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at
Canada's
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Strategic
Pacific
Port
"Prince
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the
Key
to
the
Great
Northwest."
STAR
V
CABS
VOL.
XXXVII,
No.
170,
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
WEDNESDAY,
JULY
21,
1948
PRICE
FIVE
CENTS
ILIN
UATION
DECLARED
VERY
SERIOUS
'.
'
General
Clay
Hurrying
()f
American
Facilities
a
Tied
Up
With
Crisis
BRITISH
BREAD
RATION
ENDING
To
Washington
To
Talk
NOMINATIONS
IN
QUEBEC
QUEBEC
W
More
than
300
candidates
are
expected
to
file
nomination
papers
today
as
the
Quebec
election
campaign
enters
its
final
week,
polling
to
take
fJ
t
v
LONDON,
(CP)
Bread
rationing
will
end
in
Britain
next
Sunday
after
two
years
lupci't
joins
the
rest
of
the
world
in
a
'e
outcome
of
the
current
Berlin
crisis
!n
predictions
of
war,
there
is
a
grow-dinjiosal
of
the
former
American
facilities
here
is
bound
up
with
the
place
July
28.
Premier
Duplessis
and
his
Union
Nationale
part
I
Si
.
i
2
t
will
contest
91,
all
but
one,
of
in
operation,
Food
Minister
John
Slrachey
announced
today.
Rationing
will
be
replaced
by
a
system
of
control
of
the
rate
of
delivery
of
flour
from
the
mills
to
the
country's
bakeries.
the
ridings.
Liberals
and
Union
TRYING
TO
It
Over
With
President
Allies
May
be
Taking
Steps
to
End
Blockade
Despite
Russian
Obduracy
BERLIN,
(CP)
General
Lucius
D.
Clay,
American
military
governor
of
Germany,
is
enroute
to
Washington
to
report
to
President
Truman
and
the
government
on
the
growing
Berlin
crisis.
Sudden
summons
of
Clay
to
Washington
appeared
to
foreshadow
the
planning
of
new
steps
to
end
the
blockade.
He
left
Frankfurt
last
night
oyj
des
Ebecteurs
have
candidates
in
all
ridings.
GET
GOV'T
n
War
Assets
of
them
In
other
insta'-last
three
Die
fart
that
e
are
appar-ystcry.
plvm.
icf
that
they
art
fur
pos-
xi
J
President
Srliuman
Endeav
TODAVS
STOCKS
Oourty
8
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4
hnon
S.C1
Vancouver
Bralorne
6.50
B.
R.
Con
03
B.
R.
X
'
.09';
ouring
to
Have
New
Coalition
Formed
in
France
PARIS.
President
Vincent
Auriol
is
continuing
his
search
for
a
new
Premier
following
the
dispute
over
the
Army
budget
whirh
toppled
France's
middle-of-the-road
government
of
Premier
Robert
Schuman.
It
is
expected
Auriol
will
first
try
to
find
someone
who
could
reunite
the
"Third
Force"
coali
COMMANDER
OF
PACIFIC
FLEET
Vice.
Admiral
Brind
Figured
in
Notable
Incident
LONDON
Vice-Admiral
Sir
Patrick
Brind.
who
ifrured
in
a
notable
incident
in
Chinese
waters
in
1939,
has
been
appointed
commander-in-chief
of
the
British
Pacific
fleet.
It
was
in
1839
Brind
went
to
-.iVJiif!
of
the
.,
wan-houst-building
and
ions
of
the
:iiained
land-wartime
irt-ned
over
to
.tii
in.
those
build-for
use
if
a
Caribo
Qouartz
.90
Grull
Wihksne
03
Vi
Hedley
Mascot
25
Minto
01
V2
Pend
Oreille
4.10
Pioneer
2.40
Premier
Border
02?i
Privateer
(ask)
.18
Reeves
McDonald
1.50
air.
