PATCHED Daily Delivery NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" PHOHE 8t VOL. XXXIX, NO. 168 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1950 PRICE FIVE CENTS mericaifii8 Dirivein Sou ftp .By Hew D PIIM. U U V t bfic Is Worried Over BASEBALL SCORES TODAY American League Boston 6, Detroit 5 (11 Innings). .,, National League Flaming Taegon Given Ud By U.N. Defenders Fierce Fighting Now Going On Forty IVIiiCs Lid Blowing Off Defer ce Costs In Canada As Effort I i Mounting ; OTTAWA (CP) The Korean war has blown the lid off Canada's defence costs, already at a peace ain's Defence Plans Ily KDWIN S. JOHNSON Canadian Press Staff Writer Philadelphia 10, Pittsburgh 9 time high. The government' has authorized an im-. j mediate, wide program that will add millions to the Gravity ()i international Miuauon 13 . , TWIN TORNADOES LIMA, OMo Twin tornadoes slashed through Lima and lan Wert last night, causing damage of more than $l,0fl,00. Three hundred homes were damaged and 30 persons injured, but no orS; was killed. ' . Causing Concern .... 111 innings). Pacific Coast ' Portland 8, Oakland 7 Seattle 8, Hollywood 7 San FAncisco S, San Diego 6 Los Angeles 4, Sacramento 1 American j defence budget. ; j It will mean an accelerated Canadian defence i effort adding possibly 8,000 j ; 7 '. : men to the regular forces by a v "' I special repuiting campaign, r I t I T1 0 Fl - Q doubling production rates of, iQl la XDON (CP) The gravity of -Hip. Inter- situation with its ever-present menace of a South Of Provisional Capital " " CHONJU OCCUPIED , TOKYO (CP) North Koreans today 'occupied Chonju, 40 miles southwest of Taejon and fifteen miles south of Iria, their previous most southerly penetration, a United States Army spokesman reported. TOKYO (CP) American and North Korean troops were tonight engaged in fierce fighting "as far as forty miles south of Taejon after mxm field dispatches had said that the important key rail and highway junction had been abandoned by its defenders in the face of a new and powerful drive by the rid war is causing growing concern in many - COMINFOKM MEETS BERLIN An important tneetln of thu rnminfnrin la about Britain s own defences. ' I additional 'aid to -the United. Realistic questions being asked are similar to those under way i-. Benin a the unng trie critical penoa mat , prec-eueu : yy t"ps"i cm Tlie R.CA.F.'s No. 420 trans-, port squadron based at Mont- real will join in the U.S. airlift for Korea but will not take part' St. Louis 1-3, New York 16-4 Detroit 9, Boston 5 Cleveland 4, Philadelphia 0 - Chicago 4, Washington S ; National Boston 3, Cnlcago 11 Philadelphia 3-2, Pittsburgh ' 2-4 , New York 4-3, St. Louis 18-10 Brooklyn-Cincinnati postponed Western International paign mounts in various parts 1 Poland In narch into Be li-Tighteninj '. Necessary In View Of Korean Battle And 5 World Conditions. , f the world. . 1939. authorit ies have . ..n. . In the actual fighting. Ail thre J forces are to Ignore present Fifth Column Is Vorrysome WASHINGTON, DC, 0 Pre'sfr ng an anxious puuuu Communist aggression , i PRK ES MOl'NTINQ j .'VANCOUVER Wholesale j price of sugar went up 25c per- I hundred today . while coffee Communist Invaders. Some of the their regular units to fighting dent Truman told the American t iin'ikrlv ti plunge Americans were trapped. i 1 it generation into an- ROME The Korean war has JumPcd 2 P Po""- or war. But the man- of South Korea since the fall of Seoul. Using a new 3.5 rocket gun tapahle of piercing heavy North Korean armor, the Americans clung to the city stubbornly Aa rtrengl.h. Present strength is peopje on Wednesday night thstJ about 17,030 men. , wi Ught:!j they erc or mme In announcing the program of Prime Minister 5t. Laurent said 0 . - :J Yakima 9, Salem 0 Tacoma 8- , Spokane 3-3 TrJ-City 6-12. Vancouver 4 0 Wenatchee 4, Victoria 3. Pvsuters said that the last Americans had been ordered out ot the blazing city at dusk after i day of street fighting in which etnas noi jurgouen given omcimaum , ui . B.C. PRODUCTION nni iei-aown oi ,icv- acute case oi nun column JH-' , VANCOUVER It l admit- nbcrlain's "peace Inters. '; u . that th nihmt r they took a heavy toll of In Canada will not send any u" "'u wiu.iuiuuh im. eround