' PBOVWCIAL LIBRAS! . 1W 3RMES VICTORIA, B. C. DRUGS r NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER 'w) DISPATCHED V Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" I Phone 81 I VOL. XL, No. 265 PRINCE RUPERT. B.C., TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 13. 1951 PRTrn v, v. pfvtq F UBMWIIWI TO IIHH 1 . " 1 : mm MMisim cirecfflu COMING a ! t , : I . . ' ' 1 ""- ' f I - A i 1700 Men At Kemano 20 Dead in Train Crash Crack California Trains In Collision Near I'tah-Wyominf Border Visiting Washington, Ottawa Early in January OTTAWA (CP) Prime Minister Winston Churchill has accepted an invitation 'from the Canadian government to spend two or three days at Ottawa after talks with President Truman at Washington in January, it was officially announced today bv Prime Minister L. S. St. Laurent. ite Pass and Yukon oute to "Carry on" as ew Canadian Concern i s historic White Pass and Yukon Route, which ijto I'finff at the turn of the century to provide I and steamer transportation into the Klon-jlmving the Gold Hush of '98 and which, keep-Jo with changing times, has developed ''nto' a , with assets of upwards of ten million dollars, , anadian instead of British-owned. i hill hp no important - EVANSTON, Wyoming VP) Twenty or mora persons were killed yesterday in collision of two eastbound streamlined pas Morrison-Knudsen Officials Pay Visit of Inspection to Construction A. O. Strandberg, project manager of Morrison-Knudsen Co., and C. P. Dunn, vice-president of the company, left Kemano Bay today in the Princess Norah on their return to Vancouver after a visit of inspection to the progress of operations in ; :onnection with the great power j development for the Aluminum I lit ; I j J ,,U, 7 or management deputy nllnlster of nationai rev. Rupert Dry, Bars Closed inc inircna.se oi wie Jiiie in w White Pass & Cjji poration Ltd. of Van-sjoiii the original White fimun Hallway Co. LtJ. .if, KnijHind, It was stal-i.. by F. H. Brown of it urc'.-.Klcnt of the new I H ! Mil : Mr. Churchill will leave Brl- ' ain during "he first days of January" for Washington. i It was announced yesterday in London that Mr. Churchill wiU be accompanied on his trip to Washington and Ottawa by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden; I Paymaster General Lord Cher-well, minister in charge of atomic development; and Gen- I eral Lord Ismay, secretary of state for commonwealth rela- ; tions. Question of desirability of a I Big Three meeting is expected to be high on the agenda at Washington. Churchill is re-! ported to be willing to go to i Russia alone to see Stalin if j Truman rejects the idea of a Big Three meeting on world cnue lor taxation and now has his own private financial consulting business In Vancouver. 'White Pass & Yukon Route assets include 11(1 miles of railway between Skagway and WhiteJione, 7U0 miles of steamship lines from White-horse down the Yukon Kiver to Dawson and on to Coal Creek, 250 miles into Alaska, and bus operations on 1500 Co. of Canada. They had come north on the same vessel on Sunday so had a couple of days in the area. Some 1700 men are now employed on the Kemano operation which is being concentrated on the driving of the huge tunnel which will bring Tahtsa Lake water to the Kemano power house. Nine hundred of these men are ln the main Camp 5, ten miles from the beach, near I - no as in Prince Ru- I the Pr.ncess Louise .rill to pay hl first company's property mus. While Pass & Yukon k.:,viii7 uymz Mr. Mr. Brown Brown was was OI nignway Between I I lwoi Creek, British Colum-r s sol Seattle, Seattle, president president .. . . t. ; i. i .1 senger trains during a "snow-torm near here. ijiUJTi Pacific Railroad officials reported lou- other persons mls-sink. eight seriously Injured and ccores moi- hurt slightly. The luxury train City of San Francis:o slammed into the rear (he halted City of Los Angeles with a roar. The impact crumbled portions oi tne two trains into what looked like a huge tomato can, squashed almost flat, with bodie3 and parts of bodies Just "lying around." AP the dead wre aboard the City of Los Angeles. Both