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Port
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VOL.
XXXV,
No.
89.
PRINCE
RUPER
B.C.,
MONDAY,
APRIL
15,
1946
PRICE
FIVE
CENTS
New
Pioneers
Residence
Construction
of
New
Home
Will
t1
.1
rtm
Pinnnnvc'
U
hed
by
a
citizens
committee.
elderly
men
wno
are
now!
&a
in
two
arniv
barracks'
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last
night
in
the
Odd.;
s'
Hall.
It
will
be
built
ln
estvlew
district.
ision
to
start
a
financial
to
boost
the
building
fund
ndorspd
unanimously
by
iceting
which
was
attend
about
200.
A
"steering
lttce"
of
six
citizens
was
rtcd
to
organize
a
meeting
presentatlvcs
of
local
or-
stions
to
lay
plans
for
the
y-ralslng
campaign.
committee,
wnlch
con-bilcfly
following
last
general
meeting
decided
and
secretaries
of
all
lo-
it
n
mWa
tftt
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1
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ti
Vffl
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If
i
1
nara
Aruuia
juts,
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night's
meeting,
which
and
Labor
Council,
was
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the
members
of
city!
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responsibility
for
the
as
shared
rauallr
bv
Tince
Uupert
citizens
but
keynote
was
an
enthusl-
determination
to
assure
Pionetrs
a
safe
and
com-
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wv
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the
Plumbers'
and
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deserve
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home."
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a
new
home
for
the
nio-
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oiuiaiion
nad
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1
reel
that
tlio
siHintinn
have
been
rpmr.riif.ri
ot.
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if
everyone
had
trot
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Hill
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the
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groups
in
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the
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last.
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like
MOlirti.
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BUUty
to
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of
c;'Vor
for
sale-aVh
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Avenue,
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Wfc
Drive
Will
Raise
Funds
Begin
Immediately,
Mayor
Daggett
Tells
Sunday
Night
Meeting
onstruction
of
a
new
Pioneers'
Home
for
Prince
Is
:ire
bein.tr
looked
after
a
citv-wide
drive
to
fill.
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WASHINGTON,
0;--John
M.
jnightowcr,
Associated
Press
staff
,
writer,
?aid
Saturday
that
the
prolonged
deadlock,
among
the
,
big
powers
over
five
Issues
in
the
European
peace
treaties
is
thereatenlng
to
delay
final
peace
settlements
.for
the
beaten
Axis
satellites
indefinitely.
High
United
States
officials
were
pessimistic
about
the
possi
blllties
of
breaking
the
deadlock
at
a
meeting
of
foreign
ministers
of
the
United
States,
Britain,
Russia
and
France
scheduled
to
begin
April
25
in
Paris.
Those
authorities
said
it
was
VUiuailv
veil,
a
iu
uraw
wi
Piu
ru
til
.1.1-
-
-
could
not
be.
held
on
schedule.
Principal
peace
issues
on
which
the
Unled
States
and
Britain
differ
sharpely
with
Russia
are
the
trusteeship
jhafc,
Moscow
seeks
over
the
Italian
colony'
of
Txlpolltanla,
what
reparations
should
be
exacted
of
demllltari-
zaUon
of
the
Dodecanese
Is-
j
lands,
and
the
determination
of
the
boundary
between
Italy
and
j
Yugoslavia.
j
I
NATIVE
CHIEF
PASSES
AWAY
Fdward
Gamie
ti
Kilkatla
Way
Widely
Roonn
and
Highly
Ksteenied
On
of
the
best-known
native
chiefs
of
the
coastal
region
passed
away
at
his
native
village
home
on
Macaulay
Island
down
the
coast,
nt
10
o'clock
Saturday
morning.
W)dcly
known
and
highly
respected,
he
wr.s
Chief
Edward
Gamble,
of
Kit-katla,
,
colorful
leader
of
the
Kltkalla
tribe,
-who
died
at
the
age
of
80.
He
will
be
buried
at
Kltkatla.
Funeral
arrang?mcnts
have
not
vet
been
announced.
He
Is
survived
by
four
daughtersMrs.
Harry
Menzies
and
Mrs.'
Mrs.
Lee
Ji
Dell
of
Prince
Rupert,
and
Mrs.
O.
E,
Gibson
and
Mrs.
John
McLean,
of
Vancouver
and
one
son,
Russell
Gamble,
at
home.
this,
had
to
happen
to
make
us
realize
how
Jax
we
have'
been."
