E UFNltK W VIUUKIA 0 IU A (CP)-Con. w n the abdomen yestert s. be grave. A h nnfl Constable rapped i i. . lessiy were trapped about a rush of clay at gold mine. Hope of pin alive was aban- . . i ..-I... I A. -frltl.lt. s nviniu v,w....j . . . . i. ' ions io fin iiiimusii ,oil anu soggy ij finding the men liandonrd when be- v pressed by experts . il.. . 1.. . CI . 1 OIUI15 i;. a're here was b tree months' ha lt jay aftrr be- pu. ' oi casing an 'Drmanc1- Similar 1. Mil :c .nuw Kiiu -:ur, "1 for Hy-ir rancr of the bur- i Jin an nuiMfai n: hpd Immediately nr nianth sen- nnauled bj(aldtM--, T 111... . I.. 1III1 . ENING CRAFT h:' mc::t unlaue and cna:;t will be held :it ll-h.-?:;p Mnnriav aftpr. 'he Skeena Queen," iicu uy a reai-me racuve young Queen, olflclallv name ain:raft la Mrs. .Alvin c iii Alum 1 tri t-v nnnn Pi At UP TJo rlaro nf Ghe lu the former - daughter of the up won of MPtia. T IniloH n Dnnn HI WEATHER Synopsis u over ttip nrovlnce mwery weather over I Charlotle TPirlnn 1 ::'oeraturcj yesterday warmest weather t" vear in tnr nf 'n?t)ia. Lytton top-' vmre with 101 de- was probably the 1 e acres Canada. " over the .south-1 were generally 10.18 fv- normal while Vlc- j'Jt ;Iord and Nanalmo 'i'1 ;rne above the sea-ra".e The high prcs- y-.terday has cx-"'Hly northward and muiiions arc ex-' he Charlottes. Elsc-'tlnucd clear, warmer . , J - - V T It Forecast upcri;. Queen Clwr- Worth Coast-Cloudy Portion with some unday Clearing south-"i Uht winds becom.- ' ;t 15 m.p.h. after-v-' and Sunday. Little '1 lit Pnrt TT- jio. 51 Prmce Rupert. 53. Sunday: Port Hardy, 1 C3; Prince Rupert, v a ciicncrr y Cornish ; NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEW8PAPER TAXI TAXI 537 f-TMTVD 1? Rupert Tobacco Store DAY and NIGHT SERVICE - ArmAtl rriisa 11ui.11 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. 163. PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1946 PRICE FIVE CENTS BY STOLE ctolen-car suspect, ana jf&fK YJl TV i is re- widespreau being - m. D. Blackstc v y chase to the car. It S and Cor nlsh questioned the driver. 1 A man described as "Johnny" got out of the back seat, shot Cornish at close range and es-. caped. ' A boy and girl in the car were questioned. They said they did not know It was stolen. GANG WARFARE IN MONTREAL MONTREAL The Montreal Gazette predicts that large scale gar.g warfare may soon break out In Montreal In a struggle for control of profitable gambling rr kets. A pineapple bomb was tossed at air alleged resort of p.angfters. : truck a restaurant find did $100 damage. MISSING MONEY CASE SOLVED; -NO CHARGE LAID The caw of the missing $1,000 at fie Canadian" Fl!;h and Cold Storage Co. plant at Seal Cove has reportedly been solved. The money, mislaid at, thp plant on Thursday afternoon by a B. C Packers employee, is back in the hands of Us rightful owner, and a Cold Storage fish floor worker has been discharged for allegedly hiding the money in the plant. Following his discharge on Friday, the man Is said to have left ie city. No charges will be City police and Cold Storage Co. officers scoured the huge plant Thursday evening in an effort to find the money which they believed had been hidden by someone who had picked up the bank currency bag In wfticn it was carried. It had been laid down on a packfng box cn the fish floor by a B. C. Packers office worker during a vlsft to the Cold Stora.ge Co. plant. Finding the money cached, the police were reported to have taken it from the Dag and substituted valueless papers to make a dummy parcel which they returned to the hiding place. Then they waited vigilantly for someone to claim the package. The money was discovered on Thursday night, only a few hours after its disappearance. Friday, a man went to tfhe hiding place and took the bag out. He opened the racka.ge in view of a hidden observer and, finding it was a dummy, he dropped it. His discovery, apparently, left him badly shaken. Shoiitlv afterward, he .was dis- rharoeA hv the COnTDany. 