THOUSAND POLISH SffSfc.- h U jlI ILl Id U .Hu AX More than 3,200 demobilized Polish .:....Hmr to i:inad:i to hppnmp fin-more will IHl"h . ..... . ..IlllSfl T ft 11(1111 f Mil lmTIl-1Tin ftT "k uv The first large scale movement of its kind years, the immigrants will go to nine cen- A dUYo M & n v if ill l Innnum-CinCMl IH it- United Nations Ue- uhitauon Admlnis- prcparcd to return i.- J U.tw i inn Liaiiuua wnt reversal of the pre- n ui iviici L. . I l. J -,f .... t ..1lft , purchas? large Ill'U lull. return as a large w.il benefit both . ti i i i i . rt-t. i ;iih Klll t I l.l I UI1L 1AA11I1UII1 I UilIlLlLlLd delivered not later oi March. the new contract idr-:':;od they are 1 in.m unnpr i up Dismisses i r i even the possibility -ency io the Rc-o were victorious i iiiiiir 1 1 1 i n I II Lf f I Kl m Mil l lluw They 1 w.w., v in a United States has nicy will .rn.linrv n .11. r"niih u. ill I i'i'i.ivi: divide reparations h - i i "It for a malor share -pu.ai.iuii3 urn inn tnJI.. .. . .. . a, ausirai a ana - .nt wiiHuu o Lairs to be awarded liu.ln wis. shiubuildlnc many war factories converted to civilian I'fM .J . . 1 . ... ui; lllUlUUt'U f I . nnm A ? f.;i,i . ... a 24-lwur sus- svicc because of the "tacks of extremists fB changed schedules. -. - uirn n i tti n. -- Vtllllill- "WWII Ml I r llrli-A.i .... uHiiuiauonali st nS Ousted A DollMpnl .,.-.. v.i.1.1. ill aim mill IHTOM...! "'S Win j ... ot .uiuita me span's wartlmp vernni e nr"ed ytday ct at General In k ... ""'IS -e economic I wa w www a-VJIi till 1111 WI1VIC I they will be fitted into Jobs in the local farm districts. The Maritime Provinces farmers will receive the help of 200; Ontario and Quebec, 1,750, and western Canada, 1,250, of which 150 go to Chllllwack. Seven special trains, needed to take the colonists to the various sections of the country, will be operated out of Hall-fax over C.N.R. lines. ARE CLOSING UPON DAIREN Chinese Government Troops Reported to Have Pushed to "Outer Kins" PEIPINO A wholly uncon-! firmed report in the lndcpcnd-j ent newspaper Hsln Mln Pao said yesterday that Chinese troops had pushed to the "outer ring" of Russian-occupied Dair-cn where more than 50,000 Chinese communists arc reported to gathered, awaiting to fly acioss Shantung Peninsula. SAYS CANADA RESPONSIBLE Disappearanee of Polish Art Treasures to Come Before Government LONDON, 9, - An official at the Polish embassy In London declared last night that the Canadian government was held responsible by Poland under the Potsdam agreement for allowing the dissapearancc 0f "millions of dollars worth" of Polish art treasures from a wartime hiding place in Canada at Ottawa and St. Anne de Beauprc, Quebec. Under the Potsdam agreement, said this official, the Canadian government must reepver the treasure for Toland. At Ottawa the disappearance of the treasure was recognized as the result of political disagreement between supporters of the now defunct government In exile and the present Russian Inclined regime. Still uncertain was the loca tion of 32 of 34 trunks of treasure which had been sent to Canada for safekeeping during the war. Toronto Dally Star, In a dispatch from Quebec, credited a high Roman Catholic Church of ficial as .saying: "The whole of the Polish treasure is safe but at the present moment it is lost to the present government of Poland." A spokesman In the Palace of Cardinal Villencuvc declared the treasure Is being held by the church "until It Is established whether the present Polish government is the rightful owner," The Polish minister to Canada said there was no friction between the Polish government and the Roman Catholic Church In the matter. The Polish minister intends to bring the matter formally to the attention of the Canadian government next Tuesday. THE WEATHER Prince Rupert, Queen Charlottes and North Coast Cloudy with rain showers today, tonight and Sunday. Westerly winds (20 m.p.h.) becoming southwesterly (15) on Sunday. Little change In temperature. Mlnimums at Port Hardy 35; Massctt 36; Prince Rupert 37. Maximums on Sunday Port Hardy 45; Mas-sett 47; Prince Rupert 47. NO PAPER MONDAY There will be o Issue of the Dally News on Monday, .Remembrance Day. The next regular Issue will toe on Tuesday I I NORTHERN AND, CENTRAL BRITISH C6LUMBIA'8 NEWSPAPER ftV. I - M. U TAXI TAXI TAXI 235 " hone 537 m NIOUT SERVICE Stand: DAY AND NIGHT SERVICE nprtss Hold, Third Ave. Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" Bill and Ken Nesbitt VOL. XXXV, No. 2G3. PRINCE RUPERT, B, C, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1946 PRICE FIVE CENTS oman Mi issmg On Queen Charlotte Island S i r I l If Here, on board the "Charlotletown" a group of new entry seamen and stokers study the mechanism and operation of a power-driven Oerllkon anti-aircraft battery. TRUMAN SETTLES DEPT. SQUABBLES Jap Islands to be Placed Under United Nations Trusteeship WASHINGTON, D.C. 0 Pres ident Truman decisively settled an Intcr-dcpartmental squabble by announcing that the United States will place former Japan- csclsiajid.syriaV?rU4lcs-a-"1' tlcns trustccsnip wnicn uie United Stales will administer. The Navy, with some support from the Army, had held out for exclusive possession u not outright ownership. WHY SHOULD FLEET VISIT Some Inconsistency. Seen In Projected United States Cruise of Kastern Mediterranean WASHINGTON, While the cruise has been approved by the npTinrtmcnt. of State, there is mystery why United States warships, which will visit both Turkish and Greek ports In the eastern Mediterranean within the next few weeks, should be given the green light to maKe cans virtually in the backyard of the Soviet Union only a. few days after the Department had asked the Army to postpone a projected round-the-world flight by a fleet of B29 superfort bombers. Secretary of State Byrnes had opposed the' flight because It might be Interpreted by Russia and "Ihcr countries as "sword rattling." STATEMENT ON SHINGLE SALE ISSUE OTTAWA i An announcement of government action In regard to the alleged sale of shingles above celling prices In Vancouver was expected to be Issued late today. It was Indicated that Joint action Is being taken by the Prices Board and the office of th? timber controller, but no official comment was available pending Issuance of the statement. Vancouver reports said that several lumber yarc operators have been selling shingles above the new retail ceilings set by the board which, they claim, cut their mark-up almost In half. Local Tides Sunday, November 10, 194G High 1:49 21.3 ft. 13:45 23.7 ft. Low 7:38 5.5 ft. 20.18 0.9 rt Governor Flies East For Help Grticning Alarmed About Effect Maritime Strike is Having on Territorial Economy SEATTLE, (CP) Governor Frnest Grucning of Alaska is on his way to Washington to Keek federal help, in transport mg supplies lu iiiasna niiusc entire economy, he said, was heinj: seriously affected by maritime disputes. Dispute between maritime unions and ship operators out of Seattle has deprived the Territory of its regular steamship service. Airline shipment, while helpful, is too expensive. Gruciiing raid that the strike seriously affected every phase of Alaskan life, business, industry and labor. Food stocks are reported alirmingly low at Seward where it is said there is no grain for cows while canned milk stocks arc exhausted. COLORADO PARALYZED Eleven Persons Dead as Snowfall Continues for Full Week DENVER 0 Airplanes were grounded, highways coated with snow and ice and 11 persons were dead today as snow continued Its week-long pelting of Colo rado. Airlines hoped- for a break In the weather to resume their op eratlons today, but the Weather man said that .the snow would continue until tonight. The snowfall extended northward Into Wyomins? but was heaviest In eastern Colorado. Traffic moved at a snail's pace over most highways. Army vehicles were loaned to bring In 111 persons from snowbound homes to hospitals and to carry grain to marooned livestock. CEASE FIRE ON MONDAY Chiang's Order In Chinese POLICE SEEK Civil War to Be Effective Then ROOM PROWLER NANKING P) The Nationalist ; oity police arc seeking a man government set noon Monday as wj10 WaS sai,j to have forced h the hour for cease firing in ' way into the apartment of China's civil war and called 'two. young women last night. Ac-skeptlcal minority parties lntoCOrdfng to the report the man conference to urge them to work ; Vas ejected from the apartment as a team for peace. by the young women who claim Both Communists and third they could recognize him again party Democratic League ex - pressed doubt that Chiang Kal - Shek's surprise truce order would' help: -much In healing wounds of civil strLfe. PLANS FOR PTv EDWARD Niw Company to Make Statement from Vancouver Office Soon, It is Stated VANCOUVER, Oi The recent- incorporated Port Edward Land Development Co. Ltd. here sava-lt will slve a news release Ig.ardOo.