0 Pi 'U patches Gi t r -ported ni:.iat cngagc- . in the Lar-. Ore k regular mountain . 3 bC Sllf- II . in r i i r y Talkinq n uiMa nui lias t4J 111 urfc.iiiiin 14k ,1 J. v nil f I premier Jolin i t lumbia ar- Jay for the on a pos-.) agreement ;vi- iimcnt but A ... I. , I.- w ,:t th. time. ) mc i.tiKing Mr Hi.o but right t;:::: to ay any- umi;ia premier . , . , . i. .i : ill' ii .ixivi'ii i minrts that r J 10 inn ; (i the bud- i j.: lory as Tar j ir.bm was con- i il a been in u ur il .... ...... .1.1 ii.,- nuuill nil c-i u nf c-mia ouiain a i M.OCO.OOO a year r ti ,al ncrlod. If t i v.i n it av.rco thr pr:'. - will r;0 back i ::ii 'nx field. S ASK (RATION Report and District -w.atlan has asked ward to voluntarily a ai Duration the 'a (or Increases rh'dulp , on which the f Save been unable to ui niic rcccni "i h!"ii a'.'.rccmenl fcachid arc: Jl : -wunccs to lake 1!;hC, COi! nf llvliur In jnpn .... ... . r ami (ii;,irici.. oi teachers- on -ncihilr wan the SchooW ,c 'iictl w pivc rise to " 011 W ;e tw ihiIi,i "au.sed tin-1, iri,.'.. i,. " b'aro .iubnilt them iii:i ii'-i-i..!! :i- that since ;' ' Uic Prlnct "in i U.1(J tvi'rn iirinil.lorl ""'UTS ilnii, i..i . j w, i,ulv ' a orrvifnii ni...i '', ihsnirt . .j u "i- icco'inizeu vu lor y the present VUVIT i h I - t M 'wcui-ts- Council " "i't incrcaw of . - ortei rising ;iv- ... irariiers on the Pa bc the two to,,,,: r" wn.;rc it ln- f.t. '"'HIS I17im mil "i i moo Or K1 1ntt :C(5 17.2 feet :" 18.5 feet : 0 10.7 feet 23 17 0.2 feat j been ruled Ineligible by properly! technicalities. j Threat of a tie-up of the local Edmunds and Walker clam operation was averted when the general membership upheld a decision of the plant employees. The employees Involved had prc- i vlously voted to accept an am-i ended wage scale which had i been negotiated by the Union and the B.C. Packers In Vancouver. Wages and conditions In this operation arc now more in line with those won by the lrcsh fish workers this summer. T. Smith, Union representative on the Leonard Campbell case reported that several large donations had been received with Coop Union employees contributing I over $100.00. A donaUon-shcc. Is ibcJiig circulated 'throughout, the rest of the plants. President D. MacGillivray was in the chair and there was a good attendance. BIG FIRE AT s METLAKATLA Villagers Arc DemolMiin; Some of Their Old lluilUinss Heavy billowing of flame and smoke rrom the native village or Mctlakatla today docs not mean that the native community Is having an uncontrolled conflagration. This week permission was given the people there to demolish some of their old buildings by fi.e and that Is evidently what is going on this afternoon. There had been Inquiries at the Dally News office. RUSSIAN'S WmiDKAtVlM; MOSCOW I -arse withdrawals of Russian forces are bein? made from Soviet - occupied Germany, It is announced. The object is demobilization. JMAV KXTKNI) MASK VANCOUVER According to advices received hue, the Canadian Pacific Railway Co. is to extend the lease of the Vancouver Hotel as a lioslrl for cx-servicc men and dependents for another year from April Kit to April 1918. RETAIL SALES VV OTTAWA-.. Jtc tail sales in, Canada' this October were' much higher than last year and so were bank deposits. Sales of alcohol led in gain with filly percent. Shoes were down 11 percent. ART GALLERY ROIIIIEI) NEW YORK Discriminating robbers have taken what the director described as the cream of etchings from the New York Art Gallery. REBELS CENSURED LONDON The Paiiiamcn-tary Labor Party today censured rebel members of the party who recently took part in a revolt against the government on its foreign policy. YANKS AT CHURCHILL CHURCHILL Members of the United Stales Aimy Engineers' Corps to the number of 193 arc now stationed here. There arc 375 men of the