L PHdVfNCIAL PROVINCIAL LI33A3X, 113 victor. c. , 303r.iEs cms Daily Dc livery NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" PHONE 81 VOL. XXXIX, NO. 37. PRINCE RUPERT. B. C, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1950 , PRICE FIVE CENTS amDer I Spurs-Council. To A On 0 owcr . Bomb er Sown Bed Sound Call On Power tnv To Carrv Out i . B-36 Forced ment Obligations t Chrysler Peace Tslks Are Held DETROIT More peace talks in the Chrysler strikes were sched-1 uled for today but neither side i was opUmi;.tic. Negotiation teams j for Chrysler Corporation and the ! United Automobile Workers j IOi have met twice since most' Chryslers 89,000 hourly-rated Aliened Would Demand Immediate (liquate Development Technical Advice Urged that the Northern British Columbia n Stormsvept Waters ' Numerous Surface Vessels and Aircraft Already Engaged in Widespread Search 17 on Board A crippled B-36 bomber, with seventeen men on (II J lull to l on no m uuy -n c jr van u mr it .i..w. . 1 L 1. V. 4? hlVni (il I;'-!' u) supply me corporation workers walked out Jan. 25 in a;V.,..,,vi :a V1,i;D,,orl tn ha ' a 1 -.4' ioiie sounu udoui zw mnes soutn 01 rnnce ivuper;. The si.-engined plane was last heard from at 251 a.m. when it radioed that one engine ws afire and the pilot contemplated "ditching" in the water. Planes and .shins are speeding i- ' ,ns of Prince Rupert at all times with t and power they require and to main-alilc surplus to meet increased demands, of - -r " ,,-rt chamber r" iTsnliiiiciii pre-( The Chamber of Commerce ni-lil. railed considers that the company's nil tn notify the1 pruposetl dicsel generated pow-ii j; considered ,,r project, recently announced. TOUGH SPOTTING This photo of lhe wreckage of a Dakota aircraft shows the difficulty of spot ling Crashes from the air. This Dakota, almost obscured by trees and .Snow, crashed while seeking u U.S.A.F. transport that has been missing since Jan. 20 with 44 personi aboard.. The first time the B.C.A.F. photography plane flew to the scene of the Dakota cruh on a Yukon mountain top the crew was 'unable to find the wreckage. (C. P. Photo) to the scene and many are al- stateS air force base near Fair-ready there today conducting an banks, to Carswell base neat-extensive search. The scene is ; port Worth, Texs, said in its last about 125 miles north of Port, stress message: "At 17,000 feet Hardy on the northern Up ot tn severe icinE. Instrument and " Vancouver Island. eneine trouble. One eneine on ( Is not In he best Interests of cimtnbcr (if the city' and that. In the : hat thejests or an adequate water supplied forthwith ' ply for the city of Prince Ru-luiihi'i hydro-; pert, the use of water from micnt to meet; woodworm Lake, source oi tne THE LEGISLATURE OPENS urc needs, pro- city's water .supply, should be blr surplus "f i eliminated. '.. i -' I"'1' Ior: Many Attend "', m.hi iii city and j. Aj,proximaU.jy 40 citi-;ctirf jum-imcd the rear of rliy couccll Victoria Settles Down After Fuss And Feathers n ('nmiiierYi' the CilV Conn-; i been IT-; to reqinie the I il'-rl.ikr further' P'.ivhImI lor 111 ( r.nl ...h'Hilil iiave! 'iiiiunv to I iikt" ( tu meet eliv.-, chambers, no doubt attracted by the prospect of live current hotly debuted power situation. After reading by City Clerk H D. Thain o(. tlie Prince Tlupert Chamber Conv.ncrce resolutions most biting of the two presented last night. Mayor Ruddcrhrun started the oall rolling by dc- Usual .Whoop-la But Some1 of Brilliance Lacking As Another House (lets Under Way by J. K. N IiS B ITT pension dispute. Neither of the I earlier peace sessions, held a week apart, produced any ba.;is for a return to work. Union Heads Heard Here Three International representatives visit ed Prince Rupert Trades and Labor Council at its regular monthly meeting and addressed the delegates. They were William Wilson, international representative of the American