mn HIT RV WAR FPANfF WOPItt jpLLY TOWARD NEW FUTURE Rlonlr For ComJntr WJntor A7JU Clothing, Food and Fuel Supplies At Low Ebb '' PARIS, Oct. 1 (CP) France tor' n De- aescnueu iu w u. is mile has , : "nnr erect but grievously woundeq A, vhe race Frenchman nas approacnea tne k wnai liiu wci uiu nui. uesiroy it v :a". i are not enuugu mtii iui uic ictciui lea (fr Vptfx F VETERANS T HALIFAX ...v net. 1 0A r0U3- , om fpri more man jfJICBI"""" 9 veteran canaaian ugmuis ..u. r-niHian First Divl-. . thpv arnvea in uan- D4iui""j - ..... mcfornam. ine rirai . , .. nsri arrnmnanled the homeward journey oy .i hundred airmen and a Kor nf the Canadian n's services. .. j rt f Plrct niulclnn ill'? ui a. " - - ' , .t. flirt half nf tne that tt.111 return all n.j o-itph nvlls tn the ncu .v.. j ...tinsent 1 annum the illu vv.- j tt. J. . ITronrp whirh ......... IS in ?r ix u t iiiv. ,.j, nrirh Ql'lfl mpn tnff the Seaforth . n-winii onH Pnvnl F.rfmnn iTinnff the ciimDicte units re- Royal Canadian Keglment, htrm Lizht Infantrv and taricKm aim xu&. ui cw wnrUb Alert nVt4tr4 tVia Maui nuu auuaiu nib ivt Royal Canadian Engineers the Royal Canadian Artll-H told, there were 7744 pas tas auuaru me iruupMiip as ouiiea in io iiamax narDor. AUV ACT m Mil I IAJJI 111 nr it rr a iiviujr icusn as iniun ,l'"u uuilia III , s are missing following the J W W V ft 1 4- ft VftWft ft ... - H ft4u nuo uv v is j v a nw 48 ITliIP nnrthftaef nf Viarn w iibug b w tivtv vessel was loaded with reiugees including 20a 'rfron Mil A hi 1 AKin rNJfl T m hlllUI I 111 mil w V YORK, Oct. 1 (CD ram f s. v. .. .. j i : . vmlis aim tfriruii .-w i,,c .auunai ana nfripn l . hjsuc pennant "iners respectively and will f't in the Woild Series open- ? nenncsday. Chicago "died the National flag with 5 o 3 victory over rittsburc iriiuii assurea useii "le American npnnant hv '""inf 8 to 3 over St. Louis. PK liMunu ACK HOMF mnsiaerable Change I IT A . n. Iomc after more than three f n. - v.cias during which he 'r 'n France and Germany " Canadian nntl.tnl. ,1' staff Sergeant Jack Un- ... or j e. Unwln, 1600 'oy Avenup fino ni. tunsinprahi.. nh i , . iuvea homp Ratnrrt'nf ",vli lanmncr a 111. rv l" U0P transport Louis iNPrVPrt nvnrcoo e . w,c Canadian Pifrh ah- La lin t Bet hlt at all." unZdWhen ask( he was Prince Rupert man, , h him, SSnt. Unwln noh.. u"ttiiy u see Her S m and M. Percy i ictorla. Mr.' and Mrs. were TnrrviA1.. u.. . te RtinAfd r. ..... ..1.. ""fwu essre. m pr sain ' 1. . s. Unwln, ,.!:0.u,r.ye.a" slnce ;ieri " iasi in wince iiciua, uuv un-re are uax Y for the scant supplies o5k, and clothing. f V A city dweller Is hungry dur ing most of the day. His daily food ration equals a little over 1.5C0 calorics about half the minimum requirement for an adult engaged In physical labor. His wife can not set ther table with this alone, so she buys In the black market; 40 cents for one egg, 50 cents for a quart of milk, $4 for a pound of beef or pork, $9 for a pound of coffee, $5 for a pound of butter and $20 for a quart of salad or cooking oil. If the man needs a new suit he can buy one for perhaps $400. (His salary Is $120 a month on the average). Shoes would cost between $80 and $135 in Paris. Ordinary cotton shirts sell for around $40. In the coming winter food prices In the black market will treble and clothing prices will skyrocket still further. The coal ration will be some 200 pounds-pounds, not tons per home. Last winter in Paris the child mortality rate was double the normal. Coal is almost a precious gem here. It will start the wheels of industry and transportation. It will bring in food from the country, where food is plentiful. But fuel won't solve all France's problems. Ruined railway bridges are be-(Continuel on Page 6) LOCAL SOLDIERS LAND AT HALIFAX Prince Rupert soldiers arriving at Halifax Saturday aboard the Niew Amsterdam enroute home after service oversow include Sapper J. C. McCubbln, whose next-of-kin is Mrs. H. C. Halll- day, and Sapper R. D. Patrick, whose