NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER TOP CABS Phone TAXI TAXI -rf lv. mdNTYRE 537 DAY and NIQHT SERVICE 11 moat o-- Published ut Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" Bill and Ken Ncsbitt VOL. XXXV, No. 210. PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1946 PRICE FIVE CENTS OVER ..iUIr of nc .i.it In Spring rant E. C &ncl ...,.r - fieneral s confirmed a re-Prime Mln- - - IIC. . -.nil r flrpat nun...... -- ,.j tn visit car)' ,. as the guest .j.. tin cnlfl inn had been ex- ntitf and that. .riime rremler ...nt it tu can- Canada this tali ouid be purely anaclty trrday It had -in .irniilrl visit spring of 1947 ,d some time at ;UC5t 01 viscuuiii- 1 I Inl, 1 L.J UKnn ill . . m of Labor sea AS Be Kept As l:insl Canada til lnrf n'lina' tea 100.000,000 raw;r.ai use ll c;.d food board Fcod and Agri- tfl'.bn hern nm of hunger any- 'II oj rnncess 0 ti ooit. " -Sir Alan La :"jday as Incorrect the of Oreece was TO Family His engaged to be IS i AV rlltflown hrf.tii.. t-i ... uu. com- VU1 JacK Wol-he" this after- Thp fHoi Tl...J- .3Udy morn- s coming here f'a Tort Albernl u lOr t ip I.aW line snnlV , arter Bay and madeth " the usual Sales adian Cod : Co'd Etor,. Cold Storage v-O-op, i nnn i M)-op, Walter Bkulsli ne tn vu n on t: ,4 Ouf For Skeena Queen In Great Hunt at Week-end Oil, Issuing To Water's Surface Narrows Search For Remains of Aircraft Indian Fisherman's Report Being Investigated By Provincial Police As Mass Week-End Quest Starts Blankets Are Found Report of an Indian fisherman, Henry Ryan of Metlakatla, that he had seen oil issuing to the surface of the water at that point ing boat bKeena yueen and four remaining victims of the now conceded disaster of last Saturday night to converge among small islets near the south end of Finlayson Island. It might bet there, It was thought where the wreck of the Skeena Queen might be found. Ryan told provincial police that he had seen the oil on Wednesday 300 or 400 yards offshore. Meanwhile Friday's search yielded a number of blankets ft Union threat wh!ch are believed to have come EaiiL&LU law imm rnn xifppnn unrpn i ui an un i '! r -! n t tifnnra Tnn mi l a ra. r li iiLioi una Tin r t rri nravn nrpn viiim k thas threatened lnc bodcs 0f Mrs. Paul Demp- red todav by n.e citir onH mint vn u the maritime1 wiison of Vancouver were found eked bcnina a A mass search by power ves- and shore parties is planned to be continued Intensively over the week-end. Appeal Made for Men and Boats Prince Rupert citizens are be- lug asked today to take part In the vast and comprehensive search on Sunday. "No one should hold back be cause or the tear mat mere might be too many," George 8tanbrldge, Queen Charlotte Airlines p.ient. said today. "We - want hundreds so that we can scour every Inch of the coast line." In addition to searchers, Mr. Stanbrldge is appealing for small boats to probe (he beaches and carry searchers to shore from the larger boats whirii will transport them from Prince Rupert. "We want as many rowboats, cruisers, motorboats and oth- T-IT 1 .11 lUizauem s I'vinrn I lmiu(l Scclies. private secretary to the a story published by the Lon-that engagement of Princess Elizabeth confidently expected in circles brief denial said that "Princess married. The report published THE WEATHER Synopsis Skies have become clear over all of British Columbia this morning with the exception of the coast where foe and low clouds continue. The tempera ture at Prince George again dropped to 25 degrees as frost was experienced for the second night over the central and northern Interior. Little change Is expected in the weather over the week-end and temperature over the Interior arc expected 1 to approach normal gradually. 1 Forecast i t'rince Rupert, Queen unar- tr.t 4 .. ,1 si a i. r.. r-f nirAt1- nUcast wlth l0B patchcs thls , mnrillnrf hnnm nrr ni f V HKM1-' wv-wtioii j w the northern mainland by noon and clear during afternoon away .from the coast. Sunday Overcast with widely scattered showers over the Queen Char lottes. Light winds, little change In temperature. Lows tonight Port Hardy 51, Massctt 51, Prince Rupert 50. Highs Sunday Poit Hardy 60, Massett 61, Prince Ru pert 63. Local Tides SundayScptember 8, 1946 High 12:04 17.5 feet 23:44 19.4 feet we Low 5:40 5.1 feet 17:49 8.4 feet led search for the lost fly er small boats sis we can get," he saici. "This will be the final search and we want to make it as comprehensive a? possible." Heads of service clubs and other organizations are being .unladed this afternoon .to provide searches for the expedition which, the airline dfflcials hope, will Include more than 150 people. High school youths are responding .generously