ire Voting lnlslrni mat Prlnro Unrwrt. t.h nthr their own expense Vancouver He aiiuded to the H piu.u..i. b"' r.at resources of Sitka sDruec fcjwci trrivai of tin im which fob teheon In persons being in wisiontd Prince 'he tominj Lher- nh ri..i! I.. """"""ft mill the London. He considerable of " ociore cominif ' Hs possibilities IH. ... ndtred durlne khipbuildlnr rn. mbarktlon point. OF mure ueepiy hat he had comjnr k.r. M"rphy had found 'th vast nossl- had possibly mpressive upon him iwilty of this Vkitin Alaska 4"wrj In Ti t. w heen defin- - "n members of Stl' Senate com. "3Ka th .1 Slim. vuu a bi pnHu tn 48"'PPlni Art t . -'"'".erruDted hir, 18 4 1 - COSt. tran. wcessarv - muniry - "v wasica will ' i should until find that 1 the tr' 1 ..... Pres- ""Ptlal ;'ment invest deserves 1 as Record Visits uJrln t,.i.. a :e- ZT vlng th.. 'vum ii pro ... signed 7v . 1335 "i aw over o - - - and hemlock in this area and made special reference to he abundance of cottonwood which was similar to the Baltic aspen. Development of this cottonwood resource he saw as an Immediate and certain possibility, predicting that a plywood plant would be established In the area within two years. He referred to the fine port facilities existing at Prince Rupert and Port Edward, particularly the great docks which could be used for exporting timber. J. E. Matheson, district forester, told the delegation that they had' travelled for two hundred miles along the coast In Prince Rupert forestry district before mm th. K,f reaching here and stlil had not ibeen throu half of It Their Jnter, present of uwrt rww train Journey today would Uke .. Vim hmnih onrtthpr 200 miles a a we cnair and : " .uj jdfd ursniron f !or more Deiore wey reacucu nnce "eorge aistnui. i. mut- party and local of-! i'iiocukiuvcj 01 uie j . . local lorest resources ana the party was ferred to the government's new ol Liverpool, Ens- lIoresl management poioiy, u v signed H) perpeiuave uic imiwi resources. - ( Olof Hanson, former Member of Parliament and pioneer timber operator of the central Interior, likened the members of the delegation to himself. Forty years ago he had walked Into this district In search of timber which he had found and utilized. The visitors were also searching for timber. He hoped they too would be able to find what they want ed and make use of It. William A. .McAdam, Agent-General for British Columbia, who was accorded a special round of applause in appreciation of his efforts on behalf of servicemen overseas during the war, read a message from R. C. Vaughan, president of the Cana dian National Railways, Mon treal, welcoming the party to lines of the Canadian National at Prince Rupert. He trusted their Journey would be a profl table and pleasant one. Greetings of the city were ex tended by Acting Mayor Robert McKay, Other special guests, besides the visitors and speakers, Included W. H. Brett, M.L.A.; Bernard Allen, general superintendent, Canadian National Railways, Vancouver; S. B. Roberts and Charles Klotz, Celanese Corporation of America engineers from New York; A. P. Crawley, president of the Junior Cham ber of Commerce, and Aid. C. O. Ham, president of, the Prince Ru pert Gyro Club, which cancelled Its weekly luncheon In view of the special event. ARE GUESTS OF NELSON BROS. A visit to Nelson Bros. Fisheries Ltd. salmon cannery and reduction plant at Port Edward during the afternoon proved of Intense Interest to the members of the party. They acknowledged that It was a diversion, after having visited sawmill after sawmill and forest after forest, to see a dif ferent kind of Industry In opera- fOontinupd on Page Two) NEW BUSINESS TAX PROPOSED One of the questions that is expected to come up during the Union of British Columbia Municipalities conference at Harrison Hot Springs September 15, 16 ana 17, is the method of applying and collecting a new municipal buslnes stax. At present it is felt that real estate Is bearing tht brunt so. on the authoiity of the cltv council, deleeates Mayor Ar nold and City Clerk H. D. Thaln will present the recommenda-j tlon that the only fair way of applying a new business tax would be on the basis of the net Income on individual businesses. POLICE COURT FINES HIGHER Two Year Record Is Set Up in August Prince Rupert's police court fines were higher In August than in any month since 1045. During the past month revenue from fines amounted to $2010 while for the same period of 1946 the amount collected in fines was $1130. The total fines collected in the first eight months of 1947 was $7137.25 as compared, with $10,331. for the same months In 1948. Of the 89 informations presented in city police court, there were 86 convictions, two dismissals and one committal. There were nine charges laid under the Criminal Code, resulting In eight convictions and one committal. Under the Indian Act. 57 convictions were made from the 59 cases appearing .before the court. Two charges were dismis sed. Nineteen cases appearing under the Indian Act were for supplying liquor to natives. There were no dismissals In these cases. The assessed value of loss from criminal code complaints )was $2421.68. Values to the amount of $863.03 were recovered. The losses were the result of various WnVlrnr arid enterlngs and v. .