Weathei NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BniTI&IaflftMBIA'S NEWSPAPER - a n m tnmnrrnirl (f,.)i up w . .Saturday, HimLL 18, 1944 . ...v and mild tid-av ' .. . i -i. ; ;High "v: K44 19.1 feet .j T ngni Biiuwcrs 14:24 21.6 feet do.3 n Saturday, winas T nn a -2a . 7J Jeet ir..;acraie. Jeet J 1 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1914 PRICE FIVE CENTS ew ('J.JSO stern Front Drive Goes Well Penetrate i a pest fenses J C r.r.y. a 1 1 1 1 I C I J 1 ua ' Navy Believed pped in Baltic ... . . . t m T" I .. , ic rated the main C tcr. lines Just 10 :: of the Hungarian 1 1 Budapest and they are rr.,'.rr.jns two rail June - Budape-t area. One u;: ,.3r.3 controls both 1 L. UUb VU V,lll..4 :. ; -nc. meanwhile, i.. j i.,x 'housand-ton i.r. por in the port of W remains now of ; avy is believed a the Baltic. III l l.Al.l. JRCHILL SEES r nnnni riir L rlxUDLLri J trr nir .mui nave I irs Industry 'JOll N 11 Od Prime r W Churchill toid - f miTKins yesterday . t i - r . i ' cff iit but addea defeat of Gcr-. w... be possible and ' ' irn over an f our resources to iraks rxertlons to restore ges Are Named UIIIIMIKKlIintTK avva, Nov 17 Two com- ' investigate special ...... cr w finance. Mr. Jus- fcr McDougall of Mon-i.iquire Into the matter fju Ut tW'VWV l UUTI.U natter of taxation of T" ...111 I 1 1 I - v-. n in iit: 11 ri irvi. i& y c former Chief Jus-illhm C Ives of Alberta. "rm and thunderstorms -ir in Norway. EXPELLING GERMANS Swedtn Orders Nail Agents To Leave Country LONDON, Nov. 17 0 The Swedish government has ordered German agents to leave Sweden Immediately. In making the announcement, the London radio said one of the German agents affected Is the Chief of the German Tourist Bureau, The Tourist Bureau official is a German baron who 13 suspected of Gestapo activities. Another Individual listed as a German agent is a Finnish Journalist who recently arrived In Sweden to work for the German government. Railway Officials Are Visiting City Osborne Scott. C.N.R. oassen J gcr traffic manager, and J. M. I arrived In the city last night I in the course of an inspection trip from Winnipeg. They arc spending the day in the city jjov 17 q q j. i and, both being well known, are ,.ai Itrogresslvc receiving a welcome from many ,a.rman, in an in- 1Q Jus. i was. his personal ! Prime Minister W. j IHIMT AID Ki ig would call anlJUIn I MIK the forthcoming ri A U AIT of parliament U AN I IhH 1 LHM Vl 1 November 22. Mc- ! Mr. King will go , the conscrlp- British House Informed it Will Terminate Next Month OTTAWA ANNOUNCEMENT OTTAWA, Nov. 17 (CP) ! Partial demobilization of the 1 Iloyal Canadian Air Force will ( follow the termination of the Commonwealth Air Training; H rlanTUTch3irne3n;'"5iln" f . . r a 1 i iMrr oi Air i uwrr aiinuuiit o. Air rrew'men numberinf 1200 waitine to start training will be discharged and 10,000 air and ground crew personnel will be demobilized. Many stations and landing fields will be closed down but coastal patrols will be maintained. Need for the drastic curtailment program is explained by the huge surplus of air crew-built up by the plau on higher casualties than were actually suffered. LONDON. Nov. 17 O British I Air Secretary Sir Archibald Sin clair today told the House oi Commons that" after a careful review of the war situation and In particular our air crew position, it has been decided that the Joint air training plan in Canada shall not continue after March 31 next." AGKI) BARONESS I) IKS BUCKINGHAM, Eng., Nov. 17 CP Baroness Klnloss, 92, Britain's oldest peeress In. her own right, died at her home at More-ton Lodge, near here. Her suc cessor is her 22-ycar old grand daughter, Mary Morgan-Oren- vllle. - - --'-"Vrfl- r.'M ONLY A. 26 p MORE SHOPPING DAYS TILL A CHRISTMAS p Include THE VARIETY STORE IN YOUR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING TOUR is I il si Mounted on a Brcn carrier travelling up to 30 miles an hour, this deadly British flame thrower, pictured at Camp EIGHTH ARMY MOVES AHEAD But Little Change in Fifth Army Front in Italian Campaign ROME, Nov. 17 Oi Britlst. Eighth Army forces have captur ed Petrlgnone. a village approximately twt) miles west of the Montone river. South of the Rlminl-Bologna highway and six miles southeast of Faenza, Allied headquarters reported yesterday. The Eighth Army has pushed to the Montone on a wide front west of Forll and north ot the strategic route on the south em border of the 'Po Valley. Farther west Polish units of tht Eighth Army improved positions north of Florence - Forll road The entire highway now Is In Al lied hands. i No important changes are re corded anywhere along the Al lied Fifth Army front althougl patrols are