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Key
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Northwest"
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VOL.
XXXVI,
No.
C5.
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
TUESDAY,
MARCH
18,
194G
PRICE
FIVE
CENTS
State
Worse
TrouMcus
Indian
etcriorales
Further
ndla
(?
imposi-
cn
measures
ap-
ruu.
aw
in
bhiic
wiu
torr?ast
yes-
w
,.i
she
fast
de-
nduiave
situation,
ci)-inu
strife
con
Ulil'''
in
iquc
reported
aluc:V
at-
five
vil
wes!
Punjab
where
,000
persons
have
in
me
past
iu
arri.5is
for
violation
parades
marked
Moslem
League"
In
:
the
congress
nmcnt
in
maias
ntier
province
yes-
ffi;
,al.s
sa'd
the
vlo-
llmiti-d
to
one
fatal
djomlng
Peshawar
R
drew
EES
CBC
Premier
George
piano
vestcrday
Canadian
Broad-
fjwra'ion
with
ac-Blsrcpresentatlon"
of
irv
regarding
taxa-:
Oumiruon-provln-
Tice
BARGED
THEFT
IWELRY
.iri
u.
Uir
r-tty
Jail
rhamcd
with
the!'
lliev
with
retaining
tallowing
their
at'
in
connection
witrc
Sunday
night
of
the
kit
Mrs
Violet
Urick
rcr:i
Ricms.
Fraser
apartment
was
loot
fy
valued
at
$75
and
$
Ivan
w.is
taken
into
llic
police
on
Third,
iiancd
with
theft
.tllrtcdly
been
seen
article
of
Jewelry
be
Mrs
Urick.
Victor
was
arrested
later
fed
with
retaining
Berty
lo
the
police,
a
largo
Kwriry
has
been
re
liou;ili
the
money
is
F
Itimrni
was
entered
Wrick
was
away
on
lilt
IMPANY
TO
GE
WHARF
E
h
$10,000
enlargement
tlic
HrUtsU
American
rf
at
Cow
Bay
is
cx-
Je
ilurtcd
Wednesday
Salvage
Co.
The
work
K
widening
and
re
the
300-Jfoc.t
wharf
wen.
,ons
capable
of
piore
readily
the-
vol
pun.
i;.
ifnni
u'lrflt,
r.f
to
b'
doubled
tiv
ea;
UViird
nn
nrrm.
Hi..
I
P.'
arqulred
by
the
oil
lt
Present
wharf
wilt
;
l1'd
the
rrin
Reward
io
allow
more
-maim,
oil
drum
nt
i.i.
lc
Wharl
M,uli;'
works-
lo.
.
i
.
1111
SYSTEM
YET
'
Po.iLmn.-ln
iiw
...
uenrand
said
i;
:a"
le
present,
svc.
contract
.V"
Sd
i?,Ue
dld
nt
bc-
r
"
ior
lbs
to
mail
rshall,
Bevin
Clash
with
Molotov
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V"
ANTARCTIC
SHIPS
PUSH
THROUGH
ICE
PACKS
In
the
wake
of
the
ice
breaker
Northwind,
the
Central
Group
of
the
Navy
Antarctic
expedition
pushes
through
the
huge
chunks
of
polar
ice
on
its
way
to
a
mooring
iite.
The
expeditions
commander,
Adm.
Richard
E.
Byrd,
has
made
final
evacuation
of
Little
America
to
escape
the
deadly
encroachment
of
the
ice
belt
which
began
tightening
on
the
Central
Group
of
Operation
High
Jump.
Flooded
Families
Rescued
By
Troops
LONDON
O
Britain
mobilized
fresh
troops
and
volunteers
today
to
rescue
thousands
of
marooned
families
and
boLstcr
sag
lnj;
tiver,banks
in
the
country's
worst
floods
in
more
than
half
a
century.
Water
lapped
over
thousands
of
square
miles
of
southern
England.
Isolating
villages,
snarling
transport,
spread
Ins
vast
property
damage
and'ricflvlrig..am))iM
strand
ed
4
Tho
death
count
as
a
result
of
yctcrday's
hurricane
is
now
15.