-lts plaru athe industrial suburb of Prfnce' Rupert as soon as preliminaries ar: squared away. "Plans are still In the transition stage," it Is said at the company's offices. War established facilities are to be used. MOSCOW LACKS MILITARY SHOW MOSCOW, 0i The. military dlsnlay In Red. .Square that marked the 29th anniversary celebration of the Bolshevist re volution was one of the smallest In years. Thousands of Russians who packed the Square heard Marshal Leonid A. Govorov portray the Soviet nation as a nation striving to" ensure world peace. Marshal Stalin was present only In picture and his absence was unexplained although the London Times speculated It was on medical advice that he stayed away. TRY TO BEAT JEW BLOCKADE British Authorities Are Expecting Large Scale Attempt LONDON (CP; A Colonial office spokesman said today that Brit ain is aware of reports of an Impending large scale attempt by Jewish refugees to run the Palestine blockade. He declined to give the source of the reports or what measures Britain Is taking to prevent such Im migration. Britain recently requested that France move Its camp for (lis placed persons inland from the French coast. British author! tics said they had been Informed that the Jewish ships were being loaded near the camp. 1 although tney had never seen i Mm prior to the Incident. The man entered the room through a window, He left it forcibly-through the door. MeansMuch For Rupert Alaskans Mere and More Anxious to do Business Here, Says S. C. Thomson Business people of southeastern Alaska cities are extremely anxious to obtain greater and greater quantities of goods frcm Prince Rupert, ss tf- C. Thomson, local wholesale produce merchant and pioneer in developing this trade for the port, who returned on the Princess Louise last evening from a business trip to Ketchikan, Wrangell and Juneau. The current cutting off of the supply of goods from Seattle to Alaska on account of the tying up of Afnerlcan shlp3 because of the maritime strike has but served to intensify the desire of the Alaskans to trade with this port rather than Seattle. "I have all kinds of orders In my pocket," said Mr. Thomson who expressed gratification at the order which had been made ty the minister of trade and commerce, at the Importunity of the Prince Rupert Chamber or Commerce, to facilitate the granting of export permits for shipments from here to Alaska. He heped that there would be no delay by "the export permits branch in Implementing the much to be desired simplifica tion of the permit Issuance. With hc people of Alaska run ning close on some food stuffs and other supplies, there was need of speeding up the shipments. There ,wai n short age ot small Alaska boats avail fromnerer ' Although pleased at the new order on export permits, Mr. Thomson could not refrain from commenting on the business that had already been lost to Prince Rupert by the delay and compll cations caused by the former situation on export permits. "It' Is amazing how the federal offi cials fall to grasp such a situa tion as this and seem to obstruct rather than try to meet it," he observed, WALLACE DENIES SHIP CONTRACT !Ko Indication of $12,000,000 With Chinese, Says Vancouver Builder OTTAWA, Oi Commenting on a report by the Vancouver Dally Province that shipbuilding contracts worth $12,570,000 had been arranged with "authorities in Ottawa," Clarence Wallace president of the Burrard Ship building Co., said: "We have a man at Ottawa on some ship contracts but there is no Indica tion of any such deal as that." The report arose out of a state ment by Department of Trade and Industry officials that nego tlations were under way for large shipbuilding contract be twecn Chinese industries and the Vancouver yard. AUSTRALIA IS STRIKEBOUND Railway Walk-Out Brings Industry and Transport, in West to Standstill PERTH, Western Australia Qi Western Australian industry and transport were brought to a near standstill today by a railway strike which involved about 90,000 workers, Including 9,000 employed, on railways and 6,000 on street cars. The strike was caused by the refusal of six locomotive engineers to work a particular type of engine. The engineers' union demands the complete withdrawal of these engines and the reinstatement of the six engineers who wern suspended The Western Australian gov ernment has condemned the union's action and called on 50,000 trade .unionists to back the government In its efforts to isolate the strike. New Lighthouse Tender For B.C. VICTORIA, Oi A lighthouse tender jlmilar to 'those to be built for the French government will be sought for Department of Transport on the British Columbia coast, It was announced yesterday by W. L. Stamford, agent of the Department of Transport here. TO MAKE SURE OF DEFENCES United Nations Should Surrender no Weapons Until Protection Assured, Says McNaughton NEW YORK. ) General A, G L. McNaughton, Dominion chair man of the Canadian-American Joint Defence Board and Canadian delegate to the United Nations of Atomic Energy Commis sion, said, yesterday that North America should not surrender "any of our special weapons of great power" until certain that they "will not be used against us." Bulletins GANDHI LOSES WEIGHT CIIAUMHANI, East Bengal-Mohandas Gandhi's medical companion, Dr. Shusila Nayar, said today that Gandhi has lost five pounds since going on semi-starvation diet ten days ago but, so far, Is able to attend to his regular work. 