troops to Korea ' at this said 1 .that scare buying ' anq. assurance before the steady Communist losses on ' ,ttack on the British Columbia DlllzKrieg vading tanks. The Communist drive farther to the west was also reported to engulfed the peacetime front of elections coast WOttM have to be part of !s!aSe" but he said the govern- hcjarding were foolish and self ears nan i . i. 1 i . r ... impnt mem tL-ntilrl wouiu rnnsifipr consider f!anafiian oanauiau : American fighter pilot, ba;k from a mission to the area, described it as "burning hell" -, , The Communist attack on Taejon began before dawn He thvpeople much urr 7r. ana lne WDor movement P1U1! lh rimhl. in nin,,m.rn,. Alaska Is On Alort p Briton wants to be 0ptimi8tic reporU of United, production there. , There is be making progress. Spokesmen at United States Thursday. Twenty tanks lum- TZr Z nf th. SUU"8 aW hd Ud. Italians; little likelihood of large scale " !. Lil! ,nt0 8enM ot urT Then AtreTttt , production. Muni- participation m any uium same thlng ha nad toM Con. lions plan to recruit an inter- grftJs earlipr ln da j,? nations Ior:c for the Bar East . fof wui(m dQU ar j' " down bayment on a vast rnobill- The Prime Minister warned drive to win the Korean mllitary headquarters in Korea jbered out 0j tne darkness, many said the Army had lost touch wlth infantry perched on their " - ,f,p IlaIIHn tnok n final' Irvtfer of aggression and nw A .nA ..t tions plants In Canada have been out on a stand-by basis. with General Wimam r. uean, gides. Bazookas checked . their rrned strength is equal . , ,. , - 0 Ct II olaimtt 9 ew. Vnn IHUI inm rn Hoi ithat "grave decisions lie ahead.' .. J. pomha, finv ,Rjffrf a ' commander of the United States 24th Division, fighting at Tae umitmonus. . . .. ., . . . let Beady To Move Off At Moment's Notice Of Sneak Attack Canada's record defence bud- gress!in glotaj etoewhere on the me Diggest uommunisi party in v-frviitivp Dnilv Mall advance but ground troops-came on. Many of then, dressed as civilians, sneaked Into Taejon: behind the Americans and be- Klfl IU1 una JfCUI IllAy u. lvnat- f-0rjl y jon, but added: "That does not mean he is missing." EurP- ; ' ,e campaign for ag-,western to more eu irom iio,ouu,wM than 500,000,000'. preparedness, recall wwwman army, naYj INCOMPATIBLE? "TOKYO Somewhat incompatible with . today's development in Korea was an announcement of General MacArthar yesterday that I Preiident Truman said it would tatlun of a blasted ana a,r Iorce Rre lne ma"est 01 grlm game of hide-and-, through rogbi, tanpaved a txainioao. oi Amentau ga a wounded was left behind in the seek nm 1540 onwards be- mAor Auanuc pact loreos. FAIRBANKS All air fields in Alaska have been out on the alert with jet fighter planes standing by on a 24-hour basis ready to take to be necessary to make tlal irfrreases in taxes. ' i In Jhte recommendations to .Congrj ss President Truman had country was inadi- Implications of these .twin American retreat. United States troopa were credited with knocking out at med in 1939. , realities Jolted the country., King's Return Is Approved Koreans meant that they had the air in the event of a irld wars." the paper Premier DcQasDerl. windine un alleys among tightly shuttered shops and houses. . A South Korean Army spokesman-said the- enemy .had ?nt;ei;-ed Yechon on the central from today but later Was driven out i;jTearl Harbor weak' .attack; 1 letisi eleven of a scdre tjrjnore skv for, more military power,- anti-inflation eorrtrdls, d have mught the tbe4r chrre tn Uh 5w,th u Chamber debaWf-on trxi KAmit f tanks which' the North Koreans 'The radar watch has beerr aLo-ln? our armed war. devoted most of his soee'ec swilt set-un of war rwoductinri had flung against Taejon which un down. But has It n th f,h rnlumn ilinmr BRUSSELS O-Klng Leopold and adcHtlona, huge 8ums arnj tightened up on a continuous basis. had fsrved as provisional capital with 100 casualties. sums are being spent , WTjlle a March for arms paches f, but are they being ha urlearlh1 intiirh ma)rit ' the best ' advantage? .. lh las, thr Muin ,was votea oacK to nis tnrone oy non-Communlst countries. Uhe Belelan Parliament today. , Tne chief executive expressed He has been in exile since the confidence aa