pw
rronellorless
rlane
-
ith
Jet
tngmes
tomes
.
it..
AH
T
Ik
a,
mM
&
M
A
.
i
i
school
house
which
u
;t
on
Conrad
Street
Avenue
to
aecom-'
ajed
population
In
1
of
the
city
caused
nee
of
many
war-
ri
workers
here
Is
H4
974
the
oontractors
jr..
Ur
and
Wlson
.'.ect.
McCarU
?
a
ing
Is
denalb-Z
r'?
temporary
nat-i
a
oncrete
base-T
s.
v..
txurd
had
fci'
-.n
a
Iterations
.
...
....
,n
m-iiem
.
-
.
a
.
.
H
j-ir
rrplied
that
1
p:a
:i
was
being
used
Iwuc
which
the
board
Tclt
nn
new
school
will
be
ob-
II
13
Ml
UC
CHKK.U
UUWI1,
s'.hc
sources.
The
new
;
will
also
relieve
King
Ed
school
congestion.
nor
colors
for
the
new
will
be
left
to
the
school
lor
to
select.
Wednesday
nlaht's
school
i
meeting
iTUSice
i-cacny
a
a:a
iTUSiee
ijvirs.i
itop-
"nded
that
the
agreement
ttned
on
behalf
of
the
d
whercunon
the
chairman.
Langridge.
and
secretary
J
A,
Rutherford,
affixed
r
.'.Icnaturra.
Ambulance
Fund
Ire
Stevedoring
Co.
Parker
-
n
H.t
I
11
"1U
UiMHb
lo
B.C.
Packing
Co.
lain
IT
rtrrU
on
W
F.
Rushbrook
nd
Money
i
imorifprl
from
Hrinsh.Anu'ricnn
el
.......
-.
.
.
.
,
m
wittorics
canable
of
extreme
sneeris
a
..it'h
production
Is
Just
vc;
'or
of
tne
first
pro-cr.ne"
for
fighter
alr-
;
Group
Captain
Frank
of
the
Royal
Air
Force
..a
working
on
the
Idea
years
ago.
17
.rrinnl
nf
Q7d
f
nst
ft
t
m
V
WW
t
11
mi
i,
a
ithrmt
iioinr
GTnnrlfifri
nrmioimra
I
niu
i.
was
made
yesterday
by
Royal
Air
Force
rican
Army
air
forces.
u
powered
with
Jet
engines.
,
were
given.
undrcd
flights
have
aa
w
ic
without
a
in8ic
More
Japs
Are
1
s
nrvi
in
400
mliM
rvr
I
Being
Killed
ALLIED
HEADQUARTERS
IN
NEW
OIHNEA.
Jan.
7
CPt--8lx
hundred
more
Japanese
,
havr
been
killed
ml
Invaded
rane
Gloucester.
emy
losses
there
since
the
December
2
landing
to
well
over
two
thousand.
headquarters
announced
last
night
Doth
United
New
Britain
with
fierce
Jun-
gle
fighting.
1943
WAS
WET
YEAR
December
Had
Little
Sunhine
and.
With
November,
Much
lUln.
with
12
hours
of
sunshine
shoeing
through.
the,ckods,
De
cember.
lf43,
had
the
least
hrittht
weather
of
any
month
'ury
Add
lllder
Concerning
Enforcement
of
Parking
Uwi
in
Verdict.
The
Jury,
under
Coroner
M.
M.
Stephens,
which
Wednesday
afternoon
brought
forth
a
ver
dict
of
accidental
death
with
no
blame
attached
to
any
ner
son
was
the
verdict
In
the
case
of
Private
R.
F.
Oaffery,
Roy
al
Canadian
Ordnance
Corns
driver
who
was
killed
In
a
traf
flc
accident
on
Monday.
Attach
ed
to
the
verdict
was
a
lengthy
recommendation
concerning
the
parking
of
cars
near
Intersections.
Caffrey
was
crushed
when
the
Jeep
he
was
driving
along
First
8tieet
coHided
with
another
army
car
and
skidded
into
a
third
army
vehicle
parked
near
the
corner
of
second
Avenue
and
First
Street.
