lOYCE
HANGED
!
OR
TREASON
L-f-nrk
Hillrrism
to
End
Warns
Against
Jews
and
Kusslans
I
LONDON
-WUliam
Joyce.
I
ord
Haw
Haw
oi
ueu
w
I
iw,
of
Wandsworth
pris-
li.
Forty
vears
old
and
born
an
Imrriran
Joyce
sola
ms
voice
I
nitipr
ns
a
radio
propagand
ist
a,
uie
outset
of
the
war.
He
Us
nansed
on
mgn
treason
L
.
.
v,
Via
wao
pnnvlr.t.-
niarecs
oi
u.uv
-
id
last
September.
jovnc
died
on
the
same
scai-
on
.
.
.
.i
00'
.
hid
on
wnicn
jonn
.
,,
I
..111.1.
u
t
-
I
,,,
0)
tormcr
Bnuu
tauuici
fcicmbei
was
hanged
m
uecem-L
on
treason
charges
growing
ut
oi
similar
radio
activities.
I
Pmrn-randa
Minister
Josepn
fcocbbcl!
paid
Joyce
$50
weeiciy
ir
his
radio
work,
which
con-listed
oi
four
dally
broadcasts.
Jovro
defended
HUlerlan
doc-
in
l--P
-
(hp
end.
"In
death
as
In
I
r.
hp
saw
lust
befoie
eolng
to
I
he
"allows.
'I
defy
the
Jews
who
parted
the
war,"
He
warned
brcai
Britain
against
Russian
Im'penalLsm.
IE-ELECTS
FOR
5PEEDY
TRIAL
Scklna
re-election
on
charge
Li
break
and
entry
with
theft
s
ftcr
he
had
elected
speedy
trial
Ln
Dec
11
Stanley
E.
Mock-
torn
wa:
sranted
speedy
trial
Judgn
W
E.
Fisher
In
County
Ihy
Court
Wednesday
afternoon,
with
the
trial
dale
set
for
Fri-
morning
Mockford
Js
charg-cd
tciay
'i
breaking
and
entering
I
the
remises
of
Llnz
Tailor,
ln
September
When
he
elected
Jury
Jirin
ix
month
ball
was
set
at
jsl.500.
which
Mockford
was
un-
!
able
to
raise
He
was
sent
south
I
to
Okalla
jali
to
await
the
Assize
jc:ir'
h'-.rlnrs
In
the
spring.
Idevelopment
OF
RADAR
IS
USED
Loran
Adopted
by
Trans-Canada
Air
Lines
for
Navigation
WINWIPEO
.Ian.
3.
Watson
Davu,
director
of
United
States
Science
Service,
has
named
;
Loran
a
long
range
navigation
cid
based
on
radar
pulse
tech
nique
one
of
the
most
Import-;
:.im
cMnntif;..
im,M.n.
IftAtl
t
,.1.
wlii
lib..
aUVAlJlL,!
Ul
AV7v
The
device,
a
military
secret
until
recently,
Is
used
by
Trans-Canada
Air
Lines
on
Its
fleet
of
Lancastcrs
flying
the
North
Atlantic
and
the
air
line
was
the
first
In
the
world
to
use
it.
TransCanada
Air
Lines
was
also
the
first
commercial
air
line
to
U.SP
ihfi
rariar
mothnH
nf
lv.
tending
human
vision
by
the
use
,
oi
raaar
waves.
Public
Relations
j
Officer
Retires
OTTAWA
Oi
Joseph
Clark,
I
-year-old
First
Great
War
vct-
n
who
directed
public
rc-
wuons
for
Canadas
armed
force-;
during
the
last
war,
is
turning
to
business
life
ln
the
1ClV-crpnt.prt
iWt
nf
pvpnutlvp
assistant
to
the
president
of
the
Investment
Dealers'
Association
ot
Canada,
No
successor
has
ken
named
as
yet.
VANCOUVER
IN
GOOD
SHAPE
Mayor
Says
City
Beady
to
'rnceed
With
$50,000,000
1'ublic
Woiks
Program
VANCOUVER
Oi
Mayor
J.
W.
Cornpti
init
-i4..
