local Temperatw ssian ntier by '''' lier. portaht I JO acnea : v 15 t Fast aa ie announcement .. r Joseph ( rapture of Plntk . pad reportt thai , in ltd lichtnim- ' had reached ' j Ra.it Prussia. ! far u to amy j .id y been c roast d I .imp of the Soviet 1 idv being heard Ii ly caar within advance of the M th pc t Marshes on reported that Ldvanclng we', i han 90 mtWj tia. had broken : Tien river line i ivno and were i rven mites of hold In pert o! j frim the i region to pre - .fficlally staled, v the Russian ce, nearly clear - :: m the Prlpet r i i rroccrn in III ."VI i in III ' 1 ir cu anon KIA Julv It taVJI Peter Roy 4 4 r n an I alls I i i ii j rc nine IA Ji Am' in A. 8weei rk of Or ssful ran i Chatt i Dd andldattt at Ter Beatrl.-c Orosvrnor 1 mic uay aris Quiet me anniver- Day was observed rdmj with the clos-' towds gathered a ' the Unknown War-kerlou disorders wi mdpa And nily Build ka Road l"HK i iNirgE qh the July is 9 On the ' ' s of the Burma ' '' the Chinese riuu II ' ki en the Jllianiu l t.ndeaiouring in Rrcak Out o( I mo I taps mi V w I.uiih j Island AU iEW ugh hazar fARTERS IN 15 Jap- ng for area ar ntumor River. 21 miles east of important ladji airdrome, after one Allied outpost wrthdaew. ; Keeping Up I Guam Raids PEARL HARBOR July 15 O For the tenth straight d.iy Ouam i was attacked by United States alrrraf: Thursday a ontinuing action suggesting pending derl- atioii' agTlnsI ml former Unl On Thursday the raiding force also hit Rota between Ouam and 8a i pan Alt planes returned safely from the raids. BASEBALL SCORES National league PiMvbiirKh 5. Chicago 11. New York 2. Philadelphia 1. Cincinnati 3. St. Louis 0 American League St. Louts 2. Cleveland 3. It Q 3. New York 4 Chicago 0. Detroit 2 Philadelphia 4-4. Washington 3-3 International league Rochester 3. Toronto 4. Btiltalo 9. Montreal 7. Baltimore 3, Syracuse 13. Newark IS. Jersey City 9. Amrri. in tmm latum Indianapolis 4. Columbus 8 Minneapolis 1-5. St Paul 5-3 nast LXgl BoUyVOOd 4. Seattle 2. Sacramento 0. Los Angeles 2 Ran Diego 2. Ouklund I. San Francisco 7. Portland 3. Noted Movie Star Works for Troops ; and women, mostly HOLI YWOOD. Julv 15 f miiy ain in oas ,M,il'1 lihwh'iu a uu n iiom Doles ,.:.r. wood ( ViMtccn" she has a boulders. Ii m used riaim .min nce with Dane Clnrk ill holes or to widen would be more realistic if thc "l aualnst the day that showed her In her real caiitc c ripply trucks will roll work. She is (here every Moi; 'in India to Kunming, day. lot more than three ;iark stones out of the hours, writing letters uiul ihjs-' fmi at one .side il IVin rurHv In vi'ivici'iiii'ii's hollies if fiuild retaining walls on their reouest. and uveraucs Hon nr. i -j llll'.S.MCKC S I n I .11 u f . a ashes are likely , u ten- Ther e arc few .stars win ' Pnving Ls laid by hand maintain a more pMBOJUd ielu-''' "'oken with sledge tionshtp with fans than Joan Smaller ones are whit- She meticulously sends out rc-1 "V men and older boys quested autographs and photo-' "oil hammer. i paying Um Height herself. we Ad Nazi Stronghold Falls to French ROME. July 15 O French troops yesterday capiured the Nazi stronghold of Poggibonsl on the west end Ol the Italian front. The main road to Florence has-been reached by units of the Fifth "Army The Fifth Army is also six miles from Leghorn. R.A.F. Tall Yarns Now On Record LONDON. Julv 15 ( The llne-shtniters of the R A F. have started a book Tall stories told by returned air crews are being Ooted down and filed. Here are some of the latest: "We flew so low over Holland that we lound ourselves in the slipstream ''' of '' a windmill C? " .aVHataHfl WAR NEWS M.I.MS NEARING LEGHORN KOMI lli llii (1 I ilu rrm ha drnrn to within three-and a -half mile f the vital seaport of lavomo 'leghorn) and lapturrd ( hinni. 13 nnle inland from the west roat. Ihr H t ? 1 1 v h tichth Arm miupied the village of Santa Lucia in the upirr liner allr and also advanced to within two miles o ( itta di ( astello road junction. I KK( I TING URMEN M iilKK- Japanese hroadi ast direi ted to American lor tw 44W wtlivwl Panfir tndiT saW that several Amrrt- ran iiimrn captured in the first super -fortress raid on northern Kiuxliu last month had been eteculcd The broadcast ained lhat am Allied airmen lalhnr. or bailing out over Japan will be rtccutrd. l w RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE I.OVIMIN the dermans announced tndav that the Russians had l.iuixhecl a long -a ailed nffensire in southern Poland, extending to .cM miles a front which in the north challenges the last ditch string o forts guarding the derman