PROVINCIAL LIB3A3T, "cxoniA, B. c.ORMES DRUGS 151 DAILY DELIVERY V CAB5 NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER STAR r.MlO DISPATCHER Published of Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port- "Prince Rupert, the Key to ' the Great Northwest" . Phone 01 i VOL. XL. No. 141 . PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1951 PRICE FIVE CENTS fjmmmmmammmmm fee Sox'jp wl mm ffi IV mm IU1 LTU 5 ; H ' IPriULUWM T ...... I'.jniM til Lowlv Pulp Mills lose ri,j!adlpl'ians Bodies Still Being Taken from Hospice MONTREAL (CP) With 32 bodies recovered, Requiring ,rW YORK (CP) First place 1 White Sox had their , ,'JcaiLeaBM lca,d,s(ha,Vdi01 , names iaot mgiii. uaii&o . there are fears that the death toll in a fire which .kE efforts "c . r- jdtlphia Athletics, who won j I burned the Roman Catholic Hospice of Ste. Curie-gonde yesterday may reach 50. f iremen ana menmers "i "c Pyrites i VANCOUVER A large stockpile of pyrites at Britannia Mining ti Smelting Co. plant near here may be used soon by B.C. pulp and paper companies to get scarce sulphur. ! E. C. Roper, general manager of the mine, reports that ihe V Grey Nuns order which operated the home for the aged and poor children on the fringe of Montreal's poor St. Henri district, at the foot of Atwater While the New York Yank- : 4 Helped their own cause by! 1Dina Detroit Tigers 2 to 9 Vhe hurling of Vic Raschl Vame the first pitcher In I ma) leagues to win ten (S this year. j le White Sox did not give up, jn the first game. It took js 11 innings to beat them. It was an error by Catcher Ti"-: :0 Coastal Ship Strike Seen . Niahros on a play at me e that permitted the Mack-- u gain their triumph. Street in the vicinity of Canadian Pacific , Railway tracks, said some 18 persons were still missing. Firemen said they expected to recover more bodies from the ruined Interior of the five-storey greystone building. Bodies of two nuns who died in the fire are in the hands of church authorities. Most of the dead are known to be aged women. Some 200 children and almost as many old people, both men and women, escaped. VANCOUVER Chances of a settlement were called "slim" today in the dispute between Union and three coast steamship companies operating 22 ships. A strike is looming. Gov,t Under Fire Over company has a pile of 1O3.00C tons of pyrites, which are about half sulphur. Recently they have been shipping to Japan and France at the rate of about 8,000 tons a month, but theve shipments are expected to stop as soon as local companies can set up plants to use the pyrites, j First company to indicate that ! it would use these pyrites is Columbia Cellulose Co. at Prince Rupert. I Mr. Roper doesn't think his firm will reduce the pyrites, which are being added to at the? sate of 200 tons a day. Pulp comnanies themselves will ael ey Valley $1000,000 BLAZE A spectacular oil-fd tire destroyed a 150-foot section of the Army's big Central Ordnance Depot In Ottawa second larg ;st depot in Eastern Canada. Forty firemen were overcome by tire smoke as huge stocks of equipment including oil, alcohol, paint and amunition were blown skyward in a series of explosion;;. It took firemen and volunteers nearly all Saturday night to bring the fire. In the cen tre of the capital, under control. Loss was estimated at $1,000,000. - (CP PHOTO) fine is Active ANOTHER NEW NURSE Here we have Miss Myrtle Sather, R.N., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. Sather, Seal Cove, who graduated this year from the Royal Jubilee Hospital, Victoria. Miss Sather, who was born in Prince ' Rupert, achieved further distinction by winning the prize for bpst operating room technique in her class. She Joins the nursing staff of Prince Rupert General Hospital shortly. Myrtle is the second nurse In the Sather family. Her sister, Olga, also a Royal Jubilee graduate, is now with the TransCanada Air Lines. WAS MASSACRE Rev. P. M. Sequin, chaplain or the hospice, said that a blowtorch, dropped accidentally in an elevator shaft, apparently Joe Louis is Easy Winner Reds Not Thru Yet ;pper Ridge Silver Zinc a Ltd. has commenced dii--3 dnHiiiR on Its property at tft, 260 miles east