out- ...I-. V VtM.. VC n for erican uming 2500 .... rv Mill II ii) in i; -William r."ege boy was ....:u m lmnns- i wun i want to .!, in; uc curat . . iimu UUIIC NT HE E- Q'Jebet- (? .pro- anvp leader " wo that if the iem called the : ..ii .1. eek. io discuss 'u vo receive Of a npur fin. wiar i.v niw,n- minion govern- -.'iniauves of ciner not to - io discuss Jnvlnd tha. whnn " wl DP rinno Pet agreement Provinccs anrt .K, 'Mri.nvi. s VI ic 1Pml"oyineni. an.i roll" 'S ,a,a",' Problem , . - urmcrrni. In t.. ---v. uarttlg eA . . Max Max ttoii. . r;. "ll reetM v.. ... hi. . "y nis to t .e.50n will .... iiumn Maritime Strike Is Serious Proportions In STELCO WORKERS DIE HAMILTON Two of the men working within the strike-bound and picketed Steel Company' of Canada plant here have died. Their i arams were pronounced 10 oe t hi'omrli lniiiiel will hr hM. MU m ""h" r ...... I VICTORIA More than 90,-000 American cars entered British Columbia during the month of August. This is a new record. INDIA NOW IS QUIETER . .-v. .it . . . , - iiuiui n-n.v mt. . ...... . a. Lkidnarllin.g.! announced today that Bombay's m Woody communal disorders which ,1 have killed 203 persons and cived irf three con- ..... . V. ....... . nuunuru uio aunt; ouima; iioh abated noticeably but special precautions were taken to avert possible new rioting during Moslem prayer services later in the day. Troops and armed police are guarding mosques as threats are" heard of full-scaiC civil war between Hindus and Moslems. THE WEATHER : Synopsis The cold air mass whicli Is giving extensive rain over the prairies and snow over some districts of southern Alberta extends into the eastern districts of British Columbia. This has Nation agreement : resulted In almost thrcc-quartcra 'ilb'e I of an incn or rain in Kootenay TlnnnJ .... . , .,- . . . .U .V.CU i'airi a wi Mr Mr wine clearing skics io wic iiuim gave freezing temperatures last I night in northern districts of the province. The lowest temperature in the province up to this morning was 25 degrees re ported at Prince Ocorgc. No general change in conditions is expected over British Columbia today and tomorrow although a disturbance' Is approaching the northern British Columbia coast. ' Forecast Prince Rupert, Queen Charlottes and North Coast Overcast at first, clearing Inland this afternoon. Saturday Overcast over coastal waters today, becoming fog patches Saturday afternoon. Intermittent rain over Charlottes Saturday night. Llrhf ,lnr1o hnpninlnir sniltn- ajaln .... .. i . "vv" . ..." lllno cr nij ; tuai, uo m.p.n.j over in Hen-1 by Saturday evening. Little change in temperatures. Lowa tonight Port Hardy 50, Massett 51, Prince Rupert 50. Highs Saturdayport Hardy 60, Massett 63, Prince Rupert 63. FARM STRIKE POSTPONED EDMONTON 0 Officials of the Alberta Farmers' Union, which has called a delivery strike of its 20,000 mecibers, answer the Dominion government's request for a postponement with the statement -that nothing can be immedlati!e"Kess the government movA toJKeet the demands of the.f Antra for par- Edmonton, suggested postpone mcnt of the strike so that the Department of Agriculture might have further chance to study th farmers' demands for parity prices. Hon. J. G. Gardiner, the minister of agriculture, Ls at present in Copenhagen and is not expected back in Canada for two weeks. Mr. McKlnnon promised his personal support to the forming of a royal commission to investigate the farmers' demands and promised condition support for some of the demands. Britain For Free Trieste PARIS (CP) tireal Biltaiii warned the peace conference today that she will withdraw from the Big Four agreement on the division of Vcnczia-clulia if Trieste is not given Charging that Yugoslavia is claiming "a very special po-sition" in the administration of the Adriatic port, British delegate McNeil said that Britain will "reconsider the whole ag-leemcnt" if Trieste's independence is Impaired. France lined up with Britain In opposing Yugoslav claims to domination of Trieste. WOULD RELAX DIVORCE RULE WINNIPEG -Notice of mo- Church of England In Canada by Reginald Harris of Halifax. The motion, expected to meet heavy opposition from some quarters, proposes that any person whose marriage has been dissolved or annulled may apply to the bishop of his or her diocese to remarry. NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER tie 9ml UNBRIDLED PROPAGANDA Soviet Ukraine Charges Regarding Greece So Dubbed By British Spokesman LAKE SUCCESS, New York tt Great Britain yesterday denounced the Soviet Ukraine's complaint to the United Nations security council against Greece and the United Kingdom