PROVINCIAL
LI32A2T,
VICIC7.IA,
2.
C.
1:5
Spates
Sweep
1
mil
jiiteG
Sail
SB
Will
Cost
America
Billions
No
Matter
What
Transpires;
Battle
Of
Suchow
Is
Uncertain
WASHINGTON
(CP)
A
communist
sweep
of
China
appears
certain
and
it
will
cost
the
United
States
more
millions
in
foreign
aid
in
the
next
few
years
whether
or
not
she
decides
to
give
grand
scale
aid
to
Generalis
nCABS
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
Published
at
Canada's
Most
Strategic
Pacific
Port-Prince
Rupert,
the
Key
to
the
Great
Northwest"
VOL.
XXXVII,
No.
276.
PRICE
NVE
CENTS
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
WEDNESDAY,
NOVEMBER
24,
1948
simo
Chiang
Kai-bhek.
Fohcy
planners
say
two
points
stand
out:
Truman
and
Marshall
1.
XI
panic
:
lidates
decide
that
China
still
can
bo
saved
from
communism
and
de
Tojo
Sentence
cide
to
go
ahead
with
aid,
they
will
have
to
ask
Congress
for
Is
Confirmed
several
hundred
million
dollars
tVhnlen
First
Lr
Honors
at
at
least
as
a
starter
on
a
long-term
aid
program.
2.
If,
in
spite
of
us
or
with
Election
inati'in
for
Prince
ic
election
to
be
BOBBY
BREED
HEARD
FROM
Makes
Apology
and
Pays
$300
for
Trouble
Caused
Posse
HAYWARD,
Wisconsin
--Public
apology
and
about
$300
for
county
search
expenses
will
be
the
price
paid
by
Bobby
Breen,
21-year-old
former
child
movie
star,
for
36
hours
which
a
posse
spent
slogging
in
deep
snow
looking
for
him
while
he
relaxed
in
a
hotel
under
an
out
it,
all
China
falls
to
the
com
KING
STILL
WORKING
LONDON
The
King
today
carried
out
normal
routine
of
duty
despite
his
circulatory
ailment.
In
future
he
may
use
a
wheel
chair
to
rest
his
leg.
His
general
health
is
good.
BLAMES
BRITISH,
AMERICANS"
PARIS
A
Soviet
bloc
delegate
said
today
that
British
and
American
oil
and
military
interests
had
wrecked
the
United
Nations
partition
plan
for
Palestine.
He
said
that
the
General
Assembly's
No.
1
political
committee
should
order
troops
from
the
bordering
states
of
Egypt,.
Trans
Jordan,
Syria,
Lr
9
were
filed
yes-
munists,
the
task
of
rebuilding
Japan
with
a
stable
economy
will
be
much
more
costly
due
to
bad
relations
with
the
new
China.
in
the
field
was
B.
Casey,
seeking
term
caused
by
the
bf
Aid.
J.
R.,
Morin.
tised
by
Lee
M.
Gor-
Also,
if
communist
China
showed
active
hostility
to
the
west,
military
leaders
might
General
MacArthur
Directs
That
Hanging
of
Tojo
be
'
Proceeded
With
TOKYO,
stfi
General
Douglas
MacArthur
today
upheld
death
sentences
by
hanging
on
Former
Premier
Hideki
Tojo
of
Japan
and
six
others
who
had
been
condemnfcu
by
an
International
tribunal
as
Japanese
war
criminals.
MacArthur
directed
that
the
executions
be
proceeded
with.
Life
sentences
on
18
other
Japanese
wefe
also
confirmed
as
well
as
two
lesser
'
terms.
In
his
review
decision
upholding
the
sentences,
the
occupation
commanuer,
who
is.
the
sole
reviewing
authority
-under
assumed
name.
consider
it
essential
to
strength
Breen
said
it
was
no
hoax
or
iark
Hill
seconding,
nomination
yester-rold
S.
Whalen
for
term.
C.
G.
Ham
l
Aid.
A.
S.
Nicker-
en
United
States
defences
in
the
attempt
to
secure
publicity.
0
Ms.
Ik
fi
"I
'
'
v.
western
Pacific
An
apology
was
directed
to
"all
Truman
and
Marshall
met
guys
who
went
all
out
for
me
Officials,
of
two
counties
said
again
today
for
about
half
an
hour
on
this
and
other
foreign
Lebanon
and
Iraq
out
ot
Palestine.
VESSEL
FEARED
SUNK
HALIFAX
Three
Royal
Conadian
Air
Force
search
planes
continued
search
today
for
the
British
freighter
Hopestar,
missing
with
37
men
on
board
about
400
miles
southeast
of
Halifax.
