Local Temperature Tonight's Dim-out Maximum A.rOt - 50 (Half an hour aftwr sunset to Minimum . tt n,0 38 half an hour before sunrise.) 9:46 pim. to 5:34 ajn. NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER XXXII, No. 103 VOL. . PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., MONDAY, MAY 3, 1943 PRICE: FIVE CENTS United States Coal Stri Truce Mateur Key Junction Town On Way to Tunis-Bizerte Is in Hands of Yanks Axis Defences in Tunisia Allied Forces Approach ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, May 3 (CP) United States troops have entered Mateur, key junction of rail and highway communications between Tunis and Bizerte, and French forces along the coast have swept to within 15 miles of Bizerte after a pounding of almost two weeks, it was announced oday. Mateur is 18 miles southwest of Bizerte and 31 miles northwest of Tunis. A fortnight's campaign had exhausted both sideii but, after a day of comparative rest yesterday, the Allies MILITARY CHANGES OTTAWA. May 3 -Department of National Defence headquarters announces that Brigadier General E. DeB. Panet. district officer com-rranrMng Military District No. 4 with headquarters at Montreal, Is being retired by reason of age and Is being succeeded by Brigadier E. ,J Renaud,. .deputy, quartermaster Re"p-n: Brigadier Sherwood Lett of Van- rouv who won tne Distmguisnea Service Order In the Dieppe attack and ha.- been appointed deputy chief of general staff In charge of train ng, succeeds Brigadier E. 0 Weeks who will return overseas. Brigadier II. E. O. Roome succeeds General Kennedy as deputy adjutant general and chairman of officers' selection and appraisal brard. Brigadier W. N. Bostock Is appointed to general staff succeeding Brigadier J E I.von who is retiring on account of lll-hcalth. Mr. Pattullo Is Coming In June To Make Trip Into Interior in Meantime T D Pattullo. M.L.A. for Prince Rupert. Is planning to visit this city in June following a trip Into the interior, according to Information received by the Dally News. Is Sure To Be Premier Fifty-two Year Old Farmer to be New Head of Ontario Government TORONTO, May 3 Harry C. Nixon. 52-year-old Brant County farmer and former Ontario provincial secretary, will doubtless become Tremler of Ontario. Party men regard Nixon's eventual appointment as premier as certain following his being named leader f the Ontario Liberal nartv Fri day He won the leadership on the "rsi ballot. Premier Gordon Conant, who as itrlrkcn by sudden lllncs on eve of balloting, was not a candidate for the party leadership. Former Prrmlpr Mltrhnll Hpn- jurn took no part In the conven- Giving To Red Cross Kltkatla Celebration e, J'Ommlttee $ 54.21 Kii;r?Ph,s Convent Raffle 76.65 "alPh Stafford boat raffle 123.30 Entered Appear to be Crumbling as Two Coastal Strongholds ctruck forward again and enemy defences collapsed In many places. Earlier It had oeen announced that United States and French troons occupied hills twelve miles northwest of Mateur yesterday.) even wnue mc iuii was developing over most oi me Tunisian front after the two weeks of fighting which left both Allied and Axis forces spent and suffering from heavy losses. The enemy anneared to have suffered mo.e. for French detachments and forward units of the Second United States Army Corps drove yesterday to" ridges known as Kef Rdjal Toulla to tighten the pressure on Mateur and Bizerte. .AlMed troonthad beth aineVJ arrd lost ground in exceptionally heavy fighting In Tunisia Friday and baluiaay, a week-end communique announced..while AMcan Allied air forces went out In the most suc cessful attack yet on Axis shipping. Direct hits were scored on at least eight vessels Including a light cruiser and two destroyers. In addi tion, the British Admiralty announced at London that ten more enemy ships had been sunk In the Mediterranean' by British submarines. This strafing of enemy shipping was kent up without respite over the week-end. A dispatch from the American sector of the front on Saturday said that, United States troops had captured DJcbel Tahent on Friday in b;tter fighting sixteen miles southwest of Mateur, turning their long range artllle y on Mateur for the first time In the campaign. New Travelling Baggage Agent VANCOUVER, May 3 P. G. (Philip) Fraser, for many year.3 chief clerk here In the baggage and mall department, Canadian National Railways, has been promoted to travelling baggage and mall agent with headquarters at Vancouver. acca:dlng to announcement by William Stapleton, general passenger acent, Canadian National Railways. , Mr. Fraser Joined the railway here in 1920 with the baggage and mol rln.irtment. comm.? 10 thp Pacific Coast from Winnipeg where he had orev ous railway experience, He has always been active in C. N. R. Recreational Association encics nnH lc n nast nseslaeni OI mat ur - ganizatlon. More Fire Calls Here This Year Total so far Is 50 Comparea Hn 31 in The Prince Rupert city fire de- rfhiTVca? compared wit 31 In the first four months oi f 1942. Calls for this April num. bcred elgnt comyuii.u -- April. 