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"Prince
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Key
to
the
Great
Northwest"
PHONE
81
VOL.
XXXVIII,
No.
3.
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.
C,
WEDNESDAY,
JANUARY
5,
1949
PRICE
FIVE
CENTS
Canada
Is
S
Program
i
m
I
lust
Eight
Aggression,
Hectares
President
Truman
Millions
of
Dollars
To
Be
Spent
on
New
Air-Sea
Craft
For
Armed
Forces
sian
Tactics
"Serious."
PALESTINE
IS
TENSE
DRY
DOCK
MAN
MISSING
SINCE
EARLY
MONDAY
SaieuHJ
k
w
Authtfities
Are
Asked
Fresh
Bloodshed
Between
JwASlliNOTO.,
D.C.
(CP)
In
his
"State
of
the
-
OTTAWA
(CP)
On
the
eve
of
the
first
defence
alliance,
Canada
is
embarking
on
an
armaments
program
which
will
eauiD
the
three
small
regular
forces
Fear
is
being
felt
today
for
the
on"
message
WCongress
today
President
Truman
tied
the
counry
that
the
United
States
cannot
J..,t
the
bmrUli
of
creation
and
maintenance
of
safety
of
Henry
Jensen,
47-year-
with
new
air
and
sea
craft
at
a
cost
of
millions
of
old
plater
foreman
at
the
dry
dollars.
A
definite
plan
has
been
shaping
for
several
dock,
who
has
been
missing
weeks.
,c
T.
The
full
.,,
financial
in:ai
:mnat
impact
w;u
will
not
not
hit
ht
the
thP
fpfl-
fed-
ed
forces
sufficient
to
fight
aggression.
The
ident
dealt
nly
briefly
with
foreign
policy
which
ill
di.scu.sf
lter.
He
re-
Israeli
and
Iraqui
Poison
Gas?
TEL
AVIV,'
'(f)-Fresh
bloodshed
in
the
Jewish-Iraqui
battle
left
Israeli's
central
front
tense
yesterday.
Israeli
and
Iraqui
troops
fought
for
two
hours
on
the
potentially
explosive
Sharon
Valley
sector.
Both
sides
suffered
casualties.
An
Army
spokesman
said
that
jeral
budget
this
fiscal
year
but
will
eventually
embrace
indefi
New
Break
since
Tuesday
morning
shortly
after
he
checked
into
his
job.
Search
of
the
dry
dock,
which
was
organized
Tuesday
afternoon,
failed
to
reveal
his
whereabouts
nor
did
he
return
to
his
living
quarters
at
the
Pioneer
CANADA
FAILS
i,
however,
i
the
serious-of
Russian
tactics.
The
,
he
felt,
ws
on
the
verge
j
At
Okalla
real
achievement
or
"great
nite
quantities.
Two
jet
fighters
for
the
air
force,
new
type
of
surface
craft
and
a
fighter
plane
for
the
anti-submarine
section
of
the
navy
as
well
as
a
new
type
of
transport
plane
are
included
in
the
program.
trophe.'
Rooms,
Third
Avenue
East,
during
the
night.
LIVING
COST
DOWN
OTTAWA
The
cost
of
living
index
in
Canada
has
dropped
for
the
first
time
in
two
years.
It
was
down
from
159.6
on
November
1
to
1.58.9
on
December
1
a
drop
of
7-10
point
the
Dominion
Bureau
of
Statistics
announced
today.
A
break
in
food
prices
was
the
principal
reason
for
the
drop
in
the
general
index.
The
food
index
was
down
from
204.7
to
202.
WOULD
STOP
BATTLE
WASHINGTON
United
States
is
pressing
Israel
and
the
Arab
states
to
bring
the
Palestine
fighting
to
a
complete
halt.
Israel
and
Egypt
have
been
urged
to
avoid
acts
which
might
spread
the
conflict
and
other
representations
will
be
made
before
the
United
Nations
security
council.
