BIHCE RUPERT HAS CHANCE OF T V,t.b 1 bo i K. c; t fc ri at ""unate enough to ! rovc-amrnt constructed VK CHAM LJ .11 J I I IV . WWCIIAIN r,.rU11 lo Lcavc Next Week lOnim - ... ... tarfr;"im Ir,n,c lonirrrnre Pi ;iYlP Mtnlc- VLT J K. will sail Mon-1 ; N"v York for London 11 Cnnimonwealth Dj j.. j ,, ' " - Conference. He -tle wcd he did pot 1 - lie felt that he . '" tateilirnf nn fho ; ov.nnal conference, .a t . n-om leaving said he felt it imp Sin VWiiiiliVllll Hkl t; vnnn there was any- ;:r e 6ald- Mr- Hsley would 8alnM.. 14 May 11. 1946 10;30 17.1 feet 23:01 19.1 feet 4 30 7.5 feet 16 0.2 feot ling an airport. "Ten years from now aircraft numbers will be of great magnitude and people will be travelling, especially on the coast, almost exclusively by air. An ail base for our post-war activity is a community must. A prosperous community today will lose this prosperity tomorrow unless it already has an, airbase or makes Immediate plans for an airbase to be built. "An airbase in Prince Rupert will not only bring patronage to community activities sports and other local events but It will protect your local merchants, increase transient trade, afford vastly improved emer- gency service in time of any ;r ar to them dur- j possible disaster, and will open rc negotiating ag- ; up a vast new field In sales and the Department ; srrvires. -t f r their continued j "just as the first car turned H'. only apparent the cycle and buggy shops Into ""8 community Is one auto garages and auto sales or-plus certain - ar-j ganizations (jmploying hundreds ' neir mainten- of people, your future airoasc .some of these wm bring a brand new business akmg over gov-i into the community, arc. at random. ".your own returned air force aimo. Penticton, j boys, highly trained in the op-Other commit-ipratlon. maintenance and repair of aircraft, want to continue in nrtivitinx. Here are re- inli for an alroort manager. pilots and mechanics; you will have training schools and sales organizations. You open the way for many specialized services, such as radio, electric, battery, tire and accessory shops. Ultimately, your projet will Include storage hangars, service hangars, and an information booth. Don't overlook the profits from selling gasoline and oil. Even today direct revenue could be offered to the community by having you operate pumps servicing Queen Charlotte Airways and there will be .many others. No airport will be entirely complete without eating places, cab-Ins, amusement centres &n other establishments. "Then, apart from the long distance alr-!lners that will stop at your town, you will have air taxis, air bus lines, air mail and short haul express planes to maintain contact between your landing areas and the surrounding country. Prince Itupert will have become an lntregal part of Canada's great airway ers representative, flatly re miiir. nil aid I ikicr cunni r w,j:'r ;, J'; 1 1 iiii 1 1 i lie u i i i 1 I 1 II II I II k,i i ii iv wii - i s w h is till mornlne. OVER BASE AT SEAL COVE Stuart handed the union representatives a prepared statc- 1 ment saying formal application rmCP IvUperi, Wlin Ifie Uest airplane Uase on had been made to the Labor and on-shore facilities, is in an excellent i Board for conciliation. He in-. .; f lake advantage of the cavalcade of avia advancement," says a memorandum which has scm bv E. R. Carswell, aviation service expert "S;"ir(ard Uil Co. of British Columbia Ltd., to u. ! Chamber of Com-' - t the local cam-! base, yet because .they see the Pi nice Rupert es-. importance and necessity of own-:w coastal air lines. ing a strip, are constructing their ; z visiting here re-i own. For these we might name. ..:.! " i with the maypriin the interior, Chllliwack, Ver- i b' : of Commerce, non. Kelowna, Nelson, Trail; on iu tliat the Seal J the coast North Vancouver. Port! t b :ng relinquished Albernl, Victoria, Powell River,' r j C uidian Air Force, i etc. It is quite apparent that, i and operated as j nearly every community Is plan-j '::c problem of pro- uid .servicing fa- i t :;n;i'rclal aircraft; i memorandum ! ' n u convenient : w going ta play part in the de-1 ' Jt Butish Columbia,! immense distances' 're of population ' ti. persed that air o- 'ime-savlng advaa--t ure absent in mora C3'j::f.ries. An increase therefore, above ' "-- ; to be expected . :d coastal B.C. -m unities who wcrp j : ' c. .;Bh to have a gov- vlted the union to join In the conciliation applicaton. Pritchett said the union's reply to the invitation will be announced later today following a meeting with the union's International officers. The union has so far refused to negotiate unless there was first arbitration of the security question. WITHDRAW FROM EGYPT . CAIRO 'CP Negotiations for the withdrawal of British