PHOVINOIAL- JSF!AKY victor. . c."i- t r.LOIir.lES DRUGS Daily Delivery - NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER ' VOL. vvS?d at Cono-' Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Greot Northwest" PHOIIE SI - XXXIX, NO. 90. PRINCE RUPERT, B. C, TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1950 PRICE FIVE CENTS 'cABS 1 1 ; t - . ... - .y i-Arf,, .i Oevaluat f I i ... eat Brit ate Gr Hlelpiig ion PENTICTON WINS Some Income Tax Relief Granted But Profits And Bechuanaland Chief is Home 8 E R b W E, Bechuanaland, South Africa Q Seretse Khama came home before dawn j yesterday on a visit to his white ' wife and his black Bamangwao ; Wages Still Held Down Prince Rupert Puts Up Spirited Fight In Hoop iOpener For B.C. Title Locals Entering Second Encounter With Nine Point Deficit PENTICTON (CI ) Led by their ace centre, Chuck Raitt, Penticton Vets won the first game of the British Columbia Senior B basketball final last night by a score of 61) to 60 over Prince Rupert Jets. The second game will be played tonight. It is a two- tribesmen amid cheers, tears; LONDON (CP) Last autumn's devaluation of 'mse, the former London the P0Und Sterling tUincd Out better than was ex-stenographer, Ruth Williams,! pected. Sir Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of the Ex- StaSS rTobuTh8sanS!chTer' JS?ld of Commons, in his budget' -: 1 tracks into the arms of the:speecn bmce , bepten:ber exports have recovered three months of this year; t ' S r', . sharply and in the first Public Health- Teeth Main Defect Here Dr. Black Comments After Examinations Of Children Following an examination of 274 children during the month of March, Dr. Duncan Black, director of the Prince Rupert I Health Unit, announces thatbeer tax but there wiu ,be were off in timing otherwise. ' i Ray Spring sparked the Jet? with nineteen polnU. I Prince Rupert scored the first basket but Penticton evened the count immediately and then foreed ahead into a 9 to 5 lead In the first three minutes. Trie Ulterior team held the lead throughout the game. They were ahead 14 to 10 at quarter time, 31 to 23 at half tl.ne and 50 to 37 at the three-quarter mark. . Penticton concentrated on man to man defence which, on their small floor, did much to demoral- ize offensive play of their rivals. Prince Rupert used zone defence throughout. . Play grew rough as Prince Ru- pert drove with spirit to even the score. .. j ' Two technicals were called on I the coast team for talking back , t.9 Referejs Len Tech of Van- WEEPER Le Dcsjardins of Maniwakl, Que.-, ls jjj on one of Ihc logging tndustry's385,000 workers,.. has mthat the spring run Is opening lakes and, 'stream. : 5y Malak of Ottawa shows Leo at his Job, keeping .logs': xfon rocks along the Tamacine River, 150 m0e north? The industry will turn the logs Into $800,000,000 vtyrth ; : paper this year.- , , (CP Photo).; game total point series. Raitt was wnsational in netting 28 points The tall centre was on hand to grab off the majority of th rebounds as the Pentic ton team hold off a last half drive by the Prince Rupert squad,, playing on an unlamiliar floor, much smaller than the home ; Are Out To j I Win Tonight By Don Forward PENTICTON (Special to Daily News) Penticton won the first game 69 to 60. Prince Rupert had difficulty playing , i on the very small floor and 1 Penticton had control of under the basket play with their ' six foot four pivot man snagging rebounds and scoring 28 points. Although outscored in the first bre periods? Prince pert played a sensational game in the last quarter to outscore Penticlion 23 to 19. The boys had a long trip by car yesterday from the time the boat docked in Vancouver at 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. but today they are well rested and will be in there fighting tonight. court, and ti ret) aftc- a long ride frm Vancouver. Whilo rcnticlon