JREAK HALTS VIRE SERVICE Telegraphic communication be-iveen Prince Rupert and ,Van-ouver was disrupted this morn-ig by a break in the main trans-ontlnental wire line just west f Jasper but was restored short-y after noon. Cause of the dis-uption was not known at the ucal telegraph office. The break did not affect long listance tlephone transmission ir the radio relay from Van-louver which Is carried over the urmer Pacific Communications lystem south from Prince icorgc. Trains on the line out of rince Rupert are running on shedule, no obstruction to the srvice being reported. REIGHT RUNS NAUGURATED Scheduled Services Include This Part of Coast,JLw Prince Rupert is among the Jorthern British Columbia ports" Inch will be served under a Jchcduled .freight operation be- lg inaugurated on this coast by frank Waterhouse & Co. of anada Ltd., according to an- made by T. D. H. iiouncement Iodglns, traffic representative f the line, who was in the city esterday alfternoon aboard the teamer Coquitlam making 'the trip north'. The establish-icnt'of Sound a scheduled freight ser- icc by Waterhouse is co-lncb cntal with improved passenger crvices which have been inaug- ratcd with their new steamers y Union Steamships Ltd., which pntrols Waterhouse. With the steamer Southolm ow on her way north, having ft Vancouver Friday and being ue at Stewart today, Watcr-ouse starts a regular three eight service, the backbono of hich will be a contract for the arrying of Silbak-Prcmler con-cntrates from Stewart tram prminal to Tacoma smeller. alls at Prince Rupert and ther points along the north oast will ibe regulated by traf- Pc offerings. Another scheduled freight ser- pce of the Waterhouse line takes liilkoot on a weekly run from ancouvcr to Port Alice and round the north end of Vancou- rr ix inn nititii-i nn m nrrnri nr. nglewood, Port Hardy, Winter arbor, Quatsino and June as been doing for some time ul specialize in carrying pulp Vancouver .from Port Alice. Third scheduled freight run" of ie Waterhouse line Is that of ie motor vessel Island King cm Vancouver on the logging P runs with 20 calls' as far oi'tli as Allison Harbor. In addition to the Chllkoot, outhholm and Island King on ie scheduled runs, the Watcr- ousc line has 'the steamers hillhvack, Bastholm and Bcr-ln available for tramp service. Mr. Hodgins, the traffic mana- of Frank Waterhouse. is no vi w i iiutu mipert. js a 'Bht lieutenant with the Royal anadian Air Force, he was stained at Seal Cove here for 18 onihs in the- earlv narit of orld War II before proceeding erseas. W. J. Nelson returned to the on the Princess Adelaide .v.muuU irum Vancouver here he has been relieving as vums oincer. Mr. Truman turned down Republican proposal to reduce the personal Income tax. The President advocated universal military training as the only fair plan. V.O.N. HEAD IS RETIRING Resignation of Miss Elizabeth Smellie to Be Effective May 31 OTTAWA Miss Elizabeth Smellie. R.N.. has resigned as chief superintendent of the Victorian Order of Nurses, effective May 3i by which time it is ex pected her successor will have been appointed. Announcement was made today. Miss Smellie was the first woman to become a colonel in the Canadian Army. having been chief of the Cana dlan Army Nursing Corps from 1940 to 1944. She has long been, associated1 with the Victorian Order- of Nurses having headed it since 1924, Probe Possibility Of New Welsh Road i 'DOLGELLY, Merionethshire, Wales, ((P) Representatives of Welsh county councils have decided to Investigate the possibility of building a new, all-weather highway across Wales from north to south. The route is not definite, but isurveyors will concentrate on a line from Pentroelas on the main Holyhead route through Traws-fynydd,- Dolgelley, Mallwyn, Llanbrynmair, Llanidloes, Rhay ader and Builth. The Ministry of Transport will be asked to do the survey job. BABE RUTH'S OPERATION NEW YORK Condition of Babe Ruth, former baseball star, following a serious neck operation, was reported today to be satisfactory. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Simmons and young son arrived in the city on the Princess Adelaide this afternoon from Victoria. Mr. Simmons is here to assume the position of clerk in the government agent's office in succession to M. J. Lesaunier who has been transferred to Nanalmo. WINDSOR JEWELS FOUND IN FRANCE LONDON Some of the jewels believed to have been stolen last year from the Duke and Duchess of Windsor in England are believed to have been found at a small community on the railway line between Paris and Bordeaux. Police are checking up. , ALL AIRCRAFT ARE GROUNDED Drastic Action Taken Following Latest Crash in China Which Took 43 Lives SHANGHAI All commercial aircraft operations in this area have been grounded for a week pending investigation of several