r a LIBflARY rrTTTTTTTTTTTTTTrr NORTHERN AND CENTRAIi BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER Blue onr.iEs DRUGS STAR Daily Delivery Cabs i PHOIIE 81 Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest." VOL. XXXVII, No. 86. PRINCE RUPERT, B. C. MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1948 PRICE FIVE CENTS New Traffic In Alaska Lumber I Strike Colombia Situation In Control P. Board of Trade On New Steamer To Start At Prince Rupert itlement A brand new shipping operation takine nractiral Sti Althouqh G l Critical; SIIiEAL (CP) ,ent has beer, 11 advantage of Prince Rupert's position as the strategically economical port where rail and water meet for OV t I Canadian National Steamship's fine new coastal liner, now ncaring completion of construction at Victoria, may be seen In Prince Rupert even earlier than June 21 when she is scheduled to be here on her initial voyage in the Alaska service. According to reports between aech Alaska, is being inaugurated this week. Its continuation and development will depend to some extent at least on the coast aspect of handling the transship Of Coalition Character F ormea ment tnrougn nere Jrom Vancouver, the Board of due fron I Tomorrow there is BULLETINS , and engineer ol unions and ship- mpanif s in the six-old strike which & up Canadian g oil both coasts, are available' lately- The men had a contract foi ,ar wages. Juneau a tug and barge, bringing some 500,000 to 750,000 feet of spruce lumber from the Juneau Spruce Corporation's sawmill at the Alaska Capital. Destined In CAPITAL CITY OF BOGOTA IN CHAOS OF RUIN; MORE THAN 300 ARE DEAD Diplomatic Relations With Russia Broken Off After Communist Conspirators Are Arrested BOGOTA (CP) Situation in this capital was still critical today after revolutionary riots which iraue oi mat cny is negotiating to charter the vessel for a goodwill cruise to north coast and Alaska points, reviving what some years ago was an annual Vancouver Board of Trade feature. The only question now appears to be whether or not the Prince George will be ready in time for such a trip. , 'K "I bond for various points In the United States, the lumber will be removed from the barge at the dry dock pier by use of i i killed three hundred persons, smashed at least 1000 Of stores, set ablaze forty major bujldings and damaged many fine churches. The problem of getting food and other supplies moved is serious with transporta ning locomotive crane there and piled on the pier for re-loading into railway lumber box cars. A naif a dozen cars are already standing by. The shipping here by barge from Juneau has been organized munism PALESTINE TRVCE? NEW YORK The United States today stepped up its determined drive for a truce In Palestine. Everyone, except Andrei Grumyko, is expected to attend a meeting of the security council in a supreme effort to reach a peace. LEWIS TO TRIAL WASHINGTON Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough today ordered John L. Lewis, to face trial Wednesday on contempt of court charges. Despite settlement of the twenty-nine day old stoppage, Goldsborough' holds Lewis has not purged himself of the contempt charges. kfnlalivf of lanauian Lr of Commerce Here Eckroyd of Montreal, tentative of the Can- by the States Steamship Co. and It is expected that th shipments, involving twenty cars or upwards from each barge, -will be arriving at intervals of about ten days. 'Am traffic may reach three million feet monthly. It will bring welcome employ .amber of Commerce, in tion in a snarl. The situation is Improved slightly, however, from virtual anarchy which prevailed for a time. Army troops are on patrol with orders to shoot looters on sight. Rescue squads are picking .up corpses amid heaps of rubble ten feet high. All authority has been vested in the army under martial law. A new coalition government claims to have put down the DIFFERENCE OF OPINION Departmental Official and t'nion Leader do Not See Eye .to Eye on New Salmon Restrictions VANCOUVER W While George J. Alexander, deputy minister of fisheries for British Columbia, said at Victoria that the multi-million dollar salmon canning industry of the province would be saved by the embargo, Homer Stevens, secretary ARABS TAKE KASTELBACK Official Jewry Denies Responsibility for Masscare Would Take Truce JERUSALEM iff) Counterattacking Arabs Sunday night recaptured Kastel in an assault against the Jewish garrison today after a tour of nee during which he f , t - ' . . V ;. . . :,;-;'.'