next-of-kin is given as Mrs. T. S. Patrick, 800 Sixth Av-en.ue East WINCH OUTLINES C.C.F. PROGRAM, HITS COALITION IN SPEECH HERE Opening the C.C.F. provincial election campaign in Prince Rupert Sunday night, Harold Winch, M.L.A. for Vancouver East and Leader of the Opposition in the Legislature, outlined his party's program and strove to strengthen it with verbal lunges at the coali tion government's record in before an audience or over mrec hundred In the Oddfellows' Hall. The provincial party leader's fervor reached such a pitch that he confessed himself forced to remove his coat and vest on the platform In order to cool off. This displayed a pair of green suspenders. The suspenders were green, he said, because he was a member of the Second Battalion, Irish Fusiliers. "I Joined that battalion because the Irish are generally "agin" the government. I am "agin" the government," he said. Referring to the Hart-Mait- land coalition government as a "collusion" government and the product of a "shot-gun wea dine" in 194L Mr. Winch turn nH spnrnfni eloouence on the government's campaign for re election. "Three months ago In the federal election the C.C.F. said bad things about the Liberals and Conservatives but the C.C.F. never said anything as bad about them as the Liberals and Conservatives said about themselves," he declared. "Now, we have another election and we pnn-t find either Liberals or Conservatives. They are madly In love. They are married. Three months after knifing each other, they are asking the people (Continued on page 2) Alexander Leaves His Army Command LONDON, Oct. 1 Field Marshal Sir Harold Axelander, who Is to be Canada's next governor general, formally relinquished his post as Army commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean. He will assume the governor generalship next spring In succession to the Earl of Athlone. VERTICAL SLIT PUPIL ' In hriaht lUht ,the pupil ot .. - - I. o vnrtlcfil slit. but in dim 1 IghV it b comes clr- cular. Final Pay-off- Chatham Ceremony Local Naval Base Decommissioned Today Prince Rupert, northrrmost base of the Itoyal Canadian Navy, which was on North America's front line during the dark days of Japanese aggtes-n, today ceased operations , r six years of war. H.M.C.S. Chatham, valued at more than $1,500,000, held a pay-off and decommissioning ceremony at which the white ensign was lowered in final salute to Royal Canadian Navy activities in the Land of the Midnight Sun. From the early days of the war, when a few Fishermen's Reserve vessels pati oiled the stormy waters into the open Pacific, the operational strength grew until in November 1911, twenty-three ships were on patrol qut of Prince Rupert. Commanding officers were Capt. C. D. Donald, Commander Geoffrey Borrie, Commander A. II. Reed, Commander D. C. Wallace, Commander I Charles Cree and Commander j M. A. Wood. ' TIME CHANGE IS IN EFFECT Saskatchewan Will Revert On October 14 OTTAWA Oct 1 O) Cana- dians rolled over lor an extra hour's sleep last night all due to the time cliange, from daylight saving to standard. With the exception of Saskatchewan, Canada's clocks were set back one hour at two a.m. local time this morning. A fev: places in Saskatchewan which rild nnt. mnkp thp rhanp In. eluding Saskatoon and Reglna will put their clocks back on on October 14. In order to straighten up their j timetables, ordinally put out of j ' kilter with the time change, Canadian, railways stopped their 1 trains at the nearest station at two ajn. in the time zone they i were then In. When time and the schedules once again Jibed, the trains resumed their.jravgj.. a fiery, two-hour speech SEES B.C. AS CURE CENTRE British Columbia could become known as the "Land of Healing" if Its great natural curative resources were developed, Harold Winch, C.C.F. provincial leader, said In a speech in the Oddfellows' Hall last night. "This province," the campaigning M.L.A. said, "has the i greatest collection of health