VICTORIA
,
2.
C.
1S1
31-13
OTLE
OF
E
ERUH
MOW
UNDER
WAY
idlock
Over
Train
Movements
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
Brought
About
hresh
Crisis
OIK.IES
DRUGS
Daily
Delivery
PHONE
81
')Cynflict
between
Russia
and
the
Powers
bottled
up
western
road
and
rail
"tin
an(i
out
of
Berlin
todav-
The
Americans,
f
to
submit
to
Soviet
inspection,
resorted
to
L
hvimr
in
passengers
and
freight.
United
Published
at
Canada's
Most
Strategic
Pacific
Port
"Prince
Rupert,
the
Key
to
the
Great
Northwest
PRINCERUPERT
,
B.C.,
THURSDAY,
APRIL
1,
1948
PRICE
FIVE
CENTS
VOL.
XXXVII,
No.
77.
British
and
Frenc.
VdpdKH
in
To
Fight
To
Finish
a
suaaen
soviet
order
for
Inspection
of
trains
effective
at
midnight
last
night.
Oeneral
Lucius
D.
Clay,
United
States
military
governor,
said
that
.
the
traffic
stoppage
could
not
be
broken
Immediately
without
the
use
of
force.
Eritish
and
American
authorities
ordered
that
train
com-
rain
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tr--,
fw-j
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1
JOHN
HLADUN
CANADA
UP
AGAINST
FIFTH
COLUMN
TRYING
TO
ESTABLISH
'SUPER
RACE'
"What
we
wish
the
people
to
understand
is
that
we
are
up
against
a
fifth
column,
a
group,
of
Muscovite
agents
working
to
penetrate
the
Dominion
with
Moscow
Imperialism
and
to
establish
another
'Super
Race'
under
the
camouflage
of
the
name
Communism,"
John
Hladun,
converted
"ex-Communist,
de
jpanese
were
'n""
..
in
a
train
wreck
...
-
-
tfiuaj
Kvodu
News
Agency
.
ri
.
t
vl
,d
t
thp
fifty
had
been
killed.
slan
Qrder
that
aU
passengers
ei
states
Army
later
No
Fooling,
Winter
:
Is
Still
With
Us
Snow
began
falling
in
Prince
Rupert
yesterday
afternoon
and,
as
evening
came
on,
thd
storm
grew
in
severity,
and
.no
matter
which
way
one
looked,
the
general
setting
had
a
Santa
Claus
setting.
Late
at
night,
three
inches
had
fallen.
Skies
cleared
and
there
was
a
'
touch
of
frost.
Prince
Rupert,
early
this
morning,
not
only
looked,
but
felt
csld
no
foolin'.
The
first
of
April
did
not
suggest
spring,
,
the
least
bit
unless,
of
course,
it
was
from
the
blue
sky
and
bright
sunshine.
BULLETINS
OFFER
REJECTED
NANAIMO
La'est
offer
of
Canadian
'Dunsmuor)
Collieries
for
settling
the
77-day-old
strike
of
Vancouver
Island
coal
miners
has
been
rejected
by
the
miners.
The
company
had
offered
an
increase
of
$1.40
per
day
whereas
the
miners
demanded
$2.
he
figure
to
seventy
and
freight
entering
the
Soviet
zone
be
Inspected
at
border
control
points.
The
result
was
that
four
east-
wreckage
was
still
beinj;
clared
in
speaking
before
tne
Prince
Rupert
Gyro
Club
at
lun
jld
that
an
electrical
cheon
yesterday.
"There
is
really
broke
and
tne
train
brakes
failed,
,-hen
my
reported
that
.an
rain
was
stopped
at
a
Premier
Johnson
Declares
War
On
Mountain
Differential
VICTORIA
(CP)
Premier
Byron
Johm-on
said
Wednesday
that
the
British
Columbia
government
was
prepared
to
"fight
to
the
finish"
for
removal
of
the
mountain
freight
rate
differential."
"It
is
one
of
greatest
injustices
that
has
ever
been
imposed
on
the
economy
of
Canada,"
Mr.
Johnson
declared.
Commenting
of
the
decision
of
the
Board
of
Transport
Commissioners
to
increase
freight
rates,
Mr.
