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7:00
1.4
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19:15
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feet
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.
FRIDAY,
SEPTEMBER
1,
1944
PRICE
FIVE
CENTS
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Serve
Country
'
'
studies
at
the
Dr:iih
Columbia
taken
a
first
year
Camuel
Klrkaldy.
-
of
Mr
and
Mrs.
of
Terrace,
lias
'.ment
in
the
We
Army
througlr
Rupert
recruiting
t:
w:
leave
for
the
hw
rc:eptlon
centre
on
h
2
rr.fTnber
of
the
Ter-p"l
Coast
mllltla
unit.
I1-
:
t'.ie
summer
he
has
pr'k'
fnr
a
lumber
comfit!
f-
hr-
u
Terrace
pusi-
Nu'.rd-;
leave
on
Septem-f""
nrlee
with
the
Can-Ar'e
Army
is
Wilfred
ShtJn"
24,
who
has
been
p:r
drer
for
the
post
en-is
here
ms
i.,
at
Leamington.
S""-
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II.
I.
wiuii
I.1IUWII.
Al.
Mr
and
Mr:
C
F.
Brown.
PCjvc
ave
left
for
Van-t
earlier
jn
the
week
to
a
Vnrin
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il.
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Terhnlpol
Pr-nr
to
his
enlistment
he
atne
operator
at
the
dry
Phillip
Necld.
20.
nf
Vim
s'
and
John
Hay.
20,
of
f
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constables
with
r'
security
police,
sta-
rrincc
Rupert,
have
'PTrd
here
fnr
i.nii-i.,
P'ie
Active
Army,
and
have
1
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award-
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cross
for
press-
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an
attack
on
a
Oer-
marme
after
he
had
f
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in
72
places.
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bomb
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other
crewmen
were
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horror
of
war
torcadinr
the
world
and
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that
the
virtora
of
thU
war
take
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ihr
future
unholdinr
of
the
fundamental
riles
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found
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REPRESENTS
B.C.
AT
ROAI)
OPENING
iail
HON,
II.
G,
rr.KRV
Poy.nea.
rr
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e-iuna-tnn
wh
5
w..
represent
the
B.C
Government
at
the
highway
opening
celebration
at
Terrace
Monday,
arrived
in
Prince
Rupert
this
morning
from
Victoria.
INTERIOR
PIONEER
DIES
IN
RUPERT
A
pioneer
of
the
Fraser
Lake
district
of
Central
B.C..
Mrs.
J.
C
McMeekln,
of
Victoria,
died
Thursday
at
the
home
of
her
daughter.
Mrs
K.
L.
Montleth.
136
9th
Avenue
West.
She
was
78
years
old.
'
Mrs.
McMeekln
went,
to
Fraser
Lake
in
1910
over
the
Cariboo
road.
6hc
was
born
near
Stratford.
Ont.
Surviving
her
is
one
son.
F.
J.
McMeekln.
of
Victoria,
and
a
daughter.
Mrs.
K.
L.
Monteith.
of
this
city.
Funeral
services
will
be
held
Monday.
B.C.
Undertakers
arc
in
charge
of
arrangements.
Germans
Still
In
Disorderly
Ketrrat
Danube
Valley,
North
told
of
Front
MOSCOW,
Sept.
1
Oi
Russians,
after
marching
through
Bucharest,
headed
today
In
the
direction
of
6crbla's
eastern
mountains
where
Marshal
Tlto'
forces
are
battling
the
Nazis.
Dispatches
from
the
front
said
the
Germans
were
still
In
disorderly
flight
up
the
Danube
Valley
on
the
northern
end
of
the
front.
Russians
advanced
to
less
thai.
12
miles
north
of
Warsaw.
A
Oerman
communique
claim
ed
the
Russian
offensive
has
been
stemmed
from
the
Carp
athians
to
the
Oulf
of
Finland.
Man
Rumed
as
LichtninK
Strikes
His
Radio
PRINCETON,
Sept.
1
-Thomas
Harvey
is
recovering
from
burns
suffered
when
lightning
struck
hi;
radio
receiving
set.
Canadians
Take
Over
Dieppe
.ied
Armies
Shatter
Nazi
Rearguard
Defensive
?
n
Upper
Rhone
Valley
ROME.
Sept
1
7
-The
All!',
shattered
Oerman
rearguard
rnOatanee
in
the
upper
Rhone
Valley
in
Southern
France
today.
The
Oermans
have
fled
at
top
apecd,
with
the
punming
Alhea
lew
than
50
mllea
from
the
great
city
of
Lyon.
The
Nazi
high
command,
apparently
despairing
of
ever
getting
the
army
out
of
Southern
France
a
an
intact
fighting
unit,
hiu
ordered
unite
to
return
to
Oermany
toy
their
own
resource.
