RED TOP GABS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER' If TAXI TAXI Phone PhnC FTT . mm taaxvn . ft l KASPER C. McINTYRE Stand: Rupert Tobacco Store (across from Ormes) DAY and NIGHT SERVICE DAY AND NIGHT SERVICE 5 J Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port Bill and Ken Nesbitt VOL. XXXV. No. 44. prince rupert, b.c., thursday, february 21, 1016 PRICE FIVE CENTS ; : - . . j ttawa Riders Russ Statement on b SPOKEN LEAKAGE . Lkcnzie King and President liman Talked of LspionaRc iispiracy i-asi i isHIN'OTON DC. 0-Pre- t- m ;n dUclosed today be first talked with Prime uiL;:Ki:nzie King or Ida canaaas projecicn itlr:ii.:n c leakage of con- n .ni.irmailon last Scp-w:i n Mr Kins was cn-i idiiii It was then ; Mi Kins spent a wcek- hv. i -."-"on oetnre saiun; V o V rk fur a month's in thi United Kingdom. He : Washington early hi -nmie talks with nd Prime Minis- ,iH th'.t spjurltv e Unllfri State.' '. to protect secret , r- it: ii'. II? added I I'm have been iie past and he 1 an n i to Canada l r 'y believed to mean oreak" In diplo-ji but rather means w i not je quite as i the have been be- a'j'y learned today i report by the r.i n on espionage be rr.idf! not later than Sal ty 1 the royal commission :) r'udc its lnvrxM-rn. j:.J March 7. AVY FALL OF OW IN EAST pONTC- Ontario and Que;- 1 v;....cd by another v ') vc.-terday. Traf-' d up in this city i i .!!:lic fell. One man v In Montreal there snrttt'fnll WTICIANS" E SINCERE N'COUVER 9 The former , ot Canada'. Pacific Army! Victoria Cross Win- a; :r-Gcneral 0. R. Pcarkes j changed his mind about '": The Genernl nd- P vc tcrday that he once Jtled politicians almost with Pp' However, General Whr hen r nn;iilLM.J pl mirm stiin t arc sincere men t-n- Ecet Car Men wine I u i'VEn T .Driu,h r1. 1 ,!- ' a mm arc to ask lw nt hour in f when thev mats " ' at- ai-i With th; com- 11 a: learned yesterday. IU0R WILL (STUDIED rm,illcCMVillia f c:,,..,op,ii.,. p.iUcc v ; PORIA, C.C P. mcm-Pi the ovlnclal leclsla-! in r. iucu: yesterday an- 1 MIPMM - ii... la Onnrwltin,, t j. " W'ncji to study the sltu-" arr!!"r; admlnUfrnflnn Je if the Liquor Control aiid !lqu (,r I'olicy "'' generally -lit' Hum m M.L.A. for Prince named chairman rc Partv, lezklatlvn credit - "-wans' affairs. aere re"tiy 4 or y a large i anv tit -liii in j ml arm;;. and other rela-" her visit to B.C. Highwav'jhould Be Equal To Washington's Minister of Public Works Anscomb in Favor of Borrowing 530,000,000 to Fix Them Up VICTORIA (CP) Minister of Public Works Herbert Anscomb, in an interview on the eve of the opening of the Legislature, said that improvement of existing highways in this province to a point where they will equal anything in the State of Washington should be given top priority in British Columbia's roadbuilding program. He' is in favor of borrowing $50,000,000 to .fix them up. Gets Another Conversion Job VANCOUVER West Coast Shipbuilders, already holdin;: one contract, has been awarded the work of converting another Castle claw corvette into a coastal passenger liner for the Union Steam-shlpa Ltd. A third contract Is held bv Burrard Dn Dock, LOAD LUMBER FOR ORIENT VANCOUVER Four China coasters, built In United States, are loading lumber for the Orient three In Vancouver and cne at Port Albcrnl. The cargo consists largely of railway tic. Tlie vessels will remain In China. CHARLOTTETOWN PLANE CRASH One Killed When Trans-Atlantic Liberator Blows Up CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. - One person was killed, five were Injured and 12 cscaned unhurt j when a Liberator plane, coming In from Britain, crashed and exploded on the local airport yesterday. NO DANGER OF rrr? a rv r a TirM LONDON 9 - The British people heaved a sigh of relief today. The Dominion's secrctar;.', Viscount Addison, reported that British wheat stocks now are quite satisfactory, and the danger of bread rationing has passed. LEYTON, Eng.. f - Ex-sold ler William Donovan's plea that he be nllowcd to rcbufld his bomb-destroyed house on a site which the town council Intends as a community and shopping centre lias been refused. -i I i I BACK FROM ORIENT -Cajit. It. K. Cheng, R.C.C.S., of Lll-loot and Vaucouvrr, Canadian-bom Chinese, has recently returned from operations In the Pacific. After special commando and guerilla training he Joined the Canadlan-Brl-tlsh-Auslrallan force In the Jup-lnfcstcd Jungles of Borneo. Dropped there by air he spent five months In guerilla warfare. A graduate of Mc-0111 University, with a degree of Bachelor, of Engineering, Capt. Chen? was In the Directorate of Electrical Communication and Design In Ottawa : for two y'cars before his Pa-rifle alignment FERGUSON OF ONTARIO DIES Former Provincial Premier and Canadian High Commissioner Passe TORONTO. O'-IIcn. O. Howard FergiifoH, 7(5. one-time premier if Ontario and later Cana dian Hipth Commissioner to the United Kingdom, died suddenly at his heme today. Mr. Ferguson, who had been In Ontario politics for 25 years, never .suffered a rersrmal defeat at the polls. TI? had retired from public life following a five year term In London as Hi-?h Commissioner. WILL FIGHT DEPORTATION VANCOUVER. (T--R. J. Mc-Msrf.t'.. counsel fcr Japanese groups in British Columbia, said yesterday' that they "were ready to contribute money toward financing an appeal to the Privy Council against a Supreme Court decision upholding almost com pletely the federal government's repatriation order. He said that. If the government actually tries to move any Japs back to Japan, action will be taken In an attempt to prevent the transfer. At the ame time in Toronto the committee for Japancsc-Canadian. which Instituted the original aopeal to the Supreme Court of Canada against the deportation ordcrs-ln-councll, Intimated that an appeal would be Immediately taken to the Privy Council in LondDii. It mentioned that a "considerable part" of the deportaUon program had been found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court finding. T. D. Plckersgill. special placement officer for the federal government. aid only a finall number of Japanese would be saved from deportation by the court order. BOMBAY SEAMEN ARE-FIRED ON r:?MPAY Soldiers of the Indian Anny have fired on striking seamen of the Royal Indian Navy In Bombay. The gunfire Ii said to have broken out at the Ca 'tie Naval Barracks which is in the heart of the city. The sol-1 diers are reported to have start- ed shooting when seamen, at" tempted to leave barracks con- trary to orders. JAP WAS WITH INDONESIANS BATAVIA. Q - Dutch, authorl-I tics said yesterday that the body of a Japanese, clad in the uniform of an Indonclsan nationalist, was found after a five-hour fight In which Indlati troops Joined the Indonesian civil police against heavy machine gun fire to clear snipers from the Bandoeng factory area. Vancouver Grain Shipments Heavy VANCOUVER Vancouver ex pects to ship an even greater quantity of grain in March, pos slbly. eight million bushels. So far In February 5,000,000 bushels have been exported and during the remainder of the month It Is expected a further 1,500,000 'buhels will be shipped. PACKINGHOUSE DISPUTE ENDED VANCOUVER, All threats of a nation-wide meat strike-are now dispelled, William Syming-i ton, international representative of the United Packinghouse Workers' Association (CIO), said In an Interview here yesterday. He said that compete agreement had been reached on all difference? between Caoada 'Packers. Burns and Swift's- with th Union. Explains Building Of C.P.R. Ships In Old Country Mayor H. M. Dagttt, In hi capacity as chairman of t'w Pilnce Rupert Industrial Development Committee, has received a reply to a telegram sent by tha committee to Hon. Lionei Chcvr'.cr, Minister of, Transport:, hirh urged that Canadian Pacific Railway replace Its wartime -hlrpin.1; losses by building )n Canadian shipyards. Dominant reason for the i a importation company rebuild ing Its fleet In British shipyards Mr. Chcvricr said, is that insurance on the company's lost ships was paid lri sterling, which Is rot convert'Cjle into Canadian dollars, and that It U "logical for Canadian Pacific to replace their ships where the Insurance money Is located." Mr. Chcvricr points out that company policy Is entirely In the hancU ef the management "and the government Is not In control In any way." in explaining the'attitudeof , the railway. company, Mr. Chev-r!er added that the C.PJt. also feels that In building their ships In Britain they are assisting the economy of the country which will result in ability of Britain to purchase Canadian goods. ACQUITTED, RE-ARRESTED New Charge of Theft Is Laid Against Former Auouniant of Grosvenor Hotel VANCOUVER, Frederick D. Whyle, 59-year o'd former bookkeeper of the Grosvenor Hotel here, was acquitted by an Assize Court Jury Wednesday on a charge of theft of $28,000 from the hotel but, as he was being congratulated by friends, a new charge of theft was laid by provincial police. The new chars uccuses him of theft of $0,000 between January 1, 1933, and December 31, 1939. The first charge was for the period between January 1, 1914, and December 31, 1945. 