-.---. o thefts. The balance of the charges, all rpsiiltlnir in convictions, were composed of 19 under the Gov ernment Liquor Act and two un der city bylaw No. 968. BEEF TO BE KILLED HERE Use of Local Abattoir Expected to Relieve Meat shortage Locally Livestock will be arriving In Prince Rupert next week from the central Interior when Burns nnd Comoanv Limited will re sume their fall practice of utll- Izlnir the plant's local abattoir. The abattoir was built twenty years ago for this purpose ana except for the war years it has been in operation each season since then. Killintr of beef here is expect ed to relieve the meat .shortage which is arising elsewhere on acount of packer's strikes. THE WEATHER J'ftrecast Prince Rupert, Queen trs and north coast Over- tnHiv. Intermittent rain, b4MV v"rf' utnr cinttprprt showers du li;tuiiuut, av...v. lng afternoon, Cloudy wl.n scattered showers tonight and nvMaw winds soutneny i" . . - . , , .v.irtinr in westerly OllllHHb afternoon decreasing to ugni westerly Friday. Little chang In temperature. V NORTHERN ANJDCENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER . 'tTTTTTTTTT TTTTtt! 235 TAXI Phone She ITTYTYT! TTTTstar NIOHT giKVICE Hotel"0 RoviWcml lm ' C anada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest." Jm-31.tf 213- PRINCE RUPERT, B. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1917 PRICE FIVE CENTS aAAAAAHytAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAj 4 nnl" Here ' Timbermen Are ssed With Port n 'L.M.'l.'. Vnv nAvolnn. Fvnort trom 1 ms rea nau Day Viewing City and Facilities 1 1... foot nnusihi'HtJps for dnvelnn- .vinri nv i lie: .not. - i nnr a rtauv uwvi. --, t-w facilities awaiting Muuinuuii hi nuuu giving assurance mat it waa tneir inten- ssiiiv. w- i now niT. rvi r. rwiiiriiiiv nam Lri . fdi-im u- xfnrth Ireland . , ra. " i Linra nnrn wmirn n o nan naon i.. d m tmnaii) ui ... ... . ... nv lm iai( - , . pnii ntni n'niln EArvinff tin r n t n with some uuu - hi-! nnv in . . m a iu-, ,inhn nprtn nr Vancouver, vnn , hj hppn maieinp a xurvev nr me and learning of the possibilities of this area, H'.IIK it WV J " " " ' T 1.. nt .U Pa nMk . Mm Ol the tOUrlngl . . .hl.h llmhfr r,rk. , . i ttlVteO rw mv this Ccsimtrie took a in their reception ... . v. ... of Nelson Bros. at the port jsa- cannery and re- arrived (rein Van UiMttamer ranee 5 had the oppor nj here to In- mii;s uc. ai ocean ducts could be shipped by water. 10,000 Gone: Man Is Sought A warrant ha, been issued for the arrest of John Barry Sanders, formerly employed by the Canadian Fishing Company Limited at Butedale, who is being sought in connection with the disappear ance of approximately $10,000. - Sanders left Butedale at the end of last week, according to reports and is said to have bsen seen in Prince Rupert. End of British Coal Strike Seen As Grimethorpe Miners Return to Work SEVEN DROWN 75 YARDS FROM SHORE In this rowboat, equipped with an outboard motor, six children and one adult were drowned In Maude Lake, at Ramore, Ont. The boat, built to hold four persons, had 10 aboard at the time. The drownings occurred 75 yards from shore where 500 picnickers were gathered. In the boat, George Delves, left, father of one of the drowned boys, drags the lake bottom for the bodies of the children. TODAY'S STOCKS (Courtesy S. O. Johnston Co. Ltd.) Vancouver Bralorne - - H-00 B. R. Con'. 07 B. R. X .'. 10 Cariboo Quartz 250 Dentonla -20 Grull Wlhksne 073A Hedley Mascot 1.09 Minto 03V2 Pend Oreille '.. 2.25 Pioneer 3.80 Premier Border .O6V4 Privateer 4J& - Reeves McDonald 100 Reno - 10 Salmon Gold : 28 Sheep Creek 1.05 Taylor Bridge 50 Taku River i -.71 Vananda : ; 27 Congress .MVi Pacific Eastern -10 Hedley Amalg , .04 Spud Valley 10 Central Zcballos 01 'A Silbak Premier .70 Oils C. & E 2.38 Heme 3.75 A. P. Con .11 Calmont 3.6 Toronto Athona M Aumaque Seattle - -78 Bevcourt 72 BobJo .16 Bufalo Canadian W2 Con. Smelters 83.50 Conwest Donalda .;U0 Eldona - 1-12 Elder - -80 Giant Ycllowknlfe : 6.40 God's Lake 1-20 Hardrock 36 Harrlcana '. IOV'2 Heva Gold 32 Hosco 34 Jacknlfe Oe Jollet Quebec 48 Lake Rowan .v 16 Lapaska -29 Little Long Lac 1.60 Lynx .., ., 12 Madscn Red Lake ........ ' 3.00 McKenzie Red Lake..... -58 McLeod Cockshutt 1.61 Moneta ) 43 Negus 2.07 Noranda 42.00 Louvlcourt - I.50 Pickle Crow 2.52 Rcgcourt - 21 San. Antonio 3.95 Senator Rouyn 55 Slierritt Gordon 3.00 Steep Reck' 2.10 Sturgeon River .20 Local Tides Friday, September 12, 1947 High 11;50 19.1 feet 23:46 21.2 feet L,ow 5:26 2.8 feet 17:44 6.6 feet J. Harry Black, manager of the Capitol Theatre, returned to the city by air yesterday afternoon from a brief trip to Vancouver to attend a company Would Act on Balk ans United States Makes Move In Connection With Vexed Question LAKE SUCCESS Ol United States, was reliably reported to-1 day to have formally moved to have the Balkan question drop ped from the security council's p.gcnda. This step would be nec essary before the 55-natlon gen eral Assembly to. act on. the prob lem. Under the United Nations charter, the assembly may discuss matters which are under active consideration in the se curity council but may not make recommendations. ASSASSINATION WAS PLOTTED PRAGUE CT The Ministry of the Interior announced -today that an attempt to assassinate three Czech cabinet ministers with explosive packets disguised as perfume had been foiled yes terday. Newspapers called, the assas sination attempts a political plot but fixed no specific blame The three targets for the packets were Vice-Premier Peter Zenkl, general secretary of the National Socialist Party; Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk, and Prokcp Drtina, minister of Jus tice, who Is also a nationaf so clallst. Oil Struck at Police Coupe While Drilling for Water, It Is Reported EDMONTON (CP) Reports from Pouce Coupe said Wednesday that a crew drilling for water had struck oil at 800 feet' and that a 15-barrel a day flow was accompanied by very strong gas pressure. Government officials at Victoria said they had not heard of the reports but were checking with government drillers at the northeastern British Columbia centre who have been trying to obtain a water supply for the town. ;T,7,7ir;. SALMON PACK M M f MERELY ZEPHR Mine Off Charlottes Mariners Being Warned by Department of Transport I! Prjnce Rupert people aren't so weather-hardened as they used to be. They heve been getting so used to mere gentle zephyrs compard with wnat th& city used to get In the early days that they thought It was really blowing during last night. However, the Dominion meteorologist nn-nounced this morning that the maxlmium velocity of th rainy I southeaster was a mere 28 miles per hour between 6 and T o'clock this morning. During the 24-hour period ending 4 am there had been 1.8 inches of rain wltM futher .11 Inch from that time on to noon. Marhrs are being advised by the Department of Transport that a horn-type mine has been reported .sighted about 45 miles west of Cape. St. James on the southern tip of the Queen Charlotte Islands (Latitude 52 north, Longtltude 132 degrees 13! west). Ships sighting this mine are being requested to notify the De partment of Transport at Prlnc? Rupert, giving position and time sighted so that further warnings THIS AUGUST Slight. Increase in Late August Over Last Year The total salmon pack in the Nans and Skeena area of fisheries district number two, for the last week of August this year was 189,667 Y2 cases, 2,666 cases, ahead of the same period lasi year. This year's scckeye pack cf 64,639 cases put up during the last week in August in the Naas-Skeijna area' was 6,715 cases less than the pack for the same period of 1946, The siprlng salmon pack of 2,520 cases was slightly lower than that of 1946 when 2,987Vj cases were reported for.thls area, Steelheads were shorter too In the latter part of August, there being 1.568 cases packed in the week ending August 30 as com pared to 1,893V2 put up in the corresponding week of 1946. Canneries of the Naas-Skecna area turned out 28,336 cases of coho as compared with 29,-1,1 84 cases for the last week of August 1946. In the same period the pink pack of 44487 cases was a gain of 4,801 cases over that of last year. Chums too showed a boost with 48,467 cases being put up in the last week ol Aug ust of this year as against 42,402 cases In 1946. Mrs, M. Wllla Ray left by air ! today for Vancouver on a short may be broadcast and removal business trip. She expects to fly proceedings instituted, 1 back 0 about Ave days. Work in Yorkshire Pits Is Expected To Get Under Way Again Monday Next