c PROVINCIAL LIBRARY, 4 118 onr.iEsDauGs DailyiBe livery' NOKTHJUiN AND CENTRAL, HHUlirH COL 0M3IAU MW8PAPB flfCABS Puhlihpj t Canada's Most Strateirfr PHfii Port "Prinoe Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest." PHOHE 81 VOL. XXXIX, No. 5. PRINCE RUPERT, B. C, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1950 PRICE FIVE CENTS Ukranian Christmas -ns in Concert ial Treat In ocaust Hoi For jt n Little Real Danger Of War Is Seen By Aulhor Leslie Roberts of Montreal, Saturday Evening Post Writer, is City Visitor Prince Rupert is to figue in another article in the Saturday Evening Post, greatly circulated American weekly magazine, and the author will be Leslie Roberts, noted Canadian author and article writer, who is at present visiting the city. With Mrs. Roberts he arrived by train yesterday morning from Montreal. They will sail tomor- mm nown lowalAsylym jr. in row night on the Chilcotin for Vancouver. It is Mr. Roberts'! first voyage to Prince Rupert t although he has been on the) coast before. t j j - f Z- "x'rtir , t , " ' 1 J This is the Russian! Ukra'uiuii, ! Yugoslav and Oreck Christmas j Day and there Is joyous obscrv-i r.nee, as well as the more lorma! j recognition of the great festival. I ith feasting, giving of gifts, and I feencral merrymaking and hospitality the occasion is being made the most of. The celebration of these people lasts for three days. The Ukranians rank among old timers in the Canadian northwest. They hail from south west em Russia, wltn chief commercial port Kharkov on the Black Sea Ukialnia Is fortiK being in what is known as the black earth region, and productive in the cul-! livatlon of wheat 'and grains, sugar beet and oil seed, as well as raising live stock and rninirt?. It- Is' said the country has 27,-j COO collective farms.- Seven Missing Lost From Whilehorse KDMUNTON PRoyal Canadian Air Force Dakota aireratf prepared Uxlay to begin an acrid search of lie itesolat'- nm-ili-crn regjon more than 1000 miles north of Vere for seven .missing men who have not been heurU from since Dicember 1. They are minb-r.t of a, salvage crc dismantling the Cano'. pipe line in tP . Norljiwest Territoi I s .south of WlilU'liorst. ; Tlie R C.A.F. search machine; i frut Inlk nclirif uftcr 11 n..r' 1 ii om uie i'. ai. wiiiu'ivms" i I yesterday that the men were i j "loriR overdue." . j Police report sid that the'ineu j (had U-n (lays' food when they ! j last, reported to their . base at ! jWhlteiior.se,' 1100 miles northwest ! of Edmonton. j Former Mayor Is Committed SYDNEY" N. S. i CP Former Mayor Dan Jack MacLcan was committed tor trial on a charge of murder at the conclusion of his preliminary hearing today. He will appear in Supreme Court nt Svdnev late In February. The 02-year-old MacLcan Is j , , t t.. I A former war correspondent ! and military observer, Mr. Roberts Ik particularly interested i In defence matters on the national level. Mr. Robert i discounts the possibility of a war with Russia In spile of the general "ephemeral" talk of such a conflict. And, as years pass. iContinm d on Pane Foc.r) CX.F. Session In Winnipeg, WINNIPKO 't Rent, control, OP. deve'opmeni., amendmeiit.s to the Britlidi North nmericti Act and lK'Usin h gi.ation v.' re all discussed at the c.C.t'. inlerpro-vineiitl conleif i.c'- here yes'er-day and drlegitles faced an equally heavy eheduU- tod.i. On ;the aenulu uxs Dominion-pro vinel il Ui.-: afceemen! , avicul-; t.uiid poliiv es irlatnl to les H j foreign m.trk't.s. development of j natural r"tur(.cs, federal aid for education a'tl highways. , Terrace Board Illustration Station 1950 ; E. T. Applrwhaitr Speaker ('. J. Norriiifton New Pr.rUrnl TERRACE - Speaking at the annual dinner meeting of the Terrace and District Board of Trade In the Credit Union Hall here last night, E. T. Apple- jwhailo, MP. for Skeena, gave assurance that an Illustration 'station would be in operation thb: year at Terrace. Mr. Applcwhaltc announced progress towards having Canad tat - U nr-.m.ni.'jii. Mi.oiAii.