indicates that the . -.in coo tholr rltlps dps. Villi OVV w.w. rather than yield. The ... unnn mcVilncr trnnn. last night In an effort . , tatnflArl Kir mccoi and dive-bombers. Am- guns ana pianes nave rn lu auiKiiuvi. l 11- ...UU A flnrta VinVA nun a 1 1 1 1 r imk.i iia i l xg out by civilians. s oi civilians auu ol troops moved unde. thp American lines. ring tighter about the the north they have advanced to Wursulen THH'fl II II UCllliaiU all oi Aacnen ine America. rmv m t 1 1 in iinnprvrnuiiii Driant before Metz. arrtoripn n ovnnin a 1111 First Armies were strlv- r vp thrnurrh npifnrt nun n . I. i rucri r 1nrrn4 cmrr nraocnni nflnnn mitnirj. irv. inn bridgehead Just north I p rn rlormsni In n there have started to nllanrt f rr 4Vi rinnhtrnt o "! i i a vauauidU ll ill J it VUIJO where they made their i inn rnninn rc t in t-t The German radio re additional landings lu was growing In lnten- Canadlans have sliced In highway connecting Bcveland to the Dutch f thousands of Germans there who have pre- il. . we Aiued use of the port rw v w 4 v til v v n luriu II IbllC River beachhead to four nH Am.. At.-.. T mcc OMTH - bUlCU JilllCS 111" a back door assault on rmans south of the mouth Schelde. fighting continued at nifl nn V. . 1 1 ... UWUSCUCUU uvct Canal hut. t.h rami. held their positions more y after amphibious troops rear forceh the Germans - Bvusi ana fourteen '"l oinp wA. Oct. 12 On- First , acuvitv in the several months wan filing hOW thP PtinoHlor. 'iic picKCd un fniir- -vm i nm n inrrasrifidrt " oiiiu nrTAP .h... v. I -.v. mcjr liuu rr eiaht hm,r. t H men. WntHo Man... ua. u urn i . i t . i .1 Shlp anrt rrom tlrvi worm. o. a V Province LAB0k .... -. vi WATED . n BETTER . HERE .... 1 1 IMM H Little World Sc; Baltimore Is Winner Defeated Louisville 5 to 3 in Deciding Game Yesterday BALTIMORE, Oct. 12 On coming from behind with a three-run rally In the seventli inning, Baltimore Orioles of the International League won the Little World Series by defeating Louisville Colonels of the Amen can Association 5 to 3 yesterday before a crowd of 23,500 fans. Louisville winged away with two runs in the third inning. The Colonels held a 3 to 2 lead golns into the seventh when the Birds shoved across the runs which brought Baltimore the first title since 1925. Louisville 3 7 2 Baltimore 5 10 2 Bulletins TITO TO MOSCOW MOSCOW Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia is coming; to Moscow for a conference with Premier Joseph Stalin. - 11 CONCEDED DEAD VANCOUVER Western Air Command announces officially that all eleven men who were aboard a bomber which crashed October ,4 on Salt Spring Island are dead. BELLS INTERRUPT DINNER MOSCOW Moscow victory bells, celebrating the capture of the capital of Transylvania, interrupted the dinner at the British Embassy last night by Prime Minister Chutchlli of Britain for Premier Joseph Stalin of Russia. RALSTON IN PARIS PARIS Defence Minister Ralston has arrived in Paris to visit Major-Gencral George P. Vanier Canada's ambassador-designate to France and high Allied army officials. The Paris stopover is part of the minister's tour of European battlefronts. Colonel Ralston was greeted at the air nort bv General Vanier in their first meeting on French soil. He told the ambassador that he had been tremend ously impressed by what he had seen of the Canadian sol dier in Europe. MESSAGES BY PRISONERS OTTAWA Canadian prisoners of war and civilian internees in Japanese territory will be allowed to send and to receive cabled messages under an arrangement just effected by the British Commonwealth, the United States, and Japan. The privilege is limited to one ten-word cablegram a year from the prisoner to his next of kin and a similar message from the next of kin to the internee. HANDLING DEMOBILIZATION OTTAWA Pensions Minister Mackenzie has announceo three appointments in connection with the demobilization of Canada's armed forces. The three appointees are Major-General Guy R. Turner of Frederlcton, J. G. Clark of Toronto, and Group Captain S. N. F. Chant of St. Thomas, Ontario. The pensions minister explains that the three will help lay the foundation of an efficiently functioning organization. He says: "It is essential that, when the hundreds of thousands now in the services are being returned to 60 civil life', (hey are returned 41 with a minimum of delay. SENTENCED TO NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER Tomorrows Tides - Od UP l (Pacific Standard Time) . . Attn mi m Friday, October 13 ..... Hoht to IIJUU. wiuui ; High ll:21 18.9 feet rl':n9 to fresh over Q.C.I. 23:21 18.6 feet HUM o Low 5:08 6.1 feet cmir aiternoon. 