"i A .si PROYI.iCIAL. H3ART, 113 V-OTE 1 VICTOrm, B. C. 'Dec 13th at NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER CIVIC CENTRE CABS fR V Imho insrATrin.n Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" Courtesy Ormes Drue r VOL. XL, No. 289 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 195. PRICE FiVB CENTS csvsoro Ihre ratal 1 I vo V SHI Prince Rupert Isolated After Unusual Warmth And Excessive Rains Railway and Highway Tied Up by Slide and Washouts Road Crew Trapped Prince Rupert is almost completely incommunicado today following unusually mild Veather and excessive rains since the end of the week. Big cuuea of new snow, rock and debris swept down at various points in the lower Skeena valley to block both railway and highway. All land line communications telegraph, long distance telephone and radio network went down at the same time and were still down "-rr Vr flu ,V ! f ; person j 1 ' . -. f "L.-. j I ' " f i 1 " J I I? J i I -. V 5 , , . ' . t nrM). i V. ',rT-w WW-. i Fisheries Association Gives Hospital $10,000 Prince Rupert General Hospital Modernization Fund has received another large subscription the sum of $10,000 from the Fisheries. Association of British Columbia and companies situated in this district. Announcement of the contribution was received today by C. G. Ham, chairman of the hospital board, from Richard Nelson, vice-chairman of the Fisheries Association of British Columbia. The payment will be spread over a period of two years. This contribution brings the total to date to $55,000 against the objective of $75,000. An active committee is still working and will not stop until the objective has been reached, a hospital spokesman said today. this afternoon. Only communication today is by Digby radio and radiophone. C. A. Berncr, divisional super- enV C BV from Vancouver since Saturday. Many passengers are held up. Wrhile poor visibility held flights av Vancouver and Prince 1 is SEARCH CAR Pickets from striking workers at the Railways admitted that "havoc Kuperl, sun was reported snin-had been raised" with his line ing brightly at Sandspit today, by slides and washouts between ! SITUATION GRIM , inpiiny of Canada Windsor plant searched automobiles i' workers leaving the plant shortly altar the strike began pickets looked for documents which might help the ny set up temporary offices outside, which the company (CP PHOTO) Beer For Local Pubs by Monday Althouth the beer strike has been settled, beer is not immediately available in Prince Rupert where the supply became ex-i hausted weeks ago as the strike flengthened- Beer for local taverns mav be m aD by 6 weeK-end orl n ! MOnUaV. II Was mOUgni today. I Jff jc HaZards I Pointed to City Prince RuDert Parent-Teacher i Council, in a communication to ' ritv council last, nicht, asked the i Would Take Over Radio, Also Video WASHINGTON D. C Presid ent Truman today signed an or der for immediate control ol rfito ard television la the event of attack upon the country or threat of such attack. Speeding Local House Scheme Tenders are expected to be ca'led this week for the 50 low rental houses which are to be built in Prince Rupert under the scheme of federal and provincial i assistance, the city council was advised last night in a communi- cation from i. E. Brown, housing commissioner for British Columbia, who also wnt a copy of the final draft agreement providing for the project. The agreement provides for the provincial government to pay 25 imnl nl Ih. s-net onrf lha tart jeral government 75 percent. The extent of the city's commitment is to provide and clear the land and the service extensions which are paid for into general reven-! ue. If the scheme makes money, the city gets half of the provin cial government's share of the profits. If it loses, the city is committed to nav half of the The past was read ln detail to the council and was then sent to the housing committee and the city solicitor for further con sideration before coming back to ; the council for final adoption. stressed so that there may be no chance of any delay in getting the project under way. Hit by Truck, Hospitalized William Mclnnes. in the em-i " of C'umbla Cfuhlos! I Co" waf f" b a truck a.bout, one o'clock this afternoon at the rnrn nf thifh t.pn nrt Second Street. At, the hosuital. .... .... .... i staiea immeamiety wnat me ex tent of injuries might be. Mr MrTnnps n hrirklavnr is unrierstnort tr have heen crossing lne street wlwn struck by the vehicle belonging to the City Transfer Co., driven by Peter