to the final out. jwar. epposition to Ms return (mne of baWe of Kofea ; being based in the mam on his admi'tett that the . campaign j early surrender to Ue ' German would be lon and difHcuU ' , . !in 1340. ' : Arabian Oil Line To Begin Operation By First' Of Year Korea, and failed. "There will never again be the same opportunity," said MacArthur. . FLIGHT AUTHORIZED i OTTAWA The eablr ;t at a conference on Wednesday ' authorized the flying of a Canadian squadron to Korea, to co-operate with the United States forces on transport. The flight will be from San Fran-clsrc. starting within another lefrLnted' ,! ask3, a amall army, police believe tiiere ly-mechanized force, , - a t- un modern weapons! TODAY'S STOCKS (Courtesy 8 D. Jphnston Co Ltd.) . Vancouver ' Bayonne ... .024 Bralorne 7.20 B. R. Con 03 Cariboo Quartz 1.07 Hedley Mascot 23 , Pend Oreille 6.80 By FRED J. ZUSY. SIDON, Lebanon (AP) Giant steel storage tanks are mushrooming up just south of this ancient phoenican town to mark the delivery end of a giant j A joint session of both Ijous-m 'of parliament today caai I affirmative votes for 'the return ; of the king. Mast opposition 'trirnt? ' answer is 'no' as we 10 be the governnipn',' ke evt-ry possible stop ' yes." They should act j ,Vf,n thmuh It nipan1? No Canadian Troops Going few days.- i premier Border . J ,ozv2 strategic oil pipeline. m for arms and le ' : . . . II J'.l'. ists did not vote. There are 387 j members of both houses. i The American-owned pipeline ia 1,067 miles long Reeves McDonald 2.85 Prolific Mother " Has Second "Four" CANTANZARO, Italy 0) Marianna Liol, 32 - year - old Italian peasant's wife, gave birth yesterday to her second set of quadruplets, in two years. AH boys, the quads was born in the seventh month of pregnancy. The mother and-babies were reported doing "splendidly.", 'th." I OTTAWA Prime Minister t((J VUllUillUllJ i'te has heard much L. S. St. Laurent announced la&t i - M MINISTER TO SPEAK active security and the night, following a cabinet meet-! In Knrpan VpZCt antic Alliance as de- ng, that Canada will send no: Defence Minister Brooke Clax- ; " potential aggressoi-3. ground forces to Korea at this ; LONDON O. Prime Minister jtn will be heard tonight from 6:30 over station C.F.P.R.'j -.-j.. iioa oven mm ume aiuiousn n migm, joui a" ..., . . , .. ; in oonrxift itum . . .... . .. lAttlee today told the Commons;" o.uiw.mnii international iorce U sucn were . aill cnoali m , Ifnrear. and 30 to 31 inches in diameter. It cost mote than $200,000,000. Oil will stirt mov- HEXD vr BY Till WAS inz through the line the first - Construction o th eastern of next year. The initial rate Is q thg neti in la'e planned at 300,000 barrels a day Tne westem emt waa heist and; the flow later may be In- Palestin. war ta-ZUrt creased to 500,000 barrels. up and the battle to I ateel ,trK4i c The famous "Big Inch" In the je United States when completed Port permits In Wing.on. The tank farm hr will have in 1943 was 1,254 miles long and j delivered 300,000 barrels daily! 16 tanks, with capacity of ihmncrh its 24-lnch diameter. It. 180,000 barrels each. Five al- "quired ' enal"8 "le wttr Ivorea this vear to llnBl - formed iormea. 1 , . , , situation . t inued on page 7i ( ICttiuiiib lft: cuiiuii.ifiifjii iu tn.ucj.i- No. 428 Squadron of the Royal tance of Communist Chlna lnto j ; : -CAL TIDES ,t.ananian Air rorce wm uc ,the United Nations. The state-to the Pacific to carry supplies, i effec barkpd tne W Julv 21. I9r,n tn,! rleht or " Planes to leuve United States rel-ction of the Montreal within a nay or so iw move bv Prme lnteter Nehru1 1 t l 1 1.1 lffI. . i if : I 5:19 17:54 11:31 ready are completed, with three others more than 50 per cent finished. Work has begun on four others. Four submarine lines have now carries natural gas. The new pipeline will carry crude oil from the fabulously rich Saudi-Arabian fields in the Persian Gulf area to tankers ban rranclsc0 na -aPan- or India to seek pace in Korea tn 19 2 fertj Au three fighUng services will vy brngitlR rted China Into the 5 2 feet be immediately strengthened. , United Nations. Attlee said res- ' , ' ; : toration of peace In Korea can not- be- made conditional on the settlement of other Issues. ?ol Building Tenders if - I - l " 1 t anchored a half-mile off the j been laid to anchorages a ha.r Let mese coast. ... .