t .... rr PROVINCIAL I IDD1DV NORTHERN AND CElj TR AITBKfn3If COLUMBIA'S newspaper Weatliei I Tides ..i..nji winds, rloudv VloT, B.C. (Pacific Standard Time) , i hv with widely scat- mffm Friday, March 15, 1945 r - ,m ana snow fwwtn High 2:47 22.8 feet mainland. Friday: moder- 15:05 22.1 feet 1 ;;d; paruy ciuuujr Low 9:05 22 feet 21:19 2.9 feet VOL, XXXIV. No. 63 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1945 PRICE FIVE CENTS rnn ni t ii.mi n i.i iiiliiki ii in rv iiiiii u nil i mil J V - - i r Ki MiiiHi.i minmu: Germany In order to chaoi. This was not a third party to the sduoii ai siockiiolm. ui L,ocai icturctl In Maclean's wncn they least cx- ' a pixy moud when a .sprightly hand on "ccr lluweil Morris of "ii, uromer or l ovti local rnri!.. vny UU'IIUUIICL'I . 1 1 i . . ""-.i morris. 21 in rr the last two and a l' m ...111. 1. nihil wic uiiy or OMtfJUllJII. fc appears In the lat-of Maclean's - KW oy a sireci m London, Phot M0rrls F.IVn nn. nff... win 1.1. ... --- vW iiiiiirisniTifr "oustaeho wnm th U1I PiPI.IV linlil virl - - - w.j W.4141l4 '8 'Her, ana watching 'deiit annrnvnl lo u ni. .... . .. ."'""P or the Bettv -.. onc appears Kl8 OVer his slinnlrlpr 3, COMMANDER OF BAHAMAS I . ( rM,l,, 1 1 TttVinnir... Hin OLc? announced lomgni. re nmrtctirc Diimicn. PANTS ESCAPE BY WINDOW HACK. March 15 (Special to Daily News) U . ' I . . .r. I 1, r.4- i.r.i.m,. ,..ill,.rwl fhuf tMllt Kin l n linden. l i;v iriiiiiL' iiiiirt-ii iiloli uliiuh I I wuvv Failed I'urrigH Office Armistice but Not 'ioYcriiincnl , .'.v.. v.. . umnr Umi comes a n:w;papcr story of uy. German lorcl.?pi t4 ui aiaii av auMioritlcs to arrange 1. -..I. It . . . i-U I 111ini1f.il Ifltl 'i;il?l bcc.tu.si tlfrman iur f M nut. rnwnnl lllf ury tiller is kulrl h li:ivr 44 4 1 1 ioritii trnmn Inn If linir mvneu hv M JUKI Hill III MM ,11111 (111:11 I 1 1 1 1 1 llll IIIIL, III 117 Ull V II V old baby sustained head cuts from broken glass In being taken from the building by the mother. Mrs. Allard. Everything was lost including a wallet containing money. Bulletins SAID CIIIIKCIIIM. "MM)" LONDON l'xinic ."Minister Churchill lias forced a Iibor mciiilicr of Conimoiis, Kichard Stokes, to withdraw a charge that the l'limc Minister lied diirini- debate over sric merits of British tanks. ;,;r. SioKcs has repeatedly asserted that Itri t tanks are no match for the German Koyal Tigers. movii: stkiki: si'ki:ads HOLLYWOOD A strike in lie film industry has us&uiueil international aspects with tlic threat of a shutdown oi v:ioiis-amis of movie theatres t proposed that he and ' throughout the United Stales Ilimmlcr should retain I and Canada. 'I lie niiposniR union factions have squarea off for what appears to ic a finish fight. The major studios arc crippled by the absence of more than 17.0UU employees. ON CULMLS COMMISSION OTTAWA Tlic Lxicrnal Affairs Department announced tljc appointment or tlic Canadian High Comni'ssioner 10 Great Britain, Vii-.icnt n:as-sey, to represent Canada on the United Nations War Crimes Commission in London. Since the inception oi the commission, Mr. Massey has been in touch vvilh its decisions and has kept fftc Canadian government informed of the work being done. U.C.A.F. nr-NLVOLKNT I UND OTTAWA 1 he K.C.A.F. ben-cvolcnl runil hopes to swell its present $81)1,000 to ?5,Ut0,()U0 In meet unexpected post-war emergencies. The lund was or-canlzed in 1931 to aid former members of Hie service and their dependents. STIMSON DDLS NOT KNOW WASIIINGTON-War Secretary Slimsoii said today he knew nothing of plans for abandoning the Alaska Victory Over Germany This Spring, Forecasts Churchill Mass Assault From Skies- Greatest Air Bombs Yet, Eleven Tonners, Used By Lancasters on Germany Great Damage Caused By Missiles, Almost Twice As Large As Anything Previously Used LONDOtf, March 15 (CP) Five thousand Allied planes, spearheaded by British Lancasters carrying huge eleven-ton bombs, have swept Germany with a Homburg, both of which are reported to be packed with German troops and military stores. Mosquito bombers pounded Ber lin again for the twenty-third straight night. Yesterday Britlsn and Can adian fliers gave the Germans their first taste of the new eleven-ton bombs. Previously, the Six-ton "earthquake" bomb, which sank the battleship Ter-pitz, was the largest ever used by Allied airmen. The target for the huge mis - - I i . II 4 ...141- Mrs. rium-y nn-uu. i ..u inc u,. t. wu... - - knocking out a big chunk which was being lit and thp building .was rront- .consumed wimuiia icwjjminuies. Mr. and Mrs. Allard, Mrs. Art siles was an enemy rail viaduct at Blclfcld, eight miles east of the Rhine. The gigantic new of tho Important viaduct One British airman told of the effect