B; a;.' ' i!it: !3 it r., rse: RED TOP CABS Phone JJjlj Phone j, KASPER C. McINTYRE Stand; Rupert Tobacco Store (across from Ormes) DAY AND NIGHT SERVICE The V- t - - i. t 4 j - . 11 . 1 N't r " t Ii:, ... NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER TAXI TAXI 537 DAY and NIGHT SERVICE Published trrv r -.. at ..... Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" Bill and Ken Nesbitt jaaav, NO. IH, PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., "WEDNESDAY, MAY 15. 1946 PRICE FIVE CENTS INCE RUPERT OUTLET ADVOCATED .a I APhT L'M I I lllllfl L 1 1 LVWwuiw .... I llPIT AK KUrtKI I ' - - Wert of Bis Strike Not Immediately Fell Here ol British Colum-1 lowers probably r? effect In the d. itrlct where only in. ion men are em-mall operations. rlke. which began ;; i h . morning. Is ex-i m ike the lumber sup-r precarious, practl-x here, thus para-ictfd amount of 1 - :oin2 on. r f lumber exist In and when the pres-r ; r ts exhausted no more be ' ib'.e Larger mills :'A cap. v union labor have as:d i 'durtjon, since the men t the lonaers. j tanbr ' romlng direct from ; f nmedlate use at .t r-yr-i ! !me. I rr.bn d loggers on : r?r rations around ! t who have stopped 1 1 t be ascertained but it in expected i number less than iin area, the Gcorge-!!i Lumber Mill and a : . Uf v ones, will not be u.:e of the walkout. It because mosJtjDf the H:. not belong to the on Tr-nirc district thr ' blv will .shut down ' ns in which the 1 mill workers are ? !! I. W. A. Tr i- r-r rv .a. . - ruKl 1UJJAY Qv iPi., .... tc Islands Air ar: Hying boat the is tchcdulcd to 1 elty at 4:30 today Wood, operations ' airline, which be- j al -d weekly service J ; :e Rupert and Van-1 MOe Islands, this week T rrange operational AS. j ;n the Diane is G. II. J.V'" nrcsldpnt. nf Rlfjn. I Ar n'icv which Is local! ' ' - airline. Mr. Stan- remain in Ihe city ' lo:ik after his in-Wi, Ham, Peters, chief li:ie. v)as at trie : !e plane, j Halibut Sales Summary s 40,000 pounds. 152.000 pounds. American 4.000. Co-op. Canadian " H 13,000. Co-on. ' c:1 6,000 Co-op. '' Hi - 28nnn vviii II 4 n nnn ' 45.000, Booth. ' A O nnn r. ll.Onn Dm,nl II "-JJUI. II C..iln nriii THE WE ATHER . Synopsis f 'rcicf (n cloudiness over u".aer3 areas of the prov-, n ' d during the day ' 'wd cloudiness and In-Prcipitation along the n r .i"tal legions Is due v W arhol a weather sys- :i W moving northeast- Forecast Runrn OiiPnn rlio.. , ' 'fNorUi coast-Overcast '"termittent rain, wlndi , "v 15 mil becoming south- ' rnilpi im i. i ii. and in fit ""u rvening. Maxl- . ruff. Hardy 55 MnesnU Rupert 58. n 7onIlroRI. Eng., to -A ar "'up w ththroned re-Ceremony which orlg- !MuJ MiddIe Akc. Chll. i. cu or mii,.h. n, old Arthur Hall, arch- ,(., . "Stint int. rornla,l V.I. and -vwi.4Ytu 1119 pectoral cross Bulleti ns LKWIS PLAN KKJKCTKU WASHINGTON Soft coal operators today informed John L. Lewis that they reject unequivocally his demand for a seven percent payroll levy to finance a miners' welfare fund. Chances of a settlement of the strike dispute appear, as a result, to have suffered a setback. . STI11KF, PLAN CALLF.I) CHICAGO Plans for the calling or a strike against Illinois. t'entlal Railroad were cancelled today as prospects appeared brighter for a settlement of the railway workers'" strike called for the coming Saturday. ONTARIO JUDGE DIKS TORONTO Mr. Justice Jolin C. (inlanders, 50, of the Ontario Court of Appeal, died today. CUT RAILWAY LINK MUKDEN From 10.000 to 20,-000 Communist troops are reported to have cut the Mukden-Tientsin railway which is the life-line of the Nationalist forces. STAY IN TORT ARTHUR MUKDEN Soviet Russia was stated to have completed the evacuation of Manchuria except for Port Arthur. POLISH PEASANTS ARRESTED WARSAW Polish security police have arrested laeders of ! the Polish Peasant Party, clos- inif offices and seizing ami". I London expresses alarm at the ; continued persecutlcn of non- Communist Poles. HUTCIIER SHOPS CLOSE NEW YORK One thousand Brooklyn and Manhattan meat stores have closed their floors "until Ihe back of the black market is broken." MILK FOR YUKON W1IITEIIOKSE Milk is being delivered 1200 miles by truck from Tupper Creek in British Columbia to the Yukon and is selling at 25c per quart. Peace Pact For Germany Byrnes Proposes That One be Made Ready for Conference in November 1'AHIS, U1. United Slates Secretary of State James Byrnes proposed to the foreign ministers' council today that a peace conference be called November 12 to draft a peace treaty for Germany, un American Informant said. In a sect-ion, which was completely taken up with discussion