rp. o I lH x Y i RED TOP CABS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIANS NEWSPAPER Phone gfltj Phone TAXI TAXI j KASPEK C. McINTYRE he 537 gland: Rupert Tobacco Sloife (across from Ormes) DAY and NIOHT 8ERVICE DAY AND NIGHT SERVICE Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port Bill and Ken Ncsbitt r&r "xxv. no. 72 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1946 PRICE FIVE CENTS uestion of Rover Testifies I A D f Process Gill University rroiessor s Anxious to Help Soviet Information Regarding profear formerly a mem- f m ii vr. i I a1 I MIL Vktlll V ..-.-... - . rr it i iiiiiii.ii. LLULiiiku if u u u he save Information to Rase M. P for Mon:real ..I riinri'i'ii in iuiiiillliuii espionage activity, regard - r, like Rose, also facta Act in connection with the nvr ligation. ,er r-uld lie had loltl Rose i . .1 , .. it. fc.-K iaI3 WITC USl'U 111 MIC sj and the way In which cre used. He said he com-:c3fjr) with Rose for one and two months. He ci had been anxious to ao he rsuld to have the SovIp; n th? nrrv-e, of fir.lallv from ,i: in w;i nit iluwii. ii i" : lie had given informa- tb uf 'RDX. Asked I' A' had rr-fused lo trlve thh nllnulr" his testimony aid hlr achievements In .she work were aided by . ir He had first met lomebody's house" In i .1 .'ti ikn to him about his H" uld .hat the talk was the new pror?s for manu - ie ad mbseouently mei it K., home at Rose'-In ji uii Alarm in m.iKP 11 ii r i tt i ni ir I III I f 1 1 M f RECALLED .".id in an Ottawa news dls- !i M::nday that it was !cam-iat Lieut Col. Gregorl astii:-' military attache been recalled to Moscow. 1 r'ar -id that Popov, who 'iM col Ni-Dlal Zaboutin, fl c: head of the Russian' e network In Canada. Ot'awa hurriedly Sunday New York whre, "It Is un-d he will sail for Rus- 'iMed thaMhc Russian cm-' ated that Topov's recall temporary and that he cx-J to rc'.urn to Canada after nn.. n i " several wccks. w Air Service Prince George )TVPt T ucjituB central eh rt-t.... . . vuiumma Airways Ltd., Principals 0f which are Russ "'"".t unoert, vetcr-nor"iern filers, nrn srpki. w uuiraic a charter com- vice into the north -a inrou?h the cen-int or A session of the Air utT was llc,d here ecK( With Air Vln.un.,i..t err Pr j. . . ,, V'liiums. In lipnr tlio "tavion. fRACLE WORMED J of 59-yoar a eld wo-e removed Immediate-ifl fJa'h and the cornea h.2 the yes of an lll,0,,l old baby, born V. an,'ounced. The child, '1 ninnli... ... . . .. eUste " ,uuy Local TiJn 8;27 10.6 feet 22 14 IB! 2 19 11.3 fed. 34 7.2 feet (J It ANTED HABEAS CORPUS TORONTO Writ of habeas corpus, returnable at Ottawa Saturday, was granted in court here today to Israel Halperin, Queen's University professor, held in the espionage Investigation. Application of the writ was not opposed by (he clown. CHILI) URGLARY? VANCOUVER A child Is believed to have participated In a burglary which resulted in the removal of $130 from the safe of the Commercial Tire Co, Entry was made through a 10 by 12-inch window and a door. WESTMINSTER. WINS' TRAIL New Westminster Royals edged out Trail Smoke Eaters ( to 3 In overtime to take a two to one lead In the best-of-flve Western Canada senior hockey semi-finals here. RIBBENTROP INNOCENT? NUERNBERG Joachim von Ribbentrop today told the military tribunal that be accepted full responsibility for his acts as Geimany's foreign minister but he pleaded innocent on all counts of war crime indictment. BROADCASTS TO RUSSIA NEW YORK-MArrangements are being made for aserieg of daily news broadcasts fiom.thc United Stales to Russia so that the Soviet may obtain impartial news of what goes on in this country. I1URNABY BROOM WORKS V A N C O U V E R A $75,000 broom works is to be established in neighboring Rurnaby municipality, it was announced today. SMALLPOX SCARE VANCOUVER Vancouver medical men are recommending that there be general vaccination against smallpox following an outbreak of the malady In Seattle where three deaths are reported. GYM FUND GROWING VANCOUVER The spring term objective of $100,000 in the Memorial Gymnasium Fund has been reached. The Boaid of