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SON
T
The
Ministry
of
3
Ottawa
Monday
to
v
ih
the
Canadian
gov-r
an
agreement
for
a
t
wheat
for
the
United
1
Lo
idon
Star
said
that
would
impress
on
the
rovernment
officials
'
v
of
Britain
recetvins
of
extra
tons
of
wheat
"Z
,vie
next
few
weeks.
TJie
nf
added:
"If
he
falls.
ib"vt
food
committee
will
m-
the
nextiew
weeks
-1p
whether
to
put
machinery
Into
opera-
0NDON
W
In
the
matter
of
'
tut
"re
-talus
of
Germany.
fPt
Britain
and
United
States
r
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federation
of
German
1
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France
would
absorb
1
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basin.
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Prime
Minister
v
Kin?.,
returning
today
B'
'ain.
.said
the
food
slt-
m
Europe
was
"extreme-"r
u
"
There
would
be
re-
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onwn
snDimenws
ui
'briad.
He
had
cut
short
v
it.
abroad
becnu.sp
.of
problems"
at
home.
Local
Tides
Sundav
.Tnno
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on
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14:59
17.9
feet
tikoe
no
foof
20:32
8.1
feet
CHARGED
WITH
ILLEGAL
FISHING
Charged
with
fUhln?
halibut
in
Area
Two
after
the
close
of
the
season
as
set
by
the
International
Fisheries
Commission,
Capt.
Henry
Doiron
of
the
halibut
boat
Seamaid
appeared
in
city
police
court
Friday
afternoon
and
was
remanded
until
Monday
for
hearing
after.he
entered
a
plea
of
not
guilty.
Doiron
Is
alleged
by
Fisheries
Inspector
Capt.
C.
W.
Earnshaw
to
have
be-n
fishing
halibut
off
Marble
I.land
on
the
west
coast
of
the
Quen
Charlottes
on
June
12,
!
Area
Two
closed
to
halibut
flsh-:
in?
at
midnight.
June
11.
Mystery
Ship
At
Port
Said
Transport
Devonshire
Linked
With
Movements
of
Grand
Mufll
of
Jerusalem
CA1KO
(CP)
The
British
transpoit
Devonshire
today
entered
Port
Said
after
being:
delayed
24
hours
by
an
unexplained
series
of
incidents.
All
troops
on
boaid
wore
life
jackets.
Numbers
of
military
police
wete
observed.
A
senior
naval
officer
declined
to
give
information
on
the
Devonshire,
saying:
"This
is
now
a
priority
secret."
The
Devonshire
has
.
been
linked
with
the
movements
of
the
Grand
Mufti
of
Jerusalem
who
secretly
left
Tails
May
30
and
has
been
reported
in
Damascus.
BIDAULT
IS
RE-ELECTED
PARIS
ff
-George
Bldault
Is
atraln
the
Premier
of
France,
havln
bee
nratlflcd
by
the
Na
tlon
Assembly
yesterday.
The
new
President
of
France
will
be
elected
next
week.
Azerbaijan
Is
In
With
Iran
Again
TEHRAN
O
The
province
of
Azerbaijan
has
returned
to
the
unccd
yesterday
that!fol(j
wth
jran
with
a
hey.
food
minister,
j
al
although
not
separate
gov
ernment.
WAS
KILLED
ON
HIGHWAY
APHCROFT.
Vh
Dr.
F.
A.
Butler,
dentist
of
Mission
and
famed
i
N
e
w
Westminster
basketball
player
in
the
late
twenties,
was
killed
and
F.
A.
Farr
of
Matsqul
was
injured
when
their
car
plunged
over
a
cliff
near
here.
Three
other
men
escaped
injury.
MIHAILOVIC
BROKEN
MAN
Contradictory
in
Evidence
Denies
Collaboration
,Was
Organized
BELGRADE
fl
The
court
trying
General
Draja
Mihallovlc.
