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conference.
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said
must
have
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bridge
of
s,
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south
south-
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with
light,
intermit-n.tn.
Wednesday:
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arnveu
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tt.H
tjcjieroay
enrouic
wi
vuu-
the
coast
to
inspect
ship
's
facilities
for
use
in
the
the
war
in
the
Pacific.
The
iccr
are
General
A.
W.
Lee
1
Brigadier
General
E.
C.
rvell.
OBILE
T.R.
iiiiiiiiili
ill
llrfKlur
"n
unu
wnicn
win
Degin
its
the
city
yesterday
by
road
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h
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thrpp
tophnlclnn!!
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will
l'rate
the
X-ray
eauicment
are
riday
to
beein
the
month
-
juu
vi
uiscovcnng
Mgns
ui
--v.uui3
in
local
puupie.
Tne
long
white
truck
with
its
uauer
was
anven
irom
'fhon
by
J.
Stevens,
who
leaves
""Bht
to
return
to
Vancouver.
-0NDON,
June
26
After
the
'r")comlng
Big
Three
meeting,
resident
Truman
will
pay
a
te
Visit,
tn
Tjnrfn
It.
io
skA.
e
"Mil
be
the
guest'
of
King
'ortt
and
Quren
Elizabeth,
tuna,
and
the
Clipper
II,
Emil
Petersen,
the
Toodie,
Peter
Wahl.
Morris
II.,
Carl
Oiske,
and
the
Asborg,
Ntts
Antonsen,
are
preparing
to
sail
south.
It
Is
the
first
time
in
the
history
of
the
port,
veteran
fishermen
say,
that
there
has
been
a
large
number
of
Prince
Rupert
boats
leaving
to
fish
the
tuna
grounds.
Two
years
ago
Paul
.Rosang
took
his
vessel,
the
Oldfleld,
south
and
was
reported
to
have
had
a
profitable
season.
The
Clipper
II
is
reported
to
be
undergoing
extensive
recon-
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ih
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ciouay
umuuuig
vi
i
nt
light
intermittent
rain,
prise
at
a
cost
of
from
$3,000
try
higher
temperature.
to
$4,CC0.
part
of
which
is
the
xpecting
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omeiana
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i
or
Tokyo
Speaks
of
Big
Fleet
Nortn
of
Okinawa
;
Greatest
Menace
to
Nippon
Since
Days
of
Mongols,
Says
Suzuki
CHUNGKING,
June
26
(CP)
-The
All-India
n
s.n
u
that.
:i
.
nnancse
Droacicasi
iuuuy
leiiuiwu
ied
forces
were
attempting
an
invasion
ot
an
,
,
i
i
m.
,,o
nnrl
fho
.T'innnpsp
nn
nn
r
wjiv
nHLwemi
jiiiv
i
v..
..r-
in
islands.
The
island
being
invaded
was
not
lden-
ierl
in
trip
hrnndcast.
tICLRS
MAK.E-
Columbia
Broadcasting
&ysiem
mIH
that
British
Broadcasting
rnmnratlon
'reported
hearing
another
Tokyo
.
broadcast
an
that
an
"Allied
inva
sion
fleet
of
two
hundred
ships
is
expected
to
attempt
landings
on
two
Islands
about
halfway
between
Okinawa
and
Japan.'
Meanwhile
Premier
Suzuki
told
the
Japanese
people
today
that
they
face
an
invasion
crisis
unparalleled
since
the
Mongol
hordes
swept
over
the
islands
more
than
6C0
years
ago.
In
a
message
to
the
cabinet,
the
Premier
Issued
to
the
nation
"on
the
occasion
of
the
Battle"
Suzuki
pledged
his
government's
grim
determination
lo
defend
the
Islands
against
Allied
power
gathering
to
the
south.
Suzuki's
statement
was
made
as
other
Japanese
broadcasts
told
of
Invasion
and
threats
the
Premier
tells
the
people
to
commit
suicide
rather
than
TRYING
FOR
MORE
JOBS
Selective
Service
Controls
to
Be
Removed
As
Soon
As
Possible
otTEBEC.
June
20
P)
Arthur
MacNamara.
Canada's
Deputy
T.nhnr
Minister,
said
that
Sel
ective
Service
Controls
introduced
during
wartime
are
being
removed
as
quickly
as
possible.