Hunter. I Skeena and Salvus. All resources j of the railway were being applied to clear the line. Train scheduled to leave for the East Monday evening had been can- celled.and It would be noon to- IIIUI1UW UC1U1C W1CIC WUU1U any chance of trains moving One slide, for example, Mr. Berner said, was 250 to 300 feet long. There were others as well. HIGHWAY CLOSED j L. E. Smith, district engineer, provincial department of public j works, reported his foreman had been unable to get past a slide ' between Skeena and Telegraph t Point which was at least 15 , feet wide and of undetermined ; length, a torrent of water running down the middle of it. Four men of the local public works crew were unable to get home last night on account of this slide and were given shelter for the night at the railway patrolman's house at Telegraph Point. An ever larger sllde-IOO feet city to investigate and rectify i provincial government's traffic safety hazards, particu- j tin of the loss. The city also lai'ly to children, at the corner j collects normal taxes on the of McBride Street and Second perty. Avenue, the corner of Eighth 'Avenue and McBride Street and Second Avenue and Second Street where cars travel at excessive j rates of speed. A garage on Mc- j Bride btreet at becond Avenue Holding 'Phones Under New Deal Automatic Electric (Canadai Ltd., which has a deal with the city to provide 500 additional telephones on a temporary basis free of charge pending purchase of a complete automatic telephone system, aclviwd council last night that it would hold equipment In reserve for the city until such time as the compete automatic system and outside plant proposal as presented lor consideration and approval. Meantime, Engineer F. A Gen-In will arrive in the city early this week to start work Immediately on surveying the outside plant requirements. The council received and tiled th cominunicktlon, thanking the company for holding the eqiiip-moife ' "' '- 1 " - The telephone deal will be subject of a'rctercnduin at the civic election this week Britain Making New War Suit iU.'.I HAMPTON, Kimland f... A factory here has been working oveitime turning out a nvw type winter outfit for British troops in Korea. The long jacket with attached hood or parka, made of gabardine lined with wool, is liRht and waterproof. jlie:e cars are parked on the. The importance of sprcd Irvex-'-UWt-walk and children were fore- 1 1)edifinff th - aereemetir whs ,)".us wm auurfcetj.JirfW Ut U .-'"mo time" or ."at- least a f"" tie Kwinitsa tunnel and a ser- days" was the indefinite way in, v ies of other slides elsewhere which Mr. Smith was forced to along the road. . - I answer questions of how long it When P r u d h o m m e Lake would take to clear the road, threatened last night with rap- Rain had eased up In the in-idly rising water, the public terior this afternoon, as it had works department ordered the in Prince Rupert, according to Were Trapped on Second j Floor of Department Store , DAWSON. Y.T. Two employ-' eps of a Dawson department store lost their lives when the stone was destroyed by fire. The victims were Mrs. Leah Sellars and Robert Armstrong. j They were trapped on the second floor. Cause of the fire has not been ascertained, i Egypt Keeps Up Defiance CAIRO -The Premier of Egypt, in an address to the nation today, urged the country to throw out "asgressive Britain." This afternoon he called his cabinet' together to consider breaking off, diplomat!:: and commercial rela-j lions with Britain. Big Four Deadlock PARIS Big Four foreign min-1 isters have agreed on the general principle of disarmament. There is no agreement yet on the type of arms to be reduced, particularly the control of atomic weapons. New Firemen s Wage Agreement Prince Rupert Fire Fighters'! Association presented to the city council last night proposals in connection with a renewal of the wage agreement for 1952. A basic wage scale of $350 per month for fourth year firemen is sought, other members of the department to be increased in proportion. In hiring, men of good moral ciiuiactuif residents' of the city, under 35 years of age and of good physical condition would be given the preference. Terms of an arbitration board providing for the appointment of four senior fire fighters at rate of pay 12 per cent additional to fourth year fire fighters would be put Into effect. New pnipo.s-.ils are aiso sit out in regard to relief fire fighters, holiday pay rates, pension scale, etc., as well as specifications for union-made standard material