PROVINCIAL, L122U, VIC 3. 0. NORTHERN itW umUlUUil MUTISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER ORMES DRUGS Daily Delivery PHONE 81 Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" VOL. XXXVII, No. 108. PRINCE RUPERT, B. C, FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1948 PRICE FIVE CENTS !r Blue : 7 i)D09(STfln UltlitlYllAAlllitltttilll! i A -1 1 Famous German Naval Base hber source ror mamiana mills TRUCK DRIVER EARNS DRINK Now Russian "War Port" FROM HIS CARGO (, I. Forests Only Scratched Yet Two VANCOUVER T; v f (By O. A. HUNTER) MSHEWA This twelve-mile long inlet on the ',4 of Moresby Island, at present an import- alike have put the accent on getting ocean traffic going at full blast. A recent tour ot the waterfront showed several big Russian SWINIUJSCIE, Poland (AP) This once famous German naval base of Swinemunde is again a "war port." HALIBUT SKIPPER EXPLODES MIKE VANCOUVER (CP) Capt. Norman Ryall of the halibutter Rosalie III arrived here Thursday and told of tying a line to a floating Japanese mine and towing it ashore, then detonating it with a rifle. 1 He said he believed that fishermen on the Pacific Coast could perform mine demolition. Ryall said that the mine exploded with a deafening crash and sent a huge column of smoke into the air. Ships miles off-shore heard the blast. On the beach, the explosion left a crater GO feet wide. ;, hi her source ior luwtn uivcr aim ucean raus rVK -ii i t i. r-. i i. . transports In the harbor, along nl paper mills on me unusn oiumDia main-. giving employment to some five hundred with a score of small warcraft. would-be hi-Jackers haven't yet felt the heavy hand of Justice, but they probably ' won't think It any worse than that of truck driver Val Mc-Fadden. Bringing a $25,000 liquor cargo from New Westminster Thursday, he frustrated an attempt by the hi-jackers to take over his truck with 400 cases aboard. He slugged one with his fist and kicked the other in the face.. Both men were armed. All along the Oder River leading out Into the bay and the Baltic Sea are big red signs in Polish to that effect. Badly U,c 175 or so men it Sandspit on the im of Morseby Is- al(es a total of between Z Z-Jf battered by artillery fire during the war, Swinioujscie, as It now Is called by the Poles, Everywhere are sailors and officers wearing "the emblems of the "Red Baltic Fleet." In Swinioujscie, both Russians and Poles seem in a cheery mood as hey speed shipments to and from the Red zone in Germany. Even though both call this, a "war port," neither seems interested In talking about the prospect of another war. Poles nn on the timber pay- Wanted Car For Dance; Murdered Elderly Couple BRYAN, Ohio 0 A fourteen-year old junior high school athlete signed a statement today admitting he shot and killed John Gabriel, 57- Charlotte Is- e Queen Is carefully guarded by Polish and Russian marines. resources or wnicn supplying the main-fur thirty years since BOARD PLANS CONSTRUCTION OF FIRST UNIT OF NEW -HIGH SCHOOL Just three miles to the west is the end of Poland's frontier and Russians just say "we're fu I projeciea biuhi- Weygand Cleared Of Collaboration PARIS 0 General Maxlmc tnc great Sitka spruce mmi" i ' f S ? too busy to talk about war. We've got work Co do." i in the territories she absorbed by Germany after Potsdam. Road blocks manned by Russian troops bar entry into the the Queen wiarioiieH. PHILANTHROPIST nced Umber cruisers Ships of many nationalities Weygand, wartime commander- ycar-old railway mail cleric and Mrs. Gabriel because he wanted their automobile for a dance. Police Identified the boy as Ervin Arthur Ingle. the irreat spruce and now use the Oder waterway AIDS WOMAN WHO In.chief of the French Army, Construction of the first unit oi a new, modern hlf;h school to replace the decrepit Booth Memorial structure may begin w'tnin the next year under plans started by the school uoard. stands of the Islands VISITED BRAUND Soviet zone of occupation and the area where the Nazis once had rocket launching installations. What is there now, nobody knows. y been SO lar meiuiy today ciearea me uisgrace oi "national Indignity" which had been automatically applied to him as the former Vichy gov around me Dcacncs cr the new policy of yield lossiing, are raping a perpetual supply. SYDNEY, Australia 0 