Imperil on I'uriiirr nff! : . .i j !. i-4avta uornun win- n TJr? was .sen- Mil llfllJ illl I.I 1.7V fir '-n PinltnHar DIE 1MK nu of consDiracv . .vrrrL ri i iinii .i l 1 1 t i i.ii i 'he indue tha". :ty neither In law nor H I I A I sKrl aim 1 1 1 1 1 A i k j - ... . . jy - .VUhftrl In trnct nrrlii te irirn in inn rm? ri l r f b.JU-1- had no intention cf for the mayoralty or think there should be u v v j titv4 v MWiv nrnrfiH Ihni munn r "V MIUII ill J Md Six ( liil.lrr,, IV r. "nlariu Home Or' A woman nnd .i tif ri.. .i.n.1 - mi. tiiiiui uii win "' :H' when trapped in ,f iucli was consumed it t '"c nu.s'Dantt ana "V aa ocen out doing ''rie-scd thc nrc from W was helpless to save nrc is uciicvca "ten caused from, the - uirugni neater. iitt I W L I I I r I 1 Ulll.llll having been heard '"cry as a possible "" the mayoralty, Aid. "I nnnli-w i i. . tan v.. : : mc Dally Ncw3 said She had no to make as yet candidates forward for iorthcoming clcc w nave ap 1 Aid. Arnntrl A W I MP nAr ' "XillV i hi 11 1 WARFARF. PiT'. peaking here. ., of- the Labor- "l I'arlv i j .u.i '" 'and United States Plrflivr? for n,i ...., j irh .. . "tuu nunu uc an atomic c""' pcncral Jnauian National taterto a'Vrom trip IbuXsT the Dominion government for shipment over the Alaska High way to Fairbanks and other Alaka points which arc suffering a severe food shortage on account of die shipping strike on the coast. Trucks have been wailing for days at Dawson Creek and Whllchorsc' to move rmcrgency food supplies to Alaska. Find Death From Gunshot Wounds VANCOUVER Death from gunshct wounds at the hauds of person or persons unknown was the verdict yesterday of the coroner's lury which Investigat ed the death of Robert Frederick TcDoortcn iast week near Dcen Cove on the. noIthliqrctpf . Burrard InleV The verdtcTdid not name the alleged killer. Meantime, search continues for 13-vcar-old Donald Russell. wanted In connection with the killing. FIRST SKATING OF SEASON HERB The skating season is off to an exceptionally early start In Prince Rupert. In fact, it is thc first skating of any extent Prince Rupert has had In three years. A busload of young devotees of thc flashing blades were taken out to Oliver Lake inKt niuht and had a fine eve ning on clear, smooth ice about four inches thlcK. More sKai-crs arc expected to be going out there again tonight. CONSCRIPTION IS APPROVED lONDON A Labor minority amendment opposing the gov ernment's policy of conscription for military service was rcjccieu by thc House of Commons yesterday on a division of 320 to 53. ifnurvrr. conslderlim that this fpinnrrnlnrp stavs down, skatlni Hi j ol L ' I . NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BIUilBITCOTtrMBIA'S NEWSPAPER TAXI irroR'A, b c TAXI TAXI 235 I'honc 537 rAfIDNiaHT SERVICE DAY AND NIGHT SERVICE Slants Hotel, Third Ave. i Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" Bill and Ken Nesbitt alfOTlw XXV, No. 270. PRINCE RUPERT. D.C.. TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 19. 1946 PRICE FIVE CENTS estraininff Lf ilrad Order of Unlleil J.iM GTON, D C A re-rdcr has been served . jcdcral court upon .... nrpsident of the .0, u.. , workers oi Amen- which, snouia w y ordered in the soft Industry go Into ould be prosecuted ot of court and fined nil. He ha- been dlr-ii nff his termination mr uiuv i that Lewis has no to call such a strike itole question comes ,:art on November 27 .11... in Hlnmilo nrc hfd cut in court, !e, more nan 38.000 mi.::rs have already ..,, anri Ipft the tllt.S. . .niwniTipnt's anneal NEW NATION PAriFtr PnDMCr.W na,:1 m l SITI LU II BATAVIA A new Pacific nation of eighty million people to bo known as the United States of Indonesia Is being formed. It will take over on an Independent basis the eld Dutch colonial empire of the East Indies. RUSSIA WANTS FULL VETO USE LAKE SUCCESS - Russia stands firm aaalnst any move to restrict