PROVINCIAL -.. 1L ORMES 8 mm DRUGS -v. 'h - A. .S. DAILY DELIVERY NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER ItaR V v Published at Canada's Most Strotegic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" Phone 81 v. i V H. VOL. XL, No. 196 PRINCE RUPERT. B.C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1951 PRICE FIVE CENTS " -W . I iQpirjrnimn ffl rished mm V ', -r 1 I Canyon Oriof in U , camf MCt Ala,ka (CP- A v a d-alh , cai.yu" piU Oku Hudso.. li, Hudson's smashed r:. Kainsl a canyon Specific Proposals By Mossadegh Lacking Margaret Showered With Gifts Russia in on Pearl Harbor Plan Communist Spy Ring Influenced Sneok Attack WASHINGTON ff-A Japanese official swore Monday that a Communist spy ring helped to Influence Japan to attack United States in Second World War and had tipped off Russia before Pearl Harbor that plans would bear fruit. This testimony was given by Mltsusado Yoshikawa, director of tpecial Investigations (or Japan's attornev-eeneral at miles unity-live Earthquake j TEHRAN (CP) Britain's repre-: sentative exploded a surprise in j the British-Iranian oil talks to-j day by withdrawing Britain's proposal for settlement of the ! grave dispute. A brief statement ; Irom the- British embassy gave ' no hint as to vThether taiks had officers i BALMORAL (CP) Princess Margaret, vivacious sweetheart of the British Commonwealth, came of age today. Her 21st birthday was greeted by Britons VbU crt- tlon t. Isol-j surprise meeting of the senate internal security sub-committee. Yoshikawa, speaking through an interpreter, said that he learned the story from the confession of Richard Sorge, head of spy ling, hanged in 1943 for espionage by Japanese. In Hawaii everywhere but the celebration j I at Balmoral Castle was a quiet ! HONOLULU r: An earthquake 1J( tv lid,.-' I '" m-it-i-iii rrc dead. , ..i i.. Ain loi -pmil last Wed- mH-I'J" anJ ,m l"rce ;n l.mor 'R"di W 1-to IC'ii-agc iiona, I i and Steven. j k srrnr is m." ted to actually broken down. One source said that it appeared the chief British negotiator, Richard R. Stokes, was try to force Premier Mohammed Mossadegh to advance specific counter-proposals to the British offer. The previous offer provided for the setting up of a new iamuy anair. present, . teie- knocked down some buildings g'ams and letters' showered on and cracked a highway in Kona-the princess. Gifts ranged down- coast area of volcanic Hawaii ward from an automobile with i island today. Police said that value reaching possibly $200,000. first reports of quake indicated Grandmother Queen Mary; that no one was Injured. The telephoned from Sandringham, i.mild tremor was felt in elevated Combines Report May End Fixed Retail Price i,. .it Ctffk. wnere sne is holidaying, court i areas of Honolulu about 1 a m circles reported her gift to the j Hawaii Island, southeast of here, i Purchasing agency and what Iveland princess was a diamond tiara, ur largest of the Hawaiian Island The king and queen gave an-: group. ! OTTAWA 0 The four-man sinner who makes decisions on ! MarQuarrlc committee .nearlng .nvcstlgatlons and who has auth- nn end to year-long deliberations orlty to make anti-combine , on Canada's combine laws, may recommendations to the Justice otner pearl lor her matched string. Princess Margaret and Elizabeth each get a pearl a year j ns Again Hurricane amounted to a virtual 50-50 split in oil profits. NEW OFFER Later, Stokes said that he had given the Iranians until tomorrow noon to accept a new plan which would cover employment of Britons in the oil refinery at Abadan. "If the Iranians don't accept, there's nothing left for me but to go home," he said. from their parents. The king and queen also gave Margaret ecommend m tne government minister. hat Canada should halt the &)n,, cxperts beUeve that practice whereby a product's re- tne rwalc prlce maintenance tall price Is sometimes maintain- prac,lce u elmlnated by federal ed at the manufacturer's re- iaw, t mlgnt lnvlle tha pn. 5,"s'" ! ltv of a nrice war nmnnu retail a pair of turquoise bracelets and luter this week they will give I her a sporty green car. i In Mexico I The committee headed by Mr. store,, perhaps a miniature! Justice J. H. MaeQuarrle of the sample of the big price war that! Nova Scotia Supreme Court has raged ln the Vnited gMvi nme CI1Y REMEMBERS Mayor Garnet Coulter of Winnipeg presents Brig. R. E. A. Morton, who directed the Army's operations during the disastrous 1950 Winnipeg floods, with a plaque on behalf of the city. While Brig. Morton directed relief operations In Winnipeg, his brother, MaJ.