SAYS BRITAIN NEEDS PEOPLE FROM EUROPE LONDON P' An article in thc London Times on British Uom- nvonwcalth policies declared tori. that Britain must encour age Immigration from Europe and the bearing or larger lam-llics by mothers. Such policies arc needed to combat thc present manpower dlfftcultlcs In Britain and to "maintain responsibility lor providing the dominions with a steady supply of new citizens 'for expansion within thc British way of life." NORTHERN AND CNTAJfBRlikik COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER TVWVTf T??y?TTTTVTTVTVi TAXI PTAXI TAXI 5 Plump 537 .NIOHT SERVICE DAY AND NIGHT SERVICE 3 stand: I pressllottl, Third Ave.Y Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" Bill and Ken Nesbitt VOL. XXXVI, No. 16. PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1947 PRICE FIVE CENTS Kiiiiiuiiiiitiiiiimt rrible Ship tastrophe In Mediterranean I. nmnni1 inr miiiiiu j ca bin prowier derable amount eis Wirhth Av- . .,. o'-'iai nractlcc. .riini. nf monev. fnr til PXim n-i Mrs. Hansen ta visit friends, Mr. j Inst the la addition to locking i fcrv returned some I puJttd aside. the fact that two t::.T i:t burning in ch? burglar did a! -5 exoen lob of ran- mn and cuDboards r-it'j caused lone mnlB n rlffflfpltp In tciroom; ...i reported to the : $2 red been taken rile j handbag the burglar had attempted to gain i u;ual method, ' i Laed coal bin. i -i i:d wedged an c-xt frame making ,. Tm prowler then i'l n 1. 1 1 " n;i r ft. mil r i v l - - - dAKNj OBBED '1TB Tim T.nunr b: j scoured lor I .? BC E..::trlc Rail- i r i ii iriini wi c : and e :-,aped with la er:h and street T.:r; ::a in a stolen :ur we:; atmca Willi PREMIER RESIGNS ROME Premier Gasparri of Italy suddenly announced his resignation, admitting his inability to handle the present cabinet crisis arising out of unemployment, food shortage and general economic unrest. STEEL INDUSTRY HIT LONDON In view or decreasing mine production, the government today ordered a cut of 23 percent in the fuel supply to Britain's steel plants which had aimed at a record output this year. Several industries are going on short time basis. The jNuffleld motor concern will close down for a time and Austin Is cutting off one day a week. MAYOR RECOVERING VANCOUVER Dr. Lyon Apply announced today that Mayor G. G. McGeer, back In hospital for a check-up, was "very lit." The mayor is hating a series of x-rays. A meeting of the police commission scheduled for St. Paul's Hospital today has been called off. HORSES RUN AMOK QUEBEC There was considerable consternation in Quebec streets today when forty horses from Western Canada got loose between a freight shed and a ferry boat and ran amok in the streets as they became frightened by motor vehicles. WOODEN SHirS BANNED 'f CIIIVRIIlt III nfUlfll ships for passenger carrying has been banned following the disaster on Saturday in the muddy waters of the Yanglse River when from $00 to 600 Chinese were drowned as a small river boat, crowded with passengers, collided with a lighter boat and sank off Woosung north of ShanghaL The second mate of the passenger ship has been arrested and the manager of the owning company is being sought. ce Kuoert s Lase ror Air , - r r u run Mirwoif in -Niinnnri i it i i a w w . r.il.U tt r..i..UtrUt.. .,At-.A,J.tlA,1 nU .rtflAil VtAt-u'trn ' LI It Fin I ' f 1 11 T1 11 nn tVtn f Ml114 ti UnPII r M 1 ril II n 'I rivK, i. .1 I.. m t . . 1 . J ""uwiuri; ouivty Ji Viv IJU0411VDJ, itouuivvo awu ov-. this area, Since then Canadian Pacific Airlines has urn n i nHHiui r . I . I a . .v. a tnc bennt of Daily News readers. HCrc is the ninth .fill FISHING INDUSTRY v ic tVi, c: .i.: i i ' i. i. i ti. lLlllUH-t U 1 i ....1 - fol, V 111 tho Wn Wlii In flin fiali ii t lie arn fVinm. i U IT Uli; A lOil lUlii mviu "',,u'i mv; iiiuuMiy us a wuuiu ib nut, prartif.n.. ii. i . ' "Karaiim lo the tvno Mimuii;, iiic run vit una of days. , - u.niurnon or nc ht .... . . . .... waters aaiacent -t iiu mc wuccn " " ,i it V ' ito conduct tho r a a far as Vancouvor Aiabka panhandle, -"liools may be milliiji) iHiiiiiriu ,.r 11 year rm.i.. .. ' '-'lull c il vprv hi- ... - " V.J u.iii nir rii,f ti ; and thc smalIer ,Lb ire hi the nii..Hiv ir.'