r PROVINCIAL DISPATCHED EHARY i ;ic:o:n. 3. c. CO Daily NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER Delivery CABS Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest' Phone 81 VOL. XXXIX, No. 293 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1950 PRICE FIVE CENT8 V mm EuOUgti Elating Negotiations For $ ed States Is In vest Danger Says iidenf To Nation Koirea Peace Situation Worse Not Hopeless As But Yet 'Xmas Rush For Aircraft Russia Warns Great Britain Wm. McLeod Passes Away Pioneer Citizen Succumbs At Age of 54 Widely Known and Esteemed The next week Is a busy one for Canadian Pacific Airliners as ' workers here head south for the RECORD FISH 603 POUNDS VANCOUVER W Bert Moeir, Vancouver fisherman, landed a 603-pound sturgeon into his boat on the Fraser River. - He took the fish with hook and line and had to have the help of three others to land it. It took three hours. Former local business man and LAKE SUCCESS (CP) The United Nations Korean- cease-fire committee was reported today to have been in contact with Chinese Communist representatives here amid indications that negotiations for stopping the fighting in Korea were having a Christmas holiday. Today three flights left Prince Rupert -to be met by DC 3's at Sandspit for the flight to Vancouver. in Declares State of Emergency Exists People to Service to Save Their Liberty ,HINGT0N, D.C. After declaring the na-I in the gravest danger, President Harry S. loday issued a proclamation that a national ty exists. The President announced the set-of an office of defence mobilization with fisherman, veteran of World War 1. for the last few years LONDON (CP Russia protested to Great Britain today that the rearming of Western Oermany would violate the Potsdam agreement and the British-Russian treaty of alliance. A similar protest is understood to have been sent to France. At nine o' cluck this mornliiS rough time. the first flight left with a group of Empire Sheet Metal employees. The regular noon flight was custodian of the local Federal Building, prominent Mason and well known and esteemed citizen, William McLeod passed away . arly last evening in Prince Rupert General Hospital. The One Informed source said that the whole situation affecting the United Nations and the Chinese powers. Charles Wilson, president of Gen was namea ie to., defence moblliza be Reds appeared to have taken a turn for the worse. He added, however, that things were happening and it was not yet time Censorship Oyer Korea "., SEOUL Tightening security Chrysler Ups Car Prices DETROIT 0) Chrysler Corporation announces price increases on 1951 model automobiles, joining with General Motors and 4-Point fence program be set up, that forces be expanded and production speeded up. Within-the coming year, he said, plane production would be Increased to give up hope. advanced to li:4U ana us regular 12:20 time of departure. This afternoon another extra flight is carrying Nelson Brothers employees. Tomorrow two planes leave here on the start of the trip to Vancouver. Monday will see two flights leave here, Tuesday one flight, Wednesday two flights, Thursday three flights, Friday two flights and Saturday the normal one flight. After Christmas, no extra flights are funeral will take place Monday afternoon from First United Church under Masonic auspices. His passing will be mourned by many friends and general sympathy will be extended to bereaved family members. ' The late Mr. McLeod was born in Lochinvar, Sutherlandshlre, Scotland, and was fifty-four Voman's Trial lug the state of t the President sum-nation to marshal Its tgainst threat of It world conquest." D signed the proclam-1 10:20 a.m. Eastern rime. His action was by Stephen Early, js secretary, five mln- Ford who recently announced and censorship regulations are blacking out the news from the Korean front. Chinese Communist pressure on the United Nations forces both on east and west continues. There was denial, however, that the Chinese had crossed the Program Truman Plan to boosts. In February five times, tanks and motor transport four times. American armed forces would be