An Independent Weekly Newspaper DeVsiei to'the Interest, of Central and North \i British Columbia
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Prince George,  B.C., Thursday, June   11,   1942
�2.00 a Year
istrict $500 Short f Campaign Quota
Le C3�o:�o ^ district is stUl hort of its $3000 objective to
 croas finance campaign. r A M. Patterson, campaign jger is urging aU workers to [ete their canvassing at the st moment and turn In sub-ions.
P^at collections Included $170 En by Mrs. McGillivray for the L unit of the Red Cross, and $6 I the Reid Lake Young People. Cariboo Women's InstiUite sent Is raised through a field day _ance in addition to their reg-[subscription.
lard of Trade
; George Board of Trade _ Dr. R. W. Alward chairman
\committee to prepare and sub-brief to the B.C. Post War
Ibllitation Council during its here June 20 and 22 in the room   6t   the   Government
speaking to the question  at
iy   night's   meeting   of   the
of Trade, R. D. Greggor urged
jthe committee concentrate its
Ition on the matter of develop-
?w industries at Prince George,
er than confining its study to
wltural "subjects"
S. Caine gave a report on forts of mill employees and ttors to obtain government per-to raise wages.
C.C.F. Erecting Their Own Hall
A nerw C.CJ. hall will be constructed on Fourth Avenue between Brunswick and Quebec streets at a cost of $5000.
Work on the grounds was started this week and construction is expected to be completed within two months. Entire space on the main floor will be available for dancing. The building will be 36 by 82 feet, with a lean-to addition for cloakroom, ladies' rest-room and kitefhen, giving a frontage of .48 feet.
The basement will be used only for a hot-air heating unit.
The O.CF. has occupied its present rented quarters for five years.
Divorces Granted At Assize Court
In Assize Court here Wednesday, Mr. Justice J. M. Coady granted divorce orders to Lulu Mann from Raymond Mann, Effie McCabe from William McCabe, and George F. Taylor, Jr., from Dorothy J. Taylor.
Judgment was reserved in the case of Bessie Leona Williams and Norman Edward Williams.
A fifth case of H. C. Courvoisier and Anne Courvoisier was not heard as the husband, coming from Fort St. John, was held up by poor flying conditions.
rther Jap Raids �pected on Alaska; ew Nazi Offensive
BRITISH UNITED  PRESS � THURSDAY, JUNE   11
(Special to The Citizen.) I WASHINGTON�American armed forces are believed to Preparing for possible new Japanese attacks on Alaskan terry. Washington military circles say all is quiet at present lit is likely Japan will launch raids similar to the assaults on Ich Harbor last weekend.
I MOSCOW�A new German offensive is under way on the
II Kharkov front in the Russian Ukraine.  Another battle in-Ving millions of men threatens to develop as the Germans
npt recapture of pt>sition lost in the first assault.   In the tea, Russian forces holding besieged Sevastopol are reported iing firm despite furious and constant German attacks. The isian High Command reports another German attack beaten lomewhetre on the northwestern front with heavy Nazi losses. I        WASHINGTON�The United States and Russia have agreed to create a second front this year.
Excel in Cruelty
<9N E)ON�Another German reign of terror�the crudest -is  under way  in   Czechoslovakia  where  Hey drich   was The Gestapo  levelled the town of Lidice,  shot male tents, and interned women. Thirty-one other innocent host-were murdered in Czechoslovakia yesterday.
LONDON�Great Britain and Russia concluded a 20-year mutual assistance treaty, it was announced this morning in'the House of Commons; by Anthony Eden, British Foreign Secretary. v
WASHINGTON�The United States is pacing the arms
[>ut of Great Britain, it was disclosed by British production
ff Oliver Lyttleton. In a CBS radio address he said England
doubled the output of war weapons in the past year but the
ted States has forged ahead.
CHUNGKING�The Japanese are gaining ground rapidly [.s^uee2e play aimed at capturing the middle section of the |^ Kiangsi-Chekiang railway.   Chungking says enemy col-10 Pushing along the railroad from Nan Chang threaten to n� the Chinese defences.                                         v
MELBOURNE�Allied fighting men are making the Aus-jan war theatre an unhealthy spojt for Jap subs and planes. ��ed with sinking another jap sub, Allied air raiders piastre enemy bases at Rabaul, New Britain Island.
Heavy Loss to Japs
ARMY AlR CORPS H.Q., HAWAII�The Japs are ��k     have lost mofe than 90 per cent of the planes used in attempt to capture Midway Island.   As many as 10,000 l JC es.tlmated to have been lost in the sinking or damaging ! w*       rePorted so far.
