NORTHERN AND CENTTTATrBRnTCH "COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER Weather Forecast Local Tides MM North Coast and Queen Charlotte Saturday, December 8, 1945 Island Moderate south to High 3:39 18.2 feet southeast winds, partly cloudy 15:06 20.7 feet with scattered snow flurries. Low 9:20 9.0 feet Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port 21:58 3.9 feet VOL, XXIV, No. 283. PRINCE RUPERT. B.C., FRIDAY. DECEMBER 7, 1945 PRICE FIVE CENTS u nem In Province To Be Absorbed :ive Powers lay ivieet wi n IVIOSCOW 10NDON, Dec. 7 Kf1 A Foreign fllcc spokesman said today that mien Secretary Ernest Bevin is txpected to make an an nouncement soon about a pos- jile meeting oi ioreign minis-trs of the United States, Brlt-in Russia, France and China. The live foreign ministers might Injeet in Moscow soon. The spokesman said that no ndlcation of the nature of Be- vin'j announcement could be iiven now, Such a meeting would the first for the five foreign ministers since their conference a London last October. The London Evening Star said :t was understood that the pro- posal for the five-power meet aj came from Moscow. I Chungking Troops To Enter Mukden CHUNGKING. Dec. 7 O Na tionalist vanguards have reached the outskirts of Mukden and are expected to enter the vital Mon-' saurian industrial city before December 10, Chinese dispatches reported today. In China proper' the Nationalists and Communists were reported fighting south I of Kupehkow, one of the main passes-ieaaing to jcnoi province. VANCOUVER CAR CRASH Sixteen Injured When Auto Houghs Into Street Car Crowd at Safety Zone VANCOUVER, Dec. 7 f --Six teen persons were injured last night when an automobile ploughed into a street car at a safety zone at Main St. and Sev-enth Ave., knocking down a crowd of about 20 persons who wrc waiting for an approaching car, None were seriously injured and only three were detained In" hospital, Michael A. Englebecn, aged 45, Ms arrested on a charge of dan-tfrous driving. ILLEGITIMACY ON INCREASE VICTORIA, Dec. 7 0'- The Provincial Board of Health re Ports that illegitimate births In October totalled 03 or almost double the 49 recorded In the same month last year. So far 'here have been 780 Illegitimate births reported against 653 In 1944. ACTION IS DEMANDED Boilermakers Dissatisfied With Rehabilitation Program At a recent meeting of the Boilermakers' Union the federal Sovernment was scored for Its apathy toward reconversion from war to peacetime heeds. After considerable discussion on otters pertaining to continued operation or the local shipyard, strong dissatisfaction was ex-Pressed with the government'3 Canadian National committee 'or Its tardiness In giving a decision regarding tne replacement ' the boats operating on this coast. The dclecaWs from the Boiler makers were instructed to bring we following Ideas to the atten-of the continuation commtt- meeting tonight. Setting up of a Martlme Commission by federal govcrn- eiH to operate a Merchant Marine. Soverencc pay to workers to ver reconversion period. Rally public support by mass demonstration against any lay-orf without adequate protec-l'"n Mr rehabilitation, Suite CENSORSHIP TIGHTENED MOSCOW The Soviet government, after a five weeks' relaxation, has tightened up on the censorship of outgoing dispatches of foieign correspondents. "BIO BESS" ARRIVES NEW YORK Twelve thousand Canadian war veterans arrived in New York oday on the liner Queen Elizabeth. To days arrivals bring to 151,000 the total number of Canadian troops repatriated from Euj-ope. IMPACTION NOT FAVORABLE NEW YORK An American radio correspondent in London has reported that the reaction of the London press to official announcements of the $,100,000,000 loan is not wholly favorable. He said that Lord Iteaverbrook's Daily Express headlined the slcry with the words "We pay until A. I). 2000." WAVELL-OANDHI MEET CALCUTTA The .Viceroy of India, Viscount, Wavcll, will meet Mohandas Gandhi with-in the next few days, presumably to discuss the release of political prisoners. FRANCE AN- J.iUtMANY PARIS Spokesman for the French foreign office has explained the attitude of France toward the administration of Germany. He says his country has no objection to centralized control of Germany but France ? Is opposed to any proposal to make German officials masters of a centralized German administration. BRING BACK BRIDES TORONTO The president of the "Bring Back Our Brides Association" of British Columbia, Robert B. McEwen of Vancouver, arrived in Toronto last night on his way to Ottawa. He is going to present the case of 3000 West Coast war veterans berorc federal authorities. These servicemen married English girls in Eng land and still arc waiting for their brides to be brought to Canada. About 500 of the B.C. veterans are said to have voted to go to Britain to join their wives if their wives arc not brought to Canada soon. First Conviction Yamashita Convicted as War Criminal And