111 VI I I II i iii'iiii ji AUUUKAICU - Il.rfari loll irnrvr.TDN DC. Jan. 20 Pre ripnt Franklin D. Roose- hr hi. fourth term to- .") a pintle that "wc shaK f r a Just and durable lay we work and fight v: :ry In the war." J.lrz the Inauguration ; w-j '.he smallest crowd :: ; y:ar. . .. t Ood to sec that th? lead. j a better life and hall 'rive for perfection. ihau not- achieve It tmmedl- ; bvl we hall strive." ).'s Missing AFTEES ARE in a i rnnn AS LEAVES mnrr i ia ni.iirri ai i mm II l Vliri 11 tr m In IIii.a awa, jan zu i uniciai ' t. been given, to 1 i .. 5'e numbers or ' f-: ada . Home Defence are . . 3 overdue from cm- - . vvi.gvi 0 w. . 1 i w ir.zap nun ir rn iw ::rlty consideration - . . '.I..V4 lAigv, jjiiva lu r I Vfr linnfl U rn. fr m zr.rz j the Dominion at? the number may be frm 1.500 to 2.000. 1 arc men destined for ovcr- v under an ak - a total of 16,000 r 41. iii. ui. . atii.iiiii 1 ftp nvortPfi aff.cial announcement military headquarters In - utiucs minuxiipn re- - ' Home Defence troops Wually taken possession .1 i :i r m r . . v .1 m?nr admits that conslder- aambcrs ot men are absent ut luve it adds that some turned to camp after aylni their leave. Mi . -ral newspaper (The -r. there have been :'-i lit:.' manv of the mm of Kr yuvviti uuu ui Lilt: rcokc Fusiliers at Jollctte. - oia-u 10 return irom t ' .Vf'i t- r 1 1 L-dr-n, Ontario, it Is re- n thi - ...ui tuics 01 men ud- '.tlnilt lpavo frrim thn rv. Ririr and the Dufferln nnd irrt n til n 1 1 ... u ivines may loiai as ai'V, lh Is cnlr! Mmf nn. Wr - W UlllU L I I (1 V iVI' .j ivy urances irom Kiiedulcd to go over 1 u- ri.. .1 i 1 'ir. .mis u w rcrt New Year's back to their j , muie man ttrai-arc rcpprlcd to have failed rPun. for duty after a holl-'P!'ve in Saskatchewan, 1 nune nmvi . 1. 1 1 u n ... 7 "7 ommana Headquar-m Vancouver says about 20 C'H of the BrlWsh Columbia lucrs of Homo Tinfpnr.n units last December when they moved to Eastern Canada ailed to report for duty. Harold Schuvler nf VIp,. " nas wen visiting at "me of staff Sergeant and Johnstone. Drovlnclnl . .w niursaay nlgnt to rn to Victoria. LONDON, Jan. 20 (CP) Possibility that the astounding advances of the Russians may crush Germany and end the war in weeks fills military circles in London with suppressed excitement. No responsible military figure will predict the outcome" but informed persons make no secret Of the impression thai the Russians have used massive strength on a scale, hitherto undreamed of to catch the Germans off balance. in central Poland and may have pierced the only German line of fortifications on the eastern front. Canadians Make Gain Capture Stronghold Across Stnio Hirer Italians Join Allies in Combat ROME, Jan. 20 O Canadians of the British Eighth Army have captured a German stronghold on the cast bank of the Scnio river opposite Fuslgnano, 13 miles north of Facnza, headquarters said today. Important news from the Hai nan front Is the arrival of the first trained Italian combat units to fight with the Allies against the Germans. Otherwise other activity along this front Is confined to patrol activity. Planes .of the Allied Mediter ranean air-force have carried out raids against railroads, bridges and communications In FIND BODY OF DROWNED MAN The body of Harry Geddes of Massctt, drowned when the boat In which he and two others were travelling was wrecked off Lan- gara Island last week, has been recovered off the west coast of Graham Island, provincial police here were informed Friday afternoon. An inquiry Into the drowning is scheduled to take place at Massctt on January 22. Western Front Menace To Strasbourg Germans Arc Still Advancing On Alsace City Situation Elsewhere PARIS. Jan. 20 to Three suc cessive German attacks from the centre of the cross-Rhine corridor have smashed the American Seventh Army's defence line almost five miles Into Wayer-shcln, eight miles north of Strasbourg. At one point the Nazis