Chetnlk
leader,
on
charger,
of
treason
and
collaboration,
today
refused
to
accede
to
defence
request
to
call
United
States
aviators
as
witnesses.
The
request
was
opposed
not
only
by
the
prosecutor
but
by
Mihallovlc
himself
"on
principle!"
Mihallovlc
told
the
court
that
he
had
never
collaborated
with
the
enemy.
Collaboration,
he
suggested,
Implied
organization
and
there
was
no
such
organization.
Defendant
admitted
there
were
contradictions
in
his
statements
as
a
result
of
physical
ux
haustlon
and
he
was
suffeiinc
j
from
anaemia.
Mihallovlc
testified
that
he
gave
Great
Britain
informal
n
op
German's
V-l
Jet-propelled
flying
bombs
In
1913,
th?
year
before
the
robot
attacks
started
TURN
DOWN
INDIA
PLAN
Congress
Opposes
British
Cabinet
Committee
Pioposals
NEW
DELHI
The
All-India
Congress
last
night
finally
re
jected
the
British
cabinet
committee
plan
for
independence
of
India.
'The--prindpar
objectlon
of
the
Congress
was
that
the
Moslem
League
would
be
given
equal
representation.
In
spite
of
the
statement
in
reliable
sources
that
the
All-India
Congress
party
had
rejected
the
British
plan
for
Hindu-Moslem
parity
in
the
proposed
interim
government
the
British
cabinet
mission
is
still
hopeful
of
effecting
a
The
cabinet
delegation
conferred
again
today
with
Viceroy
Wavell
but
subjects
discussed
were
not
disclosed.
It
Is
believed
they
Include
new
supplementary
proposals
and
that
the
conferees
have
been
In
contact
with
Premier
Attlee
In
Britain.
Britain
will
announce
her
"last
word"
tomorrow
In
the
deadlock,
a
highly-placed
source
said
The
spokesman
added
that
an
"Imposed
peace"
probably
would
usher
In
Indian
NO
WORD
ON
BUDGET
OTTAWA
Hon.
J.
L.
Ilsley,
minister
of
finance,
cannot
say
when
the
budget
may
be
brought
down.
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SATURDAY.
JUNE
15,
1946
PRICE
FIVE
CENTS
Woods"
CO-'
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LI
II'V
w
JVIflV
Settled
irrLnro
iinv
iia
naru
Avain
Ncxl
VceK
llowing
Latest
Meetings
Victoria
i-,
,n
:
a
-linnp
innt
tnp
would
be
back
t
i:
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n
xt,
week
were
ex-.
following
a
meet-riftrrnoon
ol
an
Woodworkers
of
:
:tUnn
With
th
i?
Gmrge
Pearson,
b
r.
said:
"We
are
i
t
possibly
can
r
b
parties
together
srm
together
until
ttlr1
I
must
be
i;it
the
govern-'
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the
)jartl?
-,
b-i!-ry
ior
arbltra-
ndv
to
function
t
si'-an
we
hav
m-n
we
etui
set
workers'
dele-fullest
consid-"f
simn
reeommer-T
di-pute
must
be
id:
"We
fell
th
-
for
progress."
A
I
W
A
executive
is
i
Vanrouver
tomor-,
i;ttst
propo!ili
v
conference
with
I
1
"We
have
stood
:
fi
iv;
and.
If
neces-
','nd
solid
for
an-2y
"
said
Harold
I
I
on
the
latest
de-
-he
lumber
strike.
f"r
the
operators.
'
r-
if
ion
of
the
oper-
i
'Ar.
abundantly
clear
j
Me
Prilchett
Thurs-!
he
arrppts
the
Sloan
th
mn
b'ack
to
!
;"n
an
agreement
"
:
Marrh."
follow-
j
'Tiiri
u"-is!and
yes-
;
oon.
nflrkd
aloB
and
Into
OJbvern-1
'
id
on
to
the
Par-V
'
'
1
'
n
c
s
.
