ne Pair Stockings Per Six Customers Prince Rupert's Nylon Deal Wartime installation values before local revision court RED TOP CABS iPhone Mil Phone U7U KASPEU C. McINTYRE j, I Stand; Rupert Tobacco Store (across from ormes) 1)AY AND NIGHT SERVICE sk-Ox win not bc.iln un- py now. The 12 snowmo-rrc due to start their Pth trek Into the Arc- fa ti .day but unfavorable i-onaittons forced a 24-i.'o-iponemenk nf ii N start iRIOHAS iT STORM U,,1 Moods in 'rovinte Uales that a velocity of 70 miles !' "eloped into fierce, j J "'ds ln sonic nor. 1 fc"! Tto uia::i' n mot. "nas of dollars, ess block was destroy- , ,n the village of Mtlniated at Ssn .nnn 1 1 rv Ki. . ZZ , thcre we Jnow lSrhcayy ralHS r Id Smc people Charges Navy Undersecretary Nominee With Not Siwakinj Truth WASHINGTON The veteran New Dealer. Harold L. Ickes, who resigned yesterday as secretary of the Interior, last nljht delivered n parting shot at the Truman administration. In a radl broadcast the self-styled curmudgeon urged iiie justice department to scrutinize testimony by oil man Edwin W. Pauley. President Truman's nominee for undersecretary of the Navy. Ickes flatly declared that Pauley was not speaking the truth when lie denied under oath that he lobbied against a government suit to establish federal title to mbmerged offshore oil lands. PLANE CRASH KILLS EIGHTEEN Canadian anil British Planes Meet Disaster Wednesday IONDON Plane crashes in Britain took the lives of at least IB persons yesterday. At least eight were killed and, 13 Injured when a R. C A. F. transport plane struck a mist-concealed ridge south of London in an area known as the "Valley of Death." It Is so called because of dangerous climatic conditions. The plane was carry-in? 20 British service pcrsonne' and a crew of four. The fate of three Is not known. The other plane crash happened off the channel coast near Southampton. Two British officers and eight other ranks were killed when a flying boat fell into the sea. Squadron Leader R. G. Joyco of Calgary and Plying Officer A. Jottoff of Cape Dauphin, Nova Scotia, were killed In the crash of the R.C.A.F, Dakota in the Surrey Hills. Flight Lieut. R. J. Mitchell of Vancouver was slightly Injured. No other Brl- VOL. XXXV. No. 38. NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER BLACKLISTED BY AUSTRALIA UNIONISTS Brig. Derek Schrclber who was replaced as aide to the governor-general of Australia before the labor ban was lifted, was blacklisted by Canberra unionists -over firing his ex-valet. LOCAL CHINESE IS INJURED IN CRASH A local Chinese youth was in-; Jurcd last nlpht in Eastern Can-' ada when an airplane ln which he was a passenger crushed ' while enroute to Three River.;. Quebec, from North Bay. On-' tario. He is Kim Yuen Lee. j known ns Kam Lee, age 24, who ! left Prince Rupert for Esatern j Canada on January 27. The two- i motored plane crashed north o; i Montreal. Extent of Kam's in-' juries nor the name of the pilot of, the plane were not given in the Canadian Press dispatch this morning. He was recently discharged from the R.C.A.F. after i service as a navigator. His fam-I lly operates the Star Store on Third Avenue. j DR. VAN CLEVE COMING TO B.C. VANCOUVER Dr. Richard Van Clcve. formerly with the International Fisheries Commission, has resigned from marine research work with the California government at San Francisco to Join the staff of the International Salmon Commission with headquarters In New Westminster. (Dr. Van Cleve is the husband of the former Lucy Pillsbury. a nloneer Prince Rupert girl and was at one time located at Prince Rupert himself ln fisheries research work).. LONDON TO GET OLYMPIC GAMES LONDON - -The 1948 Olympic Games will be held In London, it' was announced today. Lord Burghley, chairman of the British Olympic Council, said he had received a cable from the president of the Olympic committee stating that the majority of committee members had tlsh Columbia men were among j votcd in favor of London. me casualties. Weather Forecast Light to moderate winds, cloudy and cool with occasional light rain today, becoming partly cloudy with few scattered Elviwers tonight and Friday AL I KK S RAKT1 1 Q U AK K AI.GIKKS An earthquake killed or injured 276 persons yesterday in the vicinity of Constantino, 80 miles southwest of the port of Bone. Medical aid and food were being rushed to the scene today Warehouse Assessment Sustained Civic Court of Revision this morning heard an appeal by G. S. Keith, assistant tax commissioner for Canadian National Railways for reduction or assessments on wartime installations built by the United States Army on C.N.R. property, and on .which the railway is now paying taxes. Granted by the court were reductions totalling only $2900 on total assessments of about $1.