Governors voted 530,000. The total objective is $500,000. NIGEL MORGAN MAKES CHARGE Canadian Government Should Slop Holding People Inconninuiiilcado W ithout Privlleje of Habeas Corpus VANCOUVER- - The British Columbia leader of the Labor-Pro-grcslve Party. Nigel Morgan, charges that threatened arrests of leaders of the L.r.P. party conncjded with the current trade union drive for higher wages and smaller work week. Mr. Morgan, addressing a party rally in Vancouver, called on the Canadian people to demand that the .government stop holding people Incommunicado a n d denying them right of habeas corpus. Bad Check Case In County Court Charged wltfi Issuing checks without sufficient funds to cover them, Earl Eadlc appeared before Judge W. E. Fisher In County Court this morning, entering a pica of not guilty. The trial is continuing. Eadlc is appearing In his own behalf while W. O. Fulton is representing the Crowri. Eadlc elected speedy trial when he appeared before Judge Fisher for election last week. Lieut. Thomas Wilson, who ha3 been attached here to the Navy, sailed last night 0n the Princess Adelaide to Victoria where he har- been transferred. (ran Still To Fore TIM BUCK'S STATEMENT TORONTO Tim Buck, head of the Labor-Progressive Party, declares his party dues not condone espionage. It is required that members of the party be good Canadians with no prior allegiances. NO JAPS LANDED WAS 1 1 1 NGTON The Un i t ed Slates Navy denies that any Japanese soldiers landed from submarines on the California coast north of San Francisco in 1913 as had been reported, SPY REPORT WEDNESDAY OTTAWA The third Interim report of the Royal Commission investigating espionage activities in Canada probably will be made public on Wednesday, it was learned today. It will name five men still held without charge and these will be charged the same day in magistrate's court in the locality where the offences allegedly occurred. REO PENING FRONTIER MADRID An authoritative source in the Spanish capital says that the French and Spanish frontier will be reopened today for three weeks lo permit repatriation of French and Spanish nationals. The Informant says that only visas issued before March 1 will be valid for the crossing. PUBLICATION BANNED BELGRADE The Yugoslav information ministry says that three London pcrlfdicaK have been banned "Catholic Herald," "Time and Tide" and "Nineteenth Century and After." These three publications arc said to contain what is termed "insults and lies again our country." vandi:nui:i;g's plea DETROIT Republican Senator Arthur Vandenbcrg of Michigan has issued a pica for world unity. Senator Van-drnberg declares that the United Nations cannot survive in its present form shculd Russia and the United States split. The lawmaker who helped draft the UNO charter and launch the world peace agency in London said there must be common sense In the foreign policies of both Washington and .Moscow. DENATURING ATOM ENERGY WASHINGTON Scientists disclosed yesterday that they knew how tq "denature" plu-tonium so that Us atomic energy could be used only for industrial purposes and not for bombs. The disclosure was made to the Senate atomic energy committed in a report presented by American Undersecretary of State Dean Achcson. Acheson's report proposed an international licencing system under the U.N.O. for control of the manufacture of atomic power. UNITED STATES KEEPING CLEAR Secretary of Stale Denies Intervention in Spaimh Affairs WIASIIINGTONUS. Secretary of State Byrnes has Issued a flat denial of charges that the United States is intervening In tha Internal affairs of Spain. The charges were made by a member of the American House of Representatives. In his reply, Byrnes declared that such Is not the case. The State Secretary said that the .governments of Britain, France and United States look to Spanish people themselves to work out the political future of their country United States Not Satisfied wih Vague Statement Russia Security Council Divided On Whether Or Not Persian Matter Should Be Withdrawn From Agenda NEW YORK (CP) Soviet Ambassador