forces from Egypt, at the crossroads of the British Empire, began Thursday. Reliable sources said the British delegation was asking one year in which to get British forces out while Egypt was urging withdrawal be completed In six months. PORT SIMPSON'S WATER SYSTEM "OUT" WHEN HOLOCAUST STRUCK Port Simpson's water system was shut off when the fire which destroyed six residences and five waterfront shacks broke out at noon Thursday. Residents there believe that if the water system had been functioning, at least two of the buildings might have been saved. Cause of the fire is believed to have beer a faulty oil burner in the rcsl-f dence of Mrs. Paul Cooper. Fanned by an offshore breeze, the blaze levelled the Cooper residence, as well as those belonging to Henry Gray. Mrs. Esther Cooper. Harry Brooks, P. Price and Mrs. A. ICnott on Rose Island, a part of Port Simpson. Five woodsheds alongshore were also destroyed. None of the buildings were ln- habilltation Jobs made to order jsurcd and the total loss Is not but only If you have an air- known. port. Eventually, there will b? ! Only casualties of thcfire PORT EDWARD PLANT BUSY Six beam trawlers arc now hauling their catches of flounders and other flatfish into Nelson Bross. Ltd. plant at Port Edward and aoout 100,000 pounds of the fish is being handled weekly. The boats are the Jessie Island. B.C. Pride, B. C. Maid, Cummings, Western Ranger and Sea Biscuit. At Port Edward the fish Is filleted, glazed and packed In cellophane then trucked into Prince Rupert where it is placed In cold storage plants pending shipment. Camps arc about to be put out by Nelson Bros, for receiving of spring salmon which will be shipped to the fresh fish markets. The Port Edward cannery will be ready to start packing salmon with the opening of the sockeye fishing season at the' end of June PPOV 't i. RED TOP CABS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL' BRTII COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER phone 349 phone TAXI TAXI j.KASPER C. McINTYRE mmm 537 eland: Rupert Tobacco Store (across from Ormes) NIGHT SERVICE DAY and NIGHT SERVICE AND DAY Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" Bill and Ken Ncsbitt VOL. XXXV. No. 110. PRINCE RUPERT, BC FRIDAY. MAY 10, 1946 PRICE FIVE CENTS Lewis Calls Truce In Coal Strike WbV IIP --tLBr I j, MAN ELETTED TO DIET -One of the Japanese women t -d to the diet In the recent election, in which i f ir the first time. Miss Shizuo Yamaguchi, 28- i f :t second from left. Is celebrating with a group p: after the election. it Conciliation ''$ Requested Logging Operators Make Proposal in Dispute with I.V7.A. hut It Does Not Seem Acceptable VANCOUVER 9t Logging operators of British Columbia today made application to the War Labor Relations Board for cor-ciliation of the whole dispute after refusing to submit the union security question alone to arbitration. The International Woodworkers of America (C.I.O.-C.C.L. which has announced that 37,000 logging industry employees will walk out next Wednesday unless its demands are met, suggested an unofficial three man arbitration board. Harold Pritchett, log- ONLY LIVING QUINTUPLET CALVES IN AGRICULTURAL HISTORY There is not one bull in the china shop In Fairbury, Neb., but four of them- and their Ulster. They are the "Corn-husker Quints," the only living quintuplet calves In agricultural history, who celebrated their five-month birthday on April 20 Not a dish was broken in the china shop owned by Harold Witt, centre. At left is Dr. L. J. Smith, Fairbury veterinarian, who attended their birth and saved their lives. At right Is Leo Schmoldt, Fairbury farmer, on whose farm the calves were ' born. i GARDEN HOSE CURBS FIRE Hot ashes pned against a wooden basement wall were said to have been the cause of a fire which did damage estimated at $50 to the home of Mrs, F. Leap-er at 1867 Seventh JVvenue,. East at 12:07 pjn. today- The blase was extinguished by the city fire department. Fire Chief H. T. Lock paid tribute to cool thinking on the port of Ed Lattery, a neighbor, who played a garden hose on the burning building, holding the fire in check until the department truck arrived. There was no insurance on either the building or contents. were two elderly people, Chief Harry Brooks and Mrs. Gray who were sent to the Port Simpson hospital suffering from shock after being rescued from the burning buildings. Ticii condition was described as not serious. The lire was the worst in the history of the 130-year-old village. Henry Dudoward of Port Simpson told the Dally. News ir a telephone conversation Thursday afternoon that, if the vil lage's water system had beer, working at the time, at least two of the houses might have been saved. The water system nad been shut