as "unbridled propaganda." The council Is holding a secret session today. Ukrainian charge that Fascist activities in Orceie had been aided were without' foundation, said the British delegate who declared that conditions In I Greece had been aided were without foundation, said the t British delegate who declared! that conditions In Greece would have been better were it not for communist activities' there. GOVERNMENT IS CRITICIZED WINNIPEG 0)--Sharp cltlcism of the Dominion government for its treatment of the Indian Affairs branch is contained in a report made public by an Anglican commission investigating Indian work. It said that educational grants were inadequate and charged Uie government with failure to provide for the welfare of the natives. TERRIFIC STORM SWEEPS VILLAGE EL ROSA, Minn. O Every building in this village of 450 persons-was damaged yesterday when a terrific windstorm with rain swept the district. The lty prices. Thejslrlke-j sched- wind blew down sixty to sev-uled to start tonioSOTH jcnty barns, causing damage of Minister ofJflHfffcd Com- $500,000 merce J. A. MeSftnohT who Is tics, also a mcmbcr"6r Parliament for ' TAXI TAXI - .i.IMTYRE 537 DAY and NIQHT SERVICE Publish cigg. QoT 4 strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" Bill and Ken Nesbitt VOL. XXT ff&fAjtto ' PRINCR RTIPF.HT R fi. FTtTDAY. RPPTTUnpi) A 104B mar? PRICE FIVE mw rtTJTS CENTS hi.iuS V v NE S ENUNCIATE UNITED STATES POLICY ON EUROPE f Infrrnntion lI .im Is 0V ... i ml ni 111"-" rill i. ii i r i - maritime -.v. (mmouiu.iiiu n l mi ri: LUttoi Union of the Pa York said that 531 .1 l KTftitr Vrl b 'n uu in new wi ivt Atlantic coast oorU. -i- em, rt ......... ri "on after sea- . .1.1 t It nU. .11 UlLAWh UilLJ U1I"J a ii ... AIL and rival 1IC II.ULLU ltl.llA i an International Irilce headquarters It nid that ex- rapport had been Norwegian and nrunn l hl wh.mi J i 1 - lt..l , or ns CHURCH VOLUNTARY OTTAWA Attendance of members cf the Canadian Army at church is purely voluntary, it was made clear today. SPOK.TAE BLACKOUT SPOKANE Spokane was completely blacked out for 20 minutes last night when main transmission lines from Grand Coulee were thrown down by an electrical storm. DAY OF PRAYER LONDON The Archbishop of York has aealed to the churches of Britain that next Sunday be made a day of prayer for better weather so that the crops may be TOKYO The International commission has ordered all plans and orders in connection with the attack on Pearl-Harbor be produced by September 9. CONDEMNS STRIKE EDMONTON Premier E. C. Manning of Alberta says the farmers' delivery strike, scheduled to begin tonight, h "ill-advised." He had learned of the strike plan with sincere regret. Sole effect or the strike would be to increase the suffering of innocent people who are already In desperate need. TISHBO.Vr IS SUNK VANCOUVER The steamer Prinrejs Elizabrtli sank the fishing boat Dixie II off the Sandheads last night. Angus Thomas was safely taken off the fisliboat and aboard the Princess Elizabeth. .MORE POLIO EDMONTON There arc two more rases of infantile paralysis in Alberta, making the total to date 51. COTTON MILLS STRIKE ENDS Settlement Reached to Take Valleyfield Workers Back On Jobs. VALLEYFIELD Oi Striking workers from Valleyfield plant of Montreal Cottons Limited have voted to end their 97-day-oly strike, and return to work Monday.. Settlement, reached through the Quebec provincial department of labor, provides for a secret ballot to choose There were no casual- the bargaining union and for a new agreement. SIMPLE VERDICT BY CORONER'S JURY MAY HAVE BEEN STUNNED BY IM-PACT AND BREATHED IN WATER Death by drowning was the verdict of the coroner's jury which Thursday afternoon investigated the cases of Mrs. Margaret Dempsey of Stewart and Pilot Kenneth Wilson of Vancouver who perished in the conceded crash last Saturday night of the Queen Charlotte Airlines flying boat Skeena Queen in Chatham Sound outside of Port Simpson. The hour was fixed as between 9 o'clock and 9:30 p.m. Saturday. A watch on Wilson's body had stopped at 9:23. The autopslst speculated that the two victims had been stunned in the crash and had breathed In water. Wilson was pilot and Mrs. Dempsey was a passenger on the aircraft, which, it is lndl genuine "international" status j cated, crashed into the sea near as free territory. I TViri Rlmnsnn nn n mprrv fHirhl from Stewart in behalf of Mrs. Dempscy's small daughter, Ber-nice. Unable to land at Prince Rupert on account of fog which covered the harbor when the plane returned here at 8:50 Sat day by Rev .Basil S. Prockter and Albert Bleakley, members of a search