three Canadian services and 125 more arc coming. Lightning Drive l1 or lerruce Civic Centre Going Over Big Already $3,000 Raised To Pur-chase Drill Hall and Officers' Mess TI3UKACK (Special to Daily News) At a well attended meeting of the ratepayers held Tuesday evening in the Oddfellows' Hall ways and means lor purchasing the army drill hall and officers' mess ad-ioinint' were up for discussion as a result of which a juiu.i., "I- ; .win .,i , . lightening fund raising drive siaru-u wuu p.,u " " ready raised. j T Aftrr various schemes had Tlic committees Immediate od been considered at the meeting jjeclivc b to raise $1,000 to cover Alf Yoxull said that, If a sub scrlptlon list could be opened, he would donate $200. Following discussion two business litms offered $200 each and a committee was then set up to handle the work of securing the money. . The committee Is headed by Mr. Yoxall and Includes J. H. Smith, Hans Koch. W. C. Osborne, and D. G. Little; Late on Wednesday afler-teed subscriptions were over $2,200 with a number hns-lncss men and others still to be Interviewed. Publicity for the scheme has been offered by C. M. Adam through the medium of the screen of the picture show on Friday r.nd Saturday evenings. The ccmanlttec also have plans for a celdbratlon In the drill hall In the near future. the cost of the uriu nan anu equipment. The project of the purchase of the officers' mess was referred to the commissioners by the meeting with a request that a plebiscite be taken on this item nt the municipal election on December 12. A larce barometer has been posted that will show 'the standing or the campaign from hour to hour. So Tar there have been eleven subscriptions or $200 each. Canvass of the business community not completed and general canvass Is not started, The committee expects to have runds so the municipality can send a cheque to War Assets tomorrow night and will go on to the objective or $6,000 to supply funds ror equipment. NORTHERN AND CNTRAl! SlSCpLlLlBIA'i S NEWBPAPER , TAX! 1, TAXI TAXI Phone 111 0 537 liND NIOHT SERVICE DAY AND NIGHT SERVICE iioiri, iir rtVC ! fortaai Qovemn, 1 Canada' Most Strategic Pacific Port -"Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" Bill and Ken Nesbitt ' f0- 278- PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., THURSDAY.; NOVEMBER 28, 1946 PRICE FIVE CENTS I I V . Labor Candidates; Favorable to Daggett u In Local Fish Handling Plant .i.A Rv Decision or hmnlnvnos re of the I'ivic Labor Federation to produce esof the working class with property quali-ifho lorthcominir civic election w:is causa anointment and serious discussion at the mpetine f the United Fishermen and Allied . Itninn Tlii local went on record ns snnnnH-. .Uv - - II WAR nrrrc pri Ing only those candidates who were willing to accept the program of the Federation and is urging that body to place candidates In the field In opposition to all Independents. The local frit that Mayor Daggett could no longer command the support of organized labor since he declined nomination on lis slate. J. Taylor was nominated to replace D. Gomez in the aldrr-nianic nominations of the Civic Labor Federation. D. Gomez has FRENCH POLITICAL SITUATION- Tills latest photograph of Georges Bidault, provisional president of France, shows him at a meeting of the national press club In Paris. As a result of the national elections Bidault's premiership must now be offered to Communist Leader Maurice Thorez, whose party won 168 scats In the elections. Whether Thorez will get the vote of confidence necessary to carry on, is still a matter or conjecture. Premier Bidault resigned today. WARM IN LOS ANGELES LOS ANGELES Weather Is unseasonably warm here at 87. The pievious high November mark was 99 in 1903. IIOATS FROZEN IN ASTRAKAN One hundred