Week LONDON (CP) Workers at the Grimethorpe mine where started the South Yorkshire coal strike that has cost Britain some 500,000 tons of coal, de cided today to resume work Monday. More than 45,000 miners elsewhere in the Yorkshire coal fields have come put in sympathy with the Grimethorpe Bulletins COMMONWEALTH CONFERENCE OTTAWA Solon Low, leader of the Social Credit party today released the text of a letter to Piime Minister Mackenzie King urging the Canadian government to call a Commonwealth conference for the purpose of -discussing ways and means of helping Britain - in her economic crisis. WILGRESS TO U. N. OTTAWA Canada's representative om the security of the United Nation's if the Dominion is elected as ex pected to a temporary seat, may be Dana Wilgiess, one of the most experienced and competent members of the diplo matic service, or' Gen. A. G. I McNaughton, according to pre sent indications. ARMY- PLANE CRASHES DENVER An Army C-47, twin-engined cargo plane, with crew of three aboard, crashed thirty miles south of Denver eatly today, a public relations officer at Lowry Field reported. U.N. ADOPTS SECOND REPORT LAKE SUCCESS The United Nations Atomic Energy Commission today adopted its second report for the security council by a vote of 10 to 11 with Russia opposed and Poland abstaining. The ballot came after the United States and Soviet Union bitterly accused each other of impeding the work of the commission. REVIVE LEASE-LEND LONDON Foreign Secretary tf nest Bbvin suggested last night that the United States revive the wartime lease-lend to save the economies of European countries. NEW DOUK TERROR NELSON A new wave of . terror swept across strife-ridden West Kootenays in the wake of a new outbreak of arson. Five barns were burned at Gilpin and one at Salmo. Sons of Freedom at Gilpin readily told the investigating police: "We did it." PAPAL STATE SECRETARY ROME It is reported that Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York may become papal secretary of state. MINISTER KtARRIED Minister, of Veterans Affairs Ian Mackenzie, was married to Helen McRae In a 'quiet ceremony in Winnipeg yesterday. The wedding took place at the home of the bride's sister, Mrs. K, Matheson. Each guest wore a sprig of white heather workers, cutting Britain s coal production in the midst of an economic crisis In which fuel was badly needed, Labor circle express thp belief that all strikers-wil return to work with the' end of the Grimethorpe walk-out. DISORDERS N EGYPT Demonstrations In Port Said Against British and Americans, CAIRO B Large crowds of demonstrators today tried to, set fire to the British consulate in Port Said, stoned the American consulate and destroyed the star' tue of Ferdinand de Lessps. French, engineer who built the Suez Canal, following failure of the United Nations Security- Council to order British troops' out of Egypt. More Strikes, In Vancouver Meat Packer, Steel and Furniture Workers Out Butchers Ration Dwindling Supplies VANCOUVER B Meat ration ing plans were being formulated by butchers here today as pickets walked the streets In three British Columbia cities following walk-outs of nearly two thousand workers in the meat packing, steel and furniture industries. Some 600 United Packing House workers, 350 steel workers and 1000 furniture plant employees in Vancouver, Victoria and New Westminster are idle while a walk-out of 300 boilermakers, 500 foundry workers and 350 hotel and restaurant employees Is lmr pending. "m Butchers through Vancouver are struggling with their own ration schemes to offset panic buying by housewives and make dwindling meat supplies Jjist until the week-end. w Across Canada more than 6500 meat workers are now off their Jobs. The latest to leave were 65 workers of the canning department of the Canada Packers plant at Peterborough, Ontario. About 3500 Swift - Canadian workers have been on strike, for the last- two weeks. 1 " Bodies of Crash Victims Go South Aboard the American steamer Aleutian, the bodies of W. J. Austin and A. J. Asleson, killed in a plane crash at Yakutat, Alaska, were taken south recently. The former will be burled in Seattle and the latter In Derailment Delays Train From East The line having been blocked for several hours four miles west of Hansard station on the Fraser, subdivision "where a ballast j spreader went off the track", to- at 11:45 daylight time, lsreport-ed to be at least 10 hotrh late so will not be in before 9:45 tomorrow morning. The derailment occurred at 9:15 last night and it was expected the equipment would be back on the track by 1 noon today Air. M i 5m ti: