leather rorecuM r i NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITIH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER Tomorrows Tides WCU;' n to 6 Pin. tomorrow. (Pacific Standard Tlmi) g pfrtoo -r Tuesday, September 26, 19 tt ilbt10 '1, afternoon. Partly She High 8:27 15.7 feet .7 mild becoming cloudy 20:10 17.8 feet ud ' lv morning and partly Low 1:29 6.9 feet arly nftcrnoon. 13:39 10.0 feet NO. 225 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1944 PRICE FIVE CENTS 1 lRCIIILLS L Prime HOME Min.stci Vinn Churchill re- t0 Britain i"J ucbec conference ........ v ir.KKI'MKNT iij'j"" . ... HlXGTOX-i"" y CordfU Hull said lot ay Great Kritain, United ..j ifia had not yet . understanding In n .n hi inm-wa. 10 CU'"'"" DEPITV MIX1STKR WA Alex Koss' who .i. il. tlpinrliildlt lional I'f fence In Ln- .. i,n .imiointril dc- ninistrr of national ue-to succeed Lieut. Col. t Currie. T0KE GVII1E DROWNS .. . ii .. i- 1 1 1 . if ;j, well known Kevel- rgide, is believed to nave ". ... II.. '.,luin)ill l!lv. l-.i ..:n. rkhinr rnllill- DOll null - -- . k.e hMn II1IMIU. BREAD IN GERMANY . A -1 II. X 'IPC ItlOSl urann ration yrt for the fie r- .. mifriil f 01 inC dCtClUU Mlwi; The objective Mill be m Thrrr will he four 'i percenters and seven- car wire iriicmcis. lira mi ii tic ai uiv but it ii believed crops rsrn pi ivp ninvii thh nineteen on hoard. bound here. Wreckage IX Lieut. Gen. 1'er- nn i I ..... . .-. .. u - " " i "i j me I runnel coast nort. "Ming to combat them. .1 IV. r I 1 1 -V 1 ! IW 1H 1 I (InkH .- I- I U HI1IC IIUIII A T w segregate Jans who rrlnrni. in ri .......vt in tiiiAU dim r.. .. . ... ' ..11111 llluC WHO Will n jue. a prisoner camp here 'ious origin, No prisoners - u mere were no D A MA VI J LEADER IN LOGNF PIKH Tin. OCDl 25 IIP Thn v.ummanaer who led --auiu on tne of northern Frnncn - icniuicd as Brigadier ,Ungham, of Victoria. utant line supcrln-l" the B.C. Electric company prior to the ftn4 went nvrn.. . . a lth the Caadlan Scot- I loin man C0I"mander Brigadier 'Rockingham for which was Bivpn. 7S1 for a light but ,f rd ElVC it ' SIM 5a'd .u the officer. 7-1 1 i CI . .IS1,?5. !i r V and isnnn. . "1C "moon " 6 battles. en "Persons wen. , bwLRo.ma" Catholic lbuiM." ine roofs off """I i Bfle Is Now Raging On Frontier of East Prussia No & ; r -i rJ I A. a a K 1 I 1 .B1 For Germans Frankfurt, Coblenz and Lutlwigshafen Latest Targets LONDON, Sept. 25 O) More than twelve hundred American heavy bombers with stong fighter escort attacked railway yards and, other targets' today at Frankfurt, Coblenz and Ludwig-shafen, all In the front line of German western defences. Coblenz and Ludwlgshafcn are communication hubs for the Siegfried Line. Frankfurt is one of the Reich's greatest industrial centres and arsenals. Tremendous explosions echoed acra the Channel from Calais, Indicating that heavy bombers were battering the surrounding German garrison there. British heavies loosed more stcr and Bochum Saturday night. British and American fighter-bombers worked most of Sunday over a wide variety of groud targets in support of armies on the German frontier. Eight bombers were last In the Calais action, mainly to flak. No Canadian bombers arc missing. Huns Resist Past Rimini ROME, Sept. 25 The British Eighth Army has met stL'f resistance at the southeastern ease of the Po valley across the entrance to the Lobmbardy Plains, head quarters announced today. Canadians have advanced steadily in the face of strong op position to reach Pcdrcre Grande five miles north of captured Rl mini. Other Eighth Army troops penetrated 2,000 yards beyond the Rlmlnl - Boiogna railwa north of Sangulstlna to within 1,500 yards of the Rubicon river, then met stiff enemy American troops of the Fifth Army, exploiting a smash through Futa Pass, the heart of the German's Gothic Line, punched to within 12 miles ot the Bologna-Rlmlnl highway. The entire eastern half of the Gothic Line has now collapsed. TOTAL SCORE OF MANILA RAIDS PEARL HARBOR, Sept. 25 (CO Carrier planes of the United States Third Fleet sank 29 more ships In Manila Bay, damaged 20 and