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AND
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Published
at
Canada's
Most
Strategic
Pacific
Port
"Prince
RupertTtfie
Key
to
the
Great
Northwest."
PHOliE
81
VOL.
XXXVIII,
No.
51.
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.
C,
WEDNESDAY,
MARCH
2,
1949
PRICE
FIVE
CENTS
Milit
A
liancels
Formed
r
sia
Is
Turning
Heat
On
Sweden
1
Cominform
Preparing
To
Hatch
Arms
Pact
PRAGUE
(CP)
The
Communist
International
cution
Of
Soviet
Highway
And
1
.
vV
f
WOULD
MAKE
USE'
CANADIAN
BOATS
WASHINGTON
A
bill
has'
been
introduced
here
by
Dele-'
Sate
Partlett
of
Alaska
to
ob-
J
tain
permission
for
-'Canadian
vessels
to
rarry
passengers
be-
i
oM
.......
.....
..
,
'l-
ns
Is
Charged
Not
Railway
Information
Bureau
may
be
getting
ready
to
hatch
a
military
alliance
to
match
the
North
Atlantic
security
pact.
Reports
from
Poland
say
that
a
Cominform
military
conference
has
been
called
for
March
15
in
Hungary.
Reliable
sources
in
Warsaw
are
-
quoted
as
saying
that
defence
nnAfnrnAllf
chiefs
of
eastern
European
r
KllKrKllll
countries
are
expected
to
review
plOLM
(CP)
Russia
has
sent
a
note
to
Jnrinir
a
"series
of
persecutions
against
l....rn
IT
m-;
-4inl
&k.ibAiiV.
i
Donald
MaeDoaald
Would
Build
Link
ThrorU'h
Atliit
to
B.C.
Road
System
and
other
Alaskan
.
ports.
This
would
prevent
long
waits
by"
Alaska
people,
for
American
i
FAIRBANKS,
Alaska
The
veteran
Alaskan
engineer,
bun-
ships.
1949
SEEN
cns
of
Estonian,
Latvian
and
Lithuanian
!"
The
note,
delivered
today,
asked
for
jin
Estonian,
Erick
Suurvalili,
arrested
by
i
police
on
a
charge
of
espionage.
"the
-'
""
note
said,
,srs
SAVED
FROM
old
MaeDonald,
charpird
yesterday
that
the
proposal
thai
their
military
preparations.
Cominform
satellites
are
already
linked
with
Moscow
In
a
series
of
mutual
assistance
treaties
but
the
treaties
lack
the
all-embracing
character
of
a
general
alliance.
TVENTY-EIGHT
DIE
IN
STORM
OTTAWA
Minister
of
Trade
and
Commerce
C.
D.
Howe
yesterday
predicted
a
prosperous
1949
barring
earthquake
or
change
of
government.
Canada's
foreign
trade
toclfiy,
Mr.
Howe
said,
was
the
highest
President
Truman
should
negotiate
with
Canada
lite
construction
of
a
railway
link
from
Prince
George
lo
Kobe
on
the
Alaskan
railroad
was
an
"effort,
to
unload
or.
to
Ihe
United
States
taxpayers
the
Canadian
government-owned
railroad."
who
have
cx-
ICE
ISLAND
ii
to
return
from
LONDON
it-
A
March
'wind
rir
native
land,
uons
cannot
be
CORDOVA,
Alaska
f-Four
men
eased
a
whaleboal
through
lec
floes
six
feet
thick
today
blew
Into
the
British
Isles
and!
Europe
yesterday,
snuffed
out
a'
J
POLICE
WARN
THOSE
NEEDING
NEW
LICENSES
MaeDonald,
.who
helped
to
least
28
lives'
and
caused
prop,-i
and
rescued
three
.
castaways
wlto
.spent
seven
days
on
wild-
in
history
and
twice
that'
of
United
States
per
capita.
The
inflationary
tendency
was
lessening.
More
men
and
materials
were
available
and
there
should
be
more
construction
and
industrial
expansion.
chllled
Grass
Island.
DEAD
pioneer
tin;
Alaska
Highway.
jri.y
damaue
running
into
mil-
j
said
tlie
Canadian
railroad,
"lik1;
lions
of
dollars.