..-.ii
.uiu
tity
vvuucu
tuuity,
his
inaugural
address,
that
Vancouver
was
now
ready
to
embark
on
its
ten-year
plan
of
"Pending
$50,000,000
in
public
rks.
The
city's
financial
po-Is
better
than
at
any
time
since
1937.
HERRING
CATCH
WAS
65,140
TONS
VICTORIA
O,
Annual
herring
Production
figures
released
to-day
by
Oeorge
Alexander,
deputy
commissioner
of
fisheries.
'iOW
that
thp
total
onfrVi
vl
65.140
tons.
Of
the
total
13,738
tons
were
caught
on
the
West
cnast.
of
Vancouver
Island,
BRIDES
HELD
UP
LONDON
The
movement
to
Canada
of
British
war
brides
may
be
delayed
somewhat.
Neither
the
Lady
Rodney
or
Lady
Nelson
will
be
ready
be-foie
February
to
start
carrying
them.
PHONE
WORKERS'
STRIKE
NEW
YORK
Seventeen
thousand
Western
Electric
telephone
employees
are
going
strike
for
increased
wages.
RETALIATORY
ARSON
BAT
A
VI
A
Fires
which
swept
two
,
native
sectors
of
a
Batavla
suburb,
leaving
500
homeless,
were
extinguished
today
by
the
Indonesian
fire
brigade..
Chinese
who
lived
in
the
destroyed
areas
said
that
Dutch
residents
set
fhe
fires
.
retaliation
for
the
"wound?
inr
of
a
Dutch
woman
and
her
companion
in
the
suburb,
REDS
ACCEPT
MARSHALL
C
n
UN
OKI
N
G
Chinese
Communists
today
accepted
General
Chiang
Kai-Shek's
offer
to
call
in
General
Marshall
as
mediator
in
China's
civil,
strife..
Communist
and
nationalist
leaders
got
together
today.
"HAW
HAW"
I
LING
EI)
LONDON
Lord
Haw
Haw
i
dead.
The
Brooklyn-born
William
Joyce
who
played
the
propaganda
character
on
the
German
radio
duringthe
war
was
hanged
from
"Ihe.
'gallows
of
Wandsworth
Prison
,sit
1
a.m.
Ihis,
morning
Jracific
Standard
Time.
Jcyre
was
convicted
by
a
British
court
last
September
n
i
charge
of
high
treason
and.
all
his
appeals
for
mitigation
of
sentence
were
turned
ddwn.
SCIENTIST
KNIGHTED.
LONDON
X
Canadian
has
been
knighted
for
his
contribution
in
the
winnlnx
f
the
war.
He
is
Commander
Cha
rles
Goorirve
of
Neepa
wa,
Man,
an
Inventoj.
Commander
Goodeve
perfected
the
protectee
;deylce
used
by
the
Allies
to:
fight
the
deadly
magnetic
mlne
used
during
the
early
years
of
the
war.
FATAL
AFTERMATH
MEXICO
.CITY
At
least
40
persons
are
reported
to
have
befn
killed
In
the
central
Mexican
town
of
Leon
in
the
aftermath
of
a
municipal
election.
Police
are
said
to
have
fired
into
a
crowd
which
hart
gathered
to
protest
the
outcome
of
the
election.
DISTURBANCE
IN
JAVA
BATAVI
A
Disturbances
continue
on
the
Island
of
Java.
Latest
dispatches
from
Balavia
tell
of
the
destruction
by
fire
of
two
native
sectors
cf
the
Ba
tavla
suburbs.
The
fires
were
started
shortly
after
the
Indonesian
Nationalists
failed
in
their
attempt
to
capture
a
police
station.
ON
SECRET
MISSION
HAMILTON
FIELD,
Calif.
Major
General
Claire
Chen-riault
is
China-bound.
The
one-time
leader
of
the
Flying
Tigers
Is
said
to
be
on
a
secret
mission.
A
spokesman
for
the
Chinese
consulate
in
San
Francisco
says
rumor
has
it
that
Chennault
will
direct
China's
military
pilot
training
program.