-Gen. R. O. O. Morton, directed relief work at fire-swept Rimouskl, Que. (CP PHOTOi Jet Crash-Eleven Die MEXICO CITY (CP) Reforti-fied tropical hurricane with 130-mile-an-hour wind stormed through southwest Gulf of Mexico today toward central Mexican coast and its oil field. Overnight it had regained most of the force with which it had raked Jamaica last Friday and Submarine Collision . md Detroit Split i-gudrr fORK 'CP' Four home wnd Cleveland Indians victory .uv Wellington il.m'.ay .-..slit in Wic i in 18-came home : uif lube. The Clve-ory. a present for man-U'pra mi his lo.ty-ihlrd uirreasid the Tribes :w pUre to a full game Y irk Ya;.kee.i. who muolPli'ader In Dctnill lot DiMagiio an 1 ra. couple of old New nry playi'rs. smashed in te!een them as Yan-i"d the s 'cnnd game of .; doublehiuder frjm :s. The sp.'omi-plli -it it th' first fame 6-3. I FORT DIX, N.J. H A jet i training plane, fighting for altl-i tude, roared into a truck full of took 155 lives. Along Mexico's tropical east- oeen cuureniraiing on me proo-1 months ago. lem of retail price maintenance ' as one aspect of a long-range U.S. PRICE WAR study to find means to tighten! The US. light, concentrated combines legislation. mostly in New York, was Ignited Its recommendations, perhaps' bv a BuPre Court decision including one one to convert the that non-signers of an agnee-comblnes commission from a one- '"t. to keep retail prices of man show into a board of two or Proo,lcl moving in lnter-state three members, likely will be , trade at fixpd lPveU' dld not have prepared and sent to Justice Min-1 10 8blde bv that agreement. Ister Oarson next October. The Prices of quality merchandise committee's report then would were cut Immediately. One New l.keiy be tabled in the House of , York store began to compete with Commons almost Immediately, j another and the result was that Under the Act, the Combines aome f"t were sold at half-Commtftslon Is made up of the price. Buyers stormed the stores commissioner and two deputies, in search of bargains. Train Passes Over Small Squamish Boy soldiers at Edge McGuire air j 'country's Vera c the two ibasc Monday killing eleven tnen !bi t took precautions. ! and Injuring twenty-two. South Koreans The plane bounced off the truck and plowed into woods where soldrers were training. Both truck and plane caught fire. Army authorities said that the VANCOUVER Small son of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Patterson of Squamish is in a serious condition in hospital here after the harrowing experience of having HMCS Artful and Fishing Vessel Hit Off Nova Scotia HALIFAX, N.S. (CP) British submarine Artful, sister ship nf Affray, which sank several ; months ago with loss of all 1 aboard, collided with a Nova : Scotia fishing vessel off Locke-I port today. Apparently, there was no serious damage to either t craft.; . - --.- The Artful rammed Into the ! fishing vessel Edith Eva. Tile wouden fishing vessel remained afloat and was being towed to Lockeport 100 miles south of Hitting Hard but In practice It Is the commls- two air force officers, in. , the isures to a Pacific Great Eastern Railway (pane were killed H. K v -A 0 i - x v". V K ; w ... - , . 3 1 i Y " ' W ' "" t I . ' -t ' - ( V . 4 ,4" 1 r , ! - .. . : !