A sV 1 ' V Mfca l.jfl tomorrow eve- Ro?ie In charge of hrt..i queen contest nd his tallymen Into the mldnfxYit U t nlrht to tabulate Jul rnalt alter a last flood of ballots. fi-il result was an- is follows: "t Slorieth, Sons of Nor- "t ttjro Club, 219,- Huralak, Junior Cham- Commerce, 20600. KJVERS fALY 9- U :ni Sons P'jlnr. Nrws Recrlvril at Conrerning Rrure Slm- '" Sailor Brother Here rve ' I!: i Mi v : r ' rak.. : In t'kosch PcDonald "roll ' T'mundsen. son I A, Simundsen ot ! ' 1 recently while . ' E.ghlh Army In -3 good progress) ' y according to' . rd rroctved by his HI' w a bomb splinter when the missile t distance from him ; " '.'h on May 23. he Is pl'.al and In con- l'i an 1 i Mr Simundsen now "J w ;h them another '- z Cook Anton 81m-i mc on extended leave ,, " rpell of service on ' Ai .,n'i!' from one sldo r; 'Pr with the Rnval ln Navy Ai'iii'T s7vlT:s Canadian "opc 22,500. 18ic and il:j-op. nations To sneers' Home :i!ng V Mr: s. V r-n 'Mrs, John Olsen Store I'own Lumber Co ' a nshcrmens Nth - P of Orange Ladles " 5.00 10.00 5.00 25.00 35.00 I'on ,nnn More cafe '.; ::. lono sonnel to the completion of the ; Initial "D" Day moves two! months later, the British rail-! ways ran 24.459 special troop, ; ammunition and stores trains.1 ,not all connected with "D" Day; 'Itself but all vital to the war, effort. j The big inurements, designed to cause thou least possible In- passed alone Britain's railways, almost unnoticed by the public Uie railway committees communication says. It was in fact a tarpaulin j armada." Innocent - looking ' 5.00 0.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 104.50 V.C. AWARDED TO B.C. MAN Major John Keefer Maliony, of Westminster Recognited for Valor in Italy. OTTAWA, uly 13 CT) Major John Keefer Maliony, aged 33, of New Westminster, has been awarded the Victoria L'rovs as a result of action in which his company gained and held a vital bridgehead in Italy In spile of concentrated fire of enemy guns and counter-attacks by tanks and Infantry, Hon, J. I- ItaMon, minister ot national defence, announced today. The action took place at Nelfa liver on May 21. Major Maliony look the lead in the action with utter disregard of his own safety and was wounded at least three times. The citation concluded that "his great courage will be an Inspliation forever to his regiment and the Canadian Army." Malioney Is an officer of the Westminster Regiment motor-tied lormation, Oilier Victoria Crois winners In this war have been Lieut. Cecil Merrltt of Vancouver, Major Charles Hoey of Duncan and Major Paul Tri-quet of Cabano, (Juchcc. HI-RRIOT IS DEAD LONDON German D.N.II. News Agency reported jester-day that Former Premeler I'douard llrrriot ot France, who had been held In custody since the fall of France, was dead. AI.I.IKD SUPREME lfRAI-QUARTf KS, July 13 CP The BHtlsh Second Army has by ordinary! rrcapturrd Mallot, five miles ! southwest of Caen, it was an- day i nounced today. ' The Americans In western Normandy pushed armored tentacles around the key German bastions of Salntlo and Lrtsay after liberatlnr three towns and several miles In the pail 21 hours. Heavy fighting has occurred In the area between Odon and Orne rivers where the terference to ordinary traffic.! Canadians have been righting trucks In their thousands cover ed by tarpaulin sheets which ; yet carried devastating Instruments of war and all the tnulU-1 tude of supplies needed by a, i modern army. "During the weeks before "D" Day. the movement of special. trains reached a crescendo. In one week all wartime Vecordv were surpassed with the running of 3.638 special trains, the total for the three weeks being no fewer than 9.579 trains "To complete the overall pic-j ture of the railways' task during these days of stupendous effort, one must have regard to Besides the running of ordinary passenger services, though here and there trains were Interfered with. 1.000 trains a week take workers to the government factories. Coal has to be distributed from the mines, petrol and bombs moved up to the airdromes, food delivered to the home front and the ceasele arrival of convoys of men. ma teria Is and raw materials con veyed from the ports to the consuming areas. Earlier this year railway managements and men at private meeting with Oeneral Montgomery gave him their as surancc that he could rely up on the railways and their staffs to see the Job brought through and "Monty' has not been let down." alongside the British but, ex cept for the recapture of Mai-tot, there weie no appreciable chances in the battlclines. The Nails are now using robot bombing planes against the Allied ground forces in .Normandy. RUI.KI.EY VAI.IT.V WEATHER STORM-AT SMITHERS SMITHERS. July 13-Reldents of tins s-rtian of the Bulklev Val morning by the heavy thunder from an electric storm that haa been tn the offing during the night and JSjilfih tpjnJeoVsev-eral dart nftfWcSfr. mmln Contracts For Victory Boats Kept Intact by British Survivor of Wreck of Western I'rince in 1910 By FRANK LOWE CsnsdUn Pre BUM Writer LONDON, July 13 O) A lifeboat that stayed afloat through nine hours of a North Atlantic storm and a man who could visualize the building of freighters on mudflate and turn those visions into realities made passible Britain's victory over the U-boat and the busy shipyard; that now dot the coasts of Can ada and the United States. The story starts back in Sep tember of 1940 when the Ad mlraity asked Cyril Thompson, youthful managing director of J. L. Thompson and Sons, if he could head a shipbuilding mission to the United States and Canada. I Thompson agreed, despite the fact he knew that falling on his part to get ships and still more ships from North America to fill the gaps made by U-boat unkings would mean Britain would starve within a matter of months. On Oct. 3 he reached New York and a day later was In Washington, being told bluntly CASUALTIES WERE HEAVY Roth Americans and Japanese Lost Many Men in Rattle of Sal pan. PEARL HARBOR. July 13 0 Conquest of strategic Salpan ley were wake tied from their Wand In the Marianas cost the sleep about 1 30 on Tuesday Two vivid flashes of llchtnlnz. far exceeded by those Of the following close together, touch-Japanese. 11,948 of whom have ed off the fire alarm system and already been burled. ; resulted in two lire alarms irom i avy secretary rurrcsiai saia the steam siren at the C.NJt. that probably 95 per cent of roundhouse. Resident of the (the Japanese defending forces town turned out with the fire : estimated at 20,000 died in the engine to look for a fire which: futile defence, had not happened. ! " The storm was accompanied by heavy rain for a short period. 1 LllIUT I kl (1 Rain has continued to fall In- UII I lilU wrmlltenUy for 36 hours since ... the storm and at noon on Tues- I M 1 1 A I V day the rain was the heaviest' 111 IIHLI ever seen In this district, coming I . down in torrents for about half ROME, wr, July 13 r-The Allied an nour i Filth Army has captured Le AntnmnhiiM rauaht on the Jatlco. 15 miles inland from the road dorinr the storm were not! Italian west coast, and the able to proceed as the heavy rain could not be cleared from the windshields fast enough to allow vision of the road ahead. Grain crops and gardens will benefit materially from ths Trapped Japanese Trying to Escape ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA. July 13 O French have seized Sandonatc. It was announced today. The Fifth Army is gradually moving closer to the port of Leghorn. On the Adriatic side, the heavy fall but hay crops arc now! Eighth Army has been forced being gathered and hay that had already been cut will not be helped by getting wet. The skies are still overcast with prospects of more moisture yet to comr. Electrical storms In the Bulk-ley Valley arc quite uncommon but. alter an extended period of hot weather such as had recently been experienced, these storms seem to generate and break. to yield some ground. RAILWAY IS NEED Premier Hart Makes Statement In Regard to Outlet for Peace River District VANCOUVER. July 13 Ot -Premier John Hart said In a radio broadcast yesterday that the highway AO be built Into the Peace River area to give an outlet to the coast from the Alaska Highway would not be enough. A railway connection would Forty-five Uiousand by-passed , ho necessary, the Premier said. Japanese have launched a des- antj was to hoped that the peraie attempt 10 orca um. uiipacinq Great Eastern Railway a Urtusn ew uumea pwcfc in which they have been trapped since last April. The Japanese are, remnants of the Wewak garrison. They opened skirmishes last Monday along Uie Drlnou-mor river. 