STALIN
NOMINATED
LONDON
Generalissimo
Stalin
has
been
nominated
by
hls-electoral
district
in
Moscow
as
a
candidate
for
the
Supreme
Soviet.
Foreign
Commissar
Moloiov
has
also
been
named
a
candidate.
WANTS
TO
KNOW
PARI
8
The
French
cabinet
Mill
ask
the
United
States,
Russia
and
Great
Britain
for
details
of
their
plans
for
drafting
treaties
with
Italy,
Rumania.
Bulgaria
and
Hungary.
France
has
made
It
dear
that
she
dislikes
being
left
out
as
a'
signatory
of
peace
treaties
with
Balkan
countries.
CHURCHILL
COMING
LONDON
Former
Prime
Minister
Winston
Churchill,
Mrs.
Churchill
and
daughter
will
sail
on
the
Queen
Elizabeth
January
9
for
the
United
States.
AMMUNITION
BLAST
MARLBOROUGH,
En?
The
explosion
of
an
ammuniation
train
ln
Savernake
Forest,
England,
last
night
tcok
the
life
of
at
least
one
British
soldier.
Ten
other
soldiers
are
missing
and
four
have
been
wounded.
v
MOUNTBATTLN
PROMOTED
LONDON
Lord
Louis
Mont-batten
has
been
promoted
to
the
permanent
rank
of
rear
admiral
in
the
Royal
Navy.
Previously,
the
supreme
commander
in
Southeast
Asia
had
held
a
temporary
war
time
rank
of
rear
admiral
although
his
permanent
rank
was
captain.
JEWS
FOR
CANADA
MONTREAL
The
Canadian
Jewish
Congre?
ha
anp'ied
to
the
Immigration
department
in
Ottawa
to
allow
some
Jews
into
Canada.
The
Congress
asks
for
admission
of
those
European
Jews
who
have
relatives
in
Canada
and
for
a
croup
of
Rabbis
who
have
Canadian
visas
but
who
were
caught
in
Shanghai
when
war
broke
out.
PRISONERS
BEHAVING
OTTAWA
Apparently
Ihe
German
prisoners
of
war
employed
on
Canadian
farms
are
behaving
themselves.
The
chief
of
the
National
Employment
Service,
Arthur
MacNamara,
says
that
not
a
single
case
of
crime
involving
these
men
has
been
reported.
ROCKETS
DAMAGING
LONDON
The
British
Ministry
of
Health
has
disclosed
that
each
German
rocket
which
landed
on
London
dam
aged
between
six
and
seven
.
-
hundred'
ironTcSrKacl
Ilying'i
bomb
damaged
four
hundred
dwellings.
SONS
OF
NAZIS?
PRAGUE
A
30-ycar
old
son
f
Herman
Gocring,
who
was
never
known
to
have
had
a
sn,
Is
said
to
be
at
large
in
Czechoslovakia.
It
was
denied
ttday
that
an
11-year
old
son
of
Adolf
Hitler,
had
been
found.
U.
N.
O.
SECRETARIES
LONDON
L.
B.
Pearson
of
Canada,
General
Eisenhower
rf
the
United
Stales
anU
Rt.
Hon.
Anthony
Eden
are
being
mentioned
in
connection
with
the
permanent
secretary-generalship
of
IT.
N.
O.
NO
POLICE
INQUIRY
MONTREAL
.Mr.
Justice
Bond
has
dismissed
an
application
frr
an
inquiry
into
the
Montreal
police
department
on
the
grounds
that
the
allegations
are
too
general
and
more
s-pecific
charges
are
required.
Temperature
Maximum
49
Minimum
37
Rainfall
.52
inches
NORTHERN,
AND
CENTRAL
BRITI8H
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
Local
Tides
TAXI
TAXI
537
Friday.
January
4,
1940
2:16
190
feet
High
DAY
and
NIGHT
SERVICE
13:47
21.7
feet
7:50
8.3
feet
Bill
and
Ken
Nesbitt
Low
20:26
2.5
feet
a?
Published
at
Canada's
Most
Strategic
Pacific
Port
VOL
XXXV,
No.
2.
PRINCE
RUPERT.
B.
