GIVE t0 the SERVICES PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of Central British Columbia Vol. 24; No. 14 Prince George, B.C., Thursday, April 3, 1941 #2.00 a Year Weather Forecast � Unsettled. Rain or sleet. South and east winds. | Above is shown a large Handley-PageJ'Hamden" bomber now being- used by the Royal Air lorce in night attacks on Germany. They are being manufactured in the Dominon and are ;�ar in type to the Douglas B-18 bombers flown here by U.S. army airmen last Thursday A winter scene at Prince George airfield is pictured above, with three light planes ready to take off on flights to the North, Many Improvements have recently been made at the field, including radio transmission-reception equipment, and beam apparatus for "blind" flying. Sawmills jbe Erected I Bros., Geddes Bros., [Otto Erickson Starting Industries in District. islderable impetus to the ing industry in the imme-fcinity of- Prince George is I this spring. sandE. J. Price, well known * of Pnnce George and Pine-pe purchased from the B.C. lit, Vancouver, a new port-lill and are erecting it in '�. The capacity of the new �between five and six thousand � day. and the rough sawn � will be trucked to Calne's ! mill in Prince George for I prior to being shipped to i nurkets. 1 of eight men will be on 1 of this new mill. G. M. Geddes of Wells a sawmill about six |tem town on the Chief Lake � the firm name of- Ged-Co. The company has rating at Wells for several d it is the intention of the jve their planing mill at [Vise millsite here. Produc-Ibegin in a fortnight. lied of timber at Hoodoo l�< Chief Lake, is being Wky Otto Erickson, and iy a mill may be heart of this timber future. 37 U.S. Army AirmenSki|(u| Hunter Receive Welcome Here ****" ^olves And 15 Coyotes Crews of Eight Douglas B-18 Bombers Held at Prince George Airport for 40 Hours by Adverse Alaska Weather Conditions � Dinners, Dances and Parties Arranged. Shot or Trapped Animals Near His Farm Between. December and March Last. Out of last Thursday's clear southern skies about 1 p.m. T T , ...... Jo 111 ^Oe Lavoie, farmer, hunter and I roared eight United States army Douglas B-18 bombers led tr pper, Ba.nuni Lake, is doing his I ; by Squadron Commander J. N. Donahew, with Second Lieu- best to lessen the depredations of J ! tenant Gallagher as second in command, with total complement wo*ve.s and coyotes on wild game � c -* +1 n re- !*ii i "�ftci I3.rni slock xn nis district, L/ur� ! j or 3 7 riving otricers on the eight large warplanes. ing the period from December to | The bombers circled the city many times while awaiting March just past, he has accounted their turn to land singly on the airfield. Probably the largest j crowd ever to assemble at the field? were on hand to welcome the visit-! ing flyers from the United States. l They were en route from Mc-Chord Field, Tacoma, to Anchorage, Alaska, and landed here to take on 2,000 gallons of gas. Weather conditions at Whitehorse. their next scheduled stop, held the j personnel and planes here for 40 hours, their journey being continued * Fowler, 92 Suddenly * Charles B. M. Fowler, aged i suddenly in Vancouver last % morning. He was around j11 toy Friday, and had march-[Vbig military parade through ^ttstreets a few days before. """"ier started his military J with the 4th Dragoons *%, Ireland. He served in ^n war; trained troops at ."J �the South Africaner, l&the1914-18 war was in com- Z 'the H�me Guard at Van- ff- He w at 8 a.m. Saturday morning. Officials of the Board of Trade who were at the airfield, on learning j that the squadron would remain in j the city overnight, invited the crews to be their guests at a dance in the Elks Hall, and the invitation was graciously accepted. The unity of purpose which is daily growing between citizens of Canada and the Uni'ed States in their joint effort to assist Britain in her light against the aggression of the Nazis was well exemplfied in the happy camaraderie of Prince George citizens and the U.S. flyers, who entered the festivities arranged for their entertainment in a whole hearted manner and were unanimous in their grateful thanks for the hospitality extended to them. The first social function of several j happy parties arranged for the army U.S. Importing Lumber from Canadian Mills Demand for Softwoods This I out of one large pack about a mile and a half from his home. In a letter to Ivor B. Guest of this city, Joe Lavoie describes the animals