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Canada's
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Strategic
Pacific
Port
"Prince
Rupert,
the
Key
to
the
Great
Northwest."
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VOL.
XXXVII,
No.
3.
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.
C,
MONDAY,
JANUARY
5,
1948
PRICE
FIVE
CENTS
in
I
1
C.C.F
Opposes
Arms
T
China
4
YOUtIG
WOMAN
IS
MURDERED
Brutal
Bludgeoning
In
Winnipeg
Leads
to
Police
Court
Sequel
Will
Attack
Oovernment
Grand
Forks
WINNINPPEG
(
M
I
d
n
1
g
h
t
bludgeoning
of
an
attractive
Wlnnlneir
brunette
will
have
a
sequel
In
court
today
when,
po
lice
ay.
Clarence
O.
Richard
A,.
Policy,
Says
Archibald
OTTAWA-H.
G.
Archibald,
C.C.F.
member
for
Skeena,
said
in
an
interview
today
that
his
party-intends
to
attack
the
government
policy
of
sending
military
aid
to
Nationalist
China.
He
was
commenting
on
$15,000,000
of
arms
having:
been
sent
from
gon
will
be
charged
with
the
olavinir
of
25
year-old
Ann
Is
Alarmed
After
Arson
Fire
In
Which
Business
Block,
Housing
Doukhobor
More,
Destroyed
GRAND
FORKS,
0
Assistant
Provincial
Fire
Marshal
Percy
Nicholls
of
Vancouver
arrived
Varty.
Body
of
the
mother
of
three
v
y'"
C;f
ft
Canada
to
China
since
V-J
Day.
Canada,
by
its
ac
tion
declared
Archibald,
was
children,
including
a
seven-year-old
boy
at
a
Brantford,
Ontario,
school
fo
rthe
blind,
was
found
late
Saturday
in
a
snowbank.
Fifteen
hours
later
Richardson
was
arrested
but
details
leading
to
his
arrest
were
not
disclosed.
upholding
a
system
of
luedal-ism
In
China.
here
by
plane
Saturday
night
to
launch
a
probe
Into
the
dynamiting
resulting
in
a
$20,000
fire
which
destroyed
the
Burns
business
block
on
New
Year's
Eve.
Police
today
were
continuing
the
search
for
an
arsonist.
Meanwhile
a
wave
of
fear
en-
RUSSELL
SPEARS
IS
RECAPTURED
Penticton
Desperado
Taken
Only
After
Being
Shot
Down
1
M
Tragedy
on
DeGaulle
Suggests
ft
I
gulfed
this
small
city
and
its
in
Rail
Track
C2ES32.
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-
habitants
that
there
might
be
new
outbreaks
of
Doukhobor
fire
raids.
The
people
were
staying
away
from
theatres
and
public
gatherings.
Corporate
State
PARIS
General
Charles
De-Gaulle
has
called
for
a
corporate
state
In
France.
Under
his
plan
management
and
labor
.would
be
represented
in
the
National
assembly.
Ten
Children
Killed
When
New
York
Central
Crashes
Into
Bobsled
ARCHBOLD,
Ohio
if
A
New
Marshal
Nicholls
indicated
that
PENTICTON
O)
Russell
Spears,
who
escaped
from
Jail
here
November
14
while
awaiting
sentence
on
a
charge
of
assault,
was
captured
by
police
after
being
brought
down
Sunday
by
a
shot
which
went
through
his
left
knee.
He
ws
brought
to
hospital
here
and
doctors
performed
an
operation
In
an
attempt
to
save
the
leg.
a
"considerable''
charge
of
dy
t",jJ's
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i
i
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namite
and
gasoline-soaked
saw
York
Central
passenger
train
knifed
through
a
bobsled
party
dust
had
been
used
to
cause
the
explosion
and
fire.
of
children
on
Sunday,
killing
STRIKERS
HALT
TRAFFIC
ON
THE
ANCIENT
APPIAN
WAY
The
ancient
Appian
Way-artery
of
empire
when
Rome
ruled
the
world
is
blocked
by
road-block
set
up
by
striking
workers
and
farmhands
on
the
outskirts
pf
Albano.
