5 P r Mr from River outlet 1 i' members A; :cJialte and newer mem " bri- At Mon- r.rc ng of the C "art had on r.?w maps of Peace 1 Boys On ate Which feed U-boat 1 Ml Tlrrt tYis-tnnn Av East, and Mr. ' J. Lewis. 220 Fifth m 11.11 jiiutll UUI7 NeW-i wilintm .1 , U-boat In the Atlan-'IM.C3, Wakin TV,-. runoie uwls, sons arc member f of this Canadian ADIANS TIE-UP .r,Shlm Sltllatlm, 1!.. lc c"' Action. ' Aprl1 5 tut, . -De- -De- F halibi.t r" 'ar to ihK Moo,H;ia cs. : lundt lor lhc ,scntatlvc3 of loclatinn L,.1 i en's 7 a ine Vs ln their stand, , Ar..i ' will cell :o n hallbdt icavo fish Rrltlsh meet 11 nf. States """irong. put, ... scn . . ,v- ,Jcai this van a t:'P , to Van NAPLI-S. April 5 (CP) United States bombers, In their first attack on Iluchar et, caufd connidrrable dam age to the railway yards through which German sup plies roll to the Itimlan front and left one-third of the Itu-manlan capital covered with smoke. First reports Indicated that foity-U enemy planes had been shot down In an hour long battle. Twelve Allied planes Mere Imt In all opera tions yesterday In the .Mediterranean theatre. princi: r.r.niun: casi; SHOOTING ADMITTED Statement of Indian to Police Admitted In Preliminary Hearing at Prince George. PIIINCE OEOROE. April 5 tfc Police tesUfled in police court here yesterday that Alex Prince admitted before several policemen that he shot Eugene Mess-mcr. 33-year-old Flnlay Forks trapper. The preliminary hearing of Prince, aged '23. a Fort 8t. James Indian, charged with Uic murder of Mcssmcr and his partner. Hans Pfeuffer. 43, continues today. U-Boat Bag Is Announced Offirlal Announcement at Otta wa In Connection With H-M. C.S. Wakesiu Liplolt. OTTAWA. Arjrll 5 O! Nine teen davs after leaving her fltt- lng-out berth as the first Can- adlan-bullt frigate. H.M.C.S. Wakfxlii rreentlv destroyed a Ocrman U-boat in the North Atlantic and brought back 19 survivors as evidence, the Dc- nartment of the Navy officially announced Tuesday night. Bulletins MALKANS SITUATION LONDON The News Chronicle correspondent In Cairo says that llriilsh. United Slates and Russian forces may soon be fihllng side by side in the llalkans herc the Nail control Is rapidly deteriorating. The complete collapse of Rumania Is to be expected. SOCIAL CRKDIT PLAN TORONTO A (Juebec proposal for a national Social Credit movement has been WILLKIi: RLVLRSIJ MILWAUKEE Thomas Dewey of New York defeated Wendell Wlllkle In the Wisconsin presidential party. STRIKE IN BELFAST LONDON Twelve thousand aircraft workers and nine thousand shipyard workers In Belfast, North Ireland have Joined 70,000 Yorkshire miners on strike. The strike was said to have been precipitated by the arrest of five men charged with illegal striking. She TraruCanada Air Lines policy of rehabilitating returned airmen, according to Roy Badenach. chief electrical engineer, Department of Civil Aviation. Mel-bourn interviewed here today. On his way bait to Australia after attending the Common confertng with government officials and T.CA executives and will report to Daniel McVey. director of civic aviation in Australia. With ten air lines and a large manufacturing industry, including engines as well as aircraft. Australia was very alr-mlnded, Mr. Bedenach said, and expected to absorb in civil operations many of Its men now In the Royal Australian Air Force. Trans-Canada policy of engaging R.C.A.F. men who have completed operational :ours on duty overseas, five of whom arc now undergoing air line training, was particularly Interesting to Australia, Mr. Badenach said. He was Impressed with T.CA.'s maintenance methods and with the central VcservaUons control system which has. been adopted by other air lines,' "If it had not been for the United States forces, It Is doubtful If wc should have been able to hold the Japs back," Mr. Bedenach said In discussing the war. Feeding the United States troops had meant shortages for the Australian people but the Austiallans realized how much they owed to Americans and were not complaining. On the whole, they were well enough olf for food. Greater problems were manpower and clothing shortages. Each person was granted 56 clothing coupons for six months. Out of these had to come everything from handkerchiefs to household linens, A man's suit cost 30 coupons. There were restrictions on the sizes of hat brims and the length of socks. All unnecessary. Industry had to be closed, he went on but the manpower shortago was so acute that thousands had to be released