State
Department
officials
deny
reports
that
the
United
States
has
threatened
Israel
with
withdrawal
of
American
recognition.
SEVEN
DIE
IN
CRASH
COLFAX,
Cal.
Seven
men
were
killed
and
another
is
believed
missing
in
the
crash
of
a
United
States
Air
Force
C-47
transport
ten
miles
southwest
of
here
last
night.
Coroner
Francis
E.
West
returned
here
early
today
after
viewing
the
wreck
a
Jewish
punitive
expedition
had
clashed
with
Iraqui
regulars.
Israeli
yesterday
denied
an
Egyptian
charge
"
that
poison
pas
had
been
introduced
into
the
fighting.
Three
Women
Make
Getaway,
Two
Recaptured
Full
Scale
Probe
Coming
VANCOUVER,
Fast
police
action
following
a
cabby's
tip-off
last
night
resulted
in
the
TO
MEET
ORDER
OTTAWA
0
A
government
J
source
said
that
Canada
had
been
unable
to
complete
its
1948
bacon
commitment
with
Uni-ed
Kingdom.
Consequently,
a
$12,000,000
Economic.
Co-operation
Administration
authorization
for
Britain
to
buy
Canadian
bacon
in
the
fourth
quarter
of
1948
lias
been
cancelled
In
Wash
messaey
ean,
puiicipany
domestic
issues.
He
askiM
ress
forfour
billion
addi-I
dollars
to
be
derived,
lie
sted,
liiiiicipally
from
Uxor
corporations
with
pos-inciiiusc
in
the
income
lax
iidtilf
and
upper
brackets.
Mr.
Jensen
arrived
at
work
at
his
usual
timo,
shortly
before
3
o'clock
and,
with
the
commencement
of
the
shift,
gave
orders
for
the
morning's
work
to
his
crew.
He
was
not
seen
again.
Apprehension
was
felt
late
in
the
morning
but
it
-was
not
until
the
MAN
DIES
IN
SUICIDE
PACT
WINNIPEG.
A
pretty
nurse-in-tiaining,
22-year
old
Fleur
Jacques
last
night
was
under
police
guard
in
hospital
as
a
survivor
of
what
police
recapture
of
two
of
three
women
who
escaped
from
Okalla
Prison
in
Burnaby
municipality
at
supper
time
last
evening.
The
two
Dorothy
Chaney,
26,
negro,
and
Maureen
McKenna,.
21-year
old
KWINITSA
SLIDES
HOLD
UP
TRAIN
afternoon
that
an
organized
xpeted,
Mr.
Truman
ask-npiess
to
repeal
the
Taft-yArt.
chief
executive
also
pro-approval
of
,
the
long-
search
got
under
way.
ington
The
fault
is
not
entirely
Canada's
the
source
said.
Had
the
United
Kingdom
agreed
to
take
Mr.
Jensen
was
one
of
two
Two
snowsikies
which
came
down
In
the
Kwinitsa
snow
belt,,
drug
addict
were
captured
under
the
Cambie
Street
bridge
two
hours
af
ter
they
had
pried
fug
SU
Law'rence
watcr-
ud
power
project.
EtC
i,
the
bacon
when
it
was
available
45
milcs
east
of
Prince
Ruper
Prince
Rupert
men
who
escaped
from
a
boat
explosion
which
claimed
the
lives
of
two
men
near
Bella
Bella
three
weeks
ago.
The
midnight
fire
at
sea
early
this
morning,
delayed
an
the
lock
of
the
kitchen
door
of
the
prison
and
climbed
a
10-foot
wall.
Still
sought
Is
Margaret
eel
Utility
to
impose
price
(s
on
scarce
commodities,
km
and
.strengthening
of
there
would
have
been
no
difficulty.
As
it
was,"
Canada
undershot
her
target
220,000,000
pounds
by
20
million.
termed
a
sfiicide
pact
in
which
her
27-year
old
boy
friend
died
from
an
overdose
of
narcotics.
