PROVINCIAL LIZ2.M-H, VICTORIA, 2. . C. s Flood Suffi erers ive G enerousiv, I vsy ve . "... Nov iice Rupert's NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER tod Dyke Ortr.lES D3C23 - Prompt At All Service Hours mm j.C. FLOOD Daily Delivery PHONE 81 MERGENCY STAR CABS Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" VOL. XXXVII, No. 135. PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1948 PRICE FIVE CENTS ' .....3 CAMPAIGN I Ijective $25,000 bribed to Date $5,963.73 N Up .In. Menace Of -HigSa Water JL(i s 0 Fraser Flood S20.000 4.1100 At Least Temporary Peace Is Assured For Palestine Is Menacing Vancouver, Ontario By-Elections .Further Damages Are Seen Lulu Island Threatened ' ; MISS MACPHAIL 1 ELECTED AGAIN Bulletin Truce Is Accepted . (15,000 Jti.ltOO VANCOUVER Fraser Valley Return Two "CCF. Candidates flood developments are not encouraging. Hot weather con A . -v, - v TURK GOVT QUITS Socialist Victories Cost Liberals Two Seats In Commons Both Arabs and Jews ditions and there appeared the possibility of Lulu Island being more seriously threatened. Much of the produce consumed In Van VANCOUVER (CP) C.C.P". victories in the by- $10,000 Jll.OOfl couver is grown on Lulu Island. elections in Vancouver Centre and in the Ontario Agree to Stop Fight-ing in Palestine CAIRO (CP) Count Koike Bernadotte disclos TORONTO Agnes Mac-phall. first and only woman in the House of Commons, when she was elected in 1921, today is the only woman in the new Ontario Legislature. While five other women candidates were beaten at the polls,, veteran Miss Macphail, 58, defeated three men to become. C.C.F. Member for York Easts. And, being one woman among If the scope of the flood keeps riding, cost the Liberals two House of Commons expanding there is a possibility seats. The winning candidates yesterday were Rodney ed last night that he has asked the Jews and the Young, i)-year-oia law stuueni, in Vancouver i;nut: and Welsh-born Laoor organizer Arabs to stop fighting in Palestine at G a.m. Green feet weather conditions. There $5,000 r.(IIM) were 43,000 on the voters' lis: wich Time Friday (11 p.m. of it spreading Into the State of Washington with the city limits of Belllngham threatened. Columbia, Fraser and Kooten-ay Rivers in southern British Columbia rose further today. At Rvelstoke the Columbia River was up another foot. At Mission the Fraser was up three Inches. The Kootenay rose two inches at ' Wardmer. The Fraser River situation was declared today to be still "most but only 22,854 voted. In the 194! ANKARA- The government of Premier Hasan Saka collapsed today under harsh fire from critics of its" domestic economic policy. The cabinet resigned early today and Premier Saka, in office since last September, was asked to form a new.overn- ment' Shortages of staple foodstuffs are a factor in the crisis. ' ' FIGHTING TONIGHT v NEWARK Rocky Graziano meets Tony Zale in Rupp'ert Stadium tonight in a rubber match of . their' violent ring series. At stake for the third time is Rocky's world middleweight championship which he won .from Zale July 16, 1917. In their first fight September 27, 1946, Zale was victor by a knock-out. Betting odds that at first favored Graziano 5 to 12 narrowed on the eve of the clash to 1 to 2. . PARLEY COMING LONDON Official British sources disclosed Thursday, Pacific Daylight ceneral election 34.074 of the Time). He said he had asked 46,08 on the list voted. The C.C.F that Arab and Jewish replies victory revived unofficial Liberal be made by noon today. ; and Progressive - Conservative Arabs and Jews both replied talk of closer co-operation fol to the United Nations mediator's Arthur Willtauis, 52, In the Ontario riding. Both led their nearest opponents by roughly 2,000 votes. In Vancouver Centre, revised final totals for 183 polls showed: Young 9345; Ralph Campney, Liberal 734t, and Lyle Jestley, Progressive-Conservative 5160. Young, former railroad and shipyard worker and a member of the C.C.F. for 15 years,' had a narrow margin over his Liberal and Progressive-Conservative opponents in nearly all sections of the riding. lowing defeats in Vancouver proposal for a four weeks' truce The peafe high' tide of r-cntre inH Yalp But, it broueht serious. A TransJordan spokesman said the comment from Mr. Campney. ason tomorrow is expected ..if t h nn for thn to accentuate the gravity of the all Arab stales had accepted un I Rupert Baseball Ifjrtatioa .