17:39 1 -7.5 feet III. iiv. L'iSU. PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., THUl )CTOBER 12, 1944 PRICE FIVE CENTS ungary k.1 nearly i Out Austria Next ish Is icated Wo. ri nr.. t.i A ... .... . AVRE ELSE IN CANADA y& VANCOUVER, Oct. 12' (CP) Hon. George S." l Pearson, K.C., British Columbia minister of la-1 bor, in the fourth of a series of political broadcasts 1 on the, Canadian Broad casting Corporation's provincial network, declared "working conditions and wages have been more favorable to the working man in British Columbia than-in any other pjovince in Canada. "This," asserted Mr. Pearson, has been largely the result of our labor legislation and regulations made thereunder and the enforcement of same. "The result of these efforts was that the general wage structure in British Columbia became the highest in Canada and our hours of work the LIFE-RESULT OF FATAL FIRE HAMILTON, Oct. 12 O) Doug las Dunsmoor, convicted of manslaughter by a Supreme Court Jury, was sentenced to life imprisonment today. Dunsmoor was charged In WJinSSilpKl th . theMoosftJIall lire nere on May zj wncn lu persons were burned to death. Hoinhin? Kept Up Attacks By Day-Night England Gets it Again With Heavy Barrage of Flying Bombs LONDON, Oct. 12 B Ger many was being pounded again this morning. .Shortly after daybreak Allied bombers flew across the south coast of England in the direction of Germany and the Frankfurt radio reported; Allied planes flying across western Germany. It was later announced here that Royal Air Force heav bombers had atacked synthetic oil plants at Wanne-Elckel ,ln the Ruhr and that American planes had hit Bremen. Today's raid was a follow-up to List night's R. A. F. assault on southwestern Germany and Berlin. One British plane was lost. Military targets In the areas ofg Cologne and Coblenz, key1 supply points close behind the western front, were attacked yesterday by American heavy bombers. England has also been gettins it. Last night the Germans launched a heavy barrage of flying bombs against southern England. A number of the bombs were destroyed by fighters and anti-aircraft batteries. PREFABRICATED HOMES MAY BE BUILT IN B.C. VANCOUVER, Oct. 12 0 Officials of the British Columbia lumber, plywood, construction and engineering industries are awaiting word from Ottawa and the United Kingdom which may launch exnpetpd nroductlon OI pre-fabrlcated homes for Brl tain. Pre-fabrlcated houses would give Britons shelter until per manent housing to replace the bombed areas Is constructed. FRENCH YOUTHS EXECUTED FOR TREASON A military court conducted by the French forces in Grenoble, France, found six French youths guilty of treason and sentenced them to death. The youths were executeS.on the evening of Sept. 2 by a rifle squad of the F.F.I. Above photo shows a close-up of the dead men at stakes. WAR HEWS First Village Liberated LONDON Loyal CzechoSlovfak foices have liberated their first village from the clutches f the Nazis. They crossed through a pass in the Carpathians to do so. ( General Eisenhower Talks PARIS General Dwight P. Eisenhower told 100 newspapermen today that there was a hard job ahead but victory ' waY'surV; "The fight will confmuo'lhVough the 'winter ors long as Is necessary to crush the enemy." Eisenhower admitted that Germany might collapse at any moment and declared that the only reason for the war being prolonged was that the Gestapo had pistols at the heads of the people of Germany. Canadians Reinforced LONDON Latest news from the western front this morning tells of reinforcements, being sent to the Canadian invasion forces on the south shore of the Schelde River in the Lowlands. A communique also says the bridgehead across the Leopold canal Is holding firmly. On the American First Army front, the German border city of Aachen this morning is still shuddering under the terrific blows of Allied ground and air might. Yesterday the burning city was hit by some three hundred American fighters, and Allied bombers have concentrated their fire on reinforcements attempting to slip into the city from the northeast. Moving Into Prussia MOSCOW Russian troops have moved up the East Prussian border west (of the Lithuanian city of Kaunas and arc within the Baltic port of Memel. To the south