of the bomb as it cx- Shaw and a young boy escaped ,)lodcd. ne said n felt as though through a window. A two-month someone had kicked him In the back when the bomb burst on the ground below. He added that his plane bounced well over 500 feet up In the air as the bomb was released. Canadian Airman Tells About Missiles A Canadian airman, Flying Officer H. R Short of Abbots-ford, B.C., had this to say about the experience: "the terrific flash was followed by a gigantic fall of blaqk smoke and fountains of debris gushing hundreds of feet Into the air. The six-ton bombs we have dropped seem like babies by comparison." Continent - based American fighter-bombers destroyed sixty German planes and damaged fifty-five others. The enemy aircraft were parked on the ground at an airfield near Coblcnz. American war planes based in Italy struck for the third time In ten days in support of the Red Army drive on the eastern front. GOVERNMENT'S GREAT DEEDS Skccna District Liberals Acknowledge Splendid Leadership of Mackenzie King Declaring that the leadership of the Prime Minister had been pilmarily responsible for bringiiiR into being the family of nations functioning as the llritish L'mpirc so effectively in world affairs, that Canadian trade and commerce had been at its highest peak during his tenure or office, that his administration had 'given the greatest strides in the status and progress of labor, world leadership of Canada in production and economy had been brought about by his organization and tlic family allowance measure was outstanding in world social legislation, the Skccna District Liberal Association convention was inspired Tuesday to unanimously pass a resolution cx pressing absolute confidence in the leadership or Ul. Hon. William Lyon Mackenzie King and pledging unfailing support to his government and Its GREATEST JAP CITIES ARE TO BE EVACUATED LONDON March 15 (CD In swift aftermath to powerful raids by American super-forts, the Tokyo radio said today that the Japanese government has decided to evacuate five "major cities, anions Ihcm the firc-blitzcd capital, of alt persons except war workers. The cities arc Tokyo, Vokoyama; Nagoya, Osaka anu iouc I jls Up To Dominion I'ost-War Rehabilitation Programs Should be Dovetailed, Says Perry VICTORIA, March 15 T Hon. II. G. Perry, minister of education, said In the Legislature during discussion of a $50,000 vote for the provincial bureau of post-war rehabilitation and reconstruction, of which he is chairman, that the province Itself Is not capable of solving post-war problems, and that Dominion and provincial programs should be dovetailed. Tlic public should be inadr aware of that fact, Mr. Perry said, and the C.CJ''. opposition "should not spread the Impression that the responsibility Is wholly that of the province." Grant McNeill, C.C.F.. Van- couver-Burrard, suggested that the province start a housing program as soon as men and materials are available. W. W. Lcfcaux, C.C.F., Vancouver Centre, said that he had been mlsrcprscntcd In reports of his remarks earlier In the week regarding Attorney General Maltland and paid tribute to him as being "extremely efficient" and congratulated the government; on having him In office. Estimates for the education department were passed. Conchies and Boys To Protect Forests Di):iiiB dliousslon of Lands Department estimates, Lands Minister E. T. Kcnney 10UI Her bert Graves, C.C.F.. Mackenzie. that he was negotiating with the Dominion government for the use of conscientious objectors and High School students for forest fire protection this PKLMILIl KING IIOMi: OTTAWA Premier King returned home today, expressing confidence for success of the San Francisco conference. ITI'TEENTIl IN ACTION LONDON The American I Fifteenth Army is in action at the Rcmagcn bridgehead, j German reports that the I Ludendorff bridge had been destroyed are denied. BOAT WRECKS, LOGGER DROWNS News of Harrowing Tragedy Off Skccna Mouth Brought Here The story of how two men clung for hours to a wrecked i fishing boat near the chore of ! WhUccliffn Island off the Skccna mouth until one, Blackic Mac-. Gco, .succumbed to exhaustion 'ana slipped Into the dark sea . waij told today by James Anslow, Ihq survivor. Anslow. a Prince Rupert fisherman, is in hospital here suffering from exposure after being marooned on the small, deserted Island since early Monday muijning when he managed to get. ashore from ills wrecked . . . , ji i ill 1 ... . i. .. ,gillncttcr. iBiivuii. He lie was wiu brought uiuugim here mil' hi, ail of explosives during the past 24 hours in a ter-;last nIght by AUen MacBroom rillC mass assault. coming in from Kumelcon In- During the night; British heavy bombers struck , let. His