arc only eight miles from Strasbourg. The American First Army Is driving upon Saint Vith. highway stronghold in the diminishing Belgian bulge. In the Netherlands German narachutc troops seized Zettcr but an Allied communique said the "situation was later re stored." The Canadians arc Having heavy fighting north of Nljme-gcn. Snowstorms are blanketing all the western front. Col. Frank Barber Back From Overseas Col. F. H, Barber, well known throughout the central Interior as representative of the Soldiers' SetUcment Board at Tclkwa before the war, is revisiting Prince Rupert on military business. Since early In the war Col. Barber has been overseas and. for three years he was In charge of a large training school In England. He returned to Canada at the end of last year. , REMANDED .ON 151,250 BAIL Ball of $1,250 was set for Rutli Matzlck by Magistrate W. D. Vance at the conclusion of the preliminary hearing Friday afternoon when he remanded the 21-year old American girl, charged with manslaughter, to appear for hearing at the spring session of Assize court. The ball was produced by two bondsmen who presented sureties of $625 each. The magistrate stipulated that the girl must not leave the Prince Rupert dhtrlct while un der bond. The manslaughter charge was laid as a result of the traffic death of George H. Ross, elderly United States civilian guard on Decembcr.13- Local Temperature Maximum . 39 Minimum 33 RECRUITING CAMPAIGN Trogram of Events Arranged Tor Next Week hy I'rince Rupert Regiment Arrangements have beeri com pleted for a special program of events in connection with the recruiting campaign for the Prince Rupert Regiment reserve unit,, which will be conducted . : lhry,udoutiilext week with cn- Itluienls received each evening at the armory and a final rally on Friday f venlng. Tomorrow afternoon there will be a battalion parade with band on Third Ave. on foot in one direction and In transport and mechanized equipment on the return. The parade will be fol lowed by a weapon demonstra tion on the Court House grounds. The Friday night rally at the Armory will give the public an opportunity to see at first hand the training of the reserve In various arms. Radio broadcasts will be another feature of the week's campaign. Monday evening. Captain C. J. Norrlngton; Wednesday evening, Capit. W. R. McAfee; Thursday evening, Major C. J. O. Toombs. There , was to havs .beeA a machine gun and anti-aircraft shoot Monday night but this has been cancelled, a routine 1 battalion parade' to be held SutletiU TORPEDOED IN PACIFIC SAN FRANCISCO It is repotted here that a Liberty ship lias been torpedoed and sunk between San Francisco and Honolulu. Surviving seamen said that ten of their number perished when the Japanese machine-gunned life boats. HITLER WAR CRIMINAL LONDON Adolf Hitler and other Nazis have been cited as war criminals by the War Crimes Commission of mass executions in Czechoslovakia. STILL IIO.UBING GERMANY , LONDON Heavy bombers ol the American Eighth Air Force hare resumed the daylight air offensive against Germany. A brief announcement states only that thejVmerlcan bombers have been over the Reich today. iMunstrr, Stuttgart and Mannheim were targets. JAP RAID SHELTERS TOKYO The Japanese government is to move underground because of increasing air raids. The government has voted $160,000,000 for air raid shelters. COLLEGE HEAD DIES LONDON, OnL Dr. James Alexander Macliean, former president of University of Idaho and ot University of Manitoba, died here at the age of 76. HONSHU BOMBED (S E N K RAL MacARTIIUR'S HEADQUARTERS When American superfortresses attacked the main Japanese home island of Honshu yesterday the targets were Osaka, Kobe and arr important airplane manufacturing plant In which large fires were started and heavy damage done. JAPAN FACES CRISIS TOKYO A Tokyo radio broadcast said yesterday that the Japanese Empire "is really facing a crisis." CASUALTIES