oOMORROW'S -TIDES— mber 31, 1952 ird Time 17 192 fee 20 21.7 fee 20 6.7 fee 16 23 feet even issing n Tug iSlick Sighted Cape Mudge CP) ‘nes VER of hroud to- the Van- trel and her embers, of Island, about No word ha ince wrted sight Cape Muda ) of Quadra \F planes based ‘f joined in by Conat Vancouver at Gal island ‘ rrive Quadra turday left the which Gieefulh as she Strait toward where there ' iy men ire all Van Owners of the follow Horie hief et nn 4 Don ning second Ope ook, E khands, Vernor wenty urvive bus Crash :: = PRESIDENT TRUMAN... Che PROVINC!*: LIBR Daily News NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA’S NEWSPAPER ee ome ee Nt een PROVINCIAL LISRARY, Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Port—’Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest’ » ALI, No, 304 VOI . grants interview ‘Toughest Decision’ sent ag to Korea By WASHINGTON dent Trume est decision one ERNEST B. VACCARO AP toid me Wh evel hac which sent into Korea involyef the und therefore than the de- bombs on was the States tre He said it a third world war Was tougher even isi to drop at _ ese .citie Ops Nn is convince May Fe MA ng 20 : ian: wing some of his expe: fail i office, he pointed to aie the globe that Gen. Elsenhowe: g eave him in 1945. ‘ “During these eight years, in ull but four) we've kept that old globe out escaped with, of disaster,” he said. Four were later ondition in| As if trying to sum up the other major why he feels us landed up llow water af the slippery! through ancouver ashed y Storm Storm Warn- ( today along from Oregon to farbor, a 10,000 88. Stockster er moorings by mally high tide by four tugs nto her berth in suburban bore the full torm and many flooded 1st of Washington winds blew two elr stations preceded by a alr which sent the unseasonal s in Vancouver hy MARK BARRON AP) American hotel Impresarios thelr floor shows r champagne buck- nnual carnival of © celebrations, that prices m “open house,” customers only pay . thelr cheque, up \; imunt per person. prices for reserva- and favors start at ‘ of the elubs and ORK lultimately may have more ’ history will tration Wlih § And we'v in #&co NT qual i ‘ He cited a production rate $344,000.000,000 a year, a national come { $2900.000.000,000 and ar empiloymer tal of 63,000,000 ~ perso Tr pk I pian I ‘ thing is uppet I mind girls whenever | f the portunity. He want tel t that future ervation of peacefi and oth holds out peace rest n pre the UN and that the use a rn deveiopm moat the for mendous” future It can be made Into future, he says, by the tion of disease, a constant recau tion in drudgery, and the pro vision of sufficient food 4 d clothing All that fits in with the Point Four program under which the U.S. provides technicians and aid to under-developed countries he says. Truman feels that Point Four to do hotel rooms, minimums are about the same charged in the last two years. On New Year's Eve, entertain- ment in many clubs and supper rooms usually runs on standard program lines But the maestros are always hoping for the unex- pected guests and celebrities who add impromptu bits the scheduled entertainment For instance, Gigi, headwaiter at the Rendezvous in New York’s Hotel Plaza recalls one New ~elebration in that in the cen . to longtime vy Bye sears eve room early risk of |@* , Many with the preservation of ful world than costly programs yf military and economic aid brought into being to prevent the a peace- Olapse of War-trained countries . and their loss to the Commu- nists As for the November election defeat of ratic party is Just one he considers that the the Democ round of tle over principles into future a bat will be carried ections, His feeling i ilthough he wouldn't say so in so —— words hat Adiai Stes 8 jeféat by Eisenhower d primarily from three thin @ The ele attached to the Republica lidate by virtue of a great r record @ Th c Elsenhower durin @ The practice chat of what CALS acter assassinat by Senator Joseph McCarthy Wisconsin Republican, and oth ers The President is not unaware of the criticism that has been tossed at him during his years the White House. But if he in, he iis major decisions would same do it all over ag sometime in