$103.23 jpius Halverson 5.0(1 fe.as Yule 3.00 iplson 5.00 li.ymous 2.00 OCaardal 2.00 jUardal 2.00 linloy 5.00 crisis. There were two more minor breaks in Fraser River dykes Liberals and Conservatives to merge. What Is needed is a pro- conditionally and the President of Israel indicated that the Jew? would accept the armistice plan. Meantime both Arabs and Jews porUonal representation vote. ; , measures afe fce Mr. Jestley commented, Merge hM dykeg mt Liberals? I wouldnt with the Trai, There ha?e bMn sey. The vote was light despite per- In an apparent endeavour to continued fighting in Palestine strengthen their positions before De iouna aeaa wim sonic ui wm. , - hr..u. Two -olrt. Im Klnc 4 00 It Elpctrlc .' 10.00 i 11. .. n n crowd." plete 25-bed emergency hospi- the truce becomes effective. TODAY'S STOCKS -I tats varr-:-etnr- -flown ;- into Egyptian planes bombed Tel K Electric : 2.001 ;?Hhrubsall 2.00 ii.ynious 1.00 jTalspth 1.00 i Aviv even as Israel leaders were meeting to consider the truce reply. It is feared that casualties are heavy. Jewish Army headquarters said that during the night Israel ln Machine Shop MERE YOUTH 111 ONTARIO HOUSE TORONTO Election of Reld Scott, 21-year old C.C.F. candidate in Toronto Beaches, estab Trail against the emergency. There has been a washout on the railway. A further three-foot rise on - the 1 - Columbia River at Trail is forecast. Meantime in the lower Columbia River Valley between Oregon and Washington the river cut even further into soggy dykes and the situation grows more critical by the hour. 10.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 5.00 !Man.sen . Jensen ... Ifii'nkiltsan pyen iX'lafsun ... . Courtesy 8 D Jihntou Co. lt. Vancouver Bralorne 8.10 B. R. Con .03 B. R. X - .05 Cariboo Quartz 130 Dentonia .OlVi 'Grail Wlhksne 04 Hedley Mascot 45 Minto 01 Pend Oreille 3.90 Pioneer 2.75 Premier Border 03 Vi Privateer 20 Reeves McDonald 190 planes bombed Arab artillery positions at a former radar station near Kfar Biddu and Nebl Samwll from which shells had been burled Into Jerusalem.' I'nymous 1.00 I Simondson 1.00 Iwge Viereck 2.00 f; Sea Fishermen's Union 23.00 AGNES MACPHAIL lishes him as the youngest member ever elected so the Ontario Legislature. The youthful secretary of the Teamsters' Union In Toronto bettered the record set by Far-quhar Oliver who was elected in today that they expect a three power agreement soon opening the way for the United States, Britain and France to resume allocating war repara- . tions to Russia from Western Germany.,- . V. RUSSIA TO JOIN LONDON Foreign Secretary Ernest Bcvin told Commons today that Britain still hopes to bring Russia into the four-power agreement on the future of Germany. Bevin said Britain has approved recommendations for a federal government in western Germany, western occupatien for an indefinite period and' international control of the industrial Ruhr Valley. QUEBEC ELECTION QUEBEC Premier Duplessis announced today that a provincial general election in Quebec will be hld July 28, ' KING COMMENTS , OTTAWA Commenting on C.C.K. victories in three federal by-elections, Prime Minister King-said the results "reflect inevitabl dislike of the pople for higher living costs, privation and restrictions." TO BAN COMICS OTTAWA Minister of Justice J. L. Ilsley told E. D. Fulton, M.P. for Kamloops, today that legislation was being prepared to make illegal the sale of crime comic books. "They are a shocking abuse of the'press but I am afraid they are legal at present," Mr. Ilsley said. LOCAL TIDES (Standard Time) Thursday, June 10, 1948 High 2:50 21.6 feet 16:01 18.6 feet Low 9:35 1.5 feet 21:35 8.0 feet Reno 08 Yz MUCH BUTTER FLOWN WEST Air Lines Rise to Occasion While Railways Washed Out 1926 at the age of 22. Despite his youth, Scott, gra Ird Electric 5.00 8 Taxi Co 2.0U li'rge Woods 1.00 lUmyinous 15.00 fc'Mc Fisheries Ltd .. 