of Prince xr;, I ran drilling will be done on Kifty vein on which prevl-. work indicated seven feet' up the plant either near the started the fire. Red Ships OTTAWA ((Pi The government came under brisk Progressive-Conservative fire In the House of Commons Friday for allowing NEW YORK Joe Louis, world's heavyweight boxing high-grade ore followed oy Britannia operation on Howe Sound or at their own sites. oMst economical Installation would be at or near Britannia. Sulphur would be taken out la form of sulphur dioxide and' residue could be used for pig iron. Mr. Roper also reports that Britannia, which for years has Further Offensive Expected in Korean War Thousand Men On Mean Work M of lower-graae dui weu y 1 Ki'mA material. The dead include the Mother Superior, Sister Rita Gervals, aged 52, of whom another nun said: "I saw her last holding a fire extinguisher, walking away from me into the smoke end flame. Then she disappeared." USShipping Fresh Fish lioning a recent examlna TOKYO ff Rearguard Com- "ve uunEK-um. awpa iihjt champion, looked like his old self last night as he knocked out Lee Savold in the sixth round of a scheduled fifteen-rounder. He steadily cut down Salvold from the very start. The old Louis dynamite exploded on the ring-rusty Savold j ki Alitor lle t;anaaian nag on pussiuiy ol the mine by Donald mu.usK, u yiuuu.B ..,.mc!t trading rung mtQ Com. patrols clashed head-on today in munist-h-eld ports been the Commonwealth's larg-1 Word from Gardner Canal est copper producer, Is now turn-' gays a roaci up the Kemano For Mexico South of Border Men Visit Cellulose Operations MM, director, and B. I. jc consulting geologist, re-:.j;ion. work Is proceeding teh camp buildings and r.i writings. ;i leet of drifting done ,;1W feet bflow the surface, scattered battles across the Jag-1 pr0gressive-Conservatlve front ged mountains of the east and j benchers demanded the govern-ojntral fronts in Korea. ! ment withdraw the use of the rnmmnnists fnusrht. desDerat-) Canadian ensign from the ves- at 2 minutes 29 seconds lor the tag out more zinc than copper. tidewater is now bc- The company la working on & , . . . . . process to recover lead from .tag finished, and the next phase their operations In much the of power development, which sensational knock-out victory over the blood-smeared veteran who is recognized as the world 'ely to save their escape routes to11 wnich operate between Hong manner as the zinc recov- will take a thousand men work-A a nrndur-t product oi of Prince rrince RuDert jtupen sV"e -v , ,a wbpIc Parh is !tby vein ..... is .0 .. reported , on .. the ---- chftmnion In Britain. the north as Allied armored cll"'- .... ... , cry. inis nasn i Deen corapiticu & um - ., f,nlj innlcht ill nn be tonight on 30 channel samples to Ukely featutjed officials hoDe lt wllT soon now getting under way in con sink or seize them. since he I forces thrust toward the new Looking his ; best V J.J per cent copper and uje uinner k m profitable operation. .. pection ith Alcan developments. Three cabinet, ministers came comeback! fortress city of Kumsong. started on the long SIX Wicxn arjfl. n. iinir-irnin jmivj , - per cent zinc wun Korean ; uncler attack as the Opposition trail toward a promised Septem south-of-the-border" officials, Chinese and North Inamart mat rha nnnrarnrt nr inp after having visited Columbia1 Cellulose Co. Lie operations here i ces silver per ton over full t width. ' " j Dispute is Unsettled But Fishina Will Start Baseball Scores main forces continued to fall back along the front ahead of heavy Allied artillery fire. The United States Eighth Army commander warned that another Red offensive was expected. In a front line Interview, Lt.