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at
Canada's
Most
Strategic
Pacific
Port
"Prince
Rupert,
the
Key
to
the
Great
Northwest"
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STAR
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CABS
VOL.
XXXVII,
No.
160.
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
FRIDAY,
JULY
9,
1948
PRICE
FIVE
CENTS
If)
l
n
ited
Nati
ions
To
Take
Hand
.
in
Fa
estime
i
Peace
Ends,
FiahtinQ
Resumes
;
A
CANNERY
BURNS
f
s
tj
,J
h
T
AT
;
yd
f&f,
PORT
DAY
PLANS
Progress
Reports
Made
at
Meeting
of
Committee
General
progress
reports
by
8ub-committee3
were
made
at
a
meeting
of.
the
Prince
Rupert
Port
Day
committee
in
the
Civic
ITALY
STRIKES
WRECK
KILLS
60
Fatal
Railway
Crash
in
Lower
Siberia
Workers
in
Various
Industries
Are
Demanding
More
Pay
ROME,
Oi
About
700,000
met
iOYKD
AN
(CP)
-
jj.-tjstly
fi'c
111
i
Alaska's
jtt
the
co-opened
cannery
Centre
last
night
after
which
BELGRADE,
0
At
least
60
persons
were
killed
today
In
a
wreck
In
lower
Serbia.
Details
were
not
immediately
available
al
industry
workers
laid
down
the
meeting
retired
into
groups
for
further
planning
for
the
i
August
26
marine
gala
their
tools
at
noon
yesterday
to
back
Italian
demands
for
more
pay.
The.
strike
was
the
latest
in
a
series
planned
by
the
Communist-dominated
General
Confederation
of
Labor.
The
program
committee,
by
Alf
Rivett,
informed
the
rt'
on
tut-
voi.
meeting
that
this
years
race
f
Wales
Island.
..1
.!...
CHURCH
REBUKE
Quebec
Liberal
Party
Chilled
For
Using
Pope's
Words
in
Political
Propaganda
course
would
start
at
the
Met-
iil
ile
ol
smomun-
Today
employees
of
glass,
cer
today.
i
no
if
lakatla
buoy,
off
Digby
Island,
thus
affording
a
straight
course
which
would
be
In
full
view
of
miliums
"
amic
and
saccharine
industries
had
their
turn
to
strike.
Individual
strikes
are
Involving
three
million
workers.
LONDON
Great
Britain
still
has
hopes
for
a
truce
in
Palestine,
the
Foreign
Office
said
today.
Great
Britain
appealed
twice
in
the
last
twenty-four
hours
to
the
Arab
State
to
extend
the
four-week
truce
which
expired
this
morning.
Meantime
at
Lake
Success
the
United
Nations
appeared
ready
today
to
use
forceful
action
to
stop
the
war
in
Palestine.
Informed
sources
said
that
Great
Britain
now
agrees
with
the
United
States
and
RussU
to
support
the
security
council
ruling
under
the
United
Nations
charter
which
provides
of
the
use
of
diplomatic
and
economic
sanctions
and
armed
force
in
the
event
of
a
threat
to
peace.
,
,
CAIRO
W
Israel
High
Command
at
Tel
Aviv
announced
yesterday
that
Egyptian
forces
had
"opened
an
offensive'
'on
the
Jewish
settlement
of
Beef
Tuvia,
25
miles
south
of
the
Jewish
capital.
There
was
no
immediate
indication
as
to
whether
the
alleged
attack
was
on
a
large
scale
or
was
another
of
the
periodic
clashes
such
as
,.
archou.se
were
the
spectators
for
its
entire
two-
j
mile
length.
Last
year's
course,
which
followed
the
harbor
shore
,
provided
the
,
of
the
income
Damage
is
esti-nc
$150,000.
OTTAWA,
h
The
Apostolic
Delegate
to
Canada
of
the
Roman
Catholic
Church
today
rebuked
the
Quebec
Liberal
party
lor
Us
use
of
statements
by
the
Pope
In
a
series
of
newspaper
advertisements
which
appeared
in
French
newspapers
In
Quebec
yesterday
in
connection
with
the
it,'"
"
if"
,Vf
r
.
