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n Independent Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of Central and Northern British Columbia
No. 26
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[c " Election�Admits [g May Come This Fall
^eivin7his~eighth nom�" IS candidate for the ESS Rupert last week, In Pattullo made a leis-from the northern port a Omineca and Fort sinew, remaining in this JS rftemoon. He left for �rlv Sunday morning. No Sngs were held on his *e"e will be opportunity le premier said. Lncement was made as to En date, though he frankly that an election might e held before the end of -depending upon many ot least of which is the
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Ipronsion is made for those service to vote, both in Greuu Britain, but tne uuy of this is still causing -j tiie chief electoral officer. [the premier's visit here he Itained at lunoh by H. G. (.LA., and at a tea and rty by the Women's Libation He also called at .on Army Red Shield tea hall. A Liberal executive m held in the evening and Utters affecting the welfare ople of this district were > the attention of the visi-Dr. C. Ewert, president pjict association, Geo. B. [of the local association, Clark, of the Dominion ciation, and by the Port ember.
hip the Mayor, as chair-�� Victory Loan commit-the premier to drop the �tier's figure placed on the | to confirm the announce-It the quota for this area [reached and in fact over-, At 6, p.m, this cerexnony ned before a good crowd ily gathered. The pressed a bond from Mayor Kml paid sincere compii-trince George and the en-krriFLLO, Page Pour)
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Prince George, B.C., Thursday, June 26, 1941
Byng H.S. Is Promoted ichool Year
jes of Successful Pupils jades IX, X and XI in abetical Order.
is a list of recommend-
promotions from Baron
school for the past school
nended � Doris Anderson, omhower, Marion Boyle, ckley, Margaret Oollinson. njanac, Lesley Guile, Viola oyc� Jefferies, Sheila Mc-|Kathleen Manson, Marie Meents, Erna Meents, to, Mary Schulte, George nes Zimmaro, Mary Dam-
ladys Brose, Ruth Oarl-t Cormack, Donald Douglas, 'Douglas, Merl Lloyd, Mae
Ibneiia McKenney, Myrtle
*od Matheson, May Muralt, won, Patrick Pedlar, Helen
W, steve Prudente, Jean
p- Dorothy Strugala.
nended �EUzabeth Aitken, Person, Rosa Bertschi, Jean Kcbet Clements, Thelma Daniluck, Sydney Douglas, Katherine ^l^sr, Richard Hein, �cKenzib, Doris McKinnon, Walter Pettfe, Ruth
Alexander, June Blair, Willie Bland, th-Burdea, Irene je Carmichael, Cel- nne barter, Staffie Caasino, Joyce Oor- Fri,eman, Arthur Gale, ^m McCaw, Mary ' Georgtia Pat- Smith, Alice Van n strom. Diana Whit- Woodcock.
Carmichael, Homewood, Wal- Newton, Barbara
#2.00 a Year
Stage All Set for Big Day, of Sports Events, Cadet Drills, Boy Scout and Girl Guide Craft Exhibitions, Bathing Beauty Parade, Dance, in Prince George Next Tuesday.
, :Norine Locker, Rose Qulnn. Richard
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members of the Board of Trade and Junior Chamber of Commerce having charge of the Dominion Day celebration next Tuesday, July 1, have most of their arrangements perfected for a gala day of sport and fun.
Two items planned but not yet completely arranged for are a soft-ball tournament and a series of horse races. The committee is awaiting definite word from outside soft-ball teams and are satisfed arrangements for the tournament will be completed by week-end.
An enthusiastic sub-committee is busy trying to arrange for a quarter-mile straightaway track on the flats near Athletic Park to stage horse racing during the day. Three horses are already lined up and riders obtained, and if final arrangements are completed it is hoped to have horse owners from Salmon Valley, Pineview and Shelley participate.
The big parade will form up at the corner of Third avenue and Brunswick street at 12:30 noon and maroh to Athletic Park where the day's program of sport events will begin at 1:30 p.m.
In addition to individual entries, five business firms are sponsoring ladies in the Dominion Day Bathing Beauty Parade. They are Northern Hardware & Furniture Co., Prince George Drug Co. Evie's Shoppe, I. B. Baird and Hughes & Drake.
Already n< ted for its lovely &irls, citizens of Prince George and district are sanguine that the contest
>will have entrants equal in .-harm and beauty to tohoses taking part rathe widely advertised contests heui regularly in Miama, Florida, iand Atlantic City. It is just possible the winner, "Miss Prince George,'' will be entered in one of the larger group contests it a later Oate and thus win continent-wide fame. So hold your heals up, girls, and step your prettiest.
