R A Crisis In Italy . . . With the Nazis seemingly cracking to pieces be-1 fore the Red Army's onslaught in Russia, the war, situation in Italy, as far as the Allies are concerned, seems to be in something of a critical phase. The Germans are throwing everything they have into the" attempt to drive the Britishand Americans back into the sea from the Anzio-Netturno beachhead. Tho next few days will probably tell the tale. Evidently it is a desperate stand the enemy are making there ajid well may it be as the fate of the citv of Rome depends upon it. The hardest battles have often heretofore in this -war gone just before our greatest victories. That was the case before El Alemein in North Africa, it will be remembered, and history may repeat itself in Italy. Meantime, it is a critical battle which we on our side are quite justified in watching with some anxiety. But we may trust that our campaign was well planned and will be followed through with skill and valor. Many a person who falls in love at first sight . does so because of an optical illusion. Closed Until March 1 when we will re-open, bringing with us the latest in hair styles from tne south. J ANNETTE POWELL'S BEAUTY SHOPPE 4th Street (Across from Post Office). pbone Blue 917 TTTTTTyTTTTTTTfTTTTTTTTHTtTTfTTTTTTTftTTTTTT Coal Orders ALBERT & McCAFFERY LTD. PHONE 116 and 117 3 3 1 I!'- 1 . 5 n tan now deliver your coal orders. 1'leasc 5 jjive us three days warning before -delivery x- J pectcd. 3 Yesterday afternoon Miss Amy Leigh, assistant supervisor of welfaie for the Department of Public Health, addressed a meeting of local women in the Oddfellows' Halt Her talk was most Interesting. She used the term "combined operations" to stress the need of a unification of effort among every type of welfare club. Miss Leigh said the home front morale must be kept up in order , that the returning soldier may j eome back to a world he reeog-! nized as his own. And the home f:ont morale was only kept up by society as a .whole meeting its problems as they arise, the most urgent problems at present fceln? juvenile delinquency and the need for a supervised recreaUon among the younger population. Miss Leigh complimented the Women's AssociaUon of .Prince Rupert for the every excellent help they gave to the .aged residents at Christmas and said that the newspaper publicity given to this effort had ben mn:e Wide spread than perhaps the association imagined. Thanks to Syd Thomson we are now in possesion of a fine larg office desk which I have prompt ly taken for my own use We have always been short a drk here and now everyone is happy and the YM.CA. typewn'.e-whieh generally had to sit around on chairs while the other desk was in use Is now ensconced ui state on the top of my former desk. Our thanks. Mr. Thomson. -.1.4:.. Two dances tomorrow, night, the Old Time Dance at .the Empress and the Lincoln Birthday dance at the American Post. Navy dance ton&ht. Xeed I say more? Except of course thai the Navy band is back. 999 HITS IV 1 YEARS DETROIT, t ff t Jludy York, Detroit first baseman who led the American League in homers last season with fH; needs one more safety to reach the 1.000-hlt mark. Last season York collected 1S9. bringing bis total to 999. mUvai m i ill fcM w,,n rr T ... B kl you. tr" ;i 1U NAVY AND YANKS WIN ICoait Kattery and 1'ortm Ijytr in Basketball LasfKitht With three minutes of play left in the game. Carlisle scored a basket from close range to break a 24-all tie in favor of Navy ano : the sailors In the end defeated C&Xit Battery 27 to 5 in .an .A re Basketball League tilt last night at Little America. In a second game Fortress had to borrow a player in .order to field a team and suffered defeat as. the Yanks won their twelfth same in a row Due to players being on leave, both "Navy and Coast Battery were short of spare. The Army quintet started well rsllcjs: up an 2 to 2 lead m the end a! the first quarter. By half time the soldiers were trailing 12 to 10 but they forged ahead at the -end of the third quarter 20 to .19. Tiie decision wa in doubt unUl the last minute Martin headed the Navy .scorers with eight points, followed by Carlisle .and Thorburn. with six each. Leading snipers for Coast Battery weie .Huston, with eight counters, and Laaiondr with six. The win was Navy' sixth of the season as against seven defeats-Coast Battery has wontour and lost ight. Lineups: Navy Martin a.