LUES
IN
HEART
OF
COLOGNE
"
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPEK
Weathei
Tides
aie
wind,
cloudy
and
cool
(Pacllic
Standard
Time)
-i
ii..ht.
snow
flur-
Tuesday,
March
C,
1945
"
ur
mixca
7
during
morning,
becoming
High
5:39
17.9
feet-145
anally
cloudy
In
afternoon.
18:45
feet
ay:
Moderate
winds,
partly
Low
12:25
7.0
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little
wai
,
,
J&ESfo,
V0L-
XXXIV,
NO.
54
PRINCE
RUPERT.
B.C..
MONDAY.
MARCH
5,
1945
PRICE
FIVE
CENTS
Ik
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"
i
i
i
mm.,
-fmimm
-f
n
the
beach
of
Iwo
Jlma.
In
the
background
i.s
a
once
impregnable,
now
shattered,
Jap
pillbox
after
the
marines
came
id
took
it
Reinforcements
to
a
strength
of
approximately
45,000
marines
are
now
fighting
fiercely
foot
by
foot
in
of
Here
enemy
fire.
A
dead
Jap
lies
in
the
foreground,
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Again
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now
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Vancouver.
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AWAY
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earliest
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uway
last
night
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Rupert
General
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worn
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said
to
be
living
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Unremitting
Air
War
LONDON
The
Germans
have
spotted
Allied
day
raiders
on
the
way
to
western
Germany
for
the
twenty-first
day
of
the
air
aj
e
:
'
eriry
track
i
offensive.
Berlin
was
given
its
nightly
pounding
for
the
thir-
:iiia,
rlp
i
i.
'
leentli
successive
night,
Sunday,
hundreds
of
Allied
aircralt
WtftlfletttrjvffW4
"redff-fromnrilatn'and
Italy
to
hammer
targets
Tn-Cter
ii
NV
,.al
Railways
many,
Austria
and
Hungary.
The
Canadian
Bomber
Group
tonj-
;i
rock
three
'
no
operate
during
the
week-end.
However,
scores
of
Can
leu
Am
bury
station,
h'-
ol
mountain
"fl
iid
onto
the
-
ate
Saturday
lib3C:.wi.v
mall,
bae-
f:c;r
,
are
being
IS
Mi
U
o
-Lattic
fires
T
f
.
,
v
trrdnv
fnl-
.
w,
lit
attack
by
i
(
150
strong.
IT
Leaves
nsation
Board
h
.
f.r-
It
'.if
W'Tkmen's
nnm.
Iird,
J
II.
Pllh-hnrw
Rupert
harbor
:ioer
and
for-
locrink-ndcnt.
adians
formed
part
of
the
crews
of
Royal
Air
I
orce
Halitaxcs
which
took
the
synthetic
oil
centre
of
Kamen
near
Dortmund
fur
their
targets
Saturday
night.
Targets
today
were
air
plants
at
Ilarburg
and
Gclsenkirchen
and
railway
network
at
Chemnitz.
Bombing
Britain
Again
LONDON
For
the
first
lime
in
eight
months,
German
Immlieis
appeared
over
London
and
southern
England
yesterday.
Six
were
shot
down,
but
the
Nazi
airmen
inflicted
casualties
on
the
population.
The
blackout
may
be
resumed.
Reds
Through
to
Baltic
.MOSCOW
Kcd
Army
forces
have
lorn
through
eastern
ronierania
to
the
Hallic
and
have
cut
the
province
into
three
parts.
The
two-pronged
drives
!ct
up
barriers.
Two
hundred
thousand
Nails
will
not
be
able
lo
break
to
take
part
in
the
doence
of
Itcrlin.
Soviet
columns
now
stand
fourteen
miles
from
Stettin
and
thirty
miles
from
Danzig.
Marines
Gain
On
Iwo
GUAM
American
marines
have
smashed
a
Japanese
counter-attack
in
northern
Iwo
and
have
chalked
up
small
gains.