However,
he
said
it
is
hoped
to
evolve
a
voluntary
means
of
recording
Job
changes
so
that
the
pulse
of
employment
dan
be
watched
closely.
Mr.
M-acNamara
spoke
of
a
campaign
to
bring
about
one
million
more
lobs
In
Canada
than
there
were
in
1939.
Kb
,
VOL.
XXXIV,
No.
148.
Police
Sergeant
111,
Terrace
Man
In
Charge
Here
Illness
of
Sgt.
O.
L.
Hall
and
the
absence
of
Corp.
A.
T.
Lash-mar
who
is
in
the
south
taking
a
special
police
course
has
resulted
in
Corp
T.
D,
Brunton
of
Terrace
being
called
to
take
charge
of
the
city
detachment
of
the
B.C.
Police.
Corp
Brun
ton
arrived
here
Monday
afternoon.
gt.
Hall
is
suffering
from
an,
illness
which
may
keep
him
of
fJ
duty
for
an
undetermined
period
and
Corp.
Lashmar
is
not
ex
pected
to
return
from
Portland,
Oregon,
until
next
week.
Corp.
Brunton,
who
has
been
In
charge
of
the
Terrace
detachment
for
several
years,
is
no
stranger
in
the
city,
having
been
posted
here
some
years
ago.
Also
on
the
sick
list
is
Inspector
Ernest
Gammon,
officer
in
charge
of
"D"
division
of
the
B.C.
Police.
He
has
been
confined
to
his
nome
for
several
weeks.
installation
of
live
bait
tanks.
Tuna
are
caught
by
trolling
the
surface
with
unbailed
hooks
which
feather
the
surface
of
the
water.
As
the
hooks
trail
along
behind
the
boat,
the
fishermen
excite
the
appetites
of
their
quarries
by
dropping
small
quantities
of
live
bait
overboard.
I
nvasion
FIVE
DIE
IN
MOTOR
CRASH
.
TIMMINS,
Ont.,
June
26
0)
Five
persons
were
killed
and
one
seriously
injured
yesterday
when
an
automobile
collided
with
a
truck.
One
passenger
leaped
to
safety
following
the
crash
in
which
some
of
the
five
were
burned
to
death.
The
dead
are:
Mrs.
Eleanor
Henderson,
Toronto.
Alex
Niesen,
Winnipeg.
Mrs.
Leo
Parasselli,
Windsor.
Frank
Stevenson,
Windsor.
Andre
Aouslgnant,
Lasarre,
Quebec.
C.N.S.
Lost
Many
Ships
Thirteen
of
38
Vessels
Were
War
Casualties
MONTREAL,
June
26
Thir
teen
of
the
thirty-eight
vessels
owned
or
operated
by
the
Canadian
National
Steamships
have
been
lost
by
enemy
action
since
the
bealnjnc
of
the
war,
R.
B.
Teakle,
general
manager,
said
here
today.
The
'
total
gross
tonnage
of
these
ships
was:
nearly
70,000.
Three
of
the
five
famous
"Lady"
passenger
liners
which
were
so
popular
with
Canadian
ana
American
tuurisus
w
we
West
Indies
in
peace
time
the
Lady
Hawkins,
the
Lady
Drake
and
the
Lady
Somers
were
sunk.
The
Lady
Somers
was
serving
in
.the
Royal
Navy.
The
Lady
Nelson,
former
flagship
of
the
fleet,
was
torpedoed,
salvaged
and
restored
to
service
as
Canada's
first
hospital
snip,
snc
Is
now
senior
hospital
ship.'
The
Lady
Rodney
Is
in
service
as
a
Canadian
Army
transport.
The
Cornwallls,
operated
between
Canada
and
the
West
Indies,
and
the
Canataco,
In
service
on
the
Great
Lakes
before
the
war,
were
sunk.
Among
the
vessels
operated
by
the
C.N.S.S.
which
were
lost
are
the
Vancouver
Island
and
the
Blc
Island,
two
ships
which
steamed
out
of
eastern
Canadian
berths
and
were
never
seen
or
heard
of
again,
the
Relc
Boye,
-first
C.N.8.8.
boat
to
be
lost
In
this
war
NEW
TRADE
AGREEMENTS
SAN
FRANCISCO
Canada
would
negotiate
large
scale
'trade
agreements
with
Great
Britain
and
the
United
States
after
the
Big
Three
conference,
Prime
Minister
W.