The
block
completely
disrupted
traffic
on
this
route.
The
disturbance
was
only
one
of
the
series
of
similar
disorders
that
tore
Italy.
A
Doukhobor
store
was
housed
COLUPSES
AND
DIES
ON
STREET
In
the
building
and
authorities
ten
farm
children
from
three
families
and
scattering
parts
of
the
tractor-draWn
sleigh
and
bodies
for
a
mile
down
the
right-
believe
the
explosion
and
fire
spears
nan
been
living
in
a
hide-out
In
the
woods
in
relative
luxury
with
turkey
and
venison
In
abundance
and
a
comfortably
Canadian
Freight'
On
U.S.
Roads
Up
furished
shack.
originated
there.
"This
Is
a
threat
to
our
community,"
said
members
of
the
city
council
when
decision
was
made
to
offer
a
$$2,000
reward
for
arrest
and
conviction
of
tht
arsonist.
WITNESSES
SCORE
CURBSIDE
TREES
AT
INQUEST
INTO
HOLMES
DEATH
Evergreens
On
Lamp
Posts
Branded
'Public
The
hide-out
was
found
De
El
TE
0
1)
i
i
I
cember
14
but
he
escaped
in
a
of-way.
The
two
other
children
were
injured
but
Jesse
Wyse,
driver
of
the
tiactor,
and
his
son.
John,
13,
escaped
without
injury.
"I
thought
the
track
was
clear,"
Wyse
said
today.
"I
just
stiffened
In
my
seat.
The
train
running
gunngnt
in
wnich
a
Veteran
Employee
of
Canadian
National
Succumbs
Thomas
E.
KinK.
a
veteran
employee
of
the
bridge
and
building
department
of
Canadian
National
Railways,
collapsed
and
died
on
Fulton
Street,
near
Fifth
Avenue,
while
n
his
way
to
work
shortly
before
8
o'clock
this
morning.
He
was
54
years
old.
poHce
officer
was
wounded.
Early
Sunday
an
Indian
noti
fied
the
police
that
lie
had
seen
a
"suspicious
character"
on
t
DARING
SAFE
CRACKING
JOB
hit
the
sled,
tore
it
loose
from
LEADS
RED
GUERRILAS
A
lornier
tobacco
worker,
grocer,
clerk
and
church
candle-lighter,
M
a
r
k
o
s
Vafiades,
above,
whose
title
in
the
"Greek
Democratic
Army"
is
Generalissimo
Markos,"
Is
the
one
man
responsible
more
than
any
other
for
the
troubles
of
the
present
Greek
government.
One
of
the
oldest
members
of
the
Greek
Communist
party,
he
has
been
imprisoned
and
exiled
more
than
half
a
dozen
times.
He
was
political
commissor
of
the
EL.A.S.
'left
wing
.
resistance
forces
i
during
the
occupation
and
was
made
commander-in-chief
of
the
guerrila
movement
when
the
EL.A.S.
was
dissolved.
He
is
a
member
of
the
central
committee
of
the
reserve
south
of
here.
The
po
Nuisance'
By
Taxi
Driver
No
Blame
Attached
to
Anyone
for
Christmas
Eve
Mishap
Christmas
trees
lashed
to
lamp
posts
on
Third
Avenue,
were
branded
as
a
traffic
hazard
before
a
coroner's
jury
Saturday
afternoon
by
Lionel
(Bill)
Lamb,
driver
of
the
taxi
cab
which
struck
down
70-year-old
George
Holmes
in
front-of.
the
post
off
ic;
lice
found
another
home-made
the
tractor
and
hurled
It
down
the
track."'
The
train
was
travelling'
at
eighty
miles
oer
hour.
VANCOUVER
if
Safecrackers
escaped
with
$1500
today
after
MONCTON.
N.B.