ffching boats, with 2000 men aboard, arc trapped, by ire in the Caspian Sea. Ice breakers are being used to extricate the boats and food supplies arc being dropped by plane. MONTY IN JERUSALEM. JERUSALEM Field Marshal here. WHEAT AT HALIFAX" HALIFAX First wheat ship of the .season, Empire MrKcii-drkk, has arrived. here 'to load 275,000 bushels. It is expected 8,000,000 bushels will be shipped through here. PUILiri'lNE CLASH MANILA A major clash between government forces and insurgents 100 miles north of Manila is reported. (THIRTY-ONE ARE ENLISTED Recruiting For New Naval Division Here Gets Ofr To Good Start There Jiavc been 31 volunteers In the still-young drive for re emits in Ihc nowly rccoininls sioned 1I.M.C.S. Chatham as reserve division of the Royal Canadian Navy. There is every Indication that, uv the time for final attestations next Mon day, the full strength of 80 will have been raised. Meanwhile the volunteers to .date are: Officers Lt. Cdr. O. G. Stuart, Lt. Cdr. J. D. McHac, Lieut. T. A Johnstone, Lieut. It. D. Minnion Lieut. Carl Smith, Lieut. Mulhcrn and Suib. Lieut. Walter Smith. Chaplain Basil S. Procktcr. C.P.O. D. MacGillivray, C.P.O ,t. G. Laurie. C.P.O. 11. W. Uobb, P.O. Itobcrt Elklns, Seamen P. J. Patterson, Gordon Rothwell, M. Sharpc. Nell Shrppard, Pat Wilson, S. Youngman. G. P. Wood-side, C. II. Currle, Stewart Don aldson, Albert Eyolfson, F. Faught, Jack Furncss, S. A. Hcm-mons, 13. Halcrow, D. Hill, G. N. Lcmlrc, 13. Lees and Harry Menzic. Higher Dairy Prices In Canada Are Asked OTTAWA Oi--A delegation representing Canadian dairy farmers met the federal cabinet today and presented a brief ask ing Tor an Increase In the price or butlcrfat, cheese and concentrated milk products. The dele gation was made iiy of repre sentatives of the Canadian Feet eratlon of Agriculture. A special cabinet committee headed by Finance Minister J. L. Ilsley will consider the request for higher prices. End Armaments Race, Urges Molotov to United Nations Starting on Barges Now Work to Commence at Once It VJM.D. Yard for trench Government VICTORIA, 0 Work is starting almost Immediately at Uie Victoria Machinery Depot Ltd, plant here on a French government contract of almost $3,000,-000 for self-propelled Rhine Itiver barges, II. S. Hammill, manager, announced last night. Work will go ahead at once on five barges oi the 20-shtp, contract and, If the yard can successfully construct these at the agreed price, the full contract will he carried out. Start of this work brings the value cf contracts In two big locil yards to approximately $10,000,000. Second major Job at Victoria Machinery Depot Is the conver sion or the Princess Kathleen at cost of $1,500,000. SALES TAX FOR AGE PENSIONS Such is Proposal of Attorney General Gordon Wlsmer VICTORIA Attorney General Gordon Wlsmer proposes the Imposition of a sales tax on other than: food to finance a provin cial pld age pension scheme. He 'v7meiii"l f la it, '"has a'rrivedj butory scheme for the "time being at least. TODAY'S STOCKS Courtesy S. D. Johnston Co. Ltd .ViVW.VAWW.WW Vancouver Bralome 11.50 13. R. Con. 09Vj B.ROC 12 Cariboo Quartz 2.72 Dentonla Grull Wlhksne Hcdlcy Mascot Minto Pend Oreille .... Premier Border JO .10 1.35 05'2 3.70 .06' Premier Gold 1.47 Privateer 56 Reeves McDonald 1.25 Reno ..12 Salmon Gold .19 Sheep Creek 1.26 Taylor Bridge .70 Whitewater 02 Vananda 30 Congress 10 Paclllc Eastern .48 Hcdlcy Amalgamated - .10 Spud Valley 20 Central Zeballos 07 Oils A.P. Con .-. 10 Calmont 22 C. & E. 1.60 Foothills 1.75 Home 2.42 Toronto Aumaque .78 Beattle 1.10 Bobjo 14 Buiralo Canadian. 