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"Prince
Rupert,
the
Key
to
the
Great
Northwest."
STAR
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CABS
vul.
XXXVII,
No.
178.
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
FRIDAY,
JULY
30,
1948
PRICE
FIVE
CENTS
blofeov
Too
Hoy
P
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ayiimg
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V
Will
Receive
Him
Victorious
Israeli
Demands
More
Territory
In
Palestine
DAYTON
STRIKE
CRISIS
EASED
National
Guard
Called
For
By
Mayor
of
Dayton
DAYTON
Ohio
The
tlon
eased
after
TEL
AVIV,
(CP)
Israeli
has
demanded
new
Internal
Difficulties
Continue
territory
in
Palestine,
possibly
including
Jerusalem,
Berlin
Germans
Not
Enthus-
situa-!
as
a
result
of
Jewish
victories
over
Arab
armies.
For-today
Mayo-"jp;on
Minister
Moshfi
Khr-rt.ok
served
nnt.ire
vewterdnv
J
address
before
the
Israeli
astic
About
Red
Aid
(CI')
Foreign
Minister
V.
M.
Mol-
ai'HllOIl
Ol
Ull
IrlLI
UlUltl
uuiclbiuil
Ml
to
discuss
the
huropean
situation
with
Smith,
United
States
ambassador
to
ad
sought
an
interview
to
discuss
the
jieiiintf
talks.
A
deputy
foreign
min-
SETTLE
U.S
-BRITISlI
WAR
CLAIMS
U.S.
Secretary
of
State
George
C.
Marshall,
signs
an
agreement
in
Washington
settling
war
claims
with
England.
British
ambassador
Sir
Oliver
Franks
waits
to
add
his
signature
to
the
document
closing
his
country's
$31,000,000,000
lend-lease
account
and
other
B.
C.
FARES
BADLY
I
N
OLYMPICS
-U.
S.
WINS
HOOP
GAMES
-
PROTESTS
LONON,
(CP)
British
Columbia's
representative
Canadian
Olympic
team
fared
badly
today
as
preliminary
heats
were
run
off.
The
only
British
Columbians
to
pass
the
first
test
were
Dr.
George
Athans
of
Vancouver,
who
finished
thirteenth
in
---,--
-
--
of
Jewish
"demands
in
an
Bulletins
NAZIS
CONVICTED
Nl'EKNBERG
Thirteen
directors
of
the
giant
I.
G.
Farben
chemical
trust
were
convicted
of
war
crimes
and
sentenced
today
to
serve
jail
terms
ranging
from
eighteen
months
to
eight
years.
One
of
four
American
judges
of
the
tribunal
filed
dissent,
contending
that
the
decision
of
the
majority
was
too
lenient.
IS.
C.
GOI.F
.
TOCIINEY
j
VAN(
Ol'VEit
Clmck
t
one-
j
den
of
Tacoma
yeslerday
shut
a
dazzling
five
under
par
(ifi
to
take
a
nine
point
lead
over
Vancouver's
iiefenoing
chamn,
Stan
Leonard,
in
the
first
18
holes
of
the
72-hole
British
Columbia
open
golf
championship.
The
second
18
holes
is
bring
played
today
with
the
3G-hole
final
tomorrow.
CANADA
WILLING
LONDON
It
was
announced
here
today
that
Canada
was
willing
to
arrange
for
the
entry
of
Newfoundland
into
Confederation.
The
British
government
is
agreeable,
it
was
announced.
FLOUR
SUBSIDY
IS
ANTICIPATED
Canadian
Government
Expected
to
Take
Action
to
Curb
Advance
in
Bread
Price!
OTTAWA.
Ih
Government
action
in
the
form
of
a
flour
subsidy
will
likely
be
instituted
this
week-end
to
curb
a
possible
rise
In
the
price
of
bread
when
wheat
goes
up
to
$2
a
bushel
on
August
1.
At
the
sametlme
it
is
believ-
CELANESE
MILL
ENGINEERS
DUE
S.
B.
Roberts,
chief
e
ngln-ecr
of
the
Celancse
Corporation
of
America,
and
Charles
Klotz,
laison
engineer,
are
due
In
Prince
Rupert
August
4
for
a
visit
of
Inspection
in
connection
with
the
inauguration
of
further
stages
of
construction
work
for
the
celanrse
pulp
plant
at
Port
Edward.