sank or damaged 16 small craft since September 21, bringing the total two day catch In that area to 40 ships sunk, 11 probably sunk, and 35 damaged. In addition, six small craft have been sunk, and eleven damaged. Two floating dry docks have been damaged while 169 planes have been destroyed in action and 188 on the ground. There were 45 planes damaged on the ground and three damaged by ships' gunfire. Local Temperature Maximum 59 Minimum 40 CHARGE FOUR IN TORTURE DEATH FORT FRANCES. Ont., Sept. 25 Oi Four men charged with the hot stove torture death of Mrs. Viola Jamlcson, 49, of Flanders, Ontario, will face murder charges In Supreme Court here Tuesday. The men are George Skrypnyk, 38; An thony Skrypnyk, 23; Eino Til-lonen, 19, all of Port Arthur, and William Schmidt, 29, of Fort Frances. Mrs. Jamleson died In hos pltal of burns alleged to have been Inflicted when three men held flaming newspapers against her limbs and finally placed her on a hot stove In an at tempt to make ner disclose the hiding place of her money. Perry Cautious SPEAKS ABOUT IMMIGRATION than 3900 tons of bombs on the I VICTORIA, Sept. 25 Hon. II German Industrial cities of Mun- O. Perry, minister of education, says he does not favor immediate immigration to Canada after tht war until there Is a planned policy with markets assured and the amenities of social life provided. GAS ANAESTHETIC Gasoline vapors have been found to have anaesthetic effects similar to those of alcoholic Bear Climbs Onto Car On Skeena Jiyer Highway; Was Top Friendly PRINCE GEORGE, Sept. 25 One-year-old black bear cubs may be playful but Charlie McPhee, well known travelling typewriter repair man, doesn't like them to nlav too close to him anymore. when he sichted such a cub alongside the road. To bring the young bear closer out, the men lured him with a ripe pear. Bruin took the pear and cumo- ed right up to the engine hood where he started to chew up windshield fittings. Finally the bear was dislodged and McPhee and Lamb, in re lief, proceeded. Northern Casualties THREE NORTH B.C. MEN DIE Prince Rupert, Terrace and Hazclton Boys Give Lives Corporal Frank Joseph Hipp, snn nf Mrs. Marv H dd of Terrace BESIEGED MALTA r.ii. i i j Vi i n 3 (iOO Slender Bridgehead lost Army7 In Holland Is Relieved Poles Cross Rhine in Boats News From Other Sectors' ALLIED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS. Sept. 25 Polish soldiers, crossing the Rhine river In rubber boats, have been able to give "limited" assistance In the way of food and supplies and how British armor and Am-fantry fighting to the south bank of the Rhine river, have been able to effect a linking up with the lost parachute division on the north bank near Arnhem The British parachute force on the north bank is, apparently, still fighting a dogged hold-out battle. British Second Army troops, it .was announced today had broken through the ring about the besieged British parachutists north of the Rhine at Arnhem and were consolidating a slender bridgehead for the main push into northern Germany. German armor had cut the rescue road from Eindhoven to Nljmegen Friday night and see-saw battle raged along the route up which the British Second Army had pushed. A Juncture of the British ground drive and. sky,, soldiers over tne unine wouia open me Ruhr road to Berlin but It has been disclosed that the Germans still hold the strategic Arnhen. bridge. Fierce German attacks beat A frnv davs airo McPhee. with Jack Lamb, was UDon the D0Cketed British. driving along the Skeena River Highway near Tele- The Germans were hurling ail grapn 1 Olul UUl Ul I imte rvujjv. i, , men jjuwci mtu an-tiiiii.o . break the British Second Army supply stream across Hollana and to hold the army away from the sky troops In Arnhem In the foothills A communique confirmed that German resistance at Boulogne had ceased with the Canadian capture of Leportal, two miles to the southwest. The Canadians also took Wimereux, 2Vi miles north of Boulogne, and have taken more than nine thousand prisoners Including the garrison commander. The American First Army, af ter