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Canada's
Most
Strategic
Pacific
Port
"Prince
Rupert,
the
Key
to
the
Great
Northwest."
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VOL.
XXXVI,
No.
228,
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
MONDAY,
SEPTEMBER
29.
1947
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Prime
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exhorting
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Britain
"to
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trust-pendulum
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every
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bring
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tragedy
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.
.
a
hi.
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clock
Saturday
at-
''"iroiiinf?
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Butedale
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LABOR
OOVERNMENT
WORSE
former
Prime
-Minister
Winston
Cannerv
Has
n.
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Biggest
raoc
At
least
one
salmon
cannery
In
Prince
Rupert
area
has
had
an
extremely
successful
season
as
far
as
volume
of
pack
Is
concerned.
It
is
Namu
plant
of
the
B.C.
Packers
on
Fltzhugh
Sound
in
the
extreme
southern
end
of
Prince
Rupert
district
which
har
put
up
208,000
cases,
the
largest
pack
in
its
long
history.
Namu,
early
in
the
season,
shared
in
a
good
run
of
sockeye
salmon
from
the
Rivers
Inlet
gill-netting
area
and
finished
off
with
a
bl?
pack
of
chums
from
Cntral
area
and
Queen
Charlotte
Island
seining
areas.
The
past
week-end
saw
the
end
of
seine
fishing
and
the
rommrnccment
of
closing
down
of
the
salmon
canneries
alter
the
fall
fishing.
During-
the
past
three
weeks
there
were
large
deliveries
of
chums
at
Butedalc,
Klemtu,
as
well
as
Namu
canneries.
At
times
Ihe
plants
were
almost
glutted
with
the
fl?h.
At
Namu
the
crew
during
the
season
reached
a
peaK
oi
w
employers.
The
cold
storage
sec
tion
of
the
plant
handled
upwards
of
a
million
pounds
of
fl$h.
Milton
McLean,
one
-
time
manager
cf
Port
Edward
plant
of
B.C.
Packers,
is
now
mana
ger
of
Namu.
LOCAL
MAN
DISAPPEARS
Police
and'
relatives
are
seeK-lng
the
whereabouts
of
Ross
Mazzel,
local
taxi
driver,
who
was
reported
missing
on
Saturday
after
he
had
not
been
seen
since
Friday
morning.
So
far,
no
clue
as
to
his
disappearance
has
been
obtained
by
the
police.
The
missing
man
was
last
reported
to
have
been
seen
early
Thursday
morning,
hut
was
later
said
to
have
been
seen
on
Friday.
He
suffered
a
sktitl
fracture
seme
time
ago
which
may
have
accounted
for
a
sudden
lapse
of
memory.
Plim
in
ha
c
ct
t
at
n
.
4fcST
1MLSKOG.
B.C.
President
of
the
I.W.A
-k
on
"TIIR
FIGHT
TO
BEAT
BILL
39."
ODDFELLOWS'
UAT.T.
Crivrminrn
nn
o
(228)
Train
Hits
Slide
THAN
U-BOATS
So
declares
Churchill
of
Great
Britain.
meatstrike
MAY
SPREAD
Three
Independent.
..Plants
;
in
Vancouver
May
Become
involved
VANCOUVER,
ff
-Three
in
dependent
meat
packing
plants
Fletchers'
Galner's:
and
Alberta
Meat
Co.face
possible
closures
shortly
In
a
threatened
spread
of
the
two
weeks'
old
packing
house
workers'
strike.
The
plants
employ
a
total
of
125
workers.
Negotiations
for
higher
wages
are
now
under
way
and
taking
of
strike
voles
will
depend
on
answers
to
wage
demands.
With
the
two-week
old
packinghouse
workers'
strike
declared
Illegal
by
six
provinces,
threat
of
a
new
walk-out
was
also
reported
from
Toronto.
The
new
strike
looking
on
Canada's
labor
horizon
would
make
severe
inroads
into
already
reduced
meat
supplies.
Fred
W.
Dowllng
Canadian
director
of
the
United
Packing
House
Workers
of
America'
(CIO),
announced
that,
with
12,000
UP
WA
members
striking
for
higher
wages,
a
further
3500
will
vote
this
week
on
whether
to
join
the
tie-up
and
seek
similar
pay
boost
of
HVic
per
hour.
THE
WEATHER
Synopsis
Thick
fog
covered
the
water
and
adjacent
shores
along
the
southern
coast
of
British
Col
umbla
this
morning.