?Mf.rl It.. - '"u. nio lariri-r rum. "'"- may in some ve ns rir.r..t.. Matenance of this fleet is a contlnulnsr. and difficult problem. To withstand weather conditions in thc open Pacific, thc boats und their power nlants must be in excellent shane. Too. if It is necessary to put Into harbor for repairs, should a tvDC of fish be run ning, then those repairs must be made with thc uimosi ppeca it thc owner is to avail ltbnsclf of the run. Tt ulll ho seen that the slock lug of an adequate parts supply fur the motors is of Vital im porta nee to the owner of the Individual fish-boat, significant,! therefore, is tlic figure of eight marine equipment distributors, most of whom maintain only nominal spare parts supplies. Tho uuestlon Is not one of de mand; such demand is reasonably constant. But to stock a large commitment of marine motor parts particularly dlesel (Continued on Page Three) TALKS POSTPONED LONDON Palestine talks, which were to have commenced today, have been postponed until Thursday as some of the Arab delegates have not yet arrived. Jewish representatives are boycotting the conference. VORTHINGTON TO COAST EDMONTON General Wor-thington, general officer commanding of the Canadian Army, has left Edmonton for a week's inspection trip to thc Pacific Coast. POLISH ELECTION WARSAW Twelve million people in Poland voted yesterday in a general election for a Parliament which will draw up a new constitution for Poland and elect a president. Remits will not be announced until the end of the jnonlh buj indications arc for an overwhelming victory for the Communist dominated government. AQUITANIA DELAYED HALIFAX The arrival of thc liner Aqultania at Halifax with the last large party of Canadian Army repatriates and war brides was delayed from Sunday until Tuesday morning owing to rough weather on the Atlantic crossing. MARSHALL ARRIVES WASHINGTON, D.C. Gen- eral George C. Marshall arrives Tuesday from the Far East to be sworn in by Chief Justice Fred w Vinson as Sccre-tary of State of the United States. He paid a brief visit to Los Angeles on liis way here. GUBERNATORIAL FIGHT ATLANTA M. E. Thompson, the new- Lieutenant Governor of Georgia, has declared himself "acting governor" and says he will continue the fight to oust Governor Herman Tal-madge and take the office himself. OPEN KIEL CANAL COPENHAGEN The Danish government is seeking the reopening of the Keil Canal for the shipping of all nations. WINTER TRAINING VANCOUVER Members of the Canadian Aimy are to be flown to the Yukon for winter training. RESTORED SIGHT CHICAGO After thc explosion and flash of a furnace, whkh he was firing, a local ex-service man, who had lost thc sight of one of his eyes during the war, found that thc vision had been restored. Eye specialists had given up hope of the man ever seeing again out of that eye. SPRUCE THREATENED KETCHIKAN The box beetle has destroyed much of thc limber in Alaska's best Sitka spruce stand, west of Ketchikan, and is threatening other stands on the coast. DEATH SENTENCE VANCOUVER Davis llous-ton, 26-year-old Indian, has been sentenced to death for Ihc murder of Mrs. Bcalilcc Smith, logging camp took, in a Bcliie Inlet camp. Thc conviction is being appealed. BRITONS FAVOR PRINCE PHILIP i j Would Give Princess Elixabeth Freedom to Marry Man of ! Her Choice LONDON W Thousands of Princess Elizabeth's possible fu ture subjects who registered their sentiments through an un-nrecedented newsDaoer Doll Sun day defended her right to marry Prince Phllin of Greece the man of her choice If all but of flclal rumors can be believed. Sunday Pictorial says that, of thousand of ktters from all classes. 