An Independent Weekly New.p.per Devoted to the Jntere.t. of Central and Northern BritUh Columbia
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wking to Make Still \eatef Contribution ) Canada's War Effort
|C. Vaughan, P�?"61*; U Party oniVgt to
roeGeorge.'n Monday
cxn the Canadian National still further contribute to war effort?
tf Uie answer to that ques-C Vaughan, railway presi-direotor of Trans-Canada s and a. party or railway a came to Prince George on
P western tour. Mr. Vaughan Loure have studied closely BitfpQTtatioa system and at all discussed with officials how better service can be provided. Interview aboard his private Vaughan told The Citizen .r was making a mighty utfcb^to the war effort; CN^R^servioes were be-iVyi up tomeet new de-B; C.NJR. shipyards ^retairn-wt minesweepers, amd U.JU*. [were plying the Atlantic and playing their part toward the war.
perils of 10,000 employees of , WAR EFFORT, Page Pour)
iect Fires Be Licked Weekend
officials were beginning t� turn thoughts to offices du-ft untouched since the fire ushered itaelf in some time | They-hope to have aU1 fixes at the end of the week. How-ia skeleton crew will remain Creek, east of Summit [ until the middle of next week. Lake fire, northwest of Lake, is also out, while the i that have woreed on the Tud-ilte fire are expected to be i out today.
Niuskeg River still blazes and of men are busy on it, while lud River fire on Two Head still bums.
Lake fire is out and men apment have been flown to George.
festrv men are high in their
of the work of soldiers who
tened firefighting crews on
aa�y blazes in tlhe Port George
E. C. VAtlGHAN
President of tftie C.N.R. -and * ^director of the'Trans-Canada Air Lines^ showed a keen Interest in' Prinoe^George and its development during his visit, here Monday. Asked whether his" tfcop-over here� longer than anywhere on tiie line �had any significance, the jjresi-dent laughingly said it had "hotv and attributed it to the fact a freight got ahead of his train. However, Mr. Vaughan and party visited by car points of interest in this district.
Enroll This kjforArmy
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at the local office etep- this week, with six men en- for duty in the armed serv-Port3 Sergt. D. C. Smith, of the men are from Prince They are J. R. and R. R. R. LaPointe and A. Stanton-- Tiie others are Lloyd Bor- Hewlett and H. B. Roberts of
L. M. Bower of Pineview Dies
Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 p jn. in Assman's Funeral Chapel for Lewis Martin Bower, 76 years, of Pineview, who died Tuesday in Prince George Hospital.
The services will be imder auspices of the Army &. Navy Veterans and Rev. F. E. Runnalls will, officiate.
Mr. Bower served overseas in the First Great War with the 21 lth Battalion of Calgary. Since the war he has resided continually on his farm at Pineview.
He id survived.by his wife.
Prince George, B.C., Thursday, September 3, 1942
Fewer Senior Pupils
�2.00 a Year
Mrs. Earl Clark Of Vandcrhoof Passes in City
Mrs. Myrtle Blanche Clark, wife of Earl Clark of Vanderhoof; passed away in Prince George Hospital on Saturday altercon at the age of 56 years.
- The remains were sent to Vander-hoof on Tuesday morning's train for burial there. Arrangements here were in the hands of Assman's Funeral Chapel.
Besides her husband, Mrs. Clark leaves thr3e sons in Vanderhoof. two daughters in Vancouver and a daughter ir* Shushartie, B.C.
sk ARP Director r Central B.C.
of the ARP council Jtorf ^e will ask the Provincial Protection Committee tahat u c ^
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recognized as a vul-id a trained man be airector of ARP
province ** district designated a
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of wardens in the work. WATER
householder
a PaU filled witti fuied with water
bombing i*K; **' greeted
event of an in-
efforts
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WantrNames of All Soldier Who Arrived Overseas- Recently
The British Columbia. Overseas Tobacco Fund asks t4%t cigarettes intended fjor' Christmas delivery to our men jjerving in^Britain should be. ordered1by September 15. Delivery for Christmas cannot be guaranteed on orders placed after that date.
Accordingly the Women's Auxiliary to the Canadian Legion is asking tjhat addresses of ali district soldieis who have gone overseas re-ceutiy be sent into the auxiliary this w�ek Jo assure the soldiers of receiving ttselr Christmas cigarettes.
, Passes Exams
Adam Barone of Interior Creameries has passed his government steam engineering examinations and is now licensed to operate as a eraimery engineer.
Lower Enrolment in High
School is Offset by Heavy j
. Elementary School Classes.!