L.
Mackenzie
King
intimated
today.
WINDS
IN
VANCOUVER
VANCOUVER
Vancouver
was
lashed"
by
a
great
gale
last
night
and
a
20
to
30-mile
wind
ccnltnued
today.
A
sailboat
capsized
and
a
gillnctter
sank,
two
men
having
narrow
escapes.
Trees
were
blown
dew
in
Stanley
Park.
There
is
still
a
fire
hazard
on
Van,-
couvef
Island
anu
uiwer
Mainland
with
dry
weather
continuing.
MANY
VETERANS
RETURNING
VANCOUVER
The
largest
train
yet
with
returning
ex-servicemen
is
due
in
Vancouver
at
4
o'clock
this
after-neon.
It
has
450
on
board.
INDIAN
CONGRESS
SIMLA
The
conference
of
Viceroy
Viscount
Wavcll
and
leadeis
of
Indian
parties
of
the
future
government
of
Idia
today
made
a
forward
step
when
national
leaders
reached
provisional
conclusions
and
exprtssed
desire
to
confer
among
themselves.
FUNERAL
ON
MOUNTAIN
VANCOUVER
Funeral
services
will
be
held
on
the
lofty
slopes
of
Mount
Foley
sometime
next
week,
for
eleven
membeis
of
the"
RJV.F.
The
men
died
when
their
Liberators
crashed
into
the
moun
tain
on
June
1.
The
wreckage
JttARV
QQUj
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Tnmnnrnfitrn
'
NORTHERN
AND
CENAL.PIISII
JCOtUJJBIA'3
NEWSPAPER
Tomorrow's
Tides
ii
.nrnro
rnr
the
Prlnr
(Psclflc
Standard
TUnt)
CJjiiv.
....
pert
alsic
lor
wu
reaa-
Wednesday,
June
27,
1945
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
TUESDAY,
JUNE
26.
1945
'
LEOPOLD'S
STRENGTH
BRUSSELS
It
is
estimated
in
Belgium
that
King
Leopold
has
about
six
out
of
every
ten
persons
behind
,him,
in
the
question
of
whether
he
should
return
to
the
throne.
NEW
POLISH
GOVERNMENT
LONDON
Political
observers
in
London
and
Moscow
think
that
the
new
Polish
provisional
government
will
be
recognized
very
soon
possibly
in
a
matter
of
days.
FRANCE
GETS
SAAR
PARIS
France'
has
been
.given
the
right
to
occupy
every
Vniile
of
German
soil
adjacent
t
her
frontier.
This
means
,that
France
will
take
over
the
rich
southern
half
of
the
Sar
basin
and
almost
all
of
Ib1
province
of
Baden.
BORNEO
LANDING
CHECKED
SAN
FRANCISCO
The
Tokyo
radio
says
that
an
allied
attempt
at
landing
in
the
Bal-,
ikpapan
area
of
the
southeastern
ceast
of
Borneo
has
been
completely
checked.
There
has
been
no
confirmation
of
the
enemy,
broadcast.
HIGHEST
PAID
YANKS
Washington
Big
industry
now
outstrips
the
movies
'
forpayment
of
big
salaries.
Six
extcutives
of
General.
Motors
have
the
highest
salaries
in
the
country.
Fred
MacMurray
is
the
highest
paid
actor.
They
are
among
ten
persons
In
the
country
who
receive
over
$300,-000
per
year.
TO
TAKE
STRIKE
VOTEE
WINDSOR
Ford
workers
was
found,
this;
.
wk?iL.?5V.,itakff
a?Uikewote
if
-Toni
Inlenilve'scarch
SMUTS
IN
CANADA
OTTAAVA
Prime
Minister
J.
C.
Smuts
of
South
Africa
will
arrive
in
Ottawa
Thuis-day
for
a
brief
visit.
12
DIE
IN
CRASH
JOrLIN,
Ohio
Twelve
persons
were
killed
when
a
but
hit
a
cow
and
went
over
an
embankment
near
here.