64 percent now favor Princess Elizabeth marrying the Greek prince. TO MAKE CRUISE OF THIS COAST OTTAWA The aircraft car rlcr UM.CS. Warrior; cruiser Uganda and destror Crescent i will make a Pacific Coast cruise this summer, It Is announced. The three craft are no based on Esquimau s navul station. Ceilings Boosted I OTTAWA IB EffccUvc today i It costs more to cat at hotels land restaurants. Thc Prices ' and Trade Board announced last ! night that prices of meals containing meat, fish, poultry or t - ...111 u ln.M4tni1 17 inn Cgg W ill Ut ilH-i WJ -v.. percent but no more than ten cents. The Board has permitted a five-cent Increase in Uic price or any sandwich containing hot cooked meat, poultry or eggs. The Prices Board also an nounced that, effective today, the mice of leather lootwear mav be Increased by eleven per cent for men and nine percent for women. Increase of all leather coods such as purses cloves, leather clothing and harness may be authorized stinrt.1V. It is further announced that the price ceiling on used cars and trucks is boosted ten per cent and seven percent respectively, effective today. Thc action follows a similar increase last month of the celling on new cars and trucks. iHlll another celling Increase tnd.-iv Is that on bulk ice cream of 2c per quart and lc per pint including bricks. Weather Delays State Ceremony WASHINGTON fo Installa tion of General George C. Marshall as United States Secretary of State was disrupted today when his plane to Washington was rorced to land at Chicago due to bad weather. General Marshal is preparing lor the forthcoming BI? Four rorcign ministers' conference on the German and Austrian peace beUlcmeiit. Thc United Slates delegation will leave in a month for the Soviet capital. Nationalist Gov't Snubbed By Reds NANKING 0-Chlncsc Communists today rejected a nationalist government olfcr to send an emissary to Ycnnau to reopen truce negotiations. The government proposals had been relayed to Communist party headquarters at Yennan ror May Nullify Polish Vote Communist Government Party Wins By 80 Percdnt WARSAW (CP) Vice premier Stanislaw Mlkolajeczyk, opposition leader of the Polish peasant party, hinted today that he might .seek supreme court ('nullification of yesterday's parliamentary flections, as cffiicals forecast 80 percent victory for the communist-dominated government block. Unofficial returns give the the government bloc a four-to-one majority over the peas-aut, party. .The vice - premier charged violaticn vt the secret ballot guarantee. SHARKS DISAPPEAR VANCOUVER Profitable soupfin shark fishing has ended for the simple reason that the fish have Port Simpson Man Meels Mother 19 Years AJter He LeJt hngland Coincidence added to the joyfof reunion for George Cuthill, Hudson's Bay Co. store manager at Port Simpson Sunday evening vvhen he greeted his mother, who flew from' England to seeher son for the first f.'mo tin Vio loft. Viis Vinmplkiifl 19 vears afro. bltAlV OlllVW 4 - " ? f i When Mrs. Chris Cuthill. of Edinborough, Scot- liMlU. BICLIUVU UUllll w.v bu"l plank of the Union Steamship Coauitlam here, and Into thc -fcrmsifOT her -son- Bunday rrc ning it was 19 years to the day since she had bade him rarcwcll al a Southampton whart. "There may be sometliing in this numerology business alter all," said Mr. Cuthill in an interview with the Dally News. "I said goodbye to my mother at Southampton on January 19, 1928 when I left for Canada and, exactly 19 years later, January 19, 1947, I see her again." Mrs. CuUiill left London on January 8 by British Overseas Airways plane for New York, spent two days in the American city, and landed in Vancouver on January 10. She spent a week in Vancouver visiting other rela tives, including two grandsons, then boarded the Coquitlam for Prince Rupert and Port Simp son. Her rapid journey from London to Vancouver allowed her time to stop two days in New York on invitation of an American ex-soldler who, among scores of others, she had shown hospitality at her Edinborough home durinir thc war. She will remain In Canada ror six months, then probably will return to Scotland by boat Durlns thc 19 years in whicn her son lias been in Canada, he has been with Uie Hudson's Bay Co. serving In northern Alberta and now at Port Simpson The interesting traveller also was erected bv a daughter-ln law and grandson whom she had never seen before. With Mr. Cuthill was his wife and small son and also Mrs. Culhlll's mother, Mrs. McDonald, who