Federation of Labor; William Page of the j Carpenters' Union and James McMillan of the Machinists' Union. I Mr. Wilson addressed tlie meet-' ing on Union organization and stated that the International' Federation of Free Trade Unions (had been formed lust year. The ! objective was to lift wage and .living standards in all countries, j to secure full employment every -' where, and to co-ordinate the defence of all free trade unions i Mr. PaKe spoke on the buildiuu i. '.,, anr, ott ,h standard provincial! i llshing " . ... , affreenienL wnn tmunio a t'i- u,ose ln the near fulure. - ' f ' i 1 An emergent meeting of Tsimpsean Lodge No. 58 A.F. & A.M. will be held ln the Masonic Temple on Wednesday, February 15th, 1950 at 2:15 p.m. lot the purpose of conducting a funeral service for our late brother Robert Gordon. Members of Tyee lodge" and sojourning I brethren are invited to attend. , W. D. VANCE, Secretary. 1 The fanfare and whoop-hl COnneet - VICTORIA- ed' with a leeilative openinp- are over for another year and M. L. A.'s have e L n mi n i VAN'COLVf.lt MII.UKK VANCOUVER For the first time since Deernilier ? the overnifht temperature in Vancouver rose above 40 decrees Usl nix hi. SYYfCETBItilK CASUALTY VVIHTMIOKSi:, Y. T. A M'extern Canada Army officer Is reported to he the first severe casualty in Kxercise Sweetbriar. Lt. J. W. D. Iewis ol Calgary was caught Sunday night between a snow mobile and a Jeep. He is reported l" serious condition at miliary hospita here. To Celebrate Victoria Day Prince Rupert Kinsmen's Club j Is proceeding with plans for a j bang-up May 24 celebration this 1 year with May Queen, children's parade and sport to be featured j and special prizes for the day In-i eluding an Austin car, refriger-j ator and electric stove. Stan Savillc is heading th? committee for the day with chairman of sub-committees as follows: Sports -W. S. Noble Refreshments Harry Swaf-field. Floats and May Queen C. Barbour. Prizes William Lonn Parade R. E. Montador Dance John Good. - - . , . . i , " - ' 7 Vancouver's Hard Winter Is Ending ! The tourh winter in Vancou- ver appears to be breaking upj according to arrivals from the . .southern city during the past lew days. Snow has pretty well disappeared. However, memories of the southern city's grim experiences as 1900 oprnoil will! long remain. j A heavy snowstorm appeared; In Vancouver lute one afternoon and. throughout the evening caused all kinds of traffic difficulties. Busses were delayed rvthilc some had to suspend service. Street car travel became irregular and automobiles had their own troubles. Winds developed, adding deep drifts to the job or trying to reach home on fool. Tlie bllard was at its wor.t about the same lime that thousands of workers were through for the day and under normal conditions could ride to where ever they lived. But this was not so easy that memorable night- Tlie snowfall on the level was from eight to ten inches. Prince Ituperl Oyro Club will be holding Its weekly luncheon tomorrow In addltloa to a dinner dance In the evening aboard the steamer . Prince George. TODAY'S STOCKS (Courtesy H. D. Johnston Cu Ltd.) Vancouver iiri.i.r the 1110-, during thatsome of the demands ir evident such 'in the resolution had been dealt fi to. obtain iih. s!".iies or Oi -The resolution a.ks us to de- 1k mke a dare the Northern B. C. To-vcr vol the power Company In default," said th 'iun ui Hie city. I Mayor, "but later It stales noth-r tur . her pro- J lug can be done until the corn-its twmcU that, pany squares lUclf". Tlie Miyor ' ikmwtth refer-1 referred to the final clause of rapany's peti- j resolutions wh'ch stated, "That al ol fiuiiehist in any event, no action be t .I;en il the rounrtl is! witii reference to the Comuany's until the city Council if" iiul all rx-1 petition xesi. ine inrone opeecn cieoaie.wnrgo on I o r t wo weeks. Then will come the budget, followed by the budfet debate in which everybody will make speeches iI the agree-1 satisnea wai, any ana an n rfmp;!ii ti. that isiin? To "Ditch" tl T,? .. . fire. Severe emergency. Going to let down tiirough overcast to loose ice." ' Seventeen surface craft and 34 planes had joined the search by noon today, tne Canadian destroyer Cayuga is due at the scene at 8 o'clock tonight. A nav al scow, for hUicopter use, 13 a.