21.6 feet 20.9 feet 2.9 feet 4 V O ' fliBK. i&A ' mi ? jurtrniA.N AMUAbSAuvii ajnu i-rM lr,r Uta nliifltlr0 nncn nf tY with his daughter, Iran, whom school in Princeton, N.J. 4.0 fept. ship tied up. from the Canadian Army In which he served with the Winnipeg Grenadiers "who were captured when HdngJ Kong fell on December 25, 1941, and were not liberated until September 9, 1915, following the surrender of Japan. Query, who cnll.st.cd In Winnipeg September 5, 1911, with the Queen's Own Highlanders, to be transferred to ' the Winnipeg Grenadiers, who- less than three months later formed part of the garrison at Hong Kong, is only 21 years old now. Enlisting as a 17 year old boy. life since then has been one of grim experience for him and it is little wonder today If he should find It a little difficult to rc-orlcnt himself. He' Is immediately interested In taking a "rest" a,ftcr 'nearly four years working Under slave labor conditions for ruthless Oriental masters who exacted all the work they could from their unfortunate captlws in return for which thpy received a starvation diet . J io f rrnr1 tn ov let nil rift I iHULl Villi AUIVVVI V VrtWU ll4i.l.fc the most primitive and dismal of conditions Of normal 145 pounds Iranian : ""oassaaor wn a- nnnlHot - CAa Tk..I.tM t . .. ,H Alaoffered to withdravhe J CHINESE TRUCE " EFFORTS FAIL CHUNGKING Efforts to wtUc lhc fightlng ,n Manchur, a broke down today, the utmost efforts of General, MacArthur being Insufficient to bridge thc chasm between thc Chinese National Government and the Com-unists. All sides revealed that settlement of thc civil conflict faced an indefinite delay with thc government refusing thc newest truce proposal and the Communists demanding strongly favorable terms on thc basis of their military successes. COMPULSORY PASTEURIZATION VANCOUVER Compulsory pasteurization of milk was favored at a convention of sanitary inspectors here. weight, Query was reduced at orfe time to 105 pounds, Following thc Tall of Hong Kong, Que,ry was put to work as a laborer with plek and shovel on extension work to thc Hong Kong airport. In January 1943 j lie was removed to Yokohama where he remained until May 8, 1915, engaged in work In the shipyards, then moving to the Sendal area where he was put to work in the coal mines. Slugged and Beaten Daily Sluggings and beatings by the Japanese bosses or guards were the dally experience of the prisoners, Query related in an inter view with thc Dally News. This mistreatment was inflicted wlUi the slightest of provocation and thc prisoners were smitten with anything that came to hand. Some of the Canadians were known to have died of having been beaten unrestrainedly. On thc airport work in Hong Kong the prisoners were taken from camp at 4 a.m. and not ( Continued on Page 6) RY RED TOP CABS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL;BRITlflHCOLUMB LA'S NEWSPAPER Phone jfltj Phone TAXI TAXI - C. McINTYRE Ik KASPEH j. tomb 537 stand: Kupert Tobacco Store (across Irom Ormes) ink DAY and NIGHT SERVICE SERVICE AND NIGHT DAY Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port-"Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" Bill and Ken Nesbitt - w - VOL XXXV No. 100. PRINCE PRINCE RUPERT RUPERT, B.C.. B.C., MONDAY. MONDAY, APRIL APRIL 29. 29. 1946 1946 PRICE FIVE1 CENTS i i m n i m. ijlliu oh""1 Be Probed nitcd Nations Security vniM In Favor lUlltll ' Jnvesttgaiicn IIV VOKK. (CD 1 He um- Xalions Security council voted in favor of an in- i.,iinn into .ranco spam. sia had previously cxprcss-Isdf in favor of Immediate . ii:... tlml 4 1m l.'r'i ti lt . ....rll nrarp ami sccur- anu i ..'