trains were running late because of a storm and the crash rccui red when the Los Angeles halted on the line for a block signal. The City of San Francisco, scheduled ten minutes behind failed to stop. Evanston Is close to the Utah-Wyoming border. Resignation Now Accepted OTTAWA (CP) Canadian Con the end of the tunnel and the VISIT LIBRARY-Prlnecss Elizabeth, escorted by Dr. A. W. Trueman. president of University of Nw Brunswick, visits Bcaverbrook Pecreation Reading Room of the University's Bonar Law-Bennett library during the visit of the royal couple to I' edericton Tuesday. (CP from Fredericton Gleaner) . . t , Traditionally, hard beer drinking Prince Rupert Is dry. Last sales of bottled beer ln several downtown hotels continued last night until about 9 p.m. but several hotels had closed by Saturday. Draft beer ran out ln most premises last Thursday. Liquor Control Board 'rrare reports no beer for sale, with exception of eastern Canadian ale. Beer parlor of the Canadian Legion is also on the "wagon." Meanwhile, neither brewery officials or workers, who are striking for the third week, were able to come to any agreement yesterday. Brewery workers have demanded a 35 cent an hour wage increase. Operators have offered 25 centu. proposed power house site. The Alaska boundary, also serving Keno and Mayo up the Stewart River. 600 others are working from several smaller camps scattered along the river engaged in road construction work and transmis k 'ii'.auii .s with the new j. managing director, I; charge of the com- r.itioii.s as he has been f years. The great river fleet once consisted of more than fifty steamers and barees which fiu- sion line clearing. Other Alcan operations in cany on as usual (in elude transmission line clearing d.isis." Mr. Brown told ured prominently in the News. "This will be lng history of the Klondyke ; between Kemano Bay and Kitl mat, tne site of the aluminum smelter. ai"'ik ai. the company s 4 1 would say there ft much change in gen- Railway Line to Kit. mat Now Under Consideration OITAWA W Transport Minister Ciievrier said in the House of Commons yesterday that the Canadian National Railway Is considering building a railway line to Kitimat. The minister was replying to a question from Howard Green (Progressive Conservative, Vancouver-Quadra) who leferred to published reports which Green said Indicated during its heyday. Now, boats having given away to more modern air and highway trans- problems. It Is expected Churchill will ask Truman for further financial aid to Britain and for a greater part for Britain in developing foreign policy. Canada will be asked to provide Britain with more strategic-materials, and to buy more British goods. Mr. Churchill will likely b8 I invited to address a joint session of United States Congress in Washington and of Parliament tin Ottawa. FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT First disclosure of the meeting early In the New Year of Prisjie Minister -Churrhiii and President or conduct of opera- portution, there are only four A I river VP-Svnl rptimininir in nnnr. Canadians Returning VANCOUVER The American troopship Private Joseph P. Killed By Tractor ' atlon the Casca, Whitehorse and Aksala on Yukon River, and the old Tutshi on Tagish Lake. These vesels are better known today as summer tourist vessels. W hite Pass & Yukon was bijeo Interested in aircraft operation I proDaDiaty tnai a line will be built ' from prince Rupert to ' Kitimat. . v The minister said that the CNR is discussing the matter : with ths Aluminum Co. of Canada?; . , : I CNR is now engaged in making surveys of a railway which would ct;nmct Kitimat with the Prince Rupert line of the Martinez, carrying 206 Canadian soldiers home irom the Korean war, will arrive here at 1 o'clock but "thank goodness, no longer. gress of Labor executive yesterday accepted the resignation of Pat Conroy as its national sea-retary treasurer and appointed Donald Macdonald of Sydney, Nova Scotia, ln his place. Conroy resigned at the C.C.L.'s Vancouver convention in September during an internal policy fight. Mr. Wheeler remarked. TELKWA Charlie Tommy, I