INTEREST
IN
CITY-OWNED
LOTS
SOARS
The
upsurge
in
applications
to
purchase
and
option
city-owned
property
which
followed
last
week's
announcment
that
a
pulp
mill
Is
to
be
built
at
Port
Edward
has
sent
prospective
sales
to
many
times
their
normal
rale,
according
to
City
Clerk
II.
D.
Twain.
"In
he
last
week
we
have
had
more
replications
to
buy
or
for
options
to
purchase
than
we
normally
get
in
three
month's,"
he
said
this
morning.
During
the
last
week,
requests
have
been
made
by
seven
people
to
take
purchase
options
on
11
parcels
of
land,
while
five
olher
jcrsons
have
made
requests
lo
buy
eight
pieces
of
cily-owr.cd
land.
"It's
a
good
sign.
We
would
like
to
sec
the
property
get
on
the
tax
rolls
asaln,"
said
Mr.
Thaln,
momentarily
slipping
Into
his
role
of
assessor.
However,
the
list
of
applications
for
building
permits
this
month
has
shown
no
noticeable
reaction
lo
the
possibility
of
a
bulkllir;
boom
resulting
from
the
pulp
mill
nearby.
Value
of
building
permits
Is-sucd-for
the
tint
two
weeks
this
month
was
$3,177,
while
permits
Tor
the
month
of
February
were
,$11,915.
Fourteen
permits
have
been
Issued
this
month,
most
of
ihem
for
repairs
to
existing
structures.
TRUCK
DRIVERS
MUST
DO
PART
V
A
NCOUVER
i
Public
Works
Minister
E.
C.
Carson
told
members
of
the
Automotive
Tvaivport
,t.
Association
of
Brlt-lih
Coluinbia
last
night
that
B.
C.
Is
"faced
with
an
Increase
In
railway
freight
rates
and
yoir
must
be
in
readiness
to
provide
service
if
necessary."
lie
told
the
truckers
that
the
provincial
government
intended
to
take
over
the
three-cent
gasoline
tax
when
it
is
released
by
the
Dominion
government
and
siriuncntoH
iw
t
v,o
km
nn
as
a
paving
fund,
POLICE
COURT
HAS
58
CASES
The
city
police
court
had
the
I
busiest
period
In
Its
history,
according
to
police
estimates,
on
Saturday
and
Monday
when
Magistrate
W.
D.
Vance
heard
58
cases,
most
of
them
Indian
Act
cases
lnvoMng
liquor,
or
Government
Liquor
Act
orfenscs
resulting
from
a
season
of
gYcat
hilarity
at
the
week-end.
'
Charges
Red
Union
Plot
Communist
Plot
to
Tic
Up
Canadian
Industry
Failed
VICTORIA
If)
J,
A.
Hicks,
for
mcr
executive
member
of
the
Canadian
Seamen's
Union,
claimed
yesterday
that
Communist
elements
in
the
trade
unions
had
tied
up
virtually
all
Canadian
industry
this
spring.
Without
elaboration,
he
said
that
the
strike
had
been
foiled
and
that
he
was
making
a
detailed
roport
on
communist
activities
to
the
federal
authorities.
Hicks
charged
that
the
Seamen's
Union
was
"dominated
by
communistic
elements,
using
underhanded
methods
and
underworld
characters,
including
criminals,
to
incite
worker
against
veteran."
HOLD
DOWN
MILK
PRICE
Imimilaiuc
of
Dolus
So
Is
I'tnphaslnl
in
Jsislalure
Minister
Fears
Auvamc
VICTORIA
(P)
Likelihood
of
an
increase
hi
the
price
of
milk
In
the
province
was
forecast
in
the
Legislature
yesterday
by
lion.
Frank
Putnam,
Minister
of
A3rlculturc,
during
a
heated
debate
on
milk
board
delivery
reg--illations.
Mr.
Putnam
maintained
that
the
regulations
helped
keep
the
c(t
of
milk
delivery
down
but
added
"It
looks
as
if
wc
arc
go-
ins
to
sec
another
Increase
.al
though
I
hope
not.'