...s j - j ,:.r,nn Trn nations voted hp imrstieation. Irri Oroimko, llir hfari of Kipsian delegation, ai- ..... If mvrMiiii" v sinn coiiMMiiij; m no un, r.railian. Chinese. iih! French rcpresenta- ... ii :.. i ... itiinil K'l lr iV 't LLI 1 A ft I r mil i i it L I H I I HI I I Ulll I LLr i -au's in the trial be- tha f ?ir r t Infill fi i nrf m no LUIIJV IU1I1LL1 ill L.I11- sr them and pledged spread Nazi or antl-Scmltlc i t i ii it rrt- cmrnr declared h11 reports BE TRIED " to !i :pc wa; committed for A; .iv Court at thr coii- i f hi. pr Umlnary hcar- ' t poli-c court Saturday. r- allr-rcd to have crlm- I 211 Urn n vntirifr u'nmnn "Ml.' .vn hotel on April E' (ore vented hv W O Tm A: i.o Court session ) in Prmce Rupert oh TrrT ... a. it n i iiiiviniii ... aiw 1 HHfHL ' LM fin riittrtalnmcnt o per- Of H.MRS Hrpsppiif. l!l ') pay a visit of three 1 Prince Runert tills Friday and Saturday, riar nroKrnm Is belna i Mho Airt a r i.v,..u Hnotl llionl rflrpplnr nf lcA. War Services, and Don T5r4 Civir Centre dircctod. ainmcnt feaurtcs will ":cntratid ut the Civic "HI'.: "nday nltiht there will '! '11110 Ii,,-.. r... ii u.mn; iur uic .snip i M" at the Civic Centre. watada Girls' Auxiliary 'f-OVld? the hnslpss-, f. fl,p . 0n Friday cvenhv? there JI .? :,lrts evening with p ' nt nir 1 .1.1.. ... I,,. " ",K: oi"" una nil " anil i , llor- Thp iong.awaltcd , Qyro challenge affair ' ) hi i,. j . . . ... , - at mai umc. , ; mv durln,j thc stay 0, ,c foyer thc fndnticg of ' ,r tv''re, Including thc , -am. v ii bc avnUable for , Rnd "njoyment of the '"ana r i. ;7 Election VORK. hi, ..... . UCI1' sersio , os- nnl,i. i Ul me election tanu, ' Ro V" o to the prcsl-ld-r in tiCna M bccn Political irv "uiippincs for 42 Loc"l Tides Ttin lay- April 30, 1910 0:16 12:41 6:35 18 44 Crescent Metres Emergency Run Here With Wh.hM.un -4mc'nt.' nuHlmi i'anadian (Ie8lnvcr. wliicli is heading northward on a training cruise, made an unscheduled stop at Prince Rupert Sunday afternoon to disembark a sick crew member for treatment at Prince Rupert General Hospital. Usme; a greater part of emergency run from Nadcn liar- bor, Crescent docked at 4 p.m. at the C.N.R. wharf to put ashore Officer Cadet George Osborne of Montreal, said to be suffering from a respiratory infection. The sick cadet was met by the city ambulance, whose attcncT-ants, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Woods, whisked him to hospital as soon as he was put over the side In a Jacket stretcher. Then Crescent's captain, Com mander P. C. Nixon. R.C.N., moved liis ship to the Nav$ wharf where die remained all ni?ht. sailing this morning in' continuation of her cruise. Althoujh her stop here on Sunday was unnannounccd, except to those with a functional interest In the arrival of the sick man, a crowd of several hundred people with "grapevine" information were on hand at the C. N.R. wharf by tl? time Crescent's lines were tossed ashore. The Meek Rray destroyer is Fchcdulcd to make an official visit to Jills city later this werk, arriving at I o'clock Thursday afternoon, and re-malnhiff until Saturday. There was no civic activity i" connection with her visit Sunday, lint an official civic welcome is planned for Thursday. Carrying 53 officer cadets and a complement of 100, Ciesccni has been cruising northern coasi. waters for thc last week. She will o as far north as Stewart, then return southward, stopping for three days at Prince Rupert. On her way north she spent three days at Ocean Falls, and it was shortly after leaving that port that Cadet Osborne took sick. Crescent was cruising off Nadcn Harbor on the south Queen Charlotte Islands when the emergency a rase. Sho Immediately began a speedy run for Prince Rupert. Lleul, Inse Valen One of Officers , Aboard iicr was an officer who is well known in Prince Rupert. He was Lieut. Inge Valen who formerly lived here, and whose liomc Is now In Vancouver. He was greeted by a number of friends. Other