missed fifteen ; fo Police in Evidence 2 Tell Of Incident At ,Jack Langmore. I Oliver, but quick action by the LoRging Camp . ;; :: mrg tried by a jury at the on a charge' of woun'd-ntent Oscar Dunlop at a loegirg Inlet on March 1 last,, tqld Constable Fred Gibson after here the day after the ; V.S. tHAHGES RUSSIA WASHINGTON United Slafes (oda formally charged Russia with shooting down an unarmed American plane ovct the Baltic Sea outside of Soviet territorial or Soviet territorial waters. Punishment of the persons responsible and indemnities covering the ten persons who perished are demanded. CONFESSES SABOTAGE ' LOS ANGELES A lime-bomb plot to destroy a United Air I,in-j transport while it waa In flig;ht failed today when a baggage attendant dropped a gasoline-filled suit-case which had ctught fire Just before the take-off. Thirteen passengers and a crew of three were aboard. As the fire started, John Henry Grant, aged 33. a laboratory technician, rushed Ut the Los Angeles International airport ticket window and shouted; "Don't let that plane take off. I just put a bag on it full of gasoline." He is thereby alleged to have intended to thereby kill his wife and children for insurance. FORT rrtANCES WINS EDMONTON Fort Frances Canadians turned the tables in a . sensational upset last night and beat Calgary Stamped ers I to 2 last night in the western Allan Cup final scries. The win deadlocked the best of seven series at a game apiece. Calgary won the first I1UI, ' ..,.; .-,.... , RUSSIA C HIDED WASHINGTON The United States today chided Russia for lack of "calmness and restraint" in dealing with the alleged clash .of American and Soviet planes. The criticism was in a formal anrounce-mint that the U.S. wil delay its reply to Moscow's note until all possible information about the incident can be collected and "the true facts determined by calm and thorough appraisal." ST. LAURENT BACK OTTAWA Prime Minister St Laurent, looking tanned and fit, returned to his office after a two-week holiday in Bermuda. Mr. St. Laurent came here from Quebec where he went directly to his office to catch up on some work that had accummulatrd on his desk during his absence. INFANT MURDER HALIFAX Police today ask- . ed for public support in identifying a baby girl whose fro-len, strangled body was found yesterday in the Southend Point Pleasant Park. An autopsy report said the baby was murdered. Police chief Verdun W. Mitchell said some citiien might be able to identify the baby's clothing or the piece of flannel blanket used to strangle her. VISIT GOVERNOR-GENERAL OTTAWA Duke and Duchess of Windsor arrived in Ottawa Monday for a brief, informal visit with the Governor-General, Viscount Alexander. They stayed overnight at Government House and left by train for Montreal today. Reds Land On Hainan TAIPEI A Communist invasion force yesterday pained a pre- carious toenoici on uic " coast of Hainan Island after suf-ri ine heavy losses at sea, offi cial Chinese Nationalist dispatches reported. Most of the invaders were killed, but no to a late hour ,.. nut fiirht.lnc was still in laaw nb"v " progress west of the Island capi tal of Hoinow, ine uiapaw-"" stated. The Reds were said to be under heavy attack by National- 1st war planes and ground forces. of 25 foul shots, their consistent . prince RUPERT Holkestad accuracy on long tosses made a 1 4. Davis 3, Lavigne 4. Spring 19, diiference. Prince Rupert missed Flaten 12, Scherk 6, Pierce, Bcy-only seven of 25 foul shots but j non 6, Arney 6, Sunberg Bamangwao chief. She is expecting a baby this summer. Ruth had not seen her husband since he went to London three months ago to hear that Britain was going to banish him lor five years . from his homeland because of the fuss his marriage had stirred up. Says War Inevitable TOKYO 9i Forty Japanese generals returned hom Monday from Siberia "happy to be back in Japan