r up. Xitv i tuting of 120 '.tier a program 16 roiuUUng "r of the Royal the Area Com Ontario Regiment polu Hill force, i . u;c Court Houv? MPfSjaffv rtMtifithHisT mv:tr- Warrant Offl- aom of the Army. Petty -fcp Navy, and T Minn;n of the Acrop . piay a cornet trio .ncrrrt ivday nliht. July 15. a i la) bandsmen, f u a unit, will be BER CRASH, EN KILLED .? .8 i- Eleven when a bomber "i on taking ff .-v,i.,r air base. The ' a--lAmi is obscure tBemg Held In Street Shooting VANCOUVER. Ju:y 7 Alex Ruaan is Mill being held . for questioning In connection with the street gunftfht here yesterday when two sisters. Mrs. Jack Preaion and Mrs. Laura Rusan. were fatally shot. No charge has been laid. Carnival Queen Standings Ol'.vr HuruUk Betty Oreig EUiiorr Storscth EDITORIAL 52.000 52.000 45.000 Centre Carnival . . . o annual Civic Centre Carnival, which has now an institution in Prince Kupert, commences Inlay and continues throughout the week. Hie grounds on Seventh Street between and Third Avenues will be a popular mecca kors of entertainment and pleasure which 'Und in largo measure. rt from the pleasure which may be derived visit to the Carnival, there is also the more nt consideration of the very worthy project support of which it is staged that is to mds for the local civic centre which is now fruition thifn ever before, pely due to the success of past carnivals, the 'ntre Association now has on hand some $G0,-'ly invested in Victory Honds where it will until it can be put to use towards actually 'ng the civic centre. The association is now every effort to complete plans for the erec-'i swimming pool to adjoin the Y.M.C.A. war building now in the course of construction t ich is expected to be turned over for use as entre after the war. l'l means, therefore, the Daily News corn-he big carnival next week to the support of ! people not so much from the standpoint s going to bo n good show but in view of the cause which it supports, we have remarked before, it should be a'mat-rntificntion that, in connection with this car-io annual Fall Fair idea is again being re-t s to be hoped that this is just the start of which will eventually culminate in the hold-; h in P rincc Rupert of exhibitions like which ,1;iny years were of great interest and value community. cal Temperature Local Tide -TV .4, mil Sunday, July 9 63 High - 3:07 21.8 feet 16:09 10.9 feet 50 place for only being dwarfed June edifice. loarx as mi in May me magls ,$7,010. Indeed. It tratc garnered In $2,535. scttins short of the 1943 a record which held its high t.-mber NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA' a month before by the soaring Plainly the magistrate "threw the book" harder In June man he did in May. With four fewer paying customers he reaped $187 more in fines. He also collected W.75 in cosU. The magistrate heard 100 cases last month, six of which he dismissed. So far this year the court ha collected I1U97 In fines. This U almost $4,000 ahead it xi musical. News records which go a far last year's six-month total concert In YOUNG WOMEN IN WAR JOBS ('.W.A.C. Playing Utte Part Towards Winning of Victory OTTAWA. July 8 There Is a branch of Ufa , Canadian Army playing a large part in winning the war about which, although its members are familiar to everyone. John Q. Citizen actually knows very little. It Is tho Canadian Women's Army Corps," and they're doing a big and important job In bang-up style. Life In the C.W.A.C. Is interesting. There is a niche in It for girls of every walk of civilian endeavour. A quick glanc? at CWA.C. training and cdu-caUon will show that. Fallowing enlistment at one of the many local recruiting offices' throughout Canada, the C.W.A.C. "rookie's" introduction to army life is at Basic Training Centre, now at Kitchener. Ontario. There she receives Instruction in the fundamentals of army customs and Is taught such subjects as company administration, mess management, channels of communication and countless other things peculiar to army routine. The girls arc soldiers so there's close order drill and special ceremonies for them at "Basic." During basic training, the recruit Is Interviewed by the personnel selection officer who recommends the type of work for which she is most suited and, If special qualifications arc shown, she may be sent on an advanced course In trades training. The trades for which C.WJV.C. personnel are required and trained are numerous stenographers, clerks, drivers, dietitians, wireless operators, switchboard operators. X-ray technicians, dental workers, draughtswomen, tailors. The location at which a recruit finds herself on completion of training depends on the need at that particular time for i replacements of active service soldiers. C.W.A.C. personnel actually relieve active service soldiers for combat duty overseas. They are pasted to a unit and arc carried on strength of that unit, filling a job that, makes It possible to release an active service soldier. The C.W.A.C. In a particular area are administered as HALIBUT SALES American (Celling prices. 