ROME
BOMBED
TODAY
rain
at
noon
today.
No
detail
were
Immediately
given.
FORMOSA
RAIDED
AGAIN
I
t:l
Hr.AUilUAKTMlS
IN
MIIJTIIWLST
TAUIKIU
lor-
a
raided
for
the
second
consecutive
day
today.
slam,
railway
yard
Mere
also
attacked.
FOHE-RUNNER
OK
INVASION
.EAVING
MORE
U-BOATS
SUNK
rlbombc.
;
in
the
attack
while
LthliOe
:ma:;,
agency
D.ND
t
.
.
.
.
watmca
v
jt
uo
American
ptene,
-
u
'
:
i
124
four
en-akMd
bt:
were
shot
down
bififcll
f
t
s
were
withou;
totfflil
csi.'irmation
until
the
EtSh
Air
Furcc
completed
the
CSffltllll
'
f
rivrf
tu.'pntv.
ffottMJicurj
after
the
bombers
hadw'
'
ui
r.
:d
and
anounccd
4&ip4
pi.i;:c
and
nearly
600
:ad
been
lost.
More
than
l
r
man
planes
were
shot
'
a:
uur
urned
into
-hour
running
battle.
rive
hundred
planes
took
Bin
f.:ht
The
Oermaru
It
.Hey
put
everything"
In-
Be
fight
:al
POST
uritm.vf;
awaitki
Fishing
In
This
Area
Bang-
INDON
The
Ilamlnc
ait
battle
which
poMlbly
1Z00
Amer-
Inmb'n
and
fighter
fought
over
Ormany
Tuesday
with
il
Air
Force
Is
viewed
on
both
aide
of
the
English
Chan-
fe,Ur
a
sslbly
the
forerunner
of
a
mighty
struggle
for
Iprcmacy
WHICH
IS
riprciro
u
aiiumi'anj
mr
niiifu
iiih
linn
of
westein
Europe.
More
than
100
derman
fighter
lust
and
59
American
bomber
and
five
flfhler.
r.rillNOTO.V
United
Statei
bomblngtplahe,
based
on
Knlon
ittand
in
the
South
Atlantic,-
hareiunk
two
more
nan
U
boai.
JAPS
ARE
FRUSTRATED:
ILir.Il
HEADQUARTERS
IN
NEW
OUINEA
neaamiarief
denied
a
Japanese
tlalm
that
they
hare
recaptured
Ir.
New
Hiltain,
and
asserted
that
Aaawe
still
ts
in
Amen-
(hand.
Headquarter
announced
that
an
attempted
Jap-
landing
at
Cape
Gloucester,
New
Britain,
was
halted
by
id
State
Marine.
Two
barge
containing
Japanese
troop
sunk.
Frnrniinr
IUUCDUKU
Iarget
One
of
Points
at
tthkh
it
United
State
Bombing
rdition
Struck.
it
.
x
le
i
W:
x
Jw
13
9
-The
Ber-
of
the
Swed-Altonbladea
of
'
ysterday
that
;e
great
attack
states
Air
Fore
burg.
Important
aJ
crntre
about
100
f
Berlin,
and
Hald-r.a
ame
vicinity.
The
:c
;.
added
that
bom-
ic.ni.fa
lowara
iei-
u.
the
second
day-
a
arm
of
the
war
in
the
1.
KIm
Lundon
prra
speculated
FfaAerday
'
'.a;
the
United
State
JMtfi
A.r
Force
had
lost
slx-
Quiet
Now
B.C.
Packer
to
Handle
Clam
Ttitouti.0itih
Acquired
Waterfront
Premise.
No
herring
In
seining
quantl-llc
have
been
located
In
waters
contiguous
to
Prince
Rupert
so
far
this
winter
although
prospecting
for
the
fish
has
been
going
on
since
the
flrtt
of
the
'.dths
In
Blast
By
Accident
Survivor's
Testimony
Spike
Conjecture
liut
Offers
No
Heal
Mr,
ht
on
Cause
of
llicti
way
Implosion.