before the war starts between the United States and U.S.S.R." Major-General Janjiro lkctani, former chief of staff of the Kwantung Third Army, said the most of people felt "it is only a matter of time, before the shoot ing war starts." - The generals were among 1600 repatriates landed at Maizuru. Guerillas i Wiped Out- MANILA w Manila newspapers report that the constabu lary killed thirty Hukbalahap guerrillas near Cabanthuan, 75 miles north of here. This band of Communist rebels was believed the remnant of a group of 400 which Philippines Air Force reported It strafed Friday while crossing the Chico River. The Air Force estimated it had killed 320 persons. LOCAL TIDES Wednesday, April 19, 1950 High 2:08 20.9 feet 14:47 18.7 feet Low 8:39 3.2 feet 20:31 7.0 feet THE W LATHER Synopsis Frost returned overnight to all of the interior and to many points along the coast. The temperature at Kimbcrlcy fell to 20 degrees, at Penticton to 26 degrees and at Vancouver to 33 degrees. The southern interior will remain clear today and tomorrow with another light frost in store for tonight. A storm which lay well off the coast yesterday is now moving slowly towards the Queen Charlotte Islands and rain is expected around Prince Rupert by evening:. The Vancouver and Victoria areas wil remain clear today with some cloudiness moving In from the west tomorrow afternoon and evening. Forecast North Coast Region IncrcKS- jing cloudiness today. Intermit tent rain northern section by this evening spreading over the entire region " by Wednesday- mnrnlne. Little chance in tem- perature. southerly wind:; (15) increasing t0 southerly (30) over- . ni,ht Lows tonight and Irises tomorrow at Port Hardy, 40 and 52; Sandspit and Prince Rupert, 38 and 50 The crew of the mission boat Willis Shank will conduct a public service in the Civic Centre fYimmnn Ijinntre tonicht Mr. Percy Willis end Dr. Il" A. Mc- i ,iii h rot r,oatpro Riw. cial musical numbers to be sung by the "Four FlaU", a ramous American quartet. ' ihe volume of foreign sales was ten percent above the same period of 1949. " " Sir Stafford granted Income " relief to British workers in a budget which otherwise maintained the country's regime of rigid austerity but he clung firmly to a policy of holding down wages and profits. The budget offers the pros- pect of relief later to older tax- payers. '!'"'' nv,, ..(i stronger beer. The gas ration is increased trom 80 to 180 miles but the gas tax Is Increased ten cents. ' Anthony Eden, after a humed conference with Wuiitoa Churcnlll, said Conrvalve comment on the bud&i, would be withheld for a day nr so, TODAY'S STOCKS (Courteby 8. C. Jonnsto Wi) Vancouvtr Bayonne i -I- .03', Bralome .-...r.l.:--,-8.:3 . B. R. Con 1 03 !4 B. ft. X .05 Cariboi Quart 5-. ,1.33 Congress 26 Hedley Mascot 27 Pacific Eastern .0514 Pend Oreille 5.65 Pioneer -3:25 Premier BUorder - .03 ' Privateer .12 'i ReeveS McDonald . ; -2.00 Reno -.03 Sheep Creek 1.10 Silbak Premier -i .34 Vananda .15 Vi Salmon Gold , ;06 Spud Valley IT '.07 Sliver Standard .82 Oils- Anglo Canadian 4.90 A. P. Con - Ja Atlantic 1 tt.8 Calmont '' .44 C. & E 8.00 Central Lcduc , 128 Home Oil 14.00 Mercury 093,i Okalta 181 Pacific Pete 5.75 Princess 46 Royal Canadian 0534 Royallte 13.25 Toronto Athona lj'i Aumaque 45 Beattie - 7,a Bevcourt 3 V, Bobjo 15 Bufalo Canadian ' 13V2 Consol. Smelters 98.00 Con west , .1-22. Donalda ?8 " Eldona , -31 East Sullivan 6.95, Giant Yellowknlfe : , 710 God's Lake -36 Hardrock .42 Harricana 06Vi Heva -08 Hosco - 2 Joliet Quebec .70 Lake Rowan .15 ' Little Long Lac - -49 Lynx - .,,..21. Madsen Red Lake 3.00 McKenzle Red Lake 55 McLeod Cockshutt .' 3-95 Mone'ta " -38 Negus 1-7 Noranda - S3-73 " Louvicourt -25" Pickle Crow ..