prrmier of Due ioni"'" - ,nt rroposal Rejected , premier Robert tomorrow x million members ,fc2c:-on there arc 'to million on strike. :.m n has not r a v.te of confi-m.y come to- I UIIW III- 1IIIEV III ENEMIES -r it yesterday xpu. ion of nine-!,-m France ai i Soviet patriotic 1 ,hey included .surer and two :1 of the organl-r'.?cn were taken atod destlna-be he Soviet j i.:.id put across . . :i tifficers were P- ..dentKatchava, Kl ."-Cliliip unit Rpp. J Dmitri Moba- -C 1 t Palevov The -id that most of 3 1, -a formerly white became Soviet I Mil I C PAPERS rge E, Hills were fil- -rnlng with Returnlne D- Thaln. Mr. Hills la' Carl E. Oiske and ..j candidates u-hn hav 'n the forthcoming The others are Alder- N' Youngs, W. F. Stone, - - . uia.N, Aiaerman Rwlderham and August WAR ON nmickiccc j i a f i a m "illliii Agteem .. Asks The Parent- on of British fepresentlnir 2nnnn x sterday called for OUf ua- in cni.i,,0 wmic magazines. It ine Provincial Prevent their sales on There was a dls- nn the cabinet on ttfe rowers ln' A' K' Lloyd, gen- . asreempnt. ne it su p apPle growing. .'"Co Mr T W.i .t.i.jd n.,.. .. ' Mil r,,t ... I.,. vk to tne days f. uiii.il r no r ib a tft , , ,.fui,y the text i ii v imjuixi MlMEH-FLOWH mt a us nrsi " , rnmnromise '.he wave oi Clarence wnarson, la Saskatchewan Women On Juries and 7cVmlnr France. GeorSe R- Kings, 45. employees W4C ""wii ouvci mine au i i. ..IHIU1 settle ,ir:, crtort to AUce mUes IiUi: ,miaiea I J I wn lW RPe't. were brought to ,nL.j , hospltal her ftt 4 Wednes. Oen-da . . ff-cominated Canadlan Paclflc Alr, oWi wage Increase ....... . -.-- 5p:spc:-d by me gov- , . . . Ilier. inaining nlne-j Elnarson received face industry-wide whe charEe o( exnlislves . . ,U 4V. "--I -" "v .. wen- 0II Deiore iW expected time ttw civu service durlng road construction work thcrlz-a a general . ncar the mln Kines amjarent- jly Injured his abdomen while lifting a heavy crate just before the plane landed at Alice Arm. The men were flown to Prince Rupert by Capt. James Black in p. Barclay-Orow seaplane after the company office had recelv-1 cd a request for a plane at 1:45. Einarson. who was aMlttlng a rock driller, apparently had lit' fuses on two charges and was putting a light to a third when one of the charges exploded. The men arc oelng treated by Dr. L. W. Kergin. Elnarson Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Elnar Elnarson of Fort William, Ontario. Mr. Kings has made his home In Prince Rupert for years. Request of ra plane to fly Einarson to hospital was made to George Stanbridge, local agent for the mining company who immediately got In; touch with CP-M-. REGINA Attorney-General J. W. Connan announces that women may become eligible for jury duty In S a"s k a t c h e w a n eourts after the next session of the legislature. He will recom mend an amendment to the Jury Act to provide for It. In the other western provinces such service is optional. WORLD FLIGHT IS COMPLETED Truman and Evans Down Their Planes at Van Nujs, California VAN NUYS, Calif. 0f Setting their wheels down on United States soil for the first time In nearly four months, two carefree ex-Army pilots last night completed the last 1.275-mlle leg of their round-the-world flight In a pair of Cub cruisers. THE WEATHER Synopsis A weak disturbance lies on the Queen Chralottes giving intermittent light precipitation lathe northern coastal areas, However, an Intense high pressure area centered over southeastern British . Columbia will prevent this disturbance from moving into the southern coastal areas where cloudy conditions will prevail. In the Interior skies will remain mostly cloudy except for some clearing in the afternoon. Temperatures remain near normal throughout the province. Forecast Prince Rupert, Queen Char-lnitps and north coast Inter mittent rain or drizzle today and Friday. Fog in patches, wind southeast (20). Tempera tures normal. Lows tonight and highs Frlday-At Port Hardy-42 and 49. Massett 42 and 50. Prince .Rupert-40 and 50. URVIVOR R0VIN"AL LIBRAB.1 TlllX TWO ILlliitM I Kl 11101 " JWMawi that Mr. Doten had been "ordered back" and had been given ja transportation warrant to his l home In Vermont. It is believed Mr. Doten's "recall" Is in connection with a recent controversy which followed appointment of Edmond Tut-cotte of Montreal as Canadian consul-general In Chicago. Canada Termed 'Favored Nation' Dominion Stands on Threshold of Great Opportunities, Declares Trade Minister MONTREAL 0) Trade Minis- .chnirffv ns hpnrs. Georee