An ^dependent Weekfy Naw.paper Devoted to the Intere.t. of Central and Northern British Columbia
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Prince George, B.C., Thursday^ October 8,
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Praises Soldiers Here
irnoshenko Slashing Is Way to Relief of [aliant Stalingrad
BRITISH UNITED PRESS � THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8   y'
(Special to The Citizen)
[OSCOW�Russian guns are holding the Germans at bay jlingTad, while Marshall Timoshenko's counter drive is jig ever closer to the besieged city frorrr^the northwest. The stone wall Russian defence of the^Volga city has,ribt} td a single position in 24 hours; despite some of the heavi-jjemy attacks of the entire campaign. The heroic defenders |hurled back Prussian shock troops�the flower of the Nazi Lin the latest Cjerman^ssault in the city's streets. Russian patrols in daring raids in a sector of the Leningrad [have wiped' out/300 enemy troops in two days. One patrol. ng clear through into German positions, killed scores of in vicious hand-to4iand lighting, then blew up an am-tion dump before returning to their own lines. iiONDON � Swiss  dispatches- quote  a  German military ssman as saying the Russiari Army at Stalingrad is show-jjgns of exhaustion.   The spokesman said a "decisive out-X' in the battle could be expected by next weekend.
Berlin radio admits German troops at Stalingrad have en able to make an advance for some time.
Nazis Put British in Chains
,ONDON�The Berlin radio announces the Germans have
Jd td put British prisoners in chains.  The broadcasVsays
ling started at noon today among prisoners taken^in the
h raid on Dieppe. The Nazis say this is in retaliation for
ed shackling of German prisoners by a small British com-
lo unit which raided the English Channelyisland of Sark
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LONDON � The tojl of executions is/rising in occupied
be as the Nazis hand out grim punishment for patriotic
Jrbances. Fifteen more hostages have been slain in Norway,
ring the total to 25 for two days\   Seventeen are dead in
tee, 21 in Czechoslovakia, 80 y/jugoslavia.  Radio Moscow
I Danish patriots, Shouting "down with the Nazis" and "the
pans must leave BenrWfkf' clashed with Danish Fascists
lazi party meeting in^Copenhagen.                    .    .
Smash Threat to Poit Moresby
>LLIED HEADQUARTERS, AUSTRALIA � The Jap
[threat to Voji Moresby has been smashed�for the time
. General MacArthur says that tough mountain trails, plus
ant Allied air attacks, made it so hard for the enemy to
supplies that some Jap troops starved td death. And the
ralians who chased the demoralized Japs deep into the
Btains are consolidating positions some 70 miles north of
[Moresby.                         \ �                                         ,
rASHIN(jTON�Naval observers see no great strategical artce in the Jap withdrawal from Attu and Agattu islands. still hold Kiska�-arid, with it, control of the western Aleu-But American fliers, striking against KisSca 12 times in the llavSj are battling fiercely to knock loose the enemy grip, p opposition shows no indication of weakening. ONDON�L. S. Amery, Secretary of State for India and Pa, reports 864 persons were killed and 2000 wounded in ft Nationalist disorders in India. Amery rejects the sugges-U^. intervention in the Indian independence question.
iys Christian Church
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nboo Presbytery, United "ch, Hears of Reports Foreign Missionaries.
o Presbytery of the United of   Canada met in Knqx Church here Tuesday? and *toy. with the Tuesday ses-Bfog featured by a/talk by Harry Morrow of Williams * highlights of foe general F� meeting in Belleville   Ont.,
 Japan
�speaker ..told of impressions
�>>"� first-hand stories of mis-
es from fche Orient.  Kev  H.
of W^t ohina outlined toe
,�f the  Christian   church
 -army calling together a ^iceatwhlohhespokeand testimony   of. his .Christian
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 following De-^^ left inr:their  Stowed certain freedom.
