NORTI1ERN AND CKNTHAJIYOLUMBIAS NEWSPAPER Local Tides '.Si TAXI TAXI Friday, January 25, 1010 537 UiKl) 7:00, 18.1 fect 19:41 15.1 feet 0:30 8.4 leet DAY and NIGHT SERVICE tow 13:44 8.9 feet Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port Bill and Ken Nesbitt VOL. XXXV, No. 20. PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 194G PRICE FIVE CENTS Id et There Be Light" viiar- Vt N K TIFNT FORBEARANCE ft IIPGFn H. G. Perry Breaks Away From Inspiringly Local Club t a time when the whole world is "looking for r. it is proper that here in Prince Rupert the .mbers of Commerce the city council, the indus-) development committee, the service clubs and organizations should be trying to get what cn-tenment they can as to the future from such rc- Me authorities as the gov- ent and the railway corn's on matters of vital con- Ii was Indeed, essential,! (hey band themselves to- i-r in xrv'lc from triosp ron- We are much concerned hat ts to take place now In tries which, In the pressure ,p war eiiort, aDsorDea our It is right that we should to get some light from future hold.s for us the t'r. nnn i.np 111mm n l ps- ch matters as dry dock op-);: port developments, Orl- (rade tourist traffic, pulp railway service." jwke II. O. Perry, eloqent her of Prince George and c Rupert newspapers and , r - -I it 1 temporary self .imposed at frotn public speaking Mil a- Jong -deferred prow.? i Club. The address took at yesterday's Gyro lun- and delighted and In- i i i ii it iTii'in nrrc inn m at ration I rnm Perry caught an Im- nl.n fni;ttriiHnii f.m ...n. lncidents as he travelled Pnnce George to Prince ught at the railway sta- thr boys on the train from . ....VUMVV M4 :) t inn f - t ttl lU ttt .. i vwn ivi niu lllllL WHICH leierpnro in thn r Yintfn-or It gave me the idea," I should speak to" you to entitle my talk 'Give Light " Prom there cn-a treat of reasoned and '"at thought so typical of '( ( V (Cnnri I ncouver fc Snowbound "irst Snowfall in Decade "rn y lO-Milc-an-Hour iilo V A V n .. . - iuc worst ... .iiuic man icii me lilstory of lower fouver Island almost to- solatcd all cast coast from Duncan to Na- n t . . .itiui iiours wca-;y Tlic .storm started' at iuu ragca lor . i-miiii- ujj gnow io a n of seven Inches by 0 "vcn by a 40-milc gaie c noruiwest. the stnrm turiauca all bus and traffic as highways wptp ... iri ti.,. nu j.uuhrs oi me imn . ir. .nicouvcr steam-service were cancelled. ' apn com- wre nisruptca I i i n . i at. n ... . cather Forecast h Coast Mortnrnln in "'ill Ifl llni-ll.... i . Kin- i """"""i winas, alr a"d cold today and - . K 'O. m -w- - w Yt IP K lr SEES "LIGHT" II, O, Perry, bright speaker at Gyro Club luncheon during visit to city. Bright Explosion" iiurm jkv A report of a "brilliant explosion" on Cauc Fox at the lower part of the Alaska Tan-handlc, wa$ received In the city, last night, but local sources were unable to give an explanation for the incident today. According to the report, A. Drcntzcn of Port Simpson saw what appeared to be a "brilliant explosion" on the United States side of Cape Fox at 7:25 last night. The brilliance lit up the whole cape and lasted" about two minutes, according to Drcntzcn, who telephoned the story to the Digby Island meteorological station. An operator at Digby Island parsed the story on to city police In Prince Rupert, who told the American authorities. It was thought possible that some sort of drifting war explosive might have gone off when striklry; land'. INCKKASK BEER TAX TORONTO The United Church of Canada would increase the excise tax on beer, thus adding S'OQ.000,000 annually te federal revenue. Missing YOUTHS' SHOOTING AT TELEGRAPH CABLES SEVER COMMUNICATIONS Heivy Damage Done to Port Edward Military Line Army Threatens Prosecution Youths armed with .22 rifles have been causing serious damage to the Canadian Army's communication system between Prince Itupcrt and Port Kd-w'ard by shooting holes in the lead-covered cable and army "authorities are seriously considering prosecuting anyone found with guns in that area. Damage to the line, which has occurred on four occasions, according to Sgt. Major E. W. H Miller of the 9th Area Signal Company, has severed communications between military centres In Prince Rupert and Port Edward, causing considerable trouble In repairing It. "It has kept a crew of four men busy during the last two weeks " Sat Major Miller said. Gets C. P. R. Suite GOVERNOR OI' BERMUDA LONDON Admiral Sir Ralph Lecsnn, formerly in charge of Portsmouth naval base during the war, will succeed Lord Burleigh as governor of Bermuda. ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION LONDON The United Nations Organization Assembly voted unanimously today for the establishment of a special international atomic energy commission. U. S. RAILWAY TIE-UP NEW YORK The possibility of a cenrral railway strike in the United States in about three and a half weeks looms with the decision of the Brotherhood of Railway Employees to held a strike vote, A wage increase is demanded. AIRCRAFT CARRIER COMING BELFAST Canada's first aircraft carrier, li.M.C.S. Warrior, was commissioned yesterday. It will have a crew of 1200 officers and men and will be Canada's biggest naval ves-!Cl. Cant. I L. Houghton will be the commander of the vessel which will be based at Halifax. She will carry fighter and reconnaissance planes. MANY PERISH, IN FIRES OTTAWA The Dominion Fire Commission announces thai Z persons perished by fire in Canada since October. i no peniMo or Canada to e more careful with fire. ( KIMCAI. OF TASS TOKYO General 'Douglas MacArthur severely criticizes Tass News Agency of Russia for its erilirfsm cf behavior of ( he American command in Korea. 11 is part of a Soviet plan to undermine Allied command authority in Korea, a plan designed to create distrust and suspicion. COIMN NEW PRESIDENT PARIS Felix Gouin was yesterday elected president cf France with 197 out of 53C votes. There were 35 votes for Michel Clemeiireau, son of the late Georges Clemenceau, the "Tiger of France"' and statesman of World War I. POINTS REDUCED OTTAWA The minimum of prints for discharge from the Canadian Army has been further reduced by ten to 70. to NEW SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION VICTORIA Hon. G. M. Weir, minister of education, says that much activity in new school construction is' to be expected in the province during the coming year. Plane a "If we had to pay civilian repair men it would have cost well over $1,000. We arc short of army men, which adds to our difficulties." The line also connects 6hc Miller Day Indian hospital with the city. Disclaiming any desire to "cause trouble." Sgt. Major Miller however snld thrt If the tin J FINISH REPATRIATION OTTAWA Repatriation of Canadian forces from Europe is expected to be finished by the first week in March. There are now 60,000 Canadian soldiers left overseas. There is ample shipping to handle (hem now, LABOR LEGISLATION VICTORIA Premier John Hart indicates that considerable labor and social legislation is expected at the forthcoming session of the legislature. There will be a revision of minimum wage scales. COAL PRODUCTION DOWN VICTORIA British Columbia coal prrduction in 1915 I was down 192,000 tons from ! 1911, an output of 1,411,000 ' tons compared with 1,933,000 ! tons. SNOW IN WASHINGTON SEATTLE Travel between eastern and western Washington has been largely crippled owing to snow and slides closing the Stevens and Blewett Passes. Snoqualmie Pass may also be closed.; i Hotel Vancouver Plans Abandoned VANCOUVER 0 Plans to op-crate the old Hotel Vancouver as a hostel for veterans arc to be Abandoned unless some organization offers to operate it. A deadline for an offer was set asi Wednesday by the-city council Monday and It.cxpired with out an offer being made. Thej. cuy council rciuscn io assume an estimated $125,000 annual deficit. Knows Canada Ports Open United States Acting Secretary of State Mentions Prince Rupert and Other Places WASHINGTON, D.C. 5?-Dean Acheson, United States Acting Secretary of State, issued a statement Thursday to correct any misunderstanding of a press conference comment yesterday which was interpreted in some quarters In Canada as implying that Canadian ports are icebound during the winter. Acheson said he was referring the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River ports, adding he knows very well that Prince Rupert, Halifax, Saint John and Vancouver arc active throughout the winter months. He was speaking at the time of difficulty of moving wheat In winter. Is Found In Southern All on Koard Arc Relieved To Have Perished in Crash Near Coleman CALGARY (tf ) The seven-man crew of an R.C.A.F. Dakota bomber is believed to have perished when the craft (truck a mountain Saturday in the Crow's Nest Pass. A wisp thing kept up he would see that steps are taken to enforce prosecution of people found shooting guns in the vicinity of the telephone line.