look In China Is Gloomy As igyang Is Menaced; Japanese reed With Using Poison G s Ued the at city I run ton nan ' " - v u the opinion that the fall of Hengyang. Johns Is leatenea dy Oil Fire I Hi IN D New-found t ; Zi Fire rajed at an Imperial t front ware-f reatenlnz the t. f St John'. , brigade and ronflned the section of A schooner ; the water- was towed out -"be where it i f.reboaU. RESSED rrrrlve Speaker , rati for Holding Back 1 F tnong the peopl - northwestern U one of equator and unit Bruce Mlck- and provincial icnts lajit week n of the area. - ;;:rtation and a ;if its mt po-' 1 suiwd from a , art of eastern I k p the territory; :er of raw "Vna j of pillowing It i ' ) ally to a de j -. oration, he aald. -i ted local rival '":c? reason for the X ct development t. rxample the dU- tfl u.ien the govem- b route for the I way to the Teace 1 he said. 2mO ame tO to setting getting a a) : y own particular ' t.J no one got any-T -re is still plenty of ' be ausc the govern-' the Pine rass ' : the degree of ne-whmh the large ter-l: fallen, the speaker i between Prince Itu- Prince Ocorge there i Qualified civilian den-. ..ig, Skc?r.a federal riding with ) nn nnn Knunrn miles. -r . in Canada and In ' 1 rich resources, has on of not more than :r about one person to 'wc square miles, he Jnung the movement of PP":pie out of tho district fiil.llary service and war toero was a marked de- lii the nonulatlon as I - I I54 Uie period at the end of Itt war Mr Mlxklnhlirnh "e told of hearing of the ADVANCE IN ITALY Battle Appears Satisfactorily on II.. r. on trie iiauan rv s i : . . . c Juno June 26 20 (CP) cp -rAj ACTION OF KGKING, s outer oeiences oi nefi "' riMTAr. ir yet ct attacked by the enen rDlluK IS ar and . Hankow . in M. ----- A, v tMrjUCI t" . i .. ..i. ........ ..: c ii . l. v- kin M111K it UIUUIIIV VIL'W 111 LIU' I K1L P. -V Vitebsk Is Encircled and Estl-matrd 15,000 Nails are Entrapped $ VITEBSK TALUS MOSCOW, June 26 The rapture of Vitrbsk by the Kustlan fortes Mas officially announrrd by the Soviet lllh Command tonight LONDON, June 26 (CI') Premier Jovph Stalin announces a new offensive launched in the direction of Dobrulsk, Miuthiint of Mogilev, and declared that Oerman defences were broken. The Kuvsians have alvo en rirclfd Vitebsk In White Hus- 1 Irapnlnr four Naxl dlfl- '"" "d are 'ightlng In the t a meeting ln j Ivc IU118un-i "'t ,,,e lrrlson of i hW flrt meet Prlup, 45.000 Narls. s return lrmn The CJrrman. at Ulebsk In i. tj..ii, ' White llussla have been cut 1 lid HUU lll- , . . off from rear commu",r,,"" Crrman TranOcean Agency broadcast today. The Hed Army has alvi open-ed a new push In the AMrov area, northwest of Vitebsk. The westward swrep has taken more than 70 populated places. to be doing all Fronts substantial fain were made in land while the Eighth Army was taking important positions to the east, headquarters reported today. HALIBUT SALES American Celling Price 15c and mic Omancy, 57.000. Atlln & Booth. Canadian Celling Trice 18' and lGVic Cllpicr II, 28,000. Storage. Sclma H. 15,000. Storage. Fredclla III. 30.000. Pacific. Venture II, 10,000, Storage. Viking I. 20.000, Royal. Finella, 11,000. Storage. Teeny Mllly, 21,000, Storage. complete desertion of a com ii.. n nn rnrm. - - . ,iiu il. kV. 'tallermakcrs' and Iron w. r . , v elders' Union Local No. 4 t Een"al meeting Sunday TJi, nhm. hav, ,h,reKl h 7 d the following motion: the janann. not m, , ,tard gas in the fight at Heng- t..nHn Imfll.tl.. I o .... 