Skies
are
clear
In
the
southern
and
cen
tral
Dortlons
of
th
interior.
Inter
mlttent
rain
Is
reported
over
the
north
coast.
Little
change
Is
ex
pected
in
the
weather
situation
for
tomorrow.
Forecast
Prince
Rupert
Queen
Char
lottes
and
North
Coast
South
ern
Section:
Ovcrcas:
toaay
ana
tnnleht.
Foggy
this
morning.
Intermittent
rain
Tuesday.
Wind
light.
Little
change
in
temperature.
Lows
tonight
and
highs
Tuesday-Port
Hardy.
46
and.
53.
Northern
Section:
intermiuent
rain
today
and
Tuesday.
Wind
southerly
(20).
Little
change
In
temperature.
Lows
tonight
and
highs
Tuesday
Massett,
50
and
58;
Prince
Rupert,
44
and
58.
SHAW,
Lancashire,
Eng.,
'
Women
workers
over
40
in
a
Lancashire
factory
werp
given
lunchtlme
'beauty
lectures
after
they
argued:
"Girls
don't
need
'thoW
Wt
dr
Two
Members
of
Engine
Crew,
Three
Boys
Dead
KAMLOOPS,
(CP)
Three
bodies
found
in
the
wreckage
of
a
Canadian
National
Railways
locomo
tive
and
twelve
derailed
freight
cars
which
piled
up
thirty-seven
miles
west
of
here
Saturday
after
a
fifty-nine
car
westbound
freight
struck
a
gravel
slide,
were
identified
as
being
those
of
Indian
boys
playing
truant
Street
Railwaymen
Face
Strike
Vote
VANCOUVER
O
-The
Street
Railwayman.'s
Union
announced
Friday
night
that
a
strike
vote
will
be
recommended
at
a
membership
meeting
on
October
8,
cf
2,500
New
Westminster
Vancouver
and
Victoria
employees
of
the.
British
Columbia
Electric
Railway
Co.
The
Union
Is
Involved
In
a
wag
dispute-with
the
company.
NATIVE
WOMAN
GIVES
EVIDENCE
AT
MURDER
TRIAL
Halting
testimony
of
Jessie
Clayton,
21
-year
old
native
wo
man,
was
heard
In
Assize
court
this
morning
when
the
trial
ol
William
Harry
Eckels
on
a
charge
of
murder
opened
be
fore
Mr.
.Justice
J.
O.
Wilson-.
Eckels
is
charged
with
killing
Patrick
Joseph
Meehan
In
a
room
cf
the
Central
Hotel
here
on
July
25.
Standing
stolidly
In
the
box
24-year
old
Eckels
pleaded
not
guilty
to
the
charge.
Jessie
Clayton
was
the
first
defence
witness
called
by
Crown
Prosecutor
J.
T.
Harvey
and
her
testimony,
delivered
haltingly,
took
up
almost
two
hours
of
the
morning
session
as
she
related
events
preceding
the
death
of
Meehan.
The
Indian
woman,
who
de
scribed
herself
as
a
widow,
told
how
she
and
Mary
McKlnnon,
another
.native
girl,
had
met
two
men
"Bill
and
Paddy,,
on
Seventh
Street
at
midnight
on
July
25
and
went
with
them
to
a
room
in
the
Central
Hotel.
She
identified
Eckels
as
"Bill",
who
had
relations
with
the
McKlnnon
girl
and
later
made
advances
toward
herself.
She
indicated
that
it
was
when
Eckels
had
transferred
his
attention
from
the
McKlnnon
girl
to
herself
that
trouble
had
arisen
between
the
two
men.
Meehan
had
originally
ibeen
with
the
witness.
Mrs.
Wllla
Ray
counsel
for
Eckels,
cross-examined
Jessie
Clayton
in
.an
apparent
effort
to
prove
that
neither
girl
had
attempted
strenuously
to
leave
the
room
when
the
men
made
their
advances.
Jurors
hearing
the
case
are:
A,
J.
Domlnato,
B.
J.
Bacon,
M.
P.
Donald,
Thomas
Boulter.
A.
E.
Field,
Frank
.
Ellison,
I.
R.
Porter,
Hugh
Gerguson,
Thomas
Olsen,
William
Keith,
R.
E.
Benson
and
Russell
Cameron.
IGOR
GORIN
WORLD-FAMOUS
BARITONE
in
A
POPULAR
PROGRAM
CIVIC
CENTRE
AUDITORIUM
Wednesday,
Oct.