had come to Prince Rupert to greet her. Thc party took passage on the Coquitlam lor Port Simpson last night. POLICE ENFORCE PARKING LAWS TruMc regulations governing parking on city streets having a width of 20 feet or less are being enforced, the city police say. They note a considerable disregard for, or ignorunce of, park-lug regulations on narrow, residential streets. On avenues, running cast od west, parking Is permitttd only on thc northerly side, with the vehicle racing west, while on streets, running .north-and south, parking must be conrlned to the easterly side or the street, the vehicle racing In a northerly direction. Four Hundred Drown In Greek Marine Disaster When Liner Hits Mine TRAFFIC IS RESTORED Railway Line in Operation Again After Snow Blockade After a line blockade of more than two days owing to snow- slides on cither side of Kwinitsa staUon, 40 miles east of Prince Rupert, trains are moving again along the lower Skeena River. Auxiliary and snow-plow equipment having dug out the slides and lifted a derailed locomotive back on the tracks, the passen ger traln for the.east, which was to have left here at 8 o'clock Friday night, finally got away at 11 o'clock yesterday riprning while the. train due from ine east at 10:45 Saturday night, finally got In al 6:15 last Nice and Friendly Issue ot 'Georgia Governorship jfs; However, -ttot Yet" Settled ATLANTA Herman Tal-madge today refused to yield the Georgia governorship to Lieut. Gov. M. E. Thompson who claims to be "acting governor." Thompson said: "If the courts decide I am the lawful governor, I call on you to co-operate with me. If you are declared governor, my mirpose is to co-operate." This was the line of talk when Thomoson met Talmadee todat i j!n a seemingly friendly conver sation at the start ol which they shook hands. Thompson asked Talmadge to vacate but the lat? ter declined. Talmadge. however, accused Thompson of using force to gain entrance to the executive chamber, adding that "we are able to defend the governor's office and w'H do so if necessary." THE WEATHER Synopsis Temperatures in British Columbia this morning ranged Irom 38 below at Fort Nelson to 37 above at several points in the southwestern portion or the province. Overcast skies arc general and rain is tailing over most of the coast while snow is reported at various places In the interior. A storm centre now some 800 miles southwest of the Queen Charlottes will bring rls-linr temperatures and general precipitation ahead ol it and is expected to reach the Queen Charlottes about 1 mld-mornlng Tuesday. forecast Prince Rupert. Queen Char- Int.tps nnd North Coast Over cast wltlv intermittent rain to day, becoming continuous about midnight. Cloudy with rain showers over Charlottes Tues day, elsewhere overcast with intermittent rain. Southeasterly winds (15 m.p.h.), increasing to 25 tonight and shitting to south'-weserly 20 Tuesday. Little chance In temperature tonight. Lows tonight: Port Hardy 35, Massett 33, Prince Rupert 33. High Tuesday: Port Hardy 42, Massett 38, Prince Rupert 39. Local Tides Tuesday, January 21, 1947 High 1:21 18.1 feet 12:50 20.6 feet Low 6.55 8.9 Teet 19:32 3.1 feet Every Woman and Child On Vessel Believed Perished Parliamentarians On Board ATHENS A Greek liner struck a mine off the coast of Greece and twenty-five miles east of Athens just before dawn Sunday and more than iour hun- rlmrl Tivoc Vinvo lwon Inst TVip vprspI Vinrl Ipft. Rnlnn- ika Saturday for Piraeus with 527 passengers among whom were several men prominent in Greek affairs Board Good i -r Had Year In lerrace American and Dutch Settlers Coming Record of. Accomplishment TERRACE A year or useful activity in promotion of district affairs was indicated at the an nual meeting and banquet of the Terrace and District Board of Trade when George McAdams i was elected president and plans - laid lor even greater usefulness In 1917. The meeting and ban- ouet was held on Friday evening In, the Skeena restaurant with over 70 people present. Thc delicious turkey dinner was enjoyed by all and, at its close. President James Smith proposed a