Meantime
some
observers
of
the
situation
say
it
has
become
one
of
"greatest
seriousness"
and
that
Russia
may
be
preparing
to
go
to
war
rather
than
wait
longer.
The
British
licensed
press
said
today
that
the
Russians
were
preparing
to
pull
the
switches
and
signal
equipment
on
the
railroads
to
Berlin
if
the
western
Allies
try
to
force
their
way
through
the
Soviet
blockade.
READYING
FOR
WAR?
From
Weisbaden,
Germany
came
word
that
United
States
FIGHTING
THO'
TRUCE
IS
ON
Who
Bombed
Cairo
Monday
Night
is
Unsettled
Question
CAIRO,
KP1
Jewish
sources
in
Haifa
said
yesterday
that
fighting
was
still
going
on
in
northern
Palestine
In
spite
of
the
United
Nations-imposed
truce.
The
Lsraeli
government
said
that
it
was
not
one
of
their
planes
which
was
reported
to
have
blasted
the
main
thoroughfare
of
Cairo
Monday
night.
A
single
unidentified
plane
dropped
an
aerial
mine
which
damaged
a
tion
of
Mouveniente
Kepubllcain
Populalre,
Socialists
and
Radi
ft
i:ing
a
fairly
cal
Socialists
Until
the
falling
out,
these
i'Tsingtao
to
investigate
the
:ivir,
Prir.tc
member
tilt
FOOD
ARRIVES
FOR
BERLIN
Civilian
employees
of
Temple-hof
Airport,
in
the
U.S.
sector
of
Berlin,
load
army
trucks
with
food
flown
fhto
the
German
capital
by
a
shuttle
service
of
U.S.
planes.
The
air
route
was
resorted
to
when
a
food
crisis
was
precipitated
by
Russia's
blockade
of
the
city's
land
transport
lanes.
Air
service
is
on
a
24-hour
schedule.
Gen.
Lucius
D.
Clay
has
described
the
present
situation
in
Germany
as
"very'
serious"
but
said
that
the
feeding
of
the
western
section
of
Berlin
was
assured.
He
also
said
that
the
new
C-54
aircraft
sent
to
Berl.n
from
the
UJS.
would
be
employed
to
bring
coal
Into
the
former
German
capital.
General
Clay
is
now
conferring
in
Washington
with
President
Truman.
Reno
:
(ask)
.09
Salmon
Gold
12
Sheep
Creek
.'
1.12
wrongful
arrest
of
a
British
nier
1
1
the
Pari
fie
chant
ship
by
the
Japanese.
Ik-
.30
Taylor
Bridge
took
the
cruiser
Birmingham
the
Si-cor.d
was
a
hint
a
prtm'iurht
ing
here
lxst
among
a
fleet
of
heavy
Japanese
cruisers
and
aircraft
carriers
8r.d
i4
went
on
board
the
Japanese
flag
B-29
Superfortresses
from
Ger
three
political
groups
had
united
in
the
old
government
to
oppose
the
communists
on
the
left
and
General
Charles
DeGaulle's
French
People's
Party
on
the
right.
PRO-CONS
TO
STATE
POLICY
ship
to
say
he
intend
to
take
t
IbJ
many
were
engaged
In
a
bomb
Taku
River
.30
Vananda
.33
Congress
02?i
Pacific
Eastern
05
Hedley
Amalg
02
Spud
Valley
09
Central
Zeballos
01
Silbak
Premier
2b
Oils
the
merchant
ship
away."
The
belief
is
the
i
i'-ornip:i'i'n
Iran
vacant
moving
picture
theatre
and
two
department
stores.
Premier
Mahmoud
Fahmy
of
Egypt
said
that,
"if
the
plane
is
ing
training
mission
over
the
island
fortress
of
Heligoland
today.