Written
testimony
by
Alfred
Carbo.
survivor
along
wif.h
Joseph
Hansen
of
a
dynam.tc
blast
which
killed
Knutc
OLscn
and
Eric
Oerdln.
Northern
Co:
structlor.
Company
workers
bc
yond
mile
18,
on
Januy
3.
stated
that
the
four
powdermrn
were
loading
hole
before
the
blast
went
off.
The
testimony,
presented
Wednesday
afternoon
to
the
Coroner's
Jury
Investigating
the
circumstances
of
the
disaster
wiped
out
the
possibility
that
the
four
men
had
been
changes
detonator
can
when
the
expl:
slon
occurred
or
that
one
of
them
had
used
a
metal
blow-pipe
to
clean
out
a
partly
filled
hole
with
compressed
air.
Carbo's
statement,
read
to
the
Jury
by
Coroner
M.
M.
Stephen
said
that
Carbo
and
Olsen
h;id
been
engaged
In
loading
a
hole
with
40
per
cent
forcite
dyna
mite
and
that
Oerdln
and
Han-
ten
had
been
aoing
me
same
at
a
hole
about
20
feet
west
or
them.
Carbo
told
that,
following
the
blast,
he
was
unaware
of
anything
until
he
became
conscious
of
hlmcif
lying
on
a
stretcher
about
500
feet
west
of
the
scene
of
the
accident.
There
had
been
20
sticks
of
dynamite
In
thcJoJc-ihaUhvanr
OUen
had
been
loading.
Olsen
was
killed
outright
Joseph
Hansen.
'
who
was
more
seriously
Injured
than
Carbo,
was
unable
to
give
testimony
but
his
experience
was
known
to
be
similar
to
that
of
Carbo.
'
Other
witnesses
who
gave
year.
There
have
been
some
opinions
as.
to
the
cause
of
the
signs
of
the
fish,
however,
and
explosion,
were
HJalmar
Lar-it
is
exoected
the
run
may
dc-
son.
foreman
in
charge
of
the
'vclop
In
volume
before
long.
men.
and
Charlc
A.
Oraham,
Usually
the
bio
run
of
herring
mlnlnz
engineer,
neither
of
'
around
Prince
Rupert
occuri
In
u-hom
saw
the
events
preceding
February
although
last
winter
the
blast.
i
there
was
no
run
whatever
ow-,
The
jury
brought
In
a
verdict
Ing
to
extremely
cold
weather.
Cf
dath
bv
misadventure,
due
The
seiner
Bertha
B.,
Capt.
Jack
a
premature
blast
with
no
Haan,
Is
prospecting
for
herring
blame
attached
to
anyone,
out
of
Prince
Rupert
for
the
'
jurymen
were
Ocorge
J.
B.C.
Packers
which
had
a
couple
Dawes
'
foreman
.
John
M.
of
other
vessels
standing
by
In
Walker.
John
R
Murray.
Arthur
port
ready
to
go
out
to
fish.
Bani
omer
Clavelle
and
Lloyd
Meanwhile
the
nearest
run
to
Ai
wells.
Prince
Rupert
Is
at
Kwakshua
Pass
off
Calvert
Island
near
a
I
Queen
Charlotte
Sound
which
Is
!
yielding
fish
for
Namu,
dale
and
Port
Edward
reduction
nlanLx
as
well
as
for
canning
at
Alert
Bay,
Vancouver
Island,
j
B.C.
Packers
will
continue
to
handle
butter
clams
through
Prlnri
riiinprt
this
season
for
!
delivery
to
Vancouver
for
can
ning.
The
clams
are
landea
in
rrlnce
Rupert
by
natives
In
sacks
and
arc
shucked
and
.
.
I
k
rri.
nlAMSi
cior.
u
i,.-
i
frozen
ror
smpmcm.
mc
icprcwntatlve
of
the
War-
"
bc.
hndw
b?
?.C,S
Prices
and
Trade
Board
1
"ln'?'
"
u
wienroni
piu
w.
..
