Mr i nKtM i TO CHINA ENDED ege of He J. k OS MtJdl II trance Baltic DC 'I 7 W -orlrd by Berlin 10 mile of -way of Wllno ii,.s themselves :::?ant advances m'ral :mrai front ironi now now,- n:;ift north from 'K-meu in uth., German nitre u ntht- Lt orrwMiin:vlcuon may centre In ink of prewar :.rcatcned wlUi 1 f debacle they White Russian K ; fall Of Wllno be Imminent were evacuating i IJING OF , I l WW w 1 Jer of Natural Resources . .i i ...i.i.i i. : -a treek T 1 9 - Hon. T '.t of natural M rday that he jt rrporU that i t i;i.:ig unued ar-1 burned night OumiM at Uaw-j v.a r-immf-ntlng rr, !hr Vancou- thai rquin-br uaht into '.fd State on ' ' Dominion be 4 or dispovd Dimlnlon r1 1 i the United I llf . 1 v VYarrnmnn mi m - I 1 I ' 'i! red In the Ornrral Hospital Claims Holden rmploved as f U'' Laited State oncers1 Home Ltd mm ... 5.00 ... 3W 5.03 ... 500 500 ... 5 00 5.00 V Wlngham 5.00 .... 5.00 kburn i . 20.00 .... 5.00 tppe 10.00 ' Icrt-ifin 50 00 ; nier ... 500 if Evim 100.00 ... J5.00 ii Hurdv . 5.00 . 25.00 i" 1 lend 25.00 : Market ... 5.00 ' wclry .. 15.00 B: ' he.-s .... 5.00 E trie . 5.00 ...5.00 r in Staff . 1130 ... 5.00 ) Grocery 5.00 5.00 & Anderson 25.00 : 5.00 Beauty Shop 5.00 wrar.herhv 1000 A 5.00 foremen's Assn. 25.00 Shop 5.00 Market 5.00 i 10.00 i 10.00 10.00 T" ifflmnn ,. 5.00 at Cat? . 5.00 Cf. 10.00 . 5.00 ? Cafe 5.00 ' ild is a cecret sold. '.ivuritv. ft " . . 1 1 . 000, Cold f lornVr. ft Is Broken; Nip By-, assets Are All Hurled Back i come-back in (CP)-The Chinese have nengyang and driving back a bodv nf .fa t f f . CHUNGKING, July 7 made a swashing I.! At., m uiiMMiiK uis siege 01 distance of 2o miles the main which bi-naHKed thn vitnl spokesman said today, the the Japanese threat to cup ATTORNEY GLM.ItAL SI'KAKS Prospects For Lasting Peace Hunan Province, comeback has eliminated China in two. together alter the flghUng wa; over in International under Never Greater Says Maitland "ProxnecU for a l.ud Hire tlfnpo flfror tliia it'fin n rn - - - - i " " " v L'tr better than they were after the last war," declared Attorney General R. L. Maitland in speak-.mcd 'inP Mo ihl nnce Rupert Rotary Club at con on Thursday. He based this opinion on the con- inat 1,10 All,eU nat,on8 wou,d 8tan(1 80lidIy New Island 4., Is Occupied . . By Americans ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NEW OULSEA July 7 O -United Slate forces have occupied Mamm Island off : American - Invaded Noem- foor Island The occupation. taking place on July 5 wlth- . oat opposition, provide a flank petition for the one held , airorame on rtoemioor. tne Immk oojecuve or Amen- ean force on that island. Two east Noemfoor air- Jt,,e " now 8utfA hand4 in univca - i LOOKING FOR BRIGHT SIDE Sffk llapplnnf.it and one Will find II, Grro Club l Told Ta- benfJit io be derived from fitookin for the briahter side of in- even on the arimmest of days was sttesaed by Ueut. Sam Dohlem of Orrrdle. Ohio. In a happy luncheon talk before the Prince Rupert Oyro Club on Wednesday. "If you lust stop u think It over, you will find there was something nice and som-fun even in what you might have thought your roughest and toughest day." he said. "The American officer told of how he had found through personnel xperlence that to do the thoughtful little thing, to in- 1utac In rZ7 whole .'J'uuure lasting peace Mr. Malt might change the day not only for the person who did it but for all those around him -altering what might have been a glum atmosphere to one of happlnne&s and cheer. And under such condition better work could be done Even though the going seemed tough, there war nothing to be gained by dwelllne on the discouraging, unpleasant thing. Speaking of what the people at home might do to cheer thr lot of the men who served In the forces far away. Lieut. Uohlem suggested that letters be kept cheerful, conveying news of thr simple personal things. And there should be preparations at home for the days when thr boy came back particularly lr seeing that everything would be cheerful and In order when they returned. This went, the speaker said, particularly for community institutions such as the recreational and cultural centres It was something which the folks at home might well be thinking about. President Frank Skinner wn In the chair at Wednesdays luncheon and guests, besides the speaker. Included Lieut. Snyder Mashburn of Atlanta. Georgia, Dr. A. L. Pritchard of Nanalmo and Maurice Irving of Prince Rupert. Congratulations were extended to Past President Joe Scott on the birth of a second son at the Prince Rupert General Hospital last Sunday. Oyrp members were urged to do everything they could to support the Civic Centre Carnival next week. HA LI HUT SALES Canadian Celling prlra of lSc and 10'2c nnnv rnnnn nnit Vlklne. 