1942. HALIBUT SALES American Pearl, 11,000, 21.2c and 16, Stor-aRri,rPP 10.000. 21c and 16c, Pad- "C- Canadian ,,.. Larry II.. 10.500. 21.1c and 16, At ,,nAijfiM 17 000. 22c and 16c, B Hekia, 4,500, 22c and 16c, Booth, By American HALIBUT CEILING t Wartime Trices and Trade Board Establishes Maximums For Fish OTTAW9, May 3 (CP) The Wartime Trices and Trade Board today established maximum prices at which processors, wholesaler distributors and retailers may sell Pacific Coast frozen halibut. The top price at which a processor may sell frozen and dressed halibut f.o.b. any of the four principal markets at Vancouver, New Westminster, Victoria or Prince Hupctt is 21c per pound for fish between 10 and 60 pounds In weight above or below that range. The prices arc for halibut in wooden cases. For bulk sales the pri-e is Vic per pound less. To his laid down costs, including: transportation and sales tax, the wholesale distributor is permitted to add mark-up customarily obtained in th basic nrire nrrind (September 15-October 11, 1911) not to exceed twenty percent of selling price. An additional handling price of one cent per pound is allowed on sales in less than case lots. The retailers mark-up is lim- itH to 33 1-3 per cent of his selling price. ONE-THIRD SUBSCRIBED . .r' - Prince Rupert Victory Loan Practically Reached That .Mark in Opening Week Subscriptions In Prince Rupert during the opening week of the three weeks' Fourth Victory Loan campaign totalled $248500, a mere $1,800 short of one-third of the total objective of $750,000. Subscriptions for Saturday amounted to $21,250. Further subscriptions to be acknowledged Include the following: Mrs. Elizabeth Mcintosh $ 50 Joseph S. Ogilvie 50 Sgt. and Mrs. S. Maughan 250 Mrs. Ethel Slaney 200 Major F. E. Coy 250 Glsll Erlendsen 300 W. King 50 Tom E. Dalzell 100 John C. Hunt, Burns Lake 100 Carl Nordin, Smlthers 200 Charles Morris. Smlthers innfl John F. Noel. Smlthers 100 Charles E. Hayes 300 Chinese Subscriptions 1850 R.A.F.IS POUNDING Hits at Industrial Targets in Netheilands and Railways in France Americans Also Out LONDON, May 3 0 Royal Air Force fighters and bombers fought their wav througn uerman ngnier and nlann oDDOsltlon to attack ln- finstrial tarects In the Netherlands constal city of Injuiden yesterday. iuuuwuik uh my tack by big American bombers on , ine uerir.an wuhuu uaot u. iazure, British mosquito bombers sped across France virtually unoDposeo late Sunday and unloaded delayed action bombs on railroad shops at Thionvlllc. Baseball Score SATURDAY American League Detroit 3. Cleveland 2. Chicago 5. St. Louis 4. Boston 3. Philadelphia 1. New York 9, Washington 7. National League Brooklyn 9-2. New York 2-0. Pittsburgh 6, Chicago 3. Cincinnati 7. St. Louis 3. SUNDAY American League St. Louis 3-5. Chicago 2-1. New York 11-1. Washington 3-4 Boston 7-1. Philadelphia 6-8. Cleveland 5, Detroit 2. National League Pittsburgh 3-1. Chicago 0-0. Brooklyn 3-1, New York 2-2. St. Louis 7-6. Cincinnati 6-3 Boston 3-5. Philadelphia 1-6. HAVE BIG EASTER Ecuador was once known as the Republic of the Sacred Heart.' Victory Loan I Is Mounting OTTAWA, May 3 W Sub-scrlptions to the Fourth Victory Loan for the first week of the three weeks' campaign totalled $372545,900. the National War Finance Committee announced. v The total exceeded the first week of the Third Victory Loan by about $6,000,- 000. 4 BULLETINS KILLED AT ROAD CAMP Henry Koskela, 40, Nipigon, Omarm, died in the first aid quarters of the Rayner Construction Co. road ramp at Skccna yesterday ihornlng shortly after he had fallen off the top of a rcrk pile and fractured his skull. The body was biought into the city last night. An inquest will commence this evening. NANAIMO MURDER NANAIMO The nude and battered body of Mrs. Margaret Hughes of Cumberland was found in the front seat of an automobile near here. lh neck and vertebrae were broken James Hughes, the husband, is under arrest on a charge of murder. TWO SOLDIERS DEAD LADYSMITI! Two soldiers, whose names have not yet been announced pending notification to next of kin, were killed when an automobile went over an embankment near here. CEILING ON POTATOES OTTAWA Ceiling prices on new potatoes have been ordered 5'2C per pound in- May and Vic pr rund in June. July and August. This will be the maximum price anywhere in Canada either for imported or domestic potatoes. KENTUCKY DERBY LOUISVILLE Count Fleet, ridden by Johnny Longden of Taber, Alberta, won the Kentucky Derby Saturday, finishing three lengths ahead of Blue Swoids. Third horse was Slide Rule. AMERICAN GROWN Cocoa is one of the largest ex- orts of Ecuador. WAR Troops DROWNED IN NAAS RIVER Chester Swanson. Well Known Young Man of Port Simpson, Loses His Life Chester Swanson, well