A
French
flying
column,
in
a
sweep
along
the
aouthern
French
Mediterranean
coaat
was
reported
thrusting
to
the
Spanish
border
alter
occupying
Mont-pelllor.
Beziers
and
100
mllea
of
frontier
without
meeting
enemy
resistance.
Along
the
French-Italian
frontier
the
Americans
entered
Condamlnc
Chatelard,
which
the
Germans
had
burned
in
reprisal
tor
patriot
activities.
The
Allied
naval
command
announced
that
the
Oerman
garrison
on
the
islands
of
Ratlon-ncaa
and
Pomerguos
had
aur-rc
;dered
unconditionally.
Germans
Holding
i
With
Tanks
North
Of
Foglia
River
HOME
6eprf
O
The
Brtt-ch
Eighth
Army
troops
have
broken
through
the
outer
Oothlc
ine
of
defence
in
Northern
IU
y
to
a
depth
of
1.000
yards
at
ne
point,
but
are
meeting
sironc
Oerman
resistance
north
tif
Foglia
Rler.
where
Nails
art
using
tanks
In
constant
counter
attacks,
headquarters
announced
today.
The
1.000-yard
peneration
was
made
west
of
Borgo
Santa
Maria,
after
the
capture
of
Montecch.
Infraction
of
Price
Ceiling
Brings
Fine
Charged
wlUv
selling
green
vegetables
at
a
price
greater
than
that
allowed
by
the
Wartime
Prices
and
Trade
Board
celling.
Benny
Lee
was
fined
$30,
with
an
option
of
one
month
In
Jail,
by
Magistrate
W.
D.
Vance
in
city
police
court
Thursday.
He'
pleaded
guilty.
HALIBUT
SALES
Canadian
Loredo.
00.000.
18
l
c
and
164c
Cold
Storage
Russians
Now
Rushing
To
Aid
Marshal
Tito's
Forces
Singh;
Eye
Proves
No
Handicap
for
Athlete
SYRACUSE.
N.Y..
Sept.
1
0
For
a
really
game
girl,
lake
Helen
Orescns:
Helen
Is
24
years
old
now.
Seven
years
ago
she
was
play
lng
croquet
In
a
park.
A
heavy
mallet
struck
her
In
one
eye.
destroying
It.
Helen
had
been
playing
soft-biUl
for
about
five
years
then.
Her
fellow
players
did
some
or
ganlzlng,
promoted
a
benefit
game
and
bought
her
a
glass
eye
with
the
proceeds.
Helen
still
Is
playing
softball,
Pitching
In
a
Y.M.CA.
Qlrls'
Softball
league
game,
she
hurl
ed
a
4-0
no-hltter.
fanning
iu
batters.
She
has
pitched
"several"
other
no-hltters;
she
cant
say
how
many.
Wlntortlmes.
sho
turns
to
bowline.
Last
season,
her
aver
age
score
was
173tops
for
all
I
the
Syracuse
city
leagues.
j
Newspapers
Place
Window
Display
Of
Highway
Route
To
acquaint,
the
public
with
the
course
followed
by
the
Skeena
River
Highway,
the
Daily
News
and
Evening
Empire
have
co-operated
to
produce
a
window
display,
the
central
theme
of
which
is
a
large
decorated
map
illustrating
the
territory
adjacent
to
the
road.
The
map.
drawn
by
Phillip
MoaAT.
civil
engineer
attached
to
the
Federal
Department
of
Mines
and
Resources
office
here.
Is
in
a
front
display
win-dew
of
Wallaces
Limited,
where
it
was
placed
through
courtesy
of
L.
M.
Felsenthal,
store
proprietor.
Drawn
to
a
scale
of
one
Inch
to
the
mile,
the
map
Is
I
12
feet
long,
and
embellished
witn
pictures
aepicung
ine
outstanding
resources
and
geographic
landmarks
which
lie
in
the
country
along
the
route
Millman
Shot
in
Freak
Accident
(Dally
New
Staff
Writer
PRINCE
OEOROE,
Sept
coroner's
lurv
will
convene
night
to
Investigate
a
freak.
rident
about
noon
Thursday
hi
STANDING
TO!
FRANCE
On
guard
in
a
French
barracks,
which
was
turned
into
a
fort
by
the
Nazis
and
later
taken
by
Canadians,
these
two
western
Caadians
keep
an
eye
on
enemy
positions
through
loopholes
in
the
thick
walls.
The
men
in
the
picture
are
Rtm.
D.
H.
Holmes,
Mooslmln,
Sask
and
Rim.
W.
J.
Wilkinson.
Vancouver.
B.C.
