r PROVlNClAt LIBRARY provincial li2?..n. A vr (A J' 4 !H LSfcsTV vfi - i I I "V ff NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" VOL. XXXIX, No. 290 PRINCE RUPERT. B.C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1950 PRICE FIVE CENTS f 1 A DISPATCHED CABS ' rr Doily Delivery Phone 81 r U.S. Emergency ACUATION FROM KOREA IN FULL SWING Two Million Ludlow Type Setter. Here Mean's Streaming lit Of Humhang Port Men By June WASHINGTON 0 The United States A'-my today called for a total of, 160,000 draftees in January and February, nearly doubling the quotas it had announced previously for that period. It acted In line with President Truman's decision that the United Slates must iuae its jnllita manpower sights beyond the goal spt. before recent Te verses in A new Ludlow typecasting machine for the Daily News was among the cargo carried by the Prince George when she docked here today. The machine, ordered last fall, will be another modernization added to the mechanical department of the newspaper and will produce new and versatile type. It is expected to save time in the composing room. Attacked on Beachheads by Communists In United States Uniforms J)KYO (CP) More than 60,000 Allied troops n SEES NO WAR OTTAWA Prime Minister L. 5. St. Laurent expressed high optimism today that the world would not be plunged into war at this time. He made his cheerful forecast during a press conference. 50 TO 1 AGAIN LONDON Lloyds of London gives insurance odds of 50 to 1 against the world being plung reaming aboard ships at Hungnam today on ting evacuation from northeast Korea. Chinese funists, wearing American uniforms, made a Jiour attack on the escape beachhead during turning. The attack was repulsed but Allied 1 feared the Chinese : Korea 2,000,000 men by next June 30. The President will speak to ths nation Friday night and, in thj meantime, it is suggested, may call a national emergency. Sale After Stranding Cease Fire TODAY'S STOCKS (Courtesy 8. D. Johnston Co Ltd.) massive assauns uc-. Jry last United Nations get away by sea. Iji.sRUlsed attackers were fcuard of 64,000 to 80.000 troops massed around lipe port on the Sea f, jThc Allies at Hungnum fcundoning their last bis A wire cable around the propeller was the only thing tnat prevented the seiner Eastview from being able to reach port last night under her own power, Capt. Joe Katnick said this morning. . After being stranded on the rocks for many hours after tihe ran ashore during ebb tide near .Nations outpost in North MIDDLE AAIUULC . ..LAST ed into war before the end of next year. Kf. W MINISTER NAMED OTTAWA Prime Minister L. S. St. Laurent today announced the appointment of George Prudham, Liberal M.P. of Edmonton as new minister of mines. He succeeds Hon. James A. McKinnon who drops out of the cabinet. NEW BISHOP ELECTED VANCOUVER Rev. Godfrey Gower, one-time mechanical engineer and farmer in Alberta, was yesterday elected Bishop of the Diocese of New Westminster. He succeeds Rt. MASTER I and equipment from the West depend upon the Canal as their supply route. The Canal, is therefore, not only the last line of defence in Is tne master key in a key area. Through the Suez Canal run the routes between the Middle Eastern States and their sources of supply, as well as the world can oincers expectea the southern end of Porchcr Is- land, she was refloated with the help of the Westview, Capt. Joe Malatestinic, the Yankee Boy, Is Rejected Proposal of 13 Nations Turned Down by Communists LAKE SUCCESS (CP) Russia today rejected the Asian-Arab plan for a Korean cease-fire on the ground that United States Since 1945, when Britain was blows, possibly tonight, mmunist troops usually prepared to renounce her Treaty VANCOUVER Bayonne ; 02 Bralorne - 5-90 B R Con 02 B R X 04 Congress 08 Hedley Mascot 3 Pacific Eastern 05 Pioneer 1-75 Premier Border 7'z Privateer -6Vi Reeves McDonald ........ 