- . r 0 jr i 'i - ? ". I v - " i X t ? "-4 VvT "I.. J ;.' ' . - ' i j , '" " t i ; -1 TOKYO (CP) South Korean' Eight soldiers died of the more I troops attacked strongly held Mine Output Record High VICTORIA British Columbia's mineral production, valued at $148,155,060 in 1950, Is the second hlRhest on record. The high mark was set In 1948 with a valire of $152,524,752. In a review of the mining Industry In 1950, the annual report engine pass over him as he lay between tine tracks. Extent of Injuries is not yet known. re Wheat Hearing Rape-Murder Case than fifty who were in the clear- ridges north of Yanggu behind ing where the 9th Division has 'curtain artillery fire today but! an outdoor training school. They made little headway. j had Just finished the day's work. I Front line dispatches reported ; (Contli.ued on paga 6i Union Ships Doing Better VANCOUVER Union Stcam- 'M-J C. Lessard. cleo- ..ter I transport, who Halifax. The crew was taken aboard another vessel. The cause of the crash is not i South Korean troops seized one i known but some witnesses said hill but were swept off two oth-1 making a special inves- nt th uIk.1 ,l,knnw SEOUL (CP) Three Canadian . .... n.l.UL aill.Wl,H , . ,, , .... . that the plane was on fire before it crashed. the Great Lakes said "wltuJe"' cnar8ea Pe St. Laurent Not Retiring it he is awaiting word ships Company of B.C. and sub- of Mines Minister R. C. MacDon-sidiaries report a net profit of ! aid shows that zinc production $22,828 for the year ended Janu- 1 was of greatest value, iat $48,-ary 31, 1951, ! 882,765. Metals and sulphur, dp- 1 rtveA from lode-mlnlng The company sublsdlarres are opera-Union Estates Limited and Frank tlons. accounted for more than 85 Waterhousc & Co. They operate a Pr cent of the total value, fleet of 15 passenger and freight Base metal prices Increased Canadian Wheat Board rr.ui h grain is to be j 'ssary, some Iron and I W'lits may be held up ; ships to handle grain. ! inuiuri, will R jycii uriuic courtmartlal at Canadian Field Punishment Camp tomorrow. The accused are Pte. Glen Ro-lan Blank, Winnipeg ; Pte. Donald Michael Gibson, Ottawa; and Pte. Alan Roy Montgomery Davis, Vancouver. The alleged offencea took place March 17 at Chungwoon In Kyong province, and Involved the death of a Korean man. The man was reported killed when soldiers threw a handgrenade into the house after three women had been attacked. OTTAWA It Is unlikely thai Ft, me M nister L. S. St. Laurent will announce his retirement on his seventieth birthday ln February as some had been expect-, ng. He is enjoying excellent health. carriers, and three resorts at about midsummer, reflecting the Terrace-Kitimat Road Surveying H. M. Buncombe, chief engineer for Kitimat Constructors, and party have arrived here to start surveys of the road which will be built from. Terrace to Kitimat In connection with the Alcan development. A second party is working north from Kitimat and a third will be in the centre. Aider Is reluming to ai the Prince Rupert i 1 ti sht alter spending , f k here on business. ! :,pri a contract to Greer ! n for improvement work ,lnt of the Alder Block, i ers by Red counter-attacks. The Artful was cruising on the On the east-central front bat-! surface in light fog when the ties raged throughout the day i accident occurred. The submar-northeast and northwest of ! ine is on a training trip from Yanggu. . j Glasgow, Scotland, and the USA. Canadian Efficiency Medal Awarded Capt. H. C Flood A veteran of the First World War who served the Canadian Army "faithfully and with merit'' for more than 20 years has been awarded the Canadian Efficiency Decoration medal here and Capt. H. C. Flood says the medal "brings back a host of memories." " 7 Now In charge of the naval fuel j was "seemingly all over for me-depot ln Prince Rupert, Capt. j at least so everyone thought,' but recalls today that he told Flood came here five years ago ! to teach school and for two years ! the Kings surgeon. "I can t af-taught health and physical edu- i 'rd to die-I've got a wife and cation at Booth Memorial High . fo"r children." School, where 13-year-old son j it was nearly two years later, Dick