TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT" lulletins tmAAAAAAAAAAA klG TIIKEE" RUMORS IvDON A spokesman at Uning Street dismissed is "rumors and specu- 'rtports that a meeting Ihurchill, Truman and ; 111 Impeding. He said l&urchill would remain son at least during the i to deliver a radio list address Sunday IK OUT OI' BUSINESS IOTIIEKE IN PACIFIC iJipanese naval base of second only In im- to Singapore, has put out of commission I Allied bombing. It 1$ pt unlikely It can be re ld during the war. IttAL INTERIOR FIRE KTOniA-rroTlncial police (left Prince George to In- lute renorU thai two pn have been burned to h in the destruction of home at Alcia Uke. "OLD JAP LANDS I.UVA All lands 011 the W Columbia coast taken "'he Japanese will be held N returning war veterans "ve the opportunity to 1 l"tm over. NTON SNOWSTORM IWON-Hoston yesterday w worst snowstorm in 75 i There was mlich dam POYS CELEBRATION PON-i Three rollicking r ' hilarit v 1,1.1. n.,b l(i London's victory ccle- f but there were only l,r'U for intoxication on of Bow Street UndOn's' princi- nnce court !!. Th 1 1 t -ui sin. 1 setllinr iinui.. V.- ' " tain. . Bell, rpcrlnnol y 01 ratlonlne frcim Vn,. tomu ."" ce uerge irom u m uie course of '""W on official busl- '"vurannii j u.. 11 - ocai rations admlnls be uhii 1 : t I'OW TILL,. v(- VKJ- L ni8fcfs train for Prince 1 9UQ TMit'i'?!'' I kJi M zablc debris In the charred cabins. The United States Army fire department, the United States fire boat, the city fire depart ment and the navy fire boat joined forces to pour tons of water on the ship and soon subdued the flames. "It was one time that we actually had more water than we needed," Fire Chief II. T. Lock said afterward. The Esslngton, which Is owned by the federal department of Public Works and Is commanded by Capt. J. D. Watson, ar rived In Prince Rupert Wednes day from the Naas River where It has been clearing the river channel of navigation obstruc tions. Bert Warlan, cook on the Es slngton, told the Dally News that everyone of the, crew lost most, If not all their effects. I lost everything. Those of us who occupied cabins on the lower deck were In a bad spot. The fire started in the engine room close to us," he said. Clothing was later provided by friends for those who escaped In their night garments. A stewardess, known as "Boo by." lost all her belongings. Only part f the superstruc ture not damaged by the fire wa sthc pilot house. Most of the machinery Inside suffered cosily damage. The Esslngton, which piles both the Naas and Skeena rivers keeping channels open for navigation Ls equipped with a derrick at Its blunt bow to lift snags and other obstructions from the water. It Is skippered by 6apt. J. D. Watson, pioneer river and coastal navigator. It ls driven by a paddle wheel at the stem.' The vessel was built In the Prince Rupert Dry Dock in 1931 to replace the old BoboLlnk which ls now a cannery scow at the Queen Charlotte Islands. The Esslngton has a length of 100 icct, a beam of 29 feet and draws 5.3 feet. Her registered tonnage ls 129. TOBRUK'S FALLS NUMBERED FOUR Tobruk changed hands four times in the bitter struggle .for Africa and was left a mass of rubble, Its harbor choked with sunken ships. The British chased ,'lhjvltallons out in January, 1941, Ulia nCKIll nUIUHIVH daring, alWfc 17-month stand. But In June, 1942, Rommel swept In successfully. Tobruk fell a fourth' time, In November, 1942, when Montgomery drove out the Afrlka Korps and kept them on the run all the way to Tunisia. Buy the 8th Victory Bonds! $150,000 $751,750 Coalition Wins Seat 'Boss" Johnson Elected By Biff Majority in . Westminster NEW WESTMINSTER, May 11 (CP) Final returns in the New Westminster by-election show Byron I. (Boss) Johnson elected by a substantial margin. Mr. Johnson, Liberal member of the B.C. Legislature from 1933 to 1937, was