Enrolment in the high^school is down, while that in the elementary school shows an in-x crease of more than 10 per cent over the enrolment at the first of the term last year.
So large was the beginners class, 48 for Grade L and 49 for Grade 2, that another teacher will be required, explained Thomas S. Carmichael, principal of King George V School.
Tiie elementary school's enrolment on Tuesday was approximately 336.
EXPECT MORE
Only 121 students enrolled for study Tuesday at Baron Byng High School, compared with 158 on the opening day laat year. A few more sire expected witihin a week.
The decrease is notable especially among the boys. In most classes there are less than 50 per cent boys.
A number of out-of-town children are attending school,I reported H. R. Pennington, principal. In Grade 9 alone there are some 20. Several pupils from outside the city will not return to school, here as they were unable to find living quarters. SUCCEEDS MISS McLEOD
The high^school has a new teacher. Miss E. Ball,, who succeeds Miss Jean McLeod, teacher of English, who has gone to Nelson High School. Other Other teachers a*e: Mr. Pen -ningtoni mathematics; R. C. Brown, general science; Miss Frances Simms, languages; Mrs. F. Sharpe (nee Joan McArthur) social science; Miss Daisy deJong, home economics; Fred Sharpe, Industrial arts. THREE NEW TEACHERS
The elementary school has three new. teachers, Miss Ruth Lindsay. Mrs. Yardley and Robert Call. The other teachers are: Mr. Carmidhae!. Miss Merle D. Wallace, Miss Freda Geiger, Miss Ruth Aronson and Miss Doris Moore.
Loreat Again Southeast Of Stalingrad. Caucasus Fighting Favors Germans; Reds Hold Near Moscow
BRITISH UNITED PRESS � THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3
(Special to The Citizen)
CAIRO � It was revealed Axis forces along the Alamein line have been subjected to the-heaviest air attack ever launched by British and American planes in the desert campaign.
Steel and explosives are being poured into the Axis lines in Egypt. A British communique says no major engagements took place in the southern sector of the Alamein front yesterday, but the enemy was blasted with a heavy and continuous artillery and air bombardment.
\ MOSCOW r�The Russians retreated again southwest of Stalingrad. In that bloody salient, where the Germans have thrown their greatest strength in the drive on Stalingrad, the Russians have withdrawn six times in the last 84 hours.
The Caucasus fighting also favors the Germans. They are closer to the Black Sea naval base at Novorossisk, and they hit relentlessly at the defenders of the rich Crozny oil fields.
Only northwest of Moscow do the Russians claim to be holding, and there the intensity of the Nazi attack increases.
SERGT.-PILOT R. P. DAVEES
Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Dctvies of Soutlh Fort George/ who was killed recently while on active duty overseas. He was born in Prince George 21 years ago. After completing his schooling locally, he worked with the Yukon Southern Air Transport and eventually became co-pilot. He was home on leave at Christmas and went to England in January of this year.
School Janitor Will be Granted Leave of Absence
Jphn P. Hill, school Janitor, will receive leave of absence from Prince George School Board upon his forthcoming call to the armed services.
C. Thorsness, who holds fourth class steam engineer's papers, will be given the position during Mr. Hill's absence.
Purchase of 100 cords of wood at $7 a cord was ordered by the School Board Friday night. Trustee A. M Fa/tterson urged that a carload of coal be purchased as'well. i
Twenty licw large size desks have been received.
Ship Car Salvage
SM2THERS�Some 20 tons of rags, rubber and metal were included in the first carload of salvage shipped early last month from here.
Britain Declared War Three Years Ago Today
Sunday Will be Observed in Prince George as Day of Prayer and Dedication.
Great Britain declared war upon Germany just three years ago today.
What will the next three years bring? That is the question in the minds of everyone the world over. Only by tihe steady application to his job can the individual feel he is playing a psrt in the great battle for the preservation of world freedom of speech, thought and deed.
To' mark the third anniversary of Chis declaration, the King has decreed that this day shall be observed 3s a day of prayer and dedication in tiie United Kingdom.
His Majesty, on the advice of his Privy Council of Canada, has now set aside this Sunday, September 6. as a similar day of prayer and dedication.
[Canada -declared war on September 10, and it is felt that the Sunday intervening between the third and tenth, would be most suitable for the observance of this day in Canada. The churches are. therefore, planning for these services on Sunday.
Civilians and members of the tihree branches of the armed forces are being asked to help in the observance of tihis day. \
Vandals Undo Work of City.Salvage Crew
Vandals have again added to the troubles of the Prince George Salvage Committee.
