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, An Independent Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of Central and Northern Britieh Columbia
25; No. 21
Prince George, B.C., Thursday, May 21, 1942
istrict Will Be imbed This Year iys Fire Marshal
reuses Neecitp Warn Children Against Touching Any-in2 Following Air Raid � Tells How Inflammatory Cards" May be^ Used to Break Down Morale.
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assistant provincial marshal. Vancouver, gave a Z of firemen and ARP w*id-Prince George Ballroom Moult tas toe lectured on bombs > to handle them. ietber you like it or not, I � to tell yon that jwo are to be bombed this rear. "have things here the Japa-don't want yon to have. have a railway Hue capable [carrying aerial supplies to the W and you have an airport. Fit fa not now a case of IT bat for the bombings,' Oswald.
Rev. S. Pollinger Is Cariboo Bishop
Rev. S. Pollinger, rector of St Michael's & All Angels' Church here,' has been elected Bishop of Cariboo.
He was elected Wednesday noon on second ballot at the Kamloops meeting of the synod of toe Diocese of Cariboo, where he was presiding as administrator, haying been given �the post on the resignation of Bishop Wells.
Rev. PoUinger's elevation is being lenthusiastically received hi Prince j George and district for he is highly respected tfhrougnout Central B.C. e speaker hastened to warn the � and his duties take him over a large
Change Mail Delivery Day to Friday on Rural Route No. 1
J. G. Turgeon, M.P. for Cariboo; has informed The Cltissen ttu* In compliance with tihe request of various petitions sent in asking for a change in the day of service of Prince George Rural Route No. 1, mail in future will be changed from Thursday to Friday. Monday's delivery wUl remain. Largely signed petitions from 13ie Pineview and other districts on RJ>. No. 1 were sent to Sir. Turgeon last November' requesting this change. It will enable mall and newspapers arriving in Prince Gebrge on Thursdays to be delivered on R-R No. 1 the day following, instead of being (held up until the following Tuesday.
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Asians Claim
ELKS* PROGRAM
territory.
he was no mere alarmist steps should toe taken by the e, auxiliary and permanent to prepare for the day when lese bombers roared over this try. � __ ' TO EXPECT
battle of Britain was fought air force and the firemen, he led, 'the battle of B.C. is go-be dealt with by the firemen {trained volunteers."
district may well expect 600--pound bombs and hundreds tiousands of "calling cards' of nory material to be drop-lere.
"calling cards" are composed ipressed phosphorus and gun with the Japanese improve-i a generous supply of TNT. :)iir-eijgine bomber can carry of them in water tanks, and dropped over timber stands (settlements they dry out quick-are sure fire,
MORALE hey are used to break the mor- j "Chuck*
the people. Imagine the ef- \ _^j Ion morale if there were 350,000 [top fires blazing between here [Vanderhoof," said Mr. Oswald. "calling card," explained the ', carries enough explosive to off an arm when picked up. fYou must drill the children in i)l," Mr. Oswald warned, following an air raid noth-: must be picked op or touched. st the pressure of a finger or motion of moving the card ly be enough to set it off."
Orient the Japanese also poisoned candy and chocolates, 1 f rohi the air, to kill children break the people's morale, convinced the "calling ' would be showered hi this ry. Mr. Oswald said, "We are to need the liord's inberven-[in a great war. Let us hope the \ sends us a wet shower and that [waterworks system does not. go of commission." ENCE TACTICS
flowing such a raid the populace everything down, wash the off the roof and use a spiked to pick them off the ground. these cards should be dropped a bucket of water and every-turned out on the road where [cards can safely dry and burn
' Citizen can carry a full ac-of Mr. Oswald's description of [various types of bombs, .their iction and how to combat the next Issue. t. Walker, provincial fire . Vancouver, spoke on Great "�s preparation for the war of vTne British firemen wrote one greatest chapters into the of the battSe of London, he a In one day alone they bat-� major fires.
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Renew Free s'Licences
free
must be made by May SI, the M��s Dert
J^partment advises interests
2f <*tea representteg h"ld under the Mineral i-*** tTacer Mining Act must be
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Ute1 of Q�esnel, near Tib*.
Plans Advancing For Celebration
Plans for the annual July 1 celebration were discussed by members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce at dinner Thursday night. The program will include a sports meet, softball tournament, beauty queen contest, and boxing and wrestling contests.
The Junior Chamber considers there is a greater need for such entertainment this year as means of transportation xre more limited than in previous year. SPORTS COMMITTEE
Those named to the sports committee tor July I ape "Bud" Jones, Dr. J G. SfacArthufc; tames Boyce, Thomas, Duncan Munro l" Moffat.
Everything was reported hi readiness for the J.C.C. annual dance on June 5, which will be held in the Elks' Hall.
The organization's cup for tug-of-war competition will be re-engraved and posted for competition in one of the city's softball leagues.
Attention of the City Council will be drawn to the need for repainting street signs.
Using the Junior Chamber's now public address system, Bill Armstrong, George Stevens, Dr. H. J. Hocking, Charlie Straw and Stan Toomb produced a humorous play. Staff-Sergt. Fred G. Usher of Re-gtna added to the entertainment with vocal and guitar numbers.
Engineer to Speak On War Minerals
War minerals and the Provincial Government's ore buying program will be explained in a free lecture to be: given for prospectors by Dr. J. S. Stevenson, government mining engineer, on Saturday, June 6, at 7:30 v: in the court room, Government
Building.
There also wm be a fluorescent lamp display on scheelite.
Schoolchildren Taking Ma\or Role on Flag Day
Elks' Flag Day and ceremonies are again bei ed this year, with the Prince George playing role. As May 24 falls on next Monday will be obi holiday. To Join the this occasion, adults will le flees, stores, Provinciiai Govc 'building and banks closed
The Flag Day program by the local Elks Lodge is an esting one. At 1:30 pjn. Girl Guifc Boy Scouts, School Cadets and jhe children will parade from the Hall to the City Hall where School Cadets will raise the flag.
Honor of delivering the address the flag has been conferred on John\ Molnnis.
Following the ceremony the children will, reform ranks and, with Hags distributed by tihe Elks, the youngsters will march along George Street and Third Avenue to enjoy a special matinee at the Strand Theatre from 3 to 4:15 p.m. At the conclusion of the show the children will be given ice cream.
The ever-popular Children's Masquerade Ball will be held in tihe Elks' Hall from 7 to 9:30 pjn. Owing to the limited space it will not; be possible to admit adults other than parents or guardians of children taking part in the masquerade.
The program will conclude with dances in the Elks' Hall and c.cf. Hall, commencing at 10 p.m.
$mek Cofitinuation Voluntary System
(Special to The Citizen.) QUEBEC CITY, May 21 (BUP)� The Provincial Legislature went on record as opposed to overseas conscription with passage of a motion calling on Ottawa not to depart from the system of voluntary enlistment. The motion, introduced by Cyrille Dumaine, was passed at 1 a.m. 61-7. Seven Liberals opposed the motion, which climaxed a two-dae even though ;you were Hiding at attention."
Organizer Lauds
Salvage Workers
for the response of the district u\ the salvage appeal was voiced heri Wednesday by Robert Wilkinson m Vancouver, provincial organizer! for the National Salvage Ci
The l&cal campaign with the support of the people had done well, but there was a need for a continued response), Mr. Wilkinson said, and expressed the hope that Prince George and district would be able in future to ship a carload of scrap every mjmth to tihe heaquarters of the Red Cross in Vancouver.
Mr. Wilkinson said he was attempting to have fraternal organisations takfe an even greater and closer interest in the work.
W.I. Members To Convene Here
" Third annual convention of the Northern Interior Women's Institutes will be heM in Prince George May 30 hi the Elks' Hall. Eight Inr stitutea are expected to participate and an interesting progranvhas been arranged.
Those interested in/the work are invited to attend .tMe morning session at 10 o'clock and the afternoon session at 1:30 o'clock.
Prince George members will be hostesses at a luncheon for convention delegates, and the Red Cross is arranging a display of work.
Former Resident Dies in Kamloops
Mrs. ; Helen MacGregor, wife of Ivor MacGregor of Spences Bridge, died last Thursday in Kamloops Hospital after a brief illness. Be-< sides her husband, she leaves two small children.
Before her marriage, she was Helen Quinn and worked for many years as stenographer at the Prince George City HaH. V ': I
Her mother, Mrs. Claud Barnes of this city, was called to Kamloops.
$18,000 Fire Loss to Blair's Store, Stock
Damage by fire and smoke to the*the recoverable stocfc will be sold at
building and stock of Blair's General Outfitters, George Street, was announced Wednesday as more than $18,000. The loss in last Thursday's blaze is partly covered by insurance, and the insurance adjuster, H. C. Runte, of the James Taylor Co. Ltd., Edmonton, completed his work here today.