18 Con. Smelters 85.50 Eldona .56 Elder 1.02 Giant Yellowknlle 5.80 Hardrock 55 Jacknlrc 13 Joliet Quebec .75 Little Long Lac 1.78 Madscn - 3.05 MacLeod 1.70 Moncta 56 Omega 16', Pickle Crow 2.81 San Antonio 3.75 Senator Rouyn 49 Shcrrlt Gordoij 2.05 Steep Rock 2.ro Sturgeon River 22 Lynx 25 Lapaska 34 God's Lake 55 Negus 1.90 Aubcllc 31 Heva - 69 Harrlcana 20 McKen2e 81 Donalda 1.41 DUBLIN Automdblles as' sembled here are being exported to Europe and Africa. "MERCY" SLAYER IS REPREIVED Gordon Richard Long lias His Death Sentence Changed To' Life Imprisonment LONDON TOGordon Rich-ard Long, sentenced to be hanged for the "mercy" slaying of his imbecile daughter, was reprieved today. He pleaded guilty last week to the murder tof the seven-year-old girl who "could not tell night from day." Reprieve was granted by the Home Secretary pu the representations of neighbors. It automatically means life imprisonment but there may be further review. Denis Murphy Quits As U.B.C. Governor VANCOUVER, Retirement of Hon. Mr. Justice Denis Murphy, former British Columbia Supreme Court Jurist, rrom the board of governors of the University of British Columbia on which he served almost continu ously ror 25 years, was announc ed last night. Immediate Outlawing of Atomic Bomb Demanded United States Should Dispose of Stock Pile, Russian Foreign Commissar Feels LAKE SUCCESS, New York (CP) Russian Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov, in opening the United Nations debate on world armament reduction, today called on member countries "to put an end to the arms race which has begun." While calling for immediate reduction of all armaments, he stressed particularly the atomic bomb and demanded that this weapon be outlawed I Immediately by International convention. He noted that, the atomic .question had already been under study since June 14 by the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission. Mr; Molotov then expressed regret that the commission had not accept ed Soviet proposal lor disposal or a stock pile of bombs secreted by the United States. Refusal to reach an agree ment is violation of what the world wants." Molotov said. "It Is wrong to postpone a decision." The Russian lorelgn commissar orrered a resolution proposing creation of two commissions as enrorcement agencies to see that any arms reduction agreements are not violated. Mrs. West, South Hazelton, Is Hunting Fatality Victim Fatally Shot Near Seaton In Bulkley Valfey Wednesday Af ternoon- Police Investigating Circumstances Constable W. A. West of Hazelton has proceeded to Seaton, 25 miles east of Hazelton in the Bulkley Valley, to investigate the circumstances of a hunting fatality in which the victim was Mrs. Leslie H. West of South Hazelton. Mrs. West was hunting with her husband and Fred Spitzl and the latter is reported to Charles E. Stewart who has been appointed superintendent of motive power and car equipment for the Canadian National Railways in British Columbia, succeeding C. J. Quantlc, retired, and who visited Prince Rupert yesterday. Mr." Stewart, who will have his headquarters in Vancouver, started his lengthy railway career as a machinist nnnrentlce at Edmonton in 1906. He comes to his new post from Edmonton, where for the last eight years lie has been master mechanic of the Northern Alberta .Railways, Jointly owned and operated by the two major Canadian railways. BELFAST, Northern Ireland IK Ten per cent of Northern Ire land's 1946 croD was lost because of bad weather. have fired the laiai snoi wnicn, it appears from early Indica tions, was accidental. The tra gedy occurred at 4:30 Wednes day afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. West and Spitzl, all of South Hazelton, were hunting deer along the New Hazelton-Smlthers road. Mr. and 1 Mrs, West were coming out of the bush together. Spitzl, also still In the bush, is believed to have mistaken them for a moose and fired, Mrs. West, apparent ly, died almost Instantly. The body of the unlortunate