IN ARDENNES LONDON The Nazi counter-offensive in the Ardennes cost the Allies 5.1,000 casualties and the enemy 120,000, according to a statement yesterday. Lighl-tecn thousand Allies were taken prisoner and 10,000 Nazis. MAY DYE UNIFORMS OTTAWA Discharged service men and women may dye their uniforms but must remove all military insignia and may not sell the uniforms. BATTLE OF PHILIPPINES SAN FRANCISCO American forces on Luzon Island arc now -concentrating upon the important mountain stronghold of Rosario before moving on toward Manila. SEND NAVY TO PACIFIC LONDON Minister or the Navy Angus Macdonald said yesterday that Canada would send a sizeable fleet to the southwest Pacific including cruisers, carriers, destroyers and frigates but not corvettes which are uiisuitcd for Pacific warfare. ALLIES. REVERSED LONDON First and Third American Armies in Ilelgium suffered some setbacks yesterday and lost ground. The Germans have made further headway in their corridor through Alsace toward Strasbourg. 'ARMY CAMP TRQUBLE LONDON, OntIt has been revealed that several hundred Home Defence lrooi arc absent without leave from two Canadian Army infantry units Dufferln and Ilaldimand Rifles and Oxford Rifles which moved from the west coast In December. Some failed to report back from leave and some scaled a fence on December 31 following trouble of undisclosed nature. Some reports say as many as 700 may be missing. JAPAN BEING HEAVILY HIT' Romliinjr Attacks on Japanese Homeland are Growing: in Weight WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 20 fl Forty-one major missions since June have been staged against ' Industrial and military targets in the Japanese Empire. Reports from Guam tell further of the latest superfortress aijtUOty against the Japanese homeland when a huge aircraft factory on the western fringe of the -swollen Kobe-Osaka Indus trial area was bombed. Reports of damage were more encourag lrig than returns from previous Honshu raids. Every plane re ported hitting Its target. Some reported heavy explosions and hu?e fires. Conscripts Overseas Total of 8300 H.D.'s Have Been Sent From Canada Since Christmas OTTAWA, Jan. 20 (CP) Lieut. Gen. A. G. L. McNaugh-ton, minister, of national defence,, announces the arrival in Britain of 8300 'Home Defence troops. He said that the troop movement began Christmas week. The General said that the conscript troops were accompanied, overseas Jiy a, full normal quota of reinforments, presumably general service men from the home training stream. The minister said that, while the special program arranged for the use of NJM. R.A. personnel overseas, the voluntary reinforcement stream is also progressing according to schedule. General McNaughlon also revealed that 6,300 Home Defence soldiers, who had been warned for overseas service and given leave, were absent without leave. THEATRE JUBILEE Special Stage and Screen Olferings at Capitol Next Week Marking the celebration of the silver Jubilee of the Famous Players Canadian Corporation, special stage attractions will be offered throughout next week In conjunction with the screen picture programs at the local Capital Theatre. On Monday and Tuesday, Dor othy Douglas, ventriloquist, will be presented on the stage while the feature picture will be "Marriage is a Private Affair," starring Lana Turner. The mid-week feature picture will be "Tamplco," with Lynn Barl, while quiz contests will be slaged Wednesday and Thursday evenings Gyro vs. Kinsmen Club Wednesday night; and Booth Memorial High School teams Thursday night. Bob Wil- lett and Lloyd Morris, CFPR ra dlo announcers, will handle the 1 quiz contests, the former as quiz master and the latter as master i of ceremonies. The Wednesday night quiz will be broadcast over station CFPR. ' Friday and .Saturday evenings Ted Lewis of" the United States Coastguard Service will appear, on the stage In a novelty act entitled "A Yank and