Tru- ter James MacKinnon told Can- man, aged 39, born in Saskat- adian business yesterday that it chewan but now of Los Angeles, was his opinion following a and Clifford Evans, 27, climbed 25,000-mile trade tour to a wearily from their cabins nd dozen countries that Canada is asked with wide grins: are the barbers?" Where an extremely favored nation and that It stood, on the threshhola of. great trade opportunities. In a speech prepared for delivery to a meeting of the Canadian Manufacturers' Associa tion, the minister reviewed conditions In the various countries he visited and disclosed that many large European firms were making plans to establish "very substantial branch plants in Canada. He did not elaborate. "We have tees something of thP domestic problems faced by other nations, of local conditions of soil, of climate and geograpn-ical lcatlon," the minister said. Is all these lespects, Canada teems to be extremely favored among , the nations. In this perspective, our own difficulties, though real, seem much less NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER plBMl m JO' !.". ..- N&H1P1 XMrn? ft nm m wmmmtmmttw PAGEANTRY RETURNS TO LORD MAYOR'S SHOW-The Lord Mayor's show, held In London, had some of its pre-war pageantry recap'tured as mounted bands of the Household Cavalry took part for the first time since 1939. Theme of the pageant was "The Country Comes to the City," featuring the importance of food production and the part agriculture has played throughout the ages. Some of the latest mechanical equipment used on the land today, with girls of the land army at the "controls," may be seen coming down Ludgate Hill during the parade. St. Paul's Cathedral may be seen in background. U.S. ENVOY IS RECALLED OTTAWA 0i Dana Doten, attache to the United States embassy in' Ottawa, has been recalled to the United States, Junlann Harrington, American minister to Canada, said last nieht. : - ) . Mr. Harrington told reporters i three-cent stamp to make the cheque legal and 4 cents for a letter postage. In her letter to the city, Mrs. Christie wrote: "I would like to frame this but It might ruin your book keeping, so I have endorsed and returned it and you can frame it. It Is economically unsound to pay 15 cents exchange on It here and my Scottish soul can't bear the thought." Low' CONCERT AND LOCAL TIDES Friday, November 28, 1947 High 1:10 19.7 feet 12:59 22.8 feet 6:53 19:39 OF Stores Are Destroyed Fifty Thousand Dollar Fire In Dunbar Shopping Area of Vancouver VANCOUVER Four stores tentatively set for midnight Tuesday night, was extended Indefinitely, an official of the Canadian Seamen's Union (Am- arlcan Federation of Labor) announced. He said the Vancouver offices had been informed by telephone from Montreal that President Harry Davis of the Canadian Seamen's Union was continuing negotiations in an effort, to avert the deepsea tie- up., . Originally the Canadian Sea- meri'4 Union had set November 1 15 Jie strike deadline In their jfhouiytiand .'.wi-Sdisput4' wltfy FIVE-CENT CHECK thc ShJPPlnS Federation of 'Canada, the operators repre-PRO nryrwrrrc pacti v VES COSTL Y , sentatlve. KELOWNA A cheque, Issued for the amount of five cents to a Montreal woman, Mrs. Dorothy Christie, has been returned here, the amount being a rebate in taxes. Before it was returned, the postal revenue department had benefitted to the exent of 12 cents. It cost the city a JEALOUS MAN KILLS WOMAN MONTREAL 0) Police here and at Ottawa yesterday pressed u search for a 34-year-old divorcee "because nobody will have her If I can't." FRENCH "DARK HORSE" LIGHTS UP Shown in a series of intimate .close-ups Is Edouard Herrlot, current president of the French national assembly. An inveterate pipe smoker, Herriot demonstrates how to prepare for a few good puffs. He Is a central figure In France's present crises. AMATEUR NITE TAXI one 235 Phone j NIGHT ftfttVICE 4 r AWD 8Und: I pnpreM Hot1. Thlrd ATe' J Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest." VOL. XXXVI, No. 277. PRINCE RUPERT. B. C, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 27, 1947 PRICE FIVE CENTS In is Now TRANSPORrS REDS EXPECT TO BE OUTLAWED IN GERMANY BERLIN -ffii American -intelligence reports say that the Communist party in western Ger- were damaged, including two I many, acting on! Instructions destroyed, last night in a j from Moscow, is making prepar-$50,000 fire in the Dunbar dis-i anions tor undersround activity trlct of southwest Vancouver. in the British and United States The