Johnson
said
the
mountain
differential
should
have
been
wiped
out.
He
proposes
to
confer
at
the
earliest
opportunity
with
premiers
of
the
prairie
provinces
to
present
a
united
front
for
removal
of
the
differential.
$&
was
nit
Dy
ue
GEN.
CHENNAULT
IN
WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON
Claire
Chen-innault,
who
performed
distinguished
air
service
leadership
ln
China
during
the
late
war,
has
arrived
here
from
China,
accompanied
by
his
young
Chinese
wife.
He
is
to
testify
before
the
House
Foreign
Affairs
Committee
on
aid
to
China.
He
is
now
operating
a
commercial
air
line
in
China.
express.
KEY
SCORES
bound
passenger
trains
were
stopped
at
Marienborn,
Soviet
check
point
five
miles
east
of
the
British
zone
boundary.
In
Moscow
the
Communist
newspaper
Pravda
declared
that
"partition
of
Germany
has
become
a
completed
fact.'
It
said
that
the
Four
Power
Allied
Control
Council
had
ceased
to
exist
as
a
governing
authority.
A
Russian-licensed
German
newspaper
suggested
that
the
western
Allies
get
out
of
Berlin.
The
western
powers
have
about
35,000
troops
and
civilians
in
the
German
capital.
United
States
resorted
to
aircraft
today
to
move
traffic
over
no
Communism."
asserted
Mr.
Hladun.
"The
Karl
Marx
theory
of
socialism
is
not
at
all
compatible
with
the
Russian
system
of
state
capitalism
which
is
just
another
big
business.
The
word
cofnmunism
is
used
merely
to
beguile
the
working
classes
to
thinking
that
the
Muscovite
element,
which
is
tightly
in
control,
is
working
in
the
interests
of
the
working
people
whereas
actually
the
aim
is
to
make
a
Muscovite
'master
race'
just
as
Hitler
and
his
Nazis
tried
to
do."
Super
agents
of
Moscow
Imperialism
had
already
penetrateci
skilfully
into
the
Labor
movement
in
Canada
and
were
now-trying
to
infiltrate
into
the
I
C.C.F.
"I
know
their
tricks,
Pacific
Coast
.
Vancouver
2.
(Van
sis
best
of
five
semi
es
2
to
1.
JORIAL
FUND
CUSTOMS,
EXCISE
REVENUE
HIGHER
URCHBISHOP
s
are
being
distribut-
I
the
Russian
occupied
zone
from
I
Berlin.
Great
Britain
has
not
liout
Canada
announc-
Customs
and
excise
collections
yet
taken
such
action.
t
6
BENES
STATEMENT
PRAGUE
President
Edouard
Benes
made
his
first
public
statement
today
since
the
Communist
coup
in
Czechoslovakia.
He
declared
that
there
had
been
a
natural
expression
of
friendship
between
the
two
nations'
(Russia
and
Czechoslovakia).
Both
were
imbued
with
the
desire
for
permanent
peace.
having
been
myself
schooled
in
at
Prince
Rupert
for
March
totalled
$53,451.73
as
compared!
with
$36,035.90
in
the
same
month
last
vear.
The
1948
ae-
:.paign
to
raise
$50,000
riorial
to
the
late
Most
Derwyn
T.
Owen,
for-chbishop
of
Toronto
te
of
All
Canada.
This
.aanched
on
or
about
D.S.F.U.
OFFICERS
ARE
RE-ELECTED
Complete
slate
of
the
past
year's
officers
was
re-elected
at
the
annual
meeting
Tuesday
night
of
the
Deep
Sea
Fishermen's
Union
of
Prince
Rupert.
They
are:
President,
John
Synes.
them,
and
I
certainly
am
going
to
expose
and
fight
them
as
long
and
as
hard
as
I
can,'
Hladun
declared.
i
-
'araoata
rtf
.nllontrrtc
tf
riota
is
CLERGYMEN
ARE
FORGOTTEN
MEN
When
the
late
Primate
$139,008.17
as
against
$88,359.26
in
the
first
three
months
of
1947.
'
west
some
years
prior
jth.
he
visited
Prince
reaching
in
St.
Vice-President.
Hagbert
A.
