iVS
SITKKMK
COURT
SHOULD
RE
L'KINC
CONSIDERATION
OF
CASK
iSHlNtiTON
(CP)
The
American
soft
coal
was
'allcd
off
today.
i
let.
-or
to
his
members
of
the
United
Mine
rs
of
America,
President
John
L.
Lewis
said
e
was
ordering
the
miners
back
to
work
at
until
March
111
so
that
the
Supreme
Court
VLIJV
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:rc:
:j
in
salaries
was
f
16"
cents
an
hour
catc
of
nay;
sub-
thnf
demands
to
a
)i
r.lcrence
if
the
com
3
r.ot
we
fit
to
re-
1.Tm.
it
it,
Ue
organization
said,
an
does
not
talk
In
f
strike
kputy
ministers
of
the
.'x
weeks
ago,
following
MUNITION!
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fa
fouay.
and
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hours
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explosions
still
rocked
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nvpr
the
:rn
Brit
.ill
Columbia
roast
'"nin-
witli
overcast
sles
e
rc
of
the
nrnvince.
'"''
s
expected
in
con-lm?
Hie
province
today
Sunday.
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"ce
Rupert.
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vtnrt
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Masiett.
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oa.
rrinrn
mi.
would
be
"lrcc
from
public
pressure
superinduced
by
the
hysteria
and
frenzy
of
an
economic
crisis."
He
told
reporters
that
"in
addition,
public
necessity
requires
quantitative
production
of
coal
during
such
a
period."
The
announcement
came
as
the
Supreme
Court
was
considering
the
government's
plea
for
an
Immediate
review
of
Lewis'
and
the
miners
contempt
of
court
case,
involving
$3,500,000
in
fines
levied
In
federal
district
court
earlier
this
week.
ARE
KILLED
IN
PALESTINE
JERUSALEM,
0)
-Five
Urillsh
soldiers
were
injured
when
a
Jrcp
wis
blown
up
early
yester
day
by
a
mine
north
of
Jlcdara
on
the
Tel
Aviv
road.
Four
per
sons
were
killed
in
an
explosion
here.
Drove
Bus
From
Fairbanks
South
SEATTLE
A
itairbanks
man,
who
proposes
to
start
a
bus
scr
vkT
from
Alaska
to
the
United
States,
has
driven
here
by
bus,
inrountcred
45
below
zero
weather
on
the
trip.
EMBARGO
ON
STEEL
STAYS
OTrAWA,
Of
Heavy
pressure
is
being
exerted,
on
the
federal
government
to
lift
the
ban
an
export
of
steel
but
It
is
unlikely
the
restrictions
will
be
eased
except
In
a
minor
way
for
some
time.
TAX
PARLEY
IS
SUSPENDED
OTTAWA
W
Negotiations
be
tween
British
Columbia
and
the
Dominion
for
a
new
taxation
agreement
have
been
suspended
while
the
federal
government
studies
Premier
Harts
alterna
tive
proposals.
A
rjember
of
the
B.C.
delegation
said
that
no
agreement
had
yet
been
signed
and
It
probably
will
not
be
known
before
Tuesday
whether
or
not
agreement
Is
possible.
,
..
-
It
has
bcefi
reported
in
some
quarters,
however,
that
an
agreement
lias
been
reached,
and
that
B.C.
citizens
will
not
have
to
pay
double
taxation
to
the
Dominion
and
the
province.
These
sources
say
that
the
province
will
allow
Ottawa
full
rights
of
income
taxation
for
the
next
three
years,
and
that,
by
a
complicated
formula,
Brit
ish
Columbia
.will
get
more
than
the
$18,000,000
offered
in
the
last
federal
burfget,
can
get.
Rupert
Due
Here
Next
Wednesday
Canadian
National
Steamships
coastal
vessel
Prince
Ru
pert
will
be
back
In
service
next.
week
after
a
three-week
annual
overhaul,
according
to
word
received
at
the
company's
offices
here
this
morning.