Eric
Faure
of
the
Industrial
Workers'
Union
scored
what
he
termed
.the
Indifference
of
the
citizens
to
the
condition
of
the
city's
pioneers,
exemplified
"shamefully,"
he
said,
by
the
fact
that
only
a
few
people
had
turned
out
to
the
funeral
Saturday'
of
Bert
Johansen,
victim
of
"Thursday's
fire.
"Only
a
few
people
attended
the
funeral
of
the
man
who
was
a
victim
of
negligence,"
he
charged.
He
urged
that
the
meeting
ask
city
council
to
review
carefully
the
fire
hazard
situation
In
Prince
Rupert
and
enforce
the
closure
or
correction
of
"dangerous"
buildings.
William
Shcardowii
displayed
a
.
copy,
of
the
Vancouver
Sun,
which,
he
said,
carried
an
inaccurate
story
of
Thursday's
fire
under
ii
front
page
headline.
He
asked
that
city
council
endeavor
to
locate
Uie
source
of
the
story
labelled
"Special
to
the
Vancouver
Sun."
"The
fire
itself
was
a
black
mark
on
the
city
of
Prince
Rupert.
It
was
bad
enough
wlth-(Contipued.
on
Page
.0)
Withdraw
Complaint
Against
SPANISH
CONSCRIPTS
WATCH
CAMP
LOTTERY
-Conscripts
of
the
class
of
1946
gather
at
their
assembly
point
near
Madrid,
when
e
they
will
be
distributed
to
various
camps
throughout
Spain
for
military
training.
Canipj
to
which
they
go
are
drawn
by
lottery
to
give
each
mat:
a
fair
chance
of
drawing
one
near
his
home.
The
commandant
of
the
draftee
exodus
is
placing
numbered
balls
in
,a
cage
in
foreground.
The
cage
is
-whirled
and
the
numbered
balls
decide
to
what
camp
a
rrian
shall
go.
VANCOUVER
SUN
SCORED
BY
CITY
OVER
DISPATCH
ON
LOCAL
FIRE
Striking
at
what
was
termed
"a
new
low
in
sensational
journalism,"
Prince
Rupert
city
council
has
protested
to
the
Vancouver
Sun
over
an
"erroneous
and
unwarranted
.report,
appjearnig.oiv
the
frontpage.
which
destroyed
the
Eventide
Home
here
that
morning.
I
Over
the
signature
of
City!
Clerk
H.
D.
Thaln,
the
telegram
sent
to
the
Sun
shortly
before
noon
today
requested
that
"equal
prominence
be
given
to
the
fol-1
lowing
facts
regarding
the
Even-S
tide
Home
fire:
"The
first
call
was
responded
to
by
the
city
fire
department
with
a
LaFrance
750-gallon-per-mlnute
pumper
Uruck).
The
second
call
by
a
500-gallon-per-
mlnute
pumper
formerly
used
by
the
American
Army.
A
Canadian
Army
500-gallon-pcr-mln-ute
pumper
stood
by,
but
was
not
needed."
The
Vancouver
Sun
in
its
j
news
page
story,
dominated
by
a
!
one-and-a-half
lncii
headline,
said:
"Volunteer
firemen
tried
vainly
to
control
tho
blaze
with
1
garden
hose
which,
they
said,
was
the
only
flrcflghtlng
cqulp-i
ment
available."
Actual
hose
used,
according
to
the
city's
telegram,
was
"three
standard
two-and-a
-half-Inch
lines
from
hydrants
to
pumpers,
plus
three
two-and-a-half
and
four
one-and-a-half-lnch
high
pressure
lines
from
the
pumper
to
the
fire."
The
only
garden
hose
In
evidence,
the
telegram
said,
was
used
by
neighbors
to
dampen
nearby
roofs.
Regarding
the
Sun's
claim
that
volunteer
firemen
were
used,
the
city's
telegram
said:
"Volunteer
fire
brigade
was
last
used
here
about
1913,
since
which
time
the
city
has
had
a
fully
paid
fire
department."
"We
have
learned
that
the
information
printed
was
not
obtained
from
the
local
Sun
correspondent
and
consider
that
sensational
Journalism
has
reached
a
new
low,"
the
telegram
concluded.
(The
offending
dispatch
did
not
originate
in
the
Dally
News
office,
nor
was
the
Canadian
Press,
represented
by
the
Dally
News
In
Prince
Rupert,
responsible
for
handling
any
of
the
inaccurate
Information
carried
In
the
dispatch.
Ed'.)