E. J. Hafcstrom, wealthy Sydney philanthropist, will pay all expenses for a nurse to accom Swinioujscie today has a popu through Swinioujscie. The port is a take-off point for the ferry connecting Sweden with Poland. It formerly operated through Gdynia, but the route through here saves many hours of travel. The Oder, too, is well filled with small units of the Polish navy, most of which have been eturned from English ports rince the end of the war. lation of several thousand Poles Thi' bojird ivt its monthly niecHni; last niulit moved '"to Include in the building program construction of the first unit ol a new high school." ernment minister. The decision taken by the examining commission of the high court found no grounds for proceedings against him. and runs into mnions and a tremendous job of reconstruction. There are war-damaged homes and business es eluding the high grade pany Mrs. Rose Otto," 42-year-, old cancer sufferer, back to her I home at Victoria, B.C. 'ONTARIO' DUE HERE AT 5 P.M. H.M.C.S. Ontario, latest cruiser to be commissioned on the west coast, was due to arive here uce, loo gooa ior puijj-iay not hint; of the high tablishments on every street. In the port area, Russians and Poles PRINCESS MARGARET AND A NEW HAT Princess Margaret Rose, wearing a charming off-the-face hat, trimmed with roses and veiling which ties under the chin, was a reception committee of one when she welcomed Boy Scouts from all parts of the British Isles who were chosen to represent their counties at the ninth annual National Scout Service at Windsor Castle. While no details were officially Mrg Otto U one of eight Uana-clarified, the motion indicates dians who flew here lake lne that the new Ulllt Will be built nmiwworl ..armor iroaimonr. nf mliK-k and cedar. So, ncral expansion of Brlt-nbia Industry and Its TWO INJURED IN on the same grounds as those Irom Esquimau at 5 o'clock this northward movement. Farmer Drowned At Abbotsford NEW WESTMINSTER P) GREEKS KILL 213 FOR 1944 UPRISINGS AIRPLANE CRASH bids fair to becoming now occupied by Booth school and that it will serve as an annex to it until the secund unit can be built. afternoon for a two-day vlshy She Is under command of Capt. J. C. Hibbard, R.C.N. greater industry on the PRINCE GEORGE Two John Brauwi who is now branded as a "fraud and charlatan" in a government import. Mrs. Otto has been In hospital at Sydney for several weeks in constant pain. She will be under the care of a Cana- Jack Banman, 63-year old Ab people were Injured here today larlolle Islands than In lest days during two Ontario will leave port, south- when an airplane crashed near botsford farmer, was drowned in the Fraser River last night while fishing on Nicomen Is this Interior city. , The house new uir.c probably will an auditorium, gymnas- wiit may be called h buund at 10 o'clock Monday morning. Baseball and Softball matches have been arranged between iiini, library, reading, home dlao nurse on the homeward economics and - industrial arts 1 flight. land. He fell front a log where he had been fishing. ATHENS 0i Eighteen more persons, convicted of murder, were executed this morning at Regina prison, just outside of Athens. Nineteen were executed there yesterday, while 13 transition I" the Ion--wslry on the Quern Refuse to Name Jerusalem Mayor Hechako Floods, Train Delayed Twelve Hours rooms and administrative offi- Islands as elsewhere ccs. ) the old methods and city teams and teams from the warship Saturday afternoon, with possible return games Sunday afternoon. BRAUND HALTS CANCER 'CURE' others 'were killed In Athens TRUMAN CALLS -y is giving way to tnc Th present Booth Memorial and 11 at Salonika. ir power say and such day of moving camps RAIL CONFERENCE This week 213 have been exe classrooms would remain in use pending completion of the sec- It is likely that 'a football! Train arrivals into cuted in Greece, most of them vm place to place at ond section. WASHINGTON r The White LAKE SUCCESS Ot--A spokesman here said today that Britain has refused to appoint a neutral mayor of Jerusalem and has asked tha, United Nations to name a man for the job. Trygve Lie, U.N. secretary general was advised of Britain's decision by Foreign Minister Bevin today. SYDNEY 0-John Braund, 78-year-old layman whose claims to cure cancer have been investigated by a committee