. ' ment for local longshoremen who are being furnished by the Pacific Stevedoring and for a number of whom It should furnish continuous work. A special customs set-up has also been ar LEAFS WIN DETROIT Toronto Maple Leafs defeated Detroit Red ed over 8.000 miles, ex-as (ratification at the hospitality extended to inhere he went. Mr. defines the functions cal board of trade "a group ol citizens who uMives together for ol the city" and de- "communist insurrection" in Colombia with a new Conserva of the United Fishermen's and tive-Liberal cabinet formed dur ranged Railways i Allied Workers' Union, said that Canadian National ing tr.e wetk-end. there, the British Army reported. Meantime Hagana Jewish Agency, which is ready to accept a truce, denies responsibility for the reported massacre of 250 Arabs, many women and children, In a village near Kastel, blaming it on Irgun Zeumi it its activities should The revolt grew out of the local officials, it Is known, have the reimpositlon of export re-been active for several weeks in i strlctions on "raw" salmon will n,.H iih fh noffntiatlrm be a "definite blow" to British fatal shooting Friday of Jorgs Eliecer Gaitana, Liberal leader. Columbia fishermen. of the business but even yet are The government announced .lure-To promote bet-between the farmers merchants in town, rce- For the protec- diffident about making any an today that Colombia had broken and the Stern Gang. The Arabs Wings 2-9 Sunday night, tak-ing a three to nothing game lead in the best of seven final series for the Stanley Cup. In Toronto Saturday night the Maple Leafs won the second game 4 to 2. ..The series resumes here Wednesday night MOKE RED HOLD-IP VIENNA Official British sources said Sunday night tha't news Soviet restrcitions had- brought highway traffic -between-' the- Rritlia-n- of Austria and Vienna to a virtual standstill. nouncement concernlg It. are threatening reprisals. Fishermen may export unrer stricted quantities of raw spring salmon to the United States and exports of raw cohoe will be per off diplomatic relations with . Russia.. ?r; In the relations Edward Ellis, of Jueau, rep ; promotion of mer- resentative of the States Steam ncement yester- .3 town. 7-For the Dromotioti mitted until September I but foll( day agert ship line, Is expected to accompany the first shipment. sockeye, pinks and chums will .id old industries. be retained in Canada. Big Miners' Strike Off y Following a plan of Soviet Russian 4 arrested in con-Vi'VyMP'jilutioJi,. I radio saw thai, agents, including -id been caught fStevcnTsiUdt the new order ii HONORS F.D.R. King George, who asked Mrs. Roosevelt today to unveil the London statue commemorating the great President of the United States. c3fLi r-- ".. ... i.i,'-rffp :: TODAY'S STOCKS Courtesy S. D. Johnr.ton.Co. Ltd. i a selective restriction and, In COURT FINES in'health and recrea-' ivities as well as tak-ctive interest in civic fifted two i effect, permits only salmon can- ners to sell to the United States. "in i tWr-qnie (Spanish words TOTAL SI, 492 u Affairs- Study and .'Jon of information on THE WKATHER to the English equivalent of "caught ln the act"). It said that three foreign agents hid Fines collectec. in city police affairs of the country court last month totalled $1,492 DRY WEATHER BRINGS FIRES been taken while trying to start t having an ever-in-effect upon affairs at level. sll." he said. fmeakinir trouble. Meantime at Washington, D.C., the Colombian revolution was re A week of dry weather caused Vancouver Bralorne 7.65 Buffalo Canadian 10 Consol. Smelters 103.75 Conwest 98 Donalda , 66 Eldona 73 Elder .48 Giant Y'knife 4.25 'tat o communism "in the city fire department to an- WASHINGTON D. C. John L. Lewis today told 400,000 striking coal, miners that their pensions had been granted. Thi3 is the signal which it is expected will end the four weeks' old soft coal strike. Lewis sent out the word after accepting a tentative pension plan, proposing $100 a month for miners sixty-two years old who have served twenty years in the Industry and who retired after May 28, 1946. I Lewis had demanded a $100 pension for miners sixty years old. 3( "'.ry today, "we should swer calls to two brush fires and garded as playing into the hands of C o m m u ntst propagandists Synopsis A storm centre developing over interior British Columbia is resulting In cloudy to overcast skies over the entire province. Snow flurries are general over the northern half of the province and rain showers are reported along the coast. Snow is expected to spread to the southern interior during the day as the storm moves south B. R. Con 0212 B. R. X 07 Cariboo Quartz 12 Dentonia 01 'a Grull Wihksne .... (ask) .05 Hedley Mascot .52 Vi Minto 02V2 Pend' Oreille 3.80 Pioneer 2.75 Premier Border 03 V2 Privateer 19 Reeves McDonald ' 1.69 with an additional $117 In court costs, ths highest revenue since last August, according to the monthly police report considsr-ed by