circled coalition member for New Westminster with a total ( vote or 3,538. The CCF candidate, Robert Cormak, was runner-up. He received 1GG9. Jack Orecnall, Labor-Progressive, got 989 votes and Edward Mills, who r;tn on a combined veterans and labor ticket, 133. BROTHERS BUY BONDS Four Ether brothers of Sixth Avenue East Ronald, 11, Laur and, 14, Archie and Billy, 10- ycar-old twins have teamed up to purchase $100 of Eighth Victory Bonds from their savings as newsboys, it was made known at loan headquarters last nlsht. The example of thrift thus dis played was held up as a worthy example to other young ioIk. LAST WAR REPARATIONS The Reparations Commission after the First Great War fixed Germany's de"bt to the Allied nations at 132.000,000,000 gold marks (about $52,000,000,000 at normal exchange rates). At the end of five years (1024) when the Dawes Plan for stabilizing Ocrmany's .currency went into effect, Germany had paid 8,405,-OCO.COO marks in gold and pro-" ducts. The Young Plan in 1920 adjusted the debt Into 59 annual payments, running to 1988, and totalling 30,996,000,000 marks. VICTORIOUS. DEFEATS The official German mind was quick to disguise Nazi defeats for home consumption with such terms as "fluid withdrawals," "disengaging m a n o e u v r e s ," "shortening lines," "strategic withdrawals." But even In this department the Nazis must have acknowledged defeat when the Japanese, after the first B-29 bombing raids, proclaimed: "We should not think that we have been passively attacked but that we have actively pulled the enemy toward its." Mr ir CIAL today'' Temperature NORTHERN AND CENTRA1 BRITISH COLUMBIANS NEWSPAPER Tomorrous Tides T,mtraturcs ior me mute . .4. i LucwfRiA, B.C. (Pacific Standard Time) ,Jrt district for today read: Saturday, May 12, 1915 Luximum 53 mm High 1:15 23.1 feet'? 13:59 21.1 feet 42 Low . 7:50 0.1 feet nimuDi 19:57 4.7feef "' No. 110. PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1915 PRICE FIVE CENTS h SNAG BOAT ESSINGTON IS 1AGED IN EARLY MUKNINu HRE leven Crew Members Escape Burning Ship As rour r ire departments Fight Blaze Iipvpii crew members . of the Canadian govern- lit111 i i t it river snag ooai ussingion nurneaiy escaped o T 1 1 ! uilltli ihu "VM J UWIIIUUV fcVJ bill; ou iU" ture of the stern-wheeler vessel as it lay moored r nLfi.wiif-V.viti wharf nt fl nVlnnk thia mnvnimr IA I llJlUUt VV Hw W VU, VIMU IIIUIIIIHkl Unr of the vessel ana me enecis oi tne ten men ANSCANADA OVER TOP forPEG, May ll- Trans-L Air Lines, Winnipeg qualified for their eigmn it when 105 percent of Its Ins achieved on the thir ds of the campaign. He- (or the entire T.C.A. sys-rt also over-subscribed. 500 Winnipeg employees ff, F English, vice-prcsi- ! the air line. In a special urWm nifAA nr or "Employees "1"UJ' v and one woman of the crew were destroyed as the fire swept through the boat before being brought under control by the combined efforts of four. area fire departments. Damage) win run into many inousanas of dollars. According to the engineer of the flat - bottomed river boat, the fire started when the oil-burning furnace backfired and sent a Jet of flaming oil through the engine' room. The flames spread almost Instantaneously through the ship. Members of the crew dashed from their flaming quarters In j uwauv abiuvi tavwiiK wmt; wj tui- IvtKtruay t . .u... u.i uuu Have now subscribed over?" WJC uuk"ib L . hoif million dollars in I oay arc Pa" 01 lne unrecugru- Bonds, said Mr. Eng- his message of apprecla- ju personnel of the sys- r speakers were D. R. Mc-niperlntendent of pass- strviM B. f- wens, per- I instant, and Rollie Reld War Finance Committee. N azis To Be Brought To Justice U-BOAT Sinks Veteran Minesweeper "ESUIMALT" ' i, r ft held by proclamation of the mayor on the week beginning May 21. Last night's meeting of the Junior Chamber of Commerce laid plans to