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WOMEN
ASKED
TO
FIGHT
ON
TUBERCULOSIS
ighout
the
history
of
mankind
tuberculosis
isery
than
any
other
disease
hut
in
com-r
recent
years
we
have
really
begun
to
see
ahead
to
its
complete
control
and
final
n,
Miss
J.
Is.
Peters,
H.N.,
of
the
division
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of
tuberculosis
control,
provincial
Board
of
Health,
told
the
Women's
Canadian
Club
at
luncheon
Saturday.
To
reach
a
final
solution
of
this
problem
in
British
Columbia,
Miss
Peters
appcalcd-for
the
considered
understanding
and
help
of
every
man,
woman
ami
child
within
the
province
and
for
actual
co-
opcraUon
in
getting
full
results
from
the
mobile
x-ray
unit
visiting
Prince
Rupert
this
sum
mer
L
.The.
Interesting
speaker
re
viewed
the
outstanding
racts
aooul
tuberculosis
and
des
crlbed
what
the
provincial
gov'
cnmicht
was
doing
to
fight
and
overcome
the
malady.
Moving
picture?
were
shown
with
R.
O.
Moore
and
J.
Goscoe
assisting
at
the
projector.
Mayor
Nora
Arnold
presided.
Mayor
Arnold
and
Mirs
Peters
wore
beautiful
corstscs,
the
gift
of
the
club.
Tuberculosis
was
not
heredi
tary
but
was
caused
by
a'
known
germ,
the
ubctrclc
bacclll,
and
was
passed
from
the
sick
to
the
well,
the
speaker
said.
Unlike
measles,
mumps,
etc.,
where
the
Incubation
period
was
known,
a
person
may
be
Infected
with
the
tubercle
bacilli
in
cany
life
and
not
dcvc'op
the
disease
until
later
In
life,
or
not
at
all.
People
varied
Hcftly
In
their
resistance
to
infection.
Likewise
an
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few
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FIRE
DESTROYS
BOYS'CLUBHOUSE
A
boys'
clubhouse
on
Shcr-
brookc
Avenue
was
destroyed
by
fire
at,
5:30
this
morning
in
an
outbreak
-which
levelled
the
flimsy
structure
before
the
city
lire
.department
could
get
into
action.
According
to
Fire
Chief
II.
T.
Lock,
the
blaze
was
caused
by
an
Improperly
banked
stove
which
had
been
left
alight
by
a
group
of
boys
Sunday
night.
Financial
loss
was
negligible.
CRASHED
IN
GREENLAND
But
United
States
Army
Fliers
Are
All
Safe
After
Spectacular
Rescue
Operation
FAIRBANKS
0
Eleven
United
States'
Artny.
Air
Force
fliers;
who
crashed
r
northwestern
Greenlind
".last
Friday
.
with
a
E29
plane,
arc
safe
at
Thule,
Greenland,
after
being
picked
up
by
rescue
planes
from
Uic
windswept
Ice
cap
2000
miles
northeast
of
Fairbanks.
The
fliers
were
picked
up
by
an
Army
Transport
Command
plane
which
landed
on
a
nearby
lake
and,
after
taking
them
aboard,
flew
them
to
Thule.
None
were
injured.
Three
transports
and
troop-carrying
gliders
flew
across
northern
Canada
from
Ladd
Field
here
to
establish
the
operational
base
at
Thule
to
aid
In
the
rescue
of
the
stranded
fliers
who
were
all
in
good
shape
after
being
trapped
on
the
ice
cap
on
the
west
coast
of
Greenland.
The
rescue
was
completed
today,
the
army
reported.
Local
Tides
Tuesday,
February
25,
1947
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"Prince
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the
Key
to
the
Great
Northwest"
Bill
and
Ken
Nesbitt
1
VOL.
XXXVI,
No.
46.
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
MONDAY,
FEBRUARY
24,
1947
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1
British
Sullethi
UAKUY
THAW
'DIES
MIAMI
Harry
K.
Thaw,
76
whose
life
fwas
studded
with
hurbulence
a.tul
cares
from
murder
charges
to
confinement
in
asylum,
died
peacefully
at
.'his
beach
Jiomc
here
today.
An
attack
of
coronary
thrombosis,
suffered
a
week
ago,
was
the
cause
of
his
death.
ICLAIMS
KLJECli:i)
WASHINGTON
The
Senate
judiciary
committee
today
approved
;uy
a
voic
joi
v
u
o
legislation
outlawing
nearly
all
portal-to-portal
yap
claims.
-
EXPECT
LONG
STRIKE
.
GLACE
BAY
Coal
miners
of
Glace
Bay
land
TCcw
Walcr-fonl,
Nova
colia,
prepared
themselves
for
a
long
continuation
of
the
strike
after
hearing
their
leaden;
l-cport
Sunday
that
there
was
little
liliclihdod
K)f
an
early
(settle
ment.
