i PROVINCIAL 1 J 1 V I A "B1 $ IT PR0VI3IIAL LI23A3T, t 1.1 113 Daily Delivery MORTHKRH AND UK!TKI. Hk i i IHH COiJtJiBLA'8 "TTWBFaJPCS ihiishwl at Panada's Mjt StratParif PaHfii- Pr.rt "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest." PHOIIE 81 VOL. XXXIX, NO. 10. . PRINCE RUPERT, B. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY. 13, ISM) PRICE FIVE CENTS X- - British IOKS; O Dead . , 4 1 f tf ( V. i ft" ARSON CHARGE FORMALLY LAID Woman Fined For Madame Chian Returns Home ' '-."''VTV Underseas Raider Down In Estuary Of Thames ! Ty..,. ( , Lucky Not Facing Merciful Judge Stabbing, Gallows Comments by Judge Eric D. Wood- ., the sum of d.,,,,,,1 $2000 i to keep i LONDON (CP) The Admiralty announced tonight that no hope could now be entertained that there will be any further survivors from H. M. . Truculent, a' submarine which sank in the Thames Estuary yesterday. The total known dead is ten and perhaps 55 others are still trapped inside the hull. . . Fifteen were rescued from the T II 1I'SL bridge. Diver- and frogmen tap- IfllK Wltn ped out hopeful messages on the Pleading guilty to a charge of assault occasioning prrievoua bodily harm, Loretta Iiarnhart, placed herself upon the mercy of the Court yesterday af ternoon and was fined $750 i ,. it i l . burn who hound her over m the peace tor two years- The judge accepted the plea hulk of the funken submarine but, as far as known up (o mid day, received no response "from , Union Men I 4 5 , Defence of Alaska Demand KKFTS WEST -- Premier Srnallwood of Newfoundland, is Pri micr Johnston of British Columbia as the Domln-iiKiul rnnferenee gets under way in Ottawa. (CP. Photo) Gill Net Boats And the men believed trapped in the Are Told by C.N.R. Vice-Presi- j ( battered craft which 1 now I'lit uf fieriousness of Coal j tcared to be completely Hooded, Situation j Word from rescue craft at the ' MONTREAL N. B. Walton. "cene nnd P"'Vousely indicated ixeeutlve vice-president. Cana-, thal hPe wa3 fadi,)8 tor tne 1,Wn Idinn National Railways, at a etill aboard the' varum Uftfler- meeting here explained to the f ea raider hl h went to lhc fct-hctitls or four brotherhoods re- i tom after bcia3 rammed by the me entingtiie conductors, train-!)ron-c,ad Prov' oi lne Swedish ,tanker Dvina wnlch was h-:ei and men .firemen englnemen and lc-finmotlveei-iftineers the srlttis- tinder arrest this afternoon, iie'ss'of the coal situation air It af- Truculent sent twenty japane.se le Men Are Missing i ; TAIPF.H. FORMOSA 0- M..-flaiii" l ime Kal-Si;ek rctumcj 1$ Nationalist China today to help utr liusbt).i;l save the remains of his .shrunken domain. They were re-jnited at the Native alist sir ba, n hour's "t immobile drive smth of Taipeh. It s Ihrlr I ir t meeting .-1n,-e vuama Chiang mi Nanking far the United Stall's on November 1 1S,3 ,. a f.u!UcS8 mmnyn U)f.n. nk American aid 91. ! : i fc - . s Ik f 4 M,...pr.W, ilintiiii J V OMPLAINS Governor Grueiiing sees possibility of attack by Russia. Seeing How CM Ticks MONTH KAL.- With the operal-i'ng officers of the company, the new president of the Canadian National Railways, Donald Gor o gillnct boats from Namu cannery with three oaid have been unaccounted for since they uti shortly after noon January 6 for Bella Bel-ice conditions in Burke Channel between the ints is preventing search boats of the British ia Puliee and the British Columbia Packers from carrying out the quest. fee's nlh'oad transportation. Mr. Walton stated la the rail- t , way union representatives that at seven typical coaling stations in Ontario and Quebec the eggrc- gate coal on hand on May 1 had been 8C5.000 tons. At December T.1 it only 223.W0 tor- cnl these figures emphasize the gra- vi!y of the situation. The hi bor chiefs met with Mr. COLD WEATHER Doubled WaterXlow Fa To Keep City Adequately Supplied Railway Service Being Maintained in Spite Of Record Cold Snap In District Booster juntos, pressed into action on a hour