PHOViN'wIAL PROVINCIAL LI33A3T, 113 A VICT 231 -I, C. Daily v NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLOMBIA'S NEWSPAPER veryj STAR V "ADS Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Greot Northwest" n 4i)0 DISPATCHED VOL. XXXX, No. 3 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1951 PRICe FIVE CENTS Phone 81 i Mm wmm sill m mm Head B.C. Coming Jaycee W)is qtaayw ,mm.i 'own " mw" w4.i urn. -.iuhim.m ater Landing Af Reds Aiming U.N. Forces To Drive Into Sea Canadians To Go Into Action igby Is Sought Newspaper Has Blaze Fire Visits Plant of Vancouver Province . ' VANCOUVER. Fire visited the plant of the Vancouver A contract i ut ullc ' Crawley for transportation ui iooI children from Dlgby Is-,j t Prince Rupert was ap- Deteriorating Situation in Korea Will Result in Earlier Vse of Princess Pats TORONTO Oi The Toronto ,ved ,at last mgnts meeting Province yesterday afternoon i ih k.-hool boaru wun minor imts from a aran prepareu Star said today in a Tokyo dispatch that Canadian troops are "expected to go into action much Trustee A. Bruce Brown. nunss on on me a"""1 On, Korean West Coast Forcc3 Protecting Key Port of Seoul Are Now Taking to Ships INCHON, Korea (CP) United Nations force, protecting this supply pert west of Seoul, withdrew by sea tonight while r.aval guns shelled the path of the approaching Reds. Even as men and equipment were still pouring aboard ships, Army demolition experts were setting off thunderous charges that and den.se smoke drove the staff out of the building, necessitating the final edition for the day being run off the presses of the nearby rival Vancouver Sun. The blaze did total damage of $103,-000, including $50,000 of Province newsprint, as tentatively esti nf arct'sa to me ierry at earlier than expected as a result of the fall of Seoul and the swift advance of the Chinese Communists." floats at Dlgby Island with pquent danger while load-aiio unloading passengers Itvniir-H'itfilil imirtl ftiiiii.riiY in i fir T in T ' i the board to instruct u:e Canadians in Korea were las: roported training at Muryang. a town about 27 miles northwest mated by officials of the fire,' department. ' j The lire originated In the retary to write the puDiic ,rk.s department asking lor equate landing space for the ' ... . I t of Pusan. They are the Second Battalion, Princess Patricia's I I ... I Canadian Light Infantry. left railway yards and docking It was staled Dy Trustee j. Prince Rupert Jaycees will be host tomorrow to their regional president for British Columbia, R. J. (Bob! Innes of Kamlojps, coming here In the course of a province-wide tour of Junior Chambers. Mr. Innes is arriving on tonight's train after visiting Prince George and Smithers and will leave by plane Saturday for Vancouver. Mr. Innes will be remembered by local Jaycees as facilities In flaming ruins. Early Friday the evacuation was reported complete. Troops who were boarding mdsen that boats were usua-ticd up two or three deep and was necessary for passengeis cross two or more boats while .barking and disembarking. North Vancouver Boy's Body Found Sea Harvest In 1950 Is Higher basement newsprint storeroom of the Province and spread to a nearby hotel which was burned out, sending 70 roomers into the street. It took three hours to bring the conflagration under control. The fire chief said the smoke was the thickest he had ever ex--perienced. Firemen had to work In and out In relays. Forty-five were Injured and 1 went to hospital for treatment. ships were for the most part OTTAWA K The size an:1 NORTH VANCOUVER. value of sea fish catches on the Twelve-year-old Norman Field; men whose job it had been to keep the port operating to handle Allied supplies. More than ten thousand were moved out tonight (Thursday) when the rescue Job was still on. a brilliantly garbed and bearded Kamloops delegate to the provincial convention which was Herring Set Atlantic and Pacific coasts increased sharply In the first eleven months of 1950, the Bureau ers, missing since last Sunday when he said he was going to hike up Orouse Mountain, was found dead by a survey party The smoke forced the Prov- NEW TORONTO BUILDING The British American Oil Co. has erected an eight-storey reinforced concrete building standing at the corner of Bay and College Streets, Toronto. It is the permanent home of more than 650 employees of Head Office and Central Region the Ontario sales organization. Building dimensions are approximately 215 feet by 110 feet enclosing 2,500,000 cubic feet of space. The structure consists of a basement, ground floor mezzanine, six full floors and penthouse. Flexibility and adaptability are the keynotes and careful planning has ensured that every foot of space is utilized to the full. The building allows the whole of B-A's