7i Is said to be a Vancouver man who ha9 worked as a fish floor laborer at the Cold Storage Co. here for the 'ust 18 months. He has left tVcity. PRINCE RUPERT IS NOT INCLUDED In Shipyard Wage Agreement Which Will Be Signed h Vanccuver Monday VANCOUVER Spokesmen for shipyard operators and unions today said that an agreement granting a 15c wage increasj and a 40-hour week to .some 4,000 workers In Vancouver and Victoria yards was expected to be ilgncd Monday. j. W. Thompson, operators' spokesman, said that the Prince Rupert shipyard was not cov ered by tine agreement ou inai present bargaining may set the pattern for agreement in that city. Local Tides . Sunday, July 21, 1946 High 6:04 17.3 feet 18:46 18.9 feet Low 0:07 12:15 Great Canadian VISITING HERE NEXT WEEK nnn.tin Tisfr which is due to v'11ve-day W' ATroni?hPukert'tTdrpTartt the' Tyne, Uganda's keel was laid on July 20, 1939. She was. launched August 7. 1941. and completed January 3, 1943. She was commissioned to the Royal Canadian -Navy October 21. 1944. The ve.-sel has an over-all length of 555' 2 feet, a beam of 62 feet and an average dralt of 16'2 feet. Her 72,000 h.p. Labor Dropping Strike Weapon C.I.O. is IToposing New Pay Rates, and Ktoiioiny on .National Basis WASHINGTON, D.C., 0" United States labor leaders laid aside the strike weapon yesterday for the time'being in favor of trying other means to push prices down and wages up. The Congress on Industrial Organization (CIOK pointing to rising living costs, said a round of wage increases is due again but it proposed that President Truman call a labor-management-government conference to fix new pay rates and stabilize the national economy. DR. SHUGAR DISMISSED let Go From Government Department Briause of Charges in Espionage ltcport OTTAWA s Minister of Iisalth Claxton told the Hous: of Commons last night that Dr. I David Shugar had been given notice of dismissal from the Department of Health as a result of what was said aboXtt him in the royal commission's repart on espionage mad .public Monday. The final report on esplonass, despite Shugar's acquittal in magistrate's court, Indicated that Shugar had communicated confidential information to Russia. Delivery Truck Reported Stolen A panel delivery truck belonging to Gordon & Anderson Ltd. was reported stolen from in front of the reddence of Gun-nar Anderson, Fourth Avenue East, last night. The vehicle was found this mornlnE at Cow Bay LherP it had apparently been Rail Ship, H.M.CS. Uganda, Coming Here H.M.CS. UGANDA, Canada's arrive here Wednesday on a Matriculation Results FOURTEEN PRINCEMPERT STUDENTS SUCCESSFUL IN HIGH SCHOOL EXAMS VICTORIA (CP) Stanley Tench of Abbotsford I obtained highest marks in tne province in juiuui matriculation examinations this year, the Department of Education announced last night. He had a 95.4 percentage. Twenty-six students in the province had honors of 80 per cent or more. In the Senior matriculation students of Trail - Tadanac Colwell, Allan James Dubeau. school set up an enviable .rec-J Telkwa Elizabeth Anne Bus-crd, winning four of "six scholar- singer, Ruby Gladys Evelyn thips offered for the entire prov-1 Johnson, Laura Kallhood. ince, the other two going to a Burns. Lake Mary Kathleen Vancouver boy and a Kelowna oUgan," Vera Evelyn Nichols, girl. The highest senior matrlcu- j Aklko Tanaka. lation percentage was 92.6. i Prlnce George Gerald lne Successful Junior matrlcula-, t h &.e s a Armstrong, Barbara tlon students In Prince Rupert Belle Austin, Kathleen Grace and central British Columbia j Boyle, William John Bunton. points were: j Allan Edward Galinis, Olga Prince Rupert J me Patricia I Gorbat, Betty Mae Moffat, Moira Eerg, Jean Frances Bernard, Shaw McKenzle, Walter Harvey Olafur Ludvik Eyolfson, James Roy Forman, Donald Louis Hart-wig. Audrey Wall Hunter, Frank George James. John Klncross Kennedy, Dorothy Jean' Kergln, Margaret Isobel Large, Victoria Laura Lewis, Margaret Martin-sen, Dorothy Mabel-Smith, John Charles Wesch. Terrace G erald Bissonnett e, Leo Gordon Brookes, Janet Mae VETERAN POLICE OFFICER PASSES Constable Ilariy McKenney Dies at Prince George After Brief Illness PRINCE GEORGE Veteran constable of the