- He pointed out that it would not be necessary to actually sec person shooting at the line to effect a prosecution because the provincial game regulations prohibit shooting on Kalcn Island which has been set aside as a game reserve. "If we have to wc can prosecute under the game regulations.. It will be much more serious if we actually see anyone 'hooting at the line " he said Seven -and -Half Dollars Worth Of Ships T Be Built In Britain O AtBOMB TESTS BY U.S. NAVY WASHINGTON W-Thc United States navy raised the curtain today on Its plans for testing the atomic bomb against a great armada of fighting ships an ex- pcrlment expected to revolution-1 Izc .iea warfare. j A guinea-pig fleet of 90 ves-, scls; ranging from carriers to 1 small craft will be the atomic target in the vast operations ; which will start In May. The 1 fleet will include four old battleships, the Japanese Nagata and the; German Prlnz Eugcn. T)ie laboratory selected is the anchorage of Bikini Atoll, 'one of he northernmost islands of the Marshall group which were wrested from Japan by amphibious assault two years ago. The undertaking s not a combined or international opera tion alonr The question of per muting foreign observers has not been decided. Will Probe War crimes Prosecutions to Be Launched With Court-Martial of all Enemy Offenders LONDON to Royal Canadian Air Force headquarters announced today it is investigating crimes committed by enemy aliens against Royal Canadian Air Force personnel wiho landed In enemy territory during the war and It will convene a court-Martlal to try the alleged offenders. The Royal Canadian Air Force section of the Canadian War Crimes investigation unit now is functioning in Germany. Venue of the court of number of cases to be tried will be announced later. The announcement did not .specify what crimes will be diarged but It 'is known some airmen were murdered by enemy civilians or servicemen after landing. Details of the attacks will be revealed in testimony. The statement said that witnesses wljl Include survivors who f aw .mishandling of their comrades including one airman who wa3 shot and left for dead. of smoke led Forestry Service men to the base of an almost inaccessible mountain ten miles from Coleman,- Alberta. 'They found the charred wrrt'kagc oi a plane and three bodies so badly burned that they could not be identified. Three southern R. C men were included in the crew. LOCAL MEN ON MAURETANIA The local Red Cress has been advised of Prince Rupert service men landing yesterday at Halifax aboard the Maurctanla enroute home In the persons of Rifleman J. W. Bond (next-of-kin, Mrs. J. W. Bond), Signalman W. F. Cavalier (D. Cavalier) and Gunner R. II. McDonald (Mrs. Ij. M. McDonald). Today's Temperature Maximum 38 Minimum 32 Contracts One Vessel Will Be For Nanaimo and Other Two On Vancouver-Victoria - Seattle Triangle, Route VANCOUVER (CP) The News-Herald, in a special dispatch from Montreal todayt said that plans had been completed at head offices of the Canadian Pacific Railway in Montreal and construction would start almost immediately in British shipyards of three "super-coastal" ships, each to carry two thousand passengers. One of the ships will be on the Nanaimo-Vancouver run, the story said, and the others on the Vancouver-Victoria-Seattle Triangle service. Each will cost about $2,500,000. RUPERT-U.K. SERVICE MAY START WITH ENDING OF WORLD SHIP POOL Possibility that subsidized steamship sailings between Prince Rupert and the United Kingdom might be resumed this year have taken a hopeful turn with tne announcement in Washington that the world snipping, pooi win coinu to an enu wun me uissoiuuon of the United Maritime Authority on March 2. In representations to have the service resumed 4ast fall a joint federal Minister of Trade and i Commerce James A. MacKinnon that nothing could be done In that regard until Allied shipping was restored to its national owners by the United Maritime Authority. The service was begun on an fxffriincntal basis in 1939 but was dropped when wartime shortages made it Impossible to obtain ships for the service Three sailings were made. The Washington announcement said that 90,000,000 tons of shipping 9,499 ships will be returned to 18 nations when the United Maritime Authority Is dissolved. A delegation consisting of Mayor H. M. Daggett, W. M. Watts and James Nicoll pre sented a brief asking for resumption of the service while they were in Ottawa last September and In subsequent correspondence Trade Minister MacKinnon assured them that "I am ready to give your proposal my most careful consideration and to keep it in mind and follow it up as soon as conditions I permit." When the service was begun on an expericntal basis in 1939 three sailings were made by ', Industrial Strife Is Contest For Power ISoth Management and Labor Have Too Much, Says President Truman WASHINGTON, D.C. President Truman said today that much of the current Industrial strife Is due to a contest for power between management 'and labor, both of which he said have too much power. He added that the public Interest demands settlement pf the steel strike on the basis of h!s 18V2c per hour wage "increase proposal. He had done everything in his power to prevent It, he said. Truman said he did not intend to seize the steel Industry at this time although he did not rule out the future possibility. The President declared it Million ishlpsj under managements oti Co., Vancouver: Thf subsidy on each sailing was. $6,750." , . In the light of the shipping tltuation late last year, Mr, MacKinnon recommended that the matter be left over until this spring when "wc should be In a much better position to arrive at a decision." In considering the matter. City Council last year referred the matter to the 1946 Council. Total tonnage of the world shipping pool was one of the most closely guarded secrets of the war. Of its 90,000,000-ton total, the United States contributed 56,798,000 tons 5,529 vessels; Britain 15,500,000 tons ! 