CANNOT
VOTE
COMMUNIST
GLASGOW
No
Roman
Catholic
in
Scotland
may
vote
for
a
Communist
or
help
in
his
election,
said
a
letter
from
Roman
Catholic
archbishops
and
bishops
read
in
churches
throughout
Scotland
FARMERS
TALK
JAP
EXCLUSION
FORT
FRASER.
June
26
Prince
George
will
be
the
1946
venue
of
District
"C"
Farmers'
Institute
convention,
delegates
approved
last
week
in
session
before
knuckling
down
to
26
resolutions
after
weeding
out
of
43
by
'the
resolutions
committee.
Refreshed
from
hospitality
extended
by
Rev.
Father
A.
Simpson
at
Lejac
Indian
School
In
the
afternoon
and
a
banquet
by
the
Women's
Institute
In
the
Community
'Hall
here
In
the
evening,
delegates
bump
ed
Into
the
Japanese
exclusion
Issue
when
Hugh
Blackburn,
Farmers'
Advisory
Board
member,
told
of
action
in
February
toward
their
exclusion.
"I
disassociate
myself
in
any
way
from
this
resolution,"
de-cleared
Father
Simpson,
on
the
grounds
that
old
line
political
parties
had
used
the
Japanese
Issue
to
whip
up
opposition
to
the
C.C.F.
"It
is
the
thin
edge
of
the
wedge
whose
turn
would
be
next?"
he
asked
the
assembly.
Racial
Groups
"Aside
from
politics,"
retorted
Mr.
Blackburn,
"the
Japanese
Issue
Is
the
greatest
among
coast
farmers,
who
remember
tne
monopoly"
In
vegetable
farming
and
marketing."
"There
are
too
many
racial
grolips
who
are,
In
actuality,
not
citizens
of
Canada,"
submitted
heavy
German
raids
on
England
while
in
dry
dock
and
the
Caro-lus.
Saint
Malo
and
the
Christian
J.
Kampmann,
all
torpedoed
and
sunk
in
the
Atlantic,
and
the
Llseaux
also
lost
In
Uie
At
lantic.
The
Maurlenne,
which
took
lire
and
keeled
over,
was
the
Europea
salvaged
and
Is
again
in
opera-
whlch
was
bombed
curing
the
;
tlon,
I
edition
over
a
dispute
fails,
it
was
announced
today.
NEW
SEAT
FOR
PREMIER
PRINCE
ALBERT,
Sask.
'
Trime
Minister
Mackenzie
King
says
that
he
will
not
wait
to
see
if
a
check
of
voters
in
the
Prince
Albert
riding
upsets
the
election
of
C.C.F.
Member
E.
L.
Bower-man.
Mr.
King
says
that
his
colleagues
are
making
immediate
arrangements
to
open
one
of
several
scats.
The
news
was
telephoned
by
Mr.
King
from
San
Francisco.
Glengarry
is
expected
to
be
the
seat
Mr.
King
will
contest.
W.
B.
Mc-.Diarmid
has
offered
to
resign
in
his
favor.
INTERNATIONAL
SERVICE
BY
AIR
EDMONTON,
June
26
Oi
The
Chamber
of
Commerce
reported
that
the
first
International
commercial
air
service
out
of
Edmonton
may
be
In
operation
soon.
Word
was
received
of
the
formal
hearing
of
Trans
-Canada
Airlines'
application
for
a
licence
to
fly
between.
White-horse,
Yukon
Territory
and
Fairbanks,
Alaska.
Coventry
Gives
Cheers
and
Jeers
COVENTRY,
June
26
Prime
Minister
Winston
Churchill
had
a
mixed
reception
yesterday
In
bomb-blasted
Coventry.
There
were
cheers
and
Jeers
and
a
Communist
demonstration.
W.
T.
Burns
of
Prince
George
In
urging
revision
of
immigration
and
naturalization
laws
to
establish
clear-cut
citizens
of
the
Dominion.
Similar
sentl
mcnts
came
from
the
floor
be
PRICE
FIVE
CENTS
Charter
for
World
Peace
Is
Signed
PRINCE
WASHERMEN
DESERT
NORTH
WK1
FISH
FOR
TUNA
A
number
of
tvr
ii
..
1J
v
v
-
home.
At
least
six
i
and
the
Washington
and
Ore
go
coasts.
It
is
likely
that
more
will
follow.