No
less
than
12.8G1
dead
Japanese
have
been
counted
N
on
Iwo
so
far.
Lighty-one
have
been
taken
prisoner
but
most
of
these
arc
Korean
laborers.
The
Americans
now
control
four-fifllis
of
Iwo.
Mopping
Up
On
Luzon
.MANILA
General
.MacArthur's
forces
in
the
Philippines
arc
limbing
into
the
mountains
of
northern
Luzon.
Filipino
guerrillas
have
cleared
one
entire
province
killing
thousands
of
Japanese
in
the
process.
British
Advance
In
Burma
KANDV-,
Ceylon
British
troops
have
made
a
new
crossing
of
the
Irrawaddy
Kivcr,
twenty
miles
from
.Mandalay,
Burma's
second
city.
The
bridgehead
was
established
by
men
of
the
Second
Hritish
Division.
Second
In
the
drive
for
.Mandalay
is
an
Indian
division
whose
bridgehead
on
the
river
north
of
the
city
has
been
expanded
to
thlily
square
miles.
It
lias
reached
a
point
only
eighteen
miles
from
.Mandalay
New
Submarine
Campaign
GUAM
Marianas-based
superfortresses
again
have
carried
i
the
War
to
the
Japanese
mainland.
Slriklng
in
force,
the
huge
bombers
early
Sunday
attacked
the
industrial
section
of
Tokyo.
The
attack
was
the
first
early
morning
H-29
raid
on
the
enemy
capital
and
the
second
consecutive
Sunday
assault.
Presumably
nearly
two
hundred
of
the
hig
heavyweights
took
part
in
the
strike
and
they
also
paid
attention
lo
targets
In
Yoka-liama,
Nagoya
and
Slilzouka.
Tokyo
Bombed
Again
LONDON
Parks
of
swift,
new,
long-range
eneiny
u-boals
are
reported
concentrating
for
a
last
desperate
campaign
against
Allied
shipping
In
the
Atlantic.
Norwegian
officials
submarines
and
a
considerable
say
more
than
300
German
number
of
light
cruisers,
destroyers,
and
other
smaller
warships
now
arc
based
In
Norway's
sheltered
fjords.
Italians
Fight
Germans
KOML
Italian
Iroops
of
Ihc
Kritish
Eighth
Army
have
launched
a
surprise
attack
on
Ihc
extreme
Adriatic
end
of
the
Italian
Jront.
Headquarters
in
Home
says
llicse
forces
have
driven
the
Germans
from
the
entire
coastal
area
south
of
Valli
Di
Comacchio.
j
ROME,
March
i
f
Fierce
fighting
that
has
been
costly
to
both
sides
raged
along
the
east
bank
of
the
Senlo
river
in
the
Eighth
Army
sector
of
the
Italian
front.
This
Is
the
area
in
which
'
ihenFiitfaCartadlan-
carp
has
been
operating.
A
deserter
from
the
German
,
lines
said
that
Benito
Mussolini,
(
wearing
a
gray
uniform
withou:
marking
of
rank,
had
visited
the
front.
TO
BE
BURIED
IN
TORONTO
Body
of
the
late
Mrs.
David
Glbb,
pioneer
Prince
Rupert
woman,
who
passed
away
in
the
Prince
Rupert
General
Hospital
Friday
afternoon,
is
being
shipped
cast
on
tonight's
tarin
for
burial
in
Toronto.
DRAFTEE
THREW
RIFLE
IN
SEA-COURT
MARTIAL
OTTAWA,
March
5-
Depart
mcnt
of
National
Defence
an
nounccs
that
a
court-martial
has
Imposed
18-month
detention
on
Private
W.
II.
Smith
who
threw
his
rifle
and
two
kit
baps
overboard
from
a
ship
while
being
embarked
for
'
overseas.
