PP.3VI"CI."L LI2",",V lave YOU given to the Hood Fund? Give Generously, Give Novi I licc Rupert's 1 iA CebTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER it Prompt Service j ood ' At AU All Hours Hours ; Dyke (MIES DRUGS S Daily Delivery PHONE SI I B.C. FLOOD Emergency Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" VOL. XXXVII, No. 144. PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1948 PRICE FIVE CENTS CAMPAIGN L ijective $25,000 biptiun to Date $12,372.16 m Pin pi Tr ifX YnT WVil Vf ' 1 RY TO RATES MCES ' PR0V OU 11 Wil li ' 1 i $20,000 1100 LOGGERS AND D.PS RIOT COMMISSION IS DEMANDED - ! Unrest In Malaya Is HORNEPAYNE, Ont. P- Fourteen bush workers are facing $15,000 ,1100 Deadline Near and No charges of assault and disorderly Spreading ronduct as a result of a donny brook with axes, knives and; SINGAPORE Malaya's chains between Canadian's and current unrest showed signs to- displaced persons. ,day ol spreading to trie impori ,000 $10,000 ant tin Industry as Perak sta workers handed new wage demands to Chinese tin mine own- ' A lone constable in a little i town 250 miles northwest of udbury, Ed. Schrocder, tried 'ers. The stiff demands came by ilKtK til LONDON STRIKE-GRIPPED LONDON The port of London is practically at a standstill today in the grip of a six-day dock strike involving 17,000 workers. Settlement is deadlocked and the government is contemplating using the Army to unload food cargoes of 117 ships which are tied up, 47 of them loaded with vital food including 30,000 tons of meat. The strike has spread to the 1000 men on Tilbury docks and may threaten food rations. THROW GARBAGE AT POLICE PARIS Garbage collectors heaved garbage at police and blocked thoroughfares with trucks during a one-hour protest strike called by the communist-controlled Confederation Generale du Travail. The strike was in protest at police action Tuesday night in throwing rubber workers out of the Ber-gougnan tire factory in Clermont-Ferrand while "strange coincidence" at the t E -.i.:.'. .Sari -: frt'W: A . ; if w : .x .,. r Mi m i Briefs Presented OTTAWA (CP) Boy-cotte of the Board of Transport Commissioners . general freight rate inquiry appeared to be in orogress Friday on the part of seven provinces. With only a day to go to the deadline for the filing of provincial submissions, none of the pror- inces have presented briefs. Premier E. C. Manning of Alberta said the Inquiry as laid down by the Dominion was "totally unacceptable" to his government He said his gov same time as violence flared up to stop a fight with the aid of railwaymen. The clash was allegedly over the allocation of quarters of on the tin estates. The only bloodshed on the tin properties to date was the hold-up slaying 000 $5,000 the Canadians to the displaced June 4 of a European mine man-persons. Four men are in hos- ager. cuts' There were four more murders pital and many others have , . . . . . In the last twenty-four hours and bruises from shovels and Kedah 8tatebrinRln); knives. It 1s estimated 100 men tne seven weeks- death toll '..i joined the melee after drinking Malaya to nineteen Chinese and ad $10.00 mes .... , 500 in town. ernment was withholding presentations until the federal government gave its decision to re five Britons. There were two new cases of arson. .is. Mclntyre low quest the seven provinces all except Ontario and Quebec for od 5 0(1 Iph Pedcrsen 2.00 A Chinese contractor was shot j In his home on a Malayan-American nlantation, a United RIGHTIST RETURNS SAFELY FROM KOREA This Is one of the first photos to come out of embattled Korea since the fateful elections in South Korea. Apprehension was felt for the safety of Kim Koo and Kim Kiu Sic, two. Rightists from South Korea who journeyed Into Communist dominated northern orea to hold conferences there with leaders of the north Korea People's party. Followers waited on the 38th boundary line outpost and welcsmed their two leaders when they returned safely. Here is Kim Kiu Sic, more moderate of the two leaders, as he was greeted at the border by his son, Benjamin, wearing sports coat, left. a royal commission on the whole ion railway problem. Downes Slates Rubber Co. subsidiary. Dispatches from Kuala Lumpur said today that the entire iiofield RAILWAY LINE TO TERRACE OPENS MONDAY 1.00 2.