of the New South Wales government, has convicted . of murder . during House Thursday Called a cbh- Prince Rupert were .delayed for the second time Leftist uprisings In 1944. , te is being replaced more permanent" resl-amp, where men brliiR ference of the railroad brother The British ttovcrnment has match may be arranged as well. .. TunigUt, Gap. - tfibbard will inspect Capt. Cook corps of Sea Cadets in the naval drill hall. The vessel was expected to moor at the Ocean Dock. hood chiefs for today to try and this week by flood condi head off the i,nreained railroad The Board's 'action is prelim-' Inary to further detailed' preparations which will disclose the probable costs and design of the new building. However, it is likely that this presented a note to the Greek given an undertaking to stop government asking "details and treating cancer patients. Braund explanations" of the recent was recently branded a "fake" utiles and community ind enjoyments are av- strike scheuuied for next Tues tions in the central interior where mountain- Tlic most notable of this day over a wage dispute. Dr. large-scale executions by the government committee. John R. Steelman the presiden HALF CANADA'S n the Queen Charlotte is the new camp of tial labor expert and brother JEWS CAPTURE A London newspaper editorialized that "the world has had enough of this 'eye-for-an-eye, tooth-for-a-tooth" carnage. ttyy woods (Pacific COUNCIL OF work will be done this summer in time for the presentation of a bylaw to approve- funds for construction at the civic elec hood leaders are heads of the locomotive engineers, firemen rWO VILLAGES randspit. Here are 175 persons with George PATIENTS IN MENTAL HOSPITAL fed rivers have undermined the C.N.R. rail line. The passenger train, scheduled to have reached here at midnight, Thursday, stopped at the depot al noon today, delayed by a washout near Vanderhoof. JERUSALEM CP The Jews and switchmen's union. They represent 140,000 workers. claimed a new success against EUROPE URGED BY CHURCHILL the Arabs in Palestine today their superintendent. ' operation In Cumshc-ls the "Aero Camp" of ill River Co. Ltd. with with reports of the capture of OTTAWA Fifty thousand two Arab villages north of here during the night. men under George Bell. VICE-REGAL PARTY STOP AT CRANBROOK CRANBROOK ) Viscount and Lady Alexander were wel persons, or more man nan oi all the hospital patients In Canada are In mental hospitals, at an annual cost of $20,000,000, a Canadian National divisional Superintendent C. A. Berner's office reported this niorniiiK that THE HAGUE 9i Winston Churchill today urged immediate formation of a European tions next December. This would indicate that the work may be started next year. Several months ago, the Board approved the expenditure of $40,000 for the reconditioning of Booth Memorial High School and It appears likely that this money, or a part of It will have to be spent to maintain the school in condition for occupancy until the second unit Is built to replace it. ( Jerusalem remained quiet as negotiations continued for a truce within the Holy City. Arab the line is now clear and that assembly as .the first step - the original A. P. Aiding Co. which boa-sUs loRglng railway on the 'larlolle Islands, a ninc-1 running Into the log-cration. enabling the prominent psychiatrist, Dr. Bar- . uch Silverman, declared here. cooler weather today may slow leaders said that they were willing to call a cease-fire order at the spring run-off to a point 'In far too many instances comed at Cranbrook Thursday, Fish Sales American Pierce, 70.000, 17.10, 16.40 and 10.50, Royal Fish Co. Canadian Relief, 24.000, 16.50, 15.50 and 10, Cold Storage Connie Jean, 12,000, Co-op North Foreland, 8,000, Co-op Hanna II, 22,000, Co-op Borgund, 11,000, Co-op Nornen, 14,000, Co-op Arctic I, 12,000, Co-op where uninterrupted train ser are we influenced by undesirable emotions, by feelings of hostil vice may be maintained. the first stop in British Columbia on their western tour. toward a council to fre Europe of the jealousies and rivalries' of the past. .He asked members at a forum of 22 countries to plead with their governments to "create a new Europe" whose united voice p live at the beach camp. t Powell River camp Is Mathers Lake, where At the flag-decked station, the I 1 x tj i 1 