JRESIGNS
OFFICE
Bulgarian
Government
Fails
In
Peace
Overtures
which
J.
Watt
Phillips,
of
i
LONDON.
Spet
1
ff-The
Bui-,
PhUllps
Lumber
Company
was
j
overnment
of
Ivan
Bag-
Instantly
killed
on
Nechako
rd.
,
.
,
I
t
when
shot
In
the
back
while
re-
!r,anov
resigned
today
after,
!
lure
to
win
an
easy
way
out
turning
to
his
mill
from
Prince
Oeorge
with
ammunition
to
klU
t
war
by
pleadj.g
neutral-a
marauding
bear.
j"y-
Position
of
Uie
body
on
the
!
"was
disclosed
I
European
running
board
gave
police
the
theory
that
Phillips
spotted
one
of
the
raiders,
stepped
on
th?
running
board
and
while
keeping
the
animal
In
sight
hastily
reached
back
Into
the
cab
for
his
rifle.
The
trigger
apparently
was
tripped
by
this
action.
He
died
Instantly.
locusts
Causing
Famine
in
China
CHUNGKING,
Sept.
1
tt
Shansl
province
authorities
appealed
to
the
Chungking
government
for
emergency
appropri
ations
to
relieve
famine
as
swarms
of
locusts
are
ravaging
crops.
More
than
170.000
persons
are
said
to
be
fleeing
from
the
de
vastatcd
area
in
East
Central
China,
ed
armistice
terms
tor
Bulgaria
a
demonstraUon
of
British
-
American-Russian
solidarity
on
terms
which
the
Nazi
Balkan
satellte
must
meet
to
get
out
of
the
war.
A
Cairo
dispatch
said
peace
talks
with
Bulgarian
emissaries
were
progressing
favorably.
Rumors
spread
that
Hungary
wajt
trying
to
contact
the
Allies
on
armistice
terms.
PUONACIOUS
liORKER
A
SOUTHERN
ENGLAND
PORT
O)
A
rather
shame
faced
British
Tommy
was
carried
on
a
stretcher
into
a
hospital
here
recently.
A
nurse
making
him
comfortable
in
bed
glanced
at
his
"notes"
and
read
.
"Bitten
by
a
sow
in
iNormandy"
Jap
Destroyer,
Supply
Vessels
Heavily
Bombed
ALLIED
HQ..
S.W.
Pacific
Pept.
1
O
Allied
flying
boats
damaged
or
sank
a
Japanese
destroyer
and
four
merchantmen
In
a
raid
on
Celebes.
Two
tankers
and
two
freighters
were
Included
In
damage
where
at
least
17
other
Japanese
ships
were
sunk
or
damaged
in
recent
raids.
Allied
bombers
struck
again
at
Palau,
eastern
approach
to
the
Philippines,
causing
damage
to
installations.
.
FIGHT
BROADCAST
Smith-McCann
boxing
match
will
be
broadcast
tonight
over
KTKN,
Ketchikan.
The
broadcast
will
begin
at
9
pjn.
with
the
preliminary
bout
MOPPING
UP
AMONG
THE
HEDGEROWS-Tommles
of
the
British
second
army
of
General
Sir
Miles
Dempsey
leave
a
damaged
halftrack
and
charge
between
the
hedgerows,
during
mopping
up
operations
near
Tracy
Bocage.
Normandy.
Fighting
among
hedgerow
is
dangerous
business
with
the
odds
all
In
favor
of
the
defenders.
Trap
Looms
For
HunsinCalaisand
Dunkirk
Areas
Berlin
Despairs
of
Southern
France
Array
Getting
Out
as
Intact
Fighting
Unit
"Return
Home
byj
Own
Resources'
is
the
Order
ALLIED
SUPREME
HQ.,
Sept
1
(CP)
The
First
Canadian
Army
was
reported
today
to
have:
captured
Dieppe,
enshrined
in
Canadian
memory
foij
irallant
and
bloody
invasion
dress
rehearsal
of
twolfr
years
ago.
Canadians
occupied
Dieppe
without
enemy
oppo-?
English
Invasion
Ports
Pounded
by
100
Enemy
Shells
LONDON.
Sept
1
CB
Heavy
coastal
guns
near
Boulogne
hurled
100
shells
early
Friday
In
a
four-hour
barrage,
which
Berlin
said
was
"drum
tire
of
the
heaviest
type
against
the
Eng
lish
invasion
port
routes.'
Several
British
sea
coast
towns
were
reported
heavily
damaged.
At
least
one
man
was
killed.
Boulogne
Is
in
the
path
of
swiftly
advancing
Allied
armies.
It
appeared
possible
the
Oer-
mans.
were
trying
to
unload
,
as
mucH.