INFILTRATION
NOT
FIGHTING
Speaking
to
the
Gyros,
this
Ukrainian-Canadian,
who
wa3
i
converted
from
an
active
career
Hansen.
TODAY'S
STOCKS
OTTAWA
Rev.
Robert
Good
told
a
Presbytery
sitting
here
that
clergymen
are
the
financially
forgotten
men.
"The
sklll-
S:cretary
and
Agent,
George
Anderson.
.Trustees
-H,
jGreenstrancV
and
pNTARIO
RAVAGED
pYFLOODS-JBjamptqnjpni.K
was
JiQt
'-mrssed
by
the
Etoblcoke
Creek
when
it
went
on
the
rampage,'
wrecking
the
(
ntire.
business
section.
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Bert
Forrest
were
forced
to
climb
on
the
roof
of
their
home
to
await
rescue.
H.
Murk.
M.iyj
.v..
ed
and
.unskilled
laborer,"
he
All
A
Mill
declared
"and
the
white-collar
I
-1.
....
t
1
A
I.,
..nUrtfl
6
OVER
as
.
Cramunl3t-B.gitawr
after
becoming
disillusioned
while.
at-,
tending
Lenin
University
ln
Moscow,
dealt
with
the
campaign
which
has
been
organized
in
Canada
to
combat
the
Communist
movement.
He
also
spoke
briefly
on
the
subject
of
Rus
THE
WEATHER
Synopsis
Cloudy
conditions
are
expected
to
persist
over
most
of
British
The
clergyman
has
no
union.
His
salary
is
in
the
hands
of
the
congregation.
The
$1,800
makes
it
Impossible
to
put
anything
awav
for
old
aae.
It
does
not
ion
of
C
anadian
M.I.
With
Mixed
Feel
in
KB
Columbia
todav
and
Friday.
A
TON.
Jjinaic
aThe
compare
favorably
with
that
of
sian
foreign
policy
under
the
Stalin
regime.
That
policy,
he
asserted,
was
"to
crawl,
not
to
mini
a
mrmoer
oi
a
clerk
But
to
get
it,
the
clergy
man
Commons
that
m,,
an
t.hrnnuh
seven
declare
war
but
to
talk
peace.
(Continued
on
Page
3)
SPAIN
IS
EXCLUDED
VVASHINGTO
N
A
joint
committee
of
Senate
and
House
agreed
today
that
Spain
'should
be
excluded
from
lie
Marshall
plan
for
economic
aid
to
western
Europe.
This
came
after
President
Truman
and
Secretary
of
State
both
declared
they
were
opposed
to
Spain's
inclusion.
STRIKE
IN
ITALY
HOME
Communists
today
threatened
to
order
a
countrywide
strike
which
would
paralyze
Italy
for
a
ten-day
period
before
the
national
elections
on
April
18,
unless
police
by
April
8
found
a
Sicilian
labor
leader
who
disappeared
twenty
days
ago.
.
U.S.
MARINES
FREED
PEARL
HARBOR
The
United
States
Navy
announced
today
that
Chinese
Communists
had
released
four
United
Stales
Marines
who
had
been
captured
in
North
China
while
on
a
Christmas.
Day
hunting
trip.
A
fifth
Marine
died
from
wounds
received
in
Courtesy
8.
D
Johnston
On
lxrt.
Vancouver
-
Bralorne
-
9.00
B.R.
Con
02
'2
B.
R.X
07
Cariboo
Quartz
1.40
Dentonia
01
Grull
Wihksne
05
Hedley
Mascot
60
Pend
Oreille
3.10
Pioneer
2.75
Premier
Border
04
Privateer
19
Reeves
McDonald
1-60
j
Reno
.08
12
Salmon
Gold
,
.17
'2
Sheep
Creek
100
Taylor
Bridge
48
Taku
River
55
Vananda
15
Congress
02
Pacific
Eastern
05
Hedley
Amalgamated
..
.03
Spud
Valley
HV2
Silbak
Premier
35
Oils
C.
&
E
4.00
Home
6.25
ike
over
the
British
years
ln
university
and
out
of
ies
was
given
a
mixed
it
he
must
have
a
car,
a
library
hfrf
land
heat
a
home
that
could
r
of
Communications
,,!