14 I . uaa is uiau saio iu nave pren iused at Nlngslang and sha before the fall of the latter Jelly. : Red Drive :i Westward "That we condemn the action of Brother Culhane in using the pages of our union paper 'The Main Deck'1 to further the "par tisan politics of a political party." It was felt that a recurrence should Justify Culhane's removal from office. The motion resulted from an article by Culhane condemning , the C.C.F. ! Allied Bombers Hit Yap Island ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA. June 26 Os Allied bombers- hit fifteen point3 on Yap Island, southwest of thn Marianas, dumping forty-five tons of bombs and destroying several parked planes. During mopping up operations on Uiak Island in the Bchouten group 345 Japanese were killed. Prisoners of I jWar Escape In Alberta Ltould Carbonic Comnanv Bright spot In the Democratic limelight, when the party convention begins July 19, will be pretty Dorothy Vredenburgh, first woman secretary of the Democratic National Committee, and 27-year old wife of Peter Vredenburgh 3rd, Alabama lum berman. Both women will have their work cut out for them In large complicated pieces. As official hostess and co-cnairman oi me women's division of Governor Green's convention courtesy commitee, Mrs. Baur heads a group of women who will act as hostesses for various groups, including the wives of Republican governors, wives oi congressmen, state chairwomen and a number of other women's groups. She has also commana-n.rrd another feminine fleet to wheel the party bigwigs around in m cars, ciiio. man linn mtormauon muiuiy u "Old men of 80 find it neces-1 conduct tours and what Sarv to go out Into the bush;0 uvv and hack railroad ties to maw a living," he declared. ariiival Attraction Julv 10 -15 1944 BATHING BEAUTIES p0.oo nnt VTht . $60.oo Second; $10.00 Third and a Free Bathing Suit for every contestant. r.... ... .i nnlln, T.fldlCS' ury forma and choice or suns aw - . I Dry Goods and Novelty Shop, Peoples Store. Star '". wanace's. Enter NOW. , ... fr naur savs. -mere wm be more women delegates and n in this convention than ever before In a Republican convention. Women will be on nhitlons committee this vear for the first time too. Alto it looks this year as ,m.nh women would have the most power they have ever had in a national convention. Dorothy Vrcdenburgh's Job at h nnmnrrntlc convention use u-- n snan. As secret W1SC ' L " ary of the Democratic national mmln THE FALL OF CHERBOURG X i nviiov itrrln radio was the first yesterday to hint that rKAKL HARBOR, June 26. (CP) The Japanese defence of the Marianas Islands cost the enemy 745 planes destroy- ' ed, thirty ships sunk, 51 dam- aged and two probably sunk . and thirteen barges destroyed. United Stales planes losses LEniBRIDQE. June 26 ' from a carrier force which Three German prisoners of warl sank or damaged nearly a who had been working on at score oi Japanese imps june farm near Iron Springs escaped' 19 were ninety-five but' only Sunday nleht. Iron Springs Is twenty - two pilots and 27 thirty miles north of Lethbrldge. 1 members of air crew were lost. Women Playing Prominent Part At Chicago Convention riiTPAr.n .Tunned (TP Two strance women of rnnnrnh' nlilp mui sfrikinrrlv different will nlay roles in the political show of shows, the first act of which opens here today with the Republican national onnvnniinn TTn in front, in O.O.P. ranks Will be hard-working, veteran Bertha Baur, National com- mlttee woman from Illinois, co-rhairman and official hostess of IlilirtnU Oovrrnor Dwiehl Green's . .(Convention Courtesy Committee, rnr Innp 2(5 U The AUICQ in . ... . . ,..u n,... ana wiuuw oi natuu ujui, iikc scions wanted it Fifth Army captured Plomblno founder ana president of the committee, she Is responsible for roundinz ud the membership names of convention committees on credentials, permanent organization, rules and order of business. And as, assistant to the chairman of the convention ar- raneements committee, she will have to help make arrangements for delegates' tickets, badges ana housing. .MOKE WOMEN DELEGATES Mrs. Vredenburgh also fore sees an Increased Influence o! women at the convention. 