homeland in last Piussia. The (ierman rommunique said that the Russians struck from northwest of Tarnupol and wst of luck TIIK WAR IN CHINA Ml M. MM. The ( hinese are storming the east gate ..f Tengc hung, big Japanese base on the road to Burma and fires rage in Ihe ritv after I nited States air attacks ( hinese forces closed m from the southwest in an attempt to complete en-c iic lenient l Ivngrhung. main ohjec tne in the Salween river. The Japanese who encircled llengsang in Hunan Province are again advancing from the south towards a junction which would cut ( hma in hall Poison gas is said to have been used again b the cneim in attacks on llengxang which the Chinese said were repulsed with heavy loss to the Japanese. 31 ICIDAL DEFENSIVE TACTICS LONDON The Nazis. jn their desperate attempt at defence against the great Allied air raids, have resorted to suicide lamming of I nitrd States bombers, it is reported BOMBER MISSING R I Hani is ..st rWH Station on British ( olumhia (oast VANCOUVER. July 15 -Wis-ern Air Command announces a Royal Canadian Air Force bomber being missing from a British Columbia station since yester- men nboard Uie plane ls announced as yet. Uniformed Folk Assist Red Cross carnival grounds and passed in the light rain beMreen her guard of honor and tne enthusiastic umbrella roofed populace to take her place before the throne in the carnival hall. K" L PARTY RK HI.Y DRKSSKD Wearing a coronation gown of white slipper satin, period style with a purple and white velvet train trimmed with ermine, the Queen-elect carried a bouquet of carnations and was escorted igujong me snort,, caiprmi j by Lieut George Dybhavn. Ihe was preceded by her maids of honor. Princess Betty Oreig. wearing a gown of heavy brocaded satin of princess lines, and Pr.ncess Olive Mane Huculaa. i-rrhntT sown was at white UppM satin designed In rTTlzatyth carried a bouquet of pink and white carnations and they were ; escorted by Lieut W. D Mackay and Lieut W O. Sheardown reapect.vely mobile- team have obtained 2.512 of the top , picnic .,.. , of combat Pilot, after telling a tiottlM of blood for the forces in .spotted gaps in over the heavily-defended Ruhr: N(irmn!1DV. was o0talncd fnm, snX le c fs didn't have chance. We - They a volunt of wluml SSmtU Were K'O'IK, lasui man tracer." Now u navigator We flew so horiion." a kl. 4 l. 1 ciose that we we e aoie uo uy , blo()d ()np mornng on ine ouiei u-imw -s i" I ... flew Flttv pounds of waste paper went back to their day's duties and returned on their own ac men a nign ana ic.w. , rorrt jn thf ,.vrmnR t0 act y or. so high over Essen that Jerry rps ' ' had to start popping up the flak at lunchtimtv will make 100 blood plasma con- are a prime means of transport miners anon. FKW CARS IN JAVA OTTAWA. July 15- Ow- ing to a decline in produc- Hon. the butter ration in Canada will be cut nexi month. Coupons 72 and "3 will not become valid until August 10 They had origin- ally scheduled for August 3 i Holiday Picture Helps Invaders Picnic Snap Kevrals Weaknesses of Germans' Normand Defences LONDON. Juiy 15 ' -Fifteen -year-old Gwendoline nearly drove her family crazy that day .some five years ago as she posed them on the beach of Normandy for a holiday picture But she fot a good snap sue 1 1 GENERALS ON FRONT LINES CHARLES rDULKES slai -Gen Charlea Foulkes a! ways 'had a hankerimj'to be is proceeding an armv man -even before the he came to the c 4, 4. from his native Englana a.s lad. Now at 41 he has reaiizec his ambition and k one of Can ada's front line generals. Charles ftoulkes was educatec in Canada at Central Collegiate London. Ont.. and graduatel n arts from the University o serted itself and he was- com Canadian Machine Gun Corps in 1923. That was the start in a steady climb up the military ladder Lead.ng the procession were that mat. was o speeded uiu by war. One Continued on Page 2i l Butter Ration Is Being Cut Bl(. ICHlIVEMaUR The year 1937 was one oi the highlights of Gen. Foulkes' military career. He was successful oert.s exocrts who leaked at r occomnm uenerai sian cluselv and found what they had of a Canadian Infantry division, been looking for. After a stay in Canada when The picture showed the sea he assisted In training the divl-wall lettine them fiEiire out its sion with which he returned LONDON. July 15 B TVenti exact sloue and height. In the overseas in 1941. he was made Red Cross workers, working .is i comer of the picture, over the brigadier of an infantry brigade teapot, were in August, ltriz. mc commanoea I the seemingly the brigade in the 1st Division for eight months and then was ; j a Hti " ....... , inr c-apei us cou rouiu .si-r p. - ll,c;were men and women from the slope of the beach, figure out staff, 1st Canadian Army in ( anadian ! uccs m Britain. ;u- amount of seaweed. The ex- April. 