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LJiiHAHY
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
VICTORIA,
B.C.
Published
at
Canada's
Most
Strategic
Pacific
Port
"Prince
Rupert,
the
Key
to
the
Great
Northwest."
VOL.
XXXVII,
No.
275.
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
TUESDAY,
NOVEMBER
23,
1948
PRICE
FIVE
CENTS
PHQNE
STARCABS
TO
PURCHASE
unists
WEST
EUROPE
S
New
EXTRA
GRAVEL
Fine
Quality
of
Material
Available
for
Road
Construction
PARLIAMENT
COUIICIl
CHANGES
MIND,
POLICE
PLEBISCITE
BYLAW
IS
DROPPED
However,
Chlorination
and
Park
Levy
PJebiscite
Will
Be
Held
Prince
Rupert
voters
will
not
have
the
opportunity
after
all
to
express
themselves
as
to
whether
or
not
they
want
the
city
policed
by
the
provincial,
force.
Last
night
city
council
reversed
a
former
stand
favoring
such
a
plebiscite
at
the
December
elections.
A
resolution,
introduced
two
weeks
ago
by
Alder
Drive
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lit
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,
fled
City
council
may
purchase
an
additional
4,500
cubic
yards
of
gravel
for
street
construction
list
Situation
work
from
Highway
Construc
Jiow
and
tion
Co.
If
the
board
of
works
V
precarious
and
the
company
can
get
together
on
the
matter
of
price
The
amount
would
be
above
KING
(CP)
man
George
Casey
and
approved
mai
Bought
under
contract
IMPOSSIBLE
Great
Britain
To
So
Advise
Five-Power
Allies
PARIS
(CP)
Britain
will
advise
her
Brussels
Pact
allies
that
a
western
European
Parliament
is
beyond
p
r
e
s
e
n
t
-
d
a
v
achievement,
British
sources
said
today.
The
source
said
that
Britain
was
to
have
made
the
point
tomorrow
at
a
meeting
of
representaUves
of
ts
opened
a
4
I
earlier
this
year.
Board
of
Works
is
consider
by
council,
was
thrown
out
last
night
when
it
was
brought
up
for
first
reading
as
a
bylaw.
Ing
an
offer
from
the
company
today
on
buc-o
Nanking
and
hina.
The
im-ijective
was
the
Boys
Charged
With
Killing
The
plebiscite
question
would
have
asked:
"Do
you
approve
for
the
gravel
at
a
cost
of
about
$2.80
a
yard,
but
will
attempt
the
policy
of
policing
the
city
I
!'!''n"-'
fr
to
obtain
a
complete
refund
of
with
provincial
police
by
annual
$2,200
on
a
two-year
old
con
contract
with
the
provincial
government?'
ie
bastion
s
only
air
hen
Yi's
Commu-punched
out
of
the
,der
cover
of
low
weather
cut
down
tract
before
making
a
decision.
The
offer
was
termed
by
board
of
works
chairman
Robert
Mc
A
bylaw
which
will
determine
Kay
as
a
"very
favorable
thing
popular
opinion
on
the
matter
of
chlorination
-pr
more
prop
the
Five
Powers
Great
Britain,
France,
Belgium,
the
Netherlands
and
Luxembourg.
How-
Murder
Alleged
Against
11
and
13-Year-Old
Lads
In
Peace
River
DAWSON
CREEK
fcTwo
juveniles,
aged
11
and
13,
were
charged
on
Monday
with
murder
under
the
Juvenile
Delinquents'
Act
in
the
fatal
rille
slaying
of
TIDAL
PORTS
The
famous
Bay
of
Fundy
tidal
bore
Is
a
tourist
attraction
for
the
Mari-times
but
skippers
of
vessels
which
use
the
busy
ports
on
Minas
Basin
in
Nova
Scotia
would
be
quite
happy
if
the
attraction
were
missing
The
25-foot
tide
which
surge
up
the
Avon
River
to
the
ports
of
Windsor,
Port
Williams,
Avonport
and
Hantsport
twice
a
day
pose
navisation
problems
for
the
sailors.