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 k evert ... RETURNING TO Malayan Federation had been declared to be In a state of em- Vinson . on a sitdown strike tor a zuc pay raise. DRAFT BILL PASSED WASHINGTON The Senate today passed the compromise draft bill by voice vote after breaking an all-night filibuster. As it now stands, subject to House of Representatives approval, the measure would start drafting men from 19 to 25 years of age for twenty-one months',, service. One, of ..the. "stormiest scenes on the Senate floor in years preceded the end of the filibuster and the passage of " the bill. GERMANS PANIC-STRICKEN BERLIN ranic-stricken Germans flocked to ergency due to the current law illnson VALLEY HOMES Rail service between Prince 5 00 lessness. . ... : P '.2a" 3w.'f"t Terrene !; expectod VANCOUVER Wi "Ghost to be resumed by next Monday, fc-cl 1.00 towns" of the Fraser Valley ar3 it was announced today at the rii OH Ah office of Divisional Superln- LA3IA KUAU rson 5.00 irray 2.00 HOW CLOSE BRITAIN CAME TO BEING INVADED SHOWN HOPKINS PAPERS How close the British Isles came to invasion is shown in the confidential papers of the late Harry coming to life once more. Almost deserted three weeks ago when the first surge of the Uaekson 2.00 tenaeni a. duiuci j rifrf and bridge crews continue to re- irAnrfT LfipLV I l-IUI- floods! I VlxLJI I llXi-J .,i. H,m3 damage Hnnp done hv kson 100 rson 100 pair At least three EDMONTON Fraser River swept through tho dykes, town and farm homes are opening up again. " ve iW) forest fires are raging along the t Mrs. K. C. Aird .... 5.00 Already more than one hun Handler 3.00 Hopkins, now bein disclosed for the lirst time. Churchill looked for it and was prepared to go down to destruction along with his government. All this is revealed in the exchange of, cables be- dred farmers are back in tho three weeks ago. Through rail service to Sml-thers and Prince George may begin before July 1, railway officials predict. Work on the two most damaged places on the line, near Kitwanga, east of Terrace, and at Shames, west I 4 t i. , f-Y t ! St. Stewart 2.00 nclair 2.00 Alaska Highway between Mile 558 and Mile 71, an official of the Western Army Command said Friday night. One fire has burned out land communication lines between Irtha Scheik 100 Churchill and : tween Premier Agassiz district after an "O.K." from the health authorities pronouncing the homes fit lor habitation. stores in an effort to get rid of their old marks before currency reform measures go into effect in western Germany. All old money and holdings must be registered next week. One new mark will be given for ten old ones, it is understood. The Russians barred Germans and Allied officers from entering Berlin today by train or motor car, claiming the move necessary to keep 'out old marks now worth more in the Soviet zone and in Berlin than in western Germany. rtha Knutson 100 m Scherk 100 irley Tremeer 1 00 Teen Schwab 100 nette Marshall .... 100 President Roosevelt In the early sending messages to London stages of the Second Great War. urging that the safety of the As one having intimate access crown be assured by removing to what was going on from day the Royal Family, or at least to day, Mr. Hopkins' relations the Princesses, to a place of inemlna Pavlikis .... 100 of Terrace, is going aneaa on a two-shift basis. Meanwhile, Public Works department crews from Terrace are working near Shames to fill in a major washout. They are co-operating with the railway to fill a 400-foot gap made when the overflowing Skeena swept with the President were close safety overseas. The answer firnline Benson 100 Truman Back After West Coast Trip WASHINGTON - President Truman is back following a tour that took his special train as far west as the Pacific coast. There were sixteen cars, 41 re Edmonton and Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, In the vicinity of Mile 558, 270 miles southeast of Whitehorse. Only method of communication is by Army radio wireless. Fire fighting brigades are out of touch with Command headquarters and the progress of the battle is unknown. Wildred Symes 100 a Brcekin 100 UNITED STATES RUSHING TO ne Vaugan - 100 ta Watson 100 riUINUKo ruK JAra but otherwise there was absolute came from the Queen In the 'words of a stout heart and ln- secrecy. Churchill declared that, If domitable courage: Britain went down, he and his "The Princesses could not government would perish with leave without me and I could it and he could not be respon- not leave without the King sible for the terms that his sue- and of course the King will never cessors, cowed and defenceless leave." as they would be, might have toj . B rritt Fines 1 0U back against the mountains on the north side of the rlvre. END SESSION WASHINGTO N The army porters, one columnist, five radio correspondents, four still photographers, four newsreel men and four television men. Donald 100 is Leavitt 100 ude Symes 2.00 f'iliam Scherk 2.00 buried two Japanese - American OTTAWA W -The House of soldiers in Arlington National Commons, deep In a drive for cemetery with a general's grave-J prorogation by June 30, today embarked its first Saturday on side declaration that they proved ( f'lRlas Christison .... 2.00 make with the Germans. They would have no choice but to Action Was All fnnie Windle 2.50 is-capiOR MS. . bnton 100 I make abject surrender and Brit- Beurling Wanted sitting of the dying session 1 amoncr ontimistic reports that their loyalty beyond all question flary Lidstone 100 They were killed In the storming H mlght unjer.shoot the target iith Hitchens 100 'lores Stevens 100 iwbeth Addison .... 