S lHi- 11 :1 R1TI h;. 'U local civic prob-their relationship to authority. attitude to the Pub-Art. Hospitals ad-Municipal Suprr-Act. as well as an nr.vlncial support In municipalities against cuvrrnmrnt where c Diuvrn that such tatter category, spe -1 "ucc i.s made to Prince im on the federal i it for reparations to1 YnYWUADC - w i III IfilVi Aiw nnw . I rh Ahead on Iron l Slcrl 1-rojecl Up Coast ' 1 u V c d, work is be "aicd at Anyox on rtnc so that team-ufi :e again be able to old camp where an 'el nlant is to be put by B.C. Minerals and i- -d, which has acqulr-tamous old copper property. The wharf is - Mir iron plant win ?:ton ore about the end -us ar or early next year. ' - w W.llln m. .. in tfn ii..:...:.4r U'olm McLeod ui national council ouhje- -National Wae IV(H..Ij,cr:ase Drive" f ", "ay eveninc, 25. 8 p.m. Mf ttfall Pllhll. Tnvltnrt M V At 1 VVU - , '.-u. .... -. IE:ING THOUSANDS GREET CANADA'S NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL The Vice -Regal ibeve leaving Ottawa's Union Station for Parliament Hill where His ;d Mur;hu) the Rt Hon. Viscount Alexander was sworn in as Canada's 17th .inc.e Confederation at a ceremony In the Senate Chamber of the Parliament At the station the new Governor-General and Lady Alexander were met by Prime Mi.mkc.izie King, members of the Caoinet, and the Hon. Thibaudeau Rinfret, ad- f the Government until the ceremony. Field Marshal Alexander and his family Haliiax aboard the SS Aquitania and made the trip to Ottawa by special train. The NUonal War Memorial can be seen in the background or the above photograph. (Canadian Army Photo) nn Rnnl' in Cnnio! Cnnino UTf UOWI III UUUIUI UUI iiuu, TA nr r,,mrfr r TO BE CHINESE iixaiion ana justice uusis J m I la a fla&it'M Hum mil 111 1 niv . u v mini r I I III III. U LI J LfllUI ltv unrnmnni Kean rserore uo aenoere . ... . nva Hrnvincial - IVlliniClDal L-OmmiSSlOn 1 ("Lints for revision of existing conditions in re-taxation of urovincially-owned U I , 4 WtlUl 1 VU.'Vi'j ....... u . 1 1 .1., ...fnirtni in i'rrrt ra"',,inB- its streets and sewers by war- prepared by City Unie- mllllary traffic. U D. Thain. was prcsent- R t.) Ooldenberg by Mayor j l "ctt in tne provincial Tnv-illnii itf flftvl. Because of what it terms the urn at. iu ociock ioaay.1 ....... Iln, , . rf.,inn. emendations lollow-,' Qf thc -cll the brlef - outline of the .uairary lhm are a arg(1 and financial back-. VOf.n, ln, wnpd bv n this included in .city ,ncc and that ..no Joca; anc brief to acquaint ! ,ml mMlt development has Commissioner with . nriprinkiu t'vii, vi tan without involving prnvincially- owned frontag "Wc contend that the provincial govenuncnt should pay all local improvement taxes levied on lots which tlicy own and that they should also pay an annual service charge, based on the assessed value of the property," the brief contends. "Wc urge further that the provincial g o v c r n m c n l should request the nonunion porrrnmcnt to undertake simi "Amounts actually levied under i existing local improvement bylaws on provincially-owncd land, but. paid by thc taxpayers or this city total $114,837, and the ratepayers will have to meet payments totalling $32,141," thc brief states. "It is cmpnasizcu that these expenditures, totaluiiR i $140,978, apply only to bylaws in effrct. Wc consider them suf ficiently indicative as to the magnitude of this problem with out searching through old records to compute the additional thousands or dollars which have been written, off In the past on matured Issues." The fact that by implication the province has recognized its obligation in this regard is pointed out by thc brief which recalls that on two occasions "when civic finances were at a particularly low ebb" the province made a grant of $40,000 to the r.itv for "building bridges local Improvement taxes ow standing against provincial owned lots." Since provincially-owncd lots depreciate In value because of (Contlnuec on Page 8 Fuilher Information In Itrgard lo Alleged American Strafing; ! IWUSSIXS P' Canada will get about 11,000 gross tons of (irrman mercantile marine M'icil for reparations under derision of the inter-allied reparation agency, it was announced today. The agency made public allocations of enemy shipping among the 15' allied countries which suffered losses duiing the war. Britain wilt gel about 365,000 gross tons. Shares were apportioned on the basis of tonnage lost ly caiit.of thc 15 allied countries during thc war, Canada's loss was placed at 330,000 tons, en-tilling her to 1,42 per cent. CHIEF JUSTICE DIES SUDDENLY WASHINGTON, D.C. Justice Harlan P. Stone of the "with the proviso that similar j unted States