f, PvCABS mediate onr.iEs DRUGS . . NORTHERN AVn riTMTRAT. RBITTRT fVvt mm,.,. . Daily Delivery ,,k 1- T-r w"ul8 n A WarAFER vol 8 M8t Stratic rt. the K to the Great Northwest- PHOIIE 81 PMNCE RUPERT, B. C. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, iM, " PRICE nVE CENTS iirvey Of Alaska: 1R ypz Line Job ing Next Week FULL AUTONOMY IS DESIRABLE St. Laurent Docs Not Like Asking London for B.N.A. Amendments RUSSIANS ESCAPE FROM SOVIET VITII MESSAGE for COMMUNISTS WESTOVEK, Mass. r Two Russian Air Force officers who escaped from Russia by plane landed here today delighted to reach the United States. They had a message for American Communists: "Instead of making all their noise Uiey should volunteer to go over to Russia for one month. Ttocv would he aiart In rplnrn it Maior O Deration in Connection Department Of Interior Asked For Appropriation WASHINGTON D. C. (CP) Representative Jackson (Democrat - Washington), member of the House sub-committee on Department of Interior appropriations, has asked the Department to start immediate planning for a survey to determine the cost of a railroad to Alaska. Jth Port Edward Celanese Mil! nction of the five-and-a-half mile pipe line, j here and resign from the Communist party." !,c driving oi ;.uyu ieet ot tunnel, through tr will he taken from Pruelhomme Lake to OTTAWA O; Prime Minister St. Laurent said last r.'ght that Canada should have the right to ameiid its own constitution without reference to the United Kingdom Parliament. fi Island celanese mill of the Celanese Cor- CHIEFTAIN EXECUTED! Author of 'Forever Amber' Get Decree RENO-Kathleen Winsor, who Amcnca, will start next week. First oper-the building of a road from Watson Isl- , h materials will - Jackson and Senator (Democrat-Washington), introduced bills directing Presid wrote "Forever Amber." has Cost of Living Goes Up Again ATHENS, (f - A general Klaff obtained a divorce from Arthur ent Truman to authorize study i the line uuil i the bed for contractors are j.lM ,, H.NliJ I ' ,,, ,1. spokesman said tonight that Tne Prime Minister said he did not like the idea of having to go to London to get amendments to the British North America Act and said lie was sure the British people did not like it either. Mr. St. Laurent gave no details of a proposal forwarded bv a !K"i!i!eH Ltd. of of a route for a proposed railroad from Prince George to Alaska. Jackson said he- planned to ask that funds for survey and planning the railway be Includ : k- pipe line job ii year and will uO to 200 turn, s.ili! arrived in the the Communist guerilla chieftain, Marjos Vafiadcs. Is believed to have been executed by the rebels for having failed to conquer Greece. The guerilla's underground radio said that Vafiadcs had been ill for several months and was unable to carry out im portant talks. former government which it is ed in the Department of the iiosun this af ter- Bhaw, Uie band leader. They were married In Juarez, Mexico, In 1946. Property settlement was reached out of court. Clamp Down New Embargo Britain and I'nited Stales Blockade on Soviet Berlin Is Tightened commonly believed would call for consent of the nine prov Interior appropriation bill for the fiscal year beginning July 1. i.i'tmvcr to be sup-I charge of the inces for a request to the Uni SAW REVOLUTION Miss fay Paterson. now visiting her parents iu Toronto, wan an eye-witness to the bloody army revolution in Venezuela last fall which resulted in Uj fall of the government, n,,. pitc this, Miss Paterson Jt-Clares the Latin Amencu country is a gay plate m hve In normal times. At 2K sua has visited 23 countries ,m f leaving shortly to tour Europe while on leave of absc;- from her position with an v.t firm. ici Pnoiu- t ted Kingdom for legislation nec DAMAGED P10W DELAYS TRAIN SERVICE EAST Damage to a rotary plow while it was clearing away a slide five miles west of Kwinltsa Thursday morning delayed traffic on the railway line another 36 hours, causlnj a train that left Prince Rupert at 1 p.m. yesterday to turn back. Railway authorities hope to bo able to clear a trala for Jasper at 8 o'clock tonight. If it leaves, It will be the first train to net through since the line was covered by tons of rock following a blast near Salvus on essary to rid that body of all RESULTS IN authority over Canadn. The Prime Minister also un PALESTINE claimed the government's determination to work inr rnii- FOREIGNERS IN ISRAEL BERLIN Ht- Great Britain and elusion of the North Atlantie I accompanied by : ice manager. FPJCA MSH f A iour-( lighted ' ,- vi : to be carry-in. A: my icrhni-I rtnum, crashed TEL AVIV iff Final election OTTAWA The official cost of living index jumped 710 of a point during December and bounced back to its all time high of 