Following
Following
the
the
collision
he
was
the
ne
Jep
JP
in
n
such
the
Jeep
struck
it
of
the
year.
November,
the
next
I
Army
Corp.
Cksphiins
Ju
$100
25
25
20
15
5
5
1
invest
month
had
21.7
hours.
nrf
the
vrarn
total
was
930.1
hours.
December.
1942.
had
15.7
hours
of
sunshine
and
that
year's
total
was
1526.4
hours.
Rainfall
In
December
was
10.32
Inches,
which
was
practically
a
-i
...u
n-ttV,
TJnvm
da
njiproved
by
the
Uj.,
l2M
ncne,
The
year's
of
Education
and
toUl
was
M78
inches,
or
more
s
elsewhere.
Fur-
lhan
wvcn
and
a
hait
feet.
J
be
difficult
to
rulnfall
In
December.
1042.
was
at
this
stage
of
7
92
lncn
and
82
M
lnchM
M
n
The
board.
durln.
yfa.
.
.
.
.
i
mines,
nm
and
activities
rooms
.
the
height
of
wind--d
to
adaptability
to
tscs
and
sizes
of
cr.hool
board
agrees
to
'.off
maintain
and
cchool,
the
equipping
mr
ino
iiirnnniiiiit
ni
Neither
would
Wartime
inr
nnrnnn
in
rnnnvai
nr
The
average
temperature
dur
Ine
December
was
41
degrees
with
a
maximum
of
29
degrees
on,
December
I.
High
tempera
ture
for
the
year
was
77
degrees,
reached
on
August
5
and
the
low
temperature
was
one
degree
be-
low
on
January
19.
rw.TnVwra
barometer
read
ings
showed
a
high
of
30.44
mll-
timtr
nn
December
4
and
a
low
of
27.11
mllllteters
on
De
rember
IS.
Hlahest
wind
during
the
mnnih
romn
from
the
east,
at
a
velocity
of
50
miles
per
hour
on
December
17.
Elderly
Man
Is
Assault
Victim
Louis
Loblch,
elderly
resident
of
a
cabin
Just
off
Comox
Ave
was
badly
beaten
by
unknown
assailants
early
this
morning
and
left
unconscious
on
the
ground
In
front
of
his
home-
Although
the
details
of
mc
affair
are
not
yet
available
It
that
Loblch.
who
is
60
years
old,
and
partly
blind,
was
called
to
the
door
or
nis
caom
at
3
o'clock
this
morning,
and
was
set
upon.
The
reason
for
the
act
Ls
not
clear,
for
no
attempt
at
robbery
was
made.
The
assault
victim
lay
uncon
scious
for
the
greater
part
of
an
hour
then
crawled
panuuiiy
to
the
nearby
cabin
of
Alex
Blgoff,
who
called
the
police.
The
police
took
Loblch
to
hospital,
where
Is
still
confined
nnd
apparently
unable
to
de
scribe
the
circumstances
of
the
assault.
bro
and
Ernest,
occupants
of
the
station
wgon
which
was
run
into
by
the
Jeep.
In
hi
testimony
Captain
Ju-
bro,
driver
of
the
station
wag
on
Intimated
that
considering
the
Icy
surface
of
the
streets.
It
was
a
matter
of
touch-and-
go
as
to
which
of
the
oars
would
strike
the
other.
He
thought
that,
if
he
had
not
braked
his
car.
he
would
have
struck
the
Jeep,
instead
of
being
struck
by
it.
He
had
not
seen
the
Jeep
until
a
collision
was
Inevitable.
BoUt
he
and
Captain
Ernest
fttlmated
their
soeed
at
about
15
miles
an
hour
It
was
thought
that
the
Jeep
was
travelling
at
about
the
same
rate
of
speed.