The
coroner
said
that
the
girl
and
William
Stawnychko
alias
Peters,
each,
left
notes
sayinr;
that
there
was
no
other
way
out.
He
was
married.
ex;
controls
were
other
re-
rcn
other
three
hours
the
arrival
of
the
westbound
passenger
train
which
already
had
been
running
12
hours
behind
its
normal
schedule
from
Jasper.
A
rotary
snowplow
dispatch
was
something
which
he
told
a
friend
he
"would
never
forget."
However,
according
to
Oscar
McNeill,
aged
20,
who
made
her
second
break
within
a
month.
A
taxi
driver,
Hearing
the
descriptions,
telephoned
the
police
T-1
Havroy,
his
landlord
for
the
last
"Stale
of
the
Union"
was
,"
the
President
said,
but
o
pointed
to
certain
and
drove
them
to
near
the
ed
from
Prince
Rupert
at
6
five
years,
Mr.
Jensen
seemed
Peters
was
released
on
bail
a
few
days
ago
on
charges
of
forgery
and
uttering
forged
o'clock
this
morning
was
ex
ARE
DISCUSSING
SKEENA
SALMON
Fisheries
Researchers
In
.
Annual
Session
at
'Ottawa
.
bridge
where
ttie
two
women
were
picked
up.
McNeill
and
two
others
en-
INKING
III
to
be
quite
normal
when
tie
played
,
cards
with
a
group
at
the
Pioneer
Rooms
Monday
eve-rihig.
'
'-"-''
-
;""
When
he
went
to
work
Tuesday
morning,
he,
apparently,
forgot
to
take
his
wallet
which
gAnoered.
the
irt
female
break
j
two-arettirfor"--
"
in
12
years
on
December
2.
She
gUard3
were
temoorarily
OTTAWA
?
Men
whose
work
age
with
a
group
of
Air
Force
officers
and
said
that
seven
bodies
had
been
counted
in
the
wreckage.
WOULD
PAY
50
PERCENT
EDMONTON
Speaking
here
yesterday,
Minister
of
M
ines
and
Natural
Resources
J.
A.
McKinnon
expressed
the
opinion
that
tpe
federal
government
-should
ray
fifty
percent
as
a
minimiirnrcorrtribution"
to
the
completing
of
a
TransCanada
Highw
ay.
He
said
the
government
was
anxious
to
undertake
the
work
as
soon
as
possible
and
that
a
good
start
would
probably
be
made
this
year.
Cost
has
been
estimated
at
$226,000,000.
CHIANG
TERMS
REJECTED
SHANGHAI
There
are
growing
indications
that
Communist
China
will
reject
Generalissimo
Chiang
Kai-Shek's
New
Year
peace
terms."
It
is
re
touches
everything
from
oysters
to
whales
are
in
Ottawa
for
pected
to
clear
the
slides
by
noon
today,
allowing
the
trsrlu
to
ariy.c4icre
at
2
o'clock
.
this
afternoon,
'
The
train
left
Jasper
12
hours
after
its
scheduled
time
because
of
delayed
connection
with
the
main
line
trains
and
was
only
a
fhort
distance
cast
of
Kwinitsa
when
thc
.slides
came
down
early
this
morning.
It
hud
been
previously
expected
to
arrive
here
NCOUVER
BARETS
TABOO
got
to
Calgary
before
she
was
caught.
This
was
the
third
break
In
little
over
a
month.
On
New
Year's
Day
eight
suspended
by
.
Warden
John
Millman,
who
said
that
others
may
be
dismissed.
Meantime
Attorney
General
Gordon
Wismer
said
at
Victoria
their
annual
get-together.
They
are
members
of
the
Canadian
Fisheries
Research
Board,
government
-
sponsored
scientific
youths
sawed
out
a
bar
and
that
ther
would
be
a
full-scale
climbed
a
fence
to
make
their
I
investigation
by
officials
of
his
getaway.
