ida wa: given In Commons t nv n npnn tf rnonnn Minis- m. c D. Howe. m that the situation was t . snrt that nrrlprs havp hppn M that nn rlonln. mnv Hb nor any customer ac-before November 1, more 1 60 per cent of his normal ilrementa for class "A" coal. uupiug biunt; lias HiKicaa- J preiudiced the situation. VI Mr? rn I r P n r n- j t nn trf c ave by Queen Char 's Alr.ined flying boat Haldi PT Thltr irl'itr mnrnlnir fnf avei- to attend a conven- r-atvp Association. Prln- "Duiine 3 of the convention ho .1 1 1 !. ar-is-rd the late Attorney itt' k u, Mauiana. ei, behind the op- m order that their ef-' niay be crowned with suc-; and the future of the dls- :t -enured." following officers were el- ta f "i the ensuing year: PrMdent. W. n. 'moth. Jfac President, B. C. A. Lees. wetary-Treasurer. Oliver Council. .Messrs. W. J. Craw- a- w L. Newell, John Haahtl, Wakefield, F. C. Harrison, "n McLeod, John Thompson, Hawklnson, F. Relchenbach a Earl Jenkins Jhn Rochfort and L. S. Dav- n representing the Big Four 'nInB Company which has tak-over the old Silverado, Pros-my and Porter Idaho, spoke 1 toe necessltv of a brldue rSi the Bear River to enable e"i to get supplies to their "PWy At present these are lnK 'aken In hv nap Ir t.rnln and O . II 11 v . wA . u u - ,pontlnuel on Page 3) mum, Jap JForkers Lock Out Boss, Keep Production TOKYO 0) , Japan's new unorthodox labor weapon-locking out the boss has kept production and profits flowing as usual at the big Mitsubishi chemical plant here where 530 employees have not seen a company official since March 1 The employees simply seized the plant after the management said "no" to the workers demands. Japanese labor's Increasing use of thi3 unusual form of the strike known as "production control' has precipitated a strong movement to outlaw It. The government Is expected to announce an official policy frowning on the practice. U.S. TROOPS TO PALESTINE WASlflNOTON-ecretary of 1 State James Byrnes told news-1 men today that the United States is prepared to discuss with Great Britain what forces the United States might make available for use in Palestine during the period when the Jews from Europe are allowed to emigrate to the strife-torn-Mediterranean protectorate, lie said that the subject might be among those discussed at. the forthcoming conference of foreign ministers at Paris late this week. Speaking of the forthcoming conference, Mr. Byrnes said that "another failure would be a defeat for mankind." MASCULINE TITLE Strictly speaking, only the male of the species should be called a peacock. The female Is a peahen. WART ROAR!) OF TRADE i iwiiirrv 1 r tiiiiinii' tumuli THE WEATHER Synopsis Clearing skies over the southern interior yesterday produced maximum British Columbia temperature for the day of 72 at Cranbrook ano resenv vucj. Elsewhere cloudy weather with scattered rain showers was ths general trend. However, Peace River, Yukon and Northwest Territories enjoyed perfect weekend weather with a maximum of 80 reported at Fort Nelson, an elongated high. Along the coast Is expected clearing conditions over British Columbia today with higher temperatures expected over the interior. Forecast Prince Rupert, Queen Charlottes and North Coast Cloudy, clearing tonight. Cloudy Wednesday morning, clearing by noon. Light variable, winds, Wednesday. Minimum a hazardous undertaking, tonight, Prince Rupert, 45 maxl- Halibut Sales Canadian Embla, 25,000; Arctic I, 24,000; Cold Storage. Combat,1 20,000; Steveston III, (20,000; Northern Breeze, 45,000; Pauline V., 20,000; Skeena M. II, ,12,000; Co-operative. Advance II, 14,000, and Edward Wahl, 11,000; Booth. Venture IL, 11,000, Edmunds & Walker. Sharon M., 18,000, Whiz. Cape Race, 10,000, Royal Delnar, 21,000, Pacific. Taplow, 30,000, Atlln. SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTE Cash Bonus for Excess Hour Week May be Solution to Seamen's Demands in U.S. WASHINGTON, 0J Granville Conway, war shipping adminis trator, said last night that he believed a settlement is "shap ing up" lnthe marlUme labor dls pute and that a strike is un likely. Earlier federal conciliators had offered a new proposal- cash substitute for a shorter wnrklne week, granting bonus payments for a week of over 56 hours. Local Tides Wednesday, June 12, 1948 High ...... .. Low 12:29 6:15 18:07 17.2 feet 4.5 feet 7.9 feet RED TOP CABS NORTHERN. AND CEN TRAL BR'OLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER Phone Jtj Phone TAXI TAXI 537 l RASPER C McINTYRE Rupert Tobacco Store Stand DAY and NIGHT SERVICE .across from Ormes) AND NIGHT SERVICE Bill and Ken Nesbitt pAy Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" VOL. XXXV, No. 136. PRINCE RUPERT B.C., TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1946 PRICE FIVE CENTS 1 ffe WAR LOOMING IN ITALY bsidy Is scontinued drral fiovrrnnicnt No , Making Annual ,nienls to .Shipyard Here dcrai .uoaiay payments on ..... Tlftt HloI. rind PrlnC' HUptll- Ml jr luvb aim yard nave been discontinued ' i actton ha.