- f, .'i 7t ....' r t " " ' n I This aerial photo sliw; Ivlen I'aiK. :.e- tie (d the opening ceremony '1950 British Enipir Games nt Auckland, New Zealand. Willi con- Empire now en rou te. final plans are being; drafted fcf the opening t'A l;NK OK fcMt'lRb OAMKS - - iiid of al.heietic events at, the t' .stant.s from all parts of the Feb. 4. reciated jnuii Memorial Church )( Mctiiikatla, Alaska, I a beautiful program : music to a ncar-capac-,ipc at the Civic Centre y evening and under the ociium of Raymond V. the choir exhibited the liscrrnitirnt and natural rhythm which Is the 0r I he race. William Duncan, foun-. settlement, was a great and the people of Mct-Have hud continuous ,aiuls and orchestras r the community wa m 1(187. Miesc singers made their uiir Iwo years ago they Me ti make arrange- call a Prince Rupert so was in re.spoii.se to rc-f their many friends in rift and there were 111 nee people from every I the Tslmpscan Nation. f the noteworthy frat-ic evening's e rforinanee rxri'iii'tit use of the turn's 'here were twenty-eight lie choir and as a group .ruled the fine old negro -Were You There When willed My Lord?" IIihImji) Adams, who i part in several of Die s. has a beautiful, true jtli:ucrt on F'f 'it JDAY'S iTQCKS t) .Mm tun Ci ltd Vancouver ne . ne D.oO Coi .. ,. . .01 X . M kj Quartz ,. 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Delay i.s caused eials today awiU-d Presidc'nt'i j,y' awaiting connections at Jis-Truman's of At- j approval iu park Snow cu,Kljtioll.s ia ,hc lant.ic Paitt defence plans as a. , ,, lower Skeena Valley are now i. i .i r u (,mni signal to-start In full a $1,000,000- 000 ninc-yuar arms program roll- i completely under control. A plow ing to western Europe within a j went out this morning to clear month. ' !up sidings following the heavy C, P. Photo) Railway Cu Is Protested Prairie Town of Lloydmiuster Suggests Diesel Trains . EDMONTON (CP) Llyodmin-sler, town of 2.000 people straddling the- Alberta-Saskatchewan border, last night Invited prairie boards of trade to join it in protesting at curtailment of Canadian National Railway service in the Dominion. ' With the agricultural area sur- rounding Lloydminster facing rlirfienltv of Iranmirtlno Its , - ,.. 1 t. - iUl 1 1 nuuittuuu tu uiuifwub, uie A,iou- ; mmsLcr tsoara mviien ins iraiie . ,. .,.... ... , . ... , . ' iii)i I '.s i.i i l I il I e I' ';i .1 i.v Old Country : buolball English Association ( op (Third Roiled) Ais-iml 1. Sheffield Wednesday 0 A.dou Villa 2, Middlesbrough 2 IMuekburn Rovers 0, Liverpool 0 Blaekpool 4, Southend United 0 ' . Bradford 0, Bournemouth and Ho.icoinbe. Athletic 1 Brentford 0. CheL;ea 1 . Bury 5, Rotherlunn United 4 Cardiff City 2, West Jlromwlch "' ' ' Albion 2 Carlisle United 2, lrdJ United . 5 Charlton Athletic 2, Kulhain 2 I Chesterfield 3, Yeovil Town l" Coventry City 1, Bolton Wanderers 2 Exetrr City 3. Nuneaton 0 Luton Town 3, Grimsby Town 4 Manchester City 3, Uerby County 5 j Maitehe.stcr United 4, - Weymouth i 0 J ' Newport County I, Port Vale 2 Nortliampton Town 1, South- anipton 1 Notts County 1, Burnley 1 ' Oldham Athletic 2, NrwissUe! United 7 . Plymouth Argylc 1, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1 I Portsnioutli 1. Norwich City Quern's Park R'',ngers 0, Evui ton 2 Reading 2, Doncuster Rovers 3 ; Shefflold United 3, Leicester ! elly'l i Soul hMjrt 0, Hull City 0 j Stockport County 4, Hamsley 2 1 SloUe City 0, Tottenham Hot- ; ' spur 1 Sui dcjland 0, Huddersflcld Tow n 0 Swansea Town 3, Birmlnghain City 0 Watford 2, Preston North End 2 ! Westham United 5, Ipswich i Town 1 I'nglMi League (Third Dir.) Brighton and Hove Albion 0, Crystal Palace 0 j Othrr Matchr Bradford City 7. Accrpigton ! ' Stanley 2 BrLilol Cily 4, Halifax Ton 0 ! Lincoln City 4, Ley Ion Orient 1 Tranmerc Rovers 2, New Brlglw ton 0 i Wul.sall 2, Bristol Roverr. 