After
the
Jeep
struck
the
heavier
car
it
skidded
in
an
arc
and
struck
another
vehicle
which
was
parked
close
to
the
intersection,
and
Oaiferv.
who
apparently
lost
his
balance,
was
crushed
between
them.
a
rw
a
Local
Tidfs
Saturday,
Jan
S
We
High
0:13
18.2
feet
43
11:57
21.4
feet
33
Low
5:58
8.7
feet
18:41
3.0
feet
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUM
BIA'S
NEWSPAPER
XXIII,
No.
5
PRINCE
RUPERT.
B.C.,
FRIDAY,
JANUARY
7,
1944
PRICE
FIVE
CENTS
axis
May
Have
To
Quit
Russia
-
II
i
m
sHWfiTON.
D.C..
Jan.
7
(CP)
A
no
W
...
-
.
.
V"
Invasion
of
fob
G'lbsOll
YugoSSavia
fontllrtlnr
lltuorts
Are
Heard
One
That
Substantial
Allied'
Force
Has
Lnndfd.
LONDON,
Jan.
7
(CP)
Hound-about
reports
reached
Stockholm
tily
that
Allied
specialist
troap
had
landed
at
several
stratrjic
points
on
the
coast
of
Yugoslavia.
Dispatches
from
Allied
head-,
quarters
in
Algiers
called
"completely
erroneous
a
report
that
crack
Allied
dlvl-sioni
had
landed
in
Yugoslavia.
This
account
war
carried
by
Iteuters,
quoting
Stockholm's;
Ditningen
which,
In
turn,
wa
said
to
have
credited
its
Information
to
reports
from
Zagreb
in
Croatia.
Qualified
unofficial
sources
said
the
report
was
"probably
planted
Itr
Germans
as
a
feeler."
r
f
DL
thrown
from
LUlting
01
1
ilOnC
States
Marine
and
Austra-
a
wy
inai
.
.
.
-
Hans
are
advancing
In
a
,htaf
J1
LaDlCS
IS
LateSl
converging
movement
onlrKl
the
parked
vehicle
when
The
Jury
recommended
that
the
section
of
the
city
by-laws
ctMllns
with
the
narking
of
ea:s
Act
oi
Vandalism
near
intersections
be
enforced.
A
new
type
of
wuiui
vanoai-The
section
requites
that
no
Ism
to
occur
hi
the
city
U
the
vehicle
be
parked
less
than
20
chopping
into
a
telephone
eabte
teet
from
the
sidewalk
corner
on
a
bluff
on
Sixth
Avenue
To
of
an
intersection,
and
that
an
provide
protection
from
such
vehicles
should
be
parked
par-!
acts,
the
ultllltln
committee
of
allel
to
the
curb
and
not
at,
the
city
councd
has
authorized
rlcht
anifle
to
it.
The
north
Sam
Massey,
superintendent
of
M
nt
rmwiH
Avnti
hfli'wn
Ihp
telendone
di-oartment.
to
.V.
V
v.
w'v.aM
T
.
.
.
s
r
A
r-
i
,
-
1
n
..,
a
m
Via
maw
Hnn
4fm
run
ana
txvona
outtrus
w
ains
lined
with
closely
iaiked
army
fcctual.
It
Is
proposed
to
box
the
vehicles
standing
at
rignt
ang-
.caoic
in
wiwi
lun.Trr.
les
s
to
to
the
the
curb.
curb.
i
i
noys
oys
are
are
Denevea
Denevea
responsioie
responsive
LOG
SCALE
IS
HIGHER
Loc
scaling
In
this
forestry
district
for
th!
month
of
Decem
ber
this
var
amounted
to
31.415320
board'
feet
(as
compared
with
17.359,721
board
feet
In
the
same
month
last
year)
including
1,216288
board
feet
of
fir.
7,136353
feet
of
cedr,
21-977.786
spruce,
5J518.427
hsv
lock,
218,035
Jackplne
and
1,348,-931
balsam.
Production
of
poles
anci
pil-Ins
amounted
to
112.179
lineal
feet
including
96.888
llnesu
feet
cedar
and
15,291
fret
.miscellaneous.