United
they
would
not
press
charges.
policy
matters.
Later
Dr.
Wel
5
lington
Koo,
Chinese
ambassa
dor
to
United
States,
met
with
ED
President
Truman.
Meantime
dispatches
from
y
impi
rial
lUnk
Mr
Is
1'iiNTtlled
the
Allied
trial
courts
charter,
said:
'I
can
find
nothing
ef
technical
commission
or
ommis-sion
in
incidents
of
the
trial
itself
-
of
sulficient
import
to
warrant
my
intervention
in
the
judgments
which
have
been
Nanking
today
said
that
th'!
Chinese
government
continued
to
win
the
BatUe
of
Suchow
on
paper
but
neutral
sources
believed
the
government
was
steadily
losing
ground.
IZR,
&
Three
pects
appeared
in
kiion
line-up
as
sus-
rendered."
mlay's
robbery
of
e
and
Dunsmuir
ELIZABETH'S
CHILD
WILL
HAVE
HER
PRAM
Princess
Elizabeth's
baby
will
have
the
Princess'
own
perambulator,
cots
and
cradle.
This
picture
shows
Princess
Elizabeth
as
a
baby
riding
in
the
perambulatt'hteh
will
be
used
by
her
own
child.
kh
of
the
Imperial
laada
were
released
Certain
only
was
that
major
fighting
was
being
waged
on
th
plains
commanding
the
approach
to
the
capital
less
than
200
miles
south
of
Suchow.
Weather
has
turned
against
the
defenders
of
the
city,
re
T.
W.
E.
Tremblay,
forestry
superintendent
of
the
Columbia
Cellulose
Co.,
sailed
this
af
rjes
Thrown
stricting
air
defences
which
ternoon
on
the
Princess
Louise
to
make
the
round
trip
to
Juri-eu.
Mr.
Tremblay
arrived
in
the
city
last
week
from
Victoria.
TODAY'S
STOCKS
(C'uurteuy
S.
V
Juluiblon
Co.
Lid.)
Vancouver
,
x
Blarorne
.........
......'...,.-..
t.ZS
,
proved
effective
against
the
1r
Bridge
communists
last
week.
ustody
Tuesday
af-n
which
definitely
ncy
had
nothing
to
affair.
0
the
bandit's
klen-wrt
yesterday.
A
iutu;raphrr,
Alfred
after
the
hold-up,
night
he
had
the
ure
.butf-ifcviurne'd
it.
suspects
had
been
custody
after
the
thrown
a
dragnet
irea
where
the
lone
robbed
the
bank
of
;.rvicd
War
Bride
Mother
B.
R.
X
.:
r:
-C8V'
Cariboo
Quartz
Jvi.O
Grull
Wihksne
"(ask)
l.
.05
Jleclley
Mascot
iv
t,30
.
Pcnd
Oreille
f
va
LC.
,
'
I
S
"Pttn-.
it
n'Stn.iiiiii
Hufrfiw
mi
X?-:
5KEEHA
HIGHWAY
MUST
VAII
UffTIL
CARIBOO-FRASER
ROAD
IMPROVED
Development
of
the
northern
trans-provincial
highway
between
Prince
Rupert
and
Prince
George
must
wait
on
the
completion
of
work
on
the
Cariboo
and
Fraser
River
highways,
according
to
Hon.
E.
C.
Carson,
provincial
Minister
of
Public
Works.
Mr.
Carson
makes
this
clear
in
a
letter
to
the
Pioneer
Premier
Border
...
.02
34
States
Coastguard
planes
combed
the
area
yesterday
for
the
5267-ton
vessel
which
was
last
heard
from
November
13
when
she
reported
"heavy
weather
damage."
It
is
feared
that
the
vessel
sank
with
all
on
board.
TRYING
TO
BREAK
CRISIS
PARIS
Six
"neutral"
members
of
the
United
Nations
security
council
today
again
took
up
their
task
of
trying
to
break
through
the
east-vest
deadlock
in
Berlin.
They
will
sift
through
British,
French,
United
States
and
Russian
answers
in
an
effort
to
find
a
clue
as
a
means
of
halting
the
cold
"War.
CONVICT
TABBING
MONTREAL
A
twenty-year
convict
was
i?ed
to
death
by
a
bfer
in
SUVincent's
Penitentiary,
near
here,
today.
I
CANADA-NEWFIE
TERMS
:
OTTAWA
After
lengthy
negotiations,
Newfoundland
and
Canada
have
agreed
on
financial
terms
considerably
different
from
tentative
agreements
suggested
a
year
ago
when
entry
of
the
Island
into
Confederation
was
discussed.