Cape
Urcttrn
Island
firms
arc
'bcg'niilnj
to
lay
off
help
in
view
tof
business
slow-up.
BRUSHED
WITH
ATOM
SEATTLE
Ten
firemen
were
believed
slightly
affected
by
radio-action
when
they
came
hi
contact
with
harrcls
which
had
been
at
Bikini.
They
were
fighting
a
fire
In
a
fisheries
'research
laboratory
at
the
University
of
Washington.
WESTMINSTER
ROBBERY
NEW
WESTMINSTER
The
safe
in
the
New
Westminster
Ship
JUills.
office,
was
forced
during
the
Jiifiht
by
cracksmen
who
-made
away
with
$15
in
cash,
$10
I'l
stamps
and
company
documents.
SMUGGLERS
BUSY
LONDON
Smugglers,
using
old
invasion
craft
which
they
picked
up
off
the
French
shore,
arc
(believed
to
have
run
$16,000,000
worth
of
wines,
spirits,
jewelry,
watches
and
perfumes
from
France
In
the
last
two
months.
HOOVER
RETURNS
NEW
YORK
Former
President
Herbert
Hoover
landed
by
plane
today
from
his
trip
to
Gcrmamy,
Austria,
Italy
and
Great
Britain
to
Investigate
food
conditions.
He
'had
no
report
to
make
until
after
he
iad
Jrcn
President
Tru-nian
whose
envoy
he
was.
MAY
CUT
MEAT
LONDON
Owing
to
slowness
of
deliveries
from
Canada
and
elsewhere,
Britain
fares
the
prospect
of
a
rut
in
the
meat
ratloii
from
the
present
10
ounces
of
meal
and
four
ounces
of
corned
.beef
weekly.
CHEVAMER
COMING
SOUTHAMPTON
Famous
French
musical
comedy
star
and
singer,
Maurice
Chevalier
leaves
this
Saturday
on
the
Queen
Elizabeth
for
a
lour
of
United
Stales
and
Canada.
His
first
engagement
will
be
in
New
York
and
he
will
also
sing
in
Toronto
and
Montreal.
XTitVt
IIIVI!
CMAVIIlil
BERLIN
British
and
Amcri-
,
can
(iiuthC'riUcs
'in
wcciipicd
.
Germany
have
iinashcd
an
.
extensive
underground
(move-,
menl
directed
especially
,
against
the
Russians.'
HiimiI-,
reds
of
Nazis
.have
'been
ax-
,
rested
including
fcrmcr
storm
j
11
VUjlVIi
til
jit
V
IV
Vfl'lI
J
,
germ
warfare
was
being
developed,
ri'lic
aim
was
to
rc-
,
establish
the
Hitler
system
K)f
,
mililarhm.
,
.SUN
IN
LONDON
.
LONDON
London
Jsaw
its
(
first
Aiiusliiic
In
three
'weeks
,
on
Sunday
but
elsewhere
'
,
Britain
Miles
were
uUU
cloudy
,
and
lowering
as
the
country
,
was
digg'.ng
itself
nut
after
,
the
worst
'blizzard
in
50
years
t
which
has
further
'hampered
(
transporlatkm
for
fuel
find
food
commodities.
,The
Cold
,
wave
ti
x
.month
old
and
there
,
is
no
immediate
prospect
of
relief,
Situation
Is
Improving
TEACHERS'
STRIKE
BUFFALO
The
biggest
teachers'
strike
ever
staged
got
under
way
here
today
with
2900
teachers
leaving
their
jobs
in
support
of
the
demand
for
$2100
to
$4000
minimum
claries
with
$1000
per
year
increases.
The
minimum
salaries
how
are
$1800
to
$2900
with
$300
increases.
REDS
IN
KOREA
WASHINGTON
Russian
activities
in
Korea
were
under
'discussion
in
Congress
com
mittee
today.
Gen.
Hodge
told
the
committee
that
there
was
something
to
reports
of
training
of
Korean
troops
by
Russia
and
the
situation
was
no
more
favorab'.c
than
it
was
before.
BEVIN
IS
BETTER
LONDON
Tiie
health
of
Foreign
Secretary
Ernest
Bevin
is
much
better
now
than
it
was
in
recent
months
but
he
will
have
to
be
accompanied
by
his
doctors
to
the
forthcoming
foreign
ministers'
conference
in
Moscow.
WARRIOR
AT
L.A.
LOS
ANGELES
II.M.C.
aircraft
carrier
Warrior
docked
here
today
from
Esquimau.
Warrior
is
flagship
of
a
squadron
which
also-
includes
the
'cruiser
Uganda
and
destroyer
Crescent.
QUITTING
POLE
LITTLE
AMERICA
Rear
Admiral
Richard
E.