now is a student. j after a hard fought siege in the The soldier's teachnig days go ; Third General Hospital, London, back a long way for, with time j that the athlete, whose physical out from the active Army, he m-owess had paid off, walked out Korean war and the rearmament j program. Canadian price for i gold recovered late In the year j when the dollar was freed, but 1 remained below the previous fix- i ed price of $38.50. The 1950 j average price for gold in Canada, I ' however, was higher than the 1949 average, the rerjort said. i More placer gold was recovered ; ln 1950 than In the previous year, j 19.134 crude ounces compared! ' with 17.886 In 1949. Quantity of Forest Closure Being Resumed abine River Slide Bowen Island, Sechelt and Whytecllffe near Vancouver. Capital position of the company was Improved. Assets exceed liabilities by $204,573, an Improvement of $214,928 in the working capital position of the previous year, when liabilities exceeded assets by $10,355. Earned surplus at January 31. 1951 stood at $597,018, compared to $577 568 brought forward from th? previous year. A number of vessels were bought, sold or converted during the year. The motor tanker Argus was bought; the withdrawn steamer Southolm was converted to a barge. The Lady Rose and Cassiar were sold and the Blue Peter II was bought and is being tenamed Cassiar. VANCOUVER The forest In parts of Vancouver dis- ' HARDY WALKER BEAR RIVER, N.S. (CP) For-man Hardy, 88, of Bear River, Isn't the type of man who lets old age catch up to him. He recently walked from here to Smith's Cove, a distance of 14 miles. Bio Salmon ore mined at lode mines In 1950 was greater than In any previous , trict which had been partially i reopened recently has been te-i sumed, throwing 4000 men out of I Hinhl, nnoln Ttl tn.no ft- ho. eking year, except Irom 1939 to 1942 nliu nrnrlMlnn n cm ms "c "v " c ard is aS bad as Ver" ounces exceeded that of 1949 by ; "s Under XV for f 'loo rin r flhvli-ni-t ittn 25 per rent. Copper production of ; 42.212.133 was less than in 1949 i or 1948. j Lead production of 307.122.803' pounds and rinc production of i TODAY'S STOCKS tottered and Dying Sockeyc Reported Floating Downstream r''k slide in a canyon on the Babine River is "e the main portion of the Skeena River held for another 20 years the position of supervisor of physical (l unrtPM H. I). Johnston (n. Ltd). j4.2Hj,77B pounds were more I feeling none the worse minus a lung and a couple of metal plates inside. And back he went to Calgary to continue where he left off-teaching young men how to kc? p their bodies in good condition, and until he left there remained f salmon run. it in rrnnvtprl fnllnu ino- un uphmI education in Calgary, and as military instructor there. It was only when major wounds he received late in World War I began to bother him too The slid,, is about 40 miles north of Hazelton '"ximately 10 miles nn thp Rahine River from Says Pact Inadequate much that the former army cap tain gave up his work in Calgary j chie lnstructor o Army cadets. tion with the qi. ana movea 10 me weai iu&si, in i 1934 on his doctor's advice. Today, the captain for he's With Mrs. Flood, he "took ! known by that rank in msny thines easv" for a while around ! Parts of Canada still keeps EATHER Horseshoe Bav and Fishermen's himself in the best of physical Plans for clearing the slide are mirier way. It may be necessary to s'nd a part y in by either hell-copter or pack train. The survey was ordered following report that battered and dying salmon were coming down the Skeena River to Hazelton about two weeks ago. than 1949 and their combined value of $93,274,295 was exceeded onlv In 1948. Coal production dropped approximately 400,000 tons to 1.54i',404 ln 1949, the report said. It. warned that coal producers face, severe competition from Alberta coal, oil and possibly gas. Average number of men employed ln all mining-industry branches in 1950. was 18,612, with salaries and wages $42,738,035. Dominion taxes were $14,877,802 and provincial taxes $3.442J)32. Stanley Park is Being Set Afire VANCOUVER Arson is suspected in three small fires which occurred in the Stanley Park area yesterday. Synnpsls are SHrnp clourts a(n,j 1 Coast. f nii-L. ' Wny nml i Atlantic Agreement Cannot Stop Communism, Says Anthony Eden CHICAGO itf1 Rt. Hon. Anthony Eden. formey British foreign secretary, said Monday that the Atlantic Pact is inadequate to protect the western world from communism. Eden, who served In Winston Churchill's wartime cabinet, called for "something much wider and more general . . . which takes account of the demands of condition and says, "that's the answer to a happy, long and healthy life." His age is anybody's gurss and that's a point on w hich he does no talking. "How old do you think I am," he counters. Well, there are many men of 60 who look much older than the Captain does today. Always joviaj and friendly, that is one quality he says is VANCOl'VER American Standard 12 Bralorne 6.75 B R X .03 Cariboo Quartz 1.38 Congress 06 Vx Giant Mascot 1.11 Indian Mines 28 Pend Oreille . 8 25 Pioneer 1.90 Premier Border 38 ' Privateer 13 Vj Reno 03 Sheep Creek 1.52 Sllbak Premier ... .50 Taku River Ott Vananda 14 Salmon Gold 03 Spud Valley 16 Sliver Standard - 245 Western Uranium 4.70 Oils-Anglo Canadian 6.60 A P Con .48 Atlantic 285 Calmont 1.35 C it E 16.00 Central Leduc 2.25 Home Oil 16.25 Mercury 1314 Okalta 2.50 Pacific Pete 9.00 Princess 1.39 Royal Canadian 11 Royalite 16.00 TORONTO Athona 09 Aumaque 24 Beattie 4t Bevcourt 53 Buffalo Canadian 18 C M & S 160.00 Conwest 3-90 Donalda .49 Eldona 21 East Sullivan 9.25 Giant Yellowknlfe .... 10.25 God's Lake ..: 37 Hardrock .1114 Harricana 09 1 Heva 14 Jackknife 09 Joliet Quebec 50 Little Long Lac 75 Lynx .17V4 Madsen Red Lake 2.40 McKenzle Red Lake 51 McLeod Cockshutt, 3.00 Moneta '. .32 Negus 82 Noranda 73.75 Lbuvicourt 17 Pickle Crow 1 68 San Antonio 2.75 Senator Rouyn 20 Sherritt Gordon 3.05 Steep Rock 7.80 Silver Miller 1.50 Upper Canada 1.95 Golden Manitou - 7.10 Cove, on the North Shore of Vancouver. Thfn, in 1939, when war broke out once more, Capt. Flood offered his services again. "Well," the soldier laughed siiently, "they toid me there was not quite enough room for me in the active list, but they felt they could use me." At Duncan, Vancouver Island, the army was training cadets, and that's where the captain remained chief instructor for four years. OVERSEAS 'V ''I Inland over these system is not ! chausp mow tilan a Tew Government Aid On Mining Trails dry 0 'arm Shra.lH would persist every front, estimates resources and allocates them according to "quite easy" to develop. "Look on the bright side of lite it's wast need." ffRion -.!....,.. He assailed Russia for failure Early service with the 50th ' Battalion of Calgary took gun- always there if you look hard enough." and this attitude. Nm,h,IuPalch('s over t accept authourity of the Unit ed Nations. VICTORIA The government has agreed to participate up to, but not exceeding, 50 per cent of the cost of the Big Four trail to Bonanza mountain ln the Oml-neca mining division, Canoe Creek trail to Mutch Group in the Omineca mining division, and the TlrlftunnH rvpplr rnnri tn - TIDES - Wednesday, August 22, 1951 (Pacific Standard Time) High 4:42 17.9 feet " Wml anR'e ln tem-Mn, b 63' Sandsplt nery officer overseas shortly j coupled with a thorough know-after 1914 and subsequently to ; ledge of his work in the past and France. In 1917 he was wounded I efficient adminiAration has won "just scratched" by shrapnel, j him recognition by his govern-and In a few months time was I ment which joins the citizens of back on the front lines. j Canada and Prince Rupert tn In 1918, at Canal du Nord, it say, "Well done, Captain Flood." Tonight's trali, due from the Fast at 11:15 daylight time, is 18:58 19.5 feet Low ;. 10:37 fi.4 feet uP'rt 52 and the Harvey Group in the Omineca reported this afternoon to be on 23:29 5.8 feet time. . ....... mining division. - Y4 M I i.'i ,