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h
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travelling
public
the
rlt.v
n
a
parts
pool
which
should
normally
be
for
much
less.
It
"will
be,
seen
at
once
that
the
parts
commitment
will
either
have
to
be
so
heavy
as
to
be
financially
disastrous
or
that
a
new
In
dustry
will
be
discouraged
completely
by
tourists
being
forced
to
wait
.two,'
three
or
even
four
days
for
repairs
to
be
consum
mated
with
parts
bought
by
boat
from
Vancouver.
This,
In
Itself,
is
not
visibly
an
important
item
but,
in
terms
of
long
range
prospect,
is
crtu
cal
because,
the
tourist
industry
may
nultc
easily
become
one
of
the
most
important
Items
of
the
area's
activities.
Air
transportation,
and
the
rapid
supply
of
replacement
parts
for
automobiles
is
esscn
tl.il
if
this
tourist
Industry
Is
to
grow.
IS
Despite
Refusal
To
Relieve
Financial
Problems
of
City
HOOPSTERS
NOT
COMING
jj
XOId
Empress
Dotel,
Third
Ave.?'
Puy
at
Gana(ja
VOL.
XXXVI,
No.
21
Officials
Are
"Sympathetic"
'
Despite
the
fact
that
the
provincial
government
declined
to
allow
Prince
Rupert
to
raise
badly
needed
funds
by
foregoing
its
sinking
fund
payments
for
the
next
two
years,
the
provincial
officials
were
"extremely
sympathetic"
to
our
problems,
Mayor
Nora
u.
ivrnoiu
reported
on
ner
return
from
her
PLANE
CRASH
NEAR
HALIFAX
United
States
Transport
Comes
Down
Several
Are
Injured
Investigation
Is
to
lie
Held
HALIFAX
The
authorities
today
are
investigating
the
cause
of
the
crash
of
a
United
States
naval
air
transport
near
here,
causing
serious
Injuries
to
the
pilot,
co-pilot
and
four
other
persons
with
a
seventh
person
unhurt.
The
crash
occurred
last
night
when
the
plane
was
on
its
way
from
Floyd
Bennett
Field
near
New
York
to
Newfoundland.
It
overshot
the
airfield
in
an
at
tempted
landing.
FOREIGNERS
TO
BE
USED
Poles
Already
Taking
Tart
in
British
Mining,
Agriculture
LONDON,
0i
Tiic
Labor
gov
ernment
Is
considering
intro
ducing
foreign
workers
to
meet
the
critical
long-term
man
power
crisis
in
Britain.
Polish
cx-scrvlccmcn
arc
already
work
inrr
In
the
coal
mines
and
Poles
arc
expected
to
provide
35,000
agricultural
workers
in
194".
To
Mystery
Valley
By
Helicopter
Is
General's
Scheme
VANCOUVER
Major
Oen,
S
F.
Worthington,
on,
an
inspec
tion
visit
here
from
Edmonton,
said
he
would
like
tQ
make
an
expedition
into
the
much-dLs-.
cussed
Nchannl
(Headless)
Valley
but
he
would
like
to
do
It
by
helicopter.
CIVIC
financial
mission
to
Victoria
on
Friday.
Mayor
Arnold
said
that
she
would
give
no
more
information
on
the
interviews
which
she
and
Alderman
Youngs
had
with
Municipal
Minister
R.
C.
Mac
Donald
until
she
made
her
formal
report
to
City
Council
on
Monday
night.
"I
plan
to
give
a
report
to
council
Monday
night.
Until
then
I
have
nothing
to
say
on
the
conferences,"
she
comment
ed.
However,
Mayor
Arnold
said,
she
found
the
government
of
ficials
extremely
friendly,
and
she
fek
that,
while
the
purpose
of
the
.mission
was
not
accom
plished,
it
had
drawn
attention
to
Prince
Rupert's
needs.
We
made
some
excellent
con
tacts
and
found
the
government
heads
'extremely
sympathetic
toward
our
problems,"
she
Mayor
Arnold
said
that
she
and
Alderman
Youngs
had
had
an
Interview
with
Premier
Hart
on
Monday
at
the
time
the
Goldcnbcrg
report
on
provincial-municipal
relations
was
placed
In
the
Premier's
hands.
The
report
won't
be
made
public
for
a
few
days
but
I
un
derstahd'
that
It
will
"rccom
mend
concessions
to
the
muni
cipalltlcs,
she
asserted.
During
her
southern
trip,
she
experienced
her
first
airplane
flight,
from
Victoria
to
Vancou
ver.
