- -V-- - 7 . PROVIKCIAL LIB7.ARI, 113 ORAAES VICTORIA, S. C. DRUGS DAILY DELIVERY 'V NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER V, - I A DC 1: TAR .... IMTI'III II Published at Canada's Most Sfrotcgic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Greet Northwest" Phone 81 1 ! .. VOL. XL, No. 273 Thursday, November 22, 1951 PRICE FiViJ CENTS mm Population ShownlChinese y tp Ontario At Polls TORONTO CP Voting began iowly today as Ontario started ta e.-'Ct its twenty-fourth Well Above Million Panicky iTTAWA (CP) British Columbia's population Murray Would Bring Whole Communities West From Britain OTTAWA (CP) George Murray, Liberal, Carl-boo, aid Wednesday that the Canadian government should encourage migration of whole communities from Great Britain to Western Canada. -. - Speaking in the throne speech Communist hxtonion Demands Lead to Suicide and Death to 1,153,05!) from 817,801 in .the last 10 decennial census! iiivliiiiinary report of the The voters are deciding whether Fremier Leslie Frost 's Pro-gres ,:ve-Ccnservative party is to continue in office. The alternatives are Walter Mil the new XP- toUl IS subject lo re- Pharmacists On Price Fix Thompson's Liberal party, which j w in:hi(le persons not i -,on the first census ' WPrp closed. Final re-ull be announced later, .ilionul Oi eater Vancou-.pcd to b24.3'J9 from 377,- VICTORIA Win H"Pe, peidnnt. "f n new n--gRnl7tnn ' called Canadian Aid to Free Chin.!!, faid Wednesday niht that vxtorlion threats from Communist China had led to the filicide of an 80-year-old man here. He said the elderly Chin-e e v.-as unable to lab.e funds demanded for the safety of his wife who lives in China. Mr. Hop-j attributed another death to a relapse caused by ex-to. rion demands. ' A new wave of those threatening letters and telegrams has hit many local merchants very bard." he said. "Everyone Involved is in a very panicky state." Immigration People Hold Dmara Now OTTAWA (CP)- The Canadian Pharmaceutical Association said today that, If resale price maintenance practices are made illegal, a price-cutting war may be unleashed which will lead to I,n Lake. Stikine and Coast division the popu-rrea.si-u to 20,;40 from went out of office in 1943, or ; a Jolliffe's CCF. I The Liberals have promised j increased social services and lower taxes. ! The polls close at 7 p m. when j the job of counting perhaps two ; million ballots will commence. I Vote in the last three elections , as compiled by the Canadian ' Press ( percentages bracketed ) : j (1948) I Prog. Cons 725.799 (41) Liberal 515,795 (29i ! C. C. F 466.004 (27) i Others 50,169 ( 3) : Total 1,757,767 j (1945) debate, Murray said, if Canada is to be defended successfully, her population must be increased. "Let us encourage not only individuals and families but whole communities to migrate to Western Canada and to share in the resources available there," said Mr. Murray. The government should also discuss with Prime Minister : Winston Churchill, on his visit 1 to Canada, the possibility of getting steel from the United Kingdom to build rail links into Northern British Columbia and Saskatchewan. The Cariboo members urged Rupert is given 8435! 'he formation of ne; monopo-ei Willi 0714. i He. :e NYiiiako-Fraser, Pars-j The association urged the irth Cluli otln, Cariboo, Parliament committee on retail VICTORIA CH The Canadian Navy's "mystery surgeon," Ferdinand Waldo Demara jr., was lodged Wednesday night in immigration detention headquarters here. The 29-year-old American wa.s presumably taken into custody by immigration men following Vif Hic,Virjr;r0 fr.r TVt i "(tru 1 ilft in- Biilk.cv division an In- j pTice-nxlng not to support tire ; 1 39,851 from 25,276 is i proposal tor a ban on the prac- I t.ce it declared that price-cut- ting Ls "competition gone mad."j Prog. Cons 781,673 !,, fM,(,,1ipnt. ,trv Into the Would Make Wire Needed In Gambling . Preliminary Hearing on Book-making Proccdieng at Vancouver (27) (23) ( 6) Liberal 480.569 C. C. F 395.708 Others 107,743 navy. that tne Pacific Great Eastern The legality ot his entry into Raiiway be eXtended from Prince Caflada is being questioned. ' George through the Peace River Demara, who enlisted in the j district to tne yukon and Al- pre Newsprint Complaint By Russia navy as ourgeoii-ueuienant ju- asjca ' seph Cyr of Edmundston, New ; Totals 1,765.793 (1943) Prog. Cons 469,672 (36) Liberal 409.464 (31) C. C. F 417,007 (32) Others 17.795 ( 1) i Total 1,313.938 I Brunswick, was unmasked as an ; imposter following brilliant feats of surgery in Korea. VANCOUVER! 