killed by him as being large, running well over 150 pounds on the average. After the kill of the last eight in a bunch, Mr. Lavoie and his wife hooked up his team to a sleigh and went to the scene of the Year Expected to be Larger in Than During Last Year, j loading the dead wolves the team rn reIKrtlnB-^r�ha snoods '^Z.TZTe.To^Ts^ British Naval Victory Finishes Fascist Fleet New Crack 35,000-Ton Battleship Littorio, the Pride of Italian Navy, Believed Gone to Davey Jones' Locker and Mussolini's "Mastery of the Mediterranean" Shattered. ALEXANDRIA, April 2 (BUP)�Latest reports on the Ionian Sea naval battle place Italian losses at one battleship, four cruisers and three destroyers, with 3,000 officers and men drowned and another 1,000 taken prisoner. A victory of this calibre removes the Italian navy as a menace to British control of the Mediterranean, and frees British warships from ..-hat station to be thrown into the battle of the Atlantic to protect convoys of American war sup- �<, plies and food bound for Britain. H.M.S. Warspit�, flagship of the British Mediterranean fleet at Alexandria, and a squadron of other of Britain's fighting ships paraded into port today apparently unscathed after the victorious Battle of the Ionian Sea. In addition to the Italian naval vessels destroyed three German or Italian airrcaft were shot down. The operation was under command of Sir Andrew Cunningham lumber situation in the U.S.A. recently W. D. Wallace of the Canadian Trades Commissioner's office in New York stated that Canada exported 599,156,000 feet or about 99 per cent of the total imports into the United States during 1940. Of this 294.929.000 feet was spruce. Mr. Wallace places United States production for 1940 at approximately 27 billion feet; import 700 million feet, and consumption at 29 billion feet, which caused a reduction of one billion, three hundred million feet in stocks of mills, wholesalers and retailers. Mr. Wallace looks for arrincrease in demand for softwoods in the U.S. in 1941, and places lumber consump-there for the year at 30 billion tied up some distance away, it came time to hook them up to the load they -:ig.3in- caused considerable trouble, although the dead :nimals were covered" with a canvas. Mr. L�vo:e reports that he is very proud of his wolf kill, and that he has also trapped some 15 coyotes during the winter. He hopes now that the destruction of youn? calves and deer in his neighborhood will a considerable falling off. 1 and was assisted by units of the ; Greek navy and air arm. -------------o------------- YUKON SOUTHERN GETS NEW PLANE A new Lodestar plane was deliver- i ed to Yukon Southern Air Transport Co. at Vancouver today. The big: i new machine will be put on Yukon Southern's northern run in the near future, company officials state. Uncle Sam Seizes Foreign Shipping The United States government has airmen was a dinner Thursday even-ifee*t" ~^�n exceeding production of seized 28 Italian, two German and | ing given the entire company of 37;^^^ mUls with a consequent 35 Danish merchant vessels which j by Geo. B. Williams at the Shasta |reduction of stocks on hnnd 3nd Uie have been lying in American ports. \ Cafe with Mayor Patterson presid- !necessityof iarger importations from j The German and Italian ships will ing After Toasting His Majesty the � __<� _____��__4.__;_____ni_ iKn r>in/�iH ir-i hid imnrwn .wrvinn King and President Roosevelt, ad-(See U.S. FLYERS RERE, Page 4) STORES CHANGE HOURS Starting Saturday night, April 5, Prince George retail stores will remain open until 8 p.m. Merchants are desirous of impressing on their customers that goods requiring delivery on Saturday should be ordered before 6 p.m. Otherwise delivery may be held over until Monday. Use B.C. Lumber In Canada's War Building Program This Year Dominion Must Provide Homes for Fifty to Sixty Thousand Workers. At the annual meeting of the B.C. Lumber and Shingle Manufacturers' Association in Vancouver last week Bruce M. Farris stated that the demands of the defence program in Canada during 1940 absorbed 754,-000.000 feet of British Columbia lumber. Over 300 million feet of this went into 5.000 buildings on 169 sites. Mr. Farris said that lumber requirements for Canada's war pro-ram this year are not fully known, but is estimated at present at approximately 300 million feet. He says that at locations where now no buildings exist housing will have to De provided for 50,000 to 60,000 munition workers. This war housing jrogram, continued Mr. Farris. is in addition to the estimated housing shortage In Canada at present of at least 30,000 units. was an architect in a Fellow of the Royal rchitt and an hon- * Architect" by hls ^ a son- al f^ ^eral grand-a 1 living in England. Tavi?