TROMXCIAL OOVT. provincial LIBRAIi? r A TAXI " . . SM e L fit f D.. 'Su; r I - ne ooy is f c;:y his Christmas :c--car old Donald wjy in a blizzard. .crday found hhn LTITUDE R POPE Holiness Given Great l- i.i ci 'ion in ui'amuc iiuiii oi. Ad rc sing a multl- :l C. . -rids from a bal- :: P? r , Square, Pope ; od upon Rome, c t aits everywhere ( ii tho attainment . i u;i uce His Holl-.;. a tremendous r ;reat- was the vai unable to utr WIN 1'ni.ri mi a m im a ami SATURDAY wjo 1, Toronto 3. Ion 1, .Montreal 5. SUNDAY rnto 3, New York 1. '"'real 4, Detroit 2. ,lon 1, Chicago 5. "SON! 3 The position cf tj p; .making Canadian ' l; ,m National llockev :cd unchanged as v. :k-c;id riay. Both : -' C fiad'oK-s won Satur and iy nights. The I overcame a first 1 ' oa! lead of the Chi Black Hawks Saturday v ' n 3 To 1 at the ' Gardens, travelling it last night to down - 3 to 1. The Cana-' outplayed the Bos-at the Montreal For-5 to 1 Saturday night cni to Detroit for four to ictorv over the Red Wings i' Thp Mr.nlc I 'afs. nt irap;ue. are still cad-Canadiens by three t ' ' "Ue ",ames will be on r. -ht: Montreal at Y' TfM-on:o at' Detroit; 3 at B Uon. MV A Mr M A X 7"V , . ' I J I I I 119 7W frr-rir.. aamase. mostly by - au water, was done to Army and Navy Association .-miners Clulbrnnm here W morning frcm fire vngmated rrom a gar- wn nn the second floor. Local Tides --uay. December 24, 1946 nil'". ( '' ah -' other nations towaras establishing laating peace. Much progress. Mr. Bevm said, had been made toward tflils objective of peace at trie New York conference. Following the war, Mr. Bevin asserted, Russia and the United States were the strongest nation of the world. Great Brl- tsrn, he was oondifent, would re-?aln her place as one of the great powers. Meantime, she found herrelf in a middle position both geographically and politically. Great Britain was tied up witn no nations but extended the hand of friendship and co-opcr- ntion to all. SUBMARINE PIPE LINE REPAIRED Repair work to one of the two 14 -Inch submarine pipe lines which carry the city's water sup ply across Shawatlans passage, were completed at the week-end, City Engineer E. A. Phillips said this morning. The pipe line has been out of service for the last two months. Patching the pipe line was done by divers working underwater. During the time it was out of service, the city's water supply was carried by thn other 14-lnch line. NOT SATISFIED BODY WAS THAT OF HIS FATHER- VICTORIA Provincial police headquarters have expressed surprise over a statement of Victor Jacobsen, son of Hans Ja-cobsen, who was lost on a hunt lng trip on Porcher Island, near Prince Rupert, that he was not promptly notified of the supposed finding of his fasher's body. The first he knew of It, said Jacobsen, was from reading In the newspapers. In fact, Jacobsen doubts if the body that was found a few days ago was actually that of his lather. There was not positive Identification, he asserts. He has asked the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to take up the Investigation. IW 5HIPPIMG PRINCIPLES FOR ALASKA ARE BEING ADVOCATED Al, CI10HAGE Seeking a solution of the serious water transportation problem which is facing the territory of Alaska, Alaska Chamber of Commerce representatives, meeting at Anchorage last week with vnnvpspntjlt.ivPK fl' om Petersburg, Juneau, Kotliak, Anchorage, Palmer and Nome, adopted the following DEFERMENT IS OPPOSED J'nilMray Acsoriai:pn Wants To Go Ahead With Freight Kates Increase IHcariiiff OTTAWA -The railways today opposed "wlr.i oil the force we can command" the request by threa Maritime provinces and four western provinces icr a fiir-P-mnnths adiournmcnt of the Board cf Transport Commissioners hearing of the application for a 30 per cent increase in frcicht rates rxross Canada. The hearing has been scheduled tn bepln January 8 and it is from that date that the deferment is requested. Counsel for the Railway Association argued that nil the evidence It considered pertinent to the board's hearing would be supplied when the hearing started. City Fire Department answered" a fire call to the residence of Splro Gurvich at 6Co rvor street