23.- standing and co-operation to Insure that that peace was1 maintained and supported b the machinery and power to en-, force It. After the last war, Wood row Wilson had In the: 'League of Nation the thing 1 that could have averted the! present war but hu magnificent scheme had fallen broken I to the ground because he had 1 failed to take even hi own poo . iple into his confidence and had 'neglected to seek co-operation Much different and vastly more encouraging was the attitude :of the United SUUk towards in- ternatianal relaUeru todav. lOooerMa. in moludnn i-tnr 'committed to the creation of and participation In approprl- inim.inn.i International m..t,i.n marhlnrv ,n bring about lasting peace. Pres- ibbnt n(KwvJL -a ahnlnttf (committed to International lines and to antl-isolaUontsm jaad oq; TUpmaj e. Dewey, the ilepub9caneandldatr.-'for .the presidency had pledged himself to international co-opera Uon to prevent future war There were many homr In Canada today which had been directly touched by the tragedy of war, homes where there wrre empty chairs. It would be a great thing If Hie bereaved of thoe whote short years of life may have seen far grrater atrompllthment than those who had lived to the fullness of jean rould be comforted with the knowledge that Ihry had helped on the way' to a victory resulting In lasting peare. Then It rould be truly mI1 that theirs ha-brcn the most glorious of deaths. This International under mtm Mftlncr n n4 exs.mAPfl linn in land saw as something far more Important than the consldera tion of mere materialistic things of life. There would be no need to worry about freedom or au Continued on Page 4) 9 Dead, 32 Hurt In Shell Blast 8T. BRUNO, Que.. July 7 The premature explosion of a three-lunch mortar shell at an army camp here inursaay re NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH suited In the deaths of nlne!?r"ent P"Mcal situation both members of the Canadian Active Army. Four officers were wounded, one dangerously. Six of the 32 other ranks were dangerously wounded. The cause of the explosion Is not Immediately known. Mrs. J. 11. Carson arrived In the city this morning from Vancouver. She Is accompanied by her sister, Mrs. George Oil-chrlstr, ot Ontario. Vancouver Gun Fight Kills Two VANCOUVER, July 7 Ot Mrs. Jack Preston and Mrs. Laura Rusan were killed and Jack Preston was critically wounded in a street gunflght In Vancouver today. The police arrested Alex Rusan. Preston Is not expected to live. I . 'VOL. XXXIII, No. 158 Allied CASSINO THE GHOST TOWN OF ITALY-T fmbitttied town ot Cateino. for which Nazi and Allied armies fought for months, is a ghvt c.ty. This view, at the entrance to Cassino from Route 6, ahows that plainly. Structure are so destroyed they are not Identifiable. The broken walls are a mute testimony to -ne fvur-month siege it withstood. HOMIHtNG IS KEPT UP LONDON fifteen hundred American bombers and fight eis attacked airplane factories and 'oil rrlineries in central Germany I'riday. The Naris reported, another force attacking Germany from the outh. Italy-based bombers overnight hit the Vienna airdrome and oil and rail facilities in northern Italy. circus toll IMKTf OKI), Conn The death toll In a fite which de stroyed the main lop of the Kingling Itrtos. cirrus jumped to 159 today. Investigators pressed inquiries Into the origin of the blare and held fire officials of the company on manslaughter charges. The injured were counted at 250, at least 25 of whom were In iterious condition. Most of' the victims were children. About 8,000 persons were In the tent when the fire broke out. TROOP TRAIN WRECKED JCLLICOE, Tennessee At least nine persons were killed and some 200 were injuird when a locomotive and the first five cars or, a passenger train carrying more than 1,000 soldiers whirled off the tracks Into a gorge Thursday night. Some unofficial estimates said that 25 were killed'. RELAXING RLACK-OUT LONDON Home Secretary Herbert Morrison said jester-day he was In favor personally of relaxing the black-out regulations before next Christmas but the air defence authoti-ties would first have to be satisfied. coxveksativi: .ssn DR. LARGE PRESIDENT Hon. It. L. Maitland Speaker at Anntisl Mrrting of Local Party Last Night Hon, R L. Maitland. Attorney Oeneral. was the principal speaker last night at the annual mceiing oi tne Prince Rupert Conservative Association. He gave an intcresttnz talk on the federally and nrovinciallv. c. V Evltt,, vice-president, was In the 1 rhnll TflS f rMWS A V srtmrlffHH Tl i W. Cameron, left the city some ; time ago for