The High School Cadets are in training for thsir ceremoiilal drills to be staged at "Athletic Park. The Boy Scouts and Girl - Guides are furbishing up their 'uniforms and perfecting themselves in scout- and guidecraft. The Girl Guides will put on a fire-fighting display that is said to be a splendid exhibition.
The wide range of Caledonian games and track and field events on the day's program are drawing many entrants from the city and surrounding districts.
The Midway will be in operation from 9 p.m. on the evenings of June 30 and July 1 in the Arena, and a great many novel and attractive features have been added for the enjoyment of patrons.
There will also be two dances, one in the Elks Hall on the evening of June 30, and the grand ball in the Princess ballroom on the evening of
Gifts To War Quests
A cheque for $7300 for British war guests in Canada was received last week by Dr. Charles Camsell, deputy minister of mines and resources at Ottawa, from the Independent Order of Oddfellows. The presentation was made by Grand Master C. M. Ire-dale at the annual banquet of the lodge held in Toronto on June 20. The cheque was the second present- j ation to the government by the Oddfellows, the first being for $10,000.
Prince George Exceeds Quota In Victory Loan
�203,550 Bought Through District Headquarters, But �6000 Credited Elsewhere.
Figures issued at noon yesterday at Victory Loan headquarters in Prince George showed that 36 communities in this area with an approximate population of 5500 had subscribed for $197,-550 in Victory Loan bonds since the drive started on June 2. According to E. W. I. Keenleyside, district organizer, there are several' odd lots of applications still to come by mail from isolated centres.
July 1, which will wind up the cele- Prince George and district exceed-bration.
The complete program of fun and sport caters to all, both young and old, and everyone is expected to turn out and thoroughly enjoy themselves.
EDITORIAL
This is Canada's f CALL TO YOU'
Men are now wanted to man the guns, armoured units, tanks; all the implements of modern warfare the factories are producing in mounting volume.
It is a different war this time. When we licked the Hun before, men were recruited here to train in England to fight in France. Now you are recruited and trained here; then go overseas to join the stalwarts holding battle positions on the shores of Old England, or wherever the call demands.
The Canadian Active Army requires men for Engineers, Artillery, Signals, Armoured Cars, Infantry, Transport and Supply, Medical, Ordnance and other branches of the Service. The Army is prepared to teach many trades, and to train you efficiently to handle Canada's weapons of war.
Go to your nearest District Recruiting, Office. Find out about these Units; how they work, what they do. See just where you'll fit in. See where any particular, skill you possess can best be utilized.
Then join up for ACTION!
K. Anderson Buys Lot At Third and Dominion
Fourth Real Estate Transaction Involving Business Prop-"erty-on Third^ Avenue During 1941�Balance of Business -at Monday Night's Council Meeting of Routine Nature.
ed the quota of $140,000 set for this area by $17,500, with subscriptions of $157,550. In addition to the quota of $140,000, the area had �& list of $40,000 in special names. This was collected, which brings the total subscribed here to $197,550. An additional $6000 wus collected here from persons residing in other sections of Canada and this amount had to be credited to those areas in which the subscriber lives. So the actual grand total of subscriptions passing through the Prince George headquarters was $203,550.
The organizer, citizens' committee, and every subscriber is justly proud of this area's record, and extremely pleased that all were able to contribute so handsomely to Canada's
Prisoner Locks Officer In Wells Jail, Escapes
Albin Smaaslet Knocks His Wells Cellmate Out and Escapes with Constable's Gun and Police Car�Recaptured Tuesday in Cottonwood River Area by Police Posse.
At Wells last week Albin Smasslet, around 35 years of age and a former resident of Prince George, climaxed a week of frenzied finance and high spending of other peoples' money by landing in jail. There he staged a jail-break reminiscent of "Baby-Face" Nelson and John Dillinger, youthful U.S. bandits of a few years ago: When arrested at Wells, Smaaslet
the total subscriptions throughout Canada at well over $800,000,000.