Strangely
enough,
the
cause
of
this
exodus
to
southern
waters
is
a
manpower
shortage
in
the
fishing
industry
which,
apparently,
makes
it
impossible
for
dclppers
to
get
together
a
full
crew
to
go
black
codding.
Most
vessels
require
a
six-man
crew
for
black
cod
fishing
while
they
can
fish
for
tuna
with
three
or
four
men.
On
top
of
that,
there
is
the
price
which
tuna
is
commanding
at,
present.
Buyers
are
paying
'22
cents
a
pound
for
tuna
which
tallies
out
at
$440
a
ton.
"
The
Capella,
skipper
Dan
Larsen,
has
already
left
to
fish
O
1
yesseis
are
now
rigging
out
to
try
a
type
oi
V
.ch
few
have
ever
done
V
V
Ze.
ima
lone
wav
from
inert
halibut
vessels
which
ordinarily
wou.
gone
black
cod
fishing
are
installing
.live
baitv.ad
gear
to
go
tuna
fishing.
They
will
fish
off
Cape
Flattery
SuUetiM
Unanimity
Marks
Close
Of
'Frisco
Conference
China
Is
First
Nation
to
Place
Name
On
Document
Closing
Address
By
President
Truman
SAN
FRANCISCO,
June
26
(CP)
The
San
Frnnciseo
conference
passed
into
history
today
and
the
world
has
before
it
today
the
completed
master
nl:in
fnr
future
neace.
Tim
United
Nations
conference
last
night
gave
its
unanimous
annroval
to
the
charter
of
a
world
security
;
I
organization
a
charter
created
INVESTIGATING
SUDDEN
DEATH
An
Inquest
was
called
by
Coroner
M.
M.
Stephtns
for
1:30
today
to
Investigate
the
sudden
death
early
this
morning
of
Charles
Blehl,
60-year-old
former
Stewart
resident,
In
a
house
at
620
Fraser
St.
Police
were
informed
that
Biehl
slumped
oyer
and
died
while
seated
at
a
table
with
a
group
of
friends
In
the
home
of
Charles
Yours
at
12:30
this
morning:
Results
of
an
autopsy
conduct
ed
by
Dr.
R.
E.
Coleman
will
be
made
known
at
the
inquest.
Blehl
was
reponea
to
nave
been
sitting
at
a
table
with
four
other
pecrale
in
the
Young
resi.
dence
when
he
collaosed
sud
denly.
He
died
Immediately.
Po
lice
were
called,
and
later
Coroner
Stenhens
and
Dr.
Coleman.
A
former
resident
of
Stewart,
Biehl
was
said
to
have
been
on
the
verge
of
returning
to
a
jod
at
the
Portland
Canal
town.
Recently
he
was
employed
as
a
fish
Dacker
bn
the1
waterfront.
He
lived
at
the
Hampton,
Apart-
He
is
survived
by
his
mother,
at
Everett,
Washington.'
and
a
sister,
also
jrf'the
United
States.
U.S.
Forces
To
Get
Meat
Export
Permits
Tlaccd
On
Poultry
As
Well-Effective
Tonight
OTTAWA,
June
26
Q
Hon,
J.
L.
Ilsley,
minister
of
finance,
announced
today
that,
effective
at
midnight
tonight,
meat
and
dressed
and
live
poultry
will
be
placed
under
export
permit
at
all
customs
ports
across
wan
ada.
The
statement
said
the
action
was
being
taken
in
conjunction
with
the
United
States
to
insure
filling
of
an
American
contract
for
30,000,000
pounds
of
chicken
to
feed
the
armed
forces.
MANY
SEEKING
HOUSE
SEATS
Total
of
1675
Candidates
For
600
British
Parliamentary
Places
LCNDCN,
June
26
Candl-
in
nine
weeks
by
the
delegates
of
fifty
nations.
Signatures
were
being
affixed
this
morning
and
this
afternoon.
The
first
nation
to
sign
was
China.
The
conference
closes
with
a
final
address
by
president
Truman
at
4
p.m.
Now
the
delegates
return
to
their
homes
to
present
the
charter
to
their
respective
governments
for
approval.
Greatest
Raid
Yet
Five
Hundred
Bombers
Drop
3000
Tons
of
Explosives
On
Jap
Homeland
GUAM,
June
26
O)
B-29's.
have
delivered
their
most
powerful
demolition
raid
since
"the
precision
attacks
on
.Japanese
Industry
began.
