...
i
prices
nee
con-
is
.zic
fur-
M
UULU
I
V
111
I
V
i
ii
ill
i
n
Tim
10
l
n
urn
.
i
-.
-
Tgraph
but
the
warm
smile
on
his
face
.Mn,4o
it
a
rnrrmlimpnt
indeed.
r-Chndfitons
In
H611ahd?
Mrs.
I
i
Harkema
answered
mat
3n
worth
ijlon
effectively
and
it
was
plain
iast
week
i
that-'rhe
was
speaking
for
the
'he
Bani:
;
ordinary
people
of
her
native
K;:ox
gold
Frleslaiid.
:
The
gold
!
Ko
meat,
no
eggs,
no
shoes,
i:
seven
no
clothes."
she
said
simply.
The
bul-1
The
Harkemas
decided
to
set-c-menfc
fori
tie
at
Houston
because
friends
eversci
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Hrluter
live
there.
:
United
The
train
to
their
new
home,
Mr.
Tar
may
Harkema
said
with
a
smile
of
-T'
a
bll-;
anticipation,
leaves
Prince
Ru
pert
at
8
o'clock
tonight.
Beautv
Is
Shot
''
Ketchikan,
ca
in
Ketchikan,
1
treatment,
went
Seaule
It
Is
-.ii
was
shot
FATHER
weauiiM
nrevailetl
vi,i
iiioriiin!r.
"BUI,
W1UUS
r'Muin
arop-
Kimberley.
14
at
aM
(b
at
Prince
over
the
coast
at
Cnmnv
rAr
lh
.i
,
.Atu
iam
ana
over
Iho
nnriii
.uajf
ana
nave
SDrparl
cln.l,.
i
v.
CiUl
-iiiciiiiir
mil
in
southern
coast
this
-o
aie
expeciea
forecast
points
during
uueen
i:
inr-
OrtVi
n
.
vuasi
-Uloudv
-
onuwers
durlni?
oecomlne
nverrncst
innc
......
.
.
.
wesienv
izni
cisewnere,
light
ThnrcHo,,
-""B
southerly
11
I
(til.
uie
change
in
,WS
tonleht
unH
n
jo
v.
run
Hnrriv
1
ana
47.
Pr
nop
Ul
ni
and
Thurs-
an7
"hS
Creek,
Gouzenko
Threatened
MONTREAL
-'--The
Montreal
Herald,
In
a
column
by
Its
Ottawa
correspondent
Harold
Dingman,
said
today
that
'"t
least
one
attempt
has
been
made
on
,the
life
of
Igor
Gouzenko,
ex-Russian
cipher
clerk
who
exposed
the
Communists
In
Canada
as
a
fifth
column."
The
story
added:
"Royal
Canadian
Mounted
Police
will
not
.back
up
this
statement
publicly
because
the
Russian
em-
i
bassy
at
Ottawa
Is
Involved."
I
"Because
of
the
Incident,
Gou-izenko's
hiding
place
has
been
changed,''
the
story
stated.
Salmon
Selling
Restrictions
Off
VANCOUVER
The
chief
supervisor
of
fisheries
for
British
Columbia,
A.
J.
Whltmore,
recently
announced
that
the
export
of
salmon
is
now
permis-sable
in
all
varieties,
In
any
form
and
to
any
destination.
All
previous
restrictions
are
removed
because
the
canned
salmon
nack
is
sufficient
to
meet
the
demands
of
the
domestic
market.
VETERANS
ARE
RE-ENLISTING
Ottawa
In
the
sprint
ot
1947,
thousands
or
army
vet-j
erans
or
World
War
II
received
i
...
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I
i
!
11.
nl
M
,
r.
'
panpnieis
soliciting
wic
enlistment
in
the
army,
m
response,
there
have
been
more
than
11,000
replies.
to
date,
or
this
number,
more
than
hair
were
found
suitable
(or
servtee
In
the
post-war
active
force.