companion, a logger at the towns of Zwcibruckcn ana known as "Blackie" MacGec, was drowned. Anslow and " MacGec left Prince Rupert at 8 o'clock Sunday night for Kumelcon Inlet where the latter was employed at a logging camp. In Grenvillc Channel off the Skecna mouth their small vessel, the Akcmi, experienced difficulty which re sulted in it piling on the rocks near Whitccliffe Island. CANNERY MEN FISHERMEN VANCOUVER. March 15 Jff -The largest single union rl British Columbia fishermen and fishing Industry workers came Into being Tuesday with ratlfl-J canon 01 me amalgamation oi the United Fishermen's Federal Union and the Cannery and Reduction Plant and Allied Workers' Union. The new union will be known as the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union, A.F.L., and will contain about 3,000 fishermen and 2,000 cannery workers. (The Prince Rupert Deep Sea Fishermen's Union turned down a similar amalgamation proposal with the U.F.F.U. by a large majority when votes were Advisory Labor Committee For Provincial Gov't VANCOUVER, March 15 0) Labor Minister George Pearson said Tuesday that he has asked the three major labor organiza tions In this province to name three representatives each to a Joint labor committee to deal with the provincial government on legislative matters involving labor. Premier King To Preside At 'Frisco Canadian Prime Minister Majd Lead Great Economic Conference LONDON, March 15 (CP) The London livening Standard says there arc widespread reports that. Prime Minister King Mill be chairman of the San Francisco wor:d security conference to be neld nexl month. Last Saturday, a Canadian Press Washington dispatch told of reports that Mr. King might be tit line for election to tuc rnairinaiisiiiii 01 mc vn-ference if the United States, the host nation, declined the ONE MILLION PRISONERS SO FAR CAPTURED LONDON, March 15 (CP) .More than one million prisoners have been taken by Bri allies up to the end of Novem ber, last year, totalled 1,013,000 Joseph Kllby are local delegates 1 including killed, wounded, to the Vancouver conference), prisoners and missing. War News Highlights t7 7 Seventh Army Gaining PARIS The largest gains on the western rront have been made by tlic United Stales Seventh Army. It moved ahead four miles in the attack against the last sizable enemy holdings west or the Rhine. The Seventh found enemy resistance light, and moved right up to tlic Saar River. Across tlic Rhine, tlic American First Army has stormed to within a niilc-aiul-a-quartcr of the big super highway linking Cologne and Frankfurt. There have been no important developments at the northern end of tlic western front. Reds Killing Germans MOSCOW Russian forces in the Fast Prussia pocket have killed 1,000 Germans and captured 2,000 prisoners. Red Army formations have made a four-mile gain across a 17-milc front near Kocnigsberg. In the Stettin area, the Germans say the Russians arc forming for a new assault. Demoralizing Japan WASHINGTON The most recently large-scale superfoit-rcss attack on Japan is believed to have destroyed the armament centre at Osaka. So powerlul were the explosions that rocked the arsenal that a number or the giant bombers were tossed about by the concussion. Some of the superforts were damaged, but all reached (heir home bases. Business and Industrial areas of Osaka, Tokyo and Nagoya have been widely devastated and completely demoralized. The government is said to be frantic over the situation. British Fleet in Pacific LONDON A Tokyo broadcast heard in London says the British Heel has gone into action in Philippine waters. The llritish warships arc said to be operating from bases in Australia. According to the unconfirmed enemy broadcast, the liiitlsh naval units arc taking part In the operations against Mindanao. Battle of Philippines' MANILA On Mindanao, rive more small towns have been captured by the Americans near the two captured Zamboanga airdromes. On Luzon Island, American forces have thrown back savage Japanese counttr-attacks north of Manila. British Prime Minister Would Guide Peace Days Pledges Himself and Party to Free Enterprise and Warns Against Socialist Plan to Alienate Way of Life LONDON, March 15 (CP) Prime Minister Wins-, ton Churchill held out hope today of victory over Germany this spring, pledged the dominant Conservative party to promotion of free enterprise in the post-war period and served notice that he intends to guide Britain in the trials of peace. He told a Con- servatlve party conference tnai "victory lies before us certain and nerhaps near. The war in Europe might conclude before summer ends or even sooner." Mr. Churchill cautioned the Conservative party against "humbug an