PROVINCIAL NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER LIBRARY VIC J Prompt Service DRUGS 14 A Tt PHONE ' v At All Hours 3RMES 1 1 Daily Delivery PHONE Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" STAR CABS VOL. XXXVII, No. 122. PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1?48 PRICE FIVE CENTS Extended Sding Skeena Halts Hopes Are Low, However, Of Arabs Quitting Fight Bulletins BUDGET IS ASSAILED Canadian General Goes All Out j For Hazelton -Alaska Railway lway and Rail Traffic OTTAWA, -0) Opposition members yesterday In the House of Commons lashed the Abbott kl'ECTS OF TRAVEL CONFUSED AS Best From Both Military and Development Standpoints, Worfhington Declares budget as one of "privation, LAKE SUCCESS, (CP) Hopes were low today that the. Arab States would use a 48-hour extension granted by the United Nations security council to accept its cease-fire appeal. Israel has accepted. As the Security Council takes a day off, reconvening Wdnesday, there is no indication from Arab quarters scarcity and frustration" and VEK CONTINUES TO RISE TODAY traffic on the Canadian National Railways charged its "trifling- tax reduc- Sneakinp; on the defence of Canada before a een- jveeti Ilazelton and Prince Rupert, stopped by rrtiTn. n.rT,H rii,f era conference of the Pacific Northwest Trade Asso- Canadians relief from , expected ,. , , , j. n i n n wartime t.avatinn : ciation held recently in Victoria, Major-General h . F, that they will back down from ut near Kitwanga, 30 miles west of Hazelton demands that the Jews abandon FAVORING STRIKE OTTAWA With A. R. Mosher president of the Canadian Congress of Labor, stating . that the Railway Brotherhood was voting 99 per cent to go on strike, Minister of Labor Humphrey Mitchell moved into the dispute again today with a request to the railway companies and union leaders to meet again and consider a 20c per hour increase. KING'S PLATE WINNER TORONTO Last Mark, Jim Fair's stout-hearted brown colt, came up with a blistering stretch drive Monday to win Ross Thatcher, cc.F.-Moose i Worthincton, C.B., M.C.C., M.M., emphasized the lis morning, may nut ue resumeu ior some Lime the project of a Holy Land state. jaw, said the government had nee(i for establishing a proposed ranway or highway The latest deadline expiry is of rising Hood conditions, it was reported by ridden roughshod over set for tomorrow noon. The mI Superintendent C. A. Berner's office wishes of 99 per cent -of Cana BIG FLOODS IN KOOTENAY K1MBERLEY, B Dozcnd of houses were dynamited today to favoring the route originating at Security Council allowed the ex ore noon todav. dian adults." knpaglng river -vashed nected their engine Ian belts tension last night to give the Arabs further time for consideration. -Fighting continued in k of roadbed to a depth to keep the water from being at 3 o'clock this morn- blown back over their engines. Prince Rupert At Saskatoon prevent them being swept away by the swollen Maple Creek and t may be necessary to An increase in the river height Fish Sales MONDAY American Seattle, 50,000, 19.10, 18 and 10, Hazelton over the Rocky Mountain Trench route. Olof Hanson and Arnold Flaten represented the Associated Boards of Trade of Central British Columbia at the conference and, reporting to the executive of the Associated Board, disclose that Major General Worthing-ton's arguments for a westerly so damming it up. Lois Creek is track before traffic today, coupled with softening of Mimed. , I the road, has completely halted on an lndepedent rampage and the eighty-ninth annual running of the historic $10,000 added King's Plate with a purse of 50 guineas donated by has surrounded 15 houses. re on me lower okcchu traffic and most of the Prince Legion Secretary P. M. Ray's Dispatch to Daily News . (By Philip M. Ray) Palestine today despite the cease fire negotiations. In Jerusalem an Arab legion and volunteer forces hammered at the Jews still holding out in the old walled city. Hagana claimed it had driven Arab forces out of the Jordan Valley aad said that" Shaar, Labor forces in the thousands Storage. pvering the tracks. Rupert "holiday makers who visit- are striving to curb floods which hile at, Pacific, nrst e(j Terrace and were marooned California, 22,060, 19.20, 18 & 10, Pacific. point east of Princs there are expected back by already claimed the life of four year old John Zebin near Grand route were: Merits are developing traln or by piane. 