the usc'of the veto In the United Nations, Andre Grcmyko fold the political committee. He opposed any revision of the charter such as proposed by FLOUR IS RELEASED May lit Shipped from Edition-lon to Needy Alaska Comniun- mcs wver inenwav ' Ap;ir. x die posslbll- Edmonton yesterday was advised . Mmd -i 55 npr-! Hint flnnr '.i hp!n rrlrsisprf hv , ...... ."o . ( . . -- - i :tt!:c of nassengcr - cr.a nas Dcen or- GETS lAK) TTLEE GOVERNMENT GETS CONFIDENCE VOTE CAMERA 'CATCHES TOWER" IN MIDAIR SECONDS BEFORE IT TOPPLES The 175-ton. 224-foot dirigible mooring ma.st built 22 years ago by Henry Ford at a cost of $250,000. is shown in mid-air before it crashed to the ground at the Ford airport in Dearborn, Mich. It had moored only one airship. When Ford ordered it built, he believed liehter-than-air ships would replace planes. He was among the 3,000 spectators who watched his landmark topple. Cold Snap May Herald Return of'Jv Brisk 'Old Fashioned' Winter PREPARATION' OF RINK AT CYRO PARK RECALLS SIX WEEKS OF Current viewers-with-alarm who mourn the alleged degeneracy of the present in the light of the rmnitPfl flpMt'-ftit brilliance of the nast miirht do Mf.1l fn n1:ifo tlicir tonmics in check for the timtH M Vli I ' w. . - - - - - - CD I being, then firmly clamp men teem on mat organ m tne lnieiesis ui pi uut'jiu &iiciiv;c. nunyo ujjcch m be looking up. ' Under Inspection at the moment is thc possibility that the city's present cold snap might attain something, approaching thc classic qualifications of an "old fashioned'- winter. obviously, no matter how cold thc weather may get, no matter how manv pipes freeze up or how many human extremities become nipped with frost, no present-day weather phenomenon could hope to approach the grand, dimensions of a similar occurrancc fortunate csough to be labelled "old fashioned." It just could not be done. The oldsters would never admit It, on pain of Jeopardizing the dig nity of their pioneering past. pert will, lf thc weatherman docs not suddenly change his mood, have an honest - to - goodness, man-made skating rink within the next day or two. Not since . . ...... i tnc winter oi lino, pioneer residents say, has &uch a thine happened. In Gyro Park, scene of many a summer fastball encounter, tne first flooding of an ice rink was completed last night by Fire Chief H. T. Lock, and if the problem of obtaining out thc rink was simple indeed. Young people volunteered In .more than suf ficlenl numbers and within i matter of hours the snow was 'sampled down, and a plank border was erected to mark thc dimensions of the propos;d rink. VI ljSru f ircuehicf .-Inclrrstepped will be added to thc winter i man or a generation ago did do snorts list sometime this week, things on a grander scab than Tim t.iiinw irnt. nndrr wav Men- th nrnscnt one. because six day afternoon when Dr. R. Q. Large approached Mayor Dag gett on the Idea of making a'. u Mm nrcscnt. tilings arc going rink on thc playground. along pretty well from an early- j With the approval of winter point of view. Prince Uu- mayor, city engineer and the fire rP DEVELOPS nFVFLOPING o SYNTHETIC RUBBER- -Newsprint isn't the only product LEARN1 PROCESS OP Bdlan circulation Managers' Association at their of wood pulp, t'f Slincf nnt. At the Ontario Paper Co. at Thorbold they found that a convention n sKtV- jeohbl made of waste liquor, which played an important part in Can-byproduct is synV .vnthetlc rubber during the war. Above. William McCarthy, left, ex-ada's development of nB" dren. Brantford Expositor; Treasurer Harold Turnbull. St. plains the process to Giyn o utd Nlagara fns Review; President Eddie Brackenbury, Catherines Standard ructry wVniam Stewart, St, Thomas Times Journal; and Romeo SSiSt oAhc Ontario Paper Co. " ' ' ii' end flooded the area from a nearby hydrant. Thc rink is due for succeeding floodings tonight. In anticipation