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MERGENCY
CAMPAIGN
Published
at
Canada's
Most
Strategic
Pacific
Port
"Prince
Rupert,
the
Key
to
the
Great
Northwest"
VOL.
XXXVII,
No.
137.
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.
O,
FRIDAY,
JUNE
11,
1948
PRICE
FIVE
CENTS
Lective
$25,000
tribed
to
Date
$7,893.64
Four
Thousand
M
ore
Folk
Aire
Homeless
To
Steam
Into
Prince
Rupert
Tomorrow
Further
Fraser
Dykes
$20,000
(MM
TEMPERATURE
TODAY
HITS
79
Official
temperature
a
t
Prince
Rupert
rose
to
83.8
de
In
Danger
Of
Collaps
IK::
PLANE
IS
DOWN
AT
HARTLEY
BAY
Skeena
Air
Transport
Machine
Has
Engine
Trouble
Another
Ship
Coming
Skeena
Air
Transport's
Sea-Bee
flying
boat
Is
sitting
today
at
Hartley
Bay,
down
the
coast
from
here,
where
it
came
down
yestrday
morning
when
engine
trouble
developed
while
a
charter
flight
was
being
made
from
$15,000
,000
grees
yesterday
afternoon
according
to
the
Digby
Island
weather
station,
establishing
a
mark
exceeded
only
by
the
88
degree
high
of
August,
1946.
The
reading
at
noon
today
was
79.5
degrees,
according
to
the
Digby
Island
weather
Situation
At
Trail
Critical
$100,000,000
;
Damage,
323
Dead
Down
Columbia
River
'
VANCOUVER
(CP)
Four
thousand
Sumas
Prairie
residents
early
today
bade
goodbye
to
their
fertile
Fraser
Valley
acres
and
struck
out
for
higher
ground
and
personal
safety.
Sponge-soft
dykes
on
the
Vedder
Canal,
60
miles
east
of
Vancouver,
were
in
imminent
danger
of
collapse
and
flood
control
auth
1
11
H
U
B
"
I
Prince
Rupert
to
Bella
Coola
$10,000
.000
orities
had
ordered
mass
evacua-
TONY
ZALE
IS
CHAMP
S.S.
PRINCE
GEORGE
tion.
A
32-foot
wave
of
ruinoua
water
threatens
the
20,000-acre
Canadian
Eden
and
menaces
the
northwest
corner
of
the
StatS
of
Washington.
Only
flood-fighters
11110
with
J.
P.
MacDonald,
fire
inspector
of
the
local
forest
branch.
A
flight
engineer
is
coming
.
north
from
Vancouver
by
this
afternoon's
Canadian
Pacific
Airlines
flight
and
will
be
taken
by
boat
to
Hartley
Bay
to
make
the
necessary
repairs.
The
SeaBee
will
then
reutrn
to
Prince
Rupert.
Meantime,
a
British
Columbia
Airways
plane
from
Alert
Bay
came
to
Hartley
Bay
to
pick
Mr.
MacDonald
up
and
take
him
to
Bella
Coola
where
he
Is
to
direct
$5,000
Regains
Middleweight
Title
With
Knock-out
in
Masterly
Fight
manning
the
dykes
remain.
An
estimated
ten
thousand
head
of
cattle
have
been
moved
to
higher
TODAY'S
STOCKS
Courtesy
8,
O
Johnston
On.
Mat
Vancouver
Bralorne
..
8.00
B.
R.
Con
.03
B.
R.
X
06
Cariboo
Quartz
1.30
Dentonia
oi'i
'
Grull
Wihksne
.04
Hedley
Mascot
..49
Minto
.01
Pend
Oreille
3.90
Pioneer
2.70
Prince
Rupert
To
Welcome
New
Liner
And
Her
Party
SS
Prince
George
Coming
Here
Tomorrow
Morning
On
Maiden
Voyage
With
a
capacity
passenger
list
made
up
of
members
of
the
Los
Angeles
Chamber
of
Commerce
and
NEWARK,
New
Jersey,.
O)
Tony
Zale,
12
to
5
underdog,
consigned
to
the
fistic
scrap
heap
before
the
fight,
regained
PLENTY
OE
MEAT
HERE
Despite
Railway
Tie-up,
Says
Head
of
Company
Prince
Rupert
wiu
not
go
short
of
meats
and
other
table
provisions
despite
the
rail
and
highway
tie-up
which
is
hampering
transportation
with
the
prairies
and
eastern
Canada,
the
Is
Old
Militia
Men
his
middleweight
championship
operations
of
fighting
a
rather
Thursday
night
by
knocking
out
tin
t
fill
sand
bags
$500.00
extensive
forest
fire
which
has
ground.