'It appears that there will be more women at the convention tni year." she says, "and I feel that their uresence. as well as tne consciousness of cverybne that women will probably have the decisive vote, will have a deem ed Influence on convention pro cedurc." This Dalr from opposite poli tical camris have striking points of resemblance. Both are blue- eyed and dark-haired. Both began their careers as working girls. Both married rich men. And both plunged Into politics thereafter and hit the ouuscye. nut. thereafter there are striK- ing differences. Mrs. Baur is an astute political veteran of many years' experience. Mrs. Vreden burgh is new in the field. Mrs. Baur. who served as sec retary to three postmasters and studied law at nlsht before her marriage, has kept up tho same energetic pace since then. Mrs. Vredenburgh, a graduate of the Mississippi State College tor Women, was employed by coal and railway companies In Bir mingham until her 'marriage to Peter Vredenburgh. TIDAL WALLS GREEK INDUSTRY Tides uuio in the Tslcntang River, . Steel working and hardening Btnnn tiro c rrm- niiiufi rrrate advancing wans m tin uuvatu.it os. r More Robot Planes Are Coming Over jl Temperature .59 We .50 NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER N 149. PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1944 Cherbourg had fallen. The High Command admitted that It had lost contact with the Normandy port and suggested it was safe to assume that the Americans had taken possession of the city. Earlier reports were to the effect that Allied forces had opened a final assault and had driven Into the Suburbs where fierce street fighting was gqlngon with bitter German resistance. The Nail garrison had been given fight or die orders with the threat that any who attempted to surrendered would be shot by their own leaders. Allied naval, ajr and land weapons, including battleships, cruisers, destroyers and mine sweepers from the sea were pounding the city. AIR WAR KEEPING UP LONDON With good weather prevailing, thousands of Allied planes were out over France' again Sunday and today, concentrating on rocket bomb bases at Calais and air fields and railways. After a 16-hour respite, Nazi rocket bombs came over Britain again Sunday night. RUSSIAN BREAKTHROUGH MOSCOW The Ked Army has broken through at several points on the central front, advancing many more miles in the greatest offensive yet on the White Russian front. Minsk, on the way to Warsaw and Berlin, is the objective. JAP LOSSES WERE HEAVY Suffered Heavily In Attempt to Defend Marianas Islands Last Week LONDON. June 26 0 Nazi ro bot bombing planes began coming over England again Sunday night after a respite during the day oui many were aesiroyen before they got across the Channel. BASEBALL SCORES SATURDAY American League "-Detrolt Cleveland 1. Chicago 1. 1, St. Louis 7. Washington at Boston, postponed. New York at Philadelphia, postponed. National League St. Louis 16, Pittsburgh 0. Boston 7, New York 2. Philadelphia 3, Brooklyn 8. Chicago 0, Cincinnati 1. International League Baltimore 14, Buffalo 12. Newark 10-2, Montreal 11-6. Jersey City 7-5, Toronto 8-4. Rochester at Syracuse, postponed. American Association No games scheduled. Coast League Portland 2, Los Angeles 8. Seattle 1, Oakland 4. San Francisco" 2, Sacramento 5. Only games scheduled. SUNDAY National League Philadelphia 1-1, Brooklyn 4-2. Chicago 5, Clnclnniatl 4. Boston 5-1, New York 1-4. St. Louis 2-5, Pittsburgh 1-5. American League Washington 5-0, Boston 4-4. New York! 4-6, Philadelphia 3-2. Detroit 4-2, St. Louis 5-5. Cleveland 0-3, Chicago 11-4. International League Toronto 5-5, Syracuse 7-6. Baltimore 13-4, Buffalo 10-9. Jersey City 8-3, Rochester 4-2. Newark 8-2, Montreal 9-0. American Association Milwaukee 1-2, Columbus 2-4. St. Paul 6-5, Indianapolis 0-4. Minneapolis 4-2, Louisville 1-11. Kansas City 4-5. Toledo 7-11. Coast League 6eattle 2-2, Oakland 5-6. San Francisco 10-0, Sacra mento 1-1. Hollywood 1-6, San Diego 2-7. Portland 5-0, Los Angeles 6-12, No Important Tax Changes Federal Budget Being Introduced Tonight by Mr. Ilsley There are expected to be no major changes In taxation in the budget to be