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No.
96.
PRINCE
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B.C.,
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APRIL
25,
1947
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LUCKY
SURVIVOR
OF
TORNADO
One
of
the
luclcsurvivors
of
the
tornado
which
ripped
through
northern
Texas
and
western
Oklahoma,
A,
L.
Vogel,
who
with
his
wife,
was
pinned
under
the
wreckage
of
their
home
for
several
hours,
Is
shown
ruefully
surveying
what
remained
of
his
one-time
grocery
store
and
residence.
In
Woodward,
Okla.,
hardest
hit
community
In
the
path
of
the
tornado.
At
least
87
persons
lost
their
lives
In
Woodward
alone,
while
the
total
number
of
deaths
in
the
stricken
area
were
reported
to
be
over
150.
TWO
NEW
SEA
UNIONS
OUT
FOR
MEMBERS
MOJTntEAL,
--Organization
f
cf
two
more
unions
for
Canadian
sromcn
was
in
Ihe
offing
today
following
an
announcement
by
J.
A.
(Pat)
Sullivan
and
a
representative
of
he
Seafarers'
International
Union
of
North
America
(AFL)
of
plans
to
set
up
rival
bodies
to
the
established
Canadian
Seamen's
Union.
Sullivan,
who
resigned
recently
from
the
C.S.U.
which
he
founded
in
1936
and
headed
as
president,
said
that
he
was
forming
a
union
known
as
the
Canadian
Lake
Sailors'
Union,
which
would
have
no
connection
with
other
organizations.
Thursday
ni.?ht
Robert
A.
Mathews
cf
Rrooklyn,
International
Nrrcttntalivc
of
the
Sca-fn'ers'
Internal
tonal
Union,
which
lins
a
membership
of
91,000,
pnnounccd
that
ltsCana-dlan
d.'&'trict.
at
present
limited
to
cfrice".
at
Vancouver
and
Victoria,
will
be
"expanded
to
organize
everything
that
floats
In
Canada."
TUNNEL
DRIVING
VERY
DANGEROUS
Railway
Superintendent
,
Hopes
There'll
lie
No
More
of
II
Speaking
of
conditions
up-
rlvcr,
Canadian
National
Railways
superintendent
Bcmcr
says
that
In
past
season,
when
there
might
be
partial
tie-ups
on
the
lilshiway,
there
had
been
a
prac
tice
of
molorlf
U
driving
through
tunnels.
Ho
said
he
hoped
no
one
would
attempt
to
repeat
such
a
practice.
It
was
Just
as
foolish
as
It
was
highly
danger
ous.
The
average
time
for
an
automobile
to
ifir.cl
its
way
through
a
tunnel
Is
five
minutes
and,
in
that
period,
a
lot
can
liamipn
fin
a
railway.
Persons
ccnmnlttlng
such
drives
arc
all
j
liable
to
arrest.
CANADA'S
NEW
FLAG
UNFURLED
VICTORIA,
W-R?.is1ng
of
the
Canadian
flag
over
the
first
public
building
in
British
Columbia
passed
almost
unnoticed
at
Victoria
Wednesday
when
the
Red
Ensign
was
unfurled
from
the
flag
pole
of
the
general
post
office.
BULLETINS
A.
P.
ALLISON
DIES
VANCOUVER
A.
Xllison.
formei.
p,ominent
Queln
Char.
lotte
Island
logging'
operator,,
died
here
yesterday.
He
had
been
idenlified
with
the
limber
Inuustry
on
tills
coast
for
17
years
and
also
took
an
active
interest
in
community
sen-ice
work.
JERUSALEM
II
LA
STING
JERUSALEM
Blasting
of
a
police
billet
at
Sarona
resulted
in
two
deaths
and
six
Injuries
with"
three
persons
missing,
British
sources
reported
officially
today.
The
billet,
in
a
suburb
of
Tel
Aviv,
was
blown
up
early
today
by
explosives
planted
in
a',.
mail
tmck.