3.60 Reno 03 Sheep Creek 1-25 Silbak Premier 28 Taku River 06 Vananda 08 Salmon Gold 02 the Middle East, but is vital also traffic between Europe ana tne In darkness. Loading of rights to keep a garrison in the!Far East for the defence of the first and and material began two "roof-level" defence Suez Canal zone In Egypt, world The, three (go and is expected to second lines. To weaken its security would invite fatal events have vastly increased the areas of Greece, Turkey and l(. for some time. Importance of that zone, which i Persia now receiving military aia Capt. John Pahl, and the' B.C. Packers 43, Capt. Dave Carpenter. The Westview and Yankee Boy towed her to Nelson Bros, reduction plant at Port Edward where Capt. Katnich said she delivered her full load of 115 tons of herring. She docked about 7 p.m. Chinese attackers wore uniforms, lnclud-nd Sirrlcan new parkas. The uni- had, apparently, been Hops Extract Combats T.B. WASHINGTON. An extract rem captured Americans and Great Britain would use the truce to prepare their forces for a new attack. The statement Toy Jakob A. Silver Standard 1 5 Capt. Katnick said the boat could not use her own power Eighth Army has, appar-hithdrawn south of Par- West. Uranium (asked) 1.00 from hops has been found to have a powerful inhibiting effect against the tubercle bacillus. Malik dashed hopes of United. L the old border between because of the fouled propellor. 1 Oils Everything was closed and very! Anglo Canadian 4.50 fend South Korea, except Rev. Sir. Francis Heathcote who retired two months ago after ten years as bishop.. ALICE ARM MAN DIES Norman Mcl.cod, well known pioneer prospector of Alice Arm, died Tuesday morning at Prince Rupert General Hospital where he had been a patient for several weeks. He was 75 years of age. Born in the Isle of Skye, Scotland, deceased had been in South Africa before coming to Canada. As far as can be learned, he had no immediate relatives little water was taken aboard. the organism responsible for fence line Jutting a short INTO ACTION SOON Princess Pats Reach Japan And Are Moving on to Korea YOKOHAMA (CP) Second Buttalion. Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, more than 1006 strong, arrived here today for service with the United Nations Korean forces. The . "Pats" were told they would continue their voyage to the Korean war theatre tomorrow. , , The Pats left Seattle November 25. They will probably be attached to the Commonwealth Brigade operation in Korea.. f. : ,..-,. ...,f : . '". : Nations delegates for acceptance of the 13-nation peace plan by Chinese Communists who adhere closely to Soviet policy. -Malik Insisted that there can During the time she was strand-1 ed, she remained on an even keel into Communist terrl- fmtij a gust of wind keeled her over. In her position sheltered A P Con -33 Atlantic , 2-20 Calmont 10 Central Leduc 2.15 Home Oil 13 50 Mercury - -12 Okalta l-'O Pacific Pete 7 05 Princess 1 ' 1-30 by General Immunlque lag MacArthur only 90 be no peace in Korea until all ' United Nations troops are withdrawn. Kiave no lniormation Evidence Conflict from the north wind yesterday she received no buffeting from the waves. Capt. Katnich said that she was at no time In dan- his withdrawal or about kuation. ' -Royal Canadian-..-: . : .08. gtr. jfios! inatlon of tiie evacu-trees' Is shrouded" toy se- EDMONTON" fy, SlbertTJohiV Atherton, young railway telegraph operator at Red Pass blackout. Bumper Set Two Killed In Freight Wreck Junction, declared yesterday at a Board of Transport Commissioners' inquiry into the recent aculous "My delegation objects to and I will vote against any draft resolution." Malik, said. "We will ob- Ject to the adoption of any resolution which has Implicit in it the maintenance of fdreign troops In Korea." Malik spoke before the political committee of the United Nations General Assembly. LAKE SUCCESS (CM Great Britain and the United Great Britain and the United States threw their support behind the proposal to seek a basis for the Korean cease