The
ship
will
arrive"
here
Wednesday
under
command
of
Capt.
Ernest
Cald
well,
who
has
just
returned
to
Vancouver
from
a
holiday
In
Los
"Angeles.
LONDON
The
18th
home
of
William
Hogarth
the
artist,
blitz-damaged
during
the
war,
is
being
reopened;
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tw
nv
W.TZZARD
With
COLORADO
fBUn.
rnned
bv
snowdrifts.
20
persons
Colorado
reported
otuwa
itaSVi
Ivnlcal
street
scene
in
battled
a
-zerc
J
w
their
way
through
snow'
cov-Den,Veh
mnfno?totlon
and
communications
were
tied
up
inlany'lectK
The"
deaUis
were
In
the
more
remote
areas.
1
.
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NORTHERN
AND
CEiTRAlwlTISIi.COLUMBIA',
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and
NIGHT
iSERVICE
DAY
AND
NIGHT,
SERVICE
Stand:
I
empress
Hotel,
Third
Avc.
Published
at
Canada's
Most
Strategic
Pacific
Port
"Prince
Rupert,
the
Key
to
the
Great
Northwest"
Bill
and
Ken
Nesbitt
VOL.
XXXV.
No.
286.
PRINCE
RUPERT.
B.C..
SATURDAY,
DECEMBER
7,
1946
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-
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of-iiving
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INDIAN
ACCORD
MEETING
FAILS
LONDON,
-Prime
Minister
Attlee
failed
last
night
In
an
eleventh-hoar
attempt
to-bring
the
Hindus
and
Moslems
together
for
the
opening
Monday
of
a
constituent
assembly
to
draft
India's
constltulon
of
Following
termination
of
the
Inconclusive
conferences
here,
the
government
flatly
told
the
bickering
Indian
leaders
that
Britain
would
not
submit
an
Indian
charter
to
parliament
unless
all
factions
Joined
In
writing
,lt.
The
delay
In
drafting
the
constitution,
he
assured
them,
would
service
Commission
re-
prolong
Britain's
stay
in
India.
as
disclosed
by
u.
f
.
'cr.
general
secretary
of
J-..1C
li
finvprimirm
Em-
BOLD
BANDITS
ENTER
HOUSE
VANCOUVER,
0;
Using
new
and
more
bfaaen
approach,
two
armed
bandits
last
night
went
to
the
home
of
Grant
Slosson,
held
him
and
his
three
friends
off
with
a
gun
while
they
frisked
him
of
his
wallet
containing
$100.
then
fled.
It
-was
Vancouver's
ninth
hold-up
case
In
eight
days.
WHERE
THREE
CANADIANS
LOST
THEIR
LIVES
The
tall
section
of
the
Western
Air
Lines
plane
which
crashed
Into
a
mountainside
north
of
Burbank,
Calif.,
still
remains
Intact.
The
plane
carried
11
passengers
and
crew
members
whose
charred
bodies
have
been
sighted
by
searchers.
Th
three
Canadian
women
among
the
passengers,
were
Miss
Mary
La
Branch,
Edmonton;
Mrs.
Bridgt
W.
Knight,
Banff,
Alta.and
Miss
Florence
Henry,
formerly
of
Winnipeg.
Government
Plans
to
Move
Unemployed
From
Cape
Breton
to
Other
Localities
OTTAWA
(CP)
Plans
for
a
government-financed
move
of
unemployed
Workers
from
Cape
Breton
to
industries
in
central
and
western
Canada
is'"beihg
'developed
byKfc1eraTlabor
off
fcials,
Cana
dian
Press
learned
Friday.
There
are
several
thousand
unemployed
in
the
Five
Million
May
Lose
Their
Jobs
PITTSBURG,
)
Predictions
were
made
yesterday
that
more
than
five
million
workers
wllJ
be
idle
by
New
Year's
If
the
coa!
strike
is
still
in
progress
then.