basis, are pouring water into the city mains DAVENPORT. I a '? A charge of murder has been formally laid against a worn:. n ?w-tifiil who is reported to have admitted i sctlh.r; lire to a hoipital ! here, the conflagration taking the j 'live; of ! rty-jne women last j Rptinday County Attorney Clark ' O. Filsclh sail he had filer' t'-.e charge of "murder committed in , the perpetration of arson against. Mrs. Elnora F.pperly. aged 23, of Rock Inland, Illinois. j 1 Recital Is ! Impressive Prince Ruperts Own Marie Ralajcno-I.undquist Acclaimed One of the finest piano concert! held in Prince Rupert was attended by over 200 persons in the Civic Centre last night. Now an artist of rare ability, Prince Rupert's own Mai ic Balagno- ' Lundquist captivated her audience as her talented, nimble fingers' rendered lhc "Italian Concenlo," by Bach, "Sonata. Opus-53 Walds.ein" by Beethoven "Variations on a Th me by Pag-!anini," composed by Brahms and a presentation of 12 Chopin irtudes I ollowc'd by the liumofal , Polish composer's famous work "Scherzo." ' Following the conclusion of her last number, "Scherzo," ovation by the audience compelled her to play Chopin's "Polonaise," her only encore. The audience, recogniiing a brilliant pianist, was deeply im ,." pressed by her rapid, powc laden fingers. Each number was brilliatitlycxecuted. She stayed closely in the classical rea im ami j watching, her fingers was in-jdeed a thrilling experience. Old I friends who have followed Marie j through the years were impressed with her new ptiise and person- ality. The acclaim by Artur Ruben- ist-e-in upon' 'hearing Chopin's j Scherzo, played to him by Mrs. ' Lundquist two years ago. as "playing not only like a man, but like two men" was plainly understandable last night. Clioslng a highlight number is j difficult, so a venture to that ef-I feet will not be made, except that ; every composition was brilliantly rendered. Usherettes were Delphine Balagno, Mrs. Lundquist's sister, and 1 j Leona Blaine. . LOCAL TIDES i Saturday, January 14, 19i)0 'High 9:30 20.7 feet 23:05 17.1 feet Low 3:18 9.4 feet 16:41 4 4 feet NORTH VANCOUVER FIRE . NORTH VANCOUVER A flash fire, fanned by cold winds last night, levelled a $100,000 j sawmill on thc north shore of Rurrard Inlet and put 120 me n out of work. Giant flames destroyed thc Lions' Gate Lumber Co.'s main mill in 33 minutes. Seven above temperatures hampered fire-fighters. Governor Is Fearful WASHINGTON 1). C; (CP) The military high command and Congress are getting new demands something be done; , . .. , - t aoout vne ueienees aska and the Pacific Northwest. i Congress members and officials from the Northwest say that defence plans should not include the moving of war p ants out of the area. They say that military leaders had contem- plated that- MHi'a'y leaders say Uiey did not Complaint that A.uska Is de-; fenceless against, a strike by Russia across Bering Strait came last night from the territory's governor, Ernest Gnien-h'g- BIO 1 IKK. NEAR KF.I.OWNA KF.I.OWNA The 55M1,000 Kut'and packing house of the Kelowna Oruw-rs t'.xvhancr was destroyed h.v ftre,r,-ar here lust night- Firemen, hampered by 15 below temperature? anil lack of water, attempted to use hand equipment.. The plant, renovated three years aeo, contained 125.0H0 boxes of apples. Loss is placed at $5(M1.00. 1)II NOT WANT TO COMK YAM OFYFIt Miss iWillicciit A. Coales-Miirphie, 3.1, took her own life, police saiu, necausc oi a prospective transfer to Prince Rupert. Her body was found early today en the floor.of lier room here with two sas jels on. Investigators said that Miss Coalrs-Murpliie, employed by the I'nemployment Insurance Commission, was "upset" over transfer to the upcoast city. however, that the woman had been fined $200 April 13, 1048, for cutting with a knife. Lucky Woman " I have been asked by counsel." Mild His Honor "to sud- ; stitutc a fine for a prison sentence which would be normally, called for in a case such as this l -I....,, ..IT.,,w, 1'1,'lJ -.