For
the
residents
of
Queens-borough,
a
suburb
of
New
Westminster
on
Lulu
Island,
it
was
another
night
of
fear
but
the
dykes
held.
At
Prince
George
the
Fraser
River
rose
six
inches
in
24
hours
under
blistering
warm
weather.
The
Fraser's
tributary,
the
Ne-chako,
was
also
on
the
rise
Rocky
Graziano
in
one
minute.
I
Battery
R.C.A
200.00
broken
out
on
the
Noosatsum
jjratmllo
25.00
River,
a
tributary
of
the
Bella
their
wives,
the
handsome
new
Canadian
National
(eeht
seconds
of
the
third
round,
liner
Prince
George
will
steam
into
Prince
Rupert
the
ex-Gary,
Indiana,
steel
dderheide
3.00
uuii
'er
iroin
me
duui.ii.
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23()
Pilot
William
Cooper
Is
In
'charge
of
th
setranded
SeaBee.
Harbor
tomorrow
morning
on
her
maiden
voyage
miU
hand
dropped
the
befuddled
tn
AUiska
SVip
is
rlno
at
10
a
m
unA
a
fiftmn-
wcl.
Rocky
on
his
back
for
the
ten
Daily
News
was
assured
yesterday
by
the
president
of
Burns
and
Co.
'
R
J.
Dinning,
of
Calgary,
head
I
Johnson
2
00
Rkppna
Air
Transnnrt.
nt.hpr
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tin
nnrl
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niH.lr.
-
'
COUllt
With
a
left
hOOk
tO
the
llaan
3.00
pilot,
Ronald
Angus,
Is
now
In
neaa.
n
in
g
of
June
16
southbound.
of
the
provision
company,
and
The
vessel
will
make
calls
atl
Zale,
cool,
polished
batler
a,t
Rodger
2.00
;
Vancouver
taking
delivery
of
tiyNickerson
,
100
'another
SeaBee
for
service
out
jnous
3.00
i
of
Terrace
into
central
and
nor-
Burner
5
.00
'thern,
British
Columbia.
Premier
Border
Privateer
Reeves
McDonald
Reno
...
Salmon
Gold
Sheep
Creek
....
Taylor
Bridge
Taku
River
Vananda
Congress
...1:..........
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Pacific
Eastern
...
Central
ZeballosV
Silbak
Premier
Oils
'
A.
P.
Con
Ocean
Falls,
Prince
Rupert,
Ket-
1
158Vi
pounds,
rallied
strongly
ihikan,
Wrangell,
Juneau
and
In
the
second
-round
after
tak-
Skagway
on
her
regular
schedule,
ing
the
three-count
in
the
first
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1.13
.40
.35
-
.38
.03
.0514
.01
.34
.1614
.53
6.75
2.90
again.
Torrential
rains
have
added
to
the
critical
situation
In
Trail
where
the
Columbia
River
roared
-
past
the-
West
Kootenay
smelter
city
nearly
a
foot
higher
In
the
last
twenty-four
hours.
Far
further
down,
the
flooding
Columbia
broke
through
another
dyke
on
Portland's
outskirts
today
and
raced
over
a
rich
lowland
area
extending
ten
miles
to
the
east.
.
Doomed
are
the
Portland,
air
t
Scoville
2.00
t
m
Girls
2.00
Whiting
1.00
Mrs.
Jack
Strand
500
fd
McAfee
10.00
town
Lumber
&
Box
Ltd
15.00
&ri
innn
Mutch
Ends
Life
In
Lake
is
planned.
The
distinguished
party
of
Americans
headed
by
jCUarles
P.
BayeC
assistant
to
the
president
of
the
Los
Angeles
Chamber
of
Commerce,
and
included
in
the
group
is
Hon.
Clyde
A.
Watson,
California
State
Senator,
and
several
members
of
the
California
Legislature.
(
Prior
to
the
ceparture
of
the
ship
from
Vancouver
last
night,
Captain
E.
B.
Caldwell
received
a
large
floral
horseshoe
of
good
luck
from
a
group
of
friends
In
Ketchikan
with
a
message
of
good
will
attached.
A
message
was
also
received
from
the
Prince
Rupert
Chamber
of
Commerce
that
on
arrival
at
BriUsh
Columbia's
most
north-
Calmont
C.
it
E.