His Rope." ! The feature picture will be "The nun Man Goes Home" with Wll Ham Powell and Myrna Loy. On Saturday morning there will be a special screen show for children with a Henry Aldrlch picture and a Donald Duck and tGoofy short feature. Delayed January Liquor Coupons To Be Honored VANCOUVER, Jan. 20 Unused January liquor permits will be good for the first part of February, W. F. Kennedy, chairman of the Liquor Control Board, announced yesterday. The step is taken in order that those 'who have been unable to obtain 1945 ration books in time might not be deprived of the January ration. CAMPAIGN BOOK MONEY The Imperial Order, Daughters of the Empire, having under taken the work of distributing books to the three armed ser vices, tne needs of which are said by the minister of national war services to be greater than ever before, Is next week instl tcting a campaign for funds for this object.. Mrs. Sidney Elklns, regent of Municipal Chapter, is chairman of the campaign committee with Miss Florence Parker as treasur er and Miss Helen Valentine as Secretary. The canvassers will be Mrs. D. C. Stuart, Mrs. R. JKar-on, Mrs. Jens Munrthe. Mrs. F. M. Kcmpton, Mrs. S. R. Donaldson, Mrs. Clarke McLean, Mrs. J. E. Boddle, Mrs. J. M. Taylor, Mrs.. II. A. Breen and Mrs. W. W. In addition to the canvassing, the Victory Hut on Third Ave. at Fourth St. will be open to receive contributions. .TODAY&STOCKS,.. Courtesy S. D. Johnston Co. Ltd. VANCOUVER Mines B. R. Consolidated Bralorne Cariboo Gold Quartz Hedley Mascot Pioneer '?f Premier Privateer Reno Reeves MacDonald Sheep Creek Whitewater Mlnto Salmon Gold Oils Calmont C. & E. Home Royal Canadian 17'4 15.50 1.80 .79 4.60 1.44 .40 .Wt .22 1.12 .03 ft .08 .12 .21 1.75 3.20 .03 Vz TORONTO Beattle s 1.71 Central Patricia 2.20 Consolidated Smelters 51.50 Giant Yellowknlfe 10.00 Hardrock .76 Kerr Addison 12.00 Little Long Lac 1.36 B Madsen Red Lake 2.18 McLeod Cockshutt 2.42 McKenzfe Red Lake 2.18 Moneta .85 PSckle Crow 2.60 Preston East Dome 2.80 San Antonio 4.25 Sherrltt Gordon .68 B Steep Rock 2.68 Queenston 1.28 PRESIDENT'S BIRTHDAY Local U. S. Army Tost to Raise Infantile Paralysis Fund ( Early Mils afternoon, In Washington, D.C, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was officially Inaugurated' for a fourth term as President of the United States. First elected by a popular landslide in 1932. Mr. Roosevelt has been at the helm of the United States ship of state for 12 years. Here In Prince Rupert, the sub-port of embarkation, with the co-operation of local civilian and military agencies, will present a Birthday Ball on Monday, January 29. The Grand March will be lead by Mayor and Mrs. It. M. Daggett and the command ing officers of all the Allied military forces in the area and will take place at the Acropolis Hill Gymnasium. Continuous music will be provided by the H.M.CJ3. Chatham dance band and the Acropolis Hill Sophisticates. Weathei NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER Tides North Coast Saturday and (Pacific Standard Time) .-, . cloudy and mild with occasional She 'V Sunday light rain mainly north Mmm Sunday, January 21, 1945 oorUon. Moderate winds, occasional High .' 7:05 19.6 feet fresh on exposed portion 19:44 16.9 feel Low 0:29 6.6 feet of coast. VOL. XXXIV, No. 17 PRINCE RUPERT, D.C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 20. 