British Columbia police "for twenty - three years stationed in the 'Central British Columbia area, Harry L. McKenney, aged 58, died here last night after a brifif illness. For many years, he had been stationed at Terrace and had 7 1 feet ' driven by coasting from the top also been located at Vahder-6.0 feet of the Fourth Avenue htill. hoof and Griscome. way engines, turning four propellor i. pu:;h thft vessel through the wafer at a Deed of 31 5 knots. Her armament consists of -fflnFfelxricTitur, eight folflCh-'anlBlferaft dntffwltrrf a large number of 40 and 20 millimeter anti-aircraft guns. Lhe also carries six 21-inch torpedo tubes. Side armor on the ship ranges from three to four-and-a-half-inch thickness. Sister ships of Uganda, which Is commanded by Capt. K. F. Adams, are H.MJ5. Ceylon and H.MJS. Newfoundland. Fetus, ueuy - Louise Kens.ua w, Muriel Isabel Smith, Joseph Franklin Mlers. Vandtrhoot Eleanor Faye Patterson, Elizabeth Seldon. i Norah Mary Taylor. There were no Senior matrlcu- j lation candidates in the Prince Rupert area. ALASKA GETS SEISMOGRAPH WASHINGTON, DC, fl A stlsmographlc observatory Is to be established in the Aroiorage area of Alaifca, it has been decided. L.-P.P. SEES "I KAME-Ur" T O It O N T O An official statement on behalf of the Labor-Progressive Party condemns the final report or the commission on espionage as "brazen calumny" and a "frame-up" against the Labor-Progressive Party. The Party, says the .statement, condemns espionage and would expel any member guilty of espionage. Next Week ullefms KILLED IN ELECTION ISTANBUL Four persons were reported shot to death on the eve of Turkey's election o determine the fate of President Inonu's government. Tension mounts as Turkey prepatcs to vote Sunday in her first great experiment in democracy. It is generally believed that the Inonu government will be returned. NO LONGER STATESMAN DURHAM Speaking before Durham miners, Prime Minister Clement Attice said that l'oimer Prime Minister Winston Churchill was no longer a statesman. Conservatives were exhibiting political irresponsibility from Mr. Churchill down. ACCIDENT AT BIKINI BIKINI A flash bomb was accidentally dhchaiged with a stray tadio impulse from the flagship while preparations were being made for the experimental atomic bomli submarine explosion next 'lliurs-day, Admiral Blandy admits. MORE POWERFUL ATOM WASHINGTON Major-Gen. George II. Arnold says future atomic bombs may be a thousand times more destructive than those which were directed against Japan before the end of the war. GREAT GRAIN MOVEMENT WINNIPEG W. M. Ncal, vice-preident of the Canadian Pacific Railway, says there will be the greatest wheat movement in Hie his-toiy of Wrslrrn Canada this year. He anticipate no congestion at the lakehead. ONTARIO STORM TORONTO One man was killed at Parry Sound and one man collapsed and died in Toronto during a severe electrical storm which was widespread throughout Ontario. ht Robbery Merchandise Valued at $200,000 is Hi-Jacked at Montreal From CN.R MONTREAL Montreal police are conducting widespread search for hi-jackers following discovery of the greatest railway freight robbery in Canadian 1 airway history. Twenty-one cars in the Canadian National terminals were broken into during tha night, systametically rifled and merchandise of esti HE FELT JUST LIKE KILLING Deaths of Two California Women Attributed to 14-Year-old Boy OROVILLE, Cal. Q 'Two deaths today were charged to Albert Jones, 14-year-old school boy, who was quoted by one of his alleged victims as saying "I just feel like killing sometimes." JOnes Is charged with murder' in connection with the death of Patricia CrandalL aged IS, and Mrs. Harold J. Nielsen, housewife. The 'ltter was shot in. the back, officials said. Jones confessed that he strangled the Crandall girl and set fire to her home. GERMANY'S ECONOMICS Something .Must Be Done at Once to Stop Paralysis, -Savj! C.r n.McNarney BERLIN General Joseph Mc-Narney, United States Army commander-in-chief in Germany, told, the Allied Control Ccmmlwion blunt;y today that something must be done