increased to 3,500,000 men and women on active duty, with full mobilization if necessary. The economy of the nation would have to be expanded and kept on an even keel. Each and every person would have to ac years of age. As a youth he came to Prince Rupert in 1910 from Chrysler said its new prices would range from $80 to $150 above the tags on the 1959 models. The increases would ap the Old Country with his par QUEBEC W Trial of Mrs. the late Donald McLeod , 38th parallel, except possibly for ents Arthur Pitre, 42-year-old sister of Genereaux Ruest and asso and Mrs. McLeod. and other , odd irregular forays. ply to the four automobiles members of the family. For sev- For several days there has been ciate of J. Albert Guay, on a cept more responsibilities and Chrysler makes, Chrysler, De Soto, Dodge and Plymouth. Rt. Rev. James O. Gibson, Bishop of Caledonia, returned to the city by air this week after it trip to Masset on ecclesiastical duties. would have to change their way eral years he was with the pion- j no: official word of the progress .!' irrrvprv firm of wiiiinmK Jfe 1 of. the evacuation from Ham- Dodge truck prices are raised of life. All would have to pay McMeekin and, enlisting In hung. by from $80 to $295. more taxes If the democratic Preserve Nation And Freedom In his major address last night, President H. S. Truman told the American people that an hour of "grave danger" confronts the United States. He outlined a four-point plan as one to help preserve freedom: 1. This country will uphold way of life was to be preserved iclamatlon calls all to a united effort to the nation's armed id throw "full moral tlal strength" of the Ites Into protection of m. t White House was re-Wig list of laws, carry-irciinary powers, which inatlon said automatl-Bme effective upon the declaration. Many World War 1. he saw two years' service In Europe with the Royal Canadian Artillery. Returning home to Prince Ru There would have to be more workers and more hours. Young charge of murder, has been set for February 12. Mrs. Pitre was yesterday charged with murder in connection with an air line disaster in September 1949 which took 23 lives. The plane was time-bombed in a plot to kill Guay's wife who was one of the plane victims. Both Ruest and Guay are how under sentence of death. and old alike would be affected, Buried Miner Is Out Safely "Our freedom is as Important to us as the air we breathe," Mr. pert after the war, he engaged in salmon fishing for a time and , 1 ...J 1,1. f.fh.. I. CANADA'S BIGGEST BUSINESS Communist Menace Causes Big Rise In Defence Cost- Era of Billion Dollar Military Budget Truman asserted, "and we will l"' , i iT SELLECK. Washington O) - lose it if the Communists win." snoe ousiness wnicn lie uunun- 1 . t :i,. l.,,i,, tv, John w. r- a,a Rescuers last night brought jtly reasserted powers , Id the President. by Mr Truman gpoke of the preg. iclamation is part of i ent ralwav gtrik whiCh was a AIR PASSENGERS . Woltl, aged 54, safely to the sur- no.7 Ti. i..v,j ' 1937. He relinauished the shoe,, '. . , . , . face of the Big Four coal mine , ,, v. j business in 1941 to Join the dry . . . , . . here after he had trapped dock aocK stall staff ' which wnicn was was then inen an avalaRCne 400 eet below tnt's effort to get pro To Vancouver (today) D. Mor- danger to the security of the nation. He called on unions and and defend with arms, if necessary, the principles of the In i ted Nations. The United States believes in settling disputes by peaceful means, the President said, but it cannot yield to aggression and it will not engage in appeasement. If negotiations are possible, the United States will try for a settlement to make Korea a united, independent and dem- jeeding and lnflatlon-Bxhlnery in motion be- duuoihr snips in uie war ei ori : on, Wednesday. Woltl had a rison, C. Bolton, J. McFarlane, C. striking workers to return to Ruther Srparmament tiroffram ; u . t-u-- . ford, J. Conqulst, J. Falconer, R. . s w ! will 1L Ub unuc. ilicic u ca- forcing Russia to choose cuse or justification for such a! oad oi war. strike as this which was