2 Wnwhatn 0. Chester 1 I Srolllsh Lrsgue (lv. A) ! CelUc 3. Motherwell 1 Dundee 3, Hearts 1 East Fife 0, Rangers 2 j Falkirk 3, Queen of the South 3 Hibernian 4, Stirling Albion 1 Parllek Thistle 1, Ralth Hovers 0 Ht. Mirren 2, Clyde- 0 Third Lanark 3, Aberdeen 1 HO DAMAGE DONE FROM FIRE CALLS City fireman responded to two calls yesterday afternoon and jearly this morning, rrioay ui 4:45 p.m. a flooded oil burner at. the home of Mrs. Shawdrau, 141)0 Sixth Acinic East caught fire but wu.': quickly extinguished by the fire department with no daimige done. i'.any tins mouuitb o'clock, a chimney are at me home of F. H. Cameron, 33'i Eighth Acnuo East .was extlpg-uished without any damage. NOTICE i The Deep Sea Fishermen's j Union, will hold regular Meet-1 ing Sunday, January 8th, at 2:30 p. m, Members please attend this meeting. (It) Harrowing Scenes As Patients Are Trapped In Fire , Screaming Mental Pa" tients Struggle at Barred Windows DAVENPORT, Iowa (CP1 Twenty-six--women are known dead and eleven others are presumed dead as a result of a fire which swept through the mental ward of the city's largest hospital today. Flrq Chlaf Let Schick said that the dead consisted of women patients and one purses' aid. There were sixty-one women and three men in the ward. The lire broke out in the tliree storey St. Elizabeth's section ol Mercy Hospital "about 2 a. m.. The 60-year old brick structure wa;,. virtually destroyed before tlu firemen could bring it under control four hours later. Screaming mental patients,", who could be seen at the windows, and calm attendants were trapped,. The wa? to. saJFmt'- fot. many of them was blocked by tarred windows. , . Coroner Wildman said that the bodies of twenty-six women had been removed up to noon today and eleven others were believed to be dead in the still smouldering debris. Wildman said that thirty-seven others were injured thus accounting for the 68 per sons said to have been in the building. The women patients, many of them infirnin body as well as mind, beat against barred windows and screamed in terror. Some fainted away in the smoke and flames. THE WEATHER Synopsis ' Snow was still falling over tiie interior nf British Columbia" Uii, ng is expected this afternoon and evening. Temperatures an rpt.nriiin Ui mtrmol In !nwl. nf regions. Coastal regions will enjoy relatively elenr skies, tomorrow but widely scattered snow flurries will continue over much of the interior. Forecast North Coast Region--Variable cloudiness over the Q.ieeii Charlottes toduy and Sunday. Cleat along the northern mainland today, becoming cloudy with a fev cratlered snow flurries tonight then clearing Sunday mornltiH A little colder Sunday. Wind.' light. Lows tonight and liigie Sunday a. Port Hardy am Sandsplt., 24 and 30; at Friiio Rupert, 20 and 36. LOCAL TIDES Sunday, January 8, 19a0 High 4; 11 19.7 feet 15:08 20.3 feel Low . . 10:02 7.4 feci 22:29 3.7 feel BASKETBALL: TONIGHT 8:43 2 Browuwoods vs. Bo-Me-Hi J ? "K " ; '"""ilmakr Mailable the full amount ian Broadcasting Corporation network programs released from jCFPR, Prince Rupert, and cx-! pressed confidence that there Official nod from the White cxpecieo. prompuv anu l.hnt. Is !i t.hiit. is nesded iKiW to - . . . . niinrnnnaOT -r-M-'w dv Congress ioiikiess litbL :iimmir tii mirm America'.: Eur- opcan allies. Only jmul.oju.ooo has gone into the arms program so far. HOCKEY SCORES laeifie (oast Victoria 4, New Westminster '1 aroma 5 ,San Diego 2 Port land 5,. Vancouver i p mau.iU... v, V..K - ! pled registrar of voters, whose ; crushed body was found in a ( .'ou'th end alley December 8. j In court today Magistrate Verne Read said he could not ac-. cede to request of defence counsel j that the charge be reduced to j one of manslaughter. , Four witnesses appeared at to- i day's hearing, bringing the to- tal of witnesses to 34 since the hearing opened here yesterday ' ttle west's cas.j against curtail- J morning. A few showers oeeur-f (I service before Donald Gordon, 1 red along the southern coast dur-preskicnt of Canadian National ing the night but the centre of Railways in Montreal. activity has now moved south The move started when Mr. 