Photo
on
left
'shows
British
freighter
Edda
floating
as
a'
ship
should
beside
the
dock
at
Windsor,
N.S.
The
dark
waterline
on
the
pier
indicates
the
tide
has
already
started
to
recede.
Photo
on
right
shows
the
Edda
resting
on
a
hardwood
grid,
held
upright
against
the
pier
by
Its
lines,
but
high
and
dry
as
far
as
water
U
concerned'.
Through
these
"waterless
harbors"
flow
large
quantities
of
apples,
fertilizer
and
lumber
to
foreign
ports.
(CP
Photo)
Lipss
of
the
govern-
tut
It
needs
consideration."
Under
the
Highway
Construe
erly,
chloraminatlon
of
the
irce
which
had
been
city's
water
supply
was
approved
ever
because
of
Belgium
s
cur-
i
tor
in
turning
the
Hon
Co.
proposal,
the
city
would
receive
the
gravel,
which
Is
now
in
first
reading
without
dissent
renl
poiiucai
crisis,
uie
meeuug
but
one
concerning
a
special
to
has
en
postponed
until
Friday.
Assault
in
the
first
stockpiled
near
the
government
levy
for
for
park
purposes
was)
grain
elevator,
for
a
total
cost
of
$13,904,
but
would
be
given
TITO
IS
NOT
Suchow
battle
last
,n
of
the
Chinese
as
considered
more
iticai
as
the
Com-
slightly
altered.
All
three
bylaws
were
Introduced
by
Alderman
George
James
Watson,
65-year
old
resident
of
Kilkerran,
B.C.
A
coroner's
jury
luled
that
Watson
met
his
death
Novem-iber
16
from
a
gunshot
wound
inflicted
lour
days
earlier
from
a
rifle
in
the
possession
of
the
two
juveniles.
TURNING
WEST
passed
for
the
new
Casey.
Attack
on
the
police
plebsicite
was
led
by
Alderman
T.
B.
Black
BANK
ROBBERY
III
VANCOUVER
two
Youths
Being
Held
In
.
Connection
With
Daring
Hold-up
This
ne.Hed
Despite
Threat
To
Coninfow
by
Yugoslav
Dictator
r
.
J
BELGRADE,"1
0)
Informed
t
Evidence
at
the
Inquest
dis
FAIR
sources
today
:.
brushed
aside
a
closed
that
Watson
was
riding
home
from
the
Dawson
Creek
theatre
with
relatives
when
a
bullet
pierced
the
car
and
passed
VANCOUVER
0;
Two
sus
a
rebate
of
$1,100
on
the
old
Fairview
Bay
road
contract,
bringing
the
total
cost
to
the
city
to
$12,804.
Most
of
the
aldermen
agreed
with
Alderman
McKay
that
the
city
should
attempt
to
obtain
the
whole
of
the
$2,200
rebate
and
referred
the
matter
to
the
board
of
works
and
city
clerk
to
negotiate.
,
.
;
Alderman
George
Rudderham
told
council
that
he
had
been
"agreeably
surprised"
at
the
Quality
of
the
gravel
In
sight.
"It
is
wonderful
stuff
on
top.
I
don't
know
what
It
Is
like
underneath."
In
view
of
the
fact
that
the
King
Unwell;
Australian
Trip
Cancelled;
Engagements
Off
LONDON,
(CP)
It
was
announced
at
Buckingham
Palace
Monday
night
that
the
King
was
suffering
from
a
defective
blood
supply
to
his
right
foot
and
that
the
scheCuled
Royal
Tour
of
Australia
and
New
Zealand
next
year
had
been
postponed
indefinitely.
An
announcement
said
that
the
King,
who
is
52
years
of
age,
is
suffering
from
an
obstruction
to
circulation
in
the
right
leg
and
a
complete
rest
is
advised.
All
the
King's
public
engagements
have
been
cancelled
for
some
months.
