BATTLE
OF
SOLOMONS
Yanks
Still
Holding
Guadalcanal
Air
Field
Thlrty-lhree
More
Jap
Danes
Shot
Down
JAPS
STILL
STKONO
WASHINGTON,
Oct.
20
(CP)
Secretary
of
Hie
Wavy
Frank
Knox
said
today
that
he
believed
the
Japanese
had
"by
no
means
as
yet"
used
their
maximum
force
in
the
Battle
of
the
Solo-monv
"It
is
still
a
food,
stiff,
hard
Hint.'
he
told
a
press
conference.
Col,
Knox
said
he
had
no
information
to
add
to
the
most
recent
navy
communique
which
told
last
night
of
American
warships
suddenly
reappearing
in
the
Solomons.
v.
KINGTON.
DC.
Oct.
30:
k
of
tattle
tOll
screens
T.c
Sokxnon
Islands
be-l"r..ud
Stale
and
apan-
-
of
tend,
ta
and
air
fc
lars
and
Stripe
still
fly
vital
Guadalcanal
air
T:
:nk.s
..ty-one
more
Japanese
re
shot
down
yecterdar.
c-stlmated
340
the
nam-..i'.ipn
the
enemy
has
tost
he
Solomons,
a
greater
!kui
at.
Midway
Island.
iu-
UiUled
SUtes
Navy
A.iy
a'.
Japanese
target
i-
pours.
Japanese
war-stll:
shelling
United
oitions
ai
Guadalcanal
nd
offensive
or
further
"
dings
are
repotted.
my
aft
reported
to
have
'
i
ops
eonaentnted
on
.r
oiine
Islands
to
be
used.
.n
following
up
any
suc-ia
muf
be
"obtained
in
Threadneedle
Girls
Form
y.
v
.
kine
man
n
trot
nlnnir
In
Wnw.
"
.......
w
o
"
".
r
...
b
ted
undre
Hitler.
And
the
look
which
he
accompanies
the
tx
lamatlon
is
absolutely
blank.
The
point
Is
that
Fred
Hold
nwr
has
had
much
use
for.
the
w-iy
England
Is
run.
But
he
Is
liv-evidence
that
there
Is
no
son
f
England
alive
today
who
does
not
believe
that'
the
worst
of
Eng-'ind
is
better'
than
the
best
of
lUMcr.
Hold
U
one
of
the
pcsslmlsUc
E't'illsh,
He
has
a
glum
face,
and
"
may
be
that
when
the
war
is
over
he
will
have
no
Job.
But
he
expresses
the
spirit
of
this
county
when
you
put
the
hypothetical
question
to
him
about
Hitler
in
Whitehall.
"Why
there's
no
fear
of
that."
-United
States
Army
bombers
made
another
attack
on
,
Japanese
Installations
and
shipping
at
Klska
Island
on
Saturday,
dropping
fifteen
tons
of
bombs.
Tin
if
GtMcure
weather
conditions
made
Df
CICnCC
Unil
It
impossible
to
ascertain
the
dam-
age
that
had
been
done.
Antl-
Oct.
30
O
-
Women
"
aircran
were
wo-
..
n-v
f
an-fo
Japanese
onsen
t
of
the
directors,
us
a
Women's
Home
Dc-it
"The
OW
Lady
of
Street
(that's
where
liM-ated
has
picked
up
.
...
.S'
.huj.
.
wrvn
1
1
1
v
uuim)
n
iww
aiwwuc
at
said
.
one
girl
clerk
ho
new
venture.'
UNAFRAID
served
during
these
operations.
This
latest
attack
on
Klska
followed
the
raid
of
October
16
when
the
United
States
Navy
reported
tack
in
the
Aleutians
by
Army
1
bombers.
When
last
seen
northwest
of
Klska
both
destroyers
were
on
I
fire
and
being
abandoned
by
their
crews,
OF
HITLER
Talk
Of
Babies
Naval
Cook
Has
No
t'sc
for
"Uul-i
f)n
OnPIi
MarlfPt1
Uil
1UcU
IVCl
Ing
Classes-
but
a
11
Less
VlJl'11
lor
Hitler
LONDON,
Oct
SO
-
Social
3NDCN.
