I NORTHERN AND CENTRALjBRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER thfl Phone TAXI TAXI c MdNTYHE 537 nllHI DAT and NIGHT SERVICE across iron Published at Canada's lIost Strategic Pacific Port-"Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest? Bill and Ken Nesbitt vul,. aaav, NO. 193. PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., SATURDAY. AUGUST 17r 1946 ' PRICE FIVE CENTS .rrr 10-CENT INCREASE - The Brother- r TMtnflln to r iiu " rti that It nao re-ge increase otfei of v... from Cana - J1UUI nH Ontario nnllcat;n ior a rrr'car Ho the Wa uw ...twav unions. XI - .innn w-irkers are " ting LJn IMC i 1 1 1- n uu Mnrr. than 100 men I fvtrish!: today with ditchers to clear paclflt Railway thu district's worst cathedra) Mountain. Irjurea as uw wi j-tflfM the area, art kMind traf - tht rullwriv ..i. tolrrHtl") t On1 "i fp-direrted Th? ' :ff mile or track two sections of I .-. T LiiJCilKC liOlll. I -wed the trans-1 I RS' WAGE )EADL0CK i ? Negotiations Ulte1 Packing-, Prs (C.I.O. and; fw. and P Burns ! 'S hate broken ike rtes are being 0 meat workers In these companies, ; anr-inced today. ;sa said that the tain had an- p tsirflllngness to fanur now Swift St. however Is still V Chapter I Nets $157 jftapter l.o.D.E. tag PJ grc;;ed $157, helybe u:ed to add wide Second War Issd, Mrs Jens egent an- "uniiii ux if. 'ii l 1 1 1 I I vnm nntrwi. Ali .uuiK ulc Wf . Cet'. ..ty viiiuci lino thnn. .1 finn -o iv.1( -. mil Liiu m now I T III tmm i ri I fifteen huts, 1 by the n n a n '"' "ear uias-" occupied by clvl-' but an pmM air fAi ,cr nuts from being the '1neom movement , r,T T as 'amllies rcruwdM t..,., . . m llixnpfi tra a - nceous mlll-e Drlvat. u ... -v. 8nl daugh- ho ha u. 1 nppn a t. a Clty On the n. 011 Mo tan,. mxv t0 their horn hmo IMoilSI clt Kirk . Most PARADE WILL START BIG CARNIVAL i Prince Rupert to Convene Alongside Civic Centre Tonight Prince Rupert's Civic Centre wlT a, e of to a ... i" ionium vvim a paraae . . n,hl.h mill form at the Inter-1 Avenues, near Lindsay Motors, onH nrnreerl MItwarit tn fhp carnival grounds. The parade will start at 6:45 and arrive At the Civic Centre In time for. the official opening at 7 o'clock. Immediately following the opening ceremony will be an of- ull e tin A FltOST DANGER OVER EDMONTON Danger of frost on the prairies has passed but there has now been excessive rain. Three inches fell in Vermillion during twenty-four houis. AUSTRIA HEARD PARIS The peace conference vo,ed, aver the opposition of Russia, to hear Austria's views on the peace treaties. The vote was 15 to 6. GRAIN TO CHURCHILL WINNIPPEG An extra shipment of wheat made to Port Churchill by the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool to round out the last 100,000 bushels for the sixth ship to load out of the Hudson Bay pott. ' OVER EM BANKM ENT TRAIL EtU Huston is reported" In "fair" condition in hospital here after an automobile accident In which his car went 150 feet over an embankment. After the plunie he was able. to struggle to the road above wheie he fell unconscious, being picked up by a passing car. TRUMAN ON HOLIDAY WASHINGTON President Truman left today on the presidential yacht Williamsburg for a iwo weeks' vacation off the coast of New Zealand. Board or 1 racle n i i.i rans -Lanaaa r eal A . J : rii i 1 I i? r- . I ilLlHIlLIP. I.IIMSI. Wrrr rHCHlVfll nr T k r T aim mrs. u. t. j. x aie .!! n i t,i;uu-iiiiiH strrnss-iviillHlia UlllU- Diiiii.siin limn inriiii v 1111:11 Twill be presented to them to-' night. From K. A. Ross, president of the Halifax Junior Board of Trade came the following mes sage: "The Halifax Junior Board them, of Trade extends congratula- He always speaks in his nations to you on attaining your tlve language, although he knows goal, Prince Rupert. Greetings others, and usually he speaks so to the Prince Rupert Junior , clearly that anyone who has even Chamber of Commerce." I TJeo Arlmlral Tatilnf PPn ' raie s commanaing oincer ex-r"ghout coun-i tended tne following telegram: congratulations. Your acn-leyement which brings the Atlantic and Pacific closer Is very welcome In the Atlantic Command." C.P.O. and Mrs. Paige admit, a bit proudly, that both messages will find a prominent spot In the scrap book of pres3 notices and .stories which they are compiling of their trip. "It certainly was thoughtful of Rear Admiral Taylor and Mr. Ross to send the messages," C.P.O. Tnvlnr s.ild. "Tliev will get top billing in our scrap book." SMITHERS vs. PRINCE RUPERT Silndny 1:30 and fi p.m. ems an flcial welcome by Mayor II M. Daggett to Chief Petty Officer and Mrs. L. A. C. Paige, win ners of the Manson Oold Medal d th -torUt, .aw"f