-WallaeeYMe-Leod 2, Kelly 3. Carlisle 7. Thor-bura 7 Coast Battery CaWeronl 1. Huston 8. fiterrltt A. Lamende 8. Fredachuk 2. Canada has 952 public civilian hospitals. : Jot down the Falcons as the learn most likely to sweep through to the Canadian Army Overseas hockey championship. Here's why: Led by a lormer Toronto Maple Leaf, the club features former professional and enkr -calibre players. In topping the Canadian RelnfoicemenU League the Falcons were unbeaten in six games. They scored 33 goals and only allowed six to drift Into their cage. A couple of dashing lieutenants make up the first-string defence in Lex Chlsholm of Oshawa. last season with Toronto Maple Leafs, and Moe Swords of Ottawa, an Ottawa Army team stalwart last winter. Other rearguards are Pte. J. E. Galium of Pembroke. Ont . formerly with Pembroke Lumber Kings, and Pte. J. B. Brown of Medicine Hat. Alta . once of Kim-be r ley Dynamiters. The forward lines show plenty of skill and speed with such names as Ptes. Fred Olesbrecht of Pembroke, another Lumber King; Vlnce Oermann of Rfgina. who has worn the colors of Her-shey Bears and New York Rovers; Tommy Dunn of Medicine Hat. late of Tiatl Smoke Eaters, and Andy Bruce, who started with the Qks of Brandon. Man., and later performed with Montreal Army. Among others are LtauU. George Hocdot Oananoa.ue.Ont. Queen's University and Kingston Hookey Oiub, and Chappie Chappel of Othawa. an Olympic hockeylst wtth the EivgUth team A Chartered Bank is waira for your business These ten competing banks are: Bank of Montreal The Bank of Toronto The Canadian Bank of Commerce The Dominion Bank Imperial Bank of Canada The Bank of Nova Scotia The Provincial Bank of Canada The Royal Bank of Canada Banque Canadienne Nationale Barclays Bank (Canada) A chartered bank is the custodian not only of your money on deposit but also of your secrets concerning that money. CHARTERED bank is an institution where the A . details of your bank account are kept secret. It is called "chartered" because its permission to do business and the conditions. and re-itriaiorjs under which it may do business, are contained in a charter granted and kept up-to-date by parliament, the finest democratic free institution of government that man ha.s yet devised. This charter is an Act of Parlia- 1 rs mcnt laying down all of the conditions which safeguard your money. Ten competing chartered banks are the very opposite of a State Monopoly such as would come about if all the banks were rolled into one by nationalization. Under State Monopoly, if you failed to get accommodation at the one bank, you could not go to any one of nine others to seek it. You can today. 1 PADS TWO THE DAILY NTCW3 FRIDAY FEBRr,, if i. THE DAILY NEWS PRINCE RUPERT, BRITISH COLUMBIA Published Erery Afternoon Except Sunday by Prince Rupert Dally News Limited. Third Avenue Q. A. HUNTER. MANAGING JDITOR DAILY EDITION The Meat Situation . . . Friday. February 11, 1944 Two of the cabinet ministers at Ottawa state that the meat situation in Canada is such that it may be 1 possible to lift the rationing. Then the Wartime Prices and Trade Board comes along in a corrective sort of way stating that "all present regulations t will remain in force so long as needs of the United ! Kingdom continue and provision for necessary trans-s portation arrangements can be carried out." All of j which makes one wonder who is running the country and making the authentic announcements the re-, ! sponsible ministers or the bureaucratically-inclined j departments. It is not the first incident of this sort ' i of thing where officials almost seem to be overriding; ! the government The people object to it and feel that : i the announcemnts should properly come from the i ' ministers not the ministers making suggestions j . and the officials seeming to sagely contradict -them, t As for the meat situation, with warehouses in the J .country jammed and all the shipping space taken up, I it would seem that an amelioration of the ration might well be in order better that than let the meat go to waste or the market become demoralized with ,too much product while the public is anxious but unable to buy because of bureaucratic obstinacy. "Now life moves so fast we have to run to keep up with it." Eleanor Roosevelt. Well, well! And we had been thinking that 3Irs. Roosevelt had to slow down betimes and let life catch up with her. ' ACTIVITIES OF Y.M.C.A. AND Y.WXA By DOROTHY OARBUTT j The Service Wires Club met in I the Ladles' Lounge Thursday af-I ternoon and. in spite of the ln-I clement weather, fourteen ladles and ten ehlMieu attended. Tea was served by Mrs. Webb ant: Mrs. Fulton and the rallle. which was donated toy Mrs .Livingston was won by Mrs. Oarbutt TeSrusry Speca ! before the war. and Cpl Leo . Blondln of Ottawa, who played j with Hull Volants. Pte Carl j Hewitt. Kingston, guards the ! nets all-star outfit Is Capt. Dave Campbell of Montieal. long associated there -with Canadians and Victoria tu. HU assistant is Pte. Sammy Oodln of Ottawa who played with such pro club as Ottawa Senators. Buffalo Bisons and Cleveland Indians. The first English colony al Jamestown, Va. used beads fot currency. 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