10.00 l'Ui Fisheries Ltd 20.00 & McDonald 5.00 Pz Fislierles 10.00 duated in political science and Salmon Gold HVi Sheep Creek 1.13 Taylor Bridge 40 Taku River 35 Vananda 36 Congress 03 Pacific Eastern 05 Central Zeballos 00 Silbak Premier 34 economics at University of Toronto last Wednesday, has been connected with Socialism for 13 years. He delivered party literature when he was eight. VANCOUVER The largest air shipment of butter to reach this Progressive-Conservative Thomas Murphy who Is 63. The new member for Beache3 89 men in the 90-seat House fazes her not a bit. "I'm sorry I'm the only woman and that's not because I'm embarrassed there," she said. "After 14 years at Ottawa, I'm conditioned to it. Besides, there are a good bunch of boys in the C.C.F. "But, oh my, only, one woman at Queen's Park! But I'll come!" "It," she said, "should be an equal number of men and women." With that, she would be satisfied. Clausen & Son 10.00 city since the rail tie-up created P'Hiymous 5.00 old is studying law and will en- Scott broke the 22-year R. Brett 5.00 a shortage of the commodity wa3 completed by TransCanada Air hold on the Beaches riding by ter Osgoode Hall in the fall. Oils (')iiymoua ' 1.00 'i Eby 2.00 Lines yesterday when 25 tons was atxt Mrs. S. J. Hunter 5.00 P' Woodsldc 5.00 1 Saildvar 5 00 A. P. Con 17 Calmont 53 C. & E 6.70 Foothills : 2.95 Home : 8.75 landed at Vancouver Airport from the East. It brought to 104.000 pounds, or 52 tons, the total butter supplied to the city by T.C.A. In a little over 24 hours. Fifty-four thousand pounds were flown in late Monday night. Altogether the Airline has brought In more than 200,000 pounds with Actually Miss Macphail sat In Toronto the House of Commons for 18 tElkins 5.00 ' P. Astoria 2.00 Hsilaud 2.00 t Luadon 2.00 fcvd Hamblin ... L.L. 2 00 t"a Sollien 1.00 i'r aildMrK K rt i.nth 5.00 years, first as a Progressive KENNEY GIVES ASSURANCE OF FLOOR HELP; DEFENDS RETAIL SALES TAX TERRACE Guest speaker at a meeting of the Terrace. Board of Trade last Friday, E. T. Kenney, Minister of Lands and Forests, having come to his home riding ahead of schedule because of the floods, expressed sympathy with all those who have suffered throueh the floods and that everything that can be Athona ... Aumaque Beattie ... Bevcourt member and later as U.F.O. .16 .65 .35 Radio Scientist Here Finds Labor but between 1935 and their Increased service since train train traffic was halted by E E. Moore . 5.00 ? A. Breen 10.00 8. Wcatherby 2.00 f lumbers it Steamfitters the floods 1940, when Miss Macphail was defeated in the federal election, she had company Mrs. Oeorge Black of the Yukon, sitting as an Independent-Conservative. Butter has been Uie bulk ot the air cargo shipments into the city, T.C.A. officials say. Other Union 50.00 done will be done for the suffer-1 OJficial Title Ponderous Frank T. Davies, a scientist who considers his official title of Superintendent of Radio Propagation to be a bit on the ponderous side, is in Prince Rupert to take a peek at what goes on in the ionosphere, proportion will revert to the Bobjo 12','g Buffalo Canadian 09 Vi Consol. Smelters 116.50 Conwest 1.10 Donalda - .75 Eldona 133 Giant Yellowknlfe 4.65 God's Lake .66 Hardrock i 16 Harrlcana 07 Heva .12 'r- McLatchle 'wnymous ,. 1.00 1.00 2 00 municipalities as a supplemental Inrnme with no strines at cargo shipments througn nave been very high and have reached 170,000 pounds, 120,000 pounds ers here. He advised the forming of a dyking and drainage committee and said the full cooperation of the government wtll ymous O. Lawes .; 2.00 65 to 300 miles above tne city. . Fulton being flown eastbound from tne city. The Airline has also car "It's merely the science ol high ireuuency racuu be given as far as possible. 1.00 .. 