,x of police bullets, are the bodies, one of a women, '.rators that fell in the civil uprising in Athens. ' '.c fallen two point to the bodies as a gesture of face the cameraman. Reserve Army Recruiting i .ampaign ll'rintt Kuprrl Itcchnrnl to Iluvt Demonstrations Next it ranks which wtcd through i.oers having lefi r forces while .Mited from the 1 w ol Increasing which arc de-Rpscrve 1 Army In ...mn? rcinforcc-u tivp army and :ii -re extensively In : the country, the R'-jimcin Is about nr. Align for new T , ptal will be dlr-a ...v to men of the v- i . f ir various rea-( ;ccn fit to as-wjy their rrarponsl- ' rWence. (if the recruiting ' b held next week ' battalion parade t on Sunday uf Rav on foot through I'tion and return-' ..mizrd equipment, anti-aircraft gun rl :n un demonstration r ' Housf grounds. On c in 22 machine x i artillery support, will t rn'Mlion on Rush-,!' ' with tracer am-Thrrc will be radio rr r Mondav. Wcdnes- ' F ICay evenings and the - event of the cam-II b a nubile demonstra- -: 1 '. 'ation rally on ! ' Pvcninrr (next wprk) In e Arm -y The Wll n rrcrnlllrtrr rnmn.i1rn r'1 be u: dpi. n, n i .nr. of the officer command-Mi ,1 or C J O. Tonmhs. and uufcuun oi uap" 111 C J NorHnofn While he eXnpptnHnn . fhnf , Jortantial number of rcspon- l Ulzens will come forward 0WI1 nirpnrH nrrnno-p- enfs have been made to per- .UUtljf ant In doing so. ailway Man Is ard President VANCOUVKT? T ii ;lrl, assistant general man-VI of the rmoji.. nin .,l, - "uuiau i amiw icouver Board nt nation for 1945 closed. He w. uiarico, Offe 4& 1 ' the sc of the or -ikying grotesquely wnere tney TO CROSS ATLANTIC Waiting Llit Tor rcarclime I'liKhts (ironing WINNIPEO, Man., Jan. 17- Syc'rl tho,Jntexest da trans- ocean flying that the traffic department of TransCanada Air Lines reports 54 persons have requested that their names be recorded on a waiting list for the first peacetime commercial crossing of the Atlantic. TCA operates the trans-Atlantic service for the Dominion Govern ment carrying mail, freight and high-priority passengers. During the month of November, 12 east-bound and 13 west-bound flights were completed between Mon treal and the United Kingdom, The.sc involved the movement , of 129.616 pounds of mail, 9,750 pounds of freight and 100 passengers. VVeslcrn Front Allied Gains Maintained (round Forces .More Forward All Along Line With Strong Aerial Attack PARIS, Jan. 17 a Fresh British troops, resuming the Allied offensive, gained more than 1000 yards, crossed the little Roode River at twp points and reached Dletercn, 23 miles norm oi Aachen, and were still progress lng today. A German communique reported that Cana- dian units are making local at tacks in Holland at Driel and northeast of Nljmcgcn. The British appear, to be drlvlnc toward the Rocr River on the" left flank of the United States Ninth Army. Roads are glazed with lec and sleet today. Underneath all arc placed German mine fields. To the south the German salient In the Ardennes has been flattened back until It Is nowhere more than fifteen miles deep. Royal .Canadian Air Force squadrons flew with the Royal Air Force to attack Magdeburg early today and oil plants at Zeltz near Lelpsig. Airmen reported Magdeburg a mass of flames. Nine Royal Air Force planes are missing. Other bombers hit at railway yards. ALBANIA'S PORTS Durazzo ranks first among the four ports on Albania's coast. ye Moves On With a Weathei NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER Tides A , -h Coa.' t and Queen Char-1)tt (Pacific Standard Time) Moderate winds, cloudy Ld mild with scattered showers, Thursday, January 18, 1945 High 4:21 203 feet vromms Partly cloudy during Thursday: moderate 16:16 20.9 feet r;, . .. ari cloudy 22:50 3.2 feet Low 10:26 6 J feet VOL. XXIV, No. 14 PRINCE RUPERT, D.C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1015 PRICE FIVE CENTS v ussians capture Utv of Warsaw Also Krakow As Ureal inter Ivicti: ;:.- m Aiiir.no urmoinu W - rovince i. s Kro idd To Peace C.C.F. .Member Does Not Think Much of Highway Project I'rinre Rupert Mentioned REVELSTOKE. Jan. 17 II Vincent Scgur, CC.F. member of legislature for" Revclstoke, j told the Board of Trade here that he would Inform the British Columbia Legislature at its next ion that immediate paving the TransCanad'a Highway from Lcanchoil to Slcamous and conr.tructloniiOf . a 29-mllc gap between Nakuspand Arrowhead tere at more: economic value to the province than the buildIng:of projected $6,000,OOOlroad,.to the Peace River countryia . The province should Instead construct a railway connection into the Peace River to connect with the Pacific Great Eastern provide access to the Pacific Coast at Prince Rupert or Stewart, he said. TRUE AND FALSE CO-OPERATIVES