(mile off shore in 50 feet of The line will save ships a water. 7.000-mUe sea voyage around j The line Is of 30 and 31 inchei the vast Arabian Peninsula n1 , diameter, the largest ever-used through the Suez Canal. It will J for oil movement. -also rave the present 18 cents; New desert communities will per barrel canal toll. That's be set up at the six pumping $54,000 dollars a day. stations, 180 mile apart, earn The shortcut by-passing . the' with about 20 American families na ror Approval Rcd Leaders Meet For Discussion . BERLIN 0i The top Communist, lpaders of Eurooe and Red Reno 03 Sheep Creek 1.10 SUbak Premier . " .30 Taku River , 05 Vananda 10 Salmon Gold 04 Silver Standard " 1.60 Western Uranium 58 Oils Anglo Canadian 5.00 A. P. Con 38 Atlantic 2.50 Central Leduc 1 40 Home Oil 13.75 Mercury .'. .12 Oqalta i 1 50 Pacific Pete .'. 6.00 Princess ..M .53 Royal Canadian Vi -W3 Royallte 11.25 Toronto Athona .". 08 Aumaque 18 Beattie .45 Bevcourt .54 Bowo : 11 Buffalo Canadian .17 V2 Consol. Smelters 100.00 Donalda .45 Eldpna 25 East Sullivan 6.75 Giant Yellowknife ., -. 6.65 Ood's Lake . .29 Hardrock 33 Heva 65' Jacknife 05 Joliet Quebec 48 Lapaska : .04 Madsen Red Lake 2.25 Mcenzie Red Lake 41 McLeod Cockshutt 2.30 Moneta 17 Negus 109 Kurand : 6S.50 Louvicourt 13W! s - , Plcqle Crow '. 1.95 Regcourt . 05 '4 San Antonio 2.55 f.f' . i ' r m.:- 'S . : , '..S3 BrWRe and Dredging. Co., with a bid of fr both new Booth Memorial and Kinsr Ed- ""1 I and several hundred Arabs. 10ols, was the lowest received by the schoof chtna gathered in Berim wed- I Suez Canal was talked about ! during the Second World War ! when the U.S. government Tne line is so long and so. bi that the 36,000 .horsepower 'Mta construction program: Tenders opened ZTZZlTJZ pumping capacity on the easV granted export permits for the , M1 meeting of the school board last night tflscussion. Paimiro Togiiatt', ' ows: Ttaiv and Jaoues Duclos. France, 'dae niui nji ik. ,idIi Thi Minister Is $702,587 I miniVIfT l Soviet delegation Included M. R. Suslov, secretary of the Russian j 423,320 arf 279.9i7 White., , Communist party central com Coming Here mitter - 1 1 q 323,000 tons of steel required at 'em end will have to run for t3 la time when steel was veryjeeks to. fill it up for the flr.t 1 much in demand at home. time. The line will hold 5.OD0.0Q0 Military strategy and advice barrels. 1 played a big part in this de-1 Economists predict total mld jcision, debated before congres- U'e ea'st crude production will sional committees. exceed 2,000,000 barrels daily by f Some strategists, however, j 1953. Total Middle East crude ! would have vetoted the project production Is already five tins" ' arguing it would be a ripe plum what it was in 1915. 1 for Soviet-picking in event of; Middle East oil is expected to 'war. The line, they said, would ! gradually dk place western hem be impossible to defend. . - if-phere oil In European markets. $778,121 478,519 THE WLATHUR 309,102 ''ward Cornruction Prince Rupert rvill have a visit from a federal cabinet minister next Wednesday evening. Hon. James O. Oardiner, s ' MM; V " - I , Synopsis j t Fine, settled weather has, moved In over the province and . . Tiritlch nnlumhia Willi minister Of agriculture, his wife $797,203 401.873 317,327 $787,105 Iward ... Hall. and two daughters, will be here skiM and warm aboard uic .temperatures today ana rriaay. I Forecast s George. 468,132 , . 1 n.. tl . . . Dnnlnn lrt1lrtt iward iwa'd iney nave dcch uu vK i piortn uoai, ncs1"" , . - 'are Yukon ftnd AlaSka Wf witn a lem """" known John ders er "from ithe Neptune, otherwise as k King v. i OBSTER KING KING - g P were re Z ? Vancou- Alaska Highway and the eteamer day and Friday. Little change in OBSJEf DANCE EVERY FRIDAY NITE Oddfellows Hall Senator Rouvn .23 Sherrit Gordon 1 92 Steep Rock 3.25 Sturgeon River .15'4 SUver Miller 78 Upper Canada' 2.04 Mucation ot 1 iu ,u 1 inio-ht. and hlchs tomorrow Mr. Justice Keiller Mackay of the Ontario Appelate Court, a U endor, They will be going through to At Port Hardy Sandpit and f'a.lnm-, lonn, 1 Prince Rupert, 50 and 65. native of Pictou. , , .. ,v Photot