they have captured Szeged, the second largest city in Hungary, and they have also captuied C.luj. the capital city of Transylvania, 'according to announcement by Premier Joseph Stalin,,At the same time, Yugoslavia partisan leader, Marshal T,f; Mas announced that Yugoslav forces and Russian troops Viave surrounded Yugoslavia's capital city of Belgrade. Nazis May-Quit Holland LONDON American First Army infantry, smashing a German effort to relieve besieged garrisons in 'Aachen, moved in today to attack the flaming city as artillery and dive- bombers poured in a constant fire. In the Netherlands Canadian Press war correspondent Rpss Munro repoited signs that maje mean the enemy has decided to pull out the main part of his forces from that country and retreat to Germany.. THOUSAND ALLIED PLANES ATTACK FORMOSA ISLAND NEW YORK, Oct. 12 (CP) In the Pacific, the Tokyo radio has announced that about one thousand Allied planes attacked the Japanese-occupied island of Formosa off the east coast of China this morning. Tokyo says that at least one hundred of the raiders were shot down. The enemy radio also claims that GAMBLING CASE IS ADJOURNED In city police court Wednesday Magistrate W. D. Vance adjourned until October 18 a case against Ruby Gold, charged with being proprietor of a gambling house. . Gold, Who' Is out on $200 ball, was arrested following a police raid on the North Star club Saturday night. nearly one thousand heavy bombers .and thirty fighter planes hit the important refinery at Balikpapan Tuesday morning. American forces on another Adolf Hitler's Balkan Defences Disintegrate In Greece- NAZIS BEING KEPT ON RUN ROME, Oct. 12 0) Albanian $ partizan forces have cleared the : Results at Moscow GJaihdle. two miles Inland from I the Albanian port of Sarande. British forces captured the port yesterday. In Greece, the Nazis are still on the run, fighting only when necessarily. There has, however, been no fresh news thl3 morning concerning the drive in this theatre. FEWER COWS-LESS BUTTER OTTAWA. Oct. 12 0) The butter supply picture darkened little more today following a statement by the Dominion Bu reau of Statistics that a tendency to reduce cow holdings had been In evidence during the last few months with a decline of five per cent in total num bers in August compared with the same month last year. Authorities said that the ,1941 winter butter supply situation is no better than a year ago. The fourth cancellation of made shortly with the elimina tion of two more coupons. Freighter Is Sunk VANCOUVER, Oct. 12 The small dynamite-laden coastal freighter Squid was sunk in collision with the Canadian Pacific steamer Princess Joan off Point Grey this morning. During a light fog the Joan rammed into the side of the Squid. The master of the passenger .Uner held the bow of his vessel into the smaller ship and held it up until the fire members of the crew could be rescued. The Squid had a cargo of 400 tons of dynamite. She was badly holed by the impact and went down in 10 minutes. The five-man crew was taken abpa'rd the Joan which proceeded to Victoria. Many of approximately 450 passengers aboard the Joan were sleeping when the crash ocruried and did not learn of the accident until they disembarked at Victoria. The Squid was operated by the Frank Wateihousc Co. of Vancouver and was valued at between $12,000 and $15,000. Failed to Report, Conchie Fined $50 Ernest James Parsons, 24, a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses sect, appeared before Magistrate W. D. Vance in city police court Wednesday and wr.i fined $50 or one month under National Selective Service regu. latlons. He pleaded not guilty. Parsons, who claimed to be an ordained minister of the sect, was charged with falling to report to the Alternative Service officer at Radium Hot Springs Pacific sector now control eleven whefe he is registered as a con of the southern Palau group of scle""ous objector. Islands. . A communique says The magistrate recommended Allied troops landed without that Parsons be turned over to opposition Tuesday on an islet the military authorities. nine and one half miles north- W. O. Fulton acted for the west of Pelellu. prosecution. MOSCOW, Oct. 12 (CP) Hungary appeared on j the verge qf a military knock-out as the Russians overran Magyar defences on a 120-mile front guard-j ing Budapest, The apparent imminent collapse of j Hungarian resistance emphasized the final disinteg-I ration of Adolf