Cause of fire In the store, owned and operated by George Smith, is yet undetermined, mit the blaze is believed to have started hi the rear of the store, near the office. Office records were saved, due largely to theagpeed and efficiency of the Fire Department and volunteer firemen.
The flames destroyed large quantities of stock on counters, and shelves and an open shelves in a big stock-room at the rear. *> RED CROSS BENEFITS *>^
Mrs. Smith donated several loads of damaged drygoods, woollens and
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rubber goods to the Red Cross. Before1 extensive repairs can
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carried out to the building and fixtures, which were badly damaged,
a special sale, possibly next week.
The fire was first noticed'Thursday night about 9:05 o'clock by Hugh Johivwn, official of Yukon Southern Air Transport, Winnipeg, as he was dining hi the Grill Cafe with Ian Macdonald, local �gent for the airways company. Mr. Macdonald ran across the street to the fire hall to sound the alarm. HEAT BREAKS GLASS
As the fire engine roared up to the smoke-filled store, the heat of the flames began to break windows-at the front and rear of the prem* ises. Directed! by �re Chief D. G. Praser regular and trained volunteer firemen f�roed open front and rear doors and used two lines of twee to'quickly extinguish the flames. Just as the second line was rushed around the hack of the^ building, the flames leaped to the roof and threatened momentarily to spread to the adjacent buildings.
As a precautionary measure, cars in Prince George Motors were rolled out to the street.
Two Fined Under Motor Vehicle Act
Two local men, charged under the Motor Vehicle Act, were fined $5 each by Stipendiary Magistrate Mil-burn in City Police Court Friday. Mr. Milburn acted for Magistrate P,. J. Moran, who is ill.
One of tihe men was working as a chauffeur without a Class C licence andthe other was fined for employing tihe first man as a chauffeur when he did not have the required licence, �,
Given 20 Days
PORT ST. JAMES�James O'Neill was given 20..days on a vagrancy
charge when hie came before Norman Henry, stipendiary magistrate, here.
Hockey Medals for J.C.C Team.
Members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce men's senior hockey team are to receive silver medals as a reward for wining the league championship during the past season.
The medals were presented to Wilson Muirhead, team manager, at the Junior Chamber dinner Thursday night by Dr. J. G. MacArthur, hockey executive secretary.
Kharkov Defences
BRITISH UNITED PRESS � THURSDAY, MAY 21
(Special to The Citizen.)
MOSCOW�-The army newspaper Red Star said Soviets have overwhelmed the main German fortifications of Kharkov and are battling in the inner ring of defences around the besieged industrial city, known as the "Pittsburg of Russia."
BERLIN�German difficulties in Russia were admitted last night in an unusually frank speech by Reichmarshal Hermann Goering. In an address to German workers broadcast by Berlin, Goering said one bad report followed another for the Germans all winter long in the Russian theatre of war.
"There were Russians in our rear, in the north, in the centre, in the south," said the rotund Goering. "Guerillas blew up railroads, ambushed our supplies. Our troops nearly froze to death, and railroad tracks broke from the intense frost. For whole days our front line was without ammunition or food."
Goering also revealed that drought is threatening a further reduction in already poor German crops and warned an apathetic audience that longer hours and a long war lie ahead.
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Five Brothers Serve Country
Alfred Peters, 21 years, is the fifth of seven sons of the late E. S. Peters, who for years was sheriff of Cariboo and one of the. most colorful figures of the Fort George district, to enlist in the army.
Alfred signed up at Prince Rupert and is now visiting the family ranch at Eraser Lake before proceeding to Vancouver for duty with the service branch or the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps. A year ago ihe married Galene Gerhardi of Fort Fraser
Other members of the family in the armed forces are L/Cpl. Harry Peters, 27, with the Second Searchlight Bajftery; Gnr. Ernest Peters, 25 in Britain with the Royal Canadian Artillery, and Pte. Leslie Peters, 23 and L/Cpl. Frank Peters,' 19, with the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps at Camp Borden, Ont.
What Red Cross Will Do With Your Donations
National budget for expenditure of tihe $9,000,000 to be raised in the current Canadian Red Cross campaign for funds is as follows:
Food parcels for British prisoners in Europe. $3,150,000..*
Food parcels'f&& Canadian prisoners in Far East. $400,000.