-
1
f
,
M
iff
rs
I
;
.
.1
line,
was
only
partly
visible
to
the
crowd
assembled
at
the
finish
line
off
the
C.N
R.
wharf.
C.S.U.
VIOLENCE
Members
of
Crew
Are
Attacked
and
Beaten
on
Welland
Canal
This
year's
course
is
laid
out
to
increase
visibility
without
en
"Off
Withdraw!
dangering
boats
as
they
cross
The
rebuke
was
contained
in
the
finish
line.
TORONTO,
!;
Members
of
the
crew
of
the
Colonial
Steam-
Annual
Wheal
R.
G.
Moore,
chairman
of
the
Port
Day
Queen
committee
re-
ships
flagship
Royalton
were
at
a
telegram
to
the
provincial
Liberal
organization
In
Montreal.
The
telegram
said
It
was
"very
reKrettable"
that
the
Pope's
,
Groat
Britain
tacked
and
beaten
with
clubs
.wrl
from
the
Inter-
while
they
lay
in
their
bunks
yesterday
as
violence
flared
anew
on
Welland
Canal
in
the
iW
aureement.
K
words
had
been
used
for
polltl-ii
jLinouix'ed
today.
'
ral
propaganda
when
It
was
well
-nt
said
that
Brl-
j
known
that
his
doctrines
were
j
U
lu'Kotiule
a
new
j
aB0Ve
party
politics.
buj
it
made
clear,
ttwi
.mrccment
could
j
k
ap
FirTTm
ported
that
each
of
the
city's
five
schools
had
selected
a
queen
candidate
and
that
the
queen
contest
would
be
conducted
as
a
popularity
vote
at
the
Capitol
Theatre
at
the
end
of
July.
Mr.
Moore
said
that
he
was
making
arrangements
with
the
theatre
management
to
have
the
IT'S
HARVEST
TIME
FOR
THE
STRAWBERRY
PATCHES
Nearing
the
end
of
June
berry
pickers
were
busy
picking
strawberries
in
fields
throughout
Ontario.
More
than
half
of
Christian
Island
s
350
Indians
were
employed
by
farmers
and
market
gar-
deners
and
proved
themselves
excellent
workers.
The
Indian
pickers
bring
their
children
along
to
the
harvest
areas.
Here
Riley
Root
assigns
his
group
to
certain
patches
for
the
day.
month
old
seamen's
dispute.
Four
were
sent
to
hospital.
Police
charged
that
the
beatings
were
administered
by
pickets
of
the
Canadian
Seamen's
Union.
ford
.K-l
ore
the
begin-
I
Ml
IPX
f
I
ItV
had
marked
the
"cease
fire
period
which
ended
today
with
the
expiry
of
the
Palestine
truce
and
the
resumption
of
fighting
by
both
sides.
Tel
Aviv
dispatches
said
that
air
raid
sirens
sounded
in
the
Jewish
capital
shortly
after
roon.
A
brief
raid
followed.
drk
I'd
upon
because
-
audience
mark
ballots
for
their
Outlook
Improved
Following
Haiti
On
Prairies
favorite
candidates
during
thre
BOXER
DIES
FLOOD
RELIEF
SESSION
IS
ENDED!
e
weather
"tap
year
l4'J-.w.
JJ
"in
the
agree-upon
because
nights
of
the
final
week
In
July.
Synopsis
if
riiment
is
of
the
j
WINNIPEG
Moisture
condi-(
uarantend
sales
j
lions
are
adequate
In
Manitoba
Kifht
in
California
Results
In
Death
of
Filipino
Purilist
"I
am
disappointed
that
!)
Barometric
pressures
were
rising
over
the
entire
province
Queen
candidates
will
be
present
at
the
theatre
on
at
least
on
of
the
nights.
Special
Meeting
of
Legislature
Rises
Today
After
Completing
Business
unties
are
to
oe
resumed
m
this
morning
and
the
threat
of
STOCKTON,
Cal.,
0'
A
124-
j
Palestine."
said
Count
Berna-
G.
lnr-TAni.