Foothills
H.
T.
Anderson,
manager
of
the
Edmonton
branch,
which
supplies
Prince
Rupert
with
the
company's
products
told
of
their
arrangements
to
keep
the
city
eating.
They
were
here
on
an
inspection
visit
to
the
local
Burns
and
Co.
plant.
"A
picture
of
devastation"
was
Mr.
Dinning's
description
of
the
flooded
lower
Frascr
Valley
which
he
saw
from
the
air
at
the
week-end
on
a
flight
from
Calgary.
"It's
a
heartbreaking
thing
to
see
thousands
of
acres
of
farmland
under
water
with
just
the
roof
-peaks
of
barns
showing."
As
far
as
his
company
is
concerned,
however,
coast
peoplo
.AJ
.J
PENTICTON,
'9
Robert
D.
150
Drown
When
Danish
Ship
Hits
Old
War
Mine
'
AALBQRQ,
Denmark
(CP)
About
150
Danes
were
di
owned
today
when
the
passenger
vessel
Kjoebenhavn
struck
a
second
world
war
mine
and
blew
up
in
the
Kattegat.
The
vessel,
carrying
400
passengers,
went
down
ten
minutes
after
the
dawn
explosion
ripped
her
apart.
Scores
of
sleeping
passengers
Jw,
"
.
"'
Mutch,
52-year
old
fruit
ran-
port,
four
golf
clubs,
a
lakeside
-H-ljrUU
a.U'J
,
.
.
.
nt
th
.
2.00
:
his
wife
and
two
sons,
ended
his
lael
2.00-
life
in
Skaha
Lake.
Police
today
''gerald
5.00
i
Fitzgerald
3.00
:
Wilson
2.00
reported
the
finding
of
the
body
after
a
ten-hour
search.
Previously
Mutch's
automo-hiin
hH
horn
found
bv
search-
resort
and
homes
of
several
thousand
persons.
All
residents
were
ordered
to
evacuate
several
days
ago
but
the
sheriff's
office
feared
that
some
might
have
returned.
Oregon's
refugees
now
total
more
than
60,000
persons.
There
are
323
known
dead
and
damage
exceeds
$100,000,000.
hit
00
1
Home
...
9.05
V"
Toronto
Athona
08
Aumaque
n
Beattie
.63
Bevcourt
.28
Bobjo
,
i2i4
Buffalo
Canadian
,
.0714
Co.isol.
Smelters
117.25
Conwest
i.io
Donalda
.68
Eldona
1.20
East
Sullivan
2.66
Giant
Yellowknife
....
4.60
God's
Lake
64
Hardrock
.14
Harricana
07
Heva
12
'
'muus
'
1
50
Iprs
nn
the
lake
shore,
three
miles
were
drowned
in
their
berths.
Many
saved
their
lives
by
diving
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....
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f
n
rn
haiHchln"
"EVPPV
rye'k
1
00
I
fmm
his
Kaleden
corner
ranch
Srofth
.'
2.00
,vi(,p,,
Mrs
Mutp.h
and
Z
rVZ.
T
nl
port
a
presentation
of
a
ill-possible
.1,1
effort
ff
Is
being
made
to
,
.
bowl
would
be
made
to
r
ver
rose
eet
supplies
to
the
u
coast,
-
t
k.
he
c
.
6cl
iv,o
chin
ur
th
nprsnnal
rpr.oer-
JUNIOR
CHAMBER
TO
PROMOTE
NEW
SHIP
WELCOME
MacRae
2
00s,,n,
Rnhert.
18.
and
Grant.
14.
sald.
"We
have
flown
thousands
,
"'"'
,
Inition
in
the
form
of
pen
and
Coughlin
8
00
!
were
killed
Wednesday.
Slatier
a
,rrant.
rharolnff
Miltch
of
pounds
of
butter
to
Vancou-
.
'rMinnil
cot
in
t.hp
rant.ain.
from
the
deck
of
the
sinking
vessel.
The
1,668-ton
steamship,
owned
by
the
United
Steamship
Co.,
was
enroute
from
Copenhagen
to
AiAborg,
Jutland.
The
company
published
.
the
names
of
261
survivors
including
f
Milton
2.50
,,,
hn
milnir
hart
been
1s-
ver
and
are
arranging
for
rail."-""
and
bus
shipments
of
meats."
Canada's
latest
cruise
liner,
Mr.
