0(1 I It J . - Tatrt nnrnf f NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER Tomorrouf 8 Tides Tempe"atures 'or the Prince (PmcLfle Standard Time) ui district or today read: upert Thursday, June 7, 1045 ...... 51 rrt High 11J13 1 WtQ frot 43. 23:20 2LPjfcet linimum Low i 5:04.. v 3.7, feet alnfall- .18 inches. WF.TmpbA'VPjI 17:05 5.0. feet okvo .M.A. President Says Canadians - i r . i . 1 ill io-operaie wun utner ountries in Peace as in War 0RONTO, June b (CP) Canada's great nulus- svstem stands ready and willing to put its full . i i .1 v , r said in the course of his .j .v,. In ro r wilt f Q -mpd mteht of the Security ,:t nH If If n.VmnU in tanpmics, trade, finance other national policies, it trt imnrirnr zip n n ( n ttkiif rlliintlnti Vf 1 alt in the early stages tout LI1UUHJ. Ill LI1LT tTIiU. i and carry cut demesnes and plans In harmony th;:: of Ahc world organ!- i . i ii.. an ) their duty in co- thev can da the same in he continued. m t y ;i uanaaian manuiaciux- ers is to do the utmost in providing suitable employment far those in the services. These include not only former employees bat ycunger men and women ranc' co have planned and , wh enlisted without 'having in- ;1-d to keep the peace and , austriai experience ana ex-serv icemen wno nave ueen paruy disabled and who will require to be trained or re-trained for em ployment. While many will need i assistance and encouragement! for a time the great majority of ex-servicemen and wetnen con stitute not a problem but one of Canada's national arrets. Kescarch Impurtant "Scientific and industrial research is one of the certain hopes for the future," Mr. Macfarlane said, and this subject Is to be studied at length during the three-day meeting. "Under the urgent needs of war, scientists, manufacturers and admlnlstra-j tors hav? discovered and applied I new ideas, machines and mate-1 j rials which were not dreamed of j a few years ago." This should be 'continued and applied to the conditions and requirements of peace, he said. Canadian industry was vitally dependent umn, tmoolh operation arri expansion cf international trade. saW the president, since it was necessary to export (Continued on Page 4) .. . . . ..ai.r vpiiTII N OR UT rAMtU BUKPttlCil SPECTS U.S.O. SERVICE CLUBS HERE W FNTFIK GGER FIGHT Pfakins In Vancouver "I'Sht Describes Hone Hour S Miatnnf l' l.nicwlA craiPEO, June 6 Pi Pre- Oeorge Drew of Ontario I rea the federal election de 1 for the first time last night- 5 is the moot shameful epl- i vunaaian nistory. urcw (i the blame on Mackenzie and the Liberal covern- Ontario premier w.is on ay to Vancouver from To- L.. . , ... , - "jr IctllU. IlC Will Vancouver tonight, the Brit' Columbia Conservative As ;atlon announced. Percussions f Middle East riwvwuisuo, June o (" ircussions of th Middle East nave toeen felt at the San Frisco conference, where tho e Arab states have agreed to 7 "ig Power veto authority ton2 as the oresent zoveni- r ranee continues in of- ABOUT . . . time he has visited U.S.O. cen- (Contlriuel cn Page 6) FREE ELECTIONS FOR ARGENTINA BUEXOS AIRES, June 6 CP1 Argentina's president, General Edehniro Farrcll, said In a radio address yesterday lhat he is ap-nroachlng the las-t days of his presidency. He said that during those days he Is determined to fulfill the government's promise to restore constitutional govern ment through free elections However, he set no definite date for stepping out of oni?e. BRITAIN HONORS JAP LONDON 0 Pte. Solchl Tera-oka of the Royal Army Medical Corps, first soldier ol Japanese parents to be decorated here, has been awarded ithc B.E.M. for nur.sins Hrltlsh wounded in, occupied France until his repatriation la3t year. Family Allowances Im't allow the enemies of social reform to mislead you. The Family Allowance Act definitely benefits all those with families who earn less than $3000.00 per year. sPPort the Party