The
city
of
Tcl
'Aviv
was
surrounded
by
troops
within
minutes
after
the
blast.
REFUND
10
LEWIS
WASIIINfiTO
N
John
L.
Lewis
yesterday
got
back
52,-800,000
of
the
$3,500,000
contempt
of
court
fine
which
had
been
imposed
against
his
United
Mine
Workers
of
America
and,
less
than
half
an
hour
after,
contributed
$100,-000
to
help
support
the
18-day-old
cross
-
country
telephone
strike.
CANDY
BAR
STRIKE
CIIEMAINUS,
B.C.
Spread
or
the
chocolate
bar
strike
by
small
fry
in
Cliemainus
and
Ladysmilh
to
other
Vancouver
Island
towns
was
forecast
today
as
members
of
'teen
town
groups
supported
the
boycott
against
the
eight-cent
bar.
NBC
MAKES
ITS
COMEDIANS
HON.
OFFICERS
HOLLYWOOD
t(B
A
National
Broadcasting
Company
spokesman
announces
that
programs
over
NBC
will
no
longer
be
cut
off
for
the
reasons
which
caused
a
brief
muzzling
of
comedians
Fred
Allen,
Bob
Hope
and
Red
Skclton
early
this
week.
Allen
was
cut
off
the
air
for
a
few
seconds
when
he
made
Tumorous-
reference
to
company
vice-presidents
during
a
broadcast.
Hope
and
Skelton
were
similarly
cut
off
later
when
they
made
reference
to
the
Allen
incident.
NBC
announces
lhat
hereafter,
the
comedians
will
be
allowed
to
be
honorary
vice-presidents
of
the
company
Housewives
Repudiate
4
Red
Charge
WINNIPEG
CP;
Leaders
of
the
Housewives'
Consumer
Associations,
which
surans
ud
across
the
untry
In
war
lime
to
battle
.hortages
and
red
tape,
are
up
In
arms
over
a
charge
by
the
j
Winnipeg
Free
Press
that
thu
organizations
were
led
by
communists.
The
newspaper
said
that
Winnipeg
had
become
central
headquarters
for
the
"communlst-led
housewives
organizations
In
Canada."
Mrs.
William
D.
Grey
of
Van
couver
said
that
the
"organization
was
founded
"in
an
effort
to
bring
down
the
cost
of
living
and
at
no
time
have
politics
entered
into
discussions
by
our
group.
The
same
thing
stands
for
the
whole
of
Canada."
The
association
president,
Mrs.
Anno
T3rren
nrtrl
Hffro
Vf
ffiMmrri
the
association's
delegate
to
the
Ottawa
conference,
are
members
nf
thp
T.nhnr.Prnf?rPRKive
Partv
but
the
executive
said
that
they
had
been
elected
in
open
meeting
as
housewives,
not
as
Labor-Progressives.
KEEP
JAPS
OFF
COAST
Move
of
C.C.F.
to
Get
Tlicm
Back
Fails
Says
Government
Blackmailed
OTTAWA
Keeping
up
the
fight
of
his
party
lor
return
of
the
Japanese
to
the
Pacific
Coast,
Angus
Mclnnis,
C.CJ
member
for
Vancouver
East,
charged
in
the
House
of
Com
mons
last
night
thai
the
Dom-
lnion
government
was
toeing'
blackmailed
in
its
treatment
of
the
Japanese
and
the
refusal
to
permit
them
to
return
to
the
coast.
He
blamed
Minister
of
Labor
Humphrey
Mitchell
and
other
members
oi
the
government
for
siding
with
him.
In
United
States
the
Japanese
had
been
permitted
to
return
to
the.
coast
and
there
hud
been
no
trouble.
By
vote
cf
105
to
31
the
House
defeated
a
C.C.F.
amendment
whkh
would
have
allowed
the
Japanese
to
move
anywhere
in
Canada
without
restrictions.
Four
Liberals
and
two
Progressive-Conservatives
John
Dief-cnibaker
and
John
Hackett
voted
with
the
C.C.F.
