP
BOMBS
ON
LONDON-
.
LONDONA
few
German
planes
'
attacked
London
last
.night
and
dropped
some
bombs',''
'"
Htisiii'g'
dam-'
'
age
and
a
few
casualties.
COMMERCIAL
PLANE
ATTACKED
LONDON
German
planes
have
made
their
first
attack
of
the
war
on
a
British
Airways
Overseas
com
mercial
plane
bound
from
London
to
Lisbon.
The
plane
limped
into
Lisbon.
STRIKE
AT
HAMILTON
HAMILTON
Employees
of
the
Hamilton
Bridge
Co.
have
voted
for
strike
action
in
protest
against
a
decision
of
a
board
of
conciliation.
KILLING
IN
Important
Mountain
Height
Dominating
Road
to
Tunis,
Forty
Miles
Distant,
Also
Captured
Enemy
Also
Being
Battered
From
Air
ALLIED
HEADQUARTERS
IN
NORTH
AFRICA,
April
21
(CP)-t-Enfidaville;
coastal
anchor
of
Marshal
Envin
Rommel's
Tunisian
''defence
line,
has
been
occupied
by
the'
British
Eighth
Army,
an
Allied
headquarters
communique
"said
today.
Four
fierce
enemy
counter-attacks
have
been
beaten
off
by
General
Montgomery's
"
desert
veterans
who
smashed
for-
DROWNING
IN
SKEENA
Two
Men
Lose
Lives
When
Boat
Capsizes
100
Feet
from
Shore
At
Haj
sport
Two
men
so
far
unidentified
are
believed
to
have
been
drowned
iist
ni;ht
about
10
o'clock
in
the
Skecna
River
about
one
hundred
feel
from
shore
at
llaysport
when
an
outboard
motorboat
in
which
they
were
crossing
the
river
from
Tort
Essington
capsized
in
rough
water.
Other
men
In
the
boat
managed
to
reach
shore
and
the,
provincial
police-
were
md
vised
early
this
morning.
The
police
boat
T.M.L.
15
was
dispatched
to
search
for
the
missing
men
and
investigate
the
affair.
The
men
are
believed
to
have
been
construction
employees
of
Canadian
National
Telegraphs
working
on
the
line
to
the
east
of
Haysport.
VANCOUVER
.
VANCOUVER
Edward
H.
Chapman,
a
war
worker,
was
found
slain
by
an
axe
in
his
home
in
the
West
Point
Grey
district
last
night
shortly
after
his
wife
had
been
found
poisoned
with
iodine.
The
wife
is
in
hospital.
ANOTHER
WARNING
GIVEN
ALLIED
HEADQUARTERS
IN
AUSTRALIA
General
.Douglas
MacArthur
gave
another
warning
yesterday
of
mounting
air
arid
'ground
power
of
the
Japanese
in
the
southwest
Pacific.
Recent
Allied
successes,
he
declared,
had
not
been
decisive.
UNCONDITIONAL
SURRENDER
LONDON
Foreign
Secretary
Anthony
Eden
was
loudly
cheered
in
the
House
of
Commons
today
when
he
declared
that
British
policy
was
still
determination
upon
unconditional
surrender
of
the
Axis.
nuu
4ii
a
ui
it
tuaii
Kiani
oitui
bij
before
midnight.
The
communique
said
that
fighting
Is
continuing.
The
Eighth
Army
also
took
an
important
mountain
height
controlling
the
road
to
Tunis
forty
miles
distant.
There
was
nothing
to
report
from
the
First
Army
on
the
northern
flank
except
that
it
was
fighting
largely
a
holding
action,
having
taken
a
small
town.
The
dominant
Allied
air
force
Is
continuing
its
attacks
up
and
down
Tunisia,
raking
air
fields
on
heavy
scale
yesterday
and
de
stroying
twenty
-seven
planes
against
a
loss
of
eight.
These
fig
ures
brought
to
151
the
official
total
of
enemy
planes
downed
in
three
days.
BOMBING
OF
JAPAN
Further
Details
Revealed
of
Last
Year's
Attack
on
Tokyo
and
Other
Cities
;.
WASHINGTON.
.April
21
-L
The
War
Department
disclosed
Tuesday
night
details
of
the
American
bombing
raid
on
Tokyo
April
18,
1942,
saying
that
the
planes
took
off
from
the
aircraft
carrier
Hor
net.
This
carrier
was
subsequently
lost
in
the
Battle
of
Santa
Cruz
October
26
last.
The
Hotnet
carried
fliers
of
the
Army
air
force
to
within
eight
hundred
miles
of
Tokyo.
They
bombed
not
only
military
objectives
in
Tokyo
but
armament
plants,
dockyards,
railroad
yard:
and
oil
refineries
at
Yokohoma?
Nagoya,
Kobe
and
Osaka.
The
American
planes
were
under
aiders
to
fly
to
specified
landing
fields
In
China.
Of
eighty
men
on
the
raid,
five
were
prisoners
or
are
presumably
prisoners
of
Japan,
two
a;e
missing
and'
one
was
killed.
The
other
sixty-four
made
their
way
to
camps
of
the
Chinese
army
and
then
back
to
American
territory.
Seven
of
those
who
escaped
wej
injured.
JE&'
A
Department
of
War
spoksKnan,
said
that
the
Tokyo
bombing
was
"Just
a
foretaste
and
a
mild
one
of
at:
shaking
attacks"
on
Japan
which
were
to
come.
Inspection
Of
Sea
Cadets
On
Tuesday
Night
The
weekly
parade
of
the
local
v
Sea
Cadets
Corps
was
featured
last
night
by
a
March
Past
and
Inspection
at
the
fjotjrj
Houta
;
grounds
by
Commander
D.
C.
Wallace,
naval
officer
commanding
at
Prince
Rupert,
before
whom
the
boys,
under
Lieut.
Commander
Alex
Mitchell,
paraded
and
presented
a
smart
appearance.
Following
the
parade,
th
corp3
proceeded
to
the
Empress
Hall
where
Interesting
moving
pictures
were.
shown
by
the
Young
Men's
Christian
Association
war
services.