-.- - ! at the rate of over 8,400,000 gallons per day almost don. Is making an inspection of I'T numbers were in the highly the company's facilities in Mon- technical field except perhaps, ( real area including t he various hvr encore, which has been widely types of motive power, steam played the world over. However, and dicsel. He visited the round- , the rendition even of unfamiliar house at Turcot this morning, and seldom heard numbers this betne trie second inspection brought out the power and brill-trip there. lance of the urtistc. for compassion compulsion from accused's counsel. R. M. MacLeod, on the grounds of ;.e ("i9 yearM and th" condition of her health with I heart trouble. Hi.i Honor re-I minded the woman that she was j lucky, indeed, that she was not lacing a mandatory death sen-i tence for inurHer. He admltt'Hl that the course he was taking in Imposing a fine rather ti" j a prison term night not help i the cause of kiw enforcement. Through her counsel Mrs. i Marnhart admitted tlic stab-! b'n; of Ben Petterson, with with whom she lives as common i law wife, in the course of a '('runken weddlti'r celebration ot ; l.cr home on First Avenue West i on November 3 last. She wielded a knife in a moment of anger ! and sent Petterseon to hospital i witli .serious wounds close to i the lieai l. It was the second occasion in which .she had figur-i cd at the a-sailant in an epi-! socle of tins kind, having been fined $2(M) on the previous oc casion. She also hud a record of lesser convictions. Amis U wHibeci In the dox as the case commenced and was assisted into the dock. Her lips quivered as tin- proceedings went on. After pleading guilto', a development in the rase which had been.apparently iinexepcte J accused chose to have her counsel answer when she was usk-'(! if she had anything to say befirre sentence was passed. Clemency Asked Mr. MacLeod thought his honor would agiee that the charge had arisen out of a protracted wedding eelebr.it ion in which there had been considerable drinking by all parlies, including the injured person who had never blamed the ac cused but. on the other hand, had done everything possible to protect her and with whom he had continued to live even since the affair. Defence counsel asked His Honor to give .-crioiis consideration to the iee and weakened heart con- fition 01 accused ami to impose " fnc hi adequate amouni lather than a jail sentence. True there had been a similar conviction some two years ago but the woman had not been in I rouble since. Other convictions previously lor lesser offences were also admitted. His Lordship asked the woman her age and was told fifty-nine years. He asked if there was a doctor to testify as U llK' state of her health but . was told mat U1C uoccor nuu . r. .1... - A.l...rl If L.l.A U-l t me i;uuib iwin. i-vr.ivi.u ii oiiv (SHinn any ennureu uiv imwiki-u lid there were none but sue naa i nine pets. Informed that the accused had lived with Petterson as his j common lav wife for eighteen ycars. His Lordship inquired w hy they had not married. Was there a legitimate difficulty? Defence Counsel told the court that both desired to marry out Hint, was iinnosslblc. "It was re- gretlablc that they should have to live hv such a stale," His hon- or commented. , .. ,., "Has she any occupation. the judge fur her - queried I to be inlornied that she and Fetter - son maintained a nome -as tmy married couple did. Pressed for his views as crown counsel, T. W. Brown, said that It was not his desire to make any references further than what had been said by defencs counsel. He advised the court, twice the normal flow l,P wh an excessive d r to keep their faucets and fieree-uus In the protracted cold snap which today showed little actual sign of amelioration although a break had been of- fw.i,,IWr f f,i'.,i ulo1 HnuPVPr t.hP Pacific storm which was to have brought