An Independent Weekly New.pap.r Devoted to the Interest, of Central and No. 35 Prince George, B.C., Thursday, August 27, 1942 jMzen ash Columbia lb �2.00 a Year ussians And Chinese Hurl Back Enemy it War forts iremost iG.TurgBo,, flaainst Undermining Con- fidence in Military Chiefs Turgeon, M.P. for Oarttioo, young businessmen po give all I thoughts to tiie successful con-lof the war, when he addressed George Junior Chamber of Tuesday night at the Cafe. lie said, was the only way e the road for post-war de-eot Chat would realize a new gher standard of living. Unless we win this war we In d are not foinf to have to say about post-WM faction," the speaker ew�- [tJunking of life after tbe war, Canadians must never for a nt forget tine war must be tcgic position George and district should �that the added prosperity en-is the result of the war and of the position this part ; country holds in Canada and p to the world. j Turgeon said he had for sev-sought to draw attention i fact that the Pacific coast of l America veered westward and [ up against Japan. The Yukon were so far west there hour's difference in time there ana Vancouver. B.C. was not fully alive dangers and possibliity of he stated. He felt it was uty to point this. out. Some 6, he thought, were not think-i terms of war today but ratiher of material gain. Strong ; should be made for prepara-I attack, from Japan. Turgeon recalled efforts of r and Seattle organizations ah- services through this about 1937. These organiza-had campaigned for routes the Pacific coastline. FORECAST fever, when Japanese and Rus- fliers flew from Asia to North Sea they came directly over George, Indicating this city some day be on the most air routes. for and opposition to the aent of airports in Central Page Pour) Hon. H. G. Perry Seeks Provincial Park Around Summit Lake Efforts are being made by Hon. �GOOD HIGHWAY H. G. Perry, minister of education, to secure a provincial park at Summit Lake. |. Valuable timber limits exist in the area at present but plans are under way for reserving for public park purposes a suitable timbered area surrounding tihe entire lake. Summit Lake, headwaters of the Arctic, is cne of the most popular resorts for Prince George residents and . attracts hundreds of holiday seekers every year. It is reached by a good highway and is the gateway to tihe Peace River by boat. The country around is fcnown for its moose and bear hunting, and the lake itself ihas been systematically stocked ..with fish during the last four years. With the construction of a railway north from Prince George, this district will become a meoca for thousands of holidayers. BETTING HIGH Confident Railway Is Going From City The railway through Canada to Alaska wiR be built! It will follow Route "B." north ' out of Prince George. � That is Uhe betting of men in Prince George who have closely followed the subject. It is also the bet of men in high places in Victoria and strong interests on the Pacific Coast. J. G. Turgeon, ALP. for Cariboo, also thinks the railway will go from here. Route "A" to the west of Prince George Is 200 miles longer than the route through the "natural railway bed" of the Rocky Mountain Trench directly north of this city, while Route "C" is some 360 miles greater. ONLY ONE SURVEYED Alberta, suggests et railway running north out of Edmonton and up to the Mackenzie River, running across from there into the Yukon. Such a line runs into mountains ranging up to 8,000 feet. Only Route "B" has been surveyed, and to carry out a survey for tihe other lines would take most of (See BETTING HIGH. Page Five) fnting Season Bear, Moose ms Sept. 1 hunting regulations for this have been received by the Mice of the B.O. Game De-Pent for northern B.C., the 1941 f^ a� being observed. [these orders, moose, bear and Pu season opens September I, e deer, grouse and duck sea- September 15, seas�n for mountain sheep t�5?opened Au^wt 15. Paring animals may be hunt-"* November l on. fother 8 Lots Sold By City TS"* W r* !M*woltlrcouno1 l", $155.20. on the CHy Hall. High-ranking Officers Pay Visit to City High-ranking Canadian military officers visited Prince George Tuesday night and Wednesday, then pra-r ceeded to Vancouver. Lieut.TGeneral Kenneth Stuart, dhiefof the general staff,.and G.O.C. in charge of the Pacific Command for the present, and Major-General Young, master-general of ordnance, came here from Prince Rupert. Major-General Potts, officer commanding: the southern division, and Major-General Oanong, officer in charge of the northern division, also visited Prince George. General Stuart said he was pleased with conditions here. Children Troop Back to School Tuesday Morn The school bell will ring again on Tuesday, September 1, calling thousands of children back to grade and high schools in British Columbia. In previous years it (has been the policy to extend the summer vacation to the Tuesday after Labor Day. This year Labor Day falls on September 7. In certain farming communities arrangements made prior to the end of last term relative to <4ic release Qt student labor will continue, Un.