,,,,,,
.
.
.
i
,
hk.
th.,i
Committee
chairman
.
j
pound
Filipino
boxer,
known
as
several
heavy
rains
have
been
received
in
most
districts
and
the
crop
outlook
at
the
moment
Is
quite
favorable
for
a
vivJtVJnwv
)
A
1U
De
aoie
to
use
the
top
of!"""
"
.vC
Furk
Informed
dotte.
United
Nutions
mediator.
H
:htnes
arc
insuf--..re
its
successful
:t
death
'
blMW't")
At
trt
intended
to
moratorium
-ro
hrrT-RTir.tlyl
transport
of
material
atMppars
,
to
mw.
ri:v.--Sf-.1J"'-f-
'
tin
case
of
flood
emergency.
I
Southern
British
Columbia
will,
.
.
.
.
.,
I
of
injuries
received
in
the
main
?cK
ish
r,,lt;.,
Columbians
w
host
u
..
,
Opposition
Leader
Harold
clear
and
warm
for
today
"r"""
i
i
i
good
average
crop,
according
to
the
weekly
crop
report
of
the
Department
of
Agriculture
of
the
piiut-
a,
cuu,
IX!
u.k
ruin..
Hnnnlnln
jer
tel
.i
international
fcrketln,'
Saturday
but
extensive
property
was
aamapwi
inWinclI
(harg0(,
the
Boyrrnment!and
toe
psr)ed
p.ir!
wnrM
spring
UOOa.S
Was
lntro-jwith
negligence
in
failing
tj
dut'ed
and
given
third
.strengthen
the
Fraser
Rivtr
luld
hi-.e
been
fixed
for
Canadian
National
Railways.
In
Saskatchewan,
the
south
cloudiness
and
a
few
showers
will
persist
in
central
and
northern
areas.
Forecast
Queen
Charlottes
and
North
bf.
Ami
ncan.
Canadian
S3
m:
entire
vnitea
'watwns
mission
was
withdrawn
from
Palestine
today.
The
Jews
had
agreed
to
a
30-day
extension
of
the
truce
in
Palestine
but
the
Arabs
refused,
it
had
been
announced
in
a
statement
from
United
Nations
headquarters
in
Haifa
yesterday.
Bernadotte
made
a
last-minute
trip
to
Annam
yesterday
to
confer
with
King
Abdullah
of
Transjordan
but
it
was
in
vain.
Day
committees
industrial
dis-
UMe
Joc
wcnt
down
thm.
play
which
will
be
part
of
the;times
in
the
e
Jghth
round
last
Civic
Centre
carnival
and
that!
niRht.
0n
the
thlrd
time
he
was
efforts
are
being
made
for
other
carried
from
the
ring
uncon-business
firms
to
enter
exhibits
scious.
Lieut.
John
Quinn,
R.
C.N.J
staff
officer
of
H.M.C.S.
Chath-1
,
ralnri
wheat.
water
defences.
He
said
that
reports
of
pre-flood
weather
conditions
in
1894
and
this
reading
in
the
Legislature
yesterday.
The
House
prorogued
today
after
completing
the
business
for
which
it
was
called.
year
should
have
been
sufficient
i
Coastv-Cloudy
today
and
Sat-
CATCH
Mrs.
A.
in.
Bruce
of
Hazelton
eastern
portion
has
fair
prospects
at
the
moment
but
the
central
portion
is
badly
in
need
of
moisture
to
avert
a
complete
crop
failure.
Conditions
In
the
northern
portion
are
fair
at
the
moment.
In
Alberta
trie
prospects
run
slightly
below
average
at
the
am,
reported
that
he
hopes
to'
hf
instrumental
In
hrinpincr
nn
t
is
sailing
this
afternoon
on
the
Jkrfa
is
The
moratorium
is
a
virtui'l
warning.
'This
government
and
!
uraav-
L'Bnl
winas.
uiue
prohibition
against
actions
for
past
governments
have
shirked
j
change
in
temperature.
