lIMH TITLE TO JAPAN S ROYAL SEAT "Emperor" Kuma - i HI -nV-y mht. pretender to Japan's throne, is shown l r lam !? hi wife, Yae, holding their youngest son, Ryo-ti elde on and their pretender to the throne, Koson and laughter Ye.suko, standing. Hiromichl claims that he is the frt Emperor of Japan, that five hundred years ago his 1 wa denuded of the throne. Through his "grand cham-i ftr; announced a campaign, soon to start, to regain his .) th? nraunds that he did not declare war on the Allies Hlr hlto is responsible for the war." The chamber-i: r.reJ Emperor Hiromichl might even accept com-::a under the imperial Institution. EARTER IS WELLED iff Justice Farris Tinds llfiiic Colonitation Organi ion Was Only Gambling d uptiairu uere COUVER ff) Eleven-year- hartc ct the Hellenic Colo-In A n ation has been tied by Chief Justice Wen- far be au:;? it has never I'd in a buna fide manner. jpreae Court Judgment the O.-ner was used ui t branch dubs' gambling I Lart::hip reviewed convlc- ag::: branches operated frlr.ce ;n Prince Rupert". p'Creck Nanalmo and Al- )M BREACHES TO COUNCIL YORK The United dele-ation to the United I t hp r:t tm siiffifMtPft r,f the propo-lisng atomic "1 be referred to the ft' -run torn and arshiDs l"Ie nft at rilklnl Wnnlil M Ben Itrndered Jletnless Maiinpd-KadioacCivity rn,ng Now ARDO O.S.APPALACHIAN I'lf ' in i i r "ujh nave rendered the i f .f lnl,-.l.. i i i u - 'ijjjirja una uic ;'c 1n tppn fnllw -id - Icrdav The bomb 1 t:ad two ;Jiots at tM aanbor. .first t.h Ml Ener) the deadlv mv kub f.lnetV nprepnt nf ht animal;, survived, manv 10m havs beun todav to al!ln' blood count which to drath. ' 0f lh? flnrillltr.. r., ti 1 1 "j aiuvv tiiauc , 'P uld not be built I wick 15?) plough to protect 1 board frnm 4io 1 '5m rnv, Halibut Snlnst American 47,000. 21.5c and 19c. Canadian 63-C0: Eihbla -Per II 20,000. mf mm bbbbb ceding prices Co operative. Catholic Party Forms New Gov't THE HAGUE tTDr. Louis J M. Beel. leader of the Catholic party, formed a new bl-partizan eabln ,lp succeed the. Labor 7frSnentf-PrtmIeiian, Schermerhorn. - u v n Local Tides Saturday, July 6, 1946 I High 7:02 16.2 feet! 19:41 18.0 feet! 1:05 8.0 feet 13:10 6.8 feetl AIl-Nljht Confutation Brought Under Control No Miners Are Hint KIRKLAND LAKE, Ont. CO Fire flehters. rallpri In frnm all M mines in the dlstrice in the fight to extinguish the blaze, succeed ed yesterday in bringing under control a fire throughout the VANCOUVER STRANDING Ten-Thousand-Ton Freif hter Goes Ashore On Calamity Point VANCOUVER The 10,000-ton freichter Seaboard Trader "wt hrashJi nta" Calamltf Pdint in Vancouver Harbor, across from Brockton Point, at one o'clock this mornltif. The extent of the damage is not known or has the direct cause of the stranding yet been ascertained. The new of 45 men is safe and it is expected to refloat the vessel on the high tide this evening. Canada's Wartime Captains Engage In Variety of Activities From Atomic Research to Agriculture By JACK BRAYLEY Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA (CP) Canada's war captains who successfully directed, trained and led sea, land and air forces now are engaged in a variety of activities ranging from atomic research, civil service, leadership and judicial work to management of dairies and department stores, bush flying and farming. Many have remained in ser- vice and some war leaders have died. IV Most prominent among those remaining to direct peacetime prepptedness of the armed forces are the three chiefs f staff Vice-Admiral II. K. Rastus) Reid, C.B.E, U.-Gen. Charles Ounces, C.B.E., D.S.O., and Air Marshal Rcbert Lcckie, C.U.. D.F.C. Others Include Lt.-Gen. John Murchle, C.B.. C.B.E.. chief at Canadian Military Headquarters, London; Lt.-Gen. Guy Slmonds. C.B.. C.B.E.. D.SO, former chief of the 2nd Canadian Corps and later chief of the Army of the Netherlands, now attending the Imperial Defence College In Britain: MaJ.-Gen. Chris Vokes. C. HE.. DS.O.. former commander of the 1st. Division and later chief of the occupation force in Germany, soon to become head of the central area command: MaJ.-Oen. H. W. roster, C.B.E.. DS.O., former chief tff the 1st Division and now head of the Eastern Area Command: MaJ.