C,
THURSDAY,
JANUARY
3,
1946
PRICE
FIVE
CENTS
FAMOUS
CANADIAN
SCOTTISH
ARE
HOME
Two-Headed
Baby
Is
Still
Alive
BIRMINGHAM,
EiiR..
;-The
premature
baby
girl,
born
with
two
heads
dun.
to
her
second
day
of
life
today,
neither
gaining
nor
loiing
strength,
while
the
mother
pondered
names
for
what
she
still
believed
to
be
twin
girls.
The
strange
child.,
rare
in
medical
history,
ate
and
cried
with
both
her
perfectly
formed
heads.
The
hospital
authorities
declined
to
di!rlose
the
names
of
the
parents
or
grandpar-enta.
The
doctors
said
that
the
chl.d
had
only
a
slight
chance
to
live
any
considerable
length
of
time.
IEH0L
IN
LIMELIGHT
Further
Developments
in
China's
Truce
Proposals
Still
Rein?
Awaited
CHUNGKING
In
spite
of
the
declaration
of
a
Communist
.spokesman
last
night
that
the
Communists
will
resist
any
attack
unon
them
In
Inner
Mon
golian
province
of
Jehol
Into
which
Nationalist
troops
are
movine.
a
Nationalist
govern
ment
spokesman
'said
that
the
"central'
gmkrome-nt
was'-taklng
over
Jcho!
"as
a
matter
of
course."
"This
Is
civil
war."
said
the
PRICE
CUT
Will
Become
Effective
As
Soon
As
Shipments
Resumed
Through
Panama
4
VANCOUVER
(l1!
Liquor
Commissioner
W.
F.
Kennedy
said
yesferday
that
a
slight
reduc-tlop
in
the
price
of
liquor
would
bejj?ut
into
effect
In
this
province
as
soon
as
regular
shipments
of
imported
liquor
are
resumed
through
Panama
Canal.
XP
USE,
NOT
SUPPORT
JAP
'
GOVERNMENT
W
ASIIP
GTON.
0
-
General
MacArthur
contends
that
his
policy
of
using
the
Japanese
government-to
execute
liis
orders
is
navlne
off.
The
supreme
com
mander
made
this
point
in
his
firAt
report
on
the
Japanese
oc-cui
atlon,
just
released
by
the
Un
ted
States
War
Departmsnt.
MacArthur
said
t.iiat
It
is
his
policy
"to
use.
not
support
the
existing
government
ln
Japan,
and
to
permit
and
favor
changes
l
IV.
fn,m
rt
imvornmpnt
.
....
inlti
til
W.C
4V1.1I
V
fcv
...-
ated
by
the
Japanese
people
of
1
.
HORNET'S
NESl
OF
CONTROVERSY
uav.uwiwv.i
.,ii.in..,i..w.
"1-
nttions
for
permany
Lieut-
lien.
Sir
fTCUCIICIW
jviuiijail
Communist
spokesman.
BERLIN
The
chief
of
the
These
declarations
came
as;unit,ed.
Nations
Relief
and
Rc-
r"Vilna
u-nlt.pH
fnr
n.
Communist
l,nv,Mlln(l,n
Arfmlnlctratinn
nn.
w
.....
..www
-
reply
to
the
government's
truce
UUU1HC1
(Jiupuoau
Luuii'b
Immediate
end
oi
cninas
civn
war.
REPATRIATED
FROM
JAPAN
Party
of
Seventeen
Arrive
in
Vancouver
Three
Missionary
Families
Among
Them
VICTORIA
O'
Seventeen
re-
;B.C.
LIQUOR
has
stirred
up
a
hornets'
nest
of
I
ing
witn
the
immediate
cessa-controversy.
Gen,
Morgan
said
tion
of
the
civil
war
in
China
yesterday
that
he
believed
a
se-
1
anj
the
establishment
of
unity
crct
Jewish
organization
was
,
an(j
democracy."
A
central
com-dirccting
a
mass
exodus
of
Jews
mittee
spokesman
announced
from
Europe.