Sentenced to Hang MANILA, Dec. 7 (CP) General Yamashita was today convicted criminal of as a war responsibility for war atrocities against American citizens in the Philippines -and was sentenced to death by hanging. The conviction was by a court of five American military officers. The execution must 'be approved by General Douglas MacArthur before it is finally effected. There is an appeal of habeas corpus before the United States Supreme Court but it is expected to be disregarded. Meanwhile the machinery of prosecution of war criminals on the Japanese mainland gained further momentum yesterday with order for the arrest of two powerful figures whom many Japanese them selves consider their top war criminals Prince Konoye and Marquis Kldo. Also listed as wanted and ordered by General Douglas MacArthur to be arrested as war crimes suspects were seven other men whose activities date back to the imperialistic preludes of the Pacific war. Konoye, who has served as one of Japan's most-prized thus COMMITTEE DISSOLVED OTTAWA Fiance Minister Hsley announced in the House of Commons today the disso-lusion of the National War Finance Committee. Mr. Hsley, John Bracken and M. J. Cold-well paid high tribute to the work of the committee during the war. I'lime Minister Mackenzie King, in turn, acknowledged Mr. Ilsley's efforts and the House cheered as he did POINTS LOWERED OTTAWA Canadian Army soldiers overseas may now be repatriated on fifty points service except clciks who must have 120 points and cooks who require 150. CHRISTMAS FARE OTTAWA Thousands of tons of special Christmas fare turkeys, mincemeats, cranberries and other delicacies arc being t hipped lor the Canadian occupation foices still overseas. WOOLLEN BAN LUTED OTTAWA Import controls of raw wool and yarns are being lifted. This means that these articles may soon be easier to obtain. 1 GEN. MACKENZIE RESIGNS OTTAWA Major-GencraU John Philip Mackenzie has resigned as construction controller now that the board is being dissolved. He was former inspector-general and quartermaster-general of 'the'Cana'' dian Army, and before the war, was manager of the Hamilton Bridge Co. at Vancouver. TOJO TO BE TRIED TOKYO Gen. MacArthur's headquarters in Tokyo announces the Japanese Pearl Harbor Premier General Hi-dek Tojo will t)e tried in January along with the members of his cabinet. DIPLOMATS DEFENDED WASHINGTON Secretary of State James Byrnes today, before the Senate foreign relations committee, described as "without foundation" charges by Major-General P. J. Hurley against career diplomats of sabotaging United States foreign policy in the Far East. Condemne HOPING FOR STRIKE END Union Committees at Windsor Give Unanimous Proposal to New Formula Being Offered to Membership WINDSOR, Dec. 7 it) New hope for ending the 86-day old union security strike at the Ford plant gathered strength yesterday amid reports of a union-sponsored plan to break the deadlock. Union negotiating and policy committees gave unanimous ap proval to a new settlement pro-pcsal which many nton men hoped would lead to a second membership vote. Last week the union membership, by a very narrow vote, rejected a government-sponsored plan. A meeting of the shop stew ards at the strike-bound plant Is being held today to discuss the new plan for settlement of the lengthy strike. Union officials declare-that It depends on what the stewards decide whether the proposals will be presented to Ford company officials. front men, has been Premier three times. Kldo served as Emperor Hlro-hito's right hand man through the war. "BUTCHER OF WARSAW" BROUGHT TO US. Col. Josef Albert Mcislnger, the so-called "Butcher "Of Warsaw." who was captured in Japan last Sept. 12, was brought to the United States from Tokyo. He was Immediately placed in the guardhouse at Hamilton Field, Calif., while army, authorities prepared to have him flown to Washington. Photo thows Melsinger entering the compound at Hamilton Field. : . - -? 1 . OKANAGAN Charles Morrow, Vernon Lawyer, Is Choice of Coalition Parties VERNON, Dec. 7 P Charles Morrow, Vernon lawyer, was yes terday nominated coalition candidate for North Okanagan-ln the provincial by-election to be, held December 19 to fill the seat In the Legislature rendei-ed vacant by the death of the late Dr. K. C. MacDonald, minister of agriculture. Mr. Morrow was unoppascd at a convention of Liberals and Conservatives. He was unsuccessful candidate for the Liberals In Yale in the 1940 federal election. C.C.F., Labor Progressive and Social Credit candlatcs are also In the by-elcctlon field. Actor Is Cleared Of Collaborating NEW YORK. Dec. 7 The New York' Times said today in a Paris despatch that moving picture actor Maurice Chevalier was acquitted yesterday by the national committee in charge of the theatrical purge of charges of collaborating with the Germans. IS FAVORED BY TEACHERS Cameron Educational Report Approved and Premier John Hart So Advised VICTORIA, Dec. 7 (P) The