-i been taken to J late them, IL G. Archibald, for Skeena, has been ad .by the p.overnment in ante que ;tlon.s In Parliament, ard .if June 3 contains the tir. que ;tlons and answers; Ha: a subsidy ever been . .nH chlnvaffl Vr If :o what term of years the ;ub:ildy cover? Tenty-flve years. What was the amount of i 1 1 i .ay UUKuaiijf r $76970.88. Ht:. :uch subsidy been dls- Yr. term of subsidy i i i ..t,i .1 leaving utrcji kuuipicicu. If i. has any action been 1 . . . - . IU. 1 I -j i ( IS NEW A I I IN I VI II MM ww k ww wmwr i a w a iv w a rn inu i riai. se:ure equitable dlstrl- nr rta .'iinn mod in aacriirn ESCORT VESSELS RETURN TO FRESHWATER BIRTHPLACE Ships of the Algerine class will be used on the" Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River? this summer for the training of naval reserves. Newest and most powerful of Canadian minesweepers, equally adaptable as escort vessels, the Algerines will be returning to the waters they first knew. It was from Port Arthur. Ont. where they were launched, that they originally sailed to play their vigorous part in the Battle of the Atlantic. They are the largest naval vessels capable of being handled In the Great Lakes locks. - u mr f iv . wia livlf in iiriif nn nr n m iiuiiv 111 raruu xiiuir iir in iiviii - - - Mil Bar STRWAnT "TIip time has come for a more ac e participation in affairs," said W. R. Tooth, presi-nt, at the annual mt-eting of the Stewart Board of I'at P ".ir xhnmnil P!! .U'fi COlllinC 11110 Hie UlbUlLl, mines being opened, and old ones being reopened, it is necessary to have an active organization of s kind to PASSES AWAY IN VANCOUVER Mrs. Mike Budinich Dies After Lengthy Illness Many friends will regret to learn of the death which took place in Vancouver this morning of Mrs. Louise Budinich, wife of Mike Bullnich of this city. She had been 111 for a consider able time and since November had been in Vancouver. Her con dition became gradually worse and Mr, Budinich left for Vancouver a month ago. Mrs. Budinich, the former Louise Krikevsky, came hete from Edmonton and had lived In the city 17'years, Having married here. Besides her husband, she leaves two daughters. Mrs. George Rorie is a cousin. SEAMEN'S STRIKE STILL UNSETTLED Attention Centres Today on Meeting of Operators In Toronto TORONTO. Tension in the Canadian Seamen's Union lake strike having eased during the week-end, attention is centred orr a meeting or operators to b; held today to discuss a six-point settlement plan. However, there Is little yet to suggest a definite composing of differences. Last night shipowners said that, the main Issue in the dts-pute-wasTiew- whether Uie Cana diah Seamen's Union would be the exclusive bargaining agency, something which the National Maritime Federation oppose. A Seamen's Union spokesman said that such, statements were an attempt to "falsify the issue." The demands were still for an eight-hour three-shift day as well as that the Seamen's Union be the bargaining agency. The Seamen's Union is de manding that the federal government take over the ships and operate them on union terms Arabs Are Ambitious wltuld Take Over Government of Palestine Where is Grand Mufti BLUDAEN, Syria, tS The Arab League last night had be fore it a proposal for the establishment of an Arab government in Palestine and for the British withdrawal from the Holy Land. The proposal Is believed to have beenjmade by the head of the. Palestine delegation and t,ne cousin of the Grand Mufti. Meanwhile there is mystery as to whereabouts of the Grand Muft) who escaped from Paris to Cairo last week-end and is now believed to be in the neighborhood of Damascus. The British Foreign Office Is seeking an explanation from the French government as to how the Mufti got out of France. Armed Jewish bands yesterday stopped three passenger trains near Jerusalem, blowing up en gines and firing coaches after allowing passengers and crews to alight. Two Arabs were wounded by gunfire and a third, was beat en severely. It is reported unofficially that five Jews were arrested. VIOLENCE MARKS KING'S BIRTHDAY TORONTO, f) Sixteen per-sonstwere drowned in Canada at the King's Birthday week-end and ii others met violent deaths In various ways. Three.multlple,. drownings emu iwq s'oju'sa wc reported. JURY ACQUITS SCHOOL TEACHER VANCOUVER, 0) Hazel Gordon, 31-year old school teacher, accused of Retaining securities stolV from a hotel safe in Sud bury, Ontario, was