off temporarily undergoing repairs, and by the time that a man had run half a mile to the dam above the village to open the main valve, the fire had gained such headway that it was impossible to save any of the buildings, despite the valiant efforts of the firefighters. Two hose lines which the vil lage voluntary fire department had run to the threatened area were destroyed by the blaze, the Dally News was told. The buildings, which were on Rose Island, just across a short bridge lrom'thc main portion of the village, could have been a grave threat to the main section as they burned had the wind been In a different direction, There was a brisk breeze GEN. SIMONDS AS WITNESS Is Called to Testify at Trial Of Brigadier Lister VAMSTERDAM 0) Canadian Oen. Guy Simonds as a witne: blowing from the northwest at ! Third Avenue west had begun the time. already, he added. WANT RUPERT-ALBERTA ROAD A resolution urging that the provincial government com plete the northern". $5te'bway-vi boundary and that Ite result rouft- marthaJtwiay cllfccl IMtf llftaWdEsii H3sP ie.-i cnndlti condition with a view t o mak as requested by the prosecution , jnn- u a hard surface' road In at the conclusion of the .defence j t he near future. Is behvr sent 3f Brigadier J. F. A. Lister, aged 39, of Quebec City and Victoria. . Simonds, who commanded the Canadian Army in the Nether lands, had come to Britain from J Canada. He was mentioned; several times in evidence at the ; trial of Lister on charges of mis-1 use of requisitioned property in - Amsterdam. Gen. Simonds testified that at' one time he considered the j requisition of Amsterdam prem- i ises by Lister as a "trifling of fence." Offences like those with which Lister Is charged would be considered trivial if they were carried out by a Junior officer but "it Is my view that they do not conform with the high standards of integrity required of high administration staff officers of the Canadian Army." DEFENDS STREET REPAIR POLICY Dust Nuisance and Kougli Surfaces Discussed Alderman T. N. Youngs stood jp In defence of the city's nethod of street repair during itscusslon of the dust nuisance it last night's meeting of the lunior Chamber of Commerce. 3e said that, in spite of t he dust md the rocks which damaged ires, he was convinced that the' ity's policy of, ripping up badly iamaged streets and grading hem continually prior to rc-;urfacing was necessary. He spoke in answer to criticism 'iy Hugo Kraupner of the amount jf street surface that had been ipped without being resurfaced. Mr. Kraupner objected to the resultant dust and the loose rock in the streets which was a men-ice to tires. Agreeing that It was not pleas-mt, Alderman Youngs said that he too had been critical of the oollcy unHl the City Engineer had convinced him that the method being followed was the best that could be applied. Neglect and damage to the streets' contours had made it necessary to rebuild the contours by continuous grading before hard surfacing could be applied, he .said. Resurfacing of a section of by the Prince Rupert Junior Chamber of Commerce for consideration of the provincial' conference to be held in Prince George next month. DROWNING BY MISADVENTURE Widening of Nanaimo River Bridge and Strengthening of Guard Kails Recommended NANAIMO w A coroner's jury, hearing testimony at the inquest Into the deaths of seven members of the Sleen family and Mrs. Stanley Wyatt of Vic toria, reutrned a verdict of death by drowning, the result of mis adventure. The jury strongly recommend cd that Nanaimo River's Island Highway bridge be substantially widened from the present 16 feet and suggested that it also be strongly reinforced by guard rails and that reflectors be in stalled at both ends. The verdict also contained recommendation for slow pace signs at both ends of the bridge pending work on other sugges tions. Fifty-year-old John Antrobus testified that he had almot been hit by the Sleen car as It spend at an estimated CO miles per hour toward the bridge. THE WEATHER Synopsis The weather over. British Columbia was generally clear Thursday except for overcast conditions persisting generally along the west coast, Vancouver Island and western Queen Charlottes. Temperatures over the interior were lower with maximum as low as 55 at Cranbrook. Princ? Rupert was high on the coast with a temperature of 75 reported. Slightly warmer conditions are expected for today over Ihe interior with little change on the coast. Forecast Prince Rupert, Queen Charlottes and North Coast Clear except drifting fog before noon, light winds becoming northerly 10 miles per hour by noon. Maximum today. Port Hardy C2, Mas-sett 61, Prince Rupert 72. 