Lows
debt
and
repossession
of
per-,
their
responsibility,"
Winch
said,
tonight
and
highs
tomorrow
sonal
property.
It
also
applies
j
Mrs.
Tilly
Rolston
of
Vancou-
Port
Hardy
50
and
65,
Massett
to
chattels
and
will
be
In
effect
ver
and
Mrs.
Nancy
Hodges
of'50
and
65-
Prince
Rupert
50
and
Catala
on
a
trip
to
Vancouver.
or
possibly
two,
warships
to
Prince
Rupert
on
Port
Day.
Mrs.
William
Slater,
who
has
H.M.S.
Sheffield,
flagship
of
j
been
on
a
holiday
trip
south,
re
Spot
'
in
the
salmon
in
the
Prince
this
week
is
the
165.
until
after
the
first
session
of
j
Victoria
agreed
that
thei
turned
from
Vancouver
at
the
first
of
the
week.
moment
except
in
the
Peace
River
area
where
a
normal
crop
should
be
harvested.
should
be
a
woman
representative
on
the
flood
rehabilitation
board.
RE-ARMAMENT
United
States
is
Spending
One
Billion
Dollars,
Secretary
Says
iiea
where
gill-spcruued
as
Irtgh
'4
a
day.
In
other
$strlct,
the
aver-
Fish
Sales
Moustache
Again
WASHINGTON
If
Thomas
E.
Dewey
is
elected
president
of
the
United
States
he
will
bring
the
first
presidential
moustache
to
the
White
House
since
Will-
etj
considerably
the
British
West
Indies
squadron,
and
H.M.C.S.
Antigonish
were
mentioned
as
possible
Port
Day
visitors.
H.M.S.
Sheffield
Is
scheduled
to
be
cruising
west
coast
waters
In
August.
Possibility
of
bringing
three
American
destroyers
which
will
be
cruising
in
the
north,
to
Prince
Rupert
on
Port
Day,
also
will
be
investigated.
the
Skeena
on
American
San
Juan,
6i.,D00,
22c,
21.9c
and
10c,
Atlin.
Passing
Cloud,
-40,000,
21.3c
21.8c
and
10c,
Storage.
Roy
Roberts,
50,000,
21.3c,
21.8c
and
10c,
Storage.
Takla,
48,000,
Mother
III,
20,-000,
Co-op.
!
lam
H.
Taft
left
there
35
years
I
ago.
NEW
YORK,
KP)
More
than
one
billion
dollars
is
provided
for
navy,
army
and
air
force
in
1948-49,
Kenneth
C.
Royal,
secretary
of
the
army,
said
here
yesterday
in
speaking
of
the
government's
new
armament
drive.
Rail
Strike
lifions
Get
Together
for
Today's
Governmenl-
Called
Meeting
OTTAWA,
Railway
union
groups,
fighting
separately
for
wage
Increases,
will
now
merge
their
efforts
in
today's
government
called
conference
here
aimed
at
averting
a
strike
of
150.000
railway
workers
which
has
been
called
for
July
15.
Union
officials
say
there
will
the
Legislature
next
year.
The
House
also
gave
third
and
final
reading
to
the
flood
relief
act
which
permits
the
cabinet
to
borrow
$5,000,000
and
use
amounts
from
the
consolidated
revenue
fund
to
rehabilitate
the
province's
flood
victims.
The
Fraser
Valley
dykii
board
will
undertake
reconstruction
of
almost
two
hundred
miles
of
dykes
in
the
Valley
and
in
such
a
manner
that
trucks
TICKETS
SEIZED
Large
Quantity
or
Irish
Hospital
Lottery
Chances
Impounded
NEW
YOrtiv,
Eighty-two
cartoons
of
Irish
Sweepstake
tickets
were
found
yesterday
aboard
the
incoming
liner
America
and
were
impounded
by
United
States
customs
officials.
The
tickets
were
found
by
acci-
RENTAL
CONTROL
Ottawa
Cabinet
Differs
on
jf;ernoon
showed
jilting
35
fish
per
I
us
day.
There
are
R
on
the
Skeena
Ij
liiietting
sockeye
spring
salmon.