Anderson,
whose
office
'and
the
largest
and
finest
pas-
Mstad
230
I
Supd
by
BriUsh
Columbia
pro-
Kinnaird
5.00
j
Vineiai
police
yesterday
as
the
E-Bury
10-00
I
officers
started
the
search
of
senger
ship
ever
to
be
constructed
in
Canadian
waters
on
the
Lynx
;
.03
Madsen
Red
Lake
2.50
McKonzie
Red
Lake
....
.36
McLeod
Cockshutt
1.05
Moneta
.38
.
Negus
...
2.09
Noranda
.
1
50.00
Louvicourt
.60
Pickle
Crow
1.87
Regcourt
"
.05
San
Antonio
3.79"
crew
members
and
spokesmen
;
handles
shipments
to
Prince
Ru
pert,
said
that
plans
are
in
motion
to
bring
supplies
to
Prince
Rupert
from
Edmonton.
The
Enockson
5.00
'
Thompson
5.00
Pacific
Coast,
won
general
ac-
expressed
the
fear
that
all
the
Hosco
.37
Jacknife
.0514
Joliet
Quebec
40
Lake
Rowan
..
07
Lapaska
05
Little
Long
Lac
85
I'th
McCrlmmon
5.00
Montesano
5.00
the
lake
district.
The
mother
and
sons
were
bludgeoned
and
bufned
from
fires
started
in
the
mattresses
of
their
beds.
v
Police
believe
the
blows
were
from
an
iron
bar.
Yvonne,
20,
daughter,
is
In
f
Clee
3.00
I
Mathieson
10.00
rest
were
doomed.
Divers
went
to
work
quickly
but,
long
after
they
began
their
search,
there
were
no
reports
that
any
of
the
survivors
had
been
picked
up.
Rescue
crews
said
that
nine
corpses
were
found
by
patrolling
craft
at
sea.
Gromely
.-
10.00
Boat
owners
In
Pi;nce
Rupert
are
being
asked
by
the
Junior
Chamber
of
Commerce
to
climb
aboard
Saturday
morning
and
head
for
the
harbor
mouth
to
welcome
the
arrival
of
the
new
Canadian
National
ship
Prince
George
as
it
steams
up
the
harbor
to
dock
here
on
her
maiden
voyage.
The
idea
was
adopted
at
the
monthly
meeting
of
the
Junior
Chamber
last
night
after
it
had
been
suggested
by
DV.
R.
G.
Large,
Senior
Chamber
president,
who
was
a
guctt.
The
Port
Day
committee
agreed
Kullander
10,00
MacDonald
10.00
hospital
here
still
In
a
critical
head
wounas
ibudnay
1.00
I
condition
with
n
Rivett
2.00
i
and
burns.
Eastwood
5.00
ret
Baxter
1.00
"ertzen
,.
2
00
products
will
be
shipped
by
rail
to
Smithers,
then
cither
taken
by
bus
to
Terrace
and
flown
to
Prince
Rupert,
or
flown
here
direct
to
the
city
from
Smithers.
A
shipment
of
meat
will
arrive
at
Smithers
tonight.
R.
E.
Moore,
manager
of
the
city
plant
of
Burns
and
Co,
said
that
meat
supplies
In
the
city
are
generally
adequate.
"There
is
lots
of
beef
and
pork,
but
lamb
and
veal
is
in
shorter
supply.
LOCAL
TIDES
(Standard
Time)
Saturday,
June
12,
1948
High
4:34
19.7
feet
17:48
18.3
feet
Low
:
11:16
3.2
feet
23:37
8.4
feet
v-
Smith
2.00
BRITISH
COLUMBIAN
BECOMES
:
-:
NEW
MINISTER
OF
FISHERIES
OTTAWA,
(CP)
Prime
Minister
Mackenzie
King
today
announced
the
resignation
from
the
cabinet
of
Hon.
J.
A.
Glen,
minister
of
mines
and
resources,
and
that
Hon.
James
A.
TWc-Kinnon
had
resigned
as
minister
of
fisheries
to
succeed
Mr.
Glen
as
minister
of
resources.
R.
W.
Mayhew,
Liberal
member
for
Victoria
and
Parliamentary
assistant
to
Hon.
Douglas
Abbott,
minister
of
finance,
succeeds
Mr.
MacKinnon
as
minister
of
fisheries.
Tom
Reid,
now
Parliamentary
assistant
to
the
minister
of
fisheries,
becomes
Parliamentary
assistant
to
Hon.