Senator Parris Expresses His Views Before Royal Commission in Vancouver VANCOUVER, Jan. 17 O Senator J. W. dc B. Farris, rep resenting seven Independent dairies, contended before the Royal Commission on taxation of. co-orraUvejesterdaythat "alleged" cb-opcratlves ' should be taxed to the full extent that a competing non-co-operatlve company Is taxed. Senator Farris described "alleged" cooperatives as those which, in addition to marketing, also process or manufacture from such products, those which receive produce from non-members and those which hold' deductions from the purchase price as reserves for the co-operatives' purposes. True co-operatives Senator descirbed as those that serve gratuitously In marketing producers' products In the form in which it is received and account to them for the proceeds less actual expense as trust Tunds. He said that true cooperatives should continue to have tax exemptions. Labor-Progs Now To Oppose C.C.F. TORONTO, Jan. 17 The national executive committee of the Labor-Progressive Party has decided to release the local party organizations In the federal ridings now held by C.C.F. members from a former decision not to nominate Labor-Progressive candidates In those constituencies. Consequently, it is expected that In the seats concerned L.L. P. nominations will shortly be jmade. NEWSPAPER WOMAN DIES VICTORIA, Jan. 17 a Mrs. Catherine Simpson-Hayes, aged 88, widely known as author. Jour nallst, columnist and publicity agent, died here on Monday four days after the death of her sister, Miss Wlnnlfred Prlscllla Hayes, 94. Mrs. Simpson-Hayes was born at Dalhousle, New Brunswick and graduated from normal school at Frederlcton. She came to Victoria 35 years ago after working on the staffs of the Winnipeg Free Press and Tribune and Ihe Canadian Pacific Railway publicity department both in Canada and England. Like her sister, Mrs. Simpson-Hayes taught school in the Marl-times before heading west and served as substitute teacher In various parts of British Columbia for many years. Pinball Machines Are Still Allowed VICTORIA, Jan. 17 0 The city council defeated a bylaw which would have prohibited the operation of pinball machines in this city. The vole was six to five. Eight affirmative votes were necessary to pass it. Speaking against the enforcement of the bylaw, Aid. F. A. Willis said "wo should be very careful what laws we put on the statute books Servicemen and University of British Columbia .students found recreation in playing: the mach-i Ines." MILITARY CROSS IS AWARDED TO PR. GEORGE MAN Lieut, i Acting Captain" Rich ard H. Sellars, age 31, has been awarded the Military Cross for gallantry In action In the Italian theatre of war overseas, it is announced by the Department of National Defence. He is serving overseas with the Canadian Armored Corps. Born at Areola, Saskatchewan, July 5, 1913, Acting Captain Sellars was living at Prince George when he Joined the army. His wife, Mrs. I. Sellars, resides at 3177 East Georgia St.. Vancouver. Job's Daughters To Sell Stamps Under the direction of Mrs Stan Savlllc, acting on behalf of the National War Finance Committee, local Job's Daughters, in the roles of-JMiCan-ada,r -will m6vrrflholocaYfe- tall stores on Saturday to promote the sale of War Savings stamps. This Saturday the glrLi wUl be posted as follows: Betty Pullcn at Watts & Nick-erson's, Ruth Walton at Ormc'3, Lorna Donaldson at McRac Bros., Marie Boulter at Wallace's, Els-pcth Mackenzie at the Victory Hut and Dorothy Kcrgin at the Northern B.C. Power Co. store. Bulletins TODAY'S BOMBING LONDON Seven hundred United States heavy bombers strafed oil plants and submarine works at Hamburg and neighboring llarburg today. ON ITALY FRONT KOMK There was sharp patrol activity on the Italian front today but no major change in general polions. EDEN SPEAKS LONDON Foreign Scirclary Anthony Eden denied 'n the House of Commons today that there was an agreement between ISussia and France to carve up Germany after the war. NAVY MINISTER OVERSEAS LONDON Navy Minister MacDonald arrived in Britain to talk over with British officials naval participation in the Pacific war. The Navy Minister's trip is- believed lo be for the dove-tailing or Canadian and Royal Navy plans for a concentration of effort in the Pacific when the war in Europe has reached a decisive-stage. EXCHANGE PRISONERS BERNE The largest exchange of prisoners in this war is being made today in Switzerland. About nine-thousand persons are involved altogether five-thousand German prisoners against 2,500 wounded Britons, Americans, Canadians, and South Americans, plus 900 German civilians and an equal number of Americans. The exchange was arranged by the Swiss government. RECORDED ON