that Is FIUST in social reform. KEALLY Progressive . . . Vote LIBERAL VOL. XXXIV, No. 131. PRINCE RUPERTfS NE 6, 1945 PRICE FIVE CENTS nadian Industry Is WHY HITLER ady for Peacetime vva vnrMnfl r ariw i o .1 ' 'ft K LOST WAR IS TOLD BY JAP rth into the problems of peace, both national travelled in Russia, he never international, J. C. Macfarlane, K.C., president; would have gone to war Manufacturers' stated' wmnaum. i e Canadian Association, ,. I r it rriii ..1 i' r wiiiii auu miu tiiai uu- .sociaun yesterday. More - 000 Canadian industrial 'i c-untrici represented at nlted Nations conference at EAN FRANCISCO, June 6 O) - A Japanese war correspondent who has arrived in Tokyo from Berlin has expressed his views on why Hitler lost the war. He said that had Hitler many underestimated the bel ligerent determination of Britain and the United States. Foundering OF Frigate ll.SI.CS. Chebogue Went Down Off Swansea Bay, It Is Announced LONDON, June 6 O) The Canadian frigate Chebogue foundered in a storm in Swan- Bay off South Wales last December, it was announced to day. Five of the crew were kill ed. two were listed as missing and ten were injured. THREE SEATS IN ONTARIO UNSETTLED TORONTO. June 6 O Thrca seats' remain doubtful on the basis of civilian voting on Man day's Ontario general election. A re-check in Wellington North" shows -"the Progressive Conservative candidate with lead of three votes. Monday night the seat had been conceded to the Liberal candidate, Ross Mecwing. Three constituencies are now doubtful Kenora, Rainy Rlvrr antfSault Salnte Marie. A C.C.F. candidate is leading in Kenora, a Liberal-Labor candidate in Rainy River, and a Progressive Although stout and somewhat graying, the origi-1 conservative ln Sault ... n p i un. Tnt.t " flirt virrnvs m iuuin:. ur oi tne inmeu uui itc icai., m- b". ich have condemned thousands of aspiring young d dutv because of poor physi- condition, looks as if he 'could sweat through the himsp f without, too milC l irotiDie. He is Dr. itoyai a. uurpvi.-, Ph.D., Columbia University, and he was in the city during the early part of the week in the course of a tour of U.S.O. clubs of which he is overseas program director. HLs visit here was the final one in a tour which has taken him more than 6u,uuo mucs m the last 18 months. In that HAD STOLEN TREASURES Quisling's Mansion in Oslo Filled With Priceless Art Objects Vidkun Qulslln3, who ruled Norway for Adolf Hitler, had a fabulous fortune of stolen paintings and ait objects In his pur-Joined mansion In Oslo. When workmen b:gan the work of removing stolen art treasures and furniture from his purloined residence, "Gimle," art critics and government omciais . 1 1 i. . . i were amazea at anc lituuiuua wealth and priceless 6bject3 Quisling acquired In five years cf rule. r "We thought Quisling was on of Hitler's favorites and It must be true," one officer said. "Look at -theae oil paintings 'that's Reubens. These others are Rem-brandts and originals toy the greatest masters of Italy, France, the Lowlands and our own Norway." The famous painting "Ship wreck," by the Norwegian artist j Gude, valued at 70.000 kroner I about $16,000 at pre-war exchange rates) was In Quisling's home. Works by ithe Norwegian artists Musch and Pedcman, valued at thousands of dollars , hung In every rom of the large maniion. Officials said that in original paintings alone Quisling had built up a fortune measured in millions of dollars. Quisling's huge banquet room, 100 feci long and 30 feet wide, seating 100, was furnished in a Middle Ages style. All the furniture for his large bedroom and study came from King Haakon's palace. The estate was encircled by an electrically charged fence and a force of 40 was employed to maintain a constant guard In the stone blockhouses established at the gateways. AUSTKIAL ADMINISTRATION VIENNA. Brilteh, American and French missions "havi