:amrntmmon
jrs
..jpoioj
upon
England
before
the
aril
val
of
the
Allies.
Sending
Foodstuffs
To
Deccan
States
NEW
DELHI.
Sept.
1
ff
To
relieve
the
acute
food
position
in
the
Deccan
states
where
there
has
been
a
steep
rise
in
the
prices
of
rice
and
wheat,
the
Central
Food
Department
made
a
special
allocation
early
In
May
of
16.000
tons
of
food-grains.
The
Bombay
government
was
asked
to
advance
4.000
ton
of
grains
to
the
Deccan
states,
pending
the
arrival
of
the
special
allotment,
for
the
transport
of
which
high
priority
was
arranged.
Concentrations
Of
Nazi
Troops
Suffer
Bombing
LONDON.
Sept.
IB-
British
medium
bombers
today
hit
German
troops
concentrated
near
Abbeville
and
In
danger
of
being
cut
off
by
the
Allied
advance
across
the
Somme.
Clear
weather
enabled
the
Allied
air
forces
to
hurl
their
full
weight
Into
the
war.
Dusseldorf
was
the
principal
target
for
Mosquitoes
carrying
block
busters
last
night
1
Other
Mosquitoes
stabbed
at
'
undisclosed
objectives
in
Germany
and
ranged
over
Northern
France
pounding
transport
and
supply
lines
ahead
of
advancing
Allied
troops.
Okanagan
Calls
For
500
Fruit
Pickers
PENTICTON,
Sept.
1
A
call
ha:;
been
sounded
for
500
more
pickers
to
harvest
the
Okanagan
fruit
crop.
"0
Canada"
Author's
Son
War
Casualty
MONTREAL,
Sept.
1
Sqdn.
Ldr
Ronald
Stanley
Weir.
42,
of
Montreal,
son
of
the
late
Hon.
R.
S.
Weir
who
wrote
the
words
of
"O
Canada,"
has
been
killed
tn
action
overseas,
his
sister
has
been
advised.
sition.
Sqdn.
Ldr.
Weir
had
served
with
AtlanUc
transport
group,
RA.F.,
and
with
the
2nd
tactl
cal
air
force.
More
recently
he
had
been
testing
overhauled
Spitfires.
Charles
Lynch,
Renter
war
correspondent,
reported
the
Es
sex
Scottish,
Royar
ri
amnion
Light
Infantry
and
Royal
Regiments
of
Canada
all
rode
Into
Dieppe.
Other
Canadians
reached
th
Channel
at
Letre
Port,
14
miles
east
of
Dieppe.
Belgulm
troops
driving
on
Le
Havre
were
two
miles
of
the
port.
ALLIED
SUPREME
HQ..
France.
Sejit.
1
IT
Tjto
British
columns,
one
from
Amlen3,
and
the
other
from
the
southeast
drove
today
to
Longpre,
10
miles
from
Abbeville,
vlrtuaDy
head
ing
off
the
Germans
along
the
coast
south
through
Dieppe
aril
Le
Havre.
VUrraced
22
miles
south
of
Arras.
and
39
miles
from
the
border
oi
Belgium.
The
Berlin
radio
said
that
three
American
armored
divisions
had
reached
the
Vervons
area,
15
miles
from
Belgium,,
an'i
45
miles
west
of
Sedan:
The
American
Third
.
Army,
swept
through
and;
beyond
Verdun,
French
fortress
city
in
a
swift
offensive.
In
the
west,
the
British
have
advanced
80
miles
in
three
days,
and
are
at
the
back
door
oi
Calais.
Montgomery's
spearhead
paralleled
the
Channel
coast
for
100
miles,
and
threatened
to
hammer
out
for
a
second
time
In
this
war
a
giant
trap
around
Calais
and
Dunkirk
this
time
with
the
Germans
In
It
Everywhere
the
Germans
are
In
full
flight
General
Eberbach,
commanding
the
broken
German
Seventh,
army,
was
captured
on
the
British
front.
WILLIAM
D.
SHANNON
District
governor
of
Rotary
International,
of
Seattle,
Is
arriving
here
Wednesday
with
his
wife
ami
daughter,
en
route
to
Ketchikan.
He
will
meet
and
speak
to
local
Ro-tarlans
at
luncheon
that
day
at
1
o'clock,
the
regular
luncheon
being
changed
from
Thursday
for
the
occasion.
R.
C.
St.
Clair.
Ben
Dodds
and
Fred
Scadden
will
accompany
the
district
governor
and
family
ndrth
to
a
Rotary
district
assembly
at
Ketchikan.
Mr.
and
Mrs.-Tliomas
11.
Priest
have
left
for
Edmonton
and
Calgary
on
their
annual
holiday.
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