take a leading part In the campaign and appointed a 'Cieanrup weeK' committee under chairmanship of James Bremner. This committee will be a prime force In attacking such eyesores as untidy vacant lots and houseyards and en- ronratro citizens to touch UD Struck on her starboard side byja U-boat's" Horpedo, ILM. Cii Esquimau has been sunk while carrying out patrols In the' North Atlantic. Of her crew of 70, sixteen men were killed and 28 are missing at sea. Above ls a recent picture of the ship's company, and at left the ship herself. Among the survivors Is her Commanding Officer, Lieut. R. MacMillan, DSC and Bar, RCNVR, of Charlottetown, P.E.I. Following the tradition of the sea he was the last man to leave his ship. (RCN Photo) JUNIOR CHAMBERIUan N WILL EMBARK ON 'CLEAN-UP WEEK' ow Over Top Eighth Victory Loan subscrip- "T 7""! behind those or the Seventh made," will be the unofficial , but ,ocal headquarters an- of prlncc Rupert . nounced today that the $750,000 Jailer Chamber of Commerce j quota has been over-suhscrlbed. when members throw their j The- cumulative total to date compared with $827 - weight behind the city's annual i!375.1'0 -Clean-up Week" which will be S50 at the corresponding day in the last campaign. Subscrip tions yesterday amounted, to $41,450 as against $25,150 on the same day last time. The following further subscriptions are announced: K. T. Armstrong $100 Vivian May Armstrong .. . 100 E. G. Armstrong 100 Mrs. Bernice M. Armstrong 1000 Lawrence Leon Veltch 50 Mrs. Freda P. Wlllsey 50 AM. a, At. At, www . lholr homes with Dalnt. A-"J- Dominate 500 The same committee will be j Ben Skalmcrud 100 responsible for designing a Mrs. A. M. Sedgwick float which will be entered by Port Edward 50 the Junior Chamber In the Mrs. Annie m. seagwicK Kinsmen's Club May 24 celebration parade. Probably that the Prince Ru pert Junior chamber of Commerce will dp unable to send a delegate to the provincial conference of Junior Boards of Trade of B.C. to be held at Trail shortly caused the meeting to move that the Prince George Junior Board of Trade be empowered to vote for Prlncc Rupert on two resolutions which the local Junior Chamber felt it should support. Having received the right to Port Edward 300 Mrs. Dorothy Adams Port Edward 500 Miss Marjorie Cassidy Colleymount EP (Continued on Page 4) Germans Quit Channel Islands LONDON, May 11 ffi German forces on the channel islands have surrendered, It was an nounced yesterday. The an nouncement said that a British join me Associated uoaros oi tiisk force had ianded on theisl Trade 6f Northern B.C. by a LnHs tv.d oirrmripr brines free resolution passed by that bodyjdom to the channel Islanders In convention, at Vanderhoof nft:pp nimnst. five vears. They last week, the Junior Chamber ! were lhe f lrst Drltlsh possession of Commerce adopted a motion that they take advantage of membership in the Associated Boards. The motion was tabled until the next meeting to give members the opportunity of considering the matter more fully. Guest speakers were Max Edgar, Regional Director, C.N.R. telegraphs, Vancouver, who gave an interesting, talk on the background and future of electrical communications, and Rowland Hastings, Vancouver, who told members of the Vancouver Jilnlor Board of Trade's work on "Clean-up Week.'' Two members of a Russian vessel were guests of the meet-i log. President Colin McCarthy was chairman. to fall Into the hands of the en emy in this war. 1910 BLITZ WAS MAGIC London suffered 7,000 civilian deaths and 10,000 wounded during the height of the 1910 aerial blitz between Sept. 7 and Oct. 7. Prime Minister Churchill estimated the Luftwaffe dropped 5,000,000 pounds of bombs on the city from a dally average of 400 planes during the period. Britain's defences forced the Nazis to change their tactics from day to night raids. On one day 185 German