of a skating boom, one enterprising city shoe repairer adverted that he sharpened skates. The enterprise brings back to the minds of more tnan one Ciirly resident of thc city the winter of 1916 when skating was awong winter svorU here for iikic thin six wcks. At that time, thc rink was built on thc siUv now occupied by thc provincial court house, and became a centre of community Interest. Although somewhat later In thc season, the cold spell was of such sharpness and duration that It has stood out in memory as a winter highlight for 30 years It could be that thc wcutner- weeks of frost docs present a cold pruspcct-ln spite of the warm welcome it may receive from skating enthusiasts. : NO ATTEMPT AT INVASION Germany Set Several Dates Rut Never Got Arcund to Landing in Britain LONDON Prime Minister Cle ment R. Attlee, In a statement in thc House of Commons yesterday, cleared up a question thaWhas long lacked an official answer did Germany make an invasion attempt against Brit-, aln December 1940. Mr. Attlee revealed that no attempt had born made but after September 1940 there had been a series qf dates set for thc invasion which never materlalhVd although preparations were made on various occasions until 1942 when the idea of an Invasion appeared to have been abandoned Invasion bases never left German harbors. Seasonal Drop In Air Traffic Now WINNIPEG Officials of TransCanada and Canadian Pacific Airlines say that there are thc usual seasonal drops In passenger travel by air but no serious curtailment of service or lay-offs of staff are expected. 1 Test of Strength On Foreign Policy Is Clear No Dissention Recorded When Issue Comes to Division in House of Commons t ftMnnw Iyrli:iment vesterdav accorded the Attlee government jvvoteof confidence on its foreign policy. The vote was 352 to 0. Prior to the recording tVio TTnhnr o-nv- OI ine U1V1S1UI1, IUU llllliuii Ja"H Ui "" o' eminent which torcert tne issue sougni w wiuiuii n hnt tiin .rnvpi nment called for the vote. Conserva- A V . V vasu " Bulletins vancouvek Water bah VANCOUVER Tiie United Stales Department Public Health has banned the use of Vancouvrr water on trains of Ihe ("real Northern Railway running here. Thc jocal water lias been declared "unfit for human consumption." ' AIR MNKR OVERDUE NEW YORK Anxiety is felt for a transAUantlc airliner which is uverdue since this morning with thirty-three people aboard. MOVIE ACTOR DIES lini.l.YWOOD Donald Meek, U ma I mt a I r tt i 111 rmofies, it i;eaa"fiere at the age of sixty-jsix years. BUTTLR RATION STAYS OTTAWA The present six-ounce ration of butter in Can ada is expected to remain until thc end of the year. TO DRIVE FOR HIGHER WAGES ATLANTIC CITY The on Industrial Organiza tion Is making plans for a drive lor higher wages in 1947, President Phillip Murray said at ths opening of tha annual conven tion here yesterday. Rising pnce3 had wiued out such gains as had already been made, he said. Tho profits of business were a greater threat than Communism. ' WEATHER FORECAST rrince Rupert Clear, north east winds, little change In tern perature. tlves jomea wmi ine guvvjiuucin, and some of the dlssidlents refrained from voting. One of the Labor members felt that, although the United States might have too much in fluence on the governments ioi- elgn policy, yet it was "me dcsi government Great Britain had ever had." OTTAWA CUTS CROP ESTIMATE OTTAWA -Canada will have less wheat to export this year thttn had been anticipated. In- r.tead nf 440.000.000 bushels wntcn had been previously estimated. it. iqir rrnn w nnw nlaced at 418,000,000. Unfavorable weather conamons jaie ui muu at harvest time has rcaucea me yield. C.C.F. NOT INFIELD Looks Like Vancouver Major ally lUec Will be Between McGeer and Wilson VANCOUVER The Co-opera tlvc Commonwealth Federation mav not contest the mayoralty In Vancouver. A. T. Alsbury, the C.C.F. choice, has