� ta �"nP�y with ad IY-01 Vanc<�er the nr n�"dow� over the Ce G the wa- order. Performed A. P. & Governor-General Visiting Province His Excellency the Governor-General of Canada, the Earl of Ath-lone and Her Royal Highness Princess Alice, his wife, passed through Vancouver last Saturday morning en route to Victoria where they will remain until Sunday. Apiil 13. On April 14 they will pay an official visit to Vancouver. His Excellency Canadian manufacturing mills. The ratio of unfilled orders to gross stocks was 34 per cent on the 8th of last month, compared with 22 per cent a ye^r ago. Unfilled orders were 37 per cent greater than a year ago; gross stocks were 13 per cent less. _______o---------- Better Prices at Kamloops Show H.irry Bowman, the colonization ngent for the C.N.R. with headquarters in Prince George, returned Friday from Kamloops where he at-had not been in Vancouver since 4U i mided the annual bull saie and fat years ago. Their excellencies spent j s(ock ghow whi(jh was heW therp tnt. a day at Jasper Park Lodge while j ^ g dgys Qf lagt week Prlces en route to the Pacific co.ist. f0]. ^^ fat'stock and bulls were -------------o # I considerably higher than last, stat- GETS HIS FURS THE EASY WAY? Jim Anslow wanted furs but evidently didn't believe in the hard-ships encountered on the average ed Mr. Bowman. A total of 414 fat cattle were sold for $41,000, a net increase of $2.75 per 100 pounds over prices realized last year. Eighteen Shorthorn bulls and 50 ships encountered on the avg | g trapline. Seeing a coyote skin in a | Hereford biUls.were sold, the average fur store on George street with no price realized for the Shorthorns be- ld $25750 and for the Herefords iru $, These figures added to the fat cattlesales.brought the to tal turnover to $60,100. The �rrand champion was sold to stores for 30 cents a pound. MI3S one Apparently "waTching. he helped, inR $257.50 and for the Hereford* himself Constable Bill Smith was : $284.50. Total value of bull soles notified as soon as the theft was | was $19,100; discovered, and In company with Constable Taylor, pi^fed up a suspect near the NationJHHotol within an hour of the robqB. Next day the coyote skin was^cRovered under the sidewalk where; Anslow had been picked up. He was identified by parties who' saw him walking down the street with the fur. and Police Magistrate P> J. Moran gave him 20 days in the "cooler" to think up some better way of fur. trapping" cents a pound for the first prize animal in bovs' and girls' first class. Andrew Miller. Mud River, mirch-ased a Hereford pe^ierreed bull. He pnssed through Prince Oeoree last Saturday affernoon with the animal in a truck en route to his farm. \3 be placed in the American service ana the Danish will be turned over .o Great Britain. A preliminary inspection showed : I most all the Italian vessels taken over had already been rendered useless by sabotage. The lightning action of the United States in taking over the 65 boats in American- ports is expected to develop into a hemisphere-wide move to thwart the departure or sabotage of lcng-idle Axis vessels. The Costa Rican government arrested crews of the Nazi freighter Eisenach and the Italian liner Pel-la which were anchored at Punba Arenas when they set their ships "fire. __q War Services Fund Campaign Started John Newscme of Willow River has the honor of behig the first contributor to the Prince George and vicinity campaign for the War Services Fund. On- Monday last Mr. Ncwsomp forwarded $10.00 as a donation. Next on the list is the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Canadian Legion, who contributed $12.45 to the fund. This donation was the money turned over to th* auxiliary by the entertainment committee of Prince George Board of Trade following the dance in the Elks Hall on Thursday night last in honor of the visiting United States army airmen. The l?dies provided a buffet lunch for the occasion. The local canvassers are just getting into their stride and by this time next week hope to have Prince George's quota well in hand. Germans Arrest Eight U.S. Citizens -to '�& Hungarian Premier Meets Mysterious Death -V �&� r ft