159.6, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics announced today. This increase, coming between December 3 and January 3, erased completely the 710 Of a point drop the first in 23 months which took place during November. TODArTsTOCrJ (Courtesy 8. D. Johnston Co. Ltd.) Vancouver Bayonne 062 Bralorne 9.00 B. R. Con 03 V B. R. X .12 Cariboo Quartz 1.30 Congress 05 Hedley Mascot 5a Pacific Eastern .08 Pcnd Oreille : fi.OO the United States clamped down security pact. He said that Can- results for the Israeli constitu an embargo today on all freight ada could not withdraw from ent assembly, announced todav. world afairs. passing through their zones of APPEALS.BEFORE gave Prime Minister David Ben Germany from European coun Gurion's Mapai (Labor) party 46 seats of a total of 120. tries to the Soviet zone efectlvc Sunday. Sunday. The Mapan, Left Wing So folium In Critical Of The embargo affects all rail A diversion around the rock barrier " was comnletri vnir fur a Ninth cialist party, received 19 seats, 1 npoli in the United Religious Front 16, and road shipments heretofore travelled across the bi-zone into Story of Jewish Volunteers Is Hard to Tell By JAMES LONG TEL AVIV t APi The story of the foreign volunteers who helped the fledgling army of Israel win the battle of Palestine is one of the hardest to tell here. Censorship doesn't like it. At the outset it was not permitted to write about foreigners in the fighting forces. Even now cor and the Heruth (political party day and work of clearing a 500-foot long snowsllde was almost completed when the rotary plow St. Laurent f London, which l e to the War representing the former Irgun terrorists), 14. the Soviet zone from countries like Belgium, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Luxem i Mud received a broke down and had to be REVISION COURT Ten Pvtilions iicaiiist City Assessment Appraisals Ten appeals against land and property assessments for 194' taxes have been filed with City Assessor H. D. Thain and will be heard by the civic Court ot Revision which will tit in annual Mission at the City Hull on February 10. The calendar of appeals is the smallest in recent years, be m M' pilot was; Drought to Prince Rupert for bourg and Denmark. Progressive-Conservatives Still Seeking Dominion-Frovincial Parley no other de-1 "'pairs. The announcement said that The train which left here at I p.m. yesterday went as far as the vHbargo had been ordered OTTAWA. Donald - Flem Pioneer 3.40 Premier Border .035i Privateer .20 bwartwp- of restrictions placed by (he Soviets on travel. iMARlllE TRAFFIC ! TO WEST INDIES MONTREAL Various phases of marinetransport In connection with the Canada-West In respondents are not permitted to speculate on the round numbers of, for example, Americans who are in military service here. ing, Progressive - Conservative Toronto-Eglinton, said yester Tyee, 20 miles east, thon ,P-i turned to the city. 1 The snowsllde came down j: , o'clock Thursday morning. It I was immedlutely attacked by Reeves McDonald 3.25 Reno .06 Cheep Creek 1.50 Officials said the effect would be "considerable" but refused to elaborate. iDWERS For one thing, the Israeli state ing 14 Jess than 1948. In the day that Prime Minister St. Laurent had apparently made up his mind not to call a Dominion-Provincial conference. He said that the Prime Minister Stlbak Premier .38 4 years immediately prior to does not want to be accused of, 1948, following re-appraisal of ! importing mercenaries ,or brlng- dies trade agreement will be ! U)e snow plow which had clear- the subject of discussions at j ed 4;;rj tn-i 0f ns 500 fpel wl)en Taku River 34 Vananda 38 Salmon Gold 15 Undoubted city property by a Vancouver , "'8 in adventurers V lo Confer M j(h l e and : j oh lleiirs Barbados next week when - F. ly, some did come here for both had indicated in his s peech Monday that lie had neither M. MacLennan, assistant deputy minister and comptroller. appraiser, the number of appeals was vastly greater. Members of I he Court of Revision who will hear the appeals are Aldermen Ruddcrham. Department of Transport, will reasons, but it was felt here these were not representative. For another, many of the volunteers, again for example, the Americans, risked loss of their meet with rem-esentatives nf the British West Indies and time nor patience to attend further conferences. Apparently, he said, it was all right for the government to attend international conferences, whether they succeeded or not, but it broke down. Gangs of men using hand shovels have been working on the remainder of the slide since. The snow plow was expected to be repaired in time to return to the slide at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Last night's westbound passenger train turned around at Terrace and returned east. Bermuda. . Black, Daggett, Whalcn and Forman. They will elect their Thinks Election Coming June 27 OTTAWA, 'CP-Senator John T. Haig, Progressive - Conservative leader in the Senate, is the first prominent political Hgurc to pin-point a date for the next general election, lie thinks It will be held June 27. He made Uie forecast of election day during Throne Speech debate. Mr. MacLennan left here 'iV. CB W'ell-iuliii'lued 1 tfti.iy thai they be-1 'Wiiiei Kialiii would be i'1 l:ikj pai t in a lour- I ifieliH' v.iih President ! f ':..