9 Lai ge scale bo' kmaking could not have been carrifd on in Vancouver without SPOILS OF WAR When Communist troops retreated after an attack on Royal Canadian Regiment positions in Korea, they left behind considei able equipment. Pte. E. J. Paquette of McFar-land Lak-;, Ont., and Pte. Bill Brayley of Rothesay, N.B., in front, hold two 7.62 mm. Degtyarev Russian-type light machine guns. The other R.C.R.'s hold Russian-built "burp-guns," the P.P.S. V.62 mm. machine carbine. Centre row, left to right, are: Pte. Raymond Schiedel of Waterloo, Ont.; Pte. Cliff Bertram of Toronto and L. Cpl. Ernie Lounsby o( Hillsborough, N.B. Back row aiv Pte. Arthur Sheppard, left, o( Grand Falls. Nfld., and Pte. John Slernastik of Fort William. (CP from National Defence) Slide '.SHINGTON D.C. 9 The :..i!,t mi Wednesday span a.iiiust fifty percent ,on ul domestic newsprint :-jp iacdllis. Officials iiweviT. that It might be me btlore necessary niacin be made available. Mean Worker R.C. University In B.C. Asked PARIS (CP) Russia tonight operation of a wire service for removed to bring before the Unit- j laynig information from Seattle ed Nations General Assembly , and other United States cities, charge that the United States Crown Prosecutor Gordon Scott Mutual Security Act was intend- I said Wednesday, ed to foster suberslve activities' Testifying at a preliminary In Communist countries. ! hearing in police court of 34 per- Thc Soviet Union gent a note ! ems conspiring among them- Manslaughter, Not Murder VA Strike A 35-year-old Morrison-Knud-son Co, employee was killed Tuesday at the Tahtsa Lake tunnelling project, according to police information here. The man. VICTORIA. The Roman Catholic Church will apply to the Legislature for a bill to incorporate a university in British VERNON f George F. Clark, Interior Columbia. It would be called; whose name is withheld pending ntxt-oi-kln notification, was th ! victim of a rock slide which kill- Holy Rosary University. ;to United Nations Secretary- j selves and w ith more than 200 General Trygve Lie asking that others to carry on bookmaking : this question be placed on the 1 here, Scott named E. Musste agenda for assembly debate at ! White, Harry Ashcroft and Harry ! the present session. I Cawsey as the men who operated 1 Earlier Moscow charged that - at this end of the service. ! aged 33, was sentenced Wednesday to three years' imprison-i ment in penitentiary for the fa-i tal shooting of his broth-er-ln--flaw. He had been charged with der Way t ed him instantly, said police, t i ' An iriqtiest field yesterday J Burns Lake by Coroner Gregory White, established cause of death. rE-ATHE'R OUVI.'H l Strike of In- j the Mutual Security Act violated I "Without this information." Bnlbii Columbia wood-: the Roosevelt-Litvlnoff agree- i Mr Scott charged, "bookmaking ; stalled ut midnight in'ment of 1933 on the establish-i would have been curtailed here murder but the jury's verdict reduced it to manslaughter. The brother-in-law, Henry Canadian National Purchase of Pacific Great Eastern Mooted i VICTORIA CP Speculation that tire. Pacific Great EastT em Railway may soon be bought by Canadian National Rail- ' ways followed Wednesday"s announcement' of a meeting between h'gh officials of the two lines. Premier Byron Johnson announced a meeting here November 29 will discuss interchange of traffic and joint use of physical property when the two railways Join at Prince George. Exchange agreements are to be completed before the first Pacific Great Eastern diesel rolls Into Prince George next June. Some obfervrs