to the appeal for assistance. Boats carrying me expedition, which will sprcae. out along the west side of T&lmpccan peninsula from Metlakatla to Canoe Pass, will start leaving the Standard Oil Co. wharf at 3 o'clock Sunday morning and it li hoped that the final boat will leave by 10 o'clock. To provide food for the search ers, the Women's Auxiliary ofi the Canadian Legion volunteered today to make lunches which will be taken out on the boats as they leave in the morning. Jklrs. W. Rothwell; and several Other Legion fadfes- ure 'mating the lunches In the Civic Centre; , kitchen, which was made avail-' able by Civic Centre director Don Forward for the purpose. Volunteers for the search arej being asked to contact George I Stanbrldge as soon as passible so It will be possible to deter mine the size of the party for the purpose of providing food and transportation. Two Vessels Out Today Today, two vessels the J.R., Capt. J. Rcld, and the Limited, Nelson Bros, packer arc out searching with more than a dozen hteh school students on board. The J.R., patrolling the area arouna riniayson isiauu and Dundas. has aboard Bob Manson. Pat Wilson. John Wilson, James Stewart and Lbuls Campagnola. and plans to stav out and resume the search In the morning. On the Limited, which is pat-rollins Jap Point. Mud Bay and IN? Bay, are Don Schcrk, Bill Davidson. Frank Symes, Albert HcFaddt n, Mel Sanvar. Bill Sun-berg, Gordon Rothwell, George Hougan and Bill Rothwell. Greece Gets Martial Law As Relations Deteriorate Between Athens and Yugoslavia anil Russia I ATHENS ffi The Greek cabi-. net reimpoocd drastic emergency measures today in an effort to stop continued violence as Yugo-Slav-Grcck relations caused new worry. The acting .prime minister asserted that Yugoslav declarations on Macedonia, voiced nt the Paris conference, supported "our suspicions that troublq, and disorders in Greece are not exclusively an Internal mat ter." At the peace conference yesterday Russia and Yugoslavia demanded tJiat Greece give up western Trace to Bulgaria. In declaring martial law, the Greek government said that the reason was that communist bandit activity in Greece was increasing. Meantime In Belgrade it was reported that a Greek plane had been flying illegally over Yugoslavia and had been shot down by machine gun fire and the crew- interned. ATOMIC TEST CALLED OFF Third Great Detonation At Bikini Has Been Postponed Indefinitely WASHINGTON 0 President Truman has ordered postponed indefinitely the third atomic test at Bikini. A While House statement said that "Test C." planned as a deep-water detonation, 'hould not be conducted In the near future "in view of the successful completion 0f the first two tests and the great amount of Information obtained from them."' The test was to nave taken place next spring. Suite tin J MINLHS' STRIKE VOTE CALGARY Early settlement of the dispute of 1500 western Canada miners dimmed yesterday and a stiike vote at ordered for September 10 among workers of the bituminous ro.il fields of Alberta and nrilish Columbia. .Minds' demands include a $3.50 per day wage increase. SHOW WAS FLOP WINNIPEG So few attended an Abboll-Costcllo personal appearance here that the comedians, after entertaining for half an hour, told the small crowd to go to the box office and get their money back. Faulty arrangements were . blamed for the small crowd. MOKE HOSPITAL PAY VANCOUVER Wage ln- crensesf-relroacUve to July 1, are to' be given employees of Vancouver General Hospital. The increase does not Include nurses who will meet .Monday. HIGHWAY MUD-BOUND CALGARY No. 1 Highway between here and Medicine Hat is so deep wilh mud that motor buses have bern unable to get through for two days. They have been re-routed on a more ' southerly road. SPEEDY DISTRIBUTION VANCOUVER Vancouver is so well organized that it is expected to complete the issuance of the new ration books in a single day. COLD ON PRAIRIES WINNIPEG There were damaging frosts on the prairies last night. Hudson Bay Junction had the lowest reading 19 above. Kamsack registered 26 and Minnedosa, Manitoba, 28. Grande Paririe In the Peace River had 28. Further frosts arc expected tonight. LAC.UARDIA BACK NEW YORK I iorrela La- Guardia, dhector of UNRRA, bark from an eight weckss trip to Europe and North Africa, appeals to striking seamen and dork workers to move lclief fox supplies for needy VANCOUVER GIRL TAKES OWN LIFE VANCOUVER 0) police are seeking relatives of Joan Cameron, aged 18, whose body was found yesterday in the gas-filled attlclof a rooming house. A note, signed "Joan", said: "My life Is useless. I am going to mother." CRASH KILLS TWENTY-THREE L0NDON -Twenty-three persons were