Toronto office staff to operate under one roof for the first time in a number of years. The closer co-ordination achieved will permit greater efficiency and more economical operation. The four top floors and the penthouse are ' occupied by B-A, other building tenants include James Lovick and Co., Advertising; The Continental Casualty Co.; The Bank of Toronto; Massie and Renwick, Insurance; Sun Life Assurance Company; The Agricultural Loans Division of the Ontario Government; and Murray's Restaurants. of Statistics reported yesterday. Since yesterday Chinese ' ince staff out of their shop. n Harbor hordes have seized abandoned; Flames swept quickly through and fire-gutted Seoul, smashing the four-storey Parks Hotel after near the new Capllano dam. ice said the likely cause of death held in Prince Rupert in 1949. . Mr. Innes is a 35-year-old Vancouver born tr,d educated businessman. A one-time B.C. Provincial Police constable, he now is commercial manager of radio station CFJC at Kamloops, and also is co-owner of a store in that city. He has been a Jaycee enthu Prince Rupert Fishermen's, Co-1 wai exposure tneir way across tne irozen Han River to battle retreating Allied forces west of the former ;,crative is richer by 12 tons of lne, ",e uu Landings in the period totalled 1.209.484.000 pounds valued at $62,859,000. In the corresponding period of 1949 the catch was 1.109,639,000 pounds valued at $50,285,000. On the Pacific Coast landings in November totalled 118.736,000 pounds valued at $3,293,000 coin- ,it as the. result of a herring j - ' t'nlZ erupting from the Province basement adjoining. Quests fled blindly from tha hotel but none was Injured. Seven hundred rolls of news-' print were stacked in the Province basement. it made off the eastern ena oi ; ; " - . ', e CNR dock by the seiner Old- -"" ,j d.,, d thi. Mountain on the north shore South Korean capital. The Reds were moving swiftly in a giant pincers movement aimed at shoving United Nations troops into the Yellow Sea of Burrard Inlet. irnlng. It was the first her pared with 91,932.000 pounds s.i g seining in Prince Rupert The lad was the son of Mrs. Cyril McLellan. $1,820,000 the year earlier. Chum The 72-room hotel was gutted. Editorial employees and pressmen stayed on as long as they tht salmon and herring were ten years. in- to the The Oldfield, with the Spar, siast for years. He has held all the offices in his parent club, Kamloops, which he helped to re-organize after World War II. During his visit here Mr. Innes will confer with Geoff Hill, local president,' and Vern Ardagh, regional vice-president. Friday main contributors Lumberinq And Waterpower could. They dashed into the At Inchon, Seoul's big port 18 miles to the west. Allied road blocks are under attack and the Reds, in estimated battalion strength, crossed the Han and were fighting Unit crease. pt. Bab Walker, acting as tow boat, started pursing in her olf the Armour Salvage Com- ny shortly before 9 a.m. The Further Rcmgnd In Murder Case smoke-filled building for about 20 minutes at a stretch to run off bits of the story in relays. The Province was operating normally again today on its own premises. . , . ,. I evening there will be a special ed Nations units one mile west irse was completed off the Harold Rvan, charged with tho of Seoul, said field reports. stern end of the CNR dock at out 10 45 Capt. E. Petersen Re-Education China Has Big Purge Thousands Belnj Executed Or Suffering Mental or Physical Torture Developments Hitting Fish OTTAWA (CP Lumbering and waterpower developments re. decreasing the spawning hod for British. Columbia salmon, the Fisheries Research Board of Canada was told at its annual meeting here today. Dr. J. L. Hart, director of the Pacific Biological Station, said at the Board's annual meeting the two factors were creating a new long-range problem of fisheries conservation on the west 'coast. , Jaycee dinner meeting to be addressed by Mr. Innes and at which members, friends, civic officials and local business men, including delegates from the he Kanawaku was standing to pick up the catch. US. Not at War Other Reds are in contact two miles west of the city. General MacArthur said at Tokyo today that four, and possibly seven, Chinese armies (corps), numbering about 120,-00O men, plus two North Korean murder of Larraine Talt; Tt'bfwe body was recovered from the harbor at Port Simpson December 23, appeared for preliminary hearing in magistrate's court this morning. He was remanded for eight days pending further investigation by RCMP. ' Bystanders, nearly all land-tibers, thought there were actically no herring In the r.et Prince-Rupert Chamber of Commerce, will be present. An executive meeting will follow the dinner. - there was no activity Inside it hile the purse was being