1
8:30
VM.
TICKETS
ON
SALE
AT
ORMES
&
CIVIC
CENTRE
N
1
ear
ixam
loops
from
Kamloops
Industrial
school.
Finding
of
the
three
bodies
raised
the
death
toll
to
five
with
a
sixth
person
In.
hospital
suffering
from
severe
burns.
The
dead
are
Engineer
Frank
Brookall
and
Brakeman
George
Shirley,
both
of
Kamloops;
Ambrose,
and
Francis
Alex
of
Shal-alth
a
and
Leonard
Major
of
Pavilion.
Fireman
George
Hallmark
Is
in
hospital
in
a
serious
condition
scalded
by
steam
escaping
from
shattered
boilers.
Hallmark
is
the
only
rurvivor
The
crash
came
as
the
freight
rounded
a
bend
irtto
a
narrow
cut,
giving
the
crew
no
time
to
Jump.
The
.
locomotive
was
destroyed
by
ihe
Impact
awl
five
orloals
of
new
automobile
3
were
demolished.
Pacific
Coast
Salmon
Pack
Pacific
Cosat
salmon
pack
for
the
week-
ending
September
24
;
waAvtVnaswrtflrtStf
ncreAsM
of
more
than
250,000
cases
over
the
pack
for
the
same
period
of
the
1946
season.
Pinks,
have
accounted
for
the
highest
portion
of
the
pack
515.640
cases
with
chums
second
with
301,577
cases.
Salmon
pack
in
the
Naas
and
Skeena
districts,
whose
canneries
now
have
practically
terminated,
was
224,546
.cases,
while
the
whole
district
Two,
which
embraces
the
north
coast,
packed
621,367.
Baseball
Scores
SATURDAY
National
League
Brooklyn
1,
Boston
2.
St.
Louis
3,
Chicago
1.
New
York
7,
Philadelphia
10.
American
League
Detroit
4,
Cleveland
2.
Philadelphia
2,
New
York
1.
Boston
8,
Washington
1.
Chicago
2-2,
St.
Louis
1-3.
SUNDAY
National
League
New
York
4-1,
Philadelphia
1-3.
Brooklyn
2,
Boston
3.
St.
Louis
t),
Chicago
3.
Cincinnati
0,
Pittsburgh
7.
American
League
'
Detroit
1,
Cleveland
0.
Chicago
5,
St.
Louis
2.
Boston
1,
Washington
5.
Philadelphia
3,
New
York
5.
U.S.
Destroyer
Strikes
Mine
TRIESTE,
B
The
United
States
destroyer
Fox
struck
a
mine
eighteen
miles
off
Trieste
today.
Three
men
were
killed
and
seven
of
the
crew
Injured.
I
EXPLOSION
AT
HAIFA
Ten
Dead
as
Result
of
Blast
Which
Jewish
Underground
Boasts
JERUSALEM,
0)
Ten
persons
were
killed
and
approximately
seventy-seven
wounded
today
when
district
police
headquar
tcrs
at
Haila
were
wrecked
In
a
shattering
explosion
which
the
Jewish
underground
boasted
had
been
set
as
reprisal
for
the
de
portatlon
of
uncertified
Jewish
immigrants.
The
dead
include
three
British
corstables
four
Arab
policemen,
sixteen-year-old
Arab
girl
and
an
Arab
coffee
vender.
PROTEST
IS
TURNED
DOWN
WASHINGTON
ffli
United
States
has
demanded
that
Russia
disavow
a
Soviet
writers
"al"-
tlcle
which
compared
President
Truman
with
Adolf
Hitler
and
Moscow
has
rejected
the
Ameri
can
protest.
Foreign
Minister
Molotcv
turned
down
the
American
nro-
test
In
a
bitterly
worded
note
that
flayed
the
Amrelcan
press
for
Its
-criticism
of
the
Soviet
Union.
ssswskssSKSS
TODAY'S
STOCKS
Courtesy
8.
D.
Johnston
Co.
1M.
VANCOUVER
B.
R.
Con
.06
B.
R.
X
'.C9!r2
CVarlboo
uartz
225
Dentonla
W2
Grull
Wihksne
07
Hedley
Mascot
1.05
Minto
0212
Pioneer
3.79
Premier
Border
.OSVi
Privateer
34
Reeves
McDonald
(ask)
1.00
Reno
.11
Salmon
Gold
25'2
Sheep
Creek
1.02
Taylor
Bridge
.51
Taku
River
.71
Vananaa
...