Nearly
five
hun
dred
giant
bombers
took
part
In
today's
assault
and
dropped
more
than
three
thousand
tons
of
high
explosives
on
ten
aircraft
and
ordnance
plants
in
the
enemy
homeland
..
WILL
LAY
Utt
WAR
WORKERS
WINNIPEG,
June
26
(CP)
Ten
thousand
workers
may
be
laid
off
on
the
completion
of
war
work
In
Greater
Winnipeg,
so
says
the
chairman
of
the
Industrial
Development
Board
of
Manitoba,
M.
C.
Oilman.
The
Board
plans
to
institute
a
three-year
survey
covering
postwar
unemployment
and
reconversion
problems.
NUTtBREAD
The
earliest
bread
was
pre
pared
from
acorn
and
beechnuts.
High
1:56
21.1
feet
15:01
18.5
feet
Low
..
8:45
2.0
feet
20:45
7.5
feet
Would
Make
Home
Loans
Second
Company
Willing!
'
to
Interest
Itself
In
Prince
Rupert
.
d..'
Further
word
of
encourage
ment
regarding
applying
the
Na
tional
Housing
Act
here
has
been
received
by
Maurice
Brydges
g
eecretary
of
the
Prince
Rupert'
Housing
Association
and
a
meet
ing
cf
members
has
taeen
called
for
Wednesday
night
to
consider
the
brightening
picture;
The
meeting
will
be
held
In
the
City
Council
chamber.
Latest
word
to
be
received
is
from
H.
A.
Gillespie,
supervisor
of
mortgages,
Oreat
West
Life
Assurance
Company,
and
R
ln.,
dlcates
that
his
company
may
be
able
to
take
an
active
interest
in
financing
construction
of
modern
homes
here
by
the
time
federal
government
per
units
could
ibe
made
effective.
The
lag
between
the
time
an
lndlvidual'aDolles
for
a
con-.
I
structlon
permit
and
the
time
it
is
Issued
by
the
federal
gpvernr
ment
Is.
about
10
months,
Mr,
Gillespie
states,
and
It
is
probable
that
In
the
Interval
his
company
may
be
In
a
position
to
expand
Us
operations
to
Prince
Rupert.
'
At
present,
taff
shortages
and
other
difficulties
makelt
impos-
stble
for
the
company
to
operate
outside
the
Vancouver
zone.
"If
members
of
your
assocla
Uon,
care
to
proceed
with
applications
for
federal
permits,
which
up
to
,
the
present
have
taken
10
months
to
be
issued
we
would
like
to
have
you
contact
us
againand
if
facilities
permit
we
will
give
consideration
to
your
proposal,
Mr.
uiuespie
wrote.
Mr.
Brvdges
has
also
received
a
reply
to
a
similar
proposal
made
to
the
Sun
Lite
Assurance
company
by
the
local
group.
The
company
also
Indicated
that
they
would
not
be
aible
to
make
loans
,
in
Prince
Rupert
at
present.
ANOTHER
BEER
PARLOR
IS
UNION
J.
Mulroney,
business
agent
1
Lfor
the
'.BeveragoDispenscK,
ITnion,
Prince
Rupert,
reports
that
the
Union
was
successful
in
negotiating
a
17-polnt
col-
.
lectlve
agreement
In
Us
entirety
with
the
management
of
the
Central
HoteL
This
Is
the
seventh
hotel
In
the
city
to
sign
the
agreement
and,
as
a
result,-is
now
displaying
the
Inter
national
House
Card
of
the
Union
in
Its
'beer
parlor.
Stanley
Morin,
A.
J.
Turcotte
and
J.
Mulroney
signed
for
tht
Union
while
A.
Dixon
signed
for
the
Central
Hotel.
Mr.
Mulroney
says
that
there
is
only
one
remaining
hotel
in
the
city
that
'
has
not
a
collective
agreement
with
the
Union.
Real
Highway
to
Alaska
And
Russia
Is
Advocated
Connecting
Link
Between
Central
British
Columbia
and
Present
Road
Is
Essential,
Declares
Engineer
For
almost
a
half
century
the
project
of
inter-continental
transportation
between
North
America
and
Asia
has
been
thwarted,
writes
Donald
MacDonald,
former
member
Alaska
Highway
Commission,
in
Min-
dates
numbering
1675
have
been
ing
World.