1,771 vessels; Canada's contribu tion was 252 vessels. WORK RETURN ORDER ERROR NEW YORK Instructions of the American Federation of Labor to Us workers to return to work on Saturday when the government takes nvrr th Tmrklnsr til.int nf thp nHnn tLPrn an- i nounced to have -been issued in error. Alberta necessary for the government to assert power of the people In preventing strikes against the public interest. Meanwhile the; government went ahead with plans to take" over operation of strike-bound meat packing plants Saturday. CONTROL IS LIFTED OTTAWA Government control of the Canadian Can Co. plant at Vancouver, who had labor difficulties last summer has been lifted. TELEPHONE DIRECTORY APPLICATIONS FOR CHANGES AND NEW LISTINGS FOR NEXT ISSUE OF TELEPHONE DIRE CTORY TO BE MADE IN WRITING TO TELEPHONE DEPARTMENT, CITY HALL, NOT LATER THAN JANUARY 31st, 194C. STEEL CONTROL IS RE-ENFORCED OTTAWA Pt steel control has been established on aricm-porary basis, to meet the.-emergency situation arising from 'the United States steel strike; Reconstruction Minister C.""d'. Howe announced today. Howe said that the effect of a prolonged United States strike on Canadian Industry would be disastrous. A meeting of the wartime advisory steel committee hasbeen called for today to work out plans for Increased production from Canadian mills and for any control measures which ma be considered necessary. NAZIS KILLED 29,000 HOSTAGES I NUERNBERG 0) F n c e ; charged today that the "Nazis executed at least 29.000 Innocent hostages In their occupajlon. of France. The French prosecutor j made the accusation before, .the i international military tribunal j and attributed prime responsi bility to Field Marshal Keltel and former Reichsmarshal Oocr-ing. They are two of the 22 leading Nazis on trial as war .criminals. V' c.n.r.'s Gratitude-Presentation At Ketchikan Ceremony Aboard SS Prince Rupert This Morning Sequa) to Prince Georje Disaster KETCHIKAN Prominent citizens of this Alaska port attended an Interesting ceremony aboard S3 Prince Rupert, Canadian National coastal steamer, In port here this morning. 'fjacidw($ic I of th ship,, presented a $500 cheque, to Paul Adams, president, American' Red Cross, Ketchikan, and another cheque for $250 to Stanley Adams, fire chief, for the Ketchikan fire department relief fund. In brief remarks, Capt. Caldwell explained that the donations were made by the Canadian National Steamships In recognition of excellent service and co-operation extended In time of great need when SS Prince George was destroyed by fire at' Ketchikan last Septem ber. On that occasion, he said, the American Red Cross! the fire department, coastguard and cltl zens generally did everything possible to assist the company and ship's personnel. The, latter were left only with what they stood up in as a result if the flames. Food, clothing, -shelter and other necessities an3Jcom-forts were generously provided and the fire department, workr ing under difficulties, fought valiantly to save the ship. The cheques, said Capt. Caldwell, were not intended to cover the value of services rendered b"t we presented merely as tangible tokens of the heartfelt appreciation ieit Dy me, company and its men of a grand job done by all. In conclusion, Capt. Caldwell tendered the sincere thanks of hLs company and the Prince George's crew for the generosity and hospitality ; of "our good friends" In Ketchikan. St. Laurent Is Hopeful Confident That None of the United Nations Will Ever Want to Start War LONDON 0 Canadian Minister of Justice St. Laurent, chief of the Canadian delegation to the United NatlonsJV's-setnbly, said Wednesday'he was confident that, if every' one of the 51 members of the United Nations Organisation strictly observed the charter, "no one will ever again be able to start widespread war.". Mr. St. Laurent left by air today on his return to Canada. He will not return to London but Minister of Agriculture J. O. Oardiner and Secretary of State Paul Martin wilj nqw share the leadership qj ihe Canadian delegation.