President
Of
Hungary
Quits
Communist
Prensure
too
Much
for
Tildy
Son-in-law
I'ndrr
Arrest
BUDAPEST.
T
President
Hollan
Tildy
of
Hungary
abdi-caled
today.
The
communist-dominated
government
had
ac-
riised
his
son-in-law,
Victor
Csornoky,
until
recently
minister
to
Egypt,
of
espionage
and
treason.
Tildy
a
Methodist
minister,
belongs
to
the
small
holder
party
which
had
an
elected
majority
before
the
communist
coup
in
May
of
last
year.
First
president
of
postwar
Hungary,
he
had
been
under
communist
pressure
for
a
year.
Csornoky
is
under
arrest.
Compulsory
dives
of
the
springboard
diving
competition,
and
Irene
Strong
of
Vic-,
state
council.
Arab
responsibility
for
the
boundaries
fixed
by
the
United
Nations
is
no
longer
practical
and
we
must
insist
on
changing
them
by
adding
territories
and
not
by
diminishing
them.
Further
fighting
ruptured
the
Palestine
truce
yesterday.
Israeli
Army
reported
that
Egyptian
attacks
assumed
the
character
of
a
general
attack
against
Israeli
positions
in
south
Pales
tine
and
said
that
the
Jewisn
,
Army
was
takine
annronriate
!
steps.
PORTING
ON
NEWFOUNDLAND
Opposition
to
Confederation
With
Canada
Crumbling
OTTAWA
if
A
party
of
Canadian
observers
has
returned
from
Newfoundland
and
will
report
to
the
cabinet.
They
arc
expected
to
report
a
crumbling
of
opposition
to
Confederation
in
the
island
colony,
since
it
is
now
generally
accepted
that
Canada
will
soon
proceed
with
negotiations
to
admit
New
foundland
as
a
tenth
province.
RAIN
HELPS
GRAIN
CROP
General
Improvement
Noted
on
Prairies
WINNIPEG
Rain
has
been
fairly
general
over
the
Prairies
during
the
past
week
and,
as
a
result,
crop
conditions
are
improved,
according
to
the
weekly
crop
report
of
the
Department
of
Agriculture
of
the
Canadian
National
Railways.
Conditions
are
excellent
In
Manitoba
with
all
grain
filling
well.
In
Saskatchewan
conditions
are
improved
in
all
areas
except
the
district
northeast
of
j
tie
weamer
lias
been
cooler
with
heavy
rains
in
the
Okan-
eace
NO
DECISION
FOR
WHILE
OTTAWA
'(P
A
cabinet
source
says
that
no
decision
can
be
expected
for
two
or
three
weeks
on
the
arguments
which
were
made
recently
by
representatives
of
seven
provinces
in
protest
at
the
21
percent
Increase
in
railway
freight
rates
which
was
allowed
in
March.
All
the
provinces
except
Ontario
and
Quebec
joined
In
an
appeal
to
wipe
out
the
last
increase
but
offered
to
postpone-the
appeal
If
the
government
would
appoint
a
royal
commission
to
study
the
transportation
problem.
They
prefer
this
to
a
general
freight
rate
inquiry
which
the
Board
of
Transport
commissioners
has
been
ordered
to
start
this
fall.
Meantime
the
Board
of
Transport
Commissioners
now
has
before
it
the
latest
application
cf
the
Canadian
railways
for
a
freight
rate
boost,
fifteen
percent
interim
and
20
percent
permanent,
which
came
hard
on
the
heels
of
the
recent
17c
per
hour
increase
in
wages
to
employees.
Strategy
Of
Republicans
WASHINGTON
D.
C.
Pi
Republican
strategy
today
threatened
to
bog
down
the
Unltod
w',ai,T3a
DruQre
i
ill
a
iiinpvv.i
agairjst
civil
rights
legislation.
It
would
virtually
end
the
hopes
of
any
progress
on
anti-inflaUon,
housing
or
any
of
the
measures
for
which
.
President
Truman
called
Congress
in.
The
Republicans,
who
control
Congress,
plan
to
call
as
first
business
item
the
,antl-poll
tax
bill,
least
important
of
all
domestic
measures
recommended
in
Truman's
message.
In
seven
other
states,
the
tsx
is
a
prerequisite
of
voting
and
cuts
off
many
negroes
in
the
low
income
groups.