9n
norsnns"
coid
air
mass
is
spreading
into
the
northern
portion
of
the
province
today
but
is
nQt
expected
to
affect
the
southern
section
where
temperatures
will
remain
near
normal.
Forecast
Prince
Rupert,
Queen
Charlottes
and
North
Coast
North-ern
Section
Clear
and
cold
to
Husbands
Cannot
Desert
Easily
w
says
ne
will
resist
:iove
as
far
as
he
can.
Hospital
Insurance
Plan
For
B.
C.
Being
Established
Noiv
VICTORIA
P
A
compulsory
contributory
hospital
insurance
plan
will
be
established
by
the
British
Columbia
government.
Premier
Byron
Johnson
announced
Wednesday
legislation
for
a
plan
to
be
introduced
at
the
present
session
of
the
Legislature.
The
plan
will
call
for
maximum
family
benefits
of
$33
per
year
and
the
only
persons
exempt
will
be
those
already
covered
by
comparable
hospital
insurance.
-,
:r
Payments
for
single
persons
are
expected
to
be
based
on
a
$1.25
per
month
fee.
The
cost
of
the
project
will
be
covered
by'
a
$2,000,000
stabilization
fund
plus
provincial
and'
municipal
grants
of
70c
per
day
for
patients.
.,
The
government
will
contract
with
hospitals
to
supply
ward
and
diagnostic
services
and
will
continue,
to
provide
services
for
all
recognized
social
indigents.
TORONTO
A
bill
designed
to
make
it
easier
for
Ontario
courts
to
force
husbands
to
support
deserted
wives
and
children
has
been
given
its
first
reading.
Un
Mar.iey.
leader
of
the
Party
says
he
regards
lightly.
Youngman,
Caribbean
of
Commerce
spys
)uld
act.
The
t'.n-.e
"is
'believes
when
responds!
be
dividv'r:
among
'
Dumlnlon&
and
Can-Sfown
up.
ancois
Pouloit.
Inde-IJberal
for
Temiscouta
TAKE
OVER
UTILITIES
LONDON
Great
Britain
took
over
ownership
at
midnight
of
all
the
nation's
electric
utilities,
the
sixth
major
enterprise
to
be
nationalized
under
the
Labor
government's
Socialist
program.
One
of
the
first
developments
under
state
control
will
be
higher
rates
for
a
Urge
proportion
of
domestic
consumers
in
urban
areas.
day
and
Friday.
Winds
light
today
northeast
(15
m.p.h.)
tonight
and
Friday.
Lows
tonight
and
highs
Friday
Massett
28
and
42,
Prince
Rupert
28
and
40.
Southern
Section
Cloudy
with
scattered
showers
today
and
tonight.
Clear
Friday,
wind
light,
little
change
in
temperature.
Low
tonight
and
high
FridayPort
Hardy
35
and
45.
der
Its
ruling
a
husband
need
not
be
returned
to
Ontario.
The
sending
of
evidence
to
the
court
nearest
to
where
he
happens
to
be
living
will
be
sufficient.
incident.
an
Me
the
suggestion.
ALASKAN
AGGRESSION
MOSCOW
Newspaper
Red
Star
today
charges'
that
United
States
is
establishing
air
bases
in
Alaska
with
aggressive
intentions.
Toronto
Athona
08
Aumaque
.18
Beattie
62
Bevcourt
.
35
Bobjo
10
uman
Is
Askins
Three
Billion
More
For
Defence
Buffalo
Canadian
10Vi
0
Urges
Buildin
P
PREMIER
K
EXPELLED
Up
Of
Stocks
F4-J.
T.
Prnpt.or
1
Ih.
WORKSHOP
FOR
HANDICAPPED
CIVILIANS
j
y,!
un
mwiwm
V
"T
"
"T
fill
t
-
4
-
,VT
rfor
Moosomin.
has
Uital
Materia
Consol.
Smelters
100.00
Conwest
76
Donalda
70
Eldona
73
Elder
!
54
Giant
Yellowknlfe
4.35
God's
Lake
59
Hardrock
17
Harricana
06
Heva
10
Vi
Hosco
29
Jacknife
-
04
Joliet
Quebec
-
30
Lake
Rowan
10
Wiled
from
the
legisla
;
re'uing
to
withdraw
WASHINGTON.