-Gen. James Van Fleet said: 'The Communists' declared! in- vessels, Ming Sung Co., trades "throughout Communist China" and, in the words of Opposition Leader George Drew, "for all intents and purposes is a company acceptable to the Communist government." External Affairs Minister Pear- Is Tied up NEW YORK (Pi Labor disputes t:ed. up shipping In every major seaport area In the United States today. Seamen in Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports did not' talk about "strike" but shippers wondered if any would sail without contract. In San Francisco the American Radio Association did not quibble about words. It called It a West Coast maritime "strike" as soon as negotiations broke down early today. A few hours earlier, federal mediators had announced failure to bring the union and shippers together. Joseph Curran, president of the National Maritime Union, said: and at Terrace, left by special charter flight yesterday afternoon and took with them 12 fresh spring salmon. While here, the party enjoyed some Prince Rupert caught salmon and they wished to take back to Mexico a sample of the National rlyn 2, Chicago 1 ton 1, Cincinnati 6 nr nrrvm ico t ha nrniforn mtartf ' York 11, Pittsburgh 8 Madelphia 2, ,St. Louis 10 ber date with Champion Ezzard Charles, the 37-year-old bomber received an ovation as he strode from the ring. A power-laden left hook out of a flurry of punches dumped the 35-year-old Savold on the deck lor the only knockdown of the scrap. Lee struggled to get up and was Just about to make it when Referee Ruby Goldstein unfolded his bloody hulk Into his arms. Spitting blood from his battered nose, Savold was cut down methodically by Louis who made goad his pre-fight prediction to the exact round. "I think I'll knock him out in the sixth," Louis had said at tLilX would" srtVship formed delicacy. Prince Rupert Fisher American under the Chinese Nationalist Chinese spring offensive I he f ,f (t fQund tn were breafe. men's Co-operative plant sup There will be no tie-up of sockeye fishermen when the season opens tomorrow night at 6 o'clock. A settlement between operators and fishermen, however, has not been reached and negotiations will con- taBo 3-5, Phlladolphja 4-12 aid. The enemy has sufficient Wrolt 0, New York 2 plied the fish, Including samples of smoked black cod. reserve units that have not Been fK'iand 2. Washington 4 Louis-Boston, postponed. They were accompanied by Ing Canadian law by carrying strategic war materials to the Reds. . Incomplete reports from the Canadian trade commissioner in In contact lor some time. REVERSES AT SEA run. ; 2? until July 1 . On the sea the United Nations Then, If no satisfactory pro lumbla Cellulose, Htsdern International I'm 3, Vancouver 10 ane 7, Victoria 5 Hong Kong and from the own suffered the second setbacl In three days. The destroyer-mine-, sweeper USS Thompson was hit by Red shore batteries near ers, who have offices in Montreal, indicate the vessels are not carrying war materials, Mr. Pearson said. ri-City 3, Wenatchee 6 'rama 6, 'Yakima 4 his training camp ten days ago. The old Louis Jab was at its " Seeks Labor Control Bevan Group Making Bid L- i i , I- ..... I- ,w. ... Pacific Coast posal has been met, fishermen will strike, T. A. Parkin, secretary of Prince Rupert's local, United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union, announced today. Voting of all west coast fish- Magistrate of Vernon Here Vramento 1-8, "Oakland 7-3 "I expect our men will not sail the ships because tbey have no contract. I know I wouldn't." The contract expired at midnight last night. Curran and other officials refused to use the words "strike," "tie-up" or "stoppage." Mentioned as w Di('iu 9, Los Angeles 10 M Francisco 5, Portland 0 Mlywxid 4. Srattle 8. best. Seldom did he miss his ""BJ'" "ul""" mark. Time after time he fol- Thursday. Three men were kil-lowed in with a crunching right ' ef; Tweruy-x seamen were kuied when the des-punch uppercut as part of the three sday tryer alke rocked an was by combination that wound i up with another hook. j underwater explosion. Trim and sharp at 211V4 pounds to Sa void's 190, Louis mm Fmnlc Rmlt.Vi. barrister of 40 LONDON Aneurln Bavan, Phone Bill Under Fire i Labor's rebel minister who years' standing at Vernon and ermen, which concluded yestei-police magistrate of the Okan-dayi rejected by a 08 per cent agan city, had heard much majority the latest offer of the about Prince Rupert and its new operators. Prices offered were: era of aetlvlty and prosperity. Sockeve 23V4 cents; coho, aSAenaeri lived up to the 19 to 5 odds which VVCi I nll Gov. General favored him. walked out of the government In protest against the budget, yesterday launched a bid for control of the Labor Party. but he had to come here to get .fil cents: Dinks, 8 cents, and mm Vancouver" (Frldayi the real impression. The Associated Press card gave j Synopsis Savold only one round the1 Overnight frost touched the fifth. 