CP
Effective
today,
Canadian
freight
on
United
States
railroads
will
be
subject
to
a
twenty
percent
increase,
replacing
the
ten
percent
boost
effective
last
October.
This
sudden
announcement
came
last
night
from
Rand
H.
Matheson.
manager
of
the
Maritime
Transportation
Commission.
There
-rratfflrrteiriate
"-explana
was-
tion
of
why.
No
previous
announcement
had
been
made
from
Ottawa.
CANADA
OPENS
WAR
COLLEGE
KINGSTON
(P
Defence
Min
blowing
a
strong
box
In
the
Barn;
shack
under
nestling
trees.
When
Spears
appeared,
he
re-fuwrd
to
drort
rujs
rlfl.
and
th
police
opened
fire,
dropping
him
in
the
snow.
Cpl.
Jack
Watts
of
the
British
Columbia
Police
led
the
capture
party.
on
Lhrisamas
Lve.
Born
at
Shelton,
Washington.
Mr.
King
served
in
England
with
the
Second
Battalion,
B.C.
Regiment,
during
the
First
World
-
Wif.
Since
returning
from
overseas,
he
had
been
with
the
bridge
and
building
department
Of
the
railway.
He
was
a
member
of
the
Canadian
Legion.
ABORIGINES
GET
The
Jury
found
that
Holmes
died
on
December
30
"as
a
result
of
injuries
received
In
i
a
Granville
Street
cafe.
They
also
took
$400
in
checks.
Police
said
they
had
enough
nitroglycerine
to
blow
up
the
whole
building
which
Is
also
occupied
by
a
hotel.
They
left
a
quantity
of
the
"soup"
behind.
collision
with
a
moving
auto
FIVE-POINT
QUIZ
SYDNEY,
Australia
A
test
questionnaire
that
might
(well
cause
many
white
men
and
women
to
baulk,
or
at
least
com
He
collapsed
on
his
way
to
Communist
party
.
work
at
the
C
N
R.
dock,
and
was
dead
on
arrival
at
Prince
w50WM;MW0iw?Ho
French
Strong
Man
Sustained
PARIS
9
By
a
count
of
308
to
272,
the
French
National
Assembly
today
voted
down
another
attempt
to
amend
Premier
Schuman's
anti-inflation
bill
upon
the
passage
of
-which
he
has
staked
the
life
of
his
coalition
government.
mit
perjury
has
been
drawn
up
for
West
Australian
aborigines.
The
West
Australian
government
Is
granting
full
citizenship
TOD
ATS
STOCKS
:
:
Courtesy
S.
D.
Johnr.ton
Co.
Ltd.
ister
Brooke
Claxton
today
Rupert
General
Hospital,
lie
was
taken
to
hospital
in
the
city
ambulance.
He
Is
survived
by
his
wife
who
resides
at
343
Seventh
Avenue
West.
mobile
on
December
24,
about
11
p.m.,
on
Third
Avenue
between
Third
and
Fourth
Streets."
"From
the
evidence,
we
are
of
the
opinion
that
deceased
walked
into
the
side
of
the
moving
vehicle
and
that
the
driver.
Lionel
Lamb,
did
everything
possible
to
avoid
the
accident,"
the
verdict
stated.
Both
Lamb
and
Cherrell
Mc-Intyre,
driver
of
another
taxi
opened
Canada's
new
national
rights
to
the
aborigines
provid
defence
college,
declaring
its
establishment
"is
another
stage
Toronto
in
serious
acceptance
by
Can
FINED
FOR
SUPPLYING
In
city
police
court
Saturday,
Gen
Kow,
a
Chinese,
was
convicted
on
two
charges
of
supplying
liquor
to
an
Indian,
by
Magistrate
W.
D.
Vance,
and
fined
$50
plus
$3.50
costs
on
each
count.
LOCAL
TIDES
Tuesday,
January
6,
1948
High
9:40
19.6
feet
22:54
16.5
feet
Low
3:20
9.1
feet
16:35
5.8
feet
Vancouver
Bralome
10.50
B.