-der that plan those pupils who can furnish proof that they are needed for agricultural labor, through the Joss cf men to the services and other essential industries, may secure permits to remain aiway from school daring September and October. Parents of all children starting school here for the first time are asked to advise the School Board secretary or T. S. Carmichael. public school principal. City Flier Meets Minister of Air SERGT. NESTOR IZOWSKY Of Prince George was among the fliers who met Canada's air minister, Hon. C. G. Powers, when he visited a Beaufighter night-fighter squadron in England August 16. Sergt. Izowsky,.on& of a number of local men making a name for themselves with the Allied forces, is the son of Mr. and Mrs,. John Izowsky of this city. The Beau-fighter squadron had distinguished itself in recent action against enemy raiders over Britain. Night Fire Does $30 Damage Fire did approximately $30 damage to the roof and wall of George's Oafe building on George Street at 11:30 p.m. Wednesday before firemen extinguished the blaze. The fire, wiiioh attracted a number of spectators, was believed to have started from either sparks from a chimney or a cigarette thrown from a window in an adjacent building. CALL TO COLORS May Get Light Delivery Truck For Fire Hall The City is considering the purchase of a used lignt delivery truck ior I war metals. Veterans of Other Wars Rallying For New Duties Considering the shortness of no-�p tice, tihe response to the appeal for I j recruits for the Veterans' Guard of Canada between Hazelton and this city has been quite good. Captain A. J. Shipley and Sergts. Roy Elderton and P.! Main, recruiting party making a tour of Central B.C., expect recruiting to step up following the harvest and fire hazard season. Eventually 25 men would be raised between Hazelton and this city, Captain Shipley estimated. . - "The towns in this part of British Columbia havefreen well combed and we must go far back into the country to; locate recruits," explained Captain Shipley. MOST ENTHUSIASTIC The most enthusiastic about joining are. men beyond tohe age limit. Captain Shipley made it plain that he was not taking men away from such impc-rtant jobs &s bridge guarding or working in mines producing the Fire Department to replace fire chief's personal car which is no longer available owing to tire restrictions. , Consideration is ateo'being given a request that Fire~Chief D. G. Pras-er | be sent to the B.C. Fire College open September 8 to 11. Mayor A.. M. Patterson was appointed Monday night to attend tihe Union of B.C. Muiiicipaiities convention at Kamloops September 14. .�'] The City will advise Federal authorities its department would cooperate after tihe war In an apprenticeship program. Miss Phyllis St. Marie left Thursday for her home at Golden after spending the summer here witih her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Uttie. "But those unemployed veterans of formerj wars, under 55 years and aible to pass C2 medical tests, will be gladly said. taken on strength." he LO.O.F, Leader Td Pay Official . Visit On Tuesday Representing the Grand Master of British Columbia, E. L. f Webber, F.G.M., grand secretary of the Independent Order of Oddfellows, will pay an official visit to Cariboo Lodge No. 65 this Tuesday at 8 pjn, AH members are asked to be present. Rebekahs ane invited for 9 p,m. > Mother Revives Child Who Fell Into Cesspool Value of first-aid knowledge again proved itseif in Prince George last Friday, When a mother revived her two-year-old daughter who had fallen into a cesspool in the back yard. The youngster had tripped on a rotten board covering the cesspool and fallen into the deep water. The young mother missed the chiM and in her search also broke through the rotten covering but saved herself from plunging into the water. Then it was that she saw her child floating below the surface. With a rake she pulled the baby to the surface while the grandmother Jumped into the pit iand brought out the child. Promptly the young mother administered artificial respiration, and a doctor was called. The child is now able to run around. _______o---1------- Duke of Kent Killed in Crash Flags in Prince George will! be flown at half mast until after 'the funeral .of II. R. II. the Duke of Kent, who was killed when his Sundci land flying boat crashed in the north of Scotland. The first Royal family war fatality in 100 years was announced Tuesday night. The Dofce was the fourth son of the late Kin* George V and Qttecn Mother Mary. Only file Royal family will know the hour for the funeral China's Planes In Range Of Tokyo As Jap Defences Fall