ED Confederation Spy Ring .... Di n h:iiik in twin great granddaugh- .11.11 1UUULI. Ullb . ... . 1 aUULldlC Ul OUJ i denied espionage of how passports ) Canadians who in snanisn covern- the civil war were and found their :.3V at Ottawa for lempnt tAl-Mrl aluablc by the Rus- ITTEE BOR Relations Body iday A to consider mc t t i ir.n nv uiuusiriai rtimlarlv thn new- tnn utcll industry, imam lnau:,trlal re- mirirp nr i.iin mihini! :e ion with Ralph P arvine as cnair- broad powers to m- nn v ir a inrnxr. i.nn tlcai rr :uf in the hr!-a' n the corn- proposed yesterday Bmiib a Progressive- re member the Prirho iuickiv agreeing with itloi) that it be im-t. .i. mlttee 13 expected to rescntatlves of both nii: ana union in uie Kiunee aenoerauons, 11 ed may result In a ! code for Canada. w"P-.pn that t.hn im- 2h evolve machinery jrc not . 3 much for ncm of strikes but for utiotv of them. tVELT LVED JOTON,D.C. ffi Eight bombers of a United iip,ressional committee I113 the Pearl Harbor (re reported yesterday isned a report absolv-ale President Franklin cli and former Secrc-taie Cordcll Hull from It responsibility for the 1 bombings. 1 wrt i3 aald to place the I i' American failure to I attack on both Wash- piilitary officiate and 1 ffa at Pearl Harbor H VESSELS NG RADAR UVER Radar Is belnc on sixteen vessels of m Steamship Co. and plcrhousc Co. coastal pt John Mulr, marine hdent of Union Steam-f: announces. The ves- so equipped Include f nw converted Castle pettcs as well a3 the flagship Catala and hue of the equipment ?M0 to 5,000 yards and Nreascd up to 16 miles. F"lr ls Impressed with plveness of radar as an Ration in rain, snow Bulletin YANKS SLAIN AT TKIKSTK TKIKSTi: Uic situation lirrc is more tense 'than ever following- the ambushing and machine-gun slaying of two American soldiers. A widespread srart'ii ;or the perpetrators tif the act south of (lorizia Is being made by Am-eiican forces. NEW O.P.A. H1I L It EJECTED WASHINGTON . The new O.I'.A. bill was rejected 211 to 51 by the House of Krprescn-tatlves yesterday and was sent to joint roinmitlee of the Senate and House for redrafting conference. MITSUI IHSSOLVEI) TOKYO The Mitsui Family Council, Japan's 'greatest family financial empire which once had branches and enjoyed influence throughout the world, has been dissolved. I'AKLEY IN PARIS PARIS Former Trime Min-I'trr Winstcn Churchill or Great Iiiltain and Premier George Ilidault of France met in conference on JlnniUy. There is speculation as to what was discussed. WHEELER DEFEATED HELENA Burton K. Wheeler, senator from Montana for 26 years, was defeated in the party primary by Lief F.rick-son, former chief justice of the state supreme court. Wheeler was a prominent Iso- lalionist. nir. Jewish stkiki: JEUUSALEM Every Jewish enterprise in Palestine is on a one-day'strike today against the holding prisoner of 2,000 Jewish immigrants. Hospitals and newspapers are about the only exceptions. Arabs have boycotted all Jewish goods and activities. PREFERENCE IS DEMANDED OTTAWA R Veterans' organizations are reported to be marshalling their forces to op pose a recommendation of the Royal Commission Investigating civil service salaries that "ab solute preference" accorded vet erans for the last 30 years be moriiiied. The report, tabled In the House of Commons yesterday, urged that the policy concerning veterans in the service Is too rl.?ld and It should be reviewed "with the object of achieving a system designed to be both In the best long-term Interests of the whole body and the veterans as citizens and in the best Interests of the present and future efficiency of the public service." Poles Slay 25 Russians Internal Strife Willi Irregulars Continuing ,Krign of Terror WARSAW Twenty-five Itussian soldiers jarc reported today to have been killed dur-inc last month by Ihc name "outlived bands of Irregulars accused of syste mal'cally slay-Inc Jews throughout Poland. The newsniper C.losludu said (be latrst attack by irregulars train