Hitler's Balkan defences and indi I Bulgaria Accepts Will Evacuate Territories Taken From (jlreece and Yugoslavia LONDON, Oct. 12 (CP) The meetings now under way in Moscow appear to have already met success. Bulgaria has accepted preliminary armistice conditions from the Allies. The country has agreed to evacuate within two weeks those territories seized from Greece and Yugoslavia. A late bulletin says the premier of the London Polish government has arrived in Moscow for talks with the Soviet-sponsored Polish liberation committee. There is general belief that the Polish question will be settled one way or another before Primo U Minister, Churchill leaves Mos? At a dinner tendered by Mr. Churchill in the British embassy, Tremier Joseph Stalin said both Russia and Britain had played big parts in war production and the organizing: ability of the United States had helped to turn the tide. Stalin broke all precedents by attending the dinner in the British embassy; It was the first time he had ever visited any embassy in Moscow. AWARDED DAMAGES Finding Against Dominion in Connection with Fatal Truck Collision near Nanaimo VANCOUVER, Oct. 12 Oi Syd ney Dines, Nanaimo fuel dealei, was awarded $1249 against the Dominion government for damage to his truck In a collision in September 1943 with an army truck near Nanaimo. The truck driver, Bertram Snell, died of injuries in the collision and survivors have applied for permission to sue the government shortly In connection with the same accident. REHABILITATION ACT IS FINEST Adult Education Director Says Soldiers Want Work VANCOUVER, Oct. 12 The director o the Canadian Assocl atlon of Adult Education, Dr. E. A. Corbett of Toronto, said In Vancouver last night that Canada's rehabilitation act is the finest In the world. Dr. Corbett has recently re turned to the Dominion from overseas where he discussed rehabilitation plans with many of Canada's soldiers. He stressed that the men of the oversea army don't want charity when they return to civilian life. The thing they are interested he said is a chance to re-establish themselves through employment. Movement of troops, made , public, allows the enemy to 1 know our future intentions. Why talk? cated an early assault by the Red Army on Austria. It was reported Hungary had already asked for an armistice. Soviet troops are more than half way from the Hungarian-Rumanian border to Budapest and less than 60 miles from Fight for Bologna NAZIS STILL HOLDING OUT ROME, Oct. 12 a The Ger mans appear ready to fight to the last to hold the Allies out of the Italian city of Bologna. The Germans now hold a hill some li, mile south of the city and they are weu enirencnea. rmn Army forces are on the outskirts of a town just a short distance away from the communicaitions cen tre. United States planes are bombing the city heavily. Brazilian troops, operating on the Italian west coast, have reached the town of Barga, some forty miles Inland from the big port of La Specia. . ' Liquor Confiscated, Local Man Fined $500 at Burns Lake Pat Mazzei, former Prince Rupert taxi operator, was arrested at Burns Lake yesterday while driving from Vancouver .to Prince Rupert and, fined $500 and costs under the government Liquor Act, according to police reports reaching the city. The arrest was made by Constable J. C. Clark of the Burns Lake detachment, who, the report stated, seized 98 bottles of government-sealed liquor from Mazzel's car. The liquor was confiscated. Mazzei paid the fine and pn ceeded toward Prince Rupert, the report said. NAMED FOR RIVER Tweed cloth gets its name from the River Tweed In Quebec Is Considered May be Meeting Place Of Post-war Organization WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 (CP) The city of Quebec is being considered as a possible meeting place of the post-war organization to be set up by the United Nations. American diplomats are reported to favor Geneva as the site of 'the international peace organization. However', the general attitude among United Nations diplomats favors the abandonment of Geneva as a site for permanent international organizations. For one thing, it is too close to. the major trouble spots of the past and then again it is naturally associated with the League, of Nations. Quebec city is strategically located on the international air routes and its desirability as an international meeting-place has been proven by the two great conferences held there in 1943 and 1941. . n