Vancouver. Dr. R o. Large is the new president. The election of officers for the year resulted as follows: Honorary President. John Bracken. Honorary Vice-President. Hon R. L. Maitland K. C. President. Dr. R. G. Large. Vice-President, W. R. MacAfee Secretary-Treasurer, George L Rorle. Executive Maurice Brydges. James Bremner. Gordon Daniels W. D. Lamhle and D. C. Stevenson. The executive was given power to Increase Its number to nine so that all sections of the community would be represented. Carnival Queen Standings Olive Iluculak 51.000 Betty Grelg 47,000 Eleanor Stor.wth 45,000 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. Forces Reported Within Caen Shocking"' Herman Goering On Italy Visit ZURICH. July 7 Vice-Chan-cellor Herman Goering of Germany lias held a military conference with Nail army chiefs In northern Italy in regard to the defence of German-occupied Italy against the northward moving Allied armies. Goering also visited Benito Mussolini land Count Grazlanl. minister of defence in the Italian puppet government. HUNS STOP A I Ihil DIH MLLILl I UJII ROME. July 7 Allied headquarters reported today that advances on Leghorn, Pisa and Florence have been brought al most to a halt by German counter-attacks, the first ag gressive action by the Nazis In two months. Americans now hold two -thirds of Rohlgnano, 10 miles from Leghorn. William Stewart Is Afloat Again ic survey steamer William. J. Stewart, which was beached In a sinking condition some weeks ago after striking Ripple Rock in Seymour Narrows, has been I refloated. NOT IN HOLLAND Windmills were first used immotil;, m German;, COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER FRIDAY, JULY 7, PJll I ! FISHING IS I IMPROVING Skeena and Naas Hirer Runs Good Price Question Hanging Fire Gill net sockeye salmon fishing in this district has been showing a modest but continuous improvement for the past week in tht fisheries district! due to an increase in the salmon run and an tinprovement In the : 4sveathtf -on tiafc.Broundi. Reports i for the first three days thist week on the Naas and Skeena showed daily averages of 35, 45 and 30 fish per boat for Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday. A hieh wind on Wednesday brought! down the day's catch. 1 Last week boats on the Naa averaged 150 fish for the-, week with the high boat bringiag in ! 330. Skeena River boats averaged 123 fish per boat, and the highi boat brought in 417 fish. I In the Smiths Inlet and. Rivers ' Inlet areas the salmon have just begun to run In volume. Reports ' so far this week show catches i of 35 and 45 fish per day at the ; two place respectively where j previously they were as low as 50. ! Settlement of sockeye prices still hangs fire but fishermen are said to be delivering to canneries on the understanding that they will be bought at no less than last year's scale. However, in this regard, no forecasts are belne ha&rded by either the f ISherle Yrfflw or pannervmen. i Wbrd from Vancouver Indicates that cannery workers and operators have arrived at an agreement whereby the workers will be confined to a nine hour day and receive certain wage in creases, some of which will amount to $15 weekly. JAP LOSSES ARE HIGHER List for July 4 in Marianas Is Raised by Five Ships and Nine Planes PEARL HARBOR. July 7 Ot, Sinking of five more Japanese ships and destruction of nine more planes in the Bonin Islands during the July 4 foray by American task forces Is announced, bringing to forty-one the total of enemy ships downed by carrier planes and raising Japanese plane losses to 835 since June 10 when the fleet moved. Into the Marianas. Northern Man Listed Wounded One northern British Columbia man. Sapper Murdoch Carl Samuel Campbell Is listed in the latest Canadian Army casualty list released today. Serving with the Royal Canadian Engineers, he is listed as wounded, remaining on duty His mother. Mrv Elizabeth Campbell, lives t Pouite Cuupe B.C. Germans Are Strongly Entrenched Still, One Staff Officer States Reports Appear to Differ Somewhat Patrol Said to Have Reached Dock Area Without Meeting any Nazis SHAEF, July 7 (CP) An allied patrol which pierced German defences west of Caen reached the dock area without finding any Germans, it was reported today. Because of heavy bombing, it was believed the Germans might merely be holding parts of the town as strong points. A British broadcasting No Yielding To Germany LONDON, July 7 Deputy Prime Minister Clement AUee, in answer vo a quesuou ui pai-Uament, said that the govern ment would reject any peace negotiations with Germany em.j'SST If the Nazi reegime was remor- (entrenched before Caen and-ed. Britain would fight