'Candhf has threafene'J'fo fast' until death unless peace Is re stored in Bihar Province where Hindus arc blamed for disturbances. MINE PROBE ASKED LONDON The British Foreign Office announces that Britain has sent a note to Albania concerning the mining of Corfu Channel along the Albanian coast where two British destroyers were dam: aged by mines last May. U.N.R.Rj. HAMPERED LONDON U.N.R.R-A. officials in Albania report that their movements have been hampered for months and their actions watched. Members of the United States political mission have been kept under virtual confinement in Tirana. Truman Statement Is Expected Soon WASHINGTON CM President Truman Is drafting a public statement that he will place tne country's welfare above personal or party interests in 'the ad ministration of the government under a Republican Congress, close associates said today. The statement is planned for early next week. It is believed the tone will be conciliatory and will emphasize the president's hope fo rcon tlnued two-party support of the United States foreign policy. SENTENCED FOR THEFT OF HORSE Pleading guilty to a charge of stealing a horse, Garnet Schoon er, Bella Copla native youth, was sentenced to one month in Jail and a fine of $50 by Judge W. E. Fisher in County Court Friday afternoon. Option In case of default of the fine was another month In Jail. The youth was charged with theft of a horse belonging to another native at Bella Coola and brought here on Monday from Ocean Falls to stand trial. He elected speedy trial. NO SHORTAGE HERE GREENVILLE, S.C. M Meat shortages here and there 'fail to worry Furham University's football team. On the road the squad is accompanied by a couple of head-high stacks of steaks from its spacious frozen food lockers. Disappeared From Camp Widespread Search at Skedans Inlet For Mrs. Helen McDonald Helen McDonald, a fifty-year-old woman, is missing from the T. A. Kelley Logging Co.'s camp at Skedans Inlet on the Queen Charlotte Islands, according, to word received In the city-' 'She disappeared several days ago. A widespread search by the authorities with the "assistance . of loggers from the camp has been Instituted. MAYOR'S DAY POMP REVIVED - LONDON O) The pre-war pomp and pageantry of the City London's traditional annual Lord Mayor's show was revived today for the first time In eight years, giving Londoners the chance to witness a three-hour parade which was two miles long. Spectators, braving grey skies and a bitterly cold wind, jammed the circuitous six-mile, route from Guildhall to Mansion. House, residence of Lord Mayo: Sir Bracewell Smith, whose In? auguratlon for the next, yeal caused the celebration. DANUBE IS NEXT SNAG Trieste Issue Shelved but Big Four Soon Runs Into ,AnlherDaHock ., ..-s- NEW YORK, JCB The Foreign Minister's Council, shelving temporarily the probelem of Trieste, last night rubbed a few rough spots off the peace pacts for Italy and Rumania but ran into a new deadlock on the question of free navigation of the Danube.- Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov;pro-tested against Inclusion of a free Danube navigation clause In the Rumanian peace pact and the Issue was set aside for consideration later. The Trieste issue was indefinitely postponed when Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia agreed to give up the demand for' control of Trieste and accept anotherport further east instead. INVESTMENT IN RUPERT MOUNTS Local People Have So Far Subscribed $289,600 In Canada Savings Loan - Prince Rupert's total ln-the Canada Savings Loan has reached a total of $TiT9,600 out of a provincial general total of,$51,-089,400. Total to date for Victoria Is $5,407,500. The payroll cumulative ..total for the province is $7,854,600. A payroll Investment highlight is constituted by 620 employees of Safeway Stores Ltd. wlth over 97 per cent of employee participation. Five hundred and eight went on the payrool deduction, plan and 22 invested cash. Up to noon Friday public investments had averaged oyer $1,000,000 dally since Monday. BOOBY TRAP TAKES TOLL Three British Policemen Are Killed in Jerusalem In Frobing Arms Dump JERUSALEM 0)Three British policemen were killed," one seriously wounded and several Jewish civilians were hurt today when a booby trap exploded during a raid on a suspected arms dump. A heavy explosion came ttojxi a booby trap connected to a door behind which some time ago an arms dump of a Jewish underground organization was believed hidden. One of the slain officials was an expert on Jewish af'airs. MBapviEftSSSMQ 1