cause was not determined. , occupation zones In the event It Five persons are also homeless as a result of the blaze which is believed to have started in the , Lane radio store whose large Christmas stock of radios, ' phoqographs and records Is be lieved to be a total loss. STRIKE IS DEFERRED Seamen's Union Continuing Endeavors to Obviate Tie-up should be outlawed as a result of strained relations between the eastern and western powers. Although the United States military government has made no move to limit the freedom of the German communist party (K.P.D.) Intelligence said that "K.P.D. anticipates" outlawing if the strain continues, and if Germany is permanently parti licned because of the failure of the Russians and western powers to agree on. unification. VANCOUVER o -Deadline j OCTOBER FINES for strike action by 7500 seamen lYyp a i c-j ace on on 150 150 deeDsea deepsea Canadian Canadian sWds.; ships,, V1)403 Fines collected in police court during October totalled $1,465, according to the monthly report of Sgt.. L. A. N. Potterton. It brought the amount collected so far this year to $9,832, as compared with $12,206 for the same period, last year. There were 50 cases in police court In October, 49 of which resulted In convictions. There was one dismissal. 25 DOUKS 10.1 Will Be Sentenced For Riotous Assembly and Burning ' NELSON 0) A finding ol guilty was returned last night against twenty-five Doukho-bors charged with being "riotously and tumultously, assembled and destroying a building by fire." They will be sentenced later. Among the convicted Doukho-bors was William Malakoff t whose farm dwelling the twenty The body of the victim. Mrs. five were accused of settin: nmiii. rt-.-fn ...... r-..-..t T.... I ... . imc xcjjitti-u, m iuuuu ut- ablaze last August. day night In her lover s room oy detectives who were alerted by a letter sent to her sister in which the man, identified by the police as Sylvio Albert, of Ottawa, told of the slaying. SCARCITY OF COAL CARS IN ALBERTA VANCOUVER Shortage of box cars is holding up delivery of coal to British Columbia from Alberta. Mines report that, owing to acute shortage, some mines 7.1 feet 'are being operated on a two or 1.6 feet three-day schedule. BULLETINS BIG FOUR AGREEING LONDON United States and Russia with Great Britain and France have reached almost complete agreement on the set-up of a new government for Germany, it was stated today from the Big Four foreign ministers' conference which appears to be making definitely positive progress toward an accord on the peace terms for German; a nil Austria. ALASKA PLANE CRASH JUNEA U Eleven persons died in the crash of a DC-3 passenger and cargo plane when it auempieu to lana ai Yakutat from Portland enroute , to Anchorage, it was reported I here today The plane carried l nine passengers and crew of. j two, all of whom met instant I death. IIOUDE RE-ELECTED MONTREAL Camilien Houdc was re-elected by acclamation today for his sixth term as mayor of Montreal. His expected opponent failed to file papers as nominations closed. RICHMOND, Surrey, Eng., 0) Of 2,682 school children examined in the area 192 were found to be undernourished, said the Surrey Education Committee's annual report. Civic Centre Friday, Nov. 28 ADMISSION .0f Proceeds Kinsmen Youth Projects Trince Rupert Civic Band in attendance (278) Four Survivors and Four TTRSTAR I kAAAAAATAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAJ Bodies from U.S.S. Clarksdale Victory A lifeboat party from 'the United States Coastguard cutter Wachusett yesterday afternoon boarded the bow of the wrecked United States Army transport Clarksdale Victory, impaled on Hippa Island reef and removed four survivors and bodies of four other men. Otherwise there were no further signs of life and the belief Is that 44 other members of the crew perished. After taking the men and bodies off the wreck, the lifeboat was unable to get back to the coastguard vessel but headed for shore where a fire was lighted and the survivors attended by a doctor with the party. Later it was hoped to get back aboard the cutter The sumvors are suffering- severely from exposure. One of the survivors told rescuers that he believed the 45 other crew members lost their lives on being trapped in the stern end of the vessel which submerged after the ship broke in two soon after striking the reef. PATROL BOATS SAYS SIX BODIES American Coast Guard vessels and at least one Canadian boat planned to scour a 15-mile stretch of the west coast of