This
measure
is
the
one
most
certain
to
start
a
filibuster
which
could
go
on
for
weeks
with
nineteen
leather-lunged
southerners
ready
to
talk
from
now
until
Christmas
to
prevent
a
vote.
THE
WEATHER
No
disturbance
is
now
in
a
position
to
affect
adversely
thr
warm
summery
weather
which
the
province
should
enjoy
today
and
Saturday.
Forecast
Queen
Charlottes
and
North
Coast
Clear.
Fog
banks
at
sea,
occasionally
drifting
onshore
at
night.
Winds
northwest
(15
m.
p
h.)
during
the
afternoon,
otherwise
light.
Little
change
In
temperature.
Lows
tonight
and
highs
SaturdayAt
Port
Hardy
50
and
65,
Massett
50
and
65,
Prince
Rupert
50
and
65.
AIR
CRASH
IN
TERRITORIES
EDMONTON
One
man
was
killed
and
another
slightly
injured
in
the
crash
of
a
Royal
Canadian
Air
"Foree
Catalina
flying
boat
at
Klttigazutl,
Northwest
Territories.
The
plane
crashed
and
sank,
while
attempting
a
landing,
the
Northwest
Air
Command
said.
Reports
say
the
big
plane
was,
apparently,
caught
in
a
cross
wind
while
approaching
a
water
landing.
One
float
dug
deeply
into
the
water.
Seven
other
passengers
escaped
injury.
Mr.
and
Mrs.
A.
Dickens,
popular
pioneer
residents
of
Prince
Rupert,
are
observing
their
golden
wedding
jubilee
today.
The
event
will
be
celebrated
at
a
family
reunion
tonight.
ijlotiiv's
work.
I
niniw,
ncvor-clmnees
were
,n
of
tin-
Bit;
;
crisis
.slated
b'lbcr.
!m
the
Soviet
Berlin
drew
i
Germans
In
he
blockaded
lie
Russians
mi
the
anti-
.eniment.
rgrrt
that
the
was
"sabo-
tiorts
of
th"
i
begin
Sun-
hc
unloading
;
at
Berlin
1'nl'ecl
Sia'.'f.
siuk"si.ia:i
of
peppy-
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Krt.uns
,
Tennis
l.orne
Main
W
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wiiii
his
IlS.i
jbnior
tennis
p,
Jf.ilini;
Ray
Ureal
f
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8
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the
junior
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a
set.
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in
the
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IN
weather
wen
well
past
week
icing
to
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placed
at
last
week
lo
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some
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but
good
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C'4
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with
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of
fli-v.
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pill
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set.
LttKt
15.
It'ient
to
the
let
has.
ap-i.i
factory
to
p'
iniiig
in
the
leported
with
"e
fourteen
win
to
lmio
early
harvest
minted
total
in
the
dis-in
the
Lowe
:
ile
Channel,
Hella
Cooln
10110
fish
n
nillR
fleet
is
MRly
mobile
adiophone
by
lliey
are
kept
nptly
posted
rutin
nn
um.
siuiuinu
ur
wlll;
Louis
Lohrey
had
asked
Governor
Thomas
J.
Herbert
to
assign
National
Guardsmen
militia
to
tlve
scene
of
the
mass-picketed
Uhivis
Lens
Co.
plant.
Earlier,
Police
"Chief
Rudolph
Wurstner
reported
the
situation
"out
of
hand."
The
request
for
troops
came
before
police
had,
apparently,
restored
order
at
the
plant
whpre
several
hundred
employees
for
the
fifth
day
attempted
to
return
to
work.
The
police
broke
up
street
fighting
between
pickets
and
non-strikers
with
the
use
of
tear
gas
bombs.
STILL
DIGGING
BLAST
RUINS
Death
Toll
at
Farben
Plant
Now
at
138
LUDWIOSHAFEN,
Weep
ing
women
waited
today
as
working
parties
gouged
into
the
I.
G.
Farben
chemical
plant
wreckage
f
or
bodies
of
men
missing
since
Wednesday's
disastrous
explosion.
The
latest
official
French
figures
show
138
known
to
be
dead,
200
to
250
missing
and'
possbily
dead
and
more
than
2300
in
jured.
Germans,
investigating
the
disaster,
brushed
aside
charges
by
communist
newspapers
in
Berlin
that
the
factory
was
,
making
war
materials
Illegally
and
said
that
preliminary
findings
showed
the
blast
had
been
touched
off
by
ethyl
chloride,
an
industrial
chemical.