'central and southeastern inter- chum, 6lz cents. "I was more than agreeab.y j A new proposal will be set up R Hicks, R. Bolvln, B. Gll-T. Smith. Mr. Cowcll. W. Bevan and twenty-four other Jake Wintz, manager of lor valleys of British Columbia surprised," he saia vnu. inui iui6 b each local, said Mr. Parkin fishermnn Labor Members of Parliament Martinson, W. D.. McLean, J. to a Dallv News reporter, mat - H lf BYrieptpri Charles, crowded Into the dress- as a result of the much cooler OTTAWA (CP) The House of Commons last night passed a1 LONDON (CP) The Evening bill authorizing the British Co- Standard suggested editorially lumbla Telephone Co. to in-ltonieht that Laurence Mac-crease capital to $75,000,000 from ' Laren, lieutenant governor of $25 000 000 I New Brunswick, might succeed The company plans to use the ' Viscount Alexander as Gover-extra capital to expand facilt-1 nor General of Canada next ties in British Columbia. April. Penland, J. McGregor, A. announced they will publish a the city was certainly on the ... k f "roughly three to '-ner, Mrs. Ferrlriay, J. Aaron, advance He agreea. five oents" more than ottered on . n-ew policy document as a direct ing room to shout: "We know all air which moved eastward over about him. That guy can punch the province in the past 24 just like he always could." hours. Skies will remain rela- Wintz said he did not want to tively clear over the southern talk ohnut tho return hnni with coast and most of the interior Mr. Smith, here on private M species. challenge to Prime Minister law business, arrived yesterday j MeanwhliUi last year's prices'.,,... ...ministration. , thi. n irarnnnn ' - , ,,, u The document, to be published j Louls untll after th Charles- but light rain is expected io Dy Hir anu wi j 20 cents tor socxeye win pie- on his return home. Jvail subject to retroactive re- He visited city police court tmmirsement upon settlement. Before the bill, already adopted by the Senate, received third reading, Howard Green, Progressive Conservative, Vancou In October, will charge the gov- Jersey Joe Walcott scrap In spread to the northern coast in Pittsburg July 18. Chances are odvance of a Pacific disturbance Queen Mary IODE Honors Mrs. Carr A htrthdav rake and a eift. this morning with Magistrate A. Mr parkln said the reason for ernment with failing to. carry Vance and Cpl. Arthur demanded the D. increase was f tVv. t.110 Rn,.iist, nrnerim. that the return bout, when it row '""viug mw ine yuu oi tu ver-Quadra, urged that the pri- aska. A little cloudiness will Wales, RCMP. 30 ner cent increase m usuei- vate bills committee be empow-were presented to Regent Mrs. Bevan. then minister of labor. 5 N. Matthew, Mr. Tanlno, Miyasaka. :'m Sanclspit (Friday! L. "t. N Lafreninrc, C. Grey. " Vancouver ( Friday I char-IliBht-Oeorge Schneider. O. Richards.. Mr. .Salvane, Mr. l-Galendo, Mr. Taladrid, Janarlz, Mr. Nendoze, Mr. iobos, Mr. Meehan, Mr. Le-:Ha. " Vancouver Friday) R. B. Mrs. K. G.. MacArthur, D. as(. A. c. Flndlay, R. O. IS0 Mi'. Svendon, Mr. Cowell, 1 Mclnnls and three chlld- comes, will be In September at Detroit. move into the southern coast ana 6uppnes "na men's gear ! and the interior tomorrow us the , walked out of the government I April 22. He was joinec oy Harold Y. Bruce of Vancouver, who year. ; ered at next session to consider the question of enlarging the powers of the six-man Board of Transport Commissioners. He referred to the recommendation of the committee that It be allowed to study the question. He has been a visitor In Alice Arm a meem x" ' , C be Wilson, former President of the will on business, is spending the the Prince Rupert area Board Qf Trade and Jonn Free. of June. disturbance moves eastward with little or no precipitation. Forecast Noth Coast Region Cloudy Canadian Air Lift Finished tu1 will held