400 TONS OF HERRING LANDED First major catch of herring made on the north coast since the middle of January when several hundred tons were taken In Douglas Chanuel nrrlvcd In port Wednesday aboard seiners belonging to B.C. Tackers and Nelson Brothers. The boats brought In 400 tons for canning and processing at the Nelson .Bros, plant at Port Edward and for use as frozen halibut bait. The catches were reported to be made at Ilevenor Inlet on Pitt Island and It Is presumed that that area has become the mccca for other seiners when word of the catches became known. The catches were brought In aboard the Nelson Bros, boats Western Ranger and Western Girls, and the B.C. Packers seiners South Lslc and West Isle, CHUNGKING RUSTLESS CHUNGKING Thousands ot school teachers and students have jrone on strike in connection 'with the anti-Soviet movement following- recent developments in Manchuria attributed to the Russian GOU) BRAID AND STARS SHINE AT U.N.O. ASSEMBLY Gold-braided hats of military and naval representatives to the United Natl ns Orcaaization assembly, tell the story of the first meeting of the military committee. Here the hats are clustered together in the cloakroom at Church House, London, Eng. Strikers Tale Over Warships; Reinforcements Off to Bombay RESCUING OF COAL MINERS i HEREFORD, Germany Q Retc.tcamare.worW tically tonight In an effort Cft' save some five hundred men. The men were trauned In an f explosion in a coal mine near j striking Indian naval sea-Dortmund in the Rhur, Valley, j men were reported to have Three Britons are Included among those trapped undcr-f ground. So far, the relays of j rescuers who arc directed by! Brltlsh military government officers have brought up twenty-two nine of them dead. The explosion wrecked the main yhaft of the mine. Rescuers are attempting to reach the trapped i , , , ; men through an auxiliary shaft j TODAY'S STOCKS Courtesy S. D. Joiinston Co. Ltd. j Vancouver Bralorne 1800 B. R. Con. 19 B. R. X. 18 Cariboo Quartz 3.35 Dentonia 47 Grull Wihksnc 21 V2 Hcdley Mascot 2.71 Minto 08 Vi Pend Oreille 4.00 Pidncer 6.25 Premier Border 13 Vis Premier Gold - 2.85 Private.er 78 Reeves McDonald 1.40 Reno il4 Salmon-Gold 25'2 Taylor Bridge 1.93 Sheep Creek 1.01 Whitewater .04 Vananda 54 Congress 1V,'2 Pacific Eastern 17 Hedley Amalgamated .. .15 Spud Valley 28 Central Zeballos. .21 Oils A. P. Con 22 Calmont 37 C. & E 2.40 Foothills 1.60 Home 3.40 Toronto Aumaque 1.35 Bcattic 1.55 Bobjo .20 Buffalo Canadian 33 Consol. Smelters . 85.50 EUlona 1.10 Elder 1.15 Giant Yellowknlfc 7,95 Hardrock ! 1.08 Jacknlfe . 33 Jolict Quebec -. 1.84 Little Long Lac 3.25 Madsen Red Lake .... 4.G5 MacLeod Cockshutt . 3.00. 'Moneta 75 Pickle Crow 4.30 San Antonio 5.65 Senator Rouyn 1.26 Steep Rock 3.90 Strong Measures Taken to Deal With Serious Situation LONDON (CP) Strontr British army, ' fi10;,. ,,,.,! way to Bombav today after! trained guns on a flotilla of warships last night following a day 0f fighting between troops and seamen ashore which one Navy man said had cost the strikers ,two hundred casualties. Naval ratings, barricaded in Castle Barracks naval establishment in the heart of the down- wn aa-'"e b?l bficed pBrrlt" lsh and Indian troops. Troops had orders to quell what lhc Indian Navy's flag officer called "state of open rebellion." Nine warships, held by strll:-l crs, manoeuvred Into battle positions in the harbor' as troops and barricaded seamen exchanged rifle and machine gun fire. A British communicuc said that seamen who seized control of the vessels in the harbor had threatened to fire if any move were made against them. Vice-Admiral Sir John Godfrey proclaimed existence of a "state of open mutiny" today as the striking seamen of the Royal Indian Navy engaged In a pitched battle with other troops and promised to use every force at his command to crush the revolt. Fighting broke out when Indian seaman, who had been staging a hunger strike in Castle Barracks, attempted to break out Into the streets from which they had been banned following a series of demonstrations earlier this week. British troops fired on the seamen who returned the fire and sporadic shooting continued for about 30 minutes, RAILWAY PROBE OF BLACK MARKET HALIFAX The giant, black market gang now being investigated by Royal Canadian , Mounted Police Is also being probed by Canadian National Railway authorities. C.N.R. Investigators arc looking into the transportation of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stolen textiles from the Halifax waterfront to undercover markets inland. It is understood that, sq far, no C.N.R. employees have been found to be Involved In the operations of the ring Spy Bulletins MORE CAIRO TROUBLE ..CAlUO-J.excjitcenJpersons: nave been killed and 360 wounded in a renewal of demonstrations, piincipally by students, against British influence in Egypt. A cathedral and a barracks were among-the objects of attack. RED HAT CONFERRED VATICAN CITY The Pope today conferred the traditional red hat upon 28 new Cardinals, including James Cardinal McGuigan of Toronto, in a magnificent religious spectacle witnessed by 23,000 persons in the great nave of St. Peter's. NO CAUSE FOR WAR .LONDON Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin said today that he could conceive of no cause which would lead Soviet Russia and Great Britain to war. There was no reason for such a war and its possibility had never entered his mind. U.S. HONORS CANADIANS WASHINGTON Major-Gen-eial XV. XV, Foster and Air Vice-Marshal L. F. Stephenson of Canada have been awarded the Legion of Merit, highest American military award, for their aid to the United States in the war. Major 11. I). Wilson, a former Vancouver alderman, has been awarded the Bronze Star medal. .MACHINE GUNS BANNED OTTAWA The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has imposed a ban on importation of sub-machine guns. Such weapons, if .brought in, are subject now to confiscation. The step has been taken in connection with the. campaign against crime. KILLED IN BRISBANE TORONTO Dr. James Carson Taylor, prominent Canadian educator, Is dead in Brisbane. He strayed Into a melee and was killed. An aborigine is held and charged with murder. Dr. Taylor had gone to Australia as a lecturer in philosophy for Brisbane University. ScVtUIA DELAYED BELFAST The finer Scj thia, taking British brides and ciiii dren of Canadian ex-servicemen to Canada, has been delayed. She left Liverpool but had to put into Belfast for engine repairs. She is expected to leave tonight, in, continuation of the voyage. Probe INFORMATION UNIMPORTANT REDS ASSERT Soviet Military Attache , Recalled and Ambassador May Not Return to Canada 1 OTTAWA (CP) There i is speculation here on' what a Russian broadcast Statement on the Dominion's e s p i o n age investigation means to C a n a d a. The ir-v broadcast admitted Information was given by Canadians'to the Soviet embassy's military iatCichc but declared the facts thus' obtained were Insignificant. Some Ottawa circles describe the statement as a defensive -manoeuvre by the Russians, i Said one source: "The report 1 of the Royal CommissId" will blow that alibi sky high. They are just preparing ground for their defence." Meanwhile, the Ottawa' Morn ing Citizen says today that trie Russian ambassador to. Canada probably will not be coming back to Ottawa. The ambassador is George Zaroubin who at present Is in Moscow. The Citizen also quoted, a source, described as being Velose to the embassy?' to the effect that the espionage probe Is considered so important that all' Russian statements on it will come straight Jrcrm Moscow ahd , hot.from" theRusianemblisy " in Ottawa. Moscow Radio Makes Statement The Moscow radio has broadcast an official statement on the spy probe In Canada. The Russian broadcast declared that Canadian citizens gave som,e Information of a confidential character to the Soviet Military Attache in Ottawa but that It was not of special Interest as the Information already- had been published. The Moscow radio said that the Soviet Military Attache had been recalled because of what was called the "inadmissibility" of the actions of members of his staff. The statement added that the attitude adopted by Canada is uncompatible with normal relations between the two governments. sr WILL BUILD NEW HOUSES m: a IMS VANCOUVFR. 0 R. LcTghlou Foster, general counsel of the Canadian Life Insurance J)tff ccrs' Association, said today that Canadian insurance Idn" panic:, jn collcboratlon with-the federal government. ar2cjn-barking on a national housing plan which will result in the building of 5000 to 8000 , family units this year. Mr. Foster said that 'aurcv company had been formed.by.tbc, insurance companies which will enter the federal housing field and expects to complete' from 10,000 to 20,000 dwellings In the next two or three years. FORMER PREMIER GETS TEN YEARS , HELSINKI. ) Former Pre sldent Rlsto Rytl ot Flnlandbwas sentenced today to 10 years,cim-prisonment with hard labor after a special tribunal convicted him of leading Finland lntowar with Russia. Seven other de fendants, all former government ministers, wero sentenced to terms Tanging from two to six years. JLccal Tides, , Friday, February 22, Jp46 . High . 5:12 18.9 .feet 17:42 16.1 feet Lqw 11:41 7.ft feet 2334 8.6 feet t 1