fto to drive from Halifax to Prince ?.upert ov" an U-Canadian iiignway ruuie. Presentation of the medal will follow the welcome. As Is customary during carnival opening nights, there will be no floor show but outside gam" and attractions will be In full operation. CALCUTTA RIOTS CALCUTTA The death toll In the rioting between Moslems and Hindus has risen to 250 with 1600 injured. STRIKE IS ENDED PENTICTON The strike of civic employees here has ended with a compromise agreement and work will be resumed on Monday. VISITING DIEPPE PARIS Prime Minister Mackenzie King of Canada is visiting Dieppe today and wilt spend one day each in Berlin and Nuernberg next week. MANITOBA FOLIO WINNIPEG There have been two more cases of in : fantile paralysis making ibtil 'of thirteen. I POLISH PREMIER OPENS OQOR TO FOREIGN PRESS Head of Poland's Provisional Regime Keenly Alert to International Developments By LARRY ALLEN WARSAW (AP) Poland's youthful premier, Edward B. Os-ubka-Morawski, has one of the toughest government Jobs in Europe today as he battles for his country's reconstruction and Internal security but hes never too busy to see the foreign press. Affable and hard-hitting in expressing his convictions, the premier has always left the door open fof foreign correspondents to approach him in marked contrast to some other members of the provisional regime. i A press conference with Osub - 1 ka-Morawskl never falls to pro - ! duce news. If he has none of his j own to hand out-and he usual - , ly has then a question or two onen proauces uie oesi siory oi the day. He knows the answers and he unhesitatingly gives a little knowledge of Polish doe3 not have much trouble getting the cardinal points. The premier usually holds his press conference in the long, spacious palace In Krakowskl Przedmlesolu. near the Hotel1 Bristol and almost within a from 20 or 30 foreign corres-stone's throw of the Vistula. pondents that sometimes lasts He Is always ready for any- as much as two, hours, and when thing and does not require that he knows he has satisfied the questions be submitted in ad- thirst for news, the premier vance. That Is one reason why , usually asks the newsmen into the answers he uives often make an adjoining palace room for frontpage news. Has Eye On U.S Tho nremipr i tppniv alert to international developments straight - speaking, unquestlon-and keeps a close eye on what ed iionosty and hard work, happens particularly in the! Ho has gained the respect of United States, cognizant of the correspondents to whom he says deep attachment of Poles for "You do not always have to say that country. I"lc0 things about Poland. Just He frequently sees United tell the truth. And' come and States Ambassador Arthur Bliss , sec mo when you want to know T.nnp nnri all other envoys and keeps up to the minute on what Is doing, where and why. After ho has submitted him- d Hindus In Bloody D PROTEST BREAD RATIONING British housewives demon strate in London to protest the rationing of bread. They want to be able tb buy the staff of life without government FRUITDAMAGED iBY .HEAVY WIND Hewever, Loss to Orchards Around I'enlicton Not as Setiou; as at First Feared PE!JTt:tON. CF High winds early Friday caused damage to'be;an Tnursdav when Ri was ivg pears and apples to the ground and destroying some trees. It was at first thought the damage would be heavy but surveys show It will be well under 10 per rent. The Kelowna district pretty well escaped, the most of the damage being around Pen-tlcton. Local Tides Sunday, August 18, 1946 High 4:45 18.8 feet n;io 19.7 feet Low 10:50 5.4 feet 23:39 5.7 feet Jfkl I IT A II yjU rltAU . . RI AMpI) 'J Uk-HI i Lif Ottawa i w r nr in- Htri.ii HKnntP rnmmiinnpr who w,u lnvestlgate lhe diSpUte between the international Typo - grapnlcal union and Winnipeg newspapers, said in a report tihipri tnHir timt. fMitiro nf i h local union to come to an agree ment "lies squarely on the shoul- riers of the executive head ofir J- D. Galbralth the medical fori mperintendenk so far has four the Union at Indianapolis Insisting throughout that Union laws should be supreme. Card said that both union and publishers had failed to recog-nlie the interests of the state and the public. self to a barrage pf questions a glass of wine. Among his own people. th cremier has a reputation for , sometmng. That is in marked contrast to President Boleslaw Bierut.'He seldom cees the foreign press Being Rushed to Father's Bedside HALIFAX, jfepmewhere be-. tTtenliaUtaxndthe 'West Cof.st a mercy flight is rushing Sapoer D. K. Rice to the bedside of his dying father at Dawson Creek In the Peace River Block, of British Columbia The