J what he cor of hi aurting tl try up hievement ch the cou! the ac istration and nk be an elab ration on his » Congress, to be de- arly in the session open- atom n said shorten the lives of poss and as ipan, * it would war and save the ibly 250,000 Americans Japanese tr that was no take, Case the question of course to Truman told me In Korea, he said, the whole life of the United Nations was involved. It was a question of acting at the possible risk of ij, world war He is convinced that the dec ision was a right one, and that it ha ted © ommunism in its effort: the whole world He believes it gave hope to free men everywhere that if they band | together they can never be con- quered said hk = th 6 ? ight Clubs Readying For Celebration New Year Prices Range Up To $27.50 tury when Enrico Caruso arrived at midnight, This room, which will have a $20 minimum charge per person this year, Was @ gay place then as now. “Everyone drank on New Year's Eve then,” Gigi recalled, “Today they drink mostly highballs or cocktails. We sold 5,000 quarts of champagne on New Year’s Eve in 1907. As an innovation at the Hotel Waldorf Astoria this year, a bottle of French vintage cham- pagne will be giver to each table four. The prices per person champagne of ’ | freighter — RUPERT, BC., TURES, Deer = ie PRICE hota Cone yictTo 115 ORMES DRUGS . o we DAILY DELIVERY Phone 81 Unemployment At New High With No Vacancies For Men 1,200 Seek Work During Xmas Week | By Not a single registered at the Prince + LARRY STANWOOD vacancy for male employment was Rupert office of the Unem- ployment Insurance Commission this morning as officials faced the greatest number of out-of-work, benefit claims in several years. @ Unemployment here is at least! Elevator Set For Busy Month January promises to be month for Dominion grain with scheduled to a busy here four load more than 1,500,000 bushels of! plete shutdown this year of the|" |herring industry and the little | activity in fall and winter flat- barley. the! elevator | ships| 40 per cent than for the same period in $951, a UIC spokesman said. | With the seasonal unemploy- | ment period now at its peak.) the city office counted 1,200 ap-| plicants for work and 1069} claimants for unemployment in- surance during Christmas week. It is estimated at least $236,000 in unemployment in- | surance claims will be paid in the six-month period from Novy. 1, 1952, to April 15, 1953. | Last year for the same per- | jiod $168,000 was paid through | the Prince Rupert office. Main reason for this situation, | | said the spokesman, is the com-| First of the ships, the Lake} Minnewanka scheduled to the first of three fishing. “While this situation is siete arrive Jan. 3. She will also be| grim when compared to the last assigned t0| two years, it is only slightly take a shipment of barley di-| gorse than the years following rectly to Korea, an official said) the last war,” the spokesman tuday | said, adding that the 1949-51 The Minnewanka makes her| period was the best “we've ever second trip to this port. She left} seen here for winter fishing.” here with 406,000 bushels of barléy for Japan Nov. 5 Next ship on the same mis- sion is the Lake Sicamous, with rrivai date of Jan. 10, third is a Japanese scheduled for Jan. 15 A fourth ship due about Jan. 22 tentative a nd the is Elevator officials anticipate little difficulty in leading the vessels “unless we run out of grain and that shouldn't hap- pen the way cars are lined up now. * With enough grain in the ele- vator at present to load one ship, 150 carloads are on the tracks here and another 150 are moving towards Prince Rupert from Prince George, and about 300 are headed this way from Red Pass Junction We will need all of these in steady stream to take care of the anticipated grain movement “ithis month,” officials said "| The Korean shipment will be the first grain to be moved from Canada to the war-torn coun- try in the Far East Time Bomb Found Under CPR Tracks TRAIL ®—A homemade time bomb housed in a cardboard car- ton was found today under a railway bridge on the outskirts of Trail. « It had a_ clock-work timing device and was built around 30 sticks of dynamite.