1.00 ain would mus Become meieiy, RFRRROr.KF SHERBROOKE, Que.-J 0,iejFrank Frank another vassal like the Euro- . , ..... . . ,,,,. E. Jones, ' who served as. flight states Hitler had already . v pean , ,, commander at Malta when Buzz conquered. Beurling, Canada's ace flier was Interurban Hits Motorbike, 2 Die VANCOUVER h Two men were killed instantly when ""an Interurban tram collided with their two-seater motorcycle. One man was decapitated. The dead are George Mouchulskl, aged 20, and Jack Burkasky, 21, both employed as mechanics In a local of a German-held ridge In the date and rise by this time next Vosges Mountains of France. iweek. f ther Wardale . 1.00 on duty there, says if he died (Alice Brown 100 what would become of the Home flying at Rome, recently, he ("' Christisen 1 00 CARNIVAL COMMITTEES ARE NAMED must have died happy. succeeded. He nopea n wouiu .,, mf R )n TnP 1042 at lillips 1.00 'art Menzies 100 thel' Knutson 1-00 garage. They naa arrived recently from Prince Albert.. ' combined carnival and Port Day celebration on August 26. lilph Morin 5.00 be disposed among bases such Malta and shared a room with as Newfoundland, Aden, Cape- him for slx m0nths. He was the town and Singapore, adding that scif. confldent type, quite hard the United States fleet would to handle. He lived for flying. Event Will be Held Entirely Within Building Workine committees for the Canadian dry 15.00 Election of the Queen will result from a popularity contest to be held In the city schools. defend Canada. He was hard to find in the air- civic Centre carnival which will UNION CHECK-OFF IDEA IS KILLED OTTAWA HO A federal Labor J IE WEATHER Kooseveit was lniormea mat, Wfl He max was iisiinllv usually t.nlrinp' taking nn on the', tne'be . held .. from . August 1. o, 21 to on 28 of course, the Royal Navy or Germans, single-handed. He v.,,r ,,. namprt tentative- any part of it would never be was quite happy as long as hejly at an organizational meeting (Synopsis) weather disturbance held in the Civic Centre last surrendered to Hitler and thai, could see action. He was not all surviving units of the home 'interested in girls and did not The Port Day committee also plans to promote a marine Industrial exhibit in connection with carnival week. S. G. Furk, chairman of the committee, was informed that space in . the building would be allotted to the exhibit." lias been moving slowly Code provision making union dues check-off mandatory on employers was killed by the House of Commons. Such action only applies to industries under fleet would be disposed in over- drink. night. This year's carnival will be held completely within the building for the first time in prd over the Oulf of Alaska Dominion Jurisdiction, such as Agricultural ana nonicuiiurai rauways. its over the north coast, system is giving lntermit-iiii aiong the north coast wrcased cloudiness over maindcr of the coast. Little l is expected for tomorrow Replacing the ticket-selling Queen contest which has been Halibut Sales Canadian B. C. Lady, 21,000, 19 18 and 10, Pacific. Mermaid, 9,000, 19 18 and 10, Pacific. Skugaid, 36,000, 19, 18 and 10, Storaee. seas bases. An invasion would pre-suppose the destruction of the fleet. This was precisely what Roosevelt wanted to know. He knew now that Churchill was determined that if Britain were to go down she would go with colors flying and guns blazing, and with no servile requests for terms. frhout the interior. The CANADA SENDS GREETINGS FOR TRADE WEEK Maple Leaf, inscribed by Rt. Hon. C. D. Howe, minister of trade and commerce -Canada Sends Greetings and Best Wishes for a Successful World Trade Week," leaves Uplands Airport, Ottawa, for Los Aneeles Calif , where V. E. Duclos, Canadian trade commissioner,. nrescnU'd it to the president of the Los Angeles chamber of commerce at the official opening of World Trade Week In that citv on May 17. Here Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cpl. O. M. Glanville of Ottawa hands the maple leaf over to Miss Olya Boy- exhibits also win receive prominent display space. These exhibits will be directed by the Prince Rupert Horticultural Society. The Carnival Committee has arranged for a good stage show which will be In attendance (Continued n Page Five) LOCAL TIDES (Standard Time) Sunday, June 20, 1948 High 0:01 20.7 feet 13:11 17.9 feet Low 6:49 2.3 feet 18:45 7.9 feet' a feature of past carnivals, will be a drawing for an automobile this year. However the Junior Chamber ef Commerce Port Day committee plans to have a Queen, drawn from the city schools, and the coronation ceremonies will be a part of the "r will remain clear and (Forecast) Charlottes and Nortli -Variable cloudiness tout! Sunday. Winds light. J Sea Pride, 34,000, 19, 18 and 10 the' Atlin. After the fall -of France Dominion governments were Capella No. 1, 18,000, Co-op. cliuk of Owen Sound, Ont., T.C.A. nostess. Shrine Club Band - Feature Picture Assisting Artists GMNE COMCEB5TT: CAPITOL THEATRE, MONDAY, 8 P.M. PROCEEDS FOR FLOOD RELIEF I i iT i ?i