The
fact
that
city
council
Is
now
arranging
to
have
plans
drawn
for
a
new
Eventide
Home
building
denies
another
statement
In
the
Sun's
Thursday
news
story
that
"the
ci;y
has
already
purchased
a
large
building
which
Is
being
converted
to
re-
place
the
one
destroyed
today.
The
story
also
said
that
the
fire
originated
"in
the
furnace
room,"
something
which,
actual
ly,
the
building
did
not
have.
Serious
Mining
Strike
Riots
Occur
Governor
ot
Montana
May
Seek
Federal
Assistance
.Houses
Wrecked,
Boys
Wounded
and
Unannounced
Number
of
Mobsters
Are
Under
Arrest
in
Mining
City
BUTTE,
Montana
(CPJGoveraor
Sam
Ford
disclosed
today
that
he
is
considering
asking
the
federal
government
for
help
to
stop
riots
in
Butte
that
left
scores
of
houses
wrecked,
two
boys
wounded
and
an
unannounced
number
of
mobsters
under
arrest.
Declaring
in
Helena
that
he
would
talk
with
Butte
'
peace
officers,
who
were
greatly
THE
WEATHER
General
SynopsisA
weaken-
said
that
peace
officers
"assuring
weather
system
across
Bri-
ed
me
yesterday
that
they
had
tlsh
Columbia
haa
caused
varl-
thlnB,
un?er
cro
ut
aP
able
cloudiness
over
the
interior
with
generally
overcast
conditions
over
the
lower
mainland
and
Vancouver
Island
areas.
In-
!
termlttcnt
rain
Is
general
along:
the
south
coast
and
Is
expected
to
chance
to
scattered
rain
showers
by
noon.
Continued
cloudy
conditions
arc
expected
to
prevail
for
the
next
24
hours
over
coastal
areas
with
variable
cloudiness
over
the
interior.
Maximum
temperature
on
.the
coast
Sunday
was
CO
at
Vancouver
with
C8
at
Lllloct
In
the
Interior
and
a
mlnjmum
during
the
night
of
24
at
Smithcrs.
Forecast
Cloudy
with
rain
showers
along
the
coast,
locally
clear
over
the
Queen
Charlotte
area
with
rainfall
by
daybreak
and
becoming
cloudy
again
in
the
afternoon.
Minimum
temperature
tonight
at
Prince
Rupert,
38.
Maximum
Tuesday,
48.
Moderate
westerly
winds,
10
miles
per
hour
becoming
moderate
southerly
15
miles
per
hour
Tuesday
morning,
moder
ately
westerly,
15
miles
per
hour
in
the
afternoon.
CANDY
SALE
SHORT-LIVED
-
The
sweet
tooth
won
a
bout
over
the
rain
drops
this
morning
when
a
local
drug
store
put
350
pounds
of
boxed
canay'on
"first
come
fcjjslirst
served'1;
one-box
limit
-TOle.-Fifty
peOpwcprKaMtr-
lng
in
the
deluge
as
the
doors
opened
at
9
a.m.
Within
half-anhour
all
the
candy
was
gone
but
still
the
customers
keppourlng
in.
Tardy
but
hopeful,
the
confection
seekers
were
still
on
the
hunt
this
afternoon.
outnumbered
by
the
depreda
tors,
before
deciding
whether
to
ask
for
federal
assistance,
Ford
piuenuy,
iney
am
noi.
Roving
bands
centred
their
attacks
on
homes
of
workers
who
did
not
join
the
miners'
strike,
city
authorities
reported,
TWO
MORE
DIE
OF
SMALLPOX
SEATTLE
Two
more
of
the
smallpox
patients
here
have
died,
bringing
the
total
death
list
to
ten.
The
latest
victims
were
elderly
men
who
had
complications.
There
are
still
22
ac
tive
cases
and
one
suspected
case
in
King
County.
C.
J.
Quantlc,
superintendent
of
motive
power
and
car
equipment,
Canadian
National
Railways,
Vancouver,
arrived
In
the
city
Saturday
night
in
the
course
of
a.
periodical
tour
of
inspection
and
will
leave
this
evening
on
his
return
south
via
Jasper.
C.
A.
Berner,
divisional
superln-
tendent
here,
will
accompany
him
over
the
division.
$5,000
BAIL
IN
RAPE
CASE
Allen
Daniel
McMillan
ap-
peared
before
Magistrate
W.
D.
Vance
in
City
Police
"Court
this
morning
on
a
charge
of
rape,
arising
from
an
alleged
assault
on
a
girl
in
a
downtown
hotel
early
Sunday
morning.
The
case
was
adjourned
for
eight
days
or
earlier
at
request
of
Sgt.