'into Washington and Oregon. Gordon announced that, due to Some cloudiness will persist over eoal shortages, Canadian Na- the Lower Mainland and Van-tlonal would have to curtail ser- couver Island but gradual cleiu - would be Success in obtaining booster station;? from the CBC net for such interior points as Terrace. The Skeena member, who described the recent "constitutional NcsHlon" of Parliament at Ottawa, referred to the major Indus- trial developments of cellulose 'and aluminum manufacturing plants and presaged a bright and permanent future for Terrace, Will Robinson, reporting" for the historic sighu committee, hinted at a tourist camp development, including camp and swimming pool, forty miles east of Terrace. Ofrieers for the coming year were elected as follows: 1 President., C. J. Nornngloii. Vice-ll esidenl., Alex GlIlaiKl-ers. .Secretary, .latnes Stevenson. Treasurer, Harry Phillips. Dudley O. Little, retiring pras-idenlv was In the chair and there were Toi ly-five persons' present including guests E. T. Apple-whalti', M.P., J. Kill, Harold Smith. Geon:e Martin and Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Sargent. A turkey supper was enjoyed wl(h Mrs c j Nui'riiVa'lon con vener and Mrs. C. R. De Kcrgom-mcatu, Mrs. George McAdams, Mrs. William Osborne and Mrs T. Frascr assisting. snows of the week. .Yesterday's c.m. J ceUcd. U way freight cars being .......i ; f.-.a.,... nt ui.suuiiii-iu . un uu; n u.. I 10 n.r.l. to be distributed West- i it i ,,r.,;.,i,i , pou.iu oy uiu cbuuu wa,"..b..v ; today. j ( HI'LOIISIN RIU.hATED . V ANCOI VEK The former I'n-I o n Steamship Co. coastal steamer I'liclolisin, inipaleil on rocks off Stanley Park since she grounded November f, was refloated lixlay, paying off a gamble against time anil pound-inj! seas lor Victor AI. David, director of f ood Dcliydrators Ltd. which purchased the ship for S)(I0. Refloated, mariners say, it is worth S100.000. Ml KDLK IN SH Vl'Ili: . SEATTLE 'I lie leader of Se attic's Filipino colony was am- hushed by gunmen and fcnleu in h's expensive ear early today in front of his home here, tidal Molina, VI, who fatally wounded a man last May in what was termed self-defence died in his bullet-ridden car in what Is believe to have been a revenge slaying. Three men are being held for questioning CANADA'S WOKKLLSS O'l'TA W The Depa rtnient of Labor today esliinutcd thai 2UI.MS persons were loekiug for work in Canada late in December, That amounts to about 5.2 percent ol Ue country's total labor force. That is the number of persons in Can-working or looking for work. ,71. t ? tt: . . j vice across the country starting (.January 9. Under an order to I this effect, Lloydminstcr Will have three days a week without rail service. It was suggested that oil might be supplied free to C.N.R. if it would put a diesel train on the run to Edmonton. Meantime mail is to be carried by bos or truck from Edmonton to Iiliiydinl.nster. ! ERIC ROSANG. I PIONEER, DIES ! Kile Rosang, pioneer cily rock ; contractor, died l;ut night at ids : home at 61b Eighth Avenue West i tie was 78 years of aye tjud a nat ive of Sweden. Ho hud lived in Prince Rupert since the . very early day:; and was idetitifctl will"" i.treel. construction - work here. Dcutli occurred suddenly al-lhoir.li deceased v.yi sufleriiif from heart failure for some time lie was found by his grandson Mel Thompson, who had gono tr, visit him. Da ugh lets are Mis Fat Mazzci and Mrs. Harry Stanley. HONG KONG f- Pro-Nationalist reports today claimed that government planes and about 500 saling junks had smashed a new Chinese Communist effort to land on Hainan off the south China coast. SOLE SURVIVOR Gerry Anderson, 17, was the lone survivor when, the tug George McGregor foundered in high winds and heavy seas half a mile off Victoria recently. Six men were drowned. Anderson floated ashore on a capsized lifeboat- (CP Photo) Basketball Friday &Saturday, Jan. 13 & Ii 8:30 p.m. UBC Chiefs vs PRINCE RUPERT Reserved $1.00 Rush 75c Students 50c At Civic Centre '"'r Canada ..