capturing Stolberg six miles beyond Aachenvhas been unable to advance further east toward Cologne. There was no news of any further advances In the Prum or Trier wedges where German resistance had stiffened. The American Th l r d Army smashed German counter assaults near Metz. A big armored battle thunder- Is listed as having died oi.ed into its sevenin day on me wounds. The name of the well I Lorraine plain between Nancy known Interior boy ls contained In the latest army casualty list. He was serving with the Canadian Armored Corps. Also listed as killed In action is another interior soldier Gunner Frederick Lloyd Roblson, Royal Canadian Airtlllcry, son or Avery F, Roblson of South Hazelton. The same list officially an nounces the death of Private Frank Edward Hodgklnson, son of Mrs. Violet Hodgklnson, Prince Rupert, while on service with a British Columbia regiment. Other district casualties are: Wounded Private Archibald Cameron McKcnzle; mother, Mrs. Margaret McKenzle, Fort Frascr. Wounded Sapper Angus Alex ander McDonald; wife, Mrs. Rose McDonald, Prince George. iWoundcd-Floyd Ellis Hind- march, Saskatchewan Regiment. Mother, Mrs. Mary Hlndmarcn, Vanderhoof. and Strasbourg The Seventh Army ha strengthened positions east of Eplnal midway between Nancy and Belfort. Along the Channel coast the Canadians wiped out last German positions', south of Leopold Canal. Public Service of Thanksgiving On Victory Day Here With the co-operation of D. O Borland, manager of the theatre, WAR NEWS STRIVING FOR RESCUE Thousands more Allied airborne troops have been landed In Holland to reinforce the British Second Army which is four miles from the lost airborne army, relief of which is being attempted. No junction has yet been made although patrols are said to have contacted. Supply lines of the Second Army which had been severed by the hard-fighting Germans have been restored. CANUCKS TAKE GRIZ NEZ : Canadians are reported to have captured Cap Griz Nez, half way between Boulogne and Calais on the Channel coast. THOUSANDS OF NAZIS DROWN ! Sweeping fifty miles across Estonia in a single day, the Russians have captured Parnu, important Gulf of Finland em barkation point. Thousands of German soldiers, being evacuated by sea, are believed to have been drowned when -Russian planes sank eleven Nazi transports. The Red Army has crossed into CzcchSIovakia and Hungary. j WIDESPREAD AIR ATTACKS ; Wide-ranging Allied planes have struck at thirteen Japanese bases in the South Pacific from the Philippines to Bougainville including Borneo. NORWEGIAN HOSTAGES Norwegian political prisoners, according to Stockholm reports, are bing removed from Norway to Germany to be held by the Nazis as hostages. IS FIGHTINGEST MAN Biigadier R. A. Wyman of Edmonton, who is believed to have seen more fighting than any other Canadian soldier, is retlirninr to Canada. Hp served with the armnrrrt rnrrw In Italv and France, including Ortona and Caen, and is badly wounded. ' JAPS OUTFLANKING KWE1LIN Danger that the Japanese armies might be outflanking Kweilin in northern Kwangsi was indicated in an announcement that the enemy were striking south from Chuan-sien on the Hunan-Kwangsl railway northeast of Kweilin. It is believed (he invaders plan to swing southwestward from Kwanyang to cut the railway south of Kweilin. i CANADIAN DRIVE NORTH First Canadian Army forces have won a bridgehead over the Antwerp-Turnhout Canal at a point seven miles from the Dutch-Belgian frontier and about five miles northeast of Ant werp-and thiust a threatenlr.fr-Trt!ge- lrt.1iiafT?hiidi felrtali' Llnc. A dispatch from the front said British troops had entered Turnhout, which is the largest Belgian city still in German hands. FALL OF WARSAW SEEN Berlin is beginning to pave the way for admission of the loss of Warsaw, capital of Poland, to the Russians. A German broadcast today said that "Warsaw has been blotted from the face of the earth." ' REVOLT AGAINST HITLER j More German generals are urging the German army to re- ! volt against Adolf Hitler. They claim that twenty divisions of Nazis were lost in