FIRE
CHIEF
TELLS
STORY
Mr.
Lock
Able
to
Be
Out
of
Hospital
Today
.Fire
Chief
II.
T.
Lock
was
able
to
leave
hospital
late
this
morn
ing
following
Ills
experience
of
being
gassed
and
bruised
and
cut
when
he
was
trapped
in
the
base
ment
as
the
Clapp
apartment
building
collapsed.
The
chief
remembered
timbers
falling
about
him
and
then
being
trapped
in
debris.
He
called
for
help
and
recalled
a
figure
break
lng
In
toward
him.
(This
was,
no
doubt,
his
rescuer
Police
Chief
Lance
Potterton).
The
next
he
remembered
was
being
in
a
car
heading
for
the
hospital.
The
chief
suffered
principally
from
smoke
in
the
lungs
from
which
he
was
still
short
of
breath
this
afternoon.
CRUISE
AT
700
M.1MI.
LONDON
(CM
Group
Capt.
E.
M.
Donaldson,
who
established
a
world's
speed
record
of
610
m.p.h.
last
December
In
a
Glos-ter
Meteor
jet
'plane,
now
Intends
to
make
a
non-stop
record
flight
from
San
Francisco
to
New
York,
cruising
at
700
m.ph.
DAILY
NEWS
IS
OPEN
TO
FUNDS
i
Pending
the
making
of
a
survey
of
the
need
following
today's
double
apartment
house
fire,
the
Dally
News
1
glad
and
willing
to
receive
contributions
which
may
be
offered
for
the
relief
of
the
homeless
and
distressed.
Any
funds
offered
at
this
office
will
be
turned
over
to
Mayor
Arnold
for
distribution.
The
Canadian
Legion
would
like
to
be
notified
of
any
veterans
who
were
residents
of
the
two
apartment
7
blocks.
Japanese
in
to
Amendment
Defeated
Commons
Overcomes
C.C.F.
Move
to
Aliow
Japs
ton
Coast
OTTAWA,
0-
The
House
of
Commons
rejects
oy
a
w
105-31
On
Thursday
amendment
that
would
have
had
the
effect
of
restoring
west
coast
fishing
license
rights
to
Japanese
in
Canada.
It
would
have
meant
the
dealh
of
the
wartime
order-in
-council,
giving
the
government
authority
to
move
Japanese
from
B.C.'s
coastal
areas
and
relocate
them
elsewhere.
The
vote
came
as
the
climax
of
three
days
of
debate
on
the
order
one
of
57
controls
being
continued
for
another
year
in
the
vgialoj
governnconrol
bill.
.
Before
the
vote
was
taken.
La
bor
Minister
Mitchell
.said
he
"shuddered"
to
think
what
might
happen
if
the
order
was
defeated,
if
the
C.CF.
amendment
was
carried
and
the
control
order
withdrawn.
Mr.
Mitchell
said
that
the
government
had
been
fairly
successful
In
Its
relocation
policy,
which
was
a
reasonable
solution
to
the
problem.
At
the
House
opening.
Finance
Minister
Abbott
announced
that
he
would
bring
down
the
budget
next
Tuesday
night.
RAILWAYS
SEEK
TARIFF
PROBE
OTTAWA
Oj
The
railways
of
Canada
today
called
for
a
general
Investigation
into
the
Do
minion's
basic
rail
rate
structure
but
not
until
the
end
of
the
cur
rent
inquiry
into
their
applica
tion
for
higher
freight
charges
Isaac
Pitblado,
of
Winnipeg,
chief
railway
counsel
at
the
in
quiry,
told
the
Board
of
Transport
Commissioners
"we
are
not
asking
for
a
permanent
increase.
We
would
be
satisfied
to
have
the
board
look
over
our
earnings
monthly
to
sec
If
increases
were
too
large."
He
urged
on
the
board
that
increased
railway
operating
costs
are
recognised
as
justifying
high
er
rates.