"I
t.
850
Rillnetters
I'td
25
fish
per
f
--lay.
by
nine
sein-i
f-'tch
i
Whale
Channel
f'
'
reduction
from
f'n
on
Monday
to
and
300
on
Wed-4
of
the
fish
were
Jfjnen
are
not
an-
RAILWAY
ENGINE
RUNS
INTO
HOUSE
CORNWALL.
Ont.,
(P
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Albert
Laionde,
standing
on
the
verandah
of
their
home,
got
the
surplrse
of
their
lives
when
a
freight
train
came
rumbling
toward
their
home.
They
jumped
to
safety
but
Mrs.
La-londe
burned
her
hand
in
escaping
steam
from
the
overturned
engine.
A
wildly
plunging
runaway
freight
train
roared
through
Coranwall's
Pitt
Street,
wrecking
two
vehicles
and
injuring
three
persons.
The
incident
occurred
while
a
switching
engine
was
coupled
to
nine
cars.
Several
eras
slid
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close
co-operation
between
j
Baseball
Scores
National
League
Boston
7,
Brooklyn
4.
Cincinnati
4,
Chicago
0.
Pittsburgh
0,
St.
Louis
4.
American
League
Detroit
12,
St.
Louis
2.
New
York
6,
Philadelphia
5.
Cleveland
14,
Chicago
1.
Boston
4,
Washington
1.
Pacific
Coast
League
San
Diego
9,
Portland
4.
Oakland
6,
San
Francisco
3.
Hollywood
4-4,
Los
Angeles
3-1.
Sacramento
4,
Seattle
3.
Western
International
League
Tacoma
10,
Vancouver
8.
Victoria
3,
Bremerton
2.
Spokane
13.
Yakima
7.
Salem
7,
Wenatchee
4.
fe
)'iit
the
dron.
how.
Whether
They
Should
Be
Lifted
OTTAWA,
stP
Difference
of
opinion
among
members
of
the
cabinet
is
holding
up
a
final
decision
on
whether
controls
on
domestic
rentals
will
be
lifted
next
March.
Some
members
of
the
cabinet
suggest
that
Finance
Minister
Douglas
Abbott
retain
controls
for
another
year
at
least.
One
report
says
that
controls
will
be
lifted
April
1,
1949.
18
international
unions
and
the
Canadian
Brotherhood
of
Railway
Emplyoecs
despite
the
fact
that
they
are
going
Into
the
meeting
with
demands
pegged
at
different
levels.
such
catches
are
13
t'irly
unusual
so
HiSOIl.
IE
SEEKS
FEDERAL
SERVICE
dent
when
food
checkers
were,
down
a
grade
and
crashed
into
counting
stock.
The
face
value
j
the
engine,
jamming
the
throt-of
the
tickets
is
many
millions,
tie
into
reverse.
AMSWE
RUSSIA
DEFERS
BLOCKADE
Vancouver
Bralorne
7.50
B
R.
Con
,
03
B.
R.X
09
Cariboo
Quartz
1.25
Dcntonia
01
Vi
Grull
Wihksne
04
Hedley
Mascot
41
Minto
02
Pend
Oreille
4.15
Pioneer
2.55
Premier
Border
03',
i
Privateer
'.
18
Reeves
McDonald
175
Reno
03
.
Salmon
Gold
13
Sheep
Creek
1
15
Taylor
Bridge
40
Taku
River
30
Vananda
36
V4
Congress
03
Pacific
Eastern
05
Hedley
Amalgamated
..
02
Spud
Valley
.12',i
Central
Zeballos
'
-01
Silbak
Premier
27
Oils
A.P.
Con
16
Calmont
43
C.
&
E.
8.25
Foothills
-
2.70
Home
8.05
Toronto
Athona
07
Bevcourt
23
Buffalo
Canadian
07Vi
Consol.
Smeltere
115.75.