-Gen. F. F. Worlhlncton. C.B., M. C. MJVI., former chief of the 4 Hi Division and now chler of the Western Area Command. Admiral Tercvy W. Nelles, C.B.. of Brantford, Ont , former, chief of the naval staff and chief of the naval minion in nrllaln, Is living in retirement in Ottawa whTc he does some gardening and some writlmr. Gen. A G. L. MrNaughton. C H CD, CM.Q D.f.O. Mooso- min, Sask., first commander of the 1st Canadian Army overseas, retired in Ottawa but is active as chairman of the Canadian section of the Permanent Joint Defence Board aud Canadian representative on the United Nations Atomic Commission. Gen. H. D. G. Crerar. C.H.. C B., D.S.O., of Hamilton, Ont.. Gen. McNaughton's successor as commander of the 1st Army, retired in Ottawa and his name has been mentioned in cinnec tion with various appointment Air Chief Marshal L. S. Bread-ner. C.B., D SC. of Kirks Ferry. Que., former chief of the air staff and later overseas R.C.A.F commander, is living in retirement at Kirks Ferry and dcr-t ing some of his time to air cadet work. Air Marshal Harold (Gus) Ed wards, C.B.. of Ottawa and Win nipeg, former overseas R.C A.F j commander. Is living In retire ment in Ottawa. Leaders who have died include Lt.-Gen. Kenneth K. Stuart. C B.. D.S.O.. MC. at various time-chief of the General staff, chief at Military headquarters in London and temporary commander of the 1st Army: Vlr.e-Admlral George Jones. C.B.. CH E., chief of the naval staff; and Air Vice-Marshal W. R. Kenny, D.F.C., former member of the air staff. Other wartime leaders: Navy Roa- Admlra! George L Steph- VICTORIA, B.C. RFH TOP CABS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH" COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER Phone JJiJlj Phone TAXI TAXI KABPER C. McINTYRE mmm 537 SUnd: Rupert Tobacco Store 9 (across Irom Ormes) DAY and NIGHT SERVICE DAY AND NIGHT SERVICE Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port -"Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" Bill and Ken Nesbitt VOL. XXXV, No. 156. PRINCE RUPERT. B.C., FRIDAY, JULY 5, 196 'PRICE ITVE CENTS SUBMARINE BAG SURPRISE TO AIRMEN TWENTY-ONE NATION PEACE MEET HAS BEEN SET NOW FOR JULY 29 PARIS Big Four foreign ministers, sitting until after midnight last night, finally decided that the 21-natIon peace conference to deal with peace treaties for Axis satellites should be held July 29. Text of the Invitations Is being copslde'red today. Agreement was also reached yesterday on a figure of $100,000,000 for reparations payments by Italy to Soviet Russia. Fire In Teck- ELECTION IS Hughes MineZED British fioternment Satisfied U'ih roliih Polling Monday L-ONDON. 0i The British government recognizes as lawful and orderly and as a democratic representation of public opinion the election In Poland on Monday when the cities voted by 3 to 1 margin In favor of a one which raged mmD?r Parliament. About Gne-nlght at the!ouartfr of ,ne results are now 3600-foot level In the Teck-Hughes mine. All miners underground had been safely brought to the top without suffering any ill-effects. The fire is believed to have been started by a spark from a welding torch. in. most oi the country vote having yet to be heard from. rSAFlAND SANE" FOURTH OF JULY Death List !Not as High as last Year as Independence Day Celebration (Jets Under Way Across the Line NJT.V YORK iT United States celebrated a comparatively safe and sane Fourth of July holiday yesterday. A survey showed at least 142 persons suffered violent deatlu. TraUUacidnls, led..theuUs f.lnll.l.. - LAI. CC ii minnunt wxu were 42 drownings. Americans Shoot Russian Soldier VIENNA Unit d States Army policemen shot &nd killed a Russian soldier yesterday in Vienna as he sousht to escape after shooting into American soldiers. ens, C.B.E., 0I Ottawa, chief of naval engineering and construction, living in retirement In Ottawa. Rear -Admiral M. J-R. O. Cos-sette, of Valleyfleld, Que., advocate general of the fleet, living In retirement in Ottawa. Rar Admiral Leonard W. Murray, C.B., C.B.E., orTrenton, N.S., chief of the CanadJan North Atlantic Command, living in retirement In England. Army MaJ.-Gen. E. L. M. t Tommy5) Crew Which Sank Jap Undersea Raider Did Not Know What It Was Bulletins ALEXANDER IN WINNIPEG WINNIPEG Opening a two-ronnth tour of Western Canada blfh will take them to th? Pacific Coist and Prince Ru-rert, Vifronnt Alexander arrived yesterday, accompanied by the Viscountess and aides. CONTROL APPROVED WASHINGTON A new one-year ptjee crntrol bill was approved br the Senate banking c-mmittee by a vote or (o 5. Demofratic leader Alben Bark-ley taid he had every reason to believe it would be enacted. ATOMIC ROMlt BLAMED CORUMBA This Braiilian city of 30,)00 people blames the retllnr off or ffe atomic bomb at RikinL 7,000 , miles 4away, for two days rf dne fof, the first