'First, from a military point Forks yesterday and which fear mat me river, UsthM prlnce R n of view so that communications Frisco, 16,000, 20, 18 & 10, Whiz. Canadian J. II. Todd, 14,000, 20, 19 & 9.50, Pacific. Cape May, 9,000,, 20, 19 & 9 50 Hoagalan and Masada, south of the Sea of Galilee, had been and inundate the vu- I team whlch ,eft by bus yestcr have heavily damaged the enay district. with the various Alaska centres i SASKATOON ( Special to Daily ' News) Prince Rupert delegates' to the Dominion command convention of the Canadian Legion arrived in this beautiful city of 50,000 persons to find glorious weather and temperature hovering around the eighty mark. The convention proceedings are maKing prepara-,rf mornlne to Dlav at the could be established. At Cranbrook five work trains ve to ingner ground. T(,rTAce Kinsmen celebration. have been dispatched to repair Whiz. g anx-oasy the rise of started back shortly after their level, railway officials : arrival. The game, scheduled for the King. Lord Fairmond, from the Winnipeg stable of Jim Spears, was second and W. J. Wewster's colt Joey Bomber was third in a field of 16. B. C. GRADUATE PREMIER NANKING The Chinese legislative Yuan Monday reluctantly confirmed President Chiang Kai-Shek's surprise appointment of Canadian-educated Wong Wen-Hao as Premier. Wong, 59-year old scientist, was educated at the University of British Columbia and in Germany. track washouts. "Second, a railway along this route would open valuable military areas, forest and farm areas much . more superior to what are Flood waters of the Kettle captured. . At Tel Aviv yesterday two-engined planes dropped a few heavy bombs. In London yesterday Foreign Secretary Bevin said that Great Britain was usrug its utmost influence to Insure that the Uni ling labelled the situa-,the evening, was not played. River at Grand Forks are con morning with a found in the proposed Rocky t. nathed- jlnsed " and were unable The river is reported to be tinuing to recede after flooding Ispaco, 24,000, 20, 19.10, 9.50 Royal. N.W., 18,000, 1 50, 18.10, 9.50. Atlln. Gosnell, 8,000, 18.60, 17 & 9.50 Royal. ...... ... B iny forecasts as to when more than eight feet above Its Mountain Trench route." the city to a depth of eight feet ral attended by the uovernor General, Lord Alexander, and Saturday afternoon following vice might be resumetl. ' normal level. f city motorists who I Despite the fact that the C.N. Major - General Worthington also argued that, if the main trunk line was established, the the bursting of a dam. ted Nations cease fire would be Vrrare over the May 24 R. roadbed was under between Annabelle, 6,000, 19.70, 19 St 9.50, many distinguished visitors included among the congregation At Fort Steele, 20 miles west accepted by Jews and Arabs. six and eight inches of water, cut short their trip! Bacon. lateral lines leading to tidewater 1 . of here, all families on the wsst , , , OI OOU persons. 19 last night's train left for ths snow Fall, 41,000, 19.90, LOGGERS' DL..IAND REJECTED flats were evacuated. Wild Horse could be worked on and lished by lrot.?s necessarily hav- east on time, but rail traffic was 1 g 50, Booth. lrjied home on Monaay J who remained found Is stranded as rising Immediately after mncneon the Leglonaires, 1200 strong, bridge is reported but and at Bull stopped today by the flood Cape Spear, u.oou; conme , to b e billeted in Alaska, River a Canadian Pacific Rail marched with four bands to the the Skeen River over- Jean, 16,000; uuivik, k.uuu; cov way reservoir is smashed. VANCOUVER Demands for a 35 percent hourly wage boost, a union shop and a union-administered welfare fund by 3000 International Woodworkers of America (CIO) have enant, 20,000; Tramp, 21,000; 11 e highway at two The Hazelton route was en-, Be8sborough Hotel cenotaph dorsed byHhe President and the where the Governor General Spokane Chamber of Commerce. d Dormmon and provincial which washed out the track at Kitwanga, 76 miles east of the divisional point of Pacific. Last night's eastbound train went as far as the Kitwanga Steveston, 28,000; Co-op. iking travel virtually FRIENDSHIP OF ARABS NEEDED LONDON W To safeguard the Middle East. against the - march-of communism preservation of Arab friendship is essential, Great Britain has told the Uni WENT EASY ON- presidents laid wreaths. The, TUESDADY American Freya. 