- so being brought north. The plane is equipped with lue rafts and emergency equipmer.'. A provincial police officer at Port Hardy expressed fear that the B-3 coula "not last a min ute in the heavy .seas wincn are Dem8 lashed by a 40 mile gale ReV. g. Klnley, misionary and postmaster at Aiyansh in Nuns iTcrrace todav that he had hearer jan aircraft circle over Uicreaocu. In n-ninxir tuic mnm Ino an.-i brn o pass on. Provincial police Doat fM.u. 17 of Ocean Fails is understood to be unable to move into Queen Charlotte Sound from Namu owing to strong southeast gale. Wednesday. February 15, 1950 High - 0:49 19-0 feet 12:27 21.3 feet Low :.. 6:30 . 7.9 feet 19:05 2.3 feet THE WEATHER SVNOPSIS South easterly gales lashed at the northern B-C. coast overnight as another Pacific, storm moved over the Queen Charlottes. Rain is general over the coast this morning although the southern sections reported only light falls. Still another system is developing about six hundred miles southwest of Vancouver Island this morning. Gale warnings wer issued last- evening for exposed coastal waters ami southeasterly winds of "gale, force are now expected to develop in these areas tonight. Rain is- expected to continue along the southern coast until this second storm goes through. Showery conditions will prevail along the northern coast.. In the interior the weather will remain cloudy and mild today w it h ' scattered rainsliowers spreading into the central regions tomorrow. FORECAST North Coast Region Gait warning, continued. Va-Inbk cloudiness over the Queen Charlottes today. Elsewhere cloudy with showers. Cloudy entire region tonight with rain begin ning overnight. Cloudy with showers tomorrow. Little change in temperature. Winds southerly (20 mprO except southeast (35 mph) along the' mainland today. Increasing to southeast i40 entire region overnight. Winds southwest 25 tomorrow. Lows tonight and highs tomorrow. At Port Hardy 37 and 45. Sandspit, Prince Rupert 35 and 42. - BOY fCOUTS CONCERT Civic Centre Friday. Fell. I7lh 8:00 p.m. Please note lime (III breaches or the aaroe- mont have been remedied . ... Answering the claim that city council has been remiss i:' fail- to "Require the company to un dertake furUier development as provided in the said agreement," Mayor Rudderham bluntly slated im could not see how the council had been remws. In 'regards' to further power development mt tit (if the city t awl that ade-u'iun has been ami ail defaults y up to the pre- f ui C'oinmcreei n ua by a com-! t'hiiinbei- follow- ! m "Hi exeeutivc..... Cnambcr at the ; m-, j Ulnmieiii re- j ' ' Z b,,,;n ,'! , 11,11 iln(l 11 power has ft d,i Iv in s".""' city in. my as , ,h Wp'vi hcen assurpd bv toe comnuny -tVil- would be carried cut." ; Wo havp nol iss." , '"jihundercd Alacmian It V. Clav unLev. "We have onlv boon here "oil ,1,.iii r..,-n inrt time. "He The big bomber, on a training flight from Eielson, United Metlakatla Wins- Rupert Loses! Hoop Opener Canadians l'elt Effects of Hough Trip to Annette Island KETCHIKAN (Special to Daily ! News i Prince Rupert Jets lostl the first game o their Alaska katia by a score of tss to 48. - The game followed a rough --i' rh nnr north h fn In a a - Rnilthpnjit. southeast Bale - from Ketchikan to the Annette I (Island village and it. was played around the midnight hour, The Prince Rupert boys felt the (effects of the strenuous trip. Jeff David of Metlakatla was high scorer with 19. Ray Spring, for Prince Rupert, was a close second with 18. Other