She
enjoyca
me
experience
greatly,
despite
thp
fact
that
tnc
Diane
flew
above
an
overcast,
allowing
only
rare
views
of
the
scenery
below.
Tlans
to
have
a
Petersburg.
Alaska,
basketball
team
nice
Doc
Montgomery's
local
all-star
aggregation
at
a
benefit
scries
here
on
January
31
and
Fcbru-ary'l
have
fallen
through,
according
to
word
received
by
Basketball
Association
Secretary
Alex
Bill
this
morning.
The
an
nouncement
changes
but
docs
not
kill
plans
for
an
all-star
scries,
however.
In
announcing
Petersburg
s
inability
to
come
to
Prince
Rupert,
Secretary
Bill
said
that
plans
will
.be
begun
immedi
ately
to
have
a
Ketchikan
au-
star
team
come
here
on
Febru
ary
1
for
at
least
one
game,
proceeds
of
which
will
be
turned
over
to
the
Booth
UigU
School
team
for
their
New
Westminster
Journey
in
March.
"I
was
Informed
by
wire
tins
morning
tlut
Petersburg
is
hold
ing
a
high
tchool
tournament
on
those
dates
and,
since
two
of
their
all-star
njayprs
arc
also
h
:
i
school
team
members,
is
upsets
their
plans
to
come
to
Prince
Rupert,''
Alex
Bill
said.
However,
c
iddcd,
the
asso
elation
hopes
ito
bring
In
a
Ketchikan,
all-star
eam
which
should
offer
top
night
compe
tltlon
for
Montgomery's
mar
vcls.
This
Is
Ilasis
of
Appeal
Ilcing
aiadc
to
Save
Condemned
SS
Troopers
DACHAU,
Germany
tf)
Lt.
Col
W.
M.
Everett
today
reported
he
was
carrying
an
appeal
to
Washington
on
behalf
of
43
German
Elite
Guard
(SS)
troopers
who
arc
condemned
to
hang
for
the
slaughter
of
710
United
States
soldiers.
Everett
charged
that
United
States'
interrogators
mistreated
the
SS
men
In
order
to
obtain
convictions
and
conducted
mock
trials
to
frighten
them.
Most
of
the
evidence,
he
said,
consisted
of
illegally
procured
confessions.
C.C.F.
FINANCIAL
SET-UP
CHANGED
OTTAWA
The
Co-operative
Commonwealth
Federation,
at
its
national
conference
here
yesterday,
adopted
a
new
financial
policy.
In
future
there
will
be
a
straight
national
membership
fee
of
$1
instead
of
provincial
assessment
quotas
as
formerly.
There
will
be
a
national
membership
drive
this
fall.
Conservative
To
Stay
Independent
EDMONTON
Progressive
Conservatives,
in
convention
here
yesterday,
decided
not'
to
go
back
into
the
nrovinclal
field
in
Alberta
but
to
smpport
the
present
independent
coalition.
Local
Tides
Sunday,
January
26,
1047
High
4:01
10.0
feet
15:50
19.8
feet
Low
9:55
7.3
feet
22:11
4.3
feet
NATIVE
BROTHERHOOD
NAMES
ITS
GOVERNMENT
FOR
THIS
PROVINCE
VANCOUVER
Thomas
F.
Hurley,
Vancouver
barrister,
has
been
named
"attorney-general"
in
the
"government"
of
British
Columbia
being
set
up
by
the
Native
Brotherhood.
A
council
of
chiefs
is
also
named.
The
government
would
permit
no
liquor
to
whites
until
they
have
absorbed)
the
"culture
and
education"
of
the
Indians,.
Victoria
Indians
have
offered
to
"capture
Big
Brother
Hart
In
his
white
stone
tepee."
"Big
Brother"
Hart
has
declined
so
far
to
comment
on
tho
whole
thing.
UP
PEACE
CONFERENCE
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
's
Most
Strategic
Pacific
Port
"Prince
Rupert,
the
Key
to
the
Great
Northwest"
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
SATURDAY,
JANUARY
25;
1947
after
the
take-off,
plumeted
back
to
the
field
and
crashed
into,
a
standing
vacant
plane.
iBotlr
-ships,
.were
fomplcicly
burned.
Amonc
the
passengers
were
three
nuns,
bound
for
Nyasaland
as
missionaries.
One
gave
her
life
to
save
ex-servicemen.
OFFICERS
MUST
LEARN
RUSSIAN
Ordered
by
iMontgomery
Exrhangc
of
Officers
Rejected
by
Stalin
LONDON-Flcld
Marshal
Lord
Montgomery,
Army
chiq-or-staff,
issued
an
order
today
that
all
student
officers
at
Sandhurst
Military
College
must
learn
nic
Russian
language.