Smtlh
I
was
one
of
the
draftees
from
the
.
,
v.r...
A
p.....
frtp
nuiipcrne
service.
This
was
the
incident
;
which
is
believed
to
have
lead
to
sensational
charges
in
the
recent
Grey
North
by-election
I
when
John
Dracken,
Progressive-
Conservative
leader,
suggested
there
had
been
several
such
In
cidents,
Minister
of
National
De
fence
A.
GL.
McNaughton
des
cribing
the
charges
as
"diabolical
untruths."
At
the
court-martial
In
Kiitr-land,
Smith
said
he
had
thrown
his
rlflo
overboard
from
the
gangplank
while
embarking
In
the
hope
that
military
police
would
take
him
from
the
ship.
CLOSING
IN
ON
LASHIO
Chinese
Forces
Making
Headway
in
Their
Drive
Toward
Terminal
of
Old
Burma
Road
CALCUTTA,
March
5
-Three
Chinese
First
Army
columns
are
closing
In
on
Lashlo
Burma
road
and
rail
terminal
135
miles
northeast
of
Mandalay
and
one
has
driven
to
within
eight
miles
:
ks
STORM
PILLBOX
ON
IWO
JIMA-
Marines-
of
the
Fourth
Division
take
a
short
rest
In
their
foxholes
after
storming
Fall
of
Germany
s
Fourth
Largest
City
is
Imminent
MKS.
LIPSETT
DIES
.
VANCOUVEIt
Mrs.
Catherine
Lipsctt,
aged
101,
mother
of
Edward
Lipsctt,
president
of
the
company
bearing
his
naind,
died
in
a
Vancouver
nursing
home
Saturday.
Shc
was
porn
in
Nova
Scolia.
DKASTIC
STEPS
TAKEN
LONDON
The
British
War
Office
has
taken
drastic
steps
to
make
sure
that
the
flow
of
war
supplies
to
the
western
frontls
not
interrupted.
Seven
thousand
British
dock
workers
and
stevedores
at
the
Port
of
London
are
striking
and
their
walkout
had
threatened
to
slow
up
the
transportation
of
war
material
to
Allied
fighting
men
on
the
continent.
To
guard
against
this,
the
War
Office
has
replaced
the
dock
hands
with
British
soldiers
to
the
.number
of
3000.
KA1LWAY
ACCIDENT
ZOKKA,
Ont
A
train
accident
early
this
morning
near
Zorra,
Ontario,
resulted
in
feriout
injuries
to
at
least
eighty1
passengers,
eleven
seriously.
The
accident
occurred
at
12:13
a.m.
(E.D.T.)'when
a
Canadian
Pacific
Kailway
passenger
train
jumped
a
broken
,
railVU-least
fcur
ar;
versr
derailed.
Injured
service
personnel
were
taken
to
London.
ONLY
ONE
INCIDENT
OTTAWA
Official
word
lias
been
given
out
on
an
incident
which,
during
the
past
month,
has
created
quite
a
flurry
in
Canadian
political
circles.
It
has
been
established
officially
that
only
one
soldier
tJirew
his
rifle
and
kit
overboard
as
Home
Defence
troops
embarked
for
overseas
duty.
NEXT
VICTORY
LOAN
OTTAWA
It
is
expected
that
tlc
Eighth
Victory
Loan
campaign
will
have
an
all-time
high
objective
of
one
and
a
half
billion
dollars.
The
dates
of
the
loan
were
announced
in
Prinic
.Minister
King's
radio
address.
They
will
be
from
April
23
to
May
12.
Mr.
King
placed
emphasis
on
the
im
portance
of
the
forthcoming
campaign.
He
declared
that
Victory
Ioaus
are
an
all-important,
part
of
Canada's
war
effort.
VLT
EUAN'S'
INSUiXANCi:
OITAWA
An
ac:
providing
for
the
insurance
of
veterans
of
(lie
present
war
by
the
Dominion
now
is
in
effect.