He
said
thousands
i
tne
reply
and
said
that
the
of
Polish
Jews
are
pouring
Into
.
communists
welcomed
Chiang's
the,
American
occupation
zone
j
suggestion
that
General
Mar-f
rom
the
east
In
preparation
for
.
snaU(
the
American
envoy
to
Jnn
,
,..-n
from
fmm
tTii
v",-n
He
T
To
said
CO
i
H
t
,,
.
:
l
1
.
I
U
departure
Europe.
the
movement
appears
to
be
an
attempt
to
force
the
United
Na
Hons
to
make
'
Palestine
a
national
Jewish
home.
In
London,
meantime.
Gen.
sionary
families
from
Japanese
B
t
VVi
by
officials
of
r
the
prisoner
of
war
camps,
arrived
packed
WmM
Jewish
Congress
as
'fan-steamship
here
today
aboard
the
British
Samstrule.
I
stlca
ly
unf"e
'
aHn,d
deslfd
to
prejudice
the
findings
of
the
Anglo-American
Committee
of
12
12-LAR-OLD
YFMt
old
BO
BOY
DIES
DIES
j
Inqulry
on
Paiestine.
Joshua
Morrison,
12-year-old
a
Canadian
U.R.R.A..
official,
son
of
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Charles
George
Mooney,
has
said
he
saw
Morrison,
died
at
the
Prince
Ru-
no
such
evidence
of
an
organl-
pert
General
Hospital
this
mOrn-
zation
movement
when
he
left
ing.
Germany
last
October.
All
Victoria
Welcomes
Distinguished
Regiment
VICTORIA
(CP)
Greeted
by
a
great
and
enthusiastic
reception,
as
warm
as
this
city
ever
accorded
and
fully
in
keeping
with
the
fame,
valor
and
tradition
of
the
unit,
.
the
First
Battalion,
Canadian
ri
i
j
i
1
a.
rt.nA
i.
n
it
bcouisn,
came
nome
at,
z:ou
mis
'auernoon.
mayor
T
P.
W.
7
flctrwreti
George
larl
led
in
in
the
fno
rlomnnct
demonstration
vjf
inn
T
.lonf
-Pnl
Whiteman,
who
went
overseas
with
the
battalion
as
a
captain,
returned
as
its
commanding
officer.
There
were
twenty-two
officers
and
375
other
ranks.
Many
of
the
originals
were
left
in
heroes'
graves
in
Europe.
Others
had
been
Invalided
home.
The
battalion
arrived
at
Vancouver
by
special
train
at
7:30
this
morning
and
marched
from
the
station
to
Pier
D
where
they
embarked
an
hour
and
a
half
later
on
the
flag-bedecked
ferry
steamer
which
landed
them
here.
There
were
scenes
of
dramatic
happiness
as
relatives
greeted
the
returning
warriors
in
the
rotunda
of
(Pier
D.
The
St.
Bernard
mascot
"Wallace"
led
the
parade
from
the
I
station
Obauuil
at
U.
Vancouver
llUltwillH
to
the
bill.
pier.
He,
too,
was
adorned
with.ser
1
A,
.
1-,
r.
CHINESE
REDS
fGREirT-effrNGS
i
rc
A
T7
DI
A
1VTC
YENAN,
China.
O.'-The
Chinese
Communists
replied
officially
today
to
President
Chiang
Kal
Shek's
New
Year's
pcacs
plan,
asserting
"We
will
discuss
fnvorablv
pverv
sussrestion
deal-
Chungking,
participate
in
the
peace
talks.
Weather
Forecast
Prince
Rupert
Moderate
to
fresh
southwesterly
winds,
backing
to
southeasterly
and
increasing
to
strong
by
midnight
and,
reaching
gale
force
during
the
night.
Partly
cloudy
with
occasional
showers
today,
becoming
cloudy
tonight
with
rain
after
midnight.
British
Gulna
was
first
settled
by
the
Dutch
West
India
Company
about
1620.
Royal
Canadian
Air
Force
transAtlantlc
squadron,
the
famed
168,
last
week
finished
its
500th
Atlantic
crossing.
Saturday
it
celebrated
the
second
anniversary
of
its
transAtlantlc
schedule,
the
first
mail
flight
having
been
made
Dec.
15,
1943.
Since
then
it
has
carried
nearly
a
million
pounds
of
mall
to
and
from
Canada's
fghting
forces
overseas.