Introduced tonight in the House of Commons by Hon. J. L. Ilsley. minister of finance. Lakes and rivers are more numerous in Finland than in iJSter&miM f-t 300 1 ago In Greece, any other European country. STORMING FORWARD Port Held By Liberation Allies Surrounding Mogaung in Burma and Continuing Advance on Myitkylna KANDY, June 26 tt The Brl- tlih and Chinese stormed the Japanese North Burma base of Mogaung on three sides, seizing an Important stretch of railway hrtwpen the station and bridge. The Americans continued, I their advance from the north to-I wards Myitkylna, thirty - five I miles east of Mogaung. CONTROL OF PEACE TRADE Political and Industrial Heads See Little Chance of Return to Order of Unrestricted Free Competition T'HTTr Till jgnriXWirMHTiTiTiifti i mm By FRANK FLAHERTY Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA. June 26 05 As leaders of public opinion in Bri tain look at the post-war period restricted free competition. In different circles varying de grees of emphasis are placed on different forms of control ana In some a good measure of scep1 tlctsm is encountered as to whether plans and controls can be made to work, whether otner nations will co-operate. The controls envisaged are both internal and lnternaUon-al. In the Internal sphere the British government and the Lrinriml rjolitlcal parties are nledeed to a policy of full em ployment. That, It is accepted, means planning and control, the continuance of some of the war time regulations. Internally the continuance or rationing as long as shortages exist Is proposed. Prime Min ister Churchill has announcea the government intends to continue price, stabilization after the war. The stabilization or prices for farm products and raw materials not only In Brit ain but throughout the world u regarded as a safeguard against depressions. WIDE WOULD ECONOMY Rneaklne of foreign trade in a House of Commons debate Rt. Hon. Hueh Dalton. president of the board of trade, said by the Atlantic Charter Britain was pledged to the promotion of an expansive world economy. i In such an economy, ne sain, T believe .there will be room fnr fradfi conducted In some cases under a considerable de gree of state direction, In other cases without much state dir ection and In yet other cases quite free of state direction." The British Federation oi industries, counterpart of the Can adlan Manufacturers Associa tion, has come out in favor of an "international economic council" I to be created out of existing (machinery for collaboration among the United Nations. Its ' purpose would be to give direction and prevent the trade of various, countries from getting out of equilibrium. The continuance oi mc dui. purchase through government agency system developed during the war for some time afterwards is likly. Canadian farm proa-rtnrta! sold to Britain will prob ably continue to be handled by the ministry of food under duik Local Tides High 4:38 17.6 feet 17:45 17.6 feet Low 11:15 5.0 feet 23:39 8.7 feet PRICE FIVE CENTS . Cherbourg All t But Captured war news One-Third of French Allies; Impending ALL DOCKS HAVE BEEN TAKEN BY AMERICANS UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER IS DEMANDED OF GERMANS SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, June 26 (CP) Supreme Headquarters announced tonight that the Americans held one-third of Cherbourg completely. Armored and infantry units have reached the docks. All attacking American units now have elements in Cherbourg. "Although the Ub- eration of Cherbourg cannot be long delayed, the porj cannot as yet be said to be fully in ourj hands," an Allied communique, reported today. A Reuters dispatch from a; position with the Americans out-1 side of Cherbourg said that Americans have already occupied parts of Cherbourg and are cleaning out knots of resistance In the centre of the city, ! The American command has sent an ultimatum to the German garrison demanding immediate and