1943 Four ww sergeants gave their I esMtima mudo hv Owenrin- His uromotion to the actrig Then the ;t,1P-s Kabv brother that dav rank of major-general followed even told them about the nature and texture of the bearh itself. in January. i944. and he was simultaneously given command of the Canadian division he now That holiday snap had become heads, a vital link in the whole chain 1 Oen. Foulkes was appointed a of facts and figures without Commander of the Order of tn On the island of Java, bicycles which the Normandy landings : British Empire in the last New on D-Day might have been im Year's Honors list. His wife an possible. 1 family reside in Victoria. Locai Tid$ Sunday. July I. High 10 50 17 0 feet m 22 45 20 2 feet Lqw 4:32 4.5 feet 10:24 8 1 feet 85 ux.nium 50 Ijnimum NOKTUKKN AND ( KNTKAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPKR I'KINCK RUPERT, B.r RDAY, JULY 15, PRICE nVE CENTS '1 vance In Normandy MONTY MEETS THE PRESS FOLLOWING T.IE INVASION Oeneral 8ir Bernard L. Montgomery, commander of all Allied ground force in Prance, pictured when he held his first press conference following successful establishment of the beachhead. JAPS TRY TO ESCAPE ( MtMVM H4TIRE Crowning Of Queen Rosal errmimies Marked Annual Civic Centre Event Last Night at Seventh Street 'rounds When the Jewelled crown was placed on the head of Princess Einorr 8torseth. Sons of Norway candidate, by Mayor H M Dag- gf t befoie a tightly packed crowd In the rarnlvai grounds Friday night it was the culminating nv-ment of the 1044 Cvic Centre Carnival queen contest. "I am grateful for this honor. Thank you " said pretty and de-mire Queen Eiinore as Mayor Daggett placed the crown on her Sonde head while she stood on JAP FATE IS SEALED ( hinese Newspaper Believe Nippon Will be taught Between Marianas and Kuriles CHUNGKING. July 15 A Chinese newspaper said yesterday that the capture of the Marianas by the United States would seal the late of Japan as a result of a double offensive which would be possible from the Marianas on Americans Move Ahead Three Miles and Take 16 Towns and Villages ALLIED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, July 16 (CP) Americans, striking forward for four miles and straightening the loop in the centre, hammered the south, and the Kuriie islands ' at the German triple bastion road line in western to the north. Large Numbers Leave London two miles from Periers and Saintlo. Sixteen towns 'and villages on the American I ' front have been seized during the last 24 hours. A lull persisted on the Britlsh-Canartian sector in the east hut UMBO. July 15 By thls neavy German shelling of Brit-..k-r-nd n" le.vs- than 169.000 ish positions in the Maltot and women and children had left EterviUe areas and Canadian I a dan. kvfnrp the throne Khe London for saler residence in (then took her place on the the country because of the Nazi reported thione. flanked by her maids of robot bombing. Ttve evacuation honor, flower girls and train will continue for another week, tyarers. and the escorts oi regal it is expected. Home Secretary Herbert Mor-The coronation ceremony be- flm warned last night that Ittin at S o'clock alter Princess 'here might be no early cessa-I Elmore stepped from the royal i tton of robot bombing. -' limousine at the gate of the I Normandy today, fighting a mile from Lessay and Evacuating Of Baltic States Hitler and his war council , money coming from? have decided to evacuate The party believed in compen- the Baltic States of Lithu- station and not confiscation. Mr. ania Latvia and Estonia to 4,Phelpo said. The utility should the Russians, according to I be taken over gradually. 4 reports received here I: ,.s - aLso said that dismantling of the port of Koenigsberg More Newspaper Advertising Is Need of Stores wear marfihantr wr ret TirtVdcrt fit" i l:nes. Each of the matds of honor missioned . . a npnti-nant in the Warren K Cook, chairman. Na- 1 twnal Council of Clothing Man ufacturers. to do more and better newspaper advertising at a meeting of the Ontario Retail Men's Wear Association in To- of the army's outstanding suff ronTto . recentlv u?, ouicers. uen. ruuun uun mands a Canadian division overseas, an appointment an the advertising or i men's stores in Canada is about h worst in the world." said i Mr Cook. T think it will be! nounces liSl January. ciJrl. fnr