31,000, 19.50, 18.10 and f'ipic who holidayed at NEW FLOODS ON PRAIRIES washout and then returned to JONES ACT I procession then proceeded , to The question of the Jones Act march through the city and the dismissed informally bv the Governor General took the sal- , orVame in it pacific where It was being held 10.50, Storage. been rejected by the lumber and box manufacturers in British Columbia's southern interior, it was learned Friday night. and serviced today. The train, Canadian I fed by melting mount-t. had risen above the Cue from the east at 11:45 to &'two Central B.C. delegates with, ute as the parade was enroute Mr,i Margot t I. 21000 23,000, 19 19.20, 20 1750 drum- Atlln. n j.a number of American delegates! to Kiwanis Park where a ted States. 10, Diplomatic officials say that to the Association and, on the neaa service "clu level at Kwinltsa and As the level continued Waterfall, 31,000, 19.10, 17,50 & night, was already running three hours late and, when it will get through, depends upon the progress of bridging or de- A splendid reception was ac WINNIPEG, Floods of three rivers were today wreaking fury on an estimated 100,000 acres south of The Pas. General resurgence of actual or potential flood conditions was reported in whole, it was realized that the Act was most unfair to Alaska. 10, Pacific. any more made the re- corded the parade, the popula- THE WEATHER Synopsis Thunderstorms occurred over southern Vancouver Island, the this was Britain's answer to a still informal protest by the United States against an avowed British Intention to stick by Reiief, 14,000, 19.20, 17.60 & 10, irney on Monday, leav- touring the wash-out. Bacon the sports celebration terior town had fin- Alberta as the Saskatchewan, Gony, 15,000; P. Doreen, 16,000: However, it was a contentious ( uon tana me mosquiwesi tum-matter and the feeling was that, .ing out In thousands, due to the fact that the territory 1 Horse Artillery and Air Force bands gave a concert after the of Alaska was endeavouring at, Worst point on the highway was reported to be a quarter- treaty obligations to supply Arab nations with arms "unless and the Pas and Carrot Rivers over Lower Mainland anl the Fraser Valley last night and early this morning. Cloudiness is still Morris H., 12,000; Capella, 18,000 Co-op. mile stretch a mile west of flowed. Large freighter canoes, . many of the travel- Shames were at 11 o'clock last until the United Nations in ter-venes in Palestine." iiied up in convoys to manned by the Manitoba fisheries department, are providing night, the water was "up to the the moment to have the Act vice luuuwmg which miui Columbia members held a cau-thing in amended Washington, any-j that might be done by the cus- ' Association at this time would! Sunday night the Capitol floor boards." About a dozen farmers with food, mail and messages. quite general in these areas but some clearing Is expected during the afternoon. The west coast and the Queen Charlottes are likely to remain cloudy. Fog cars Dassed through the flood flooded areas so that., , ir got Into difficulty,! mid be at hand to aid I works crew members than , meaire m downtown pasKaunm nrobably do more harm during the evening. was crowded to capacity for the At East Kwlnitsa, Just west of BUY POOL CHL0RINATOR good. impressive ceremony of official banks which moved onshore dur- WELLAND, Ont., W The Little's Sawmill, water more than a foot in depth covers the opening. The Governor General j incr Vip nicrht. were ejmected to race stood by on Sun- board, of water commissioners and!,,,. . . M,j 4n r. .., arrain was again in attendance road. Drivers stayed as close as here voted purchases totalling lilt UUUUL miu-UOJ w ,'int PLAYED TARZAN, FATALLY HURT Body of Native,Lad Brought Hhere from Alert Bay Emulation of Tarzan, a common boyish diversion, proved fatal for Reggie Allen, 13-year old Kincollth lad, at the residential school at Alert Bay which Monday and were re-for helping more than possible to the railway as they TRUMAN AND ALASKA WASHINGTON President Truman Friday sent to Congress a five-point program for the development of Alaska with the request that it be admitted to statehood at "the earliest possible date." The program calls for improving the transportation system, construction of housing and community facilities, land for natives and encouragement of land settlement. about $2,063 to buy and install lifough inundated, spots tonight. Relatively