Local
Tide$
Sunday,
June
18
.HESE
MAKE
W
FIGHT
Lint
Out
In
Intense
Flght-
K
Changtha
Althoutli
h
Virtually
Surrounded
bSGKTVO.
June
17
O-In-
in
progress
in
-
'rrn
tuburbs
of
'T.nria!
capital
of
kjt:'
the
Chlneae
are
;
x.
uM
Japanese
on-bcdiencc
to
Gen-:
'i
Kai-Shek's
or-
the
city
at
all
virtually
sur-:;"
escape
bole
U
,"uthwet
which
ave
elected
not
to
r?
driving
on
id
one
of
the
of
the
strong-f
days,
ago
and
200.000
men
into
'akr
the
city.
1MANY
iind
Duisburg
Were
Tar-
iUt
Mint
RDON
Jn,.c
17
-TJrttWn
In
Ml
t
ill
V
L
Af
f
r
LSMl'IIIIEAD
out
in
great
last
night.
Ber-.duslrul
city
of
among
principal
Iocs
were
over
1
heavy
bombers
utheUc
oil
plants
HAUlll'T
SALES
American
4
"00
15
and
13Vi
1
WO-
15
and
13
ft.
At
Caiudlan
n
3(1.000,
I8V4
and
W,
18,
and
19fc.
35.000.
I8V4
and
'
000.
18V
and
16Vt.
40.000,
I8',i
and
ISVfc.
II
11.000,
IBV'4
and
13.000.
I8V4
and
16V,.
Breeze,
31,000.
18V
Pa
1
fir.
J
13.500,
18V
and
lBVi,
17.000.
18U
and
lOVi.
12,500.
18U
and
ipcr
28,000,
I8V4
and
Flood
Is
Receding
Coal
District
Southwest
of
frlmonlon
Has
Been
ItoUtrd
For
Three
Days
EDMONTON.
June
17
8
Danger
of
flooding
(lata
alone
the
North
Saskatchewan
River
are
aald
to
have
parsed
with
the
water
having
receded
fifteen
Inches
since
the
peak
early
yet-
terdy.
Cadomln.
Ltucar
and
Mountain
Parle
on
the
coal
branch.
southwest
of
here,
were
isolated
alnce
Wednesday
due
to
wash
-outs
on
the
Canadian
National
Railways
line
and
were
reported
to
be
without
supplies.
TESTIMONY
IS
SORDID
Winnipeg
Girl
Says
She
Va
Given
Pills
and
Liquor
to
Keep
Her
in
Prostitution
Ann
OUen.
30.
formerly
of
Winnipeg-
and
witnoai
ln
a
case
In
city
polke
court
against
Carl
CnmHewtkl.
eiMrged
with
oper
aUng
a
house
of
prostitution.
toM
the
court
tltat
site
had
been
forced
to
take
twelve
hypnotic
nllJ4la..uaa..dar.T))CLPfiU.
wtitih
frte
oeKftoefi
as
nanng
a
druxglng
effect,
although
not
a
drug,
had
been
prescribed
by
her
doctor
to
be
taken
at
Ute
rate
of
two
a
day.
Witness
said
that
she
hart
gone
lo
live
ai
11
w
uay.
early
In
March
us
a
house
keeper,
and
that
later
slie
had
engaged
in
prostitution
there.
She
had
been
made,
she
said,
lo
take
the
pills
about
10
days
ago
"apparently
to
keep
me
there"
after
she
Mad
decided
u
leave
Drugged
by
the
overdotpe.
she
had
wandered
along
Third
Avenue,
where
she
had
been
Dkked
up
by
city
police,
and
sent
to
hospital,
she
told
the
court.
Questioned
by
defence
coun-
11
W.
O.
Fulton.
Ann
01en
admlUed
that
she
had
taken
narcotics
In
Winnipeg
but
stated
that
she
had
taken
none
for
some
time
before
she
liad
left
the
prairie
centre
kite
In
Februaryl.
During
the
time
sue
was
en
gaged
in
prostitution
at
Cow
Bay.
she
said,
she
had
been
given
unlimited
quantities
of
liquor
but
no
money.
She
said
that
she
was
"nair
arunn
most
of
the
time
and
that
site
had
been
beaten
occasionally
for
not
"rolling"
her
men
visitors
as
a
girl
living
there
previously
liad
done.
At
times
when
she
had
left
the
house
she
had
been
given
money
by.
former
Winnipeg
friends.
The
case
In
continuing
with
accused
out
on
$1000
ball
pend-
lne
an
etc
it-day
adjournment.
T.
W.
Brown
Is
acting
for
the
prcwecutlon.
ocal
Boy
Figures
In
Invasion
IMtSa
,
v.
t
vciuicvn
wcurim-p
-a
of
Mr
and
Mrs.
J.
R.
01
uiuclty.
has
fig-
I4'-)
a
frltvi
.ki.
-,
11.-
1
,
-
......
ui
uic
iana-
1
tnc
beaches
In
the
ln-
1
T
France
Hp
wn
nnn
nf
r'5"snarty
of
llve
,nfantr'-
-
oumvors
01
a
com-
Runrire
of
the
Nazis
In
'
'in
but
"uuiuus
cuori
10
Iia
1
'odd:
odrt
j0CtlVC
asallut
hPc-
hint.-'.
..
n
"r
aisnalcn
to
the
Tor-
and
the
Vancouver
.
mn-i
lM
ten,
the
storv:
lre
hart
k
.
.....
i
the
rest,
some
had
.
ounded
and
some
killed;
were
crossing
the
last
two
fields
before
their
objective.
Nine
men
started
on
the
last
mile.
When
the
nine
assembled
In
a
tiny
eddy
of
quiet
nmld
the
crashing
of
fire
from
hidden
machine
guns
and
mortars
and
field
artillery,
they
were
already,
according
to
all
the
logic
of
war.
a
lost
and
beaten
remnant.
Where
they
had
expected
to
find
no
Germans
they
had
found
many
Germans.
Tanks
on
which
they
had
ridden
to
the
fringe
of
the
battlefield
had
'done
their
best
to
ball
them
out
when
an
innocent-looking
expanse
of
green
grain
had
"
stirred
and
cornc
auvc
wiwi
We
mov
i
r.ee
Ci
Om
I
114.
Scotia
Los
tn
Collier
Watuka
lly
Enemy
Action
Out
of
Loulsburg
Revealed
HALIFAX.
June
17
0
Nova
Scotia
steamship
Watuka
was
sunk
Just
off
tills
coast
with
loss
of
one
man
March
22,
after
being
sunk
by
two
torpedoes.
The
Watuka
was
n
earing
Hall-
fax
with
a
coal
cargo
from
LouUtourg.
Nova
Scotia.
Twenty-five
men
escaped
in
a
leaking
lifeboat
and
a
Jolly
boat
which
was
sunk
Just
before
the
Canadian
minesweeper
AntleotU
picked
up
the
survivors
an
hour
after
the
sinking.
Tmnlffht'.
train
rtiw
from
the
KUlCa.
from
one
hidden
trench
to
another,
the
Germans
were
hard
to
find.
Most,
of
the
Infantry
became
separated
from
most
of
the
tanks.
The
right
thing
to
do
perhaps
would
have
been
to
go
back.
The
young
lieutenant
from
Toronto,
already
wounded
In
the
leg,
asked
the
other
men
to
count
their
weapons.
Besides
his
own
pistol
there
were
one
Bren
gun.
four
rifles,
one
Sten
gun
with
a
barrel
and
one
Sten
without
a
barrel.
The
lieutenant
peered
cautiously
through
the
wheat
to
the
village
his
company
had
set
out
to
capture.