from the army for sheephcrd-lng. Thousands of other men, most of them military age, had been moved from the south to the north under a compulsory labor scheme of the Allied Works Council. They built roada and airdromes camps and buildings. Australia, Mr. Badenach said. went in heavily for the purchase rnment war bonds. A v ' Russians Drive On Two Hundred Thousand of Enemy Are Now Pinned Against Black Sea Near Odessa. LONDON. April 5. t The So vict announced last night thatJ the Russians nave captured tne greater part of surrounded Tarnopol in prewar Poland and smashed to within two miles of thV last" rail escape route" for perhaps two hundred thousand wealth and Empire Conference 1 1 Germans and Rumanians now in England on the application of modern radio technique to ,ncar dcs5a-clvll aviation. Mr. Badenach t-V . Z studying Canadian procedure huitimi- ANTONESCU FOR PEAK Turkish Dispatches That Armistice to of United Nations. Requiem Mass for Mrs. Hankinson High requiem mass Tor the repose of the soul of Ann Berna-dette Hankinson, wife of Dr C. II. Hankinson, who passed away on Sunday was celebrated this morning at 10 o'clock a the church of the Annunciation Rev. Father W. F. Lantagne was celebrant. A large congregation of sym- pathetic friends of the family ARRESTED IN MURDER CASE ocal Temperature Local Tides Thursday, April 6 53 High - 0:11 19.0 feet ijxlniuni 12:21 19.1 feet 42 low - 6:28 6.7 feet Tni,m,... . . 1 18:36 4.9 feet iwnuimtW ANJJ UtiJNTKALr llKlilSri CULUMBIA'S NEVVSt'AlJEIl n r 81 T T.V. PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1944 PRICE FIVE CENTS WAY IS TOPIC I . i -. rnmmerre I i Boute. Li' j " furc Mon" Ij-7,! t:; roar month- j r '; PUIOC KUpcri . f C r:.r.ro:e Occa- ' ii. i. iL. L 'Ar i ' rcicraic mc ( ':? Pi ; -c Jiupcri L 'ar 2 nc Hazei- Lt frr a r Jhway from lm i.V.r..:r to connect L Al- ka Highway. The f.: del t answer a f ths Af.m district L b 'J o' Takla jp 0 -sfi to Van- tlie survcya r- brr endorsed i Vanderhoof ;v a highway Vanderhoof l. r.' and Manson - 4,h and a rall-... of Pine Pass, a i tcr from Wal-' Bums Lake. Haze 'ton, Bcll-e route, tell-' w-uld be to Rivrr at KU- Vrrcd to the , i" jde of Van-ci urged the : f s. ' the sup-rn Alaska ' : '.he most wet- ,t' -red to "mU-!iieh were HazlUm route, of 8. C ( i" has taken ihip of the - 're of the mittee to Outlet tf Tea;? River-Pacific 'le committee a t; ;:..!cd by W. J. r it Cf the Prince t f Commerce, P " Rupert's claims ' : ihu mooted T ? ..'rman of the " T.s Collart. who urtivc Inter fit t Upon Plan For Administration WAHMlNrvmw n n . 4 April 5 Q The Government of CzechSlovakia m London has agreed with Russia, Great Britain and the Unl- ted States on a plan for administering of its tcrrl- tory. Bucharest Battered Rumania's Principal City Heavily Hit In First Raid of U.S Planes. Jap Air Base Is Wiped Out LOCAL HOYS IIKLP RAG t'-BOAT While def nding a valuable convoy In the North Atlantic recently the frigate ILM.C.S. Waskeslu, comminded by Lieut. Commander J P F Fraser. R.CH.R. of Halifax, UB.. attacked and destroy & a U-boat The U boat waa first encountered after midnight HAt.CJJ. Waakesiu carried out a series of attacks with depth charges which apparently mortally damaged the U-boat, and forced it to the, surface. The frigate illuminated the enemy with starshell and. tn company with H MS. Npne (Commander J. D. Birch, JtD., R.NJU opened fire on the U-boat. Hits -cored by the frigate prevented the crew of the U-boat from manning Its guns and a few minutes later the enemy sank stern first. Nineteen survivors were picked up by HAL ships and nude prisonei-owar Acting Petty Officer Terry Fortune and Ordinary Seaman Fred Lewis are members of the personnel of ILM.C.S. Wakesiu. TIXLS OF AUSTRALIA AVIATION OFFICIAL VISITOR WINNIPEG, April 5 Looking to a big development in commercial aviation after the war. Australia Is keenly interested in TARNOI'OL SLRROUNDKII Albert Barilla Taken Into Cus tody in Vancouver and Duly Charged. VANCOUVER, April 5 ff Albert Barilla, aged 25, was ar rested and charged with murder In connection with the shoot ing of Wellington Wallace, aged 37, In a gun and knife battle in a downtown hotel early Judgment Held Over in Local Housing Case VANCOUVER, April 5 0 Mr. Justice Bird reserved judgement Indicate Rupert be Asked NEW YORK, April 5 (CD A broadcast from London quoted Turkish dispatches to the effect that Premier An-tonescu of Rumania will seek an armistice from London, Washington and Moscow. Their Is no Allied