.25
Congress
.
04
Pacific
Eastern
08
Hedley
Amalg
04
Spud
Valley
JO
Central
Zeballos
.01l
Silbak
Premier
-
.67
Oils
.
A.
P.
Con
.11
C
&
E
2.35
Foothills
2.B0
Home
3.85
TORONTO
Athona
12V5
Aumaque
31
Beattle
v
85
Beycourt
65
Bobio
15Vi'
Buffalo
Can.
.'.
18
Con.
Smelters
84.00
Conwest
85
Donalda
1.07
Eldona
1.08
Elder
..:
81
Giant
VKnlfe
6.20
God's
Lake
1.06
Hardrock
.37
Vi
Harrlcana
10
Heva
.30
Hosco
.31
Jacknlfe
08
Joliet
Quebec
45
Lake
Rowan
.13
Lapaska
29
Little
Long
Lac
T.ZT
Lynx
10!',
Madsen
Red
Lake
...
3.10
McKenzle
Red
Lake
....
J5K
McLeod
Cockshutt
1.65
Moneta
43
Negus
2.05
Noranda
43.00
Louvlcourt
'.
1.65
Pickle
Crow
2.50
Regcourt
.20
San
STTcohlo
4.00
Senator
Rouyn
.58
Sherrlt
Gordon
2.91
Steep
Rock
2.20
St'irgenn
River
.18
Valuable
Third
Avenue
Property
Turned
Over
FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT
HAS
NO
FURTHER
INTEREST
NOW
IN
HANDS
OF
WAR
ASSETS
The
federal
government
has
"no
further
interest"
in
the
property
on
Third
Avenue
lots
16,
17,
18
and
19
which
it
has
held
for
upwards
of
thirty-five
years
as
a
prospective
Post
Office
site
and
has
placed
the
property,
just
across
the
street
from
the
present
Post
Office
and
regarded
as
one
of
the
finest
business
J,
:
sites
In
Prince
Rupert,
in
the
Tl
MAYOR
ARNOLD
RETURNS
HOME
Tells
of
Muniipal
Convention
Not
Very
Pleased
With
Roads
Mayjr
Nora
Arnold
returned
home
by
car
Saturday
night
after
spending
three
weeks
in
the
south
during
which
time
she
attended
the
convention
of
the
Union
of
British
Columbia
Municipalities
at
Harrison
Hot
Springs
and
some
of
the
meetings
of
tho
British
Columbia
Cancer
Fund
which
went
into
session
following
the
municipal
convention.
This
year's
convention
of
the
U.B.C.M.
was
the
largest
gather
ing
to
be
held
in
the
history
of
the
union,
said
Mayor
Arnold.
When
the
question
of
next
year's
convention
was
discussed
she
extended
an
invitation
to
the
Union,
on
behalf
of
Prince
Ru
pert,
to
have
their
meetings
in
this
city.
There
was
an
Ir.vita-tlgjjj
rorrt
,
southern,
Interior
source
JjoweverT'and
vthe
-ques
Hon
was
left
to
the
executive
of
which
Mayor
Arnold
is
a
mem
ber,
for
the
final
decision.
There
was
a
good
deal
of
work
accomplished
during
the
convention
.said
Mayor
Arnold,
and
she
is
satisfied
that
Prince
Ru
pert
contributed
substantially
to
the
successor
the
meeting.
In
Vancouver
at
the
time
0
the
news
release
on
the
Prince
Rupert
"gold
strike,"
Mayor
Arnold
was
Interviewed
by
sev
eral
reporters.
The
"strike"
created
quite
a
flurry
on
the
pages
of
the
Vancouver
newspapers,
according
to
the
Mayor.
The
roads
from
here
to
Cache
Creek
are
terrible,
with
the
exception
of
a
stretih
between
Prince
Rupert
and
Terrace
and
a
piece
between
Vanderhoof
and
Prince
George,
Mrs.
Arno'd
reports.
"Going
south,
one
of
the
front
shock
absorbers
was
all
but
torn
clear
off,
and
this
morning
she
was
having
the
tires
of
her
car
checked
to
see
If
they
had
been
damaged.
The
weather
was
very
good
Jn
fact
wonderful,
declared
Mayor
Arnold.
There
was
no
rain
after
she
left
Prince
George
going
south
and
she
did
not
see
any
again
until
yesterday
when
there
was
a
brief
shower
in
Prince
Rupert.