The
lieutenant
said:
"Our
objective
Is
up
there.
Arc
you
game
to
come?''
Nine
men
started
crawling.
They
crossed
the
wheat
field
first
and
then
an
oat
field.
Keeping
out
of
sight
when
they
could
and
fighting
their
way
through
when
they
had
to.
"Ij-
iitihf
tank
1
They
came
to
a
iiinken
road
Memorial
Window
Depicts
Airman
MELBOURNE.
Australia.
June
17
Oi
An
airman
is
depicted
in
a
stained
glass
window
in
a
church
at
Chamberwul.
Mel
bourne.
It
shows
him
in
.1
flying
kit.
A
bunch
of
flowers
at
his
feet
means
youth
and
life,
and
a
bird
above
symrxmzes
passing
of
hU
souL
In
his
hand
is
a
chart
of
Labrador
and
Green
land
for
he
was
killed
at
dawn
on
.March
19.
1913.
when
a
Bos
ton
bomber
beinz
ferried
to
Greenland
crashed
near
Labra
dor.
Son
of
a
doctor,
the
airman.
PO.
Andrew
Seton
Campbell.
Joined
the
R.A.A.F.
on
his
18th
birthday
and
became
a
navigator
and
Joined
the
Ferry
Command.
He
was
20
when
he
was
East
at
10:45.
was
reported
thi
j
The
vicar
say.s
he
believes
this
afternoon
lo
be
four
hour
and'!
thr
first
time
an
airman
has
forty-five
minutes
late
which
been
featured
in
a
church
win-would
bring
r.
tn
at
3
am
dow
WAR
NEWS
CANADIANS
DO
ISIti
JOll
.MONTREAL
Admiral
Percy
Nelles,
head
of
the
Canadian
naval
mission
overseas,
returned
to
Canada
last
nihl
"to
tell
the
story
of
what
Canadian
sailors
have
done."
He
said:
"I
have
seen
for
myself
from
the
sea
lanes
leading
to
the
beachheads
and
from
the
beachheads
what
our
sailors
have
done."
CANADIANS
FIRST
IN
FIELD
SUPREME
HEAIMIUARTEHS
OF
ALLIEII
EXPEDITIONARY
FORCE
A
Royal
Canadian
Air
Force
air
field
unit
became
the
first
Allied
air
unit
to
begin
operating
exclusively
from
France.
Tbeunlt
was,
movedjicross
the
Channel
by
air
and
sea
In
twITdays
and
became
fully
operational
Thursday
nliht.
HO.MRKRS
OVER
AUSTRIA
LONDON
The
(ierman
radio
reported
hostile
aircraft
approaching
Austtia
Friday
but
nothing
further
was
reported
since
then.
JAPANESE
ARE
REPULSED
ADVANCED
HEAIMIUARTEHS
IN
NEW
GUINEA
Three
Japanese
rounler-attacks
on
lliak
Island
in
the
Schouten
group
Mere
repulsed
by
the
Allies
with
a
total
of
760
Japanese
dead.
Guns
from
an
Allied
destroyer
silenced
the
Japanese
artillery
and
mortars
but
stiff
resistance
was
met
on
the
northern
flank
of
occupying
forces
on
the
bland.
YANKS
IMPROVE
POSITIONS
PEARL
HARIIOR
Untied
States
assault
forces
broke
Japanese
resistance
at
Charankanoa
Beach
on
Sapian
Island
in
the
Marianas
after
being
hurled
back
a
short
distance.
United
Stales
positions
were
consolidated.
CASUALTIES
AT
REACIIHEAD
WASHINGTON
American
casualties
so
far
In
the
invasion
of
France
are
officially
announced
as
totalling
15,883
3,382
killed
and
12,600
wounded.
DUISIIURC
AND
RERLIN
HIT
LONDON
British
formations
hammered
the
German
synthetic
oil
plant
near
Dulsburg
and
targets
in
Berlin
Friday
night
as
well
as
Hie
French
invasion
coast.
