K WITH ER KING rorrign Ministers jv Another Session Wstion Being I ,-n Ssret-rtmy F Byrnes Ithf oropoai oi mine I Mackenzie King fciai the m four for- ;hcuid meet con- l h the prace nnfer- ud any recommen- I may ar :e from time i the 'mailer nations. of th? two-third 3 rht majorty will be in ai today's ses- blr committee pre- ar.other plena-v ses- bnferenee tomorrow. Pommission iood Profit Gambia year -old 1'L.j.on made a profit d (.ht eisht months ; 3) ia; Gross re- r prrlod were $814,- curpiu& remained g prov..ion for cost n administration atlan The commls- vc: 14.102 consumer 60 are on Vancou- bent for approval. SON INSETTLED f.r;:sen Ketchikan ! Filing Vessel Own-! received a wire battle office which !rd frcm Washington in an crdr for de-I t:'hm ortcej la cx-1 th: wetk hand the mes-t the fan Francisco -fated that no :?i!lng onees on fish i'ten tfattif. are freezing "it" wn accounts. fT; bin may not be imuc thi . because of f f -"-ragp space, f -toragp i Upace and r f dipping was pDDln-- 10Cal fish JC Phiiiips had the 'rthe- unloaded at en " of the disease Pln- Quarantine refilled, however, on :l Tides gust 6, 1946 on! U-5 fect 2:28 I4:u EARTHQUAKE IS INTENSE Boy Is Rescued town, N.Y., civilian pilot. erence Paris Parley Is Still Dealing with Procedure PARIS (CP) Foreign Minister Molotov of Russia today rejected the proposed Hritish amendment on voting procedure for the Paris peace conference, asserting it was "calculated to upset the decision of the council of foreign ministers and replace it with a new one." Canada, China, the United States and Norway supported the Hritish compromise which would have permitted the conference to make recommendations to the foreign ministers of Ilritnin, France, Russia and the United States on five peace treaties either by two-thirds or simple majority vote. However No Great Damage Was Done by Violent Temblor In Carribean Area SAN JUAN, Puerto Rica On of the greatest earthquakes In the history of the West Indies, equalling If not exceeding the Intensity of that of 1918, was recorded yesterday but It was evidently centred In deep water off to the north of Puerto Rico and nn corlnnc .4 a ma era li-aft hpn r r- Survey, are In pro-' ,,, ,1,1,.1 ,i,mk ,,, . at development of viol- mozraDh nee0s ,uUered ic power ior tne -anaakr","Jv'- " - Hope ml? t be rjb mltted to From Siwash Rock VANCOUVER A small boy from Burnaby, Donald Sparrow, became stranded when he climbed 25 feet up on Siwash Rock vestprdav. Police rigged up ran on halibut and speclal gear from whlch ne was mujci, ui rescued from his perch alter ;;;V" ulV e"BUl staying there for five hours " - Vufi I. Willi U J-Eat1 :n vet released lre it the Price Ad- PILOT SEARCH . ABANDONED Joe Barber, New York Has Never Been Found EDMONTON 0 One of the most prolonged aerial and ground searches in the history of Ihe Northwest came to an end as officials at Northwest Air Command here announced that they were calling off the month-old search for Joe Barber, James The hunt for Barber began after Ms plane disappeared June 28 while en route to Alaska. He was flying one of two planej being ferried to Fairbanks, Alas ka, at the time he disappeared. The pilot of the second air and the fish 'raft reported that Barber sud- I for account. HERIA IN A IS NOW CONTROL aaka Navy and :j officers flown san FrancUco and ie an outbreak of "ported todav th 1 been controlled. r serious cases worn ;f of danger."' and victims were for isolation tnatment, officials denly veered away from the Alaska Highway, which both had been following. An intensive aerial search re sulted In the missing aircraft be ing located on a creek bed about 180 miles northwest of Fort Nel son, R.C.A.F. men dropped to the grounded machine toy parachute but could find no trace of the pilot. An experienced bushman was flown to the scene to try to track down the pilot and later an eleven-man army rescue squad under command of Capt. O. G. Brown of the P.P.C.L.I., Calgary, carried out an intensive ground search without result. Religion Prayer Is Need of Canada VICTORIA-fipcaklnK aC lne Centennial celebration of the founding of the Roman Catholic Church in Victoria, Cardinal J. C. McGulcan of Toronto called Hanifilane tn return rn rellelon 173 feet and prayer. He warned against ieet . religious Indifference and atheis 9-' feet i tic propaganda. VANCOUVER GIRL TRAFFIC VICTIM VANCOUVER Eighteen year old Mildred Lister was killed yesterday In a colllCToii between a moror car and a bicycle on a city street. ciiakoi: by ntns YENAN Communist sources said that Nationalist government planes had dropped American bombs cn Communist headquarters here. PASSING OF ROI BARNES une oi irinre nuptiis uesi Known IMoneers Collapses and Dies One of Prince Rupert's best known pioneers passed away at midnight Saturday In the person of Rol Sparling Barnes, who collapsed and died whtle on his way to work as a guard for Highway Construction Co. at Roosevelt Park. Mr. Barnes was 60 years old. A resident of Prince Rupert for the last 35 years, most of which he was the operator of a barber shop In partnership with Jack Judge, on Sixth Street, Mr. Barnes was born near Quebec City, coming west as a youth. He completed his education at Vancouver, then came to PrlnCe Rup ert where he lived until his death. He was married in 1921 at Vancouver. Surviving is his widow, living at H25 Second Avenue. Thers were no children. Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at B.C. Undertakers Oren-ville Court chapel. KF.EP OFF DIVISIONS PARIS Hon. Brooke Clax-ton, speaking for Canada at the peace conference today, urged that there lie no unnecessary voles or divisions so that Big Four derisions would be preserved and respected. NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER TAXI TAXI ii.IHTVRE 537 l TnhaCCO DAY and NIOHT SERVICE k us rrrmi AND N1U' " I Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port f'Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" Bill and Ken Nesbitt , n VOL. XXXV, No. 18 . PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1946 PRICE FIVE CENTS r- olof i Conf Rejects British Voting Plan i Bulletins ' SACRAMENT MARCH VICTORIA Two thousand persons marched in the procession of Hie Ulcsscd Sacrament in a ceremony marking the centenary of the Catholic diocese of Victoria Sunday. JamfS. Cardinal, McGuigan, Arclibi'liop of Tcrtnlo, deliv-rird a special Papal blessing, rxr.is 5rTNDLNG LOAN WASHING! ONGreat Britain has begun spending part nf (he three billion dollar loan from the United States but f-nlv for limited purchases. Only "essential purchases", '?h m wheat and other food items, are being siade. NO "V-J" DAY OTTAWA No plans have been made for the celebration. In Cat,aia of "V-J" (Victory over Japan) Day in Canada on August It, the State Department announces. In Washington it is announced there will be no federal holiday although (he President has suggested that flags be displayed. SHIP ASHORE VICTORIA The freighter Sapperton Park went ashore near here during a heavy gale early today. It is expected she will be refloated this afternoon. Capt. Frank Shuttle-worth is in command. CRISIS AT HAIFA JERUSALEM British auth-oiliifs today clamped a security blackout on Haifa where 2,230 Jews without immigration crtlfiei.trsr wtrT Tield 'aboard sbips. Authorities were also re-irrlrd sending large numbers if Iroops .toward the north Palestine port. It was suggested that Jewish underground might attempt to remove the Jews from the ships despite the presence of troops at the naval base. Indeed, it was said that some had already been remcved. R.D.X. PLANT OFFERED OTTAWA The plant at Shawinigan Falls which was used to manfacture the secret R.IhX, is offered for sale by War Assets Corporation. NEWEST NIOHT FIGHTER REVEALED Thia powerful P-82 Mufetang night lighter makes its debut In public In Los Angeles, Calif. The army air forces revealed that the deadly fighter has a top speed of more than 475 miles an hour. The centre section here contains radar equipment which can easily be Jettisoned. The new fighter has a top operating efficiency altitude of 45,000 feet It carries .50-callbre machine rungs, 20 rockets or two 1,000-pound bombs. The fighter has a combat range of 2,500 miles under full armament. BABY BONUS IS STARTING Two Million British Mothers Will Line Up For Payment Tomorrow LONDON Oi Great Britain will begin her million pounds a week bonuses for babies program tomorrow. More than two million moerspresplnwlstWi many children, are expected to queue up at post offices for the five shillings ($1) per wee to be paid by the government for each child under sixteen years of age" except the eldest. EISENHOWER IN SOUTH AMERICA RIO DE JANEIRO General Dwlght P. Eisenhower has arrived In Rio de Janeiro for a week's visit. After here he will visit Panama In Mexico . Manson Medal Drivers Hope To Make Halifax-Rupert Trip in Three Weeks MONTREAL (CP) Chief Petty Officer L. A. Ci Paige and his wife Jean are speeding westward today after passing Montreal on their 3,741- mile trip across Canada to win the Manson Medal WHO WINS BIG SALVAGE PRIZE? LONDON Who Is entitled to a rich salvage prize of a $4,500,000 cargo of the American freighter American Farmer which was badfy damaged 'after a collision in the Atlantic Ocean last. Wednesday and was abandoned by her err?? This Is a poslns International question which Is claiming the attention even of the British