of critical German problems, Byrnes proposed that representatives of Britain, Russia, France and the United States start meeting Immediately to draw up a draft of a treaty for Germany which the foreign ministers could present to a peace conference, the Informant, said. Byrnes was reported to have proposed that foreign ministers' representatives first report on the economic status of Germany to the foreign ministers' council ut its next meeting, possibly June 15. Meantime sources elo.se to the Russian delegation predicted that Foreign Commissar Molotov would agree to a proposal to summon n 21 power peace conference in July following another four-power conference next month. MAY QUEEN STANDINGS Lydia Ponlch (Kinsmen) 18.650 Margaret Strachan (S.O.N. 1250 Sonja Sorenson (J. Cham.) 11,850 inSiT t retirln8 boy bishop, ! Beverley Matson( Moose) 8,150 ; .' 1 Pat Stuart (Legion) 6,000 EXPLOSIONS RIPPED DESTROYER ESCORT-Thls alrvlew shows a flreboat pouring streams of water Into the UJ5. navy destroyer escort Solar after the craft was ripped by two explosions while navy and civilian personnel wire unloading ammunition at the Earle naval depot. Leonardo, NJ. Early reports stated between 150 and 170 persons were Injured. Take Seal Cove Urges City Apply For Plane Base II. G. Archibald M.P. Outlines Terms on Which City May Lease Seal Cove Airport Prince Rupert was urged Tuesday by II. G. Archibald, M.P. for Skeena. t0 put in its application to the Department of Transport immediately If it wants to take over the Sear Cove mlUtary.sea-plane base as a commercial airport. In a telegram to Mayor II. M. Daggett, in which he outlined the terms on which the city may take over the base for commer cial purposes, the federal member for Skeena urged that the city put in its application for lease to the Department of Transport Immediately, otherwise the installation will be put up for sale. While the base Is still under control of the Department of National Defence' for Air, It will be turned over to the Crown Assets Allocation Committee this year, and If the city's application for leai:e is not placed with the Department of Transport before the transfer is completed, the vital seaplane base may be sold through War Assets Corporation, Mr. Archibald Implied. Confirmation of Mr. Archibald's telegram was received by VANCOUVER BY LAND 'PHONES I5.C. Telephone Co. Construction Men Here in Connection With Transfer From Radiophone Carrying out s w i t c h b o a r d changes in connection with the transfer of the long distance service between Prince Rupert and Vancouver from the present circuitous partial radiophone route to the newly acquired land line of the Taclflc Communications System, George Cousins and Ray Cherry of the British Columbia Telephone Co. switchboard construction department are ln Prince Rupert. Part of their work Is at the city telephone exchange and part of It at the Paciric Communications establishment. Dy the scheduled date of May 21, it is expected the service will be operating on the land circuit on a sixteen -hour daily basis. Under the now set-up thcic will be long distance ,scrvlcc between Prince Rupert and various intermediate points soon after the Vancouver service Is J. T. Harvey is leaving on this evening's ttaln for Terrace where he will act as defence' counsel in an assault case involving two youths. He expects to be back on tomorrow night's tarin. Mayor Daggett today ln a letter from Transport Minister C. D. Howe who said that the bass could be leased by the city for $1 a year, on teniw similar to thosa outlined by Mr. Archibald. On the other hand, Mr. Archibald's telegram stated, should Prince Rupert express a deflnltgflormatron which he said was branch of the Department of Transport will be prepared to give the matter careful consideration and take action to have the site and buildings of the Installation allocated to" them by San Antonio 5.20 Senator Rouyn 90 Sherritt Gordon 2.20 Steep Rock 3.45 Sturgeon River 32 Lynx -35 Lapaska .47 Vi God's Lake 73 Negus 2.46 fthe Crown Assets Allocation Committee. Si The civil aviation branch of the Department of Transport is the government branch whicn has authority over all civil air-parti in the country. 