H.c
v
arty
two
years
since
the
i
-hmcnt
of
the
local
of-
I
"""'l"'
':r
nTAfttnr.
Northern
Flshcrmen
s
Cold
Stor-
in,
rrB,ri
nrf
tt.in
k-
r
.
.
.....
wv
.
.
k
next
Monday
night
for
,
puvcr
to
resume
his
former
tr-3.
V-
II.
Llnrcv
of
this
k'M
bc
his
successor.
notici:
Vnnual
General
Meeting
the
CANADIAN
RED
ROSS
SOCIETY
will
be
eld
on
Tuesday,
Jan,
18th,
8
p.m.
In
the
Canadian
kclon
Hall,
Illl.slllCKS:
rcclving
reports
for
year
1013.
Section
of
officers.
Icneral
business.
iBhow
your
Interest
In
ir
Red
Cross
bv
attend-
thls
meeting.
A
few
Prince
Rupert
boats
are
fishing
for
dogfish
and
cod
but
the
most
of
them
are
delivering
their
catches
to
Vancouver.
There
Is
little,
If
any,
trolling
for
spring
salmon
as
yet
although
this
Is
now
permtssable.
Ambulance
Fund
Dr.
C.
II.
Hanklnson
Prince
Rupert
Ladles'
Reading
Club
John
Wllkle.
Alex
MacKcnzlc
$23.00
0.00
1.00
25.00
VANCOUVER,
Jan.
13
CP)
Service
polire
reported
Wednesday
that
Corporal
Theodore
Voerge,
Royal
Canadian
Air
Force,
scheduled
to'
appear
Friday
as
a
witness
at
the
preliminary
heating
of
Charles
Hawken,
charged
with
the
'murder
of
I
rancls
Andrew
Roland,
former
provincial
police-nun,
is
missing.
Voege
did
not
return
to
his
station
after
the
healing
opened
Tuesday.
BROTHER
OF
V.C
HOLDER
AMONG
WOUNDED
TO
CANADA
Captain
F.
W.
I.
"Bill"
Merrltt.
or
Vancouver,
brother
of
Lt.-Col,
Cecil
Merrlttt.
Canada's
only
V.C.
holder
of
this
war
and
now
a
prisoner
of
war,
smiles
from
his
cot
on
board
the
hospital
ship,
Lady
Nelson,
when
It
landed
recently
In
Halifax.
Capt.
Merrltt
suffered
painful
leg
Injuries
In
service
with
the
Seaforth
Highlanders
in
Sicily.
He
went
overseas
with
the
Sea-forths
of
Vancouver
in
December,
1939.
In
peacetime
he
was
a
brilliant
Canadian
football
player
and
oarsniait
of
note.
Local
Temperature
Local
Tides
mm
Friday,
Jan.
14
49
High
3-10
iMaxlmum
j
fvGE
TIT
I
Minim
urn
35
Low
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITIS
HCOLto
IfiiNEWSPAPER
m2
fee
tXXXIII,
No.
10
P
R1NCE
RUPERT,
BX'THURSb'A?
J'aMAryU
1914
PRICE
FIVE
CENTS
WAD
3
'
liNHON
The
Home
radio
reported
(hat
Home
wa
bon.
-
O
IT
I
Russians
Still
Pushing
Nazis
ssssssssssssssw?
sissssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssnssssssssssssssssssssssa
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSK..
SSSI
CANADIAN.
WOUNDED
RETURN
tluME
FRO
if
ITALY
BATTLEFRONT
Battle-scarred
Canadian
-Idler,
taw
their
homeland,
some
i
i
m
for
the
firs
time
In
four
years,
when
they
arnved
,n
Haitlax
renntly
sooard
the
Ca
i.idian
Army
hospital
ship.
Lady
Nelson.
A
few
wrc
rcpatnalc
from
the
batUi
of
Dieppe
but
the
majority
were
wounded
In
battles
In
Sicily
and
Italy
Top
irft
shows
Pte.
II
C.