uniforms. The agreement was passed on to next year's council- for its consideration. emigrated both to Canada, Former German servicemen are among those who have gone to Canada, but not Nazis nor Communists. A close eye is kept by people trained in security work to see that political undesirables don't get ln. But only about two per cent of applicants here are turned down for security reasons. US Food Cost Hits New High I.' n f : 1 r I j" I 4 1 f '4 - - - , ' i .... Agreed But Disagreed j I One Deadlock After Another Among Korean Truce Negotiators PANMUNGJON Korean peace T h h r. umuuva "'I mhii:i.. After agreeing that prisoners fhould be released after an arm-' istice, truce negotiators were un-1 agree , the method of ablej. Communists, who have less United Nations prisoners than the U.N. have Reds, insist on a mass release. The United Na-; tions wants it prisoner for pris- oner. And .that is where the matter stands today. Las Vegas Tests End ; . Final A-Bomb in Kail Scries Chews I'p Site LAS VEGAS, Nevada. Atomic scientists have closed up shop temporarily at the Frenchman Flat proving ground after firing what appeared to be history's first underground atom blast. . ( The current series 'of nucleaT tests' at the remote firing range 75 miles northwest of here came to an end with a detonation unlike any of the 12 that pre- ! ceded it at Frenchman Flat. Where previous blasts were marked by blinding flashes of light and balls of fire, the final . explosion gave off a wink of light and little noise. From Ml. Charleston, 45 miles from the test site, observers saw a billowing cloud surge slowly upward from the ground around the firing point and rise to a height ol aoout lO.Ouu feet. (.KOIM) BOILED The cluud appeared filled with dust and debris, supporting the theory that the- atomic charge was lired underground for the first time. In previous detonations, the clouds following the blasts have risen to altituaes of 40,000 feet or higher. The ground appeared to boil up into the toadstool-shaped cloud that Is the trade mark of the atomic bomb, but spectators atop the peak neither heard nor iclt the explosion. Workmen at the proving ground have told reporters oi ciiiging a 50-loot-decp shaft into the ground, presumably to be used lor an underground detonation, and It was believed the Atomic Energy Commission fired the last charge in the shaft. SEVENTH IN SERIES The lest was the seventh la'- the fall series of tests on the i ed into the street.. was also men- tloned The matter will have the attention of the city traffic committee. Air Service Grounded Air service was still tied both at Prince Rupm and Vancouve at 2:45 this afternoon. -, . , ,, . , ,, Fof had not lifted sufficiently Vancouver 10 permu ox aix"- closing of the highway eastward from Galloway Rapids bridge. Digby Island meteorological station this morning reported 2.38 inches of rain for 24 hours ending 7 a.m., the most of this ,allen in the ,ast, 12 hours' Meantime, '-. air traffic between D-. D. j - nimnct . rnmnintpiv oroi 1 h? Wnn2p?5Pi?i2 where he was promptly taken in terday. was again uncertain to-nere was oeing neia pending tne ftn ambulance, it could not be rfo nf fna nvar Van. couver and low visibility at this Licensing committee recom-end. It was expected that flights mended to the city council last Immigrant Total Near 150,000 in Current Year District Engineer L. E. Smith today described the road situation as grim and, should snow come within the next few days, it would really be critical, owing t difflc,t whicn now . I ntlj. f Rupert or Terrace ends. The Terrace road crew cannot get past Amsbury while the Rupen ,s heW around Telegraph Point by big slides. - - There has been a bad washout at one ol tne often troublesome gravel creeks on Amsbury hill. It will be necessary to build a bridge before the crews can get past to attack further troubles. Definite word was received that approaches of a bridge near the little Kwinitsa tunnel had been washed out to tie up things from this end until It can be cleaned, up. There are half a dozen big-slides on the Prince Rupert half of the road to Terrace and num- erous slides on the Terrace half. latest railway weather reports. Taxi Hike Not liked Installation of Meters Instead Proposed by City Hearing To Be Held night refusal of an application of the Prinrp Rnnert Taxi Own ere' Association for an increase of rates and proposed, . instead. compulsory installation of me- ters In city taxis. However, before anything is done a public meeting will be held. The coun cil