Andrei Giomyko told the United Nations security council today tha Iran's Idler of 'appeal for council help contained subject matter "not fit to be placed on the agenda" of the council. Gfomyko's argument appeared directed at having tHe council pass over the Really Raining Vancouver Way VANCOUVER A three year record for hsavy rainfall in Vancouver was set up at 9 o'clock this morning wten 2',3 inches had fallen in the 24 hours Immediately previous. So far this March the precipitation here has totalled 7 4-5 inches as compared with an avera?e for the same period over 30 years of five inches'. Lower Fraser Valley fields are covered with four inches of water. Jail For Contempt Capt. Gordon Lunan Ketsrs To Answer Questions, af Espionage Trial ! FREED TODAY MONTREAL Capt. Gordon lunan. committed to jail for ! a wfek yesterday by Judge - Thcbcrgc because he refused to answer questions, made a brief appearance in court today and still declined to testify. Later he was freed. MONTREAL The hearings at Montreal of Fred Rose on charges of violating t:ic Official Secrets Act took a new slant yesterday, A witness. Captain Gordon Lunan, was ordered to i Jail until next Monday when he was found in contempt of court. Lunan refused to answer questions. The captain, himself, faces charges similar to those laid against Rose who is the Labor-Progressive Member of Parliament for Montreal-Carticr. Evidence at the hearing today indicated Uial Russia, three months after the war with Germany ended, had shown special Interest in formations and movements of United States and Brazilian troops In Europe. Evidence also indicated that Russia was eager to gain all information possible on the atomic, bomb and other explosives. RECRUITING AIR FORCE Veteran Members of Air Crew Would be Welcomed Back on Ground OTTAWA It has been learned in the capital that the R. C. A. F. in recruiting for Its permanent force, is urging the rc-enlist-mcnt of veteran aircrew noncommissioned officers In the sparse ground crew ranks. Qm feature of the Air Force rc-cnlLstmcnt campaign Is an offer by headquarters to pay the travelling expenses of applicants for enlistment after applications have been approved. Sixty-Four Net Workers Are Olit Some, 64 net workers at various canneries in the Skeena River area, most of them natives, arc now Idle as .a result of the strike of netman which has been called In demand for an agreement with the cannery operators before the season starts on wages on working conditions. S6vlet-Iranlan controversy. Gromyko spoke after the president of the council. Quo Tai (Jl.il of China, had swept aside as not ready for action technical terms ori the agenda of today's session and plunged the peace enforcement agency into discussion of the tangled Iranian issue. The Russian ambassador said that Prime Minister Joseph Stal-Irihad announced an agreement for- the withdrawal of troops. Thus the Iranian crisis is being handled in accordance with the security council's admonition at London to settle their difference by direct negotiations. . promyko did not announce spepific terms of the purported agreement between Russia and Irirc but said that the. "spirit and 'letter" of the London resolution for direct negotiations was being adhered to. United States Secretary of State James Byrnes said, if aa jejanehad Jcn reached, ;Rus- sla should have 'filed a statemcntT of this before the council. "The Iranian government has not withdrawn its complaint," he reminded. Mr. Byrnes objected to the Russiaivproposal that the council reject Iran's appeal for help in settling its troublos with the Soviet. Great Britain and British com monweaiths supported Mr. Byrnes' stand. Poland backed Gromyko's submission. After two-and-a-half hours of deliberation, the council adjourned for luncheon and Is1 In session again this afternoon. TODAY'S STOCKS Courtesy S. D. Johnston Co. Ltd Vancouver IJralorne 17.00 H. R. Con. .23 H. It. X 17 3 Cariboo Quartz 3.40 Dcntonla .52 Grull Wihskne 22"i Hcdley Mascot 2.67 Minta .072 Pend Oriellc 3.75 Pioneer 6.75 Premier Border 093j Premier Gold 2.56 Privateer 73 Reeves McDonald 1.40 Reno 13 Salmon Gold 24. Sheep Creek 1.60 Taylor Bridge 91 Whitewater 03 U Vananda 50 Congress 13 Pacific Eastern 18 lledlcy Amalgamated .. .04',-s Spud Valley .26 Central Zcballos 20 Oils A. P. Con 13 Calmont 32 C. & E. 2.20 Foothills 1.60 Home 3.20 Toronto Aumnquc 1.16 , Beattlc 1.39 Bobjo 22 i Con. Smelters 37.7n Buffalo Canadian 31 Eldona .' 