- I-75 San Antonio ,:. ,3.60 Senator Ruuyn .20 Sherrlt Gordon ' 2.45' Steep Rock ,- 3 20 Silver Miller .. : Upper Canada " '3. CO' ' literate persons. He testified that, after a normal conversation with the accused, he 'found no trouble In m&klng conversation with him. ' : "I understood hun and he understood me," said the corporal. In the cell block. Rozin remarked that he had no tobacco. Corporal Taylor, in the presence of Const. Gibson, asked the accused why he had no tobacco. '(There was too much rush about midnight last night at the camp. I was mad at Dunlop because he wouldn't give me any money," the accused is alleged to have said, "sj I got a gun and shot him in the shoulder. I was sorry afterwards". Const. Gibson corroborated Corporal Taylor's evidence. Following submission of "evidence by the two officers, T.W. Brown, prosecutor, submitted the accused understood and approbated the warning and that his remark in the cell block later was "completely voluntary." .' rute out RoaiO's the health of city school chil- dren is satisfactory and their diet reasonably adequate. "The main defect observed and one which requires serious thought by the parents, says Dr. Black, "is the state of the children's teeth." Out of 171 children examined only 35 mouths were considered normal, that is, eighty percent ol the children in their first year of school were starting off with a definite health disability. "This state of affairs should be rectified at the earliest possible 'pppbrtunltyV " says" Dr: Black's report. ''A child's 'baby' teeth are important. Poor den tal health should not be en couraged by neglecting the first set of teeth. '1 During the month of March there was a drop in measles and chickenpox cases j eleven and 30 respectively but mumps cases, at thirty, were nearly doubled. "Mumps is not a disease which should be viewed lightly," comments the report. "Severe and permanent complications may follow an attack. Therefore, all precautions regarding Isolation and quarantine of contacts should be strictly observed. The isolation period is ten days from the onset of the disease or until all swelling has disappeared from affected glands. The quarantine period is from the twelth day following first exposure to the 21st day following last exposure." District Conditions The report states that a pub lic health nurse paid her first visit to the school at Cedarvale during the month. Conditions in Terrace and Smithers dis tricts were generally satisfactory. On the whole health of the! children of Queen Charlotte Islands was found to be good although paleness and undernourishment and lack of rest and sleep were noted at Port! Clements while at Queen Char- lotte City paleness and tired ness appeared prominent. Elizabeth Expecting LONDON (P Princess Elizabeth is expecting her second babv. an announcement Issued last night from Buckingham Palaca indicated. It read: "Her i Royal Highness, the Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, will undertake no furthe" public, engagements." This is the usual procedure for announcing an expected Royal birth. Princess Elizabeth, who will be 24 this Friday, now is in Malt with her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, who has been serving , with the Koyai wavy in tne mtm terranean since October, 1949. TRIAL lion of Shooting j is Allowed hi Man And Wife Umey Tpioast Iluzin, who is Court Asizet- here to nun-dor Khutzamatecn H. Taylor and alin the city jail .the had brn mad j tfjiise he would not y money so he pot a him in the shoulder, which he was sorry was allowed to hear at the trial yester- iii after Mr. Justice had ruled against a by Defence Counsel V A that accused had -led Uie nature of a cn Cpl. Taylor had Wore he spoke. 'teiday afternoon's trial Mrs. Dunlop n ol a threat which made to blow ui) A Wii the camp down 0 out that he would Mnd first. 'ti-ied that Roziti had "nr. at chtee rang" s")t gun and aimed U'- wv ir?nZin) was t"'5i;er niter he had W to shout, Dunlop 1 received thi in Later, after he had . v j w Mini ralhrr 1 to 11 adjourned late lt'nicon .after ex- tnM of Dunlop ha ' -'-'J. CrilSS-PVnmlna. "M'' eOUnsOl nmranrl . Man of the trial '. 