The
Royal
Air
Force
and
the
Royal
Ca
ail
lan
Air
Force
plastered
12,000
pound
bombs
on
Nail
E-boat,
R-boat
and
minesweeper
pens
at
Boulogne.
It
marked
the
first
Canadian
participation
in
a
major
daylight
bombing
attack.
Thirty-three
bombers
were
lost
including
two
Canadian.
ROBOT
PLANES
KEEP
COMING
LONDON'
The
Germans
kept
their
mysterious
robot
planes
hurtling
acrovs
the
Channel
Friday
night
in
continuation
of
the
attack
which
started
Thursday
night
and
continued
alt
day
Friday.
Damage
and
casualties
were
caused
in
several
places
in
England.
their
feet
there
and
moved
toward
the
town
In
single
file.
The
lieutenant
wtilking
stiffly
like
a
man
with
a
wooden
leg,
dragged
his
useless
foot
behind
him.
They
kept
close
to
the
shoulder
of
the
road
which
gave
them
some
protection,
and
even
a
certain
gratuitous
advantage
over
the
Oermans
whose
trenches
on
the
slope
provided
less
freedom
of
movement
than
the
trenches
in
the
field
had
done.
The
lieutenant,
with
his
pistol,
the
man
with
the
Bren,
the
man
with
the
Sten
and
four
others
with
rifles
shot
gangway
for
themselves
down
the
road.
The
Bren
gunner
fell,
but
when
the
eight
who
were
left
reached
the
town,
their
loose
system
of
accounting
told
them
his
life
had
cost
between
40
and
60
German
lives.
They
had
expected
to
find
our
tanks
in
town,
but
by
then,
the
armor
had
been
beaten
off
in
could
hit
only
what
they
could
that
parsed
around
th,
back
furious
street
fighting.
and.
movinp
quickly
baco!
the
village
They
got
to
Thev
kept
gomg.
t
Kamiang
Captured
Local
Temperature
11:90
18JJ
feet
Ml
23:54
21.6
(ret
5:45
2.9
feet
Minimum
76
17:45
6.0
feet
Minimum
53
NOKTHEHN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
NO
142
XXXIII,
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.
SATURDAY,
JUNE
17,
1944
PRICE
FIVE
CENTS
Lvfl
VISITS
nLACHiiEAn-
lis
Majesty
Crosses
to
France-
ivests
General
Keller
of
B.C.
LONDON,
June
17
(CP)
King
George
el
the
Normandy
beachhead
Friday,
mak-
k
tic
trin
on
H.M.S.
Aretusa.
Visitfni;
the
mutilans
in
rruuee,
ins
majesty
bestowed
the
-ir.aiidershin
of
the
British
Finnim
mmn
i
or
General
R.
A.
L.
Keller
of
Kclowna.
rjnling
officer
of
the
Third
Canadian
:on
which
is
fighting
on
the
beachhead.
Ik
A
ing
To
Trap
Many
Nazis
KANDY.
June
17
Oi
The
Chinese
have
captured
4-
Kamaing,,
Japanese
base.
40
miles
northwest
of
be-
sieged
Myitkyina
In
North
Burma.
Track
Washout
East
of
Jasper
Interrupts
Through
Travel-However.
Trains
Between
Here,
Jasper
Running
On
Schedule
Canadian
National
train
ser
vice,
east
of
Jasper
has
been
dis
rupted
by
a
grade
wash-out
In
the
Alberta
division
and,
as
a
consequence,
all
through
pas
sengers
cannot
be
guaranteed
uninterrupted
travel,
the
Dally
News
learned
this
morning.
The
washout
is
located
at
Wolf
Creek
between
Jasper
and
Ed
son.
There
has
been
no
interruption
in
train
service
out
of
Prince
Rupert,
however,
nor
is
it
expected
that
there
will
be.