the city police committee at the week-end. Total fines for the first quarter of 1948 were $3,214, more than $1,000 greater than for the same period last year. Last month's fine revenue re ir horizons for there a roof fire at the week-end. All h seeking to undo all three were put out before dam pen done for the good age was done. Muntry. Investigations I At 12:30 p.m. Saturday, the ontinue and the people firemen put out a blaze on the wd. Communists are'r,f nf tho rpsidonce of Syd 78 15 09 11 30 04 God's Lake Hardrock ... Harricana . Heva Hosco Jacknife .... eastward. Some clearing is ex-1 work for what they Alexander, 1102 Beath Place sulted from 68 convictions in citv police court. Majority of th3 r We too must work nft.Pr a small area of shingles oeeted along the northern coast i throughout the world. It disrupted the Inter-American conference at . Bogota just when western hemisphere leaders were seeking to present the world with fresh evidence of inter-country unity ana stability. Diplomatic officials in the United States capital said, however, that they were without concrete evidence that the uprising at Bogota had been engineered by communists despite widespread reports of communist agltatioa cases involved Infractions of the. tonignt the wake of the democracy and co-oner- hart hpen burned. A spark Is Joliet Quebec 31 uovernmeni, liquor nut aiiu li organizations who are hottpv-H to hpve s?t the tinder PROTESTING .11 Lake Rowan to build a better Can- dry roof ablaze. v,rmr lotor t.hp rienartment quor sections of the Inian Act. There were 73 prosecutions and five dismissals. Lapaska 05 Vi Reno , -0812 Salmon Gold 17 Vz Sheep Creek ...6 105 Taylor Bridge 40 Taku River ... (ask) .54 Vananda 15 Congress 02 Vx Pacific Eastern 05 Hedley Amalgamated .. .02 1 2 Spud Valfey 13 Silbak Premier 32 storm. Otherwise there will be little change In conditions. Forecast Printe Rupert. Queen Char 1.02 Little Long Lac AT SALES TAX f kroyd arrived in the rcviorf tn rnmnx Avenue .07 y2 Lynx Madsen Red Lake 2.68 Saturday nights train where a grass fire was blazing r.ithers, where he met merrily. It was put out before rict B'ard of Trade Fri- i nrrf tn nparbv buildings. VANCOUVER British Col and plans for sabotage. umbians, faced with a $12,000,000 lottes and North Coast Clear tonight and tomorrow, northern i ' section, and cloudy, southern U and had a luncheon , a sprnnd crass fire occurred section. Winds light, becoming Oils ith the Prince Rupert at g:3o Sunday night on Fourth r of Commerce today. AvomiP Wpst. This also was increase in the cost of living undsr the new three percent retail sales tax, Saturday voiced protests. , The protects came from merchants, restaurant owners, the VANCOUVER HAS iew on tonight's train ,:t George und the Sees Rupert Alaska Port Not only will southeastern Alaska take advantage of a great saving in shipping charges through using the port of Prince Rupert Instead of Seattle as the rail entry point for the United States once the Jones Act Is re- put out speedily. Children were believed by Fire Chief Lock to be responsible for both grass fires. McKenzie Red Lake .. .52 McLeod Cockshutt .... 1.08 Moneta 28 Vi Negus 2.05 Noranda 47.74 Louvicourt 64 Pickle Crow 190 Regcourt 07 Vi San Antonio 3.85 Senator Rouyn 41 Sherrit Gordon 2.15 Steep Rock 2.08 Sturgeon River 19 Silver Miller 27 northerly (15 m.p.h.) by evening. Colder tonight, northern section, with lltle change ln temperature elsewhere. Lows tonight and highs Tuesday At Port Hardy 35 and 45, Massctt, 32 and 43, Prince Rupert 30 and 45. FIRE IN HOTEL VANCOUVER Alertness of N'S IMMIGRANT TOO? A. P. Con .16 Calmont 56 C. & E 5.00 Foothills 3.60 Home 7.40 Toronto Athona 07 Aumaque - 17 Beattie 70 Bevcourt ...j. 36 Bobjo -16 a night clerk is credited with man on tne street ana nouse-wives. Directors of tha Retail Merchants' Association met Saturday to plan a province-wido increase in pricss if the MECHANICAL WEAVER TV.,. oVm.hio nf a loom weaving saving the lives of 200 persons early Sunday when fire broke o MP.i is fPPt. wide travels a pealed or statehood Is granted 1 popular theory that ,:ll American Indian originally from Asia :he Behring Strait be-:ler( Is so much slmllar-;etn the Eskimos on both the strait and the Indl- government fails to allow more Jones Act so that Alaska might be released from her transportation fetters but he now thinks that the salvation of the terri total distance of three miles Alaska but so will western within one hour, making about Alaska. "By using the port of across Prince Rupert we could save 1,000 trips carrying yarn I15c " "erV dollar ln transpor- the width of the loom. expenses for collecting the tax. George Mathews, Retail Merchants' secretary, declared that "the merchants will refuse to absorb the loss on collecting the tory will come through state out In the beer parlor of the downtown St. Regis Hotel on Dunsmuir at Seymour Street, causing damage of $25,000. Night clerk Archie Currle turned In the alarm and roused guests in 120 rooms. The night-attired people filed out without panic. . ' ;"l"q The fire started from a cigarette in upholstery. hood, early granting of which GREAT BRITAIN HONORS F. D. R. LONDON ((Pi Britain's memorial to President Franklin D. he anticipates. With statehood, fnnist-Called Strike In Italy the Jones Act would become in tax and setting up the necessary tauon cnarges uciwvcu nuuim-age and such cities as St. Paul and Minneapolis in the Middle West," declared William (BilH Ward, Anchorage paint dealer and enthusiastic business man rocords" if the reported two or operative. He pictures a situa u To Prove Very Effective three percent of the ollections is to be the full remuneration. Roosevelt was unveiled by his of what in recent years has 'IE (CP)A fnnnffv.wiVlo rnmmnnist-callefl mushroomed into Alaska s most populous city, who spent the Pr gcntral strike went off as ordered in Italy widow and dedicated by the King today on the third anniversary of the wartime President's death.- The Stars and StriDes hunc side by side in week-end in Prince Rupert. Expecting that Prince Rupert ' l111. tiivst reports, however, indicated that k stoppage fell far short of achieving the gen- tion between Alaska and Prince Rupert and Northern British Columbia such as that which, exists between the state of Maine and Eastern Canada where shipping moves freely whether they be American or Canadian vessels. Mr. Ward said that Anchorage today has a population of 20,000 and, at the rate people are pouring ln, there should be 30,000 before the year is over. may soon be playing a very im 'thousands of windows as th'-i 1 ... . .- . 1 ..1 J n J1.a'ysi.s lii-Pflii'tpfl W H-m inutiirafnrs. the Com- 'm (i-nerul Confederation of Labor (CG1L). was i.itij 1.. ... portant part in the AlasKan transportatlon"set-up, Mr. Ward explained that he had come here especially to look the port over and make contacts. While here he conferred with officials of the Prince Rupert Chamber " 111 )r- the i, eslj)'"tt: of thlrtv.fl LOCAL T IDES - Tuesday. April 13, 1948 fling ana nis peupic siwu salute in grateful memory of the President. His' Majesty, asking Mrs. Roosevelt to unveil the ten-fool bronze monument, assured her "on behalf of the peoples of the whole British Commonwealth," ,'clors during th, Establishment of Anchorage as MARKETS THREATENED BY INCREASE IN FREIGHTS, MILLS LOOKING HERE The 21 percent freight rates increase on the railways may not be an altogether 111 wind for Prince Rupert, even though it dors pose a serious problem for the shipping of lumber from sawmills of the central interior. Already eastern agents have ordered shipments withheld following the increasa in rates. With the Industry thus facing a serious threat, the Smithcrs and District Chamber of Commerce has gone on record as favoring invastigatlon Into the possible use of the port of Prince Rupert as a shipping point for lumber to obtain the benefits of lower waterborne rates. Support of the Associated Boards of Trade of Central British Columbia is being sought. High 3:16 20.9 feet 16:08 17.7 feet of Commerce and local trans- a principal army base was what Low 9:57 3.5 feet r tt,, " wncre 't is (that they would regard it as a started Anchorage on its great career of expansion but important Industries are now 21:46 7.7 feet fitting memorial to "a great man and a great friend." STRANGE NAME llljUrc3' imp , afect .s and buses l 0 many "tores re- .the rike call. portatlon concerns. Mr. Ward said he was Impressed with the fine people here who, In addition to being hospitable and courteous, were certainly on their toes as far as working and boosting for Prince Rupert is concerned. Mr. Ward has been strongly advocating the repeal of the PREMIER BYRON JOHNSON Whose first! legislative session Is ncaring end with further verbal action expected in regard to sales tax. STRESS NATURAL FEEDING Health authorities stress the importance of natural feeding for infants. Milk from human mothers was rushed to the moving In. A plant for the processing of birch wood for use in manufacture of furniture has just been started up and now a large deposit of lignite for use ln making of brick Is under development. Rabies or hydrophobia means literally a fear of water, and is so-called because of the spasm from an attempt to drink owing to the extreme irritability of the neck muscles. Nkm . ald they Dionne quintuplets from far-off ries ;.r""a"y. points soon after their birth, 'tuw ever, wre idle.