The
once
fortified
island
I
AiasKa.
a
served
well
BulletinA
'
Japanese
threatened
tr.
blow
his
cruiser
and
the
merchant
ship
out
of
the
water
tut
the
Birmingham
and
the
uu
rrhantnta1
sailed
the
next
d?..;'
proven
to
have
been
a
Zionist
railhead
and
of
Heligoland
Is
off
Germany's
plane
and
such
action
is
repeated
w:kr.
by
the
Zionists,
we
will
reply
immediately."--'
-
-
Manifesto
Scheduled
for
August
Itut
May
be
Delayed
A.
P.
Con
.133,i
Calmont
42
,
C.
&
E.
-..
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Foothills
2.75
Home
7.85
uildinc
.
are
a.?
rfxin
I
past
lifi.TS
Mich
r.iii
v
d
aii
the
ay
Convention
By
September
15
OTTAWA
It
is
expected
an
up-to-da-
statement
of
Pro-
Toronto
p.resslve
Conservative
party
pol
if
,
1.
i
!
J
f
'
.07
Athona
icies
will
be
announced
shortly
Aumaque
16
The
date
mentioned
is
August
jl'inn
to
plans
I
ir.
i.vep
sea
jLdk'airr;
l:vit
jfi
nr
Aire
riean
i
.b!y
both,
see
1
but
this
is
subject
to
change
due
to
resignation
of
John
.55
.26
.11
.06
Beattie
.-.
Bevcourt
Bobjo
Buffalo
Canadian
...
PACIFIC
MILLS
PROFITS
DOWN
VANCOUVER,
iff;
Net
profit
recorded
by
Pacific
Mills
Ltd.
or
Vancouver
and
Ocean
Falls
for
the
year
ending
April
30
was
$2,484,372,
a
drop
of
about
$80,000
from
the
previous
year.
The
annual
report,
issued
by
President
Paul
E.
Cooper,
showed
total
sales
of
$17,306,451.
OTTAWA
Officials
of
the
National
Progressive
-
Conservative
Association
are
hopeful
than
a
convention
at
which
a
new
party
leader
will
be
chosen
ca
l
be
held
before
September
15
Forecasts
are
lor
an
imposing
line-up
of
candidates
foi
i;"
leadership
vacated
by
John
Bracken.
fjr
i
projee'
Car.;
ts,
or
for
'x:
and
.
Bracken
as
leader.
A
committee
will
edit
and
put
into
formal
language
twenty
resolutions
adopted
at
the
annual
meeting
early
this
year.
R.
A.
Bell,
a
national
director,
says
If
nas
been
a
.srvall
in-
ol
a
p!y-
jiai;t.
room
for
Consol.
Smelters
112.75
Conwest
1.15
Donalda
56
Eldona
1.19
East
Sullivan
2.50
Giant
Yellowknife
4.25
God's
Lake
57
Hardrock
14
Harricana
-.06
'apt
xvte
bin
Kt
ill
"nt,
If
cpt
for
a
few
that,
so
far
as
he
knows,
the
date,
August
1,
will
stand.
Some
of
the
resolutions
endorsed
will
include,
according
northwest
coast.
Details
of
the
mission,
including
the
number
of
planes,
are
not
available.
At
the
same
time
the
British
Air
Ministry
today
ordered
large
scale
Royal
Air
Force
exercises
over
Southern
England
for
next
Sunday.
A
test
of
wartime
air
raid
observation
services
is
also
to
be
held.
The
move
came
against
a
background
of
intensified
training
activities
for
military
aircraft
here
and
on
the
continent
by
both
Great
Britain
and
the
United
States.
Mora
than
three
thousand
members
of
the
Air
Raid
Observation
Corps
will
man
stations
in
southern
England
centres
on
Sunday.
At
Washington
Secretary
of
State
George
Marshall
said
today
that
the
United
States
will
do
everything
possible
in
the
Berlin
crisis
"to
reach
an
acceptable
solution
to
avoid
tragedy
of
war
for
the
world."Ie
added,
however,
that
"we
will
not
be
coerced
or
intimidated
in
any
way
in
our
procedures
under
rights
and
responsibilities
that
we
have
in
Berlin
and
generally
in
Germany."