D.C.
(CP)
President
Tinman
advised
Coneress
todav
that
an
additional
three
bil
elit
when
he
calkd
1
C.
Douglas
a
'6
skunk."
During
the
Period,
Mr.
Pmr.,.pr
lion
dollars
will
be
asked
for
national
defence.-
He
also
has
asked
that
the
Treasury
Department
be
author
'"lst
f
highways
in
ized
to
immediately
contract
for
$375,000,000
to
build
uw.
un
March
up
stocks
of
strategic
and
critical
materials.
1
ne
re-
that
when
Procter
P"M
Dumlp
h
v,
top
of
eleven
billion
dollars
al
I
.
Hie
BOVOrnmnnt.
mrc
than
it
was
CANADA
HAS
MALNUTRITION
OTTAWA
In
some
sections
of
Canada,
there
is
malnutrition.
It
Is
sufficient
to
cause
definite
anaemia
ln
one-eighth
of
the
population
and
rickets
in
one-fifth.
This
announcement
was
Lapaska
O8V2
Lynx
-OB'z
Madsen
Red
Lake
2.68
McKenzie
Red
Lake
50
McLeod
Cockshutt
1.15
Moneta
33
Negus
2.15
Noranda
47.00
Louvicourt
-63
Pickle
Crow
2.05
Regcourt
06
Vi
San
Antonio
3.95
Senator
Rouyn
41'
Sherrlt
Gordon
1.85
Steep
Rock
2.10
Sturgeon
River
18
Silver
Miller
30
'i,
wno
nas
been
t
son
-
in
-
iaw
and
"
Mr.
and
Mrs
Jack
sailing
tonlght
on
,lc
Rtiuert
1,.
...
r
Vancouver.
made
in
Ottawa,
but
nothing
was
said
about
identity
of
the
ready
asked
for
national
defence.
BASEBALL
SCORES
San
Francisco
4,
Sacramento
1.
Seattle
4,
Hollywood
3.
Portland
9,
Ooakland
4.
Los
Angeles
17,
San
Diego
2.
HAD
SAWED-
OFF
RIFLE,
SENTENCED
Waldo
Leonarc
Jordan,
who
pleaded
guilty
to
being
in
possession
of
a
sawed-off
rifle
at
Terrace,
was
sentenced
to
the
time
he
had
already
served
In
Jail
when
he
pleaded
guilty
in
County
Court
before
Judge
W.
O.
Pulton.
I
A
ue
PRINCE
AT
RECEPTION
Shown
at
a
reception
to'
celebrate
the
birthday
of
the
king
of
Denmark,
held
by
the
Danish
Ambassador
and
Countess
Reventlow
at
the
Danish
embassy
In
London,
is
27-year
old
Prince
George
of
Denmark,
assistant
military
attache
in
London.
Prince
George
Is
helping
four-year
old
Inga
Taylor,
one
of
the
youngest
guests,,
to
biscuits.
section.
Frank
H.
Stratford,
War
Assets
Corporation
representative
at
Terrace,
returned
to
the
interior
on
last
evening's
train
after
a
day's
Visit
to
the
city
in
connection
with
the
closing
out
of
the
local
War
Assets
STAR
LOCAL
TIDES
Friday,
April
2,
1948
High
:
7:40
16.1
feet
21:52
15.2
feet
Low
:
1:41
11.6
feet
14:59
7.5
feet
workshops
in
Canada
for'
handicapped
civilians,
where
Moose
Jaw
Sask
has
one
of
the
few
persons
disabled'
other
than
through
war,
earn
their
living
by
making
a
variety
of
articles
clothes-horses,
dresses,
slacks
and
diapers.
The
goods
are
sold
on
the
that
Include
hall-trees
to
the
shop
in
order
that
be
ooen
market
and
the
'profit
turned
back
flt
may
expanded.
Here
Walt
Walsh
MooseJaw,
who
has
only
two
fingers
on
his
left
hand,
operates
a
17-inch
drill,
while
Bill
Paulson,
Tompkins,
Sask.,
looks
on.
mass
production
press
Cabs
V