1 5 A -l , ' ; i- r The westbound passenger train was held at Prince George while ity which have been deeply ingrained In us from childhood," Dr. Silverman said. Our schools Governor General and the vice l lie iioartl also lias gone on record lor construction of a new elementary school to replace the noon, Saturday, if the Jews would agree to do likewise. Surrenders After Warning Shots VANCOUVER O) Ronald K. Forsyth, 20-year-old truck driver, n are getting out logs Regal party received a welcome the track was cleared or a frelehr. train derailment five uUiiued on Page 3i King Edward building on Sev from Mayor Robert Sang, and enth Avenue. later attended a civic reception and colleges must give much more consideration to emotional education rather than develop exclusively the Intellectual fac can be continuously heard. "The new council of Europe should be subordinate, but a necessary part of a world organization," Churchill said. The world organization of the future During the day, the vice-Regal surrendered to the police Thurs miles west of Vanderhoof Thursday. Three lumber cars of an eastbound freight train left the rails where the track hail been washed out by the flooding WNA MAN TO day, a few hours after a ten party visited the Sullivan mine at Kimberley, making a short trip underground. mile chase In suburban Rich ECLIPSE TOMORROW TO BE WATCHED BY MILITARY IN ALEUTIAN CHAIN EW DISTRICT ulties. "Unfortunately far too many who graduate from our universities are Intellectually mature, but emotionally infantile." mond, after the firing of two Nechako River. warning shots by pursuing of should have three "august but subordinate" regional .councils: Soviet Union, council o'f Europe, I including Great Britain and her' ficers. He was wanted on a theft at 3 The track was cleared D ENGINEER charge and now also faces a dan gerous driving charge. commonwealths, and the west- lolia, during a battle between Lydians and Medes. As Hered otus tells it: p.m. yesterday. Tonight's train, due to leave for the east at 9 o'clock Daylight '1 W. Stevans, assistant Lrn hemisphere. Public Works Engineer i Churchill is honorary chalr- OTTAWA The first eclipse of the sun to have military value since the one thai stopped a war In 5H5 B.C. will take place In the Pacific Ocean tomorrow. EARTH TREMORS EMPIRE PARLEY COMING SOON? LONDON 0 The Evening News said today that a "full conference" of British ministers and prime ministers from the Dominions would be held next year at a date still to be fixed. A government source told tbe Canadian Press that Prime Min "W. lla.S been annoillted man t,f Iho mnrllnn hr hplnir Time, will depart as scheduled. Ngineer of the Prince held under the title of UV. "Con SHAKE MONTREAL fed by strict on the retire-1 Bkeena River, The gress of Europe" forum, which t from is nr, - nfllltlM V District Public Works It was in 585 B.C. that an eclipse occurred in Eastern Ana- Labor U """cva e s h e s " up "". opposed noosed bv by Britain's Britain's Labor . streams and creeks has risen party and has no government' I C Brady, which is w end of June. THE WEATHER, Synopsis Considerable cloudiness still persists over the province with scattered showers being reported along the coast. Skies will clear early In the day in the southern coastal regions but elsewhere will remain mostly cloudy until later In the day. Clear warmer weather is expected In the southern and central sections tomorrow with increasing cloudiness in the nor "Just as the battle was growing warm, day was suddenly turned Into night. When the opposing forces observed this they ceased fighting and were alike anxious to agree upon peace." The announced purposes of the ' May 8 observations is to more accurately determine the shape of the earth and better mure umu wk m-- MONTREAL 0 Earth tremors, lasting for some 10 seconds, were felt throughout the Island -of Montreal today. The shocks came at 8:03 and occasioned many telephone, calls to police sponsorship. 