The
Russians,
who
have
already
offered
to
feed
all
of
Berlin,
hinted
today
that
they
may
offer
electric
power
for
the
entire
city
including
the
Soviet-blockaded
western
sectors.
Sov
Heva
10',2
.33
li's
four
floors,
-
s
I
;f
area
of
(
f
.
held
thims-i
o:
Material
which
1
k
k.aska
aiKi
the
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grey-paint-d
Hosco
Jacknife
03?i
y-,
SENDING
-VEW-
PROTEST
..
...
LONDON
Responsible
British
officials
reported
today
.
that
a
new
western
power
note
protesting
Russia's
blockade
of
Berlin
has
been
drafted
and
sent
to
Washington
for
review
by
top-ranking
Stat
Department
officials.
INVITf?!)
TO
FORM
GOV'T
PARIS
Andre
Marie,
51-year
old
minister
of
justice
in
the
Schuman
government,
was
tonight
asked
by
President
Auriol
to
form
a
new
cabinet
in
succession
to
that
of
Premier
Robert
Schuman,
which
resigned
Monday
in
defeat.
Marie
is
a
Radical
Socialist
(Conservative).
He
opposed
the
$10,000,0(10
cut
in
France's
defence
bill.
BUYING
CANADIAN
PLANES
LONDON
The
government
today
confirmed
in
the
Hiiunc
of
Commons
that
it
has
decided
to
authorize
the
British
Overseas
Airways
Corporation
to
negotiate
for
the
purchase
of
22
Canadian
transport
planes.
t
GRAYDON
NOT
INTERESTED
CKAVF.NIll'KST,
Ont.
Gordon
Graydon,
Progressive-totwrvalive
Member
of
Parliament
for
Peel,
said
today
that
he
did
not
want
the
national
leadership
of
the
parly.
De
had
been
mentioned
as
a
possible
successor
to
John
Brat
ken.
PALESTINE
QUIETER
CAIRO
According
to
latest
reports,
the
United
Nations
I
nice
appeared
today
to
have
brought
quiet
to
the
Holy
Land
except
in
the
northern
sector
where
Israeli
and
Syrian
lorces
have
clashed.
Even
there
the
tempo
of
the
fighting
appears
to
be
slackening.
JET
PLANES
ACROSS,
OLDHAM,
England
Sixteen
United
States
jet-pro-pellnl
F-Ml
fighter
planes
today
completed
the
first
jet-propelled
air
crossing
of
the
Atlantic
Ocean
from
the
United
States.
Joliet
Quebce
33
Lake
Rowan
06',4
PLANE
DOWN
IN
MEDITERRANEAN
MARSEILLE,
?
Five
of
th"
thirteen
persons
aboard
a
French
air
force
Wellington
plane
wen-rescued
today
after
a
forced
landing
in
the
Mediterranean.
Reports
did
not
say
that
the
remaining
eight
were
definitely
lost
but
merely
that
rucuc
planes
had
not
sighted
them.
The
panc
was
ferrying
families
of
Frew
r,
to
expectation
of
the
committee,
outlawing
of
the
Communist
party,
social
security
program,
retirement
pensions
at
65
without
means
test,
increased
unemployment
insurance,
accident
and
sickness
Insurance
benefits,
new
housing
program,
Dominion-provincial
conference,
farm
prices,
marketing,
immigration
and
freight
rates.
Lapaska
04
'
t-
W
"
at
the
atl-
.68
n
r
k.
Little
Long
Lac
Lynx
TITO
BOASTS
TO
COMRADES
BELGRADE,
0!