curative resources In the world and Prince Rupert could be the centre of a great health Industry. Lake Lakelse, near Terrace, Is one of two lithium springs on this continent." "People from all over the world would flock to this province to enjoy the benefits of its hot springs, cold springs, curative clays and hormone peats if they were developed and exploited," he declared. FIVE FINED IN PRICES CASES Five local merchants appeared before Magistrate W. D. Vance at the week-end and pleaded guilty to separate charges of selling goods at higher prices than those set by the Wartime Prices and Trade Board. The charges were laid by A; S. Hamilton, special Prices Boa'rd investigator, Vancouver. Carl Poulsen was fined $300 plus $3.75 costs. iEtndst Cavenalle was fined $100 plus $3.75 costs. Both cases were prosecuted by T. W. Brown. Bulkley 'Market was fined $50 plus $3.75 costs Jack Mussallem was fined $200 plus $3.75 costs. Chin Jon was fined a total of $125 plus $3.75 costs on two charges, fine for one charge be- Ing $50 and for the other $175. W. I O. Fulton was prosecutor. VOL. XXXIV, No. 227. NORTH EJIN .AND t Big Five Control of Japan- Allied Joint Commission Being Formed Canada, Australia and Other Nations to Join Big Three LONDON, Oct. 1 CP) The United States Secretary of State. James Byrnes, has announced the formation of an Allied commission in the Pacific whose task it will be to formulate policies for carrying out the .Tarwnpi.'p snrrpnHpi. tprm Britain, Russia and China have approved the commission plan, and the Byrnes announcement states the commission's first meeting will be held in Washington In the near future. Canada, Australia, New Zealand, France, the Philippines, and the Netherlands will' be invited to . 1 1 1 1 I 1 41 1 1 M,c tum"lliJ"J"i aim uic American State Secretary has fSrd J ne, B,rit?sh "quest that India be Included. The request will now be submitted to Moscow and Chungking for approval. SHIP FROM EAST jTA ACT If POMIM VUhji ij uuriinv Montreal-Newfoundland Vessel May Replace Prince George Temporarily A report emanating from marine circles in Vancouver and reaching here Is to the effect that Canadian National Steamships Is endeavouring to obtain a. ship which has beemrunning 'from Montreal to Newfoundland' to temporarily replace the steamer Prince George recently! destroyed by fire at Ketchikan. There appears to be reason to believe that the company is seriously considering building a new ship for the British Columbia coSst service at the Prince Rupert dry dock. PREMIER ON QUEEN MARY Mr. King Now On Atlantic After White House Meeting WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 1CP) Prime Minister Mackenzie King conferred with President Truman at 10 o'clock Sunday morning at the White House in Washington. The meeting lasted two hours. Mr. King arrived in the Amerl- can capital by air late Saturday afternoon. He was accompanied by Norman Robertson, the under secretary for external affairs, aboard a sliver Liberator of the R.C.A.F. which made the flight from Ottawa to Washington In three hours Just ahead of an electrical storm. L. B. Pearson, Canada's ambassador to Washington, was on hand to greet the prime minis ter as were several officials of. the United States state department. Mr. King, who already has an nounced that he will make a tour of the United Kingdom and Western Europe, sailed today from New York aboard the liner Queen Mary. Fish Sales (Canadian; 1814c and lGi-c) Joan W II, 31,000, Storage, Royal. Sea Maid, 42,000, Booth, Pacific. About 19,000,000 sheep and lambs are slaughered for meat each year In Australia. PRINCE ItUPERT, B.C., MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1945 Stri SutletinA MINERS STRIKE Vancouver Island coal miners i at Cumberland and Na-naimo have walked out 1200 strong in sympathy with the Crow's Nest Pass workers who are on strike against meat rationing. DIVERTED TO VICTORIA The repatriation centre for Britons returning this way from