RED
TOP
CABS
Phone
Phone
j.KASPER
C.
McINTYRE
Stand:
Rupert
Tobacco
Store
(across
from
Ormes)
DAY
AND
NIGHT
SERVICE
tmanfin
v.;.-
me
teaerai
gov-
irment
oa
t
ixc.
on
property
quired
for
th'
defence
of
Can-
;i
and
ft-.r
military
train;n?
unanimously
adopted
by
the
tional
eonf',',iice
of
Cana
an
May:i
.
and
Municipalities.
Mayor
O
W
Woodwin
of
t-
wa
told
the
conference
that
ere
shnuld
be
a
government
b
ldy
on
homes
built
for
vet-
i
r,:-
provin
:;!
Finance
MtnUter
r
-
mb
ud
at
a
dinner
meet-
hat
ome
labor
unions
over-
i
".;
the
f.u
',
that
they
have
a
on.
ability
not
only
to
their
ember.,
but
to
the
employers
n
t.ho
pccple
as
a
whole.
Un-
in
Vhe
ranks
of
organized
l
ir
j..
the
iravest
problem
:
the
eiocted
representa-v
of
the
people,
he
said.
ATOMIC
EARTHQUAKE
VICTORIA
Pacific
coast
earthquake
experts
do
not
expect
any
disturS-aiicc
will
occur
here
from
Sunday's
atomic
liomb
experiment
at
Rtkinl
at.
1,
THE
WEA
THER
Synopsis
Jkies
over
British
Columbia
!i
;red
durinr,
the
night
except
I
n
.he
North
Coast
and
Char-
Wt
where
cloudiness
persisted.
temperatures
d
r
o
p
p
v
d
ply
in
the
interior
with
low;;
.2
at
Prriceton,
,34
at
Cran-j
ik
and
35
;it
Prince
George
.
j
torm
centre,
400
miles
off!
lv
WanhlnTton
coast,
will
move
i
northeastward,
giving
in-r
.a"
cloudiness
over
south-ra
B.C.
with
intermittent
rain
1:
"
the
southern
coast
this
vc
iin"
Li
Hie
change
in
tem-f,ure
over
the
interior
1:
uld
be
Keneral.
Forecast
Prince
Rupert.
Queen
Char-and
North
Coast
Cloudy
'
Charlottes
today.
Overcast
.i
wldelv
scattered
showers
'doriT
mainland.
Cloudy
Satur-with
light
winds,
becoming
w
heast
(10
miles
per
hour)
onirrht
and
Saturday.
Little
h-nne
in
temperature.
Mini-
pnurns
tonicht:
Port
Hardy
50,
-ta
ett
50.
Prince
Rupert
50.
aximum:
Saturday:
Port
Hardy
58,
Ma:.iett
63,
Prince
Rupert
CO.
Low
Saturday,
June
29,
1946
-
OLLEGIATE
IN
HAMILTON,
COT
DE
!TROYED-
One
of
On-r.
.
oldr
;t
tad
nr
t
l.mon
:oi)'
r.c
'Old
Central,"
was
k
'royed
in
u
$?
'WO
nrc
u,
.'.Minimi
oi
over
40
nouses
in:
uudlir
I
'le
I'auicc
were
inrcmeiiea
oy
names
wmcii
cuuiu
jcn
reen
for
milei.
Three
firemi
at
narrowly
escaped
death
when
lliey
were
trapped
on
the
top
floor
of
the
three-storey
building,
ut-
were
rrur-d
by
aerial
ladders.
Investigation
Is
being
made
no
caure
of
the
fire.
iOV'T
TAXES
iRE
ASKED
VANCOUVER
.'.
resolution
RECORD
MEAT
SHORTAGE
IN
UNITED
STATES
CHICAGO
The
severest
meat
shortage
of
modern
times
grew
worse
in
United
States
today.
It
hit
butcher
snops,
black
inaslebU
and
restaurants.
In
SeW
:''V6ric,even
on
the
illegal
market,
there
was
no
meat
to
be
bought.