at 6 o'clock Sat urday urday night. nigm. Wood stored " in "j the 19:49 3.2 feet fdrc any damage was aui.. Secretaries of Interior and Com mcrce, the United States Mari time Commission, the Governor of Alaska, various legislators and transportation companies with a view to obtaining their support: It Is the concensus of this Conference of Alaska Chamber of Commerce organizations, with representatives fro'm Ketchikan, Petersburg, Juneau, Seward, ICodiak. Anchorage, Palmer and Nome, meeting at Anchorage, December 14 and 15, 1946, that In seeking a solution of the serious water transportation problem facing the Territory of (Continued from Page 4) ALEXANDERS TO VISIT TRUMANS WASHINGTON, D.C. The Governor General of Canada, Vlsiount Alexander, and Lady Alexander will tic guests of President and. Mrs. Truman at the White House on February 4, it is announced. The visit will be merely of a social nature. "A free press maintained by . . . .... 1 it,. ..nlna sf men ci integrity is me um u 1:37 18.6 feet caught fire from 1 1 th ..Blshop O. Bromley Ox- feet'basement had 13:06 21.3 "J the Federal n.nn n -1 .u. r.,.r.A.k riii. was uuv v i ' i;u ii.o leei. ure iun.i. i ... CANADA'S BIG FLAT TOPPride of the Royal Canadian Navy, the 18,000-ton aircraft carrier, HAI.C5. Warrior seen slipping into the historic naval base at Esqulmalt, B.C. Warrior, com- manaea Dy captain Frank L. Houghton, R.C.N, of Victoria, completed more than 8000 miles since leaving Halifax, Position of Gt. Britain ."Mr. Uevin Sees Russia More Co-operative U.S. and Soviet Greatest Nations Today uu.njjjm following nis re turn from the foreign ministers' conference at New York, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin gave the people of Britain a report on British foreign policy and Bri tish efforts towards peace mak ir. Rossia. Mr. Betn rclt. had lost much of her suspicious attitude toward the res', of the world be cause she had loirml at the Unl ted Nations assembly that the other nations were ready to co- pcraie with her. Now, he bellev- ANGELES iritoSjWSftrM? with the' S 'l II 1 A K V. " ."ihquake shock i tar:...:uiariy tne soum- f the city. Selsmo- .ic centre as here- i. N'a f '.r.;,?e was done. R.C.N. Photo, Norbury. 'Xmas Tree Fire Fatal Four Children ixse Their Lives In Blaze jat Jtockcliffe Near Ottawa OTTAWA Qi raur children were burned to death and their mother was severely Injured today when fire destroyed a former Royal Canadian Air Force barracks which had been con verted at neaioy RocaillfXe into hemes for veteran?. The dead children are those cf Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Zcblgny ranging in age from four months to six years. The fire originated when the branch of a Christmas tree touched an electro grill. V AVASV.WyVWVWAWiW TODAY'S STOCKS (Courtesy S. D. Johnston Co. Ltd.) WiV.W.'.W.VAV.VAW Vancouver Bralorne 11.00 B. R. Con 08 B.R.X. 11 Cariboo Quartz 2.70 Dentonla 59 Grull Wihksne 09 Hedley Mascot 1.28 Minto 05'2 Tend Oreille 3.10 Pioneer , 3.50 Premier Border 06 Premier .'. 1.23 Privateer 53 Reeves McDonald 1.30 Reno 11 Salmon Gold 192 Sheep Creek 1.28. Taylor Bridge 70 Whitewater .02 Vananda 25 Congress 10 Pacific Eastern Hedley Amati, .45 .10 Soud Valley .16 Central Zeballo3 Oils A. P. 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Dead ; e at least two il Av Cast 300,000 per- JAP SURPRISE IN ALEUTIANS WASHINGTON, D.Cv In an official story of the war in the Pacific which has Just been released, admission 13 made that the landing of the Japanese on the Aleutian Islands in 1912 was not known until four days after it occurred when American reconnaissance planes ascertained the fact. The turning point In the Battle of the Pacific was the engagement at Midway when the Japanese suffered heavy naval losses Including four aircraft carriers. ELECTION VIOLENCE Social Credit .Men in Jtiding of Richilieu-Vercheres Spirited JAway SOREL, Quebec U) Over snow-covered roads voters In the federal riding of Rlihilieu-Ver cheres went to the polls today to eject a new representative In the House cf Commons. The vacancy was caused by the re- i cent death cf Hon. J. P. A. Car-dtnVLtberal. I Tfie