The
narad"
v
tif
n.000
Instead
of
1
v
'
"li
had
been
oriT-ird
There
was
a
driv-"
n".
the
parade.
Tli
-Mre
nd
bv
HaroM
Mn
;.u;;tv
Plains
las'
T
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will
break
up
ig;
Tour
rarley
.,
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i
.n.it.wTAKESNOC'IANJES
IN
IRAN
-Azi'rDiuja
.-,
premier.
Jaalar
Plshevari
centre,
dressed
in
a
Soviet-style
army
uniform,
grips
the
arm
of
a
Democrat
officer
at
his
right
during
a
close
guard
malnalned
over
him
on
hi.,
rcc-nt
arrival
by
plane
at
Teheran.
Iran,
'at
the
head
of
the
Azerbaijan
mission.
AzorbalC
i.
provii-ce
was
seeking
autonomy
from
the
rest
of
Iran.
esume
ROYALTY
SEEKS
MIRACULOUS
CURE
Amidst
cojorful
church1-
c
-'mc
lie
before
thouanda
of
lame
and
sick
pll
grim.
aIoi
i
Cardinal
Masela,
top,
crowned
the
image
of
Our
Lady
of
Tatima
ut
the
Bas;lica
of
Fatima
at
Lisbon,
Portugal.
The
imi:t
is
uid
to
po
ses
mlr.
culous
powers
for
curing
the
&ick.
On
thr
bottom,
ii,
Princess
Orleans
Bourbon
with
her
blind
daughter,
seated
before
the
Image.
She
Is
the
wife
of
Jjpn
Juan,
pretender
to
the
throce
jjj-ispaln.
Maritime
Workers'
Win
Out
Settlement
of
Big
Industrial
Dispute
in
United
States
Came
Even
As
Walk-Out
Was
Starting
WASHINGTON,
D.C.
Constituting
a
big
victory
for
the
workers,
the
maritime
labor
dispute
was
settled
last
night
almost
at
the
very
moment
when
the
nation-wide
shipping
strike
was
to
begin.
Granville
Conway,
war
shipping
administra
tor,
told
reporters
that
an
agreement
had
been
"signed
and
sealed."
Harry
Bridges
and
William
Curran
announced
that
their
own
upions
had
reached
agreements
subject
to
ratification
of
the
membership.
They
ald
the
terms
won
by
the
Union
Included
a
forty-hour
week
for
seamen.
$17.50
monthly
pay
increase
retroactive
to
April
1,
all
work
performed
on
Sunday
at
sea
to
be
paid
on
an
overtime
basis.
For
longshoremen
the
pay
increase
is
22c
pe
rhour.
Radio
operators
get
a
wage
increase
of
$17.50
per
month
with
overtime
after
a
48-hour
week.
Bridges
said
the
operators
had
agreed
to
pay
by
October
30,
$8,OCO,000
to
$10,000,000
retroactive
Increase
to
longshoremen.
A
spokesman
for
snip
operators
said
tne
terms
of
settlement
of
the
strjke
Involved
a
"staggering
handicap"
which
might
endanger
the
continuation
of
United
States
operated
shipping.
The
general
maritime
workers'
strike
in
the
United
States
was
actually
on
for
a
time,
having
commenced
at
midnight
last
night
when
the
deadline
came
without
general
announcement
at
that
time
that
the
union
demands
being
met.
How
long
it
would
take
to
get
men
back
at
work
was
rather
confused
at
the
start.
Earlier
yesterday
there
had
been
word
that
the
government
was
shoving
ship
operators
aside
In
seeking
to
end
the
threat
of
the
maritime
strike
on
its
own
term3
at
the
last
minute.
The
government
terms
were
expected
then
to
"boll
down"
to
about
a
3
percent
pay
boost
with
no
reduction
In
hours.