4 Basing his 'statements on ln- TIMBER WORKERS' STRIKE ON 37.000 MEN IN B C Within Week Eighty Thousand May Be Off Jobs Last-Minute Settlement Efforts Fail VANCOUVER (CP) Some 37,000 British Columbia logging and sawmill workers went on strike at 11 o'clock this morning Pacific Daylight Time in protest against failure to obtain a satisfactory working agreement- The strike was called by the American (C.I.O. and C.C.L. It is estimated that, within a week or ten days, eighty thousand workers, or about one-third of the provinces 250,000 employees, will be off their Jobs as a result of the walk-out. Last-minute efforts to avert a shut-down in the industry, the province's largest, failed when ! representatives of the union and l IlimKAV FWSftVntrkM. m C 1 HI. .uuiisi vficriciivia i;umejitru Willi Chief Justice Gordon Sloan. Commenting on the discussion, the chief justice said: 'I wasj unable to find common ground to bring, them together." The union had agreed to call Off the strike on condition that the operators agreed to an 18c hourly wage Increase and a forty- hour week. The operators would not accept these demands and refused to enter into negotiations while a strike was pending. One small operation at Gib son's Landing, operated by war desire gare t 33, ot five to.lcase the aplanaM officials of the civil aviation ment of Reconstruction and Sup. strlke M u had already King's' Bench Zh court Jury-jester xtyX TODAY'S STOCKS Courtesy S. D. Johnston Co. Ltd. .V.V.V.W.VW.VWMV Vancouver Bralornc 11.00 B.R. Con .16 B. RJC. .15 Cariboo Gold 3.50 Dentonla 44 Grull Wihksne .15'.i Hedley Mascot 1.61 Mlnto 06.!i Pend Oreille 3.60 Pioneer 5.70 Premier Border 10 Premier 2.15 Privateer 65 Reeves McDonald 1.45 Reno 19 Salmon Gold 21 Sheep Creek 1.45 . Taylor Bridge 72 Whitewater 03 li Vananda 42 ' Congress 143,i Pacific Eastern ' .17 V2 Hedley Amalgamated .. .12Vz Spud Valley 20 Central Zeballos .18! 2 Oils A.P. Con. 13 Calmont '. .30 C. & E. 2.25 Foothills ,1.60 Home 3.05 Toronto Aumaquc 96 Bcattlc 1.25 Bobjo 20 Buffalo Canadian 30 Con. Smelters 95.75 Eldona Elder Giant Yellowkuifc Hardrock Jacknifc , Jollet Quebec Little Long Lac Madsen Red Lake MacLeod Cockshutt Moneta Omega Pickle Crow .72 .87 7.40 .86 .21 .90 2.47 3.75 2.55 .66 .34 3.55 ply, Mr. Archibald gave the fol lowing as the terms on which tha Seal Cove base will be leased-to the city by the Department ol I ransport. Terms Are Outlined 1. The city to assume all responsibility for the care and maintenance or the buildings Included In the lease, lighting facilities, fencing, and other services and commitments which may be Included ln the lease. 2. Tlic city to maintain the above facilities ln a serviceable condition for . operation at all times as a public water airport under an airport licence to be issued in the name or the city or Prince Rupert by ine Department of Transport. 3. The city to undertake to keep the above mentioned buildings in repair, and to Insure them against fire for an amount based on approximately 25 per cent of the original cost ot construction, the Indemnity to be payable to the Crown, it being understood that any Indemnity so received by the Crown is not a commit ment to rebuild any which might be damaged in connection with the fire. (Continued on Page 4) cepted union terms. The operators declare strike "illgeal." the THREE SHIPS FOR HALIFAX Dependents, Servicemen and Civilians Due at First of Week MONTREAL More than 2,000 dependents,- 610 servicemen and 278 civilians will arrive in Hali fax on three liners scheduled lo dock next Monday and Tuesday, according to Information received here today by the Canadian National Railways. Nine trains will be needed to handle the total of 2,985 passengers. On Monday ihe Aquitanla Is duo with 957 dependents, 350 Canadian soldiers, seven Canadian Red Cross nurses, 304 British service personnel and 278 civilians. The Lady Rodney, former C.NJS.S. peacetime pleasure cruiser to the West Indies, Is listed to arrive on Tuesday with 226 overseas wives or Canadian sern vlcemen. The same day the Letl-tla will put into the Atlantic port carrying C63 women and children. ' 1 PART OF CACHE RECOVERED- A salvage crew Is shown with a stack or ignots, believed to be silver and platinum, which was recovered rrom the bottom or Tokyo Bay by navy divers. More than $125,000 worth of the precious metal is believed to have been recovered as divers, expanding their area of operations, stumbled into several large plies, The undcr-water hoard, which was dumped Into the bay by the Japs last July, was thought by Jap sources which gave information of the cache to military government officials to be worth about $2,000,000,000. Locomotive Cranes Here Are Offered MONTREAL Three 25-ton locomotive cranes top a list of much-needed construction equipment being offered for sale by tender by War Assets Corporation. These cranes, part of American construction equipment turned over to the Canadian government for disposal, are located at Prince Rupert. WOMAN