Oct.
SO
(r
Fred
Hold-
workers
are
expressing
concern
in
"
three
hours
in
the
North
what
is
termed
"baby
farming'
v.!ni
his
ship
was
in
collision
and
the
Sunday
Pictorial,
drawlnp
'
'
'he
Jervls
Bay
before
the
attention
to
the
practice,
called
ni'tion
that
made
her
name
on
authorities
for
steps
to
ensure
"
vtai
He
is
an
orphan,
and
that
one
unborn
baby
in
partlcu
I
k
no
use
at
all
for
the
"ml-
iar
-is
not
put
on
the
open
mar-r
lasses"
in
England.
But
he
jCt."
-
no
doubt
about
who
Is
gqlng
jc
jpcr
reproduced
an
adver-
n
this
war.
1
.isement
from
an
Aberdeen
paper
d
is
a
leading
petty
officer
hirh
snid:
"Wanted,
party
to
'
Jk
rboard
His
Majesty's
ships.
ndopt
baby
from
birth;
expected
C'tmes
from
Chatham,
in
Kent.
mlddie
November;
premium;
no
W'y
there's
no
fear
of
that!"
Is
nfter
ciaim
exclamation
he
makes
when.
..,
tne
most
callous
and
de-
qucstion
him
as
to
whether
he
.aK,
inttnnPo
of
chlld-sclllng
It
might
be
possible
for
al.C..
PVPr
comc
to
our
notice,"
said
the
paper.
"Tins
person
is
actualy
offering
to
sell
a
baby
be-
for
It
Is
born-ana
iransiy
uu-mlttlng
that
the
mother
concerned
has
no
other
Interest
in
Its
welfare."
Mis
ir.
Blackburn,
secretary
or
thi
Nntirtiiftl
.Adoption
Society
commcntlngon'the
advertisement,
said,
"there
ii
no
need
for
any
woman
to
resort
to
this
Kina
m
thing.
If
a
woman
cannot
keep
her
baby,
an
adoption
society
will
help
her
to
find
a
good
home
for
it."
mm.
a.
n.
Plummcr.
secretary
ot
the
katlonal
children's
Adoption
Society,
said,
"In
my
17
years'
experience.
I
have
never
known
a
worse
case."
OTTAWA.
Oct.
20
r-Sub-
scrlptlons
to
Canada's
Third
Liberator
victory
Loan
totalled
$52,614,-
000
up
to
the
close
of
business
yesterday,
the
first
day
of
the
today.
'
!r
COMMODORE
11.
E.
RE1D
new;
.-r'pain.iid
FUs
Officer
NewUJuisdland
Forces.
Commodore
Ri-id
has
spent
his
entire
life
in
the
Royal
Canadian
Navy.
He
entered
the
Royal
Naval
College
of
Canada
In
1912
and
has
been
on
active
service
ever
since.
During
the
Great
War
he
saw
service
In
the
North
Atlantic,
the
Pacific
and
In
the
Eastern
Baltic.
After
serving
at
Halifax'
and
at
headquarters
in
peacetime,
he
was
appointed
In
1939
as
Commanding
Officer
Atlantic
Coast.
In
1940
he
was
appointed
Deputy
Chief
of
Naval
Staff
and
Canadian
Naval
Member
on
the
Canada-United
States
Joint
Board
on
Defence.
He
was
promoted
to
the
rank
of
Commodore
First
Class
in
1939.
Commo
PROVINCIAL
LIBRARY
VICTOR
IAjB.C.
THE
RETURN
OF
BIG
BROTHER
While
swarms
of
dignitaries
and
ordinary
people
waited
outside
on
the
platform
of.
Bonaventure
Station
in
Montreal
Tuesday
night
for
the
first
itlimp.se
of
the
returning
wounded
heroes
at
Dieppe,
a
youngster
sat
in
one
of
the
cars
with
her
big
brother
She
was
Florence
Banks,
sister
of
Private
Allan
Banks
of
the
Royal
Canadian
A
my
Corps.
She
had
a
big
chat
with
her
soldier
brother
before
he
was
moved
to
his
home
in
Montreal.