Failure
to
speak
Russian
i3
one
of
the
main
obstacles
In
the
way
of
better
understanding
with
the
Soviet,,
says
Montgom
ery,
who
proposed
an
Interchange
of
British
and
Russian
officers,
which
proposal
was
re
jected
by
Premier
Stalin.
HOCKEY
GREATS
ON
COMMISSION
Cyclone
Baylor
and
Frank
I'rcdrickson
Jlcing
Named
in
Vancouver
VANCOUVER,
0;lt
is
reported
that
Fred
(Cyclone)
Taylor
and
Frank
Fredrickson,
two
bf
Canadian
hockey's
former
greats
arc
to
bo
appointed
to
the
Van
couver
Athletic
Commission
as
part
of
Mayor
G.
G.
McGecr's
clean-up.
HIS
DECISION
IS
RESERVED
Judge's
rinding
in
Harris
fcpionage
Case
to
Be
Given
Monday
OTTAWA
Judge
A.
G.-Mc-Dougall
yesterday
reserved
until
Monday
his
decision
in
the
sixteenth
of
the
espionage
trials
that
of
Dr.
Henry
Harris.
Dr.
Harris
denied
any
connection
whatever
with
Russian
activities
In
this
country.
Britons
Coming
Over
For
Winter
Flying
LONDON
Fifteen
mefnbcrs
of
the
Royal
Air
Force
are
to
be
sent
to
Edmonton
to
engage
in
winter
flying
tactics
with
the
Royal
Canadian
Air
Force.
PRICE
FIVE
CENTS
CANADA'S
MINISTER
OF
NATIONAL
DEFENCE
AT
CEREMONY
The
Hon.
Brooke
Claxton
congratulates
Brigadier
K.
O.
Blackader
on
his
award
of
the
Croix
de
Guerre
at
the
French
embassy
from
Count
Jean
de
Hautecloque.
The
minister
of
national
defence
and
Brigadier
Blackader
were
cadets
together
at
Lower
Canada
college
in
1915,
before
proceeding
overseas
in
World
War
I,
where
Brigadier
Blackader
won
the
Military
Cross
and
Hon.
Brooke
Claxton
was
awarded
the
Distinguished
Conduct
Medal.
Twelve
Are
Killed
in
Croydon
Plane
Crash
ROME-IJOUNI)
TRANSPORT
FALTERS
IN
MID-AIR
AND
PLUNGES
BACK
TO
FIELD
FOR
FIERY
COLLISION
LONDON
(CV)
A
Rome-bound
nlane.
carrying
settlors
from
South
Africa,
crashed
and
burned
.to
day
in
taking
off
from
.Croydon
airport,
killing
twelve
of
the
23
occupants
Seven
of
the
18
passengers
and
four
of'
the
crew
)f
five
survived
but
some
nf
them
were
taken
to
hosuital.
seriously
injured.
NAZIS
WERE
Tne
piane
laucrca.
m
mia-air
Business
Recession
This
Year
Foreseen
NEW
YORK
Three
'leading
American
economists
predicted
today
that
there
would
be
a
"minor
business
recession"
but
no
major
depression.
Peak
of
industrial
expenditure
is
near,
they
believed.
BIG
ROBBERY
AT
CONEY
ISLAND
NEW
YORK-BandiJs.
robbed
the
Turkish
bath
house
at
Coney
Island
of
between
$40,000
and
$50,COO
In
money
and
valuables,
most
of
which
belonged
to
pat'
rons
el
the
establishment.
Prairie
Weather
UnseasonablyJVlildL
.
EDMONTON
Weither
was-
unseasonably
warm
today
in
Edmonton
at
46
above
and
there
were
indications
that
the
mild
spell
would
continue
around
the
40
mark.
Elsewhere
ori
the
prairies
it
is
similarly
mild.
Don-'
spiels
at
such
places
as:
Moose
Jaw,
Brandon
and
Saskatoon
have
had
to
be
put
off.
TONIGHT'S
TRAIN
IS
7
HOURS
LATE
Scheduled
to
arrive
here
at
10:45
tonight,
the
CNR.
pas
senger
yam
from
Jasper
wm
not
get
it
until
5:55
Sunday
morning,
according
to
a
report
from
Divisional
Superintendent
C.
A.
Berner's
office
this
afternoon".
The
train
was
held
to
make
connections
with
a
westbound
transcontinental
.which
was
delayed
by
cold
weather
on
the
prairies.