+ RCMP said the anism had to elaborate Two boys found the bomb un- der the CPR bridge close to their Warfield village home. will range from $20 in the Em- pire Room to $15 in the Peacock lounge. Broadway extraordinary theatres report an large amount of patronage from out-of-towners for this New Year’s Eve. The box office managers report much of this out-of-town trade is due to theatre-goers who seek tickets for sell-out hits in hopes that New Yorkers will be night club- bing during the holiday season instead of crowding the year- round theatre entertainments. Lin Shutdown of the fishing in- Fdustry has thrown at least 200 women out of work as well, who are normally working in fillet plants or in herring reduction. NO ACTIVITY Only one plant is maintaining a staff of women fish workers— totalling 20—and only a few have retained even a part crew of regular male workers. timing mech-| failed but declined} joading which has offset Meanwhile, other industries in the district have laid off = ployees, such as central mines and sawmill and Gace operations. Shutdown of the herring in+} dustry is the result of failure} by fishing companies and fish- ermen to come to an agreement on prices. Operators claim lack of market for herring meal and a huge drop in price of herring oil as their reasons for demand- ing a cut from last year’s her- ring prices POOR MARKET Fishermen have sought 1951-| 52 prices and decided not to fish | unless an agreement was reach- ed Lack of activity in the flat- fishing industry also is blamed} on the market. ‘We haven’t moved any fillets for months,” one operator said. Meanwhile, there is one bright spot on the generally inactive | Rupert waterfront—the Domin- ion grain elevator which has/ kept 48 men working steadily | since May. : “We haven't had a single ay off since that time and we don anticipate any,” an elevator ficial stated. Each grain ship that comes into Prince Rupert harbor also provides work for approximately 50-60 longshoremen during its “to some extent” the lack of activ- ity in shipping of frozen and eanned fish. “There's a million cans of salmon in the warehouse and nothing is moving,” one dock official said. 3 Businessmen Lost $20,000 In Dice Game VANCOUVER (® — A crooked dice game which cost three prom- inent Vancouver business men more than $20,000 will be in- vestigated by police Chief Walter Mulligan said Monday the men were victimized with loaded dice in a four-five- six game. One of them, a hotel owner, is reported to have lost $12,000. higher this year| @ bh Crash Claims Five Lives ~ se’ FIVE MEN DIED in the flaming ruins of two freight. trains which collidedayear Hydro Gien, 100 miles north of Toronto, the day before Christmas. Firemen battled flames after 1,600 gallons of oil from a diesel engine caught fire. Fifty boxcars and two locomotives were smashed in the wreck, which CNR officials said, was caused when a message ordering the southbound freight to pull ‘the engimeer of into a siding was not delivered. Labor Minister's Message OTTAWA CP — Canadian workers can look for a year of; continuing progress in employ-| ment, wages and working con- ditions, Labor Minister Gregg said today in. his. year-end mes-| sage to labor. ‘ “In predicting what lies ahead of us in 1953,” he said, “it must be recognized by all that it de- pends to a large extent on the! international situation. But without further deterior- ation of the world situatién, it would appear that we can ex- Charlotte Whitton Chosen Again As ‘Woman of The Year’ In Canada TORONTO (€P)—The woman mayor who keeps in the head- ling Canada’s “Woman of the Year” for the second time in a row Charlotte. Whitton of Ot- tawa headed the 1952 list of outstanding women chosen in the Canadian Press poll by S 15 Aussies Retain Davis Cup With Third Brilliant Win | First Baby Of Year Gets | Many Gifts | First baby born in Prince Ru- pert in 1953—after the last stroke of midnight, Dee. 31—is due for a lot of publicity in the coming year and will receive at least $75 in gifts from city merchants in the second annual New Year's Baby Contest promoted by the Daily News. Following the first picture of mother and baby, this newspaper | | will keep its readers informed on the