(Canadian
Army
Photo)
JAPS
HIT
atiiwa
Fifty-two
Another
Itlow
at
Japanese
Base
On
Aleutians
Made
by
United
-
States
Army
Bombers
WASHINGTON,
D
C.
Oct.
20:
O)
Is
Subscribed
t
dore
First
Class
In
1939.
Commo-
Prlncc
Rupett
as
a
peacetime
destroyer
commander.
BRITAIN'S
WINGED
"N'S"
LONDON,
Oct
20.
0
Navigators
of
Britain's
bombers
are
to
lve
their
own
distinguishing
mark,
n
winged
"N".
.
:
AIR
FIGHT
1
IN
AFRICA
Heavy
Damage
to
Axis
Shipping
At
-Tobxnk
and
Elseuhere
CAIRO,
Oct.
20
Royal
Rir
Force
planes
of
every
combat
type
and
heavy
and
medium
United
States
bombers
combined
Monday
on
widesDread
missions
over
the
three
week's
campaign
for
1
Mediterranean
and
North
Africa,
$750,000,000,
it
was
announced
"costing
the
Axis
at
least
four
sWds
i
and
heavy
damage
to
planes,
camps
and
transport
facilities
ashore
at
Tobruk
and
elsewhere.
The
Nazi
attack
on
Malta
sub
sided
yesterday
and
only
one
enemy
plane
was
brought
down.
The
Axis
has
now:
lost
119
planes
In
the
latest
intensive
attack
on
Malta
while
1,082
enemy
planes
have
in
all
been
lost
since
June,
1940,
in
the
unsuccessful
attempt
to
knock
Malta
out
of
the
war
as
an
Allied
base
In
the
Mediterranean.
I
Midget
Subs
On
Exhibition;
SYDNEY.
N.S.W..
Oct.
200)
More
than
5,000
was
collected
from
85,000
people
In
the
first
week
of
the
exhibition
of
Japanese
midget
submarines
which
were
destroyed
and
raised
in
Sydney
har-
bor.
I
Week-end
crowds
thronged
the
exhibition
and
long
queues
awaited
admission,
one
of
them
stretch-1
lng
for
almost
half
a
mile.
j
The
money
obtained
Is
for
the
,
benefit
of
the
Navy
Relief
Fund,
Including
dependants
of
men
who
lost
their
lives
In
the
submarine
(attack.
The
King
George
Fund
for
Sailors
also
benefits
by
the
exhibition.
Truck
and
Taxi
A
well
attended
and
enthusiastic
meeting
of
all
truck
and
taxi
drivers
was
held
last
niht
at
the
Carpenters'
Hall
when
It
was
decided
to
form
a
local
union
In
this
city.
Further
meetings
will
be
called
and
a
charter
will
be
sent
for.
The
meeting
was
presided
over
by
Thomas
Elliott,
assisted
by
James
Black,
J.
Fisher
and
Percy
Bond.
'HUNS
MAKE
jArtillery
!
AlKKLUWo
I
.Were
Over
England
in
Single
,
Planes
Yesterday,
Causing
Some
Casualties
LAVAL
TO
SPEAK
VICHY
Chief
of
Government
Pierre
Laval
is
to
address
the
pecple
of
France
tonight
on
an
"important
matter,"
presumably
to
do
with
the
drafting
of
labor
lor
German
war
industries.
Great
unrest
continues
throughout
the
nation
against
Laval's
enforced
labor
policy.
AMBASSADOR
HOME-
WASHINGTON
United
States
Ambassador
to
Russia,
Admiral
William
II.
Stand
ley,
arrived
today
from
Miami,
where
he
landed
yesterday
from
a
trans-Atlantic
flight,
to
confer
with
President
Roosevelt.
WILLK1E
TO
REPORT
WASHINGTON
Wendell
Wlll-kie
announced
last
night
that
he
will
report
to
the
nation
on
I
his
-31,000-mile-
trip
to
the
world's
battlefronts.
He
will
probably
speak
over
the
radio.
DRASTIC
NEW
MEASURE
WASHINGTON
Attorney
General
Francis
Biddle
has
asked
Congress
to
pass
a
bill
which
would
provide
life
imprisonment
or
death
sentence
for
persons
guilty
of
aiding
the
enemy,
injuring
property
by
sabotage
and
sheltering
enemy
agents.