5 K'niir.. tllc phvf!,. '""''led Dunlop, ai-d were heard this u 1 txiie-ted the -ototho Jury this o f- P"ec Ailnini...i t l ri'h:P 'lad miPd I - -".i.saie. Corn, f 'eit'fitd that, f "Itirapr n It:, . i, mine KP -,ln ; " aincd the nc- :'1Sir stated w i. 1Sl,s"3ivcn to il- referees stopped two separate fights developing beyond the name-calling .stage. Out on fouis in the final quar ter were Eshleman and Kplley of Penticton and Holkestad of Prince Rupert. Fouls on Penticton were 23 and on Prince Rupert, twenty. ..... Lineups and scoring: PENTICTON Raitt 28, Eshel-man 14, Russell 8, Kelly 8, Mc-Gannon 8, Kincaid 3, Ashley, Drosses. LOCAL YOUTH TO SCOUT JAMBOREE Seventeen - year old King Scout Magnus Eyolfson, member of the Second Prince Rupert Scout, Troop at Conrad Street, was chosen to represent the city troop at the American Scout Jamboree at Valley Forge in June. This was announced at the week-end at a two hour showing of scout training films in the Anglican Cathsdral Hall. F.,. Anfleld, commissioner of scouts, presided during the program. Their Trial To Proceed Applications of Oeorge Mc- Knlght and Stewart Thomson for traverse of their trials on prosecutions arising out of burglarizing of local stores over the Christmas week-end were denied by Mr. Justice J. M. Coady in Chambers at the Supreme Court Assizes yesterday. yesteruay. They xncy had naa tiskod for the deferment of the trials, through R. M. MacLeod, on the grounds that they had been unable to get their regular counsel here for the present court. His Lordship did not consider this reason justified . the post- Rex vs Mike Rozin which is now going on and which Is expected I to be concluded today. Donald Gordon To Visit West Head of Canadian National Railways Due Here May 11 MONTREAL Donald Gordon, Prcsidcut of the Canadian Na- tional Railway's, is to make an of fical inspection trip to the 1 western region of the system in the month of May, it was made : known here today. j "It Is my intention," said Mr. Gordon, "to inspect not only the physical properties of the railway but to meet on their own ground the employees in the various departments, seeing them at their jobs and petting to know them ar.u their problems. This is a big railway system with 21,000 miles of main line and It wil not be possible to visit all the communities that I would like to on any one trip." According to present plans Mr. Gordon will reach Winnipeg on May 4, Saskatoon on May 6, Calgary May 7, Edmonton May 8, Prince Rupert May 11, Vancouver May 13, Victoria May 18, Re- glna May 22 and the twin cities of the Lakehead on May 25, reluming to Montreal on May 27. FUNERAL NOTICE Ult rilll'Ub. UCIU. VUIIuv. .-t - - " tbnki,.,.!. t .vr,f iko diimirpii should not have been Wind to answer Corp. Taylor's queatltm. Seeing that he haa never on confronted by court procedure previously, he did hot appreci ate the nature of the warning, said Mr. MavLeod." ', ' ' But Judge Coady ruled th statement admissible. Mw nunlnn Mrs. Dunlop testified that, foli lowing the shooting affray late during the night of March; I Rozin wna bound and placed, 'to the hold of Dunlop's boat, . As Rav Jetter and ErnestMusto were loading freight and supplies lor ,the trip to Prince Rupert, they asked Mrs. Jetter and Mrs Dunlop to watch the prisoner. Mrs. Dunlop said she was afraid to enter the Tioid so her husband accompanied the two women. Upon entering, she said Roz in, looking at Dunlop asked:':' ' "What happened to your,; ': (Continued on page 6) poncment of the trial of Mc-Lodge Members of Prince Rupert, No. 63 IO.O.F. please at- Knight and Thompson which is tH (,! eoruir-i. wprinpsdii- to proceed at the conclusion of at 3 n m. for our deceased brother, J. E. Boddie P.O., at ! Anglican Cathedral.