art . ,. ! i...tf.ltk UVCU 111 VJUllll.t lu uircuniiiiu the Russians and airanee lor setting up of a joint adminls-1 M.IW.I ... .M J.. .... BRAZIL DECLARES WAR RIO HE JANIERO. Braxil today declared war on Japan. Relations had been broken off since January, 1932. The declaration enables the Allies to use bases in Brazil. CHINESE TAKE LOOCIlOlV-CIIUNGKING. The Chinese have recaptured the important southeast China port of Loo-chow. CANADA APPROVES OTTAWA Piimc Minister Mackenzie King announces that Canada has approved the military terms of occupation imposed upon Germany. CELEBRATE "D-DAY" UTRECHT. The Canadian First Division celebrated the first anniversary of "D-Day" today with a March Tast. The salute was taken by Lieut. Gen. II. I). G. Crerar. r.OMIJ CAUSED BLAST PARIS. American military police in Germany have advanced the theory that the explosion in Bremen which killed 20 was caused by a time bomb. The investigation is continuing. No Week-end Excursions TORONTO, June G 60.' Civilians can stop hoping for those week-end, holiday and excursion fares on Canadian railways. It looks as If restrictions, banning such special rates will stay in force for a while. Federal Trans port 'Controller T. C. Lockwood has told the Canadian Manufacturers' Association that re turning servicemen will receive : priority on Canadian transpor- tatlon systems even if necessary i equipment has to be taken off regular trains. Drank Defrosting Fluid Four Dead WINNIPEG, June 6 'Four persons died in hospital in Winnipeg yesterday following a week-end drinking party at which police say the victims had a mixture of airplane defrosting fluid. WATER FOR MALTA VA.LETTA, Malta 'Pi A notable discovery by a water boring company cf the Royal Eng'neers U of unlimited water from a gusher 300 feet down", in 'thecen-trc of the Island. This, It Is prophesied, will remove the possibility of a water famine and will revolutionize agriculture. GLASS SAND The purity of sand has a great Influence upon the quality of glass made from it. TENSIONS DErT. JOBS ; CALGARY The recruiting of ex-servicemen in Canada for jobs in the department of veterans' affaifs is to be discontinued. This has been announced In Calgary by the veterans' administrator for western Canada George C. Derby of Vancouver. 3D;. Derby said that a delegation would go overseas shortly to fill remaining posts with men still in nvasion gLBKh. 4JzWSBmM?ifflmke' WIM UNDFKSEAS HAIDER SURRENDERS AT ENQMSH PORT Appearing off British shores with a black flag flying in accordance with surrender terms, the first German U-boat to give herself up lies hovc-to off Weymouth. BriUsh sailors on the Royal Navy vessel, left, watch the crew of the Nazi underseas craft, now prisoners of war guarded by Polish sailors. SuUeiiHA . JSKW. LANDING IELDS J resources minister, J. L. riielps, says landing strips for wheel-equipped aircraft will be cut out Of the heavily timbered areas of northern Saskatchewan. The strips will be provided at 3Ieadow Lake, Lac la Rouse, Hudson Bay Junction, and Isle a la Crosse. The strips will enable private planes to visit the northern part of the province. COAST DEFENCES READY VANCOUVER. Officials of organizations responsible for the defences of Canada's west coast assured Canadians yesterday that they arc ready to handle any situation that may occur. Their assurance comes soon after a Japanese propaganda broadcast announcing plans to send to North America -what were described as bomb - carrying stratosphere balloons manned by death-defying Japanese pilots. QUEBEC MANHANDLING THETFORD MINES. The assistant manager of the employment office hcic was manhandled by mine workers supposedly because he reported army defaulters. TORONTO. Three libel suits arc pending as a icsult of the Ontario election campaign. Premier Drew, re-elected by a landslide in , Monday's voting, is suing the Toronto Star, and he himself faces two court actions. The suits against Premier Drew are brought by Piu-vincial Police Constable J. A. Rone and Flight Lieutenant L. E. Wismcr, who was defeated as C.C.F. candidate in Toronto Riverdale. Halibut Sales American (15c and 13V2c) Narrona, 42.000. Pacific, Booth. California, 18.000, Storage. Aleutian, 44.G00, Storage. Canadian (13Hc and 16V2c) Ingrld H., 15,000, Atlin. Margaret I, 2d,00, Booth, Kenn Falls, 26,000, Royal. Tramp, 22,000, Storage. Mother II, 8,500, Whiz. Helen II, 24.C0O. Co-op. Arctic I, 20.000, Pacific Northern Breeze, 35,000, Stor age. 