An
official
source
said
the
financial
burden
on
Canada
had
not
been
increased.
The
original
estimate
of
a
,$15,000,000
a
year
drain
on
Canada's
treasury
has
now
been
reduced
to
$7,000,000.
INTERNATIONAL
WHEAT
PACT
WASHINGTO
N
The
international
wheat
agreement,
which
was
scuttled
last
year
by
the
United
States,
may
be
revived
almost
at
once.
An
informed
source
said
the
United
States
government
was
about
to
make
a
long-awaited
announcement,
calling
the
11-country
wheat
preparatory
committee
into
session.
LOUIS
VS.
GODOY
PHILADELPHIA
Promoter
Herman
Taylor
announced
Tuesday
that
he
had
signed
the
world's
heavyweight
champion,
Joe
Louis,
for
a
six-round
bout
with
Arturo
Godoy
of
Chile
at
Convention
Hall
December
14.
He
said
that
the
fighters
will
wear
gloves
of
twelve
ounces
or
less.
HALIFAX
STRIKE
HALIFAX
Two
thousand
longshoremen
tonight
will
decide
whether
they
will
resume
handling
ocean-going
vessels
diverted
here
by
the
strike
1
Jr
Held
In
Vancouver
J"''-
1
I
.Observation
I
'
l
-
'
VJtCOUVER
The
body
of
ei&hteon-month-old
Francis
Jeu-nlftr
Jones
was
found
by
searcher
ttiday
as
the
mentally
deranged
English
war
bride
mother
was
held
in
custody.
Previously
three-year-old
Linda
Jones
had
been
rescued
by
a
fish
.man.
Mrs.
Leslie
Jones,
28-year-old
expectant
mother,
told
police
last
night
that
she
hurled
her
two
babies
from
Kitsllano
trestle,
30
feet
above
False
Creek,
Into
the
ice
waters.
"
Mrs.
Jones
was
recently
released
from
a
mental
ward
of
the
General
Hospital
here.
She
Privateer
15
Reeves
McDonald
:.
2.95
Reno
.'.
06
Sheep
Creek
1.75
Taylor
Bridge
31
t'e
continuing
the
I'
ymth
who
robbed
k
n
Vancouver
bank,
t"
seventeenth
hold-Iji.meteen
days.
Prince
Rupert
branch
of
the?
B.C.
Automobile
Association
in
.52
Vananda
reply
to
suggestions
from
the
Association
for
improving
ths
Congress
OW
SHINES
WITH
DETERMINATION
Blonde,
pretty
Lois
Schenck,
Broadway
dancer,
has
taken
up
shoe-shining
in
the
heart
of
New
York's
Times
Square
district
to
keep
herself
in
coffee
and
cakes
while
she
makes
the
rounds
of
theatrical
booking
offices
seeking
other
engagements.
Working
less
than
four
hours
a
day,
she
averages
about
$4.50
an
hour.
But
she
admits
herself
that
much
of
her
patronage
comes
from
generous
males
who
like
the
idea
of
having
their
shoes
shined
by
a
good
looking
girl.
BON
042
.05
.32
y2
Pacific
Eastern
Spud
Valley
....
Silbak
Premier
Oils
INE
.
ed
to
give
good
driving
conditions.
-"
"In
this
connection,
it
is
the
department's
intention
to
endeavour
to
secure
(ravel
crushing
equipment
so
that
a
real
surface
may
ba
put
on
the
main
highways
in
the
area.
When
it
will.be
possible
to
do
this,
I
am
not
prepared
to
Bay
at
this
time.
"It
is
noted
that
you
recommend
ditching
where
the
rail
track
and
highway
are
contiguous.
In
the
opinion
'
of
our
road.
.
"May
I
suggest
that
I
feel
your
members
are
overlooking
the
tremendous
amount
of
improvement
that
Is
being
carried
out
on
the
Fraser
Canyon
and
Cariboo
Highways
'leading
to
the
north
and
the
main
artery
from
which
future
tourist
traffic
will
be
drawn
to
your
area,"
he
East
and
West
ap-rday
to
be
moving
will
be
examined
by
City
Pathologist
Dr.
K.
D.
Panton.
I
support
of
the
or-
N
States
partition
stated
in
a
letter
received
by
Hugo
Kraupner,
secretary
of
the
wined
Canada
and
States
in
reaffirm-;ion
on
trie
Novme-divi.slon
of
the
Holy
f
'
n
the
Jews
and
the
Search
For
Ocean
Falls
Man
Given
Up
A
search
along
the
coast,
for
Colin
P.