Six
were
caught
but
department
and
the
warden.
body,
which
seeks
methods
of
improving
the
fisheries
and
NCOUVKR,
ft"
Ducking
s
of
booze
under
cabaret
i
is
going
to
be
a
risky
icss
from
now
on,
Police
i
Walter
Mulligan
warned
n'mht.
,
dry
squads
are
going
to
bringing
better
quality
Hsh
to
consumers
for
both
the
domestic
and
export
markets.
Among
the
topics
up
for
dis
at
10:,45
a.m.
One
of
the
slides
is
about
10
feet
deep
and
50
feet
long
at
mile
7G
west
of
Pacific.
The
other
occurred
half
a
mile
west
and
was
25
feet
deep
and
100
feet
long.
They
are
the
first
to
delay
rail
traffic,
near
Prince
Rupert
this
winter.
co
on
fin
flrinkhur
in
flip
'4
4
was
found
by
a
chambermaid
under
the
pillow
of
his
bod.
It
Is
possible
that
he
may
have
accidentally
slipped
from
a
wharf
or
one
of
the
boats
at
the
dry
dock
basin
and
fallen
into
the
water.
Dry
dock
workers
organized
a
search
party
Tuesday
and
scoured
the
yard
and
boats
moored
at
the
floats
and
on
the
pontoons.
Mr.
Jensen
was
described
by
Mr.
Havroy
as
a
-man
of
regular
habits.
Born
at
Fredrickshavn,
Denmark,
he
came
to
Canada
just
before
the
start
of
the
Second
World
War.
He
had
learned
his
trade
as
plater
in
Danish
shipyards.
On
his
arrival
in
Canada
he
became
a
trapper
in
the
Mac
0ff,cussion
,s
thc
completion
of
a
spots
and
they
started
Skeena
River
salmon
ulnht
by
making
three
raids
vc-ycar
4
i)
netted
11
bntlt.es
and
four
investigation
which
was
itnisncu
in
1918.
All
Together
For
Prince
Rupert-C.C.F.
Member,
Commerce
Chamber
II.
G.
Archibald,
M.P.
for
Skeena,
may
be
a
Socialist
but
he
has
sought
and
received
the
cooperation
of
the
Prince
Rupert
Chamber
of
Commerce
in
suggesting
matters
which
might
appropriately
be
brought
to
the
attention
of
the
authorities
in
Ottawa
while
Mr.
Archibald
is
in
the
Dominion
capital
attending
the
session
of
:
?
nouses
for
their
alleged
rs.
ported
that
Chiang
is
preparing
to
move
the
government
from
Nanking
to
Canton
and
Formosa.,
RECORD
COLD
WEATHER
NEW
YORK
The
death
toll
as
a
result
of
tornadoes
in
the
middle
south
is
placed
at
59
with
360
injured
and
more
likely
to
die.
Blizzard
winter
conditions,
which
brought
36
inches
of
snow
in
Ne-braska-and
blocked
rail
and
road
traffic,
has
moved
into
the
northwest.
In
California
the
thermometer
dropped
to
a
record
19
above
in
the
citrus
belts
with
serious
damage
to
crops
feared.
4
buret
owners
said
"swell,"
miing
a
chance
to
fight
ist
"this
province's
farcical
CO-OP
DOWNS
RAINMAKERS
IN
FIRST
GAME
OF
1949
SERIES
(Vo
r0,lJo-Me-IIi
l(i
r
laws,"
'.
least
we
can
fight
the
mit,
in
the
open,"
one
"snum
said.
added
that
the
raids
may
CO-OPERATING
Parliament
which
is
about
to
open.
When
Mr.
Archibald,
in
a
cor
kenzie
River
district
but
came
to
Prince
Rupert
to
take
his
a
orders
from
the
Police
mission,
as
is
claimed,
but
iiinks
"the
real
force
Uicm
are
the
rabid
prohi-
present
post
at
the
dry
dock
in
1940
when
wartime
ship
construction
began.
recovery
program
will
end
on
schedule"
in
1952,
despite
a
plea
from
western
Europe
that
It
cannot
stand
alone
on
its
economic
feet
by
that
time.