seamen wno s,erv . .i ! .....i 11 ...rlH ni Pn 6 a lntanceson he dock as the ! UAUuuifcK, in an Hussein Ala, TTnUn1 Vnili.na nilnAH he-named fcr his country. Mr. Sick Crewman Aboard her ,-knot speed in an Officer Cadet Osborne Is In Prlnpe Rupert General Hospital today, where hLs condition is said to be not serious. He is said by hi? attending physician, Dr. L. W. Kcrsln, to be suffering from "A ca.se of the 'flu with a touch of laryngitis." ll.M.C.S. Crescent, which was completed and commissioned last October, Is one of Canada's newest fighting vnlts. The 363-foot destroyer carries" 4.7 inch guns, two forward and two aft, an anti-aircraft armament of five quick-firing guns and quadruple torpedo 4ubes on deck, aft of midships. Her 40,000 horse' power turbine engines push her through the sea at 36 knots. CANADIANS DIED OF BEATINGS BY JAPS; HONG KONG VET HERE Unrestrained brutality and deplorable living conditions which prisoners-of-war had to endure at the hands of the Japanese, are confirmed by young Pte. Kdward William Query of Winnipeg. He is visiting in Prince Rupert with his uncle and aunt, "Mr. and Mrs. William Hall following his recent discharge p remier Hi s CHRISTIANS WIN OUT Disorders During Flection Yesterday in American-Occupied Germany Dl ESSEN, Germany- At'Nj'ast 18 persons were sent to hospital following a series, of disdrderg durlivr the Sunday election of county councils in the American occupation zone of Germany. Early unofficial returns give a strong lead to Germany's Conservative party, the Christian Socialist Union, with National Socialists running second and , Communists a poor third. Bulletins FAVOR EARLY PAULEY LONDON Foreign Secretary Ernest Revin left London today to return to thc Rig Four foicign ministers conference in Paris after a meeting Sunday "with representatives of three Dominions Australia, New Zealand and South Africa in) which it was demonstrated that the Dominions were in unanimous support ot an early general peace conference in Miy it .possible. " ENGINEER TESTIFIES CHICAGO William ISlaine, engineer, who is charged with manslaughter- following a train collision near here which resulted in thc death of 45 persons, testified that he applied both air and emergency brakes and did cveiything possible to prevent the trash. 1IITLEU UESPONSIBE N U E It N It E R (2 Joseph Slreicher, testifying at thc war crimes tribunal, asserted that Adolf Hitler had issued the order for the extermination of Jews and was alone responsible for" its terms being rigidly carried out, HOOVER IN MAXII.A MANILA Former President Herbert Hoover, on his world food investigation tour, is here today conferring with President-elect ' Uoxas. He came from Bangkok and will proceed to Tokyo and Shanghai. (SEN. SPRY RETIRING OTTAWA Major-General Dan Spry, 33, Winnipeg, Is retiring as vice-chief of general stair, Canadian Army, and will be succeeded by Brigadier Churchill Mann, 43, with acting rank ot major-general, Defence Headquarters announced today. Spry is relit lug at his own request. COULDN'T TAKE IT FORT ST. JOHN An 81-ycar-old man collapsed when he heard that the P.G.E. was to be extended to Hudson's Hope where years ago he had started a store in thc hope that a railway would be built into thc Peace River. NARCOTICS STOLEN VANCOUVER Drugs valued at $2000 were taken from thc dispensaiy of the Vancouver Military Hospital when a small safe containing them was removed. PREDICTS BIG STRIKE AHEAD HAMILTON, Out. - Clarence Jackson, Canadian -director of the United Electrical. Radio and Machine Worktrs of America, predicted at a week-end confer-, ensco here a malcr strike move- ment in the steel, mining, rub-1 ber, electricity and lumber in- dustrles within a month. Kins Cards To If Dominion Proposals Are Accepted There Will