Both
east
and
westbound
trains
will
continue
to
run
on
schedule.
It
is
expected
that
It
will
take
about
a
week
to
have
the
trains
running
normally
again
east
of
Jasper
and.
in
the
meantime,
many
passengers
are
being
rerouted
over
the
C.PJt.
via
Kam-loops
and
Calgary.
tabor
Bdard
Meeting
Here
Is
Cancelled
Owing
to
a
tie-up
in
train
service
in
Alberta,
the
session
of
the
Western
Labor
Board
which
was
to
have
been
held
in
Prince
Rupert
next
Monday
and
Tuesday
has
been
postponed,
it
was
learned
this
morning
at
the
National
Selective
Service
office.
July
3
and
4
are
now
set
fdr
the
meeting
for
which
local
labor
organizaUons
have
been
preparing
for
some
time.-
One
of
the
principal
matters
to
have
been
taken
up
was
in
connection
with
employment
of
Canadians
by
American
authorities.
The
"board
consists
of
Ool
John
Keen
of
Vancouver,
George
B.
Herrwood.
K.C.
of
Edmonton,
M.
Ainslie,
vice-president
of
the
Vancouver
Trades
and
Labor
Council.
H.
G.
McDonald
of
Edmonton,
and
William
Horrobln
of
Vancouver.
Was
Convoy
Annihilated?
LONDON,
June
17
There
was
no
confirmation
up
to
last
night
of
Nazi
claims
that
an
entire
convoy
approaching
France
had
been
annihilated.
Near
the
far
edge
of
the
town
they
did
find
two
stray
Sherman
'tanks.
The
lieutenant
ordered
the
rest
of
his
party
to
take
shelter
in
a
bomb
crater
while
he
walked
into
the
open
to
ask
what
the
situation
was
from
a
man
whose
head
stuck
out
In
the
turret
of
the
nearest
tank.
The
man
in
the
tank
couldnt
hear
he
was
dead.
.
The
lieutenant
walked
over
to
the
other
tank.
A
machine-gun
bullet
his
him
in
the
shoulder.
He
tried
to
attract
the
tank
commander's
attention,
but
the
noise
of
firing
from
the
sides
was
too
great.
The
lieutenant
went
back
to
the
bomb
crater,
sat
down
beside
his
seven
men.
"I
guess
we'll
have
to
go
back
after
all,"
he
said.
He
led
his
men
out
of
the
crater
still
holding
his
pistol,
n
One
of
the
riflemen
dropped
with
a
machine-gun
bullet
through
his
aw.
A
piece
of
shrapnel
hit
the
lieutenant
In
the
back
and
this
time
he
could
Bulletins
lUnfavorable
Weather
CIVIL
SERVICE
INCREASE
VICTORIA
The
Biitish
Columbia
government
yesterday
approved
a
complete
reclassification
of
civil
service
salaries
includlsg
the
provincial
police
and
Liquor
Control
Board.
There
will
be
increases
in
a
number
of
classes.
AMBASSADOR
EXPELLED
WASHINGTON
The
Department
of
State
has
directed
the
Finnish
ambassador
and
three
members
of
the
legation
staff
to
leave
owing
to
activities
in
which
they,
engaged.
It
does
not
constitute
a
breach
in
diplomatic
French
Take
Elba
Island
Would
Be
Important
Spri
board
in
Connection
Witl)
West
Italy
Campaign
ROME,
June
17
(CP)
French
forces
landed
today
on
the
island
of
Elba
and
took
control
for
the
Allies,
headquarters
announced.
Elba
would
give
the
Allies
a
springboard
to
continue
the
campaign
up
the
west
coast
of
Italy.
Meanwhile
the
Allied
armies
in
Italy
were
continuing
their
rapid
advance
with
the
British
Eighth
Army
sweeping
on
to
Foligno,
about
twenty-eight
miles
north
of
TernlHve,
cap-
I
lure
of
which
was
announced
only
yesterday.