Livestock
marketings
reached
a
low
all
over
the
country.
W
JLoccii
Vfidcs
High
0:55
22.8
feet
13:57
7:35
19:39
NORTHERN
AND
CENTlfMMniTJSH-COLUMBLVS
ENTpdLvnm
NEWSPAPER
TAXI
TAXI
537
DAY
and
NIGHT
SERVICE
Bill
and
Ken
Nesbitt
Published
at
Canada's
Most
Strategic
Pacific
Port
"Prince
Rupert,
the
Key
to
the
Great
Northwest
VOL.
XXXV.
No.
151.
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C
FRIDAY,
JUNE
28.
1946
PRICE
FIVE
CENTS
Mote
Companies
Slay
Operate
Here
Prediction
that
Prince
Rupert!
will
become
the
hub
of
north
coastal
air
transportation
was
made
before
the
Prince
Rupert
Rotary
Club
Thursday
afternoon
by
George
II.
Stanbridge,
local
agent
for
Queen
Charlotte
Airlines,
who
saw
possible
competitive
air
service
with
reduced
rates
in
the
offing.
Along
with
an
announced
Increase
in
service
of
Queen
Charlotte
Airlines
starting
next
month,
Mr.
stanbridge
made
It
known
that
both
Canadian
Pacific
Airlines
and
TransCanada
Airlines
are
seeking
to
obtain
federal
licenses
to
operate
seaplanes
on
this
coast.
"That
will
mean
that
this
coast
will
see
a
lot
of
activity,"
Mr.
Stanbridge
said.
"It
might
result
in
daily
service
between
Vancouver,
and
Prince
Rupert.
Competition
will
result
in
increased
service."
Hope
to
Get
Mail
Contract
Queen
Charlotte
Airlines
hopes
to
obtain
an
air
mall
contract
line
must
have
at
least
six
months
of
scheduled
operation
behind
it,
Mr.
Stanbridge
said.
At
present,
the
line
is
operating
on
a
non-scheduled
basis.
Licenses
for
scheduled
operations
are
at
present
not
being
issued
by
the
Transport
Department,
he
added.
Real
value
of
aircraft
In
the
I
development
of
Northern
British
'
19.9
feet
Columbia
is
the
fact
that
it
can
0.0
feet
i
reach
places
where
no
other
6.3
feet
form
of
transportation
can
pene-
Half
Million
Exemptions
Are
Being
Increased
Corporation
Income
and
Excess
Profits
Imposts
Cut
Provinces
Offered
Deal
OTTAWA
(CP)
Income
tax
reductions
which
will
remove
between
500,000
and
600,000
persons
from
the
income
tax
roii
were
announced
by
Finance
Minister
J.
L,Ilsley
in
his
budget
speech
last
night
along
with
decreases
in
corporation
and
excess
profits
taxes
and
offer
of
a
new
agreement
to
the
provinces
Succes-
-
sion
duties
will
be
doubled
but
Conference
Air
Better
PAKIS
(CP)
Secretary
of.
State
James
IJyrncs
of
the
United
States
is
pressing
hard
at
lliii
foreign
ministers
par-Icy
to
get
the
21-powcr
peace
conference
started
before
the
end
of
July
lint
Ucrc
is
growing
belief
that
it
may
not
take
place
until
autumn.
Today
D.vmes
served
notice
that
lie
would
demand
a
decision
tomorrow
cm
the
calling
of
the
Sl-nation
conference.
Meanwhile,
Soviet
Kussia
appears
to
be
sliowinc
a
moic
conciliatory
attitude
and
the
outlook
for
the
conference
appear
simproved.
Yesterday
Russia
agreed
villi
the
rest
of
die
Biff
Tour
to
s've
Hie
Dodocancsc
Islands
lack
to
Greece.
B-A-S-E-B-A-L-L
!!
at
Downtown
Stores
KETCHIKAN
vs.
PRINCE
RUPERT
ACROPOLIS
II
ILL
qpwivw
An
MONDAY
2:30
P.M.
this,
like
all
other
tax
changes,
will
not
be
effective
until
January
1,
1947.