Local
Tides
Saturday,
April
20,
1947
High
4:35
19
9
fectl
17:59
Low
11:31
3.9
feet
23:33
9.4
feet
Marshall
Hits
At
Russ
Obstruction
MOSCOW
O)
State
Secretary
Marshall
caustically
charged
the
Soviet
Union
with
blocking
action
on
the
Austrian
question
and
declared
that
the
United
States
favored
rferrlng
the
whole
problem
to
the
United
Nations
assembly
if
the
treaty
is
not
completed
when
the
assembly
sits
in
September.
Marshall
also
charged
that
Russia
is
blocking
the
four-power
pact
to
keep
Germany
demilitarized.
Two
Apartment
Structures
and
Army
Garage
Totally
Destroyed
Thirty,
Persons
Rendered
Homeless,
Losing
Their
Entire
Possessions
Two
Heavy
Business
Losses
The
venerable
Clapp
Block,
pioneer
business
and
apartment
building
at
the
corner
of
Second
Avenue
and
McBnue
Street
here,
the
adjoining
Shortndge
Apartments
and
an
Army
garage
were,
consumed
early
this
morning
in
the
Prince
Rupert
has
had
in
occupants
of
the
two
apartment
buildings,
aroused
from
their
sleep
about
2:30
ajn.,
escaped
their
night
attire,
taking
flight
through
smoke-laden
halls
the
street,
losing
all
their
possessions
furnishings,
clothing,
money
and
valuables
but
grateful
that
they
had
not
perished.
Fire
Chief
H.
T,
Lock,
in
hos
pital
suffering
from
the
effects
of
smoke
and
shock,
had
a
narrow
escape
when
he
became
trapped
and
helpless
In
the
sudden
collapse
of
the
Clapp
Block,
the
largest
building,
being
fortuitously
extricated
from
the
basement
of
the
structure
by
Police
Chief
L.
A.
N.
Potterton
whose'
attention
had
been
called
by
cries
for
help.
Mr.
Lock
had
to
be
carried
out
and
became
unconscious
for
a
time.
There
appeared
to
be
no
other
major
casualties
a
few
hours
after
the
height
of
the
blaze,
all
regular
firemen
and
all
dwellers
of
the
apartments
having
been
ac
counted
for.
Firemen,
after
a
five-hour
battle
with
smoke
and
flames.
we're
wearied
and
in
the
most
of
cases
suffering
from
minor
burns,
bruises
and
abrasions.
Emergency
shelter
had
been
given
the
homeless.
The
Clapp
Building,
in
addition
to
eight
apartments,
also
housed
a
large
second-hand
store
of
George
J,
Daweg
and
a
cabinet
and
upholstery
shop
operated
by
B.
J
Lovin.
Prince
Rupert's
$200,000
Civic
Centre,
situated
immediately
across
the
street
from
the
destroyed
buildings,
appeared
in
Imminent
danger
for
.a
time
but
was
saved
by
careful
watching
and
the
playing
of
water
streams
upon
it
after
it
became
apparent
that
the
other
buildings
were
doomed.
Preliminary
estimate
placed
the
loss
at
possibly
as
high
as
$75,000.
The
Clapp
Building
was
owned
by
L.
C.
Eby
and
the
Shortrldge
Apartments
by
Wi
H.
Shortrldge.
Cause
of
the
fire
appeared
at
first
obscure.
Itj
broke
out
in
the
basement
of
the
Clapp
Block
where
lumber
was
stored
and
presented
some
difficulty
in
fighting
owing
to
the
fact
that
it
had
otalned
considerable
headway
in
an
awkward
position
before'
It
was
discovered
and
the
department
notified.
An
Army
truck,
was
destroyed
in
the
garage.
The
fact
that
Mrs.
Charles
M.
Lowe,
one
of
the
occupants
of
the
Clapp
Block
apartments,
sat
up
late
to
read
may
have
been
Instrumental
in
the
saving
of
life.