blandishment" and against bidding for votes and party popularity "by promising what we cannot perform." The Prime Minister's temper was obviously tauf after recent sharp exchanges .with Left Wing critics in the House of Com mons. lie strucK oui ai -our Socialist friends" and their program "for nationalizing all means of production and dlsti-butlon and exchange." He asserted that hls would Imply Standing ilonc and without shelter In th6 face of a strongly entrenched enemy with only a light automatic to divert the Germans while his comrades i closed in to capture the strong) point was the feat which won Pte. Clyde Moraes, 28, of Port Simpson the Military Medal. Official citation of the heroic action which resulted in the high military award was released by the Department of National De tish Umpire forces since the (fence today. The episode took counted at a meeting here last I start of the war. Empire casu- week. The union's business agent, George Anderson, and place at Chemin Vert, France, on September 18. The citation follows: "Pte. Moraes, 17 platoon, North Nova Scotia Highlanders, at Chemin Vert on September 18, 1944, displayed courage of the open firing his bren gun thus enabling his platoon to close in and capture a strong point In the defences of the area. "D Company had been ordered to capture this strong gun position on the lower slope of Mont Lambert and advanced under artillery fire to the edge of the position. When his platoon was pinned down by fire from a strongly defended enemy post, he stood In the open less than 30 yards from the enemy, under machine gun fire and grenade, in order to cover the position with fire from his bren. It was necessary for Pte. Moraes to stand in order to get fire on the position and by his gallantry and contempt for danger he enabled his platoon to assault and capture the position which was found to contain at least 100 Germans." BARRIERS TO BE REDUCED Roosevelt and King Announce One Result of Their Conference VAiiTwrvrnw Mawii ir society and life and labor but the creation and enforcement of another system borrowed from foreign lands and alien minds." Of the war in the Pacific, Churchill said that the scale of war against Japan is limited not by manpower for that will readily be forthcoming but $y shipping and other mc-'g' rf transport over vast open spaces and through steaming jungles. The Prime Minister promised Britain its first general elec tion since 1935 as soon as possible after Germany's downfall. "At the head of the mainmast we will fly the (lag of free enterprise," declared Churchill "not only destruction of life of speaking, for himself and his the whole existing system, of party. FACES STRONG GERMAN POSITION ALONE, PL SIMPSON SOLDIER CITED Big Fund For Work Quarter of Billion Dollars Being Set Aside to Offset Unemployment BRANDON, Man., March 15 09 The Canadian government has established a fund of $250,000,-000 to offset unemployment In the . post-war period. This wai disclosed Monday night when Federal Labor Minister Humphrey Mitchell addressed ' & tlMnnn Xfit.lfrwKi T.thnpnl order standing In the highest by nominatins c 0 n v e n tl o n. Mr. Mitchell assured the meeting that returned men and women will be given the first brcakrhi re-eatablislimcnt but he did 'iiot elaborate on the statement. GYROS TALK PLAYGROUNDS Will Seek $1000 from City-Welcome Arch Project Under Discussion Playground work for the com ing season was discussed at yes terday's monthly business luncheon of the Trlncc Rupert Rotary Club In Reld's Cafe and the outcome was to seek a grant of $1000 from the city to assist In the financing of pliyslcal Im provement to the playgrounds. Last year, the city agreed to carry out certain work on the playgrounds but, owing to lack of labor, was unable to do so. The Gyro Club will now endeavour to find ways and means' of doing the work- providing tho city makes the finances able. A proposal for the erection of a welcome arch near the city limits on the Prince Rupert Highway was considered but it President Roosevelt and Prime was decided to seek further in Minister King have revealed the formation In connection with results of their recent conrcr- the projept before becoming as-encc. Both leaders have agreed soclated with it. to make bold moves to reduce j Dr. J. J. Gibson, presklcn oi the trading, barriers between all the club, was in the chair t countries. Mr. Roosevelt pointed yesterday's luncheon. S. J. Ja- to relationships between Canada and the United States as an example of how nations could get along together bour of Vancouver was a guest. Iho winner In the weekly raffle of a war savings certificate was Maurice Brydges. V. ( 'l ft it. r. 1 'i tVLH 3 V V 4 1? f. I Or Ail