adopted the report after Aid. Don Fitch explained that the committee had felt the meter system would be more satisfactory. "Then the public will get exactly what it Davs for." he commented. The zoning system of charges, he felt further, was antiquated. A minimum fee of 35 cents and "so much" a mile after was suggested. It was made clear that the taxi owners would be able to present their views at the proposed public hearing. Aid. Gomez saw protection for the taxis themselves against cut rate competition. No Council on Christmas Eve Mayor and aldermen will keep their dates with Santa Claus on Christmas Eve instead of it-tending the meeting of the city council which statutorily falls on that date. The city fathers agreed last night that the city clerk would come down for 15 minutes and, when the council failed to shw up, would adjourn the proceedings to Thursday night. By then it Is hoped everybody will be sufficiently recovered from the first phase of the festive season to settle down to mundane affairs of civic busl-iness. Incidentally, it will be the final regular meeting of the 1951 council. y Ends up tli Surplus it F. Glassey and Fin ; ,nnmilLee Chairman T. k li .recast at last night's ut t lie city council that I'niiid be a tidy surplus to a ii on the year's opera-s tiie city. k admitted, however, ii' I. it that the city, ii. r..mc of materluls ;.. nut being able to carry i the work it might have, t i tome extent ac-lr iur the showing. It i (I. as Aid. George Hills m t..toil, that something dune lor the 1952 coun- h as b-iiig left a com-; ut $10.01,0 in connection' 'i Ii illume survey. -Sdij;lu.'d war's accounts Would i i i;.k care of a stock-n.ivel which had not been .ti was being carried over .1 '"U'. ny auditor Is expected to i tentative statement of venue and expenditures y next council meeting. i) Crowd at till Meeting ir Hie mayoralty hon- j it ove r the power refereu-! i. te raging on the out-! not. even the, echoes; I 'll the serene sanctum i t.'y i-nuncll chamber lust; ' rilv tathors held forth in regular fortnightly. lace was an audience1 1 :. 1 " size of which was . n by mayor and ii .lie crowd came, (il'.ttion of anything in iy of fireworks it was dis-i lur the session of lit-i r .u) hour was one of the! "f the year and certainly; Uic most orderly. It dc-l iu-if to business 'which! r(.'ly of routine nature and was not even the sem-"t a r.nv. ,'1 S. Whalen expressed i.'uuun at the interest as being shown In civic as indicated by the size of Kli'Mire. Mayor H. F. Glas-if - -: i that the council was s anxious to have such an t un the part of the pub-lurning out and observing s( hand how city business. ri'ig conducted. He hoped W"' audience was saUs-'-be dvllberatlons of the 1 were sincere and bene- 3 SPECIAL XMAS INGESTIONS H:ihh l.i(,Mrr . $3.99 f !'m Clocks . $1.99 f ""iy Pop-up Toasters, ' automatic, f roul Special at .... $19.99 ' 'HE,SK ARE JUST A FEW OFFERED AT MANSONS JEWELLERS Fri-endly Jeweller ' . , WHIM By DOUGLAS HOWE C'tuiHtlttui Press Staff Writer HANNOVER, Germany (CP) In a single day this year, 1:500 Germans wrote to one of Canada's two immigration offices in this country and, said they wanted to emigrate to Canada. Hitler's Ignorance Was Aid to Allies mnvpmnnl frnm Vanpniiuiir cr " that, connection might be made nl Cimrlnill u ) ine oest mat can oe expeeiea today is a late afternoon Iltgt t to Sandspit. I For the second day, there will , be no arrival from the south. Weather Hits International Hoop Series Poor flying conditions as a result of the unusual, spell of warm, rainy and low visibility weather hit sports plans here today when word was received this afternoon that Ketchikan High School basketball team was unable to get into the air to fill the two-day engagement here wlth Booth Memorial High! The Hannover office alone; the big one Is at Karlsruhe has pay heavy unemployment with a backlog of some 50.000 names w3r ruins close around them, of potential Canadians amongst j Millions and millions of refu-these people who want to try a I fees have come in from the new life in a country which a communist east to compound lew years ago was their enemy, i these problems. Soon after it became known, j And Canada's open spaces, her largely 'by word of mouth, that I smali p0pUiation, her surging the Canadian government was growth appeal t0 lnem, Some putting up money for assisting : Germans say they appeal more movement across the Atlantic, i tnan tne temptations of the people were lining up at 8 a.m. j United states xhe main Asso-and the