crashes which have occurred lately, the most recent of which was that which occurred yester day near Thingjtao where a Shanghai - Peiping transport came down, all 43 occupants being killed. Charles Shawkey, an American, was the pilot and most of ithoss aboard were NO NEWSPAPERS, CITY SLOWS DOWN SPRINGFIELD, Mass. 0) Mayor Daniel Brunt on said the absence of local newspapers had slowed down every phase of community life. WOULD SUICIDE ST. CATHERINES, Ont. Special guards have: been; posted on Sidney Chalmers, 34-year old engineer, charged with the murder of hlnc-year old Marion Kusnak following another attempt by the man to take his own life after, according to the police, he had confessed to the slaying of the child. Chalmers' arrest came after a previous suicide attempt by slashing his wrists. At that time he had said his act was because of trouble with his wife. Chalmers' preliminary trial has been adjourned January 10. 'FRISCO HAS until LARGE FIRE Thirty-one Firemen Injured as Hcnsburg Building Destroyed Arson Suspected, SAN FRANCISCO Thirty-one firemen arc in hospital 'follow ing San Francisco's most spectacular fire in 10 years which yesterday destroyed the three- storev Hansford Building on Market Street with loss estimated at $200,000. Heavy;wind, ham pered if ire fighting operations and made the job of saving ad joining property the more diffi pjilt. Arson is suspected, two other Incendiary attempts in the immediate vicinity having been foiled only a few hours previous. CANADIAN ECONOMIC ATTACHE IN JAPAN-Brig.-Gen. P. H. Tansey, civil property custodian in Japan, left, greets J. E. Kenderline, economic attache of the Canadian liaison mission in Japan during Mr. Kenderdine's visit to discuss restitutions and reparations. .. lAL i l r - NORTHERN AND. CENTRAL BR! ITISH "COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER 'TTTTTTTmTTTmfTTm TAXI ETAX! TAXI Phone 235 Phone 537 4 DAY AND NIGHT SERVICE i DAY AND NIGHT SERVICE Stand: told Empress Hotel, Third Ave.' Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port"Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" E Bill and Ken Nesbitt 2 VOL. XXXVI, No. 4. PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1947 PRICE FIVE CENTS New B runswic l reaks Off With Ottawa PRESIDENT TRUMAN APPEALS TO REPUBLICANS FOR CO-OPERATION SEEKS ELIMINATION OF STRIKES INVESTIGATION OF LABOR-MANAGEMENT RELATIONS WASHINGTON, D.C. In his address t6 Confess today on the "State of the Union," President ruman appealed to the Republican-controlled legis-itive bodies for co-operation so that the welfare of he nation might not be endangered. He put forward four-point program for the elimination of strikes 1 and called for an Investigation of labor-management relations. VETERANS ESCAPE FLAMING HOSPITAL i- mPHH Bravery and Calmness of the nursing and hospital staff was credited by patients of the Veterans hospital at Peterboro, Ont, with making possible escape from the burning buildings of 228 veterans undergoing treatment. Two of the nurses, Leona Shearer, left, and Aline Quigley are, pictured with patient D. Whiteside, of Collingwood, Ont., after his rescue. All that Is left of the Veterans' hospital at Peterboro, Ont., after the disastrous fire. Flames still lick, at the debris and smoke rolls upward from the buildings where 228 patients were undergoing treatment at time of the fire.i LIVES NORMALLY AGAIN AFTER HIS HEART STOPPED TWEtVr M I NU T E S LONDON (( Lancet, British medical journal, today told of a man whose heart stopped beating for twelve' minutes but who was revived under massage and is now walking about London streets fully recovered. The unnamed patient was given up as dead but a London surgeon, Dr. Hamilton Bailey, performed a quick operation and massaged the heart which had stopped and then started beating normally again. Seventeen hours later the patient spoke to his nurse. LONDON HORSES HIT WITH 'FLU LONDON Influenza is prevalent among horses which still form an important factor in this city's transportation system. Thousands of them are shivering under blankets with their attendants giving special care, WOULD VOTE ON ROYAL ROMANCE London Sunday Pictorial and Daily Worker Have Something To Say LONDON-J3evoting its entire front page to the subject of the reported royal romance, the Sunday Pictorial urged yesterday that the public should be given a chance to vote on the marriage of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip of Greece. The paper published a ballot form which it asked its readers to fill in and return, considering the matter with "sympathy and understanding. On Saturday the royal romance received press attention from another angle when tho Communist Dally Worker called 'he whole tiling a plot of Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin to influ ence relations between Britain and Greece. Low Local Tides Tuesday, January 7, 1947 High 1:35 13:16 7:14 19:59 20.4 feet 23.5 feet 7.0 feet 0.0 feet Jack O'Hara, pioneer Alice Arm mining man, after a two weeks' visit to the city as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. George B. Casey, sailed by the Coquit lam last nieht on his return north. MORE PAY FOR DOCK WORKERS Leonard Campbell, who is suffering from a muscular condition which prohibits him from standing upright and taking part in normal boyhood life, is going south tomorrow on the Coquitlam for examination on money provided by local subscribers. Subscriptions to the fund to aid the 11-ycar-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Campbell now total more than $665 since it was begun more than two months ago by Thomas Smith with the assistance of Mrs. Ross Richardson. Leonard z' going south on the Coquitlam tomorrow in company of Mrs. Richardson and will bo examined by specialists In Vancouver. If it is found that there is hope of correcting his condition, which is unique in medical history, he will be placed In the Vancouver Children's Hos GREAT STORM HITS ALASKA Entire Coast from Nome to Anchorage Being Swept by Fierce Tempest NOME A great storm, sweeping into the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska, is lashing the entire coast of western Alaska from Nome to Anchorage. There are unconfirmed reports of loss of life at Hooper Bay below Nome. Large Ice floes, forming a natural barrier, have proven Instrumental in protecting the waterfront of Nome from violence of the high seas. Vancouver's Slush And Snow Frozen ths VANCOUVER Streets of this city were covered with deep snow and slush, partly frozen! ing the night. Motor vehicular traffic is carried on with con-siderable difficulty. ITALY LAYS OFF BLACK MARKET Shortage of Food Hakes It Necessary to Suspend Prosecution ROME So serious has the food shortage in Italy become and so much of the food is in the hand of black marketeers that the Italian government was yester day forced to suspend its cam paign of prosecution against the illicit marketeers.. Many Italian housewives "have been forced for considerable time to obtain food surreptitiously from the black market. VANCOUVER TAXI DRIVER IS ROBBED Bandid Stuck Gun in His Back and Got Away With $12 VANCOUVER Charles Clement, taxi driver, was robbed in the Kerrisdalc district by a bandit who stuck a gun at his back, He was relieved of sia. a wo man accompanied the gunman, KETCHIKAN New wage rates j December Cost of lur tv. u i c ii i ii u ii luugauuicuicii have been announced by A. M. Spaeth, president, Waterfront Employers or Ketchikan. Under the new agreement rates are set at $1.80!2 for straight time and $2.17 for overtime. This follows recent Increases of 5 cents per hour granted Pacific coast longshoremen. Living Stabilized , OTTAWA The cost of living in Canada in December showed no increase over November, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics announces, although the level this year was seven percent higher than 1944 and 26 percent higher than 1939. Local Lad To Go South In Hope That Rare Ailment May Be Cured Generosity of Prince Rupert citizens has made it possible for an 11-year-old crippled boy to receive the attention of medical specialists in Vancouver, with the consequent possibility of recovery from his condition Which has heretofore been believed hope less. pital, where he will receive the most effective treatment possible, The fund was begun by Mr, Smith after he read an appeal by the boy's mother in the Daily News in which she sought assis tancc for her son. The appeal stirred a wave of sympathy throughout the city and result ed In contributions from all sections of the population. Commenting this afternoon, Mr. Smith made it clear that Leonard is not going to Vancouver directly for treatment of his ailment at the present time. "He Is going to Vancouver for examination and observation by specialists there," Mr. Smith said. "If they believe his condition can be corrected, he will remain there for whatever treatment is necessary. I certainly hope that they are successful," he added. Discrimination in Favor of B.C. Is McNair's Charge FREDERICTON Claiming that there had been "gross discrimination" in favor-of British Columbia in the agreement recently made between Premier John Hart of that province and the federal government and, in the light of which, terms offered Ne Brunswick were "entirely unacceptable," Premie Bulletins CONTROL OF DAIREN WASHINGTON United States today asked Russia and China to arrange without further delay to end Soviet military control of Dairen and open the Manchurian port to world traffic under Chinese adminis- after four degrees of frost dur-1 tration. Russia would retain its naval base at