active on all sectors VETERANS-TO-BE APPOINTED OTTAWA, Nov. 17 O- The, Department of Veterans Affairs will appoint veterans of this war to key appointments Inside of its framework as soon as the men are made available by the armed forces. That is what Pensions Minister Ian MacKen- zle announces in Ottawa, lie said the appointments will in clude two to the Canadian Pen sion Commission. Bulletins GERMANY WANTS PEiCE ZURICH Word has been brought here of a tumultous peace demonstration by German women in Mannheim. There is increasing internal dissention in the Reich against continuing the war, the disappearance of Hitler the bombings and discontent at Nazi persecution ,bcing contributing factors. However, the Gestapo is said to have the situation completely under control. SUB-ZERO WEATHER ROME There is sub-mo weather now on the Fifth Army fighting front In Italy. SENATE DEAN DIES WASHINGTON, DC. I'J-lison C. Smith of South Carolina, dean of the United States Senate, s dead. RESIGNATION ASKED VICTORIA Resignation of General A. G. L. McNaughton from the position of minister of national defence was asked by a Canadian Legion which announced plans for a mass demonstration on Sunday In favor of consciiption for overseas duty. LET IiRITOXS DOWN LONDON The Japanese saved their own nationals from a sinking transport off Singapore last September but left 1300 British and Australian prisoncis of war to die In the sea, War Secretary Grigg told Commons today American submarine crews which torpedoed the trans port risked their lives to save the prisoners but the majority were drowned. One hundred and fifty survivors have arrived In England. FOUR DIE N WRECK ,-4 . 1 1 rw '- - - T T ' . - C I ' 1 U.l .u. rreigiu nam mis amie Engine and Cars Plunge Over Embankment NORTH BEND, Nov. 17 O) Four employees of the Canadian Pacific Railway, two from Van-: couver ana two irom worm Bend, were killed . Thursday night when an eastbound freight train struck a heavy rockslldc about fifteen miles west of North Bend. The locomotive and two freight cars went over a steep bank and came to rest about 200 feet below. The dead are: Arthur Marks, conductor. Chauncey Cunningham, en gineer. A. R. Hamilton and V. Per kins, firemen. BOGUS GAS COUPONS Vancouver Man Arjestfd As Countcifeil Tickets Arc , Picked Up VANCOUVER, Nov. 17 The Royal Canadian Mounted Po lice announces the arrest of a Vancouver man and the recovery of several hundred coun terfeit gasoline ration coupons. The police say that the man will be charged under the War time Prices and Trade Board regulations with possession of Illegal coupons, discovered In gas stations and city coupon banks. A number of city service sta Uons are being investigated. Local Temperature Mlxlmum 52 Minimum 45 Borden, Ont, Is nw being used in Belgium and France. It spouts death and destruction searing everything in Its path. WAR NEWS Great Offensive Continues LONDON Six Allied armies battered out gains along 100 miles of muddy front today (n a massive test of German staying power. Perhaps 2.000,000 men were engaged on both sides in what may be the last great battle of the war in western Europe. The British Second Army in Holland capped a 12-mile advance in three days by capturing Wessem on the Meuse south of Koermand. Other British forces reached the Meuse on a seven-mile front facing the German border from three to seven miles further east. Highlighting the ever-present danger of a fresh offensive sweep around the Ger- . man's north flank, Allied patrols slipped across the lower Meuse between llerlogenbosch and Moerdijk. The Germans were leported to be withdrawing to new defence lines east of the Meuse. On the British right flank the American First and Ninth armies deepened their wedge into Siegficd line in sectors from 31 to 28 miles frpm Cologne. Jap Casualties Heavy PEARL HARBOR Enemy casualties on the Island of Leyte In the central Philippines are mounting rapidly as the Allies push closer to the port city of Ormoc. Thesc Allied ground forces ate receiving support from long-range artillery and aircraft but rains have slowed the action somewhat. Allied aircraft achieved Considerable success in their attacks on the enemy supply base at Ormoc. They sank thirty enemy bat res which apparently had not been loaded. Rapid Invasion of Mapia PEAKL HARBOR The Allies are proceeding rapidly In (heir campaign on the Mapia islands, northwest of New Guinea. They have already completed the occupation of one of the islands Pegun and the Allies are wiping out the remnants of a small Japanese garrison on Bras Island in the Mapia group. Police Report Street Sale Of Liquor Is Police Bane Illegal sale of liquor on city streets by members of