killed, including all four members of the crew, when,- a British-South American Airways plane crashed shortly after leaving the Bathurst, Gambia, airport today. The plane had left London yesterday. HELP YELLOWKNIFE OTTAWA Following a trip Into, the northwest, Minister of Mines and Natural Resources Glen said he would move toward relief of transportation costs into Yellow-nife He had been amazed at the ''possibilities of the area, Mr. Glen said., The minister also said he would do all possible towards having the condition of the Jasper Park Highway Improved. i RECONVERSION BIDS ' VICTORIA The Canadian Pacific Railway British Columbia Coast Steamship Services will call tenders next week' for reconversion of the steamer Princess Kathleen recently returned from war service. 5 DESPERATE CROP PLIGHT fcbSDON Flattened grain crops and water-logged fields are making it impossible to use harvesting machinery and Britons fare a glim situation. Much damage already done to crops cannot be remedied. The situation is critical in Eiie where the government has Issued an appeal for voluntary field workers, saying "an hour of national need has arrived." COMMUNISTS TAKE OVER SANTIAGO Radical Communist party has been entrusted with the government of Chili following the presidential election in which the Conservative party camoi second to the Communists 50,000 votes behind. REVISE FISH BORDERS VANCOUVER A revision of fishing- boundaries on the coast is under consideration but no announcement of changes has yet been made. TYROL DISPUTE ENDED PARIS Italian Premier Al-ride de Gasperi and Austrian Foreign Minister Dr. Karl Gru-ber announced today that they had signed an agreement settling differences between the two countries over the South Tyrol. New Steel Strike Proposals -- Hopes Running High That End Of Fifty-Five Day Old Strike May Now Be Approaching End CHARGE UNDER TAXI BYLAW IS DISMISSED Prince Rupert s recently passed taxi by-law came before the court Friday afternoon in a test case Involving a taxi operator's right to accept passengers seeking transportation from a point other than the operator's licensed place of business. In dismissing a charge against Joe Slaggard, laid under a .section of the by-law aimed at prohibiting operators from parking and soliciting business at competitors' stands. Police Magistrate W. D. Vance said that the intent of the section was not to stop a taxi operator from picking up fares who had indicated their desire to be picked up on the street. Slaggard, who operates a taxi business at Third Avenue and McBride Street, was charged ; on a complaint. Dy ADranam Ostashower, another taxi driver, with soliciting business at the approach to the Cow Bay floats, a distance of 25 feet from the , taxi Hand from which Ostashower and his associates are licensed to operate. Slag.gard denied that he had solicited business at Cow Bay, claiming hat he had been hailed by a native and his wife at Uie approach to, the floats after he had delivered (wo passengers to CfiwB'ky "from his on taxj stand: Ostashower asserted that Slag parti's taxi had been without passengers when the latter approached the entrance to the Cow Bay floats shortly before picking up the two passengers there. He implied that Slaggard had gone to Cow Bay to solicit trade. "Any taxidrlver has the right to stop and pick up passengers on the street when he has been flagged down by them," Magts Irate Vance said. "I don't think it was the Intent of the bylaw to try and stop that nor do believe that the bylaw has the power to do so. The section of the bylaw In ques:;on was In tended to curb taxT drivers who deliberately solicit trade at other operators' licensed stands," Magistrate Vance said. Slaggard, the magistrate felt, had gone to Cow Bay on legitimate business and had been approached there by persons seeking a ride up town. The prosecution was conducted by Sgt. O. L. Hall of the city police while A. B. Brown acted for Slaggard. MITCHAM. Surrey, Eng. For sentimental reasons Sidney Stocks kept 4,000 ($16,000) In cash In a black box belonging to his dead wife. Thieves stoie it from his caravan home. TEL AVIV CITIZENS SCREENED AFTER HOTEL BLAST The British military authorities, In their search for the perpetrators of the King David hotel blast In Palestine (In which over 100 were killed), Instituted a complete clty-wlde screening 'of the citizens of the Jewish city of Tel Aviv. The photo shows several Jewish youths of Tel Aviv at the questioning table where British officers, seated, ask the questions. A curfew was Invoked In Tel Aviv and several members of the terrorist organization Irjun Zval Leuml were kept In custody. OTTAWA (CP) New proposals for a settlement of the 