made Communist corps, were driving toward Wonju, 55 miles south Although commercial fishlnT HONO KONQ 0 Press reports said today that "thou r herring is banned until noon east of abandoned Seoul. Hospital Insurance Is Going Up sands" have been executed xt Sunday, it is permissible to ih for bait. Not Intending To Bomb China WASHINGTON, D.C. (CP) President H. S. Truman said today that United States forces will not bomb China without United Nations sanction. He made this .clear at a press con Pilot's Skill Saved Lives CHICAGO 0! Forty-nine persons were saved today by skilful work of the pilot who made Woman Flown To Hospifal within the last two months inside Communist China. Thousands more re reported undergoing mental and physical rigors of newly-formed "re-education" camps which are springing up throughout the country, lanrelv In south China. ' Lily Swept By 510,000,000 Fire Flying here from Stewart for ference in which he again ex a forced landing oi a u-w au- COST OF LIVING INDEX UP AGAIN OTTAWA. The cost of living index reached a new all-time high on December 1, the Bureau of Statistics announced today. It hit 171.6, an advance of .4 from November 1. pressed hope that a third world iiner minutes after take-off. The program Is believed aimed at all dissident elements. Premiums May Go Above $36, Present Ceiling VICTORIA OH Hospital Insurance premiums may be increased at the coming session of the legislature beyond the $36 ceiling now in effect, Hon. A. D. Turnbull, minister of health, said today. Asked if it was a fact that the Increase was to be left to the Legislature meant it would be over the $36 ceiling, the minister said! "That Is possible." At present premiums are $33 for persons with dependents and EVANSVILLE, Indiana ! -ire swept by stiff winds roared trough eight buildings In the war can be avoided this year, j AH 49 walked or were taken The President satd there was, to safety seconds before two no intention of bombing China1 gasoline tanks exploded and the School Color Scheme Decided : General Business at Session of Board Last Night" After hearing the comments of Principal A. H. Hurst and the teachers of Booth Memorial High School on the color scheme for the new building, the school board, in regular session iast night, approved them and recommended they be sent to the architect with the board's backing. In reply to a communication from Sharpe and Thompson, Berwick Pratt regarding the unsuitable y of a color scheme presented by Glidden Paint Company, the secretary was instruc ntral business district of this since the United States was not ty today. Damage is estimated t more than $10,000,000. big craft burst into names. Three persons suffered minor Injuries. The plane landed in an open field after it failed to gain alti Flu Hits Liverpool medical attention was Mrs. R. Audette aboard the regular run of Norman Jermyn's Queen Charlotte Airlines' plane today. Mrs. Audette, who was accompanied by her daughter, Miss R. Gibson, was until recently living In Prince Rupert. She was taken to the Prince Rupert General Hospital by city ambulance this afternoon. Three firemen were slightly ijured. Two hundred firemen me from this and surround officially at war and, in the action in Korea, was merely living up to its United Nations obligation to combat aggression. Asked when United States might declare war, Mr. Truman quickly rejoined that that was Europe Must Sacrifice Too tude following take-off from ing communities to assist in Midway Airport while enroute to Newark, New Jersey. $21 for single persons. anting the flames. The fire swept through some LIVERPOOL 9i An epidemic of influenza disrupted Liverpool shlDDlnir today and the harbor f the largest buildings in the something which would be de is lammed with ships waiting "wniown area. Also aboard the plane was a elded when the appropriate time for berths. traDDer. J. Lehto. ' came It is estimated that 30 per Train Hits Car, Woman Is Killed WASHINGTON, DC. The democracies of Europe must make sacrifies equal to those of the United States if they are to receive American military support, declared General Dwight P. Eisenhower as he prepared today fo leave for Europe to as , THE WEATHER Synopsis Cold air still covers the interior of the province and overnight temperatures fell to 15 below zero or colder in several points in Central British Columbia. Some moderation is ex cent of Liverpool working peopleIncluding 3000 dockers are in bed with 'flu. Most of the cases are described as mild. "fe Strikes s 'ood Victims ST. JEAN BAPTISTE, Mall. 