Premier
Tito
told
2,000
wlitry
cheering
Yugo-
.
slav
communists
today
that
their
party
had
become
-the
"strongest
and
most
successful
Marxist-Leninist
movement
fn
the
country's
history."
This,
apparently,
was
his
answer
to
charges
from
the
Soviet
Union
that
Tito
and
other
Yugoslav
communist
leaders
had
deviated
from
the
Marxist
line
and
are
pursuing
an
anti-Russian
policy.
.07
Madsen
Red
Lake
2.27
:
i4ish
to
tear
n
nov
when
cdlng
them
of
months,"
They
mi;ht
n
in
a
hurry."
soldiers
from
North
Afr'ii
buck.
EMMY
GOERING
GUILTY,
FREED
-'U
In
offer-,
to
France.
irracks
build-
McKenrie
Red
Lake
30
McLeod
Cockshutt
90
Moneta
37
Negus
:
2.08
Noranda
49.00
Louvicourt
rr
54
Pickle
Crow
190
Regcourt
04
San
Antonio
3
40
Senator
Rouyn
39
Sherri
Gtordon
2.38
Steep
Rock
1.95
Sturgeon
River
17
Silver
Miller
26
Point,
the
last
OARMiSH
PARTENKIRCHEN,
Germany,
9
Emmy
Goering,
drfrnc?
post
coal
to
restore
drastic
power
cuts
which
have
darkened
homes
and
widow
of
Hitler
Germany's
No.
2
LOCAL
TIDES
(Standard
Time)
cs
exist
is
also
Nazi,
was
convicted
today
of
be
locally.
Fred-
said
shut
down
many
factories
in
iet-controlled
newspapers
by
Island,
v,
a
Russians
could
get
enough
western
Berlin.
the
Thursday,
f
defmce
artil-
High
1948
20.2
feel
186
feet
2.3
feet
7
4
feet
July
2
1:50
14:51
.
8:26
20;
30
ing
a
Nazi
but
was
set
free
immediately.
She
was
given
a
sentence
of
one
year
in
labor
camp
but
was
freed
since
she
had
already
spent
18
months
in
the
camp
awaiting
trial.
Low
FIRST
COLUMBIA
CELLULOSE
CO.
BONDS
SOLD
ON
LOCAL
MARKET
e
been
made
'f
demolition
d
to
the
gov-at
efforU
be
f
roast
defrncs
i
would
pevmit
purchases
will
have
to
be
made
at
a
price
expected
to
be
$99.
Mr.
Johnston
said
that
he
hopes
to
be
able
to
obtain
fur
MORE
TROOPS
TO
ALASKA
JUNEAU,
0i
The
United
States
Army
plans
to
send
additional
troops
to
Alaska
next
year
to
strengthen
its
northern
forces,
Assistant
Secretary
of
the
Army
Gordon
Gray
said
today.
fation
should
Five
thousand
Columbia
Cellulose
Company
Ltd.
general
mortgage
bonds,
five
per
cent,
series
"A,"
were
sold
in
Prince
Rupert
Tuesday
by
the
brokerage
firm
of
S.
D.
Johnston
Ltd.
to
an
unnamed
buyer'
for
the
original
ATHER
tt
IT.n
rlnfanoa
nf
A1-
n
-
'
"
-
offered
price
of
$98.75
each.
Mr.
aska
as
essential
to
the
welfare'
Johnston
announced
this
morn
of
the
United
States.
air
has
moved
British
Colum-are
being
re-It
as
the
Cari-
ther
quantities
of
the
bonds
to
satisfy
an
inG-ated
local
demand.
These
will
have
to
be
obtained
from
Individuals
or
companies
which
purchased
them
at
the'r
original
offered
price
with
tho
idea
of
turning
a
quick
profit
on
re-sale.
The
$$5,000,000
issue
of
5
per
cent
general
mortgage
bonds
should
not
be
confused
with
the
$15,000,000
Issue
of
first
mort-
1
n
Charlottes.
U.S.