15c and 13 Vic) Cora. 10.000, Storage. Orant, 50,000, Storage and Royal. Canadian (Celling prices. W,c and 16Vic) Parma, 20.000, Co-op. Clipper II. 2S.0O0, Atlln. Oslo. 27.000, Storage. R. W.. 5.000, Pacific. Balsac I. 23.000. Booth and o' t pacific. of i U only $200) ANIMALS' PARADISE total to Sep-! Many sects in India forbid the killing of animals. Get Word of i Ambulance , The long awaited city ambul- ance will come off the makers i assembly line on July 10, according to word received by City Clerk II. D. Thaln. However, that docs not mean that it Is complete or will come directly to Prince Rupert. The eastern Canadian makers are fabricating only the chassis, the body will be made in Vancouver. How long the latter operation will require is not known. Donations To Pioneers' Home Security consciousness Is the grandest feeling ... just to know you really do know something really Important but only you know It and only you wlil ever know 11. receive exactly the same trades pay as the men 25, 50 or 75 cents per day extra, depending on the trade at which she Is employed. Any girl In the smart uniform of the C.W.A.C. Is of particularly high character. This Is an cssscntlal qualification for enlistment and one that Is rigidly odhcred to. Full particulars concerning the C.V.A.C. may be obtained at the C.W.A.C. recrultlnir booth a 'at the Civic Carnival, tn he held company, have their own quar-jhere next week There will oe ters and mess hall, and are re- shown the various stvles m nnl- sponslble to their own officers j forms worn by personnel of the for discipline. Rales of pay vary . C.W.A.C. In with the rank a girl may attain "fashion show.' but those employed at trades' will appear In a parade and details of which this newspaper. .InforccmenU failed to stem the Russian tide. More than 250 Imore places have been taken I m $io by Soviet forces. East Prussia Is U and I Cafe 5 lh Immediate objective. Henry Burton Barrett 5 The German High Command Alderman and Mrs. J. S. Black 10 j today announced abandonment Mr. and Mrs. W. Johnson 10of Baranowicz in old Poland, C. O. Johnson 30 nearly midway between Berlin Local 1735 Carpenters and i and Moscow and said that the Joiners Union 10 1 Soviet forces, farther north, were Canadian Legion Women's I fighting on the outskirts of Wil- Auxlllary 100 Mrs. J. C. Ollkcr 5 . Mrs. I. Valln 5 Mrs. S. Haugan 5 Mrs. B. Rogers .' 5 P. M. DeJong 5 Mrs. Hans Hansen 5 Mr. and Mrs. N. MacDonald .. 5 Mrs. J. Bremner 5 Mrs. S. Darton 5 Mrs. R. Roald 5 Mrs. A. Dybhavn 5 Mrs. E. Stancy 5 M. B. Lemon 5 L. Wide . 5 Mrs. Ransvold 5 Gordon Ross 5 Mrs. Wllkle 5 l 'rf NEWSPAPER, r,v Red Army Tide Goes Unchecked by Nazis Wilno in State of Siege and Uprisings Break Out in Many Parts of Lithuania Hattlcfront 350 Miles Long. LONDON, July 8 (CP) A state of siege exists in Wilno and there are uprisings in many parts of Lithuania as the Russians fight their way closer to the gateway of the Baltic States and sweep steadily west along the 350-mile central battlefront. The Germans are said to be throwing fresh reserves into the fighting for wilno but even re- no. 100 miles from the east Prussian border. East Prussia is in Germany proper and it was reported that Joseph Stalin said he would be there In five days. Baranowicz is a stronghold on the main rail and highway route and its fall would open the way for drives on Moscow. Its fall would also breach the secondary Nazi defence line WAR NEWS AIR WAR UNDIMINISHED LONDON About 500 American bombers pounded flying bomb launching sites and other targets In France today after thunderous night operations In which Royal Air Force heavies ripped railway and a huge robot bomb target in the Taris area. The robot bombers were over southern England In Intensified attack last night but many were shot down before rrarhing their objectives. The Law Courts have moved underground. CREEKS ARE SLAUGHTERED ISK.MIK, Turkey Copies of a Greek puppet government communique said that the Nails on June 10 slaughtered more than 1,000 residents of the Greek village of Dlstomo In coldblooded reprisal comparable to that carried out in the Czechoslovak town of Lidice. GREAT CHINESE COMEBACK CHUNGKING In their dramatic rome-baek, the Chinese have smashed through the encirclement ring around Heng-yang in Hunan Province and have surrounded the Japanese east, west and south of the city. The counter-thrusts