A
total
or
2,900
or
those
accepted,
were
qualified
tradesmen.
Voting
on
New
Basis
To
Settle
VANCOUVER
(CD-Possibility
of
an
early
end
to
the
17-day-old
transit
strike
loomed
todav
as
.street
railwaymen,
follow-:
ing
a
day-long
meeting
yesterday,
between
the
mayor,
of
Vancouver
New
Westminster
and
Victoria
and
company
and
union
officials
in
an
effort
to
reach
a
basis
of
settlement
The
union
membership
Is
expected
to
vote
on
a
new
offe:
;
Saturday
and.
If
accepted,
the
trams
may
resume
operations
Monday.
No
official
announcement
for
the
basis
of
the
compromise
formula
has
been
made,
but
It
U
understood
that
It
offers
the
men
a
10
-cent
hourly
Increase
and
a
40-hour
week
immediately
sufficient
trained
men
are
available
to
handle
the
additional
required
shifts.
The
2,800
railwaymen
asked
a
20-cent
pay
boost
and
an
immediate
40-hour
week.
Burns
Lake
Liquor
Store
Is
Going
Up
BURNS
LAKE
The
work
or
constructing
the
new
government
liquor
store
is
being
carried
along
on
a
cost
plus
basis.
It
will
be
of
frame
and
stucco,
i
eighty
by
thirty
'feet.
Thccon-1
tract
Is
in
the
hands
of
the
B.B.C.
Construction
Co.
JERUSALEM
HAS
MORE
VIOLENCE
Trouble
Flares
Up
Again
In
Palestine
Police
Sergeant
Slain
JERUSALEM
fi
An
unexplained
explosion
near
a
motion
picture
theatre
in
mid-town
Jerusalem
set
off
a
fifteen-minute
general
alarm
yester
day.
Police
said
there
were
no
casualties
or
damages.
On
Monday
assassins
had
killed
a
Jewish
police
sergeant
and
that
night
a
Jewish
civilian
was
slain
and
three
British
con
stables
wounded
in
a
flare-up
of
violence.
Drunkenness
Is
Alleged
POWELL
RIVER,
0
Charges
or
heavy
drinking
by
one
oiricer
and
crew
member
of
the
Ill-fated
Gulf
Stream
a
few
hours
i
r
If
rllenstpr
nil
OctO-
fore
a
conorer's
Jury
here
Tuesday.
Testimony
or
James
Luke
Qulney.
elderly
Vancouver
flor
ist,
highlighted
tne
inquests
second
day
into
the
loss
of
rive
CANADA
SHOULD
PURCHASE
MORE
LONDON
P
-Minister
of
Trade
and
Commerce
J.
A.
MacKinnon
of
Canada,
here
on
his
way
back
to
the
Dominion
after
completing
a
23,000-mile
goodwill
trip
covering
twelve
countries
including
South
Africa
and
i-nmno
s.iid
vesterday:
"Never
-
.
j
before
have
I
been
so
impress
j,,,
tho
npprf
nf
Canada
to
buy
more
from
the
countries
which
buy
so
much
from
us,
especially
those
of
the
British
.commonwealth..'
Mr.
MacKinnon
said:
T
think
there
Is
a
spirit
of
conHdence
IU
the
United
Kingdom
that
appeared
to
be
lacking
when
I
was
last
here
In
1945."
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWHPAPKR
Park
Fleet
Is
Sold
Out
Canada
Realizes
577.000,000
From"
Disposal'
of
Its
Wartime
Merchant
Vessels
OTTAWA
at
Canada
has
sold
for
over
.$77,000,000,
the
entire
crown-owned
merchant
fleet
which
was
operated
for
the
government
during
the
war
by
Park
Steamship
Co.,
the
War
Assets
Corporation
announced
Monday.
Of
the
original
fleet
or
176
vessels,
four
were
lost
through
enemy
action
and
two
were
grounded
and
abandoned
as
wrecks.