THE
WEATHER
.Synopsis
,A
southeasterly
gale
lashed
the
coastal
area
of
Washington
and
southern
British
Columbia
overnight.
Winds
of
30
to
50
miles
per
htfur
were
common
with
gusts
to
60
miles
per
hour
in
the
exposed
regions.
Continuous
rain
fell
over
the
coastal
region
and
lias
now
extended
to
some
interior
points.
Colder
weather
prevails
over
the
northern
regions
of
the
province
with
Intermittent
snow
reported
during
the
night.
The
storm
will
move
rapidly
eastward
today
but
only
temporary
improvement
ij
expected
as
a
further
system
to
the
west
is
expected
to
lfe
offshore
late
Sunday,
forecast
Pilncc
Rupertj-
Queep
Charlottes
and
North
Coast
Northern
portion
clcudy
with
widely
scattered
snow
flurries,
clearing
by
evening;
Sunday,
cloudy
with
snow
flurries;
northerly
winds
(15
mirh.)
increasing,
to
30
In
exposed
areas
today;
light
winds
Sunday,
little
change
In
temperature.
Southern
portion
overcast
with
intermittent
rain
or
drizzle
ibccoming
cloudy
with
rain
showers
overnight
and
Sunday
morning;
overcast
Sunday
afternoon
and
evening;
light
winds
becoming
northwest
(15)
by
mid-afternoon
and
light
overnight
and
Sunday
morning;
winds
southeast
(20)
afternoon
and
evening;
Sunday
colder.
Lows
tonight
Port
Hardy,
33;
Massett,
25;
Prince
Rupert,
27.
Highs
Sunday
Fort
Hardy,
39;
Massett,
30;
Prince
Rupert,
32.
Dominion
Insists
On
Surety
It
Will
Keep
On
In
Deliberations
LONDON
(CP)
A
meeting
of
Four-Power
foreign
ministers'
deputies,
scheduled
to
hear
Canada's
views
on
the
German
peace
treaty,
was
postponed
today,
after
Canadians
said
they
were
not
ready
to
talk.
A
semi-official
source
said
that
Canada
must
be
Plane
With
Fifteen
Million
Dollars
In
Gold
Lost
In
Crash
MANILA
CO
A
Philippine
Airlines
two-engined
plane
carrying
$15,000,000
in
gold
is
reported
to
have
crashed
10
miles
from
Hong
Kong.
The
plane
left
Manila
today
for
Hong
Kong
with
a
crew
of
four
men
and
no
passengers.
STALIN-BEVIN
N
AGREEMENT
MOSCOW
Premier
Joseph
Stalin,
in
a
statement
last
night,
agreed
with
Foreign
Secretary
Ernest
Bevin
of
Great
Britain
that
the
20-year
alliance
be
tween
Britain
and
Russia
had
not
been
repudiated.
He
added,
however,
that
"weakening
resi
vations"
In
the
pact
must
be
re
moved
if
it
was
to
be
extended
to
50
years
as
suggested
by
Bevin.
MUNICH
ROBBERY
RING
BROKEN
UP
One
American
Soldier
and
Two
(Germans
Arrested
fourth
Member
of
Gang
Killed
MUNICH,
Germany
O)
The
military
government
announced
today
the
arrest
of
one
Ameri
can
soldier
and
two
Germans
has
broken
a
wave
of
armed
rob
beries
In
Munich.
A
fourth
mem
ber
of
a
gang
was
killed.
,
The.
.group
committed
robber
les
with
pistols
in
the
uniforms
oi
United
States
troops.
The
gang
leader
Is
Identified
as
Pte.
John
Abernathy,
aged
20,
of
a
militiry
nolic'e
battalion.
Hp
Is
acsUsed-ofi
providing
the
Germans
with
uniforms
and
Police
raids
yielded
18
weap
ons,
police
helmets,
53,000
reich-marks
and
Jewelry
valued
at
50,-000
marks.
AVIATION
BUILDING
Structure
for
International
Civlf
Aviation
Organization
at
Montreal
MONTREAL
Contract
has
been
let
for
the
fabrication
and
erection
of
the
steel
structure
ifor
the
first
aviation
unit
of
the
building-
project
on
the
Dorchester
Street
site
adjoin
ing
the
CN.R.'s
central
station,
it
was
announced
here
Friday
by
51.
C.
Vaughan,
C.M.G.,
chairman
and
president,
Canadian
National
Railways.