nearby Port Arthur. PREPARING OFFENSIVE LONDON Government sources said today that British military authorities were preparing for the biggest offensive in modern Palestine's history to crush "the open rebellion against law and order by Jewish extremists." NO HOPE FOR ENGLAND MELBOURNE The chance of England winning the third and d c c i d i n g, test cricket match fronrAustralia is deemed almost hopeless. VANCOUVER HARD UP VANCOUVER A young man, who surrendered in Hamilton and confessed to armed robberies in Vancouver, will not be brought here because the city has no funds, It was stated today. CANADIANS PARDONED OTTAWA A number of Canadian soldiers have been pardoned for offences committed during the war and for which they were serving terms in civilian or military prisons. CRISIS DEFERRED WASHINGTON The crisis in the Senate over the seating or unseating of Senator - elect Theodore Bilbo of Louisiana has been deferred with the departure of Bilbo for New Orleans where he is to undergo an operation for cancer of the mouth. After the operation, Bilbo says he will return to Washington to fight with renewed vigor for the scat. PORTLAND CRIME WAVE PORTLAND, Ore Two hundred auxiliary police have been called out to augment the regular force of 300 in an effort to combat a crime wave which includes an increasing number of armed robberies. A police official said this Had become a gathering place for criminals floating between San Francisco and Seattle. STORM IN HAWA1IANS HONOLULU Extensive damage has been done m the Hawaiian Islands by severe storms. Trcmejadous ocean waves accompanying it. The worst of the damage has been done around Hilo. Distress signals were sent from a tiny island where United Stales Navy personnel were endangered by mountainous waves. BARUCII RESIGNES WASHINGTON President Truman has accepted the resignation of Bernard Baruch as United States representative on the atom energy commission of the United States. Baruch said he felt his work in connccticin with the com mission had been done. MONTY IN BERLIN BERLIN Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, on his way to Moscow, is spending the week-end hero. Montgomery will spend four days in Moscow, at the invitation of Premier Joseph Stalin, "to establish friendly relations with the Red Army." He expects, he says, to "see a lot" of Stalin. j. B. MCNair oi New tsrunswicu today suspended taxation nego tlatlons with Ottawa, officially notifying Prime Minister W. L. i Mackenzie Klsg of the decision. If Ottawa was going to make agreements with one privlnce, there ought to be counterbalancing agreements with the others, said Mr. McNair who, however, pointed out that he had no quarrel with British Col umbia in getting the best deal it could. Mr. McNair said he saw little hope of a settlement being reached. Premier McNair said legisla tion would be immediately pre pared to enable New Brunswick to enter the corporation taxation field. NEW JERSEY PLANE CRASH Three are Killed and Six Injured When, Transport Forced Down at Week-end VINELAND, NJ. Three persons were killed and six injured in the crash of a Miami to Newark bound transport plane which crashed near here yesterday . ----- - - Experimental Plane Arrives At Tokyo TOKYO The Northwestern Airlines transport plane, on an experimental flight from Minneapolis to Manila, arrived here yesterday after a 14-hour hop from the Aleutian Islands. ITALIAN PREMIER IS SEEKING LOAN Gasparri Arrives in New York on Financial Mission Nation Needs Money to Buy Raw Materials NEW YORK Seeking a loan to bolster up his country's economic situation, Premier de Gasparri of Italy landed in New York yesterday after a stormy passage in a United States Army transport plane. His country was poor In capital but needs and wishes to work, said Gasparri. To work it required raw materials which it did not have the money tobuy. The American import and export bank has been considering an application from Italy for a $300,000,000 loan but, so far, has deemed it a "poo financial risk." SHIP DISPUTE IS UNCHANGED KETCHIKAN The waterfront dispute which has resulted in the working of only one hatch of steamers calling at Ketchikan was unchanged here today but reports from Seward said that it had resulted, in action which will completely tie up that port. There are three boats in Se ward, the relief ship Reef Knot. the Baranof and the Dnali. Longshoremen at Seward said they would complete unloading all three ships, then refuse to work any others pending settlement of the jurisdictional dispute between CIO longshoremen and AFL sailors on ships over operation of the hatch winches. 1917 TELEPHONE DIRECTORY A new telephone directory is about to be published. All changes of listings must be in by January 11 in writing at the city utilities office. City Telephone Department D