ITALIAN
BAN
LIFTED
WASHINGTON
Italians
on
the
Pacific
Coast
have
been
removed
from
the
classification
of
enemy
aliens
and
can
now
move
around
as
they
please.
FERRY
SHIP
SUNK
LONDON
The
German
ferry
ship
Deutschland
is
reported
to
have
been
sunk
by
a
Russian
submarine
off
the
coast
of
Norway.
GERMANS
MUTINY
STOCKHOLM
One
thousand
German
soldiers
are
reported
to
have
rebelled
in
Kilkenes,
Norway,
against
being
sent
to
the
Russian
front.
One
Nazi
was
shot
and
others
sent
to
concentration
camps.
Young
Prince
George
Women
Are
Enlisting
PRINCE
GEORGE.
Oct.
20
Fourteen
well
known
young
Prince
George
women
have
enlisted
in
the
Canadian
Army
Women's
Corps.
They
are
Molly
Stewart
Jackson.
Constance
Sharon
Cox,
Violet
Mary
Yargeau,
Dorothy
May
Lapolntc,
rx
y
rt
Martha
Viola
Wade,
Emma
Beck-
l)
riVerS
UniOn
ley.
Amy
Rusmussen.
Viola
Othella
Gabrielson,
Juliet
Altx,
Bella
Mu-
.
.
,
,
.
lei
Cormack,
Marjorle
Helen
New
Labor
Organisation
is
Being
Reaugh
Sarah
beth
Yargeau,
l
urmrii
in
rmcc
rnipcri
Helen
.,..
whuA
White
nnrt
and
Elizabeth
Rose
Hooker.
It
was
stated
at
railway
offices
today
that
the
slide
near
Kalen,
which
has
been
holding
up
traffic
since
the
end
of
the
week,
will
be
cleared
late
this
afternoon
and
that
trains
will
start
moving
in
tonight.
The
first
outbound
train
nfantry
Barrage
Assault
air
war
of
dive
bombers
and
swarms
of
fighters
was
resumed
full
scale
after
a
foretaste
of
winter
which
forced
planes
of
both
sides
from
the
air
and
gave
the
defenders
respite
from
at
least
one
phase
of
the
Nazi
onslaught.
The
Germans
have
now
turned
to
ground
war
tactics
of
a
generation
ago,
putting
down
a
three-hour
barrage
and
following
it
up
with
slashing
infantry
attacks
in
an
effort
to
keep
the
offensive
rolling.
Defenders
met
the
Germans
with
point
blank
gunfire
and
held
firm
in
positions
which
the
Nazis
have
failed
to
dent
since
Sunday
night.
Fiercest
fighting
now
centres
In
the
northern
factory
district
of
the
city.
The
focal
point
of
the
entire
Russo-German
war
still
continues
toJaeStaigKL.
although,
there
Is
also
action
of
local
importance
in
the
mid-Caucasus
around
Mozdok,
north
of
the
Black
Sea
beyond
Novoroslssk
and
around
Leningrad.
One
Russian
submarine
is
reported
to
have
sunk
five
German
transports
of
tonnage
totalling
36,-000
in
the
Baltic
Sea.
Speedy
Signup
For
War
Unit
In
One
Day
and
Off
to
Basic
Training
the
Next
for
Man!
toba
Girl
WINNIPEG,
Oct.
20
Oi
Miss
Iris
White,
19,
of
Grandvlew,
Man
established
a
speed
record
for
Joining
the
women's
division
of
the
Royal
Canadian
Air
Force,
starting
her
career
as
an
airwoman
less
than
nine
hours
after
she
volunteered.
Arriving
at
the
Winnipeg
recruit
ing
centre
at
10
ajru
she
com
pleted
her
application
in"
the
morn
ing,
passed
her
medical
examlna
tlon
and
took
the
oath
In
the
j
afternoon.
Her
luck
was
In
because
,it
was
Thursday
the
only
day
in
(the
week
when
airwomen
leave
for
Eastern
Canada
to
start
their
Ont.,
depot
to
begin
training.
REAL
HOT
SPOT
The
temperature
of
the
suns
And
Now
Adopted
by!