en- Bowser, B. Pickett, H. Hastings, a. w tcuc..u..u...B. i m fair shape. During the past three years,- Dr AaamSi company surgeon his health had been failing and said the miner was in -fair con-for the past six weeks he had rtition." been a patient In the Prince J , . Now Here By DOUGLAS HOW Canadian Vress Btaft Writer OTTAWA (CP) National, defence in 1950 thrust aside financial restraint and became big and costly business for Canada. It swirled far in front of 'alt other types of government expenditure. As' th year ends, the era of the $1,000,000,000 military bud rv comment, said the dangerlng the security of the i was starting to im nation at the tery lime inair ocratic country. F. Helling, H. Lundqulst. Miss J. Vivian, J. McKenzie, T. Warwick, H. C. Haluss. A. Casserley, L. Gough, W- Carter, W. ridge," C." Hale,' A. Aurelio,' ft.' Strong, S. Donzi, F. Herman, J. Rupert General Hospital. s with f- Survmg e&sed re Wher continue - U wr British 'Troops other orave Americans wera. fighting and dying in Korea j that democracy might live and' aggression be cut down. ( "We are today the leaders of widow, the former Molly Watson; son, John inn Douglas; uougias; mother, momer, Mrs. Mrs. m g McLeod; three brothers,1 V A f llprmAnV Prince Rupert; Alex. Win- "I VlrllllUliy t controls at once on rlals and products and Wndertake tw tamll jMs- In some fields as rquires. (ANGER pmes, our nation and lings we believe In are 'danger," declared Mr. fdue to the actions of Mary Murdo, get is only three months distant. It will come with vy next federal budget. A sombre j cabinet, facing up to a world in, $400,000 for a single one-sealer Warlow, W. Ferguson, J. Dead-man, A. Haydon, Mrs. F. M. Larson, J. D. Clark. To Sandspit (today) Charles Valley, C. W. Wyse. To Masset (today) Miss M. free nations to strengthen joint defences. 3. The armed forces of the United States will be built up. The United States will make more weapons for itself and its allies. the free world," Mr. Truman declared, "but we can achieve peace only with co-operation. Our goal is not war but peace, but we are willing to meet aggression wtlh whatever lnstru- crisis, has said it will. It camejflgnter piane. nlpeg, and John, Prince Rupert; LONDON 0 The British War and three sisters, Mrs. M. office yesterday directed the (Christine) Prendegast, Van- transfer of thousands of trained couver, and Annie and Netta, 1 British troops to posts in West- fairly close in 1950. For a year Kelly, Miss Linden, A. Anderson, that started off with a relatively modest increase planned for de Prince Rupert. An uncle, Alex ern Oermany. The troops will be q. nick. Mr. Bastion. $ Union and Commun McLeod. Is here from Vancouver transferred from posts In Aus To Juskatla (today) Mr. fence, It came startlingly close to the billion dollar mark.. It for the funeral. tria, Trieste and Britain and will h who have tried to omenta may De neeaea ior we or overwhelm free will not submit to aggression, nr fcy treachery and wlo- resort to appeasement.-it are now willing to : Korea was behind all this. Bv It also had Its good points, tit broke the log jam ln Washington and opened the way for revival of the wartime economic Integration of Canada and the United States for purposes f arms production. It brought iiw tensified drives for the St. Lawrence seawav as a defence pA- Mr. McLeod was a past master , Increase British army strength started off with a $425,000,000 to at least 20,000 men in West of Tsimpsean Lodge, A.F. Si A.M defence budget and ended up ern Germany. around $850,000,000. ' The reasons were obvious and Kachman. From Sandsnit (yesterday) H". Schrltt, Mr. McLaughlin, Mr. McDonald, Mr. Renchuk, Dr. Montgomery. From Vancouver (yesterday) A. Hartwig. Mr. White, A. L. Hitchcock, J. A. McLeod, J. Skaro, Mrs. Montgomery, Miss L. and was active ln the old Elks' . Lodge here. j The funeral will take place I Monday afternoon, the service in I First United Church to be pre threatening. They could be com- Vancouver Union Ousted By TLC 4. The economy of the nation will be expanded .too and kept on an even keel. This means very high production targets and willingness to make an all-out effort to reach them. HOCKEY SCORES racific Coast Vancouver 3, Tacoma 3 (tie) Victoria 3, Seattle 3 (tie) Okanagan-Mainline Kerrlsdale 3, Nanaimo 2 Trail 4, Vernon 3 pressed into one word: Korea. 