CELLOPHANE A new sound recording machine makes records on a cellophane tape. Highlights Allies On New Terrain PAKIS Allied lor res on the western front have moved ahead to new terrain for the first time in more than a month. The new drive is being carried out by British Second Army hoops near the (iernian border north of Aachen. A front dis-' patch says the newly-opened British drive has carried across two water barriers. The dispatch does not specify what water barriers were bridged but it adds that Biitish forces operating .' in the vicinity of captured Siltard have gained up to 1000 yards against stiffening opposition. Troops of the American First and Third Armies are moving towards the Belgian town cf Saint Villi, four miles from the German frontier. Saint Villi is the last major communications centre left to the Germans in the entire BeIgian fighting front. According to official estimates, Nazi Meld Marshal von Kundstedt lost half the armored vehicles he used in his attempt to drive through Hclgiuni. The American Seventh Army is hitting enemy positions north of the French city of Strasburg. Russians Move Rapidly MOSCOW Two big Kussian army groups have overrun 2000 more Polish towns in a great winter offensive designed to , force Germany to her knees. One Soviet artny group is less than 38 miles from Geiman Silesia and gains up to nearly 40 miles have been achieved by other Kussian armies com manded by .Marshal Gregory Zhukov. Although they got off to a late start, Zhakov's tanks and infantry have captured at least 1300 cities, towns and villages in Poland, including the Ibigf big enemy stronghold of Radom Asaw. Formosa Heavily Hit J WASHINGTON The big Japanese Island base of For- jmosa soon may rate as the most bombed spot in the Pacific. 'One week ago forty American superfortress bombers hurled their deadly explosives at the island and on Sunday 100 B-29's ; pounded that enemy stronghold, meeting no fighter opposition. .tarly this week, Allied carrier-planes blasted Formosa with bombs, rockets, and machine-gun fire. And today, the B-29's ,werc back again, adding to the destruction already wrought. The targets for today's assault arc described as military lrj yancing OnManil MacAKTHFR'S IIKADQUAIITKKS, Luron General Mac Arthur's forces on Luzon Island in the Philippines ate rolling down the main highway towards Manila without encountering anything more serious than a few enemy patrols. The American spearheads have reached a point about forty-five miles from the original Lingaycn beachheads with Manila eighty-three miles away. Travel To This Province Is Up VANCOUVER, Jan. 17 Q Al Woods, secretary of the Vancouver Tourist Association and Automobile Association of British Columbia, said there was an Increase of 37.7 percent in travel from the United States to Vancouver through Pacific customs ports In 1944. Total visitors In 1944 were 305,038 as compared with 221,500 in the previous year. Undiminished Bi Of WAR NEWS and Daily Happenings fifty-five miles south of War- Local Temperature Maximum 40 Minimum 31 Rainfall for the 24-hour period to midnight Tuesday was .26 NEAHING MANILA AMERICANS 1IEADQUART-LHS IN PHILIPPINES Meeting with surprisingly little lc-(istance, American forces have now advanced to within 65 miles of .Manila and 20 miles of important Clark air field. DEFENSE MINISTER AT PRESS CONFERENCE Visiting Montreal Tuesday to Inspect the Royal Canadian Army Ordnance Depot at Longue Polnte. General A. O. L. McNaughton, Minister of National Defence, held a brief Informal press conference In the R.T.O. office at Windsor Station. The minister Is shown above as he told press men Canada was "pulling no punches" In its efforts to reinforce Its men serving overseas. BOMBERS ARE HITTING HARD British and Canadian Planes Out in Force Again Over Vital Nazi Targets LONDON, Jan. 17 a British and Canadian bombers were active over Germany during-the night. They unloaded about 6000 tons of bombs on three German oil plants and the Important Nazi Industrial centre of Magdeburg. More than 1200 heavy bombers took part in the raids. Targets Included two oil refineries near Leipzig and another at the town of Brux in Czechoslovakia. The raid on Magdeburg followed two successive daylight attacks by American bombers. The Germans sent up swarms of fighter planes in an unsuccessful attempt to drive off the British and Canadian raiders. Shifting Contracts Redistribution Work to Spread Around Shipbuilding Among Various Yards on This Coast VANCOUVER, Jan. 17 Plans to redistribute steel shipbuilding contracts among the seven shipyards of British Columbia In or der to obtain maximum use of the facilities of the yards were discussed at a meeting here last week between shipyard