Supreme Court amounts be written off fromd suddenly last night of a massive cerebral hemorrhage with which he was stricken with little warning. He was 73 years of age and was an appointee of the late President Calvin Coolidge - RED TOP CABS NORTHERN AND C) EW2rKMH1SortjliBiA,i S NEWSPAPER Phone 2(J Phone TAXI TAXI j KACPER - C. McINTYRE 537 Stand Rupert Tobacco Store across from Ormes) DAY and NIQHT SERVICE DAY AND NIGHT SERVICE t -. Published at Canada's IVIost Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" Bill and Ken Nesbitt a. VOL. XXXV. No. 95. PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1946 PRICE FIVE CENTS ' - Mussolini's Body Is Snatched dry dock's wartime operations. I Other members of the concilia -itlon board, which will arrive hi I the city Wednesday on the Prince I Rupert, are Colin Cameron, for-Imer C.C.F. M.L.A. for Comox, 'who will represent the union. and Walter Owens, K.C., of Vancouver, representing the railway company. Union members contend that a decision favorable to them will bring the agreement between . . . . , the company and the Prince Ru- made Chinese air force planes ., lit pert , unions into line with .,tu agree-were operating over Bzeplngkal r . ... , , 4t ment with contracts nm,r now In ef-at .u the u time the Chinese Com-,. . t. . 1 . , . ...... J l. I tCUb UCIWCUJ MIC TAUWUIU Honofa General Marshall's A a ran n 1 1 ' hadquarters ni rinna rfpw ' CANADA GETS lar payment on property j GERMAN SHIPS which is federally owneu. was Informed today. An American official notified Allied headquarters that a Chinese pilot was missing after thc Szepingkal operation and that he was wearing an American flying suit. The Communist dispatch had claimed that one of the planes had been shot down and the pilot found to be American. The New China Daily News. a Communist paper, reported today that three divisions of the Nationalist First Army and one division of the 1 Seventy-First Army had been attacking Szepingkal since April 18. The des patch said that thc Communists still controlled the city up to Saturday. General Marshall has called on Chinese Communists to prove, their unconfirmed charges that or publicly admit as a falsehood, United States warplanes twice attacked Communist forces In Manchuria. A Chinese government spokesman said that the Communist charge against the Americans was a complete the B.C. Shipyard General Work- Two of Brigadier and Mrs Gilllngham's sons are also In Army service. Their 'eldest son, , Clifton, has been with Army, War Services In Europe and Is i still ln Germany. He was for- mer bandmaster of the Citadel Band at Vancouver. Their sec-. ! or.d son is Capt. Cyril Gilling-ham of Portage la Prairie. Their third son, Reg, is back with the Royal Bank of Canada at Van- Chief couver after active war service with Royal Canadian Air Force. Local Tides Wednesday, April 24,. 1S46 High 6:20 16.8 feet 20:15 15.4 feet Low 0:20 10.9 feet 13:25 7.1 feel. address a public meeting Wed nesday night on the Dominion wide wage drlye which the Con gress Is initiating and which is ; expected to be spearheaded byi. the International Woodworkers j of America. I f Wednesday's and Thursday's! hearings will be the first oc casions on which such a con ciliation board has sat in Prince Rupert. Union representatives &y that It will be the first time that the "open shop" policy of Canadian National Railways has ever been debated in public session. At present, the unions say, there, are no union shop con tracts on the entire Canadian National system The Prince Rupert dry dock, is now practically dormant, em ploying less than 100 men after ers Federation, arrived in tne. a wartime employment peas oi city Monday afternoon oh the more than 2,000. PRINCE RUPERT MADE DIVISIONAL HEADQUARTERS SALVATION ARMY; BRIGADIER GILLINGHAM IN CHARGE Prince Rupert is to be made the administrative headquarters for all of British Columbia from Ocean Falls north to the border of the province and from the coast through to the Alberta boundary including all of central British Columbia. Brigadier Joseph T. Gillingham arrived in the city at the week-end from Windsor, Ontario, to be in charge . " of the new divisional office. !TO TAKE FOOD Brigadier Gillingham who has! TO JUNEAU taken up residence with Mrs. Gillingliam in the Klllas & Christopher Apartments, is no stranger to Prince Rupert, liav-ing for five years been divisional commander for Northern British Columbia and Alaska until that division two years ago, An Alaskan vessel, dispatched from Juneau, Is expected to arrive in Prince Rupert today to pick up a quantity of foodstuffs, about six tons, to help relieve the current