-
Exemptions
on
Income
tax
for
single
persons
are
lifted
from
$G60
to
$750
and
for
married
persons
from
$1200
to
$1500.
Flat
exemption
of
$300
will
be
granted
for
dependents
over
sixteen
years
of
age.
At
present
the
px-
I
emption
works
out
at
about
$103
j
no
matter
what
age
of
the
de-pendent.
Dependents
over
six
Off
Queen
Charlottes
ritish
White
Paper
Makes
First
itatement
On
Incident
Near
Here
SEES
RUPERT
AS
AIR
HUB
family
allowances.
There
is
a
flat
deduction
of
$100
allowed
for
each
child
eligible
for
family
allowances.
The
wartime
provision
under
i
which
a
husband
retained
mar-'
tlal
status
for
income
tax
pur-1
poses
even
tnougn
a
worKing
wife
was
in
receipt
of
more
than
$660
a
year
will
be
repealed
as
from
the
first
of
the
year.
Boards
of
appeal
will
be
established
to
hear
appeals
from
tax
assessments
for
1946
and
succeeding
years.
Farmers
and
fishermen
are
given
the
option
of
averaging
income
over
a
three-year
period
in
order
to
balance
bad
years
against
good.
The
corporation
tax
Is
cut
from
forty
to
thirty
percent.
Excess
profits
tax
is
cut
from
LIQUOR
QUOTA
IS
INCREASED
VICTORIA
W
The
ration
of
spirits
to
British
Columbia
liquor
permit
holders
will
be
increased
by
one-third
in
July,
it
was-announced
officially
on
Thursday.
Permit
holders
will
be
able
to
purchase
three
bottles
of
spirits
but
only
one
may
be
Scotch.
The
ration
remains
ohterwlse
unchanged.
Long
Term
Wheat
Contracts
Out
OITAWA,
Oi
Hlfih
government
sources
S3y
the
suspension
of
British-Canadian
talks
on
long
term
wheal
contracts
arls?s
from
Canadian
reluctance
to
make
commitments
for
large
scale
annual
shipments
and
not
because
of
reported
United
States
opposition
to
the
proposed
agreement.
trate.
This
will
be
of
value
in
the
operation
of
trap
lines,
mining
claims
and
tourist
cruise?.
Mr,
Stanbridge
said
that
in
his
.opinion
there
would
be
no
buk.beiore.HiU
can
be
d2ne,
.tlielhS&JSFrJ
-ve-r-
.
.
:
"
.
-I'ltthp'-tt'hnlP
the
whole
nf
of
Rpnl
Seal
Pnvp
Cove
nlr
air
hasp.
base.
Quarters
for
passengers,
cargo
and
later
on,
hangar
space
are
all
that
are
required
In
addition
to
landing
floats
and
mooring
buoys.
"Operation
of
the
whole
of
the
Seal
Cove
base
would
be
too
big
a
financial
burden
on
the
community,"
he
said,
"but
some
of
Jthe
facilities
should
be
taken
over.
These
should
Include
accommodation
for
passengers
and
cargo."
twenty
to
fifteen
percent
above
l
116
23
percent
of
standard
profits.
Excess
profits
tax
is
removed
from
partnerships
and
sole
proprietorships.
Patronage
dividends
on
coco-operatives
and
similar
payments
are
allowed
as
tax
reduction.
Co-operatives
starting
business
after
December
31,
1946,
will
be
given
a
three-year
tax
Incident
Occurred
July
9,
1942,
With
R.C.A.F.,
Navy
and
United
Stales
Coastguard
Collaborating
LONDON
(CP;
What
is
believed
to
be
the
first
official
mention
of
the
sinking
of
a
Japanese
submarine
off
the
Queen
Charlotte
Islands
on
July
1),
1912,
was
disclosed
today
in
a
British
while
paper
fvliiclt,
showed
that
Canadian
naval
and
air
forces
baffffcil
1!)
of
9
enemy
submarines
destroyed
by
Allied
action
during
the
war-
The
white
paper
credits
the
sinking
of
the
submarine
near
the
Uritish
Columbia
islands
to
Royal
Canadian
Air
Force
aircraft
operating
with
the
United
States
Coastguard.