Be Relief Of Federal Taxes Personal Income Impost Will Be Lowered and Element of Double Taxation On Gorporated Income Reduced OTTAWA (CP)' Prime Minister Mackenzie King told a plenary sessioli of the Dominion - Provincial oenference tollay that, if federal proposals to the provinces are accepted, 1he personal income tax will be lowered and the government also intends to reduce the element of double taxation of corporate in come with its tendency to dis-, courage risk-taking enterprise." Addressing the conference as it met Jn open hearing for the first time since last August, Mr. King reviewed the Dominion proposals as modified at camera meetings and offered some new changes in thc light' of develop ments at the current meetings. Thc Dominion Prime Minister said, that, "In its proposals as they stand, thc Dominion gov ernment lecls it liar gone as far as it possibly can In thc light ot its very heavy financial ob ligations;" ,WhiJo .wc Jiave nut shut the door to possible alternatives or adjustments, any such modifications will have to be on thc basis of financial equivalents." Thc federal government was ready to withdraw from the gasoline tax field if the provinces were ready to accept reduced subsidies or if thc Dominion was allowed to withdraw its offer to pay fifty percent of thc cost of pensions to needy persons between 65 and 69 years of age. It was estimated that these pensions would cost the Dominion about $20,000,000 annually. The Dominion was also ready to give up amusement taxes if thc provinces agreed to forego health grants which thc Dominion proposed to pay. Mr. King said that one of thc main reasons for the proposal that the Dominion alone mould levy income and corporation taxes and succession duties was that it would impose thc least possible discouragement to expansion of business activity and employment. Hie 1942 wartime . taxation agreements under which thc provinces gave' up income and corporation taxes In return for specified payments arc schedul ed to expire between November and next April. Dicw Would "Rent" Taxation Fields Premier George Drew of Ontario told thc conference that his government is prepared to .LONDON 'ffii Twenty-eight' girls and 12 men from British universities have gone to France as guests of. families in university towns under a students' exchange scheme. THE WEATHER General Synopsis Thc wrather system which is now moving eastward across B.C. U being followed by an easterly flow of cool, moist air from the Pacific Ocean. The improvement in the weather along thc coast tills morning is expected to spread slowly eastward across (lie province today and tomorrow. Forecast Cloudy witli widely scattered showers, clearing this evening. Cloudy on Tuesday. Minimum to night 35, maximum Tuesday 48. Moderate westerly winds 15 m. p h., becoming moderate south- westerly 15 m.pJi. Tuesday at- ternoon. PutsT) "rent," the personal income and corporation lax fields to the Do minion government if the latter agrees to give up succession duties and five other fields of direct taxation. Mr. Drew spoke after Prime Minister Mackenzie King hadi asked the provinces to give up the Income, corporation and Inheritance taxes to thc Dominion in return for an annual subsidy of $15 per capita. Mil itUlUN Ur-n A L IB III r LE ET HEADS FOR FISHINGGROUNDS Waters of Prince Rupert harbor today were tracked with the wakes of more than 30 halibut boats which sailed for the fishing grounds in Hecate Strait where they will lower their gear for halibut on Wednesday. Preparatory to the official opening of the 1JMG halibut season, masters of thef" ' A-to-L name group of the Prince Rupert fleet crowded thc customs office this morning to obtain clearances for their vessels In time to give them an opportunity to reach the grounds by