food shortage in the ter- j rltorlal canltal. The cargo was . . . mtlnn Ars.r t- rxfn rt ll'nnl nnA r i Was Closed down i umuaui-u imi a i u6u wjr uii Alaska being j Aiasua-nouua vessel "Decausc oi since administered from San ! '"e longsnoremcn s siriKe wnicn Francisco and Northern British j prohibited the unloading or Columbia until now from Van-j car lu Alaska ports, couver, : The Princess Louise.V which, i sailed for Alaska yesterday did Brigadier Gillingham during ot take carg0 becaUfie mrorma-Uie two years since leaving j tl()u that thc Elrike was finished , wrangeu, nas Deen ai wmasur , did not resull ln an order to in charge of men's social ser-, take lht cal.,,0 aboard ,or Jun. i vices. Having been ln thc str-j t,au vice of the Army for thirty- i yame or the vessel which Is cs eight years. Brigadier Gilling-, )Hcf(1 lo a,ve WBfc not known ham started at Stratford and has . . served In Bermuda, Alaska and every province ln Canada ex-j Icept Saskatchewan and New! Brunswick. Port Edward detachment of the provincial police Is investigating the disappearance of William Main, net foreman at Casyiar cannery who, it Is feared, fell overboard from a jlllnetter somewhere between Prince Rupert and Sunnyside cannery on Monday afternoon. Main, who arrived in Prince Rupert Sunday night on the Catala from Vancouver was travelling on the gillnetter -to Cas-sipr. I'.s was missed when the boat arrived at Sunnyside. Details of the disappearance were not obtainable from the district police office here or from Sunnyside at noon today. The ml'slnpr man is a brothci of Donald Matn, as'-'stant superintendent sf Sunnyside cannery. Bulletins SEAMAN KILLS NINE SHANGHAI A sailor on an American freighter in the Vangtse Kiver ran amok and killed nine of his fellow seamen with a 30-calibre carbine. ..NEW WHEAT POUCV OTTAWA A new Canadian wheat policy is expected to be announced shortly. The new ceiling price is expected to be $1.75 to $1.85 instead of the present 51.53. OOUZENKO C(tNOKtMNEl) Gouzenko, filing clerk in the Kusslan embassy at Ottawa who gave information to the Canadian government authorities, as a "squanderer and traitor." ALEXANDER'S ON TOUK OTTAWA Viscount Alexander, Governor-General, and Lady Alexander will make their first official trip May 17 when they go to Quebec, visiting' Montreal May 21 and 22 and Toronto May 23. AGREEMENT ON SPAIN NEW' YORK It appears that the Big Three may be in general agreement on thc next step to be taken in thc controversial Spanish question. Some observers are predicting another round of debate, stemming from a series of amendments to thc original compromise plan for an investigation of the Franco regime. LORD HALIFAX FAKLW1XL NEW YORK Lord Halifax last night delivered his farewell address as British ambassador to the United States. Halifax called for thc continuance of the wartime friendship between the U.S. and Britain. Unity of that type, he said, must be the rock upon which thc western house of peace is built. TROPELLdR SPEED Thp lltvs n'f a nrimpllnr nt t.OD Investigation Proceeding of Disturbance From Pauper's Grave Near Italo-Swiss Frontier MILAN (CP) Municipal authorities reported today that the body of Benito Mussolini was removed during the night from Maggione Cemetery here by "unknown" persons. Inquiry to ascertain responsibility is under way. The discovery was made bv workers who were in WITHERS BRIEF ASKS REVENUE FROM PROVINCE Contention that the provincial government should assume the full cost of hospitalization and that it should also share witn the municipalities revenues derived from the sale .of liquor, pari-mutuel earnings and motor vehicle licenses was the substance of the bnei presented to the Goldenbcrg commission by S. W. Gould commissioner for the Village of; fimtthers, this! inorning. ' Iu claiming that complete cost of hospital payments should be borne by thc province, thc Smithrrs brief claimed that the , levy of 70 cents per person" per day usainst thc municipalities accountant, for'inore than one quarter of thejlaxcs received by Taxes Tlalt yearTOtkTH'd7S,Kl while per diem hospital pay ments were $1,150. This pro portion was deemed excessive by the municipality which holds that the complete responsibility for municipal patients should bs borne by the province. in regard to the municipal share of parl-mutuel grants and liquor profits, Smlthers lias re celved no revenue from either source in the last 13 years in the case of the former and In thc last 12 years ln the case, of Uie latter. Motor vehicle grants have totalled only $20,388 ln the last 23 years, the brief shows. In none of .these matiers is it re ceiving a Just share, the muni clpal brief contends. Only major sources of muni clpal revenue are taxation of land and Improvements and from trade licenses which are entirely Inadequate for the needs of the village, It concludes. CENTRAL HOTEL CHANGES HANDS The Central Hotel 0n First Ave. has been sold for an unannounced sum by Albert Dixon, who bought it In February, to T. Hag-blad, or Lethbridge. Alberta. Mr. Hagblad. has not yet arrived in the city. Mr. Dixon, "who Is still acting as manager, bought the hotel from W. II. Tolin. It was formerly owned by the late Mrs. C. E. Black. G. L. Campbell Ltd. speed often surpass thc speed oi of Vancouver acted as agents for sound. 