party scouring the beach of Tsimpsean Peninsula.' The body of three-and-a-half year old Bernice Joyce Dempsey was found floating southwest of Flnlayson Island at 7 p.m. Wed-nesday by BJern Berg of the fishing boat Oceania. It was brought to Prince Rupert at 5:15 Thursday afternoon by the police boat. Death by drowning in the case of the child ls also conceded by the coroner. Four other victims of the disaster, passenger Nick Klllas, copilot George Hatch and flight engineers James Madsen and Lloyd Douglas, are still missing, as is the plane which carrien urday night, the plane headed them to thelr deaths gearch fof in the direction of Port Blmp-,thc plane and thc four bodles where cond itliftu clear. son were u contlnulll ln chatham Sound. It is believed to have crashed j in landing in the vicinity of j ,,ane El"PPl I with Iudio Port Simpson. Opinion has been expressed I Testifying at the inquest, that the Skeena Queen, after! George H. Stanbridge, Prince finding itself unable to land on Rupert agent for Queen Char-Prlncc Rupert Harbor owing to lotte Airlines, operators of the fog, turned westward with the plane, said that the Skeena Intention of landing at Tort Queen was equipped with a Slmuson, where there is a hos- radio receiving and transmlt- UOll wmcn wuu.u u..U I .., ,, un .tw t tins set which rnnlrl hrrvulenst to remarry w uun inc persons notwlthatand, th and rccelve on flyc frequenc,es The body of Mrs. DemDsev was i hours before the crash. found a half mile west of the north tip of Flnlayson Island, near Port Simpson at 8:10 Monday morning by William Harvey, a fisherman, while that of Pilot Wilson was discovered near the tip of Jap Point at 1 p.m. Tues- The transmitter, Mr. Stan-bridge said, had been used to broadcast the "flight plan" of the Skeena Queen as it took oft on Its mercy flight to Stewart at approximately 7:07 p.m. Saturday. He could offer no ex- Wrs.:' jHII BULGARIA ASKS BIG FOUR FOR PART OF GREECE This new photograph was made during a recent parade and patriotic demonstration in the Bulgarian capital. In the centre, Standing before a huge portrait of himself Is Georgl Dimitrov, Communist leader; of Bulgaria. On the right is Klmon Georgiev, premier of Bulgaria. During the parade, marchers carried photos of Stalin as well as of their own leaders, an incident that now takes on significance In view of the fact that the Soviet Union Is backing Bulgaria's demand before the Big Four for a territorial slice of Oreece. Bulgaria, during the war, was an Axis satellite, while Greece .fought strongly against Germany and Italy. Bone of contention is a strip of land called Western Thrace. WANT REMOVAL OF OFFICIALS ' Miners' Union Out for Mines I Department Executives Who Keccminend Against 41-Hour Week VANXOUVER 0 The International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers Is asking the provincial government to remove from office the deputy minister of mines, Dr. Walker, the chief Inspector of nines and the chief 'engineer "becaule3'they''hae "said that the 44-hour week Is not practical in the mining industry of British Columbia. Yesterday Hon. R. C. MacDon-ald, minister of mines, released planatlon as to why the plane had apparently been in a radio "blackout" when it returned to Prince Rup(:t less than two hours later. In spite of frantic efforts by the Department of Transport broadcasting station at Digby a report of a departmental inquiry into the feasibility of the 44-hour week, the report find ing that the short week wag Im practicable. The present work ing week'ls forty-eight hours. Harvey Murphy or the Union said that members of the Union would not work a 48-hour week. Saturday," Septemb'er 7, 1948 High 11:25 16.4 feet Low Centralized Government Of Germany WaRts Early Settlement Not Satisfied With Oder France Not Happy ' STUTTGART (CP) United States Secretary of State James Byrnes today urged early settlement of a centralized German government, rejected France's claim to the Rhineland and the Ruhr and warned Russia that the United (States does hot consider Ger-j many's eastern boundary to be i fixed at the Oder River. Byrnes Indicated he would support Rus jSla's claim to Koenisberg. Aus-( tria should be separate from j Russia, he said. Byrnes called ,for an early settlement of! thtr boundary question between Rus sia and Poland. In1 a speech regarded as the most Important pronouncement on American foreign policy since the end of the war, Mr. Byrnes outlined a broad, plan for eventual unification of the German people under a national coun cil which he said should be charged with drafting a federal constitution for the "United States of Germany." Byrnes made plain the Intention of the United States to continue Indefinitely her interest In European affairs and e:iy3nalzeA,that3e$ritvforces probably wlllTiave 'toreiniTri in Germany for a long; period." 