21 miles east of Alt-ape, attacking In force. BASEBALL SCORES International League Rochester 4-4, Toronto 0-5. Syracuse 0, Newark 7. Baltimore 3, Jersey City 11. Buffalo at Montreal, postponed American Association Milwaukee 6-7, Minneapolis 0- 5. Toledo 4, Louisville 3. St. Paul 3-11. Kansas City 1-4. Indianapolis at Columbus, postponed. Coast League Sacramento 6-3, Los Angeles 1- 1. San Diego 0, Oakland 3. Ran Francisco 0, Portland 4. Hollvwood 3-1, Seattle 2-0. would make arrangements for extension to that part of the province In the not far distant future. ELECTION DATE SET Provincial Polling to Take Place In New Brunswick on August 28 FREDERICTON, New Brunswick, July 13 0 Premier Mc- Nalr announced today that a. general election will be held In ' New Brunswick August 28, The last general election in the prov-Ince took place In 1939 when! 29 Liberals and 19 ConservaUves were returned. This makes the third provincial election to be held In Canada In August, Alberta and Quebec to go to the polls Au gust 8. Temperature Local Tides hoc al Friday, July 11 High 8:31 16.6 feet 59 20:55 19.3 feet Low 2:14 6.0 feet ... 51 14:10 7.1 feet NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER xxiu w 183 -ha? PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1944 PRICE FIVE CENTS L...MKTAT1QS IN U'AIU- rilways of Britain Carried it Stupendous Job m Making "-fcds Hearing East Prussia ady for Invasion ot Europe nrrrt J INTIlt-VU July 13 No fewer than 1,000 MUllllCIIIUy r o.000 Mldier and JZ,uuu tons of bntrgagc. k- inhtinH Britain for the invasion, it is revealed in a I IKIIUIIK ' .... it.- r l!.... t..t: i t..si lnniuUR irom uie ;iii;iui;ui vsatiunai uumvuvs 1V8 - . n office based on iniormation ORE IEEN iv.mt Candidate Will Rrlgn Over Cllc Centre 6.000 ril ijjln the Son of Nor- . remade Weir canuiuair I1m IJlnore Mormn duly crowned at the OT CARNIVAL equipment went freight train. Between March 26. first received from! the railway executive commit ' tee of London. Stores and heavy equipment for "D" Day absorb-! rd another 800 special train with a total of more than 30,000 cart. TIicm train carried 7.000 1 tanks and other vehicles axi well as other freight. More than I cars of supplies and. fixed for the movement of per Is Heavy Mallot, Near Cam, Is Recaptured by British Second Army. PRECIOUS PLANS FOR 200 SHIPS SAVED FROM SEA by UjS. shipping authorities were let and he hopped tne that it would be impossible to'llncr Western Prince to return till Britain's request for 60 to Britain. tramp steamers of 10,000 tons, In the middle of a black each. 1 winter night the Western Prince "We haven't the shipyards," lurched under Impact of a Ger- he was told. "We havent the , man torpedo, and started to sink facilities.' ; rapidly. Into a lifeboat, in 'Undaunted, Thompson started company with Canadian Muni- a tour of North America to sec tions Minister v. u. jiowe, what facilities and yards there scrambled Thompson, clutching were. In two weeks he travel- In one hand the black brief case led 12,000 miles across Canada containing the war-winning con- and the States, and everywhere tracts. the story vaj the same. CANADIANS O.N THE JOB Canada was willing, Bulletins HIGHWAY OPENING For nine hours the shipyard managing director kept the brief case sate between his even f ct wnUc he PuHi at an oar, dmntrh oit avaiiahtp vnrrt'. w keeping the prow of the life Jammed with corvettes under boat into the mountainous seas construction, and started to while he and his companions build 10.000-ton freighters as re- graauauy 1Uieu. quested. In the UJS., however, the majority of the yards were frankly pessimistic, thinking that building ships for Britain at such a time would be a form of backing the wrong horse. Then Thompson met Henry J. Kaiser. Kaiser said he could build the ships, that Thorn p- With daybreak, however, a smudge of smoke was seen on the horizon. The lifeboat was spotted by a freighter and its son's idea of transforming mud- i later had returned to America. flats Into shipyards was leas-: the plans approved, and the ible, so 77 days alter Thomp- ships that would win the war son arrived in North America starting to take shape in the1 contracts for 200, not 60 ships, yards. 4 INTFRIOR Munich Is :;MEN WOUNDED nit Again i LONDON. July 13 Oi One Vhe central interior oi tne P" ! charged that the federal gov ince are recoroea on uic xaiesv ,,, t,j nmrwrt? Hih thousand American bombers ; having been wounded j j overseas. hammered Munich for the third United States forces 2.359 UB-rTf. '."T . , . 