snow and rain here last night, failed to materialize and, instead, there was a repetition of the coldest weather of thc winter three above zero was experienced on New Year's Day. Further, the weather man offered no hope of an immediate icspitc this morning.' In fact, he predicted northerly winds and clear skies for thc next few (lays. Meantime, Prince Rupert people agreed that they hud ha,d enough of bright wintry weather. They prayed for good old rain in copious quantities. City engineer Don Stewart estimated that seventy-five percent of thc water being drawn was going siraigni inio xnc ships to the bottom during World War II. . Walton to discuss the temporary 15 percent .rerfiie'tibn in steam operated passenger trail) service put into effect by trie C.N.R. on January 9 as a result, of coal shortages due td wttvk stoppages and short working hour. In Uni- i (Continued Pag; 5) but are still unable to keep a w as residents contiue to drains running to prevent could be cut off. Prince Rupert's normal wafer main flow is from 1.8 to 2.1, nulUou Uons ?er & wlth0UJ me use oi uoosuji pumps, Thc current emergency focused official attention on tbx Jack of capacity of city water mains. , While city authorities conen-trated on maintaining the wa ter supply, Canadian National Railways was fighting snow drifts which were again piling up on the track In the Skeena Valley forty of fifty miles from Prince Rupert. Trains having been freed earlier yesterday crews were tired aftr a long struggle and needed rest before starting out again. An eastbound train left at 1:05 this morning. A train from thc East, due Thursday, arriv- ed. at noon today. Snow plows are preccdinc nassencrer trains Superintendent C. A. Berner, in response to the appeal of Mayor Rudderham for conservation of dwindling city water resources, ordered all westbound trains to take on water at Tyco where there is an abundant gravity water supply available through the railway tank at the point, Cold weather records were be- ing set for Skeena and Bulkley vaney wun irom iu u oe- low at such points as.Salvus, Kwinltsa and Terrace. Vander-hoof reputed 60 below, Burns , Lake, 55 , Siulthers, 52. Trince George wj comparatively lniki-at 38 bclo-y, according to the railway daby weather report. BALL GAME 10 Y'S bTCCKS S l .1'. ,. Mil.) ViiMcwiivcr .03 s-;u . .01! 2 0(i (Jllill-IZ 1 30 i;i Mascot. . 0(i' , :i ir .'13' W-i MrOilllillfl 3.25 M- , 1 17 IVl'llll'T .: nlVcr i: ('."Id .Uti iillcy 'iiiKitiiali J VJ 1 .S'l 1 32 12 '7. 1 70 .. J '10 .:;''., 'iinailian m;' i u li.'. Toronto .Ml ma i r:i . 100 "iO 1 1 '. .).) 3) !liv;ui . 170 Mow knife ri45 .31 . .''I1' .()!" . .13 t .. f iiiebee .. ... .75 "wan .. .03 "i ;i .01 :'iig Lac . .4fi t .1. R"(i Laks . 2.9 '-wUshult ... .. 2.21 .ST .. 1.4 t m .. co m mil 1 ' Crow .. i.;M ill, ... .1 ; ' ntunio .. 3.U0 ,r Ruuyn .. ... .i 1 V Cordon .' ?f."l .... 2.7) An aerial search was commenced today by a Royal Canadian Air f orce Dakota which left Vancouver j shortly before noon. Oiie of the missing boats U i it... t?,.(m.ii1 ..Th, ii'imf. nf the other was not immediately available at B. C. Police head - i quarters here The three men : are George Robson, Leonard I Crowe and M.r!;hall Cole all of ' Namu. 5 " ''''' ' The 15. C. Packers endeavoured to get one of Its packers irom Namu into the Burke Channel area today but was lulled by ice conditions. Another attempt will be made as soon as possible. The provincial police boat IV M. L. 17 of Ocean Falls was already locked by ice at Bella Coola In the course of a normal patrol and could not et into .-. arch action. A message from the P. M. L. : 17 suggested today that two ! eillnet boats and three men ti,. du be lied up at Restoration j lay or Kwatna Inlet or River. i'Ilu boats had three day's sup-1 ply ol provisions on board. 