RELEASE
IS
DEMANDED
Durants
Deny
Any
Criminal
Act
in
Connection
With
Crown
Jewels
WASHINGTON-COL
Jack
Durant
and
Capt
Kathleen!
Nash
Durant
denied
through
counsel
today
that
they
had
admitted
any
act
which
they
considered
criminal"
In
connection
with
the
Kranberg
Castle
Jewel
case.
Counsel
for
the
Durants
said
ho
had
demanded
copies
t
of
charges,
"if
any."
against
the
couple
and
that
they
be
released
from
.
custody.
The
Durants
are
held
in
con
nection
with
the
removal
of
the
Hesse
royal
Jewels
worth
$1,-500.C00.
k;
.
DANE'S
IDEA
A
Danish
pasimaster.
Elner
Hclboll.
conceived
the
idea
of
the
Christmas
tuberculosis
sea:
dlnP
VANCOUVER
SWAMrED
VANCOUVER
Vancouver
was
nigh
swamped
with
1.3
inches
of
rain
in
21
hours.
June
rainfall
here
appears
headed
to
break
all
records.
QUEEN
MARY
DOCKS
HALIFAX
The
liner
Queen
Mary
docked
here
tody,
carrying
more
than
2000
wives
and
children
of
Canadian
servicemen
and
I'rimc
Minister
King,
returning
fiom
the
Empire
Prime
Ministers'
conference
in
London.
f
CARTER
IN
JAPAN
OTTAWA
The
Minister
of
Fisheries
announces
that
Dr.
Neal
Carter,
director
of
the.
Pacific
Fisheries
Experimental
Station,
will
spend
six
months
in
Japan
to
study
fishing
methods.
He
is
being
attached
to
General
Douglas
Mac-Arthur's
srfcntiflcfstafff
FIERCE
FIGHTING
MUKDEN
Iii
spite
of
the
declared
truce,
there
is
fieice
fighting
between
Nationalist
and
Communist
forces.
Communists
have
wiped
out
half
of
a
Nationalist
bridgehead
near
Harbin
and
have
made
attacks
near
the
port
of
Tsingtao
where
United
States
Marines
ate
stationed.
SETTLEMENT
DUE
TORONTO
Settlement
of
the
Great
Lakes
seamen's
strike
is
expected
early
next
week.
CONFERENCE
RESUMES
PPARIS
The
conference
of
Big
Four
foreign
ministers
resumed
here
today
but
none
of
the
conferees
ate
particularly
hopeful
of
success.
IN
HOCKEY
LOOP
NELSON
Three
Los
Angeles
teams
and
one
from
Spokane
will
join
the
Kootenay
Hockey
League
next
winter,
it
is
announced.
TRIAL
NEAR
END
MONTREAL
The
trial
of
Fred
Rose,
M.P.,
on
espionage
conspiracy
charges
is
nearing
its
end
and
may
be
over
by
tills
afternoon.
Addtesses
to
the
jury
were
presented
this
morning
and
deliberation
on
the
verdict
is
now
on.
MORE
JAPS
COMING
VANCOUVER
The
second
contingent
of
Japanese
for
reparation
to
their
homeland
will
sail
ftom
here
tomorrow
night
on
the
American
steamer
General
Mead.
ACETYLENE
PLANT
VANCOUVER
A
$300,000
acetylene
plant
is
to
be
built
here
by
the
Dominion
Oxygen
Co.
NEW
RATION
BOOKS
OTTAWA
New
ration
books
will
be
issued
between
September
9
and
IS.
"Continued
rationing
is
Canada's
answer
to
the
world's
cry
for
help,"
said
D.onaUl
Goidon,
chairman
of
the
prices
and
trade
board,
in
making
the
announcement.
WISMEK
LEAVES
VANCOUVER
Attorney-General
.Gordon
Wismcr
leaves
this
week-end
for
New
York
where
he
will
embark
on
the
Queen
Mary
to
appear
before
ans
Foreign
Ministers
To
Try
Again
to
Settle
Vexed
Peace
Problem
PARIS
(CP)
Big
Four
foreign
ministers
met
aga'n
today
for
ano;her
attempt
to
hammer
their
war-joined
swords
into
machinery
for
world
peace.