Red Army Guts Off Strong Nazi Forces Across Don, Recapture Three Villages; U.S. Pilots Track Fleeing Japs BRITISH UNITED PRESS � FRIDAY, AUGUST 28 (Special to The Citizen) LONDON�The British radio says Chinese forces have broken into the outer Japanese defences of the key cities of Chuhsien and Lishui in Chekiang Province, within bombing range of Tokyo. The radio adds the Chinese are driving against^, a rear guard of 7000 enemy troops while the main Japanese army retires to .the south and east. MOSCOW�Encouraging neVs comes from the Russian battlefronts today. The Soviets lashed out with fierce counter-attacks northwest of Stalingrad. Front line dispatches say the Red Army already has cut off strong German forces that broke across the Don and penetrated toward the industrial city earlier this week. Three villages held by the Germans have been recaptured and the Russians have cut enemy communications. In a battle for Rzhev, northwest of Moscow, the Red Army is cutting a bloody trail through the streets of the city. The Germans are resisting stubbornly and have made a fortress of almost every house in the town. Big Air Raid On Kassei . LONDON�British bombing planes during thi night hit savagely at another German war industry town, Kassei, in a campaign to scourge the Third Reich from end to end. The R.A.F. raid wets the biggest in a month. The fact that the Air Ministry announces the loss of 30 planes indicates far more than 600 aircraft took part. Gigantic locomotive, aircraft, and automobile motor factories are concentrated at Kassei. *. - - WASHINGTON�American pilots are tracking down the fleeing Jap I fleet to break it up before it can reform for another assault on the Solomon Islands. The badly mauled fleet is /apparently on the run after making its greatest attempt to recapture the southwest Pacific strongholdis. Thirteen jap ships already have been damaged, and 33 planes shot down. The Navy cautiously avoids claiming a victory, saying only the Japs have broken off the action. NEWARK�The F.B.I, has rounded up 100 enemy aliens in New Jersey, some of them brazenly pro-Axis. Two hundred and fifty raids were conducted, and those arrested included a German shipyard worker with three brothers" in the Nazi army, a man who thinks the Nazi party is a splendid organization, and another who wishes he were in t}ie German army. The Federal raids covered 10 New Jersey counties. New Quinea Battle Mounts WASHINGTON�The number of Allied merchantmen officially listed as lost in the battle of the Atlantic stands at 461. The Navy early this morning disclosed that a small British merchantman had been torpedoed and sunk. Thirty-six seamen were lost, while five men survived 15 days in mid-Atlantic without food or water. MACARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS�Great land and air battles are developing in the Milne Bay area of New Guinea. Reports from the land front are few and far between, but fighting is said to be heavy. In three savage air battles Mac Arthur's planes shot down or damaged 18 Japanese planes while losing only one Allied craft. Flak guns added three more planes. Kenneth Warner Dies in Hospital HAZELTON�Kenneth Warner, 47, of Bums Lake, a Veteran employee of the department of public works, died at Wrinctti Memorial Hospital here on Sunday afternoon'. Born in Brentwood, Ont., he came west to Smilhers in 1919 following his discharge from the Canadian army. He joined the public works department and moved to Burns Lake in 1920. He was general road foreman for the district between Priestly and Tellcwa. In addition to his wife and five children, Mr. Warner is survived by two brothers, Harvey of Toronto/and Clifford A. of Prince George, and two sisters, Mrs; ,W. O. Partridge of Barrie, Ont., and Mrs. j. W. Kiley of Pttn-t. Miohigan. The funeral was held Wednesday at Burns Lake. A meeting of the Prince George Golf and Country club has been called for Friday (tonight) at 8 o'clock. All members are requested to attend. Several cases of pickpocketing of drunks were reported to police here. Fire Crews Are Called In When Danger Wanes Provided no further hot spella occur. B.C. forestry of/idals expect to soon wind up the firefighting season. Damp weather is reported general, and crews are busy putting in "last licks" to assure no further troubles from fires, all of which are now under control. , "If the weather holds we will soon pull off all tihe crews." said one official. . .; A good job was reported on the stubborn Purden Lake fire. The Dome Creek .blazes are quiet, and the fire at Two ;Head Mountain that was approximately six miles long and two miles wide is now being made safe. Major and Mrs> R. .L. Galei and family of Central; Port George left Wednesday for Vancouver where the family will reside while Major Gale is In charge of recruiting tn tihe Kootcnay - country and Okan&gan Valley.