fire but !1 1 . - -i! i i u railway collision" disaster at frtnna T3 ivar (hat Vin f n i prl tf McADAM, New Brunswick . t roaf f a tTain riia. Egypt Talking Pro-Communist CAIRO The Egyptian parliament last night applauded a deputy's proposal that Egypt make agreements with Communist-bloc countries and use these agreements to pry con ish Escape hereabouts. He ewncd mining claims In the Alice Arm area. QUEBEC Genereaux Ruest, 54-year-old crippled watchmaker, was today sentenced to be hanged March 15 for his part in the time-bomb air lines disaster at Sault au Cochon in September 1949 in which 25 persons died. A criminal Assizes jury found him guilty of murder. He helped J. Albert Guay. now under sentence of death, to make a time bomb in a plot to kill the lattcr's wife. TO TELL NATION WASHINGTON, D.C. President Truman is expected to T...-v t-vnln nvAivr mamhorn lirnr"! ' " . . I .Patcher's order. If he had done i killed n, and a three others Injured rilca6tor n.,rt nt, have tne disaster wouia not nave Of Herring B.C. Packers' packers are today engaged in bringing into port the fish from a big 800 to 900 set which has been taken at Ogden Channel by the seiner Van Isle. This Is one of the largest sets of the season. From noon yesterday until noon today 2.100 tons of herring have been landed, bringing the today when a Canadian Pacific EY, Nova Scotia A bi airliner sheared off a i :ht pole at a nearby re- so, occurred. However, A. E. Parsons, operator at Blue River, later told the inquiry that he himself had heard the 22-year-old Atherton repeat the order to Dispatcher A. the United States insisted that Railway double-header freight train plunged off a washed-out stretch of rail twelve miles from here. Killed were Engineer Joseph H. Doiron and Fireman C. M. Tg-n' on r . cessions from the western pow to passengers. There , - """" " ers. passengers and crew ol E. Tlsdale calling for the pas At the request of the Russians Soliman Abdel Fattah, mem- i McKay. I or board. Miraculously, senger and troop trains to make total catch for the season to the debate was recessed until luiwniw ' - T". Athona 7''2 - Aumaque 2 Beattle - 51 Bevcourt Bobjo - - 11 V ' Buffalo Canadian 20 Consol. Smelters -127.50 y Conwest : ' 1-78 ' Donalda - 45 Eldona -23 . East Sullivan 7.00 : Giant Yellowknife 5.85 ; God's Lake 38 j Hardrock 22 Harricana - f Heva -114 Hosco : - 54 ; Jacknife 05- ! Joliet Quebec 88; Lake Rowan 06 ':. Lapaska 04 . Little Long Lac 48 f Lynx l2Vi j Madsen Red Lake 2.05 McKenzie Red Lake 40 'r McLeod Cockshutt 2 00 j, Moneta 41 Negus 72 Noranda 69 00 Louvicourt 17 Pickle Crow 1-67 Regcourt .' 05 San Antonio - 2.25 Senator Rouyn 19 Sherrlt Gordon - 2.80 Steep Rock 6.15 Sturgeon River 1 Injured were D. w. Mcuermoti, 18,000 tons in the northern sub- fere hurt. ber of the ruling Wafdlst party, today to give some .delegations engineer of the second locomo- plane burst into flam tive on a 36-car train. Fireman time for consultation with tneir governments. minutes after passengers declare a national emergency when he makes a radio "fireside chat" to the American people at 7 or 7:30 p.m. Pacific Standard Time Friday night. He will outline administration plans because of the threat of all-out war. district. That is 60 per cent of the year's quota of 30,000 for the sub-district. Fishermen have been working toward filling the quota before December 16, the date agreed their meet at Cedarside. The collision cost 21 lives. The train order which Atherton said he passed to the troop train conductor lacked two vital words 'at Ceerarside," the point where the two trains were supposed to have passed. Creighton White and Trainman George Madire. LOSES HEAD IN ELEVATOR SHAFT fpw were taken to safety, f transport was on a flight Switzerland to New York. I in for refuelling when it ithe pole I machine dropped Into a ftter skidding half a mlic Ifteen minutes ltuer burst ames upon by the union to stop fishing before Christmas. The