1 lURt wniinrlM and I IIJ !UCl ai ourauwn m nay i.. , w. . ki.i,..i .in !ern Germany gle ground action In the Pacl-l"V'1 .n" tul- "ur. , two or mc most important rsmr ana ui rviuuicu mihj. Tentative plans to hold a formal opening eereniosy tor An If the new Skeena "'V.iK tULUK li mj sftt, tiiv( vii w j s j were laid at an oiganization-al meeting last night of a highway committee whose membership is drawn from Prince Rupert civic and business leaders. The meeting was held in the city council chamber with Mayor II. M. Daggett in the chair. JAPS STILI. WITHDRAWING NEW DELHI A Japanese withdrawal from an important height near the India-Burma frontier was announced to day. The height overlooked a road which the Jans had previously poured into India. VANCOUVER A.R.P. TEST VANCOUVER Vancouver's first test air raid, combined with atmed forces co-operation, was termed successful last night. The -raid" lasted from the first alert at 8:09 p.m. to 9:55 p.m. when the all clear sounded. The Royal Canadian Air Force, Army and Navy co-ordinated in the test raid and Major General Guy R. Pearkes, geneial officer commanding, Pacific Command, visited A.R.P. headquarters to watch part of the manoeuvres. INVASION SHIP LOSSES LONDON A joint Allied communique issued today said that Allied naval losses In the invasion of Normandy totalled 15 ships, six ot which were destroyers. Seven of the ships lost were American and eight were British. TOULON EVACUATED LONDON The French Mediterranean coast port of Toulon Is reported to have been completely evacuated of civilians due to Incessant aerial bombing. NO ROBOT BOMBS LONDON For the first time In a month there were no robot bombs dropped anywhere in Britain last night. London had its thlul successive bomb-free night. The missiles are now being sent over only by day. It Is suggested that the bombing ot the robot bases may be having effect. t PARTY NEEDS important passenger with his urlllP n a wrr preclouscargo was picked out NEWSPAPER Days later Thompson was back on the Clyde and a few weeks Russians Only Thirty Miles From Reich Now Another Breakthrough Has Been Made on New Front, Threatening all Enemy Forces in" Baltic Area. REDS FIRST IN GERMANY LONDON, July 13 The London Times said today that it is now sure Russia would be the first to enter Germany and that none of the other Allies would covet her the honor. MOSCOW, July 13 (CP) The Russians drove to a point within 30 miles of East Prussia today in a 19-mile advance in the Suwalki area of western White Russia. Premier Joseph Stalin announced that the Red Army had broken through German defences between Polotsk and Pskov on a new front 93 miles AND RADIO FOR C.C.F. REG IN A, July 13, O" Premier T. C. Douglas told the annual convention of the Saskatchewan secUcn of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Wed nesday night that the party must have a "powerful news Darjer and radio station." . . . . I Premier Douglas criticized the The names oi iwo men irora; i t aDltallsin and Jl ..., It- 11... -c k.-k..., --o lwuiu",' nimj ! beyond human rights. Wounded while serving with . . if the British Columbia Regiment Inrs AflfiliTAI 1U1UUOI I& K is Lieut. Vilhelm Rodger SchJel-iJtP Overnight 1300!derup, whose father. Vilhelm FEATURE models are parading the future; Sunday best dresses while de nibble their pencils and fashion i writers scribble furiously to tell the folks back home all about it. Previews of the fall modes, as 'interpreted by America's Increasingly confident designers. 'show that color will be ram-pant this winter, with softly ; tailored suits In high shades adding gaiety to the landscape. There's a luxury not about the new fall clothes, wnich are in creaslngly feminine. ;than ever, with a tendency to ward back bustle bows and the fishtail" silhouette. Suits depart from nlsh cut and go to the dress maker type, with Jackets slight ly longer. defUy fitted and cut often without revers, but with scalloped detail at the neckline.! They are shown In such light-hearted shades as heather pink, heather blue, zinnia gold, mauve and clover green, all In superb tweeds and virgin wools, usually worn with collarless blouses of matching jersey, hats and gloves of matching tweed. junior clothes, for the college set, make a valiant effort to1 get the girls out of their be-1 loved blue jeans and Into smart trouser pleated skirts and les' sloppy sweaters, knee-length shorts and shirts with skirts that c,an be