at once to stew the sweep of economic paralysis In Germany. The country, now occupied, cannot be administered successfully in four economic compartments, he declared, pointing out that the Potsdam agreement called for treatment cf Germany as an economic whole. Gen. McNarney offered immediate co-operation by the United States with the three other occupying pcwers-Great Britain, Russia and France. Discussions between the United States and Great Britain are expected to commence soon. BREAD RATION MAY BE BRIEF So Says Food Minister-Churchill Urges Bakers to Facilitate Law LONDON -"-Former Prime Minister Winston Churchill characterizes the government's bread rationing plan, due to commence tomorrow, as an "unnecessary and galling burden" but admonishes the bakers to "do their best to make whatever scheme is thrust upon them by the government work as well as posslbe." Food Minister John Strachey told the House of commons that revised crop estimates Indicated rationing would ned at a much earlier date than had seemed likely a few days ago. Meanwhile British housewives besieged bakeshops and rushed delivery 'rucks today In a last-minute mad scramble to buy. bread before It became rationed Monday. In some bakeries loaves were sold before they left the ovens and supplies were quickly exhausted. Some women bought as many as ten loaves and piled market baskets high with cakes and cookies. Sales or flour, also t0 be rationed, were more than trebled. BRITISH PROTEST LONDON The British government has made a protest to the Egyptian government against attacks on British troops in Ekypt. mated value between $100,000 and $200,000 taken. The goods are believed to have been unloaded Into trucks and taken away. The robbery was not discovered until the train arrived at Its destination in Ste. Hya-clnthe. Pr. Rupert Is Aroused Showdown to be Sought From Chevriet and Vaughan n Dry Deck Policy Aroused by a statement made In Parliament by Hon. Lionel Chevrier that the Prince Rupert dry dock has now been reduced to a position where It is no long er economical to carry on major shipbuilding, this being .given as the reason why the yard will not be used for the construction of a now three million dollar ship Canadian National Steamships Is tor have built for British Colum bla coast service, the JPrlnce Jtu-pert Chamber of Comih&c'f and ' the Prince Rupert Industrial Development Committee yesterday afternoon decided to have a showdown with the fsderal department of transport and the railway company as to just what may be the company's Intentions in regard to the yard. It was decided to transmit a strongly written protest to the minister of transport on the policy in regard to the yard coupled with request for.a definite statement as to what IntenUons, if any, there may be as to the future operation of the yard. In the event of an unsatisfactory answer being received, the campaign will be carried on with a -view to the property being released "from the railway company control. Representations along similar lines will be made personally to R. C. Vaughan, president of the Canadian National Railways; who is to visit Prince Rupert next week In the course of a Pa- ' clflc Coast tour. A committee consisting of J. T. Harvey, president of the Associated Boards of Trade of Central British Columbia, Mayor H. M. Daggett, W. M. Watts and E. T. Applewhalte was appointed to prepare and present the representations to be made to Mr. Chevrier and Mr. Vaughan. Final Action On New Flag Deferred OTTAWA, iW Final action on settling the Canadian flag design question will likely be delayed until next session bscause of the opposition of Quebjo members to the design recommended by the Parliamentary flag committee, it is learned. OLIVIAN UPRISING Revolt Against Government. Led By University Students, Put Down LAPAZ, Bolivia One hundred persons were killed in an uprising on Thursday against the government. The revolt was led by students of the University of Lapaz and wai only revealed today. It has now been cut down and the government reports that the situation Is under control.