While
the
tremendous
SCOpe
Of
the
idea-nominated
for
600
seats
in
the
the
tying
together
of
the
peoples
of
almost
the
entire
.next
British
lhrllament.
La
bor
has
601
candidates,
Conservatives
547,
Liberals
305
and
Commonwealth
and
Communist
parties,
twenty
each.
CRANBORNE
TO
VISIT
CANADA
OTTAWA.
June
26
Viscount
Cranborne,
British
Secretary
of
State
for
the
Dominions,
will
visit
Ottawa
now
that
the
San
fore
Father
Simpson
moved
ac-
Francisco
world
security
con-
ceptance
of
the
advisory
report,
ference
Is
over.
War
News
Highlights
Allies
Kombard
Balikpapan
CANBERRA
A
Japanese
broadcast
says
that
more
than
thirty
Allied
surface
units,
including
cruisers
and
destroyers
now
are
bombarding
Balikpapan
on
the
Island's
east
coast.
The
broadcast
added
that
Allied
minesweepers
are
clearing
Japanese-laid
minefields
but
that
no
Indications
of
a
landing
had
been
observed.
Final
Philippines
Battle
.
GUAM
Americans
and
Filipinos
are
tigh'tcnlng
the
noose
around
the
Japanese
in
the
last
big
battle
of
the
Philippines.
Air
Force
fighter
and
attack
bombers
lent
support
to
the
drive
against
the
Japanese
who
are
making
ft
final
stand
In
iLuzon's
Cagayan
Valley,
world
with
connected.
Impregnable,
efficient
land
transpor
tationhas
challenged
the
imaginations
of
czars,
philosophers
and
construction
flnan-ceers;
while
the
construction
obstacles
were
well
within
the
range
of
engineering
science;
while
the
potentialities
of
the
project
as
Insuring
the
peace
of
the
world
had
been
grasped
and
realized
by
Us
first
pro
ponent,
the
American
genius
Wm.
GlUpln,
the
world's
first
gco-polltlclan
in
1870.
the
pro
ject
was
blocked
by
lnternation.
al
conspiracy
stupid,
destruc
tlve,
obstructive
a"nd
blind.
Japan,
Great
Britain,
and
In
no
small
degree
the
United
States,
through
the
ma'chlna-
.tlons
of
the
state
department,
blocked
even
the
poweriui
figures
of
the
1000'sthe
Czar
of
Russia
and
the
great
long-vlsloned
American
financier,
E.
II.
Harriman.
Even
as
late
as
1937
it
appeared
that
President
Roosevelt
and
Premier
Pattullo
were
agreed
that
construction
should
start
at
once
on
the
Alaskan
International
Highway
to
extend
only
to
Fairbanks,
Alaska.
The
Japanese,
perturbed
by
the
Imminence
of
the
project,
secured
the
aid
of
tho
"great
appeaser,"
Cham-
bcilain,
then
interdicting
the
construction
of
such
a
highway
through
Canada.
Through
the
press
the
Japan
ese
made
almost
hysterical
pro
test
against
construction
of
this
highway
to
Fairbanks.
To
them
It
was
included
as
a
part
of
a
supposed
conspiracy
to
"encircle"
Japan.
It
is
significant
that
no
matter
what
the
desires
of
Presl.
dent
Roosevelt
ancLPremler
Pat
tullo,
the
highway
was
not
started
then.
The
tragedy
of
the
denial
of
the
effort
of
E.
II.
Harriman
in
1907,
which
resulted
in
blocking
construction,'
lies
In
the
fact
that
If
this
great
project
had
been
built
at
that
time
it
is
quite
possible
that
the
war
would
not
have
occurred.
The
existence
of
such
transportation,
had
it
been
built,
would
have
meant
the
possibility
of
concentrating
the
great
force
of
the
Industrial
power
of
-the
U.S.
on
the
problem.
Both
Japan
and
Germany
gambled
that
the
submarine
would
be
equal
to
the
destruc
tion
of
the
American
effort.
We
know
how
close
they
came'
to
being
right.
But
had
there
been'
efficient,
impregnable
land
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Continued
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Pajs
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