Japanese prisons has diverted from Vancouver to Victoria where the aiicraft carriers will land. One of the big carriers will go to Australia instead of coming to this coast. HORRIBLE EXPERIMENTS At the Belscn prison camp atrocity trial at Lueneberg, Ge many, today evidence was giv 'ii that a Nazi doctor used AH ed prisoners as human victims for his experiments with a drug causing instant death and with women to make sure they would give birth to twins. MEAT PACKING STRIKE The Canadian meat packing industry is threatened with a nation-wide strike unless the demand of United Packing House Workers of America foi' 30 percent wage increase and 40-hour week is met. Master agreement with Canada Packers, Swift's and Burns is sotight. RETAIN BOMB SECRET A Conrressional committee att Washington recommends that United States retain the secret of the atomic bomb and -that IsUndi in the Pacific -won from Japan be kept. MANY MAY BE WORKLESS A. Washington dispatch predicts that 8,000,000 may be unemployed in the United States Iby spring. Clarence Gillis, C.C.F. JV1.P. for Cape Breton, predicts in Ottawa that 500,000 Canadians will be unemployed by the. end of the year. WILL BE DISCIPLINED Reports of Canadian prisoners having collaborated with the Japanese during the war are being inquired into and disciplinary action will be taken if warranted, Hon. Douglas Abbott, minister of national defence, says at Ottawa. TELEPHONE STRIKE .A nation-wide strike of telephone workers is threatened in the United States following a government order dissolving the affiliate union. Two hundred thousand workers would be involved. Tomb Opening Since Body-Snatching Day SUTTON, Eng., fl" Since the 18th century, the tomb of James rive TOJO IMPRISONED A BBC broadcast says that former Japanese Premier Tojo has been imprisoned as a war criminal. The broadcast says that Tojo was placed in a cell in the Yokohama jail. Earlier, Tojo failed to surrender himself to Allied occupation forces, claiming that he had suffered a heart a.tack. j i BUTCHERS REOPENING ! All Victoria butcher shops are to open Tuesday, ending a week-long strike In protest against meat rationing, the executive of the Vancouver Island Retail Butchers' Association announces. About fifty shops were closed during the strike. SPURN L.P.IVS At Vancouver the C.C.F. has rejected a bid for electoral agreements with the. L.P.P. in the forthcoming election, it is announced. ENGLISH TRAIN WRECK A serious train wreck occurred 30 miles outside of London Sunday. The London .Midlands and Scottish Railway express from Perth went over an embankment near Boyne in Hert fordshire. Twenty-five persons were killed including one Canadian serviceman: More than "0 persons we're injured. GLOBESTAR LATE The American plane Globe-star, on a flight around the world, landed at Karachi, In-' dia, today and soon took off for the east. It had flown from Casablanca to Tripoli and then tto Cairr and on to Karachi via Iran. It was six hours be- hind schedule at Cairo but the reason was not given. LEOPOLD IN GENEVA The British Exchange Telegraph Service has reported that King Leopold of Belgium has arrived in Geneva, Switzerland, to go into exile. The dispatch reports that the King's wife is expecting a child. The royal group is said to have arrived from Austria in four automobiles, with a military truck carrying their luggage. JAP BANKS SEIZED General Douglas MacArthur has sent troops to. guard 21 Japanese banks and financial institutions, as a great government combine which helped to finance Japan's war effort. They have been closed and will be liquidated. All funds and records have been seized. Their assets are estimated at one and a quarter billion dollars. BRITISH NAVAL HERO HONORED 50. "Vlan of the Cossack," is Britain's top winner of 1939 1945 war awards. He has won seven decorations since Septem ber, 1939. Second on the list are Wing Cmdr. James Brian Tate, wha sank the Tirpltz, and ace fight er pilot Group Capt. Johnny Johnson, whose score of.38 enemy aircraft destroyed is the highest of any fighter pilot in the Euro pean theatre. Both won six awards. VJce-Admiral Vlan was awarded the K.C.B. last year for his work In the planning and execution of the Normandy landing. His other awards are the K.B.E., for bringing a . Malta convoy through, the D.S.O. and two bars, a mention in din-patches and the U.S. Legion of Merit. Talt has the D.S.O. and three bars and the D.F.C. and bar, while Johnson has the D.S.O and two bars, D.F.C. and bar and the American D.F.C. BIFOCAL INVENTOR ' One of Benjamin Franklin's most Important Inventions was bifocal spectacles. .v.. a..u . LONDON, Oct. 1 0) - once a year and Inspected by the parish priest or his assist ant. Body snatcners were active at the time the tomb was built 170 years ago and as a safeguard a large sum of money ,was left in trust by members of the Gibson family for the upkeep and annual Inspection of the tomb. This year Rev. W. J. Wall, assistant parish priest, unlocked the Iron door, Inspected the coffins, offered prayeis for the dead, then locked the door again for another year. Nick Christopher, who has been in the city for the past few weeks on business, will sail by the Princess Adelaide tonight on his return to Vancouver. "MISS NORTHERN B.C." COMING HERE FOLLOWING ATLANTIC CITY TRIP Miss Gcorgina Patterson, who went to Atlantic City as "Miss Northern British Columbia" at the "Miss America 1915 Pageant," is expected in Prince Rupert on next Sunday night's train. In connection with her visit, it is expected a program will be arranged by the Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Civic Centre. Carnival Committee. i BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEW8PAPEU PRICE FIVE CENTS F or TO FIRE ON ANNAMITES . Order About Withholding Measures Against Indo-Chinese Rebels Now Altered SAIGON, Oct. 1 Allied troops, which had been at first ordered to withhold fire, have now been ordered to fire on Annamlte rebels a gainst French rule of Indochina who refuse to lay down arms. General Charles DeOaulle has ordered General Leclalre to Indo-Chlna to take charge. It has been established that the Japanese are behind the Anna mlte uprising. Salvage Division Is Being Disbanded OTTAWA, Oct. 1 The Salvage Division of National War Services has been disbanded, meaning the dlsbandment also of local salvage committees which were active during the war. Nevertheless, It Is pointed out there Is still need for waste paper. BRETT FILES HIS PAPERS Nomination papers of Aid William Henry Brett, C.C.F. candidate for Prince Rupert consti tuency In the provincial elections of October 25, were filed this morning with Returning Of ficer A. B. Brown. Mr, BreH was proposed by Alderman George Edwin Hills and second ed by Carl Emll Giske. Assenting to the nomination were the following: Emily Horden Moorchouse Jps.Hp Rlmnsnn Franlr Hpnrv W. Jjlott, Johan Olot Stseth. Jo rh tZhU "runic ' nZr ton Ruaijerham. Pearl' II. Howe, Charles Rowland Bellls. Ethel Vivian Slaney; Edgar Woodward, William Arthur Evans, An- drew Olsen Morse, Tage Hansen Sqrensen, Hans Knutsen, David Crocker, August S. Wallln, Myrtle Muriel Roper, Leon Mlketson Sandvar. Ceylon Jungle Hides Large Radio Station LONDON, Oct. 1 ) Hidden In a Ceylon jungle, miles from the nearest big town, Is one of the largest radio transmitters In the world. Part of the equipment of the British East Indies Fleet, It handles a volume of traffic at times as great as the wire less stations at the Admiralty, "We have more than 20 trans-mltters.worklng.24 hours a day," said H. Kitchen, Royal Navy telegraphist from P u r "to r o o k, Hampshire, who Is in charge. "We handle signal traffic to Admiralty, Bombay; Calcutta, to ships at sea and to a number of other places." Railways Had Role In German Defeat LONDON, Oct. 1 Sir Charles Newton, chief general manager of the London and North Eastern Railway, has revealed that to send 1000 bombers tin a raid to