The
remaining
170
were
sold
Hip
i.imest
nurchaser
Being
Western
Canada
Steamships
Ltd.
of
Vancouver
with
twenty.
uciuit:
i
v
iin-w
.
o
ft
pprtnm
ctltalii
,uiwt
area
in
...
wie
v..w
-
-
ber
11
on
Dinner
Rock,
elBht
River
district.
And
this
has
now
miles
from
here,
were
made
be
OIL
RESERVES
BEING
LIFTED
VICTORIA-The
last
oil
re-spi-vp
in
British
Columbia
has
been
cancelled.
During
the
war
and
until
the
spring
of
1947
ail
of
the
province
was
held
in
re
sprvc
bv
the
provincial
govern
ment
but,
with
the
passage
of
the
new
Petroleum
and
Natural
Gas
Act.
the
general
reserve
was
cancelled,
with
the
exception
of
run
also
been
cancelled.
It
Includes
Commotion
Creek
where
drilling
was
performed
some
time
ago,
but
without
success.
Firemen
Put
Out
Blaze
Despite
Truck
Breakdown
Despite
the
fact
that
the
fire
truck
broke
down,
city
firemen
last
night
managed
to
put
out
a
blaze
after
they
had
to
leave
the
vehicle
immobile
and
run
a
block
to
the
scene
of
a
chimney
fire.
Tru;
truck
broke
down
while
the
fire
crew
were
on
t.hplr
wnv
to
answer
a
call
to
the
residence
of
G.
Franklin,
1352
Overlook
Street,
where
a
chimney
fire
had
started.
They
extinguished
It
before
It
did
any
more
than
scorch
the
adjoining
walls.
The
fire
truck
remained
on
the
street
overnight
and
was
taken
to
a
garage
this
morning
where
It
was
learned
that
the
rear-end
gears
were
broken.
The
truck
will
be
out
of
operation
for
two
or
three
days
while
re
pairs
are
being
obtained,
nT?av
HOPE
FOR
MISSING
PLANE
DWINDLING-
Hopes
that
nine
persons
aboard
an
R.C.A.F.
Diane
missing
for
over
two
weeks
on
a
flight
from
Calgary
to
Penticton
are
dwindling.
Crew
of
the
missing
plane-Includes,
from
left:
F.O.
G.
Lebel,
D.
Babcock
and
Ross
Curtis,
not
on
plane,
J.
N.
Sabourln.
W.
H.
Molyneaux,
B.
E.
Bowman,
A.
Hoist,
not
aboard;
F.O.
A.
Robertson,
G.
Hudson,
not
aboard;
F.O.
B.
Cook.
non-stop
into
the
airport
at
Sprinigar,
capital
of
Kashmir,
but
there
were
not
enough
yet
to
launch
an
offensive
.against
an
oncoming
force
of
Moslem
tribesmen
threatening
the
city
from
the
west.
Troop-carrying
aircraft
arc
landing
almost
on
each
other's
tails
while
tribesmen
arc
believed
to
be
encircling
the
airport
in
the
effort
to
cut
it
off
from
the
rest
of
the
city.
MACAHT1IUR,
PRESIDENT
BALTIMORE
A
story
in
the
Baltimore
Sun
said
yesterday
that
General
Douglas
MacArthur
was
planning
a
"triumphal
return
to
the
United
States"
next
spring
to
'"capture
the
Republican
nomination"
for
president
in
1918.
It
said:
"Private
advices
from
Tokyo
received
today
stated
flatly
that
General
MacArthur
would
be
a
candidate
for
the
Republican
nomination
for
President."
MacArthur
himself
would
say
nothing
at
Tokyo.
HOSPITAL
PROBLEMS
High
Building
Costs,
Beds
Scarce,
Shortage
of
Nurses
WINNIPEG
The
growing
shortaee
of
hospital
beds
was
to
be
one
or
the
major
Issues
of
consideration
at
the
biennial
meeting
or.
the
Canadian
Hospital
Council
In
Winnipeg.