O.
L.
Hall,
after
bail
of
$5,000,
with
two
sureties,
had
been
set
by
the
magistrate.
W.
O,
Fulton
appeared
for
McMillan.
The
girl
Is
said
to
be
employed
as
a
waitress
In
a
downtown
restaurant.
Germans
Executed
Murderers
of
Canadian
Airman
Put
to
Death
By
K.OA.F,
Rifle
Fire
Today
LONDON
(Canadian
Press)
William
Junge
and
Johaa
Schumacher,
Germans
convicted
of
killing-
an
unnamed
captured
Canadian
airman
in
Bavai:a,
were
shot
today
by
a
Royal
Canadian
Air
Force
firing
squad.
The
pair
had
been
sentenced
to
death
by
a
Royal
Canadian
Air
Force
war
crirces
court.
Junjc,
burgomaster
of
Oberweier,
ordered
the
killing
of
the
airman
who
had
surrendered
after
bailing
mil
if
n
rrfnn!ir1
alrrraft.w
.
aiic
stiuuiiiig
nas
ttiticu
out
by
Schumacher.
AMERICANS
CRASH
VICTIMS
SASKATOON
Two
Americans
flying
from
Minnesota
to
Alaska,
were
killed
in
a
plane
crash
40
miles
southeast
of
here.
BISONS
ARE
(CHAMPIONS
Took
Third
American
League
Title
In
Four
Seasons
BUFFAL,
(fv
Buffalo
Bisons
wan
their
third
American
Hockey
League
championship
in
four
seasons
Sunday
night.
The
Bisons
defeated
the
Cleveland
B3rons
5-2.
The
victory
climaxed
an
uohlll
fight
for
the
Bisons
who
took
the
last
three
games
to
down
the
Baroru
four
eames
to
three
In
the
bp.st
of
seven
final
play
off
series.
SAYS
HIS
LAST
"GOOD
EVENING"
Popular
Vancouver
News
Announcer,
Earlc
Kelly,
Dies
at
Age
of
Sixty-Seven
VANCOUVER
Michael
Aloy-sius
Earlc
Kelly,
for
many
years
a
popular
Vancouver
radio
news
broadcaster,
who
became
known
as
"Mr.
Good
Evening",
died
early
today
at
Tranquillc.
Us
was
67
years
of
age
and
a
native
of
Australia
where
he
started
his
newspaper
career
as
a
Parliamentary
correspondent.
He
Joined
the
Vancouver
Province
staff
in
1925
and
started
radio
news
reading
in
1929.
Not
Suffering
From
Smallpox
VICTORIA
The
illness
of
an
Oak
Bay
High
School
teacher,
feared
to
be
smallpox,
has
been
definlccly
diagnosed
as
chicken
pox.
Returns
of
tests
sent
to
Vancouver
were
negative.
It
Is
expected
schools
will
be
reopen
ed
after
Easter,
Britain
and
United
States
Would
Go
On
With
It,
Nevertheless
LONDON
(CP)
The
British
government
believes
that
the
Iranian
question
should
be
left
on
the
securS
ity
council
agenda
and
has
instructed
its
delegate
accordingly,
Foreign
Under-Secretary
Hector
McNeil
told
the
House
of
Commons
today.
This
was
made
known
after
Iranian
Propaganda
Minister
Hussein
Ala,
his
country
s
ambassador
to
i
the
United;
States,
had
been
instructed
by
Tehran
to
immediately
withdraw
Iran's
complaint
(against
Russia)
before
the
security
council.
Iran
previously
had
brought
before
the
United
Nations
the
Issue
of
the
continued
presence
of
Russian
troops
in
the
country.
Moscow
now
says
that
the
troops
will
be
withdrawn
by
May
6.
After
the
Russian
announce-men
the
Soviet
asked
for
withdrawal
of
the
case
from
the
United
Nations.
Hussein
Ala
had
refused
to
withdraw.
Today,
however,
new
instructions
Issued
from
Tehran
to
the
Iranian
delegate
at
New
York
are
to
tell
the
security
council
that
Iran
has
no
doubt
that
the
Russian-Iranian
agreement
re
garding
withdrawal
of
troops
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carried
out
by
Russia.
Up
to
early
this
afternoon
the
Iranian
request
for
withdrawal
had
hot
been
formally
filed.
Meantime
Edward
s
Stettinius,
chief.
American,
delegate,
Intl
mated
that.
United
States
would
SEES
KU
KLUX
KLAN
MOSCOW
The
Moscow
"radio
says
the
Ku
KIux
Klan
is
rising
again
In
the
United
States
as
the
forerunner
of
fascism
and
nazism.