known young man of Port Simpson was drowned last Tuesday at Red Rock In the Naas River, the funeral taking place at Port Simpson on Friday. The drowning occurred when the youth went In swimming Immediately after breakfast and was stricken with cramps. Twenty-one years of age, Chester Swanson was the roster-son oi Mrs. Lucv Swanson of Port Simpson, both his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Green, having died years ago, There is a brother, Mederlc Greene. ?t. Tort Simpson. The youth had many friends In Prince Rupert and native villages of the district. The funeral took place from Grace UnltPd Church at Port Simpson under the auspices of the Young People's Educational Association with members of . Port Simpson Athletic Club acting as pallbearers. CO-OP MOVE ON RAILWAY ' WINNIPEG. May 3 The Import ance of the co-operative movement to the Canadian National Railways was emphasized here t the nineteenth annual meeting of ne ouot Crafts Co-operative Committee oi the western region. J. Kyie, genera, superintendent of motive powei and car equipment, and W. H. C Logan, chairman of the employee representatives, were Joint chairmen. W. R. Devenlsh. vice-president and general manager, W. I Munro, general superintendent ol transportation, S. E. Kellier, general storekeeper. A. B. Roosevear K.C., solicitor, and J. Cook, inspector of first aid, .were among the speakers. The national system, Mr. Kyle said, had greatly benefitted from the co-operative plan. It was Important to get around a table and discuss matters vital to the railway and Its employees. Mr. Munroe said that a great deal had been ac complished in bringing about a better understanding between the various departments. The past winter he said had been the hardest ever experienced but the C. N. R. men and equipment had tood un under the most severe tests of bad weather and long mileage. Mr. Logan touched on the origin of the co-ODeratlve plan and said that the achievement on the Canadian National was being carefully studied by United Stales railroads. NEWS ALLIES ADVANCE IN TUNISIA ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA -American forces in hard fighting thiough exceptionally rough terrain, have captured two Important heights and a town 16 mdes southwest of Mateur, which Is now within range of the Allied artillery. So rough is the country that it is necessary to drop food and supplies for the troops from planes. The British Eighth Army Is advancing again on the south. There is little change but In other sectors of the Tunisian Iront Allied aircraft continue to hit hard and etffcctlvcly at Axis supply shipping and convoys in the Mediterranean. REDS CRUSHING NAZIS MOSCOW Fighting is livening up again on the Russo-German front. Berlin savs that the Bed Army has launched a new drive to the not tli in Hie vicinity of Orel and Leningrad. The Germans say tliis har been repulsed. Russian advances are also reported to have been made in other sectors and a six-day counter-attack in Novorossisk area has been crushed, with 7.C00 Germans killed. MORE RAIDS ON KISKA WASHINGTON. D.C. Two more raids have been made by United States bombers on Kiska in the Aleutians but the results were not announced. NEW YORK HAS ALARM NEW YORK There was a surprise forty-minute air raid alarm in New York yesterday morning. It sounded at 11:20 a.m. and at noon the all clear was given. The reason was not at once announced. SEES TUNISIA LIBERATED ALGIERS General Henri Glraud, French military and civil commaiuler-in-chlef in North Africa, predicted Sunday that all Tunisia would be liberated this month and that the war would be ended victoriously by next year. ATTACK NORWAY AND FRANCE LONDON The Royal Air Force lost seven bombers in an attack on enemy shipping off Norway last night. The Americans lost a similar number of planes in an attack on St. Nazalre. Lewis Tells Men To Return to Work; New Negotiation Opened Important Developments Over Week-end Following Taking Over of Mines by Government On Monday WASHINGTON, May 3 There have been important developments since President Roosevelt on Saturday ordered government operation of the coal mines of the nation under military protection if necessary. The chief of these was an announcement by John L. Lewis of a two weeks' truce in the dispute with return of miners to DARWIN IS HEAVY HIT North Australian Town Subjected to Attack bv Japanese War Planes ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, May 3 (CP) Darwin in Northern Australia was heavily raided by Japanese war planes on Sunday, the Allied High Command announced. Twenty-one bombers and thirty fighters attacked, the airdrome. Thirteen of the enemy planes were destroyed or damaged and there were also heavy Allied losses. Spitiires went up to oppose the enemy. There weie widespread Allied raids over the week-end on enemy bases 'from New Guinea to Timor. ARE VOTING Boeing Workers Meeting This Af ternoon to Deal With Executive Proposal to Return To Work VANCOUVER. Mav 3ffi - Em ployees of Boeing Aircraft of Canada Ltd., Idle since Wednesday In a dispute over rest periods, will be asked to vote at a mass meeting this afternoon on a proposal to re turn to work. i An all-night meeting of aircraft union officials drew up a program calling for a return to work and further pressure upon the govern- iment for appointment . of a com- ! 