British Columbia Teachers' Federation has endorsed the Cameron report on educational costs and has so informed Premier John. Hart, it was announced yesterday. The Federation commended the government for its proposed legislation lmplementln.3 recommendations of the report, one of the features of which Is a general plan to have the provincial government assume a larger portion of educational costs from the local communities. Changes in the set-up of teachers' salaries are also recommended including one proposal that the mlnlmums be reduced. ,vV?v CCF. Split Revealed Cleavage on Labor Policies Disclosed at Convention TORONTO, DeC. 6 Inner fric tion over the job that the party was doing in labor came into cial convention of the C.C.F. The disagreement has been apparent for some time but this is the first occasion that It has been aired In public. The report of the party's trade union committee was the focal point of the barrage. When pro-sented for debate it came In for a strong wave cf criticism, the bulk of it bitter. The critics took apart the party's trade union leadership, its organizational methods, and general apathy among the membership toward unionism. Underlying the criticism was the struggle for union strength between the C.C.F. and the La- bor-Prcgresslvc Party, and the dissident element left no doubt that It thought the C.C.F. was losing out. As one member said, it was "being outmanoeuvred and outfought." Say Workers Are Neglected Criticism of policy was that it had concentrated too much (unsuccessfully) on union leadership and had neglected organization among the membership-at-large. There was wide agree ment that if the CCF was to get anywhere in trade unionism It wouldn't be through deals with leadership but through formation of CCF clubs and industrial units at the workers' level. The most bitter complaints of all, however, were launched at the membership at large. Trade union speakers said that not only was the CCF membership apathetic about labor organization, ;but that there were many members who actually wouldn't even Join their own union. One resolution before the convention put this In strong tenns vhen It said "Whereas In Ontario Industry there is an appall-( Continued on Page 5) Temperature Maximum 40 Minimum 32 Rainfall .15 inches ADOLF HITLER'S INSIDE STORY Lies of Fuehrer Are Proven by His Own Documents at Nuernberg SAVED BY WEATHER NUERNBERG, Dec. 7 (CP) Adolf Hitler's armies were poised for an invasion of the Low Countries and France November 7, 1939, but the attack was postponed week by week for six months because of bad weather, official German, rec- . ords disclosed at the war crimes trial today. Meanwhile , Hitler deceitfully told Holland, Pelgium and Luxembourg that he had no plans to attack them. German parachute plans against the Low Countries fell into Allied hands January 10, 1910, when a Nazi plane was forced down. The inside story of Hitler's activities Just pujr to the outbreak of war Is being unveiled by documents produced by Brit ish prosecutors at the tional war crimes trial. Proving lies of the Fuehrer's diplomatic double talk .with. Hitler's own official records, the British prosecutors revealed a Wermacht directive dated April 3, 1939, ordering the army to be ready for a Polish invasion "at any time from September on- wards." Germany's axis partner, Italy, was not let In on the plan to invade Poland until August 12, 1939, and Benito Mussolini made an urgent but fruitless re quest for Hitler to postpone the war for two or three years to perntlt Italian rearmament to progress. ' "Pleaswere alsd-madWHrtler to. -ithold "his hand by Prime Miplster Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain and Premier Edou-ard Daladler of France. 'Revelations were also made of Hitler's plans to Invade Norway. Long before the invasion Alfred Rosenberg and Grand Admiral Raeder had arranged for bases. Transportation For Unemployed VANCOUVER, Dec. 7 One hundred jobless veterans and other unemployed in Vancouver have been granted free transportation to Eastern Canada and the prairies since Wednesday National Employment Service officials here announced last night. MEAT RATION TO CONTINUE OTTAWA, Dec. 7 Qi Agricul ture Minister J. G. Gai diner said in Commons today that Canada could not maintain her shipments of beef and pork to Britain In 1946 unless she con tlnued to' restrict domestic con sumption of those meats. This statement was taken tc indicate that the Canadian meat ration, resumed in Sep tember at a scale of one and a-thlrd pounds of boneless meat per person per week, will con tlnue far Into next year. Prime Minister Mackenzie King has' already stated that rationing will continue through out the winter. TERMS OF U.S. BRITISH LOAN WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 Un-' der terms of the $4,400,000,000 agreement announced yesterday whereby United States loans $4,-400,000,000 to Great Britain, Britain would have 50 years to