MARSHALL
PLAN
TO
END
IN
1952
WASHINGTON,
h
A
top
Marshall
Plan
official
saicl
to"
day
that
the
"general
European
High
School
35,
Morgan's
21
Peoples
Store
1
1,
Dom's
8
North
Star
30,
High
School
15
A
young
fighting
Uo-Me-Hi
Rainmaker
squad
went
down
to
a
50-46
defeat
at
the
hands
of
the
veteran
Co-op
quintet
as
1949
Senior
basketball
was
ushered
in
last
night
with
the
roughest
game
seen
tliis
season.
In
the
same
session
Dom's,
of
the
ladies
league,
went
down
to
their
first
defeat
before
list.s,
a
minority
thinking
'control
the
drinking
habits
c
majority
of
the
people."
TAKE
DOWN
dial
pre-Chrlstmas
letter
to
the
Chamber,
asked
for
suggestions,
E.
T.
Applewhaite,
Chamber
Secretary,
who
was
the
C.C.F.
member's
Liberal
opponent
in
the
last
general
election,
and
Dr.
R.
G.
Large,
one
of
Prince
Rupert's
top
Progressive-Conservatives,
got
their
heads
together
and
briefed
Mr.
Archibald
as
follows:
'
"Immigration
If
you
have
not
already
received
a
copy
of
Policy
Declarations
of,
the
Canadian
Chamber
of
Commerce
for
1948-1949,
you
very
shortly
will.
The
views
of
this
Chamber
are
pretty
tSPOSAL
OF
'
r
v
?
fro.
.
Peoples
Store.
OLD
HOTEL
Wreckers
Move
Into
Famous
Vancouver
Structure
Biggest
Dismantling
Job
AREHOUSE
THE
WEATHER
Synopsis!
Temperatures
have
moderat
BUD!
1
recent
Information
having
forthcoming
from
any
,f,r
since
advkv
was
recelv-'
time
ago
'that
adverfis-''.V
War
Assets
Corporation
VANCOUVER
a
The
old
Hotel
Vancouver,
one
of
Western
Canada's
most
famous
hos-
ed
over
the
British
Columbia
A
partisan
Bo-Me-Hi
crowd
saw
their
favorites
defeated
in
the
scoring
parade
but
not
in
the
battle
on
the
floor.
The
first
half
produced
the
best,
basketball
of
the
night
as
Bo-Me-Hi
kept
putting
the
pressure
on
Co-op
and
never
backing
down.
The
half-time
score
saw
Co-op
out
in
front
by
three
points,
2G-23.
In
the
third
quarter
Co-op
p-pnpral
in
nprpenient.
with
those
I
coast
and
northern
interior
with
n'e
laruc
waterfront
ware-
f
I
leiries,
toaay
weicomeu
ns
!.;
f
Canadian
Chamber.
In
dUL.
established
here
as
one
KUUiiW)
WICLRL'IS
WXIU
Will
K"tt
'lie
United
Xhitiv
dolViice
ARCHIBALD
the
inriux
of
warm
air
from
the
south.
Tills
warmer
air
is
expected
to
spread
into
the
southern
interior
of
the
province
by
tomorrow.
Minimum
tempera-
it
down.
After
fifty
years
of
playing
host
to
world,
notables
the
building
will
become
what,
is
'"Is
for
demolition
was
be-"I'terrcd
until'
January
15.
P'iii'-f
liuiiert
Chamber
of
won
the
came
as
they
out
P'W'ce
has
wired
thc
De-
said
to
be
the
largest
wrecking
job
ever
undertaken
In
the
Brit
i
iu
tj..i.,..,.,i-,.rU
17.0
n.'
turns
In
the
Koutenays
last
of
National
Defence
at.
A'
vcr't'-
r
V
t
all
this
connection,
of
course,
we
are
particularly
conscious
of
the
area
available
for
settlement
between
Prince
Rupert
and
Prince
George.