',
This
first
unit
is
to
be
occu
pied
by
the
Provisional
Interna
tion
Civil
Aviation
Organization,
.the
governing
body
In
matters
of
world
air,
and
by
the
Inter
national
Air
Transport
Associa
tion,
representing
some
70
of
Hhc
world's
airlines
operating
eountry-to-country
flights,
these
organizations
having
chosen
Montreal
as
their
headquarters
MRS.
R.
CLARK
BURIED
FRIDAY
Funeral
service
for
the
laic
Mrs.
Reginald
M.
Clark,
pioneer
city
resident,
who
passed
away
earlier
this
week,
was
held
Frl
day
afternoon
at
Grcnville
Court
Chapel,
B.C.
Undertakers.
Scores
of
friends
filled
the
chapel
to
hear
the
final
rites
delivered
by
Rev.
F.
Antrobus
of
First
Bap
tist
Church.
Interment
took
place
in
Fairview
Cemetery,
The
congregation
joined
in
singing
the
hymns
"Jesus
Lover
of
My
Soul"
and
"Rock
of
Ages."
Mrs.
J.
C.
Gllfcer
was
organist.
Pallbearers
were
Fred
Schaeffer,
Ivar
Johansen,
Ingvald
Hanson,
John
Wide,
George
Ilague,
and
W.
II.
Hill.
fassured
that
presentation
of
its
views
at
this
time
rwould
not
jeapordize
Its
rights
to
participate
in
subsequent
deliberations
on
German
peace.
A
United
States
source
said
that
Canada
had
"Indicated
Informally"
she
would
boycott
the
German
peace
pact
deliberations
undess
'assured
of
further
deli
beration.
The
Soviet
Union
is
still
at
odds
with
the
United
States,
Great
Britain
and
France
on
"small"
powers
participation
in
the
drafting
of
the
treaties.
Limit
Reached
New
Deal
On
Taxes
Announcement
by
Minister
ot
Finance
Drew
of
Ontario
Ready
to
Treat
OTTAWA
Finance
Min-
ister
Douglas
Abbott,
commenting
today
t
a
jress
conference
on
the
request
by
Premier
George
A.
Drew
of
Ontario
for
a
mew.
Dominion-provincial
conference,
said
a
new
conference
could
serve
no
useful
purpose
at
this,
time.
He
found
no
desire
among
provincial
premiers
for
such
a
conference.
The
minister
of
finance
said
that,
if
taxation
agreements
were
concluded,
with
all
the
provinces,
then
the
Dominion
was
ready
to
call"
a
general
conference
for
the
discussion
of
health
in-snranee;
jiubli
r-Investment
and
social
security
problems.
Mr.
Abbott
said
that
the
federal
government
had
gone
about
the
limit
in
financial
concessions
to
the
provinces..
OTTAWA
Basis
of
the
new
taxation
agreements
he
is
seek
ing
with
the
provinces
was
made
public
for
the
first
time
last
night
by
Minister
of
Finance
Douglas
Abbott.
Under
the
arrangement
he
said
the
provinces
would
be
provided
with
-a
total
of
$206,158,000
annual
revenue,
$25,000,000
more
than
mlnimums
offered
in
the
June
budget
and
$70,000,000
over
the
original
of-
fer
in
August
1945.
New
Brunswick,
Saskatche
wan
and
Manitoba
have
already
settled
on
the
new
basis
and
Nova
Scotia
and
Alberta
are
ex
pected
to
do
likewise.
The
proposals
h&ve
been
communicated
to
all
the
provinces.
British
Columbia
has
previously
accepted
less
favorable
terms
than
these
so,
like
Prince
EdwarcTlsland,
Is
expected
to
agree.
Premier
George
A.
Drew
of
Ontario,
after
having
received
the
new
offer
from
the
minister
of
finance
which
he
issued
to
he
public,
wrote
to
Prime
Minister
Mackenzie
King
calling
upon
Mr.
King
to
reconvene
the
Dominion-provincial
conference.
His
government,
Drew
said,
wa3
renciy
to
attend
a
conference
at
any
time
and
consider
any
reasonable
offer.
He
was
anxious,
he
said,
that
a
settlement
would
be
arrived
at
-which
iwould
be
Just
and
fair
to
all
the
people.
Premier
Maurice
Duplessis
has
said
that
Quebec
will
not
modify
Us
statement.
PREMIER
HART
NOT
TALKING
VICTORIA,
Oi
Premier
John
Hart
refused
o
make
any
comment
last
night
on
the
new
taxation
agreement
terms
with
the
provinces
as
announced
yesterday
by
Hon.
Douglas
Abbott,
federal
minister
of
finance,
"un-itli
he
had
been
able
to
thoroughly
study
the
complete
reports.
Etaxi
537
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AND
NIGHT
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