MAYOR
BACK
FROM
REGINA
Drove
3300
to
be
Made
Canada
"Woman
of
the
Year"
Mayor
Nora
Arnold
was
back
at
her
desk
in
the
city
hall
today
while
below,
on
Fulton
Street
stood
her
mud-spattered
car
bearing
testimony
of
3,500
miles
of
travel
which
took
her.
to
Regina
where
she
became
Can
ada's
"Woman
of
the
Year"
two
weeks
ago.
The
honor
was
bestowed
upon
her
by
the
Canadian
Federation
of
Business
and
Professional
Women's
Clubs
in
recognition
of
her
achievements
as
a
business
woman
and
civic
leader.
Margaret
Hayndman,
K.C.
of
Toronto,
president
of
the
federation,
officiated
at
the
annual
convention
at
the
prairie
capital.
Mrs.
Arnold's
travelling
companion
was
Mrs.
Basil
S.
Prock-ter.
They
arrived
back
in
the
city
last
night.
"Central
British
Columbia
isn't
the
only
place
that
has
rough
roads,"
Mayor
Arnold
commented.
"We
arrived
in
Saskatchewan
just
at
the
end
of
s
drought
when
rain
storms
made
the
roads
simply
terrible
for'
driving."
Regina
and
other
prairie
cities
represented
at
the
convention
outdid
themselves
in
hospitality
for
the
visiting
delegates
who
came
from
all
parts
of
the
country,
Mayor
Arnold
said.
More
than
200
women
were
at
the
convention.
"I'm
not
much
of
a
convention-goer
but
they
certainly
made
that
one
pleasant,"
she
recalled.
"The
Saskatchewan
government,
the
city
of
Regina,
Regina
Board
of
Trade
.
and
several
other
organizations
took
turns
In
looking
after
us.'
Mrs
Arnold
and
Mrs.
Prockter
drove
to
Prince
George,
then
shipped
the
car
to
Jasper,
mot-
returned
via
Lethbridge
and
the
Crows
Nest
Pass.
DISTRICT
NOW
notwithstanding,
the
run
maintained
off
the
Skeena
while
the
overdue
run
of
show.
Latest
boat
average
(V
sockeve
and
15
ninks.
was
TA5
with
the
top
boat
eel
possioie
tne
government
win
Saskatoon
where
rain
is
still
soon
announce
withdrawal
of
(
npet,pd
In
the
west.centr:il
the
$19,000,000
a
year
subsidies
distrlctt
condiUons
are
such
that
on
oils
and
fath,
required
to
ppd
bp
()btainpd
manufacture
soap
and
shorten-
a
(Ur
cmp
g
"The
)ect
in
'"os'
haviI1&
new
price
of
wheat,
which
area;
rai.
been
received
in
all
sections
ex-bushel,
is
an
increase
from
$1.55
per
;
tlorth
alld
west
of
Edrnr.-contract
results
from
Canadian
with
the
United
King-
I
to"-
toria
who
qualified
for
the
200-
metre
breast
stroke.
i
The
United
States
basketball
team
easily
defeated
Switzerland
85
to
1
today
In
the
first
round
of
the
Olympic
round
robin.
The
speedy
Philippines
squad
opened
the
tournament
with
a
lop-sided
102
to
30
victory
over
the
Inexperienced
Iraq
team.
Egypt
filed
the
first
protest
of
the
games
an
dthe
claim
was
allowed,
in
the
water
polo
game
when
she
was
defeated
by
Hungary
4
to
2.
The
game
will
be
rpplayed
tonight
with
new
officials.
Olympic
wrestling
officials
complained
of
chaos
in
the
wrestling
organization.
Officials
were
not
provided
with
copies
of
the
draw
until
some
time
alter
the
draw
was
scheduled
to
begin
Yale's
four-oared
shell,
on
a
time
trial,
sank
an
Italian
single
sculler.
The
Italian
craft
was
raised
and
repaired.
The
Eire
team
was
reported
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dom.
Toriav
Rt.
Hon.
C.
D.
Howe,
tonight
to
have
walked
out
of
.
the
Olympic
...
Games.
The
reawin
was
not
immediately
known.