scorers were Arncy C, Holkestad 5, Davis 4, Scherk 4, Don Scherk 1, Flaten 8, Sunbcrg 2. The Rupert team expressed 'confidence that it would be able (to take the Metlakatlans In the second game tomorrow night. The Canadians play in Kstch- ikan tonight. C. H. Klotz, project engineer at the Columbia Cellulose C'oni- - been on for over - - No Statement - Atom Secrets LONDON Atom scientists of three governments decided today against any public statement on a top secret huddle at Britain's atomic laboratory in Harwell. Tlie scientists, representing Canada. Rrllaln and the United States. W0Und up a four-day conference on wiult new atomic information should be released and what should be withheld. The confer- ence was the fourth of a periodical aeries. "" ipany construction project on Estimated expenditure drawn iWaUson Island, returned to the up by the Prince Rupert Public city by plane Monday after a School Board for 1050 is $2tJ8,-; business trip to. Vancouver. Ac-004.90, it was announced at a (compunying him to the city waa meeting of eity council Monday jn. M. Wilgus or New York, as-night. Estimated revenue Is $88,- Isistant chief engineer of the Cel-126.42 and tax requirements areane.sc Corporation of America $150,537.48. A surplus of $2,- who will remain ln the city on S71.01 was carried over from last official company business for a year. few days. pointed out lhat som proicnt fM,..mh,.r 0f Cuuiniercc miiiibers Ucre former council men. "is resolution! T Notion Youngs agreed we 'hat lil-;wcre reml.-s . . he was on this I'.ul been done ',..0Hnc.U. We were probably only 'Vporaiitm Ui'r,.n,.w n allowlns the crectiou '' '''li luii-nt and '0r Unit bulldini; 011 Third Avtn- all over again. Next on tiie pro- gram Is estimates when member. will vole more the $100,000, 800 Tor the public service. After that will be legislation. There won't be much this year. All the big work was done last session in preparation for the general election of last June. The blue carpeted, marble pillared chamber 01 the lawmakers was packed like a tin of sardines and just as hard to get into on opening day. Crowds ,-tood on the stone steps leading Into tlie Buildings. The general public had to rubber neck there, the inside being reserved for notables. There was the usual make-believe. His Honor the Lieutenant-Governor, in his Courit uniform, 1 1 rived in a Government House limousine and was greeted by Premier Johnson, in cutaway coal. The Lieutenant- governor flanked by navy, army; and air force aides, entered thei chamber and expressed surprise to learn there was no Speaker. He suit! he would leave the chamber und not return until Jie House had elected one. Mrs. Nancy Hodges, all this ' 1 time, was sitting in her plae, looking quite innocent, as if she hud n't the fautest idea she would get the Legislature's highest position. Tlie preliminaries were duly gone through. 1 he Premier moved that Mrs. Hodges be elected speaker. Thit was duly done and Mrs. Hodges hurried away to her suite to dun her black robes and tricon hat. When she re-entered the cham ber there was a stir and a bu? for never before had been seen in these parts or anywheiv else, for that matter a woman I In the robes of Speaker. Mrs. Hanks, the wife ol the Lieutenant-Governor had to leave early, .slipping out. a back door, for she had to have a fina look-over the arrangements at Government House where-members mid dl.stingiii.slied gucus went to tea. ELECTRIC FAMINE ENDS imiiislncs In m. Aid. Oliifscy strongly de J clared. ' . The i-( 'xihilhm ak;o biauicd the r " nail li;i uiuoU Started "-" their "v 1 annual talk- ' . i . . j , - - - - 7 lative debate. He was tireless and quick of mind and tongue. He could trip up the government; on many suojccls and could always be depended on to snipe aw.iy in a ueiaying action, boih flamboyant and amusing. Winch and his little band will need have to work hard, use every