Oabbry
af
the
Loyal
Eamonton
Regiment
whose
home
u
near
Jtfut
western
city,
having
his
Jacket
adtnsted
by
Pte
L,
E.
Neff.
of
Port
Colbome,
Ont
a
hospiUl
ship
orderly.
O
abbey
was
wounded
in
the
north
of
Sicily.
Minus
his
arm
and
an
ugly
wound
In
his
back
Sgt.
R.
R.
Amyot
of
North
Bay
'top
right),
who
was
seriously
wounded
In
a
combination
of
wild
fist
and
gun
fighting
with
Huns
In
the
streets
of
Nasoria.
Italy.
He
was
with
the
Hastings
and
Prince
Edward
Regiment.
Bottom
left
shows
Pte.
H.
A.
Mann
of
Yorkton,
8ak..
who
suffered
a
badly
fractured
leg
fighting
with
the
8th
Army
In
Italy.
He
wants
to
go
back.
Three
young
veterans
fnm
the
Italian
campaign,
all
from
Moosejaw.
SaskJare
pictured
lower
right.
Left
to
right:
Pte
N.
J.
Gamble.
Sgt.
Major
11
M.
VanBuskiik
andvBdr.
R.
M.
Beatty.
VanBuikirk
has
a
wife
in
Britain.
WITNESS
MISSING
i
PUBLIC
TRAVEL
DROPS
HEAVILY
BULLETINS
AIDED
AXIS?
NEW
YORK
The
Chase
National
Rank
has
been
indicted
on
two
counts
charging
con-spiiacy
to
assist
the
Axis.
The
president
of
the
bank
calls
the
prosecution
an
"outrage."
RinURN
TO
WORK
MO.VTR
E.L
Union
leaders
recemmended
that
striking
City
Hall
workers
return
to
their
Jobs
and
they
did
so
at
noon
today
after
their
23-day
old
stiike.
They
have
acreptcd
proposal
for
arbitration
of
the
wage
dispute.
LABOR
IS
OrfOSKD
WASHINGTON
Both
the
American
Federation
of
I,a-bor
and
the
Congress
of
Industrial
Organiialion
are
lining
up
against
President
Roosevelt's
proposed
national
service
act.
Leaders
of
both
Labor
factions
have
been
summoned
to
the
White
House.
NO
WORK
IN
NORTH
EDMONTON
Selective
Service
officials
are
advising
men
against
going
north
as
there
Is
not
largCj
employment
on
construction
Jobs
there
as
reported.
TRY
FOR
BETTER
TERMS
LONDON
No
announcement
has
yet
been
made
by
the
Polish
government
in
regard
to
the
new
Russian
border
proposals.
Efforts
will
be
made
to
resume
diplomatic
relations
and
secure
better
terms.
The
National
War
Savings
Committee.
Vancouver
office.
Has
Now
Subsided
Almost
to
Pre-war
Level
for
Time
Being
The
vear-end
travel
boom
which
taxed
local
transportation
company
office
staffs
and
bur-jdened
boats
and
trains
to
an
j
uncomfortable
limit
has
subsided
to
a
level
which
reminds
jold
timers
of
the
pre-war
nor-Imal.
j
Very
little
travelling
is
being
idone
by
the
permanently
es
tablished
rsidents
although
the
usual
amount
of
business
travel
Is
being
maintained.
The
leave
and
furlough
movements
of
service
people,
which
up
to
the
new
year
accounted
for
the
majority
of
train
and
boat
tickets
sold,
dwindled
off
sharply
by
the
time
1944
was
a
Iweek
old.
By
that
time
most
of
I
them
had
seen,
the
folks
and
were
back
on
the
Job.
The
migrations
of
construction
workers,
which
almost
to
the
year's
end
had
been
a
solid
source
of
patronage
to
the
transportation
companies.
Is
also
near
a
standstill.
The
precautionary
action
of
making
reservations
weeks
in
advance
which
was
necessary
i
last
year,
Is
now
said
to
be
unnecessary,
although
agents
ad
vise
that
reservations
be
made
some
days
ahead.