The
act
was
passed
at
the
last
scs-sion
of
parliament.
It
enables
veterans
to
get
insurance
at
low
rales
in
multiples
of
?.00
up
to
$10,000
without
medical
examination.
Applications
for
such
insurance
must
be
made
to
llio
Veterans'
Department.
The
robbery
was
discovered
by
William
Sheardown
when
he
entered
the
-store
office
shortly
before
9
o'clock
this
morning.
The
cracksmen
had
entered
the
store
Uirough
a
small
window
at
the
rear,
leaving
by-
the
same
route,
police
believe.
They
took
their
tools
with
them.
The
safe
which
is
set
In
the
wall
of
the
office
contained
only
silver.
The
large
amount
of
BUACKEN'S
CHALLENGE
OTrAWA
The
leader
of
the
Progressive
Conservatives,
John
Bracken,
Friday
night
challenged
the
Liberal
government
to
appoint
a
Koyal
Commission
to
investigate
certain
questions
about
the
Canadian
Army
since
General
McNaughton
was
appointed
defence
minister.
STARTING
AIR
LINES
LONDON
Thirty-seven
British
shipping
companies
have
formed
Shipping
Airlines
Limited
a
company
proposing
to
operate
civil
air
services
between
Britain
and
all
European
capitals.
The
thirty-seven
companies
include
some
of
Britain's
largest
tramp
steamship
owners.
ELIZABETH
JOINS
ARMY
LONDON
Princess
Elizabeth
has
joined
the
Auxiliary
Territorial
Service
the
British
equivalent
of
the
Canadian
Women's
Army
Corps.
She
Is
training
as
an
officer
driver.
Princess
Elizabeth,
Is
the
first
woman
member
of
the
Royal
Family
to
join
as
a
futi-tlme
active
member
of
Uie
women's
services.
OTTAWA
Khaki
serge
walking-out
uniforms
introduced
in
the
Canadian
Army
in
1912
arc
being
withdrawn
from
service.
The
walking
out
uniforms
are
being
sent
as
mutual
aid
lo
armies
of
liberated
countries.
The
uniforms
were
never
popular
with
the
Iroops
who
described
the
mas
zou'l'suils.
ONE
MILLIONTH
PRISONER
PARIS
The
one-millionth
German
prisoner
to
be
taken
on
the
western
front
may
fall
into
Allied
hands
sometime
within
the
next
few
hours.
The
official
prisoner
count
from
the
time
of
the
Normandy
lauding
to
February
28
last
Wednesday
was
951,327.
Since
then,
between
7000
and
10,000
Germans
have
been
captured
daily.
25
BELOW
IN
REGINA
REG1NA
This
city,
with
25
below
zero,
was
the
coldest
point
on
the
prairies
today
as
a
cold
wave
swept
over
the
west.
CANADA'S
PART
OITAWA
Reports
arc
circu
lating
in
Otlawa
that
Canada's
part
in
supplying
occupation
forces
in
Europe
has
been
decided.
One
report
has
it
that
the
Dominion
will
supply
two
brigades
of
police
troops
for
Germany
and
several
squaG-roius
of
police
planes.
It
Is
doubtful
whether
Canada
will
be
asked
to
supply
any
forces
for
police
duty
In
the
Pacific
area
after
Japan
is
defeated.
THIEVES
CRACK
GROCERY
STORE
SAFE,
LUG
AWAY
$119
IN
SILVER
Thieves
who
exercised
their
"professional"
skill
on
the
safe
in
Sheardown's
grocery
store
over
the
week-nd
followed
up
the
job
with
a
considerable
amount
of
physical
enterprise.
They
lugged
$119
in
silver
away
from
the
darkened
Third
Avenue
store
after
they
had
onened
the
safe
by
knocking
off
the
dial
and
punching
the
spindle
of
Lashlo
headquarters,
it
was
coins
was
the
accumulation
of
announced
today.
change
during
Saturday's
brisk
trade.