near was on a passenger LuMin and fIx Russians were captured and later slain. Meanwhile mystery cloaks the fate ef nine Jews said to havi been held prisoner by ir regulars 'near Klelce, scene of Ihc pogrom on July 4 I" which 41 persons were killed. Reports from Klelce said the Jews were, being held as hostages for nine Poles sentenced to death for participating in the SETTLING: DISPUTi: TORONTO (Negotiations between Great Lakes shipping operators and the Seamen's Union for a settlement of their dispute were reported today to be "proceeding satisfactorily." ntlSONIII ESCAPES NELSON After 18 hours of liberty, a 1 rustic prisoner. wio escaped from the provincial Irrk-up where he was serving six months for vagrancy, was rc-anrsled. LAST TOTEM POLE VANCOUVER M tin co Martin, who is carving an U-fool totem pot for the Governor General, Visrounl Alexander, says it will be (lie last one to be madi; as the art h dying out, now; of the young people being interested. LIVING COST MOUNTS WASHINGTON Cost of living in the United States has reached the highest level since January 8, 1920, and Is near the all-time high 011 July 31, 1919. HUGILES UNCHANGED HEVEKLY II I l.lS The condition of Howard Hughes, critically injured in an airplane crash several days ago, is unchanged. He has had his fourth blood transfusion for anaemia and is taking small amounts of solid food. steel mill strike and tie -up at Hamilton, Sault Ste. Marie and Sydney. He Intimated that his own plant, which builds railway cars for the railways of Canada, has bepn runin so close on Its steel supplies that a continuing steel strike would force It to close down within three weeks. The car plant's supply problem has been further complicated by a shortage of timber which has hampered its operation for a long time now and which was not helped by the recent strike In the British Columbia timber industry. A closure of the car plant would throw 2800 employees out of work and, once the plant closed, there might be some delay In getting reorganized for reopening. Cer-toinitr if. urnnlH not be reoDencd such assured. The Hamilton car plant, Mr. Southwick said, has orders on hand to keep It running to full capacity until April of next year. It makes all kinds of railway cars Including the express refrigerator cars of which the local fishing industry 13 currently short. The demand for more modern rolling stock has greatly stimulated postwar business In that line. Just recently National Steel par Co. completed the delivery of 2100 railway cars for the Belgian government, having had a large order for Russia Just before that, this business having been placed for UNRRA through the Canadian government. Present orders for the plant arc now largely domestic. One of the subsidiary enterprises to National Steel Car is the Valdcs Lumber Co. sawmill at Nanalmo which supplies the parent concern with timber required in the car manufacture. Mr. Southwick, travelling by hlmselL would hardly liave been recognized as one of the tycoons of Canadian business. Ills par- Charges and Counter- tlcular interest seemed to be snapping moving pictures. His Interview with a Dally News representative was interrupted as he took shots of a commercial aircraft as It took off from the local harbor for Vancouver and of the local Sea Cadets marching aboard the steamer as they left for their .summer camp at Vancouver. WAGE BOOST IS REFUSED Shipyard Woraers Decline to Arci-pt Offer of 10c Per Hour Negotiations Continuing VANCOUVER Members of the Shipyard General Workers' until an orderly flow of materials n sfPPl nnd timber was i tuu"' a" meeuug wuu representatives of the Shipbuilders' Federation of British Columbia In Victoria yesterday, turned down a counter-proposal by operators of ten cents an hour wage increase, Malcolm MacLeod, president of the Union, said. Unions, representing more than 4500 shipyard workers in Vancouver, Victoria and Prince Rupert are participating Jointly in negotiations with demrids fnr 25c an hour wage increase, forty-hour week and union security. Also fejecte'd at the meeting, raid MacLeod on his return here, were employer proposals that all work performed over and above the forty-hour week be paid on a time-and-a-half basis. The Unions are demandlnc time-and-a-half rates for the first four hours of overtime and double time afterwards. Negotiations will continue in Victoria on Friday. 