22:59 18.3 feet m Agreement With A CO CI ... . 17:01 9.5 feet tSkeena Queen Crash Victims Died of Drowning even though th plane circled the city. Time of the Skeena Queen disaster, set by the Jury at between 9 o'clock and 9:30 pjn. Saturday night, between 10 and 40 minutes after the plane had circled fog-bound Prince Ru- Island and the wireless of the Pt, was supported by the wrist United States cruiser Tucson to!watch worn by Pilot Wilson, warn the plane not to try and whlch had stopped with Its land here, no acknowledgement hands pointing at 9:23. The of the messages were received,! Continued on Page 6) Plan Vast Week-end Search Fpg banks which shrouded : Douglas and Jens Madsen, crew the coast line today halted the search for the four missing bodies and wreckage of the flying boat Skeena Queen but plans are being developmed for a widespread search at the week-end in which scores of citizens and High School students will be asked to take part. In spite of four days of intensive investigation by aircraft, boat and individual shore patrols along Tsimpsean Peninsula, the members of the Skeena Queen, have not yet been located. The plane ls believed to be lying in the water off Port Simpson where Pilot Ken Wilson tried to land it after he found Prince Rupert Harbor fogbound on returning from a mercy flight to Stewart last Saturday night. The provincial police boat P.M.L. 15 today ls investigating a report that several blankeis bodies of Nick Klllas, jo. passen-1 have been found washed on a ger, and George Hatch, Lloyd j beach near Port Simpson al- though it is not known definitely whether or not there PRIMATE HINTS CHURCH UNION WINNIPEG 0) The Church of Ensland must "make explorations" toward a union of Pro-' tcstant churches, Most 'Rev. Derwyn T. Owen, Primate of All Canada, told delegates to thc Anglican Synod oh Wednesday. VETERANS NAME of the ' faet Uut It was a clear nl.ht and which had been checked by OFFICERS legates of the synod , THEIR WtUll VI bVYWUVJ iVMt , " ' - EDMONTON IP) A. J. Wlckens, Moose Jaw barrister, was elected president of the Army, Navy and Air Force Veterans' Association. Major T. R. Wheadon of Victoria is first vice-president. Rev. Glen Stevenson of Port Albernl ls chaplain. were any blankets aboard the plane when it made its ill-fated mercy flight. The P.M.L. 15 is continuing Its patrol of the waters off Port Simpson today although thc other boats which took part ln the search on Tuesday and Wednesday are not out. An Inquest was held yesterday into the deaths of Ken B. Wilson, pilot of the plane and Mrs. Margaret Dempsey, mother icck.uuiun roncy of the child for whom the mercy flight was made. The bodies of Mrs. Dempsey LONDON CF) The Foreign Office, through a spokesman today, said that several passages of United States Stafe Secretary Byrnes' speech at Stuttgart today were In. agreement with expressed British policy, He mentioned in particular the proposal that the Saar should belong to France. France Not 1 Satisfied PARIS GO State Secretary Byrnes' proposal for early establishment of a central German provisional government was described as "premature and imprecise" by a French Foreign Office spokesman. He also criticized Mrv Byrnes' suggestion of Allied demilitarized control over all Germany including the Ruhr and the Rhineland. He said the latter must be under separate control since controls cpYCln.g all Germany are bound t6 be Ineffective. Prince Rupert Man Fined in Vancouver VANCOUVER O) Captured yesterday after police had fired a shot to halt him, James O'-Leary, 34-year-old Prince Rupert laborer, was fined $10, with option of ten days' Imprisonment, after being convicted of fraud ulently obtaining a meal. He said that he did not have any money to pay, explaining: "I ;dldn't know what I was doing. I had been drinking." MORE ARE EMPLOYED Settlement of Lumber Strike Has Favorable Effect on Work In This Province OTTAWA 0 Increased employment at July I is reported by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. Increase Is attributed and three-and-a-half year old . lareelv to the resunrotion of Bernice Joyce will be sent to Stewart on the Catala on Sunday for burial. The body of Ken Wilson ls being sent to Vancouver tonight on the Cardena for Interment. normal operations, following. .ths British Columbia lumber strike. Employers numbering 15,933 reported total staff of 1,713.712, an increase of 2.1 percent from June 1.