Gusts
of
up
to
tho
Ala.ska'railroud,
is
unable
lo
ninety
miles
per
hour-
fur
above
pay
its
own
way."
Ho
said
the'
hurricane
force-.pushed
over
morn
feasible
plan
was
the
con-,
buildings,
sank
ships
ami
flooded
slruction
of
a
550-mile
highway
coasts.
'
'
The
three
people
were
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Fred
Howard
and
their
son-
MING
in-law,
Robert
ZnlmiTC,
who
Warnings
to
city
motorists
whose
cars
still
carry
1948
license
plates
were
Issued
by
city
police
Tuesday
afternoon
on
the
heels
of
the
February
28
deadline
for
purchasing
1949
licenses.
Set.
L.
A.
N.
Potterton
and
were
marooned
February
22
when
their
power
barge
ran
RBOR
i
from
Fo'rt.St.
John
through
At-1
lln
which
would
link
the
British
Columbia
highway
system
wt(i
THREE
CHILDREN
BURNED
TO
DEATH
aground
oti
an
Island
In
the
Whirls
of
City
Gulf
of
Alaska.
the
Alaska
road
network
ant'
Ircw
Fail
lo
A
fourth
member
of
the
nart.v.
SHIPPIGAN,
New
Brunswick
onstblps
Dlaced
-check
-
uo"
FOUND
JAPS
FINE
PEOPLE
Leonard
23would
shollfn
U,e
lisUlC(;
ui;-
Holcman,
hiked
for
1.
Sarlo
(forts
by
u
first
hours
arms
Ic
nvrlanrl
l
r'..,
',
wr-on
erauic
ann
ruiroailKS
oy
I
1000
miles.
fl;
Bodies
of
three
small
chil-
Uckets
on
windshields
of
cars
dren
were
found
yesterday
In
the
bearing
the
old
green
and
white
ruins
of
a
fire-swept
home
on
plates
instead
of
the
yellow
and
isolated
Shippigan
Island
and
blaclt
ones
ioT
1949.
were
buried
in
home-made
cot-
ThP,
Snn5
nrp
intended
merelv
,
y
firemen
failed
v'.iim
niivcr
herring
clova
and
has
a
frozen
foot.
Rescuers
were
Richard
Davis,
former
mayor
of
Cordova,
and
three
others
from
the
Lady
Jane.
iins.
Fire
took
the
lives
of
An-
TELEGRAPHS
GRKFN
WOOD
'P-
The
mayor
of
litis
once
tot
tering
.
"ghost
town"
of
the
Kootenays
said
yesterday
t
hat
Greenwood
would
collapse
if
Hid
Japanese
evacu
as
warnings
to
car
owners
to
nctle,
aged
6;
tl.non.
4.
and
r-v,naA
tvieir
nn
niatps
4m-
I'RIME
MINISTER,
WIFE
IN
WELL
AND,
ONT.
Huge
crowds
greeted
Prime
Minister
Louis
St.
Laurent
and
Mrs.
St.
Laurent
as
they
left
Sacred
Heart
church
in
Welland,
Ont,
following
Sunday
morning
mass.
It
was
the
third
tune
a
prime
minister
paid
a
visit
to
Welland.
The
other
two
premier
visitors,
Sir
Wilfrid
Laurier,
1898,
and
Sir
John
A.
Macdonald,
1888.
OBSTRUCTED
Jeun,
two,
children
,of
Mr.
and.
mediately
Furttler
delay
or
ne-
I.us.
Patrick
Pautin.
fi
11
overboard
at
8
litlil
front
the
deck
;
81,
Hi'1
seine
bottt
imamlcr,
moored
at
i
Oil
Co.
tluck.
I
mishap,
in
whirl)
slipper!
nit
the
(1
into
the
harbor
I
gleet
of
the
warning
might
mean
ees
left
and
relumed
to
the
coast.
M'ii
'W-
!
MAriJmr
wi
prosecution
under
the
Motor
Vehicles
Act.
-
-
Most
car
owners
aJready
have
purchased
their
new
plates
but
there
are
still
a
number
who
TODAY'S
STOCKS
(Cotirteuj
a.
U.
Juluulua
Co.
Ut4
)
-
Vancouver
Buyonnc
,
06
ersf
Hight
BRITAIN
STILL
NEEDING
HELP
LONDON
Great
Britain
that-
all
the
Utinii.-.
the
Japanese'
had
been
accused
ot
on
the
roast
had
been
disproved
here.