staff had a hard time clated Press 0ffjce ln Germany, to get into their office. .at Frankfurt, in fact, recently Movements from Europe werelost lwo German 8taff men who School. The series Is, therefore, I veloping as Alcan construction postponed from tonight and ! workers start heading southward Wednesday to Wednesday and!or Christmas. Union steamer Thursday. i Camosun, Capt. John Bodcn, is ' rnii win H making a sDecial call at Kemano would be moving later today if weather imnroved While one flight was to leave here this afternoon, there was no pros- pect of any arrival here. There , have been no inbound planes NEW YORK. Hitler's ignor- aiice of natural science possibly! cost him the war, and certainly made the Allied victory much easier. , This is the gist of a report on Germany's gtiided missiles the V-2 and the V-l by Joseph Warner Angell, historian of the United States Air Force, in the December. Atlantic magazine. The historian quotes Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's book, "Crusade in Europe," that use of these new missiles six months earlier would have, made the cross-channel Invasion of Europe more difficult If not impossible. Why the delay of six months? The historical records show Hit ler four time turning thumbs down on these missiles. Each time he refused to give them priority. The last refusal was because of a dream. His dream was that the V-2 would never land on England. He took it as an inspiration and said, "I can rely on my inspirations." TIDES - - Wednesday, December 12, ,1051 High 0:51 18.4 feet 12:28 21.5 feet Low 6:23 9.0 feet 19:10 3.1 feet uw. .i.u ..re -K.M..m '"'Fashion, CCC vs Elks, Mansons t the li so-called cit."lllnH I'ofti.'lc" "eftects" nhn.fi nf of i Congestion of Travel Here To relieve the passenger traffic congestion that is steadily de- ! Bay tonight on her way from ' liere to Vancouver on the regular : weeKiy voyage i Already moving out from there Is a large list of men going south on the Princess Louise which sailed from here last evening. Interference with air travel due to bad flying conditions at Vancouver has a considerable number of workers here today from Kemano find Kitimat en- deavoring to get steamer or any I kind of passagg available. Valdez Getting Industrial Survey VALDEZ, Alaska George Sundborg, manager of the Alaska Development Board, is here from Juneau making an industrial survey of the Valdez area. It will be published early in 1952. so heavy tnat iuncts sei asiue . by Ottawa for assisted passages have been exhausted, with quick effects on the flow of emigrants. There are warm hopes over here that the system will be revived. Some 20.000 Germans will reach Canada in this first year of mass emigration from Germany since the war. SEEK NEW OPPORTUNITY They are all asked whyhey want to go. The stock answer Is that they want to build new homes, new horizons for themselves or their families, in a land of greater opportunities than, battered, divided Germany hasi played tonight Beavers vs An - nuncjati0n Fraser & Pavne vs jvs Rainmakers. BASKETBALL CHANGE International basketball games between Kayhi and Bo-Me-Hi, which were to have been played tonight and Wednesday, have been postponed to Wednesday and Thursday. Regular league games to be played instead. New York Stock Market Weaker NEW YORXr-Losses outnumbered gains as the New York stock market weakened today. Industrials lost .92 and rails, .33. phase tne utuiiuu eApeiiiiieus. A gallery ol high-ranking military and congressional observers watched the detonation, including Army Chief of Staff Gen. J. Law ton Collins. Others present were Senator Harry P. Cain of Washington, RepresenCative Melvln Price of Illinois, Representative James A. Van Zandt of Pennsylvania, Undersecretary of the Army James M. Davis, and Stuart Rockwell, special assistant secretary for the Air Force. A few hours after the test, the Army and the AEC announced that it was the final explosion In the current series; but It was learned that atomic scientists already were busy planning another test program to begin early next year. to offer. I WASHINGTON D. C. The But there are probably under-'cost of food index for the Unifying reasons as well. The Ger-'ted States hit a new high level mans are tired of war, fear that November- 26, it was announced a new war would devastate their today. It advanced 1 410 land and possibly bring new, if points in eleven days due to in-transient, tyranny. They live creases in prices of fruit, veget-amld mounting inflation, low ables, meat and eggs.