Bulletins
AGGRESSION
ON
GREECE
LAKE
SUCCESS
Deputy
Premier
Constantin
Tsaldaris
of
Greece
today
declared
that
three
Russian
satellites
Were
boldly
committing'
"acts
of
aggression"
against
Greece
even
now
as
the
lUnited
Nations
were
seeking
h
solution
to
the
Balkan
problem.
'He
cited
Albania,
Bulgaria
and
Yugoslavia
as
sending
turns
Into
Greece
in
Incieasing
amounts
and
with
ever
increasing
boldness.
COLLIDED
IN
FOG
SEATTLE
The
$3,000,000
streamlined
ferry
BI.
V.
Chinook
and
the
freighter
Daginar
Saien
of
the
Salen
iLine
collided
in
Puget
Sound
last
night
during
Idense.
fo?'
CNIrs-JAV.iBootle
'Vancouver
suffered
an
injured
back.
Both
vessels
proceeded
tinder
their
own
power
after'
Hhe
collision,
the
Chinook
going
to
iVicioria
and
the
Dagmar
Salen
to
hands
of
War
Assets
Corporation
for
disposal.
A
communication
received
by
Mayor
Nora
Arnold
from
the
deputy
minister
of
public
works
at
Ottawa
discloses
that
the
property
was
declared
surplus
to
Crown
assets
on
August
2
of
this
year.
Crown
Assets
,in
turn,
placed
it
in
the
hands
of
War
Assets
with
whom
prospective
purchasers
may
now
deal.
The
announcement
received
by
the
mayor
brings
to
a
gratifying
conclusion
so
far'
of
a
campaign
which
has
been
conducted
both
'
by
the
city
and
the
Chamber
of
Commerce
to
have
this
property
placed
on
the
market,
sold
and
restored
to
the
tax
role.
The
advice
now
received
follows
representations
made
recently
to
Dr.
IL
L.
Keenleyside.
deputy
minister
of
mines
and
resources,
who
promised
to
take
the
matter
up
In
the
appropriate
BOSTON
TAKES-JOE
McCarthy
Becoming;
(Associated
with
Joe
Cronin
fri
Management
of
Boston
Red
(Sox
NEW
YORK,
Ot
Joe
Cronin,
manager
of
the
Boston
Red
Sox,
announced
today
that
Joe
McCarthy,
former
boss
of
the
New
York
Yankees,
had
signed
a
two-
year
contract
to
direct
the
Bos
ton
Club
with
Cronin
becoming
generat
manager.
McCarthy,
who
left
the
Yank
ees
in
Max
1946
because
of
ill
health
takes
over
the
jiew
job
at
once.
WILLIAM
SIM
JUNIOR
DIES
;
William
Sim
Former
Well
Known
Prince
Rupert
Boy
Passes
In
Vancouver
William
"-Bill"
Sim,
son
of
Captain
William
Slin
of
Por-cher
Island
and
the
late
Mrs.'
Sim,
died
in
a
Vancouver
hospital
at
4
oclock
Saturday
morning.
Deceased
who
was
born
In
Scotland
42
years
ago
was
raised
and
educated
on
Porcher
Island
and
in
Prince
Rupert.
Following
his
schooling
William
Sim
junior,
one
of
a
family
ol
seafarers,
went
to
sea
and
rose
to
the
posi
tion
of
tugiboat
captain
before
a
heart
ailment
forced
him
to
retire.
He
is
survived
by
his
wife
who
resides
in
Vancouver,
his
father
William
Sim,
senior,
two
brothers,
Alexander
Duthls
Sim
who
is
In
charge
of
one
of
the
Nelson
Brother
boats,
James
Sim
who
is
in
'
the
lumber
industry
on
Vancouver
Island?
and
three
sisters
Mrs.
Mary
Mausner,
Prince
Rupert;
Mrs.
Helen
Cameron,
Vancouver
anil
Mrs.
J.
L.
Macintosh
ol
Prince
Rupert.
Mrs.
Mausner
and
hex
niece,
Mary
Sim,
left
toy
air
for
Vancouver
Saturday
upon
receiving
word
of
the
critical
condition
of
Mrs.
'Ma'usner's
brother.
Local
Tides
Tuesday,
September
30,
1947
High
1:10
20.6
feet
13:31
20.7
feet
Low
7:20
4.1
feet
19:40
4.1
fe5
ft
4'
7-
ii
Hi
4W
;3
li
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