'ThelmaL, 8.500, Atlin. Western Roamer, 10,000, Booth. Cape Spear, 12,000, Storage. Horrible Experiments Confirmation of the Reports of Callous Scientific Treat-I nicnt of Buchcn wald I Prisoners A captain of 4 he Medical Corps, l VJSA., describes a visit to Buch ; cnwald, In It he confirms the slory that tlw Germans used nri sewers in carrying out medical and surgical research. 1 he' medical captain's tour tcck l him to "experimental hospital." ' Here men were glvsh typhus against their willvHundrsdj are 'sald-lo have vdied,. Operations were- performed va Ihi'toinacns of prisoners to devise new surgical procedure;. Ths medical captain says that "the latoratories of their experimental hospital were beaui fully equipped." He saw 4he finest Instruments, re- ' ! 1 1 1 1 1... mntn all spotlessly clean. There was a museum "full of pathological specimens from au- topsied victims cf experi ments. Among the exhibits were death masks of prlscnsrs who had been forced to serve as guin ea pigs. According to the captain one inscription read: "Polish Jew, age 38." Another ran; "Aryan frcm Breslau, married a Jewess, age 52." A third death mask was that of a Negro scholar from Africa who had travelled all over Uw world, according to informa tion given by a prisoner who had knewn him. The guide made much of a col lsction of pieces of tatooed hu man skin. He reccunte'd that the arrogant wife of the camp com mander used to attend inspections of naked prisoners for lice. Whenever she saw a tattoo that pleased her she took the prisoner's number. Saon thereafter he was killed, his skin tanned and the tattooed sections pres-ented to Frau Kommaildant. She had made a large lampshade of them, the story ran. The cap tain says that the shade will be produced In a war-criminal trial. To support his tale the culde nulled out of his .pocket a tanned section of hu man breast brilliantly and In tricately tattooed. He had stolen it from the museum. Yet the prisoners Interviewed said Buchenwald was "one of the better and less dreaded con ccntratlon camps in Germany." BODY OF ADOLF HITLER FOUND Identity Has Been Established With "Fair Certainty," Is Is Said by Russian Sources BERLIN, June G A high Russian source said today that t 'a body found In Berlin has been identified with fair certainty as being that of Adolf Hitler. The body, smoke-blackened and charred, was one of four discovered in the ruins of a great underground fortress beneath the Helens-chancellory after the fall of Berlin. Of Sentenced To Death Indian Convicted of Murder At Prince George Mother Freed of Manslaughter PRINCE GEORGE, June 6 Alex Prince, Sikanee Indian, was sentenced by Chief Justice W. B. Farris at the Supreme Couit Assizes here yesterday to hang September 18 for the murder of Eugene Messmer on the ice of the Finlay River about March, 1944. Mrs. Grace Martinson of Aleza Lake was acquitted on a charge of manslaughter Involving the deaths of her two children,. Laura and Ernest, in a fire which destroyed her home, last May 11. Chief Just-Ice Farris took the case from the jury on completion of the crown- evidence, staling that the Criminal Code contained stay at home with her children. She was at a store and her husband was at work when the fire started. TOP MILITARY MEN SIGNED UP- J First Meeting of Control Commission