on un- there was no sign of them pull- til there was complete German capitulation. Bomb Jap Mainland c - - ilfm 'iiiiiawii i WASHINGTON, D.C- July 7 (CD American superfortresses, in their second attack on the Japanese mainland tonight, bombed the naval base at Save bo and the steel centre of Yawata on Kyushu Island. SCOFFS AT AIR FORCE Normandy Frtsoner Tells Tall, Yarn About Luftwaffe's Aces Written for the Canadian Press By SQN. LDR. ROBERT FRANCIS. R.CJVJ". AT A TACTICAL Am FORCE FIGHTER STATION, July 7 O German prisoners taken on the first day of the Allied invasion of Normandy would not believe the size of the air force opposing them or the number of ships available to carry men and supplies across the English Channel, said FO. R. W. Doidge. R.CJVJ. Typhoon" pilot from LaSalle, Ont. Doidge, who bailed out over the bridgehead when his. fighter-bomber was hit returned to Eng land on a tank-landing craft bearing German prisoners. "There were nearly 300 on board." Doidge said, "and one who saw I was a pilot came over and struck up a conversation through another prisoner who spoke English. He said he had been In a brand new ME 109 ana had been shot down by eight Thunderbolt. He'd made 30 operational sorties, he told me. and claimed to have destroyed four Mustangs and a Thunderbolt. ! "But he would not believe our air strength was nearly what it is. and neither did he believe wc had all the surface shins available that there are. "He wanted to know the scores 'of some of our top pilots, and I , told him about Beurllng", with a total ot someimng over 3U. That made him really scornfufc The leading Luftwaffe ace had 275 confirmed, he said, and two or three others had more than 250. I guess they must do their scoring a lot different from us." The R.C.A.F. pilot said the Luf Vaffe pilot, who appeared to be a senior N.C.O.. thought the Invasion was simply another raid aiong the lines of Dieppe onlv on a larger scale, tie did no Imagine the Allies really thought they could keep a bridgehead. "He said Just wait till Rommel decides the Aflles have gone far enough and hi- il push them back hr Chu-.ui : " LocalTides Saturday, July 8 High 2:20 22.1 feet 15:21 19.9 feet Low 9:04 0.9 feet 21:14 6.0 feet PRICE FIVE CENTS company front line reporter said that tne Americans nave captured and pushed beyond La Haye du PuiU. An Allied communique said that the enemy's supply system was again the principal target for Allied air forces. Meanwhile on the Caen front a British staff officer said today that Allied planes have wrecked all but one of the German escape and supply bridges at Caen and the remaining span across the Orne river is a pon- ins out. At Carpiquet where the Canadians hold the town and port of the airport there has been no fighting in 48 hours. Following a switch of Nazi generals, new and heavier blows are expected to be mad: by the enemy on the Normandy front. Last night It was report - ftfrid Americans was still swing- . ling back and forward before besieged Le Haye du Puits while bitter combat of British and Canadians with the Germans outside of strategic Caen continued without let-up. READY FOR CARNIVAL Final Arrangements Complete Scene Prepared on Seventh Street Final Arraneements for the annual Civic Centre Carnival were completed at a well attended meeting of the Carnival Com- mittee last night As a result of construction work during the past week a( Seventh Street, preparations are well advanced with most ot the booths and stalls ready for decorating. On Sunday important last minute work will be carried out. Three parades will be features of this event this year. On Monday the C.WJV.C.'s will form- prominent part of the opening, parading from the court hous? at 7 o'clock along with the Queen candidates. On Wednesday the Grand Carnival parade offers attractive Inducements to old and young with prizes lor best decorated cars, bikes, wagons, doll buggies, costumes, etc, and also including the pet parade. On Friday the Coronation Parade will give everyone a chance to see the Queen and her maids of honor over a longer route than In previous years. Already the merry-go-round is In operation and upwards of twenty games are Installed on the grounds. Most of them are new. Stages shows are in theic final rehearsals for four of the six evenings. On three evenings the bathing beauties will participate. There are so tar twelve entries. OIL IN PERFUMES Castor oil now Is used in the production ot perfumes. BATHING BEAUTIES Entries close Saturday, 5 p.m. All entry forms for the Bathing Beauty Contest must be In the hands of the Carnival Secretary, G. Itoile, 317 lies-ner Building, before 5 p.m. Saturday. & Hi .i