Admiralty. The British ship Elizabeth claims to have put a crew aboard the American Farmer and started towing her to the Welsh port of Cardiff. Then the American Ranger cvne along and put a party of enEhcers aboard, pulling down the British flag and forcing the British salvage crew off. The Unitil States destroyer rcary. also took a hand in convoy. Lloyds of London announced last week that the S.OOO-'ton American Farmer had sunk in the Atlantic 400 miles west of the English Channel after a collision. The Lloyd's announcement confirmed an SOS radio call picked up by the Radio Marine Corps station in Chatham. Mass. The SOS call said the American Farmer sank after colliding with the vessel William J. Riddle. The Coast Guard In New York reported that "all passengers, the crew and the master" of the American Farmer were saved by quick rescue work by the crew of the William J. Riddle. The survivors of the sinking had since been transferred to the Benjamin Goodhue and are believed on their way to New York, the Coast Guard said. Both the Goodhue and the si'. Washington responded to the SOS by the American Farmer and sfood by to assist the Riddle. The American Farmer was owned by the U.S. Lines and was built In 1945. She salted for London from Baltimore on July 15, and was In collision while on her return, voyage to New York. The American Farmer was described by the Coast Guard as an 8858-ton freighter. Premier's Memory Is to Be Jogged FremierJohn Hart will be reminded, If a resolution submlt-trd by the Prince Rupert Chamber of Comemrce Is approved by the Associated Boards of Trade convention at Terrace next week, of his reiterated undertaking that a survey of the western (Hazelton) route for a. connection wrlth the Alaska Highway would be made. The Premier will be asked for an Implementation of the pledge In the near future and also for a etatemrnt as to when It Ls proposed to undertake this survey. Northern Senator Is to Be Sought Support for the recent request to Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King that a senator be appointed who will be a representative pf Northern British Columbia will be sought from the Associated Boards of Trade of Cenr tral British Columbia at its annual convention In Terrace next week. Russia is Tightening UpEconomy Alaska Trade Board Delegates Will Arrive Here on Wednesday Eight Alaska delegates to the On- significant resolution; sub- two-day convention of the Asso elated Boards of Trade of Northern B.C. will arrive In Prince Rupert on Wednesday afternoon and proceed to Terrace, site of the convention, for the final day on Thursday. SK or the group are from Ketchikan, one from Juneau and one from Haines. Alaska chambers of Commerce, whose interests are recognized as parallel to those of north-central British Columbia, will come arm-to those being submitted to the (convention by British Columbia organizations. Throw Up Palestine JtwisU Agency Will Not Accept rartitio't Undergdound Still Threatens Meet In London JERUSALEM The Jewish Agency, In an official statement, declares the British plan for the quadruple partition of Palestine The underground radio of the organization which admitted responsibility for the recent bomb- i ing of the King David Hotel says that Imposition" of another curfew by the British would be Ignored and resisted and, If there was any attack upon the reslsters there would be 000 British casualties in addition Ui ew3. Meantime In London Prime Minister Clement Attlee, who returned home from the Paris rer conf erence. has been dls- etmlnr th Palestine situation T7ith Foreign Minister Ernest muiea Dy several Aiasica crram-bers of commerce, will urge the Immediate hard surfacing of the northern trans-provincial highway, with Initial surfacing work to start from Prince Rupert. A similar resolution Is being submitted by Terrace Board of Trade. The Ketchikan delegates will arrive Wednesday afternoon by aircraft, and the Juneau and Haines delegates will arrive at practically the same time on the Princess Norah. Leader of the Ketchikan delegation will be W. C. Stump, past president of the Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce, who will b their official speaker. Other delegatus Horn Ketchikan are: Past President, Ralph Bartholomew; Secretary, Ronald M111I-gan; William Raker, editor of the Ketchikan Chronicle; Emery Tobln, editor of the Alaska Sportsman; B. Frank Heinzel-man. regional forester. Delegate from Juneau Is Dr Whitehead and Maurice Whlt- tler. former collector, of customs, Is not only unacceptable but is j Is delegate from Haines, not even a basis for discussion. i in- t . . a. ...v.. . a . Pvln. in rprpvpr recverln? nT from I mm his nis " ill WAwramriN