1 here are two persons residing I at Kw.il.nu Inlet. Provincial police headquarters i litre were advised this uftcnuon that the Dakota plane had reach- HNimn ,( l :,(i n m. It was laden Uth supplies which would be dropped to t'v- missing men if tiny were sighted. THE WEATHER (Synods) Winter struck British .Columbia again last night with lull force. Residents of Vancouver sialic and tile Lower Mainr.inu i shivered under bitltlK northeast 1 winds and near zero tempera tures. For most coastal regions it. was one of the coldest, night in the last seven years. The nier-i cury at Vancouver Airport drop-!ned to three degrees early this morning to equal the records set 'in 1937 and 1943. In the Interior jsmithers reported a new 12 year record of 47 below. The storm , centre moving in from the Pac-! ific will ikiss to the south of the province and move inland over j Washington today dropping ; more snow over the southern reg-; ions of the province. More ex-I tremely cold weather is expected ! again tonight. (Forecast) North Coast Region Clear and extremely cold today and Saturday except for variable cloudiness and a few snow flurries over the Queen Charlottes. Winds northeast 15. Lows tonight and highs tomorrow at Port Hardy 15 and 25; Sandsplt, 15 and 22, Prince Rupert 5 and 15. These inspections have not been of a cursory order. At Turcot today, Mr. Gordon was mei. by'E. R. Halt-ley, chief uf motive powe rand car equipment; W. S. Davis, superintendent of motive power and car equipment; W.S. It. Hicks, general foreman. The President, chatted with the crews mechanics and other men on the job. roundhouse at Turcot Is the largest hi Canada, and the workings (here were explained to the new President who examined the machinery of the giant locomotives being serviced. The track area and auxiliary facilities at. Turcot occupy an area equivalent to about 'three cily blocks. The staff number ,,, i.m. i,,pm,Hvp Unit. 1 age of 128 locomotives a day. With accommodation for 01 at 1 0nc time, close scheduling of work is cssenuui to the handling of the daily quota. The Groom who tended horses ln Uic davs of thc slasc coach had a simple task in comparison with the work of caring fo.' the modern iron horse of the rails, I (Colilmul Page 0) ....... sewers. Despite that there was to keep the tracks clear. a new chapter of frozen water j co-operation between rail-(pipes this morning. Willi the t way company and City authorl- reservoir level down residences, tics was shown yesterday when woman is extremely nicKy uv.ii. "" -j- she is not appearing in an As- ends its run in the Montreal ter-slzc court on a charge of inur- mlnal visits the roundhouse, for der. The court is very interest- inspection and overhaul before td In hearing the views of its next assignment. The ter-erown counsel on the plea of the j mlnal Is one ef the busiest rail-defence." 'way centres la the country and "Under all the circumstances,' the roundhouse handles an avcr- in upper levels of thc city have no water at all. Mayor G. W. Ruddcrham is-' sued an official appeal for con-' scrvalion of water and said, if it was not. heeded, "something drastic" would have to be done, This was taken to mean that thc closing off of water on lat- etal lines was being considered until the reservoir, empty for over twenty-four nours now, could be refilled. "At the moment there is no reserve for fire fighting should a major conflagration occur," the city engineer commented ominously. However, in the event of a fire, other hues r . AFTER THE Mr. Brown said "I am menu - eu as crown counsel not to op - pose the request of the de- fence." The case pf the crown i,ud been a "tenuous" one. The ntc.i nf o-ulltv had saved the crown from the expense and difficulty of a tedious trial. j Crown commented on the situation where the injured instantly forgiven the (Uonlmucd r e, ( . DANCE . . Basketball-Friday & Saturday, Jan, B & H, 8:30 p.m. UBC Chiefs vs PRINCE RUPERT Reserved $1.00 Rush 75c Students 50c At Civic Centre ODDFELLOWS' HALL Andy .MeNaughlon's Trio TONITE 8 River Miller Canada .. i' .'.0