It
was
denied
at
the
Palace
today
that
the
King
had
suffered
a
blood
clot.
He
has
an
arterial
ailment,
it
was
said.
Dispatches
from
Australia
and
New
Zealand
said
that
business
and
social
circles
were
stunned
at
the
announcement
that
the
Royal
Tour
was
cancelled.
who
told
his
colleagues
that
"I
consider
this
bylaw
inopportune.
I
have
"heard
no
opinion
by
the
public
asking
that
the
present
police
system
be
changed.
"If
defeated,
it
would
put
the
city
in
a
position
where
it
would
have
to
find
a
new
police
force
in
a
very
short
time
and,
If
It
NGUP
rash
of
rumors
inside
and
outside
Yugoslavia
that
Premier
Tito
was
turning
to
the
west
countries
after
suffering
a
sev
through
his
body.
Inishing
Big
Job
pects
were
taken
into
custody
Monday
night
in
connection
with
a
daring
$300
robbery
from
the
downtown
branch
of
the
Imperial
Bank
of
Canada
by
a
r
General
ere
economic
crisis.
KILLED
ON
Some
had
tried
to
read
such
young
bandit.
an
Interpretation
into
a
speech
jD,
9
The
last
of
AIRLIFT
made
by
Tito
last
week
before
The
youth
walked
up
to
the
were
approved,
It
would
put
the
city
in
a
position
where
it
would
be
bound
to
deal
with
the
provincial
police."
rosettes
and
riD-
teller's
cage
In
'
the
bank
at
Dunsmulr
and
Granville
and
to
farming
exhi-eight
day
Royal
city
is
faced
with
reconstruction
Aide
man
Black's
opposition
to
the
Slovene
Communist
party
.
congress
in
which
he
sounded
warning
to
the
Russian
communist
international
Information
bureau
(Comniform
that,
thrust
a
"stick-up"
note
at
Lancaster
Crashes
Onto
Hilltop
in
Wiltshire
While
Returning
from
Berlin
were
to
be
award-
of
wooden
streets
in
the
Rush
I
the
plebiscite
was
a
reversal
of
Dorreen
Brown,
the
teller.
the
Fair's
crop
of
this
declared
stand
two
weeks
brook
Heights
area
on
a
local
The
hold-up
was
the
seven
(.s
up
the
task
one
LUDGERSHALL,
Eng.,.
'CP)
improvement
basis,
the
alder
ago.
Aldermen
McKay
and
teenth
here
within
,
nineteen
he
big
show
ends.
Seven
airmen
were
killed
Mon-
Brooksbank.
also
changed
their
unless
they
stopped
their
discriminatory
attacks,
Yugoslavia
would
turn-to
tho
west
for
goods
men
felt
that
there
would
be
a
days
.-
;
..
:.',.
i
.
day
night
when
a-four-enginerl
ht
horse
show
audl-
minds
during
the
fortnight
real
need
fo.r
the
gravel.
,
WORKING
FOR
SOLUTION
OF
Falr
to
date
filled
"We
cannot
get
material
half
Alderman
Casey
repeated
his
she
needs.
However,
the
most
of
people
here
found
no
as
good
at
twice
the
price,"
Aid
previous
stand
against
"rule
from
Victoria"
and
charged
that
the
capital's
"Invisible
hand"
Lancaster,
returning
from
duty
on
the
Berlin
air
lift,
crashed
into
a
wooded
hilltop
near
here
in
a
dense
fog.
A
lone
survivor
was
thrown
clear
with
clothes
ablaze.
j
Alfred
Pulice,
a
street
,
photographer,
was
taking
sidewalk
pictures
at
the
time
of
the
robbery
and
the
possibility
that
he
may
have
snapped
the
bandit
is
not
being
overlooked.
erman
McKay
admitted.
"It
costs
us
more
than
twice
as
threat.
Evidence
available
In
Yugoslavia
wihere
economio
im
to
the
walls
last
fwt
the
Oovernor
r.u
Lady
Alexander
-t
visit
to
the
Fair.