..:
i
GETS
SEVEN
YEARS
NEW
WESTMINSTER
Former
City
Comptroller
A.
J.
Bowell
wan
sentenced
tc
seven
years,
in
the
penitentiary
on
four
charges
arising
out
of
the
theft
of
$00,000
from
city
funds.
i
HOOVER
IN
OTTAWA
OTTAWA
Former
President
Herbert
Hoover
of
the
United
States
arrived
in
Ottawa
today
ton
confer
on
the
world
food
situation.
He
speaks
over
the
-ldio
at-4:30
thls-af
tcrnoon.
HART
RESERVED
VICTORIA
Premier
John
Hart
has
reserved
comment
on
the
new
Dominion
tax
proposals.
He
said:
"Mr.
Ilslcy's
proposals
require
very
careful
study."
Meanwhile,
Premier
Stuart
Gar
so
n
of
Manitoba
said
the
proposal
of
separate
agreements
with
the
provinces
was
"acceptable
in
principle."
rremicr
Douglas
of
Saskatchewan
said:
"Fine.
Fine."
No
major
tariff
changes
werej
contemplated.
There
are
a
few
minor
adjustments
but
no
Increases.
Agreement
With
Provinces
rian
The
budget
speech
announced
revision
of
federal
proposals
for
new
Dominion-provincial
agreements
making
participation
on
the
part
of
each
province
COMMENTATOR
JOHN
FISHER
TO
COME
HERE
The
noted
Canadian
radio
cemmentator
John
Fisher
may
visit
Prince
Rupert
within
the
next
few
weeks,
according
to
Junior
Chamber
of
Commerce
President
Clifford
Ham,
whe
returned
Thursday
from
Edmonton,
where
he
attended
the
national
"convention
of,
the
Junior
Chambers
of
Commerce
of
Canada
last
week.
Facilities
of
Port
Offered
Recent
Story
in
Daily
News
About
Warehouse
Ets.,
Confirmed
Formal
announcement
was
mad?
at
Ottawa
today
that
former
American
waterfront
freight
handling
facilities
at
Prince
Rupert,
Includinr;
the
huge
overseas
stock
terminal
warehouse
will
be
sold
by
tender
by
the
Canadian
government.
Fewer
Taxpayers
Next
Year
There
i3
a
proposal
for
a
two-
year
agreement
term
wim
uie
provinces
and
the
provinces
accepting
would
agree
to
vacate
the
personal
Income
tax
field.
A
uniform
five
percent
tax
would
be
collected
for
the
provinces
by
the
Dominion.
The
Dominion's
payments
to
the
province
would
be
in
accordance
with
its
offer
made
at
the
April-May
conference
which
failed
to
reach
an
agreement.
ROYAL
CARRIAGE
ARRIVES
FOR
VICTORY
PAnADE-
This
scene
at
the
saluting
base
In
the
Mall
shows
the
carriage
which
had
just
arrived
with
members
of
the
royal
family
for
the
ceremonies
attending
Britain's
Victory
parade.
Behind
the
poach,
King
George
VI
can
be
seen
saluting.
Next
to
him,
Her
Majesty
Queen
Elizabeth.
Behind
the
royal
couple
left
to
right,
ac:
Clement
Attlce,
Britain's
prime
minister;
Winston
Churchill,
wartime
permlcr,
and
Mackenzie
King,
Canada's
prime
minister.
In
rear
on
the
platform
Is
Queen
Mother
Mary.
Twelve
million
persons
jammed
London
for
the
great
celebration
that
brought
tears
from
Winston
Churchill,
beloved
wartime
leader,
and
others
who
watched
the
parade.