There
was
no
currency
In
the
strong
box.
The
relatively
silent
method
of
hammer
and
punch
was
favored
over
explosives
by
the
thieves,
who
apparently
believed
that
a
brief,
workmanlike
clatter
coiild
cause
less
disturbance
than
the
convulsion
of
nltro-glycerlnc.
The
office
safe
Is
a
position
midway
in
the
store
and
cannot
be
seen
from
the
street.
City
police
are
continuing
an
investigation,
Victorious
Americans,
British
and
Canadians
Sweep
Forward
Everywhere
to
Storm
Rhine
River
LATEST
PARIS,
March
5
(CP)
Allied
forces
reached
the
centre
of
Cologne
today
and
the
battle
rages
with
the
fall
of
the
fourth
largest
German
city
imminent.
American
First
Army
tanks
and
infantry,
in
four
columns,
stormed
into
the
city
in
a
final
powerful
attack
and
slowly
fought
toward
the
heart
of.
the
great
Hhine
River
metropolis.
Housc-to-house
fighting
was
under
way.
The
American
Ninth
Army
has
captured
Romberg,
manufacturing
west
Rhine
bank
suburb
of
Duisburg,
and
the
approaches'
to
two
Rhine
bridges.
The
Ninth
Army
is
on
the
Rhine
for
fitcen
miles
and
the
First
Can-adian
Army
to
the
north
holds
another
52-milc
stretch
of
the
west
bank.
Germans
are
surrendering
by
the
thousands
and
the
Allied
problem
is
more
of
how
to
take
prisoners
than
to
fight
the
enemy.
PARIS.
March
5
(CP)
Three
German
cities
are
front
line
cities
today.
Cologne,
Duesseldorf
and
Duisburg
are
under
direct
Allied
attack
as
the
victorious
Americans,
British
and
Canadians
sweep
forward
on
the
Rhine.
Cologne
is
expected
to
be
the
first
to
fall.
The
Germans
are
falling
back
on
the
city's
Inner
defences
and
Nazli
resistance
to
the
American
First
Army
Is
crumbling
by
the
hour.
The
First
Army
commander
has
sent
his
tanks
crashing
to
the
Rhine
at
numerous
places
north
of
Cologne.
Another
col
umn
Is
only
a
few
hundred
yards
from
a
suburb,
one
mile
and
u
hajft,
outside
Cologne.
blowing
up
the
bridges
.across
the
Rhine,
to
delay
the
Allied
crossing
of
the
river
barrier.
Tho
Germans
claim
that
two
crossings
attempts
have
ben
turned
back
but
there
has
been
no
such
word
from
Allied
Headquarters.
Bitter
fighting
In
the
Hoch
wald
forest
has
had
a
success
ful
outcome
for
Canadian
in
fantry
at
the
northern
end
of
the
wedtern
front.
Canadian
army
units
now
are
pauiing
fierce
enemy
resistance
east
of
the
Hochwald
two
and
one
half
miles
from
the
key
German
northern
anchor
city
of
Xantcn
on
the
Rhine.
In
this
sector,
the
Germans
arc
backing
up
rapmiy
10
a
twentj-fivc
mile
stretch
of
the
Rhine
between
Xanten
and
Duisburg.
!
American
First
Army
troops
Saturday
night
drove
the
Ger-.
1.
A
!
mans
irom
rxeuien,
iwo
ana
half
miles
from
the
western
outskirts
of
Cologne
while
pat
rols
from
tho
Third
Armored
division
reached
the
Rhine.
On
the
Ninth
Army
front,
the
Germans
have
blown
up
the
;
Rhine
River
bridge
at
Ucrdln-
gen,
virtually
in
the
faces
of
the
advancing
United
States
i
mcnts
of
this
division
drove
six
miles
north
of
Uerdlngen
to
Kaldenhausen.