The
tie
count
for
the
nwnth
amounted
to
1745
piece
6vi
.for
India
The
flm
Canadian
"Y"
to
do
emergency
war
work
with
th
troops
In
India
has
tbsea
api-etnted.
He
Is
32-ycar-
oW
Robert
OiSson.
now
01
Winnipeg
and
formerly
popular
jKiaervlsc-
of
Y.M.OA.
war
ser
vice
In
Prince
Rupert
area.
We
left
a
few
months
ago.
Chosen,
by
the
International
ftoard
of
Y.MCA's
in
America,
Mr.
Gibson
will
work
with
Brit
ish
and
native
troops
in
India
under
tin
supervision
of
the
Indan
National
Council.
He
will
he
nisocated
in
his
work
there
stth
two
other
Canadians
who
luve
been
in
India
for
many
Going
Abroad
.11
i
BOB
GIBSON
veais.
They
are
Charlie
Pater
son
of
Montreal
and
Jack
Dun-
derda
e
of
Winniper
'
..nHnila
In
rVmvmrM
of
t
.i7
J
Witness
to-
U
aeetdent-
were-
for
the
cutting
of
the-telephone
tm
University
of
Alberta.
Mr
.
.
r
Giucn
-K.-
n
Ti-rt
worked
rV
osi
for
fnr
some
Qfmp
VP
yeas
AS
as
rrlvate
Daaley
and
Private
Rummln,
Canadian
Women's
rabies.
ntin.hniinz
acent.
for
Canada
Packers
In
Edmonton.
Shortly
after
tin
outbreak
of
war
he
became
a
Y.
M.
C.
A.
wer
ser-Ices
secreiaiy
and
since
then
has
become
known
to
thousands
of
airmen
as
supervisor
of
their
off-time
activities
at
Flngat
and
St.
Thomas.
Recently
he
has
acted
as
"Y"
area
secretary
in
Maiuwoa,
Sasi.
and
the
Northern
Pa-cifhs.
His
wife
Is
a
daughter
of
Dr.
Tuttle.
at
one
time
moderator
oi
the
United
Church
in
Canada,
and
he
ha
one
child.
It
Is
agreed
that
the
appolnt-rr.n'n
of
Mr
Gibson
to
the
India
post
will
mean
good
leader-
Mt
of
"Y"
activities,
Americas
to
do
emsrgeney
In
Hhinn.
Ee-vot
and
BULLETINSiEven
Berlin
Speaks
of
29
CADETS
KILLED
KINGMAN,
Arizona
Twenty-nine
aviation
cadets
weie
killed
when
a
bus
in
which
others
were
also
riding
was
struck
by
a
train
at
a
level
crossing
near
here.
DESTROYING
.BERLIN
WASHINGTON
General
Henry
Arnold,
chief
of
the
United
States
Air
Force,
said
today
that
Berlin
bad
been
nearly
destroyed
and
its
destruction
would
be
completed
by
uninterrupted
bombing.
At
the
same
time
Vice-Chan-IIor
Herman
Goering
was
yinff
I"
Berlin
that
a
systematic
plan
was
being
made
for
clearing
Berlin
and
salvaging
material
from
the
RUSSIA
AND
POLAND
LONDON
The
Premier
of
the
Polish
government
in
exile
says
that
Russia
cannot
be
tieated
as
an
ally
before
restored
diplomatic
relations
were
restored.
In
Moscow
a
statement
was
made
that
the
Polish
government
in
exile
was
incapable
of
governing
the
country.
NEW
BRITISH
GENERAL
LONDON
Lieut.
General
Sir
Harold
Franklin,
who
says
that
glamor
girls
help
soldiers
morale,
has
been
appointed
to
command
the
British
home
forces.
MOVING
TO
COUNTRY
VANCOUVER
Many
per
sons
who
came
here
seeking
residence
have
moved
to
rural
areas
here
houses
are
avail
able.'-
SAVED
FROM
DROWNING
VANCOUVER
Charles
Shel-burne,
90.
was
saved
from
drowning
when
he
fell
into
the
harbor
yesterday
from
the
C.P.R.
wharf.
