NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRI JVUBWa NEW8PAPKR Local Tides . I r TAXI TAXI Thunday, January 31, 1940 max 537 i DAY and NIGHT SERVICE dton o n fonf low ; Published at Canada's M ost Strategic Pacific Port Bill and Ken Ncsbitt VOL. XXXV, No. 25. PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 194C PRICE FIVE CENTS EVIN CHGES RUSSIA WITH "WAR OF NERVES" . i protested against the arrest I Communist leader. RANGEMENT REACHED Rreement in Connection with I'craticn r Hutcl Vancouver i Hostel WCOUVER, -The execu te the Citizens' Rchablllta- Councll of Vancouver last ar.reed to operate the old louver Hotel as a veterans under federal government lantcc to meet any deficit. It ua mat the Canadian Pa-"allway. the owners, had contacted and a new lease expected to be concluded to- -anwllllc VrtprniK! n1i n ehed Into the structure dur- , c week-end were given WSlOn tO St.1V until H,o ,c is ready to start clean-Prcparation. i H MANY TONrnTFci Kle, ls Panted in more ,uoU languages. '"e Stuart returned to the "U i afternoon from Van-ill resume dence here Navy rCent dlscharee from r . v. Civic Cenh Her March 3 few BS 8888 SS ; pes mkmmmBMBM m Tana pb.bbb IHHSSH m Fine building at Second Avenue and McBrlde to be transferred. IZENS TO TAKE OVER T CENTRE fa CEREMONIES HELD ON MARCH 3 n over by the citizens of Prince Rupert as a civic re at ceremonies on March 3 and plans for the i- 1 .l i 11 - Al J. i?.- aion unaoutneiiiy one 01 me mosi signuicam in history of the city are being laid by the Civic rses Britain csidenl Truman Asks ingress to Ratify Credit liUh Would be Helpful rfffwliero . m.- ASIIINGTO.V, D.C., (CD nidcnt Truman asked Con. -s today to vole $3,750,000 171,875.000 Canadian funds) n (o Great Britain, saying would lead to expanded ulutlion, consumption and I'lojment and rising stand-Is of living everywhere." uin;r prompt action on the f tmtnt, which also includes iilional credit of $630,000,-I to settle lease-lend obliga-k. Mr Truman said the will permit the United cs and Great Britain to vr ide by side towards a l of expanded world trade. Britain needs this credit and fds it now." Truman said. igapore Has sneral Strike IN'OAPORE- -A general strike ?'pltal, transport and mar-jwjrkers started here yestcr- ccmmunlsts and Labor- Recreational Board. Incidentally, the name Civic Recreational Board Is the new title of the joint body which is guiding the destiny of the Civic Centre Association and the Prince Rupert Recreational Council. The name was adopted by a meeting of the Joint executive last night and was suggested by Alderman S, D. Johnston. opening ceremonies have not been worked out, it is known that they will take place on Sunday, March 3, beginning at 2:30 in the afternoon. It Is understood that the building will formally be turned over to the citizens of Prince Rupert by Allan Hurst, provincial director of Y.M.C.A. war services, and that included will be a gymnastics display by members of the Recreational Council's classes. Even though the building is being taken over bv the citizens only on a temporary basis, plans for administration of the hunting itself and Civic Recreational Board activities arc being laid. Last night's executive meeting appointed three committees to which were given broad responsibilities. They arc: Ways and Means W. F. Ston (chairman), T. N. Youngs, S. D. Johnston and Dr. R. G. Large. Recreational Committee William Noble, who will appoint other members. House Committee Gunnar Selvig (chairman) and Dr. R. G. Large. Chairmen of all committees were given authority to appoint committee members in addition to those named last night. Permanent staff of the Civic Recreational Board will be Don Forward, who will be executive director; George McGregor, recreational director, and Margaret Homcr-Dlxon, assistant recreational director. According to a decision of the executive, the building will be known as the Prince Rupert Civic Centre. UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS Choice to be Made Soon Election of Secretary-General But Matter of' Form LONDON The last question of importance to be settled by the United Nations Assembly here -will be that of permanent headquarters on which a decision should soon be made. It is expected to be somewhere along the northeast coast region of the United States. - Now that he has been nominated with the sponsorship of the Big Five, the election of Trygvc Lie of Norway as permanent secretary-general is expected to be but a matter of form. DETROIT Another tight sit-, uation In the American labor j I disputes snowed signs or reiax-! ing yesterday when It was an- The Y.M.C.A. war services centre will be formally nounccd at Detroit that General s Prompt Action Loan Motors and the C.I.O. United Automobile Workers had agreed to renew wage negotiations. NEW RADIO TRANSMITTER Frequency Modulation Station Decided