Rumania. MORE BUZZ BOMBS More rocket bombs fell in the London area last night. A Roman Catholic boys' school was badly smashed up, two priests, a nun and seven students being injured. It is estimated that 900,000 homes have been destroyed by rocket bombs. Celebes Islands Heavily Raided ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA, Sept. 25 fJ Allied bombers heavily raided the Netherlands Celebes wlthnegll- gible Japanese interception while patrol torpedo boats strafed shore defences of by-passed Jap anese forces in Halmahera Island. At least two Japanese supply and troop laden boats were sunk In Morotal Strait by United States patrol boats. GEN. SIMONDS HONORED FOR WAR SERVICE OTTAWA, Sept. 25 OH Lt.-Gen. Guy Slmonds, Kingston, Ont., commander of the Second Canadian Corps attached to the First Canadian Army, has been made Companion of the Order of the Bath, defence headquarters announced today. Slmonds was in command of the First Canadian division in Sicily, and drew up a novel plan for operating tank columns a: arrangements are being made for ; night by special dlrectlon-keep- the holding of a public service of Ing methods. This method later thanksgiving in the Capitol on resulted In a successful attack the day marking the conclusion. of the war In Europe. The Ministerial Association has made preliminary arrangements and the complete detail' will be announced shortly. Meantime, It is learned that the newly formed Choral Society will be present to by Canadian tank forces which broke through German defences screening the highway to Falalse PERMANENT REMEMBRANCE The French town of Chateau- dun embodies the Cross of the Legion of Honor In Its coat of arms, commemorating the valor of 1,000 citizens who defied an aira ertsnd 12M raids the singing and to render overwhelming German force hi during the second Great War. appropriate antnems the Franco-Prussian war. VICKERS FINDS NOTTINGHAM . UNDAMAGED Former City Treasurer Frank tions are good. Safecrackers made a back door entry to the beer parlor of the Belmont hotel early Sunday night and departed undetec day night and departed undetected with a "considerable amount" of money while John Hoskins, hotel proprietor, was. entertaining friends In his second-floor apartment directly above. ' The robbery, which was com- Soviet Troops Also Enter CzechoSlavakia; Hungary In Big Pincer Movement MOSCOW, Sept. 25 (CP) The Russians are converging on the Latvian capital city of Riga today in a climax to their successful Baltic offensive. Front line dispatches tell of a battle on the Lithuanian frontier of East Prussia, heralding a possible large scale drive into' the Junker province. The mop-up of Estonia is nearly complete. A Moscow broadcast said that j Shipbuilding troops crossing from southern j Foiana tnrougn iatokow rass; into Czechoslovakia captured i Humenne, twenty-five miles in-' side Czechoslovakia. j A Bucharest communique said that Russian and Rumanian troops crossed the southewestern Hungarian frontier. The double push into Czecho slovakia and Rumania Is developing into a big pincers movement designed to knock weakening Hungary out of the war. OBSERVANCE OF VICTORY DAY Ministerial Association Urges Solemn Dedication The ..Ministers of Prince Ru irt orTiT Hn ripllheraUon. and w -r - - i I'.iri : . . 1 liwvlew of probability. ingr from Meusc-Schelde Canal loward the Antwerp-Turnhout I elusion to the war in Europe, unanimously suggest: 1. "That such an event will mark an answer to the prayers earnestly offered to God in the) days of our anxiety for preser vation and deliverance. 2. "That it has been made pos- borne by the people of Britain, Russia and other European na tions, before which the increased labours and restrictions placed upon the Canadian and American people are extremely mild. 3. "That it has been won for us also by the willing and heroic service of our men and women whom have paid with their lives for our freedom, many others suffering wounds and permanent disability In the same cause. 