B.C.
YARD
IS
AFFECTED
VICTORIA,
Jan.
7
0
Yarrows
Limited
in
Victoria
operate
the
only
'shipyards
In
British
Columbia
engaged
in
naval
vhinhnildine.
The
curtailment
of
Othw
Onadlan
appointments
frigate
and
corvette
construction
by
the
late:
national
Board
ox
will
mean
a
reduction
in
woric
American
YM.CA.
s
will
.
soon
for
Vancouver
shops
which
sup-
foUaw.
Of
the
twenty-five
i
ply
parts
for
Yarrows.
The
"curtailment
is
made
pos
sible
through
an
improvement
sptuce
and
1094
Jaikjflne.
i
-,
hear
Bast,
as
well
as
in
in-
m
trie
ocean
snipping
siiuauor.
Cordwood
amounted
li
Mi,
it
Is
toped
that
five
will
due
to
the
control
of
enemy
U-C0rtU,
bf
Canadians,
;
boats.
NEW
LEADER
OK
CANADIANS
IN
MEDITERRANEAN
AREA
Lleut
General
II
D.
O
Crerar.
D.S.O..
former
chief
of
the
pices.
On
the
left,
he
studies
a
map
during
manoeuvres
in
Br
t-General
Staff,
who
has
been
appointed
to
command
Canadian
afn,
while
on
the
right,
he
ls
seen
expertly
traversing
an
anti-troops
tnnk
at
Petawawa.
Ont,.
a
familiar
procedure
to
Gen.
Crcrar
In
the
Mediterranean
war
theatre,
expanded
to
constl,
gun
lute
a
Canadian
Corps,
Is
showa
above
In
three
characteristic
n.
V
U
a
former
officer
of
field
artillery.
IComplete
Withdrawal
As
Red
Drive
Gains
Weight
Soviet
Forces
Now
Twelve
Miles
Into
Poland
Germans
Fighting
For
Very
Lives.
.
LONDON,
Jan.
7
(CP)
The
Russians
have
swept
twelve
miles
into
Poland,
capturing
Rakitno
and
killing
three
thousand
more
retreating
Nazis,
the
i
rm
i
f
t
mi
n
j
Moscow
radio
announced
inursuay
nignc.
ine
Rus
sians
are
within
thirty-nine
miles
01
the
Warsaw-Odessa
Railway,
sole
main
escape
route
for
Germany's
Dnieper
"Bend
army
of
.
between
500,000
arid
750,000
men.
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41..
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-)
.
1
i
MOSCuw
said
luat
iicimui
uc-
fences
had
been
broken,'
along
a
1
200-mlle
front
and
'
the"'
Red
Army
was
moving
ahead,
relent
lessly.
Berlin
tatlmated,
that
part
of
the
Army
was
fighting
for
Its
life
between,
a
Russian
pincers
movement
One
Berlin
spokes
man
suggested
today
that
it
might
be
necessary
to
with
draw
entirely
from
Russia.
Reserve
Sentence
In
Robbery
Case
Canadians
Take
Hill
Maritime
Troops
Helping
Advance
on
Rome..
In
ALGIERS,
Jan.
7
Canadian
troops
from
the
Maritlmes
have
taken
a
strongly
defended
Mil
north
of
Ortona
overlooking
the
road
to
Pescara
as
the
Eighth
Army
continues
to
move
slow-.ry
northward
against
the
mans
who
are
believed
to
have
Sentence
was
reserved
r
'
"L";
Judge
W.
E.
Fisher
In
County
J""
.
lln
,
l
e
Court
on
Thomas
Scully
and
William
Ryall.
found
guilty
of
!
.
Anglo-American
Fifth
commltUng
robbery
with
vlo-
----"V
lence.
The
offence
took
place
-
u
"
T"
l
against
John
McFee.
on
the
"0UnU4l
afternoon
of
December
23.
on
r'T
v.T
Second
Avenue.
W.
O.
Fulton
was
...
tvV
the
...
prosecutor.