R.
Con
04
B.
R.
X
08
Cariboo
Quartz
2
;0
The
amend
was
only
one
of
ada
of
its
defence
responsibili-five
to
be
voted
upon
during
the
j
ties
in
the
post-war
world."
day
and
on
all
of
which
the
gov-
Courses
at
the
college,
located
ernment
was
later
sustained.
at
historic
Fort
Frontenac,
will
Athona
09
Aumaque
24
Beattie
-
-84
Bcvcourt
54
Bobjo
17
Buffalo
Canadian
13
Consol.
Smelters
99.00
Conwest
90
Donalda
"
85
Eldona
86
Elder
65
Giant
Ycllowknife
5.90
Gods
Lake
1
01
Schuman
had
threatened
tc
resign
if
any
changes
were
made
in
his
program
during
its
passage
through
the
Assembly.
be
similar
to
those
of
Britain's
Imperial
Defence
College
and
the
United
States
War
College
with
emphasis
on
co-ordination
of
defence.
WILL
SERVE
YELLOWKNIFE
EDMONTON
(Pl
A
$4,000,000
highway,
starti
d
in
the
summer
of
1946
and
expected
to
be
completed
next
rummer,
will
u.sher
In
a
new
era
fir
Canada's
north
-land.
Only
75
miles
of
road
remaiu
Drntonia
15
1
2
Hedley
Mascot
90
MMinto
02'
j
Fend
Oreille
2.85
Pioneer
3.35
Premier
Border
0434
Privateer
30
Reeves
McDonald
1.25
Reno
10
Salmon
Gold
r
22
Sheep
Creek
1.02
Vananda
20
Congress
031
2
"Pacific
Eastern
04
Hedley
Afnalg
03
which
followed
closely
behind
Lamb's
cab
as
it
drove
west-l
ward
on
Third
Avenue,
asserted
that
Christmas
trees,
tied
to
downtown
lamp
posts
were
a
threat
to
public
safety.
Lamb,
who
gave
testimony
on
invitation
of
Coroner
M.
M.
Stephens,
said
that
he
had
been
driving
westward
between
"15
and
20
miles
an
hour"
through
the
driving
rain.
He
drove
a
normal
distance
from
the
curb,
lie
said.
"I
passed
a
parked
cur
and
a
Christmas
tree
in
front
of
the
Post
Office,"
he
testified.
"As
I
.34
1
1
"J
1.1
ing
they
can
answer
under
oath
before
a
magistrate
that
they
live
a
life
strictly
conforming
to
the
following
standards:
1.
Are
you
of
Industrious
habits
and
of
good
behaviour
and
reputation?
2.
Have
you
for
the
past
two
years
adopted
the
manner
and
habits
of
civilized
life?
3.
Are
you
reasonably
capable
of
managing
your
own
affairs?
4.
Are
full
rights
of
citizenship
desirable
for
you
and
are
they
likely
to
be
conducive
to
your
welfare?
5.
Are
you
able
to
speak
and
understand
the
English
language?
Sixty-three
natives
have
answered
to
the
satisfaction
of
the
magistrates
and
have
been
granted
full
citizenship
rights
under
an
act
Introduced
In
1944.
News
of
the
act
is
spreading
among
the
area's
25.000
aborigines,
and
more
apply
to
take
advantage
of
it
every
day.
Harclrock
.
Harrlcana
Heva
Hosco
Jacknife
.
ance.
We
were
bothered
with
them
all
through
the
holidays."
George
D.
Haigh,
driver
for
80
Taxi,
said
he
saw
the
man
come
out
from
the
curb,
then
fall
down,
but
he
did
not
actually
see
him
struck
by
the
car.
Dr.
C.
H.
Hankinson,
who
attended
Holmes,
said
that
the
"force
of
the
blow
was
centred
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13
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Long
Luc
150
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07
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Christmas
tree
on-
trle
left
breast"
causing
f
rac-
passed
the
to
be
completed
in
tne
unm-shaw-H-iy
River
highway.