'he latest -ale PRE-COUNCIL CONFERENCE AT WHITE .H OUSE President Truman, VS. Secretary ot State James F Byrnes and Trygve Lie, UNO secretary-general, confer at the White House before the opening of the UNO security council. the cemetery to exhume other bodies. Mussolini's body was buried In a pauper's grave In the cemetery after his execution by partisans near the Swiss border In April 1946. The bodies of Clar-etta Petaccl, his mistress, and live henchmen who were summarily executed at the same time were also buried near his grave. Fishermen In Tax 'Muddle' Want tc Get Past Snarls Straightened Out Before Paying More Complaining against what they believe to be "inefficiency In vcrlflcaUon of Income tax returns by the Vancouver office of the Income Tax Bureau, a joint meeting A the Prince Ru pert Fishing Vessel Owners, and the Deep 'Sea Fishermen's Union lay?nadelan hjiY.e the matter strafghtenccf oui The meeting moved to send a petition to Ottawa seeking to have payment of income taxes by the vessel owners and fishermen deferred until the year's returns can be accurately computed and to request that dealings be con ducted directly with the depart ment head ofHce In Ottawa. Channeling returns through the department's Vancouver of fice has snarled thc situation so badly that many fishermen and boat owner, do not know where they stand ln regard to income tax payments for past years, they say. Settlement of income tax payments and accounts for the organized boat owners and fishermen is done through a special settlement board established last year. The fishermen say that additional claims for income tax payments for past years,, which they believed to have been- pafcl ln full, are pouring In to thc settlement board. In askln; Miat future payments be deferred until the snarl in past payments is cleared, up. Uie fishermen hope to settle a highly confusing situaUon. It will also be expedited by direct deiilirlgs with Ottawa, rather than with the regional ofHce at Vancouver, they contend. THE WEATHER General Summary Another of a .series of storms Is moving in over Vancouver Island from, the southwest, resulting In general rain over the southern coast. A weak system is approaching the Qunen Charlotte Islands from the west and should be followed by generally Improving conditions. Temperatures went down to 30 last night at Smlthers and Prince George while at Patricia Bay and Estevan the minimum was 47. Forecast Overcast with inter i Union '!. for 'Closed Shop' ot-CAHHERY Mill IS femaillS of II DuCe Ate - Dry Dock to be Conciliated Here C.N.R. "Open Shop" Policy to Be Challenged at Labor Board Hearings in City Hall This Week A provincial Labor Department conciliation board which will investigate a claim by the Shipyard Gen-, eral Work ere' Federation of B.C. for a new working agreement with the now dormant Prince Rupert dry dock will sit in Prince Rupert tomorrow and Thursday under the chairmanship of F. M. Clement, Dean of Agriculture at the University! 7 of British Columbia. j Princess Adelaide and confer- It Is expected that the board j rid swith the executive of the will hand, down a decision on Marine Workers' and Boller-the Federation's year-old de- makers' Industrial Union last Imand for a closed shop at the night. Discussions will continue local dry dock. knight. l th ,dCtlf Mr. McLeod, who is a member and the Canadian National Ra l- J thc ways, to see eye-to-eye on the , Canadian of Labor, will scribed as the stumbling block! in negotiations for a new agreement which the Federation has been seeking on behalf of the unions represented during th DiRemoved from Cemetery I - :5 v.: mittent rain, mainly in the uf southern region, this afternoon, becoming generally cloudy io- ln!'?ht, clearing tonight in the vicinity ot Graham Island. I Wednesday Cloudy, minimum I tonight 41, maximum. Wednesday 53. Moderate southwest winds, becoming northeasterly early 'Wednesday. Two Dollars a Day Increase In -Pay 1WA BROADCAST KTKN (950 kc.) 6:45 TONIGHT ;'1 i t