Included
were
nearly
550,000,000.
letters.
At,
Rockcllffe
airport,
Col.
the
Hon.
Colin
Gibson,
'Minister,
of
National
Defence
Alr,
Hon,
Ernest
Ber-trand,
Po;
'master-General,
and
other
notables
were
on
hand
to
greet
the
Liberator
at
the
end
of
the
500th
ocean
crossing.
Picture
shows
Col.
Gibson
greeting
FL
Allan
JMcRae.
Winnipeg,
the
captain.
Second
picture
shows
the
crew
with
Air
Commodore
J.
L.
Plant,
Officer
Commanding
9
Transport
Group,
left
to
right
are:
Flight
Sgt.
T.
C.
Trethowan,
crewman,
Ottawa,
who
was
on
the
first
trip;
FL
F.
A.
Ashbaugh,
D.F.C..
Vancouver,
B.C
FO
John
Demalne,
Lachlne.
Que.;
Air
Commodore
Plant;
FL
E.
M.
Fierce
Black's
Harbor.
N.B.:
and
FL
McRae
'R.CA.F
Photo)
TORONTO
MAN
THINKS
HIGHLY
OF
PR.
RUPERT
Prince
Rupert,
thinks
George
J.
Mason,
of
Toronto,
Is
a
hospitable
town,
and
he
has
gone
to
the
trouble
of
writing
to
Fred
Conrad.
secretaT
of
the
Junior
Chau.Vr
o:
Commerce,
to
thank
Prince
Rupert
citizens
for
warm
hospitality
he
enjoyed
while
stationed
here
with
the
armed
forces
in
1943.
Wishing
Prince
Rupert
season's
greetings,
he
writes:
"For
some
months
ln
1943
I
was
stationed
in
Prince
Rupert.
Now
I
am
back
on
'civvy
street'
and
I
wish
to
take
this
enportunity
to
convey
to
the
citizens
of
Prince
Rupert
my
sincere
thanks
for
the
numerous
oceaslonswhen
I
was
the
Yectprerrf
otHhth
Wvm
-"
pltallty."
FISHING
FLEET
SEEN
IN
ACTION;
Moving
Picture's
of
Unusual
Interest
Shown
ai1
Gyro
Club
Realistic
scenes
of
action
aboard
salmon
trollers
off
the
Queen
Charlotte
Islands
were
shown
before
the
Prince
Rupert
Gyro
Club
at
its
first
luncheon
of
the
New
Year
yesterday
by
Harold
Eyolfscn,
one
of
the
members
of
the
champion
fishing
family,
who
presented
as
graphic
and
interesting
a
display
of
locally
taken
moving
pictures
as
has
ever
been
offered
to
a
Prince
Rupert
audience.
Practically
all
the
pictures
were
taken
in
waters
continglous
,
to
the
Queen
Charlottclslands.
pne
of
the
unique
-sequqnees
was,
that
which
showed
a.
belligerent
fur
seal
in
pursuit
of
an
already
hooked
spring
salmon.
Expert
trolling
fishermen
were
seen
in
action
and
there-wcrelso
many
colorful
scenic
shots
including
rugged
landscapes
on
the
west
coast
of
the
Queen
Charlottes
as
well
as
seascapes
and
sunsets.
The
disolay
was
both
intriguing
and
delightful.
In
the
absence
of
Dr.
J.
J
.
Gibson,
the
president,
Past
President
W.
J.
Scott
was
ln
the
chair.
Next
week
the
club
Is
planning
to
hold
a
dinner
dance
to
combine
the
Installation
of
officers
and
a
farewell
to
Dr.
and
Mrs.
Gibson
who
are
leaving
the
city
for
Pentlcton,
....
,
,
GALE
FORECAST
FOR
TONIGHT
Southeasterly
gales
are
forecast
by
the
weatherman
for
tonight
and
rain
Is
expected
to
be
I
whipped
down
by
the
strong
winds.
Along
the
north
coast
and
'.
Prince
Rupert
district
this
morn-'
tns's
northwest
winds
were
ex
pected
to
do
an
almost
reverse
turn
and
come
blasting
In
with
Increasing
force
from
the
southeast
today,
reaching
gale
force
at
midnight.