Conwest
1.31
Donalda'
65
Eldona
.,
1.38
East
Sullivan
2.67
Giant
Yellowknlfe
4.60
God's
Lake
fc
.64
Hardrock
13
',4
Harricana
..,
07
Heva
10
Hosco
33
Jacknlfe
04
Joliet
Quebec
35
Lake
Rowan
.06
'4
Lapaska
.04
Little
Long
Lac
68
Lynx
08
Madsen
Rud
Lake
2.32
McKenzie
Red
Lake
36
M
McLeod
Cockshutt
97
Moneta
-40
Negus
2.15
Noranda
48.50
Louvicourt
56
Pickle
Crow
194
Regcourt
.'.
04Vi
San
Antonio
3.55
Senator
Rouyn
.40
Sherrit
Gordon
2.45
Steep
Rock.
2.00
Sturgeon
River
15
Silver
Miller
22
Transport
Crashes-3
Die
air
port
should
be
made
a
port
of
entry
for
aviation
from
Alaska
with
custom
clearance
established
here.
The
customs
office
could
be
in
a
new
federal
building
which
is
necessary
now
that
the
present
post-office,
privately
owned,
is
up
for
sale.
These
matters
will
be
taken
up
at
onceby
the
local
Board.
President
Duncan
Kerr
state!
that
one
or
two
matters
mooted
at
the
last
meeting
had
been
completed,
such
as
the
appointment
of
a
new
bridge
foreman
and
the
installation
of
weigh
pulps
at.
a
local
carage.
On
the
OFFICE
NEW
a
TICE
J
MEETS
4'E
Pointing
'jj
wnt
necessity
inp;a
customs
fffrace
to
clear
Jf't
postal
goods,
8
'son
stated
at
I'lrade
meeting
on
ft
I
the
difficulties
Jkre
through
goods
Prince
George
or
I1
and
being
held
Jhe
necessary
cor-
HKRL1N
(CD
Three
Americans
were
killed
last
nig'ht
when
a
United
States
Air
Force
plane,
flying
food
to
Soviet-blockaded
Berlin,
crashed
near
Frankfurt.
'i
?'
Despite
the
accident;
which,
was
due
to
bad
weather,
the
Western
Allies
kept
the
momentum
of
to
consult
with
his
government.
An
Allied
official
said
today
that
the
Russian
explanation
that
the
railway
blockade
to
Berlin
was
due
to
damage
on
the
line
was
"
a
lot
of
nonsense."
The
line,
the
official
declared,
was
in
"perfectly
good
condition."
LOCAL
TIDES
(Standard
Time)
Saturday,
July
10,
1948
FROM
VICTORIA
Charles
Coull
to
Succeed
J.
L.
McEwen
As
Housing
Representative
Successor
hem
to
J.
L.
McEwen,
who
Is
bring
transferred
to
Victoria
in
the
service
of
the
Oentral
Mortgage
and
Housing
Corporation,
will
be
Charles
II.
Coull
from
Victoria
who
will
be
arriving
next
Wednesday
from
the
south.
Before
leaving
for
his
new
post
m
Victoria,
Mr.
McEwen
will
be,
making
a
trip
to
Prince
George
next(
week
with
Mr.
Coull.
other
hand,
the
Board's
request
the
Western
Allied
protests
was
of
tne
supply
lerrylng
service
going
today.
London
diplomatic
circles
said
it
would
deal
for
at
least
twenty-four
hours
publication
("r
elenranre
hsw.for
the
placing
of
a
govern
!
ioruicommg
irom
Moscow
up
to
late
today.
ed.
This
delay
of
I
merit
agent
here
had
been
turn-fe'is.
in
some
cas.1
fi
down,
but
this
matter
would
High
3:35
.
21.3
feet
16:31
19.7
feet
10:08
1.6
feetj
22:24
6.5
feet
Low
I
:The
chief
Russian
commander
In
Germany,
it
is
understood,
hu
beii
recalled
from
Berlin
pf
their
notes
demanding
an
end
to
the
blockade
while
Russia
thinks
H
over.
No
reply
to
Ipotlage
of
perish-the
same
time,
B
felt,
the
Terrace
be
takpn
up
again
within
tne
nei:t
six
months.
R.
Brett
of
(Continued
on
Page
Five)
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