They
said
that
Premier
iiart
SHUGAR
FREED
likely
would
settle
for
$20,000,-000,
plus
an
extra
$2,000,000
In
gasoline
taxes
along
with
what
ever
other
minor
concessions
he
OF
CONSPIRACY
OTTAWA
Dr.
David
Shugar,
former
naval
anti-submarine
ex
pert,
was
acquitted
today
by
Judge
A.
G.
McDougall
of
a
charge
of
conspiracy
to
commu
nicate
confidential
information
to
Russia.
.
At
the
trial
Shugar
had
cate
gorically
denied
the
accusation.
It
was
the
second
time
that
Shugar
had
been
acquitted
on
a
similar
charge:
SEEK
HOMES
FOR
CHILDREN
Montreal
Welfare
Body
racing
Eviction
Issues
I'lea
for
Help
MONTREAL,
(CP)
Faced
with
eviction
.from
their
premises
on
east-end
Ontario
Street,
dircc-
questing
foster
parents
to
accept
one
or
more
of
the
24
children
remaining
In
the
home.
Board
will
toe
paid
for
each
child
accepted
until
H
can
return
to
its
parents
or
be
taken
into
a
new
building
directors
hope
to
find
shortly.
The
10-year
old
centre,
an
affiliate
of
Welfare
Federation,
acts
as
a
clearing
house
for
youngsters
to
be
adopted
or
placed
in
foster
homes.
Designed
to
hold
the
centre's
work
together
until
new
premises
are
f
ound,
a'
system
whereby
foster
hemes
will
be
subsidized
is
being
worked
out.
This
will
include
payment
of
a
$50
monthly
retainer
fee
to
private
tamlllcs
on
the
under
standing
that
tlpy
will
accept
the
care
of
one
or
more
children
when
their
home
is
needed.
An
additional
$24
monthly
board
will
be
nald
for
each
child
as
long
as
lt
remains.
TOMORROW'S
T1DKS
High
0:52
20.3
feet
12:43
23.7
feet
Low
6:36
19:23
urcan
areas
cf
Cape
Breton,
l
and
the
authorities
plen
a
voluntary,
mass
exodus
of
these
workers
to
such
manpower
scare
areas
as
the
han'cock
mines
of
Ontario,
Quebec,
Mani
taba
and
Yellowknife.
N.W.T,
and
also
to
the
lumbering
and
electrical
power
developments
in
Ontario
and
Quebec.
Although
British
Columbia
was
not
mentioned
in
the
dis
patch,
sources
at
Vancouver
ex
pressed
interest,
saying
that
B.C
could
use
such
labor
in
the
coal,
hardrock
mlnea
and
lumbering.
NEW.
YORK,
(CP)
Secretary
of
State
James
Byrnes
last
night
pledged
the
United
States
to
sit
in
'one
.
"full,
free"
conference
in
an
attempt
to
solve
the
Arab-Jewish
Palestine
question.
Meanwhile,
Britain
may
take
right
'to
the
general
assembly
floor
her
flglit
to
establish
an
Inspection
board
to
verify
the
number
of
armed
troops
In
the
world,
U.
N,
authorities
said
to-
day.
tors
of
the
Children's
Receiving
Tonight,
the
security
council
Centre
have
Issued
a
plea,
re-
win
assemble
to
receive
a
com
mlttee-approved
plan
calling
for
all
members
of
the
United
Na
Hons
to
reoort
the
number
of
their
troops
at
home
and
abroad
by
next
January
1.
SCHWENGERS
OF
VICTORIA
DIES
VICTORIA
Bernard
P
Schwengcrs.
branch
manager
of
McLellan.
McFeely
&
Prior
here
and
nctcd
athlete
in
his
youncer
days,
died
here
yesterday.