vn.. tr. WnH more Gen. Foulkes applies himsc.j moQCy idnmg lVs UIISJIIIIIM w .u,. a..u - - , manner and denlnrahle how' a serious turn oi minu. out nr .empers this with a chuckle that breaks out fre quently and ls one factor that makes him popular with all ranks. Short and wiry- Gen. Foulkes was born at Stockton-on-Tees. Durham, in 190J. and came to Canada as a youngster, settling with his family in London. After three years with the Canadian Machine Gun Corps during which he had been promoted to captain. Foulkes reverted to the rank of lieutenant AYV done bv men's wear merchants- in Canada. "Intensive planning in buying, selling and advertising will be necessary' if you are to get your share of the consumer's dollar in the future." he warned the men's wear merchants. Inquire Into Pearl Harbor in 1926 when he transferred to WASHINGTON. DC. July 15 the Royal Canadian Regiment as j A new Inquiry into the clr-a permanent force officer. After cumstances of the Pearl Harbor regimental duty and promotion disaster of December 6. 1942. Is to captain in 1935 he served a.s to be held. There will be twin stmfJ officer at MD.2 fToron- courts by army and navy. to i and MD. 3 'Kingston' lift In noa-cro rvotr aHvorf i;intr i c Railways Play Big D Day Role i good one that on invasion day. in entrance examinations lor l.u.uuw. juiy is v in me it drove the German- craty. the Imperial Staff College at two months' preceding D-Day. Gwendoline didn't know that Cam&eriey. England a major whimi railways ran .spe then When the snap was de- achievement since only two va velopcd. she put it away in the j fancies a year are open to Can iamilv album. It .stayed there, aaians. cial troop, ammunition and store trains. Not all these trains were con- day afternoon. Next of kin have imUi'a vear ag0 wnen an appeal At the outbreak of the war be nected with D-Day itself, but of oeen no;i len rne number ... f- .,.,ran ,,f was staff officer at M U I 'Lor- .new uiai were, i.wu camrj tr i ins or more than 3,000 freight WOULD TAKE OVER POWER REG INA. Julv 15 The new Co- positions southwest of Caen was i0peraUve Commonwealth gov ernment of Saskatchewan wants to take over the power line of the province as soon as possible, the provincial Minister of Resources. Mr Phelps, told tiic C C. Y. convention here yesterday. The new government was. however, meeting with the same question as had the forme: L.b- Madrid Julv 15 Adolf 4 eral government, where i tne Bulletins S2M.OO0 ONTARIO UK I M l KI D. Ontario A ZM.-M fire today ejetstrnwd hp -f St. Joseph S Industrial School for deKnqawn't boys and St. Victor Catholic Church, for a time threatening Iku liltt rnmmiinitT hrtlfu.cv But the urr MontV- b.l.n Ottawa and , .... JJiv 13 u onntrittion hi rr OTTAWA Prime Minister Mackenzie King intimated yesterday that there would be a new department of reconstruction with one of the members of the present cabinet in charge. BN IKON iiKI I inn N( M VOL The Vancouver rity council is urging the provincial government to ban export of iron ore from the province. No Comment On Story to Empty Elevator Seeking confirmation of a rumor that the terminal elevator here is to be emptied of grain, and possibly refilled with the 1944 prairie crop, a Dailv News reporter- today contacted William Finlayson. superintendent of the elevator, who said that he was unable to comment on what went on within the concrete walled storehouse. Since the war began we nave been forbidden to allow visitors to enter the elevator, or to make public anything concerning the movements of grain." Mr. Finlayson said. "Before the war we welcomed visitors and co-operated in the matter of Information." A few weeks ago the Canadian Board of Grain Comnii.,, loners visited the city, but no official word of the purpose of the visit was disclosed. the French coast Then with dotal, He was appointed biigari1 -50.000 soldiers across Britain, ip w 1 ut 500.000 similar holiday major of a Canadian Infantry -ether with 12.000 (tons of bag- j rOIllter rrIlCll u nr. tic), Rriivirie mri went overseas I-ite Stage Stores and heavy equip-I Admiralty to be studied by ex- in 1940 he returned to Canada, inc ludmg 7 .000 vehicles : II' OlllCei' auwsovi wt "' ITSSSSStTtV S IIV J cart, VICHY. July 15 Oearges More than 5.000 wagon-loads Mandel. who was minister of of supplies and equipment were the interior at the time of ths I - sent by ordinary freight Fall of France, ls dead, having trains. 'been killed in an accident. CARNIVAL HIGHLIGHTS TONIGHT cvOO Bathing Beauty Finals. 1 1 : l5Jitterbug Contest 12 :(H Victory Bond Drawing.