They
had
been
uivni
a
square
deal,
he
said,
and
they
had
shown
J
that
tltev
were
nood
citizens
anil
J
Telegraphic
communications
between
Prince
Kupeit
and
the
Intf
riar..w"nt
p'.'l
;.t
U:ho
tins
morning,
but,
up
to
1
o'clock
this
afternoon
neither
the
telegraph
office
nor
the
railway
divisional
office
had
been
able
to
determine
the
cause
of
the
trouble.
Telegraph
line
crews
were
alerted
Immediately
to
locate
the
break
and
determine
its
cause.
Snow
conditions
between
Bralorne
8.65
have
failed
to
do
so.
The
police
pointed
out
that
irivers
who
are
operating
ehicles
and
have
not
yet
purchased
1949
driver'
licenses
also
ousidDorld
1.
tJamlo.
lit
the
T.-1
il
ros.
nulling
boat.
I
3d
from
the
water
j
.tier
of
nihtul.es
by
j
"
but
failed
to
rally
'
"Il
an
hour's
arli-
ai
hi.
I
el,
Willi
at
Uip
time
,
4
in,
were
writing
j
Sfoolr
workers.
They
had
brought
the
still
needs
aid
under
the
Euro-town
up
from
a
shrinking
250
pean
Recovery
Plan
of
the
Uni-
03
1U
1.32
03".
44
B.
R.
Con.
H.
R.
X.
.'
Cariboo
Quartz
Congress
Hedley
Mascot
to
1000
persons.
(Greenwood
wa-5(,rd
states,
it
was
declared
iin-
are
breaking
the
law.
Last
year's
driver's
licences
expired
on
Feb
Prince
Rupert
and
Terrace
still
Penl
Oreille
5
05
ruary
28
at
the
same
time
as
the
vehicle
licenses.
present
a
haaid
to
the
railway
and
tclrgraph
company.
Superfort
Girdles
Globe
In
Eastward
Direction
In
Less
Than
Four
Days
FORT
WORTH,
Texas
(CP)
A
United
States
Air
Force
bomber
today
completed
the
first
non-stop
equivocally
by
Prime
Minister
Clement
R.
Attlee
in
supporting
the
statement
of
Chancellor
of
the
Exchequer.
Sir
Stafford
Pioneer
Premier
Border
Prlvuteer
330
.03
.19
once
a
roaring
gold
and
ymelter
town
of
10,000
people).
Me
A
1
11
iii'"
.said
that,
when
the
first
trainload
of
Japs
Had
come,
townspeople
had
driven
to
the
station
to
t-ee
"these
terrible
The
passenger
train
schedul
Reeves
McDonald
2
80
SAM
CARR
IS
ed
to
arrive
at
10:4t
last
night
whs
delaved
bv
connections
at
Cripps,
to
this
effect.
Mr.
Att'ee
flight
ai'OUlld
the
WOl'ld,
Reno
Sheep
Creek
...
Sllbak
Premier
00
1.30
35
DENIED
BAIL
Jasper
and
did
not
get
here
mi-ipeoplc."
Now,
if
they
left,
the
(
uTged
that
debate
on
the
subtil
shortly
before
B
o'clock
this
I
town
would
drive
to
the
station
ject
he
dropped
in
the
national
i
first.
Aifl
exainina-h
elion
uf
Dr.
W.
H.
'4
hi
Ihe
Cow
Hay
'Ifeitrly
and
put
their
'.'I
practical
Use.
Dr.
Bl'.Oiieit
the
uinl.ui-
i
Mill.
Jark
Kvart
!"'ill.
'
an
were
compli-1
Kcrgln
on
the
"l
in
which
arli-4'
was
applied.
The
B-40
superiort,
Lucky
Lady
11,
carrying
a
crew
of
thirteen,
arrived
'over
Carswell
Air
Force
base
at
10:21:40
a.m.,
less
than
four
days
after
it
to
plead
with
them
lo
slay.
interest.
30
mornine
OTTAWA
Sam
Carr
was
31
:
.
.
yesterday
ordered
to
stand
trial
Taku
River
.
,
Vananda
Salmon
Gold
Spud
Valley
....
left
the
same
field.