1,000-YEAR INDUSTRY Diamond mining first become an industry In fiidla sometlma between 800 and 600 B.C. l rr j NORTHERN AND CENTRAL UTIrf COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER TOP CABS . 90 Phone B.C TAXI TAXI 537 PER C. McINTYRE Rupert Tobacco Store DAY and NIQHT SERVICE cross from Ormes) Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" Bill and Ken Nesbitt . A AVi - VOL. XXXV, No. 166. PRINCE RUPERT, B.C.. WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1946 PRICE FIVE CENTS o. 4 C FULL SCALE CIVIL WAR APPEARS st Viol ef e vjccurs In oteel Mnke LOOMING ONCE it AGAIN k k IN k TlnN Charges As To Which Side Started Attack Five Pickets Sent to Hospital and Several Company Workers Also Sustain Injuries HAMILTON (CP) Five pickets of the United Steel Workers of America (CIO) received hospital treatment today and several workers at the Steel Company of Canada Hamilton works nursed cuts and bruises as a result of a pre-dawn clash between pickets and workers near the main gates of the plant. IS CLEAR OF PICKETS NOW VANCOUVER All pickets had been withdrawn from the Vancouver Provlnee this morning, a few police being still on duty but the doors being open as usual. The Pressmen's Union, which had refused to cross the picket lines, has decided to return to work at the Province, It was announced today. The Stereotypers' Union is meeting tonight. The Stcelworkers Union has declared the Province to be unfair to organized labor and has asked Its members to act as plcketers. STEEL STRIKE SERIOUS- FOR CANADA SAYS0NTARI0 TYCOON WHILEHERE "One of the nlost serious things that could happen to Canada at this time," commented 0. D. Southwick, president of the National Steel Car Co. of Hamilton, Ontario, one of Canada's important industrialists as he lounged yesterday aboard the steamer Catala on which he was makintr the round trip north. Mr. Southwick was referring to thef f'There were conrilctlng state ments from the union and the company on the Outbreaks. It was the first violence In the basic steel strike since it was called Monday here, at Sault Ste. Marie and at Sydney, Nova Scotia, The Union said the trouble was started by three hundred company men, armed with pick handle! and lengths of new rubber hose, attacking union The-company, on the other hand, 'said its men weret tacked by pickets when attempting to remove ties chained to the railway tracks on the line entering company property. Is Refloated From Beach At Juneau JUNEAU The coastal frelght- e" and passenger vessel North ern Voyageur was refloated at 3:30 jesterday afternoon after TODAY'S STOCKS Courtesy S. D. Johnston Co. Ltd Vancouver Bralorne 12.15 B.R.N 13 B.R.X 11 Cariboo Quartz 2.85 Dentonia 40 V2 Groll Wihksne .11 Hedley Mascot 1.40 Minto 05V'2 Pend Oreille 2.80 Pioneer 4.35 Premier Border 01Y2 Premier Gold 1.55 Privateer 55 Reeves McDonald '1.20 Reno Salmon Gold Beattie Buffalo Canadian Bobjo Con. Smelters ........ .12 li .17 Sheep Creek 1.10 Taylor Bridge .60 Whitewater 03 Vananda 39 Congress 11 Pacific Eastern 10 Hedley Amalgamated .10 SpucTValley .23 Central Zeballos 10 '2 Oils A.P. Con ,11 Calmont 30 " C. & E 1.97 ' Foothills 1.60 Home . 