Byrd's
cx-
liedill.oii
Is
now.
abandoning.
Little
Amciica,
its
work
done.
The
final
meal
was
served
at
Bay
of
Wales
yesterday
and
the
personnel
boarded
an
ice
breaker.
What
is
believed
will
be
a
hard
Antarctic
winter,
is
already
closing
in
and
Admiral
Bjrd
considcis
it
unsafe
to
remain
longer.
STUNT
FLIER
DIES
KLAMATH
FALLS,
Ore.
Ted
Rankin,
noted
airplane
stunt
flier
and
auto
driver,
is
dead
here
at
the
age
of
51.
He
held
the
record
for
130
loops
in
one
flight.
JEWS
INTERCEPTED
LONDON
British
naval
,
units
have
intercepted
an-,
other
refugee
ship
off
the
coast
of,
Palestine.
It
had
600
,
Jews
on
board.
ELIZABETHAN
DISH
Caviar
was
a
known
delicacy
In
Shakespearean
times.
AIR
FORCE
IS
CUTTING
DOWN
Reduction
in
Opera.
icnal
C-.!
.-:
i:r.Ucu
of
K.C.A.F.
fr;
A:.rcurccd
C'.
A7A
Drastic
reduction
:i
'!::-
r.cyal
Canadian
Air
p
c?crr.t!cnal
organization
v.
-
r.rrrcr.csd
tcday.
1
V.c
rlr
cciscnands
arc
being
t-j
iT-c-cnc
to
be
known
as
r.
t!
Central
Command
with
dejuarters
at
Trenton,
Ontario,
and
the
other,
the
Northwestern
Command,
at
Edmonton.
'
There
will
be
three
group
commands
Halifax,
Winnipeg
and
Vancouver,
with
Air
Com-mcd'ore
J.
L.
Plar.t
hi
command
of
the
last-mentioned.
Woman
and
Babe
Are
Gas
Victims
VANCOUVER
Q
Mrs.
Irene
Yates,
aged
34,
and
herson,
Peter,
15
months,
were
overcome
by
gas
fumes
In
their
towntown
heme
here
yesterday
and
failed
to
respond
to
lnhalator
treatment.
George
Gallant,
tatrier
of
the
dead
woman,
discovered,
the
bodies
of
his
daughter
and
grandson
lying
on
the
kitchen
floor.
Police
said
that
an
oven
gas
jet
was
open.
Price
Deadlock
Beam
Trawl
Fishing
On
Coast
-
Deliveries
of
"trawl-caught
flatfish
were
"f
ormally
halted
in
the
Prince
Rupert-Port
Edward
area
Sunday
after
fishermen
and
vessel
owners
were
advised
that
their
representatives
in
Vancouver
had
failed
to
arrive
at
settlement
with,
packing
house
operators
for
a
signed
agreement
covering
increased
price
scales
Prices
and
Trade
Board
Retrenches
Staff
of
the
Wartime
Prices
and
Trade
Board
was
reduced
by
1,110
In
1946,
according
to
the
annual
report
tabled
in
the
House
of
Commons.
Strength
at
the
.end
of
the
year
was
4,508
compared
with
5,078
at
the
end
pf
1945.
The
number
of
local
and
sub-local
offices
across
the
country
was
reduced
from
115
to
75.
In
British
Columbia,
local
offices
at
Cranbrook,
Trail,
Pcntlcton
and
Prince
George
and
ration
offices
at
Prince
Rupert
and
Kelowna
were
closed.
CANADA
DENIES
DARUCH
ACCUSATION
Stating
that
he
is
"astounded"
by
U.S.
Congress
proposals
to
place
atomic
energy
control
in
the
hands
of
civilian
rather
than
military
leaders,
Bernard
Baruch,
author
of
the
U.S.-sponsorcd
plan
for
world
atomic
control,
appears
before
Senate
members
of
the
joint
atomic
committee
in
Washington.
At
the
same
session,
Baruch
expressed
fear
that
leakage
of
atomic
secrets
might
come
from
Canada,
a
statement
which
brought
prompt
and
categorical
statements
from
government
leaders
In
Ottawa
that
Canadian
security
was
Just
as
tight
and,
perhaps,
tighter
than
that
in
the
United
States.
Mr.
Baruch
is
speaking
here
to
Sen.
Bourke
Hickenlooper
(RV
of
ioifa,
chairman
of
the
committee.
Midlands
Factories
Are
Operating
Again
Today
Northwestern
England
May
Get
Power
Again
Next
Monday
Meantime
Austerity
Continues
Gas
to
Be
Gut
LONDON
Nearly
one
million
workers
in
England's
industrial
Midlands
returned
to
the
chilly
factories
and
mills
which
reopened
today
after
a
two
weeks'
"black-out"
caused
by
Britain's
disastrous
coal
shortage.