Big news at the citv council meeting last Monday evening | war effort.
re r wiM-i'inf i L t tL' J\ Latest figures from Ottawa place
was an offer of #1027.70 for the north-west corner lot, Ihird
avenue at Dominion street, being lot 11, block 44. The offer was made by Karl Anderson. It was accompanied by a payment of half cash, and the councillors accepted the proposal. This is the fourth real estate deal<�,
for business property situated on Third avenue during the last few months. The inside lot on this corner was sold by the city last month to Kasimer Wilchek. who has placed a two-storey frame building thereon. The other deals were private transactions whereby the Blue Bird Tea Rooms were sold to R. White, and the property occupied by Nechako Bakery was sold to Joe Neaumaier earlier in the year.
Much of the time of the council was taken up in a discussion of the
city's liability in cases of indigent persons who leave Prince George and become hospital patients in other places, with the result that the city corporation is billed with subsequent costs. In one case the city is being asked to pay $9.56 a week for special medicine for a former resident now domiciled in Vancouver. Legal advice will be taken before further action in the matter is decided by the council.
The police report for last month (See CITY COUNCIL, Page Four)
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MOSCOW, June 26 (BUP) � Russians have recaptured Prezemysl on the Russo-German frontier in southeastern Poland and have cut off German infantry from German tank units in the Vilna area on the Polish-Lithuanian frontier, a Russian war communique asserted. Ferocious fighting is reported in southeastern Poland with the Russians holding fast. It was claimed the Russians had thrown back all German and Ruman-the Pruth River on the Bessarabian front
Farmer Kills Seven Wolves At Hixon Creek
Attacked by Female, Gale F. Colebank Finally Kills Two Old Ones, Five Pups.
A-bag of seven timber wo'ves and the collection of $70 bounty thereon was the lucky experience of Gale F. Colebank cf Woodpecker last week.
While hunting on Hixon Creek, seven miles up from Prince George-
Quesnel highway. Colebank was attacked by an animal which he at first thought was a bear. When the
other prisoner. He is then alleged to have knocked his cell-mate unconscious and shouted for Police Officer Wales to come quickly as the man was dying. When Constable Wales rushed into the cell to render first-aid, Smaaslet calmly walked out and locked the police officer in.
He is reported to have then gone �to the officer's living quarters where he helped himself to the constable s revolver, at the same time ordering Mrs. Wales and baby to come with him to the jail cells. When they arrived there Smaaslet told the officer to turn over the keys to the police car or he would kill Mrs. Smaaslet land the baby, and the officer complied with tlie demand. After locking Mrs. Wales up. Smaaslet escaped I in the officer's car, which was later found abandoned near Wingdam. some few miles from Wells.
Smaaslet was reported on Friday
ground and sought cover from the desperado's bullets behind a tree, and the other officers did likewise. Smaaslet blazed away, firing five i See JAILBREAKER. Page Four)
District Survey Of Soils Starts For 1941 Season
C. C. Kelley and Party Will Complete Work Between Mount Tabor, Summit Lake
C. C. Kelley, B.S.A., who has been in charge of a soil survey in the immediate vicinity of Prince George under the Dominion and provincial last to have called at a trapper's departments of agriculture for the cabin about 29 miles east of Quesnel past four years, arrived from the
and demanded food. He was still south last week.
carrying the police officer's gun. As Assisted by L. Forstad, W. Newton
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animal'"was about 20 feet from him j thoroughly familiar with the terrain the map area on a section 60 miles
he fired but the first shot missed. | between Wells. Quesnel and Prince long lying between meridian 122 and
His second shot was more effective I George, it was ^thought possible he 122.30. Tills roughly runs from Sum
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and that m the Skuleni sector the Russians had crossed the Pruth to the German-Rumanian side after inflicting a heavy defeat on the attacking Axis forces.
LONDON. June 26 (BUP)-Russia's army using German Panzer corps tactics and closely supported by planes appeared to have thrust a wedge into southeastern Poland. It was believed the Russians were making a two-pronged counter-drive n which they had taken Przemysl and that they were thrusting StlT German lines in-the Lwpwbrody section to the north-east. D sp�dSindicated the main batHe is stilling raging along a 100 mileI front in the Vilna-Baranovichi area west of-the former Po�S-RSs?an frontier. Experts said it might be significant that Russian communiques failed to mention the situation at Kaunas capital of Lithuania, which Germans claim to control, ne 26 (BUP)�A High Command communi- Hitler's headquarters today said the German �� rou frontier clashes
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que issued j�m ��fe had won numerous frontier clashes offensive against Russia^w{ inst the Red army are
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would disclose for the firs �e t g operations on
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inSVotive success on a great scale (Continued on Page i