toast to the King and expressed regret that the heavy snowfall had made It impossible ror delegates rrom the Pritce Rupert Chamber of Commerce to be In attendance. However, G. A. Hunter, president of the Prince Rupert Chamber, had sent his best wishes on behalf of the coast Chamber. Mr. Smith then introduced visitors who Included Wesley G. Clarke, Inspector of the provincial Department ol Labor, Prince George Junior Chamber or Commerce; Mr. Wil-mot, Prince George Board of Trade; C. H. Sawle of Hazelton, Morris Dahlquist of Cedarvale and Peter Van gtalk, who has been absent from Terrace for some years. Harry Krng spoke oh the need ol a road to the Lakelse Lake Hot Springs. Every pressure should be brought to bear In order to have its construction begun as soon as possible lor easy access to the hot springs would bring more tourists to Terrace. J. H. Smith, in his report, thanked the mem bers ror the generous support thev had given him and the sec rctary lor his co-operation and hem. He summarized the ac compllsmments ol the board during the past year and showed (Continued on Page 5) At omic ecrets British Scientists Feel That Those of Little Value For Military Research Should Be Yielded LONDON Qi The British Atomic Scientists' Association today urged the United States, oreat Britain and Canada to Immediately give other coun tries help to set up, atomic re search dahts which are "of little use for military research." Atomic reactors, ovens pro ducing heat, radio-active rays and new atoms, "valuable for research purposes and for production of tracer elements for research In medicine and other rields, were cited. bound for Atnens to attend far- llament. The British government at present has before the secur ity council of the United Na-tions a complaint against Albania for sewing mines of German origin in the waters ofr Greece within the past eight months, a charge that Albania has emphatically denied. The disaster was the worst in modern Greek marine history. In addition to the 525 passen gers, there was a crew of fi7. Forty of the nassengers were guerrilla fighters who had bees captured in northern Greece. They were locked up between decks and never had a chance. Half of the port bow of the ship was blown off. Her radio was Immediately out of commis sion and no messages could be sent out. Half an hour after strlWngevminet; the , ship had. 5UJ1&. The water was Icy cold and the victims wlw perished from exposure were as many as those who drowned. Many or the 200 survivors fire in hospital suHerlng from exposure. ' The ship, ihe Chlmarra, was a former German vessel which Greece acquired during the war. The ministry of merchant marine today lncftase'd tfte list al persons missing and beheved dead in the sinking of the Chlmarra at 437. Officials declined to comment on a report that the vessel had been a victim of sabotage. Arlstldes Mytakls. who. sur vived the disaster, estimated almost 200 casualties were women and children. He aald: "I am afraid every child aboard was lost and 95 percent of the wo men." .M The shm same so aulckly that only two of her lifeboats could be launched. Charges have been made that members or the crew became panic-stricken and charged -the lileboats with a view to escap ing themselves. There were scenes or pitiful disorder In the stormy darkness of the Gull or Petalion. OCEAN FALLS HOTEL OPENS THIS SUMMER OCEAN FALLS Tne new seven-storey hotel, being built here by Pacifl'; Mills, is expected to be In readiness lor occuDancv by transient guests and 300 company employees by August 1. Fourth largest notei in British Columbia, the modern structure will have 265 rooms, It Is to be named "Martin Inn"- In honor or the late A. B. Martin, a lormer resident manager of the Pacilic Mills. BRAZIL HOLDING STATE ELECTIONS RIO DE JANEIRO IR In election today, the ttrs; under the new constitution, electors are voting ror 3,000 state officials, including senators, governors, and legislature members in each or the 20 Brazilian states. Legality or the communist party is being contested by the rederal police chleL The voting was reported orderly.