Visit
of
De
Gaulle
Coming
WASHINGTON.
June
17
Gen.
Charles
,de
Gaulle
is
expected
to
visit
this
country
before
mid-July.
Oeneral
de
Oaulle.
President
Roosevelt
said.
had.
through
an
admiral
of
the
French
Navy,
asked
if
the
President
would
receive
him.
Replying
that
he
would
to
choose
from.
He
sent
word
back
to
General
de
Gaulle
that
either
between
June
22
and
June
chosen
those
dates
for
a
meet
ing
with
Oeneral
de
Gaulle,
the
President
said
that
literally
they
were
the
first
available
ones
he
had.
Reminded
of
a
certain
political
rally
in
Chicago
Mr.
Roosevelt
chuckled
and
said
"yes,"
he
knew
something
was
happening
out
in
Chicago
the
end
of
Junel
He
also
knew
that
an
election
was
coming
next
fall
and,
he
addf
d
with
a
laugh,
"Christmas
Is
also
coming."
not
get
up.
The'sergeant
ran
over
to
the
tank
and
climbed
up
Its
side.
With
some
difficulty
he
made
the
crew
commander
understand
the
request
to
take
them
out.
They
piled
the
lieutenant
on
the
side
and
climbed
on
around
him.
It
took
the
tank
20
minutes
to
get
down
the
sunken
road
on
the
trip
back.
Oermans,
hidden
behind
hedge
rows,
showered
them
with
grenades
but
the
man
with
the
Sten
gun,
a
colored
boy
who
had
two
wounds,
fired
over
the
hedge-rows
and
forced
them
to
aim
blindly.
Of
the
nine
men
two
got
back
wounded
and
two
did
not
get
back
at
all.
The
names
of
the
wounded
and
dead
can
not
be
published
until
the
next
of
kin
have
been
notified.
The
others
were
Sgt.
Sam
Scrutton,
Toronto:
Cpl.
Alfred.
Jackson.
Brantford;
Rfmn.
K.
McCrimmon.
Prince
Rupert,
and
BUI
Davie
and
F
J.
Simmonds.
Toronto
Is
Holding
Up
Major
Offensive
In
France
INTERNAL
CO-OPERATION
SUPREME
HEADQUARTERS
OF
ALLIED
EXPEDITIONARY
FORCE,
June
7
(CP)
French
patriots
inside
France
are
giving
complete
support
to
the
invasion
by
sabotaging
German
rail
and
road
communications,
headquarters
said
today
in
a
special
communique.
SUPREME
HEADQUARTERS
OF
ALLIED
EXPEDITIONARY
FORCE,
June
17
(CP)
The
British
repulsed
two
strong
Nazi
counter-attacks
east
of
the
Orne
River
in
Normandy
and
the
Americans
moved
slowly
towards
blowing
the
Germans'
last
line
with
Cherbourg,
the
trapping
of
tens
of
NEW
BOMBS
ng.fCOME
AGAIN
Britain
Feels
New
Secret
Weapon
For
Second
Successive
Night
BASES
ARE
HIT
LONDON,
June
17
(CP)
About
one
thousand
Royal
Air
Force
bombers
smashed
Friday
night
at
enemy
installations
in
the
Pas
de
Calais
area
of
France
from
where
the
Germans
are
believed
to
be
launching
their
pilotless
planes.
Canadian
planes
shared
in
the
Pas
de
Calab
attack.
pilotless
rocket
bombing
plane.s
the
Nazis
secret
weapon-
j
came
over
to
southern
Britain
1
again
last
night
as
they
had
rinnp
lntormlUntl
rinrinrr
thn
i
day.
They
caused
further
damage
and
casualties
and
constrained
the
Home
Secretary.
Rt
Hon.
Herbert
Morrison,
to
ask
the,
people
to
carry
on
business
in
the
normal
way.