(! Elates, Prime I "f Oreal Uril.Un I 't lenri Queuiii,. t,r j Tlasj v ould mi -et ou-1 ll! W United 'Slates ' IS l,f iiren ,r.l i ,ii . 1 Thursday night accompanied Spud Valley 06 Oils-Anglo Canadian 4.90 Atlantic 72 Calmont 41 C. & E 5.85 Central Ledyc 1.26 Home Oil 12.25 Mercury 16 Okalta 1.32 Pacific Pe-te 2.05 Princess 33 Royal Canadian 10 South Brazeau 19 own chairman. Included in the list l,s an en- I m Yr fV.c.ili,... XT,.ti 1 . :i the same government would not sit on Its own affairs. citizenship by serving in the armed forces of another country. It can be suid, however, that the total number of volunteers who came here and fought, many now have gone back to j ways contesting assessments on One of several to participate in debate on the Throne .Speech, ' i:h "he .Soviet of interest to by Captain R. A. Clarke, general manager, and J. M. Gauthier, freight traffic manager, Canadian National Steamships, who will act as his advisors during Uie meetings which open February 7. The party will act as a factfinding mission for the Dominion to gather data concerning future shipping requirements under thetrade Fleming charged the government with attempting to rip up the Canadian constitution, practicing extravagance and failing to make headway in the housing lm in I he absence nt.il ives. various properties which It owns in the city. The others are all by private properly holders. The appeals: Vivian Garten, lot 13, block 18, section 5, Seventh Avenue West. $400 land assessment too high. John D. Morrison, lot l, block 0, section 1. Keeoiicl Avenue, $f00 improvements w Jnh. their homes ran well up into thousands. Of these some hundreds were not Jews. The .service with the most foreign volunteers, of course, was the Israeli Air Force. This is the service under the great est secrecy, the most difficult Archbishop Takes Back Strange Case of Roman Catholic Primate Takes Another Turn BUDAPEST ,Cf Josrf Cardinal . CRIED Toronto Athona 13 Aumaque 35 Bcattie 57 Bevcourt 30 Bobjo .13 Buffalo Canadian 14 Consul. Smelters 11.75 Con west 1.28 Donalda 53 Eldona C8 East Sullivan 3.00 Giant Vellowknife 5.70 of which to write. THE WEATHER Tacoma Commerce Chamber Coming Members of ttKr Tacoma Chamber of Commerce, enroute lo Alaska on a goodwill tour, will be in Prince Rupert on May 23 aboard the Canadian Pacific srvamcr, according to word reach Ins Prince Rupert. They will bp here again on May 28 southbound. A couple of years "go a similar party was here. Pioneer Alaska Banker it Dead MINNEAPOLIS- E. A. Kas-mussen of Ska svy, president of the Bank of Alaska and well known pioneer of Alaska, succumbed suddenly In a Minneapolis hospital to heart disease with which he whs Kiri,.u.i ' The United ';' department, lMNi".s for the cle- But, it can be said, at least, ' that at the start of fighting there were virtually no Israeli pilots. The only ones available were the few-and these with field. Therefore, he said, "the government does not possess the confidence of the people nor does it deserve the confidence of tills IIou.se." MAKING COMMUNISTS Rofcrt Fair tSocial Credit, Battle River), said that government policies were helping to create Communists in Canada because the potential production of the country was not bel Ing made available to the people. They were dissatisfied and were turning "perhaps to Joseph Oskey, lot 3d, block IS, section S, Seventn Avenue West, $400 land assessment too high. T. rrystay, .lots 27 ami 28, block 10, .section 1, Second Av-ncue at Eighth Street, land claimed too high. $2,350 and Improvements $(i,oiB Robert Kelsey, lot 8, block G, oi Mr. and Mlndszenty recanted in court today a letter he wrote before out combat experience who had completed R AF. training cour God's Lake his arrest saying, if ever he ad- section 7. Fifth Avenue East, 'ln!'