confirmation of the report. "Tommy" Govenlock Passes Away at Whitecourt in Alberta The many friends of Thomas Q. Oovenlock. more familiarly known as "Tommy." will regret to hear of his passing away on March 26 at Whitecourt, Alberta. He was seized with a stroke of paralysis some time ago and never recovered. His funeral was held In Edmonton on March 29. under the auspice? of the Masonic Order of which he was a past worshipful master Born In Forest. Ontario, Mr Oovenlock was one of the real old veterans of the last war having been an original member of the famous Fifth Western Cavalry. He served with them throughout the entire war He was very badly wounded at Festubert In May. 1915, and was ARSON CASE PROCEEDING Preliminary Hearing Brilliant Station Agent Companion Tells o'f Parcel Incident. NELSON, April 5 O) Oscar Patton testified on Monday at the preliminary hearing on ar son charged against A. 1. Clee ton, station agent at Brilliant, that he accompanied Cleeton to Brilliant school house on the night of March 17 when it was damaged by fire and saw Clee 'ton take a parcel to the bottom of the basement stairs. Patton said he saw a flash of light through the basement window as Cleeton was starting to come upstairs. Cleeton did not have the parcel when he returned, Patton said. The school was damaged by dom Doukhobors. The hearing Is continuing. Lists War Casualties LONDON, April 5 Prime Minister Winston Churchill told the House of Commons yesterday that British Empire casualties In the first four years of the war totalling 667,000, Included 159,000 killed, 78.000 missing, 159,000 wounded and 271,000 prisoners of war. The Prime Minister said that the total of Canadian casualties was 19,000, of which 9,000 were killed. 3.000 missing and 4.000 prisoners Jof- F-Yt - rj. 3ry Caroline Raids Are Successful WASHINOTON, AprU 5 Sec retary ' of the " Navy ' Frank Knox Terrace Tennis Club Organizes Court to be Repaired J. A. Barman Re-elected President. TERRACE. April 5 The Terrace Tennis Club held the an nual meeting on Friday evening when the court came In for the principal attention as It has suffered some damage from winter gales which broke down much of the fencing. Mr. Sel yan, representing the local YAI. CJV., was present and it was ar ranged that, with his co-operation, the wire fencing will be restored and any other repairs that may be necessary to enable the games to go on will be undertaken. The tennis club gathered In the church to attend scveral months In hospital at .offered. In consideration of this me soicmn rues, mere was Sheffield. He eventually re-' help, to grant special privileges full choir in attendance. lumpri in m ih riimni n tn members of the armed forces " ---w a 1 ! 1 acuvc paiiDcares were wii-. France and was with them In Ham Crulkshank, O. P. Tinker, R. O. Hopkins, Oeorge Mitchell. Dr. L. W. Kcrgln, and Dr. R. G. Large. Honorary pallbearers were W. M. Coates, Norman Watt, C. H. Orme, C. H. Elkins, John Oarrctt. and C, C. Mills. Surviving the late Mrs. Hankinson are her husband, and one daughter by a pievlous marriage, Mrs. J. P. Meadows, In England, three sons, George, Lawrence, and Delray. at home, and two step-sons, Hazen and Elmore Hankinson, on active service. The remains are being sent to Vancouver where burial will take place on Monday at 11 o'clock In Forest Lawn cemetery. Center and Hannah, under- cnmpulsory savings-measure has, j takers will be In charge of ln- hnu-ever. been defeated. terment the Army of Occupation On his return to Canada he resided for several years In Prince Rupert and while here he married Mrs. Ed. Stlllwell who survives him at Whitecourt where his relatives live. The deepest sympathy Is felt for his widow, who was one of the old timers of Prince Rupert, and also for his family. RECOVER VALUABLE JEWELS LONDON O) A mall plane last summer crashed and burned out In the Sudan. None of the crew knew part of Its cargo was a fortune In Jewels. Six months later, a representative of a British Insurance company organized a search and recovered $300,000 worth of precious j stones, who are able and willing to use the court for tennis. J. A. Barman presided over a fairly well attended meeting. Other officers re-elected were, besides Mr. Barman as president, Nigel Sherwood, secretary, Mrs. Dudley Little, Ralf Cory and Mr. Edgley. playing committee. LONDON ff Ralph Moses. 