officials and C. L. Dewar, president, and D. B. Carswell. director general rJtIiarUmiiilt.. ocriro panying the twQ Ottawa shipbuilding heads on their visit to the coast were high naval officers. The contracts now in hand include maintenance ships, large steel landing craft, 10,000-ton freighters, victualling ships and 1350-ton China coasters. Some of the coastal yards are now running short of work while others have Jobs which would keep them busy for considerable time. Bernard Allen, manager of the Prince Rupert dry dock, was at the conference to explain the situation and the possibilities of his yard. CAR STRIKE NEARLY OVER Vancouver Street Railway-men to Vote Tomorrow On 6c Per Hour Increase VANCOUVER, Jan. 17 Street railwaymen of Vancouver will vote tomorrow on a "back-to-work" proposal by which they would be granted a 6c per hour basic wage increase with final settlement of the dispute left to the Regional War Labor Board. It is confidently suggested that street cars and busVs will be back in operation by the end of the week. CO-OPERATIVE ISALVATION OF MAS5ETUAIU VANCOUVER, Jan. 17 ? Mrs. S. L. Simpson, wife of the manager of the Massett Co-opera tlve Association's clam cannery and herself working as a clam digger, told the Royal Commission on co-operative taxation here how the isolated vll-lige on Graham Island In the Queen Charlottes averted econ omic disaster by organizing a co-operative. Mrs. Simpson said that the non-profit organization jalsed the standard of living of all persons appreciably. Commission chairman, Mr. Justice McDougall, complimented Mrs. Simpson on the excellence of her submission and said It was "probably the best human document we have ever seen." Speed Reds Out to Force Final War Decision S LUNUUN. Jan. 17 (UF) nfl fnwcanl ntiti-ifontltr iin challenged today through broken German defences," in southern and central 'Tl Poland in two mighty waves of ': l.' jf winter offensive and Premier ... .. ... i i,f,4T' maun at Moscow announcea inert 14 capture of Warsaw, the capital of Poland. Lublin reported, un- confirmed at Moscow, that Kra-i kcv.' had also fallen to the Rus-1 ';. slans. i mi either men or machines," saidU? one German broadcaster. "They if V are out to force a decision of-.vff the war." Moscow reported that soviet vanguaras are oniy twenty-seven miles from the German Silesia frontier. Krakow, German stronghold in southwestern Poland, was?fil menaced with Russian gunsi J shelling its outer defences fromL! less than ten. miles away. Berlin also reported that the'Wi Russians had- lumped Into thefX I offensive on at least eleven se"--JV$S tors of the 600-mile front be( tween the Baltic and Yugo-K7i Slovakia. W the Russian advance in EajtJj Prussia continued uncnccKeaj'iJ tnriav. HOUSE TO PROROGUE OTTAWA Jan 1 7 (T Primp Minister King has announced that the present session of Par liament will be prorogued Janu ary 31 as planned. However the Prime Minister's announcement1 said that before deciding upon; the time at which the next ses sion of Parliament will be held,'; the governnient will wait and see how the by-election In Ore; North goes. The government candidate m the Ontario by-election is thei defence minister General A. G L. McNaughton. If the defence- minister is defeated, it is be lieved on the basis of statements will Vvr nn fiiltViA1 ropplnn if II ' n tu nj mt but. atMiuu Parliament before a general el-fy; ectlon, and that the election may. come quickly. USING OF DRY DOCK "On behalf of our members we wish to greet the action of thei?b Boilermakers' Local In bringing 1 A. ... 1 1 A, . ,11 1 1 . J".. ( 10 me anenwon oi me ciiy cuun-7(ji cil the need for an Immediate'i cltv-wlde conference on recon-! version, lay-offs and post-war, emnlovment and to commendr1 Ai the city council for calling such& a conference," says a statement' Issued by special meeting of the executive of the Prince Ruperft Labor - Progressive Club. "WeJ , . i . . . ; i. i- l siiouia also line vu cuuuueua t-y tlon to assure full employment' -)"' anrt Tvrnsnpritv bplnff taken bv' ,, I K the Prince Rupert Chamber oylffj V' Commerce. r. a. agenda for all the people of thlil city at the present time Is thojH question or maintaining iiiu em-fj dock workers. SraM M'.fjl hit.- r.i. .1 11 il, iL. committal attitude of Mr. Dev-Siff pnlch nf thi r?NR lira n fiinrlaJ?'ll mentally defeatist attltudewi which cannot be accented bvrt either business or labor In PrlnctH Rupert. "Certainly if rumors now bc-j r. ,Au ing circulated tnai me u.mji. i planning to build its post-wai; coastwise steamers on the Clyde-gj; side are untrue the CNJt. shovlcjf prompitly deny them and formu-j late plans now to build these boats in Prince Runert with tin' i staff already assembled. .T1l'