23
MISSING
ON
DAMAGED
SUB
TOULON,
France
CT1
Hope
was
abandoned
today
for
23
men
trapoed
in
the
250-ton
French
submarine
"2326,"
believed
suhk
"by
a
floating
mine
off
Toulon.
Three
high
ranking
officers
were
aboard
the
submarine,
but
their
names
were
withheld.
CROWN
COLONY
New
Zealand
mas
proclaimed
a
6.6
feet
I
British
crown
colony
by
Captain
0.8
feet
I
William
Hobson
in
1840.
BIGGEST
XMAS
SHOPPING
YEAR
Canadian
Will
Have
Spent
$400,000,000
by
Yuletide,
It
Is
Estimated
TORONTO,
.KB
Currently
'Canadians
are
In
the
midst
of
I
the
greatest
of
all
spending
boons
Christmas
shopping
the
time
the
great
day
is
ccou
and
gone.
A
Canadian
presi
sur-'vey
reveals
the
biggest
buying
year
on
record.
Reduction
of
Rent
Controls
Urged
TORONTO
Speaking
last
night,
W.
J.
LcClaire,
president
of
the
Canadian
Property
Owners'
Association,
advocated
a
gradual
reduction
of
controls
and
reasonable
upward
revision
j
JOHN
O'GROAT'S
HOUSE,
Scotland,
W
Want
to
buy
a
1,000-acrt,
island,
complete
wurt
church
and
manse,
school,,
post
office
and
45
tenanted
crofts
lor
$14,000?
Stroma.
2Vz
miles
of!
John
'Oroat'a
in
stormy
Peritland.
Wrjjij
j(,wjeivthe
jinalQan
and
the
Orkneys
is
lor
sale.
Fisherman
James
Simpson
thinks
it
might,
be
a
good
place
for
a
politician
to
retire
to,
but
that's
about
the
brighest
he
can
say
about
It.
He
thinks
the
pres
ent
generation
will
be
the
last
on
the
Island.
"Many
young
Stroma
men
and
women
were
in
the
forces
during
the
war,"
he
said.
"Now
they're
demobbed
they
want
to
live
on
the
mainland.
Even
if
they
come
back,
It's
becoming
increasingly
difficult
to
make
a
living
on
Stroma."
There
are
few
children
now
in
the
school
and
the
church
has
There
is
one
small
shop
but
Its
Tales
of
pirates,
smugglers
and,
ancient
Norse
sea
kings
go
with
Stroma,
as
do
stories
of
ship-wreckers
in
the
days
before
the
modern
lighthouse
was
built
cn
the
rocky
point.
North
of
the
island
is
the
Swelchle
of
Stroma,
dangerous
whirlpool
into
which
many
small
vessels
have
been
sucked
and
lost.
So
far
Stroma
is
still
on
the
market.
YOUNG
BANDITS
TO
BE
WHIPPED
Three
Years
and
Twenty
Lashes
Imposed
on
Two
Young
Men
VANCOUVER
William
.Mcpherson
and
Michael
Burns,
youths,
were
each
sentenced
to
three
years
in
penitentiary
with
20
lashes
each
here
yesterday
for
armed
robbery.
FAIRBANKS
FLIER
IS
SAFE
AT
HOPE
VANCOUVER
J,
M.
Cox
of
Fairbanks,
who
took
off
frpm
here
for
Dog
Creek
In
the
Carl-
boo
Thursday
afternoon
and
failed
to
arrive
there,
Is
safe
at
Hope
where
he
made
a
landing
on
account
of
unfavorable
weather.