Rounding
Up
Communists
PARTY
LEADERS
ARRESTED
AND
CHARGED
NEW
YORK,
CP
Twelve
United
States
Communist
party
leaders
and
members
were
indicted
yesterday
on
charges
of
advocating
the
overthrow
of
the
United
States
government
by
force
and
violence.
Among
them
was
William
Z.
Fsoter,
head
of
the
Communist
party
in
the
United
States.
Seven
of
the
group,
including
Eugene
V.
Dennis,
general
secretary,
were
arrested
and
arraigned
on
the
charges.
The
others,
named
alnog
with.
the
first
seven
in
secret
indictments
returned
under
the
Smith
Act
by
a
federal
grand
jury
investigating
alleged
subversive
activities,
are
being
sought.
They
would
be
liable,
if
convicted,
to
up
to
10
years'
imprisonment
and
$10,000
fines.
A
formal
statement
by
the
Communist
party
denied
the
charges
and
characterized
them
as
a
'monstrous
frame-up."
NO
ACTION
IN
CANADA
OTTAWA,
CP1
The
Canadian
government
has
given
no
hint
that
it
intends
drastic
anti-Communist
action
such
as
that
taken
by
United
States
authoriies.
The
Labor-Progressive
Pary,
Canada's
Communist
party,
is
legal
in
the
.eyes
of
the
federal
government.
Unless
some
new
law
is
passed,
and
at
the
moment
this
is
not
expected,
no
such
arrests
are
likely
In
this
country.
ncouver
Island
ing.
The
sale
is
the
first
to
be
made
locally
of
the
$5,000,000
Issue
which
will
help
to
finance
the
company's
Watson
Island
cellulose-acetate
mill.
Purchased
at
the
initial
selling
price
as
offered
by
Nesbitt,
Thompson
&
Co.
and
Wood,
n
interior
wtil
in
these
area
day.
ast
i's
and
North
Newfoundland
Voting
Again
ST.
JOHN'S,
Newfoundland-People
of
Newfoundland
will
vote
tomorrow
on
a
second
plebiscite
as
to
the
future
form
of
government
for
the
country.
They
will
choose
between
responsible
government
and
confederation
with
Canada.
Continuation
of
the
commission
form
of
government
was
rejected
in
the
first
plebiscite.'
wnh.
frequent
find
Thursdav.
Gundy
and
Co.,
the
bonds
will!
gage
bonds,
one-third
of
which
yield
an
interest
of
5.1
per
cent
'pay
3'2
per
cent
until
maturity
until
they
mature
in
1968.
in
1958
and
two-thirds
of
whicn
So
great
has
been
the
demand
will
pay
4Va
per
cent
until
they
11
as
15.
Little
PLATFORM
PLANK
These
are
CARVING
THE
DEMOCRATIC
charged
with
the
man-sized
job
o
the
seven
men
who
were
Democratic
candidate
for
drafting
the
planks
upon
which
the
wield
a
vote-getting
campaign
will
president
of
the
United
sum
this
summ
"
faU.
Left
to
before
the
American
people
right
seated
are
George
D.
Key.
Okla.;
Wendell
Lund
Michigan
Rep.
M.
J.
Klrn,
Ohio,
Pennsylvania;
Sen.
Francis
J.
Myers,
Mansfield,
Montana.
St
anding
;
rear
M
t
to
and
Rep.
Michael
and
Rep.
Emmanuel
Celler.
right,
Charles
E.
Sheppard,
Florida,
at
the
first
meeting
at
Phila-delphia,
New
York.
The
photo
was
made
Pa.
mature.
Lows
s
tomorrow
matuie
in
1965.
Neither
of
thesfc
latter
two
issues
are
available
for
public
subscription.
for
the
bonds,
Mr.
Johnston
said,
that
the
complete
$5,000,000
issue
has
been
sold
out
and
further
Flld
62,
Massett
J
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52
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