-C03.C00. Reductions granted were $2,300 on the United States army electric power house, a $500 reduction on a warehouse at Morse Creek and $100 on a smaller building near the warehouse. Basis of the appeal, which primarily involves the large waterfront warehouse, the U.S.-brill cargo wharf, marine elevator, freight bridge and marine repair depot, was that, lacking present usefulness, the Installa tlons had only salvage value. Mr. Keith told the court that I "War Assets Corporation has J found no one at piesenl who is willing to occupy the build- ! ings," and suggested that the j "only way those buildings ' could be used is by co-operative effort between the railway, municipality and the. government." Assessed value "of the five' in stallations is about $305,000. which city assessor Arthur , Brooksband said Is between 20 and 5 percent of the actua' structural value. : ' Mr. Keith said that, consider- ins the potential usefulness of the buildings, the railway com-, pany Is loath to see them torn j down but that it objected to paying high taxation on them while they are standing Idle. The fact that the Installations stand on railway-owned property is the basis of the citv i Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., THURSDAY FEBRUARY 14, 1D4G China Wants Wooden Boats Millirns of Dollars of Contracts for B.C. Yards VAXCOl'VE'K, (CP) Con-lractSvorth: millions of dol lars may lie obtained by Van couver and Victoria wooden ; brat builders a.s a result of efforts of UNKKA to obtain vessels for China, il was announced by S. A. I.Sseliinsky and' II. K. Murphy, UNKKA representatives .h err from Washington. Tliey said thry want 20 or 30 fishing boats built hern in a hurry for the spring fishing in China which gels under way in April and May. BOYS AND DYNAMITi: KOSKDIU; Windows in toirs and houses of 'this Alberta village were shattered yesterday when two small boys found a boy of dynamite under a railway bridge and lit it off. The beys were not injured. Nor was the bridge damaged. right to tax the railway for the installations. He urged that any assessable value placed on them should be nominal. City Counsel T. W. Brown contended that, since the buildings are assessed at "very little more" than 20 percent of their structural value, this ln itself constituted an adequate reduction ln assessment. "They are undervalued already by 75 percent of their structural value." he said. Grouped, In a second claim by the railroad Is the U.S. electric power house in the Morse Creek area, which, with, an assessment of $50,000, is assessed at about 35 percent of its structural value. The building contains five elec trie generators, only one of which is now operating. Other buildings Involved arc the U.S. administration building, officers' quarters, U.S. Engineers' buildings and various smaller structures. UNITED NATIONS MEET WINDS UP LONDON, (f The United Nations general assembly, moving nvlftly toward the xlosc of Its first session, was expected to clear the way for adjournment today by quick approval of New York City and nearby New York-Connecticut area as temporary and permanent hemes of UJN.O. .Other questions before the assembly are expected to be dis posed of without difficulty PRICE FIVE CENTS Mrs. Joseph Vigeant, who, whh her two small children, was burned to deaih when fire vwept her home at Zenon Park, Saskatchewan, was a niece of Mr. and Mrs. II. B. Wallace or this city who tirst learned of the shocking tra- rAr Ollllltl, .Anrll... 1. l,hH News yesterday. It t.v.s oniy a r Vigeant and the children vls-ycar ago, In fact, thai Mrs. itcd Prince Rupert. Her husband had just recently been discharged from the Canadian Army. He had been stationed at one time at Prince Rupert. i Home After Service In InHia nrirl Rtifm-i iv Figures, based on estimates, show that British Columbia will j be the first province to reach its maximum population, prob-ably by 1960. British Columbia's i increase in population Is set at' twenty -one percent, higher than j for Ontario, katchewan. Manitoba or Sas-i Yukon Wreck Being Probed Inefficiency Against Crew Charged By Passengers SEATTLE 0 The Seattle Times and Post - Intelligencer newspapers said that survivors of the wreck of the liner Yukon are complaining of inefficiency -After having cifniy1rrrtTfagrtJund" February- TtrTifUfeta' ; vice wun tne Koyai Canadian but the ship's agents and sailors Air Force since 1943 in the I aid that they arc confident that I Southeast Asia area, Warrant , charces nrrainst offers nnri Officer John Johnson, well Crcw will not be substantiated, known Prince. Rupert boy. who ; six survivors arrived in Se-was with the Northern British attle by plane and another 200 Columbia Power Co. as meter ! arrived by boat on Wednesday, reader