flight' taken off the liner Aqultanla, on which he was returning from overseas, and boarded a Trans - Canada Air Lines plane. It was reportea tnar, mces iatner nas but a week to live. MILLER BAY OPERATING Eighteen Patients Now in Institution for Tuberculous Indians With 18 patients in its beds, the Department of Indian Affairs' hospital for tuberculous patients at Miller Bay near Galloway Rapids on the inside of Kalen Island is now in operation although the formal opening has not yet taken place. During the Irast week or so, the patients have Parted moving in. 1 The hospital has a capacity for I '50 patients but the number that 'ran bs admitted will bs regulated '. fcr the time being at least th rough the fact that the institution Is not fully staffed as yet. RiV., one time member of the nursing staff of Prince Rupert General Hospital, as lady super intendent. The majority of the patients so far are women with a few children. The hospital, which was originally built by the Royal .Canadian Air Force in war's emergency, has five large wards and some smaller ones. It is modernly designed and equipped. CASSIAR GETS AIR SERVICE Licence for Pacn?er and Freight Run Out of Telegraph Creek h Granted OTTAWA .ffi Licence for a non-scheduled charter comm;r-cMl air service carrying passengers and soocU and based tit Telegraph Creek has been granted, the Air Transport Board announced yesterday. Troops Quell India Riots CALCUTTA BO British troops moved into this "first city" of India today to quell disturbances which cost an estimated 260 llve3 In two days of turmoil coincident with the Moslem League's call for "direct action" against Britain's Independence proposals. A curfew was Imposed, and a Bengal press announcement confirmed a report that the army had been asked to help check the mounting disorder in this city of more than 2,000,000 inhabitants. i Police opened fire to disperse ; the angy crowds. Estimated 'losses from looting were more than $3,000,000. CONTROLLING OF LAKE SERVICES OTTAWA, 05 Hon. Lionel , PlipvHpr minister nf tiM twnnrt J 3ald; li '-e House of Commons yesterd.. at he woum investi gate to :e whether Inland steamship service could be brought under the Board of Transport Cemmlssioners. Ri R. Herrldge, Independent CXtF. member for Kootenayj yest, said that residents around the interior lakes of British Col umbla were always confronted with confusion when ihey sought to bring complaints about Cana dian Pacific Steamships service there before the government. FISH UNION A im MIMLnv ' Mil J lTllilLlJ , rTnilr CMUR 1 I K I ft ! rllNU I Striking hard rock miners at i Premier are to be assisted by ; the Prince Rupert local, United j Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union, which plans to levy a $2 assessment against each of Its members. The fishermen's union hopes in this way to do nate $600 to the miners who walked off their jobs several week sago. In addition to the $2 membership assessment, the U.F.A. W.U. has already donated $50 from union funds. The contribution was authorized at a meeting of the union this week after members had heard a talk by B. J. Smlthson, secretary of the Premier local of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter workers. About 150 of the original 200 miners who went out on strike are still at Premier. This Includes about 30 families. The meeting also decided to endorse the stand taken by the Prince Rupert Trades and Labor Council, declaring the Vancouver Province unfair to organized labor. Members were told to govern themselves ac cordingly which, in effect, may mean a boycott on the Southam newspaper. Flower Show .to Start Thursday Prince Rupert Horticultural Society's annual flower show, held In conjunction with the Civic Centre carnival will open next Thursday in the second floor lounge of the Civic Centre, and will remain open until Friday night. Tills year's judge will be" C. P. Balagno. who also will have a special, non-competitive display of blooms from his own home garden. Mr. Balagno's dahlias are well known throughout the city for their perfection of coloring and size. Fish Sales American Alaska, 60.000, Storage. Canadian -4 San Juan, 65,000, Atlin. .'Strafcn, 23,000, Co-op. .. Cape Spear, 16,000 (black codl Co-op. CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE SEES NEEDOF QUICK ALASKA DEFENCE ANCHORAGE CO House of Representatives military committee members, here yesterday, expressed the opinion that the United 3tates' vast northern territory must be adequately and quickly armed to repel any possible Invasion. "Alaska is the direct overland route to the United States and we must not allow any one to take