None
of
the
new
planes
have
been
taken
in
their
entirely
as
yet
but
they
are
believed
to
be
about
25
feet
In
wingspread
and
about
20
fppt
InnfT
Tt
Is
ncti-
be
glad
to.
Mr.
Roosevelt
gave
I
thpv
parrv
rnnft
tn
the
French
lender
two
dates',
.
",..
8,000
pounds
of
explosives.
Transmissions
of
the
British
Broadcasting
Corporation
may
30
or
between
July
6
and
July
I
be
interrupted
and
the
chimes
14
would
be
agreeable.
General
and
ticking
of
Big
Ben
will
be
de
Gaulle's
reply
has
not
yet.
suspended
so
they
may
not
be
been
received
The
President
would
not
go
into
details
of
the
purpose
of
the
French
leader
s
Washington
visit
and
did
not
know
whether
he
would
stay
at
the
White
House.
Queried
as
to
why
he
had
used
as
a
guide
for
the
robo
planes.
Nurses
and
patients
were
killed
last
night
when
the
new
bombers
destroyed
a
hospital.
BASEBALL
National
Cincinnati
10.
Chicago
5.
Brooklyn
5,
Philadelphia
4.
American
Boston
0,
Washington
4.
Chicago
3,
Cleveland
1.
St.
Louis
14.
Detroit
1.
Philadelphia
1,
New
.York
6.
International
Montreal
4,
Syracuse
1.
Rochester
5.
Jersey
City
4.
Toronto
4.
Baltimore
5.
Buffalo
4-4,
Newark
0-3.
American
Association
None
scheduled.
Coast
Los
Angeles
at
Seattle
postponed.
Oakland
at
Portland
postponed.
Sacramento
3,
Hollywood
4.
San
Diego
6,
San
Francisco
0.
thousands
of
Nazis
thus
being
threatened.
Headquarters
said
today
that
bad
weather
and
rough
seas
hampered
the
unloading
of
ships
and
other
operations
and
made
it
unlikely
that
the
Allies
would
attempt
a
full
scale
attack
until
weather
Improves.
A
communique
reported
only
slight
activity
along
.
the
100-
mlle
beachhead
although
Nazi
attacks
east
of
the
Orne
were
described
as
heavy
and
extremely
costly
to
the
Germans.
British
forces,
attacking
north
of
Caumont,
20
miles
inland
in
the
central
beachhead
section,
took
some
"limited
objectives.
headquarters
said
today.
Wkl
tM
VV
M
.'",
Viiniiri
I
T
IIKUI
I
Evacuation
of
Great
Finnish
Port
Under
Way
As
Russians
Approach
LONDON,
June
17
(CP)
The
Russians
have
captured
more
than
one
hundred
additional
towns
along
the
Finnish
front
and
have
driven
deeper
into
the
Finnish
lines.
One
town
captured
b
only
23
miles
southwest
of
the
big
port
of
Viipuri,
apparent
goal
of
this
drive.
Later
today
Helsinki
dispatches
to
Stockholm
reported
that
the
large
Russian
forces,
converging
onViipuri,
were
only
28
miles
away.
Compulsory
evacuation
of
Viipuri
is
now
under
way.
'
CONVICTED
OF
MURDER
Robert
Logan
of
Vancouver
Will
Appeal
Against
Hanging
For
Killing
of
"Want
Ad"
Bride
VANCOUVER,
July
17
O
Robert
Logan,
aged
42,
found
guilty
of
the
murder
of
Laura
Degeer
Logan,
the
bride
he
met
after
advertising
in
the
personal
columns
of
Vancouver
papers,
was
sentenced
to
hang
September
18.
Defence
counsel
announced
intention
to
appeal
the
verdict.
Logan
was
convicted
of
stabbing
his
wife
to
death
with
a
butcher
knife.
He
then
Is
alleged
to
have
attempted
suicide
by
slashing
his
throat.
Civic
Centre
Carnival,
July
10
to
15
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