here before enlistment. , All of the Yukon's food stores returned Home on Tuesday night's train. An adventurous service career as a wireless air ship's steward's department said gunner took him. among other places, to the Ceylon and Burma theatres. He also was stationed for a. time on Cocos Island of hidden treasure fame where his skipper died of infantile paralysis. He returned home via the United Kingdom. Mrs. C. Johnson. Eighth Ave. W., is his mother. TAXI TAXI 537 DAY and NIGHT SERVICE Bill and Ken Nesbitt an a da Population Fifteen Million in1990!Bu"etins Tlir.nnT TUGBOAT STRIKE ei-iMVF iri.'i al Merchants Ponder How Placate Seeders of Hosiery Sale After Tuesday Next I'ith only one pair for every six customers at lirside available, 1 would be tickled to death if ii.ii i i ii i 1 i-i i i Kill i nave any ul an, remai Kt'ii a local ladies merchant this morning when speaking on the ly awaited event of next week when nylor y goes on sale throughout Canada. n there arc not enough 1 liound, we arc sure to be of bcln? unfair by those to disappoint, the ;ttuatlon like that. ho are we going to sell asked the dealer as ked his brains to devise leans of dealing out the new footwear. merchants, It appears, FINES FOLLOW GIRL'S DEATH John Samuel Wins wa.v finer $300 with ail option of six months in Jail by MusUtratc W D. Vance In city police court lieavour to meet the re- Wednesday afternoon after he Inb of their own cus-had Pleaded guilty to a charge iflr.'t on as cnultable a of supplying liquor to Indian Ks possible mi ws vas tnce if the I f.le h macie to tne Bon Marchc, one larcest rcadv-to- ie- having cancelled all Br;, for nylon supplies and Bine that It was going out fiuiiuonca nosicrv. Canadian stoics have kd arrangements for the of the sale of "nylon ft when they go on the Is simultaneously acro3o Rome first served" basis. (licr. are keeping nylons iir regular customers, pgc Toronto departmen- pians to rope off sec- 'he main floor for nylon IINGOF WAYMAN I ottcrall, Lone Identifeid iC I'.n. i west, Dies '"Oliver POWER -c. A. tint. veteran Canadian rall- who rose from a tcle- t to become assistant gender of the Canadian f'tallway died today. He in since October and ii' December. He had i' ars In Mm ,... armcr president of the ,cand Rcvclstokr 3"f Trade. ition Musk-Ox I Postponed fCHlLL Man nm. Robert Gordon Robinson, whr was found guilty of a charge of conniving to supply liquor to Indians, p.lso received a $300 fine with an ootlonal six months in Jail. Both charges arose from a drinking party early Sunday in Robinson's cabin on Ninth Ave which was followed by the death of an Indian girl. HAROLD ICKES' i next Tucsdav. Some , k i kvimm i m v v.vc had customers sign kAK I (Nil HlJI advance These cards Bmallcd, telling customers Jicv can make their imr. utners will sell on the bbBbbbw' 'bbbbbB8hBh BBBBBBB BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBllilHiBP ' SbSISBSP11'''00 Bureau of Statistics Sees Twenty-One Per Cent Increase In British Columbia CONVENTION AT PRINCE GEORGE Biggest Motor Caravan Since War Expected to Converge Upon Interior Town I"?.INCE GEORGE Th? eatesi motor caravan since the war is expected to converge unon Prince Rupert June 21 and 22 for the annual convention of he Junior Chamber of Commerce of British Columbia which Is to be held here. At least 25 ;ars will leave Vancouver and his number will be added to by 'hers along the way. OTTAWA (CP) -Canada's population, barring 'future wars, immigration and other unpredictable ; events, will reach a maximum of 15,000,000 around 1990 and thereafter will decline slowly, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics predicted today. The 1941 census j counted 11,490,000 Canadians. v , FIRE VICTIMS VISITED HERE OVER NEW YORK The New York tugboat strike has been called off, pending arbitration of a wages and hours dispute. The ten-day walkout ended officially at 8 a.m. New York time, when 3500 workers went back to their jobs. ARMY SITDOWN STKIKK LONDON It has been dis. closed that 500 Canadian Army men in Delhienhprst, Germany, went on a 514-hour sitdown strike Monday. They were protesting against their food. Jiving conditions. and lack of definite word as to when they would return home The stiike ended when the occupation force commander, Major Chris Vokes, told the men that sitdown strikes in the army constituted mutiny. AMERICANS EVACUATED CALUCUTTA One thousand American troops have been evacuated to safely because of recent rioting. The riots ate in protest against the British and so far have taken the lives of 36 petsons and caused injuries to nearly 400 British troops are attempting to put down the outbreak. HOME STRIKE LOOMS NEW YORK A general tele-Phone strike in the United States looms darker. A