J.
H.
Corsbic,
C.C.F.
member
for
Peace
River,
said
that
milk
prices
thould
be
tfohcr.
For
beer,
he
pointed
out.
50c
a
quart
was
willingly
paid.
1
J,
II.
Calcs,
Coalition
member
for
North
Vancouver,
said
the
government
should
consider
some
scheme
of
assistance
or
that
the
delivery
cost
be
cut
so
that
more
hardships
for
children
of
poorer
people
could
be
avoided.
nr.
J.
J.
Gillls.
Coalition,
Yale.
suggested
the
establishment
of
milk
dcDots
to
wnicn
peopie
might
go
for
their
own
milk,
EGG
CEILING
BEING
LIFTED
OTTAWA
U;
-To
compensate
egg
producers
for
a
recent
increase
in
the
price
of
feed
wheat
for
poultry,
the
price
celling
on
shell
eggs
for
domestic
consumption
Is
being
removed
immediately,
Hon.
J.
G.
Gardiner:
minister'
of
agriculture,
announced
oftcrday.
The
present
ceilireg
f
of'
the
ci
producers
is
from
43c
to
48c.
There
may
be
little,
If
any.
immediate
Increase
to
coiKumcrs.
APPOINTMENT
IS
CRITICIZED.
VICTORIA
0)
Appointment
of
William
McGilllvray
as
director
of
agricutlural
development
and
extension,
a'
newly-created
porltlon,
caused
a
barrage
of
criticism
in
the
Legislature
yes
terday.
Dr.
J.
J.
Gillls.
Coalition
member
for
Yale,
said
it
was
unfair
to
place
some,
20
district
agriculturalists
under
control
of
MacGillivray
who
had
been
In
the
service
only
a
short
time.
Sgt.
Frank
Martyn
or
the
recruiting
branch
of
the
Royal
Canadian
Mounted
Police,
arrived
in
the
city
Monday
afternoon
on
the
Princess
Adelaide
to
interview
prospective
recruits
for
the
Mounted
Police
service.
He
expects
to
leave
the
city
on
Wednesday
to
return
to
Van-
ccuver.
:
:
TODAY'S
STOCKS
Courtesy
S.
D.
Johnston
Co.
Ltd.
Vancouver
Bralome
11.75
II.
It.
Con
07V-:
H.
R.
X.
12
Cariboo
Goul
2.G5
Dcntonia
23
Giull
Wihksnc
.09
.
Iledley
Mascot
.,....!.-..
1.10
Minto
.OlVi
Pend
Oreille
.1
2.95
Pioneer
'
3.C0
Premier
Border
.
,03
Premier
Gold
..i..-...
.75
Privateer
i?.,......,..
.49
Reeves
McDonald
1.45
Reno
;
..
,
.11
Salmon
Gold
..vj
'..23
Sheep
Creek
L30
Taylor
Bridge
....
(atk)
,
.05
Whitewater
Vananda
.33
Congress
05
Pacific
Eastern
GO
Hcdlcy
Amalgamated..
,
.09
Spud
Valley
18
Central
Zcballos
02V
Oils
A
P.
Con
(ask)
.16
Calmont
.27
C.
&
E.
2.C0
Foothills
2.10
Home
3.10
Toronto
Athona
.23
Aumaque
.55
EQUANIMITY
OF
MOSCOW
CONFERENCE
DISTURBED
MOSCOW
Sparks
flew
at
the
I3i:,r
Four
foreign
ministers'
conference
today
as
United
States
Secretary
of
State
George
Marshall
flatly
rejected
Russia's
claim
for
ten
billion
dollars
in
reparations
from
Germany.
Marshall
was
joined
by
Foreign
Secretary
Ernest
Hevin
of
Great
Britain
in
rebuking
Russia
a-
-'for
charges
that
the
western
Bulletins
men
WHEAT
ruici:
CHICAGO
For
the
first
time
in
30
years,
wheat
jumped
tii
above
$3
per
bushel
on
the
Chicago
market
today".