tactic, at their command il tney are to make any Impression on the overwhelmingly strong government benches and make newspaper news. The new Legislature may .show up some new brilliance in debate. It's doubtful, through. Oid-tlme political observers regret that the day of brilliance 111 debate seems gone. They like to recall the scraps H. G. T. l'trry and Mrs. Dorothy Sleeves um ti u r.ct Into. Those two were masters of debate. They know their classics, could quote from (no Give scnoiars und ma ice , nneicnt sayings fit the present I day. Dr. O. M. Weir and Mrs. I Grace Mad mils, too, were jure! ol themselves, scholars bot h, j nmioie of tongue. And no move will he heard of Unit wonderful i old eiiinc of original phrases,: "Dttrr Paltullo. Premiers these nays conic in duller mould. But. 'Dutf" was tiiere on opening clay, hail and hearty and every body else was kIjiI to see him. He sat near B.C.'s only other living ex-Premier, John Hart, slim and boyish looking as ever, though he 11 be 71 next month: ;lBig Robbery In Toronto TORONTO Na life Stephen, 40, told police he was robbed of $11,800 in the mid-town Dundas Square section yesterday. He stud he had brought the money from his home to di posit In a bank, j Police Mid Stephen, an official of the l-ebune.se Society, claimed ! to have been tied with rope by - r , o" leieunone wne to l.;r IlllOlllll. Due to late connections at Jas- Pel", tonights train from thu east will bo Uu.ee hourg ald , minutes late ln ai.riving S(.hPd. uied to arrive at 10:15, it will be n at 1:55 Wednesday morning. lh' likelihood of council for not Immediately deul- "".a-.e. thninL will) tha power phortae ((.Joultaiico Power Restrictions Being Lifted Today ; Following a three-foot rise in the water level behind the dam at Falls River, Prince Rupert's principal source of hydro-electric supply, the Northern British Columbia Power Co. today lifted the restrictions on the use of electrical power for commercial Bayotine t'la Hralorne 9.25 B. R. Con - 2!-i B. R.X t .. .00 Cariboo cjuurU 125 Congress New 20 Herlley Maseol SO Pacific Kastem 05 Pend Oreille 5.50 Pioneer 'J-'"1 Premier Bol der "i 'l Privateer 13 V Reeves McDonald . 2.15 Reno "s Sheep Creek 11'' Silbak Premier ....'. 37 2 Taku River n Vananda U Salmon Gold 00 Spud Valley 04 All was fuss and leathers., the thieves who confronted him good fellowship and I'.vecliiig on hi hla office. Two liuiiky men this opening day Tlie bicker- iw-re standing behind the door as . ... . .. ... . , I, M.1,.,-..,I I. .1.1 ....li ... two' weeks. Service has been restored to a twenty-four huur basis 011 an circuits for a trial period ending at noon tomorrow. By then, it will he decided whether or not. the run-off at Falls River 1 - ileveloned sufficiently, as a re suit, of milder weather of the last few days, to take care of the I situation without further cur- ... , tuilment. Meantime, tlie Tower Company Is keeping the dry dock steam plant operating to full capacity Power drawn from Woodwottli ; Lake is being kept at a mini-j mum to protect the city's water! snooty until there has been sub- stantial improvement in the water level there. uig anu ugiiuiii! win cuiiii! ismu UhiiiuIi there w.in t he as inucli ai usual since the Opposition htm to a chair. Two handker-has ehiefs were -stufled into nit. been cut to seven members u new low for recent years OpiHjsitlon leader Haroldl tin 1. 1 t.... 1.. 1....... .... ....... time """""'T of It. Last , June ,u. i s election , , J wiped out his -chief lieutenant, Bert Gargrave of Mackenzie. Gargrave was a power in legis- Regular Meeting of tho Deep 'Sea Fishermen's Union, will be held Tuesday, February 14th. 7:00 p.m. Members please at-! tend. It is important. H me North at the annual Northern Manitoba Trap-L", Pas' Ma:l- Mlss Snowdy Is shown above with i m nk who k wearing seven wolf tails on his hat. Queen is a Si..'?nt at Lynn Lake. (C. P. Photo)