Delegates
were
hero
from
coast
to
coast.
npcuise
nf
hltrh
construction
costs,
the
best
laid
program
of!
expansion
has
bogged
down.
The
alarming
shortage
of
.
nurses
was
also
thoroughly
dis-,
cussed.
Many
hospitals
have
lately
closed
down
because
of
this.
The
hospitals
could
have
met
their
own
needs,
but
they
could
not
supply
nurses
for
all
ol
the
other
fields
into
which
nurses
have
gone.
Without
some
reorganization,
and
financial
assistance
can
this
situation
be
eased
it
was
felt.
MIKOLAJZCK
TO
UNITED
STATES
Sees
Little
Chance
of
Liberation
of
Poland
From
Soviet
Grip
LONDON
0
Stanislaw
Mlko-lajczyk,
Polish
Opposition
leader,
who
fled
here
from
his
Communist-dominated
homeland,
said
today
he
was
going
to
the
United
States,
soon
"to
see
SNOW
BLANKETS
SKEENA
ROAD
mtmi
.
itnimmiiimi
:jjkBluc
TAXI
Z
:T-
235
,,cj
nfflOHTMJWICSf
4
4.
V,
;t
rublMIicd
at
Canada's
jHost
Strategic
Pacific
Port
"Prince
Rupert,
the
Key
to
the
Great
Northwest.";
'
tJtfett
'
'
VOL.
X::XVI,
No.
259.
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
WEDNESDAY.
NOVEMBER
5,
1947
PRICE
FIVE
CENTS
transit
n
k.
I
Took
His
or
Strik
in
v.oast
vjties
near
rv
i
i
v
i
mmm
u
i
Family
of
Seven
On
11
"i
-
-
'!.,nihi:.'s
nonulation-starved
central
in-
UIU"""
11
.
..
..
in
I'liiill
i
-.
i
.
.
I
.
.
.
.
.
i
.
x
:
i
.
i
.
1(
rien
oy
onu
hiuiuy
ijuiwi
lauuiy
iu-1
nf
Houston
cif
Mr.
:ind
Mrs.
.
.
'
:
..
.
:
.
:
..i
rhnir
fivo
phi
(Men
who
hint
Ud
v
Mftcrnoon
on
the
last
lap
ot
a
two-weel;
j-orti
'.hp
Netherlands.
Kiiori
on
tngnsn
dui
long
on
I
optimism,
Mr.
Harkema
and
his
rvi
r
In
buxom
wlfc
Plan
to
lin
ne
1
1
1
1
I
III
Dutch
community
at
Houston
where,
Mr.
Harkema
indicated
f
by
sign
language,
he
will
work
I
fiT
in
the
woods.
V.Vfc
Tlic
seven
cheerful
immi
grants
stepped
off
the
Canadian
Pacific
Air
Lines
plane
here
Tuesday
afternoon
after
a
neck
of
CCOO-mlle
journey
by
boat,
:
Cana-
plane
and
bus
which
started
at
::
tumped
Antwerp.
They
have
been
on
42.C
dur-
this
continent
exactly
five
days,
mber
the
Five
children,
ranging
in
age
.
;trr
for-
from
eight
to
one
tagged
at
their
vernment
parents
heels
while
they
lnvestl-
a
the
gated
Prince
Rupert
today.
Parlia
-
There
was
Thomas,
8.
Hlnke,
7,
a
girl,
Wiebe.
4,
a
boy.
Ietje,
2,
a
girl,
and
Wiebrichte,
1,
a
boy.
The
family
left
Antwerp
by
boat
on
October
22,
landing
at
New
York
on
November
1.
They
flew
from
New
York
to
Seattle,
then
-took
a
bus
to
Vancouver
where
they
caught
yesterday's
plane
to
Prince
Rupert.
Mr.