clfar skies are general throughout the interior. Some cloudinesi will de new equipment in the Welland could while traversing an inviS' ible stretch of highway. swimming pool. Included will The suggestion of the Association having a meeting in the north was discussed by the local delegates with members of the executive and the general feeling appeared' to be that, with transportation facilities as they are, too much time would be necessary for the journey and, as a result, representation would be too ad. so anchored down two one a mile west of A small bridge at East Kwin velop over the mountains this other distinguished guests included Hon. Milton F. Gregg, federal minister of veterans' affairs; Premier T. C. Douglas of Saskatchewan, representatives of the parent body (British Empire Service League) from England and Scotland and high be an $800 cnlorinator. ltsa was reported by the Public afternoon but pleasant weather ind the other near East Works Department this morning is expected In most of these re he was attending. His remains to be. afloat and in dangerous gions. Both brioges had been the high water. The Forecast condition. Legion officials from various orks men used cablci ' 1 r ' t" Prince Rupert, Queen Char small. R. T. Rose, executive parts of Canada, secretary of the Vancouver bridges In place and lottes and North Coast - Over SEES NO WAR IN FAR NORTH OTTAWA, KB Defence Minister Claxton, following an air trip to Churchill, Manitoba, sain there are no armaments, no y planks to protect the cast with fog and occasional were brought here on the Princess Adelaide yesterday afternoon from the south and burial will be made locally today. Reggie was swinging on a rops from a tree when he lost his hflld and fell to tta ground, suffering a skull Injury which resulted in his death a few hours later in drizzle until Monday. Cloudy es to the trestles, who travelled the road Social Security Tax Will Work No Hardship; Those this afternoon. Overcast with DAUPHIN MAN WINS KIN CAR lay reported eight Inches Hoard of Trade, however, thought it would be possible at some time to arrange for the directors of the Association to meet in Prince Rupert. The delegates have recom fog over the low areas. tonight and Wednesday morning lifting a, across it just west of atom bombs, no slit trenches or at East Kwlnitsa and Mill test modern fighting equipment hospital. , st of Shames. By Mon- Best Able Will Do Paying there. He found that 90 per cent about mid-day. Winds light. Little change in temperature. Lows tonight and highs WednesdayAt Port Hardy 42 and 60, Drawing Features Big Ball Which Ended Celebration The Kinsmen car Is due for a mended to the Associated Boards that this area should endeavour to be represented at all future had risen to more than Most motorists discon- of the ,waklng hours of man are spent here in a struggle for sur VICTORIA In an address to the people of Columbia last night, Hon. R. C. MacDonald min vival. Massett 45 and 58, Prince Rupert 46 and 60. meetings ofthe Association. The tourist industry came in The boy was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Allen of Kincol-ith. The father is a patient in Miller Bay Hospital here. Boy Scouts and Girl Guides marched to the wharf at Alert Bay as the casket was borne to the steamer for delivery here. Mr. Claxton admitted that a long easterly trip. J. L. Tychollz of 218 Seventh Avenu.e -Dauphin, Manitoba, holds the lucky ticket and is now the owner of the 1948 ister of mines and municipal atiairs, aescriDeu uit new three percent sales tax as a social security tax.' ball, dancing to the music of few Individual armaments had been taken there to see the reaction of cold- weather. While, Ford which was given away as a Sammy McQualg and his orches door prize at the ball climaxing for special discourse at the conference, the polnb seeming to come constantly to the fore thai there was lack of understanding of how to develop the tourist industry to the fullest extent. generally speaking, It is an Ideal It would work no harasmp on any secuon 01 uie munity, he predicted, and asserted it was "abundantly tra while they waited for the results of the draw. yesterday's celebration. spot to test men and equipment, The drawing was made at 2 clear" that the tax "will be paid SMALLER THAN CANADA Brazil has an area of 3,291,41(3 square miles compared to Cana- the report indicates that it is the a.m. and, as