the armed forces continues to be a problem to city police, despite co-operation from military police, Sgt. O. L. Hall, in charge of the city detachment stated In hl3 report for October, presented to the mayor and studied by the police committee Thurs day. The report added, however, that the condltlou was not so prevalent In October as It was In the previous month and that generally the condition of law and order was' better. There were 133 prosecutions In city police court during the month, 129 of which resulted In conviction. Of these, two were summary trials of indictable offences, and the remaining 131 were summary convictions under (Continued on Page 3) Douglas Condition Not Felt Serious TORONTO, Nov. 17 R A C.C. F. Spokesman says they do not believe the condition of Premier T. C. Douglas of Saskatchewan, The. coupons were AA andadmutcd to hospital here after commercial categories and were j arriving from Reglna, is serious Hospital authorities had no immediate report on his condition. WHEN NON-COMS 1$VRRY CHIPPENDHAM, Eng., Nov 17 It ought to be a noisy house hold. Sgt. Maj. Hilda Hawksey of the Auxiliary Territorial Ser vice vice and and Sgt.-MaJ. Sgt.-MaJ. Cecil Cecil Shell C.C.L. TO GET BUSY i To "Ensure" Election of Parliament to Enact Labor Manifesto OTTAWA, Nov. 17 Ch The political action committee of tht Canadian Congress of Labor has decided on a "political, educational and organizational" cam paign among Canadian workers to "ensure" the election of a parliament which would enact the legislative manifesto endorsed at the recent C.CXi. convention In Quebec City. The campaign was decided on yesterday at a C.C.L. meeting in Ottawa and a statement last night said the committee has decided to set up poliical action committees on a local, community and provincial basis. Their work would be co-ordinated with that of the national committee I eanlzatlon. port theC.CF: in i paigns. pohtical 'cam- COMING HOME BEFORE XMAS How Special Leave Plan Is To Be Conducted WITH THE FIRST CANADIAN ARMY IN EUROPE, Nov. 17 0 Several hundred veterans of this war will be home for y-a 1 I 1 It,. . haIIm rt ' SHOULD GO TO BRITAIN Churchill Told in House of Commons That He Has Done Enough Troubadoring LONDON, Nov. 17 Vh Prime Minister Winston Churchill was told in the House of Commons yesterday that he "has certainly J aone ms trouraaonng in connection with meetings of the ''Big Three' and the next such gathering should be held In Britain since Mr. Churchill has made two visits to Moscow and four to North America. Churchill replied that "this point has occurred to me and my colleagues several times." Edmonton Brigadier Killed in Action WITH THE CANADIAN FIRST ARMY, Nov. 17 ' It is disclosed that the chief artillery officer of a Canadian division on the western front was killed recently. He was Brigadier J. N. Lane of Ed monton and Halifax. He was killed when his Jeep ran over a German mine. NEGLECTING OF INDIANS William Beynon Speaks At Convention of Brotherhood In Alert Bay Western Front Allies Are Slashing On Everywhere Second Army Takes Wessem on Meuse- Yanks Near Metz PARIS, Nov. 17 t The British Second Army was slashing ahead In Holland this morning. A front line dispatch reports the tommies have reached the Meuse river with the capture of Wes sem. An earlier report said the British had reached the outskirts of Buggenum, on the Meuse river two miles north of Roennond. This dispatch said the Germans were scattering back to their main defence line east of the river. The triangle formed by the canals Noord, Wessem and Zlg was -almost cleared of the enemy and the British troops were nearly up to the Meuse. With the receipt of the second report, this morning, of course, It was known the tommies have now reached the river proper. To the south, the American Ninth Army has pushed ahead several thousand yards In the Gellenklrchen area north pr the city of Aachen In Germany. nuri Dx. " drlven ahead from positions east liam Beynon of Port Simpson.l , . . 1 . . L W n I . . Al inas oeen nameu uueutur m ut annual convention of the Na-J Yesterday's livp Rrnthprhnod of British Col-! Prnrrru scnuois jur muiana. Ninm &Tmy sector said mat tioned particularly areas where ( possibjy a dozen aerman towns Indians went in answer to the were captured Thursday, while call for cannery workers to re-)the American nrst army surged place re-located Japanese. 