development of the 1953 New} Year's baby with periodical pic- tures and stories—provided the winner remains in the city. Parents of the winning baby | also will come in for some hand- | some prizes. | A full list of prizes and their | donors will be published in a ape SONG section tomorrow. Reds To Start | ‘Drive’ Jan. 4th | SEOUL @ — A female voice} teld UN front-line troops today) in a propaganda broadcast that | the Communist will launch a} “general offensive” Jan, 4, The Communists launched 1 | major offensive on New Year's Day in 1951, i third year in a row. i brilliant Aussie pair today. |McGregor played probably the} Forecast For Workers “A high level of personal in- come is forecast, which should |pect a year not unlike the one | through which we have just lived—a year of economic andjsustain employment levels in social advance for the Canadian| the trading and consumer-goods worker against a background of maul ae continuing unsettled _interna-| e )tlonar ie SITUATION STABLE “The economic situation ap-/ pears generally sound. Many of | the large resource-development | programs will continue through- out 1953, and there is still a large volume of unsatisfied de- mand for housing. ‘can look for a year of continu- {ing progress with regard to em- ployment conditions, wages and | working conditions.” During the year just ending. he said, Canada attained record llevels of production and em- | ployment. The Canadian labor | force passed the 5,400,000 mark |_—up 75,000 in a year. Theseon- |omy was able to absorb, of ‘thousands of immig work- fers with a minimum of unem- ployment... tates rose, and |the normal work week declined. women’s editors of Canadian eer es seas ae dally newepepe*. ___rsets, Mr. Gregg said, is the faith Others high in the voting | 4+ Ganadians in its future, and include Lois Marshall, Toronto |i, tnis respect workers had - soprano who thrilled review- | ita) position. In the final anal- ers when she sang in New | ysis they were the most import- York’s Town Hall and who ant investors. now plans a three-year con- “Without this confidence in cert tour of Canada, the Unit- the future.” he said, “organized ed States and South America. | ),n6; jn Canada would not be able influence that it is today. “Organized labor has achieved and maintains its positiop be- cause, in all its progressive pro- grams, it is one with all Cana- dians in believing in the ulti- ADELAIDE (P) — Australia’s} ™ate high destiny of this na- great combination of Frank | “on. beer -neg and Ken McGregor }whipped Vic Seixas and Tony Trabert 6-3, 6-4, 1-6, 6-4 in the deciding doubles match today to clinch the Davis Cup for the Man Knifed To Death NANAIMO ©—RCMP said-to- day a 22-year-old married man was stabbed to death witha butcher knife during a drinking party in his home at Lantayville, 12 mfles north of here. The victim was identified as | Bob Adans. His 19-year-old wife }was a witness to the stabbing For the second straight day! at 5:00 a.m. today. The second man involved in most brilliant tennis of his|the affray is reported to be in jcareer. He so dominated the) Nariaimo General Hospital, His {court that there was no place | identity was not disclosed by for the Americans to go but out.” police. SCIENTIST IS ELATED— HE FOUND A COELACANTH DURBAN, South Africa @-—aA scientist radioed Monday that a mysterious creature caught off the Madagascar coast is a genuine Coelacanth, a fish once thought extinct for 50,000,000 years. J. B. L. Smith sent the message from the plane on which he is flying back to Durban from the Comoro Islands, He said he is elated with results of his examination. .« A Coelacanth is suspected to be the missing link between the stage when evolutionists say organisms crawled out of the sea and began living on land. The creature is about the size and weight of a small man, with fins shaped like crude arms and legs. EE Le The U.S. loss in three straight matches will go down as one of the most one-sided in cup his- tory Seixas and Trabert really never had a chance against the the responsible and. indispens-_ sth oe ae a ae + ~ eames Se ee eee te oa eermsngen 2 aceon aa ei ee ey gf mom ~cagingsen: Be OE a —e we a ee tal coma FNS ain