Upon for Vancouver VANCOUVER- A 250-watt frequency modulation broadcasting station is to be installed in British Columbia by the Canadian nrnnHrnstlnir PnnnrnUnn It. rn While detailed plafli for. ..the! aunouncrd following athree- day meeting pf the Board of Governors here. It would be ready by the end of the year. Timber Empire Here 3& 'CHILE GOV'T TAKING OVER Steps Taken to Maintain Essentia! Services While Strike Is On SANTIAGO, Chile d The Chilean government took steps today to assure continuance of public services during a 24-hour strike. A country-wide Strike is threatened by 300,000 members of the Chilean Workers' Federation in protest at Monday's bloody police-labor clash. It is expected the army will run essential trains and it is be lieved the army may take over the street railways, light, power and water companies. Temperature Maximum ... 37 Minimum 27 ROYAL AIR FORCE Britain and United States Agree United TO MOVE OUT OF Nations Must Control Iran - Soviet Case DORVAL AIRPORT MONTREAL The Royal Air Force Transport Command Is getting ready to move out of Dorval Airport near Montreal by February 15. The Transport Command has been working out of Mc 1 'real's Dorval Airport for five years. Known formerly as the Ferry Command, RJV.F.T.C. fliers broke Atlantic records and fcVried thousands of passenger arid aircraft to the United Kingdom and the fighting fronts. Bince the pnd of the Pacific wir the large staff at the airport has been gradually reduced arid much of the equipment has ,beien returned overseas. Trie part of the airport still in the hands of the RJV.F. will be j tujned over to the Canadian I transport department for oper-i atjion. Air Headquarters Safe Is Robbed VANCOUVER The sum of $1700 was taken when Western Air Command headquarters was ejitered and a small strong-box broken Into. Unsuccessful attempt was made to enter a larger safe containing $10,000. Two suspects are In custody. GREAT WINDS , OVER BRITAIN L Reach Velocity of 83 Miles r-cr Hour Two Fliers Killed LONDON P.i -Winds of 82 miles pec hour swept Great Britain today, causinc two deaths';and J lofting Channel ships Jnt CtSyiel- ter. The wind felled trees damaged buildings and disrupted transportation. Two fliers were There are already such stations Precipitation .... Snow, .5 inches; killed and two injured when an at Montreal and Toronto. rain, .15 inches. I oak tree fell on army huts. RICH WITH riMISEK, PRINCE RUPERT FORESTR Y DISTRICT EMBRACES BOTH COAST AND INTERIOR TREED' AREAS Capable of Greatly Increased Production 123 Sawmills Are Now in Operation Prospects of Future j The district forestry office in Prince Rupert's) provincial government building is the administrative centre of a forest empire embracing almost 10,000,000 acres of coast and interior timber land stretching) c ti- r.. n it ti.,.i. ..t.,J 4-1-w. i Hum uiu iii-uh ijjiuriuuu isuiiHis wsuuuu tu -'Worse. The chairman of the shore of Fraser Lake and from Caution western Cape i board of u. s steel Irvine bids on me soumern reacn or yueen Charlotte Sound northward almost to the Yukon boundary. Within that area, spread over 5,2G5 accessible acres, stand 47 billion board feet of merchantable timber which includes all varieties found in the coastal and Interior regions of British Columbia. Administering this area Is District Forester J. D. Mathclson, from whose office came the data which made this story possible. Mr. Mathclson' is head of the only one of the five forestry districts. In the province which embraces both coastal and interior regions. How little of the tremendous wealth of this district is being exploited is revealed by the fact that the estimated amount of merchantable sawlog timber has been reduced by less than two billion board feet during the last ten years. The numDer of logging and mill operations which are car-riecl on within this district seem pitifully few compared with the resources at hand and the situation is one which, It would seem in this era of housing shortages, presents opportunities for profitable development. The amount that the timber resources in the Prince Rupert forestry district have been' reduced by logging in the last ten years is Indicated by the following figures, presented in board feet: Merchantable timber standing in 194547,032,000,000. In 1936 I 48,798.800,000. i Accessible timber- covered ; acreage in 19455,205,000. in j 19365,276,000. I Thus the amount of timber cut i : during the ten-year period amounts to slightly less than two billion board feet while the j reduction in logged acreage is about 11,000 acres. The figures, for merchantable timber in- j . eludes trees used for sawlogs, poles ana piling, rauroaa ues and cordwood. The proportion of varieties of timber which arc of commercial Importance in the area is given below In percentages: Fir, 2; I Red cedar, 167o; Hemlock, 32; Spruce, 26; Balsam, 16; Lodgcpole