The
plane
refuelled
four
times
in
lbs
historic
eastward
flight.
THE
WEATHER
Synopsis
A
weak
but
extensive
storm
area
has
been
causing
cloudy
skies
and
light
rain
along
the
'
Samlo
had.
ap-
inimlied
while
in
on
a
charge
of
.conspiracy
for
forging
a
passport.
He
was
refused
bail
by
Judge
A.
G.
Mc-Dougall
who
declined
to
take
the
responsibility
for
liberating
a
man
who
had
to
be
brought
back
to
the
country
after
having
had
three
charges
laid
against
him.
Unless
Carr
can
raise
bail
Oils-Anglo
Canadian
4.20
A.
P.
Con.
24
Atlantic
6
Culinont
38
C.
It
E
4.50
Central
Leduc
1.10
Home
Oil
10.50
entire
Pacific
Coast
from
Los
Angeles
to
the
Alaskan
Part-handle.
The
rain
is
expected
to
DREW-HOWE
IN
NOISY
CLASH
OTTAWA.
(r
Minister
of
'I,
a
crew
member
ri
Commander,
himself
as
an
olo
Kan
do,
said
that
end
during
the
morning
along
the
British
Columbia
coast
but
the
clouds
will
remain.
Con
Mercury
.12
i
I
now
from
a
higher
court,
he
will
11,1
no
relatives.
His
tinued
mild
weather
is
in
store
'
haye
to
remaln
in
jall
ontu
the
Okalta
1.21
.Pacific
Tele
2.10
Vancouver
as
arc
ilhec
crew
mcm-
for
the
entire
province
todaj
spring
assizes
In
May.
He
is
now
30
I
s
jnL.
Princess
In
Carleton
County
Jail.
Royul
Canadian
P
rinniiiiKler
rur-
Toronto
and
tomorrow
although
increasing
cloudiness
is
expected
ov
the
southern
interior.
The
rest
of
the
interior
will
continue
to
have
relatively
clear
skies.
Forecast
Athona
it
I
t
vr'rz-.
A
,
V
23
.n
V
G
.
-
s
"n.1
Aumaque
six.
oiher
new-''
Jllm
Jaeobson,
'u.
Rasmus
Sund-""fistoffclDsen.
M-
Slovens
la
ln-
Bcattlc
631',
t
?'
v-
.
n:r
.
i
Trade
and
Commerce
C.
D.
Howe
set
off
a
noisy
scene
in
the
House
of
Commons
yesterday
when
he
challenged
George
Drew
to
name
federal
controllers
whom
he
(Drew)
said
had
accepted
the
basic
philosophy
of
Karl
Marx.
The
verbal
spat
ended
without
Drew
naming
anyone.
Howe
recalled
that
Drew
had
been
quoted
as
saying
in
Montreal
Satuixlay
that
there
are
lederal
bureaucrats
who
accept
the
philosophy
of
Marx
"no
matter
what
political
name
they
adopt."
The
minister
read
the
names
.25
i
jfr'
a
(:;.
Xjc--
Bevcourt
F
'ability
today.
Bobjo
Buffalo'
Canadian
Consul.
Smelters
...
....10300
JT
i.
.
Vviv
A
'
Queen
Charlottes
and
North
Coast
Overcast
today
and
Thursday.
Occasional
light
rain
or
drizzle.
Light
winds.
Littl
change
in
temperature.
Lows
tonight
and
highs
Thursday:
Port
Hardy
37
and
50,
Massett
40
and
48,
Prince
Rupert
37
and
45.
vETTER
MED
p.
:
.;
'.,
.V
-
tv
t
Conwest
121
Donald
a
.54
F.ldona
.57
East
Sullivan
2.77
Giant
Yellowknife
5.30
ARRIVING
AT
CHESTERFIELD
Doctors
and
Supplies
In
Fight
Against
Eskimo
Epidemic
Due
Today
CHURCHILL
Five
doctors
and
350
pounds
of
medical
supplies,
being
flown
north
by
a
Royal
Canadlatj
Air
Force
Dakota
for
the
Department
of
National
Health,
arrived
here
yesterday
and
paused
overnight
before
resuming
the
flight
northward
today
to
the
'epidemic-haunted
Eskimos
in
the
sub-Arctic
Chesterfield
Inlet
region
where
eleven
deaths
have
been
counted
due
to
a
mysterious
of
present
controllers
and
war
Owl's
Lake
p
--
I'logvessive-
41
"MvHr
L
v
T-
1
Hardrock
Harrlcana
u'ader
George
''rrt
from
tabling
yslerday
his
Con-
Trial
Halts-Case
Clear
Hcva
.-.
io
y
mj
.r
"
'---
v
'?