2.95 Toronto Aumaque ..62 ',2 .99 .1712 .20 95.00 Eldona 41 Elder .56 Giant Yellowknife 5.75 Hardrock .72 Jacknlfe 16 Joliet Quebec 60 Little Long Lac 1.99 Madsen Red Lake 2.95 McLeod Cockshutt 1.75 Moneta 61 Omega 22 Pickle Crow 3.15 San Antonio 4.30 Senator Rouyn 61 Sherrit Gordon 2.50 Steep Rock 3.00 Sturgeon River 22 Lynx 23 Lapaska 32 God's Lake 67 Negus 2.21 Halifax Readies For Montgomery HALIFAX Halifax is already preparing Its reception for Field Marshal Lord Montgomery who will visit Canada in August and September. The British chief of staff will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws from Dalhousle University. Murder Case Showdown Question as to Whether College Student Will Confess to Slaying of Little Girl And Two Women CHICAGO 0)-PoI!ce officials today were iaid to be seeking a showdown in a nearly three-weeks-long Investigation of William Heiiens's connection with the kidnapping of Suzanne Deg-nan and the slaying of two Chicago women. The Chicago Trib une said that Helrens's counsel "In the next few davs expects to take a full and written con fession" from the 17-year-old college student, that "he was the slayer" of the six-year-old Deg-nan girl and also of Frances Brown, aged 33, and Mrs. Jo seph Rc,'43. However, John Coghlan, Helrens's lawyer, reiterated that Helrens has made no confession and added, "There 13 no prospect of a confession." Fish Sales American dutapSVWAi -XMlneJT-i. -fiMthf "Booths - - CURE FOR SLANDER In Elizabethan England, slandering persons were often pilloried and had theirs ears nailed back. 23C. Ethel, 48,000, 27c and 23.70c, Bacon and Whiz. Canadian Parma, 35,000, ceiling Co-op. v price, One British dally newspaper published daily, in addition to Its regular local edition, 1,000,000 copies of a newspaperprinted In German which was dropped by borri'j behind d'he German lines. CHINA NANKING (CP) The Chinese government charged today that 130,000 Communist troops had opened an offensive along the Yangtse River and were attacking only twenty miles from Nanking and forty-five miles from Shanghai. These two cities MIHAILOVIC IS PUT TO DEATH Former Leader of Yugoslav Resistance Movement Dies Before Firing Squad BELGRADE, Yugoslavia CB General Draja Mihallovlc, once acclaimed by the Allied world as the organizer of the Yugoslav resistance movement, died before a firing squad at dawn today, less than forty-eight hours after his conviction on charges of treason and collaboration with the Germans. Eight other men, convicted with the former Chetnik leader, were executed at the same time. Intercessions on behalf of Mihallovlc by British, Canadian and American airmen, whose lives he was instrumental in saving, failed to save the general from execution. Only official witnesses were permitted to see the execution. Newspapermen were barred. NAZI CHIEFS SEEK MERCY Docnitz Would Preserve Good Name of Seamen Schact Claims He Was Traitor to Ujliller... : .- - ,-. NUERNBERG Oj The international military tribunal was asked yesterday to Judge the case of Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz so that history will not Judge all German seamen as pirates and murderers. Earlier counsel for HJalmar Schact, Germany's financial wizard, pleaded for acquittal on the grounds that he was an out-and-out traitor to Hitler. Disappearance of Two Army Officers of U.S. is Mystery Russian Authorities Inform Americans They Are Unable to Locate Captain and Lieutenant Missing in Soviet Zone of Occupation FRANKFRT (CP) Russian authorities have told the United States Army that two American officers, who supposedly disappeared into the Russian zone of Berlin, cannot be located, it was announced officially today. The missing officers are Captain Harold Cobin of New York and Lieut. George Wyatt THE WEATHER Synopsis With clear skies over southern British Columbia last night, temperatures dropped t0 67 degrees below the mid-July normal. Elsewhere temperatures were near or. above normal, however, as a result of cloudy rkles over the northern coast and rainy weather over the northern interior. Continued clear skies are seen for today and tomorrow over the southern portion of the province, while gradual clearing is in sight for the rest of the interior. Continued cloudiness is expected along the northern coast. Prince Rupert, Queen Charlottes and North Coast Generally overcast this