acquitted by an Assize Court jury before Mr. Justice J. M. Coady. The securl ties were stolen In 1944. Sullethus TURN DOWN PROPOSAL VANCOUVER Workers of the B.C. Electric Railway Co, numbering 2,300, turned down company proposals for settlement of their dispute by a vote of 1,800 to 300 yesterday The company suggested a three-cent-an-hour wage increase and a 40-hour week within two years. The workers want a 40-hour week immediately. FIVE BELIEVED DROWNED NELSON Five people, missing since Sunday, are believed to have drown in Kootenay Lake where they went fishing In a fiat-bottomed boat. No trace of- them has been .seen since .Sunday. The missing people come from Balfour, 20 miles northwest of Nelson. TALKED WITH NAZIS BELGKADE-Draja Mihailo-vich, former Chetnik leader, .admitted at his. treason trial here today that he had had discussions with the Germans during late November, 1911, but that he did not feci guilty of collaboration In answer to a court charge that his Chet-nlks had collaborated with the Germans, Mihailovich said that he' had not had very strong control over his men. PROBE HAMILTON COLLEGE FIRE HAMILTON, KB A probe Is under way today into the spectacular fire winch gutted central collegiate Institute here at the week-end with a loss of $500,000. Tons of water were poured into the doomed NO CHANGE IN STRIKE VANCOUVER No change was reported in the woodworkers' strike despite a flying visit by I.W.A. president Harold Pritchett to Victoria yesterday. Mr. Pritchett conferred with government officials. WORKERS GOING BACK WINDSOR More than 5,000 automobile workers at the Ford plant here may go back to work soon as a result of a freeing of materials which were shut off last month as a result of strikes In the United States steel industry. MORE JEWEL MYSTERY CHICAGO Possibly all the jewels allegedly taken from Germany by American Army Colonel Durant and his wife did not belong to the Hessian royal family. It was revealed that customs officers discovered 106 diamonds which Durant is said to have tried to smuggle Into the United States, and which did not belong to the Hessian hoard. U.N. DEEP IN NEW SESSION NEW YORK, Oil The United Nations yesterday plunged into a week of heavy work with discussions of atomic energy and Franco Spain highlighting the crowded calendar. The economic and social council speeded efforts to -reconcile the differences between Britain,- the United States and Russia on several Important issues. The council hopes to meet the June 20 .adjournment deadline. Nation Politica New Vetoes Anti- Labor Bill President Truman Rejects Measure Compelling Men to Work in Peacetime Democracy WASHINGTON (CP) President Truman vetoed the Case labor disputes bill today because it "would compel men to woik for private employers in a peacetime democracy." Declaring the measure "strikes at the symtoms and ignores the underlying causes" cf work stoppages, the President added: "Strikes against a private employer cannot be ended by legislative decreeV Men cannot be forced in a peacetime democracy to work for a private employer under compulsion." The provisions of the Case Bill included the creation of federal mediation board restrictions against any strike or lockout while the board sought the solution of the dis- puvIt alo pPohibited'-sec-'-j ondary boycotts. The President urged his own emergency strike control plan, and the, enactment of his long-stalemated domestic legislative program. The House of Representatives upheld .the President's veto, thereby killing the Case measure, at least temporarily. MAY RESIGN AS LIBERAL CHIEF Tremier Hart Has no Comment To Make James Sinclair Mentioned OTTAWA, O) Reports that Premier John Hart may resign as British Columbia Liberal leader some time in the near future led some members of Parliament to speculate yesterday that one of their number, James Sinclair, M.P. of Vancouver North, might succeed him. (At Victoria Premier Hart had no comment to make on the Ottawa report). STRIKE HITS UNDERTAKERS VANCOUVER, ) The strike in the British Columbia lumber industry has funeral directors worried because the supply of cedar wood for casket manufacture Is nearlng an end with only sufficient on hand for another two or three weeks. KILLED IN JEEP CRASH DOG CREEK, B.C. Two airmen, one from Saskatchewan and another from Nova Scotia, were, killed Monday in a Jeep accident here. The names are withheld pending notification of next-of-kin. The Jeep overturned on a highway. The driver escaped with light injuries. Slight Advance In Tobacco Price Local tobacconists report no advance In the price of cigars and cigarettes nor is any an tlclpated. There has been a slight advance of about 10c per pound in the price of tobacco. Is