announced that he does not intend to run, adding that he would not change his mind. If Alsbury does not run, other members of the C.C.F. nartv sav it is unlikely an- t " other candidate will be chosen. That would leave the field, so far at least, to Senator G. G. Mc Geer and Ilatford Wilson. IRISH WAR BRIDE ON TRIAL FOR MURDER For Bridget Waters, Irish war, bride oh trial In the slaying of her husband last Sept. 2, there is one hour each day in which thoughts of the murder trial tire far from her mind and heart. Prison officials have permitted Mrs. Waters to visit her young son. Frank. Jr.. at the hospital where he was taken after, the fatal bullet grazed his leg. She Is shown playing with her son during a visit. Thc 26-year-old war bride shot her husband to death with a pistol concealed In the folds of their baby's blanket as he reached to take, the child In his arms when he visited his son in a Las Vegas, Nev., home where Mrs. Waters was employed. TEMPERATURE DOWN TO NEW LOW MONDAY Official Digby Island Readirig VIZ Degrees, 1.7 Below Sunday Night's Previous Record Temperature in the. Prince, Rupert area plummeted to a new low Monday night, registering 17.2 degrees, according to the official reading at the Dlgby Island meteorological station. The mercury dropped I.7 degrees, below Sunday night's reading of 18.9. T V Expectation of continued cold which Is confirmed by today's' weather forecast, la insPl.rInS. mixed reactions in local citizens, some of whom look zestfully for ward to a touch of real winter,- while thritfy householders, their eyesvon the fuel bill, vow grimly that "winter in Prince Rupert should mean rain, not frost and snqw." However, despite the fact that ihe thermometer reading was lower last night than on Sunday, the lack of wind made it appear warmer. The combination oi wind and frost yesterday crept into homes and offices bringing an epidemic of cold feet and riumb fingers. Today's croD of automobile casualties, suffering from frozen radiators, was reported - tnougn more man one car was seen being towed in to garages this morning, leaving their owners a-foot. Lack of the better grades of antl-freeze is one of the causes of the frozen radiator epidemic. Although there Is plenty of alcohol antl-freeze fluid, tnaty motorists have been loath to purchase It since It evaporates readily. King Edward elementary school, which was closed Mon day morning because of the cold northeast wind which made the classrooms too uncomfortable for the children, resumed classes this momine. The school was "quite comfortable" today, ju cording to Principal M- vioore. Emergency calls to thaw out frozen water pipes were stttf.be- lng received by plumbers from watcr-icss nousenoias. HEAVY SNOWS ,. HAVE FALLEN Southern Interior Virtually Buried Cold at Vancouver VANCOUVER Southeastern British Columbia is digging Itself out of one of the most severe snowstorms in years with more than a foot having fallen In Nelson and Gravid Forks. At Cranbrook snow fell, for forty hours solid to a depth of over twelve inches. Car driving has been practically abandoned. Heavy snow was general right hrough the southern interior'as far west as Hope where there vas also twelve Inches. To the north Prlncs George ''.ad six inches of snow with tem-nerature of 12 above zero yesterday. Vancouver and Victoria are having an unusual quantity" of now for this time of year al-'hough it was heavy and wet and nixed with rain at Victoria. The outlook is for colder weather with the maximum. lor Vancouver today forecast at 30. On the prairies the thermom-t.r has droriDed away below" sera with 16 below at Edmonton and five below at Calgary. Lieut. W. Langton, R.C.A., Vancouver, arrived in the city last night on the Princess Adelaide on an ammunition inspection visit to the forts in the Prince Rupert area and probably will return south Thursday night.