the Queen Charlotte Islands today to seek bodies or possible survivors of the Clarkesdale Victory which was battered to pieces on Hippa Island. Word received here last night from the Fisheries patrol boat Sooke Post said that; the vessel and the two Coast Guard boats at the scene of the .wreck will probe the wave-beaten coastline today in hope of finding some of the 44 men whom so far are believed to have lost their lives. Wednesday, a Coast Guard boat took off four survivors from the bow of the sunken DEATH Officers Believed They Were 25 Miles Off Shore Most of Crew Swept Away In Tempestuous Maelstrom KETCHIKAN (CP) A survivor of the ill-fated Clarksdale Victory disclosed today that officers and crew of the wrecked United States Army transport believed the ship to be about twenty-five mile off shore when she ran aground on Hippa Island on the west coast of Queen Charlotte Islands. Details of the i eroundinff Monday nieht were Taken Off Shipwreck related by Seaman Carlos M. Sanabrla, aged 23, first of the survivors to be taken aboard the United States Coastguard cutter Wachusett. Sanabrla is suffering from severe shock and exposure, a fractured wrist, bruises and laceration's. Three other survivors and the bodies of four seamen were to be brought aDoarci the cutter today. The other 45 officers and crew have been given up as lost. No passengers were aboard. Sanabrla. said that the vessel "was lifted bodily hy a roller, striking heavily, and she shud--dered as she struck a rock." All hands were called to the boat deck to abandon ship but, because of the mountainous breakers, it was thought safer to remain on board than to attempt to abandon In the ship's boats. Ten minutes later the vessel split in two at No. 3 hatch. The secUon containing lifeboats and most of the crew slowly settled as the tremendous seas crashed heavily oyer the boat deck. The . boats were vilhvthr men anf Hrdle?. i,y. ana'jiwtPf . two or tnree tne crew was swept overboard Into the maelstrom of. churning waters, wreckage, oil and rocks. "The last I saw of the master (Capt. Gerald R. Laugeson of Oakland, California), he was climbing to the boat deck .with about half the crew shortly before I was washed over the side. After about twenty minutes, I was washed ashore. I passed out untU morning." vessel, and, according to wprd election, sequel to the expulsion nrom Capt. Charles Stewart of from the House of Commons of the Sooke Post, there were six Garry Allighan, Labor member, bodies as well. .for "dlsonorable conduct," show- The Sooke Post arrived at the scene of the wreck shortly before 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. She spent the night at Nestro Inlet, behind Hippa Island. The Sooke Post, H the weahter permits, will Investigate the coastline as far north as Otard Bay, 15 miles north of Hippa Isjand. FIVE YEARS FOR DOCTOR . .VICTORIA 0) Dr. James. P Nye, 67-year old physician, yes terday was sentenced to five years in penitentiary following conviction of unlawfully supplying narcotics. A Royal Canadian Mounted Police oflcer testified that he had traded jewelry to the doctor for narcotics. Mr. Juslce A. M. Manson de nied a plea for leniency on be half of the doctor In view of his condition, of health, His Lord ship pointed out that on no less than three occasions had Nye supplied the officer. LABOR WINS GRAVESEND Close Morgln In British By-Election Yesterday GRAVESEND, Kent 0; The Labor government passed one of its most severe tests In the midst of post-war reconstruction when Its candidate was declared victorious by a narrow margin early today In the by-election in this small Parliamentary constituency. With the result still fresh, voters trampled to cast their ballots in two other by-elections; Final figures In Gravesend by- ed Sir Richard Acland, Labor, 24,692, and Conservative Frank Taylor, 23,017, a plurality of 1,- 675 compared with Afghan's margin of 7,056 In a three-lorn- ered fight In the general al- ertlon of 1945. Nearly eighty percent of the voters In the constituency record exercised their franchise. AIR SERVICE TO U.K. INCREASED MONTREAL Because an ex tra heavy Chrlsmas mall appears certain, The British Overseas Airways Corporation has Increased its express, mall and freight service between Canada and Britain from twice to three times weekly. New Telephone Directory A new Telephone Directory Is about to be published. All changes of listings must be in by December 8, In writing at the City Telephone Office. CITY TELEPHONE (280) DEPARTMENT.