Harkema.
who
is
37,
said
that
he
was
a
laborer
in
Holland.
His
reaction
to
Canada?
'Most
beautiful!"
That
was
the
limit
of
his
English
vocabulary,
friends."
He
said,
however,
that
he
had
not
decided
to
joll
the
International
peasant
party
organization
in
Washington.
Mlkolajczyk
predicted
that
Poland
"will
come
more
and
more
under
Communist
control
and
more
pressure
will
be
put
on
the
people
following
the
coming
of
the
Comintern."
I
"If,"
he
said
"there
could
bC
'
a
free,
unfettered
election,
I
am
I
i
quite
sure
the
Communist
bloc
would
not
get
five
percent
or
tne
votes."
An
overnight
storm
brought
the
first
snow
to
the
SKeena
River
Highway,
piling
it
eight
inches
deep
near
Kwlnltsa
and
more
than
six
Inches
on
the
summit
between
Prince
Rupert
and
Tyee,
C.
L.
M.
Glggey,
Ter-
if
e
g
i
race
sawmill
operator,
report
J
CI
A
led
A-M
BATTLE
OF
KASHMIR
D
KLII
I
Reinforce
ments
were
today
pouring
Local
Tides
Thursday,
November
6,
1947
High
8;02
17.5
reet
19:55
17.7
feet
Low
1:19
5.7
feet
13:57
10.1
feet
SNOW
ON
PRAIRIES
WINNIPEG.
The.
prairies
looked
today
at
snow-whitened
fields
and
read
forecasts
of
more
snow
and
near-freezing
temperatures
and,
now
that
the
rigorous
western
winter
appeared
at
hand,
gave
thanks
for
an
unusually
mild
and
open
autumn.
DOCTOR
CONVICTED
V
I
CT
O
R
I
A
Dr.
James
P.
Vye,
67,
Victoria
physician,
was
Tuesday
convicted
of
illegally
supplying
morphine
sulphate
to
Constable
J.
C.
Downey,
R.C.M.P.,
by
an
Assize
Court
jury
which
recommended
leniency.
He
was
remanded
to
the
end
of
the
Assize
for
sentence.
The
police,
constable
testified
that
Vye
supplied
him
witli
narcotics
after
he
had
posed
as
a
drug
addict.
CARDINAL
IS
WORSE
ROME
Condition
of
Cardinal
McGuigan,
Archbishop
of
Toronto,
is
reported
to
be
worse.
Cardinal
McGuigan,
reported
to
be
suffering
from
influenza,
received
an
audi
ence
with
Pope
Pius
October
24.
He
is
staying
at
a
convent
of
Canadian
nuns
and
is
receiving
no
visitors.
COLD
TO
EUROPE
WASHINGTON
Proposal
to
I
ship
some
United
Stales
gold
hoard
to
Europe
in
connection
with
the
Marshall
recovery
plan
is
receiving
serious
consideration
from
top
administration
officials
and,
if
finally
approved
by
the
White
House,
will
probably
be
presented
to
Congress
at
a
special
session
called
for
November
17.
ANOTHER
LABOR
SETBACK
L
ON'DO
N
Scottish
voters
handed
Britain's
ruling
Labor
party
another
jolting
setback
in
the
municipal
elections
yesterday.
.With
about
95
percent
of
results
tabulated,
Labor
dropped
a
net
of
65
seats,
losing
control
of
five
councils
and
barely
hanging
on
to
industrial
Glasgow.
!
NEW
INDIAN
SET-UP
OTTAWA
Resources
,
Minister
J.
A.
Glen
has
announced
the
creation
of
two
new
divisions
of
education
and
welfare
within
the
Indian
Affairs
branch
of
his
department.
D.
M.
MacKay,
Indian
commissioner
for
British
Columbia,
is
named
superintendent
of
welfare.
this
morning
after
arriving
from
the
interior
town.
M.