1.03 Elder 1.00 Giant Yellowknifc 7.10 Hardrock .' t& Jacknlfe .26 Jolle Quebec 1.35 Little Long Lac 2.85 ...Madsen Red Lake 4.25 MacLeod Cockshutt .... 2.95 Moneta 66 Pickle Crow 4.05 CIVIC CENTRE OPENING- This picture was taken at the official opening, of Prince Rupert's fine new Civic Centre recently. It shows Aid. T Norton Youngs, chairman of the Prince Rupert Civic Centre Association, speaking from the platform of the main auditorium as tht keys of the buildng were turned over to him by Mayor H. M. Daggett who had received them from H. P. Collins, local representative of Y.M.CJV. War Services. Seated to the rear of Mr. Youngs is the mayor. Photo by Pete Collins. Olof Hanson To Be Sent To Ottawa To Straighten Out Highway Matter Olof Hanson, former M.P. for Skeena, is to be sent to Ottawa again to see what can be done in the matter of getting a settlement of the question of the ownership of the Prince Rupert Highway. The federal government has offered the road to the provincial government which, in turn, will not accept it until the - -f the question of jurisdiction af- ACT IO N FOR PIONEER HOME "IN 30 DAYS" A definite step toward acquiring a Pioneers' Home will r r 4 in the -next 3Hki3r--i: -' .-Jr "This Is not a result of agi tation in the press during the last few days," commented Alderman Nora Arnold as she moved acceptance of a Health committee report recommending that If no suitable building for a Pioneers' Home Is available within the next 30 days the city commence negotiations for construction of a new building. "We made the decision las. Tuesday"'. Personally. I doubt If we can find a suitable building. I have looked all over the city, and I don't know of any." Council approved the motion, and also one that a maximum of $50 be authorized for the purchase of bedding for the present Pioneers' Home. New Store Under Way Breaking Ground For $30,000 Structure For Eraser & Payne On Third Avenue Preliminary work on the construction of a new store premises for Fraser & Payne, local merchants, was begun Monday by the construction firm of Partridge, Gunstoh and Rice with the removal of scrub timber and brush from two lots between First and Second streets on the north side of Thiid Avenue across from the- Daily News. Amount of the contract, although iiot definitely announced by Mr. Payne, is said to bo, in the neighborhood of $30,000. The building is to be of concrete construction, with 50 feet frontage and 100 feet deep. It will be two stories high. The increase of space .in tlic .'new building will allow the firm to broaden its lines or merchandise, Mr. Payne said. The upper floor will be used for the display of furniture and other household goods not carried in the present store. Partridge, Guns ton and Rice is a local construction company. San Antonio 5.00 Senator Rouvn 1.03 Sherrit Gordon :.. 1.82 Steep Rock '. 3.55 Sturgeon River 36 fcctlng the portion of the high way running on Canadian Na tional Railways is straightened out. After hearing a report from George MacAdams of Terrace on an Interview with Hon. Herbert Anscorob provincial minister of highway situation, Mr. AnicOmb admitting that the highway had been offered to 'the province' by the Dominion which was no' disposed to accept with the question of the railway right-of-way still unsettled,, Uie executive of the Prince Rupert Chamber of Commerce decided yesterday afternoon to ask Mr. Hanson to go to Ottawa in the effort to have the matter settled once and for all. Mr. MacAdams informed he Chamber executive tnat the pro vincial government would be glad to take over the road for incorporation into the provincial highway system once free title could be obtained. Mean time, the province did not feel