morning except cloudy in southern districts, becoming generally cloudy this afternoon and Thursday. Widely scattered showers today. Southwesterly winds, 10 miles pr hour. .Little change In temperature. Minimums tonight: Tsrt Hardy, 50:; Massett, 50; Prince Rupert, 49. Maximums Thursday: Port Hardy, 63; Mas-m'U, 61: PHnce Rupert, 62. of Oklahoma City. They were last seen July 4 boarding a train for Oranlenburg, Russian provisional headquarters, 25 miles north of Berlin. The Russians reported to American officials that they "have been unable to locate Cobin and Wyatt and to the best of their knowledge they are not being held In the Russian zone." Soviet authorities have sworn on their honor that the American officers are not in their custody and that they do not know where they are. Three Russians, being held by the Americans, are being turned back today. nikolairedI is not guilty SEATTLE Verdict of not ?ullty, after II hours' deliberation; was returned today by the Jury in the case of Lieut. Nikolai Redln, young Russian officer, who had been charged on Ave counts of espionage, ild had been arrested by the Fedcfal Bureau of Investigation on the allegation that he had attempted to transmit plans of a new destroyer to Russia. are sajd to be the Communists'' main objectives. The Nationalist government has protested to General aeorge C. Marshall, asserting that the Communists intend to sweep up key cities and ports along the Yangtse between Nanking and Shanghai. The Communists, In turn, complained to the special United States envoy, charging the government wa3 provoking this fighting and the situation is "heading directly into full scale civil war." RESUMPTION OF MEDIATION Beth Mine Owners and Miners Want Negotiations Renewed In Strike Dispute i VANCOUVER,- D Both the United Mine and Mill Workers' Union and the mining companies have ask'd for immediate step3 to be taken toward! mediation of the strike dispute. At Ottawa Minister of Labor Humphrey Mitchell said that the resignation of Chief Justice Gordon Sloan as medlaloT had been re ceived but no new appointment had yet been made. Mr. Mitchell expressed the hop that Judge Sloan would continue to act as commissioner in me siruce or the hard rock miners. Judge Sloan resigned on Man- May as-speclat' Investigator In the 15-day old strike of 2,500 , to me ieaerai minister ci laoor, the judge said he could not see his way clear "to carry on negotiations with 16 separate companies wllh the purpose of establishing 16 different and differing contracts." HART IS READY TO TRAVEL EAST Awaiting Call of Premier King to Enter Financial Discussions at Ottawa VICTORIA W Premier John Hart said last night that he ls prepared to go to Ottawa for financial discussions with the Dominion government the moment Prime Minister W. L. Mac-kenze King asks him, to do so, Mr. Hart was commenting on an Ottawa report which said Mr. King had told Premier T. C. Douglas of Saskatchewan that the Dominion government is prepared to begin discussions at once with those provinces which wish to enter Into Dominion- provincial agreements such as proposed In the federal budget. MEDICAL SCHOOL IS BEING STUDIED Grrup of Experts Being Asked to Size up Situation Regarding University of British Columb'a VANCOUVER, W Dr. Norman Mackenzie, president of the University of British Columbia, says that invitations have been Issued to a group of Canadian medical experts to review the medical school situation and 1 final decision as to whether to establish such a school at the University of British Columbia will be based on the group's findings. Meanwhile a file is being made up of potential medical students and a selection board ls being set up to screen future applications. Local Tides Thursday, July 18, 1948 High 3:30 20.1 feet 16:27 18.7 feet Low 10:00 3.3 feet 22:19 7J2 feet DRIZLL55 DEFINITION The scientific definition or a drizzle is a uniform falling of water droplets less than one-fiftieth of an Inch In diameter.