Horror-Death
Strike
Georgia
City
in
Pre-Dawn
Holocaust
Guests
Trapped
Above
Third
Floor
Burn,
Suffocate
in
"Fire
Resistant"
Building
ATLANTA,
Georgia
(CP)
A
pre-dawn
fire,
starting
mysteriously
in
the
upper
floors
of
the
and
it
is
estimated
they
win
1
downtown
Winecoff
Hotel,
today
swept
the
15-storey
spend
upwaras
oi
iuu,uLj,uuu
Dy
;
structure,
Kiumg
ai
leasnii
persons
ana
iniunng.iuo:
Indications
are
that
the
toll
among
the
285
guests
in
the
194-room
hotel,
located
on
Atlanta's
famed
Youth
Held
For
Slaying
His
Mother
of
rentals.
Present
rental
con-,
'
.
u
,m
i,imi,.
LEAMINGTON,
Ont.
DWtl-
Ham
Jewltt,
17
-year
-old
high
and
were
stifling
building
for
1'rental
-
scnooi
siuaeut
iouay
waaiiiiaigcu
WINDY
ISLAND
DOUBTFUL
BUY
1,000-Acre
Island
Near
John
O'Groat's
Can
Be
Bought
wim
muraenng
jus
mo
wier,
whose
body
was
found
late
last
night
In
the
kitchen
of
her
home,
a
claw
hammer
buried
in
her
skull.
Mrs.
Jewitt,
wife
or
a
dentist,
returned
home
from
choir
prac
tlce
a
few
minutes
before
she
was.
slain.
Less
than
an
hour
later,
Jew
itt,
whose
twin
brother
discover
ed
his
mother's
body,
walked
Into
the
nearby
home
of
Percy
Bur
ger,
and
reportedly
said:
You'd
better
call
the
police."
TWO'STATES
ARE
FREE
OF
DIMOUT
WASHINGTON,
D.C.
Texas
and
California
are
the
big
.
exceptions
In
the
states
of
,the
Union
which
are
in
dim-out
now
because
of
the
coal
strike.
Neith
er
of
these
states
are
dependent
upon
coal
for
power.
Woman's
Death
Sentence
Reduced
OTTAWA
O)
The
death
sentence
of
Mrs.
Marie
Desmeules
of
Port
Arthur
has.
been
commuted
to
life
imprisonment,
the
State
no
resident
minister,
inc
muni
secretary
ue
par
much
t
industry
is
fishlne
for
cod
and
nounced
today.
She
was
an'
con-
I
lobsters.
The
120
residents
raise
victed
of
slaying
her
landlady,
rilrrTr
iwmrif
most
of
their
own
rood
and
many
Susan
Thomas.
JUWWWU
MIllhrMl
I
rZiKI
MIVI.UI
r
T
also
weave
their
own
clothes.
wpoMw
a-fine
salt
OM
DAIFTIMF
WW
covcrs
thc
iwand
tellevcd
V
n
IHLLJ
I
I
IV
Ll
locally
to
be
the
cause
of
the
Islanders'
longevity.
Modern
conveniences
are
some
thing
Stroma
docsnt
know.
Peachtree
Street,
would
run
higher,
because
a
number
of
other
people
were
burned
fa
tally,
or
suffocated.
Most
of
the
guests
were
trap
ped
above
the
third
floor,,
where
the
fire
was
believed
to
nave
started
at
3:15
this
morning.
The
brick
and
concrete
building,
constructed
in
1913,
had
no
put-
side
fire
escapes
It
was
believed
to
be
fire-
resistant.
One
fireman
told
of
finding
16
bodies
on
one
upper,
floor.
The
rooms
In
which
they
were
found
were
undamaged.
by
flames..
All
apparently
had
died
of
suffocation.
Emergency
mortuaries
were
set
up
In
various
parts
of
the
city,
as
firemen
kept
up.
a
steady
procession,
carrying
the
dead
from
the
building.
Identification
win
be
aimcuii
in
many
cases.
Hotel
adultor
F.
A.
Herring
saidt
"I
never
saw
anythrag
like
It.
Bodies
were
hurtling
down
past
my
window.
My
wife
and
I
covered
our
heads
with
blankets
and
turned
on
electric
-
"'
:
fans."