"Ports
The
paragraphs
originated
from
-this
Chamber,
ably
supported
by
St.
Johns,
N.B.
We
feel
that
if
an
official
survey
of
existing
port
facilities
in
Canadian
ports
were
to
be
made,
it
would
bring
to
favorable
light
the
facilities
available
and
unused
at
Prince
Rupert.
was
fight-fight-flght
with
fwa
Hut,
if
no
interest
has
night
were
10
to
20
degrees
below
zero
but
are
expected
to
be
'
shown
in
rcntention
of
the
!
loose
balls
and
rebounds
having
for
3
to
10
degrees
above
tonight.
struggling
arms
and
legs
Rain
is
occurring
along
the
ish
Empire.
For
the
next
eight
months
air
hammers
will
echo
through
the
venerable
twelve-storey
56D-room
hotel
in
a
job
estimated
at
costing
$2,000000.
T.
Eaton
Co.
Ltd.,
the
owners
are
reported
to
be
planning
a
north
const
and
will
spread
to
the
south
coast
by
tonight.
Snow
will
occur
in
the
northern
in
,
,
y
j-
x
"S
.
-f
i
1
'
'
J
-
i
v
1
"
'
I
'Uiauon
or
llse.
It
be
ex-1
""luted
by
the
defence
de-"lniU
aim
retained
intact
PussiliU.
diMpuce
purposes.
10
Canadian
National
Rali-s
he
further
pressed
for
irttrnuMit.
of
its
possible
in-ns
in
connection
uiltn
lln
them,
tempers
flared
many
times
as
elbows
and
hands
were
being
used
to
get
to
the
ball.
Davidson
and
Doininato
made
the
long
trek
to
the
bench
in
this
quarter.
Thc
quarter
score
was
43-32
for
Co-op.
"TransCanada
Highway
Tins
terior
today
with
snow
flurries
over
most
of
the
interior
tomorrow,
Forecast
new
uptown
urparuiit-nu
ow.v
.
rh
nf
Hnrio,sps
...i.
on
the
site.
.
I
.
,!ii
u.
i
iu.i
mov
chmi.sp
which
u
a,,
-n-
The
filial
10
minutes
had
lots
property.
of
excitement
and
scrammy
Queen
Charlottes
and
North
lit
pilllCliC.
c
xcci
wiau
u
J
be
poor
business
to
cloud
the
issue
by
talking
aoout
routes
unUl
definite
commitments
hav
3
been
made
on
the
principle.
LOCAL
TIDES
playing
and
not
very
much
bas-
coast-Intermittent
rain
today
HAItUY
Cloudy
with
showers
tomorrow.
Wind
southwest,
25
m.ph
Little
FRANCES
MARK
Pianist
MURDER
SHED
Ontario
provincial
police
officers
C.
B.
Cress-well,
left,
find
Carl
Johns
study
the
window
from
which
is
believed
a
killer
escaped
at
Navan,
Ont.,
near
Ottawa.
The
victim,
Napoleonas
Jonusas,
a
displaced
person,
was
found
with
his
head
battered,
partially
hanging
from
a
beam
in
the
second
storey
of
the
machine
shed.
(C.
P.
Photo)
IUSKIN
Violinist
civic
ketball,
It
was
a
knocK-uowu
affair
with
players
having
no
regard
for
where
they
used
their
bodies.
Macphee
.and
Beynon
were
banished
in
the
final
mln-(Contlnued
on
page
4)
However,
we
do
feel
that
the
claims
of
the
Jasper-Prince
George
(Yellowhead)
route
(Continuec
on
Page
6)
Thursday,
January
6,
1949
High
6:05
18.1
feet
18:03
16.3
feet
Low
12:20
9.3
feet
change
in
temperature.
Lows
tonight
and
highs
tomorrow:
Port
Hardy
38
and
42,
Massett
35
and
42.
-
CENTRE
i
APPLEWHAITE
THURSDAY
8:15
P.
M.