She
detected
smoke,
soon
found
the
building
was
afire
and
rushed
from
apartment
to
apartment,
rousing
the
sleeping
dwellers
who
dazedly
hurried
out.
.
.
.
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i
r
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A
ntru"le
ul
luc
tui"iu(jiu-16.7
feet'tlon
was
Mrs-
Don
Forward.
w,fc
or
tne
civjc
ucnirc
airccior,
wno
found
clothing
and
prepared
welcome
potions
of
Mot
coffee
for
the
dispossessed
as
they
fled
forth
from
their
burning
homes.
Mrs.
Forward's
own
home
was
imperilled
for
a
time
as
the
flames
blistered
walls
of
the
Civic
Centre
and
cracked
3"5
win.
dows.
TOUGH
BATTLE
OF
FIRE
FIGHTING
Fire
was
first
detected
some
where
between
2:30
and
3
a.m.
and
from
then
on
it
was
a
ham
mer
and
tongs
battle.
The
first
and
most
pressing
job
was
to
get
everybody
out.
Firemen,
and
any
others
on
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on
Page
3)
most
disastrous
fire
which
over
a
decade.
Thirty
or
so
THEY
LOST
EVERYTHING.
Awakened
from
their
early
morning
sleep
by
an
alarm
raised
by
Mis.
C.
M.
Lowe,
more
than
two
dozen
apartment
dwellers
in
the
Clapp
and
Shortrldge
buildings
escaped
down
smoke-filled
corridors
and
stairways
before
flames
eventually
reduced
their
homes
and
household
effects
to
smoldering
ruins.
Names
of
the
occupants
of
the
two
buildings,
believed
to
be
complete,
is
as
follows:
CLAPP
BLOCK
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Donald
Mc-
Geachy
and
baby
and
Mrs.
McGeachy's
mother.
C.
R.
Salmond.
Roy
Landon
(at
Prince
George
temporarily).
Mr.-
and
Mrs.
B.
F.
Lbvin.
Mr.
and
Mrs.
W.E.
Chappie
and
son
David
Mr.
and
Mrs.
C.
M.
Lowe.
Mr.
and
Mrs.
G.
R.
Brett'
and
daughter.
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Donald
R.
Creed.
Mr.
Wilkie.
J,
E.
Green.
SHORTRIDGE
APTS.
Miss
Bessie
Campbell.
Mr.
and
Mrs.
W.
J.
Wright.
Mrs.
G.
Robinson.
Mr.
and
Mrs.
W.
G.
Brown.
Mrs.
Williams
and
daughter.
Mrs.
Yeoman.
TWO
FIRES
IN
SINGLE
NIGHT
Slock
in
Rupert
News
Co.
Store
Suffers
Heavy
'Damage
From
Smoke
and
AVater
City
firemen
did
double
duty
last
night,
rushing
from
a
blaze
which
they
subdued
in
the
Rupert
News
Co.
store
at
Third
Avenue
and
Fourth
Street,
to
the
Clapip
and
Shortrldge
Apartment
fire
with
in
a
matter
of
minutes.
The
Rupert
News
Co.
fire
alarm
went
in
at
2:30
am.
and
firemen
who
answered
the
call
found
the
rear
stock
room
of
the
building
burning
aggressively.
They
managed
to
confine
the
fire
to
the
stock
rocm,
although
merchandise
throughout
the
store
was
damaged
and
Is
estimated
at
almost
a
complete
loss
Firemen
chopped
a
note
through
the
wall
of
the
small
office
of;
Red
Top
Cabs
to
pour
water'
Into
the
stockroom.
Black
cned
walls
and
stock
were
left
when
the
fire
was
subdued,
The
fire
Is
believed
to
have
been
caused
either
by
defective
wiring
or
by
an
electric
hot
plate
that
may
have
been
left
con
nectcd
when
the
store
was
closed
for
the
night
at
10:30
pan.
Within
five
minutes
of
the
time
the
Rupert
News
Co.
blaze
was
put
out,
the
call
was
re
ceived
from
the
Clapp
Block
on
Second
Avenue.