planes were brought down by the R.A.F., antiaircraft fire and barrage DON'T WANT JAPANESE Massett People Agree With Applewhaite That They Are Not Wanted MASSETT, May 11 Edward Applewhaite, Liberal candidate, addressed bis first public meeting of the campaign at Massett last night. Olof Hanson and S. E. Parker also spoke. A good crowd gave Mr. Apple whaite an attentive and friendly hearing. The question period showed Massett agreed with the Liberal candidate's stand against permitting Japanese to return to the coast or to have the Tote. Applewhaite drew consider able applause when he refer red to Olof Hanson as the pattern upon which he would model himself. FAMOUS PLANE IS DESTROYED Two Distinguished Airmen Lost in Blazing Crash at Calgary CALGARY. May 11 O) The world-famous . "F For Freddie- crashed and burned at Calgary Municipal Airport yesterday. Both members of tne crew were killed. They were Flight Lieutenant Maurice Brlggs, T3S. O., D.F.C., D.F.M.. and Flying Officer John Bauer, D.F.C. and Bar. Both were Royal Air Force members. , . The ..famous plane. . ile.wv uaT scathed through' 2 if operational fllzhts over Europe. It was flying across Canada In the In terests of the Eighth Victory Loan and was to have left here last night for Vancouver. LOCAL DOCK BACKS LOAN Fifteen Departments Exceed Quotas Second for Devenlsh Cup The Eighth Victory .Loan cam paign at the Dry Dock continues to progress satisfactorily. At present 15 of the departments have reached or exceeded their quotas. Four .others have 90 per cent or more while six departments are over the 80 per cent mark. The following are various departments and their n F.. MnrtWr .. SCO' percentage: ruunuiy aim i uuem, idj Laborers, 145. Sheet Metal, 141. Pipefitters, 131. Painters, 128 Mott Electric, 120. Powerhouse, 115. Electricians, Steel Checkers, Riggers, 112. Dockmcn, 111. Staff House, 109. . Commissary, 104. Welders, 101. Joiners, 100. Machinists, 00. Staff, 95. Rlvetters, 92. Stores, 91. Engine Fitters, Cranes, Maintenance, 85. Platers, Punches, 83. Caulkers, 82. Shipwrights, 74. Compo. Layers, 64. Blacksmiths, 54. The Devenlsh Cup competition latest return. from Winnipeg are that the Dry Dock ls running second In . the Devenlsh Cup competition. Port Arthur dlvi slon Is leading with 322 points, Hess, Himmler, Goering Face Trial As Criminals Four to Six Million Gerrnans May Have to Atone For Nation's Crimes LONDON, May 11 (CP) Rudolph Hess, Hein-rich Himmler and Hermann Goering all have been listed by the United Nations as war criminals and " there is strong possibility that Admiral Doenitz will have to face trial for his life. Information about the ranking luminaries of the fallen Nazi hierarchy and MAJOR J. T. HARVEY Conservative candidate for Skeena in federal election. Due home from overseas soon for COLD WEATHER HOLDS SEEDING Unfavorable Weather Delays Putting In of Prairie Crop . WINNIPEG, May 11 Cold weather with high winds, rain and snow has again delayed western seeding operations. Some soil drifting has taken place on lighter land and, while winds have hastened drying where moisture was excessive,! frosty nights have prevented continued surface moisture improvement, according to the weekly crop report of the de partment of Agriculture of the Canadian National Railways. Throughout Manitoba no has yet been done. In south ern and central Manitoba, wheat and coarse grain acreage will be decreased, with surplus land golng into summer fallow. In Saskatchewan, practically all farming operations have been at a standstill owing to cold weather, winds, snow and rain. Seeding will become general in the next week or 10 days. Reports from Alberta Indicate very little seeding has yet been done. Moisture conditions are about normal. Hie Peace River territory re ports cold weather, with frosty nights,. Seeding has started In a few areas and progress