Dr.
J.
J.
McCann,
minister
of
national
revenue.
,',
irtin
)
nn
claim
I.:;:
at
Vancouver
when
hundreds
of
Vancouver
citizens
inspected
the
Prince
George.
With
first
class
passenger
capacity
of
approximately
300
and
with
every
passageway,
public
room
and
stateroom
beautifully
panelled
with
native
and
imported
woods,
Prince
George
will
prove
a
great
addition
to
Canada's
tourist
industry.
The
ship
will
operate
a
series
of
cruises
from
Vancouver
to
Skagway
every
ten
days
throughout
the
summer
and
in
winter
months
will
make
its
northern
terminus
at
Ketchikan,
Alaska.
It
is
350
feet
in
length,
has
a
gross
tonnage
of
5800
tons
with
a
speed
of
,
18
knots.
Messages
of
good
wishes
were
also
received
at
Vancouver
from
R.
C.
Vaughan,
chairman
and
president
C.N.R.,
Montreal,
Captain
Frank
Smith,
master
of
the
Lady
Nelson,
of
the
company's
Carribean
'fleet
and
Ernest
Grueiiing,
Governor
of
Alaska.
The
Prince
George
will
return
here
from
Alaska
on
the
eve-
THE
WEATHER
(Synopsis)
Cloudy
skies
and
showery
weather
appears
to
be
in
store
for
the
southern
and
central
sections
of
British
Columbia
over
the
week-end
although
slow
and
gradual
clearing
is
expected.
Isolated
thunderstorms
are
probable
over
the
Kootenays
today
and
tonight.
By
contrast
the
northern
portion
of
the
province
will
remain
clear
and
warm.
i'estad
Thornton
1.00
1.00
vn
Antilla
2.00
I'1-
Murray
2.00
f
'Wing
10.00
F
Hynrlman
5.00
Baseball
Scores
American
Detroit
4,
Philadelphia
10
Cleveland
7,
Boston
15
St.
Louis
4,
Washington
5
National
New
York
4,
Chicago
6
Brooklyn
1,
Pittsburgh
4
Boston
10,
St.
Louis
2
Western
International
Tacoma
12,
Yakima
3.
Pacific
Coast
Seattle
0,
San
Diego
1.
Sacramento
2,
Oakland
9.
Hollywood
13,
Loo
Angeles
4.
to
contact
fishing
companies
and
boat
owners
urging
them
to
take
fishing
craft
and
yachts
to
the
harbor
mouth
where,
as
a
flotilla,
they
would
welcome
the
new
ship
with
flags
and
whistles.
3
Cwrc
1.00
fl-J-Dickens
1.00
M-
Fladsct
2.00
IJ-
T.
Muncv
2.00
The
gesture
would
be
part
of
a
quickly-organized
welcome
pro
("lile
Orange
Lodge
10.00
:'lofson
5.00
L.
Z
1.00
1.00
Coswan
5.00
SOFTBALL
FLOOD
BENEFIT
TONIGHT
GYRO
PARK
6:30
King
Edward
Mighty
Mites
vs.
Bo-Me-Hi
Juniors
7:15
Slater's
Sea-Going
Slaves
vs.
Hicks'
Fraser
St.
Farmers
NEW
ROMNEY,
Kent,
Eng.,
0
"'Old
Bert"
Lawrence,
84,
licensee
of
Cinque
Port
Arms,
for
whom
the
town
held
a
memorial
service,
claimed
to
have
served
3,000.000
glasses
of
ale
during
his
54
years
at
the
inn.
A.
MaspulaK
Halibut
Sales
Canadian
Pasing
Cloud,
50,800,
18.80
and
10,
Storage.
Good
Partner,
58,000,
18.80
and
10,
Storage.
gram
which
the
Chamber
oi
Commerce
and
other
agencies
have
worked
up,
Dr.
Large
sairl
The
Prince
George
is
due
to
dock
here
at
10
o'clock,
daylight
time.
i
An
Pymous
1.00
Fiwie
Jov
'
i
no
19.80,
19.80,
Mrs.
Anna
jacKson
i.w
'
fnynmus
1.00
Mrs.
J-
Wide
co.
Tlialn
2
00
1
(Continued
on
Page
3)
CAPITOL
THEATRE
Sunday
Night,
9
o'clock
TICKETS
CAN
BE
OBTAINED
AT
THE
DOOR
COME
AND
ENJOY
.
Rotary
Club's
50
CENTS