Facing Grave Crisis While Republic Is Born BLOODY DEMONSTRATIONS OCCURRING IN ROME AND NAPLES WITH LARGE MILITARY AND POLICE FORCES ENDEAVORING TO COPE WITH SITUATION ROME (CP) A huge monarchist demonstration in Naples flared tonight and large scale rioting took place with police and troops turning rifles and automatic weapons gn the crowd. In Rome 100,000 Republican demonstrators began a march on Vimi-. nale Palace, seat of government, to vent discontent at the cabinet's delay in proclaiming an end of the monarchy. Communist, anarchist and socialist banners mingled with the republican tricolor among the marchers. ROME (CP) Italy faced one of the gravest political crises in her history today as she tensely celebrated the birth of a new republic and King it t . i t i x i i.n : xi . i2 mtmDert tenaciously ciung to nis touermg uirune. Government pfficials', admitting civil war was, a possibility, deployed heavy police and military forces HIS DEATH ACCIDENTAL TMi Seems to be Establlihed In Cse pf King of Slam BANGKOK. IP There is noth ing to indicate tfiaY thedeatK of young King Anafla Mahiddl, 20-year-yid ruler oi siam, wno was found dead In the Royal Palace on Sunday with a bullet wound through the head, was anything other than accidental. He was used to .getting up early in the morning to clean his guns. The Siamese police themselves reported the death accidental. Twelve hours after Mehldol's death, the Legislature named hU brother, Prince Phumiphon Ad? uldet, as the new king. Aid Asked By Typos Support by AH Trade Unionists of Strike Against Vancouver Province Sought iVANCOUVER 0) Call on all trade unionists to support the International Typographical Union printers on strike at the Vancouver Province was Issued by four Vancouver newspaper unions as newspaper strikes affecting four cities entered the twelfth day. . The call was endorsed by the stereotypers, photo - engravers, pressmen and the -Newspaper Guild, the latter including editorial employees. The statement said the unions would consider the Province unfair as a whole until the South-am Company Is "willing to enter into negotiations with the Typographical Union on behalf of the Winnipeg. Tribune" Meantime the Vancouver Province failed to publish for the fifth day but other struck Boutham newspapers in Ottawa. Hamilton and Edmonton are publishing. SIZING IUM UP GUILDFORD, Eng. SB Robert Rudd, a London, R.A.M.C., niirs lng orderly, spent four hours at Guildford demobilization centre recently to get a pair of socks and one shirt, too large; and one hat, correct size. Robert is four feet eight lnches and hls- clvllian outfit must be made for him. TRICKY DISTINCTION The zebra is a light brown anl- lo guara against violence in me greatest display, of armed might since the war, Monarchist spokesmen, alleging election irregularities, declared Humbert would not leave Italy until his defeat was officially established by the Italian Supreme Court. umphant Iri Italy today as republican and monarchist demonstrators in Naples and Rome reacted to last week's plebis cite which favored the removal of Prince Humbert and the In stitution of a republic. Government officials admit the possibility of a civil war. i Rioting broke out in .Naples today as monarchist demonstrators paraded the streets, while In Rome 100,000 republican marchers protested the cabinet's delay in ending the monarchy and instituting a republican form of government. Premier Gasparl assured the . republicans that their "victory would not be snatched away." Prince Humbert has refused to leave Italy until the supreme court handed down a decision on monarchist charges ofjfir-regularltles in the voting pro cedure of last week's FORMER POLICE CHIEF PASSES C. G. Barber Dies In Kaslo, Where He Was Retired KASLO C. G. Barber, retired inspector of B.C, Provincial Police, who made what Is believed to be the first trip from Fort St. John to Fort Nelson over the Alaska Highway route, died hre recently. He was formerly in spector in charge at Prince' Ru pert. U.S. SHIP STRIKE SET FOR JUNE 15 WASHINGTON, O) Union preparations for a nationwide maritime strike on June 15'went Into high gear yesterdayuaer the union turned down a, proposal to give the seamen 'one day out of 14 shore leave'vjith pay. This suggestion was. i ad vanced by United States, .gov ernment conciliators as a possible means of breaking the deadlock over the length of the work week at sea. The union, demanding a 40-hour week, rejected the Idea as Impossible.' ' A survey, in one metropolitan centre showed thai 59.1 percent mal with dark brown or black of the housewives read the dally stripes not a dark brown anl- newspaper advertisements regu mal with light stripes. larly before shopping.