2.00 1.00 Frs- J- Moen Antrobus he explained communications," Hosco 40 Jacknlfe 04 Vz British Columbia is essentially to the fact that the scientists ried 29,000 pounds 01 air express, 11,500 pounds In and 17,-000 pounds out, in addition to a little defensively after reciting his pfficlal position with the De tached whatever. "A sales tax is always unpopular at the beginning," said Mr. Kenney "but food and shelter will not be taxed and it should be tried as the money Is going to a cause to which everyone Is willing to contribute." Speaking of labor legislation Mr. Kenney said that the Act a trading country, aeciareu mi. WARMEST DAY SINCE MAY, 47 Prince- Rupert today sweltered cheerfully in the warmest weather in more than a year. Official temperature recorded at the Digby Island weather station at 1:30 this afternoon was 76.t degrees, just a little Jollet Quebec 42 Kenney. Forty cents out of every rrs- A. Sharun 1.00 Wis. w. Fluen 1.00 Mrs. Knox 1.00 Mrs. Arnoth 1.00 fence Research Boara at uiwiw. dollar comes from her forests. That Radio Propagation Is like A new pulp mill has been start ly to be a bit confusing." and others who work on it ara habitually security-conscious because of wartime secrecy. Mr. Davies arrived in the cl'.y by plane Tuesday from Smith-ers after a trip across Canada ed at Port Albernl and others I. A. Johnson 1.00 .Irs- A. Morrison 2.00 Mr. Davies, a portly man who are being started at Nanaimo the Usual amount 01 airman, win thousand pounds of first class mail has also been flown daily. The augmented service that has been In operation during the emergency is being continued by T.C.A. and three flights riaiiv In each direction between was a great improvement over "Us. Vlckerman 3.00 ',rs' O. Hudson 1.00 does a good deal of travelling and lecturing on the science of high the old one. Labor and capital more than a degree cooler than Duncan Bay and Port Edward. The latter, when started, will take a lot of material not otherwise saleable. should be able to work together frenquency communications, is M- Bartlet 1.00 H. Insulander 1.... 10.00 here to Inspect the loospher? , . irnw.nM R. James 1.00 Lake Rowan .10 Lapaska 05 Little Long Lac 86 Lynx 08 Madsen Red Lake 2.58 McKenzie Red Lake .38 McLeod Cockshutt 105 Moneta -38 Negus 2.25 Noranda 49.75 Louvicourt -64 Pickle Crow 1.92 Regcourt .07 San Antonio 3.70 Senator Rouyn , 41 Sherrit Gordon 2,51 Steep Rock 2.06 Sturgeon River 15 Silver Miller 25 that he found both hot and dusty. Prince Rupert weather, he finds, is "ideal." Purpose of tne 60 ionospheric stations scattered throughout Vancouver, Winnipeg, -v. and Montreal are still being staUon operated by the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals at Westtiew, one of six in Canada. Although It Is more than two The increasea !' flown. M". Jcrmaln 100 - Beverley Matson 100 Mrs. W. Oomen 1.00 f fs- Lasota 2.00 ' M". H. Hanson 1.00 a total of 5,450 v,,fo carried the May 27, 1947 record of 78 degrees. A flawless sky coupled with forecast of settled weather inspired city residents with the hope of a fine week-end. , Previous maximum temperature this year was 70 degrees on May 20and 23. and industry be carried on without disruption. The Hospital Act is in embryo, but, when carried through should relieve the pressure on hospitals of which there is not one In tho country running without a deficit. As for the highways the Minister said that great patience (Continued on Page Two) passengers to and from the Eui In defence of the three percent retail sales tax, -the Minister said that It was to meet the government's social welfare obligations. He stated the case of the country "Senior Citizens," the Old Age Pensioners. Twelve million dollars will be raised by the tax of which a substanti a NO FISH SALES the world, he explained Is to find out the height and amount of electrons per cubic centimeter in the various layers of the ionosphere." From its verticle (Continuec on Pare Two) - years since ionospheric observation techniques have shed their manUe of wartime secrecy, there is not a great deal known about them by the public, Mr. Davies finds. This he attributes being with catches, No boats sale of halibut on no ,here was T'Zl, Fish Exchange this Mrs. S. Haugan .. . 5.00 Mrs. H. Knutsen 1.00 Mrs. W. McChesney r 2.00 to" Thompson 2.00 ' R. A. Wilson 10.00 j 'Continued oil Page Five)' tilt: morning.