Truman came from Presidential Indian from Quick station, was secretary Joseph Short Sunday killed la3t Wednesday, when a at Kev west. Florida, where the f tin' no;e company, . rcvcjli il is the Ham-Saiik, one of the large still banks of London, ! .resentailves on the 4 directors of the new I re Mi'srs. D Arcy and oi London. In ad-: Mr. Brown and Mr. jtl. rectors also Include 3, B iker, president of the $ Oil Co. of British Coi- I Robert Barr K.C. of 4 - ' t n. the new White i(iii. as at one time : Canadian Bank of He was wartime Good -Bye chief executive is spending a Thursday afternoon, the Canadian Army announces. The men sailed on the same ship for Korea from Seattle November 25 last year. Canadian National Railways from Remo, about ninety miles east of Prince Rupert.) J. L. Charles, chief -engineer of the Canadian National Railways lor the western region, visited the proposed Kitimat branch line a few days ago. Robert McJtlroy is the engineer in charge of the survey. working vacation. tractor he was driving from Telkwa, ran off the road.. It is thought that Tommy may have been struck by the machine as it toppled over. Both the Princess Now Bound Home Leather i tractor and the body were lying off the road about 20 feet down an incline. TIDES - Wednesday, November 14. 1951 The accident occurred three High 1:40 ' 19.5 feet I miles from here. His wife left to locate him when he did not Jaycees Delegation to Carry Highway Protest 13:23 22.1 feet Low 7:20 7.5 feet return from town and it is pre PORTUGAL COVE, Newfound land A Britain's Royal tourists are homeward bound today, snug aboard the Empress of Scotland after a wild, snarling nor'wester with rain In its teeth slashed into this riiRged fishing village and .1 -I.......) ........I. nniKnelm- 20:00 2.5 feet sumed passed right by the scene js Canada :ond Home ''rc. ... lllllTUCriii:t I.U ftlCifc iiuuainB- Right on to Victoria Armistice lot the accident. Mr. Vanden-berg of Quick discovered the accident and notified the police, but not before the body had lain exposed until nightfall. Scores of cars passed within a few feet. It is presumed Tommy left town in the morning. Observed Synopsis Snow fell ln the northern interior last night and a fw showers were reported along the coast as cloudy skies covered all of the provinca, Clearing progressed this mornln" on the south coast and will extend into the southern interior tonight. Cold air entrenched in northern B.C. will mean cloudy skies and freezing temperatures - in that area for the next two days. Clearing ckies in southern part will mean lower temperatures there. Forecast North coast region Variable cloudiness with a few showers today. Sunny Wednesday. Little change in temperature. Wind west, (20 m.p.h.i decreasing to light by evening. Lows tonight and highs tomorrow at Estevan, 40 and 50; Port Hardy and Sand-spit, 40 and 48; Prince Rupert, 35 and 45. Today's Stocks (Cniirti'i.y H. I. 4(iliiistim C'o. I. til.) VANCOUVER American Standard 29s Bratorne 6.10 E R X 05 "2a Cariboo Quartz 1 25 Congress 08 Giant Mascot 96 Indian Mines 24!4 Pend Oreille 9.35 Pioneer 2.00 Premier Border .32 Pnvateer 07 Rc?ves McDonald 6.50 Sheep Cfeek 1.65 Silbak Premier 56 Taku River 07 Vi Vananda 15 Salmon Gold 03 Spud Valtoy 24a- Silver Standard 2 60 Western .Uranium 4.10s Cronin Babine 52s Oils-Anglo Canadian 8 15a A P Con :50s Calmont 1.72s C : E 14 10 Central Leduc 2 50 Okalta 2.78 Pacific Pete 12.00 Royal Canadian 17 TORONTO Smithers and Prince Rupert Young Men Meet At Terrace after Driving over "Terrible" Road , To seek immediate confirmation of action on hard-surfacing and general upkeep of Highway 16, a delegation of Jaycees from Smithers and Prince .Rupert Junior of Chamber bodies will travel to Vic Tribute Paid in Remembrance Of War Dead-Civilians Indifferent House Backs Up Denationalizing t eve o. of rrwiuunaiana her departure.1'0'1 P,- ,., 4 the u, white , liner ,. :ind, Princess Elizabeth! As It was. big .v night that Canada was forced t0 makc lls way fm her second home "in its ancliorage and find a spot in I the lee of Belle Island so the ' transler of Princess Elizabeth iv Her Royal Highncfs ' .