There
Is
"no
estimate
yet
as
to
the,
loss,
but
the
hotel
building
was
sold
ihree
years
ago
for
$650,000.
COMMUNISTS
WANT
PEACE
But
Little
Likelihood
That
Their
Offer
In
China
Will
Be
Accepted
NANKING,
'Chinese
Communists
yesterday
offered
ta
make
a
fresh
start
on
peace
negotiations
but
there,
appeared
to
be
no
possibility
that
their
offer
would
get
serious
consid-
eration.
Sedond
Post-war
Christmas
to
Be
Brightest
in
Many
Years
Prince
Rupert
is
dressing
up
for
its
flashiest
SPSm
Christmas
since
Adolph'
Hitler
beat
pop-guns-into
b
the
usual,
fuel
and
oi
lamps
cannon
ana
made
cotton
wool
more
important
ui
1.1.
light.
'MWH
i
!.
IJ
J
ii
..
i:!nt
CM
mir
.
-
XTVl
O
provide
i
army
nem
uressmg
tiiuii
&
cumn-mi
wiun.,
atmosphere
is
actually
beginning
to
resemble
;that
of
a
peacetime
Christmas.
Of
course,
by
pre-war
stand
ards
it
still
isn't
much,
but
thoSe
who
enjoy
Christmas
most
do
not
remember
the
pre-war
years
anyway.
The
important
iact
is
that
It
is
brighter
than
last
year
and
there
are
more
toys.
Downtown,
the
shops
are
putting
in
a
brave
and
glittering
show
of
normalcy
that
brings
a
nostalgic-sigh,
to
the
adult
and
makes
the
small
fry
look
on
peace
as
something
that
should
electric
train,"
commented
one
pensive
adult
as
he
stood
before
an
electrical
store.
"Because
I
need
someUilng
to
do
on
these
long
winter
evenings."
The
eager
glint
in
his
eye
as
he
watched
the
train
circle
its
track
in
the
show
window
was
a
kilowatt
or
two
brighter
than
the
light
of
anticipation
which
shone
in
his
small
son's.
Behind
the
colorful
show
windows
that
line
the
Third
Avenue
business
district
are.
shelves
filled
with
as
wide
a
variety
or
gift
merchandise
as
has
been
on
display
for
years,
and
Christmas
merchandise
nowadays
Includes
practically
everything
that
is
useful.
The
war
years
taught
wise
buying.
In
the
clothing
stores,
stocks
very
nearly
equal
those
of
last
year,
although
there
is
not
.the
balance
In
types
of
merchandise
that
were,
available
then;
Haw-ever,
providing
that
buyers
are
not
too
set
on
some
particuiar
item,
satisfactory
substitutions
can
be
found,
Particularly
'short
are
drars
shirts,
neckwear
and
knitted
?oods.
Toys
this
year
are
in
betwr
ciinnlv
iVinn
.since
wartime
short'
ke
tried
more
of
because
it's
jes
nrst
preS3d
down
and
the
wonaepui.
reappearance
of
metal
toys
is
a
"I
am
going
to
buy
my
son
an
,
nhenomenon
that
inspires
the
young,
and
makes,
gift
shopping
easier
for
narassea
parents.
4
The
Christmas
turkey
situation
remains
somewhat
obscure
at
present
although
there
a-e
indications
that
local
requirements
will
be
filled
but
all
the
butchers
are
saying:
Order
early.
In
fact,
shopping
early
is
much
'
'.n
vogue
lri
Prince
Rupert
this
year
as
more
than
ever
the
Importance
of
making
selections
while
stocks
are
the
best
is
appreciated.
Stores
are
very
busy
with
Christmas
shoppers
every
afternoon
now
and
already
stocks
of
some
stores
are
pretty
well
picked
"
over.
-
There
seems
little
ammunition
In
Christmas
buying
despite
the
admittedly
smaller
population.