the end J. R. Carr by members of the Queen Mary Chapter, IODE, Tuesday night, the last meeting of the Chapter until fall. Plans were completed for next week's tea, as well as for Decora tion Day services, Sunday. The monthly raffle had three lucky winners: Mrs. Joan Hicks, candy; W. D. Vance, a dolly; Miss Palema Lineham, a ham. over the Queen Charlotte 13- ral TorrownrghTonlheCo-i "If ZXTVr quitlam for the south. He Is he .tor. ha. been made then. man, former Parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Supply. The splinter group promised not to bring down the shaky OTTAWA (CP) The 420th lanas ana tne northern main- said that the Board of Trans- fathpr of J. F. Bruce Of LUC uv-Uf , Thunderbird Squadron will re- lana wlln intermittent ngnt rain port commissioners, in dealing kin. Francis Mlllerd Co. here, government or embarrass it In ..- i .. i i. . besinnine durlnir thp afternoon . . ....... - mm iuutiv wj ita liuiuc uaac ttu - - D Parliament but, outside of the'Dorva, Montrea after u or evening and becoming scat-Commons, they are free of the, montns on the Korean alr Wt tered showers overnight. A few PtedB6- the Roval Canadian Air Force Showers on Sunday. Clear over 'Santlspn, Friday iM. Kow-;T Kowoluk, A. Pratch, Miss . h- i ' Vancouver !( today) A. M'm, w. h. Murray, J. R. ' Page, Mrs. J. H. 8rhu-M. Cs ,.sar, A. M. Ander- Thom, gam Mahj Mrs. R- W. Foreman. 'Sanclspit (today) F. How- wun applications irom telephone companies for authority to increase rates to subscribers, cannot go fully into operations of companies. They could hot, for Instance, investigate relations of companies with their affiliates. The British Columbia Telephone Co. paid its parent concern the Anglo-Canadian Telephone Co. of Montreal $181,- TIDES - Sunday. June 17, 1951 Pacific Standard Time) High 11:54 17.7 feet 23:37 218 feet The party standing in the 625- anouncecj night Twelve northern Vancouver Island thir, seat house, following the East arcraft and 400 men were to morning, clouding over In the Woolwich by-electlon Thursday start b&ciL -home today They lat afternoon. Light winds else-when Christopher Mayhew was wln stop over at Winnipeg the where. Little change tn temper-elected to succeed the late Ernest first echelon to reach the prairie ature-' L05 tonight and highs Bevan, is: , city early this afternoon. Sunday at Port Hardy, Sand- Labor 313 I A spokesman said that the spit and Prince Rupert, 50 and Conservatives and allies 298 suadron, which has flown more 60- (Including the Conservative tnan 2900 combat troops and i Speaker who votes only in case iooo tons of war equipment tof. . . . of tie). ; Korea, is coming back to Dorval Hjillnllt I TJIITC Liberals fl (because the United States Air llallUUk LailUlliyj Irish Nationalists 2 (one has Force needs McChord Field, near - " Holvis. G. Bonich, N. Low 5:35 2 9 feet ! 17:30 7.4 feet Four Lane Highway From Terrace to Kitimat Soon at Lakelese lake last Cpl Ed Martin game warden, while week said 'he had been talking to the people In charge of constructing tire Terrace-Kltlmat highway. four-lane highway and Is to be be They say lt will a completed by August. It is hard for me to realize such progress. When I came here 'there were no more than two or three miles f ''Further, the game warden also spoke to the pilot of an Alcan supply plane which landed on Lakelse. From what he could gather Cpl. Martin said, Alcan would fly men and supplies into Lakelse and to the Terrace airport, then push them down the highway to Kitimat in trucks. ;uu. bgt. L. A. N. Potterton. FOOTBALL TONIGHT 000 last year for technical ad- vice and services. This charge was passed on to British Columbia subscribers. Mr. Green said ' tfie board should have power to investigate reasons for such charges ' before granting further in-1 creases in rates. i jeball Sunday not yet taken his seat). Tacoma, Washington, for other i Canadian Kick-off 7 pm. AIYANSH VS PRINCE RUPERT SELECT operations. Also there were now miss jtau, w.uuu, o.m, Independent 1 less requirements for the air, and 16c, to Atnn. fmi 2:30 P-m- ,VN & ANDERSON VS J?LMKRCIALS Unionist 1 Vacant 1 ' Fredella III, 35,000, to Co-op. lift. ,