the city has ever known. WESTLNGHOUSE STRIKE HAMILTON Four thousand electric worker employees of Canadian Westlnghouse plants here have gone out on strike, demanding; a 40-hour week and 25c per hour wage increase. Fur workers in Toronto are also on strike for a 35-hour week and 15c per hour wagf increase. f """BOARli "l!TNAMFjr " OTTAWA Announcement is made of a boaul of commissioners consistlne of Sherwood let. chairman; Aid. R. K. Glr-vin. representing the printers, and C. C. Delbridge. the management, in the Vancouver Province strike dispute. The date of the first meeting may be announced today. Burns, D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C., of Montreal, commander of the' 1st Canadian Corps in Italy, now director general of rehabilitation in the veterans department at Ottawa. Lt.-Gen. E. W. Sansom, C.B., D.S.O., of Stanley, N.B., former 1st Corps commander, living in retirement in Montreal. Lt.-Gen. P. J. Montague, C.B., C.M.G.. D.S.O., M.C., former chief at Canadian Military Headquar-(Cnntlnued on Page 6) DE GAULLE RE-ENTER3 POLITICS AT BAVEUX -Gen. Cliarie.; dc Gaulle broke hi;; lomr political silence with an addretia at Ilaycux, Normandy, France, where a monumont was dedicated to his landing there in 1914. He outlined the kind of constitution he wanted for the fourth French republic and implied that he would accept the presidency Jf such a constitution were adopted. He is shown answering the greetings of the populace of Bayeaux. De Gnulle centre i.s waving to some of his greeters. Royal Canadian Air Force Bombers From Annette Island Thought Their Their Target Had Been Whale OTTAWA (CP) Partial credit for the sinking of the only Japanese submarine destroyed off the British Columbia coast during the recent war came as a surprise to the crew of the Royal Canadian Air Force bomber, headquarters of the Royal Canadian Air Force announced today. The crew was on a routine shipping patrol from COMPENSATION OF COAL MINES First Step Taken in Great Britain in Nationalization Of Industry LONDON h A three-mas- government tflbunal has begun to determine compensation value of 1700 ccal mines. This Is the next step in Labor's plans to nationalize the mining Industry. The tribunal will spend perhaps a month taking evidence from government and the Mining Association of Great Britain. Then it will announce the figure to be paid the mine owners. INSURANCE TO BE INCREASED House of Commons yesterday that the government next year will consider the advisability of Increasing unemployment payments under the Unemployment Insurance Act but warned It will also mean an increase of con tributions to the unemployment fund. Many War Leaders Now Are Absorbed In Civilian Life PALESTINE IS STILL TENSE JERUSALEM tO There Is still an air of tenseness In Palestine as the possibility of further reprisals for the wholesale arrest of Jews is still considered. Midnight tonight is said to be the deadline for action by Jewish underground armies. The British Army today announced that another large scale cache of munitions and a large quantity of British battledress had been uncovered in a Jewish settlement. Previously the British had unearthed large quantities of contraband munitions in an elaborate underground storage depot. 1 DRAINS HELP GRAIN CROP WIN'-IFEG General rains ovr the whole of the prairie j provinces in the past week have improved crop conditions ma-t 'rtal'y Wlille the total rainfall ui nv"t areas cf Manitoba and r2:;kati'hewan is below normal anri the crops are patchy and h rt tine to the cold, dry spring, m mial rondlUon. from now un- i ha-ve?t should result in an average wheat crop, according a the weekly crop report of the dpoavtment of agriculture of the C.'.md'an "National Railways. About 50 percent to 75 percent f tli- wheat Is reported in the j -hot blade, wtHi quite a large j proportion heading out. Coarse p. rains are also ahowlniff much improvement as are the hay and pasture lan:i A severe hall storm on July 3 near Dchna:;, SasS.. covered a st p one mil? wide by six miles long aid the cfop is a total loss,. Annette Island station some four years ago and dropped a 500-pound bomb on a grey shape in the ocean and left the scene, thinking that the target might have been a whale. Later evidence showed It had been a submarine. No British Columbia men were among the crew of the Canadian bomber. The bag was made off the Queen Charlotte Islands. 