Germany, the L.N.E.R. ran 36 special trains to carry 2,600,000 gallons of petrol, and 362 trucks to carry 2,900 tons of bombs'. One thousand seven hundred trains were run in 10 months with rubble from blitzed London for American and R.A.F. airfields. Nine hundred trains carried cement to. make runways, and some country stations In East Anglia were handling 80 to 160 times as much traffic as they were built for. AFRICAN FISH FARMS LUSAKA, Northern Rhodesia (CP) Experiments In fish farming are showing promise In Northern Rhodesia. If successfully established, fish farming would-be of inestimable value both to Afrl cans and Europeans living away from the natural fisheries. TABOO Polynesian term "T a b o o," meaning forbidden, Is a Polynesian term for which equivalent can be quoted from most savage vocabularies. Tomorrouf s.Tides iPftClfle Standtrd TLm) Tuesday, Octobe 2, 1945 High 11:18 3.8 feet 23:20 19.1 feet Low 4:58 5.f feet 17:26 7.9 feet P eace To Break Deadlock American Delegation Proposes Plan At London LAST MINUTE EFFORT LONDON, Oct. 1 (CP) The council of foreign ministers, still seeking a foundation for Europe's peace structure, made a last minute effort tonight to reach an agreement after Russia reportedly refused to sign conference documents unless her Balkan demands were met. LONDON, Oct. 1 0 The American delegation at the meeting of foreign ministers in London has announced a plan to break the present deadlock among the big power representatives whose conference is expected to end tonight. The Americans propose a conference be held to discuss draft of peace treaties with Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria. The meeting would Include representatives of all active belligerents against the Axis who would meet in the British capital in the n,ear fu ture. The plan proposes that all the belligerents put forth their views regarding the Balkan issue, then turn the matter oyer to Russia, Britain and the United States for a final de cision. OPERATION AND REST FOR BING CROSBY COMING HOLLYWOOD, Oct. l-Popular screen actor Blng Crosby will make, ho more picturr tKis ySar. He Is lb undergo an,6peratioh f or an Internal ttoubWafte'r which hew3titakeritf: txTerid ft$i&t ARGENTINEANS ARE RELEASED Most of Political Prisoners in South American Republic Freed Following State of Siege BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 1 H Police headquarters in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires has announced the release of all political prisoners, with the exception of eight or 10, seized after the impcsitlon of a national state of siege In the country. Police say the eight or 10 still being held are beins Investigated. The state of siege was imposed on the heels of the frustrated uprising against the government at Cordoba on September 24. Today's statement does not reveal the number of prisoners released but most estimates place the number originally detained by the government at 700. Two hundred of that number had been liberated before this latest -government announcement. During the five-day campaign of wholesale detentions, some of the most prominent merr la con temporary Argentine life were placed under lock and key. Temperature Temperatures for the Prince Rupert district during 24. hours ending 5 &sa. Maximum w. ,60 Minimum . 48 ALUMINUM HOUSE ' BRISTOL, Eng., Oj The first pre-fabrlcated aluminum houses have appeared here. These houses took three and a half hours to. erect and during that time, water, gas and electricity were, laid In. "We took rather a long time," remarked the fbrc-man. "With a little experience we shall be able to put them up more quickly." v BACK ON THE JOB LONDON, it) Two of the fast express trains from Londdn to Yorkshire and the north probably will be restored this fall. During the war the speed of these trains has been limited to 60 miles an hour over a considerable part of their route, but now tracks have been restored to top condition. 1 ... i 1 r