Other
Ninth
Army
forces
have
.
advanced
eight
miles
to
Mocrs.
Others,
are
in
the
outskirts
of
Hambcrg
j
and
still
others
have
taken
Al-dcrkcrk
and
Rhcudrt.
Prisoners
captured
by,
the;
Ninth
Army
Saturday
totalled
j
three
thousand
and
twenty-two.'
COAST
SHIPS
BEING
BUILT
.
Thirty-Five
Vessels
to
be
Built
in
Canadian
Yards
Including
Prince
Rupert
OTTAWA,
March
5
Shipyards
Nazis
Lose
Hochwald
Canadians
Victorious
By
ROSS
MUKO
Canadian
Press
War
Correspondent
WITH
FIRST
CANADIAN
ARMY
IN
FRANCE,
.March
5
British
troops
of
the
First
Canadian
Army
surged
ahead
today
as
the
(Jermams
lost
Hochwald
as
a
pivot
and
withdrew
rapidly
from
western
and
central
sectors
of
the
Canadian
front
between
the
Mcusc
and
the
Rhine
rivers.
The
linkup
between
the
Canadian
Army
and
the
American
Ninth
pressing
up
fro
mttie
south
was
made
Saturday
after
the
gap
between
the
two
forces
had
been
narrowed
to
five
miles.
It
is
impossible
to
estimate
accurately
how
many
Germans
are
being
pressed
back
to
the
Rhine
by
General
Montgomery's
converging
forces
but
it
may
be
as
high
as
100,000.
Elements
of
the
German
First
Paratroop
and
Fifteen
Army
arc
in
the
path
of
this
avalanche.
Canadians,
fighting
in
the
Hochwald
corridor,
have
had
a
lough
time
but
have
now
cleared
the
forest
of
the
enemy,
after
continuous
counter-attacks
forced
leading
infantry
to
withdraw
one
mile.
At
the
eastern
end
they
fell
back
from
a
wood
2lj
miles
from
Xantecn
to
dig
in
again
on
the
eastern
fringe
of
Hochwald
whence
they
renewed
the
attack
to
sweep
forward
victoriously
and
finally
eliminate
the
Germans
from
the
area.
MILITARY
CROSS
IS
AWARDED
For
gallantry
hi
action
while
serving
overseas
In
the
Italian
theatre
of
war,
Lieut.
John
Elgin
Rccsor
of
Touce
Coupe
and
Vancouver
has
been
awarded
the
Military
Cross.
Lieut.
Rcesor,
IRoyal
Canadian
Engineers,
was
born
June
2,
1020,
in
Saskatoon,
Sask.
lie
graduated
of
Canada
have
Wen
awarded,
with
senior
matriculation
and
contracts
for
35
coastal
type
of
was
employed
as
a
surveybr
In
freighters
15
1350-tonners
and
,
civil
life
at
Pouce
Coupe
prior
to
20
of
350
tons.
The
work
is
going
to
yards
at
Vancouver,
Victoria,
Prince
Rupert,
Quebec,
Colllng-wood
(Ont.),
Port
Arthur
and
St.
John,
Twelve
of
the
ships
come
to
British
Columbia
yards
Bur-rard
Dry
Dock,
North
Van
Ship
Repairs,
Victoria
Machinery
Depot
and
Prince
Rupert
Dry
Dock,
The
work
at
Prince
Rupert
will
start
in
May.
his
enlistment
In
the
Canadian
Active
Army
July
24,
1940,
with
the
rank
of
sapper.
He
proceeded
oyerseas
'November
11,
1941,
and
was
appointed
to
a
commission
October
9,
1943.
Ills
mother,
Mrs.
Ellen
Recsor,
lives
at
Vancouver.
Local
Temperature
Maximum,
41
Minimum
32
i
y
mi
'Iff
id
'
'
S.