Next
Monday
industrial
areas
of
northwestern
England
are
expected
to
have
electrical
B.C.
MINISTER
Hon,
R,
C
Macdonald
of
mines
and
municipal
affairs.
Br'uws
Halt
To
.ror
Vancouver
and
Victoria
trawl
er
fishermen,
members
of
the
.United-
Fishermen
and
Allied
.Workers
Union
(American
Federation
of
Labor
Trades
and
Labor
Congress
of
Canada),
suspended
otter-trawling
operations
Sunday
In
their
move
to
enforce
demands
for
a
price
contract
with
fish
wholesalers.
Union
Secretary
William
Rigby
said
that
fishermen
now
on
the
grounds
would
be
permitted
to
bring
in
catches
but
any
leaving
Sot
the
grounds
"will
be
consid
ered
unfair
to
organized
labor."
About
35
otter
trawlers
are
aflfected.
The
decision
to
slop
deliveries
of
trawl
caught
types
of
fish
at
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6)
VONPAPEN
SENTENCED
Eight
Years'
imprisonment
For
Former
iNazi
Diplomatic
Head
Un
NUERNBERG
0)
Franz
yen
Papen,
former
ace
of
Adolf
Hitler's
diplomatic
eorps,
was
sentenced
by
a
German
denazification
court
today
to
serve
eight
years
with
hard
labor.
A
seven-man
court
i'ound
him
guilty
as
a
"major
effeluler"
svho
helped
Hitler
and
ptayed
'with
the
Nazi
ircRinic
(o
the
end.
His
personal
fortune
is
confiscated.
Von
I'apcn
protested
that
he
had,
been
prompted
by
ix
desire
to
Jiclp
Germany,
not
Hitler.
Sandwiches
and
power
again,
prime
Minister
cie-
ment
Attlee
announced
in
Parliament
today.
He
said
that
the
situation
was
gradually
Improving.
He
was
unable
to
say,
however,
when
it
would
be
possible
to
restore
all
services.
Week-end
snowstorms
that
froze
coal
mining
machinery
and
blocked
highways
and
railroads
brought
official
warning
that
country-wide
gas
cuts
might
be
added
this
week
to
the
daily
five-hour
ban
on
the
use
ofleV
ectricity.
Gas
companies
have
been
ordered
to
reduce,
coal
consumption
by
ten
percent
for
the
next
ten
weeks.
NORTH
SEA
IS
NOT
REFLOATED
Efforts
to
Get
American
Liner
Off
Iteel
inear
Bella
Bella
FaiP
VANCOUVER
Pacific
Salvage
Co.
oXflclalssald
today
that
efforts
are
continuing
to
refloat
the"
Seattle'
feteamer'Norfh
Sea
which
crashed
on
a
reef
near
Bella
Bella
February
13.
Attempts
by
the
powerful
salvage
tub,
Salvage
Chieftain,
to
refloat
the
vessel
yesterday,
failed
because
of
low
peak
tides.
The
vessel
Lapointe
Is
also
assisting
in
salvage
operations.
Stalin
Talks
on
Army
Day
First
Year
I
(Fivc-Yeaf
Tostwar
Plan
Successful-Military
and
Political
Readiness
MOSCOW
O)
Guided
by
Prime
Minister
Stalin's
order
of
the
day,
the
Soviet
Army
today
celebrated
its
29th
anniversary.
Stalin
announced
that
the
.Russian
pecple
had
successfully
fulfilled
the
first
year
of
thc:livc-year
plan
and
that
the
Soviet
Army
vis
fulfilling
tasks
of
combat
and
training
placed
before
it
In
conditions
of
peace."
Stalin
made
no
mention
of
"enemies,"
atomic
weapons,,dis-armament,
"capitalistic
encirclement"
and
gave
a
purely
nationalistic
interpretation
of
the
Soviet's
position
Vri
the
world
today.
'
The
dictator's
present
day
order,
while
Instructing
"officers'
and
men
to
continue
study
of
warfare,
placed
more
emphasis
on
political
education.
"The
most
Important
condition
of
combat
ability,"
the
generalissimo
said,
"Is
firm
military
discipline
based
on
high
conscience
and
political
education."
CEILINGS
LIFTED
OTTAWA
A
lifting
of
the
reilins
(on
electrical
(refrigerators
by
10
percent
and
on
stoves
and
furnaces
by
7',4
per
rent
was
announced
today.
Soft
Music
in
"
r
Beer
Parlors
May
Be
Permuted
VICTORIA
(QP)
Keports
hero
say
that
beer
parlors
may
be
pecmitted
to
serve
sandwiches,
tea,
coffee
and
soft
drinks
under
Liquor
Act
changes
now
before
the
government.
Music
may
alsO"
be
permitted
in
the
parlors.
'
Government
officials,
however,
refuse
to
comment
on
the
reports.
"
V
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i
i