This
precaution
will
circumvent
embarrass
ment
which
might
be
caused
by
an
unexpected
last
minute
rush.
Power
Consumers
May
Have
More
Free
Electricity
VICTORIA,
Jan.
13
Another
no
charge
to
consumers
period
had
a
letter'
before
the
.
Prince
,
may
be
Imposed
upon
the
Brit
Rupert
Oyro
Club
yesterday
ex-
(lsh
Columbia
Electric
Co.
If
the
pressing
appieciatlon
of
the
as-'company's
earnings
Justify
It.
slstance.
the
club
had
given
In
Dr.
W.
A.
Carrothers.
chairman
connection
with
the
Fifth
Vict-
of
the
British
Columbia
Public
ory
Loan
campaign.
I
Utilities
Commission,
says.
HUGE
WAR
EXPENSES
Roosevelt
Presents
One
Hundred
Billion
Budget
to
WAS
OTON,
D.O,
Jan
1J
(CP)
-
i
lie
annual
budget
message
of
President
Franklin
D.
Roosevelt
to
Congress
today
asked
for
SI
00,000,000,-000
to
cover
what
the
chief
executive
h6ped
would
be
a
decisive
effort
toward
victory
and
the
critical
problems
of
peace.
Mr.
Roosevelt
requested
this
astronomical
appropriation
for
the
fiscal
year
ending
June
30,
1915.
It
is
about
the
same
as
estimated
total
.
expenditures
for
the
current
fiscal
year.
He
said
about
$30,000,000,000
of
the
total,
would
be
for
war
alone,
bringing
war
spendings
to
date
to
a
third
of
a
trillion
dollars.
The
eighteen
months
between
now
and
the
end
of
the
fiscal
year
would
be,
the
chief
executive
said,
"crucial
in
the
history
of
the
United
States
and
mankind,
a
period
which
will
see
decisive
action
in
this
global
war."
Mr.
Roosevelt
made
no
suggestion
of
an
early
end
of
the
war,
suggesting
that
it
would
be
"unwise
to
plan
for
anything
but
continued
fighting
until
well
into
next
year."
MOVING
NORTH
TOWARD
ROME
Fifth
Army
Continues
to
Iro-
gress
Cervaro
Has
Been
Tak
mi
li
wi'i.i
i
WHOLE
ARMY-ON
MOVE
ALGIERS,
Jan.
13
Virtually
the
entire
Fifth
Army
was
on
the
move
today
as
it
broadened
its
offensive
from
near
the
Tyrrhenian
Sea
coast
to
Central
Italy
and
sent
French
units
hammering
through
3.000
and
4,000
foot
mountains
to
threaten
Cas-sino
from
the
third
side.
American
infantry
swept
to
within
three
miles
of
Cassino
in
a
frontal
attack
with
the
capture
of
Cervaro
yesterday
after
surrounding
the
village,
headquarters
announced.
The
Germans
had
already
admitted
its'
loss.
ALGIERS,
Jan.
13
O)
The
Anglo-American
Fifth
Army
seized
more
high
ground
in
Italy
yesterday
In
its
advance
toward
Cassino.
:on
the
road
to
Rome,
Allied
headquarters
an-'
nounced
yesterday.
A
thaw
In
the
weather
made
fighting
more
difficult.
v,
.
A
German
communique
says
that
the
Nazis
.have
been
thrown
out
q!
Ceivaro,
fprtl-
florl
vllfafrn
fnur
mllae
.crmtH-
Dr.
Knipe
Is
Speaker
Before
Tenant
Council
Dr.
Roger
O
Knipe,
director
of
the
local
public
health
unit,
speaking
before
a
meeting
of
the
tenant
council
"of
Wartime
Housin
at
the
club
house
Tuesday
night,
told
of
the
work
of
the
health
unit,
stressing
the
Importance
of
Immunization
against
communicable
deseases
not
only
for
children
but
for
adults
as
well.
Other
topics
of
discussion
at
the
meeting
Included
the
question
of
playgrounds
for
War
time
Housing
districts
and
plans
for
the
building
of
a
Wartime
Housing
community
hall.