I
data
is
considered
a
state
sec
much
to
quarry
our
own
road
WILLIAM
GREEN
IS
RE-ELECTED
CINCINNATI
ff;-Thc
American
Federation
of
Labor
reelected
seventy-five
year
old
William
Green
to
his
twenty-fifth
term
as
president
Monday
and
adjourned
Its
sixty-seventh
annual
convention.
'
G
r
e
e
n
pledged
the
organization
to
make
repeal
of
the
Taft-Hartley
labor
relaUons
act
Its
first
goal.
had
influenced
previous
council
and
police
committees.
BERLIN
CRISIS
ret,
shows
no
such
turn
Is
taking
place.
material
and
the
quality
Is
poorer."
v.
Alderman
Black,
finance
(Continued
on
Page
3)
NZOLLERNS
t)PULAR
Security
Council
I
chairman,
agreed
to
have
the
matter
referred
to
the
board-of
MUNICIPAL
AID
THE
WEATHER
Synopsis
Heavy
clouds
covered
most
works
for
negotiation
providing
that
the
puroha.se
is
not
made
out
of
this
year's
funds.
..
of
British
Columbia
this
morn
I
Today
In
Ger-I
the
old
people
ever
l
Kaiser.
The
Hohen-ti
distinctly
"out."
If
r
does
try
to
start
a
In.
none
takes
the
TAX
PAYS
OFF;
$19,000
COMING
ing
in
advance
of
a
storm
developing
to
the
west
of
Vancouver
Island.
Rain
which
was
reply.
The
"Crown
C4
and
Inhabits
a
'SuttttiM
I
A
FREIGHTER
MISSING
HALIFAX
A
storm-damaged
British
freighter,
en
route
from
England
to
Philadelphia
with
possibly
twenty-nine
men
on
board,
is
overdue,
presumably
lost,
in
an
area
some
400
miles
southeast
of
here.
United
States
Coastguard
and
Royal
Canadian
Air
Force
planes
from
Newfoundland
have
started
a
search.
NAVY
OF
TEN
THOUSAND
OTTAWA
Canada
is
building
towards
a
Navy
of
a
minimum
of
ten
thousand
men
and
is
going
to
arm
them
with
fast
new
escort
vessels
better
than
either
a
frigate
or
corvette
for
anti-submarine
role
the
French
zone
of
Should
Find
Way
Out,
U.S.
Thinks
PARIS
(CP)
United
States
delegates
to
the
United
Nations
today
reaffirmed
the
belief
that
the
Security
Council
should
find
a
solution
of
the
Berlin
crisis.
The
delegates
took
the
unusual
step
of
authorizing
a
statement
by
a
spokesman
in
answer
to
reports
from
Berlin
that
an
authoritative
official
there
saw
no
basis
for
agreement
on
Berlin.
A
United
Nations
statement
to
reporters
reiterated
that
west
The
Germans
are
In
ACTION
ON
PUBLIC
WORKS
STRESSED
tY
HEW
ALDER
MANIC
CANDIDATE
A
"progressive"
policy
of
street
rebuilding
and
public
works
will
be
urged
by
Harold
S.
Whalen,
aldermanic
candidate
in
the
civic
elections
on
December
16,
who
describes
himself
as
an
advocate
of
"new1
blood"
in
city
leadership.
.
t
"I
am
not
levelling
any
specific
criticism
but
1
1
be
saddled
with
an-
fc'f.
Only
two
of
the
puce's
brothers
are
i
Death
has
hit
the
fil
of
late.
I
certain
nobody
cares.
falling
along
the
coast
extended
Into
the
interior.
The
rain,
will
let
up
tonight
but
the
weather
will
rmaln
dull
and
broken
and
rather
mild.
A
hint
of
cold
weather
la
store
comes
from
Fort
Good
Hope
in
the
Northwest
Territories
where
the
overnight
low
was
45
below
zero.
Forecast
Queen
Charlottes
and
North
Coast
Overcast
with
intermittent
rain
today
and
Wednesday.