think "Interchange of facilities" may be the fi'st step toward purchase of the provincially-owned Pacific Great Eastern by the federally owned Canadian National. Synopsis Cloudless skies over j however, next-of-kin wei-e not British yet known. A Burns Lake RCMP priiUiuns but the number ment of diplomatic relations be-I or possibly could not nave oeen Travender, was killed June 30 .involved at the number ; tween the two countries. I carried on at all. during a quarrel at his home In' Columbia brought frost to most party brought out the body. nearby Sumnrerland. wins f truck will not be until some time tomorrow, j ft Aklnity. British Col-! pre in. of the Interna- Wwiworkors of America I Turkey for U.N. Troops; Today's Stocks mirtfvt K. I. Jilintim Co, Ltd.) districts last night. Tempera-! tuies in the Prince George area i dropped below zero while Van- i couver's 24 was the coldest of the ; season for that city. ! Sunny weather is expected for most of B. C. today. Except fori some coastal areas where low : Underground Train Crash VANCOUVER - said ' oniy part" of 3000 tmmbeis stopped work on I it deadline. I i mrmbe s In the Prince Kdouna, Kamloops and i areas stopped work , l SEOUL, Korea (CP) Two Com- j ; munist battalloas, attacking I through barbed wire and a hail of artillery fire, today overran an advance Allied position in ; Western Korea today. Churchill Sails On December 29 5lnk.' deadline Development of Synthetic Fibres Gave Rupert Mill Prince Rupert can thank the tremendous growth during recent years in the use of synthetic fibres in As American troops along the battlefront observed Thanksgiving with turkey and the trimmings, the Reds hit the central "nipmne.s said operations' LONDON. Prime Minister Wfdii.K at normal. j Winston Churchill will leave tie-are striking wherever It ce'nber 29 for his trip to United ; most ctfertivp and most i State3 and Canada. He will be .NEW YORK (CP) Two New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad trains, jammed with 600 Thanksgiving holiday travellers, smashed together in a tunnel under Park Avenue today, injuring at least 12 people. JlO fatalities are reported. Passengers were shakeiTabuui and some were hurt by flyin? glass. One woman was trapped irr a crushed seat. cloud and fog will form in the early morning, Friday will also be a sunny day. Low temperatures tonight will be much the same as last night. Forecasts 1 North Coast Region A few clouds today. Cloudy Friday. Little change in temperature. Wind light. Lows tonight and highs tomorrow at Port Hardy, 35 and 45; Sandspit 38 and 45; Prince Rupert, 32 and 42. 'cut." he said. "We will ! away about two weeks and will sector with a series of hard jabs. Some attacks were beaten off. "n operations on the return bv a r. The talks with President Tru- One division on the eastern US1S, failure of ' man will commence at Washinir- front employed helicopters to fly stnke follows and operators to reach! ton January 3 and will, last about hot turkey to an inlantry aurcenienU : a week, it Is expected. pany on Heartbreak Ridge. American Standard -32 Bralorne - 6.00 Cariboo Quartz 1.16 Congress 08 Cronin Babine 50 Giant Mascot 95 Indian Mines 24 Pend Oreille 9.00 Pioneer 1-90 Premier Border .32 privateer 08 Reeves McDonald- 6.25 Reno 03 Sheep Creek 1.60 Silbak Premier 56 Taku River 09 Vananda H'i Salmon Gold 02 2 Spud Valley 20 Silver -Standard 2.60 Western Uranium 3.65 Oils-Anglo Canadian 8.00 A. P. Con 45 Calmont , 153 Central Ixduc 2.50 Home Oil 16 25 Okalta 2.80 Royal Canadian ' .16 ? the textile industry for the establishment of the pulp mill here and the decision which has been made to further expand the plant, Dr. R. H. Ball, general manager of the Columbia Cellulose Co., told the Prince Rupert Gyro Club in a luncheon address yesterday. . The Gyros and guests received P" cen' of the cellulose source . ., and cotton 23 per cent, ,ii r t, deal of from Dr. Ball a great DescrlpUon & tne processes enlightenment on modern de-jtnrougn the Prince Rupert pulp velopments and trends in the , mill from the taking in of the