Rainfall
was
ex-pecd
to
increase
during
the
night.
SOVDCT
PIPE
LINE
The
Soviets
have
ordered
24
compressors
for
their
first
nat-
.
,
...
ui
at
gas
yiiJ
.,,vo
i.mv
-
tend
$tfor
miles
from
the
'Ural
MouiitaJbl
"Moscow?
'
'
PROMINENT
BARRISTER
William
E.
Burns,
K.C.,
Passes
Away
in
Vancouver
VANCOUVER
P)
William
Er
nest
Burns,
K.C.,
prominent
72-year-old
barrister,
died
here
Wednesday
nieht.
He
had
been
a
bencher
of
the
Law
Society
of
British
Columbia
since
1922..
The
late
Mr.
Burns
was
born
June
19,.
1873,
at
Milton,
Ontario.
He
was
educated
at
University
of
Toronto
and
Osgoode
Hall
Law
School.
In
1900
he
was
called
to
the
bar
in
Ontario
and
a
year
later
in
British
Columbia.
He
was
created
a
King's
Counsel
in
1929.
Deceased
had
been
ln
several
law
partnerships
in
Vancouver.
During
and
after
the
First
Great
War
he
was
with
the
Aero
Club
of
British
Columbia.
Married
in
1903
to
Mary
Hall
of
Peterborough,
Ontario,
he
had
a
son
itrid
daughter.
A
member
of
the
Vancouver
Board
.of--Trade
and
Canadian
-Club,
lie
was
an
Anglican
In
religion.
He
was
an
ardent
lawu
.bowler.
Bormann
Dead
Hitl
Aide,
Decapitated
Muitliiint
is.
Concluded
Witnesses
Tell
of
How
Rei
Deputy
Lost
Life
frankfurt
(05
Martin
Bor
mann
is
dead
and.
the
manhunt,
for
Adolf
Hitler's
former
deputy
and
sienatory
to
the
Nazi
lead-
pr's
suicide
Dact
Is
ended,
Brit
ish
reports
Indicated
last
night.
The
last
mystery
of
the
dying
days
of
Hitler's
toppled
Reich
was
cleared
up
by
evidence
that
Bormann
was
decapitated
when
a
Nazi
tank
behind
which
the
deputy
was
freeing
Berlin
exploded.
Evidence
of
two
unidentified
witnesses
to
this
effect
was
reported
by
British
intelligence
of
ficers
who
examined
tneir
ai-fldavits.
V-
-
British
officials
said
the
-wit
nesses
were
now
hi
custody.
They
did
not
know
each
other
but
their
stories
checked
ln
every
detail.
Employment
Statistics
OTTAWA
CP'
Canada
had
167;000
unemployed
persons
in
the
week
ending
November
1.7.
the
Dominion
Bureau
of
Statistics
reported
today
in
a
new
set
of
figures
on
the
country's
unemployment
situation,
Based
on
sample
surveys
made
in-homes
across
the
'Dominion,'
the:
x
4iV)kt(
lm
rfrfciVnf
rtf
report
aiiuwx-u
.tiinvr
jva
had
a
civilian!
labor
.
forejM.
4,531,000,
of
whom
4.364,000
were
employed.
The
survey
cbvered
persons
aged
14
and
over,
and
revealed
that
there
are
In
that
category
3.799,000
non-workers,
such
f$
students,
JiDUsewivcs,
unemployables
and
retired
workers.
Because
the
method
used
In
assembling
the
figures
was
new.
they
were
not
directly
comparable
to
previous
statistics.
Estimates
published
by
the
Labor
Department
on
October
1.
1944,
set
the
number
of
employed
at
4,318,000.
or
46,000
less
than
the
more
recently
compiled
Bureau
figures,
in
addition
to
which.
777,000
were
in
the
armed
forces.
The
Department
of
Labor
on
November
9,
1945
showed
157,200
unplaced
applicants
for
Jobs
"o
reeistered
at
emDloyment
.
of-
rices,
about
10,000
less
than
Is
indicated
in
the
Bureau's
figures,
i