..eiiiinsel for '' 'nc annoinice-v',f'ie not a vail -'"if-" ion , head- '"' h'';nilu:.s nr.. Synopsis Cold polar air pushing southward over British Columbia has brought clear skies to the northern and central portion of the province. Clearing skies and lower temperatures are expected over the southern portion of th province later today. A weather disturbance in the Gulf of Alaska Is expected to bring cloudiness to the coastal districts ( tomorrow. Forecast Queen Charlottes and North $1,920 too high. E. Cavenaille, part of Waterfront blok "1" Seal Cove, im .45 .19 .09 U 10 Vz .26 .04 Vz ... - .43,i .. .06 Vi 08Vi ... .95 Hardrock Harricana Heva Hosco Jacknife Joliet Quebec .... Lake Rowan ... Lapaska Little Long Lac Lynx '':;' Island, inuiii- the Communist way of life." ses Just, as the Second World War ended. There were only about 30 of them. But even in the Air Force, which attracted many Americans, they were not as numerous as the British and South Africans. These constituted the largest group of the men who flew for Israel. milted his guilt to government charges against him, it would be because of weakness of the flesh.". The Cardinal, being tried on charges of treason, espionage and blark market operations to which he has pleaded partly provements $4,li30 too high. I1"1 ''''lire, where ;k"'i last, week 11 in New York New Set-Up On Cannery Fires .13 while on a visit here. ne hii(j been attending a Republican convention In Omaha and was In a department store with his wile when he was seized. Son and daughter have arrived from Anchorage to join their mother. Albert E. Stiles, lot 21, block 2.r, .section o, Eighth Avenue East, land $;il0, improvements $2,300 too high. John Tokar, lot 2, block 32. section 0, Coinox Avenue, land $400, improvements $500 too high. Mrs. Irmu Johaiiseu, lots 13 and 20, block 30, section 7'f Eighth Avenue Easl, laud $10'j guilty, declared, "I wrote this letter some time in November 1948. Now I want to state that rt' first Jaffa wyson went on A shipment f Coast Clear and cold today. Increasing cloudiness tomorrow, becoming overcast in afternoon. Wind, northerly, (20 m.p.h.) today, light tomorrow. Lows tonight an dhighs tomorrow at Port Hardy 22 and 32; Massett, 25 and 30; Prince Rupert 20 and I see things differently. I re "1;hin' 2."00 tons WOULD HAVE HIGHER RATE gret my error." " London docks. JUNEAU Because of the increase of cannery fires in Alaska, all of the west coast insurance groups have agreed to a blanket 50 per cent raise In rates for all canneries, or any properyt Identified with the fishing industry. Large canneries which have been recently burned include the plants at Hydaburg, Excursion Inlet and Kodiak. With one exception, none rebuilt. Madsen Red Lake 2.80 McKenzle Red Lake 40 McLcod Cocksliutt .... 1.10 Moneta 49 Negus 2.40 Noranda 57.75 liouvicourt 39 Pickle Crow 2.20 Regcourt , .06 San Antonio .'.. 4.40 Senator Rouyn 43 Shcrrit Gordon 22 Steep Rock 1.55 Sturgeon River 19 Silver Miller 35 28. ietball Earlier the court said that the Cardinal, 06-year old Roman Catholic Primate of Hungary, admitted writing a letter to United States Minister Seldan Chapln, asking him to furnish a plane for his escape and offering $4000 for a pilot. CP.lt. Makes Request in I'vent of Mountain Differential Being Krmoved OTTAWA -The Canadian Pacific Railway today asked the Board of Transport Commission LOCAL TIDES Saturday, February 5, 1949 too high. Canadian National Railways, various properties, assessment too high. Anthony Eden In New Zealand AUCK1.ANH. New Zealand - .High 5:40 18.5 feet VANCOUVER BLACKS OUT VANCOUVER-. -All street lights are being turned off at 1 a.m. until such time as the power Nidation is relieved. This was Himounccd here last evening as the electric supply criais increased. Another snowfall "commenced Thursday ufternoou and was increasing as the dajr lengthened. Further frost is DreriieteH ltli 18:12 15.5 feet Low 12:19 8.2 feet 23:59 9.0 feet Rt. Hon. Anthony Eden, former -f 'niary K, Rupert f MMI.S J"'1' 7 pan. ,; fund Season Rcb-, ICaneclled for ! NiKht ers for an immediate two percent general increase in freight rates if it removes the mountain dilereulial rate. K. M. D. Spenee, C.H.R. associate counsel, made the request as he concluded final argument for the com- j pany in British Columbia's ap-' plication for removal of tiici British .foreign secretary, arrived yesterday iroin Vancouver. He said lie was glad to PRINCE RUPERT FISHERMEN'S CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION Membership Meeting Sunday, February 6, 2 p.m. v To discuss business concerning the stores and vamps (30) MONTREAL, Illegal slot machines collcted by the police are causing trouble. Ordinarily they are broken up and usable parts sent to Montreal jail for use in the machine shop, but all available space has been taken up and police may have to rent storage room. hear that the Prime Ministers of U.F.A.W.U. SPECIAL MEETING WAGE CONFERENCE REPORT Oddfellows Hall, 4th Ave. East FRIDAY, FEB. 4, 7:30 P.M. (2y Canada and New Zealand were In favor of the Atlantic Alliance. "o much-needed rain in sight, j He is' making a world tour by air. mountain differential.