16
lAVS
AND
NIGHTS
World
s
top-flight
athletes
today
began
sixteen
days
and
night's
of
down-to-earth
competition
after
the
King
yesterday
officially
opened
the
1948
Olympics
before
6,000
athletes
and
82.000
spectators.
Seven
thousand
pigeons
were
released
to
whirl
aloft,
signifying
peace,
as
the
fourteenth
Olympiad
of
the
modern
era
got
under
way.
The
Olympic
torch,
carried
three
thousand
miles
from
Athens,
was
lit.
Today
Jimmy
Brien
of
Toronto
and
Ted
Haggis
of
London,
Ontario,
took
positions
in
the
100-metre
heats.
The
memory
was
recalled
of
peerless
Percy
Williams
of
Vancouver
who
20
years
ago
yesterday
electrified
the
sports
world
with
his
thrilling
victory
in
this
event.
BUTTER
FAMINE
IS
EXPECTED
Vancouver
M.P.
Thinks
Oh-n-Margarine
Will
Go
On
Sale
VANCOUVER,
(!'
A
Canada-wide
butter
famine
next
winter
was
predicted
by
a
spokesman
of
the
Western
Canada
Produce
Association
of
Vancouver
who
said
British
Columbia
would
be
the
hardest
hit.
Blaming
the
federal
government
for
allowing
Ontario
and
Quebec
buyers
to
pay
one
cent
higher
a
pound
than
in
British
C
o
1
u
m
b
i
a,
the
spokesman,
Wemyss
Reid,
said
the
shorter
would
be
four
to
five
pounds
per
person
in
British
Columbia.
He
said
the
dairy
industry
estimates
there
will
be
a
25,000.000
pound
shortage
in
Canada
be
tween
August
1
and
next
May,
1.
James
Sinclair
M.P.
for
North
Vancouver
predicted
that
oleomargarine
would
go
on
sale
this
fall
at
40c
to
50c
per
pound.
LOCAL
TIDES
(Standard
Time)
Saturday,
July
31,
1948
High
0:25
14.6
f
minister
of
trade
and
commerce,
'
apan
and
all
crops
are
progress-announced
that
Canada
hading
favorably.
It
is
expected
succeeded
in
fulfilling
its
second
1
the
cherry
crop
will
be
about
year
committment
of
160,000,000
;
25
percent
below
last
year's
'
bushels
of
wheat
to
Britain.
figure.
Vancouver
Hi
alorne
0.95
B.
R.
Con
03!-a
B.
R.
X
09',2
Cariboo
Quartz
1.10
Den
I
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02
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Wihksne
JOi
Hedley
Mascot
3G4
Min
to
01
Pend
Oreille
4
00
Pioneer
2.35
Premier
Border
03
Privateer
18
Reeves
McDonald
1.65
Reno
08
Vb
Salmon
Gold
12
Sheep
Creek
1.15
Taylor
Bridge
35
Taku
River
32
Vunanda
-32
Congress
03
Vj
Pacific
Eastern
05
Hedley
Amalgamated
..
02
Spud
Valley
10
Central
Zeballos
01
Silbak
Premier
27'2
Oils
A.
P.
Con
.14
Calmont
38
C.
&
E
5.75
Foothills
235
Home
8.25
Toronto
ar
were
closed
f
a
,.kiy
12Aout
f.llie
exception
r
f
where
the
"lit.
as
Lunn
and
fam-'8
on
iliis
evening's
!'ar
visit
to
Cal-'
Valley,
Alberta.
Ave
In
two
weeks
and
take
his
-on.
Louvicourt
:
'r'6
Tickle
Crow
Regcourt
04
San
Antonio
3.30
Senator
Rouyn
4f
Sherrlt
Gordon
2.3fi
Steep
Rock
1
06
Sturgeon
River
!
Silver
Miller
2!)1ii
THE
DEMOCRATIC
PARTY
TICKET
Harry
S.
Truman,
left,
who
succeeded
to
the
office
of
U.S.
chief
executive
in
the
spring
of
1945
and
who
now
has
the
choice
of
attaining
office
through
his
own
efforts
and
those
of
the
Democratic
party,
is
shown
with
Senator
A.
W.
Barkley,
who
was
chosen
as
his
vice-presidential
running
mate.
cet0rlng
to
Banff,
then
to
Calgary,
21:19
18.4
feet
Medicine
Hat
and
Regina.
They
Low
3:14
6.6
feet
14:50
9.6
feet
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...
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