Southeasterly
winds
(15
m.p.h)
occasionally
reaching
25.
Little
change
in
temperature.
Lows
tonight
and
think
that
there
should
oc
more
action
in
public
works
generally
and
street
work
specifically,"
said
the
45-year-old
truck
TODAY'S
STOCKS
::
Courtesy
S.
D.
Johnston
Co.
I
td.
The
three
percent;
sales
tax,
known
properly
as
the
Social
Security
and
Municipal
Aid
Tax,
will"
live
up
to
the
latter
part
of
its
ponderous
title
at
least,
Mayor
Nora
Arnold
has
been
Informed
by
Provincial
Minister
of
Finance
Herbert
Anscomb.
Mayor
Arnold
told
council
last
night
that
Mr.
Anscomb
had
Informed
her
that
'Prince
Rupert's
share
of
the
municipal
aid
tax
for
the
first
period
would
be
$19,000
which
would
be
received
by
the
city
about
December
15.
"That's
the
best
news
we've
heard
in
a
long
time,"
chorused
the
aldermen.
"Even
better
than
we
expected."
.
The
city
budgeted
for
$20,000
for
the
whole
year
for
aid
from
the
provincial
government.
Whether
the
$19,000
distribution
covers
three
or
six
months
was
not
made
clear.
ern
'powers
pledged
their
full
co
ing
line
manager,
who
has
Dcen
a
resident
of
the
city
lor
ine
which
is
still
considered
the
Navy's
principal
lunc-tion
in
any
new
war,
it
was
learned
today
last
four
years.
i
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Vancouver
"I
am
willing
to
run
for
and
lake
office
because
I
feel
there
highs
tomorrow:
Port
Hardy
38
and
45,
Massett
3,
and
45,
Prince
Rupert
35
and
45.
operation
In
assisting
Council
President
Juan
A.
Bramuglia
In
his
efforts
to
solve
the
crisis.
homerUn
king
dies
Effects
of
Fall
Prove
Fatal
to
(Hack)
Wilson
in
New
York
should
be
more
action.
Besides,
Quarto
Toronto
Athona
Vi
Aumaque
-
Beattle
45
Bevcourt
22
Bobjo
13
Buffalo
Canadian
17
Consol.
Smelters
126.25
Con
west"
139
Donalda
81
Eldona
-70
Niksne
6.75
.02
Vi
.08
2
1.10
.01
.05
.30
6.00
2.63
.03
.14
Vi
3.05
Mascot
Fp"e
...
GIVES
UP
HIS
COUIICIL
SEAT
Aid.
J.
R.
Morin
Resigns
Because
of
Personal
Affairs
MALTIMORE,
Hf
Lewis
R.
(
Border
....
I
don't
think
anyone
has
the
right
to
be
critical
If
they
have
not
the
courage
to
do
something
about
it."
He
also
will
urge
a
"better
break"
for
fishermen
speedy
construction
of
a
breakwater
for
the
Fairway
Bay
floats
and
completion
of
the
road
approach
to
the
floats.
"A
fishing
company
executive
said
that
every
dollar
that
passes
through
this
town
has
fish
scales
on
It.
He
is
right
and
I
East
Sullivan
ou
I
McDonald
4.50
Giant
Yellowknlfe
God's
Lake
.36
.21
(Hack)
Wilson,
who
held
the
National
League
home
run
record,
died
In
city
hospital
here
today.
'
Wilson
was
taken
to
hospital
late
yesterday
when
he
became
ill.
Doctors
said
he
died
of
In
PARAGUAY
IS
DISAPPOINTING
Hardrock
City
council
last
night
received
with
regret
the
resignation
of
t
Alderman
RalDh
Morin
from
the
ver
08
Harrlcana
.10
WINNIPEG
Prairie
settlers'
aldermanic
post
which
he
has
who
had
become
well
establish-1
held
since
last
January.
Alder-
.17
Heva
Hosco
Jacknifc
Jollct
Qubeec
.04'j
1.70
.33
.50
.03
'a
.04
.01
.05
.01
.34
ed
in
the
Canadian
West,
and
ternal
hemorrhages
complicated
by
a
condition
similar
to
pneumonia.