1945 PRICE FIVE CENTS 13:31 6.1 leet USSIANS HEADED FOR HEART OF GERMANY AZIS OPrmY ALARMED OVER SITUATION nil Of War Withii reat Advance Of fc " He ieks Is Seen In ians From East Stalin's Huge Forces Take Great Toll In Reich; Breslau Is Bombed MOSCOW. Jan. 20 (CP) Marshal Stalin is mass ing huge numbers of men and vast quantities of guns W and armor along the German frontier for a tidal- jM wave offensive which military experts say may carry the fighting deep into the heart of Germany. Yesterday, Soviet spearheads on the Silesian frontier were only 225 miles from Berlin I and five Russian armies now are in action along a twisting 500 mile front from the Baltic to Budapest. Moscow says that in five day3 of Jlghtlng In East Prussia, the Russians have destroyed at least 300 Nazi tanks, 600 guns and 123 planes. In addition, Soviet troops liquidating one German group near Kutno in Poland took more than 2300 prisoners. Berlin says that a huge force of Soviet bombers has smashed at the great industrial centre of Breilau, the capital of German Silesia. The Germans are making no attempt to play down the gravity of the situation on the eastern front. The Russians, driving to cut off East Prussia, have pene-, trated to within 62 miles of the Gulf of Danzig in the junker province and have smashed to within 201 miles of Berlin in the southwest, a German communique disclosed today. The German told of fierce battling against the rolling Red everywhere along the blazing 800-mile front as Moscow broadcasts indicated a fresh series of victory announcements mlehl be forthcoming' from Premier' JosV eph Stalin. One Russian army has reach ed the area of Kepno in a twenty-mile advance from the northeast of captured Krakow. Kepno is only nine miles from the frontier and 38 miles from Breslau, chief industrial centre of German Silesia. Berlin said that German Home Guard battalions are battling to stop the drive along the upper Silesian border. Northwest of Warsaw another Red Army has crossed the southwestern border of East Prussia on a 35-mile front In the drive toward Danzig. At the centre of the eastern front the Third Army was pour ing toward the Polish border be tween the Vistula and Warta Rivers. The Russians were 230 miles from Berlin In this sector. A German commentator indicated that the Russians have invaded Germany at three places. VILLAGERS ELECT COUNCIL Elections of village officers were held recently in four native villages, Greenville, Hartley Bay, Port Simpson and Alyansh. CITIZENS: Hungary Has Quit Provisional Government Sigiu Armistice With Russia, Brit ain and United States LONDON; Jan. 20 (CP) Russia, fireat Iirit- V , ain and United States have lfj M signed BlUL'U an till armistice cUllll&LlUU with Willi MS Hungary's provisional nounced today. CENTRAL HOTEL CHANGES HANDS Sale of the well known pioneer Central Hotel property here is announced, the purchasers be ing Aibert Dixon and associates .' athe vendor VVT'H. tolln . "' Mr. Dixon arrived In the city" Army tide of three million men this week from Courtenay, Van couver Island, where he ha? been engaged in the restaurant business." He will take over on February 1. ' Mr. and Mrs. Tolln will be leaving'' for Vancouver where they will make their future home. Mr. Tolln, former owner of the King Edward Hotel at Stewart, has been In the hotel business in the north for 23 years. He states that he intsnds to devote his time In future to his mining Interests Including the Mountain Boy property in the Portland Canal district! TO RESUME FIRST AID Classes In First Aid and indus trial First Aid will be resumed in the near future, it was decided at the annual meeting of the St. John's Ambulance Association, loca lbranch, held Friday night in the Health Unit building, Second .Ave. Angus Macdonald volunteered to continue as There was a fair attendance a? tiL ..Ll.l. -I "Wi me meeiing, wiutn eieuteu ut- ,j fleers for the year. The follow- Ing officers were elected: A? Chairman, W. L. Armstrong. Secretary, Mrs. R. S. Wood. Executlve-Mrs. T. H. Priest, Angus Macdonald, Robert Reld and S. J. Hunter. TTYVYTTTYVTTTTTTTV See Your Regiment On Parade Sunday Afternoon 2:15 FALL IN AT ARMORY. 2:35 MOVE OFF. 3:10 EMBUS AT JUNCTION OF THIRD AND SECOND AVENUES. 3:30 WEAPON DEMONSTRATION COURT HOUSE GROUNDS. LINE OF MARCH SIXTH AVE., McBRIDE ST., THIRD AVE. TO JUNCTION, TinRD AVE. TO COURT HOUSE GROUNDS. BAND IN ATTENDANCE. Men! JOIN THE RESERVE ARMY 1st (Reserve) (Bn) Prince Rupert Regiment.