55-day-old steel strike will be placed before strikers' meetings at Sydney, Nova Scotia, Hamilton and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, probably tomorrow, C. H. Millerd, national director of the Union, announced today. Hopes are running higher that an early EMPLOYMENT STILL HIGH Ratio Above Normal, Local Office States Ratio of employment In Prince Rupert Is still higher than normal, It was stated today by E. V Whiting of the National Unemployment Insurance Commission office. "Normal" Is on the basis of the year 1926. There Is at present a shortage of trained office help and stenographers, Mr. Whiting said, Sawmill workers are needed as well as men and women for fish packing work. With men coming off fishing now, there may soon be some relief, it is expected, ENTERTAINMENT FOR WARSHIPS Plans Made in Connection With Visit or Uganda and Crescent At a meeting of the various sports organizations at the Can adian Legion. Hall-last, plght; a, tentative program for the enter-, talnment of HMCS Uganda and Crescent was drawn up and has been submitted to the Sports Officer of Uganda for approval. It Is as follows: Friday evening, Sept. 13 Navy League dance. Drill Hall. Saturday afternoon Football match, Roosevelt Park. Saturday evening Box lacrosse, Roosevelt gymnasium. Sunday afternoon Baseball, Roosevelt Park. Sunday evening Fastball, Gyro Park. Sunday evening Concert party, Civic Centre Auditorium. Monday evening Gymnastic display, Roosevelt gym, Monday evening Box lacrosse, . Roosevelt gym' FIFTY THOUSAND FARMERS STRIKE; CASE TO BE CONSIDERED -PREMIER EDMONTON (CP) Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King said today in a message to Premier E. C. Manning of Alberta that demands of farmers would be considered by the government when the ministers most concerned Ilsley of finance and Gardiner of agriculture return from a trip to Europe. Meantime an estimated 50,000 1 western farmers moved for a showdown with the federal government over parity prices. The American Fanners' Union had called out 20,000 of its members last night at midnight and the secretary of the Union, J. Boutll-lier, reported receiving word from the United Farmers of Canada Saskatchewan branch that it would issue a strike call to 30,000 members. By sunrise today farmers' pickets were appearing on all Alberta roadways, In front of grain elevators, creameries and stockyards. CANADA NOT AFFECTED MONTREAL T. G. Mc Manus, national secretary of the Canadian Seamen's Union, says that Canadian deepsea and coastal shipping will not be affected by the United States maritime strikes. DANCE Monday, Sept. CIVIC CENTRE GUESTS: Ship's Personnel, ILM.C.S. Charlottetown Gents. 75c Esquires lend of the tie-up may come. Millerd said that he was not prepared to say whether he would recommend acceptance of the proposals. He said "they will be considered by the ne-gotlaUng committee." An an swer might be expected Monday. Details of the proposals have been kept secret but there were reports that the fifteen cent wage Increase demanded by the Union was closely approached. Mr. Millerd himself said that the proposals further narrowed the gap. between the Union de mands and previous government proposals. COMMUNISM PERMITTED Prcgresslve-Consenrative Leaders See Its Ugly Head Rising in State Control QUEBEC Communism was being allowed by the Liberal crnment to creep Into the Cana-idlan system through develop Iment of the idea of state conT 1 trol, John Bracken, Progressive- Conservative leader, declared in Quebec. White Mr. Bracken' was" speaking' thus here, John Dlfenbaker of Lake Centre, Saskatchewan, one of the chief Progressive-Conservative financial critics in Parliament, was declaring In Vancouver that communism was being allowed to undermine the productive capacity of Canada. BOMBAY RIOTS END BOMBAY Bombay's bloody week of Hindu-Moslem rioting appears to be virtually at an end today as government-revised casualty lists placed the dead at 220 and the injured at 659 since communal disturbances erupted last Sunday. Reuters reports fifty thousand people have left Bombay in the last three days. Missing Gasboat Troller Kathleen Reported Missing in Hecate Straits Since August 21 Another objective was added to the search today when the planes and surface craft were requested to keep a look-out for the trclling boat Kathleen, with two men on board, re'-ported by the Canadian Fishing Co., from Queen Charlotte City as having been misslnj in Hecate Straits since August 21. The Kathleen, skippered by John Ezendolt, was described as a 31-foot vessel with dark grey hull equipped with gill- I net drum and trolling poles. 9, 10 p.m. 1 a.m. Orchestra Ladles, 50c 1 ft .tip