candidates: Gerard Cournoyer, Liberal, former law partner of Mr. Cardial Eticnne Duchamel, Progressive Conservative. Roland Coroeil, Social Credit. Police today started searching for a man reported missing since early this morning and identl- fiedyjy the Union des Electeurs (Social Credit as Gerard Mer-clerSof Montreal. chlef organizer for the party. Another member cl the party was reported beaten up at his hotel room early to- Later It was announced that Mercler had been released at 10 ajn. after being forcibly detain ed in a cellar since early morning. The other man, named Gol-goire, said that three unidentified men, telling him to come quietly on the threat of being beaten up, forced him to accompany them from a hotel rocm. Malaya to Have Its Own Navy SINGAPORE Malaya is to have Its own navy, it is announced. Training of personnel has already commenced. JAP SENTENCED Convicted of abusing Canadian prlson-crs-cf-war, Takeo Kancko, former Jap camp commandant, stands In a Tokyo court and receives a sentence of 23 years imprisonment at hard labor. United States Ship Is Ejected From Dairen Authorities of Russia PARLIAMENT THREATENED Anonymous Telephone Call Says Westminsier to Be Blown Up LONDON W Scotland Yard today received an anonymous telephone threat that the House3 of Parliament would be blown up. Parliament police were Informed of the threat. Recently Scotland Yard had been kept on the hop by a series of telephone "warnings" that certain buildings would be blown up- Bulletins 1NDO-CHINA SITUATION PAWS rremier Leon Blum said today that Jie expected the situation in French Indo-China io become worse. With instructions to handle matters with "a .firm hand," Gen. Le-claire is leavin; by 'plane tomorrow for Li:iol. French military authorities announce that 29 Trench civilians, including (11 women, have been ilain by the Viet Namcse during recent fighting in llajioi and that jnany pthcr civilians - are' missing and;"peThaps, "are dead." QUADRUPLETS J50KN BALTIMORE Mrs. Charles Henn Jr., British war bride, gave birth to quadruplets three boys and a girl in hospital here last night and attending physicians said all four were alive and well and "in good shape." The Henns are already parents of a year-old boy. TKACE IN GKASP LONDON Foreign Secretary Ernest IBevin last night expressed the belief .that Russia has shown; herself ready to co-operate with other countries and that peace is within the grasp of the world. POLAND CIIAUGES BRITAIN WARSAW The Tolisli government has htr.c:ed the British ambassadcr a Hole curtly rejecting Britain's expression of anxiety over the January 10 general elections p-iul levelling the counter-charge that Britain violated obligations to Poland assumed at Yalta and Pctsdam. OFFICIAL 'QUAKE TOLL TOKYO A hew official toll of 8,206 dead, missing and injured in Saturday's devastating earthquake ami tidal wave f was reported today by the Jap anese Home (Ministry as relief crews reached previously isolated areas of Shikoku 'Island and Wakayama Peninsula. WINDSOR JEWELS FOUND? ALDEKSIIOT Jewels that were stolen from thelDuke and Duchess of Windsor jome time ago may be ainor.g a number that have been .found In a lonely shack in mid-Hampshire. DANUBE ALL FROZEN VIENNA The Danube River is frozen for :ts complete length of ,1700 miles. Canals In France are also frozen over and many coal-laden barges are tied up, Armed Robberies Being Resumed VANCOUVER Armed rob bcries were renewed here Satur day night when a masked ban dlt held up the dispatcher in the Pacific Coast Cabs taxi' office and took $200 in cash from him after hitting him over the head with a gun. The dispatcher was ! Edward Scosky, By Had Come With Mail and Supplies For American Consulate Moves Out Quickly On Twenty Minutes' Notice DAIREN (CP) An unarmed United States Navy ship pulled out from Port Dairen Friday after receiving a verbal ultimatum from Russian military officials that, "unless you leave within twenty minutes, we will not be responsible for the consequences " The Russians also refused permission to Ameri New Boat For Alaska-Rupert Run Readying The 5C0-ion vessel which the Brlggs Steamship Co. la to put In