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 It wa^ the conviction of these missionaries, reported Mr. Mor-�  row, that the Christian Ohnrch i   vbuld survive its present difficulties and weather1 the storm. Mr. Morrow said he was favorably fSee PRESBYTERY MEETS. Pg, 4)
Red Cross Corps In Province Will Recruit Members
Canadian Red Cross Corps opens a 10-day campaign for recruits in this province on Saturday. Object of the campaign is to recruit members In all corps detadhrncnts and emergency reserve unite and to promote th�r organization of emergency reserve units by branches which have not yet organized tihese reserves.
The wide responsibilities of the Red Cross, undertaken in co-opera-i tion with the A.R.P. and other government and municipal services, calls for a trained and disciplined personnel. The Canadian Red Cross Corps is, organizing to provide for this need by enlisting in its membership volunteers w(ho are trained to give service in the event of an emergency of any kind arising through war, disaster or epidemic and to help in the reconstruction following the war.
Interior Towns May BeJJnked By Ait Service
Indicative of the growing importance of cities in Central BrttfcQi Columbia, a shuttle air service is being contemplated by Canadian Pacific Air Lines to link Terrace, Smithers, Vander-hoof, Prince George, Quesnel, Williams Lake and Vancouver.
Such service must await completion of airfields at the several centres.
It would be separate from the mainline service.
This Way
Ration Office
Planned
EvervTo
The Wartime  Prices
own
Prices and Trade Boards taking* steps to reorganize its. -ration system, tihe .chairman, Efonald Gordon, has announced. By enlisting local people with an intimate knowledge of community conditions, it is planned to set up local ration offices in the municipal buildings at some 500 centres across the Dominion.
The plan Is to give representation to all areas.
The local boards will be staffed by volunteers chosen from among leading citizens, who will work witihout pay as part of their war effort. Mayors and reeves are being asked to act as chairman of the local ration boards and to submit nominations for board members.
The bdaids win be made up of citizens representing agriculture, labor, trade and industry, the professions, and women. The local boards will have wide powers in regard to issuing new ration books, collection of books, allowances of sugar foK preserving, and will deal with special  circumstances.
Soldiers Meet Here For First Time Since916
The great force of United States soldiers carving d. highway to Alaska through the Canadian vfildemess has conquered obstacles of all kinds. Through the busbJajsra and across muskeg and rivers the road now extends for hundreds? of miles. A typical ferry' used by the army's enpinevrs �,- shown in >his photo. Utilizing the river's current, a. barge forces its way ac-Tossr" on the end of a- wire cable from shore to shore.
Find Tommie Clarke t Guilty of Murder
Jury Deliberated 15 Minutes Over Verdict in Fort Nelson Case; Victim's Wife Testifies
Tommie Clarke, Port Nelson fur trader, charged with tihe murder of Nl'tseneah Francis, Indian, was acquitted in Assize Court here Friday.
Tne jury reached its verdict after 15 minutes.
Mr. Justice Harold Robertson pre_ A corporaf and a sergeant-major,                  p        ^^  ^c    ^
of the First Great War gottogetiher | ^         ^^   A. McB.  Young for a-few minutes ^Wednesday and;      resented the defendant.
stepped into a plane and was whisked soutih to Vancouver.
The "corporal" was none other than Major-General G. R. Pearkes, V.C.  commander-in-chief of Pacific
on circumstantial evidence.   Clarke did not take the stand. VISITED HOUSE TWICE
Celene Francis, Lucy Parsons and Machelle Parsons, wife, stepdaugh-
Co3st Command   while his former! ter and stepson of the dead, through sergeant-major, was Constable Wil-   an jinterpreter testified Clarke went liam Smith of the police force-here. Togetiher as bombers in the Second Canadian Mounted Rifles tihey saw some fierce'fighting overseas.
Wednesday wa^ their first meeting in 26 years.
Found Citizens Co-operative
A. E. H. Harrison, investigator with tihe local office of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board for the last three months, is leaving Prince George to work out of the Vancouver office.