vole on strike action may be taken in a meeting at Memphis next '' week." """ ,, j 1 I my sailors. They took off naif of the women and children that went in the first load to the Onondaga. They tell us now that one or two men are being held for stealing from some of the passengers. Even if this were were lost when the ship ran ! the case it wouldn't be fair ,lo aground, Lee Planklnton of the condemn 125 men for the actions when he arrived in Seattle. A formal investigation into the wreck will begin tomorrow, the United Stales Coast Guard reported. Chief Officer Roy Wheeler was indignant over what he said were complaints of Inefficiency among the crew. Wheeler said, "I'm proud of of one or two." Nor r is Gomez, stationmaii, said that he was on lookout when the Yukon struck the rocks in Johnstone Bay. He said: "How we happened to go on The rocks, I don't know. There was no panic, though, and all hands from the skipper down got busy right away to try and get thoso people off." Developing Beneficial Friendship Prime Rupert Doesn't Realize What it Has, Governor Tells Installation Parly , Fostering of co-operative and mutually beneficial friendships between nations and communities and within communities was the keynote theme cr Ray Clark, Portland, Oregon, hotel operator and district governor of Gyro, ln speaking last evening before the Prince Rupert Gyro Cluo whose installation of officers for 1946 he conducted. "Let's band together and boost for this part of the country," he urged. "This has been my first visit to Prince Rupert, my first trip up 'the coast," he said "but I can say It has been a sheer delight. I really think you people of Prince Rupert do not appreciate what you have here. You ought to tell the world about It. Thcre is nothing for us to be ashamed about even if it does rain in Prince Rupert, like it dies in Portland. Why. we can capitalize the rain! It's delightful!" Mr. Clark recalled a trip years ago to Hazelton when a motor caravan went to Hazclton ln connection with pioneering of the Alaska Highway. He told how the "Pacific Northwest" had become a magic by-word to travellers. Mr. Clark, ln a Jolly address, also spoke of Gyro extension work and forthcoming conventions. He urged that Prince Rupert Interest itself in the proposed Inauguration of a new olub at Prince George. Mayor H. M. Daggett and representatives of the Rotary and Kinsmen's Club were among the honored guests who took parr in the installation proceedings at a dinner dance gathering at the Old Landmark. Ills Worship acknowledged the long and valued community .service of the Gyro Club ln Its supervised pla"-groupd activities a.s wen as other movements. He pledged the con tinucd co-operation and sup ELDORADO CHARGES New Delegations Against Carl French Two Alleged Accomplices Named "TORONTO KP Police have an nounced the , laying of a new charge against a former official or the Eldorado Refining and Smelting Corporation. Carl B. French, the former secretary of the corporation, has been charged with conspiracy to' defraud. Police say also that charges have been laid against two alleged accomplices, one of whom is under arrest. The man who is said to be under arrest and also charged with conspiracy is identified as Marcel Pochon. Pochon is a French scientist who worked under the Curie's in the development of radium. He was one of those responsible for the development of radium from pitchblende deposits mined by Eldorado Refining Company. The other man named by police as charged with conspiracy is Boris Pregel, a radium company executive. Pregel is said to be ln New York at the present time port of the city in every way possible. President William Jarm-son brought the greetings of the Kinsmen's Club as did D. C. Stevenson for the Rotary Club in the absence of President James H. Thompson. The district governor was accompanied by his wife end daughter and by Mr. and Airs. Oils Anderson, all of Portland. The newly Installed officers of the Gyro Club were: President, W. D. Lambie. Secretary, C. G. Ham. Treasurer. Maurice Brydges. Directors Dr. R. G. Large. A. J. Dcminato, James Parker and David Allen. President Lambie, in a brief but appropriate inaugural address, referred to the leading part that members of the Gyro Club were playing today in public and community affairs, heading various bodies such as Chamber of Cxnmcree and being represented on both city council and school beard; "II Was a matter of pride to him that he should have been honored with the Gyro presidency. With the support of the members, he heped to be able to (Continued on Page 4) ' Local Tides Friday, High Low February 15, 1910 1:10 20.0 feet ' 13:01 22.1. feet 6:59 6.7 feet 19:29 1.5 feet Temperature Maximum 45 Minimum 38 Rainfall 44 inches