Deferred Because Russ General Unauthorized LONDON, June 6 ) Top mil itary leaders of Great Britain, United States, Russia and France yesterday in Berlin signed the historic document proclaiming the assumption of supreme mili tary authority in the Reich. General Elsenhower signed for the United States, Field Marshal Montgomery for Britain: Mar shal Zhukov for Russia, and General de Tassigny for France. The western allies had hoped to hold' the first meeting of the control council but this plan fell through when Marshal Zhu kov disclosed that he was not empowered to do more than sign the declaration. The Russians seem to want allied troops to return to their own occupation zones before further talks. General Elsenhower told Zhu kov he would be glad to confer at any time and: then left by plane for Frankfurt. Field Mar shal Montgomery also went back to his headquarters but other apart Asiatic "D-Day" Is Believed Imminent Japanese Radio Virtually Admits That Okinawa Is Lost Portentious News Blackout in American Quarters MANILA, June 6 (CP) The Japanese admitted today that American invaders have reduced Okinawa to an "isolated island" and warned that invasion of Japan is imminent Virtual admission that Okinawa is lost came as unexpected American silence indicated the possible end of the campaign, buch news black outs in ine past nave oiten pre- ceded the announcement of developments of major importance such as conclusion of campaigns or the launching of new inva sions. Radio Tokyo claims' that the Japanese mainland has been converted into an Impregnable fortress. CAMPAIGN WARMS UP Churchill Fears Socialistic Gestapo Morrison- Galls His Broadcast "Crazy"' LONDON, June 6 Britain's election campaign is under way. Prime Minister Churchill opened his campaign lor re-election by; declaiming what he called the "Socialistic program of the Labor party." Such a program, he says, could not m established without some fenn or gestapo. Laborlte leader Herbert Morrison promptly retaliated by referring to -the prime minister's speech- as "Churchill's crazy Toronto Honors Victoria Cross Winner's Memory TORONTO, June 6 0) The York county council yesterday honored the memory of the only Canadian airman to win a Victoria Cross in this war the late Flight Lieutenant David Hornell of Mimico, near Toronto. Flight Lieutenant Hornell was posthu mously awarded the Victoria Cross last July as the result of an action In which the aircraft he captained destroyed a marine off Iceland, The craft wai Itself destroyed. nfftrprs rpmalned for a b.mouet : Foorfiow. CHINESE TAKE - ONE TOWN BACK' CHUNGKING, June 6 &-Chl-nese fcrces are said to havertE-taken the tewn of Salpu Sir ihe coast of Fukien province. Semiofficial despatches reaching Chungking say that the Japsra fleeing northward along: the ccast frcm the Saipu area toward "Wendhow, 250 miles '"south of Shanghai. Salpu had been captured toy a small Jap landing force which was .put ashore to support enemy troops retreating northward from the, Foochow area. The town Tctaken by the given by the Russians. j Chinese f oces are also credited The declaration signed yestcr-1 with new gains in their fight day places Germany under the against the Japanese In Kwangsl absolute control of the allies, t province. The Chinese are,;ald The terms provide that Ger-i'to have re-occupied the former many shall be confined to her American alrbase at Liuchpw. borders as drawn in 1947. duii this is by no means final. The allies may make whatever fron tier changes they desire later on. Thomas Edison was a pioneer in the usj of electricity for Weather Forecast Today, light to moderate winds, cloudy and mild with light rain tonight Thursday, light to moderate winds, cloudy and mild with occasional rain showers. PUBLIC MEETING MRS. TILLIE ROLSTON And MAJ. JIM HARVEY I.O.D.E. Hall, Tonight 8 o'Clock SUPPORT BRACKEN VOTE HARVEY t - 1 . t