field of textile manufacture with I raw log to the turning out of Iho Will Supply Power: JAYCEES ENTHUSIASTIC To Join Rodent War, Get Out Vote, Welcome New Citizens In support of the war on rats in Prince Rupert, Junior Chamber of Commerce here will wage a publicity campaign on the air, through newspapers and by public appeals for householders to co-operate in extermination of the rodents. Following an outline of the ' - In 1950, however, the average domestic cost was down to 5.6 cents and the over-all average, 3.9 cents for 413 connections. ' "Rates," says the Commission, fji:irt.ir,K is t he third of a series of articles designed to The Dully News rcuders a better understanding of what are voting for when they face the city-held plebiscite miintK: Are you in favor of asking B.C. Power Commis-:o supply elect: lc energy to this area?'" These articles will "'' cws of Northern B.C. Power Company Ltd., of ll inn! facts about the Commission.) particular reference to the wood , the pure alpha cellulose , proved ,, , ,. of high interest. The barking, pulp scorce of cellulose. It was tn ellmlnation of the cement- "are set in each district in re- a highly interesting hall hour , mato,,o1 th. aaHn lation to the cost of production discourse. : nf ,hf, cellulose, the nurification At the Decern hp i' rivip fWtjnns. Prinpp Rtmert'i and distribution . . including A huge amount of raw mate-, th n ,blea.hing were traced fixed charges on distribution rjai was required for the spin-i t , TORONTO Athona 08 "4 ns Will be asked tn vote on a referendum nlant. made uo of interest, debt, nlnu and weavine of textiles and w or not they want the B. C. Power Commis tu Mipply electrical energy here. retirement ana piani mainven-1 the principal base QI tne syn- i.iu rivwvcoa ance." ' 'thetic fibres of today was cellu-j Then the speaker proceeded to The net operating revenue of i0Se. One of the principal sources describe the processes of spin-each power district ls set aside 0I cellulose was trees therefore ning from the cellulose, differ-in a "stabilization reserve" for. ; the Prince Rupert pulp mill. j entiating between the viscose that district. . ! The speaker traced the trend j and th acetate processes and lat problem here by banitanan next month, and it was voted a Edward Bradley at last ; night's ; m be t tor.-. Javcee meeting. President Geoff ... Hill suggested Jaycees press city : rangements. Gerry Woodside, council to locate a level dump ; delegate to the organizational if possible to facilitate poisoning meeting of Prince Rupert Citi-there, and enter a publicity cam- j zen.ship Council, reported the paign beginning early next ; council planned to take part in year. I this ceremony. majority of the people half of the voters ap-sorti negotiations, city ' likclv seek to place -'te asking the people to e "re Commission taking the Electric Power Act, under which it operates. At the beginning of its operations, power cost -was high, but in all areas' TARING OVER I of the times from the natural When the Commission takes i fibres to the man-made fibres. leading on to the production of the minutely thin threads and the weaving of the yarns. He told of the advantages of the Jerry Lemue was appointed to , javcees voted membership in there have been substantial re-: over an operating utility, tne, rne per capua use m au head a committee . for this pur the council and promised its Power i ductions. Electric Power aci provioes man uira m uie uimeu oua m ."" mirinern B. C was synthetic fibres in the way of comnanv' The averaee cast Der kilowatt taxes paid by the Commission , was ju.o pounus. iouay n. Aumaque 23 j Beattie -20 Bevcourt 53 Buffalo Canadian . 18 Conscl. Smelters 165.00 Conwest 3.55 Donalda 36 Eldona 17 East Sullivan 9.20 Giant Yellowknife 10.35 Gods Lake 56 Hardrock 13 Harricana 07 Heva 10 Jacknife 06 oliet Quebec 40 t Little Long Lac 76 Lynx .11 Vi Mackenzie Red Lake .. .45 V4 McLeod Cockshutt 2.71 Moneta 30 Negus 65 Noranda 78.25 u- wtie-n that Ke terminates to municl-! 