Government
Sues
Lumber
Companies
SAN
FRANCISCO
0)
The
United
States
government
yesterday
sued
40
Washington
state
lumber
companies,
seeking
a
total
of
$9,000,000
In
treble
damages
for
alleged
violations
of
Office
of
Price
Administration
regulations
resulting
from
artificial
lumber
shortages
and
exhorbit-ant
charges
to
contractors
and
builders.
QUEENSLAND
EMERGENCY
SYDNEY,
Australia
O)
A
state
of
emergency
has
been
ceclared
in
Queensland
where
6,000
meat
workers,
who
have
been
on
strike
since
last
March,
were
Joined
by
waterside
workers
and
coal
miners.
Queensland
authorities
were
able
to
draft
the
workers
back
to
their
Jobs
despite
the
possibility
that
contlnued,strlkes
may
cause
unemployment
of
up
to
100,000
workers.
It
Is
heped
that
negotiation
will
settle
the
dispute
which
originated
from
the
dismissal
of
four
workers
from
a
bacon
factory.
FOOD
CRISIS
STILL
SEVERE
WASHINGTON
0)
President
Truman
said
yesterday
that
the
world
food
crises
"is
not
over,"
althoinh
the
United
States
is
abreast
if
its
goal
In
grain
shipments
to
famine
countries.
He
said
the
country
must
continue
to
share
food
"during
the
coming
months
of
hunger
abroad."
MORE
RAIN
IS
NEEDED
Only
Certain
Points
on
Prairies
Have
Had
Enough
Moisture
WINNIPEG
Light
showers
to
good
rains
have
occurred
at
many
points
In
western
Canada
during
the
past
week
but,
in
sofar
as
southern
and
central
Manitoba
and
central
Saskat
chewan
are
concerned,
have
been
BUILDER
OF
GREAT
WEST
m
Career
of
Senator
McRae,
4'i
Prominent
Industrialist
and"
Politician
Z
OTTAWA
rtl
Thp
lat.P
Kpia-
r
vAi
tor
Andrew
Duncan'McRae,
farm
boy,
banker,
colonist,
Industrial-''
1st,
soldier,
ParllameUary
leader
and
politician,
achieved
the
greatest
victory
of
a
career
de-
.
voted
to
organization
when
he
directed
the
Conservative
party
triumph
In
the
Dominion
eleC2
tlon
of
1930.
He
died
in
hospital
,
at
12:15
noon
Wednesday.
He
had
-entered
the
institution
last
Wednesday
for
treatment
for
a
blood
condition.
Falling
to
receive
the
cabinet
post
he
desired,
Gen.
McRae
ac-
cepted
appointment
to
the
Sen-
:
ate
Jn
1931
following
'
ate
in
1931
and
retired
from,
party
organization
except
fora
..
brief
period
In
1942
when
'he
...
spearheaded
the
drive
to
rfame
Ht.
Hon.
Arltiur
Melghen
as
leader.
It
ended
with
Mr.
Melghen's
:
defeat
in
the
York
South
by-election
of
that
year.
Ma.-Gen.
McRae
had
worked
.-hard
for
the
1930
victory.'
Ap"
'
pointed
chief
party
whip
in
1928
after
his
first
election
to
the
Commons
in
Vancouver
North
he
organized
the
national
Con-
tervatlve
convention
at
Winni
peg
in
1921
wljlch
elected
Richard
Bedford
Bennett,
later
Viscount
Bennett,
leader.
When
the
election
was
called
the
Liberals
had
held
power
for
almost
10
years,
except
for
the
three
months
of
the
Meighen
"shadow
cabinet"
in
1926,
and
:
were
strongly
entrenched.
In
troducing
business
methods
into
party
organization,
Gen.
McRae
.
was
widely
hailed
as
the
archi
tect
of
the
Conservative
victory.
,
Engrossed
in
the
national
fight,;
?
he
met
personal
defeat
in
Van-
.
couver
North
and
expected
Mr.
Bennett
would
appoint,
him
!
to
tne
caoinet
ana
una
a
seat
ior
.
him
through
a
by-election.