This
all-year,
all-weather
road
extends
for
38")
miles
along
the
bank
of
the
Hay
River,
through
a
wilderness
of
forest
and
boulders
between
Grtmshaw
in
the
Peace
River
country
and
Hay
River
post
o.i
the
south
shore
of
Oreat
Slave
Lake.
When
the
hUhway
is
officially
opened
next
August
Yellowknlfe
Holmes
stepped
out
onto
the
ea
rios
wnicn
punctured
me
street.
I
swerved
to
miss
him,
lung."
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4.50
3.40
6.10
Spud
Valley
Central
Zeballos
Silbak
Premier
.
Oils
A.
P.
Con
Calmont
C.
&
E
Foothills
Home
7
but
struck
him
with
the
right
WOMEN
SAW
front
door.
I
pulled
over
to
the
ACCIDENT
curb,
then
ran
back
to
him.1
Mrs.
Emily
A.
Sargent
of
Haz-
Cherrell
Mclntyre
had
him
In'
elton
and
Mrs.
A.
St.
Amour
Madsen
Red
Lake
3.00
McKciwlc
Red
Lake
60
McLeod
Cockshutt
....
145
Moneta
36
Negus
2.25
Noranda
49.25
Louvlcourt
1-42
Pickle
Crow
2.30
Shcrrit
Gordon
3.00
Steep
Rock
2.22
Sturgeon
River
20
Regcourt
08j
Sun
Antonio
4.20
Senator
Rouyn
63
his
arms,
so
I
ran
back
to
80
told
of
seeing
the
car
swerve
Taxi
and
telephoned
the
ambu-'as
they
crossed
Third
Avenue
lance."
j
on
their
way
to
Midnight
Mass
and
adjacent
mining
areas
will
be-served
for
the
first
time
In
history
with
a
first-class
gravelled
highway
ever
which
heavy
freight
and
supplies
may
-
be
shipped
the
year
round
from
Ed
1,'....,
f
NEWSPAPER
MAN
PASSES
Thomas
Graham,
Kditor
of
Canadian
Weekly
Kditor,
Succumbs
Suddenly
VANCOUVER
(P
Ihomas
H.
R.
Graham.
40-year-old
newspaperman,
died
suddenly
on
Sunday.
He
was
a
member
of
a
HUMAN
DEBRIS
FOUND
IN
ITALY
ROME,
(APi
War
has
left
in
Italy
human
debris
of
races,
nationalities
and
political
beliefs
amounting
to
perhaps
500,000
persons
who
have
settled
to
stay,
if
they
can.
Police,
who
give
the
500,000
estimate,
say
many
of
these
Lamb
said
Unit,
when
Holmes
but
did
not
realize
that
an
ac-emerged
from
behind
the
tree,
cident
had
occurred
until
they
he
was
so
close
that
"I
felt
sure
'saw
a
man
lying
on
the
U'eet.
I
couldn't
miss
him.
I
swerved
j
Mrs.
Sargent
estimated"
the
to
avoid
hitting
him
with
the
speed
of
the
car
as
"not
ex-front
of
the
car."
1
ccssive."
while
Mrs.
St.
Armour
Mclntyre,
who
had
been
driv-'
declared
that
she
thought
it
ing
behind
Lamb
from
McBride'was
going
"very
fast."
Street,
estimated
the
speed
of,
Thomas
White,
who
identified
the
two
cars
at
about
25
miles
Holmes'
body,
said
that
to
his
monton
and
ether
north-country
supply
depots.
One
of
the
wdtest
summers
in
northern
history
held
back
liehfduled
progress
of
the
work
during
1947.
It
had
originally
been
planned
to
complete'
the
highway
before
freeze-up.
The
permanent
frost
problem.
onvthat
plagued
United
States
Army
engineers
while
building
the
Alaska
Highway
and
the
Canol
pipeline
road,
entered
the
picture
in
this
highway
too.