It," a spokesman said. Members of the committee supported the Idea of Army leaders of a completely airborne division as the backbone of the defence program. Division support forces would recilre 21,000 men. Alaska Is Having Army Manoeuvres SEATTLE, 0) When, the United States Army transport St. Olaf headed for Alaska yesterday she carried the 30-man vanguard of an army task force which will stage first post-war manoeuvres to test equipment ori the Meutlans and on the Alaska mainland. UNDERGROUND IN BELGIUM Screened Allied Airmen for Possible German Spies wiNHTPEQ. a Belzlum's wartime underground, far from being a single, co-orainated organization, was actually a group of sarate factions conducting Individual campaigns against the German, ih's was reported here recentlv by Jack Hill, former R. v.i.r . tcmber pilot wno was snot down over the German-Belgian Hill was taken in by a larmers wife, and .It wasn't long before several resistance groups were competing for his services. He was finally posted to Liege and siven the tob of Identifying Allied airms-r picked up in the surrounding district. He had to be on the lookout for German sp!e3. In SeDttmber 1944 Liege was liberated by the Americans. Hill was standing by the roadside as the first tanks rolled In, and the commander, speaking in broken . French, asked for directions. Hill replied in English. "Hey," said the American, "Where did you learn English?" "In school." "But you speak without accent. You must have a wonderful school system." "Yes, we certainly have," said Hill, and let it go at that. Baseball Scores American Leajue Washington-Philadelphia rain. Chicago 1, Detroit 3. New York 1, Boston 4. National League Pittsburgh -St. Louis, rain. Boston-New York, rain. Philadelphia 4, Brooklyn 2. Cincinnati 3, Chicago 2. Pittsburgh 3, St. Louis 0. International League Toronto 2-12, Baltimore 1-7. Syracuse 2-11, Buffalo 4-6. , American Association Minneapolis 1-1. Columbus 4-5. St. Paul 4-4, Toledo 7-13. Milwaukee 0-1, Louisville 14. (First game 12 innings). Pacific Coast League Los An.gele3 8, San Diego 7. Seattle 6, Hollywood 8. Oakland 2, Sacramento 5. Portland 1, San Francisco 8. Western International Spokane 3, Tacoma 18. Salem 7, Vancouver 12. Yakima 11-7, Wenatchee 6-6. Victoria 6, Bremerton 4. I isomers More Money For Network Unlimited Loans for C.B.C. Recommended Private Staticn Network Disapproved OTTAWA, V) The House of-Commons radio committee re commends in Its report unlimited government loans to the Cana dian Broadcasting Corporation to finance its $2,000,000 expansion program and passing over of full receipts from licence fee collections to the corporation. The Corporation now stands to get about $4,300,000 annually from licence fees. One. of the main features of the report is affirmation of Can-edlan Broadcasting Corporation policy of taking over private sta tion frequences. The report disapproves the suggestion for a private station network, STEEITDISPUTE TO GOVERNMENT OTTAWA, Report of the -'ouse of Commons Industrial gelations committee will likely land the steel strike squarely in the lap of the government, it was learned here. The report U expected to mark complete wlth-i drawal of the committee from the strike dispute and thus leave further conciliation efforts to the government. WORK PICTURE IS IMPROVED Statement of Minister of Labor Makes Industrial Situation in British Columbia Much Easier VANCOUVER. IT The industrial! relations situation In British Columbia 13 rnuin eased " a result of the provincial government announcement yesterday that the British Columbia regional labor board would not be go-.vned by the suggested 10c per hour limit. The announcement of ' ttao abandonment of the 10c ceilln.5 idea came after C.C.L. unions had announced that they would seek "mandates for strike action" at the week-end meeting follow-in? failure of a conference with Hon. George Pearson, provincial minister of labor and the regional labor board for agreement on a 10-cent wage boos limit. The union's representatives said then that the board's explanation for the order was "un satisfactory' The unions charg ed that the board was refusing to live up to Its responsibilities and was "accepting secret dictations received from reactionary interests at Ottawa." However, Mr. Pearson's later announcement changed the entire picture and the situation is much Improved now. TODAY'S EVENTS CIVIC CENTRE CARNIVAL 6:;45 p.m. Parade, leaving lntesectlon of Second and Third tj Avenues. 7;0Q p.m. Official welcome to CPO and Mrs. Paige, Hall- ' fax-Prince Rupert Motorists. Qfficial Opening by the Paiges DANCE Carnival Events in Full Swlnff All Evening-