Ernest
Bevin
of
Great
Britain,
James
Byrnes
of
United
States,
V.
Molotov
of
Russia
and
George
Bidault
of
France
will
attempt
to
break
the
impasse
"J
fwhlch
prevented
the
writing
of
Bulletins
world
peace
treaties
at
their
last
session.
American
circles
said
tliat
the
ministers
were
just
as
deadlocked
today
on
how
peace
treaties
should
be
written
as
they
were
when
they
left
Paris
less
than
a
month
ago.
Britain
and
the
United
States
are
expected
to
press
for
quick
action
on
the'
peace
treaties,
freedom
oj
transport
on
the
Danube,
on
evacuation
of
armies
from
Austria
and
the
Balkans
and
on
the
restoration
of
a
semblance
of
'government
In
Germany
without
giving
Germany
the
chance
to
menace
Europe
again.
STATEMENT
BY
IMPERIAL
OIL
Comnany
Sets
Forth
Its
Position
In
Seamen's
Strike
t
.
NTO
W.
F.
Prendergast
of
Impsrlal
Oil
Co.
Ltd.
announced
--yesterday
that
the
company
naa
received
a
-leiier
from
J.
A.
"Pat"
Sullivan,
president
of
the
Canadian
Seamen's
Union,
as
follows:
"Enclosed
you
will
find
copy
of
a
letter
which
this
organization
proposes
to
sent
out
to
the
entire
trade
union
movement
on
Saturday
morning,
June
15,
unless
your
company
Is
prepared
to
sit
down
and
negotiate
an
agreement
with
our
organization
on
behalf
of
the
unlicensed
seamen."
Copy
of
the
letter
referred
to
was
addressed
to
provincial
federations
of
labor,
trades
and
labor
councils
and
affiliated
unions
throughout
Canada
and
stated
this
company
had
refused
to
negotiate
with
Canadian
seamen's
Union
and,
accordingly,
the
union
was
organizing
a
picket
line
on
as
many
as
possible
of
Imperial
Oil's
stations
from
coast
to
coast.
Help
of
membership
In
recog
nizing
Imperial
Oil
as
"unfair
to
organized
labor"
was
asked
by
Mr.
Sullivan.
Mr.
Prendergast's
statement
went
on:
"This
Is
a
development
of
the
seamen's
strike
on
the
Great
Lakes.
Seamen
of
some
carriers
are
striking
for
the
three-watch
system,
that
Is
an
eight-hour
day
with
four
hours
on
watch
and
eight
off,
aid
for
other
arrangements.
There
is
no
strike
by
Imperial
Oil
seamen
because
they
already
have
completed
the
three-watch
system.
This
went
into
effect
on
Imperial
Oil
tankers
Immediately
following
approval
of
application
made
to
the
National
War
Labor
Board
by
this
company
In
November
last.
"While
our
crews
are
not
on
strike
It
became
necessary
to
tie
up
our
lake
tankers
since
June
7
because
of
menaces
ar.3
ictual
acts
of
violence
by
plcketeis.
For
Tod
TdCARRY
ON
FIGHT
ay
Maritime
Workers
to
Insist
Upon
International
Shipping
Authorities
SEATTLE,
CP)
Spokesmen
for
the
workers'
group
of
the
World
Maritime
Conference
say
that
the
fi.iht
for
an
international
shipping,
authority
will
be
carried
to
the
conference
floor
regardless
of
the
resolutions
committee.
The
workers
are
seeking
creation
of
authority
to
regulate
and
allocate
shipping
tonnage
among
the
nations.
The
plan
Is
opposed
by
government
and
employer
delegates.
.