It
hit
S3.05.
The
all-time
high
was
$3.25
in
May,
1917.
FLOODS
IN
CALGARY
CALGARY
Owing'
to
fiord
conditions,
truck
and
bus
traffic
.i
highways
out
oT
Calgary
is
being
banned.
Railways
are
running
rin
time
without
washouts.
v
BRITAIN'S
CHOICE
LONDON
Great
Britain
lias
(lie
choice
of
producing
land
earning
more
or
reducing
her
standard
of
living,
Prime
Minister
C.
R.
Attlee
said
bluntly
in
a
speech
today.
High
salsifies
for
useless
work
should
be.
given
up,
he
said.-'
U:VIS'
DEADLINE
W
A
S
HI
N
G.T
O
N
John
L.
Lewis
lias
been
given
until
March
25
1,
by
the
Supreme
Court
of
United
SUlcsto.call
oJr.-tirtr'
general
steel
Vtrlfcc;
failing
which
the
United
Mine
Workers
of
America
will
have
to
pay
a
fine
of
$3,:.00,(M)0
instead
of
$700,000.
MOLASSES
TRICE
UI'
OTTAWA
The
ceiling
piice
on
high
grade
imported
molasses
is
raised
by
5c
following
the
dropping
of
the
subsidy.
THE
WEATHER
Sklcs
have
become
overcast
along
the
west
coast
of
Vancouver
Island
during
the
night
but
over
the
remainder
of
the
province
clear
skies
persist.
Little
change
Is
expected
in
the
general
weather
situation
.today
and
tomorrow.
Prince
Rupert,
Queen
Char
lottes
and
North
Coast
Clear
today.
Overcast
tonight
and
Wednesday.
Wind
light.
Little
change
In
temperature.
Mini-
mums
tonight
Port
Hardy
37,
Massctt
38,-
Prince
Rupert
38
Maximums
Wednesday
Port
Hardy
52.
Massctt
44,
Prince
Rupert
46.
Bcattie
JJevfcourt
,
1-08
Bcibjo
T
21
Buffalo
Canadian
.23
Cons.
Smelters
84,00
Conwest
101
Donalda
M8
Eidona
-
.57
Elder
1.11
Olant-Ycllowknlfe
.....
6.55
,
God's
Lake
4..
1.42
Ilardrock
-:-'--
Harricana
15
I
lev
J
Gold
.74
Hosco
.
i
,
52
Jackknife
.092
Jollct
Quebec
y
.64
Lake
Rowan
24
La
pa
ska
-
,
33
Little
Long
Lac
1.94
Lynx
23.
Mnd-scn
Red
Lakcv
3.40
MeKcnzlc
Red
Lake
73
MacLeod
Cockshutt
....
2.00
Moncta
501
Negus
1.95
Noranda
1-95
Noranda
48.00
Oslsko
Lake,
1.24
Pickle
Crow
2.90
Rcgcourt
65
San
Antonio
'.
3.90
Senator
Rouyn
44
Shcrrltt
Gordon
4.10
Steep
Rock
254
Sturgeon
River
-23
powers
were
draining
Germany
of
reparations.
Marshall
charged
Russia
with
retreating
from
pledges
made
at
the
Yalta
and
Potsdam
conferences.
Foreign
Minister
Georges
Bl-dault
of
France
conferred
last
night
with
Piime
Minister
Joseph
Stalin
of
Russia
but
no
announcement
was
made.
POWERS
SET
UP
COMMITTEES
ON
GERMANY
MOSCOW
Qi
The
deputy
foreign
ministers-
cf
the
Big
Four
agreed
today
to
set
up
lour
com
mittees
to
aid
in
drafting
a
pre-llimlnary
peace
trepjy
for
Ger
many.
Committees
win
be
ses
up
for
political
structure
of
Ger
many,
territorial
readjustments
and
related
problems,
economic
t
organization
cf
Germany
and
reparations,
disarmament
and
demilitarization.