IS ACQUITTED Winnipeg Judse Hopes That 'Trouhln.fnr Mrs. Margaret Kn'Mt Arc Now Over W-&SIPEG. Oi Mrs. Mar Knight, mother, day on a charge of murdering her husband, Henry Knight, 42. Knight was fatally stabbed ln a scuf rie -with his wire aUer coming home drunk March 31. Evidence showed that Mrs. Knight had sutfercd great brutality at the hands ot her husband. The jury deliberated but 13 minutes. The presiding Judge, In releasing the woman, said she had suffered much and expressed the hope that her troubles were over. Local Men Graduate William Bond and Arthur Cade to Receive Degrees at University of B.C. Convocation VANCOUVER Q) Degree or Bachelor of Commerce will be conferred upon William Elsmore Bond or Prince Rupert at the University or British Columbia graduation on Thursday, it was announced last night. Arthur F. Cade ot Prince Rupert com pleted an occupational course ; In agriculture with Class One ; standing. Twenty-two year old William H. M. Burrouglis or Powell River was awarded the Governor-General's medal ln announcement ol awards and scholar ships for the 1945-40 term, iiei won honors In mathematics and j physics. The medal Is awarded to the most outstanding student graduate ol the year. In 1942 Burroughs had won the Royal Institute scholarship when he graduated from senior matriculation in Powell River. Graduation results, released today, included more than 550 students, the largest graduating 1 class ln the history of the University. Results of undergraduate ex aminations will be released In about four weeks. . Graduation ceremon es will be held tomorrow on the campus when Chancellor E. W. Hamber will confer hoods and gowns. High Low Local Tides Thursday, May 16, 1946 1:14 14:01 7:46 19:44 20.8 feet 18.7 feet 3.1 feet 6.8 feet Should Serve Peace River INDUSTRY STRIKE And Its Use Would Enliven All of Central British Columbia (By CLEM RUSSELL) PRINCE GEORGE Development of the "Siim set Port" of Prince-Rupert as, an outlet for produce of basic industries within Central British Columbia and the Peace River Block was advocated here on Wednesday at a clinic of Boards of Trade and Junior Chambers or" Delegates from Prince Rupert, Terrace, Burns Lake, Prince George, McBride and Blue River evolved discussion about mem bership and an over-all works program. Alex G. Bowie, businessman of Prince" George and Bums Lake, advocated Trade Board.? and Jay-Cee s-aims at developV ing Prince Rupert as an export centrci. "It is logical lo believe," he said, "that, with the potential market in the Orient and the fine railway grades on Smith -crs division, we could develop; Prince Rupert to where all our other needs, hydro power and nnmilaiU. 1 J - 1 1 I i 1 - nehlnd Ihe progress we'makei In keeping with the theme or the conterence that private enterprise must meet the challenge of its traducers, Mr. Bowie urged a more lively awareness to other than personal business problems. He quoted Chevrler of Ottawa as saying there are but twenty million tons of shipping, lh the Peace River. "Why," he' exclaimed, "right now In the Peace River there is two hundred and rorty-tive million tons or shipping up there, according to figures compiled at Grand Prairie." He submitted that, were this volume of tratHc diverged through Prince Rupert, every community between Blue River and the Pacific port woiildus-taln a life-giving injection of energy. ; Delegates Arc : J Given Tonic . --sr The conference ln etrect produced a sulphur and molasses tonl ror delegates present with infusion of new concepts of Board of Trade work coflyeyed by Evan McCormick, manager. Field Servle Department, Cana dian Chamber of Commerce, and H. A. Purdy, of the same department. E. T. Applewhaite represented Prince Rupert and was chairman of Informal discussion groups on agriculture, Jndustry. civic development and TRAFFIC SAFETY CHECK IS BEGUN City Police today, embarked on the annual tralHc safety check in conjunction with police de partments ln all parts of. the continent. Sgt. O. L. Hall of Jhe city detachment said that all motor vehicles ln the city will oe cneckea ror mechamal detects, and that ln addition,' all drivers' and venlcle licenses will be investigated at the same time. The drive is part of a united salety entorment program ar ranged by 'police chiefs in the United States and Canada, and will be carrled out simultaneous ly ln both countries. Brakes and headlights will be carefully Inspected on all vehicles in the city. It will continue until all vehicles have been checked. MOST ANCIENT FOOTWEAR. The sandal is the most ancien' type of footwear. -if! ;- 1 a, mi rtk