Wilson,
who
was
48
years
of
Eastern
Amalgamated
alley
'
Zcballos
.43
Vj
.06
Vi
Lake
Rowan
Lapaska
-05,
man
Morin
gave
pressure
of
personal
affairs
as
his
reason
for
retiring.
Retirement
of
Alderman
Morin
will
cause
a
by-election
in
connection
with
the
December
civic
elections
to
fill
the
remainder
Premier
67
who
last
year,
influenced
by
glowing
tales
from
Paraguay,
moved
there,
are
planning
on
returning
north.
They
discovered,
among
other
drawbacks,
that
they
were
far
from
welcome.
Very
little
could
Little
Long
Lac
think
it
Is
time
the
fishermen
got
a
better
break
In
regard
to
moorage
and
vessel
protection."
In
the
matter
of
chlorination
of
the
city's
water,
he
thinks
the
city
"should
follow
the
advice
of
medical
men."
Mr.
Whalen
Is
a
member
of
age,
had
oeen
nun
m
a
iau
m
his
home
last
month
and
had
been
in'
hospital
about
a
week.
.15
i.vnx
Madscn
Red
Lake
2.15
32
of
his
two-year
term
and
bring
LU
Un'
21
,
-
.47
:
5.75
'
3.60
11.50
McKenzle
ited
Lake
McLeod
Cockshutt
.
Moneta
be
said
for
the
water
supply.
I
to
five
the
number
of
alderman
.75
.37
Fish
Commission
To
Hold
Meeting
VANCOUVER
B
-International
Salmon
Commission
will
meet
at
1c
seats
to
be
filled.
the
Prince
Rupert
Chamber
of
Commerce
and
lives
at
415
Fifth
The
cost
of
everyday
necessities
was
very
high.
Butter,
for
example,
was
about
three
times
Avenue
East.
Be-llingham,
Washington,
thl3
year
despite
United
States
regu
what
it
had
been
In
Canada.
It
BATH,
Eng.,
tfiA
"body"
In
was
nothing
for
t
he
newcomers
the
river
Avon
here
was
fished
to
be
sometimes
shot
at.
They
.
out
by
police
and
found
to
be
a
sketball
KNOW
'EM?
TIS
JACK
BENNY
AND
AL
JOLSON
The
gentleman
at
right
might
be
recognized
by
veteran
movie
goers
as
Al
Jolson.
He
is
pictured
in
blackface
for
the
first
time
In
21
years.
But
the
"lady"
on
the
left
no,
that
is
not
Grade
Allen,
that,
believe
It
or
not,
Is
Jack
Benny,
as
Grade
Allen.
They
are
shown
during
Intermission
of
the
Friar's
Frolic
in
which
a
million
dollar
array
of
talent
performed
for
charity
at
the
Philharmonic
Auditorium
in
Los
Angeles.
also
noticed
that
fighting
In
shop
dummy.
LOCAL
TIDES
Wednesday,
November
24,
1948
uih
7:45
18.2
feet
Negus
Louvicourt
38
Pickle
Crow
90
Regcourt
05
San
Antonio
335
Senator
Rouyn
-40
Sherrlt
Gordon
I-98
Steep
Rock
145
Sturgeon
River
-J5
Silver
Miller
-3G
Noranda
58
00
Paraguay
could
be
expected
al
PNlGHT
lations
which
prohibit
some
Canadian
advisers
from
entering
the
country.
The
Commission
decided
on
Monday
to
follow
plans
and
convene
there
November
29
and
30.
FERFIELD,
Norfolk,
Eng.,
f)
St.
Andrew's
Church
has
celebrated
Its
800th
anniversary.
most
any
time.
Heat,
and
swarms
of
Insects
did
not
help
matters.
19S)0
17.6
feet
Low
..-
l:5
5
9
feet
13:50
95
l'eet
or
9:3o
pool
4i