thc opening date of May 1. With their gear all in shape by Saturday, most of the vessels took on their Ice loads at the port's three cold storage plants on Sunday. A few of the boats left early this morning but most raised their lines for the westward 1 about noon. NEWSPAPERMEN TO VISIT CITY Prince Rupert will be host to a party of newspaper circulation managers, representing dally newspapers in British Columbia. Washington, Oregon and California on May 18. Thc trip to Prince Rupert will be a feature of a conference of coast circulation managers, Mayor Daggett has been advised, and he has asked if thc city will provide entertainment for thc party while it is in the city for about 12 hours. Mayor Daggett said tliat he will appoint a committee of citizens ,to arrange the entertainment. The group, totalling about 30 newspapermen and their wives, will arrive on the Princess Adelaide and presumably leave on the same boat on the night of May 18. Mayor Daggett has" been asked if a tour of the cold .storage plants and other places lot interest In thc city could be arranged. Trying, to Settle Colliery Strike WASHINGTON The United States government has stepped up Its efforts to settle thc 28-day soft coal strike by naming a spe cial conciliator and calling for a renewal of contract negotiations. The negotiations were suspended two weeks am own Pari ariey France Voting On Constitution PARIS Foreign Minister G Bidault, In a speech for the Popular Republican movement, asked France to reject the proposed French constitution which is supported by thc Socialists and Communists at next Sunday's referendum. T0J0T0BE ARRAIGNED TOKYO Wartime Premier III-dekl Tojo of Japan and 27,other wartime Japanese leaders will be arraigned cn war-crimes char-jcs- May 3. The formal indictments which already have gone to the international trl-. bunal charge Tojo and his. asso- elates with committing war crimes on 55 Counts ranging from murder to a conspiracy to conquer thc world. - SOVIET GIVES CO-OPERATION . WASHINGTON UNRRA dlr ector general Florella.LaGuardla said here last night that Sovlci authorities have given the agency's mission in the Ukraine "complete co-operation." The second hair of thc fleet, thc M-to-Z group, will -leave Friday for the fishing grounds. As usual the fleet" was divided in two sections tills year so as not to overtax shore handling facilities b(y having thc wholn fleet land fish at the same time. Among thc section which sailed today were two new vessels which were built duripg the winter. They were the All-Star. oAvned and skippered by:Friz Mostad, which was built at' McLean's Boat Works at Seal Cove, and the Five Princes, whose master and owner is Jack Prince. Five Princes was built by Craw ley and Didrickscn. The vessels will be joined -on the grounds by scores of Van couver vessels which left- thc southern port at the week-end. The first of the season's flood of halibut is expected to arrive early next week. Vessels which had obtained clearance up to 11 o'clock .today were: Asbury, H. Antonsen; Rupert 65, E. Hallworth; Cashalor, S. Cassidy; Eight Bells, E. Swift; Beatrice S., W. P. Sampson: Kyrielle, K. Symons; Blue Boy, Charles Edwards; Ingrid II., Charles Lundquist; Cape, Beal, Fred Wick; All-Star, Fritz Mos tad; Five Princes, Jack Prince; Edward Wahl, Henry Wahl; Arctic I, Axel Petersen; I and I, I. Olsen; Gibson. Chris Hendrlck-son; Embla. A. Anders; Stream, E. Brcdalson; Drott, Frlt. Pelcr-sen; Success, M. A. Swltzer; Strebor J., T. Thomas; Advance II, IL Rensvold; Anabelle, George Cook; Cape Race, J. Johansen, Dovre B., A. Martinusen; Coven ant, II. Undcrdahl; Tugwell, S. Jensen; Helen II, Peter Byrne: Gony, o. Andrcassen; Eleyc, 3. McKay. WORKERS!, PLEASE ATTEND May Day Meeting Wednesday, 8 p.m. Deep Sea Fishermen's Hall