'Miners Goinq Back To Work for Twelve Days Sudden Move Described by Union Head As "Contribution to National Economy" WASHINGTON', D. C. (CP)-John L. Lewis today called for a 12-day truce in the soft coal strike beginning Monday. Lewis wired every local uttioh president, urging him to arrange for 400,000 striking LTnited Mine Workers to get back on the job if local mine managements agreed to make retroactive "any pay Increases that might later be negotiated. This action was taken as the I 40-day-old strike hit the United j States harder, curtailing railway passenge rtravel, ending all priorities on freight shipments and 'bringing an order for the ra-i tionlng of illuminating gas. i Lewis described the action of the union as a "contribution to national economy" in a situation which was menacing the nation. .-Stupidity and selfishness of , the operators" he blamed for (the Impasse. TO STUDY INDUSTRIES Important Heating Is to Be Held June 7 Leading officials of the provincial Department of Trade and .Commerce and Koberl Wjman, Industrial reprrnta tive of Canadian National Railways, will be In Prince Rupert June 7 rar a confer-tiice 'irre in regard, to local ;f na ufstrlal possibilities: Through the local advsory committee on postwar reconstruction, biiefs bearing on various possible local indus I; tries will be presented. MAY QUEEN : STANDINGS i LydiaPonlsh (Kinsmen) .... lrSOO" Margaret Strachan (S.OJi.) 7,550 Beverley Matsonl Moose). 3550 Sonja Sorensen (Jun. C.) .1,200 Pat Stuart (Can. L.), No report STRIKES KILL MILLIONS SAN FRANCISCO Former President Herbert Hoover said here today that hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world may die as an indirect result of tbe soft coal strike and its slowing up of industry and production in the United States. A railway and shipping strike would mean millions would die. KING'S DELEGATION RO-VE When he succeeds his father to the monarchy of Italy, the Crown Piince will be known as "Umberto II, King or Italy," King Victor Emmanuel is to abdicate tomorrow. NO ATOMIC EVIDENCE LONDON A special subcommittee of the United Nations is reported to have found there was no evidence of atomic research in Spain. ARABS ON STRIKE CAIRO Business .and in dustry throughout the Middle East is at a standstill today as a result of a general strike of Arabs against the Anglo-American recommendation for the "migration of 100,000 Jews to Palestine. Stores are closed and transportation services are tied up in such cities as Cairo and Alexandria. M.I". DIES PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE Harry Leader, 66, who represented Portage La Prairie in the House or Commons for 15 years, died at his home near here last night. ATHENIA "MISTAKE" Sinking of Liner on Opening Day of War Comes Up jit International War Crime Tribunal NEURNBERG Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz was accused before the international military tribunal today of proposing to Adolf Hitler in 1913 that German troops occupy Spain so that U-boat warfare could be step ped up through newly-acquired bases. Accused Of sinking the Ath-enla without warning off Ireland on the opening day of the war in 1939, Doenitz said that "it had been mistaken for an auxiliary cruiser and the commander was punished for It." Twelve Canadians lost their lives In the.Athenla sinking. Eventide Home Pfct&qs.Sen ,riJ2 P A brief but Interesting special item on the picture program at the Capitol Theatre last night was the projection of 8-mill-meter films In technicolor showing the recent fire at the Eventide Home. The pictures, which gave a realistic view I the tragic conflagration, were taken by Louis Amadio and Benny Lee. TURNABOUT' The luminous fly, platyura lul-toni, spins a web in the -larva stage to catch spiders. CHURCHILL SHIPPING CHURCHILL Six ships arc coming here (his season to load 1,800,000 bushels of wheat which has been in storage here since 1939. .Meanwhile Churchill is seeking to have the port used for further giain REMARKABLE HE LIVES BELFAST Physicians arc "amazed" that David Fleming, Irish Republican Army leader who has been on hunger-strike for 51 days, is still alive, SOLDIERS RECAPTURED HEADLEY, England Three of four Canadian soldiers, who escaped from military detention while they had been serving time in connection with (lie recent Aldershot riots, have been recaptured. Halibut Sales American Sunset, '62,000, Storage. Canadian Dovre B, 38,000, Co-op. Mae West, 22,000, Co-op. Skeena M. II, 12,000, Co-op. Venture II., 18,000, Co-op. Frank Ellis, 30,500, Storage. Flnella, 25,000, Atlin. Olympla, 12500, Atlin. Hope Well, 25,000, Whiz. Teenle Millie, 30,000, Royal. Paoiflc Belle, 33,000. Booth. Bumper Catch, 12,000, Bacon. Bates Pass, 30,000, Storage, Stratham, 16,000, Co-op. Invercan III, 16,000. Blue Boy, 12,000, Co-op. J. R., 14,500, Co-op.