11. of the 61st Shrlner's Hospital Pack. Wlnnloeg, has been awarded the Cornwall badge for fine character, courage and fortitude. We Is the first Canadian Wolf Cub to receive this award. Raloh has been six years In hospital. Miss Violet Mah returned this i to Vancouver, Hollandia In Southwest Pacific Is Destroyed In One Big Bombing Raid ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, April 5 (CP) The entire Japanese air force at Hollandia on the Dutch New Guinea north coast has been wiped out by Allied bombers, head quarters announced today. 0 288 Japanese plane, which were at Hollandia on March 30 all have beer demolished or Irreparably dam- 1 aged. Four hundred tons of bombs were dropped. Rabaul and Truk have also been again attacked by Allied bombers. Hollandia constituted a whole important section of Japanese air strength In the- southwest fire at the height of a disturb- Pacific area and was of much ance by fanatic Sorts of Free- Importance to the enemy as a base. First anti-aircraft positions were knocked out and at tention was then paid with good effect to the main airdromes and supply dumps. Jap Drive Is Halted Situation Appears to be Some what Better for British Near) Imnahl 1 NEW DELHI. April 5 (CP) A Japanese column which had been approaching ImpahL capital of Manipur Province "lit Tndia, 'having reached- to- within ten miles of the city, has been thrown back into the hills. There is still fierce fighting in northern Burma where the situation seems to be favorable to the British. in Supreme Court yesterday In.' American SJTANLEYCUPFTXALS - ;:f,,,' bombers raided the Carolines '?fcCJUtog tmf Elands las and either lng Limited for wrongful expro- M , ; w jj.c.k, , t i.,.nH.. thr. hasps FORMER LOCAL MAN IS DEAD 460 miles from the Philippines, 27 American planes were lost. Mr. Knox said that he was unable to tell exactly how many Japanese ships wrere destroyed but there were a great many. CANADIENS TAKE FIRST MONTREAL, April 5 IT Mont real Canadiens defeated Chicago Black Hawks by a score of five to one last night in the Trail Beats Port Arthur Junior Hockey Championship Series Now Tied up at One Game Each. WINNIPEG. April 5 Trail defeated Port Arthur four to two last night In an overtime game In the best of a five game series for the western Junior hockey championship. The se rles Is now tied at one win apiece. BATTLE OF ITALY Cassino Activity Italians lighting; Set Back Nazi tack. With Allies Counter-at- NAPLES, April 5 Italian troops on Mount Marrone, northeast of Cassino. have re pulsed a German counter-at tack: Italians, fighting with the Al lied Fifth Army, last week seized a mile-high peak and two others In the vicinity. Artillery duels and patrol clashes along the front and considerable enemy movement were observed northwest of Cassino. TROTSKYISTS ARE RAIDED Scotland Yard Endeavouring l Catch up With Saboteurs 01 Second Front Production. LONDON, April 5 R -Scot land Yard detectives toda- ralded the offices of the Brit lsh section of the Fourth Inter national In a move reported V be connected with promise o drastic action against strike interfering with second Iron production. The offices wer the meeting place of Britls Trotskylsts. COLOGNE IS HAMMERED British Mosquitos Also Fir tPtber Objectives In Rul Valley Tuesday Night. 'Air Force mosquitos hammcrr Cologne and other objectives 1 (the Ruhr Valley, resuming th night aerial offensive after three-day lulL All planes rr turned safely. Advance Is Unchecked Red Armies Find Going on Plains of Rumania. Goo MOSCOW. AprU 5 Red armk are continuing without let-v. their advance along a 450 ml front which extends at the no: first game of a best four out of thern end near the Polish cl-seven game series In the Stan-of Lwow to Odessa on the Blai ley Cup finals. The Canadiens sea. They are marching aero were in control at all times. 'the Rumanian plains and in ward Hungary. The terrain f the plains Is very favorable movement of tanks and meel anized equipment and full ad vantage Is being taken of Despite German efforts to ral their forces do not stop tl Russian advance. Formerly Listed As Missing, Is Prisoner of War Ewart Hetherlngton, form provincial welfare officer hei who had been listed as mlssli In action with the Royal Can: dlan Air Force overseas, Is no reported to be a prisoner of w. In Germany. Local friends Iw been advbed to this effect 1 his mother who Is In Vancoi ver. City Meat Markets Will be open ALL day Thursday and closed ALL day Friday. All Orders for Saturday delivery must be In by Thursday. (Signed) Sterling Market Bulkley Market Jones' Family Market P.R. Fishermen's