have removed for some time at least the threat of complete Jap anese occupation of the Peiplng-Hankow-Canton railway. i-Hnese In the Salwern River offensive in the Burma area has driven to within one mile of the eastern wall of Tengchut j, main objective of the campaign and principal Japanese Yunnan Province base. Other Chinese, 50 miles southeast of that area, attacked the secondary Japanese base of Lungling. RESISTANCE IN ITALY ROME Nail resistance against the Allied advance northward in Italy has not stopped progress from being made although it U slower. Two important towns have been taken south of Leghorn by the Fifth Army and the Eighth Army Is now within 23 miles of Florence. Low 9:45 1.3 feet 22:04 6.0 feet 1 N 13 - - . PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. SATURDAY, JULY 8, H . price five cents . : -? j .victoria, r:,c. ! ew Affld Offensive In Normandy I Police Police 'I llRAID WAS Anforrl HriuA T fPITIfAl IRIIICAL Mil MILITAO iTAvv,ATimj ''jATION l Concerted Drive ah on Caen aon al if Passes jfjnt Gallagher 'ft nnlnmmrr iruni HTMINSTML July 8 SUlf Srrgra Frank ,bfr aged . niri , uchmrnt of pro phet at Prince Hup Bfmbfr of the provln- 4itt lor miriy-onr t friday night from jgvUintil five days I traffic accident t .( Uil In which Gal-- it . ... .1. Mf car Intrant Gallagher ho til rrlntf Hupert lor mple of )rar, had Tire afth the provln- ftrre In many pant 4 ftlumbla. lie ent Roprrt from New tot after having htm urn Lake He ervcd nOiUry pollre In the lie b Mirvlved by a ai a brother at Lang iitorn In Ireland. Concert To itaged H ere MAKING NAZI CHIEF cONFER AT THE GERMAN FRONTIER, July. 8 (CP) Germany's military leaders have been holding most serious .discussions with Adolf Hitler on the Reich's critical military situation and a complete revision of defence plans may le made before the end of the month. The conferences began early this week and arc comparable with the Kaiser's famous Grand Council in August' of 1918 when it was decided the war could not lie won but that all was not yet lost and bitter fighting might yet bring acceptable peace. POLICE FINES HIT $200 PEAK IN JUNE Total Wat Highest to be Recorded In Many Yean ' From the standoplnt of the ; offender, it U not only crime that doe not pay, but misdemeanor as well, in these stem times. This bromide Is amply jteaUflcd to by the record of police court tinea for June when .94 mtled citizen paid a retrl-jbuUve $2,722 by order of the magistrate. ; That (2.722 item, incidentally. trprrenW the highest fine col- KTHon snown on me Dally SUCCESS Not Single United States Tlane Lost In Idlest Attack on Japanese Homeland WASHINGTON, DC. July 7 - JAertal task forces of supcr- . f ortrcsees, which smashed at the ?reat Japanese naval base 6l Sastbo, Industrial targets of To-bata and the steel centre of Ya-1 wata. all returned safely to their base In China without the loss of a single plane. i The successful attack on the , Japanese homeland, announced In air force communiques at Washington, was apparently still in progress when announced and a second communique was Issued after all planes had returned safely. The same force also attacked two objectives In Japanese-occupied China Including Now Under Way With Good Advances Gained somewhat less tense with hopes expressed at the Cad- Hois mining centre that fires there which caused mass evacuation might be under control by tomorrow. The town of Pascalis. with a population of six hundred. was evacuated as flames ate their wav Into wooden dwellings, wiping the village out. CIRCUS DEATH TOLL UP HARTFORD The death toll ai a result of the cirrus fire here Thursday Tias risen to US, l ite officials of the cirrus rompany have been released on bail. uW DADTY Uuebec I own K PAVflDFn is vYipea uut VAL DOR. Quebec. July 8 Qr The Northern Quebec forest fire situation ts! KELOWNA, July 8 At the annual meeting of South Okan-agan Progressive Conservative Association held in Kelowna it was unanimously resolved that the association go on record as expressing its approval of the formation of a new provincial party or organization to support the present provincial government, that the executive dc authorized to take such step as from time to time they may deem advisable to accomplish this purpose and that the activities of the member for South Okanagan. W. A. C. Bennett, in this respect, be approved. j CANADIAN ACE'S CHALLENGE I LONDON Wing Commander Johnny Johnson, Canadian are, has challenged a German are to a personal duel. The enemy are is said to have 100 planes to his credit. Russians Are Entering Baltic States Bombers, Artillery, Tanks and Infantry Combine for Move Into Strategic Town Heart of Place is Already Entered. SHAEF, July 8 (CP) British and Canadian forces, attacking on a seven-mile front north and west of Caen, had advanced an average depth of a mile by noon today. After a great air bombardment by 450 Royal Air Force planes yesterday, Allied artillery, tanks and infantry opened up a new offensive against Caen and six key defence points on the north 0t the strategic town were soon taken. One report was that Brit- rIn! CL tsh and Canadian forces had ad-' llOXI UlllLId " A HiW MIC UKUtb of the town. xjaier came an crucial an nouncement that British tanks and bayonets had soearheaded the powerful new offensive against Caen, smashing to within hall a mile of that German anchor In Normandy today. Six iowns fell to the British Cana-I dian forces which broke through . . i V - n j Being Sunk .fJrJn e 5 major ouier1 tne Mediterranean. very satisfactorily. ... . . I oimunaneousiy American 01-ifenslves captured St. Jean de Daye In the centre of iht Nor- i rri i nrlv fmnf A wan im U"J ChUU HUU IUUC uare miles of hard fought; ground near tne western hinge ol the Nazi defence line at La Have due PulU. General Bernard Montgomery sent his offensive forward ht- wry barrage and planes, crack-j Luncheon. Coronation and ing through lines termed by Dance Feature Lakes Distlt ueacquaners as oemg more heavily held than any attacked so far in this war. A British staff officer said today that the offensive is going ulletins WALLACE AT EDMONTON EDMONTON Vice-President Henry Wallace of the United States, enroute home after nearly six weeks in China. Siberia and Russia on a factfinding- mission for President Roosevelt, stopped off in Edmonton for two-and-a-half hours yesterday. SERIOUS EPIDEMICS TORONTO Two serious epidemics are reported from far northern Ontario. Thirty-sis have died of septic throat at Eskimo Point and 63 of whooping cough at Moose Lake, it is reported. FIRE SITUATION GRAVE VANCOUVER A grave forest fire situation exists in British Columbia today and special warnings are issued by the Forest Branch. The hazard is greater than in years and may become worse. Sheriff M. M. Stephens left on last evening's train for s brief trip to Smithers on official duUes. I Many People Leave London LONDON, July 8 Fifteen thousand school children were removed from London today, making a total of 90,- COO to leave during the week. Arrangements have been made to remove people at the ra,tc of 15.000 per day. LONDON, July 8 O Sink- ing of two large transports, one large tanker and a medium-sized supply ship and seven smaller vessels by British submarines Is announced by the Admlr- alty. All sinkings wpr in r i t- u a imers -for,mmr 11 IJ ! JFLMLJS in rcPiin.inni2HLi III IWU MB Celebration BURNS LAKE, July 8 Some 1 200 old timers and their many friends gathered in reunion at :the Community Hall at Burns jLake on Monday of this week. (Representatives from every part of the district were present. There was a full program to mark the occasion. A sumptions luncheon was served at the huge tables which ran the full length of the commodious hall. The cooking was handled by a real old timer, Ed. Blackwell, assisted by Max Geb- hart and a bevy of waitresses from the families of the earliest settlers, convened by Mrs. Emma Zellke. Andy Ruddy was in the chair with his customary diplomacy and speeches were necessarily short. BarneyMulvany.as toast master, showed an intimate acquaintance, with all the visitors and rah through a Ions list with considerable dispatch in order not to Interfere with the program of the Young Rangers who had sponsored V, event under the direction of Bill Saunders. Many were necessarily overlooked. The following members and their families were toasted amid the cheers of tha diners and many spectators. G. I. Culp, J. II. Henkel, Archie NeiL Mrs. Mclnnes and their daughter Vera, the first white child born in the North Bulkley Valley; Johnny Keefe and family with special mention of toe absent ones, Frank and Emma, and of Marlon and Virginia who are serving with the forces, ths Morgan family, descendants of the famous "Buccaneer" with a special toast to Lulu (Mrs. Bob Beaver) who was the first white child born at Ootsa Lake, her mother riding In over the Bella Coola trail when It was at It's worst. Harold Bennett and hU brothers. Cls and Frank, Jim Ncvan, a real old timer who came In with Colley on his first survey and located one of the finest farms In the Orassy Plains re-(Contlnued on page 6) GRAND CARNIVAL PARADE WEDNESDAY, JULY 12 Prizes for Best Decorated Cars, Bicycles. Wagons, Doll Buggies, Scooters, etc. National and Fancy Costumes, -4 Clowns, old and young. PET PARADE PRIZES FOR ALL CLASSES. Everyone can enter. Be on hand promptly at 7 o'clock Wednesday, at the Court House Grounds.