REACTION
ON
ATOMIC
PLAN
British
Foreign
Office
Describes
American
Proposal'
As
"Admirable"
LONDON
B
There
has
been
little
expression
as
yet
of
official
.
reaction
of
the
nations
to
the
proposal
of
the
United
State3,
through
Bernard
Baruch
at
the
atomic
energy
control
conference
in
New
Pork
yesterday,
to
destroy
all
her
own
atomic
bombs
and
share
atomic
secrets
under
control
of
an
Internationa
com'-mlsslon.
The
British
Foreign
Office,
in
a
statement,
however,
described
the
American
proposal
as
"ad-mlable."
.
In
QirvRt-:
Hop,;
9r
Howe,
Canadian
minister
of
reconstruction,
sa.ld
that'
no
one
In
Canada
knew
how
to
make
atomic
bombs,
nor
had
Canada
asked
United
States
for
the
ITALY
CRISIS
IS
NOW
OVER
All
Seems
to
Be
Quiet
on
Political
Front
Following
Humbert's
Flight
ROME
m
Italy's
political
crisis
had,
apparently,
blown
oyer
today
with
no
new
instances
of
disorder
reported
and
the
flight
of
King
Humbert
Into
exile
had
ceased
even
to
be
a
cubject
of
debate
in
the
streets.
There
were
no
celeibtations
of
the
king's
departure
or
of
the
de
facto
advent
of
the-
republic.
Even
the
tone
of
the
press'was
more
moderate.
THE
WEATHER
Synopsis
Cool
and
cloudy
weather
was
general
over
British
Columbia
yesterday
except
over
the
coast.
Rain
and
scattered
thunderstorms
were
reported
In
the
Interior
and
continuous
rain
over
southern
Vancouver
Island
and
the
lower
mainland
brought
the
June
rainfall
well
above
average.
Abbotsford
with
1.77,
Vancouver
with
1.30,
and
Patricia
Bay
with
1.05,
'to
4:30
this
morning
were
the
wettest
spots
lh
the
province
although
the
coastal
regions
of
Washington
recorded
over
two
Inches.
A
north
westerly
flow
of
cool
and
drjer
air
is
expected
to
bring
better
instance,
a
m?
forcibly
entered
I
conditions
to
the
coasta.l
regions
our
refinery
property
at
Mont
real
East
and
took
the
crew
of
chartered
tanker
Maplfe
Branch
ashore,
another
mob
threatened
to
Ijoard
our
tanker
Ottawallte
while
It
aws
bunkering
an
ocean-going
ship
In
Montreal
harbor
and,
In
order
to
avert
bodily
harm
and
damage
to
property,
the
captain
had
to
send
his
crew
ashore.
In
Sarnla
a
mob
broke
Into
our
refinery
property,
Injured
an
unarmed
watchman
and
stoned
and
dam
aged
our
tanker
Slmcollte.
"All
these
acts
of
violence
oc
curred
despite
the1"
ract
there
Is
no
dispute
whatever
between
I
Tmnprlnl
OH
nnH
1fo
teaman
,Vis
I
of
the
province
this,
afternoon
and
evening.
Forecast
Prince
Rupert,
Queen
Charlottes
and
North
Coast
Overcast,
becoming
cloudy
this
afternoon.
Widely
scattered
rain
showers,
cloudy
on
Sunday.
Little
change
In
temperature.
Minimum
tonight
at
Port
Hardy
48,
Massett
46,
"
Prince
Rupert
48
Maximum
on,
Sunday,
Port
Hardy
60,
Massett
60,
Prince
Rupert
63.
Hons
and
have
ho
grievance.
We
have
Indicated
our
readiness
that
our
seamen
determine
,
by
free
vote
their
choice
of
a
bar-
have
Indicated
they
are
perfect-
gaining
agency
and
we
win
deal
the
Privy
Council
in
London,
jly
satisfied
with
working
condl-!wlth
any
agenc,
so.
chosen.