United
States
Deputy
Foreign
Secretary
Robert
Murphy,
citing
Canada
as
an
illustration
regarding
imaU-state'
partlcipS
tio'n,
yafd
that
Canada
entered
the
war
before
the
Soviet
Union
and
the
United
States
and
made
substantial
contributions-
toward
the
defeat
of
Germany.
He
said
that
small-state
par
ticipation
in
the
conference
was
a
matter
or
"rights,
not
favors."
Soviet
Deputy
Foreign
Minis-
Ister
Andrei
Vishinsky
said
that
exceptions
could
not
be
madei
and
only
the
Big
Four
should
be
on
the
treaty-drafting
commit
tees.
"More
blood
flowed
in
the
So
viet
Union
during
the
war
than
water
flows
In
Canadian
rivers,"
ho
said.
C.P.A.
MEN
VISIT
AIR
BASE
HERE
Landing
facilities
for
Cana
dian
Pacific
Airlines
here,
which
will
come
into
use
as
soon
as
the
airline
obtains
a
federal
li
cense
to
operate
a
scheduled
run
between
Vancouver
and
Prince
Rupert,
were
surveyed
Monday
afternoon
by
four
air
line
executives
and
operations
men.
Just
when
the
first
flights
will
start
is
not
known,
depending
on
when
the
government
approves
the
comipanys
application
to
operate
a
scheduled
air
service
between
Vancouver
and
Prince
Rupert,
via
Sandsplt
The
application
was
made
at
a
sitting
of
the
Air
Transport
Board
In
Vancouver.
C.P.A.
men
who
surveyed
the
facilities
here
during
a
brief
step
in
the
city
while
the
Prln-
.
cess
Adelaide
was
in
port
yesterday
were
E.
R.
Field,
general
superintendent;
E.
H.
Andrews,
flight
supervisor;
P.
M.
Howard,
assistant
superintendent,
and
;
W.
J
Twamley,
chief
dispatcher,
(
The
party
arrived
h'ere
from
Port
Hardy
where
they
stopped
to
inspect
the
landing
facilities
which
are
used
by
company
planes
on
other'
west,
coast
flights.
The
Vancouver-Prince
Rupert
flights
will
be
made
by
Douglas
airliners
-from
Vancouver
to
Saridsplt
and
by
amphibian
Oansos
from
Sandsplt
to
Prince
Rupert.
.
Local
Tides
Wednesday,
March
10,
1947
High
11:31
18.5
feet
Low
5:40
8.8
feet
18:06
4.G
feet
UNION
DENIED
CERTIFICATION
TORONTO
01
Application
fciy
.
composing
room
employees
of
the
Ottawa
Citizen
for
certification
as
local
number
four
of
the
Canadian
National
Printing
Trades
Union,
with
headquarters
in
Calgary,
was
turned
down
by
the
Ontario
Labor
Relations
Board
yesterday.
Judge
I.
A.
MacDonald
'
said
the
union
Is
not
entitled
to
'certification
because
the
Citizen
"has
assisted
in
its
formation
by
contributing
financial
support
to
it."
AIRCRAFT
SEEK
LOST
LIFEBOAT
HONOLULU
W
Nine
aircraft
prepared
to
take
off
from
Midway
yesterday
to
search
anew
for
12
missing
men
in
a
lifeboat
and
feared
to
be
beyond
reach
of
the
planes
while
22
other
crew
members
of
the
broken
tanker
Fort
Dearborn,
rode
out
lashing
seas
half
way
between
Midway
and
Pearl
Harbor.
Ten
other
crew
members,
tak
en
from
the
bow
section
of
the
vessel
as
it
rode
almost
awash,
were
safely
aboard
the
.
liner
General
W.
II.
Gordon,
bound
for
San
Francisco.
The
bow
and
stern
of
the
Fort
Dearborn
broke
apart
in
a
storm
Wednesday
in
a
gale
1,100
miles
northwest
of
Honolulu.
The
mls3
ing
lifeboat
has
not
been
sight
ed
since
then.
PERRY
VISITOR-
TO
LEGISLATURE
Former
Minister
of
Education
la
Victoria
to
Urge'
Completion
of
.Northerns
Uighway
VICTORIA
iffl
H.