--ii'ir husband received and lnp Dukc of Edinburgh could I'd, ,bc madc ln safety- me of the heartiest, 1 "f their 15.000-mllel The tender Maneto, which took "4 : im- from this oldest the party to the liner's side at jp North America. I noon Monday, got a terrific bat-p?. (!iu address, the Prin- j tcrlng hum the sea enroute but t'1''.. wherever she and the Princess proved once again !' li'-en through the ten he was llie wlfe ancl daughter we have been wel- of a sailor for her first words th warmth of heart that' aboard the liner were: us Icel t-uly we belong "Could we have our lunch 1' ' i soon? We havvn't eaten yet." ' ieves War inevitable Chilly rain Sunday morning forced indoors Prince Rupert's toria. I " LONDON (CP) The House of r.m. .nnriiiii,. nt ihn moin province, " added Mr. Williams, observance of tha thirty-third hiuhunu from Prinep Rnnert. t.i A resolution was passed by the anniversary of the armistice Commons last night upheld Prince George "deplorable" a meeting, following advice-from which ended World War 1 and Prime Minister Churchill s de- ioint meeting of Smithers and Walter T. Burns, president of which has now become the occa- cision to denationalize the steel Rupert Javcees at Terrace Sun- tne Associated Boards of Cen- sion of remembrance for those industry in Britain next year, day voted a resolution to this tral B- c- tnat the Associated who laid down their lives in that The government had a majority ef tect , Boards would be asked to cor- and subsequent conflicts. ot 39- Gordon Williams regional relal'e aaia. on mgnways in uieir - rresn snow on nearDy moun- vlce-president, led the discus- """jcis wnn wnicn 10 arm ine lain lops rani an aimospnere oi Huge Red Army Ready Col. Crockett, Formerly 'l mini uw , oj ini. Intent on Agtsressmn sion on highway conditions. "There is no reason why we should tolerate the consistent negative attitude 01 the government in respect to this highway. The traffic is heavy and ve need a better grade of road if Central and Northern B.C. is to develop," he said. Prince Rupert members who travpllpH hv pqi- t.n TprMpp 1 flfl ucirBaiiun. piuou! eatjuc auiruuHiy iv me uaj. Delegation will seek for an im- j it was raining hard as 100 or mediate answer to a request on more ex-service people and mem-paving the Prince Rupert-Ter- bers of the Women's Auxiliary of race stretch and the Smithers- the Canadian Legion paraded Telkwa area, and will ask for from Legion headquarters to further action to continue pav- civic CJntre for the service, but lng "until Highway 16 is com-' by the time the ceremonies there pleted." concluded, the rain had ceased. Mr. Burns assured Jaycees of) The parade then moved to the the support of the Associated cenotaph for the placing of Clashes at Paris Meet many poppy wreaths. miles east, told of the "terrible foards; wlm he would contact condition" of the highway "so immediately. White the service men about Could Muster Nearly Fifteen Million Men In Sixty Days LONDON '(T Within 60 days of outbreak of war, Russia could field 14,800',000 well-armed troops'. This estimate of Soviet military power was contained in the latest publication of Brassey's annual armed services year book released Monday. This manual says there ara now 2.800,000 Russians under a'ms and at any moment another 12,000,000 or more trained men could be mobilized to the ranks of these regulars. It estimates it would take two months to place them ln fighting condition. full of potholes it made driving over 20 miles an hour 'actually dangerous' besides causing one's car to become "a total wreck." In many places seepage from the mountain sides has eaten intn the rnnri hpH ihpf.nn.sp. t.Vipre Iran Getting U.S. Advance f Flag Canada " hy Young Liberals l""i. on Combined "!"1 lairn Aid J VER (P.The national M the Young Liberal ' f Canada Saturday ;f,'l Canada should Ji -istinctive flag" and ,T a a Proposed design "'r "'solutions which ,2?," r"11 of a three-day ., i,'ates asked for "r officials of corpora-T'd guilty under the !c'-. independent con-T'10 and television in-,X''nadian Broadcasting f a'"i aid for prairie