Bulletin
100,000
VACCINATED
VANCOUVER
More
than
100,000
persons
have
so
far
been
vaccinated
in
Vancouver
in
the
course
of
the
present
campaign.
ROSE
TRIAL
SET
MONTREAL
Date
of
the
trial
of
Fred
Rose,
Labor-rro-gressivc
Member
of
Parliament
for
Montreal-Cartier,
was
set
today.
Rose
will
appear
May
20
in
Court
of
King's
flench
on
chaises
of
communicating
information
to
the
Soviet
Union
and
conspiracy.
He
pleaded
innocent
at
today's
hearing.
Defence
Counsel
Joseph
Cohen
attempted
unsuccessfully
to
have
the
trial
put
over
until
September
Assizes.
A
lawyer
is
being
brought
from
England
to
assist
in
Hose's
defence.
WESTERN
COJULVND
OPENS
EDMONTON
The
new
Western
Command
of
the
Canadian
Army,
Including
British
Columbia,
Alberta,
Northwest
Territories
and
the
Yukon
.opens
here
today
with
the
arrival
of
Major-Gen.
F.
F.
Worthinglon,
general
office
rcommanding,
and
staff.
teachers:
meeting
VANCOUVER
The
British
Columbia
Teachers'
Federation
Is
planning
for
one
of
its
largest
and
most
important
conventions
opening
here
next
Monday.
Teachers'
salaries
will
rank
high
on
the
agenda.
Dr.
Paul
Papineau,
noted
American
educational
authority,
and
Dr.
G.
M.
Weir,
minister
of
education,
and
Col.
Fairley,
supeilntendent
of
education,
will
be
principal
speakers.
Russia
Battle
On
For
Manchu
Capital
Fierce
Fighting
Continues
With
Krds
on
Offencive
CHANGCHUN,
Manchuria
W
An
all-out
battle
for
Changchun,
capital
of
Manchuria,
was
under
way
today
.between
government
and
communist
forces.
The-Chi-nese
communists
launched
an
attack
Sunday,
two
hours
before
the
final
withdrawal
of
the.
Soviet
occupation
forces.
The
Communists
have
gained
control
of
all
three
air
fields
in
the
vfclnlty,
and
have
sifted
Into
the
city
from
the
suburbs.
Early
today,
Prince
Rupert
time,
gunfire
had
been
constant
for
10
hours.
Meanwhile,
Generallsimo
Chiang
Kal
Shek
appointed
a
government
committee
to
meet
immediately
with
the
Communists
and
other
parties
in
an
effort
to
achieve
fome
semblance
ot
bal-
-
'"b..
SPENDING
ON
SCHOOLS
SALMON
ARM
Voters
of
Salmon
Arm
approved
school
consolidation
and
a
$338,999
new
school
building
program
by
a
margin
of
475
to
170.
In
Butte
RAILWAYMAN
RETIRES
WINNIPEG
J.
M.
Horn,
freight
traffic
manager;
western
region,
Canadian
National
Railways,
and
one
of
the
best
known
fieight
traffic
men
on
the
continent,
retired
to
private
life
today
after
completing
18
years
of
railway
service.
Mr.
Horn
will
continue
to
reside
in
Winnipeg
where
he
first
made
his
home
in
1889.
PUPPET
TO
DIE
CHUNGKING
Chen
King
Po,
56,
former
head
of
the
Japanese
sponsored
puppet
Nanking
government,
has'been
sentenced
to
death,
it
was
learned
here.
Chen
was
among
the
first
to
follow
when
Wang
Citing
Wei
broke
with
Chiang
Kal
Shek
and
launched
his
"peace
movement"
which
led
to
the
creation
of
the
"Nanking
government."
C.N.R.
SURPLUS
MONTREAL-
After
payment
of
interest
to
the
public
and
to
the
public
and
the
government,
a
surplus
ot
521,756,000,
as
a
result
of
operations;
fori
the
year
1945,
Is
being
turned
over
to
the
federal
treasury
by
the
Canadian
National
Railways.
The
annual
report
was
tabled
in
the
House
of
Commons
this
afternoon
by
Hon.
Lionel
ChcvTier,
minister
of
transport.
The
surplus'
Is
$1,
729,000
more
than
the
previous
year.
Local
Tides
Tuesday,
April
16,
1940
High
V.20
21.1
feet
13:40
20.1
feet
Low
7:30
3.6
feet
19:41
4.9
feet
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4
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