Apparently entering tihe salvage depot under cover of night, they dumped three sacks of clean rags
and scattered building.
them around the
To jgather these up means extra tune and labor which Salvage Committee members are doing voluntarily and after their regular working hours are over.
Summit Lake is Encompassed by Proposed Park
While details of the proposed new public park around Summit Lake, 32 rniles north of Prince George, have not arrived, a map has been left at The Citizen office by Hon. H. G. Perry, minister of education and local-member.
The map shows tflie proposed limits encompassing -the entire lake, providing ample room for camping either on the shoreline or deep in the woods. /'
It also includes the approaches to Tea-pot Mountain.
Jap Minister Resigns
UNDATED�Japan finally admitted the resignation of Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo, marking a new change in the nation's foreign policy. Whether this means an early stab at Siberia is, of course, not known, but it all adds up to greater army and navy control of Japan's foreign policy.
WASHINGTON�Allied planes opened up on Jap bases in the southwest Pacific. Three raids were announced today. One force dropped five tons of bombs on Buka in the northern Solomons; another lashed at Lae in New Guinea, and still another struck at enemy troops in the Kokoda region.
CHUNGKING�The Chinese continued to roll forward on all fronts. They are about to capture Kinhwa, last bomb-Tokyo base still held by the enemy, and they are less than 15 miles from Canton,.great southern China city.
DUBLIN�Police are rounding up'hundreds of'Irish Republican Army suspects to prevent possible anti-British uprisings. Houses in Belfast have been searched and many persons are under arrest. Already there have been widespread disturbances following yesterday's hanging of Thomas Williams, 19-year-old I.R.A.' convicted murderer.
Royal Commission Mooted
OTTAWA�There is a possibility a Royal Commission will be appointed to investigate wages in the Canadian steel industry, it was said in authoritative circles Wednesday night after negotiations between steel union delegates and Labor Minister Humphrey Mitchell were adjourned until today.
LONDON�Western Germany felt the might of the Royal Air Force for the second night in a row. A strong force of British bombers smashed at railroad shops and war industries in Karlsruhe and elsewhere in the upper Rhineland. At least 200 planes are believed to have taken part in the raid, eight of which failed to return. Other bombers attacked northern France. �
Heavy Toll of Q-Boats
OTTAWA �A Royal Canadian Air Force bomber crew arrived here Wednesday night less than 24 hours after they had hurled destruction on Nazi targets in Europe. The crew returned to their base in Britain from their assault on Germany late Tuesday night, transferred to another aircraft and took off immediately on the trans-Atlantic flight. Members of the crew were from prairie and eastern provinces.
LONDON�A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty, says more Nazi submarines were destroyed in July and August than in any similiar period since the start of the war.
NEW CHURCH
Now Holding Services in Pentecostal Tabernacle
Services are now being held in the��>doing the building in their spara
new Pentecostal Tabernacle, Sixth Avenue at Brunswick Street, although the church is still under construction.
Work preparatory to having it :>tuc*coed is under way. The plan calls for the completion of the exterior first now tiiat the interior has beetv made comfortable.
The church auditorium is 40 feet long and 26 wide aaid can accommodate 200 persons. It has a fibyer 15 feet by six feet.
A full-6ize basement has been provided for the Sunday school class, and later a hot-air furnace will be installed.
Services are vheld every Sunday at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m., and on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. �
The pastor, Rev. A. H. Townsend, and members of the congregation are
time.
Their former ahurch was held in a small hall on Fourth Avenue be-feween Dominion and George streets.
WILL INVESTIGATE
W. R. Dowrey, prices and supply representative at Vancouver, says he will Investigate rumors that clothing will be rationed. He said Donald Gordon, cliairman of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board, had undertaken to 6ee that available supplies of any essential were given equitable distribution and has repeated the assurance that no one need go {short of food or clothing.
Workmen � this week have been stuccoing tihe front upper half odf the Prince George Athletic Building which houses tlhe Fire Department.
Road Work Crews Busy in District
Road improvement work in the vicinity of Red Rock Post Office, north of Stwne Creek, is being carried out by provincial public works crews.
Sections of Chief Lake road are being widened.
Improvements are being made to the 'highway between Hansard and Sinclair Mills. �
IN POLICE COURT
Pour persons each paid fines of $25 and $1.75 costs when they appeared in City Police Court last week on intoxication charges.
One prosecution arose after a man, had broken the front window of George's Cafe.'
H. R. Pennington has returned to duties as high school principal here after a five weeks',cadet instructors' course at-Duncan. He is now qualified to teach cadets parade drill, signalling, field craft, map reading and the use of small arms.