UrSrToFry-"-Men
For
Gun-
Knife
Fracas
The
first
outstanding
ease
In
Prince
Rupert
In
which
Ameri-
right
to-
try
American
citizens
for
offences
against
the
law
on
Canadian
soil
occurred
this
morning
when
city
police
turned
over
to
the
American
authorities
Benjamin
Vlllmer.
charged
with
carrying
an
offensive
weapon,
.and
Floyd
Bogan,
a
ne
gro,
charged
with
wounding
with
a
knife.
The
charges
followed
a
fracas
In
a
down
town
cafe
last
night
In
which
Bogan.
a
cook
on
an
Army
Transport
Service
boat,
was
alleged
to
have-Inflicted
a
knife
wound
on
Vlllmer.
following
which
Vlllmer
was,
said
to
have
had
a
loaded
automatic
.22
rifle.
ritv
nollce
constables
Broth-
erston
erston
and
and
Moore
Moore
arresteo
arrested
,
Vill-
v,u-
rifle
on
Third
Avenue,
and
making
threats.
They
were
directed
to
the
Commodore
Rooms,
where
they
.were
told'
the
man
had
gone.
In
a
room
shared
by
Vlllmer
and
Jacob
Olssner.
also
an
American,
they
found
Vlllmer
with
blood
on
his
clothes
and
a
short
deep
wound
on
the
underside
of
his
Jaw.
It
was
alleged
that
he
nan
rppeived
the
wound
In
a
fight
involving
Floyd
Bogan
and
another
negro
In
the
Royal
Cafe
earlier
In
the
evening.
The
nollce
were
directed
to
the
gun
by
Glssner.
who
had
put
It
out
on
a
back
porch
so
that
Vlllmer
would
not
'be
able
to
find
it.
Vlllmer
later
disclaimed
any
knowledge
of
having
the
gun
or
of
making
h
roots
He
was
taken'
to
the
Amert
lean
hospital
for
treatment
and
weather
all
along
line
Is
hampering
operations.
P0I1NDIN&
GERMANY
Round
-
the
-
Clock
Offensive
Against
Enemy
Territory
Kept
Rolling.
LONDON
January.
7
O!
Rovr
can
authorities
exercised
their
al
Air
Force
mosquito
bombers
raided
western
Germany
last
night
for
the
sixth
night
in
succession
and
today
American
two-enelned
bombers,
escorted
by
Allied
fighters,
struck
a
military
objectives
in
northern
France,
keening
the
round-the-
clock
offensive
rolling.
Little
County
Court
Action
Two
naturalizations
were
granted
during
the
months
regular
session
of
the
County
Court
held
before
Judge
W.
E
Fisher
this
week.
Stood
over
to
the
next
sitting
of
the
court
of
Robert
Schartfe
mer,
an
American
woriman.
In
fw
his
room
in
the
Commodore
Rooms
at
midnight
after
they
had
received
a
complaint
that
summorus.
a
man
was
carrying
a
loaded
'
Ida
Tarbell,
Writer,
Dead
BRIDGEPORT.
Connecticut,
Jan
6.
Q'
Miss
Ida
Tarbell,
88,
dean
of
American
women
writ
ers,
died
of
pneumonia
yester
day.
Her
most
famous
books
were
those
on
Abraham
Lincoln.
on
Vlllmer
was
not
rn
his
person.
He
was
taken
to
ttm
city
Jail,
and
was
turned
over
to
the
American
authorities
at
10:30
this
morning.
The
right
of
the
American
government
to
try
its
own
nationals
for
offences
committed
in
Canada
was
granted
by
the
Canadian
government
last
June
and
was
given
greater
clarlflca-
was
released
this
morning
Into
;
tlon
last
month
at
the
request
the
custory
or
the
American
,
of
the
Attorney
Oenerals
de-authorltles.
partments
of
British
Columbia
.
Bogan
was
arrested
on
Third
,and
Alberta
who
wished
to
over-I
Avenue
early
this
morning
but
come
the
danger
or
any
In-the
knife
that
he
allegedly
used
frlngement
of
their
rights.