1 jgct. Or, going deeper, Russia. I it spurred civil defence plah- (world to tbe breaking I general war, iture of civilization de-m which we do now," an continued. "But,"' "we have the and the courage to Ireu, danger and we must d to uphold the prln-Strecdom 'Snd Justice." The ramifications were more nmE and brought the green ligt.t ceded "by a Masonic meeting. Rev. L. G. Sleber will officiate. complex. The extra $440,000,000 VANCOUVER if) Local 28,, voted by Parliament at its fall emergency session was needed largely not for Canada herself For Germans BERLIN ffA law Intended to frighten all Germans into the Soviet "peace offensive" camp through penalties up to death for support of western defence Vancouver civic Employee Union, has been suspended by the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada. Of the 56 signers of the U.S. Declaration of Indepcndqnce, 15 were lawyers. Old Country flic United States was but for her allies. The government, accepting Canada's International obligations In a twofold way, got $300,000,000 to or communities to start gettiii? ready fpr the worst. It electrified the movement towafts integrated western defence through the Atlantic Pact. The biggest costs were ahpd and late in the year cabinet ministers Indicated to the federal-provincial conference there is no way of telling just how large they will be. That woCd depend on the wave of criii's Carl E. Berg, vice-president of m Football :: s fur a settlement of' 4V. a T T C Vao hnn hprp fni" A policies went into effect in East Germany today. n crisis, there would to rid tw0 monlns ln a campaign iing to aggression and the j 8M mPmber 0f What I III f i7 UJ UUJVU emem. carry out a program of helping arm Europe. - ' The first shipments, spearhead of equipment for a division, went forward to the Neth the labor body called Communist 1 domination. 1 t. Johnston Co. ltd.) ' (Courtesy S. Jiatton dS nighly 'dan-re President said, but Persons found by Communist definition to be war mongering agents of the west are made legally subject to beheading on the guillotine . breaking around the periphery The suspension was handed down in Ottawa by Percy Ben- pit believe world . war It able. gough,T.L.C. president. (Scottish League, Div. "A" Dundee 3, Airdrieonians 0 Falkirk 1, Clyde 0 Hibernian 3, St. Mirren 1 Morton 1, Aberdeen 2 Partlck Thistle 1, Third Lanark 0 Ralth Rovers 2, Heart of Midlothian 0 Celtic 6, East Fife 2 (English League, Div. 1) ited States would con-iiphj'.ct and defend the erlands late in the year. An equal amount will go to the Netherlands or another Atlantic Pact ally next year. The rest of the money was needed because Canada was ac oi the United Nations Jul means and by mill- of the free world, nut iney would hit at least $ 1,000, 000 3 in 1951-52, bringing with them higher taxes and blows at the civilian economy. I There was little -if any sign of objection to this stagger? prospect or its implementatiijr.. It was apparently a united country that head Ottawa's prescrip THE WEATHER Synopsis The morning was generally mild over British Columbia as the province remained under the influence of a persistent flow of Alice Arm Man Laid at Rest Beattie .......:,... -49 Bevcourt '.41 Bobjo . -11 Buffalo Canadian 20 c m. & s. - 122.50 Conwest I-75 Donalda - 43 Eldona - 22 East Sullivan 7-00 Giant Yi'llowknife 5.85 God's Lake .:. -34 sures if necessary. cepting her international obli luce was expressed th.xt Kates forces, as they gations in anoiner way, uy uuuu-ing up her forces so they would have units that could serve anywhere at any time. moist air from the southwest-Cloudiness varied from clear to doing, would continue sood account of them- Arsenal 0, Burnley 1 Blackpool 0, Tottenham Hotspur 1 Bolton Wanderers 3, Charlton Athletic 0 Rev. Dr. E. A. Wright, Flr.st Presbyterian Church, conducted the funeral yesterday afternoon tion. VANCOUVER Bralorne 5.80 B. R. X