W.
MCkenzle,
chairman
of
the
I
tenant
council,
was
In
the
chair.
Strongholds
Threatened
Red
Army
on
Better
Fighting
Ground
and
Threatening
New
Offensive.
MOSCOW,
Jan.
13
The
highly
mobile
First
Ukranian
Army,
expanding
its
front
on
the
Sarny
sector
to
a
width
of
fifty
mile
or
more,
struck
out
in
several
sweeping
movements
today
to
threaten
German
held
strongholds
of
Rov-
I
no,
Pinsk
and
Kovel.
A
strong
I
force
of
the
right
wing
cap-I
turel
Dombrovitsa,
twenty
miles
north
of
Sarny
on
the
l
revno
marshland
country,
and
moved
on
to
within
fifty
miles
i
of
Pinsk,
important
centre
on
the
Brest-Litovsk
railway.
it
had
already
passed
the
y
worst
of
the
Prieptt
Marshes
and
advance
units
were
approaching
high
rolling
ground
beyond
the
swamps.
Meanwhile
a
new
offensive
which
was
launched
Tuesday
to
the
north
of
the
marshes,
was
approaching
the
city
of
Mezyr,
80
miles
southwest
of
Gomel.
NEWFUGHT
MARK
MADE
From
Montreal
to
Britain
in
Eleven
Hours
and
Fourteen,
Mlnutes.
WINNIPEO.
Jan.
13
Two
big
Lancaster
tansport
planes
op
erated
by
TransCanada
Air
i
lines
in
the
Canadian
Govern-
J.
ment
TransAtlantlc
Service
ar-
f
.rf'iir
mnrnn
Trlth
Tieaw
load
T
of
mall
for
Canada's
overseas
!
forces,
both
planes
having
made
5
a
non-stop
trip
from
Montreal
f
,ln
faster
time
than
the
previous
f
j
record
set
for
a
Montreal
to
Great
Britain
flight
This
record.
11
hours
and
35
minutes,
was
set
In
November
last.
The
flying
times
Montreal
to
Great
Britain
of
the
two
transports
operated
by
TCA
and
arriving
yesterday
were
11
hours
and
16
minutes
and
11
hours
and
14
minutes
respectively.
The
two
big
planes
left
Montreal
four
minutes
apart,
the
first
at
3:05
pjn.
(Pacific
Time)
Tuesday
and
arrived
at
2:2t
am.
(Pacific
Time)
Wednesday.
The
second
left
at
3:09
p.m.
Tuesday
and
landed
on
a
British
airpoort
at
2:23
am.
yesterday.
The
first
plane
carried
6,207
pounds
of
mall
and
119
pounds
of
freight.
The
second
carried
4524
pounds
of
mall
and
408
pounds
of
freight
The
full
flight
carried
nearly
one
million
letters,
ell
for
the
men
and
women
In
Canada's
overseas
armed
forces.
Captain
Tr:..;r:n
r::
:m
;
'of
the
first
plane
was
George
B.
cutpost
guarding
that
powerful
.SP
Nazi
outpost.
WHICH
DC
fciic
m
w
irvviu
jl
hours
and
14
minutes,
was
In
charge
of
Captain
M.
B.
COMPANY
CHARGED
Alleged
That
Freighter
North-
holm
Was
Overloaded
and
Had
Inadequate
Lifeboats.
VANCOUVER.
Jan.
13
Ot
Charges
that
the
Vancouver
freighter
Northholm
was
over
loaded
when
she
foundered
with
loss
of
15
members
of
the
crew
off
Cape
Scott,
Vancouver
Island,
a
year
ago
and
the
vessel's
lifeboat
equipment
was
Inadequate
were
laid
In
police
court
Wednesday
against
Union
Steamships
Limited.
The
charges
were
laid
on
Department
of
Justice
Instruc
tions.
The
Northholm,
laden
with
pulp,
fish
meal
and
ore,
was
bound
from
Port
Alice
to
Vancouver
at
the
Ume.