crops are hard hit f th's year. f suggest a four- jo combat rising cost "i rejected a resolution diplomatic recognl-J'tnunist China. Is nn rirairmcro h enlvort.s WASHINGTON P The Inter Athona - .09V2b ' Aumaque .24b Seattle 22'2 Bcvrouft .55b Buffalo Canadian 20 Consol. Smelters 174.00 Conwest ; 3.65 Donalda 38b Eldona 18b East Sullivan 9.55b Giant Yellowknife 10.75 God's Lake 36b Hardrock 11 Harricana 08 Heva lib Jacknife 07b Jolwt Quebec .44b Little Long Lac 76b Lvnx 12b Madsen Red Lake 2.12b McKenzie Red Lake .... ,48b McLcod Cockshutt 2.80b Moneta 33b Negus 70b Noranda 82.75 Louvicourt 32, Pickle Crow 172 San Antonio 2.60b Senator Rouyn 17b Sherrit Gordon 3.90 Steep Rock 7.15 Silver Miller 1.35 Upper Canada 1.60 Golden Manitou 7.25 Veteran of two world wars, in the first of which he was a lieutenant and In t!w second a brigadier-general. Col. J. J. Crockett oi Tennessee was in the city on Monday aboard the Princess Louise bound for Juneau where he is to become assistant director of civilian defence for the territory of Alaska. Col. Crockett has also seen extensive service abroad as an ambassadorial military attache. For four years prior to 1948 he was assistant military attache to the United States embassy in Moscow. He has very pronounced opinions as to the aggressive intentions of Soviet Russia to establish Communism throughout the World. Col. Crockett is quite frankly convinoed that the , economic, po local anu psychological warfare now being waged by Russia will inevitably develop into a shooting war. Crises such as those ln Korea, Germany and Egypt could quite easily be the spark to kindle World' War III at any time. eaually divided between the veterans of two great wars with at least one of the South African campaign it was a disappointing showing Indeed on the part of the civilians. It was the smallest number vet. Organizations which at one time participated were conspicuous by their absence. In Revelations Chapter 19, Verse 6, "The Lord God Omnipotent Reigns," Rev. Fred Antro-bus found hope for the preservation of justice and peace in the troubled and perplexed world. The pastor bespoke remembrance not only for the fallen of Where the road runs parallel to;natlonal Monetary Fund has de-the Skeena River, the riverside , 1 lded to 8rant hard-pressed Iran 1 $8,750,000 credit to offset a fin- edge is being eroded often to a point to allow only single lane ;ll,,,a causca oy loss ui icrcimc, si, was learuea muuuay traffic. FARIS The Soviet Union today ran Into a series of rebuffs in the United Nations General Assembly. The Assembly refused to consider giving China's seat to the Peiping Communists, agreed to take up the western plan design---d as the first step in reuniting Germany and decided to consider the Jugoslav complaint against hostile Soviet actions. Andre Vishinsky, the Soviet foreign minister, who clashed violently with United States Secretary of State Dean Acheson, bitterly charged Yugoslavia with "selling out to the American capitalists."- Vishinsky declared that the German problem was r.or.e of the assembly's business. night. siuiir.K3 iiiiiiwiii j Informed fund officials who Smithers Jaycees were as crit- disclosed this said the money Is leal about the stretch of high- urgently needed by Iran to help way they drove to the district it buy food and raw materials, meeting, citing many instances Premier Mohammed Mossa- the wars but those who had suf Peron is Returned BUENOS AIRES (CP) Argentina returned President Juan D. Peron to another six years' power in a record-breaking election which gave him a thumping majority over his main opposition, the radical party. where "streams of water have degh's financial experts negotia- j fered in many ways in the con-eaten their way through the , ted the loan during the Iranian filet against tyranny and lust highway." leader's current round of talks for power. - "And the stretch from Smith- here with state department offi-1 "We should be thankful for doers to Telkwa Is about the worst clals on the Anglo-Iranian oil liverance of preservation of our road there is eny where in the crisis. 'Continued on page 8)