I
Iosco
....
Jaeknlfe
-
-o
fcfv
-
L
4
.
A
r.
uz?
4
-
word
letter
'iiiuliiut
expeditlonl
'
11)42.
Drew
Joliet
Quebec
Lake
Rowan
:
-
-
J.,
ivl
-
SOFIA
0'
-Prosecution
in
Bul
turn
l.hn
lnllrr
garia's
trial
of
fifteen
Protes-1
8'-
i
v
v
.
frfi-
Lapaska
Little
Long
Lac
.7
1
.12'
I
m
t,
i
IK
"
sC
i
Lynx
Madsen
Red
Lake
2.75
tant
pastors
accused
of
spying
malady
which
is
sweeping
the
for
the
United
States
and
Great
area
350
miles
north
of
here.
Britain
suddenly
cancelled
to-!
Symptoms
of
the
strange
sick-day
the
scheduled
appearance
of
ncss
Include
rapid
and
severe
42
of
its
witnesses.
The
prose-
j
paralysis.
cution
said:
"Evidence
is
ab-j
The
region,
embracing
40,000
undant
and
clear.
We
need
not
square
miles,
15
already
quaran-
"esii-11
lias
already
Too
hot
for
''
arthue.
the
let-1
,IC
recurrent
peace-1u,n
lliut
it
would
"ilentii,!
messages,
"'r
81.
Laurent
lite
Canadian
'
British
Bovern-
time
ones,
including
11.
P.
Mac-Millan
of'
Vancouver.
Drew
started
to
say
that
Howe
had
misunderstood
his
statements
when
shouts
from
th
Liberal
benches
drowned
him
out.
The
Speaker
called
for
order
i
and
Howe
went
on
with
his
speech.
16
THOROUGHBRED
HORSES
ARE
BURNED
LEXINGTON,
Kentucky.
-Sixteen
thoroughbred
horses
perished
in
a
fire
whic,h
swept
a
big
barn
at
Clifford
Mooer's
Walnut
Springs
Farm
near
here
last
night.
Identities
of
,
the
horses
were
not
learned
immediately.
The
loss
is
estimated
at
$200,000.
McLeod
Cockshutt
Moncta
2.2i
i
.
"
v
Negus
tined.
hear
any
more."
P"'l
that
It
not
he
i'wlntwl
out
it
was
I
aocumetit.
After
Noranda
54.5U
Louvlcourt
,
-31
Pickle
Crow
2.00
Regcourt
.03
San
Antonio
4.10
Senator
Rouyn-
11
"
Sherrlt
Gordon
2.24
Steep
Rock
1-45
Steep
Rock
1-43
Sturgeon
River
11
Silver
Miller
-37
LOCAL
TIDES
Thursday,
March
3,
1949
High
3:18
20.3
feet
15:30
19.1
feet
Low
.
8:32
5.3
feet
21:34
5.4
feet
HOCKEY
SCORES
Pacific
Coast
League
Fresno
4,
Los
Angeles
2.
Oakland
7,
San
Diego
3.
New
Westminster
6,
Tacoma
Vancouver
6,
Seattle
0.'
unoiioo
CURVE
Well
named
Is
Hoodoo
Curve,
140
miles
east
of
Vancouver.
Snow
slides
horVhave
claimed
the
life
of
one
man
and
trapped
others
attempting
rescue
work.
Percy
rnnmhT
30
of
Vancouver
was
killed
when
a
slide
buried
his
truck,
shown
here,
under
40
feet
?
Vive
of
the
10
men
who
tried
to
rescue
him
were
carried
down
the
slope
by
succeeding
rescued
only
aft
.-r
they
had
been
buried
in
the
deep
snow.
'
Udes
and
three
of
these
were
"l
mul
been
heard,
ruled
against
the
Ucd
the
explan-"
st-
Laurent
that
te
"om
the
facts."