pine, 6; Yellow cedar, 2. Important In this district both from the standpoint of 'quality and commercial quality Is hemlock which is said to be superior to the hemlock grown In other parts of the province. The exceptionally fine grain and soundness of the hemlock found in the region around Terrace has won the approval of the lumber trade. Another important but scarcely exploited species is cotton-wood, which until recently was considered of little value. However, In recent years it has become vitally Important in the STEEL STRIKE TURNS WORSE WASHINGTON The street strike situation In the United States has taken a turn for the declares that a much bigger Increase in the celling price of steel than $4 a ton is needed if steel wages are to be boosted as much as 15c an hour. And the C.I.O. steel workers are demanding 18',ic an hour. plywood industry and the stands on the Skeena and Naas rivers have assumed a great commercial importance. Incidentally, according to M. O. Kullander, assistant forester here, the cottonwood stands on the Naas and Skeena river basins arc the largest in the province. Last year a Vancouver company, Western Plywoods Ltd., took an interest in the Skeena River cottonwood and to date have sent two large rafts to Vancouver. The cottonwood scale In this forestry district in 1945 was 999,-940 board feet, 878,574 board feet of which came from the coast region and 121,366 from the interior. Prospects for an increased use of this species are favorable. If a trend which came Into evidence recently is continued, rod cedar may no longer remain undisputed king of the pole and piling Industry. Not long ago the Hanson Lumber Co. at Smlthers received a trial order for 10,000 poles of lodgepole pine, hemlock and fir from the United States. Heretofore, pole and pil-(Contlnuel on Page 3) Bulletins HITLER'S OWN POLICY NUERNBERG Adolf Hitler himself enunciated Nazi policy of executing deportees in order to intimidate the populations of subjugated European countries, the French prosecutor submitted to ;:ie international miiltary tribunal today. HOWL iS COMING VANCOUVER The Vancouver Sun says in a newspaper story that Reconstruction Minister Howe had told it Ottawa correspondent that he wilt come to Vancouver as soon as possible to look into the future of the Boeing Aircraft plant at suburban Sea Island. It was announced last week that the Canadian Army is to take over the plant. Provincial and civic officials have protested. SECRETARY-GENERAL NAMED LONDON The United Nations Security Council has ended the stalemate over the nomination of a secretary-general of the organization. The eleven-member council i nntn Norway's for- Lie, who jst. TO OBSERVE ATOM TEST OTTAWA A government source in Ottawa says it is likely that at least one Canadian observer will be present to witness the United States atom bomb tests on waiships in trrcPacifie-n May?-- - R.A.F. SATISFIED CALCUTTA The Royal Air Force in India appears to be satisfied that its demand for a new and speedier repatriation policy has been made sufficiently impressive. Demon strations at Cawnporc and Lahore, involving a strike of 10,-000 men, have been calld off. WOMEN, CHILDREN SHIELD BATAVIA It U ciiarged that Indonesian nationalists, in resisting British forces, used women and children as shields. MAY SETTLE STRIKE NEW YORK Signs for an early settlement of the steel strike weie said to be better today as the president of United States Steel was here conducting negotiations. ALBANIAN REPUBLIC L'ELGRiOE A people's republic is being formed in Albania to replace King Zog's regime, it is reported here. ACE "UP SLEEVE" OTTAWA i'remier George Drew of Ontario said today at the Dominion-provincial conference that the Dominion might have an ace up its sleeve. It was suggested that Ottawa might be willing to increase the per capital grant in aid to the provinces in return for the right to impose income and corporation taxes. BOY'S RICH FIND UNIONVILI.E, Out. A school boy, kicking at a pile of snow, .uncovered a parcel containing $6000 in Victory Bonds. It may have been part of loot taken in a robbery. BRITISH DRIVE IN PALESTINE JERUSALisltf . -British authorities, pressing an Intensified drive to end disorders in Palestine, today conducted a large-scale search in Tel Aviv and detained an undisclosed number Meantime Russians Are, Apparently, Taking Steps to Evacuate Northern; Province of Azerbaijan in Persia DISPUTE TURNED OVER LONDON Eleven members of the United Nations Organization voted unanimously in favor today of turning over the Iranian-Russian dispute to direct negotiation between Iran and Russia, retaining the right to have reports on how nego- ' tiations were proceeding until such time as a solution was reached LONDON (CP) Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin of Great Britain charged today that Russia has conducted what appears to