nr tt, Am. . .quisn a 9,uuu,uuu contract iroax nnoiui.yin, w.w. u i HCSJ, and Sir John Shaw, who re-! erlcan diplomatic authorities rrntiv returned from Palestlnk' ."I AZL ."v. Held in Russia foreshadow a tightening of Communist party control throughout the Soviet Union during the next twelve to eigheen months. They say that the Soviet government has moved vigorously to stamp out Inefficiency, negligence and dishonesty in local industries, placing party members In control positions. Fish Sales Canadian Takla, 04,000, Co-op. nag. viucco iue uimcu oia its ap- whole question of Palestine over to the United Nations. Wages Increased; Strike Is Ended PARIS Having accepted a 25 1 per cent war. e increase with prospects of a reclassification which may make It even more, French transportation and communication workers have ended the strike and returned to work offered by the Prince Rupert Public Relations Council for the first car driven across the continent to Prince Rupert over Canadian highway system. Paige and his wife hope to average 400 miles daily in their 1933 model and expect to make the trip in three weeks. They left Halifax on July 31. If they win the medal, they plan to stick on the car and drive back to Halifax in October. LOCAL SKIPPER MAKES EMERGENCY RUN TO SAVE AILING SHIPMATE How a Prince Rupert halibut skipper won a grim, 10-hour race through the Gulf of Alaska to save the life of one of his shipmates, stricken with acute apendiciti?, was revealed here at the week-end with the arrival of the halibut boat Miss Jean which re turned minus one of her crew. The stricken man, Harold ? Grlndstrand, a Prince Rupert fisherman, was taken by Capt. Paul Johansen to Kodiak hospital where he was operated on within an hour of arrival. A According to Capt. Johansen, the Miss Jean was fishing onj roruocK uans one evening, when Grlndstrand. who was unhooking halibut from the gear forced, 86-mile run was made which was being hauled in, was from Portlock Bank where the Miss Jean had been fishing. Grlndstrand, a brother of Er-Hng Gralndstrand, who Is a former president of the Deep Sea Fishermen's Union and a director of the Prince Rupert Cooperative, ls now reported to bo progressing favorably after the operation. The Miss Jean arrived in Port Friday with 56,000 pounds of halibut, which was sold to the Co-op. overcome with a sudden pain In his abdomen. Fearing the man's trouble to be apendlcitis, he headed the vessel for the nearest port, Kodiak, where they arrived 10 hours later. During the 10-hour run. Ice packs were placed on Grind-strand's body to relieve his pain. On their arrival at Kodiak, Grlndstrand was taken to the Catholic hospital where he was operated a few minutes after entering the institution. VICTORIA Herbert S. Ham-mill, managing director of the Victoria Machinery Depot, announces that it has been neces-' sary for the company to relln- are pnvateiy pvcucung mat rejiiavinj ire-n wae oi in $urvivcfr .TUver baree frrtf'WeVlal s In view of recent,, .ses. However.- aTirw- HTd.f i.?r li'fh F""1! such craft and another 25 may !'iau, wtc uuwdii "lay luui uiu HIRH WAGFC III VII j"r CAUSE urn 4 Victoria Machinery Depot Throws Up Contract Fiom French Government For Barge Building be undertaken, depending on the measure of man production. BROCKINGTON IS MEDIATOR OTTAWA L. W. Brocklngton, K.C., has been appointed chairman of mediation In the dispute between the steel operators and union in Canada. He presided over an opening session today to consider settlement Trans Canada Motorists Making Headway THE WEATHER Synopsis Pressures are high over the Pacific Ocean and moderately low over the Interior of the province and, as a result, a north- i westerly flow of cool moist air has developed along the coast. Cloudiness and widely scattered showers which are now general over the western half of British Columbia are expected to spread slowly eastward today. Temperatures for the next few day3 will be 11 to 15 degrees cooler than Sunday when maximums of 97 at Kamloops for the Interior and '8 at Comdx for the coast were recorded. Prince Rupert, Queen Char lottes and North Coast Cloudy with widely scattered rain showers. Northwest winds ten miles per hour. Little change In temperature. Minlmums expected tonight: Port Hardy 52, Massett 1 42, Prince Rupert 42. I BEVIN NOW RECOVERING LOMDON Foreign Minister Ernest Bevln Is rapidly recovering from his Illness and is expected to take his place within the next few day3 at the peace conference In Paris. Meantime, following the return to London of Prime Minister Clement Attlee, First Lord of yhe Admiralty A. V. Alexander Is acting as head of the British delegation at the Paris conference. 3 ! v Vt. i i t 1