unconditional surrender. The Americans have penetraC ed to harbor - - waters and are now itwo main strong holdlntr out. The Germans claimed that American thrusts at the other strong point were repulsed. An airport near uneroourg is still the scene of German-resist ance. Behind the American lines a; Cherbourg several points and villages are still in the hand3 of the Germans who are holding out fiercely. The British at the eastern end of the bridgehead north of Caen have driven off a series of heavy German counter-attacks design ed to recapture Salnte Honorlne I and have advanced south of Tilly-sur-Seulles In a two-mile drive to Tessel and . Brettevllle woods. Driving four miles south of Tilly, the British captured Brettevillette and Tesselbretvillc. On the Canadian sector every thing Ls comparatively quiet. During the last twenty-iour hours the Allies took nearly 3500 prisoners and hundreds of others were streaming into prisoners' cages today. Supreme command announces that more than twenty thousand prisoners have been taken since the landings in France commenced. Donations To Pioneers' Home Alderman N. E. Arnold Prince Rupert Labor Council (C.CJU) Right Rev. G. A. Rlx Mrs. G. W. Rudderham P. R. Hospital Auxiliary Mr. and Mrs. J. Bradley Mr. and Mrs. E. Stafford Mrs. E. A. Evans Mrs. II. Faure Mr. and Mrs. A. Rye M. C LaBelle Prince Rupert Industrial Workers Union Nick Nickerson A, Sinclair A March Pressure From Air $ 50 25 10 10 25 5 5 5 5 5 10 25 10 5 5 Associated Fishpackers Local 100 Mr. and Mrs. H. Harrison 5 Cliff Lake 3 A Friend 25 VALUE OF SKUNKS Skunks are Important to ag ricultural interests because they feed on insects, chiefly beeUe3, contracts rather than by indivl- grasshoppers, grubs and dual firms. forms of pest. Nazis Beinr Given no Respite From Air Bombing Either in France or Homeland LONDON. June 26 0 Royal Air Force mosquitoes maintained steady pressure on the Nazli both in Normandy and the Ger man homeland overnight while American bombers from Italy hit Budapest. Hungary's capital The mosquitoes attacked Ger- tnon rrvin innppntratinns. rati i a w f - - rirtlrflrnr rinminatlmr tvwitionA. A I i they they think think in in terms terms oi of planning. punning. Berlin Berlin broadcast broadcast admitted,, admitted,, that that vw French French Jaattkfront iatUefrorit and ln control. and, regulatiorwTnere iaAincrtc ranksrhad 'perretrate rlfToSjetvfrfflri little if any thought of return-1 the Cnerbourg arsenal, one of Unfavorable Unfavorable weathei weather inr lnz to n an in wnnnmlr economic order order of of un- un i i nnini. points stul .tin .. . . . today threatened to limit operations over the heachhead sectors. Bulletins FINNISH POSITION HELSINKI the Finnish Parliament is in secret session today. An important statement from the Premier Is expected following the session. OCCUPATION OF KURILES WASHINGTON A military spokesman, speaking here today, predicted American occupation of the Kurile Islands. DEWEY IS FAVORED CHICAGO Thomas E. Dewey Is favored to be nominated Republican presidential candidate on the first ballot at the national convention which opened here today. AMERICANS EVACUATE UNITED STATES HEAD-QUA RTEDS IN ALASKA i A volcanic eruption of Mount Cleveland In the Aleutians j caused the United States Army to evacuate an installation. One soldier was killed. IS RETURNING TO WINNIPEG C. S. Argyle. who for the last two years has been superintend ent of stores, Canadian National Railways, at Prince Rupert Dry Dock, has been transferred pick tc Winnluez to resume his for mer position as assistant general storekeeper. Mr. Argyle has been with the company for many years In Winnipeg but was moved to Prince Rupert In a temporary capacity. W, P. Prlqr has been appointed storekeeper at Prince Rupert Dry Dock. Mr. Prior was formerly In the Winnipeg office. Carnival Queen Standings Olive' Huculak 23,000 ,4 other Betty Orelg 27.000 Eleanor Stbrseth v 22,000 4 km vvi r.