48 hours and unless cool weather van.s iuui i,s fau,iy ister Attlee had "expressed hope" that a Commonwealth conference would be planned as soon lrcted to arrive In the n month. Bl'ly's retirement brings GOV'T AID NO HELP FOR HOMES MINISTER SAYS switchboards. THIRTEEN ADRIFT IN LEAKY BOAT Thousands of person enroute 'M a enrepr ,f nnhllc makes the run-off a gradual one, i.nere Is danger of rail and high way floods on Its lower reaches. The central area, however, is not the only area of the province that is in danger of floods. In the Fraser Valley, dikes are as possible, but no arrangements have been completed yet. SYMPATHY1 'th the elemirtmrnt to work In trams, trains and buses failed to notice the tre Kan 31 years aim Rivtonn to locate any desired point on the surface fo the globe. At present, such location Is done SEATTLE 0i Thirteen per thern sections, Charlotes and mors, but they were felt fairly distinctly in many homes. "years have been spent "rlnce Rnnprt fiui,-i,.i sons drifted with the Ice Thursday In the leaking fishing boat North Coast. being strengthened and flood paely began his service provincial Piiblle. Works r"l'l in inn ,i Forecast Southern section clearing in the late afternoon. Saturday clear becoming overcast in the Glilen, then Cranbrook OTTAWA (Pi -Trade Minister C. D. Howe told Commons Thursday night that government subsidies would not Increase house building in Canada. He made the statement after the C.C.F. party had demanded a government-subsidized, low-rent housing program. All subsidies would do, said Mr. Howe, would be to change the income group for which the houses were built. 1 "r at Prince flpnrrrn Up STRIKES TO BE BANNED OTTAWA 0) Sympathy strikes would be outlawed by the government's new labor code. Labor Minister Mitchell told Commons Industrial Relations Committee Thursday. While nowhere In the code is the term "sympathy strike" used, Mr. Mitchell said they would be i, n.i.. - " r once Riinerl in inn evening. Winds light. Little "Tootsie," 30 miles north of Fort Heidcn, Alaska. The 119 foot fishboat crashed into the ice last night and the distress call said that she was leaking aft, and her supply of fresh water was running low. She was enroutc from Port Mollerot, and coast guard boats and planes opened search Immediately after receiving the distress call. I his direction, miles of irl ..t t gales along the Fraser River and Delta dike-lands are being repaired. The districts from Mission to Hope, 100 miles inland, are tho danger points. The Fraser started to rise with a foot increase In the water level- overnight. British Columbia has entered the flood picture three weeks after the prairies began to be Some persons reported that they felt earth tremors In Ot-twa.a. CUTTER REACHES ICEBOUND BOAT SEATTLE 0 The Coastguard cutter Bittersweet reached the Ice-bound cannery supn'y tender Tootsie In Alaska's Bristol Bay today and started breaking the Ice floes so the tender with Its 13-man crew could reach port. The tender became fast in the rn developed In the area with errors ranging from several hundred feet to a mile. It Is hoped to reduce these errors to not more than 150 feet. The astronomical observations will be made from seven stations along the path of the eclipse. The start Is at Burma, where it first shows, the end of the tack in the Aleutian Islands 5,320 miles away, five hours later and one calendar day earlier. The shadow starts May 9, but crosses the International time zone to finish May 8. All stations will time the moment when the edge of the moon appears , to touch the face of the sun.- "Will j, ll, v.ll,,,.. Km. "'" " C1- banned under general provisions LOCAL TIDES change lu temperature. Low tonight and high Saturday at Port Hardy 35 and 55. Northern section cloudy with showers today, clearing this evening. Saturday cloudy becoming overcast with rain In the evening. Winds light Increasing to southerly (201 Saturday afternoon. Lltle change In temperature. Low tonight and high Saturday at Massett 35 and 50, Prince Rupert 38 and 52. dealing with strikes and lock outs. P k plagued with hlgn water, rioousj Saturday, May 8, 1948 Vioun olmnst. subsided in Alberta I HRiNEcnm Rind Pnnnort Mr. Mitchell's explanation came two days after the request from lien. UOIIU UUIIUUI the Canadian Manufacturers' and Saskatchewan, although "iKn -iu.o reei, Manitoba still holds the dis- . 13:15 18.9 feet tlnctlon of being the west's main Low : 7:08 3.3 feet trouble zone.. 19:05 6.2 feet I (,- "iiua3ici I V: e"e Auditor ice Wednesday night. Apparent Association that the code pro torlum, Monday May 10, S:15 p.m. r'w iac ly the crew Is In no danger. hibit sympathy strikes. (110) students joc 1