Langdon
of
Ocean
Falls,
shared
in
by
police,
family
and
friends,
is
about
to
be
given
up,
the
presumption
being
that
he
has
been
drowned.
He
was
last
seen
.
on
October
4.
He
had
been
employed
as
ma
Automobile
Association.
"UnUl
this
road
can
be
modernized,
there
is
little
hope
of
other
than
essential
highway
users
and
hardy
tourists
proceeding
to
Terrace
and
Prince
Rupert.
This
Is
the
larger
picture,
I
agree,
but
one
that
should
be
kept
in
mind
and
a
program
which
is.
vitally
important
to
all
the
north
country.
"It
is
recognized
by
the
de
engineers,
this
would
narrow
the
present
road
and
is
not
necessary
with
maintenance
which
could
be
provided
with
a
good
surface
material.
"Improvement
of
the
Prince
Rupert
-
Port
Edward
section
will
be
proceeded
with
when
required,
as
you
were
personally
assured
it
would
be,
in
time
to
meet
requirements
of
the
pulp
plant
development.
I
regret
that
snow
plowing
,ut
the
whole
Terrace-Prince'
Rupert
road
is
not
feasible
nor
econo
A.
P.
Con
21
Calmont
52
C.
&
E
5.75
Foothills
3.60
Home
12.25
Toru.ito
Athona
14
Aumaque
16
Beattie
43
Beycourt
21
Bobjo
13
Buffalo
Canadian
17
Consul.
Smelters
127.50
Con
west
1.35
Donalda
50
Eldona
70
East
Sullivan
2.85
Giant
Yellowknife
....
4.50
God's
Lake
37
'
Hardrock
.21
Harricana
07
Heva
10
Hosco
nva
Jacknife
04
Juliet
Quebec
43
Lake
Rowan
07
The
three-year-old
child
was
saved
through
a
freak
prank
of
fate
after
being
carried
a
quarter
of
a
mile
by
outgoing
tidP.
SCOWLOAD
OF
LUMBER
HERE
A
scowload
of
lumber
consigned
from
Ketchikan
Spruce
Mills
to
eastern
United
States
points
arrived
here
Tuesday
after
a
stormy
passage
across
Dixon's
Enrtance.
1
Bearing
130,000
board
feet
of
high
grade,
kiln
dried
spruce
lumber,
Jthe
scow
suffered
damage
to
its
forward
end
from
the
seas
as
it
was
towed
90
miles
from
Kccthikan.
The
lumber
Is
being
unloaded
at
the
C.N.R.
dock.
EE'S
SON
COAST
Si
'ER,
,Martin
At-F
old
son
of
Prime
f"Piit
Attloe
of
Bii-J
e
as
fourth
officer
pli
cargo
vessel
In
Pas
served
for
thrce-I
wars.
He
told
news-
chinist,
and
no
reason
Is
given
for
his
strange
disappearance.
partment
that
maintenance
performance
between
Terrace
and
Prince
Rupert
is
not
able;
under
mical
at
the
present
time.
Should
existing
conditions,
to
maintain
we
undertake
this
work,
under
f1"
dws
not
intend
to
in
United
States
'
ports.
Ihe
Halifax
Longshoremen's
Association
yesterday
reached
decision
not
to
work
diverted
vessels
until
tonight's
meeting.
The
decision
was
a
return
to
the
stand
taken
November
17
not
to
work,
which
decision
was
rescinded
two
clays
later
after
the
Halifax
union
considered
its
legal
position.
this
section
as
we
would
like.
conditions
"of
present
shortage
of
r
a
a
career.
Nor
does
There
is
no
record
of
his
departure
from
Ocean
Falls.
'
CONFIDENCE
IN
FRENCH
GOV'T
'
PARIS
Parliament
today
voted
confidence
in
Henri
Queuille's
middle
-
of
-
the
-
road
This
is
because
of
two
main
I
lu
go
into
politics
f
family
is
eno
ugh,'
reasons:
equipment,
it
would
mean,
ne?
glectlng
heavily
used
roads
which
are
vitally
Important
to
th&
area."
"
"1.
Lack
of
suitable
surfacing
material.
"2.
Shortage
of
maintainers
J
SUPPLIES
lENTIFUL
which
are
presently
on
order.
'SPEND
MORE
THE
WEATHER
Synopsis
"Regarding
material
present
Fred
Hemsworth,
provuicial
mining
engineer
for
the
Prince
Rupert
district,
left
this
afternoon
on
the
Princess
Louise
for
a
trip
to
Juneau
enroute
to
Tul-
ly
on
the
road
and
available,
ON
DEFENCE
government.