Vancouver
publishing
firm
and
Canadian
Amateur
,
Hockey
Chief
Dies
MONTREAL,
CP-
Norman
Dawes,
vice-president
1
of
the
Canadian
Amteur
Hockey
Association
for
the
past
25
years,
died
suddenly
on
Sunday
of
a
heart
attack
at
his
home
hi
suburban
'
Verdun.
an
hour.
Visibility
at
the
time,
knowledge
Holmes
was
"not
a
he
said,
was
"practically
nil."
1
drinking
man."
I
people
are
centres
of
political
in-',
trigue
webs
reaching
into
eastern
Europe
and
Russia.
editor
of
the
magazine,
the
Canadian
Weekly
Editor.
A
former
president
of
the
Corutenay
-
Comox
Board
of
Trade,
Mr.
Graham
was
editor
of
the
Comox
District
Free
Press
in
1944-45.
He
w
survived
by
a
widow
and
two
sons
in
Courten-
Constable
John
R.
White
and
Keith
De
Witt
gave
evidence
as
to
the
location
of
the
accident.
Sgt.
L.
A.
N.
Potterton
identified
a
Rosary
found
on
the
street
as
one
which
Holmes
had
claimed
as
his
while
in
hospital.
Jurors
on
the
Inquest
were
George
Dybhavn,
foreman,
H.
D.
'Near
the
post
office,
the
car
in
front
suddenly
swerved.
Then
I
noticed
a
man
lying
on
the
road.
The
driver
of
the
other
car
pulled
over
to
the
curb
and
stopped.
I
didn't
see
the
man
at
all
before
he
was
lying
on
the
road."
Mclntyre
said.
"Do
you
think
that
the
Christmas
trees
there
obscured
the
The
1948
city,
council
will
hold
AGITATOR
DOWNED
BY
ITALIAN
POLICE
Seated
on
the
street
with
his
hands
to
his
head
is
an
alleged
Communist
agitator,
after
he
was
downed
by
Italian
police
who
broke
up
an
impending
riot
outside
the
Italian
chamber
of
deputies,
during
the
general
strike
called
by
Communist
labor
boss
Giuseppi
Di
Vittorlo.
The
riot
started
outside
the
chamber
of
deputies
building
in
Rome
when
police
tried
to
disperse
mobs
of
yelling
strikers.
Red
deputies
from
the
chamber
ran
out
to
try
and
halt
the
police
beating
their
fellow
Reds,
and
they
too
fared
very
badly
because
police
mauled
and
beat
some
of
them
also.
The
strike
was
called
off
when
thousands
of
workers
returned
to
work
after
two
days.
'
The
most
important
group
or
-newly
-
seeded'
foreigners
is
made
up
of
Slavs
all
shades
of
them,
from
White
Russian
and
Ukrainians
to
Poles,
Serbs,
Croats
and
Bulgars.
Poles
number
many
thousands.
They
came
with
the
Germans
and
later
with
Gen.
Anders
armies,
and
they
are
amng
those
who
least
desire
to
return
to
their
own
country.
Making
her
earliest
arrival
in
weeks,
C.P.R.
steamer
Princess
Louise,
Capt.
Fred
McGraw,
is
due
in
port
at
3:15
this
afternoon
from
Vancouver
and
way-points
and
will
be
sailing
at
10
p.m.
on
her
return
to
Vancouver
and
waypoints.
Its
first
meeting
tonight.
The
!
ay.
new
council
consists
of
Mayor
'
Arnold,
and
Aldermen
Black,
LONGEST
TUSK
Brooksbank,
Rudderham,
J.
R.
The
longest
elephant
tusk
of
Morln,
W.
F.
-
one,
McKay,
which
there
is
authentic
record
Casey
and
Nickerson.
is
11
feet
5'i
Inches
long.
Thain.
Stewart
Donaldson,
Don-
view?"
Coroner
Stephens
asked
Blanchard
"I
certainly
do,"
Mclntyre
re-J
aid
Nelson,
Samuel
plied.
"They
are
a
public
nuis-
and
George
McLean