buttoned on in a hurry for going to class, trick pinafores and smooth date dresses. MOST TERRIBLE 'KHASE WASHINGTON, D C. The most terrible phase ot the war is still ahead, says President Roosevelt. There will be great suffering and economic sacrifice before the victory Is won, Killed in Action IMIIIl ... aMlOJIDCI.', jtrff'fl R-ft Vice wide and captured more than 1,000 places' in a two-day . ad-v. vance of at least 22 miles. Mjore than 7,000 Germans' were killed and some 1500 prisoners were,- taken in a single day s fighting on the front. The threat to the enUre Ger man forces in the Baltic area is increased to the Baltic area slve. Staff Sergeant ' Is Laid at Rest NEW WESTMINSTER, July 13 t Queen's Avenue United. Church here was filled with a. large congregation of mourners on Tuesday afternoon when the funeral took, place of Stall Sgt. Frank William Gallagher, chief of police at Prince Rupert., who had been killed a few days earlier In a highway traffic accident at.Langlejr Prairie, Rev. S. ILHoxtoti officiated. There was. well known In the interior aojuwi witm nifi w mic;juii.j Ul iuiu w 1 Japanese Navy has been killed' ceased was for many years a where wnere Lieut. ueui. SchlelderuD acnjeiaerup grew grew incUon Berlln radlo promlnent officer In various today. parts of the province. Also wounded while serving ; with the British Columbia Regi-' ment was Sergeant Dan Frederick Wright, whose father, Frederick Yardley Wright, lives at Hulatt, B.C. I By DOROTHY ROE AssocUted Press Writer NEW YORK. July 13 ff Wiihin a radius of two blocks' on New York's teeming Seventh i Avenue, buyers, designers and the fashion press are deciding on next winter's styles. In crowded showrooms weary BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY ,). Fifty-Five Retail Stores In Prince Rupert, Survey Shows What makes Prince Rupert tick? Business and industry, of course. Prince Rupert draws the power of its heartbeat from the same source as any other city. Well then, how many sources of commercial and industrial vitality are in the city? How many business places, offices, manufacturing , plants and institutions give it strength? Come along with a Dally. News 'reporter wh6 has, been Junded a signers suffer from the well-; questionalrre rcqueinAj a known "first night" stage fright jIiCd list ot such insUtstlons and of playwrights, while buyers 1 mavbe we will find. Ail. I A 'nrtllM Iff We glance down the list Surely we can answer some of the ques tions off hand. Bus companies? That is easy. One Public Libraries? One Newspapers? Two Banks? Three But now the thing starts to get tough Federal and Provincial government offices? Truck and Cartage . '"I ! companies. Retail stores? Insur- time l&t . i iaiiJ "t ,.v.v. I some help in this, so let us head !for the city hall to see City i Clerk H. D. Thaln, who can help me ,- man- ... u ,mi, nf i.ncri businesses In the city and tneir type. From various sources it b concluded that there are 117 separate businesses and institutions in the city, the population of which is 12,000 according to the No. 4 ration book issue. A breakdown Indicates there are six manufacturing concerns, one large, five small. There are 55 retail stores and 22 wholesale houses. Including . i i- , t i Iisn Duyuig cuHipaiutrs. Seven hotels, four steamship , companies, eight trucking and. .. cartage companies, five general, and seven electrical contractors, contribute to the welfare of the city. In matters fiscal and finan cial there Is a foundation of three banks, two chartered accountants, 14 Insurance agents and eight real estate agents. The physical and spiritual welfare of the city Is In the hands of eight physicians and surgeons, three dentists, two chiropractors ad 15 clergymen. In litigation and other legal matters the population Is cared for by two lawyers. Government is represented by eleven federal offices, not counting military, and 19 provincial offices. Three steamship companies have faclUUes for bringing pech-ple to Prince Rupert. TO AID "FISHERMEN , . LONDON A necklace of 64 diamonds realized $3300 at a benefit sale for the Mission to that Deep Sea Fishermen. CARNIVAL HIGHLIGHTS TONIGHT 7:30 Presentation of Flower Show Prizes on stage at Carnival. 11:00 Bathing Beauty Contest 2nd preliminary. 11:30 Dancing. FRIDAY 7:30 Coronation Parade from Court House. 8:C0 CROWNING CEREMONY at the Carnival. 11:00 Stage show. 11:30 CORONATION BALL.