woman was taken to hospital at Hazelton but life had been ex 1 tlnct for some time. An Inquest Is being held this atternoon at Hazelton. Mrs. West, whose husband is a sawmill operator at South Hazelton. leaves, .besides her husband, a family of two chll dren. ELECTIONS IN NEW ZEALAND Standing, on Basis of Latest Returns, 43 to 37 for Labor AUCKLAND Latest count Ircm the New Zealand general elections yesterday gives the Labor party, which now holds the government, 43 seats with 37 for the National party. With returns still Incomplete, the result is close In 11 seats but no important change In the general standing Is expected. In the cities the trend ol vot ing was tor the Labor party and in the tarmlng areas for the Na tlonal party. FOREIGN MINISTERS' COMPROMISE TO SETTLE EUROPE PEACE PACTS NEW YORK III n sweeping series of compromises, the foreign ministers council of the United Nations last night smashed the deadlock over Trieste and made the greatest progress to date In drafting peace pacts for Axis satellites. Persons present at the council deliberations said the ministers reached agreement on all questions relating to Trieste and moved on to settle some or the problems or Italy. Action rollowed a private discussion between Secretary or State James F. Byrnes and Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov on Monday when both made concessions. MUST RETAIN VETO POWER Otherwise United Nations O tanlzatlon Would Fall NEW YORK M. J. Coldwell, C. CF, .leader speaking last nlsht after attending United NaUons in New York, said any attempt to abolish or seriously curtail the veto would wreck the United Nations organization. He, hlin self, was opposed to the veto. There could be no disarmament until all the nations consented to inspection oX munition factories. The Canadian delegation to the general assembly of the Unlr ted Nations Is unanimous on the importance of International dis armament and even a measurs of success will lniprovet living standards throughout the woTld. Mr. Coldwell, who Is a member, cf the Canadian delegation, said in a,broad;ast over the- Canadian Broadcasting " Corporation network. GOODWILL TRIP BEING ARRANGED Prinee Rupert Chamber of Commerce Planning to Go to Ketchikan Next Week A goodwill mission to Ketchl kan is being planned by the Prince Rupert Chamber of Commerce and considerable Interest Is toeing manifested among the members with several reservations already made. The new Union Sieanittilp Co s liner Camosun will be used on December 6, Friday or next weekv leaving here at midnight,, arriv ing at Ketchikan at 8 am. Saturday, leaving there at 2 pjn. and returning here at 10 pjn. There would be a luncheon aboard the steamtr with members cf the Ketchikan chamber. APARTMENT IS BURNED Twenty-two Suites In Tache Block in St. Boniface WINNIPEG When the Tache Block at Tache and Eugenlo Streets in St. BonHace was des troyed by rire yesterday, 65 persons living In 22 suites were ren dered homeless In zero weather. Damage is placed at more than" $100,000. THE WEATHER Synopsis At 4:30 a.m. today a stron? southwesterly Iront of moist Pa-ciric air, entering the coastal regions of British Columbia, caused variable cloudiness and widely scattered rain showers over the southern areas. A cold air mass lies over central and northern British Columbia and tempera-lures In these' areas are some-vvhat below seasonal averages. Forecast . Prince Rupert, Queen Charlottes and North Coast Overcast, becoming cloudy this afternoon, clearing tonight. Widely scattered rain showers today. Variable cloudiness on Friday. Light variable winds. Little chanse In temperature except cooler on northern mainland. Minlmums tonightPort Hardy, 34; Massett, 32; Prince Rupert. 28. Maximums on Friday Port Hardy, 45; Massett, 40;' Pilnce Rupert, 40.