The
bulk
of
the
opposing
vote
was
by
communist
deputies.
If
the
vote
had
failed
the
cabinet
would
have
resigned.
.
p-
uquor
supplies
The
scow
was
tawed
by
the
Ketchikan
tug
Timber
man,
Capt.
Clarence
Purdy,
and
brought
the
first
shipment
of
Alaska
lumber
to
Prince
Rupert
since
last
September.
The
lumber
is
consigned
to
eastern
United
States
points.
this
is
a
coarse
wash
gravel
entirely
unsuitable
for
road
sur-
r's
will
be
more
facing
and
cannot
be
matntain-
sequah.
puor
Commissioner
f
lcfly
said
yesterday
Lapaska
05
Little
Long
Lac
67
Lynx
14
McKcnzie
Red
Lake
2.10
McLeod
Cocksnutt
71
Moneta
313
Negus
2.03
Noranda
54.50
Louvlcourt
-35
Pickle
Crow
190
Regcourt
05'i
San
Antonio
3.30
Senator
Rouyn
-40
Sherrlt
Gordon
2.01
Steep
Rock
148
Sturgeon
River
15
Silver
Miller
-
.34
An
intense
low
pressure
area
over
southern-
Alaska
is
sending
cold
air
over
the
province.
Showers
along
the
coast
today
will
turn
to
intermittent
rain
'
tomorrow.
Variable
cloudiness
across
the
interior
will
clear
tonight
with
an
accompanying
Repercussions
on
Canada's
Economy
Are
Now
Felt
OTTAWA,
ji
Defence
requirements
are
cutting
two
ways.
They
are
helping
to
keep
living
costs
up
and
are
at
least
a.Moi,.
scarcity
may
F
brands
of
Imported
?"'
A
tcmuomrv
Another
Ketchikan
vessel,
t.hp
fishoaeker
Sydney,
was
also
SPONSORED
BY
YOUR
CIVIC
CENTRE
PRINCE
RUPERT
LITTLE
THEATRE
WORK
ON
NEW
THEATRE
STARTS
Contractors
Mitchell
&
Cur-rie
started
clearing
yesterday
in
nnrfc
Tuesdav.
Under
com
t1'
will
be
opened
on
7st
In
Vancouver
sharp
drop
in
temperatures.
Forecast
mand
of
Capt.
Osmund
Hen-
PRESENTS
rmas
rush
partially
dimming
expectations
fo
heavy
income
tax
cuts
for
'HOT
WATER'
riekson,
she
brought
four
cats
of
frozen
fish
to
be
shipped
In
bond
to
the
United
States.
Canadian
economy.
Queen
Charlottes
and
North
A
COMEIH
IS
TWO
ACTS
Coast
Intermittent
rain
to-.
Thp
firs,
f
,
rt,ed
of
the
site
at
Third
Avenue
and
First
Street.
where
Famous
Players
-
Canadian
Corporation
will
build
their
new
Paramount
Theatre
at
a
cost
of
over
$100,000.
As
previously
announced
this
new
first-run
'SLEEPYTIME
DOWN
SOUTH'
DRUGS
A
MI
MICAL
LOCAL
TIDES
Thursday,
November
25,
1948
)'
Delivery
day
and
tomonow.
Westerly
Jn
.
largely
Qw
Un,led
gtates
winds
(15
m.p.h)
today
except
amament
program
wnlcn
has
northwesterly
(35)
over
Queen
gn
lmporUnt
iudlrect
effect
on
Charlotte
Sound.
Southwesterly
Canadia
neconomy
(25)
tomonow.
Little
change
in
temperature.
Lows
tonight
The
second
stems
from
a
and
highs
tomorrow:
Port
number
of
indicaUons
that
next
Hardy
32
and
49,
MassCtr
30
year's
defence
budget
will,
sur-pnd
38,
Prince
,Rupert
30
and
40.
pass
that
of
1948
and
1949.
Civic
Centure
Auditorium
this
Friday,
November
26
moving
picture
house
is
to
be
19.1
feet
Mrs.
George
Black,
wife
of
the
Member
of
Parliament
for
the
Yukon,
was
a
passenger
aboard
the
Princess
Louise
which
docked
here
this
afternoon
northbound.
She
is
en-route
to
Whitehorse
where
she
r.-ill
spend
the
winter.
High
ready
for
opening
hy
June
of
j
17.9
feet
Curtain
815
p.m.
Admission
50c
-
Students
25c
next
year.
8:45
21:08
2:11
lb:0&
I0HE
81
6.3
feet
Low
8.0
feet