NEW
SAWMILL
INCORPORATED
VICTORIA,
O)
Registration
under
the
Companies
Act
at
the
Legislative
buildings
at
the
week
ending
Wednesday
included
Elliott
Sawmills
Limited,
Prince
George,
Incorporated
for
$25,000.
CENTRE
"WORTH
$5"
AS
FLAMES
LICK
ITS
FRONT
"I
wouldn't
have
given
$5
for
the
Civic
Centre
when
the
fire
was
at
its
height!"
This
was
the
opirrtan
of
Assistant
Fire
Chief
Earl
Becker
who
manned
a
hoV!
line
in
Xront
of
the
Civic
Centre
building,
as
bil
lowing
flames
licked
at
its
front
from
the
blazing
Clapp
Bloc,k
CO
feet
away.
I
crouched
near
the
ground
using
the
hose
on
the
front
of
the
Civic
Centre
and
it
seemed
to
me
as
if'
it
would
catch
fire,
too,"
Mr.
Becker
said
this
morning.
"It
was
so
hot
my
clothes
were
smoking."
He
displayed
his
hands
which
were
swollen
and
red,
almost
blistered.
"At
that
time
I
wouldn't
have
given
$5
for
the
Civic
Centre.
I
thought
the
heat
would
Ignite
the
walls
behind
the
asbestos
shingles."
Flames
and
sparks
licked
over
the
tar-and-gravel
roof
of
the
Civic
Centre
but
a
hose
line
on
the
roof
kept
?uard
against
danger.
.
Occupants
of
the.
apartment
house
Just
west
of
the
Shortrldge
Apartments,
separated
by
-''
a
vacant
lot,
also
ty&cuated.
the
r
building
jt
gusLfwlnd
rhlp-
;
,'pVd1flamTintKat,dirert
-
fTho'se
people
"didn't,
think
.
much
of
the
chances
for
their
homes
either,"
Mr.
Becker
said.
RELIEF
MOVES
FOLLOW
FIRE
Naval
.Building
Made
Available
toi
Homeless-City
ftnd
Red
Cross
to
Aid
Armed
with
the
offer
of
the
Navy
to
make
the
annex
to
the
local
administration
building
available
for
those
who
might
be
'
without
shelter
following
the
destruction
by
fire
of
the
Clapp
and
Shortrldge
Apartments,
Mayor
Nora
Arnold
and
Arnold
Flaten,
president
of
the
.
Red
Cross
here,
moved,
quickly
,
this
morning
to
organize
such
relict
as
might
be
necessary.
The
naval
annex
building
is
a
two-storey
structure
with
ap
proximately
ten
rooms
and
one
bath
on
each
floor.
It
is
cen
trally
heated
and
the
Navy
was
ready
to
provide
some
double,-decker
bunks
and
rustle
up
"'
some
hot
plates
If
required.
Up
to
noon,
It
appeared
that
the
most
of
the
dwellers
of
the
14
suites
had
made
or
were
making
private
arrangements-
for
'
emergency
accommodation.
TIMBER
CONTROL
OFFICIAL
RETIRES
VANCOUVER,
Charles
Hurst,
assistant
timber
controller
here
is
retiring
and
will
be
succeeded
by
W.
J.
Andrews,
W.
E.
Uren,
federal
timber
control-
.
ler
said
Thursday.
COMING
UP
AT
ASSIZES
HERE
Bailof
$1,000
Set
for
Jeft
Williams,
Topley,
Charged
With
Shooting
with
Ihtent
VANCOUVER,
Gabriel
JoM
Williams
of
Topley
will
be
tried
at
the
next
Supreme
Court
Assize
in
Prince
Rupert
on
a
charge
of
shooting
at
Lawrence
Kylllng
with
inntent
to
kil,
Kylllng
was
wounded
In
a
shooting
Incident
at
Topley
February
19.
Ball
of
$4,000
was
set
for
Williams
In
Supreme
Court
here.
If
1