4. "That there are many homes In this community and .throughout the United Nations mourning the loss of fathers and sons, to whom the day will bring only a ' reminder of loss sustained, and encouragement of have suffered." those who MODERN CEMETERY PETWORTII, Eng., O) This Sussex town Ls planning a new cemetery where all tombstones will lie flush with the ground to ensure neatness and to permit "Mrs. Vickers and Edna send the use of a motor lawn-mower best wishes to all." 'over the whole area. of the "punch" method of safe opening. The cracksmen knocked the dial from the safe and punched the spindle from the door without disturbing anyone upstairs. Mr. Hoskins declined to divulge how much money was taken but said It was "plenty." "They came In the back door between 8:30 and 9:45 while we had friends upstairs," he said. "The radio was playing and we Brief Does Not Affect Local Yard Point in Memorandum Cleared UpiFor Chamber of Commerce The Prince Rupert Dry Dock and Shipyard is not considered as a "government controlled yard" for which the Canadian Shipbuilding and Ship Repairing Association Is proposing curtailment of -vessel orders by the gov ernment with a view to liquida tlon- of these shipyards a3 soon as the war' emergency permits. The Prince Rupert Chamber ot, CommerceMfalfTfen 8o advised alter Wring soughtMTlwUou. 1 cent brief of the Association "cdn- talning a number of recommen-". datlohs in regard to post-war shipbuilding. The Canadian Shipbuilding and Ship Repairing Association advised the Chamber that, so far as the Association Is concerned, slble only at a fearful cost j toe local shlpyard ls not consld ered a government-controlled yard. "When we refer to government controlled yards," writei Angus McOugan of Ottawa, secretary-treasurer of the Assocla tlon, "we mean shipbuilding yards which have been constructed during the war emergency for iha n cccmhllno' nf Viiilla nnH 1n In the Armed Forces some of of such sta;iatlon maclllnery as United Shipyards In Montreal and Toronto Shipbuilding Company in Toronto. From "our 'Brief for Shipbu'lding' you will notice the names of eighteen yards comprising the members of the Association and will note that Prince Rupert ls one of our member companies." Bernard Allen, manager of tht. Vickers and Mrs. Vickers arrived Z VZ Z loc1 yard- writes as follows: , . ... - , perhaps anxiety for the future future. ,,. . n nn(.fc in Nouingnam, tngiana, ana , -ihprpfnrp hpiipvp that thn have found their former home ' observance of the day should and Shipyard Is not in any way a cltv relatively undamacedbvtht I v. n -mona I goyernmeni-conironea yara ds- war, according to a brief letter J elve thanks to God for our',1"- a.s ?u Prbably awart' sent by Mr. Vickers to Harry M. deliverance thus far, to tambiy,' Foote. They left Prince Rupert in dedlcate themselves to the fun- ltlf"a tRna"! h" 5,7 Ancmct nnH arrivpH in Mottinir- n, of that organization. I am satls- ham after 23 days of travelling. which have been preserved for "It was a tiring trip and It took ' USf and to the protection and us a week to rest up," the letter said. "Nottingham has grown to twice the size since I saw it last and the new part Is Very beautiful. I was agreeably surprised to find in this city very little evi dence of war conditions. People are well dressed and food condi the Intention of the Canadian Shipbuilding and Ship Repairing Association that the Prince Rupert Dry Dock and Shipyard be considered as a government- controlled yard when preparing the brief presented to. the Canada's steel production has been doubled since the outbreak of war, to a present total of 3,-000,000 tons. BURGLARS LOOT BELMONT SAFE SUNDAY NIGHT "Plenty" of Money Taken In Expert Safe-Cracking mitted, between 8 and 10 o'clock were talking so any noise they last night, was a neat example made was well covered." The safe is in a small store room off the ladies' beer parlor. No tools were left by the burglars. The fact that the burglers came at sUch. an early hour, using a key to enter the back door, Indicates that they had an inside knowledge of hl3 business habits, Mr. Hasklns believes. City Police - are investigating the robbery.