1 saw an almost Instantaneous hoisting of prices In the Alaska city, something which seemed to Concern Ketchikan residents very little but which had a painful effect on Canadian visitors. For Instance, the players on the Prince Rupert All-Star baseball team which invaded Ketchikan on Tuesday found food prices which doubled and often trippled those of Prince Rupert. This was only one expression of the feverish and unabashed pursuit of money which has Ketchikan's citizens in its grip. Room rentals, which did not affect the visiting ball players (Continued on Page 2) Nazi Rats Trying Out NUERNBERG (J) l Hermann Goering was pictured by defence counsel today as a victim of loyalty to Adolf Hitler and Germany, aware of mistakes but refusing to flee the sinking ship he helped to fashion. In this vein the defence of 22 Nazi leaders opened a final 'plea for acquittal before the in ternational military tribunal, laying the entire guilt for German aggression on Hitler. Continuing today, Ooering's doctor endeavoured to place the blame for the war on Britain which he said had convinced Poland of her strength, causing her to refuse to negotiate with Germany on Danzig. POLES STAGE JEWISH RIOTS WARSAW ffi At least 34 persons were reported today jto have been killed' and 42 wounded at Kielce in Poland's bloodiest post-war program which was finally suppressed oy government forces in armored cars. Reinforced military us its and security police patrolled Kielce's streets after anti-Jewish rumors apparently touched eff the rumors on Thursday. One rumor was that a Polish boy had been kidnapped and held In a cellar for two days by a Jew. About 800 of Kielce's population are Jews. SNEAD GARNERS BRITISH OPEN ST. -ANDREW'S, Scotland Sam Snead, long-driving American, professional, won the British open golf championship today with a 72-hole total ol .290. Snead scored 75 on the final round. Johnny Bulla, another American, and Bobby Locke, South African champion, -were tied In second place with 294. Ketchikan Is Completely Grip of Inflation Prices Have Reached Fantastic Levels Food Rots in Ships While Longshoremen Are On Strike An inflationary boost is hurling Alaska's com-mnrHK nrirps. alrpadv far hicher than those of n-rfAWA -ifcjwKi'stfc "f -fKtPrince Rupert(-ur-.to a level equal-to, the-heightof bor Humphrey Mitchell told the i the territory's famed snow-capped mountain peaks. It costs real money to live in Ketchikan. Withdrawal of the Office of Price Administration's '' control of prices on July THE WEATHER Synopsis The weather system which passed over British Columbia yesterday has been followed by moist air from the Pacific. This Ms resulted in extensive clouds over the province dmng the night except over the Okanagan and Kootenays where skies remained clear. Nearly an inch of rain fell at Prince Rupert In the past 24 hours with much lighter rain along the west coast Of Vancouver Island and la the Prime George and northern British Columbia regions. The week-end weather for the southern interior is expected to be clearand warm. Southern Vancouver Island and the lower mainland will have cloudy mornings -with clear, warm weather in the afternoons and evenings. The remainder of the province -will be cloudy to overcast with rain showers. Forecast Prince Rupert, Queen Charlottes and North Coast Overcast with rain showers today, Saturday and Sunday. Southerly winds 15 miles per hour. Little change in temperature. Minimum expected tonight: Port Hardy. 50; Massett, 50; Prince Rupert, 50. Maximum Saturday: Port Hardy, 60: Massett, 60; Prince Rupert, 60. KILLED BY TRAM VANCOUVER Joseph Hib-bard was killed Wednesday night when a street car jumped the track at Pender and Granville and he was caught by the back of the car. United States Watches Prices Just What Final Effect of lifting of O.P.A. Will Be Still Unrettain NEW YORK tB Uncertainty as to whether the next few days will bring about runaway prices, small Increases or a return to government control was the keynote yesterday as United States took time out for Its traditional Independence Day observance. All Indications point to at least some boost in the general cost of living over Office of Price the ultimate figure may be is anybody's guess. Bureau of Labor statistics In Washington reported spot market prices of twenty-eight basic commodities had risen eight percent since stabilization controls ended. 'Cattlemen are floding the stock markets with animals. Butter has ad"anced fifteen cents per pound and milk Is up 2c and 3c per quart. The Wall Street stock market had its smallest turnover In Administration levels but what years Wednesday.