service between southeastern Alaska and Prince Rupert Is at present at San Francisco where It is being refitted for the run. According to l2test word, It is to be put In commission about March 1. Mr. Brlggs, head of the company, is at present In Washington, D.C. AN INTERVIEW WITH STALIN Son of Former JTcsident Of United Stales Meets Russian Dictator MOSCOW Elliott Roosevelt, son of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States, had an Interview with Premier Joseph Stalin on Satur day. He said that the Russian dictator appeared to be in re markably good health for a man of 67 years of age. Roosevelt will report more fully on the Inter view after he returns to the United States. TWO DEAD IN TRAIN CRASH KAMLOOPS Two of the train personnel were killed when Canadian Pacific passenger trains collided thirty miles east of here on Saturday. Body Brought Into City From Shirley The body of Jeffrey Dodge, an employee of the Robinson "sawmill at Shirley, 21 miles east of Prince Rupert, w Drought to the city this afternoon. Dodge passed away at tne mill camp during the night. AID RECONSTRUCTION One hundred and fifty hours of reconstruction labor arc required from students at the University of Berlin, International Student Service disclosed. James G. .Pinkerton, executive assistant to the president of the Alaska Tranrportation Co. at Ketchikan, was a visitor in the city on Saturday during the stay of the company'3 refrigerator ship Pallsana. can business men to aisemoarK and denied two American newspapermen permission to land as well. The American ship had come here with mall and supplies for the Unlten States consulate and had been given a limit of forty- eight hours to remain in port. It was after an extension of time had been asked that the vessel received the ultimatum to leave. In Washington the United States Department of State -said It had received no report of an ultimatum and would, therefore, have no immediate comment. Russian troops have been occupying Dairen since the Japanese surrender and are in control of the city. PACTIONAL FIGHT CAUSED' DOWNFALL, SAYS LEON BLUM In "For All Mankind" French Premier Expressed Confidence In France. JnJlaziJPrifam a - Confidence in the future of France at the time when her fortunes were at their lowest ebb and the author himself was a hostage in Germany is the keynote of "For All Mankind," (MacMillan) Leon Blum's message to the outside world, smuggled from prison to the underground press during the German occu- - pation. Blum, twice before premier of France and elected once again, Is one of the leaders of the Socialist party. He analyzed the causes of his country's downfall, placing a share of the blame on his own party, but saw no; rea son to despair of France's iu-ture or the future of democratic Ideals. T As he explains in a preface written for a later edition, Blum wrote the book primarily to counteract antl-democratlc pro paganda which swept France after the surrender of 1940 and was being exploited by the Vichy regime. Appearing now for the first time in translation, his arguments have lost little ot their significance. He blames the ineffectiveness of the parliamentary system in France between the wars largely on the Inability of factions within the right-wing parties to unite "for any purpose other (Continued on Page 8) THE WEATHER Synopsis Skies are overcast throughout the province this morning, Intermittent drizzle is falling along the northern British Columbia coast and snow flurries are reported in the northern portion of the province. Warmer air Is moving in from the west giving milder weather throughout B.C., and Alberta. Forecast Prince Rupert, North Coast and Queen Charlottes Overcast with Intermittent drizzle today and Tuesday. Winds; Southern portion, light, and northern portion, southwest. Little change in temperature. Lows tonight: Port Hardy 34, Massett 37. Prince Rupert 35. Highs tomorrow: Port Hardy 41, Massett 42, Prince Rupert 42." B A S KETBALL KETCHIKAN HIGH SCHOOL vs. BO-ME-HI THURSDAY and FRIDAY CIVIC CENTRE Reserved Tickets On. Sale at 99 Taxi Grotto McCutcheon's Civic. 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