y , .04 Congress 08 Hedley Mascot 42 V2 Pacific Eastern 05 Pend Oreille 7 80 Pioneer I-76 Premier Border 07 Vi Privateer 06 '.4 Reeves McDonald .3.90 Reno - 1 3 Sheep Creek 1-25 Silbak Premier 27 Taku River 08 Vananda 09 Salmon Gold 02 Spud Valley 03 Silver Standard 1-95 Western Uranium 104 Oils- the Korean fighting. '. the danger was not nf the late Norman MacLeod, overcast throughout the province and there were scattered rainj showers along the northern coast i while a few snow flurries were' KOREA'S COST The cost of Canada's Korean activities was placed tentatively at $50,000,000 for the existing Hardrock '. 21 Harrlcana , 06 Heva .M Hosco ' 05Vi Korea. Danger of ag ninnppr orosoector of Alice Arm Msewhcre could not be Derby County 6, Sunderland 5 Fulham 2. Manchester United 2 Huddersfield Town 1, Eveno.i 2 Liverpool 1, Wolverhampton camp, whose death occurred earlier in the week at Prince Ru- still reported ln the Kootenays. Other free nations BASKETBALL TONIGHT , 1:30 Junior fiscal year. But the program was broader than that. It called tor he tielp of the United ri fJnnpral Hosrjltal. After a Minor disturbances ln this southwesterly flow will continue to give showery unsettled condi service ln the Grenvllle Court chapel of B. C. ndertakers, Inter- .05 . , .83 .06 . .04 . .48 .. .12 Ms Jackknlfe Joliet Quebec Lake Rowan Lapaska Little Long Lac I.vnx 1 m the United States Mrs. All must ork !n hip. 8:43vCo-Op vs Brownwood acceleration and expansion all along the line in a field where costs have become staggering Wanderers 4 Middlesbrough 3, Portsmouth I Newcastle United 3, Stoke City 1 West Bromw'ch 2, Aston Villa 8 mpnt. was mane in ran view tions for the next thirty - six, hours i fuman announced that rmptprv. Mrs. J. C. Gllker pre- of State Dean Ache- .im at. t.hi nriran to accompany 1 McLeod Cockshutt 197 Moneta 38 id fly to Europe Sunday tne hymns which were "Abide I Anglo Canadian -30 Forecast North Coast Region Variable cloudiness and widely scattered showers todav. Cloud v with scat- Im-aH chnurpr.c tnmnrrow. Little .32 A. P. Con. ... Neeus ' "'e seitinj up of joint with Mc" and i-eaa n-muiy In Euro-is. iLieht" The pallbearers were 2.05 Atlantic To the Travelling Public Calmont - -7 chanae in temperature. Winds (nostnoned) (English Leacue, Div. 2) Birmingham City 5, Swansea Town 0 Blckmrn Rovers 0, Sheffield United 2 Chetserfield 3, Queens Park Rangers 1 Coventry Citv 1, Notts County 2 7.10 Resident expressed the at another world war e sverted but It was W that a complete de- John Smith, Hector McDonald. John McDonald. Kenneth Campbell, Archie McPherson and Barney Turbltt. southerly, 15 miles per hour, ex C. & E. Central Leduc Home Oil Okalta Pacific Pete ... 2.00 13.00 1.75 6.85 1 IT cept southeast, 25, in expose i areas this evening. Lows tonight and highs tomorrow at Port Noranda 68 75 Louvicourt lfi Pickle Crow 1-61 Regicourt - -04 - San Antonio -2 Senator Rouyn 1 Sherrltt Gordon 2.76 Steep Rock 6 25 Sturgeon River 14 Silver Miller 83 Upper Canada I-62 Golden Manitou 5.95 Hardy and Sandspit, 38 and w. Prince Rupert, 40 and 45. COMMUNITY CAROL SINGING Princess ' Royal Canadian : 12 00 - Royallte NOTICE is hereby given that the Northern Trans-Provincial Highway from Skee"a closed to traffic due to Terrace is officially and will remain closed to snow conditions until further announcement. ' . .Signed) L. E. SMITH, ' Divisional Engineer, Pf.jwrt.ment of Public Works, Province of British Columbia. TOKUN1U Doncaster Rovers 4, Leeds united 4 Hull City 1, West Ham United 2 Leicester Cltv . Bury 0 Manchester City 0, Preston North End 3 Southampton 1, Barnsley 0 f 1 f 9:13 p.m. CIVIC CENTRE Sunday, December 17 .07 Vi .22 Athona Aumaque ....... CARROLL COLLEGE HELENA, MONTANA Sunday, December 17, 1950 High 8:10 18.7 feet 20:36 16.0 feet Wednesday, December 20 ond Wednesday, Dec. 27 Tickets Phone 107 or 231 $1.00 Reserved 75c Rush 50 Students Thomas White and Mr. McMillan of the Canadian Fishing Company sail tomorrow on the Chllcotln for a holiday in Vancouver. . . I TOPNOTCH EXHIBITION BASKETBALL Low 1:28 7.7 fee PRINCE RUPERT JETS 14:40 8.1 feet 1 ' - i