^ASHINGTON�President Roosevelt gave the signal to->a national gigantic scavenger hunt for scrap rubber. t officials also were rushing plans for a pipe line to Illinois to relieve the eastern oil shortage.
The Fighting Quinns
life in the armed services seems to have agreed with the f �(|ur Quinn boys as indicated by their photographs recently received here by their mothers, Mrs. Claude F. Barnes. The boys, who are well known in Prince George are, read-big from left to right* top: Aircraftsman Phillip Quinn, Pie. Jack Quinn and Leading Aircraftsman Gecaid Quinn; and below, Sergt.-Kiioi  liaroiri   Quinn.
Harold has been In England since January; Jack was last reported at Halifax; Phillip is at Bockcttffe, Ontario, and Gerald is at Ayhner, Ontario.
Millmen Return to Jobs as Wage Case Carried to Ottawa
Men Agree to Finish  Sawing All Logs in Woods and Booms Following Parley
Employees of Eagle Lake Sawmills at Giscome, Sinclair Spruce Lumber Co. at Sinclair Mills, and Alexander Sawmills at Prince George returned to work Monday after a three-day layoff resulting from a rejection by the Regional War Labor Board of their application for wage increases.
Their case, which has the sympathetic support of the Northern Interior   Lumbermen's   Association comprising the mill owners, is being appealed to Ottawa. The men at Giscome and Sinclair Mills have agreed to continue work until all logs in the woods and laying in the lake are sawn, or until a definite ruling is received from Ottawa. Alexander Sawmill workers are fol-
Kuryluk Acquitted By Assize Jury on Manslaughter Count
Howard Kuryluk, C.N.R. sectionman at McBride, was acquitted by a jury in Assize Cdiirt in Prince George Tuesday of a charge of manslaughter in connection with the death of Mike Hatrak on October 31, 1941, at McBride.
The jury deliberated only 17 minutes before returning their verdict, and Mr. Justice J. M. Coady ordered Kuryluk's discharge. Alex McB. Young was crown prosecutor, arid P. E. Wilson, K.C., appeared for the defence.
? Medical evidence showed Hatrak died from a ruptured bowel and resulting complications six days after he engaged in an "altercation" with Kuryluk in a private home at MlcBride.
Justice Ooady ruled as not admissible   an    ante-mortem   statement dictated  by   Hatrak   to   Provincial Const. John  Blezard. VISIT BEER PARLOR
Al Jolson Could Live To Be 100 If He Lived Here
"If I could stay in Prince George, I would live to be a hundred," beamed Al Jolson, famed stage, Gcreen and radio singer and actor, as he strode up and down the corridors of Keller House Uist Monday morning. -"I certainty sleep well in Prince George," he continued, stretching himself with evident satisfaction.
Speaking directly to Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Keller, Mr. Jolson explained life in New York was too tense for comfort or pleasure.
The popular entertainer stayed overnight here when weather Sunday grounded the Fan American plane bound for Alaska. Mr. Jolson was en route to Anchorage and other centres to entertain U.S. armed forces!,
Mrs. Mike Byke told the court Hatrak had visited her house at McBride on Saturday, October 25, 1941, and left a short time later. That night, in company with her husband, Kuryluk, John Yakemic and John Baronsky, she visited a beer parlor. After the parlor closed they went to the Byke home, taking with them two doaen bottles of beer.
Once in the kitchen of the house a bottle. Then Byke began x accordlan and Mrs. Byke danced in turn with Yakemic and K-uryluk.   Hatrak came in.   He ap-
The stopover was entirely to his peared to be angry and moody. Mrs. liking. He stretched out in a chair I Byke (handed him a bottle of beer. in the lobby and entertained fellow, Later slhe danced with him, and as passengers and other hotel guests gj^ && ^ j^rs By^ explained, witlh fast talk and songs.                    Hatrak twice kicked  Yakemic who
For a time he watched a softfoall   nad f^Hen asleep m a chair, game.
Accompanying Mr. Joteon was his musical director, Martin Frted/X
(See ACQUITTED, Page 5)
Farmers Plan Convention on June 1oM7
All Farmers' Institutes in District
Change Schedule For Local Mails
lowing this lead.
SINCLAIR MILLS�JX>n McPhee, manager of Sinclair Spruce Lumber Co.., and Roy Spurr, manager of Eagle Lake Sawmills, told a meeting of employees Friday at Sinclair Mills Community Hall of their efforts at Vancouver in connection with the application to the Regional War Labor Board for authority to increase wages by 10 cents an hour.
The speakers reviewed the entire situation. The Northern Interior (See MILLMEN RE7TXJRN, Page 4)
M bvi    wwi another Germai^Italian attacked has been Mm  BriSVu   ?ree Fre�ch and Indian defenders of Bir w* hoidir   r nead