Attackers
JSSSSiSZ
ltcds
arc
sti"
"?'"!',?
rr.
F-icrcc
Air
Fil!h,in
and
were
visited
by
attacks
of
single
Cold
Winds
and
Rains
Cease
German
aircraft
yesterday.
It
is
:
emated
that
twenty
persons
,
MOSCOW,
Oct.
20
(CP)
Autumnal
storms
which
;raneskiw1fe
V&
the
bare
steppes
between
the
Don
and
the
.
'
Volga
,
,
Rivers
forced
the
.
great
battle
,
,
of
Stalingrad
...
back
Bulletins
iu
Lauiics
ui
ariiuery
Darrage
ana
mianiry
assault
temporarily
and.
when
cold
wind
and
rain
died
down
t'odav.
.
Italians
In
Mutiny
LONDON,
Oct.
20
Reut-
ers
reported
today
under
an
Italian
frontier
date
line
that
an
Italian
Alpinl
regiment
had
mutinied
at
Gorlzia,
Italy,
when
ordered
to
the
Russian
front.
The
report
'
said
that
ringleaders
in
the
revolt
were
shot
and
troops
were
embarked
forcibly
without
arms.
NAZI
SUB
LOSS
530.
This
Is
the
Actual
Record,
First
Lord
of
Admiralty
Announces
LONDON',
Oct.
20:
(CP)
Britain
has
an
"actual
record
of
attacks
which
have
resulted
in
the
sinking
or
damaging
of
over
530
Axis
submarines"
since
the
war
began,
Rt.
Hon.
A.
V.
Alexander,
First
Lord
of
the
Admiralty,
said
today.
He
said
the
total
included
some
attacks
by
United
States
forces
but
did
not
include
those
by
the
Russians
or
the
French
before
June
1910.
Reports
Quints
..Z
In
West
Africa
All
tain.
Doing
Well,
They
Say,
But
Confirmatory
News
Travels
Slow
LISBON,
Oct.
20
According
to
the
newspaper
Dlaro
de
Notlclat
quintuplets
were
recently
born
to
a
negress
at
Malagne,
In
Portuguese
West
Africa.
They
were
said
to
be
all
girls
and
In
the
best
of
health.
Since
the
birth
of
the
Dionne
quintuplets
at
Callendar,
Ontarlot
May
28,
1934,
there
have
been
training
ana
.mere
jusi
nappenea
various
reports
of
the
birth
of
to
be
one
vacancy
for
a
standard
(others,
generally
from
tropical
or
tradeswoman
in
the
par"ty
leaving
semi-tropical
countries
.and
in
re-that
night.
mote
areas
where
confirmation
of
So.
at
6:55
pm,
she
boarded
a
the
event
and
reliable
news
of
train
bound
for
the
Rockcllffe,
their
progress
was
difficult
to
ob-
CHILE'S.
"PUBLIC"
ROADS
More
than
half
of
the
railroads
core
has
been
computed
at
25,700,-
in
Chile
are
owned
by
the
govern-
000
degrees,
Centigrade.
ment.
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will
be
at
10:30
tomlrrow
hiornlng.
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3rd
VICTORY
LOAN
COMING
EVENTS
Tuesday,
6:15
prn.
O.
R.
S.
Blackaby,
CFPR.
Wednesday
Afternoon
Midlands
Band
Parade.
Wednesday,
6:15
pm.
O.
A.
Hunter,
CFPR.
Thursday,
6:15
p.m.
Harold
Ponder
(Shipbuilders'
Union),
CFPR.
Friday,
6:15
p.m.
Dr.
J.
T.
Mandy,
CFPR.
Buy
Victory
Bonds
Local
Temperature
Tomorrow
sT
Ides
$1
(Standard
Time)
High
11:30
am.
20.8
feet
Maximum
57
23:49
pjni
20.4
feet
Minimum
41
Low
5:11
am
5.1
feet
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
17:44
pjn.
4.9
feet
:
Hi
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
TUESDAY,
OCTOBER
20,"1942
PRICE'
FIVE
CENTS
zx
Takes
Hand
In
Russian
War
'
!
w
the
Russians
were
still
holding
their
own
along
battered
.A