seiner advanced the proposal. He was speaking In the debate on King Farouk's recent throne speech which asked Great Britain to withdraw her troops from Suez Canal and quit the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Applause also had greeted an assertion by a Wafdist deputy, Inrahim Talaat, that Egypt should recognize Communist China and establish an accord with "the Soviet Union and all Eastern bloc nations." HOCKEY SCORES larific Coast Vancouver 4, Victoria 0 Mainline-Okanagan Trail 2, Nanalmo 1 (overtime) Kelowna 5, Kamloops 1 Reds Terrorize might be able to meet that deadline but it is doubtful if the packers will be able to take the catches away fast enough. VANCOUVER (Pi Alfred Shaughnessy, 30-year-old Indiun fisherman, was killed in a downtown hotel yesterday when he Railwaymen On Strike CHICAGO 0i An unauthoriz ed strike bv yard switchmen to East Germany BERLIN W East Germany's R A PROGRESSIVE CITY became entangled in elevator cables. He was decapitated. He had wandered Into an elevator motor cable room during the LEICESTER, England W Leicestershire miners are giving away part of their free coal allowance to the widows of men killed In recent mining accidents. vote (or day tied up much of the freight Communist Parliament- today threatened death to all Germans convicted of collaborating with Marshall Aid -Soon To End military policies of the western! traffic in Chicago s vast railway yards, slowing many war shipments. A spokesman said it was an attempt to force a settlement of the wages-hours dispute be flLFRID McLEAH, boat builder X THE WEATHER Synopsis Skies cleared over much of the southern part of the province powers. Parliament approved a plan designed "to strike terror among West Germans now being asked to Join Western Europe's common defence. LONDON OH Hugh GaitsklU Chancellor of' the Exchequer, FOR ALDERMAN announced today that flow of last night and temperatures 290p For Aggressive, Realistic approach to the administration of our civic affairs VOTE FOR MICHAEL KRUEGER Plane Missing fore any wage freeze. Would Cut Out "Progressive" MONTREAL Forty-seven ridings, comprising the Montreal district, recommend elimination of the word "Progressive" from the Progressive Conservative party. Marshall Air recovery dollars to Britain will be ended January 1. Great Britain has received $2,540,700,000 from the United States. The Americans now take the view that Britain has reached a point where no more aid is 20 On Board needed. dropped several degrees lower j than the mild figures of the last week. Vancouver with a minimum of 30 was lowest on the coast. A storm of minor proportions Is centered 700 miles southwest of Vancouver Island and is expected to drift northeastward. This will bring increasing cloudiness to southe-n British Columbia but will have little effect elsewhere. Northern British Columbia will continue cloudy with temperatures near normal. Forecast North coast region Variable cloudiness today. Cloudy with TRIVANDRUM,- India W An Indian plane, carrying 16 passengers and crew of four, is reported missing today on a flight from Madras to Trivandrum on the southwest coast of India. Your vote and influence is requested FOR PROGRESS... To the Travelling Public NOTICE is hereby given that the Northern Trans-Provincial Highway from Skeena to Terrace is officially closed to traffic due to snow conditions and will remain closed until further announcement. (Signed) L.E. SMITH, Divisional Engineer, Department of Public Works, Province of British Columbia. for Vote for occasional light rain or drizzle NORTON YOUNGS T. tonight and Thursday. Little JAMES W. PRUSKY Independent Candidate for Alderman and Advocate of City Manager Plan change in temperature. Light winds. Lows tonight and highs for Alderman VOTE THE LAST NAME FIRST Thursday, December 14, 1950 High 5:20 19.4 feet 17:00 '' 19.1 feet Low 11:08 8.8 feet 23:37 5.0 feet tomorrow at Port Hardy, Sand sDit and Prince Rupert. 35 and 45,