repay, starting In 1951 and ending 2001. There would be equal an nual payments at two percent Interest. Under certain adverse conditions interest payments could be skipped. , Arrangements to work to gether, President Harry S. Truman and Prime Minister Clem ent Attiee .ald In statements, "If carried out will put an end to CHEIMSFORD, Eng. Mrs. fear of an economically divided A. Duck won first prize at a world," Premier Hart Expects Work For All Shortly System for Flat Payment in Lieu of Income and Corporation Taxes to Be Continued VICTORIA, Dec. 7 (CP) Premier John, Hart said, following his return here from the Dominion-provincial meeting at Ottawa, that assurance that adequate supplies would be made available in the next several months to absorb all manpower now out of work had been given him by Hon. C. D. Howe, federal minister CONFIDENCE IN ATTLEE GOV'T LONDON, Dec 7 (CP) The British House of Commons voted nearly two to one yesterday to support the Labor government of Prime Minister Attlee. A motion to censure the government was introduced by Winston Churchill, leader of the opposition Conservative party. The House rejected the motion by 381 to 197.. SALMON' PACK AWAY HIGHER It VANCOUVER. Dec. 7 0 Federal fisheries department officials yesterday reported final figures for the 1945 British Col umbia canned salmon pack were 1,737,578 cases as compared with 1,097,557 cases last year. Each case weighs fifty pounds. APPROVAL IS ASKED Minister of Finance Asks Parliament to Back Up Bretton Woods OTTAWA, Dec, 7 P'--Speaklng In the House of Commons last night, Finance Minister Hsley ailed for approval of the Bret- ton Woods International monetary agreement. He declared that few countries in the world would have a greater Interest in the agreement than Canada. He said he agreement has been put for ward as a means of stabilizing nternational economic relations so that the world will be turned from the path which led to the disastrous depression of the 1930's. The finance minister told the Commons that Canada's parti cipation In the agreement would cost this country $025,000,000 $300,000,000 to the monetary fund and $325,030,000 to the in ternational bank of reconstruc tion. The subscriptions would be partly payable In gold and partly In the national currency. Canadian dollars In the monetary fund, he said, would be spent In Purchasing goods and services In "anada. IRAN BLAMED BY RUSSIANS LONDON, Dec. 7 Oi The Mos cow radio Is blaming the new outbreak In Iran 'on the military authorities of that country. A Moscow broadcast says Persian soldiers at Tabriz opened fire ,oi a religious procession. Meantime however, the Tabriz radio says insurrectionist party members attacked troops In their billets and killed 24 persons, while six were killed near tne Russian frontier. GETS FOUR MORE YEARS IN PRISON VANCOUVER, Dec. 7 ffv-James Charlebols, aged 45, who police said had spent 123,i years In Jail since 1930, was sentenced to four years' Imprisonment after pleading guilty to three charges of dealing In forgeries. The charges arose out of the cashing of checks Involving $700. local fete. The prize was a duck, I of reconstruction. The British Columbia Premier also announced that a budgetary system similar to that now in force with the Dominion government provifiing $12,COO,000 in lieu of Income and corporation taxes forfeited during the war would be continued. SUPPORTING FORD STRIKE Local Boilermakers Arc Giving One Day's Pay At a mass meeting of Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders' Union on Monday, called to support the Windsor Ford strikers, was urged that all unloif merri-bers. contribute the equivalent to one day's pay as laid out by Canadian Congress of Labor-policy to support the strike against the Ford Motor Co. for union conditions. After discussion the recommendation 'was unanimously supported. A resolution addressed to' Prime Minister W. L. Macken- jsje King urging, "thp.lmmediate. establishment of""ccmpuisory collective bargaining" was also un animously endorsed. Rewards Offered For Auto Killer VANCOUVER, Dec. 7 ffi Two additional offers of $100 each sent to $450 the total rewards for -apprehension and conviction of the automobile driver who caused the death of James Maxwell here last Thursday. Maxwell was struck by an automobile which failed to stop as he was attempting to board a street car. ALL P.O.W.'S ARE HOME J Hospital Ship Lctitia Lands Them at Tacoma Repatriation Team Also Back TACOMA, Dec. 7 Oi The for mer Donaldson liner .Letltia, now a Canadian hospital ship, arrived here Wednesday with the last Canadian prisoners of war and Canadian Army repatriation team which was flown to the western pacific to look after the repatriation of Canadian, prisoners of war. The last prisoner of war was Private Earl Mossman of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, who will spend his first Christmas at'.hdme'ln six years. 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