Queen Barbara had power existea to mane luium Earlier in the evening, Queen Barbara Ball and retiring Queen Alice Nickerson, in company last place where Canadians are for very largely by big business and Industry and those fortun exemptions. l da's. 3,466,556 square miles. likely to be fighting anybody. As for recipients of, social al While roads and highways were of great, importance, there seemed to be a general lack of proper accomodation and dis departed with her court at midnight, Miss Leah Basso-Bert was asked to draw a ticket from the wire-mesh cylinder containing ate people who can aitora 10 with the four princesses, presided at the Queen of the May lowances, it was discovered d computation that the tax would Local Contracting Firm Gets indulge In so-called luxury spending." all the ticket stubs. Blindfolded amount to only a few cents a courteous treatment as well as continual misinformation to the Ball when the Kinsmen Club was host to 350 kiddies. Open to all children up to the age of 18, the dance provided carefree en month probably between 20c It could be shown clearly by $100,000 Job At Miller Bay and 40c a premium which they statistics, asserted Mr. MacDon travelling tourist. It was felt that every district and commun Miss Basso-Bert reached deep and came up with ticket number 7724 which had been sold to Mr. Tychollz by U. C. Slind, also of tertainment for those who wish ald, that an average famuy paid Tor security and continuity of their allowances in good ity should appoint some repre maintalnine Itself adequately ed to trip gaily around the ball sentative that the proper facil times and bad, room. Some of the boys were Dauphin. A large crowd attended the will contribute through payment nt thp tax no more than one or ities, courteous treatment and shy about asking the young A $100,000 contract has been awarded by the federal government to the Prince Rupert contracting firm o'f ""Mitchell & Currie for the construction of a concrete boiler house and laundry in connection with for Indians near this city. It the ... Miller . . Bay . Hospital . ' rA 1 rtf J i. i, r -ont. nf the money 11 ladies to share steps but for reliable information were available to the tourist. Alaskan problems came In fr over an hour the boys and tirl spends. had the floor to themselves tc Disclosing that in the last two years the costs of social service in this province had very nearly doubled, estimates being that it would be nearly $20,500,000 in the 1948-49 fiscal year, the minister stated that the government had decided It should be remembered that fN BANS COMMIES- considerable attention at the will be a two-storey structure measuring ovvy iv ieta. try whatever form of dancing contain the Lower storey wm conference including aboriginal they felt capable of doing. the tax does not apply to rentals, nor does it apply to food-stuffs nr to meals' served in res r no room In the Cana-plon for Communists V S. Evans of Toronto. rights and Indian reservations At 9:30 the Queen officially closed the kiddies' dance and banquet of the conference when the speaker was A. R. Mac-Dougall K.C., M.L.A., Vancouver-Point Grey.whose subject was "Let Freedom Ring." John P. Riley, vlce-presidenv of the Milwaukee Railroad at Seattle, was elected president of the Association in succession to Charles B. Lindeman, Seattle in the territory, tourist develop fvincial president of taurants under a value of 51c. It Hnps not aDDlv to fuels or to ment, fuel, railway and fur seal the youngsters left for home; He will advocate his boilers and heating plant for the large hospital while the, upper floor will contain the steam laundry. The boiler room and heating plant is now contained within1 the present hospital building. on the course of finding new revenue rather than deducing expenditure on social services LOCAL TIDES Wednesday, May 26, 1948 High - 3:00 20.4 feet 16:12 17.7 feet Low 9:45 2.9 feet ' 21:44' 8.9 feet treaty. leaving the hall free for the adults who were beginning to and those of Ontario medical prescriptions.. Further showed that a where experience Paires at th T.BDinr The Central British Columbia delegates were accorded head in the form of the three per arrive for their evening 1101 hardship UOUlf might t- be worked upon cent goc,al securlt, tax whch pn convention in Sas- table honors at the principal newspaper publisher. any section of the community, (Continued on Page Four) .1