Hospital supplies and merchandise purchases for armed forces and civilians. $3,750,000.
Disaster and emergency (including assistance to Allied Red Cross societies) $1,000,000.
Blood donor service, $200,000.
Campaign and publicity, $200,000.
Administration, $300,000.
Pattullo Insists on Oil Referendum
T. D. Pattullo, K.C., MJLA^ fof Prince Rupert, and former premier of B.C., has repeated his proposal tiiat; the Peace River oil issue be submitted to electors Dy a direct referendum. In a press statement Mr. Pattullo disagrees with Premier John Hart's contention that the oil drilling policy was a live issue in the last election and that the people's opinion was expressed clearly then. ------------o------------
Foreman Saved
FRANCOIS LAKE 4- Tom Turner of Terrace was rescueq from drowning 'here by Kenneth" Warner ,and' Capt. McKinnon of j the Francois Lake ferry. Turner was standing on a plank placed between the wharf ( and ferry storehouse superintending men at work when a gust of wind swung the doors shut and knocked him into deep water. The two men, standing nearby, picked up a plank and pushed it down to him. Because of the heavy mackinaw he was wear-ng, Turner was unable to swim.
lurt in Fire at Springfield Ranch
WILLIAMS LAKE�Miss Evelyn Twan Ja^at Williams Lake Hospital with a severely injured -back suffered in a jump from a second-floor window of tfae famous old Spring-Held Ranch house. Soda Creek home of Mr. and Mrs, John Hargreaves. The fire destroyed' outbuildings as welt as the main residence.
Nazi Gestapo official Reinhard Heydrich on his spring: tour of occupied nations. Heydrich left Berlin three weeks ago. tfince then there have been more than 200 executions and countless instances of sabotage throughout France, Delirium, Holland and Norway. MELBOURNE�
Allied planes resumed their hard hitting air offensive against Japanese bases north of Australia. After a one-day lay-off due to unfavorable weather, Allied airmen poured bombs Into Keopang airdrome In the Dutch half of Timor Islands. Two enemy planes were destroyed and big fires started. The bombers also smashed at Jap shipping and a seaplane base at Dili, on the Portuguese end of the island. The Japs hurled 12 fighter planes at Port Moresby, New Guinea. They were driven off with four, of the raiders suffering damage. CHUNGKING�
Jap columns are closing in on the Allied air and supply bases in eastern China. Enemy troops and mechanized unite are strongly supported by planes, but military sources here doubt it means Japan is trying for a quick knockout in China. Rather, they believe, the Japs aim at occupying bases to remove any Allied air threat to Japan herself. They disagree with a Chungking spokesman who declared last week the Japanese woud try to finish off China before attacking India or Russia. OTTAWA�
Canada may soon obtain from the United States details of a process for producing synthetic rubber from grain alcohol, C. D. Howe, minister of munitions and supply, told the House of Commons, ..
There will be no oil available for heating purposes anywhere in the Dominion during next winter, Howe also informed the House. VANCOUVER�
British Columbia's test blackout last night was a success. Civilian protection authorities say there were a few weaknesses but on ihe whole the response-of citizens in Vancouver, Victoria, Prince Rupert and at other coastal areas was /'good."
One major weakness, according' to ARP officials, was automobile headlights. Observers on the ground and in an R.C'.A.F. plane reported some motorists ignored the regulations; others had the wrong kind of head,-' light masks. VANCOUVER�
One of B.C.'s leading business men, Capt. William M. Crawford, died last night. He was 59 years old. WASHINGTON--
The British Trade Unions Congress has asked the American Federation of Labor to join in co-operative real ionsh i p with Soviet trade unions. The proposal was advanced personally by Sir Walter Citrine, secretary of the British group, in a discussion before the A.F. of L. executive council. A decision is expected today. ANKARA�
Military experts In Turkey believe Jhe Germans -must take Rostov be-or<> than can start any drive into the Caucasus from Crimea.
Invasion from Crimea, they assert, would only be wide open to Russian counter attack. But if the Germans could seize Rostov they could develop a pincers thrust at the Caucasus with one arm swinging south from Rostov and the other driving east from the Crimea.
Health Centre
PRINCE RUPERT�Dr. Robert; J. Macdonald, who has been operating a provincial public health centre at Pouce Coupe, will open such a centre here.