1 1 1 I r, ;iu., nf the plants. The return to work program will be submitted to the employees for a standing vote at the meeting. RESPONSE FOR LOAN C.N.R. Employees Subscribe Over Million Dollars in Three Days MONTREAL. Mav 3 Over a mil lion dollars was subscribed to the Fourth Victory Loan by employees of the Canadian National Railways during the first three days of the camDaien. according to a state ment Issued from system headquarters. In comparison with the similar period of the preceding loan, the number of subscribers and the total value of their bond .purchases show Increases. l Actually, during the first three; days of the campaign, bonds to the value of $1,140,000 were purchased by 12.600 individual men and women workers employed throughout the Canadian lines of the system. The organization for canvassing employees of the National Rail ways has four divisions one ior headquarters in Montreal, apart from the central region, and three regional groups Atlantic, Central and Western. Telegraphic reports received at Montreal from all three sources agree that canvassers are being received enthusiastically and the response to their "sales talk" Is on a generous scale. ReDorts from headquarters of the Western region at Winnipeg' are enthusiastic and optimistic telling of some sections already reaching their objectives. In British Columbia, the em-nloyees of the Okanagan Lake Barge and Ferry Service were first In reaching their objective attained in the first two days of the work under government control pending new negotiations. Secretary of the Interior Ickes told the mine operators on Saturday to'be ready for full operation on Monday. Steps are being taken throughout the nation to conserve fuel. Unessential travel Is being prohibited. No coal Will be deliver ed to persns having more than ten days' supply on hand. president Roosevelt spoke over the air at 7 o'clock last nieht on the cpal strike situation, address ing htmseir particularly to the coal miners when he requested, as patriotic Americans, to return to work. president Roosevelt, in his address last night 22 minutes after tne announcement by Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, of a 15-day truce In the United States coal mine strike, asserted that "coal will be mined no matter what any individual thinks about It," Lewis announced that the union's policy committee had voted unanimously to "restore all mines to immediate operation for a period of 15 days beginning Tuesday. Lewis said the period will be utilized In working out, in co-operation with government officials, of new wage contracts to rertace those which have expired in the hard and soft coal Industries. Roosevelt on Saturday had or dered operation of the United States coal mines with military protection If necessary. In a statement he called on striking miners to "return immediately to the mines and work for their government." The summons was directed primarily at some 250,000 miners who were already out. President Roosevelt ordered Secretary of the Interior Ickes to take possession and operate the mines with such workers as he could pro- viae, teuing icses mat ne coma call on the army for 'protection of tne mines if necessary. Except in a few mines Deduc tion of coal had virtually ceased," the President said. He asserted that production of coal must con- ' tlnue. In broadcasting to the miners last night. It meant that Mr. Roosevelt took his case direct to them and the country without talking further with John L. Lewis, who, until the 22 minutes before the President went on the alr had Ignored government appeals to take up the miners' wage demands with the War Labor Board in routine fashion. In his broadcast, the President recalled Lewis' pledge after Pearl Harbor that there would be no strikes during the war. Three Recruits For Army Here Manitoba Men Enlist for Active Service and are Leaving for Vancouver Latest local recruMs tor the Canadian Army active service are: Leo Alexander LetoUrncau, aged 28, St. Eujtanhe, Manitoba, logger. Alexander Panchuk, 22, Beause-Jour, Manitoba, craneman. Telesphore Alexander Plante, 41, St. Joseph, Manitoba, welder. Letourneau and Panchuk are leaving tomorrow afternoon for Vancouver and Plante on Thursday. i" J. B. Reld, catering superintendent for the Canadian Pacific Railway at Victoria, and Jeffrey Arnott, purchasing agerit, Vancouver, arrived in the city this afternoon from the south, being here on official duties.