G,
Perry
of
Prince
George,
former
Speaker
of
the
Legislature
and
later
Min
ister
ot
Education,
was
in
the
gucet
section
of
the
Legislature
yesterday
In
the
course
of
a
visit
to
the
capital
to
take
up
matters
of
northern
interest,
urg
ing
particularly
the
completion
of
the
80-mile
gap
between
Prince
George
and
McBride
in
the
northern
trans-provincla!
highway.
Mr.
Perry
will
leave
for
Van
couver
tomorrow
and
will
pro
ceed
north
to
Prince
Rupert
next
week
enroute
to
Prince
George.
Medical
Faculty
and
Plastic
Development
VICTORIA
tt
Speakers
in
the
Legislature
yesterday
urged
immediate
action
to
establish
a
faculty
of
medicine
at
the
Uni
versity
of
British
Columbia
and
the
development
of
plastic
and
chemical
industries
in
the
province
together
with
agriculture.
Hew
Demand
On
Germany
Foreign
Minister
Molotov
Would
Exact
Big
Pound
Of
Flesh
MOSCOW
-Foreign
Minister
M.olotov
demanded
of
the
.foreign
ministers'
conference
yesterday
a
24-year
reparation
payment
plan
by
which
Germany
would
pay
the.
Soviet
Union
$10,000,000,000.
The
Russian
diplomat
demanded
removal
from
Germany
of
capital
goods
such
as
factories
for
reparations,
'division
of
German
assets
held
abroad
and
reparations
from
current
production.
IT
MAKES
NO
DIFFERENCE
Britain
Must
Continue
Its
Withdrawal
From
Greece
And
Can
Make
No
Further
Aid
Commitments
LONDON
0)
Hector
McCCell,
Minister
of
State,
told
the
Housa
cf
Commons
yesterday
that
President
Truman's
plan
of
financial
aid
to
Greece
and
Turkey
makes
no
difference
to
Britain's
plan
for
the
disposal
of
British
troops
in
Greece
hich
had'
been
steadily
reduced
would
be
reduced
further
stir.
The
British
governcrent
hal
decided,
McNeil
said,
"after
full
and
anxious
review,"
that
It
could
not
enter
into
substantial
commitments
for
Greece
after
March
31,
date
ol
the
end
of
present
commitments.
The
government
had
decided
It
would
be
unable,
Irom
its
own
commitments,
to
supply
the
needs
ot
Turkey.
-T0-ENG0MRA6E-SEED
GRAINS
New
Priec
Policy
Adopted
Ceiling
Raised
Subsidies
To
Stock
Raisers
OTTAWA
O)
The
government
yesterday
announced
a
revised
price
policy
to
stimulate
the
growing
of
sorely
needed
feed
grains.
It
would
bring
greater
financial
returns
to
producers
of
oats
and
barley
Involving
no
additional
cost
for
those
who
need
them
for
production
of
livestock
and
dairy
products.
The
new
policy
become
effective
today.
The
price
celling
on
barley
is
boosted
to
93c
a
bushel
and
oats
to
65c.
At
the
same
time
the
government
is
instituting
subsidy
payments
to
feeders
of
25c
a
bushel
for
barley
and
10c
for
oats.
The
Canadian
Wheat
Board
will
be
the
sole
export
agency
of
barley
and
oats.
McNAUGHTON,
.LAGUARDIA
AT
CHURCHILL
General
Mc
Naughton
and
Fiorella
La
Guardla,
are
shown
during
their
visit
to
Churchill,
Man.
Both
are
members
of
the
permanent
joint
board
on
defence,
arid
after
their
visit,
General
McNaugh-ton
exploded
all
reports
ot
any
tests
of
a
secret
nature
taking
place
there.
General
McNaughton
said,
"We
certainly
have
nothing
to
hide
at
Churchill."
The
only
comment
that
La
Guardla,
New
York's
fiery
ex-mayor
had
to
make
was
that
he
found
it
extremely
col4
at
Churchill.
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