�   "In leaving Prince George." he remarked.  "I hope I can take with me the good opinion of the people j such as I have formed of them.
to their home twice on the night of June 27. The second time he gave Francis a drink. There was a friendly scuffle that ended with Francis having tears in his eyes. The two me3i went away and Were seen to take a drink on a. nearby bridge. It was the last time tih^ family saw Francis alive.
Machelle testified that before the scuffle took place Clarke gave him a drink and took him outside. Later Clarke warned him to say nothing  ot hijf being there with liquor.
 returned  ^ d      Sundayi June ^  and
(See NOT GUILTY, Page 5)
IN POLICE COURT
For carrying" an unplugged auto-
Everyone I came in contact with;  matic shotgun, an out-of-town man afforded me every ^o-operatiCn, arid! was arraigned in court last week and
I am very' pleased to have been associated here with Everett Mac-Eachern."
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R. S. Sutton, Former District Agriculturist, Dies of Heart Attack
Word was received here of the death-of R.- S. Sutton of a heart attack at Kjajhloops hospital.
Mr. 8utton was district agriculturist at Prince George for several years and was popular witlh all.
For tihe past two years he has been manager of thel Tranquille faarn.
He leaves his wife and one son.
bound over to keep the peace for 10 days.
This week two drunks paid fines of $25 and costs, while a "repeatier" was assessed $50 and $1.75 costs.
For, creating a disturbance in a local" hotel, a man was fined $15 3nd costs.
SOLDIER BUREAU        [
Persons who could accommodate one or more soldiers for a dinner, entertainment or over the weekend are asked to phone Mrs. Frank Armstrong for dinner engagemeiits, Mrs. H. J. Hocking for weekend guests, and Mrs. R. B. Carter for outing guests.
Will Observe Thanksgiving Here Monday
Observing the Thanksgiving holiday next Monday, the City Hall, Government Building, banks, stores, schools and offices will be closed.
The Post Office wicket will be open frcm 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Air Mail Service To Edmonton and East is Improved
Improved aar mail service to Edmonton and eastern centres is provided by the recent change in the Vancouver-Prince George-Fort St. John flying schedule of Canadian Pacific Air Lines.
The plane leaves^ Vancouver at 8:30 a.m. and arrives at Fort St. John in tiihe to catch the southbound plane to Edmonton/thus permitting delivery of mail to EcJmonton in one day. The Edmonton bag closes at the Prince George post office at 10 ajn. to make tihis trip. Air mail posted here by 3 p.m. also goes east via Vancouver.
Finds Troops Keen, Alert
HERE TWO DAYS
Majority of Men to Move Into Permanent Quarters By End of This Month.
Keeness and alertness of the soldiers stationed iri,'tfiis district brought .praise cm' Wednesday from Major-General G. R. Pearkes, V.QS, former commander of the/Flrst Canadian Division �ove.rteas and now head of the Pacific Command.
Itwas General Pearkes' first yiiit of inspection to the campy 'since his appointment a short time ago.
On a two- were enthusiastic  over   the  forma-
was formed with Dr. C. Ewert as president at an organizing dinner-meeting sponsored Wednesday night �by"'the Rotary Club of Vancouver to tihe Shasta Cafe dining-room.
Everett MacEachern is secretary, A. T.- Cross, treasurer, . and Earle Fulmer, sergeant-at-arms.
Members of the board of directors are A. B. Moffat, George Williams. Vic Morgan. Harry Bowman and W. J. Pitman.
Meetings will be held every Friday i at 12:05 p.m. ORGANIZERS PLEASED
G. S. Barker, honorary secretary, and A. V. Vickery, executive* secretary of the Rotary Club of Vancouver, who qame here as organizers
tion of a branch.
"It was one of the most successful organization  meeting* I have known," said Mr., Vickery. "Thirty-two     leading     business "men of this city and visitors attended the dinner and 22 local leaders &iffned the charter." The charter will be presented by