GiKgey
left
Terrace
at
5:30
this
morning,
arriving
here
thrpp
nnrt-a-half
hours
later
Hfter-ljrealcinff
trail
through
-sof
t
snow
that
slowed
him
occasion
ally
but
caused
no
other
trouble
According
to
a
truck
driver
with
whom
he
talked
In
Terrace
last
night,
ther
was
no
snow,
on
the
road
Tuesday
afternoon.
Mr.
Giggey
came
to
the
city
to
meet
his
wife
who
arrived
on
the
Prince
Rupert
after
a
trip
to
eastern
Canada.
He
planned
to
return
to
Terrace
this
4
CONSIDERING
PALESTINE
Canada
Is
Playing
Tart
Of
Mediator
In
Special
Committee
of
United
Nations
LAKE
SUCCESS
(CP)
Canada
took
the
role
of
conciliator
yesterday
in
an
eHort
to
compromise
United
States-Russian
dirrerences
over
implementation
of
the
proposed
partition
or
Palestine
into
sovereign
Jewish
land
Arab
nations.
At
the
sug
gestion
or
the
Canadian
delegation,
a
special
working
committee
consisting
or
representatives
or
United
States,
Russia
Into
session
to
take
up
immedi
ate
consideration
of
the
Ameri
can
and
Russian
plans
for
Palestine
in
an
efrort
to
reconcile
dirrerences.
The
meetings
were
In
private.
L.
B.
Pearson,
representing
Canada,
had
warned
that
delay
in
errectlvely
dealing
with
the
situation
in
Palestine
could
only
result
In
chaos
there.
ORGANIZING
AIR
SERVICE
Special
Army
Company
Being
formed
for
Search,
Rescue
and
Emergency
Purposes
OTTAWA,
IB
Canada
is
to
have'a
Special
Air
Service
Company
(SACS)
or
volunteer
troops
especially
trained
for
air
search
and
rescue
work
and
as
a
ver
satile
force
for
any
special
ser
vice
such
as
national
catastro
phe.
Army
headquarters
says
the
company
Is
now
being
formed
of
volunteers
from
three
in
fantry
battalions
of
an
Active
Force
brigade
group
and
is
scheduled
'
to
begin
training
in
mid-November
at
Rivers,
Man
joint
air
school.
John
Winant,
Former
Ambassador
to
Great
Britain,
Dead
CONCORD,
New
Hampshire,
0)
John
O.
Winant,
former
ambassador
to
Oreat
Britain
from
1941
to
1946,
committed
suicide
Monday
night
by
shooting
himself
in
the
head,
Dr.
Clarence
Butterfleld,
medical
referee,
reported.
Winant
was
fifty-eight
years
ot
age.
Wlnants
private
secretary
said
that
Winant
had
not
been
In
good
health
since
the
summer
but
he"
continued
work
on
his
memoirs,
completing
the
second
volume
yesterday.
Another
secretary
to
Winant,
who
was
thrice
governor
of
New
Hampshire,
said
he
had
been
suffering
"mental
and
physical
fatigue"
and
a
maid
said
he
"seemed
In
low
spirits."
CLYDE
SHIP
YARDS
BUSY
Unprecedented
Boom(
Being
Felt
Many
Types
of
Vessels
GLASGOW
Times
may
be
strenuous
and
perplexing
in
Great
Britain
but
there
is
a
boom
in
the
ship
building
indus
try.
The
yards
are
said
to
have
contracts
rivalling
In
scope,
pro
jected
and
actual
work
In
all
the
other
yards
of
the
world
combined.
The
Cunard
Com
pany
construction
will
mean,
even
In
the
first
stage,
an
ex.-
pendlture
of
$32,000,000.
In
addition
to
new
lleets
or
ocean
going
passenger
vessesl,
many
specialized
orders,
such
as
tankers,
whalers
and
refrigerator
i
craf
Vandlarger.Uoatlng;
docks,
some
with
large
power
plants,
are
being
received.
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