'urlnB the Red River flood last Pnng, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur La- MISSION. Mrs. Albert Reim- (Courtesy 8. I. Johnston Co. Ltd.) er of Mission Is dead of injuries sustained when an automobile ted to write the company informing them to deal directly with the architects. A further recommendation by Mr. Hurst regarding putting the ventilating fan under the stage in order to provide more space in the wings was also heard. The secretary was Instructed to write to Mr. Melanson of Sharpe and Thompson, Berwick Pratt asking him to discuss the matter with Mr. Sangster, architect's was hit by a train between Mis sume his duties as commander of Atlantic Pact forces in Eu-; rope. I Eisenhower loaves Saturday ; and will visit various Atlantic 'rnie experienced loss. It was wessary to worlt all summer sion and Matsqui. The woman's husband and other man were fid fall repairing flood damage. pected in most of these areas during the next 24 to 48 hours. Cloudiness is general over the southern interior and along the coast. Light snow fell in the in Seattle-Portland Visited by Gale PORTLAND. A gale that swept Astoria Tuesday and Wednesday was so violent that some Jii New Years mnrnlnir the injured. Pact country capitals to see that ousc burned to the ground. there is no working at cross Bevcourt ' .41 Bobjo 12 Buffalo Canadian 24"2 Consol. Smelters ........ 128.00 Conwest 1 90 Donalda .46 Eldona ; 22 East Sullivan 7.50 Giant Yellowknlfe 6.00 God's Lake 39 Vi BUSH POET terior and in tne lower scg and he expects t0 be Valley. Rain was more general , ba(;k , he UnHed stateg b th8 on the southern coast but snow January. 1 lha POST. oeoDle had to resort to crawuus Kendall, famous Aus- representative on the joo, before Henry tralian poet who died in 1882, 'Mr. Sangster returns to Prince Attention Elks also uccurieu aiuii), coast of Vancouver Island. There was known as the "Poet of the Rupert near the middle of the on hands and knees, if they hoped to reach where they wished to go. In Seattle two women were blown off their feet. Pueet Sound waves threatened was an in- month. BOURNEMOUTH, England will be no very marked change Bash" because he spector of forests. 'here will be an important (Continued on page 6) (CP) Adolph Robins, 64, U.S. comedian known as the "Banana i ""uing of all mpmheri onf to undermine two homes south in general conditions in the next 24 to 48 hours but another rather weak disturbance is moving into the Gulf of Alaska and lnay, January 7, at 2:30 IP m. Grand Exalted Ruler will! of the city. Man," died here just before opening" a new pantomime. iHs is expected to bring some light J specialty was to produce unlimi- present. rain to the nortnern coast w RICH MINES NOTICE ted quantities of bananas from Plate of meeting will be VANCOUVER American Standard 28 Bralorne 5.90 B. R. X 04 Cariboo Quartz 1.10 Congress 08 Hedley Mascot 48 ''2 Pend Oreille 8.70 Pioneer 1.96 Premier Border 07 Reeves McDonald 4.35 Reno 02 Sheep Creek 1.27 Sllbak Premier 274 Vananda 10 Salmon Gold 02 Spud Valley 03 Silver Standard 2.70 Western Uranium 1.30 OILS Anglo Canadilan 4.90 A. P. Con 38 Atlantic 2.60 Calmont 90 C. & E 7-60 Central Leduc 2.25 Home Oil 14-2f., ; Mercury .12'i Okalta 205 Pacific Pete - 8.00 Princess 1.60 Royal Canadian .09 Royalite 12.50 MansorVs Jewellers his baggy pockets. In Saturda y'sf Nickel and cobalt ores are frequently found together In D.nnlllnH mlnat tnmiit.lmu nniTl" 1 announce Paper. I blned with manganese. HOCKEY SCORES National New York 5. Detroit 3 Pacific Coast New Westminster 2, Seattle morrow. Little precipitation is; expected in the southern areas, j Forecast North Coast Region Cloudy over the Queen Charlottes today with occasional showers of mixed rain and snow along the eastern slopes. A few clouds along the northern mainland and cloudy over northern Vancouver Island. Increasing cloudiness over the entire area tonigiit with intermittent rain beginning In t!e early morning. Not quite Hardrock 21 Harricana X)7'2 Heva .07 Hosco 05' 4 Jacknife 05'4 Joliet Quebec 83 Lake Rowan 06l4 Lapaska 04'zi Little Long Lac 58 Lynx 12 yi Madsen Red Lake 2.15 McKenzie Red Lake 42 McLeod Cockshutt 2.03 Moneta Negus .71 Noranda 73.(0 Louvicourt 21 Pickle Crow 1.56 San Antonio 2.38 Senator Rouyn lft'i Sherrit Gordon 3.15 Steep Rock 7.90 Sturgeon River 15 Silver Miller 89 Upper Canada 1.65 Golden Manltou : 6.15 ANNUAL JANUARY CLEARANCE Sale On Now! VALU ES GALORE The smart shopper will take advantage o! this saie DON'T DELAY HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY Goine starts 8:30 p.m. Doors open 7:45 p.m. Rush teats $1.00 and Student tickets 50c still available Unclaimed Reservations will be sold 3 p.m afternoon of each game TORONTO so cold tonight. Winds light today, increasing to southerly (15) overnight. Lows tonight and highs Friday Port Hardy, 35 and 40; Sandspit, 33 and 40; Prince Rupert, 30 and 40. .073 Friday, January 5, 1951 High 10:52 22.0 feet Low 4:43 89 feet 17:50 2.7 feet Athona Aumaque - 24 Beattle - 55