He
was
reported
at
the
time
to
.
have
been
offered
the
post
of
high
commissioner
in
London
but
was
interested
only
in
a
cabinet
seat.
His
appointment
to
the
Senate
closed
the
breach
between
him
and
Mr.
Bennett
only
slightly.
i.
Bom
at
Glencoe,
Ont.,
November
17,
1874,
son
of
Duncan
arid
Mary
McRae,
he
attended
public
school
and
farmed
with
his
father
for
a
few
years
before
leaving
for
Duluth,
Minn.,
and
a
business
carter.
By
the
time
he
was
24
he
had
saved
$1,000
and
ran
it
up
to
Insufficient
for
normal
crop
de-
$50,000
in
five
years
in
a
small
velopment,
according
to
the
banking
business.
,
.
weekly
crop
report
of
the
De-
!
With
that
stake
at
thirty
he
partment
of
Agriculture
of
the
,
returned
to
Western
Canada
and
Canadian
National
Railways
organized
the
Saskatchewan
Many
points
in
these
sections
1
Valley
Land
Company,
bought
report
wheat
in
shot
blade
six
to
ten
inches
in
height
and
a
few
earlier
crops
in
Manitoba
are
heading
out
from
ten
to
fourteen
Inches
in
height.
Points
which
have
not
received
recent
rains
show
further
crop
deterioration,
particularly
in
Manitoba,
and
without
further
immediate
precipitation,
partial
crop
failure
Is
in
prosepct
in
a
number
of
sections.
Okanagan
reports
weather
cool
and
showery
with
heavy
winds.
Cherries
are
not
ripening
as
fast
as
expected
but
have
not
been
damaged
as
yet.
Trade
Ass'n
Not
Coming
to
City
The
Pacific
Northwest
Trade
Association
has
communicated
i
with
the
Prince
Rupert
Chom-j
ber
of
Commerce
advising
that,
since
Vancouver
has
already
been
promised
the
meeting,
it
is
impossible
to
accept
an
tlon
from
Prince
Rupert
for
the
holding
of
the
quarterly
conference
of
the
Association
here
in
September,
However,
the
invitation
was
appreciated
and
hope
was
expressed
that
it
may
be
possible
to
have
a
conference
in
this
city
in
the
not
too
far
distant
future.
BEER
WAITERS
ARE
STRIKING
OALQARY
IB
Beverage
rooms
In
Calgary
and
Medicine
Hat
were
picketed
yesterday
followr
Ing
a
strike
of
beer
waiters
over
terms
of
a
new
contract.
500,000
acres
of
farm
land
from
'
the
Dominion
government
for
$lj
an
acre
and
prepared
to
capital-
"i
ize
on
the
great
trek
to
the
63
;:
that
was
then
in
full
swing.
'
He
Helped
To
1'
Develop
The
West
He
and
his
associates
increased
their
holdings
by
purchases
from
railroads
and
other
interests
arid'
'
sold
about.
5,500,000
acres,
bring
ing
50,000
families
to
the
Canadian
West
and
increasing
its
population
by
2500,000
persons.
In
the
procees
they
made
$9,000,-
ooo.
.
-
In
1907
he
moved
to
the
Pacific
Coast
and
established
the
Canadian
Western
Lumber
Co.;
one
of
the
greatest
timber
concerns
in
the
province,
and
Wallace
Fisheries,
one
of
its
most
important
fish-packing
and
whaling
companies.
He
also
became
one
of
British
Columbia's
most
extensive
landowners.
Further,
he
acquired
extensive
mining
Interests
In
the
Yukon.
(His
interests
in
the
north
took
him
frequently
to
Prince
Rupert).
He
had
a
distinguished
career
In
the
First
Great
War
at
'the
outbreak
of
whlchhe
was
ap
pointed
director
of
remounts
for
Western
Canada
by
the
Domin
ion
government
and
served
until
he
went
overseas
early
In
1915
with
the
2nd.
Division.
In
July'
or
that
year
'he
became
director
:
of
supplies
and
transport
for
the
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on
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