40.6 pounds. The production oi j color variation, flexibility and in March hour to domestic consumers ; to the province or support. Future Citizen's Day when High School students take over business, industry, service and government of the city again I r,n tii Khll not he less than synthetic fibre had increased uniformity and suggested all I in 1946 was five cents. In 1950, pose. VOTE CAMPAIGN The "Get Out and Vote" campaign, headed by Bert Jefferies, will begin next week with newspaper publicity and distribution are .siinin u.... u , c I luypn paid by the previous t irom z.y pounus per capita in Kinas 01 possiouiues ior xne iur 1937 to 9.5 in 1950. I ther use of these fibres. will be sponsored with Director Sid Gonick in charge, and will of stickers. " U,. 1-,. 1,1 t- W ; n innv tn fnnuonr In 1950" the world production, "If the field develops at the of textiles was 12.3 billion rate it has been going, we'll be pounds of which 68 per cent was looking at new fabrics which cotton and 19 per cent synthetic 1 have never been in existence textiles with smaller proportions ruer Commission, and j In Port Alberni and Alberni, ! owner. I its viewpoints as ex- , a dLstrk't in size comparable to : The C'omnussion also pays to in its literature and an-l Prince Rupert, customers were !' municipalities three per cent Pwts: j paying 42 cents on the average; of the gross revenue from the wutimtosion was estab- for all classifications, rcsiden-1- sale of power to customers 'Ho to "improve avail- i tial commercial and industrial, i w.thin the boundaries of the "tl snppiy 0f power and I Last year they said 2.6 cents, I municipality. Wnnmg of operations It ' says the Commission in a report. I Today, the Commission is ; '"Pftl generating capacity ! In Terrace, for example, there ! serving nearly 4o,008 customers , uw within its oper-1 were 98 customers in 1947. An in 25 power districts. And in na in new fleids from j inadequate plant burned down every district in which it oper-norsepower to 164,760 h p., ' in 1945 and the village appealed j ates, the cost of electrical power Yuletide decoration of the ucelu Discussion e forma- on possib city with Christmas trees under , . direction of Stu Furk will begin wome" s, a"xl'7.f : December 16. It is likely two llar YT ?d Stt?' as shelved untl1 t the next meet" huge trees will be placed and decorated with lights in front of ; lnS- u" Bums a concise re-Fnrk'n I y gave the post office. Members on Mr. Port on islt to the last Sen" committee will be called before because there has been! no way of making them," he declared. Dr. Ball was thanked on behalf of the club by Dr. L. M. Greene. President E. D. Forward was in the chair and guests of the day were P. S. Bonney of Na-naimo, Alex Wallace and Charles Guy of Vancouver, J. T. Harvey, - T i DES of wool and silk. Breaking down the use of synthetic fibres in the United States in 1950, Dr. Ball revealed that 1.351,000,000 pounds was from cellulose and 145,000,000 from all other synthetic fibre;.. The two main sources of cellulose Dr. Ball gave as wood and cotton because of their capability of large sc-ale production at out to help. ior Chamber of Commerce meeting. George Cook and P. H. Lin-zey were delegates from the 'e U2,ooo h.p. capac- to the Commission to supply has oeen consistent icuuu WELCOME NEW CITIZENS 1951 Friday, November 23 The customers are enjoying he John Hart Develop- at CanmhM -n, ' 8:48 High power. This was aone ana mat year the cost per kilowatt hour .Kwen xiiver. ""nnissnn the most economical services they have ever known." says the public utility In an official pub MS feet Jaycees will take part in a j senior chamber and expressed 16.2 feet welcome ceremony when the na-I surprise at the large attendance. 7.9 feet tive village of Metlakatlct be-! Forty members and guests were 89 feet t comes enfranchised, possibly present. 1 p r o v I d e s for all classifications of custom- 21:05 2:16 15:13 Low j Frank Wilson and Earl Gordon nearly as possible to ers was 11.2 cents and lfl.2 cents low cost. The wood pulp was 76 of Prince Rupert. lication. . required of it by ' for residential power.