Is ex Hitler's successor in tne surrena- ered Reich came today from a highly reliable source. The Informant estimated that between four and six million Germans might be forced 1 to atone for their nation's atrocities if the proposed plan to pool punishment is adopted by the victorious powers. Hess and Goering are prison ers. Botn were Hitler deputies. Himmler, hangman leader of the Gestapo, still ls a fugitive. At Halifax Who Blame Is To For Big Riots? Major Controversy Mayor Blames Sailors For It Claim For Damages ADMIRAL TAKES OVER. HALIFAX, May 11 (CD-Acting Prime Minister J. L. Ilsley arrived in Halifax today to personally investigate the circumstances of the Hali-fax-rlotsJIe inet'the'iSyir and president of the Board of Trade. Vice-Admiral George C. Jones, chief of naval staff, also arrived today to assume temporary command of all naval personnel in the area. He has been authorized to call upon the Army and Air Force to assist him if necessary. There have been new disorders at New Waterford with teenage boys and gitls breaking into the liquor store, smashing windows and injuring two HALIFAX, May 11 O) In the Halifax riots, a major contro versy has arisen as to who was to blame. The Canadian Pres3 reported In eye-wltn.ess dispatches that the mobs were made up of the three armed services, merchant seamen, and civilians. However, .the Canarin, dlan Press said It was generally, .., agreed that the sailors led Jt)ip raids on the liquor stores and, breweries and started the window smashing. These dispatches said that the civilians jdlned in the looting wholeheartedly. Mayor Butler said in a radio address that he has called on i the Dominion government to pected to be rapid next week, make adequate compensation. Moisture conditions are satis- Earner, Mayor uutier lam tne factory. blame for the. five million dol- From the Okanagan Valley lar riot at tne door or tne uana- comes reports that weather has dlan Navy. been warmer with cool nights. T hI Blossoms of apricots, cherries, I Sydney Too peaches and plums are practl- .. . Wpt,npKv cally over and the fruit buds ." 7u m,;" , . i.t . . . ....,.,, night 6 in the Whitney pw Pier h alst- have set satisfactorily. Apple . d c blossoms are out now and will - Qf continue for about a week. No ..-.. , : rirmr damage to the crop Is so far ap- nf fhn '- . "r'rr: night's demonstrations and loot- at this time last satisfactory as year. ARMY VICTORY LOAN STANDINGS Pacific Command now stands In sixth place In Canada In q rrtiv mirnria pe nf V i C t fl T V I Dock Is second with 317 I The Dry ,Bonds wltn m pf quota iouowcu uy cua m. -"" within Pacific Command. Na-Wlth two more days of the loanl a, .Hn lpnri, wtth 1SS to go uiy .wm i.WiU,cCB t cent of quQta wnlic prince Ru. making a special effort to win t . . seventh olace wlth 80 another trophy to put beside the one they won In tne seventn Victory Loan campaign. Weather Forecast Moderate winds, overcast, with occasional light rain. Little change In temperature. Satur day: Fresh to strong winds, overcast with light rain and little change in temperature. percent. In Pacific Command: - i Following, are the standings Nanalmo 1S5 1 Vancouver - 131 Victoria 125 Prince George 103 Chtlllwack - 93 Vernon 87 Prince Rupert ..- - 80 Polar Bear 29 1 ing In Sydney was nipped by a nine-o'clock curfew Imposed by Mayor D. J. MacLean. Halibut Sales Canadian 18'4c and 16V:C Violet B., 20,000. Booth. Trudy, 11,500, Co-op. Dovre B., 42,000, Cold Storage. Vera Beatrice, 9,000, Royal. Mother III, 15,000, Pacific. Mother II, 7,500, B.C. Packers. Cape Spear, 20,000, Co-op. Ken Falls, 27,000, AtUrl. Passing Cloud, 22,000, Whiz. Point May, 3,000, B.C. Packers. BOGART DIVORCED LAS VEGAS, Nevada Screen Actor Humphrey Bogart's wife was granted a divorce in Lai Vegas, Nevada. Bogart has announced he soon will marry his leading lady .Lauren Racalt 3