disposed to accept full respon sibllity although, pending a set tlcment of the issue, it wou'id endeavour to keep the road in ( snapc as tar as avauaoie ma I 1 i I It is urobosed that" interested boards of trade in the interior', through the Associated Bbard.3 of Trade of Central British Col umbia, should be asked to con tribute, with Prince Rupert assuming the major share, to the cost of sending Mr. Hanson cast. twoviolW deaths occur TORONTO - Two violent deaths are being probed by Montreal and Point Edward, Ontario, police. A Point Edward young woman wa rushed io Sarnia General Hospital with a bullet wound In the heart which Is expected to prove fatal. Point Edward police say they arc holding a man on a charge of wounding with intent to do bodily harm. They say the man surrendered and handed over a .22 calibre rifle, police said his name was Newstead and. that the shooting, was the result of a lovers' quarrel. At Montreal, the poliee were investigating the death of Mrs. Marie Aurorc Tpsslsslcr wha worked as a model midcr the name of Marcel Gauthlcr. She was found strangled to ceath in her apartment. Thomas Daykln, who has been employed at the dry dock, sailed last night on the Princess Ade laide for Vancouver after ter minating his employment here. Carr Named Spy Leader New York Paper Cites Canadian Ramifications of Espionage Suggested NEW YORK, 0 The' New York Journal-American reported today in a front page story that Sam Carr, natloriarorgahlzer for the Canadian Labor-Progressive party, has been named as an alleged recruiting agent for the Soviet spy network In the Dom-i inlon and that "for years he re-I ceived thousands of dollars J monthly from the American Communist Party." Carr was mentioned by Igor Gouzenko. former clerk In the Russian embassy at Ottawa; in testimony given in Montreal regarding Russian secret operations. Tlie story said that the "first official link in the far-riun? spy network set P by the Kremlin brought into sharper emphasis the role of Arthur Adams, head of the Moscow espionage group. "The Journal-American last December 3 revealed that Adams then living hi New York had since 1938 directed the gigantic spy organization which may have obtained details of atomic development," the story stated. The story said that William Weiner. treasurer of the American Communist party, iri- 1939 testified before a Congressional committee, that he an Earl Browder, national head of the American Reds, had been send ing Carr $1,000 a month for a considerable period. What use was made of- thes3 funds was not revealed. . " " ' RIGHT WING IN CONTROL I Not Single! laboriteor f" LeflfsT'XJmnf cd fti-1 In Greece ATHENS Right wing parties are In the saddle in Greece. Not a single Labor or Leftist candidate Is listed for the Greek parliamentary elctloasjpn jMarchj 31 and the deadline or" niirigts over. ,;"! J I A . - All parties In thoi -National Liberation Front are boycotting the tirst election since 1936 In the Brltlsh-oicupicd country. The E.A.M.. a left wing party, is demanding that Premier Sophoulis broaden his government, purge the state police and gcndarmle of monarchists and grant amnesty to political prisoners. Statement' By Stalin I 'Agreement Reached Between Russia and Iran, He Announces LONDON- Generalissimo Stalin officially announced las night that problems surrounding the withdrawal of Russian troops from Iran had been solv-Prt lie said there had been an agreement between the Russian government and the government of Iran. Tho Moscow radio broadcast Stalin's statement and it was .ild it came as a reply to a tele gram from the president of the United Press, Hugh Ballllc, who had invited Stalin to express his views on the international situation. Thus a new nath has been formed for the U.N.O. security council to follow. Today the council is scheduled to discuss the Iran case at its New... York City sessions. Over 83 percent of all real estate advertising was conducted through newspapers last year, according to a survey of the National Real Estate Jour nal. LABOR LOBBY Broadcast - CFPR 6:30 P.M. TONIGHT i V f -J 5 t