be a "war of nerves" in Iran and he endorsed the Iranian demand, opposed by Rus sia, for the security council to take control of the Soviet-Iranian dispute. Edward Stettinius, American STAY IN JAPAN TWENTY YEARS This Is Feeling of Some Members of Far Eastern Commission r TOKYO 0' Allied occupation of Japan should continue for ten to 20 years to insure full democratization and a peaceful fu ture for Nippon, some members of the Far Eastern Commission said today. Canada's chief delegate, L. M. Cosgrave, said he believed the occupation should last 20 years. adding "if we pull out before that, we will have a little Ottawa Talks This Believed to Have Been One of Topics Discussed At Conference" OTTAWA It Is understood . that one of the matters which came up at today's session of the Dominion-provincial conference was the question of public works. It is said that the meeting discussed delay in reconversion programs due to lack of agreement on the division of taxation rights between the Dominion and the provinces. Some of the provinces are believed to have told the conference they are hesitating to undertake public works programs until the outcome of the conference becomes clear. Judge Dismisses Liquor Appeal In County Court Tuesday afternoon Judge W. E. Fisher upheld a decision made earlier In police court by Magistrate W. D. Vance convicting Chin Jon, a Chinese, on a charge of keeping liquor for sale. The conviction was made in police court several months ago. A Bruce Brown and J. T. Harvey acted for the appellant and W. O. Fulton appeared for the Crown. FORD MOTOR CO. DECISION Novel Decision Rendered By Arbitrator in Windsor Auto Strike TORONTO The arbitration decision in the Ford Motor Co. dispute at Windsor, Ont., was announced yesterday by Mr. Justice Ivan C. Rand of the Supreme Court of Canada. Mr. Justice Rand, who was named arbitrator, said in his report that all employees at the Ford plant must pay dues to th of persons. New regulations sct CIO Auto workers of America bjr the British include the death , but tney nced not become mem- scntencc for persons taking part in illegal activities against Brit ish authorities, and cold. Weather Forecast Prince Rupert Fresh westerly to Northwesterly winds, cloudy bcrs of the union. The judge said that he based his decision on the grounds that all workers in the plant were beneficiaries of the wage Increases won by the union and, therefore, should contribute to the union's member of the council, supported the British view as expressed by Bevin. Stettinius said he believed the council should keep the Iranian case on its agenda and retain jurisdiction over it. Iran announced today that she was prepared to try direct negotiations again in her dispute with Russia if the United Nations security council recommended such action but insisted that the council retain Jurisdiction ot the case. This announcement came as it was learned at Teheran, capital of Iran, that Russian military authorities had returned Wednesday to the Iranian state railways control of Iran's vital lines through the northern provinces of Azerbai jan, Mazanderan and Kazvin. Friends of Iran's new premier, Ahmed Qavam, speculated that the Russian act Is prelude to an anticipated Soviet request for use of the railway lines to evacuate Red Army troops whose presence in the northern provinces is the basis or the Iranian ; protesti-4iQSk Ph2b,e(Qre.. Utf United Nations security council". The Russians are scheduled to evacuate northern Iran by March 2. MORGAN IS REINSTATED Continues as Head of UN It I! A In Central Germany After Refusing to Resign WASHINGTON, D.C. Herbert Lehman, director of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, yesterday announced the reinstatement of General Sir Frederick Morgan as director of UNRRA In central Germany. A few weeks ago Morgan's resignation had been called for following statements .he had made regarding an organized plan for mass movement of Jews from Poland Into American-controlled Germany. Morgan refused to retract the statement or to resign. MAY SHELVE HEALTH PLAN This Looks to Be Possibility At Dominion-Provincial Conference OTTAWA 0 The federal government's proposed national health Insurance plan appeared today as one of the things which may be shelved temporarily by the co-ordinating committee of the Dominion-provincial conference as It seeks to find common basis for discussion on a taxation agreement. It is understood that shelving of the plan has not yet been formally suggested to the committee but such a move was' In prospect before the settings adjourn possibly at the end of this week. General DeGaullc Bitterly Attacked PARIS A bitter attack was directed against Former President Cljarles DeGaullc yester day by Communist Leader Jacques Duclos who charged the general with shifting of responsibility and that he had not glv en the real reason for his