1 eastward -from Aachen In gains Prince Rupert hospital did not tnat averaged up to two miles, refuse admission to Indians.) to Lorraine, where the Am-Beynori said, but could not ac- !erlcan' xhird Army was closing cept them under current gov- in on Metz and movlng toward ernment policy of dally pay-lthe Saar basln oerman pris-ments for sick Indians at a rate nerg disclosed that the Nazis below hospital operating ex-' gettlng set for a last ditch penses- defence of Metz, with garrisons Beynon charged Major D. M. ; training guns on other garrisons MacKay, British Columbia In- to prevent evacuation. ' man commissioner, naa nov at-1 Americans were already. onnsimai. as txic new .uj x tended Qne of fJften conven home leaves announcea oy ue- Brotherhood. Uons of the lence Minister Mcxaugiiwon guea into effect. Canadian Press war correspondent R093 Munro reports from the First Canadian Army front that the officers and men to be sent home to Canada In the first group are being sel ected now from troops serving on the Western Front. In Italy and in the United Kingdom. Munro says they will have thirty clear days in Canada and it's believed this will mean thirty days at their homes. Mcdi-1 terranean and Western .Front service, however, will count as double time. After leave, of-, ficers and men will return to duty In the normal reinforcement stream. NAZIS WERE IN WAR FACTORIES TORONTO, Nov. 17 05 Police say that one of two German prisoners of war who were recaptured yesterday was employed at a war plant and the other at a fertilizer plant. Both carried Na. tional Registration cards In other .names. WEED OUT OLDER MEN fighting into the suburbs of Metz by by-passing some of the guardian forts. Progress was slow-on the Seventh army front near the Swiss border. British troops m southeastern Holland, punching but ak seven, to eight mile gain in twq days, have driven to within one mile of the Meuse river in Roennond area and within 38 miles ol Dus- seldorf on the Rhine. A dispatch from the front said that the British now control all approaches to the German-held communications hub or Roermond. Tlhe British units, advancing rapidly on a 10-mile front, havs reached. positions near the Meuse at Wessem. A spokesman at Field Marshal Montgomery's headquarters says there are many signs of a Munro says that the troops ner,sonnel Df the Royal gular enemy withdrawal or 1 i i a. i view of the inn nmvn move as no the thn biggest mfTtrrf. break they have had on leave and he adds that the morale of our soldiers has been given a "real boost." BIG JAPANESE WARSHIP HIT PEARL HARBOR. Nov 17- The 45,000-ton Japanese battleship Yamato has been badly damaged by a United States bombing plane. Special Car Takes Members to Ottawa VANCOUVER, Nov. 17 A special railway car will take British Columbia members next week from Vancouver to the special session of Parliament In Ottawa. NAVY'S SMALL START In September, 1939, there were IN WESTERN HEMISPHERE Shell- only two naval bases in Canada, Both Greenland and Iceland lng of the British Army were one at Halifax and the other at i are in the western hemisphere, married here recently. Esquimau. nATfiADV XT-w IT All mpn Canadian Air Force below the suaaen Drea. norm oi mew rank of Squadron Leader and has brought American Thlra under the age ot thirty-three Army troops to within one and will be discharged. Twelve large a half miles of the northern out-Air Force discharge centres, one ' skirts of the city although the in Vancouver, are to be opened Americans to the southeast" and in Canada. west gave ground slightly, losing Officials in Western Air Com-1 one fort and a village. North ot mand of the R.C.A.F. yesterday Metz near the Luxembourg bor-conflrmed the report that all der Americans, astride the Mag-officers and airmen below the lnot Line, have smashed forward rank of acting squadron leader another mile near Ewendorf, and on the general list of fly- only four miles from the Ger-ine personnel are to be given man frontier. South of Metz the discharge from the Air Force on American Seventh Army took reaching their thirty-third birth- Salntlche, 42 miles from Stras-day. Temporary squadron lead- ,bourg, the closest the Allies have ers and acting wing command- yet come to that key crossing of ers.who jeach their thirty-sixth the Rhine, birthday and persons with medl I cal category which makes tneml rrCCT ta unsuHed for full flying duty , UrrUotU 1U are also to be given their &s- RESERVATIONS cnarge. lacempi irom me ruie are men who had completed one JUNEAU, Alaska, Nov. 17 CB 4 J tour of operations overseas or, governor Ernest Omening and in the western hemisphere, per- Delegate-Elect E. L. Bartlett are Si sonnel who continually and ac' opposed to the proposed estab-tlvely engaged In flying duties llshment of reservations for v and permanent force personnel, southeast Alaska Indians as a 1 Ottawa has no comment to means of settling the claims ot make on the Calgary announce- the Indians to extensive ab- . ment. original rights.